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I ndia’s economic growth is set to reach 7 per cent from a five-year low of 5.8 per cent in the first three months of 2019, but concerns will remain on the fiscal front following the eco- nomic slowdown and its adverse impact on tax collec- tions amid rising farms sector expenditure. The pre-Budget Economic Survey presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to Parliament on Thursday said the fiscal deficit estimate for 2018-19 has been retained at 3.4 per cent of the GDP, same as projected in the interim Budget. The country would need a huge boost in spending and reforms to accelerate higher rate of expansion to double the economy’s size to $5 trillion by 2024-25, the survey said, adding stepping up private investments, exports and job creation will be key to achiev- ing the target. The gross domestic prod- uct (GDP) growth is expected to rise to 7 per cent in 2019-20, it said. GDP growth was 6.8 per cent in 2018-19, down from 7.2 per cent in 2017-18. Interestingly, the survey pointed out that since life expectancy has increased the retirement age has to go up. This could be music to the ears of the working class. “Since an increase in the retirement age is perhaps inevitable, it may be worthwhile signalling this change well in advance — per- haps a decade before the antic- ipated shift — so that the workforce can be prepared for it,” the survey said. “This will be key to the via- bility of pension systems and would also help increase female labour force participa- tion in the older age-groups,” it said. The survey pointed out that countries such as Germany, France and the US are also hiking their retirement age. “Many countries such as Germany, the UK, and the US have signalled that they will keep increasing the retirement age according to a pre-set time- line,” the survey said. Investment rate, which was declining since 2011-12, seems to have bottomed out and is expected to pick up in con- sumer demand and bank lend- ing, the survey said, adding economic slowdown impacting tax collections and rising State expenditure on farm sector may, however, put strains on the fiscal front. India is currently the sixth- largest economy in the world with a size of $2.7 trillion. It is expected to overtake Britain to become the fifth-largest econ- omy next year. Authored by Chief Economic Adviser Krishnamurthy Subramanian, the Economic Survey said investment (especially private), is the “key driver” that boosts demand, creates capacity, increases labour productivity, introduces new technology, allows creative destruction and generates jobs. At a media briefing, he said structural reforms such as ones in the labour sector are need- ed to bring in the much-need- ed private investment. Also, micro, small and medium enterprises sector needs focus as the bulk of the job creation and growth support would come from this segment. He stressed on sticking to the fis- cal consolidation path or risk crowding out investment due to large public borrowings. The survey propagated the economics of “nudge” at the household level, judicial reforms to smoothen out enforcing of contracts, and investment reforms. L ight rain broke a 16-day dry spell in the national Capital on Thursday with monsoon likely to make onset in the city on Sunday, officials in India Meteorological Department (IMD) said. IMD chief KJ Ramesh said, “We expect monsoon to come to Delhi in the next two-three days, around Sunday.” Various parts of the city witnessed short spells of rain of varying intensity which led to a marginal dip in the mercury, but pushed the humidity level up to 85 per cent. With the monsoon expect- ed to reach the national Capital this weekend, rain is expected over the next two days thanks to moisture-laden winds from the Bay of Bengal, weather officials said. The weather stations at Ayanagar, Palam and Jafarpur gauged rainfall at 17 mm, 5.8 mm and 5 mm. The Safdarjung Observatory, which provides official figures for the city, recorded 0.4 mm of precipita- tion, according to the IMD data. The city recorded a high of 38.6 and a low of 31.2 degrees Celsius. Humidity oscillated between 52 and 85 per cent. It’s the first spell of rain in Delhi since June 17, Mahesh Palwat of Skymet Weather, a private weather forecaster, said. In June, the national Capital recorded just 11.4 mm of rainfall against the 30-year average of around 55 mm, Kuldeep Srivastava, senior sci- entist at IMD, said. Rainfall in July will be marginally lower than the nor- mal. Overall, it will be a normal monsoon. Normally, 60 cm of rain is recorded from June 1 to September 30 in Delhi, he said. Gurgaon, Faridabad and Noida received good rainfall on Thursday. Conditions are favourable for monsoon to make an onset in the national capital in the next 48 hours, Palawat said. Intermittent light rain is expected till July 10. Heavy showers are likely after that, he said. Palawat said the onset of monsoon at a particular place in north India is determined by strong easterly winds, high humidity and good rainfall in neighbouring areas. W ith liquor consumption on the rise, alcohol has emerged as the most common psychoactive substance used by Indians followed by cannabis and opioids. While over 16 crore people in the country consumed alco- hol, around 3.1 crore used cannabis, and about 77 lakh people take opioids. Of them, more than 5.7 crore alcohol users, 72 lakh cannabis users, and about 77 lakh opioid users are addicted and need help. In a calling attention motion moved in the Rajya Sabha over the use of drugs among schoolchildren, Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Thawar Chand Gehlot gave out these numbers and said the Government is also conducting a survey in 10 cities across the country to assess the pattern and profile of substance use among school and college students. “Total sample size of schools and colleges would include 6,000 students and 2,000 college students. The report of this survey is expect- ed to be received by November this year,” he said. The study covers cities like Srinagar, Chandigarh, Lucknow and Ranchi. Elaborating on various actions being taken by the Government to curb the drug addiction menace, Gehlot said it has prepared a National Action Plan for Drug Demand Reduction (NAPDDR) for 2018-2025. As part of the NAPDDR, the Ministry is undertaking focussed intervention pro- grammes in 127 high risk dis- tricts. During 2018-19, the Government released Rs 112.33 crore for the programme while in the current fiscal an outlay of Rs 135 crore has been allo- cated, Gehlot said. P eeved by the “poor” condi- tion of Mumbai-Goa high- way, Congress MLA Nitesh Rane and his supporters on Thursday created a ruckus by pouring mud on Public Works Department’s sub-engineer and briefly tying him to the railing of a bridge at Kankavli in Sindhudurg district. Amid seven-hour-long drama that saw Prakash Shedekar, a sub-engineer with the PWD Department, lodge a complaint against him, Nitesh — under severe flak from var- ious quarters — drove to the Kankavli police station along with five of his supporters and surrendered in connection with the mud slush hurling incident. M onths after the Central Zoo Authority (CZA) blamed the Centre for not act- ing against those responsible for various irregularities, including allegations of mis- management in recording deaths of wild animals and their illegal procurement in Delhi Zoo, the Union Environment Ministry has transferred the latter’s admin- istrative control to the statuto- ry authority engaged in regu- lating zoos across the country. Spread over 176 acres, Delhi Zoo is the only zoo in the country to be administered directly by the Ministry — the others being under the super- vision of the CZA. Justifying the move, a senior Environment Ministry official said transfer was aimed at streamlining the functioning of Delhi Zoo. Delhi Zoo from time to time had been in the news for all the wrong reasons. In January 8, 2019, in an explosive affidavit filed before the Delhi High Court, a panel led by then CZA member secretary DN Singh (who is retired now), pointed out several irregulari- ties such as fudging of animal death data, not carrying post- mortem in case of unnatural animal death, concealing of animal deaths, and mysterious nature of deaths among others. The panel had sought action against the erring officials. The panel was constituted in 2017 at the behest of the Ministry following above men- tioned string of allegations over a prolonged period of time. Between 2016 and 2017, Delhi Zoo reportedly lost over 320 animals. The affidavit had also alleged that no corrective action appears to have been taken by the Environment Ministry against those respon- sible for irregularities observed in Delhi Zoo. The Ministry’s move to transfer the administrative con- trol to the CZA has raised many eyebrows with the sources saying there is more than what meets the eye. “Instead of taking action against the erring officials as pointed out by the panel last year, the Ministry has passed the buck on the CZA. If they were really serious about the welfare of the animals of Delhi Zoo, they could have acted on the panel’s recommendations and taken action against those responsible about the misman- agement of Delhi Zoo as high- lighted by the panel.” “The recent happenings in Delhi Zoo, as has come to the knowledge of the CZA, is shocking and it is not imagin- able and acceptable in any zoo in the country, not to think of it in wild dream, also it should be happening in the national zoo of the country, which is identified as national centre of excellence,” the CZA had said in the affidavit. The affidavit was filed in response to a PIL moved by activist Ajay Dubey, who had sought a probe either by the CBI or any other competent agency on illegalities in Delhi Zoo pointed out by him. Acting on Dubey’s complaint, the Ministry had in August 2017 constituted DN Singh-led com- mittee to look into the matter. The CZA submitted that the probe panel did not get the cooperation from the zoo offi- cers and employees. Somehow, the enquiry was conducted and its findings were submitted to the Ministry in April last year, the affidavit said. The enquiry found that monitor lizards were illegally caught (from outside) and released in the cell of the ani- mal (inside the zoo). “Based on the documentary evidence, it has been found that the death of many animals in the zoo was suppressed by the authorities. The dead animals have been subsequently replaced with illegally captured animals,” it said. It said eight tortoises (unidentified species) and three red sand boa snakes were miss- ing from the zoo while the records pertaining to captive animals of the zoo have been manipulated. RNI Regn. No. CHHENG/2012/42718, Postal Reg. No. - RYP DN/34/2013-2015

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India’s economic growth is setto reach 7 per cent from a

five-year low of 5.8 per cent inthe first three months of 2019,but concerns will remain on thefiscal front following the eco-nomic slowdown and itsadverse impact on tax collec-tions amid rising farms sectorexpenditure.

The pre-Budget EconomicSurvey presented by FinanceMinister Nirmala Sitharamanto Parliament on Thursdaysaid the fiscal deficit estimatefor 2018-19 has been retainedat 3.4 per cent of the GDP, sameas projected in the interimBudget.

The country would need ahuge boost in spending andreforms to accelerate higherrate of expansion to double theeconomy’s size to $5 trillion by2024-25, the survey said,adding stepping up privateinvestments, exports and jobcreation will be key to achiev-ing the target.

The gross domestic prod-uct (GDP) growth is expectedto rise to 7 per cent in 2019-20,it said. GDP growth was 6.8 percent in 2018-19, down from 7.2per cent in 2017-18.

Interestingly, the surveypointed out that since lifeexpectancy has increased theretirement age has to go up.This could be music to the earsof the working class. “Since anincrease in the retirement ageis perhaps inevitable, it may beworthwhile signalling thischange well in advance — per-

haps a decade before the antic-ipated shift — so that theworkforce can be prepared forit,” the survey said.

“This will be key to the via-bility of pension systems andwould also help increase female labour force participa-tion in the older age-groups,” itsaid.

The survey pointed outthat countries such asGermany, France and the USare also hiking their retirementage. “Many countries such asGermany, the UK, and the UShave signalled that they will

keep increasing the retirementage according to a pre-set time-line,” the survey said.

Investment rate, which wasdeclining since 2011-12, seemsto have bottomed out and isexpected to pick up in con-sumer demand and bank lend-ing, the survey said, addingeconomic slowdown impactingtax collections and rising Stateexpenditure on farm sectormay, however, put strains onthe fiscal front.

India is currently the sixth-largest economy in the worldwith a size of $2.7 trillion. It is

expected to overtake Britain tobecome the fifth-largest econ-omy next year.

Authored by ChiefEconomic AdviserKrishnamurthy Subramanian,the Economic Survey saidinvestment (especially private),is the “key driver” that boostsdemand, creates capacity,increases labour productivity,introduces new technology,allows creative destruction andgenerates jobs.

At a media briefing, he saidstructural reforms such as onesin the labour sector are need-

ed to bring in the much-need-ed private investment. Also,micro, small and mediumenterprises sector needs focusas the bulk of the job creationand growth support wouldcome from this segment. Hestressed on sticking to the fis-cal consolidation path or riskcrowding out investment due tolarge public borrowings.

The survey propagated theeconomics of “nudge” at thehousehold level, judicialreforms to smoothen outenforcing of contracts, andinvestment reforms.

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Light rain broke a 16-day dryspell in the national Capital

on Thursday with monsoonlikely to make onset in the cityon Sunday, officials in IndiaMeteorological Department(IMD) said.

IMD chief KJ Ramesh said,“We expect monsoon to cometo Delhi in the next two-threedays, around Sunday.”

Various parts of the citywitnessed short spells of rain ofvarying intensity which led toa marginal dip in the mercury,but pushed the humidity levelup to 85 per cent.

With the monsoon expect-ed to reach the national Capitalthis weekend, rain is expectedover the next two days thanksto moisture-laden winds fromthe Bay of Bengal, weatherofficials said.

The weather stations atAyanagar, Palam and Jafarpurgauged rainfall at 17 mm, 5.8mm and 5 mm. The SafdarjungObservatory, which providesofficial figures for the city,recorded 0.4 mm of precipita-tion, according to the IMDdata.

The city recorded a high of

38.6 and a low of 31.2 degreesCelsius. Humidity oscillatedbetween 52 and 85 per cent.

It’s the first spell of rain inDelhi since June 17, MaheshPalwat of Skymet Weather, aprivate weather forecaster, said.

In June, the nationalCapital recorded just 11.4 mmof rainfall against the 30-yearaverage of around 55 mm,Kuldeep Srivastava, senior sci-entist at IMD, said.

Rainfall in July will bemarginally lower than the nor-mal. Overall, it will be a normalmonsoon. Normally, 60 cm ofrain is recorded from June 1 toSeptember 30 in Delhi, he said.

Gurgaon, Faridabad andNoida received good rainfall onThursday. Conditions arefavourable for monsoon tomake an onset in the nationalcapital in the next 48 hours,Palawat said.

Intermittent light rain isexpected till July 10. Heavyshowers are likely after that, hesaid.

Palawat said the onset ofmonsoon at a particular placein north India is determined bystrong easterly winds, highhumidity and good rainfall inneighbouring areas.

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With liquor consumptionon the rise, alcohol has

emerged as the most commonpsychoactive substance used byIndians followed by cannabisand opioids.

While over 16 crore peoplein the country consumed alco-hol, around 3.1 crore usedcannabis, and about 77 lakhpeople take opioids. Of them,more than 5.7 crore alcoholusers, 72 lakh cannabis users,and about 77 lakh opioid usersare addicted and need help.

In a calling attentionmotion moved in the RajyaSabha over the use of drugsamong schoolchildren, SocialJustice and EmpowermentMinister Thawar Chand Gehlotgave out these numbers andsaid the Government is alsoconducting a survey in 10cities across the country toassess the pattern and profile ofsubstance use among schooland college students.

“Total sample size ofschools and colleges wouldinclude 6,000 students and2,000 college students. Thereport of this survey is expect-ed to be received by November

this year,” he said. The studycovers cities like Srinagar,Chandigarh, Lucknow andRanchi.

Elaborating on variousactions being taken by theGovernment to curb the drugaddiction menace, Gehlot saidit has prepared a NationalAction Plan for Drug DemandReduction (NAPDDR) for2018-2025.

As part of the NAPDDR,the Ministry is undertakingfocussed intervention pro-grammes in 127 high risk dis-tricts.

During 2018-19, theGovernment released Rs 112.33crore for the programme whilein the current fiscal an outlayof Rs 135 crore has been allo-cated, Gehlot said.

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Peeved by the “poor” condi-tion of Mumbai-Goa high-

way, Congress MLA NiteshRane and his supporters onThursday created a ruckus bypouring mud on Public WorksDepartment’s sub-engineer andbriefly tying him to the railingof a bridge at Kankavli inSindhudurg district.

Amid seven-hour-longdrama that saw PrakashShedekar, a sub-engineer withthe PWD Department, lodge acomplaint against him, Nitesh— under severe flak from var-ious quarters — drove to theKankavli police station alongwith five of his supporters andsurrendered in connection with the mud slush hurlingincident.

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Months after the CentralZoo Authority (CZA)

blamed the Centre for not act-ing against those responsiblefor various irregularities,including allegations of mis-management in recordingdeaths of wild animals andtheir illegal procurement inDelhi Zoo, the UnionEnvironment Ministry hastransferred the latter’s admin-istrative control to the statuto-ry authority engaged in regu-lating zoos across the country.

Spread over 176 acres,Delhi Zoo is the only zoo in thecountry to be administereddirectly by the Ministry — theothers being under the super-vision of the CZA.

Justifying the move, asenior Environment Ministryofficial said transfer was aimedat streamlining the functioningof Delhi Zoo.

Delhi Zoo from time totime had been in the news forall the wrong reasons. InJanuary 8, 2019, in an explosiveaffidavit filed before the DelhiHigh Court, a panel led by thenCZA member secretary DNSingh (who is retired now),pointed out several irregulari-ties such as fudging of animaldeath data, not carrying post-mortem in case of unnaturalanimal death, concealing ofanimal deaths, and mysteriousnature of deaths among others.The panel had sought actionagainst the erring officials.

The panel was constitutedin 2017 at the behest of theMinistry following above men-tioned string of allegationsover a prolonged period oftime. Between 2016 and 2017,Delhi Zoo reportedly lost over320 animals.

The affidavit had alsoalleged that no correctiveaction appears to have been

taken by the EnvironmentMinistry against those respon-sible for irregularities observedin Delhi Zoo.

The Ministry’s move totransfer the administrative con-

trol to the CZA has raisedmany eyebrows with thesources saying there is morethan what meets the eye.

“Instead of taking actionagainst the erring officials as

pointed out by the panel lastyear, the Ministry has passed thebuck on the CZA. If they werereally serious about the welfareof the animals of Delhi Zoo,they could have acted on the

panel’s recommendations andtaken action against thoseresponsible about the misman-agement of Delhi Zoo as high-lighted by the panel.”

“The recent happenings inDelhi Zoo, as has come to theknowledge of the CZA, isshocking and it is not imagin-able and acceptable in any zooin the country, not to think ofit in wild dream, also it shouldbe happening in the nationalzoo of the country, which isidentified as national centre ofexcellence,” the CZA had saidin the affidavit.

The affidavit was filed inresponse to a PIL moved byactivist Ajay Dubey, who hadsought a probe either by theCBI or any other competentagency on illegalities in DelhiZoo pointed out by him. Actingon Dubey’s complaint, theMinistry had in August 2017constituted DN Singh-led com-mittee to look into the matter.

The CZA submitted thatthe probe panel did not get thecooperation from the zoo offi-cers and employees. Somehow,the enquiry was conductedand its findings were submittedto the Ministry in April lastyear, the affidavit said.

The enquiry found thatmonitor lizards were illegallycaught (from outside) andreleased in the cell of the ani-mal (inside the zoo). “Based onthe documentary evidence, ithas been found that the deathof many animals in the zoo wassuppressed by the authorities.The dead animals have been subsequently replacedwith illegally captured animals,”it said.

It said eight tortoises(unidentified species) and threered sand boa snakes were miss-ing from the zoo while therecords pertaining to captiveanimals of the zoo have beenmanipulated.

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The Lok Sabha on Thursdaypassed the Aadhaar

amendment Bill allowing vol-untary use of Aadhaar as proofof identity for opening bankaccounts and procuring mobilephones, with strong objectionsfrom Opposition parties accus-ing this will lead to breach ofprivacy.

The Aadhaar and OtherLaws (Amendment) Bill, 2019,was passed by a voice vote afterInformation TechnologyMinister Ravi Shankar Prasadassured the House thatAadhaar is voluntary andinformed consent of the bio-metric identity holder has to beobtained before it is used.

"The amendments addressthe privacy and security con-cerns. It provides that no ser-vice or benefit of any schemewill be denied for lack ofAadhaar," Prasad said. Theamended bill also provides fora stiff �1 crore penalty and a jailterm for private entities forstoring Aadhaar data.

"As many as 123 crorepeople are currently usingAadhaar... All safeguards are inplace to prohibit misuse ofAadhaar biometrics. Iris andfinger print data is stored inIndian machinery and it issafe and secure," Prasad said.

Displaying his personalAadhaar card in the House, theMinister said the card only dis-closes his name, father's name,date of birth, residential addressand does not give out anyinformation on medicalrecords or details of caste, reli-gion and community. He said

Aadhaar data can only beshared when there is a threat tonational security or there isCourt order. "Even if I, as an,Information TechnologyMinister, seek Aadhaar data, Iwill be subject to 3 years ofpunishment," Prasad said.

He said the Governmenthas saved �1.41 lakh crore dueto Aadhaar and removed 4.23crore and 2.98 crore bogusLPG connection and rationcards respectively. Prasad saidthe Bill is a wholesomeamendment following theSupreme Court order. "Since

crores of poor people are ben-efiting by using Aadhaar, hencein emergency we brought theOrdinance," he said.

Opposing the bill, AdhirRanjan Chowdhury, Leader ofthe Congress in the Lok Sabha,said the government used theordinance route to bring in thelegislation. He said the ordi-nance was issued by the lastgovernment (from 2014-19)and the current governmenthas brought it as a legislation.

Chowdhury said it was theUPA Government, whichbrought in the law, to whichLaw Minister Ravi ShankarPrasad said the NDA govern-ment gave legal status toAadhaar. "You have loaned theconcept of Aadhaar from us(Aapne Aadhaar udhaar liyahain)," Chowdhury said. Hesaid the Supreme Court hadalso rapped the Governmentfor violating privacy inAadhaar. Prasad said, "Underyou (the UPA), Aadhaar lackedany backing (Aadhaar niradhartha). We made a law for it".

TMC MP Mahua Moitra

said the bill speaks of a regu-lator which will govern variousprovisions. She said there areno details of the proposedregulator in the bill, whichmakes it opaque. She said theregulator should be integratedin the bill itself. Referring tothe "Aadhaar ecosystem", shesought to know the legalrecourse one can take if theecosystem fails. "Without adata protection law, it is likeputting cart before the horse,"she said. Moitra claimed thatAadhaar was perceived as asystem to enable the poor getservices, but that now, it hasturned into an "aquisitive"entity.

Supriya Sule (NCP) saidthat "You are cheating commonman... What privacy we aretalking about?"

Hitting out at the BJP, shesaid that "they are only grow-ing on the programmes whichUPA started."

"Why is Aadhaar cardcompulsory? What is it? Whatis voter card then? We all havevoter ID," she said.

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Congress leaders are in a fixafter Rahul Gandhi's final

word on his quitting the post.While a section of them islooking for change, another setof leaders is perturbed over theprobable choice for Rahul'ssuccessor.

A top leader in the partysaid that the Congress' firstfamily too is worried over thefragile condition of the partycurrently and the prospect ofits further fragmentation, engi-neered by the BJP, ahead ofAssembly elections in someStates.

With Assembly electionsto States like Maharashtra,Jharkhand, Haryana and Delhiapproaching, many in the partyfeel the Congress has beenthrust in a "blind spot". Butsome leaders said RahulGandhi's decision will augurwell for a party that needs toreinvent itself and present aclear vision to again emerge asa credible alternative.

"The Congress faces anexistential crisis in the absenceof clear leadership and such asituation does not bode well forthe party which faces assemblyelections in the states just a fewmonths later," said a partyleader adding Rahul's succes-sor needs to be carefully cho-sen with a long term vision inmind and should be one whocould rise above factions andnepotism to rejuvenate theparty right from the grassrootslevel.

While Rahul in his firstreaction post his resignationstated that he would work 10times harder for the party, hissister and Congress generalsecretary Priyanka Gandhilauded his "courage" to quit thehighest post of the grand oldparty.

Rahul Gandhi in Mumbaitold reporters he will engage inthe 'ideological fight' with theBJP and the RSS with 10 timesmore vigour than he did dur-ing the last five years. Priyankaon her part took to socialmedia saying, "Few have thecourage that you do @rahul-gandhi. Deepest respect for

your decision." The Congress Working

Committee (CWC), the party'shighest decision making body,will meet next week to resolvethe presidentship issue. TheCongress' future too will bechalked out at the meeting.

"The Gandhi family isintegral to the Congress. Thetwo cannot be separated. Welook forward to their guidancein the coming times," said aparty leader pointing to thecontinuing sway the first fam-ily of the party will have on theorganization even if a non-Gandhi helms the affairs.

Rajasthan Chief MinisterAshok Gehlot also refused to

contemplate a Gandhi-freeCongress. "We will bounceback and Congress Party wouldcontinue to defeat the fascistforces under Rahul ji's dynam-ic leadership," he said, express-ing the hope that Rahul Gandhiwould lead the party with the"same zeal and spirit".

Karnataka Minister DKShivakumar also said:"Without Gandhi familyCongress can't be united, with-out Congress being unitedcountry can't be united.Gandhi family is the onlystrength to keep this partystrong, united & rebuild thisparty to bring it back topower."

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As Rahul Gandhi appearedbefore a Mumbai court in

a defamation case for hisremarks against the RSS, theCongress on Thursday attackedthe Hindutva organisationthrough a video on Twitteralleging that it "consistentlyparticipated in 'anti-India'activities".

Rahul pleaded 'not guilty'in the court in the defamationcase after he accused the RSSof being responsible for themurder of journalist GauriLankesh. "Think you knowwhat the RSS is all about,think again. The RashtriyaSwayamsevak Sangh has con-sistently participated in anti-India activities, includingpledging loyalty to the British,instigating violence & assassi-nating Mahatma Gandhi," theCongress said on Twitter, usinghashtag "RSSVsIndia".

"From the freedom strug-gle to the symbols ofIndianness, the RSS has alwaysopposed them. When free-dom fighters were fighting theBritish, the RSS as an institu-tion was bowing before the

British. Opposing the "idea ofIndia" has been the policy ofthe RSS," the party also tweet-ed.

The one-minute videotitled "RSS for Dummies"alleged that RSS founder 'KBHedgewar ordered the Sanghnot to participate inSatyagraha'. "Sangh leadersencouraged members to jointhe British civic guard... RSS'non-participation in India'sIndependence was compli-mented by their British mas-ters... The Sangh opposed ournational flag! Anti-national,much? Nathuram Godse shotand killed Gandhi," the partyclaimed.

It also alleged that "the RSSopposed liberalisation... Inshort and in shorts, the RSS isanti-development and foughtagainst freedom when wefought for it".

The video also alleges thatthe RSS considers the'Manusmruti' greater than theConstitution. The video comesa day after Gandhi formallyresigned as Congress presidentwhile taking full moral respon-sibility for the party's LokSabha poll debacle.

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Issues like the breach in a damin Ratnagiri, Maharashtra,

killing more than 23 people,high cut-off list in DelhiUniversity causing hardships toadmission seekers, buildersduping homebuyers and plightof rickshaw pullers of Kolkatafigured in the Rajya Sabha on

Thursday.Drawing the attention of

the house to the Tiware dammishap, HusainDalwai(Congress)demandedcompensation for the victimsand alleged that the breachtook place as the local admin-istration did not take timelyaction despite repeated warn-ings over the last few months.

The Congress leader demand-ed strict action against thoseresponsible for negligence.

Dalwai said it was not cor-rect that incessant rains in theregion led to the breach of thedam. The district collector wason February 12 in writinginformed of the dam requiringurgent repairs but it was neverdone, he said.

The dam, he said, was builtin 2012 at a cost of �12 croreagainst the initial estimate of Rs2 crore.

Raising the issue of highcut-off in Delhi University, RKSinha(BJP) suggested that allthe colleges in the national cap-ital should start evening class-es also. It will allow more stu-dents to seek admission on theone hand and give employmentto more teachers on the other,the BJP leader said adding stu-dents working part-time willalso benefit from such a move.Chairman M Venkaiah Naidusaid high cut-offs speaks ofstandard of education of DelhiUniversity adding he isChancellor of the varsity.

Ajay Pratap Singh (BJP)

raised the issue of delays bybuilders in handing over hous-es to buyers and demandedstrict laws to rectify the situa-tion as the existing legalrecourse was not effective.

Mahesh Poddar(BJP)saidthe practise of men pullingrickshaw in Kolkata was not apleasant sight and wanted animmediate end to it. He saidmore than 20,000 rickshawpullers were engaged in thisendeavour and lead a tough lifesurviving on footpaths. ManyMPs associated themselveswith Poddar on the issue.

AK Selvaraj (AIADMK)wanted subsidy for farmersgrowing fruits and vegetablesthrough drip irrigation beincreased to make up for theadditional cost incurred inhigh density farming andwhere higher intensity irriga-tion is required due to soil qual-ity. Vijay Pal Singh Tomar(BJP) urged laws be madestricter to deter food adulter-ation.

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Arange of issues figured inthe Lok Sabha on Thursday

including the Governmentseeking to put to rest the con-troversy over Puducherry Lt.Governor Kiran Bedi's tweetwhich, it said, she "deleted"and also expressed regret overit besides Trinamool CongressMP Mahua Moitra trying toraise the alleged false reportageand personal attacks on her bya TV news channel and its edi-tor.

DMK members had onWednesday objected to Bedi'salleged comments "insulting"politicians and people of TamilNadu. DMK leader TR Balu, forthe second day , raised the issueagain in the lower house anddemanded action against her.

Responding to the DMK'sprotest, Defence MinisterRajnath Singh said Bedi hasalready deleted the tweet andissued a statement expressingdeep regret. He said when thematter was raised in Parliamentby Baalu, the Ministry of HomeAffairs took notice of it and tooknecessary action in this regard.

Rajnath said she hasexpressed deep regret by saying,"What was written was a peo-ple perspective shared in mypersonal capacity, as it came ata time when people were huge-ly suffering for water inChennai. However, I admit it

was avoidable. And I should nothave shared it in public in thismanner and I too realised it."

"I have therefore deleted mysharing. I have the highestregards and warmth for the peo-ple of Tamil Nadu, like I have forthe people of Puducherry," hequoted Bedi's statement.

The Defence Minister saidin view of the LG's statement, hewould like to request membersof the House to put the issue torest.

After Rajnath's statement,Congress leader Adhir RanjanChowdhury demanded theHouse should adopt a resolu-tion condemning Bedi forallegedly humiliating the peo-ple of Tamil Nadu.

As Zero Hour commenced,Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birlasaid a privilege motion sub-mitted by Moitra was under hisconsideration.

Moitra said she wanted tohighlight an important issuethrough a point of order.However, as soon as she tookthe names of the channel andthe editor and tried to read outa statement, the Speaker askedher not to do so. The Speakersaid he cannot allow name ofany person, not a member ofthe house, to be mentioned inthe house

Immediately, the Speakerasked another MP to speakwhich forced Moitra to take herseat without completing her

statement.The 42-year-old, who is a

former investment banker,trended on social media afterher speech on June 25 during adebate on the President'saddress where she sought todetail " seven signs of fascism"in India. She was reportedlyaccused of plagiarism by a for-eign-based publication to whichshe has expressed her surprisesaying her source was clearlymentioned in her Lok Sabhaspeech. Moitra is a first-timeMP from West Bengal'sKrishnanagar.

On another issue, the gov-ernment said there is no evi-dence to show that buildingswith glass facades utilise extraenergy. Housing and UrbanAffairs Minister Hardeep SinghPuri told the Lok Sabha that, infact, a glass building whenproperly designed, can havebenefits.

Citing a study by IIT Delhiin July 2011, the minister saidthough glass facade leads tohigher energy consumption inbuildings, the actual quantumof consumption depends onvarious factors such as buildingtype, glazing type, glazing ori-entation and climate type.

BJP MP Hema Malini, forher part, raised the issue ofattack on doctors, saying theyare assaulted by "lynch mobswith impunity" and demandeda strict law to protect them.

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The Election Commission(EC) on Thursday

announced that the election tothe Vellore Lok Sabha con-stituency, which was counter-manded due to excess use ofmoney power, will now be heldon August 5 while bypoll for thePatkura Assembly of Odishawill be held on July 20.

It was for the first time thatthe election to a Lok Sabha con-stituency was cancelled over useof money power. Earlier, thebypoll to the RK NagarAssembly seat in Tamil Naduwas cancelled in April, 2017,following seizure of huge cash,allegedly meant for bribingvoters. Similarly, the election tothe Patkura assembly was post-poned due to death of the can-didate. Later the poll was post-poned due to Fani cyclone.

Polling for the Lok Sabha

seat was scheduled for April 18,along with the other con-stituencies of Tamil Nadu, butwas cancelled on April 16 fol-lowing the recovery of a hugeamount of cash allegedly froman associate of a DMK leader.

The EC also announced theelection date to PatkuraAssembly election underKendrapara Parliamentary con-stituency. Polls to the seat,which was earlier postponeddue to the demise of BJD can-didate Bed Prakash Agarwalla,is now set to be conducted onJuly 20, while the counting ofvotes will be held on July 24,2019.

In an official release, theCommission said that the aftertaking into consideration var-ious factors like, festivals, elec-toral rolls and others, it took thedecision to hold the adjournedpoll to fill the Patkura seat.Later, the ECI postponed theelection further for another 60days in view of cyclone 'Fani'that hit the state on May 3. Withthe notification, the modelcode of conduct came intoforce from Thursday.

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As the recent Governmentdecision to tax disability

pension has led to unrestamongst the Services and vet-erans, a city-based organisa-tion of war disabled and battlecasualties has taken strongexception to the Army'sendorsement of the move claim-ing it affects the morale.

The Army on Tuesdaymaintained that disability pen-sion was being misused andsuch cases were on the rise.Defence Minister Rajnath Singhlast week had assured the LokSabha that he will look into thematter after the Congress raiseda din over the issue.

Disabled War Veterans(India), in a letter to the Army

said any "discrimination orinvidious distinction" whilemaking an official statement,affects the morale of the entiremilitary community.

In a series of tweets, theArmy had said over the years,broad-banding and the com-pensation awarded for disabili-ty with income tax exemptionhad led to a rise in the numberof personnel claiming disabilityeven for lifestyle diseases.

The issue was not of doingaway with tax exemption but toput an end to the alleged wronguse of the disability pensionthereby denying the facility tothe more deserving cases, offi-cials said. It was learnt the annu-al disability pension is about �50crore or so. The Central Boardof Direct Taxes in a directive

early last week informed that thedisability pension for those per-sonnel who serve full militaryservice and then retire will notbe exempted from income-tax.

The Army's endorsement ofthe order had upset severalveterans of the armed forces,some of whom had sufferedgrievous injuries in action. Inits letter, the Disabled WarVeterans (India) said, "It is alsowell known that disability in themilitary is on a rise all over theglobe due to operational com-mitments, transfers and otherstressors".

"Being at the forefront ofissues related to the war disabled,we must put it on record thatsensitivity must be displayed

towards genuinely disabled withnon-operational disabilitiesalso," reads the letter sent by theorganisation to ADGPI(Additional Directorate Generalof Public Information) of theArmy.

In the letter, dated July 3, theDelhi-based organisation alsounderlined that stress and strainof military service is known to"adversely affect" the health pro-file of troops.

"Rather than attaching stig-ma to low medical personnel ornegativity to disability compen-sation, we should be concernedabout ensuring better medicalcare for our soldiers and ensur-ing a stress-free health and notpayments," it said.

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The Defence Ministry hasdecided to grant Special

Family Pension or LiberalisedFamily Pension (LFP) for nextof kin of those personnel re-employed in military or civiland if their death is attributableto military service. Earlier,Ordinary Family Pension wasauthorised from the military orcivil department wherever theveteran was employed. In thelatest decision, the familieswill get ordinary family pen-sion in addition to SFP orLFP.

Giving details of the orderissued on Thursday, officialssaid prior to January 2013, theNext of Kins (NOKs) of ArmedForce Pensioner who got re-employed in civil departmentafter getting retired from mil-itary service were authorised todraw Ordinary Family Pension(OFP) either from militaryside or from civil side whichev-er was beneficial to them.

In March 2013, it wasdecided that the families of

Armed Forces pensioners, whogot re-employed in civil depart-ments or military after gettingretired from military serviceand were in receipt of militarypension till death, shall beallowed to draw family pensionfrom military side in additionto the family pension, if any,authorised from the re-employed civil department.

The Government wasreceiving grievances from var-ious quarters for grant of dualfamily pension includingSpecial FamilyPension/Liberalised FamilyPension where death of the re-employed government servantis attributable to governmentservice.

The matter has been exam-ined in the Ministry and nowwas decided that Special FamilyPension (SFP)/LiberalisedFamily Pension (LFP), wouldbe admissible on death of apensioner who was re-employed in military serviceand if his death is attributableto military service, in additionto Ordinary Family Pension.

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New Delhi: Pakistan is tryingto hoodwink the internationalcommunity with its "cosmetic"steps against terror groups, theExternal Affairs Ministry saidon Thursday.

The MEA's response cameafter Pakistan claimed that ithad "booked" Mumbai attacksmastermind Hafiz Saeed and12 of his close associates for"terrorism financing" in 23cases, amidst growing globalpressure on Islamabad to actagainst militant groups launch-ing deadly attacks in India.

"Pakistan is trying to hood-wink the international com-munity on taking action againstterror groups.

"Let us not get fooled bycosmetic steps against terrorgroups by Pakistan," MEAspokesperson Raveesh Kumartold reporters here. PTI

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New Delhi: The SupremeCourt on Thursday soughtresponse from RVenkataramanan, a formermanaging trustee of TataTrusts, on an appeal ofShapoorji Pallonji Group chal-lenging the quashing of itsdefamation case against him.

"This is nothing but a cor-porate war," a bench compris-ing Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoiand Justice Deepak Gupta said,while issuing notice toVenkataramanan.

Senior advocate MaheshJethmalani, appearing forShapoorji Pallonji Group, saidthat the defamation complaintfiled by the firm was quashedby the Bombay High Court

erroneously.The Bombay High Court

had quashed a prosecutionorder issued by a magistratecourt against Venkataramananin the defamation case.

In October 2018, the mag-istrate's court at Ballard Pierhad issued the process of sum-moning Venkataramanan afterthe Shapoorji Pallonji Groupfiled the criminal defamationcase against him.

In the complaint, theShapoorji Pallonji Group,which owns 18.6-per cent stakein the Tata Group, had allegedthat Venkataramanan hadmade some comments in apress note which were false anddefamatory to the group. PTI

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Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel and former Chief Minister Raman Singh jointly perform rituals during Rath Yatra(procession), which commenced from Lord Jagannath Temple, Gayatri Nagar in Raipur on Thursday.

ANKIT MISHRA nRAIPUR

Five months after thedeaths of 12 blackbucks

in Barnawapara sanctuary,the state forest departmenthas not been able to come upwith the exact numbers ofsurviving antelope.

According to state forestdepartment, 12 blackbucks(deer) had died within aspan of six months inBarnawapara sanctuary.

“We have completed tworounds of counting throughdifferent methods. However,due to unavailability ofbiologist we have not beenable to perform the finalround of counting which hasto be performed by the‘segregation’ method,”Divisional Forest OfficerBaloda Bazar VishweshKumar told The Pioneer.

The officer said thatsince blackbuck is a very

sensitive animal presence ofdoctor and biologist is

required to avert any furtherdeath.

As per the forest official,most of the blackbucks had

died of pneumonia, whilefew died of injures sustainedduring the duel with otherblack bugs.

Six to seven had diedwithin first week after theywere shifted to Barnawaparalast year in the month ofAugust, while the last deathwas recorded on February 2this year.

Notably, blackbuckshave been classified as “nearthreatened” animals byInternational Union ofConservation of Nature(IUCN) since 2003.

Union Minister ofEnvironment and Forest(MoEF) has also declaredblackbuck as endangeredspecies.

At Barnawapara for con-servation of the species anenclosure spread around 5hectares was constructed tocreate a natural habitat forthem.

How many blackbucks stillalive in Barnawapara? STAFF REPORTER n RAIPUR

Adelegation of state BJPhanded over a represen-

tation to Superintendent ofPolice, Central Bureau ofInvestigation, Chhattisgarhseeking to shift the hearing of‘sex CD’ case to another stateclaiming that justice will bedenied if the case is heardwithin the state.

The letter states that CBIhas submitted its interimreport in the fake ‘sex CD’case. The case is pendingbefore the Special CBI Court,Raipur for which the hearingwill soon commence.

Prakash Bajaj is the maincomplainant, based on hiscomplaint the ChhattisgarhPolice has registered theoffence and taken actionagainst accused.

The letter further allegesstate police within twomonths registered FIRs in twocases against Prakash Bajajunder political pressure withthe intention to harass him.He has been asked to givestatement under Cr.P.C. 164that the complaint he regis-tered was false.

As the case has been filedagainst the then CPCC chief

and present Chief MinisterBhupesh Baghel and his advi-sor Vinod Verma, there islesser possibility of free andfair hearing in the state.Therefore, the case should betransferred to other state.State government had alreadymade its intention clear tokeep away the CBI from anyprobe. The letter makes a pleathat as witnesses and com-plainant will be pressurised toweaken the case, the CBIshould shift the case. Basedon the representation, a trans-fer petition can be filed beforethe apex court to constitute aspecial court outside the state.

BJP seeks to shift ‘SexCD’ case to other state

STAFF REPORTER n RAIPUR

Citing hurdles inestablishing micro and

small scale food, agricultureand minor forest produceprocessing units in the forestareas due to environmentalclearance, Chief MinisterBhupesh Baghel urged PrimeMinister Narendra Modi toinclude them under ‘forestry’.

In a letter written to PM,Baghel pointed out that livesof residents of forest areas inthe state is full of hardshipand it is a big challenge beforethe state government toincrease their income,alleviate their poverty andease their living style.

Asserting that it is a moralduty of the state governmentto bring prosperity in the livesof people living in forest areas,which are nearly 44% of thegeographical area of the state,the CM further said thatcooperation in this regard isneeded from the Uniongovernment.

“Thus it is urged that themicro and small scale units

based on minor forestproduce and agriculturewhich does not generatepollution must be includedunder forestry by makingnecessary amendments in theForest Conservation Act”,Baghel said in the letter.

Citing difficult geograph-ical condition in the forestareas of the state where power

transmission line could not bedrawn, Baghel also demandedof the Prime Minister topermit establishing solar plantof 1-5 megawatt capacity inthe forest area to ensure unin-terrupted power supply.Necessary amendments haveto be done by the renewableenergy ministry in this regardso that electrification can bedone there, he added.

Baghel urges PM to include foodprocessing units under forestry

Citing difficult geographical condition in the forest areas of

the state where power transmission line could not be

drawn, Baghel also demanded of the Prime Minister to

permit establishing solar plant of 1-5 megawatt capacity

STAFF REPORTER n BILASPUR

Alizard was found in the mid-daymeal served to 22 students at

Gandhiganj government primaryschool Gaurela in Bilaspur districton Thursday afternoon.

A timely intervention and

alertness of the school staff averted amajor mishap.

District Collector, Bilaspur, DrSanjay Alang informed The Pioneerthat the students were immediatelystopped form eating when the lizardwas detected in the food and they

were immediately taken to a nearbyCommunity Health Centre (CHC),where after being observed for near-ly three hours they were found fitand fine.

Alang admitting that a lizardwas found in the meal furtherappreciated the alertness of schoolstaff for immediately approachingnearby hospital after taking advicefrom local administrative officers.

“Even though they were stoppedfrom eating the food, as a precau-tionary measure all the 22 studentswere taken to nearby governmenthospital for treatment in case of anyeventuality.”

“We heaved a sigh of relief thatafter observation no sign of foodpoisoning was found,” he added.

STAFF REPORTER n RAIPUR

BJP Scheduled Caste Cell nationalpresident and Chhattisgarh

Rajya Sabha member RamvicharNetam will launch the party’s mem-bership drive at Imphal, capital cityof Manipur on July 6.

He will hold discussion with theparty workers on July 5, launch thedrive on July 6 and return to Delhithe next day.

Ramvichar Netam tolaunch membershipdrive at Imphal

Lizard found in mid-day meal,alert staff prevents mishap

STAFF REPORTER nRAIPUR

Stating that DistrictMineral Foundation is a

vehicle through which thesocio-economic status ofthe mining-affected regionscan be changed for better,the state government hasexpanded the areas ofworks to be undertakenunder it.

It has included theworks related to education,health, agriculture, cateringthe need of drinking water,nutritious food, food pro-cessing and conservation ofculture along with the con-struction works beingundertaken now.

Making necessaryamendments in theChhattisgarh Zila KhanijSansthan Nyas Niyam-2015

in the cabinet meeting heldon Wednesday, the stategovernment expanded theareas under which theDMF money could be uti-lized.

It was also decided toconstitute a state level cellfor the purpose of effective

monitoring the worksunder DMF and ascertain-ing better education andemployment opportunitiesto the affected youths.

In the districts wherethe DMF amount is greaterthan Rs 25 crore, surveyand social audit would be

done through institutesregistered under the foun-dation. A vision plan wouldbe prepared with the helpof them for deciding aboutthe utilization of themoney.

Notable, the DMF hasbeen instituted to work forthe interest and benefits ofpeople affected by miningrelated operations. It wasinstituted under the Minesand Minerals(Development andRegulation) AmendmentAct, 2005. As per law, theDMF has to be set up in allmining districts of thecountry and mining com-panies have to contributeresources equivalent to10%-30% of the royalty forthis fund.

Baghel expands DMF’s area of functioningEducation and employment generation for affected youths will be on priority list

STAFF REPORTER n RAIPUR

Chhattisgarh State PowerTransmission Company

on Thursday kick-started thework for construction of a132/33 kv EHT substations-IIat Siltara.

The substation being builtat a cost of Rs. 23.82 crore willbenefit all the nearbyindustrial units.

The power company hasexpedited the constructionwork on all the suspendedprojects to strengthen andexpand the transmissionnetwork both in rural andurban areas following a direc-tive from the Chief Minister.

Immediately after takingcharge Chief MinisterBhupesh Baghel instructed thepower company to complete

all the transmission projectswithin a time frame.

Chairman of allChhattisgarh state-ownedpower companies ShailendraShukla said 36 numbers oftransmission networks have

been indentified for comple-tion in coming years. It willcost Rs. 1000 crore.

The 132/33 KV substa-tions, construction work ofwhich started on the pious dayof Rath yatra, is part of that

transmission network.On completion of this

substations all the nearbyindustrial units will get relieffrom voltage problem andsmooth supply can also beensured, the company said in apress release.

Apart from this new 132K.V. line construction, Siltara -Jagdamba and Siltara - S.K.S.LILO costing Rs. 9 crore willalso be constructed. Attendingthe site worshipping pro-gramme M.D. TransmissionTripti Sinha said that Siltaraalready has 220/132/33 K.V.substations functional. “Butkeeping in view the additionaldemand by the existing unitsand for new units which are tocome in near future, this newsub-station is very much need-ed,” she said.

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Chhattisgarh government onThursday issued guidelines to

sand mines which will be auctionedby a committee headed by respectivedistrict collector.

This comes a day after the stateCabinet decided to auction the mines.

The lease holders will be selectedon the basis of reverse bidding.

Panchayat or civic bodies will getequal to maximum 25% hike, as com-pared to last 5 years, in annual royal-ty from the next financial year.

As per guidelines issued by min-ing department, the selection of leaseholder of mines will be done on thebasis of reverse bidding (minimumper square metre) against the highestspecified value (ceiling price). Theperiod of agreement is of two years,

which when required can be furtherextended to one year.

The District Level Committeechaired by district collector, will ear-mark a sand mine which has receivedenvironmental clearance and suchadjacent sand mines will be ear-marked as a cluster based on geo-graphical conditions and single outletroute for transportation. The ceilingprice of cluster will be fixed by thepanel.

The mines lease owner will haveto deposit the difference amount ofceiling price and minimum auctionamount of reverse bidding. The exist-ing panchayat and civic bodies runsand mines will be transferred toreverse bidder. The sand transporta-tion vehicles will have to be registeredonline in departmental portal. Therate of transportation will also be

fixed. Those customers requiring lessamount of sand will have to procure itfrom traders. The traders dealingwith sand will also be registeredonline through departmental portal.

To control illegal mining andtransportation, special flying squadswill be deputed. If any vehicle iscaught three times for illegal trans-portation, then its registration will becancelled and stern action will betaken.

State government hopes that thenew arrangement will help to con-serve the rivers and water sources andthe consumers will get sand at afford-able price. Additional to it, state gov-ernment will get additional revenuethrough DMF, environment andinfrastructure sub-tax, auctionamount, stamp and registration feeson agreement of mine lease.

Govt issues guidelinesfor sand mining

Power transmission network buildinggets push after CM’s prodding

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Himachal Government onThursday said it would develop

Janjehli area in Mandi district fromeco-tourism point of view, Bir Billingin Kangra district as destination ofpara gliding and adventure sports,Pong Dam as water sports destina-tion and Chanshal area in Shimladistrict as favoured destination forwinter sports and skiing.

Presiding over a presentation on‘Nai Rahein, Nai Manjilein’ schemeof the state government to explorelesser known tourist destinations inthe state here, Chief Minister Jai

Ram Thakur said that to lessen theburden from already overcrowdedtourists destinations like Shimla,Kullu-Manali, Dharamshala etc., thegovernment has launched this ambi-tious scheme to create world classinfrastructure for the tourists so thatthey could be motivated to visit thesevirgin destinations.

He said that hotel chain groupClub Mahindra has agreed to estab-lish a resort at Janjehli with aninvestment of Rs. 50 crore. Besides,Rs. 25 crore would be spent on cre-ation of basic eco tourism relatedfacilities like developing campingsites, tracking routes, new points,

upgradation and renovation of exist-ing forest rest houses and setting upof log huts for the tourists.

He said that camping sites wouldbe developed at Devidhar, Panjainand Bijahi etc. In addition to this,interpretation centre would be estab-lished at Bandal in proposedBaglamukhi Nature Park.

He said that cactus garden, rope-way, nature walk and rock climbingfacilities would also be developed inthe area. He said that log huts wouldbe constructed near Pandoh toensure that the tourists visitingKullu-Manali area get another touristdestination on way from Mandi to

Manali.Thakur said para gliding centre

would be developed at Bir Billing byspending Rs. 8 crore. Besides, tradi-tional tracking routes, resting placesand other comfort facilities would bestrengthened for facilitating theadventure lovers visiting the area.

He said Pong Dam in Kangradistrict has been declared as Ramsarsite which is world famous site forbird watchers as lakhs of birdsmigrate to this place every year. Hesaid two boats with sitting capacityof 14 people have already been pro-vided in the Pong Dam to facilitatevisitors and two additional boats

would be provided soon. Thakur said Chanshal area in

Shimla district was also being devel-oped as a destination for wintersports and pre-feasibility reportregarding development of ski slopes,resorts, ropeways and other facilitieshave already been prepared.

Additional Chief SecretaryTourism Ram Subhag Singh gaveaway a detailed presentation and saidthe department would ensure that allthese four destinations would be developed as a benchmarkin promoting virgin destinations inthe State from tourism point ofview.

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Here this chariot covers thelongest route of 11 km dur-

ing the Rath Yatra. Also it takesfive days to cover the distance.

Flagged off by the chief priestof the temple Upendra Ojha onThursday afternoon amidstchanting of hymns, the Rathfrom Chhatia rolled on for itsdestination at Badaghumari inJajpur district.

The chariot halted at manyplaces and large numbers ofdevotees worshipped LordJagannath, Lord Balabhadra andDevi Subhadra on the roadsides." Earlier, the authority had deniedus the permission to cover sucha long distance due to bad con-

dition of road. But in 1999, thepermission was obtained,” saidtemple Managing Committeepresident Upendra Ojha.

A huge crowd thronged thetemple and then joined the pro-

cession as it began its journeyunder the watchful gaze of policepersonnel who had spread outthrough the journey routesincluding the National Highway5.

"The villagers and theManaging Committee membersof the temple cleaned the desig-nated roads for the smooth jour-ney of the chariot. In the past,chariot used to stick at some

places due to poor condition ofthe road . But thanks to the goodPMGSY roads now, chariotrolling has been smooth," said theSarapanch of Chhatia GramPanchayat.

Meanwhile, the people herebelieve that Lord Jagannath fromPuri will come to the temple atChhatia at some time and will beworshipped from here. “As perthe tradition of the temple, everyday the priests and devotees ofthe temple do some kinds of con-struction works for the arrival ofthe deities from Puri,” said notedsocial worker Srinibash Jena.

“We repair the doors, win-dows and do small constructionworks in the temple as theseworks will only stop after thearrival of the Lord Jagannathfrom Puri to this temple,” saidPadmalava Das, a priest of thetemple.

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President Ram Nath Kovind, Vice-President M Venkaiah Naidu, Prime

Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik greet-ed people on the auspicious occasion of theRath Yatra of Lord Jagannath and his sib-lings.

“Greetings and good wishes to fellowcitizens on the auspicious occasion of RathYatra. May the blessings of Lord Jagannath bring peace, happiness andprosperity to everyone’s lives,” the Presidenttweeted.

In a message, Vice President Naidu saidthat Lord Jagannath is considered to be anincarnation of Lord Vishnu and the RathYatra of Odisha, depicting the annualjourney of Lord Jagannath, witnesses the coming together of the entire

community in celebration of the grace anddivinity of Lord Jagannath.

The splendour and grandeur of theRath Yatra is truly unparalleled, he added.

May the pious and noble ideals asso-ciated with Rath Yatra enrich our lives withpeace and harmony, he wished.

Similarly, PM Modi sought blessings ofLord Jagannath for good health, happinessand prosperity of people.

“Best wishes to everyone on the spe-cial occasion of the Rath Yatra. We pray toLord Jagannath and seek his blessings forthe good health, happiness and prosperity of everyone. JaiJagannath,” he tweeted.

Taking to the micro blogging site, ChiefMinister Patnaik sought blessings of thedeities for happiness and prosperityof people.

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The Rath Yatra of Lord Jagannathand His siblings Lord

Balabhadra and Devi Subhadra,was celebrated amid religious fer-vour at different places across thecity on Thursday.

Thousands of devotees throngeddifferent temple sites and pulledchariots carrying the trinity to theirMausi Maa houses.

Earlier, the deities were broughtto Raths in Dhadi Pahandis amidchanting of Mantras and beating ofdrums and ghantas.

After the lords were seated,Chherapahnara (sweeping ritual)was conducted on Raths.

The car festival held at theGosaninugaon Jagannath Templewitnessed huge numbers of devo-tees. Local MLA Bikram Panda, for-mer MLA Dr Ramesh ChandraChyaupatnaik, SP Pinak Mishra,

BDA Chairman SubashMoharana, PanchananChoudhury and PatitaPaban Choudhury werepresent. Devi Subhadra’sRath was pulled by womenonly.

The festival was alsoobserved at at BijipurJatannath, PateleswarTemple, BrahmanagarTemple, MukteshwarTemple, Bada JagannathTemple and SanoJagannath Temple at BigBazaar, KamapalliGowlundi JagannathMandir, Ganjam KalaParishad Raod JagannathMandir.

District CollectorAmrit Kulangi conductedChherapahmra on theRaths at AlirigarhJagannath Temple.

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The auspicious Rath Yatra was cele-brated with much religious fervour

here on Thursday with thousands ofdevotees experiencing the holymoments.

According to tradition, the priestsmounted the deities on their respectivechariots performing the rites of Pahandiand Chherapanhara, following which thechariots were pulled to the Mausi Maa

temple. The chariot of Lord Balabhadra

was ahead of those of Lord Jagannathand their sister Devi Subhadra.

The district administration madeelaborate security arrangements bydeploying 11 platoons of police. DistrictCollector Anupam Saha and SP SaraSharma, SDPO Thakur Pratap Patra,other district officials and members ofthe Rath Yatra managing committee werepresent.

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An eye-in-the-sky willsoon keep a watch inside

the Punjab prisons. For, thePunjab Government hasdecided to use the dronesbesides installing the CCTVcameras in all jails to fortifythe prison walls.

Apart from that, theGovernment has also decidedto send the Punjab Policeofficers from its intelligencewing on deputation to theJails Department, amendingrules to grant parole, shiftingof undertrial gangsters orradicals outside Punjab, fillingup of vacancies, among oth-ers.

These, among others, area slew of decisions taken bythe State Government, duringa high-level meeting headedby the Chief Minister CaptAmarinder Singh to reviewthe prison security system, tostrengthen the jail security.

The decisions came closeon the heels of recent inci-dents of murder of the mainaccused in the Bargari sacri-lege case in Nabha as well asa rioting in Ludhiana centraljail. Other than that, severalincidents like scuff le in

Bathinda jai l , deaths inLudhiana jail, were alsoreported.

During the meeting, itwas decided that the state’sintelligence officials will besent on deputation to theJails Department to assist thestaff in collecting intelligencethat might be vital to ensur-ing fool-proof security injails.

In another importantmove, Capt Amarinder askedthe Jails Department to for-mulate a comprehensive strat-egy to segregate undertrialgangsters and radicals fromother prisoners, possibly byshifting them out to other jailsoutside the State mainly “toprevent radicalisation andplanning of terrorist, gangsteror criminal activities fromjails”.

The Chief Minister alsodirected the DeputyCommissioners to visit theprisons in their respectivedistricts once a month toensure proper monitoring ofthe security arrangementsand welfare measures there.

DCs have also been askedto make a personal inspectionto identify lacunae, if any, inthe security apparatus and

ensure that the same areplugged without delay.

Chief Minister a lsoordered to fill all the 700vacant posts of wardens“without delay”. Thespokesperson informed thatthe Government is already inthe process of recruiting 400wardens for which the

Finance Department hasgiven approval, and the ChiefMinister directed immediateclearance by the Departmentfor the filling up of theremaining 300 odd vacan-cies also.

The Chief Minister alsodirected making physical testsand minimum criteria ofphysique mandator y forrecruitment of wardens, inplace of the existing practiceof holding only written testsfor them.

Instructions were issuedto the Jails Department to

review the Prisons Manualand make suitable amend-ments to make parole difficultfor prisoners found to be cre-ating problems during theirstay in jails.

Citing the approval givenby Union Home Minister fordeputing four companies ofthe CRPF in exchange of IRB,the Chief Minister orderedmodalities for the same to beworked out at the earliestwhile directing that the CRPFcompanies be posted on jailduty as soon as possible.

Taking cognizance ofcomplaints about involve-ment of PESCO employees insmuggling of mobile phonesetc into the prisons, the ChiefMinister ordered that all suchpersonnel deployed at jails bescrutinized.

Capt Amarinder alsoasked the DCs to work withNGOs to come out with waysof keeping the prisoners pro-ductively busy, either in theprison factories or as part ofthe schemes undertaken bythe NGOs.

At the same time, theChief Minister also approvedthe Jails Department’s pro-posal for establishing of a newprison in Mohali to ease con-gestion and pressure.

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Remember the school pun-ishment where you had to

cross your arms, hold your ear-lobes and squat… The studentsin schools of Haryana will nowbe seen doing this on a daily basisbut not as a punishment but asa yoga routine to improve thefunctioning of brain.

The Board of SchoolEducation, Haryana has pro-posed to introduce ‘super brainyoga’ asana in schools. For this,the Board will soon send a pro-posal to the Department ofSchool Education, Haryana.

Dr Jagbir Singh, chairman ofBSEH on Thursday said that ini-tially, the students of SarvepalliRadhakrishnan Lab School,Bhiwani will begin performing‘super brain yoga’, an asana toboost mental power.

After the successful imple-mentation there, the same yogaroutine will be done by the stu-dents in other schools. We willsend a proposal in this regard tothe Department of SchoolEducation, he said, while talkingto the mediapersons in Bhiwani.

‘Super brain yoga’ asanainvolves touching the ears anddoing squats.

Dr Jagbir on Thursday

apprised the teachers ofSarvepalli Radhakrishnan LabSchool, about the ‘super brainyoga’ and its benefits. He direct-ed the school authorities to startthis yoga exercise after the schoolopens on July 8.

“Our country has a cultureof Yoga, Sanskar and Yagna,” hesaid while highlighting the ben-efits of yoga.

The BSEH officials claimedthat this yoga technique has itsroots in ancient Indian practicesand even scientists and westernworld has accepted the power ofyoga and this technique forimproving brain functioning.

The proposal, meanwhile,has stirred a row in Haryana withsome appreciating the movewhile others terming it as anunwarranted decision.

When asked to commentover the proposal, CM ManoharLal refused to respond on theissue during a press conference.

In the past, the HaryanaGovernment’s announcementslike inclusion of shlokas ofBhagwad Gita in school cur-riculum and making yoga com-pulsory in all schools of the statehad drawn severe criticism fromvarious segments as both deci-sions were seen to have religiousovertones.

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Bollywood yesteryears’ super-star Dharmendra has a word

of advice for his actor-sonSunny Deol, who has just start-ed his political career winningGurdaspur seat from Punjabduring the recently concludedLok Sabha elections.

The ‘Garam Dharam’, asDharmendra is also known as,has asked his son to “learn

something” from Aam AadmiParty (AAP) MP BhagwantMann.

Dharmendra, who hadalso taken a political plungeand elected as BJP MP fromBikaner in Rajasthan in 2004,showered praises on AAP MPfrom Sangrur Bhagwant Mannfor making a “sacrifice, toserve mother India”.

At the same time, theoctogenarian actor has

addressed the comedian-turned-actor Mann as “son-like”.

“Sunny, My son try tolearn something from My sonlike, Bhagwant Mann, MPfrom Sangrur. What a sacri-fice, to serve mother India.Jeete raho Mann, Bahut, Bahutmaan hai mujhe app par,”tweeted the actor.

His tweet was in responseto a tweet from a twiterratti,

@iamSunnyTakher, who hadearlier posted Sunny Deol’sphotos with a comment say-ing, “looking so Dashing” atMumbai airport.

But, Dharmendra’s tweethas left everyone confusedwith users asking the actor tospecify what “sacrifice” Mannhas made for “saving” thecountry. While some havepointed at Mann’s decision toshun liquor as “sacrifice”, oth-

ers indicated at leaving hiscareer as popular comedianand joining politics for people’sinterest.

However, Dharamendra’stweet came at a time when hispolitical greenhorn son, SunnyDeol, had recently faced severecriticism for appointing a filmwriter and a non-political manas his representative “to followimportant matters pertainingto the Gurdaspur parliament

constituency”.Sunny Deol, who was

promptly trolled by critics,especially the Congress, saidthat it was “extremely unfor-tunate to see a controversybeing created out of nothing atall”. Before that, Sunny facedpeople’s ire for vacationing inthe cool environs of Kaza afterwinning the elections, whilethe people in his constituencywere facing problems.

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Pre-monsoon showers lashed some parts of Punjab andHaryana on Thursday, bringing much needed respite from

the scorching heat.Maximum temperatures dropped at several places in both

the states, including Chandigarh, following the rains which areconsidered beneficial for kharif crops, especially paddy.Chandigarh recorded 29 mm of rainfall Thursday morningwhile Mohali and Panchkula also received rains, theMetrological department said.

The Union Territory recorded a high of 31.5 degreesCelsius, four degrees below normal. In Haryana, Ambala, whichreceived rainfall of 3.4 mm, recorded its maximum at 31.7degrees Celsius. Bhiwani and Hisar recorded their respectivemaximums at 40.1 and 40 degrees Celsius.

Maximum temperature of Karnal, which received rainfallof 12.8 mm, was 32 degrees Celsius, three degrees below nor-mal. Narnaul also witnessed 16 mm of rainfall while its max-imum settled at 40 degrees Celsius.

Amritsar and Ludhiana received rainfall of 15 mm and 4.5mm, respectively. Maximum temperatures at Amritsar,Ludhiana and Patiala were 39.4, 32.6 and 32.8 degreesCelsius, respectively.

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US tariffs against Chinamust be lifted for the two

sides to reach a deal to end thetrade war, the Chinese com-merce ministry said onThursday.

Trade teams from theworld’s top two economies“have maintained communi-cation”, ministry spokesmanGao Feng said, days after pres-idents Donald Trump and XiJinping announced a truce.

“The United States’ unilat-eral tariff increase on China’sexports to the United States isthe starting point for the Sino-US economic and trade fric-tions,” Gao said at a weeklypress briefing.

“If the two sides can reachan agreement, the tariffsimposed must be completelyeliminated. China’s attitudetoward this is clear and con-sistent,” Gao said.

The countries haveexchanged tariffs on $360 bil-lion in two-way trade andnegotiations broke down inMay after the United Statesaccused China of reneging onits commitments.

Trump and Xi agreed at theG20 in Japan on Saturday torevive negotiations.

The US leader said hewould not slap new tariffs onChinese exports and suggestedhe could take a softer stance on Chinese telecom giantHuawei, which he has movedto blacklist.

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Iran’s President warned thatTehran will increase its

enrichment of uranium to “anyamount that we want” begin-ning on Sunday, putting furtherpressure on European nationsto save its faltering nuclear dealand offer a way around intenseU.S. Sanctions.

President HassanRouhani’s threat, combinedwith Iran surpassing the stock-pile limits of the 2015 atomicaccord, could narrow the esti-mated one-year window itwould need to produce enoughmaterial for a nuclear weapon,something Iran denies it wantsbut the deal sought to prevent.

But as tensions rise a yearafter President Donald Trumpunilaterally withdrew Americafrom the deal, it looks unlike-ly that Europe can offer Iran away to sell its oil on the glob-al market despite U.S.Sanctions.

All this comes the U.S.Has rushed an aircraft carrier,B-52 bombers and F-22 fight-ers to the region and Iran

recently shot down a U.S. Military surveillance

drone.“Be careful with the threats,

Iran. They can come back tobite you like nobody has beenbitten before!” Trump tweetedin response to Rouhani’s warn-ing.

On Wednesday, Iran alsomarked the anniversary of theU.S. Navy shooting down anIranian passenger jet in 1988,a mistake that killed 290 peo-ple and shows the danger ofmiscalculation in the currentcrisis.

“The Trump administra-tion is pushing the center ofIranian politics to the right atthe determent of the Iranianpeople and the entire region,”said Ali Vaez, an Iran analystfor the International CrisisGroup. “Rouhani is clearly atthe end of his rope and has nochoice other than green light-ing further escalation.”

Rouhani, still viewed insideIran as a relatively moderatecleric in the country’s Shiitetheocracy, has taken an increas-ingly hard-line tone in hisremarks to the West.

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Britain is keeping its optionsopen, including slapping

sanctions on China over itstreatment of pro-democracyprotesters in Hong Kong,Foreign Secretary Jeremy Huntwarned on Thursday, amidst thewar of words between Beijingand London over the issue.

Hundreds of thousands ofHong Kongers have taken to thestreets in recent weeks over aproposed extradition bill whichChina critics fear would beused by Beijing to go after political dissidents in HongKong, a former British colony.

On Monday, student pro-testers stormed and brieflyoccupied the city’s legislature,causing widespread damage tothe building before retreating.

Beijing has hit out at the UKover accusations of “interfer-ence” in the domestic affairs ofthe semi-autonomous Chinesecity, after British ForeignSecretary Hunt expressed sup-port for Hong Kong protestersand said London would standby the city in preserving its lim-

ited democratic freedoms.Reaffirming his tough

stand, Hunt on Thursdaywarned China that it could face“serious consequences” over itstreatment of protesters in HongKong.

Hunt told the BBC that hewas keeping his options openover how the UK could respond,and refused to rule out sanc-tions. Hunt said he would notdiscuss any potential conse-quences “because you don’twant to provoke the very situ-ation you are trying to avoid”.

“Of course you keep youroptions open,” he added, insist-ing the UK would not just“gulp and move on” if Chinacracks down on protesters in theformer British colony.

Hunt said he “condemnedall violence” but warned theChinese government not torespond to the protests “byrepression”.

Hong Kong was a Britishcolony for more than 150 years,but it was returned to China in1997 after a treaty was signed bythe two countries.

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China bluntly told Britain onWednesday to “refrain from

further interference” andLondon summoned Beijing’sembassador for a dressing downin a rapidly-escalating diplo-matic feud over Hong Kong.

The protests sweeping theformer British colony have alsorevived tensions inherent inthe two sides’ historic agreementon the global financial hub’s ha-ndover to Chinese rule 22 yearsago. Hong Kong was meant tocontinue enjoying broad free-doms under the “one country,two systems” approach firstadopted by China in the 1980s.

But fears and frustrationsover Beijing’s gradual tighteningof those rules spilled over intomass demonstrations against anow-stalled draft law on HongKong residents’ extradition toChina.

They also saw UK ForeignSecretary Jeremy Hunt -- one oftwo candidates to becomeBritain’s next prime minister --take the global lead in con-

demning China’s entireapproach to its “special admin-istrative region”.

Hunt called on Beijing notto use the protests as a “pretextfor repressions” and warned of“serious consequences” if Chinabreaches the commitments itmade to London decades ago.

His comments provoked acascade of condemnations fromChina that began with its for-eign ministry in Beijing andcontinued with its embassy inLondon.

“He seems to be fantasisingin the faded glory of Britishcolonialism and in the badhabit of gesticulating whilelooking down on other coun-tries’ affairs,” Chinese foreignministry spokesman GengShuang told a regular briefing inBeijing.

“I need to re-emphasisethat Hong Kong has nowreturned to its motherland.”

The diplomatic offensiveraged on at a hastily-convenedpress conference in London byChinese ambassador LiuXiaoming.

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Turkish President RecepTayyip Erdogan said a solu-

tion could be found to helpMuslims interned in Chinesecamps “taking into account thesensitivities” of both sides, incomments published Thursday.

Turkey is one of the onlyMuslim-majority countries tohave criticised China over thedetention of an estimated onemillion ethnic Uighurs andother mostly Muslim minoritiesin the restive Xinjiang province.

But Erdogan struck a soft-er tone after meeting ChinesePresident Xi Jinping on Tuesdayin Beijing.

“I believe we can find asolution to the issue taking intoaccount the sensitivities of bothsides,” Erdogan told Turkishjournalists in Beijing beforeflying back to Turkey, accordingto Hurriyet daily.

Chinese state mediaclaimed Erdogan said ethnicminorities live happily inXinjiang, but he made no such

comments to Turkish reporters.He warned against those

who sought to “abuse” theXinjiang issue to create tensionswith China, a key investor andtrading partner.

“This abuse is having anegative impact on Turkish-Chinese relations. It is necessarythat we do not give opportuni-ty to such abuse,” Erdogan said.

He added that Turkey could“send a delegation to EastTurkestan”, the name given byactivists to Xinjiang.

The president’s communi-cations director, Fahrettin Altun,tweeted on Wednesday that theinvitation came from theChinese side.

Erdogan told his Chinesecounterpart that Turkey’s “solewish was for Uighurs in Chinato live in peace and prosperity,”Altun wrote.

China denies holding peo-ple against their will in what itdescribes as “vocational educa-tion centres” aimed at steeringcitizens away from religiousextremism.

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Malaysia’s anti-graft agencysaid Thursday it has

detained Riza Aziz, the stepsonof former Prime Minister NajibRazak and a Hollywood filmproducer, and will charge himwith money laundering.

A n t i - C o r r u p t i o nCommission chief LatheefaKoya said Riza was picked upThursday but has been releasedon bail.

“He has to appear before thecourt tomorrow to face chargesunder AMLA,” she said, refer-ring to the Anti-MoneyLaundering, Anti-TerrorismFinancing and Proceeds ofUnlawful Activities Act 2001.She declined to give details.

Riza was quizzed last July by the agency over alleged theft and money laundering atthe 1MDB state investmentfund.

US investigators say Riza’scompany, Red Granite PicturesInc., used money stolen from1MDB to finance Hollywoodfilms including the MartinScorsese-directed “The Wolf ofWall Street.” Red Granite has

paid the U.S. Government $60million to settle claims it bene-fited from the 1MDB scandal.

Alleged corruption at the1MDB fund helped bring on theunexpected defeat of Najib’scoalition in May 9 polls last year.The new government reopenedinvestigations that were stifledwhile Najib was in office.

Najib is currently on trialfor alleged criminal breach oftrust, abuse of power andmoney laundering linked to1MDB. He denies the charges.His wife, Rosmah Mansor, alsohas pleaded not guilty to moneylaundering and tax evasionrelated to 1MDB but her trialdate has not been set.

Najib’s daughter, NooryanaNajwa, slammed the legal actionagainst her brother. “Despite thesettlement in the U.S. And thefact that alleged wrongdoingsoccurred entirely outside ofMalaysia, the MACC decides topress charges after a whole yearof leaving this case in cold stor-age. He is not a criminal,” shewrote on Instagram, accompa-nied by a picture of her withRiza taken earlier Thursdaybefore his arrest.

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An appeals court onWednesday upheld a freeze

on Pentagon money to build aborder wall with Mexico, cast-ing doubt on President DonaldTrump’s ability to make goodon a signature campaignpromise before the 2020 elec-tion.

A divided three-judgepanel of the 9th U.S. CircuitCourt of Appeals in SanFrancisco agreed with a lowercourt ruling that preventedthe government from tappingDefense Department counter-drug money to build high-pri-ority sections of wall inArizona, California and NewMexico.

The decision is a setback

for Trump’s ambitious plans.He ended a 35-day governmentshutdown in February afterCongress gave him far lessthan he wanted. He thendeclared a national emergencythat the White House saidwould free billions of dollarsfrom the Pentagon.

The case may still be con-sidered, but the administrationcannot build during the legalchallenge.

“As for the public interest,we conclude that it is bestserved by respecting theConstitution’s assignment ofthe power of the purse toCongress, and by deferring toCongress’s understanding ofthe public interest as reflectedin its repeated denial of morefunding for border barrier con-

struction,” wrote JudgesMichelle Friedland, a BarackObama appointee, and RichardClifton, a George W. Bushappointee.

A freeze imposed by USDistrict Judge HaywoodGilliam Jr. Of Oakland in Mayprevented work on twoPentagon-funded wall con-tracts — one spanning 74 kilo-meters in New Mexico andanother covering 8 kilometersin Yuma, Arizona.

While the order appliedonly to those first-in-line pro-jects, Gilliam made clear thathe felt the American CivilLiberties Union was likely toprevail in their argument thatTrump ignored Congress’ wish-es by diverting DefenseDepartment money.

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The Libyan capital’s only func-tioning airport suspended

flights on Wednesday after an airraid claimed by strongmanKhalifa Haftar’s forces, airportauthorities said in a statement.

The attack did not causecasualties or damage, a securi-ty source at Mitiga airport said.

But Ahmad al-Mesmari, aspokesman for Haftar’s self-styled Libyan National Army,said that a “command centre fordrones at Mitiga” was destroyedin the raid.

Haftar launched an offen-sive in early April to take thecapital Tripoli, seat of the rivalGovernment of NationalAccord. The GNA is recog-nised by the international com-munity.

Over the past three monthshis self-styled Libyan NationalArmy (LNA) has repeatedlytargeted Mitiga airport. It says itis targeting “Turkish drones”which it claims take off fromMitiga to carry out strikes onLNA forces south of Tripoli.

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New Delhi: The Kremlin onWednesday refused to revealthe full story of a fire that killed14 officers on what was report-edly a nuclear-powered mini-submarine, saying the details ofthe tragedy were a “state secret.”

But apparently under pres-sure from critics, the defenceministry published the namesand photographs of the victimswho it said had saved “their com-rades and the deep-sea sub-mersible” at the cost of their lives.

Defence Minister SergeiShoigu said there were sur-vivors of the accident, withoutspecifying numbers.

The seamen died onMonday due to smoke inhala-tion, the defence ministry said,following the fire on a sub-mersible in the Barents Sea inRussia’s territorial waters, but theaccident was only made publicon Tuesday. Two days after thetragedy the defence ministrydescribed the victims as “truepatriots” and top professionals,adding they repeatedly tookpart in expeditions to study theArctic and plunged to “maxi-mum depths.” AFP

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The village of Ginostra onStromboli began sweeping

away layers of ash on Thursday,the day after a dramatic volcaniceruption on the tiny Italianisland killed a hiker.

Emergency workersbrushed and scooped volcaniccinders from streets and the tinyharbour in the village at the footof the still smoking volcano.

A veil of ash lay atop restau-rant terrace tables and parts ofthe coastline.

Canadair water-bombingplanes battled to put out firesstarted by two massive explo-sions which on Wednesday sentplumes of smoke two kilometres(over a mile) into the sky.

“We’ve dropped 320 waterloads and we’re continuing,”said forestry official GiovanniGiacoppo.

People were urged not toswim in the sea on Thursday

because of the risk of mini-tsunamis similar to those thatprevious eruptions have caused.

Vulcanologists and localstold Italian media that the vol-cano was unlikely to erupt againin the near future.

Around 1,000 tourists onWednesday fled the island

aboard ferries to the nearby Calabrian coast. Seventypeople were evacuated fromGinostra on the volcano’s south-west flank.

Many left without theiridentity papers and luggage.

Sicilian hiker MassimoImbesi, 35, was killed

Wednesday when he was caughtin the eruption’s flow of hotrocks and fumes, while hisBrazilian walking companionsuffered from shock, emer-gency services said.

Several people sufferedinjuries, though none serious,they said.

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More than 80 migrants havegone missing and only

four were rescued after theirboat capsized off Tunisia on itsway from Libya to Italy,Tunisia’s coast guard saidThursday.

The Red Crescent and the navy told AFP that three Malians and an Ivorianwere rescued off Zarzis insouthern Tunisia onWednesday by the coast guardwho had been alerted by localfishermen.

The Ivorian, however, diedin hospital and one of theMalians has also been hospi-talised in intensive care.

Those rescued had told Tunisian officials that 86people were on board theirinflatable boat when it leftfrom the Libyan town ofZuwara, west of Tripoli, on itsway to cross the Mediterraneanto Italy.

“About 80 migrants arefeared dead. More updates areneeded in order to confirmwhat happened and the actualnumber of missing,” Flavio DiGiacomo, a spokesman for theInternational Organisation forMigration, tweeted.

Libya, which has been wracked by chaos sincethe 2011 uprising that killedveteran dictator Moamer Kadhafi, has longbeen a major transit route formigrants, especially from sub-Saharan Africa, desperate toreach Europe.

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Russian President VladimirPutin arrived in Rome

Thursday for a lightning visitincluding talks with the popeand Italy’s populist govern-ment, which has called for aneasing of sanctions despiteMoscow’s ongoing crisis withthe West.

Rome’s historic centre is onsecurity lockdown for the visitwith 50 streets blocked to traf-fic and Italian media reportingthat mobile phone signals couldbe scrambled.

Putin landed around anhour late at Fiumicino airportand his convoy drove intoRome and the Vatican Citywhere he met the pope for

closed-door talks.Putin has arrived late for all

three of their encounters, thelast of which was in 2015 whenthe pope urged all parties to theconflict in Ukraine to make a“sincere effort” for peace.

Thursday’s meeting comesa day before the pope receivesleaders of Ukraine’s GreekCatholic Church.

Pro-Russian separatists ineastern Ukraine are mostlyRussian Orthdodox, whilethose they fight are Orthodoxand Greek Catholic.

Francis first met Putin in2013, as the Roman CatholicChurch sought to improve tieswith the Russian OrthodoxChurch.

Only in 2009 did the

Vatican and Moscow re-estab-lish full diplomatic ties whichwere severed during Soviettimes.

Relations have improvedsince the coming to power inthe same year of PatriarchKirill, who headed up theRussian Orthodox Church’sdiplomatic arm for years.

The Russian OrthodoxChurch has frequently accusedthe Catholic Church of prose-lytising in Russia, an OrthodoxChristian country of 144 mil-lion.

The pope in 2016 held ahistoric meeting with Kirill inCuba, the first encounterbetween the heads of the twolargest Christian churches sinceChristianity split into Western

and Eastern branches in the11th Century -- an eventknown as “The Great Schism.”

Kremlin advisor YuriUshakov said on Wednesdaythat “for the time being a pos-sible invitation for the pope tovisit Russia is not on the agen-da.” The pope and Putin wereto discuss matters including“preserving Christian holy sitesin Syria”, the Kremlin said.

After meeting the pope,Putin will hold talks with PrimeMinister Giuseppe Conte andPresident Sergio Mattarella.

Putin is being drivenaround in his six-metre-long(20-foot) armoured limo by achauffeur who has been prac-tising negotiating his wayaround the Eternal City’s nar-

row streets. His talks withItalian leaders should be easi-er.

Far-right Deputy PrimeMinister Matteo Salvini hasoften expressed admiration forPutin, and his coalition gov-ernment advocates reviewingEU sanctions against Russia.

On the eve of the visit,Putin praised Salvini and hisLega party for having a “wel-coming attitude” to Russia.

“They are pushing for arapid abolition of the anti-Russian sanctions introducedby the US and the EU,” Putinsaid in an interview withCorriere della Sera.

The US and EU have pro-gressively imposed sanctionson Russia since its annexation

of Crimea in 2014 andMoscow’s involvement in theconflict in eastern Ukraine,

including the shooting down ofMalaysian Airlines flightMH17.

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There have been two distinctways of defending the indefen-sible in the Indian political nar-rative across partisan lines.Individuals/groups operating

under larger political denominations orpatronage have routinely and increasing-ly resorted to either the counter-accusato-ry distraction of whataboutery whenexposed or have attempted to weave a cre-ative context to justify their indefensible act.The society’s deeply polarised and divid-ed sentiment along partisan lines has dis-allowed the recognition of the indefensi-bility of the wrong act perpetrated. And,instead, remained satisfied in rattlingcounter-facts, attributable to their oppo-nents, or worse, bought into the yarn ofcontextual “necessity” for the said act. Withno higher authority calling the routinebluffs or the emergence of powerful soci-etal voice of restraining the indefensibleacts, the perpetrators often go scot-free,reading or misreading the “silence” of theleadership as being tantamount to encour-agement. So while political tempers boil fre-quently, chicanery reigns supreme and ulti-mately, Indian society gets even morewounded and regressed. Concurrently,the symbols of the law of the land getdiminished in the practical sense as indi-viduals/groups take upon themselves thetask of meting out “justice” by taking lawinto their own hands. This dangerouslyweakens and further discredits the requiredfaith in sovereign institutions like policingagencies, judiciary and Governmentaldepartments.

At an extremely pensive juncture of thenational mood, the Prime Minister person-ally intervened to express his displeasureat the rote spectre of whataboutery andready “contexualisation” of the indefensi-ble acts. Recent times have seen multipleinstances of individuals/groups (across allStates with different political dispensationsin-charge) usurping power to ostensiblydeliver instance justice; whilst acting inshades of brazen vigilantism, mobocracyor sheer hooliganism. This time, thePrime Minister reacted with alacrity, seri-ousness and specificity when he termed theconduct of a certain lawmaker “unaccept-able” and added for good measure, “nomatter whose son.”

The fact that the people called out werefrom the ruling party itself made the PrimeMinister’s act even more powerful, impact-ful and potentially transformational. Theentire political drama across the countryhas been embroiled in competitive one-upmanship with basic governance suffer-ing from the lingering hangover of elec-toral passions.

The usual mud-slinging, name-callingor whataboutery that followed such actsmade headlines for a few days but rarelyacted as a deterrent. This time, the messageseemingly was: Thus-far-no-more. This

augurs well for the country asa whole.

Certain people as also insti-tutions should always beexpected to be legally andmorally above board — logical-ly, the law enforcer (policeforces), law interpreter (thejudicial domain) and aboveall, the law-maker (electedMembers of Parliament andState Assemblies). They areexpected to be the first amongequals of the citizenry to per-sonify the Constitutional pro-priety, dignity and rectitude.

On assuming the leader-ship of NDA and the BJP par-liamentary party, PrimeMinister Narendra Modi hadfirst bowed and respectfullytouched his forehead on theConstitution of India — a sym-bolic move to register his rev-erence for the Constitution inthe “temple of democracy.”Sadly, the spirit ofConstitutionality is not demon-strated by some law-makers inmatching measure. This needsto be condemned outright,without fear, favour or selectivebias. Given that any such rep-rehensible act also has anecosystem that supports, breedsand actively encourages theperpetuation of such brazen-ness and lawlessness, it isimperative that the naming-shaming exercise extends to theentirety of such an ecosystem.

Therefore, the yeoman callto expel all those who partookin the unrepentant celebra-tions following the release of

the said law-maker from jail onbail, is far-reaching and veryconsequential in disabling sucha regressive culture and ecosys-tem. For far too long, Indianpolitics has mastered the art ofdeflecting and defending theindefensible, even as primafacie, optics warrant a certainobligatory introspection, if nota graceful acceptance.

The heavily tilted man-date in the recently concludedelections naturally lends itselfto either the undesirable pos-sibility of domineering andpresumptuous conduct bysome of those in the majoritygroup, or the overtly shrill, neg-ative and combative behaviorby those in minority — this inthe functioning of participativedemocracy is often at the costof reason, decorum and consti-tutionality. Therefore, giventhe fractured mood of Indianpolitics, it was imperative thatthe starting point of the “cor-rection” was triggered by insist-ing on putting the ruling housein order so that the nationalleadership cannot be accused ofany political bias or “conspira-cy” in the condemnation.Simultaneously, it puts a moralpressure on all those in theOpposition, too, to follow suit.

The 34-year-old first-timelaw-maker in question repre-sents not just his constituencyor his party, but also a certain“generation” that seeks positivechange, evolution anddynamism of fresh ideas in theIndia of 2019. The onus of

responding to the overwhelm-ing mandate, trust and respon-sibility reposed in the youthcutting across the party lines ofthis “generation” of law-makers,ought to walk-the-talk of“tomorrow” and not that of“yesterday”.

Indeed, there are glaringinefficiencies, sub-optimalcompetencies and ineptitude inthe functioning of various gov-ernmental arms but the onlything worse than that itself isthe smug conviction and thesense of entitlement in takingthe law in one’s own hand. It isin the legit functioning ofdemocracy to ensure that theOpposition plays its invaluablerole of opposing and ques-tioning the Government of theday. Whereas, the Governmentitself needs to simultaneouslyaddress all concerns raisedfairly and squarely, withoutattributing motives. However,the dance of democracy doesnot entitle the members of theruling party or that of theOpposition parties to behave ina manner that is not befittingof their Constitutional expec-tation, irrespective of the partyflag to which such erring mem-bers belong. Hopefully, thistimely intervention by thePrime Minister himself will goa long way in changing thecourse and conduct of ourelected lawmakers.

(The writer, a military vet-eran, is a former Lt Governor ofAndaman & Nicobar Islandsand Puducherry)

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Sir — This refers to the editori-al, “Maximum woes” (July 3).Heavy rainfall in the past few dayshas brought life to a standstill forMumbaikars. With climate-change related calamities becom-ing an annual affair now, it is hightime Governments take remedi-al measures to mitigate the manydiscernible negative fallouts. Withfloods wreaking havoc on thelives and livelihoods of people inMumbai, besides exposing thecreaky infrastructure of our citieson a regular basis, scientific man-agement of floods has assumedmuch significance than ever.

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Sir — This refers to the report,“Modi slams assault & battery”(July 3). Taking serious note of theincident where BJP national gen-eral secretary KailashVijayvargiya’s son, AkashVijayvargiya, who had beaten amunicipal corporation officialwith a cricket bat during a demo-lition drive in Indore, Prime

Minister Narendra Modi said thatsuch incidents bring a bad nameto the party; that misbehaviourand arrogance were completelyunacceptable; and that such peo-ple, no matter whose son, shouldbe expelled from the party. Akashwas arrested by the police and sent

to judicial custody after the inci-dent but was later granted bail.Prime Minister Modi also calledfor the expulsion of Akash’s sup-porters, who garlanded him onhis release from jail.

Modi’s stand is laudable.However, the vital question is

whether BJP president Amit Shahwill set an example for all politi-cal parties by expelling Akash andhis accomplices from the party,thus sending a strong message topower-drunk legislators.

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Sir — This is by no means the first,or even the worst electoral defeatthe Congress has suffered in recentyears but surely, it is the first timethat Rahul Gandhi saw fit tomount the moral high horse andoffer his resignation. While themove was commendable, his pro-longed sulking is not. What doeshis resignation mean? Is it merelyan admission of defeat or a largercourse correction, implying thatthe party needs a better leader?

If Rahul’s resignation stood outfor its candid and earnest tone, itdid not lift the curtain on an ele-ment of enigma that has alwaysenveloped him. Rahul stepped intopublic life reluctantly but immersedhimself in the battle. What was notclear was whether he was throwingdown the gauntlet to those who haddeserted him or if he was hopingto act as a countervailing moralforce, operating outside theprecincts of the party’s organisa-tional apparatus. All soap operasmust lead towards a finale.

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The sudden death of Mohammad Morsi,Egypt’s first elected Prime Minister, whowas overthrown in a military coup in 2013

and was facing trial for various charges and a 20-year sentence, has once again brought the inter-national media’s focus on the MuslimBrotherhood (MB) — the party Morsi was amember of. The MB was not a new party thathad emerged from the rumblings of the so-called“Arab Spring” in 2011 — an uprising that saw thetoppling of a number of authoritarian regimesacross the Arab world. It was, and still is, one ofthe oldest mainstream “Islamist” outfits in theMiddle East, which succeeded in coming topower in Egypt in 2012 through a general elec-tion.

The MB members also managed to win thelargest percentage of votes — 37.4 per cent —during the 2011 Tunisia election as the EnnahdaParty. Turkey’s Justice & Development Party(AKP), which has been winning elections since2002, is often understood to be the Turkish ver-sion of MB. According to Fait Muedini’s The Roleof Religion in the Arab Spring, the MB only playeda “limited role” during the Arab Spring. Muediniwrites that MB didn’t want to overplay its“Islamist” credentials during the unrest, whichcould have made it convenient for the state andGovernment in Egypt and Tunisia to denouncethe uprisings as “Islamist.” This way, the protestsmay have lost international support.

As the ruling parties weakened and disinte-grated during the protests, new parties emerged,but they were not as organised as the MB. Overthe decades, the MB had established widespreadpolitical and social networks, which helped it winthe largest number of votes during the first post-Arab Spring elections in Egypt and Tunisia.Professor Edip Asaf of Istanbul University writesin an essay that the MB looked towards Turkey’sAKP “as an example”. He echoes French politi-cal scientist and author Oliver Roy’s assertion thatthe AKP’s “Turkish model” became popularamong Islamic outfits such as the MB in theirbid to become part of the political mainstream,without overtly flexing their “Islamist” muscle.

Refuting the influential American academ-ic Samuel Huntington’s ‘Clash of Civilisations’hypothesis — which could not find any cultur-al or political common ground between the‘authoritarian Muslim world’ and the democra-tic West — the AKP and the MB responded witha new paradigm: Clash within civilisations. Thisdifferentiated between moderate, democraticMuslim forces and the radical and reactionaryones.

According to this paradigm, the friction andtension within the Muslim world (between themoderates and the radicals) had producedpolitical phenomena such as Turkey’s AKP andlater, the democratic coming to power of the MBin Egypt and the Ennahda Party in Tunisia. Thesewere Islamic outfits, who agreed to become inclu-sive, and focussed more on addressing econom-ic issues rather than on the imposition of reli-gious laws.

But the AKP had evolved in a staunchly sec-ular Muslim republic. The many movements,which preceded the formation of the AKP, werenon-militant and accepted the principles ofTurkish nationalism, established during the

formation of the modern Turkishrepublic in 1923 by Ataturk.

Even though the MB had decidedto let go of its militant tendencies in the1970s, it could not entirely alter the per-ception that the party remained root-ed in the ideas of one of its most cele-brated heroes, Sayyid Qutb, who wasexecuted in 1966 for allegedly plottingthe assassination of the then EgyptianPresident Gamal Abdel Nasser.

Interestingly, the MB was estab-lished in Egypt in 1928 as a movementinspired by Muslim Modernism andPan-Islamism. Muslim modernism hadbeen developing ever since the mid-19th century as a way to address the riseof European colonialism through theadoption of modern sciences and eco-nomics. Muslim Modernism advocat-ed the readjustment of Islamic tradi-tions and polities through “modernist”tools such as pragmatism, rationalism,science, capitalism and/or socialism.

Pan-Islamism, on the other hand,wanted to do this to help the Muslimsgain ascendency in colonial conditions,and once in, dismantle Western colo-nial supremacy and carve out a mod-ern universal Islamic caliphate.According to Malise Ruthven, in Islamin the World, the MB became more con-servative and militant once variousreformist ideas of Muslim modernismbegan being adopted by various non-religious Muslim leaders and outfits.

By the 1940s, the MB was beingaccused for organising assassinationsand bomb attacks against colonialBritish officials in Egypt and the coun-try’s monarch. In 1948, an MB mem-ber assassinated the country’s Prime

Minister. However, in 1949, MB’sfounder Hassan Al-Banna was killed ina retaliatory strike by Egypt’s secretpolice.

According to HM Hamouda’s 1985tome, Secrets of the Movement of FreeOfficers, the free officers movement,which toppled the Egyptian monarchyin 1952 and ousted the British, wasformed within the MB. According to anessay by Selma Botman in the 1986 edi-tion of Middle Eastern Studies, anti-monarchy and anti-British Egyptianofficers had used the secret networkconstructed by the MB to facilitate theirattempt to take over power.

However, by 1954, the now-in-power free officers movement clashedwith the MB, accusing it of trying toassassinate Nasser. MB denounced thenew Government as being “anti-Islam”and “secular.” Hundreds of MB leaderswere arrested and jailed.

One such leader was Qutb, an unas-suming man, who had joined MBafter returning from a trip to the US.Influenced by the writings of contro-versial French eugenicist and allegedNazi sympathiser Alexis Carrel — whooften attacked Western modernity —and by the prolific South Asian Islamicscholar Abul Ala Maududi, who haddescribed modernity as modern-day“jahiliya,” Qutb advocated an armedsocial and political struggle against thisjahiliya.

Many MB activists escaped arrestand were given asylum by Saudi Arabia.After Nasser’s death in 1970 and Egypt’srestoration of friendly ties with the USand Saudi Arabia, hundreds of MBmembers were allowed to return to the

country. MB decided to renounce vio-lence and enter mainstream politics.Disagreeing with this resolution andangered by Egypt’s recognition of Israelin 1979, two groups separated from MB.They insisted on following Qutb’steachings. One such faction assassinat-ed Egyptian president Anwar Sadat in1981.

Nevertheless, the MB as a wholecontinued on its “mainstream” path. Butthe MB is condemned by its own his-tory. Those who came out to protestagainst the Morsi regime claimed that,no matter how “moderate” it pretendsto be, MB’s end goal remains theenactment of a totalitarian theocracy.The opponents of this view bemoanthat the coup against Morsi marked theend of a unique experiment in whicha once-militant Islamist outfit waswilling to take a more pluralistic anddemocratic path.

MB’s erstwhile backers, the Saudimonarchy, disagreed. In an environ-ment of monarchy-backed reform with-in the kingdom, it now sees MB as adangerous impediment, which can useits vast network across the Arab worldto undermine Saudi influence andtrigger populist uprisings, including onein the kingdom.

Either MB will look to furthermodify its course to prove that it is nomore a theocratic threat or a democ-ratic ruse, or it may restore its militanttendencies. But I believe the latter is notpossible in a world where there will notbe a Saudi Arabia or a US welcomingescaping MB cadres from the arm of theEgyptian state.

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Amid all the noise arising fromthe recent farmers’ agitations,the remarkable growth story of

the dairy sector seems to have escapednotice. Milk production has beengrowing at over six per cent per annumduring the last five years, thus con-tributing to enhancing farmers’income, reducing rural poverty,empowering women and strengthen-ing farm resilience to climate change.It also ensures national food and nutri-tional security besides generatingemployment. With a total milk pro-duction of 176.3 MT during 2017-18and a growing milk production base,it is natural to ask whether the six percent plus growth is sustainable.

The growth of the dairy sector isprimarily propelled by demand-ledfactors on account of increasing pop-

ulation, urbanisation, disposal incomesand shift in dietary habits of anincreasingly health conscious popula-tion. It also depends on the supplyresponse from millions of small milkproducers, aided by various public-funded programmes that are aimed atenhancing milch animal productivi-ty and providing market access to alarge number of milk producersthrough village-level producers-ownedinstitutions (PoIs). The focus in thenext phase of growth should be onenhancing efficiencies, introducinginnovative technologies and openingnew opportunities for milk producers.

Recognising the role of animalhusbandry and dairying in contribut-ing towards the growth of farmers’income and employment, theGovernment constituted a separateMinistry of Fisheries, AnimalHusbandry and Dairying. This was alandmark move. The CentralGovernment’s announcement of a�13,343 crore scheme to control anderadicate Foot and Mouth Disease(FMD) and Brucellosis through massvaccination as also the creation of aDairy Infrastructure Development

Fund with a corpus of �8,004 crore lastyear, is a testimony to the priority itaccords to the dairy sector.

RELEVANCE OF POIS As small animal holders constitute

the bed rock of Indian milk produc-tion system, it is important that theyget a remunerative price for a highlyperishable commodity like milk. Thisis possible by organising village-levelPoIs so as to pool the milk procuredfrom producing members in a fair andtransparent manner. PoIs help farm-ers get remunerative price for the milkand provide them assured marketaccess. As per estimates by theNational Dairy Development Board(NDDB), there are more than one lakhvillages which remain to be covered byPoIs. NDDB and its associate organ-isations have already initiated pro-grammes in recent years to set up vil-lage-level institutions in less dairydeveloped regions. A time-boundaction plan to provide market accessto milk producers in less dairy devel-oped regions, including aspirationaldistricts, needs to be implemented inthe next phase of dairy development.

As it is, it is the women members,

who take care of dairying. Theirdirect representation in PoIs — bothin governance and management —will not only strengthen gender par-ticipation but also encourage socio-economic change. The sterling perfor-mance of a large number of all-women village-level institutions as wellas large dairy cooperatives/milk pro-ducer firms is testimony to the fact thatwomen participation can promote sus-tained growth of the dairy sector.

PRODUCTIVITY GAPS Animal breeding: Milch animal

productivity in India is very low(total cows — 4.5 kg/day, indigenouscows — 2.9 kg/day and buffaloes 5.5kg/day) as compared to other coun-tries. This is particularly true forindigenous breeds, on whose develop-ment the present Government isfocussing on in the interest of inclu-sive and climate-resilient growth ofdairying. A majority of these animalsare with small and marginal farmers,particularly in backward areas.Therefore, a multi-pronged approachto fast-track genetic progress of thisclass of animals should be taken up.This includes greater artificial insem-

ination coverage; production andpropagation of better genetics andgermplasm; introduction of AdvancedReproductive Technologies such as in-vitro embryo production and transfer;genomic selection of animals; indi-genisation of sex semen sorting tech-nologies; R&D efforts on cloning andsynthetic gamete production. This willhelp in leapfrogging genetic progressof our indigenous breeds like Gir,Sahiwal and Tharparkar. TheGovernment has already initiatedthese programmes under the NationalDairy Plan and is now implementingthe Rashtriya Gokul Mission.

Animal nutrition: Feed and fod-der constitute about 75 per cent of thecost of milk production. Will naturalresource constraints come in the wayof our continuing march in milk pro-duction growth? The good news is thatin our country, mostly crop residuesand agricultural by-products are usedas animal feed. There remains a hugeuntapped potential of unutilised bio-mass, which along with the adoptionof better technologies in securing,enriching, densifying and conservingthe existing biomass, can be a source

of nutritious feed to our milch animals.However, the Government shouldbring in a comprehensive “animal feedregulation” to ensure availability ofquality and cost-effective feed.

Animal’s health is farmers’wealth: It is time that a cost-effectiveand efficacious preventive and cura-tive animal healthcare system is put inplace to control and eradicate animaldiseases through mass vaccination andpromotion of Ethno VeterinaryMedicines, based on ayurvedic prin-ciples to treat animal diseases. TheUnion Cabinet’s allocation of �13,343crore to fully control FMD andBrucellosis in the next five years is wel-come. These diseases have directimpact in declining milk production,adversely impact animal and humanhealth and our dairy exports.Implementation of the scheme willrequire coordinated efforts.

Human resources and data-dri-ven dairying: All interventions toexpand market access and introduceproductivity enhancement measuresare not achievable unless PoIs and vet-erinary institutions have trained andqualified human resources. If our dairy

sector has to grow, focus needs to beon training existing manpower andcapacity-building of PoIs on a sus-tained basis. Use of ICT tools and sys-tems, both in creation of a national ani-mal data base to ensure animal iden-tification and traceability and toensure transparent milk procurementsystems, will make our small holderdairy system viable, efficient, transpar-ent, accountable and sustainable.

Public funding: As the dairy andanimal husbandry sector has thepotential to play a significant role indriving growth, employment andincomes in rural India, adequate bud-getary allocation is needed. Providinginterest subventions to PoIs tostrengthen and expand their process-ing infrastructure and announce-ment of a major animal disease con-trol scheme by the Union Cabinet arewelcome measures. Sourcing ODAassistance from bilateral and multilat-eral funding agencies such as JICA andWorld Bank for our dairy sector canbe explored by the Government to sus-tain the growth momentum.

(The writer is Chairman, NationalDairy Development Board)

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The country’s real challenge to build a robust andresilient infrastructure required to achieve the aspi-

ration of a $10-trillion economy by 2032 lies in bringingadequate private investment across the country with par-ticipation of the public sector, according to the EconomicSurvey 2018-19.

In a fast-moving world to maintain growth momen-tum, India has to develop its industry and infrastructureand it is necessary to clear the decks which are obstruct-ing the way forward, said the Survey tabled in ParliamentThursday.

“In order to create a 10-trillion dollar economy by2032, India needs a robust and resilient infrastructure.Public investment cannot fund the entire infrastructureinvestment requirements of the country,” it said.

Further, the Survey said private players are usuallyeager to bring their capital into developed Indian statesas compared to less developed states.

“Therefore, the real challenge lies in bringing adequateprivate investment across the country with the collabo-ration of public sector,” it added.

The Survey said public-private partnerships arequintessential for addressing infrastructure gaps in thecountry. Giving a glimpse of how the industry and infra-structure fared in the previous fiscal, the Survey said indus-trial growth in terms of Index of Industrial Production(IIP) registered 3.6 per cent in 2018-19 as compared to4.4 per cent growth rate in 2017-18.

The moderation in IIP growth was mainly due to sub-dued manufacturing activities in third quarter andfourth quarter of 2018-19, it added.

Road construction in kilometres grew at the rate of30 km a day in 2018-19 as compared with 12 km a dayin 2014-15, it added.

Rail freight and passenger traffic grew 5.33 per centand 0.64 per cent, respectively, in 2018-19 as comparedto 2017-18.

At the same time, total telephone connections in Indiatouched 118.34 crore in 2018-19, while installed capac-ity of electricity increased to 3,56,100 MW in 2019 from3,44,002 MW in 2018, the Survey added.

It, however, said along with physical infrastructure,provision of social infrastructure is also equally impor-tant as these two would determine where India will beplaced in the world by 2030.

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New Delhi: Economic Advisory Council to thePrime Minister (EAC-PM) Chairman BibekDebroy Thursday said the Economic Survey 2018-19 has laid down the blue print for growth andjob creations over the next five years.

Debroy further said the EAC-PM welcomesthe emphasis of the Survey on fiscal consolida-tion, fiscal discipline and investments.

He said focus of the Survey on federalism,expenditure reforms, policies for micro, small andmedium enterprises (MSMEs), goods and servicestax (GST) and reforms of direct taxes reflect thevision of the government.

Debroy also said there is a continuity betweenthe policies from 2014 to 2019 and the expectedpolicies from 2019 to 2024.

The EAC-PM chairman stressed that onenovel and welcome aspect of this year’s EconomicSurvey is its highlighting of judicial reforms andthe role of data as a public good.

Overall, the Survey has provided insights andalso signalled some break with the past by quot-ing from Sanskrit texts, including quotes inSanskrit, he said.

There is a lot of information on good gover-nance in those texts and the Survey needs to becomplimented for not just quoting Kautilya butalso Kamandakiya Nitisara, Debroy added.

He also said India should not deviate fromthe path of fiscal consolidation that was set outin the medium-term fiscal policy statement,articulated both in terms of fiscal deficit-to-GDPand debt-to-GDP ratios. “High deficits crowd outprivate investments, raise costs of private capi-tal and pre-empt household sector financial savings,” he said.

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The upcoming 5G technology is anopportunity for Indian industry play-

ers to reach out to global markets whilebuilding a digital payment, knowledge andservices economy, according to theEconomic Survey 2018-19.

The Government has plans to makeIndia 5G ready by 2020 and conduct spec-trum auction for providing radiowaves for5G this year.

“For India, 5G provides an opportu-nity for industry to reach out to global mar-kets,” the Survey tabled in ParliamentThursday said.

It said 5G will provide opportunity forthe consumers to gain with the economiesof scale and citizens to reap the benefits ofdoorstep governance and availability of

services, medical support, benefits trans-fers, education, entertainment and builda digital payment, knowledge and serviceseconomy.

Telecom regulator Trai has recom-mended the auction of about 8,644 MHzof frequencies across eight signal bands,including in 700 Mhz, 800 Mhz, 3.3-3.4gigahertz (Ghz), 3.4-3.6 Ghz etc, at an esti-mated base price of �4.9 lakh crore.

A joint study by ICRIER and BIF hasclaimed that the spectrum price recom-mended by Trai is high due to inconsis-tency in the principle applied by the reg-ulator for calculating base rates.

The government constituted a highlevel 5G India 2020 Forum to articulate thevision for 5G in the country and submit-ted its report on “Making India 5G Ready”in August, 2018.

New Delhi, Jul 4 (PTI) The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) is one of themost important economic reforms of recent times and the debt recovery mechanismhas strengthened with claims worth over �1.73 lakh crore settled so far under the newlaw, the Economic Survey said.

Till March 31, 2019, the Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process (CIRP) yieldeda resolution of 94 cases which has resulted in the settlement of claims worth �1,73,359crore, it said.

“The NCLT (National Company Law Tribunal) infrastructure requires to be scaledup so as to achieve timely resolution of debt recovery. The debt recovery mechanismstrengthened with the enactment of IBC, 2016,” the Economic Survey 2018-19 said.

It said the ecosystem for insolvency and bankruptcy is getting systematically builtout with recovery and resolution of significant amount of distressed assets.

Also, as on February 28, 2019, 6,079 cases involving a total amount of �2.84 lakhcrore have been withdrawn before admission under provisions of the IBC, it said.

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fourth straight sessionThursday after the EconomicSurvey projected India’s eco-nomic growth reboundingfrom a five-year low to 7 percent this fiscal.

Investors also remained opti-mistic that the Modi 2.0 govern-ment’s first Budget, to be pre-sented Friday, will propose mea-sures to boost consumption andrevive growth, analysts said. The30-share BSE Sensex settled 68.81points, or 0.17 per cent, higher at39,908.06, while the broaderNSE Nifty climbed 30 points, or0.25 per cent, to 11,946.75.

Top gainers in the Sensexpack included Bharti Airtel,Tata Motors, IndusInd Bank,Kotak Bank, Hero MotoCorp,Asian Paints and PowerGrid,which rose up to 2.53 per cent.

On the other hand, YesBank, HCL Tech, Vedanta, SunPharma, Tata Steel, L&T,HDFC Bank and NTPC fell upto 3.56 per cent.

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Chief Economic Adviser KSubramanian on Thursday

seemed to rubbish his prede-cessor Arvind Subramanianclaim of India overestimating itsgrowth rate, saying that it is veryhard to create a narrative whichis different from the truth.

Former CEA ArvindSubramanian in his researchpaper last month mentionedthat India’s growth rate between2011-12 and 2016-17 was over-estimated.

He argued that method-ological changes in calculatingGDP had led to overestimatingGDP growth by at least 2.5 percent per year between 2011-12and 2016-17.

“Let me tell you from myown observation that India isan economy where there aremany many touch-points forpolicy and in the six monthsthat I have been part of the gov-ernment, I have been able to seeit from close quarters becausethere are several touch pointsfor policy, it is very hard to tryand create a narrative which isdifferent from the truth,”

Subramanian said when askedabout concerns raised over thecredibility of data. He also saidthere are many indicators thatcontradict claims of the criticsof data credibility.

Pointing out that 8 per centsustained growth is required forachieving $5 trillion economy by2024-25, he said that investmentis going to be the key driver forpushing the economy to the topgear and boost job creation.

“Investment cannot go upunless the cost of capital goesdown. One key opportunity wehave is that the cost of capitalinternationally is very low, liq-uidity is very high there and asa result, there is an opportunityfor both for firms and sovereignas well to think about going andraising money abroad,” he said.

The Government is alsothinking over liberalising for-eign investment norms to fur-ther boost investment, he said.

The Government is expect-ed to further ease the foreigndirect investment (FDI) normswith a view to bridging thewidening current accountdeficit (CAD), according to theEconomic Survey 2018-19.

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The NCLAT Thursdaycleared the takeover of

Essar Steel by ArcelorMittalafter it rejected all objectionsraised by the shareholders ofthe debt-ridden company.

The National CompanyLaw Appel late Tribunal(NCLAT), however, gaveoperational creditors equalfooting into the proceeds ofinsolvency auction.

The two-memberNCLAT bench, headed byChairman Just ice S JMukhopadhyaya, rejectedEssar Steel Director PrashantRuia’s content ion thatArcelorMittal was ineligibleto bid under insolvency andbankruptcy law because ofallegedly holding shares loandefaulting companies.

The NCLAT had earlierreserved its order over abatch of petitions againstArcelorMittal’s �42,000-croretakeover bid for Essar Steel aswell as the distribution offunds among the creditors ofthe debt-ridden company.

New Delhi: Rubber SkillDevelopment Co-uncil (RSDC)has collaborated with the ArmyBase Workshop, Pune to re-skilltheir personnel in Rubber. Aletter of Intent shared by ArmyManufacturing Group withRSDC stated. The skilling drive was jointlyinaugurated by Brig. IS Rathore,Comdt. & MD 512 ABW(ArmyBase Workshop) and VinodSimon, Chairman RSDC. Thetraining of Army personnelwill be a part of the Saamarthproject launched by RSDC forup-skilling of a million peoplein rubber sector. PNS

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The Finance Ministry hasmade progress in strate-

gic sale of 28 state-ownedcompanies, of which threehave already been sold off inthe previous fiscal.

The Depar tment ofInvestment and Public AssetManagement (DIPAM) hadraised about �85,000 crorefrom CPSE disinvestment in2018-19, using a variety ofinstruments l ike Init ia lPublic Offers (IPOs), Offerfor Sale (OFS), Buyback,Exchange Traded Funds(ETF). This was more thanthe �80,000 crore target set inBudget.

HSCC was acquired byNBCC India at a considera-tion of �285 crore, whileDCIL was bought by a con-sortium of four ports at�1,049 crore. Besides, NPCCwas acquired by WAPCOSfor �79.80 crore.

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Banks have reported a mas-sive 73 percent increase in

incidents of fraud worth�71,543 crore in FY19, a seniorReserve Bank official saidThursday.

Till March 2019, the topfive, 10 and 100 cases of fraudscumulatively reported consti-tuted 24 percent, 34 percentand 70 percent of all frauds,respectively, a chief generalmanager with the RBI JayantDash said.

In FY18, the banks hadreported frauds worth �41,167crore, he added.

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The Gross Value Added(GVA) in 'Agriculture &

Allied' sector declined from 6.3percent in 2016-17 to 2.9 per-cent in 2018-19. The crops,livestock and forestry sectorshowed fluctuating growth ratesover the period from 2014-15 to2017-18 while the fisheries sec-tor has shown a rapid growthfrom 4.9 per cent in 2012-13 to11.9 per cent in 2017-18.

Taking note of slow growthrate in agriculture and alliedsector, the Economic Survey2018-19 that tabled in theParliament on Thursday, calledfor framing new policies toimprove water use efficiency inthe agriculture sector. "TheGVA in agriculture improved

from a negative 0.2 per cent in2014-15 to 6.3 per cent in2016-17 only to decelerate to2.9 per cent in 2018-19.However, the volatility of out-put growth as measured by thecoefficient of variation hasdeclined from 2.7 in the peri-od of 1961-1988 to 1.6 during1989-2004 and further to 0.8during 2005 to 2018 ," it said.

Stating that farmer sectorgrowth witnessed tapering in2018-19, the survey said theshare of farm sector in totalGVA has been consistentlyfalling and now stands at 16.1per cent in the last fiscal. "Theagriculture sector had invest-ment rate much less than halfof that of services and industrysectors," the survey added.

The Economic Survey saidthat the Ministry of Agriculturehas projected 283.4 milliontonnes of foodgrains in 2017-18."There was a significant declinein food prices in 2018-19 asindicated by nearly zero per centconsumer food price inflation in2018-19 with price contractionstraight for five months in theyear," the survey added.

The number of operationalland holdings and area underoperation have shifted towardssmall and marginal farmers.Expressing concern that Indiawill be in the global hot spot for'water insecurity' by 2050, itsaid the focus in agricultureshould shift from 'land pro-ductivity' to 'irrigation waterproductivity'. "Therefore, devis-ing policies to incentivise farm-ers to adopt efficient ways ofwater use should become anational priority to avert thelooming water crisis," the sur-vey added. The IndiaMeteorological Department(IMD) has predicted near nor-mal southwest monsoon thisyear. However, there was 33 percent deficient in rainfall duringJune that led to less coverage ofkharif crops.

Noting that the country'sagriculture is highly dependenton water, the Economic Surveysaid there is a major concernwhether the present practice ofgroundwater use can be sus-tained as the depth of thegroundwater level continues to drop.

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Lucknow: Justice RangnathPandey of the Allahabad HighCourt, who wrote a letter toPrime Minister NarendraModi alleging 'favouritism,nepotism and casteism in theappointment of judges, was notgiven the customary farewellparty when he retired onThursday.

The farewell party, knownas full court reference in thelegal parlance, which wasscheduled to be held in theChief Justice's Court at 3.45p.m. was cancelled at the lastminute due to unforeseen cir-cumstances.

The Registrar notified thecancellation in a letter.

None of the judges werewilling to comment on thedevelopment.

IANS had reported onWednesday that Justice Pandeyhad stirred up the proverbialhornet's nest with his letter tothe Prime Minister in which hehad sought Modi's interven-tion in restoring the dignity ofthe judiciary.

He had also pointed outthe flaws in the collegium sys-tem of appointment of judgesand also questioned that lackof transparency in the process.

Thursday's developmentcame even after Pandey hadgained the support of the UttarPradesh Bar Council.

Bar Council chief HariShankar Singh said that thejudge's letter should be treat-ed as a public interest docu-ment and the governmentshould act on it. He said thatthe lawyers supported the con-tents of the letter.

At least, two other judgesof the high court, who did notwish to be identified, said thatthey agreed with the contentsof the letter and termed itunfortunate.

A senior judge in theLucknow Bench of theAllahabad High Court said,"Everyone knows about themalaise in the judiciary. JusticeRangnath Pandey is about toretire and hence, he could venthis feelings. I hope his letter willget the desired attention."

Another judge in the samecourt said that Justice Pandey'sletter echoed the sentiments ofseveral other judges. "Theprocess of judge selectionneeds to be overhauled if thedignity of the judiciary is to bemaintained," he added.

A retired IAS officer S.P.

Singh said that the letter con-firmed that there is some-thing seriously wrong withthe judiciary. "There are threegenerations of lawyers becom-ing judges from the same fam-ily. Can this be justified?" heasked.

Justice Pandey's letterdated July 1 calls the presentprocess of judges' appoint-ment "unfortunate".

"In the last 34 years of myservice as a judicial officer, Ihave seen people with no orpoor knowledge of the lawbeing appointed as judges.The appointment of judgestakes place behind closeddoors and over cups of tea…and favouritism is the only rel-evant factor for appointments,"he wrote.

He has also pointed out theflaws in the collegium systemof appointment of judges andalso questioned that lack oftransparency in the process.

"The whole process issecret and the names of judgesare only disclosed after theirappointments. Who getsappointed on what basis is keptunder wraps and this processof appointments is very unfor-tunate," he wrote. IANS

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Senior BJP leaderSubramanian Swamy has

alerted the Government ofIndia about a plan to reviveLiberation Tigers of TamilEelam (LTTE), a bannedorganisation, in Tamil Nadu.

In a letter addressed toUnion Home Minister AmitShah, Swamy has said that theAIADMK Government inTamil Nadu was “unwittingly”assisting in the revival of theLTTE and was giving moneyfor the purpose.

“On July 4, under the aus-pices of a pro-LTTE organisa-tion FETA (Federation of Tamil

Samgams in North America)the 2019 convention is beingheld in the town ofSchaumburg in Europe and isgoing to be addressed by theformer IN High Commissionerfor Refugees Navi Pillai, a SriLankan Tamil and Thami

Nesan, a pro LTTE CatholicBishop. But it is surprisingthat the Tamil NaduGovernment is donating Rs 3crore and has sent a 20-mem-ber delegation under the lead-ership of Ma Foi Pandiarajan,Tamil Nadu Minister,” Swamyhas stated in the letter.

Swamy has also suggestedto the union home ministerthat any attempt to revive theLTTE in Europe should benipped in the bud. He con-cludes the letter by asking theHome Minister to holdenquiries with the Tamil NaduGovernment about sendingthe delegation to the conven-tion and also about the dona-tion being made by the State.

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Politics in Tamil Nadu gotenlivened as Udhayanidhi

Stalin, the 41-year-old actorson of DMK chief MK Stalinwas on Thursday appointed asthe general secretary of theparty’s youth wing paving theway for his anointment as thesuccessor to his father.Udhayanidhi, a popular filmactor was one of the star cam-paigners of the party in therecently held Lok Sabha elec-tions from the State which wasswept by the DMK-ledalliance.

K Anbazhagan, the 96-year-old general secretary ofthe DMK said in a release onThursday that he was appoint-ing Udhayanidhi as the sec-retary of the youth wing underRules 18 and 19 of the party.MP Saminathan, formerMinister and MLA who washolding the position of theyouth wing secretary has beenrelieved from the post, saidthe release.

There is nothing surpris-ing in the appointment ofUdhayanidhi to the presentpost as he was being groomedby Stalin and his close confi-dantes as the next party boss.Interestingly, Stalin was theyouth wing secretary of theDMK for 35 years and steppeddown in 2017 after hisappointment as working pres-ident of the party. The impor-tance of youth wing leadershipcould be understood fromthe fact that Stalin headed theorganisation even after himbecoming a grandfather.Saminathan, a close aide toStalin was given the charge ofthe youth wing to keep thechair warm for Udhayanidhi.

M Karunanidhi, who heldthe post of DMK president for49 years had groomed Stalinto take over after his exitfrom the scene. Udhayanidhiis popular in Tamil Naduthanks to his career in thefilms. Even while acting inmovies, he was a regular inDMK’s official functions.

“We are all happy thatUdhayanidhi has beenappointed as the youth wingchief and there is nothing sur-prising in it. He has endearedhimself to the party cadre andgeneral public through hisaffable manners. He is ourfuture,” said Dorai Murugan,deputy leader of the DMK inTamil Nadu assembly.

Ravindran Doraisamy,political commentator and aDMK watcher for decadeswas of the view that the ele-vation of Udhayanidhi in theparty is major event in thepolitical history of TamilNadu. “Udhayanidhi is an

articulate speaker and hasshown his leadership qualities. Whether he would succeedas MP or MLA would beknown only after his election. But he is the political leaderto watch in Tamil Nadu,” saidDoraisamy.

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Aday after he resigned as theCongress president, Rahul

Gandhi said here on Thursdaythat he was being “attacked” buthe was “enjoying” it and that hewould continue to fight the ide-ological battle with the BJP andSangh Parivar “ten times” morefiercely than he did during theprevious years.

Talking to media personsminutes after he pleaded “notguilty” and was granted bail bya Mumbai court in a defama-tion case filed against him by anRSS worker, Gandhi said: “Thisis an ideological battle. I amstanding with the poor, farm-ers and labourers. I am beingattacked. I am enjoying it”.

Asked about his resignationas the Congress president,Gandhi said: “Whatever I want-ed to say, I stated in my resig-nation yesterday”.

When reporters persistedwith him and asked him aswhat he planned to do next,Gandhi said: “My battle willcontinue... It will go on moreaggressively. The battle will beten times more fierce than Iwaged during the previousyears”.

Earlier, Gandhi and CPMleader Sitaram Yechuriappeared before a Mazgaonmetropolitan magistrate’s court

nd CPM leader SitaramYechury in response to sum-mons issued to them inFebruary in connection with adefamation case filed byDhrutiman Joshi, a lawyer andRashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh(RSS) worker, for allegedly link-ing journalist Gauri Lankesh'skilling with the "BJP-RSS ide-ology".

After the court read outJoshi’s complaint asked them ifthey were pleading guilty or notguilty to the allegations made bythe complainant, both Gandhi

and Yechuri pleaded “notguilty” in the defamation.

Subsequently, the Mazgaoncourt granted bail to bothGandhi and Yechuri a suretyamount of �15,000 each andalso granted them permanentexemption from appearancebefore it during hearings in thecase. The court has posted thematter for next hearing onSeptember 21.

Former Congress MPEknath Gaikwad stood as sure-ty for Gandhi. Gandhi andYechury then signed the nec-

essary documents and left thecourt premises.

In his complaint filed in2017 immediately after GauriLankesh’s killing, Joshi hadalluded to tweets put out byGandhi allegedly blaming theRSS and its ideology for thejournalist’s murder. “For a merepolitical score, the accused(Gandhi) had unnecessarilydragged the name of RSS andit is a move to rake up negativesentiments in the minds ofpeople against the RSS,” Joshi’scomplaint said.

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Mumbai: Rahul Gandhi, whohas resigned as Congress pres-ident, Thursday held a briefdiscussion with party leadersin Mumbai, in which he askedthem to aggressively take upissues faced by citizens duringmonsoon.

Gandhi was in the city toappear in a local court in adefamation case.

The 49-year-old leader,who had announced his resig-nation as the Congress presi-dent on Wednesday, also dis-cussed the party's preparationfor the upcoming Assemblypolls in Maharashtra.

Mumbai Congress presi-dent Milind Deora and partylegislators from the city werepresent at the airport to receiveGandhi and see him off.

A party leader, who waspresent at the airport after thecourt hearing at Sewree said,"Rahulji appeared relaxed andtook updates from us about thepreparations for the assembly

polls.""He also asked us to aggres-

sively take up the issue ofproblems faced by Mumbaikarsduring the monsoons. We toldhim about the issues raised byus during the just-concludedmonsoon session of the statelegislature," the leader added.Gandhi said the party shouldhit the streets to highlight theproblems faced by citizens dur-ing rains, he said.

The leader also said thatthe city unit informed Gandhiabout the announcement byPrakash Ambedkar-led VanchitBahujan Agadhi (VBA) to"give" 40 seats to the Congressfor the assembly polls.

"He told us that instead offocussing on the vote share ofother parties like VanchitAghadi or MNS, it would bebetter if Congress leadersfocus on improving its ownvote share," another leadersaid on the condition ofanonymity. PTI

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KOLKATA: Days after a fatwawas issued against her forwearing 'sindoor' in Parliament,Trinamool Congress MP andactor Nusrat Jahan onThursday dubbed the dictate asbaseless saying she is still aMuslim. "I don't pay heed tothings which are baseless. Iknow my religion. I have beena Muslim by birth and I am stilla Muslim. It's about faith. Youhave to feel it inside your heartand not in your head," Jahantold reporters.

A fatwa was issued by acleric against Jahan for sport-

ing "un-Islamic" attire on June25, when she took oath as aMember of Parliament. "Thereis no political angle here, it'sjust the matter of faith andbelief," she added. Several otherleaders have also defendedJahan's stand including MoS forWomen and ChildDevelopment DebashreeChowdhury. "As an Indian cit-izen, Nusrat has the right to dowhat she desires. This is notPakistan, you can not issue aFatwah against a member ofParliament," Chowdhury hadsaid. Agency

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Mumbai: MaharashtraSwabhiman Party leaderNarayan Rane on Thursdayapologised for his MLA-sonNitesh Rane's assault on adeputy engineer.

Nitesh Rane, a CongressMLA, was Thursday caught oncamera pouring mud on adeputy engineer to protest thepoor condition of the Mumbai-Goa highway. The incidenttook place at Kankavli in thecoastal district of Sindhudurg.

On a complaint filed by theengineer, Prakash Khedekar, anoffence under IPC section 353(assault on government servanthas been registered againstNitesh Rane and his support-ers, police said.

Further probe is on andnobody has been arrested yet,they said.

As the video of the incident

went viral and caused an out-rage, Narayan Rane, a RajyaSabha MP from the BJP, apol-ogised for his son's misconduct.

"I apologise for my son's actof pouring mud on a govern-ment official. The protest(against poor condition of thehighway) was for the localpeople," the former chief min-ister told PTI.

In the video clip, Raneand Kankavli MunicipalCouncil president SamirNalawade are purportedly seentying Khedekar of the NationalHighways Authority of India(NHAI) to the railing of abridge and pouring buckets ofmud on him.

Nitesh Rane, the MLAfrom Kankavli, and his sup-porters were protesting afterfinding potholes and mud onthe busy highway. PTI

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have died till July 3 since theoutbreak of JapaneseEncephalitis in Assam, theNational Health Mission saidThursday.

Most of upper Assam dis-tricts, including Jorhat,Golaghat, Dibrugarh,Lakhimpur, and the lowerAssam district of Kamrup havebeen affected by the mosquito-borne disease.

"Assam is undergoing thetransmission season forJapanese Encephalitis cases. Atotal number of 45 JapaneseEncephalitis deaths have beenreported till July 3, 2019, in thestate," the National HealthMission (NHM) said in a state-ment.

It, however, said the situa-tion in the state is under closewatch and all preventive mea-sures are being taken to com-bat the situation.

Diagnostic services for

Japanese Encephalitis with Elisakits have been made availablein all district hospitals andgovernment medical collegehospitals, awareness pro-grammes intensified and fog-ging operations stepped up inareas from where JapaneseEncephalitis cases have beenreported.

The NHM also said thatfree transportation is beingprovided to patients with sus-pected JE fever through'Mrintunjoy 108 Ambulances'.

The Assam government isensuring that treatment anddiagnostic cost at medical col-leges and district hospitals areborne by the state while a cer-tain number of beds there havebeen reserved for JapaneseEncephalitis patients.

A round-the-clock centralcontrol room has been openedto deal with and monitor thesituation and all deputy com-missioners have been directed

to step up surveillance activi-ties.

Health and Family WelfareCommissioner and SecretaryAnurag Goel held a meetingthrough video conference onWednesday with all the deputycommissioners and principalsecretary of the AutonomousCouncils to review the JapaneseEncephalitis situation in thestate.

He also interacted withofficials of the National VectorBorne Control Programme,NHM Assam Mission DirectorJ V N Subramanyam, Directorof Health Services Assam Dr RBhuyan, and other healthdepartment officials.

On Monday, AdditionalSecretary Sanjeev Kumar, wholed a four-member centralteam to the state, had said Julyand August it would be a chal-lenge to contain the outbreakof the disease to the minimumin July and August. PTI

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They live in a right-handed world,historically stigmatised and chal-

lenged by tasks as simple as using scis-sors — but when it comes to takingwickets at the World Cup, being a south-paw seamer is a distinct advantage.

Mitchell Starc leads the way at thetop of the World Cup bowling charts,with 24 wickets in eight matches so farand has Pakistan’s MohammadAmir and New Zealand pace-man Trent Boult for companyin the top six.

Beginning withAustralian Gary Gilmour’sfamous rout of England inthe semi-final at the inaugur-al World Cup in 1975, leftiessuch as Wasim Akram, Starcand Boult have confoundedtheir opponents again andagain at the World Cup.

The secret is in the dif-ferent angles that left-arm-ers create, giving bats-men an extraheadache and forc-ing them to re-cal-cuate.

“I think leftieschallenge the batsmenin their side-on stance and even

with a straight ball, because theangle creates problems, especially

for right-handers,” said Akram, whosethree wickets helped win the 1992 final

for Pakistan against England.Egged on by a packed crowd inMelbourne, Akram came from

around the wicket to create beguil-ing angles that bewildered firstAllan Lamb and then Chris Lewis.

Remembered as “magicaldeliveries”, they helped Pakistanbeat England to win the WorldCup for the first time. Akramwas man-of-the-match and

ended as the tournament'sleading wicket-taker, with 18dismissals.

Since then, left-arm bowlersfrom New Zealand to Sri Lankahave repeatedly proved theirvalue, becoming the leading wick-et-takers in four of the six WorldCups since.

The 2015 World Cup had aglut of left-armed fast bowlers,with Starc, Mitchell Johnson andBoult leading the pack.

Pakistan, still buoyed byAkram’s bowling performance27 years later, have benefited

more than most from thepower of lefties.

���� �3������@�Only about 10 percent of the glob-

al population are estimated to be left-

handed but Pakistan produce morethan their fair share of top-class left-armers.

Many of them have been inspiredby Akram, a fact that delights the for-mer Pakistan captain, who said: “Of

course it’s pleasing when you hear thatthe left-armers follow me.”

Pakistan’s 2019 World Cup squadboasts Wahab Riaz, highly promisingteenager Shaheen Shah Afridi andAmir, whose career was interrupted bya five-year ban for spot-fixing.

Amir, who was selected in thesquad despite a poor run of form, hasbeen a revelation at the tournament inEngland and Wales, with 16 wickets sofar.

Former India opening batsmanAakash Chopra said Pakistan’s left-arm-ers gave them an advantage.

“Facing a quality left-arm fastbowler is a challenge in itself becausethey make a straight ball look like it hasdone something spectacular due to theangle they create,” he wrote in a columnfor cricinfo.com.

But if left-arm bowlers are so com-mon, why do they still catch batsmenoff guard?

Pakistan batting great JavedMiandad believes the more a batsmanfaces left-armers, the easier it becomesbut he says they get more practiceagainst right-armers.

“Most batsmen develop their tech-nique against right-arm bowlers, throwdown and bowling machines from thesame angle, and they neglect the left-arm angles,” he said.

A good batsman should pay atten-tion to the details and practice from allangles, he added. That will help to“counter the threat left-armers pose”.

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West Indies batting greatBrian Lara on Thursday

likened Virat Kohli to a runmachine, avowing that the Indiaskipper is way ahead of rest of theworld when it comes to battingacross formats.

Indian batting great SachinTendulkar remains Lara's all-time favourite but in today'sera, he said it is Kohli, who is thebest.

"He (Virat Kohli) is a (run)machine. But sorry to say Sachin

Tendulkar is my (choice)," hesaid.

"But getting back to yourquestion, no doubt there is ahuge gap between Virat Kohliand the rest of the world in allforms of the game. Rohit Sharmamight have got four centuries inthis World Cup, (Jonny)Bairstow or whatever, if youwant somebody to bat in T20,T10, 100 balls (cricket) or Testcricket, it is going to be ViratKohli today," added Lara, whostill holds the record for highestscore in Tests.

Lara, who scored 22358(11953 in ODIs) in internation-al cricket, said if today Indianbatsmen are doing well in awayseries, it is because of Tendulkar,who instilled such confidence inthem.

"The (impression) Sachinleft on the game is just unbeliev-able, because he sort of bridgedthat period, where you felt thatwhen Indian batsman leavesIndian soil, Indian pitches, theyare not that good. But SachinTendulkar was good on everysurface and all of the Indian

batsman are good on every sin-gle surface today, I think simplybecause they took a page out ofhis (Sachin's) book," added Lara.

Meanwhile, Lara was painedto witness the plight of theCaribbean cricket. The WestIndies have already beenknocked out of the World Cupsemifinal race

"We have been turned to acorner. Every country, everysports team goes through a littlebit of cycle, but we seem to be inthe same position for quite some-time, which is unfortunate."

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New Zealand captain KaneWilliamson hopes an upcom-

ing break provides his side with achance to revive their falteringWorld Cup campaign.

The Black Caps suffered theirthird straight defeat of the tourna-ment in a thumping 119-run lossto England on Wednesday.

Had they won, it would havebeen New Zealand and not Englandwho were assured of a place in thesemi-finals.

But they were rarely in the huntand New Zealand, who won five oftheir first six games in a sequencethat included a washout with India,had to accept another defeat follow-ing losses to Pakistan and Australia— the team that beat them in the2015 final.

The consolation forWilliamson’s men is they are all butcertain of a place in the semi-finalsgiven their huge net run-rateadvantage over Pakistan.

And Williamson, whose teamwon’t play again until next week ifthey make the last four, believesgroup form will count for little nowthat the tournament is heading intothe knockout phase.

"If we are fortunate to be in asemi-final, then we do have a littlebit of a break," he said.

"If you are in a knockout stagewhere it's a semi-final opportuni-ty, anything can happen.

"We know that we haven't putout our best performance yet andwe know when we do it gives us thebest chance of beating anybody,

without a doubt."It is important for us to per-

haps have a couple of days away. Wesort of have a bit of a break now."

New Zealand's chase againstEngland saw them lose their topfour inside 17 overs with just 69runs on the scoreboard.

From then on it appeared theBlack Caps were involved in dam-age limitation, even though theywere still bowled out for 186 withfive overs to spare.

But Williamson was adamanthis side had not been trying tomanipulate the run-rate.

"We were trying to win thegame, but we didn't do a very goodjob of it," he said.

"We just needed a couple of bigpartnerships, certainly from the toporder and it wasn't there."

New Zealand were hamperedbefore the start when leading fastbowler Lockie Ferguson, who hastaken 17 wickets in seven gamesthis tournament, was ruled outbecause of tightness in his ham-string.

But the 28-year-old should befit in time for Tuesday's semi-finalat Old Trafford.

"He's been outstandingthroughout this whole tournamentand a real point of difference forus," said Williamson.

"Did we miss him? Yes. Butwe'd miss him more if we didn'thave him, hopefully, in anothergame's time.

"He should be fine. It's a fairlyminor injury, sort of a light ham-string thing, and he should beokay."

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England captain Eoin Morgan said it felt“pretty cool” to be in the World Cup

semi-finals as the hosts look forward toplaying their last-four clash at Edgbaston.

Morgan’s men secured a semi-finalspot — England’s first at the World Cupsince 1992 — with their impressive 119-run thrashing of New Zealand at Chester-le-Street.

Victory meant they are guaranteed tofinish third in the 10-team round robin andso take part in the second semi-final atEdgbaston on July 11. England beat India,their potential last four opponents, by 31runs at the Birmingham ground on Sundayand they have won their last 10 matchesin all formats at Edgbaston.

“It’s a place that we really like playing,”said Morgan.

“If we had a choice of where we wouldplay our group-stage games, Edgbaston, theOval and Trent Bridge would probably bethe three grounds where we would haveplayed the nine games.

“It is comforting that we are going toone of those three grounds.” England’s totalof 305-8 against New Zealand, made afterMorgan won the toss, was built on a thirdsuccessive century stand between openersJonny Bairstow and Jason Roy.

Bairstow’s 106 was also his second suc-cessive century after the Yorkshireman’s 111against India.

“We knew that these two games weremust-win games if we were to give our-selves the best opportunity to get into thesemi-finals because we knew the perfor-mances in the last couple of games hadn'tbeen up to scratch,” said Bairstow.

“So to play the way we have in the lasttwo games and hopefully in the semis ispleasing.”

Bairstow and Roy’s 10th century part-nership ensured England made the mostof good batting conditions on a pitch thatdeteriorated sharply as the game went on.

Morgan, asked if the openers made therest of the team feel calm, replied: “It is notreally calmness, it is more excitement.

“The guys are buzzing, laughing, smil-ing at how ridiculous some of the shots thetwo guys are playing, good balls being hitfor four or six, how difficult they are to bowlat. You have got to laugh at it.” England’sbig-match temperament was called intoquestion after back-to-back group defeatsby Sri Lanka and holders Australia.

“Whatever the way you play, it shouldbe the extremity of that on the day becauseyou don’t get another chance and it’s takenus time to get to grips with that,” saidMorgan.

“We do stick to our mantra the wholetime and not actually be cagey, or desper-ate, or anything in those sort of regards. Itdoesn’t work for us and it won’t win us theWorld Cup.”

England, who have never won the

World Cup, now have more than a weekoff before the semi-final, but Morgan does-n’t think that will be a problem.

“I can't wait to do nothing, or get dis-tracted by other things that I enjoy doing,”he said.

“I suppose we have rode the roller-coaster of playing well, playing terrible andplaying good again, so particularly ourbowlers, they need a rest, they need to getaway.

“And our batsmen need to get awayfrom the game and hopefully come backfresh.”

All of England’s three defeats thisWorld Cup have come batting second, sug-gesting the toss is becoming a key factor.

“Before the tournament started Ithought that might be a trend, the toss,being a huge deciding factor in the game,but I thought it would have been the otherway around,” said Morgan.

“I thought the ball might have swunga bit more if conditions were cloudy andthere was a bit of rain around and every-body would have bowled first and chased.

“It’s been the complete opposite, so itshows how much I know!”

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Lord’s, the beautiful Lord’s, there’s no suchthing as a dead rubber. We’re looking toobviously win. We want to win. We’ve prac-ticed well. We’ve come up with some goodplans. When we lost against India, it was-n’t a case of — it was we were out of thetournament, but we all recognise thatthere's one more game to go and one spe-cial occasion at Lord’s and a very good,tough team to beat as well.�If you win the toss, is there any sort ofcalculation there of what you could do?

Great question. Thank you very muchfor asking it. The reason I say that is I don’tlike to give away too much tactically goinginto a game because I get a lot of my infor-mation listening to head coaches on themedia from the opposition. I won’t betelling you what we’re going to do at the tossor how we approach the game. All I will besaying is there’s a game to win forBangladesh, and that’s the important thingfor us.�How are emotions running in theteam?

The one thing about Mashrafe with theplayers is that they respect him incredibly.I often use the word warrior, but he goesto war for the team, does Mashrafe, andpeople respect that, understand that, andthey love him because of that. The playersin the dressing room do love Mash, and thisis — he has said it's his last World Cup, andit will be emotional for him.�What’s the status of Mushfiqur’s injury?

Mushi got a little knock on the elbowin the nets, you might have seen. I’ve hadno chance to see the physio yet. Generally,that sort of area, most people are okay. Idon’t remember too many people breakingelbows off four rounds of the bottom hand.So I’m hoping that he’ll be okay.�How exciting the players are especial-ly the youngsters who come to Lord’sagain with a bigger dream?

They really enjoyed the walk from thecoach through the gates, the great gates. Assoon as they got in the pavilion, you couldsee them looking at the paintings along thewalls of the staircase, and then heading intothe changing rooms and looking at theboards with five wicket hauls and test match100s. A few of them straight out onto thebalcony and looking at the marvelous scenein front of them with a beautiful carpet ofgrass and big stands everywhere, and theywere taking it all in.�Which area you should concern toimprove before this match?

What we look at, where we do takegames a day at a time, match by match, butthe thing is, if you look back to that Indiagame, we didn’t turn up for those first 20overs when we were in the field. That wasa bad area for Bangladesh. We know that.We’ve addressed that. �How has it been working with Shakibin this World Cup?

I love working with Shakib Al Hasan.He’s an amazing person, an amazing play-er. He takes no motivation from me. Allcredit to Shakib Al Hasan. It's all internal.This was all done by Shakib. He was des-perate to do well in this World Cup.�Pakistan is almost out of the semis. Isit quite a relief or do you feel some pres-sure still?

No, I don’t really feel the pressures ofthat because, you know, with Bangladesh,we’ve got the pressure of 170 million backhome wanting us to win, but without thetournament, Pakistan can still qualify.Maybe the pressure is all on Pakistan goinginto this game.

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former captain Moin Khan, who believesthe 1992 champions did not have a disas-trous World Cup campaign despite stand-ing on the verge of ouster. Pakistan'shopes of sealing a semi-final berth weretrampled when arch-rivals India and NewZealand lost to England, leaving the roadto the knockout stage for Sarfaraz Ahmedand his men just an improbable mathemat-ical calculation. They will take onBangladesh in their final group stagematch at the iconic Lord's in London today."Look if we win against Bangladesh wewould end the World Cup with five winsout of nine with one match abandonedwhich is not a bad performance by my stan-dards. So, whatever the PCB does it needsto think very carefully because just chang-ing faces or positions will not help," Moinsaid. ��

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Their semifinal chancesreduced to just a mathe-matical possibility, former

champions Pakistan will need animprobable win over Bangladeshto have a shot at making thesemifinals of the World Cupwhen the two sides clash heretoday.

Pakistan’s resurgence in theWorld Cup looked eerily close tothe 1992 Cup-winning editionbefore India’s loss to Englanddented their hopes of a semifi-nal spot and when New Zealandwent down to the hosts lastnight, it was almost over forthem.

The road to the knockoutstage for Sarfaraz Ahmed andhis men is just an improbablemathematical calculation andthat too provided Pakistan winthe toss and bat first.

If Pakistan lose the toss andare asked to field, their minis-cule semi-final hopes will beover even before the first ball isbowled at the Lord’s.

New Zealand finished theirengagements at 11 points fromnine matches after their 119-runloss to England but despite themassive defeat, the Kiwis are wayahead in terms of their net run-rate, which is +0.175, comparedto Pakistan's -0.792.

Currently placed fifth withnine points from eight matches,Pakistan face the challenge ofbeating Bangladesh by 311 runsafter posting 350 or by 316 runsafter scoring 400, somethingwhich is practically impossible.

Following their loss to arch-rivals India, Pakistan staged aremarkable comeback with winsover South Africa, New Zealandand Afghanistan, riding on someimpressive performances byBabar Azam and Harris Sohailin the batting department.

Left-arm pacer ShaheenAfridi's five-wicket haul againstNew Zealand was also a big pos-itive as it added firepower totheir bowling led by MohammadAmir.

Bangladesh, on the otherhand, will rue their missedchances and would hope tobring some cheer to their fansback home with a solid perfor-mance against Pakistan, a teamthey had defeated in the 1999edition.

At present, placed seventh,Bangladesh have been impres-sive in their wins against SouthAfrica, Afghanistan and West

Indies.They have shown the stom-

ach for a fight even in losses andMashrafe Mortaza and his menwill hope for a good outing

against Pakistan on Friday.Bangladesh have been too

dependent on star all-rounderShakib Al Hasan, who hasbecome the only cricketer to

score 500 runs and claim 10wickets in World Cup history.

Led by Shakib, Bangladeshhave consistently crossed the300-mark this World Cup but itis their bowling which has letthem down, especially the lackof form of skipper Mortaza.

Mustafizur Rahman's varia-tions, which fetched him fivewickets, and MohammadSaifuddin's fifty helped themgive India a scare in their lastmatch and Bangladesh will hopefor a stronger show againstPakistan.

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Mahmuduallah Riyadh, SabbirRahaman, Mehidy Hasan Miraj,Mosaddek Hossain, MohammedSaifuddin, Mustafizur Rahaman,Rubel Hossain, Liton KumarDas, Abu Jayed, MohammedMithun.

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Former Pakistan speed-ster Shoaib Akhtar has

been left utterly disappoint-ed with the “quality of crick-et” being played at the ongo-ing World Cup in Englandand Wales.

England, Australia andIndia have sealed their spotin the semifinals, while NewZealand is almost there inthe knockout stage of thetournament, despite theirloss to England in their lastgroup stage encounter.

“I am not happy with thequality of cricket beingplayed in this World Cup,”said Akhtar on his YouTubechannel.

“The quality of crickethas gone down immensely.It has become very easy toscore runs. The bowlers

don’t have the quality, thepace and the spin, whichbowlers in 1990s and early2000s used to have.”

“There are three power-plays and two new ballswhich has made it very easyto score runs,” he added.

Speaking aboutWednesday’s game whereEngland thrashed NewZealand by 119 runs to sealtheir spot in the semis,Akhtar said that the BlackCaps played like “amateurs”.

“I was disappointed withthe way New Zealand playedagainst England. They did-n't give any fight and meek-ly surrendered before

England. They played likeamateurs. They didn’t playquality cricket,” said Akhtar.

With England’s win,Pakistan are technically outof the contention of makingit to the semis. In order tomake it to the knockoutstage, Pakistan needed Indiaor New Zealand to defeatEngland in their last twomatches. However, it didn’thappen.

Akhtar, 43, feelsPakistan have no one toblame but themselves fortheir disappointing cam-paign in this edition of theWorld Cup.

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Indies cost us badly. Thentheir match against SriLanka got abandoned. Afterthat, they lost the game toAustralia which they shouldhave won. These threematches made it very diffi-cult for Pakistan. Theythemselves have got out ofthe tournament. Nobodyelse is responsible for theirloss.”

He, however, wantsSarfaraz Ahmed’s men toplay for their pride againstBangladesh in their lastgroup stage fixture at Lord’stoday.

“All is not lost still. Wehave to play for our prideagainst Bangladesh. Pakistanhave to make sure they don’tget humiliated and thereforethey should play good crick-et against Bangladesh,” heinsisted.

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Frank Lampard was appointed Chelsea headcoach on Thursday, confirming a dramatic

return for one of the club’s greatest ever players.Lampard has signed a three-year contract with

Chelsea, where he spent 13 years and became theteam’s all-time leading scorer with 211 goals.

The former England midfielder succeedsMaurizio Sarri after just one season in manage-

ment, having led Derby County to theChampionship play-off final in May, when theywere beaten by Aston Villa.

“I am immensely proud to be returning toChelsea as head coach,” Lampard said in a clubstatement.

“Everyone knows my love for this club andthe history we have shared, however, my sole focusis on the job in hand and preparing for the sea-son ahead.

“I am here to work hard, bring further suc-cess to the club and I cannot wait to get started.”Chelsea said Lampard has a “fantastic relationship”with the club’s supporters and he will certainly liftthe mood after a fractious season under Sarri.

Despite finishing third in the Premier Leagueand winning the Europa League, Sarri was criti-cised for his eccentric approach and rigid style ofplay.

Chelsea director Marina Granovskaia said: “Itgives us great pleasure to welcome Frank back toChelsea as head coach.

“After 13 years with us as a player, where hebecame a club legend and our record goalscorer,we believe this is the perfect time for him to returnand are delighted he has done so.

“We will do everything we can to ensure hehas all the support required to be a huge success.”

He is expected to bring Jody Morris with himto Stamford Bridge. Morris also played forChelsea and worked as Lampard’s assistant atDerby.

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Atletico Madrid onWednesday signed 19-year-

old Portuguese striker Joao Felixfrom Benfica for 126 millioneuros ($142 million), theclubs announced.

The fee is a record fora Portuguese club and forAtletico Madrid andmakes the teenager one ofthe five most expensiveplayers in history.

Atletico tweeted a videoof the player in the Prado

gallery in Madrid contemplatingpaintings by old masters, with

the phrase, “enormous tal-ent”, before he turned andsmiled at the camera withthe caption: “Welcome

Joao Felix, pure talent.”Felix has reported-

ly signed a seven-yearcontract.

He is a potentialreplacement forAntoine Griezmannwho scored 133 goals

in five seasons at theclub. Atletico have

already said the French strikeris leaving. He is expected to joinBarcelona when his releaseclause, which dropped to 120million euros on Monday, is acti-vated.

The Felix signing came ona busy day for Atletico.

Earlier on Wednesday, theclub confirmed the signing ofMexican midfielder HectorHerrera from Porto while anoth-er midfielder, RodrigoHernandez, left Madrid forManchester City for 70 millioneuros.

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Peru stunned defending champions Chile 3-0to reach the final of the Copa America for the

first time in 44 years.Goals from Edison Flores, Yoshimar Yotun

and Paolo Guerrero handed Peru a deserved winwhich sends them into a final against Brazil atthe Maracana Stadium on Sunday.

The stunning upset prevented Chile’s gold-en generation from challenging for a third straighttitle, following their wins over Argentina in 2015and 2016.

Instead the finalists from the previous twoeditions will meet in Saturday’s third-place play-off in Sao Paulo.

Little was expected of Peru in the knock-outstages after they ended the group phase with ahumbling 5-0 thrashing by Brazil.

But after riding their luck — and being savedby VAR three times — to beat Uruguay on penal-ties in the quarter-final, they were a completelyrejuvenated outfit in Porto Alegre.

Goalkeeper Pedro Gallese, the villain of that5-0 defeat, was again faultless, as he had been inthe quarter-final when decisively saving LuisSuarez’s shoot-out penalty.

He again saved a penalty and made a num-ber of other vital stops. From the start Peru dom-inated the reigning champions, Flores tookadvantage of an Erick Pulgar slip in midfield todart towards goal but he dragged his weak shotwoefully wide.

But a minute later he was alone at the backpost to lash home left footed from an AndreCarillo flick on from Cueva’s cross.

Yotun doubled the lead on 38 minutes afterpunishing Chile goalkeeper Gabriel Arias’s rushof blood to the head.

A 2-0 half-time lead was the least Peru

deserved after an enterprising performanceagainst tentative opponents.

Peru should have put the game to bed on arapier counter-attack on the hour but Guerreroand Cueva passed rather than shooting and Yotunballooned over from six yards with the goal gap-ing.

Peru started sitting deeper, inviting Chile toattack and Aranguiz sent a rasping shot whistlingpast the top corner with Gallese a mere specta-tor. But Guerrero put the icing on the cake ininjury time after rounding Arias, but Gallese hadthe last word from the penalty spot.

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The Netherlands’ riseas a force in women’s

football continued onWednesday as JackieGroenen’s extra-timestrike saw them edge outSweden 1-0 in a gruellingWorld Cup semi-final inLyon, taking the Europeanchampions through to thisweekend’s final against theUnited States.

After a goalless 90minutes, midfielderGroenen — a former judoEuropean ChampionshipBronze medallist as ayouth who recently agreeda move to ManchesterUnited — broke the dead-lock in the 99th minute ofa tense contest, breakingSwedish hearts in theprocess.

When Danielle van deDonk’s pass was touchedinto her path, Groenensent a low shot from 20yards beyond thereach of goalkeeperHedvig Lindahl andinto the far corner.

H a v i n gknocked out Italyand former winnersJapan in the previ-ous two rounds, the Dutchare now just one game

away from adding a firstWorld Cup to the titlethey won at Euro 2017 ashosts.

“We never knew thiswould be possible.It’s one more matchand we might possi-bly be world champi-ons,” said a beamingGroenen.

Getting this far isa remarkable

achievement for the“Oranje”, appearing at just

their second World Cup,but they will need toimprove drastically if theyare to stand any chance ofdefeating the holders.

The Netherlands havelong been a force in themen’s game, but they hadnever even been to a majorwomen’s tournament untila decade ago.

“I think the potentialhas been in theNetherlands for a longerperiod of time but the

facilities were not there,”said Dutch coach SarinaWiegman, pointing to thestart of the Dutch leaguein 2007 as the catalyst.

“It’s the whole devel-opment in the Netherlandsand also the individualsthat made bigger steps.

“Now they have beenin a couple of tourna-ments so they are veryexperienced now too andthey believe they can per-form really well.”

For the second game running Englandhave produced an incredible perfor-mance under pressure so hats off to

them.Jonny Bairstow and Jason Roy set the

tone at the top of the order, and probablydeceived everyone into thinking this was a360-run pitch.

New Zealand did well to restrict them,but the last 20 overs of their innings wereprobably a better reflection of the wicket.

Then I thought that Chris Woakes andJofra Archer were exceptional with the newball. Their lines and lengths were impecca-ble and New Zealand just lost too manywickets early to have any chance of chasingit down. There will be some frustration atthe way those top four went, all four wick-ets were avoidable and that ended theirhopes.

From a New Zealand perspective, it isnot ideal to have lost three in a row, even ifthey are still pretty much assured of a semi-final place.

The fortunate thing for them is that theygo into a knockout game at Old Trafford,which is traditionally a very good wicket.

The way they have played over the last cou-ple of years against Australia, who they couldend up facing, should give them plenty ofconfidence.

In this game against England, I thoughtthat James Neesham bowled very well andplayed a big role in New Zealand pulling itback with the ball.

Kane Williamson probably would nothave expected to use Neesham as much ashe has with the ball but he’s been a stand-out. He’s been accurate and that has beencrucial not just for his economy rate but alsoin terms of wicket-taking.

I’ve also got to pay tribute to Trent Boult,he was fantastic again and the knuckle ballto dismiss Jos Buttler was a highly-skilledpiece of bowling.

Boult has now taken more wickets inICC Men’s Cricket World Cups than anyother New Zealander which is a remarkablefeat considering this is only his second.

He is obviously a supremely talentedbowler, but it is also testament to the hardwork he has put in to become the completepackage as a bowler.

At the top of the order he is a left-arm

fast swing bowler who can take wickets, andthen when Kane needs someone in the mid-dle overs to attack, he turns to Boult. He’salso got that ability to reverse the ball in thedeath overs, when he is an attacking anddefensive option.

There are not many bowlers who offerthat set of skills throughout world cricket.That comes from his natural skill as well asthe work ethic to improve his game.

New Zealand missed Lockie Ferguson inDurham, particularly because of the way hefits into the structure of the game. Kane likesto use his as a first-change bowler in short2-3 over spells. With him out, that meant theyhad to shuffle things around a little.

If he is back for the semi-final, that willgive New Zealand a lot more certaintyaround how they go about their 50 overs.

Despite the three straight losses, I don’tthink it will affect the team too much, par-ticularly knowing some of the guys well. Theyhave six or seven individuals who can wina game for them, and that is a pretty excit-ing way to think about it.

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Eight-time champion RogerFederer eased into the third

round of Wimbledon on Thursday,beating British wild card Jay Clarke6-1, 7-6 (7/3), 6-2 to equalAmerican legend Jimmy Connors'srecord of 17 appearances in the last32.

The 37-year-old Swiss great'srival Rafael Nadal is unikely to havesuch an easy ride later on Thursdayas he faces the fiery but talentedAustralian Nick Kyrgios.

"I struggled to take care of busi-ness a bit from the baseline," said37-year-old Federer who has nowreached the third round at theSlams for the 70th time.

"Thankfully I played a prettygood breaker, I had some help fromhim as he gave me a couple ofunforced errors."

Federer and Nadal's half of thedraw lost two of the potentiallymore awkward customers in bigserving duo John Isner and MarinCilic.

Ninth-seeded Isner, whoplayed in the epic semi-final lastyear with Kevin Anderson whichlasted over six hours, fell in five setsto unseeded Kazakh MikhailKukushkin 6-4, 6-7 (3/7), 4-6, 6-1, 6-4 in just overthree hours of play.

Cilic, the 13th seedand finalist in 2017, lost instraight sets to Portugal'sJoao Sousa, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4.

There were no such upsetsin the women's singles.

Ashleigh Barty's bid to becomethe first woman since SerenaWilliams in 2015 to win the FrenchOpen and Wimbledon in the sameyear stayed on track with a 6-1, 6-3 second round victory overBelgium's Alison van Uytvanck.

The 23-year-old Australianworld number one will play Britishwild card Harriet Dart for a placein the last 16.

Barty said she would not beconcerned by taking on a homehope in front of a partisan crowd.

"I wouldn't be playing a Britishcrowd; I'm playing against Harriet,"said Barty.

"Yes, she'll get more supportbeing in Britain, as I would if

we were in Australia. It's nodifferent."

Barty, only the secondAustralian woman afterEvonne GoolagongCawley over 40 years ago

to be number one in theworld, said the most pleasure

she has had in her new status iswhen she speaks to her niece backin Australia.

"Over and over she tells me youcan go to infinity and beyond," sadBarty.

"She's an incredible little girlwho gives me so much inspiration.

"It's been a very nice journeyfor myself, my team, my family,everyone. To be where we are nowis really special."

Barty, who if she achieves theRoland Garros-Wimbledon doublewill be only the eighth woman todo so, said she would not bewatching the blockbuster men's sin-gles match between Nadal and hercompatriot Kyrgios later onThursday.

"I think I'll be watching thecricket this afternoon," she said,referring to the second Ashesmatch between England's womenand Australia.

Dart, for her part, could notcontain her excitement at playingthe world number one.

"Super exciting," she said. "Agreat opportunity for me.

"I have nothing to lose. I actu-ally met her a few weeks ago at anLTA schools visit.

"Lovely girl, great champion."However, Dart, ranked 182 in

the world, had to be reassuredabout the Australian's recentexploits.

"She won the French Open,and she won Birmingham, right?"

Also easing through was 2017US Open champion SloaneStephens who took the first eightgames against her Chinese oppo-nent Wang Yafan before winning 6-0, 6-2.

Stephens, seeded nine, willplay British 19th seed and FrenchOpen semi-finalist Johanna Kontain the next round.

Home fans appetites will besated when former world numberone Andy Murray plays in themen's doubles — months after 'life-changing hip surgery' — withFrench partner Pierre-HuguesHerbert against Marius Copil ofRomania and Herbert's compatri-ot Ugo Humbert.

Murray's mixed doubles part-ner, seven-time champion SerenaWilliams will also be in action fac-ing Slovenian qualifier Kaja Juvan.

Williams is chasing a record-equalling 24th major at theWimbledon.

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Brazil’s attacking midfielder Willian will missSunday’s Copa America final against Peru

after injuring his hamstring, the tournamenthosts said on Wednesday.

The 30-year-old Chelsea player was a sec-ond half substitute in Brazil’s 2-0 semi-final vic-tory over arch rivals Argentina, coming on forwinger Everton.

A Brazil football federation (CBF)spokesman said Willian had felt “pain in hishamstring” and was sent for tests onWednesday afternoon where it was found thathe had a “pulled muscle.” Brazilian media saidhe was injured during Tuesday’s match.

The CBF spokesman said the recovery timeneeded meant Willian would miss the final.

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