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T housands of Kashmiris, locked down in their hous- es for over a week, on Monday celebrated Eid, their first fes- tivity after the revocation of Article 370, without speaking to their loved ones or seeing each other following “unprece- dented” clampdown in the Valley since August 5. The authorities in Kashmir did allow worshippers to con- verge at nearby mosques, but most revered places such as like Hazratbal Shrine, Idgah, remained out of bounds. In the Valley, clashes broke out in some sensitive places, but barring minor injuries to a few people, the overall situation remained peaceful. However, in Jammu region, pro-Azadi slo- gans were raised by worship- pers while they stepped out of Jamia Masjid in Kishtwar in the presence of security personnel and senior officers, including Deputy Commissioner Angrez Singh Rana. However DC could not be contacted due to suspension of telephone services to confirm these reports. According to eyewitness reports, “over 2,000 worship- pers were present in the mosque; and soon after the prayers were over, a large num- ber of them stepped out shout- ing provocative slogans and pro-Azadi slogans in Kishtwar”. Prayers were not allowed in tra- ditional Chougan Parade ground by the local authorities. The paramilitary forces deployed in the area, handled the situation very tactfully and despite severe provocation refrained from taking any action against them. Official sources claimed notorious elements were iden- tified by the police in the crowd and action as per rule of law will follow against them in due course of time. Meanwhile, National Security Adviser Ajit Doval, who is camping in Srinagar, conducted an aerial survey of Srinagar and monitored the sit- uation. Several drones cameras and helicopters were seen fly- ing over Srinagar skies to keep a close tabs on the ground zero. According to SP Pani, Inspector General of Police, Kashmir range, “The overall situation in Kashmir remained peaceful barring minor inci- dents of law and order report- ed from parts of Srinagar”. He said after Eid prayers people were dispersed in a peaceful manner. Meanwhile, the Jammu & Kashmir Police rebutted media reports that claimed involve- ment of policemen in a firing incident. “This malicious content is strongly rebutted. Matter has been taken up with Twitter for action,” tweeted the official handle of the Kashmir Zone police late on Monday. In Jammu, prayers were held in a peaceful atmosphere amid tight security arrange- ments. A large number of members belonging to the Gujjar community celebrated Eid holding tricolour in their hands at the Jeora farms, near the International border in RS Pura area. Jammu’s Divisional Commissioner Sanjeev Verma told The Pioneer, “Eid prayers were offered peacefully in all the 10 districts of Jammu region.” He said after the prayers, worshippers dispersed peacefully at all the places. Officials said 5,000 people came to Eidgah, the main venue, and offered prayers amid strict security. Earlier in Srinagar, Principal Secretary to Government of J&K and Government Spokesperson Rohit Kansal maintained that Eid prayers have been offered in all districts of Kashmir as well in Jammu region. All nec- essary arrangements were made to facilitate the people for offering prayers at mosques and other places. Addressing the mediaper- sons in Srinagar, Rohit Kansal said that people in large num- bers came out to offer Eid prayers in their local areas and mosques in entire Kashmir division. He said that in Srinagar district, hundreds of people vis- ited various mosques mainly including Maqdoom Sahab, Dastgeer Sahab, Iqra Masjid and other places to offer Eid namaz. All other districts of Kashmir division also saw movement of people to the mosques for offering prayers. I ndia and China on Monday agreed on a host of initiatives to improve their relations, with New Delhi emphasising that the future of the ties will depend on the mutual sensi- tivity to each other’s “core con- cerns” to ensure that any bilat- eral differences should not become disputes. Making his first visit to China after taking over office, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar held candid talks with top Chinese leaders. His three-day visit to China comes amid spiralling tensions between India and Pakistan over the revocation of special status to Jammu & Kashmir. Before he settled for a structured talk with his coun- terpart Wang Yi, Jaishankar met the tough-talking Chinese Vice President Wang Qishan, a close confidant of President Xi Jinping, at the picturesque res- idential complex Zhongnanhai, where China’s top leaders reside. He held a frank discussion with Wang Qishan about the state of the bilateral ties in the context of China’s concerns over the bifurcation of Jammu & Kashmir into two Union Territories. After India revoked Article 370 last week, China issued two separate statements outlining its position on Ladakh and J&K. In one statement, China objected to the formation of Ladakh as a Union Territory by India, saying it undermined its territorial sovereignty. After his meeting with Wang Qishan, Jaishankar held talks with Wang Yi — first at restricted delegation-level meeting followed by full- fledged delegation-level talks spanning over several hours. At the end of the talks, both Jaishankar and Wang made candid remarks at the 4th India-China media summit where they announced a host of initiatives to boost ties ahead of Xi’s visit to India later this year. “It is natural, both as neighbours and large develop- ing economies, that there would be issues in our ties. Properly managing differences is therefore vital. As our lead- ers agreed in Astana, differ- ences should not become dis- putes. That is how India-China relations can remain a factor of stability in an uncertain world,” Jaishankar said. The positive direction of ties after the Wuhan Summit has opened up a world of new convergences, he said, referring to the informal summit between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Xi last year. “Exploiting this and taking our ties to a new level will require strong public support in both societies. The media can make a major contribution to that goal,” he said. Continued on Page 4 See P10: China promises to address India’s concern over ballooning trade deficit F aced with criticism by vet- erans and serving soldiers over the decision to tax dis- ability pension, the Government has decided to roll it back in the next few days. The Government now wants the Services to devise ways to stop misuse of the facility of tax exemption. The decision to tax pension taken in June applied to all those soldiers and officers who had served their entire tenure of service. However, those offi- cers who were invalidated due to serious injuries were exempt from tax. Moreover, the dis- ability pension and normal pension were exempted from tax before the controversial decision. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh had assured Parliament after the Opposition raised a din over the issue that he has asked his officials to seek clar- ification from the Finance Ministry regarding taxing the pension. The June 24 order issued by the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) removing tax exemption on disability pen- sion led to massive uproar in the armed forces fraternity. However, the Government maintained the step was taken to stop misuse of the facility in practice since 1922 by some unscrupulous elements, includ- ing senior officers. O n a mission to cut debt in Reliance Industries, bil- lionaire Mukesh Ambani on Monday announced plans to sell stakes in the firm’s oil and chemicals business to Saudi oil giant Aramco and in fuel retail network to BP plc for 1.15 lakh crore, and said its telecom unit Jio will begin offering fibre-based broad- band services from next month. Saudi Aramco will buy a 20 per cent stake in the oil and chemicals business of Reliance, including the 1.36 million barrels a day Jamnagar refining complex in Gujarat, for an enterprise value of $75 billion. BP will buy 49 per cent stake in the firm’s 1,400 petrol pumps and aviation fuel sell- ing facilities at 31 airports for another 7,000 crore. H aving failed to decongest South Delhi in the last five years, the Public Works Department (PWD) has planned to construct a “signal free” 14-km elevated corridor from INA Market to Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) to unclog traffic. The flyway will rest on the single- pillar series design. According to the detailed project report, the elevated stretch will start from Brigadier Hoshiyar Singh Marg and will connect the Mahipalpur under- pass at the National Highway via Africa Avenue Marg, Vivekanand Marg. With this, the Ring Road traffic that cur- rently clogs the stretch will be diverted and commuters will reach IGIA smoothly. The corridor will also help the National Building Construction Corporation redevelop Nauroji Nagar. The Central Government project is yet to select an agency/company to carry out the work. However, the PWD has submitted the proposal to the UTTIPEC, which in turn has sought the suggestions of Delhi Traffic Police on the proposal. “The entire 14-km stretch will be built on a single pillar designing and the work on this project will start by 2020. The estimated budget of the project will be 3,000 crore approxi- mately. It may decrease or increase, once everything is finalised,” said sources. Officials involved in this ambitious project said buses will be allowed to ply on this flyover. Entry and exit will be provided at four points where pedestrians can climb the fly- over to board buses. “Lifts and staircases will also be provid- ed. Besides, ramps facility will be provided at Brigadier Hoshiyar Singh Marg, Netaji Marg, JNU”. Another roundabout will be constructed on the top of the existing roundabout. The extension will provide a route towards Africa Avenue, Sarojini Nagar, Netaji Marg and will cross the Ring Road via Bhikaji Cama Place Flyover. The stretch will then con- nect Outer Ring Road via Vivekananda Marg. The flyover will be constructed five metres above the existing Munirka flyover. Taking a right from this chowk, the corridor will move towards Abdul Gaffar Marg and will connect the Mahipalpur Underpass situat- ed on NH-8. “After reaching this under- pass, the commuters can easi- ly reach IGI Airport,” said an official. The Barapullah Phase IV project from INA to IGIA may be abandoned as the plan falls on the Railway and Safdarjung airport land, sources said. C hhattisgarh has become the second State in the country to provide rights to Scheduled Tribes and other traditional for- est dwellers to acquire forestlands. So far, over four lakh indi- vidual forest rights certificates have been distributed, providing recognition to 3 lakh 42 thou- sand hectares of forestland. Whereas, over 24,000 commu- nity forest rights certificates have been distributed providing recognition to 9 lakh 50 thou- sand hectares of forestland, as per Government Press release. According to the figures by Union tribal affairs ministry, Odisha is the number one State in distribution of forest rights certificates while Maharastra is number one in providing recog- nition to forestlands. Chhattisgarh, on the other hand comes number two in the list of both the categories. Soon after taking charge as Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh on January 23, Bhupesh Baghel organised a State-level workshop on forest rights and reviewed its implementation. He said that it is the State Governments’ priority to provide forest rights to all claimants of forest rights certificates. The Government will also assure that residents in each village get classified community forest rights. The CM participated in division-level workshops on for- est rights at Bastar division headquarters Jagdalpur on May 30 and Sarguja division head- quarters Ambikapur on June 3 to encourage ground level workers and provided guidance for its better implementation. During the workshop, it was found out that due to pro- cedural shortcomings a large number of forest rights claims have been rejected. On this the CM issued directions to review rejected applications and provide forest rights to other conven- tional eligible forest rights ben- eficiaries. He also emphasised on empowerment of the lowest level forest rights committees. As a result of which, direc- tions have been issued to each collector and forest officer for reorganisation of forest rights committees at village level. Simultaneously directions have also been issued for formation of district-level committees and departments. After reorganisation of these committees, claims received from these committees after verification will be reviewed again. In the first phase, those claims that have been rejected earlier will be considered. The number of such claims is more than 4 lakh in the State. In the second phase, those applications will be taken for review in which certificates have been issued but discrepancies have been found between area of claimed and approved land. Forest Rights Act 2006 has been implemented to provide recognition to communities hav- ing acquired forest land rights. RNI Regn. No. CHHENG/2012/42718, Postal Reg. No. - RYP DN/34/2013-2015

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Thousands of Kashmiris,locked down in their hous-

es for over a week, on Mondaycelebrated Eid, their first fes-tivity after the revocation ofArticle 370, without speakingto their loved ones or seeingeach other following “unprece-dented” clampdown in theValley since August 5.

The authorities in Kashmirdid allow worshippers to con-verge at nearby mosques, butmost revered places such as likeHazratbal Shrine, Idgah,remained out of bounds.

In the Valley, clashes brokeout in some sensitive places,but barring minor injuries to afew people, the overall situationremained peaceful. However, inJammu region, pro-Azadi slo-gans were raised by worship-pers while they stepped out ofJamia Masjid in Kishtwar in thepresence of security personneland senior officers, includingDeputy Commissioner AngrezSingh Rana.

However DC could not becontacted due to suspension oftelephone services to confirmthese reports.

According to eyewitnessreports, “over 2,000 worship-pers were present in themosque; and soon after theprayers were over, a large num-ber of them stepped out shout-ing provocative slogans andpro-Azadi slogans in Kishtwar”.Prayers were not allowed in tra-ditional Chougan Paradeground by the local authorities.

The paramilitary forces

deployed in the area, handledthe situation very tactfully anddespite severe provocationrefrained from taking anyaction against them.

Official sources claimednotorious elements were iden-tified by the police in thecrowd and action as per rule oflaw will follow against them indue course of time.

Meanwhile, NationalSecurity Adviser Ajit Doval,who is camping in Srinagar,conducted an aerial survey of

Srinagar and monitored the sit-uation. Several drones camerasand helicopters were seen fly-ing over Srinagar skies to keepa close tabs on the ground zero.

According to SP Pani,Inspector General of Police,Kashmir range, “The overallsituation in Kashmir remainedpeaceful barring minor inci-dents of law and order report-ed from parts of Srinagar”.

He said after Eid prayerspeople were dispersed in apeaceful manner.

Meanwhile, the Jammu &Kashmir Police rebutted mediareports that claimed involve-ment of policemen in a firingincident.

“This malicious content isstrongly rebutted. Matter hasbeen taken up with Twitter foraction,” tweeted the officialhandle of the Kashmir Zonepolice late on Monday.

In Jammu, prayers wereheld in a peaceful atmosphereamid tight security arrange-ments. A large number of

members belonging to theGujjar community celebratedEid holding tricolour in theirhands at the Jeora farms, nearthe International border in RSPura area.

Jammu’s DivisionalCommissioner Sanjeev Vermatold The Pioneer, “Eid prayerswere offered peacefully in allthe 10 districts of Jammuregion.” He said after theprayers, worshippers dispersedpeacefully at all the places.

Officials said 5,000 peoplecame to Eidgah, the mainvenue, and offered prayersamid strict security.

Earlier in Srinagar,Principal Secretary toGovernment of J&K andGovernment SpokespersonRohit Kansal maintained thatEid prayers have been offeredin all districts of Kashmir aswell in Jammu region. All nec-essary arrangements weremade to facilitate the people foroffering prayers at mosquesand other places.

Addressing the mediaper-sons in Srinagar, Rohit Kansalsaid that people in large num-bers came out to offer Eidprayers in their local areas andmosques in entire Kashmirdivision.

He said that in Srinagardistrict, hundreds of people vis-ited various mosques mainlyincluding Maqdoom Sahab,Dastgeer Sahab, Iqra Masjidand other places to offer Eidnamaz. All other districts ofKashmir division also sawmovement of people to themosques for offering prayers.

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India and China on Mondayagreed on a host of initiatives

to improve their relations, withNew Delhi emphasising thatthe future of the ties willdepend on the mutual sensi-tivity to each other’s “core con-cerns” to ensure that any bilat-eral differences should notbecome disputes.

Making his first visit toChina after taking over office,External Affairs Minister SJaishankar held candid talkswith top Chinese leaders.

His three-day visit to Chinacomes amid spiralling tensionsbetween India and Pakistanover the revocation of specialstatus to Jammu & Kashmir.

Before he settled for astructured talk with his coun-terpart Wang Yi, Jaishankarmet the tough-talking ChineseVice President Wang Qishan, aclose confidant of President XiJinping, at the picturesque res-idential complexZhongnanhai, where China’stop leaders reside.

He held a frank discussionwith Wang Qishan about thestate of the bilateral ties in thecontext of China’s concernsover the bifurcation of Jammu& Kashmir into two Union

Territories. After India revokedArticle 370 last week, Chinaissued two separate statementsoutlining its position onLadakh and J&K.

In one statement, Chinaobjected to the formation ofLadakh as a Union Territory byIndia, saying it undermined itsterritorial sovereignty.

After his meeting withWang Qishan, Jaishankar heldtalks with Wang Yi — first atrestricted delegation-levelmeeting followed by full-fledged delegation-level talksspanning over several hours.

At the end of the talks, bothJaishankar and Wang madecandid remarks at the 4thIndia-China media summitwhere they announced a hostof initiatives to boost ties aheadof Xi’s visit to India later thisyear. “It is natural, both asneighbours and large develop-ing economies, that there

would be issues in our ties.Properly managing differencesis therefore vital. As our lead-ers agreed in Astana, differ-ences should not become dis-putes. That is how India-Chinarelations can remain a factor ofstability in an uncertain world,”Jaishankar said.

The positive direction ofties after the Wuhan Summithas opened up a world of newconvergences, he said, referringto the informal summitbetween Prime MinisterNarendra Modi and PresidentXi last year.

“Exploiting this and takingour ties to a new level willrequire strong public support inboth societies. The media canmake a major contribution tothat goal,” he said.

Continued on Page 4 See P10: China promises to

address India’s concern overballooning trade deficit

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Faced with criticism by vet-erans and serving soldiers

over the decision to tax dis-ability pension, theGovernment has decided to rollit back in the next few days.The Government now wantsthe Services to devise ways tostop misuse of the facility of taxexemption.

The decision to tax pensiontaken in June applied to allthose soldiers and officers whohad served their entire tenureof service. However, those offi-cers who were invalidated dueto serious injuries were exemptfrom tax. Moreover, the dis-ability pension and normalpension were exempted fromtax before the controversialdecision.

Defence Minister RajnathSingh had assured Parliament

after the Opposition raised adin over the issue that he hasasked his officials to seek clar-ification from the FinanceMinistry regarding taxing thepension.

The June 24 order issuedby the Central Board of DirectTaxes (CBDT) removing taxexemption on disability pen-sion led to massive uproar inthe armed forces fraternity.However, the Governmentmaintained the step was takento stop misuse of the facility inpractice since 1922 by someunscrupulous elements, includ-ing senior officers.

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On a mission to cut debt inReliance Industries, bil-

lionaire Mukesh Ambani onMonday announced plans tosell stakes in the firm’s oil andchemicals business to Saudi oilgiant Aramco and in fuelretail network to BP plc for�1.15 lakh crore, and said itstelecom unit Jio will beginoffering fibre-based broad-band services from nextmonth.

Saudi Aramco will buy a20 per cent stake in the oil andchemicals business ofReliance, including the 1.36million barrels a day Jamnagarrefining complex in Gujarat,for an enterprise value of $75billion. BP will buy 49 per cent

stake in the firm’s 1,400 petrolpumps and aviation fuel sell-ing facilities at 31 airports foranother �7,000 crore.

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Having failed to decongestSouth Delhi in the last five

years, the Public WorksDepartment (PWD) hasplanned to construct a “signalfree” 14-km elevated corridorfrom INA Market to IndiraGandhi International Airport(IGIA) to unclog traffic. Theflyway will rest on the single-pillar series design.

According to the detailedproject report, the elevatedstretch will start from BrigadierHoshiyar Singh Marg and willconnect the Mahipalpur under-pass at the National Highwayvia Africa Avenue Marg,Vivekanand Marg. With this,the Ring Road traffic that cur-rently clogs the stretch will bediverted and commuters willreach IGIA smoothly.

The corridor will also helpthe National BuildingConstruction Corporationredevelop Nauroji Nagar.

The Central Governmentproject is yet to select anagency/company to carry outthe work. However, the PWDhas submitted the proposal tothe UTTIPEC, which in turnhas sought the suggestions ofDelhi Traffic Police on theproposal.

“The entire 14-km stretchwill be built on a single pillardesigning and the work on thisproject will start by 2020. Theestimated budget of the projectwill be �3,000 crore approxi-mately. It may decrease orincrease, once everything isfinalised,” said sources.

Officials involved in thisambitious project said buseswill be allowed to ply on thisflyover. Entry and exit will beprovided at four points wherepedestrians can climb the fly-over to board buses. “Lifts andstaircases will also be provid-ed. Besides, ramps facility willbe provided at BrigadierHoshiyar Singh Marg, Netaji

Marg, JNU”. Another roundabout will

be constructed on the top of theexisting roundabout. Theextension will provide a routetowards Africa Avenue, SarojiniNagar, Netaji Marg and willcross the Ring Road via BhikajiCama Place Flyover.

The stretch will then con-nect Outer Ring Road viaVivekananda Marg. The flyoverwill be constructed five metresabove the existing Munirkaflyover. Taking a right from thischowk, the corridor will movetowards Abdul Gaffar Margand will connect theMahipalpur Underpass situat-ed on NH-8.

“After reaching this under-pass, the commuters can easi-ly reach IGI Airport,” said anofficial.

The Barapullah Phase IVproject from INA to IGIA maybe abandoned as the plan fallson the Railway and Safdarjungairport land, sources said.

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Chhattisgarh has become thesecond State in the country

to provide rights to ScheduledTribes and other traditional for-est dwellers to acquire forestlands.

So far, over four lakh indi-vidual forest rights certificateshave been distributed, providingrecognition to 3 lakh 42 thou-sand hectares of forestland.Whereas, over 24,000 commu-nity forest rights certificates havebeen distributed providingrecognition to 9 lakh 50 thou-sand hectares of forestland, as perGovernment Press release.

According to the figures byUnion tribal affairs ministry,Odisha is the number one Statein distribution of forest rightscertificates while Maharastra isnumber one in providing recog-nition to forestlands.Chhattisgarh, on the other handcomes number two in the list ofboth the categories.

Soon after taking charge asChief Minister of Chhattisgarhon January 23, Bhupesh Baghelorganised a State-level workshopon forest rights and reviewed itsimplementation.

He said that it is the StateGovernments’ priority to provideforest rights to all claimants offorest rights certificates. TheGovernment will also assurethat residents in each village getclassified community forestrights.

The CM participated indivision-level workshops on for-est rights at Bastar divisionheadquarters Jagdalpur on May30 and Sarguja division head-quarters Ambikapur on June 3 toencourage ground level workersand provided guidance for itsbetter implementation.

During the workshop, itwas found out that due to pro-cedural shortcomings a largenumber of forest rights claimshave been rejected. On this theCM issued directions to review

rejected applications and provideforest rights to other conven-tional eligible forest rights ben-eficiaries.

He also emphasised onempowerment of the lowestlevel forest rights committees.

As a result of which, direc-tions have been issued to eachcollector and forest officer forreorganisation of forest rightscommittees at village level.Simultaneously directions havealso been issued for formation ofdistrict-level committees anddepartments.

After reorganisation of thesecommittees, claims receivedfrom these committees afterverification will be reviewedagain. In the first phase, thoseclaims that have been rejectedearlier will be considered. Thenumber of such claims is morethan 4 lakh in the State.

In the second phase, thoseapplications will be taken forreview in which certificates havebeen issued but discrepancieshave been found between area ofclaimed and approved land.

Forest Rights Act 2006 hasbeen implemented to providerecognition to communities hav-ing acquired forest land rights.

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While a tight security coveris in place in Jammu &

Kashmir to prevent any unto-ward incident after the Centre’smove on Article 370, the secu-rity establishment is worriedover a “new trend” of terror-ists sneaking in from across theLine of Control (LoC) andleaving behind weapons osten-sibly to be retrieved by terror-ists active within the State.

One such incident tookplace in Uri earlier this weekwhere the Army recoveredsome AK-47s after a firefightwith militants who came in andthen ran back towards PakistanOccupied Kashmir (POK).Given the rugged terrain there,it is feared that many moreweapons must have found theirway to the users in the pre-ceding days to bolster thedepleting firepower of the mil-

itants.Incidentally, the recovery

of three AK-47s, three pistolsand nearly 15 under barrelgrenades took place a day afterthe Government announced itsdecision on Article 370 onMonday. At least three to fourmilitants came in after thePakistan Army gave them cov-ering fire. An Indian armypatrol had a brief firefight withthe militants who escaped intoPOK leaving behind theweapons.

Admitting that the Armywas lucky to foil the bid andrecovered the weapons, officialsin the security establishment onSaturday did not rule out thepossibility of many moreweapons already reaching themilitants through the localnetwork. They also said "on theface of it the recovery of onlythree AK-47s and three pistolsmay look small but the new

trend is definitely is a cause ofconcern."

As nearly all the ingressroutes in North Kashmir arelocated in rugged terrain dot-ted by ravines and dense jun-gles, covering each and everyinch is difficult. Moreover,

dense fog and cloudy weatherprovides excellent umbrella tothe militants to either infiltrateor drop the weapons, officialssaid.

The new phenomenon alsoindicated that there is appar-ently a dearth of arms and

ammunition for the militants inthe Kashmir Valley, witnessingan unprecedented securityclampdown in view of repealof special status to State underArticle 370.

Even though no infiltrationbid or adopting the new tactic

of leaving behind weapons tobe retrieved by the local net-work came to light in the lastfew days, the Army is not leav-ing anything to chance. Thecounter-terrorism and counter-infiltration grid has been fur-ther strengthened.

Security forces brace up foraction along the LOC and fearterror attack actively backed bythe ISI and Pakistan Army inany part of the country in theaftermath of abrogation of arti-cle 370. This comes in thebackdrop of the corps com-manders of Pakistan Armydiscussing the issue on Tuesdaylast.

Faced with domestic pres-sure, the Pakistan Army islikely to go in for 'visible action'on the border in terms ofceasefire violations on the onehand and stoking terrorist vio-lence in Jammu and Kashmiron the other. The possibility of

such incidents taking place inother parts of the country wasalso feared, they said.

Chairing the CorpsCommanders meet, PakistanArmy chief General QamarJaved Bajwa had said his troopsare prepared to "go to anyextent" to help Kashmiris. Themeeting had single point agen-da of Kashmir. "Pakistan Armyfirmly stands by the Kashmirisin their just struggle to the veryend. We are prepared and shallgo to any extent to fulfill ourobligations...," Bajwa told thearmy commanders.

In a statement, the Armysaid the forum fully supportedthe Pakistan Government's"rejection of Indian actions"regarding Kashmir. OnMonday, Pakistan had con-demned and rejected theIndian government revokingArticle 370 of the Constitutionand vowed to exercise "all pos-

sible options" to counter India's"illegal" and "unilateral" step.

Explaining the rationalefor the all powerful PakistanArmy to resort to such strate-gy of turning the heat on theLOC, officials said here domes-tic compulsions will force it notto 'keep quiet' and the LOCmay see relentless cease fireviolations within the next fewdays.

Moreover, if the PakistanArmy does not do anything tostoke trouble in India, it maylose the support of the Pakistanbased terrorist groups includ-ing the Jaish-e-Mohammad(JeM)and Lashkar-e-Tayyaba(LeT). These twogroups are active in Jammu andKashmir. Also, the ISI andPakistan Army was alreadyusing social media to spreadmisinformation and the Indiansecurity agencies were takingcounter measures, they said.

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Senior Congress leaders — PChidambaram and Digvijay

Singh — have come underattack by the BJP for their lat-est comments on abrogation ofspecial status to Jammu &Kashmir under Article 370 ofthe Indian Constitution.

A day after senior Congressleader P Chidambaram saidthat Jammu &Kashmir wasstripped off its special statusbecause it is a Muslim-major-ity State, several UnionMinisters and several BJP lead-ers slammed the former HomeMinister and said the com-ments are regrettable andunfortunate.

While Chidambaram saidthe BJP would not have"snatched away" the specialstatus had Jammu &Kashmir

been a Hindu-dominated state,Digvijay Singh came underline of fire for stating thatIndia may lose Kashmir if theGovernment is not careful, a

statement dismissed by LawMinister Ravi Shankar Prasad.

The Law Minister accusedChidambaram of making a veryirresponsible and provocative

statement while UnionMinisters Mukhtar Abbas Naqviand Giriraj Singh regretted thefact that Congress' appease-ment mentality still exist.

Prasad said the decisiontaken by the Government is inthe interest of the people ofJammu & Kashmir, and theirdevelopment. Hitting out at theCongress, he asked if it was nottrue that over 42,000, mostlyMuslims, had died in the Valleyduring decades of violence.

Defending the decision onArticle 370, Naqvi said theGovernment has rectified avery big mistake made decadesago by the Congress. "What hehas said is an attempt to givecommunal colour to the issueeven though the decision is innational interest," he said.Former Madhya Pradesh ChiefMinister Shivraj SinghChouhan said the Congresswas giving the issue a commu-nal angle.

Alleging that BJP revokedthe Article with its "musclepower", Chidambaram had

said the situation in Jammu andKashmir was unstable and thatinternational news agencieswere covering the unrest, butnot Indian media houses.

Prasad also took to task theformer MP CM Digvijay Singhand remarked the moreDigvijay Singh speaks on thisissue, BJP's vote share increas-es. "I want to ask Sonia ji(Congress President SoniaGandhi), now that she hasbecome Congress presidentagain if this is Digvijay Singhspeaking or it is their party's lineas well," Prasad said.

Bihar's Deputy ChiefMinister Sushil Kumar Modisaid: "Unfortunately, formerfinance minister PChidambaram and DigvijaySingh are trying to inciteMuslim community against thegovernment on the issue (ofJammu and Kashmir)."

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Attacking the Centre overrestrictions on people of

Jammu & Kashmir post-Article 370 decision, CPI(M)general secretary SitaramYechury on Monday allegedthat the people of Kashmir havebeen kept "imprisoned" in theirown homes and it is unfair todo so on the occasion of Eid.

“Eid is an occasion of joyand celebration, and ourthoughts are with the people ofKashmir who have been keptimprisoned in their own

homes. We still don't knowhow or where our Comrades inKashmir are," he tweeted.

"We are a country ofdiverse languages, religions,cultures & ideas; this is ourstrength. The impact of unde-mocratically and forcibly alter-ing Jammu and Kashmir's sta-tus will be felt in other stateswith special status. Let's notforget that most are on India'sborders," Yechury said.

Last week, Yechury andCPI general secretary D Rajawere detained in Srinagar air-port and sent back to Delhi,when reached the troubled valley to meet theirparty workers.

Eid al-Adha prayers wereheld at various mosques in theKashmir Valley on Monday.The authorities had on Sundaysaid that people will be allowedto visit neighbourhoodmosques to offer prayers. Largegatherings, however, were notallowed in any part of the Valley.

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New Delhi: The Supreme Courtis scheduled to hear on Tuesdaya plea challenging the Centre'sdecision to impose restrictionsand "other regressive measures"in Jammu &Kashmir followingthe revocation of the provisionsof Article 370.

The plea filed by Congressactivist Tehseen Poonawalla islisted for hearing before a benchcomprising Justices ArunMishra, MR Shah and AjayRastogi.

Besides, a separate petitionfiled by Anuradha Bhasin,Executive Editor of KashmirTimes, seeking removal ofrestrictions imposed on workingof journalists in the state after the

scrapping of provisions ofArticle 370 is likely to be men-tioned for urgent listing in theapex court.

Poonawalla has said he isnot expressing any opinion onArticle 370 but seeking with-drawal of 'curfew/ restrictions'and other alleged regressivemeasures including blocking ofphone lines, Internet and newschannels in J&K.

He has also sought a direc-tion from the top court for therelease of leaders like formerchief ministers Omar Abdullahand Mehbooba Mufti, who areunder detention.

He has further sought set-ting up of a judicial commission

to inquire into ground realitiesthere.

The activist has claimedthat the decisions that havebeen taken by the Centre violatefundamental rights guaranteedunder Article 19 and 21 of theConstitution.

Besides the petitions filed byPoonawalla and Bhasin, theNational Conference (NC) hasalso moved the apex court chal-lenging the changes made in theconstitutional status of J&K,contending that these have takenaway rights of its citizens with-out their mandate.

The petition has been filedby Mohammad AKbar Loneand Justice (retd) Hasnain

Masoodi, both Lok Sabha mem-bers belonging to the NC.

Advocate Manohar LalSharma has also filed a separateplea challenging the PresidentialOrder on Article 370 whichrevoked Jammu and Kashmir'sspecial status.

President Ram Nath Kovindhas declared abrogation of theprovisions of Article 370 of theConstitution, which gave specialstatus to Jammu and Kashmir.

Parliament had approved aresolution abrogating specialstatus to Jammu and Kashmirunder Article 370 of theConstitution and a bill for split-ting the state into two union ter-ritories. PTI

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Rajya Sabha has launched aResearch Scheme to pro-

mote the study of functioning ofparliamentary institutions andimpact of legislations for grantsworth Rs 58.50 lakh for threecomponents.

The 'Rajya Sabha Researchand Study Scheme' wasapproved by Rajya SabhaChairman M.Venkaiah Naiduwith three components i.e oneDr.S Radhakrishnan Chair witha grant of Rs.22.50 lakhs, fourFellowships with a grant ofRs.8.50 lakhs each and 10 RajyaSabha Student Engagement

Internships with a stipend ofRs.10,000 each per month.

The scheme has been for-mulated after extensive discus-sions with Members of RajyaSabha, present and formerSecretaries General of bothHouses of Parliament and lead-ing academics and researchersfor the socio-economic trans-formation and efficacy of vari-ous parliamentary devices likevarious committees.

To ensure timely submissionof research and study reports,grants will be released based onthe progress of the project andthe awardees will have to submitreports every six months.

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Amid the continuing floodcrisis, the India

Meteorological Department(IMD) has predicted more rainin parts of central India andKerala, due to the formation ofa low pressure area over north-west Bay of Bengal on Tuesday.

The death toll in Keralareached 78 due to heavy rainsand flooding in the past fourdays while more than 160 per-sons lost their lives in Gujarat,Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh,Telangana and Maharashtra overthe past one week. The overallmonsoon rains since June 1 is insurplus now at 1%, east andnortheast India has a deficiencyof -15%, -9% in northwest India,15% surplus in central India,+5% surplus in peninsular India.

Former Prime Minister andJanata Dal (Secular) HD DeveGowda has written to PrimeMinister Narendra Modirequesting him to notifyKarnataka flood as a naturaldisaster or natural calamityand release Rs 5000 crore asinterim relief.

All rivers are in spate inKarnataka where the UNESCOworld heritage site in Hampi, onthe banks of the TungabhadraRiver in Ballari district, has beeninundated after over 1.70 lakhcusec water was released from areservoir on Sunday morning.Tourists in Hampi have beenshifted to safer places. Six per-sons, including a woman and hernine-month-old daughter, wereburied alive in landslides inthree different villages in

Chamoli district, Uttarakhand.Erosion caused by swirlingwaters of the flooded ChuflagadRiver also washed away twobuildings on its banks.

According to IMD, underthe influence of low pressurearea, heavy to very heavy rain-fall at isolated places is likely overnorth Odisha, south Jharkhand,north Chhattisgarh and eastMadhya Pradesh during next 48hours (August 13 to 14). Keralais also likely to experience heavyto very rainfall at isolated placesduring the same period," theIMD bulletin said. The IMDissued alert for Kannur,Kasaragod and Wayanad inKerala and Rudraprayag,Chamoli, Uttarkashi, Tehri,Haridwar, Bageshwar,Pithoragarh, Champawat,Nainital and Udham SinghNagar in Uttarakhand for heavyrainfall. There is an 'orange' cat-egory warning for parts of east,central India and Kerala forAugust 13 and 14. The orangecategory implies that authoritieswill have to remain prepared forany emergencies.

With rains subsiding inmany parts of Kerala, searchoperations are on in landslide-hit

Kavalappara and Puthumala inMalappuram and Wayanad dis-tricts, as the toll in the monsoonfury climbed to 76 and 2.87 lakhpeople have sought refuge inrelief camps. The toll is expect-ed to go up as 50 people are stillmissing in Malappuram. Thereis no 'red alert' of torrential rainsfor any of the 14 districts onTuesday, but "orange alert" hasbeen issued for six districts toremain prepared for any emer-gencies.

A total of 5,81,897 peoplehave been evacuated and res-cued so far, and 1,181 reliefcamps have been opened where3,32,629 people are taking shel-ter in Karnataka. . As many as2,694 villages in 17 districtshave been affected. Accordingto information available fromthe state government, the deathtoll is 42 so far, while 12 weremissing.

In Jammu and Kashmir,three members of a family diedafter they came under a boulderduring a landslide in Resai dis-trict. Two others were alsoinjured in the incident that tookplace on Sunday evening inLaar village in the district'sMahore belt.

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As his pet campaign'Swachchh Bharat Mission'

(SBM) completes five years onOctober 2, 2019, Prime MinisterNarendra Modi has decided toexpress his gratitude by e-mail-ing 'Swachch Aabhaar' letters in12 Indian languages to around10 lakh citizens, includingcelebrities, from various sectorsthanking them for their supportto the cleanliness drive.

The Government hasclaimed that implementation ofthe SBM has led to sanitationcoverage to 99.22 per cent fromits earlier status of about 38 percent since its launch on October2014.

"In recognition of their out-standing contributions towardsOpen Defecation Free (ODF)

sustainability, Aabhaar lettershave been planned to be dis-patched through emails," said asenior official from the Union JalShakti Ministry, which wasformed recently after clubbingUnion Water and SanitationMinistry and Union Rural andDevelopment Ministry. TheGovernment had said that byOctober, 2, 2019, entire countrywill be ODF.

"At the time of launch, thePrime Minister had given aclarion call for a 'janandolan' forswachchta. Swachch Bharat hassince become the world's largestbehavioral change campaign.The success of the mission isgreatly attributed to the peopleof different sectors of the soci-ety who have demonstratedexemplary leadership in thecleanliness mission," the official

added.Cricketer Sachin Tendulkar

and cinestars like Akshay Kumarand Anushka Sharma, NitaAmbani, wife of industrialistMukesh Ambani, were amongseveral personalities who joinedthe 'Swachhta hi Seva' campaignfollowing the Prime Minister'sclarion call.

The Ministry is now scout-ing for an agency that can do thejob which will also includetranslating the text of the letterin 12 Indian languages includ-ing Urdu, Punjabi, Bengali,Tamil, Kannada, Marathi andGujarati among others.

To promote sanitation, thePrime Minister had In 2017

written personalised letters toiconic celebrities, prominentindustrialists, sportspersons,film stars, inter-faith leadersand other noted personalities toenlist their support for the'Swachhata Hi Seva' movement,saying it is the most noble ser-vice.

He wrote, "Let us ensure thatthe coming days are about liv-ing the Mantra of 'Swachhata HiSeva'."

The Swachh BharatAbhiyan aims to make India acleaner place by emphasising onsanitation and health as alsochanging age-old attitudestowards hygiene. "I personallyinvite you to lend your supportto the 'Swachhata Hi Seva' move-ment and dedicate some time forthe cause of a Swachh Bharat,"PM Modi wrote.

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Bringing back memories ofthe multi-crore fodder scam,

the CBI has booked a privatecontractor and officials of theFood Corporation of India(FCI) for transporting 2,901quintals of rice through scoot-ers, cars and even water tankers.In the fodder scam, instances ofcattle having been ferried onscooters/two wheelers wereshown in records to make up forthe money siphoned off fromthe treasury.

In the bizarre case, the CBIhas registered an FIR against aprivate transport contractor andofficials of FCI for allegedlystealing 2,901 kg of rice worthRs 85 lakh.

The accused persons stolethe rice and in the records of thetransshipment cited the licencenumbers of scooters, motorcycles, buses and water tankers.

The CBI has launched theprobe into the matter after reg-istering an FIR on a complaintfrom the FCI.

It was alleged that a total of9,191 quintals (9,19,100 kg) ofrice was dispatched fromSalchapra rail terminal in Assamfor Koirengei in Manipurbetween March 7, 2016 toMarch 22, 2016 on 57 trucks ofa private transporter, ZenithEnterprises. Each truck wasgiven a road movement permit.

The consignment reachedthe destination after two months

for covering a distance of 275.5km, which in the normal coursetakes about nine hours.

Verification showed that2901.63 quintals (2,90,163 kg) ofrice worth Rs 84.98 lakh beingtransported by 16 vehicles hadbeen misappropriated.

This rice was not deliveredat Koirengei depot but wasshown in records as havingbeen received, the FIR alleged.

In sown affidavit, the trans-porter claimed that the delaywas due to breakdown of truckswhich required transhipment ofthe food grains through othertrucks.

The CBI enquiry revealedthat license numbers of tran-shipment vehicles, replacingtrucks which had allegedly bro-ken down, were not trucks butLML and Honda Activa scoot-ers, motorcycles, water tankers,bus, Maruti van, cars and ghostvehicles whose numbers hadnot been even registered by theRoad Transport Offices con-cerned, according to the FIR.

The license numbersrecords showed that two tranch-es of 16,300 kg and 10,000 kg ofmissing rice were transported byscooters and another tranche of16,300 kg of stolen rice was

transported by a motorcycle, theFIR alleged.

Non-transportation of theaforesaid 2601.63 quintals of riceto Koirengei and its misappro-priation is further substantiatedby the fact that the vehiclenumbers mentioned in records,including the vehicles used intranshipment in respect of afore-said 16 road movement permits,were not entered in the in thecheckpost betweenLeingangpokpi police check-post and Keithelmanbi policecheck post, according to the FIR.

It is alleged that officials ofFCI at Salchapra, Ashish KumarPaul and Rajnish Kumar Gupta,had fraudulently issued these 16permits without loading therice, and L Johson, a represen-tative of the transporter ZenithEnterprises, had falsely signedthese permits, the FIR said.

It said Soibam Surjit Singhof the transporter company hadallegedly submitted false affi-davits regarding the breakdownof trucks en route and tran-shipment by other vehicles.

False entries of receipt wereallegedly made by officials atKoirengei, they said adding thatthe transport company alsoraised fake bills of 16 trucks, offi-cial said adding all of them havebeen booked under IPCSections relating to criminalconspiracy, cheating, forgery,using a forged document as gen-uine and falsification of accountsbesides relevant provisions of thePrevention of Corruption Act.

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chhattisgarh 03RAIPUR | TUESDAY | AUGUST 13, 2019

Muslims community celebrated Eid al-Adha or Bakrid on Monday with happiness and vigour. Two young friends greet eachother after offering Eid prayers at an Eidgah in the state capital.

STAFF REPORTER n BHILAI

Chhattisgarh Chief MinisterBhupesh Baghel dedicating the

‘Bal Mitra’ room in Purani Bhilaipolice station on Monday, said it isan innovative and good experiment.

“Psychology of a whole genera-tion will be affected by it. Childrenwill get a message that police arethere to provide security to people,who will take care of them like theirparents,” he said.

The biggest attraction is booksfor children, like comics of ‘ChachaChoudhary’, ‘Naagraj’ which canhelp improve creativity and it willopen new world for them, he said.

Appreciating Durg police, hesaid new avenues will open for bet-ter productivity and will providenew meaning to work.

“It is a positive thinking that ina police station child friendlycorner has been made. Not onlychildren but whoever enters thepolice station will witness the sensi-tive face of the police,” the CM said.

Chief Minister said success ofpolicing is to maximize interactionwith public to give better results.

A ‘Khana Khajana’ centre alsoset up where Baghel tasted fewitems.

Home minister TamradwajSahu said, “It will help to developpositive image of police. It’s a wellplanned step.”

In eight police stations ‘childfriendly rooms have been made.They are Bhilai, Purani Bhilai,Patan, Jamul, Durg, Mohan Nagar,Pulgaon and Utai. It has books andindoor games facilities.

‘Innovative ‘Bal-Mitra’ will changemindset of children about Police’

ANKIT MISHRA n RAIPUR

Key to avoid wild elephant’swrath is the real time

information about themovement of pachyderm anda WhatsApp group has comein handy in this regard, tellsAmalendu Mishra, a wild lifeexpert based in Ambikapurwho has been running aspecial programme ‘HamarHathi Hamar Goth’ since 2016in northern Chhattisgarh.

“Through complexnetwork of WhatsApp groupwhich involves forestdepartment officials, ‘HathiMitra Dal’ members, localbodies representatives andlocal influencers in Surgujaregion we are able to reachover 20,000 people living inelephant sensitive zone,”

claims Mishra. ‘Hamar Hathi Hamar

Goth’ is a 5-minute specialprogramme broadcasts fromAll India Radio (AIR)Ambikapur, Ragiarh andRaipur stations on daily basis.It airs the every-day location ofwild elephants.

“According to the AIRofficials the programme isquite famous and more than 4lakh people acrossChhattisgarh listen to thisprogramme,” confirms ChiefConservator of Forest (CCF)Wildlife KK Bisen.

There are few major roadsincluding state highways thatpass through forested patch inSurguja, Surajpur andBalrampur districts which areinfamous for elephantencounters.

“On our WhatsApp

groups especially during theevening hours, we daily receivequestions whether these roadsare safe to travel or not. Thequeries are addressed by‘Hathi Mitra Dal’ staff whichkeeps a live track of wildelephant movement on theground,” claims Mishra.

As per data from forestdepartment during the finan-cial year 2018-19, 56 peoplewere killed by wild elephantsin the northern Chhattisgarh.This number was much higherduring 2017-18, wherein 74people were trampled to deathby the pachyderms.

Currently, there arearound 220 wild elephants inChhattisgarh which live androam in forests of Surguja,Jashpur, Surajpur, Balrampur,Raigarh and few parts ofKorba.

WhatsApp to avoid wild elephants!STAFF REPORTER nBILASPUR

Chhattisgarh minister forcorporate tax (excise),

commerce and industryKawasi Lakhma visited SipatSuper Thermal PowerStation of the NTPC Limitedon August 12.

He was accompanied byBilaspur MLA ShaileshPandey and EX-MLA DilipLehriya, according to aNTPC communiqué.

On his arrivalPadmakumar Rajasekharan,chief general manager,NTPC-Sipat welcomed himwith a bouquet of flower atJahnavi Guest house.

During the visit theminister and his entouragevisited the model room tounderstand the process ofelectricity generation and

the functioning of the entireestablishment of Sipat SuperThermal Power Station.

Later they visited thecontrol room where generalmanager (operation)Kamlesh Soni thoroughlyexplained to them the entire

process of electricity genera-tion and how the powerplant is being controlledfrom that place. Lakhma andother guests planted asapling each for protectionof the environment beforedeparting the plant.

Lakhma visits NTPC Sipat

ABHIJAT SHUKLA n RAIPUR

Raipur Mayor PramodDubey has emphasized the

need for getting the status of ametropolitan city for Raipur forthe speedy development of thecapital city.

Talking to The PioneerMayor Dubey said the capitalcity being governed by RaipurMunicipal Corporation fulfillsthe criteria of being a metropol-itan as per the population it hasas per census of 2011.

“As per Article 243P ofNagarpalika Act, 1993 theconstitutional status of ametropolitan area in thecountry is an area wherepopulation is above 10 Lakh

and the capital city fulfills thiscriteria as the population as percensus of 2011 exceeds this fig-ure”, he said. “As per census2011 the population of the cityexceeds 11 lakhs”, he added.

The present status of thecity is an Urban AgglomerationMillion Plus city and it mustnow be upgraded as a metro-politan, he said.

“Earlier I tried to get pass aresolution regarding it in gener-al body meeting of the corpora-tion but failed due to lack ofsupport from the opposition”,he said adding “once again Icould table this resolution ifopposition members are readyto support it.”

“It is in the benefit of the

city as we will be able to getadditional financial assistance fromthe Union government. So the issueshould not be politicized”, he said.

“The mechanized sweepingwhich has now been started in thecapital city could have been donetwo years ago if the opposition BJPcorporators had supported mymove then”, he added.

Meanwhile, senior BJPCorporator Manoj Prajapaticommenting on the issue assured tosupport “any such move which is inthe interest of citizens of the cityand beneficial to most of thepopulation.”

“We the opposition corporatorsof the BJP will support any suchissue which will benefit the citizens”,he reiterated.

Metropolitan status must for speedydevelopment of capital: Mayor DubeyRaipur fulfills the criteria of being a metro city

STAFF REPORTER nJANJGIR CHAMPA

Four days after the mutilatedbody of an international

football player from Africa wasfound on a railway track onMumbai-Howrah rout atBaradwar in Janjgir-Champadistrict, authorities have notbeen able to trace the train onwhich the footballer was trav-elling.

“No one has come forwardto claim the body of the man.However, we are in touch withthe family members of the vic-tim and most likely by Tuesdaythey will reach here,”Superintendent of PoliceJanjgir-Champa Parul Mathursaid.

On whether they got anyupdates from Railway in con-nection with the incident, shesaid that the police had con-tacted Railway officers inHowrah about any missing

bags in trains on Mumbai-Howrah route, however so far,they have received no inputs inthis regard.

Meanwhile, multipleattempts over cell phone andtext messages to contact rail-way public relation officer inBilaspur went in vain and noupdate was provided by them.

Notably, body of anunidentified man was foundon busy Howrah-Mumbairoute in Baradwar police sta-tion limits on Friday evening.He was later identified asDiomandé Aboubacar an IvoryCoast national. With the bodyonly a mobile phone wasfound.

Police sources informedthat based on investigation sofar it was learnt thatAboubacar had landed inMumbai on August 8 and wason his way to join his team-mates in Kolkata.

Death of int’l footballplayer: authorities’ clueless

CM to meetMPs, MLAsevery TuesdayRAIPUR: Chief MinisterBhupesh Baghel will meetMembers of Parliament (MPs)and Members of LegislativeAssembly (MLAs) of the stateevery Tuesday.

Informing this, officialsources said the meetings with thestate leaders will begin fromAugust 13. The leaders have beenallotted the time slot of 11.00 a.m.to 1.00 p.m. for the meeting.

Last month the CM inaugu-rated a 'Jan Choupal' programme.Under the programme, publicmeetings are held once everyweek at his official residence todiscuss the issues of the people.

The concept of 'Jan Choupal'has been taken from the earliertraditional practice wherevillagers used to gather and solvethe issues faced by them.

STAFF REPORTER nBILASPUR

Chhattisgarh excise andindustries minister Kawasi

Lakhma said stern action willbe taken against the officials ifthey fail to curb sale of smug-gled liquor from Maharashtraand Madhya Pradesh in thestate.

Lakhma is on a two-dayvisit to Bilaspur to participate indifferent events. He wasaddressing the media when thequestion was raised, as largequantity of liquor of brands soldin Maharashtra and MadhyaPradesh was seized by exciseand police departments in thestate.

One of the distilleries inBilaspur district was supposedto sell the brewed liquor inMadhya Pradesh but it sold theproducts locally.

The minister was surprisedwhen he was intimated that aperson, who served six monthsjail term for financial misappro-priation in a government liquorshop and was also caught forillegal sale of liquor aftersmuggling it from neighboringstates, had been made aregional manager in Mungelidistrict, after his release. He saidthe matter will be looked into.

Lakhma for stern actionagainst smuggled liquor sale

STAFF REPORTER nRAIGARH

Atruck driver was trampledto death by a herd of wild

elephants in Raigarh districton Monday, a forest officialsaid.

The incident took placearound 5:30 am near Bojiyavillage on Gharghoda-Chhalroad under Chhal forest range,said Pranay Mishra, DivisionalForest Officer (DFO),Dharamjaigarh division.

As per preliminary infor-mation, the victim identifiedas Sanoj Ram (35) had parkedthe truck on the side of theroad that passes throughdense forest after it brokedown and was sleeping insidethe cabin, he said.

A herd of wild elephantssuddenly came out of the forest

and charged at his truck andtried to smash it. The elephantsbroke the truck’s windshieldwith its trunk following whichthe driver jumped out of thevehicle through its windowand tried to escape from thespot. But the elephants chasedhim and caught hold of himand trampled him to death onthe spot, the DFO added.

Soon after being alerted,forest and police personnelreached to the spot and sentthe body for post mortem, hesaid.

The deceased was a nativeof Aurangabad district ofBihar. His relatives have beeninformed about the incident,he said.

The compensation will beprovided to the kin of thedeceased after they come toRaigarh, he added.

Elephants attack truck,trample driver to death

STAFF REPORTER n RAIPUR

On the occasion of last‘Shrawan Somwar’, chief

minister worshipped lord Shivaat a temple in Bhimsen BhawanSamta Colony on Monday andprayed for happiness and

prosperity of people of the state.He also participated in

‘Kanwar Yatra’ being organisedon this occasion. The yatra wastaken out from Samta Colonyand culminated at HatkeshwarMahadeo temple at MahadeoGhat.

CM participatesin ‘Kanwar Yatra’

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Ever thought what a whitesmoke cloud like structure

coming out from any nuclearpower station is composed of?It is not a gas coming out of thehuge bell shaped structure vis-ible from miles away but juststeam. No dangerous radiationis emitted from generation ofelectricity in a nuclear plant, infact radiation occurs naturally

in the environment too.The site director of

Rajasthan Atomic Power Stationsite, VK Jain said, “You will notsee a nuclear power plant erupt-ing into a mushroom cloud ofgases, there is nothing to fear. Itis physically impossible for areactor to explode like a nuclearweapon or atomic bomb. Allreactors are built with many lay-ers of safety controls and design,and India has excellent safetyrecord of 50 years. There has

been no incident of radioactiv-ity beyond stipulated limits inpublic domain.” Highlightingthe efficiency of the nuclearfacilities in India, head of thepublic awareness division,Department of Atomic Energy,Ravi Shankar said, “KaigaGenerating Systems KGS-1, hasworld record for continuousoperation of 962 days which isnoteworthy.” The steam gener-ated from a nuclear plant is notradioactive because it does notcome into contact with the pri-mary circuit. It is converted backinto water and cooled in acooling tower.

The water is either usedagain as a water bath or isreleased into a river, lake, orocean as most of the powerplants are built near rivers.

Notably, radiation dosearound nuclear power plants isa negligible fraction of naturalbackground added RaviShankar.

About 18 per cent of naturalradiation comes from buildingsor soil, 14 per cent is cosmic, 42per cent from radon, 11 per centfrom food or drinking watermaking it a total of 85 per centwhile nuclear industry is justone per cent.

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AMemorandum ofUnderstanding (MoU) was

signed between Haryana andRussia for trade and investmentin many areas includingTimber, Healthcare, Real Estateand Education, in Vladivostok,Russia on Monday.

On behalf of Haryana,Chief Minister Manohar LalKhattar and on behalf ofRussia, Aisen Nikolaev, Head ofthe Russian Far EasternProvince of Sakha (Yakatukia)signed the MoU, in the pres-ence of Union Minister ofCommerce and Industry,Piyush Goyal, a statementreleased by the Haryana gov-ernment on Monday said.

This will expand andstrengthen the economic co-operation between the SakhaRepublic of the RussianFederation and the State ofHaryana.

Prime Minister, NarendraModi would visit the Far EastRegion of Russia to attend theEastern Economic Forum to beheld in September 2019. Inview of this, a delegation from

India under the leadership ofUnion Minister, Piyush Goyalhas visited to Vladivostok,Russia from August 11 to 14.Goyal was accompanied byHaryana Chief Minister MrManohar Lal.

On this occasion, DeputyPrime Minister, RussianFederation, Yuri Trutnev wasalso present. During the inau-guration session, Khattar deliv-ered his speech in Russian

which was very well received bythe Russian dignitaries andbusiness community. He dis-cussed to explore the possibil-ities of cooperation and invest-ment in Oil, Gas and Energysector.

During the visit, theBusiness delegates fromHaryana held promising B2Bmeetings with Russian coun-terparts. The representatives ofYamunanagar plywood cluster

representatives also participat-ed in B2B meetings to exploreopportunities in trade andinvestment in the Timber sec-tor.

In addition, the represen-tatives of healthcare sectorfrom the State also had fruitfulmeetings with Russian Businessdelegates to assess nature ofopportunities and viability ofinvesting in the RussianHealthcare industry.

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Aspecial investigation team(SIT) has been formed to

probe impersonation duringthe written examination for therecruitment of constables inHimachal Pradesh.

The exam was conductedon Sunday but the state gov-ernment cancelled it after thearrest of people posing as can-didates.

Over 39,000 candidateshad appeared for the exami-nation in all 12 districts of thestate. A new date would beannounced soon, a spokesper-son said. He said 13 personswere arrested, of which threewere from Himachal Pradesh,seven from Haryana, two fromUttar Pradesh and one fromRajasthan.The accused wereproduced before a Kangracourt, which sent them to four-day police custody till August16, he added.

A case was registeredagainst the accused underSections 419 and 420 of theIndian Penal Code (IPC) at theBhawarna police station inKangra district.Four fabricatedvests with wiring, mobile

devices and ear pieces wereseized from them, thespokesperson added.

A car with a registrationnumber of Haryana was alsoseized.Contact was being estab-lished with police in Haryana,UP and Rajasthan to ascertainthe criminal record of theaccused, he added.

The police spokespersonsaid the SIT headed byPalampur SDPO Amit Sharmawas working tirelessly to collectall relevant evidence and theKangra SP was supervising theoperation.He said the questionpaper for the written test wasnot leaked prior to the test.

Meanwhile, talking tomediapersons after a functionhere today, Chief Minister JaiRam Thakur said the decisionto cancel the test was taken inthe interest of genuine candi-dates.

Instructions had beenissued to conduct the writtentest afresh at the earliest afterstudying and incorporating thebest practices from other com-petitive exams, he said, addingthat no fee would be chargedfrom the candidates for thefresh test.

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Haryana Development andPanchayats Minister, OP

Dhankar on Monday said thatthe 7-Star Rainbow schemewhich was launched to con-nect the Gram Panchayatswith social causes, has bornefruits. Under this, 3930 GramPanchayats (GPs) out of6,167 GPs, which is 63 percent have successful lyachieved star rating from 1 to6 star.

Addressing a press con-ference regarding the 7-StarRainbow scheme here,Dhankar said that last year,1,122 Gram Panchayats hadachieved the S\tar ratingsunder the scheme, which wasjust 18 per cent and it hasincreased to 63 per cent, thisyear. He said that on August13, 2019, 20 GPs which haveachieved 6-Star Rating and 58GPs which have achieved 5-Star Rating and four districtsof Rohtak division namelyRohtak, Jhajjar, Charkhi-Dadri and Bhiwani forachieving 4 to 1-Star would befelicitated by Union RuralDevelopment, Agricultureand Farmers Welfare andPanchayati Raj Minister,

Narendra Singh Tomar, in afunction to be organised atMaharishi DayanandUniversity, Rohtak.

Dhankar said that 628GPs would be felicitated inthe function.

“This year, all Star GPswould be given away awardsworth of � 84 crore, whereaslast year, awards worth � 21crore were given away lastyear.

After Rohtak, Star ratingaward distribution ceremonywould also be organised inGurugram, Karnal and Hisar,” he added.

The minister said that

270 GPs of 20 districts haveachieved four-Star and 794GPs of all 22 districts, haveachieved three-Star, 1,375GPs have achieved two-Starand 1,413 GPs have achieved1-Star. He said that next year,it would be mandatory forGram Panchayats to get them-selves registered to get the starrating and for the rating pur-pose, in digitalization anddropouts, Class 10 would alsobe included for assessmentinstead of Class 8.

He said this year, 5,279GPs have registered them-selves, whereas 4,902 GPswere registered last year. Hesaid that Gram Panchayatshave been working with fulldedication for social causes,which is evident in StarRating assessment. In 2,312GPs (30 per cent) haveachieved star in the categoryof no lawsuit in their villages.

Similarly, 3,604 GPshave achieved stars for main-taining cent per cent enroll-ment of children in schools,that is, zero drop out, 1,108GPs have achievedEnvironment preservationStar rating, 465 GPs haveachieved Sex Ratio Star rating,240 GPs achieved Hygiene

and Sanitation Star rating,203 GPs achieved GoodGovernance Star rating and103 GPs achieved SocialParticipation Star Rating.

The minister said that it isa matter of great pride forHaryana that Andhra Pradeshhas adopted its Star rating sys-tem and Himachal Pradeshhas adopted the Gram GauravPatt. In about 3500 villages,Gaurav Patts have beeninstalled. He said that Inter-District Parishad has beenconstituted for decentraliza-tion of power.

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With the increase in gen-eration from 1,500 MW

Nathpa Jhakri Hydro PowerStation and 412 MW RampurHydro Power Station, SJVNLimited has recorded 17.95per cent increase in the rev-enues from operations duringthe first quarter of FY 2019-20.

The revenues from opera-tions of the company haveincreased to �.724.49 crorefrom �. 614.22 crore during thecorresponding quarter of lastfinancial year, a statementissued here on Monday said.

With the favorable weath-er conditions the projects ofSJVN generated 3200 MillionUnits of electricity during firstquarter of this financial yearwhile 2404 Million Units ofelectricity were generated dur-ing the corresponding period oflast financial year.

While the company's ProfitAfter Tax(PAT) increased43.23% from�.293.60 crore to�. 420.54 crore, the PBT (ProfitBefore Tax) grew 42.84% from�. 384.79 crore to �. 549.65crore. Resultantly, the compa-ny's EPS during the quarter hasincreased from 51 paise to �.1.07.

The financial results of thecompany were declared at ameeting of the Board ofDirectors held at New Delhi.

Nand Lal SharmaChairman & ManagingDirector stated that 1500 MWNathpa Jhakri Hydro PowerStation and 412 MW RampurHydro Power Station which

comprise the biggest HydroComplex in the country is cre-ating new benchmarks eachyear in power generation.

He further said that thecurrent installed generationcapacity of SJVN is 2015 MW.SJVN has also forayed into thefields of Renewable Energy,Power Transmission andThermal.

The CMD said that SJVNhas envisaged Internal GrowthTargets and is vigorouslymarching forward for achiev-ing installed capacity of 5000MW by 2023, 12000 MW by2030 and 25000 MW by year2040.

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Afive-feet-long cobra wasrescued from a computer

CPU at a private school in theKhelar area of Dhauli onSunday. The snake was spottedat the office of the SaraswatiShishu Mandir during a schoolmeeting at around 5 pm. Thepanicked officials informedthe Snake Helpline to rescuethe serpent.

Snake Helpline memberBiranchi Narayan Acharya ofBalakati reached the schooland rescued the cobra, whichhad got stuck inside the com-puter CPU. Later, he releasedthe snake into a nearby forest.

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Away from home and feelinglonely on the Eid, hundreds

of Kashmiri students, who arestudying in various collegesand universities in Punjab andcould not travel home to cele-brate the festival with theirfamilies, were in for a pleasantsurprise on Monday morning.

The invitation from PunjabChief Minister Capt AmarinderSingh for lunch at PunjabBhavan made it an occasion tocherish, and to feel at home foraround 125 students from var-ious universities of Punjab.

Assuring them that he wasconfident that things wouldimprove soon in Kashmir, theChief Minister greeted theyoungsters with best wishesfor normalcy soon.

“We cannot replace yourfamilies but I hope you considerus as your family too,” he toldthe students, assuring them oftheir safety and security inPunjab.

Though he had not been toKashmir for a long time due tohis busy political schedule, heconsidered the beautiful Valleyhis second home, said CaptAmarinder, adding that it washis heartfelt desire to share the

happiness of this festival withthe students.

He reassured the studentsthat he was confident theirfamilies back home would alsobe well and safe, and theywould be able to meetsoon.Reciprocating the ChiefMinister’s sentiments, the stu-dents said that they too con-sidered Punjab their secondhome, where they had alwaysfelt safe, even after the Pulwamaattack.

“We have seen thatPunjabis have a big heart,”quipped a student, Faiq Salem,while another thanked CaptAmarinder for hearing theirvoice“Coming here todayreminds us of our families,” saidFarzana Hafeez, another stu-dent, admitting that till theyreceived the invitation, they hadbeen feeling very lonely at thethought of not being home forEid.

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Beneficiaries of PradhanMantri Awas Yojana

(PMAY) having the best deco-rated house will be awardedunder PMAY Award 2019. TheMinistry of Housing and UrbanAffairs is organising PMAYAward 2019 to promote thework being done under thescheme till date.

Under this award, the bestperforming states, municipalcorporations, municipalities andalso the beneficiaries havingbeautifully decorated houseswill be felicitated.

Assistant Director,Municipal administration direc-torate, Sanjay Kumar informedthat three houses from everystate will be selected and theowners will be felicitated at anational level award ceremony.

To nominate oneself for theaward, the beneficiary of PMAY(urban) will have to upload twophotos of their house and twoselfies with the house on the offi-cial mobile application namedPMAY(U), which can be down-loaded from app store.

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Punjab Government hasdecided to provide legal and

financial support for a reviewpetition against the SupremeCourt’s recent verdict orderingdemolition of Guru Ravidastemple in Delhi's Tughlaqabad.

Besides, the Governmentwould also bear the expenses tore-build a new shrine at thesame place. “Chief MinisterCapt Amarinder Singh hadalready spoken to the UnionUrban Development MinisterHardeep Singh Puri for re-allotment of the same site,” saidthe state Cabinet MinisterCharanjit Singh Channi, onMonday.

Channi, the state’s TechnicalEducation and IndustrialTraining, and EmploymentGeneration Minister, is the partof five-member panel set up bythe Chief Minister a day beforeto meet the religious and polit-ical representatives of theRavidas community to draw upa comprehensive strategy toresolve the issue triggered afterthe demolition of the ancienttemple.

Besides Channi, the stateSocial Security andDevelopment Minister ArunaChaudhary, Congress’ JalandharMP Santokh Singh Chaudhary,Chabbewal MLA Dr Raj Kumarand Jalandhar West MLA SushilKumar Rinku are the membersof the panel.

The announcements camea day after the Dalit outfits,under the banner of the GuruRavidas Jayanti Samaroh Samiti,had called for a state-widebandh in Punjab on August 13to protest the recent reported

demolition of the Sri GuruRavidas temple in Tughlakabadin Delhi, on the order of theSupreme Court. The Samiti hasalso announced that it willobserve 15th August as a “BlackDay”.

The Supreme Court hasordered the demolition of theshrine in its recent order, spark-ing protests from the commu-nity across the State.

Alarmed over the situa-tion, the Chief Minister hadappealed to the Prime MinisterNarendra Modi to personallyintervene to resolve the tension.Besides, he also set up a com-mittee to resolve the issue.

Capt Amarinder hadappealed to the community tocall off their protests as hisGovernment was ready toextend its full support to themto get the matter amicablyresolved with the Centre.

While appealing to thePrime Minister to step in for aresolution, Capt Amarinderalso spoke to the UnionMinister Puri to seek re-allot-ment of the same site, whichreportedly belongs to the DelhiDevelopment Authority, toenable the community to recon-struct the temple.

CONG EXTENDS SUPPORT,APPEALS TO ENSUREPEACEFUL PROTESTS

Extending PunjabCongress’ support to theRavidas community on thedemolished temple issue, thestate unit president Sunil Jakharon Monday appealed to the pro-

testors to ensure that the com-mon people are not adverselyimpacted as a result of theirprotests.

Jakhar, the Punjab PradeshCongress Committee (PPCC)president, said that the partystood by the community andwould help in every possibleway to pursue the case for re-allocation of the historic site andreconstruction of the templedemolished in Delhi under theSupreme Court’s orders.

However, in the interest ofthe people, he urged the GuruRavidas Jayanti Samaroh Samiti,which is spearheading theprotests, not to block roadsand highways as that was caus-ing hardship to the commuters.

“PPCC would stand withthe community in its fight forrestoration of the site and forrebuilding of the temple andother connected structures,”said Jakhar while also thankingthe Chief Minister for comingout in Samiti’s support and tak-ing up the matter with the cen-tral government.

SAD TO MEET SHAH,EXTENDS ALL SUPPORT

Condemning the demoli-tion and vandalism of historicShri Guru Ravidass Temple byDelhi Development Authority atTughlakabad village in Delhi,the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD)president Sukhbir Badal onMonday said that the party isready to help restore the legalcase as well as re-build the his-toric temple at party’s expens-es.

Citing that the baani of SriGuru Ravi Dass is inextricablepart of Sri Guru Granth Sahib,he said that SAD will not toler-ate beadbi (desecration) to reli-gious Gurus and will take up thematter with the CentralGovernment.

“It is a matter of faith of mil-lions of followers of Shri GuruRavidass ji in and outsidePunjab...At this hour, SAD firm-ly stands with the followers ofShri Guru Ravidass ji,” he saidwhile vowing to resolve the issueat the earliest by taking up thematter with the Union HomeMinister Amit Shah.

Expressing anguish andastonishment to know that thehistoric temple — for whichland was donated by the thenruler Sikandar Lodhi and rev-enue records reveal that the landbelongs to the community —was vandalized, besides forciblyremoving Shri Ravidass idol,Sukhbir said that it seems thelocal committee managing theTemple could not be adequate-ly represented in the Court.

AAP TO SUE BADALS FORMISLEADING STATEMENTAGAINST IT

Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP)Punjab unit, taking a seriousview of the “outpourings” ofSAD’s certain leaders against theparty over the demolition of his-toric Guru Ravidas temple inthe national capital by DDA onAugust 10, on Monday said thatit would sue them for spear-heading a “cheap campaign” tograb political mileage besides

saving their own skin.AAP accused the SAD of

“mounting a baseless vilifica-tion campaign against theparty”.

AAP leaders, includingparty’s state’s core committeechief and MLA Principal BudhRam, Deputy Leader ofOpposition in Punjab AssemblySarabjit Kaur Manuke, besidessome MLAs and senior leaders,in a joint statement, said that theArvind Kejriwal-led DelhiGovernment in Delhi had norole in the demolition of theancient temple for the reasonthat DDA was directly undercontrol of the UnionGovernment led by NarendraModi, an alliance partners of theSAD.BJP-SAD shall have to paya heavy price for their role indemolishing the historic temple,they said.

The AAP leaders furtheradded that the entire countrywas privy to the realities on theground that besides, DDA,police dispensation and lawand order machinery amongothers was under direct controlof the union government, say-ing the Kejriwal governmenthad no role to play in thedemolition as was being pro-jected, which, they said, why hisgovernment was pressing for fullstatehood.

The AAP leaders lamentedthat the Akali Dal MLAs led byPawan Tinu, instead of spittingfire against the DDA and theBJP government at the centre,mounted a vilification cam-paign against the Kajriwal gov-ernment by releasing a pressnote, which was a mere ploy togarner cheap publicity and tohide their own sins.

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The protesters streamed intoHong Kong airport and

quickly transformed the arrivalshall at one of the world's busiesttransport hubs into a sea ofblack.

Instead of being met bysmiling relatives and friends,passengers arriving at the airportwere greeted by thousands ofpro-democracy activists chant-ing "fight with Hong Kong,fight for freedom!" Most weredressed in the movement'strademark black clothing, somesporting construction hard hatsor gas masks. And many addeda new accessory on Monday:eyepatches or bandages to paytribute to a woman who suffereda serious face injury at a proteston Sunday night.

The woman, who has notbeen identified, was reportedlyhit by a beanbag round fired bypolice, and rumours circulatedthat she lost her vision.

Images of blood pouring

from her face as she lay on apavement quickly went viraland featured in posters callingfor demonstrations under thebanner: "an eye for an eye".

"HK police are killing us,"read a sign held by one protest-

er. "Hong Kong is no longersafe," said another.

And on walls, pillars andbarriers in the airport, protest-ers sprayed painted red graffitiin English and Chinese reading"an eye for an eye".

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China on Monday slammedviolent protesters in Hong

Kong who had thrown petrolbombs at police officers andlinked them to "terrorism", asBeijing ramps up its rhetoricagainst pro-democracy demon-strations in the financial hub.

"Hong Kong's radicaldemonstrators have repeated-ly used extremely dangeroustools to attack police officers,which already constitutes aserious violent crime, and alsoshows the first signs of terror-ism emerging," said YangGuang, spokesman for theHong Kong and Macao AffairsOffice of the State Council.

"This wantonly tramples onHong Kong's rule of law andsocial order," he said at a press

briefing in Beijing.Yang's remarks came a day

after thousands of pro-democ-racy protesters defied warningsfrom authorities to hit thestreets for the 10th weekend ina row.

Hong Kong police firedvolleys of tear gas Sunday atprotestors after denying theirrequests for permits to stage amarch. But Yang focused on theviolent behavior of a "tinyminority", which he con-demned as "a serious chal-lenge to Hong Kong's prosper-ity and stability."

The two-month crisis,which was triggered by oppo-sition to a planned extraditionlaw, has morphed into a widermovement for democraticreform and a halt to erodingfreedoms.

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South Korea said Mondaythat it has decided to remove

Japan from a list of nationsreceiving preferential treat-ment in trade in what was seenas a tit-for-tat move followingTokyo's recent decision todowngrade Seoul's trade statusamid a diplomatic row.

It wasn't immediately clearhow South Korea's tightenedexport controls would impactbilateral trade.

Seoul said some SouthKorean companies exporting toJapan will be able to receiveexceptions from case-by-caseinspections that are normallyapplied on sensitive shipmentsto nations with lower trade sta-tus and go through the samefast-track approval process thatthey currently enjoy.

Masahisa Sato, Japan's viceminister for foreign affairs,said he believes the impact of

Seoul's move would likely belimited as Japan doesn't importmuch sensitive materials fromSouth Korea.

Japan provided similarexceptions while removingSouth Korea as a favored tradepartner, which eased some ofthe fears in Seoul about a pos-sible blow to its export-depen-dent economy, where manymanufacturers heavily rely onparts and materials importedfrom Japan.

After spending weeksberating Tokyo for allegedlyweaponizing trade and vowingretaliation, South KoreanPresident Moon Jae-in struck amore conciliatory tone onMonday, saying that his gov-ernment will refrain from"emotional" reactions to Japanover the trade dispute.

"While maintaining unwa-vering resolve and calmness, weneed a long-term approach tolook for fundamental counter-

measures," Moon said in ameeting with senior aides.

South Korea's trade minis-ter, Sung Yun-mo, said Seouldecided to remove Japan froma 29-member "white list" ofcountries that enjoy minimumrestrictions in trade because ithas failed to uphold interna-tional principles while manag-ing its export controls on sen-sitive materials.

Sung and other SouthKorean officials did not specify what they saw asTokyo's problems in exportcontrols.

Sato said South Koreawould be violating World TradeOrganization rules if it wasretaliating against Japan's ear-lier measures. Park Tae-sung, aSouth Korean trade official,said that South Korea is making a legitimate effortunder domestic and interna-tional laws to improve itsexport controls.

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The details of how JeffreyEpstein died in his

Manhattan jail cell over theweekend have yet to be released,but medical officials have per-formed an autopsy on the high-profile inmate accused of sexu-ally abusing underage girls andpaying them hundreds of dol-lars in cash for massages.

Epstein's abrupt deathSaturday cut short a criminalprosecution that could havepulled back the curtain on theinner workings of a high-flyingfinancier with connections tocelebrities and presidents,though prosecutors have vowedto continue investigating.

Epstein, 66, had beendenied bail and faced up to 45years behind bars on federal sextrafficking and conspiracycharges unsealed last month. Hehad pleaded not guilty and wasawaiting trial.

The manner in which hedied remains a mystery , butguards on Epstein's unit wereworking extreme overtime shiftsto make up for staffing shortagesthe morning of his apparent sui-cide, a person familiar with thejail's operations told The

Associated Press.The person said that the

Metropolitan CorrectionalCenter's Special Housing Unitwas staffed with one guardworking a fifth-straight day ofovertime and another who wasworking mandatory overtime.The person wasn't authorized todiscuss jail operations publiclyand spoke Sunday on the con-dition of anonymity.

Epstein had been placed onsuicide watch after he was founda little over two weeks ago withbruising on his neck, accordingto the person familiar with thematter. But he was taken offthe watch at the end of July andtherefore wasn't on it at the timeof his death, the person said.

Epstein's removal from sui-cide watch would have beenapproved by both the warden ofthe jail and the facility's chiefpsychologist, said Jack Donson,a former prison official whoworked for the Bureau ofPrisons for more than twodecades.

Last week, more than 2,000pages of documents werereleased, related to a since-set-tled lawsuit against Epstein's ex-girlfriend by Virginia Giuffre,one of Epstein's accusers.

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Taliban and US negotiatorshave wrapped up their latest

round of talks for a deal thatwould see America shrink itstroop presence in Afghanistan,a Taliban spokesman saidMonday.

According to ZabihullahMujahid, the eighth round oftalks, which had been takingplace in Doha, finished aftermidnight.

"Work was tedious & effec-tive. Both sides agreed to con-sult their respective leadershipsfor next steps," he wrote onTwitter.

There was no immediatecomment from the US embassyin Kabul.

On Sunday, US peace envoyZalmay Khalilzad tweeted: "Ihope this is the last Eid whereAfghanistan is at war," referringto the Eid al-Adha festival cur-rently taking place in the Muslimworld.

Speculation has reachedfever pitch in Kabul in recentdays that an announcementabout a US-Taliban deal may beimminent.

The US has been negotiat-ing with its longtime foe over thepast year for a pact that would

see the Pentagon begin to with-draw its 14,000 troops fromAfghanistan.

Washington is keen to endits 18-year involvement inAfghanistan, where it has spentmore than $1 trillion, andPresident Donald Trump hassaid he wants troops out.

In return, the Taliban wouldcommit to various security guar-antees, including that theIslamist hardliners who longharboured Al-Qaeda would notallow Afghanistan to become ajihadist safe haven.

A US-Taliban agreementwould not in itself bringAfghanistan's war to an end, asthe insurgents would still needto make a deal with the Kabulgovernment.

Many Afghans had beenhoping for a ceasefire to beannounced over Eid. This hasnot happened, but recent dayshave been relatively calm.

On Monday, Afghanistan'sintelligence service announced35 Taliban prisoners would bereleased "as a gesture of good-will".

"The release of these pris-oners is a clear sign of thestrong will of the government forpeace and end to war", theagency said in a statement.

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Pakistan Foreign MinisterShah Mehmood Qureshi

on Monday asked Oppositionparties to come together onKashmir, saying the countryshould have a united stand onthe issue.

Addressing the media inMuzaffarabad in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir where hecelebrated Eid al-Adha andvisited a refugee camp, Qureshisaid the entire "Pakistani nationand political leadership is unit-ed on the issue of Kashmir andone voice will be sounded onAugust 14 in support ofKashmiris."

Pakistan has announcedthat it will observe August 14as 'Kashmir Solidarity Day'and August 15 as 'Black Day'after India scrapped Article 370of the Constitution that gavespecial status to Jammu andKashmir and bifurcated thestate into two UnionTerritories.

Qureshi urged for unityamong political parties inPakistan on Kashmir andwarned that doing politics onthe issue would harm the cause.

He urged political partiesto come together on theKashmir issue, saying thatPakistan must have a unitedstance on the matter.

"We have our differ-ences...But there is no differ-ence on the issue of Kashmir.If there was any difference, ajoint resolution would not havebeen passed," he said.

Last week, a joint sitting ofParliament was marred due to

differences between treasuryand opposition over languageof resolution against India

Opposition lawmakers lastweek condemned the arrest ofMaryam Nawaz, former primeminister Nawaz Sharif 's daugh-ter and vice-president ofOpposition PML-N, saying theImran Khan government'saction amounts to dividingthe nation at this crucial junc-ture when unity is required togive a befitting response to theIndian government for scrap-ping the special status ofJammu and Kashmir.

Qureshi said India's "uni-lateral" abrogation of the spe-cial status of Kashmir has leftKashmiris with no option butto stand against it.

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Beijing: The strongest typhoonto hit China this year has killedat least 45 people, state-mediareported on Monday, as author-ities stepped up rescue efforts tolocate 16 missing people afterthe storm displaced more thana million residents. Lekima, theninth typhoon, hit Wenling cityon Saturday afternoon, packingwinds of 187 kilometers perhour and bringing heavy rain-storms.

The typhoon has left 45people dead and 16 missing inthree Chinese provinces, wreak-ing havoc there with torrentialrains and strong gales, Xinhuanews agency reported. In theZhejiang Province, Lekima land-ed at around 1:45 am (localtime) on Saturday in the city ofWenling.

By Monday morning, thedeath toll in the province rose to39 while nine others remainedmissing, said the Zhejiangprovincial flood control head-quarters, the report said.

The typhoon has affected6.68 million residents inZhejiang, among whom 1.26million were evacuated. It dam-aged 234,000 hectares of crops,inflicting a direct economic lossof 24.22 billion yuan (about USD3.4 billion), it said. PTI

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Pakistan Prime MinisterImran Khan has called

Indonesian President JokoWidodo as part of his outreachto the world leaders on theKashmir issue, according to amedia report on Monday.

India last week revokedArticle 370 to withdraw the spe-

cial status to Jammu andKashmir and bifurcated theregion into two UnionTerritories - J & K, and Ladakh.

In reaction to India's move,Pakistan downgraded thediplomatic relations byexpelling the Indian HighCommissioner on Wednesdayand suspended trade ties withNew Delhi.

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Salah Abdeslam, the sole survivingsuspect in the November 2015 Paris

attacks, has been formally charged inconnection with the Brussels suicidebombings months later, federal prose-cutors said Monday.

Abdeslam was charged with "par-ticipating in the activities of a terroristgroup," the federal prosecutor's officetold AFP, confirming reports in theBelgian media in recent days.

The prosecutor's office did notgive details of his alleged role in the sui-cide bombings at Brussels airport anda city metro station on March 22, 2016,which killed 32 people and wounded340 others.

The Islamic State group claimedresponsibility for the attacks whichoccurred within an hour of each other.

Investigators say the attacks wereordered from Syria and organised by a

French-Belgian cell in Brussels, whichwas also behind the November 13, 2015attacks in Paris that killed 130 peopleand wounded hundreds of others.

In April, a Belgian court sentencedAbdeslam to 20 years in prison over agun battle with police in Brussels thatled to his capture days before theBrussels suicide bombings.

Abdeslam, a Belgian-born Frenchnational who hails from the BrusselsMolenbeek neighbourhood, is beingheld in jail in France pending a sepa-rate trial over the Paris attacks.

Abdeslam is alleged to havedropped off three suicide bombers at

a Paris sports stadium the eveningof the November attacks before aban-doning a suicide belt he was apparent-ly going to detonate.

Before Abdeslam's indictment wasconfirmed in the Belgian capital, 12people had been charged in connectionwith the Brussels bombings.

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Australia will step up pro-duction of rare earths and

other militarily sensitive "techmetals", the country's defenceminister said Monday, asdoubts grow over the reliabil-ity of Chinese supplies.

Linda Reynolds told anaudience in Perth thatresource-rich Australia haddeposits that could safeguardsupplies for allies including the United Statesand Britain.

So-called tech minerals areused in everything from smart-phones and lasers to avionicsystems and electronic warfaretechnologies.

But trade tensions haveled China to warn that suppliesof could be choked.

China produces more than95 percent of the world's rareearths, and the United Statesrelies on it for upwards of 80

percent of its imports. Reynoldsstressed the importance ofWestern allies obtaining themetals from outside China.

"(In) Australia we have atleast 40 percent of the knownreserves of tech metals, whetherit's lithium, cobalt, nickel,graphite but also most of therare earths that our currenttechnology and our lifestylestoday relies on," she said.

She added that it had beendiscussed at length at recentAustralia-US ministerial con-sultations and in discussionswith British counterparts.

"What we want to do ismake sure we have a guaranteeof supply," she told reporters inPerth.

"A lot of our defence equip-ment and capability actuallyuses rare earths in its produc-tion." The key issue forAustralia, the US and otherallies "is the continuity andguarantee of supply of these

rare earths and tech metals asthey're now called is an issue of national importance", shesaid.

Jeffrey Wilson, head ofresearch at the Perth USAsiaCentre, said there is roughlyUS$350 million global trade inrare earths per year, with Chinaalso having a disproportionateshare of processed productssuch as carbonates and mag-nets.

In the case of dysprosium-- which can be used in mag-nets for electric vehicles ornuclear reactor rods -- it is 100percent.

"China's near monopolymeans there's no real genuineor reliable international marketfor rare earths trade," Wilsonsaid.

"Its outsize market poweralso gives the Chinese govern-ment considerable scope tocontrol and shape global tradepatterns," he added.

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Singapore said Monday it willimpose a blanket ban on the

domestic sale of elephant ivory andproducts from 2021 as the govern-ment tightens its campaign againstillegal wildlife trade.

The announcement on WorldElephant Day followed two years ofconsultations with non-governmentgroups, ivory retailers and the pub-lic.

Authorities in the city-state madetheir largest ever seizure of smuggledivory last month, impounding a haulof nearly nine tonnes of contrabandtusks from an estimated 300 Africanelephants valued at $12.9 million.

The illegal cargo was discovered

in a container from the DemocraticRepublic of the Congo being shippedto Vietnam via Singapore and alsoincluded a huge stash of pangolinscales.

Singapore has banned interna-tional trade in all forms of elephantivory products since 1990.

Such items could be sold domes-tically if traders could prove they wereimported before that year or acquiredprior to the inclusion of the relevantelephant species in an internationalconvention protecting endangeredspecies.

In a statement Monday,Singapore's National Parks Boardbanned the sale of elephant ivory andproducts with effect from September1, 2021.

Violators face a jail term of up toone year and fines on conviction.

Traders can donate their ivorystocks to institutions or keep themafter the ban takes effect, the boardsaid.

Public consultation by the gov-ernment last year showed that 99 per-cent of those who responded were infavour of a total ban.

Elephant ivory is coveted becauseit can be fashioned into items likecombs, pendants and other jewellery.

The global trade in elephantivory, with rare exceptions, has beenoutlawed since 1989 after the popu-lation of the African giants droppedfrom millions in the mid-20th centuryto around 600,000 by the end of the1980s.

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Aday care centre where chil-dren could stay overnight as

their parents worked was rav-aged Sunday by a fire that killedfive and sent the owner to thehospital, authorities said.

The victims in the lakesidecity of Erie ranged in ages from8 months to 7 years, Chief GuySantone of the Erie FireDepartment said.

At least four of the victimswere staying overnight at the res-idential house that had beenturned into a day care centre,

Erie Chief Fire Inspector JohnWidomski told the Erie Times-News.

The fire, reported at about1:15 am Sunday, was funnelingout of every first-floor windowwhen firefighters arrived,Widomski said.

Valerie Lockett-Slupski,standing across the street fromthe fire-damaged house, told thenewspaper she was the grandmother of four of the chil-dren, and that they were stayingat the day care center becausetheir parents were workingovernight.

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It appears as if every prominentleader of the Indian NationalCongress (INC) is running aroundlike a headless chicken after themomentous decision taken by the

Narendra Modi Government to abrogateArticle 370 and fully integrate Jammu &Kashmir into the Indian Union.

That the INC is no longer “national”or “nationalist” is now obvious going bythe utter confusion at top-level decision-making but the party was not always likethis. It had robust and patriotic leadersin the past and there is sufficient evidenceof this in our parliamentary records. Hereis a sample of what tall leaders of theparty, including K Hanumanthaiah,Member of the Constituent Assembly, for-mer Chief Minister of Mysore and laterUnion Minister for Railways, had to sayin the Lok Sabha on September 11, 1964,on abrogation of Article 370 and of theirdisillusionment with the pusillanimity ofthe Congress:

Hanumanthaiya (Congress): “Notmerely Members of Parliament fromKashmir but irrespective of parties —from the extreme right to the extreme leftof this House — we are all of one opin-ion that this Bill (abrogating Article370) should be made into a law. To goagainst it or to say anything against thisunanimous opinion of this House is todisown Constitutional responsibility in aconvenient manner. Article 370...standsin the way of full integration.”

Hanumanthaiya also dealt with theconstant fear in the Government aboutworld opinion. Referring to the Westernnations he said, “They are not our mas-ters. It is not they, who have to dictate...Itis the responsibility of this House to directthis...”. He said he would appeal to theGovernment “not to be nervous aboutworld opinion or about opinionsexpressed by the UK, the US, Soviet Russiaor any other power.” The Government, hesaid, should shake off “inferiority com-plex” that it had inherited from theBritish days and stop worrying about theresponse of foreign powers.

He said, “Here is a case where wecould show equal determination andcourage and solve the problem once andfor all.” He told his Government to stopbeing so modest and realise that India wasstronger and more influential than mostcountries in the world...”.

Considering how Prime MinisterNarendra Modi and Union HomeMinister Amit Shah executed the plan toabrogate Article 370 — with quiet deter-mination and the virtual endorsement ofit by many nations, thanks to Modi’s sus-tained, calibrated diplomatic contactswith global leaders over the last five years— it appears as if they were following theadvice given by Hanumanthaiya to hisown party 55 years ago.

In fact, some parts ofHanumanthaiya’s speechsound like he was deliveringthem on August 5, 2019. Hesaid, “This is the unanimousopinion of this House (toabrogate Article 370) and it isapplauded by the whole coun-try. Therefore, I want theGovernment to take a deter-mined stand...”

In conclusion, he thankedPrakash Vir Shastri for bring-ing the private Bill for repealof Article 370, which hadwon the admiration of mem-bers across the political divide.

Many other Congress stal-warts forcefully demandedrepeal of Article 370 duringthis debate.

Bhag wat Jha Azad(Congress): The Governmentmust fearlessly declare its pol-icy on Kashmir. FromKashmir and across theGangetic plains and theNarmada to Kanyakumari,people want to see full integra-tion. No Government or partycan go against the wishes ofthe people.

Ram Sahay Pandey(Congress): He blamedJawaharlal Nehru for rushingto the United Nations to com-plain about infiltration ofPakistani troops into Kashmirafter it acceded to India. He

said by seeking UN’s interven-tion and accepting its ceasefireorder, Nehru had squanderedaway a fine opportunity torecapture the territories, whichwere in illegal possession ofPakistan. Gen Thimayya, whowas handling the militaryoperations, had pleaded withthe Government for just twomore days to recapture theseterritories but Nehru’s moveand the ceasefire wrecked theIndian Army’s plans.

Gopal Dutta Mengi(Congress): I support thisBill. All over India, peoplewant Jammu & Kashmir to befully integrated with the coun-try. Constitute a committee oflegal experts to extend theUnion Government’s power tothe State.

Inder J Malhotra(Congress): I...agree thatArticle 370 be omitted. Thepeople of the State have nospecial liking for Article370...and we shall be veryhappy as soon as this is omit-ted. I request the HomeMinister that this Bill shouldnot be opposed.

These sentiments wereechoed by MPs across parties,including MV Kamath (PrajaSocialist Party) and RamManohar Lohia (Socialist Party).

But the clincher came from

DC Sharma, an IndependentMP. He said, “Our Article 370has disfigured ourConstitution. This Article isnothing more than aConstitutional anachronism. Isay that for the good name ofIndia, for the Constitutionalpropriety of India, for the legalcorrectness of this country,this Article should be scrappedforthwith without any hesita-tion, without any doubt...thisArticle refers to those condi-tions, which no longer exist andwhich are not operative now.Therefore, this Constitutionalimpropriety, which is embed-ded in...370, must go.”

When we reflect over theadvice Sharma gave to theCongress Government wayback in 1964, which was notacted upon, the clarity ofthinking in the presentGovernment on such a tan-gled issue and the precisionwith which Prime MinisterModi and Shah have acted atthis juncture, we realise theyawning gap between theCongress and the BharatiyaJanata Party (BJP) on criticalissues pertaining to nationalintegrity and national securi-ty. Here is another example.

DC Sharma (Ind):Wisdom consists in settlingunsettled things. The act of

statesmanship is an act ofboldness, firmness and deci-siveness. But I do not knowwhat has happened to mycountry that instead of settlingunsettled things, we haveunsettled settled things.

Finally, the clincher :“Article 370...is not a wall...itis a big mountain, whichstands between India andJammu & Kashmir. I feel thismountain should be blastedwith dynamite, with the dyna-mite of goodwill, firmnessand decision. That way lies thesalvation of India and that waylies the good and welfare ofthe people of Jammu &Kashmir.”

Thanks to Modi, India nolonger suffers from an “infe-riority complex” thatHanumanthaiya lamentedabout. Also, Modi and Shahhave acted with “boldness”,“firmness” and “decisiveness”— the qualities that MPswanted the CongressGovernment to exhibit in1964, “to settle unsettledthings” and to blast the moun-tain called Article 370 “withthe dynamite of goodwill,firmness and decision!”

(The writer is an authorspecialising in democracy stud-ies. Views expressed are personal)

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Sir — After Sonia Gandhi deftlyled the Congress for 20 long yearsand wrested power twice at theCentre and in several States, herre-election as the Congress’ chiefwill surely steer the grand oldparty out of troubled waters.Almost 20 months after she hand-ed over the reins of the party toher son Rahul Gandhi, the CWC’sdecision to put an experiencedand tested leader at the helm toregain the pristine glory of a 134-year-old party is correct.

With her, forging Oppositionunity will come handy as she isacceptable among regional forcesand has strong connections, too.Her sharpest weapon is silence,as she spoke little and seldom inpublic, but wielded enormouspower within the Congress. Buthuge challenges lie ahead for thenew Congress president. Underher stewardship, the grand oldparty has to take up the electoralchallenge. Among all otherthings, will she be able to reju-venate and revive the party at atime when its cadre standsdemoralised?

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Sir — Yielding to the party’spleadings to rescue it from thecrisis created by Rahul Gandhi’srefusal to lead, the Congressmade a safe bet to re-elect Sonia

Gandhi as party president.Few of us had expected her to

take this responsibility, especial-ly because of Rahul Gandhi’s “noGandhi” stand and the BJP’s suc-cessful projection of the Congressas a family party. Her electionspeaks volumes about the grand

old party, which could not find aleader outside the Nehru-Gandhifold as also about Rahul Gandhiwho could not sustain the gener-ational transformation.

But why did Sonia Gandhiplay along? In the hope thatsome Gandhi stands a chance of

regaining leadership of the party, somewhere down the line,probably.

KS Jayatheertha Bengaluru

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Sir — Both the protesters as wellas the Government in HongKong must share the blame forthe protests that have continuedfor almost two months now.While the former kept making ahost of demands, the latter, too,could have just ended matters bysimply withdrawing the anti-extradition Bill.

Peaceful protests are the bestway to register unhappiness at theperformance of the ruling regime. In fact, such democratic protestsand sensible speeches will createmore positive impacts on thesociety. At least now, theGovernment as well as the pro-testers must work towards find-ing a common ground and thusensure peace. This will be ineveryone’s interest.

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In my last opinion piece in The Pioneer onAugust 3, I had concluded my piece with aplea for the real Narendra Modi to please

stand up. Well, the Prime Minister answeredmy question quite definitively the very next day.Whatever may be his faults — undoubtedlythere are many — self-confidence and the willingness to take risks are certainly not among them.

Undoubtedly, the high-stakes gamble inJammu & Kashmir is one such. Whether thePrime Minister’s actions will turn out to be agrave miscalculation or a hugely successful oneonly time will tell. But whatever the future mayhold, nobody can fault him for lacking incourage for his “bold” attempt to cut the“Gordian Knot” ie, the Kashmir dispute, whichhas strangled peace and progress in the sub-continent for over seven decades now ever sinceindependence.

While the unholy pact between theNational Conference (NC) and the Congress tosuborn the 1987 local elections in the Stateresulted in insurgency, that continues to hauntus to this day, it was the British meddling —the true unfinished agenda of Partition — thathas finally been laid to rest. The only disputethat now remains and requires early resolution— either bilaterally or through third partymediation — is for the return of Pakistan-occu-pied Kashmir (PoK) to us.

Though in the interest of peace and good-will in the region, we should be willing to foregoour claims in exchange for recognition of theLine of Control (LoC) as the internationalboundary. Then, open borders in the not toodistant future, something that many on bothsides crave, could be a distinct possibility.

Every counter-insurgency practitioner knowswell and understands that no insurgency can everbe successfully defeated through just militarymeans. Insurgencies are political in nature and,thus, can only be resolved through political ini-tiatives. Yet, over the past three decades that thisinsurgency has ebbed and flowed in Jammu &Kashmir, never has any Government expendedthe necessary political capital required to resolvethe issue satisfactorily.

Thus, we have seen repeated cycles of vio-lence that have adversely impacted develop-mental activities in the State. Moreover, giventhe law of diminishing returns, controlling vio-lence and returning the State to relative calm-ness after each successive cycle of violence hasgot much more difficult and complex. Thus,undoubtedly, this initiative of the PrimeMinister will be wholeheartedly welcomed bythe security forces, especially the Army, as thegoal of winning hearts and minds has a moresubstantive focus.

Whether the manner in which Article 370has been employed to supersede thePresidential Order of 1954 with a new order ofAugust 2019 — which allows for the superses-sion of Article 35A as well as the applicationof the entire Indian Constitution in the State— is unconstitutional or not is for the courtsto decide. But clearly, as a temporary provisionthat it was stated to be, it had long outlived itsutility. By no stretch of imagination did it pro-tect the Kashmiri identity or culture,

Kashmiriyat, as many suggest. It had instead become a potent

weapon in the hands of vested inter-ests, which allowed them to exploit theState for personal ends. The truth thatKashmiriyat died the very day theHindu minority in the Valley was tar-getted and forced to flee, most of whocontinue to languish in refugee camps,cannot be wished away.

In this context, therefore, those,who allege that this initiative of theGovernment was against our “secular”framework and aimed at further mar-ginalising the Muslim minority, arebeing parochial in their outlook apartfrom being extremely hypocritical,given that they have done little or evenshown any concern or compassion forthose rendered homeless within theirown country.

Pakistan’s reaction to all of this hasbeen along expected lines. For itsArmy to respond in any other man-ner, given that its primacy within thecountry is directly linked to the situ-ation in Jammu & Kashmir, is simplynot viable. If this dispute were to besomehow resolved, the importance ofthe Pakistan Army would be greatlydiminished, which would hurt notonly the ego of many Generals but alsotheir extensive business interests.

Yet, their room for manoeuvre isseverely constrained, especially givenPakistan’s economic situation.Nevertheless, the threats of war ema-nating from there need to be taken

seriously and bankruptcy has neverstopped warmongers.

Obviously, given the meticulousmanner in which this political initiativehas been planned, one can be certainthat the Government is well preparedto deal with any foolishness the PakistanArmy may decide to indulge in.

In a just-concluded conferenceorganised by the Observer Researchfoundation (ORF) on ‘TacklingInsurgent Ideologies 2.0’, a speakermade a pertinent point that while acompromise on financial issues is arelatively easy possibility, given thatboth sides can negotiate to reach amiddle ground, it is not so easy to doso when negotiations involve the pol-itics of identity, which tend to be seenas a zero-sum game.

A seemingly intractable problemthat has been around for sevendecades is not going to just disappearand it will require much patience andunderstanding before the generalpopulation comes around and acceptsthe new reality. In the interim, thepossibility of sporadic street violencecannot be ruled out.

But what probably scares Pakistanand even more local mainstreampolitical and separatist leaders themost is the possibility that the gener-al population in the Valley may notrespond with violence to the newscheme of things. This could well bebecause they have, over a period otime, realised that the price

paid by successive generations for suchopposition has been extremely high;while its fruits have only been enjoyedby those who have instigated themobs.

Moreover, given the thoroughpreparations made by theGovernment, the large quantum offorce deployed will also be a very bigdeterrent as well.

Finally, the optimistic view couldbe that the average Kashmiri is quitetired of the way things have gone inthese last few decades and would bewilling to give this game-changing ini-tiative a try.

Whatever be the reason, if thatwere to happen, the credibility of thePakistani Generals and local politi-cians alike would be badly hurt,which in turn would certainly deci-mate the business of insurgency inquick time.

One can only hope and pray thatgood sense will prevail and the courseof events turns out just this way. Thatwould not only be a victory for thecountry but also for the long suffer-ing people of Jammu & Kashmir, whohave been held hostage by circum-stances for far too long and have beenforced to pay a very high price inblood. We all deserve better.

(The writer, a military veteran, aconsultant with the Observer ResearchFoundation and a Senior VisitingFellow with The Peninsula Foundation,Chennai)

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Minister Narendra Modi andUnion Home Minister Amit Shah

have taken steps to resolve theKashmir problem, which has beensimmering for the past 70 years. Thescrapping of Article 370 is a decisivemove taken by a bold political lead-ership, focussed on finding a solutionto a never-ending crisis. Whether theinsertion of Article 370 was justifiedin the first place or not has been amatter of major debate for the past 70years but its scrapping should receiveapprobation of one and all.

The “special status”, whichArticle 370 accorded to the erstwhileState of Jammu & Kashmir, ratherleft it languishing and held it to ran-

som. As the young Member ofParliament from Ladakh JamyangTsering Namgyal pointed out, “by afew political families.” For sevendecades, the State was in limbo forbeing a left-over of the Partition.While Junagadh and Hyderabad,the two other contentious princelyStates which did not easily integratewith India after independence, aretoday an undisputed part of Indiansovereignty, we, on the other hand,allowed the wound in Jammu &Kashmir to fester for seven decades.

The move by the present leader-ship has ended 70 years of intellec-tual debate on the subject and hastaken decisive action, which shouldor rather will yield positive results.Article 370 was a temporary provi-sion from the very beginning but wasmade to settle into a deceptive per-manent status to suit an entire rangeof political schemas, none of whichparticularly pertained to the welfareof the common people, forget aboutthe entire State, even of the Valley.

Namgyal hit the nail on its headwhen during a speech in Parliamenthe said, “Members of two families are

still intoxicated and think thatKashmir is their father’s property.”The two families, which he referredto are the Muftis and the Abdullahs,whose members have been ChiefMinisters of the State of Jammu &Kashmir. In addition to the two,there are other families in Kashmir,aligned to either of the two families,who have dominated politics in theValley.

Namgyal’s speech came in forappreciation by Prime MinisterNarendra Modi. In a tweet, he said,“My young friend, Jamyang TseringNamgyal, who is an MP from Ladakh,delivered an outstanding speech in theLok Sabha while discussing key Billson Jammu & Kashmir. He coherent-ly presents the aspirations of our sis-ters and brothers from Ladakh. It isa must hear!”

The concentration of power andsubsequently, wealth, became theprimary motives driving governanceand administration that influencedthe entire State. As Namgyal point-ed out in his speech, “Everyone hasbeen talking about equality, sayingthat if Article 370 is removed, equal-

ity will cease to exist. I want to askwhy is it that in the past, when fundswere allocated for the developmentof entire Jammu & Kashmir, theamount earmarked for Ladakh wastransferred to Kashmir? Is this yourequality?”

What Namgyal did not mentionin so many words was that these fundsostensibly spent on the developmentof the Valley finally ended up fillingthe coffers of a few. Kashmiri awam(common people) today largely livesin a state of penury as they have notbeen allowed to be part of the Indianmainstream and the growth story.

The Berlin Wall artificially divid-ed East and West Germany. It sepa-rated people belonging to one culture.But Kashmir is home to an Indic cul-ture. Article 370 stood like a wallbetween the integration of the peopleof the Valley with the rest of the coun-try, both of which have roots inIndic culture. Kashmir is home to theMartand temple, Amarnath shrineand Lalded’s poetry.

The wall has now been broughtdown with the passage of theConstitutional amendment Bills in

Parliament. It’s time to rejuvenate andintegrate Kashmir socially and cultur-ally with the Indian mainstream. Theonus is on us to prove that this his-torical move is right and convince theKashmiris that we’re with them.

A few word warriors in theirenthusiasm are saying that they areplanning to buy plots in Kashmir.They should realise that by saying so,they are undoing and trivialising thefine political move made by our lead-ers Prime Minister Modi and Shah.Let’s not indulge in any ludicrous act,which can demoralise the Kashmiricommoner and inhibit his/her inte-gration with the Indian mainstream.

It’s time to show sagacity andlarge-heartedness. Our unwarrantedaggression in worthless dialoguemay shoo away those who look fora future in India. Let’s not give anopportunity to India’s rivals to fishin the troubled waters.

(The writer is Chairman,Vivekananda Institute of ProfessionalStudies, GGSIP University, New Delhiand former Chairman, Syama PrasadMukherjee College and KeshavaMahavidyalaya of Delhi University)

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The flood toll in Sangli,Kolhapur and three other

districts of Pune revenue divi-sion mounted to 43 on Monday,even as the MaharashtraGovernment — in a surprisemove — clamped prohibitoryorders in Kolhapur district for 12days from Monday, anticipatingtrouble during Bakri Eid,Independence Day and DahiHandi.

Sangli, which is one of thetwo worst flood-hit districtsafter Kolhapur, accounted for 21deaths that included 12 personskilled in a boat tragedy onThursday last, while sevendeaths each were reported fromKolhapur, Satara and Pune dis-tricts. There was one rain-relat-ed death in Solapur district.Three persons are reported to bemissing.

At a time when the author-ities continued to carry on therelief work on a massive scale,the Kolhapur district adminis-tration clamped section 37 (1)and 37 (3) of the MaharashtraPolice Act, 1951 relating powersprohibiting certain acts for pre-vention of disorder for 12 daysbeginning from Thursday.

In a statement issued afterclamping prohibitory ordersfrom August 12 to August 24,Additional District CollectorSanjay Shinde said that theywere anticipating some troublefrom flood victims and citizensduring Bakri Eid (August ,Independence Day and DahiHandi. “We do not rule out thepossibility of political parties andsocial organisations — takingadvantage of these occasions —

resorting to suicides, fast-unto-death and relay hunger strike inthe district. These may result inuntoward incidents and law &order problems. That’s why wehave chosen to impose pro-hibitory orders,” the AdditionalCollector said.

Slamming the state forclamping prohibitory orders inKolhapur district, theOpposition leaders charged thatthe State Government —through its prohibitory orders —was trying to cover up its failureto handle the flood situationeffectively.

“They are resorting to suchtactics since the people are fum-ing with anger since the pastnearly two weeks. Is this ademocracy or the rule of Gen.Dwyer”? NCP’s Maharashtraspokesperson and Mumbai unitchierf Nawab Malik asked. StaeCongress President BalasahebThorat said: “Instead of coop-erating with the people andrushing them all aid materials,the state has resorted to pro-hibitory orders”.

Though there was a notice-able drop in flooding in Sangli,Kolhapur and three other dis-tricts of western Maharashtra, asmany as many as 46 villages —involving a total of 66,837 fam-ilies — continued to be inac-cessible for the sixth consecutiveday. Of the total marooned vil-lages, Kohapur accounted for amaximum of 18 villages, whilethere were such 16 and 12 suchinaccessible villages Solapur andSangli districts. “We have so farevacuated 78,484 people fromthese marooned villages, PuneDivisional Commissioner DrDeepak Mahaisekar said.

“We are continuing to shiftthe marooned people to reliefcamps. So far, we have evacuat-ed 4,74,226 marooned peopleand moved them to 596 reliefcamps set up across five districtsof the Pune revenue division. InSangli and Kolhapur districts, wehave collectively evacuated4,74,226 people and movedthem to 370 relief camps,”

Mahaisekar said In a related development,

Maharashtra Chief MinisterDevendra Fadnavis has sentMumbai's MunicipalCommissioner Parveen Pardeshito Sangli and Satara to coordi-nate the relief operations.Pardeshi, who was the districtcollector during the 1993 Laturearthquake, has the expertise to

deal with the relief work duringnatural calamities.

Simultaneously, theMaharashtra Government hasurged the RBI and largest pub-lic sector bank SBI to makeATMs operations functional inthe flood-hit areas. State chiefsecretary Ajoy Mehta is in touchwith SBI chairman RajnishKumar in the regard.

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Thiruvananthapuram: Withrains subsiding in many parts ofKerala, search and relief oper-ations are on in landslide-hitKavalappara and Puthumala inMalappuram and Wayanad dis-tricts, as authorities on Mondayreported 83 deaths in the mon-soon fury since August 8.

Over 2.55 lakh people havesought refuge in 1,413 reliefcamps, officials said.

The toll is expected to go upas 50 people are still missing inMalappuram, one of the worst-hit by the rains.

There is no 'red alert' for anyof the 14 districts on Tuesday,but "orange alert" has beenissued for six districts.

The state's northern dis-tricts of Malappuram, Wayanadand Kozhikode and Idukki incentral Kerala were ravaged bythe torrential rains.

Malappuram was rockedby a series of landslips triggeredby heavy rain since August 8 atKavalappara and Kottakunnu inwhich 27 people have died.

With the recovery of morebodies, including 27 fromMalappuram, 17 fromKozhikode and 12 fromWayanad since August 8, the tollhas gone up to 83 as per theupdate at 7 pm.

Authorities are searchingfor those feared trapped inmud-slips at Wayanad andMalappuram.

In Malappuram, 59,351people have been lodged in 240camps.

In neighbouring Wayanad,which was also rocked by a mas-sive landslide at Puthumala, 12people have lost their lives andseven are still missing.

In the 212 relief camps inthe district over 35,000 peoplehave taken shelter, an officialrelease said.

In Kozhikode district, 17deaths have been reported andover 60,000 people shifted to209 camps.

Congress leader RahulGandhi visited relief camps andflood-hit areas in his WayanadLok Sabha constituency, includ-ing worst hit Puthumala, andinteracted with people.

"It is a tragedy not only forWayanad, but for Kerala andalso some southern states. Thisis not only a Wayanad issue, thisis a Kerala issue, this is aKarnataka issue.

I think the Central govern-ment needs to pay attention andaggressively support the peopleof these states," the Congressleader told reporters at Kalpettaafter attending a review meet-ing with government officials onthe flood situation in his con-stituency.

He also tweeted that he hadvisited the epicentre ofPuthumala landslide atMeppadi in Wayanad.

"This is the site of a terriblelandslide that destroyed anentire village, many people arestill feared to be trapped & res-cue work is ongoing," he said.

Chief Minister PinarayiVijayan on Monday directeddistrict collectors to ensure allnecessary facilities for peopleliving in relief camps and sani-tation drive is being conductedin a proper manner in flood-hitplaces.

Steps should be taken torestore power supply and drink-ing water distribution in rain-hitareas, he said.

Vijayan, during a reviewmeeting with collectors throughvideo conference, also asked dis-trict authorities to provide tem-porary lodging for those whohad lost their houses, even afterthe relief camps are wound up.

As the rains receded, rescueoperations in affected areas havebecome smooth, he said, addingthat the next major rescue taskwas to evacuate people frommudslide-prone areas. PTI

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Wayanad (Ker): Congressleader Rahul Gandhi onMonday visited flood-hit areasin his Wayanad Lok Sabhaconstituency, including worst-hit Puthumala, and urged theCentre to "aggressively sup-port" the people hit by floodsand landslides in Southernstates.

"It is a tragedy not only forWayanad, but for Kerala andalso some southern states. Thisis not only a Wayanad issue,this is a Kerala issue, this is aKarnataka issue.

I think the Central gov-ernment needs to pay attentionand aggressively support thepeople of these states," theCongress leader told reportersat Kalpetta after attending a

review meeting with govern-ment officials on the flood sit-uation in his Lok Sabha con-stituency.

Gandhi, who is currentlyvisiting people affected byfloods and landslides inWayanad, said he had spokento Prime Minister NarendraModi about the Kerala floodissue.

"I spoke to the PrimeMinister and I mentioned tohim some of the details that Iknew about Kerala andWayanad.

And I told him to makesure that central governmentgives full support," he said inresponse to a question on thecentral aid to Wayanad ravagedby floods and landslides. PTI

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Bengaluru: Former PrimeMinister HD Deve Gowda onMonday requested PrimeMinister Narendra Modi torelease �5,000 crore as interimrelief to flood-ravagedKarnataka and to notify it as"national calamity."

In a letter to Modi, theJD(S) patriarch said he had notseen such destruction to bothhuman lives and properties inhis six decades of political career.

"I request you to releaserupees five thousand crore asinterim relief pending submis-sion of final memorandum bythe State Government followedby assessment from a high-level central team and recom-mendation of the inter-minis-

terial committee on disastermanagement on assessment andquantification of the damagesuffered by the state due to floodhavoc," Gowda said in his letter.

"I hope that theGovernment of India wouldextend its helping hand in thehours of need to wipe the tearsof vast population of the statewhich has facing a major tragedyand to rebuild their lively hoodwith all form of assistance fromthe state and central govern-ments," he said.

However, the KarnatakaGovernment has requested theCentre to immediately release�3,000 crore. A total of 2,694 vil-lages in eighty-six taluks of 17districts in Karnataka have been

affected due to floods and rains.According to information

available from the StateGovernment, the death toll sofar was 42, while 12 were miss-ing. A total of 5,81,897 peoplehave been evacuated and res-cued so far, and 1,181 reliefcamps have been opened where3,32,629 people are taking shel-ter. Gowda said this naturalcalamity is unprecedented, rareand severe and beyond the cop-ing capacity of the StateGovernment and extremely dif-ficult for it to provide rescue,relief and rehabilitation mea-sures through normal allocationavailable under the nationaland state disaster responsefunds. PTI

Mumbai: Shiv Sena MLA UlhasPatil on Monday blamed the"bureaucratic lethargy" forfloods in Kolhapur and Sanglidistricts following heavy rains inwestern Maharashtra.

Patil, who represents ShirolAssembly seat in Kolhapur, saidhe urged the district adminis-tration last month-end to takesteps like releasing water fromdams in view of the predictionof heavy rainfall in the area.

"I wrote a letter to Kolhapurcollector on July 31, pointing out

that Koyna dam was 80 per centfilled. There was a forecast ofextremely heavy rain in the firstweek of August and I request-ed the collector to take steps likereleasing some water from damsin advance," he said.

"But nothing happened,only because of the bureaucraticlethargy. Today we are witness-ing loss of lives and property,"Patil said.

The MLA said in his letterhe also urged the collector totake steps for increasing the dis-

charge of water from Almattidam on the Krishna river inneighbouring Karnataka.

"Despite my request, nopreventive action was initiatedand the entire region was affect-ed by floods last week," herued.

Notably, Shiv Sena chiefUddhav Thackeray on Sundayrefused to comment on anycontroversy over floods, sayinghis focus was on providing allsupport to those affected by therain fury. PTI

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Ahmedabad: The Indian AirForce (IAF) has rescued nearly125 people stranded on a roadwashed away by floods due toheavy rainfall in Kutch districtof Gujarat, officials said onMonday.

Several parts of Gujarat,including Saurashtra and Kutchregions, received heavy rainfallin the last few days.

After the heavy downpour,a large number of people werestuck on a road washed away byflood waters at Bhuj in Kutchdistrict.

On Sunday evening, theAir Force received a request torescue a large number of people

stranded on a road that waswashed away at a causewaynear Hajipir dargah at Bhuj inKutch district, a defence officialsaid. "The South Western AirCommand (SWAC) respondedswiftly and sent a Mi17 heli-copter from Jamnagar. The heli-copter took three shuttles andrescued 125 people. They wereshifted to a safer location, hesaid. The area is located near theIndia-Pakistan border.

The region was flooded dueto heavy rains following whicharound 300 people, mostlyworkers of a factory and theirfamily members, were stranded.

Initially, teams of the

National Disaster ResponseForce (NDRF) and local policerescued around 175 people, adistrict administration officialsaid.

Later, the district adminis-tration sought help of the IAF torescue the remaining people, hesaid. The IAF helicopters werealso used to rescue flood- affect-ed people from Navsari in southGujarat and Jamnagar in last fewdays, a defence release said.

"The operation began onAugust 4 when two helicopterswere deployed to rescue 45 peo-ple, including women and chil-dren, from some flooded areasof Navsari," it said. PTI

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Bengaluru: The BJP'sKarnataka unit on Monday hitout at Congress Legislatureparty leader Siddaramaiah fornot visiting his flood-hit BadamiAssembly constituency andinstead attending a "biryaniparty."

The BJP has also posted pic-tures of Siddaramaiah purport-edly having food along withKPCC president Dinesh GunduRao, veteran congress leaderMallikarjun Kharge, party leg-islators B Z Zameer AhmedKhan, M B Patil, K J George,Krishna Byre Gowda, amongothers.

"Twitter preacher @sid-daramaiah has time to attendbiryani party at Congress MLCshouse, but he doesnt have timeto visit flood affected Badamiconstituency.

If eating biryani is over,make some effort to visit yourconstituency & listen to pleas ofpeople who voted u (sic)," theBJP's Karnataka unit tweeted.

Siddaramaiah had citedcataract surgery and doctors'advice for not visiting Badamiin Bagalkot district that is affect-ed by floods.

He had deputed his son andMLA of Varuna constituency in

Mysuru Yathindra to visitBadami and take stock of the sit-uation.

Siddaramaiah has been flay-ing the central government overthe delay in releasing funds totake up relief measures.

He has also hit out at ChiefMinister Yediyurappa over thedelay in cabinet expansion andhis ability to handle the floodsituation on his own, withoutany ministers in his govern-ment.

Monday also marked thebirthday of the former chiefminister who completed 71years. PTI

Kochi: Noushad did not thinktwice while opening the sealedbundles of new clothes, kept inhis godown for Eid sale, anddonate it to the distressed peo-ple, who are living in reliefcamps after losing everythinginthe floods and massive land-slides in north Kerala.

He himself stuffed a lion'sshare of his fresh apparelstocked in huge carry bagsand took them on his head tothe parked vehicles, to be takento the relief camps.

Noushad, a street vendor inKochi, had donated nearly 10sacks of new clothes kept forfestival sale, when a group ofvolunteers approached him fordonation to help people livingin relief camps on Sunday, theeve of Eid.

At a time when majority ofpeople prefer to give usedclothes and only a portion oftheir savings to help the needy,Noushad has donated almostall his earnings to bring asmile on the faces of people

whom he has neither met norknown, thus showcasing amodel of compassion andbrotherhood.

The video of the vendor, inhis 40s, busy packing theclothes in a narrow godown

and transporting them to thevehicles, along with the volun-teers, has gone viral on socialmedia.

When Noushad startedstuffing new clothes in carrybags, volunteers cautioned himthat he was giving away toomuch and it might effect hisfestival sales.

"When we depart fromthis world, we cannot carryanything... My profit is to helpthe needy... Isn't this the way weshould celebrate Eid? My Eid islike this...," a smiling Naushadsaid.

He said he was certain theclothes donated would reach tothe affected people.

"It is meant for the poorpeople. I am not botheredabout profit or loss", he added.

Film and theatre artist,Rajesh Sharma, who wasamong the volunteers, posteda video of the noble vendor onFacebook, which had beenviewed and shared by a largenumber of people.

A number of peopleincluding state PWD ministerG Sudhakaran, Ernakulam dis-trict Collector S Suhas andactor Asif Ali have lavishedpraise on the vendor's selflessact.

State Health Minister K KShylaja extended her Eid greet-ings on the social media shar-ing Noushad's photo andwords.

The monsoon fury has sofar claimed 76 lives and dis-placed over 2.7 lakh people inthe southern State. PTI

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Minister BS Yediyurappa onMonday announced an assis-tance of �5 lakh each to thosewho have lost their housescompletely in the floods andlandslides, to take up con-struction work.

The Chief Minister hasalso announced �1 lakh tothose whose houses have beendamaged, to take up repairwork, and �5,000 monthly tothose staying in rental accom-modation till their houses areready.

"�1 lakh assistance will beprovided to those whose hous-es have been damaged due tofloods, to take up repair work,"Yediyurappa was quoted as

saying by his office in a release.He made this announce-

ment during his visit toBelthangady in DakshinaKannada district.

Yediyurappa said, "�5 lakhwill be given to those whohave completely lost theirhouses, to take up construc-tion work, and �10,000 will begiven as immediate measure."

He also said �5,000 permonth will be given to thosestaying in rental accommoda-tions adding that those with-out site will be provide withplot. A total of 2,694 villagesin eighty-six taluks of 17 dis-tricts in Karnataka have beenaffected due to floods andrains. PTI

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The medical educationdreams and hopes of hun-

dreds of students who passedout successfully in the NationalEligibility-Cum-Entrance Test(NEET) have been shattered bythe indifferent and dubiousapproach of the board of direc-tors of the Employees StateInsurance Corporation-ownedmedical colleges in the country, allege parents of stu-dents who face uncertaintyabout their future.

“This has tarnished theimage of the Ministries ofHealth, Human Resources ingeneral and that of the Centrein particular,” according to acandidate whose admission tothe first year MBBS is hangingin the balance.

There are nine ESI-runmedical colleges in India where20 per cent of the total seats arereserved exclusively for thechildren of subscribers of theState promoted organisation.The number of seats allocatedfor MBBS course is 317 and forBDS is 22. “This reservation isinclusive of the candidatescoming under ScheduledCastes, Scheduled Tribes, OBCand EWS,” said the father of agirl student who scored moregrades in the NEET than whatwas prescribed by the Board forbeing considered for admissionto the MBBS/BDS courses.

But the aspirations of this

candidate and hundreds of oth-ers like her suffered a setback inJune this year when a singlebench judge of the Madras HighCourt issued an order stayingthe admission of students underthe ESI quota against a petitionfiled by an open quota studentwho questioned the legality ofthe admission process. Her con-tention was that though she hadscored more marks in the NEET,she was being denied admissionto facilitate the admission of theESI quota students.

The ESI posted the courtorder on its website on June 28and the first list of selected can-didates was published on July1. The parents who contactedthe ESI board about the fate oftheir children were told that anappeal was being filed seekingthe cancellation of the stayorder. Though the second andfinal allotment list was pub-lished on July 12, it too did notcarry the names of the ESIquota students. What made

matters worse was that thesestudents, who were confidentof making it to the medicalcolleges did not apply for anyother colleges or courses.“Though we were told by theESI Board that it wouldapproach the Madras HighCourt nothing happened andthis forced us to file a complaintwith the Supreme Court. Theapex court asked us toapproach the Madras HighCourt pleading for a hearing bya Division Bench,” said thefather of another applicant.

The Division Bench of theMHC on July 18 stayed theorder by the single bench andasked the ESI management tohasten up the admission pro-cedure as per hitherto followednorms. Though the court orderwas received by the ESI head-quarters on July 23, the directorgeneral of the body rejected theorder stating that there was noclarity. The students and theparents again approached the

High Court seeking the clarifi-cation asked by the DG, theywere told by the additionalsolicitor general that whateverclarification had been asked bythe DG was there in the courtorder and all that the latter hadto do is to admit the students.

Despite these develop-ments, the ESI Board hasrefused to comply with theCourt Order which has neces-sitated the parents and thestudents deciding to file a con-tempt of court in the SupremeCourt against the ESI Board.

“There is an apprehensionamong us that the ESI Boardmay be hand in glove with theprivate management colleges toforce some of the studentsfrom the reserved quota seekadmission paying hefty fees. Bydelaying the admission processof the reserved quota students,the ESI management may beindirectly helping the selffinance medical colleges,” saidP Ramadas, an aggrieved fatherof a student who has been qual-ified but denied admission forreasons best known to themanagement. But K SureshBabu, leader of the INTUCwho was a board member ofthe ESIC till last year has takenup the cudgels on behalf of thestudents. “I have been given asassurance by the ESI manage-ment that the qualified studentswould be granted admissionand there is no need for themto be upset,” he told The Pioneeron Monday.

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Prime Minister NarendraModi on Monday paid rich

tributes to space pioneerVikram Sarabhai on his 100thbirth anniversary and said hisvision helped India become amajor science and technologyplayer in the world.

Modi offered tributes toSarabhai, the father of India’sspace programme, through avideo message which wasplayed at an event held here tocommemorate his birth cente-nary, which comes just weeksafter Chandrayaan-2 mission tothe Moon was launched.

The function marks theinauguration of year-long cen-tenary celebrations in honourof Sarabhai, born on August 12,1919 in Ahmedabad.

“This is a special occasionas we are celebrating DrSarabhai’s birth centenary. Thishas come at a time when Indiais about to land on the moon.

“When Vikram Lander (ofChandrayaan-2) would landon the Moon next month, itwill be a befitting tribute to DrSarabhai from 130 crore citi-zens of India,” said Modi in hisaddress was played at the event.

The programme wasorganised jointly by theDepartment of Space, theISRO, which was founded bySarabhai, and the Departmentof Atomic Energy.

“He used to say that peo-ple of India must not hesitateto use latest technology to

solve problems faced by thesociety. “It was this vision of DrSarabhai which played animportant role in making Indiaa major player in the field ofscience and technology.

“We are now making use ofspace technology and nucleartechnology for the benefit ofcommon men,” said Modi.

Modi said it was Sarabhaiwho filled the void created bythe death of legendary scientistHomi Bhabha, who had con-ceived India’s nuclear pro-gramme. RememberingSarabhai’s initial days, Modisaid the first rocket launched byhim at Thumba in Kerala dur-ing the 1960s became the basefor today’s rocket technologywhich is being used to launchIndia’s Moon and Mars mis-sions. “Dr Sarabhai gave a newdirection to our space andnuclear programmes. We cansay that the rocket launched byhim at Thumba has now takendifferent forms to help us reach

to the Moon and Mars.“Today, the entire world is

amazed by our achievements inspace and showering praises onus,” said Modi, adding apartfrom being a legendary scien-tist, Sarabhai was a greathuman being and a teacher.

The prime minister urgedthe young generation to takeinspiration from Sarabhai andmake new inventions to solvevarious problems being facedby the society. The functionwas attended by ISRO chair-man K Sivan, one of his pre-decessors K Kasturirangan,former Director of the SpaceApplication Centre PramodKale and Sarabhai’s sonKartikeya Sarabhai amongother dignitaries.

As per the ISRO website,Sarabhai founded the PhysicalResearch Laboratory (PRL) inAhmedabad in 1947 when hewas just 28 years old. He wasalso chairman of the AtomicEnergy Commission andplayed a major role in the cre-ation of the Indian Institute ofManagement, Ahmedabad.

Some other well-knowninstitutions established bySarabhai are: Faster Breeder Test Reactor (FBTR),Kalpakkam, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre,Thiruvananthapuram, VariableEnergy Cyclotron Project,Kolkata and UraniumCorporation of India Ltd(UCIL), Jaduguda (Jharkhand).

Sarabhai died onDecember 30, 1971.

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Kolkata: West Bengal BJP pres-ident Dilip Ghosh on Mondaysaid his party is not in favour ofa separate Gorkhaland Stateand wants a permanent politi-cal solution in Darjeeling hills.

He said those who do notwant development of the hillsare doing politics over it.

The comment comes inthe backdrop of the word‘Gorkhaland’ by Union HomeMinister Amit Shah in a letterto Darjeeling MP Raju Bista,who had sought protection forGorkhas in the national Capital.

The use of the word haskicked up a row in West Bengalwith the ruling TMC seeing init a “plot” to divide the state.

The BJP, which hasemerged as a major politicalforce in the state after the LokSabha polls, has rejected thecharge as “baseless”.

“We have never said wewant Gorkhaland. We want apermanant political solutionto the problem in the hills sothat development can take placethere. We have said this before and we are repeating it,”Ghosh said.

“We had won theDarjeeling seat with a hugemargin under very tough cir-cumstances. We will work forthe development of the peopleof the hills,” he added.

Several hill parties haddemanded UT status forDarjeeling after the Kashmirdevelopments. PTI

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Rejecting Mamata Banerjee’sallegations that the BJP-led

Central Government wasthreatening to bring theKolkata Durga Puja commit-tees under Income Tax net sothat the organisers who enjoymuch leverage in their localareas can be arm-twisted to jointhe saffron outfit, the BengalBJP on Monday said it was theduty of the Centre to preventmoney laundering through thePuja committees.

“Nothing should be readinto the Centre’s move to tax thePuja committees. It is just beingdone to prevent money laun-dering,” Bengal BJP presidentDilip Ghosh said adding it wascommon knowledge that thechit fund often cash got routedthrough Puja committees.

“After all they are dealingwith public money. They col-lect cash and donation from thepeople of the society and theymust account for that money,”

Ghosh said. “Lakhs of rupees earned

through chit fund are oftenlooted and laundered in thismanner and it is theGovernment’s duty look intothis entire business,” he said.

Slamming the Centre fortargeting the Kolkata DurgaPuja committees with incometax notices Bengal ChiefMinister on Saturday said thatthe Centre was trying to brow-beat the local clubs into sub-mission so that they could beforced to work for the BJP infuture. “I want the centre tostop bringing the Puja com-mittees in tax net,” Banerjeesaid showing how the senti-ments of lakhs of people wereinvolved with the Durga Pujawhich was the biggest festivalof the Bengali people.

“Even we have withdrawntax from Ganga Sagar Melabecause it involves sentimentsof lakhs of devotees. TheCentre will only earn people’sire by taxing the Pujas,” she said

adding only about 25 Pujacommittees out of 2,800 havea budget beyond �50 lakh.“Most of them have a budget of�15 lakh or so and that too iscollected through donationand sponsor,” she maintained.

Pooh-pooing Banerjee forshedding crocodile’s tears forthe Durga Puja committeesanother senior BJP leader andparty national secretary RahulSinha said if she is so con-cerned about these committees,then why did the TMCGovernment on several occa-sions try to stop Durga Puja rit-uals, in order to allowMuharram in the State.

He asked “what is the harmif IT looks into the money flowin Durga Puja committees. Insome puja committees, seniorTMC leaders and Ministersoccupy important positionsand use it to launder their blackmoney looted through cutmoney and chit fund scams.The TMC is afraid that this linkmight be revealed.”

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Jaipur: A bust of Bharatiya JanaSangh founder Syama PrasadMookerjee has been foundvandalised in Rajasthan’sBhilwara district, police said on Monday.

A case was registeredagainst unidentified accused inthis connection, they said.

Some unidentified anti-social elements vandalisedthe bust of Mookerjee installed at the Ummed Sagarcrossing in Shahpura police sta-tion area of the district onSunday night, BhilwaraSuperintendent of PoliceHarendra Kumar said.

A delegation of BJP workers met theBhilwara SP on Monday andpresented a memorandumdemanding arrest of theaccused at the earliest.

Kumar said the matter isbeing probed and the law andorder situation is being moni-tored. PTI

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Aday after thedelivery person-

nel of food deliverycompany Zomatowent on an indefinitestrike in Howrah alleging they were forced by theiremployers to supply beef and pork to customers themanagement said that they were trying to resolve the issue.

Even as the workers protested and raised slogansat Howrah, the company, in a statement, said “a smallgroup of partners” have raised concerns and it waslooking to resolve the issue. There is a small groupof partners in Howrah who have raised concerns andwe are looking to resolve the issue as quickly as pos-sible,” a company spokesperson said even as BengalMinister Rajib Banerjee who is a local MLA toobacked the demands of the protesters.

The striking Zomato staff said, “We are on strikeas we have to deliver beef food items which are againstour religious sentiments. We are not going to do it,”adding the company was not listening to theirdemands and forcing them to deliver beef and porkwhich go against their religious sentiments. Both theHindus and Muslims staff were raising similar issues,workers said.

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Chennai: Congress in Tamil Nadu onMonday took potshots at top film starRajinikanth for likening PrimeMinister Narendra Modi and HomeMinister Amit Shah duo to LordKrishna and Arjuna and wanted himto read Mahabharat properly.

A day after the actor made theremark while appreciating Shah forscrapping Article 370, Tamil NaduCongress Committee President K SAlagiri said he did not expect such areaction from him adding he was sur-prised by it.

States including those in theNorth East enjoyed special privilegeslike Kashmir did (previously), he saidin a statement and wanted to knowwhy these were not scrapped by theCentre. The reason for doing awaywith Article 370 in Jammu andKashmir alone was due to its “Muslimmajority” status, he alleged.

The Congress leader wanted toknow if the actor toed the “one kindof justice for Kashmir and another forother states,” policy of Shah.

Modi and Shah combine are notKrishna and Arjuna, he said and asked:“How can those who snatched awaythe rights of crores of people could beKrishna and Arjuna ? dear MrRajinikanth, please read Mahabharatagain, please go through it againproperly,” he added.

On Sunday, the actor had con-gratulated the Union Home Ministerfor the Centre’s initiative on Kashmir.Prime Minister Modi and Shah werelike Lord Krishna and Arjuna, he hadsaid. However, “we don’t know who isKrishna and who is Arjuna,” added theactor. The Krishna-Arjuna combina-tion is credited with playing a key rolein the Pandavas winning theMahabharata battle against theKauravas. PTI

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Jammu: Jammu & Kashmir GovernorSatya Pal Malik on Monday hit out atCongress leader Rahul Gandhi for hisremarks that there have been reports ofviolence in Kashmir, saying he will sendhim an aircraft to visit the valley andobserve the ground situation.

The Governor said Gandhi shouldfeel ashamed about the behaviour of oneof his leaders who was talking like an“idiot” in Parliament.

“I have invited Rahul Gandhi tocome here. I will send you a plane, toobserve (the situation) and then speakup. You are a responsible person and youshould not speak like this,” Malik said.

Malik was replying to a questionabout statements and reports by someleaders and the media about the violence

in Kashmir. On Saturday night, Gandhi said that

some reports had come in from Jammu& Kashmir about the violence there andPrime Minister Narendra Modi mustassuage concerns over the matter in atransparent manner.

The Governor said there was nocommunal angle in scrapping provisionsof Article 370 in Jammu & Kashmir.

“Scrapping of Article 370 and Article35-A was for everyone. There is no com-munal angle (for scrapping it) in Leh,Kargil, Jammu, Rajouri-Poonch andnot here either (Kashmir). There is nocommunal angle to it,” he said.

Malik said that the issue was beingfanned by some people but they were notsuccessful in it. PTI

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Kohima: Nagaland Chief SecretaryTemjen Toy on Monday said theRegister of Indigenous Inhabitants ofNagaland (RIIN) will strengthen theimplementation of Inner Line Permit(ILP) in the State, especially in Dimapurdistrict.

The State Government found it nec-essary to conduct the exercise to iden-tify the indigenous inhabitants of thestate and therefore notified creation ofRIIN, Toy told reporters here

Extension of ILP has also been thedemand of several Naga tribal organi-sations and student bodies taking intoconsideration the influx of illegal immi-grants, he said.

The chief secretary said that it hasbeen found that a robust IT enabled ILPsystem is required to be put in place tocheck such influx which threatens thevery existence of the indigenous inhab-itants.

Expressing that ILP should havebeen put into force in Dimapur after the1979 order declaring it as a tribal belt,Toy, however, said the present govern-ment accepting the submissions of thetribal bodies and civil societies hasdecided to extend ILP to Dimapur.

He said that creation of RIINbefore implementation of ILP is amust. Toy said that following thedemand of the Naga tribal bodies andcivil society organisations asking for for-mulation of proper modalities for RIIN,the government has constituted RIINcommission headed by Banuo Z Jamir.

He said that the RIIN is an ongo-ing process and it has not been put onhold, except for enumeration process,which will commence only after con-sensus is achieved on Banuo Z Jamir

Commission recommendations, whichwill be submitted next month.

RIIN will be a one-time exercise butthere will be continuity in the entry asthe family members of those entered inthis exercise will be added as and whenneeded, he said.

He also asserted that rights andproperties including land of non-Nagainhabitants of Nagaland before state-hood, December 1, 1963 and thosebefore declaration of then Dimapur sub-division under Kohima as a ‘tribal belt’in 1979 will have to be protected.

He affirmed that RIIN will firstidentity the Naga indigenous inhabi-tants of the state and than other non-Nagas who have settled in Dimapurbefore 1979 and those settled in otherparts of the state before December 1,1963, the year of Nagaland statehood.

The non-Nagas cannot be taken asindigenous inhabitants but they willhave to be considered as domicile orpermanent residents of the state as theyhave been in the state for such longdurations.

Differentiating all this people willhelp enforce Inner Line Permit (ILP) fordifferent categories of people while theauthorities will be able to introduce IT-enabled ILP to have proper records anddatas of ILP holders entry and exit intothe state, Toy said.

The chief secretary said that theBanuo Z Jamir commission on RIINwill also recommend the cut of dates,thereafter it will taken for deliberationwith the general public.

RIIN will be implemented only afterall the stakeholders arrive at a consen-sus through proper discussions, thechief secretary asserted. PTI

Lucknow: Six women inmates,one of them five months preg-nant, fled from a Government-run shelter home here, an offi-cial said on Monday.

The district probation offi-cer of Lucknow, SudhakarPandey, said the six women fledfrom the Rajkiya MahilaSharnalaya on Prag NarainRoad on Saturday at around

2.30 am.He said three of them were

from Lakhimpur, two fromHardoi and one from Lucknow.

The CCTV footage of theincident shows that “thewomen climbed on emptydrums with the help of a watersupply pipe and reached theroof of a bathroom on the cam-pus,” Pandey said.

“From there, they crossedthe boundary wall fenced withbarbed wires,” he said.

Pandey admitted that noworker was present near theCCTV monitor at night.

He said action will be takenagainst the centre superinten-dent and four security person-nel who were on duty when theincident happened. PTI

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Aligarh (UP): Kashmiri stu-dents at the AMU boycottedthe lunch invite from the liai-son officer of the centralgovernment on the occasionof Eid al-Adha on Monday toprotest the abrogation of pro-visions of Article 370 thatgave special status to Jammu& Kashmir.

The issued a statementrejecting the invite and claim-ing that it was aimed at “rub-bing salt on the wounds of thepeople of Kashmir”.

Aligarh MuslimUniversity (AMU) officials,when contacted, confirmedthe boycott call, stressingthat they were taking steps “toinstil confidence” in studentsfrom the Valley and ensuringtheir safety and security, asadvised by the CentralGovernment.

There are about 1,300students from the Valleystudying at AMU. PTI

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China on Monday promisedto address India’s growing

concerns over the ballooningtrade deficit and suggestedexpanding cooperation in areaslike industrial production,tourism and border trade toachieve “overall balance” inbilateral commercial relations.

India has repeatedly voicedconcern over the trade imbal-ance which last year crossed awhopping $57.86 billion over$95.5 billion total bilateraltrade. The trade deficit in 2018,according to the officialChinese data, climbed to$57.86 billion from $51.72 bil-lion in 2017.

External Affairs Minister SJaishankar, who is here fortalks with the Chinese leader-

ship to prepare for the secondinformal summit betweenPrime Minister Narendra Modiand Chinese President XiJinping later this year in India,mentioned the trade deficitissue during talks as well asduring a bilateral event.

India-China economicrelationship too has seen “someprogress, Jaishankar said. Thebilateral trade has increased butso too has our deficit, which isa matter of some concern.

“We appreciate the stepstaken in the last few months bythe Chinese side to enhanceimports from India. These effortscould expand to include mea-sures to enable greater access forour pharmaceutical and IT prod-ucts and services in the domes-tic Chinese market,” he said at the2nd meeting of the India-China

High Level Mechanism onCultural and People-to-PeopleExchanges here.

Chinese Foreign MinisterWang Yi, who was also presentat the meeting, said Chinaappreciates India’s concernsover the trade imbalance.

Wang said, “We standready to continue provide facil-ities to Indian exports to China.

“At the same time, we needto think broadly and need toexpand cooperation in indus-trial production tourism, bor-der trade and other areas sothat we can achieve overall bal-ance in our economic traderelations”, he said.

This year, the bilateraltrade is expected to touch $100billion, a historic figureendorsed by the leadership ofthe two countries.

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The umbrella body for digi-tal transactions, NPCI, on

Monday said that Aadhaarenabled Payment System(AePS) crossed the milestone ofover 200 million transactionsduring July this year.

AePS is a bank led modelwhich allows basic interopera-ble banking transactions at pointof sale (PoS or MicroATM)through the business corre-spondent of any bank by usingAadhaar authentication.

“AePS has become instru-mental in driving the financialinclusion program in India. InJuly 2019, the transaction countof AePS stood at 220.18 millionwith transaction value Rs9,685.35 crore, compared totransaction count of 194.33million and a transaction valueof Rs 8,867.33 crore in themonth-ago period same year,”NPCI said in a release.

A total of 6.65 crore Indiancitizens availed banking ser-

vices through AePS platform inJuly, it said.

“AePS crossing 200 milliontransactions mark is a signifi-cant achievement for NPCI,benefiting financial inclusion inIndia. AePS is delivering the4As’ for financial inclusion torural part of India, authentica-tion of customer, availability ofservices, accessibility throughAePS channel and affordabili-ty as it’s free of cost to the cus-tomers,” NPCI COO PraveenaRai said.

AePS empowers a bankcustomer to use Aadhaar asidentity to access respectiveAadhaar enabled bank accountand perform basic bankingtransactions like cash with-drawal, intrabank or interbankfund transfer and balanceenquiry.

The only inputs requiredfor a customer to do an AePStransaction are the name of thecustomer’s bank, Aadhaarnumber and fingerprint cap-tured during enrollment.

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Jio, the telecom arm ofReliance Industries, is tar-

geting 35 million subscriberswithin the first year of com-mercially operationalising itsfibre-based broadband businessfrom next month, a seniorofficial said.

A senior Jio official said thecompany will bundle in not justTV sets, but also desktops aspart of the Jiofiber plan whichwill go commercially live fromSeptember 5.

He also hinted that thecable TV subscription is not apart of the plans ranging fromlow Rs 700 to a high Rs 10,000per month.

Subscribers will have to payseparately for receiving the TVservices which will be deliveredeither through the cable fibre orby getting a DTH service, headded.

He said Jio, which unveileda set top box earlier in the day,wants to grow in the market“very quickly”.

“We want the people toagain feel excited. We couldn’tdo that with LTE phonesbecause our price points werereally low,” the official said,referring to the mobile con-nectivity service which retailsfor as low as under Rs 150 permonth.

The official said the com-pany will target 1,600 townsfrom the first day of the launchand will initially try to reachout to the rest of the countrythrough 30,000 local cableoperators who are aligned tothree multi-system operatorsacquired by it recently.

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Like a s leek Mercedescrunched between two

freight trucks, Europe’s econ-omy is being knocked offcourse by the conflict betweenthe US and China over trade.

The bill for damages fromthe U.S-China collision couldbe painfully high, startingthis week if new growth fig-ures on Wednesday show thatEurope’s economic motor,Germany, is stalled or shrink-ing.

Beyond that, economistssay there are signs that yearsof jobs growth since thedepths of the Great Recessionand the eurozone debt crisismay be ending.

And if the trade warsescalate to include higherU.S. Tariffs on cars made inEurope, the picture couldlook even worse.

The heart of the matter isGermany, Europe’s largesteconomy and a key tradepartner of both the US andChina.

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India currently hosts morethan 450 startups in the agri-

tech segment, and the sectorhas received more than $248million funding in the first sixmonths this year, IT industrybody Nasscom said onMonday.

In a report titled ‘Agritechin India — Emerging Trends in2019’, Nasscom said that grow-ing at 25 per cent year-on-year,India currently hosts morethan 450 startups in the agri-tech sector.

“Over the recent years, theagri-tech sector in India has wit-nessed some of the global andsector-focused funds directlyinvesting in agri-tech startups ...As of June 2019, the sector hasreceived more than $248 millionfunding, a massive growth of300 per cent as compared to theprevious year,” it said.

Interestingly, every ninthagri-tech startup in the worldis originating from India.

The report said there hasbeen a 1.7-times increase inaverage farmer income in lastdecade, enabling farmers to trynew tech solutions.

More than 50 per cent ofagri-tech startups offer supply

chain solutions like marketlinkage, better access to inputs etc.

“India’s agriculture sector isadvancing steadily towards itsdigital transformation and thestartup ecosystem is playing acritical role here, bringinginnovation and disruption inmuch-needed areas,” NasscomPresident Debjani Ghosh said.

Adoption of technology inagriculture has always neededa structured institutional focusand technology firms are try-ing to break into the agricul-tural landscape using newerbusiness models, she added.

“The findings of the reportare a testimony to the potentialof the Agritech industry andthe opportunities that Indiapresents in the agriculture andfarming landscape,” Ghoshsaid. The report said Indiancompanies are increasinglylooking at global markets toexpand with focus on regionslike Southeast Asia, Europe,Africa and South America.

According to the report, inthe last five years more thanfive global agri-tech companieshave ventured in India, ascompared to more than 25Indian agri-tech startups withglobal presence.

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An aviation studies portalhas been restrained from

offering counterfeit ‘Vistara’branded products by the DelhiHigh Court, which said that itposed security risks at airportsas it is a distinctive Tata-SIAairline trademark in the airlineindustry.

The high court said thatPilot 18 Aviation Book Store,which operates the web portalwww.Pilot18.Com, was not justselling products bearing themark ‘Vistara’ but also productsof various other airlines includ-ing Jet Airways, SpiceJet andAir India and this posed a seri-ous security threat.

Justice Prathiba M Singhdirected Pilot 18 to pay Rs 2lakh as cost to the operator ofVistara Airlines within amonth.

The court’s order camewhile deciding a suit filed byTata SIA Airlines Ltd seeking torestrain the portal from usingits trademarks and sellingbadges, name tags and otheraccessories, including mugsand baggage tags, bearing themark ‘Vistara’ with an identi-cal device mark/logo form.

The plaintiff said it came toknow in February about‘Vistara’ branded products onthe website of the defendants as

also on various e-commerceportals such as Amazon andSnapdeal.

Justice Singh took strongexception to the incorrect state-ment made by the portal thatthey have never used the trade-mark ‘Vistara’. This constitutesperjury, the court said andnoted that the portal had noremorse whatsoever whilemaking the statement.

The portal owner was notonly liable to be permanentlyinjuncted from using the mark‘Vistara’ but are also liable topay costs and damages.

“The mark Vistara is quitepopular in India and hasacquired a unique status. It isa distinctive mark that enjoysenormous goodwill and repu-tation in the airline, travel andtourism industry. Use of thismark, even in respect of unre-lated services would createconfusion and deception. Itdeserves to be declared as a‘well-known mark’,” the courtsaid and passed a decree in thefavour of the airlines.

The airlines said the mark‘Vistara’ is registered in India,Singapore, and various otherjurisdictions. It said the defen-dants are not only offeringthese products on their website,but also claim that they weresupplying ‘Vistara’ brandedaviation products to Vistara

Airlines.The portal, however, claimed

that it had not used the trade-mark ‘Vistara’ and that the plain-tiff had concocted a false story.After perusing the report by thelocal commissioner, the courtsaid it was clear that the portalwas taking a false stand that theyhave not used the mark.

“The sale of so much mer-chandise with the names of var-ious airlines is not only violativeof the trademark rights of therespective parties, including theplaintiff, but also poses a seri-ous threat owing to the fact thatsome unauthorised personsmay try to seek entry into air-ports etc., on the basis of thecounterfeit badges, labels, uni-forms and other merchandiseillegally bearing the trademarksof these airlines,” it said.

“Such a threat cannot beignored by this court in themanner in which it is sought tobe done by the defendants,” thecourt said. It said the writtenstatement given by portal is notonly a misstatement but clear-ly constitutes misrepresentationto the court. The court said thaton the next date, September 12,it will consider if any furtheraction is required to be takenin view of the false plea takenin the written statement andthe apology that has been ten-dered.

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Gold prices rose by �229 to�38,221 per 10 gram in

futures trade on Monday dri-ven by high demand at phys-ical markets and firm globaltrends.

On the Multi CommodityExchange (MCX), the most-traded October contract of themetal rose by �229, or 0.6 percent, to �38,221 per 10 gramin a business turnover of 1,150lots.

The yellow metal for deliv-ery in December also rose by�273, or 0.71 per cent, to�38,850 per 10 gram in abusiness turnover of 33 lots.

Silver prices were alsotrading up on the bourse.The white metal to be deliv-ered in September was trad-ing up by �115, or 0.27 percent, to �43,439 per kg in1,499 lots.

Market analysts said theprecious metal advanced inphysical markets which sup-ported the futures prices. Goldin the National Capital rose by�50 to regain the all-timehigh level of �38,470 per 10grams.

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Gulf carrier Etihad, whichholds 24 per cent stake in

Jet Airways, on Monday said ithas decided not to reinvest inthe airline due to unresolvedissues concerning liabilities.

Jet Airways, which shut-tered operations on April 17, isundergoing insolvency pro-ceedings and at least threeentities have put in initial bidsfor the carrier.

In a statement, Etihad saidit declined to lodge anExpression of Interest (EoI) toreinvest in Jet Airways becauseof unresolved issues concern-ing the airline’s liabilities.

The deadline for submis-sion of EoIs was August 10.

While noting that it was“neither feasible for nor respon-sible of Etihad to reinvest in JetAirways at this time, Etihadasserted that the decision doesnot affect its commitment toIndia.

“Since then, Etihad hasconsistently and constructive-ly sought and advanced solu-tions to help resolve Jet’s issues.But as a minority shareholder,Etihad has had limited capac-ity to secure required changes,”the statement said.

The national carrier of theUAE picked up 24 per centstake in Jet Airways in 2013.

Earlier this year, Etihadsaid it made a conditionalexpression of interest to rein-vest in the Indian airline as aminority stakeholder, with anagreed partner, but unfortu-nately this did not materialise.

“Etihad remained engagedin the process, but despite theendeavours of everyoneinvolved, there remained verysignificant issues relating to Jet’sprevious liabilities,” the state-

ment noted.“Regrettably, in these cir-

cumstances, it was neither fea-sible for nor responsible ofEtihad to reinvest in Jet at thistime. This decision is unrelat-ed to and does not affectEtihad’s continued commit-ment to India, the airline’slargest single market, and onewhich it has served for 15years,” it said.

According to the state-ment, Etihad flies between AbuDhabi and 10 destinations inIndia, and is continuallyincreasing the frequency of itsflights, the size of its aircraft,the quality of its product andthe international route con-nections it offers beyond itshub in Abu Dhabi.

On Sunday, mining baronAnil Agarwal’s investmentcompany Volcan Investmentssaid it has shown interest inacquiring stake in Jet Airways.

Of the three entities thatsubmitted EoIs, two are finan-cial players and another isPanama-based fund AvantuloGroup, sources said onSaturday.

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The CompetitionCommission of India (CCI)

has imposed a penalty of near-ly �14 crore on JaiprakashAssociates for abusing its dom-inant market position byimposing “unfair” and “dis-criminatory” conditions onhome buyers.

“The Opposite Party(Jaiprakash Associates) perpe-trated undesirable industrypractices causing substantialharm to the competition and toconsumers, ignoring its respon-sibility as a dominant player toset fair standards of industrialpractices for other players inthe market to emulate,” CCI said.

The ruling came on a com-plaint filed by one NaveenKataria who had booked avilla at Jaypee Greens inGreater Noida, Uttar Pradesh,in 2011. In February 2019, thecomplainant informed the CCIthat she did not wish to pursuethe instant case, since all thepending disputes with the firmhave been settled.

Under the CompetitionAct, complaints filed under acertain section cannot be with-drawn. It was alleged that con-ditions in ProvisionalAllotment Letter (PAL) wereunfair, one-sided and loaded in

the favour of the company.In 2015, the regulator

ordered the Director General(DG), its investigation arm, toconduct a detailed probe intothe matter.

For the case, the CCI con-sidered ‘the market for provi-sion of services for develop-ment and sale of independentresidential units such as villas,estate homes, town homes androw-houses in integrated town-ships in Noida and GreaterNoida regions’ as the relevant one.

The regulator foundJaiprakash Associates to be indominant position in the rele-vant market.

Based on the DG’s reportsand regulator’s examination ofthe issues, CCI found clausepertaining to defaults in thePAL was heavily in favour ofthe Jaiprakash Associates.Under the pact, there was onlya marginal penalty on the firmfor any default while the allot-tees were to pay a huge fine.

Similarly, the fair traderegulator found that there werevarious clauses which wereone-sided and tilted in favourof real estate firm.

By doing so, the real estatefirm contravened Section 4 ofCompetition Act which per-tains to abuse of dominant position.

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Insurance regulator Irdai hasasked insurers to take imme-

diate steps for speeding upsettlement of claims in flood-affected areas of Karnatakaand Maharashtra.

Monsoon rains have alsocaused widespread damaged tolife and property in three otherstates of Madhya Pradesh,Uttrakhand and Kerala.

The Insurance Regulatoryand Development Authorityof India (Irdai) has issued advi-sory to general insurance andstandalone health insurancecompanies to expedite settle-ment of claims in Maharashtraand Karnataka. The recentfloods have caused immenseloss to property in the state ofKarnataka and Maharashtra,said the regulator while issuingguidelines on insurance claimsof victims of recent floods inparts of the two states.

“There is an urgent needfor the insurance industry totake immediate steps to miti-gate the hardships of the affect-ed insured population by

ensuring immediate registra-tion and settlement of eligibleclaims,” Irdai said.

It has asked the insurers toensure that all claims are sur-veyed immediately and claimpayments are disbursed at theearliest. They have also beenasked to engage adequate num-ber of surveyors in the affect-ed areas.

A total of 2,694 villages ineighty-six taluks of 17 districtsin Karnataka have been affect-ed due to floods and rains.

According to informationavailable from the state gov-ernment, the death toll is 42 sofar, while 12 were missing.

Meanwhile, KarnatakaChief Minister B S Yediyurappaon Monday expressed hopethat the situation in flood-rav-aged parts of the state will beback to normal in four to sixdays as there had been a let-upin the rains.

According to reports, so farover 70 people have died inKerala due to floods and over2.8 lakh people have takenshelter in 1,654 relief centres inthe state.

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Paris Saint-Germain brushedoff the ongoing Neymar

transfer saga by kicking off theirLigue 1 title defence with astraightforward 3-0 victory overNimes on Sunday.

The 27-year-old Neymar wasleft out of the squad the day afterPSG sporting director Leonardosaid talks about a possible sale ofthe Brazilian were “moreadvanced than before”.

On Sunday, coach ThomasTuchel told Canal+ he had “nonews” on Neymar’s future andthat he would have to “findsolutions without” him.

Edinson Cavani’s controver-sial VAR penalty in the 24thminute set PSG on their way atthe Parc des Princes, after sup-porters had made their negativefeelings towards the absentNeymar clear.

A fine second-half displayfrom Kylian Mbappe — with agoal and an assist for Angel DiMaria — showed Tuchel theobvious solution to Neymar’simpending exit, and gave thecapital club a perfect start to theirbid for a third straight French

title and ninth in total.“We are not going to lie. We

will see what happens withNeymar — but it’s not the sameteam,” said Mbappe.

PSG sit level with Lyon, whobeat Monaco 3-0 on Friday, atthe top of the fledgling table, andwill be hoping to occupy thatposition for the rest of the sea-son. Former Barcelona forwardNeymar’s two years in the Frenchcapital since PSG made him theworld’s most expensive playerhave been plagued by injuries

and controversies.Home fans unfurled a ban-

ner before kick-off translating to“Neymar. Get out”.

Other banners slammed hisrecent comment that his fondestmemory in football was inspir-ing Barcelona’s stunning 2017Champions League comebackagainst PSG, while one calledNeymar “heartless”.

Neymar has been linkedwith a return to Barca or amove to their arch rivals RealMadrid.

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Atearful Serena Williams saw herUS Open preparation thrown

into disarray on Sunday as backspasms forced her out of the WTAToronto final after just four games,handing Canadian teenager BiancaAndreescu the title.

Andreescu, 19, was up 3-1 witha break of serve when 23-time GrandSlam champion Williams decided shecouldn’t continue.

She called for a medical timeout,but within a minute, the umpireannounced she was retiring.

“I just knew,” said Williams,adding she’d undergone hours oftreatment before the match to com-bat the back spasms she’d first felt ina semi-final win on Saturday night.“I knew I wasn’t going to be able to

continue.”A n d r e e s c u

approached her chair,offering words ofencouragement and aconsolatory hug as

Williams tried to fight back tears.“I’m sorry I couldn’t do it today,”

Williams told the crowd, her voicecracking. “I tried but I just couldn’tdo it.”

Williams said the spasms start-ed during her come-from-behindwin over Czech qualifier MarieBouzkova on Saturday “and it just gotworse.”

“Just my whole back just com-pletely spasmed, and to a pointwhere I couldn’t sleep and I could-n’t really move,” she said.

Nevertheless, she wanted to giveit a go in the final.

“I don’t want to get this far andnot at least try,” said the 37-year-old,who was eyeing her 73rd WTA title— and her first since the birth of herdaughter, Olympia, in September2017.

Beaten by Simona Halep in theWimbledon final in July, Williamswas playing just her 24th match of ayear already disrupted by naggingknee trouble.

“Well, that’s the most frustratingpart is that I’ve had this before andit’s, like, 24, 36 hours where I’m justin crazy spasm and then it’s, like,gone,” said Williams, who wasn’timmediately sure whether she’d playnext week in Cincinnati.

“So that’s a little bit frustrating forme because I know that I could play.I just can’t play today.

“If it’s what typically happens, Iwill be fine, but I have to wait and see.”

For Andreescu, Sunday’s eventswere a bittersweet achievement as shebecame the first Canadian to win thetitle since Faye Urban in 1969.

“I know how it is to pull out oftournaments and be injured — it’s

not easy,” Andreescu said, address-ing Williams directly during thetrophy presentation.

“This wasn’t the way I expect-ed to win and for you to go off thecourt. I’ve watched you play somany times. You are truly a cham-

pion on and off the court.”Andreescu claimed her second

WTA Premier level title of the year,having rocketed to prominence inMarch when she became the first wildcard to win at Indian Wells.

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Rafael Nadal completed a 6-3, 6-0 demolition of Russian DaniilMedvedev to win in Montreal

on Sunday and extend his recordhaul of Masters 1000 titles.

The world number two securedhis 35th Masters crown, pullingclear by two in that category fromNovak Djokovic, who has won 33 ofthe elite tournaments.

Claycourt king Nadal successful-ly defended a hard court title for thefirst time in his career.

“It was important to start thematch in a good shape,” the 18-timeGrand Slam winner said.

“He came in playing so well,playing a lot of matches the lastweeks,” Nadal added of Medvedev,who was runner-up to Nick Kyrgiosin Washington last week.”

Nadal, in contrast, had playedjust three hard court matches sincestarting his build up to the US Openthis week — reaching the final on awalkover when injured Gael Monfilspulled out of their scheduled semi-final.

“I played a solid match, my bestof the week so far without a doubt,”Nadal said. “I did a lot of things well:changing directions, changingrhythm during the point. The sliceworked well this afternoon.

“I think I played smart, I had a

good feeling on the ball.”With all that going for him,

Nadal needed just 70 minutes to sub-due Medvedev, breaking the Russianfour times.

The top seed, who now ownsfive Canadian title dating to 2005,swept the last seven games in thehardcourt blowout against his 23-year-old Russian opponent — whohad never played Nadal before.

“I’ve played Roger (Federer)two times, Novak (Djokovic) fourtimes,” Medvedev said.

“I knew how itwas going to be, I waskind of ready for it. ButI didn’t manage toprobably show my besttennis. Rafa was incredible today.Congrats to him.”

Despite the lopsided defeat,Medvedev was pleased with histime in Toronto.

“I believe this was the best weekever,” said Medvedev, who will moveup to a career high of eighth in theworld on Monday, making him thehighest-ranked Russian. “My levelduring all the matches was extreme-ly good. “I would have liked to dobetter today, but it happens. I willtake experience from this match andtry to do better next time.”

For Nadal it was a third title of2019, after clay court success atRome and the French Open.

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Chelsea captain Cesar Azpilicuetainsists Tammy Abraham and

Mason Mount will live up to theirpotential after stinging criticismfrom Jose Mourinho following their

4-0 thrashing at Manchester United.Mourinho claimed new Chelsea

boss Frank Lampard was wrong topick inexperienced youngstersAbraham and Mount against a lead-ing Premier League team likeUnited.

The former Chelsea managersaid he was surprised proven veter-ans N’Golo Kante, Olivier Giroudand Marcos Alonso started on thebench as United ran riot at OldTrafford on Sunday.

Lampard expressed surprise atMourinho’s comments andAzpilicueta made it clear he didn’tagree with the assessment of two ofChelsea’s more highly-rated acade-my graduates.

“If they are here it is becausethey deserve to be. They are fight-ing in every training session. Wetrust in them,” Azpilicueta said.

“All the boys, they train to playfor the Chelsea first team since theywere young and now we have a mas-sive opportunity to create a fantas-tic group, to learn from every game.

“Obviously everyone would liketo start in a better way but we haveto face the reality and becomestronger from it.”

Abraham and Mount startedbrightly at Old Trafford, the formerrattling the post, and Chelsea wereperhaps unfortunate to be trailing atthe break following MarcusRashford’s penalty.

But they collapsed in the secondhalf, making it a miserable firstPremier League game in the dug-outfor Chelsea legend Lampard.

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Andy Murray on Sunday pronouncedhimself ready to go as he prepared to

resume his singles career with a first-roundtest at the ATP Cincinnati Masters.

“I’m feeling good, I’ve had three of fourgood practice sessions,” said Murray, athree-time Grand Slam champion who hastumbled to 325th in the world. “I have zeropain.

“I’m not expecting to move as well asI used to. There is still some improvementto be made, though it will take time.

“I started training singles a few weeksago, it’s the best to train with players at thehighest level who hit the ball big.”

The 32-year-old will face off againstFrenchman Richard Gasquet in the open-ing round with the winner to face fourthseed Dominic Thiem.

Murray said that as he increases his sin-gles workload, everything seems to befalling into place.

“I’ve been recovering fine from prac-tices, I’ve not had issues later in the day, Ithink I’ve handled myself pretty well.”

But he admitted: “It’s different playingmatches. But at some stage you have to take

the step to try and play.“My team felt this was the time, that’s

why I’m giving it a go.“The quickest way to get back up to

speed is to practice with the top players, Ithink that means I can get back quicker.”

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After a chastening few months following OleGunnar Solskjaer’s appointment on a

permanent basis as Manchester United man-ager, there is cause for optimism again at OldTrafford after romping to a 4-0 win overChelsea on the opening weekend of thePremier League season.

Solskjaer insisted ahead of the match thathe did not sense the negativity that appearedonline from fans in the wake of Thursday’stransfer deadline passing with only threenew arrivals in the form of Harry Maguire,Aaron Wan-Bissaka and Daniel James,while no replacement was brought infor the departing Romelu Lukakuup front.

And the Norwegian was ini-tially proved right as all three newboys played their part in aresounding victory, while thewantaway Paul Pogba came tolife after half-time andMarcus Rashford andAnthony Martial showedtheir capability to cope with-out Lukaku.

United paid a world-record fee for a defenderto match Leicester’sdemands for Maguire at

£80 million ($96.2 million) last week and thehope that the England centre-back can matchthe transformative impact made by Virgil vanDijk on Liverpool got off to a good start.

United recorded just two clean sheets athome in the league all of last season, and arealready halfway to that tally as Maguire mar-shalled the back line, while at right-back, 21-year-old Wan-Bissaka played with a maturitybeyond his years.

“He’s done exactly what we signedhim for — his presence in both boxes,his composure and calmness on theball, and he is a leader,” said Solskjaerof Maguire.

The Red Devils still needed toride their luck at times. Chelsea

twice hit the woodwork in thefirst half through TammyAbraham and EmersonPalmieri, but crucially Davidde Gea also played his part inkeeping a clean sheet.

The Spaniard embracedthat responsibility withimportant saves from Ross

Barkley and Emerson to pre-serve United’s lead either side of

half-time.“He’s contributed on and off

the ball today,” said Solskjaer of DeGea’s steadying influence.

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Rafael Nadal withdrew from the Cincinnati Masters forthe second year in a row after polishing off his US Open

preparation with a Montreal title on Sunday.The oft-injured Spaniard decided against playing any

more before the August 26 start of the US Open in newYork.

“I am very sorry to announce that I won’t be playingin Cincinnati this year,” Nadal posted onFacebook. “No other reason than per-sonally taking care of my body andtrying to keep as healthy as I feelnow.”

Also, Canadian Bianca Andreescumade history with a TorontoWTA title withdrew fromnext week’s big date.

The first Canadian inhalf a century to win thehome trophy said she didnot want to taken anyrisks after missingmore than twomonths with shoul-der problems beforereturning to actionthis week.

Williams, 37, said shewould make the trip toCincinnati before decidingwhether she would play.

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US and Australian Openchampion Naomi Osaka

returned to the world numberone spot in the WTA rankings onMonday.

The 21-year-old lost toSerena Williams in the quarter-finals of last week’s Rogers Cupbut benefitted from the secondround defeat of former numberone Ashleigh Barty and the fail-ure of Karolina Pliskova to reachthe semis in Toronto.

Osaka first hit top spot inJanuary, after winning back-to-back majors in New York andMelbourne, making history asthe first Japanese player toachieve it.

After seven weeks on top,Barty slips to second withPliskova in third. The only othermovement in the top 10 seesWilliams, finalist in Toronto,climbing two places to eightwith Sloane Stephens going in theother direction.

Canadian Bianca Andreescu,who won the Rogers Cup follow-ing Williams’ withdrawal withback spasms in the opening set ofthe final, climbs 13 places to 14.

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Real Madrid’s Gareth Bale played for the first timein four pre-season matches on Sunday to suggest

he could yet regain his place under coach ZinedineZidane.

Bale came off the bench as Madrid drew 2-2 againstRoma in the Stadio Olimpico, before losing the friend-ly on penalties.

After the game, Zidane was also asked about a pos-sible move for Paris Saint-Germain striker Neymar buthe refused to address the issue.

It was Madrid’s seventh and final warm-up fixtureahead of the start of La Liga next weekend but Balehas only played three of those, and each time as a sub-stitute.

James Rodriguez, who has also been expected toleave Madrid this summer, was not even named on thebench against Roma.

“Bale and James are players of Real Madrid,” Zidanesaid afterwards. “Anything can happen until August31 but we are counting on all the players.”

On a potential move for Neymar, who is report-edly keen to leave PSG and could rejoin Barcelona,Zidane said: “We are here with the squad that we haveand we are only thinking about that.”

Bale was back in the squad against Roma and cameon for the last half an hour.

With the score level, he could have won it forMadrid, firing into the side-netting and then just widein the 92nd minute after two impressive breaks for-ward.

Their display against Roma was one of their bet-ter showings of a patchy pre-season, which has seenthem register two wins, two draws and three defeatsafter normal time.

All four goals were scored in the first half as twiceRoma came from behind, Diego Perotti and EdinDzeko cancelling out efforts from Marcelo andCasemiro. Bale scored his penalty but Marcelo missed,his shot hitting the crossbar to confirm Roma’s win.

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Skipper Virat Kohli’s incom-parable batting form cou-pled with Bhuvneshwar

Kumar’s four-wicket haul script-ed a dominant 59-run win forIndia in the rain-curtailed sec-ond ODI against the WestIndies, continuing their unbeat-en streak in the Caribbean.

By virtue of the win onSunday, India took a 1-0 lead inthe three-match series. Thefirst ODI between the two sideswas washed out.

The third and final ODIwill be played here onWednesday.

India rode on Kohli’s 120off 125 balls and Shreyas Iyer’s71 to post a challenging 279 forseven after opting to bat.

West Indies were then set arevised target of 270 off 46 oversunder D/L method after raininterrupted the proceedings forthe second time.

In pursuit, the hosts wereon course at 148 for four beforethey lost their last six wickets for62 runs to be bundled out for210 in 42 overs.

Bhuvneshwar (4/31) wasthe pick of the bowlers forIndia, while Mohammed Shami(2/39) and Kuldeep Yadav(2/59) scalped two wicketsapiece.

Earlier, coming on to bat inthe fourth ball of the innings,Kohli played aggressively asIndia posted 279 for 7. He hit14 fours and one six during hiselegant knock.

Besides Kohli, Iyer struckthird half-century of his careeroff 68 balls and shared 125 runswith his skipper for the fourthwicket.

West Indies started theirchase on a cautious note with

Chris Gayle and Evin Lewis(65) stitching 45 runs in 9.3overs for the opening stand.

Playing his 300th ODI,Gayle achieved a big milestonewhen he surpassed legendaryBrian Lara to become the high-est scorer for West Indies inODI cricket.

Needing seven runs toachieve the feat, Gayle reachedthe milestone with a single off

Khaleel Ahmed in the ninthover.

Gayle, who now has 10,353runs as compared to Lara’s10,348, departed soon afterachieving the feat, out LBW toBhuvneshwar in the 13th over.His stay at the crease was astruggle as he managed just 11runs off 24 balls.

Shai Hope didn’t last long ashe played on a Khaleel delivery.

Shimron Hetmyer (18)showed glimpses of his talentbefore he was holed out to Kohliat short cover off Kuldeep. Heshared 40 runs for the thirdwicket with Lewis.

Battling cramps, Lewis car-ried on and completed his half-century. Lewis and NicholasPooran (42) shared 56 runsbefore Kohli took a one-hand-ed catch to sent back the open-

er off Yadav’s bowling.Thereafter, West Indies lost

the plot as Bhuvneshwar dis-missed Pooran, Roston Chase(18) and Kemar Roach (0).

Shami polished off the tail,picking up the wickets ofSheldon Cottrell and OshaneThomas.

Earlier, India lost ShikharDhawan in the third ball of theinnings, caught plumb in frontof the wicket by Cottrell.

Then came in skipper Kohliand in the company of RohitSharma (18) played fluently tostabilise the Indian innings.

Kohli played some delight-ful shots through the covers andoff his pads to register his 55thODI fifty with an outside edgepast West Indies keeper Hopeoff Carlos Brathwaite (3/53) inthe 15th over.

Rishabh Pant made 20 off35 balls with the help of twoboundaries before inexperiencedid him in.

Kohli and Iyer then played

aggressively and milked theWest Indian bowlers to keep thescoreboard ticking.

The duo rotated the strikeand found the fence when baddeliveries were on offer.

But hot and humid condi-tions got the better of Kohli inthe 42nd over as the Indian skip-per played a tired-looking shotonly to be caught by Roach atlong-off off Brathwaite.

Iyer played a good knockbefore some brilliant bowlingfrom West Indies skipper JasonHolder got the better of him.Iyer was bowled around his legsas he went across the stumps foran extravagant shot. He hit fiveboundaries and one six duringhis knock.

But West Indies came backstrongly in the last 10 overs topeg back the Indians with someclever bowling display.

Comfortably placed at 212for 3, the Indians could onlymanage 67 runs for the loss offour wickets in the last 10 overs.

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Skipper Virat Kohli haseclipsed former captain

Sourav Ganguly to becomethe second highest run-getterfor India in one-day interna-tionals.

Kohli achieved the featduring the second ODIagainst West Indies when hehit Jason Holder for a bound-ary in the 32nd over.

The 30-year-old, who hada relatively quiet World Cupin England, went on to scorehis 42nd ODI century, his firstsince March.

His 125-ball 120 took hisaggregate to 11,406 runs in238 innings, surpassingGanguly’s record of 11,363

runs in 311 ODIs.“Virat Kohli another

master class in one day crick-et @imVkohli @BCCI.. Whata player,” Ganguly wrote onTwitter.

Kohli is now only behindSachin Tendulkar, who hasscored 18,426 runs in hisillustrious ODI career. Kohliis also seven hundreds shortof Tendulkar’s record of 49ODI hundreds.

Overall, Kohli is in theeighth spot in the list of high-est run-scorer in ODIs.

Earlier in the day, theIndian captain had shattereda 26-year-old record when hesurpassed Pakistan’s JavedMiandad for most runs byany batsman in ODIs againstthe West Indies.

Kohli was 19 runs shy ofthe landmark and he over-took Miandad’s tally of 1930runs with a single in the fifthover bowled by Jason Holder.

This was Kohli’s 34thODI against the West Indieswhile Miandad had accumu-lated his runs from 64 match-es.

The prolific Indian cap-tain has so far hit seven hun-dreds against the West Indiesand has an average of over 71in ODIs against theCaribbeans.

Kohli's dominationagainst the West Indies can begauged from the fact that hestruck four back-to-back cen-turies against them betweenJuly 2017 and October 2018.

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India batsman Shreyas Iyer is hopingthat his 71-run knock in the second

ODI against the West Indies will help himkeep a consistent place in the team, cred-iting his stint with the A side for theimpressive show.

Coming into the team after a year,Iyer, who has a couple of fifties in the fiveODIs that he has played, produced a 68-ball 71 to play a crucial role in India’s 59-run win.

Batting at number five, Iyer added125 runs with skipper Virat Kohli (120).Kohli, in the post-match presentation,lauded the batsman for keeping thepressure off him during the partnership.

“I want to stay in the team for a while,the consistency is always important, Iwant to play well and contribute to theteam,” said the 24-year-old, who didn’tget game time during the T20 series.

Iyer, who scored two fifties for IndiaA during their tour of West Indies lastmonth, said familiarity with the condi-tions gave him the confidence of doingwell in the ODI series.

“It was a fruitful day. I knew I wasgoing to do well, I played for India A andI played in these grounds, paced myinnings well and think it went well,” saidIyer.

Talking about his partnership withcaptain Kohli, Iyer said: “I decided thatI wouldn’t take any risks, Virat told methat we needed to build a partnership and

take the innings deep.“He supported me very well, we took

the ones and twos, hit the boundarieswhen it came. We decided 250 was agood score, obviously we got 30 runsextra. He told me to bat at least until the45th over, I am thankful for what I man-aged.”

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West Indies coach Floyd Reifer said themiddle-order batsmen need to show

more grit and fighting spirit in order to winmatches after they suffered a 59-run loss.

Lack of partnerships once again put paidto West Indies’ hopes as they handed a 0-1lead to India in the three-match ODI series.

“We got to continue to learn from thisexperience. Guys in the middle order, we gotto show more fight, a bit more grit. Moredetermination to build those longer partner-ship,” Reifer said at the post match confer-ence.

Opener Evin Lewis (65) and NicholasPooran (42) had kept West Indies in the huntbut the loss of wickets at regular intervalturned the match in India’s favour.

“Again we were in front today and thenwe found a way to give away our wickets, soit’s just a matter of us now to learn from ourmistakes, continue to learn from our mis-takes and try to dig deeper,” he said.

The 47-year-old, however, lauded theefforts of his bowlers who restricted Indiato 279 for 7.

“I thought the bowlers bowled very wellto restrict India to 279, I thought it was a verygood effort from the bowlers. Great bowl-ing line and length, variation of pace.Carlos Brathwaite really bowled well, Chasehad a good spell, all the other bowlers,Cottrell again, a champion.”

Asked about the final ODI, which is

scheduled to take place here on Wednesday,Reifer said the team, which is in the rebuild-ing process, can still pull off a win.

“It’s not an uphill task (to win), we arerebuilding, we are building our side again.

“And when you are building a side, youget speed bumps along the way. It’s how youbounce back from them. Our meeting willbe how we assess today and things we needto do better going the next game,” he added.

Reifer also congratulated Chris Gayle forbecoming the highest run-scorer for WestIndies surpassing batting legend Brain Laraduring his 300th ODI.

“300 game for a West Indian, obvious-ly he is the first to have done it. It is a greatachievement I feel honoured to be hereworking with him.”

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England pacer JofraArcher warned the

Australian batsmen onMonday that he is not justa one-day cricketer andsaid he will try to “workmiracles” if he faces themat Lord’s in the Ashes thisweek.

The 24-year-oldBarbados-born seamer,who starred for his adopt-ed country in their WorldCup triumph, missed thefirst Test defeat atEdgbaston because of aside strain.

But, with JamesAnderson ruled out witha calf injury, Archer is nowin line to to play in the sec-ond Test which starts atLord’s on Wednesday.

Archer proved his fit-ness playing for Sussex ina 2nd XI match againstGlucestershire duringwhich he took 6-27 in thefirst innings and then

scored 108. He said theAustralians would be fool-ing themselves if theythought he would offerrich pickings on his Testdebut.

“I’ve played a lot morered-ball cricket and it’s mypreferred format,” Archersaid at a press conferenceon Monday.

“If you don’t have agood 10 overs (in white-ball cricket) that’s it.You’ve got to wait to thenext game, but you’veample chances in Test

cricket.“I’m more ready than

I’ve ever been.“I bowled 50 overs in

one game for Sussex andam the one usually bowl-ing at the end.

“Test cricket is prettymuch the same as first-class. Know what yourstrengths are and stick tothem.”

Archer, said Lord’sbrought back happymemories of England’svictory over New Zealandin a thrilling World Cup

final in July during whichArcher was entrusted withbowling the Super Overwhich clinched the tro-phy.

“The first one(appearance) is alwaysspecial, and (to be) atLord’s where we hadrecent success will becomforting as well,” saidArcher.

“It’s a good ground tocome back to, and hope-fully keep our winningways here. “I’ll try andwork miracles but I canonly give my best.”

Australia coach JustinLanger said his batsmenwould hopefully be able toweather the storm fromhis first spell and thenscore freely in his latersessions.

“Hopefully our guyshave got the answerswhatever he (Archer)dishes up for us,” Langersaid at his press confer-ence.

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Former Australia quick MitchellJohnson says he would make

one change to Australia’s XI for thesecond Ashes Test, with MitchStarc to replace James Pattinson forthe clash.

Johnson can also see veteranPeter Siddle playing all five Tests inthe series having impressed in thefirst Test at Edgbaston whereAustralia won by 251 runs.

The iconic slope at Lord’s,which drops 2.5 metres across theplaying surface, is why Johnsonwould draft in Starc for Pattinsonfor the second Test despite theVictorian’s successful comebackto international cricket inBirmingham.

“I’d go for Starc and probablyhave Pattinson out,” Johnson toldcricket.com.au.

“As much as I want to see(Josh) Hazlewood go well youcan’t drop Sidds.

“He’s been really useful and

especially on the slope I think he’dbe very good and he just backed up(off-spinner Nathan) Lyon reallywell.

“And (Pat) Cummins is in hisown little world, just leave him be.

Johnson continued: “It’s hardto change a winning side but I’d liketo see Starc still come charging in.

“The slope comes into it, bigtime. Left-armer, bit of a differentangle.

“We saw in the last Test the

(Australian fast bowlers) comingaround the wicket a fair bit … I’mnot too sure about that. Someone’sgot to stay over and one around toleft-hand batters.

“So maybe a left-hand bowlerwould be ideal.”

Starc was overlooked for thefirst Test but bowled with histrademark pace and hostility inAustralia’s tour match againstWorcestershire at new Road, wherehe captured 2-56 from 15.5 overs.

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Six candidates, including incumbentRavi Shastri, were on Monday short-

listed for the high-profile post of theIndian cricket team’s head coach.

The six candidates are former NewZealand coach Mike Hesson, ex-Australiaall-rounder and Sri Lanka coach TomMoody, former West Indies all-rounderand Afghanistan coach Phil Simmons, ex-India team manager Lalchand Rajput,former India fielding coach Robin Singhand Shastri.

The candidates will give a presenta-tion to the Cricket Advisory Committee(CAC) headed by the legendary KapilDev, and a final decision will be arrivedat by end of this week or early next week.

“These six will give presentation forhead coach before CAC. It has been learntthat these six have been short-listed forinterview with the CAC,” a senior BCCIofficial said.

While the names of Hesson andMoody have been doing the rounds fora while, Simmons, who has had success-ful stints with Ireland and Afghanistancricket teams, is also in the fray now.

Simmons also served West Indies fora brief while, helping them to victory inthe 2016 World T20 tournament inIndia before taking over as head coachof the Afghanistan national team in 2017.

Among the Indians, Robin served asthe fielding coach of the Indian teamwhen it won the inaugural World T20under Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s captain-cy in 2007.

Rajput, who was the head coach ofthe team when it won the World T20, alsohad stints with Afghanistan andZimbabwe.

Hesson recently parted ways with IPLfranchise Kings XI Punjab. Hessoncoached the Black Caps for six years,highlighted by their memorable run tothe 2015 Cricket World Cup final inMelbourne, a semifinal finish at the 2016World Twenty20 in India and a home Testseries win over England in April 2018which lifted them to third on the worldrankings.

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Former skipper Sunil Gavaskarbelieves Shreyas Iyer is better suit-

ed for the number four spot in ODIsthan Rishabh Pant and should begiven a permanent slot in the Indianmiddle-order.

“In my view, Rishabh Pant is muchbetter like an MS Dhoni at 5 for 6 as afinisher because that’s where his natur-al game and natural flair will come intoplay,” Sunil Gavaskar told Sony Tenchannel.

“If India get to a great start withVirat Kohli, Shikhar Dhawan andRohit Sharma batting for 40-45 overs,then Pant at No 4. But if it’s a questionof batting for 30-35 overs, then I thinkit should be Shreyas Iyer at No 4 andPant at No 5.”

Heaping praise on Iyer, Gavaskarsaid: “He has grabbed his opportunity.He came at No 5. He had plenty ofovers. He had the company of his skip-per, Virat Kohli. Nothing quite like itbecause the skipper takes the pressureoff you. “The best place to learn in crick-et is the non-striker’s end. That’s whatShreyas Iyer was doing with ViratKohli at the other end,” he added.

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