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In a clear indication thatIndia was not going to buck-
le under the threat of US sanc-tion over the S-400 missile dealwith Russia, Army chief GenBipin Rawat on Sunday saidthe country has an indepen-dent foreign policy and it mightgo ahead with acquiring theKamov helicopters and otherweapon systems from Moscow.
The Army chief ’s state-ment is significant as NewDelhi is confronted with thethreat of US sanction underthe Countering America’sAdversaries Through SanctionsAct (CAATSA) after India onFriday signed a multi-billion-dollar deal to procure the S-400Triumf air defence system fromRussia. Gen Rawat, whoreturned Saturday night after asix-day visit to Russia, hadheld talks with military officialsof that country to enhancebilateral cooperation. He saidthe Russians were very keen onassociating with the Indiandefence forces.
“They (Russians) dounderstand that we are a strongArmy, capable of standing upfor what is right for us, basedon our strategic thoughtprocess,” he said while deliver-ing the Gen KV Krishna RaoMemorial lecture here.
On his Russian visit, GenRawat recalled a questionposed to him by a Russiannaval officer that India seemedto be looking westwards atAmerica, which has put sanc-tions on Russia, and that
Washington has also threat-ened to impose restrictions onNew Delhi for dealing withMoscow. To this, Rawatresponded saying, “Yes, we doappreciate that there could besanctions on us, but we followan independent policy”.
Seeking to assuage Russianconcerns over India’s growingties with the US, Rawat said,“You (Russia) can be restassured (that) while we may beassociating with America ingetting some technology, butwe follow an independent pol-
icy. I told them while we aretalking sanctions and you arequestioning on sanctions,President Vladimir Putin andMr Narendra Modi, at thisjuncture, are signing the treatyon purchase of S-400 weaponsystem in spite of the fact thatwe may face challenges fromAmerica in the future.”
Disclosing that India waslooking forward to procuringKamov helicopters and otherweapon systems and technol-ogy from Russia, he said NewDelhi was looking to get space-
based systems and technologiesfrom Moscow to enhance itsspace capabilities.
“There is no end in sight tothe manner in which we cancooperate with your country. Ithink the way forward is to seewhat is best for the nation,strategically important for us,”he had said.
In a guarded reaction tothe Indo-Russian deal, the USsaid on Friday that its intent toslap sanctions on Russia wasnot aimed at causing damage tothe military capabilities of its
“allies or partners.” “The (CAATSA presiden-
tial) waiver is narrow, intend-ed to wean countries offRussian equipment and allowfor things such as spare partsfor previously-purchasedequipment,” a White HouseNational Security Councilspokesperson told PTI hoursafter the conclusion of the S-400 contract. But for the pres-idential waiver, CAATSA sanc-tions come into place in theevent of a major purchase likeS-400 missile defence system.Ahead of the deal, the US hadurged India not to purchaseRussian defence systems. “TheAdministration has indicatedthat a focus area for the imple-mentation of CAATSA Section231 is new or qualitativeupgrades in capability - includ-ing the S-400 air and missiledefence system,” the WhiteHouse NSC spokesperson said.
Last month, the US hadimposed sanctions on Chinafor the purchase of S-400 fromRussia. “Our recent action tosanction a ChineseGovernment entity for an S-400 delivery underscores theseriousness of our resolve onthis issue. The waiver author-ity is not country-specific.There are strict criteria forconsidering a waiver,” said thespokesperson.
The State Department,which is tasked with reviewingthe deal and initiating theprocess of sanctions or waiverunder CAATSAA, and makerecommendations to thePresident, did not respond to
questions. However, an indus-try source said the law isambiguous about “when awaiver is necessary so this canbe avoided for years”.
The National DefenseAuthorization ACT (NDDA)2019 gives the president thepower to waive of the CAAT-SA sanctions if it is a nationalsecurity interest.
It also mentions severalother reasons for a presidentialwaiver, prominent amongwhich is if the purchasingcountry is taking or will takesteps to reduce its inventory ofmajor defense equipment andadvanced conventionalweapons produced by thedefence sector of the RussianFederation as a share of its totalinventory of major defenceequipment and advanced con-ventional weapons over a spec-ified period.
In fact, over the last decade,India the top arms purchaser ofthe world, has graduallyreduced its dependence onRussian weapons. It now standsat about 60 per cent, which ismuch lower than it was adecade ago. As part of its diver-sification plan, India hasincreased its purchase of armsfrom the US to the tune of $18billion. A presidential waivercan also be given if a countryis cooperating with the USGovernment on other securi-ty matters critical to US strate-gic interests. Experts believethat is exactly the case and oneof the main reasons for the USdesignating India as a ‘MajorDefence Partner.’
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In yet another incident grossnegligence on part of the
contractors, four labourers losttheir lives while five sustainedcritical injuries, when tempo-rary iron fixtures around anunder-construction multi-storey private building on theNoida-Greater NoidaExpressway collapsed onSunday.
The incident occurred atprivate real estate firm BPTP’s18-storey ‘Capital City’ inSector 94 when the shuttering(temporary fixtures built ofiron) came crashing down inthe morning, police said.
A police official taskedwith the investigation saidprima facie it appears that theshuttering was hit by a tractor-trolley carrying constructionmaterial, which led to the inci-dent but the cause is yet to beascertained. “Nine people wereinjured when the shuttering ofthe building collapsed. Four ofthem have died, while fiveothers have been hospitalised,”Senior Superintendent ofPolice, Gautam Buddh Nagar,Ajay Pal Sharma said.
An FIR has been registeredat the Sector 39 police station,under whose jurisdiction thebuilding is located, police said.
The deceased have beenidentified as tractor-troller dri-ver Naushad and workersKaran, Vijaypal and Ramvijay,they said.
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The National TigerConservation Authority
(NTCA) will soon commissiona Wildlife Institute of India(WII) study to assess if thecanine distemper virus (CDV)-— the deadly pathogen thatrecently killed over 5 lions inGir forests — can affect thehealth of the tigers too.
Sources said the decision toconduct the study was dis-cussed at a NTCA technicalcommittee meeting last month.Incidentally, the WII proposalhad been gathering dust for thelast several years with the twodepartments of the Dehradun-based Government’s premier
wildlife research body in tug-of-war to conduct the study.
“However, now all theissues have been sorted out andthe WII experts will soon startthe study in a few tiger reserveswhich will soon be identified.CDV is a highly contagious dis-ease and we should not be seencaught unprepared in the mat-ter,” the sources quoting offi-cials said.
He was referring to thedeath of 23 lions in Gujarat’sGir sanctuary in less than amonth, most of them due toCDV and protozoa infections.
The lions, an endangeredspecies, are now being vacci-nated with shots of the vaccineagainst the virus which have
been imported from the US.CDV is considered a dan-
gerous virus and had beenblamed for wiping out 30 percent population of Africanlions in East African forests.CDV is mainly found in wilddogs, jackals and wolves. Itattacks the immune systemand other vital organs in ani-mals. In most of the cases, theinfection is fatal.
Sources in the NTCA saidthe study is being conductedwith an aim to assess and sug-gest preventive measures totackle the virus if it is found tobe lurking around. There arejust over 2,500 tigers left in thewild, with majority of them inIndia. Threat from poachingand shrinking habitat hasalways been a major concern tosurvival of these highly endan-gered striped cats.
Following report inVeterinary Science’ which citedhow dead Asiatic lion fromGujarat was detected with lethalvirus in its tissues after the ani-mal came in contact with otherinfected animals like cattle,buffaloes or dogs, the NTCAhad issued an advisory to thetiger reserves to vaccinate straycattle and dogs living aroundreserves on a regular basis.
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About 40 girls of a residential school inSupaul district in north Bihar were
thrashed by young boys and their parentson Saturday evening for resisting sexualadvances.
The boys used to pass lewd remarksand write vulgar things on the walls of thegirls’ school. And when some girls foundone boy writing on wall they caught himand reprimanded him. In retaliation, thestudents of Middle School, Trivenigunjwhich is situated close to the girls’ school,their parents, and village youths armedwith lathi and hockey sticks stormed theKasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya atDaparkha village and started beating thegirl students mercilessly. Nobody was thereto stop them, said eyewitnesses.
At the time of the attack the minorgirls, mostly belonging to SC, ST andEBCs, were playing in the school groundafter classes. They were rushed to refer-ral hospital at Trivenigunj block. And twoof them were referred to Sadar hospital inSupaul in critical condition.
The warden of the Kasturba GandhiBalika Vidyalaya hostel Reema Raj said shealerted the school guard and informedpolice when she came to know about theincident. Police reached the spot after onehour when the attackers left the premises.
Education Minister Krishna NandanPrasad Verma said it is a serious matterand promised that strict action would betaken against the attackers. “We are plan-ning to put in security arrangements ingirls’ residential schools to avoid such inci-
dents. Female constables and security per-sonnel will be stationed at girls’ residen-tial schools,” he said.
Supaul DM Baidyanath Yadav said acase has been registered against the attack-ers and the accused would be taken to task.The DM said both the girls and boysschools are located in same premises withcommon playground. “The girls havecomplained against boys for passing vul-gar remarks and writing objectionablethings on the wall.
They were resisting it and one day thegirls also caught a few boys indulging inwall writing and beat them,” he said.
Chief Minister Nitish Kumar made noreference of this horrible incident onSunday when he was speaking at JD (U)’sSamaj Sudhar Vahini programme andspoke about women empowerment andgirls’ education. He said the enrolment ofgirls has increased manifold after hisGovernment’s schemes of providing schooluniform and cycles.
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In a horrific incident, the body of a seven-year-oldgirl, who went missing since Saturday afternoon
after being allegedly abducted by a local councilor,was found covered in a gunny bag on the roof of amosque located in Murad Nagar, on Sunday morn-ing. According to the police, the body was first seenby a man who went to the roof to get some fresh airwhile he went to the mosque for prayer. The mannamed Sulaiman first noticed the foot of the deceasedwhich was visible from under the gunny bag andthereafter uncovered the body and subsequentlyinformed police.
Police said her father Zahid Beg complaint abouthis seven-year-old daughter gone missing suspectingher abduction. On basis of his complaint, police reg-istered case under IPC Section 363 against a local coun-cillor named Azaz and other persons. While police wasinvestigating the case, they received a call that bodyof a girl was found over the mosque about 7 am whothen reached the spot and recovered the body.
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Union Textiles MinisterSmriti Irani here on
Sunday alleged that ChiefMinister Naveen Patnaik hasnot only failed in ensuringeffective development of theState but has also failed in pro-viding security to women andempowering them.
“The Odisha Governmenthas conceded in the StateAssembly that 60 per cent ofwomen are suffering fromanaemia in the State. From this,the development aspect ofwomen can be known,” Iranisaid at a Press meet afterattending a BJP State executivemeeting.
She added that Odishastands number one in thestunting (low physical and
mental development propor-tionate to age) index among theStates in the country.
Stating that people aredying without getting treat-ment in the State every day, shesaid it is disappointing that theAyushman Bharat Yojana is notimplemented in the State.“Naveenbabu didn’t implementthis programme knowingly ashe didn’t accept it as a welfare
programme and rather took itas a scheme that would causeof loss of votes for his party,”she said.
Regarding reopening ofthe Odisha Textile Mill (OTM) at Choudwar, Iranisaid, “The State Governmentdoesn’t want to re-operate it. Ifthe Government wants toreopen it, the Centre will cer-tainly provide required sup-
port,” she said.She too slammed the State
Government for not takingany step to reduce prices ofpetrol and diesel by Rs 2.50while the BJP-ruled States havedone so.
Among others, BJP Stategeneral secretary Bhrugu Baxipatra andspokesperson GolakMohapatra were present.
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After Union Textile Minister SmritiIrani lashed out at the Biju Janata
Dal (BJD) Government here onSunday, the BJD in its reaction said theMinister’s statements are half-bakedwithout facts and show her ignorance.
Reacting to Irani’s allegation ofwomen not being safe in the reign ofChief Minister Naveen Patnaik, theBJD said safety of women is the toppriority of the BJD Government. Inthe BJP-ruled States like UttarPradesh and Haryana, every daygruesome cases of crimes againstwomen are reported.
On the allegations of theMinister that the OdishaGovernment is not reducing VAT onfuel to provide relief, the BJD said
before pointing fingers at the StateGovernment, the Centre shouldreduce the Excise Duty to the levelof 2014 if it wants to provide somerelief from the rising prices of petroland diesel. “The Rs 1.5-Excise Dutycut is too little, too late.”
On the allegation of Irani thatthe Odisha Government has failed torevive the OTM, BJD spokespersonDr Sasmit Patra also said it is unfor-tunate that Irani has been waxingeloquent about developing the hand-loom sector in Odisha since the pastcouple of years but has not investedone rupee from her Ministry todevelop this sector in the State.
Dr Patra added Union Ministeris simply shedding crocodile tearsand her statements are only meantfor the media and the cameras.
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Following the violence during the PuriBandh on October 3, police arrested 19
people on Sunday. While the Lions Gate(Singhadwar) police booked eight people,11 were arrested by the Town police.
With this, total 42 persons, including20 by the Lions Gate police and 22 by theTown police have been arrested in con-nection with various crimes during thebandh.
Puri SP Sarthak Sarangi said that a totalof 15 cases have been registered againstleaders and supporters of the bandh overdamages of properties in the temple out-post, the Lions Gate police station, theJagannath Temple administration office,the town police station, the Collector’soffice and the SP’s residence. The police arein search of evidences against the leaders,said Sarangi.
Sources informed that the police havelodged FIRs against many leaders of thebandh for inciting and financing to sup-porters for the crimes. As many as 400 peo-ple are in police net who would be nabbedin the coming days, said Singhadwarpolice station IIC Gokul Ranjan Das.
Meanwhile, sources said the crackdownby the police have led many leaders,including those of the Jagannath Sena,which called the bandh, to flee Puri. Someof them are still hiding in the city. Sometemple servitors, including Daitapatis, areunder lens. The police are also scanningCCTV footages to track the people whowere involved in the mob violence.
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Is Odisha going to face anoth-er cyclone on October 11-12
like the September ‘cycloneDaye’? The answer is ‘possiblyno’ if the current weather para-meters of the Bay of Bengal areof any indication to go by.
While the IMD has onlyindicated of formation of a LPAin central and south Bay ofBengal (BoB) by October 8,which is likely to become a well
marked area and move towardsOdisha in the subsequent 72hours, the model of IndianNational Centre for OceanInformation Services (INCOIS)clearly suggests it convertinginto a tropical depression byOctober 10-11.
The significant reminderhere is tropical depression inBoB in October could turn intoa cyclone when conditions ofBoB are favourable.
According to INCOIS, theLPA could turn into tropical
depression by October 10-11given the wind speed in BoBthen would be around 12-14m/s, which is highlyfavourable for formation of adepression.
The model further indi-cates the tropical depression toconvert into a cyclonic stormby October 12. But the respiteapparently discernible fromthe INCOIS model is the ‘pos-sible’ storm though wouldmove close to the Odisha coast,but it would drift along thecoast, get intensified and thenwould make landfall inBangladesh.
However, what looks cer-tain at least now is Odishawould witness heavy to veryheavy rainfall along the coastal areas on October 11-12.
The sea would also remainrough and wind speed couldroar from 60 to 80 km/hr dur-ing the dates.
The significant climaticchange, however, witnessednow in Odisha is post themonsoon withdrawal the Statehas been witnessing around 2-3 degree Celsius over andabove the normal maximumday temperature and around 1-2degree Celsius over and abovethe normal minimumtemperature since beginning ofOctober making the weatherhot and sultry.
The maximum day tem-peratures in coastal belt inOdisha have been hoveringaround 34-35degrees Celsiusand minimum temperatureshovered at around 26-
27degrees Celsius. The effect: Hot and humid
climate followed by heavy tovery heavy rainfall would affect the farming and farmersbadly.
Moreover, an analysis at theend of 2018 monsoon brings tofore some significant climaticchanges in Odisha.
Though the State on thewhole has received 12 per centexcess rainfall, month wiseanalysis shows Odisha receiving uneven rainfall thismonsoon. In June, except thefour districts of Kendrapada,Jagatsinghpur, Puri andCuttack, the State as a wholewitnessed deficient rainfall asthe rainfall anomaly was to theextent of a high of (-50) to (-75)mm.
And in July as many as fivedistricts of Ganjam, Gajapati,Rayagada, Koraput andMalkangiri have witnessed veryheavy rainfall as the rainfallanomaly was estimated at (+)100mm.
Significantly, in August thevery districts that witnessedexcess rainfall in June haverecorded a negative rainfallanomaly to the tune of (-100 to-50mm), only to witness apositive rainfall anomaly totune of 150mm in September.
Overall, this monsoon season (Jun – Sept) Odisha hasrecorded deficient rainfall inJune but good rainfall in July,August and September.
But the excess rainfall hasbeen received by around 10 to12 districts only.
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large crowd ofpeople, espe-cially one that
is disorderly and intent oncausing trouble or violence. Ariot is a violent disturbance ofpeace by a crowd. But a protestis an organised public demon-stration expressing strongobjection to an official policyor course of action. The recentPuri violence can be conclud-ed as an ‘act of mob'.
Interestingly, the JagannathSena, meaning a ‘brigade forprotection of Lord Jagannath'is only a self-styled outfit ofPuri. The 12th-century shrinehas a majestic structure and therituals are mind-blowing likethose of decent human familieswho love and promote ‘live andlet live' ways of life to make theentire world a beautiful place tolive in.
Monarchs of the Indiansubcontinent, with impressivetrack records of valour and vic-tory, have visited the gigantictemple with exquisitely carvedstone sculptures. The foundingmonarchs gone and politicalstructures and systems havingchanged to suit the times, thepresent circumstances too haveforced the temple manage-
ment reform age-old practicesonly for devotees’ comfort.Hence, the latest set of grandreforms in the way devotees getto see the deities and are mak-ing available facilities forabsolutely dignified and hassle-free temple visit.
Most unfortunately, theJagannath Temple, expectedto be the most devotee-friend-ly, had degenerated into a placeof exploitation in the last fewdecades. As is routinely doneeverywhere, some active mem-bers of the society petitionedthe Supreme Court to look intomatter.
The court felt stirred andinstantly gave relief. The origi-nal petitioner had asked for onlya little. But the court decided todo a solid lasting job. The PuriDistrict Judge became hero ashis recommendations, underthe direction of the apex court,turned out to be superbly logi-cal and perfect.
An Amicus Curiae toocame, saw and told all at thetemple, including the manage-ment body, to mend ways orface dire consequences. Of thetwelve fantastic points, twowere resisted faintly by greedyand cowardly servitors: aboli-tion of hereditary rights andmaterial offering to the deitiesby devotees through servitors.All stakeholders, apart fromdevotees, did chorus a big ‘yes'
to all simple reforms includingthe fast-moving ‘queue dar-shan'.
Everything was honkydory until one fine morningsome servitors, grossly ignorantof the Supreme Court rulings,raised voice against the queuedarshan and cooked up thenon-issue as a big problem cit-ing the fact that local devoteeswere in distress as they couldnot enter temple to witness themorning event called'Mangalalati'.
The decision makers satbrooding as if heavens fellover. What no one could figureout was the number of suchspecific devotees would notexceed one hundred, ninety percent of them very elderly wayabove the 60-year mark.Besides, the wee hours of theday would not have a crowdever under any circumstances.
The Jagannath Sena is head-ed by a simple, presumablyignorant lawyer, who, localssay, is a publicity-hungry guy.Since his political ambitionsare unlikely to be fulfilled, comewhatever may, he devotes pret-ty much time to being seen andheard anyway. No one knows ifthe Sena is formally recognisedor registered as a society or trust.
He made a call for a PuriBandh to protest against thequeue system, which waspassed as good and acceptable
by the temple managementcommittee headed by theGajapati King and led by aChief Administrator from thesenior IAS cadre.
The Sena boss is known tohave resorted to such gimmicksfor long with a view to grabbingan election ticket from a virtu-ally-wiped out party in Puri. So,when the Sena made a call,police knowing full well the tinystature of the leader, routinelypicked him from home beforedawn and installed him in jail.The idea was to let the agitatingfollowers go rudderless when
the leader was invisible. Little did anyone know
that a sinister design wascarved out by way of a deeperconspiracy by some vestedinterest individuals who hadimagined that blame for theirheinous or gory acts wouldcome on the heads of the littlebrigade without rudder orleader. The leader too hadnever dreamed of what wouldhappen in hours after he wasscooped from bed by thepolice. That of history is nowtoo well-known.
After the mob ransacked
the temple office and van-dalised more properties in thevicinity, all in a jiffy, did thepolice and magisterial author-ities realise the wickedness ofsome masked crooks nowbeing exposed.
The whirlwind riot, overonly in minutes, revealed agrave fact: the whole act waspart of a larger conspiracy. It issuspected that vested interestsincluding horrible politiciansand some rogue servitors founda golden opportunity to haveprivate revenge taken andreforms negated publicly as the
brigade was being hauled up asa gang of criminals. Police andjail officials say that even theSena boss was confused as towhat was happening.
He was gravely anxiousthat life would be difficulthereafter as the people wouldbrand him a Supreme Courtdefiant. Most fortunately, theDistrict Magistrate and thepolice administration demon-strated utmost restraint in han-dling the situation within onlyone hour; not once were theytempted to open fire or cause severe physical injury toany individual offender or agi-tator, no matter how violentthey turned.
They remained limited tosimple ways of crowd disper-sion and arrest of catchable cul-prits at the scene of riot action.As if Lord Jagannath sat in theirhearts and told them to remaincalm and composed so as neverto use weapons of annihilationor bloodshed, which they couldhave jolly well done! They hadto sacrifice some recoverableproperty that got ransacked,stolen or vandalised. Life wasleft safe and intact.
The people who matterlike the Gajapati King and theShankaracharya have beenquiet. They appear to haveremained irresponsible andself-centric.
The Shankaracharya keeps
parroting scriptural epicswhich has nothing to do withhistorical facts; he avoids crit-ical questions at all times.
Some people, not so awaresocially, or sensitive to dread-ful outcomes, keep saying thepolice have failed in their duty.Little do they realise that mob-sters are difficult to identifyuntil their action commences.One can gather secret infor-mation about Maoist move-ments, but it is just next toimpossible to sense or figureout how a mob would form andact, just the same way as themetereologist can forecastweather for a week but fails toknow when the whirlwindwould form and cause damagein extremely short duration.
Lastly, the most shockingnews is that the big local politi-cian is also defying the queue-based Darshan of the deities.He is also a sworn enemy of thelittle brigade, whose boss spentthe day in jail as his followersdispersed in utter fear.
The local politician's housetoo was scraped as if by priordesign.
A few flower vessels werecrushed to pieces. But the newswas big: politician’s houseattacked and ransacked too.
Police are doing their jobcoolly and methodically. It’sputting two and two together.The truth would emerge soon.
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With the countdown for the2018 Odisha Men’s
Hockey World Cup scheduledfrom November here, thepreparation is in full swing bythe State Government to pro-mote Odisha’s art and cultureduring the mega sport event.
The authorities have decid-ed to put unique paintings ondisplay for the audience todraw their attention towardsthe State’s richculture and itsgreat enthusi-asm for hockey.
The paint-ings, a genre offine art, onhockey createdby 25 artistsduring a six-day camp heldat thePanthanivashere fromOctober 1 to 6,will be dis-played duringHockey Men’sWorld Cup atthe KalingaStadium totake the sportslovers by sur-
prise.The painting camp was
organised by the Odisha LalitKala Akademi in associationwith the Odisha MiningCorporation (OMC).
Apart from putting thepaintings on display at theKalinga Stadium, a catalogue ofpaintings would also beunveiled, said Odisha LalitKala Akademi Chairman andeminent sand artist SudarsanPattnaik.
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The Shree Jagannath ShreeKedarnath Temple
Management Committee,Baruan, Dhenkanal has wel-comed the queue system fordevotees for darshan of Lordsin Shreemandir in Puri.
“The number of devoteesvisiting the Shree JagannathTemple is rising day by day.With queue system in barri-cades, devotees can havesmooth Darshan of Lords andthere would be least chance ofstampede,” pointed out com-mittee president BibhudhendraPratap Das in a statement.
He lamented saying that asmany as five persons have diedand 50 injured due to stam-pedes occurred at differenttimes in the Shreemandir sincethe year 2005.
The steps taken by theShree Jagannath TempleAdministration (SJTA) as per
the direction of the SupremeCourt in adopting queue sys-tem in four lines for smoothdarshan of Lords is com-mendable, Das said.
He said that some organi-sations at the behest of sevay-ats have opposed the system,which is not at all acceptable.
Stating that the Centralintelligence has been informingthe State Government
for many years that theShreemandir is in the target ofterrorists, Das suggested thatshould be Xerox scan for bagchecking system at theSinghadwar soon.
Recently, the Law Ministertold the State Assembly that thepolice higher authorities havebeen provided funds for installation of Xrox scanmachines at four gates of theShreemandir and suchmachines have been installed atthree of four gates
“It is learnt that the threemachines are not working asthey are of poor quality. Noscan machine has been installed at the LionsGate. The Government shouldinstal such machines on a priority basis,” demanded Das.
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The Nikhila Odisha Asha Karmi Sangha has strongly opposedthe State Government’s decision to abolish Asha Sathi posts
and demanded withdrawal of the decision at the earliest.In a statement, Sangha general secretary Namita Sahoo said
that the Government had in 2013 created the posts of Asha Sathisand selected Asha Sathis from among the best performing Ashaworkers to work as mentor or peer leader in the National HealthMission (NHM).
“Is the decision a Dusshera gift for the Asha Sathi,” she want-ed to know.
She threatened the Sangha would stage protest meetingsbefore the NHM offices across the State if the abolishment deci-sion is not withdrawn soon.
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Former Minister and senior Congress leader
Padmalochan Panda resignedfrom the primary member-ship of the party on Sunday alleging “suffocation inthe party”.
“I was suffocated in theparty. Although I won severalelections in the past andbecame a Minister, some partyleaders backstabbed me in thelast election and ensured mydefeat. Therefore, I resign fromthe primary membership of theparty,” said Panda at a Pressmeet here.
“The present PCC chief
Niranjan Patnaik is surround-ed by a coterie who are design-ing evil for the party’s loyalworkers. There is no future for
the party. Hence, I quit theparty along with my support-ers. My next course of actionwill be declared on Tuesdayafter I hold talk with my sup-porters,” Panda said, addingthat the Congress is facinglack of coordination and back-biting and leg-pulling.
Panda was elected as anMLA from the Simulia con-stituency in Baleswar districton Congress ticket three times.
Along with Panda, anoth-er leader, SubhankarMohapatra, and Panda’s sonNilamadhab Panda alsodeclared their resignation fromthe party along with their sup-porters.
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The Commissionerate policeon Sunday unearthed three
fake automobile lubricant man-ufacturing units at Bhairapurunder the Jagatpur IndustrialEstate of the city and detaineda person in this connection.
Acting on reliable infor-mation, the police conducted aseries of raids at the factoriesand seized logos, labels of sev-eral leading engine oil brands.Besides, over 20,000 litres ofspurious engine oil was alsoseized.
The duplicate motor lubri-cants were packaged in con-tainers with labels of variousengine oil brands. The unitsused a blend of perfumes andchemicals along with multi-purpose grease and somecolours for manufacturing thefake engine oil. Earlier onSeptember 27, theCommissionerate police hadbusted a fake cement factory inJagatpur Industrial Estate.
Another duplicate cementunit was unearthed in the sameindustrial area in May. Besides,a fake cement manufacturingunit operating at Peer Bazaararea in Cuttack was also bust-ed. Moreover, adulterated edi-ble oil and ghee manufacturingunits were also unearthed bythe police in the recent past inthe city.
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The BJP prepared ablueprint on its
much-hyped “OdishaMission 120+” (to winover 120 Assemblyseats in the 2019 elections) at its two-dayState executive meetingthat concluded here on Sunday.
A party release saidparty leaders andworkers took oaths todrive out the “ineffi-cient” and “corrupt”State Government incoming elections.
“The Naveen PatnaikGovernment has betrayed peo-ple by not implementing theAyushman Bharat Yojana andslashing prices on petrol anddiesel. The BJP will expedite itsagitation in coming days overthese two important issues,”said the party release.
The BJP would make chitfund, mines, sapling, dal, sand
mining, irrigation, AnganwardiChhatua, cooperation andseeds scams, irregularities inpaddy procurement and CCroad construction and PC tak-ing as main poll issues.
Union Minister SmritiIrani inaugurated the meetingpresided over by State presidentSmriti Irani. Union MinistersDharmendra Pradhan and Jual
Oram, BJP Odisha-in-chargeArun Singh, national secretarySuresh Pujari, KV Singh Deoand all senior leaders likeBishwabhushan Harichandanand Giridhar Gamang andMLAs were present.
A political resolutionbrought by State SecretaryBhrugu Baxipatra was passed atthe meeting.
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Even as 18 years have passedsince the Chief Minister laid
foundation stone in 2001, theLower Sukhtel project inBalangir district has not seenlight of the day yet; and, thus, has triggered a strongresentment among people ofthe district.
Intellectuals have nowurged the Government to startwork of the project in betterinterest of the people of the dis-trict. People of Balangir willprovide all support for theproject, said they.
“People have understood
the utility of the project. If theproject is undertaken fromzero point, then it would becompleted in three years,” said senior journalist SunilKumar Mishra.
Mishra said thousands ofacres of land in Balangir andSubarnapur districts would beirrigated by the project.
According to sources, theproject would provide water to51,000, hectares of land acrossthe two districts.
The State Government hasplanned to lay undergroundpipes water pipes, instead ofdigging canals, to irrigate cul-tivable lands on the both thesides of the project.
The proposal of layingpipelines will boost the con-struction of the project as therewill be no land acquisition, said
some locals.Besides, water can be dis-
tributed to fields till the tail-endand thus there would be nowater problem in the lower-most area. There will be nowater loss.
Because of pipe system, 85per cent irrigation intensity canbe achieved during Kharif sea-son and 42 per cent duringRabi season. During Kharif,paddy can be cultivated in22,950 acres of land, millet on4,080 acres, oilseeds on 5,100acres, vegetables on 6,120 acresand cereals can be cultivated on5,100 acres of land.
Similarly, during Rabi sea-son, paddy can be cultivated on5,100 acres of land, cereals on5,100 acres and vegetables canbe grown on 11,220 acres ofland each year.
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Governor Prof Ganeshi Lalwould lay foundation-
stone for a second-generationethanol bio-refinery of theBharat Petroleum CorporationLimited (BPCL) at Baulsinghavillage in Bargarh district onOctober 10 in presence ofUnion Petroleum and NaturalGas and Skill Development
and Entrepreneurship MinisterDharmendra Pradhan.
BPCL Biofuels CGMSanjeeb Paul informed at aPress meet held here onSunday.
He said the bio-refinery,which would cost around�1,000 crore, would have acapacity to produce three crorelitres of fuel grade ethanolannually using rice straw asfeedstock and the ethanol pro-duced from this plant would beblended with petrol.
The National Biofuel Policyof India 2018 targets 20 per
cent ethanol blending to petrolby year 2030, however due tonon-availability of ethanol, thecurrent ethanol blending inpetrol is only around 3 to 4 percent. Setting up of the 2G
ethanol plants would helpachieve the target of ethanolblending in petrol, he added.
The plant would utiliseabout two lakh tons of ricestraw annually as feedstock
which would be sourced fromnearby locations like Bhatli,Ambabhona, Attabira, Sohela,Burla, Lakhanpur and others.
In addition to cleaner envi-ronment, the project wouldhelp improve the socio-eco-nomic conditions of the farm-ers due to additional incomefrom supply of waste rice strawto the Bio-Refinery and wouldgenerate employment for about1,200 persons both directlyand indirectly.
Among others, State Head,Retail (Odisha and Jharkhand)Debashis Palit and Brand andPublic Relation DGM SSSundararajan were present.
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Adreaded criminal wasinjured in an encounter
with police at Deshapur underthe Derabish police limits inKendrapada district early onSunday morning.
Santosh Mallik (36) isaccused in as many as about 60cases, including those of mur-der and dacoity, sources said.
Police tried to apprehendMallik while he was planningto execute a dacoity in theDeshapur area. He opened fireat the cops in a bid to escape.
During retaliation by thepolice, he sustained bulletinjuries on his right leg.
Mallik was admitted to theKendrapada DistrictHeadquarters Hospital fortreatment.A motorcycle and apistol were seized from hispossession.
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BHADRAK: Dead bodies of aminor boy and a minor girlwere found under mysteriouscircumstances at Ambasiriunder the Tihidi police limitsin Bhadrak district on Sunday.
The deceased were identi-fied as Dinabandhu Jena (17)of Dihambai village andSitarani Pradhan (14), a studentof Class-IX hailing fromJitanaga village. Both hadreportedly gone missing sinceOctober 3 night.Circumstantialevidences indicated that theduo was murdered, sourcessaid.
On being informed, policereached the spot along with ascientific team and startedinvestigation.
The bodies were sent forpostmortem. PNS
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Police on Sunday arrested ayouth for allegedly attack-
ing a woman in Baleswar dis-trict after her daughter reject-ed his marriage proposal. Theaccused was identified as SaniaHui of Kendrapada.
According to reports, Saniaon Facebook befriended thegirl of Shyamanandipur villageunder Bhograi block in the dis-trict while he was working inDubai.
He started loving the girland proposed her to marryhim. However, his proposal wasturned down by the girl.
Being furious over this,Sania reached the girl’s villageto seek revenge. On knowing
about the girl’s absence at herhouse, he allegedly attacked hermother with a billhook.
The woman sustained crit-ical injuries and was admittedto a local hospital before beingshifted to the SCB MedicalCollege Hospital in Cuttack asher condition deteriorated.
Police seized Sania’s pass-port from his possession.Investigation into the incidentwas underway.
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Abus with around 60 pil-grims on board hit a truck
from rear on NH-16 nearCharampa in Bhadrak late onSaturday night killing at leasttwo persons and leaving 15others injured. According toreports, the ill-fated bus, whichwas carrying the pilgrims fromUttar Pradesh to Puri, rammedinto a stationary bamboo-ladentruck from backside at around
2.30 am.The driver of the bus and
a passenger died on the spotunder the impact of the colli-sion. The deceased were iden-tified as Ram Sagar Yadav, thedriver, and Shiv NarayanMishra, a passenger.
On being informed aboutthe mishap, police reached thespot, rescued the injured onesand admitted them to theBhadrak District HeadquartersHospital.
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Two minor boys of a familydrowned in a morrum
quarry at Chirma village underKashaguda block ofNabarangpur district onSunday. Another boy was res-cued and hospitalised.
The deceased wered iden-tified as Nitesh Bisoyi (6) andTushar Bisoyi (14). Eight-year-old Shiva Bosoyi was rescuedin a critical condition andadmitted to hospital. The vic-
tims are cousins.The tragedy took place
when the trio was bathing inthe water collected at the mur-ram quarry. The three slippedinto deep water and drowned.They were rescued by villagersand rushed to the DistrictHeadquarters Hospital, wheredoctors declared Nitesh andTushar brought dead.
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Ahead of the 2019 generalelections, the Ganjam
District Congress Committee(DCC) held a pre-poll meetinghere on Sunday and providedtraining to ZP zone presidentsand DCC office-bearers onvarious strategies to success-fully take on the BJD and theBJP in coming Assembly andLok Sabha polls.
AICC secretary AnilChaudhury and PCC workingpresident Pradeep Majhiattending the meeting askedthe workers to make all effortsso that the Congress wouldreturn to power at both theCentre and the State. They
advised the workers to makepeople know about variousirregularities and corrupt activ-ities committed by both theBJD Government in the Stateand the BJP-led NDAGovernment at the Centre.
They gave stress on for-mation of booth-level com-mittees and use of social mediafor maintaining relationshipwith people.
They advised the workersto keep in touch with the party
high command and top leadersthrough WhatsApp groups.Besides, they emphasised oncollection of membershipthrough mobile apps andstrengthening of organisation.
Among others, PCC gen-eral secretary SubhenduMohanty, district presidentTrinath Behera, district work-ing president Deepak Patnaik,Pitabas Panda, Sakka Sujit,Abhisek Mahananda, formerSanakhemundi MLA RameshChandra Jena, senior leaderChintamani Dyansamantara,Pramod Jena and NakulaNayak shared the dais.
Former MLA Ramesh Jenaquit the meeting halfway as apolice officer from theBrahmapur Town police cameand told him not to attend anymeeting as he is scheduled toappear in court. After this,Jena moved away from themeeting place silently.
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Police busted a Maoist camp during a search operation in theSunki forest under the Pottangi police station in the district
on Sunday.A gun battle is underway between the police and the Red
rebels till filing of the report.A combing operation was launched by the personnel of
Special Operations Group (SOG) and District Voluntary Forceafter receiving reliable inputs of the presence of as many as 15Maoists in the area, said sources.
Koraput district SP KB Singh though informed about theencounter with Red rebels in Sunki forest, he abstained from fur-ther disclosing the location of the encounter and other infor-mation due to security reasons.
As per available information, no loss of life or casualties fromeither side been reported so far. Earlier this week, the Kandhamalpolice had busted a Maoist camp in the district and recoveredmany explosives and daily use items from the camp. But the ultrashad managed to escape from the spot.
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Taking a cue from the Centrethat has been distributing
LED bulbs at subsidised ratesfor some years now, the StateGovernment is likely tointroduce a programme toprovide such bulbs to all house-holds free of cost.
The distribution of bulbsassumes significance as elec-tions are ahead.
The Odisha PowerTransmission CorporationLimited (OPTCL) has drafteda plan named, “Ama GhareLED Light’ and sent it to ChiefMinister Naveen Patnaik forfinal approval.
According to the proposal,the OPTCL would purchase3.84 crore LED bulbs of nine watt at investment of�237 crore through a tenderprocess, if the plan is approvedby the CM.
The LED bulbs will be dis-tributed to around 96 lakhhouseholds through the PDScounters in coming six months’time, and each household willbe given four bulbs, accordingto sources.
With use of LED bulbs, thepower consumption will bereduced benefitting both theconsumers and theGovernment, said officials.
It may be noted that con-sumers get LED bulbs for �85each with three year replace-ment warranty under theUnion Government’s Ujalascheme. Around 1.40 crorebulbs have been sold under this programme at various distrib-ution company offices in theState as of now, according toreports.
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An Ama Gaon Ama Vikashprogramme was held at
Khariar of Nuapada district onFriday with Chief MinisterNaveen Patnaik interactingwith people of Khariar blockthrough videoconferencing toknow about their opinion ondevelopment activities.
The CM approved as manyas 218 projects for implemen-tation in 25 gram panchayats ofthe block and sanctioned �3.76crore for the purpose.
The projects had beensubmitted to the Governmentin advance by the panchayatsthrough the block office which range from construction ofcommunity centres, prayer
halls to bathing ghats androoms on the banks of villageponds.
The CM asked the peopleto maintain quality of theworks and complete the pro-jects at the earliest.
Dharamgarh MLAPuspendu Singh Deo, NuapadaCollector Dr Poma Tuda andDRDA PD Brushabh Naik,Khariar BDO Uttam Bag andall Government officials ofKhariar were present alongwith ZP President NamitaPradhan and Vice-PresidentBhanupratap Singh Majhi andKhariar Panchayat SamitiChairman Balkrishna Sabar.Over 3,000 people, mostlywomen, attended the programme.
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Police have arrested onSaturday night two youths
in Jajpur district for allegedabduction and gangrape of aminor schoolgirl onWednesday.
“The 17-year-old girl ofRoutara village under theBinjharapur police station waskidnapped by two personswhen she was returning to hervillage from the nearby marketat Binjharapur on Wednesdayevening. We launched an inves-tigation after the girl’smother filed an FIR and res-
cued the victim from the near-by village Raghunathpur onSaturday night and arrested
Santosh Jena (26) of Talasahiand Sk Adua ( 27) ofBinjharapur,” said Binjharapurpolice station IIC SuchitraBirya Das.
Police booked both theaccused under Sections 363,366, 376 (d) of IPC and Section6 of Protection of Childrenfrom Sexual Offence Act 2012.“We are investigating the case,”added the police officer.
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The DirectorGeneral Of Police
(DGP) office issued acircular toSuperintendent ofPolice (SP),Subarnapur totransfer controversialInspector-in-Charge ofSonepur police station SrikantaKumar Tripathy to PoliceTraining College (PTC), Angul.
As per Sources, RTI activistSrikumar Mahant had subse-quently lodged a complaintwith senior officials of Odishapolice alleging nexus of policeofficials of Subarnapur withdrugs peddlers and met HomeSecretary Asit KummmarTripathy over the matter. Bytaking seriously, HomeSecretary Tripathy assigned
the investigation toCID Crime Branch,Cuttack.
So a CrimeBranch inquiry wasc o n d u c t e d .Meanwhile, Crime
Branch SP, Radha BinodPanigrahi visited both Sonepurand Tarbha police stations toconduct a thorough investiga-tion into the matter and collectall the documents from activistMahanta. The nexus of accusedpolice officer Tripathy wasexposed after it came to light thatin 90 per cent cases, registeredunder Narcotic Drugs andPsychotropic Substances Act byTarabha police, one Ujir Khanwas made a regular witness.
An RTI query revealedthat 48 NDPS cases were reg-istered by Tarabha police from
2014 to 2017 during Tripathy’sterm as IIC of the Tarbhapolice station.
However, Khan and someof his associates were arrestedon the charges of ganja smug-gling by Chhattisgarh police inApril this year. “I had contact-ed Mahasamud SP and hadsent all evidence through email and also reported thematter to DIG.
As one of the police wit-nesses has been arrested inganja smuggling, it clearlyimplies that there is someinvolvement of the concernedpolice official,” said Mahanta.Though the Human RightsCommission had directed offi-cials to take necessary actionagainst those found guilty with-in eight weeks, the departmentis yet to act, informed sources.
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OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE ENGINEERBHADRAK (R&B) DIVISION, BHADRAK.
INVITATION FOR BIDS (IFB)Bid Identification No. E.E, BDK (R&B) 13 1 2018-19.E-procurement Notice No.3525/ dated 03.10.2018
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1. The Executive Engineer, Bhadrak (R&B) Division, Bhadrak, Odisha, on behalf of Governor of Odisha invites Percentage rate bids inP-1 agreement in Double cover system for the work as mentioned in the table below from the class of contractors as mentioned inColumn-7 against the work, registered with the State Government and contractors of equivalent grade / Class registered with CentralGovernment/ MES/ Railways for execution of Civil works. The proof of registration from the appropriate authorit shall be enclosedalong with the bid.
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Construction of SecondaryWorking StandardLaboratory & Off iceBuilding of AssistantControl ler, LegalMetrology at Bhadrak.
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2. Bid documents consisting of plans, specifications, the schedule of quantities and the set of terms and conditions of contract and othernecessary documents can be seen in the website: www.tenderssodisha.gov.in
3 The bidder shall transfer online the Eastern Money deposit / Bid security of the amount specified for the work in the table col.5 aboveas part of its bid through a process as mentioned under DTCN. Bidders desirous to hire machineries or equipments form outside theState of owned but deployed outside the state are required to transfer online 2% of the amount put to tender as Bid security.
4 The Bid documents will be available in the website: www.ternerssodisha.govt.in from 10.00 AM of 10.10.2018 to 5.00 PM of23.10.2018 for online bidding.
5 The bidder must possess compatible Digital Signature certificate (DSC) of Class-II or Class-Ill.6. Bids shall be received only on online on or before 5.00 PM of 23.10.20187. Bids received on line shall be opened at 11.30 hours on 25.10.2018 in the office of the Executive Engineer (R&B) Division, Bnadrak
in the presence of the bides who wish to attend. Bidders who participated in the bid can witness the opening of bids after loggingon the site through their DSC. If the office happens to be close on the last date of opening the bids as specified, the bids will be openedon the next working day at the same time and venue.
8. The bidder shall transfer online the cost of bid documents for Rs.10,000.00 towards cost of Bid through a process as mentioned under DTCN.9. Other details can be seen the bidding documents.10. The authority reserves the right to cancel any or all bids without assigning any reason.11. The Addendum / Corrigendum if any will be hosted in the website only.
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PARALAKHEMUNDI(R&B) DIVISION, PARALAKHEMUNDITENDER CALL NOTICE
Bid Identification No. E.E., PKD. R&B DIVN. - 07 /2018-19
Sd/-Executive Engineer,
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1. The Executive Engineer, Paralakhemundi (R&B) Division on behalf of Governor of Odisha InvitesPercentage rate bid in Double cover system to be received in on ONLINE MODE only for the workas detailed below :
2. Nature of the work : Road works3. No. of works : (1) One number only4. Tender Paper Cost (online) : 10,000/-5. Class of Contractor : “A” & “B”6. Availability of Bid documents in Website : From Dt:10.10.2018 (10.00 AM) to 29.10.2018 (05.00 PM)7. Date of Opening of Bid (Cover-1) : 31.10.2018 at 12.00 Noon8. The Bidders have to participate in ONLINE bidding only. Further details can be seen from the
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Police on Sunday arrested thedirector of a private para-
medical institute here on thecharge of sexually harassingstudents.
The arrestee was identifiedas Kodanda Dhara Sahu (35),director of the Indira Instituteof Medical Science andResearch (IIMSR) at GAColony in Bharatpur underthe Khandagiri police station.
Sources said that as manyas 16 students of the institutepursuing Diploma in MedicalLaboratory Technology(DMLT) had on Saturdaylodged a complaint with theKhandagiri police alleging thatthey were harassed, abusedand threatened by Sahu. Theirate students had also ran-sacked the institute.
The students also alleged ofnot being provided with prop-er food, accommodation and
other basic amenities in thehostel.
More than 20 students andlocals had earlier congregatednear the police station demand-ing immediate arrest andexemplary action against theaccused. Police said Sahu, whowas the founder and principalof the college, had allegedlyharassed some students. Whenthe torture became unbearable,the students sought policeintervention.
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The Institute of CostAccountants of India
(ICAI)-Bhubaneswar Chapterorganised a ‘CommerceConclave’ here on Sunday tomark its golden jubilee year(2018-19) in which more than150 Principals, HOD andLecturer in Commerce fromdifferent universities and col-leges participated.
Chief guest Eastern MediaLtd founder and Rajya Sabhamember Soumya RanjanPatnaik inaugurating the pro-gramme praised for such ini-tiative taken by the chapter forgrowth of Commerce profes-sion in the State.
Training and EducationFacilities Committee PastPresident and ChairmanManas Kumar Thakur andICAI Taxation and RegionalCouncils Council Member
Niranjan Mishra attended andhighlighted about the role ofcost and management accountants for development ofIndian economy and society ata large.
They also highlightedabout various initiatives takenby the institute and suggestionsgiven to the Union Ministry ofCorporate Affairs specificallyon implementation and sim-plification on GST.
Chapter ChairmanDamodar Mishra highlightedabout the facilities provided tothe students and various activ-ities undertaken for its mem-
bers and stakeholders. ChapterSecretary Tapas Ranjan Swainalso spoke on the occasion.
A technical session wasalso organised on theme “GSTOutlook- Academician-Vs-Professionals”. Among others,chapter Vice-ChairmanSaktidhar Singh, Chapter PDCommittee Chairman MukeshChaubey, treasurer HimojMishra, GRIDCO Ltd DGM(Finance) Bibhuti BhusanNayak, SAPSJ and Associatessenior partner Shiba PrasadPadhi, Ajay Kumar Samal andUttam Kumar Nayak were pre-sent.
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The District Legal ServiceAuthority (DLSA),
Rayagada under the chairmanship of District andSession Judge Biswajit Dasrecently conducted a work-shop on value of girl childagainst the backdrop of grow-ing crimes of acid attack andfemale foeticide.
Judge Das, who inaugurat-ed and presided over the work-shop, briefly highlighted on thecontribution of women to afamily, a society and how theycan have access to equal rights.
Secretary of DLSAHrushikesh Sahu elaboratedon the ill effects of femalefoeticide on society andstressed upon the rights of thegirl children.
Senior Dewani MagistrateRudra Prasad Mohapatra vivid-ly emphasized on the lawsrelated to prevention of acidattacks and rehabilitation of
acid attack victims.Gramya Nyayadhikari
Baishali Nayak andMagistrate(Class-II) HabibulRaheman elaborated the rea-sons, solutions and punish-ments for acid attacks.
Registrar Sunanda Padhisaid about the negative impact
created on the society by femalefoeticide considered as a socialevil.
“Though Pre-natalDiagnostic Techniques(Regulation and Prevention ofMisuse) Act, 1994, was enact-ed and brought into operationfrom January 1, 1996, in order
to check female foeticide and toprohibit determination anddisclosure of the sex of foetus,female foeticide still continuesin several forms,” tribal leaderBidulata Huika.
She further said the illicitnexus among the diagnosticcentres and the monitoring
authorities are well known.Pro-active step by the judicia-ry, which is increasinglybecoming pro-people, will cer-tainly change the mindset ofthe young people, she said,adding, in Rayagada, particu-larly in tribal villages, the sex-ratio is very high.
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The Lions Club ofBhubaneswar Lotus organ-
ised a Swachchh Bharat Abhiyanand awareness programme tosensitise people about plastic inBhimtangi and BrahmeswarPatna Hat here on Saturday.
Later, cotton bags weredistributed among the buyers.The members said that thepolythene is very dangerous forour life as well as for the soiland urged the public toboycott plastic to make the cityclean and green. Among oth-ers, local Corporator PuspaDas, Lions Club governor
Biswanath Das, Rebati Saha,chairman Kishore Mishra,president Minakshi Das, sec-retary Maya Sahu, SanjuktaPatra and Chandini Mohantywere present.
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The Xavier Institute ofM a n a g e m e n t ,
Bhubaneswar (XIMB) organ-ised a 10-km marathon, “X-Athon’18” here on Sunday withan aim to promote healthierlifestyles and at the same timespreading awareness and rais-ing funds for a social cause.
The X-athon on withtheme ‘Sweat out yourDepression’ was organised as aprelude to the XIMB’s annualcultural and Business festive,“Xpressions 2018” which is
scheduled to held fromNovember 16 to 18.
About 500 people includ-ing college students, corporateemployees, and people ofdiverse age groups participat-ed. In male category, AshokDandesena secured the firstposition completing the race in31 minutes and 51 seconds fol-lowed by Shubham Behera asthe runner-up. While in femalecategory, Pramita Topo securedthe first position.
Later, the XIMB’s SocialResponsibility Cell (SRC) inassociation with Xpressions
Steering Committee (X-STEC)organised X-Enable which aimsletting the specially-abled onestake flight in the arena ofsports.
As many as 80 childrenfrom four schools, namely,Swabhiman, Chetana, TheInstitute for helping Disabled,and Aaina participated. Theyalso actively participated invarious sports like 100m race,skipping, lemon spoon race, 3legged race, mini basketballand mini volleyball and laterwere given trophies and cer-tificates.
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CRPF Inspector GeneralBithul Kumar on Sunday
visited the Maoist-hit areas ofGudari and Muniguda in thedistrict and took stock of thesituation.
Later, Kumar took an aer-ial view of the difficult terrainon a helicopter.
The IG also visited theMaoist-infested area of Gudariand the CRPF camp set up inthe area and held discussionsabout the movement of therebels in the area. Later, hespoke to the Jawans and officersregarding the issues and chal-lenges faced in carrying outanti-Maoist operations.
Later, Singh left forMuniguda and reviewed thesituation there. During Singh’svisit, Rayagada CRPF DIG SDPandey and 4th BattalionCommander YK Rajput werepresent.
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To help ensure public trust ingems and jewellery, the
Gemological Institute ofAmerica (GIA) India organisededucation seminars on“Diamonds-Are TheyForever?” for members of thetrade in Bhadrak, Sambalpurand Jharsuguda recently.
GIA instructor DarshanSancheti shared insights ondiamonds and their properties,the GIA 4Cs of diamond qual-ity, i.e, colour, clarity, cut andcarat weight, and the care andcleaning of diamonds.
GIA India and Middle EastMD Nirupa Bhatt said, “As apublic-benefit institute, theGIA India organises these
knowledge seminars to educateand empower the trade. Thisknowledge would help buildconsumer confidence in gemsand jewellery”. More than 70members from the Bhadrak
Jewellers’ Association,Sambalpur Jewellers’Association and JharsugudaJewellers’ Association attendedthe meeting to gain importantinformation on diamonds.
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Foreign tour operators, whoparticipated in the Odisha
Travel Bazaar organised here,sought short-term visa.
Especially Malaysian touroperators demanded shortterm visa. They said it wouldbe helpful for India to increasenumber of foreign tourists.
State Tourism SecretaryVishal Dev assured them onvisa and told them that hewould request the Governmentof India to take a decision inthis regard as soon as possible.
Foreign tour operatorsraised concern about the strictrule of Environment and ForestDepartment and said that theselaws need to be liberals tobring more tourists to the
State.Tour operators pointed out
that the management at a fewmonumental sites is not inorder. Dev assured them to dothe needful.
Joint Director, FICCIOdisha Sanjeev Mohanty saidthis time parties from 23 coun-tries participated in the event.More than 2,000 B2B meetingswere held between buyers andsellers.
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Purna Chandra Mohapatrareceived the best Senior
Citizen Award by MinisterPrafulla Samal on the obser-vance of the International Dayfor Senior Citizen by the SocialSecurity and Empowermentof Persons with DisabilitiesDepartment.
Mohapatra was awarded Rs20,000 and a certificate. Asmany as nine senior citizens
from different across Stateincluding Mohapatra wereawarded for different achieve-ment in their life.
Mohapatra is a formerTeshildar of Paralakhemundi
and has been continuallyengaged in the social ser-vices. He has been activelyinvolved in establishingorphanages inParalakhemkundi town, re-establishing of ParsuramGurukul, involved in pro-
viding service during theMahendratanya Barani Snanawhere about four lakh peoplecome to take holy bath in thefestival held in Mahendratanyariver.
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The office of the JointController of Defence
Accounts (JCDA) (R and D),which comes under theDefence Accounts Department(DAD), Ministry of Defence,celebrated its Annual Day onOctober 1.
The DAD with theController General of DefenceAccounts (CGDA) as its headis one of the oldest departmentsunder the Government ofIndia, the origin of which canbe traced to the year 1747 whenArticles of War empoweredthe British Government toappoint Military Pay Master.
The department is man-dated broadly to undertakeaudit, accounting, paymentand financial advice functionspertaining to all the 'organisa-tions coming under theMinistry of Defence, includingArmy, Navy, Air Force, CoastGuard, Ordinance Factory andvarious inter-service organisa-tions.
The Office of JCDA (R&D)located at OT Road, StationSquare, Baleswar, functions
under the Principal Controllerof Defence Accounts (PCDA(R and D)], New Delhi andextends audit coverage toDRDO labs/establishments likePXE, ITR and EMU atChandipur, JCB-CAT and CCE(R and D), Kolkata and O andM Radars, Bhubaneswar.
All the DAD officers andstaff at the station attended thefunction organised at RangeOfficers' Mess (ROMI) withfamilies.
Speaking at the functions,Officer In Charge Dr PK Jena,congratulated all the staffersand officers and felicitatedDAD veterans and pensionerson the occasion.
Awards were distributed tothe winners of various art andpainting competitions. In acultural programme, membersof the staff and kids performedsongs and dance, enthrallingthe audience.
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The alliance talks between theCongress, Samajwadi Party
(SP) and Bahujan Samaj Party(BSP) fell apart as the grand oldparty was unwilling to cede totheir demands for more seats inthe crucial poll-bound Stateslike Madhya Pradesh,Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan.
The same attitude of theCongress made one of its majorUPA constituent, SharadPawar's NCP, announce its deci-sion to go solo in Rajasthan.Pawar has, however, clarifiedthat NCP will contest only onthe seats where the party hasstrong base and that it wouldnot damage the prospect ofCongress.
Congress decided to riskgoing alone as its internal assess-ment showed the party willwrest power in these Stateswithout even an ally. A seniorleader explained that had theCongress ceded to the BSP andSP demand for seats in thesethree States it would have beenforced to part with at least 20 percent seats.
"Both SP and BSP havelimited presence in these threeStates and could impact the out-come of only a handful of seats.They won't be able to win on theremaining seats they aredemanding. This will only helpthe BJP," he said.
Congress also realises thatboth SP and BSP have their owncompulsion to stitch together agrand alliance in Uttar Pradeshwhere Congress could be sig-nificant force if the year-endAssembly polls go in its favour."SP and BSP know that BJPmust be defeated at all cost toprevent their own extinction.The reality will dawn on every
body," he said. After BSP, SP too on
Saturday ruled out an alliancewith the Congress for theMadhya Pradesh andChhattisgarh Assembly elec-tions. The SP announced that itwill fight elections in MadhyaPradesh and Chhattisgarh inalliance wuh to GondwanaGantantra Party (GGP). SPchief Akhiesh Yadav also saidthat his party was ready to joinhands wuith the BSP in MadhyaPradesh polls, keeping alive theprospects of a grand alliance inUP.
"State units are better awareof the ground situation than the
central leadership. They took adecision and the central lead-ership accepted it. It should notbe confused with attempts toforge a 'mahagathbandhan' thatis meant for the Lok Sabhapolls," said Congress spokesmanPawan Khera when asked aboutthe alliance failure.
Polls in Chhattisgarh,Madhya Pradesh, Mizoram,Rajasthan and Telangana will beheld between November 12and December 7 in what may bea virtual semi-final to the 2019Lok Sabha elections. Countingof votes will be taken up togeth-er in all the five States onDecember 11.
The party however isexpected to face a tough chal-lenge in Mizoram from theMizo National Front in theupcoming Assembly polls.After being in power for twoconsecutive terms, internalsquabbles and anti-incumben-cy factor are making the situa-tion difficult for the Congress tohead on where BJP has alreadyput a strong foot hold in thenorth eastern States. Mizoramgoes to poll on November 28.
New Delhi/ Visakhapatnam: JIMEX-18, abilateral maritime exercise between Indiaand Japan, began in Visakhapatnam onSunday.
Japanese Maritime Self Defence Force(JMSDF) ships Kaga, an Izumo-class heli-copter destroyer, and Inazuma, a guidedmissile destroyer, arrived here to mark thecommencement of JIMEX.
The Japanese ships would be partici-pating in the third edition of JIMEX underthe command of Rear Admiral TatsuyaFukada, commander of Escort Flotilla-4(CCF-4). The Indian Navy would be rep-resented by three indigenously-designedwarships and a fleet tanker. The partici-pating ships are INS Satpura, a multi-pur-pose stealth frigate, INS Kadmatt, an anti-submarine warfare corvette, missile corvetteand INS Shakti, the fleet tanker.
In addition, one submarine, P8I longrange maritime patrol aircraft and a num-ber of integral helicopters would be par-ticipating in the exercise, the Navy said.
The nine-day event is aimed at enhanc-ing inter-operability, improving under-standing and imbibing the best practices ofeach other, a Navy release said.
The Indian ships would be command-
ed by Rear Admiral Dinesh K Tripathi, FlagOfficer Commanding, Eastern Fleet.
JIMEX-18 will comprise a harbourphase and a sea phase of four days each.
The harbour phase of the exercise,scheduled from October 7 to 10, wouldinclude professional and social interactionsbetween ships' crews, sports fixtures andoperational planning for the sea phase.
The sea phase would include anti-sub-marine warfare exercises, visit, board,search and seizure (VBSS) drills, gun fir-ings, cross deck helo operations and coor-dinated operations in anti-submarine and
anti-air threat scenarios.The last edition of JIMEX was held in
December 2013 off the Chennai coast.The conduct of JIMEX-18 after five
years is indicative of an upswing in the Indo-Japanese defence relations and the contin-ued efforts of both Governments to workclosely to enhance safety and security of theglobal commons in keeping with 'rule-basedorder,' the Navy said.
The ships of the two Navies have beenworking in close coordination in anti-pira-cy operations in the Gulf of Aden (GoA)for the past few years. PTI
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Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh,the Lok Sabha
Parliamentary constituencyrepresented by Prime MinisterNarendra Modi will be a newbase for the anti-riot and crowdcontrol Rapid Action Force(RAF).
The RAF personnel donthe specialised blue dungareeand the total strength of theForce has been increased from10 battalions (10,000 person-nel) to 15 battalions. The fivenew battalions of the RAFwere sanctioned by the CentralGovernment in January thisyear and the new bases havenow been identified, officialssaid.
Apart from the templetown of Varanas, the four othernew battalions will be based inJaipur (Rajasthan), Mangalore(Karnataka), Hajipur (Bihar)and Nuh (Haryana). Varanasiwill be the fourth base of theRAF in Uttar Pradesh — thethree others being in Meerut,Allahabad and Aligarh.
The process for acquiringland for the five new bases isunderway and the five battal-ions, which are already opera-tional, will start functioningfrom their permanent locationsin sometime, the officials said.
Besides Vadodara, Modi
won the Lok Sabha con-stituency from Varanasi in the2014 general elections. Modiretained the Varanasi con-stituency and resigned fromVadodara constituency.
Amongst the new bases isHajipur which is theParliamentary constituency ofUnion Minister Ram VilasPaswan. A RAF battalion has astrength of about 1,000 per-sonnel and it is equipped withgadgets and non-lethalweapons like pump actionguns, tear smoke grenadelaunchers and others to enforcesecurity and law and order incase of protests or riot-like sit-uations.
The force is part of theCentral Reserve Police Force,the world's largest paramilitaryforce with over three lakh per-sonnel. It was raised and madefully operational in October1992 with 10 battalions.
The RAF battalions arebased in various parts of thecountry in order to cut downresponse time and rush theteams in the shortest possibletime to control violent orriotous incidents.
The 10 old RAF battalionsare based in Hyderabad,Ahmedabad, Allahabad,Mumbai, Delhi, Aligarh,Coimbatore, Jamshedpur,Bhopal and Meerut.
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Adirect terror funding link fromPakistan has emerged after the
probe into the activities of Falah-e-Insaniyat, an offshoot of thePakistan-based terror group Jamat-ud-Dawah, by the NationalInvestigation Agency (NIA). Theprobe has also revealed that the out-fit was aiming at recruiting peoplethrough a new modus operandi bywinning the hearts of the gullibleyouth of a particular community.
The Falah-e-Insaniyat is Jamat-ud-Dawah's charity wing head-quartered in Lahore but operationsin India were being managed fromDubai to evade from the radar ofthe security agencies here. ThePakistani outfit had spread its ten-tacles to Jammu & Kashmir,Gujarat, Mumbai (Maharashtra)and Rajasthan.
The new modus operandi of theFalah-e-Insaniyat entailed spon-sorship of marriages of girl childrenand building houses of poor peoplethrough the local agents with a hid-den agenda to develop a cadre ofmotivated youth who would even-tually be recruited for the insidiousagenda of the outfit.
Top NIA sources said there is adirect Pakistan link that hasemerged during the probe into thecase. The Falah-e-Insaniyat hasseveral centres in Pakistan butoperations for India were managedfrom Dubai. The outfit was oper-ating in a clandestine manner in
India to avoid the gaze of securityagencies.
"During the preliminary ques-tioning of the accused in the case,it has emerged that the money thatwas coming in as "zakat" was beingused to distribute it among the fam-ilies of terrorists, "a senior officialsaid adding the NIA is suspectingSrinagar hawala route was alsoactive for movement of cash by theoutfit in various States.
The flow of money startedfrom Pakistan and travelled toDubai through which it came toJammu & Kashmir, Rajasthan,Gujarat and Mumbai and the net-work could be present in otherStates.
The NIA cracked the case afterthe agency put surveillance on thesuspects following receipt of action-able inputs that money was cominginto India from Dubai for "charita-ble purposes".
The original input that NIAreceived was that a Pakistani nation-al based in Dubai was in touch witha person in India who turned outto be one of the accused in the case,Salman, based in Delhi who wasdirectly reviving funds from Dubai.
The Pakistani national in Dubaiwas in direct contact with thedeputy chief of JuD's charity wing.
"The Central Government hasreceived information that a Delhi-based individual Mohd Salman is inregular touch with one Dubai basedPakistani national Mohd Kamran,who in turn is connected with
Shahid Mehmood, Dy Chief ofFalah-I-Insaniat Foundation (FIF),Pakistan, a front end NGO of ter-ror group LeT and a proscribed ter-rorist organisation under the UA(P)Act. Md Salman has been receivingfunds from outside the country sentby FIF operative Mohd Kamran andhis associates through hawala oper-ators. Mohd Salman has connec-tions with persons in various coun-tries including Pakistan, UAE,Canada, Sweden, Croatia etc whichprima facie indicates that FIF is try-ing to attract group of sympathis-ers to its cause of creating unrest inIndia by collecting funds for ter-rorist activities in India," reads theFIR.
The FIR has named Lashkar-e-Tayyaba/JuD chief HafizMohammad Sayeed, ShahidMehmood, Deputy Chief of Falah-I-Insaniat Foundation (FIF)Pakistan, Mohammad Kamran,Dubai-based Pakistani nationalMohammad Salman, Indian nation-al
The NIA conducted searches atthe residence of Ajaz Ahmad Hakakin Srinagar's Nowhatta last week inconnection with the terror fundingcase.
Out of the three arrested per-son in Falah-e-insaniyat terrorfunding case, one J&k residentSajad Ahmed Wani has received �80lacs from Aizaz Ahmed Hakakthrough hawala channels. The NIAhas arrested three persons in con-nection with the case.
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Congress on Sunday dismissed the �2.5a litre cut in petrol and diesel prices
as "electoral lollipop" aimed at the fivepoll-bound States, and asked theNarendra Modi Government to bringpetroleum products under the GSTregime.
Congress spokesperson Pawan Kherasaid that oil prices have begun rising againsince the cut was effected on Thursday,adding that it showed the Government'sduplicity and hypocrisy. He questionedthe Government's claim of oil prices beingderegulated, saying they depend upon theelectoral calendar as they remainedunchanged for 17 days during theKarnataka Assembly polls, and a similarpattern was seen during the Gujarat polls.
"We reiterate our demand to bring inpetroleum products under the ambit ofGST so as to completely demolish thissheer hypocrisy of credit seeking justbefore the electoral season," he said. ThisGovernment believes in tokenism forshort term applause, he said.
After "ghar-ghar Modi" (Modi inevery home) time for "bye-bye Modi" hascome, and the Government can bring asmile on people's faces as it departs bybring petrol and diesel under the GST, hesaid.
Taking a dig at Finance MinisterArun Jaitley, whom he dubbed as full timeblogger and part time Minister, Kheraaccused him of "lying" in his claim thatthe increase in the Government's revenueis on the account of an increase in tax
base. Khera said oil companies have madeover �13 lakh crore, which is fuelling theGovernment's coffers.
The Government has used money inevent management and publicity, healleged, noting that it allocated merely�2,000 crore for the Ayushmaan Bharatscheme, a health insurance scheme for thepoor.
Since coming to power, the govern-ment has increase central excise duty onpetrol by 211 per cent and on Diesel by443 per cent, the Congress leader said.When the Congress demitted power theexcise duty on petrol was merely �9.23 alitre and has been raised by the ModiGovernment to �19.48 a litre. The exciseduty on diesel has been raised from �3.46a litre to �15.33 a litre, he said.
Even the Value Added Tax (VAT)levied by State Governments is among thehighest where the BJP is in power, he said.
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Meenu Mani (42) has cere-bral palsy (CP), a group
of disorders that affect musclemovement and coordination.So does her husband SamuelMani. But this has not deterredthe wheel-chair bound couplefrom extending helping handsto people with special needs sothat they know they are notalone.
"We are doing our bittowards creating self confi-dence among the persons withdisabilities including CP tocreate independent lives. Byraising awareness about CP, wecan help the wider communi-ty to see and understand thedifferent circumstances of oth-ers, to view this diversity as astrength and to work towardsinclusion," she said at an eventhere organised by her NGO,Yes, We Can Trust.
The occasion was theWorld Cerebral Palsy Day cel-
ebrated on October 6. The program, which was
attended by the children suf-fering with CP as well as otherdisabilities and their parentsshed light that with grit anddetermination one can excel inlife. Like Ira Singhal, India'sfirst differently abled womanUPSC topper has done.Suffering with CP herself, shefaced lots of challenges, but herdetermination kept her push-ing through.
"In our society there arelots of myths about this prob-lem, like these children can'thave good quality of life, theywill remain disable for wholelife and most of them are men-
tally retarded and can't domuch in their life and so on…But this is not entirely true," Iranoted.
Ira stressed on early inter-vention to help children lead aquality life as they grow. Morethan 70% children with mild tomoderate affection have near-ly normal IQ. They can beactive, productive members oftheir communities. They canhave jobs, live independently,marry and have children too.
The SDM Alipur said, thiscan happen only when everyparent and society identifytheir talent and give them achance to become a productivemember. Right usage of assis-
tive technologies can bring asea change in their lifestyle, saidIra.
Augusto Monteil,Ambassador of Venezuelatalked about how the rights ofthe people with special needsare enshrined in his country'sConstitution while HimadrishSuwan, chairman ofConfideration of YoungLeaders stressed on buildingaccessible society for all.
Mani (43) summed up say-ing that the community is notlooking for any help. "What we
want is support", he said,adding: "It is important toaccept as we are and steps aretaken to bring the persons withCP in mainstream and makethem independent. People yetnot have been able to under-stand the CP. Awareness andacceptance is required at everystage and level."
Nearly 15-20% of physi-cally disabled children areaffected by cerebral palsy,whereas in India, the estimat-ed incidence is around 3/1000live births.
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The Government has madeAadhaar number manda-
tory for the patients in casethey seek benefits second timeunder the recently-launchedAyushman Bharat — PradhanMantri Jan Arogya Yojana(AB-PMJAY).
In case the Aadhaar num-ber is not available, beneficia-ries have to at least providedocuments to prove that theyhave enrolled for the 12-digitunique identity number,according to a senior official inthe Union Health Ministry.
The move follows
Supreme Court order declar-ing the Aadhaar scheme asconstitutionally valid.
The officer said that as theSupreme Court order is stillbeing assessed, right now wehave decided that one shouldhave Aadhaar number or at
least documents to prove thatone has enrolled for the 12-digit unique identity numberto seek treatment under thescheme for the second time.
"To avail benefits for thefirst time, one can either showan Aadhaar or any other iden-tity document like electioncard etc," the official added.
The Ayushman Bharat-National Health ProtectionMission (AB-NHPM), whichwas renamed as AB-PMJAY,was launched pan-India by thePrime Minister fromJharkhand on September 23.
Under the scheme, theGovernment aims at providing
a coverage of �5 lakh perfamily annually, benefitingmore than 10.74 crore poorfamilies for secondary andtertiary care hospitalisationthrough a network ofEmpanelled Health CareProviders (EHCP).
The PMJAY will providecashless and paperless accessto services for the beneficiaryat the point of service.
Over 14,000 hospitals bothpublic and private, have beenempanelled for the scheme,and as many as 32 States andunion territories have signedMoUs with the Centre and willimplement the programme.
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The Centre has decided togive a special treatment
and high comfort level toPravasi Bharatiya who intendsto visit to the Kumbh Mela inAllahabad early next year. TheGovernment has instructedrailways to activate its vastresources and scale up deploy-ment of such trains to carry upto 5,000 delegates who will bein Prayagraj in Allahabad.
In this regard the IndianRailways has firmed up plansto run special 'Pravasi Bharti'trains between Allahabad andDelhi to ferry delegates of thePravasi Bharatiya Divas.
Railway officials said thenational transporter will con-vert all third AC coaches of thespecial trains to second ACcoaches for providing morecomfort to delegates. The 15th
Pravasi Bhartiya Divas will beheld in Prime MinisterNarendra Modi's constituencyVaranasi from January 21 to 23.
The Indian diasporaattending the event will get anopportunity to participate inthe 'Kumbh Snan', prepara-tions for which have beenmade at the sangam for the del-egates. Those interested in par-ticipating in the holy bath haveto register on the PravasiBhartiya Divas website tillNovember 15.
While the Kumbh will betaking place from January 14 toMarch 4, 2019, in Allahabad inwhich railways will be ferryinglakhs of devotees from acrossthe country for their holy dips,the date for the delegates to visitthe Kumbh will be January 24.
The Indian railways offi-cials are however apprehensiveabout the journey as heavy fog
during peak winters is likely todelay trains on the route. Theshortest distance between thetwo cities is approximately 630km and minimum time a traintakes to reach Allahabad fromNew Delhi is 6h 44m.
Keeping in view the largenumber of pilgrims who willtravel to Allahabad at thattime, railways will also increasethe frequency of trains betweenthe two cities. The delegateswill be accommodated atPrayagraj and railways' cateringarm, IRCTC will provide com-plementary dinner and break-fast to them.
A meeting for a review ofplans for the PravasiyaBharatiya Divas delegates hasbeen scheduled by the MEA onMonday, which will be attend-ed by representatives of allministries associated with theevent including the railways.
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In order to meet the require-ment of 100 per cent EVM-
VVPATs across approximately10.6 lakh polling stations forthe upcoming Lok SabhaElection in 2019, the ElectionCommission is making manda-tory first level checks and train-ing to district officers for theproper conduct of elections andto bring transparency.
Around 22.3 lakh BallotUnits, 16.3 lakh Control Unitsand nearly 17.3 lakh VVPATs
will be used for the forthcom-ing elections in 2019, which arebeing manufactured by thetwo PSUs — ElectronicsCorporation of India Limited(ECIL) and Bharat ElectronicsLimited (BEL).
The commission said thatEVM management Softwarewill be pilot tested in the forth-coming Assembly elections inselect Districts namely Ajmer,Indore, Durg, Aizawl andMehboobnagar.
According to EC, the EVMVVPAT inventory is securely
managed through a robusttracking system to track alloperations on machine move-ment, First Level Checks, ran-domisation, poll day defects.
Use of EVMs ended thedays of booth capturing and thedelays and errors in counting ofballot papers. Even during theuse of ballot paper, large num-ber of votes in each Assemblyconstituency ended up beinginvalid. The specially designedthermal paper to be used in theVVPAT is capable of retainingthe printout for more than
five years so that the printoutis available for manual verifi-cation by the Court,if requiredin need of a dispute for crosschecking the counting of votescast.
"This time, to bring moretransparency in elections, EChas decided to use VVPATswhich allows the voters to ver-ify that their votes are cast asintended, as the VVPAT slipswill be visible to the voter forseven seconds behind thetransparent screen of VVPAT,before falling into the sealed
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Even after the Governmentof India started deporting
Rohingyas, illegal immigrantsfrom Myanmar, to their nativecountry, a large number ofthem staying in Jammu con-tinue to live 'safely' all alongthe periphery of Sunjwanarmy station and other vitalsecurity installations in dif-ferent parts of Jammu.
According to the stateHome department recordsmade available in the stateassembly during the Budgetsession this year, "a totalnumber of 6,523 Rohingyaswere camping across 39 loca-tions in five districts of the State".
In contrast to this varioussocio-politico organsationsallege their actual numberscould be much more thanrecorded in the record booksof the State Home Department.
According to the officialsources in the State HomeDepartment, the State PoliceDepartment is yet to preparean upgraded list of Rohingyas.
Even repeated remindersby the Union Home MinisterRajnath Singh, directing the
State Government to collecttheir bio metrics, has failed toalert them.
According to officialsources, "the majority popu-lation of these Rohingyas iscircling around Sunjwan armycamp, attacked by Pakistanbased 'fidayeen' squad onFebruary 10, 2018".
Preliminary investigationsconducted in the case hadclearly suggested role of someover ground workers,possiblysupported by Rohingyas,behind sheltering heavilyarmed terrorists before the attack was launched fromthe rear side of the army camp.
Despite lot of hue and cryand fresh security assessmentthese illegal immigrants con-tinue to occupy prime landalong the boundary wall ofarmy camp posing a seriousthreat to the security of thevital army installation.
Till date no action hasbeen taken by any other StateGovernment agency to relo-cate them to any other loca-tion to ensure safety of strate-gically important defenceinstallation.
Ironically, when DefenceMinister Nirmala Sitharamanhad visited the encounter site
it was brought in to her noticethat rampant constructionactivity was going on in andaround Sunjwan military station.
She was also informedthat illegal immigrants, settledin the close vicinity, continueto pose a threat as they arevulnerable to black mail byover ground workers of terroroutfits establishing theirsleeper cel ls in and around Jammu.
In the last eight monthseven the senior army author-ities have failed to convincethe State Government to atleast relocate these illegalimmigrants from the closevicinity of strategically impor-tant defence installations.
The issue of resettlementof illegal immigrants hasalready become bone of con-tention between the differentpolitical parties of the State.
On one hand the main-stream political parties fromKashmir valley adopt softapproach towards their con-tinuation within the statewhile Jammu based politicalparties and their leaders havebeen spearheading a cam-paign to relocate them at theearliest outside the State border.
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The by-election in three LokSabha and two Assembly
constituencies in Karnataka isan acid test for the coalitionGovernment of the Congressand the JD(S) led by ChiefMinister HD Kumaraswamy.
The byelection announcedby the Election Commissionto be held on November 3 isseen as an indication of polit-ical wind ahead of the 2019general elections. So much sothe fragile coalition is testingthe waters.
Even though all the polit-ical parties are questioning thewisdom in declaring byelec-tions in three Lok Sabha con-stituencies just a few monthsahead of general elections in2019, it is obvious it is going tohave an impact on the politi-cal situation in the State.
Kumaraswamy (JD-S)who took the mantle with justover 30 seats with the help ofCongress with 77 seats defeat-ing the BJP with 104 seats inthe 2018 Assembly polls has toprove his political acumen tokeep his relationship with theCongress, a house terriblydivided over the decision ofthe high command to alignwith the JD(S).
Bypoll for Ramanagaraand Jamakhandi assemblyseats and three Lok Sabhaseats of Ballari, Mandya andShivamogga will be held onNovember 3. Shivamogga LokSabha seat had fallen vacantdue to the resignation of BJPleader, Yeddyurappa,Sriramulu(BJP) had resignedhis Ballari seat, while Mandyaseat had been vacated byJD(S) leader, CS Puttaraju,af ter gett ing elected to the assembly.
The bypoll to assemblyseats of Jamakhandi andRamanagara is necessitateddue to the death ofJamakhandi MLA, SidduNyam Gowda, and retention
of Channapatna seat by chiefminister, H D Kumaraswamy,who had registered victoriesfrom two seats.
Karnataka PradeshCongress Committee (KPCC)President, Dinesh Gundu Raofelt there was no need to holdby elections for vacant LokSabha seats. Speaking at a pressconference he said that electionfor Lok Sabha seats could havebeen held during the generalelection itself. However he saidthe issue of having pact withJD(S) for this election has notyet been discussed.
Senior BJP leader and for-mer Minister S Sureshkumar ina face book post questioned theneed for the by elections aheadof 2019 polls within three orfour months.
After the breakup of BSPfrom the Mahaghatbhandhansenior Congress leader andDalit leader from KarnatakaMallikharjuna Kharge calledfor "like-minded parties" tocome together to defeat the rul-ing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)Government in the impendingelections.
It was just three monthsback at the swearing in cere-mony of Kumaraswamy manynetas showed unity by holdinghands which include Mayawatiof BSP and others.
But it is politically intrigu-ing that whether Devegowdawill have a pre poll alliance withthe Congress or wil he goalone. However many Congressleaders within the party are nothappy to go with the JDs whichis always seen as anti-Congressparty.
Meanwhile SeniorCongress leader and LocalBodies Minister in theKarnataka Government,Ramesh Jarkiholi, who hasshown the red flag against theleadership has drawn flak forskipping five Cabinet meetingsin a row despite holding a keyportfolio.
The Minister has offered astartling reason for his absence:"I will not attend the meetingstill God answers my prayers."According to reports, Jarkiholi,along with his younger broth-er and MLA Satish Jarkiholi,are upset with the Congress'high command.
According to BJP insidersYeddyurappa is planning tofield his son BY Raghavendrafrom Shivamogga parliamen-tary seat.
Raghavendra had vacatedthe Shikaripura seat for hisfather in 2018 assembly polls.Congress is expected to filedformer minister KagoduThimmappa or KimmaneRathnakara.
In Mandya, JD(S) is con-sidering IRS officer LakshmiAshwin Gowda orKumaraswamy’s son NikhilGowda.
The by-elections havebecome family affair and it setthe direction and mood of thepeople for the 2019 generalpolls. The elected candidateswill have only three to fourmonths and parties are ques-tioning the need for the byelections.
According to ChiefElectoral Officer (CEO) SanjivKumar With the announce-ment of by-elections in threeparliamentary and twoAssembly constituencies, themodel code of conduct hascome into force with immedi-ate effect.
He said Measures are beingput in place to ensure it is notviolated by political parties,candidates, bureaucrats andthe media.
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Thiruvananthapuram: Therepresentatives of Sabarimalatemple's 'tantri' (chief priest) willnot attend a conciliation meet-ing called by Kerala ChiefMinister Pinarayi Vijayan to dis-cuss the September 28 SupremeCourt verdict that threw openthe temple to women of allages,it was announced on Sunday.
"Let us hear the final deci-sion of the State Governmentwith regard to the filing of areview petition against theapex court's verdict. Once thatis known, then we will decideon what needs to be done. Todeploy female police personnelin the temple premises is a vio-lation of the temple practices,"Sabarimala priest KantararuMohanaru told the media.
The meeting is scheduledto be held on Monday.
Following the verdict,Vijayan had categorically saidthat no review petition wouldbe filed and the StateGovernment will do all thethings needed to implement it.
Things went out of controlafter the State Governmentand the Travancore DevasomBoard (TDB), who is the cus-todian of the temple, decidednot to file the petition leadingto hundreds of devotees takingto the streets in protest.
A. Padmakumar, a seniorCommunist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader andTDB President, said the Boardwas initially keen to file thereview petition, but after being
openly chided by Vijayan, theydecided not to.
Rahul Eashwar, anothermember of the tantri family,said that they have nothingagainst the VijayanGovernment but their prioritywas the emotional attachmentof the devotees. "The key stake-holders of the temple are theState Government and the TDBand if they do not file a reviewpetition, then there will be nolocus standi to other reviewpetitions. The need of the houris that these two parties shoulddo the needful," said Eashwar.
The decision to boycottMonday's meeting was takenafter detailed consultations withthe powerful Nair Service Societythe socio-cultural body of theHindu Nair community.
The Pathanamthitta district(where the temple is located), isobserving a shutdown on Sundayto protest the use of police forceagainst the youth wing of the BJPwhile they staged a demonstra-tion on Saturday.
On September 28, in a 4:1judgment, the apex court saidthe ban on women in themenstruating age group,whose presence in the LordAyyappa temple was consid-ered to be "impure", violatedtheir fundamental rights andconstitutional guarantee ofequality.
Until now, girls below 10years and women over 50years were allowed to visit thehilltop shrine. IANS
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Aspecial anti-encroachmentcell has been established
here to retrieve and safeguardforest land from land grabbersin Jammu region, an officialspokesman said on Sunday.
Divisional Commissioner,Jammu, Sanjeev Vermadirected the constitution ofthe special cell.
Members of the cellinclude Jammu divisional for-est officer, assistantCommissioner (revenue), sub-divisional magistrate (south),joint director forest protectionforce, sub-divisional police offi-cer and Jammu DevelopmentAuthority (JDA) officials.
The decision to set up thecell was taken at a high-levelinter-departmental coordina-tion meeting of revenue, police,JDA and forest officials, chairedby Principal ChiefConservator Forests (PCCF)Suresh Chugh here onSaturday.
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The Mumbai Congress onSunday launched a 'hoard-
ing war' blaming the BharatiyaJanata Party Government forthe ongoing stock market crisesin the wake of the IL&FS devel-opments.
More than 250 hoardingscame up all over the country'sfinancial capital, highlightingthe bloodbath witnessed in thepast few days in the crashingstock markets with Sensex andNifty indices plunging, whichresulted in losses of lakhs ofcrores of rupees for investorsand traders.
"There's a complete chaosin the Indian stock markets...Within barely a fortnight, theSensex crashed by over 3,000points and Nifty by 1,600points. This has resulted in awipeout of �15 lakh crore ofinvestors' monies," said
Mumbai Congress PresidentSanjay Nirupam.
Added to this is the depre-ciation of the Rupee vis-A-visthe USD, now at over �74, thegalloping fuel prices, besidesother financial misgovernanceof Prime Minister NarendraModi's rule that has destroyedlakhs of small investors, he said.
"For this entire financialand economic crises whichhave resulted in the com-moners losing their savings,Modi must apologise to thenation. We have also demand-ed a White Paper on theIL&FS crises, but the govern-ment has not reacted,"Nirupam said.
The hoardings have comeup at prominent public places,railway stations, the twonational highways slicingthrough the city, major land-marks, railway stations andother important junctions.
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Atribal insurgent was shotdead by people suspected
to be of a rival group, policesources said on Sunday.
The victim was identifiedas S Paomei of Thangla village.He was accosted and gunneddown near the Keithelmanbipolice station.
He was a 'captain' of theoutlawed Zeliangrong UnitedFront.
Police sources said that anoutlawed tribal outfit, which isat loggerheads with the ZUF, issuspected to be behind thekilling.
No arrests have beenmade so far.
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Vadodara: Gujarat ChiefSecretary JN Singh and otherofficials on Sunday visited thesite of the Sardar Patel memo-rial in Narmada district, about90 kilometres from here, to takestock of the work.
The 182-metre tall Statueof Unity, located about 3.32kilometres from the SardarSarovar Dam at Kevadiya, isscheduled to be inaugurated onOctober 31 by Prime MinisterNarendra Modi.
"We visited the site to takestock of the project and ensureits timely completion. It will beready for inauguration onOctober 31. It will emerge as aworld class tourist destina-tion," Singh said.
The memorial is beingbuilt at an estimated cost of�3,000 crore under the PublicPrivate Partnership model byconstruction firm Larsen andToubro and the state-runSardar Sarovar NarmadaNigam Ltd (SSNNL).
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The long-drawn Maoistinsurgency in the country
will be "completely erased" intwo to three years, UnionHome Minister Rajnath Singhdeclared here on Sunday.
Addressing the 26thanniversary of the RapidAction Force (RAF), a spe-cialised wing of the CentralReserve Police Force (CRPF),the Minister said the situationhad changed and the Maoistswere now confined to only 10or 12 districts.
"We will get news within 2-3 years that Maoism has beencompletely erased," said Singh,who represents Lucknow in theLok Sabha.
Praising the CRPF's role inMaoist affected areas, Singhsaid the 3.5 lakh-strong forcehad neutralized 131 Maoiststhis year between January andSeptember 20 and caughtanother 1,278.
"A total of 58 Maoists hadto surrender before the CRPF.The force also recovered ahuge cache of arms and ammu-nition this year besides �1.29crore in cash."
In the process, the killingof security personnel in Maoisthubs had drastically fallen.
A Maoist insurgency rag-ing in parts of India since1967 has claimed thousands oflives. Maoists are now knownto be most active inChhattisgarh, Madhya Pradeshand Jharkhand.
Jammu & Kashmir, heasserted, would always be withIndia.
"Kashmir is ours, it wasours and it will be ours. Nopower of the world can snatchit from us," he said.
Reminding that RAF dealswith riots, major law and orderissues as well as relief and res-cue operations, Singh said"rapid action" did not mean"reckless action".
"The force should under-stand how to behave, howmuch pressure it should createand when this should be cre-ated."
The Minister said the secu-rity forces were "civilized" andnot "brutal".
The RAF has been "usingminimum force and producingmaximum result".
Singh lauded the CRPF'sattempt in maintaining a bal-ance while dealing withKashmir. "If some Kashmiriyouths do things they shouldnot because they are instigatedby some people, you handlethem properly as you feel thatthey belong to our country.
"But if any person indulgesin terrorist activity, no power inthe world can stop you fromneutralizing that person."
The Minister said militantincidents had decreased inJammu and Kashmir and thatsecurity forces had been givinga befitting reply to the terrorists.
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Thiruvananthapuram: Heavyrain has been forecast in Kerala,under the influence of a depres-sion over Arabian sea which islikely to intensify into a deepdepression and further into acyclonic storm over the nexttwo days.
The depression over south-east and adjoining east-centralArabian Sea moved further west-north westward and lay centredSunday about 1,340 km east-southeast of Salalah (Oman),1,250 km east-south east ofSocotra Islands (Yemen) and 940km west-northwest of Minicoy(Lakshadweep Islands), a releasefrom IMD office here said.
It is very likely to intensi-fy further into a deep depres-sion during next 12 hours andinto a cyclonic storm duringsubsequent 24 hours, therelease said.
The system was expectedto move west-north westwards
towards South Oman andadjoining Yemen coast in nextfive days. Rainfall at mostplaces with heavy spells at iso-lated areas is very likely tooccur in Kerala during next 48hours, the release added.
Squally wind speed reach-ing 40-50 kmph gusting to 60kmph is very likely overLakshadweep and southeastArabian Sea during next 24hours and over eastcentralArabian Sea during next 48hours, the release added.
The Kerala governmenthas stepped up its vigil in viewof the possibility of heavy rains.
Kerala had been devastatedby floods in August this yearleaving a trail of unprecedenteddestruction and had forced peo-ple to take refuge in relief camps.The South-west monsoon hadclaimed 493 lives in the floods,the worst in the last 100 years.
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Around 35 exotic birds andanimals smuggled into India
from Bangkok via Myanmarwere seized by DRI personnel atthe city's international airportand two persons were arrested,an official said on Sunday.
The Directorate of RevenueIntelligence (DRI) officialsintercepted the consignmentvalued around �85.55 lakh onSaturday and handed over theseized animals and birds to theKolkata Zoo authorities forsafe custody.
"The cargo was booked inthe name of Domnic JacobSequeira of Pune, who alongwith an accomplice was foundwaiting to receive the con-signment. Both were arrestedwhen they were trying to loadthe five cages containing thebirds and animals in a vehicle,"a DRI official said.
The official said that DRI'sAizawl zonal unit had identi-fied one Lalfingkima Sailo forinvolvement in the smuggling
of the birds and animalsthrough the India-Myanmarborder at Zokhtawar inMizoram. A follow-up actionwas underway in Pune.
These are four whitecockatoos, one yellow-tailedblack cockatoo, five Eclectusparrots, 12 grey parrots, oneblue yellow macaw, one silvermacaw, one knobbed hornbill,two birds-of-paradise, fourcassowary chicks, two blackand white ruffed lemurs, onebaby marmoset and oneBengal cat.
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Amajority of BengalPradesh Congress leaders
are against party presidentRahul Gandhi and SoniaGandhi joining the unitedOpposition rally called byMamata Banerjee.
Though no PCC leaderwould go on record saying,“any decision would be takenby the high command” andthat “the State unit has alwaysfollowed the top leadership’sdecisions,” inside sources saidthat some senior State leadershave virtually extracted wordsfrom national leader RanjitSurjewala that Akbar Roadwill not circumvent the PCC intaking any decision regardingMamata Banerjee.
“We have not only been dec-imated by the TrinamoolCongress in Bengal — not bypolitical means but brute forceand money power — but also weare being subjected to humilia-tion every day. How can we takethis?” asked a senior PCC leaderand an office-bearer adding, “ifwe continue to capitulate beforeTMC like this then soon therewill be no Congress person leftin Bengal.”
Sources said though thehigh command does not wantto ignore Banerjee at a timewhen both Mayawati andAkhilesh Yadav have decidedto contest the coming
Assembly elections inRajasthan, MP andChhattisgarh without holdingthe ‘hand’ they are also notunaware of the fomentinganger among the grassrootsworkers in Bengal Congress.
“Workers of almost theentire Nadia district haveswitched sides to the BJP.Similar is the condition inBirbhum, East Midnaporeand other places. If we have tosave the Congress from fur-ther decay we will have to takeinto account the sentiments ofthe grassroots workers,” saida PCC leader and a former Minister.
The Bengal Chief Ministerhas called a rally of all the anti-BJP parties at Kolkata’s historicBrigade Parade Ground.Among the key political fig-ures invitees (including likelyinvitees) in the January 19 rallyare National Conference lead-ers Farooq Adullah, his sonOmar Abdullah, Gujarat lead-ers Jignesh Mewani andHardik Patel, Andhra PradeshChief Minister ChandrababuNaidu, his Delhi counterpartArvind Kejriwal andTelengana Chief Minister KChandrasekhar Rao.
The Trinamool Congresschief has also said that shewill invite her Kerala coun-terpart and CPI(M) leaderPinarai Vijayan and CPI’s DRaja. “We have invited all
non-BJP parties. We havealso managed to secure per-mission for the BrigadeParade grounds. Some of theleaders have confirmed theirparticipation too,” the ChiefMinister recently said.
At a time when theMayawati and Akhilesh Yadavare raising doubts over theCongress’ true intention toshare power and uphold a truenational alliance based on equi-ty and equality Banerjee’s biggestweapon could be a rally and aphoto op for the anti-BJP oppo-sition leaders that could in thefinal run catapult her to the cen-tre stage, experts feel.
According to sources theChief Minister is also planningto invite Mayawati andAkihilesh Yadav to her rally,insiders said.
On whether the Congresswants Banerjee to leave someseats (at least four seats) forthe party’s top leadership tojoin the January rally, a PCCleader who nourishes softerview on Banerjee said “we donot want to break a move tounite the opposition partiesbut that should not be done byhumiliating the others. TheChief Minister has alreadysaid that the TMC will contestall the seats in Bengal alone.If that be so then how can sheexpect the parties like theCongress and even the Left toattend her rally.”
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The Nana Patekar-TanushreeDutta spat reached a flash
point on Sunday with theactress formally lodging a com-plaint against the senior actorfor allegedly subjecting her tosexual harassment during afilm shoot eight years ago andPatekar indicating his plans toaddress a news conference onMonday to rebut the seriouscharges against him.
Hours after the Patekar’sreturn from Jaipur in Rajasthanwhere he was shooting for hisupcoming film 'Housefull 4',Tanushree took the battle to theenemy’s camp by lodging thecomplaint against the seniormale actor who she alleged“was grabbing me by the armsand pushing me...when he wastouching indecently...I felt veryuncomfortable because of hisbehaviour...I felt he has out-raged my modesty.”
Patekar found himself onthe defensive, when the mediapersons buttonholed for hiscomment on the raging con-troversy on his arrival in thecity from Jaipur on Saturday."Jo jhooth hai, woh jhooth hai(A lie is a lie)....Dus saal pehleiska jawaab de chuka hoon (Ihad said this 10 years ago),"Patekar said, as he boarded hiscar to head to his
Lokhandwada residence.Sources close to Patekar
said on Sunday that he plannedto address a news conference atCelebration Sports Club atLokhandwala Complex innorth Mumbai at 3 pm onMonday to rebut the chargesagainst him and clarify hisstand on the issues raised byTanushree.
Late on Saturday evening,Tanushree lodged a complaintwith the Oshiwara police sta-tion against Patekar under sec-tions 354 (Assault or criminalforce to women with intent tooutrage her modesty), 354-A(Assault or use of criminalforce with intent to disrobe her)and section 509 (word, gestureor act intended to insult themodesty o a woman) of IndianPenal Code.
In her complaint,Tanushreee also named chore-ographer Ganesh Acharya, pro-ducer Samee Siddiqui, directorRakesh Sarang and some MNSworkers who allegedly dam-aged her car and pulled her outof her car.
In her complaint,Tanushree alleged that the inci-dent took place on March 26,2008 during the shooting of asong in the film “Horn OkPleaseee” . The entire was to bepicturised on the actress, whilePatekar had only line in thesong. She said that before theshoot, she had made it clear tothe producer and director thatshe would not enact or perform
any lewd, vulgar or uncom-fortable steps in the particularsong.
“On the 4th day of theshoot, 26th March 2008, whileshooting was going on, NanaPatekar’s behaviour was inap-propriate towards me. He wason the set despite his work inthe song being over and he wasgrabbing me by the arms andpushing me around on thepretext of teaching me how todance. When he was teachingindecently and unnecessarily,then I felt very uncomfortablebecause of his behaviour and Ifelt he has outraged my mod-esty,” Tanushree alleged.
“He told the choreograph-er and other junior artists toback away so that he couldteach me the dance stepsthrough he was not a choreo-grapher and he was notrequired during the choreog-raphy as per my previousrehearsals,” the actress added.
“After the incident, I wasunder tremendous shock, Isuffered psychological trauma,was unable to take up work,suffered huge monetary lossesin crores and therefore I decid-ed to take action through filmindustry by lodging a writtencomplaint with the Cine andTV Artistes Association. TheAssociation decided the matterand passed the order withoutconsidering my complaint forap0logy,” Tanushree stated inher police complaint.
Actress Shilpa Shetty-
undra, who was among the firstof the Bollywood personalitiesto extend support to TanushreeDutta, once again threw herweight behind the latter foropenly sharing her storyagainst the senior actor.
The ‘Hear Me. Love Me.’host said: ” Women should notfeel weak or they shouldn’tblame themselves and rather bestrong today. ..We don’t knowthe nitty-gritties of the incidentbut it has kick-started a move-ment. People have suffered.It’s time women wake up andtake charge. It shouldn’t behashtag MeToo, it should be#YouToo, for the men. It’sshouldn’t be the women, cow-ing down and saying oh#MeToo”.
“In any milieu, actors,entrepreneurs, the workingenvironment should feel safe.That should be a prerequisite.This entire movement whichhas been initiated by TanushreeDutta, my heart goes out to her,as a woman and on a humanlevel because something likethis was brushed under the car-pet,” Shilpa told a news agency.
Earlier, a host of film per-sonalities including TwinkleKhanna, Farhan Akhtar,Priyanka Chopra, SwaraBhasker, Sonam Kapoor,Ayushmann Khurrana andFreida Pinto had openly sup-ported Tanushree in her fightagainst sexual harassment thatshe allegedly suffered at thehands of Patekar.
Meanwhile, beleagueredactor Nana Patekar has foundsupport from an unexpectedquarters. Hundreds of widowsof debt-ridden farmers, whocommitted suicide in recentyears, have rallied behind theactor in his hour of need.
Working under the bannerof the Vidarbha Farm WidowsAssociation, the farmers’ wid-ows staged a demonstration atPandharkavada village inYavatmal district on Saturdaydemanding an end to "the vic-timization of our brother NanaPatekar." The demonstratorsmade bonfire of an effigy andphotographs of Tanushree.
The demonstrators wereled by KBC-fame AparnaMalikar and other prominentactivists Bharati Pawar, AnjuBhusari, Geeta Rathore,Vandara Gavande, ArchanaRaut, Kavita Sidam, RanjanaKhadse, Kamal Surpam, UmaJiddewar, Sheela Mandavgade,Chandrakala Meshram,Poornima Pokulwar, BabitaAgarkar, Jyoti Jiddewar, RamaThamke, Vandana Shende,Ranjana Gurnule and others.
The demonstrators raisedslogans in favour of Patekar,who has been helping the farm-ers’ widows financially througha non-government organisa-tion. They said Dutta is "unnec-essarily defaming Patekar - afather-figure -- who has helpedthe cause of the crisis-hit wid-ows for several years" to helpthem secure justice.
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Ahead of the crucial firstphase of the Urban Local
Bodies (ULB) elections inJammu and Kashmir, theauthorities said elaborate secu-rity and logistic arrangementshave been put in place toensure smooth conduct of thepolls. The elections are beingheld in the backdrop of boycottcalls from separatists groups,militants’ threats and unprece-dented decision of two promi-nent mainstream political par-ties to stay away.
The security forces inten-sified vehicle checking, friskingof pedestrians and area domi-nation in the Srinagar city andother poll-bound urban pock-ets in Kashmir Valley to avertany untoward incident or pos-sible attacks by the militants.Several check points have beenset up to check private andpublic transport vehicles.Sniffer dogs were also seenassisting the checking proce-dures.
The first phase of the pollsis taking place on Monday. Theelections to 2 municipal cor-porations, 3 municipal councilsand 72 municipal committeesin the state shall be covered infour phases from 8 to 16October.
The polling will be held on08, 10, 13 and 16 Octoberrespectively, while as the dateof counting will be October 20.The polling hours will be from7 am to 4 pm and the processof election will complete on 27October.
In the first phase, the pollshave been scheduled to beheld in three wards of SrinagarMunicipal Corporation besides
covering MunicipalCommittees of Kupwara,Handwara, Bandipora andBaramulla in north Kashmir;Municipal Committees ofBudgam, Chadoora and KhanSahib in central Kashmir andKulgam, Devsar, Achabal,Kokernag and Qazigund insouth Kashmir. In addition, thepolls are scheduled forMunicipal Committees ofKargil and Leh in the firstphase.
The government has for-mulated unprecedented secu-rity plan for the smooth con-duct of upcoming Urban LocalBodies (ULB) and Panchayatelections in the state. The plancovers safety and security ofboth contestants and the votersin most sensitive areas inKashmir and elsewhere in theState.
Adequate arrangements forthe security of the candidates,their personal security as wellas the accommodation arrange-ments have been made. Areadomination, checking andoperations have been goingon to ensure general sense ofsecurity. Additional 400 com-panies of central security forceswould be deployed in the stateover and above the securityforces already stationed.
On Saturday, GovernorSatya Pal Malik reviewed thesecurity situation in the stateahead of the first phase of themunicipal elections. The meet-ing was attended by top offi-cials from Army, Police, CRPF,intelligence agencies and civiladministration.
In an unprecedented move,the government employeesdeployed on election dutywould be paid a month’s addi-
tional salary.There are no prominent
faces who are contesting in themunicipal elections thoughseveral women candidatesbelonging to Congress and BJPare in the fray. Most of the can-didates including women inKashmir region are contestingas independents.
The two main regionalpolitical parties NationalConference and PeoplesDemocratic Party have decid-ed to boycott the elections asthey have asked the CentralGovernment to clear its standon the issue of Article 35-A andtake steps for its protection.The Communist Party of India(CPI) also decided against par-ticipating in the polls keepingin view the prevailing situationin the valley.
The State Congress after
deferring the decision forsometime, of late announced itsparticipation in the upcomingPanchayat and Municipal elec-tions. The BJP and otherJammu based smaller partiesare also participating in theupcoming elections.
Pertinently, more than adozen Panchayat Ghars most-ly in south Kashmir regionbesides in central and northKashmir areas have comeunder attack following theannouncement of Panchayatelections. Unknown personshave set ablaze the PanchayatGhars and also attempted to seton fire some more PanchayatGhars in these areas.
On Friday, unidentifiedmilitants shot dead two work-ers of National Conferencewhile another activist was alsoinjured in the attack at their
residence in old Srinagar area.Petrol bomb attacks were alsocarried out by unknown per-sons at the residences of twoindependent candidates forULB elections in the two dif-ferent localities of old Srinagarcity last week.
Separatist grouping, JointResistance Leadership (JRL)comprising Syed Ali Geelani,Mirwaiz Umar Farooq andYasin Malik, has called forelection boycott and shutdownon the first polling day. Themilitant outfit HizbulMujahideen has also threat-ened action against the con-testants and the participants inthe ULB and Panchayat elec-tions. Yasin Malik was detainedand lodged in local jail sever-al days ago while Geelani andMirwaiz are held under house-arrest.
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Amassive cordon andsearch operation (CASO)
was launched by a joint teamof security forces in half adozen vil lages of southKashmir's Shopian districton Sunday. The operationconcluded without any occur-rence of clashes or untowardincident. Sources said thatSindho Shirmal, Balpora,Ganowpora, Barthipor,Wathoo and Chak villages ofthe area were cordoned off.
They said the operationwas launched on the basis ofpresence of armed militants
in the cluster of villages.The high speed mobile
internet services in southKashmir region continuedto remain snapped ahead ofthe upcoming civic polls inthe Valley.
The mobile internet ser-vices were suspended in fourdistr icts of Anantnag,Kulgam, Pulwama andShopian since Saturdayevening.
Only 2 G internet andbroadband services remainedoperational in the regionwith intermittent disruption.
Authorities said the highspeed internet services weresnapped as a precautionarysecurity measure.
The internet suspensioncomes four days after lowspeed internet services wererestored in Shopian andPulwama.
The districts stayed offline to curb circulation of res-ignations posted by SPOsand policemen through socialmedia networking sites fol-lowing the killing of threepolicemen by militants inShopian district last month.
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Around 190 polling stationshave been designated as
hypersensitive in embattledJammu and Kashmir wherepolling would be held in thefirst phase of municipal pollson Monday. Most of them arein Kashmir Valley.
Chief Electoral Officer(CEO) Shaleen Kabra said thatin the first phase of MunicipalPolls-2018 voting will takeplace at 820 polling stationsacross the State.
“In Kashmir Division 138polling stations have been cat-egorized as hypersensitivewhile in Jammu Division 52polling stations have been cat-egorised hypersensitive,” hesaid and added that for thePhase-I, 78 candidates havealready been elected unop-posed.
The CEO said 1204 can-didates are in the fray for 321Municipal Wards in Phase-I,including 83 in Kashmir divi-sion and 238 in Jammu divi-sion.
“The total electorate forPhase-I is 586064,”he saidand added that BasicMinimum Facilities (BMF)have been ensured in all thepolling stations across theState for voting.
He said Photo Voter Slipshave already been distributedamong the voters to informthem of their polling station.
Kabra said senior govern-ment officers have beenappointed as GeneralObservers to oversee thesmooth, fair and orderly con-duct of polls.
“Expenditure Observersare also keeping a watch on theexpenditure by the candi-dates,” he said and added thatfor the poll day MicroObservers have been deployedin polling stations, particular-ly those considered sensitive/hypersensitive.
“Besides, the Zonal andSector Magistrates have beendeployed to ensure smoothconduct of polls as well as mon-itoring the entire process,” CEOsaid and added that the DeputyCommissioners are undertak-ing Videography of all criticalevents related to the pollprocess.
Kabra said Control Roomshave been established in all theMunicipal Bodies across theState to respond promptly toany complaints of violation ofthe Model Code of Conduct(MCC) as also to disseminateinformation to the public.
He said adequate securityarrangements have been madefor smooth conduct of pollingacross the State.
He said the governmenthas also declared holiday onthe day of poll in the munic-ipal areas going to polls so asto enable the voters to casttheir vote.
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The game plan is yet to berevealed by either side but
the leading parties of the twoalliances in Bihar are likely toplay 20:20 in 2019 Lok Sabhaelections.
After the much-publicisedyet unconfirmed reports that inNDA the BJP would contest 20seats and give the remaining 20seats to its allies, reports comefrom maha gathbandhan orgrand alliance side, again uncon-firmed, that the RJD wouldkeep 20 seats and adjust itsalliances in the remaining 20seats.
The 20:20 formula has putthe allies of the two alliances inan uncomfortable position butthey are avoiding making anypublic reaction on the plea thatthey were still not informedabout such formula. “No for-mal talk has yet been held onthis matter,” said leader of anNDA ally who insisted thatwhatever be the seat sharingformula it should be discussedand finalised.
The RJD of Lalu Prasad,which claims to lead the maha
gathbandhan, has reportedlysounded that it would field itscandidates from 20 Lok Sabhaseats which meant that it wouldspare 20 seats to other ninepartners including Congressand possibly RLSP of UpendraKushwaha. If RLSP remainswith NDA, the seats would bedistributed among eight allies.
Apart from RJD, the alliesof maha gathbandhan includ-ed Congress, Lok TantrikJanata Dal of Sharad Yadav,Hindustani Awam Morcha(HAM) of Jitan Ram Manjhi,CPI, CPM, CPI(ML),Samajwadi Party and BSP.While one seat could be sparedfor Katihar MP Tariq Anwarwho recently resigned from theNCP, the RJD is waiting forRLSP. The Left parties, partic-ularly CPI(ML), and BSP areunlikely to accept this formu-la. Congress and HAM, whichare supposed to get eight andone seat respectively under theformula, would also not be sat-isfied as they expect more.
RJD supremo Lalu Prasad,currently in a hospital inRanchi in judicial custody, hasreportedly sent a message
through Tejahswi Prasad Yadav,who went to meet him lastweek, that the parties shouldnot insist on more seats with-out any logic and only thewinnable candidates be posi-tioned.
In 2014, the RJD won four,Congress two and NCP onewhile JD(U), which was not anally of any alliance, won twoseats. The BJP had won 22, LJPsix and RLSP three seats.
Earlier, filtered reportscoming from the NDA sidesuggested that the BJP hasalmost finalised the seat shar-ing but was restrained to makeit public in view of the resis-tance from the RLSP whichrejected offer to only two seatsto it. LJP of Ram Vilas Paswanwas also unhappy over pro-posed four seats. Bihar LJPchief and a Minister in Nitishcabinet Pashupati Kumar Parassaid in clear cut terms that hisparty would not accept lessthan six. “BJP being big broth-er should show big heart,” hesaid. As RJD is waiting forKushwaha with open arms,party has also sent out a signal,“Come early and get benefit.”
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Lucknow: Jammu & Kashmiris a part of India and it willremain so and "no power inthe world can snatch it fromus", Union Home MinisterRajnath Singh said onSunday.
"Kashmir is ours, it wasours and it will be ours. Nopower of the world can snatchit from us," the Minister saidon the occasion of 26thanniversary of the RapidAction Force (RAF), a spe-cialised wing of the CentralReserve Police Force (CRPF).
The RAF deals with riots,major law and order issues aswell as relief and rescue oper-ations. Singh also lauded the theCRPF's attempt in maintaininga balance while dealing withKashmiri people and terrorists.
"If some Kashmiri youths dothings they should not becausethey are instigated by some
people, you handle them prop-erly as you feel that they belongto our country. "But if any per-son indulges in any terroristactivity, no power in the worldcan stop you from neutralizingthat person," he added.
The Minister said militantincidents had decreased inJammu and Kashmir and thatsecurity forces had been givinga befitting reply to the terrorists.
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Police said the decisionwas taken as a preventive mea-sure to maintain law and order.
Commenting on his arrestahead of the municipal pollsscheduled on Monday, MirwaizUmer said on his Twitter page:"Under House Arrest! Peculiardemocratic process... hugedeployment of forces, PSAs,incarceration, house arrests,raids, curbs, Internet bans gath-er momentum! Not to mentionthe unknown contestants andamused public! What mockeryof democracy at display!" Themunicipal elections will be heldin four phases in Jammu andKashmir. IANS
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akis
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Soon
afte
r hi
s ap
poin
tmen
t to
the
Econ
omic
Adv
isory
Cou
ncil,
Pak
istan
Prim
e Min
ister
Imra
n Kh
an N
iazi
was
indu
ced
to r
emov
e D
r At
if M
ian
beca
use
he is
an
Ahm
adiy
ya, w
hich
is a M
uslim
'sec
t' co
nsid
ered
bla
sphe
mou
s by
mai
nstr
eam
Sun
nis.
Two
othe
r ec
onom
ists,
alth
ough
Sun
ni, n
amel
y D
r Im
ran
Rasu
l and
Dr
Asim
Ija
z K
hwaj
a, d
isapp
rove
d of
the
actio
n an
d re
signe
d. A
hmad
iyya
s be
lieve
them
selv
es t
o be
a s
ect
of I
slam
, bu
t in
Paki
stan
, ort
hodo
xy h
ad th
em ex
pelle
d so
me
50 y
ears
ago.
The
conc
ept o
f a m
inor
ity d
oes
not s
it w
ell i
n Is
lam
and
Pak
istan
was
cre
at-
ed a
s a
Mus
lim h
oly
land
or
Dar
ul I
slam
.A
nyon
e who
is n
ot a
Mus
lim is
look
ed d
own
upon
as a
non-
belie
ver o
r a k
afir
who
can
the-
oret
ical
ly b
e mad
e to
pay
jizya
and
is de
fact
oa d
him
mie
or a
‘pro
tect
ed’ o
r inf
erio
r citi
zen.
S/he
may
, of c
ours
e, be
offe
red
conv
ersio
n to
Isla
m, o
r al
tern
ativ
ely
ensla
ved
or e
xile
d or
kille
d ac
cord
ing
to d
octr
inal
law.
No
min
or-
ity, t
here
fore
, has
a fu
ture
in P
akist
an.
If th
ere w
as an
y dou
bt w
hats
oeve
r on
this
scor
e, it
was
rem
oved
by
the c
ruel
and
expe
-di
tious
man
ner
in w
hich
Hin
dus
and
Sikh
swe
re k
illed
or c
hase
d ou
t by e
arly
194
8. In
Eas
tPa
kist
an, t
he p
roce
ss w
as sl
ower
but
equ
ally
callo
us. T
his r
elig
ious
cle
ansin
g w
as c
onsis
-te
nt w
ith w
hat J
ustic
e MC
Chag
la w
rote
in h
isau
tobi
ogra
phy
entit
led,
Ro
ses
In D
ecem
ber
:“T
o Pa
kist
an e
very
thin
g is
com
mun
al. S
heca
nnot
und
erst
and
how
Hin
dus a
nd M
uslim
sca
n liv
e pe
acef
ully
and
hav
e th
e be
st o
f rel
a-tio
ns. P
akist
an’s
philo
soph
y is t
hat i
n th
e ver
yna
ture
of
thin
gs M
uslim
s m
ust
hate
the
Hin
dus
and
the
Hin
dus
mus
t ha
te t
heM
uslim
s. If
Hin
dus
and
Mus
lims
cons
titut
etw
o se
para
te n
atio
ns, t
hen
the i
nevi
tabl
e res
ult
mus
t fol
low
that
the
50 m
illio
n M
uslim
s in
Indi
a ar
e al
iens
in th
eir o
wn
hom
es.”
Follo
win
g th
e di
spos
al o
f H
indu
s an
dSi
khs,
the n
ext r
ound
of m
inor
ity p
urgi
ng w
asin
augu
rate
d ag
ains
t th
e A
hmad
iyya
s or
Qad
iani
s. D
urin
g th
e la
te 1
9th
cent
ury,
ade
vout
Mus
lim ca
lled
Mirz
a Ghu
lam
Ahm
adof
the Q
adia
n to
wns
hip
in G
urda
spur
dist
rict
of ea
st P
unja
b re
port
edly
saw
a di
vine
visi
on.
A si
gnifi
cant
num
ber o
f peo
ple
follo
wed
his
lead
ersh
ip. T
he o
rtho
dox
cler
gy, e
spec
ially
of
the
Bare
lvis
and
the
Deo
band
is, s
aw in
this
deve
lopm
ent
a ph
enom
enon
of
apos
tasy
.H
ow c
ould
any
one
dare
exp
erie
nce
a di
vine
visio
n af
ter P
roph
et M
uham
mad
had
seen
ase
ries a
nd, b
ased
on
them
, del
iver
ed th
e fin
alm
essa
ge o
f God
? The
reaf
ter,
ther
e cou
ld o
nly
be k
halif
as o
r hi
s re
pres
enta
tives
or
imam
s.Th
ere
cann
ot b
e an
othe
r di
vine
vis
ion.
Nev
erth
eless
, the
follo
wers
of G
hula
m A
hmad
cont
inue
d to
cons
ider
them
selv
es M
uslim
and
pres
sed
for
the
crea
tion
of th
e ho
ly la
nd o
rPa
kist
an a
s vo
cife
rous
ly a
s an
y ot
her
mem
-be
r of t
he M
uslim
Lea
gue.
Sir
Muh
amm
ad Z
afar
ulla
h K
han,
an
emin
ent l
awye
r, sin
gle-
hand
edly
dra
fted
the
Leag
ue’s
Paki
stan
res
olut
ion
of M
arch
23,
1940
. In
1931
-32,
he h
ad b
een
Pres
iden
t of t
heM
uslim
Lea
gue,
and
from
193
5 to
194
1 he
sat
on t
he V
icer
oy’s
Exec
utiv
e C
ounc
il. W
hen
Part
ition
hap
pene
d, h
e w
as a
judg
e of
the
Fede
ral C
ourt
of I
ndia
(the
apex
cour
t in
New
Del
hi).
Sir
Zafa
rulla
h w
as a
ppoi
nted
the
Fore
ign
Min
ister
of P
akist
an. H
e al
so re
pre-
sent
ed th
e cou
ntry
at th
e Uni
ted
Nat
ions
. Thi
sge
ntle
man
is o
nly
one e
xam
ple b
ut an
y nu
m-
ber o
f his
sect
iden
tifie
d th
emse
lves
in th
e ser
-vi
ce o
f the
ir ne
w h
oly
land
. Yet
, in
1952
, vir-
ulen
t ri
ots
wer
e ig
nite
d ag
ains
t th
eA
hmad
iyya
s an
d Si
r Za
faru
llah’s
hou
se w
asse
t on
fire a
t Lah
ore.
He s
oon
trans
ferr
ed h
im-
self
out a
nd jo
ined
the I
nter
natio
nal C
ourt
of
Just
ice
at T
he H
ague
. In
the
wak
e of
ano
th-
er ag
itatio
n in
197
7 w
hen
Zulfi
kar A
li Bh
utto
was
the P
rime M
inist
er, t
he A
hmad
iyya
s wer
ede
clar
ed n
on-M
uslim
s. So
on af
ter,
Pres
iden
t
Zia-
ul-H
aq h
ad th
e Con
stitu
tion
amen
ded
tofo
rmal
ise th
e Bhu
tto d
ecla
ratio
n. T
his p
artic
-ul
ar a
men
dmen
t rea
d, n
on-M
uslim
mea
ns a
pers
on w
ho is
not
a M
uslim
and
incl
udes
ape
rson
bel
ongi
ng t
o th
e C
hrist
ian,
Hin
du,
Sikh
, Bud
dhist
or P
arsi
com
mun
ity, a
per
son
of th
e Qad
iani
gro
up o
r the
Lah
ori s
ect,
or a
Bahá
'í, a
nd a
per
son
belo
ngin
g to
any
of t
hesc
hedu
led ca
stes.
Afte
r the
Ahm
adis
were
offi
-ci
ally
dec
lare
d no
n-M
uslim
in 1
947,
a n
ewca
mpa
ign
bega
n to
subj
ect t
he S
hias
to si
m-
ilar p
resc
riptio
ns.
On
Augu
st 1
1, 1
947,
Qua
id-e
-Aza
m M
AJin
nah
gave
his
pres
iden
tial a
ddre
ss t
o th
eC
onst
ituen
t A
ssem
bly
of P
akis
tan.
He
obse
rved
: “Yo
u ar
e fre
e to
go to
your
tem
ples
,yo
u ar
e fr
ee to
go
to y
our m
osqu
es o
r to
any
othe
r pl
aces
of
wor
ship
. In
thi
s st
ate
ofPa
kist
an, y
ou m
ay b
elon
g to
any
relig
ion
orca
ste o
r cre
ed th
at h
as n
othi
ng to
do
with
the
busin
ess o
f the
stat
e. N
ow, I
thin
k w
e sho
uld
keep
that
in fr
ont o
f us a
s our
idea
l and
you
will
find
that
in co
urse
of t
ime,
Hin
dus w
ould
ceas
e to
be
Hin
dus
and
Mus
lims
wou
ldce
ase t
o be
Mus
lims,
not i
n th
e reli
giou
s sen
se,
beca
use t
hat i
s the
per
sona
l fai
th o
f eac
h in
di-
vidu
al, b
ut in
the p
oliti
cal s
ense
as ci
tizen
s of
the
stat
e.” T
he st
atem
ent w
as a
n af
firm
atio
nof
wha
t Jin
nah
had
told
a R
eute
rsco
rres
pon-
dent
in 1
946:
The
new
stat
e wou
ld b
e a m
od-
ern
dem
ocra
tic st
ate w
ith so
vere
ignt
y re
stin
gin
the
peop
le a
nd th
e m
embe
rs o
f the
new
natio
n ha
ving
equ
al r
ight
of
citiz
ensh
ipre
gard
less
of t
heir
relig
ion,
cas
te o
r cre
ed.
In t
his
cont
ext,
Fara
hnaz
Isp
ahan
iob
serv
es: “
This
visio
n ou
tline
d by
the f
ound
erre
mai
ns u
nful
fille
d. A
t the
tim
e of
Par
titio
nin
194
7, al
mos
t 23
per c
ent o
f Pak
istan
’s po
p-ul
atio
n, w
hich
the
n in
clud
ed B
angl
ades
h,co
mpr
ised
non-
Mus
lim ci
tizen
s. Th
e pro
por-
tion
of n
on-M
uslim
s ha
s sin
ce f
alle
n to
appr
oxim
atel
y th
ree
per c
ent i
n th
e w
este
rnw
ing.
Fur
ther
mor
e, th
e di
stin
ctio
ns a
mon
gM
uslim
den
omin
atio
ns h
ave
beco
me
far
mor
e acc
entu
ated
ove
r the
year
s. G
roup
s suc
has
the S
hias
, who
acco
unt f
or o
ver 2
0 pe
r cen
tof
the
popu
latio
n, a
re o
ften
targ
eted
by
vio-
lent
extr
emist
s. A
hmad
is, b
arel
y one
per
cent
of th
e po
pula
tion,
hav
e be
en d
ecla
red
non-
Mus
lims b
y a w
rit o
f the
stat
e. M
inor
ities
such
as C
hrist
ians
, Hin
dus a
nd Si
khs h
ave b
een
the
vict
ims o
f bom
b at
tack
s on
thei
r nei
ghbo
ur-
hood
s, so
me o
f the
m h
ave b
een
conv
erte
d to
Isla
m a
gain
st t
heir
will
. Hou
ses
of w
orsh
ipha
ve b
een
atta
cked
and
bom
bed
whi
le fi
lled
with
wor
ship
pers
. Pak
istan
has
des
cend
ed to
its c
urre
nt s
tate
of
relig
ious
int
oler
ance
thro
ugh
a se
ries
of p
oliti
cal
deci
sions
by
Jinna
h’s su
cces
sors
.” (P
uri
fyin
g th
e L
an
d o
f th
eP
ure
: P
ak
ista
n’s
R
elig
iou
s M
ino
riti
es
by
Fa
rah
na
z Is
pa
ha
ni,
publ
ishe
d by
Har
per
Col
lins,
Indi
a, 2
015.
)Th
e de
scen
t be
gan
in 1
949
with
the
Con
stitu
ent A
ssem
bly d
ecla
ring
the o
bjec
tive
of P
akist
an’s
Con
stitu
tion
to b
e th
e cr
eatio
nof
an Is
lam
ic st
ate.
It re
ache
d a n
adir
with
the
‘Isla
misa
tion’
driv
e und
er G
ener
al Z
ia d
urin
gth
e 19
80s.
At
the
time
of P
artit
ion,
Chr
istia
nsth
ough
t tha
t the
div
ision
of I
ndia
had
take
npl
ace o
n th
e bas
is th
at M
uslim
s cou
ld n
ot co
-ex
ist
with
Hin
dus.
Mor
eove
r, C
hris
tians
thou
ght t
hey
wer
ea
hle
kit
ab
(pe
ople
of t
hebo
ok),
and
ther
efor
e, w
ould
not
be
hara
ssed
in P
akist
an. U
nfor
tuna
tely,
with
the
dem
iseof
Jin
nah,
the
so-
calle
d to
lera
nce
for
even
Chr
istia
ns v
anish
ed. G
ener
al Z
ia in
trod
uced
Isla
mic
law
s w
hich
wer
e op
enly
aga
inst
the
min
oriti
es. T
he m
ilita
ry ru
lers o
f Pak
istan
did
noth
ing
to co
ntro
l the
vio
lenc
e of t
he fu
nda-
men
talis
t out
fits.
Sinc
e the
n, C
hrist
ians
hav
ebe
en p
rose
cute
d an
d ki
lled
mai
nly o
n gr
ound
sof
bla
sphe
my.
Salm
an T
asee
r, a M
inist
er in
the
Shar
if G
over
nmen
t in
Punj
ab w
as as
sass
inat
-ed
. His
crim
e, a
ccor
ding
to fu
ndam
enta
lists
,w
as th
at h
e ask
ed fo
r a fa
ir tr
ial o
f Chr
istia
nsch
arge
d w
ith b
lasp
hem
y.H
indu
s and
Sik
hs w
ere t
he fi
rst t
o be
dri-
ven
out o
f Pak
istan
dur
ing
1947
-48.
A v
ery
smal
l pro
porti
on o
f the
m st
ayed
beh
ind.
The
irpo
pula
tion,
acc
ordi
ng to
est
imat
es, i
s abo
ut14
lakh
. A m
ajor
ity o
f the
m ar
e bas
ed in
Sin
d.M
any a
mon
g th
em ar
e agr
icul
tura
l lab
oure
rs.
In th
e las
t 30
year
s, w
omen
from
the c
omm
u-ni
ty h
ave
ofte
n be
en k
idna
pped
, for
ced
toem
brac
e Is
lam
and
mar
ried
off t
o M
uslim
s.
Whe
n pa
rent
s of t
hese
girl
s hav
e tr
ied
to g
etth
e st
ate
thro
ugh
polic
e an
d la
w c
ourt
s to
retu
rn th
eir a
bduc
ted
child
ren,
the r
eply
they
have
got
is th
e w
omen
em
brac
ed Is
lam
vol
-un
tari
ly a
nd m
arrie
d M
uslim
s of
thei
r ow
nvo
litio
n. T
he su
fferin
g of t
he S
hias
shou
ld n
otbe
ove
rlook
ed. T
he n
umbe
r of t
imes
they
hav
ebe
en b
ombe
d w
hile
pra
ying
in th
eir m
osqu
esis
bec
omin
g di
ffic
ult
to k
eep
trac
k of
.Ex
trem
ists
like
the
Wah
abis
have
exp
ress
eda
desir
e to
exp
el th
e Sh
ias f
rom
Isla
m; w
hat
was
ear
lier
done
with
the
Ahm
adiy
yas.
Serio
us in
tra-
Isla
mic
‘cle
ansin
g’ ef
fort
s beg
anat
the t
ime o
f Zia
. The
obv
ious
targ
et o
f bru
-ta
lisat
ion
wer
e th
e Sh
ias.
Sunn
is w
ere
pro-
voke
d to
look
upo
n th
e Sh
ia c
omm
unity
as
‘a w
orm
in th
e Mus
lim ap
ple o
f Pak
istan
’. The
requ
ired
poi
son
was
man
ufac
ture
d in
mad
rasa
hs as
soci
ated
with
the D
eoba
ndi a
ndA
hle-
Had
ith tr
aditi
ons.
As w
ritte
n by
the d
is-tin
guish
ed S
hia s
chol
ar V
ali N
asr i
n hi
s boo
k,T
he
Sh
ia R
eviv
al:
How
Con
flic
ts w
ith
in I
sla
mW
ill
Sh
ap
e th
e F
utu
re: “
The
Paki
stan
ule
ma
bega
n to
sha
re S
audi
Ara
bia’s
per
cept
ion
ofth
e Ira
nian
and
Shia
thre
at.”
The e
xten
t of t
hees
tabl
ishm
ent h
atre
d is
such
as t
hat a
Sun
niM
uslim
terr
orist
gro
up ca
lled
Sipa
h-e-
Saha
baPa
kist
an t
arge
ts a
nd k
ills
only
Shi
as a
nd is
alle
ged
to e
njoy
the
cove
rt p
atro
nage
of t
hest
ate.
Whi
ther
min
oriti
es?
(Th
e w
rite
r is
a w
ell-
know
n c
olu
mn
ist
an
da
n a
uth
or)
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Sir —
Thi
s ref
ers t
o th
e arti
cle, “
Liqu
idfu
nds:
Ladd
erin
g ca
n he
lp” (
Oct
ober
3) b
y H
ima
Bind
u K
ota.
The
Gov
ernm
ent’s
dec
ision
to
mov
e th
eN
atio
nal
Com
pany
Law
Tri
buna
l(N
CLT)
to r
emov
e ex
istin
g bo
ard
ofIn
fras
truc
ture
Lea
sing
& F
inan
cial
Serv
ices
(IL&
FS) a
nd n
omin
ate U
day
Kota
k-le
d bo
ard
to b
ail o
ut th
e de
bt-
ridde
n co
mpa
ny is
wel
com
e. Bu
t thi
s is
just
the
begi
nnin
g, a
sco
mpl
ete
revi
val
will
tak
e a
long
time.
Mai
n di
ffere
nce
betw
een
the
Saty
am a
nd IL
&FS
saga
is th
at w
hile
the
form
er w
as a
cle
ar c
ase
of fr
aud,
the l
atte
r has
mor
e to
do w
ith as
set l
ia-
bilit
y m
ismat
ch a
nd w
rong
gov
er-
nanc
e iss
ues.
Sinc
e IL&
FS h
as a
solid
asse
t bas
e, it
will
com
e han
dy in
gen
-er
atin
g ca
sh o
ut o
f it t
o ba
il ou
t the
com
pany
fro
m t
his
mes
s. Bu
t th
eG
over
nmen
t sho
uld
focu
s on
dev
el-
opin
g a
stro
ng b
ond
mar
ket t
o se
rve
the
need
s. Ba
l Gov
ind
Noi
da��
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Sir
— T
he S
upre
me
Cou
rt h
as d
one
wel
l by
allo
win
g w
omen
of a
ll ag
es to
ente
r the
Saba
rimal
a tem
ple.
How
ever
,th
e ver
dict
has
eman
ated
hea
ted
argu
-m
ents
bot
h in
fav
our
as w
ell
asag
ains
t the
ver
dict
. Th
ough
the
ten
ets
of r
elig
ious
scri
ptur
es d
id n
ot s
tipul
ate
any
emba
rgo
on w
omen
of a
ny a
ge v
isit-
ing
the S
abar
imal
a te
mpl
e, th
e agi
ta-
tors
wan
ted
the t
empl
e aut
horit
ies t
oco
nfin
e to
the
age
-old
pra
ctic
e an
dde
ny p
erm
issio
n to
wom
en to
ent
erth
e te
mpl
e.
Oth
ers
dem
and
that
wom
ensh
ould
be
allo
wed
to p
ay th
eir o
bei-
sanc
e to
Lord
Ayy
appa
as p
er th
e ver
-di
ct o
f the
apex
cour
t. U
nder
such
cir-
cum
stan
ces,
it is
bette
r to
leav
e th
ede
cisio
n-m
akin
g on
tem
ple
visit
to
wom
en t
hem
selv
es. T
he D
evas
wom
Boar
d an
d th
e G
over
nmen
t sh
ould
mak
e th
e re
quire
d ar
rang
emen
ts t
ose
e tha
t wom
en w
ho d
ecid
e to
visit
the
tem
ple a
re g
iven
adeq
uate
pro
tect
ion
and
secu
rity.
Fion
a W
alta
irC
henn
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Sir
— T
his
refe
rs t
o th
e ed
itoria
l,“C
lean
Ind
ia” (
Oco
ber
4). W
hile
it
mus
t be
agr
eed
that
the
Mod
iG
over
nmen
t has
don
e a
stup
endo
us
job
in b
uild
ing
toile
ts, b
ut k
ey is
sues
,lik
e ina
dequ
ate s
uppl
y of
wat
er, m
ak-
ing
peop
le a
ccus
tom
ed to
usin
g to
i-let
s, du
e to
whi
ch th
ey co
ntin
ue to
use
open
spac
es, m
ust b
e ad
dres
sed.
It
is al
so a
fact
that
man
ual s
cav-
engi
ng
is
stil
l ve
ry
ram
pant
.Te
chno
logi
cal i
nter
vent
ions
, suc
h as
the u
se o
f rob
ots,
like t
he o
ne d
esig
ned
by a
Kera
la-b
ased
star
t-up
need
s to
bere
plic
ated
. A
diti
Via
emai
l
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He (O
Pan
neer
selva
m) w
anted
to m
eet m
eto
oust
the C
hief M
iniste
r. Th
is sh
ows t
hedo
uble
face o
f the
AIA
DMK
leade
rship
.—
AMM
K lea
der
TTV
DHIN
AKAR
AN
I am
not p
lying
to to
pple
AIAD
MK.
I tho
ught
he (D
hinak
aran
) migh
t hav
e cha
nged
but h
eis
conti
nuing
with
low-
level
politi
cs.
—De
puty
Chief
Mini
ster o
f Tam
il Nad
uO
PANN
EERS
ELVAM
.�'&1�4�)2�+.�'&1
Crisi
s in
th
eIn
fras
truc
ture
Lea
sing
& F
inan
cial
Ser
vice
s(I
L&FS
) has
sent
Indi
ain
to a
pan
ic m
ode.
Whi
le i
t m
ay o
r m
ay n
ot b
e a
Lehm
an m
omen
t fo
r th
e In
dian
econ
omy b
ut th
e deb
t cris
is ha
s cer
-ta
inly
raise
d qu
estio
ns a
bout
how
our s
ocie
ty h
as b
een
mism
anag
ing
its f
inan
ces.
As
proj
ecte
d in
the
med
ia, th
e Gov
ernm
ent h
as al
read
yac
cept
ed it
as a
serio
us m
omen
t but
not a
scam
.It
is al
so a
fac
t th
at p
eopl
e’sde
posit
s in
bank
s and
oth
er fi
nan-
cial i
nstit
utio
ns, li
ke L
ife In
sura
nce
Cor
pora
tion
(LIC
), ev
en in
mut
u-al
fun
ds, a
re a
t ris
k. I
t is
also
aw
onde
r tha
t for
31
year
s, no
body
notic
ed th
at lo
ans
bein
g gr
ante
dto
IL&
FS w
ere o
n a m
ere g
uara
n-te
e on
a pie
ce o
f pap
er w
ithou
t any
secu
rity.
Even
now
, but
for t
he su
dden
seve
re s
tock
mar
ket
cras
h an
dSm
all
Indu
stri
es D
evel
opm
ent
Bank
of I
ndia’
s (SI
DBI
) app
roac
h to
the i
nsol
venc
y cou
rt to
reco
ver d
ues
and
IL&
FS f
iling
of
a pe
titio
nbe
fore
the N
atio
nal C
ompa
ny L
awTr
ibun
al fo
r pro
tect
ion
from
cred
-ito
rs, t
he en
tire e
piso
de co
uld
have
rem
aine
d un
der g
arbs
.N
o w
onde
r, th
e co
mpa
ny w
asdo
wng
rade
d to
a r
atin
g of
D —
deep
in
‘junk
ter
ritor
y’ f
rom
its
defa
ult g
rade
of A
AA
that
indi
cat-
ed h
ighe
r le
vels
of c
redi
t wor
thi-
ness
. The
surp
rise
is: H
ow d
id th
efir
m m
anag
e to
hav
e su
per
AA
Ara
ting
for s
o lo
ng?
Are
the
mon
itorin
g sy
stem
s,in
cludi
ng th
at o
f the
Res
erve
Ban
kof
Indi
a, so
wea
k? O
r is t
here
a de
lib-
erat
e apa
thy a
nd th
e sys
tem
is b
eing
milc
hed
by u
nscr
upul
ous e
lemen
tswh
o are
awar
e of t
he lo
opho
les? T
his
mea
ns th
at o
ur e
xper
ts, li
ke th
eirW
este
rn co
unte
rpar
ts, w
ho al
lowe
dth
e wor
ld to
plun
ge in
to th
e Leh
man
crisi
s, ar
e eq
ually
naïv
e or
are
ver
yne
glige
nt. P
ossib
ly, it
also
mea
ns th
atm
ore d
ifficu
lt sit
uatio
ns m
ay kn
ock
the d
oors
as th
e Sta
te B
ank
of In
dia
(SBI
) and
LIC
are
bein
g to
ld to
fill
the h
ole.
The I
L&FS
is a
stran
ge cr
eatu
re.
It is
dubb
ed as
priv
ate e
ntity
, but
is
fully
dep
ende
nt o
n fin
ance
s fro
mpu
blic
bod
ies,
like
LIC,
Cen
tral
Bank
of I
ndia
and
mut
ual f
unds
,in
cludi
ng th
at o
f SBI
and
pen
sion
fund
s lik
e HD
FC, I
ndia
Disc
over
yFu
nd, J
apan
’s O
rix an
d Ab
u D
habi
Inve
stmen
t Aut
horit
y. To
day,
all o
fth
ese
entit
ies
are
in c
risis.
Thi
sm
eans
tha
t pe
ople’
s ha
rd e
arne
dm
oney
is
bein
g liq
uida
ted
byde
faul
ters
lik
e N
irav
Mod
i an
dVi
jay M
allya
and
the n
atio
n re
main
sa
mut
e spe
ctat
or.
Fund
flow
s fro
m v
ario
us fo
r-ei
gn c
ompa
nies
, too
, may
rem
ain
affe
cted
. Th
e co
untr
y’s f
inan
cem
anag
emen
t sin
ce th
e 19
91 g
lob-
alisa
tion
is in
a m
ess.
The s
ituat
ion
has
aggr
avat
ed a
ll th
e m
ore
than
bein
g res
olve
d. T
his c
alls f
or a
study
as to
why
dur
ing
1947
-199
1, p
ub-
lic fi
nanc
ial i
nstit
utio
ns o
r ba
nks
rare
ly h
ad s
uch
dark
mom
ents,
desp
ite
low
Gro
ss D
omes
tic
Prod
uct g
rowt
h. T
he si
lver
line
was
its h
igh
savi
ngs a
nd in
tern
atio
nal-
ly a
ccla
imed
secu
re sy
stem
.Le
t the
nat
ion
not f
orge
t tha
tth
e co
untr
y is
ind
eed
pass
ing
thro
ugh
a da
rk m
omen
t as a
noth
-er
priv
ate b
ank,
ICIC
I, m
anip
ulat
-ed
by
its C
hief
Exe
cutiv
e O
ffice
r,Ch
anda
Koc
har a
nd h
er fa
mily
, is
faci
ng p
robe
on
acco
unt o
f irr
egu-
larit
ies i
n gr
antin
g lo
ans.
Muc
h of
that
is a
lso n
ot p
ublic
kno
wle
dge.
Mor
e th
an a
Leh
man
, po
ssib
ly,IL
&FS
is a
Saty
am m
omen
t, w
here
acco
unts
wer
e co
vere
d up
, if
not
fudg
ed.
The s
um is
that
ban
ks ar
e hav
-in
g ov
er �
12 la
kh c
rore
non
-per
-fo
rmin
g as
sets
(NPA
s) a
nd a
hig
hpo
rtfo
lio o
f uns
ecur
ed lo
ans,
both
priv
ate a
nd G
over
nmen
t ent
ities
. In
fact
, nom
encla
ture
may
diff
er b
utal
l are
dea
ling
with
the p
oor m
an’s
mon
ey, e
uphe
mist
ical
ly c
alle
d th
em
iddl
e cla
ss —
a gr
oup
that
is ju
stat
the p
over
ty li
ne. A
mist
ake a
ny-
whe
re ca
n le
ad th
em to
an
abys
s.It
also
mea
ns t
hat
acro
ss t
hepo
litic
al s
pect
rum
eith
er n
obod
yun
ders
tand
s the
intr
icac
y of s
ecur
-in
g pub
lic d
epos
its or
they
are a
par
tof
the m
ess.
Else
, ho
w w
ould
a �
91,0
00cr
ore
debt
pile
up
with
IL&
FS in
2017
-18?
The
re is
anot
her f
ive b
il-lio
n do
llar o
f suc
h pi
le u
p w
ith it
s16
9 sub
sidia
ries.
It m
ay b
e the
case
that
thi
s is
not
a sc
am, b
ut h
owco
me t
he m
ost o
f it h
as b
een
lost
inro
ad co
nstru
ctio
n an
d no
t in
a yea
rbu
t alm
ost o
ver t
wo
deca
des?
Lend
ing t
o in
frastr
uctu
re co
m-
pani
es,
in s
hort
the
Nat
iona
lH
ighw
ay A
utho
rity
(NH
AI)
con
-
trac
tors
, w
ere
to b
e re
cove
red
thro
ugh
tolls
. Whe
re h
as t
he to
llco
llect
ion
at su
per h
igh
rate
s gon
e?Th
e N
HA
I in
var
ious
sta
tem
ents
has a
verr
ed th
at n
ot m
ore t
han
one-
third
of t
he co
llect
ions
wer
e bei
ngpa
id to
it. T
his r
aises
a se
rious
que
s-tio
n: W
ho g
obbl
ed u
p th
e to
llm
oney
whi
ch h
as c
ause
d an
all-
roun
d in
flatio
n?Q
uesti
ons a
lso a
rise
as to
why
at al
l peo
ple a
re b
eing f
leece
d at
toll
gate
s de
spite
hig
h pe
trol
cess
of
eigh
t rup
ee p
er li
tre th
at is
bei
ngpa
id b
y ev
en n
on-h
ighw
ay u
sers
?Th
e nat
ion
was g
iven
to u
nder
stand
that
ces
s w
ould
rep
lace
the
tol
ls.Th
is m
eans
mes
s is p
ossib
ly at
ever
yste
p —
from
cess
to to
ll co
llect
ion
to h
igh
cred
it be
ing g
iven
to in
fra-
struc
ture
com
pani
es to
thei
r non
-re
paym
ent.
Indi
a is
livin
g m
omen
ts o
fse
vere
ext
orti
ons
of p
eopl
e’sde
posit
s. Ea
rlier
, it w
as su
ppos
ed to
be r
estr
icte
d to
ban
ks. N
ow, i
t is
even
the
Non
-Ban
king
Fin
anci
alC
ompa
nies
(N
BFC)
, lik
e IL
&FS
,w
hich
hav
e ste
pped
in t
o fil
l the
bank
ing s
ecto
r voi
d. T
hey s
ucce
ed-
ed in
grow
ing f
ast a
nd gr
abbe
d a l
ot
of m
arke
t sha
re.
But n
ow, w
ith IL
&FS
def
ault-
ing,
inve
stors
will
be
relu
ctan
t to
lend
to N
BFCs
. Thi
s will
incr
ease
cost
of b
orro
win
g and
impa
ct th
eir
prof
itabi
lity.
Cor
pora
tes,
too,
will
find
it di
fficu
lt to
raise
mon
ey fr
omN
BFCs
.Th
at th
e ent
ire fi
nanc
ial s
yste
mis
in a
crisi
s is e
vide
nt fr
om th
e way
SBI a
nd o
ther
ban
ks h
alved
the l
ev-
els
of A
TM w
ithdr
awal
s fr
om�4
0,00
0 to �2
0,00
0, p
ost t
he IL
&FS
crisi
s. Th
e ba
nkin
g sy
stem
is h
av-
ing
a sev
ere c
ash
crun
ch. T
he o
nly
hope
is th
at th
ey d
o no
t go
“cas
h-le
ss”
as th
e W
est h
ad s
een
durin
gth
e Leh
man
mom
ent.
The
Gov
ernm
ent
itsel
f ha
shi
nted
at it
. It a
llege
d th
at th
e deb
t-la
den
IL&
FS su
ffere
d du
e to
“mis-
man
agem
ent a
nd m
isgov
erna
nce”.
Nei
ther
a c
hang
e of
gua
rd,
asef
fect
ed b
y th
e G
over
nmen
t, no
ran
y fin
ance
bod
y w
ill s
olve
the
prob
lem
. Re
peat
ed m
isman
age-
men
ts, if
not
sca
ndal
s, po
int t
o a
grim
situ
atio
n.Th
e co
untr
y ha
s no
t le
arnt
.Fo
rmer
US
Pres
iden
t Ba
rack
Oba
ma’s
chi
ef o
f st
aff
Rah
m
Eman
uel h
ad sa
id, “
Nev
er w
aste
acr
isis”.
The
IL&
FS h
as e
xpos
edse
vera
l fa
ult
lines
. Th
e 20
08Le
hman
cris
is al
so s
tart
ed w
ithov
er-le
vera
ging
by
shad
ow b
anks
like
NBF
C. T
his e
xpos
es th
e fa
ult
lines
at t
he R
BI, w
here
the
IL&
FSis
regi
stere
d. T
he n
atio
n ha
s to
thin
k tw
ice n
ow b
efor
e tru
sting
the
regu
lato
r.Ra
ting a
genc
ies re
giste
red
with
the S
ecur
ities
and
Exch
ange
Boa
rdof
Ind
ia (
SEBI
) to
o ha
ve f
aile
d.Fe
es to
ratin
g ag
enci
es ar
e pai
d by
the r
ated
. Giv
ing a
gene
rous
ratin
gha
s inc
entiv
es fo
r the
ratin
g co
m-
pani
es.
The
real
ity i
s: Ra
ting
isad
vert
ising
and
peo
ple
need
to
treat
thes
e as s
crap
s. W
as SE
BI n
otaw
are o
f it?
The
com
pany
audi
tors
also
eith
er w
ere
too
inco
mpe
tent
to r
ead
the
book
s or
the
y di
d it
delib
erat
ely.
But t
hey
are g
uilty
of
brea
chin
g pu
blic
trus
t.Th
e na
tion
need
s to
be a
war
eth
at su
ch u
neth
ical f
ault
lines
erod
eth
e ent
ire fi
nanc
e sys
tem
. Is t
hat t
hedi
ffere
nce
that
the
nat
ion
had
befo
re 1
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ts in
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a sp
end
arou
nd 8
0 pe
rce
nt of
their
out-o
f-poc
ket (
OO
P) co
stfo
r tre
atm
ent,
whi
ch p
rimar
ily c
omes
from
the
ir ho
useh
old
inco
me
or s
avin
gs.
Acco
rdin
g to
a r
epor
t by
the
Nat
iona
lSa
mpl
e Su
rvey
Offi
ce (N
SSO
), ov
er 8
0 pe
rce
nt o
f the
Indi
an h
ouse
hold
s wer
e not
cov-
ered
by
any
healt
h sc
hem
e and
mos
t of t
heco
st wa
s met
by O
OP
in 20
15. T
he re
port
also
show
s tha
t aro
und
six m
illio
n fa
mili
es w
ere
push
ed in
to p
over
ty d
ue to
hig
h ho
spita
lisa-
tion
expe
nditu
re. T
he pr
opor
tion
of p
opul
a-tio
n re
port
ing
any
OO
P ex
pend
iture
incr
ease
d to
80
per c
ent i
n 20
11-1
2 fro
m 6
0pe
r cen
t in
1993
-94.
In si
tuat
ion
like
thes
e,on
ly a u
nive
rsal
healt
h in
sura
nce p
rogr
amm
eor
prov
ision
for h
ealth
care
at su
bsid
ised
rate
sca
n en
sure
that
peo
ple
are
not p
ushe
d in
topo
verty
by
cata
strop
hic m
edica
l exp
ense
s. H
owev
er, I
ndia’
s pub
lic h
ealth
care
bud
-ge
t rem
aine
d lo
w at
just
1.3
per c
ent o
f the
GD
P, w
hich
is fa
r les
s tha
n th
e glo
bal a
ver-
age o
f six
per
cent
. Also
, Gov
ernm
ent c
on-
tribu
tion
to h
ealth
insu
ranc
e sta
nds a
t abo
ut32
per
cen
t, co
mpa
red
to 8
4 pe
r ce
nt in
ade
velo
ped
natio
n, su
ch as
the U
K.
In th
is co
ntex
t, th
e new
flag
ship
hea
lthin
itiat
ive,
‘Ayu
shm
an B
hara
t’, an
noun
ced
byth
e Gov
ernm
ent r
ecen
tly h
olds
lot o
f pro
mis-
es a
nd h
as t
wo m
ain
objec
tives
: Firs
t, to
stren
gthe
n pr
imar
y he
althc
are
whi
ch h
asbe
en la
ckin
g in
the c
ount
ry. S
econ
d, to
offe
rfin
ancia
l pro
tectio
n fro
m ca
tastr
ophi
c exp
en-
ditu
re, o
ften
enco
unter
ed on
ce a
family
mem
-be
r is s
ick an
d ne
eds l
ong-
term
hea
lthca
re.
The p
rogr
amm
e see
ks to
pro
vide
a co
v-er
age
of fi
ve la
kh ru
pees
per
fam
ily, a
nnu-
ally t
o 10
cror
e fam
ilies
chos
en th
roug
h th
eSo
cio E
cono
mic
Caste
Cen
sus,
main
ly ru
ral
poor
and
ide
ntifi
ed u
rban
wor
kers
. Th
eex
pend
iture
incu
rred
in p
rem
ium
pay
men
tw
ill b
e sh
ared
by
the
Uni
on a
nd S
tate
Gov
ernm
ents
in th
e rat
io of
60:4
0. T
ill n
ow,
31 S
tate
s and
Uni
on te
rrito
ries (
UTs
) hav
esig
ned
Mem
oran
dum
of
unde
rsta
ndin
gs(M
oUs)
with
the C
entre
for t
he im
plem
en-
tatio
n of
the p
rogr
amm
e.
How
ever
, the
mos
t crit
ical i
ssue
for t
hesu
cces
s of t
he pr
ogra
mm
e is i
ts lim
ited
scop
e,un
even
dist
ribut
ion
of m
anpo
wer a
nd la
ckof
infra
struc
ture
to c
ater
to th
e he
alth
ser-
vice
. Aro
und
40 p
er ce
nt o
f the
sanc
tione
dpo
sts a
re ly
ing
vaca
nt in
som
e Sta
tes.
Mos
tof
the
prim
ary
healt
h ca
re c
entre
s and
dis-
trict
hos
pita
ls ar
e fac
ing s
horta
ge of
doc
tors
and
spec
ialis
ts. T
he c
ount
ry h
as s
ever
esh
orta
ge o
f reg
ister
ed m
edic
al p
ract
ition
ers
as p
er t
he W
orld
Hea
lth O
rgan
istai
on(W
HO
) no
rms,
parti
cular
ly i
n ru
ral
and
rem
ote a
reas
, whe
re th
ey re
fuse
to se
rve e
ven
afte
r sev
eral
effo
rts b
y th
e Gov
ernm
ent.
Acco
rdin
g to
a r
ecen
t nat
iona
l hea
lthpr
ofile
201
8, o
ne a
llopa
thic
doct
or i
n a
Gov
ernm
ent h
ospi
tal, o
n an
aver
age,
serv
esa
popu
latio
n of
11,
082,
whi
ch is
10
times
mor
e th
an th
e W
HO
nor
ms o
f one
doc
tor
per 1
,000
pop
ulat
ion.
The
situ
atio
n is
wors
tin
Bih
ar, w
here
one
doc
tor s
erve
s a p
opul
a-tio
n of
28,
391
peop
le, f
ollo
wed
by U
ttar
Prad
esh
(19,
962)
, Jh
arkh
and
(18,
518)
,M
adhy
a Pr
ades
h (1
6,99
6),
Chha
ttisg
arh
(15,
916)
and
Kar
nata
ka (
13,5
56),
whi
leso
me S
tate
s hav
e rela
tively
bet
ter s
tatu
s, su
chas
Delh
i (2,
203)
and
Goa
(3,8
83).
Furth
er, h
ealth
infra
struc
ture
shor
tage
refle
cted
with
one G
over
nmen
t hos
pita
l bed
for e
very
1,84
4 peo
ple a
nd on
e Stat
e-ru
n ho
s-pi
tal f
or ev
ery
55,5
91 p
eopl
e. Ac
ross
Sta
tes,
Biha
r has
the h
ighe
st co
nges
tion
with
8,64
5pe
ople
serv
ed b
y on
e Gov
ernm
ent h
ospi
tal
bed
follo
wed
by A
ndhr
a Pr
ades
h (3
,819
),Jh
arkh
and
(3,0
79),
Utta
r Pr
ades
h (2
,905
),M
adhy
a Pra
desh
(2,6
61),
and
Chha
ttisg
arh
(2,6
47).
On
the
othe
r ha
nd,
Him
acha
lPr
ades
h (5
77),
Goa
(671
), D
elhi(8
24),
Tam
ilN
adu
(899
) and
Ker
ala (9
39) h
ave r
elativ
e-ly
less b
urde
n. T
he si
tuat
ion
is wo
rse i
n ru
ral
area
s whe
n co
mpa
red
to u
rban
area
s, w
here
near
ly 70
per
cent
of th
e peo
ple r
esid
e, w
hile
mor
e tha
n 60
per
cent
of th
e reg
ister
ed d
oc-
tors
are c
once
ntra
ted in
urb
an ar
eas,
thus
cre-
atin
g a
high
ly s
kewe
d di
strib
utio
n an
dac
cess
ibili
ty of
basic
hea
lth fa
ciliti
es. S
ituati
ondi
ffers
acro
ss th
e Sta
tes w
ith ac
ute s
horta
gein
som
e poo
r reg
ions
.
In o
rder
to m
ake
any
healt
h sc
hem
e a
succ
ess,
besid
es th
e cos
t of m
edici
nes,
both
the C
entre
and
Stat
es m
ust w
ork t
oget
her t
oad
dres
s the
wid
e sho
rtage
of h
ealth
care
man
-po
wer
and
othe
r ne
cess
ary
infra
struc
ture
.Ab
ove a
nalys
is sh
ows t
hat a
lthou
gh In
dia h
asa p
ublic
hea
lthca
re n
etwor
k ran
ging
from
pri-
mar
y he
althc
are
cent
res
all
the
way
to
supe
r-sp
ecia
lity
hosp
itals,
bas
ic ne
twor
k is
poor
ly e
quip
ped,
und
er-s
taffe
d an
d ov
er-
crow
ded,
forc
ing t
he p
eopl
e to
look
for p
ri-va
te p
rovi
ders
. Ef
fect
ive
impl
emen
tati
on o
f th
e‘A
yush
man
Bha
rat’
sche
me m
ay h
ave a
pos
-iti
ve im
pact
on
redu
cing
OO
P ex
pend
iture
but w
ith a
con
ditio
n th
at th
e G
over
nmen
tw
ill en
sure
the r
ight
infra
struc
ture
to m
eet
the
new
inf
rast
ruct
ure
and
man
pow
erde
man
d. T
his c
an h
ave
a cu
mul
ativ
e po
si-tiv
e ef
fect
on
incr
ease
d ac
cess
to
quali
tyhe
alth
and
med
icatio
n. In
add
ition
, unm
etne
eds o
f the
pop
ulati
on w
ill be
cater
ed, w
hich
rem
aine
d hi
dden
due
to
lack
of f
inan
cial
reso
urce
s.If
hum
an r
esou
rce
and
infra
struc
ture
prob
lems
in p
ublic
hea
lth s
ervi
ces
are
not
timely
add
ress
ed, p
atie
nts w
ill b
e for
ced
togo
to
the
priv
ate
sect
or. I
n th
is ca
se, t
he‘A
yush
man
Bha
rat’
sche
me i
s lik
ely to
ben
-ef
it th
e priv
ate s
ecto
r mor
e tha
n th
e pub
liche
alth
serv
ices.
Ther
e w
ill b
e a
huge
scop
eto
gene
rate
fake
bill
s, as
hap
pene
d in
pre
vi-
ous h
ealth
insu
ranc
e sch
emes
, whe
re in
sur-
ance
com
pani
es fo
und
this
to b
e a
costl
ypr
opos
ition
and
mos
t of t
hem
refu
sed
to p
ay.
Hen
ce, i
t is
impo
rtant
to
plac
e m
ore
emph
asis
on im
prov
ing p
ublic
hea
lth se
rvice
san
d im
plem
enta
tion
of p
rope
r hea
lth in
sur-
ance
regu
latio
ns. O
ther
wise
, thi
s am
bitio
ussc
hem
e w
ill u
ltim
ately
be
unsu
stain
able
and
even
det
rimen
tal f
or th
e poo
r for
who
mth
e sc
hem
e is
inte
nded
like
oth
er sc
hem
esin
the p
ast.
(Th
e w
rite
r is
F
ello
w
at
Inst
itu
te
for
Hu
man
Dev
elop
men
t, D
elh
i)
Lim
ping
hea
lthca
re in
Ind
ia
Unhi
nder
ed lo
ot o
f pub
lic fi
nanc
esIn
dia
toda
y is
livi
ng th
roug
h m
omen
ts o
f sev
ere
exto
rtio
n. T
he p
oor
man
’s de
posi
ts h
ave
beco
me
an e
asy
targ
et. C
ulpr
itsra
nge
from
ban
ks to
var
ious
fina
ncia
l ins
titut
ions
to a
udito
rs a
nd r
atin
g ag
enci
es. C
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ns n
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entu
ry o
n de
but b
y Prit
hvi S
haw
on th
e ope
ning
day o
f the
firs
t Tes
t aga
inst
the W
est I
ndies
at R
ajkot
has
led to
com
paris
ons w
ith S
achi
n Te
ndul
kar;
inde
ed, s
een
from
afar
, Sha
w’s b
uild
and
batti
ng st
yle d
id re
min
d m
any
of S
achi
n in
his
early
year
s. O
bvio
usly,
one
swall
ow d
oes
not a
sum
mer
mak
e and
Shaw
has
to d
o ju
stice
to h
isco
piou
s tale
nt o
ver t
he co
min
g yea
rs b
efore
any c
ompa
ri-so
n wi
th th
e leg
end.
But
his
jour
ney f
rom
the M
umba
im
aidan
to T
eam
Indi
a has
bee
n th
e stu
ff of
fairy
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Having secured �1.81 lakhcrore in its kitty from e-
auction of 50 mineral blocks,the Government is looking toput on block another 100 minesin the next six months, accord-ing to the Ministry of Mines.
The Government so farhas auctioned 50 mines, includ-ing 23 limestone, 17 iron ore,4 gold, 2 each of manganeseand graphite blocks and onebauxite and diamond blockeach.
There are 102 blocks inpipeline to be auctioned byMarch 2019 in AndhraPradesh, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat,Jharkhand, Karnataka, MadhyaPradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha,Rajasthan, Telangana andAssam, as per a report by theMinistry of Mines on progessof block auction.
These include 42 lime-stone, 19 bauxite, 11 man-ganese ore, 8 copper, 6 iron ore,6 graphite, 3 zinc, 2 emerald, 2gold, 1 iron ore & manganese,1 dolomite/limestone and 1copper ore.
As per the report,Jharkhand will auction thehighest 20 blocks followed by16 by Rajasthan and 13 each byMadhya Pradesh andMaharashtra.
Of these 102, theGovernment plans to auctiontwo limestone blocks in
October.Of the two blocks, one is in
Andhra Pradesh and the otheris in Gujarat.
The Chintalayapalle-Abdullapuram-Korumanipalli(CAK) limestone block inAndhra Pradesh with reservesof 104.68 million tonnes (MT)will be auctioned on October12.
The Bhatvadiya block inGujarat with reserves of 477.2MT will go under the hammeron October 17.
The Centre had earlier saidit was considering granting allapprovals, including environ-mental clearance, to mineralblocks before putting them upfor sale, a move that may givea push to the auctions.
The idea is to fast-trackauctioning and iron out issuesrelated to green clearances andland rights are addressedupfront.
It has given in-principleapproval to provide singleclearance for environment andforest to the new lease holdersof the 288 mining leases expir-ing in two years.
From the 50 mineral blocksauctioned so far since 2015, thegovernment will earn a revenueof �1.81 lakh crore over thelease period.
To ensure transparency inthe mineral sector, Mines andMinerals Development andRegulation) Amendment Bill,2015 was passed by Parliamentin 2015.
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Within a day of the one-offexcise duty cut and PSUs
subsidising fuel, petrol anddiesel prices are on the riseagain and have hit a threeweek high.
Petrol and diesel priceswere cut by a minimum �2.50on October 5 when the gov-ernment’s only second cut inexcise duty of �1.50 per litreand State-owned fuel retailersproviding a �1 per litre subsidycame into effect. In BJP-ruledstates, the reduction was high-er as they matched the cut witha similar reduction local salestax or VAT.
But the prices were on therise from the very next day.Petrol price was hiked by 18paise a litre on October 6 and14 paise on Sunday, accordingto daily price notificationissued by state-owned oil firms.
Petrol, which in Delhi wascut to �81.50 on October 5, onSunday costs �81.82.
Similarly, diesel rates arehiked by 29 paise a litre each onOctober 6 and Sunday. It costs�73.53 per litre in Delhi, upfrom �72.95 on October 5,according to the oil firms.
Delhi, which did not cutVAT on fuel, still has the cheap-est fuel in all metros and bulkof state capital as it levies lowertaxes. Mumbai despite reduc-ing VAT on petrol still has thehighest priced fuel.
Petrol in Mumbai sells for�87.29 a litre on Sunday anddiesel is priced at �77.06.
Petrol prices had hit an all-time high of �84 per litre inDelhi and �91.34 in Mumbaion October 4. Diesel rates toohad peaked to �75.45 a litre inDelhi and �80.10 in Mumbai.Following the twin decision,they fell to �81.50 per litre ofpetrol in Delhi and �86.97 inMumbai.
Diesel rates fell to �72.95 inDelhi and �77.45 in Mumbaion October 5. On Sunday, therates hit a three-week high.
Private retailers like NayaraEnergy, formerly known asEssar Oil, too are matchingPSU rates by subsidising fuel by�1 a litre.
After the Centre cut exciseduty by �1.50 per litre andasked PSU oil firms to subsidisefuel by �1, Maharashtra andGujarat Governments wereamong the first to announce amatching �2.50 cut.
They were later joined byChhattisgarh, Jharkhand,Tripura, Uttar Pradesh,Madhya Pradesh, HimachalPradesh, Haryana Assam,Uttarakhand, Goa andArunachal Pradesh with simi-lar moves. Jammu andKashmir, which is under gov-ernor’s rule, too reduced tax onthe two fuel.
Maharashtra, however,reduced VAT only on petroland not on diesel.
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Macroeconomic data,movement of the rupee
and trend in global crude oilprices would be crucial for thestock markets this week, sayexperts.
After back-to-back hikessince June, the Reserve Bank ofIndia (RBI) kept interest ratesunchanged on Friday, surpris-ing markets that had expecteda rate hike to support the tum-bling rupee and combat infla-tionary pressures from high oilprices.
“The equity market out-look has taken a beating givendegradation in the quality ofdebt, redemption and height-ened risk averseness byinvestors.
“Trend is likely to be neg-ative at least in the near-termtill the financial market sta-bilises. Key data like bondyield, INR, oil prices, liquidityand equity valuation has tonormalise which may takesome more time,” said VinodNair, Head of Research, GeojitFinancial Services.
“The lingering concernsseems to be around crude oilprices, global interest rates andthe ongoing global develop-ments on the trade front. Giventhe status quo, we expect shortterm rates to ease while longterm yields may trade rangebound.
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toring and INR and crude oilprices could be leading the wayfor markets going forward,”said Lakshmi Iyer, CIO (Debt)and Head of Products, KotakMahindra Asset ManagementCompany.
Stock markets took a beat-ing last week over rupee woesand crude oil prices. The BSESensex lost a whopping1,850.15 points over the weekto close at 34,376.99 on Friday.
“On economic data front,this week the InternationalMonetary Fund will present itslatest World EconomicOutlook as it opens its annualmeeting with the World Bankin Bali, Indonesia. USSeptember inflation data isdue on Thursday.
“In India, data like IIP forAugust and CPI for Septembermonth will be announced thisFriday,” said VK Sharma, HeadPCG and Capital MarketStrategy, HDFC Securities.
“Markets have witnessedselling across the board. Eventhe good quality stocks were
battered in line with generalmarkets.
“However, the current fallwas in isolation with globaldeveloped markets which givea ray of hope that soon abounce will emerge as valua-tions have corrected a lot acrossthe board. We think marketswill calm down once corporateresults start pouring in andgiven the oversold state ofmarket, sharp rallies can beexpected,” said Jimeet Modi,Founder and CEO, SAMCOSecurities and StockNote.
The Indian rupee crashedbelow the 74-level against theUS dollar for the first time everon Friday.
“Rupee was caught offguard and weakened beyond74, after RBI surprised marketsby keeping rates unchanged.Given the rising oil and tradetensions, traders will bet onexports going up, to curb fur-ther weakening in the curren-cy,” said Anand James, ChiefMarket Strategist, GeojitFinancial Services.
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Scheduled commuter carrierAir Odisha is all set to take
a Sharjah-based NRI investoron board as it seeks to tap freshcapital to fuel its expansionplans and the announcement tothis effect is likely to be madesoon, a source said.
The Bhubaneshwar-basedairline has also brought inindustry veteran Bhupesh Joshias its chief executive officerahead of bringing in the newSharjahbased partner, thesource said.
Air Odisha is currently 60per cent owned by twoAhmedabad-headquarteredfirms — GSEC Aviation-Monarch Networth Capital--and the rest 40 per cent stakeis with original promoterRadhakanta Pani family.
“However, GSEC Aviation-Monarch Networth have decid-ed to partially offload theirstake to the Sharjah-basedcrude oil firm Ghalia PetrolLLP. The two partners havealready signed the term-sheetand are expected to make an
announcement on the dealsoon,” the source told.
The decision was taken atAir Odisha Pvt Ltd’s boardmeeting held in Bhubaneswarlast month, the source added.
The GSEC Aviation-Monarch Networth Capital hadacquired 60 per cent stake inthe carrier from Pani family inNovember last year along withthe acquisition of G RGopinath-founded Air Deccan.
GSEC Aviation is owned byRakesh Ramanlal Shah, broth-er-in-law of Adani Groupchairman Gautam Adani.
Air Odisha managingdirector Shaishav Shah con-firmed that the airline wasgetting a new investor inaddition to the existing pro-moters to infuse fresh capital,adding that it had alreadysigned an agreement to clinchthe deal.
“I can just confirm that wehave signed the contract witha Sharjah-based companywhich is into crude oil trade.We will very soon be makinga joint statement on the pro-posed deal,” Shah said.
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The hike in minimum sup-port prices (MSP) for kharif
crop announced in July by theNarendra Modi Governmentwas “well below” the oneseffected under the previousUPA Governments in 2008-09and 2012-13, the Reserve Bankhas said.
The Government hadannounced the hike in MSPs inJuly for the summer or thekharif crop, following a budgetannouncement affirming a 50per cent mark up to farmersover the cost of produce. MSPon common variety of ricewas hiked by �200, along withother crops like cotton, andpulses like tur and urad.
It followed it up by declar-ing a hike for the winter crop aswell last week. This included anincrease of �105 per quintal forwheat, and masur by �225 perquintal, among others.
“In a historical perspective,the current increase in MSPs(announced in July) is signifi-cantly higher than the averageof the last five years but well
below the upward revisionseffected in 2008-09 and 2012-13,” the RBI said in theMonetary Policy Report pub-lished on Friday.
The MPR said the hike forthe 14 crops for the kharif2018-19 season implies a nom-inal MSP increase in the rangeof 3.7 per cent to 52.5 per centfor different crops as com-pared to their levels last year.
The MPR, however, didnot elaborate on the assertionbeyond a visual chart depictingthe MSP hikes for differentcommodities for multiple years.
It, however, said that the pre-sent MSP hike can lead to a 0.29-0.35 per cent hike in headlineinflation, the RBI’s core mandate.
“A first approximation ofthe inflationary impact of MSPincrease...Yields 29-35 bpsincrease in headline inflation,”the MPR said, adding that theestimate is based on multiplemethodologies.
It, however, added that theestimates are “highly tentative” inthe absence of “robust informa-tion on the actual size and scaleof procurement operations”.
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The promoter of GujaratNRE Coke Ltd is expecting
a positive outcome from theNational Company LawAppellate Tribunal (NCLAT).
“We are expecting a prop-er order from NCLAT to moveforward on Sec 230 of theCompanies Act in the nexthearing on October 8,” thecompany Promoter andChairman Arun Jagatramkasaid.
Jagatramka had submitteda proposal under Section 230of the Companies Act beforethe NCLT rpt NCLT Kolkatabench to revive the firm whichemploys 1,100 people.
The NCLAT had acceptedthe proposal of Jagatramka onMay 15 and had ordered toconvene a meeting of all thestakeholders on July 16.
The Jindal Steel & Power
Ltd, an unsecured creditorwith only 0.5 per cent of thetotal debts of Gujarat NRECoke, has obtained an ex-parteorder of NCLAT on July 12 tostay the meeting scheduled onJuly 16.
A stay order just a dayahead of the meet of the lendersand shareholders of GujaratNRE Coke Ltd cast a shadowon the future of the debt-ladenfirm which found no takersunder the IBC.
Earlier, Gujarat NRE Cokehad failed to get any suitor forresolution under the Insolvencyand Bankruptcy Code (IBC) asno plan was accepted by itssecured creditors.
“I am always optimistic,”Jagatramka had said earlier.
The beleaguered metal-lurgical coke producer owesabout �5,000 crore to securedand unsecured creditors whilethe liquidation value of the
company was put at �350crore. The company had vol-untarily moved the NCLATlast year.
According to a proposal ofthe promoter family ofJagatramka has promised torepay �3,501 crore of securedfinancial creditors through amix of long term debt and equi-ty reducing the company’sequity shares by 90 per cent andpaying part of FCCB holdersand unsecured creditors as set-tlement.
As per the proposal,�3,501 crore are to be con-verted into �500 crore of termloans to be repaid over 10years at 8.1 per cent interestrate and �40 crore worth ofshares of face value of Re oneand �2,961 crore ofCompulsory RedeemablePreference Shares of �10,000face value redeemable after 20year at one go.
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IT company Tech Mahindraexpects its cyber security
business to grow in the rangeof 30-40 per cent, at least for thenext three years, according toa senior company official.
“We are doing a very hum-ble start even if we grow 30-40per annum in our business ofsecurity. It is fair estimate ofwhat we can put on ground,”Rajiv Singh, Senior VP &Global Head of cyber securityunit of Tech Mahindra, said.
He was replying to queryon growth and business oppor-tunity that company sees incyber security business.
Singh said that the growth isexpected in cyber security divi-sion of Tech Mahindra everyyear over a period of next threeyears.
“You have to look at theCAGR , that can only go upwhen you have strong alliances.When I am talking aboutgrowth, I am talking aboutaccelerating in next 3 years. (In)next 3 years, (it) has to be accel-erated,” he added.
The company recentlysigned partnership pact withsecurity arm of Israel govern-ment-run Israel AerospaceIndustries (IAI) to provide anddevelop technical security solu-tion for utility firms and criti-cal infrastructure.
Under the partnership,Tech Mahindra plans to devel-op internal capability to handlecyber security solution andfurther train people to growbusiness. “We want to firstfocus on that there is right levelof capability to handle cybersecurity challenge.
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Aweak broader marketpulled down the combined
market valuation of the top 10most valued Indian companiesby a whopping �2,55,995 crorelast week, with RIL taking thesteepest hit.
The equity market wit-nessed severe drubbing lastweek, with the BSE benchmarkSensex falling sharply by1,850.15 points to end at34,376.99.
From the top 10 pack, RIL’smarket capitalisation (m-cap)plummeted �1,32,061.4 croreto �6,65,441.16 crore.
Tata Consultancy Services(TCS) took the second biggesthit, with its valuation plunging�31,164.6 crore to �8,05,187.65crore, while that of ITC tanked�23,932.94 crore to�3,39,284.67 crore.
K o t a kM a h i n d r aBank’s m-capn o s e d i v e d�17,091.72crore to�2,00,874.28crore andthat ofM a r u t iSuzuki Indias l u m p e d�13,821.67crore to�2,08,223.79crore.
HDFC Bank suffered anerosion of �11,629.51 crore to�5,33,340.93 crore and that ofHindustan Unilever Ltd (HUL)fell sharply by �10,433.61crore to �3,37,566.18 crore.
The valuation of HDFCdived �6,812.89 crore to�2,90,520.19 crore and that ofSBI went down by �6,425.7
crore to �2,30,075.87crore.Similarly, the m-cap ofInfosys fell by �2,621.03 croreto �3,15,331.73 crore.
In the ranking of top-10firms, TCS stood at numberone position, followed byReliance Industries Ltd (RIL),HDFC Bank, ITC, HUL,Infosys, HDFC, SBI, Marutiand Kotak Mahindra Bank.
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E-commerce major Flipkarton Sunday said it is foray-
ing into the insurance seg-ment after securing a corporateagent license.
To begin with, Flipkart haspartnered Bajaj Allianz GeneralInsurance to offer customisedinsurance solutions to power itsmobile phone protection pro-gramme for all leading mobilephone brands that are sold onits platform, Flipkart said in astatement.
It added that under theprogramme, it will offer bothcash payout option or free pickup, service and drop conve-nience to customers.
The insurance offering willbe available from October 10,the start of Flipkart's The BigBillion Days (TBBD).
“In line with our cus-tomer-first policy and as themarket leader in this segment,insurance felt like the logicalnext step in providing con-sumers with excellent after-sales care for their phones. The
plan, from purchase to claim,will be completely integratedinto our online platform...”Flipkart Senior Vice Presidentand head of Fintech RaviGarikipati said.
Tapan Singhel, MD andCEO of Bajaj Allianz GeneralInsurance Co, said the twocompanies are starting with thecomplete mobile protectionplan (CMP), adding value formillions of customers.
Estimates suggest about 36per cent of mobile phone usersin India own smartphones. Amajor worry for customers isdamaging their screens or hav-ing their phone stolen - chal-lenges that the offering aims toaddress.
The statement said theinsurance will be valid for ayear, covering accidental,screen, and liquid damagealong with theft of the pro-tected mobile phones.
Customers will be able topurchase the insurance-pow-ered CMP plan at the sametime as they buy the mobilephone for �99 onwards.
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Swedish furniture giant Ikeaon Sunday said it would not
raise the prices of low-end fur-niture and furnishing productsif the company costs increasedue to Centre's recent hike incustoms duty on some fur-nishing items to curb importsof non-essential goods.
“For now, we have not seenany repercussions, but if thereis continuation of costs due tohike in customs duties on fur-niture and furnishing items,then at some point of time wewould have to pass it (burden)on to customers, but we may doit on higher-end products, notlower-end, Deputy CountryManager Patrik Antoni said.
Patrik said Ikea is a globalcompany and it would appre-ciate global trade, but would notbe happy with trade barrierssuch as customs tariff or importduties.
He also said trade barrierswill only affect 'ease of doingbusiness,' which will in the
long run affect customers.The central Government
had on September 26 hikedcustoms duties on as many as19 items, including jet fuel, AirConditioners and refrigerators,with an aim to curb imports ofnon-essential goods.
Ikea imports most of theproducts it sells, and many arecovered by the latest customsduty hike which includes table-ware, kitchenware and house-hold items made of plastic andtravel bags, among others.
The total import bill onaccount of shipment of suchitems into the country last fis-cal was �86,000 crore.
Curbing non-essentialimports was part of the five-pronged steps announced bythe government to checkwidening current accountdeficit and capital outflows.
Ikea is planning to investnearly �3,000 crore in the nextthree years to open three ful-fillment centres (packing ware-houses) in Mumbai, Bengaluruand Delhi.
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Washington: NASA’s Voyager2 probe is approaching inter-stellar space and has detectedan increase in cosmic rays thatoriginate outside our solar sys-tem, the US space agency said.
Launched in 1977, Voyager2 is a little less than 17.7 billionkilometres from Earth, or morethan 118 times the distancefrom Earth to the Sun.
Since 2007 the probe hasbeen travelling through theoutermost layer of the helios-phere — the vast bubblearound the Sun and the plan-ets dominated by solar mater-ial and magnetic fields.
Voyager scientists havebeen watching for the space-craft to reach the outer bound-ary of the heliosphere, knownas the heliopause. Once Voyager2 exits the heliosphere, it willbecome the second human-made object, after Voyager 1, toenter interstellar space.
Since late August, the
Cosmic Ray Subsystem instru-ment on Voyager 2 has mea-sured about a five per centincrease in the rate of cosmicrays hitting the spacecraftcompared to early August.
The probe’s Low-EnergyCharged Particle instrumenthas detected a similar increasein higher-energy cosmic rays.Cosmic rays are fast-movingparticles that originate outsidethe solar system. Some of these
cosmic rays are blocked by theheliosphere, so mission plan-ners expect that Voyager 2 willmeasure an increase in therate of cosmic rays as itapproaches and crosses theboundary of the heliosphere.
In May 2012, Voyager 1experienced an increase in therate of cosmic rays similar towhat Voyager 2 is now detect-ing. That was about threemonths before Voyager 1crossed the heliopause andentered interstellar space.However, Voyager team mem-bers note that the increase incosmic rays is not a definitivesign that the probe is about tocross the heliopause. Voyager 2is in a different location in theheliosheath — the outer regionof the heliosphere — thanVoyager 1 had been, and pos-sible differences in these loca-tions means Voyager 2 mayexperience a different exit time-line than Voyager 1. PTI
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Brett Kavanaugh was swornin as the 114th justice of the
US Supreme Court, after awrenching debate over sexualmisconduct and judicial tem-perament that shattered theSenate, captivated the nationand ushered in an acrimo-nious new level of polarization— now encroaching on thecourt that the 53-year-old judgemay well swing rightward fordecades to come.
Even as Kavanaugh tookhis oath of office Saturdayevening in a quiet private cer-emony, not long after the nar-rowest Senate confirmation innearly a century and a half, pro-testers chanted outside thecourt building across the streetfrom the Capitol.
The climactic 50-48 rollcall capped a fight that seizedthe national conversation afterclaims emerged that he hadsexually assaulted women threedecades ago — allegations heemphatically denied. Thoseaccusations transformed theclash from a routine struggleover judicial ideology into anangry jumble of questionsabout victims’ rights, the pre-sumption of innocence andpersonal attacks on nominees.
His confirmation providesa defining accomplishment forPresident Donald Trump andthe Republican Party, which
found a unifying force in thecause of putting a new conser-vative majority on the court.Before the sexual accusationsgrabbed the Senate’s and thenation’s attention, Democratshad argued that Kavanaugh’srulings and writings as anappeals court judge raised serious concerns about hisviews on abortion rights and apresident’s right to bat awaylegal probes.
Trump, flying to Kansas fora political rally, flashed athumbs-up gesture when thetally was announced andpraised Kavanaugh for being“able to withstand this horrible,horrible attack by theDemocrats.” He later tele-phoned his congratulations tothe new justice, then at the rallyreturned to his own attack onthe Democrats as “an angryleft-wing mob.”
Like Trump, senators at theCapitol predicted voters wouldreact strongly by defeating theother party’s candidates in nextmonth’s congressional elections.
“It’s turned our base onfire,” declared SenateRepublican leader MitchMcConnell of Kentucky. ButDemocratic leader ChuckSchumer of New York forecastgains for his party instead:“Change must come fromwhere change in Americaalways begins: the ballot box.”
The justices themselvesmade a quiet show of solidar-ity. Kavanaugh was sworn in byChief Justice John Roberts andthe man he’s replacing, retiredJustice Anthony Kennedy, asfellow Justices Samuel Alito,Clarence Thomas, Ruth BaderGinsburg and Elena Kaganlooked on — two conservativesand two liberals.
Still, Kagan noted the nightbefore that Kennedy has been“a person who found the cen-ter” and “it’s not so clear we’llhave that” now.
Noisy to the end, theSenate battle featured a call ofthe roll that was interruptedseveral times by protestersshouting in the spectators’gallery before Capitol Policeremoved them. Vice PresidentMike Pence presided, hispotential tie-breaking voteunnecessary.
Trump has now put hisstamp on the court with hissecond justice in as many years.Yet Kavanaugh is joining undera cloud. Accusations from sev-eral women remain underscrutiny, and House Democratshave pledged further investi-gation if they win the majori-ty in November.
Seoul: US Secretary of StateMike Pompeo said he andNorth Korean leader Kim JongUn made unspecified progresson Sunday toward an agree-ment for the North to give upits nuclear weapons. But therewas no immediate indicationwhether Pompeo had man-aged to arrange much-antici-pated summit between Kimand President Donald Trump.
Arriving in Seoul on hisfourth visit to N Korea,Pompeo tweeted he had “goodtrip” and he and Kim “contin-ue to make progress on agree-ments made at Singapore sum-mit.” Trump and Kim heldhistoric summit there in Juneresulted in a vague agreementfor the North to denuclearise.
The top US diplomat
offered no details, and uponlanding in South Korea, hebriefed White House nationalsecurity adviser John Boltonand Trump chief of staff JohnKelly on his trip, officials said.
Pompeo then met SouthKorea’s President, Moon Jae-in.Moon, who has met twice withKim, asked Pompeo to makepublic as much information ashe could about the trip.
“I dearly hope that your lat-est visit, as well as the upcom-ing US-North Korea summit,which I hope will be happen-ing soon, will make an irre-versible, decisive progress,”Moon said. “Since we have themedia present here, I wouldlike to ask you to disclose any-thing that you can open to thepublic here.” AP
BUCHAREST: Romanianswere voting Sunday for a sec-ond day on a constitutionalamendment backed by theinfluential RomanianOrthodox Church that wouldmake it harder to legalise same-sex marriage.
The conservative Coalitionfor Family initiated the refer-endum and Orthodox priestsduring Sunday services encour-aged the faithful to vote.
The proposed amendmentwould change the definition offamily in Romania’sConstitution to make mar-riage a union between a manand a woman instead ofbetween “spouses.” Same-sexmarriage is already illegal inRomania.
The Central ElectoralBureau said 11.67 percent ofvoters had cast a ballot bylunchtime Sunday in the two-day referendum. AP
Lyon: The wife of the missingpresident of Interpol says herhusband sent her an image ofa knife before he disappearedduring a trip to their nativeChina. Making her first publiccomments on the mystery sur-rounding Meng Hongwei’swhereabouts, Grace Meng toldreporters in Lyon, France onSunday she thinks the knife washer husband’s way of trying totell her he was in danger.
She says she has had nofurther contact with him sincethe message that was sent onSept. 25. She says four minutesbefore Meng shared the image,he had sent a message saying,“Wait for my call.”
Meanwhile, the discipli-nary organ of China’s rulingCommunist Party says the headof Interpol, a senior Chineseofficial, is under investigationon suspicion of unspecifiedlegal violations. AP
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Scientists have developed anew test that can reveal the
amount of DNA people shed,a tool that could be used byforensic experts to nab crimi-nals using genetic clues left atcrime scenes.
A single tap of a finger onitems like door handles, glass oreven shaking hands can helpidentify and link potential sus-pects to a crime. Modern DNAforensic science is capable ofanalysing microscopic genetictraces inadvertently left atcrime scenes.
However, accurate identi-fication depends on the quali-ty of DNA sourced at thescene, according to researcherat the Flinders University inAustralia.
There is always a risk cru-cial evidence could be over-looked, smudged fingerprints
are the only evidence leftbehind, or even more worry-ingly, secondary transfer couldtake place, researchers said.
This could result in aninnocent person’s DNA beingtransferred by an object oreven a handshake to a placethey have never visited.Scientists have developed a testthat can reveal the amount ofDNA people shed. This willhelp determine whether theywere actually the last person tomake contact with an item,researchers said.
“We know that some peo-ple pass on more of their DNAbecause when they touchsomething more of their cellsare left behind,” said AdrianLinacre, Chair of ForensicDNA Technology at FlindersUniversity. “They are calledshedders but it’s very difficultat the moment to see who is ashedder,” he said.
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Pakistan is reviewing theprojects under the China-
Pakistan Economic Corridor(CPEC) to safeguard the inter-est of the people in Balochistanprovince, Prime MinisterImran Khan has said.
The $50 billion CPEC,launched in 2015, is a plannednetwork of roads, railways andenergy projects linking China’sresource-rich Xinjiang UyghurAutonomous Region withPakistan’s strategic GwadarPort on the Arabian Sea.
Khan’s remarks about theCPEC projects came as hechaired a Balochistan cabinetmeeting on Saturday in Quettaduring his first visit to theprovince as the Prime Minister.
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Christians dressed in theirtidiest clothes flocked to
Sunday sermons in the earth-quake and tsunami damagedIndonesian city of Palu, seek-ing answers as the death tollfrom the twin disastersbreached 1,700 and officialssaid they feared more than5,000 others could be missing.
Indonesia’s disaster agencysaid the number of dead hadclimbed to 1,763, mostly inPalu. Agency spokesmanSutopo Purwo Nugroho saidmany more people could beburied, especially in the Paluneighborhoods of Petobo andBalaroa, where more than 3,000homes were damaged orsucked into deep mud whenthe Sept. 28 quake caused loosesoil to liquefy.
“Based on reports fromvillage chiefs in Balaroa andPetobo, some 5,000 peoplehave not been found. Our
workers on the ground aretrying to confirm this,” he saidat a news briefing in Jakarta,Indonesia’s capital.
Nugroho said that effortsto retrieve decomposed bodiesin deep, soft mud were gettingtougher and that some peoplemay have fled or been rescuedand evacuated. More than8,000 either injured or vulner-able residents have been flownor shipped out of Palu, whileothers could have left by land,he said. Officially, Nugrohosaid only 265 people are con-firmed missing and 152 othersstill buried under mud andrubble, nine days after themagnitude 7.5 earthquake andpowerful tsunami hit Palu andsurrounding areas.
The government targets toend search operations byThursday, nearly two weeksafter the disaster, at whichtime those unaccounted for willbe declared missing and con-sidered dead, Nugroho said.
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China’s central bank onSunday said it was cutting
the reserve requirement ratios(RRRs) by one per cent fromOctober 15 which will inject anet $109.2 billion in cash intothe banking system, amid adeepening trade war with theUS that has increased pressureon growth in the world’s sec-ond-largest economy.
The reserve cut, the fourthby the People’s Bank of China(PBOC) this year, came afterBeijing pledged to speed upplans to invest billions of dol-lars in infrastructure projects asthe economy shows signs ofcooling further.
The PBOC said it will cutthe RRR for RMB deposits byone percentage point startingfrom October 15. The cut willenable banks in China torelease 1.2 trillion-yuan cashfor additional lending.
Some of the liquidityunleashed will be used to payback the 450 billion yuan ($65billion) of the medium-termlending facility that will matureon October 15, state-runXinhua news agency reported.
In addition, the liquidity ofanother 750 billion yuan ($110billion) will be injected into themarket for lending, accordingto the PBOC statement.
The announcement of therelaxing the RRR requirementfor the banks, which are alsosaddled with the huge localgovernment debt of $2.58 tril-lion comes amid deepeningtrade war with US and raisingof the interest rates by USFederal Reserve, intensifyingthe pressure on capital out-flows.
The huge cash outflowfrom the banks was expected to
help the private businesses toaccess more credit as theirproducts faced an uncertainprospect in the US, which isChina’s second largest marketafter the European Union.
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With tails wagging and rau-cous barking, hundreds
of dogs and their owners ralliedin London on Sunday to howlfor a new people’s vote onBrexit, in what organisersdubbed a “wooferendummarch”. The gathering drewEU-flag waving politicians,actors and activists — allaccompanied by their four-legged friends and united intheir opposition to Britain’sdeparture from the EU.
“In a campaign, use what-ever you can that helps,” AlastairCampbell, a former LabourGovernment spokesman, toldAFP alongside his five-month-old Cavalier King CharlesSpaniel, Skye.
“Today’s showing that thiscountry just isn’t unitingaround any vision for Brexitand it’s one way of fighting,” hesaid. The dog parade — which
attracted everything fromCorgies and beagles to huskiesand a giant Leonberger — tookplace two weeks before a larg-er pro-referendum rally, set tobe attended mostly by humans,planned for October 20.
British Prime MinisterTheresa May has ruled out anew Brexit referendum, sayingit would betray the result of the2016 vote and destroy trust in
politicians.But politicians from all
parties have joined a growingmovement for Britons to havethe chance to say whether theyhave changed their minds.
“It’s nice to highlight aserious point in such a fun way— everybody loves dogs,” saidGerman university lecturerFlora Renz, 30. She has lived inBritain for a decade and turned
out with Billy, a three-year-oldbeagle draped in an EU flag.
“I hope people are going tosee some sense. I don’t know ifa second referendum is thebest solution but anything’s bet-ter than what’s happening rightnow.” Human participants inthe march, many sportingfancy dress and painted dogfaces, assembled with theirfurry companions displayingpro-EU signs on their collarsand backs, near TrafalgarSquare.
The crowd pawed its waythrough the heart of the capi-tal’s Government district,before they were set to gatherfor speeches — and likely some
dog treats — in ParliamentSquare. Organisers plan tohand in a petition to May’sDowning Street office “signedby dogs and owners”.
After Brexit, Britain mayhave to leave the EU’s pet pass-port scheme, which allows reg-istered pets to travel to mem-ber states freely with theirowners. The change will meandog-owners are likely to faceincreased bureaucracy andneed more preparation time iftaking their canine companionsto the continent.
Some at the marchbemoaned that and otherimpacts of Brexit. “It’s just oneof the many aspects that peo-ple have taken for granted...And now won’t be there,” saidmarketing consultant AnthonyRobinson, 48, of London.
He attended with Fred, histwo-year-old Corgi — the dogbreed favoured by QueenElizabeth II.
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Afriend of a prominentSaudi journalist who went
missing in Istanbul on Sundaysaid officials told him to “makeyour funeral preparations” as the Washington Post con-tributor “was killed” at theSaudi Consulate.
A Turkish official separate-ly told The Associated Pressthat authorities believe JamalKhashoggi was killed at theSaudi Consulate, while another said it was a “high prob-ability.” Saudi officials havedenied allegations thatKhashoggi was killed at the con-sulate, calling them “baseless.”
Meanwhile, TurkishPresident Recep Tayyip Erdoganonly said “God willing, we willnot be faced with the situationwe do not desire” when asked byjournalists about Khashoggi.The growing dispute over hisfate threatens relations betweenSaudi Arabia and Turkey andraises new questions about thekingdom and the actions of itsassertive Crown PrinceMohammed bin Salman, whomKhashoggi wrote critically aboutin his columns.
Turan Kislakci, a friend ofKhashoggi and the head of theTurkish-Arab MediaAssociation, spoke to the AP onSunday outside the Saudi
Consulate in Istanbul. He saidhe believes Turkish officialssoon will announce the find-ings of their investigation.
“What was explained to usis this: He was killed, makeyour funeral preparations,”Kislakci said. “We called a fewother places, these are lowerofficials, but they said: ‘We haveevidence he was killed in a bar-baric way, we will announce ittomorrow or the day after.’”
Kislakci also alleged, basedon conversations with officialshe did not name, that Khashoggiwas made to “faint,” then wasdismembered. A Turkish officialsaid an “initial assessment” bypolice concluded Khashoggihad been killed at the con-sulate. On Sunday, another offi-cial assessed as “high probabil-ity” that Khashoggi was killed inthe consulate and his body wastaken away.
The Post reported on thepolice’s theory late Saturday, cit-ing two anonymous sources.
“If the reports of Jamal’smurder are true, it is a mon-strous and unfathomable act,”the Post’s editorial page editorFred Hiatt said in a statement.“Jamal was — or, as we hope,is — a committed, courageousjournalist. He writes out of asense of love for his countryand deep faith in human dig-nity and freedom.”
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Trump declared it an “his-toric night,” not long aftersigning the paperwork to makeKavanaugh’s status official.
“I stand before you todayon the heels of a tremendousvictory for our nation,” he saidto roars, thanking Republicansenators for refusing to backdown “in the face of theDemocrats’ shameless cam-paign of political and person-al destruction.” AP
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Beijing: China and the UnitedStates are set to hold high-leveltalks here on Monday to reducethe spiralling trade and militarytensions between the world’stwo largest economies.
US Secretary of State MikePompeo is scheduled to holdtalks with top Chinese leadersand officials in a bid to halt theongoing trade war in whichboth countries slapped addi-tional tariffs on billions of dol-lars of their exports.
Announcing Pompeo’svisit, Foreign Ministryspokesperson Hua Chunyinglast week said that China andthe US would exchange viewson bilateral ties and regionaland international issues ofcommon concern.
US Defence Secretary JimMattis too was due to visit butit was cancelled which Chinasaid was at the behest ofWashington. The news of can-cellation of his visit came afterUS allegations that Chinesenaval ship conducted unsafemanoeuvres near its destroyerDecatur when it passedthrough the islands off thedisputed South China Sea toassert freedom of navigation.China claims almost all of theSouth China Sea. PTI
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Acrash involving a limousineat a popular upstate New
York tourist spot killed 20 peo-ple, officials said Sunday.
Local officials told theTimes Union of Albany that alimo speeding down a hill hitbystanders Saturday afternoonat the Apple Barrel CountryStore in Schoharie, about 170miles (270 kilometers) north ofNew York City. State policeconfirmed Sunday that thedeath toll was 20 and said thecrash involved two vehicles.
The store is a popular stopfor tourists on fall foliage trips.
Authorities on Sunday did-n’t release names of victims orother specifics, but state police
set up a hotline for familymembers. The NationalTransportation Safety Board isinvestigating. An afternoonnews conference is planned.
In a Facebook post onSaturday, the Apple BarrelCountry Store thanked emer-gency responders for theiractions in the aftermath of the“horrific” accident. On Sunday,the store posted that it wasopen “and could use yourhugs.” Witnesses on Saturdaydescribed chaos, with a massiveturnout of ambulances andother responders.
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To combat fake news, a teamof Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT) researchershave developed a new MachineLearning (ML) system that helpsto determine whether a newssource is accurate or biased.
The researchers believe thatthe best approach is to focus noton the factuality of individualclaims but on the news sourcesthemselves.
“If a website has publishedfake news before, there’s a goodchance they’ll do it again. Byautomatically scraping dataabout these sites, the hope is thatour system can help figure outwhich ones are likely to do it inthe first place,” said lead authorRamy Baly from MIT’sComputer Science and ArtificialIntelligence Lab (CSAIL).
The system needs onlyabout 150 articles to reliablydetect if a news source can betrusted, suggests the study to bepresented at the 2018 EmpiricalMethods in Natural LanguageProcessing (EMNLP) confer-ence in Brussels.
For the study, theresearchers from MIT and theQatar Computing ResearchInstitute (QCRI), took datafrom Media Bias/Fact Check(MBFC) — a website withhuman fact-checkers whoanalyse the accuracy and bias-es of more than 2,000 news sites,from MSNBC and Fox News tolow-traffic content farms.
The team then fed that datato a ML algorithm called aSupport Vector Machine (SVM)classifier, and programmed it toclassify news sites the same wayas MBFC.
When given a new newsoutlet, the system was 65 percent accurate at detectingwhether it has a high, low ormedium level of “factuality,”and roughly 70 per cent accurate
in detecting if it is left-leaning,right-leaning or moderate.
The team determined thatthe most reliable ways to detectboth fake news and biasedreporting were to look at thecommon linguistic featuresacross the source’s stories,including sentiment, complex-ity and structure.
For example, fake news out-lets were found to be morelikely to use language that ishyperbolic, subjective and emo-tional.
In terms of bias, left-leaningoutlets were more likely to havelanguage that related to conceptsof harm/care and fairness/reci-procity, compared to other qual-ities such as loyalty, authorityand sanctity.
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film Andhadhun. Dressed in white andgrey dress with a high slit, the powerhouse,performer who was described by her co-star Ayushmann Khurrana as a malleableactor, had an aura of busy-ness thatseemed to envelop her being. A director’sactor, she has no qualms of playing char-acters that do not toe the established lineand slips into them with practised ease.While some of her characters have beengrey others have blown us over with theintensity with which they were portrayed.
�The characters you play are unique andeccentric.
Tabu: (Laughs) I think I am like that asa person now. Ye mereko abhi confirm horaha hai.
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I love to play them. I always wanted toplay these kind of people. Luckily, peoplehave come to me with these kind of scripts.I always wanted my journey in doingsomething different than standard char-acters that don’t engage you to that level.Even in a big mainstream film like GolmaalI had a quirky character. I attract those andgravitate towards them.
�In the 90s, when you shifted frommainstream characters to interestingones which film was your turning point?
It always came from within me. I knewthat my potential had to be explored andexploited to a larger extent than it wasbeing done. I was looking for platforms thatwould help me do that. When I got filmslike Macchis and Hu tu tu I really jumpedat them because that was my groove.
�Is thriller a comfortable genre for youto work in?
Sriram’s world is completely different.Nothing like Drishyam and Missing. I can’tfind words to explain how differentAndhadhun is. It’s a different explorationof yourself and your craft because it is adifferent format. The challenge is also tofit into that. Sriram creates a world andwhatever happens in it is true only to that.There are no reference points for the char-acters and stories. You start with a newapproach and break away from what youknow of playing characters. I decon-structed a lot within me for this film.
I can’t put a finger on what exactly Ihad to take apart within me because it’s
internal and part of the creative processbut if you see the film you’ll see that thisis not something I have ever attemptedto do before. What Sriram does withhis actors and characters may lookcasual but it’s something deep andfragmented which is coming out onscreen.
�Do you think that digital contentis pushing the boundaries of film?
The audience was ready anddemanding of different stuff, I don’tthink it is because of digital. Everygeneration, art form and pop cultureis going to be influenced by the soci-ety and what’s happening there. Idon’t think it’s a big topic of discus-
sion that things are changing.Human beings are changing sothis is expected.
�You have played two Shakespearianand a Victorian character. Do you likeclassics?
I have nothing to do with what isbeing offered to me. Whoever is offeringme those roles thinks that I’m right forthose roles. I am just lucky to play iconiccharacters like Lady Macbeth (Maqbool),Miss Havisham (Fitoor), Gertrude (Haider)and Kandukondain Kandukondain (Senseand Sensibility).
�Do you think this is a good timefor versatile actors?
I don’t know since I alwaysplayed different kind of charac-ters.
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Manoj Bajpayee’s next film,Bhonsle, which had its
world premiere at prestigious23rd Busan International FilmFestival 2018 received an out-standing reception from theaudience.
Bajpayee will be seen in thetitular role of a terminally illlone wolf Maharashtrian copBhonsle, retired against hiswill, in politically tumultuousMumbai, who finds himselfforging an unlikely companion-ship with a 23-year-old North-Indian girl and her little broth-er, while the raging conflictdestroying the world aroundthem reaches his doorstep,giving him one last battle worthfighting for, but it might just betoo late. The film also featuresa stellar cast like Marathi starSantosh Juvekar, theatre thes-pian Ipshita Chakraborty Singhand introducing the child artistVirat Vaibhav.
The acclaimed actor ofSatya and Aligarh, Bajpayeewho is excited about the worldpremiere says, “Great to hearsome exciting response comingin from Busan. This is my thirdfilm in a row to make it thereand I am quite happy aboutthe film and DevashishMakhija the directorand the entireteam who sacri-ficed a lot toreach here.”
T h ed i r e c t o r,DevashishMakhija,
producers PiiyushSingh (Indie Muviz)and Saurabh Guptawalked the red car-pet together. Thefilm is one of nineinternational pro-jects nominated forthe Kim JiseokAward in the AWindow on AsianCinema section.
The award willbe given out togeth-er with a cash prizeof $10,000 to thefinal two films,selected by the jurymembers at the clos-ing ceremony, whichwill be held onOctober 13.
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Makhija returned to BusanInternational Film Festival 2018after his internationallyacclaimed film, Ajji which pre-miered at the festival last yearin the New CurrentsCompetition. Delighted withthe response Makhija says, “Iwas expecting, the Korean audi-ence to treat my films as if oneof their own has made it! Theywere with the character ofBhonsle right through. Havingyour film screen at a festival likeBusan reinforces the belief thatcultural and political bound-aries are irrelevant when you’readdressing the human condi-tion like Bhonsle does.”
Bhonsle producerPiiyush Singh ofIndie Muviz says,“A world pre-miere, a packed
house, ane x c e p -
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and engagedinternationalaudience. It has
been the mostsatisfying experi-
ence to walk the redcarpet with my firstever feature film asa producer, Bhonslein the biggest filmfestival of SouthAsia, Busan.”
The film is produced by Manoj BajpayeeP r o d u c t i o n s ,Golden Ratio Films,P r o m o d o m eMotion Pictures and Indie Muvizand is slated torelease later thisyear.
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Dhruv and Kavya, the second season will see themstep into a more mature relationship, seeking theirown individual identities while still dealing witheveryday problems. The show is directed by RuchirArun. Dhruv Sehgal is also the writer of the show.
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characters, returns for its third sea-son on Netflix. Set in a not-so-dis-tant future, the show follows theadventures of Matt Murdock(Charlie Cox), who practices lawby day and enforces it by night.The slick trailer has already gotfans pumped up for some bare-knuckle ass-kicking when theshow finally drops on October 19.
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Those who proudly flaunt India’svibrant democracy were ashamed
by the unruly scenes witnessed ontheir television screens during the lastfew days. The recent political dramathat unfolded made political punditslook at the future of politics with con-cern. The current scenario clearlyindicates signals of strong separatistforces at work in almost every polit-ical party. This dangerous trend of dis-integration has affected not only theparties but has also invaded familiesand the entire nation as well. However,one finds that adequate attentionhas not been paid to its origin and tothe enormity of harm that it causes tothe society at every level.
The tendency of separation is infact a combination of psychologicalsymptoms, behavioural trends andthinking patterns and is therefore, akind of a syndrome. Thus, before theactual split finally occurs, there is anupsurge in one’s conscious, subcon-scious or unconscious mind, of theforces of mutual dissatisfaction, dis-trust, disgust, hatred, intolerance andalienation. This starts when someambitious or self-centred people, inorder to fulfil their strong desire forpower, position, name and fame,money or material possessions and soon begin to find fault in others and thelatter act with the spirit of rejection,resentment, protests and abhorrenceor contempt. The two sides thus dis-turb and disown each other by begin-ning to assert their dissidence againsteach other with greater vigour. Thenthe blame game begins and each sidepaints its adversary black. Each crit-icises the other openly. As a result,they get estranged and become inim-ical to the interests of the other. Thus,utter selfishness, unrestrained ambi-tion, strong lust, stark greed, narrowinterests, social cut-off and individ-ualism, self-centredness, jealousy,rivalry and hatred that are born as aresult of these create disgruntlednessand create fissiparous tendencieswhich lead to a split in a party, anation or a family.
In such situations, one is caughtup in the whirl of levelling charges andcounter-charges against the otherand is unable to get out of it even ifhis/her well-wishers try to help. Oneis so much under the pressure of dis-turbed emotions that one refuses tolisten to the voice of reason which canlead to well-being. The person’s mindis so closed that s/he stops caringabout any attempts from the well-wishers to reconciliation and is not ina mood to settle the matter even byadopting the ‘give-and-take’ attitude.On the other hand, one’s standbecomes too stiff and inflexible. As aresult the emotional-mental distur-bance starts to increase and the forcesof negativity totally vitiate the atmos-phere. These could be catastrophic.Unitedly, humankind can face evennatural calamities and meet other dif-ficult and great challenges, but disuni-ty, disintegration, divisionism, sepa-ratism or ‘each-for-himself ’ attitudedoes not only leave gigantic problemsunsolved but also puts obstacles in the
way of finding solutions for evensmaller ones.
If we analyse this trend, we willfind that all this is due to the distur-bance in the human spirit. A restlessspirit is prone to give rise to forces ofde-stabilisation causing distress.Unless and until man learns to haveinner calm and peace and to solveproblems through spiritual knowledgeand meditation, the turmoil will con-tinue and will even escalate to thepoint of a serious human catastrophe.
According to the Bhagwad Gita,lust, anger and greed are the threegates of hell and hence it urges a beingto abandon them. One who is liber-ated from these three vices is on thepath to salvation. It is obvious fromthe above that true Ram Rajya canexist only when those living in thatRajya have divine qualities. So, howdoes one get liberated from these vicesand imbibe divine virtues? The onlyway souls can become pure in thispresent iron age is by linking up withthe source of all virtues, who isknown as “Supreme Soul.” Throughthis link they can draw power andvirtues that will enrich and strength-en them to take them beyond nega-tive influences. This simple process of
linking self with the Supreme iscalled “Rajyoga.” Practicing it regular-ly will bring the soul peace, love, puri-ty and bliss. Such qualities are reflect-ed in a person’s words and actions.And when a critical number of indi-viduals transform themselves in thisway, social transformation takes placemaking way for Ram Rajya.
When this happens, that day isnot far when we would see a world ofpurity of character and values, whereevery one would be divine and co-exist in harmony with nature. Therewill be no form of violence — phys-ical, mental or emotional. Pure loveand respect will form the basis of rela-tionships. They will be completely freefrom and ignorant of evil, vices andsuffering. Materially, they will be liv-ing in opulence and abundance.Science will be used appropriately tocreate technology and comforts whichare necessary, eco-friendly and safe.People will enjoy perfect health, nat-ural beauty, and a long life-span freefrom sickness and untimely death.There will be happiness and content-ment, lightness, innocence, purity andjoy in every action.
So when would this happen? It isactually ‘now’ that we get an oppor-tunity to create our best destiny.Once we conquer the vices such aslust, ego and attachment, we wouldregain our original divine naturetransforming the entire world into anew world. Don’t ever think that RamRajya is a myth. No! It’s indeed a real-ity that’s as close as tomorrow if westart practicing from today.
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Around 28 per cent of India’s popula-tion comprises of youngsters andadolescents between the age group of
10-24. Despite such a large section compris-ing of youngsters, there is a complete lackof focus on their sexual and reproductivehealth, especially education pertaining to thesubject.
Despite several well-planned policieslike the Adolescence Education Programme(AEP), The Reproductive, Maternal,Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health(RMNCH+A) program and the RashtriyaKishor Swasthya Karyakram (RKSK), thereare gaps in the on-ground implementation.The lack of effective financing for the pro-grammes that provide information andhealth services to young people, along withthe political landscape which stands againstcomprehensive sexuality education (CSE)often leads to this gap. A limited view of whoadolescents are and what their needs com-pise of, adds to it.
However, we do not have a policy thatmakes sex education compulsory in schoolsor outside it. The selective focus on issuesin CSE, shows that social conservatism andpatriarchal attitudes are prevalent. Forinstance, the curricula designed for adoles-cent health often operates from a heteronor-mative lens and only caters to the tradition-al gender binary.
There are certain questions on sexual-ity and human reproductive system thatremain unanswered for many adolescentsand even youngsters.
Examples abound on what the lack ofeducation and awareness about sexuality cando which has had drastic results. When a12-year-old girl in Sugamau, near Lucknow,who was a rape survivor, became pregnant,it was decided that once the culprit wasreleased from jail they would be married.The incident came to Yeh Ek Soch (YES)Foundation’s notice when a participant ofthe group of the youth leaders shared thenews during a session on ‘Access to SafeAbortion’ in the community. The need forurgent action to help the girl with medicalassistance was pressed upon, going againstthe girl’s family, as they wanted her to steerclear of the matter. However, the girl gavebirth to a baby boy later inDecember.
But not just cases of sex-ual harassment and intim-idation, even basic con-cerns about menstrualhealth and hygieneremain unaddressed.During a two-day work-shop on menstrual hygieneand sanitation in LittiparaHigh School in Pakur,Jharkhand. , which was attend-ed by more than 50 adoles-cents (15-17 years of age),few school dropout adoles-cent girls, the ASHA
workers, and government officials. The ses-sion focussed on young girls’ knowledge,awareness and practices around menstrualhealth. While programmes have been madeto promote sex education in schools, yetmenstruation is an overlooked chapter in thecurriculums. It is even more difficult toreach out to rural adolescents and women.
It was obvious that the girls got incom-plete information on menstruation with theminimum discussion in their home, schoolsand even in Anganwadis. “We have neverspoken about menstruation in school. Notwith teachers not even with our friends,”shared a school girl. The girls also sharedthat they knew that every friend of them hasstarted menstruating but no one talked
about it. For many, men-
struation is a taboo which is not to be spo-ken about. They said that this was the firsttime that they were discussing and talkingto their friends about it. They realised thatthey could discuss it openly without anyneed to hide. “We didn’t even know that wewere allowed to talk about it,” was a com-mon refrain.
There were hardly any discussionsabout the subject with the male teachers andironically they are the ones who teach sub-jects like biology and science and hesitateto discuss it.
The girls, in their feedback, expressedhow pleased they were to have a workshopthat discussed a taboo subject. There is aneed for more awareness-building sessionsamong not only the young women, but alsoamong those who engage with these issues,including administrative officers, education-al institutions, parents and frontline healthworkers, who must be sensitised on engag-ing with young people.
Another issue that was flagged was thatsince 2016, Jharkhand has funded �25 croreto promote menstrual hygiene amongschool girls, by distributing free sanitarynapkins. But till July 2018, the adolescentsfrom the Litipara school had received thesanitary pads only once. They even shared
that they didn’t like the quali-ty of the pads. Thus a need forchecking the quality of thepads and the mechanism toevaluate the process of their
distribution needs to be checked.On the other other, girls who didnot go to school shared that they
had no media to receive thepads. Apart from the lack of
sexual hygiene and men-struation awareness, thereis yet another stigmawhich has now beenworked on to a greatextent — transgender
people.
In a session at the capital, gender wasdiscussed which also emphasised that“trans women are real women.” Whileeveryone agreed that trans women experi-ence violence within and outside their fam-ilies, the main issue was whether they werewomen or not. One of the girls argued thattrans women are not real women becausethey do not have experiences similar to herswhile growing up where she faces discrim-ination. She said that it was only when atrans woman started feeling like and iden-tifying herself as a woman would they expe-rience womanhood. Debating against herwas another girl who argued that if one can-not see her struggling with her gender beforeshe begins to identify as a woman, does notmake her struggle less significant. Thenuanced discussion on understanding theinvisibility in the struggles of trans womenwas exceptional. Such nuanced argumentshaven’t been heard in a training before. Itcould be considered a success as there wasa space for the girls to think critically andarticulate their thoughts on gender and sex-uality. This is one of the examples of the CSEprogramme resulting in critical thinking foryoung people.With more such examples ofevolution as well as a lack of a proper sex-ual knowledge, the policymakers and gov-ernment officials need to be sensitised onissues of sexual reproductive health andrights in order to have a comprehensiveunderstanding of young people’s issuesand be equipped to address them.
This will lead them to be aware of whatyoung people want from them as they arealso equal stakeholders in policies that aredesigned for them. By working in an all-inclusive manner, we will be able to createsafe spaces for young people irrespective oftheir caste, class, religion, gender or sexu-al identity. By strengthening our approachtowards adolescent and youth health, we willbe able to cater to their needs. After all, everyyoung person has the right to be informedand have access to health services.
However, with NGOs taking up healthinitiatives and sexual and reproductiverights, there has been an increase in theawareness of CSE and its need to be inclu-sive of all gender identities. Limited genderdiversity leads to young people having inad-equate information and impacts their per-spective.
What caught the attention ofRidhima Modi was not the quali-fications of her to-be-husband orthat he had a patent in his name,but his innovative thought-process.Ridhima, a post graduate infinance from the Xavier Instituteof Social Service, Ranchi, got a pro-posal from Ankit Agrawal, whohad started a new venture and wasalso contributing towards themammoth task of cleaning thegigantic river Ganga.
To understand the impor-tance of what Agrawal was doing,a look at the most sacred river ofIndia which is also a lifeline of themillions living along its course, isessential. The 2,525 km long river,despite being holy has becomehighly polluted over the years. Onesuch factor adding to the mulchare the flowers offered on itsbanks at different places of worshipwhich get immersed in the water.The flowers come in contact withthe water, release toxic com-pounds, reduce the oxygen leveland eventually threaten humanand marine life.
Flowers are a symbol of devo-tion and reverence. When used forreligious purposes, they becomesacred and cannot be dumped inthe bin and are eventuallyimmersed in the Ganga. So aneed was felt to recycle theseflowers to solve the problem ofmonumental waste being generat-
ed. A mission began on the Gangaghats in Kanpur which gave birthto what is called HelpUsGreentoday. Started in May 2015 by twofriends, Ankit Agrawal (29) andKaran Rastogi (29), HelpUsGreenbased in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, isa mission to clean the Gangawhich employs the local womenparticularly from the marginalisedsection of the society and providesthem with livelihood. HelpUsGreenhas pioneered the technology ofrecycling these flowers.
However, it was not an easyroad that the duo traversed.Convincing the temple authoritiesto hand over their floral waste wasthe first hurdles that they faced.Recalling a visit to a temple, Karansaid, “People go to a temple forpeace of mind but seeing a heap ofsacred flowers collected as garbageon the temple premises is hardlyconducive to that. Since I was reg-ular at this temple, it was difficultbut not impossible to convincethem. Incidentally, that was thebiggest temple in Kanpur.”
Starting with one temple, theinitiative now collects flowersfrom 23 places of worship in thecity on a regular basis. The quan-tity of flowers has increased man-ifold from 1.5 to two tons toseven to eight tons of flowerseveryday. Once collected, theseflowers are sorted to removeunwanted products like plastic
and garland threads. The flowerheaps are then sprayed with a bio-logical culture which removesinsecticides and pesticides.Cleaned and washed, these flow-ers are then hand-crafted intocharcoal free incense sticks, cones,plant fertilizer and florafoam.Launched under the FMCG brand‘Phool’, these products areabsolutely organic and chemical-free. It has incense sticks, conesand vermicompost. Another prod-uct called ‘Florafoam’ is a 100 percent bio-degradable alternative tothermacol. Made from flowers, flo-rafoam is customisable to anyshape and size and is a muchcheaper alternative to thermacol.“To make the model really scalable,
we needed a business-to-businessproduct for mass volume. The rad-ical idea of making thermacol-packaging material gave us themass volume as we expandedpan-India,” said Ankit.
The duo is not just set out tobring about an environmentalchange but is also making a hugesocial impact by employing 79women, who earlier worked asmanual scavengers. They nowhave full-time employment and getfair wages, insurance, providentfund and a bus service to com-mute. Ranjana who has beenworking with them for a year nowsaid, “My life has changed a lot forthe better.”
Karan, who completed his
Bachelors from Delhi Universityand Masters from WarwickBusiness School, UK, comes froma joint family and said that his par-ents were not keen on him takingthis up as they felt that “this is nowork to do.”
His partner too faced opposi-tion. When Ankit, who has 17research papers and a patent in hisname, told his parents that hewanted to quit his job and startHelpUsGreen, his mother said,“Ab tum job chodke mandiron kakachra saaf karoge (now you willleave your job and clean thegarbage in temples).”
Three years down the line,their parents are very proud ofthem and also ask their friends andneighbourers to send the flowersto the organisation rather than todisposing them in the water.
HelpUsGreen recently wonthe United Nation young leader forSDG 2018, Bill and Melinda GatesGoalkeeper award and the UnitedNation Momentum of ChangeAward 2018. They were also list-ed in Forbes 30 under 30 class of2018. “We never thought we couldachieve this. In the coming years,I hope we will be able to impactmore cities and change the lives ofnot less than 500 women”, Rastogisaid. Ridhima who manages theirfinances said, “Five years from nowI want to see us listed on the NSEas a public company.”
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Arsenal swaggered to a ninth suc-cessive win as AlexandreLacazette's double and a goal of
the season contender from AaronRamsey inspired a 5-1 rout of Fulhamon Sunday.
Unai Emery's side turned on thestyle on the banks of the River Thames,recording their biggest win of the sea-son as the resurgent Gunners movedinto the Premier League's top four.
Lacazette was at the centre ofArsenal's powerful show at CravenCottage, with his superb second-halfstrike restoring their lead after AndreSchurrle had cancelled out his open-er.
Ramsey's audacious back-heeledgoal put Arsenal in complete controlto cap a stunning move that recalledthe club's finest days under Emery'spredecessor Arsene Wenger.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang net-ted twice in the closing stages asArsenal won six consecutive leaguematches within a single campaign forthe first time since 2016.
They have also recorded threeconsecutive away league victories forthe first time in two years.
Emery was expected to need along period to revive Arsenal after thedepressing final years of the Wengerera.
But the north Londoners arequickly rediscovering their verve andstruggling Fulham had no answer totheir enterprising display.
Emery freshened up his side withsix changes, although one was enforcedas Mesut Ozil was sidelined due to aback spasm, and there were no signsof fatigue as they took the lead in the29th minute.
Alex Iwobi was the catalyst witha clever pass to Nacho Monreal.
Monreal clipped his cross intoLacazette and the French striker leftTim Ream flat-footed with a nimbleturn and close-range strike for hisfourth goal of the season.
Fulham hit back against the runof play in the 44th minute.
Unhinged by Monreal's wastefulpass, Arsenal were out of position asLuciano Vietto slipped a pin-point passto Schurrle, who caught Rob Holdingball-watching as he sprinted throughto chip a fine finish over Bernd Lenofor his third goal this season.
Undeterred, Arsenal stepped onthe gas after the interval and Lacazette
restored their lead in the 49th minute.Aubameyang and Ramsey had
both been left on the bench, but Emeryintroduced them for the final half hourin a bid to kill offFulham.
It proved aninspired move asRamsey sealed thepoints with amajestic finish inthe 67th minute.
Aubameyangput the seal onArsenal's stroll inthe autumn sun-shine in the 79thminute, deftlyc o n v e r t i n gBellerin's cross.
The Gabonstriker wasn't finished yet and, in thelast minute, he smashed in Ramsey'spass for his sixth goal of the season.
��1����������������� ���� Belgium playmakerEden Hazard kept up his red-hot formwith one goal and an assist to inspireChelsea to a convincing 3-0 victoryagainst Southampton in the PremierLeague on Sunday.
Unbeaten Chelsea, playingin an unfamiliar pale blue kitwith orange socks, made abright start at St Mary's andwas unfortunate not to beawarded a penalty whenWesley Hoedt fouled Olivier
Giroud.Southampton could have taken
the lead against the run of play, butDanny Ings blazed the ball wildly overafter good work down the left by for-mer Chelsea defender Ryan Bertrand.
Chelsea went ahead on the half-hour when Ross Barkley, who wasrecalled to the England squad mid-week, did well to win possession inmidfield and set up the unmarked
Hazard to fire the ball past AlexMcCarthy for his seventh league goalof the season.
Barkley then added the secondgoal, his first for the club, from tap-inrange after Giroud produced an acro-batic cross-shot following a free kickby Willian.
Southampton tried to stage a laterally and visiting goalkeeper KepaArrizabalaga had to pull off two fin-ger-tip saves to deny Ings and NathanRedmond.
Chelsea had the final word,though, as the irrepressible Hazard sentAlvaro Morata clean through and thesubstitute chipped the ball overMcCarthy.
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Atletico Madrid shot to the topof La Liga after Angel
Correa's goal proved the winnerin an untidy 1-0 win over RealBetis on Sunday.
Atletico sat seven pointsbehind Real Madrid andBarcelona after winning onlyone of their opening four leaguegames but as their rivals havestumbled, Diego Simeone's sidehave sprung into form.
Even if Barca return to thesummit by beating Valencia lateron Sunday, this was Atleti's fifthwin in six in all competitions,with their only dropped pointscoming in a stalemate away toReal Madrid.
Simeone can take some ofthe credit too for this victory atthe Wanda Metropolitano, afterthrowing on both Correa andThomas Partey as substitutes inthe second half. Thomas pro-vided the assist.
The contest was billed as aclassic clash of styles, withAtletico's stubborn defence upagainst the free-flowing RealBetis, who lit up the league lastseason with their flurry of goals.
It is testament to the threatBetis pose that opponents havebecome more cautious this sea-son and Atletico weresuccessful here in theirstrategy of absorb andcounter-attack.
Betis, who couldalso have gone topwith a win, such is thescrunched nature ofthe top half, stay sev-enth.
Diego Costa was missingwith a thigh injury, allowingNikola Kalinic to make his firststart since joining from ACMilan in August.
��������������Julen Lopetegui insisted it is
too early to be questioning hisfuture despite Real Madrid suf-fering a shock defeat by Alaves to
make it four games without a vic-tory.
It is four games without agoal too for the European cham-pions, their longest scoringdrought since 1985, as ManuGarcia headed home in the 95thminute to send theMendizorrotza Stadium wild.
It is the first time they havebeaten Madrid at home in 87years.
Alaves fans ran onto thepitch to celebrate their stunning1-0 win and the chants continuedlong after the final whistle.
For Real, this was anotherbody blow and to make mattersworse, Gareth Bale and KarimBenzema, their chief attackingthreats, were both forced offinjured. Bale had missed theChampions League loss to CSKAMoscow on Tuesday with a groinstrain.
It means Barcelona can gothree points clear if they win theirgame in hand against Valenciawhile Alaves' excellent start to theseason continues.
Lopetegui had been asked onFriday if he felt under pressure atthe club he left Spain for on theeve of the World Cup and thequestion was put to him againafter the match here.
"It interests you but is not aquestion that concernsme," Lopetegui said.
"We know what thelife of a coach is, especial-ly at Real Madrid, but wealso know it is Octoberand you have to keep per-spective and stay calm."
Captain Sergio Ramoswas more emphatic.
"It's other people who makethose decisions but it's nevergood to have a change of coach,"he said.
"It would be crazy."Talk of change feels prema-
ture but it will increase if Madridfail to find fluency soon and, inparticular, if Barca pull away. TheClasico at the Camp Nou loomsat the end of the month.
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Juan Martin del Potro said thathe was battling illness after he
suffered a shock defeat in theChina Open final on Sunday, los-ing 6-4, 6-4 to unseeded NikolozBasilashvili of Georgia.
In the women's final, worldnumber two Caroline Wozniackidefeated Latvia's AnastasijaSevastova 6-3, 6-3 for her 30thWTA singles title.
Argentine top seed Del Potrowas far from his best and hasbeen fighting flu or a cold for sev-eral days in the Chinese capital.
The world number four saidthat he did his utmost in difficultcircumstances.
"I did everything that I canto be better for the final, it was-n't enough time to feel 100 per-cent," the 30-year-old said.
There was to be no surprisein the women's decider.
Denmark's Wozniacki wasimpressive all week, never drop-ping a set and rarely looking trou-bled, sealing her spot in the WTAFinals Singapore in the process.
The 28-year-old, who wonher first Grand Slam at theAustralian Open at the start ofthis year, was imperious againstthe unseeded Sevastova.
It is her second China Opencrown — she also won it in 2010— and 30th overall.
"I'm just happy to havereached 30 today, I'm going toenjoy that," said Wozniacki, a for-mer number one.
"As a little kid I had a dreamof becoming a professional ten-nis player, becoming number onein the world.
"Then after number one inthe world, I wanted to win aSlam, then I wanted to lift tro-phies.
"Having done everything,all of that, it's pretty amazing.
"I think I had a dream of that,but I don't know how realistic Ireally believed that was going tobe."
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Meghana Reddy and TasnimMir won the girls doubles
crown as Indian shuttlers baggedfive medals in the BadmintonAsia Junior U-17 and U-15 cham-pionships which concluded atMandalay, Myanmar on Sunday.
Meghana and Tasnim pairdefeated Korean duo of Yeo JinGong and Da Yeon Jeong 23-21,21-18 in the final to secure theUnder-15 girls doubles title.
Meiraba Luwang and AditiBhatt won a Bronze medal each inthe Under-17 boys singles and girlssingles respectively, while SShankar Muthuswamy claimed aBronze in under-15 boys singles.
The men doubles duo in U-15category, Pranv Rao Gandhamand P Sai Vishnu, added yet anoth-er Bronze medal to India's tally.
Sankar lost his semifinal to
Korean Byung Jae Kim 15-21, 19-21 in a tight match and it was fol-lowed by Aditi, who went down toIndonesian Aisyah Savita Ftetani12-21, 13-21.
Meiraba fought well but unfor-tunately went down 21-19, 16-21,
10-21 against Korean Yong Jin andthe pair of Pranav and Sai Vishucouldn't withstand the Indonesianduo of Muhammad RayhanNurand Mar wan Faza, whowrapped up the match 21-12, 21-19.
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Kei Nishikori's hopes of a third Japan Opencrown were dashed Sunday by Russian
qualifier Daniil Medvedev, who crushed thelocal hero 6-2, 6-4 to play party-pooper.
Medvedev punched well above his worldranking of 32 and overpowered third seedNishikori in a one-sided Tokyo final, taking just63 minutes to scoop his third career title.
Nishikori, who won the tournament in2012 and 2014, had not dropped a set beforerunning into the beefy Russian and came intothe match as the overwhelming favourite.
But Medvedev snaffled an early breakthanks to a wild backhand from Nishikori, whogift-wrapped the first set to his opponent witha tame double-fault.
A misfiring Nishikori, who won the last ofhis 11 career titles in Memphis two years ago,continued to struggle as his towering opponentgrew in confidence.
Chasing a first tournament victory after
recovering from a lengthy wrist injury, the worldnumber 12 never really threatened Medvedev'sserve and went out in a flurry of unforcederrors.
Medvedev completed the upset with adrilled forehand to join a eye-popping list ofJapan winners that includes Roger Federer, PeteSampras, John McEnroe and Ken Rosewall.
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India opened its Para AsianGames campaign in style by bag-
ging two Silver and three Bronzemedals on the opening day here onSunday.
The men's badminton teamopened the country's medalaccount after narrowly losing toMalaysia 1- 2 in the semifinals tosettle for a Bronze.
In the 49 kg men's powerlift-ing event, Farman Basha claimedthe Silver and Paramjeet Kumarwon the Bronze. The Gold went toPia Laophalkdee of Laos for hiseffort of 133 kg.
Farman lifted 128 kg whileParamjeet had 127 kg.
The medals continued to comeIndia's way as swimmers DevanshiSatijawon picked up a Silver inwomen's 100 metre butterfly in S-10 category and Suyash Jadhavclinched the Bronze in the men's200 metre individual medley inSM-7 category.
The Boccia team, which iscompeting for the first time at theAsian Para Games, also emergedvictorious as they got the better ofhosts Indonesia in their first groupmatch 5-3.
In chess, all the Indians wontheir ties with visually impairedPrachurya Kumar Pradhan sealinghis victory over Domingos SavioFernandes Gusmao from TimorLeste in less than 15 minutes.
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Prithvi Shaw lived up to expectationswith a classy Test century on his
India debut but the teenage sensationmust tighten up his technique fortougher challenges away from home,feel former players.
Shaw batted like a seasoned pro tohit a sublime hundred in the seriesopener against the West Indies, becom-ing the youngest Indian to reachthree-figure score on Test debut. Hedid not face the best of attacks but itwas still a special knock that promis-es a great career.
His punches off the back footreminded former West Indies all-rounder Carl Hooper of the good oldCaribbean flair but he feels Shaw'saggressive style with the existing tech-nique makes the 18-year-old vulner-able for sterner tests overseas, startingwith the tour of Australia next month.
"He seems to be a great talent buttends to play away from the body.Clearly, he likes to be on the back footand play square off the wicket. Itworked here (in Rajkot) but with somuch gap between the bat and body,he could face issues in England andAustralia," Hooper, a veteran of 102Tests said.
Former India opener AakashChopra, who successfully negotiatedthe new ball in Australia during the2003-2004 tour, has a different take onShaw's technique. He too feels thatShaw needs to tighten up his game but
said if an unconventional approachworked for Virender Sehwag, it couldalso work for the highly-rated teenag-er.
"What we have just seen is perhapsa trailer of the things to come. It looksvery promising. You cannot grudgeabout the opposition and pitch was flat.But he will be tested (overseas) and Iam sure he is aware of it. We will getto know whether he can weather thestorm and what all he needs to do," saidChopra, who played 10 Tests forIndia.
"Currently, there are couple ofthings, I am pretty sure he is workingon that. One was his trigger movementwhich is already looking different towe saw in the IPL. I am not too wor-ried. He has got a great start," Choprasaid.
"People will have faith and he willget a slightly extended run. God for-bid even if Australia does not end upbeing the best of tours for him, youhave to bear in mind that lot of play-ers went there the first time and didnot really set the world on fire."
He said Shaw might have to curbhis aggression a bit while facing thelikes of Mitchell Starc and JoshHazlewood. The ball will swing inAustralia but not as much as England.
"There will be some swing asKookaburra tends to move a lot earlyon. Hazlewood and Starc will beexploiting those conditions. See, youhave to back yourself. Whatever tookyou to this level should make you suc-
cessful at the highest level as well."You may want to tighten up a bit
but radical changes in your techniquesare not advisable. He has got to be alittle careful off the back foot. Thepunches that he likes to hit could beslightly risky if the ball is moving lat-erally. We will have to assume that hewill learn with time. What he has donein the past counts for nothing. He willbe eventually be judged by what hedoes at the highest level," addedChopra.
Someone who has tracked Shawclosely is Amol Muzumdar, a stalwartof Mumbai and owner of more than11,000 first-class runs. The 43-year-oldsaid one should not jump the gun butwait till Shaw actually gets an oppor-tunity overseas before making a com-ment on his technique.
"I think he does not need tochange too much. Every player has gothis own style of play. His style is aggres-sive, playing on the rise and he shouldcontinue doing that. We will have towait and see how does in England andAustralia then only we can talk aboutit," said Muzumdar.
"You cannot be technically correctall the time, too much reliance on tech-nique is also not good. There has to bea balance between technique andflamboyance. All he needs to do is tobe selective with his shot making. Onwhich ball to go for your strokes andon which ball to hold back. That is theonly thing he needs to watch out,"reckoned Muzumdar.
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Reeza Hendricks and Heinrich Klaasenadvanced their claims for long-term
places in the South African squad as theyhit half-centuries in a four-wicket win overZimbabwe in the third and final one-dayinternational at Boland Park on Saturday.
South Africa completed a 3-0 sweepin a series which was as much about giv-ing opportunities to fringe players as it wasabout beating their neighbours.
"Our main focus was to keep lookingat players and we tried to give everyonegood game time," said South African cap-tain Faf du Plessis.
"Australia is our next tour (at the endof October). It will probably be a bittougher than this and we will be closer toour best 15 or 16 players for that tour."
Hendricks made 66 and Klaasen 59 asSouth Africa chased down a Zimbabwetotal of 228 with 4.1 overs to spare.
Hendricks hit a century on debutagainst Sri Lanka in August but scored onlyeight runs in his next four innings.Opening the batting, he helped AidenMarkram put on 75 for the first wicket andbatted fluently in hitting five fours and asix off 82 balls.
Klaasen played his second usefulinnings of a series in which he also keptwicket capably in the absence of Quinton
de Kock, hitting six fours and a six in a 67-ball innings. Two catches and a lightningstumping helped win him the man-of-the-match award. Sean Williams hit 69 to leadan improved batting performance byZimbabwe but it was not enough to pro-vide a serious challenge on the only goodbatting pitch of the series.
South Africa went into the series with-out front-line players Hashim Amla, DeKock and David Miller, with coach OttisGibson stating that opportunities wouldbecome less frequent for players chal-lenging for places in South Africa's 2019World Cup squad.
Earlier, Williams helped the touristsregain some pride after being bowled outfor 117 and 78 in losing the first two match-es. Williams and Brendan Taylor (40) puton 73 for the fourth wicket.
South African fast bowler Dale Steyncontinued a successful return to one-dayinternational cricket, bowling with goodpace and control on an unresponsive pitchto take three for 29 in 9.3 overs. Fellow fastbowler Kagiso Rabada took three for 32.
Zimbabwe captain HamiltonMasakadza said his team's batting had beendisappointing. "We just weren't goodenough across all three games," he said.
The sides start a three-matchTwenty20 international series in EastLondon on Tuesday.
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Opener Mohammad Hafeez cel-ebrated his recall with an
impressive century as Pakistandominated the opening day of thefirst Test against Australia in Dubaion Sunday.
Pakistan were 255-3 at theclose of play, with Haris Sohailunbeaten on 15 and nightwatch-man Mohammad Abbas one notout as Australian bowlers toiledaway with little success on a flatDubai Stadium pitch.
Hafeez, a late inclusion in thesquad after a double hundred in adomestic match, led the run-feastwith a knock of 126 — his 10th Testhundred — during a 278-minutestay at the crease and put on 205runs for the opening stand withImam-ul-Haq, who made a careerbest 76.
Pakistan skipper SarfrazAhmed won the toss and decidedto bat, and Hafeez and Imamlaid the platform for a big firstinnings as Australia's pace-cum-spin attack was held wick-etless before tea.
Hafeez, whose last of 50Test appearances came inEngland two years ago, broughtup his hundred by pushingspinner Jon Holland for twoafter hitting a pair of boundariesoff Mitchell Starc the previousover.
He was given a life on 74 whenMitchell Marsh could not hold onto a tough chance on the bound-ary off the bowling of Holland hav-ing covered some 20 yards in theoutfield.
Hafeez, whose innings includ-ed 15 boundaries, was finallytrapped leg before wicket by PeterSiddle by a ball which beat him onthe front push.
It was only after tea thatAustralia were able to take wickets,with off-spinner Nathan Lyon get-ting Imam caught behind in the63rd over of the day.
Imam hit seven boundariesand two sixes — both off Holland— to improve on his previous bestscore of 74 not out made againstIreland at Malahide in May.
Azhar Ali scored 18 before giv-
ing away his wicket to Holland,caught at mid-off by Starc.
Australia captain TimPaine brought on Lyon in theninth over but Pakistan reachedlunch at 89-0 before adding afurther 110 runs in the secondsession.
Lyon, Holland and Siddlefinished a challenging openingday with a wicket apiece.
Australia handed Test capsto Aaron Finch, Travis Head andMarnus Labuschagne whilePakistan included off-spinner BilalAsif for his first Test at the age of33. The second Test starts in AbuDhabi on October 16.
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India's U-19 team on Sundayfollowed the footsteps of their
seniors to win the U-19 AsiaCup title with a crushing 144-run win against Sri Lanka in thefinal with Delhi boys AyushBadoni and Harsh Tyagi playingprominent roles.
Just a week back, the seniorteam beat Bangladesh in a close-ly fought final in Dubai toemerge as continental champi-ons.
Runaway favourites, Indiaoutplayed Sri Lanka in alldepartments by first scoring animposing 303 for six at the Sher-e-Bangla Stadium after skipperPrabh Simran Singh won thetoss and elected to bat.
All the Indian batsmen con-tributed with openers YashasviJaiswal (85 off 113 balls) andAnuj Rawat (57 off 79 balls) cre-ating solid foundation with121-run stand.
However the highlight ofthe Indian innings was Badoni'sblistering unbeaten knock of 52off 28 balls which included fivesixes and two fours. Along withskipper Prabh Simran (65 no off37 balls), Badoni added 110runs in 9.1 overs to literally batSri Lanka out of the match.
The island nation werenever in the chase as they wereall out for 160 in 38.4 overs los-ing wickets at regular intervalswith left-arm spinner HarshTyagi's registering brilliant fig-ures of 6 for 38 in 10 overs.
He flighted a few and fireda few down the channel inwhat was his best performanceat the U-19 level till date.
India did have one toughmatch against Bangladesh in thesemi-final which they won bytwo runs.
"I couldn't play today but Iam very happy that my teamwon," India's regular captainPavan Shah said in company ofhis deputy and stand-in skipperPrabh Simran.
Man of the match Tyagi,who bowled a disciplined linesaid: "The instruction was to
bowl at one spot after doing avideo analysis of the Sri Lankateam. The wicket also assistedthe spinners."
It was left-hander Jaiswal,who hit some flowing drivesincluding a pulled six over deepmid-wicket off left-arm spinnerDushith Wellalage.
For his consistency (318runs in the tournament), Jaiswalwas adjudged man-of-the-tour-nament.
The Lankans used fivespinners — three off-breaksand two left-arm spinners butall of them were slow throughthe air giving batsmen enoughtime to go on the back-foot.
Indian batting's most enter-taining part was the death overswhen Badoni and Prabh Simranbrutally assaulted the oppositionspinners.
In an over from left-armspinner Shashika Dulshan,Badoni hit four sixes with a cou-ple of them landing in stands.
A product of Delhi's famousSonnet Club, his techniqueagainst spinners was impressiveand like his 'senior' RishabhPant, he loves the slog hit overcow corner.
������'����India U-19 303/6 (YashasviJaiswal 85 off 113 balls, AnujRawat 57 off 79 balls, PrabhSimran 65 no off 37 balls,Ayush Badoni 52 no off 28balls)Sri Lanka U-19 160 in 38.4overs (Harsh Tyagi 6/38 in 10overs). India U-19 won by 144runs.
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Arampant Lewis Hamilton led aMercedes one-two at the Japanese
Grand Prix on Sunday to move to thebrink of a fifth Formula One world title.
The Briton dominated at Suzukaafter starting on pole, stretching his leadover Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel to 67 pointswith just four races left as the German'shopes were dashed by a collision withRed Bull's Max Verstappen.
Valtteri Bottas held off Verstappen totake second almost 13 seconds behindHamilton in a breathless 53-lap race atthe fast-flowing Japanese circuit.
"Woo-hoo! I love you guys!"Hamilton screamed over team radio afterhis sixth win in the last seven races.
"I hope you guys are not gettingbored of this — because I'm definitelynot."
Vettel realistically needed to win tokeep alive his fading title hopes but,despite making up four places in a fran-tic start after starting on the fourth row,spun off on lap eight in a shower of sparksafter a risky lunge on Verstappen.
The German, who began from eighthin qualifying, survived the scrape butfound himself back in 19th and couldonly finish sixth, dealing a hammer blowto his slim title hopes.
Hamilton will retain his world titleif he wins the next race at Austin andVettel fails to finish second.
"It's a great one-two for Mercedesand a true showing of the strength indepth we have," said the Briton after hisfifth Japan victory and ninth of the sea-son.
"I can't wait to unleash this beast inAustin," he added, pointing at his car.
"We've gone from strength tostrength this year as a team but I'm tak-
ing it one step at a time."Daniel Ricciardo finished fourth
for Red Bull after starting way back in15th with Kimi Raikkonen fifth afterFerrari opted not to switch his positionwith Vettel for the sake of two extrapoints.
Vettel was left wondering whatmight have been after a ruining an elec-tric start with an ill-advised attempt toduck inside Verstappen at turn 13.
"In that corner you can't overtake,"shrugged the Dutchman, who had ear-lier received a five-second penalty fornudging Raikkonen off the track.
"I even gave him space but he under-steered into my car."
Red Bull boss Christian Horner putit even more bluntly when asked to assessVettel's rush of blood.
"It was a bit late and obviouslyopportunistic," he said.
"You know with Max, he's nevergoing to give an inch and it's costSebastian dear today. That's probablythe end of his championship." Vettel sawit differently.
Further down the order, SergioPerez took seventh for Force Indiaahead of Romain Grosjean's Haas.
The second Force India of EstebanOcon came in ninth with Renault'sCarlos Sainz Jr 10th.
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The Indian junior men's hockey teamthrashed New Zealand 7-1 to register their
second consecutive win at the eighth Sultanof Johor Cup here on Sunday.
On the opening day of the tournament,the Indians had registered a hard fought 2-1win over hosts Malaysia.
Prabhjot Singh (6th minute), ShilanandLakra (15th, 43rd), Harmanjit Singh (21st),Mohd Faraz (23rd), Abhishek (50th) and skip-per Mandeep Mor (60th) were the goal scor-ers for India.
New Zealand's consolation goal camefrom the sticks of Sam Hiha in the 53rdminute.
Last year's Bronze medallist India got offto an attacking start as Prabhjot's fine goal inthe sixth minute put New Zealand on the backfoot.
Shilanand Lakra, who had made hissenior debut earlier this year at the SultanAzlan Shah Cup in Malaysia, was in good nickas he capitalised on a good assist to put theball past the New Zealand goalkeeper to dou-ble the scoreline.
The Indian forwards kept up the pressureas they scored back-to-back goals in the 21stand 23rd minute through Harmanjit's fieldstrike and Mohd Faraz's penalty corner con-version.
While the third quarter saw both teamsdrop the pace a bit, India extended their leadin the 43rd minute through Lakra.
It was Abhishek's 50th minute goal thatput India 6-0 ahead, even as New Zealand's
Sam Hiha scored a consolation goal threeminute later.
Skipper Mandeep also registered hisname in the score sheet as he converted asmart variation from a penalty corner to handIndia the massive win.
Earlier on Saturday, India beat hostMalaysia 2-1 to start its camappign on the win-ning note.
India will next take on Japan in their thirdmatch on October 9.
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