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Days after Union HomeMinister Rajnath Singh’s
assertion that “something bighas happened” in retaliation toBSF jawan Narender Singh’sbrutal killing by Pakistaniforces, it has now emergedthat the BSF killed 14 men ofPakistan Rangers anddestroyed six bunkers on theintervening night of September25 and 26 along the Line ofControl in Jammu & Kashmir.
As a tit for tat for tying thefeet of Singh and slitting histhroat, the BSF also inflictedbefitting injuries on at least twopersonnel of the PakistanRangers, top sources said.
The BSF jawan was killedon September 18 by thePakistan Rangers while clear-ing elephant grass on the inter-national boundary along witha team.
“Hamare BSF ka ek jawan,abhi uske saath jis tarike se bad-salooki ki hai Pakistan ne,shayad aapne dekha hoga. Kuchhua hai, main bataoonga nahi.Hua hai, theek thaak hua hai,vishwaas rakhna bahut theekthaak hua hai, 2-3 din pehle.Aur aage bhi dekhiega kyahoga” (Something has hap-pened, I can’t tell you what. Ithappened, something substan-tial. Trust me something bighas happened 2-3 days back,now wait and watch what hap-pens in the future), the HomeMinister had said on Fridaywhile referring to the killing ofBSF jawan Narender.
After India’s retaliatorystrike, Pakistan Army corpscommander visited the borderarea on September 26 to boostthe morale of the elite unit ofPakistan Rangers trapped andhit by the BSF. Outgoing BSFDG KK Sharma had on Fridaysaid sufficient action was takenand Narender ‘s killing wasavenged on the LoC. Sharma
had also said the Pakistan sidehad vacated five km of the areafrom the zero line fearing fur-ther retribution and mortarshelling from the BSF.
The retaliatory action wasplanned by the BSF swiftly, and“fox game” played by theIntelligence agencies, was usedahead of the action againstthem. In a fox game, the agen-cies use the communicationand media platforms to hood-wink the adversary and reducetheir alertness.
The casualty figures are
significant especially when theBSF has not used mortar firingto retaliate against the coun-terpart.
“A series of fronts andposts were activated along theLoC, fox game was in full playand a successful coordinatedaction was executed against theadversary. All the action wasexecuted on their (Pakistan)side of the LoC,” an officialprivy to the details said.
The sources also did notrule out further action againstPakistani forces.
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ASpecial Investigation Team(SIT) has started a probe
into the killing of an Appleexecutive Vivek Tiwari inpolice firing in Lucknow onSaturday. The killing of theyoung man sent shock wavesacross the State and pressure ismounting on police bosses topunish cops involved in thealleged brutal “murder”.
The 38-year-old executiveof a private company who wasallegedly shot dead by a trigger-happy constable while he wasgoing to drop his colleagueSana Khan in Gomti Nagarhere was on Sunday crematedin presence of Uttar PradeshMinisters and family mem-bers at Bhaisakund.
Giving details, ADGLucknow Zone Rajeev Krishnasaid the team collected detailsfrom the crime scene duringthe investigation. “The aim ofthe investigation is to collectcorroborative and scientificevidence to reach to a conclu-sion in the case,” he said.
The SIT led by IGLucknow Range Sujit Pandeyvisited the crime scene andGomti Nagar police station onSunday morning.
IG Lucknow range andSIT head Sujit Pandey said theteam studied the dents in thewalls of the underpass to exam-ine what would be the speed ofthe vehicle at the time of inci-dent. “We observed tyre markson the road. The forensic teamwhich helped in collection ofevidences had been asked tofind out the reason behind thesame.
“We are also trying to findout the exact sequence of inci-dent. The team spotted bloodtrail between the place wherethe car was initially spotted andthe underpass. There wereblood stains inside the caralso,” he said.
The IG said police willreconstruct the crime scene toknow what exactly would havehappened at the time of inci-dent. “We did not want to pre-sent any sketchy picture ofpolice investigation. Every find-ing will be shared with themedia and the culprit in thecase would not be spared,” hesaid.
On whether the prelimi-nary findings were against theconstable who opened fire atVivek, the IG said it is too earlyto comment on this. “We juststarted the SIT probe. Everyaspect related to the incidentwas being probed. We hadsought help from the public toshare if they had any clue orany information related to theincident,” he said.
The IG Lucknow rangesaid the entire crime scenehad been earmarked in twoparts crime scene 1 and crimescene 2. “In the crime scene 1,the SIT is examining if the carwas moving or it was stranded.Why the constables stopped thevehicle? What was the cause ofconflict which led to the unfor-tunate incident? What wascompulsion that the constable
opened fire?”He said the team also vis-
ited the Gomti Nagar policestation where both the vehicleswere parked for technicalinspection. “The bike had dentto the right side. The team isfinding if it the dent was causedafter it was hit by the victim’svehicle. The team is also find-ing out how the victim’s vehi-cle had dent at one of thedoors,” he said.
The IG said he cannot tellthe time frame during whichthe probe will conclude. “Thisis a sensitive case and thepolice was trying its best to getscientific evidences to reach aconclusion,” he said.
Pandey said there is norestriction for anyone to getanother FIR registered in acase.
He was answering thequeries about Vivek’s wifedemand to register a new FIR.
Speaking about the delay inregistration of the case and alle-gation that Sana, who was withVivek in the car, was given ablank paper and asked to puther signature on it, the IG saidthe SIT will also investigate intothese.
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The quality of air in thenational Capital has dete-
riorated once again with pol-lution level going up after wit-nessing a few days of ‘good’ airquality. Officials attributed therise in pollution level to certainlocal factors mainly vehicularpollution.
The Air Quality Index(AQI) was recorded at 159,over four times more than lastTuesday, according to theCentre’s System of Air Qualityand Weather Forecasting andResearch Institute (SAFAR).Monsoon rain had improvedthe air quality in the last twomonths.
An AQI in the range of 0-50 is considered ‘good’, 51-100‘satisfactory’, 101-200 ‘moder-ate’, 201-300 ‘poor’, 301-400‘very poor’ and 401-500 ‘severe’.Since July, the air qualityremained ‘satisfactory’ andeven witnessed three days of‘good’ category.
A Central Pollution
Control Board (CPCB) officialsaid the rise in pollution levelis due to local factors especial-ly the vehicular pollution.“After the monsoon subsided,the local reasons resulted inincrease of pollution in the city,”said the official.
According to the data fromthe CPCB, the PM10 level(presence of particles withdiameter less than 10 mm) wasrecorded as ‘moderate’ at 171 inDelhi-NCR and 167 in Delhi.The PM2.5 level (presence ofparticles with diameter lessthan 2.5 mm) was 81 in Delhi-NCR and 85 in Delhi.
The Supreme Courtappointed body EnvironmentPollution Control Authority(EPCA) has called for a meet-ing next week to explore pos-sible solutions to control localfactors responsible for the risein pollution.
According to the SAFAR,the pollution level is expectedto further increase in the nexttwo days, specially the PM10level.
Earlier, incessant rain inthe Capital had washed awaydangerous pollutants from theair, leading to most clean airquality of this year on Tuesday.It was the third time in the year
that the AQI was registered as“good”. According to theSAFAR, the AQI was recordedat 38 on September 22 of thisyear and that was the lowest inthis year.
Last Saturday (September22), the AQI was 48, while onJuly 28 it was 43.
The PM10 level wasrecorded as “good” at 37 inNCR and 35 in Delhi.
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Karnataka has become thefirst State in the country
which will grant legal protec-tion to the ‘good samaritans’who help accident victims withemergency medical care with-in the ‘golden hour’. PresidentRam Nath Kovind has givenassent to the related Bill passedby the State legislature.
In medical parlance, ‘gold-en hour’ means the first hourafter the accident. Incidents ofroad accidents are on rise inIndia. As many as 1,50,785 peo-ple were killed in road acci-dents in 2016.
The President has given hisassent to the Karnataka GoodSamaritan and MedicalProfessional (Protection andRegulation during EmergencySituations) Bill, 2016, a Home
Ministry official said.Karnataka has followed theguidelines issued by the UnionMinistry for Road, Transportand Highways, following theSupreme Court’s direction in2015 to protect ‘good samari-tans’. After the apex court’sdirections, the Centre came outwith guidelines in this regardfor the States to make a uni-form law in this matter.
Bystanders often refrainfrom helping due to the fear oflegal and procedural hassles,now with the passing of this lawis aimed to provide protectionto good samaritans and ensurequick medical aid for roadaccident victims and encouragepeople to offer first aid to vic-tims without fear of legal wran-gles.
Under the new law, theKarnataka Government will
provide financial help to goodsamaritans who help victims.They will be exempted fromrepeated attendance in courts
and police stations, in caseattendance is mandatory,expenses of such “runningaround to courts and police sta-
tions” will be taken carethrough the proposed ‘GoodSamaritan Fund’.
After admitting the acci-
dent victim to the hospital, thegood samaritan can leaveimmediately, all Government aswell as private hospitals arebound to give first aid to theaccident victims, according tothe new legislation. Anotherofficial said there have beenmany instances when peopleget busy in clicking photos ormaking videos of the victims,instead of providing the acci-dent victims medical help.
“With the new law, therewill be clear message that goodsamaritans will not be harassedin any manner,” the official said.There were 4,80,652 road acci-dents in the country in 2016 inwhich 1,50,785 people werekilled. In 2015, there were5,01,423 road accidents in thecountry in which 1,46,133 peo-ple were killed.
Karnataka is one of the top
five States which saw a largenumber of people getting killedin road accidents in 2016 and2015.
Karnataka is one of the topfive States which saw a largenumber of people getting killedin road accidents in 2016 and2015.
The Karnataka GoodSamaritan and MedicalProfessional (Protection andRegulation during EmergencySituations) Bill, 2016, is the firstsuch piece of legislation enact-ed in the country. TheDepartment of ParliamentaryAffairs sent the Bill to Kovindfor his approval on February18, 2017, “as clauses 3, 4, 5, 9and 13 of the Bill are repugnantto Chapter 12, 23, and 24 of theCode of Criminal ProcedureAct, 1973, which is a Centrallegislation.
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APakistani helicopter onSunday violated Indian air
space along the Line of Control(LoC) in Poonch sectorprompting Indian Air force tolaunch small arm fire and ‘airsorties’ to timely check theintrusion.
The air space violation wasreported after Indian ExternalAffairs Minister Sushma Swarajhad launched a scathing attackagainst Pakistan at the UnitedNations General Assembly ses-sion (UNGA) in New York forharbouring terrorists on itsterritory and not taking anyaction against the mastermindof 26/11 Mumbai terror strike.
According to Pakistanmedia reports, POK ‘PrimeMinister’ Raja Farooq HaiderKhan was seated in the frontseat of the chopper. He wasreportedly travelling to Tarorinear the LoC to condole thedeath of an activist of his party.
Ground reports said soonafter the Pakistani helicopterviolated the Indian air space inforward area of Gulpur in
Poonch ‘air sentries’ at a for-ward location engaged it withsmall arms forcing it to retreat.
Ministry of Defencespokesperson in Jammu, Lt-ColDevendra Anand, issued astatement which he said, “Theair space violation by thePakistan helicopter was report-ed in Poonch sector at about12.10 pm on Sunday.”
Official sources, however,claimed it was most likely acivil chopper and was flyingvery high. “It was also firedupon by the Indian troops butit managed to retreat inside thePakistani territory,” they said.
As per the bilateral agree-ment inked in 1991 betweenIndia and Pakistan a rotarywing aircraft cannot fly with-in 1 km, fixed wing aircraft(fighters, bombers and recon-naissance planes) within 10km of each others airspace.
Following this incidenthigh alert was sounded allalong the LoC to prevent anyfurther breach of barbed wirefence to push heavily armedinfiltrators inside the Indianterritory.
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Union Home MinisterRajnath Singh on Sunday
said that the Opposition ismaking a non-practicaldemand of making public thedetails of the Rafale jet deal with France over corrup-tion charges.
Accusing the Oppositionof trying to mislead the peopleof the country, Rajnath Singhsaid that in view of the nation'ssecurity, all details related tothe deal cannot be made public.
"This has also happenedduring the tenure of the pre-vious Governments," RajnathSingh said while speaking in arally held at Ambala.
The Union Minister saidthat the Opposition leaders aremaking efforts to come topower by telling lies.
"The present Governmenthas given preference to theuplift of the poor. There wereonly three mobile manufac-
turing factories during thetenure of the previousGovernment whereas in thefour years of the presentGovernment, 100 new factorieshave come up," he added.
Referring to national secu-rity, Rajnath Singh said that onthe pattern of Israel, an inte-grated Border Security Systemis being implemented to secureand strengthen the borders.
He said it would not bepossible to secure the 22,000km of land and water bordersof the country with barbed wires.
"Hence, the CentralGovernment has decided toadopt technology based secu-rity system," he said
Rajnath further said thatthe present Government hasstrongly checked the naxalmovement, which has becomea challenge for the country.Now, the security forces aresuccessful in controlling theiractivities, he said.
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Dismissing Punjab BJP pres-ident Shawet Malik’s state-
ment as “totally absurd andnonsensical”, Punjab ChiefMinister Capt Amarinder Singhhas trashed his “ridiculous” com-ments on his and hisGovernment’s functioning. Heaccused Malik of resorting tocheap tactics to divert people’sattention from his own party’s
failure at the Centre.“The people of Punjab have
elected me, and not the BJP, torun the state,” said the ChiefMinister, urging Malik to stay outof the affairs of the governmentand stick to managing his ownparty, which was staring at totaldecimation in the state in theupcoming Lok Sabha elections.
Capt Amarinder made itclear that his officers and teammembers were following hisdirectives and executing hisorders, which was what they hadbeen appointed to do.
Given the BJP’s own trackrecord of “misgovernance”, nomember of that party had anylocus stand to comment on thefunctioning of the incumbentCongress government said theChief Minister, asking if Malikeven know how his govern-
ment and team were working?Capt Amarinder said that
unlike the Akalis, who neverallowed its Ministers, includingthose from the BJP, and officersto work independently, hebelieved in decentralisation ofauthority.
“I have given full freedom tomy Ministers to work and all pol-icy decisions are decided by mein the Cabinet. As for the officers,I issue instructions to my CPCM,CS, DGP and PS and they carrythem out,” he said adding thatMalik perhaps wouldn’t under-stand this, as such autonomyeludes BJP’s form of governance.
He said that every memberof his staff was doing an effectiveand efficient job of managing theaffairs of the government, as wasmanifest in the major strides thestate was making in every sphereof governance.
Capt Amarinder said that inthe last one and a half years, his
government had provided jobs,in private and government sec-tors and through self-employ-ment, to 3.89 lakh youths, whichtranslated to almost 695 youthsgaining employment every day.
For the first time in the lastmany years, the real estate sec-tor in Punjab was witnessing anupward swing, as stamp duty andregistration revenue collectionswere up by 15 percent. “In fact,revenue collections in Augusthave increased by 35.71 percent,as compared to August last,” headded.
As regards the agriculturesector, the Chief Ministerreminded Malik that Punjabrecorded the highest productionof wheat, paddy and cotton lastyear and is poised to cross allrecords this year too. “We pro-duced 178.50 lakh tons of wheatin Rabi 2018 with per hectareproductivity of 50.90 quintals,the highest ever. Similarly, the
production of paddy in kharif2017 was an all-time high at199.72 lakh tons, with a recordper hectare yield of 65.16 quin-tals,” said Capt Amarinder,adding that all this happened dueto good management on accountof timely supply of quality seeds,fertilizers, agro-chemicals, powerfor tubewells and canal irrigation.
The Chief Minister said thatdespite some losses on accountof the recent rains, this seasonPunjab is again looking at arecord paddy production of 205lakh tons, with a per hectare yieldof over 66 quintals. Even the cot-ton yield is expected to be 780 kglint per hectare this year, as com-pared to 757 kg per hectare in thelast kharif, he said, adding thathis government would alsoensure that the procurementprocess is hassle-free andsmooth, as it had been in the lastthree seasons.
Taking on the SAD-BJP
combine, he said that whileMalik’s party and its ally, theAkalis, did nothing, except lipservice, for the debt-ridden farm-ers in the state in their decadelong rule, his government hadalready waived off co-operativebank crop loans of 3,07,045farmers, amounting Rs 1,736.29crore.
“Industry, which fled Punjabdue to lopsided policies and masscorruption during the Akali-BJPregime, has finally started look-ing towards the state,” he said.
“So rather than speakingabout my government and itsfunctioning, it will be better ifMalik explains to the people whythe BJP has not fulfilled thepromises of creating employ-ment for two crore youths everyyear, controlling fuel prices,checking the slide of the rupee,bringing back black money anddoubling the farmers’ income”,said the Chief Minister.
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Reduced power generationnotwithstanding, the
Punjab State PowerCorporation Limited (PSCL)has topped the chart in thecountry by selling 744 millionunits (MUs) of power worth Rs426 crore in a single month,that is September-2018.
“It is for the first time in theannals of PSPCL’s history thatit has sold power worth Rs 426crores in a single month dur-ing September 2018 to otherstates without imposing anypower cut in the State thus set-ting a new milestone,” saidPSPCL chairman-cum-man-aging director Baldev SinghSran.
Sran said that PSPCL sup-plied more power within thestate and also sold more poweroutside the state in spite of 880MW (mega watt) reduction inthe installed capacity due toclosure of Bathinda ThermalPlant and two units of Roparthermal plant.
Besides, there was reduc-
tion in generation from itsown hydel and Bhakra BeasManagement Board (BBMB)plants to the extent of 400 MWbecause of less water inflowswhich had resulted in lowerhydel generation of 1124 MUsfrom April to August 2018 incomparison to correspondingperiod in 2017, he said.
“It is a matter of pride forthe state of Punjab that forSeptember 2018, it has becomenumber one at all India levelin selling power at IndianEnergy Exchange (IEX), that is744 MUs worth Rs 426 croreat the rate of Rs 5.73 perunit,” he said.
Spokesperson said that thetotal power traded on IEXduring September 2018 was5725.4 MUs at average roundthe clock rate of Rs 4.69 perunit and average peak hour rateof Rs 6.52 per unit, so Punjabwas able to get much higheraverage selling rate as it wasable to sell more power duringpeak hours that helped fetchoverall average rate of Rs 5.73per unit.
During 2017-18 from Aprilto September, 221 MUs powerworth Rs 87 crore at the rate ofRs 3.93 per unit was sold,whereas this year up toSeptember 2018, 1,073 MUspower worth Rs 569 Cr at therate of Rs 5.31 per unit hasalready been sold throughexchange surpassing previous(2017-18) year’s total powersale of Rs 446 crore at the rateof Rs 3.66 per unit during thewhole year.
Further, PSPCL supplied28,773 MUs energy during thisyear up to August 2018 withinthe state which is 506 MUsmore than 28,267 MUs sup-plied during same period in2017.
During peak paddy andsummer season, PSPCL suc-cessfully catered to maximumdemand of 12,638 MW onJuly 10, 2018, with zero short-term power purchase againstprevious historical maximumdemand of 11,705 MW met onJuly 11, 2017.
Spokesperson said that theIndian Energy Exchange (IEX)
day-ahead power marketachieved all time high recordvolume of 306 MU (12,750MW average round the clockbasis) for delivery on Saturday,September 29, 2018, markingthe first triple century sinceinception of the Exchange in2008, out of which 92 MUs,(3830 MW) worth Rs 59 croreat the rate of Rs 6.38 crore weresold by PSPCL alone.
Out of total traded volumeof 271 MUs on IEX on Sunday,September 30, PSPCL is selling104 MUs (4330 MW) power —highest so far during a singleday.
Applauding PSPCL’s role,the state Power MinisterGurpreet Singh Kangar pattedthe state power utility for ful-filling promise made by CaptAmarinder Singh Governmentregarding eight-hour uninter-rupted power supply to agri-cultural sector during paddyseason. “Such good measureswould lead to fulfilling thepromises of lowering powertariff in future in the state,” hesaid.
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Closed for over a weekowing to heavy snowfall,
the road link between touristresort Manali and BaralachaPass was reopened to motoristson Sunday on completion ofsnow-clearing operations, anofficial said.
“The Baralacha Pass locat-ed at 190 km on Manali-Sarchuroad has reopened. This meansSarchu, which is 222 km fromManali, has been connected toManali via Rohtang tunnel.Work is in progress from eitherside to clear the Rohtang Passtoo and likely to be over in aday or two,” said an official.
The work to reopen theentire 475-km stretch, whichlinks Manali with Leh inJammu and Kashmir, is alsounderway. Normally, the high-way closes mid-October withthe onset of snowfall.
This route is crucial to themovement of the ArmedForces and their supplies andwares to forward areas inLadakh.
The Manali-Leh highway
winds its way through theRohtang Pass (13,050 feet),Baralacha Pass (16,020 feet),Lachlungla Pass (16,620 feet)and Tanglangla (17,480 feet).
The Border RoadsOrganisation (BRO) maintainsthe strategic highways in thecountry.
The BRO's 'Project Deepak'is responsible for clearing snowon the 222-km Sarchu-Manalihighway while 'ProjectHimank' takes care of the 253-km Leh-Sarchu highway.
Notably, heavy snowfallon the Rohtang Pass, theKunzum Pass, and theBaralacha Pass had cut-offthe Lahaul and Spiti Valleys,affecting a large number oftourists and hampering waterand electricity supply.
A five-day long air rescueoperation in the Lahaul Valleycame to an end on Saturdaywith 252 people, comprisinglargely tourists, being evacuat-ed safely from the snow-marooned region. Another4,770 were rescued by road,according to the governmentofficials.
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Haryana Congress chiefAshok Tanwar on Sunday
announced that after the for-mation of CongressGovernment in the state, theloans of farmers and poor peo-ple will be waived, old age pen-sion will be raised to Rs 3000per month, a fresh survey ofBPL families and a survey ofthose families who have not gotany government job so far willbe undertaken.
Tanwar also announcedthat old pension scheme forgovernment employees will berestored by replacing new pen-sion scheme (NPS), scholarshipof higher education to be pro-vided to the children of all the36 communities and the weak-er sections, issue of enhance-ment will be settled and the 100yard plot scheme will berestored without any discrim-ination. The CongressGovernment after coming intopower will also see that studentunion elections are held incolleges and universities, saidthe Congress leader whileaddressing ‘Rafale Pol Khol-
Halla Bol” rally at Panipat.Lashing out at the BJP led
Central Government over thealleged Rafale scam, AshokTanwar said that the UPAGovernment had proposed tobuy 126 Rafale fighter planesfor Rs 526 crore per plane cost-ing Rs 66276 crore, but the cur-rent NDA Government by thehistoric scam bought only 36planes at the rate of Rs 1670crore per plane costing Rs210720 crore.
This scam involves anamount which is even biggerthan the annual budget ofHaryana which amounts to1.15 lakh crore, he alleged.
Tanwar also called thedemonetization as a scamwhich benefited BJP leaders.He said that the RBI has admit-ted that 99.30 percent old cur-
rency notes have come back, ifall the old note have come backwhere is the black money?, heasked.
In fact the BJPGovernment in place of abol-ishing black money, devisedthis scheme to change theblack money of BJP leaders intowhite one, he alleged.
On the issue of hike inpetroleum products, Tanwarsaid that the steep rise is pick-ing the pockets of the peopledaily. In 2014, during theCongress regime, the price ofpetrol was Rs 71 per litrewhereas now it is Rs 91 perlitre. The rate of kerosene hasalso risen from Rs 15 to 26 perlitre. The rise in the price ofkerosene has put unbearableburden on the poor people, headded.
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Himachal PradeshGovernment has appoint-
ed Brij Kumar Agarwal, anIAS officer of Himachal cadre(1985 batch) as ChiefSecretary to the Governmentwith immediate effect.
A notification has beenissued in this regard.
BK Agarwal was holdinghis duty as Additional ChiefSecretary (Home & Vigilance)and was also holding addi-tional charges of the posts ofAdditional Chief Secretary(Health and Family Welfare)Financial Commissioner
(Appeals) to the Governmentof Himachal Pradesh andResident Commissioner,Government of HimachalPradesh, Himachal Bhawan,New Delhi.
Agarwal held various
positions in the Governmentof India and HimachalPradesh government. Heserved as Commissioner ofTourism, DeputyCommissioner of Una andKangra, DivisionalCommissioner of Kangra,Principal Secretary Food andCivil Supplies, SecretaryInformation Technology tothe Government of HimachalPradesh.
He also served as GeneralManager of Food Corporationof India in Lucknow, UttarPradesh and Joint Secretary ofUnion Ministry of Housingand Urban Affairs.
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Himachal PradeshGovernment has
launched 'Nai Raahein NaiManzilein' initiative in a bid topromote tourism in unex-plored areas in the hill state bydeveloping infrastructure,road connectivity, accommo-dation besides creating basicamenities in these places.
Bir-Billing in Kangra dis-trict, Janjehli in Mandi andChanshal in Shimla would bedeveloped and promotedunder this endeavour, said anofficial spokesman.
A budgetary allocation ofRs 50 crore has been made inthis fiscal for the purpose.Parks, walking trails, trekkers'hostels, toilets, wide roads,landscaping, improved solidwaste management and light-ing would be developed atsuch tourism circuits.
The objective of thisscheme is diversification oftourism especially to ruralareas and development ofinfrastructure at new places,promotion of rural tourism,employment and livelihoodopportunities and thereafterpromotion and marketing ofnew places, the spokesman
said.He said that under this
initiative, temporary tents,promoting adventure tourism,jungle tracking paths aroundJanjehli, Thunag, Shikari Devi,Puda Kedar, Tungari Top etc.would be constructed for pro-moting tourism activities inJanjehli. 40 new trekkingroutes would also be devel-oped in Janjehli circuit tofacilitate tourists.
12 forest Rest houseswould also be upgraded forthe comfortable stay of thetourists. The total amount ofR. 16.70 crore would be spenton developing the areas asattraction for tourists. In addi-tion, Tourist Culture Centrehas also been awarded underAsian Development Bankfunding of Rs 25.17 crores, hesaid.
Bir Billing in Kangra dis-trict would also be developedas tourist destination underthis scheme by spending Rs.14.62 crore. Under the"Swadesh Darshan" schemeof Union Government, aparagliding institute was beingset up at Bir Billing with anestimated cost of Rs 8.07crores.
Similarly, Chanshal area
in Shimla district has alsobeen included under thescheme and a provision of Rs15.12 crore has been made.The area has immense poten-tial for adventure sports, ski-ing and camping, thespokesman said.
The State Government isencouraging Home Staysthrough private sector.Nature-walks, Eco-trails,treks, trips to orchards andother attractions would bepromoted in these circuits, hesaid.
He further said that theState Government is commit-ted to set up maximum num-ber of ropeways in Himachalto facilitate the tourists andlocal people. The governmenthas decided to provide sever-al concessions to those entre-preneurs, who are interestedto invest in ropeways projectsand this includes waiving offannual license free for the first7 years. MOU has been signedwith Punjab Government forconstruction of Shri NainaDevi ropeway. Constructionhas been also expedited onDharamshala-Mecleodganjropeway coming up at a costof Rs 15 crores, the spokesmansaid.
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Chandigarh: Strongly reactingto Punjab Chief MinisterCaptain Amarinder Singh’sstatement against him, theState BJP president ShawetMalik on Sunday said he didnot deny the fact that peopleof Punjab has elected CaptAmarinder as Chief Minister.
“As Member Parliamentand President of BJP Punjab,I have full authority and I amduty bound to raise my voicefor the rights of people ofPunjab. I, as a representativeof people of Punjab, just wantto know that the sacred man-ifesto released in January 2017was just to befool people ofPunjab to take votes andbetray them later,” he said.
He asked, “CM Sahib,Punjab, I, People of Punjabwanted to know that 174weeks have passed, “has drugtrade been wiped out and deaddiction centre’s establishedas promised? Have jobs beenprovided to 32 lakhs people ofPunjab? Have job been pro-vided to 12 lakh Dalits aspromised? Have unemploy-ment allowance of Rs 2500 permonth to unemployed people
of Punjab being implemented?Have 50 lakhs smartphonesbeen distributed to theyouth?”
He also questioned captAmarinder regarding his pre-poll promises of Rs 90,000crore debt of farmers, imple-menting new industrial poli-cy, providing power at Rs fiveper unit, giving employees’salary on time, sand mafia,mining mafia, liquor mafia,besides hiking Shagun amountto Rs 51,000 and old age pen-sion to Rs 2,000.
“Central Governmentdishes out a number of welfareschemes which PunjabGovernment is not ready toimplement just under the pre-text of empty coffers and try-ing to deny people their rightsand benefits,” he said.
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Aday before commence-ment of paddy procure-
ment process in Punjab, thestate Food and Civil SuppliesMinister Bharat BhushanAshu on Sunday issued direc-tions to procurement agenciesto personally supervise theoperations across the state toensure prompt lifting ofpaddy as per their allottedshare of procurement.
The directions wereissued to all the heads of thestate procurements agenciesas wel l as the FoodCorporation of India (FCI)general manager (Punjabregion).
The Minister noted thatPunjab is expecting paddyprocurement to the tune of200 LMT this year, of which,PUNGRAIN would procure30 percent, PUNSUP 22 per-cent, Markfed 23 percent,Punjab Agro 10 percent,Punjab State WarehousingCorporation 10 percent, andFCI five percent in all the
1834 purchase centres set upacross the state.
Reviewing the arrange-ments for the same, Ashusaid that all out efforts shouldbe made to ensure smooth,hassle-free and quick pro-curement of paddy on onehand, and facilitate the farm-ers in getting timely paymentof their produce on the other.
He categorically said thatfarmers of the state shouldnot be put to any inconve-nience for the sale of theirproduce in the mandis.
The Minister directed thatgood quality sturdy gunnybales to be ensured whilepacking the produce and alsothat there should be no short-age of bales for storage ofgrains.
He asked the officers con-cerned to personally visit themandis during the procure-ment and ensure smooth lift-ing. The field staff shouldwork round the clock to pro-cure the stocks even onSaturdays, Sundays and alsoon government holidays, he
said.The Minister asked the
Punjab Mandi Board officialsto make sure of properarrangements in mandis tosave produce and to haveproper sanitation facilities.
The Government of Indiahas fixed minimum supportprice (MSP) for paddy at Rs1770 per quintal for Grade Aand Rs 1750 per quintal forcommon variety of paddy.
Proposal regarding CashCredit Limit has been sent byFinance Department to theReserve Bank of India (RBI)for availing CCL limit of Rs40,300 crore for the purchaseof paddy by the state agencies.FCI wil l make its ownarrangements for the fundsrequired for purchase ofpaddy, he said.
The Minister made a fer-vent appeal to all the farmersto bring dry, clean and fullymatured paddy to the mandis.He also asked all the stake-holders to refrain from mal-practice whether arhtiyas,transporters or shellers.
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Haryana Chief MinisterManohar Lal on Sunday
announced that the social secu-rity pension would be increasedto �2,000 from November 1 inthe state.
The Chief Minister, whowas addressing a public meet-ing at Hodal, said that Haryanahas been declared kerosene-free and gas cylinder was beingprovided under ‘UjjawalaYojana’.
He also announced devel-opment works worth �fivecrore for urban areas and �10crore for rural areas of Hodaland Hasanpur.
The Chief Minister saidthat he would take up the mat-ter of stoppage of EMU train atHodal, with Union RailwaysMinister.
The Union Minister ofState for Social Justice andEmpowerment, Krishan PalGurjar would also accompanyhim to meet Union RailwaysMinister for this purpose, he said.
On this occasion, heannounced construction of vet-erinary hospital in village
Penglatu, sports stadia in fourvillages namely Aurangabad,Bhidki, Kourali and Lohina,dispensary in village Gulawad,primary school in villageNangla Pingod among otherprojects.
Manohar Lal said thattoday, he has visited the city ofMaharani Kishori, wife of KingSurajmal. There used to be acollege which has been taken
over by the government. Thepresent State Government hasgiven Rs 20 crore for con-struction of building of the saidcollege. The Hodal city comesunder 84 Kos and it has its ownsignificance, but it could notdevelop due to ignorance ofprevious governments, theChief Minister said.
He further said that duringlast four years, the present
State Government has changedthe corrupt system and nowpeople can see the differencebetween the tenure of presentHaryana Government and pre-vious government. The presentState Government has intro-duced educated panchayatswhich was appreciated by theSupreme Court as well. Wehave also introduced trans-parent Teachers’ Transfer Policy
and maximum number ofteachers is satisfied with thispolicy, he said.
He said that the work onconstruction of roads, sheds,drinking water arrangementand construction of boundarywall has been made in 40 shiv-dhams in district Palwal.Similarly, a Pond Authorityhas been constituted for reno-vation of 14,000 ponds in thestate, he added.
The Chief Minister alsoappealed to the people not toindulge in power theft ratherpay their electricity bills andencourage others to do so. Ifthey will encourage others topay their electricity bills ontime, their area will also get 24hour electricity supply, hesaid.
Speaking on the occasion,Union Minister of State forSocial Justice andEmpowerment, Krishan PalGurjar said that various pro-jects are coming up in Hodaland Palwal such as construc-tion of various roads in districtPalwal, Haryana VishwakarmaSkill University at villageDudhola and construction ofelevated bridge in Palwal.
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The simmering discontent-ment in Shiromani Akali
Dal (SAD) against current lead-ership is surfacing with its topleaders raising their voices of dis-sent. What was a whisper inAkali Dal’s corridors is nowbeing heard loud and clear inpublic.
A day after SAD’s veteranand party’s one of the few senior-
most leaders Sukhdev SinghDhindsa threw a letter bombannouncing his decision to stayaway from active politics, itsother three senior leaders fromMajha minced no words to saythat all was not well within theAkali Dal.
Already under fire for itsalleged involvement in sacrilegeand related firing cases, theAkali Dal is walking on a tightrope to save its dented image. Torescue the party from its worst-ever crisis, Akali patriarchParkash Singh Badal has tocome out of hibernation, hewent into right after the party’s2017 state assembly electiondebacle.
It has been learnt that sev-eral senior leaders had raised
concerns over the prevailingstate of affairs in the party,besides questioned the “young”leadership. Party’s old guard,including former minister TotaSingh, party MP Prem SinghChandumajra and formerMinister Sewa Singh Sekhwan,had pointed at the way theyoung MLAs failed to defend theparty in the Vidhan Sabha dur-ing debate on Justice RanjitSingh Commission report, andhow the Congress managed togain from the entire episode.
Sources informed ThePioneer that party veterans werenot happy with the things takingshape in the state, that too ahead2019 Lok Sabha polls, besides theleadership of its presidentSukhbir Badal, and his brother-
in-law and party MLA BikramSingh Majithia.
Even as three senior Taksalileaders — MP Ranjit SinghBrahmpura, former MP DrRattan Singh Ajnala and formerMinister Sewa Singh Sekhwan —on Sunday categorically deniedto follow Dhindsa’s footsteps bystepping down from party posts,the trio made it clear that theywould raise the “issues” con-cerning party at the right forumand work to improve the same.
What indicated their unhap-piness with the current state lead-ership that the trio from Majharegion did not invite Majithia,who is popularly known andnicknamed as ‘Majhe da jarnail’(Majha’s soldier).
Without naming any one,
they raised questions on theparty’s functioning, indicatingtowards Sukhbir Badal.
They admitted that every-thing was not well in the AkaliDal and also not in the panth-ic organizations like theShiromani GurudwaraParbandhak Committee(SGPC) and the Akal Takht.
The trio announced thatthey would take up these issueswith the SAD core committeeand would work to get thesecorrected. “We would not leavethe party, but would push outwrongdoers out from SAD,”they said.
Sekhwan said that hewould convene a meetingwithin a week to draw theirnext strategy.
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Chandigarh: PunjabCongress president SunilJakhar on Sunday said thatsenior Akali leader SukhdevSingh Dhindsa “sacrificed”his political career due to the“misdeeds” of the Badals anddemanded that they shouldshow courage by giving theparty's responsibility to any“competent leader”.
Dhindsa had on Saturdayresigned as the party's secre-tary general and from its corecommittee, citing health rea-sons.Punjab Congress presidentSunil Jakhar accused the for-mer Chief Minister Parkash
Singh Badal and his sonSukhbir Badal of doing poli-tics in the name of ‘panth’,alleging that they had stabbedin the back of the panth manytimes during their politicalcareer.
“Badal has talked aboutsacrifice many times duringhis political career, but everytime, he used to take political sacrifices of peoplewho came in the way of thepolitical path of his or his son.Dhindsa's resignation is alsothe sequel to such sacrifices,”he claimed.
The state Congress pres-ident alleged that because of
the Badals’ polit ical intervention in the ‘panth’, theBadal family “damaged” theauthority of such institutions.
“Dhindsa's resignationhas once again proved thatdue to the misdeeds of theSAD's top leadership, notonly the common man, but itsown leaders are also upset...Itwould have been better if theBadal family itself comes for-ward and apologize for theiracts against panth and showthe courage of giving theresponsibility of this histori-cal party to any competentleader,” he demanded.
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Haryana Government hasdecided to grant class II
jobs to those dependents orfamily members of deceasedmartyrs or battle casualty,where martyrs or battle casu-alty was class I or class II offi-cer.
Giving details, an officialspokesman said that earliercompassionate assistance byway of appointment on com-passionate grounds in thefeeder cadre in class-III andIV posts to one eligible livingspouse or dependent chil-dren of Martyr of ArmedForces Personnel and ParaMilitary Forces Personnel,was granted to the bereavedfamily in addition to otherfinancial benefits who wasdomicile of Haryana andkilled in action in border
skirmishes, terrorists attacksor riots.
He said that earlier thecompassionate appointmentwas made only in respect offeeder cadre in class III andIV posts.
The State Governmenthas now decided that the eli-gible family members wouldbe considered for directrecruitment in class II, III orIV posts, as the case may be,keeping in view their educa-tional qualifications, eligibil-ity criteria and provisions aslaid down in the recruitmentrules for the concerned post.However, the applicant wouldbe eligible for getting a classII job only in such caseswhere martyr or battle casu-alty was class I or class II offi-cer, the spokesman said.
He further said that theconsideration would be
admissible even if one ormore members of the familyof martyr or battle casualtyare in service. Any relaxationwith regard to age (18-42years with relaxation of 5years for SC/BC) and timelimit (previous 3 years fromdate of commencement ofthis policy) would be madewith the prior approval ofCouncil of Ministers, thespokesman said.
The request for grant ofemployment would be madeby the dependent of martyr orbattle casualty soldier to theconcerned DeputyCommissioner within a peri-od of three years of death. Incase where none of the son ordaughter of the deceased ismajor, the time limit in suchevent will be attainment of 18years by the eldest son ordaughter, as the case may be.The request received by theDeputy Commissioner wouldbe forwarded to the Sainikand Ardh Sainik WelfareDepartment for considera-tion and appropriate action,he said.
With a view to ensureavailability of posts and con-sequent appointment withoutdelay, the concerned DeputyCommissioner would ascer-tain the vacancy position andco-ordinate with theappointing authority beforerecommending the case. Theconsideration would be madeonly against direct recruit-ment quota post. The cases ofthose persons who have beenalready granted jobs wouldnot be reopened, thespokesman added.
From Page 1During UPA, more of our
jawans were being killed thanNaxals, but I am proud to saythat we have reversed this sit-uation, the Home Ministersaid.
He also took the occasionto highlight that the Centralgovernment under PrimeMinister Narendra Modi hasequipped the armed forceswith modern technology tocombat infiltrators.
"After Prime MinisterNarendra Modi handed methe responsibility of main-taining safety and security ofthe countr y, the Home Ministry consideredusing of high-tech solutionsfor border security. We haveset up many control roomsnear the border so that ourjawans can easily see what ishappening near the borderand can take actions appro-priately," he said.
He added, "If one looksclosely, no big terror attackhas taken place in the coun-tr y af ter the Bharat iya Janata Party (BJP) came topower. I thank all the securi-ty forces for their efforts inmaking our country safe forpeople."
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In a major administrativereshuff le, the Punjab
Government on Sunday trans-ferred 17 IAS and 12 PCSofficers with immediate effect.
As per the orders, IASofficer Sarvjit Singh was post-ed as Principal Secretary, WaterResources with additionalcharge of Mines and Geology,while Jaspal Singh was giventhe charge of PrincipalSecretary, Transport.
Krishan Kumar, currentlySchool Education Secretarywas given additional charge ofsecretary, Governance Reformsand Public Grievances, andVijay Namdeorao Zade wasgiven the charge of PunjabInfrastructure DevelopmentBoard managing director andadditional charge of Secretary,Horticulture.
Ravinder Kumar Kaushik,who is secretary, Power andNew and Renewable EnergySources, was given the addi-
tional charge of commission-er, Roopnagar Division whileGurlovleen Singh Sidhu wasposted as as DPI (Colleges), thespokesman said.
Devinder Pal SinghKharbanda was posted asdirector, Industries andCommerce and ParshantKumar Goyal, who is directorgeneral, School Education, wasgiven additional charge of sec-retary, Punjab SchoolEducation Board.
Arvind Pal Singh Sandhu
was posted as special secretary,Parliamentary Affairs withadditional charge of specialsecretary, Labour whileSandeep Hans was posted asdeputy commissioner, Moga.
The services of DeeptiUppal were placed at the dis-posal of the Department ofHousing and UrbanDevelopment for posting aschief administrator, AmritsarDevelopment Authority andKomal Mittal was posted asadditional commissioner,
Municipal Corporation,Amritsar.
Deepshikha Sharma wasgiven the charge of sub divi-sional magistrate, Banga, andAmarpreet Kaur Sandhu wasposted as SDM Hoshiarpur.
IAS officer Amit KumarPanchal was posted as SDMNakodar and AadityaDachalwal was shifted as SDMBudhlada. Ajay Arora wasposted as SDM Dudan Sadan.Besides, 12 PCS officers werealso transferred.
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In a yet another case of sexu-al assault and rape by self
styled godman, a 24-year-oldwoman lodged a complaint atJanakpuri Police Station againsta self-styled spiritual healerfor allegedly raping her on thepretext of curing her illness.Delhi Police have arrested threepeople including the 40 year-old self-styled godman, HariNarayan in the case.
The matter came to lightafter the victim narrated herordeal to the Delhi Commissionfor Women (DCW) through ane-mail. The complainant in theletter also mentioned that she was not only being raped bythe self-styled spiritual leaderwithin his Janakpuri ashrambut also, she was regularlymolested by the godman’ andher woman accomplice identi-fied as Meghna (25) and his sec-
retary Sakshi (38). According to DCW offi-
cial, she is a teacher in a lead-ing school in Delhi where shemet Meghna, a senior from hercollege who is also a teacher inthe same school. “Meghnaintroduced her to Narayan inJanakpuri and started to influ-ence the victim on how it wasbeneficial for body and soul.Meghna narrated her ownexperience stating how shewas miraculously cured by theBaba. Once she managed togain the victim’s confidence,she started coercing her tovisit the ashram in Janakpurifor a spiritual healing experi-ence,” said DCW official.
DCW chief Swati Maliwalhas urged the women to comeforward to report such inci-dents to the commissionthrough helpline number 181.
“The victim on 10 Julyalong with Meghna met babaand his secretary Sakshi whereshe was allegedly laced withintoxicants in the food and afterthat she was raped by baba andmolested by his female accom-plice,” said the DCW official.
“We have arrested theaccused Hari Nayaran, and twowomen who were part ofcrime,” said Monika Bhardawaj,Deputy Commissioner of Police(DCP), West district. Fewweeks back Delhi Police hadarrested Asif Khan alias AshuMaharaj on charges of rapeand intimidation. He was heldafter a woman lodged a com-plaint that she was raped byMaharaj and even her daughterwas molested by him, his son.
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A40-year-old man wasrobbed by two women on
pretext of providing physicalpleasure. The incident wasreported from Dwarka Sector-18 on Friday evening. Delhipolice have arrested both theaccused women.
“The complainant allegedthat he was going to his homeKapashera at about 3 pm onFriday when seeing two womenhe stopped near cremationground, Sector-18, Dwarka.He alleged that the womenallured him for physical plea-sure but when he went withthem towards the forest area insector-18, they threatened himto book him in a false rape caseand foricbly took away �8,000from his pocket,” said AntoAlphonse, DeputyCommissioner of Police(DCP), Dwarka district.
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Ahead of the NationalAssessment and
Accreditation Council (NAAC)visit next month the DelhiUniversity (DU) has sent ques-tionnaire to its departments.Questions like, does the DUdepartment celebrate nationalfestivals or observe birth anddeath anniversaries of greatIndian personalities? Is there apolicy in place to check pla-giarism? forms part of thequestionnaire sent by the DelhiUniversity to its departments,said an official.
The NAAC will be visitingvarious departments of thevarsity from October 29 to 31.The grading provided by theCouncil is crucial for the funds and grants allotted to the varsity by the UniversityGrants Commission (UGC), hesaid. In the lead up to the visit,the varsity’s mock teams areconducting visits to variousdepartments and checkingabout their preparednessregarding NAAC team visit,said an official.
The student-related issuesinclude complaints of sexualharassment, gender sensitisa-tion, safety of northeast stu-dents, and steps to check rag-ging and hooliganism. Thequestionnaire also sought toknow whether there was stu-dent participation in commit-tees.
There are also questions onalumni associations in thedepartment and whether they
are constituted through fair andtransparent periodic electionsand their functions, said a pro-fessor.
“Apart from these, there arealso questions whether thedepartment undertake anyactivities related to gender sen-sitivity (safety/counseling), andif it is equipped with mecha-nisms to check plagiarism,” hesaid.
Questions like whether a
department follow any proce-dure for waste managementand has any green practices inplace, including paperlessoffices, have also been men-tioned in the questionnaire.
Apart from education-related queries, the varsityadministration also wanted toknow whether the departmentshold recreational activities,fresher parties and farewells forstudents, he added.
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The Delhi High Court hasrestrained the sale and
publication of a book pur-portedly on the life of Yogaguru Ramdev who claimedthat it had defamatory con-tent. Justice Anu Malhotrasaid the right to reputation ofa living individual cannot be“crucified” at the “altar ofthe r ight to freedom of speech and expression” ofanother.
The court’s observationcame on a petition filed byRamdev against the booktitled ‘Godman To Tycoon’,saying the book, purportedlyon his life, had defamatorycontent and harmed his eco-nomic interests and reputa-tion.
“This is so as the right toreputation of a living indi-vidual under Article 21 of theConstitution of India cannotbe sacrificed and crucified atthe altar of the right to free-dom of speech and expressionof another...
“...And both have to beharmonised and balanced inas much as no amount ofdamages can redeem thedamage to reputation of anyperson and merely because there have been pre-vious publications on thesame issue, the same does notpermit any repetitions ofprima facie defamatory insin-uations against him,” thecourt said.
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Delhi Police CommissionerAmulya Patnaik on Sunday
launched the “Plogging Drive”in connection with “SwachhtaHi Seva”Pakhwada at KhanMarket area in New Delhi onSunday. The drive is a joint effortof New Delhi Municipal Council(NDMC) and Delhi Police.
‘Plogging’ is the habit ofpicking up litter from foot pathsand surrounding roads whilejogging or walking with the aimto create awareness about clean-liness and health at the sametime. Durga Shanker Mishra,Secretary, Union Ministry ofHousing and Urban Affairssaid, “People should inculcate ahabit to pick the litters fromparks, gardens, roads, lanes andsurrounding areas, while walk-ing and jogging in the morningand evening hours.” Heappealed the residents to dropthe litter in the nearby dustbins,
so as to makeover the city,country and even earth planeta healthy and environmentfriendly.
Rashmi Singh, Secretary,NDMC said, “Under theSwachhta-Hi-Sewa Pakhwada
NDMC has organized manythemes based CleanlinessActivities in New Delhi area tocreate awareness amongst the common people about the importance of Swachhta inDaily life.”
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In its bid to stop the march offarmers led by Naresh Tikait
the eldest son of Bharatiya KisanUnion (BKU), into the nationalCapital, Delhi Police hasn’t grant-ed permission to them. Sourcessaid, BKU leaders haven’t soughtpermission for the proposed sitin at Gandhi Memorial, RajGhat . Union Home Ministtryhas also directed Delhi and UPPolice as well to stop the entry ofBKU leaders and farmers intothe city. When asked for his com-ment BKU President NareshTikair said “We are not march-ing for political gains but todemand our rights.
We have not been paid canedues. Our agitation will contin-ue till our 21-point charter ofdemands is met".
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The nation will listen to itsfather’s heartbeats when
Delhi’s National GandhiMuseum will release MahatmaGandhi’s ‘recreated heartbeats’on his 150th birth anniversaryas a part of its array of pro-grammes to commemorate theoccasion.
“We have gathered theECG (electrocardiography)details from different stages ofGandhi ji’s life and recreated hisheartbeat on the digital medi-um. This will be a very inter-esting feature for the public,”said A Annamalai, Director,National Gandhi Museum,Delhi.
The museum will also inau-gurate a special photo exhibi-tion on the theme of ‘Non-vio-lence and World Peace’ on theeve of Gandhi Jayanti besidesreleasing a ‘Digital MultimediaKit’ containing audio and videofootages from his life, the direc-tor said. The kit will be availablefor people to buy, he added.
“The kit in a pen drive con-tains 20 books by Gandhi and10 books on him, a documen-tary film by AK Chettiar, 100specially-curated pictures,Gandhi’s voice, a virtual tour ofhis ashrams and his favouritebhajans,” said Annamalai.
According to the director,the digital kit has been pricedat �300 and only includes theproduction cost.
“We are trying to findsome sponsors for the kit, inHindi and English, to bringdown the price to �100 so thatit reaches to more people,” hesaid.
The Digital kit will also havethe original voice of Gandhifrom the speeches that he deliv-ered across the world.
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In the backdrop of fact thatsome departments are upload-ing documents containing“sensitive” personal informa-tion on websites, the IT depart-ment of Delhi Government ina communication issued onSeptember 11, asked principalsecretaries and secretaries toreview the contents alreadyuploaded on their websitesand remove sensitive infor-mation immediately. SR
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India staunchly believes inpeace and is committed to
taking it forward, but it wouldnot be at the cost of compro-mising its self-respect and sov-ereignty, Prime MinisterNarendra Modi said on Sundayin his monthly radio addressand asserted that the armedforces will give a befitting replyto any attempt to destroy theatmosphere of peace in thecountry.
Recalling the 2016 surgicalstrikes, he said Indian troopsgave a befitting reply to the“audacity of a proxy war” underthe “garb of terrorism”.
In his monthly ‘Mann kiBaat’ radio address, Modi said,“It has now been decided thatour soldiers will give a befittingreply to whosoever makes anattempt to destroy the atmos-phere of peace and progress inour nation.”
He said India staunchlybelieve in peace and is com-mitted to taking it forward,“but not at the cost of com-promising our self-respect and
sovereignty of our nation. Indiahas always been resolutelycommitted to peace.”
India has never eyed some-one else’s territory maliciously.“This in itself was our com-mitment and dedicationtowards peace,” the PM said.
His remarks came daysafter India called off theplanned meeting of ForeignMinisters in New York, citingthe brutal killings of threepolicemen in Jammu &Kashmir.
The Ministry of ExternalAffairs had said talks in thecurrent circumstances would
be futile and also cited stampsissued by Pakistan in July to“glorify” Kashmiri militantBurhan Wani as a reason forthe cancellation.
Modi pointed out thatIndia is one of the largest con-tributors to various UnitedNations Peace Keeping Forcesin terms of sending its per-sonnel.
“For decades, our bravesoldiers wearing blue helmetshave played a stellar role inensuring maintenance of worldpeace,” he said to drive homehis point.
He said yesterday Indians
celebrated ‘Paraakram Parva’ tomark the second anniversary ofthe surgical strikes. “Weremembered that surgical strikecarried out in 2016, where oursoldiers gave a befitting reply tothe audacity of a proxy warunder the garb of terrorism,” hesaid.
He said such celebrationsremind the youth of the glori-ous heritage of the army. “Italso inspires us to maintain theunity & integrity of the coun-try,” he said.
Days before Air For Day iscelebrated on October 8 tomark its birth in 1932, Modisaid “air warriors” have provedthemselves to be the cynosureof every citizen’s eye throughdisplay of sheer might in theskies.
He also recalled the con-tribution of the IAF in trans-porting men and material toSrinagar in 1947 whenPakistani attackers had tried tocapture Jammu & Kashmir.
He said IAF payed a keyrole in 1965, 1971 and theKargil war. He said be it therelief and rescue work or dis-
aster management, the countryis indebted to the IAF for itscommendable efforts.
He pointed out that the AirForce has set an example inensuring gender equality andhas opened its doors forwomen.
“Now, the Air Force isoffering the option of perma-nent commission to women,besides the Short ServiceCommission ...India canproudly claim that in the armedforces, only man-power butwoman-power too is con-tributing equally. Women arealready empowered and nowgetting armed too,” he said.
The Prime Minister alsopraised navy commanderAbhilash Tomy for his courageat high seas when his boat wasdamaged in storm while par-ticipating in Golden GlobeRace.
“He fought to be afloatwithout food or drink. He didnot accept defeat and contin-ued to fight death. A rareexample of courage, determi-nation, strength and bravery,”Modi said.
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Leh, a bustling tourist townin Jammu & Kashmir, has
got a helping hand from theKhadi India to counter thedominance of Chinese goods inits market.
A top official of the Khadiand Village IndustriesCommission (KVIC) said theKhadi India has been in dis-cussion with the LadakhAutonomous Hill DevelopmentCouncil (LAHDC) to help arti-sans and craftsmen in Leh, theerstwhile Capital of HimalayanKingdom of Ladakh, to over-come the infiltration of Chinesegoods.
KVIC chairman VinaiKumar Saxena said the KhadiIndia was committed to coop-erate with the LAHDC so thattraditional art and craft of Lehregains its lost glory.
He said the KVIC wasexploring all means to reach tothe remotest corner of thecountry and during a four-day
tour to Jammu & Kashmir hevisited Leh and held discussionwith Dorjey Mutup, the ChiefExecutive Councillor ofLAHDC on September 27 forstarting Khadi developmentalactivities at the outmost hillyhamlets there.
A KVIC statement said afirst-ever district-level Khadiexhibition was also inaugurat-ed to establish the Gandhiantool of self-reliance in the hillyland of Buddha.
“I had long and fruitful dis-cussion with Chief Executive ofthe LAHDC Dorjey Mutupand his council colleagues atLeh for starting Khadi devel-opmental activities,” Saxenasaid.
He said the KVIC has ini-tially decided to give 25Charkhas and five looms to onevillage of the Leh region, 20electric potter wheels to otherone and 500 bee-boxes to thethird village in a month’s time- after imparting proper train-ing to the beneficiaries.
“While through spinningactivities the villagers will startearning from �150 to �200 perday, the electric potter wheelwill enhance per day income ofa potter from �100 to at least�300. Similarly, from 10 beeboxes to one person, he willstart earning a minimum of�50,000 per year” the statementquoted the Chairman as saying.
The KVIC is also reachingto other villages of Jammu &Kashmir which has been affect-ed by militancy and providehelp to the artisans of Kashmir’sKraals (potters), by distributingone electric potter wheels, oneset of poug mill, one set ofBlunger and one set of gas-firedkiln to each group of 10 pottersin altogether 160 beneficiariesin Pampore district.
“It would subsequentlyenhance the daily income of thepotters thrice from �100 to�300, besides saving this rare,intricate and otherwise exter-minating blend of Kashmiricrafts,” the KVIC said.
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The work on Bhaupur-Khurja (340km) stretch on the eastern
Dedicated Freight Corridor is at fullswing and the grounds are being pre-pared to commission the stretch byDecember end. It will be followed by thecommissioning of the Rewari-Marwar(452 km) stretch on the western DFCin February 2019.
This was stated by the DFCCManaging Director A K Sachan duringan inspection of the project by theWorld Bank (South Asian Region)Vice President Hartwig Schafer at thesite visit near Tundla in Uttar Pradesh.Schafer expressed his happiness with thepace of work and termed the DFCC afantastic project. World Bank is partlyfunding the dedicated freight corridorproject.
“This is a fantastic project and weare happy that World Bank is a little part
of this great initiate by Government ofIndia and for the people of India. Theinnovative technology used by DFCCwill help new generation freight move-ment in the country from point A topoint B. The project is climate smart andwill reduce carbon emissions and alsounclog the roads ultimately adding upto the growth of the country’s econo-
my. I once again appreciate this fantas-tic project,” Schafer told The Pioneer onboard the inspection car.
For the first time in Indian Railwayshistory, DFCC is using most advancedmachines — New Track Construction(NTC) machines — which can layaround 2.5 km railway tracks in a day.Dedicated Freight CorridorCorporation of India (DFCCIL), a spe-cial purpose vehicle of the ministry rail-ways, has been entrusted with the jobto develop DFCs in the country, and theeastern DFC and the western DFC havebeen taken up on a priority basis withfunding assistance from the WorldBank and the Japan InternationalCooperation Agency.
While the eastern DFC will con-nect Mughalsarai with Ludhiana, thewestern DFC will run between Dadriand Jawaharlal Nehru Port. A newfreight corridor between Kharagpur inWest Bengal and Vijayawada inAndhra Pradesh named East Coast
Freight Corridor, besides the ongoingprojects of the Eastern and Westernfreight corridors has also beenannounced last month. OnIndependence Day this year the DFCCconducted a successful train run on thenewly-built Ateli-Phulera section of theWestern Corridor.
“The DFCC will be making 432 kmof the western corridor and 343 km ofthe eastern corridor operational by theend of the current financial year. Onceopen, the stretches on the western andthe eastern corridors will significantlyreduce the travel time between Delhiand Mumbai and Delhi and Howrah,the two most congested rail routes in thecountry,” Sachan said.
Thereafter work on the Kanpur-Mughalsarai 402 km second phase willbe completed by December 2019.Earthwork is also under way on theLudhiana-Khurja section to first flattenthe ground and then compact it beforethe rails are laid.
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The monsoon season ended on Sundaywith a “below normal” showing this
year as the country recorded a nine percent deficit in rainfall, according to theIndia Meteorological Department (IMD).
Alongside Bihar, Jharkhand and WestBengal northeastern States recorded themaximum deficiency, the weather agencysaid. This is a second year in a row whenmonsoon ended with below normal rain-fall.
This year saw Kerala receiving anunprecedented rainfall during the mon-soon triggering one of the worst floodingsin a century in which hundreds perished.The monsoon also defied IMD’s predic-tion of the country receiving normal rain-fall.
Monsoon withdrew on Saturday,September 29, twenty-nine days after itsnormal withdrawal date. The SouthwestMonsoon, which is the main source of irri-gation for crops and water supply forreservoirs, made its onset over Kerala onMay 28, three days ahead of its normalschedule, the weather agency said.
The monsoon may have officiallywithdrawn, but several southern states,Goa and Maharashtra are expected toreceive rainfall in the first week ofOctober, the IMD said.
Overall, the country received 91 percent of rainfall of the Long Period Average(LPA), which falls under “below normal”category, according to the IMD. All fourmeteorological divisions of the IMDrecorded lesser rainfall than its normalprecipitation.
The highest monsoon deficiency wasin the east and the northeast meteoro-logical division of the IMD which com-prises eastern states like Bihar, Jharkhand,West Bengal and the northeastern states.
This was followed by Central Indiawhere the monsoon deficiency was sevenper cent.
The northwest division comprising allthe northern states, and south peninsularecorded deficiency of two per cent each.
“A large deficiency came from thenortheastern states. Plus, rainfall wasdeficient in Kutch, Saurashtra, Rajasthaneast and Rajasthan west. Otherwise, rain-fall was good across the country,” MRajeevan, the Secretary, Ministry of EarthSciences, said.
Despite a prediction of good rainfallthis season, June recorded a deficit 95 percent while July and August saw respectivedeficits of 94 and 92 per cent. However,September saw a sharp decline of rainfallregistering 76 per cent rainfall of the LPA,Mritunjay Mohapatra, the AdditionalDirector General, IMD, said.
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NEW DELHI: Internet major Google andsocial media giants Twitter and Facebookhave assured the Election Commission thatthey will not allow their platforms to be usedfor anything which effects the purity of pollsduring campaign period, Chief ElectionCommissioner O P Rawat has said.
He said it was tested during theKarnataka elections.
“Small pilot was there. That was thebeginning. Now we will have a bigger pilotbefore Lok Sabha elections in these fourStates of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan,Chhattisgarh and Mizoram,” the CEC toldPTI. Assembly polls are due in the four statelater this year. Rawat said a committee underSenior Deputy Election CommissionerUmesh Sinha had called regional and localheads of Google, Facebook and Twitter andhad asked them as to what they can do forensuring purity of Indian elections such asavoiding adverse impact of fake news andtargeted communication to voters.
“They have all committed that duringcampaign period, they will not allow any-thing which is adversely effecting level play-ing field be allowed on their platforms...During the last 48 hours before the close ofpoll, they have committed that nothing ofelections will be allowed on their platforms,”he said. PTI
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Citing it a people’s friendlyproposal, a Centre’s top
wildlife panel has given goahead to a four-year-old drink-ing water supply project pro-posed in the habitat of theKota’s newly establishedMukundra Hills Tiger Reserve(MHTR) in Rajasthan, withoutwaiting for the approval fromthe National TigerConservation Authority(NTCA). The Northern Statewill go for Assembly electionslater this year.
The matter was discussedat a recent meeting of theUnion Environment Ministry’sStanding Committee ofNational Board of Wildlife(NBWL) which have greensignal to the �50 crore-Bhaisrodgah-Borav WaterSupply project, allowing diver-sion of 10.71508 hactres offorestland from MukundaraNational Park for the pur-
pose. The MHTR was declared
reserve five years back to caterto the spillover tiger populationfrom Ranthambore TigerReserve which at present isreported to be around 65tigers. The State Governmentis yet to release big cats in theregion.
Even as the NTCAinformed at the meeting thatits Site Inspection Committeereport would be submittedwithin seven days, the NBWLchaired by UnionEnvironment Minister DrHarshvardhan decided not towait further and instead gavein to the request of the StateChief Wildlife Warden G VReddy who argued that theproposal for construction ofthe water supply project wasfor the benefit of villagers ofdistrict Kota in the NorthernState.
While giving approval, theNBWL has made it mandato-
ry upon the project proponentto ensure one connection fordrinking water at end point vil-lage Udpuria free of cost forproviding the drinking waterto wild animals in the adjoin-ing deep forest in WildlifeKota division.
The project proponent hasalso been asked among otherconditions to ensure that nomaterial of any kind areextracted and no trees are cutin the Protected Area.
A senior official from theState said that the proposedpiped water supply will doaway the handpumps in 36 vil-lages in six gram panchayats,Bhaisrodgarh, Sripura,Dhanganmmau Kallan, Borav,Tamboliya and Gopalpura ofpanchayat Samiti Bhaisrodgarh(Distt. Chittaurgarh) assemblyconstituency.
To solve (permanently)drinking water problems ofproposed all villages and otherhabitations this project has
been sanctioned based on sur-face source (river Chambal). Inthis project it is proposed touse existing Intake of RWSSBhainsrorgarh (with rejuve-nation and construction ofIntake Structure adjoining toexisting Intake) as sourceIntake.
The project was sanc-tioned by the StateGovernment way back in 2014.
“Since, locations of pro-posed all 38 villages and 27other habitations can not bechanged and the route of pipeline has to be taken along theexisting roads. Therefore, theBhainsrodgarh-Borav watersupply project is located in for-est area/ protected area,” saidthe official.
MHTR is rich in flora andfauna with the perennialChambal river flowing throughit. There are around 60 pan-thers, 1,000 cheetal/sambhardeer, 60 bears, 1,000 wild boarsand 500 blue bulls.
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Rajasthan Congress chief Sachin Pilot onSunday said his party was “united”, but there
were “differences” between Chief MinisterVasundhara Raje and BJP president Amit Shahwho rarely share stage.
He was addressing a farmers’ meeting inRajsamand’s Charbhujanath.
“Congress president Rahul Gandhi in hisaddress during Dungarpur rally had said thatour party is united and we will remain united,but whenever Amit Shah comes, VasundharaRaje goes somewhere else. They are not readyto be present in the same district,” Pilot said.
He said the BJP president delivers speech-es in the name of Bangladeshis, Assam, WestBengal and Kashmir, but never speaks about theworks of the Rajasthan Government.
Pilot said nearly 150 farmers of the Statehave committed suicide, employees were onstrike, but the Government was not serious.
He said that if Congress comes to power inthe upcoming elections, the Government willwork to ease the financial burden of farmers andgive them loans on easy conditions.
All India Congress Committee (AICC)general secretary and former Chief MinisterAshok Gehlot alleged Raje was “inaccessible” forfour years and stayed in five star hotels and her-itage palaces instead of circuit houses.
He said every Chief Minister, includingBharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Bhairo SinghShekhawat, used to stay in circuit houses (dur-
ing their visits), but Raje’s “arrogance was at peakand she has never stayed in circuit houses so thatno common man can approach or disturb her”.
Gehlot said the Chief Minister’s ‘GauravYatra’ will turn into ‘Vidai (farewell) Yatra’ asthere was “extreme resentment” among people.
He said Raje was “afraid of protests”, but she“always says that she would fight like a lionessto protect her family”. The senior Congressleader said the Chief Minister should clarifywhich is her family because she “never servedpeople of the state and therefore, has no rightto seek vote from the public”.
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The JD(U) will organise itsPatna district level ‘Dalit-
Mahadalit’ conference onOctober 3 to create awareness onall Government schemes thathelped in empowering the weak-er sections of the society, seniorparty leader Shyam Rajak said onSunday. The conference will beinaugurated by the party’s Stateunit chief Bashishtha NarayanSingh here, he said.
Chief Minister NitishKumar, who is also JD(U)’snational president, will be chiefguest on the occasion, Rajak,who is also the party’s nationalgeneral secretary and an MLA,told reporters here. “Severalschemes have been initiated bythe State Government, whichbenefited the Mahadalits, espe-cially the youth and labourersbelonging to Scheduled Caste,”Rajak said. The purpose of hold-ing the conference is to ensurebetter coordination between thestate Government and the Dalitsand Mahadalits, he said.
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The anger and resentmentamong the supporters of
slain Telugu Desam party lead-ers Kadiri Sarveshwara Rao,MLA, and Siveri Somu, formerMLA, has found a new way ofexpression in the tribal areas ofVisakhapatnam district inAndhra Pradesh.
Posters have appeared in andaround Araku valley in the trib-al area in the name of “MartyrSiveri Somu” asking a few hardhitting questions to the Maoists.
Sarveshwara Rao, TDPMLA from Araku and his asso-ciate former MLA Somu werebrutally shot dead by a groupof Maoists on Sunday last.
The color poster in theform of a letter from the slainformer MLA Somu to theMaoists has created a major stirin the region. The post with themug shot of Somu as well as thephoto of his bullet-ridden bodyasks the Maoists to answer whyhe was killed. “I am a formerMLA. I have six children. Theeldest son also could not get ajob. I stay in a rented house.What wrong have I done? If Ihad done something wrong, didyou give me a warning? No, youdid not. Then why did you killme? So far you did not answerme. For whom I was a classenemy? Dear Maoists, please tellme. At least you the rightsorganizations answer me”.
Interestingly, the red color
poster with the Telugu script inwhite color was in the samepattern and design normallyused by the Maoists.
The people in the regionespecially the ruling TDP sup-porters and tribal communitieswere still shocked and stunnedover the killing of the two lead-ers. Chief Minister NChandrababu Naidu who visit-ed Araku and met the familiesof both the victims assured allpossible help to them. Heannounced Rs 1 crore assistanceand job to a son of the MLASarveshwara Rao.
Meanwhile, the members ofthe outlawed CPI Maoist haveagain carried out a major attackon the borders of Chattisgarhand Telangana on Sunday.According to the reports com-ing from Bijapur district ofChhattisgarh adjoiningBhdaradari-Kothagudem dis-trict of Telangana Maoists haveattacked base camp of CentralParamilitary Force near Pamedu.However the attack was repulsedby the alert police force.Exchange of fire was continuingin the area, police said.
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In Jammu & Kashmir, apoliceman was killed and
his rifle snatched away byunidentified terrorists whoattacked the police station inSouth Kashmir's Shopian townearly morning on Sunday.
Official sources said thatburqa-clad militants attackedthe police station at its entranceand fired indiscriminately uponthe police personnel guardingthe station. This triggeredheavy brief shootout with onepolice jawan sustaining criticalinjuries. They said the injuredjawan later succumbed to hisfatal injuries.
Security officials said thatafter mounting attack, the ter-rorists took away the rifle of theinjured cop.
A police spokesperson saidthat terrorists in the wee hoursfired indiscriminately on PoliceStation Shopian. He said theattack was repulsed by thealert cops.
The spokesman said, “Inthis incident one policemanconstable Saqib Mir also sus-tained injuries and was evacu-ated to a nearby hospital formedical treatment. However,the injured cop succumbed tohis injuries.”
Police have registered acase and investigation has beeninitiated in the matter.
No terrorist outfit claimedresponsibility for the attack.A wreath-laying ceremonywas held at District PoliceLines Shopian where tributeswere paid to the s lainPoliceman constable Saqib
Mohi Din. He was a resident of village Zawoora ofdistrict Shopian.
A police spokesperson saidthat civil, CRPF and PoliceOfficers led by DeputyInspector General of Policesouth Kashmir laid floralwreaths on the mortal remainsand paid rich tribute to theslain who made supreme sac-rifice in the line of duty.
Official statistics revealedthat 34 rifles and one pistolhave been looted, snatched ortaken away by the terroristsduring attacks and also bySPOs and Policemen whodeserted police force, in ninemajor incidents since March29, 2015.
This includes Thursday’sJawahar Nagar MLA residenceincident wherein SPOdeployed as Personal SecurityOfficer with sitting PDP MLAAdvocate Ajaz Mir, decampedwith 07 AK 47 rifles andlicensed pistol of legislator.
Meanwhile, State ElectionCommission has expressed sat-isfaction over the responseshown by the contestants vis-à-vis filing nominations forthe upcoming Urban LocalBodies (ULB) polls in J&K.
Chief Electoral Officer(CEO) Shaleen Kabra toldmedia that substantial numberof nominations have been filedacross the State includingKashmir valley.
He said that for three wardsof the Srinagar MunicipalCorporation going to the elec-tion in the first phase onOctober 8, eight out of 11nominations were found valid
after scrutiny.In the second phase 20
wards are going to polls inSrinagar and the number ofnominations filed till date forthis Phase is 88.
For the 3rd Phase inSrinagar, 85 nominations havebeen filed for 26 wards. Thefinal figure of nominationswill be announced after all theformalities are complete.
CEO said for SrinagarMunicipal Corporation, thereis hardly any ward which isgoing unopposed.
He said for the first phasenomination process has endedand the list of contesting can-didates is being finalised whilethe process for second phase ison and will end with the list ofcontesting candidates beingfinalized on Monday.
CEO said that for the firstphase, a total of 422 wards outof 1145 wards in the State aregoing to polls.
He said 1441 out of 1473nominations were declaredvalid. He added that aftersome withdrawals 1283 con-testants are now in the fray forthese 422 wards in entire State.
In district Anantnag 66nominations were filed out ofwhich 58 were found validafter scrutiny. Baramulla has40 while Bandipora has 48nominations.
Pertinently, the polling forMunicipal Polls-2018 in goingto be held in four Phases start-ing from 8th October. Pollingdate for Phase-II is 10thOctober, for Phase-III, 13thOctober and for the final Phaseon 16th October.
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The political circles are agogwith speculations that
Rashtriya Lok Samata Party(RLSP) of Upendra Kushwahawould not stay with the NDAand might join the bandwag-on of the RJD and theCongress. The NDA too isseemingly convinced that theRLSP was not feeling easy par-ticularly after the unconfirmedreports about the seat sharingbetween BJP and JD(U).
Chief Minister NitishKumar on Sunday had a meet-ing with leaders of his partyand discussed the matter andthe social implications afterRLSP’s exit from the NDA andalliance with the maha gath-bandhan. Union MinisterKushwaha had formed thisparty after quitting the JD(U)in 2013 and it is known as aparty of backward Kushwahacaste.
Before the birth of RLSP,the JD(U) was treated as partyof Kurmi and Kushwaha andNitish Kumar as their sole leader. It is because ofKushwaha’s stubborn attitudethat the seat sharing among theNDA partners could not beannounced. The RLSP startedflexing muscles after thereports that the BJP has sug-gested a 20:20 formula of seatsharing with the saffron partykeeping 20 seats and accom-modating its three other alliesin the remaining 20 seats withmajor seats, possibly 12 seats toJD(U), six to LJP and two to
RLSP.RLSP and Kushwaha
apparently rejected this for-mula with some of its Stateleaders demanding more seatsthan the JD(U) saying the pop-ulation of Kushwaha caste washigher than Kurmi.
The anticipation that RLSPmight side with Lalu Prasad’sparty has caused worries in theNDA because Kushwaha casteis treated as important in thebackward social engineeringand politically conscious andpowerful only after Yadav.
After the meeting JD(U)MP Santosh Kushwaha saidthere would hardly any impacton NDA if any ally breaksaway. “JD(U) is the naturalparty of Kushwahas and this
social group is solidly behindNitish Kumar,” he claimed andannounced that a KushwahaVikas Rath will roll out acrossBihar for the awareness amongthe caste. He said the party willgive more representation tothis section in ticket allot-ment in Lok Sabha andAssembly elections.
However, the JD(U) is alsosuspecting a dent in its accept-ability in Kushwaha societyfollowing the dropping ofKumari Manju Verma from thecabinet after the name of herhusband cropped up in theMuzaffarpur shelter home rapeepisode and his connectionwith main accused BrajeshThakur. Manju Verma wasSocial Welfare Minister andwas asked to resign. She hadrepeatedly said that she wasbeing punished because shebelonged to Kushwaha back-ward caste. In bid to blunt herattack, Nitish had allottedSocial Welfare department tohis education Minister KrishnaNandan Prasad Verma, whotoo belongs to Kushwaha caste.
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The Congress national pres-ident Rahul Gandhi wants
the Bengal Pradesh Congress tofirst stand up on its feet andthen make a choice of electoralallies in the State, newlyappointed PCC presidentSomen Mitra said a day aftermeeting Gandhi in Delhi.
Mitra, a veteran partyleader who held the samepost in 1998 when then StateYouth Congress chief and pre-sent Chief Minister MamataBanerjee left the party fol-lowing differences with him toform a new TrinamoolCongress in 1998.
Gandhi who is likely tovisit Kolkata during DurgaPujas is known to have toldMitra and the newly appoint-ed state committee that noalliance would be imposed onthe PCC leadership.
“Rahulji has asked the Stateleaders to take all steps tostrengthen the organisation.He realizes that these are hardtimes for the party and it needsto stand up on its feet firstbefore the issue of alliance istaken up,” Mitra said, adding“he has assured us that noalliance will be imposed on theparty and that the State lead-ership will be heard beforeany decision is taken.”
Gandhi is known to havetold the State leaders that ifneed be the Congress wouldgo it alone. “These are hard
times. We are faced by twohostile parties on two sides:the BJP and the TrinamoolCongress.
“We will have to navigatethe party accordingly,” Mitrasaid without referring to theLeft parties particularly theCPI(M).
The CPI(M) had report-edly decided in a State com-mittee meeting to ally with theCongress Party in the coming2019 general elections. Thetwo parties had jointly con-tested the 2016 State polls.
“The decision of anyalliance has been left on theState leadership but before thatwe have to tone up the organ-isation and make it stand on itsfeet with dignity,” Mitra said.Another leader and Malda MPAH Khan Chowdhury isknown to have told Gandhithat the Congress should go topolls alone and must not bowdown to any party in an undig-nified manner.
“Our dignity is at stakeand we must not further loseit by allying with parties ontheir terms,” Khan Chowdhuryis known to have told Gandhiwho is likely to visit theCollege Square Durga Pujaorganized by senior Stateleader Pradip Ghosh.
Gandhi has also told theleaders during the meetingattended amongst others byMitra, Pradip Bhattacharya,Deepa Dasmunshi,Chowdhury, AH Khan
Chowdhury to build opinionabout the Rafale deal.
Booklets on the issuewould be distributed amongthe workers and the people onthe Rafale deal both in Bengaliand other languages, the lead-ers said. They added it wouldalso be publicised in socialmedia.
Meanwhile partyspokesperson PriyankaChowdhury said the Congresswould forge alliance withlike-minded parties only inthe next year’s general elec-tions adding however theCongress would never com-promiseon the question ofideolog y while formingalliances.
"We are not compelled tocompromise on our ideologyand values just for the sake ofstitching up alliances.
“We will be reaching outto all political opposition par-ties and alliance will beformed on the basis of our andtheir understanding of thesituation," said Chaturvedi, anational spokesperson of theparty.
Asked as to whether herparty would forge alliance withthe Trinamool Congress toowhich was charged with “lit-erally wiping out the Congressin Bengal” by the likes ofAdhir Chowdhury, she said theCongress would ally with allthe Opposition parties withoutsacrificing its own ideologyand dignity.
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The Congress is sheddingcrocodile tears over HAL.
Defence Minister NirmalaSitharaman who has been hold-ing press conferences in variouscities, in Bengaluru on Sundayblamed the Congress-led UPAGovernment for the mess overthe Rafale deal. She also said theAir Force needs moresquadrons of jets and justifiedthe off-the-shelf purchase of 36Rafales. She said the Congressis shedding crocodile tearsabout HAL but it’s only NDAthat has given impetus to HAL’sproduction line with coordi-nating the needs of the forces.
Nirmala Sitharaman saidthat India was responding toevery ceasefire violation fromPakistan, saying theGovernment is not lettinganything go unnoticed.
The Defence Minister'sreaction came after thePakistani army violated cease-fire and tried to push in a groupof terrorists under the cover ofheavy firing along the Line of
Control (LoC) in Tangdharsector of North Kashmir'sKupwara district on the secondanniversary of the ‘surgicalstrikes’.
"If ceasefire violations arehappening (from Pakistan), atevery violation, we are respond-ing, we are also eliminatingthem & pushing them back.Hopefully, you will hear of theactions we are taking," said theDefence Minister. She also saidthat the Government is not let-ting anything go unnoticed.
In another function earli-er in Bengaluru defenceMinister Nirmala Sitharamanstressed the need to keep thesocial media "toxic-free" tobuild an intelligent and smartnarrative for the country to
progress fast."We should be the pioneers
to make that place toxic-free. Itshould be an engagementforum, but without bitterness,toxicity, negativity," she said,addressing the sixth SocialMedia Conclave, organised byan NGO — Namaste India.
It was on Saturday in apress conference at ChennaiNirmala Sitharaman had saidthat former French PresidentFrancois Hollande may havemade the recent remarks onthe Rafale deal to evade ques-tions on allegations raisedabout his associates receivingfunds from a company.
“I know this matter isnow international. It will havean impact on internationalrelations. But here, the formerPresident of France, who him-self is — I don’t know whetherit is true or not — facing anallegation, it may or may notbe true, that his associateshave received funds for somepurpose…. In such a situation,the (former) President is say-ing this. Does it mean he just
wanted this journalist off hisback and therefore he wantedto say something, and he saidsomething different elsewherelater?” Sitharaman said. Sheadded that she will not be ina position to elaborate onthat allegation.
Meanwhile the defencePSU Hindustan AeronauticsLimited (HAL) has recordedthe highest-ever turnover infinancial year 2017-18.
R Madhavan, newlyappointed CMD of HAL said inBengaluru “We have recordedthe highest ever turnover of�18,28,386 lakhs in the 2017-18 financial year compared toprevious year’s turnover of�17,60,379 lakhs,”
HAL had on Friday, held its55th Annual General BodyMeeting of Shareholders, firstafter its listing.
Profit Before Tax for theyear was �3,32,284 lakhs asagainst �3,58,258 lakhs in theprevious year, the CMD said,adding the Profit After Tax(PAT) for the year was�2,07,041 lakhs.
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Even as the Centre has decid-ed to stop relief to the over
32,000 Reang tribal refugeesliving in north Tripura forover two decades, fromMonday, it is not clear if theywill start returning to Mizoramalthough nearly 180 have doneso.
The authorities made theannouncement about the deci-sion — taken earlier this month— through public address onFriday and Saturday. A northTripura district administrationofficial said a week's relief wasprovided to the Bru refugees onSaturday evening.
A total of 32,876 refugeeshad been staying in Tripuraafter fleeing their villages inMizoram due to ethnic tension.
"The Government is veryserious in asking the tribals toreturn to their homes imme-diately. But we are not surewhether they will start leavingtheir camps soon," the officialsaid on the condition ofanonymity on phone fromDharmanagar, 190 km northof here.
He claimed that somerefugee leaders were misguid-ing those staying put.
"The Central Governmentwill stop relief and other assis-tance from October 1 to tribalrefugees staying in six camps inTripura," North TripuraDistrict Magistrate RavalHamendra Kumar said.
The decision is in line witha July 3 agreement betweenTripura and Mizoram
Governments, the HomeMinistry and refugees' bodyMizoram Bru DisplacedPeople's Forum (MBDPF).
The agreement entails ben-efits to each refugee family,including �4 lakh aid, month-ly allowance of �5,000, �1.5lakh for building house andfree ration for two years.
As per the agreement, theReang tribals, comprising 5,407families, were scheduled tostart returning to threeMizoram districts from August16 or 17.
But they refused and reit-erated their demands, includ-ing security in Mizoram byparamilitary forces and allot-ment of sufficient land forfarming, besides formation ofArea Development Councilfor Reang tribals, locallycalled 'Bru'.
MBDPF General SecretaryBruno Msha said theirdemands were not incorporat-ed in the agreement, includingallotment of five hectares ofland to each refugee family ontheir return.
On the other hand, 177refugees from 32 familiesreturned to Mizoram onSeptember 19 and 26. Onerefugee family left for Mizoramon Sunday.
The District Magistrate,who along with SDMs ofKanchanpur and Panisagar issupervising the matter, said afew more refugee families werelikely to return to Mizoramany time.
Refugee leader BrunoMsha said from Kanchanpurthat they were preparing a listof families willing to return toMizoram.
A Monitoring Committeeheaded by Special Secretary(Internal Security) of theMinistry of Home Affairs hasbeen set up, also comprisingofficials from Tripura andMizoram and representatives ofMBDPF, to supervise the repa-triation and settlement process.
Mizoram HomeDepartment AdditionalSecretary Lalbiakzama told themedia in Aizawl that 4,199Reang tribal families will beresettled in 48 villages in Mamitdistrict and 824 and 384 fam-ilies in 10 villages in Kolasiband four villages in Lunglei dis-tricts respectively. CommunistParty of India-Marxist leaderJitendra Chowdhury, a formerTribal Welfare Minister inTripura, urged the Centre notto repatriate the Reang tribalswithout settling land and otherissues. "I have raised the issuein the Lok Sabha but theCentral government is yet torespond," Chowdhury said.
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BJP leader SubramanianSwamy on Sunday
demanded a fresh probe intothe death of Netaji SubhasChandra Bose, who he claimeddied not in a plane crash butwhile in Soviet custody.
"I am requesting the Modigovernment to institute a freshcommission to inquire into themysterious death of SubhasChandra Bose," Swamy toldthe media here.
He said: "Joseph Stalin wasinstrumental in murderingNetaji and he did not die in theplane crash of August 18, 1945as is widely believed. In no hos-pital the body or Netaji'sremains were found.
"The plane crash incidentwas staged as a decoy by theJapanese to enable him toescape to Soviet Russia wherehe had contacts. The Japanesehad to do this to save himfrom post-War trial as a war
criminal."Netaji sneaked into Soviet
Russia through Manchurianborder within days of the so-called reported air crash,"Swamy claimed.
But Swamy said Stalinbetrayed Bose and sent him toa Siberian prison where he wasshot dead.
Stalin communicated thisto then Prime MinisterJawaharlal Nehru. "Informationin this regard is now slowlytrickling out and very sooneverything will be known," theRajya Sabha member said.
"When I was the LawMinister in the government ofChandra Shekhar, I had rec-ommended not to bringNetaji's so-called ashes fromTokyo, kept since September1945, as these ashes might notbe of Netaji."
Swamy said that no previ-ous commission which probedthe death of Netaji consideredthese vital evidences.
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Without taking the name ofthe All India Congress
Committee (AICC) president,Prime Minister Narendra Moditrained his guns on RahulGandhi for criticising the‘Statue of Unity’ project as‘Made in China,’ saying that hecouldn’t understand how ‘somepeople’ have forgotten SardarPatel’s contribution towardsthe unity of the country.
“We are not limited to workfor one family. For us SardarPatel, Mahatma Gandhi, APJAbdul Kalam and Baba SahebAmbedkar are not election mate-rial. The BJP Government hasbeen developing memorials forall these leaders without show-ing any bias. But ‘some people’see everything in the context ofelections only,” said the PrimeMinister, while addressing agathering after inaugurating theMahatma Gandhi MemorialMuseum at Rajkot on Sundayevening.
Modi said that when it wasdecided to construct a statue ofSardar Patel, he was clear that itshould be the tallest statue of the
world to commemorate thework done by Sardar for nation-al integration. He said thatnever consider a person of aSardar’s stature in limitation ofa region or caste, he was a glob-al personality and symbol ofnational faith.
“We are developing memo-rials of great national heroes.Because we believe that thenation which forgets its histo-ry would lose the capacity toscript new history. I have com-
plete faith in the young gener-ation of India, who has capa-bility to write new history of anew India,” he said, adding thatthey (Congress) had forgottenSardar Patel for many years,now they are upset over the factthat a tea vendor is remem-bering him all the time.
Coming down heavily onthe former Congress ruledgovernments for not develop-ing a single Gandhi memorialin Rajkot where Mahatma
spent his childhood saying thatduring the Congress ruleGandhi was remembered eitheron his birth anniversary ordeath anniversary. He claimedthat India’s sanitation coveragewas mere 35 per cent before2014, but within just four years,it has gone up to 95 per centwhich is not a small feat.
In another function earlieron the day at Anand – the MilkCapital of India, the PrimeMinister stated that the co-
operative model is a viableeconomic alternate to the cap-italist and socialist models.Addressing a farmers’ rally afterinaugurating a chocolate plantof Amul dairy, he said that as aresult of farmers’ cooperativemovement over the past seventyyears Amul made farmers eco-nomically powerful.
It was Sardar Patel whosown the seeds of co-operativemovement in the countrythough milk revolution inAnand, he said adding thatnow taking the movement for-ward Amul should set a targetof making India the thirdlargest milk processor in theworld from its current rankingof 9th when it would complete75 years of its existence.
Inaugurating an LNG ter-minal at Mundra in Kutch, hesaid everyone can see howKutch has changed in twodecades. Those born after 2001cannot imagine the lack ofdevelopment in Kutch, he saidadding that the water problemwas acute and very few peoplecame here. The developmentstrides in Kutch are truly com-mendable, he added.
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APakistani helicopter onSunday violated the Indian
air space along the line of con-trol (LoC) in Poonch sector,prompting the Indian Air Forceto launch 'air sorties' to checkthe intrusion.
The air space violationwas reported hours afterIndian External AffairsMinister Sushma Swaraj hadlaunched a scathing attackagainst Pakistan at the UnitedNations General Assemblysession (UNGA) in New Yorkfor harbouring terrorists onits territory and not takingany action against the mas-termind of 26/11 Mumbaiterror strike.
According to groundreports, soon after the Pakistanihelicopter violated the Indianair space in forward area ofGulpur in Poonch 'air sentries'at a forward location engagedit with small arms forcing it toretreat.
Ministr y of Defencespokesperson based inJammu, Lt-Col DevendraAnand issued a statementwhich said, "the air spaceviolation by the Pakistan heli-copter was reported inPoonch sector at about 12.10p.m on sunday".
According to groundreports, "the Pakistan heli-copter hovered over theIndian air space close to theline of control for some time.Official sources, however,claimed it was most likely acivil chopper and was flyingvery high.
"It was also fired upon bythe Indian troops but it man-aged to retreat inside thePakistani territory".
According to the bilater-al agreement inked in 1991between India and Pakistan arotary wing aircraft can notfly within 1 km, fixed wingaircraft ( fighters, bombersand reconnaissance planes)within 10 km of each othersairspace.
Following this incidenthigh alert was sounded allalong the line of control to pre-vent any further breach ofbarbed wire fence to pushheavily armed infiltrators insidethe Indian territory.
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Air Marshal Harjit SinghArora took over as Air
Officer Commanding-in-Chief(AOC-in-C), South WesternAir Command (SWAC), atGandhinagar on Sunday.
Arora replaced RK Dhir,who has been appointed byGujarat government as advis-er of defence aerospace indus-tries. Born on 25 June 1961,Arora was commissioned inIndian Air Force as a fighterpilot in Dec 1981. He has richand diverse experience ofaccident free operational fly-ing which includes MiG 21,MiG 29 and other aircraft inIAF inventory, including helicopters.
He is a meritorious grad-uate of Tactics and AirCombat DevelopmentEstablishment, DefenceServices Staff College andNational Defence College. Heis also Master of Philosophy inDefence and Strategic studies.
He commanded a MiG 21Bison Squadron in the SouthWestern sector and later wasCommander of Air DefenceDirection Centre in the samesector. He went on to com-mand a premier MiG 29 Baseon the western border and asan Air Vice Marshal he was Air
Defence Commander atHeadquarters of Western AirCommand as well as EasternAir Command.
As an Air Marshal he hasheld the appointments ofDirector General (Inspectionand Safety) and DirectorGeneral Air (Operations) at AirHeadquarters before takingover as the AOC-in-C. He hasalso served as Directing Staff at'Tactics and Air CombatDevelopment Establishment'and as a Flying Inspector in the'Directorate of Air StaffInspection'. He was DefenceAttache in the Embassy ofIndia, Bangkok, Thailand from2006 to 2009.
Arora was awarded 'AtiVishisht Seva Medal' by thePresident of India on 26January 2011.
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Aroyal visit to Chennai recent-ly went unnoticed. Those
who got a chance to see the royalguest were unanimous in theircomment that “She came, shesaw and she conquered ”.
The visiting royalty wasnone other than The FairyQueen, world’s oldest steamlocomotive which continuesto ferry the privileged sectionsin the society across India’splaces of cultural, tourist andheritage importance. NamedEIR 22 (East India Railway 22),this steam locomotive, rated as“the princess” among her coun-terparts, was “born” in 1855 inKitson and Company, theLeeds based loco manufactur-ing giants and was shipped toIndia in the same year.
She has been a mute spec-tator to the uprisings in Indiaagainst the British colonialmasters and even witnessed the1857 Sepoy Mutiny. The FairyQueen has even transportedsome of the prominent WhiteSahibs from their colonialheadquarters in Kolkata andNew Delhi to various places inthe country.
Though she was superan-nuated many times in the pastand was kept as museum piece,the Railway authorities couldsmell the vast commercialpotential offered by her and the
Queen was called back fromretirement to haul the exclusivein two opulent and magnifi-cent compartments.
Aditi Saini, the young worksmanager at Perambur LocoWorks in Chennai, could nothide her thrill and excitementover the care which was givento EIR 22 which reachedChennai in the first week ofAugust. “She was brought herefor the periodic over haulingwhich we describe as POH. Thisis done once in every fouryears,” said Aditi, a mechanicalengineer, who loves steam loco-motives. According to Aditi, the
POH was like the periodic ser-vicing of the scooties we own
Aditi also disclosed thatwhile she and her team of engi-neers and technicians enjoyedeach and every moment of work,it was not as simple as that.“There are no engineering draw-ings as well as spare parts avail-able in the market because steamlocomotives belong to a differ-ent era. We had to make thedrawings of each componentsand get it done exclusively forthis unique machine,” she said.
The Queen is set to chug outto Rewari in north India onMonday where she will be fer-
rying two air conditioned com-partments full of elite class ofpassengers in the Delhi Cantt-Rewari stretch. About the qual-ity of the engine, this young engi-neer was all gung-ho. “She isgreat and so simple to operate,”said Aditi.
The engine is not ball alonein this world. She has a twin sis-ter, named EIR 21, alive andkicking in Madurai –Puducherrystretch of the Southern Railway.“Both the engines are in superbform and we can ply it for selectpassengers in small stretches.Don’t you know that coal hasbecome expensive?” asked Aditi.
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The Northern ArmyCommander Lt Gen
Ranbir Singh on Sundayarrived in Srinagar on a day-long visit to review the securi-ty situation and operationalpreparedness in KashmirValley.
His latest visit comes in thewake of recent counter-militantoperations which led to thekilling of several militants.Besides, the infiltrationattempts by militants alongLoC and ceasefire violations byPakistani army remains con-tinuing concerns.
Defence spokesman saidthat after his arrival in Srinagar,Lt General Singh took a reviewof the security situation and
operational preparedness inKashmir Valley.
He exhorted all ranks ofarmed forces to maintain a safe,secure and peaceful environ-ment for the people of theKashmir. He also compliment-ed the troops for their recentsuccesses and commendedthem for their dedication toduty and high standards of pro-fessionalism. Accompanied bythe Srinagar based XV (Chinar)Corps Commander Lt GenAK Bhatt, the ArmyCommander visited the hin-terland formations in Northand Central Kashmir and wasbriefed by the commanderson ground about the currentsituation. The ArmyCommander appreciated themeasures and StandardOperating Procedures (SOPs)instituted by the units and for-mations to minimise civiliancausalities. He also stressedneed for effectively meetingemerging security challenges.
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Tripura Chief MinisterBiplab Deb has landed
himself in yet another con-troversy by saying that PrimeMinister Narendra Modi hasgot a brother who still runsautorickshaw and motherlives in 10X12 house.
“He (Prime minsterModi) has got his mother,who is old but Prime Ministerdoes not keep her in thePrime Minister’s official res-idence. She still lives in a10X12 house,” said Deb whileaddressing a gathering atAgartala on Saturday.
“Prime Minister has gotbrother and sister. Where willyou get such PrimeMminister? For last four yearshe has been Prime Ministerand before that he was ChiefMinister for 13 years. Hisbrothers still run small gro-cery shop and drive auto rick-shaw and mother lives in10x12 house,” Deb said.
Sanjay Mishra, Officer onSpecial Duty in the ChiefMinister's Office however saidthat the video which is beingcirculated is fabricated. "The video is cut and paste.What Chief Minister meantwas despite belonging toPrime Minister’s family, thefamily members includingmother and brother move in an auto rickshaw and livea ver y simple l i fe,” said Mishra.
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Itanagar: Arunachal PradeshChief Minister Pema Khanduon Sunday announced that the"ATAL (ArunachalTransformational andAspirational Leaders)Conclave" will be made a reg-ular event from next year.
In an interactive sessionwith students, during the con-cluding session of the three-dayATAL conclave, he saidthrough this meet the state gov-ernment wished to take theyouths onboard as part of theTeam Arunachal Government.
Khandu promised that thedeliberations made during theevent and the papers presentedwill be examined by the PlanningDepartment to be incorporatedin the policy programmes of theGovernment.
Exhorting on the need tobridge the gap between publicand the Government, Khandurequested the students to makeuse of their free time duringvacations to spread awareness tothe people about important flag-ship programmes of the state andthe Centre. The Chief Minister
proposed a monthly honorariumof �5,000 to the students to workin the outreach programme ofthe Government.
He also urged the studentcommunity to be part of the gov-ernment's campaign to stopmoney culture during elections.
The Chief Minister said hehad zero tolerance towards cor-ruption due to which severalhigh ranking officials even inthe rank of DeputyCommissioner as well as richbusinessmen and political lead-ers had been arrested. IANS
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BJP leader SubramanianSwamy on Sunday
demanded that Pakistan bebroken into four regions -Sindh, Balochistan, Pakhtunand West Pakistan - and thefirst three must be handedover to India.
"This is the only solutionto the India-Pakistan con-flict," said the Rajya Sabhamember who was here toattend a seminar.
Terming Pakistan's newPrime Minister Imran Khan as
a "chaprasi", Swamy said thatPakistan was run by the mili-tary, the Inter-ServicesIntelligence (ISI) and terrorists.
He said the roads wouldbe cleared to build a grandRam temple at Ayodhya inUttar Pradesh.
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For th
e pas
t few
dec
ades
Indi
a, fro
m it
spo
litici
ans,
mili
tary
and
dipl
omat
s, ha
sob
serv
ed th
at it
s eas
tern
nei
ghbo
ur is
its m
ain
rival
rath
er th
an it
s wes
tern
neig
hbou
r w
ith w
hom
Ind
ia w
asob
sess
ed.
We
wat
ched
with
ala
rm a
s th
eCh
ines
e bui
lt m
ilita
ry p
rese
nce o
n th
e bor
ders
.Fl
ashp
oint
s, su
ch as
Dok
lam, h
ave b
ecom
e dis-
tress
ingl
y fre
quen
t. Bu
t unl
ike
with
Pak
istan
,no
ne o
f the
flas
hpoi
nts h
ave s
een
the d
ischa
rge
of a
ny se
rious
fire
powe
r. In
deed
, so
far,
ther
eha
s onl
y be
en a
lmos
t juv
enile
shov
ing
battl
es.
But i
t isn
’t ju
st th
e mili
tary
bat
tles o
n ou
r bor
-de
r tha
t wor
ries u
s, th
e Chi
nese
econ
omy,
that
thun
dere
d in
to lif
e in
the 1
980s
and
that
has s
een
an u
npre
cede
nted
leve
l of g
rowt
h in
the p
ast 4
0ye
ars,
has
mad
e Ch
ina
rich
but w
ith g
row
thslo
wing
dow
n, th
e Chi
nese
hav
e sta
rted
depl
oy-
ing t
heir
cash
else
whe
re an
d se
ll m
anuf
actu
red
good
s to
newe
r mar
kets.
Whi
le Ch
ines
e ca
sh i
n Pa
kista
n w
ill b
epo
cket
ed b
y th
e G
ener
als
and
is go
ing
to b
eno
thin
g bu
t mor
e mon
ey w
aste
d, k
eepi
ng th
atfa
iled
state
aliv
e, Ch
ines
e mon
ey el
sewh
ere w
or-
ries I
ndia
. The
‘One
Belt
, One
Roa
d’ in
itiat
ive
is no
t a
Chin
ese
knoc
k-of
f of
the
Am
eric
an‘M
arsh
all P
lan’ b
ut a
well-
thou
ght-o
ut st
rate
gic
initi
ativ
e to
capt
ure t
he n
atio
ns so
vere
igni
ty an
das
sets.
Thi
s has
bee
n m
ade
plai
nly
clear
in S
riLa
nka
and
Chin
a is
doin
g th
e sa
me
in s
ome
Sout
h-Ea
st As
ian an
d Ea
stern
Eur
opea
n na
tions
and
in A
frica
. Unf
ortu
nate
ly, fo
r the
Chi
nese
,th
ey h
ave n
ot m
anag
ed to
figu
re ou
t how
to d
is-ru
pt d
emoc
racy
, whi
ch is
why
pro
-Chi
nese
lead
-er
s hav
e bee
n ou
sted
by vo
ters
in M
alay
sia, S
riLa
nka
and
now
in t
he M
aldi
ves,
yet
getti
ngdr
unk
on C
hine
se m
oney
and
infra
struc
ture
isno
w a
n en
dem
ic p
robl
em in
the
dev
elopi
ngw
orld
. A
cros
s N
orth
ern
and
Sub-
Saha
ran
Afri
ca, t
he C
hine
se a
re sw
allo
win
g as
sets
and
cont
rolli
ng G
over
nmen
ts, fl
ying
in p
lane
load
sof
wha
t on
e In
dian
bus
ines
sman
in
Afri
cade
scrib
ed a
s ‘m
oney
, wor
kers
and
pro
stitu
tes’.
Yet,
Indi
a has
bee
n sc
ream
ing f
rom
the r
oofto
psof
the
peril
s of C
hine
se m
oney
and
Chi
nese
-bu
ilt in
frastr
uctu
re an
d Ch
ines
e pro
duct
s.U
nfor
tuna
tely,
Indi
a’s s
crea
ms
soun
d lik
eth
ose
of a
mad
man
, not
just
beca
use
Chin
ese
mon
ey is
so a
llurin
g th
at In
dia
seem
s cra
zy to
deny
it, b
ut b
ecau
se In
dia i
s clea
rly b
eing
hyp
-oc
ritic
al h
ere.
Indi
a is a
lso ad
dict
ed to
Chi
nese
mon
ey. T
he C
hine
se h
ave b
een
pour
ing i
n bi
l-lio
ns in
to co
ntro
lling
Indi
an st
art-u
ps, f
inan
cial
tech
nolo
gy fi
rm P
ayTM
is b
acke
d by
Alib
aba’s
Jack
Ma,
Chin
a’s ri
ches
t man
and
is no
w ta
rget
-in
g Am
erica
n sta
rt-up
s ent
erin
g the
ir sp
ace a
ndtry
ing t
o in
voke
the n
atio
nalis
tic ar
gum
ent. A
ndif
som
eone
told
that
the w
ay to
Indi
a’s h
eart
isth
roug
h its
crick
et ad
dict
ion,
the C
hine
se h
ave
been
pou
ring
huge
sum
s of
mon
ey th
ere
are
well.
Alli
ed fi
rms O
ppo
and
Vivo
spon
sor t
heIn
dian
Cric
ket B
oard
and
the
Indi
an P
rem
ier
Leag
ue re
spec
tively
. Ju
st lo
ok at
the n
umbe
rs. A
ccor
ding
to th
eIn
tern
atio
nal T
rade
Cen
tre, I
ndia’
s tra
de d
efici
tw
ith C
hina
gre
w fr
om $
7.5
billi
on in
200
6 to
$59.
5 bill
ion
in 20
17. W
hile
Indi
a’s tr
ade d
efici
tge
ts s
kew
ed b
y oi
l im
port
s, in
201
6, a
yea
rw
here
cru
de o
il pr
ices
wer
e ve
ry lo
w, In
dia’s
tota
l tr
ade
defic
it w
as $
96.4
bill
ion,
Chi
naac
coun
ted
for $
51.6
bill
ion
of 5
3.5
per c
ent.
In20
17,
than
ks t
o oi
l pr
ices
clim
bing
, Ch
ina
acco
unts
for
only
40
per
cent
of I
ndia’
s to
tal
trad
e de
ficit.
But
mak
e no
mist
akes
, Ind
ians
don’t
just
love
Gob
hi M
anch
uria
n (ir
onic
give
nth
at t
here
isn
’t a
‘Man
chur
ian’
cui
sine
assu
ch),
the
Chin
ese
are
ensu
ring
that
Indi
a is
addi
cted
to th
eir g
oods
too.
A
nd t
here
is
no d
oubt
, th
e in
crea
sed
Dig
ital p
ush
in I
ndia
is in
crea
singl
y m
akin
gIn
dia’s
add
ictio
n to
Chi
na w
orse
. Ch
ines
eco
mpa
nies
dom
inat
e the
smar
tpho
ne m
arke
t in
Indi
a, th
ey ar
e inc
reas
ingl
y sta
rtin
g to
edge
inac
ross
the c
onsu
mer
dur
ables
spac
e as w
ell, w
ithsu
bsid
ised
Chin
ese
good
s allu
ring
the
penn
y-pi
nchi
ng In
dian
buy
er. A
nd In
dia’s
ow
n co
m-
pani
es h
ave
to s
houl
der
the
blam
e fo
r th
is.O
bser
ving
tha
t m
argi
ns b
y im
port
ing
from
Chin
a we
re h
ighe
r tha
n lo
cal m
anuf
actu
ring,
Indi
an ‘m
obile
pho
ne’ c
ompa
nies
star
ted
slap-
ping
on
thei
r log
os o
n Ch
ines
e pro
duct
s and
inso
me c
ases
, pitc
hed
natio
nalis
m in
their
bran
ds,
but i
f you
had
scra
tche
d aw
ay th
e saf
fron
of th
efla
g, t
he f
ive
yello
w s
tars
of
the
Peop
le’s
Repu
blic
of C
hina
coul
d be
seen
. Ev
entu
ally,
Chi
nese
firm
s cot
tone
d on
toth
is an
d br
ough
t the
ir ow
n br
ands
to In
dia,
and
now
thei
r pro
duct
s are
mak
ing
a m
ock-
ery
of th
e ‘M
ake i
n In
dia’
prog
ram
me,
scre
w-
ing
toge
ther
a fe
w p
arts
is b
eing
des
crib
ed as
man
ufac
turin
g. C
ongr
ess
pres
iden
t Ra
hul
Gan
dhi
has
it ri
ght
that
sel
fie-o
bses
sed
Indi
an y
outh
are
giv
ing
jobs
to th
e C
hine
se,
but t
he m
etap
hor e
nds t
here
bec
ause
he
has
no cl
ue to
a so
lutio
n. In
crea
sing
cust
oms a
ndta
riffs
is o
ne so
lutio
n, b
ut m
akin
g m
anuf
ac-
turin
g ea
sier i
n In
dia i
s a b
ette
r sol
utio
n an
dth
at c
an b
e do
ne a
s is
seen
in
Sam
sung
’sim
pres
sive
new
pla
nt in
Gre
ater
Noi
da. B
utIn
dia’s
Chi
nese
add
ictio
n go
es fu
rthe
r.It
also s
tretch
es to
capi
tal g
oods
, the t
urbi
nes
in m
any
of th
e ne
w p
ower
plan
ts in
Indi
a, th
esm
elter
s in
new
steel
plan
ts, th
e tub
ing a
nd p
ip-
ing a
t ref
iner
ies an
d th
e phy
sical
infra
struc
ture
for n
ew te
lecom
mun
icatio
n ne
twor
ks, i
nclu
d-in
g in
som
e ca
se th
ose
for m
ilita
ry u
se. M
any
of th
em c
ome
from
Chi
na. I
t is n
ot a
s if o
ther
natio
ns w
e im
port
such
capi
tal g
oods
from
hav
eno
stri
ngs
atta
ched
, th
ey c
erta
inly
do,
but
Indi
a’s ec
onom
ic gr
owth
is n
ot cr
eatin
g jo
bs in
Indi
a, bu
t the
re is
no d
oubt
that
it is
crea
ting m
il-lio
ns of
jobs
in C
hina
. It is
alm
ost s
urpr
ising
that
the
gove
rnm
ent
final
ly t
ook
a sta
nd a
gain
stCh
ines
e goo
ds by
pre
vent
ing t
hem
from
taki
ngpa
rt in
the f
utur
e mob
ile te
lepho
ny co
nsul
tatio
npr
oces
s. Bu
t Ind
ia’s s
udde
n sp
ine s
eem
s to
stem
less
from
itse
lf bu
t the
fact
that
US
Pres
iden
tD
onald
Tru
mp
is gi
ving
it b
ack
to C
hina
indr
oves
and
that
has
caug
ht th
e Chi
nese
out c
om-
plet
ely, e
ven
mor
e so
bec
ause
Tru
mp’s
mov
eap
pear
to be
incr
easin
gly p
opul
ar ot
her t
han
with
Chin
ese-
spon
sore
d ‘Fr
ee T
rade
’ age
nts p
ropa
gat-
ing
Chin
a’s o
ne-w
ay fr
ee-tr
ade p
arad
igm
. W
orse
still
, imag
es h
ave e
mer
ged
of C
hine
sewo
rker
s bui
ldin
g the
‘Sta
tue o
f Uni
ty’ o
f Sar
dar
Pate
l in G
ujar
at. C
hine
se w
orke
rs ar
e put
ting u
pm
etro
sys
tem
s, hi
ghw
ays,
powe
r pl
ants
and
asso
rted
Indi
an in
frastr
uctu
re a
s well
. Ind
ians
mig
ht sn
igge
r at h
ow P
akist
an is
incr
easin
gly
beco
min
g a C
hine
se cl
ient
stat
e if i
t is n
ot o
neal
read
y, bu
t Chi
na m
ay n
ot e
ver n
eed
to fi
ght
a w
ar w
ith In
dia
as it
is w
inni
ng th
e lit
tle b
at-
tles,
esse
ntia
l to
win
ning
the w
ar.
(The
writ
er is
Man
agin
g Edi
tor,
The P
ione
er)
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��
Si
r —
Thi
s re
fers
to
the
edito
rial,
“Equ
ality
bef
ore l
aw” (
Sept
embe
r 29)
.H
ats o
ff to
Just
ice
Indu
Mal
hotr
a fo
rvo
icin
g di
ssen
t on
the
Sab
arim
ala
Tem
ple i
n Ke
rala
. The
tem
ple w
ill n
owbe
kep
t op
en t
o w
omen
of
all a
ges.
Mal
hotr
a ech
oed
the v
oice
of a
maj
or-
ity o
f the
peo
ple w
ho d
id n
ot w
ant t
heco
urts
to in
terfe
re in
mat
ters
rela
ting
to re
ligio
us p
ract
ices
unl
ess s
uch
prac
-tic
es h
ave
an e
vil s
hado
w o
n so
ciet
y. In
her
judg
emen
t M
alho
tra
said
that
issu
es w
hich
hav
e de
ep re
ligio
usco
nnot
atio
ns sh
ould
not
be
tinke
red
with
to m
aint
ain
a sec
ular
atm
osph
ere
in th
e co
untr
y. N
ot a
ll H
indu
tem
ples
in
our
coun
try h
ave b
arre
d en
try t
o w
omen
.If
thei
r ent
ry in
to th
e Sab
arim
ala t
em-
ple w
as b
arre
d, it
coul
d no
t hav
e bee
nw
ithou
t str
ong
reas
ons.
D
iscr
imin
ator
y pr
actic
es w
ithgo
od in
tent
ions
are n
ot b
ad. V
ery l
ong
ago,
in
Dha
rmas
thal
a, K
arna
taka
,ch
ildre
n be
low
the
age
of f
ive
year
sw
ere
not a
llow
ed to
ent
er th
e te
mpl
epr
ecin
cts.
Reas
on b
ehin
d th
is w
as th
at th
ere’s
a st
rong
pos
sibi
lity
that
chi
ldre
nm
ight
urin
ate a
nd sp
oil t
he sa
nctit
y of
the t
empl
e. Re
stric
tions
hav
e bee
n lif
t-ed
now
. How
ever
, thi
s doe
s not
mea
nth
at th
e ac
t of s
acril
ege
due
to u
rina-
tion
by c
hild
ren
in te
mpl
e pr
ecin
cts
has
foun
d re
cogn
ition
. It i
s po
ssib
leth
at th
is re
stric
tion
has b
een
give
n a
go-b
y und
er d
ures
s. It
is th
e sam
e ana
l-og
y in
Sab
arim
ala
too.
W
omen
are
lik
ely
to g
ain
entr
yfo
reve
r on
the
str
engt
h of
the
judg
-m
ent
but
relig
ious
sen
timen
ts h
ave
been
hur
t. Th
ere
are
a fe
w t
empl
esw
here
men
are
not
allo
wed
ent
ry fo
rve
rita
ble
reas
ons.
This
can
not
bevi
ewed
as d
iscrim
inat
ion.
Ju
stic
e M
alho
tra
has
right
ly s
aid
that
not
ions
of r
atio
nalit
y ca
nnot
be
brou
ght i
nto
mat
ters
of r
elig
ion.
KV
See
thar
amai
ahH
assa
n�
���
����
��Si
r —
Thi
s re
fers
to
the
edito
rial,
“Jus
tice l
ive”
(Sep
tem
ber 2
8). I
t wou
ldbe
an u
nder
stat
emen
t to
say
that
it is
a hist
oric
mov
e by t
he Su
prem
e Cou
rtto
allo
w li
ve te
leca
st of
cour
t pro
ceed
-in
gs. I
t is a
gre
at st
ep in
the d
irect
ion
of b
ringi
ng tr
ansp
aren
cy in
judi
cial
mat
ters
. Th
e C
ourt
dir
ecte
d th
eC
entre
to fr
ame r
ules
for t
his a
nd al
sosa
id th
at th
e pro
ject
wou
ld b
e car
ried
out i
n ph
ases
. The
edito
rial h
as ri
ght-
ly m
entio
ned
that
it w
ill go
a lo
ng w
ayin
rest
orin
g pe
ople’
s fai
th in
the j
udi-
ciar
y. Th
e ape
x co
urt h
as a
lso se
t the
high
est
stan
dard
s in
mod
erni
sing
soci
ety l
ike l
egal
ising
gay
relat
ions
hip,
mak
ing
adul
tery
a ci
vil m
atte
r and
its
stan
d on
trip
le ta
laq
mat
ter.
With
the
late
st d
ecisi
on, t
he to
p co
urt h
as ju
stm
oved
a s
tep
ahea
d in
the
rig
htdi
rect
ion.
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ovin
d N
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war’s
state
ment
on Ra
fale D
eal c
reate
da f
alse i
mage
that
the Op
posit
ion is
not t
ogeth
eron
build
ing pr
essu
re on
Gove
rnme
nt on
the s
cam.
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P lea
der
TARIQ
ANW
AR
Sad a
bout
him (A
nwar
) lea
ving b
ut I a
m su
rpris
ed th
athe
did n
ot ev
en cl
arify
this
with
the pa
rty he
was
with
for 20
year
s. He
could
have
calle
d Paw
ar sa
habo
nce.
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Befitt
ingl
y, th
e ha
rden
edm
en-i
n-w
hite
of
the
Indi
an N
avy p
rom
ise ‘a
noc
ean
oppo
rtun
ities
’ as
they
teas
e the
Josh
-type
sto
cho
ose
betw
een
beco
min
g‘G
ener
al M
anag
er A
run
Kum
ar’ o
r‘C
omm
ande
r A
run
Kum
ar’,
inth
eir
lurin
g ad
vert
isem
ents
. For
eons
, say
ings
like
“he
arts
of o
akar
e ou
r shi
ps, g
alla
nt ta
rs a
re o
urm
en”,
have
rom
ance
d th
e yo
ung
and
seep
ed i
nto
thei
r bl
ood-
stre
ams
befo
re lu
ring
them
into
the
Nav
y —
a d
ecisi
on th
at th
eyse
ldom
regr
et.
One
suc
h se
afar
er w
ith t
hew
ande
rlust
for
the
ope
n oc
eans
and
braz
en
adve
ntur
es
isC
omm
ande
r Abh
ilash
Tom
y KC
,a q
uint
esse
ntia
l Ind
ian
Nav
y m
anw
ho h
ad b
rave
d co
me-
hell-
or-
high
-wat
er a
s th
e fir
st I
ndia
n to
sail
and
circ
umna
viga
te a
cros
sth
e glo
be so
lo, n
on-s
top
and
unas
-sis
ted
in 2
013.
Th
e ex
pans
e of
23,
000
naut
i-ca
l mile
s ac
ross
four
oce
ans
had
take
n 15
0 da
ys fo
r To
my’s
she
erda
rede
vilr
y, ea
rnin
g hi
m a
Kir
tiCh
akra
for g
alla
ntry
. Suc
h re
stle
ssse
afar
ers a
re c
ut fr
om a
diff
eren
tclo
th, w
here
the s
pirit
of c
halle
nge
neve
r di
ms
and
on Ju
ly 1
, 201
8,C
omm
ande
r Abh
ilash
Tom
y to
okto
sails
agai
n in
the G
olde
n G
lobe
Race
, whi
ch p
its 1
8 of
the
fines
tan
d fit
test
sailo
rs fr
om a
cros
s the
wor
ld i
n a
grue
ling
roun
d-th
e-gl
obe
chal
leng
e.
Exce
pt t
his
time,
fat
e an
dna
ture
had
diff
eren
t pla
ns an
d hi
s36
-foot
boa
t, Th
uriy
a, w
as h
it by
an e
xtre
me
stor
m w
ith 8
0 m
phw
inds
and
46-
foot
sea
wav
es th
atle
ft th
e tir
eles
s yac
htsm
an, b
adly
inju
red
and
in d
espe
rate
nee
d fo
rre
scue
. Si
nce
time
imm
emor
ial t
here
have
bee
n tr
aditi
ons a
nd u
nwrit
-te
n co
des o
f sea
man
ship
that
gov
-er
ned
the
cond
uct
of r
escu
e in
high
sea
s, an
d in
197
9, a
n in
ter-
natio
nal
conv
entio
n pe
rtai
ning
to s
earc
h an
d re
scue
(SA
R) w
asad
opte
d fo
r the
resc
ue o
f per
sons
in d
istre
ss a
t sea
. Th
e com
mon
pro
cedu
res,
pro-
toco
ls, p
oolin
g of
res
ourc
es e
t al
were
esta
blish
ed to
ensu
re a
robu
stm
echa
nism
. In
this
part
icul
ar re
s-cu
e op
erat
ion
that
occ
urre
d a
good
2,0
00 m
iles o
ff th
e co
ast o
fAu
stra
lia, h
elp w
as ta
ken
from
the
Fren
ch a
nd A
ustr
alia
n el
emen
ts,
besid
es th
e Ind
ian
Nav
y co
mm
it-tin
g its
ow
n re
sour
ces.
Fina
lly, i
tw
as t
he F
renc
h pa
trol
ves
sel,
Osi
ris,
that
rea
ched
Abh
ilash
Tom
y, as
the I
ndia
n lo
ng-r
ange
P8
Pose
idon
reco
nnai
ssan
ce a
ircra
ftke
pt c
irclin
g ov
erhe
ad.
Indi
a he
aved
a co
llect
ive s
igh
of r
elie
f as
the
Ind
ian
Pres
iden
tto
ok th
e le
ad in
righ
tfully
than
k-in
g th
e fo
reig
n na
vies
for
the
irun
stin
ted
resc
ue ef
fort
s and
obv
i-ou
s, sp
irit o
f sea
man
ship
. The
par
-al
lel
spir
it ex
hibi
ted
by I
rish
yach
tsm
an an
d fe
llow
-com
petit
orG
rego
r M
cGuc
kin
and
Esto
nian
yach
tsm
an U
ku R
andm
aa,
inm
akin
g ef
fort
s to
rea
ch o
ut t
oA
bhila
sh T
omy,
wer
e in
kee
ping
with
the s
port
sman
ship
, sea
man
-sh
ip an
d ca
mar
ader
ie at
its f
ines
t. Th
is un
ique
race
that
is a
vir-
tual
ode
to th
e oft-
forg
otte
n D
NA
of s
ailin
g in
the
era
of
mod
ern
tech
nolo
gy a
nd a
ids,
delib
erat
ely
disa
llow
s an
y te
chno
logi
cal h
elp
and
affo
rds
simpl
e re
lianc
e on
star
s, su
n an
d a m
agne
tic co
mpa
ssto
nav
igat
e the
freq
uent
ly p
unish
-in
g an
d ch
oppy
wat
ers.
This
was
in s
tark
con
tras
t to
the
horr
ific
trag
edy
whi
ch st
ruck
the s
uppo
sedl
y ‘un
sinka
ble’,
Osc
ar-
clas
s Rus
sian
nucl
ear s
ubm
arin
e,‘K
ursk
’, whe
re al
l 118
per
sonn
el on
boar
d ha
d di
ed in
200
0. T
he si
nk-
ing o
f the
prid
e of t
he R
ussia
n fle
etha
d be
en vo
cifer
ously
criti
cised
for
its sl
ow, i
nept
han
dlin
g an
d de
lay
in a
ccep
ting
help
fro
m f
orei
gnna
vies
in th
e vi
cini
ty o
f the
sai
dac
cide
nt. I
t was
onl
y on
the
fifth
day
of t
he d
isast
er t
hat
Russ
ian
Pres
iden
t V
ladi
mir
Put
in h
adag
reed
to
take
Bri
tish
and
Nor
weg
ian
help
. Ev
en t
hen,
the
Rus
sian
sen
forc
ed ce
rtai
n co
nstra
ints
on th
eN
orwe
gian
team
from
des
istin
g on
wor
king
on
the
ster
n of
the
sub-
mar
ine,
eve
n th
ough
the
res
cue
team
thou
ght i
t im
pede
d th
e re
s-cu
e ope
ratio
ns, e
spec
ially
sinc
e the
fate
of a
ll th
e cr
ew m
embe
rs h
adno
t yet
bee
n fu
lly e
stab
lishe
d.
Late
r, he
ad o
f the
Kur
sk in
ci-
dent
cel
l, Vi
ce A
dmira
l Vla
disla
vIly
in c
oncl
uded
that
som
e of
the
crew
had
live
d up
to
thre
e da
ysan
d th
e fo
rmal
inve
stig
atio
n ha
dsla
mm
ed th
e del
ay in
resc
ue o
per-
atio
ns.
Resc
ue o
n hi
gh s
eas c
an a
lsobe
hig
hly
polit
ical
and
div
isive
.Su
cces
sful s
earc
h an
d re
scue
ope
r-at
ions
of
the
fleei
ng M
iddl
eEa
ster
n an
d N
orth
Afr
ican
imm
i-gr
ants
ont
o to
the E
urop
ean
land
sw
as se
en as
a ‘p
ull f
acto
r’ fo
r mor
eim
mig
ratio
n. E
ven
thou
gh re
port
sfr
om ag
enci
es li
ke M
édec
ins S
ans
Fron
tière
s (M
SF)
coun
tere
d th
eal
lega
tion
with
dat
a th
at s
how
edth
at d
efen
ding
hum
anity
at se
a did
not
dete
riora
te m
ariti
me
safe
tyan
d on
ly sa
ved
lives
— th
e hau
nt-
ing
imag
e of
the
was
hed-
asho
rebo
dy o
f a
tiny
thre
e-ye
ar-o
ldSy
rian
boy
, Ala
n Ku
rdi,
pric
ked
the
colle
ctiv
e co
nsci
ence
of
the
Wes
tern
wor
ld.
Cou
ntrie
s lik
e Au
stra
lia h
ave
aggr
essi
ve
‘turn
ba
ck’
and
‘pus
h-ba
ck’ p
olic
ies f
or in
com
ing
asyl
um b
oats
. Clo
ser
hom
e, t
heRo
hing
ya ‘
boat
peo
ple’
or t
he‘n
owhe
re p
eopl
e’ ar
e also
a su
bjec
tof
muc
h de
bate
and
pol
arisa
tion.
Whi
le T
haila
nd h
as a
stric
t pus
h
back
pol
icy
for f
leei
ng R
ohin
gya’s
by b
oat,
othe
rs l
ike
Mal
aysi
a,Ba
ngla
desh
and
Ind
ia,
rem
ain
mor
e ne
bulo
us i
n ha
ndli
ng
the
issue
.Be
yond
ove
rtly
pol
itica
l iss
ues
like
the
Rohi
ngya
cris
is an
d th
ege
opol
itica
l iss
ues l
ike t
he C
hine
seas
sert
ions
, ex
pans
ion
and
bel-
liger
ence
in th
e Sou
th C
hina
Sea
s—
the h
uman
angl
e of s
earc
h an
dre
scue
ope
ratio
ns r
emai
ns f
airly
univ
ersa
l. Ea
rlier
this
year
, the
Pak
istan
iN
avy
is sa
id t
o ha
ve p
rovi
ded
“med
ical
and
hum
anita
rian
assis
-ta
nce”
to 1
2 In
dian
fish
erm
en w
how
ere
stra
nded
and
lost
for
eigh
tda
ys af
ter d
evel
opin
g en
gine
trou
-bl
e, w
here
as la
st y
ear
the
Indi
anN
avy
was
inv
olve
d in
sav
ing
aC
hine
se m
erch
ant
vess
el
from
pira
te a
ttack
in th
e A
rabi
an S
ea.
In M
arch
this
year
, the
Indi
anN
avy
held
the
10t
h ed
ition
of
MIL
AN
Exe
rcis
e, e
ntai
ling
20sh
ips f
rom
nin
e cou
ntrie
s, of
f the
coas
t of
And
aman
and
Nic
obar
Isla
nds.
Besid
es e
nhan
cing
inte
r-op
erab
ility
and
exc
hang
ing
best
prac
tices
, sea
rch
and
resc
ue o
per-
atio
ns a
nd m
edic
al e
vacu
atio
ndr
ills w
ere
part
of t
he tr
aini
ng.
HM
AS
Larr
akia
(ACP
B 84
) of
Aust
ralia
was
one
of t
he p
artic
i-pa
nts i
n th
e bie
nnia
l con
greg
atio
nof
frie
ndly
nav
ies.
Mar
itim
e goo
dor
der
can
only
be
ensu
red
with
such
join
tman
ship
in th
e hig
h se
asas
th
e ti
mel
y re
scue
of
Com
man
der
Abh
ilas
h To
my
dem
onst
rate
d by
bot
h th
e Fre
nch
and
Aust
ralia
n ef
fort
s, be
sides
the
obvi
ous
bles
sings
of V
arun
a,th
e G
od o
f ski
es a
nd o
cean
s. A
s th
e pa
ssio
nate
sea
fare
rC
omm
ande
r Tom
y w
ould
pro
ba-
bly
agre
e: “
On
life’s
vas
t oc
ean
dive
rsel
y w
e sa
il. R
easo
ns t
heca
rd, b
ut p
assio
n th
e ga
le.”
(The
writ
er, a
mili
tary
vete
ran,
is a
for
mer
Lt
Gov
erno
r of
Anda
man
& N
icoba
r Isl
ands
and
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cher
ry)
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en in
Indi
a hav
e tra
ditio
nally
been
per
ceiv
ed to
be
two-
thre
etim
es m
ore v
ulne
rabl
e tha
n m
ento
men
tal a
ilmen
ts, s
tem
min
g fr
om p
sy-
cho-
soci
al fa
ctor
s and
exte
nsiv
e bio
logi
cal
and
horm
onal
cha
nges
the
y ex
perie
nce
thro
ugho
ut th
eir l
ives
. Thi
s bel
ief h
as n
owbe
en s
ubst
antia
ted
by d
ata
from
the
Nat
iona
l Men
tal H
ealth
Sur
vey
(NM
HS)
2015
-16,
whi
ch va
lidat
es fe
ar th
at u
nrele
nt-
ing p
hysic
al an
d m
enta
l pre
ssur
es ar
e gra
d-ua
lly p
ushi
ng m
any I
ndian
wom
en o
ver t
hem
enta
l pre
cipi
ce.
The s
urve
y, wh
ich w
as co
nduc
ted
by th
eN
atio
nal
Insti
tute
of
Men
tal
Hea
lth a
ndN
euro
scie
nces
(N
IMH
AN
S),
Beng
alur
u,an
d su
ppor
ted
by th
e Min
istry
of H
ealth
and
Fam
ily W
elfar
e, sp
anne
d 12
Stat
es re
pres
ent-
ing
diffe
rent
regi
ons,
yet r
evea
led su
rpris
-in
gly
simila
r out
com
es. T
he N
MH
S do
cu-
men
ts fe
mal
e pre
dom
inan
ce fo
r dep
ress
ion
(affe
ctin
g th
ree
per
cent
of
the
fem
ale
resp
onde
nts a
s com
pare
d to
2.4
per
cent
of
thei
r m
ale
coun
terp
arts
), ne
urot
ic a
ndstr
ess-
relat
ed d
isord
ers (
suffe
red
by 4.
3 per
cent
of fe
male
s as a
gain
st 2.7
per
cent
male
s),an
d de
solat
ion
and
phob
ic an
xiet
y res
ultin
gfro
m d
ivor
ce,
sepa
ratio
n or
wid
owho
od(a
gain
affl
ictin
g 9.
8 pe
r cen
t of f
emal
es in
cont
rast
to o
nly
2.2
per c
ent o
f mal
es).
One
of t
he p
rimar
y ca
uses
of p
sych
o-lo
gica
l dist
ress
amon
g w
omen
is th
eir v
ul-
nera
bilit
y to
sex
ual
viol
ence
, w
hich
is
affir
med
by b
oth
wave
s of t
he In
dia H
uman
Dev
elop
men
t Su
rvey
(IH
DS)
, a
mul
ti-to
pic p
anel
study
of ov
er 40
,000 h
ouse
hold
s,co
nduc
ted
join
tly b
y th
e Nat
iona
l Cou
ncil
of A
pplie
d Ec
onom
ic R
esea
rch
(NCA
ER),
and
Uni
vers
ity o
f Mar
ylan
d in
2004
-05 a
nd20
11-1
2 res
pect
ively
. The
IHD
S fou
nd th
at20
per
cent
of t
he w
omen
in th
e res
pond
ent
hous
ehol
ds c
ompl
aine
d of
sex
ual h
aras
s-m
ent i
n 20
05, w
hich
wen
t up
to 31
per
cent
of t
he f
emal
e re
spon
dent
s in
the
sam
eho
useh
olds
in 20
12. M
oreo
ver,
for b
oth
men
and
wom
en,
the
perc
eptio
n of
sex
ual
hara
ssm
ent
and
asso
ciat
ed m
enta
l to
r-
men
t in
crea
sed
by a
lmos
t 10
per
cent
age
poin
ts be
twee
n 20
05 an
d 20
12 in
the s
ame
neig
hbou
rhoo
ds.
The
assu
mpt
ion
that
man
y of t
hese
fem
ale r
espo
nden
ts co
uld
bepo
tent
ial v
ictim
s of m
enta
l mor
bidi
ties m
aybe
cor
robo
rate
d by
the
58th
Rou
nd o
f the
Nat
iona
l Sam
ple S
urve
y (N
SS) o
n “D
isabl
edPe
rson
s in
Indi
a” (J
uly-
Dec
embe
r 200
2).
The N
SS re
cord
ed th
at am
ong w
omen
,w
ho w
ere b
orn
with
nor
mal
men
tal s
ensi-
bilit
ies b
ut c
ontr
acte
d so
me
form
of m
en-
tal i
llnes
s sub
sequ
ently
, 4.8
per c
ent a
nd 23
.5pe
r cen
t did
so in
thei
r ear
ly 2
0s an
d m
id-
30s,
resp
ectiv
ely. T
he co
rres
pond
ing f
igur
esfo
r the
mal
e res
pond
ents
with
men
tal d
is-ab
ilitie
s wer
e con
spic
uous
ly lo
wer
. A
BBC
new
s sto
ry re
lease
d in
Feb
ruar
y20
17, w
hile
show
ing d
istur
bing
pic
ture
s of
wom
en i
n a
men
tal
heal
th w
ard
at t
heIn
stitu
te o
f Hum
an B
ehav
iour
and
Alli
edSc
ienc
es in
Delh
i, cla
imed
that
men
tal i
ll-ne
ss is
“not
the
only
war
the
wom
en fi
ght
here
-the
stigm
a of
soc
ial a
ccep
tanc
e an
dge
nder
disc
rimin
atio
n is
a m
ajor
cau
se o
fth
eir t
raum
a”. A
pro
be re
veal
ed th
at m
any
of th
ese
inm
ates
, aba
ndon
ed h
ere
by th
eir
fam
ily m
embe
rs o
r pi
cked
up
from
the
stree
ts by
loca
l pol
ice,
wer
e suf
ferin
g fro
mpo
st-tra
umat
ic ps
ycho
sis ca
used
by h
arro
w-
ing
life e
xper
ienc
es, l
ike r
ape,
child
abu
se,
or u
ntim
ely d
eath
of a
par
ent.
Even
mor
e alar
min
g is a
repo
rt on
‘The
Glo
bal
Burd
en o
f D
iseas
es S
tudy
, 19
90-
2016
’, pub
lishe
d re
cent
ly in
the L
ance
t Pub
licH
ealth
Jour
nal.
This
repo
rt s
tate
s th
at in
2016
, tho
ugh
Indi
a acc
ount
ed fo
r onl
y 17.
8pe
r cen
t of t
he gl
obal
pop
ulat
ion,
it re
cord
-ed
36.
6 pe
r cen
t of s
uici
des a
mon
g w
omen
acro
ss th
e w
orld
, goi
ng u
p fro
m 2
5.3
per
cent
in 1
990.
Fu
rthe
r, su
icid
e de
ath
rate
for w
omen
in In
dia f
or 20
16 is
15 p
er 1,
00,0
00 w
omen
,w
hich
is m
ore
than
twic
e th
e co
rres
pond
-in
g gl
obal
rat
e of
sev
en p
er 1
,00,
000
wom
en. W
hat a
re th
e co
mpe
lling
reas
ons
that
driv
e a
larg
e co
hort
of I
ndia’
s wom
enov
er t
he e
dge?
Acc
ordi
ng t
o R
akhi
Dan
dona
, one
of t
he le
ad a
utho
rs o
f the
study
, a
stag
gerin
g 71
.2 p
er c
ent
of t
hefe
mal
e su
icid
es a
re b
y m
arrie
d w
omen
inth
e ag
e-gr
oup
of 1
5-39
yea
rs.
Lack
of
agen
cy to
reali
se th
eir as
pira
tions
, eco
nom
-ic
depe
nden
ce, il
liter
acy,
early
mar
riage
and
youn
g mot
herh
ood,
all t
ake a
toll
on th
em.
How
can
we
brin
g th
ese
wom
en b
ack
from
the b
rink
and
prev
ent t
hem
from
sur-
rend
erin
g to
life’
s cha
lleng
es?
The
answ
erlie
s in
rede
finin
g hea
lth in
acco
rdan
ce w
ithth
e ge
nder
per
spec
tive,
and
the
conc
omi-
tant
soci
o-ec
onom
ic an
d cu
ltura
l det
erm
i-na
nts o
f men
tal h
ealth
, as p
ropo
unde
d in
the
WH
O’s
Otta
wa
Char
ter
for
Hea
lthPr
omot
ion
(198
6). O
ther
mea
sure
s en
tail
impl
emen
ting
affo
rdab
le, a
cces
sible
and
wom
en-fr
iend
ly h
ealth
pol
icie
s, en
hanc
ing
budg
etar
y allo
catio
ns fo
r men
tal h
ealth
care
,an
d en
surin
g tim
ely d
iagn
osis
of p
sych
iatric
mor
bidi
ty fo
r wom
en a
cros
s the
coun
try.
Anot
her s
tep
in th
e rig
ht d
irect
ion
is th
ein
itiat
ive
by t
he N
IMH
AN
S to
tra
inAc
cred
ited
Socia
l Hea
lth A
ctiv
ists (
ASH
As)
to ac
t as i
nter
face
s bet
ween
the f
emale
com
-m
unity
and
the
pub
lic h
ealth
sys
tem
by
coun
selli
ng w
omen
on
sens
itive
issu
es li
kepr
egna
ncy,
safe
del
iver
ies,
and
even
inte
r-pe
rson
al r
elat
ions
hips
. How
ever
, the
key
inte
rven
tion
lies i
n gu
idin
g wom
en to
lead
mor
e fu
lfilli
ng li
ves b
y em
ergi
ng fr
om th
ein
ner r
eces
ses o
f con
serv
ativ
e and
pat
riar-
chal
hou
seho
lds,
and
join
ing
the
soci
alm
ains
tream
whe
re th
ey ca
n ve
rbal
ise th
eir
inne
r co
nflic
ts a
nd d
ilem
mas
with
out
plun
ging
into
a m
enta
l mor
ass.
(The
writ
er i
s Ed
itor
at t
he N
atio
nal
Coun
cil o
f Ap
plie
d Ec
onom
ic Re
sear
ch.
View
s exp
resse
d he
re a
re p
erso
nal)
Wha
t driv
es w
omen
ove
r the
edg
e?
Sear
ch a
nd re
scue
on
the
high
seas
Resc
ue o
n hi
gh s
eas
can
also
be
high
ly p
oliti
cal a
nd d
ivis
ive.
But
mai
ntai
ning
goo
d m
ariti
me
orde
r ca
n on
ly b
e en
sure
d w
ithjo
intm
ansh
ip a
s de
mon
stra
ted
by th
e tim
ely
resc
ue o
f Com
man
der
Abh
ilash
Tom
y by
bot
h th
e Fr
ench
and
Aus
tral
ian
navi
es
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The total outstanding ofcash-strapped Air India
towards Government for VVIPcharter f lights stands at�1146.86 crore, according tothe latest response from thenational carrier to an RTIapplication.
According to the detailsfurnished by the Air India onSeptember 26 to applicantCommodore Lokesh Batra(retd), the Defence Ministryhas outstanding bills of �211.17crore, Cabinet Secretariat andPMO �543.18 crore andExternal Affairs Ministry�392.33 crore. Some of the old-est pending bills for the visitsof the president, the vice pres-ident and the evacuation flightsare nearly 10-year-old, thedata furnished by Air Indiasays.
In a previous reply fur-nished in March this year, thetotal outstanding bills were at
�325 crore on January 31 whichhave now risen to �1146.86crore, it shows.
Chartered aircraft forVVIPs — president, vice pres-ident and prime minister — fortheir visits abroad are provid-ed by Air India, which modi-fies its commercial jets to suitthe needs of the travelling dig-nitaries.
The bills for these aircraftare paid from the exchequer bythe Ministry of Defence, theMinistry of External Affairs(MEA), the Prime Minister’sOffice (PMO) and the CabinetSecretariat.
The Comptroller andAuditor General had flaggedthe issue of pending paymentsfrom the Government to AirIndia in its report in 2016.
“Hence considering thesignificant quantum of pending
dues and in the context ofGovernment support to AIL forturnaround, more efforts needto be made for early action forreimbursement of dues by bothAIL and Government,” it hadsaid.
Batra said some of the out-standing bills are pending since2006 but even the CAG obser-vations have not deterred theGovernment to clear them.
The debt burden of thenational carrier, which is grap-pling with tough business con-ditions, is estimated to be morethan �50,000 crore.
Earlier this year, theGovernment’s efforts for strate-gic disinvestment of debt-ladenAir India failed to take off.
Air India is staying afloaton a bailout package extendedby the previous UPA regime in2012.
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The Government has con-stituted a panel to review
the competition law, an officialrelease said on Sunday.
The committee wouldreview “the CompetitionAct/Rules/Regulations, in viewof changing business environ-ment and bring necessarychanges, if required,” the releasesaid.
The nine-member com-mittee chaired by CorporateAffairs Secretar y InjetiSrinivas includes Insolvencyand Bankruptcy Board ofIndia (IBBI) Chairperson M SSahoo and Competit ionCommission of India (CCI)Chairperson.
At present, Sudhir Mittal isthe acting Chairperson of CCI.
Announcing the setting upof the Competition Law ReviewCommittee, the Governmentsaid it is in pursuance of itsobjective of ensuring that leg-islation is in sync with theneeds of strong economic fun-damentals.
The committee would alsolook into international bestpractices in the competition
fields, especially anti-trust laws,merger guidelines and handlingcross border competitionissues.
Further, it would study“the regulatory regimes/ insti-t u t i o n a lmechanisms/Government poli-cies which overlap with theCompetition Act”, the releasesaid.
The committee would sub-mit its report within threemonths from the date of its firstmeeting.
Khaitan & Co’s HaigreveKhaitan, IKDHVAJ AdvisersLLP’s Harsha Vardhana Singhand Shardul AmarchandMangaldas & Co’s PallaviShardul Shroff are among thepanel members.
Other members are SChakravarthy, Hony. Visitingprofessor at ASCII, AdityaBhattacharjea, Professor ofEconomics at Delhi School ofEconomics and Joint Secretary(Competition) from theCorporate Affairs Ministry.
The Competition Act waspassed in 2002 and CCI“started functioning in rightearnest in 2009,” the releasesaid.
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The revenue department isplanning to come out with
a ‘GST informant rewardscheme’ to check tax evasion byunscrupulous traders and busi-nesses, an official said.
It will be on the lines ofsimilar schemes for excise andservice tax, which has been sub-sumed under the Goods andServices Tax (GST). Customsand Income Tax also have suchinformer reward schemes.
“The scheme is beingplanned to check tax evasion.Informers will be rewardedfor providing specific cluesregarding violation of GSTlaws,” the official told PTI.
The GST informant rewardscheme would be announcedsoon, he added.
As per the guidelines underthe Customs Act, CentralExcise Act, Narcotic Drugsand Psychotropic Substances(NDPS) Act, and Service Taxprovisions and drawbackfrauds or abuses of ExportPromotion Schemes, rewardsare granted to the informersand government servants inrespect of cases of seizuresmade and/orinfringements/evasion of dutyor tax.
These guidelines were
applicable to informers (whogive information relating toassets, immovable properties ofpersons from whom arrears ofduty, tax, fine, penalty arerecoverable and the informa-tion results in the recovery ofarrears) and also Governmentofficials who put in com-mendable efforts to effectrecovery, as per conditionsspecified therein.
Informers andGovernment servants were eli-gible for reward up to 20 percent of the net sale-proceeds ofthe contraband goods seizedand/or amount of duty/ servicetax evaded plus amount ofpenalty levied and recovered.
In respect of cases of detec-tion of drawback frauds orabuse of duty exemptionschemes under various ExportPromotion Schemes, theinformers and Governmentservants were eligible forreward up to 20 per cent ofrecovery of drawback claimedfraudulently and/or recovery ofduties evaded.
Final rewards, both toGvernment servants andinformers, are sanctioned onlyafter conclusion of adjudica-tion/appeal/revision proceed-ings, as well as closure of pro-ceedings.
Currently, an informer to the
Income Tax department canearn up to �5 crore for provid-ing information regarding blackmoney stashed abroad. Underthe benami transaction prohibi-tion act, the informants canearn up to �1 crore by providinginformation regarding benamitransactions or property.
In the run up to the rolloutof the GST on July 1, 2017, theGovernment had renamed theDirectorate General of CentralExcise Intelligence (DGCEI) asDGGSTI for investigating casesof evasion in the new indirecttax regime.
The Directorate General ofGST Intelligence (DGGSTI)has already made several arrestsfor evasion of the indirect taxand an informant rewardscheme is expected to help thedirectorate to keep an eye onsuch activities.
AMRG Associates PartnerRajat Mohan said a generousreward scheme on the lines ofIncome-Tax law could empow-er revenue struggling exche-quer with huge capabilities totrack and punish unseen anduntraced tax evaders.
“What needs to be seen iswhether the Government wouldbe generous enough to attract abigger pool of information orwould it be ‘penny wise poundfoolish’,” Mohan added.
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India’s exportshold a promis-
ing outlook withthe US economygrowing at its bestin four years, cou-pled with therupee depreciationleading toenhanced net rev-enue realisations,according to areport byAssocham.
The USemerged as the top export des-tination for India, with USD47.9 billion worth of ship-ments in the last fiscal endedMarch, followed by the UAEand Hong Kong, the com-merce ministry data showed.
The US economic growthaccelerated by 4.2 per cent inthe second quarter of this year,its fastest pace in about fouryears despite the ongoing tar-iff war with China.
“The US accounted forabout a good chunk of 16 percent of India’s total merchan-dise exports of $303 billion inthe fiscal 2017-18 with theannual growth of 13.42 percent,” the report said.
“It is the largest market forIndian exports, both for mer-chandise and even services. So,when the US grows at its cur-rent pace, it augurs very well forthe total Indian exports’ bas-ket,” it added.
It said a sharp drop in rupeemay have caused a burden onthe country’s import bill, but thenet realisations for exportershave increased significantly.
According to the trade datafor August 2018, while exportshave shown a growth of about19 per cent in dollar terms, therupee realisations for the exportshipments went up close to 30per cent.
“With further streamlining
of exporters’ GST refunds,their competitiveness shouldalso improve, helping them inthe global market,” Assochamsaid.
Engineering goods, chem-icals, gems and jewellery areamong the major items ofexports to the US from India.
With the focus of theTrump administration oninfrastructure build–up, thedemand for Indian exports,particularly of steel and otherengineering goods shouldincrease, the report said.
Besides, with the festivalseason around the corner, theorders for the gems and jew-ellery should also look up.
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Insurance regulator Irdai hasallowed distribution of all
micro-insurance productsthrough point-of-sales (PoS),with an aim further increaseinsurance penetration in thecountry.
The Insurance Regulatoryand Development Authority ofIndia (Irdai) has created a spe-cial category of insurance poli-cies called micro-insurancepolicies to promote insurancecoverage among economicallyvulnerable sections of society.
A micro-insurance policyis a general or life insurancepolicy with a sum assured of�50,000 or less.
Agreeing to the suggestionsof insurance companies, Irdaiin a circular has done awaywith the practice of pre-fixingthe word ‘PoS’ on life, generaland health products soldthrough PoS.
Irdai said it has receivedrepresentations from insur-ance companies requesting todo away with the prefix ‘POS’in the product name.
Insurers made representa-tions to change the norms thatmade it mandatory for everypolicy sold through the ‘Point
of Sales Persons’ to be sepa-rately identified and pre-fixedby the name ‘POS’.
Irdai said the requirementwas to identify the personinvolved in the sales process.
The IRDAI (Protection ofPolicyholder’s Interest)Regulations, 2017, under thematters to be stated in life, gen-eral and health insurance pol-icy, makes it mandatory togive the details of the personinvolved in the sales process.
“By virtue of this require-ment, the need to have the pre-fix ‘PoS’ becomes redundant asthe insurance policy itself willcarry the details of the personselling such a policy,” the reg-ulator said.
The Authority, “hereby,discontinues requirements” ofusing the word ‘PoS’ prefixedbefore the PoS product namefor life, general and healthproducts.
Similarly, Irdai said it hasbeen observed that advantagessuch as higher insurance pen-etration, lower prices, increasedchoice to customers, whichwould otherwise accrue to thepolicyholder by making micro-insurance products availablethrough POS channel are beinglost.
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Overseas investors pulledout a massive �21,000
crore ($3 billion) from thecapital markets in September,making it the steepest outflowin four months, on wideningcurrent account deficit amidglobal trade tensions.
The latest withdrawalcomes following a net infusionof close to �5,200 crore in thecapital markets (both equityand debt) last month and�2,300 crore in July.
Prior to that, overseasinvestors had pulled out over�61,000 crore during April-June.
According to the latestdepository data, foreign port-folio investors (FPIs) withdrewa net sum of �10,825 crorefrom equities in Septemberand �10,198 crore from thedebt market, taking the total to�21,023 crore ($3 billion).
This was the highest outflowsince May, when FPIs had pulledout �29,775 crore. FPIs neverfully returned to the Indianequity markets after pulling outnet assets worth �61,000 cr.
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RBI’s policy meeting, macro-economic data announce-
ments, and the trend in rupeeand crude oil prices would setthe tone for the stock marketsin a holiday-shortened weekahead, say experts.
Bourses will remain closedTuesday for Mahatma GandhiJayanti.
“Investors are yet to gainconfidence to start bottomfishing due to lack of liquidity,
margin funding and short sell-ing in the market. Weak senti-ment is likely to extend till thefinancial market stabilises andconfidence reverts with accom-modative valuation. RBI poli-cy meet this week is the keyevent,” said Vinod Nair, Headof Research, Geojit FinancialServices.
RBI’s interest rate decisionwill be announced Friday.
At its previous monetary
policy meeting in August, theReserve Bank raised the bench-mark interest rate by 25 basispoints to 6.50 per cent oninflationary concerns.
“RBI’s interest rate decisionwill be crucially watched,” saidMustafa Nadeem, CEO, EpicResearch.
PMI data for the manu-facturing and services sectorswill also influence trading sen-timent, experts said.
Investors would continueto track the NBFC space whichhas been hit by liquidity con-cerns.
Factors such as movementof rupee and crude oil priceswould also play a key role, theyadded.
“Next month, hopefullywill be rosier than the previousmonth as all the weak hands areout and the worst has alreadybeen priced in which is knownto all.
“Things might only getbetter going ahead given theQ2 FY19 results will start pour-ing in. RBI’s 4th bi-monthlymeet could create a knee-jerkreaction if they decide toincrease interest rates by 0.25per cent,” said Jimeet Modi,Founder and CEO, SAMCOSecurities and StockNote.
Over the last week, theSensex lost 614.46 points, or1.67 per cent, to end at36,227.14.
The Sensex has lost awhopping 2,417.93 points, or6.26 per cent, in September --its worst monthly show sinceFebruary 2016.
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The supply of coal by State-owned CIL to the power
sector in the first five monthsof the ongoing fiscal increasedby 12.1 per cent to 196.9 mil-lion tonnes (MT).
The dispatch of dry fuel byCoal India (CIL) in the April-August period of the 2017-18was at 175.6 MT, according toofficial data.
The coal supply by thePSU in August increased by 7.3per cent to 36.7 MT, over 34.2MT in the correspondingmonth last year.
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Singareni Collieries CompanyLimited (SCCL) in the April-August period of the ongoingfiscal was almost flat at 21.2 MT,over 21 MT in the same peri-od of the last financial year.
The coal dispatch by SCCLin August this year declined by7.6 per cent to 3.6 MT, over 3.9MT in the same month last year.
The fuel supply to thepower sector is estimated at 525million tonnes for the fiscal asagainst 454 million tonnes in2017-18, Coal India had earli-er said.
Coal Minister PiyushGoyal had in July asked CoalIndia to focus on meeting coaldemand, particularly from thepower sector.
Coal India, which accountsfor over 80 per cent of thedomestic output, is optimisticabout an aspirational produc-tion target of 652 million tonnesfor the fiscal year 2018-19.
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or IGST pool has been appor-tioned between the Centre andStates in the month ofSeptember.
The central Governmentwill get about �14,500 croreand the remaining would bedistributed among the states inproportion to the revenue col-lection in September, an officialsaid.
The apportionment wouldhelp improve indirect tax posi-tion of both the Centre andstates.
This is the fourth timethat IGST funds have been div-idend between the Centre andstates.
As much as �12,000 crorewas settled between them inAugust, �50,000 crore in Juneand �35,000 crore in Februarythis year.
A policy decision has beentaken that when some sub-
stantial amount accrues toIGST pool it should be appor-tioned so that funds do not lieidle with the Centre, the offi-cial said, adding �29,000 crorehas been apportioned thismonth.
Under GST, the tax leviedon consumption of goods orrendering of service is split50:50 between the Centre andthe state. Such tax is known asCentral-GST or CGST andState-GST or SGST.
On inter-state movementof goods as well as imports, anIntegrated-GST or IGST islevied, which accrues to theCentre. A cess is levied on topof these taxes on sin and lux-ury goods which make up forthe compensation kitty used tomake good of any revenueshortfall faced by states onimplementation of GST.
Ideally there should be ‘nil’balance in the IGST pool sincethe amount should be used forpayment of Central GST andState GST..
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The death toll in Indonesia’squake-tsunami disaster
nearly doubled to more than800 on Sunday, as ill-equippedrescuers struggled to reachscores of trapped victims,health officials resorted to massburials and desperate residentslooted shops for food andwater.
“The casualties will keepincreasing,” said national dis-aster agency spokesman SutopoPurwo Nugroho, whose agencyannounced 832 deaths. “Todaywe will start the mass burial ofvictims, to avoid the spread ofdisease.” Indonesian Vice-President Jusuf Kalla said thefinal death toll in the north ofSulawesi island could be in the“thousands” since manyregions have still not beenreached.
“It feels very tense,” said 35-year-old mother Risa Kusuma,comforting her feverish babyboy at an evacuation centre inthe gutted coastal city of Palu.
“Every minute an ambu-lance brings in bodies. Cleanwater is scarce. The mini-mar-kets are looted everywhere.”
Indonesia’s Metro TV onSunday broadcast footage from
a coastal community inDonggala, close to the epicen-tre of the quake. Some water-front homes appeared crushedbut a resident said most peoplefled to higher ground after thequake struck. “When it shookreally hard, we all ran up intothe hills,” a man identified asIswan told the TV.
Indonesian President JokoWidodo arrived in the regionon Sunday afternoon.
In Palu on Sunday aid wastrickling in, the Indonesianmilitary had been deployedand search-and-rescue workerswere doggedly combing therubble for survivors — lookingfor dozens feared trappedunder one hotel alone.
“Communication is limit-ed, heavy machinery is limit-ed... It’s not enough for thenumbers of buildings that col-lapsed,” Nugroho said. The 7.5-magnitude quake struck Friday,sparking a tsunami that rippedapart the city’s coastline.
Save The Children pro-gram director Tom Howellssaid access was a “huge issue”hampering relief efforts.
“Aid agencies and localauthorities are struggling toreach several communitiesaround Donggala, where we are
expecting there to be majordamage and potential large-scale loss of life,” Howells said.
Dozens of corpses lay in anopen courtyard at the back ofa Palu hospital, baking under afierce tropical sun, with onlyone building separating it from
an open triage site on theopposite side. “I have one child— he’s missing,” Baharuddin, a52-year-old Palu resident, toldAFP as he stood on floor tilessmeared with blood.
“I last spoke to him beforehe went to school in the morn-
ing.” The disaster agency saidit believed about 71 foreignerswere in Palu when the quakestruck, with most safe.
Three French nationals anda South Korean, who may havebeen staying at a flattenedhotel, had not yet been
accounted for, it added.Amid the levelled trees,
overturned cars, concertinaedhomes and flotsam tossed up to50 metres inland, survivorsand rescuers struggled to cometo grips with the scale of thedisaster. AFP
Makassar: An early warningsystem that might have pre-vented some deaths in thetsunami that hit an Indonesianisland on Friday has been stalledin the testing phase for years.
The high-tech system ofseafloor sensors, data-ladensound waves and fiber-opticcable was meant to replace asystem set up after an earth-quake and tsunami killed near-ly 250,000 people in the regionin 2004.
But inter-agency wranglingand delays in getting just 1 bil-lion rupiah ($69,000) to com-plete the project mean the sys-tem hasn’t moved beyond aprototype developed with $3million from the US NationalScience Foundation. AP
Jakarta: Indonesians desper-ate to trace loved ones missingin the earthquake and tsunamithat struck the island ofSulawesi are turning to socialmedia sites like Facebook to aidtheir search.
With the scale of the dis-aster still unclear, telecommu-nications patchy and someareas still out of reach, familiesare posting photos, descriptionsof lost family members andcontact numbers in the hope oflearning more.
“Have you seen any of myfamily members in these pho-tographs?” asks one user onone Facebook group with 6,843members. AFP
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After lengthy delays, an $8.2billion revamp of a colonial-
era rail line snaking from theArabian Sea to the foothills of theHindu Kush has become a test ofPakistan’s ability to rethink sig-nature Chinese “Silk Road” pro-jects due to debt concerns.
The rail megaproject link-ing the coastal metropolis ofKarachi to the northwesterncity of Peshawar is China’sbiggest Belt and Road Initiative(BRI) project in Pakistan, butIslamabad has balked at thecost and financing terms.
Resistance has stiffenedunder the new Government ofpopulist Prime Minister ImranKhan, who has voiced alarmabout rising debt levels and saysthe country must wean itself offforeign loans.
“We are seeing how todevelop a model so the gov-ernment of Pakistan wouldn’thave all the risk,” KhusroBakhtyar, minister in Pakistan’splanning ministry, toldreporters recently. The coolingof enthusiasm for China’sinvestments mirrors the unease
of incoming Governments inSri Lanka, Malaysia andMaldives, where new adminis-trations have come to powerwary of Chinese deals struck bytheir predecessors.
Pakistan’s newGovernment had wanted toreview all BRI contracts.Officials say there are concernsthe deals were badly negotiat-ed, too expensive or overlyfavoured China.
But to Islamabad’s frustra-tion, Beijing is only willing toreview projects that have notyet begun, three seniorGovernment officials have toldReuters . China’s ForeignMinistry said, in a statement inresponse to questions faxed byReuters, that both sides werecommitted to pressing forwardwith BRI projects, “to ensurethose projects that are alreadybuilt operate as normal, andthose which are being built pro-ceed smoothly”.
Palu: An Indonesian air trafficcontroller is being posthu-mously hailed as a hero forrefusing to leave his postdespite devastating earthquakesso that he could guide a pas-senger jet safely off the ground.
Twenty-one-ye ar-oldAnthonius Gunawan Agungwas on duty in the air trafficcontrol tower at Palu’s Mutiara SIS Al-Jufrie airportwhen a series of earthquakesstruck the city in Sulawesiisland on Friday.
Officials said he refused toleave his post until he got aBatik Air plane off the ground,while his colleagues who were
not handling aircraft departed.“When the quake hap-
pened, he was giving clearanceto Batik Air to take off andwaited for the plane to be safe-ly airborne before finally leav-ing the ATC cabin tower,” saidAirNav Indonesia spokesmanYohanes Harry Sirait.
After Flight 6231 was safe-
ly in the air the quakes becameever-stronger, culminating in a7.5 magnitude jolt and tsunami.
Eventually, Agung jumpedfrom the top of the crumblingfour-storey tower in a desper-ate bid to escape, breaking hisleg and suffering serious inter-nal injuries.
He was taken to a nearby
hospital where he receivedbasic treatment, but died beforea helicopter could arrive totransport him to a better-equipped facility.
The company will raiseAgung’s rank by two levels asa sign of appreciation for hisextraordinary dedication,AirNav said in a statement.
Local station Metro TVwas among those who hailedAgung’s “heroic act”.
The Indonesian archipel-ago sits on the Pacific “Ring ofFire”, where tectonic plates col-lide and many of the world’svolcanic eruptions and earth-quakes occur. AFP
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Watching the two little lioncubs boisterously play
with each other at a conserva-tion centre outside of SouthAfrica’s capital Pretoria, it’shard to see anything out of theordinary.
But these cubs are unique.“These are the first ever
lion cubs to be born by meansof artificial insemination --the first such pair anywhere inthe world,” announced theUniversity of Pretoria, whosescientists are researching thereproductive system of femaleAfrican lions.
The two cubs, a male andfemale, born on August 25 arehealthy and normal, said AndreGanswindt, the director of theUniversity of Pretoria’s mam-mal research institute.
His team’s breakthroughcame after 18 months of inten-sive trials.
“We collected sperm froma healthy lion,” Ganswindt toldAFP. Then when the lioness’hormone levels were found tobe viable, she was inseminatedartificially.
“And luckily it was suc-cessful,” said Ganswindt,adding that “there were sever-al attempts, but surprisingly itdidn’t take too much effort”.
He said the breakthroughcould be repeated, with scien-tists hoping the technique canbe used to save other endan-gered big cats. Lions are extinctin 26 African countries andnumbers in the wild haveplummeted 43 per cent overthe last two decades, withroughly only 20,000 left,according to the InternationalUnion for Conservation ofNature (IUCN), which liststhe African lion as vulnerable.
Washington: Senior Trumpadministration officials insist-ed Sunday that the WhiteHouse is not “micromanaging”a new FBI background check ofSupreme Court nominee BrettKavanaugh, claiming the probeis a Senate process and thatlawmakers are the only onesdictating its parameters.
President Donald Trumpinitially opposed such an inves-tigation in the face of sexualmisconduct claims against
Kavanaugh, but the presidentand Senate Republican leadersagreed to an inquiry after GOPSen. Jeff Flake of Arizona madeclear he would not vote to con-firm Kavanaugh without one.
White House press secre-tary Sarah Huckabee Sanderssaid oversight of the investiga-tion belonged to the Senate.“The White House counsel hasallowed the Senate to dictatewhat these terms look like andwhat the scope of the investiga-
tion is,” she said on “Fox NewsSunday.” ‘’The White House isn’tintervening. We’re not micro-managing this process. It’s aSenate process. It has been fromthe beginning, and we’re lettingthe Senate continue to dictatewhat the terms look like.”
White House counselorKellyanne Conway delivered asimilar message, repeating thatthe investigation will be “lim-ited in scope” and “will not bea fishing expedition.” AP
Washington: Stricter Trumpadministration immigrationpolicies have stymied Pentagonplans to restart a programmethat allowed thousands of peo-ple with critical medical orAsian and African languageskills to join the military andbecome American citizens,according to several US officials.
The decade-old programmehas been on hold since 2016amid concerns that immigrantrecruits were not being screenedwell enough, and securitythreats were slipping throughthe system. Defense officialsshored up the vetting process,and planned to relaunch theprogramme earlier this month.
But there was an unex-
pected barrier when HomelandSecurity officials said theywould not be able to protectnew immigrant recruits frombeing deported when theirtemporary visas expired afterthey signed a contract to jointhe military, the US officialssaid. They were not authorisedto publicly describe internaldiscussions and spoke on con-dition of anonymity.
The programme is calledMilitary Accessions Vital to theNational Interest programme, orMAVNI. The plan to restart itwas backed by Defense SecretaryJim Mattis, who believes thatnoncitizens can bring key skills,language abilities, and culturalknowledge to the military. AP
Riyadh: The US PresidentDonald Trump reviewed onSaturday in a phone call withSaudi King Salman binAbdulaziz Al Saud the oil sup-ply for stability of the market,Saudi Press Agency reported.
The two leaders discussedefforts to maintain supplies toensure the stability of oil mar-ket and the growth of globaleconomy. Oil supply and pricesare common interests of the USand Saudi Arabia. Media reportssaid Saudi Arabia will raise oiloutputs in the coming monthsto deal with the drop in Iranianoil production and might limitoutputs next year to balanceglobal supply and demand whenthe US pumps more quantitiesof crude. IANS
Washington: US PresidentDonald Trump said he andNorth Korea’s Kim Jong Unhave fallen “in love” — theirbromance fuelled by “beautifulletters” he received from theleader of the nuclear-armedstate.
Trump on Saturday elevat-ed his recent praise of Kim tonew heights, at a West Virginiarally in support of local candi-dates for his Republican Party.
“And then we fell in love —OK? No really. He wrote mebeautiful letters and they’re greatletters. We fell in love,” Trumptold the crowd. On Monday atthe United Nations GeneralAssembly Trump lauded theNorth Korean strongman —who is accused by the UN andothers of widespread humanrights abuses — as “terrific”, oneyear after Trump evisceratedKim from the same platform.
Trump followed those com-
ments by saying Wednesday hehad received an “extraordinaryletter” from Kim, and soundedoptimistic about prospects for asecond summit between the twoleaders “fairly quickly.”
Trump used his debutaddress at the UN GeneralAssembly 12 months ago tothreaten to “totally destroy”North Korea and belittle its
leader as “rocket man,” prompt-ing Kim to respond by calling thepresident a “mentally derangedUS dotard.” Those were amonga series of playground-type slursthe leaders of the two nuclear-armed states hurled at eachother, setting the world on edge.
Last August, after USmedia reported Pyongyanghad successfully miniaturised a
nuclear warhead to fit into amissile, Trump warnedPyongyang not to threaten theUnited States or it would face“fire and fury like the world hasnever seen.” Kim had earliercompared comments by Trumpto the bark of a “rabid dog,” andTrump derided Kim as a “sickpuppy” — before the apparentoutbreak of puppy love.
Trump met Kim inSingapore in June for the first-ever summit between the twocountries that have neversigned a peace treaty. The sum-mit led to a warming of ties anda halt in Pyongyang’s missilelaunches, but there has been lit-tle concrete progress since.North Korea’s foreign ministerRi Yong Ho on Saturday toldthe UN there was “no way” thathis country would disarm firstas long as the US to push fortough enforcement of sanctionsagainst Pyongyang. AFP
Seoul: South Korean PresidentMoon Jae-in received a pair ofNorth Korean indigenoushunting dogs from Pyongyang,his office said on Sunday, thelatest token of the rapidly blos-soming friendship on thepeninsula.
“Cheong Wa Dae (the pres-idential office) was offered apair of Pungsan dogs from theNorth as a gift at the North-South summit and receivedthem Thursday,” the South’spresidential office said in astatement.
The canines, both agedaround one, were handed overvia the truce village ofPanmunjom with three kilo-grams of dog food to “help withtheir adaptation”, it added.
Known for its loyalty andcleverness, the Pungsan breed— a hunting dog with thick,creamy white coat, pointy ears and hazel eyes — is one of
the National Treasures of North Korea.
The canine gifts come aftera September meeting betweenMoon and North Korea leaderKim Jong Un in Pyongyang, atwhich Kim agreed plans toshutter a missile-testing site andvisit Seoul. North and SouthKorea also announced thatthey would jointly bid for the2032 Olympics.
Former South KoreanPresident Kim Dae-jung hadalso received a pair of Pungsanpups after his landmark sum-
mit in Pyongyang with thenNorth Korean leader Kim JongIl in 2000.
The dogs were kept at theSeoul Grand Park and bothdied of natural causes in 2013after giving birth to 21 puppies.
The newly arrived poocheswill reside at the presidentialoffice with Moon — an animallover who already owns aPungsan dog named Maru, aformer shelter cat called Jjing-Jjing, and Tory, a black mutt headopted after taking office.
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TVF’s Girliyapa has released its brand newvideo Love Is Love, aiming to start a conversa-
tion around changing the way Indian families reactto their loved ones coming out of the closet. Starringactors Nidhi Singh, Jitendra Kumar, Gajraj Rao andVibha Chibber, the new video has been made withYouTube’s Creators For Change, taking on the con-versations around homosexuality in an averageIndian family.
Nidhi Bisht, creative head of Girliyapa said, “Wemade a short film about love. It’s the story of a girlcoming out to her parents. This was conceptualisedand written months before the verdict, since wehoped for a verdict in favour of the LGBTQ com-munity. As content creators, we felt it was ourresponsibility and privilege to use this platform toraise awareness on this topic.”
Love is Love shows Nidhi Singh as Ananya, com-ing out of the cocoon, and mustering the courageto tell her family that she likes girls. How her par-ents subtly change their stance and her brother’s sur-prising indifference to her sexual orientation is sure-ly priceless to watch. Indian society has come a longway and this video shows a family at the cusp ofchange, moving towards acceptance with open arms.
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After the success of recent originals like KarenjitKaur — The Untold Story of Sunny Leone,
Lockdown, Akoori, Lal Bahadur Shastri's Death —An Unfinished Story, among others, ZEE5 is set tostream Khaar. The docudrama will showcaseMahatma Gandhi’s significant Dandi March.
While a lot has been said about MahatmaGandhi’s contribution to India’s independence, nottoo many people know that he often had to face
oppositions even from his close aides from theIndian National Congress (INC). The idea for thesalt satyagraha had been his brainchild and one thatchanged the course of our independence struggle;yet it didn’t have the popular support within theCongress. But, Gandhi pressed on with the beliefthat he was on the right path. The show unfolds themany challenges that he faced before initiating themarch.
The docudrama features Surendra Rajan asMahatma Gandhi, Sanjay Gurbaxani as Nehru, AmitSingh Thakur as Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, TarakeshChauhan as Maulana Azad. To give the audiencean immersive experience, the show has AnnuKapoor lending his voice as a narrator.
Khaar will premiere on October 2.
People no longer want a strictly tra-ditional look. The modern woman
balances one foot in modernity andone in tradition. While they want thesarees of their mothers and grand-mothers preserved so that they arewearable, they also want it to beenhanced and made drape-friendlyfor a contemporary look.
Brand Asha Gautam’s, GautamGupta says, “We do bespoke, recy-cling and upcycling. People want theheirloom pieces preserved. Recyclingis when you use a textile and makesomething out of it, upcycling is whenyou enhance it, by embellishing itmore. Upcycling is one step aheadand it makes a paradigm shift whenfabrics and embroideries are added,”he said. There have been times whenthe pieces were not in a great state butthey used the parts that were fine torevive them. For instance, he said, zariexposed to natural air loses its sheenso a petrol wash is necessary to bringback the lustre.
They have also used multipleprocesses like merging yarns of dif-ferent clusters to develop new textiles.
“We have Moonga yarn fromNortheast with the Mulberry silk ofIndia, created in Varanasi, to createa Moonga georgette fabric. Foranother one, we used zari andMulberry silk yarn to create a fabric.We used weaving processes of decatis-ing. Its a process of steaming the fab-ric to make it softer and later lustreis added by dry steaming and boilingit,” he said.
The reason for going across statesto innovate is to create innovative col-lections and give people options. Atheme-based collection makes senseonly for the ramp or when showcas-ing in multi-designer outlets. For asingle-designer store, there have to beoptions, he said.
In one of their collections, called
Masterpiece, they have used Varanasi,Paithani and Bandhani with a twist.
Bandhani, a type of tie-dye tex-tile, is done after the fabric is madein Varanasi and then the bandhan isdone. In this, they haveadded zari, which isgenerally missing inthe typical bandhanimade in Bhuj.
“For the first time, aPatola art was used to make aBanarasi saree,” he said, talking about
another innovation. The Patan Patolais identifiable by its double Ikkat pat-tern. They used the Patan patola pat-tern to make a banarasi instead.That particular saree was sent to Bhujfor the bandhan.
“These were few of the techniquesand amalgamations at grassroot levelto make the fabric look different,” hesaid.
They use these tech-niques with certainbanarasi weaves andnow added the band-hani too. Using edgymotifs like geometric,circular, ombre lines; jew-elry and folk art. Typically,a banarasi has lots of florals,but they used Rajasthanifolk art like pictures of adancing woman with aman playing aninstrument, awoman sittingand playing
dholak to contemporise the look. These exclusive pieces take time,
no doubt, given the number of stepsthey have to go through right fromgraphing. One of the most time con-suming, he said, is Paithani becausethey don’t work on jacquard weavingbut handlooms, which are done byone-two people on a single level. Itcan take anything between two toeight months for a piece to be devel-oped into a finished product.
They also make sure that theyarns are twisted higher as thatmakes a better flowy fabric, forinstance georgette is a highly twistedfabric and chiffon more so. “So whenyou wear a chiffon, it falls well. Wetwisted the yarns well before weavingto make the saree and lehenga flowbetter,” he said.
The crux is to make the fabricmore exclusive, wearable
and contemporarybecause even if peo-
ple have nostal-gic value asso-ciated with
pieces theywant to
l o o ksmart.
Every season brings forth new trends.While diamonds, coloured stones
and pearls, have been around, the waythat they are used is what finds favourwith the new-age bride. New coloursand designs, inspired from the presenttime highlights the fusion of moderni-ty and tradition that every Indian livesthrough.
��������������&��Trend changes but diamond jew-
ellery never fails to catch the attentionof people of all age groups. Since timeimmemorial, these carbon formationshave been considered a girl’s best friendand who are we to dispute? The best wayto wear diamondsis in the form of anecklace as thesecan beteamed withw h a t e v e ryou wear,whether it’sl o w - c u tblouses ormore formaldresses. Detachablesets are gaining in pop-ularity because of theirutility as one can simply detach eachpiece and wear it as minimal everydayjewellery or occasional wear, saysChitwn D Malhotra, lead designer andfounder, Dillano Luxurious Jewels PvtLtd.
Layering with simple thin diamondchokers is a great way to elevate any out-fit. A glitzy choker necklace drenchedin diamond is an elegant way to playwith this trend. They always highlighteverything woman charm with simplic-
ity. For daily wear, lightweight studdeddiamonds in rose gold are popularamong young, urban and workingwomen, says Prakshi Sharma, creativehead and designer of Prakshi FineJewellery.
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of style. Currently, pearl chokers are intrend, in which multiple long strands areused. Not just the white, it is the color-ful ones that are in vogue.
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chokers have made a comeback.Studded with ethereal south seapearls, rubies or emeralds, these are
a great choice to complement anyensemble — be it contemporary, mod-
ern or traditional wedding wear. Multi-layered necklaces, long chandelierjhumkas, nathanis and mathapattis arealso the hot trends.
Both modern as well as traditionaldesigns work in the market. The amal-gamation of the two results in the thecreation of some truly exquisitejewels, according to RohanSharma, director of RK Jewellers.
Quirky ear cuffs, that werea rage last year has carried overto this season as well. Natureinspired quirky jewelry will rulethe market this year, saysMalhotra.
While the bride might go the wholehog, the guests prefer to keep it mini-mal. So big chandelier earrings are notworn with heavy neck jewellery and viceversa. Small ear studs infused withcoloured stones can up the style quo-tient of any outfit.
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comeback in a big way and can be seen
in rings, bracelets, necklaces and ear-rings.
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alds and blue sapphires alongwith topaz are ruling the fash-
ion runways as they have aclassic, elegant and luxuri-ous look while workingwell with every outfit.
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something that most of the customersgo in for.
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in cuts of pear, mar-quise, oval, radiant,cushion and princessare a popular choicewith the new agebrides as is fusing
tradition with moder-nity in jeweller y
design, says DarshanDave, founder of Diosa
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For users, Facebook is revelation ofa data breach that gave attackers
access to 50 million accounts and raisean important question: ‘What happensnext?’
For the owners of the affectedaccounts, and of another 40 millionthat Facebook put at risk, the firstorder of business may be a simple one:sign back into the app. Facebooklogged everyone out of all 90 millionaccounts in order to reset digital keysthe hackers had stolen — keys nor-mally used to keep users logged in, butwhich could also give outsiders fullcontrol of the compromised accounts.
Next up is the waiting game, asFacebook continues its investigationand users scan for notifications thattheir accounts were targeted by thehackers.
What Facebook knows so far isthat hackers got access to the 50 mil-lion accounts by exploiting three dis-tinct bugs in Facebook’s code thatallowed them to steal those digitalkeys, technically known as “access
tokens.” The company says it has fixedthe bugs.
Users don’t need to change theirpasswords, it said, although securityexperts say it couldn’t hurt to do so.
The social-networking website,however, doesn’t know who wasbehind the attacks or where they’rebased. CEO Mark Zuckerberg —whose personal account was alsocompromised — said that attackerswould have had the ability to view pri-vate messages or post on someone’saccount, but there’s no sign that theydid.
The hack is the latest setback forFacebook during a tumultuous year ofsecurity problems and privacy issues.
Though, none of these issues have sig-nificantly shaken the confidence of thecompany’s two billion global users sofar.
This latest hack involved bugs inFacebook’s “View As” feature, whichlets people see how their profilesappear to others. The attack thenmoved along from one user’sFacebook friend to another.Possession of those tokens wouldallow attackers to control thoseaccounts.
However, neither passwords norcredit card data was stolen, said GuyRosen, Facebook’s vice president ofproduct management. He said thecompany has alerted the FBI and reg-
ulators in the US and Europe.Facebook confirmed that third
party apps, including its ownInstagram app, could have beenaffected.
News broke early this year that adata analytics firm once employed bythe Trump campaign, CambridgeAnalytica, had improperly gainedaccess to personal data from millionsof user profiles. Then a congression-al investigation found that agentsfrom Russia and other countrieshave been posting fake political adssince at least 2016. In April,Zuckerberg appeared at a congres-sional hearing focused on Facebook’sprivacy practices.
The Facebook bug is reminiscentof a much larger attack on Yahoo inwhich attackers compromised 3 bil-lion accounts — enough for half ofthe world’s entire population. In thecase of Yahoo, information stolenincluded names, email addresses,phone numbers, birthdates and secu-rity questions and answers.
In Facebook’s case, it may be tooearly to know how sophisticated theattackers were and if they were con-nected to a nation state, said ThomasRid, a professor at the Johns HopkinsUniversity. Rid said it could also bespammers or criminals.
“Nothing we’ve seen here is sosophisticated that it requires a stateactor,” Rid said. “Fifty million randomFacebook accounts are not interest-ing for any intelligence agency.”
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All of us witness the realities of cli-mate change in the form of rising
temperatures, declining Arctic sea ice,extreme weather conditions, heatwaves, floods, droughts, unprece-dented storms and hurricanes and soon. It is being debated whether the cli-mate will change catastrophically orif other natural factors will interveneto make the phenomena a whole lotmilder.
The crucial challenges like theunprecedented change in climate thatthe earth is facing are best understoodwhen we see the planet as a living sys-tem. The theory of living system is abody of work that describes how allliving systems function, how they sus-tain themselves and how they devel-op and change. Living systems is actu-ally a metaphor that represents an ani-mate arrangement of parts andprocesses that continually affect oneanother over time while organising,growing, changing and connecting.When we are able to see the intricateinterconnections of the many parts ofthe living system, our view of theworld begins to change. We mustunderstand that the natural worlddoes not need humanity for its sur-vival, but humanity itself cannot sur-vive without the natural environmentand resources from nature like soil,water, air, sunlight and so on. Thus weneed to accept that we are all part ofearth.
According to scientists, actions ofhumans like burning fossil fuels, cut-ting down rainforests, farming live-stock increasingly influence the cli-mate and the earth’s temperature. Allsuch factors can be directly linked tothe problem of endless consumerism.The biggest problem is that no mat-ter how much we have, we alwayswant more. As Mahatma Gandhionce said, “Earth produces enough foreveryone’s needs but not enough forour greed.” So, whether it is an indus-trialist looking for his next billion ora hipster upgrading to the latestsmart phone as soon as it is launched,all of us are guilty of taking more thanwe need. In fact, we are almost pres-surised by our society into earning asmuch as we can throughout ourworking lives to collect as many“goodies” as we can before breathingour last whether we can enjoy themor not. Albert Einstein had rightly saidthat we cannot solve problems withthe same level of perception that wecreated them with. For that, we haveto step up to a higher and more inclu-sive level of seeing what is going onin order to understand and solve greatchallenges.
It has been observed that there isoften a great sense of fear among thosewho focus perpetually on the prob-lem: the doomsayers, the protesters,the motivators, researchers and theenvironmentalist. Inspite of this greatfear among a certain section of thesociety, there is a greater sense of non-chalance among the wider public whowould rather sit on the fence, not bebothered and go on about their busi-
ness, ignoring the foretelling ofimpending doom. These people arenot prepared to give up somethingthey enjoy for the sake of future gen-erations and for maintaining the sta-tus quo. And the reason for this isdeep-seated. The attachment of thesenses to the things they enjoy is sostrong that one’s ‘better judgment’ isnot enough to turn the tables andchange habits and put a stop to theendless consumption that is drivingthe changes in climate.
PM Modi in his speech at UNsaid, “We can achieve the same levelof development, prosperity and well-being without necessarily going downthe path of reckless consumption. Itdoesn’t mean that the economies willsuffer; it only means that oureconomies will take on a differentcharacter. For us in India, respect fornature is an integral part of spiritual-ism. We treat nature’s bounties assacred. Yoga is an invaluable gift ofour ancient tradition. It embodiesunity of mind and body; thought andaction; restraint and fulfillment; har-mony between man and nature anda holistic approach to health and well-being. It is not about exercise but todiscover the sense of oneness withyourself, world and nature. By chang-ing our lifestyle and creating con-
sciousness, it can help us deal with cli-mate change.”
The inner world of thought andthe outer world of physical phenom-ena are not separate. They are part ofthe same ‘causal continuum.’ Theouter physical phenomena begins asinner subtle phenomena — impres-sions, thoughts and feelings. We mustalways remember that these canchange even long-held awareness.
For example, the astronauts andcosmonauts would have believed thatthey were part of a large, solid, andstable earth until they found them-selves in space looking out of the win-dow of a spaceship at the lovely Earthspinning slowly like a small blue mar-ble. After that experience, many ofthem spoke of Earth’s vulnerabilityand of “Spaceship Earth.” In thiscausal continuum, our awarenessnaturally produces a certain kind ofattitude. Our thoughts and feelingsemerge naturally from the attitude wehold as it also causes us to see thingsin a certain way.
If we intend to find solutions tochronic problems such as degradationof the earth’s environment, we mustgo to its roots. If we want to changethe world, we need to go beyond laws,and policies to end the causal contin-uum. We need to consider how we canwork at the beginning of the contin-uum to change awareness and subse-quently action, on a massive scale.
For over the last 30 years, RahimKhan has not been able to grow
a single grain on his land but hasbeen keeping the land documentsclose to his heart. He is even pay-ing the annual revenue (tax) for the32 bighas which have been erod-ed by the hungry tides of themighty river part by part over thelast three decades.
The Bengali-speaking Muslimsettler, a resident of Balapara charin Barpeta district of Assam hasbeen paying the annual tax at theChenga revenue circle regularly asthe land documents and the updat-ed tax receipts are the most impor-tant proofs of his Indian identity.
Khan is one of the lakh victimsof climate change in Assam whoare already pushed to live on theedge by the changing climaticconditions, eroding their lands andsnatching away their livelihood —agriculture. These people who livemostly on the 2,251 sand bars thatdot the entire river system inAssam are living at the mercy ofnature for long and are now fight-ing another battle to keep theirIndian identity alive. With theAssam government working onupdating its National CitizenshipRegister (NRC), most of these peo-ple fear that their names would notfigure in the list as they do not havedocuments for their lands whichhave fallen prey to climate change-induced erosion and they will bereduced to stateless people.
“Our ancestors came herefrom Mymansingh region ofBangladesh centuries back. Mygrandfather was born here inAssam. We have land documentsdating back to 1948. Despite thatwe are often branded as illegalBangladeshi infiltrators due to thelinguistic similarity of our dialectwith those from the neighbouringcountry. There are lots of peoplefrom these areas who are picked upby the police and sent to detentioncamps as they fail to provide doc-uments to prove their Indian iden-tity,” said Khan.
“My family owns 32 bighas(12.8 acre) of land here on thebanks of the river but have notbeen growing anything here forover 30 years as the river has eatenup my lands. Yet I am paying thetax of �35 per bighas annually. Theland is titled and registered in thename of my grandfather since1948 and it proves that we areancestors of someone who settledin Assam long before 1971,” saidKhan who works as a daily wage
earner now.The BJP-led government in
Assam has been updating theNRC through a rigorous SupremeCourt-monitored process andintends to include the names ofthose people and their descendantswho had entered Assam postMarch 24, 1971. The completedraft of NRC, which was publishedby the Assam government earlierthis year, has already left out a totalof 40,07,707 people due to somediscrepancies in their documents.
On the other hand, the chang-ing climatic conditions have affect-ed the hydrological pattern of themighty Brahmaputra river and itstributaries affecting over 25 lakhpeople living in the 2,251 char(river islands) that dot the entireriver system in Assam, eroding thepeople’s lands and forcing themeither to move inbound in the char.
What enhances the fear amongthe community of being brandedas illegal Bangladeshi infiltrator arethe instances of arbitrary arrestsand detention by police and sub-sequent declaration by theForeigners’ Tribunals.
For example, 32-year-oldSaheb Khan, a resident ofGanakpara reserve under Chengarevenue circle was detained by thepolice in 2010 on mere suspicionof being an illegal Bangladeshiinfiltrator. Although Saheb final-ly managed to go free, his familyhas received a notice from theForeigners’ Tribunal 10 years laterasking him to prove his Indian cit-izenship. The family is runningfrom pillar to post even now toprove his it.
“The problem is that none ofthe 378 families living in
Ganakpara reserve had land doc-uments. These people, most ofwhom are descendants of BengaliMuslim settlers, hail from GomaPhulbari village under Chengarevenue circle in the district. TheBrahmaputra river eroded theirlands forcing them to settle inGanakpara reserve in 2008, whichused to be a village grazing reserve(VGR) and of the Assam govern-ment,” said Abdur Rahim, anactivist in the reserve.
“The government had allowedus to settle here after consideringour problems at that time and hadalso assured that they would pro-vide us with land pattas. We havebeen living here since 2008 but thegovernment has not even initiat-ed the process to de-reserve theGanakpara reserve, which is nec-essary to allot land pattas. Theseare all farmer families who are nowearning their livelihood as dailywage earners,” said Rahim.
He narrated the ordeal of aman called Saheb, “We speak thedialect spoken by our ancestors inBangladesh and hence our peopleare often branded as infiltrators.Saheb had gone to Byrnihat, asmall industrial town alongAssam-Meghalaya border, to workas mason. However, a police teampicked him up along with few oth-ers on mere suspicion that they areillegal infiltrators fromBangladesh.”
Another such example is thatof Moinal Mollah of Kakadhowavillage in Chenga area. Moinal wasarrested by the police and sent todetention camps for failing toprovide documents to support hisIndian citizenship despite the factthat his father’s name figured in
voters’ list. It is only after the inter-vention of the Supreme Courtthat Moinal was released afterthree years in captivity.
“We have lost our land inGoma Phulbari village due to ero-sion and were settled here by thegovernment in 2008. However,we have not received any docu-ments regarding this land. Fromwhere will we bring land docu-ments to prove our citizenship?”questioned Manowara Begum(58), Moinal’s mother.
She said that while only herhusband, Ashan Mollah’s nameappeared in the draft NRC, noneof other members in the familyincluding her could make it to dueto the lack of documents.
According to the WaterResources Department of theAssam government, the river bankerosion has been a serious issue inAssam for the last six decades as
more than 4.27 lakh hectares ofland had already been eroded byBrahmaputra and its tributariessince 1950, which is 7.40 per centof the area of the state.
As assessed by the department,the annual average loss of land isnearly 8,000 hectares and thewidth of the river Brahmaputra hasincreased up to 15 km at someplaces due to bank erosion.
These Bengali-speakingMuslim settlers have been living inthe sandbars since time immemo-rial. However, they are often sub-jected to harassment and termedas illegal Bangladeshi infiltratorsdue to their language and religion,”said Ashraful Hussain, a humanrights and RTI activist based inBarpeta.
“Their forefathers dialectwhich is similar to the one used byBangladeshis does not essentiallymake them one. Moreover, thesesand bars have remained isolatedfor years from mainland Assamand lack basic educational facili-ties. As a result people did not gotthe opportunity to learn and speakthe language of mainland Assam,”Hussain said.
He said that when majority ofthe people in the state applied forinclusion of their names in therecently updated NRC, names ofa good number of these people inchar areas were either left out whilesome did not even apply due tolack of documents that prove theirIndian citizenship.
So, for Rahim Khan and innu-merable others like him, living inthe riverine sand bars of Assam,paying the land revenue for landswhich they no longer hold, is notby choice but a compulsion as it istheir last resort to assert theirIndian identity. Like Khan, his sonstoo, will continue with the ritualof paying the annual revenue forthe 32 bighas until a time whennone will be branded as illegalBangladeshi infiltrator on the basisof their language and religion.
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The Indian team is bracing up for oneof its toughest challenges as it takeson heavyweights South Korea here on
Monday for a berth in the semifinals of theAFC U-16 Championship and a ticket tothe next U-17 World Cup.
The Indian colts, coached by BibianoFernandes, have qualified for the quarter-final of the ongoing AFC U-16Championship and now Korea, one of thestrongest teams in the competition, standsin between.
Sixteen years ago, the Indian U-16 teamlost to Korea 1-3 in the same stage.
"We know Korea Republic are thefavourites and we are the underdogs,"head coach Bibiano stated.
"They are the overwhelming favourites.""But we have been the underdogs
since the group-stages and we are bankingon the same against Korea Republic," headded.
Bibiano said his boys will look to giveKorea a run for their money.
"We all know the gravity of the momentand what it will mean for Indian football.But at the same time, we will play withoutpressure and back ourselves up as under-dogs. We will fight," he said.
"If Korea Republic underestimate us, weshall prove them otherwise and give thema run for their money."
Korea Republic are already being tout-ed as probable champions having scored 12goals from their three group league match-es without conceding any. India have alsonot conceded a single goal as yet but theywill be hit hard with the suspension of cen-tral defender Bikash Yumnam for doublebooking.
"Bikash will not be able to play. There'sno point of sitting back and lamenting. Weneed to go ahead with what we have. Thereare other players in the squad, all capable
enough," Bibianostayed.
"We all know thequality that KoreaRepublic possesses andwe all know the damage they can do if weget complacent at the back. Our defence hasbeen our strength in this tournament andthe players have worked really hard todefend as a single cohesive unit," hequipped.
Building up to the clash, the Indiantraining sessions have been nothing shortof gruelling with special emphasis beinggiven to finishing.
"We have been creating chances andneed to convert them. We could have eas-ily won against both Iran and Indonesia. Ifwe get complacent in front of goal, it willend badly for us," Bibiano said.
Even the players are raring to go andagain prove themselves.
"We will give more thanour cent percent in thequarters. These are the 90minutes that we haveworked hard and sacrificed
a lot for," informed skipper Vikram Partap."Anything can happen in a football
match and anything can happen in the elim-ination rounds. We cannot predict thefuture but will play our hearts out to makea dream come true."
Defender Gurkirat Singh added: "Weare ready for them. We know the challengeswe will face and the swiftness we will haveto deal with. We need to stick to the instruc-tions of the coach."
2������&����������A������� Ahead of India's quarterfinal clash
against his side in the ongoing AFC U-16 Championship, South Korea headcoach Kim Jung Soo credited the Indian
side for being "deserving quarterfinalists".In the official press conference, Kim
said: "India deserve to be in the quarter-final stages and each team that hasqualified for the quarter finals should beconsidered as favourites."
"Each and every team has preparedunder the same circumstances, but the
Indian team has done well for themselvesin the group stages," he certified.
Soo heaped praise on the Indiandefence line that has not conceded so farin the tournament, saying: "The Indiandefence line does its job well and I givethem credit for keeping three cleansheets in the three matches of the group
stages."The Indian defence has held out the
likes of Iran and Indonesia thus far andis looking to prove them once moreagainst Korea Republic, who have scored12 goals in the competition, including a7-0 mauling of Afghanistan in the groupstages.
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Bengaluru FC got their IndianSuper League campaign off to
a perfect start with a 1-0 win overdefending champions ChennaiyinFC at the Sree Kanteerava stadiumhere on Sunday.
In what was a repeat of lastseason's final at the same venue,Miku's 41st minute strike wasenough for the Blues to overcomethe visitors' challenge.
Chennaiyin FC will be disap-pointed as they got nothing out ofthis game, particularly after theywere gifted two gild-edge chancesto take the lead.
Xisco Hernandez won theball following a midfield scrap inthe near end of first half and quick-ly released Miku behind theChennaiyin defence with a per-fectly weighted pass.
The Venezuelan striker
unleashed a thunderbolt of a shotwhich, despite being aimed atKaranjit's near post, left theChennaiyin goalkeeper with nochance.
The visitors came close tograbbing an equaliser straightafter the interval following a long-
throw into the Bengaluru box. The resulting loose ball fell to
Inigo Calderon at the edge of thebox whose blocked shot fell to EliSabia with his back to goal. Thecentral defender's clever back-heel unfortunately was directedstraight to the rival goalkeeper.
Gregory threw caution to thewind in the closing stages bybringing on striker Carlos Salomfor defender Mailson Alves. Butwhile Chennaiyin threw thekitchen sink, the hosts held on totheir lead for a perfect start to theircampaign.
����������������+����������������Having failed to makemuch of an impression in previ-ous four attempts, NorthEastUnited FC will enter the IndianSuper League with renewed hopesas they take on FC Goa.
However it will not be easy forNorthEast United. FC Goa have ameasure of continuity about themas head coach Sergio Lobera takescharge of the team for a secondsuccessive season, while the hostswill be playing under EelcoSchattorie who has been handedthe reins.
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Real Madrid's Thibaut Courtois came back tohaunt Atletico Madrid as two crunch saves
denied Antoine Griezmann and Diego Costa onSaturday in a goalless draw at the SantiagoBernabeu.
Courtois spent three seasons at Atletico onloan from Chelsea but this was his first Madridderby for Real. He made the most of it, savingwhen both Griezmann and Costa had only theBelgian to beat.
Gareth Bale could have won a pulsatingencounter for Real too but he sidefooted widefrom close range towards the end of the first half.
Bale did not emerge for the second period,substituted with a thigh injury, which will be amajor concern for coach Julen Lopetegui. Realplay CSKA Moscow in the Champions Leagueon Tuesday.
In the end, both teams could have claimedvictory but neither was perhaps too disappointedwith a point.
Atletico maintain their resurgence after amiserable start while Real steady the ship fol-lowing their hammering at Sevilla onWednesday.
Lopetegui's side move back level withBarcelona on points. Atletico sit just twobehind.
"We have not won because we didn't scorebut overall we have been very superior,"Lopetegui said.
"The match was intense," added DiegoSimeone. "We had chances through Griezmannand Costa but they were saved by Courtois.
"It's a pity because we wanted to win but weleave with a good result."
This match was not lacking for sub-plots.Courtois had played seven Madrid derbies forAtletico but now he was in the other team's goal.
It was Julen Lopetegui's first derby as Realcoach, although he was the fifth Real managerDiego Simeone had stood opposite.
And Griezmann was up against SergioRamos, who very publicly slapped down theFrenchman's Ballon d'Or ambitions earlier thismonth. Perhaps Real took added satisfaction inpresenting Luka Modric with his FIFA BestMen's Player award before kick-off.
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Sunday, where the team is set to play the upcom-
ing UEFA Champions League match againstCSKA Moscow, but Sergio Ramos, Gareth Bale,Marcelo and Isco Alarcon did not travel.
Coach Julen Lopetegui has named 20 play-ers for Tuesday's match, including Vinicius Jr, whomade his La Liga debut against Atletico Madridon Saturday and is looking to make his ChampionsLeague debut in Russia.
The Spanish coach decided to give a rest tocaptain Sergio Ramos after he suffered a cut tohis left eyebrow during the Atletico match.
Bale underwent medical tests to determinewhether he has a muscle injury, after beingreplaced at halftime during the Madrid derby.
Marcelo suffers a muscular problem and Iscorecently underwent surgery for appendicitis.
Lopetegui will be forced to make changes inhis team due to the four key players' absence.
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Carvajal, Alvaro Odriozola, Jesus Vallejo, RaphaelVarane, Nacho, Sergio Reguilon Rodriguez,Casemiro, Federico Valverde, Marcos Llorente,Toni Kroos, Luka Modric, Dani Ceballos, MarcoAsensio, Lucas Vazquez, Vinicius, Mariano DiazMejia and Karim Benzema.
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India's Deepika Kumari held her nerves in an intrigu-ing play-off to down Lisa Unruh and win the Bronze
medal in the Archery World Cup Finals here onSunday.
Both the players were tied at 5-5 at the end of fivesets, which necessitated a shoot-off. Kumari andUnruh both shot 9 but Kumari won Bronze becauseher arrow was closer to the centre. This was Kumari'sfifth World Cup Finals podium.
A draw would have been enough for Kumari toseal the issue in the fifth set, but in the absence of acoach the Indian struggled to keep pace with the tim-ing and shot wide.
Kumari, a veteran in the World Cup Finals withfour Silver medals, came out on top in the shoot-off.
"This was for the first time I shot at a big com-petition like this without a coach. But I'm very happy.The stronger the competition, the better we get,"Kumari said.
Shoot-off wastense and Kumarisaid she "startedpanicking" but moti-vated herself withno coach to look upto.
"Most of thetimes, I end up los-ing a shoot-off so Istarted panicking. Itold myself, 'I willaccept whatever bethe result. I will justgive my best shot.I'm satisfied with thearrow," she said afterthe thrilling win.
"I'm happy forthe Bronze. I wish Icould convert thisS i l v e r / B r o n z emedals into a Goldsometime."
The Indian archers thus concluded their campaignwith two Bronze medals and one Silver in the exhi-bition fixture for compound mixed event, which hadonly two teams, including the host nation.
In his second World Cup Final appearance,Abhishek Verma had clinched a Bronze in the men'scompound event on Saturday.
The de-recognised Archery Association of Indiahad failed to hire a coach for the season-ending meet.Recurve coach Dharmendra Tiwari is indisposed,while Jiwanjyot Singh (compound) has resigned overthe Dronacharya Award snub.
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Hockey India on Sunday named a 48-mem-ber core probables' list for the national camp
of the Indian women's team to begin at the SportsAuthority of India, Bengaluru campus onMonday.
The members will report to chief coach SjoerdMarijne. The core probables list that includesmembers from the recent 18th Asian Games Silvermedal-winning team, also features top per-formers from this year's Hockey India NationalChampionships.
The Indian women's team have ended theseason on a high note after an inspiring perfor-mance at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Gameswhere they finished fourth, a runners-up finishat the Asian Champions Trophy in Korea, madeit to the top eight at the Women's World Cup inLondon and won a Silver medal the recently-con-cluded Asian Games in Jakarta.
These memorable feats also helped theIndian women's team surge ahead in the FIHWorld Ranking to a career best rank eight posi-tion.
While the team will approach the next sea-son with an eye on the qualification for the 2020Tokyo Olympics, the national camp will be moreabout finding the depth in the group and the rightmix of players for the upcoming international cal-endar.
"We will be watching each of these playersclosely during this camp and see how the com-petition is within the group. We will be seeing howthe players, especially the new comers can copewith the expectations of a national camp. Theseniors too will have to work hard to earn theirplace in the core group," chief coach Marijne said.
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Indian women's hockey team, all the squad mem-bers are set to be included in the Target OlympicPodium Scheme (TOPS) when the review com-mittee will identify a core group for the govern-ment-funded programme, next month.
All the 18 members of the men's hockey teamare already covered under TOPS and accordingto sources the women's team will soon berewarded for its impressive Silver medal finish atthe 18th Asian Games.
"The women's team is already getting fundsfrom the ACTC (Annual Calander for Trainingand Competitions). It's just about �50,000 month-ly allowance that comes under TOPS. They willbe included soon," the source said.
An official from the Sports India, erstwhileSports Authority of India, informed that HockeyIndia had repeatedly been requesting women'steam's inclusion.
"Hockey India has send us the proposal toinclude the women's team in TOPS. At themoment we are reviewing the proposal and it islikely that they will be included in the next reviewof the TOPS list," he said.
Hockey India welcomed the move, saying itis better late than never.
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Europe's finest golfers recap-tured the Ryder Cup on
Sunday, holding off a dra-matic United States fightbackto complete an emotionalupset victory with Italy'sFrancesco Molinari clinchingthe outcome.
Reigning British Openchampion Molinari defeatedfive-time major winner PhilMickelson 4 and 2 to giveEurope an insurmountable 141/2-9 1/2 lead over thefavoured Americans in thebiennial team showdown at LeGolf National.
"It was amazing," Molinarisaid. "It 's an incredibleachievement. We did just anamazing job."
In the process, Molinari —who had been winless in sixprior Ryder Cup matches —became the first Europeanand only the fourth player everto go 5-for-5 in a Ryder Cupand did so just two monthsafter hoisting the Claret Jug.
"It feels great but it's notabout me," he said. "It wasabout time to have them butit's about the group not theindividual.
"I couldn't even dream ofa summer like this."
Europe had seized a 10-6edge in Saturday's foursomesand fourballs matches andneeded only 4 1/2 points fromSunday's 12 singles matches toswipe the trophy.
The US team needed tomatch the greatest last-daycomebacks in Ryder Cup his-tory by taking eight singlespoints to keep the Cup, butthere was no French magic likeEurope's 2012 'Miracle atMedinah' or the Americans'1999 victory in the 'Battle ofBrookline'.
The Americans, whohaven't won in Europe since1993, lead the all-time rivalry26-14 with two drawn but theEuropeans' ninth victory in thepast 12 attempts gave them an11-8 with one drawn edgesince expansion from aBritish-Irish squad after 1977.
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Opener Rohit Sharma, who led histeam to Asia Cup title in theabsence of top-ranked Virat
Kohli, on Sunday climbed two places upto a career-best second position tomake it a 1-2 for India in the ICC ODIbatting rankings.
This is for the second time thatSharma is in second position, havingfirst reached number two in July thisyear. He aggregated 317 runs in thetournament, which India won by beat-ing Bangladesh in the final by threewickets.
Shikhar Dhawan, who was highestrun-getter with 342 runs, gained fourslots to reach fifth position.
The pair was rested in India's lastSuper Four match which ended in a tieagainst Afghanistan but still led the runaggregate, thanks largely to a 210-runpartnership in the Super Four matchagainst Pakistan in which Sharmaslammed an unbeaten 111 and Dhawanscored 114.
Another India player to gain in therankings table is spinner KuldeepYadav, who has advanced three placesto take a career-best third position afterfinishing as the joint-highest wickettaker along with Bangladesh's fastbowler Mustafizur Rahman andAfghanistan leg-spinner Rashid Khan,all of who finished with 10 wicketseach.
Rashid has displaced formerBangladesh captain Shakib Al Hasanfrom the top of the all-rounders' list. Hehas become the first from his countryand 32nd overall to reach top positionin the list with a jump of six places.
Rashid's success with the ball sawhim cross the 800-point mark duringthe tournament, which saw in actionfive of the 10 teams to fight it out innext year's ICC Cricket World Cup, andhe also chipped in with 87 runs to reacha career-best 97th position amongbatsmen.
Afghanistan opener MohammadShahzad has gained 19 slots to reach36th position, his highest in two years,while spinner Mujeeb Ur Rahman hasgained 15 slots to reach eighth position.
For Bangladesh, wicketkeeper-bats-man Mushfiqur Rahim has attained a
career-best 16th position, while LitonDas has advanced 107 positions toreach 116th rank after his fine centu-ry in the final. Mustafizur has movedup four places to take 12th positionamong bowlers.
Pakistan left-hander Imam-ul-Haqhas gained 15 places to reach a career-best 27th position while Shoaib Malikhas gained 12 slots to reach 42nd posi-tion. Junaid Khan has gained seven slotsto reach 30th position among bowlers.
For Sri Lanka, Upul Tharanga hasgained two positions to reach 41st rankwhile Hong Kong captain AnshumanRath's knock of 73 against India has ledhim to 55th position with 532 points,the highest ever points tally for aHong Kong batsman.
Rath's opening partner NizakatKhan has gained 28 slots to reach acareer-best 78th rank.
In the International CricketCouncil ODI Team rankings, there isno change in positions in the list led byEngland, who are followed by India,New Zealand, South Africa, Pakistan,Australia, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka andthe West Indies.
However, India have gained onepoint and Afghanistan five. Pakistanand Sri Lanka have lost three pointseach.
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