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S till licking her wounds from the electoral defeat at the hands of the BJP in parlia- mentary elections, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has decided against joining the NITI Ayog meeting, to be attened by Chief Ministers and chaired by the Prime Minister. The TMC chief on Friday said she would not attend the meeting called by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on June 15. She said it is “simply useless” to attend the meet as its agenda is fixed by the Centre without con- sulting the States. Mamata also demanded a collegium be set up on the lines of Supreme Court to appoint Election Commissioners. Hitting out at the Election Commission for what she alleged was its partisan approach during the Lok Sabha polls, Mamata said three nom- inated members of the EC should not be given the man- date to hold polls. She appealed to all the Opposition parties to unitedly demand constitution of a fact- finding committee to unravel alleged EVM tampering and electoral malpractices. “There are numerous evidences of EVM programming and elec- tion malpractices. We think there should be a fact-finding committee to unravel the tam- pering of EVMs, hawala trans- actions. Other Opposition par- ties should also demand it. I will speak to the Congress regarding this demand,” Mamata said after a party meeting here. She has has written a letter to the Prime Minister express- ing her disapproval of the NITI Aayog that was formed by the Modi Government post 2014. The Aayog had replaced the Planning Commission. “I had written to you regarding the dissolution of the Planning Commission as it had played significant role in working with the States,” she wrote in the letter iterating that “NITI Aayog was formed with no financial powers.” The TMC chief also reminded that the institution “lacks the power of supporting the annual plan of States as there is no financial power with the NITI Aayog,” adding “it is fruitless to attend the meeting.” “The experience of last four-and-half years we had with Niti Aayog brings me back to my earlier suggestion to you that we focus on Inter-State Council constituted under Article 263 of the Constitution, with appropriate modifications to enable ISC to discharge its augmented range of functions as the nodal entity of the coun- try,” she said. Both Modi and Mamata fired relentless salvos at each other during their two-month long election campaign often raising personal issues in the electoral slugfest. Decrying the Chief Minister’s decision not to join the NITI Aayog meeting, the Bengal BJP leadership on Friday said by doing so “she is hiding facts.” Attacking Mamata, West Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh said, “The Chief Minister knows that she will have to give detailed accounts of the grants that her Government received from the Centre all these years. She also knows that her Government will fail in doing so because of huge financial embezzlements. So she is not going in order to hide herself from embarrass- ment and action.” He also said that Mamata was not able to rise from the petty regional politics. “Besides, she is mixing politics with development which is also the reason why she is not going to Delhi. Her anger is against the BJP because she knows that after 2021 her empire will crumble down. This is an expression of that anger against staring defeat,” said Ghosh. A s national outrage escalat- ed over the brutal murder of a two-year-old girl whose mutilated body was found in a garbage dump near her house in Tappal township in Aligarh on June 2, the Uttar Pradesh Government on Friday consti- tuted a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the hor- rific crime and suspended five policemen, including an SHO, for alleged delay in registering the case after the girl was reported missing since May 30. Officials said the accused persons will be tried under the National Security Act (NSA) in a fast track court. Two arrest- ed accused — Zahid and Aslam — have confessed to killing the toddler after her father failed to return 10,000 he had bor- rowed from them, police said in a statement. Replying to questions from reporters in Lucknow, ADG (Law and Order) Anand Kumar said, “The case will be fast tracked. POCSO will also be included in the FIR. As of now sexual assault is not ruled out.” The girl’s father, Banwarilal Sharma, had threatened to go on fast unto death, demanding the arrest of the family mem- bers of the accused who, he said, “colluded” in the crime. However, Aligarh SSP Akash Kulhari on Friday met Sharma and persuaded him against sit- ting on fast and assured justice in a fast-track court. Proceedings have begun to charge Zahid and Aslam under the NSA, the SSP said. The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights has sought a report from the SSP and issued directions on examining the report. The authorities swung into action only after the horrific incident drew widespread con- demnation and outrage. Hashtags with the child’s name were trending on Twitter with an estimated 56,000 tweets on the brutal case that shook the nation. While Congress president Rahul Gandhi asked the UP Police to “act swiftly to bring the killers to justice”, party general secretary Priyanka Gandhi condemned the inci- dent, calling it an “inhuman, unspeakable crime”. “The horrific murder of a little girl in Aligarh has shocked and disturbed me. How can any human being treat a child with such brutality? This terrible crime must not go unpun- ished. The UP Police must act swiftly to bring the killers to justice,” tweeted Rahul. “The brutal murder in Aligarh is yet another inhu- man, unspeakable crime against an innocent child. I cannot even begin to imagine the pain her parents must feel. What has become of us?” Priyanka tweeted. Bollywood celebrities too came together to demand cap- ital punishment for the culprits. Akshay Kumar, Abhishek Bachchan, Javed Akhtar and Sunny Leone are among those who expressed their anguish at the brutal killing of the child. Continued on Page 4 I n a sensational decision, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister and YSRCP chief YS Jagan Mohan Reddy on Friday announced the induction of five Deputy Chief Ministers, one each from SC, ST, back- ward, minority and Kapu com- munities. Jagan, who took charge as CM on May 30, will form his full-fledged Cabinet with 25 Ministers on Saturday. With this Jagan created a record of sorts, as appointing five Deputy CMs is the highest- ever number in any State in the country and no CM in the country had made such an experiment earlier. Jagan said he will review his Cabinet after 30 months and new ones will get the opportunity then. Almost 50 per cent of the Cabinet will be filled with SC, ST, backward and minority legislators. The oath-taking ceremony of newly inducted Cabinet Ministers will be held at Vijayawada on Saturday. Governor ESL Narasimhan will administer oath of office and secrecy to the newly inducted Cabinet Ministers. He said the entire country is looking at Andhra Pradesh which would provide a clean and efficient administration to the people. Jagan sprang a surprise on his party MLAs and MLCs, when he addressed the legisla- ture party meeting at his party office in Amarvati on Friday. He announced that he would form a full-fledged Cabinet with 25 Ministers on Saturday and five of them would be Dy CMs, as the MLAs and MLCs listened to him with a shock. Continued on Page 4 T aking a firm stand, the ICC on Friday denied Mahendra Singh Dhoni per- mission to wear the dagger insignia on his wicket-keeping gloves during the World Cup despite BCCI’s assertion that it was not a military symbol. The Indian cricket board (BCCI) had sought permission for the star batsman from the world governing body, which eventually cited regulations in denying the permission. “The ICC has responded to the BCCI to confirm the logo displayed by MS Dhoni in the previous match is not permit- ted to be worn on his wicket- keeping gloves at the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2019,” an ICC statement said. “The regulations for ICC events do not permit any indi- vidual message or logo to be displayed on any items of cloth- ing or equipment. In addition to this, the logo also breaches the regulations in relation to what is permitted on wicket- keeper gloves.” During India’s opening World Cup game against South Africa in Southampton, Dhoni’s green keeping gloves had a dagger logo embossed, which looked more like an Army insignia. The rule-book allows for only one sponsor’s logo on the wicket-keeping gloves. In Dhoni’s case, he already sports an SG logo on his gloves. Dhoni is an Honorary Lieutenant Colonel in the Parachute Regiment of the Territorial Army and dagger is part of their emblem. Committee of Administrator (CoA) chief Vinod Rai had argued that wearing the dagger insignia does not breach any rule. “As per ICC regulations, players can’t sport any com- mercial, religious or military logo. There was nothing com- mercial or religious in this regard as we all know. And it is not the paramilitary regi- mental dagger that is embossed in his gloves. So Dhoni is not in breach of ICC regulations,” Rai said. Rai’s comment came after the ICC “requested the BCCI” to ask Dhoni to remove the sign from the gloves, citing rules which forbid display of messages “which relate to polit- ical, religious or racial activities or causes.” C hief Minister Naveen Patnaik is scheduled to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi on June 11 in New Delhi to hold talks on various impor- tant issues. Sources said Patnaik, who would be accompanied by BJD MPs, is likely to have discus- sions on restoration measures post Cyclone Fani and Odisha’s possible participation in the Centre’s Ayushman Bharat health scheme. Speculations are rife that Patnaik will pitch for selection of BJD MP Bhartruhari Mahtab as Lok Sabha Deputy Speaker. Notably, a possible choice of Mahtab being made Deputy Speaker is opposed by NDA ally Shiv Sena on the ground that the BJD and the BJP fought the elections as bitter rivals. The Shiv Sena wants the Deputy Speaker post for itself. Notably, this would be the Chief Minister’s first meeting with the Prime Minister after declaration of the election results. Patnaik is also likely to meet some other Union Ministers during his visit. A n invitation to inaugurate a newly-built Primary Health Centre (PHC) in the town area has triggered a controversy. The invitation initiated by the CDMO without knowledge of the district collector sparked the row when a group of BJD lead- ers approached the latter seek- ing his intervention. According to sources, the urban PHC constructed at Sovarampur is ready for inau- guration and current in–charge, CDMO, Dulalsen Jagdeo had made a programme in which Baleswar MP and Union Minister Pratap Chandra Sarangi was invited as chief guest. The local BJD leaders after learning that neither the State Health Department nor the district collector was informed about the inauguration vented their anguish to collector Ramesh Chandra Rout alleging the event was planned by CDMO unilaterally keeping in view the interest of a particu- lar political party when the dis- trict administration and State Government were in dark. Sources said that after hear- ing the grievances, Rout besides assuring the aggrieved to look into matter also sought report from the CDMO about the goof-up. They further added the project’s inauguration scheduled on Sunday was stalled. According to sources, two urban PHCs were to be built for Baleswar town. While one is already operational, the other one built at cost about Rs 85 lakh is ready for inauguration. Sources further alleged the DPM, NHM, of the district headquarters hospital has mis- led the hospital administration and desired to inaugurate the PHC without knowledge of the district Collector and State Health Department for vested interest. The delegates who met the Collector and vented their grievances included BJD town unit president Swaroop Das, BRIT Chairman Gouri Kumar Rout, Manoj Rout, Bhubananda Das, Ajay Samal, Bhagabat Sahu, Sailendra Singh and other senior leaders T he BJD on Friday named its Angul MLA Rajani Kant Singh as its contender for the post of Deputy Speaker in the State Assembly. BJD president Naveen Patnaik proposed the name of Singh as their candidate. Similarly, the party appointed Dharmasala legislator Pranab Balabantaray as party Chief Whip in the Assembly. This was communicated by party State general secretary Bijay Kumar Nayak in a release Earlier, the BJD had elect- ed Digapahandi MLA and for- mer Minister Surjya Narayan Patro as the Speaker of the Assembly. P ublic Works Department Junior Engineer (JE) Jaykant Sabar, who was alleged- ly kidnapped on Thursday, hours after a video showing Patnagarh MLA Saroj Meher forcing him to do sit-ups in public went viral, was rescued by police on Friday. Patnagarh DSP Suresh Nayak said the PWD JE was rescued from Khariar of Nuapada district. After his rescue, the JE said, “The Executive Engineer, who was present at the spot when MLA Meher, asked me to do the sit-ups, slapped me on the instruction of the MLA. So, apprehending any further humiliation, I did the sit-ups.” Earlier, wife of the JE had lodged a complaint with the Patnagarh police alleging that her husband had been kid- napped and it was the handi- work of the MLA. She also demanded arrest of the MLA. Based on her complaint, police registered a case under Sections 341, 363, 294, 323, 353 and 355 of IPC and Section 3 of SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. On the other hand, MLA Meher has now apologised for the incident. He said, “Locals were angry over poor road con- struction work in their area and demanded action against the official. As the situation was out of my control, I had to ask the official to do sit-ups.” In a related development, Works Minister Prafulla Mallick on the day ordered for a probe into the incident of the MLA forcing the Government official to do sit-ups as pun- ishment for alleged poor qual- ity of road construction in his constituency. Mallick also directed to investigate the allegation of substandard road construction work. Related reports on Page 3

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Still licking her wounds fromthe electoral defeat at the

hands of the BJP in parlia-mentary elections, West BengalChief Minister MamataBanerjee has decided againstjoining the NITI Ayog meeting,to be attened by ChiefMinisters and chaired by thePrime Minister.

The TMC chief on Fridaysaid she would not attend themeeting called by PrimeMinister Narendra Modi inNew Delhi on June 15. She saidit is “simply useless” to attendthe meet as its agenda is fixedby the Centre without con-sulting the States.

Mamata also demanded acollegium be set up on the linesof Supreme Court to appointElection Commissioners.Hitting out at the ElectionCommission for what shealleged was its partisanapproach during the Lok Sabhapolls, Mamata said three nom-inated members of the ECshould not be given the man-date to hold polls.

She appealed to all theOpposition parties to unitedlydemand constitution of a fact-finding committee to unravelalleged EVM tampering andelectoral malpractices. “Thereare numerous evidences ofEVM programming and elec-tion malpractices. We thinkthere should be a fact-findingcommittee to unravel the tam-pering of EVMs, hawala trans-actions. Other Opposition par-ties should also demand it. I

will speak to the Congressregarding this demand,”Mamata said after a partymeeting here.

She has has written a letterto the Prime Minister express-ing her disapproval of the NITIAayog that was formed by theModi Government post 2014.The Aayog had replaced thePlanning Commission.

“I had written to youregarding the dissolution of thePlanning Commission as ithad played significant role inworking with the States,” shewrote in the letter iterating that“NITI Aayog was formed withno financial powers.”

The TMC chief alsoreminded that the institution“lacks the power of supporting

the annual plan of States asthere is no financial power withthe NITI Aayog,” adding “it isfruitless to attend the meeting.”

“The experience of lastfour-and-half years we hadwith Niti Aayog brings meback to my earlier suggestion toyou that we focus on Inter-StateCouncil constituted underArticle 263 of the Constitution,with appropriate modificationsto enable ISC to discharge itsaugmented range of functionsas the nodal entity of the coun-try,” she said.

Both Modi and Mamatafired relentless salvos at eachother during their two-monthlong election campaign oftenraising personal issues in theelectoral slugfest.

Decrying the ChiefMinister’s decision not to jointhe NITI Aayog meeting, theBengal BJP leadership onFriday said by doing so “she ishiding facts.”

Attacking Mamata, WestBengal BJP president DilipGhosh said, “The ChiefMinister knows that she willhave to give detailed accountsof the grants that herGovernment received from theCentre all these years. She alsoknows that her Governmentwill fail in doing so because ofhuge financial embezzlements.So she is not going in order tohide herself from embarrass-ment and action.”

He also said that Mamatawas not able to rise from thepetty regional politics. “Besides,she is mixing politics withdevelopment which is also thereason why she is not going toDelhi. Her anger is against theBJP because she knows thatafter 2021 her empire willcrumble down. This is anexpression of that anger againststaring defeat,” said Ghosh.

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As national outrage escalat-ed over the brutal murder

of a two-year-old girl whosemutilated body was found in agarbage dump near her housein Tappal township in Aligarhon June 2, the Uttar PradeshGovernment on Friday consti-tuted a Special InvestigationTeam (SIT) to probe the hor-rific crime and suspended fivepolicemen, including an SHO,for alleged delay in registeringthe case after the girl wasreported missing since May 30.

Officials said the accusedpersons will be tried under theNational Security Act (NSA) ina fast track court. Two arrest-ed accused — Zahid and Aslam— have confessed to killing thetoddler after her father failed toreturn �10,000 he had bor-rowed from them, police saidin a statement.

Replying to questions fromreporters in Lucknow, ADG(Law and Order) AnandKumar said, “The case will befast tracked. POCSO will alsobe included in the FIR. As ofnow sexual assault is not ruledout.”

The girl’s father, BanwarilalSharma, had threatened to goon fast unto death, demandingthe arrest of the family mem-bers of the accused who, hesaid, “colluded” in the crime.However, Aligarh SSP AkashKulhari on Friday met Sharmaand persuaded him against sit-ting on fast and assured justicein a fast-track court.

Proceedings have begun tocharge Zahid and Aslam underthe NSA, the SSP said.

The National Commissionfor Protection of Child Rightshas sought a report from theSSP and issued directions onexamining the report.

The authorities swung intoaction only after the horrificincident drew widespread con-demnation and outrage.Hashtags with the child’s namewere trending on Twitter withan estimated 56,000 tweets onthe brutal case that shook thenation.

While Congress presidentRahul Gandhi asked the UPPolice to “act swiftly to bringthe killers to justice”, partygeneral secretary PriyankaGandhi condemned the inci-dent, calling it an “inhuman,unspeakable crime”.

“The horrific murder of alittle girl in Aligarh has shockedand disturbed me. How can anyhuman being treat a child withsuch brutality? This terriblecrime must not go unpun-ished. The UP Police must actswiftly to bring the killers tojustice,” tweeted Rahul.

“The brutal murder inAligarh is yet another inhu-man, unspeakable crimeagainst an innocent child. Icannot even begin to imaginethe pain her parents must feel.What has become of us?”Priyanka tweeted.

Bollywood celebrities toocame together to demand cap-ital punishment for the culprits.Akshay Kumar, AbhishekBachchan, Javed Akhtar andSunny Leone are among thosewho expressed their anguish atthe brutal killing of the child.

Continued on Page 4

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In a sensational decision,Andhra Pradesh Chief

Minister and YSRCP chief YSJagan Mohan Reddy on Fridayannounced the induction offive Deputy Chief Ministers,one each from SC, ST, back-ward, minority and Kapu com-munities.

Jagan, who took charge asCM on May 30, will form hisfull-fledged Cabinet with 25Ministers on Saturday.

With this Jagan created arecord of sorts, as appointingfive Deputy CMs is the highest-ever number in any State in thecountry and no CM in thecountry had made such anexperiment earlier.

Jagan said he will reviewhis Cabinet after 30 monthsand new ones will get the

opportunity then.Almost 50 per cent of the

Cabinet will be filled with SC,ST, backward and minoritylegislators.

The oath-taking ceremonyof newly inducted CabinetMinisters will be held atVijayawada on Saturday.

Governor ESL Narasimhanwill administer oath of officeand secrecy to the newlyinducted Cabinet Ministers.

He said the entire countryis looking at Andhra Pradesh

which would provide a cleanand efficient administrationto the people.

Jagan sprang a surprise onhis party MLAs and MLCs,when he addressed the legisla-ture party meeting at his partyoffice in Amarvati on Friday.He announced that he wouldform a full-fledged Cabinetwith 25 Ministers on Saturdayand five of them would be DyCMs, as the MLAs and MLCslistened to him with a shock.

Continued on Page 4

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Taking a firm stand, theICC on Friday denied

Mahendra Singh Dhoni per-mission to wear the daggerinsignia on his wicket-keepinggloves during the World Cupdespite BCCI’s assertion that itwas not a military symbol.

The Indian cricket board(BCCI) had sought permissionfor the star batsman from theworld governing body, whicheventually cited regulations indenying the permission.

“The ICC has responded tothe BCCI to confirm the logodisplayed by MS Dhoni in theprevious match is not permit-ted to be worn on his wicket-keeping gloves at the ICC Men’sCricket World Cup 2019,” anICC statement said.

“The regulations for ICCevents do not permit any indi-vidual message or logo to bedisplayed on any items of cloth-ing or equipment. In additionto this, the logo also breachesthe regulations in relation towhat is permitted on wicket-keeper gloves.”

During India’s openingWorld Cup game against SouthAfrica in Southampton,Dhoni’s green keeping gloveshad a dagger logo embossed,which looked more like anArmy insignia.

The rule-book allows foronly one sponsor’s logo on thewicket-keeping gloves. In

Dhoni’s case, he already sportsan SG logo on his gloves.

Dhoni is an HonoraryLieutenant Colonel in the

Parachute Regiment of theTerritorial Army and dagger ispart of their emblem.

Committee ofAdministrator (CoA) chiefVinod Rai had argued thatwearing the dagger insigniadoes not breach any rule.

“As per ICC regulations,players can’t sport any com-mercial, religious or militarylogo. There was nothing com-mercial or religious in thisregard as we all know. And itis not the paramilitary regi-mental dagger that is embossedin his gloves. So Dhoni is notin breach of ICC regulations,”Rai said.

Rai’s comment came afterthe ICC “requested the BCCI”to ask Dhoni to remove thesign from the gloves, citingrules which forbid display ofmessages “which relate to polit-ical, religious or racial activitiesor causes.”

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Chief Minister NaveenPatnaik is scheduled to

meet Prime Minister NarendraModi on June 11 in New Delhito hold talks on various impor-tant issues.

Sources said Patnaik, whowould be accompanied by BJDMPs, is likely to have discus-sions on restoration measurespost Cyclone Fani and Odisha’spossible participation in theCentre’s Ayushman Bharat

health scheme.Speculations are rife that

Patnaik will pitch for selectionof BJD MP BhartruhariMahtab as Lok Sabha DeputySpeaker. Notably, a possiblechoice of Mahtab being madeDeputy Speaker is opposed byNDA ally Shiv Sena on theground that the BJD and theBJP fought the elections asbitter rivals. The Shiv Senawants the Deputy Speaker postfor itself.

Notably, this would be the Chief Minister’s first meeting with the PrimeMinister after declaration of the election results. Patnaik is also likely to meet some other Union Ministers duringhis visit.

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An invitation to inaugurate anewly-built Primary Health

Centre (PHC) in the town areahas triggered a controversy.The invitation initiated by theCDMO without knowledge ofthe district collector sparked therow when a group of BJD lead-ers approached the latter seek-ing his intervention.

According to sources, theurban PHC constructed atSovarampur is ready for inau-guration and current in–charge, CDMO, DulalsenJagdeo had made a programmein which Baleswar MP andUnion Minister Pratap ChandraSarangi was invited as chiefguest.

The local BJD leaders afterlearning that neither the StateHealth Department nor thedistrict collector was informedabout the inauguration ventedtheir anguish to collectorRamesh Chandra Rout allegingthe event was planned byCDMO unilaterally keeping inview the interest of a particu-lar political party when the dis-trict administration and State

Government were in dark.Sources said that after hear-

ing the grievances, Rout besidesassuring the aggrieved to lookinto matter also sought reportfrom the CDMO about thegoof-up. They further addedthe project’s inaugurationscheduled on Sunday wasstalled.

According to sources, twourban PHCs were to be builtfor Baleswar town. While oneis already operational, the otherone built at cost about Rs 85lakh is ready for inauguration.

Sources further alleged theDPM, NHM, of the districtheadquarters hospital has mis-led the hospital administrationand desired to inaugurate thePHC without knowledge of thedistrict Collector and StateHealth Department for vestedinterest.

The delegates who met theCollector and vented theirgrievances included BJD townunit president Swaroop Das,BRIT Chairman Gouri KumarRout, Manoj Rout,Bhubananda Das, Ajay Samal,Bhagabat Sahu, Sailendra Singhand other senior leaders

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The BJD on Friday named itsAngul MLA Rajani Kant

Singh as its contender for thepost of Deputy Speaker in theState Assembly.

BJD president NaveenPatnaik proposed the name ofSingh as their candidate.Similarly, the party appointedDharmasala legislator PranabBalabantaray as party ChiefWhip in the Assembly.

This was communicated byparty State general secretaryBijay Kumar Nayak in a release

Earlier, the BJD had elect-ed Digapahandi MLA and for-mer Minister Surjya NarayanPatro as the Speaker of theAssembly.

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Public Works DepartmentJunior Engineer (JE)

Jaykant Sabar, who was alleged-ly kidnapped on Thursday,hours after a video showingPatnagarh MLA Saroj Meherforcing him to do sit-ups inpublic went viral, was rescuedby police on Friday.

Patnagarh DSP SureshNayak said the PWD JE wasrescued from Khariar ofNuapada district.

After his rescue, the JE

said, “The Executive Engineer,who was present at the spotwhen MLA Meher, asked meto do the sit-ups, slapped meon the instruction of theMLA. So, apprehending anyfurther humiliation, I did thesit-ups.”

Earlier, wife of the JE hadlodged a complaint with thePatnagarh police alleging thather husband had been kid-napped and it was the handi-work of the MLA. She alsodemanded arrest of the MLA.

Based on her complaint,police registered a case underSections 341, 363, 294, 323, 353and 355 of IPC and Section 3of SC/ST (Prevention ofAtrocities) Act.

On the other hand, MLA

Meher has now apologised forthe incident. He said, “Localswere angry over poor road con-struction work in their area anddemanded action against theofficial. As the situation was outof my control, I had to ask theofficial to do sit-ups.”

In a related development,Works Minister PrafullaMallick on the day ordered fora probe into the incident of theMLA forcing the Governmentofficial to do sit-ups as pun-ishment for alleged poor qual-ity of road construction in hisconstituency.

Mallick also directed toinvestigate the allegation ofsubstandard road constructionwork.

Related reports on Page 3

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Fourteen new Ministersappear to be in an awkward

situation. This is because theyfail to come to their officechambers due to the ongoingrefurbishment of the rooms atthe State Secretariat.

Out of the 20 Ministers, 14are completely new and six areold ones. The new Ministershave been allotted offices in theMinisters’ corridor and therest six have been allotted theirprevious offices where theyhave started functioning.

The offices of the newMinisters are under a processof refurbishment, includingchange of floor tiles and theiroffice furniture and fixtures asit happens once in every fiveyears. It will take a long time

before the work is completed.The computers and otheraccessories of each of the 14offices have already beenremoved for the purpose.

What happens in theUnion Cabinet is that the officeof a Minister is under the con-trol of the department con-cerned; it creates no problemfor new Ministers to take overoffice and start work immedi-ately.

But in Odisha, it is differ-ent. The Ministers don’t holdoffices in their departments.There is a separate provision ofoffice for the Ministers in thesecond and the third floors ofthe Secretariat, which are awayfrom their departments.

A few Ministers have officefacilities in their departments,but while retaining the same

they also occupy another officein the Ministers’ corridor.

Responsibility of theMinisters as regard their salaryand perks is that of theDepartment of ParliamentaryAffairs. But allotment of theiroffices and their refurbishing isnot in this department’s con-trol.

Senior bureaucrats are ofthe view that if such arrange-ments were under the controlof the Parliamentary AffairsDepartment, recurrence of thesame problem wouldn’t hap-pen.

Now, the real problem forthe new Ministers is they haveto work hard amidst uncertaintyto meet the Chief Minister’smonthly target of progress in theimplementation of the BJDelection manifesto promises.

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Former Union MinisterSrikat Jena has congratulat-

ed new Andhra Pradesh ChiefMinister Jagan Mohan Reddyfor his “bold and historic step”by appointing five DeputyChief Ministers in his Cabinet,each one from SC, ST, OBC,Minority and Kapu community.

“I hope Sri Naveen Patnaikwill follow it soon in Odisha,”he said in a statement.

Notably, Jena, while he washead of the Pradesh CongressCommittee’s manifesto panel,before the last elections, hadproposed multiple DeputyChief Ministers representingdifferent communities inOdisha in the event of aCongress Government comingto power in the State.

Jena’s move was viewed inthe party circles as disruptiveactivity. Such other utterancesby Jena later were considered asantiparty activities, for whichhe was dismissed from theparty.

No wonder, Jena now findsa supporter of his idea in JaganMohan Reddy, for which he hascongratulated the latter.

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Before onset of monsoon,moderate rainfalls are likely

to occur in several districts of theState due to a cyclonic circula-tion over the Bay of Bengal.

The weather was cloudy incoastal districts on Friday andthe condition is likely to con-tinue for the next two to threedays.

“The cloudy weather is like-ly to prevail across the coastalbelt from Puri to Baleswar underinfluence of a cyclonic circula-tion formed over northwest Bayof Bengal, West Bengal andadjoining areas of Bangladeshbetween a stretch of 1.5 and 3.6km, which is likely to turn intolow pressure,” said an official ofthe Regional Office of the IndianMetrological Department

(IMD) here.Moderate rainfalls accom-

panied by lightning are likely inthese areas in the next two tothree days. Thunderstorms arelikely to occur in one or twoplaces of Malkangiri, Koraput,Gajapati and Rayagada districts,he said. The districts likeSambalpur, Boudh, Subarnapur,

Bargarh would experience hightemperature between 39 to 40degree Celsius during theseperiod. However, no heat wavewarning has been issued forthese districts, said the official.

The monsoon is likely totouch Kerala coast in the next 48hours. The exact date of onset ofthe monsoon in Odisha can bepredicted after it hits the south-ern State.

Besides coastal Odisha,thunderstorms are likely in thedistricts of Koraput, Kandhamal,Mayurbhanj, Keonjhar,Sundargarh and Kalahandi, hesaid.

Heavy rainfall is likely tooccur in a few places of Ganjam,Gajapati, Jajpur, Bhadrak,Malkangiri, Kendrapada,Cuttack and Baleswar districtsbetween June 8 and 9, he added.

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The State Government hassought an assistance of

�5227.68 crore from theNational Disaster ResponseFund (NDRF) to meet theexpenditure on the ongoingrelief and restoration measuresin the Cyclone Fani-affectedareas.

Special ReliefCommissioner (SRC)Bishnupada Sethi said that thetotal loss of public propertiesand requirement of fund forrelief measures have been esti-mated at �9,336 crore and theNDRF needs to release�5227.68 crore as per norms.

As of now, an amount of Rs1357.14 crore has been releasedby State Government to variousdistricts towards disasterresponse. Notably, theGovernment had earlier sub-

mitted a preliminary report tothe Central Team which visit-ed the State from May 12 to 15.The final assessment of losseswas made on the reports of thedistrict Collectors.

After village to villageassessment through variousteams constituted by theDistrict Collectors, the finalassessment of damages andlosses has been made.

A total of 5,56,761 houseshave been damaged either fullyor partially. While 64 peopledied, 12 people received griev-ous injuries. As many as 2,650large animals, 3,631 small onesand 53,26,905 poultry birdsdied due to Fani.

Different Departmentshave assessed the loss to thepublic properties to be�6,643.63 crore. And anamount of �2,692.63 crore isrequired for relief measures.

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While the BJP has snatchedaway the Puri Assembly

seat from the BJD in the recent-ly-held elections, the fate ofsenior BJD leader and defeatedMLA Maheswar Mohantyseems to be impacted by resultsof civic body polls, which arelikely to be held sometime byAugust this year.

If Mohanty’s efforts suc-ceed to retain the municipalityin the BJD fold, it would not onlyprove his mettle but also avengethe BJP for loss of the Assembly

seat. Notably, the BJD hasretained the municipality in itsfold for the last 35 for yearsunder the leadership ofMohanty.

Most stunningly, BJP can-didate Jayant Sarangi defeatedMohanty by a margin of 4,008votes in the Assembly polls.Mohanty, who was Chairman ofthe municipality 35 years ago,tasted the defeat losing theAssembly seat to Sarangi, ajunior to him. This has ashamedhis supporters.

Sources said that takingpoll debacle as a prestige issue,Mohanty has started groundworks for the civic body polls.He has conducted internalreviews to know reasons abouthis defeat and expedited BJDmunicipality candidates’ selec-tion procedures. The BJDCouncillors, who had back-stabbed him in the Assemblypolls, would not be given partytickets for the upcoming polls.Mohanty’s possible elevation asa Rajya Sabha member dependson the performance in themunicipality elections.

Meanwhile, BJP MLASarangi has too taken the civicbody elections as a big challengesince he has to prove his mettleagain. The BJD Councillorswho had supported him are like-ly to be fielded by the BJP.

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El Nino and La Nina are allterms referring to a major

ocean-current together called asEl Nino Southern Oscillation(ENSO). This is associated witha band of warm ocean waterthat develops in the centraland east-central equatorialPacific, including off the Pacificcoast of South America.Fishermen in Peru were the firstto notice irregular cycles of ris-ing ocean temperatures becausethe fish disappeared when thewater warmed. They named thisas El Nino (Spanish for the lit-

tle boy) since they often occuraround Christmas time. LaNina (little girl) results when theeastern tropical Pacific cools.

Climatologists determinedthat El Niño occurs simultane-ously with the southern oscil-lation. The southern oscillationis a change in air pressure overthe tropical Pacific Ocean.When coastal waters becomewarmer in the eastern tropicalPacific (El Niño), the atmos-pheric pressure above the oceandecreases. Climatologists definethese linked phenomena as ElNiño-Southern Oscillation(ENSO). The ENSO cycle, bothEl Niño and La Niña, causeglobal changes of both temper-atures and rainfall.As El Niñobrings rain to South America, itbrings droughts to Indonesiaand Australia. These droughtsthreaten the region’s water sup-plies, as reservoirs dry andrivers carry less water.Agriculture, which depends onwater for irrigation, is threat-ened.

Developing countries thatdepend on their own agricul-ture and fishing, particularlythose bordering the PacificOcean, are usually most affect-ed. Modern day research andreanalysis techniques havemanaged to find at least 26 ElNiño events since 1900, withthe 1982–83, 1997–98 and2014–16 events among thestrongest on record.El Niñoevents of 1982-83 and 1997-98were the most intense of the20th century. Since 2000, ElNiño events have beenobserved in 2002–03, 2004–05,2006–07,2009–10, 2014-16,and2019.

An especially intense ElNiño event in 1998 caused anestimated 16% of the world'sreef systems to die. The eventtemporarily warmed air tem-perature by 1.5 °C, compared tothe usual increase of 0.25 °Cassociated with El Niño events.

It has been observed that E1Nino is having severe impactson climatological conditions of

Odisha. During the El Ninoevent 1997-98 we experiencedsunstroke in the year 1998 andSuper Cyclone in 1999. SimilarlyEl Nino 2014-16 gave us tropi-cal cyclones Phailin andHudhud. Recently during theongoing El Nino 2019, we facedagain another super cycloneFani which has devastated a vastarea covering three districts ofthe State. Further, it may affectalso the regular monsoon caus-ing severe draught in our State.Alternatively it may intensify themonsoon causing severe flood.

Extreme weather condi-tions related to the El Niño cyclecorrelate with changes in theincidence of epidemic diseases.For example, the El Niño cycleis associated with increasedrisks of some of the diseasestransmitted by mosquitoes, suchas malaria, dengue fever, andRift Valley fever.

Cycles of malaria in India,Venezuela, Brazil, and Colombiahave now been linked to ElNiño. Outbreaks of another

mosquito-transmitted disease,Australian encephalitis (MurrayValley encephalitis—MVE),occur in temperate south-eastAustralia after heavy rainfall andflooding, which are associatedwith La Niña events. A severeoutbreak of Rift Valley feveroccurred after extreme rainfallin north-eastern Kenya andsouthern Somalia during the1997–98 El Niño.

ENSO conditions have alsobeen related to Kawasaki diseaseincidence in Japan and the westcoast of the United States, viathe linkage to troposphericwinds across the North PacificOcean.

El Nino influences globalclimate as well as extremeweather events such as floods,droughts and tropical cyclonesleading to large societal impacts.

(Dr Senapati Dean, BijuPatnaik University of Technology,Odisha Professor and HeadDepartment of Chemistry,Trident Academy of TechnologyBhubaneswar-751024)

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Lawyers of the Orissa HighCourt, who are protesting

against the decision of theCollegium to recommendnames of outside law practi-tioners to be elevated asjudges of the High Court,have now reiterated theirdecision to boycott the courtsof the Chief Justice and othersenior judges when the courtsreopen after the summervacation on June 17.

Briefing reporters here,High Court Bar Associationpresident Gopal KrushnaMohanty said the lawyers hadunanimously passed a reso-lution to this effect lastmonth. Apart from boy-cotting the court of ChiefJustice KS Jhaveri, the lawyerswould also stay away from thecourts of other Collegiummembers, Mohanty said.

“We have enough indications to suggest thatthe present Collegium of theHigh Court has recommend-ed the name of an Odia lawpractitioner of the SupremeCourt bar to be appointed asa judge of the Orissa HighCourt, who has only filed fourcases in the High Court dur-ing the past f ive years,Mohanty alleged, terming thesame to be contrary to thepractice.

The High Court lawyershave been wearing blackbadges since May 17; and inthe meantime, they have writ-ten letters to the PrimeMinister and the Union LawMinister seeking their inter-ventions into this unprece-dented move of the HighCourt Collegium, informedBar Association secretarySanjay Kumar Das, addingthat their next course ofaction would be chalked outon June 17.

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The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation(BMC) on Friday started cracking down on

the fake parking lot owners, who collect parkingfees in name of BMC, by way of lodging FIRagainst them.

The BMC filed an FIR against the owner ofan unauthorised collection parking lot in front ofReliance Mall near the city railway station as afterinvestigation it was found that the parking lotnever belonged to the civic body.

The FIR has also requested the police to takeappropriate action against the person, who was col-lecting parking fees illegally from the public.

Ward Supervisor of BMC Debi Prasad Dashof South East Zone following direction fromDeputy Commissioner (Revenue) Prabir KumarKhillar, filed the FIR with the KharavelNagarpolice. In the FIR, the Ward Supervisorinformed that the person, illegally collecting theparking fees, however, left the place running, after seeing the BMC vehicle approach-ing with the team.

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Alightning signal system wasinstalled in Athagarh on Friday

which was funded by the OSDMA.The Earth Network organisation

of the USA in collaboration with theInstitution of Technical Educationand Research, Bhubaneswar,installed the system here on thebuilding of the GovernmentElementary Teachers Institute.

Director of the Centre forEnvironment and Climate of ITERDr Sarat Chandra Sahoo, who waspresent at the site of installation, saidthat on experimental basis these sys-

tems are being installed in 14 placesof the State and two of these inCuttack district, one is here andanother at Tangi-Choudwar. Thesystem will sound noisy before 40minutes of lightning thereby toalert the nearby people to be rescuedfrom the devastating occurrence,Sahu told.

The noise can be heard in onekilometre radius. If the system is suc-cessful, then it will be installed inevery block headquarters of theState, said sources.

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The enforcement squads of BMCseized polythene weighing 75 kg

from Rajmahal area, Unit I Market,Master Canteen Square, RupaliSquare, Gopabandhu Square, CRPSquare and Fire Station Squareareas.

The seized polythene was final-ly deposited in a room at Yatri Nivason Cuttack Road.

In view of implementation ofplastic/polythene enforcement with-in the area of BMC, two enforce-ment squads were constituted by thecivic body on Thursday comprisingofficials of the State PollutionControl Board, CommissioneratePolice, Forest Department andBMC. The squads also did pre-banannouncements on Thursday.

The squads were assisted bypolice during the raids.

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Apet dog put her life at riskby fighting with a poiso-

nous snake to save her master’slife here on Thursday. The dogoverpowered the reptile anddrove it out of the house.

Though the rare dog-snake fight was not recorded,the entire episode could bevisualised when narrated bythe dog owner Sambit Das, aresident of Patitapaban Nagaron the Badagada canal road.

The three-year-old dog ofa German Shepherd breedattacked the five-feet-longcobra at a garage while the lat-ter was trying to enter Das’house. In retaliation, the snakealso tried to sting the dog. Thefight lasted for around 30minutes at the end of whichthe dog survived and the snakewas injured.

Das, who was witnessing

the scene, contacted the SnakeHelpline after the cobra movedout of the garage. SnakeHelpline member SubhenduMallick reached the houseand rescued the woundedcobra.

Das took his pet to theOUAT veterinary hospital fortreatment suspecting it to have

snakebite in the encounter.“The dog was adminis-

tered an IV fluid and anti-venom injection as part oftreatment for suspectedsnakebite. Though the dogappears to be doing well afterthe treatment, we will keepconstant watch on its behav-iour and condition,” said Das.

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The Nuapada Zilla AdivasiSangha has condemned the

behaviour of the PatnagarhMLA Saroj Meher shown toJayakant Sabar, PWD JuniorEngineer, in Gambhari villageof Belpada block.

A viral video makingrounds in the social mediashows how the MLA support-ed by his followers aroundhim is forcing the JE to do 100sit-ups in five minutes.

Jayakant belongs toBargaon village of Nuapadadistrict, thus the incident hascreated a lot of resentmentamong the people, especiallythe Adivasis here. BalkrishnaSabar, district secretary of theAdivasi Sangha, stated that theSangha would be forced tocall a mass strike in Balangirand Nuapada districts if theMLA is not arrested immedi-ately.

"The MLA has humiliatedan innocent man of tribal com-munity, a Government official,in public, His family members,including his small children,also feel humiliated. The MLAshould be arrested immediate-

ly for his unlawful act," saidSabar, who holds the post ofchairperson of KhariarPanchayat Samiti. "If the MLAfelt that the JE was wrong, heshould have brought that to thenotice of the concerned author-ities. The way he behaved isdespicable; it reveals his arro-

gance," added he.The same sentiment was

echoed by Sangha president,Bhanupratap Singh Majhi,Kartikeswar Mallik, JemamaniDharua, Khamsingh Majhi,Hema Majhi, Mamata Majhi,Bidur Sabar and other mem-bers of the Sangha.

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The Odisha DiplomaEngineers’ Service

Association (ODESA) onFriday demanded actionagainst Patnagarh MLA SarojKumar Meher for askingKantabanji Road and BuildingDivision Junior EngineerJayakant Shabar to do sit-ups inthe public.

A team of the associationmet the Chief Secretary,Secretaries of Home and WorksDepartments and the DirectorGeneral of Police and placedthis demand.

The members appraised

the Chief Secretary and othersthat the Patnagarh MLA con-ducted a kangaroo court andasked the Junior Engineer to dosit-ups 100 times in five min-utes in full public view. EvenMeher threatened to slap himif doesn’t do sit-ups. Again, theMLA directed the WorksDivision Executive Engineerpresent there to slap Shabar orelse he would be published.

“Taking laws into hand byan elected people’s representa-tive is a serious offence. Theassociation condemns the act ofthe MLA and demands thatlegal action be taken againsthim soon,” said the members.

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More than 46 nursing homes andclinics have been running illegally

in Bargarh district and out of which 33are in Bargarh district headquarterstown.

Most of these clinics have no reg-istration certificate. For better medicalfacilities, the patients have been run-ning to the nursing homes and privateclinics, instead of Government hospi-tals but they are fleeced by these cen-tres.

As per guidelines, each nursinghome and clinic should be registeredand renew their registration once in fiveyears. But in the district, a dozen anda half clinics and nursing homes haveno renewal and even seven have no reg-istration certificate.

The Nagarika Committee mean-while has demanded that the MedicalSuperintendent should get the matterinvestigated and take suitable actionagainst the illegal health centers.

It is alleged that the health cardissued by the Government carries nomeaning for them as the nursinghomes are charging �15,000 -�20,000from a delivery patient irrespective oftheir financial status. They are howev-er reducing the cost marginally forthose having health card.

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Unidentified miscreantskilled a truck owner in

the Brahmanipal area inAnandapur of Keonjhar dis-trict on Friday.

The deceased, identified

as Niranjan Sahu (35), wasstaying at his in-laws’ house atJardapala under Kiajhar grampanchayat in the district.

Sources said the miscre-ants asked him to come out-side and later killed him byslitting his throat with a sharp

weapon. Though the exactreason behind the murderwas yet to be ascertained,business rivalry was suspect-ed have led to the incident.Later, police reached the spotand began an investigationinto the incident.

Meanwhile, angry overthe incident, locals staged aroad blockade atBrahmanipal disruptingvehicular movements in thelocality. They demandedimmediate arrest of the cul-prits.

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The Khantapara police,after arresting a 30- year-

old youth on the charge ofsexually exploiting a 25-year-old girl under the falsepromise of marriage, haveforwarded him to court.

The accused identifiedas Sunaram Murmu , a res-ident of Sarawatipur underIndustrial police station, wasengaged in the PostalDepartment as Gramin DakSevak in Bahanaga area .

He was arrested bypolice after the victim lodgeda complaint case against theaccused in the local court .According to the victim,when she was residing in

Baleswar town for preparingcompetitive exams, she camecontact with the accusedduring travel to her nativevillage in buses.

After developing inti-macy with him, she wasexploited by the accused onthe promise of false mar-riage. Later, they had been

living as married couple.However, during her

stay with the accused, shealleged that the latter hadextracted �90,000 from herwhich she and her father hadmanaged to obtain as loanfrom a SHG.

She compromised allthese things as the accusedSunaram had promised tomarry her .

However , when sheinsisted on marriage theaccused backed out fromthe promise.

Finding that she wasdeceived, she approachedpolice and then subse-quently moved court.Following the court’s inter-vention the Superintendentof Police directed the localpolice to investigate andtake action against theaccused.

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The vigilance police onFriday raided the office

and residences of statisticalassistant Sumanta Sahu ofMorada in Mayurbhanj districton charges of amassing prop-erty disproportionate to hisknown sources of income.

The anti-graft wing conducted the raid simultane-ously at five places, includingSahu’s office at Morada and houses at Betonati and Baripada. The officials later sealed his office.

But the amount of dispro-portionate assets that theStatistical Assistant possessed,are yet to be ascertained.

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As part of the initiatives ofKeonjhar district adminis-

tration to develop the skills ofthe local youths for employ-ment, the second block leveltraining programme was heldat Joda on Wednesday.

Inaugurating the pro-gramme, Joda BDO KhirodChandra Behera told that can-didates selected from here willbe sponsered to different train-ing institutes where they,depending upon their qualifi-cations, will be given trainingfor skill development up todiploma level and after com-pletion of training ,they will beplaced accordingly.

The duration of the courseis from 6 months to a maxi-mum 3 years. And the mini-

mum required qualifications isstandard eight for enrollmentof selection, he added.

Aparna Dash ,Chief ProjectOfficer, DMF told in her speechthat DMF will bear all theexpenses of the candidates andthe payment will be made tothe training institutes afterthey make sure that the candi-

dates have been successfullygiven placement somewhere asper Government rules.

A total of 317 candidatesof Joda block had come to reg-ister their names at Joda.Representatives of three impor-tant training institutes likeCTTC, CIPET and SIHM werepresent to select the candidates.

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Strong resentment is brewingamong the farmers of north

Baleswaras paddy procurementfor the Rabi harvest couldn’tbegin till date. Although thefarmers were assured of pro-curement from May 29, yet nomandis could open.

The main reason is thereduction of handling chargesfor the mandi to be paid to thesocieties. The handling chargein the last season while was Rs11.29 per quintal, this seasonthe same has been reduced toRs 8.47 per quintal. In the wantof procurement, the paddy

growers are resorting to distresssale, it is alleged.

The farmers while blamedthe district administration aswell as the societies for delay inpaddyprocurement, the soci-eties maintained that theywould seek the intervention ofdistrict Collector.

Since Bhograi area is closeto West Bengal, the middlemenfrom the neighbouring State areactive and procuring paddy ina much less price than the MSP.It is alleged the desperate peas-ants are resorting to distress saleas they have to pay off the loansand meet other expensesincurred during cultivation.Bhograi is known as rice bowelof north Odisha. While farmersare resenting for delay in pro-curement of paddy, the presi-dents and secretaries of 19cooperative societies haverecently had a meeting.

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The Janibili project inGanjam district, meant to

improve water supply toBrahmapur and its adjoiningareas has missed its deadlineowing to slow pace of work andineffective supervision by thePHED.

The high sounding Janibilwater supply scheme inGanjam district is a great fraudon the public of silk city as theGovernment failed to keep upits promises in supplying waterto the home in assured time.The public anger in silk city isrising day by day as there is noimprovement in water supplyin the city even after the pro-ject was inaugurated on March3. Several intellectual, seniorcitizens, and scribes cautioned

the newly elected representa-tives to ensure the water sup-ply uniformly to all the 40wards of BeMC with in a stip-ulated time frame or else faceconsequences.

Surprisingly, the MP andMLA did not even visit the dif-ferent wards to ascertain thewater scarcity problems and tointeract with the denizens.

Notably, Chief MinisterNaveen Patnaik inauguratedthe first (out of four) phase ofthe much talked about inte-grated water supply project,“Janibila Mega Drinking WaterProject” worth Rs 431 crore inGanjam district on March 3assuring the public that thescheme will benefit more thanfive lakh people of the silk cityas well as its adjoining areas.Butthe work is moving at a veryslow pace and there is no oneto effectively coordinate themega scheme on day to daybasis, feel local public.

The Executive Engineer(PHED-Brahmapur), on theother hand, superficiallyclaimed that the work is in fullswing and will be completed

soon.In many of the 40 wards of

BeMC, the public, mostly thewomen, are literarily crying fora bucket of water every dayunder the hot sun for their sur-vival, and there is no one toheed to their problem.Socialactivist and convener of MASMAbani Gaya alleged that theCM inaugurated the projectjust before the model code ofconduct only to avail politicaldividend.

Social activist and scribeRabi Rath demanded a thor-ough investigation into thedelay in project and the amountspent under different heads sofar. He demanded that, the con-tracting firm and the PHED bemade accountable for slowpace of work. The Governmenthad claimed at the time of inau-guration that the project wouldbe fully functional in five wardsof BeMC in first phase.

Gandhinagar SeniorCitizens Forum president andsocial worker Dr KC Pandasaid the laying of pipelines is yetto be completed fully in all thewards of BeMC. There seems

to be nexus between the L&Tand the PHED for which thecontracting firm is not evenbothering to repair the roadyet, for which no one is madeaccountable. In many parts ofthe city in general andGandhinagar in particular,most of the roads throughwhich pipes were laid on theground by digging the road arefound in a state of chaos withheaps of soils and stones andthe contracting firm didn’tlevel the cutting portions of theroad. Why the payment of thecontracting firm is not with-held, he questioned.

Notably, residents of sev-eral wards are fighting toothand nail to get few buckets ofwater. For instance, Ward-31 ofKamapalli area, Gandhinagar3rd lane Extn (West), KhalasiStreet, New Barracks Street,Gajapatinagar, Ankuli,Industrial Area, Lanjipalli,Bijipur are the worst sufferers.Notably, Brahmapur with60,000 residential houses issuffering from acute shortageof drinking water over lastthree decades.

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Working journalists ofJagatsinghpur district

headquarters fel icitatednewly-appointed Informationand Public Relations MinisterRaghunadan Das, whobelongs to the district, at aprogramme here onThursday.

They submitted a memo-randum before the Minister,seeking legal protection tojournalists and pensionscheme for journalists overthe age of 60.

Minister assured that thedemands would be patentlyconsidered at theGovernment level and need-ful action would be taken.The Minister expressed hishappiness for being felicitat-ed by the journalists.

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Visualisation of the futureand taking bold commit-

ments have been our corestrength and the DalmiaCement (Bharat) Limited hasbeen leading the sustainabili-ty dialogue since over twodecades, said Dalmia MD andCEO Mahendra Singhi duringobservation of the WorldEnvironment Day.

Singhi said, “On the day,we further commit ourselves torealise our vision to becomefive-times water positive by2020 and carbon negative by2040.”

The company is planningto build green energy projectsof 40 MW, under fossil free

electricity initiative. DBG isalso a signatory to the WBCSDWASH at the workplace pledgewhich ensures that all ouremployees have access to highstandards of safe water, sani-tation and hygiene at the work-place, he added.

The climate group esti-mates that if 100 companiesdouble their energy produc-tivity by 2030, such as whatDalmia Bharat Cement hascommitted to do over 170MMT of emissions could beavoided cumulatively, equiva-lent to taking 37 million carsoff the road for a year.

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As many as 11 people havebeen injured including

three undergoing treatment inthe SCB Medical CollegeHospital in Cuttack, followingmonkey attack in Pankapal vil-lage under Kujanga block, 60km from here. Reports said thatthe villagers have chosen stay-

ing indoors over past one weekdue to the monkey menace intheir area. The Kujanga ForestDepartment launched a drive tocapture the marauding monkeyscreating nuisance in the regionbut didn't succeed.

Protesting the apathy ofthe administration, the villagers,meanwhile, resorted to a roadblockade at Pankapala on theCuttack-Paradip State Highway.But after the civil administrationassured to end the problemsoon, the stir was withdrawn.

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After a decomposed car-cass of an elephant was

found in the Kuldiha sanctu-ary, the wildlife authorities onFriday suspended two forestofficials for their dereliction induty.

The dead elephant, about45 years old, was spotted by vil-lagers of Tenda with its tusksmissing, indicating that it was

the victim of poachers. Divisional Forest Officer

Biswaraj Panda, taking cog-nizance of the issue seriously,placed Forester KishoreChandra Bhuyan and ForestGuard Lalmohan Singh undersuspension. Besides, a show-cause notice was issued toAssistant Conservator of Forest(ACF) Laxman KumarPradhan in connection withthe incident.

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The Vedanta Ltd,Jharsuguda held a week-

long celebration of the WorldEnvironment Day with greatfervour, culminating with amass plantation drive withinplant premises here onThursday.

A plethora of activities onthis year’s theme ‘Beat AirPollution’ were carried outinvolving employees and theirfamilies, business partnerorganisations and members ofthe community to raise aware-ness levels and adopt a positiveaction-oriented approach

towards nurturance of envi-ronment.

Vedanta CEO Abhijit Patisaid, “A sincere commitment toa greener and more sustainablefuture is core to our operaitons,

from technology, processes topeople practices. It is a con-tinuous endeavour to maxi-mize our efforts towards cre-ating a sustainable future.”

The plantation drive led by

Metal director GG Pai andHSE head Cho Yiu Chan,where more than 500 employ-ees and members of businesspartners came together to plant1,000 trees.

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Selection of groom for Mother Parvatiis a very complex one in Sambalpur.

There is no wonder that the symbolic far-ther of Lord Siva moves round the cityand finally reaches a place where he getsthe news that there is a girl suitable forhis son.

They place the marriage proposal tothe girl’s father (Kanyapita) for the mar-riage of Lord Siva with their daughter.And as a matter of common practice, theKanyapita asks the father of the groomand the seniors present as to the profes-sion of the boy and his material status.Needless to mention that the father of thegroom (Barapita) never hesitates to tellthe truth.

“My son i.e. Lord Siva has no home.He lives in Smashan (graveyard). He hasneither land nor property of any kind. Heremains almost necked or at best wearsa deer skin at times. He has poisonoussnakes (cobras) round his neck all thetimes. He always puts ash on his body,”says the groom’s father.

And hearing these all, it is obviousfor any father to refuse the proposal asno father wants to give the hands of his

daughter to someone who has no homeor any material possession. And the endresult is that he blatantly refuses themarriage proposal and with foldedhands requests the guests to return theirhome.

But this is not end of the process.The groom’s father then narrates thepower and divine clout of his son. “My

son is not just an ordinary boy. He is Godof the Gods (Dev Dev Mahadev). Hecontrols the entire world. He is the rea-son behind the creation and destruction.Without him the creation is next toimpossible. He has got that power evento destroy the entire world within twin-kle of an eye, so also the power of his cre-ativity,” narrates the groom’s father.

And hearing all these, the Kanyapitaand the family members pause for a whileand have no other option than to givetheir consent for the marriage as gettingsuch a boy as son in law and husband oftheir daughter is really beyond their reachand also a matter of luck for them. Andwith immense pleasure they give theirconsent for the marriage that issolemniSed every year here on the dayof Sital Sasthi.

These are just formalities before themarriage every year. Still then people ofthe city do it as part of the tradition andthis is also a practice before any marriage.“But the unification of Mother Parvatiand Lord Siva i.e. Prakriti with Purusha,is fate accompli as no one can stop it. Weare just doing it to celebrate the divineoccasion,” says Abhisek Mishra of theYatra Samanway Samity.

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The World EnvironmentDay was celebrated with

full enthusiasm at the ParadeepPhosphates Limited (PPL) here.

A plantation drive at plantsite on the day and slogan,poster and quiz competitionson environment were organisedduring the week for employees.

On the day, State PollutionControl Board, ParadipRegional Officer RameshKumar Ekka, PPL CGM(Operations) PranabBhattacharyya and GM (HR)Jaggnath Khuntia attended asguests in a function and admin-istered oath to protect the envi-ronment and plant trees.

Bhattacharyya explainedthis year’s theme “Beat Air

Pollution” with various exam-ples including initiativestaken by the PPL and recom-mended action plans for indi-vidual. He also appealed

employees to actively partic-ipate in preserving the envi-ronment by individual con-tribution as well as at societyat large.

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The Vedanta Aluminium,Lanjigarh unit launched

celebrating the WorldEnvironment Week with thisyear’s theme ‘Tackling AirPollution’ here from June 5.

During the week, thecompany wil l organise mass plantation drives, saplingdistribution and other competitions aimed at edu-cating the community andemployees on preserving airquality in which employees,their family members, associ-ate partners and local com-munity members would par-ticipate.

On Wednesday, a massivesapling distribution ceremonywas conducted at the 36 child-care centres, and plantationdrives were organised at tenchildcare centres.

Besides, a total of 1,800saplings were planted and dis-tributed with a pledge to carefor the plants until these growinto trees.

Vedanta AluminaBusiness CEO Rahul Sharmasaid the day marks anotherevent for the company toincrease efforts to augmentand enhance the green coverand encourage a culture ofsustainability among our localcommunities.

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The Indian FarmersFertilizer Cooperative Ltd

(IFFCO), Paradeep unitobserved the WorldEnvironment Day in the pres-ence of the senior, junior offi-cials, workmen and IFFCOUnion & IFFCO Officers’Association here recently.

IFFCO employees plantedsaplings near the plant premis-es and IFFCO roadside to devel-op an eco-friendly green belt.On Thursday, as many as 500saplings were planted of differ-ent species basing on this year’stheme “Beat Air Pollution”.

IFFCO Unit Head KJ Patelspoke about importance ofplantation and its impact onenvironment. He also said that

the IFFCO is committed andtargeted to plant 50,000saplings during the financialyear inside the plant and in thevicinity.

Among others, JGM(EHS) JP Srivastav, DGM (HR)Gyan Chand Acharya andDGM (P and A) AK Mallwere present.

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The internet services, whichwas suspended in

Kendrapada town and itsadjoining areas for 48 hoursfrom 11.30 am on June 5 tostop miscreants from spreadinginflammatory communal mes-sages in the social media, wasrestored at 11.45 am on Friday.

The internet service wasrestored as no law and ordersituation occurred in the area,informed SP Niti Sekhar.

Central Range IGSoumendra Priyadarshi, whopaid a visit to Kendrapada toinaugurate the 76th State PoliceVolley Ball and Basket BallCompetition, discussed thematter of internet misuse withthe SP.

“The situation is absolute-ly normal now. The specialpolice squad is now conduct-ing raids at different hideoutsto nab the accused involved ina group clash,” said the SP.

After arrest of the accused,a peace committee meetingwould be held by the districtadministration, added the SP.

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Unwilling to implementmuch-hyped Central

Government’s health scheme -Ayushman Bharat, Delhi ChiefMinister Arvind Kejriwal onFriday wrote a letter to UnionHealth Minister Harshvardhanand said the DelhiGovernment’s own healthscheme is 10 times better andhas bigger scope for the peoplein the national Capital.

Kejriwal wrote to theMinister in response to theUnion Government’s letter to theDelhi Government to imple-ment Ayushman Bharat.

Interestingly, rebuttingVardhan, Kejriwal presentedthe details of the coverage, inclu-sion and exclusion points in tab-ular format comparing the DelhiGovernment’s scheme with theAyushman Bharat.

“I am happy to tell you thatAyushman Bharat has alreadybeen implemented in Delhi along time back. The DelhiGovernment’s health scheme is10 ten times bigger and com-prehensive than AyushmanBharat,” Kejriwal said.

In his two-page letter in

Hindi, Kejriwal said despiteAyushman Bharat being in placein Haryana and Uttar Pradesh,lakhs of patients from these twoStates come to Delhi every dayto get medical treatment.

Kejriwal wrote, “Haryanaand Uttar Pardesh are adjoiningStates. Both the States haveimplemented Ayushman Bharat,however, hardly any residents ofDelhi go to the two States to gettreatment, which indicates thatDelhi’s own health scheme isfunctioning well”. Kejriwal men-tioned that under the AyushmanBharat, there is less than 10 percent of Delhi population asbeneficiaries, while in the AAP

Government’s scheme, everyperson in the national Capital isbeneficiary, which means Delhi’stwo crore population is covered.

“Those whose income ismore than �10,000 does notcome under Ayushman Bharat,which means those earning lessthan minimum wages (notifiedby the Delhi Government) is outof this scheme,” Kejriwal said.

The CM said that inAyushman Bharat, beneficiarywill get treatment of up to �5lakh, but under the AAP dis-pensation’s scheme, there is nosuch limit and hence, theGovernment bears all expenses,even if it is �30 lakh.

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Asevere dust storm andlightning in various parts

of Uttar Pradesh claimed atleast 26 lives and left 57 peopleinjured as houses and walls col-lapsed and trees were uproot-ed, prompting authorities tolaunch large-scale relief oper-ations on Friday.

Mainpuri district bore theworst brunt of the vagaries ofnature late on Thursday nightas six people died there in sep-arate cases of wall collapseand lightning, the state reliefcommissioner said.

Forty-one people wereinjured in the district anduprooted trees blocked vehic-ular movement on the statehighways, leading to massivejams for a considerable amountof time.

Police said most of theinjuries occurred when peoplesleeping inside their mud hous-es were caught unawares by thethunderstorm, which wasaccompanied by rain, leadingto wall collapse.

People were also injuredwhen signboards and hoard-ings got snapped at severalplaces, and fell on them, the

police said.“While six people died in

Mainpuri, three each died inEtah and Kasganj, two each inFarrukhabad and Barabanki,and one each in Moradabad,Badaun, Pilibhit, Mathura,Kannauj, Sambhal, Ghaziabad,Amroha, Badaun and Mahobain incidents related to duststorm and lightning,” datareleased by the state reliefcommissioner said.

An official press note saiddifferent parts of the state wit-nessed dust storms late onThursday evening, resulting inwall collapse and uprooting oftrees. Thirty-one cattle died and16 houses were also damaged inthe incidents, officials said.

Massive power cuts werereported from various parts ofthe State, including Lucknow,as electricity lines got snappedin the gale. Chief Minister YogiAdityanath directed officials totake all necessary measures toprovide relief to the affectedpeople.

“He (Adityanath) hasdirected ministers in charge ofthe districts concerned to over-see relief operations,” AwanishAwasthi, principal secretary,information, said.

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The joint teams of securityforces eliminated four

Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) ter-rorists, including two policedeserters, in an overnightoperation in Litter area ofSouth Kashmir’s Pulwama dis-trict on Friday morning.

The operation startedhours after National SecurityAdviser Ajit Doval chaired ahigh-level security reviewmeeting on Kashmir and tookstock of the prevailing situa-tion ahead of beginning ofAmarnath Yatra from July 1.

The security forces facedtough resistance from the localresidents on ground zero whilecarrying out the operation.

According to reports, alarge number of local resi-dents stepped out of theirhouses and moved towardsthe encounter site to disruptthe anti-terrorist operationsduring the night. The localpolice and paramilitary troopswere deployed in outer cordonto prevent civilians from com-ing closer to the encounter siteand suffer collateral damage.

The two Special PoliceOfficers (SPOs) who werekilled in the encouter haddeserted Pulwama police linesand ran away with their auto-matic weapons barely 24hours ago.

Meanwhile, two police-men also received injuriesafter terrorists lobbed a

grenade at Sopore police sta-tion on Friday afternoon. Thearea was immediately cor-doned off by the securityforces to track down the ter-rorists.

According to initialreports, the grenade explodedoutside the gate of the policestation, causing splinterinjuries to two policemen.The injured cops were shiftedto district hospital in Soporefor medical treatment.

Sharing details of thePulwama encounter, the policespokesman said, a cordon andsearch operation was launchedby security forces at Panjran inLitter area of District Pulwamalate on Thursday evening afterreceiving credible inputs about

the presence of terrorists in thearea.

“During the search oper-ation, the hiding terroristsfired on the search party. Thefire was retaliated leading to anencounter. In the ensuingencounter, two listed terroristsand two SPOs who had recent-ly deserted and become mem-bers of the proscribed terror-ist organisation JeM werekilled,” police spokesman said.

The police also recoveredfrom them two AK-47 rifles,one AKM (ModernisedKalashnikov Automatic Rifle)and one self-loading rifle(SLR).

The terrorists were iden-tified as Ashiq Hussain Ganaieof Panjran Pulwama, Imran

Ahmad Bhat of ArihalPulwama, MohammadSalman Khan of UthmullaShopian and Shabir AhmadDar of Tujan Pulwama (bothSPOs). The two SPOs hadjoined the ranks of JeM terroroutfit just 24 hours ago, thepolice said.

According to the policerecords, Ashiq Hussain had ahistory of terror related crimesand was part of a groupinvolved in planning and exe-cuting series of terror attacksin the area. Similarly, ImranBhat was also involved in sev-eral terror attacks on securi-ty establishments in the area.Many terror crime cases havebeen registered against theduo.

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From Page 1BSP supremo Mayawati

described the brutal killing as“highly shameful and sad inci-dent.”The Uttar PradeshGovernment should take strictaction immediately to establishthe rule of law in the State andput the guilty behind bars,” shesaid in a statement in Lucknow.

A six-member SIT hasbeen formed to investigate thecase and a female inspector hadbeen appointed to carry for-ward the probe, he said.Security measures have beentightened as a precautionarystep after tension mountedthere after recovery of thebody.

From Page 1“The five Deputy CMs would be from SC, ST,

BC, minorities and Kapu communities so as to givea balance to all groups and do social justice,” he said.

Former AP CM N Chandrababu Naidu appoint-ed two Deputy CMs during his term from 2014 to2019.

Telangana CM K Chandrasekhar Rao alsoappointed two Deputy CMs in his first term from2014 to 2018 but he avoided appointing Deputy CMsafter he assumed office for second term in December2018.

Jagan met the Governor on Friday and sub-mitted his list of Cabinet Ministers, who will besworn in on Saturday.

Appointing five Deputy CMs is being seen asJagan’s gesture to reward these communities forthrowing their weight behind the YSRCP, enablingit to storm to power with a landslide victory lastmonth.

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The Adani Dhamra Portobserved the World

Environment Day here spread-ing message amongst itsemployees, residents and localmasses on the importance ofkeeping the environment clean,green and healthy.

Adopting this year’s theme“Beat Air Pollution”, the com-pany is working towards com-bating the air pollution for itsminimisation and also con-ducting various activitiesfocused on creating awarenesson air pollution.

The company initiated aweek-long awareness pro-grammes and competitions atthe port premises and nearbyvillage panchayats from May 31to express their commitmentand responsibilities towardsenvironmental protection andsustainability.

Adani CEO SubratTripathy, COO SudeepDasgupta and employees, con-tractors, workers and townshipresidents participated in a plan-tation drive, with a pledge toplant more trees in the portpremises and neighbourhoodarea during the year.

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The Utkal AluminaInternational Limited,

Rayagada observed the WorldEnvironment Day in a big way.

Aditya Birla Public Schoolstudents organised a rally andtook pledge to keep environmentclean. A plantation drive was alsoundertaken near NuapadaTownship. Company staff andofficials too held a rally andplanted trees at the power plant.

The Utakalina Ladies Cluborganised a plantation drivenear Oshapada Township.

On Thursday, a valedictoryceremony was organised where-in workers, staff, officials, womenand children were made awareabout issues of air pollution,global warming, degradation of

forests etc. They were alsoadvised not to use polythene inthe campus

Unit head N Nagesh andMines vice-president BRK Padhiinaugurated the programmes.

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Punjab Cabinet MinisterNavjot Singh Sidhu, who has

been allotted Power Departmentafter the Chief Minister CaptAmarinder Singh took away theLocal Government and TourismDepartments from him in theCabinet rejig, is yet to take overthe charge of his new ministry.

Sidhu has gone incommu-nicado on Friday, fuelling spec-ulation on whether he will takecharge of his new assignment.Reports are that he has left forNew Delhi to meet the partychief Rahul Gandhi. The crick-eter-turned-politician and hiswife Dr Navjot Kaur stayed

away from the media.An aide refused to divulge

any details about the ministeramid speculation over Sidhu'snext move. Amid a tussle withCapt Amarinder, Sidhu wasstripped of his LocalGovernment, Tourism andCultural Affairs portfolios inthe Punjab cabinet reshuffle onThursday. He was given thePower and New and RenewableEnergy Sources Department.The reshuffle, in which portfo-lios of most ministers werechanged, took place hours afterSidhu skipped a cabinet meeting.Instead, he chose to address themedia at his official residence onThursday.

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ly-concluded parliamentary polls,Punjab Chief Minister CaptAmarinder Singh has succeeded inprojecting himself as a captain in com-plete control of the field placements bystripping no less than 14 ministers oftheir ministries in a major reallocationof portfolios.

Propelled to a more powerfulposition within the Congress after win-ning the party’s Punjab match againstthe combined team of the Akalis and

the BJP, Capt Amarinder ensured thatcricketer-turned-politician NavjotSingh Sidhu was divested of the LocalBodies Department – a charge he hadheld ever since the Congress partycame to power in the State more thantwo years back. Capt Amarinder, infact, showed that he was all-in-all asfar as the Team Congress was con-cerned by leaving the portfolios of justfour ministers untouched in the 18-member Cabinet. The Chief Ministerhas his own reasons to act againstSidhu and much has already beentalked about his role as the local bod-ies’ minister and its effects on the polls.

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Acombo of yoga and khadi will rock theworld on International Yoga Day on June

21 as Prime Minister Narendra Modi willlead the enthusiasts across the globe in per-forming asanas on khadi yoga mats atRanchi in Jharkhand.

KVIC has received orders for supplying60,000 yoga mats to the Ministry of AYUSHto mark the fifth International Yoga Day.

While the AYUSH Ministry, the nodalagency for conducting the yoga day in thecountry, has purchased 60,000 Yoga mats, theNew Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC)and Khadi institutions have placed an orderfor 2,000 and 400 Khadi Yoga kits respec-tively. KVIC Chairman Vinai Kumar Saxenasaid the orders have created additional jobopportunities and extra man-hours in theKhadi sector.

“These purchase orders of around Rs2.50 crore have been given to KVIC for sup-plying 60,000 yoga mats, besides 2,400 yogakits... For the order from Ministry ofAYUSH, 17 Khadi institutions from UttarPradesh, Uttarakhand and Haryana weregiven the assignments to supply yoga mats,”Saxena said.

The yoga kit included nine items likeupper and lower for men and women,Khadi napkin, yoga mat and a bag. The nap-kin has been stitched by the women of mil-itancy affected families of Jammu & Kashmirliving near Nagrota, he said.

To add to the style quotient, a unique tri-colour Khadi garland (sootmala) has beenincluded in the yoga kit, Saxena said.

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The Centre on Friday reachedout to UPA chairperson

Sonia Gandhi seeking supportfrom the principal Oppositiongrouping as also her party,Congress, for the smooth func-tioning of the ParliamentSession beginning June 17.Parliamentary Affairs MinisterPralhad Joshi accompanied byUnion Ministers NarendraSingh Tomar and Arjun RamMeghwal called on Sonia whowas elected as CongressParliamentary Party chief lastweek by the party leaders.

“Our meeting with SoniaGandhi was very cordial. Wesought her cooperation for thesmooth functioning ofParliament. She said they(Opposition) also need coop-eration from treasury benches.I told her that the Governmenthas always been ready to coop-erate,” Joshi told reporters afterthe meeting at Sonia’s resi-dence. The session, the first ofthe 17th Lok Sabha, will go ontill July 26 and the budget willbe tabled on July 5.

Joshi’s visit to Sonia Gandhi’sresidence is part of theGovernment’s exercise to reachout to the Opposition. The meet-ing lasted around 15 minutes,sources said. Joshi also had metLeader of the Opposition in theRajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azadand DMK’s leader of house in theLok Sabha TR Baalu.

The Congress is yet to

name Leader of the party inLok Sabha as the grand oldparty is still devoid of the sta-tus of Leader of Opposition forsecond time in a row in the LokSabha since the party did notsecured the requisite numbers(55 MPs of a party). In the 2014General elections it got 44while in the latest it got 52.

“We are meeting all theOpposition leaders to requestfor their party’s cooperationand smooth functioning of theParliament,” Tomar said.Others who have made effortsto meet Opposition membersincludes Minister of State VMuraleedharan. The Congresssources said the Governmenthas convened an all-partymeeting in the Parliament onJune 16, a day ahead of the startof the Lok Sabha session, whereit will seek the cooperation ofall political parties to ensure a

smooth session.The first session of the

newly-elected Lok Sabha willbe convened from June 17 toJuly 26 and the new govern-ment led by Prime MinisterNarendra Modi will present itsfirst Budget on July 5. The 40-day session will have 30 sittings.

Besides presentation of thebudget, the Government isplanning to convert into law 10new ordinances, including theone to ban the practice ofinstant triple talaq. The ordi-nances were issued inFebruary-March this year bythe previous Government.After the new MPs take oath onthe first two days, the LokSabha Speaker’s election isscheduled for June 19.President Ram Nath Kovindwill address a joint sitting ofboth houses of Parliament onJune 20.

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The India MeteorologicalDepartment (IMD) on

Friday announced that the mon-soon was very likely to set in overKerala in the next 24 hours, aweek after its normal onset date.

But in the North, at least 19people lost their lives leaving 48injured in duststorm and light-ning in Uttar Pradesh, ReliefCommissioner GS Priyadarshisaid on Friday. Severe heatwaveconditions are likely to prevailover Delhi, Rajasthan, MadhyaPradesh, Vidarbha, and UttarPradesh this weekend. TheNortheast States will receiveheavy rainfall for the nextthree-four days. Large parts ofthe country are also parcheddue to drought in 245 districtslast year. According to theCentral Water Commission,water storage in reservoirs ofmost States of west and southIndia has dipped to less thanthe average of last 10 years.

With southwest monsoonexpected to make its landfallwithin next 24 hours, an orangealert has been issued in Keralaby the State Disaster

Management Authority. Largeparts of the country are parchedbecause of below-normal pre-monsoon rainfall that ended inMay with a 24 per cent deficitover the long period average(LPA). LPA is the average rain-fall received during monsoonmonths in the 1951-2000 peri-ods. People are resorting tospecial puja or ‘Mahayagya’ indifferent parts of the country forbetter monsoon.

The IMD in its bulletin saidthat an offshore trough was“very likely to develop aroundJune 8, off Maharashtra coast toKerala coast. In associationwith these favourable condi-tions, Southwest monsoon isvery likely to set in over Keraladuring next 48 hours”. TheIMD bulletin also informed alow-pressure area was very like-ly to form off the Kerala-

Karnataka coast around June 9,which would gradually movenorth-northwestwards andintensify further. The ClimatePrediction Centre (CPC) of theUS National Weather Serviceattributes the delay to anom-alous easterly winds (due to pre-monsoon activity) in the lowerlevels. These winds need to besouth-westerly to precipitatethe onset of monsoon.

According to the USagency, model guidance sug-gests a weakening of the anom-alous easterlies and the returnto a normal monsoonal flowpattern towards the end of theweek from June 12-18.

The monsoon is delayed bya week, as it usually arrives inthe State on June 1. The delaywill also impact the arrival ofthe monsoon in other parts ofsouth and central India. The

delay has raised anxiety amongfarmers, who depend heavily onrains for irrigating their fields.The delay in monsoon, coupledwith uneven distribution dur-ing the four months of the rainyseason, can adversely impactsummer crops, especiallypaddy, pulses and oilseeds.

Meanwhile, people in dif-ferent parts of the country areresorting to off-beat methods topropitiate rain gods. Amahayagya is being performedin Belwan village of KhizirsaraiBlock in Bihar for better mon-soon. The mahayagya will con-tinue for 10 days. In Bengaluru,special pooja was performed atSomeshwara temple in Halasuruto please the rain God.

The orange alert indicatesvery heavy rainfall in Kollamand Alappuzha districts forJune 9 and inThiruvananthapuram, Kollam,Alappuzha and Ernakulam dis-tricts for June 10 in Kerala.According to the IMD, squallyweather is predicted along andoff the Kerala coast andSouthwest Arabian Sea.Fishermen have been advisednot to venture into the sea.

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About to embark on his firstforeign tour in second

term, Prime Minister NarendraModi on Friday said his two-day-long visit to Maldives andSri Lanka beginning Saturdayreflects the importance Indiaattaches to its ‘NeighbourhoodFirst’ policy and that it will fur-ther cement bilateral and strate-gic ties with the two countriesin the Indian Ocean.

Modi will first travel to theMaldives, from where he willgo to Sri Lanka on Sunday.

“I am confident that my visitto the Maldives and Sri Lankawill further strengthen our closeand cordial ties with our mar-itime neighbours, in line withour ‘Neighbourhood-FirstPolicy’ and the vision of securi-ty and growth for all in theregion,” the Prime Minister said.

In a pre-departure state-ment, he said his visit to SriLanka is to express India’s sol-idarity with the governmentand the people of the islandnation in the wake of the “ter-rible terrorist attacks” thereon April 21.

“The people of India standfirmly with the people of SriLanka, who suffered great agonyand destruction in the wake ofthe horrific terror attacks onEaster. We fully support SriLanka in the fight against terror,”he said. Sri Lanka was hit by awave of bombings on EasterSunday in which over 250 peo-ple were killed.

About his visit to Maldives,Modi said India considers thecountry as a valued partnerwith whom it shares deepbonds of history and culture.“Our bilateral relations with theMaldives have been greatlystrengthened in the recent past.I am confident that my visit willfurther deepen our multi-faceted partnership,” he said.The Prime Minister visited theMaldives in November toattend President Ibrahim Solih’sswearing-in ceremony.

The relations between Indiaand the Maldives deterioratedafter the then President AbdullaYameen imposed emergency onFebruary 5, last year. However,ties were back on track underSolih’s presidency.

“I also had the opportunity

to attend the inauguration ofPresident Solih in November2018. My visit to the Maldives isreflective of the importance weboth attach to our relationship asmaritime neighbours and long-standing friends,” Modi said.

Foreign Secretary VijayGokhale on Thursday saidboth sides are expected sign anumber of agreements to deep-en cooperation in specific areasduring Modi’s visit. On SriLanka, Modi said India’s tieswith it have gained consider-able momentum in the last fewyears. Sri Lankan PresidentMaithripala Sirisena visitedIndia last week to India Modi’sswearing-in ceremony. “I lookforward to meeting the SriLankan leadership during myvisit,” Modi said.

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With the final list of theNational Register of

Citizens (NRC) getting ready tobe published in less than twomonths, the Centre has set theball rolling for those whosenames are missing to approachthe foreigners tribunals. Thetribunals will deliver their ver-dict within four months ofmissing persons submittingtheir records.

Exercising its powers con-ferred by the Foreigners Act,1946, the Central Governmenthas issued an order saying aperson whose name is not partof the National Register ofCitizens, currently being updat-ed in Assam, can approach anysuch tribunal with a certified

copy of the rejection orderreceived from the NRC author-ities along with the grounds forappeal. The order wasuploaded on the website of theMinistry of Home Affairs(MHA) on Thursday night.

“The final order of the tri-bunal shall contain its opinionon the matter whether theAppellant is eligible for inclu-

sion in the NRC or not. It shallalso contain the opinion of thetribunal on the reference of theDistrict Magistrate. The finalorder of the tribunal shall be aconcise statement of facts andconclusion based on whichthe tribunal has arrived at suchan opinion.

“The final order of the tri-bunal containing its opinion

shall be given within a periodof one hundred and twenty daysfrom the date of production ofthe records,” the MHA ordersaid. When the draft NRC waspublished on July 30, 2018,there was a huge controversyover the exclusion of 40.7 lakhpeople from it. The draft NRCincluded the names of 2.9 crorepeople out of the total 3.29 crore

applications. The final NRC, alist of Assam’s residents, will bepublished on July 31.

There were many contro-versies related to the function-ing o f the Tribunals, after itrejected an Indian Army offi-cer’s petition against deletinghis name and considering himas an infiltrator.

The Guwahati High Courton Friday ordered the release ofEx-Army officer MohammadSanaullah who was sent to adetention camp after aForeigner Tribunal adjudgedhim a non-citizen. Noticeissued to Central Government,Assam Government, StateCoordinator NRC Assam andothers. Advocate Indira Jaisingappeared for him in the High Court.

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Union Health Minister Dr HarshVardhan on Friday launched a new-

age, hand-held battery-operated device,called ‘Raman 1.0’, for rapid detection ofeconomically driven adulteration in edi-ble oils, fats and ghee.

The equipment, Raman Spectrometer(built by Oak Analytics) can test morethan 250 samples per battery charge, col-lects and stores data on the cloud usinga smart device. This is the first of 19 suchequipment and methods that have beenprovisionally approved by Food Safety andStandard Authority of India (FSSAI) forstrengthening the food testing infra-structure in the country.

The gadget was launched at the first-ever World Food Safety Day celebrationorganised by the FSSAI here. Addressingthe audience, Harsh Vardhan appealed topeople to make the “eat less and eat right”campaign a mass movement to ensureeven one grain of food is not wasted andeveryone has food to eat.

He said health is not only absence ofdisease and infirmity but the presence ofphysical, mental, emotional and spiritu-al well-ness.

The Minister also unveiled a statue of‘Gandhiji on a bicycle’ installed at theFSSAI complex. “As we commemorate the150th birth anniversary of Bapu, the stat-ue symbolises his journey towards goodhealth and shall constantly inspire peo-ple for emulating his good health prac-tices,” he said.

Minister of State for Health AshwiniKumar Choubey said that clean food willresult in a clean body, mind and thoughtsand deeds. For this, people’s awarenessabout safe and healthy food and partici-pation is critical to make an impact onsociety.

The FSSAI also released the first edi-tion of the State Food Safety Index, thatmeasures the performance of the Stateson key parameters of food safety.

Vardhan also felicitated seven lead-ing States/UTs based on the ranking forthe year 2018-2019 for their impressive

performance. These were Chandigarh,Goa, Gujarat, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh,Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu.

States such as Bihar, Delhi, Jammu &Kashmir, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh fol-lowed close behind.

An innovative solution to take foodsafety to schools, called the ‘Food SafetyMagic Box’ was also launched by Vardhan.This do-it-yourself food testing kit com-prises a manual and equipment to checkfor food adulterants, which schoolchildrencan use in their classroom laboratories.

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The Election Commission(EC) has issued a formal

order making it clear that dis-sent views will not be madepart of orders relating to modelcode violation cases, an issuewhich had led to acrimonybetween the top brass of thepoll panel. The office orderwhich was issued on June 4,states that only the majority orunanimous view will be part oforders in such cases.

The EC had rejected with amajority vote election commis-sioner Ashok Lavasa’s demandthat dissent notes should berecorded in its orders on modelcode violations on May 21. The‘full commission’ of the panel,comprising Chief ElectionCommissioner Sunil Arora and

two other members — Lavasaand Sushil Chandra — deliber-ated on the contentious issue,after which the Commissionsaid that dissent notes andminority views would remainpart of records but would not bepart of its order. The officeorder now puts the decision inblack and white.

The order states that whileLavasa has maintained thatminority view should be manda-torily made part of the order andthus be put in public domain,Arora and Chandra are of theview that the final order shouldonly reflect the majority orunanimous view of the panel.

They have maintained thatorders in model code violationcases are executive or admin-istrative in nature, therefore,there is no scope to add a dis-

sent view. Officials said, anydissent view will be recorded inthe files of the Commission andpeople can go through it usingthe Right to Information Act.

Citing the law which statesthat the EC should try to takedecision unanimously to theextent possible, else by way ofmajority, the order said sinceArora and Chandra are againstincluding dissent views inorders relating to model codeviolations, only “final decision”“whether arrived unanimouslyor by way of majority” will bereflected in such orders. Lavasahad dissented on at least five outof 11 clean chits given by theCommission to Prime MinisterNarendra Modi and BJP presi-dent Amit Shah on their speech-es during the election campaign.

As his demand to record his

dissent notes in EC’s orders wasnot met, Lavasa recused himselffrom cases relating to relating toviolations of model code ofconduct. In a strongly-wordedletter to Arora on May 4, Lavasais learnt to have said that he isbeing forced to stay away fromthe meetings of the full com-mission since minority deci-sions are not being recorded.

The EC had maintainedthat the dissent notes cannot bemade part of the order as thepoll code violation cases are notquasi judicial in nature and thatthey are not signed by the chiefelection commissioner (CEC)and fellow commissioners.

As per the law governingthe functioning of the EC,efforts should be to have una-nimity but in cases of dissent amajority (2:1) view prevails.

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Former Commissioner ofKolkata Police Rajeev

Kumar on Friday appearedbefore the CBI in connectionwith the multi-crore Saradhachit fund scam.

Kumar, who is presentlythe Additional DirectorGeneral of police in the CrimeInvestigation Department(CID), reached the agency’soffice in the morning to facequestioning by the CBI sleuths,for the first time after theSupreme Court last month lift-ed the protection granted tohim from any coercive actionby the investigative body.

However, Kumar had beeninterrogated in February by the

CBI officials in Shillong underdirections of the SupremeCourt which had asked him tocooperate with the probeagency.

The senior police officerwas heading the SpecialInvestigation Team (SIT) ofWest Bengal Police before theCentral Bureau of Investigationtook over the case into theSaradha scam in which thou-sands of gullible small investorswere duped under the lurepromising returns from theinvestments.

The CBI had in May issueda look out notice against Kumarand directed all airports andimmigration authorities to alertit if they spot him in order toprevent him from fleeing the

country.Kumar had earlier evaded

questioning by the CBI afterthe SC lifted the protectionfrom arrest last month andmoved the Calcutta HighCourt seeking quashing of theCBI notice against him.

The Calcutta HC grantedhim protection from coerciveaction till July 10 but asked theIPS officer to cooperate withthe CBI in the probe.

In April, the CBI had toldthe Supreme Court thatKumar’s custodial interrogationwas necessary as he was notcooperating in the probe and was “evasive” and“arrogant” in answering thequestions posed to him duringgrilling.

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New Delhi: FormerKarnataka Minister and min-ing baron Gali JanardhanaReddy, an accused in a multi-crore rupee illegal miningcase, was on Friday allowed bythe Supreme Court to visit hishome town Ballari to see hisailing father-in-law.

A vacation Bench com-prising Justices IndiraBanerjee and Ajay Rastogihowever expressed concernover the delay in framing ofcharges and starting of thetrial in the Rs 35,000 croremining scam.

“We are concerned as towhy charges have not beenframed and trial yet not start-ed,” the bench said whilepulling up the CBI, the pros-ecuting agency in the case.

The Bench, which per-mitted Reddy to attend to hisfather-in-law for two weeksfrom June 8, refused howev-er to consider his requestseeking dilution of the previ-ous condition barring him tovisit Ballari, Karnataka, with-out the court’s prior nod.

Senior advocate S Ganesh,appearing for Reddy, said onseveral occasions he has beenpermitted to visit Ballari andthere was not a single com-plaint that he violated bailconditions.

“This time, his father-in-law had suffered a stroke. Hehad undergone three bypasssurgeries. His medical condi-tion is extremely precariousand he was lying in ICU of ahospital over there,” the lawyersaid. During the brief hearing,the lawyer also said thatdespite the apex court direc-tion of July 2016 to speed upthe trial, it has not even start-ed as the charges are yet to beframed. Additional SolicitorGeneral Madhavi Divan, whoappeared for the probe agency,opposed the plea for relax-ation of restrictions imposedon Reddy on his visit to Ballariand said that he was the mainaccused in the case.

“Why charges were notframed for six years. We areconcerned about the delay,”the Bench asked. The chargescould not be framed becausefew other co-accused havefiled pleas seeking dischargefrom the case and they are still pending, the law offi-cer said, adding that CBIwould like to file a detailedreply in the case. PTI

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Aquestion that did not receiveadequate attention on June 5,the World Environment Day, isabout what people described inthe media as “climate refugees.”

The United Nations High Commissionerfor Refugees (UNHCR), doubtless, feelsthat the term’s use can create confusion asit is not recognised in international law.According to Climate change and disasterdisplacement, which is on its website, arefugee under international law is a per-son who has crossed an international bor-der “owing to well-founded fear of beingpersecuted for reasons of race, religion,nationality, membership of a particularsocial group or political opinion” (1951Convention relating to the Status ofRefugees). In certain cases, its definitionmay include people fleeing “events serious-ly disturbing public order.” (1969 OAUConvention; 1984 Cartagena Declaration).The criteria for defining refugees, therefore,may not apply to victims of climate changewhich — as well as their consequent dis-placements — occurs within their coun-tries.” It feels it is more accurate to refer tothem as “persons displaced in the contextof disasters and climate change.”

This definitional issue apart, theUNHCR recognises the extremely seriousimplications of climate change, particular-ly in respect of people displaced by it. TheGlobal Compact on Refugees, overwhelm-ingly adopted by the UN General Assemblyin December, 2018, categorically stated,“Climate, environmental degradation andnatural disasters increasingly interact withthe drivers of refugee movements.” This ishardly surprising given the numbersinvolved. According to the report,Migration and Climate Change, preparedby Oli Brown for the Switzerland-basedInternational Organisation for Migration,it was widely reported in the mid-1990sthat up to 25 million people had beenforced to flee their homes and lands dueto serious environmental pressures, includ-ing pollution, land degradation, droughtsand natural disasters. Since then, variousanalysts have mentioned various numbers— the most widely repeated being 200 mil-lion by 2050. That the last figure is credi-ble becomes clear from the InternalDisplacement Monitoring Centre’s state-ment that there were 18.8 million disaster-related displacements in 2017.

Obviously, human displacements ofsuch magnitude would pose massive prob-lems. The displaced have to be housed, pro-vided with livelihoods and rehabilitated.Peace has to be maintained between themand the local people who would be inclinedto view them as unwelcome outsiders com-peting with them for resources at a timeof globally widespread economic distress,declining living standards and shrinkingliving space which, in turn, would be con-sequences of climate change.

The corporate world isworried. A report by BradPlumer in The New York Timesof June 4, cites a new analysisof corporate disclosures byCDP (formerly the CarbonDisclosures Project), a UnitedKingdom-based non-profitorganisation that works glob-ally with companies to publiclydisclose the risks and opportu-nities that climate change couldcreate for their businesses.According to the report, manyof the world’s biggest corpora-tions from Silicon Valley tech-nological outfits to largeEuropean banks, are bracing todeal with the impact of climatechange on their finances andoperations in the next fiveyears. According to CDP,extreme weather conditionscould disrupt supply chains;stricter climate-related regula-tions could hurt the values ofcoal, oil and gas investments.According to Plumer, theworld’s largest companies haveestimated that at least $250 bil-lion of assets, including build-ings in high-risk flood zonesand power plants, would haveto be shut down in response tostricter pollution rules or mayhave to be written off or retiredearly as global warming pro-ceeds. According to him, early

estimates indicate that tril-lions of dollars may be at stake.

Reduction in the profitsand financial viability of cor-porations will affect the lives oftheir employees and share-holders as well as consumers oftheir products and services.The impact will be world-wide since international econ-omy is now increasingly linkedand private enterprise-based.The impact of all this, mostsevere in itself, will be com-pounded by a fall in agricultur-al production as a result ofglobal warming. Living stan-dards will decline.

What climate change por-tends for India is an example.According to a World Bankreport last year, titled, SouthAsia’s Hotspots: The Impact ofTemperature and PrecipitationChanges on living Standards,unchecked climate changecausing higher temperaturesand poor monsoon rainfallwould diminish the living stan-dards of half of India’s popula-tion, particularly farmers incentral India.

The report notes that by2050, Chhattisgarh andMadhya Pradesh will be the toptwo climate hotspot States inthe country, which are likely toexperience a decline of more

than nine per cent in their liv-ing standards, followed byRajasthan, Uttar Pradesh andMaharashtra. Further, it statesthat nearly half of South Asia’spopulation, including India’s,now lives in vulnerable areasthat will suffer from decliningliving standards attributableto falling agricultural yields,lower labour productivity orrelated health impacts.Actually, things are worse. Astudy in the journalEnvironmental Research Lettershas it that heatwave conditionslasting up to eight monthsmay become the norm for theGangetic plains by the 2070s ifthe emission of greenhousegases is not reduced to limit theglobal temperature increase totwo degrees. According to apaper by MassachusettsInstitute of Technology pub-lished in the journal ScienceAdvances, vast areas in India,Pakistan and Bangladeshwould become too hot forhuman survival by 2100.

The result will be massexodus from these areas, whichwill be a part of a massiveworldwide migration from allsuch places, perhaps eventual-ly involving the stated 200million people. Coping withthe phenomenon will not be

easy. Given its global scale, ini-tiatives by individual coun-tries will have to be synchro-nised with planning, action andassistance at the internationallevel under the aegis of theUNHCR, which has prolongedand extensive experience inreceiving, evaluating, docu-menting, sheltering and even-tually rehabilitating/resettlingrefugees.

The UNHCR has alreadygeared itself up to address dis-placement-related issues. It hasbeen actively assisting the TaskForce on Displacement estab-lished by the UN to assistcountries to cope with displace-ments linked to climate change.It has also contributed to thedrawing up of the recommen-dations for integratedapproaches to avert, minimiseand address displacement relat-ed to the adverse effects of cli-mate change. These are just twoexamples. The UNHCR, how-ever, requires greatly increasedresources and vastly expandedadministrative infrastructureto deliver on what is going tobe perhaps the greatest chal-lenges ever facing humanity.All countries should try toensure that it has both.

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Sir — This refers to the report,“Now or never for SA” (June 7).The Proteas are now down withthree consecutive defeats forthe first time in the history of theWorld Cup tournament. SkipperFaf du Plessis has been endeav-ouring for a win but his team’sefforts seems to be incongruousto the level of the World Cupand to the challenging Englishconditions.

Against team India, therewere numerous instances ofmisfieldings from the Proteas,which may have been one of thereasons why they lost. Althoughthe Proteas have never lifted theWorld Cup trophy, the team hasbeen acclaimed world over forconferring gems to the interna-tional cricket. Jacques Kallis,Jonty Rhodes and AB de Villiersare paragons to that. The Proteasmust remember these legendaryplayers of their nation and per-form well in their next tourna-ment.

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On March 19, Uttar Pradesh ChiefMinister Yogi Adityanath complet-ed two years in office. As theModel Code of Conduct was inplace at that time, he held a Press

conference at party office. He declared that theBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is targetting over50 per cent votes in the Lok Sabha elections.“If the party can achieve that target, theSamajwadi Party (SP)-Bahujan Samaj Party(BSP)-Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) alliance willhave no impact and the BJP will win 74 seats,”he had said.

On May 23, when the Lok Sabha resultswere announced, his one prediction came to betrue. The BJP got over 50 per cent of the votesand caste alliance in Uttar Pradesh was deci-mated. But Yogi missed the second predictionby just nine seats. The BJP and its allies got 64out of the 80 Lok Sabha seats from UttarPradesh but it was enough for the BJP to crossthe halfway mark comfortably.

What worked wonders for the party wasPrime Minister Narendra Modi’s persona andthe magic of people-oriented schemes launchedby the Union Government. The BJP, at the partylevel, ensured that the beneficiaries know thatit was Prime Minister Modi, who had giventhem these benefits. This strategy worked. Anti-incumbency of candidates was blown away byModi’s charisma. At many places, people werenot happy with their party candidates becauseof non-performance. Still, they voted for Modias leaders in their meetings specifically point-ed out that their one vote will strengthen Modi’shands at the Centre.

The common refrain for the voters was forthe Union Government — they would vote forModi because they wanted a strongGovernment at the Centre. The beneficiaries,who availed the benefit of these schemes, choseModi over others because they reaped the har-vest. On the other hand, those who did not availthe benefits voted for Modi in the belief thatthey will get houses, latrines, free gas or elec-tric connections in the next term.

This scenario is a testing time for YogiAdityanath. Uttar Pradesh will go to polls toelect its Government in 2022 and by that time,the State Government will have to leave its markon the people. Yogi is no Modi. If people votedfor Modi, it was because they wanted to see himas the country’s next Prime Minister. There isno guarantee that they will vote for Yogi withthe same intensity and re-elect him as the ChiefMinister of Uttar Pradesh.

Therefore, the biggest challenge for YogiAdityanath is to improve the delivery systemand present his Government as pro-active andhimself as a Chief Minister whose word holdcommand. He should ensure his orders are fol-lowed to the ‘T’ and reviews of the schemes aredone regularly.

The last 25 months’ rule of YogiGovernment has been a mix of positives andnegatives. It goes without saying that law andorder situation has improved. Improvement ininfrastructure sector, too, is palpable. The fre-quency of power outages has gone down.Greenfield Expressways like the Purvanchal

Expressway and the BundelkhandExpressway are destined to transformthe impoverished eastern UttarPradesh and the rugged Bundelkhandregions. The Defence corridor isexpected to bring an employmentboom in that area.

However, the biggest bane of thisGovernment is its failure to check cor-ruption in its working. Despite theBJP’s commitment of giving a corrup-tion-free Government, the realityleaves much to be desired.Departmental postings are not entire-ly merit based. Merit is being sacri-ficed on the altar of avarice.

The second biggest letdown forthe Yogi Government is its bureaucra-cy. It has failed to match the pace ofthe Chief Minister. The Chief Ministeris working 16-18 hours a day but theState bureaucracy looks jaded. Thisresults in the failure to implement cru-cial projects. The Yogi Government isalso drawing flak for making bigannouncements but failing to fulfillthem within the stipulated time-frame. In a democracy, political mas-ters take decisions as per their elec-tion manifesto but it is the bureaucracy which gives shape tothose directives.

Take the case of the Government’sdecision to ban plastic, polythene andthermocol. The Chief Minister hadannounced on July 15, 2018, that UttarPradesh would be plastic and poly-thene-free. Yogi even signed a ordersaying that thermocol would also bebanned in Uttar Pradesh from

October 2, 2018. The State bureaucra-cy was entrusted with the job toensure that plastic glasses and poly-thene bags should not be available inthe open market. Orders were issuedto seal factories where such plasticbags are manufactured. TheGovernment had also said that alter-native arrangement should be madeavailable to the people.

But the bureaucracy failed in thistask. Once the initial euphoria fizzledout, plastic and polythene made acomeback in the open market. Afterthe High Court pulled the StateGovernment, it became active againin May and on June 3, Chief MinisterYogi Adityanath held another roundof meeting with officials and askedthem to implement the ban in letterand spirit. He even reminded the offi-cials that swachchhata (cleanliness) isthe dream project of Prime MinisterNarendra Modi and it should beimplemented in totality. Thus, the banbecame a butt of joke among the hoipolloi.

Same is true with theGovernment’s several other announce-ments like making roads across UttarPradesh gaddha-mukt (pothole-free),distributing of books, sweaters andshoes among the school children inState-run schools, checking bootleg-ging and ensuring payment of agricul-tural dues to farmers for producingsugarcane, wheat, paddy and potatowhose Minimum Support Price (MSP)is announced by the StateGovernment.

The need of the hour for the YogiGovernment is to take strict action,akin to administrative encounters,against its babus like suspension andeven giving the lax officers a sack.

As police encounters helped inbringing law and order under control,administrative encounters will help inweeding out non-performing offi-cers. The Chief Minister once tried this by offering VRS to thosewho have failed to perform. But it didnot have the desired result .Government officers from BlockDevelopment Officer (BDO) andLekhpal to District Magistrate andfrom Seenchpal and Seench Inspectorsto doctors in State-run hospitals,whose public interface is high, shouldbe made accountable.

Government’s performancedepends on public perception. Thepublic mood is that during BSP chiefMayawati’s regime, the administrationwas at its best. Even officers vouch thatthey feared to attend Mayawati’sreview meeting because heads werebound to roll.

The time has come for Yogi tosend the right signal to the masses.The Chief Minister is going to start areview meeting at the divisional levelfrom June 15. This is the apt time tosend the right signals. He must takeaction against corrupt and non-per-forming Ministers and officers so thatthe message can spread across that thisBJP Government means business.

(The writer is Executive Director[News] with The Pioneer, Lucknow)

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Delhi Chief Minister ArvindKejriwal’s recent announce-ment that proposes free rides for

women in Delhi metro trains and DTCbuses along all routes has become atopic of heated discussion. Kejriwalexplained that women, who do notrequire the subsidy, need not avail it soas to benefit those who need it. Whilethe motive behind such generosity isbeing doubted, the scheme itself rais-es a few questions.

The economic effect of such amove is dubious — it is expected to costthe State �700 crore ($101 million). If,as expected, the proposed schemeleads to a spurt in ridership, it is mostlikely that the Government will have topump in more funds to provide for the

increase in capacity as well as the main-tenance of the metro trains. Economicconsiderations, unfortunately, cannotbe wished away. More importantly, itseems that the Government has failedto dovetail women empowerment andgender neutrality.

For one, the link between freemetro travel for women and their safe-ty seems unclear. The logic that freetravel will ensure women’s safety is notunfounded, but whether this policy isthe appropriate means to achieve thetarget of increased presence of womenin public spaces is uncertain. The issueof women’s security is a greater prob-lem outside metro complexes — withrespect to transit to and fro from themetro stations. Last mile connectivityis essential, particularly after it gets dark.

In addition to all compartments ofmetro trains having specific seats allo-cated for women, senior and different-ly-abled citizens, the first coach of everymetro train is reserved for women. Thissystem, in contrast to the current pro-posal, is in the right direction, given theinfamy that rampant molestation ofwomen in Delhi buses has garneredover the last decades and is also in

accordance with the needs of women. The CISF patrolling of metro sta-

tions, too, is conducted during latehours and specific teams are deployedto ensure that men do not enter thewomen's coach. In fact, the metro hasbecome the safest mode of public trans-port available to the women of Delhi-NCR in a long time. Thus, increasingavailability and accessibility of othermeans of safe public transport, includ-ing making streets of Delhi safer forwalking and cycling, would bear morefruit in encouraging women to step outof their homes.

It is also difficult to understand thereasoning behind granting free travelto ‘women’ only. Does it rest on thegross generalisation that women arefinancially inferior to men? If not, thenwhy not make travelling free for seniorcitizens or students? The schemeshould function across the board andshould be in consonance with econom-ic considerations. The lack of reason-ing could result in a contrary effect. Itcould also increase resentment amongthose who are already opposed to pos-itive discrimination for women by sim-ply being viewed as gender bias. Public

and work spaces have traditionally beendesigned for men; making it women-friendly has required changes — start-ing with separate washrooms in placesof work — that might have been seenas “painful” and a waste of money tothe existing dispensation.

Only recently, in a personal inter-action, a senior gentleman showedopen displeasure at some leading Delhiuniversity colleges being exclusively forwomen. When people are unable to seeaffirmative action as a means to erasehistorical biases from a long-termperspective, how will they react to blan-ket free rides for women in public trans-port systems? More importantly, doesit really serve a long-term purpose?

This policy is not the first of its kindthat has been introduced to ostensiblyempower women and has the poten-tial to backfire. The Maternity Benefit(Amendment) Act of 2017, since itsintroduction, has come under scruti-ny for, inter alia, increasing the dura-tion of maternity leave from 12 weeksto 26 weeks. The aforesaid provision hasbeen critiqued on the basis of itspotential to backfire by discouragingemployers from hiring women. A

woman employee can be perceived asa greater burden compared to a maleemployee with similar qualificationsand capability; often even in compar-ison with a male employee of lesserqualifications and competence.

While the Act is a step forward inrecognising the needs of women, it isalso important to do so while redefin-ing gender stereotypes. Although bio-logical restrictions may impede a manfrom carrying, giving birth to andbreastfeeding a child, he is certainlycapable of staying at home to take careof his child, as a woman does. The pol-icy enables the perpetuation of a men-tality that women are to stay at homeand tend to their children, while a man’sobligations are restricted to being thesole breadwinner of the family.

Such misguided moves are beingrecognised for what they are, as seenfrom Zomato’s announcement thismonth that it is providing 26 weeks ofpaternity leave to new fathers. Veryrecently, JP Morgan, a leadingAmerican bank, paid a historic settle-ment of $5 million to Derek Rotondoand other male employees for its fail-ure to comply with policies which per-

mit men and women equal access toparental leave. Such strides will, hope-fully, establish a precedent so as toencourage other employers to putmen and women at an equal playingfield at workplace.

While the motive behind such poli-cies aimed at inclusion of women maybe well placed, the manner of realisingthese intentions seems to be amiss.These measures come off as blatantlypopulist with a lack of consideration forlong-term implications. Certain meansof positive discrimination are necessaryto enable women to step out of theirhomes, work in the organised econo-my and compete at par with men, dueto the historically disadvantaged posi-tion of women. Hence, policies aimedat them should be well-thought so thatthey can be clearly distinguished fromtokenistic moves, lacking clarity inimplementation and fulfilment ofresults.

(S Veena Iyer is Assistant Professor(Finance), Management DevelopmentInstitute, Gurgaon and AradhanaParmeshwar is a student pursuing Lawat the West Bengal National Universityof Juridical Sciences)

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The rupee on Friday fell by18 paise to close at 69.46

against the US currency onstrengthening of the green-back in overseas markets andrising crude oil prices.

Forex traders said thatweakened Asian currenciesalso added to the pressure onthe domestic unit.

However, gains in domes-tic equities supported the rupeeand capped its losses to someextent, they added.

At the interbank foreignexchange (forex) market, thedomestic currency openedhigher at 69.23 per dollar, butlost ground during the day tofall to 69.52. The rupee finallysettled at 69.46, down 18 paiseover its previous close.

The rupee had settled at69.28 against the US dollarThursday.

The local currency on aweekly basis gained 24 paise.

“Rupee has declinedagainst the dollar followingrecovery in crude oil prices andlower Asian currencies against

US dollar,” said V K Sharma,Head-PCG & Capital MarketStrategy, HDFC Securities.

Brent crude futures, theglobal oil benchmark, climbed1.62 per cent to $62.67 per bar-rel.

The dollar index, whichgauges the greenback’s strengthagainst a basket of six curren-cies, rose 0.02 per cent to97.06, ahead of the US payrolldata.

Meanwhile, the 10-yeargovernment bond yield was at6.97 per cent on Friday.

“The yield on benchmark10 year bonds rises 4 bps to

6.97 per cent, headingfor a fourth straightweekly drop afterRBI’s “accommoda-tive” stance from“neutral” and cut 25bps interest rate,”Sharma said.

Foreign institu-tional investors (FIIs)remained net sellersin the capital mar-kets, pulling out�478.84 crore Friday,the provisional data

showed.Equity benchmarks had a

highly volatile trade Friday.The BSE gauge settled 86.18points, or 0.22 per cent, up at39,615.90. The broader NSENifty rose 26.90 points, or 0.23per cent, to settle at 11,870.65.

Meanwhile, FinancialBenchmark India Private Ltd(FBIL) set the reference rate forthe rupee/dollar at 69.3205and for rupee/euro at 77.8192.The reference rate forrupee/British pound was fixedat 87.8744 and for rupee/100Japanese yen at 64.12.

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The BSE benchmark Sensexended 86 points higher

after a highly volatile sessionFriday tracking mixed domes-tic and global cues.

After swinging over 400points, the BSE gauge settled86.18 points, or 0.22 per cent,up at 39,615.90. The index hitan intra-day high of 39,703.10and a low of 39,279.47.

Similarly, the broader NSENifty rose 26.90 points, or0.23 per cent, to settle at11,870.65. During the day, theindex touched a high of11,897.50 and a low of11,769.50.

During the week, theSensex fell 98.30 points and thebroader Nifty lost 52.15 points.

Top gainers in the Sensexpack Friday included IndusIndBank, Bajaj Finance, M&M,SBI, ICICI Bank and Vedanta,rising up to 1.90 per cent.

On the other hand, YesBank, PowerGrid, SunPharma, Coal India, BajajAuto, ONGC and RIL wereamong the top losers, droppingup to 2.37 per cent.

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Russian leaderV l a d i m i r

Putin on Fridayrenewed calls torevisit the role ofthe US dollar inglobal trade anda c c u s e dWashington ofseeking to domi-nate the world.

Speaking atan economicforum alongsideChinese PresidentXi Jinping, theRussian presidentcalled for deep reform, claim-ing that trust in the dollar hadbeen on the decline.

Changes in the globaleconomy “call for the adapta-tion of international financialorganisations (and) rethinkingthe role of the dollar which...Has turned into an instrumentof pressure by the country ofissue on the rest of the world,”Putin said.

The Kremlin chief —whose country has chafedunder numerous rounds of US

sanctions — has repeatedlyslammed the global financialsystem established byWashington in the aftermath ofWorld War II.

In a speech at a plenary ses-sion, Putin accusedWashington of seeking to“extend its jurisdiction to thewhole world.” “But this modelnot only contradicts the logicof normal international com-munication. The main thing is,it does not serve the interestsof the future.”

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Automotive TyreManufacturers’ Association

(ATMA) recently held tyresafety training for CommercialDrivers linked to Indian OilCorporation Limited (IOCL).The tyre safety drive at IOCLcomes in the wake of similarexercises held at different cam-puses of Honda Cars, Infosys,ISRPL and Pipapav Port etc inrecent times. The �60000 croreTyre Industry represented byATMA has sharpened focus onTyre Safety as a part of overall

Road safety exercise of MoRTH,Government of India.

Over 250 commercial dri-vers and helpers (cleaners)linked to IOCL supply chainparticipated in the trainingprogramme at the Tikri Kalan(Delhi) terminal of Indian Oiland benefitted from the inter-active session with experts.

During the training thetrainees were trained on sever-al aspects including tyre and itsstructure, tyre markings andsteps to maintain tyres in theinterest of safety and prolong-ing tyre life.

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In a press release, the State-owned entreprise further addedthat “Total Ten (10) Bidders purchased the Tender Documentand four (4) Bids were received by the due date. Three (3) Biddersqualified and one offer was rejected as bidder was not meetingthe qualifying requirements. Price bids of all three qualified bid-ders were opened and it was followed by reverse e-bidding processlasting for Six (6) Hours. Out of three bidders, M/S AdaniEnterprises Limited have quoted lowest price and they have beendeclared as the lowest bidder. Out of three bidders, M/S AdaniEnterprises Limited have quoted lowest price and they have beendeclared as the lowest bidder. Thus, the work has been award-ed to M/s Adani Enterprises Ltd. on lowest offer basis by followingproper transparent tender procedure”. PNS

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Describing India as a “val-ued supporter” of South-

South cooperation, UN chiefAntonio Guterres has praisedthe India-UN DevelopmentPartnership Fund for “cham-pioning greater prosperity” forall through its myriad projectsbenefitting the least developed,landlocked and small islandnations.

India has also been at theforefront of our efforts toreform the UN DevelopmentSystem, the UN SecretaryGeneral said.

“India is a valued support-er of South-South cooperation.The India-UN DevelopmentPartnership Fund is a welcomecontribution that is champi-oning greater prosperity andopportunity for all,” Guterressaid in his message.

The message was read outon the occasion of the com-memoration of the secondanniversary of the India-UNDevelopment PartnershipFund here Thursday organisedby the Permanent Mission ofIndia to the UN together withthe UN Office for South-SouthCooperation (UNOSSC).

Guterres said with its focuson ‘Least Developed Countries’,‘Landlocked DevelopingCountries’ and ‘Small Island

Developing States’, the Fundembodies the core promise ofthe 2030 Agenda to leave noone behind and reach thosefurthest behind first.

He commended India forits “strong commitment tointernational cooperation,shared prosperity and thevision of ‘One UN’ as theworld strives to advance the2030 Agenda for SustainableDevelopment.”

The Fund was establishedin June 2017 to work withdeveloping countries by pro-viding assistance to projectsthat aim to implement theSustainable DevelopmentGoals (SDGs), as per theirrequest. It is a dedicatedfacility within the UN Fundfor S outh-S outhCooperation.

It is managed by theUNOSSC and implemented incollaboration with the UN sys-tem. In the last two years, theFund has developed a portfo-lio of 36 projects in partnershipwith 37 developing countriesand 21 of these projects areunder implementation withmany nearing completion.

The Government of Indiahas committed a total of USD150 million for this Fund overthe next decade to support pro-jects that are in alignment withthe 2030 Agenda.

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The ruling JD(U) in Bihar onFriday asserted that the

NDA in the State was “intact”,dismissing speculation of a riftwithin the alliance in the wakeof the party’s decision to “stayout” of the Narendra ModiGovernment.

The JD(U) is “firmly” inthe alliance and speculationabout instability are “baseless”,the party’s national generalsecretary Ram Chandra PrasadSingh told reporters in Bihar’sSheikhpura district.

Following the swearing-inceremony of the ModiGovernment, Bihar ChiefMinister and JD(U) presidentNitish Kumar had declined tobe part of the BJP-led NDAgovernment at the Centre inprotest against the “symbolicrepresentation” of one minis-terial berth offered to it, butrefuted suggestions of any dif-ference with its ally.

Singh, who is the party’sleader in the Rajya Sabha, said,“The NDA is intact.Speculation about any politicalinstability are baseless. TheJD(U) is firmly in the alliance.”

He was responding toqueries about the conjecture,triggered by Kumar’s stand and

following developments likeleaders of the opposition ‘maha-gathbandhan’ softening theirstance towards the JD(U) chiefsensing a rift within NationalDemocratic Alliance (NDA).

The NDA, comprising BJP,JD(U) and LJP, won 39 out of40 Lok Sabha seats in Bihar inthe recent general elections, thebest performance by any polit-ical formation in the last fewdecades.Kumar’s party bagged16 seats.

Kumar had initially indi-cated that he was looking for-ward to his party joining thenew Modi Government andSingh’s name was believed to beamong the ones which theJD(U) president was expectedto push forward. This, howev-er, did not materialise andthough the Bihar chief minis-ter attended the swearing-inceremony, he made it clear thatthe BJP was insistent on allallies agreeing for a “symbolicrepresentation” in the UnionCabinet and that this was unac-ceptable to him.

The JD(U) president hadsaid,”The unanimous view (ofJD(U) leaders) is that weshould stay out of the ministry.Everybody felt there should beproportional representation inan alliance Government.”

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Returning to his fiery-self inattacking Prime Minister

Narendra Modi post the LokSabha polls debacle, RahulGandhi on Friday Accusedhim and the BJP of spreading“hatred and intolerance” andsaid the Congress will contin-ue to fight them.

Holding a massive road-show in Wayanad Lok Sabhaconstituency amid heavy rains tothank voters for electing him, theCongress chief said his party willemerge as a strong Oppositionand defend the poor.

“Modi might have so muchmoney. He might have mediaby his side.... He might haverich friends with him but theCongress party will continue tofight against the intolerancecreated by the BJP,” said Rahul,who travelled in a special openvehicle along with State leaders.

“The hatred and intoler-ance created by the BJP andModi will be dealt by theCongress party with love and

affection,” Rahul said in his firstpublic function after the drub-bing in Lok Saha polls where itbagged 52 seats.

Rahul, who also contestedfrom his pocket borough ofAmethi in Uttar Pradesh andlost to Union Minister SmritiIrani, had offered to resign butit was rejected by the CongressWorking Committee.

Thousands, includingwomen and children, bravedthe downpour to catch aglimpse of the leader whoarrived on a three-day tourconstituency after he was votedto the Lok Sabha with a mar-gin of about 4.31 lakh votes.

The people patiently wait-ed for hours for Rahul oneither side of the water-loggedroads and on the terrace andbalconies of nearby buildings towelcome their new MP.

As the vehicle carrying theCongress President inched itsway through the crowded road,frenzied party workers dancedwaving tri-colour flags andposters with the pictures of

their party chief, chanting “weare with you”. Beating drums,they also greeted him shouting“Rahul, Rahul.”

The green flags of theIndian Union Muslim League(IUML), a coalition partner ofthe opposition Congress-ledUDF, could also be seen flut-tering in the crowd.

A heavy security blanket bythe SPG, anti-Naxal squad andthe Kerala police was in placefor the VVIP visit. The securi-ty personnel were on theirtoes as Kalikavu, where theroadshow moved in thebylanes, is considered to be anaxal-infested area.

Rahul, accompanied byState Congress leadersMullappally Ramachandran,Opposition leader RameshChennithala, MLA A P AnilKumar, among others, wasseen waving at the crowd fromthe vehicle. “I will fight for thepeople of Wayanad. I will takeup the issues of Wayanad insideand outside Parliament. I willwork for the constituency, workwith you, listen to you,” Rahultold the crowd.

He said even though he isa Congress man, he will workbeyond politics, and for peoplefrom all walks of life.

Rahul said since he is anMP of Kerala, he will raise

issues not only of Wayanad butalso of the people of the entirestate in and outside Parliament.

The Congress and its allieswon 19 out of 20 seats in Kerala,the only State besides Punjab and Tamil Nadu whereit has done well in this LokSabha election.

The Congress presidentarrived at Kozhikode airport inthe afternoon and was sched-uled to participate in at least 15public receptions across the

constituency, spread over inthe districts of Wayanad,Malappuram and Kozhikode, inthe next two days.

Scores of party workersand leaders were at the airportto receive Rahul. The Congresschief had a meeting with seniorUDF leaders, includingRamesh Chennithala and PKKunhalikutty.

A senior Congress leaderfrom the constituency told PTIthat Rahul’s visit will be a

morale booster for the partyworkers to fight the Assemblybypolls.

“He will also take part inroad shows at Nilambur andEranad,” senior Congress leaderand Wandoor MLA AP AnilKumar said. Rahul will beaccorded receptions atKalpetta, Kambalkadu,Panamaram, Mananthavadi,Pulpally and Sultan Batheriand will also attend a roadshowin Kozhikode Assembly con-stituency on June 9, beforeleaving for Delhi.

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To ensure that Nipah virusdoes not spread its tenta-

cles, Kerala Health Minister KKShailaja on Friday met UnionHealth Minister HarshVardhan to discuss the statusand the administration’s pre-paredness for containment andmanagement of the potential-ly deadly infection.

Vardhan, who is regularlyreviewing the public healthmeasures put in place in Kerala,assured her of all support fromthe Centre.

Talking to reporters,Shailaja said the condition of a21-year-old college student,who was diagnosed with Nipahinfection, is stable and a totalof 314 people who were intouch with the infected personhave been kept under obser-vation.

“There have been no newcases,” she said.

The Nipah virus hadclaimed 17 lives in the State inMay last year. The UnionHealth Ministry has alreadydeployed a six-member teamcomprising an epidemiologistand ICMR experts to conductcontact tracing for early detec-tion of suspects and review ofisolation facilities.

Meanwhile, blood andserum samples of all seven

suspected patients who wereadmitted to a quarantine facil-ity at the Government MedicalCollege in Kerala’s Ernakulamdistrict have tested negative forthe virus.

A designated control roomhas been established at thedistrict collector’s office and anisolation ward established at theGovernment Medical College,Ernakulam, while isolationfacilities have also been ensuredat medical colleges at Calicut,Thrissur and Kottayam.

All healthcare facilitieshave been asked to ensure highindex of suspicion in caseswith similar symptoms andalso ensure availability of isolation and emergencymanagement facilities before

referral.According to the World

Health Organisation, Nipahvirus is a newly emerging dis-ease that can be transmittedfrom its reservoir (naturalwildlife host), the flying foxes(fruit bats), to both animals andhumans.

Symptoms range fromasymptomatic infection, acuterespiratory infection andencephalitis.

Infected people initiallydevelop influenza-like symp-toms of fever, headache, vom-iting and sore throat. This canbe followed by dizziness,drowsiness, altered conscious-ness, and neurological signs that indicate acuteencephalitis.

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In a shocking incident, a citycricketer-cum-coach was

hacked to death by threeunidentified assailants atBhandup in north-eastMumbai late on Thursdaynight.

Rakesh Ambadas Pawarwas waylaid and attacked bythree men with choppers nearMahavir petrol pump on theLal Bahadur Shastri Road atBhandup, when he was goingon his scooter along with hisfemale friend. The incidenttook place between 2345 hrs to00.30 hrs.

“The victim had sufferedgruesome injuries on his face,head and was lying in a pool ofblood, “ a senior police officialsaid. Pawar was rushed by the

petrol pump employees to theMulund General hospital,where he was pronounced deadon admission.

Pawar, who was in hismid-thirties, is survived is sur-vived by wife and two children.A district level cricketer, Pawarused to coach to budding crick-eters from Bhandup, Mulund,both north-eastern suburbs ofMumbai and Thane, a satellitecity of Mumbai.

Preliminary investigationshave revealed that Pawar’s mur-der might have stemmed out ofpersonal enmity.

Having registered a casemurder, the Bhandup police arescanning the CCTV footage ofthe petrol pump to ascertainthe identity of the threeassailants behind the incident.

The investigators haverecorded the statement ofPawar’s female friend.

The police have reason tosuspect that Pawar might havebeen killed at the behest of aninfluential family fromBhandup, with which thedeceased had personal enmity.

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2018: She was seen as them i d d l e - a g e dPriyamvada Kaushik

whose pregnancy is the cause of muchconsternation for the entire family. Shewon the Filmfare Critics Award for BestActress for her realistic portrayal.

Flashback to 1999 and Saans, whereshe portrayed the character of thewronged wife who refuses to play mar-tyr. The serial, which she also directed,was path breaking for the way it depict-ed the woman who, though much inlove, refused to break down into histri-onics that are the norm even now ontelevision.

Go back even further to 1982 whenshe portrayed he role of Abha in Gandhiand capped it the very next year byswinging around in a crane along withPankaj Kapoor, Satish Kaushik andSatish Shah in the iconic Jaane Bhi DoYaaron as Priya.

The decades might have changedbut Neena Gupta has held steadfast inthe industry with her nuanced perfor-mances, howsoever small, that made amark. But she is hungry for more. “Forboth actors and directors, this is a gold-en time. There is so much variety infilms and then there is web which meansthat there are so many platforms. Itdoesn’t matter what the format is for itis acting. I wish I was younger when Icould do much more. But even then, itis fantastic.”

Any other actor might have decid-ed to quietly fade away given the con-troversy that she unleashed when she

decided to be a single parent,but then Neena is

made of sternerstuff. And this

has paid divi-dends as thesociety andthe indus-try hasc h a n g e do f f e r i n gcontent that

she is in syncwith. “One

reason is societyand women are

changing. How manymiddle aged women are going to thegym now? Earlier they wouldn’t haveeven heard of it. The second reason isthe platform. Web series have seasons.

If you did a TV serial, we were stuck fortwo years where actors even with small-er roles get noticed. The whole scenariohas changed,” she points out.

Moreover the lines between art-house and commercial cinema haveblurred. “Badhaai Ho is an arthouse filmbut a commercial hit, which didn’t hap-pen earlier. That’s the change. It is amainstream film done artistically and isat the same time, realistic,” she says.

Her latest venture is Adi Sonal oneof the six parts of the omnibus, ShuruaatKa Twist. “The director Heena D’Souzacame to me with the story and I reallyliked the subject and that’s why I agreedto do it. It is the story of a middle classhousehold with a husband, son anddaughter-in-law. The beautiful under-current of a relationship between meand the daughter-in-law which is sub-tle and which you don’t realise till yousee the end forms the crux of the story,”says Neena. Describing the characterfurther, she says, it is like one of thosetypical housewives who spend the entireday wearing a night gown with a chun-

ni. “She is just doing her duties the wayshe has been taught. The end comes asa surprise,” she says.

While choosing her roles there areseveral things that she keeps in mind.“The whole script and the role shouldexcite me. The other things that I lookout for are the directors and the cast,”says Neena.

While she has worked with stalwartslike Pankaj Kapur, Naseeruddin Shahand more, acting with the younger lotof actors has been a learning process too.“They are so hardworking and disci-plined. There is no generation gap. Wewere like friends and had so much fun.In between shots, we could talk aboutjust anything. We discussed our prob-lems. I learnt a lot from Ayushmann andthe way he chooses his role,” she says.

She also feels that the industry haschanged the way it treats women. “Theindustry is more professional. Womenare more respected. Male actors aremuch more decent and directors noware more open to suggestions,” she says.

She elaborates further about the dif-

ference between directors of yore andthe younger ones. “While working withSubhash Ghai or Shyam Benegal, youwere to scared to give a suggestions.While these directors are not a walkover,they are ready to take suggestions if itimproves the quality,” she says.

A National School of Drama alum-nus, she feels that the place has influ-enced her in varied ways. “I am verycommitted and disciplined. I workhard and don’t mind giving several takes.I don’t argue and I respect the director’sdecision,” says the actor who just turned60 but defies the norms agreeing.

She is philosophical about the expe-riences that she has had in life. Shepoints out that, “I’ve come to the con-clusion that everything that happenscomes to some use someday. Even metalking to you will be of use some day.Maybe you ask something and I willthink that I’ve never thought of it thatway. So whether it is NSD or Mumbaior my parents, they’ve influenced me alot but how and where it will be of use,I don’t know.”

Looking ahead, she has a pilotready for her iconic Saans, “I am look-ing for a platform,” she says.

When one wonders about the stateof Indian television, she is quick toretort. “Why should we bother about TVbeing caught in a bind when we havesuch amazing content on other plat-forms. They must be having an audi-ence. It must be selling times. When itwon’t sell, they will change too,” she says.

When one asks Neena, who livedand studied in Delhi, about her favouriteplaces in the city, she retorts, “I am aMumbai person. But I like to eat atNathus. I love to roam around inConnaught Place and shop at the empo-riums in Baba Kharak Singh Marg. Ioften went to shop for chudis atHanuman mandir. Now, when I comeback I go for my walks to Lodhi Gardenand visit India International Centre.”

However, there are some thingsabout the city that she doesn’t like.“Dust,” she says emphatically and adds,“Unprofessional and poking your nosein each others affairs.”

When you talk about Jaane Bhi DoYaaron, she is categorical, “I don’tthink one should remake such a film.”Yes, just the way it is difficult to imi-tate the amazing grace that she hasabout her persona.

Created by writer and producerDaisy Goodwin, Victoria sees

actor Tom Hughes reprise his roleas Prince Albert, alongside JennaColeman. Tom explains why he isso fascinated by his character’srare story. He says, “I was drawn toAlbert’s path because of the unique-ness of his experience. There arevery less people in the history ofmankind who have managed to gethis position. The human impactfascinates me, especially when youtake these two young people at theheart of it all. We are in the mid-dle of a massive technological rev-olution right now and it was just asscary, breathtaking and magnificentduring the industrial revolution, sothere are interesting correlationsbetween then and now.”

Tom discusses what it’s like togrow up with a character andreturn to the same role some yearson. “I never put a character on ashelf while keeping him present.Picking Albert up, off the shelf feltvery natural. He is older now andthe person he has become is notsame,” he says.

Tom adds, “What is interestingand difficult for Albert is that thisis all coming at a time when he hasactually found his footing. He hasgot the vision of a path he couldtake now and the impact he hopesto have while still being commit-ted and respectful of the positionhe is in. I tried to make him a lit-tle heavier physically by putting onsome weight so as to age him.”

Huge changes to Albert’s lifecome in the form of two new andrabble-rousing characters, LordPalmerston (Laurence Fox) andVictoria’s half-sister, Feodora (KateFleetwood).

Tom says that Albert believesPalmerston is going to undermineeverything that he is trying to buildand goes against everything he sees.Albert has read the Marxist man-ifesto, he has spoken at Chartist ral-lies and he very much under-stands the shifting sands of theindustrial revolution and the needfor change. The status quo could-n’t continue and he understood theunrest where it was coming from.So when Palmerston says other-wise, he finds it morally corrupt.Laurence plays him effortlesslyand not because he is that guy inreal life but he is sensitive and theyget on really well.

He apprises us, “WhilePalmerston seems to be every-thing Albert doesn’t like, actuallythe queen’s half-sister, Feodora is.She plays him brilliantly, preying ona weakness, she may not evenrealise he has. She becomes every-thing Albert is lacking. When theinvisible string between them isfraying, he needs that female figurein his life as there are a void andFeodora sweeps in and fills that.She seems to be rational and objec-tive and he dances too but come tothe end of the series, there is abegrudging respect for Palmerstonas Albert realises that he has sac-rificed himself to a certain degree.”

Tom reveals that the audiencewill see Albert and Victoria at theirmost distant in this series.

“I don’t think we’ll find themat a point where they are morefractious than this. It is part of theirgrowing ages. They got married at19 and then add to that weightedresponsibility of their day jobs,Albert’s issues of identity andVictoria’s issues of having been

mollycoddled. It is evident thatthey both have a great deal ofthings to do but there is not alwaysthe space needed for both of themto do that. Even when they aretogether, they’re rarely united or inthe same rhythm. They strugglewith ideological differences. Albertdoesn’t believe she is putting theweight behind, being a parent thatshe should and Victoria thinks viceversa and so they come to blows.”

Albert takes the biggest risk of

his life when he decides to stage theworld’s first and greatest collectionof art, The Great Exhibition.

“He has an awakening andsenses an opportunity where hecould help. I don’t know if TheGreat Exhibition changed a lotpolitically but as an art exhibition,it exposed people to things theywould never have had the oppor-tunity to see and so it was unques-tionably magnificent. Once hefinds that he is on a single track,even to the detriment of thosearound him and this is what heconsumes his life until the end. TheAlbert before and after The GreatExhibition is significantly different.The exhaustion and what he puthimself through is so extreme thatI don’t know if he’ll ever be thesame man again. Socially andpolitically, it is positive but the tollit takes upon him is enormous. Thepressure is immense because if hefails at that, he will never recover,”says Tom.

The actor further adds, “Wewent to Palm House in Liverpoolto film the exteriors for The GreatExhibition and filmed in the mid-dle of Sefton park. This is a giantgreenhouse which creates thefaçade. I went to a youth theatre,so going back there was pretty spe-cial for me. That was one momentwhere I could really get somereflection because we were stayingin a hotel on the same road. So itwas very much going back to theold territory. Also, I managed toget some of my family in. Mymother, father and 12 of my friendsare all in The Great Exhibition.They’re people I have known sinceI was 10. That was a really goodday.”

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Now well-settled into her craft, notedKuchipudi dancer Shallu Jindal experi-mented with a whole range of perform-

ing arts before founding her swadharma andreturning to the classical dance.

While she remembers with deepreverence her Kuchipudi gurus Rajaand Radha Reddy, under whosetutelage she started learning dancein her 30s, Jindal can clearly recallher childhood Kathak lessons andwhat brought her to it.

“My mother did her MA in clas-sical music. My foray into the per-forming arts happenedbecause my parents lovedsinging. When I turned8, my mother waskeen that I mustpursue some kindof performing art.That’s why Istarted learningKathak.

“I also learntsitar, guitar,Hindustani clas-sical music andtheatre. I did a varietyof performing arts but my swad-harma was dance. And, I stuckon to it,” she said.

It was a stroke of luck thatmade the Delhi-based dancer meether gurus during a darshan at theTirupati temple in Andhra Pradesh.Now 46, and actively involved incorporate and philanthropic ven-tures with her husband and for-mer parliamentarian NaveenJindal, dance is still her secondskin.

“Classical dance teaches meevery single day. It has taughtme patience, commitment anddiscipline. Dance also makesyou humble because youdepend on it for your identi-ty,” she said. Despite havingher plate full, she still dedi-

cates time to dance practice every day.Apart from performing arts, a lesser known

side of Jindal is her passion for visual arts. Theart connoisseur, who has been collecting paint-

ings for the past 15 years, said she alwayshad an affinity towards visual arts.

Over the years, works by majorartists, like MF Husain, SH Raza,

Akbar Padamsee, Tyeb Mehta,Anjolie Ela Menon, Rameshwar

Broota, Bose Krishnamachari,Anish Kapoor, Bharati Kherand Anju Dodiya, havemade their way into hercollection, as also her liv-

ing room.On her art inter-

ests, Jindal said althoughshe liked both abstract and

figurative art, her taste in art gravitatedtowards minimalism: “minimal lines,colours and forms”.

About her art buying behaviour, shesaid, “I never buy instantly. There are somany people who go to exhibitions and say‘I like it, pack it’. If I like something I like

to sleep on it, at least for a week. Everydayif I don’t think about it or I don’t dream

about it, I know it’s not for me. I haveto really want it.”

Having authored severalbooks, including a picture book

for children, the Ludhiana-born dancer is gearing up

to publish the chroniclesof her travels in the

Indian Railways. Thebook is expected nextyear. D��&

Breaking the trend of typicalIndian family dramas dealingwith love, hate, betrayal, sep-

aration and what not, Mind theMalhotras is a forthcoming AmazonPrime web series of a modern cou-ple trying hard, with the help of atherapist, to figure out their never-ending disputes.

For actor Cyrus Sahukar, whoplays the character of Rishabh, it’sa “flawless mishmash” comic fami-ly, which is very relatable. There aretwo categories of people, one fallunder being normal and anotherbeing ‘screwy.’ These Malhotrashave a blend of both. They are thecraziest of all. Mini Mathur, whoportrays the role of Rishabh’s wife,and Sahukar are working hard on

their marriage so that the sparkremains alive. In the mid of all this,they are also trying to be friendly yetdisciplined parents to their threechildren.

Sahukar apprises us, “In India,marriages have become very com-plicated since the world we breathein has too many options. Couples gothrough a lot of issues like com-munication gaps, compatibilityproblems and various misunder-standings. So, sometimes seeking atherapist works well since convers-ing with someone who is anony-mous, helps in sustainability of therelationship.”

Mini completely agrees withSahukar. She says, “There weredays when people used to seek

advice from their close relatives butnow they have been replaced bycounselors and therapists becausetheir job is not to be judgmentalwhile counselling.”

Like any other typical Indianrelationship, Rishabh and Shefali’smarriage is also not breaking up.They are still in love with each otherbut they just don’t want to fall intothe situations similar to their friends,who have recently got divorced.“Their therapist suggested them totry acting like the characters ofSholay. Mini played Basanti and

Sahukar portrayed Thakur but failedwretchedly,” says he.

The series is an Indian adapta-tion of Israeli comedy drama, LaFamiglia. Being single, Sahukar wassuspicious whether he would do jus-tice to the character of a father. Whathelped him to work on his charac-ter was to discuss about the par-enting tips with his friends and fam-ily. He sarcastically says, “Rishabhbecame a father at the age of 19 sobasically he has grown up with hiskids. Actually, I think I have becomean expert in parenting now and of

course, would be getting loads ofmarriage proposals too.”

He doesn’t understand theunusual world of Indian marriage,in-laws, society, kids, etc. He findsRishabh a fascinating character,who chooses indirect methods ofeducating his daughters about sex.It is definitely relatable as we haveoften gone through this awkward-ness with our own parents on thesesubjects.

“It’s important for a father toshare a similar comfort zone withtheir kids. Sometimes, staying busy

with their lives leads huge commu-nication gaps, which is quite com-mon these days,” he adds.

Sahukar has done it all, be itanchoring, comedy or acting inBollywood films — Aisha, LoveBreak-ups and Zindagi. He is most-ly known for his comedy roles butwon’t mind experimenting withvarious genres. He says, “ I want toget out of my comfort zone. I wantto experience something intense andportray darker characters. I need toexplore myself since I believe thataspect of me is so strong which is yetto be discovered.”

He apprises that anchoring is hisfirst love and he can do it anytimebut acting in a web series, whichoffers a funny take on the marriagesof contemporary world was a wholenew era of exploring relationshipsand bonds. “I remember when thetherapist asked us (Rishabh andMini) to converse with each othermore often, we had nothing muchto talk about. I believe the feelingsof anxiousness exist in every rela-

tionship whether it’s a marriage ornot,” says Sahukar.

It presents the idea of new waysof celebrating marriage and love tosustain in a cynical society. Minifirmly believes in marriages, shesays, “There’s always an advantagewhen you are in love, due to whichthis show is exceptional. We can’tstay being a perfect soul-matealways. Any relation would only sur-vive if there is constant under-standing among those two people.I have seen single individuals, theyare lonely and it’s not easy. So, it feelsgreat when you know that there isalways someone right behind you.”

Sahukar sums it up by sharinghis experience with the cast. He says,“Mini and me are best friends, so wecan work anytime. Of course, untiland unless we would get the rightscript to frame both of us. OurMalhotra family is super cool andwelcomes everyone whoever is try-ing hard to fix things rather callingoff when they are not falling inplace.”

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Ahuja was trolled forher comment urging peo-ple not to make the thekilling of a two-and-a-half-year-old girl inAligarh, into a “selfishagenda.” She says shebelieves in speaking upfor those with no voice.

“What has happenedto baby is heartbreakingand horrific. I pray for herand her family. I alsourge people to not makethis into a selfish agenda.This is a little girl’s death,not a reason to spreadyour hate,” Sonam tweet-ed.

The toddler wasstrangled to death and hereyes gouged out after herparents allegedly failedto repay a loan of �10,000.The incident took place inTappal town in UttarPradesh’s Aligarh.According to reports, thegirl’s body was found onJune 2 in a dumping

ground near her house,three days after she wentmissing. Reportedly, themutilated body was dis-covered after a pack ofstray dogs had been spot-ted carrying whatappeared to be humanbody parts.

Sonam’s tweet in par-ticular drew the attentionof filmmaker AshokePandit, a key member ofthe Indian Film and TVDirectors Association

(IFTDA), who cited whatthe actress’ placard-bear-ing post at the time ofanother case of a little girlfrom Kathua.

“Sonam on... youquestioned the values ofIndia by tweeting: ‘I amHindustan. I am ashamed.eight-year-old gang rapedand murdered in ‘Devi’-sthaan Temple.’ And nowon... you tweet saying, ‘Iurge people to not makethis into a selfish agenda.’Why this disparity,” hewrote. To this, Sonamreplied, “Because I prac-tise Hinduism and Ibelieve in Karma.”

A social media usercommented, saying,“Looks like your idea ofkarma is distorted to suityour agenda.” Sonamexplained, “I don’t have anagenda. It seems like youdo. Please don’t be sohateful. It doesn’t suit you.I hope you find fulfillmentand peace.” D��&

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Prime Minister Theresa Maywill formally resign as the

leader of the UK’s rulingConservative Party on Friday,paving the way for a keen con-test to decide a new British pre-mier who will take charge of theBrexit negotiations.

May, who had steppeddown amid mounting pressureover her repeatedly defeatedBrexit deal, will continue asacting Prime Minister until theparty has elected her successor,who will then take charge as thepremier.

The formal Tory votingprocess will be triggered onMonday morning, with a newleader expected to be in place bynext month.

“It is, and will alwaysremain, a matter of deep regretto me that I have not been ableto deliver Brexit,” May said in heremotional speech on the steps ofDowning Street on May 23.

“It will be for my successorto seek a way forward that hon-ours the result of the referen-dum. To succeed, he or she willhave to find consensus in par-liament where I have not. Sucha consensus can only be reachedif those on all sides of the debateare willing to compromise,” shesaid, indicating the tough roadahead for any new leader whosteps into her shoes now.

May, who has been Prime

Minister for nearly three yearssince she took over from DavidCameron in the wake of the June2016 Brexit referendum, will for-mally resign in a letter to the1922 Committee of ToryBackbench MPs.

It will be business as usualfor her for some weeks while theinfluential Committee goesthrough the leadership contest.

There are so far 11 hopefuls,including frontrunner BorisJohnson with other key con-tenders being seen as UK foreignsecretary Jeremy Hunt and UKenvironment secretary MichaelGove.

The leadership candidatesneed eight MPs to back them.Conservative Party MPs willthen vote for their preferred can-didates in a series of secret bal-lots held on June 13, 18, 19 and20.

Charles Walker of theConservative backbench 1922Committee, which sets the rulesof the contest, said: “We are aim-ing to have two people by

Thursday 20 June.”The final two will be put to

a vote of members of the widerConservative Party, with a win-ner expected to be announced inthe week of July 22.

Contenders have alreadybeen conducting their hustingsas they lay out their credentialsfor the top job. How they planto deal with Britain’s exit fromthe European Union (EU) willbe at the heart of all their bids,with many backing a no-dealexit as others warn against suchan extreme step.

The UK was originallymeant to leave the EuropeanUnion on March 29. That wasthen pushed back to April 12and eventually October 31 afterTheresa May failed to get MPsto approve her deal. Sheannounced her resignation, say-ing she had done everything shecould to try to persuade MPs tosupport the withdrawal deal.

The deadline for nomina-tions for a new leader is 5pm onJune 10, so more names are like-ly to emerge by next week.

The 1922 Committee willthen announce the final list ofcandidates at 5.30pm onMonday.

The Tory party decided tochange the rules of leadershipelection to speed things up aftercriticism at the number of peo-ple coming forward for the job.Previously, candidates neededjust two nominations.

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Former Foreign Minister BorisJohnson, the frontrunner to

replace Theresa May as Britain’sPrime Minister, on Friday wonhis bid to block a lawsuit accus-ing him of knowingly lyingduring the Brexit referendumcampaign.

The decision removes ahurdle for Johnson in his lead-ership bid, with his lawyers per-suading a London court that theprivate prosecution was “polit-ically motivated and vexatious”.

They asked the High Courtto throw out a judge’s decisionlast month to allow a summonsordering Johnson to appear incourt over allegations of mis-conduct in public office, arguingthe decision had “erred in law”.

“We are quashing the deci-sion of the district judge to issuethe summonses,” MichaelSupperstone, one of two HighCourt judges hearing the case,said following a hearing Friday,at which Johnson was not pre-sent.

The case, brought by busi-nessman Marcus Ball in acrowd-funded initiative, con-cerned Johnson’s claim thatBritain sends 350 millionpounds ( USD 440 million, 400million euros) a week to theEuropean Union.

While this was Britain’sgross contribution, the net fig-ure accounts for a budget rebate

from the EU as well as paymentsto Britain’s public sector from theEU budget, and is substantiallyless.

The official Leave campaign emblazoned the controversial figure on the sideof its touring bus during the2016 EU referendum, whileJohnson and other Brexiteersrepeatedly trumpeted it cam-paigning.

Ball, 29, who has crowd-funded more than $300,000through an online campaign tobring the case, told reportersahead of the hearing he believedin “the merits of it”. In a writtenruling on May 29 district judgeMargot Coleman had agreedthat was there was a proper caseto issue a summons. But AdrianDarbishire, Johnson’s lawyer,asked the High Court Friday tothrow out the prosection

because it was political in nature.“The only rational conclusionwhich could be reached was thatthe prosecution was politicallymotivated and, therefore, vexa-tious,” he said. The two-judgepanel agreed.

“It was the conclusion of thecourt that we were persuaded byMr Darbishire,” said judge AnneRafferty.

“This quashes the sum-mons,” she said on revealingtheir ruling.

Johnson on Mondaylaunched his campaign to suc-ceed May as Conservative leader.She steps down Friday and for-mally triggers the race for a suc-cessor -- currently being con-tested by 11 MPs, includingJohnson -- but will remainprime minister until a newleader is chosen, likely in lateJuly.

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Anti-EU populist NigelFarage’s new Brexit Party

failed to win its first seat inBritain’s parliament as it lost outto the main opposition LabourParty in a crunch by-election,results on Friday showed.

The poll in the easternEnglish city of Peterboroughwas triggered after the sittingMP, Fiona Onasanya, wasdumped by voters after beingjailed for lying over a speedingoffence.

The Brexit Party’s candidateMike Greene, a local entrepre-neur, came in second with near-ly 29 percent of the vote, behindLabour’s Lisa Forbes, who wonaround 31 percent. The rulingConservatives came third with21 percent, while the LiberalDemocrats won 12 percent.

Friday’s result is a setbackfor the Brexit Party — foundedby eurosceptic figureheadFarage only a few months ago — which came out on topin the European elections inMay with 31.6 percent of votescast.

It had been seeking to cap-italise on that momentum aswell as voter disillusionmentwith the main Conservativeand Labour parties, who havehistorically shared thePeterborough seat.

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Russia and the United Stateson Friday accused each

other of dangerous manoeuvresafter their naval ships cameclose to collision in the EastChina Sea.

On Friday morning,Russia’s Pacific Fleet said thatthe USS Chancellorsville guided-missile cruiser sud-denly cut across the course ofits Admiral Vinogradov anti-submarine ship, passing infront of it at a distance of just50 metres (164 feet).

The Russian ship had tocarry out an emergencymanoeuvre to avoid collision,the navy said, adding that it hadsent a message of protest to theUS cruiser’s commanders.

Admiral ViktorKravchenko, Russia’s formernavy chief of staff, accused theUS of “hooliganism” in com-ments to Interfax news agency.

In a later statement, the US

seventh fleet attributed theincident to an “unsafe”manoeuvre by the Russian ship,which it said had acceleratedfrom behind to sail within 50to 100 feet of the Chan-cellorsville, “putting the safetyof her crew and ship at risk.” “We consider Russia’s actionsduring this interaction asunsafe and unprofessional,” theUS navy said.

Russia and the US regularlyaccuse each other of carryingout dangerous naval or aerialmanoeuvres.

In June 2016, Moscow andWashington traded accusationsafter their naval ships sailedclosely past each other in theeastern Mediterranean.

A month later, the USaccused Russia of “aggressive”and “erratic” moves by one ofits warships in the same waters.

The two countries alsoregularly complain over eachother’s military planes flyingtoo close to their airspace.

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Iran has chosen to “step backand recalculate” after making

preparations for an apparentattack against US Forces in thePersian Gulf region, but it is tooearly to conclude the threat isgone, the top commander ofAmerican forces in the Mideastsaid.

In an interview with threereporters accompanying him tothe Gulf, Gen. Frank McKenziesaid he remains concerned byIran’s potential for aggressionand he would not rule outrequesting additional U.S.Forces to bolster defensesagainst Iranian missiles orother weapons.

“I don’t actually believethe threat has diminished,”McKenzie said Thursday. “Ibelieve the threat is very real.”McKenzie, the head of U.S.Central Command, and othermilitary officials are trying tostrike a balance between per-suading Iran that the U.S. Isprepared to retaliate for anIranian attack on Americans,thus deterring conflict, andpushing so much military mus-cle into the Gulf that Iranthinks the U.S. Plans an attack,in which case it might feel com-pelled to strike preemptivelyand thus spark war.

Tensions between the U.S.And Iran have worsened sincePresident Donald Trump with-drew from a 2015 nuclearagreement between Iran andseveral world powers and rein-stated sanctions on Tehran.

Last month, in response towhat American officials char-acterized as an imminentthreat, the U.S. Announced itwould rush an aircraft carrierand other assets to the region.

The US also blamed Iranfor last month’s attacks on oiltankers in a United ArabEmirates port.

On Thursday, UnitedNations ambassadors from theEmirates, Saudi Arabia andNorway told U.N. SecurityCouncil members that investi-gators believe those attackswere led by a foreign state usingdivers on speed boats whoplanted mines on the vessels.They did not name Iran.

Earlier, the Saudi ambas-sador to the U.N., Abdallah Al-Mouallimi, said Saudi Arabiaalso blames Iran for the sabo-tage.

Iran has consistently dis-missed allegations that it wasinvolved in the recent attackson the oil tankers or waspreparing to attack Americantroops in the region. InBaghdad, McKenzie toldreporters from The AssociatedPress and two other mediaorganizations that U.S.Redeployments to the Gulfhave “caused the Iranians toback up a little bit, but I’m notsure they are strategically back-ing down.” The general said theU.S. Is showing enough force to“establish deterrence” without“needlessly” provoking its long-time adversary. He said he isconfident in the moves he hasmade.

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Michael Hussey feels that MahendraSingh Dhoni does not have “too

many weaknesses” but even if he has, theChennai Super Kings batting coachwouldn't share them with in-formAustralia ahead of their World Cup clashon Sunday.

Having crushed Afghanistan and putup an inspirational performance againsta rampaging West Indies, Australia areexpected to be more than a handful forIndia when the two teams square off atthe Oval.

Hussey has played alongside Dhoniat CSK and as coach, watched him fromclose quarters in the franchise.

So, will Hussey share his insights onDhoni with the Australian coachingteam?

"No chance. There aren’t too manyweaknesses there anyway," the formerAustralia batsman said.

However, Hussey is confident thatAustralia will have their plans in placefor the former India captain.

"All the teams do very thoroughanalysis on all the players so I am surethat they will have their plans for MSDand all the Indian players."

Asked what makes Dhoni tick whenhe is just a month short of 38, Husseysaid the it's the legend's awareness of hisstrengths.

"He is a great competitor and keepshis composure better than anyone espe-cially under pressure. He is a very smartplayer, who is calculating. He knows hisstrengths and always sticks to them," saidthe member of the 2007 World Cup-win-ning Australian team.

Dhoni's strike-rate has been an issuefor some time but Hussey doesn't findanything wrong with his strategy of tak-ing some time before hitting the finish-er mode.

"Not only does he (Dhoni) playaccording to the situation of the game butalso likes to give himself some time at thestart of his innings to get settled. Dhonilikes to take the responsibility of beingthere at the end to finish off the inningsor the game."

He feels that Dhoni's mere presenceand ability to take the game deep willkeep the opposition on its edge.

Of late, Dhoni has had difficulty in

hitting out against quality fast bowlerslike Pat Cummins, Kagiso Rabada andJofra Archer (in the IPL) but Husseyreckoned that it won't be a big deal.

"He will know which bowlers arethreats and which ones are targets inevery team. The bowlers you men-tioned can only bowl from one end."

On to things other than Dhoni,Hussey named Jasprit Bumrah, whostarted the World Cup with a terrificopening spell against South Africa, andHardik Pandya as the two game-chang-ers for India.

"Bumrah will bowl all those difficultovers. We would see him bowl whenev-er India are desperate for a wicket, sothere will be pressure on him but I thinkhe handles the pressure as well as any-one in world cricket.

"Hardik could be used as a floater inthe batting order ...Or be used as thatpower hitter at the back end of aninnings. I would not like to be bowlingif Hardik and MSD are batting at the endof an innings," he said.

Australia have made a great start totheir campaign and Hussey is happy tosee the seamless integration of DavidWarner and Steve Smith -- both makinga successful return after serving ball-tam-pering bans -- in the set-up.

Hussey's only worry now is how theduo will handle the boos from a parti-san English crowd which has alreadymade its presence felt.

"They (Warner and Smith) seem tohave settled back in well from the out-side. They are well known by all the play-ers and have done their time, everyonewants to move on.

"The challenge for the team is howwell they can handle the external distrac-tions which will surely come from theEnglish crowds and media."

Asked to pick his four semifinalists,Hussey said: "I think this is going to beone of the best World Cups in history,my guess for the top four would beEngland, India, Australia and Pakistan.But I also think South Africa and NewZealand could be in there too."

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They hunt in pairs butKuldeep Yadav feels thathe still needs to learn from

his "senior partner" YuzvendraChahal on how to plan for a par-ticular batsman.

Kuldeep, after an indifferentIPL, was back in rhythm duringthe opening game against SouthAfrica where he got JP Duminy'swicket and bowled well in tandemwith Chahal.

Asked what he has learntfrom Chahal, Kuldeep said: "He ismore experienced than me. Hehas a very good idea of how tobowl to a certain batsman and Ineed to learn from him," Kuldeeptold reporters following India'swin over South Africa in theirWorld Cup opener.

"I am feeling good about howthe ball is coming out of my hand.Chahal and I could execute theplan we had chalked (againstSA). We checked the flow of runsin the middle overs and alsopicked wickets," the left-arm wristspinner said.

He had only 4 wickets from 9games for KKR in the 2019 IPLbut he went back to the drawingboard with his childhood coachKapil Dev Pandey.

"T20 is different from ODIand after IPL got over, I went backto my coach, practised for 10 daysand fixed all the problems. Ineeded to get back to my basics,"the chinaman said.

With bounce being his prima-ry weapon, he worked on alteringpace on his deliveries.

"I needed to be back at mybest in a big event and I mixedpace with variation. InEngland, the wicketswill be flat andthere won't betoo much helpfrom the wick-et. So we needto alter thepace of ourdeliveries anduse it as avariation," saidKuldeep.

Last year, hiscareer-best six-wicket haul cameagainst England inNottingham and he fanciesdoing well once again.

"I have always had good per-formances abroad as I rely onbounce off the pitch. Batsmendon't go on back foot and youalways are in with a chance if theyare coming forward," he signedoff.

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India might employ a three-pace attack against Australia

on Sunday after watching thedefending champions' top-order struggle against a bar-rage of bouncers by a hostileWest Indies pace battery, feelsRicky Ponting.

The West Indies trio ofOshane Thomas, SheldonCottrell and Andre Russellterrorised the Australian bats-men with their fiery pace anddisconcerting short balls,reducing the five-time cham-pions to 38 for four at one stageduring last match onThursday.

Two-time World Cup win-ning captain Ponting, who iscurrently the assistant coach,believed the sight of his boysscurrying for cover mighttempt the Indian team man-agement to go with threequicks instead of playing twowrist-spinners.

"(Jasprit) Bumrah weknow is a very good new ballbowler and I'm sure he'll mixit up and bowl some short stuffand some full stuff," Ponting

was quoted as saying by crick-et.Com.Au.

"Bhuvneshwar will proba-bly not worry you too muchwith his pace or his bouncers.Hardik can maybe rush you alittle bit, so maybe they have adecision to make on the over-all make up of their side.

"Do they maybe go withonly the one spinner and use(off-spinning allrounder)Kedhav Jadav as a secondspinner and play another fastbowler? We'll worry aboutthat in the next couple of daysand make sure all the boys areprepared."

The former skipper felt theteam's early wobble in their 15-run win over West Indies wasa necessary "wake-up call"ahead of the India clash.

"It could very well be … awake-up call. Just understand-ing that if you are under pres-sure in big games like WorldCup games, finding a mecha-nism or a way to get through(is important)," said Ponting.

"It could be just a goodlearning curve for those guysat the top and hopefully they'llbounce back strong."

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Four years ago, defeat byBangladesh sent England crash-

ing out of the World Cup and leftEoin Morgan wondering if his cap-taincy was over before it had everreally begun.

Much has changed since thenhowever, as Morgan has helpedEngland become the No 1 ODIside in the world and favourites toclaim the 2019 World Cup onhome soil this summer.

The journey to claim theirmaiden World Cup crown hasmade a topsy-turvy start however,an impressive win over SouthAfrica followed by a narrow loss toPakistan.

Game three turns attentions toa drizzly Cardiff and a rematchwith Bangladesh — who also beatEngland in the 2011 edition of the

tournament.But it is going to take a lot

more than the Trent Bridge defeatby Pakistan to derail England thistime around — according to theirskipper.

"All we have talked about issticking to what we do well," hesaid.

"Even before the tournament,we talked about losing games,how we would react and what wewould counter that with.

"It goes back to focusing onourselves and our strengths andhow we can get the best out of our-selves."

Cardiff has proved seamer-friendly so far in this year's WorldCup, New Zealand's bowlersexploiting the conditions well todown Sri Lanka before the latterdid the same to see offAfghanistan.

Liam Plunkett looks likely toreturn to the England side there-fore, and Morgan insists his sidehave not missed a step despite thePakistan defeat.

"We didn't deserve to win thegame. But we played some reallygood cricket, two guys scored ahundred and we nearly chaseddown 350," he added.

"We lacked a bit in the field.And that still remains the case.Hopefully we put in a bettershowing in the field.

"But defeat presents a hugeopportunity to learn more aboutyour game and improve.

"Games where we have beendefeated heavily have been theones where we learned the most.

"We still managed to stay inthe game, we remained in a head-space where we still believed inwinning the game.

"That shows a lot more to our-selves, probably more than to oursupporters, they don't see that allthe time. They see an exciting

team the majority of the time. Butwhen we lose we see our charac-ter, the other side of our game."

And after seeing off SouthAfrica and pushing New Zealandall the way, Bangladesh are a seri-ous threat that Morgan is notgoing to underestimate.

"It is going to be a difficultgame. They are a good side and Ithink people underestimate them.We certainly don't," he added.

"They are a side that hasplayed a lot of cricket, their seniorplayers especially have played a lotof games, more so than our seniorplayers so they are a threat.Hopefully we can play well andovercome them.

"I remember them makingtheir earliest impression, againstAustralia in 2005.

"Since then they have beenexposed to a lot more cricket andhave become a better side.

"We were beaten by a betterteam in 2015. They deserved towin that night."

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England will face theside who kick-startedtheir transformationinto a major threat in

one-day internationals whenthe tournament hosts contin-ue their World Cup campaignagainst Bangladesh in Cardiffon Saturday.

The Tigers condemnedEoin Morgan's men to a first-round exit at the 2015 editionwith a 15-run victory inAdelaide.

At that point there was nolonger any way of hidingEngland's white-ball woes and,with a home World Cup upnext, then England and WalesCricket Board directorAndrew Strauss was deter-mined the national side's lim-ited overs form had toimprove.

To that end, Peter Mooreswas sacked as coach, withStrauss bringing in experi-enced Australian TrevorBayliss as his replacement.

Since that debacle 'DownUnder', England have risen toto the top of the one-dayinternational rankings.

But having started theirquest to win a first men'sWorld Cup with a 104-runthrashing of South Africa atthe Oval, they head into thisweekend's clash on the back ofa surprise 14-run defeat byPakistan.

That match saw Englandlose their cool, with openingbatsman Jason Roy and fastbowler Jofra Archer both finedfor lapses in their conduct onthe field.

Meanwhile if Englandwere annoyed by some ofPakistan's 'verbals', there weretimes when the large contin-gent of fans for the sub-con-tinental side — a commonsight even when England areat home — also had an effect.

England all-rounder ChrisWoakes, usually the mostmild-mannered of cricketers,put his finger to his lips in abid to 'silence' Pakistan sup-porters after taking a catch onthe boundary.

It could well be a similarstory at Sophia Gardens onSaturday, particularly as sev-eral players on both sides whofeatured in England's ill-tem-pered 2016 win overBangladesh in Dhaka are like-ly to be involved again.

England fast bowler LiamPlunkett, who could berecalled after missing thePakistan defeat, said his team-mates knew how to maintaintheir composure.

L���� �#����#�.�#C"Pakistan are pretty good

like that, they can get niggly.When they're on top they'regood at doing it," said the 34-year-old.

"Similarly Bangladesh and

India, they're good at doingthat, good at appealing quitea lot. It's just the way they playtheir cricket.

"But we've played in bigcompetitions, guys haveplayed around the world - atIPL (Indian Premier League)and Big Bash in front of bigcrowds — it shouldn't be toomuch for the players."Bangladesh also head into theweekend following a defeatafter losing out by two wick-ets in a tense contest with NewZealand.

But Plunkett said the dayswhen the Tigers were rankoutsiders away from the sub-continent had gone.

"There's no real shockdefeats in this competition," heinsisted.

"We've already seenBangladesh beat South Africaand that's not a shock defeat.

"They're a strong squad. Iremember when they beatEngland way back when (inBristol, 2010) and it was ashock defeat.

"I don't think them beat-ing teams like South Africa islike that anymore."

Adil Rashid bowled fivecostly overs against Pakistanand, given the leg-spinner'songoing shoulder injury,England may decide to leavehim out on Saturday.

For Bangladesh, a matchat Sophia Gardens sees themback at the scene of one oftheir greatest triumphs — a2005 ODI win over Australia,then as now world champions,

that is arguably the biggestupset in the history of interna-tional cricket.

Mashrafe Mortaza, whoplayed in that stunning five-wicket success, is nowBangladesh's captain.

He took heart from howBangladesh had nearly defend-ed a target of 245 against NewZealand, saying the team werein good spirits as they pre-pared to face England.

"I think they (England) areone of the biggest side in thistournament. It's not going tobe easy, we knew that," saidMashrafe.

"But again, if we can playour best possible cricket, younever know."

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Well, you cannot confirm, but yes, wehave to take the positives, which might helpin tomorrow's match. There is a possibil-ity to win against New Zealand, but again,I said that we need to deliver in the righttime, which is maybe equal last match. Isaid at Oval 244 is always difficult todefend, but we were very close and hope-fully the positive stuff we will take andmove to tomorrow.�People are saying that this Englandteam is the best, and here is the WorldCup on their home soil and maybe thatcreates some pressure for them whichmight help you in this game.

Obviously this is one of the best teamEngland have ever produced, especially inthe World Cup. I think still they are in theright way winning matches, and they arein good touch, which I feel. I’m not muchbeliever in the question you have asked,which is I know we have to play at our best.You know, the area they have been verystrong, we have to keep them quiet.

If it’s we can make it happen, today’smatch, it might help us. On the other hand,obviously I know there was a little bit ofpressure that the people that are expectingthat England will take the trophy this time,which is a kind of pressure. But I thinkEngland players knows how to handle thispressure.�You have beaten England in the last twoWorld Cups, so how realistic is a hat trickhere, do you think?

I don’t think so it’s going to help us alot because, you know, even if we lost, it’snot going to help us. So it’s a new, freshmatch. Both teams started from the firstball, so it’s very important for both teamsstarting well. I would say yes, we have beenbeating them the last two World Cup. Itdoesn’t mean that we will make it happenagain the way it did. There is the chances,and for that, we have to play at our best.�Do you think there are chances forchanges in terms of performance?

The plan is to change according to con-ditions, and I don’t think so much changeis going to help team much. But it depends,you know, if it’s keep — if it’s raining likethis, we have to think about it. If not, thenobviously, there is the management, as well.They will think about it. If someone willcome with different plans, we will thinkabout it.� In the first two England games, we’veseen spin bowlers take the wickets ofEngland openers in the power plays. Isthat a tactic you’re going to employ today?

All spinners all over the world, theyplayed a big role, which is one of our biggeststrengths. We know that Shakib is — allover the world, he is one of the biggeststrengths for us. Miraz is doing well for along time. I mean, the last two years, he'sdoing so well for us with the new ball.

Yes, it was been tactics, which we haveseen even England, against England, SouthAfrica started. So most of the team, youknow, taking this sort of tactics. But it'sdepended how much you can be success oryou cannot be success. But you have to beconfident enough with your tactics.

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England have already experienced twocontrasting results in the early stage of

the World Cup: their convincing victoryagainst South Africa was followed by awake-up call against Pakistan. Plunkett,who missed out against Pakistan onMonday, believes his team will come backstrongly when they take on Bangladesh inCardiff.

"Maybe there were a few nerves at TrentBridge," Plunkett said. "We were not at ourbest and we let ourselves down in the field.We have had a couple of days off. Hopefullywe can start again fresh."

Against Pakistan at Trent Bridge,England had to deal with a crowd that wasvocal in their support for Sarfaraz Ahmed'smen. Against Bangladesh, they can againexpect a good section of the crowd to sup-port their opponents. Plunkett backed theplayers to dig into their experience of play-ing in big tournaments across the worldand not succumb to mental games.

"Pakistan are pretty good like that —they can get niggly. Similarly Bangladesh,India, they're good at doing that, [like]appealing quite a lot. It's just the way theylike to play their cricket. "

But we've played in big competitions,guys have played around the world — atthe Indian Premier League and Big Bashin front of big crowds — so it shouldn't betoo much. It's just about getting involvedin the game, taking out the crowd and theother team to just try and do your job."

Bangladesh, who ended England'sWorld Cup campaign in 2015, announcedthemselves with a resounding win in theiropening game against South Africa.Plunkett believed the result wasn't a shock,adding that their opponents on Saturdayhave a strong set of players.

"We saw Bangladesh beat South Africaand it wasn't a shock defeat," Plunkett said."I remember when they beat England wayback when and it was a shock defeat. Butthere are no real shock defeats in this com-petition. They're a strong squad."

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Ross Taylor insists NewZealand are ready for atrial by spin againstAfghanistan on

Saturday as they look to keeptheir winning momentum goingin the World Cup.

The Kiwis edged outBangladesh by two wickets onWednesday, with Taylor hitting82 in his team's tense chase at theOval to record their secondstraight win in as any matches.

New Zealand, who werefinalists in the 2015 edition, haverelied on their paceman to getfavourable results, but Taylorbelieves tackling spin will be keyagainst the Asian minnows atTaunton.

"I think against Afghanistan,they have a lot of spin there, sosomething to factor in," saidTaylor, who has recorded three40 plus scores in his last fourODI innings.

"But two from two, that waswhat we wanted to do and wewere able to do it." While Taylorand skipper Kane Williamsongot the runs during their 105-run partnership in London, itwas their pace attack led by MattHenry that ran through theBangladesh batting.

Henry claimed four wicketsto take his tally to seven in twogames.

He is well supported byTrent Boult and LockieFerguson, who can clock speedsup to 96 mph.

Taylor beloves thatFerguson, with his express pace,is the key man for the BlackCaps.

"Lockie, he just gives youthat X-factor. Obviously ourfastest bowler. He is going to bea key factor for us if we're goingto feature in this tournament,"said Taylor.

"I think he's creating pres-sure for the guy at the other end(to take wickets)," he added.

Ferguson's pace partnerHenry said that Afghanistan area "dangerous side" and NewZealand will treat them with"utmost respect".

Afghanistan, who are play-ing just their second 50-overWorld Cup, have lost their twogames in the tournament so farbut not without a fight.

Leg-spinner Rashid Khanleads the charge withMohammed Nabi, who returnedfigures of 4-30 with his off spinin their previous loss against SriLanka.

But it's their batting that haslet them down as they were dis-missed for 152 in their revisedchase of 187 in a rain-hit gameCardiff on Tuesday.

"We need some improve-ment in the batting, we needmore partnerships," Afghanistanskipper Gulbadin Naib saidafter the Sri Lanka loss.

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bowler Mirwais Ashraf, who waspart of the team's campaign inthe previous World Cup, said thesenior batsmen need to step upor give way to youngsters.

"We've seen the same thingsplay out in both of the matchesso far. There have been too manymistakes and some players aren'tbatting very responsibly," hesaid.

"I think it's time to give achance to some of the otherseamers and batsmen in thesquad now as we look to turnthings around, starting with thegame against New Zealand."

SQUADAfghanistan: Sarfaraz

Ahmed (c, wk), Asif Ali, HasanAli, Shaheen Afridi,Mohammad Amir, Babar Azam,Mohammad Hafeez,Mohammad Hasnain, Imam-ul-Haq, Shadab Khan, ShoaibMalik, Wahab Riaz, Haris Sohail,Imad Wasim, FakharZamanGulbadin Naib (c), NoorAli Zadran, Hazratullah Zazai,Rahmat Shah (wk), AsgharAfghan, Hashmatullah Shahidi,Najibullah Zadran, SamiullahShinwari, Mohammad Nabi,Rashid Khan, Dawlat Zadran,Aftab Alam, Hamid Hassan,Mujeeb ur Rahman, Ikram AliKhil.

New Zealand: KaneWilliamson (capt), Tom Blundell(wk), Trent Boult, Colin deGrandhomme, Lockie Ferguson,Martin Guptill, Matt Henry,Tom Latham, Colin Munro,Jimmy Neesham, HenryNicholls, Mitchell Santner, IshSodhi, Tim Southee, Ross Taylor.

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at the ongoing World Cup to the"glossier" Kookaburra balls whichoffers more swing, making thecontest between bat and ball even.

"The balls are actually differ-ent for this tournament. They'vegot a different gloss on them,they're painted differently, sothere's definitely been a little bitmore swing," said Boult, who tookhis 150th ODI wicket againstBangladesh at The Oval onWednesday.

"Conditions have been goodbut I believe there should be thatlittle period at the start of thegame where it's an even battle ofbat versus ball, so it's nice to seethe ball moving like it is at themoment."

Boult got his World Cuppreparation off to a fine start bypicking four wickets in a warm-up game against India.

"The white balls have beenquite prominent, you can see thequarter seams and everythingwith the ball, but it's fully coverednow. It's nice to hold in the handand it's moving a little bit, so I'mvery happy."

The use of two new balls foreach innings has robbed pacersthe chance to go for reverse swingdue to the lack of sufficient wearand tear.

"I'd love to see (just) one ballin ODI cricket to be honest," saidBoult, who snapped four for 33against India in the warm-upgame.

"I think any reverse swing atthe end can really help any deathbowler, the margin for errorbecomes slightly bigger and thehitting zone is a little bit smaller.

"I'm not sure where it's goingto get to but the invention of slow-er balls and knuckle balls and twobouncers and all that carry on hasgiven a couple of cards up thesleeves."

New Zealand will faceAfghanistan on Saturday andBoult said his team will treat theiropponents with respect.

"There's a lot of respect for theAfghanistanis who we are comingup against. They've got somequality players, some experiencedplayers. I've never played atTaunton but I hear it's quite asmall ground so we will have tobe on the button," Boult said.

"We are looking forward tothat challenge and then there aresome very big games to come inthe tournament. To be 2 and 0with a little bit of momentumbehind us is a good position."

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�You had a setback yesterday withMohammad Shahzad being ruled out.He's quite an influential player on yourteam. What's the mood like now withouthim being available?

Obviously it's a big loss of our side. So,Shahzad is one of — a great player forAfghanistan. He did a lot of -- I'm alsoupset of him — he, the last two, three weekshe's struggling, his knee. So he's not feel-ing well also in the matches. He can't mov-ing on the right time.

So I also kept him, last two weeks, justI checked with my doctor, with my physio.So I gave the time to him. So if he recov-er on the time, maybe it's good for the team.But unfortunately it's a bad luck of Shahzad.

So I'm really upset of him. So we losthim. But it's cricket. So first it's important,as a team, is also coming of Afghanistan,so what's important for Afghanistan. Sohope he will recover soon so he will comeback on the team. But the new guy's com-ing, Ikram Ali Khil, under-19 guy. He's verywell. He's a young guy and I hope he willdo well.

�Apart from Shahzad's batting and hiskeeping, what will you miss obviouslybeing with the team for such a long time,got a lot of experience and seems to be apretty lively character on the team as well?What will you miss in the dressingroom?

Yes, Shahzad is very energetic. Also inthe dressing room he's very funny. Also heentertains every time the team members.So we miss a lot of things of him especial-ly in the ground even. But obviouslywhen you look for your country, it's moreimportant for your country, so what's thebest for the country. So we should go forthat.

So I think Shahzad is one of the bestplayers in Afghanistan now still, but his lastfour, eight, six years, but we miss a lot ofthings of him. I'm really upset for him, buthis injury, so we cannot say if he recoveron the time. So he's taking a lot of time. SoI'm really upset for him.

�How important is the job betweenRashid Khan and Kane Williamson heregiven they both played at SunrisersHyderabad?

It's very difficult, the last two seasons,between Rashid and Kane Williamson play-ing together in Sunrisers. But Rashid is notlike the other bowlers. It's totally different.He was, the last four years, with thenational team, but even then nobodyknows how he bowled in the nets. So it'svery difficult to pick him. I think it's notonly for Kane, also it is difficult for ourplayers, too. It's difficult for our batsmenand we're playing against him in the nets.Rashid is very different, quick and fast.Didn't give you time to pick him. So I thinkit's very difficult. So I hope Rashid will bedo best before he did.

�Now you've played the team that wonlast time and you're going to play the teamthat also reached the final the runners up.How different has this experience and thiscampaign been for the squad comparedto your trip to Australia and New Zealandin 2015?

It's totally different now. We played in2015 World Cup is our first World Cup forAfghanistan. So it's totally different. Andhigh stage. Beginning of cricket. We justthink the times, it's a big honour forAfghanistan who is participating in thiskind of events.

And now in this workup, it's totallychanged everything. Now we improveday-by-day. Our ticket is going day-by-dayup. So here we're not just to participate inthe World Cup or — so we we're here fordoing something different and we show tothe world so Afghanistan is not like 2015team. I think. Afghanistan team is totallydifferent.

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Considering where they wereearlier on in the day at 79for 5 in their innings, it was

a remarkable turnaround fromAustralia to get the victory againstthe West Indies.

They struggled early onagainst some very good pacebowling and that's an area theywill need to work on, but any timeyou can pinch a victory like thatit is a pretty good result.

There was also an unlikelyhero with the bat in NathanCoulter-Nile. It was a phenome-nal performance from him tomake 92 — let alone to do it fromjust 60 balls.

It’s a pretty special perfor-mance from him to get his side to288, while Steve Smith was alsovery good and held it togetherwith those partnerships with AlexCarey and then Coulter-Nile.

That gave Australia some-thing to bowl at when, halfwaythrough the innings, you arequestioning what’s gone wrongand all the negatives that can per-vade a dressing room.

For them to be on a highgoing out to bowl, having dodged

a bullet to a certain degree with anunlikely hero in Coulter-Nile,was a huge shift in the momentumof the match.

I am surprised Andre Russelland Jason Holder didn’t bowl outtheir overs, but it was a great per-formance from Coulter-Nile andthe spring in the step was evidentin the field early on.

I also thought Mitchell Starcbowled really well to take his fivewickets. When he’s got his rhythm

and his form is good, he’s definite-ly the best around — I think thatis without question.

The way he starts, he swingsthe ball early, and then later on hegoes around the wicket and makesit hard for tail-enders to get bat onball with his pace and the angle hebowls.

It was a tremendous perfor-mance from him. Pat Cumminsalso bowled well, although theothers struggled a bit so there areareas for improvement from theAussies.

But it's all about winningthose close games and gettingthrough, that's what they are play-ing for really, it doesn’t matter ifyou win all nine games if you havea shocker in the semi-final.

If you can win games withoutplaying your best, obviously youwant to build to your best, that'swhat a time like this is about andIndia next up will be a big stum-bling block.

I think they got out of jail a lit-tle bit the other day, the SouthAfricans played pretty well butthey are just not scoring enoughruns, and then Rohit Sharma

kept it all together for the Indians.India have got some vulnera-

bilities, but they also have someworld-class performers in Sharma,Virat Kohli, Jasprit Bumrah andthe rest — it's a pretty handy side!

That’s a tough hurdle forAustralia but once they’ve playeda couple of decent teams, they willhave a better idea of where they areat with regards to the rest of thetournament.

All the sides are basicallyshowing they can beat each other,that’s the main thing that’s comeout of these early games, there’s noobvious runaway—looking teamat the moment.

I think that is how most of usexpected it to be at this point —that there would be a lot of teamsyou expect to do well and thenthere would be a few surprisepackages.

West Indies will clearly be oneof those sides to keep an eye on,they look really dangerous, butAustralia are progressing nicely sofar and will be happy with theirstart to the tournament.

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Carlos Brathwaite said the WestIndies were on the wrong end of too

much poor umpiring following a 15-rundefeat by champions Australia asMichael Holding slammed an "atro-cious" display by the match officials.

West Indies opener Chris Gayle andcaptain Jason Holder were both twicegiven out on the field at Trent Bridge onThursday but, on both sets of occasions,saw their decision to review vindicat-ed by the third umpire.

The mood of theCaribbean side was nothelped when standingumpire Chris Gaffaneymissed a Mitchell Starcno-ball the deliverybefore the left-armquick dismissed Gaylefor 21.

Had the NewZealand official called ano-ball, the next deliverywould have been a free hitfrom which the veteran openercould not have been dismissed.

Brathwaite accepted Gaffaney andSri Lanka's Ruchira Palliyaguruge weredoing their best, but he made noattempt to hide his annoyance after theWest Indies fell short chasing a targetof 289.

"I don't know if I'll be fined for say-ing it but I just think that the umpiringwas a bit frustrating," Brathwaite toldreporters.

L��+5�����������D"Even when we were bowling we

thought a few balls close to head heightwere called wides.

"And obviously three decisions...Asfar as I can remember being dodgy, itwas frustrating and sent ripples throughthe dressing room," the all-rounderadded.

"To lose Chris in a chase of 280, whocan probably get 180 of them himselfobviously, broke the start that we want-ed to have.

"But the umpires do their job, theytry to do it to the best of their ability,we as players go out there to do our jobas well, so there was no confrontationbetween the players and the umpires."

Gaffaney raised his finger twice inthree balls to gove Gayle whilePalliyaguruge was two-times over-ruledby replays after raising his finger againstHolder.

Brathwaite made it clear the deci-sions had not been the key reason whythe West Indies had lost, but said theywere part of a concerning pattern.

"I just think I'd like that for WestIndies, we don't have to use all ourreviews and that some of the otherteams get a chance to use theirs because,

every time we get hit on ourpad, the finger goes up," he

said."When we hit the

opposition on theirpad, the finger staysdown. So we have touse our reviews andit's always missingand then we have to

use our reviews whenwe're batting as well

and it's always clipping."I'm not a technology

person, I don't know whythat happens, I can just say what I haveseen happen over the past few years."

L���,�"���"DMeanwhile Holding, commentating

on television, was scathing about the"weak" officiating on show atNottinghamshire's headquarters.

"The umpiring in this game hasbeen atrocious," said Holding, one ofcricket's all-time leading fast bowlers.

The 65-year-old Jamaican addedGaffaney and Palliyaguruge had cavedinto pressure created by prolongedAustralia appeals.

"For one, even when I was playingand you were not as strict as they arenow, you were allowed one appeal,"recalled Holding, who infamouslykicked down the stumps during a1979/80 Test in Dunedin after hisappeal to have New Zealand's JohnParker caught behind was rejected byumpire Fred Goodall.

"You don't appeal two, three, fourtimes to the umpire. They are beingintimidated which means they are weak.

"This has been an atrocious bit ofumpiring by both (Gaffaney andPalliyaguruge)."

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Wicket-keeper Shai Hopeadmitted the manner of West

Indies' defeat to Australia was ahard pill to swallow after his sideenjoyed a commanding positionfor majority of the game at TrentBridge.

Australia, who were reeling at79/5, recovered from the battingcollapse to post 288 all out on theback of a match-winning knock byNathan Coulter-Nile (92) and avaluable anchoring role by SteveSmith (73).

A brilliant bowling spell byleft-arm pacer Mitchell Starc (5/46)was sufficient to ensure a 15-runvictory for Australia - despiteHope's composed knock of 68.

"This is going to be a tough pillto swallow having basically beendominating the game for themajority of it and then not beingable to cross the line," Hope said.

"Regardless of what happenswe have to play cricket on the day.

We always play the best we possi-bly can and the better team will winon the day," he added.

It was ultimately scant conso-lation but both Hope and outfield-er Sheldon Cottrell grasped stun-ning catches during the game.

Hope delighted the crowdwhen he flew to his left to scoopup a one-handed grab thatremoved Usman Khawaja for 13off the bowling of Andre Russell.

But the 25-year-old admits hewas bettered by Cottrell's effort tofinally dismiss Smith - as hecaught the ball one-handed whiletip-toeing along the boundaryrope, then flicked the ball back inthe air as he crossed the ropebefore stepping back on to the fieldcomplete the catch.

"Easily (the better catch), that

was an amazing effort. At first Iwasn't sure if he had it but then Irealised it was a proper catch."

"For mine, it was just one ofthose things. I just had to go - Ididn't really have much time tothink. Andre bowled a prettydecent delivery and I just saw thewhite thing and tried to catch it."

The West Indies' seam quar-tet of Russell, Cottrell, CarlosBrathwaite and Oshane Thomascaused havoc with aggressive,short-pitched bowling with thenew ball before Australia recov-ered and Hope insists the team willcontinue with the tactic.

"Most definitely, as long as youget wickets with the new ball youalways put teams under pressure,"he said.

"It was just unfortunate wecouldn't drive home and get thetail in a bit earlier. But that's howcricket plays and we knowAustralia are a quality side. They'veshown us that they can build,"Hope said.

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England managerGareth Southgate

promised his sidewould learn from anerror-strewn perfor-mance as theNetherlands progressedto the final of theNations League bycoming from behind tobeat the Three Lions 3-1 on Thursday.

Defeat meansEngland's long wait fora trophy since 1966goes on and the Dutchthoroughly deservedtheir place in Sunday'sfinal against Portugal.

Marcus Rashford'spenalty gave England afirst-half lead againstthe run of play, butMatthijs de Ligt madeamends for his error inleading to the spot-kickto level 17 minutesfrom time.

England con-tributed to their owndownfall in extra-time

with a comedy of errorsfor both goals. JohnStones and RossBarkley were at fault asKyle Walker's own goaland Quincy Promes'ssimple f inish sentHolland into the final.

Southgate's menwere attempting tobuild on the success ofreaching a first WorldCup semi-final for 28

years, but their displayshowed much work isstill to be done if theyare to end their trophydrought on next sum-mer at Euro 2020 withthe semi-finals andfinal to be played onhome soil at Wembley.

"I think it's a reallyimportant game for usto reflect on," saidSouthgate.

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Defending championRafael Nadal powered

past Roger Federer in theFrench Open semi-finals onFriday, to move within onevictory of a record-extend-ing 12th Roland Garros titleafter handing his oldest rivalhis worst Grand Slamdefeat in 11 years.

The 33-year-old produced amasterful perfor-mance to get pastFederer 6-3, 6-4,6-2 in the last four onCourt Philippe Chatrierand set up a final clash witheither world number oneNovak Djokovic or Austrianfourth seed Dominic Thiemon Sunday.

It will be Nadal’s 12thappearance in the champi-onship match, which he hasnever lost before.

"It's incredible to playwith Roger here," saidNadal.

"Congratulations to him

— to be at his level at 37, it'sincredible. I say thank youto the Parisian fans, becauseit's magnificent for me to bein another final.

"It's always a pleasure toplay with him. It's always adifficult match against him."

The third seed now hasan stunning 92-2 win-loss

record on the Paris clay,having beaten

Federer for the sixthtime in as manyFrench Open meet-ings despite diffi-

cult, windy condi-tions.Nadal also leads his

overall head-to-head againstFederer 24-15, and 14-2 onclay after ending a run offive straights losses to the37-year-old.

A tally of just ninegames meant it wasFederer's heaviest defeat ina Grand Slam match sincemanaging only four againstNadal in their famouslyone-sided 2008 RolandGarros final.

Nadal made only 19unforced errors, crushing 33winners as Federer struck25, although that amountcould easily have been dou-

bled against any opponentother than the 11-timechampion.

The defeat leavesFederer still waiting for a

first victory over Nadal onclay since 2009 in Madrid.

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the Spaniard race through thefirst three games before

Federer broke back asthe wind played havocwith the players' servesfrom one end.

But Nadal grabbeda 4-2 advantage in a

marathon sixth game asFederer, looking to become

the oldest Grand Slam final-ist since Ken Rosewall at the1974 US Open, dumped aforehand into the net.

The crowd were roaringon Federer as he saved a setpoint, but gasped in appreci-ation of a rasping Nadal back-hand winner which clinchedthe opening set.

The Swiss turned on thestyle to take the first twogames of the second set, onlyto be broken straight back asNadal curled a trademarkforehand up the line.

Federer was throwing

everything he had at Nadal,but the indomitable left-han-der was simply too strong.

The key moments cametowards the end of the secondset, when second seed Nadalmanaged to hold under severepressure to level at 4-4, beforeputting the pedal down tobreak despite having trailed40-0.

The defending championconfidently served out the setto love to move one stepcloser to the final, where hewill look to lift the trophy fora third successive year.

Federer's chances wereslipping away quickly, and hereceived a warning after angri-ly hitting the ball into theupper reaches of PhilippeChatrier after a flick off the netchord helped Nadal break ingame three of the third set.

Another break inFederer's next service gameeffectively signalled the end ofthe contest, and Nadalwrapped up an impressive vic-tory as his rival fired a returnlong.

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