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C risis hit the Congress- JD(S)-ruled Karnataka Government hard on Saturday as 11 MLAs from both the par- ties tendered their resignation when both Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy and State Congress chief Gundu Rao are abroad. Kumaraswamy is away to the USA and Rao is in the United Kingdom. With the latest resigna- tions — some due to not get- ting ministerial berths — the total number of legislators who have put in their papers stands at 13, with two Congress MLAs having resigned earlier. If the resignations are accepted, the Congress-JD(S) Government will be reduced to a minority. In all, 10 Congress MLAs and three of their Janata Dal (Secular) counterparts have submitted their resignations to the Speaker’s office so far. Of them, 10 also met Governor Vajubhai Vala. However, JD(S) leader H Vishwanath claimed that in all 14 MLAs have resigned and did so “because the Karnataka Government had failed to meet the expecta- tions of the people”. Of the 13 MLAs, 10 left for Mumbai later on while 3 Congress legislators Ramalinga Reddy (four-time Minister), ST Somashekar and Munirathna stayed back. The 10 MLAs are likely to go to Goa from there. Speaker Ramesh Kumar, who was not in his office when the legislators went there, said that 11 resignations have reached his office. “I went to the hospital to visit a relative. I won’t be coming to office on Monday but will return to work on Tuesday,” he said. It means, the Congress-JD(S) have time till Tuesday by when Kumaraswamy is scheduled to return. BJP leader BS Yeddyurappa denied any BJP role in it but said, “We are closely watching political developments in Karnataka. One thing I can say is that people are not ready for elections. Elections are a bur- den on the State exchequer. If situation arises we’ll definitely explore constitutional provi- sions to form next Government.” That Yeddyurappa will again be the BJP’s CM candi- date in case things come to such a pass was made clear by Union Minister and State leader DV Sadananda Gowda. Earlier this week, two Congress legislators Anand Singh and Ramesh Jarikholi had resigned. While the Congress went into a huddle in Delhi, it dispatched its Karnataka incharge KC Venugopal to Bengaluru to tide over the latest crisis. Accusing the BJP, Randeep Surjewala, Congress’ chief spokesperson, said, “A new symbol of horse trading poli- tics has emerged in the coun- try, MODI — Mischievously Orchestrated Defections in India.” Karnataka Minister and Congress troubleshooter DK Shivakumar, who since day one of the formation of the alliance Government made efforts to keep the MLAs intact, yet again attempted to pacify his party MLAs, including senior leader Ramalinga Reddy, and urged not to resign when some of them were headed to the Governor’s residence. He even tore their resignation papers and later admitted as much daring action against him. Ramalinga Reddy has been sulking ever since the coalition Government was formed as he felt he had been sidelined and not given a place in the Cabinet. Reddy had been air- ing his grievances and many senior Congress and JD(S) MLAs, including R Roshan Baig and AH Vishwanath, had supported him. The Congress and the JD(S) had entered a post-poll alliance in 2018 after the BJP emerged as the single-largest party in the Assembly elections. The coalition Government has been shaky since day one with legislators of both the par- ties attacking each other on many occasions. The ruling coalition leaders had expressed fear that the BJP would try to destabalise the Government after the Lok Sabha election results in which BJP bagged 25 of the 28 Lok Sabha seats in Karnataka. While an urgent meeting was convened in Delhi Congress HQ, Deputy Chief Minister G Parameshwara and Shivakumar too called for an emergency meeting of MLAs and corporators. Senior Congress leader and coalition coordination com- mittee chief K Siddaramaiah asserted that the Government in Karnataka would continue. Interestingly, three of the 10 Congress MLAs have demand- ed that Siddaramaiah be made the Chief Minister. S ecurity personnel deployed on perilous Amarnath Yatra routes/base camps have been directed to remain on high alert on account of the third death anniversary of Hizbul Mujahideen commander and poster boy Burhan Wani. Security forces had elimi- nated him in a fierce gunfight in Kokernag area of Anantnag on July 8 in 2016. The directions were issued to the foot soldiers following recent assessment by the Central and State intelligence agencies of prevailing security situation in the State. According to the latest assessment, “Threat of a Pulwama-like terror strike, using IEDs by the cadre of Jaish-e- Mohammad (JeM), on the Amarnath yatra convoy/base camps of pilgrims is looming large since begin- ning of the yatra period from July 1.” Meanwhile, over 14,402 pilgrims paid obeisance at the naturally-formed ice lingam in the cave shrine of Amarnath on Saturday, an official spokesperson said. Till date, 81,630 yatris have paid obei- sance at the shrine, he said. In the wake of the terror attack on a CRPF convoy along the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway in February this year, more than 60,000 security per- sonnel were entrusted with the job of securing annual pil- grimage this year. Late Saturday evening, sep- aratists issued a shutdown call in Kashmir on the third death anniversary of Burhan Wani. In a statement, the JRL — an amalgam of separatist out- fits — has appealed to the peo- ple to observe complete shut- down on July 8. Director General of Police Dilbagh Singh, along with other senior officers of paramilitary forces, has been regularly visiting base camps and yatra routes to review the security arrange- ments in order to ensure inci- dent free pilgrimage. To prevent repeat of Pulwama-like terror strike, the State Government had earlier imposed traffic restrictions on civilian vehicular movement along the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway. Meanwhile, CRPF on Saturday launched a mobile help centre that will visit dif- ferent lodgement centres here to address the problems being faced by Amarnath Yatra pil- grims, an official said. This is in addition to the help desks set up by the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) at the Jammu railway station and the airport. The initiative was wel- comed by the devotees under- taking the arduous journey to the 3,880 metre high holy cave shrine of Amarnath. Meanwhile, at least 20 peo- ple among the Amarnath pil- grims were injured in a road accident in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Saturday. The accident was reported around 2.30 pm in Hernag area of Anantnag. Police sources said two buses carrying Amarnath Yatris rammed into each other on Saturday after- noon. T he Delhi Police arrested a 35-year-old radio jockey on Saturday in an alleged hit- and-run case in which a man had died last week. Police said the accused identified as Ankit Gulati, a res- ident of Delhi’s East Patel Nagar, rammed his SUV into a scooter near Le Meridian Hotel on Raisina Road in Lutyens’ Delhi on June 30 killing 37- year-old Dhiraj. “During investigation, police identified the car after scanning CCTV footage in the incident area. Later, they got details of the owner of the vehi- cle following which Gulati was arrested from his residence,” said Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), New Delhi dis- trict, Madhur Verma. “During interrogation, Gulati told police that on June 29, he met his friends at Rajender Nagar and went to a club in Nehru Place around 12:30 am where they consumed alcohol,” said the DCP. D ue to a cyclonic circulation over northwest Bay of Bengal and adjoining Gangetic West Bengal, very to very heavy rain is likely to lash sev- eral districts in the State for few more days. “Heavy to very heavy rain is very likely to lash one or two places over the districts of Mayurbhanj, Keonjhar, Sundargarh, Deogarh and Sambalpur while heavy rainfall is very likely to occur at one or two places over the districts of Nabarangpur, Koraput, Kalahandi, Kandhamal, Jagatsingpur, Kendrapada, Bhadrak, Baleswar, Jajpur, Dhenkanal, Bargarh, Jharsuguda, Ganjam and Puri till 8.30 am tomorrow,” said a bulletin issued by the India Meteorological Department (IMD) regional centre here. Again after two days, heavy rainfall is very likely to occur at one or two places over the districts of Sundargarh, Keonjhar, Deogarh, Mayurbhanj and Sambalpur from 8.30 am of July 9 till 8.30 am on July 10. Thereafter, from 8.30 am on July 10 till 8.30 am July 11, heavy rain is very likely to occur at one or two places in districts like Koraput, Bhadrak, Baleswar, Jajpur, Cuttack, Dhenkanal, Kendrapada, Keonjhar, Sundargarh, Mayurbhanj and Kandhamal, the bulletin added. BHUBANESWAR: Patnagarh BJD MLA Saroj Meher, who is accused of forcing a Works Department Junior Engineer to do sit-ups, was granted conditional bail on Saturday 12 days after being sent to the Jharpada jail here. The Special Additional District Judge (ADJ) Court here, while granting the bail to the first- time MLA, asked him to deposit a sure- ty bond of Rs 25,000 and provide two guarantors for the bail before being released from jail. Meher had been sent to judicial custody after his earlier bail petition was rejected by the Special ADJ Court. Notably, Meher was arrested for forc- ing the Junior Engineer to do sit-ups a hun- dred times due to the alleged poor-quali- ty road construction work in the Patnagarh constituency. The incident had come to light after a video of it went viral on social media on June 6. PNS U nion Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Saturday launched the BJP’s membership drive for Odisha at a programme held at Bhimatangi here on Saturday. “It has been targeted to make a total number of members of 50 lakh. The drive will be undertaken in all 36,000 booths across the State. People of Odisha will provide more support to Prime Minister Narendra Modi,” said Pradhan. Informing that so far 36 lakh members have been registered with the BJP in the State, Pradhan said tree plantation would be undertaken along with collec- tion of members at each booth. One can give a mis- call to mobile number 89808-08080 to register his/her name as a member of the party. Besides, member- ship can be achieved through twitter and website. In offline mode, people can fill up a requisite form and apply for membership. Among others, MP Ashwini Vaishnaw, national spokesperson Sambit Patra, KV Singh Deo, Sameer Mohanty, Damodr Rout, Kharabela Swain, Prakash Mishra and membership drive State prabhari Anant Nayhak were present.

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Crisis hit the Congress-JD(S)-ruled Karnataka

Government hard on Saturdayas 11 MLAs from both the par-ties tendered their resignationwhen both Chief Minister HDKumaraswamy and StateCongress chief Gundu Rao areabroad. Kumaraswamy is awayto the USA and Rao is in theUnited Kingdom.

With the latest resigna-tions — some due to not get-ting ministerial berths — thetotal number of legislators whohave put in their papers standsat 13, with two Congress MLAshaving resigned earlier. If theresignations are accepted, theCongress-JD(S) Governmentwill be reduced to a minority.

In all, 10 Congress MLAsand three of their Janata Dal(Secular) counterparts havesubmitted their resignationsto the Speaker’s office so far. Ofthem, 10 also met GovernorVajubhai Vala.

However, JD(S) leader HVishwanath claimed that inall 14 MLAs have resignedand did so “because theKarnataka Government hadfailed to meet the expecta-tions of the people”.

Of the 13 MLAs, 10 left forMumbai later on while 3Congress legislators RamalingaReddy (four-time Minister),

ST Somashekar andMunirathna stayed back. The10 MLAs are likely to go to Goafrom there.

Speaker Ramesh Kumar,who was not in his office whenthe legislators went there, saidthat 11 resignations havereached his office. “I went tothe hospital to visit a relative.I won’t be coming to office onMonday but will return towork on Tuesday,” he said. Itmeans, the Congress-JD(S)have time till Tuesday by whenKumaraswamy is scheduled to

return.BJP leader BS Yeddyurappa

denied any BJP role in it butsaid, “We are closely watchingpolitical developments inKarnataka. One thing I can sayis that people are not ready forelections. Elections are a bur-den on the State exchequer. Ifsituation arises we’ll definitelyexplore constitutional provi-sions to form nextGovernment.”

That Yeddyurappa willagain be the BJP’s CM candi-date in case things come to

such a pass was made clear byUnion Minister and Stateleader DV Sadananda Gowda.

Earlier this week, twoCongress legislators AnandSingh and Ramesh Jarikholihad resigned. While theCongress went into a huddle inDelhi, it dispatched itsKarnataka incharge KCVenugopal to Bengaluru totide over the latest crisis.

Accusing the BJP, RandeepSurjewala, Congress’ chiefspokesperson, said, “A newsymbol of horse trading poli-

tics has emerged in the coun-try, MODI — MischievouslyOrchestrated Defections inIndia.”

Karnataka Minister andCongress troubleshooter DKShivakumar, who since dayone of the formation of thealliance Government madeefforts to keep the MLAs intact,yet again attempted to pacifyhis party MLAs, includingsenior leader Ramalinga Reddy,and urged not to resign whensome of them were headed tothe Governor’s residence. Heeven tore their resignationpapers and later admitted asmuch daring action againsthim.

Ramalinga Reddy has beensulking ever since the coalitionGovernment was formed as hefelt he had been sidelined andnot given a place in theCabinet. Reddy had been air-ing his grievances and manysenior Congress and JD(S)MLAs, including R RoshanBaig and AH Vishwanath, hadsupported him.

The Congress and the

JD(S) had entered a post-pollalliance in 2018 after the BJPemerged as the single-largestparty in the Assembly elections.

The coalition Governmenthas been shaky since day onewith legislators of both the par-ties attacking each other onmany occasions. The rulingcoalition leaders had expressedfear that the BJP would try todestabalise the Governmentafter the Lok Sabha electionresults in which BJP bagged 25of the 28 Lok Sabha seats inKarnataka.

While an urgent meetingwas convened in DelhiCongress HQ, Deputy ChiefMinister G Parameshwara andShivakumar too called for anemergency meeting of MLAsand corporators.

Senior Congress leader andcoalition coordination com-mittee chief K Siddaramaiahasserted that the Governmentin Karnataka would continue.Interestingly, three of the 10Congress MLAs have demand-ed that Siddaramaiah be madethe Chief Minister.

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Security personnel deployedon perilous Amarnath Yatra

routes/base camps have beendirected to remain on high alerton account of the third deathanniversary of HizbulMujahideen commander andposter boy Burhan Wani.

Security forces had elimi-nated him in a fierce gunfightin Kokernag area of Anantnagon July 8 in 2016.

The directions were issuedto the foot soldiers followingrecent assessment by theCentral and State intelligenceagencies of prevailing securitysituation in the State.

According to the latestassessment, “Threat of aPulwama-like terror strike,using IEDs by the cadre ofJaish-e- Mohammad (JeM), onthe Amarnath yatraconvoy/base camps of pilgrimsis looming large since begin-ning of the yatra period fromJuly 1.”

Meanwhile, over 14,402pilgrims paid obeisance at thenaturally-formed ice lingamin the cave shrine of Amarnathon Saturday, an officialspokesperson said. Till date,81,630 yatris have paid obei-

sance at the shrine, he said. In the wake of the terror

attack on a CRPF convoy alongthe Jammu-Srinagar NationalHighway in February this year,more than 60,000 security per-sonnel were entrusted withthe job of securing annual pil-grimage this year.

Late Saturday evening, sep-aratists issued a shutdown callin Kashmir on the third deathanniversary of Burhan Wani.

In a statement, the JRL —an amalgam of separatist out-fits — has appealed to the peo-ple to observe complete shut-down on July 8. DirectorGeneral of Police DilbaghSingh, along with other seniorofficers of paramilitary forces,has been regularly visiting basecamps and yatra routes toreview the security arrange-ments in order to ensure inci-dent free pilgrimage.

To prevent repeat ofPulwama-like terror strike, theState Government had earlierimposed traffic restrictions oncivilian vehicular movementalong the Jammu-SrinagarNational Highway.

Meanwhile, CRPF onSaturday launched a mobilehelp centre that will visit dif-ferent lodgement centres here

to address the problems beingfaced by Amarnath Yatra pil-grims, an official said. This isin addition to the help desks setup by the Central ReservePolice Force (CRPF) at theJammu railway station and theairport. The initiative was wel-

comed by the devotees under-taking the arduous journey tothe 3,880 metre high holy caveshrine of Amarnath.

Meanwhile, at least 20 peo-ple among the Amarnath pil-grims were injured in a roadaccident in south Kashmir’s

Anantnag district on Saturday.The accident was reported

around 2.30 pm in Hernag areaof Anantnag. Police sourcessaid two buses carryingAmarnath Yatris rammed intoeach other on Saturday after-noon.

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The Delhi Police arrested a35-year-old radio jockey

on Saturday in an alleged hit-and-run case in which a manhad died last week.

Police said the accusedidentified as Ankit Gulati, a res-ident of Delhi’s East PatelNagar, rammed his SUV into ascooter near Le Meridian Hotelon Raisina Road in Lutyens’Delhi on June 30 killing 37-year-old Dhiraj.

“During investigation,police identified the car afterscanning CCTV footage in theincident area. Later, they gotdetails of the owner of the vehi-cle following which Gulati wasarrested from his residence,”said Deputy Commissioner ofPolice (DCP), New Delhi dis-trict, Madhur Verma.

“During interrogation,Gulati told police that on June29, he met his friends atRajender Nagar and went to a club in Nehru Placearound 12:30 am where theyconsumed alcohol,” said theDCP.

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Due to a cyclonic circulationover northwest Bay of

Bengal and adjoining GangeticWest Bengal, very to very heavy rain is likely to lash sev-eral districts in the State for fewmore days.

“Heavy to very heavy rainis very likely to lash one or twoplaces over the districts ofMayurbhanj, Keonjhar,Sundargarh, Deogarh andSambalpur while heavy rainfallis very likely to occur at one ortwo places over the districts ofNabarangpur, Koraput,Kalahandi, Kandhamal,Jagatsingpur, Kendrapada,Bhadrak, Baleswar, Jajpur,Dhenkanal, Bargarh,Jharsuguda, Ganjam and Puritill 8.30 am tomorrow,” said a

bulletin issued by the IndiaMeteorological Department(IMD) regional centre here.

Again after two days, heavyrainfall is very likely to occurat one or two places over the districts ofSundargarh, Keonjhar,Deogarh, Mayurbhanj andSambalpur from 8.30 am of July

9 till 8.30 am on July 10.Thereafter, from 8.30 am on

July 10 till 8.30 am July 11, heavyrain is very likely to occur at oneor two places in districts likeKoraput, Bhadrak, Baleswar,Jajpur, Cuttack, Dhenkanal,Kendrapada, Keonjhar,Sundargarh, Mayurbhanj andKandhamal, the bulletin added.

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Saroj Meher, who is accused of forcing aWorks Department Junior Engineer to dosit-ups, was granted conditional bail onSaturday 12 days after being sent to theJharpada jail here.

The Special Additional District Judge(ADJ) Courthere, whilegranting thebail to the first-time MLA,asked him todeposit a sure-ty bond of Rs25,000 andprovide two guarantors for the bail beforebeing released from jail.

Meher had been sent to judicial custodyafter his earlier bail petition was rejectedby the Special ADJ Court.

Notably, Meher was arrested for forc-ing the Junior Engineer to do sit-ups a hun-dred times due to the alleged poor-quali-ty road construction work in the Patnagarhconstituency. The incident had come tolight after a video of it went viral on socialmedia on June 6. PNS

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Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Saturdaylaunched the BJP’s membership drive for Odisha

at a programme held at Bhimatangi here on Saturday.“It has been targeted to make a total number of

members of 50 lakh. The drive will be undertakenin all 36,000 booths across the State. People of Odishawill provide more support to Prime MinisterNarendra Modi,” said Pradhan.

Informing that so far 36 lakh members have beenregistered with the BJP in the State, Pradhan said treeplantation would be undertaken along with collec-tion of members at each booth. One can give a mis-call to mobile number 89808-08080 to register his/hername as a member of the party. Besides, member-ship can be achieved through twitter and website. Inoffline mode, people can fill up a requisite form andapply for membership. Among others, MP AshwiniVaishnaw, national spokesperson Sambit Patra, KVSingh Deo, Sameer Mohanty, Damodr Rout,Kharabela Swain, Prakash Mishra and membershipdrive State prabhari Anant Nayhak were present.

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In a significant breakthrough,the Nuapada police on

Saturday nabbed threemembers of the notoriousEragola robbery gang of Askain Ganjam district. Thearrestees were identified asAulu Raja and M Ganesh ofvillage Kalasindhapur underthe Aska PS and a minor boy.

The police recovered cashof Rs 7.7 lakh, 27 mobilephones and two motorbikesfrom their possession.

The police had stumbledupon leads about the gangwhile investigating into thesnatching of Rs 10 lakh fromone Hiren Sahu here on June 18.

Nuapada SP Smit P Parmarformed a team consisting ofNuapada SDPO PK Pattanayak,Nuapada PS IIC AdityaMahakur, District VoluntaryForce (DVF) and IT cell staffsfor probing the case. The teamconducted a number of raids atBargarh, Padampur, Barpali,

Jharbandh, Sohela, Paikmal,Sonepur, Patnagarh, Balangirand Aska to nab the accused.

The infamous Eragolarobbery gang is known for itsexpertise in loot of money andvaluables by breaking the sideboxes of two-wheelers and isalso involved in snatching. Thearrestees are involved in asmany as 33 cases in fourdistricts of the State, police said.

“This detection is indeed avery big success for theNuapada police and suchefforts would continue in futuretoo for detection of sensitivecases,” said Parmar.

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Wanted criminal MohammadNasiruddin, an associate of

Kendrapada-based notorious gangsterSheikh Hyder was arrested from the cityon Thursday.

Nasiruddin, who was earlier,arrested and awarded life imprisonmentin the sensational Sheikh Chuna murdercase of 2005, was absconding after hisrelease on parole in 2014.

Notably, Sheikh Chuna (40),brother of dreaded gangster SheikhSuleiman, was gunned down near the

Stewart School here on May 31, 2005.

Chuna’s brother Suleimanhad been a sworn enemy ofHyder, who is presently cooling his heels in the JharpadaSpecial Jail.

Later, Hyder and othersinvolved in the murder werenabbed from Nagpur by cell-phone tracking by police.

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Adiscussion on linkinguniversities with other

institutions for advancedbiotechnology research anddevelopment was organised bythe Union Department ofBiotechnology at the Instituteof Life Sciences her onSaturday.

The meeting was aimed atbringing various stakeholderstogether to work towardsmutual interest for researchand development, skilldevelopment, capacity building,entrepreneurship development,outreach activities and societalprogrammes.

Mentioning that there aremany leading institutions inOdisha with tremendous

capacity in the area ofbiotechnology research anddevelopment, ILS Director DrAjay Parida opined that thereis an urgent need to workclosely based oncomplementary strengths.

Biotechnology Departmentrepresentatives Dr MeenakshiMunshi and Dr SurakshaDiwan complementing theongoing activities advised theinstitutions to forge lasting

partnerships for taking theadvances of research for fieldapplication.

State Science andTechnology Director DrPuspashree Puhan said theState biotechnology policygives due emphasis forpromoting research anddevelopment activities.

Vice Chancellors of Utkal,Brahmapur, Khalikot,Ravenshaw, Central and SOA

universities and representativesof Ramadevi, Sambalpur, NorthOdisha University, OUAT, KISSand Directors of ISSER,RMRC, KIIT, IIMTparticipated in the meeting.

The participants identifiedkey research areas wheremultidisciplinary and inter-institutional programmes willbe undertaken specifically inthe area of bioresourcesmanagement, validation oftraditional knowledge andvalue addition, infectiousdisease biology, marine andcoastal biotechnology and skill,capacity and entrepreneurshipdevelopment. They felt thatbiotechnology applications arecrucial for addressingchallenges in the area of food,health and nutrition security.

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The SBI customers of Jodahave complained of

harassment and noncooperationby the bank staff members inmatters pertaining to availingany services or grievances over them.

This came to light whenone Sushanta Kumar’s Karfrom a News Agency at JodaMarket had gone to SBI ,Jodabranch to exchange the somecoins worth Rs 1,000accumulated from the daily saleof news papers. After enteringthe bank when he found no onein the counter meant forexchange, he tried to contactthe Chief Manager (CM) but itwas in vain as the CM AshishKumar Mahapatra was himselfon leave.

Then he tried to contactother staff members but no onewas in a position to help himas only two counters out of totalsix were opened which toowere over crowded. The restfour were closed as three staffmembers were on leave.

Before this, Sushanta hadcome to the bank in theprevious week but that timeManager Mohaptra had givenhim the assurance to exchangethe coins this week.Accordingly, when he tried tocontact him over phone, therewas no response from him.

Disappointed, he contactedRegional Manager at KeonjharManaranjan Samal andappraised him of the problem.After the intervention of RMSamal , the bank exchanged allthe coins. Sources alleged thaton earlier occasions when thecustomers approached theManager of the bank to gettheir work done, he instead ofcooperating, suggested them toclose their accounts.

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Aminor girl wasreportedly raped

for five long days afterbeing abducted by heraunt from her villagein the district. Later,she was rescued froma house in Motiganj ofBaleswar town bylocals.

Two persons, both theaccused identified as DhruvCharan Singh of Jhadakatavillage under the DhamraMarine Police station inBhadrak district as well as thewoman said to be the girl’s auntinvolved in kidnapping, werearrested by the Baleswar police.

Sources said the accusedwoman abducted the girl onthe guise of taking her to amarket under the TalchuaMarine police station on June30.Then she offered the girl achocolate that had someintoxicating substance. Later,

Singh took the woman and thegirl on his bike to Motiganj areain Baleswar town. The triowas staying at a rented roomthere.

The matter came to fore onFriday when a womannieghbour heard screams of theminor girl from the rentedhouse. Immediately, sheinformed other locals and theyentered into the house bybreaking the door and rescuedthe girl. They managed tocapture the victim’s aunt andthe accused and handed themover to police.

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Odia magazine ‘Udayabata’and the Jajpur Road Forest

Department jointly celebratedthe 50th Van Mahotsav Week atthe Chrome Nagar Bidyapithhere on Wednesday underchairmanship of ’Udayabata’editor Dusmanta Rout.

Former VyasanagarMunicipality ChairpersonSabita Rout, Cuttack ACF(Vigilance) RajanikantMohanty, Vyasanagar SeniorCitizens’ Forum secretaryChandramani Samal, DistrictWildlife Warden KailashChandra Sasmal, Jajpur RoadForest Range Officer DebendraPatnaik and Ferro Chrome

Plant GM Asutosh Nayakattended as guest and advised toplant at least one tree personally.

Only in Bhubaneswar,Khordha, Puri, Cuttack 22 lakhtrees were uprooted during theCyclone Fani and the StateGovernment has planned todifferent varieties of saplingwhich useful for environment,said Mohanty.

Besides, a plantation drivewas also held in the schoolcampus in which LalbahadurMohanta, Rajendra Dhir,Surendra Sahoo, Suresh Hota,Sajay Das, Bijay Behera,Foresters Benudhar Behera,Manik Munda, Forest StaffsTrilochan Das, Swarup Nayakand Sabyasachi Patra took part.

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The Union Budget 2019-20presented by Union Finance

Minister Nirmala Sitharamanin the Parliament on Friday isa directionally decent Budget,which seeks to improveliquidity by recapitalisation ofbanks and providing riskguarantee for Non BankingFinancial Companies (NBFC),said former Balangir MPKalikesh Narayan Singh Deo.

Deo said it seems to reformthe Labour laws and there isfocus on medium and smallenterprises to improve growth and provide water forall by 2024.

However, they have alwaysfallen short of revenueestimates with the GSTcollection and disinvestmentbeing low. This would seriously

impair Rs 1 lakh crore to bespent on infrastructure andother schemes, added Deo.

Moreover, the cess onpetrol and diesel will hit thecommon man as it would havea cascading effect, he furtheradded.

BARIPADA: A 17-month-oldbaby girl was allegedly raped bya neighbour in Talakundavillage under the Khunta policestation in Mayurbhanj districton Friday.

The matter came to lightafter the baby’s mother lodgeda complaint with the police. Sheclaimed that her daughter hasbeen sexually assaulted by ayouth Bhadra Singh (28), of thesame village.

As per the policecomplaint, Bhadra, whohappens to be the victim’sneighbour, took the baby awaywhile she was playing outsidethe house in the evening hours.

He then took her to anisolated place and outragedher modesty.

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The three deities in their respective chariotsreached the Mausi Maa Badi at the

Badadanda here in Baripada town by Saturday evening.

While Lord Balabhadra in Taladhwaj arrivedhis destination by Friday evening, DeviSubhadra’s chariot Darpadalan, which coveredhalfway distance on Friday in line with thetradition here, covered the other half to theMausi Maa Mandir on Saturday. Lord Jagannath’sNandighos, on the other hand, completedjourney on Saturday itself.

Amidst intermittent drizzling, bhajans,kirtans, blowing of conches, ringing of bells andrunning commentary etc, about two lakh

devotees pulled the chariots along theBadadanda. As has been the tradition here, MaaSubhadra’s Rath was pulled exclusively bywomen devotees.

While Subhadra’s chariot reached the MausiBadi at about 3.15 pm, Lord Jagannath arrivedat the destination at about 5.20 pm. Afterwards,Shraddha Laddus were distributed among largenumbers of devotees present there.

Prominent among those who took part inthis year’s famous car festival include MayrbhanjMP Bishweswar Tudu, district Collector VineetBharadwaj, Baripada MLA Prakash Soren andformer Odisha Assembly Deputy SpeakerSananda Marandi. The much-crowded annualcolourful event passed off smoothly with nountoward incident reported from anywhere inthe town. Rath Yatra was also celebrated withmuch gaiety in other parts across the district ofMayurbhanj.

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The BJP, Ganjam districtheld a meeting to mark the

launching of membership hereunder the chairmanship of itspresident Kanhu Charan Pation Saturday.

The meeting was held inthe wake of Prime MinsterNarendra Modi inauguratingthe drive at nation level in NewDelhi.

“People have electedNarendra Modi as PrimeMinister for the secondconsecutive time. While theBJP’s popularity has increased,various Central schemes havebeen successful,” informedState Membership Drive chiefAnant Nayak through atelephonic conferencing.

To undertake the drive ina big way in Ganjam district,Bhrugu Baxipatra has beenappointed as district “Prabhari”,Rajesh Sahu as coordinatorand Manoranjan Dyansamtraand Madan Mohan Patro as co-coordinators.

The party’s districtfunctionaries and Mandalpresident will provide supports. The membershipdrive would continue tillAugust 11, 2019.

Among others, NamitaRani Panda, Gopinath Panda,Rabindra Sahu, Pravat KumarSadangi, Sunil Sahu, DrAmulya Choudhury, Ganjamblock Chairman PrasantNayak, Saroj Sabat, SubasiniPatnai, Rama Kumar Patrawere present.

BHUBANESWAR: The AllIndian Democratic Students’Organisation (AIDSO), Odishaunit, on Saturday stronglydemanded the StateGovernment to do away withthe decision to close 966primary schools wherethe student strength isless than 10 in the currentacademic session.

The associationholding demonstrationbefore the StateAssembly here onSaturday submitted amemorandum to the

School and Mass Ministerregarding the matter.

The AIDSO alleged thatdue to the callous attitude of theState Government the educationin the Government schools is ina shambles. AIDSO Statepresident Ganesh Tripathy saidthat the Government without

taking steps to solve differentproblems in the schools like lackof teachers, infrastructure andothers, took the decision toclose as many as 966 schools,which is anti-people.

Among others, AIDSOsecretary Subash Nayak, VPSomnath Behera, Siddharth

Rath, JayantMohanty, RekhaD a n d a p a t ,Bhagyarabi Das,Sibani Mishra,Sasmita Sahu,Prabhati Mallick,Swastisangita Daleiand SabtarsiniRoula werepresent. PNS

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State Crime Branch IG Arun Bothra was given additional chargeof the Capital Region Urban Transport (CRUT) as its

Managing Director on Saturday.Prior to this, the post had been held by Balwant Singh, who

was transferred as the Collector of Puri district last month.

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Normal life was thrown outof gear in the twin city of

Cuttack and Bhubaneswar dueto waterlogging in several areasfollowing heavy rain in the last24 hours. While Cuttackreceived highest of 134.4 mmof rainfall in the past 24 hours,Bhubaneswar received 24 mm rain.

Several low-lying areas inthe silver city were waterloggedsince Friday, bringing miseryfor the residents as drain waterentered their houses. Severallocalities, including TelengaBazzar, Khatbin Sahi, OdiaBazaar, Pithapur, Badambadi,Bangali Sahi and Rausapatna

were marooned.The acute waterlogging

conditions exposed the lack ofmonsoon preparedness of theCuttack MunicipalCorporation (CMC). As mostof the drains are still cloggedand no step has been taken bythe CMC towards desilting, thewaterlogging situation croppedup, alleged local residents.

Similarly, non-completionof the Integrated JICA sanitation project also com-pounded the miseries of theresidents in Cuttack.

“Cuttack has been wit-nessing heavy rainfall since 4pm on Friday which led towaterlogging. The administra-tion has failed miserably toresolve the perennial prob-

lem,” said a local resident.The situation in

Bhubaneswar was also no dif-ferent. Several localities, including prominent streetswere inundated.

The street in front of theCommissionerate police build-ing as well other localities likeAcharya Vihar, Bomikhal,Nayapalli, Laxmisagar and sev-eral other areas were water-logged. But the BhubaneswarMunicipal Corporation (BMC)which makes tall claims ofdesilting the drains and keep-ing a number of pumps readyto drain out water in the inun-dated areas, did not have anystaff members to tackle the sit-uation, leaving the residents inthe lurch.

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For the last few months, loot-ers seem to have changed

their modus operandi here.Posing them as police, they arelooting valuables targeting seniorcitizens and elders who are on amorning walk or on an outing.

According to informationavailable, a senior citizen and aretired teacher, Bijaya ChandraPanda, who is a resident ofHousing Board underGosaninuagaon Police circle,has become the victim of loot-ers recently. When Panda wason a walk from his residencehere on Thursday afternoon,two unidentified miscreantscame close to him and stoppedhim from walking for a whileposing them as cops. The mis-creants also told Panda to

remove the gold chain from theneck and ring immediately,advising that wearing such valu-ables are unsafe. The momentPanda obliged, they snatchedthe ornaments and decamped.

Similarly, on last Mondaynight in an another incident,a group of armed miscreantswho had covered their faces,looted cash and gold orna-ments after barging into houseof a former bank employee MKanaka Raju, a resident ofVijay Vihar under Sadar Policecircle of Brahmapur.

According to reports, themiscreants executed the loot atthe residence of Raju andreportedly thrashed him andattacked him with sharpweapons for opposing thecrime. The miscreants robbedgold ornaments weighingaround 100 gram and cashworth Rs 15,000, sources said.They locked the family mem-bers in a room before fleeingthe spot. The police are sus-pecting the involvement of aprofessional gang in the crime

and investigation is on.Similarly, at the end of last

year, a woman, who did notwish to be identified, fell preyto four cunning robbers asthey looted around 150 gram ofgold ornaments from her byposing themselves as policemenwhile she had gone for a morn-ing walk on Sunday near theSita Devi Khadanga Girls’Hostel. Interestingly, the looteradvised the woman to removeher gold ornaments from herbody citing security reasons. Asthe scared woman started doingso, the miscreants threatenedher at gun point and looted thevaluables. On being informed,the Brahmapur Town policereached the spot and startedinvestigation, sources said.

A few days back, when thewife of a local senior BJP leaderKamana Padhi was on a morn-ing walk, two unidentified mis-creants came behind andstopped Padhi near SashiBhusan Rath GovernmentWomen’s College posing themas cops and threatened Padhi to

remove all gold ornaments shewore. Soon, they snatched 15tolas of gold ornaments worthRs 4. 5 lakh and fled the spot.

Similarly, on February 10this year when an old couplefrom Bhubaneswar came toBrahmapur to attend a marriageceremony, two unidentifiedyouths came close to the couplenear Jayaprakash Nagar Chhakunder Badyanathpur police cir-cle and posed them as CBI offi-cials. The miscreants then askedthe couple to remove all the goldornaments they wore at thattime citing security reasons andtook away 8 tolas of gold worthRs 2. 4 lakh.

In a similar fashion onFebruary 24, Parbati Beherawas robbed of 7 tolas of goldornaments by miscreants pos-ing them as police.

In view of the rising inci-dents of loot and snatching,there is a strong public per-ception that police need tointensify their patrolling ingroups to each and every inte-rior lanes of the city.

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In a barbaric incident, a manburnt his 75-year-old bedrid-

den mother to death atRadabahal village underBelpada block in the district onSaturday. The accused wasidentified as Santosh Kharsel.

Sources said that Santoshhad an altercation with hisfather Rishi Kharsel for some

reason and later when hisfather went out of house, he sethis mother on fire after dous-ing kerosene on her. Thewoman died on the spot.

Though accused fled fromthe scene, Belapada policeimmediately swung into actionand nabbed him within a cou-ple of hours. While the bodywas sent for postmortem, a casehas been registered against theaccused. “The accused will beforwarded to court soon,” saidBelapada police station IICSachin Bariha.

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Rising incidents of extor-tion, snatching and robbery

have become a cause of concernin neighbouring Subarnapurand Balangir districts even asthe Puintala police underBalangir district have utterlyfailed to tackle crime in theBairasar region, which is just 1km from Tarbha town underSubarnapur district.

On Wednesday afternoon

around 3 pm, three mis-creants robbed anemployee of a financebank of Rs 1,24, 890.The victim was justgoing to his bank aftercollecting the cash frommembers, when thecrime took place.

As per reports, therobbers came in a redcolour bike and started beatingthe employee and before hecould know why he was beingtargeted, the miscreant brokehis dicky and fled with the cash.The incident took place onNH-57 (Sonepur-Balangir

road) near Bhadra Pali chowk.Though police have got a

complaint in the case, no onehas been arrested so far.Previously also many robberiesoccurred in the road.

Even as Puintala police claim

to have initiatedsteps to checkcrimes on theBairasar road, itdoes not seem any-thing is happening.Cases of peoplebeing waylaid androbbed of cash andvaluables andsnatching of mobile

phones and gold chains havealmost become an everydayaffair in the Bairasar area.

Locals have demanded reg-ular patrolling in the area after10 pm and strict action againstthe anti socials.

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Union Minister DharmendraPradhan on Saturday

claimed that the BJP wouldsurely win the elections in thePatkura Assembly constituencyin Kendrapada district sched-uled to be held on July 20.

Pradhan observed that a“sympathy” factor would helpBJP candidate Bijay Mohapatrato win the seat. He was obvi-ously referring to Mohapatra’sseries of defeats in the Assemblypolls in Kendrapada districtafter he was ousted from the rul-ing BJD, for which people of the

area would come in Mohapatra’ssupport this time.

And Pradhan was alsoapparently countering the hopein the BJD circles that BJD can-didate Sabitri Agrawalla woulddefinitely win the election outof sympathy because her hus-band Bed Prakash Agrawalla,who was the party nominee forthe April elections, died, lead-ing to countermanding of theelections in Patkura andrescheduling it on July 20.

The Congress has fieldedJayanta Kumar Mohanty as its candidate for the Patkuraelections.

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Devotees thronged theGundicha Temple here on

Saturday morning to haveAdapa darshan of deities dur-ing the Rath Yatra of LordJagannath. After morning rit-uals of deities, the devoteesentered into the shrine in a longqueue for darshan of Lords onJanma Bedi or Adapa Mandap.

The free darshan com-menced from 7 am till 8.30 am.Later, the devotees can see thedeities inside the Bhitarkathawith parimanik ticket. The gen-eral darshan for the devotees isbeing made from Baharkatha ofthe Gundicha Temple.

Meanwhile, the AdapaAbadha was available fromSaturday at Ananda Bazaar ofthe Gundicha Temple. TheAdapa Abadha is prepared byservitors in kitchen of theGundicha Temple during Ratha

Yatra for which the devoteeswait in queue to have it.

There is a belief that onegets virtues of deeds of croresof birth after having darshan ofChaturdha Murti (LordJagannath, Lord Balabhadra,Goddess Subhadra andSudarshan) on Adapa Mandap,which is the birthplace of the deities, during theirnine-day sojourn.

During the Rath Yatra, theLords move to their birthplaceonce in a year leaving theirabode Srimandir for 9 days andgive darshan to their devoteeson Adapa Mandap inGundicha Temple.

The influx of devotees willcontinue to the temple till theBahuda Yatra. Later, the crowdwill be again shifted in front ofthe Singha Dwara of Srimandirtill Niladri Bije of deities fol-lowing Suna Besha andAdharapana rituals on chariots.

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The Institute of CostAccountants of India

(ICAI), Bhubaneswar Chapter,organised a GST workshop onthe occasion of the GST Daycelebration here.

A panel discussion on‘GST-Analysis and OpinionDiscussion” was organisedwhere over 150 Cost andManagement Accountants par-ticipated.

Deputy Commissioner ofCGST and CX, DeputyDirector, Directorate Generalof GST Intelligence,Bhubaneswar, Ambe M inau-

gurated the seminar as chiefguest. He chaired the panel dis-cussion and interacted with theparticipants relating to variouscritical issues.

The panelists were senioradvocate (GST, Customs) andEXIM consultant RameshChandra Jena and DeputyDivisional Manager, TataSponge Iron Limited CMADebnath Mukhopadhyay.

Chairman of the ChapterCMA Saktidhar Singh deliveredthe welcome and keynoteaddress. Among others, CMATapas Ranjan Swain, CMADeepak Ranjan Kar and CMAAjay Kumar Samal were present.

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Coming out hard against theskeptics of his Government's

bid to make India a $5-trillioneconomy in the next five years,Prime Minister Narendra Modion Saturday termed such peopleas 'professional pessimists' evenas he asserted that the "newIndia" is on the threshold ofsprinting forward.

Earlier, Modi launched themembership drive of the rulingBJP from his Lok Sabha con-stituency on the occasion of the118th birth anniversary of partyideologue Syama PrasadMookerjee and unveiled a stat-ue of former Prime Minister LalBahadur Shastri at the airport.

"I am fully confident that asa nation, with our collectiveefforts, in the next five years wewill definitely reach the desti-nation of $ 5-trillion economy.But, some people are question-ing the need for this (goal) andasking why all these are beingdone. These are people we cancall 'peshewar nirashawadi' (pro-fessional pessimists). These pro-fessional pessimists are totallydifferent from common people.If you approach a commonman with a problem, he willoffer you a solution. But if you

go to these people with a solu-tion, they will convert it into aproblem," he said.

Though he was addressingthe BJP workers at Pandit DeenDayal Hastkala Sankul (TradeFacilitation Centre) here on hismaiden visit to his parliamentaryconstituency since he hasassumed the charge of office asPM for second time, his majorfocus was on his government'sway forward.

"There is a saying in English'size of the cake matters', mean-

ing the bigger the cake, biggerthe slice the people will get, hesaid, criticising those who hadexpressed doubts. According tohim, this 'Kashi Ka Beta' thinksdifferently and positively.Inspiring the party workers fur-ther to think big, he also cited aGujarati popular saying whichmeans when well is filled thewater will also reach the smallponds and added " history tellsus that many countries hadseen such time when their percapita income had recorded big

jumps helping them move in thelist of developed nations fromthe developing ones."

Modi also said, "We've tofocus on building a Swachha,Swasth and Sunder Bharat (aclean, healthy, beautiful India) tomake the $5 trillion journey eas-ier. "The contribution of everycitizen to sanitation over theyears has reinforced our effortsto build a healthy India," hemaintained, highlighting theAyushman Bharat Scheme.

Prior to his hour-long

address, Modi launched nation-wide party membership cam-paign by making five personsfrom different sections as mem-bers of the party on the occasionof 118th birth anniversary ofBharatiya Jana Sangh founderSyama Prasad Mookerjee.Earlier, after landing at BabatpurAirport, he unveiled the statueof ex-PM Lal Bahadur Shastri inairport premises which was setup there by Northern CoalfieldsLimited (NCL), Singrauli andmade by famous sculptor PadamBhushan Ram V. Sutar underwhose guidance world's tallest'Statue of Unity' was installed inGujarat recently.

Then the PM reached aschool premises on PanchkosiMargi near Harahuwa to launchplantation drive by planning atree amidst the chanting ofmantras. Under the plan, 22 lakhtrees would be planted onPanchkosi Marg in the comingmonths. On the occasion, fivechildren who have been namedas 'Bal Vriksha Mitras' alsoplanted saplings. During hisvisit, chief minister YogiAdityanath, acting BJP presidentJP Nadda, Union Minister andState BJP chief Mahendra NathPandey and many other seniorleaders were present.

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With a deficit of 23 percent rainfall so far, India

is grappling with water woes as91 of its reservoirs are wit-nessing a 17 per cent deficit.The overall kharif sowing toohas taken a severe hit with 85lakh hectare area less coveredwhen compared to last year.Monsoon rains are crucial forfarmers who plant cane, corn,cotton, rice and soybean inJune and July, with harvestsfrom October.

According to the CentralWater Commission (CWC)data, the live storage availablein the 91 major reservoirs ofthe country stands at 26.944Billion Cubic Metres (BCM)which is 17 per cent of thetotal live storage capacity ofthese reservoirs. "The overallstorage position is not only lessthan the corresponding peri-od of last year, but also lessthan the average storage of lastten years during the sameperiod," it said.

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situation of water storageremains dismal due to defi-cient monsoon last year anddelayed monsoon this yearwhich not only impacted thewater storage in 91 reservoirsacross the country but alsodepleting the quantum ofwater availability in majorrivers including Ganga.

In the report, the CWCmonitored 12 river basins forwater storage; using data onaverage of the last 10 years,2017-18 and 2018-19, the riverbasins of Tapti, Sabarmati,and Rivers of Kutch are theworst affected, with more that50 per cent shortage in aver-age water storage capacitycompared to last 10 years.The water storage in Sabarmatiand Rivers of Kutch is less than20 per cent of their totalcapacities.

According to the IndiaMeteorological Department(IMD), the country has so farreceived 167.7 mm rainsagainst the normal of 216.7mm so far. Of the 36, 24 sub-divisions have been deficientrainfall while 12 have receivednormal rainfall till date.

The latest data released bythe Ministry of Agricultureand Farmers Welfare, showsfarmers have planted sum-

mer-sown crops-rice, pulses,soyabean, sugarcane, oilseedand cotton on 234.33 lakhhectare hectares, as of July 5 ascompared to 319.68 lakhhectare last year. Rice sowingwas down from 79. 36 lakhhectare in 2018 to 52.47 lakhhectare in 2019, a decline of26.89 lakh hectare. Pulsessowing also down from 27.91lakh hectare to 7.94 lakhhectare, a decline of 19.57lakh hectare so far. Oilseedsplantation also down from59.37 lakh hectare to 34.02lakh hectare this year due todelayed and slow progress ofmonsoon this year. India is theworld's biggest exporter ofrice and the top importer ofvegetable oils. Policy makersare keeping their fingerscrossed.

Nearly half of India's farm-land lacks irrigation and themonsoon season deliversabout 70 per cent of the coun-try's annual rainfall — key tothe success of the farm sectorin Asia's third-biggest econo-my. Water is typically scarce inthe summer months, but thesituation has been particular-ly grim this year in westernand southern states thatreceived below-average rainfallin the 2018 monsoon season.

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The CBI on Saturday regis-tered a case against former

Indian Revenue Service (IRS)officer Sanjay Kumar Srivastavaalong with others, on charges ofcheating, forgery and undueadvantages during his tenure asCommissioner of IT (Appeals)in Noida. Searches were carriedout by the agency at his resi-dence and office. The searchoperation, which started onFriday morning and continuedtill Saturday, took place at 13locations in Delhi, Noida,Muradnagar and Ghaziabad,including at Srivastava''sPandara road residence andNoida office. Srivastava was

among several Income Tax offi-cers who were asked to retire bythe Government recently.

The CBI has claimed tohave recovered fromSrivastava''s residence jewelleryworth �2.47 crore, �16.44 lakhin cash, watches approximatelyvalued at �10 lakh, over �1.30crore of bank deposits in thename of the former officer as

well as his family members,incriminating documents relat-ed to two immovable assets anda bank locker.

According to CBI, the casehas been registered under sec-tion 120 B, 420, 468 of IndianPenal Code and 7 of Preventionof Corruption Act. The sackedIT Commissioner Srivastava,along with some others,appeared at the CBIHeadquarters on Saturday.

According to CBI, search-es have been conducted at theresidence and office ofSrivastava which led to recoveryof incriminating documents,articles and electronic evidence."Searches have also been carriedout at the premises of certain

other private persons," the CBIsaid in a press statement.

Sources said the chargesagainst Srivastava were thatwhen he was designated as theCommissioner of Income Tax(Appeal 1 and Appeal 2), heallegedly decided about 104Income Tax appeals anduploaded the orders in June,2019 by backdating them toDecember, 2018. 13 of theappeals were not even in hisjurisdiction, they said.

The orders were uploadedon Income Tax BusinessApplication (ITBA) systemthrough RSA token betweenJune 11 and June 13. It was fur-ther alleged that the dispatchrecords of the office were also

manipulated to allude towardsdispatch of the orders on June7, 2019, whereas they wereactually dispatched on June 14,2019.

In the dispatch records, Hewas dismissed on June 10.Srivastava had hired a privateindividual to type and uploadorders, sources said. Srivastava'swife runs a boutique in VasantKunj, Delhi and searches wereconducted there as well.

CBI said residence of AmarDas whose services were usedby the officer to write orders,two Chartered AccountantsAnil Prahlad Kumar and K PGarg in Ghaziabad and NehruPlace, Delhi, respectively alsoraided.

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After fighting a protractedlegal battle at various levels

for a decade to seek promotion,pay and perks, a former sportsquota (cricketer) railwayemployee got justice fromCentral Administrative Tribunal(CAT) which directed IndianRailways to immediately restorethe "bonafide" demands ofemployee Rakesh Kumar

(retired passenger guard). While restoring the 'honour'

of Rakesh Kumar, theChandigarh branch of CAT alsomentioned that the respondents(the then General ManagerVishvesh Chaube and DRMFerozpur Vivek Kumar) cannotescape from their liability byimplementing the court orders."

Rakesh had invoked con-tempt jurisdiction alleging non-compliance and disobedience byNorthern Railway GM andDRM pertaining to directions ofearlier CAT order of May 2015that the petitioners grievances beaddressed immediately.

Rakesh in his petition hadclaimed for promotion to thepost of Goods Guard every year

beginning 2005 till 2011 whichwas always rejected even after hecomplied with all the requisitesmerits. Failing to get his dues,Rakesh lodged complaints at alllevels including RailwayMinisters, PMO and RahstrapatiBhawan time to time allegingmassive corruption in thedepartmental promotions.

"We can lift the veil to findout the real intention of therespondents (senior railway offi-cials) to subvert the directions.If now the respondents are heldguilty for not implementing theorder charges can be framedagainst them," said CAT JudgeSanjeev Kaushik and Member PGopinath in their May 2019CAT order.

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New Delhi: Rejecting theCongress' allegation that it wastrying to topple the Karnatakagovernment, the BJP saidSaturday that the "feud"between ruling allies Congressand JD(S) is behind the freshpolitical instability in the state.

BJP media head and RajyaSabha MP Anil Baluni assert-ed that his party had no role inthe spate of resignations by theruling alliance MLAs inKarnataka which has raisedquestions over the survival ofthe H D Kumaraswamy-ledgovernment.

"The reality is that there isa battle for political supremacywithin the Congress as well asbetween it and the JD(S).Siddaramaiah does not wantthe Kumaraswamy governmentto continue. This ugly internalpolitics is behind the instabili-ty," he said.

Congress leaderSiddaramaiah was the statechief minister beforeKumaraswamy.

While the Congress andJD(S) had contested againsteach other in the 2018 assem-bly polls, they joined hands toform the government after theBJP emerged as the singlelargest party.

After 13 MLAs of the rul-ing alliance submitted theirresignations to the assemblyspeaker on Saturday, theCongress accused the BJP oftrying to bring down the gov-ernment by "buying" MLAs.

"The new word for 'aayaram gaya ram' is MODI -- mis-chievously orchestrated defec-tions in India. The Karnatakagovernment which is a jointgovernment having completemajority under our democrat-ic setup is now being sought tobe pulled down by defectionsand resignations," Congress'schief spokesperson RandeepSurjewala told reporters.

Taking a dig at Surjewala,Baluni said the Congress leaderhas little idea about his assem-bly constituency in Haryana, let

alone Karnataka or the country."The Congress and the

JD(S) are trying to finish offeach other. What is clear is thatthe people of the state have seenthe corrupt face of the alliancegovernment," he said.

Karnataka BJP chief B SYeddyurappa too asserted thathis party had nothing to dowith the resignations.

"We will see what will hap-pen in the future... We will takeappropriate decision at appro-priate time. The prevailing con-fusing situation has hamperedthe development of the state. Iam keeping a watch.

"Based on what decisionthe Speaker will take, we willthink about further action," headded.

Asked if the BJP wouldmake any move to stake claimto form the government beforethe Governor, Yeddyurappasaid, "We will not do suchthings. We will wait and watchthe developments that areunfolding." PTI

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New Delhi: Vice PresidentVenkaiah Naidu on Saturdaycalled for creating a nationalinnovation movement to pro-mote path-breaking ideas andinnovations that improve livingconditions of people and gen-erate wealth.

Speaking at the GandhianYoung Technological Innovation(GYTI) Awards, organised bythe Department ofBiotechnology here, he stressedon the need to tap the huge tal-ent present in every section ofsociety across the country tobuild a new and inclusive India.

Referring to a call given byPrime Minister Narendra Modi"to reform, perform and trans-form", he said there was a lot ofmeaning in the message andadded that he had no hesitationin describing the prime minis-ter as a great transformer now asthe elections were over.

Naidu recalled that former

US President Barack Obamahad called Modi a 'Reformer-in-Chief ' in a profile penned byhim in an international maga-zine, a statement said.

He also called for reorient-ing education system to fosterout-of-box thinking and prob-lem-solving approach.

The vice president urged theyoung scientists to come up withsimple, low-cost but hi-techinnovations to make people'slives more comfortable andaddress challenges such as pol-lution, climate change, diseases,not-so-profitable agriculture,and low-efficiency industrialprocesses. Citing an example, thevice president referred to an aninnovative, indigenous machineinvented by Telangana weaverChintakindi Mallesham whichreduces the drudgery and timetaken to weave a saree fromabout 6 hours to an hour andhalf. PTI

3�����&����'��,��( ���'��"�'�,�����New Delhi: The IndianMedical Association Saturdaytermed the budgetary alloca-tion in the health sector "inad-equate" as the body lamentedthat public spending on healthremained at 1.2 per cent ofGDP.

In a statement, the doctorsbody said health remains ablind spot in the country.

"Health remains the onlysubject which the Unionfinance minister has preferredto downplay. There is no clar-ity of enhancement of invest-ment in Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Jan ArogyaYojna (AB-PMJAY) either," itsaid.

"The atmosphere of vio-lence in our hospitals is direct-ly due to inadequacy of infra-structure and human resourcesin public sector and out ofpocket expenditure in privatesector," the statement said.

Finance Minister NirmalaSitharaman on Fridayannounced Rs 62,659.12 crore

outlay for the health sector inthe 2019-2020 fiscal. The healthoutlay this fiscal saw anincrease of around 15.38 percent over the revised estimatesof 2018-2019 fiscal when it wasRs 54,302.50 crore.

The Indian MedicalAssociation (IMA), however,said the 15.4 per cent higherallocation is a myth and pro-vides for only inflation.

"The 15.4 per cent higherallocation is a myth and pro-vides for only inflation. Thereis absolutely no indication ofany vision towards raising thepublic health expenditure to 2.5per cent of GDP," IMA presi-dent Santanu Sen said.

The medical body saidallocation of Rs 2,000 crore forconverting district hospitalsinto medical colleges, and Rs1,361 crore for strengtheninggovernment medical colleges(MBBS) are the only silverstreaks in the lacklustre budget.

"Even this allocation ishighly inadequate considering

the fact that the number of dis-trict hospitals in the country isat least 763. Giving Rs 2 to 3crore per district hospital willbe inadequate for any mean-ingful change," it rued.

On the government's ambi-tious Ayushman Bharatscheme, the IMA said, "Had thegovernment extended theinsurance coverage underAyushman Bharat to primarycare, thousands of clinics andsmall hospitals situated in ruraland semi-urban area wouldhave participated. This wouldhave made both the AyushmanBharat and small hospitalsviable and sustainable."

R V Asokan, IMA generalsecretary, said, "The IMA isconcerned that small andmedium hospitals will be dec-imated with the current designof health care. IMA demands areview of the concept andoperational aspects ofAyushman Bharat whiledemanding more allocationfor health." PTI

New Delhi: People with diabetesare at a higher risk of sufferingheart attack, experts say and rec-ommend routine health checkupsand lifestyle modification to keepthe condition in check.

With 69.2 million people suf-fering from diabetes, India isamong the top 10 countries in theworld suffering from the condi-tion, according to InternationalDiabetes Federation's DiabetesAtlas. Apart from that, 36.5 mil-lion people suffer from pre-dia-betes conditions.

"Diabetes damages blood ves-sels, making a person more proneto cardiovascular diseases. It isstrongly recommended that allpeople with diabetes have theirheart disease risk factors checkedas aggressively and routinely aspeople who have already hadheart attacks," said Dr RN KalraCardiologist, Medical Directorand CEO of Kalra Hospital.

Dr Ajay Kumar Ajmani,Endocrinologist at BLK SuperSpeciality Hospital said studieshave proven that diabetic patientsare prone heart disease at a youngage.

"A new study has also revealedthat people with undetected dia-

betes have a higher risk of a heartattack. Hence, routine healthcheckups to detect a diabetic con-dition can help in reducing the riskof heart diseases as well," he said.

Dr Archana Dhawan Bajaj,gynaecologist, obstetrician andIVF expert at Nurture IVF Centresaid diabetes puts pregnantwomen at high risks of congeni-tal malformations in the fetusincluding heart defects, genital

urinary defects, caudal syndromeand multiple others defects.

Maternal diabetes also carriesan increased risk of fetal loss andmajor congenital malformations.High blood pressure during preg-nancy and preeclampsia are morecommon in women with dia-betes, she said.

"In severe cases, there may berisk of heart failure. The effects ofgestational diabetes in the grow-

ing fetus can be minimised byproper antenatal care, strict sugarcontrol, lifestyle modifications,and care during delivery," thedoctor explained.

Experts recommend regularcheck-ups, lifestyle modificationwhich includes regular exercise, atleast 30 minutes brisk walk fivedays a week, nutritious diet, quit-ting smoking and alcohol to keepdiabetes at bay. PTI

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New Delhi: Civil rights organ-isations on Saturday wrote toUnion Tribal Affairs MinisterArjun Munda and all states,drawing their attention toissues related to proper imple-mentation of the Forest RightsAct (FRA) and urging them toconvincingly defend the law inan ongoing case in the SupremeCourt.

The FRA recognises therights of forest-dwelling com-munities, many of themScheduled Tribes, over the landthey have inhabited tradition-ally.

On February 13, the apexcourt had ordered the evictionof 11.8 lakh "illegal forestdwellers" whose claim for landrights had been rejected.

However, on February 28,it stayed the ruling and direct-ed the states to file affidavitsdetailing the process adopted inrejecting the claims. The nexthearing is scheduled for July 12.

Bhumi Adhikar Andolan,

an alliance of more than 300organisations working forrights of forest dwellers, urgedMunda and all the states to "putforward credible defense ofthe FRA in the court andensure that the order evictingthe tribals and other traditionalforest dwellers is annulled".

The letter also urged them"not to fall prey to the impres-sion that there is no need forthe Supreme Court's February13 order to be recalled ormodified after the February 28stay order".

The interpretation of theFRA is not only faulty but alsonot supported by law. It tendsto compound the historicalinjustice that the law seeks toundo, the civil rights organisa-tions claimed.

They also claimed the per-formance of the states withregard to the recognition ofcommunity forest resourcerights and habitat rights hasbeen abysmal and flawed. PTI

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New Delhi: An Israeli company that put MahatmaGandhi's image on liquor bottles has stopped the pro-duction and supply of the product and is making allefforts to withdraw it from the market after India tookup the issue with it, according to External AffairsMinister S Jaishankar.

Raising the issue in Rajya Sabha during the Zero Hour on Tuesday, AAP leader Sanjay Singh said the Israeli company had insulted the 'Father of the Nation' by printing his picture on liquor bottles. He had demanded action against the company and removal of the bottles carrying the pic-tures.

In a letter to Singh, Jaishankar said, "We share youroutrage on the issue. Our embassy has already raisedthe issue with the Israeli company."

The company has stopped the production and sup-ply of the bottles and is making all efforts to withdrawthe product from the market, he said.

The company has also offered its heartfelt apolo-gies to the people and Government of India, and hasregretted its actions, he said.

Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu hadasked Jaishankar to look into the matter and take imme-diate and appropriate action. PTI

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Rahul Gandhi was grantedbail on Saturday after he

appeared before a court here ina defamation case filed by BJPleader and Bihar Deputy ChiefMinister Sushil Kumar Modi,days after a Mumbai courtheld that the Congress leaderwould face trial for allegedslander against the RSS.

Gandhi alleged that he wasbeing targeted for raising hisvoice against the NarendraModi Government and theBJP-RSS combine, and vowedto continue his fight.

The Congress leader, whorecently resigned as party pres-ident, surrendered beforeAdditional Chief JudicialMagistrate Kumar Gunjan,who is the judge for specialMPs and MLAs court here, andwas granted bail.

Sushil Modi’s counsel,Shambhu Prasad, said the courtfixed August 8 as the next dateof hearing in the case.

“We did not oppose hisbail. The court explained tohim the accusation against himand asked whether he pleadedguilty,” Prasad told PTI.

“The respondent replied inthe negative and the matter wasposted for further hearing onAugust 8.”

Before leaving the courtpremises, Gandhi told a swarmof reporters waiting for asound byte that he would con-tinue to fight for the country’spoor.

“I am committed to fight-ing for the country’s poor,farmers and workers. I havecome here to express my soli-darity with them,” he said.“Whoever is raising his voiceagainst the Modi government,against the BJP-RSS combine isbeing targeted through courtcases. But my fight will con-tinue.”

Earlier in the day, Gandhisaid he would appear the courtfor a case filed by his “politicalopponents” in the BJP-RSS to “harass and intim-idate” him.

Gandhi was slapped withthe defamation suit by SushilModi in April for his remark:“why all thieves have the sur-name Modi?”.

The comment was anobvious reference to PrimeMinister Narendra Modi,absconding bank-fraudaccused Nirav Modi and for-mer Indian Premier Leaguecommissioner Lalit Modi.

The deputy chief ministerhad moved the court allegingthat he was personallyanguished by Gandhi’s

remarks since he shared thesame surname.

The former Congresschief ’s appearance in the Patnacourt comes two days after heand CPI(M) general secretarySitaram Yechury, pleaded notguilty in a Mumbai court inanother defamation case filedagainst them by an RSS work-er.

Upon arrival at the airport,Gandhi was received by seniorleaders, including stateCongress president MadanMohan Jha. He drove straightto the court premises, aroundseven kilometres away.

The court premises wascordoned off by the policesince morning following areview of security arrange-ments by the Special ProtectionGroup on the previous day.

Scores of Congress work-ers were seen staging a demon-stration outside the courtpremises demanding thatGandhi withdraw his resigna-tion from the post of the partypresident, a step he took own-ing moral responsibility for theLok Sabha poll debacle.

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A total of 49 deaths and 190cases of Japanese

encephalitis have been reported till July 5 this year inAssam, where the transmissionseason is at its peak, HealthMinister Himanta Biswa Sarmasaid on Saturday.

Sarma said all the districts,except Kokrajhar, were cur-rently under the influence ofthe disease and preventive stepsbeing taken to combat the sit-uation.

Among the slew of mea-sures put in place, the healthdepartment’s fear surveillancenetwork — comprising multi-purpose workers, malarialtechnical supervisors andaccredited social healthactivists — has been instruct-ed to collect blood samples.

“The State Governmenthas made arrangements for

free transportation of sus-pected fever cases from thecommunity to the district hos-pital, while reserving beds forJE and acute encephalitis syn-drome (AES) in intensive careunits and wards,” Sarma said ata press conference here. “It willalso bear the cost of diagnosisand treatment of patients,” hesaid.

The Minister said theElisa (enzyme-linkedimmunosorbent assay) kits fordetection of the virus had beendistributed in the district hos-pitals and medical colleges,and awareness was beingspread.

Intensified fogging opera-tions are being carried out inaffected areas and a total of1,094 affected villages havebeen covered under the fog-ging operation so far, he said.

“A round-the-clock centralcontrol room has been made

functional to deal with andmonitor the situation closely,and all deputy commissionersdirected to step up surveillanceactivities in coordination withurban local bodies and villagepanchayats,” Sarma said.

He said vaccinationthrough routine immunisationfor children was currentlygoing on, adding that adultshad been vaccinated in 20 dis-tricts during 2016-17 and theremaining areas need to be cov-ered under the programme.

The Central Governmenthas agreed to support the adultvaccination programme acrossthe state this year once the

Japanese encephalitis seasonwas over, Sarma said.

In addition to the combative steps, the Ministersaid, emergency measureswere being taken to overcomethe situation with minimumfatality. The State will providea consolidated special transportallowance of �1,000 for each JEor AES patient reaching a gov-ernment hospital using ownmeans of transport in case ofnon-availability of ambulances,he explained. With timelymanagement, the case fatalityrate (CFR) could be reduced toa great extent, Sarma said.

“However, we recognisethat the ICU facilities inGovernment hospitals are limited. In order to overcomethe hurdle, a consolidated ICUtreatment allowance up to �1lakh per patient will be paiddirectly to the private hospital,where an AES/JE positive case

has been admitted,” the HealthMinister said.

A dedicated help desk willbe set up in all medical collegesto ensure faster service deliv-ery, he asserted. “As of now,leaves of all doctors and para-medical staff, including sur-veillance workers, have beenput on hold. Any emergencyleave will be granted only withthe prior approval of the deputycommissioner of the district.

“Unauthorised absencefrom the place of posting, evenafter the duty hours, willamount to criminal derelictionof duty and filing of FIR withpolice,” the Minister warned.

Assam is an ecologicallyfavourable region for the spreadof JE owing to heavy rainfall,large paddy fields with bigwater bodies, pig farming anddomestic pig rearing, all ofwhich support the virus prop-agation, he pointed out.

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External Affairs Minister SJaishankar on Saturday

batted for promoting nationalism to deal with chal-lenges like terrorism and saidthe country now has bothvision and leadership, whichwere lacking in the past caus-ing it to lag behind othernations.

Addressing a gathering ofBJP supporters here, the formerforeign secretary praised PrimeMinister Narendra Modi for his“vision of new India”, stressingthings were changing under hisleadership.

Jaishankar, who on Fridaywon the Rajya Sabha electionfrom Gujarat, was here to par-ticipate in the BJP’s nation-widemembership drive along withChief Minister Vijay Rupaniand other party leaders.

“If we look at India’s histo-ry, our internal disputes havebeen our weakness, from whichothers have benefited. Weshould promote nationalismand increase national security

for challenges like terrorism. For that, we need leader-

ship and persistency seen in thelast few years that were lackingearlier,” he said.

As a career diplomat,Jaishankar said, he is worriedabout India lagging behindcountries like China, which hesaid was due to shortcomingsin vision and conviction.

“You know that I workedfor 40 years in the service of thenation as India’s diplomat andforeign secretary. During thisperiod, when I looked at theworld, I found there are somecountries which have pro-gressed a lot in 20-30 years.

“To tell you frankly, thereare also countries which have

moved ahead of us even whenthey were at our level 30 yearsback, like China,” he said,adding it was due to lack ofvision and conviction.

“Today, both have changed.There is a vision of new Indiathat our prime minister has putbefore us. And there is alsocommitment due to thevision,” he said.

Jaishankar said he wasdrawn towards the party due tothe commitment shown by thegovernment. He said that onlythose countries have pro-gressed where people take it astheir responsibility to take theirnation forward.

“And this is possible onlywhen we all consider partici-pating in issues and policiesconcerning public. Countrywill grow if this enthusiasmgrows,” he said.

“This new vision, newcommitment, is what made aman like me to come into pub-lic life, to join this party,” hesaid. He said there was need tocollaborate with other countries.

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Seemingly mock-ing Prime

Minister NarendraModi’s electiontheme of a strongGovernment versus a “helpless”one, BSP chief Saturdayclaimed a “majboor” rulingalliance would actually havebeen better.

During elections Modiused to ask people whetherthey wanted a “majboor”(helpless) or a “majboot”(strong) government.

“There has been a fullmajority government both atthe Centre and the state for thepast sometime but the neces-sary improvement has not

taken place in UP. Thisproves that in theinterest of the peopleit is the ‘majboor’ gov-ernment which wasrequired rather than a‘mazboot’ one,”

Mayawati said.“A ‘majboor’ government

will have fear and will work forthe welfare of people. Such agovernment will not be anautocratic one and its leaderstoo will not take the law in theirhands, and create anarchy andcorruption,” the BSP supremosaid while addressing partyleaders of Purvanchal andAwadh regions.

The BSP chief directedparty workers to strengthen theorganisation.

Chennai: Congress MP ShashiTharoor on Saturday said theUnion Budget 2019-20 reflects“incrementalism sans vision”and the Government’s aspira-tion to push the economy to the5 trillion dollar-mark does nothave any roadmap.

“I think there is a funda-mental problem. It reflects thesame incrementalism, there isno bold idea, no vision, it men-tions aspirational numbers likefive trillion dollar economywithout any roadmap of how toget that,” he said.

The Budget reiterated manyexisting programmes of theGovernment, but failed to doanything for the ordinaryIndian citizen, theThiruvananthapuram MP toldPTI on the sidelines of anevent here.

“On the contrary, the annu-al financial statement gave peo-ple the burden of an addition-al two rupee plus for every litreof diesel and petrol when we arealready paying the highest fuelprices in the world, which willhave a knock on effect oneverything,” he said. PTI

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Senior Vishwa HinduParishad (VHP) leader

Surendra Jain on Saturdayaccused West Bengal ChiefMinister Mamata Banerjee oftrying to appease minorities to“secure her votebank”.

Jain’s comment comes aday after Banerjee claimed thatthe Centre’s report suggestingmadrasas in Bengal were beingused for radicalisation andrecruitment was “misleading”and bereft of truth.

“Few days back she tookpart in Rathyatra celebrations.She was trying to fool theHindus of Bengal. Now hermask has come off.

“She is trying to implicatenationalist organizations suchas the VHP and the Bajrang dalas extremist organisations. But

she has no problems withmadrasas, where anti-nationalactivities are going on,” Jaintold PTI.

Banerjee will continue toappease minorities even if thatwas “at the cost of nationalsecurity”, he alleged.

The chief minister onFriday hit out at the BJP-ledCentral Government for pur-suing a “political agenda” andaccused it of tabling “mislead-ing reports” on Bengalmadrasas in Parliament.

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Rajasthan Chief MinisterAshok Gehlot on Saturday

said providing transparent andaccountable administration isthe top priority of the StateGovernment.

Addressing a training programme of officers on pro-bation here, Gehlot asked thegathering to work with com-plete devotion in accordancewith the spirit of theConstitution while living up tothe expectations of the stateGovernment. He further askedthe officers to read the biography of Mahatma Gandhi.

He also said that theGovernment is going to estab-lish a peace and non-violencecell in the State as part of cel-ebration of 150th anniversaryof Gandhi to propagate his phi-losophy of peace, harmony,tolerance and non-violence.

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Dr V Maitreyan, theAIADMK’s face in New

Delhi, has been cold shoul-dered by the party leadershipby not nominating him againto the Rajya Sabha. TheAIADMK announced onSaturday names of two partyveterans for the biennial elec-tion to the upper house to beheld on July 18.

Sixty four-year-oldMaitreyan, a medical oncolo-gist, was close to former ChiefMinister J Jayalalithaa whonimunated him to Rajya Sabhaas the party’s poin man in NewDelhi. His term is coming to anend next week and DrMaitreyan had told this paperthat the new power equationsin the party would deny hima seat. He was not to be seenanywhere during the LokSabha election in April inwhich the AIADMK-led frontwas uprooted by the DMKand allies.

A Mohammed John fromVellore and N Chandrasekaranfrom Mettur are the nomineesof the AIADMK. Their nameswere disclosed by the partyleadership on Saturday.Mohammed John is a formerminister in the Governmentheaded by Jayalalithaa (2011-

16) and is being fielded as theminority face of the party.

The AIADMK is eligible tosend three nominees to RajyaSabha based on the strength ofthe party in the current legis-lature. But the party has allo-cated one seat to the PMK, itsalliance partner for the LokSabha election. The PMK islikely to nominate AnbumaniRamadoss as the party candi-date.

P Wilson, a senior lawyerand M Shanmugham, a tradeunion leader are the nomineesof the DMK. Though the DMKcould send three nominees tothe Rajya Sabha, the party issponsoring Vaiko, the MDMKleader as its third representa-tive. This is as per the agree-ment worked out during theseat allocation for the LokSabha election. Vaiko, theLTTE’s India face , would raisein parliament the issues ofTamil Eelam and incidents ofviolation of secularism.

Though there were reportsthat former Prime MinisterManmohan Singh would benominated from Tamil Nadu,the talks between the DMK andthe Congress were groundedmidway through. Another per-son whose Rajya Sabha ambi-tions got shattered is D Raja ofthe CPI who was interested inanother term in the House.

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Union Minister and AmethiMP Smriti Irani on

Saturday said people of theconstituency elected her astheir ‘Didi’ (elder sister) andnot an MP, while underliningher resolve to do the best forthe region.

She also claimed that shebrought projects worth �50crore for the development ofAmethi. “Amethi has notelected me as an MP, but astheir ‘Didi’ (elder sister).Amethi is my home and I willalways safeguard its respect,”she said.

The Women and ChildDevelopment Minister wasspeaking at a programme inJagdishpur area here.

Talking about the impor-tance of girls education, shesaid, “Families should educatetheir girls. This will strength-en the house and society.”

Irani announced thatevery development block inthe constituency will have afire station to curb incidentsof fire and that such stationswill be built using MPLADfunds along with assistancefrom the Uttar PradeshGovernment.

The BJP leader laid thefoundation of Rajkiye KanyaMahavidyalaya and a fire sta-tion building. She also inau-gurated 26 health centres.

Giving a stern message tothe police regarding safety of

women, she said, “Safety andhonour of women is the biggestresponsibility of the policeadministration. Stringentaction should be initiatedagainst any person who tries toplay with the safety of womenand their honour. I am sayingthis as an MP to the superin-tendents of police.”

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Defence Minister RajnathSingh on Saturday took a

swipe at the Congress over itsleadership crisis, saying that theopposition party is still search-ing for a chief and “it is unclearwhether there is going to be anypresident or not”.

Addressing a gathering atthe launch of the BJP’s nation-

wide membership drive, Singhsaid the massive mandate forthe BJP-NDA in Lok Sabhaelections has not affected itsattitude.

“As far as the BJP is con-cerned, we have appointed JPNadda as the officiating presi-dent and started organisation-al activities. In the Congress, itis unclear who is the part pres-ident and whether there is

going to be any president ornot. The party is still searching

who will become its presi-dent... Such is the situation,” theBJP leader said.

Rahul Gandhi has quit asCongress president followingthe party’s Lok Sabha debacle.

The BJP leader alsoreferred to air strikes to destroyterrorist camps in Pakistanand said that the world hasaccepted that India is no longerweak but a powerful country.

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Tehran: A top aide to Iran'ssupreme leader says the IslamicRepublic is ready to enrich ura-nium beyond the level set byTehran's 2015 nuclear deal,just ahead of a deadline it setSunday for Europe to offer newterms to the accord.

A video message by AliAkbar Velayati included himsaying that "Americans directlyand Europeans indirectly vio-lated the deal," part of Tehran'shardening tone with Europe.

European parties to thedeal have yet to offer a way forIran to avoid the sweepingeconomic sanctions imposedby President Donald Trumpsince he pulled the U.S. Out ofthe accord a year ago, especiallythose targeting its crucial oilsales.

All this comes as Americahas rushed thousands of troops,an aircraft carrier, nuclear-capable B-52 bombers andadvanced fighter jets to theMideast.

Mysterious oil tankerattacks near the Strait ofHormuz, attacks by Iranian-backed rebels in Yemen onSaudi Arabia and Iran shootingdown a U.S. Military drone

have raised fears of a widerconflict engulfing the region.

In the video, availableSaturday on a website forSupreme Leader Ayatollah AliKhamenei, Velayati said thatincreasing enrichment closersto weapons-grade levels was"unanimously agreed upon byevery component of the estab-lishment."

"We will show reactionexponentially as much as theyviolate it. We reduce our com-mitments as much as theyreduce it," said Velayati,Khamenei's adviser on inter-national affairs.

"If they go back to fulfill-ing their commitments, wewill do so as well." Under theatomic accord, Iran agreed to

enrich uranium to no morethan 3.67 per cent, which isenough for peaceful pursuitsbut is far below weapons-gradelevels of 90 per cent.

Iran denies it seeks nuclearweapons, but the nuclear dealsought to prevent that as a pos-sibility by limiting enrichmentand Iran's stockpile of uraniumto 300 kilograms (661 pounds).

On Monday, Iran andUnited Nations inspectorsacknowledged it had brokenthe stockpile limit. Combiningthat with increasing its enrich-ment levels narrows the one-year window experts believeIran would need to haveenough material to build anuclear weapon, if it chose todo so. AP

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Colombo: Sri Lanka's PresidentSaturday announced he will notallow his Government to con-clude a proposed military dealthat would allow US troops freeaccess to the island's ports.

Maithripala Sirisena said hewas opposed to the draft Statusof Forces Agreement (SOFA)that the two countries are nego-tiating to further strengthentheir military ties.

Sirisena is at loggerheadswith his pro-Western PrimeMinister RanilWickremesinghe.

"I will not allow any agree-ment that undermines ourindependence and sovereignty,"Sirisena told a public rally in theisland's south. "Several agree-ments currently being discussedare detrimental to our country."

"I will not allow the SOFAthat seeks to betray the nation.Some foreign forces want tomake Sri Lanka one of theirbases. I will not allow them tocome into the country andchallenge our sovereignty."

The SOFA seeks to ensurereciprocal access to port facil-ities and allow freer entry tomilitary personnel and their

contractors.Sirisena said there will be

no bilateral agreements "againstSri Lanka's national interest" aslong as he was in office. Histerm ends in January.

He did not name the pow-ers he accused of trying to gaina military foothold in his IndianOcean island republic of 21 mil-lion people.

However, it was a thinlyveiled reference to the USwhich is keen on strengtheningtheir existing military cooper-ation.

A year ago, Washingtonannounced it was granting $39million to boost maritime secu-rity in Sri Lanka as Chinadeveloped its strategic hold onthe Indian Ocean island.

Increased US interest in SriLanka comes as China isupping investment in portsand other building projects onthe island, which is a key linkin Beijing's ambitious "Belt andRoad" infrastructure initiative.

The US had stopped armssales to Sri Lanka during theheight of the island's Tamilseparatist war that ended in2009. AFP

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talks with the Taliban — nowin their second week — hasbeen "very productive," amember of the Americannegotiating team said onFriday, while strenuouslydenying Washington sought afixed deadline for the with-drawal of its estimated 14,000troops from Afghanistan aspart of a final peace deal.

Negotiations have hadfresh momentum in recentweeks after US Secretary ofState Mike Pompeo visitedAfghanistan's capital, Kabul, atthe end of last month. At thetime, he said Washington washopeful of an agreementbefore September 1.

The appointment last yearof Zalmay Khalilzad as a USspecial peace envoy began theaccelerated effort to find anegotiated end toAfghanistan's war andAmerica's longest militaryengagement.

Since then Khalilzad hasheld scores of talks with theAfghan government in Kabuland abroad, with the Talibanas well as with Afghanistan'sneighbours — includingPakistan which has beenaccused of aiding the insur-gents. The US official in

Qatar's capital, Doha, wherethe Taliban maintain a polit-ical office and talks are beingheld, told The AssociatedPress that the US "definitelydid not offer" an 18-monthwithdrawal as part of a peacedeal.

Speaking anonymouslybecause of the sensitivity ofthe talks, the US negotiatorwas responding to a time-frame Taliban officials told theAP months earlier.

The US negotiator said thedeal being negotiated in Dohawith the Taliban is "compre-hensive and includes specificson all four parts including acease fire, timeline, partici-pating in intra-Afghan nego-tiations and counter-terrorismassurances."

On Saturday, severalprominent Afghan figures leftKabul for Doha ahead ofmuch-anticipated all-Afghantalks to begin on Sunday. Thetalks are co-sponsored byGermany and Qatar, andinclude the Taliban.

An earlier round of intra-Afghan talks, which were tobe held last April, were scut-tled after the two sides couldnot agree on participants. TheAfghan government had sub-mitted a list of 250 people. The

Taliban likened it to a wed-ding party.

This time the Taliban say60 people will participate.

Attaullah Rahman Salim,the deputy head of the gov-ernment's high peace council,said 64 would be sittingaround the table.

The list includes formermujahedeen who fought theSoviet in the 1980s as well asformer government officials,former ambassadors, civilsociety representatives and asmattering of women.

Participants at the tablewill be there as ordinaryAfghans "on equal footing"and not as government repre-sentatives, said the Germansponsors.

The Taliban who haveconsistently refused to holddirect talks with PresidentAshraf Ghani's governmentcalling it a puppet adminis-tration. They have, however,readily agreed to talks withany Afghan, including fromwithin the government, but asan ordinary Afghan.

Ghani, who has been con-spicuously quiet about theupcoming intra-Afghan dia-logue, has consistentlydemanded Taliban talk direct-ly with the Government. AP

Geneva: They are trapped insqualid detention centers onLibya's front lines. They washup on the banks of the RioGrande. They sink without atrace — in the Mediterranean,in the Pacific or in waterwaysthey can't even name. A handful fall out of airplanes'landing gear.

As their choices narrow onland and at sea, migrants areoften seen as a politicalheadache in the countries theyhope to reach and ignored in thecountries they flee.

Most live in limbo, butrecent tragedies have focusedattention on the risks they faceand the political constraints atthe root of them.

A record 71 million peoplewere forcibly displaced aroundthe world in 2018, according toa report last month by the U.N.Refugee agency, in places asdiverse as Turkey, Uganda,Bangladesh and Peru.

Many are still on the movein 2019, or trapped like thou-

sands in detention in Libya,where an airstrike on Tuesdaykilled at least 44 migrants andrefugees locked away in theTripoli suburb of Tajoura.

Most of those in Tajouraand other Libyan detentioncenters have been intercepted bythe Libyan coast guard, whichhas become the go-to borderforce for the European Union,which can't get 28 governmentsto agree about migration.

Despite the rhetoric aboutmigration crises in Europe andthe U.S., the top three countriestaking in refugees are Turkey,Pakistan and Uganda. Germanycomes in a distant fifth.

A 20-year-old who fled warin his homeland in sub-SaharanAfrica two years ago survivedthe airstrikes, gunfire from mili-tia members trying to keepmigrants inside the compound,torture for ransom by traffick-ers and a sinking boat in theMediterranean.

He is now sleeping outsidethe Tajoura detention center

along with hundreds of othermigrants and awaiting a secondchance to go to sea.

"I faced death in Libyamany times before. I am ready

to die again. I already lost mybrothers in the war in my coun-try," he told The AssociatedPress. He didn't want his nameused because the militia fight-

ers who shot at him are stillguarding the compound.

Libya's interior minister,Fathi Bashagha, pleaded Fridayfor Europe "to address the prob-

lem in a radical way — not to prevent migrants, but to provide jobs and investment in the migrants' places of origin,as well as in southern Libya ...So as to absorb these hugenumbers willing and eager tomigrate to Europe."

Within days of the airstrike,at least two boats filled with migrants sank off Libya'scoast, leaving around 140 peo-ple missing. Another groupwas picked up by a rescue shipand then barred from dockingon the Italian island ofLampedusa, touching off the21st standoff between Italy'spopulist Government andhumanitarian groups.

A pregnant woman watch-ing a shipboard ultrasound ofher baby smiled broadly, seem-ingly oblivious to the politicalfuror on land and at sea.

A similar disconnect playedout recently when the body ofa stowaway on an inboundflight from Nairobi crashed toearth next to a man sunbathing

on a Sunday afternoon in hisLondon garden.

The next day, mournersheld a lavish burial in El Salvador for a man and his young daughter whodrowned trying to cross the RioGrande into Texas.

Like during a 2015 wave ofSyrians, Iraqis and Afghanispouring into Europe, dailyreminders of migrants' plightsare back on front pages.

The U.S.-Mexico borderhas become a flashpoint amidPresident Donald Trump'sambitions to build a wall to keep out migrants. Many children caught crossing arestuck in squalid, unsanitarydetention centers.

Children have also beenseparated from parents in cus-tody. Critics call such policiesinhumane, heartless and "un-American." More broadly, advo-cates for the huddled masses onthe move say not enough isbeing done in the migrants'home, transit or destination

countries. Only international cooper-

ation can help resolve the ago-nies, they say — a tough sell ata time of rising go-it-alone, pop-ulist and nationalist sentimentin many places.

Filippo Grandi, head ofU.N. Refugee agency UNHCR,said his office has a "dialogue"going with the U.S. Departmentof Homeland Security, and "ifthere is any help that we canprovide to the U.S.Administration in dealing withthis matter, we're ready to do it."

But he called for a region-al discussion among countrieslike the United States — the des-tination for many — as well astransit country Mexico, andthe troubled home countries formigrants and refugees such asEl Salvador, Honduras andGuatemala, where gang killingsand lawlessness are rife.

"I have been to Honduras,to Guatemala, to El Salvador," he told reporters recently in Geneva. AP

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The tornado, packing windsup to 23 metres per second,struck the city of Kaiyuan around5:15 p.M. (Local time). It toucheddown at the Jingouzi Township,rampaged through an industri-al park and churned south. Itlasted around 15 minutes.

The tornado, backed bystrong showers and hailstones,wreaked havoc on apartments,factory buildings and electric-ity poles, the state-run Xinhuanews agency reported. PTI

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Dover (US): Democratic pres-idential candidate MarianneWilliamson on Friday warnedthat American elections couldbecome more like voting incountries like Iran.

Speaking at a campaignevent in Dover, NewHampshire, the authordescribed an "illusion ofchoice," and criticized the"political media elite establish-ment. It's a corporate estab-lishment." "And they will notonly tell us what we're sup-posed to talk about," she said.

"They will tell us who we'resupposed to choose to evenchoose between in terms ofvoting." Williamson added:"It's kind of like countries likeIran, where you can vote for

whoever you want, among thepeople that they tell you it's OKto vote for. And that's the kindof country that we're living intoday."

In a follow-up statement toThe Associated Press,Williamson clarified that Iranwas "a cautionary tale, not adirect analogy." She also saidthe July Fourth holiday"reminds us of our uniqueplace in the world and the hope

and light we represent to oth-ers."

However, she added,"When corporate forces beginto dictate our candidates andgive us fewer and fewer choic-es, it is a threat to our founda-tion." She said all candidatesshould be welcome to partici-pate "whether they are backedby monied forces or not."

Williamson is polling farbelow leading 2020 presidentialcontenders, though her debateperformance late last monthattracted some attention.

She managed to make theJune debate stage over moretraditional presidential con-tenders like Massachusetts Rep.Seth Moulton and MontanaGov. Steve Bullock. AP

Khartoum: Sudanese rebelgroups have criticised a power-sharing deal between the mil-itary and the country's pro-democracy movement aimed atending weekslong politicaldeadlock.

The protest leaders in thecapital, Khartoum, and theruling military made public anagreement to form a jointGovernment on Friday.

A faction of the SudanLiberation Movement, led byMinni Minnawi, said lateFriday a peace deal had to bereached with rebel groupsbefore embarking on the deal'splanned transition.

Another faction of the SLM,led by Abdel Wahid al-Nur,slammed the deal as a "betray-al of the revolution." The SLM— then fighting an insurgencyin the Darfur region — split intorival factions in 2004. AP

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Los Angeles: SouthernCalifornia was hit by its largestearthquake in two decades onFriday, a 7.1-magnitude tremorthat rattled residents who werealready reeling from anotherstrong quake a day earlier.

Emergency workers andsecurity forces were being dis-patched early Saturday to theepicenter of the shallow earth-quake in a remote and sparselypopulated area around 150 miles(240 kilometers) northeast ofLos Angeles, where it was alsofelt. No deaths or serious injurieshad been reported late Fridayevening, but there were reportsof building collapses and poweroutages in the town of Trona,California Office of EmergencyServices director MarkGhilarducci said. AFP

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Kabul: At least 14 people werekilled and dozens more wound-ed when a busy market innorthern Afghanistan was hitby mortar fire, officials said onSaturday.

Several Taliban shells hitthe market Friday morning inthe Khwaja Sabz Posh districtof Faryab province, accordingto Hanif Rezaee, an Afghanarmy spokesman.

"Fourteen civilians werekilled and 40 — includingwomen and children — werewounded," Rezaee told AFP.

He said the Taliban hadbeen trying to hit an armycheckpoint near the market.The insurgent group did notimmediately comment.

Naem Musamim, Faryab'spublic health director, said 14bodies and 39 wounded peopleincluding four children hadbeen taken to local hospitals.

Some victims with criticalinjuries were airlifted to hos-pitals in Mazar-i-Sharif inBalkh province.

The deadly incident comesas the war between the Talibanand Afghan security forcesrages on, even as Taliban offi-cials are meeting with US nego-tiators in Doha in a bid to bringabout an end to the conflict.

On Sunday, the insurgentswill meet in the Qatari capitalwith various representativesfrom Afghan society as part ofa potential peace process. AFP

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London: Some members of theUK's ruling Conservative Partymay have been issued morethan one postal ballot paper tocast their vote to elect a newparty leader to replace TheresaMay as British Prime Minister,according to a media report onSaturday.

Ballot papers have beendispatched to around 166,000Conservative Party membersaround the UK to choosebetween Foreign SecretaryJeremy Hunt and FormerForeign Secretary BorisJohnson as the new Tory leader,who will take charge at 10Downing Street.

The process of dispatch is

to be completed by Mondayand the vote closes at 5pm onJuly 22. The results will beannounced the following day.

According to the BBC,some members have alreadyreceived two ballot papers.

In some cases, becausemembers live and work in dif-ferent constituencies and mayhave joined local ConservativeAssociations in both areas.People who have changed theirname, after marriage for exam-ple, may also have been affected.

"The ballot holds clearinstructions that members vot-ing more than once will beexpelled," the ConservativeParty said in a statement. AP

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Beirut: Syrian regime bom-bardment has killed 14 civiliansincluding seven children innorthwestern Syria, a war mon-itor said on Saturday, in the lat-est deadly raids on the embat-tled opposition bastion.

Warplanes and helicopterslate Friday carried out airstrikes on Mahambel village inIdlib province, killing 13 civil-ians including the seven chil-dren, the Syrian Observatoryfor Human Rights said.

A woman was also killedearly Saturday in regime rock-et fire on the outskirts of thetown of Khan Sheikhun in thesouth of the province, theBritain-based war monitor said.

Idlib, a region of some

three million people, many ofwhom fled former rebel-heldareas retaken by the govern-ment, is the last major bastionof opposition to the Russia-backed Damascus governmentafter eight years of civil war.

The region on Turkey'sdoorstep is administered bySyria's former Al-Qaeda affil-iate Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, butother jihadist and rebel groupsare also present.

Idlib is supposed to beprotected from a major regimeassault by a September dealbetween Moscow and Ankara,but Damascus and its Russianally have ramped up theirdeadly bombardment of theregion since late April. AFP

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Petrol price was on Saturdayhiked by a minimum �2.40

per litre and diesel by �2.36after Finance Minister NirmalaSitharaman raised taxes on thefuels to part-fund her Budgetfor 2019-20.

Petrol price in Delhi wasincreased by �2.45 per litre to�72.96 while the increase inMumbai was �2.42 to �78.57,according to a price notifica-tion issued by State-ownedIndian Oil Corp (IOC).

In Kolkata, petrol pricewent up by �2.40 to �75.15 andin Chennai by �2.57 to �75.76a litre.

Diesel price was hiked by�2.36 per litre in Delhi to�66.69 and by �2.50 per litre inMumbai to �69.60.

Rates vary from State toState depending upon the inci-dence of local sales tax or VAT.Also prices vary by a few paiseat pumps operated by otherState-owned fuel retailers,Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd(BPCL) and HindustanPetroleum Corp Ltd (HPCL).

Sitharaman had on Fridayraised excise duty and road andinfrastructure cess on petroland diesel by �2 per litre eachto raise �24,000-28,000 croreon an annual basis.

Post considering local salestax or value-added tax (VAT),which is charged after addingcentral excise duty on baseprice, the increase in pump

rates was higher.“Crude prices have soft-

ened from their highs. Thisgives me a room to reviewexcise duty and cess on petroland diesel. I propose to increaseSpecial Additional Excise dutyand Road and InfrastructureCess each by �2 a litre on petroland diesel,” she said in her bud-get speech.

Before the tax increase,petrol attracted total excise

duty of �17.98 per litre (�2.98basic excise duty, �7 specialadditional excise duty and �8road and infrastructure cess).Now, this tax has gone up to�19.98 a litre.

On diesel, a total of �13.83per litre excise duty wascharged (�4.83 basic exciseduty, �1 special additionalexcise duty and �8 road andinfrastructure cess). Now,�15.83 per litre is charged asexcise duty.

On top of these, VAT ischarged which varies fromstate to state. In Delhi, VAT islevied at the rate of 27 per centon petrol and 16.75 per cent ondiesel. In Mumbai, VAT onpetrol is 26 per cent plus Rs7.12 a litre additional tax whilediesel attracts 24 per cent salestax.

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Finance Secretary SubhashChandra Garg said on

Saturday increased petrol anddiesel prices after the duty hikewill have “very marginalimpact” on inflation and anyworry on that front is immate-rial.

He also said the govern-ment expects �90,000 crorefrom the Reserve Bank of India

(RBI) as dividend during thecurrent fiscal.

Post the rise in fuel taxesannounced by the Governmentin the Budget for 2019-20,petrol and diesel prices rose byat least �2.4 and �2.36 a litrerespectively across metro cities.

The prices increased afterFinance Minister NirmalaSitharaman raised excise dutyand road and infrastructurecess by �2 per litre on both the

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Finance Minister NirmalaSitharaman on Saturday

said the NBFC crisis seems tohave bottomed out and theGovernment along with theRBI will closely monitor the sit-uation to ensure that the sec-tor comes out of the wood.

She further said that thegovernment takes all the stepsto keep inflation under checkwhile dismissing the contentionthat hike in duty on petrol anddiesel will impact prices situa-tion.

Sitharaman in her Budgeton Friday announced a seriesof steps to give relief to non-banking financial companiesfacing cash crunch followingthe collapse of IL&FS last year.

“Largely it (NBFC crisis)has reached a peak in terms ofchallenges that they are facing.The problem probably is notover yet but it can only plateaurather than worsen ... Thedeteriorating situation isreached its bottom ... Now ithas bottomed out,” she said.

Observing that the com-prehensive solutions in theBudget have been announced,the Finance Minister said, “Weshall be closely monitoringwith RBI to see how it’s mov-ing. So strictly speaking, I feelthe NBFC issue has beenaddressed.”

In a bid to address thestress in the sector, theGovernment proposed thatpublic sector banks would pur-chase high-rated pooled assets

of financially sound NBFCs,amounting to a total of �1 lakhcrore during the current finan-cial year.

For this, the governmentwill provide one time sixmonths’ partial credit guaran-tee to PSBs for first loss of upto 10 per cent.

Among others, Sitharamanhad said the government willallow NBFCs to raise funds inpublic issues, and the require-ment of creating a debentureredemption reserve (DRR),which is currently applicablefor only public issues as privateplacements are exempt, will bedone away with.

As of now, NBFCs that dopublic placement of debt haveto maintain a DRR and in addi-tion, a special reserve asrequired by the RBI has also tobe maintained.

In a bid to improve regu-latory oversight, theGovernment also proposed tobring housing finance compa-

nies under the RBI from thefold of National Housing Bank.

Sitharaman further saidthat these steps are aimed atimproving the condition ofthe NBFC sector as a whole.

“If anything, it can onlynow improve or it can be goingon plateau for some time andthen probably improve...I can-not say it has come to a closure.I cannot say it has ended. Icannot say the problem isover...We will still be carefulabout watching it,” she said.

With regard to the reactionof the market on raising min-imum public float to 35 percent from existing 25 per cent,the finance minister said, “I amyet to hear response …Parliament debating about it.”

When asked if the hike inpetrol and diesel prices willstoke inflation, Sitharaman saidthis Government had walkedthe talk and kept inflationunder check in the last fiveyears and continue to do so in

the future.Post the rise in fuel taxes

announced by the governmentin Budget 2019-20, petrol anddiesel prices rose by at least �2.4and �2.36 a litre respectivelyacross metro cities.

The prices increased afterFinance Minister NirmalaSitharaman raised excise dutyand road and infrastructurecess by �1 per litre each.

In 2014 when this govern-ment took over, the inflationwas in double digit, she said,adding it was brought down toa comfortable level of 4 per cent.

On the issue of bringingdown government stake tobelow 51 per cent in PSUs,Sitharaman said the move willhelp increase retail participa-tion and deepen the market.

It will be designed in sucha fashion that Governmentdirectly or indirectly throughits state-owned entities willhold 51 per cent stake and thepublic characteristic is main-tained, she said.

The government has decid-ed to modify the present poli-cy of retaining 51 per cent, shesaid, adding that the govern-ment’s 51 per cent sharehold-ing would include stakes heldby state-owned institutions.

Giving example, she said, ifthe government stake in Acompany is 51 per cent andanother state-owned entity has10 per cent stake in that, thereis headroom to dilute 10 percent stake but still retaining 51per cent stake.

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The country’s start-up com-munity should now not

worry about taxmen and con-centrate on their businesses asconcerns related to ‘angel tax’have been “sorted out”, theCBDT chief said on Saturday.

Central Board of DirectTaxes (CBDT) Chairman PCMody told PTI in an interviewthat all “legacy issues” relatedto start-ups will be resolvedthrough a consultative processand under a strict supervisionof senior officers of the taxauthority.

In her maiden Budgetspeech on Friday, UnionFinance Minister NirmalaSitharaman proposed a num-ber of measures to resolve theproblems being faced by start-ups with regard to their initialfunding, called angel tax, theircertification and verification ofinvestors.

The CBDT boss said, “I am

very happy to say that all issueswhich were there with theDIPP... We have had extensivedeliberations between both thedepartments and we haveresolved all issues related tostart-ups.”

The Department ofIndustrial Policy andPromotion (DIPP) is nowcalled DPIIT (Department forPromotion of Industry andInternal Trade DPIIT).

“The issues resolved arewith regard to the definition ofstart-ups, with regard to theissue of valuation of shares andwith regard to sources offunds,” Mody said.

The DPIIT, under the com-merce and industry ministry,deals with foreign direct invest-ment and issues related tostart-ups.

“Now, I think everythinghas been sorted out and thereshould not be any cause of con-cern for the start-ups,” Modysaid.

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Budget 2019-20 has made aclean break from the past

by focusing on the big pictureand setting out a clear directionfor the Modi 2.0 Government,Niti Aayog Vice ChairmanRajiv Kumar said on Saturday.

Describing the Budget pro-posals unveiled by India’s first-full-time woman FinanceMinister Nirmala Sitharamanas “unconventional”, Kumarsaid it has covered a very widecanvas in a bid to lay down theroadmap for the next 10 years.

On opposition parties’ crit-icism that not enough has beendone for the middle class in thisyear’s Budget, Kumar saidincome tax rebate was provid-ed six months ago in the inter-im Budget and such conces-sions cannot be repeated all thetime due to fiscal constraints.

“On the middle class thing,I am not sure whether everyBudget should have somethingfor the middle class,” he said.

New Delhi: The Budget pro-posals regarding infrastruc-ture improvement and lower-ing corporate tax rate wouldhelp the country become a $5trillion economy in the comingyears, the InternationalChamber of Commerce (ICC)— India said on Saturday.

ICC — India PresidentVikramjit Singh Sahney saidthat the proposals with regardto easing foreign direct invest-ment norms in certain sectorswould help attract more over-seas inflows. The Governmentin the Budget has proposedrelaxation in the FDI norms forsectors such as aviation, insur-ance, animation media andsingle-brand retail.

The Modi 2.0 Government’smaiden Budget Friday hikedpetrol and diesel prices, raisedimport duty on dozens of itemsand increased tax on the super-rich as it sought to spur growththrough higher spending andsops for startups, housing andcorporates. PTI

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India’s national biometric IDAadhaar can now be quoted

for cash transactions of morethan �50,000 and all other pur-poses where traditionallyincome tax PAN number was amust, according to a top official.

Banks and other institutionswill make backend upgrades toallow acceptance of Aadhaar inall places where quoting PAN isnow mandatory, RevenueSecretary Ajay Bhushan Pandeysaid on Saturday.

This follows the Budgetallowing interchangeability ofPAN and Aadhaar for ease ofcompliance of taxpayers.

“Today you have 22 crorePAN cards which are linked toAadhaar. You have more than120 crore people who haveAadhaar. Then supposingsomebody wants PAN, he hasto first use Aadhaar, generatePAN and then start using it.With Aadhaar the advantagewould be he now does not haveto generate PAN. So this is agreat convenience,” he said.

Asked if Aadhaar can beused for deposit or withdraw-al of cash worth more than�50,000 from bank accounts inplace of PAN, Pandey said,“There also you can useAadhaar”. In order to curbblack money, quoting of PANis mandatory for cash transac-tions, such as hotel or foreigntravel bills, exceeding �50,000.PAN is also mandatory onpurchase of immovable prop-erty of over �10 lakh.

While Aadhaar is backedby biometric data of individu-als, there have been severalinstances of people quoting awrong PAN or obtaining aPAN number fraudulently.

New Delhi: The Governmentexpects to garner �5,000 crorefrom the asset sale of centralenterprises as the budget hasraised the bar for divestmentproceeds to a record of �1.05lakh crore this fiscal, accordingto a top official.

The Government will fol-low a four-pronged strategy,including minority stake salesthrough IPO, FPO and ETFs,apart from strategic divest-ment and asset monetisation, tomeet the disinvestment target,Department of Investment andPublic Asset Management(DIPAM) Atanu Chakrabortytold PTI in an interview.

The 2019-20 Budget has seta higher target of �1.05 lakhcrore from disinvestment forthe current fiscal, compared to�90,000 crore set in the InterimBudget.

Chakraborty said the stepslaid down in the Budgetensures larger flow into theeconomy. PTI

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Union Railways MinisterPiyush Goyal on Saturday

said the Government was eye-ing investment of �50 lakhcrore in railways by the year2030 to make it the best in theworld. The Minister also saidthat the rail infrastructure inthe country increased by mere30 per cent in the last 65 yearsdue to the lack of adequateinvestment.

“The Government envis-ages investment of �50 lakh

crore by the year 2030 inRailways to make it the world’sbest railway which will includesafety of passengers, expansionof network, and increase infreight share,” Goyal said whilecommenting on the UnionBudget which was presented inParliament on Friday.

“In the last 65 years, theinvestment had been less inRailways due to which theinfrastructure increased by 30per cent while freight and pas-senger traffic increased by 1500per cent,” the minister said.

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Angelo Mathews onceagain turned out to be athorn in India's flesh with

a gutsy hundred after a top-order collapse, guiding Sri Lankato a respectable 264 for 7 in theirfinal World Cup group leagueencounter here on Saturday.

The former Sri Lanka cap-tain (113 off 128 balls) played anear perfect knock with hisback to the wall, to give his teama chance to fight which lookedbleak after first hour.

Jasprit Bumrah (3/37 in 10overs) was fast, accurate andmostly unplayable butBhuvneshwar Kumar (1/73 in 10overs) had a forgettable day.

Mathews, who has nowscored all his three ODI hun-dreds against India (Mohali andRanchi earlier), hit 10 foursand two sixes in his final knockof this competition.

Mathews came in at 53 for3 and it soon became 55 for 4when Lahiru Thirimanne (53 off

68 balls) joined him.The duo added 124 runs for

the fifth wicket to bail the teamout of the woods. He then hada 74-run stand for the sixthwicket with Dhananjaya de Silva(29 off 36 balls) that helped SriLanka get past the 250-runmark.

The 32-year-old Mathews'knock was a treat to watch as it

was a perfect example of how tobuild an innings after a top-order collapse.

Ravindra Jadeja (1/40 in 10overs) was given respect andonly twice he chanced his armsfor two maximums.

Kuldeep Yadav (1/58 off 10overs), after being droppedagainst Bangladesh, did notshow much improvement as hewas bowling too full which bothThirimanne and Mathews foundeasy to negotiate.

Kuldeep, at the fag end of hisspell, did get Thirimanne, whotried to hit the left-arm wristspinner against the spin.

With Mohammed Shami

rested, India played with twoseamers. While Bhuvneshwarwas picked for special treatmentby Mathews and Thirimanne, itwas Bumrah, who had given histeam initial momentum withtwo dismissals.

Bumrah dismissed DimuthKarunaratne (10) with an angu-lar delivery that was fuller thanwhat the Sri Lankan skipperthought. He tried to play a cutshot but could only manage toedge it to Dhoni behind stumps.

The dangerous Kusal Perera(18) hit three boundaries beforeDhoni pouched another oneoff Bumrah to send him back.Jadeja, playing his first game ofthe tournament, then earneddividends from Dhoni's flashreflexes as Kusal Mendis camedown the track and missed theflight to find the bails whipped.

Pandya, who has had adecent tournament as a bowler,then removed the in-formAvishka Fernando (20), wholooked promising during hisbrief stay.

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It is a whole new world in the fan zone aroundcricket. Sharing living space, travelling together

and sitting together in the stands even if they areicons of different nations. So, at Headingley in Leeds,just before the game was to start, a harried Sudhir(we know him as Tendulkar fan) was running awayfrom the stadium. “I am in a hurry, can’t talk now.By mistake I got Gyan’s (Lanka’s travelling fan mas-cot much like Sudhir) ticket in my pant pocket. Ihave to give it to him otherwise how will he cometo the match,” a harried Sudhir said before scurry-ing away, world cup minature on his head stand-ing straight despite the commotion.

Back in the stands, CSK’s superfan SaravananHari, sporting his frizzy Murugun style hair, sun-flower painted face with No 7 on his bare back,says he is waiting for his friend Sudhir to arrive.He has been here for the last three league match-es of India, having been sponsored by the CSKmanagement. Of course, he has never met the bigman himself but says he cheers for Dhoni at allIPL matches in all venues. He returns tomorrowand would not be attending the semi-final.

But no such restrictions for Sugumar fromBengaluru who has the backing of his companyKerry Imdev Logistics where he works in theSales department. Sugumar has caught the cam-eras with his heavy duty Red Indian head gearand air-pumped Team India T-shirts which hesports with elan. He has a booming voice and

kicks up a storm in the stands with his “ComeOn India” and “Bharat Mata Ki Jai” chants whenall is quiet and there is trouble in the middle.

So where did he get his Red Indian gear?“My Facebook friend from the US Harish Pai gift-ed it to me some years back. Then we lost touch.I met him again in Manchester during the India-Pakistan match and renewed our contact. He hassince gone back but he whatsapped me the pic-tures of the two other head gears he has boughtfor me and will be sending them over through afriend,” he tells you just before breaking intoBhangra on the dhol beats rustled up by a BharatArmy group of children.

Sugumar is unable to explain why he hasbecome Red Indian but he is vocal about how hehas introduced mythology to the stands with cos-tumes which not only does he wear but alsointroduces “the goras” to.

Sugumar, who is a close stands friend ofSudhir and Gyan, just shared a Global Sports FanAward with them and the famous Chacha. “Itwas in Manchester that ICC, for the first time,gave this award,” he tells you. The Award carriesa “gold medal” and a certificate, he says.

Sugumar, hot on Virat Kohli and RCB, hasbeen sharing accommodation with Sudhir who isso particular about the game that he says“madam drinks break mein hi baat kar saktahoon. Match ke beech mein nahin.” Another issuethough that he obliges his fans with photographsbetween overs. This year, he has decided to carrya shankh and blows it every time India scores.His tickets are still being sponsored by the BCCIwhile Sugumar has his boss’ support to give himsome money in the pocket.

Amid all these iconic fan propellers, there isnewbie Charulatha too, the 87-year-old grandold dame who went viral after Kohli and Sharmasought her blessings. She, however, is guided bythe whims and fancies of her granddaughterAnjali who has, believe you me, hired an agent inIndia to grant interviews! So one has to route allqueries through someone sitting in Delhi whowill then tell her whether access is granted or notand then only one can even smile at Charulatha!

No such airs for Rakesh Patel who foundedthe Bharat Army, now boasting of 11000 fansfrom 23 countries, after he walked into a sea ofgreen Pakistani fans at the India Pakistan WorldCup match in the 1999 World Cup.

“That’s when I called up people to come tothe stands and by the end of the match, theIndian fans had grown into a healthy 450 count,”he tells you at Headingley, 20 years later. Today,

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Three private planes flyingover the Headingly stadi-

um when India were playingSri Lanka on Saturday, creat-ed a tizzy in newsroomswhen they carried two polit-ically motivated banners ontheir tail, one saying “Indiastop genocide and freeKashmir” and the other com-ing in a few hours later, say-ing “Help end mob lynchingin India.” The third one flewover the venue just afterRohit had hit his fifth centu-ry in the tournament. Thatone came with a conciliato-ry banner saying, “LoveCricket, Love Mumtaz Leeds”.

The planes had takenoff from Bradford and wereheaded to Leeds. The stadi-um falls under the unre-stricted airspace and localssay it is a common more byprivate passengers, especial-ly during football matches, tocarry banners but they havenot been politically inclinedthus far.

This was the second suchincident at the event. Anotherbanner was flown over thesame ground in Leeds duringlast week’s match betweenPakistan and Afghanistansaying “Justice forBalochistan”. That hadsparked off fan skirmishes inthe stand triggering a policeprobe.

A perturbed ICC issueda statement saying: “We areincredibly disappointed thishas happened again. We donot condone any sort of

political messages at the ICCMen’s Cricket World Cup.Throughout the tournamentwe have worked with localpolice forces around thecountry to prevent this typeof protest occurring. Afterthe previous incident wewere assured by WestYorkshire Police there wouldnot be repeat of this issue, sowe are very dissatisfied it hashappened again.”

They assured that thesemi-final venues ofManchester and Birminghamhad been sorted and no suchbreach would happen there.

Bradford is believed tohave a population of 80000Mirpuris from PakistanOccupied Kashmir whileBirmingham has around alakh. When India lost toEngland, they openly allegedthat it had under performedso that Pakistan would beousted from the tournament.

Bradford to Leeds isshort but regular flying zoneand many of the residentshave private flying licences.The West Yorkshire Policehave, so far, not reacted to theincident.

The first plane flew overthe venue when India werefielding and the second oneencircled the outfield whenRohit Sharma had just 75 onthe crease and KL Rahul wasscripting a 50.

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15 years, we were just a fan body but now weorganise travel, tickets and accommodation forthe fans too,” he tells you, adding that the yearshave seen a sea change in Indian fans who nolonger burn effigies or stone houses of playersbut stand behind them through thick or thin.

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Every time the Government of India announcesthe name of the new directors of theIntelligence Bureau (IB) and the Research andAnalysis Wing (RAW), the country’s premierinternal and external spy agencies, the first

image that comes to the mind is that of James Bond, thehero of the spy novels authored by Ian Fleming way backin the 1950s and 1960s. More than the books, what madeJames Bond, a fictional character, immortal was SeanConnery, the British actor who played the role of themaster spy in seven of the feature films based on thenovels authored by Fleming. Tall and handsome, Bondwas the commander of MI6, the British Secret Serviceand was known globally as “Agent 007” with a licence tokill. The most memorable of the films are: Dr No,Thunderball, Goldfinger, You Love Only Twice, amongothers. And, how can we forget his signature dialogue:“My name is Bond… James Bond”.

Though many movies were shot in later years withother actors playing the role of Bond, none of themcould impress my generation as Sean Connery did. Wegrew up watching the Bond movies at Sridhar, a moderntheatre in Ernakulam, where they screened onlyHollywood films. To our mind, James Bond was the ulti-mate spy. He drove around in custom built Aston Martincars, had special executive aircraft at his disposal for fly-ing to any continent at the drop of a hat and was anauthority on guns, missiles, nuclear war heads and, ofcourse, a charmer with most beautiful women. Bonddrank Vodka Martini, Scotch and Soda and Gin andTonic! Bond, the spy, who loved all good things in life,influenced generations of his era.

Come to think of it, for most of us, who grew up in aworld sans satellite TV channels, internet, mobile phonesand even land lines, spy meant James Bond. To the youthof my times, a spy was the most powerful and glamorousjob in the world. He inspired so many of us to customiseour vehicles, take up shooting or join NCC so they couldbe as cool as the man himself!

There were movies in Tamil, Malayalam andKannada inspired by the Bond movies. The script writersand directors (who were clearly not as skilled as theircounterparts in Hollywood) churned out desi versions ofJames Bond. Jayashankar, a Tamil hero of the 60s and70s vintage was known as James Bond Jayashankarbecause he played the role of a secret agent in most ofhis movies. I have seen Kannada star, Rajkumar (yes, thesame actor who was kidnapped by brigand Veerappan)playing the lead as Kannada James Bond in a movie, tilt-ed Operation Jackpot Nalli CID 999. Clearly, the nameCID 999 was inspired by Agent 007, the code number ofJames Bond!

As a mark of respect to the Indian economy of thosedays, our desi Bonds travelled in Indian Airlines flightsand drove around in Land Master, Ambassador andHerald. The villains, of course, used Willy’s Jeeps of theSecond World War days. Interestingly, all thesespies/detectives were summoned by the police chiefs ofthe States when their own police forces failed to solveincidents of murders, counterfeit currency note printing,smuggling and bank robberies. The spies always trav-elled incognito, sometime as lorry drivers, pick-pocketsor even postmen to deceive the villains!

The first time we came across a real time spy waswhen Venugopal, a post graduate youth in our localitygot a job through UPSC recruitment as intelligence offi-cer. His school mate Raveendran explained to us thatVenugopal would soon be the Indian version of James

Bond. Venugopal, tall and handsome, had all the charac-teristics of an Indian James Bond and we youngsterswere all awed. We were all abound with the curiosity tofind out from him on how to become a spy. But the manbeing very reserved stayed aloof from us youngsters andthat was that.

Over the years, while working as reporter and TVprogramme producer, professional commitmentsbrought me in touch with intelligence professionals likeB Raman who was an additional secretary in the RAW.His speeches at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Chennai andseminars held by Vigil India were educative, enthrallingand exciting as well as thought provoking. It was Ramanwho told us that one need not be in the Bond genre tobe a good spy and intelligence professional. The gim-micks and theatrics of James Bond that we saw in movieswere pure fiction and had no similarities with what weall saw in Hollywood and Indian movies. There wasnobody with license to kill, either!

What we learnt from his well-drafted and wittyspeeches was that the Intelligence Bureau ofIndia is the world’s second oldest internal

agency with a history of over a hundred years. It wasestablished in 1887 and evolved from the Anti-ThuggeryDepartment of the British Police. By the time India gotits freedom from the colonial masters, Communism hademerged as a major security threat all over the democra-tic world and India was no exception. The then SovietUnion, popularly known as the Union of Soviet SocialistRepublic (USSR) had recruited many persons from theThird World countries who were educated at institutionslike Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow (sincerenamed as People’s Friendship University of Russia)with the agenda to use them to subvert the culture anddemocratic system prevailing in the latter’s nations.

The extra-territorial loyalty of the newlyrecruited Communists was a matter of con-cern for the security heads of thenations. “The Communist partiesof the erstwhile USSR and othercountries as well as the CommunistInternational underlined the importance of ideologicalsolidarity amongst the communists of the world, whatev-er their nationality. It was propagated that loyalty to thecommunist ideology came before loyalty to the nation ofwhich the Communist was a citizen and that it was theduty of Communists all over the world to cooperate withthe Communist Party of the USSR for the success ofCommunism,” explained Raman, through his speechesand writings.

Many intellectuals and politicians from India weretaken to holiday spots in the Soviet Union for cocktaildinners and junkets during 1950s to 1980s by the thenCommunist Government in that country. All of themcame back, brain-washed and inculcated with stronganti-India feelings. To keep the flock to their eternal ser-vility, the USSR Government had established SovietLand-Nehru Awards and winners were taken for holi-days in that country for periods ranging from a fortnightto a month. They came back singing paeans toCommunism and abusing the Indian system!

With the help of comrades who have managed toinfiltrate into the corridors f power in New Delhi andState capitals, these recruits tried to a great extent in sub-verting the Indian democratic institutions. Many pro-Soviet bureaucrats, judges, academicians, scientists andmedical doctors got a strong foothold in the country’s

venerated institutions. India’s greatculture, heritage and civilisation wereconsigned to dustbins while thoseowing allegiance to Moscow wereappointed as chroniclers of the morethan five thousand year old history ofIndia. The great works done by leadinghistorian R C Majumdar went unrecog-nised while the adulterated, polluted andmanipulated records whetted by party appa-ratchiks were masqueraded as the “originalIndian history”. The new history being taughtin schools and university smelt of vodka andgin, termed many historians.

One of the tasks of the intelligence profes-sionals was to prevent cultural subversion by thecomrades and fellow travellers. Counter-intelli-gence and counter subversion were their majormissions. Counter-intelligence was the process ofpreventing and neutralising attempts to penetratethe State apparatus by foreign agencies for the col-lection of intelligence. It prevented and neutralisedattempts to subvert the loyalty of the citizens of acountry for ideological reasons. “These operationswere centrally directed from Moscow and Beijingwith the willing complicity of the Communist par-ties of different countries,” wrote Raman in his book‘Intelligence-Past, Present and Future’.

The disintegration of USSR and the destructionof Communism post 1991 gave way to the rising ofIslamic terrorism, a hydra-headed monster. Whilethe Intelligence professionals in India were monitor-ing the growth of Communism and Maoist groups inthe country, the Islamic terrorism struck them like anavalanche. The radicalised Islamic youths belonged tothe new age and tech savvy. Words like improvisedexplosive devices, RDX and AK-47 rifles became syn-onymous with their kind of terrorism.

“Like the pre-1991 international communism, thepost-1979 international jihadi Islamism propagatesinternational solidarity based not on ideological, but onreligious affinity and extra-territorial loyalty. For itsproponents, loyalty to the Ummah comes before loyaltyto the nation of which Muslims are citizens and the fol-lowers irrespective of their nationality have not only aright but also the religious obligation to help Muslimssuppressed anywhere in the world. Their concept of jihaddoes not recognise the sanctity of international borders,”Raman wrote way back in 2002. This means that what weare seeing in Jammu & Kashmir, synchronised bombblasts in Mumbai and elsewhere in India, the Love Jihadand the exodus of one community from places likeMeerut and Khairana in Uttar Pradesh are just samplefireworks!

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a business icon, philanthropist, and trusted advisor to theglobal elite. Then, he was found guilty of Insider Tradingwhich shattered his reputation of decades in moments. Butall this seemed not to affect Gupta’s mettle much, suggest-ing perhaps that he was more of a victim than a culprit.Listening to him speak was a real treat. He has been a greatspeaker, but this time he was speaking from his heart. Abouthis travails during the trial that he faced, his jail sentence,his fall from grace and, most importantly, his side of thestory. All these and much more has been recorded in hisrecently authored book, “Mind Without Fear” which detailsnot just his rise and fall but also tells a lot about the crim-inal justice system of a country that is proclaimed to be acitadel of democratic principles and global champion ofHuman Rights. Gupta’s tale is a typical account of how soci-eties, governments and the media react when somebodyfalls into the predicament of a whipping boy out of for-tuitous circumstances. A classic example of “brand-a-dog-and-shoot-it” mind-set. The fallout of the recession wasa good enough reason to find somebody to absorb the pop-ular discontent. That Gupta was guilty, or not, may not beprudent to discuss here. Nor can it be ascertained. But thebasic principle of criminal jurisprudence was in all prob-ability compromised. Many believed that the sentence waspronounced rather hurriedly, as a knee jerk reaction to con-tain the outcome of the media trial that takes place in suchcases where sensation can be built for public consumption.However, all that is history that will be forgotten in duecourse, but there are certain questions that remain unan-swered, some issues that are unresolved, and of course somelessons that can be learnt. More than the account of thecase, the book has to be read to understand how insignif-icant a man is in the hands of time, chance or providence,as one may choose to name. The book must not be readsolely as the story of an individual,but as an insight intowhat recourse is left under such circumstances. “Mind with-out Fear” is about the resolve to keep one’s head high. Itis important to remember that words emerge from therealms of truth, when the mind is without fear and the headis held high. The story of Rajat Gupta reminds one of anepisode from the Ramcharit Manas in the Ayodhya kandwhen a perplexed Bharat questions sage Vashishtha on whyRam had to be exiled. It is to this that the sage respondsthat gains and losses, life and death, glory and infamy areall in the hands of providence. Whatever is destined to hap-pen will happen. So one must face the situation as is andfearlessly. This is also what Lord Krishna tells Arjuna inthe Bhagwad Geeta — ‘have faith in me and I will take awayall your fears.’ Interestingly in Management, too, there existsMurphy’s law that says: “If something is to go wrong, itwill go wrong”. We must realise that Truth has many facetsto it, and exists in shades of Grey.

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Idon’t know about anyone else, but Ido know plenty about myself. I wishI was a better person in my previ-

ous lives, especially in the last one. Don’twe bring our minds and senses from theprevious life? (The Geeta 15.8) Then, Icould have been programmed better,which could have meant that my con-sciousness was better when I was born;it was too materialistic. It has taken medecades to change that to somewhatspiritual. Fortunately, my sanskars werebetter; I was born in a devout family.This gave me a good exposure to Godin my formative years. This helped myconsciousness to become refined slow-ly but surely.

My desires, especially the deep oneswere more aligned with sense enjoy-ments than ‘sukha’ — the genuine hap-piness, which comes from being linkedwith God. Similarly, my nature wasmore influenced by the mode of passionthan by the mode of goodness — thepreferred mode. Yes, there was also anample dose of the mode of darkness,which has troubled me greatly over theyears. My conditioning was not thatgreat either, which made it very diffi-cult for me to accept God as everything(7.49), and not just one more entity. Iam still suffering greatly due to somepoor habits which have accompaniedme in this life; some details of the sameI will share in this article. Lastly, mythinking was more mundane thansuperior. It has been tough to refine it.

In short, like me, all of us are bornhaving been programmed in differentways by the divine on account of ourpast. These factors play out throughoutour lives unless dealt with. It is up to usto identify our inherent weaknesses andtry to rectify them to avoid their illeffects. The sooner we do so, the bet-ter it will be. Why carry such handicapsfor the rest of our lives? The cosmic

design has not made them permanent;we can do plenty to negate them. Yes,some of these, that is, habits, condition-ing, etc. we pick up in the present lifealso, but those, which came with us aremore difficult to deal with, as werealise.

I have made a list of habits, whichhave troubled me in the past and are stillcausing some difficulties. Like most ofus, I have been very concerned aboutmy future. This concern or fear has lit-erally forced me to toe the line most ofthe time, that is, in my academic careerand subsequently in my professional life.Still, I never felt secure in spite of achiev-ing considerable material success, untilI turned to God for help. Because Healone can ensure it; no one else has thepower to do so. Now there is less fear.

Impatience has been my weaknesssince very long. I felt that whatever goodis to happen should happen soon, lit-tle realising that all acts come tofruition at their appointed times only.This problem is less troubling now hav-ing realised the karma-phala principle.Controller mentality — a close cousin

of impatience has also troubled megreatly till I realised that only God is thecontroller; we are all controlled. This factis sinking in slowly.

Material success, even if little,breeds both controller mentality andintolerance. I have been guilty of both.Living in material bodies and in thismaterial world — a place of miseries(8.15), one must be tolerant. Rather tol-erance should be inculcated seriously.It is no wonder that Lord Krishna hasasked us to be tolerant (2.14), becausepleasure and misery come and go. Beingsensitive has its benefits but being ultra-sensitive hurts. Similarly, overreactionharms; one must be very careful in howone responds to any situation or circum-stance.

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We are all searchingfor peace. We all wishto lead a life that isfulfilling. As life pro-gresses, we realise

that we are most happy when we arepeaceful. Any turmoil within ourselves, in our families, or in places ofwork is difficult to deal with. Andtherefore, we are always looking for apeaceful, harmonious way of life.

A question that continues tohound is: How does one get to thestate of peace? Many saints and mys-tics have talked about it. When weread the scriptures, — whether Jewish,Christian, Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, orany other — the great saints and mys-tics have addressed the issue. Theyhave all shared ways and means so wecan be in harmony, at peace, find hap-piness, and deal with different situa-tions. And as we start to understandwhat the great saints and mystics havesaid, we become peaceful.

Today, when we read the scrip-tures, we do not follow the teachingsblindly. We start by analysing what isbeing said. We question: Why is thiswritten in the first place and what isthe reason? Only if we find ouranswers, we apply it to our lives. If wewere to make our life according to

what the great saints said, we definite-ly would be more peaceful, happy, andin harmony with ourselves and withthe divine.

No one wants to be in conflict orturmoil with another being — be itour brothers, sisters, parents, hus-bands, wives, neighbours, or someoneon the street. Deep inside, we wish tobe at peace with them. On the outside,we might have problems. But we needto recognise that everyone is different.Their background, their thinkingand their karmas, are all different.There are so many factors at play thatwe do not understand.

We live in an age where there isa lot of emphasis on education, andwe all like to believe that we possesshigher IQ than the others. That wehave great knowledge. What we do notrealise is that we have no wisdom.There is great difference betweenknowledge and wisdom. Knowledgeis something we can acquire. We cango to a teacher, or a school, we canread a book, and we can go on theInternet and pick up all kind ofinformation. That is knowledge.

Wisdom comes from experience.Wisdom comes as we pass throughlife, as we interact, and as things hap-pen in our life. As life goes on, we gain

wisdom. We mistake knowledgeacquired on account of our education,and degrees earned, as wisdomgained. That is where we slip. Owninga degree does not make you into awise being. Experience and learningfrom life makes you wiser.

A person who is uneducatedmight have greater wisdom. Thatdoes not mean that you have to beuneducated to gain wisdom. We needto recognise the difference. Wisdomis gained by experience. It is gainedthrough life. We gain wisdom throughrecognising right from wrong.

How does one lead one’s life to betruly happy and peaceful? Happinesscomes through peace. Happiness andpeace go together. If there is too muchturmoil, we can never be happy.Saints and mystics have talked aboutbeing peaceful.

The scriptures of all religionspoint the way back to God. One of thebasic Jewish scriptures is the OldTestament, which is rich in referenceson how to lead a Godly life. Commonthemes are found in all scriptures.Those who are searching for peace willfind the same instructions whetherthey read up the scriptures ofHinduism, Buddhism, Islam,Christianity, Sufism, Sikhism,

Judaism, or any other religion. Themessage is that if we wish to find innerpeace we must go within.

I would like to take up a passagefrom the Jewish scriptures. This isfrom Isaiah in the Old Testament.Isaiah was one of the prophets. Isaiahis known for the vision he had that aday would come when there would bepeace. He spoke of a day when peo-ple would turn their swords intoploughshares and their spears intopruning hooks. As he said, “Nationshall not lift up sword against nation,neither shall they learn war anymore.”

Another passage from Isaiah is ashort one, but it contains within it theessence of finding spiritual peace. Thepassage says: “Though wilt keep himin perfect peace, whose mind isstayed on thee, because he trusteth inthee.” (Isaiah 26.3)

In a nutshell, this verse gives us allthat we need to find peace. It tells ustwo things — the first: to keep ourattention to the Lord and second: theverse tells us that we will have peacewhen we trust in the Lord. If we areable to understand the underlyingmessage, we will find that our life beshowered with peace.

How can we keep our attention tothe Lord? All saints and mystics tellus that we can keep our attention onthe Lord through meditation.Meditation is nothing but focusedattention on God. The outer expres-sion of the soul is the attention. Byturning our attention within, we willfind the Lord.

In meditation, we sit with fullattention and receptivity, our focus onthe meeting point where the Lord willcome to receive us. That point is thethird or single eye, located betweenthe two eyebrows. It seems so simple.What stands in our way?

What makes it hard to focus onthe Lord is the way we keep our atten-tion focused on other preoccupations.If we look at our lives, we find ourattention focused in so many places.We may find our attention is split intothinking about our job, money, pos-sessions, family, friends, social life, ourfuture, our past, and all our problems.Each time we focus our attention onany of these areas, we are not focusedon God.

But, we may ask, these are all areasthat press us on each day of our lives.That is true, but we can find time fromour busy lives to focus on God as well.If we cannot find time to put all ourattention to God, how can we expectto be open to receive the Lord?

Every person who has foundGod has spent time in meditation.Meditation was a priority in all theirlives.

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It is here that one should listen to the sup-pressed emotions of the intelligence com-munity. The real life intelligence profes-

sional is a person like you and me, part ofthe society of common man. He/she doesnot have the perks of the intelligence officerswe see in movies, not to speak about JamesBond. It is yet another government jobwhich requires 24x7 devotion and dedica-tion. These professionals do not perform theacrobatics carried out by Connery in films.They do not have even own a four-wheelerand are dependent on public transport fortracking suspects and targets. They do nothave official mobile phones or laptops not tospeak about inter-connectivity. When notgathering intelligence inputs, they are wor-ried about the dearness allowances due tothem and educational expenses of their children.

Over and above all these issues, the IBofficers do not have any police powers. Theycannot carry out any mission or work with-out the cooperation of the police departmentof the State where they are posted.

As part of convincing the world abouttheir secular credentials, the State govern-

ments in many states had appointed personswith dubious past to head the intelligencewings. A former police chief of Kerala hasexpressed his concerns over the infiltrationof personnel with links to terrorist networkinto the intelligence units! In Tamil Nadu, aperson who has been charged of financialimpropriety and violating official norms washeading the intelligence wing of the policefor some time.

Our intelligence agencies, especiallythe Intelligence Bureau professionals are ademoralised lot. They face unprecedentedopposition and resistance from the socalled civilised society. “In the recent years,states such as Tamil Nadu, Kerala, WestBengal, have shown tendency to disobeythe laws of the land and foreign policy.This has only facilitated anti-national ten-dencies and fissiparous groups. In order tobreak the networks of these fissiparousgroups, an amendment is needed inUnlawful Activities Act so that NIA has thejurisdiction to suo moto investigate thecases without the concurrence of the State.This will ensure that the funding channelsare also systematically detected,” says a

suggestion prepared by the intelligencecommunity. There is also a demand fromthe community to empower the IB withpolice powers. “The growth of terrorismand secessionist forces in the country hascomplicated the working conditions of theIB. If only the agency is vested with powersto interrogate the suspects, we will be ableto find out the plot and plans,” said asenior official. He pointed out that coun-tries like USA and Israel have empoweredtheir secret agents with police powers.

The Homeland Security system of theUS evolved post 9/11 is worth emulating.“They now have an intelligence enterpriseamalgamating various wings such asImmigration, Foreigners, Coastal Security,Airport Security (Transport SecurityAgency-TSA). An intelligence enterprise hasbeen formed which is holistic,” pointed outthe suggestions prepared by seasoned intelli-gence professionals who do not have anyvested interests other than the security andsafety of the country.

These intelligence professionals do nothave the flamboyance associated with 007 or999. But we sleep peacefully because theymonitor the goings on all over the countrywithin their limited means and resources. Itis time the powers that be heard their griev-ances too.

Venugopal had a massive heart attackand breathed his last in 2004. His brotherMurali retired from service six years laterand leads a peaceful life somewhere inKerala. We could not get any informationfrom them about the life of a spy. My col-leagues, who were intent on becoming spiesare leading businessmen and traders inMumbai and Perumbavoor. But we stillenjoy the re-run of films like Dr No,Goldfinger, From Russia With Love, and oth-ers. And are looking for that Indian agentwho would tell the global terrorists that “Yes,my name is Murugan... Murugan fromIndia”!

Perhaps Arvind Kumar, the new IB chiefmay be able to mould a desi 007.

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Are the near cent per centmarks a sign of higher

intelligence or a profound sys-temic failure?

I am afraid there is noreadymade answer to this ques-tion. However, a sincereattempt can be made to diag-nose the underlying patholog-ical condition of exceptionalacademic performance fromthe perspectives of differentstakeholders; namely, parents,institutions, future employers,and students.

Parents: In India, the senseof pride associated with raisingan academically exceptionalchild is something difficult toexpress in words. It is the ulti-mate validation to prove theirworth as successful parents. Itis the most desired and insti-tutionally validated certificatethat helps parents in coveringevery other possible flaw intheir parenting. Not only that,but it also gives them a falsesense of assurance that theirchildren will eventuallybecome an overachiever inactual life.

Institutions: They are moreinterested in the success of aca-demically bright students forthe apparent reason that theyend up becoming the mascot ofthe undisputed life success toattract unreasonably hightuition fees. As a result, theyostensibly end up propagatingthe attitude of “the dog eatsdog” world. They are as inter-ested in the overall develop-ment of their students as anypoultry farmer may be inter-ested in the overall health of hisfarm.

Future employers: Theyhave complete faith in the sys-tem that works tirelessly to fil-ter students based upon theiracademic performances.Conformity and compliance issomething that is deeplyimprinted on the psyche of thestudents who succeed inemerging as a top performer.As a result, the entire processof hiring becomes a formalityto validate the result of stan-dardised tests.

Students: The most criticalstakeholder doesn’t have anysay in this entire elaboratescheme of things. The exam-centric education system

expects them to follow thelong list of instructions fromthe other two stakeholders:parents and institutions. Thereis no way to challenge theirundisputed authorities.

It is deplorable that chil-dren as young as 8-10 yearshave to go through the experi-ence of exam-related stress.Exam-centric education caus-es extreme stress to studentsbecause tests are regarded asthe only means to prove theirworth. The examination systemis a filtering process thatbelieves in rejecting a signifi-cant majority to select a few forthe higher educations.

On a broader sense, theexam-centric system thrives

on having stifling control overits students. As a consequence,it ends up wreaking havoc inthe academic and social lives ofstudents. Such education thatholds examinations as its corecomponent downplays the ulti-mate purpose of education:critical thinking.

An exam-centric educa-tion assigns student aptitudebased only on test scores, oftenleading to the marginalisation,if not outright disregard, oflower-performing students.

If you are a student, yourworth is defined by yourscores, and not by your char-acter. Both parents and teach-ers consider scores to be theonly evaluating criteria for the

students. Therefore, high scor-ers garner praise, whereas lowand mediocre scores drawpublic shame.

This violates the founda-tional education policy objec-tive of providing equal oppor-tunities of learning to everystudent. The exam-orientededucation centres aroundentrance tests and the demandfor getting an entry to the pres-tigious medical or engineeringcolleges. To fulfill thosedemands, more often than not,teachers end up ignoring stu-dents’ creativity or ability toreason abstractly.

An exam-oriented educa-tion system not only increasesa student’s burden but also

restricts his/her ability to learnusing techniques that a partic-ular student finds most com-pelling.

A pile of ten or more bookson the desk is a common sightinside any high secondaryschool classrooms, half ofwhich are exercise books,which elucidates the pressure topass the entrance examina-tion. Further, most teachers,parents, and students believe admission to engineer-ing or medical college is theonly secure way to succeed in life.

More often than not, grad-ing seems to have a negativeeffect on student self-confi-dence and self-esteem.

According to a study under-taken by the University ofMichigan, 80 per cent of stu-dents base their “self-worth ontheir academic success, leadingto low self-esteem and othermental health issues.”

The students who receive apoor grade or fail the entranceexaminations believe they havea few, if any, career prospects,a belief that ensues in creatinga permanent scar on the moti-vational psyche of students.There is a possibility that eventhe students who manage toreceive high grades might basetheir self-worth on continuedhigh achievement creating highanxiety and stress in their lives.

Therefore it is not an exag-

geration to state that as a pri-mary cause of teen anxiety,examinations resulting in grad-ing stand second to none.

Assigning grades label stu-dents as successes or failure; butlabeling students is not the goalof education. Since the knowl-edge gained through the touchof a button has changed thedynamics of learning, we needto keep up and reassess how weeducate our students.

And it is high time thesedifferent stakeholders startrevisiting their roles andresponsibilities to address theissue of systemic failure.Parents should take the leadhere and stop attaching toomuch of significance to theirchildren’s academic success.There is the whole spectrum ofunexplored life waiting outsidethe periphery of academics.Children must be allowed toexplore them.

As far as developing corecompetency is concerned, par-ents need to keep in mind thatthere are cross-functional skillsthat will always remain indemand. They are:

1) Interpersonal skillsrequiring an understanding ofbehavioral psychology andlearning the art of persuasion;2) Necessary technology skills,like knowing how to use wordprocessing software and datainterpretation tools.

These skills are unlikely tobe rendered obsolete by tech-nological innovation or eco-nomic disruptions. Having astrong base in these cross-functional skills is relevantacross industries and job titles;it also gives an employee thecapacity to pivot careers whenneeded.

Even in a changing work-force environment, having astrong foundation in these ver-satile cross-functional skillsallow people to pivot success-fully. Therefore, any unneces-sary obsession with academicperformance is something thatshould be avoided at all cost.Because in the long run, life isshaped by our judgments andchoices, and not by our marks.

(The writer is an IRS officer. Views expressed are personal.)

Recently, Bihar’sMuzaffarpur grabbed the

headlines for something thelocals would always try toerase from their memory:Death of about 150 innocentchildren — belonging to thepoorest stratum of society —due to acute encephalitis syn-drome. In most cases, the chil-dren had taken “free” unripelychees to satisfy their ravenoushunger but the fruit sunk theirsugar level fatally low.

The ensued outrage acrossthe nation has once againbrought to light the underbel-ly of the poor socio-economicproblem in India: Having apopulation disproportionateto the capacity to feed.

Although, it is an individ-ual right to procreate, the mootpoint is whether the rightshould be availed, given thecrushing poverty and horrify-ing human developmentindices, particularly in thosesocieties. The question appliesto all classes, castes, religions.

India has millions yet to befed properly. Muzaffarpur isnot a one-off case. Starvation,or at least malnutrition, is astark reality. There are womenwho give up their wombs to

avoid menstruation duringtheir measly jobs. The Biharcase raises questions about thevalue to life in such dire straits.Don’t parents turn unwittingmoral criminals by bringingmore children into such aninhuman society?

However, there is no con-sensus on the problems of theburgeoning population. Thereis a section in society thatconsiders such inhuman con-ditions can be eliminated bygood governance, deliverymechanism. Well, if it is soeasy, then why the “system” hasnot been fixed in the last 73years since Independence?

The cliche “just fix thesystem” is nonsense. Recallhow many gallons were onceused to water Wankhede sta-dium in Bombay for an IndianPremier League match, whileMaharashtra faced drought.Many who mouth it knowthey are speaking nonsense.But they say it out of their help-lessness and hypocrisy know-ing their country has failed inestablishing the basics ofhuman life and dignity for allcitizens. As they don’t want toaccept their country’s failure,they consider poverty-related

deaths as normal phenomenon. The condition leading to

children’s death in Bihar epit-omises the lives of India’s poorsince Independence. Theybelonged to below poverty linefamilies: a special type of hell.The larger question is, whenyou are so poor and where lifehas no value and when deathseems better than life, why dothe poor reproduce. Is it fair tochildren? I think procreating insuch a world is a crime becausethey are unable to ensure thewell-being of the children.

But the fault isn’t the sub-continent’s only. Nature histo-rians, such as DavidAttenborough, have used theirvast appeal to raise awarenesson how earth cannot copewith overpopulation.

In an early scene in theclassic Hindi film Anand,Amitabh Bachchan — whoplays the character of an ide-alistic doctor — goes to aBombay slum to attend to anailing child who succumbs.Amitabh leaves frustrated,thinking “ek mara nahi, aur dusmarne ke liye paida ho gaye.”

So bitter, so true. It’s aninsight into how the India’spoor think about reproduction.

In highly unequal soci-eties, the poor continue tobreed so many because that isa rare claim to power. As thenation-state system has failedto cope with the problems insociety, organised religionshave succeed in providing thepurported services to the poor.And nearly all of them urge theindigent of their flock to mul-tiply. Nearly all of them are verycritical of abortion or popula-tion moderation philosophies.

Those who have nothing ormade to become nothing havenothing but their reproductiveorgans to assert their powerand acquire some semblance ofidentity. The poor find strengthin their numbers.

It has often crossed mymind, how such a malnour-ished, underfed, starvingIndian subcontinent, repro-duces so much? Where dopoor South Asians find the sta-mina to sustain cycles of expo-nential reproduction? Perhaps,sex and reproduction havenothing to do with caloriesintake. It defies logic.

(The writer teaches at JindalSchool of Liberal Arts &Humanities)

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Picking up threads from the previ-ous issue, it comes out that noindividual planet deserves to be

termed as a doer in its own right. Theplanets keep doing their rounds as apart of the system, strictly followingnature driven design parametres, withno scope for making any exception, asthey can’t make a wilful choice. Thatleaves no scope for a specific God(ruler) piloting the planet, such asShanideva administering our Karma.Karma, you are aware, is nothing but afallout of the cause-effect chain drivingour lives, which too, works in a self-automated mode. All that we do, getsrecorded in our memory in the form ofthought-seed, which given a congenialground comes into play. In fact, noexternal agency has any role to play.Therefore, any attempt to appeaseShanideva through transactionalprayers, for being relieved of blemishes,if any, doesn’t hold ground.

Bear in mind; the Universe is a uni-fied organism, with all its field playersframed into an inseparable inter-depen-dent structure. Obviously then, anychange at one end of the cosmos, itsreverberation will be felt far and wide.

It, thus, implies that any change in thecosmic energy pattern marked withplanetary movement, shall have corre-sponding bearing on our thoughtprocess, and thereby our life cycle aswell. The future course of life can’t befigured out in advance. But, the plane-tary speed being known, their place-ment in emerging times could be pre-cisely accounted for. Based on their cor-respondence with our life cycle, one canvisualise with a fair amount of preci-sion, the probable course of life in thefuture. Becoming aware thus, we canvery well organise ourselves in a waythat we consciously deny the groundnecessary for any negative Karmicimprint from coming into play. Wecould also get geared up to put in ourbest towards all that be desirable. Butseldom do we remain alert about con-sciously using our choice option right-fully, and with obvious consequences.

The question now is: How doesSaturn’s sadhesati or dhaiya impact ourlives in real terms? Remember, life isever on its run, continuously changingall through its run. A good number ofbody cells keep dying out every momentwith fresh ones emerging simultaneous-

ly. As we age, childhood to youth, intomidlife and then old age, our prioritiesin life keep changing, and with that thethought process too needs to change.Even environmental conditions keepchanging every moment, and thereby itscalling keep varying. We need to keeppace with the ongoing change. Theparadox, however, is that it is in humannature to resist change. Human wish tolive by their beliefs and perceptions car-ried over from past. Consequently, theybecome out of sync with the calling ofpresent moment and are, therefore, leftbehind in the run of time. To overcomethis impasse, nature is so designed as toput you through learning lessons atperiodic intervals, as would force self-reflection intended to evolve. Saturn’ssadhesati and dhaiya are such occasions.

How does it work? Saturn is Karmakaraka and Moon is identified withmind. When Saturn associates withMoon, the energies reflected by the two,join hands to trigger such Karmicimprints brewing in mind as would putour thought process to test. Accordingly,as one’s mind is inherently framed withall its strengths and fault-lines, we takeon the challenges coming our way. Lifeis any way full of challenges, theirdimensions varying with every emerg-

ing moment. Those, who work uponone’s fault lines and make necessary cor-rections beforehand, and expand theirvision, they perceive calling of emergingtimes in the right perspective. So, theyare able to intelligently take on theemerging challenges in stride, and suc-cessfully make it to their desired desti-nation even during sadhesati or dhaiya.On the contrary, the ones who remainstuck to their past beliefs and percep-tions, as well their inherent infirmitiesbecome subject to discomforting experi-ences, and in multiplied terms duringthis period. With their narrow vision,they fail to get a true picture of whatwould be coming around, and so theirresponse is out of sync with the contem-porary needs. They often have to gothrough trying times. But then suchlearning lessons, prompt you to self-reflect, identify and acknowledge faultlines, make amends, evolve, and provetrue to the calling of emerging times inall strength. The choice is yours.

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