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A damant on his decision to quit the office of the Congress president, Rahul Gandhi is planning to under- take a countrywide padyatra to revive the party. While he awaits the deci- sion of the Congress Working Committee to zero in on a new chief outside the Nehru- Gandhi family, sources con- firmed that the Gandhi scion will hit the roads to spread sig- nificance of the Congress ide- ology, its nation building agen- da and the role of the party in the freedom movement. “We believe that each household across the nation has a Congressman (either elders or young) and they have to be engaged to catapult the party to regain its glory,” said a very senior Congress leader. Sources said Rahul will handpick a mix of young and senior leaders to assist himself in the padyatra the modalities of which will be planned short- ly. Then Congress president Sonia Gandhi too had hit the roads in run up to Lok Sabha polls in 2004 to take on the might of Atal Bihari Vajpayee- led NDA Government. Sonia led the party to an impressive win in 2004. “After the appointment of party chief and working pres- idents he (Rahul) will be free from the routine meetings and party works and will focus only on connecting with the people of the country. He realises that people across the country share a deep historic bond with the Congress, and all that he needed was to touch a chord with their heart to revive the Congress,” said a senior Congress leader. This is the reason Rahul has insisted there is no going back on his decision to quit, despite requests by leaders from his party and outside to continue in the post. “Given his plan to undertake this massive exercise to connect with the masses, it is obvious that come what may, Rahul will not with- draw his resignation as the party president,” said a senior leader. Congress leaders also feel that despite party’s flop show in the Lok Sabha polls, Rahul has gained tremendous sympathy and he could cash in on it by casting himself in the role of a man of the masses. After Rahul announced his decision to quit, many leaders of State units have followed suit and till Saturday evening about 200 office-bearers had resigned. Over a dozen office-bearers of Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee resigned from their posts on Saturday continuing the spate of resignations in the party following its Lok Sabha election debacle. Amid the spate of resigna- tions, the party said the entire organisation, in one voice, wants its president Rahul Gandhi to continue in the post. At a Press conference, Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera said many party leaders have resigned, but the prevail- ing sentiment is that Rahul should continue as the party president. He parried queries about why several senior party lead- ers had not quit their position, insisting that “people have dif- ferent ways of expressing their request” which is that, he added, Rahul should remain the Congress chief. Several office-bearers of the Congress, including its general secretary incharge of Madhya Pradesh Dipak Babaria and Goa unit chief Girish Chodankar, had resigned on Friday. T wo years after Haryana res- ident Pehlu Khan was lynched by cow vigilantes in Rajasthan’s Alwar district, police here have filed a chargesheet against his two sons and a truck operator for illegally transporting cattle. The issue triggered a row with AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi charging that the Congress in power was the “replica of the BJP”. Owaisi was reacting to earlier reports that Pehlu Khan was also chargesheeted. Amid the row over the lat- est chargesheet, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Saturday distanced himself from any role in the investiga- tion. “Investigation into the case was done during the BJP rule. If any discrepancy is found, we will get the case re- investigated,” he said. “The Congress has not changed its stand on the issue,” he added, saying those who indulge in such killings on the pretext of “gau raksha” won’t be spared. Although the case goes back to April 2017 when the BJP was in power in the State, the chargesheet is being filed months after the Congress took over. “The chargesheet was accepted by the court on May 24 against three persons under the Rajasthan Bovine Animal Act. Since Pehlu Khan had died, he has not been chargesheeted,” Alwar Superintendent of Police Anil Paris Deshmukh told PTI. However, Pehlu Khan’s name was mentioned in the summary of the chargesheet. Police maintained that the case against Pehlu Khan, his sons Irshad Khan (25) Aarif Khan (22) and truck operator Khan Mohammad stood proved in the investigation. They were charged under the Rajasthan Bovine Animal (Prohibition of Temporary Migration or Export) Act, 1995. Pehlu Khan and his sons were thrashed by a mob on the suspicion of cow smuggling in Alwar’s Behror on Aprli 1, 2017. Pehlu Khan died at a hos- pital in Alwar on April 3. The Rajasthan Police registered a case against the people who allegedly lynched Pehlu Khan and thrashed his companions. Six men were named in the FIR which also mentioned about 200 unidentified people. A case was also registered then against Pehlu Khan and others under the Rajasthan Bovine Animal Act, which allows the transportation of cattle only after getting permission from the administration. Turn to Page 2 C ontinuing their protest against carbandi in Connaught Place’s inner circle, traders on Saturday staged protest as New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) conducted a mock drill for the pedestrian- isation of the shopping hub. Protesting against restric- tion on entry of private cars in CP, New Delhi Traders’ Association president Atul Bhargava told The Pioneer, “The council should under- stand that CP is a shopping hub. Our business will get affected if they plan to run this project for long. During the mock drill, we have noticed that visitors were confused.” Traders had raised objec- tion to the plan following which the NDMC had tweaked its earlier plan, which was to make the inner circle com- pletely car-free on Sunday and Monday. CP market, along with Chandni Chowk, is one of the locations initially chosen for pedestrianisation. While carrying out mock drill, NDMC official said, “The objective of this exercise is to improve vehicular movement, regulate parking and facilitate ease of movement for pedes- trians.” “The major interventions during the trial run shall be restricted entry to inner circle, only CP-destined vehicle will be allowed to park in dedicat- ed parking lots and under- ground Palika parking, direct entry from radial-1 and radial- 4 to be restricted, auto/taxi will have restricted access to inner circle and will only be allowed to use middle circle for exit to outer circle and designated pick and drop facilities for taxi and auto shall be operated from six zones on the radial roads,” said council official. While the civic body has claimed that for convenience of commuters, the NDMC shall depute traffic police consul- tants, civic wardens and secu- rity staff from NDMC, along with traffic police, however, traders said visitors faced dif- ficulties as they seemed con- fused at the idea. Meanwhile, the council official said this is a pilot pro- ject to be experimented on the weekend (Sunday) and a full- fledged plan will be imple- mented after taking further inputs from the stakeholders. Turn to Page 2 T hree members of a family en route to Nainital were killed and four others injured after the vehicle they were travelling in collided with a water tanker on the Delhi- Meerut Expressway, police said on Saturday. “We received a call at around 12 am about the acci- dent on the Delhi-Meerut Expressway. A team reached the spot and found that the tempo traveller had rammed into the water tanker,” said DCP (East) Jasmeet Singh. He said the seven people were rushed to hospital where the three victims were declared brought dead. The impact of the accident was such that the front portion of the vehicle was completely damaged, he said. D ays of heatwave in the national Capital are not over yet as India Meteorological Department (IMD) marked Sunday and Monday with red color, which means Delhi people may witness heatwave like weather in the coming two days. On Saturday, the max- imum temperature in the national Capital settled five degrees above the normal. People in Delhi woke up to a hot morn- ing with the minimum temperature settling at 30 degrees Celsius, two notches above the normal, while the maximum temperature settled at 42.3 degrees Celsius, five degrees above the normal for this time of the year. The humidity level oscillated between 28 and 55 per cent, the MeT department said. “There is also a possibility of heatwave conditions at few places in the city. The maxi- mum and minimum tempera- ture would be around 43 and 30 degrees Celsius,” an official of the MeT department said. According to IMD, Delhi will witness rain or thun- dershower on July 4 while for July 2 and July 3, Met pre- dicted light rain. The maxi- mum tempera- ture will oscillate between 43 degrees Celsius and 36 degrees Celsius and minimum tem- perature will fluctuate between 28 degrees and 30 degrees Celsius in next week. On Friday, the maximum temperature was 41.5 degrees Celsius while the minimum temperature was 27.2 degrees Celsius.

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Adamant on his decision toquit the office of the

Congress president, RahulGandhi is planning to under-take a countrywide padyatra torevive the party.

While he awaits the deci-sion of the Congress WorkingCommittee to zero in on a newchief outside the Nehru-Gandhi family, sources con-firmed that the Gandhi scionwill hit the roads to spread sig-nificance of the Congress ide-ology, its nation building agen-da and the role of the party inthe freedom movement.

“We believe that eachhousehold across the nationhas a Congressman (eitherelders or young) and they haveto be engaged to catapult the party to regain its glory,”said a very senior Congressleader.

Sources said Rahul willhandpick a mix of young andsenior leaders to assist himselfin the padyatra the modalitiesof which will be planned short-ly. Then Congress presidentSonia Gandhi too had hit theroads in run up to Lok Sabhapolls in 2004 to take on themight of Atal Bihari Vajpayee-led NDA Government. Sonialed the party to an impressivewin in 2004.

“After the appointment ofparty chief and working pres-

idents he (Rahul) will be freefrom the routine meetings andparty works and will focusonly on connecting with thepeople of the country. Herealises that people across thecountry share a deep historicbond with the Congress, and allthat he needed was to touch achord with their heart to revive

the Congress,” said a seniorCongress leader.

This is the reason Rahulhas insisted there is no goingback on his decision to quit,despite requests by leadersfrom his party and outside tocontinue in the post. “Given hisplan to undertake this massiveexercise to connect with the

masses, it is obvious that comewhat may, Rahul will not with-draw his resignation as theparty president,” said a seniorleader.

Congress leaders also feelthat despite party’s flop show inthe Lok Sabha polls, Rahul hasgained tremendous sympathyand he could cash in on it by

casting himself in the role of aman of the masses.

After Rahul announced hisdecision to quit, many leadersof State units have followed suitand till Saturday evening about200 office-bearers had resigned.Over a dozen office-bearers ofUttar Pradesh CongressCommittee resigned from theirposts on Saturday continuingthe spate of resignations in theparty following its Lok Sabhaelection debacle.

Amid the spate of resigna-tions, the party said the entireorganisation, in one voice,wants its president RahulGandhi to continue in thepost.

At a Press conference,Congress spokesperson PawanKhera said many party leadershave resigned, but the prevail-ing sentiment is that Rahulshould continue as the partypresident.

He parried queries aboutwhy several senior party lead-ers had not quit their position,insisting that “people have dif-ferent ways of expressing theirrequest” which is that, headded, Rahul should remainthe Congress chief.

Several office-bearers ofthe Congress, including itsgeneral secretary incharge ofMadhya Pradesh DipakBabaria and Goa unit chiefGirish Chodankar, hadresigned on Friday.

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Two years after Haryana res-ident Pehlu Khan was

lynched by cow vigilantes inRajasthan’s Alwar district,police here have filed achargesheet against his twosons and a truck operator forillegally transporting cattle.The issue triggered a row withAIMIM chief AsaduddinOwaisi charging that theCongress in power was the“replica of the BJP”. Owaisi wasreacting to earlier reports thatPehlu Khan was alsochargesheeted.

Amid the row over the lat-est chargesheet, RajasthanChief Minister Ashok Gehloton Saturday distanced himselffrom any role in the investiga-tion. “Investigation into thecase was done during the BJPrule. If any discrepancy isfound, we will get the case re-investigated,” he said.

“The Congress has notchanged its stand on the issue,”he added, saying those whoindulge in such killings on thepretext of “gau raksha” won’t bespared.

Although the case goesback to April 2017 when theBJP was in power in the State,the chargesheet is being filedmonths after the Congress tookover. “The chargesheet wasaccepted by the court on May24 against three persons underthe Rajasthan Bovine AnimalAct. Since Pehlu Khan haddied, he has not been

chargesheeted,” AlwarSuperintendent of Police AnilParis Deshmukh told PTI.

However, Pehlu Khan’sname was mentioned in thesummary of the chargesheet.

Police maintained that thecase against Pehlu Khan, hissons Irshad Khan (25) AarifKhan (22) and truck operatorKhan Mohammad stoodproved in the investigation.They were charged under theRajasthan Bovine Animal(Prohibition of TemporaryMigration or Export) Act, 1995.

Pehlu Khan and his sonswere thrashed by a mob on thesuspicion of cow smuggling inAlwar’s Behror on Aprli 1,2017. Pehlu Khan died at a hos-pital in Alwar on April 3. TheRajasthan Police registered acase against the people whoallegedly lynched Pehlu Khanand thrashed his companions.

Six men were named in theFIR which also mentionedabout 200 unidentified people.A case was also registered thenagainst Pehlu Khan and othersunder the Rajasthan BovineAnimal Act, which allows thetransportation of cattle onlyafter getting permission fromthe administration.

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Continuing their protestagainst carbandi in

Connaught Place’s inner circle,traders on Saturday stagedprotest as New Delhi MunicipalCouncil (NDMC) conducted amock drill for the pedestrian-isation of the shopping hub.

Protesting against restric-tion on entry of private cars inCP, New Delhi Traders’Association president AtulBhargava told The Pioneer,“The council should under-stand that CP is a shoppinghub. Our business will getaffected if they plan to run thisproject for long. During themock drill, we have noticedthat visitors were confused.”

Traders had raised objec-tion to the plan followingwhich the NDMC had tweakedits earlier plan, which was tomake the inner circle com-pletely car-free on Sunday andMonday. CP market, alongwith Chandni Chowk, is one ofthe locations initially chosenfor pedestrianisation.

While carrying out mockdrill, NDMC official said, “Theobjective of this exercise is toimprove vehicular movement,

regulate parking and facilitateease of movement for pedes-trians.”

“The major interventionsduring the trial run shall berestricted entry to inner circle,only CP-destined vehicle willbe allowed to park in dedicat-ed parking lots and under-ground Palika parking, directentry from radial-1 and radial-4 to be restricted, auto/taxi willhave restricted access to innercircle and will only be allowedto use middle circle for exit toouter circle and designatedpick and drop facilities for taxiand auto shall be operatedfrom six zones on the radial

roads,” said council official. While the civic body has

claimed that for convenience ofcommuters, the NDMC shalldepute traffic police consul-tants, civic wardens and secu-rity staff from NDMC, alongwith traffic police, however,traders said visitors faced dif-ficulties as they seemed con-fused at the idea.

Meanwhile, the councilofficial said this is a pilot pro-ject to be experimented on theweekend (Sunday) and a full-fledged plan will be imple-mented after taking furtherinputs from the stakeholders.

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Three members of a familyen route to Nainital were

killed and four others injuredafter the vehicle they weretravelling in collided with awater tanker on the Delhi-Meerut Expressway, police saidon Saturday.

“We received a call ataround 12 am about the acci-dent on the Delhi-MeerutExpressway. A team reachedthe spot and found that thetempo traveller had rammedinto the water tanker,” saidDCP (East) Jasmeet Singh.

He said the seven peoplewere rushed to hospital wherethe three victims were declaredbrought dead. The impact ofthe accident was such that thefront portion of the vehicle wascompletely damaged, he said.

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Days of heatwave in thenational Capital are not

over yet as IndiaMeteorological Department(IMD) marked Sunday andMonday with red color, whichmeans Delhi people maywitness heatwave likeweather in the coming twodays.

On Saturday, the max-imum temperature in thenational Capital settledfive degrees above thenormal. People in Delhiwoke up to a hot morn-ing with the minimumtemperature settling at 30degrees Celsius, two notchesabove the normal, while themaximum temperature settledat 42.3 degrees Celsius, fivedegrees above the normal forthis time of the year. Thehumidity level oscillatedbetween 28 and 55 per cent, the

MeT department said. “There is also a possibility

of heatwave conditions at fewplaces in the city. The maxi-mum and minimum tempera-ture would be around 43 and30 degrees Celsius,” an officialof the MeT department said.

According to IMD, Delhiwill witness rain or thun-

dershower on July 4while for July 2 and

July 3, Met pre-dicted light rain.

The maxi-mum tempera-

ture will oscillatebetween 43 degrees

Celsius and 36 degreesCelsius and minimum tem-perature will fluctuate between28 degrees and 30 degreesCelsius in next week.

On Friday, the maximumtemperature was 41.5 degreesCelsius while the minimumtemperature was 27.2 degreesCelsius.

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From Page 1Police had then booked 16

people for illegally transporting36 animals in six vehicles.They were on their way to Nuhdistrict in Haryana from Jaipurwhen the cow vigilantesstopped two of the vehicles inBehror on the Jaipur-Delhinational highway, thrashingPehlu Khan and his sons.

Later, the CM tweeted thatthis was a case separate from

the one related to the lynching,and was registered and inves-tigated under the previousGovernment. Since the threeaccused named in thechargesheet were not present atthe time of its submission inDecember 2018, the districtcourt accepted the “challan” onMay 24, he said.

“However, our governmentwill see if the investigationwas done with predeterminedintentions,” he tweeted. Earlier,former BJP MLA Gyan DeoAhuja said Pehlu Khan andother accused were involved inthe smuggling of cows, whichwas “proved” in the policeinvestigation.

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Congress on Saturdaymocked Home Minister

and BJP president Amit Shahafter he blamed first PrimeMinister Jawaharlal Nehru forthe problems in Jammu andKashmir, saying he draws hisknowledge of history fromWhatsApp and that theOpposition party can sendhim history books.

National Conference andCPI(M) too while demandingan early Assembly election inJammu & Kashmir alleged thatthe Union Home Ministercomments in the Lok Sabha aday ago regarding the Statewere “provocative” and wouldalienate the people further.

Congress spokespersonPawan Khera said while Shahkeeps on his attack on Nehruand blaming the Congress fortroubles in Jammu & Kashmir,the Congress wants to focus onissues like unemployment fac-ing the masses today.

He then took theWhatsapp dig at Shah.

He said before MuslimLeague, it was Veer Sawarkar,a reverential figure in the BJP,and Hindu Mahasabha whichhad propogated two-nationtheory. Shah had blamed theCongress for partition.

The Left party said if theconditions were conducive forholding the Lok Sabha electionin the state, there was no rea-son to believe that the same sit-uation prohibits the holding ofassembly election.

“The Union HomeMinister’s intervention inParliament while moving the(resolution for) extension ofPresident’s Rule for another sixmonths in Jammu & Kashmirwas provocative leading to fur-ther alienation of the people ofthe state,” the Communist Partyof India (Marxist) said in astatement.

“This is not healthy forIndia’s unity and integrity.Alienation only feeds growth ofterrorism, which the country isunitedly determined to defeat,”it added.

Shah had said on Fridaythat Article 370 of theConstitution, which provides

for special status to the state,was “temporary in nature” and“not permanent”.

The National Conferenceexpressed dismay over thestatement of Amit Shah on thequestion of conducting assem-bly elections in Jammu andKashmir, saying the “inordinatedelay” in holding the polls inthe state is synonymous with“scuttling” federalism in thecountry.

It said the people are yearn-ing for a stable Governmentwhich could protect the iden-tity and territorial integrity ofthe state.

NC general secretary AliMuhammad Sagar said on onehand, the Home ministerminced no words to accentuatethe peaceful conduct of urbanlocal bodies and panchayatpolls and Parliament electionsin the state, but on the otherhand, he is “denying” a repre-sentative government to thestate.

The NC general secretarysaid any further delay in hav-ing an elected representativegovernment in the state would“further increase the gapbetween the Government andthe people”.

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Intelligence chatters haveindicated the gang war

between Hizbul Mujahideen onthe one hand and the Al QaedaKashmir and ISJK on the otherin Jammu & Kashmir has rat-tled Pakistan’s spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence that sus-pects the former being a localoutfit is leaking informationabout the other terror groupsdue to battle of supremacy.

The Hizbul is known toplay double game by leakinginformation to security forcesin the Valley and is also opento dialogue for the cause of theseparatist diaspora and hasalso close connections withthe Pakistani establishment.Such gang wars are likely toincrease in the future as anambitious Hizbul seeks toincrease its utility with a viewto join the dialogue process atfuture date in any Indian ini-tiative.

Following the Indianstrikes at Jaish-e-Mohammadfacility in Balakot post-Pulwama suicide hit on a CRPFconvoy earlier this year, the

Jaish is facing a crunch ofcadres in the Valley and Hizbulis now seeking to fill that spaceto become more important inthe eyes of the Pakistani mas-ters. Hizbul chief SyedSalahuddin is resident of theValley and is based in Pakistanunder the patronage of the Pakarmy-ISI combine.

Salahuddin has beenknown to be beneficiary of thelargesse of the Indian covertagencies with a number of hisrelatives being in governmentservice. Hizbul has in the pastplayed friendly cricket match-es with the Indian army. TheHizbul is considered a local ter-ror group with patronage fromPak army-ISI combine as partof the latter’s strategy to claimdeniability after terror attacksin the Valley as also to get localrecruits for other jehadi groupslike the Lashkar and Jaish.

Last week, the securityforces eliminated four terroristsof Al Qaeda Kashmir alsoknown as Ansar GhazwatulHind---Rafi Hassan Mir ofKralchak, Shopian, SuhailAhmad Bhat of Batmuran,Shopian, Showkat Ahmad Mir

of Rajpora in Pulwama andAzad Ahmad Khanday ofBamnoo, Pulwama. The Hijbulterrorists in the Valley are sus-pected to have leaked infor-mation leading to the elimina-tion of the four terrorists in acordon and search operation atthe Panzar area of Shopian,sources said.

In its bid to deflect atten-tion from its vested agenda inthe Valley, the HizbulMujahideen in association withthe Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Tayyaba indulged in a fightwith the international terrorgroup Islamic State Jammuand Kashmir (ISJK)Commander in SouthKashmir’s Anantnag districton Wednesday to show soli-darity with the ISI’s designs inthe trouble-torn State.

The clash between ISJKterror commander Adil Dasand Hizbul terrorist ArifHussain Bhat ensued at anapple orchard in Sirhama villagein Beijbehara. While Das waskilled in the shootout, Bhat wasnabbed by the State police.

The ISJK operates in theValley under the banner of

Wilayah Al Hind but has beenunable to gain significant trac-tion locally where even the AlQaeda’s arm has been virtual-ly decimated with the liquida-tion of its chief Zakir Musa lastmonth.

Sources said the gunfight isan indication of the riftbetween various terror groupsoperating in the Valley forgaining supremacy. It is alsoindicative of the desperation inthe terror ranks following con-tinuous operations by the secu-rity forces against the ultras.The security forces have killedover 700 terrorists during thelast three years including theelimination of Al QaedaKashmir chief Zakir Musa andHizbul commander BurhanWani among others. Only onekey commander of the HizbulMujahideen Riyaz Naikoo hasevaded the security forces afterthe Indian Army released a listof 22 most wanted terroristslast year as part of theOperation All Out.

Hizbul had engaged inRamzan ceasefire during AtalBehari Vajpayee regime at theCentre and the outfit’s chief

Syed Salahuddin’s son wasgiven admission in MBBScourse in Sri Nagar MedicalCollege who is now based inLondon. The Indian army hadrescued Salahuddin’s son work-ing in Jammu and Kashmireducation department who wastrapped in terror siege in twoseparate incidents and twocommissioned officers of thearmy had laid down their livesin saving him.

The international groupslike Al Qaeda Kashmir hasbeen seeking to respond to theISIS attack in Colombo andmaking their presence regis-tered here through dominationon groups like Hizbul. Feelingthe heat, Hizbul has startedsharing information to theforces at different levels. Bothcommanders and cadres arebelieved to be sharing inputs onother groups to the agencies ina discreet manner, sources said.

Agencies in the Valley aregetting good information onthe movement and hideouts ofother terror groups and areexpecting the trend to contin-ue in both short and longterm, added the sources.

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Congress on Saturday took adig at the Centre dubbing its

decision to reduce interest rateon small savings schemes as its“return gift” to voters after theygave it a massive victory in therecent Lok Sabha polls.

Congress spokespersonPawan Khera said his party willraise the issue in Parliament,where the budget session iscurrently underway, and

demanded that the decision berolled back. The government onFriday reduced interest rate onsmall savings schemes, includ-ing NSC and PPF, by 0.1 per centfor the July-September quarter.

Few Governments in histo-ry have received such a mandateas has the Narendra Modi gov-ernment, and it has gone on to“punish” them by trimming theinterest rate on saving schemesrelied upon by a majority of peo-ple, Khera said at a press con-

ference. “This is the return giftthis government has given topeople,” Khera said, attacking it.

During the Congress-ledUPA government, interest rateson two-year deposit scheme,five-year deposit scheme, pub-lic provident fund and senior cit-izens’ saving scheme were 8.4,8.5, 8.7 and 9.2 per cents, respec-tively, he said. Under the BJP-ledNDA government, it is 6.9, 7.7,7.9 and 8.6 per cents respectively,he added.

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Home Minister Amit Shahon Saturday said a clear

‘chain of command’ should be inplace when multiple stakehold-ers get on-board to combat a dis-aster and Government agenciesshould ensure that Indiabecomes a top-notch nation formanaging such emergencies.

Officiating his first publicevent after taking charge of theministry, Shah said it is impor-tant to quickly develop betterresilience and capability againstdisasters given that India ismuch prone to catastrophesowing to its varied topographyand expanse.

The minister was speakingat the inauguration of a two-day annual conference organ-ised here by the NDRF oncapacity building of state dis-

aster response forces (SDRFs)in consultation with homeguards, civil defence and fireservices. The National DisasterResponse Force (NDRF) is afederal force of the country andhas 12 battalions based acrossvarious states for quickresponse to any emergency,manmade or natural.

Addressing the delegates atthe meeting Shah said a chainof command between variousagencies, stakeholders anddepartment should be decidedand formed when dealing witha disaster. “This is very impor-tant as I have seen a verychaotic situation emerging inabsence of this protocol andorder of hierarchy,” he said,adding it is a big lacuna in thecountry’s bureaucratic systemthat no one pays heed to theother till a formal or official

order is issued.The minister said agencies

like the NDRF should not reston their past laurels but strive todo better. “This is now thetime to work and ensure thatIndia becomes the number onecountry in disaster manage-ment.

The path to achieve thisgoal is long but that should beour target. It should be our effortthat the world takes note fromour best practices and counter-disaster models,” Shah said.

Shah asked the NDRF, anagency under his ministry, tocollaborate with the DefenceResearch and DevelopmentOrganisation and developindigenous equipment to com-bat disaster not only for Indianagencies but also for neigh-bouring countries like Nepal,Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

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The Delhi Pollution ControlCommittee (DPCC) sealed

three more “polluting” factories“operating without consent”in the Mayapuri scrap marketin west Delhi on Saturday.

This was the second suchexercise carried out in the lastthree days in the Mayapuriindustrial area, which had wit-nessed violent clashes betweentraders and the police person-nel accompanying a sealingteam on April 13.

On the directions of theNational Green Tribunal(NGT), the DPCC had carriedout a comprehensive unit-wisesurvey in May and found sev-eral units “operating withoutconsent”.

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In the first major monsoon-related mishap in

Maharashtra this year, at least15 persons — most of whomlabourers and their familymembers from West Bengaland Bihar — were killed whena compound wall of a posh res-idential housing collapsed ontheir hutments near TalabMasjib Pune’s Kondhwa local-ity in the small hours ofSaturday.

The victims — includingfour children — were sleepingin their make-shift hutmentswhen a 60 feet protection wallof Alcon Stylus residentialbuilding crashing down ontheir hutments at around 1.45am. Despite the complaints bylocal residents made to thePune Municipal Corporation(PMC) and the builders con-cerned that the protection wallcollapse away any time, boththe civic authorities andbuilders had not done any-thing. As the wall gave way andcame down the hutments, thelabourers and their familymembers were buried underthe debris.

Following the mishap, atleast 10 cars vehicles parkednear the protection wall sliddown along with a portion ofthe earth crushed the hut-ments below.

Teams of National DisasterResponse Force and Pune firebrigade rushed to spot shortlyafter the collapse. After recov-ering the bodies of those killed,they managed to rescue justthree alive, including twominors. Most of them werelabourers and their familymembers.

Mourning the death ofthose killed in the Pune col-lapse, Maharashtra ChiefMinister Devendra Fadnavistweeted: "Extremely saddenedto know about loss of lives inthe Kondhwa, Pune wall col-lapse incident. My deepestcondolences to the familiesand prying for speedy recoveryof the injured. Directed PuneCollector to conduct an in-

depth enquiry”.Talking to media persons

later in the day, Fadnavis saidthat accountability would befixed for the incident andaction would be taken againstthose who were found guilty. “Itis a serious incident. My min-isterial colleagues have rushedto the sport. Given the mannerin which labourers were killed,we will have to fix responsibil-ity for the incident. We will takestern action against thosefound guilty. A committee hasbeen appointed to ascertain ifthe land given for the con-struction was good and thequality of construction weregood enough or not. The nextof kin of those killed are beinga compensation of Rs 5 lakheach. The district administra-tion is making arrangement tofly their bodies to their nativeplaces,” Fadnavis said.

Those killed were identi-fied as Alok Sharma ( 28),Mohan Sharma (19), RaviSharma (19), Laxmikant Sahani(33), Sunil Singh (35), WoviDas ( 2), Sonali Das (6), BhimaDas (38), Sangeeta Devi (26),Ajit Kumar Sharma (7),Rekalkumar Sharma (5), NeevaDevi (30), Deepak Ranhan andAvinash Singh

The local police have,meanwhile, registered anoffence of negligence and cul-pable homicide not amountingto murder against eight personsbelonging Alcon Stylus andKanchan builders, includingtheir owners, engineers andcontractors for the tragedy,charging them with negligenceand culpable homicide notamounting to murder.

The arrested builders offi-cials comprised: JagdishprasadAgrawal, Sachin Jagdish PrasadAgrawal, Rajesh JagdishprasadAgrawal, Vivek Sunil Agrawal,Vipul Sunil Agrawal, PankajVora, Suresh Shah, RashmikantGandhi.

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The Mahatma Gandhi ITand Biotechnology Park in

Cote d’Ivoire, a dedicated freetrade zone built with India’sassistance to build developmentcapacities, has been inaugurat-ed. The Mahatma Gandhi ITand Biotechnology Park(MGIT-BP) was jointly inau-gurated by Ambassador ofIndia and Cote d’Ivoire VicePresident Daniel KablanDuccan at a ceremony inGrand-Bassam, Cote d’Ivoire

on Thursday, the Ministry ofExternal Affairs (MEA) said instatement.

MGIT-BP is a dedicatedFree Trade Zone (FTZ) for ITand Biotechnology, it said. “Itmay be noted that PrimeMinister Modi has made Africaa priority for our foreign poli-cy. PM has outlined 10 princi-ples of our engagement withAfrica in July 2018 inKampala,” the statement said.

The inauguration of theproject is an important mile-stone in 150th anniversary cel-

ebration of birth anniversary ofMahatma Gandhi, it said. Theceremony showcases the com-mitment of government toexpedite projects under the100 days plan, it added. TheMGIT-BP is being built withIndia’s assistance throughEXIM Bank Lines of Credit ofUSD 20 million.

The MGIT-BP project con-sists of two parts firstly, archi-tectural concept and design forthe buildings of FTZ and con-struction of main building tohost IT enterprises.

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In a delicate surgery, doctorsat a hospital here used the

cartilage and fat from the ribsof a nine-year-old Yemeni boyto reconstruct his and twinbrother’s cleft lips and nose.

Cleft lip and associatednose and palate deformitieslead to problem in breathingand speech, said Dr AjayaKashyap, the medical directorof KAS Medical Centre andMedSpa. The twins, Ahmedand Shad, were not able tobreathe properly and theirspeech was also affected.

At school, their appear-ance, because of their cleft lips,affected their confidence level.The surgery, conducted aroundtwo weeks ago, was successfulwith no rejection or complica-tions, Dr Kashyap said.

“Usually, to correct cleft lipdeformity, that also includesreconstruction of a part of thenose and upper lips, we need totake cartilage and fats from therib bone of a patient.

“However, in this case, oneof the boys was not healthyenough for this procedure. So,we took cartilage and rib fatsfrom one of the twins and usedon both of them”, the doctor said.

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The Centre has given Statesand Union Territories time

till June 30, 2020 to roll out the‘one nation, one ration card’system, under which benefi-ciaries can buy subsidised food-grains from ration shops in anypart of the country. FoodMinister Ram Vilas Paswansaid already 10 States —Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat,Haryana, Jharkhand,Karnataka, Kerala,Maharasthra, Rajasthan,Telangana and Tripura -- areproviding portability of PublicDistribution System (PDS)entitlements.

“By next June 30, 2020, ‘onenation, one ration card’ shouldbe implemented without fail inthe entire country. We havewritten letters to the state gov-ernment to fast track the imple-mentation of this system,”Paswan said.

The new mechanism willensure no poor is deprived ofPDS entitlement if that personshifts from one place to another.

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has prepared a draft nationalpolicy for women empower-ment with a priority on theireducation, food security andnutrition. The Women andChild Development Ministryhas prepared the draft policyafter receiving suggestions fromvarious stakeholders, sourcessaid. The draft policy identifiesthe priority areas of food secu-rity, nutrition, education, econ-

omy (including agricultureindustry, labour, employment,NRI women, service sector, sci-ence and technology), violenceagainst women, governance anddecision making.

According to the draft pol-icy, it aims to create an enablingenvironment for womenthrough housing, shelter andinfrastructure, drinking waterand sanitation, media and cul-ture, sports and social security.

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In a robbery bid, an elderlywoman was allegedly stabbed

to death at her home inDwarka’s Uttam Nagar onSaturday morning, police said.Gidesh Singh, the accused, wasarrested and a case registeredagainst him, they said.

According to the police,Santosh Devi (80) resided onthe ground floor of a two-storey building in Uttam Nagar.She woke up early and openedthe gate of her house.

Gidesh Singh, who wasroaming in the area, foundDevi’s house door unlocked

and entered it in a bid to stealsome valuables, they said.

Singh allegedly stabbed theelderly woman on her neckwhile she was cleaning a room,a senior police officer said.

As Devi fell unconscious,Singh started searching forvaluables while her grandsonand granddaughter-in-law weresleeping on the first floor of thehouse, the officer added.

After finding nothing valuable in Devi’shome, Singh went up to thefirst floor. He entered one of therooms and managed to breakopen an almirah, the officersaid.

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Rajasthan Government hasgiven its approval to

Detailed Project Report (DPR)of the Delhi - Gurugram - SNB(Shahjahanpur-Neemrana-Behror Urban Complex)Regional Rapid Transit System(RRTS) corridor on Saturday.

The Haryana Governmenthas already approved the pro-ject while the DelhiGovernment, a pivotal stake-holder of this project is likelyto give its approval in the nextCabinet meeting.

Significantly, the imple-mentation of the RRTS wouldprovide much required addi-tional transport infrastructureto NCR commuters and thisproject will also help inaddressing the issues pertain-ing to air-pollution, traffic con-gestion and SustainableRegional Development.

Elaborating the project,the official said, “The projecthas planned to be implement-ed in three phases. In first,Delhi-Gurugram-SNB UrbanComplex will be constructed.In second, it will further extendfrom SNB Urban Complex toSotanala while in last phase;remaining SNB UrbanComplex to Alwar will be con-structed.”

The 106 km long corridorwill have both elevated andunder ground stations.

About 71 km of this stretchconsisting 11 stations will beelevated and the remaining 35km with five stations will beconstructed underground,mostly in Delhi and Gurugram.

Pre-construction work likegeotechnical investigation andmapping of underground util-ities are in progress. The pileload test is also expected tobegin soon, said the official.

This corridor will have fiveinterchange stations linking toDelhi Metro Rail corporation(DMRC) stations. Of the fivestations, the major interchange

stations will be Sarai Kale KhanLine-7 of DMRC where thepeople can change for metro,Hazrat Nizamuddin Railwaystation and ISBT Sarai KaleKhan. the other stations will beJor Bagh Line, Munirka,Aerocity Airport, Udyog Vihar.

Besides, this corridor willalso have interchange stationsfor the newly proposedGurugram metro stations andISBT’s such as KherkiDaula,Bawal, Panchgaon andBawal Bawal Bus Stand.

This RRTS smart line willpass through the urbanizedand industrialized areas ofHaryana and connect Delhi air-port with the RRTS network,increasing the overall produc-tivity of NCR.

The corridor will strength-en the regional transport infra-structure by providing a fast

and reliable mobility option tothe residents of Delhi,Gurugram, Rewari, Manesar,Daruheda, Bawal and nearbyareas. This will further help indecongesting Delhi roads andwill reduce pollution level,”said a NCRTC official.

RRTS trains will operate ina speed of 160kmph and aver-age speed of 100kmph will beavailable at a frequency ofevery 5-10 minutes. The RRTStrains will be air-conditionedwith transverse seating andoverhead luggage space forcommuter comfort. A specialcoach for business class andladies will also be provided.

Once constructed, the cor-ridor is expected to bring downthe travel time between Delhi-SNB to about 70 minutes. Theproject will is expected to com-plete by 2024.

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Aday after Delhi Congresschief Sheila Dikshit dis-

solved all 280 block-level com-mittees of the party, AICC in-charge of the national CapitalPC Chacko overturned thedecision, a move that hinteddifferences between the twoleaders.

Chacko, All IndiaCongress Committee (AICC)in-charge of Delhi unit,“stayed” dissolution of blockcommittees and forwardedcopies of his order to Congresspresident Rahul Gandhi as wellas Dikshit, party sources said.

Delhi Congress leaders,including Dikshit and Chackomet Gandhi on Friday, whoadvised them to work united-ly in the wake of Assembly pollsin Delhi scheduled to be heldearly next year.

However, Dikshit takingcognizance of a report by acommittee formed by her toprobe party’s debacle in recent

Lok Sabha polls, dissolved allthe block committees hoursafter meeting Gandhi.

A group of Congress lead-ers on Saturday met Congressgeneral secretary (organisa-tion) KC Venugopal andChacko and protested the moveto dissolve the block commit-tees.

“We told the two leadersthat the block committees andtheir presidents were elected and they can not be dis-solved all of a sudden beforeAssembly elections since ittakes a lot of time to formthem,” said Chatar Singh, whowas in the meeting.

The Delhi unit of Congresshas apparently failed to recov-er from differences among itsleaders, with the “anti-Dikshitgroup” claiming that the blockcommittees were dissolved“unilaterally” by her withoutconsulting Chacko.

The block committees wereelected last year when AjayMaken headed the Delhi

Congress.“The decision to disband

the block committees formedunder presidentship of Makenis an attempt by Dikshit tostamp her authority by recon-stituting them under her lead-ership,” said a senior DelhiCongress leader.

The process for constitution of new committees has already begunin view of the Assembly elec-tions in Delhi scheduled earlynext year, said a leader ofDikshit camp.

The differences in the partyhad surfaced during Lok Sabhapolls, when PC Chacko andMaken batted for an alliancewith the Aam AadmiParty(AAP) to defeat the BJP.

Dikshit and her followersin the party strongly resistedthe alliance which finally failedto materialise.

Congress lost all seven LokSabha seats in Delhi at thehands of the BJP with hugemargins.

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Delhi Deputy Chief MinisterManish Sisodia said on

Saturday that exposing childrento different forms of art isimportant, as only throughaccess to a combination of artand education they can becomenation builders. Speaking atthe inauguration of ‘NatkhatUtsav’, a culmination of month-long summer free art work-shops in Delhi schools, Sisodiasaid the art workshops havebecome “a site of integration,friendship and learning”.

“Children are not onlyexposed to different forms ofart, but they’re also exposed tothe rich cultural heritage anddiversity of our country. Ithelps children understand our

society better. “The government believes

that only when children haveaccess to a combination ofquality art and education, canthey become nation builders,”he said.

The Sahitya Kala Parishadhad organised the month-longsummer workshops for chil-dren of 50 government and pri-vate schools. ‘NatkhatUtsav’ will showcase the art-work and performances creat-ed during the workshops at theAIFACS Gallery here.

Along with dance, theatre,singing, and folk art classes,puppetry was added this yearfor the workshops. The sum-mer camps are not just anopportunity to revive someold scheme but to add value.

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Two days WorkingCommittee Meeting of

Delhi Bhartiya Janta Party(BJP) concluded on Saturday.Various issues pertaining toupcoming Assembly elections,sealing were discussed with thechairmanship of the BJPNational Working PresidentJagat Prakash Nadda.

Addressing the WorkingCommittee Nadda said, “BJP isDemocratic Party in whichevery worker gets equal oppor-tunity. People may join BJP bychance, by choice or under anycircumstances but it is a mat-ter of pride for all the peoplewho have joined BJP as work-er. The policies of BJP inspiredby nationalism makes us aparty different from others.”

Pitching the membershipprogramme, BJP leader saidmembership campaign shouldbe such that BJP enters every

house. Targeting Delhi govern-

ment , a senior BJP leader said,Delhi Government is theGovernment of Liars, Fightersand Nakaampanthis . AamAadmi Party (AAP) andCongress are the Birds of thesame feather, Government ofDelhi is egotist, anarchist andof imbalanced mind.”

Delhi BJP chief ManojTiwari said, “This is the firstmeeting of WorkingCommittee and after beingappointed Working PresidentJagat Prakash Nadda.

Tiwari said that whenChief Minister ArvindKejriwal came to power therewere 6800 buses in the fleet ofDTC but today there are only3800 buses and by paralyzingtransport system, obstructionto Aayushman Bharat Yojna,loss of 20,000 crore rupees bydelaying the approval of MetroPhase -IV.”

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India Limited invites offer forenhancing production on rev-

enue sharing basis from two ofits marginal fields Oil IndiaLimited (OIL), India’s secondlargest National Exploration &Production Company, in itsendeavour to enhance produc-tion from its old and ageingfields haspublished NoticeInviting Offer (NIO) seekingpartners for enhancement ofproductionfrom two of its mar-ginal fields (Digboi field inAssam and Baggitibba field inRajasthan)through induction ofnew and appropriate technolo-gy.The total in place hydrocar-bon volume of the two fields isof the order of 49 MMTOE.

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Lucknow: As many as 35 office-bearers of Uttar PradeshCongress Committee resignedfrom their posts on Saturdaycontinuing the spate of resig-nations in the party following itsLok Sabha election debacle.

The state unit's senior vicepresident Ranjit Singh Judev,general secretary AradhnaMishra Mona, vice president RPTripathi and many others haveresigned taking moral respon-sibility for the party's defeat, anofficial release of the party said.

Others who quit party postsinclude media coordinator RajivBakshi, joint media coordinatorPiyush Mishra, Onkar NathSIngh, Amarnath Agarwal andMukesh Singh Chauhan,Priyanka Gupta and AshokSingh.

More resignations are like-ly in the party state unit, a seniorparty leader said.

The UPCC has nearly 100members.

After Congress presidentRahul Gandhi announced his decision to quit in thewake of the party's dismal per-formance in Lok Sabha polls,many leaders of state unitshave followed suit.

Gandhi has reiterated thatthere is no going back on hisdecision, despite requests byleaders from his party and out-side to continue in the post.

Members from the UPCCwho have resgned include SatishAjmani, Shyam Kishore Shukla,

Hanuman Tripathi, spokesmanDwijendra Tripathi, ShivPandey, Pankaj Tiwari andManju Dixit.

Earlier, state unit chief RajBabbar had quit after the partycould win only Rae Bareli seatin Uttar Pradesh and even lostit traditional stronghold ofAmethi.

Party MP Vivek Tankhaquit as the chairman of theparty's legal and human rightscell on Thursday and urgedothers to do the same to give afree hand to Rahul Gandhi torestructure the party at all levels.

Party general secretary incharge of Madhya PradeshDipak Babaria, Goa unit chiefGirish Chodankar, Delhi PCC'sworking president RajeshLilothia and Telangana PradeshCongress Committee workingpresident Ponnam Prabhakarhave quit, as also a number ofother office-bearers in variousstates. PTI

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Jammu: Union MinisterJitendra Singh on Saturday saidmilitancy in Jammu & Kashmiris in its final phase andexpressed hope that Annualpilgrimage to the cave shrine ofAmarnath will not require secu-rity arrangement from nextyear.

He said adequate securityarrangement has been put inplace this year for the 46-dayyatra, scheduled to begin fromthe twin routes of Pahalgam inAnantnag district and Baltal inGanderbal district on July 1, toensure its peaceful conclusion.

"There will be no need ofsecurity for the yatra from nextyear as the voice of my con-science says that this is the lastphase and final chapter of mil-itancy in the state," TheUdhampur MP added.

The first batch of the pil-grims to the cave shrine situat-ed at an altitude of 3,880 metrewill leave from the BhagwatiNagar base camp here onSunday. The batch of pil-grims will reach to the two base

camps in Anantnag andGanderbal districts by eveningand will stay there overnightbefore leaving for the yatra onMonday.

Addressing a group ofSadhus after inaugurating theregistration counter for them ata Ram temple in the old city, theminister said, "Like yesteryears,adequate security arrangementshave been made for the yatra toensure its peaceful conclusion."

The counters for registra-tion of the pilgrims opened atdifferent places in the city as vis-itors including Sadhus fromacross the country have startedflocking Jammu ahead of theformal commencement of theyatra.

"The Amarnath yatra ispart of our faith and a glaringexample of our rich culture andhas its own religious signifi-cance not only for this region

but for the entire country," saidSingh, who is the Minister ofState for Prime Minister'sOffice.

He expressed hope that thepilgrims would be welcomed inthe valley with traditional hos-pitality.

Ram Temple at PuraniMandi is providing free board-ing and lodging facilities to theSadhus who come from acrossthe country for the yatra.

Praising temple mahantRameshwar Dass for makingarrangements for the Sadhus atthe temple complex in coordi-nation with the district admin-istration, the minister said theadministration will attend toany issue so that the Sadhus donot face any problem.

Later, Singh attended a spe-cial prayer organised in con-nection with Devika pollutionabatement project under thenational river conservation planin Udhampur district.

The river, revered byHindus as sister of the Gangariver, is being revived at a costof over Rs 1.70 crore. It has beenpolluted by dumping of wasteand sewage and has also wit-nessed encroachment on itsbanks with unlawful construc-tions over the years.

"We are happy that thissacred project is being under-taken in our rule. This river islinked to our faith and itsrestoration is imperative due toits religious significance," he toldthe gathering on the occasion.

Hindu religious scripturesincluding Vedas mention thesanctity of the river and con-sider it a powerful source toattain divinity. PTI

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Kanpur (UP): A 16-year-oldMuslim boy was allegedly beat-en by unidentified men here forwearing a traditional skull capand refusing to chant "Jai ShriRam", police said on Saturday.

The incident occurred onFriday when Mohammad Taj, aresident of Barra, was returninghome after offering namaz inKidwai Nagar, the UttarPradesh police said.

Three or four unidentifiedmotorcyclists stopped Taj a fewhundred metres from his housefor overtaking them and object-

ed to him wearing the skull cap,Station House Officer (Barra)Satish Kumar Singh said.

Singh said the attackersasked the teenager to chant "JaiShri Ram", and kicked andpunched him badly after herefused to do so.

"They removed my cap,pinned me down and beat meblack and blue while asking meto chant 'Jai Shri Ram'," Taj toldPTI. The 16-year-old allegedthat the men told him thatwearing the skull cap was "notallowed" in the area. PTI

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Mumbai: Heavy rains continuedto lash Mumbai and its neigh-bouring areas for the secondconsecutive day on Saturday.

Although the rains did notmuch affect the normal life inthe city, at least five persons wereinjured in rain- related incidents,officials said.

The suburban local trains,called the lifeline of Mumbai,remained largely unaffected andwere running as per their sched-ule. However, in view of IMD'sheavy rainfall forecast, theCentral Railway (CR) cancelledsome express or passengertrains, especially those betweenMumbai and Pune.

A press release issued by the

CR said, Mumbai-Pune PragatiExpress, Mumbai-PuneSinhagad Express, Bhusaval-Mumbai Passenger, Pune-PanvelPassenger have been cancelledon Saturday and Sunday. TheBhusaval-Pune Express has beendiverted through Daund-Manmad.

M u m b a i - B h u s a v a lPassenger will remained can-celled till July 1, it said.According to the officials of theBrihanmumbai MunicipalCorporation (BMC), 39 inci-dents of short circuit, 104 inci-dents of uprooting of trees orfalling of tree branches werereported from various parts ofthe city. PTI

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Lucknow: Congress leaderPriyanka Gandhi Vadra onSaturday hit out at the YogiAdityanath Government alleg-ing that criminals are "roam-ing around freely, doing what-ever they wish" in UttarPradesh, drawing a quickretort from the police.

While the state policeclaimed a decline in crime,Samajwadi Party presidentAkhilesh Yadav joined her inattacking the Adityanath gov-ernment.

"The government ismanipulating data to drivehome the point that crime isdeclining," Yadav said.

State Law Minister BrijeshPathak, when asked aboutGandhi's remarks, assertedthat since the formation of BJP

government in the state, net-work of criminals has beenbroken.

Congress general secre-tary Priyanka Gandhi earlierwrote on Twitter, "In entireUttar Pradesh, criminals areroaming around freely, doingwhatever they wish. Incidentsof crime continue to happenbut it has fallen on deaf earsof the BJP government. Hasthe Uttar Pradesh govern-ment surrendered beforecriminals?"

She also tagged along withher tweet news headlines ofdifferent crime reports in thestate.

Replying to Gandhi'stweet, the state police tweet-ed, "UP police has initiatedstrict action in serious crimes.

In the past two years, 9,925criminals were arrested and 81killed. In action under NSA(National Security Act), prop-erty worth �200 crore wasseized. There has been adecline in incidents of dacoity,murder, loot and kidnapping."

"Visible policing, strongmonitoring, effective actionagainst hardened criminals &public interaction has enabledus to win the confidence ofpeople. Crime under all majorheads is down by 20-35%. Weare committed to the safetyand security of citizens of thestate," it added.

UP minister Pathak said,"The network of criminalshas been broken in the state.Our government is actingtough on criminals. There are

incidents of crime due toenmity and prompt action istaken by police wherevercrime is reported."

Meanwhile, theSamajwadi Party chief said thestate government's claim ofcrime control was "hollow".

"The UP government'sclaim of crime control is hol-low. Everyday loot, murderand rape is happening in thestate, but the government ismum. Police are taking lawinto their hands and harassingpeople," Akhilesh Yadav said.

He also alleged that ateenager accused of theft wastortured in the state capital.

"If such is the situation inLucknow, one can imagine thestate of affairs in other dis-tricts," he said. PTI

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Chennai: The Madras HighCourt has asked the TamilNadu Government not to pre-vent protests highlighting thewater woes in the State and saidit should work with organisa-tions interested in conservationof water bodies to address thesituation.

Justice N Anand Venkateshmade the observation on Fridaywhile directing the ChennaiCommissioner of Police to per-mit Arappor Iyakkam, an NGO,to hold a demonstration high-lighting the present water cri-sis in the city and the causes forit on June 30 nearValluvarkottam here.

"The issue that is sought tobe projected during protest is aburning issue about which thepeople must be made aware.The government is making allits efforts to ensure that wateris supplied to the nook and cor-ner of the city.

"However, it is important torealise as to why we havereached the present state ofaffairs as a result of variouswater bodies that were allowedto be encroached in the pastand virtually destroying the

ecosystem," the judge said.Noting that the issue

requires serious consideration,he said awareness must bespread in the state and that theNGO was one of the pioneersin it. The court also said anygovernment in power shouldnever take these issues as anaffront and must make effortsto improve the situation andwork with associations that areinterested in the conservationof water bodies.

Awareness is the only waythrough which the situation canbe brought under control andtherefore, protests of this natureshould never be stopped, itobserved.

On June 20, the commis-sioner of police had rejected theNGO's application seeking per-mission for the protest on thegrounds that another organi-sation had sought permissionon the very same day and thatit would unnecessarily cause alaw and order problem.

Aggrieved, the petitionerapproached the high court.

Challenging the denialorder, the NGO submitted thatnone of these reasons would

stand the test of the law. Byvirtue of being denied to con-duct the hunger strike, the fun-damental right of the petition-er for speech and expressionguaranteed by the Constitutionwas being denied, it said. PTI

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Chinese President Xi Jinpingand his American coun-

terpart Donald Trump agreedon Saturday to re-launch thestalled negotiations to end thebruising trade war, according tothe Chinese state media whichsaid the US will not imposenew tariffs on imports fromChina.

The move came as Trumpheld a lengthy meeting with Xion the sidelines of the Group of20 economic summit in Osaka,Japan.

During the meeting, theUS said it will not add new tar-iffs on Chinese exports, China’sstate-run China Daily report-ed.

Trump’s assurance that nofurther tariffs would beimposed on Chinese goodshas come as a relief in China,which is reeling under contin-ued slowdown of the economy.

The negotiating teamsfrom the two countries are todiscuss specific issues, it said.

Trump said he harbours nohostility towards China andhopes for better relationsbetween the two countries,state-run Xinhua news agencyreported.

The US and China — theworld’s two largest economies— have been fighting a dam-

aging trade war over the pastyear.

Trump is demandingChina to reduce massive tradedeficit which last year climbedto over $539 billion. He has alsoasked China to workout veri-fiable measures for the protec-tion of intellectual propertyrights (IPR), technology trans-fer and more access toAmerican goods in the Chinesemarkets.

Trump has already slappeda 25 per cent tariff on $250 bil-lion in Chinese goods. Trumphas also threatened 25 per centtariffs on another $300 billionin goods from China.

China said will re-start “on

the basis of equality and mutu-al respect,” the media reported.

Special teams from boththe sides headed by high-levelofficials held 11 rounds oftalks to end the tariff war.

The feud escalated in themonths leading up to the sum-mit, after talks between the twocountries collapsed in May.

Noting that global situationand China-US relations havechanged considerably in thepast four decades since theestablishment of diplomaticrelations, Xi said that there isan unchanged fundamentalfact that cooperation will ben-efit the two nations, while con-flict will injure both sides.

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India has pitched strongly todeal with fugitive economic

offenders, and Prime MinisterNarendra Modi has flaggedthe issue at all global forums,the country’s Sherpa to G20Suresh Prabhu said onSaturday.

“We strongly put forwardthe need for to deal with fugi-tive economic offenders. It hasbeen a strong agenda, we havebeen working on tax evasion,corruption, economic offencesand fugitive offenders runningaway (from the country). Wehave also been very stronglychampioning this,” Prabhu tolda media conference, detailingabout the deliberations of themeeting.

He said that PrimeMinister Modi has raised theseissues at all global forums.

“We strongly feel that we asa global community must act inunison to deal with such issuesof people committing eco-nomic offences and runningaway from their national domi-cile country,” he told reporterspost G20 Sherpa’s meeting.

On the query that whyIndia didn’t join the Osaka dec-laration on digital economy,Prabhu said the reasons havebeen communicated to theJapanese Prime MinisterShinzo Abe.

But, he also clarified thatIndia strongly believes in dig-ital economy and has takenhost of measures, including ahuge number of bank accountsto thrust its digital agenda.

“India has a very massiveprogramme on digital transac-tions. We have opened bankaccounts of a large number ofpeople. Many transactions arehappening through the digitalforms,” he said.

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Warning that there aregrowing risks to the glob-

al economy, leaders of thegroup of 20 major economiesSaturday called for a free andstable trade environment andreform of the World TradeOrganisation (WTO).

The G20 bloc said it willplay a lead role in the globalefforts to prevent fight againstcorruption by denying safehaven to persons sought forcorruption and “work moreclosely” on asset recovery coop-eration.

The group also agreed toapply the recently amendedFinancial Action Task Force(FATF) Standards to virtualassets and related providers foranti-money laundering andcountering financing of ter-rorism.

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India has made a strong pitchfor the export of its high

quality and organically-culti-vated tobacco to China, hometo 350 million smokers, theworld’s largest.

A delegation of IndianTobacco Board (ITB) led by itsChairperson K Sunitha heldtalks with Zhang Jianmin, ChiefCommissioner of State TobaccoMonopoly Administration(STMA) on Friday and madeout a case for China to open itsmarket for import of tobaccofrom India, a Press releaseissued by the Indian Embassyhere said on Saturday.

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Terming the transition toBharat Stage VI (BS-VI)

emission norms from Aprilnext year as “joker in the pack”,Bajaj Auto Ltd has cautionedthat there could be dumping ofold BS-IV stock in the domes-tic market, triggering an“unwarranted price war” inthe second half of the ongoingfiscal.

In its Annual Report for2018-19, the Pune-based firmsaid while its motorcycles,three-wheelers and quadricy-cles will be “fully BS-VI com-pliant not just on April 1, 2020but some months earlier, it isdifficult to anticipate the stateof BS VI readiness of our com-petitors”.

“For the industry as awhole, we believe that the jokerin the pack will be the toughBharat Stage VI, or BS VI,emission norms that will come into play from1 April 2020,” the company wrote to its share-holders.

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Russia and Saudi Arabia have agreedto extend a deal to keep

oil production low owing toabundant world supplies,President Vladimir Putinsaid on Saturday.

“We will extend thisdeal, Russia and SaudiArabia. For how long? Wewill think about that. For six or ninemonths. It is possible that it could beup to nine months,” Putin told reportersafter a G20 summit in Osaka.

The OPEC cartel and its oil-pro-ducer nation allies opted in Decemberto trim daily crude output by 1.2 mil-

lion barrels.The Organization of the Petroleum

Exporting Countries, a cartel of 14countries pumping one thirdof the world’s oil, is holdinga high-stakes meeting inVienna on Tuesday.

The meeting comesagainst a background ofample global crude supplies,according to both the cartel

and the International Energy Agency(IEA).

The Paris-based IEA watchdoghas cut its forecast for 2019 oil demand-growth for a second straight month andhas also trimmed its second-quarterforecast.

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The new GST return filingsystem will enable traders

to file returns in a single formatonce a month instead of mul-tiple formats, Bihar DeputyChief Minister Sushil Modi,who heads the GoM to lookinto revenue shortfall after theGoods and Services Tax roll-out said on Saturday.

Dubbing the new system asGST-2, Modi said the GSTcouncil has decided that thenew filing system would belaunched from October 1 thisyear.

The deadline for imple-mentation of the new systemfor small taxpayers is January1, 2020 whereas for big tax-payers above �5 crore,it isOctober 1, 2019, he said,adding the prototype of the fil-ing system will be made avail-able Monday.

New forms, “Sahaj” and“Sugam”, have been developed for different class oftraders, Modi told reportershere.

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State-owned BSNL on Saturdaycleared June salary of all its employ-

ees, while it awaits clearance of around�14,000 crore in dues from the telecomdepartment.

“BSNL has cleared salary paymentsof all employees for June from internal

accruals of about �2,000 crore,” anofficial source, who did not wish to benamed, told PTI.

The company has cleared around Rs750 crore for salaries, paid interest ofaround �800 crore on loans and rest ofthe funds have been approved for oper-ational expenses like electricity billpayments, partial dues of vendors etc.

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The Statistics Ministry onSaturday launched India’s

first Sustainable DevelopmentGoals (SDG) dashboard totrack the country’s progress onthe Agenda 2030 adopted bythe United Nations.

The SDG dashboard is aunique, searchable platform,which provides data andinsights on how the country isprogressing on the SDGs. It hasbeen launched on the occasionof National Statistics Day today.

The dashboard will beIndia’s official data repositoryof the National IndicatorFramework on SDGs, thecountry’s largest monitoringframework with 306 statisticalindicators, the Ministry ofStatistics and ProgrammeImplementation said.

Developed in partnershipwith the UN in India, DFIDIndia and data intelligencefirm Social Cops, the dash-board is a first of its kindnational platform that pullstogether reliable data fromover 100 different data sets,portals and sectors.

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�What is your character inThinkistan?

I play Hema, an Englishtrainee copy writer. He is asuave and well-read. The web-series is set in the 90s andrevolves around the dividecaused by language barriers.Amit (Naveen Kasturia) is ajunior Hindi trainee copy writer.While Hema gets things easilybecause of his English back-ground, Amit has to wait for it.Both are creative but the lan-guage barrier restricts Amit.The series represents the face ofreal India and talks about talentand friendship. �Are you as creative in reallife?

Creativity has differentmeaning for different people. Iam not good at writing like mycharacter. I was good at sketch-ing but now I have lost touch. �What made you step in to thedigital space?

First, it was the director —N Padmakumar (Paddy). Whenhe called me for a meeting, Iknew that he know this world inand out. He had a clear vision ofwhat he wanted to make andhow he wanted it to look like. Hehas a hold on things. Second, thestoryline was attractive. Third, agreed to do an era-based showbecause I haven’t experiencedthis till now. I have been a partof regular TV series and this isdifferent. �What attracts you the mosttowards the web space. Is it thewide reach?

I believe TV has widerreach than any other medium —even more than films. It hasbecome a household option. Ifyou go in the rural areas, theymay not be well-versed with the-atres but they do have a TV intheir homes. They will recognisea TV actor more than anyoneelse. Unhein agar election meinbhi khada kar do toh shayad wohbe jeet jayein. (laughs)

The thing which drew me isthat I have explored other medi-ums. In this space, the narrativeis different and I was yet toexplore it. I always want to

explore new waters.�Which medium did you find more chal-lenging?

Every medium comes with it’s shareof challenges. I love challenges. As long asthe medium I am working in is gratifyingand satisfying, I am good with it. We doface challenges while playing differentcharacters, but it’s part and parcel of act-ing. If there will be no challenges, thenwe will stagnate. �How much creative liberty do you havein the digital space?

It has nothing to do with mediums. Itdepends on the director. Everyone has theirworking style. Some don’t give space formodifications — they want the work to bedone in their way. Others give room toplay with the characters. If I talkabout Paddy sir he always givescreative space to the actors pro-vided you are withing the periph-eral of your character. There isa scene in the trailer whereNaveen Kasturia and I havingmasti. Hum dono ek dusre kopaer sey maar rahe hain. Thatwas not scripted but because itlooked so real, Paddy sir keptit in the trailer. The best part ishe never says cut even if theshot got over. He waits thatmaybe hum kuch aur achchakar saktey hain.�How have things changedfor you after doingKrishnadesi?

Things have changed.But if I would have contin-ued working on TV afterKrishnadasi, I would beable to answer this cor-rectly. Some TV offerscame my way, but Idecided to wait and seehow other things went. �How did Splitsvilla7 happen with you?

It was a randomdecision and I neverimagine to be a part ofthat show. Workingon reality shows isdifferent. You haveto sell your personal-ity. I wasn’t able to dothat it in the mannerthat was required orwas the norm ofthe show. I did notfit there.

From winning a music real-ity show to becoming a cap-

tain on Superstar Singer,Haryana-based 21-year-old,Salman Ali has come a longway. Ali comes from a Mirasifamily where music has beenpassed down to him by his fore-fathers.

His aim was not to win areality show but make hisplace in the heart of theaudience. “My focus was tosing with my heart andpassion. I never came towin a show but to win myaudience’s and judges’ lovewhich I have rightly done,”Ali tells you whose inspi-ration is Nusrat Fateh AliKhan and above all hisfather.

Ali tells you that he islucky to have found someof the best singers for histeam. However, he doesn’tdisclose their names. There isa reason.

“I teach these young singersnot to feel the pressure or seesomeone as a big competition.I want them to become goodsingers and good human beingsabove all,” he tells you.

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Having lent her voice forfilms like Behen Hogi Teri,

Fukrey Returns and ShaadiMein Zaroor Aana, JyoticaTangri has evolved as an artist.Starting off as a contestant inSa Re Ga Ma Pa 2016 tobecoming a captain inSuperstar Singers, Tangri feelsblessed to have got this oppor-tunity.

“I feel honoured to be apart of the Superstar Singers.Being a captain comeswith lots of responsibil-ities. I hope I can liveup to them. I wouldlove to share all myexperiences withthese youngsingers,” she tellsyou.

Tangri is look-ing for passionatesingers who have thefire in them.

“I am going tofocus on the hiddentalent of these chil-dren and help themexplore themselves.I am looking forpassionate singerswho are eager to

learn and sing from theirhearts,” she explains.

Music, for her, has been achildhood passion. Her inspi-ration is her mother, who usedto sing during her college days.

“I started learningmusic since I was

six-year-old andcontinued till Icame to Mumbaiand learn fromthe industry,” shesays and addsthat Ishq DeFanniyar fromFukrey Returns

is her favouritesong till now.

Tangri neverfear challenges, more

so because her familystands with herthrough all thick andthin.

“Wherever I amtoday, the credit goesto my family. Theynever let me feel that

I am alone. It wasbecause of their sup-port that I overcame all

the challenges thatcame my way,” she says.

Another one who is makingit big because of his soul-

ful voice is 29-year-old boy ,Sachin Valmiki from UP.

Valmiki was the first run-ner up in Sa Re Ga Ma Pa 2016before stepping in the captain’sshoes for Superstar Singer. Butnothing came easy to him.

“My journey has beentough. As a contestant I had thepressure to sing well but nowas a mentor my responsibilitieshave increased. Not only do Ihave to sing well but also haveto train these contestants tosing well without letting themfeel the pressure,” he says.

A teacher by profession,Valmiki came to Mumbai whenhe decided pursue singing as a

career. “Though I come from amusic background, I wasn’tinterested in singing. My moth-er used to play dholak in cere-monies. One day, she asked meto sit and sing with her. Sheloved my voice and encouragedme to pursue it as a career.

“She helped me a lot. Shemy first guru. But family cir-cumastances were such that Ihad to take up a job. Butmoney was tight and I could-n’t take music classes and gaveup learning,” Valmiki recalls.

But then he got an oppor-tunity to audition for reality

shows. Not that it was easy. Heauditioned for several showsbut never got selected.

He decided to give up onhis dream. But his friends con-vinced him to give one last tryand that is how he got throughto Sa Re Ga Ma Pa 2016.

He didn’t win but wasadjudged first runner’s up andthat changed things for him.

Trophy didn’t matter.“What mattered was the lovethat I got. I had to struggle a lotto reach where I am today. Idon’t want the kids to gothrough the same problemsthat I did. I want to teach myteam to learn to be good singersand not think about winningthe trophy,” Valmiki says.

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Most of us who have vis-ited Machan at The TajMahal are familiar with

the tiger strip wall to wall rugand the jungle pictures thatadorn the wall. The coffee shopwas a trendsetter in 1978 as ithad introduced the concept ofthe midnight buffet. The buffetwas a success and the hotel oftenbuzzed at midnight. The timingswere 12-3 am and it was so pop-ular that there would be queuesduring the those hours to enjoythe buffet, priced at just �21! ThePeriyar Club sandwich at �11and assorted pastries at �3.

As the hotel, celebrates 40years of traditions, the restaurantpresented a few culinary delightsfrom its original menu and thejourney thereafter. Chef TapashBhattacharya, Chef Manager atMachan recalls that when hejoined, the centre had an elevat-ed platform. There were threecanopies with 6 pax on eitherside.

How did these dishes findtheir way into the menu? ChefBhattacharya tells you that thedecor and the menu for therestaurant came fromDivyabhanusingh Chawda, anavid wildlife enthusiast.Elizabeth Kerkar was the archi-tect (wife of the Ajit Kerkar, theMD back then).

“The Periyar Club sandwichand the layers of ham, fried egg,roast chicken and home mademayonnaise that make up this afavourite became a hit with thepatrons who have been visitingthe restaurant for decades. Backthen, there was no place in theCapital that served a fried egg.Let alone on a sandwich madeform the bread that was bakedin-house. Therefore the slice wasbig as opposed to what it istoday. The added layers madethis a huge sandwich which wasserved with a side of Frenchfries,” Tapash says.

There is an interesting storyhow Kathi Kabab Kaziranga

got its name. The story goes thatduring a safari to KazirangaNational Park back in the late70s, the traveling party got hun-gry. They had some left-overrotis. The party came across asmall settlement and requestedfor some food. A family gavethem some left over chickenwhich was deboned. Someonions were added and a rollwas made. The result? A kathiroll. The egg, Tapash tells youwas added much later whosejourney with The Taj MahalHotel, particularly at Machan,has been wonderful.

“My unparalleled passionand zeal has only strengthenedover the years. My priority is ourguests who have been frequent-ing the restaurant. They havewoven memories here, theyhave numerous stories and nos-

talgic experiences to cherish.The guests are sentimentallyattached to this eatery and theyare the ones who have made itso special not just for the hotelbut for the entire city,”Bhattacharya says.

Another story that Chefregales you with is the reasonwhy the jungle painting contin-ue to adorn the walls despite therevamp on 2000.

“Back in 1978, the entiretheme was inspired from thejungle so that walls had paintingsdepicting wild animals. But thenin 2000, the doors to Machanshut. The floor that had tiles gottiger strip wall to wall carpeting.The paintings were removed.The canopies were also doneaway with. When I opened thedoors to Machan, after ninemonth, I was not prepared for

the reaction of the guests whowalked in. They were in shock.They couldn’t believe that some-one had dared to removed theiconic paintings. There was ahue and cry by every guest whowalked in that day wanted thepaintings back. We had nooption but to put them up,” Chefrecounts.

That is the reason why if onesees the painting of the lionclosely, its tail is missing. Due tospace constrain, the continua-

tion painting had to be put else-where. Obviously, none of thepatrons who visit the restaurantmind this anomaly since therestaurant continues to servetheir favourite dish — the KeemaPav. The recipe remainsunchanged since the time it wasintroduced a few decades back.The Pav Bhaji was an option forthe vegetarians.

There was a time whenthere was talk of giving this disha Mumbai flavour. “There wasa unanimous ‘no’ from all quar-ters. The kitchen was adamantthat the recipe remainunchanged because there was noway that Delhiites will appreci-ate a Mumbai twist to theirfavourite order.

Chef Bhattacharya tells youthat the more frequent guestswho come to the restaurantdon’t even need the menu. Theyknow it by heart and know whatthey want to eat. Of course, thereare always some patrons who arefussy. And whenever that hap-pens I am sent to handle the sit-uation. The reason is simple. Ibegan my career with this hotelwhen it opened. Back then I wasa rookie whose work was to

probably chop onions all daylong. That has changed now.Since I know the ins and out ofthis restaurant, I am sent to pla-cate the angsty guest. The goodpart is that is easy to handlethem the minute they see me attheir table. Our policy is that theguest is importance and weneed to give him whatever hewants and that is show anothericonic dish found its way into themenu in 1988-89 — Bull’s Eye,”Chef says.

He tells you that a customerwanted a dessert that had choco-late and ice-cream. “The Chef,Sanjay Vij, back then came upwith an ingenious idea. He tooka chocolate pastry and warmedit. As presentation, he hollowedout the centre and then put ascoop of ice-cream. When thedish made it to the table, the cus-tomer said, it looked like an eye.Lo and behold — Bull’s Eye. Thedessert had to be perfected.The sponge cake in the shape ofan eye was made, the centre hol-lowed out, lots of melted Belgianchocolate sauce is poured whichwas then topped with vanilla ice-cream,” Bhattacharya shares andtells you there are here for the

guest, “Whatever they want, wegive them. Hence 50 per cent ofour menu has dishes from the1978,” he says.

Last but not the least is theCona coffee that patrons havebeen wanting to see on the menusince the time it was discontin-ued. Those who don’t under-stand what the fuss is all about,Cona (town in the Italianprovince of Venice) coffee’s his-tory finds its origins back in1850s. Cona is famous for pro-ducing the Cona CoffeeMachine around 1910 — theoriginal all-glass coffee maker.

When the dark rich sweetcoffee was poured into thecup, the aroma that whiffedensured that the young throngto the restaurant at midnight.That is was priced at �4 withunlimited refills made it is atinstant hit. Maybe the refillsproved to be cost ineffective.

Now, another renovation ison the cards. But they are notgoing to shut shop. Will thisrenovation also bring back theCona coffee? It is on the cards.But will it have unlimited num-ber of refills? Rumour has itthat it is a ‘no’.

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US President Donald Trumpon Saturday invited North

Korean leader Kim Jong Un tomeet for a historic handshakeat the demilitarised zone thatdivides the Korean peninsula,and said he would have “noproblem” stepping over theborder.

The invitation issued onTwitter caught observers bysurprise. If Kim accepts, itwould be the third meeting

between the leaders of the twowartime enemies amid effortsto contain North Korea’snuclear ambitions.

The North’s official KCNAnews agency quoted ViceForeign Minister Choe SonHui as saying the offer was “avery interesting suggestion”but that no official requesthad been received.

Trump lobbed the shockinvitation on Twitter from theG20 summit in Osaka, saying:“if Chairman Kim of North

Korea sees this, I would meethim at the Border/DMZ just toshake his hand and sayHello(?)!” He later said hewould have “no problem” step-ping into the North with Kim-- in what would be a dramat-ic gesture re-enacting an extraordinary 2018 scene when the young leader invitedSouth Korean President Moon Jae-in to walk over theMilitary Demarcation Line thatforms the border between theKoreas.

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Russian President VladimirPutin fired a new

broadside against Western lib-eralism on Saturday, sayingthat policies such as welcomingmigrants have hurt people'sinterests.

Speaking after the Groupof 20 summit in Osaka, Japan,Putin charged that DonaldTrump's victory in the 2016U.S. Presidential election and adrop of popularity of tradi-tional parties in Europe havebeen rooted in growing publicdismay with mainstream liberalpolicies.

He said Trump's electionvictory was driven by growingdisenchantment with liberalpolicies.

"The liberal idea has start-ed eating itself," Putin said at anews conference.

"Millions of people livetheir lives, and those whopropagate those ideas are sep-

arate from them." He also charged that the

influx of migrants to Europehas infringed on people's rights.

"People live in their owncountry, according to theirown traditions, why should ithappen to them?" Putin said.

The Russian leader addedthat while "liberal ideas remainattractive as a whole," electionresults show that people wantchange.

Putin hailed his meetingwith Trump on Friday on thesidelines of the G-20 summit as"business-like and pragmatic."

"We addressed almost theentire list of issues of mutualconcern," he said.

"Of course, we talked aboutthe situation in various parts ofthe world. Overall, these con-sultations were useful." He saidthe claims of Russian meddlingin the U.S. Election were partof the agenda of his talk withTrump.

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German Chancellor AngelaMerkel said on Saturday

that the G20 would sign asimilar deal on climate changeto that agreed at the last meet-ing in Argentina, where theUnited States was isolated.

“We will have a similar textto Argentina. A 19+1 declara-tion,” Merkel told reporters onthe sidelines of a G20 meetingin Osaka.

At the G20 meeting inBuenos Aires in December2018, leaders whose countrieshad signed up to the Parisagreement seeking to limit cli-mate change declared theaccord “irreversible” and com-mitted to its “full implementa-tion”.

However, the United Statesat the time said it “reiterates itsdecision to withdraw from theParis Agreement” and “affirmsits strong commitment to eco-nomic growth and energyaccess and security”.

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Afghan officials say a Talibanattack against pro-

Government forces has killed atleast 25 in the northernprovince of Baghlan.

District chief FazeluddinMuradi says that the insurgents’attack also wounded at leasteight pro-government fight-ers, during several hours of bat-tle late Friday in the area ofNahrin.

A police official, who wasnot authorized to speak on theissue, confirmed the high deathtoll.

Taliban did not immedi-ately claim the attack, butrecently the militant group hasstepped up its offensive againstAfghan security forces.

The US is openingSaturday in Qatar a fresh roundof peace talks with the militantsto end the country’s long-run-ning civil war.

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Islamabad: Pakistan PrimeMinister Imran Khan is sched-uled to visit the US on July 20during which he would holdface-to-face talks with USPresident Donald Trump for thefirst time, according to a mediareport.

The visit, originally plannedin June, was postponed becauseof prime minister Khan’s priordomestic engagements, espe-cially due to federal budget2019. Khan would begin hisfive-day trip from July 20 dur-ing which he would hold firstface-to-face talks with Trump,official sources confirmed to theExpress Tribune paper onFriday. Foreign Minister ShahMehmood Qureshi on Thu-rsday told reporters that a meet-ing between Prime MinisterKhan and Trump was expectedsoon. He, however, did not sh-are the date of the visit. PTI

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An open-source investigationhas found that a top Russian

military intelligence officer coor-dinated last year’s Salisburychemical attack from a Londonhideout using his phone and afew messaging apps.

The award-winning web-site Bellingcat said late Fridaythat its joint analysis with theBBC helps establish the com-mand structure Moscow’s GRUnetwork of foreign agents usedto poison former Russian spySergei Skripal and conduct otherattacks. London and Washingtonidentify the GRU as Russia’smain security threat to Westerninterests abroad.

Russia denies involvement inthe Skripal case and calls otherallegations against the GRU --including its attempted hackingof the world’s chemical weaponswatchdog in The Hague last year-- politically motivated.

The findings “shed light on

the likely chain of command forthis (and other) GRU overseasoperations, with one coordinat-ing senior officer communicat-ing with headquarters inMoscow while the team on theground receive limited to no newinstructions,” the Bellingcatreport said. “Evidence obtainedby us on other internationaloperations involving the sameteam suggests that this is a sta-ble GRU operational model.”Britain’s Metropolitan Police saidit could not comment on an“ongoing investigation”.

British officials have identi-fied the two Russians suspectedof delivering the nerve agent toSalsbury as GRU agentsAlexander Mishkin and AnatolyChepiga. Both men enteredBritain using false passports andwere captured on CCTV footagewalking around the southernEnglish town shortly beforeSkripal and his daughter Yuliawere found slumped over on apark bench.

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The US has deployed F-22stealth fighters to Qatar

for the first time, its militarysaid on Friday, adding to abuildup of US forces in the Gulfamid tensions with Iran.

The Air Force F-22 Raptorstealth fighters have beendeployed “to defend Americanforces and interests,” the US AirForces Central MilitaryCommand said in a statementthat did not specify how manyof the hi-tech planes had beensent.

A photo handout showedfive of the jets flying above theAl Udeid Air Base in Qatar.

Tehran and Washingtonhave been locked in an esca-lating standoff since USPresident Donald Trump uni-laterally withdrew from amulti-party 2015 nuclear deal

with Iran and reimposed sanc-tions on the Islamic republic.

Tensions spiked lastweek when Iran shot down aUS drone over sensitive Gulfwaters following a series oftanker attacks that Washingtonblamed on Tehran, which hasdenied involvement.

Since then the arch-foeshave been locked in a war ofwords, which escalated thisweek when Trump announcednew sanctions against Iran’ssupreme leader Ayatollah AliKhamenei and ForeignMinister Mohammad JavadZarif.

Iran has threatened toabandon some of its commit-ments under the nuclear dealunless the remaining partners— Britain, China, France,Germany and Russia — help itcircumvent US sanctions andespecially sell its oil.

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The United States and theTaliban opened fresh nego-

tiations in Doha on Saturday, aTaliban spokesman said, asWashington eyes a breakthrough beforeAfghanistan’s September pres-idential election.

Taliban spokesmanZabiullah Mujahid tweeted thatthe “seventh round of talksbetween US representativesand the negotiation team of theIslamic Emirate have begun inDoha”.

The talks mark the seventhround of negotiations aimed atending America’s longest war.

They kicked off in theQatari capital just as newsbroke that at least 25 pro-gov-ernment militiamen were killedin a Taliban attack in northernAfghanistan.

The attack happened inNahrin district of northern

Baghlan province before dawnwhen the militia membersattempted to rescue a group ofsoldiers surrounded by Talibanmilitants.

A potential deal would seethe US agree to withdraw itstroops after more than 17 yearsin Afghanistan, in return forthe Taliban guaranteeing thecountry never again becomes asafe haven for violent extrem-ist groups, as was the case withAl-Qaeda before the September11, 2001 attacks.

The negotiations have centred on four issues: counter-terrorism, the foreign trooppresence, an intra-Afghan dia-logue and a permanent cease-fire.

US officials have previ-ously said they are hoping fora deal before the upcomingAfghan presidential elections,which have already beendelayed twice and are now setfor September.

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Over 7,500 children havebeen killed or wounded in

Yemen in the last 5 1/2 years asa result of airstrikes, shelling,fighting, suicide attacks, minesand other unexploded ord-nance, according to a UNReport released on Friday.

The report by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres saidthe killings and injuries wereamong 11,779 grave violationsagainst children during theperiod between April 1, 2013and Dec. 31, 2018.

It said the figures are like-ly to be worse because moni-toring Yemen has becomeincreasingly difficult.

The conflict in the Arabworld’s poorest country beganwith the 2014 takeover ofYemen’s capital Sanaa byIranian-backed Houthi Shiiterebels, who toppled the gov-ernment of Abed RabboMansour Hadi.

A Saudi-led coalition alliedwith Yemen’s internationallyrecognized government hasbeen fighting the Houthis since2015.

Saudi-led airstrikes have hitschools, hospitals and wed-ding parties. The Houthis haveused drones and missiles toattack Saudi Arabia and havetargeted vessels in the RedSea.

Civilians have borne thebrunt of the conflict, which haskilled thousands of people,created the world’s worsthumanitarian crisis, andbrought Yemen to the brink offamine.

Virginia Gamba, the U.N.Special representative for chil-dren in conflict, said that whilesome positive measures havebeen adopted by the warringparties, “the suffering of chil-dren in Yemen has worsenedduring the reporting period,becoming simply appalling.”

“The children of Yemenhad nothing to do with the

start of this conflict,” she said.“They should now be given theopportunity to exit from itand be assisted to fully recov-er.”

Gamba called on all partiesto the conflict and those whocan influence them to “priori-tise peace and actively engagein the ongoing peace negotia-tions.”

According to the report,the largest number of violationsagainst children in the 5 1/2years were the 7,508 youngsterswho were verified to have beenkilled or maimed.

The recruitment and use of3,034 children by the warringparties — including 1,940 bythe Houthis and 274 by thegovernment — was the secondlargest violation, it said.

The report also said 340boys were verified to havebeen detained for their actualor alleged association with thewarring parties.

It said only 11 incidents ofrape and sexual violence were

verified, explaining that thenumber remains under-report-ed “mainly for fear of stigma-tization and lack of appropri-ate response services.”

The verification of abduc-tions of children was also lim-ited during the reporting peri-od, with just 17 verified inci-dents, it said.

The report said the numberof children denied access tohumanitarian assistance sharplyincreased over the 5 1/2 years,“with catastrophic conse-quences.” It said the U.N.Verified 828 incidents where aidwas denied. The secretary-gen-eral’s second report on childrenin Yemen’s conflict also notedthat attacks on schools and hos-pitals remained high, with 345of the 381 that were verifiedcausing the partial or totaldestruction of the building.

Of “great concern,” thereport said, is the verified mil-itary use of 258 schools, whichis higher than the 244 schoolsthat were attacked.

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When India meetEngland atEdgbaston today,there will be a

strange, never-before conflu-ence of support propelling theMen in Blue, oh, should we saythe Men in Saffron this time!Besides of course the 1.4 billionIndians, the entire sub-conti-nent will be cheering for Kohliand his men, including fractiousneighbour Pakistan, Bangladeshand even the Sri Lankans.

That’s what permutationsand last-ditch attempts to getinto the knockouts do to you, ifyou have been unprofessionaland doubtful starters. England’sloss means Pakistan, Lanka andBangladesh get a chance toplay and live another day in thetournament.

Also, the sun will be shin-ing bright on Team India’sflamingo orange jersey in moreways than one. The temperaturewill be 21 degrees, warming upthe cockles of Indian spinnersand leaving the English in themiddle of very un-Englishcricketing conditions, consider-ing they will be fighting to stayin the tournament in a Cupconsidered their safest bet to liftthe trophy; considering they arevulnerable to intelligent spinand considering the wicketmight be quite a head turner forthem in their pressure moment.

Adding to that, the chirpand the atmosphere outside ofthe middle has been and willcontinue to be electric, eggingon the Indian team whatevercolour intrudes on the blue onthe field for the day. All this istalk of colour, of sub-continen-tal support, of stand mechanicsare welcome decoration, butonly for the outdoors.

Inside the Indian dressingroom, the task is cut out andKohli says there is no room forcomplacency, stressing thatevery individual will be doingthe job as assigned, nothing less,and definitely nothing more.

Steering pressure on a badday is key to victories, he adds,and if you go by how the Indiancampaign has panned out in thelast five games, it’s been handledwell. England skipper EoinMorgan cannot agree more onthe pressure point seeking some

tips for his team in this seg-ment.

The Indian wins have beenclinical and measured to thepoint of becoming repetitive instyle and structure. Steer awaythe first 10 overs, then try tobuild-up, keep reassessing thecompetitive score as per anevolving pitch condition andlast, but not least, unleash thepacers and spinners on theopposition to take care of therest.

They have so far staved offthe first 10 overs withoutgame-changing losses as theyhave the growing talk of a brit-tle middle, the slimness ofVijay Shankar’s contributionafter his first match burst andthe strange inertia that hasgripped MS Dhoni in rotatingthe strike when there is needto.

Kohli, however, smilesaway all the external concernsaying the dressing room is

supportive of not just Shankarwho went down to a beautyagainst the West Indies, butalso Dhoni who, he feels, hasearned the carte blanche tobuild his innings as, how andwhen he likes. “He knows whathe is doing and we are prettysupportive of him,” he stressed.

Build Dhoni did but onlyin the last over against the WestIndies, giving India a winningtotal with 16 runs in six balls.Going into the business district

of World Cup however, themiddle needs to be sounderthan it is or has been for a longtime, especially when ShikharDhawan has fractured out ofthe tournament and KL Rahulthough solid is no firing run-machine all bats loaded.

England, on the otherhand, despite Root, Stokes,Morgan and Roy, have sudden-ly turned coy thanks to twodefeats pushing them into adifficult survival drill, BenStokes “we will keep the trophyhome” campaign notwith-standing. Their build-ups,especially against Afghanistan,have vanished from fable talkand left them to fend for them-selves, that too with the oner-ous and pressure explodingtask of facing the striding tour-nament favourites India. Roy’sfitness will take the final test onmatch morning and their leadpaceman Joffrey Archer wouldnot be in unless he is 100 percent.

Hundred per cent, sadly forthe hosts, is right now anIndian spice in the tournament,howsoever queasy their middlemay turn out to be in the com-ing days.

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KIDS QUERY SKIPPERS

It was a bit of changed for-mat for the Press confer-

ence at the EdgbastonCricket Ground today withthe captains of both theteams being introduced tothe media by a cherubic 11-year-old Edward, all dressedup in cricketing formals andsporting a very Englishaccent. “Hello everyone.We’re the PlaygroundPundits, and we’re takingover tomorrow’s (today)match to help raise moneyfor children. I’ll be yourmedia manager. I’m veryexcited to introduce India'scaptain Virat Kohli,” hand-ing over the mic to his col-

league Neha.Three cricket-

playing school children,selected through onlinequestionnaires and inter-views all over England,kicked off the pre-matchPress conference to ask theirown pertinent questions.They were part of ICC’sCricket for Good campaign

in partnership withUNICEF, the ‘One Day 4Children’ aims at unitingfans to ensure that childrenacross the world have thechance to play, learn and behealthy with unique activa-tions. Throwing the firstquestion at skipper Kohli,

Neha a Class V student fromHaywood, a London suburb,asked: “Are you and theIndian team excited fortomorrow’s (today) match?”Kohli, despite an indulgentsmile on his face, answeredin all earnestness: “Yes,Neha. Thank you for thelovely question. We areexcited. It's a very specialoccasion, the first time thatit’s been done, and we’revery proud that we’re a partof such a special game and Ihope all of you are excited towatch as well.”

Both the teams will besporting jerseys with theOneDay4Children logoembossed on them for thebig match.

The money raisedthrough #OneDay4Children

will support UNICEF’s workfor children in cricket play-ing nations across the world,with many projects usingthe unique power of cricketto deliver these objectives.Eoin was at the end of apointed one from Rudra:“Hello, Eoin. How do youprepare your England sidefor as big a match as tomor-row’s (today)?” he asked. “Ithink, when you’re prepar-ing for a game like tomor-row, you tend to call on pre-vious occasions when you’veplayed the team that you’regoing to play the followingday. You gain confidence orlook at strengths, the posi-tive things that have hap-pened, and look forward tothe game ahead,” Morgantold him.

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OJ SIMPSON TO CRICKET

The last exciting job Jacquie didwas to stenograph OJ Simpson’s

trial. Some years down the line, this50-year-old mother of four all theway from the American East Coast,is doing cricket as no other can do.She has been staring down the skip-pers and the talkers at Press confer-ences while she notes down everysingle word on her stenographmachine to simultaneously tran-scribe it on her computer into longwords which is then posted on themedia zone of the ICC for journal-ists to get all the transcripts in notmore than 15 minutes after the con-ference is over. Now that is quick,actually pretty quick, if you knowhow good an American can be withcricketing talk! “New Zealand’sNeesham was quite a double wham-my for me. First his accent went overmy head and then the cricket termi-

nology! The question was aboutsomething like deep backwardsquare leg and I was like Where isthat!,” she tells you with a laugh. Ona more serious note, this is her sec-ond cricketing assignment, the firstbeing the Champions Trophy in2017 during which time she labori-ously learnt the terminologies of agame quite alien to the Americans.She is here on assignment fromASAP Sports, a sports transcriptioncompany hired by the ICC for thisWorld Cup, which otherwise is bigtime into tennis grand slam tran-scriptions. “CT was a trial and doingcricket is fun. But I have studied tobe a court reporter and worked asthe court steno for 11 years. Istenographed the OJ Simpson civiltrial. He was so creepily friendly andeveryone liked him so much butthere is no doubt in my mind that hedid it,” she insists all these years afterhe has been acquitted. “Though by

the time the civil trial started therewas lot more to suggest you know…but he got away as he had alreadyhidden all his millions,” she says.

Murder trials, general crime, person-al injury and medical stuff have allgone on record through her speed-breaking typing skills. But herfavourite are college sports in theUS. “Well in college sports backhome, you hate more teams than youlike, like it is in cricket rivalries,” shesays, insisting that the “sweetAfghans” got a real raw deal fromIndia after having them by the collar!On the work front, Jacquie hasbought a computer software whichcost her $6,000. It transcribes hershorthand into longhand and alsodoes the required corrections withinseconds. Sanjay Bangar was quitedifficult to understand accent wise,she says, adding that all the otherIndian players have been, well,understandable. So, is she here forthe Final at Lord’s? “No, no I amsuper bombed, I am not doing theFinal,” she says with regret and awink to follow.

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India skipper Virat Kohlidefended the strength of

his middle order, VijayShankar’s outings thus farand MS Dhoni’s strangefailure to rotate the strikeand be among the runs thisseason. He said, the job byhis unit is being done justfine and the dressing roomwas in a good space.Excerpts of his interactionwith the media on the eveof the all-important matchagainst the hosts England:

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Even though the stands will be bleedingblue when India plays England

today, Team India will be sportingthe orange-navy blue jersey andcaptain Kohli quite likes it. “I quitelike it. For me, it’s right up there.For me, it would be an 8 (on 10),” he saidto bit of disbelief and general laughter inthe Press room. “Honestly, I'm not saying itfor the sake of it. I really like it because itlooks nice. The contrast is really nice. Thefit is great. It's a nice change,” he insisted.After finishing his pre-match Press confer-ence at the Edgbaston Cricket Ground,Kohli unveiled the new jersey which hasbeen the talk of the nation, fuelling up saf-fron discussions and nays with nationalheadlines. Even for Kohli though, it lookedgood only for one-time usage. “For onegame, it’s fine. I don’t think permanentlywe’ll be heading in that direction becauseblue has always been our colour, and we’revery proud to wear that. For a change andlooking at the occasion, I think it’s a very,very smart kit,” he added after holding itup for the lensmen and then saying it looksas if “I am here to wash it.” The deep bluepart in the front has been elevated to navyblue with some bright orange, but the backis entirely saffron.

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Sri Lanka must still believethey can get to the semi-finals of the World Cup —

but it’s their lack of consistencythat keeps holding them back.

The South Africa matchwas a great opportunity to go outand play with freedom and puta side under pressure, theyhaven’t had a good tournamentthemselves so it was a big oppor-tunity missed.

It’s a big ask to win their nexttwo games but it’s still possible.But to do that they must be con-sistent in the batting group

which they couldn’t do atDurham.

The batsmen did it againstEngland, they did it early againstAustralia but beyond that it'sbeen a struggle to put solid runson the board. The tournamentis all about partnerships, andmaking sure players have rolesand responsibilities. Sri Lankahave had some good individualperformances with the bat, butcollectively as a unit they haven'tdelivered as we hoped.

Against South Africa, it’s themanner of defeat it’s the most

disappointing. They didn’t reachpar with the bat and that's whathappens when you lose threewickets in the first 15 overs.

It’s too early to write themoff and look beyond the tourna-ment, there's plenty of time to dothat once it's over. They still haveto think positively - win the lasttwo and there is still an oppor-tunity.

Play with the right attitudenow and then do the soul-searching once the games arecomplete.

This is a team with a lot of

new players, including the cap-tain, it’s not always easy but thissquad has the chance to createa positive mindset among them-selves.

It’s a case of not lookingback — there’s no other direc-tion but going forward. So withthat, Sri Lanka need to playsome positive cricket.

If they go out there againstthe West Indies and be positive,believing in what they can do,then you never know what mayhappen. There are match-win-ners in that Sri Lanka team, they

just have to believe they can doit.

What’s gone before theyhave to put to one side, have afresh mindset and go and put adecent score on the boardwhether batting first or second.Currently Sri Lanka haven’tbeen able to bat for 50 overs andscore the required runs.

It’s frustrating, but thoseindividuals will be the most frus-trated people of anyone. They’llbe wondering how this is hap-pening - they have the talent,they have the ability, but appli-

cation is required.They need to manage those

emotions out in the middle andhopefully it can make a differ-ence. Knowing the Sri Lankanfans and public, they'll be back-ing the team all the way and theyknow they have the ability to besuccessful.

So it’s down to the players toask themselves if they aredeserving of this position. Arewe better than these perfor-mances? Nobody else can helpthem out so they have to go outthere, take responsibility for the

situation and perform in the waywe know they can.

That starts from the front,with Dimuth Karunaratne, thecaptain. But he'll also be lookingat his senior players, AngeloMathews and Lasith Malinga, tohelp him create the positivemindset. We’ve seen out in themiddle that Malinga believes —he showed that against England— but now we need that fromthe last two games to finish ona high.

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Eoin Morgan insists Englandwon’t buckle under pressure

against India, even though defeatwould leave their World Cupdreams in serious danger.

The hosts looked set for thesemi-finals when they won four oftheir first five matches but lossesto Sri Lanka and Australia haveinvited Pakistan and Bangladeshback into the race ahead of athrilling group stage conclusion.

Defeat to India – unbeaten inthe ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup2019 and now the top-rankedODI side in the world – would fur-ther damage England’s prospectsand could take their fate out of theirown hands ahead of the finalround of games.

But Morgan, who led Englandto the No 1 ranking ahead of thistournament, is adamant they haveregained their focus ahead ofSunday’s game at Edgbaston andtheir final match with NewZealand.

“We are handling it well,” hesaid.

“We are in a lucky position,playing in a home World Cup foryour country is a privileged posi-tion to be in.

“It presents a huge opportuni-ty and if we win two games we arein the semi-finals and then if wewin that then we are in the final.There is still a lot on the line andwe are really looking forward to it.

“It is not worth thinking aboutlosing. Mathematically there isstill a chance if we lose but we wantto win two and tomorrow is a hugepriority.”

Morgan has been boosted bythe return of big-hitting openerJason Roy, who is expected to playfor the first time in two weeks.

Roy pulled a hamstring againstWest Indies and missed threematches but has returned to train-ing this week, while England aremonitoring fast bowler JofraArcher as he continues to battle aside strain.

“Jofra is going to see how it is.It is the same thing he has beenplaying with the last three games.We will see how he comesthrough,” Morgan added.

“The exact same rule applies,if it is going to rule him out long-term then we won’t play him. If itrisks him short-term, then yes.”

The advantage that hosting theWorld Cup brings is likely to go out

of the window against India, withMorgan expecting a fervent sup-port for the two-time winners.

But the left-handed batsmanhopes local knowledge will tell,even if England have struggled toadapt to the surfaces they havebeen presented with so far.

India, in contrast, have thrived.Rohit Sharma and captain ViratKohli have scored consistent runs,while spinner Yuzvendra Chahaland paceman Jasprit Bumrah haveterrorised with the ball.

But Morgan is still confidentthey can get the job done.

“The last time we played Indiawe beat them in a series. This team

has had success against them. Welost away in a tight series but wewon here. We believe because wehave won before,” he added.

“I can’t fault the commitmentor application produced in everygame.

“Where we have let ourselvesdown is adapting to conditions. Ithas been a bigger challenge in theWorld Cup than previous series wehave played.

“We want to play on the bestpossible wicket. We always do. Webat deep and strong and we tendto play in high-scoring games so itis an area we are more comfortableplaying in.”

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England all-rounder Moeen Alihas set his sights on taking the

prized wicket of India captain ViratKohli during their big-ticket WorldCup clash here Sunday.

Kohli hit two half centuries tobail out India twice in the last twomatches after losing early wicketsagainst Afghanistan and West Indies.

"Virat knows he's there to scoreruns for India, while I'm here to gethim out (or score some myself). Itmeans a lot to get a player like himout but you can still be friends try-ing to do it," Ali, who has playedunder Kohli at Royal ChallengersBangalore, wrote for 'The Guardian'.

"We have known each othersince our under-19 days but over thepast couple of years, at RoyalChallengers Bangalore, we havebecome good friends. I don't want topump his tyres up too much beforea big game but he is a motivated, dri-ven and dedicated cricketer."

England looked on course for asemifinal spot before back-to-backlosses against Sri Lanka and Australiaderailed their campaign and they willnow need to win their remaining twofixtures against India and NewZealand to reach the knockout stage.

"I see these final group gamesagainst India and New Zealand as anopportunity to be embraced notfeared," Ali wrote.

England are the home side butAli believes the pressure would be onIndia at Birmingham.

"The pressure of being the homeside shouldn't be a factor. Our nextopponent, India, are a goodreminder of this because we don'thave to deal with nearly the same

amount of expectation as they do,"he wrote.

"They are superstars back home.Win and they are showered withpraise, lose and they are on thereceiving end of harsh criticism. Andthey aren't able to lead everyday liveswhen they're not playing because ofthe attention they receive."

England had beaten India 2-1 intheir last bilateral series at home andAli said his team will have to get into

the "right mindset" to counter thespin duo of Yuzvendra Chahal andKuldeep Yadav.

"Overcoming his (Chahal's) spinpairing with Kuldeep Yadav will beimportant on Sunday. We managedthis last year during the ODI serieswin and the key will be to have theright mindset again; not to getsucked into conditions or the situ-ation too much — play each ball onmerit," he wrote.

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�What’s the status of Bhuvi now? AndShami has bowled well in the last twomatches. Is it a nice headache to have?

Bhuvi’s been a world class bowler andhe's a permanent starter for us in theshorter formats. Shami, in the last year-and-a-half, has come around amazing-ly well. I’ve never seen him fitter, hun-grier to take wickets, and he knows howto pick wickets. Even in the last game, theway he was bowling with the new ball ona pitch that was dry, that was amazing.Bhuvi is recovering very fast. When hegets fit, it's going to be a bit of aheadache for us to see what we're goingto do. Bumrah, I don't think we evenneed to discuss him anymore becausehe's separated himself from everyone else.�What’s your assessment of VijayShankar?

There’s not much that needs to betinkered. Sometimes you just need a bitof luck to get from 30 to 60 and play adefining knock for the team. He’s veryclose to that and we’re confident he'sgoing to end up playing that kind ofknock for us. He’s in a good head space.�Can you comment on the middleorder issues?

That discussion is always going to goon because we’ve had such a strong toporder that these guys have hardly had achance to bat. When they bat, out of fourtimes, if once or twice it doesn't come off,then we feel like, oh, it’s not a strong mid-dle order, but we overlook the times thatit has come good. When you win gamesand people are contributing, you need tobe content with that. In the first threegames, we were getting 300 plus and noone said anything. We were like, oh, thisis an amazing batting order. Then onegame where we could not accelerate asmuch as we'd like to have as a team,everyone says that maybe it’s not as

strong.So I think what matters for us in the

change room is even a 25, 30-run con-tribution, if it's getting to a score whichcan win you a game of cricket, that's morethan enough for us. We're not looking atentertainment out there in the middle.We're not looking at playing cricketwhich is looking flashy. We want to becalculated. We want to play percentagecricket because, as I said, the team thathandles pressure well is going to wingames of cricket which are hanging in thebalance.

We're comfortable and happy withhow everyone is playing.�Former cricketers are saying thatMS needs to work on strike rotation…

He knows exactly what he needs todo. I don’t think that he’s ever been acricketer that's ever had the need to betold what exactly he needs to do. It’s a lotof things happen on the outside. Whatwe experience and what we know insidethe change room is the most importantthing to us, and we have total belief inhim, and he stood up for the team manytimes, especially if you look at this cal-endar year and the kind of perfor-mances he’s given. I don't think it's fairto point out one or two performanceswhich anyone can falter with the bat.

We’re not looking too much into it.He knows exactly what he needs to do.After the last game, he went into the nets.He worked hard. He put in a perfor-mance and got us to a winning total, andwe won the game. We got two points.We're very, very happy and comfortablewith, as I said, where we stand as a teamand how the batting is going at themoment.�Are you surprised that England havestruggled at this tournament? A goodopportunity for you to almost end theirWorld Cup hopes?

Everyone is a bit surprised … wethought England is going to dominate in

their own conditions, but as I said pres-sure is going to be a massive factor tohandle and low scores are going to bedefended. I said that because I haveplayed two World Cups and that usual-ly happens in such a big tournamentwhere all teams are very strong. We gota scare from Afghanistan, another low-scoring game against the West Indies. Soyou can’t take anything for granted.Other teams have outplayed England onoccasions and that can happen to anyside. Although we haven’t lost a gameuntil now, we still can’t be complacent.The reason why we won all the games isbecause we've been professional and pre-cise in pressure moments.�Do you think the pressure told forEngland?

Well, I couldn’t explain that. Maybeit did. Maybe it didn’t. Maybe it was justdecision-making. It’s for them to assess,not me.�A lot of comments on pitch condi-tions with Johnny Bairstow sayingthis is not the kind of tracks we expect-ed in England. Is that pressure tellingon the team?

It is not my problem, to be honest.We didn’t come here with any kind ofexpectation of how the pitches are goingto be. To be a good quality side, you needto adapt to the situation in front of you.In the last two games, I experienced thatthe pitch deteriorated while I was play-ing. It’s about finding ways to win, find-ing ways to score runs. That’s somethingwe take a lot of pride in as a team.�Individually and as a team, what doyou do to cope with pressure?

The focus is basically to do individ-ually what we have been selected to do,what we have been doing for years. Themore basic you can keep things in a tour-nament like the World Cup, the betterchances you have of being one upagainst the opposition under pressure.The more you attach emotion or excite-

ment or too much pressure to an occa-sion, you can't make good decisions.

We’ve given a total team perfor-mance till now, and that’s purely becauseeveryone’s just looking to execute whatthey need to for the team. No one’s try-ing to get more wickets than the otherperson. No one's trying to score moreruns than the other person. It’s allabout, in that situation, how can I con-tribute for the team? That focus helps usas a side to cope with pressure situations.It's very simple, basic. Focus on our skillsets, not too much on the opposition.�When you go to bat, you don’t seemto be under any pressure. Can you tellus, how do you handle pressure?

It would be a lie if I say I'm not underpressure. I’m probably good at hiding it.Everyone feels butterflies in their stom-ach. I'm glad I feel like that. If I don’t,then probably I don’t have enough moti-vation to play anymore because, whenyou walk up to bat, you don’t necessar-ily look at the number of runs you'vescored or what you’ve done in yourcareer. It’s about that particular day. Thatis the excitement that all of us carry asinternational cricketers is to walk into apressure situation and come out on topand feel like, yes, we’ve done somethingfor the team today.

Those are the kinds of things thatdrive me. You give anyone a difficult sit-uation and have them bat well in that sit-uation and get the team out of trouble,there's no better feeling. I look forwardto that, and maybe that’s why my bodylanguage is the way it is. But in all hon-esty, everyone feels pressure. It's just theway you portray it to the opposition iswhat makes all the difference.

Your attitude needs to be right. Youneed to feel the pressure but want it. Ifyou feel the pressure and you don’t wantit, then it shows on the field. I'm glad thatI want it and I'm able to put myself in thatmindset.

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Pakistan survived a mightyscare to continue its surgetowards the World Cup

semifinals with Imad Wasim(49 not out) showing nerves ofsteel to guide them to a tensethree-wicket win overAfghanistan, here Saturday.

In heart-stopping action,the gritty Afghanistan yet againcame close to creating a bigupset but were denied by Wasim,who emerged an unlikely battinghero along with Wahab Riaz (15off 9), who hit a timely six offRashid Khan to release the pres-sure.

Wasim had five half-cen-turies before this match butperhaps played the biggest knockof his life, soaking in tremen-dous pressure as Pakistan huffedand puffed to win with twoballs to spare.

The Afghans after dominat-ing the large part of the Pakistaninnings, wilted under pressure,missing run outs and catchestowards the dramatic end. Theyhad come close to winningagainst India too but fell short.

The Afghanistan spinnersturned the match on its head byreducing Pakistan to 156 for sixand the modest 228-run targetwas now looking like a mountainto scale for the 1992 champions.

It was Mujeeb ur Rahman(2/34) and Mohammed Nabi(2/23) who saw off the Pakistantop-order to set it up nicely forAfghanistan.

When seasoned RashidKhan got rid of Haris Sohail(27), Afghanistan sensed anupset and Pakistan skipperSarfaraz Ahmed (18) helped theAfghan cause by running him-self out at crucial juncture.

There was no Babar Azam(45) or Sohail at the crease torescue Pakistan, who required 46from the last five overs.

Afghan skipper Gulbadincame to bowl the 46th over andended up leaking 18 runs withWasim finding three bound-aries in that over. It titled thematch heavily in the favour ofPakistan.

With 16 needed off 12 balls,Riaz launched Rashid for a mas-sive six in the second ball andeventually Pakistan needed sixfrom last over.

Gulabdin brought himselfagain into the attack but Wasimsteered him for a four in thefourth ball to finish it off for hisside.

With this win, Pakistan havenow jumped to the fourth spotwith nine points, pushing hostsEngland to five. They wouldpray that India beat Englandtomorrow to enhance Pakistan'ssemifinal chances.

Earlier, Pakistan bowlers didnot exactly dominate theAfghanistan batsmen but pacerShaheen Afridi's four-wickethaul helped them limit the grit-ty rivals to 227 for nine in theirmust-win game.

If Afghanistan finished witha below par total after electing tobat under sunny conditions, itwas because the batsmen threwaway their wickets with somepoor shot selection.

Contributions from AsgharAfghan (42 off 35) andNajibullah Zadran (42 off 54)

gave the bowlers something tobowl at.

Shaheen Afridi, who hadstarred in Pakistan's win overNew Zealand, was impressiveupfront as well as in the deathovers, ending with figures of fourfor 47 in 10 overs.

Batt ing has beenAfghanistan's weakest link in thecompetition in which they areyet to win a game in sevenattempts. And the batsmen dis-appointed yet again.

Afridi put Pakistan on topwith a double strike in his open-

ing spell, removing skipperGulbadin Naib (15) andHashmatullah Shahidi off suc-cessive balls. Pakistan got the on-field call overturned to haveNaib adjudged caught behind fortheir first wicket.

Afghanistan were in more

trouble when a set Rahmat Shah(35) was dismissed by left-armspinner Imad Wasim.

Asghar and wicket-keeperbatsman Ikram Ali Khil (24)then tried to resurrect theinnings with a 64-run standwith the former being the

aggressor. Asghar went on theoffensive against the spinners tolimited success but in the endleggie Shadab Khan had the lastlaugh as he swept one on to hisstumps.

The former Afghanistancaptain's entertaining knock

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Sarfaraz Ahmed has led the coun-try to victory in two ICC events

and possess the ability to guidePakistan to a title win at the ongoingWorld Cup in England, believes Testbatsman Azhar Ali.

Talking to a Pakistani cricketwebsite, Azhar said Sarfaraz was acaptain driven by a passion to see histeam do well all the time.

"He is an astute and strong cap-tain and under him, Pakistan hasalready won the ICC under-19 WorldCup and the Champions Trophy andI think he has the ability to win anoth-er ICC title this time," he said.

Azhar, who was part of the play-ing XI when under Sarfaraz's captain-cy, Pakistan won the ICC ChampionsTrophy in 2017, is confident that

Pakistan will now continue its win-ning ways in the World Cup.

Pakistan faced a lot of criticismafter losing to India but Sarfaraz's menmade a comeback by registering suc-cessive wins over South Africa andNew Zealand to regain hope of reach-ing the semifinals.

Praising the resurgence of theteam in the World Cup, Azhar said itwas very disappointing that when theteam is not doing well everyone runsthem down instead of supportingthem.

"Abusing players is sad because ateam needs all support the most whenit is not doing well," he said.

"When a team is winning every-one is behind it but it is when yourteam is not doing well when you mustbe behind it," he said.

Azhar announced his retirement

from ODIs last year after playing 53ODIs for his country. He was also cap-tain of the one-day squad from 2015to 2017 before stepping down afterwhich Sarfaraz took charge as captainin all three formats.

Azhar, a veteran of 73 Tests, alsomade it clear he had no regrets aboutretiring from ODIs last year.

He said he retired because he feltat that time that Fakhar Zaman andImam-ul-Haq were ready to take hisplace in the ODI squad.

Azhar, who has been playingcounty cricket in England, said he wasnot surprised by the variations in thepitches offered in the World Cupwhich has given pace bowlers theupper hand.

"It is because of the weather con-ditions. The wet season lasted longerthan usual at this time of the year."

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Usman Khawaja anchored Australia'srecovery following a top-order collapse

with a composed 88 to take the score to 243-9 on Saturday before becoming a victim ofTrent Boult as the New Zealander complet-ed a hat-trick.

Australia, who beat New Zealand in the2015 final, slumped to 92-5 before Khawajaand Alex Carey (71) revived the inningswith a sixth-wicket stand of 107 to give theirpowerful attack a defendable total on a usedpitch that was making life difficult for bats-men.

Khawaja was bowled in the final overby left-arm quick Boult to end a 129-ballinnings featuring just five fours.

Next ball, the fourth of the over, sawBoult bowl Mitchell Starc and he then hadJason Behrendorff lbw with a yorker —

although there was a delay in celebrating histreble as the tailender gambled on a review.

It was the first hat-trick by a NewZealander at a World Cup and the secondof the tournament after India's MohammedShami achieved the feat againstAfghanistan.

Nathan Lyon survived the last ball,Boult finishing with 4-51 at a sun-drenchedLord's after he had earlier removedAustralia captain Aaron Finch.

Australia had already qualified for thelast four out of the 10-team round-robinphase before Finch won Saturday's toss anddecided to bat first.

Australia's first-wicket pair have beenkey to much of their success at this tour-nament, with Finch and David Warner hav-ing scored 657 runs together in eightmatches, including Saturday's fixture, at anaverage of 82.12.

But it was a different story against theBlack Caps, with both Finch (8) andWarner (16) dismissed cheaply.

Boult had Finch plumb lbw to a ballthat nipped back in the fifth over and twoballs later Khawaja almost went for a duck,only for a diving Guptill to drop a catch atsecond slip.

New Zealand fast bowler LockieFerguson, however, struck first ball.

He surprised Warner, who came intothis match as the tournament's leading run-scorer with 500 runs, courtesy of a sharplylifting delivery the left-hander could notevade as he tried to sway out of the waybefore wicket-keeper Tom Latham held asimple catch.

Steve Smith fell for five after Guptill,now at short fine leg, hold a sensational div-ing catch off the bowling of Ferguson.

Warner and Smith were booed on and

off the field following their recent returnsafter each served 12-month bans for theirroles in a ball-tampering scandal during aTest in South Africa.

They were both back in the pavilionwhen Jimmy Neesham took two wickets forno runs in four balls to reduce Australia to92-5.

Neesham had Marcus Stoinis (21)caught behind before the all-rounder helda brilliant diving left-handed catch off hisown bowling after dangerman GlennMaxwell (one) miscued a pull.

The collapse allowed Khawaja to bat inhis usual style without fear of being criti-cised for slow scoring.

Fellow left-hander Carey added impe-tus, the wicketkeeper facing 72 balls andhitting 11 fours before he holed out off NewZealand captain Kane Williamson's occa-sional off-spin.

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Fans from Afghanistan and Pakistanclashed during the match between the

two sides after pro-Balochistan banners flewabove the Headingley ground on Saturday,prompting the ICC to promise an investi-gation into the matter in collaboration withWest Yorkshire police.

Twitter was abuzz with videos posted byfans and some covering journalists, show-ing the violent behaviour of clashing fans.

The clashes happened during the firsthalf of the game and at least two people wereevicted from the ground, according toESPNcricinfo.

A few journalists said fans createdruckus outside the stadium also and clashedwith even security officials.

It has been reported that clashes brokeout because two aeroplane banner messagesflew over the ground with Balochistan slo-gans.

While one message read "Help end dis-appearances in Pakistan", the other said"Justice for Balochistan".

The ICC has taken note of both the inci-dents.

"We are aware of some scuffles amonga minority of fans and are currently work-ing with the venue security team and thelocal police force, West Yorkshire Police, toensure there are no further incidents. We donot condone this type of behaviour, and willtake appropriate action against any anti-social behaviour that spoils the enjoymentfor the majority of fans," the ICC said in astatement about clashes inside the stadium.

On the political message, it said it wouldtry that such incidents are not repeated.

"We work with local police forcesaround the country to prevent this type ofincident occurring and were assured thatgiven Headlingly is under the flight path forthe Leeds Bradford Airport it would not bean issue.

"We do not condone any sort of polit-ical messages at the ICC Men's CricketWorld Cup and will work with WestYorkshire police to deal with and understandwhy this has happened and to ensure it doesnot happen again."

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towards the end to lend the total somerespectability on a slow surface.

Besides Afridi's stellar showing, pacerWahab Riaz and Imad Wasim picked up twowickets each.

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West Indies’ chancesof making the semi-finals are now over

— and that really has to becalled a disappointment.

Particularly consideringwhat a good start they made totheir campaign.

They won well againstPakistan and then when theyhad Australia at 79-5 in theirsecond game — I reallythought they might be able todo something special this year.

But in the end thatPakistan game has been theironly victory and they onlyhave themselves to blame.

Too many times the bats-men have got themselves outwhen all it needed was a bitmore application.

They have lacked theexperience needed to bat theiropponents out of a game.

The odd batsman hasreceived one with their nameon, but really very few ballshave really deviated andcaught somebody unawares.

They have some terrificyoung players in this side,guys like Nicholas Pooran,Shai Hope and ShimronHetmyer have shown in flash-es that they are a match foranyone in the world.

But no-one has reallymade a big score.

The fielding was goodthroughout the tournament,and when they bowled with aconsistent line they lookedfantastic.

Unfortunately they could-n’t match a fine effort with theball against India when theywent out to bat.

I have been impressed byIndia though — I think the

winner of the whole thing isgoing to be one of them orAustralia.

New Zealand have longbeen my outsiders but theywill need to show me some-thing at Lord’s againstAustralia if they are to go thewhole way.

Any team that wants to liftthe trophy will have to beatIndia, they are unbeaten so farand look a very well-balancedside.

The bowling attack hasimpressed me most of all.Jasprit Bumrah is a fantasticdiscovery but behind himguys like Mohammed Shamiand the wrist spinners havebeen really impressive.

What I like about theirattack, as opposed to many inthis tournament, is that theybowl to take wickets.

They want to get menout, they are always on theattack rather than beingdefensive and trying to getthrough their ten overs.

They are unbeaten, butthey are not unbeatable.

Make early inroads intotheir batting line-up — wherethey only have five specialistbatsmen — and you have achance.

Of course, a lot of thatdepends on getting rid ofVirat Kohli — the best bats-man in the tournament.

David Warner is battingwell as is Aaron Finch whileShakib Al Hasan is a terrificcricketer. But Kohli is thebest in the business and it ishe who holds the key forIndia.

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Argentina set up a mouth-wateringCopa America semi-final

against hosts Brazil as goalsfrom Lautaro Martinez andGiovani Lo Celso secured a 2-0 quarter-final victory overVenezuela on Friday.

Martinez gave Argentinaa 10th minute lead with aclever back flick between hislegs and substitute Lo Celso secured thevictory 16 minutes from time, pounc-ing on a mistake by Venezuela’s goal-keeper Wuilker Farinez at Rio deJaneiro’s Maracana stadium.

It was another improved perfor-

mance from Lionel Scaloni’s team whohave grown into this tournament sincebeginning with a 2-0 defeat to Colombia

and a 1-1 draw with Paraguay.They are bidding to end a

26-year wait for a major inter-national trophy.

“We’re Argentina and whenthere are knock-out matches, itmakes us strong,” said SergioAguero, who had a hand in bothgoals.

“It won’t be easy in any way (againstBrazil) but we’re Argentina and we’ll tryto do justice to the jersey.”

Argentina started like a team deter-mined to claim the prize at stake: a semi-final against their great rivals Brazil.

Martinez played in Aguero in theinside right channel after just three min-utes but the Manchester City forward’slow cross-shot was blocked by goalkeep-er Farinez’s foot.

Argentina should have gone infront when German Pezzella ranunmarked onto a flick-on at the backpost but he seemed surprised andcouldn’t react in time with the goal gap-ing.

There was constant pressure on theVenezuelan backline as Argentina wona succession of corners.

They had 80 percent of possessionin the first 10 minutes and sure enough,Venezuela cracked.

Aguero’s angled shot was headingwell off target as it skidded into a crowdof players, but Martinez instinctivelyflicked it between his legs, nutmeggingan unsighted Farinez.

It was the least Argentina deservedafter such a furious start but graduallyVenezuela started to settle and get afoothold in the match.

In first half injury time, Martinezalmost had a second put on a plate forhim by Marcus Acuna, but Roberto

Rosales whisked it off his toe at the backpost, four yards from goal as Argentinafinished the half with another burst ofattacking intent.

Argentina made another fast start tothe second half with Farinez having topunch away a wicked inswinging free-kick from Leandro Paredes, whoseslide-rule pass then sent Martinez scam-pering into the box only to lash his shotagainst the outside of the post.

The chance Venezuela had beenwaiting for came on 71 minutes whenTomas Rincon picked out RonaldHernandez eight yards from goal at anangle, but he rushed his pushed volleyand goalkeeper Franco Armani made asmart save.

The game was up three minutes laterwhen Farinez spilled a shot from Aguerothat was straight at him, presenting LoCelso, who had cleverly followed theaction from midfield, with a simple tap-in just six minutes after entering the fray.

Even as Venezuela pushed desper-ately looking for something, Argentinacame closer to scoring again a couple oftimes through substitute Angel DiMaria, earning his 100th cap.

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Champions Chilemaintained their

hopes of a third straightCopa America victoryafter beating Colombiaon penalties to reachthe semi-finals.

Chile could havewon the game in normaltime but had two goalsruled out for marginaldecisions in a scorelessdraw, before AlexisSanchez stroked homethe winning spot-kick.

It was just rewardsfor the champions afterdominating a match inwhich Colombia heldon thanks to a couple oftight VAR calls.

Charles Aranguizhad a goal ruled out inthe first half for a mar-ginal offside againstSanchez in the build up

to the move.And After Arturo

Vidal shot low into thefar corner on 70 min-utes, that was chalkedoff for a handballagainst Guil lermoMaripan, who had teedup the Barcelona mid-fielder.

After eight success-ful penalties, WilliamTesillo casually put hisef fort wide forColombia, leavingSanchez to be the hero,as the ManchesterUnited forward contin-ues to make up for adreadful club season.

Chile continued toboss proceedings rightto the end after twounsucessful chances butin the shoot-out it wasthird time lucky as noteven VAR could denythem victory this time.

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Megan Rapinoe admitted ithad been an unforget-

table night after her bracetook the United States throughto the semi-finals of thewomen’s World Cup on Friday,the holders beating France 2-1 in Paris to puncture thehopes of the host nation.

Rapinoe’s free-kick fiveminutes into this quarter-finalevaded a sea of bodies in thebox on its way into the net tostun the home crowd at theParc des Princes.

The USA then soaked uppressure before delivering theknockout blow midwaythrough the second half whenRapinoe turned in TobinHeath’s centre, althoughWendie Renard pulled a goalback for France to set up atense finish.

Jill Ellis’s team held on andgo through to a semi-finalagainst England in Lyon nextTuesday as they seek to retaintheir crown and win a fourthWorld Cup in eight editions.

“We didn’t have the bestnight on the ball but the focusdefensively, and the willing-ness and the discipline to dowhat we did tonight is tremen-dous,” said the 33-year-oldRapinoe.

“We were ruthless withour chances, so moving on tothe next round, that’s really allthat matters. It’s a game thatwe’ll never forget here in Paris.”

The pink-haired Rapinoe

has been crucial on the field inthis tournament, while domi-nating headlines off it thanksto her spat with US PresidentDonald Trump over herrefusal to attend anypost-tournament recep-tion at the WhiteHouse.

She had alreadyscored twice in the winover Spain in the lastround and is now thejoint top scorer at the tourna-ment with five goals.Meanwhile, France will leave

their own tournament withmore than a few regrets.

Ellis praised the hosts, say-ing: “That’s a fantastic team we

played tonight, and thatis the most intensematch I have ever beena part of.”

That will be scantconsolation for theFrench. They were theonly team to defeat theUSA in the two years

leading up to the World Cup butthey could not repeat the feathere before an expectant crowd.

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Manchester United completed the signing ofAaron Wan-Bissaka from Crystal Palace

for a reported fee of up to £50 million ($64 mil-lion) on Saturday.

“Manchester United is delighted to confirmthe signing of Aaron Wan-Bissaka from CrystalPalace,” United staid in a statement.

“Aaron has signed a five-year contract withan option to extend for a further year.”

The 21-year-old made just 42 PremierLeague appearances for the Eagles, but was anoutstanding performer last season.

An initial fee of £45 million with an extra£5 million in add-ons has reportedly been agreedbetween the clubs, making Wan-Bissaka themost expensive defender in United’s history.

“It’s an unbelievable feeling and an honourto call myself a Manchester United player andsomething I know that only a small number ofplayers have the privilege to say,” said Wan-

Bissaka. The Red Devils are in need of an over-haul after finishing sixth in the Premier Leaguelast season to miss out on Champions Leaguequalification.

A long-term replacement at right-back forclub captain Antonio Valencia, who left OldTrafford at the end of last season when his con-tract expired, was one of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’spriorities in the transfer market.

“Aaron is one of the best upcoming defend-ers in the Premier League,” said Solskjaer.

“He has the right work ethic, talent andmentality to play for Manchester United and hefits exactly the type of player that we are look-ing to bring into the squad to help us improveand push on further.”

Wan-Bissaka will become United's secondsigning of the summer following the arrival ofwinger Daniel James from Swansea as Unitedturn their attention towards young, British play-ers rather than the expensive star buys of recentseasons.

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footing in the semi-finals after beat-ing Venezuela.

“It’s difficult to give a favouritebetween Argentina and Brazil, evenmore so in this Copa America whereanyone can beat anyone,” said the 32-year-old Barcelona star ahead ofTuesday’s semi-f inal in BeloHorizonte.

“We respect them, we know whatBrazil represent,” he added.

The hosts struggled to make thesemi-finals, toiling for more than 40minutes against 10 men before beat-ing Paraguay on penalties followinga 0-0 draw in Porto Alegre onThursday night.

“We’re in good form to take onBrazil, but we’ll have to be veryfocused,” said five-time Ballon d’Or

winner Messi, who admitted he’s notat his best.

“I’m not having my best CopaAmerica,” he said. But as a team,Messi said their performance againstVenezuela was “complete.”

“Defensively we didn’t have anyproblems and the team was very solidat all times.

“We didn’t leave them any spaceswhen they went looking for them. Wewere very united and waited for theopportunities to counter quickly.”

Having already been scathingabout the Gremio Arena pitch inPorto Alegre — as was Brazil coachTite following their quarter-finalthere — Messi hit out at the generalstate of the surfaces in Brazil.

“Honestly, the pitches are reallydifficult, they don’t favor good foot-ball. The ball bounces in every direc-tion, but it’s the same for everyone,”he said.

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September 19, 2007: India v England atKingsmead, Durban. India batting first,penultimate over with Yuvraj Singh onstrike. Ball 1: “That’s huge! That is a big-gie. It’s out of here! Into orbit. Even

bringing smoke in the clouds this. I think thosefew words with Flintoff just charged him up a

bit.” Ball 2: “Six more! Just aflick of the wrist, and awayshe goes into the crowd.Consecutive sixes here forthe left hander. Just a flick,nothing more. Look out inthe crowd, it’s coming again!”Ball 3: “This is in the airagain, clears long off, three ina row! Yuvraj doing to Broadwhat Dimitri Mascarenhasdid to him at the Oval. It’s

raining sixes here at the Kingsmead. Look at thetechnique. Right foot out of the way, full swingof the bat. Yuvraj 32 from nine deliveries. 6,6,6and its balle balle in the crowd.”

Ball 4: “It’s four in a row! 24 off the firstfour balls. England are having a conferencemeeting! They’re in bits!” Ball 5: “Five! Yes!Thirty with one ball to go. Could he make it sixout of six?” Ball 6: “And he’s put it away!!! Orhas he? Yes! Into the crowd! Six sixes in anover!” Yuvraj Singh finishes things off in style.The first time it’s happened in Twenty20; 50 off12 deliveries. Are you kidding me?

Cut to June 10, 2019: Yuvraj has announcedhis retirement from all forms of internationalcricket. It’s the end of an era. For millennials likeme, who grew up watching Yuvraj Singh eversince that NatWest series final (2002). For mil-lennials like me growing up in the noughties,Yuvraj Singh and MS Dhoni were the pin-upboys, not Virat Kohli or even Rahul Dravid(largely speaking). Sachin Tendulkar was God,of course, but if anyone came close to being themost gifted mortal it was the curly haired kingfrom Punjab called Yuvraj Singh.

He could flick Brett Lee effortlessly overdeep fine leg for a six. He could square cutStuart Broad over deep backward point for a sixand make it look like child’s play. He could takediving catches like Jonty Rhodes at point andexplode like Adam Gilchrist in PowerPlay. Hecould deceive you with his lazy left arm ortho-dox spin or catch you leg before wicket with afaster one. He could break partnerships, hecould certainly make partnerships. He couldwin you matches single-handedly. He could winyou tournaments, performing outstandingly. Hecould leave you speechless with the catches hetook. He could leave you delirious with therecords he broke. He gave you memories for alifetime. He gave you six sixes to cherish, hemade Team India’s trophy cabinet more embell-ished. There was nothing he couldn’t do. Therewas nothing he didn’t do. There was nothing hedidn’t achieve. There was nothing he couldn’tachieve after winning Man of the Tournamentin both the Under 19 and adult versions of theWorld Cup (2000 and 2011).

But right there, right then, fate played a cruelhand and brought him back to his knees. Literally.Puking blood in the midst of an innings and stillcarrying on. Still carrying the nation on his shoul-ders. Emerging victorious. But the cancer hadstarted to show its signs and symptoms. It wasduring the time of the World Cup when he wouldwake up in the middle of the night and find it dif-ficult to breathe and used to cough immensely.After the World Cup, a scan of his chest cavityrevealed a tumor but he couldn’t believe it andwent into denial. He ignored it as it meant leavingcricket, so he kept playing matches.

After the tumor grew, he went to variousdoctors and tried different treatments. He wasmisdiagnosed and that worsened the extrago-nadal mediastinal seminoma, with the tumorlocated between his heart and left lung, and itgrew about 14 centimetres like a ball over hischest. But he hit that too right out of the ballpark. He underwent chemotherapy for his germcell cancer that was benign and 100 per centcurable. But even so, being inflicted with a dis-ease just when you’re at the top of the worldand at the peak of your abilities would leaveanyone with a sense of injustice and question-ing God and his mysterious ways. But he cameout of it stronger and more resilient. He evenscored the highest score of his one-day interna-tional career after this phase — 150 off 127balls against England in 2017, a knock thatincluded 21 fours and three sixes. He put on256 runs for the fourth wicket along withDhoni and was named the Man of the Match.

Following the match, Yuvraj revealed he hadthought of quitting afterhaving been droppedfrom the team. Hesaid, “When I cameback from cancer,it was hard work. Iwas not performingafter being dropped;I thought whether Iwant to continue or not.” Hewas selected to play in theChampions Trophy 2017. Heplayed a scintillating knock of 53against Pakistan and won Man of theMatch. However, owing to the failure inclearing the infamous ‘Yo Yo Test’, he wasdropped from the squad before the tour ofSri Lanka in August 2017, which endedhis international career.

He may not have set the worldalight again or performed outstand-ingly after recovering from cancer,but he made a fairly reasonablecomeback throwing back theyears with some of his vintageknocks. Right after winninghis battle with cancer, hemade his comeback in theIndian team in a Twenty20match against New Zealandshortly before the 2012 WorldT20. He ended up being the

highest wicket taker for India in the T20 WorldCup 2012. He was later selected for the India-Pakistan series in which he scored a blistering72 off just 36 balls in the second T20.

In 2013, he established a cancer foundationcalled ‘YouWeCan’ through which he strives tocreate awareness about cancer and fight the stig-ma attached to it. He stresses the need for earlydetection of cancer which paves the way for bet-ter prognosis, recovery or even cure. As per theWorld Health Organization (WHO), earlydetection of cancer significantly increases thechances for successful treatment, improving thesurvival chances of patients. Increased aware-ness of possible warning signs of cancer isimperative. In his words, “Cancer does notmean death. Don’t be scared. Be positive. Pleasedon’t think that your life is about to end. Takethe right advice and act as soon as you can. Ifthere’s an issue in your system, don’t ignore it.Look at me, I never thought I’d get the chance toplay for India again, but I’ve beaten cancer. Godhas given me this opportunity and my love forcricket has brought me back. I see this alone as ahuge achievement. The experience has made mestronger (in the mind). If you’re strong, thenyou automatically become a positive person.Cancer doesn’t mean that you’re going to die.”

Talking about his love for cricket, anotherless talked about dynamic in the

making of Yuvraj, the phenom-enon, is his love-hate rela-tionship with the sport andhis relationship with hisfather, Yograj Singh, a Ranjiplayer, who played one Testmatch and six ODI matchesfor India. Yograj Singh want-ed his unfulfilled dreams tobe fulfilled through the handsof his son. Like a typical

Indian ambitious parent, heunduly forced cricket upon

Yuvraj who derived happinessfrom skating and won medals in

that. But his father, after learningthat, took his medals and skates

and threw them in the dustbin. From then on, Yuvraj’s path

was etched out. But unlike mostpeople who are forced into acareer not of their choice, heworked hard, excelled in it and

made it big, making innumerablesacrifices along the way as his father toldhim to. He followed a strict regimen andstuck to his aim of becoming a cricketer.While having an authoritarian father from

the same field has its disadvantages, it also hasits advantages as you evolve quicker and learn todo things the right way at an early age. Yuvrajwas subjected to rigorous practice and specifictraining in his backyard, targeting his weak-ness of bouncers. He said, “I love cricketbecause it has given me everything. But atthe same time, I also hate it because it hasbeen very tough on me mentally.”

The name Yuvraj Singh will foreverremain synonymous with six sixes. His jerseynumber might be 12 but he will forever beremembered for number 36. The six sixesagainst probably one of the best bowlers atthat time were significant in more ways thanone. Consider the translation of the phrase,“Hitting someone for a six” or chakke chhu-daana. “Angrezon ke chakke chhudaana” takeson a whole new meaning if you consider itfrom a historical perspective. Literally, itmeant the world to us Indians even if most ofus didn’t realise what it meant symbolically.To do that against the inventors of the gameand the oppressors of our motherland wasbeautiful to watch and cathartic in many ways.This was Lagaan happening in real life (whichwas itself loosely based on real life events).

Yuvraj has no regrets regarding his cricketcareer, though Test cricket will always be afrontier he wished he had crossed more often.He counts his first Test 100 among the top threemoments of his career alongside the six sixesand 2011 World Cup, which goes to show howmuch he valued Test cricket. “Looking back,starting my first innings in 2000 againstAustralia in the Champions Trophy, that’s 17years of international cricket, and on and off, 25years of playing cricket,” he said. “I don’t thinkyou can ask for more than that. In time, youhave to decide what’s the best time to move on.Looking back at my career, it’s been amazing.”

And amazing it sure has been. Etched incricket folklore for those towering six sixes,record holder of the fastest T20 fifty, first all-rounder to score 300-plus runs and take 15wickets in a single World Cup, Man of theTournament in the ICC Cricket World Cup2011, Arjuna awardee, Padma Shri awardee,and many more. I’m sure he must sit back andreminisce about his roller-coaster journey andcome to the conclusion, which everyone comesto after a certain point of time in their lives.C’est la vie. Such is life. You cannot be savedfrom the bad times. You must not be proudduring the good times. You cannot give up inthe worst times. You must make the most ofyour best times. You must do something thatpeople remember you for even when you’relong gone. You must tell them how to not giveup when the trying period is long drawn.

You must show them how you went in as acharcoal and came out a diamond. You mustshow them the cards you were dealt and howyou played the hand. You must tell them all youcan. You must tell them everything as it is.Because only then will they be your true fan.Only then will they follow you outside the sportyou played. When you’ve stopped playing forwhat was not even one-third of your lifespan.Only then will they tell their children to lookup to you as a true role model — both on andoff the field. To never give up when life throwsyou a curveball, a yorker, and a bouncer all atthe same time. To keep you in mind and say tothemselves, “If You Can. We Can.”

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Hiring trends are more dynam-ic than ever before acrossIndia and globally as well.

The statistics bear this out too. Today,a person’s gender, ethnicity, which partof the world he or she comes from,and age are less relevant to employ-ers. Detractors may object to this, say-ing that in the United States, if a can-didate with a white sounding namesubmits a resume, he or she is 75 percent more likely to receive a call backthan someone with an Asian sound-ing name who submits an identicalresume. They may also say that whena candidate with a white soundingname submits a resume, he or she is50 per cent more likely to receive a callback than a candidate who submits anidentical resume except that it has ablack sounding name. We don’t denythese statistics, but we know that tech-nology is being used to overcome suchunconscious biases, if any.

��� ��� ����A�����Several human resource departmentsare adopting the ‘blind hiring technol-ogy’ these days. There are clear advan-tages of using this technology, one ofwhich is that it prevents unconsciousbias from distorting the hiring process.Why is this good? The simple answeris that when unconscious bias isabsent during recruitment, the processis fairer and leads to the best persongetting the job. And when the personwho is best qualified for a job isappointed, the organisation benefits.Blind hiring technology isn’t the onlyone redesigning traditional hiring. Akey technology, Artificial Intelligence(AI), is helping HR departmentsmake the best hiring decisions andmanage employees better.

�������� ���������Unless you’ve spent the past decade ona deserted island, you know AI willcontinue playing a big role in every-day lives. The potential of the technol-ogy is a mere fraction of that seentoday. Its potential applications in HRare immense. Human resource fordecades was a soft discipline, but now,it is being aided by AI to make smarthiring decisions and helping employ-ers manage employees.

Consider that AI is being used tospot patterns that help employersmanage attrition. Clearly, every HRdepartment wants to ensure it retainsthe best talent, and by using AI, it cando so. AI is sophisticated enoughtoday to identify an employee who isconsidering leaving his or her employ-er. This is allowing the HR to inter-vene if necessary and ensure they’reable to retain their best talent.Technologies that anticipate humanaction using big data have crossed therealm of fiction into reality. Butthere’s much more.

AI is also being used to conductbackground verification. This meanseven small businesses, that couldn’totherwise afford costly extensivebackground checks, can use AI to doso. When every business, regardless ofits size, is able to do a backgroundcheck on prospective employees, itsodds of hiring dependable employeesgrow significantly. Dependableemployees are unlikely to commitfraud against employers and will like-ly work hard as well. But that’s not all!A third way AI is helping HR depart-ments is by providing insights thathelp spot anomalies. Because anom-alies are unusual and have an extreme-ly low probability of occurring, spot-ting them in a timely manner willavert disaster and create opportunities.

Employees are using AI to helpwith commonplace HR functions.They pose questions to AI that other-wise would have been asked to HR per-sonnel. This is reducing the HR’s bur-den and making internal processessmoother. Human resources relation-

ship with AI isn’t restricted to manag-ing existing employees. AI is helpingwith recruitment as well. AI recruitersare taking charge by conducting inter-views. Unilever is already using AI torecruit entry-level employees. Themethodology employed by Unileverensures that after several interviewrounds with AI only, the most quali-fied candidates appear for face-to-faceinterviews with human recruiters.

������������������$5�6Increasingly, a modern HR depart-ment is playing an intimate role inemployees’ lives. Employee engage-ment, as highlighted by an industrystudy, is on the rise. The study

revealed that 57 per cent of HRemployees believe employee engage-ment helps retain productive staff. Soaside from recruitment, the HR’s rolewithin organisations is expanding tonurturing interpersonal relation-ships as well. This year, businesses areexpected to increase spending onemployee engagement by a whopping45 per cent. Companies have alsolearned how to use their workforcein a more agile manner. How, youask? They have realised that retrain-ing employees creates a greater ROIthan hiring new employees. So thisyear, more of them will re-trainemployees for new roles rather thanreplace them with new ones.

The word ‘freelancing’ is heardevery day and its possibilities aren’t loston employers. They have recognisedthe benefits of creating flexible work-ing relationships with freelancers. So,expect many more employees to free-lance this year and in the years ahead.Consequently, to many workers, theattractiveness of freelancing will grow.

While freelancing is a new para-digm, it is one among many shapingHR. An important paradigm is thatof employees choosing employersrather than the other way around.This is giving rise to the phenomenonof recruitment marketing. For recruit-ment marketing to work, HR depart-ments may have to learn a trick or twofrom marketing because now theyhave to attract the right candidatesusing marketing techniques.

Another recent phenomenonreshaping the HR domain is the gigeconomy. In India, the gig economy isalready generating 56 per cent employ-ment and, in the years ahead, isexpected to grow annually by 25 to 30per cent. The US flexi workforce willgrow to 43 per cent by next year. Thiswill be a win-win for the HR industry.Last but not least, the biggest HR coupthis decade is visible in the marketingdomain where traditional brand mar-keters are being replaced by expertswho have an eye for digital marketing,SEO, social media, influencer market-ing, website development. Companieshave realised the need for candidateswho can wear multiple hats, and thisis changing industry trends.

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The attack in Pulwama on 40Central Reserve PoliceForce (CRPF) personnelhad sparked a massive out-rage in the country not

long ago. The counter attacks by theIndian Air Force (IAF) on terrorinfrastructure in Pakistan and the sub-sequent escalation of tensions betweenIndia and Pakistan had become hotlydebated topics in public circles. In thiscontext, it is pertinent to analyse therole of the CRPF in maintaininginternal security and the factors thatchallenge it continuously.

The CRPF was originally found-ed as the Crown Representative’sPolice Force on July 27, 1939, andunderwent several changes in the fol-lowing decades to transform itself asthe largest Para-Military Force (PMF)in the world. When it comes to mat-ters of internal security, the CRPF isthe chief and primary force whichleads from the front. The CRPF isundoubtedly the most popular PMFamongst all Central Armed PoliceForces (CAPF) and other CentralPolice Organisations.

There is no parallel to the CRPFin our country. They work along theentire length and breadth of ournation in tandem with various Statepolice forces. Since the laws and rulesgoverning police forces vary fromState to State, the CRPF displaysamazing levels of flexibility and adapt-

ability in working. The kind of oper-ations they undertake are also varied— ranging from helping the localpolice, to restoring law and order dueto any form of violent extremism.More often than not, all such dutiesare assigned at the eleventh hour withhardly any time for preparation.

The CRPF have accomplished alot in performing successful counterinsurgency operations in Jammu &Kashmir and the North-East, Anti-Naxal operations in Left WingExtremist (LWE) areas and othermiscellaneous and developmentalworks. In 2009, the CRPF, with thesupport of funds from theGovernment of India (GoI), under-took a mission of identifying Naxalsand fence-sitters in a LWE area withthe help of local NGOs. They provid-ed skill development programmesand employed hundreds of men andwomen as carpenters, security guards,receptionists etc in order to accom-plish their mission effectively and suc-cessfully. This experiment was contin-ued for a few years, which had a pos-itive impact in containing Naxalism.

Considering the multifariousnature of jobs that the CRPF needs toperform, it is needless to say that thereare a number of challenges that areencountered. Many of them need tobe addressed at the earliest, consider-ing the sensitive nature of internalsecurity in our country.

The issue of synergy with thepolice forces has been taking a toll onthe CRPF. The main point in thisdilemma remains if the CRPF shouldhave a “force orientation” akin to thatof a military or a “service orientation”similar to that of IPS cadres. It isinteresting to dissect this because arecent Parliamentary StandingCommittee report on Home Affairson CAPF observed that the nature ofduty of CAPF is more similar to thatof Armed forces rather than policepersonnel. However, the same isbeing contested by the Ministry ofHome Affairs (MHA) and severalretired IPS officers that the presenceof IPS officers increases inter-depart-mental coordination. They furtheradd that transforming it into a com-plete force by itself would leave itdevoid of a human face. Nevertheless,the recommendation of the standingcommittee needs to be consideredseriously in certain sensitive andextremism-prone areas of the coun-try. The fact that the security situa-tion in such areas is changing in adynamic manner adds credence to it.

The top leadership of the CRPFalso remains with the IPS and therehave also been various views on thisissue. While some experts opine thatthe CRPF should be led by a defenceperson rather than a civilian IPS offi-cer due to the changing dynamics ofinternal security in the country, oth-

ers believe that the CRPF — beingresponsible for the maintenance ofinternal security — needs a person atthe top, who is more accustomed todealing with Indian laws and Acts, likethe Code of Criminal Procedure. Thislogic makes an IPS officer an automat-ic selection to lead from the front.

While this logic remains valid, weneed to put this one-size-fits-allapproach behind. Internal security incertain States, which share an inter-national border with other countries— like Jammu & Kashmir and theNorth-East — have a cross-borderimpact and dealing with such extrem-ist groups in such States may requirea completely different approach. Thisis where the structure and function-ing of the CRPF needs to be modifiedon a region by region basis.

The poor living conditions preva-lent in the camps, especially in the LWEareas, is an issue which has been men-tioned in several committees and com-missions of inquiry done on the func-tioning of the CRPF. They suffer fromlack of access to basic necessities, likefood and toilets. Unhygienic environ-ment has been affecting their health. Attimes, we need to wonder if they aremore affected by diseases than bycounter-insurgency operations.

In spite of having hundreds ofbattalions and lakhs of personnel, theCRPF is yet to have its own researchwing. There are a lot of issues which

are peculiarly specific to the CRPFwhich have to be dealt with and thelack of an exclusive R&D wing is crip-pling them. A comprehensive researchwing, which can help in exclusiveintelligence gathering and sharing,will go a long way in the effectivefunctioning of the force. Apart fromall these, issues of political interven-tions in transfers and postings, grossmismanagement of funds, and disci-plinary issues are a few amongst theothers that are making the function-ing of the CRPF ineffective.

We cannot aspire to be a greatpower if we cannot manage ourinternal security. Today’s problems inJ&K could have been mitigated to alarge extent if we could manage theinternal situation there. Unfortunately,breakdown of law and order on a peri-odical basis provides a breedingground for recruiting youngsters intoextremist organisations. This is whatnon-state actors in Pakistan havebeen doing since decades. After all,the man who blew the suicide bomberin Pulwama was an Indian. Impropermaintenance of internal security hasgot many offshoots which can bepotentially threatening and devastat-ing for an aspiring country like Indiaand, in this regard, we need to lookat modifying the structure and func-tioning of the CRPF. /��&� ��� ����#� ������ ��� ��< 0�%�� � ���� ���%�������� &��H����������������

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Since the turn of the century, the structure of organisa-tions, the expectations of employees, and leadership styleshave changed. Instead of a top-down management style,

many organisations, especially startups, follow a bottom-upapproach in which employees’ voices are heard and encour-aged. Traditional authoritarian leadership styles are gradu-ally being replaced by democratic and laissez-fair leadership.

������������� �������Millennials make up a large segment of the workforce andhave expectations that are different from those who areolder. While still motivated by money, millennials are evenmore likely to be motivated by recognition. So while tra-ditional leaders could acknowledge employees best by pay-ing more, today’s leaders understand that millennialsrespond even better to recognition and being assignedgreater responsibility than higher salaries. Good leaderswho want to reward work often do so by acknowledgingan employee publically. A number of young nimble star-tups are populated by millennials who have an inclusivemindset that favours teamwork over competition. Whilecorporate offices are still highly competitive, amongyounger employees, cutthroat competition is graduallybeing replaced by a more collaborative atmosphere. In suchsettings, young employees expect their boss to also be amentor. Certainly, every leader’s decision is valued andadhered to. However, a leader is not expected to be a one-man show; rather a leader is expected to carefully consid-er viewpoints of employees before making crucial decisions.

�������� ��������������������A startup is energetic and places less emphasis on hierar-chy. In such organisations, the atmosphere is less formal andhighly fluid. The leader of such an organisation may be inhis 20s, while a large number of employees may be in their30s, 40s, or older. Because of changing dynamics and dis-ruptive economies in which startups succeed, many youngpeople are leading companies. This is leading to a disrup-tion of the traditional reporting structure, which is beingtransformed into one where age and seniority mean less thanthe value added by employees.

A leader in startups is expected to lead, inspire, mentor,and even befriend employees. The power distance betweenbosses and employees is smaller in startups than in largeorganisations. A low power distance allows employees toapproach their boss and dispense with many formalities. Intraditional organisations, employees are still expected to paydeference to leaders, however, new leaders at startups encour-age a friendly and participatory atmosphere.

������ ������������������ ����������One of the most important reasons why startups competeeffectively against incumbents is that they have small teamsthat rapidly assess challenges and swiftly spot opportuni-ties. Google was a startup before the word ‘startup’ enteredthe popular lexicon, and its success was largely based on thesmall size of teams in the company. The founders of the com-pany acknowledged a smallteam size lead to good commu-nication and had wanted toensure that the size of teams atGoogle remained small. Sincethe company has grown, sohave team sizes at Google.However, the advantages ofsmall teams are understood bymany startups. Individualsleading small teams have acrucial role to play. Such lead-ers have to be amiable towardsteam members and are expect-ed to have discussions unrelat-ed to work with them. Thestructure of smaller teams isless formal and rigid. Thismeans team members don’tnecessarily communicatethrough an established chain of command, rather discus-sions are open and informal. In such teams, when even themost junior member wants to make a suggestion, they areheard and their words are considered. Unlike a traditionalauthoritarian structure, where a leader’s orders are followedunquestioningly, in a startup, team members are free to ques-tion their bosses and make counter suggestions.

��������� ������������������� �� In a startup, employees want to understand how they areadding value. While in large organisations, which follow tra-ditional leadership styles, older employees remain contentsimply doing their jobs, younger employees in startups wantto know how they’re contributing. This means leaders in star-tups have to be able to objectively define team members’efforts and contributions. Leaders in startups must have arepertoire with team members that encourages, points outmistakes, and communicates where improvement is need-ed. Such leaders need a nuanced approach when commu-nicating with team members because shouting matches willrapidly erode respect in a small team.

������������������ ��������� ���������������Leaders in startups understand that a diverse workforce isa huge enabler. A diverse workforce allows companies to pen-etrate new markets by revealing the preferences of differ-ent communities. Traditional leaders excelled at managingrelatively homogenous workforces, often many employed ina company were from the same region or of the same eth-nicity. Today, leaders understand that a diverse workforceoffers advantages a uniform workforce can’t. This is why suc-cessful leaders in startups and younger leaders in larger com-panies are open to new experiences and cultures. Rather thanviewing individuals through a stereotypical lens, they’retrained to see people as individuals first. By remaining opento different cultures and having new experiences, leaders insmall companies are more accepting of differences, leadingto tremendous professional and personal growth.

Startups will be vital to the Indian economy in the decadeahead. Some startups in the food and beverage space are com-peting effectively against incumbents and have changed whatconsumers buy by making them see exceptional value in star-tups products. The overthrow of incumbents would not havebeen possible without the new leadership style in startups.Using engaging and holistic leadership, a new generation ofleaders are creating the blue-chip companies of tomorrowthat will transform society and the economy.

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India has taken a decision notto join the WTO’s multilat-

eral group on trade rules in e-commerce. Earlier this year, 77WTO member countries cametogether to negotiate traderules in e-commerce. AlthoughIndia is not a part of thisgroup, it is negotiating an e-commerce chapter in RegionalComprehensive EconomicPartnership (RCEP) agree-ment. Among the 16 RCEPmember countries, 11 (includ-ing China) are a part of multi-lateral group.

It is, therefore, importantfor the new Government toreview India’s stance in theWTO.

In the past decade, fastgrowth of technology anddevelopment of different busi-ness models have led to doubledigit growth of trade in e-com-merce. According to UNC-TAD, the global e-commercemarket was estimated at $29trillion in 2017, with a growthof around 32 per cent since2015. In 2017, India wasranked ninth in terms of glob-al e-commerce sales. The flowof data now contributes moreto world’s GDP than flow ofphysical goods. The rise inimportance of data and itsintangibility have made theregulatory framework govern-ing data flows complex. Whileit is increasingly difficult forcountries to regulate technol-ogy, there are concerns thatgrowing digitalisation mayincrease risk of national secu-rity and consumer privacy.

All WTO member coun-tries recognise that e-com-merce is an integral part oftheir business activities, but theway they would like to promotethis sector and/or regulate itdiffers widely. This creates anuncertain operating environ-ment for companies engaged ine-commerce trade. To pro-

mote a transparent, and pre-dictable regulatory environ-ment for growth and trade ine-commerce, 77 member coun-tries of the WTO came togeth-er to negotiate global traderules in e-commerce.

To understand whetherIndia should or should not bea part of the multilateral group,a survey of 50 stakeholderswere conducted by the authorwhich includes export promo-tion councils, industry associ-ations, companies, logisticsand express delivery industry,and payment services. Thirty-five respondents opined thatIndia should participate in themultilateral e-commerce nego-

tiations, while five opined thatIndia should not participate,and the remaining 10 said theywould leave it to theGovernment to decide. Thosein favour pointed out thatsooner or later India has toenter the e-commerce negoti-ating group and if it delays theentry it cannot play a majorrole in decision making.

Most Indian business andexport promotion councils feelthat taking a hard position ofstaying out of the negotiationscan adversely impact India’strade relations with key exportmarkets such as the US and theEU. In this regard, a submissionmade by Express Industry

Council of India, on the DraftNational e-Commerce Policy,stated, “We encourage the GOIto embrace the concepts cur-rently under consideration bythe WTO e-commerce initia-tive, recognising that this mul-tilateral effort is the means forIndia, should it join the effort,to adopt policies that will facil-itate the growth of India’s e-commerce market.”

Some survey participantsopined that disincentive toparticipate may be due to lackof data and information and/orlack of preparedness. In thiscontext, the Government maystart sponsoring research fordata collection on what com-

ponent of the SME businessesare through e-commerce plat-form, whether such platformshave helped SMEs to access theglobal market and integrateinto global value chains, whatis the business model of the e-commerce companies and theirsource of funding, among oth-ers. They also suggested thatIndia should enact the PersonalData Protection Bill based onthe Justice Sri Krishna report toensure data security.

The survey also found thatbarriers which adverselyimpact efficient business mod-els and restricts investment inlogistics infrastructure but arenot able to help the domestic

companies to gain global scaleshould be reviewed andreplaced by policies whichaddresses the issues faced bydomestic startups and SMEs(such as access to funds). Forexample, a number of e-com-merce companies and theirexpress delivery serviceproviders pointed out thatcommitments to deliver with-in a certain date and/or timecannot be made to customersunless e-commerce companiesand/or the express deliverycompanies in their networkhave control over the invento-ry and do efficient inventorymanagement.

Thus, the restrictions onFDI in inventory-based modelcannot be adhered to if a firm,on the one hand, has an effi-cient business operation whichmeets customer requirementsand satisfaction and, on theother, has a fast-track growthstrategy.

Indian express deliverycompanies pointed out thatbeing a part of the network ofglobal e-commerce companieshave led to 40 per cent increasein their B2C sales and 20 percent increase in their B2Bsales. Given that GST sup-ports a single market model, ifthe restrictions on inventory-based models are removed,they can be a part of the mostefficient inventory manage-ment system, which will reducelogistics costs.

While all survey partici-pants agree on the need fordata security and protection,they have raised concernsabout the way in which the pol-icy have been implemented bydifferent Government agen-cies and at times without stake-holders’ consultations andinputs. As an example, theycitied how on April 6, 2018, theReserve Bank of India (RBI)came up with a notification on

storage of payment data whichstates that the entire data relat-ing to payment systems shouldbe stored in a system “only” inIndia. This came as a surpriseas there were no discussions onthe issue with the stakeholdersthat may have led to this poli-cy. While the payment com-panies had no objection toshare the data real-time withRBI, they are concerned abouttheir ability to do risk man-agement and fraud in the con-text of international trade relat-ed payments if data mirror-ing/sharing is not allowed.

Localisation of data hasbeen a key component of theDraft National e-CommercePolicy, but in this case the pol-icy fails to define key termi-nology like community dataand sensitive data. Lawyersare also divided as to what arethe constitutional rights of cit-izens in a democratic countryand how that is ensured underthe proposed policy. Whilethe policy is drawn with aobjective of creating infra-structure and jobs in the coun-try, there are no studies on howmuch infrastructure is needed,do we have the capacity tomanufacture to meet therequirements, can we meet therequirements in three years asproposed, what would be theimpact on trade balance andimports.

Given these policy gaps,the Government should forma high-level committee toreview the current policyregime, look at global bestpractices, examine the inputsgiven by different stakeholdersand then develop India’s poli-cies and negotiating strategiesat the WTO.

(The writer is a Professor atIndian Council for Research onInternational EconomicRelations, New Delhi)

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Today, conflicts are a globalphenomenon. There is no

state or country in the worldthat can boast of total immu-nity against conflicts. The roleof women in preventing aresurgence of such violence andproviding public security todevelop the basic functioningof society is most often over-looked. As countries recuper-ate from the aftermath of war,it is essential to include womenin equal proportion in post-conflict reconstruction.Women's contribution in thesphere of post-conflict recon-struction has been mostimpactful in the enlargement ofpolitical rights, improving par-ticipation and involvement inreconstruction and promot-ing human development.

The goal of every societyinvolved in post-conflict recon-struction is to improve health,nutrition, reduce infant mor-tality, and in building a robustself-sustaining community.Recognising that social, polit-ical and economic participationby women is highly imperativeto this development andgrowth. Supporting the par-ticipation of women meansgiving them equal opportuni-ties in decision-making. Bynot identifying and integratingthe role of women in theprocess of reconstruction, thedevelopment of societiesinevitably stagnates and fails totransition into a functioningsociety. While there has beenan increase in the participationof women in post-conflictdevelopment and promotingpeace, they tend to fade into the

background when peace nego-tiations and economy rebuild-ing become an official exerciseprimarily because of the lack ofrecognition. This lack of recog-nition hampers evaluation andimplementation of their agen-da in post-conflict settings.

Participation of women inpost-conflict reconstructionhas been hampered constant-ly due to various factors. Theprevalence of rape and sexualassault generates fear andsilences campaigns for socio-political and economic rights.The lack of awareness, pooraccess to education andemployment opportunities,and cultural pressures againstwomen engaging and partici-pating in the public sphere aresome of the main causes ofpoor women turnout in post-conflict resolution. There havebeen successful cases of post-conflict reconstruction initia-tives taken up by women in thepast.

The Truth andReconciliation Committee of1995 in South Africa was set upto help the nation uncovertruths about human rights vio-lations that occurred during theapartheid period. The com-mittee built a victim friendlymodel and ensured that thewomen who testified againstgross human rights violationshad safe and accepting envi-ronments. Women wererecruited as commissioners,activists, and beneficiaries, whoaimed at bringing an impact-ful change to their society.

The Liberia Mass Actionfor Peace movement, which

started out as a prayer meetingfor Christian and Muslimwomen, soon turned into amovement for peace. Thesewomen fought against the dic-tator, Charles Taylor, whoinvaded the country and wasresponsible for the war. Theirpost-conflict reconstructionprocess had three fundamentalobjectives: narrowing the gapbetween the participation of

men and women in the recon-struction process, improvingthe representation of womenand addressing their needs,and acknowledging the pres-ence of existing support givenby women and utilising it.Women used their numericalstrength and platforms such aspublic spaces and the radio tomobilise around key issuesand organise protests. This

caught the nation's attentionand they used this opportuni-ty to rise against exclusionand achieve their goals. Theseinitiatives by women haveimproved involvement in post-conflict reconstruction andpromoting development.

However, they have beenmet with roadblocks and lim-ited successes in places likeAfghanistan and Syria. A crit-

ical point to be noticed at thisjuncture is that there is a cer-tain pattern to the successfulimplementation of post-con-flict reconstruction by women.Women in South Africa,Liberia and Bosnia have reapedsuccesses by implementingforms of protests, publicdemonstrations and awarenesscampaigns to make themselvesheard. However, in cases such

as Syria, Sudan, andAfghanistan, its failure could beattributed to the lack of edu-cation, awareness, and devel-opment, constant ostracisa-tion of women, poor channel-ing of economic resources andperhaps the constraints ofIslam as a religion. Anotherreason why post-conflictreconstruction by women hasfailed in Muslim dominatedregions could be that thesecountries have failed to adoptchanges. Secularisation andincreased respect for humanrights have led to a decline inviolence in other parts of theworld. Their justification fortreating women poorly can betraced back to the fundamen-talist interpretation of theQuran which is often taken outof context. Hand-pickingIslamic teaching from theQuran and interpreting itaccording to their own patri-archal interests has led to menasserting their dominance overwomen. The line separatingreligion from customs and tra-ditions has become blurred,with societal norms being mis-taken for religious doctrine.The seven-year-long war inSyria has reinforced and exac-erbated gendered vulnerabili-ties and social norms thatexisted pre-war as well. Theunderlying issue with gettingone's opinions in Syria heard isthat, there is a huge gulfbetween what is happening onthe ground what is being dis-cussed on international tables.

Although engaging inpeace talks can seem ambitiousfor women considering the

resistance they face from themale members of the Muslimsociety, the challenge is to for-mulate a set of policies thatconsistently promote women'sdevelopment even though itmay collide with other strate-gic objectives. The failure toidentify the importance of gen-der issues, gender-specific dataand gender-focused analysisexacerbates the probability of abreakout of violence in a recu-perating society. Formulatingpolicies starts with acknowl-edging women as capableactors and the role they play inworking towards peace andreconciliation. Governmentsdevelop quota systems andgrant women socio-politicaland economic rights, but theyoften run into obstacles in theimplementation of these lawsconsequently slowing downthe process of development.When countries andeconomies do not supportwomen in the growth andadvancement of their societies,they tend to stagnate econom-ically and fail in the transitionof a functioning society. In con-clusion, the inclusion ofwomen in peace processes is aprerequisite for enabling anenvironment where the inter-ests of ordinary civilians andtheir communities are heard.Conflict-ridden societies needthe settlement that can bederived from the inclusion ofwomen on the road to peace.

(The writer is a researcherat International Affairs at theNational University ofSingapore)

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Last Saturday, I got stuck in a traf-fic jam at a place where the roadis quite wide and, therefore, usu-

ally one has a smooth go. I thenrecalled that there was a Shani templearound. People had lined up in longqueues, waiting for their turn to offermustard oil to the deity and reveren-tially burn earthen lamps, in the hopethat Shani deva will spare them of Hisfury. Out of curiosity, I stopped andasked a few devotees: “What makes youcome to offer prayers at the Shani tem-ple on a Saturday?” Pat came theirreply: “We are either going throughSaturn’s sadhesati or dhaiya.”

“Why fear sadhesati or dhaiya,” Iasked them. “We are afraid that duringsuch a phase, one often faces great hard-ship,” they replied in chorus. “So, out offear, you are trying to appease Shanideva,” I countered them. “Yes, of course,”they responded. “But I have seen manypeople making it big in their sadhesati,in as much as that many Indian PrimeMinisters occupied the high office dur-ing their sadhesati. What then justifiesyour fear,” I enquired. “We don’t knowhow this period will individually end upfor us. But the mythological story line in

circulation about Shani deva suggeststhat through such offerings, if at all weare to face a difficult situation, we will besaved.” I could feel their sense of dis-comfort in responding to my vexingquestions, so I left it at that.

It is, however, difficult to ignoremany important questions pertaining tothe above belief: “Is there any scope of aform God by the name of Shani deva inheaven, who would be adjudicating ourkarma and accordingly granting rewardor punishment? The Upanishads, whichforms the base frame of Indian philoso-phy, doesn’t suggest so. Even believingthat there is some power by this name(with or without form), it would beavailable in equal proportion to all ofus. Would it then be possible for us toselectively appease that power and earnits favour in individual terms? Had itbeen so easy to negate the conse-quences of our doings and undoings inthe past through such transactionalpujas, at least the resourceful oneswould have never suffered in life.

Since impressionable minds of a goodmajority of religiously oriented Indianpeople fall prey to the fear psychologycreated by such mythological stories, fur-

ther scrutiny of its relevance is called for.First let us understand what Saturn’s sad-hesati and dhaiya mean. Planets in thecosmos are ever on their run at their ownrespective speeds. Saturn’s sadhesatimeans seven and a half years that it takesto pass through three successive signs —the Moon sign, one preceding, and theone following it. The two and a half yearstaken by Saturn to cover kendra houseswith reference to the Moon sign (4th, 7th,and 10th therefrom) is termed as dhaiya.So, the two — sadhesati and dhaiya —relate to particular placement of Saturnwith respect to the Moon sign.

Now, since Saturn is marked withsuch characteristic features as wouldmarginalise those of Moon, more oftenthe ones who become subject to suchplacements have been found faced withchallenging situations in life. But how?Does Saturn wilfully play devil all byitself? Or is this placement just an indi-cator of probable outcome of somethingthat would be even otherwise brewingin our mind as a fallout of our doingsand undoings in the past? And howdoes Shani deva come into the picture?

Remember, the planets in the cos-mos are not to be seen just as physicalbodies moving in the cosmos in theirown right. They are all an inseparable

part of an integrated astronomicalframework. Each of them is markedwith an energy stream passing througha specific region identified with thatplanet in the centre, respectivelyreflecting different characteristic fea-tures, having corresponding receptorsin our brain. And every particularpoint of the brain administers set func-tion of the body, mind, and psyche.This is how energies marked with dif-ferent planets influence our thoughtprocess, and thereby our actions.

Here again, it needs to be remem-bered that the whole universe isframed into an inseparable unifiedorganism, which includes the cosmosas well as the life cycle on the planetearth. The system as a whole, drivenby self-evolved design parameters,operates in a self-automated mode. Inthis scheme of things, no individualplayer has a reality independent of theentirety, which includes the planets.

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