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C ongress president Rahul Gandhi on Thursday demanded resignation of Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, accusing him of “colluding with the criminal” and allow- ing him to escape from the country. Rahul sought the FM’s res- ignation on the back of a claim made by his party MP PL Punia that he saw Jaitley and Mallya together in the Central Hall of Parliament on March 1, 2016, as the duo held an elab- orate 15-20 minute discussion. On Wednesday, Jaitley had rubbished Mallya’s claim that he met Jaitley in Parliament where he had offered to settle his bank dues. Jaitley said he never gave any appointment to Mallya, but the liquor baron accosted him on one occasion in Parliament and offered to make some settlement with the banks, which he (Jaitley) refused to entertain. The FM claimed there was no further talks between them. The Congress president also attacked the Modi Government on the way the CBI lookout circular (LOC) notice against Mallya was dilut- ed, allowing him to leave the country. “Who changed the lookout notice for Mr Vijay Mallya from ‘detain’ to just ‘inform’? It can only be someone who con- trols the CBI,” Rahul tweeted. After Jaitley’s prompt rebuttal of Mallya’s claim of the purported meeting, Punia spiced up the controversy by insisting he had seen Jaitley and Mallya talking animatedly in the Central Hall of Parliament, for first few minutes standing and then continuing their dis- cussion sitting face to face. “On March 3, we heard from the media that he (Mallya) fled the country on March 2. I have clearly stated about this in each of my inter- view with the media. There are CCTV cameras, we can all see that for proof. If I am wrong, I will resign from politics,” Punia claimed. Latching on to Punia’s claim, Rahul challenged Jaitley to get CCTV footage of March 1. “Mr Jaitley is lying, the Government is lying on Rafale and the Government is lying on Vijay Mallya. A meeting was held with Mr Arun Jaitley and Vijay Mallya. The logistics of Mr Mallya leaving the country were discussed in that meet- ing,” Rahul told reporters. “Mr Vijay Mallya was given free passage out of the country by the Finance Minister, who has clearly said the criminal told him that he is going to run away. Well, why did you let him run away? Why did you not stop him? Because you were colluding with him,” he added. Describing it as an “open and shut case of collusion”, he said there was some deal between Jaitley and Mallya and called for the Finance Minister’s resignation. Asked whether the Congress would move a priv- ilege motion, he said the party would do what it could. However, Jaitley has to first explain why he did not act when told that Mallya was going to “run away to London”, Rahul said. He also sought to know what transpired at Jaitley’s “extended meeting” with the “gentleman in Parliament House”. The Congress has also gone on offensive against dilu- tion of the LOC. T he BJP on Thursday defended Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley against allegation of “colluding” with liquor baron Vijay Mallya and asked Congress president Rahul Gandhi to resign and disclose his family’s proximity with the absconding tycoon. Addressing a Press confer- ence, Union Minister Piyush Goyal said the fugitive busi- nessman is a criminal and his words could not be taken seri- ously. The BJP leader, however, did not answer whether the Government would give CCTV footage for forensic examina- tion to test the claim of the Congress that the said meeting between Jaitley and Mallya took place in the Central hall. Goyal asked Rahul to resign, claiming that due to his family’s “relations” with Mallya, banks were pressured by the previous United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government to sanction loans to the fugitive businessman, violating all norms. “Rahul Gandhi should answer what were the relations between his family and Mallya,” Goyal said, adding that the now-defunct Kingfisher Airlines was given loans bypassing all norms, laws and regulations. He said Rahul is an offender and his resignation will be forced by the people of India. However, it was not clear from what office Goyal wanted Rahul to step down. Mallya, he asserted, has no credibility as he is under the “glare of law” and is a criminal. He could not be taken seriously, Goyal said. Goyal ran a small clip of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh stating pri- vate airlines need to be helped to come out of the financial mess. Goyal alleged that the RBI was pressurised to arrange for a company-specific loan. The Minister said the Modi Government is in the process of recovering the money from Mallya and the Congress “is creating defence by telling lies.” The BJP also pointed out that Manmohan Singh had told his officials and gave it in writing to help Mallya, for which the liquor baron had thanked him profusely. Through the day, one after another several BJP leaders appeared on TV channels to attack Rahul and defend Jaitely. Law Minister Ravishankar Prasad insinu- ated that Rahul may have played a role in influencing Mallya to implicate Jaitley in his escape from the country. Prasad said Mallya made this claim only after Rahul Gandhi visited London recently. The BJP also alleged that both the Congress and the Gandhi family were close to the fugitive liquor baron. Party spokesperson Sambit Patra alleged that it appeared Rahul Gandhi owned the now defunct Kingfisher Airline by proxy and there are “18 pages worth of evidence” about their links. “Papers show that Kingfisher Airlines was not owned by Mallya but by the Gandhi parivar,” Patra said at a Press conference. Patra read out from the documents to point out that the loans to the now defunct airline were restructured twice — in 2008 and 2012. “That he and his mother Sonia Gandhi used to get free business upgrade (in Kingfisher flights) is some- thing which is in the public domain,” Patra added. S ecurity forces gunned down eight terrorists on Thursday in three separate encounters - two in north Kashmir and one in Jammu region. Twelve secu- rity personnel, including five jawans of CRPF, four State policemen, and three army per- sonnel, received injuries during the operation. Five terrorists, including three infiltrators, were killed in two separate encounters in north Kashmir’s Keran sector of Kupwara and Sopore in north Kashmir, official sources said. An over-ground worker of a pan-Islamic outfit was also held in Ganderbal district. Officials said three uniden- tified infiltrators were killed in a fierce gunfight after Army foiled a major infiltration bid along the Line of Control in Keran sector in Kupwara in north Kashmir on Thursday. In another incident, two Pakistan’s Jaish-e-Muhammad terrorists were killed in an oper- ation at Checkipora, Sheikhpora village in Sopore area of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district. In Kakriyal area along the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway, a three member fiday- een squad, believed to be cadre of Pakistan based Jaish-e- Mohammad terrorist outfit, was eliminated by the joint team of security forces lead by para commandos of the Indian army, jawans of the special operations group of state police and CRPF on Thursday. The 33-hour operation ended in the killing of one of the three surviving terrorists who opened fire on security forces when he came face to face with them during the combing and search operations in thickly vegetated fields of Kakriyal. Till the time of filing the report several teams of bomb disposal squad and others were deployed at the encounter site to completely sanitise the area and clear the same from ‘booby’ traps in the form of planted IED’s or land mines. The local residents, who remained closeted inside their homes since early morn- ing also heaved a sigh of relief after the operation was called off. The security forces ensured no major collateral damage was done to the civil- ian houses and managed to contain these terrorists in iso- lated areas. The educational institutions remained closed in the area to prevent any unto- ward incident. The traffic on the national highway also remained suspended while operation was on in the area. H igh voltage Delhi University Students’ Union (DUSU) elections witnessed a see-saw battle between the Congress party’s student wing NSUI and RSS-affiliated ABVP for the post of the president, with one leading the other at different stages of counting. However, there was a big disappointment in store for the CYSS, the AAP’s student wing, and AISA who had joined hands to defeat the ABVP and the NSUI. Ankiv Basoya of the ABVP bagged the post of DUSU pres- ident by defeating Sunny Chillar of the NSUI by margin of about 1,700 votes. Ankiv got 20,467 votes. Vice-President post too was won by ABVP as Shakti Singh defeated NSUI rival Leena by more than 8,000 votes. Shakti secured 23,046 votes, Leena 15,000 votes. The post of secretary was bagged by the NSUI as Akash Chaudhary defeated his ABVP counterpart Sudhir Dedha by margin of about 6,000 votes. The joint secretary post went to ABVP’s Jyoti Chaudhary (19,353 votes). He defeated his rival Saurabh Yadav (14,381) from NSUI by margin of approximately 5,000 votes. Last year, the NSUI had won DUSU’s president and vice-president posts, while ABVP had won secretary and joint secretary posts. ABVP’s popular face Shakti Singh proved too formidable for his opponents as he led by a whopping margin against NSUI’s Leena from the very beginning. Political pundits feel that Shakti — Kshatriya from the eastern Uttar Pradesh— was the ABVP’s game changer. High voltage drama went on throughout the counting when members of various stu- dent organisations in poll fray engaged in scuffle over the issue of “faulty” EVMs, which led to a halt in counting. Counting resumed in the evening. In the initial trends, the NSUI gained an upper hand for the president post, but it lost it subsequent phas- es. The NSUI claimed that they were leading on the post of president and the secretary after the six rounds of count- ing when about 6 EVMs broke down. The NSUI alleged elec- tion panel wanted to set the faulty EVMs aside and con- tinue the counting to which the NSUI staunchly objected. While the ABVP asserted there was a certain problem with only one EVM meant for the post of secretary. “We demanded that counting should not be stopped just because of one EVM, whose vote can be counted later on after correc- tion,” said Monica Chaudhary of the ABVP. D elhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday asserted that Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Government will suc- ceed in cleaning Yamuna River though it will take time. Kejriwal, who is currently on a visit to South Korea, made the assertion in reply to a tweet that questioned the failures of urban rejuvenation projects in India and stalled plans for Yamuna River front development. Kejriwal accused previous Governments responsible for not cleaning the Yamuna River and their failure in imple- menting the river front devel- opment projects. “Becoz then, AAP govt wasn’t there. Now, it will hap- pen. As there have been con- crete improvements in other spheres during AAP govt, we will work hard on cleaning drains and Yamuna. It will take time. Koreans did it in 27 months. But I am confident that we will succeed,” he tweet- ed. During his trip to South Korean capital Seoul, Kejriwal visited Cheonggyecheon stream that was transformed from a polluted water body to a popular tourist spot. “The Cheonggyecheon Restoration Project in Seoul, which I myself saw on Wednesday at the downtown, was centred on revitalising the stream that had been covered for decades by a highway over- pass. The city of Seoul used its own resources to bring new life to the downtown by enhancing the urban environment. The restoration of the Cheonggyecheon Stream led to the revitalisation of central Seoul, unleashing the potential for green public space”, he said. Addressing the International Conference on Urban Regeneration at Seol, Kejriwal said, “Delhi is a vibrant city state and popular- ly known as mini-India, where people of different religions, regions and cultures live hap- pily and contribute to India’s economy in a major way. Capital cities, the world over, are administratively run dif- ferently and Delhi too has a unique and somewhat complex administrative structure, which however is a matter of a sepa- rate conversation at some other occasion.” P rime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to celebrate his 68th birthday in his parlia- mentary constituency of Varanasi, where he will spend the day with schoolchildren and watch a film based on his life, a district official said here on Thursday. Modi is likely to go for a two-day visit to Varanasi on September 17 and 18. He will also offer prayers at the famous Kashi Vishwanath temple dur- ing his visit and address a public gathering in Varanasi, the official said. On his 68th birthday, the PM will watch a 32-minute film called “Chalo Jeete Hain” with schoolchildren and is also like- ly to inaugurate several devel- opment projects worth crores of rupees. A special cleanliness drive will be launched and health camps will also be organised in the town, he said.

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Congress president RahulGandhi on Thursday

demanded resignation ofFinance Minister Arun Jaitley,accusing him of “colludingwith the criminal” and allow-ing him to escape from thecountry.

Rahul sought the FM’s res-ignation on the back of a claimmade by his party MP PLPunia that he saw Jaitley andMallya together in the CentralHall of Parliament on March 1,2016, as the duo held an elab-orate 15-20 minute discussion.

On Wednesday, Jaitley hadrubbished Mallya’s claim thathe met Jaitley in Parliamentwhere he had offered to settlehis bank dues. Jaitley said henever gave any appointment toMallya, but the liquor baronaccosted him on one occasionin Parliament and offered tomake some settlement withthe banks, which he (Jaitley)refused to entertain. The FMclaimed there was no furthertalks between them.

The Congress presidentalso attacked the ModiGovernment on the way theCBI lookout circular (LOC)notice against Mallya was dilut-ed, allowing him to leave thecountry.

“Who changed the lookoutnotice for Mr Vijay Mallyafrom ‘detain’ to just ‘inform’? Itcan only be someone who con-trols the CBI,” Rahul tweeted.

After Jaitley’s prompt

rebuttal of Mallya’s claim of thepurported meeting, Puniaspiced up the controversy byinsisting he had seen Jaitley andMallya talking animatedly inthe Central Hall of Parliament,for first few minutes standingand then continuing their dis-cussion sitting face to face.

“On March 3, we heardfrom the media that he(Mallya) fled the country onMarch 2. I have clearly stated

about this in each of my inter-view with the media. There areCCTV cameras, we can all seethat for proof. If I am wrong, Iwill resign from politics,” Puniaclaimed.

Latching on to Punia’sclaim, Rahul challenged Jaitleyto get CCTV footage of March1. “Mr Jaitley is lying, theGovernment is lying on Rafaleand the Government is lying onVijay Mallya. A meeting washeld with Mr Arun Jaitley andVijay Mallya. The logistics ofMr Mallya leaving the countrywere discussed in that meet-ing,” Rahul told reporters.

“Mr Vijay Mallya wasgiven free passage out of thecountry by the FinanceMinister, who has clearly saidthe criminal told him that heis going to run away. Well, whydid you let him run away? Why

did you not stop him? Becauseyou were colluding with him,”he added.

Describing it as an “openand shut case of collusion”, hesaid there was some dealbetween Jaitley and Mallyaand called for the FinanceMinister’s resignation.

Asked whether theCongress would move a priv-ilege motion, he said the partywould do what it could.However, Jaitley has to firstexplain why he did not actwhen told that Mallya wasgoing to “run away to London”,Rahul said.

He also sought to knowwhat transpired at Jaitley’s“extended meeting” with the“gentleman in ParliamentHouse”. The Congress has alsogone on offensive against dilu-tion of the LOC.

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The BJP on Thursdaydefended Union Finance

Minister Arun Jaitley againstallegation of “colluding” withliquor baron Vijay Mallya andasked Congress presidentRahul Gandhi to resign anddisclose his family’s proximitywith the absconding tycoon.

Addressing a Press confer-ence, Union Minister PiyushGoyal said the fugitive busi-nessman is a criminal and hiswords could not be taken seri-ously.

The BJP leader, however,did not answer whether theGovernment would give CCTVfootage for forensic examina-tion to test the claim of theCongress that the said meetingbetween Jaitley and Mallyatook place in the Central hall.

Goyal asked Rahul toresign, claiming that due to hisfamily’s “relations” with Mallya,banks were pressured by theprevious United ProgressiveAlliance (UPA) Government tosanction loans to the fugitivebusinessman, violating allnorms.

“Rahul Gandhi shouldanswer what were the relationsbetween his family and Mallya,”

Goyal said, adding that thenow-defunct KingfisherAirlines was given loansbypassing all norms, laws andregulations. He said Rahul is anoffender and his resignationwill be forced by the people ofIndia. However, it was notclear from what office Goyalwanted Rahul to step down.

Mallya, he asserted, has nocredibility as he is under the“glare of law” and is a criminal.He could not be taken seriously,Goyal said.

Goyal ran a small clip offormer Prime MinisterManmohan Singh stating pri-vate airlines need to be helpedto come out of the financialmess. Goyal alleged that theRBI was pressurised to arrangefor a company-specific loan.The Minister said the ModiGovernment is in the processof recovering the money fromMallya and the Congress “iscreating defence by telling lies.”

The BJP also pointed outthat Manmohan Singh hadtold his officials and gave it inwriting to help Mallya, forwhich the liquor baron hadthanked him profusely.

Through the day, oneafter another several BJPleaders appeared on TV

channels to attack Rahul anddefend Jaitely. Law MinisterRavishankar Prasad insinu-ated that Rahul may haveplayed a role in influencingMallya to implicate Jaitley inhis escape from the country.Prasad said Mallya made thisclaim only af ter R ahulGandhi vis ited Londonrecently.

The BJP also alleged thatboth the Congress and theGandhi family were close tothe fugitive liquor baron.Party spokesperson SambitPatra alleged that it appearedRahul Gandhi owned thenow defunct Kingf isher

Airline by proxy and there are“18 pages worth of evidence”about their links.

“Papers show thatKingfisher Airlines was notowned by Mallya but by theGandhi parivar,” Patra said ata Press conference.

Patra read out from thedocuments to point out thatthe loans to the now defunctairline were restructuredtwice — in 2008 and 2012.

“That he and his motherSonia Gandhi used to getfree business upgrade (inKingfisher flights) is some-thing which is in the publicdomain,” Patra added.

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Security forces gunned downeight terrorists on Thursday

in three separate encounters -two in north Kashmir and onein Jammu region. Twelve secu-rity personnel, including fivejawans of CRPF, four Statepolicemen, and three army per-sonnel, received injuries duringthe operation.

Five terrorists, includingthree infiltrators, were killed intwo separate encounters innorth Kashmir’s Keran sector ofKupwara and Sopore in northKashmir, official sources said.An over-ground worker of apan-Islamic outfit was also heldin Ganderbal district.

Officials said three uniden-tified infiltrators were killed ina fierce gunfight after Armyfoiled a major infiltration bidalong the Line of Control inKeran sector in Kupwara innorth Kashmir on Thursday.

In another incident, twoPakistan’s Jaish-e-Muhammadterrorists were killed in an oper-ation at Checkipora, Sheikhporavillage in Sopore area of northKashmir’s Baramulla district.

In Kakriyal area along theJammu-Srinagar NationalHighway, a three member fiday-een squad, believed to be cadreof Pakistan based Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorist outfit, waseliminated by the joint team ofsecurity forces lead by paracommandos of the Indian army,jawans of the special operationsgroup of state police and CRPFon Thursday.

The 33-hour operationended in the killing of one of thethree surviving terrorists whoopened fire on security forceswhen he came face to face withthem during the combing andsearch operations in thicklyvegetated fields of Kakriyal.

Till the time of filing thereport several teams of bombdisposal squad and otherswere deployed at theencounter site to completelysanitise the area and clear thesame from ‘booby’ traps in theform of planted IED’s or landmines. The local residents,who remained closeted insidetheir homes since early morn-ing also heaved a sigh of reliefafter the operation was calledoff.

The security forcesensured no major collateraldamage was done to the civil-ian houses and managed tocontain these terrorists in iso-lated areas. The educationalinstitutions remained closed inthe area to prevent any unto-ward incident. The traffic onthe national highway alsoremained suspended whileoperation was on in the area.

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High voltage DelhiUniversity Students’ Union

(DUSU) elections witnessed asee-saw battle between theCongress party’s student wingNSUI and RSS-affiliated ABVPfor the post of the president,with one leading the other atdifferent stages of counting.

However, there was a bigdisappointment in store forthe CYSS, the AAP’s studentwing, and AISA who hadjoined hands to defeat theABVP and the NSUI.

Ankiv Basoya of the ABVPbagged the post of DUSU pres-ident by defeating SunnyChillar of the NSUI by marginof about 1,700 votes. Ankiv got20,467 votes. Vice-Presidentpost too was won by ABVP asShakti Singh defeated NSUIrival Leena by more than 8,000votes. Shakti secured 23,046votes, Leena 15,000 votes.

The post of secretary wasbagged by the NSUI as AkashChaudhary defeated his ABVPcounterpart Sudhir Dedha bymargin of about 6,000 votes.The joint secretary post went toABVP’s Jyoti Chaudhary(19,353 votes). He defeated hisrival Saurabh Yadav (14,381)from NSUI by margin ofapproximately 5,000 votes.

Last year, the NSUI hadwon DUSU’s president andvice-president posts, whileABVP had won secretary andjoint secretary posts.

ABVP’s popular face Shakti

Singh proved too formidable forhis opponents as he led by awhopping margin againstNSUI’s Leena from the verybeginning. Political pundits feelthat Shakti — Kshatriya fromthe eastern Uttar Pradesh— wasthe ABVP’s game changer.

High voltage drama wenton throughout the countingwhen members of various stu-dent organisations in poll frayengaged in scuffle over theissue of “faulty” EVMs, whichled to a halt in counting.Counting resumed in theevening. In the initial trends,the NSUI gained an upperhand for the president post,but it lost it subsequent phas-es.

The NSUI claimed thatthey were leading on the postof president and the secretaryafter the six rounds of count-ing when about 6 EVMs brokedown. The NSUI alleged elec-tion panel wanted to set thefaulty EVMs aside and con-tinue the counting to whichthe NSUI staunchly objected.

While the ABVP assertedthere was a certain problemwith only one EVM meant forthe post of secretary.

“We demanded thatcounting should not bestopped just because of oneEVM, whose vote can becounted later on after correc-tion,” said Monica Chaudharyof the ABVP.

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Delhi Chief Minister ArvindKejriwal on Thursday

asserted that Aam Aadmi Party(AAP) Government will suc-ceed in cleaning Yamuna Riverthough it will take time.Kejriwal, who is currently on avisit to South Korea, made theassertion in reply to a tweet thatquestioned the failures of urbanrejuvenation projects in Indiaand stalled plans for YamunaRiver front development.

Kejriwal accused previousGovernments responsible fornot cleaning the Yamuna Riverand their failure in imple-menting the river front devel-opment projects.

“Becoz then, AAP govtwasn’t there. Now, it will hap-pen. As there have been con-crete improvements in otherspheres during AAP govt, wewill work hard on cleaningdrains and Yamuna. It willtake time. Koreans did it in 27

months. But I am confidentthat we will succeed,” he tweet-ed.

During his trip to SouthKorean capital Seoul, Kejriwalvisited Cheonggyecheonstream that was transformedfrom a polluted water body toa popular tourist spot.

“The CheonggyecheonRestoration Project in Seoul,which I myself saw onWednesday at the downtown,was centred on revitalising thestream that had been coveredfor decades by a highway over-pass. The city of Seoul used itsown resources to bring new lifeto the downtown by enhancingthe urban environment. Therestoration of theCheonggyecheon Stream led tothe revitalisation of centralSeoul, unleashing the potentialfor green public space”, he said.

Addressing theInternational Conference onUrban Regeneration at Seol,Kejriwal said, “Delhi is a

vibrant city state and popular-ly known as mini-India, wherepeople of different religions,regions and cultures live hap-pily and contribute to India’s

economy in a major way.Capital cities, the world over,are administratively run dif-ferently and Delhi too has aunique and somewhat complex

administrative structure, whichhowever is a matter of a sepa-rate conversation at some otheroccasion.”

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Prime Minister NarendraModi is likely to celebrate

his 68th birthday in his parlia-mentary constituency ofVaranasi, where he will spendthe day with schoolchildrenand watch a film based on hislife, a district official said hereon Thursday.

Modi is likely to go for atwo-day visit to Varanasi onSeptember 17 and 18. He willalso offer prayers at the famousKashi Vishwanath temple dur-ing his visit and address apublic gathering in Varanasi,the official said.

On his 68th birthday, thePM will watch a 32-minute filmcalled “Chalo Jeete Hain” withschoolchildren and is also like-ly to inaugurate several devel-opment projects worth croresof rupees.

A special cleanliness drivewill be launched and healthcamps will also be organised inthe town, he said.

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Aday after a StateCommission for

Protection of Child Rights(SCPCR) team visited twoashrams and asked for thecancellation of their NOCs,their owner SwamiAnupmanand Giri filed a com-plaint against the chairpersonof the child welfare body UshaNegi at the District Magistrate’soffice on Thursday. He said inthe complaint that she hadforced her entry into theashram premises and tried toextort money from him.However, Negi rubbished thecharge and said that he is des-perate to shield himself from aninquiry into the sordid state ofthings in the two ashramswhere many children are livingin a miserable condition.Notably, following the visit ofthe team, Negi had urged theDM to cancel NOCs of the twoashrams-Hari Om Ashram andShiv Om Ashram-given thepoor facilities being provided tothe children inmates.

Asked to comment on thecomplaint lodged against her,Negi said while talking to The

Pioneer that the team she ledhad dared to enter the premis-es while no officer was ready toenter. She, further, said that theallegation was baseless as theteam had entered the premis-es of both the ashrams alongwith teams of police and media.“Everything was clear. Themotive behind the complaint isto scuttle a probe which wouldexpose things fully,” she said.

She, further, informed thatthe commission had acted afterit had received several com-plaints against the ashramsfrom Uttarakhand StateCommission for Women.“Such complaints cannot stopus from visiting more suchhouses where children are liv-ing.

It is our duty to ensure theyare well cared for and theyenjoy the basic facilities of liv-ing,” Negi said and added thatthe officers who keep turningblind eye to the shabby statethings of the ashrams mustexplain their callousness tothe commission.

Negi said that the com-mission would have the chil-dren living in the ashramsshifted either to Bal Niketan orto Nari Niketan in the comingdays. Presently, 39 children-both girls and boys are living inthe Hari Om Ashram while 14girls aged above 10 years areliving in Shiv Om Ashram.

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In view of the State HighCourt ruling for the welfare

of the bovine family living inthe State, MunicipalCorporation of Dehradun(MCD) suspended a supervisorfor his alleged laidback attituderegarding the stray cattle prob-lem. Informing, a senior vet-erinary officer Dr V Sati saidthat MCD is lacking resourcesto rightly tackle the matter. “Weare crippled with resourcecrunch while the volume of ourwork is mounting,” he said.

As per the information

provided by the officials, about119 cattle are being kept nowin the stray cattle shelter basedin Dehradun, the only one inthe city. There are threehydraulic machines, the officerssaid and added that while oneis new, the other two are 10 to12 years old. They, further, saidthat the staff strength there isinadequate for the cattle res-cuing drive. The city needsmore such shelters for the straycattle to ensure that they areproperly taken care of, theysaid.

Dwelling on the problemsthey are facing, the SeniorVeterinary Officer Dr V Satisaid that they lacked resources.“The vehicles we use are veryold. Besides, the staff shortageis coming in the way of the

work we are entrusted with.We need new vehicles. Also weneed separate staff to beengaged in launching rescuingdrives. Those currently work-ing under the supervisors areworking on contractual basis.Crippled with resource andstaff crunch, we neverthelesstry our best to rescue as manystray cattle as possible. Butthings are indeed tough for us,”he said.

He, further, said, “We havetalked to the MCD officers andtold them about the prob-lems we are facing. We hopethat a new shelter for the straycattle would be set up in thecity. It would lessen our bur-den and things would go onsmoothly if it comes up,” headded.

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At a meeting at Dakshin Kalitemple near Chandi Ghat

here on Thursday, the presidentof All India Akhada ParishadNarendra Giri and the head ofDakshin Kali MandirKailashanand Saraswatidemanded the system of reser-vation be scrapped. They alsosuggested that all the Hindus,irrespective of the caste, shoulduse the word ‘Hindu’ in theplace of surnames, adding thatit would unite the Hindusacross the land. They, further,said that the suggestion wouldbe placed for endorsementduring the congregation of thesaints to be held in Allahabadnext month.

Giri said that theGovernment must stopChristian missionary organi-

sations from proselytising andconverting the tribal/rural peo-ple to Christianity. “This is animperative in view of what ishappening in several parts ofthe country, particularly in thenortheast,” he said.

Calling caste-based reser-vation as the principal imped-iment to the emotional inte-gration of the Hindu nation,Giri said that the time has comewhen it must be done awaywith. “At the same time, theHindus should use ‘Hindu’ atthe end of their names by wayof asserting their religious/cul-tural identity,” he said.

The Akhada chief also saidthat the Government shouldtake a serious note of the ram-pant proselytizing activitiesbeing carried out by theChristian missionaries, partic-ularly in the north-eastern

states. “They are converting thetribal people professingHinduism to Christianity withimpunity. This is a dangeroustrend which must be stoppedwith a heavy hand. TheGovernment must step inimmediately,” Giri said.

Kailashanand Brahmchariexpressed the hope that theRam Mandir would be con-structed at Ayodhya before the2019 general election.

They both pitched forscrapping of Article 370 of theConstitution, dubbing it as thechief inspiration for the fissi-parous movement going on inJammu and Kashmir. Theysaid that no state of the IndianUnion is entitled to a specialstatus. The article is the great-est destabilising factor in therestive northern State, theysaid.

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From working in an NGO onhuman trafficking to

becoming the first woman tocultivate a variety of the valu-able Keeda Jadi (cordycepsmilitaris) in the laboratory inUttarakhand, launching herown enterprise, cultivatingmushrooms and training oth-ers, Divya Rawat has come along way. Also known popu-larly as the mushroom girl ofUttarakhand, Divya has notonly set up an enterprise cul-tivating and marketing mush-rooms but also trains peoplefrom across India in mush-room cultivation as a means ofbecoming economically selfreliant which in turn mitigatesthe migration of people fromthe mountainous regions of theState. Talking to The Pioneer,the 26-year old entrepreneurshared details of her journey sofar after returning to Dehradunfrom Delhi after her educationand a brief stint in an NGO.

She said, “After comple-tion of my post graduate

degree in social work, I start-ed to work in an NGO on theissue of human trafficking.At that time, I saw many peo-ple of Dehradun working forvery low wages in Delhi. Thatmade me think of how to stopmigration of people fromUttarakhand to other placeswhere they work for a pittance.However, the viable means tohold the people back in theirhome State was missing. Iresearched for some time andfound mushroom cultivationto be the most viable activityfor income generation.”

Now hundreds of peopleare connected to her throughher company Soumya FoodsPrivate Limited. She not onlytrains people in mushroomcultivation but also buys theirproduce.

When asked about whyshe chose mushroom and howmany people are connected tothis she said, “While research-ing I found out that while mostvegetables sell for about �8-10per kg providing limited prof-it to the producer, mushroomsells in the range of �80 to

�100 per kg and provides agood profit margin. There aremany people into mushroomcultivation now. About 20people work in our laborato-ry and there are hundreds ofother people who are gettingtrained to grow mushrooms.The number of such people isincreasing consistently.”

The annual income ofDivya’s company is in crores ofrupees per annum. Thoseworking under her earbetween �15,000 to �20,000per month and sometimesmore depending on the quan-tity of mushroom yield. Hercompany Soumya FoodsPrivate Limited not only trainspeople but also assists those inneed to start mushroom cul-tivation.

However, her journey hasnot been easy. Talking aboutdifficulties while establishingthe setup she said, “I facedproblem in convincing myparents about my decisionthough they f inallyagreed.They supported me alot and helped me to start thisset up.

The other problem was themindset of people as beingyoung and with ideas not pop-ular at the time in the main-stream of male dominatedworld, some elements in soci-ety try to drag you down. But,I was determined enough andfinally succeeded.”

In the field of mushroomcultivation for about six years,she now cultivates varioustypes of mushrooms includingbutton, oyster and milkymushrooms though the mostexpensive is Keeda Jadi (cordy-ceps militaris). She said,“Keeda Jadi has a global mar-ket due to its various medici-

nal properties. It is valued atabout �15 lakh per kilo-gramme. In Uttrakhand, themarket is slow in comparisonto other States. It requirespatience and investment butthere is always profit. In thefuture, we are planning tostart a chain of our firm in var-ious States with the head-quarters in Uttarakhand. Thiswill help people to contact usfor buying and selling pur-poses too.”

Divya Rawat has beenawarded for her work atnational as well as State levels.The prestigious Nari ShaktiPuruskar was given to her bythe then President of India,Pranab Mukherjee in 2016.The horticulture departmentof Uttarakhand Governmentpresented the Udyan PanditPuraskar to her. Giving a mes-sage to everyone she said, “Iam an example of reversemigration. Earning well athome is better than the otheroptions. The youth nowadaysare more into earning byshortcuts and no one wants toleave his/her comfort zone.

There is scope in every-thing but shortcuts never helpin the long term. With utmostdedication and hard worknothing is impossible. Oneshould work hard to achievethe goal.”

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The festive spirit on theoccasion of Ganesh

Chaturthi now reigning in the

pilgrimage towns of Haridwarand Rishikesh, the rishiku-mars (students) of Veerpur,Parmarth Niketan have madeeco-friendly clay Ganesha idols.

They say that the mud the idolsare made of would be used fortree plantation when the timecomes for their immersion.

Speaking on the occasion,

the head of Parmarth NiketanSwami Chidanand Saraswatisaid, "The body of Ganeshasymbolises that no creatureon earth is big or small. The lit-tle mouse is the vehicle of theLord and Ganesha has an ele-phant trunk. The message is

clear. All creations of Godmust be respected as they are

emanations of God.A young student cited an

instance from the mythologyrelated to Lord Ganesha

according to which when theLord was asked to take a roundof the earth, he took a roundaround his mother and said hehad wandered around theearth. "It signifies the supremestatus a mother enjoys in theHindu scheme of things. Weshould imbibe lessons from it.Respect for parents is thebedrock of our culture which isenduring through ages becauseof the timeless principles it isbased on,” he said.

Meanwhile, a number ofreligious processions weretaken out by the residents of thetwo cities accompanied withdevotional music singing theglory of the Lord Ganeshabefore the idols were installedat the places where the Godwould be worshipped duringthe 11-day period of the festi-val.

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In order to consolidate its sup-port base in time for the 2019

Lok Sabha elections, theBharatiya Janata Party hasplanned to capitalise on thelegacy of the late former PrimeMinister Atal Bihari Vajpayeewhile also propagating theideals of Mahatma Gandhi andSardar Vallabhbhai Patel alongwith holding shows of themovie Chalo Jeete Haininspired by the childhood ofPrime Minister NarendraModi. From poetry recitation

events and medical camps inslums to 150 kilometre longwalks in all assembly con-stituencies, the BJP will under-take various activities includingShaurya Diwas to mark theanniversary of the surgicalstrikes in Pakistan occupiedKashmir in the comingmonths.

The BJP State presidentAjay Bhatt informed aboutthese planned activities whileaddressing the media followingthe meeting of the State-leveloffice bearers of the party hereon Thursday.

Bhatt informed that tomark one month of Vajpayee’sdemise on September 16,Kavyanjali programme will beheld at the Vidhan Sabha andLok Sabha levels whereinpoems by Vajyapee and abouthim will be recited in homageto him. A day later, theKavyanjali Sewa Saptah will belaunched and observed tillSeptember 25-the birthanniversary of DeendayalUpadhyaya.

As part of this programme,medical camps will be held inslums and the residents willalso be informed about theAyushman Bharat Yojana. Afterthe programme, the movieChalo Jeete Hain– inspired bythe PM’s childhood experi-ences-will be screened in var-ious cities and big villagesacross the State. On September29, the party will observeShaurya Diwas to mark theanniversary of the 2016 surgi-cal strikes carried out by theIndian Army on terror launchpads in P0K.

Ex-servicemen and fami-lies of martyrs will be hon-oured, talks will be held andstatues of martyrs will be gar-landed on the occasion. On

October 2, to commemoratethe 150th Gandhi Jayanti, partyworkers will undertake a fort-night long 150 kilometre walkin each Vidhan Sabha con-stituency raising public aware-ness about the works under-taken by the Government tofulfill Gandhi’s vision of GramSwarajya.

Run for Unity will beorganised on October 31 tomark Sardar Patel’s birthanniversary.

Earlier, while addressingparty leaders and State office

bearers, Bhatt said that the BJPState organisation had beenappreciated at the nationallevel. In the coming Lok Sabhaand local body elections, theparty will achieve a resoundingvictory on the strength of itstaintless leadership and works.

BJP joint general secre-tary (organisation) Shivprakashsaid that the party will securea majority in the coming LokSabha polls. The party willhave to clarify the positionstrongly and clearly to counterthe misconceptions being

spread in the public by theCongress and other oppositionparties, he added.

Chief Minister TrivendraSingh Rawat said that the partyhas the capability and leader-ship to reach every person andvoter in the State ahead of theparliamentary polls. While theparty had secured 55 per centvotes in Uttarakhand in theprevious polls, it will aim for 65per cent votes this time. About60 State level office bearers ofthe party were present in themeeting.

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In an attempt to dent the rivalBharatiya Janata Party’s ex-

servicemen bastion, the StateCongress has decided to hold‘Shaheed Naman programmesin different parts of the State.

Informing the media per-sons about the plan, the Stateco in-charge of Congress,Rajesh Dharmani said onThursday that the party lead-ers would visit the houses ofthe martyrs and meet their

family members during theprogramme.

He said that all the seniorleaders of the party would par-ticipate in the programme dur-ing which the problems of thefamilies of the martyrs wouldbe heard out. Lambasting BJPfor paying just lip services forthe martyrs, the Congressleader reminded the saffronparty’s promise of connectingthe houses of the Kargil warmartyrs with metalled road. “Itis yet to be fulfilled,” he said.

Terming BJP as a pack ofliars, Dharmani said thatCongress is determined to callthe saffron bluff. He said thatthe party leaders and workerswould start an extensive cam-

paign from October 2 duringwhich they would remind thepeople of the false and unful-filled promises dished out bythe Prime Minister NarendraModi.

He said that the party hasstarted a drive to make itsorganisation strong andclaimed that the party wouldmake a clean sweep of all thefive Lok Sabha seats up forgrabs in the State.

He said that the newlynominated district presidentsof the party have been asked toform their district units tohelp the party plunge into theelection mode sans glitch. TheCongress leader, further, saidthat the district and block

level committees would beconstituted by September 25.

Emphasising the need tobuild up robust organisation atthe booth levels, Dharmaniadded that senior party lead-ers should work in coordina-tion to strengthen the party.

Accepting the role of socialmedia in campaigning, he saidthat the party believes in pos-itive things and would notfollow the saffron brigade’smalicious mode of campaign-ing.

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The cracking of whip by Chief Minister TSR in the NH-74 scamwhich resulted in unprecedented suspension of two officers

of elite IAS cadre-Pankaj Kumar Pandey and Chandresh Yadav--has silenced his detractors both within and outside the party.The move came at a time when hackles were being raised with-in the State saffron roost over the lacklustre performance of theGovernment with the attack being trained on the CM. It was clearthat the detractors were being incited by a redoubtable leader-an MP-to go berserk against the CM. Now, the table has beenturned on them as the TRS-helmed Government dared to takeon the mighty IAS lobby through suspension of two senior Babus.The loyalists flaunt the move to buttress the point that CM’s ‘zerotolerance on corruption’ rhetoric is real and not flippancy. Thecrux is that the carping critics are silenced for the time being.

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Unprecedented action against two Babus has shaken theBabudom here out of its wits. Dark clouds are now hang-

ing over the Babudom in the aftermath of the ignominy of sus-pension of the duo. This despite the Babu lobby having tried toarm-twist the CM with telltale threats. However, the punitiveaction on the crème de la crème of the Babus has elated thoselying along the bottom of the bureaucracy. The same is true ofthe promotee IAS officers. The Chote Babus always have a grudgelurking in their minds about the pompous air the higher-upsassume. The suspension and subsequent arrest of sevenProvincial Civil Service (PCS) officers in the same scam as con-trasted with the Government’s connivance with the Bade Babuskept on festering in the mind of the less fortunate members ofthe elite cadre. Now, the group of Chote Babus is happy. Theyare waiting for more while enjoying the impotent rage of the BadeBabus.

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Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness’ goes an oldsaying but one can be sure that there is no madness but a

definite method in the State Cabinet’s decision to reduce the annu-al license fee of the Bar of Uttaranchal Press Club. In a gestureto keep the friends of media fraternity in good humour, the cab-inet decided to reduce the license fees for the Bar from existing�3 lakh to �1.5 lakh. With crucial elections of Lok Sabha slatednext year, it remains to be seen whether the journalists wouldreturn the favour bestowed on their press club or convenientlyforget the largesse.

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also cited the strategic importance of Uttarakhand. Regarding the National Highway 74 scam,he said that investigation is underway in the scam. A fair probe will be conducted against thosesuspected of being behind the scam, irrespective of their standing as the State is not pursuinga pick and choose policy. About the reported incursions by the Chinese Army in the Barahotiarea of Chamoli district, the CM said that no official information regarding this had been receivedyet. Stating that this is a matter under the purview of the Central Government, he added thatthe security forces and the State are alert.

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Dehradun:Virtually accept-ing that there are differencesamong the top leaders of theState party, the Congress coin-charge of UttarakhandRajesh Dharmani made itclear to all that picture of for-mer Chief Minister HarishRawat should find a place inthe banners of the party.

Pointing to the bannerpasted behind him havingpictures of the State partychief Pritam Singh and IndiraHridayesh, Dharmani saidthat picture of Harish Rawatshould also be there. He saidthat a party would form coor-dination committees at thedistrict and the State levels forbetter functioning of the partyin the State.

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The Special Tiger ProtectionForce (STPF) has become

active in Corbett tiger reserve.Conducting patrolling in thetiger reserve, about 80 person-nel comprising the force alsoidentified suspicious aspectsthey came across. The officialsinformed that the STPF willfocus especially on the Corbettborder with Uttar Pradeshwhich is about 100 kilometreslong.

The STPF teams will patrolabout 10 to 15 kilometre area ineach range of Corbett every day.The STPF team is equipped withtwo drones, two metal detectors,three sniffer dogs, .315 borerifles, Government issue andlicensed revolvers and otherequipment. Official sources statethat the force has been accord-ed special training for its tasks.

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guard the 100 kilometre south-ern boundary of Corbett. Teamsof the STPF personnel willpatrol about 10 to 15 kilometreseach in various ranges of Corbetton a daily basis.

In addition to this, theteams will also be involved inraids conducted outside in coor-dination with the SpecialOperation Group (SOG). The 80personnel in the STPF havebeen divided in to variousteams.The teams will patrolDhela, Bijrani, Jhirna, Kalagarhand other areas of Corbett. Aspecial team has also beenformed to conduct raids alongwith the SOG, informed offi-cials.

It will be recalled that whilehearing on a public interest lit-igation during August, the HighCourt had asked the StateGovernment as to when theSTPF would start functioningeffectively.

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The dengue threat continu-ing to loom over Dehradun

and its nearby areas, 20 newcases of the disease have beenreported by the district healthauthorities of Dehradun. TheChief Medical Officer (CMO)of Dehradun, Dr S K Guptasaid that none of the casesfound positive in the EnzymeLinked Immunosorbent Assay(ELISA) test are fromDehradun city. He said thatseven cases of the disease havebeen reported from Rishikeshtown of the district and the rest13 cases are from Haridwar andTehri Garhwal districts. Withseven new cases on the day, thenumber of dengue cases inDehradun district this season

has mounted to 20. The denguehas, however, taken a form ofoutbreak in Rishikesh andadjoining Chauda Bigha areafalling in Tehri district.

The district vector-bornediseases officer Subhash Joshisaid that the people shouldensure that the breeding placesof mosquitoes inside theirhouses and their vicinity aredestroyed. He said that Aedesmosquitoes-the vector ofdengue- are capable to laytheir eggs in one spoonful ofwater so the pots, vases, waterbottles and coolers must bedecanted. The officer addedthat the Aedes mosquito bitesduring day time and, thus, it isadvisable that everyone shouldwear full sleeve clothes toreduce exposure of their bodyfor the mosquito to bite.

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The Pacific Asia TravelAssociation (PATA) Travel

Mart will be organised inRishikesh during February2019. The UttarakhandTourism and Culture MinisterSatpal Maharaj formallyannounced this while briefingthe media at the PATA TravelMart at Langkawi in Malaysia.The formal announcement wasmade in the presence of PATAchief executive officer MarioHardy.

During the programme,the Uttarakhand TourismMinister also met theMalaysian Deputy PrimeMinister Wan Azizah WanIsmail. Maharaj also invitedtravel and tour operators fromvarious countries to visitUttarakhand for the Investors’Summit 2018 in October andthe PATA Travel Mart to beheld in February next year.

Addressing the investors,travel and tourism industryrepresentatives at the mediabriefing, Maharaj spoke aboutthe pristine natural beauty ofUttarakhand along with theconsiderable scope for reli-gious and adventure tourism.

He also invited them to investin other spheres like hospital-ity, ropeways and wellness.Addressing the media, he saidthat Uttarakhand has all that isneeded for tourism.

He also informed about theChar Dham Yatra, homestays,international Yoga festival, raft-ing and paragliding.

During his visit toMalaysia, the Minister alsomet a number of investors andinvited them to the Investors’

Summit to be held at Dehradunin October this year. Maharajis heading a four-member del-egation representingUttarakhand in the PATATravel Mart programme atLangkawi.

The focus of his visit is toinvite investors especially fromSouth East Asia to theInvestors’ Summit this yearand PATA Travel Mart pro-gramme next year in the State.

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The process to replace oldCT scan machine in the

Government Doon MedicalCollege (GDMC) has started.The principal of GDMC, DrPradeep Bharati Gupta saidthat tenders for purchase ofnew CT scan machine hadbeen floated recently. He saidthat four companies haveshown interest to install themachine in the medical collegehospital.

In the pre-bid meetingheld on Thursday, the repre-sentatives of Philips, Siemens,Toshiba and WIPRO partici-pated. The principal, further,said that the new machinewould be much improvedfrom the present one and thepatients would be benefitedfrom it.

The existing CT scanmachine GDMC hospital hasbecome obsolete due to whichit has become prone to con-stant breakdowns. The hospi-tal authorities inform that themachine is designed to con-duct only 4.5 lakh scans but

more than 12 scans have beendone on it till date.

The machine was installedin the erstwhile Doon hospi-tal in the year 2004. The man-ufacturer of the machine‘Siemens International’ alsoholds the maintenance con-tract of the machine.

The hospital authoritieshave now floated tenders topurchase an ultra modern 128slice CT scan machine. Theteam of the Medical Council ofIndia (MCI) in its visit to thehospital had also pointed thatthe CT scan machine of thehospital is old and do not con-fers to the norms prescribedfor a medical college.

The repeated disruption inthe CT scan machine ensureswindfall for the private centers

These private centrescharge �4000- 5000 for CTscan while in Doon hospitalthe fee is only �1500.Moreover the hospital con-ducts free CT for the BPLpatients and those coveredunder the MukjyamtriSwasthya Bima Yojna (MSBY).

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Chief Minister TrivendraSingh Rawat reiterated the

commitment of hisGovernment to develop indus-trial infrastructure inUttarakhand during his recentmeeting with the representa-tives of Kumaon-GarhwalChamber of Commerce andIndustries ( KGCCI) and theSIIDCUL Worker WelfareAssociation.

In the meeting, the CMinformed that the Governmenthas appointed 32 doctorsrecently to provide health facil-ities to the workers and theirfamilies in the industrial areas

of Udham Singh Nagar district.On the suggestion to make

rent and transfer process ofindustrial plots simple andduty free, the CM directed theofficials present there to lookinto the matter.

He invited suggestionsfrom the industrial represen-tatives in connection with theclosure of the VAT arrearsfrom the year 1988 till financialyear 2016-17. The CM alsoinstructed the officials to exam-ine the suggestion to removerice from the schedule ofMandi committee. He assuredthat a proposal for amendmentin 10 percent increase in feeunder the Factory Act everyyear would be brought in theCabinet.

The meeting was attendedamong others by the ChiefSecretary Utpal Kumar Singh,principal secretary ManishaPanwar and members of theKGCCI and SIIDCUL WorkerWelfare Association.

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The Manohar Lal KhattarGovernment in Haryana

will soon constitute FaridabadMetro Development Authority(FMDA) on the pattern ofGurugram Metro DevelopmentAuthority (GMDA) to providebasic infrastructure facilities tothe people residing inFaridabad.

Addressing a news con-ference here to highlightachievements and future plansof Town & Country PlanningDepartment here, ChiefMinister Manohar Lal saidthat since Faridabad is the sec-ond largest city of the stateafter Gurugram, it has beendecided to constitute FMDAto make available all infra-structure facilities to the peo-ple and also address their

problems.The State Government had

constituted the GMDA onAugust 12, 2017 thus fulfilledthe long pending demand ofthe people, he said.

He also announced that thegovernment has allowed theconstruction of four-storey res-idential buildings in the state,the registration of which will beopened from September 13onward.

He said that HaryanaBuilding Code – 2017 has beenframed in order to removevariations and bring uniformi-ty in building bye-laws adopt-ed by different developmentagencies.

The Chief Minister alsoannounced to constitute anAppellate Tribunal to hear thecomplaints of allottees againstthe decision of Haryana Real

Estate Regulatory Authority(HRERA). The office of theAppellate Tribunal would be set

up at Karnal, he said.He said that the State

Government has set up

Haryana Real Estate RegulatoryAuthority (HRERA) to redressthe grievances of allotees.

Though geographically,Haryana is comparatively asmall state, we have set up twoseparate Authorities- one atGurugram to exclusively dealwith the cases of Gurugramand the second one atPanchkula to deal with thecases of rest of Haryana,Manohar Lal said.

The Chief Minister saidthat HRERA has so far received842 complaints out of which209 complaints have alreadybeen disposed off. Remainingcomplaints would also beredressed soon, he asserted.

He further said that with aview to inject transparency inthe allotment of sites for petrolpumps and CNG filling sta-tions, the Haryana

Government has decided toallot such sites through auctionprocess.

The petrol pumps andCNG filling stations sites wouldbe allotted only to the petrole-um companies on lease. Theallotment of the sites wouldstart from next month and thepetroleum company offeringhighest bid money would beallotted the sites, he added.

Apart from this, heannounced that the HaryanaShehari Vikas Pradhikaran(HSVP) plans to float nine sec-tors including a defence sectorexclusively for defence per-sonnel in the state during thecurrent financial year.

This would be in threesectors in Mahendergarh (sec-

tor-9A, 10, 11-Part) and oneeach in Bhiwani (23 Part-II),Yamuna Nagar (sector-24),Dabwali (sector-10), Taoru(sector-7) and Pinjore (sector-27). Apart from this, a defencesector exclusively for defencepersonnel is likely to be float-ed at Jhajjar, he said.

He informed that theHSVP has a plan to float 30,470plots in 47 residential sectorsacross the state and a schedulein this regard will be issuedsoon. At present, 9500 acre landvaluing Rs 18,000 crore is avail-able with the HSVP, he saidwhile answering a query.

The Chief Minister alsoannounced to rename themetro stations falling inHaryana segment on

Bahadurgarh to MundkaMetro line and metro stationson the Mujesar (YMCAChowk) to Ballabhgarh metrocorridor.

Among the stations fallingin Haryana segment onBahadurgarh to MundkaMetro line, the MIE MetroStation has been renamed asPandit Shree Ram SharmaMetro Station, Bus StandMetro Station as BahadurgarhCity Metro Station and CityPark Metro Station as Brig.Hoshiar Singh Metro Station.

Similarly, NCB ColonyMetro Station has beenrenamed as Sant Surdas (Sihi)Metro Station and BallabhgarhMetro Station as Raja NaharSingh Metro Station.

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Taking umbrage at the rejec-tion of Punjab police’s pro-

posal to purchase newarmoured luxury Sedan for theformer Punjab Chief MinisterParkash Singh Badal and SADpresident Sukhbir Badal, theShiromani Akali Dal (SAD) onThursday lambasted PunjabGovernment, especially theFinance Minister ManpreetBadal , for “compromising” the security of senior Punjableaders.

“The security cover is pro-vided in consideration of threatperception to individuals andManpreet has vetoed the pro-posal caring too hoots for thesecurity concerns,” said SADspokesman Mahesh InderSingh Grewal.

He accused Manpreet of“playing petty politics” with thelives of those who had dedi-cated every bit of their life forthe state and also happen to behis mentor and blood relations.

Notably, Punjab police hadmooted the proposal to replaceageing Toyota Land Cruiser inthe security fleet of Badal andSukhbir. Besides, the policealso sought new bullet proofvehicles for former ministerBikram Singh Majithia as thesevehicles had outlived theirutility and can no more beused for sensitive securityoperations.

“Throwing all security

concerns to winds, Manpreetrejected the proposal on theground of that Badals andMajithias are the richest peo-ple and can afford bullet proofvehicles and should notdepend on the StateGovernment. Besides,Manpreet argued that the stateis in bad fiscal health and is onausterity drive,” pointedGrewal.

Lambasting Manpreet’s“preposterous and fallacious”argument, Grewal said thatsome Congress men have beenprovided Z-category for gen-erations keeping in view oftheir security perception andSAD or its government neverquestioned the spending ontheir security.

Moreover, Grewal pointedout that if the economic pros-perity of an individual is guid-ing principle for deployingsecurity to threatened person-alities, then Chief MinisterCapt Amarinder Singh orManpreet himself too arestinking rich and shouldimmediately make their per-sonal security arrangements.

“But Ironically, Manpreethimself had sanctioned fundslast year to upgrade the fleet ofAmarinder Singh comprisingRange Rover, Innovas andGypsies...Strangely, when thiswas pointed to Manpreet, hehad sheepish acknowledgedsaying that only CM’s fleet wasupgraded,” said Grewal.

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Moga Additional DeputyCommissioner’s com-

plaint to the Punjab StateElection Commissionerregarding three CongressMLAs threatening him hascreated a storm in the statepolit ical circles aheadSeptember 19 elections toPanchayati Raj Institutions.

All along alleging “misuseof office machinery” by theCongress, both the AamAadmi Party (AAP) and theShiromani Akali Dal (SAD)have trained their guns on theruling party. They havedemanded registration ofcases against three Congresslegislators for threateningMoga ADC Jagwinder SinghGrewal and for obstructing agovernment official from per-forming his legitimate officialduties.

Grewal has alleged thatdistrict’s three Congress MLAs— Dr Harjot Kamal of Moga,Darshan Singh Brar ofBaghapurana, and KakaSukhjit Singh Lohgarh ofDharamkot — had threat-ened him for “not rejectingthe nomination papers ofsome candidates of the oppo-sition parties”.

He had also alleged thatduring the scrutiny of thenomination papers, the MLAshad stormed into his officealong with hundreds of theirsupporters, due to which hehad to run away from there tosave his life.

Grewal also alleged thatsenior Youth Congress leaderKamaljit Singh Brar alsostopped his vehicle on the way

to office and threatened him.The ADC had submitted

a formal complaint with thepoll panel, which had alsoenhanced his security.

Taking serious note, SADspokesman and former min-ister Daljit Singh Cheema saidthat the developments amplyvindicated SAD’s accusation oflarge scale rejection of itsnominees across the state.

“What is revealed is justtip of iceberg. This has hap-pened all over the state andthe Congress MLAs and otherleaders had persuaded, cajoledand threatened the officials toobey their dictates to reject thepotential winning candidatesin their areas. In fact, major-ity of officials submitted todictates while a few did resistand at least one Grewal daredto expose the nefariousdesigns of the Congress,” saidCheema.

He said that the party hadalready provided details of 249aspirants whose nominationwere wrongly rejected by thereturning officers without anyrhyme or reason at behest ofCongressmen bossing aroundwho have reduced the pollprocess to a mere mockery.

Cheema said that not onlythe poll process has been viti-ated but the incident is reflec-tive of failure of the law and

order machinery. “If thereturning officers are vulner-able to the threats from rulingparty’s goons, how can oneexpect free and fair electionsin the state,” he asked.

Urging the SEC to probethe incident immediately andtake prompt actions againstdefaulting legislators and tillthen order to extern themfrom the state till completionof poll process. This wouldprove deterrent and re-estab-lish the credibility of theCommission which has beenseriously eroded followingarbitrary large scale nomina-tions.

Meanwhile, AAP’s stateco-president Dr Balbir Singhand the Leader of Oppositionin Vidhan Sabha Harpal SinghCheema have also demandedregistration of case againstCongress legislators and theleaders who threaten theADC.

Besides, AAP alsodemanded videography of theentire polling process acrossthe state besides deploymentof central security forces at allsensitive polling booths.

They also condemned thethreatening and intimidatingof ADC for forcefully can-celling the nominations ofAAP and independent candi-dates.

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Pitching for green, eco-friendly, energy efficient

and earthquake resistantbuildings, Haryana ChiefMinister Manohar Lal onThursday called for adoptingultra-modern technologies likeprefab structures, rainwaterharvesting, green roof top,solar energy to create suchinfrastructure in the country.

The Chief Minister wasaddressing the delegates afterinaugurating two-day ‘6th AllIndia Police HousingConference’ being organizedby Haryana Police HousingCorporation (HPHC) in asso-ciation with Bureau of PoliceResearch and Development(BPR&D), New Delhi inPanchkula near here.

HPHC has, for the firsttime, hosted a national con-ference which was attended byHeads of State Police HousingCorporations, Engineers,Architects, technical and otherexperts.

Manohar Lal, whileaddressing the delegates saidthat land is limited thus wealso need to go towards theconcept of high rise buildingsto provide modern low costquality infrastructure to allincluding police personnel.The eminence deliberations onvarious technical and otheraspects in today’s conferencewould go a long way relatingto create such infrastructure inthe country, he said.

The Chief Minister saidthat State Government is fullycommitted to make Haryana

police as country’s leadingpolice force. All kind of finan-cial assistance and otherresources would be providedto the State Police in thisdirection.

Assistance of Rs 550 crorethrough HUDCO has beensanctioned for construction ofabout 3000 houses for policepersonnel, he added.

Apart from implementa-tion of uniform building code,a provision of e-auction ofcommercial sites, subsidy onsolar system and approval ofbuilding plan within five-dayshad been made. In addition,water harvesting system hasbeen made mandatory in largesize plots of Haryana ShahriVikas Pradhikaran, the ChiefMinister said.

Describing police as the

face of the government,Manohar Lal said that theirperformance depicts thebehavior and working style ofany organization.

He said that a number ofdecisions have been taken tosupport and encourage policepersonnel to deliver bettersuch as a weekly off, openingof 29 women police stations,enhancement of ex-gratiafrom Rs10 lakh to Rs30 lakh.Besides, transparent recruit-ment process had been adopt-ed in police recruitment.About 4500 constables havealready been recruited where-as process had been initiatedto recruit 5000 more, headded.

Director General of Police,BS Sandhu said that HPHChas been working to provide a

better living and working con-ditions to the members ofpolice force.

Recalling his five yearstenure in HPHC, he said thatthe Corporation has spentRs1600 crore during last sixyears whereas merely Rs 800crore were spent from year1990 to 2012. The presentgovernment has provided Rs550 crore to the corporation toundertake construction works.

An ultra-modern officebuilding of Commissioner ofPolice had been built with Rs35 crore in Gurugram. We areproviding all kinds of facilitiesin new police lines. Also, 22Police Public Schools havebeen opened in all police lineswhere about 16000 studentsare getting quality education,he added.

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Punjab Power MinisterGurpreet Singh Kangar

on Thursday issued direc-tions to the State power util-ity, Punjab State power cor-poration Limited (PSPCL) toexpedite the proceedings ofdisciplinary cases to bringthe guilty to the book.

At the same time, theMinister has directed to handover the punishment to thoseguilty commensurate withseverity of misconduct andirregularities. That was not all,he has also asked the PSPCLauthorities to follow up withthe police authorities at thehighest level to get FIRs reg-istered in pending cases andaccelerate investigation inFIRs already registered toexpose culprits and their mis-deeds to take the matter to itslogical conclusion.

The directions wereissued in the wake of a latestmulti-crore fraud in thepower utility, that was report-ed recently, involving anamount of Rs 5.32 crores,against Rs 250 crores asreported in the press, out ofwhich Rs 3.65 crores standrecovered.

The reports stated thatPSPCL suffers a loss of Rs 250crore for meter tempering, inpast five years in differentcities.

Taking note, the Ministersought a report into the mat-ter, according to which, cer-

tain unscrupulous officials ofsub-divisions at Patiala,Malerkotla, Nabha, Sangrur,Barnala and Ludhiana, inconnivance with some con-sumers, made reversal entriesin the billing account in thecomputerized billing system.

The Minister said thatPSPCL has been invariablyvigorously following up anycase of fraud that comes tolight and invariably police isasked to register FIR and inaddition departmental pro-ceedings are initiated againsterrant officials, along with allout efforts to recover theamount of loss.

“The case of bill reversalof West, Model Town divisionPatiala surfaced in 2016 andbased on preliminary inquiry,PSPCL suspended nine offi-cials including one SDOfound to be prima facieinvolved. Moreover, CE(South Zone) wrote to Policeauthorities on September 12,2016, to register an FIR andalso ask IT wing of PunjabPolice to conduct thoroughprobe in all SAP towns,” hesaid.

He pointed that the mat-ter was initially investigated byPunjab Police’s Cyber CrimeCell and the same had finallyregistered FIR on July 19,2017 against delinquent offi-cers or officials.

He said that a total of Rs532.37 lakhs fraud was com-mitted at eight offices, out ofwhich an amount of Rs 364.66

lakhs has been recovered tilldate.

“Full recoveries have beenmade for frauds committed atWest Division, Patiala,Sherpur 1 Sub Division andSunder Nagar 1&2, Ludhiana,and an amount of Rs threecrore against total amount ofRs 3.72 crore has already beenrecovered at Sahnewal SubDivision, Ludhiana,” he said.

PSPCL chairman-cum-managing director BaldevSingh Sran said that some ofthe possible reasons of fraudsor irregularities in SAP havebeen highlighted by investi-gation agencies.

“Special audit of all rever-sal entries is being carried out.As follow up, instructionshave been circulated to stopsingle step alteration of entryor transaction in SAP system,certain transfer codes havebeen disabled; and like banks,two-stage customer relation-ship management (CRM)process has been implement-ed in which cashier on dailybasis will initiate reversalprocess and concernedRA/SDO will approve,” hesaid.

Sran said that for reversalof any debit entry, RA will ini-tiate reversal process and con-cerned SDO will approve.Moreover, on transfer, officersor officials have to forgo theright of access to domain thatwas under their charge andacquire new rights as pertheir new posting, he said.

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Just about three days beforethe expiry of deadline set up

by Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)leader HS Phoolka for step-ping down as an MLA in casethe former Chief MinisterParkash Singh Badal was not

booked in sacrilege and relat-ed firing cases, the advocate-turned-politician on Thursdayrefused to go ahead with hisdecision.

Phoolka adjourned thedecision making process tillSeptember 20 when the peti-tion filed in the sacrilege mat-ter by Punjab’s three former

cops, seeking quashing ofJustice Ranjit SinghCommission, would be takenup for the next hearing by thePunjab and Haryana HighCourt.

High Court on Thursdaystayed further proceedingsagainst the former SeniorSuperintendents of PoliceCharanjit Singh and RaghbirSingh Sandhu, along with thethen Station House Officer ofBajakhana police stationAmarjit Singh “in pursuanceof recommendations made byJustice Ranjit SinghCommission”.

Using the High Court caseas a ground for not goingahead with his decision, AAPMLA Phoolka said that noth-ing much could be done bythe Government now as thecase is now under the judicialscanner.

At the same time, Phoolka

used the development tooagain launch an attack on thegovernment. He said that thecase was not defended prop-erly by the governmentlawyers.

Phoolka’s assertions comesat a time when the High Courthas given the state of Punjabtime till September 20 torespond to the legal issuesraised in the petition filed bytwo former SSPs and an ex-SHO.

After the Justice RanjitSingh Commission report intoall the sacrilege cases andrelated firing incidents wastabled in Punjab Vidhan Sabhaand thoroughly discussed,Phoolka demanded registra-tion of cases against Badal andthe then Director General ofPolice (DGP) Sumedh SinghSaini for allegedly ordering fir-ing on peaceful protesters thatkilled two.

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Haryana Chief MinisterManohar Lal on

Thursday said that the StateGovernment has not renewedthe licence for a commercialcolony on the controversialland, sold by Robert Vadraowned Skylight Hospitalityto DLF.

Responding to a ques-tion on the issue, the ChiefMinister said that as thelicense of Skylight HospitalityCompany has not beenrenewed, it deems to havelapsed.

The Chief Minister wastalking to the mediapersonshere. Recently, Haryana Policehad booked UPA chairpersonSonia Gandhi's son-in-lawRobert Vadra and former stateChief Minister BhupinderSingh Hooda for alleged irreg-ularities over the controversialland deal in Gurugram.

According to the FIR,Robert Vadra's firm SkylightHospitality Pvt Ltd purchased3.5 acre of land in Gurugram'sSector 83 from OnkareshwarProperties for Rs 7.50 crore in2008, when Hooda was theChief Minister and also heldthe portfolio of the Town andCounty PlanningDepartment.

Later, Skylight Hospitalitysold this land to DLF at a priceof Rs 58 crore, after procuringa commercial licence for thedevelopment of the colonywith the influence of Hooda.

Taking a dig at theCongress over registration ofcases in land scams in thestate, Manohar Lal said thatthe present State Governmenthas taken effective steps forkeeping a check on corruption

in change of land use (CLU)cases which was prevailing inthe previous government.

“The State Governmenthas prepared a new Policy onNovember 10, 2017 underwhich applications are invit-ed from the applicants andlicense and CLU is giventhrough open auction andtoo in limited numbers,” hesaid.

He said that there wasrampant corruption inissuance of CLU during theprevious government.

The previous ChiefMinister had taken away allthe powers to issue CLU andlicense of colonies which werevested with Director, Townand Country PlanningDepartment. But we have notonly scrapped such ordersbut also given back the pow-ers to the Director Town andCountry Planning,” he said.

On being asked about thenon-payment of pending duesby Kingdom of Dreams(KoD,) Gurugram, the ChiefMinister said that notice hasbeen issued to the KoD for thepayment of earlier dues. "Wehave given time to KoD andif it still fails to make the out-standing payment, actionwould be taken accordingly,he said.

About recovery ofExternal DevelopmentCharges (EDC), he said thatmore than Rs 13000 cr waspending when we came topower in 2014. Till now, wehave recovered around Rs6512 crore and also framing apolicy to recover the rest ofEDC, he said.

Replying to a questionrelated to pending land com-pensation or liabilities related

to farmers, Manohar Lal saidthat in 2014, around Rs 20500cr was pending with aroundRs 10000 cr enhancementamount. We have given theentire compensation and nowenhancement amount ispending which has nowincreased to over RS 14000 cr,he added.

On CM’s announcementsrelated to the Department, hesaid that 73 announcementswere made out of which 39have been implemented andrest are in process.

When asked whetherdecision related to policychanges in HUDA are taken atcabinet level, the ChiefMinister said that HUDA is anautonomous body with aBoard chaired by me. There isno need to take cabinetapproval in decisions relatedto policies, he added.

On the issue of develop-ment of unauthorised coloniesand make available affordableplots to people, he said thatthe government would grantlicenses for construction ofaffordable houses on 5 to 15acres of land under DeepDayal Jan Awas Yojana.

The Chief Minister saidthat 1,534 licenses were grant-ed in the tenure of previousgovernment, of which maxi-mum were granted after 2002.However, the present StateGovernment has, during lastfour years, given 175 licens-es including 107 licenses forcolonies falling under DeenDayal Jan Awas Yojana and 68other licenses, he added.

In reply to a questionrelated to KMP Expressway,the Chief Minister said that aseparate authority will be con-stituted for it.

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Prime Minister NarendraModi on Thursday exhort-

ed party workers to follow themantra of 'Mera Booth SabseMazboot' to ensure victory inthe next general elections.

Addressing party workersof five Lok Sabha constituenciesvia the NaMo app, Modi saidthe BJP's biggest strength is itsworkers. Their hard work hasensured the party's historicsuccess and progress in a shortspan of four years, he main-tained adding the party's suc-cess was due to its workers andtheir grip over their respectivepolling booths.

Modi also asserted thatthe wind is blowing in the BJP'sfavour and Opposition partiesare clutching at each to with-stand its force.

"Mera Booth SabseMazboot (my polling booth, thestrongest)...This is the onlymantra and this is our strength,"he said in the video interaction.

Replying to a question onOpposition parties stitchingan alliance for the 2019 polls,Modi assured the party work-ers that the BJP will win again."... The wind is blowing infavour of BJP, even strongerthan 2014. That's why

Opposition parties are clutch-ing each other's hands to savethemselves from being blownaway," he said.

The Prime Minister alsourged party workers to con-tinuously interact with voters oftheir respective constituenciesand ensure that at least 20 fam-ilies and youth are workingwith the party in every pollingbooth.

He was addressing workersfrom Jaipur (Rural), Nawada,Ghaziabad, Hazaribagh andArunachal West.

Modi, who was nominatedthe BJP's prime ministerialcandidate this day in 2013, saidonly in the BJP can an ordinary

party worker can become itsleader. He also asserted thatsomeone else can also take hisplace tomorrow.

Lashing out at theCongress, the Prime Ministersaid it is, unlike the BJP, a onefamily party. He said he felt pityfor dedicated workers of theOpposition party.

"Many capable and com-mitted workers of the Congresswere sacrificed for interests ofthe family," he said. TheOpposition is resorting to liesin its campaign but today peo-ple in the country are awakewhile opposition is not ready tocome out of its slumber, thePrime Minister said.

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Intensifying its attack on the ModiGovernment over the Rafale deal, the

Congress on Thursday accused DefenceMinister Nirmala Sitharaman of "lying" again"about the number of the France-built jets anddemanded her and Prime Minister NarendraModi to submit to a Joint ParliamentaryCommittee (JPC) probe.

"Defence Minister is caught lying again onthe number of fighter aircraft required byIndian Air Force (IAF)," Congress spokesper-son Randeep Singh Surjewala told the media."Her claim that IAF does not have the infra-structure like parking place, maintenancefacility to fly 126 fighter aircraft is preposter-ous and goes against the grain of national secu-rity requirements," he said.

He said Modi's decision to "arbitrarily"reduce requirement of 126 fighter aircraft to36 was "unexplainable".

His remarks were in reference toSitharaman's interview to a national dailywherein she has said that the "Governmentchose to procure only 36 Rafale fighter aircraftfrom France in 2015, instead of the 126 beingnegotiated by the previous Government, asinfrastructure and other technical require-ments of the IAF do not allow greater induc-tion".

Dismissing Sitharaman's argument as"obnoxious" the Congress leader asked: "Canthe government and IAF not create parkingspace/maintenance facility in 6-8 years peri-od during which the aircraft will be delivered?

"Can creation of parking space/mainte-nance facility be a ground for compromisingair superiority and national security?"

Surjewala also held Sitharaman "guilty" ofnot disclosing the fact that mandatory 'FastTrack Procedure' for affecting 'emergency pur-

chase' was never followed by Modi at the timeof announcement of purchase of 36 Rafale on10th April, 2015".

"She has also failed to point out that nosuch 'emergency purchase' was approvedeither by the then Defence Minister ManoharParrikar or Cabinet Committee on Security.How does she now explain the fact that despitethe 'emergency purchase' in April 2015, aircraftwill not be delivered up to the year 2022 andthat also without 'India specific enhance-ments'," said the Congress leader.

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The apex consumer com-mission has directed the

Indian postal service to pay�24.8 lakh to two brotherstowards the maturity value ofthe small-savings scheme cer-tificates bought for them bytheir late father but were lost.

In two separate but com-mon orders, the NationalConsumer Dispute RedressalCommission (NCDRC) saidthat since there were noclaimants for the amount, thepost office could not haveappropriated the entire amountforever due to non-submissionof the certificates.

NCDRC rejected theappeal of the post office againstthe decisions of the OdishaState Consumer DisputeRedressal Commission and adistrict forum which haddirected payment of theamounts to the two brothers —Jambu Kumar Jain andChhagan Lal Jain, sons of LateRama Chandra Jain.

The postal department wasnot paying the maturity valuewithout submission of the cer-tificates.According to the

brothers' plea in the State com-mission and the district forum,their father had purchased 692Indira Vikas Patras (IVP) in thename of his sons, daughtersand others from the Head PostOffice, Bolangir.

Out of the 692, 88 IVPswere in favour of Jambu Kumarwhereas 160 were in favour ofChhagan Lal, the plea had saidand added that all of the 692IVPs were lost and it wasreported to the local police sta-tion in June, 2001.

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The Supreme Court on Thursday dis-missed a petition seeking a direction to

the Centre not to proceed with the recom-mendation of the apex court Collegium onthe appointment of a lawyer as a judge ofthe Allahabad High Court.

A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misraand Justice D Y Chandrachud said there was"no merit" in the plea which was also "notjusticiable".

"The Collegium has submitted its rec-ommendation. It is a constitutional process.In the midst of a constitutional process, thispetition is not maintainable," the bench toldadvocate Asok Pande, who has filed theplea.

When Pande claimed that there wereallegations against the lawyer whose namehas been recommended by the Collegiumand an FIR was also lodged against him andsome others, the bench said "you have saidin your petition that the FIR has beenquashed".

"There is no merit in the petition. It isnot justiciable," the bench said while dis-missing the plea.

The petitioner had sought a directionto the Union Ministry of Law not to pro-ceed to appoint the lawyer as a judge of theAllahabad High Court in compliance of theCollegium's recommendation last month.

He had also sought quashing of the rec-ommendation besides a probe by either theCBI or a special investigation team (SIT)

into the FIR lodged at Allahabad under var-ious sections of the Indian Penal Code,including cheating and forgery.

He alleged in the plea that between 2002to 2007, an agricultural institute had filed24 writ petitions before the Allahabad HighCourt and five pleas before the apex courtin the name of dead and non-existent per-sons.

The plea claimed that the high courthad ordered its registrar to lodge an FIR inthe case in which the lawyer, whose namehas been recommended by the Collegium,was also named. It alleged that before theFIR was lodged, the lawyer's name was rec-ommended for appointment as judge in thehigh court but it was not processed later.

The petition said that the lawyer hadfiled a plea in the high court seeking quash-ing of the FIR against him, which wasallowed by the court.

After quashing of the FIR against him,the apex court Collegium recommended hisname for appointment as a judge in the highcourt on the ground that the state of UttarPradesh has not challenged the orderquashing lodging of the case, the plea hasclaimed.

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The Centre on Thursday saidit did not deny permission

to West Bengal Chief MinisterMamata Banerjee to visitChicago on the 125th anniver-sary of Swami Vivekananda'shistoric speech.

"We did not receive anyrequest for clarification regard-ing the visit of MamataBanerjee to Chicago for anyevent. Reports about the denialof permission are, therefore, nottrue," External Affairs MinistrySpokesman Raveesh Kumarsaid in response to mediaqueries.

Banerjee had on Tuesdayalleged that "evil forces" threat-ened the Ramakrishna Mission,forcing it to cancel her trip toChicago.

"I think some evil forceshad hatched a conspiracy. Theydid not want RamakrishnaMission to organise the pro-gramme there. They also did-n't want us, people of Bengal, toattend it. It pained me and sad-dened me a lot," Banerjee saidwhile speaking at theRamakrishna Mission's global

headquarters Belur Math inHowrah district.

The Ramakrishna Missionhad invited Banerjee to be thechief guest at the event whichwas to be held on August 26 atthe Art Institute of Chicago.

Banerjee had to call off herscheduled trip after the organ-isers wrote to her that the eventhad been cancelled due to"unforeseen difficulties" and"demise of a monk".

Refuting the claim made byMEA, TMC spokespersonDerek O'Brien accused theBJP/RSS of pressurizing theRamakrishna Mission to call offthe programme.

"It is common knowledgethat the BJP-RSS wanted onlyone major programme to beheld in Chicago and that wouldbe under the banner of theGlobal Hindu Congress ( WorldHindu Foundation ) and thisprogramme would be attendedby Mohan Bhagwat. To ensurethis happened, intense pressurewas mounted on VivekanandaVedanta Mission in Chicago tocancel the programme forwhich Mamata Banerjee hadconfirmed," O'Brien ssaid.

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The negotiations for pro-curement of 126 Rafale jets

under the UPA Governmentfell through as State-run HALdid not have the required capa-bility to produce the jets inIndia in collaboration withFrench company DassaultAviation, Defence MinisterNirmala Sitharaman saidThursday.

Sitharaman also said thatan unprecedented interven-tion in 2013 by then DefenceMinister A K Antony when thecost negotiation committeewas giving final touches to thedeal put the final nail in the cof-fin.

After rounds of negotia-tions with HindustanAeronautics Ltd (HAL),Dassault Aviation felt that thecost of the Rafale jets willescalate significantly if theywere to be produced in India,she said during an interactionwith PTI editors and reportersat the agency's headquartershere.

"Dassault could notprogress in the negotiationswith HAL because if the aircraftwere to be produced in India,a guarantee for the product tobe produced was to be given. Itis a big ticket item and the IAFwould want the guarantee forthe jets. HAL was in no posi-tion to give the guarantee," shesaid.

Sitharaman said theweapon systems, avionics andother key add-ons to the Rafaleaircraft, expected to be deliv-ered beginning September2019, will be "much superior"than that negotiated by the

UPA, and her Government isgetting the planes for 9 per centcheaper than what was earlieragreed upon.

The previous UPAGovernment started negotiat-ing in 2012 with FrenchDassault Aviation to buy 126Medium Multi-Role CombatAircraft (MMRCA).

The plan was for DassaultAviation to supply 18 Rafale jetsin fly-away condition while108 aircraft were to be manu-factured in India by the com-pany along with HAL. Howeverthe deal could not be sealed.

The Congress has demand-ed answers from theGovernment on why HAL wasnot involved in the new deal.

Sitharaman said the UPAdeal collapsed as HAL did nothave the capability to produce108 aircraft in India.

"Even during negotiationwith HAL, Dassault felt that thecost with which the HAL willproduce will be far higher thanthe aircraft produced in France.That was the reality," she said.

The Defence Minister saidthe then Government couldhave come forward andpumped in resources into HAL,

but they did not.She said she has no inten-

tion of undermining HAL, but"why could not the thenDefence Minister say that wewill pump in all the requiredresources into the HAL. Hecould have done it. That wasnot done," Sitharaman said,adding that the currentGovernment was initiatingsteps to strengthen the State-run aerospace company.

In 2016, the ModiGovernment signed aGovernment-to-Governmentdeal with France for purchaseof 36 Rafale jets at a cost of�58,000 crore. The Congresshas been alleging irregularitiesin the deal.

Rebutting charges of cor-ruption in the deal, the DefenceMinister also asserted that peo-ple of the country have put aclosure on the issue as theyhave trust in Prime MinisterNarendra Modi.

"There is a trust in thePrime Minister. He is not goingto be corrupt. So with all this,I think mentally, people ofIndia have reached a closure onit, saying there is no corruptionhere," she said.

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India is mulling a proposal forthe creation of an

International Convention forCyber Crimes Cooperationwhich can help in simplifyingprocedures for Letters Rogatory(judicial requests) and act as aninformal mechanism for shar-ing information relating topending investigation.

The proposal is being joint-ly considered by the UnionHome Ministry, NationalSecurity Council Secretariat(NSCS) and the IntelligenceBureau amid inordinate delaysin prosecution of cases, espe-cially related to cyber crimesand financial frauds, as theservers used for communica-tion and for commission ofcrimes are often located inforeign shores.

Letters Rogatory is a formalrequest sent by a court of lawto the counterpart of foreigncountry to seek details of anaccused entity or individual orevidence relating to an ongoingcase.

The Government is alsoplanning to improve multi-jurisdictional coordination byappointing nodal officers atvarious levels and online plat-forms for cooperation.

A collaboration mecha-nism with stakeholders forfacilitating exchange of infor-mation on threats, trends, shar-ing expertise and internation-

al cooperation is also beingworked out for real-time inputson the goings on inside thedark net.

The Centre is further plan-ning harmonisation of laws,procedures and data retentionperiods and address issuesrelating to admissibility of evi-dence collected under MLATthrough formulation of laws.To boost the cyber infrastruc-ture, development of physicalinfrastructure and specialisedcyber forensic laboratories anddedicated cyber research unitsare being planned by theCentre.

A cyber awareness cam-paign for improving digital lit-eracy of citizens is also beingconsidered by the Government.The Centre will consult variousstakeholders including lawenforcement agencies relatingto cyber crimes and the StateGovernments. The Centre willalso seek to create a NationalCyber Crime InvestigatingAgency for investigation of allimportant cyber crime caseshaving inter-State and inter-national ramifications. Inaddition to this, theGovernment is considering aproposal to create CyberFusion Centres, a collaborationcentre for various agencies,academia and private sectoragencies besides investigatingagencies at the national andState level for developingauthoritative intelligence.

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The Supreme Court onThursday directed all States

to frame rules to allow selling ofuninsured vehicles involved inaccidents to pay compensationto the victims.

The prevalent rules do notallow selling of the uninsuredvehicles making it difficult to paythe compensation for the vic-tims. The top court directed thatthe rules should be framedwithin 12 weeks by all the statesin accordance with those cur-rently in force in Delhi.

If the rules currently exist-ing in Delhi are enforced acrossthe country, then it would makedriving of uninsured vehicledifficult as owners would run therisk of seizure of vehicle in caseof accident and being sold to paythe compensation for the victim.

Seven States — Jammu &Kashmir, Chattisgarh, Bihar,Punjab, Jharkhand, Puducherryand Lakshdeep — told the apexcourt that they have initiated theprocess of incorporating suchrules. Haryana said it has a sim-ilar rule, while Madhya Pradeshhas raised certain objections tothe rules for compensation.Delhi informed that it alreadyhas such rules in place.

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Against the backdrop of the hor-rific sexual abuse cases at the

shelter homes in Bihar and UttarPradesh, the Union Social Justiceand Empowerment Ministry hascalled for setting up local projectcommittees comprising parentsof inmates among others in the dis-tricts where residential homes arebeing run under its aegis.

The move aims to ensure safe-ty of the inmates at the residentialhomes being run under schemesnamely Samarth and Gharaundaand Vikaas. These programmes areoperating under the National Trustfor the Welfare of Persons withAutism, Cerebral Palsy, MentalRetardation and MultipleDisabilties Act of 1999. TheNational Trust is an autonomousbody under the Social, Justice andEmpowerment Ministry.

An official in the Ministry saidthat the members will includeparents of five inmates, three localdoctors and lawyers and three col-lege or school teachers in theregion where centres are set up.They will hold monthly meetingand submit a report to theMinistry, said the sources. In manyinstances, children of poor fami-lies, who cannot afford to look afterthem, stay in the shelter homes.

They said that the move fol-

lows an audit report by the TataInstitute of Social Sciences' (TISS)which found that sexual abuse ofvarying forms and degree of inten-sity was prevalent in almost allshelter homes in Bihar.

"The panel will keep a tab onthe functioning of these Centresrun under the National Trust Act,"the official added.

However, shortage of fundsand poor response from the stake-holders has failed the beneficia-ries: both the schemes have poorcoverage when compared to alarge number of people from thepoor sector needing such benefits.For instance, under theGharaunda scheme, 50 projectshave been sanctioned in which atotal number of 993 inmates ben-efitted. Just 14 projects have beenapproved in 2017-18 and �4 crorereleased.

The Gharaunda scheme aimsto provide an assured home andminimum quality of care servicesthroughout the life of the personswith Autism, Cerebral Palsy, men-tal retardation and multiple dis-abilities as mandated in theNational Trust Act. Also, ade-quate and quality care servicewith acceptable living standardsincluding provision of basic med-ical care from professional doctorsbesides vocational activities areprovided. Each centre has intake

capacity for 20 PwDs.Similarly, Samarth is a respite

care residential scheme aims toprovide respite home for orphansor abandoned, families in crisis andalso PwDs under the NationalTrust Act. Under the scheme, 45projects have been sanctioned inwhich a total 1102 beneficiariesbenefitted. In 2017-18, just 11projects got approval. TheGovernment has provided �3.05crore for the year.

Vikaas is yet another pro-gramme providing day-care facil-ities for the PwDs above 10 yearsof age. It offers day-care facilitiesincluding vocational skills. Underthe scheme, 124 projects havebeen sanctioens in which 3157beneficiaries. In 2017-18, 17 pro-jects were sanctioned. The bene-ficiaries list is too dismal, if onegoes by the number of persons suf-fering with intellectual disabilitiesin the country. Most of them arefrom the marginalized section,needing the help from the State.

The 2011 Census data esti-mates that only 2.21 percent of theIndian population has a disability— including 1.5 million peoplewith intellectual disabilities and amere 722,826 people with psy-chosocial disabilities. However,the Health Ministry claims thatover 6-7 percent of the populationhas psychosocial disabilities alone.

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The Trinamool Congress willnot allow the BJP to stir up

a ‘National Register of Citizens’crisis in Bengal, a senior partyleader and a Minister said onThursday saying the saffronoutfit was planning to provokesentiments throughout the bor-der districts so as to polarisevote before the next year’s gen-eral elections.

“There are reports that theBJP is going to engage theirpracharaks (campaigners) inthe border districts to incite thepeople into demanding anNRC in Bengal. But we willthwart the dirty move at anycost,” the senior Minister fromKolkata said.

According to sources theBJP was planning to launch acampaign in all the borderingdistricts from September 15onwards. “We want to make thepeople aware about the effectsof infiltration in Bengal par-ticularly in the border dis-tricts,” a State BJP leader saidadding “the local Bengali pop-

ulation was being deprived ofhundreds of crores of rupees onaccount of feeding the illegalinfiltrators from Bangladesh.”

According to sources theBJP was targeting the non-Muslim refugees fromBangladesh to further theircampaign. About 20,000 partymen, mostly refugees with pre-2011 Left leaning would beemployed by the party to carryout the NRC campaign.

“Our leaders have repeat-edly made it clear that they willnot tolerate Bangladeshis inIndia,” a State BJP leader saidadding the party however wascompletely sympathetictowards those refugees (readthe Hindus) who had beenforced out of Bangladesh.

“The people who havebeen forced to flee that coun-try will be considered sympa-thetically. But those who haveinfiltrated India with eithercriminal motive or to claim ashare of our economy will bethrown out of this country. Forthis we will demand NRC inBengal,” the leader said adding

his party will “prepare the peo-ple’s minds for the purpose.”

When asked as to whetherthe party would consider filingany PIL to suit its end theleader would not comment.

On the other hand theTrinamool leadership attackedthe BJP for trying to polarizethe electorate before the elec-tions. “It is before the electionsthat the NRC issue has come totheir mind. Bengal is notAssam from where they are try-ing to expel the Bengali-speak-ing population. We will fightagainst the BJP both here andin Assam,” the TMC ministersaid adding Chief MinisterMamata Banerjee might go tothe north-eastern State to cam-paign during the polls.

“Our leader MamataBanerjee has already warned thecommunal parties against rak-ing up the NRC issue in Bengal.She has vowed to thwart anyattempt to communalise Bengalin the name of NRC. We will notallow any such mischievousactivities in our State,” the leaderquoting the Chief Minister said.

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Union Minister of State forHome Kiren Rijiju on

Thursday urged security forcesin the Northeastern States tohave a seamless coordinationand intelligence sharing to ensurebetter security of the region.

The Union Minister saidthis speaking at the 25thConference of DGPs, IGPs andHeads of the Central PoliceOrganisations (CPO) ofNortheastern region. The twoday conference started atItanagar today.

Rijiju complemented theforces for successfully han-dling the complex issues overthe years leading to improvedsecurity scenario in the regionand said that the issue of secu-

rity and policing in northeast-ern states are unique due toregion’s geographical proxim-ity with other foreign neigh-bours like China, Myanmar,Bangladesh and Bhutan.

“Due to its geographicalsituation and exposure to inter-national border, the region hasto deal with not only internalbut external problem,” Rijjusaid while lauding the roleplayed by state police of north-eastern states and the consistentsupport by Central PoliceForces for maintaining law andorder situation in the region.

“ C o o r d i n a t i o n ,Cooperation and flawlessIntelligence sharing are crucialaspects for security. The secu-rity situation in northeasternstates have improved signifi-cantly in last four and half

years,” he said adding that thelevel of violence and causalityfigures in the region have comedown by more than 50 percent.

Mentioning the impor-tance of coordination andcooperation among northeast-ern states, the Union Ministersaid that though there are 8political units in Northeast butthey can work as one unit as faras security is concerned.

The Minister alsoannounced that the AssamRifles Academy at Diphu(Karbi Anglong, Assam) hasbeen identified for specializedtraining of the northeast policein counter insurgency opera-tions and NIA has been con-ducting training modules fornorth east police for investiga-tions of terror related cases.

Speaking on the occasion,

Arunachal Pradesh ChiefMinister, Pema Khandu urgedthe police chiefs to take stepsto ensure regular informal talksamong senior police officers ofinter- state border districts todeal with the concerns of peo-ple of border areas.

The DG, Police ofArunachal Pradesh, S. B. KSingh and Additional Director,Intelligence Bureau, A K Mishraalso spoke on this occasion.

The two day conference ofpolice and intelligence officers is being attended by the DG, police and seniorpolice officers from North EastStates, senior officers fromCentral Police Organisationand Intelligence Bureau. TheWest Bengal police depart-ment is also taking part in theconference.

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yet another setback onThursday as Thampi Durai, theDeputy Speaker of the LokSabha who is also a seniorAIADMK leader lambasted theHindutva party for its efforts tosaffronise Tamil Nadu.

Speaking to reporters atKarur on Thursday , Duraicame down on the BJP usingthe harshest of words. “TamilNadu is the land of RamasamyNaicker, C N Annadurai, M GRamachandran andJayalalithaa. This is theDravidian Land where there isno place for caste, religion andcommunalism. The BJP is try-ing to disrupt the Dravidianheritage and culture. We willnever allow the BJP to set itsfoot in Tamil Nadu,” said Durai.

The AIADMK leader hadlambasted the BJP last Fridayfor its alleged connivance withthe DMK in ordering CBIraids on the residences of TamilNadu health minister VijayaBhaskar and the State PoliceChief T K Rajendran in con-

nection with the Gutkha scam.Durai had alleged that the Narendra ModiGovernment had ordered theCBI raids on September 5 tohelp the DMK because Alagiri,the estranged brother ofDEMK chief M K Stalin washolding a rally at Chennai onthe same day.

"The CBI raids were heldon that day itself only to divertthe attention of the generalpublic from the rally staged byAlagiri,” Durai had charged andasked the BJP to prove itsfidelity in its ties with theAIADMK.

Thursday’s outburst byDurai assumes significance asthe AIADMK launched itscampaign for theThirupparankundram by-poll

on the same day. Seven minis-ters in the EdappadiPalaniswamy overnmentundertook a bicycle rally in theconstituency with the declara-tion that no other parties wouldget back their security depositin the by-poll.

The election Commissionof India is yet to announce the poll schedule and the par-ties have not named the can-didates.

Durai’s tirades over thelast few months against the BJPhave put the party’s leaders ina dilemma. “We are underinstruction from not to react tothe statements made by theAIADMK and the DMK how-soever provocative they maybe,” said a senior BJP leader inTamil Nadu.

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The findings by TholTirumavalavan, president

of the Viduthalai ChiruthaikalKatchi (VCK), a Dalit fringeoutfit, that religious conversionto Islam offers the Dalits self-respect and economic inde-pendence has put the Hinduforces in the State on theirguards. Experts in PopulationStudies rejectedTirumavalavan’s argumentswhile Hindu activists term it asan effort to encourage moreDalits in the State to get con-verted to Islam or Christianity.

Arjun Sampath, leader ofHindu Makkal Katchi, whohad a providential escape fromthe knives of Islamic terroristsrecently, had submitted a mem-orandum to GovernorBanwarilal Purohit and ViceChancellor of ManonmaniamSundaranar University atTirunelveli stating that thePhD thesis submitted byTirumavalavan is a travesty oftruth and facts.

Tirumavalavan claims hehas brought to light the reasonsbehind the mass conversion ofDalits of Meenakshipuram in

Tirunelveli to Islam in 1981. Heargued during the viva voce ofhis Ph D thesis held recentlythat the Dalits were discrimi-nated against and oppressed allover the State. When a Dalityouth of Meenakshipuram fellin love with a girl belonging tothe upper caste, relations of thegirl stood up against theromance. The youth elopedwith the girl to neighbouringKerala and got married withher.

When the couple returnedto the village, the girl’s relationsthrashed the youth and hisfamily members. This forcedthe 180 Dalit families in the vil-lage embrace Islam to escapefrom the persecution“unleashed by caste Hindus”,says Thirumavalavan.

The VCK leader claimedthat the Dalits who got con-verted to Islam in 1981 pros-pered economically and social-ly. “The religious conversion of1981 has given the Dalits theeconomic independence andself-respect,” claimsTirumavalavan in the thesistitled “Mass ReligiousConversion atMeenakshipuram: a victimo-logical analysis.”

Leaders of Hindu outfitsare suspicious of the objectiveof Tirumavalavan’s studies.“This is an open invitation andencouragement to the Dalits toget convert to Islam,” saidSampath.

Dr Jatinder K Bajaj,demography scientist at theCentre for Policy Studies, is ofthe view that the findings andconclusion of Tirumavalavan’sfindings do not stand the testof scrutiny. “Individually one oftwo members of the commu-nity might have been benefit-ed because of conversion. Butmajority of them continue to bepoor and helpless. Why theleaders of Islam and Christiancommunities insist that theDalits among them need reser-vation?” asked Dr Bajaj.

Sampath who is a frequentvisitor to Meeakshipurampointed out that there are twokinds of Islam in the village.“The Dalits who were con-verted to Islam are known asNavi Muslims and are yet to getacceptance in the Islamic com-munity. Some of the familieshad to reconvert followingtheir failure to get suitablematches for their daughters,”said Sampath.

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Amid bickering in theCongress in Karnataka

casting a cloud on its coalitionGovernment with the JD(S),BJP chief Amit Shah has askedthe saffron party State unit “notto create any confusion” andinstead stick to playing the roleof the Opposition sincerely.

Rejecting charges byCongress leaders that the BJPwas trying to topple the coali-tion Government, the party'sKarnataka unit chief BSYeddyurappa said "there is noneed to doubt our motives."

BJP MLAs have beeninstructed not to give state-ments on the current politicaldevelopments pertaining toturmoil in the Congress, hesaid.

"BJP national presidentAmit Shah, with whom I spoketoday, has instructed us not tocreate any confusion.

We should not give anystatements about the politicaldevelopments taking place inthe State.

Instead, we should stick to

playing the role of oppositionsincerely," Yeddyurappa added.

Shah's advice to the partyunit comes amid allegationsthat BJP was trying to takeadvantage of the internal tus-sle in the Congress and poachon its MLAs to unseat theGovernment.

Some senior congress lead-ers have blamed the BJP for therecent discontent in their party.

The Jarkiholi brothers—municipal administration min-ister Ramesh and his MLAbrother Satish—are locked in aturf war with another ministerDK Shivakumar, casting ashadow over the coalitionGovernment.

The siblings are upset overShivakumar allegedly tryingto challenge their supremacy inBelagavi district through MLALaxmi Hebbalkar.

The tussle has spilled intothe open with the brothersassertion about the support ofeight MLAs and that they werein touch with the BJP fuellingspeculation about the stabilityof the H D KumaraswamyGovernment.

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MIM chief AsaduddinOwaisi on Thursday

claimed the RSS representsHindu nationalism and said hewould never accept any invi-tation from it to participate inany event held by it.

The Hyderabad Lok SabhaMP was reacting the invitationbeing extended by RSS to var-ious leaders for a three-day lec-ture series of RSS chief MohanBhagwat, scheduled to be heldin New Delhi next week.

The RSS has indicated thatit would invite Congress pres-ident Rahul Gandhi, CPI(M)general secretary SitaramYechury and the leaders of allthe political outfits of differentideologies besides religiousleaders, sportspersons, mediapersonalities and ambassadorsof more than 60 countries.

Owaisi said RSS stood forHindu nationalism. "It is anorganisation which believe inIndian nationalism. I willnever do this stupidity andmistake of what PranabMukherjee did...," he told

reporters here.He was referring to the par-

ticipation of the former presi-dent in an RSS event at Nagpurin June last, which had thentriggered a controversy withsenior Congress leaders oppos-ing it. "I cannot speak forCongress president and I canspeak only for myself.I wouldnever even in my thoughtprocess think for a secondabout such an invitation," hesaid when asked about his reac-tion to Gandhi being invited.

Owaisi attacked the Centreover rising fuel prices, sayingPrime Minister Narendra Modihas created enough darkness byensuring that the price price ofpetrol and diesel go beyondcommon mans means.

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The Uttar PradeshGovernment has decided

to release Bhim Army chiefChandrashekhar who isdetained under the NationalSecurity Act (NSA) in con-nection with the 2017Saharanpur violence.

Chandrashekhar alsoknown as Ravan, 30, wasarrested in June 2017 in con-nection with the May 5 clash-es in which one person waskilled and 16 others wereinjured at Shabbirpur village inSaharanpur.

On November 2, 2017, theAllahabad High Court hadgranted bail toChandrashekhar. However, aday before his release, he wasbooked under the NSA, thus

preventing his release.Under the NSA, he was to

be detained till November ."After going through the rep-resentation ofChandrashekhar's mother, ithas been decided to release himearly. He had to be in jail tillNovember 1," a spokespersonof the Home Department saidhere Thursday.

The NSA was invoked againstChandrashekhar and five oth-ers in the case. While threepeople were released earlier,Chandrashekhar, Sonu andShiv Kumar are still in jail.

Sonu and Shiv Kumar willalso be released early, thespokesman said, adding thatthe district magistrate ofSaharanpur has been directed"to release them".

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Signalling growing strainbetween The coalition part-

ners, Janajati Morcha, the rul-ing BJP's tribal wing in Tripura,on Thursday demandedimmediate severing of ties withthe Indigenous Peoples Front ofTripura (IPFT). BharatiyaJanata Party (BJP) state JanajatiMorcha president SanjoyDebbarma said IPFT was cre-ating "chaos" across the stateover different issues.

Development works of thestate government have been hitdue to their activities. We havedemanded Chief MinisterBiplab Kumar Deb to removethem from the ministry andsevere all ties with them,Debbarma told PTI.

He said the chief ministergave them a patient hearingand said the agreement withIPFT was finalised by BJP'scentral leadership and theywould be consulted regardingthe demand.

BJP and IPFT jointlysecured 44 seats in the 60-member state assembly in theFebruary 18 elections andformed government, ending25 years of CPI(M)-led LeftFront rule in the north easternstate. BJP secured 36 seats i.E.More than the majority mark.

IPFT, which emerged vic-torious in 8 seats, was laterallotted two berths in the statecabinet.

Differences between theBJP and its regional partnerIPFT surfaced in the run up to

panchayat by-polls, with aseries of clashes reportedbetween the workers of the rul-ing allies over submission ofnominations. The by-polls areslated for September 30.

When contacted, BJP statevice president and JanajatiMorcha leader RampadaJamatia accused IPFT sup-porters of attacking his houseat Killa in Gomati districtWednesday. He also allegedthat the house of MLA ofGolaghati constituency inSipahijala district, BirchandraDebbarma was also attacked byIPFT supporters.

Debbarma had filed a com-plaint and an FIR was lodged.IPFT supporters held attackson his family to force him towithdraw the FIR.

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The driver of a low-floor buswas dismissed from service

on Thursday after a video ofhim thrashing a minor girl, sus-pected to be a pickpocket, sur-faced on messaging mobileapplication WhatsApp, offi-cials said.

"The driver thrashed thegirl in the bus. After a videosurfaced, we identified himand the decision to terminatehim was taken. The termina-tion orders will be issuedtomorrow,” Suresh Kumar Ola,MD of Jaipur City TransportServices Ltd, which runs thelow-floor buses in the city,told PTI.

One of the passengers inthe bus shot a video of the inci-dent and circulated it onWhatsApp, prompting theauthorities to take actionagainst the accused driverHetram.

Kumar Ola said the buswas part of the 9A series,which operates on Tonk Road. The incident occurred nearNarain Singh Circle, and thebus conductor was not involvedin the thrashing, he said.

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The Lord Ayyappa shrine atSabarimala would open for

the five-day customary puja onSeptember 16 during theMalayalam month 'Kanni' andrestrictions imposed on devo-tees visiting it following the del-uge last month have been lift-ed, officials said Thursday.

However, private vehicles,including two-wheelers ofdevotees, would be allowedonly up to the Nilackal base sta-tion. A Kerala State RoadTransport Bus would transportthem to Pampa at the foothillsto enable their trekking to thehill shrine.

The floodwaters hadwashed away virtually all pil-grimfacilities on the banks ofthe Pampa river and theTravancore Devaswom Board(TDB) that manages the shrinehad imposed restrictions ondevotees visiting the temple forthe Onam festival season lastmonth.

The temple will remainopen till September 21.

After a high-level meetingto review the post-flood situa-tion at Pampa, TDB presidentM Padmakumar said the TataProjects Ltd has agreed to takeup the reconstruction work.

"Ayappa devotees can gothe shrine for worship duringthe Kanni month puja," hesaid.

The TDB and TataProjects would take all neces-sary steps to put in place nec-essary facilities for devoteesduring the three-month-longannual pilgrimage seasonbeginning on November 17, hesaid.

The TDB had recently con-structed a temporary footbridge'Ayyappa Sethu,' across thePampa by placing stones andsand bags. The 'Pampa-Trivenibridge-over-river', which gotsubmerged in the floods, wasalso restored to some extent.

During the rain mayhem,the Pampa overran its banks atseveral places, submergingmany shops, damaging build-ings, flooding pathways anduprooting electricity posts.

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BSP president Mayawati’sremarks holding the pre-

vious UPA Government andthe BJP equally responsiblefor the steep hike in fuelprices has ruffled many a feath-er in the Congress rank andfile whose leaders feel it willonce again raise a questionmark on attempts at strikingOpposition unity ahead of the2019 Lok Sabha polls.

The BSP chief ’s views onfuel price hike came a day afterher party stayed away from the“Bharat bandh” call given bythe Congress on the issue.

“These remarks, at a timewhen the need for unity amongOpposition parties is beingfelt clearly among all partners,could send a wrong signalboth to the public and the rul-ing party which is alreadydoubting our strength,” aCongress insider said Thursdayrequesting anonymity.

“Party workers are nothappy with the BSP president’sobservations and they are very

sceptical about her intentions,”he said, adding the Centralparty leadership surely needs totake note of it.

A senior Congress leadersaid her views on the topicneeds to be viewed as her bar-gaining tactics for more seats inthe Assembly polls inRajasthan, Madhya Pradeshand Chhattisgarh.

“By doing so, she is sort oftrying to gain upper hand innegotiations for the Assembly seats in theseStates...It is, however, for theCentral leadership to under-stand that we should weigh ouroptions and potential beforeentering into any alliance,” hestressed.

“Although the foundationof the intricacies of the alliance for the Lok Sabhapolls will be set much before inthe Assembly polls in theseStates, the party needs to beclear that its negotiations onseat sharing should not be atthe cost of the party and its

workers as Congress is thestronger party in these States,”he said.

Speaking on the fuel price hike, Mayawati has stated both the NDA and theUPA had disregarded the interest of the farmers and thepoor.

The previous UnitedProgressive Alliance (UPA)regime had brought fuel out ofgovernment control and theruling National DemocraticAlliance (NDA) continuedwith the policy, she had said, adding that after coming to power in 2014, theNDA had deregulated diesel,which had hurt the interest ofthe poor.

Mayawati’s statement islargely being viewed in thepolitical circles as a dent inOpposition unity against theBJP ahead of the 2019 LokSabha polls.

She had also criticised inci-dents of violence in some statesduring the protest, saying herparty had always desisted fromsuch acts.

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If Hyderabad has historic andmagnificent Mecca Masjid

can Andhra Pradesh capitalAmaravati afford not to haveone? AP Chief Minister NChandrababu Naidu thinks theunder-construction capitalshould also have one.

At a review meeting withthe officials of Capital RegionDevelopment Authority atUndavalli, the Chief Ministerannounced that a gloriousmosque of international stan-dards will be built in Amarvatiwhich will be a wonderfultourist attraction. “The mosquewill be built on an area of 10acres under the supervision ofthe State Waqf Board”, he said.“There should be a mosque in

the architectural style of MeccaMasjid (of Hyderabad) and itshould become a major touristattraction”, he said.

Naidu made the remarkswhile reviewing the progress ofvarious projects in the capitalregion.

Historical significanceThough Guntur, Nellore,

Vijaywada, Rajahmundry andVisakhapatanam have someancient mosques but none ofthem could match the grandeurand historic significance ofMecca Masjid and several othermosques in Hyderabad.

Mecca Masjid, whichdraws its name from Mecca,the holiest place in Islam, wasbuilt in Qutub Shahi era ofHyderabad. Its foundationstone was laid by Qutub Shahi

king Mohammed Quli around1616 AD century and wascompleted in 1687 whenMoghul emeror Aurangzeb hasoccupied the Golkonda king-dom by defeating the QutubShahis. Though not complete-ly built in accordance with theoriginal plans Mecca Masjidremains one of the biggestmosques in India.

Chandrababu Naidu’smeeting with the officials alsodecided to allocate 3.5 acres ofland to Murli Fortune group in

the capital region for building ahealth and recreating resortwith an investment of �40 crore.

The meeting also okayedthe proposal to create a mari-na along the banks of riverKrishna by the Coastal MarinaPrivate Ltd and allotted 8 acresof land. Apart from other facil-ities it will have a jetty where60 boats can be anchored. Theproject was expected to becompleted in six months at acost of Rs 15 crore. The gov-ernment has also decided toallot 5 acres for the construc-tion of a convention centerunder PPP model by VarunHospitality Ltd.

CRDA commissioner ChSridhar said that in the admin-istrative city the secretariatand the departmental head-quarter buildings will be readyby January 15, 2021. AS part ofthese there will be four groundplus storied towers estimated tocost �932.46 crore. The GADtower where the office of theChief Minister will be locatedwill have 49 stories. It will bebuilt at a cost of �554.06 crore.

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Aspate of cases against itsleaders have the

Opposition Congress leaderscry foul against the TelanganaRashtra Samiti Governmentin the State. Party leaders havealleged that the caretakerGovernment was resorting tothe vendetta politics by reviv-ing old cases or by framing itsleaders in false case.

It started with the arrest offormer MLA JayaprakashReddy alias Jagga Reddy. Thenpolice issued notice to anoth-er senior leader A RevanthReddy and now a case underSC/ST Prevention of AtrocitiesAct against another formerCongress leader SrisailamGoud.

While Jagga Reddy wasarrested in connection with aold human trafficking case,the police has issued a notice toA Revanth Reddy in connec-tion with the case of allegedirregularities in Jubilee HillsHousing Society. In the latestdevelopment Jagadgiri policestation has booked a caseagainst Srisailam Goud on thecomplaint of a tribal RameshNaik. Naik has alleged that theformer MLA had insulted himpublicly in the name of his casteidentity.

A case of cheating andthreatening a business partnerwas also booked against anoth-er former Congress legislatorGandra Venkatramanna Reddyby Warangal police.

Jagga Reddy, an influentialleader of Sangareddy districtwas arrested on Monday last byHyderabad police on charges ofPassport forgery and humantrafficking. Deputy commis-sioner of police, north zone BSumathi said that the JaggaReddy, a MLA of opposition

TRS at the time had securedpassport for himself, his wifeand two other members of hisfamily in 2004.

But affixing the photos ofthree other persons on thepassport of his family membershe secured US visas for them aswell as himself. ‘By claimingthat they were his family mem-bers he accompanied them tothe US and helped them intravelling abroad”, Sumathisaid. Jagga Reddy will be takeninto police custody on Fridayfor questioning.

Another case was likely tobe filed against him inSangareddy as some farmershave complained that JaggaReddy had grabbed their landsin Ameenpur and Nagulapallyvillages.

Even before the Congresscould recover from this shock,senior leader A Revanth Reddyreceived a notice from JubileeHills police station asking himto appear before the police forquestioning within 15 days inconnection with the allegedirregularities in a HousingSociety.

Police said it received acomplaint of forgery and cheat-ing against Revanth Reddyfrom a lawyer S Rama Rao. Thecase was ten years old.

Revanth Reddy who was asenior leader of TDP before

joining Congress is already anaccused in cash for vote scamin the State.

The arrest of Jagga Reddyand the notice to RevanthReddy has also evoked a sharpreaction from the Congressleaders.

State Congress president NUttam Kumar Reddy said thatall the cases were the results ofa conspiracy by the ruling TRSleaders to defame Congressleaders ahead of the comingassembly elections. “KCR inconnivance with some policeofficials was selectively target-ing the Congress leaders andworkers”, he said vowing to payback TRS by its own coin in thedays to come.

Uttam alleged that KCRand another Minister T HarishRao were the real culprits in thehuman trafficking case as theyhad given recommendationletters to those aspiring to go tothe US in the case.

Former union minister SJaipal Reddy said, “these are nothing but politicallymotivated cases. KCR is misusing official machinery”,he said.

In his reaction RevanthReddy said, “Chief Ministerwas trying to target the politi-cians of Reddy communityand project them in a negativelight”.

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Five terrorists, includingthree infiltrators, were killed

in two separate encounters inNorth Kashmir’s Keran sectorof Kupwara and Sopore innorth Kashmir, official sourcessaid. An over-ground worker ofa pan-Islamic outfit was alsoheld in Ganderbal district.

Officials said three uniden-tified infiltrators were killed ina fierce gunfight after the Armyfoiled a major Infiltration bidalong the Line of Control(LoC) in Keran sector of fron-tier district Kupwara in northKashmiron Thursday.

Army sources said that thebodies of armed ultras werelying close to the LoC and thecounter-infiltration operationwas going on in the sector.

In another incident, twoPakistani Jaish-e-Muhammadterrorists were killed in anoperation at Checkipora,Sheikhpora village in Soporearea of north Kashmir’sBaramulla district.

A police spokesman identi-fied the slain ultras as Ali aliasAthar and Zia-ur-Rehman. Hesaid Ali was one of the impor-tant commanders of JeM andmastermind behind the SoporeImprovised Explosive Device(IED) blast in which four police-men were killed. Security sourcessaid a brief gunfight broke outlate on Wednesday night follow-ing the launch of cordon andsearch operation in theArampora area. They said laterthere was a lull for several hoursas militants reportedly moved tosome nearby house.

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Athree-member fidayeensquad, believed to be cadre

of Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), was elimi-nated by the joint team ofsecurity forces led by paracommandos of the IndianArmy, jawans of the specialoperations group (SOG) ofState police and Central ReservePolice Force (CRPF) in Kakriyalarea along the Jammu-SrinagarNational Highway on Thursday.

A total number of 12 secu-rity personnel including fivejawans of CRPF, four Statepolicemen and three Armypersonnel received injuriesduring the operation, policesaid. A sub-divisional policeofficer was among thoseinjured in the operation. Hiscondition was stated to be sta-ble. Two para commandos also

received gun shot injurieswhile neutralising the thirdterrorist in the last leg of thecounter.

Emerging out of his safehideout the lone terroristopened fire on these com-mandos when he came face toface with them during thecombing and search opera-tions in thickly vegetated fieldsof Kakriyal. In the fierce gunfight the commandos elimi-nated him successfully endingthe 33 hour long chase insearch of these terrorists.

Till the time of filing the

report several teams of bombdisposal squad and others weredeployed at the encounter siteto completely sanitise the areaand clear the same from‘booby’ traps in the form ofplanted IED’s or land mines.

The local residents, whoremained closeted inside theirhomes since early morningalso heaved a sigh of relief afterthe operation was called off.

The security forces ensuredno major collateral damagewas done to the civilian hous-es and managed to containthese terrorists in isolated areas.

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Discontent in rulingTelangana Rashtra Samiti

(TRS) over distribution of tick-ets for Assembly elections is ris-ing by the day and the tusslebetween rivals took an uglyturn in at least in one con-stituency and many otherswere threatening to upsetparty’s applecart in many otherconstituencies.

In Chennur AssemblyConstituency of Mancherialdistrict where sitting MLANallala Odellu was denied tick-et and a member of Lok SabhaBalka Sumar was nominated byTRS one infuriated party work-ers set himself on fire andinjured many others. The inci-dent occurred during the visitto Balka Suman to the con-stituency. Suman alleged thatthe person had tried to harmhim by throwing kerosene onhim before setting himselfablaze.

R Ghattaiah, reported to bea supporter of Odellu pouredkerosene and set himself ablaze.He recived 80 pc burns while16 others including policeinspector Bhukya Narayan anda photographer Anees werealso injured as kerosene thrownby him fell on them.

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Toll in Jagtial bus disaster hasmounted to 62 with one

more injured succumbing toinjuries in Karimnagar hospitalon Thursday, police said. This isthe biggest loss of life ever in aroad accident in the State.

Local Minister E Rajinderand MP Vinod Kumar visitedthe family of the person whodied on Thursday and announ-ced financial assistance. A bus ofTelangana State road transportcorporation overturned and fellinto a gorge on Ghat road on Tu-esday when it was coming fromKondagattu temple to Jagatiyaltown. The over crowded bus waspacked with the pilgrims.Meanwhile an eerie silencedescended on the villages fromwhere most of the victims hailedeven as the ten day long GaneshChaturthi festival was beingcelebrated with gaiety elsewhere.The residents of worst affectedShanivarpeta, who lost 15 oftheir near and dear ones, werein deep shock and mourning.There was no celebration in thevillage on Thursday.

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ast w

eek

has

been

mom

ento

us. T

heSu

prem

e Cou

rt ex

amin

ed th

e con

stitu

tion-

al va

lidity

of Se

ctio

n 37

7 of t

he In

dian

Pena

lCo

de, a

n arc

haic

law th

at co

ntin

ued f

or lo

nger

than

it sho

uld h

ave,

and h

eld th

at ac

tions

betw

een

con-

sent

ing a

dults

are o

utsid

e the

ambi

t of t

his p

enal

prov

ision

. By i

ts de

cisio

n, th

e Sup

rem

e Cou

rt ga

vea f

resh

leas

e of li

fe to

mill

ions

of In

dian

s who

had

to su

ffer d

ue to

the s

tigm

a, th

e fea

r and

the a

buse

of b

eing c

lassif

ied as

crim

inals

for n

othi

ng o

ther

than

the r

ight t

o lov

e a fe

llow

hum

an be

ing.

Whi

leth

is fo

rtnig

ht w

as on

e to c

elebr

ate in

one r

espe

ct,

in o

ther

it w

as an

othe

r wee

k of

com

men

ts fro

mth

e Cen

tre th

at ca

n at

best

be ca

lled

amus

ing a

ndat

wor

st be

cons

ider

ed w

orris

ome.

Nat

iona

l Com

miss

ion

for

Men

:Thi

s pa

stwe

ek, H

arin

aray

an R

ajbha

r, th

e Bha

ratiy

a Jan

ata

Party

MP

from

Utta

r Pra

desh

said

, “Th

ere

is a

natio

nal c

omm

issio

n fo

r wom

en. B

ut, th

ere i

s no

such

com

miss

ion

for m

en. M

en ar

e com

mitt

ing

suici

de o

n be

ing

hara

ssed

by

wom

en, a

nd fa

lseca

ses a

re b

eing

lodg

ed ag

ainst

men

.” Th

is is

not

the f

irst t

ime t

hat R

ajbha

r has

disc

usse

d hi

s pas

-sio

n fo

r a ‘p

urus

haa

yog’.

In fa

ct, h

e bro

ught

the

issue

up in

the m

onth

of A

ugus

t as w

ell in

the L

okSa

bha

wher

e it

caus

ed m

uch

amus

emen

t an

dlau

ghte

r. W

hile

the s

ugge

stion

may

seem

laug

h-ab

le, th

e fac

t tha

t the

Mem

ber o

f Par

liam

ent f

rom

Balli

a is

abso

lutel

y un

awar

e ab

out t

he st

atus o

fwo

men

in In

dia i

s far

from

laug

habl

e. Th

e sta

tis-

tics o

n cr

imes

again

st wo

men

is u

sefu

l to

exam

-in

e bec

ause

it is

a fa

ir in

dica

tor o

f whe

re w

omen

stand

com

pare

d to

men

in In

dian

socie

ty. N

ot to

ruin

the s

urpr

ise fo

r Rajb

har b

ut th

e sta

tistic

s are

dam

ning

and

do

not

aid h

is ar

gum

ent

for

aN

atio

nal C

omm

issio

n fo

r Men

.In

this

rega

rd, t

he r

epor

t pub

lishe

d by

the

Nat

iona

l Crim

e Re

cord

s Bur

eau

in 2

016

is ill

u-m

inat

ing.

As p

er th

is re

port,

the

rate

of c

rimes

again

st wo

men

, i.e.

crim

es p

er 1

lakh

wom

en w

asup

from

41.7

in 20

12 to

55.2

in 20

16. F

urth

erm

ore,

it is

tellin

g th

at a

majo

rity

of th

e cr

imes

aga

inst

wom

en is

usu

ally

by p

eopl

e wh

o ar

e kn

own

toth

em be

caus

e of w

hich

wom

en ar

e in

any c

ase h

es-

itant

abo

ut f

iling

crim

inal

case

s ag

ainst

their

abus

ers o

r are

coax

ed ou

t of it

by th

e fam

ily of

the

vict

im. W

hat m

ay b

e of i

nter

est t

o Rajb

har,

how-

ever

, is

that

des

pite

incid

ence

of c

rime

again

stwo

men

, the

con

vict

ion

rate

for

crim

es a

gain

stwo

men

in 20

16 at

18.9

per c

ent is

at its

lowe

st sin

ce20

07. T

his i

s esp

ecial

ly di

scou

ragi

ng as

even

if a

wom

an d

oes h

ave t

he co

urag

e to

repo

rt a c

rime,

she,

howe

ver,

has

to w

ithdr

aw t

he c

ompl

aint

(whi

ch is

com

mon

in ca

ses o

f cru

elty b

y hus

band

sor

relat

ives,

wher

e the

par

ties a

gree

to a

divo

rce,

subj

ect t

o the

with

draw

al of

the c

ompl

aint).

The

reis

often

a sti

gma t

hat is

asso

ciated

with

the w

oman

by so

ciety

for n

o fau

lt of

her

own

.In

any

eve

nt, i

f the

arg

umen

t is

that

som

ewo

men

are e

xplo

iting

the l

egal

proc

ess t

o pun

ishm

en, t

hen

as th

e con

vict

ion

rate

s see

m to

show

,th

e leg

al sy

stem

doe

s app

ear t

o ta

ke in

to ac

coun

tsu

ch c

ases

as w

ell b

ecau

se th

e bu

rden

whi

ch is

requ

ired

to b

e disc

harg

ed b

y the

accu

ser i

s fair

lyhi

gh.

Furth

erm

ore,

the

argu

men

t ag

ains

t a

‘puru

shaa

yog’

is no

t tha

t the

re ar

e no c

ases

whe

reth

ere h

ave b

een

bogu

s cas

es fi

led ag

ainst

men

for

crim

es ag

ainst

wom

en. In

fact

, the a

rgum

ent i

s as

follo

ws: F

irstly

, in In

dia t

oday

, due

to a

cultu

re o

fvi

ctim

blam

ing,

the

odds

are

sta

cked

aga

inst

awo

man

who

decid

es to

appr

oach

the l

egal

syste

mfo

r a re

med

y fro

m th

e sta

rt. S

econ

dly,

Indi

a lik

ean

y oth

er co

untry

does

not

have

an un

limite

d sup

-pl

y of f

unds

or re

sour

ces.

Ther

efore

, as a

resp

on-

sible

dem

ocra

cy, it

mus

t dec

ide t

o all

ocate

fund

san

d pe

rson

nel

towa

rds

its m

ost

urge

nt a

ndim

med

iate c

ause

s. So

, whi

le it

may

be i

mpo

rtant

to be

cong

niza

nt of

such

isola

ted in

stanc

es of

abus

e,th

e cur

rent

state

of w

omen

is fa

r wor

se th

an th

atof

men

and,

ther

efore

, mor

e foc

us, a

ttent

ion

and

reso

urce

s are

requ

ired

to en

sure

that

wom

en ar

esu

bjec

t to

a jus

t sys

tem

.R

aghu

ram

R

ajan

re

spon

sibl

e fo

r lo

w gr

owth

:As y

ou m

ay h

ave n

otice

d, In

dia h

as

not y

et se

en an

y ‘acch

e din’

and t

he st

ate of

the e

con-

omy p

rove

s as m

uch.

In th

is re

gard

whi

le ta

lkin

gab

out t

he lo

w len

ding

rate

s and

hes

itanc

y in

the

econ

omy,

Rajiv

Kum

ar, v

ice c

hairm

an o

f NIT

IAa

yog,

said

, “Th

e ne

w m

echa

nism

s in

stitu

ted

[und

er th

e pr

evio

us R

BI G

over

nor’s

regi

me]

toid

entif

y str

esse

d or

non

-per

form

ing

asse

ts an

dth

ese c

ontin

uous

ly co

ntin

ued

to g

row

up w

hich

is wh

y th

e ba

nkin

g se

ctor

stop

ped

givi

ng cr

edit

to th

e ind

ustry

.”Su

ch c

omm

ents,

unf

ortu

natel

y, fo

llow

the

sam

e irr

espo

nsib

le po

licy

of th

e Gov

ernm

ent t

obl

ame e

very

one o

ther

than

itse

lf fo

r the

ills o

f the

econ

omy,

inclu

ding

the r

ising

fuel

price

s, th

e spe

c-ta

cular

fall o

f the

rupe

e, th

e low

empl

oym

ent r

atean

d th

e low

rate

of g

rowt

h. T

here

are,

howe

ver,

two

issue

s with

this

mes

sage

. Firs

t tha

t it l

ays t

hebl

ame o

n th

e foo

t of a

pol

icy th

at p

laces

emph

a-sis

on a

clean

-up o

f non

-per

form

ing a

ssets

that

had

accu

mul

ated

with

ban

ks a

nd ig

nore

s th

at t

his

clean

-up p

roce

ss is

nec

essa

ry fo

r any

econ

omy t

ogr

ow si

nce i

t sho

ws w

hat t

he tr

ue st

ate o

f ban

k-in

g in

the c

ount

ry is

.Th

e Mod

i Gov

ernm

ent,

howe

ver,

obvi

ously

favor

s obf

usca

tion

when

reali

ty d

oes n

ot su

it th

eG

over

nmen

t and

gran

dios

e ove

rsta

tem

ent w

hen

the d

ata

is m

ildly

in fa

vour

of t

he G

over

nmen

t.An

insta

nce o

f thi

s was

the c

hang

e in

the b

ase y

ear

to c

alcul

ate G

DP

data

whi

ch m

ade

the

Mod

iG

over

nmen

t loo

k acc

epta

ble.

How

ever

, wha

t the

BJP

did n

ot co

ntem

plate

was

that

by us

ing t

he sa

me

stand

ard,

the p

erfo

rman

ce of

the U

PA d

urin

g its

tenu

re lo

oks f

ar b

etter

than

any

grow

th cl

ocke

dby

the M

odi G

over

nmen

t.Th

e sec

ond

issue

with

this

mes

sage

is th

at it

cont

inue

s with

the n

arra

tive t

hat I

ndia’

s low

rate

of gr

owth

has

been

caus

ed du

e to e

xter

nal fa

ctor

sra

ther

tha

n du

e to

the

inc

ompe

tenc

e of

the

Gov

ernm

ent.

This

can

be se

en w

hen

argu

men

tsag

ainst

high

fuel

price

s are

bro

ught

aga

inst

the

Gov

ernm

ent o

r the

falli

ng ru

pee.

Asto

nish

ingly

,as

per

this

Gov

ernm

ent,

dem

onet

izatio

n, w

hich

mus

t cou

nt as

one o

f the

bigg

est e

cono

mic

blun

-de

rs in

the w

orld

, play

ed n

o ro

le in

the e

cono

m-

ic slo

wdow

n of

the

cou

ntry

. It’s

com

plet

elyig

nore

d by

the

Gov

ernm

ent t

hat t

he m

ove

cost

Indi

a 1.5

per c

ent o

f GD

P or

that

in th

e firs

t fou

rm

onth

s 1.5

mill

ion

jobs

wer

e los

t dur

ing j

ust t

hefir

st fo

ur m

onth

s of 2

017

and

left t

he u

norg

an-

ised s

ecto

r, whi

ch pr

imar

ily op

erate

s on

cash

, ree

l-in

g fro

m th

e mov

e. As

a re

ader

, I w

ould

reco

m-

men

d you

cons

ider

this

to be

your

bim

onth

ly re

cap

of th

e stra

nge t

ime o

ur co

untry

is go

ing t

hrou

gh,

wher

e any

form

of in

tellec

tuali

sm is

equa

ted w

ithan

ti-na

tiona

lism

. Whi

le I h

ope t

his r

ecap

did p

ro-

vide

som

e ent

erta

inm

ent,

I thi

nk it

is im

porta

ntto

reco

gnise

that

som

e of t

he lu

dicr

ous c

omm

ents

by B

JP le

ader

s tha

t I m

entio

n fro

m ti

me t

o tim

ear

e onl

y the

ones

that

they

say o

ut lo

ud af

ter p

re-

sum

ably

filte

ring

them

. One

can,

how

ever

, onl

yim

agin

e and

trul

y fea

r wha

t tho

ught

s do n

ot p

ass

thro

ugh

this

very

por

ous f

ilter

.(T

he w

riter

is Jh

arkh

and

PCC

presi

dent

, for

-m

er M

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d IP

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cer.

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his

refe

rs to

the

edito

rial,

“In

Den

ial” (

Sept

embe

r 13)

. The

re ca

n be

no

doub

t abo

ut V

irat K

ohli’s

skill

s as a

bats-

man

and

his

work

eth

ics b

ut th

e bu

cksto

ps w

ith h

im a

s th

e ca

ptain

of

the

Indi

an c

ricke

t tea

m. H

is cla

im th

at h

iste

am is

the b

est t

ourin

g In

dian

team

inlas

t 10-

15 ye

ars,

that

too a

fter 1

-4 sc

ore-

line i

n th

e fiv

e-Te

st se

ries,

defie

s log

ic.

To w

alk

the

talk

, Ko

hli

has

toin

trosp

ect h

is lea

ders

hip

and

decis

ion-

mak

ing

skill

s —

cho

osin

g to

pla

y a

spin

ner o

ver a

seam

er in

clou

dy co

n-di

tions

in L

ondo

n, an

d A

shw

in p

lay-

ing

in fo

urth

Tes

t des

pite

offi

e be

ing

in cl

ear d

iscom

fort

phys

ical

ly an

d op

t-in

g H

anum

a Vih

ari o

ver t

riple

cent

u-rio

n K

arun

Nai

r, ar

e ju

st fe

w o

f the

blun

ders

com

mitt

ed b

y hi

m.

Kohl

i and

Rav

i Sha

stri

cann

ot b

ein

den

ial,

tryi

ng to

pai

nt a

rosy

pic

-tu

re a

fter a

disa

stro

us to

ur.

Bal G

ovin

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Si

r — T

his r

efer

s to

the e

dito

rial,

“Life

mea

ns L

ife”

(Sep

tem

ber

12).

Had

itbe

en th

e ass

assin

atio

n of

mem

bers

of

any

othe

r po

litic

al p

arty

in

Tam

ilN

adu,

wou

ld t

he T

amil

Nad

uG

over

nmen

t hav

e so

ught

pre

mat

ure

rele

ase o

f the

conv

icts

serv

ing l

ife se

n-te

nce?

Whi

le th

e gr

acef

ulne

ss o

f the

Gan

dhi

fam

ily i

n co

ndon

ing

the

actio

n of

the

ass

assin

s sh

ould

be

wel

com

ed, f

rom

the

poin

t of v

iew

of

the

coun

try,

in

gene

ral,

and

the

Con

gres

s in

part

icul

ar, t

he as

sass

ina-

tion

of fo

rmer

Prim

e M

inist

er R

ajiv

Gan

dhi w

as a

n irr

epar

able

loss

. Th

e fa

ct t

he c

onvi

cts

have

bee

nla

ngui

shin

g in

jail

for l

ong

is no

jus-

tific

atio

n to

seek

thei

r ear

ly re

leas

e, as

they

hav

e be

en c

omm

uted

to s

uffe

r

life

sent

ence

. Th

e con

vict

s are

now

at th

e mer

cyof

the

Sta

te G

over

nor

Banw

arila

lPu

rohi

t as h

e hol

ds th

e key

. One

hop

esth

at th

e Gov

erno

r Pur

ohit

wei

ghs t

hepr

os a

nd c

ons

befo

re h

e ta

kes

any

deci

sion.

In a

ny e

vent

, the

dec

ision

take

n sh

ould

not

set a

s a p

rece

dent

. VS

Jaya

ram

an

Che

nnai

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��Si

r — T

his r

efer

s to

the e

dito

rial,

“Life

mea

ns l

ife”

(Sep

tem

ber

12).

Prim

eM

inist

er R

ajiv

Gan

dhi’s

assa

ssin

ator

s

alre

ady

rece

ived

gen

erou

s cle

men

cy.

The

Supr

eme

Cou

rt h

ad,

in 2

014,

redu

ced

thei

r ca

pita

l pun

ishm

ent t

olif

elon

g im

priso

nmen

t. A

ny f

urth

erre

miss

ion

mus

t be

out o

f que

stio

n.

The

killi

ng o

f a

Prim

e M

inist

erw

as a

rare

st-of

-rar

e cas

e. Th

ere s

houl

dab

solu

tely

be n

o qu

estio

n of

par

don-

ing

and

rele

ase

of th

e co

nvic

ts. A

nysu

ch re

ques

t has

onl

y po

litic

al ra

mi-

ficat

ions

and

wou

ld b

e utte

rly il

lega

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ubha

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India

, Jait

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ess p

resid

ent R

ahul

Gan

dhi’s

feebl

e atte

mpt

todr

aw

equi

vale

nce

betw

een

the

Mus

limBr

othe

rhoo

d an

d RS

Sca

used

asto

nish

men

t am

ong

thos

efa

mili

ar w

ith th

e RSS

and

thos

e who

have

a n

atio

nal

pers

pect

ive.

Alter

nativ

ely, th

ose p

rofes

sing a

com

-m

unist

and/

or M

aoist

ideo

logy

and

prac

titio

ners

of op

portu

nisti

c pol

itics

were

pre

dict

ably

elate

d. N

eithe

r of

thes

e re

spon

ses

was

unan

ticip

ated

.H

owev

er, it

mus

t not

be as

sum

ed th

atG

andh

i lac

ks a

ware

ness

abo

ut t

hem

ayhe

m Is

lamist

s ter

roris

ts in

flict

onth

e civ

ilise

d wo

rld. N

eithe

r doe

s thi

sm

ean

that

he is

una

ware

of th

e soc

ialwo

rk th

e RSS

carr

ies ou

t thr

ough

its

affil

iated

org

anisa

tions

, not

to m

en-

tion

the g

rowi

ng ap

peal

and

supp

ort

the

Sang

h is

rece

ivin

g fro

m so

ciety

at la

rge.

Why

, the

n, w

ould

he m

ake

such

a pr

epos

tero

us al

legat

ion?

Q

uite

sim

ply,

his p

oliti

cal a

dvi-

sors

hav

e su

ccee

ded

in c

onvi

ncin

ghi

m th

at cr

iticis

ing t

he R

SS w

ill yi

eldpo

litica

l div

iden

ds, th

at ba

seles

s and

prov

ocat

ive

state

men

ts wi

ll co

m-

pens

ate f

or th

e lac

k of

grou

nd w

ork

which

is re

quire

d to l

ift th

e gra

nd ol

dpa

rty fr

om it

s pol

itica

l nad

ir. H

ence

,he

has

obv

ious

ly be

en s

choo

led to

rend

er th

ese s

tatem

ents

in a

dram

at-ic

man

ner

with

out

both

erin

g to

chec

k the

ir ve

racit

y. W

hen

one s

uch

state

men

t was

lega

lly ch

allen

ged

bya s

waya

mse

vak,

the C

ongr

ess p

resi-

dent

was

see

n av

oidi

ng h

is da

te in

cour

t.

In re

ality,

the S

angh

is en

gage

din

the w

ork o

f con

nect

ing a

nd bi

nd-

ing

Bhar

atiy

a soc

iety

with

the e

ver-

lastin

g th

read

of s

pirit

ualit

y an

d an

inte

gral

and

holis

tic v

iew o

f life

. To

equa

te th

is in

clusiv

e Bha

ratiy

a view

of lif

e with

the M

uslim

Bro

ther

hood

is an

affro

nt to

our g

reat

civi

lisat

ion-

al he

ritag

e and

hist

ory.

If on

e was

tovie

w Isl

amist

ideo

logy

in pr

actic

e, th

ewo

rd “b

roth

erho

od” i

tself i

s ina

ppro

-pr

iate

. In

fa

ct,

the

Mus

limBr

othe

rhoo

d wh

ich h

e cho

se to

cite

as an

exam

ple,

view

s not

onl

y no

n-M

uslim

s as b

eyon

d the

pale

but e

ven

Mus

lims o

utsid

e the

Salaf

i/Sun

ni fo

ldas

outsi

de th

eir id

eolo

gical

com

mun

ean

d th

erefo

re n

ot ‘t

rue’

Mus

lims.

Sept

embe

r 11

was

the

125

than

nive

rsar

y of

Swa

mi V

ivek

anan

d’sCh

icago

addr

ess t

o the

Par

liam

ent o

fW

orld

Reli

gion

s. In

tha

t hi

storic

addr

ess,

he pr

esen

ted to

a wo

rld au

di-

ence

the

inc

lusiv

e wo

rldvi

ew o

fH

indu

cultu

re. T

his w

as n

ot m

erely

an ex

ercis

e in

intel

lectu

alism

, but

one

wher

e th

e str

ings

of t

he h

eart

were

play

ing a

uniq

ue tu

ne fo

r an

audi

ence

unfam

iliar w

ith th

e Hin

du vi

ew of

life

but r

espo

nsiv

e to

the m

usic

in th

ose

since

re w

ords

. Swa

mi V

ivek

anan

dabe

gan

his

addr

ess

with

“M

yAm

erica

n Br

othe

rs an

d Sist

ers…

”, an

ende

arm

ent w

hich

was

rece

ived w

itha s

tand

ing

ovat

ion

that

laste

d a f

ewm

inut

es.

He s

aid: “

I am

pro

ud to

belo

ngto

a r

eligi

on w

hich

has

taug

ht th

ewo

rld b

oth

toler

ance

and

uni

vers

alac

cept

ance

. We

belie

ve n

ot o

nly

inun

ivers

al to

lerat

ion

but w

e acc

ept a

llre

ligio

ns as

true

. I am

prou

d to b

elong

to a

nat

ion

which

has

shelt

ered

the

pers

ecut

ed a

nd re

fuge

es o

f all

reli-

gion

s and

all

natio

ns o

f the

ear

th. I

am p

roud

to te

ll yo

u th

at w

e ha

vega

ther

ed in

our

bos

om th

e pu

rest

rem

nant

of t

he Is

raeli

tes,

who

cam

eto

Sou

ther

n In

dia

and

took

refu

gewi

th us

in th

e ver

y yea

r in

which

their

holy

tem

ple w

as sh

atte

red

to p

ieces

by R

oman

tyra

nny.

I am

pro

ud to

belo

ng to

the r

eligio

n wh

ich ha

s she

l-ter

ed an

d is s

till fo

sterin

g the

rem

nant

of t

he g

rand

Zor

oastr

ian n

atio

n.Se

ctar

ianism

, big

otry

, and

its h

orri-

ble d

esce

ndan

t, fan

aticis

m, h

ave l

ong

poss

esse

d th

is be

autif

ul ea

rth. T

hey

have

fille

d th

e ea

rth w

ith v

iolen

ce,

dren

ched

it

ofte

n an

d of

ten

with

hum

an bl

ood,

des

troye

d civ

ilisa

tion

and

sent

who

le na

tions

to d

espa

ir.H

ad it

not

bee

n fo

r th

ese

horr

ible

dem

ons,

hum

an so

ciety

wou

ld be

far

mor

e adv

ance

d th

an it

is n

ow.”

Dr B

him

Rao

Am

bedk

ar ha

s also

draw

n a d

istin

ctio

n wi

th th

e Isla

mic

view

of

the

world

. I

n hi

s bo

ok“T

houg

hts

on P

akist

an”

he s

ays:

"Islam

is a

close

corp

orat

ion

and

the

disti

nctio

n th

at i

t m

akes

bet

ween

Mus

lims a

nd n

on-M

uslim

s is a

very

real,

very

pos

itive

and

(a) v

ery a

lien-

ating

disti

nctio

n. T

he br

othe

rhoo

d of

Islam

is n

ot th

e un

iver

sal b

roth

er-

hood

of m

an. I

t is

brot

herh

ood

ofM

uslim

s for

Mus

lims o

nly.

Ther

e is

a fra

terni

ty bu

t its

bene

fit is

conf

ined

to th

ose w

ithin

that

corp

orat

ion.

For

thos

e who

are

out

side t

he co

rpor

a-tio

n, th

ere i

s not

hing

but

cont

empt

and

enm

ity.”

The M

uslim

Bro

ther

hood

wan

tsto

impo

se Sh

aria

Law

ever

ywhe

re; th

eRS

S sta

nds f

or a

Hin

du R

asht

ra th

atis

base

d on

the i

deal

of sp

read

ing u

ni-

vers

al ac

cept

ance

as p

ropa

gate

d by

Vive

kana

nd. S

o, ho

w ca

n th

e fun

da-

men

talis

t Isl

amist

ide

olog

y of

the

Mus

lim B

roth

erho

od b

e eq

uate

dwi

th th

e Un

iver

sal B

roth

erho

od o

fSw

ami V

ivek

anan

da. F

urth

er, w

hydo

es R

ahul

Gan

dhi fe

el co

mpe

lled t

osp

eak

ill o

f an

orga

nisa

tion

that

fol-

lows

the p

rece

pts o

f uni

vers

al br

oth-

erho

od an

d is

focu

sed

on or

gani

sing

socie

ty?

A se

nior

com

men

tato

r sa

id to

me a

few

year

s ago

that

the C

ongr

ess

has b

een

redu

ced

to a

party

des

per-

ately

tryi

ng to

com

e to p

ower

by an

ym

eans

and i

s out

sour

cing i

ts in

tellec

-tu

al ac

tivity

to th

e Com

mun

ists.

Ever

since

the C

ongr

ess o

utso

urce

d its

ide-

olog

ical a

rgum

ents

to th

e com

rade

s,it h

as al

lied i

tself w

ith in

toler

ance

and

has

oppo

sed

natio

nal

view

s an

dac

tiviti

es.

Befo

re I

ndep

ende

nce,

the

Cong

ress

was

an

open

plat

form

;am

ong

its m

embe

rs w

ere

Hin

duM

ahas

abha

mem

bers

, sup

porte

rs of

revo

lutio

narie

s, th

ose w

ith a

radi

cal

appr

oach

(Ga

ram

Dal

)an

d als

oth

ose f

avou

ring a

mod

erate

appr

oach

(Nar

am D

al).

Ther

e wa

s sp

ace

for

ever

yone

. Whe

n th

is pl

atfo

rm f

orna

tiona

l lib

erat

ion

starte

d ta

king

the s

hape

of a

pol

itica

l par

ty it

wen

tfro

m b

eing

a lar

ge te

nt o

f ide

as to

aco

rpor

atio

n wh

ich pr

actic

ed al

ienat-

ing a

nd ex

cludi

ng th

ose w

ith d

iffer

-en

t view

s. It

was,

howe

ver,

a gra

dual

prog

ress

ion.

Eve

n af

ter

1947

ther

ewa

s spa

ce fo

r div

erse

view

poin

ts; if

Pand

it Ja

waha

rlal

Neh

ru w

as a

nar

dent

criti

c of t

he R

SS, S

arda

r Pat

elin

vite

d sw

ayam

seva

ks t

o jo

in t

heCo

ngre

ss p

arty.

In 1

962,

durin

g th

e

Indo

-Chi

na w

ar,

even

a s

tride

ntcr

itic o

f the

Sang

h su

ch as

Neh

ru w

asso

impr

esse

d by t

he se

lfles

s ser

vice o

fth

e RSS

that

he i

nvite

d th

e org

anisa

-tio

n to

par

ticip

ate

in th

e Re

publ

icD

ay P

arad

e; ev

en a

t sh

ort

notic

e,3,

000

sway

amse

vaks

par

ticip

ated

with

prid

e in

the p

arad

e.D

urin

g th

e 196

5 Pa

kista

n in

va-

sion,

Lal

Baha

dur S

hastr

i call

ed fo

ra

mee

ting

with

pro

min

ent n

atio

nal

leade

rs, i

nclu

ding

the

sec

ond

RSS

Chief

Gur

uji G

olwa

lkar

, goi

ng so

far

as to

arra

nge h

is tra

nspo

rt to

Delh

i.D

urin

g th

is m

eetin

g, a

com

mun

istlea

der r

epea

tedly

aske

d Sha

stri: W

hat

was “

your

Arm

y” d

oing

whe

n In

dia

was i

nvad

ed? A

gita

ted

by th

is sta

nce

espe

cially

at

such

a c

ritica

l tim

e,G

olwa

lkar

inte

rven

ed an

d as

ked

the

gent

leman

why

he

coul

dn’t

just

say

“our

arm

y”? D

id h

e not

belo

ng to

the

sam

e cou

ntry

? Th

is tra

ditio

n of

dial

ogue

(sam

-va

ad)

cont

inue

d til

l th

e 19

70s.

Subs

eque

ntly,

the i

nflu

ence

of c

om-

mun

ist id

eolo

gy st

arted

gain

ing t

rac-

tion

in th

e Co

ngre

ss (a

t a ti

me

the

com

mun

ists t

hem

selve

s had

‘pur

ged’

them

selve

s of

their

nat

iona

list e

le-m

ents

who

had

long

sin

ce b

een

deno

unce

d as

‘rig

htist

s’) a

nd t

hein

toler

ance

and

“oth

erne

ss” in

spire

dby

Sta

linist

idea

ls be

gan

rear

ing

itsug

ly he

ad. C

onfro

ntat

iona

l lang

uage

and

an ‘u

s ve

rsus

the

m’ d

iscou

rse

starte

d do

min

atin

g. Ap

art f

rom

the

BJP,

mos

t poli

tical

parti

es re

flect

com

-m

unist

influ

ence

in th

eir in

telle

ctu-

al ce

lls in

vary

ing d

egre

es. F

or sh

ort-

sight

ed p

oliti

cal g

ains t

here

is a

ten-

denc

y to s

ide w

ith at

tempt

s (in

spire

dby

lefti

st id

eolo

gy)

of b

reak

ing

or

weak

enin

g the

uni

ty of

the p

eopl

e of

the

coun

try a

nd a

t the

sam

e tim

eop

posin

g na

tiona

l ide

as a

nd fo

rces

.Th

is en

erva

ting

influ

ence

ove

r th

epa

st few

deca

des h

as le

ft th

e Con

gres

sin

a str

ange

cond

ition

, alm

ost a

s if it

sbo

dy is

but

a sh

ell th

at is

now

occ

u-pi

ed b

y a

Mao

ist s

oul.

This

is no

tm

erely

an ob

serv

ation

, it is

born

e out

by t

he d

ispla

ys o

f su

ppor

t th

eCo

ngre

ss r

outin

ely e

xpre

sses

for

Mao

ist pr

otes

ts. Is

it no

t alar

min

g tha

tCo

ngre

ss le

ader

s sta

nd in

solid

arity

with

tho

se w

ho r

aised

slo

gans

of

“Bha

rat t

ere t

ukde

hon

ge, I

nsha

llah,

Insh

allah

”, “B

hara

t ki b

arba

di ta

k jun

gra

hegi”

or “A

fzal G

uru

hum

shar

min

-da

hai

, ter

e qa

til z

inda

hai”

? Af

zal

Guru

was

the m

aster

min

d beh

ind t

heter

roris

t atta

ck on

the p

arlia

men

t and

was

sen

tenc

ed t

o de

ath

by t

heSu

prem

e Cou

rt.

Whe

n th

e Co

ngre

ss s

uppo

rtsth

ose

inst

igat

ing

cast

e vi

olen

ceun

derm

inin

g an

d vi

olat

ing

the

Cons

titut

ion,

one i

s com

pelle

d to f

eel

it is

its M

aoist

soul

whi

ch g

uide

s its

actio

ns. T

he in

filtra

tion

of di

srup

tive

Urba

n M

aoist

s int

o m

ainstr

eam

life

and

their

influ

ence

has

onl

y rec

ent-

ly co

me

to li

ght a

nd w

hen

a m

ain-

strea

m pa

rty lik

e the

Con

gres

s whi

chha

s he

ld p

ower

for

so m

any

year

ssu

ppor

ts th

eir d

estru

ctiv

e des

igns

itis

not a

n oc

casio

n to

be su

rpris

ed bu

tsa

dden

ed.

Des

pite

ideo

logic

al di

ffere

nces

, itis

impo

rtant

to

conc

ede

that

the

Cong

ress

of t

he p

ast n

ever

spok

e in

the t

erm

s use

d by

their

curr

ent l

ead-

ers o

r alig

ned

with

disr

uptiv

e for

ces

that

und

erm

ined

the

cou

ntry

and

natio

nal i

nter

est.

It is

deep

ly wo

rry-

ing t

o see

the o

ldes

t pol

itica

l par

ty in

the c

ount

ry, o

ne th

at en

joys

supp

ort

acro

ss th

e cou

ntry

, sta

nd w

ith su

chan

ti-na

tiona

l elem

ents.

As a

resu

lt, th

eCo

ngre

ss is

erod

ing i

ts su

ppor

t bas

e.A

bout

125

yea

rs a

go S

wam

iVi

veka

nand

a cr

osse

d th

e oc

eans

topl

ant t

he fla

g of B

hara

tiya c

ivilis

ation

-al

and

cultu

ral v

alues

in a

fore

ign

land.

Tod

ay, a

pol

iticia

n fro

m t

hesa

me

coun

try,

trave

ls ab

road

and

equa

tes In

dian

cultu

ral e

thos

with

the

Mus

lim B

roth

erho

od.

This

is an

insu

lt to

Bha

ratiy

a civ

ilisa

tiona

l val-

ues a

nd cu

lture

.In

a de

moc

racy

it is

but e

xpec

t-ed

that

ther

e wi

ll be

diff

eren

ces

inop

inio

n an

d id

eolo

gies

but

it

isim

pera

tive t

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s eve

ryon

eun

der 1

8 ye

ars o

f age

as ch

ildre

n. In

Indi

a,th

e def

initi

on o

f who

cons

titut

es a

child

iscr

ucia

l bec

ause

it is

use

d to

inclu

de an

d/or

exclu

de t

hem

fro

m p

rivile

ges,

right

s an

den

title

men

ts m

anda

ted

unde

r pre

sent

leg-

islat

ions

gov

erni

ng ch

ild ri

ghts.

U

nder

the

cou

ntry

’s am

ende

d Ch

ildLa

bour

(Pro

hibi

ion

and

Regu

latio

ns) A

ct,

thos

e belo

w 14

year

s are

def

ined

as ch

ildre

nan

d th

ose

abov

e (1

5 to

19)

as a

dole

scen

ts.D

oes t

his m

atte

r? Y

es, m

ost e

mph

atica

lly so

.O

ne o

f the

big

gest

impa

ct fo

r th

ose

now

class

ified

as a

dole

scen

ts is

the l

oss o

f the

irrig

ht to

edu

catio

n. T

he R

ight

to F

ree

and

Com

pulso

ry E

duca

tion

Act (

RTE)

app

lies

only

to ch

ildre

n in

6 to

14

year

age

gro

up.

Sinc

e la

bour

law

s do

not

con

sider

thos

e in

15 to

18 ye

ar ag

e gro

up as

child

ren,

educ

atio

n is

no lo

nger

com

pulso

ry fo

r the

m.

On

the c

ontra

ry, t

hey a

re p

erm

itted

to w

ork

in ‘n

on-h

azar

dous

’ act

iviti

es, s

uch

as d

omes

-tic

wor

k, w

orki

ng in

dha

bas,

carp

et w

eav-

ing,

aga

rbat

tian

d za

ri m

akin

g fa

ctor

ies.

Stat

istic

ally,

Indi

a cur

rent

ly h

as 10

0 mill

ion

child

ren

aged

bet

wee

n 15

to 18

year

s. O

ver

the

next

10

year

s, a

stag

gerin

g on

e bi

llion

will

pas

s tho

ugh

this

age g

roup

. The

impl

i-ca

tion

of th

em m

issin

g ou

t on

one o

f the

irba

sic ri

ghts

is hu

ge co

nsid

erin

g onl

y one

inev

ery t

wo ch

ildre

n in

this

age g

roup

is st

udy-

ing a

nd on

ly on

e in

ever

y thr

ee sc

hool

-goi

ngch

ildre

n fin

ish C

lass

XI.

Aro

und

4.1

mil-

lion

are w

orki

ng an

d stu

dyin

g. A

nd, t

hat 3

8m

illio

n ar

e wor

king

in h

azar

dous

occ

upa-

tions

, is e

noug

h re

ason

to re

thin

k po

licie

san

d law

s tha

t dep

rive t

hese

child

ren

of th

eirch

ildho

od.

Alth

ough

rat

es o

f ch

ild m

arria

ge f

orgi

rls u

nder

15 ar

e dro

ppin

g, th

e rat

e of g

irls

mar

ryin

g bet

ween

15 an

d 18

has

incr

ease

d.A

201

8 re

port

by

Child

Rig

hts

and

You

(CRY

) rev

eals

that

9.2

mill

ion

in th

is ag

e

grou

p ar

e mar

ried.

Abo

ut 3

.4 m

illio

n gi

rlsar

e m

othe

rs a

nd o

ver

400,

000

of m

arrie

dgi

rls h

ave t

hree

or m

ore c

hild

ren,

pro

babl

ybe

caus

e onl

y 15

per

cent

of t

hem

use

con-

trac

eptiv

es.

Thei

r in

abili

ty t

o ne

gotia

tefa

mily

pla

nnin

g co

uld

be li

nked

to th

e fac

tth

at o

ne in

ever

y fiv

e girl

s rep

orte

d vi

olen

ceby

thei

r hus

band

s.H

ow ca

n th

is be

chan

ged?

CRY

says

one

way

is to

unt

angl

e th

e m

ultip

le de

finiti

ons

that

con

strai

n th

em f

rom

ass

ertin

g th

eir

right

s. Vu

lner

abili

ties o

f thi

s age

gro

up ar

eof

ten ov

erlo

oked

and

cons

eque

ntly,

man

y fall

thro

ugh

the

crac

ks. A

noth

er w

ay to

mak

eth

eir tr

ansit

ion

from

child

hood

to ad

ulth

ood

joyf

ul a

nd a

spira

tiona

l is

to s

ee t

hem

as

child

esce

nts

and

pay

atte

ntio

n to

this

age

grou

p. C

RY’s r

epor

t, ‘C

hild

esce

nts i

n In

dia:

We

Are

Chi

ldre

n To

o’, d

etai

ls co

mpr

ehen

-siv

ely t

he d

iscrim

inat

ion

and

depr

ivat

ion

face

d by

the 1

5 to

18

age g

roup

and

stres

s-es

they

mig

ht h

ave s

een

as ch

ildre

n to

o.It

poin

ts ou

t sev

eral

impo

rtan

t gap

s in

child

pro

tect

ion

stem

min

g fro

m m

ultip

lelay

ers

of f

unct

iona

ries,

legal

sys

tem

s an

din

stitu

tiona

l sup

port

mec

hani

sms t

hat n

ei-

ther

inte

ract

with

eac

h ot

her n

or c

onsid

erth

e “n

eeds

of

the

child

as

supr

eme”.

For

exam

ple,

preg

nant

unm

arrie

d gi

rls in

this

age

grou

p fa

ce s

ocia

l tab

oos

as w

ell a

s ac

tion

unde

r th

e Pr

otec

tion

of C

hild

ren

agai

nst

Sexu

al O

ffenc

e (P

OCS

O)

Act.

This

isbe

caus

e un

der

this

Act,

sexu

al a

ctiv

ityun

der t

he ag

e of 1

8 is a

n of

fence

and

requ

ires

man

dato

ry le

gal r

epor

ting.

It h

as al

so m

ade

it di

fficu

lt fo

r the

m to

acc

ess s

afe a

bort

ion

serv

ices

sinc

e the

Act

also

mak

es it

man

da-

tory

for m

edica

l fac

ilitie

s to r

epor

t suc

h ca

ses

as se

xual

abus

e. Fu

rthe

r, G

over

nmen

t pro

-gr

amm

es, l

ike

the

Jana

ni S

urak

sha

Yoja

naan

d Ja

nani

Shi

shu

Sura

ksha

Kar

yakr

am,

which

pro

vide

free

insti

tutio

nal d

elive

ry an

tena

tal a

nd p

ost n

atal

care

, are

only

for w

omen

abov

e the

age o

f 19.

Con

sider

ing 7

6 per

cent

of g

irls a

ged

10-1

9 ar

e m

arrie

d in

Indi

a, a

sizea

ble p

ropo

rtio

n of

them

bec

ome m

oth-

ers b

efor

e the

y tur

n 18

. Why

shou

ld th

ey b

ede

nied

thes

e ben

efits

?W

hile

ther

e is

a la

ck o

f disa

ggre

gate

dan

d de

taile

d da

ta o

n ca

tego

ries o

f chi

ldre

nin

nee

d of

car

e an

d pr

otec

tion,

an

impo

r-ta

nt a

rea

that

nee

ds c

once

rted

and

urg

ent

atte

ntio

n is

to ch

ildre

n in

area

s of c

onfli

ct.

In N

axal-

affec

ted

Stat

es, p

reve

ntin

g chi

ldre

nfro

m b

eing

recr

uite

d to

arm

ed c

onfli

ct b

yM

aoist

s/ot

her

outfi

ts an

d be

ing

initi

ated

thro

ugh

the b

al sa

ngha

s, yo

ung c

adre

s of t

hein

surg

ents

need

sens

itivi

ty a

nd a

n un

der-

stan

ding

of t

he g

roun

d sit

uatio

n.A

way

to p

reve

nt th

em fr

om fa

lling

inth

is tr

ap i

s to

rev

ive

the

Bal

Band

husc

hem

e. In

trodu

ced

in D

ecem

ber 2

010

byth

e Nat

iona

l Com

miss

ion

for P

rote

ctio

n of

Child

ren

(NCP

CR),

with

supp

ort f

rom

the

Prim

e Min

ister

’s Nat

iona

l Reli

ef F

und

in fi

veSt

ates

of

And

hra

Prad

esh,

Ass

am, B

ihar

,Ch

hatti

sgar

h an

d M

ahar

asht

ra,

the

Bal

Band

hu p

rogr

amm

e aim

ed to

pro

tect

chil-

dren

’s rig

hts i

n ar

eas o

f civ

il un

rest

with

the

help

of b

al ba

ndhu

s or c

hild

def

ende

rs ch

o-se

n fro

m th

e com

mun

ity. T

he re

sult

of th

isth

ree-

year

pro

gram

me p

ilote

d in

nin

e dis-

trict

s in

five S

tate

s im

pact

ed by

inte

rnal

con-

flict

was

rem

arka

ble.

Bal B

andh

us, w

ho w

ere

aged

bet

ween

18-3

0, w

orke

d clo

sely

with

the c

omm

unity

and

were

able

to fo

rm g

roup

s of b

al m

itras

(frie

nds o

f the

child

) as w

ell as

mah

ila sa

n-ga

than

s (wo

men

’s gro

ups)

to h

elp th

em re

ach

out t

o th

e co

mm

unity

to ta

lk to

par

ents

aswe

ll as

pan

chay

at le

ader

s lik

e the

sarp

anch

,m

ukhi

a an

d w

ard

mem

bers

. It w

as th

is co

l-lec

tive o

f peo

ple f

rom

the c

omm

unity

who

were

able

to p

ersu

ade p

aren

ts to

allo

w th

eir

child

ren

to s

tudy

and

not

be

push

ed in

towo

rk to

add

to th

e mea

gre i

ncom

e of f

am-

ilies

that

had

four

or fi

ve m

outh

s to

feed

and

just

one

earn

ing

mem

ber.

The

y we

re a

ble

to ta

lk an

d ev

en p

ull u

p he

adm

aste

rs w

hen

scho

ols d

idn’t

func

tion

prop

erly

or u

nifo

rmm

oney

was

not

dist

ribut

ed to

the s

tude

nts.

Bal b

andh

us w

ere a

ble c

ut th

roug

h co

r-ru

ptio

n an

d re

d ta

pe to

get

stu

dent

s in

tosc

hool

s with

out p

ayin

g an

adm

issio

n fe

e or

proc

ure t

rans

fer c

ertif

icat

es w

ithou

t hav

ing

to b

ribe

teac

hers

. The

y go

t the

com

mun

i-ty

to w

rite

lette

rs to

the

muk

hia

for a

llot-

men

t of l

and

for b

uild

ing s

choo

l. It w

as th

eywh

o wa

tched

over

the m

id-d

ay m

eals

so th

atra

tion

stock

s wer

e not

siph

oned

off.

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l ban

dhus

were

able

to st

op ch

ild m

ar-

riage

s and

ensu

re ca

ste an

d co

mm

unity

bar

-rie

rs w

ere o

verc

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Petrol price on Thursdaytouched the �81 per litre

mark in Delhi while dieselrates crossed �73 as the potentcombination of a depreciatingrupee and rising crude oil ratescontinued to push fuel priceshigher.

After a day’s lull, theupward march of fuel pricesresumed on Thursday withpetrol price being hiked by 13paise per litre and diesel by 11paise, according to a pricenotification of state-owned oilmarketing companies.

Petrol price in Delhiclimbed to �81 per litre whilediesel inched up to an all-timehigh of �73.08.

Delhi has the cheapest fuelrates among all metros andmost state capitals because of

lower taxes. Mumbai has thehighest sales tax or VAT.

In Mumbai, a litre of petrolnow costs �88.39 and diesel ispriced at �77.58 per litre.

Mumbai has the highestrate of VAT or sales tax in thecountry. According to oil com-panies, refinery gate price ofpetrol, without considering anycentral or state tax and dealer’scommission, is �40.49 per litre.The same for diesel is �44.32.

Retail rates are arrived atafter adding excise duty, whichis charged by the CentralGovernment, commission paid

to petrol pumps dealers andVAT, charged by the state gov-ernments.

Dealer’s commission onpetrol currently is �3.34 perlitre and that on diesel is �2.52.

While crude oil rates flirt-ed with the $80 per barrelmark, the rupee has plungedagainst the dollar. The combi-nation of the two makesimports costlier. Domesticretail prices are benchmarkedto international rates of the fuel.Since mid-August, petrol pricehas risen by �3.92 a litre anddiesel by �4.31.

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surged over�12 lakh croreso far during2018-19 fiscaldriven byrobust stockmarket senti-ment duringwhich the BSEbenchmark index soared morethan 14 per cent.

Since March 28 this year(stock markets were closed onMarch 29 and 30th for a localholiday), the 30-share Sensexhas gained 4,749.28 points, or14.40 per cent, to 37,717.96 ason September 12.

The key index touched itslifetime high of 38,989.65 onAugust 29, this year.

Led by rally in stocks, themarket capitalisation of BSE-listed companies jumped�12,01,444 crore to�1,54,26,441 crore as on

September 12.Stock exchanges are closed

on Thursday for “GaneshChaturthi”.

A number of initial publicoffers and subsequent listing ofstocks also helped the marketvaluation rise.

In April, the BSE Sensexgained 5.72 per cent, in May itrose by 0.41 per cent, in Junethe 30-share index went up by0.55 per cent, in July it surged6.64 per cent, in August itjumped 3 per cent, while inSeptember so far it has lost 1.55per cent.

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Walmart-backed Flipkartis expanding the furni-

ture category on its platformwith the introduction of newsub-brand ‘Pure Wood’ as itlooks to compete aggressivelyagainst not just its arch-rivalAmazon but also IKEA in theIndian market.

Flipkart has partnered withsolid wood furniture makers incities like Jaipur and Jodhpur inRajasthan for Pure Wood,which would be under its pri-vate label ‘Perfect Homes’. Thecollection named Amer,Mehrangarh, Nahargarh,Taragarh and Jaisalmer will bepriced between �5,000-70,000.

E-commerce companiesfocus on private labels becausethey offer higher margins andenable better control of inven-tory.

“If you see the furnituremarket in India, it is about $15billion in size. And yet, 90 percent of it is unorganised. Of the10 per cent that is organised,online players take up only 10-15 per cent, so there is a hugescope of growth,” FlipkartSenior Director (Private Labels)Shivani Suri said.

She added that estimates

(internal and industry) suggestthat online channels willaccount for 25-30 per cent ofthe organised furniture marketby 2020.

While she declined to com-ment on revenue targets, Surisaid Pure Wood and PerfectHomes would contribute sig-nificantly to the topline fromthe furniture category.

“Furniture is a difficultcategory. It’s not just aboutoffering the ‘touch and feel’experience, customers are look-ing for quality, durability andaffordability. Using consumerinsights from our platform,we are getting top designs inquality products at affordableprices for the customer,” shesaid.

Asked about competitionfrom Swedish giant IKEA,which recently launched itsstore in Hyderabad, Suri point-ed out that the opportunity inthe Indian market is huge.

“I don’t want to comment

on competition, I’m sure theyhave their own strategy inplace. We are focussed onbringing an expansive range tocustomers, quality productsthat are affordable, accessibleacross India with a great servicepromise,” she said.

IKEA set up its first storein India last month and hasplans to open 25 stores by 2025.It is also looking to enter the e-commerce segment by nextyear, besides exploring smallformat stores as part of itsexpansion plans in the country.

Within the online catego-ry, Flipkart competes with itsAmerican rival Amazon aswell as players like UrbanLadder and Pepperfry.

The launch of the newrange also comes ahead ofFlipkart’s Big Billion Days salethat is slated for next month.

Suri said furniture underPerfect Homes are availablewith FurniSure - a certificationto assure customers of thequality and durability of theproducts.

The certification, sheclaimed, is offered after a rig-orous test process conductedthrough NABL-accredited test-ing laboratories, includingIntratek, MTS, BV, and SGS.

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With an aim to deepen thecommodity derivatives

market, regulator Sebi’s boardis likely to approve a propos-al to allow trading in this seg-ment by foreign entities withexposure to the Indian physi-

cal commodity market.Such foreign entities may

be allowed to hedge their expo-sures with derivatives tradingin all commodities traded onIndian exchanges, barring thesensitive commodities.

The board of Securities andExchange Board of India (Sebi)may approve a proposal in thisregard in its meeting schedulednext week, officials said.

Under the proposal, foreignentities, having actual exposureto Indian physical commoditymarkets, may be termedEligible Foreign Entities (EFEs).

A detailed set of norms foreligibility criteria, disclosureand KYC requirements, code ofconduct and safeguards againstany unwanted price fluctuationshas also been proposed. Thedirect participation of foreignentities having actual expo-sure to commodities is expect-ed to make Indian commodityderivatives market more broad-based, vibrant, deep and effi-cient. Further, it will also add tothe depth and liquidity in thefar-month contracts.

The regulator, in May,came out out with consultationpaper for allowing trading inthe commodity derivativesmarket by EFEs and hadsought comments from all the

stakeholders in this regard. The proposal followed rec-

ommendation from the regu-lator’s Commodity DerivativesAdvisory Committee (CDAC)for allowing in this market thehedge funds (category III alter-native investment funds), port-folio management service(PMS) firms, mutual funds anddirect participation of foreignparticipants having exposure tocommodities in the first phase.

In the second phase,CDAC proposed to allowbanks, insurers, foreign port-folio investors and pensionfunds in the commodity deriv-atives market.

Last year, Sebi had issuedconsultation papers for allow-ing mutual funds, portfoliomanagers and hedge funds,among others.

According to the proposal,such EFE should not be anIndian resident but may be aNon-Resident Indian (NRI),provided that such NRI isengaged in physical commod-ity trading businesses withIndia. The minimum networthrequirement for such EFEshould be USD 500,000 andthis limit may be graduallyreviewed based on experienceof EFE participation in themarket.

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Voltas Limited - AC Brand andArçelik, a home appliances

maker (part of the Koç Group),entered into the Indian con-sumer durables market onThursday with the launch oftheir brand – Voltas Beko. Thenew company, Voltbek HomeAppliances Private Limited , anequal partnership joint venture,has introduced a wide range ofhome appliances which includeRefrigerators, Washing Machines,Microwaves, and Dishwashers.

Voltbek plans to launchover 100 SKUs over the next 3months including 44 SKUs ofRefrigerators, 40 SKUs ofWashing Machines, 12 SKUs ofMicrowaves/Ovens and 7 SKUsof Dishwashers. Voltas Bekohas positioned itself as ‘Partnersof Everyday Happiness’ withthe consumer benefit of‘Nutrition, Preservation forRefrigerators and CleaningEfficiency for WashingMachines’. The brand aims toprovide its consumers withstate of the art innovative prod-ucts leveraging Voltas’ brand &distribution strength coupledwith Arçelik’s global expertisein product development.

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The Government is deter-mined to keep fiscal deficit

within the budgeted level of 3.3per cent of GDP as the coun-try cannot afford to have a twindeficit problem, a top officialsaid.

The official said a depre-ciating rupee and high crudeimport bill would definitely putpressure on the country’s cur-rent account deficit (CAD),and a fiscal slippage at thisjuncture would lead to a twindeficit.

Ruling out any excise dutycut on petrol and diesel, theofficial said the dependence onoil as a source of tax revenuehas to be brought down andthis can only happen when theshare of non-oil tax to GDPgoes up.

“India will maintain thefiscal deficit target as we are aconsumption driven economyand tax revenues are alsoincreasing. We are determinedto do that. We will not cutexpenditure as it would have

adverse impact on growth,”the official said.

He said cutting expendi-ture is the easiest way to trimfiscal deficit. “If we cut �1 lakhcrore in expenditure, it wouldlower fiscal deficit to 2.9 percent. But then growth will beimpacted,” the official said.

The government has tar-geted 3.3 per cent fiscal deficitfor the current financial yearending March 2019.

The Government’s financeshave shown improvement inJuly with fiscal deficit at 86.5per cent of the Budget Estimate(BE), mainly on account ofhigher revenue collection, asper official data.

The deficit was at 92.4 percent of BE at July-end of the lastfinancial year.

“Income tax revenues aremoving in right direction, GSTmop up is also recovering andif we keep expenditure withincontrol,we are confident tomaintain the fiscal deficit sit-uation. We don’t want twindeficit problem,” the officialsaid.

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Home-grown mobile makerJivi Mobiles has forayed

into the smartphone space withinitial offerings in the pricerange of �5,000 and �7,000.

It plans to invest �100crore to build its manufactur-ing facility for smartphones.Until now, the company hasbeen making feature phonesonly.

Presently, Jivi assemblesfeature phones in Delhi. Thesmartphone manufacturingfacility is expected to becomeoperational in six months’ time.Banking on a 10-15% month-to-month growth, Jivi has tar-geted to double its turnover to�650-700 crore this fiscal, from�350 crore in 2017-18.

The company is focusingon tier 2 and 3 cities to achieveits sales growth target. It has astrong presence across northernand eastern parts of the coun-try and is now expanding tosouthern and western regions.

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Baba Ramdev’s PatanjaliAyurved on Thursday

announced its foray into thedairy segment by launchingmilk and milk-based products,including curd and cheese, tar-geting sales worth �1,000 crorefrom the segment.

Besides, Patanjali had alsoventured into frozen vegetablesegment and has introducedproducts such as sweet corn,pea and potato fingers.

“We are aiming to have abusiness of �1,000 crore nextfiscal. This fiscal, we wouldhave a business of �500 crore,”said Baba Ramdev whileaddressing a conference.

The Haridwar-based firmhas established a network ofaround 56,000 retailers.

We are targeting 10 lakhlitre of daily sales, Ramdevadded.

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Seoul: US Army soldiers sta-tioned at a garrison in SouthKorea undertook a 24-hourrucksack march that stretched9.11 miles in memory of thevictims of the September 11terror attacks in the US in 2001.

The Eighth Annual USArmy Garrison HumphreysMemorial Ruck March, whichbegan on Tuesday morning tocoincide with the anniversarydate, ended on Wednesdaymorning.

The march was led by304th Expeditionary SignalBattalion, 1st Signal Brigade.Each team stepped off at des-ignated times throughout theday to complete the 9.11-milejourney, which ended onSeptember 12, according tothe US Army GarrisonHumphreys.

The US Army Garrison-Humphreys (CampHumphreys), is an Americanarmy garrison located nearAnjeong-ri and Pyeongtaekmetropolitan areas in SouthKorea, about 70 kms fromSeoul. PTI

Washington: The United Stateswill not tolerate any form of for-eign interference in its elec-tions, President Donald Trumpsaid Wednesday after signing anexecutive order that initiatesactions, including sanctions,against foreign entities whomeddle or even attempt to inter-fere in American polls.

“Today, I took action toprotect the integrity of the UnitedStates electoral system by sign-ing an executive order to ensurethat we can swiftly identify andpunish any foreign interferencein our elections. As I have madeclear, the United States will nottolerate any form of foreignmeddling in our elections,”Trump said in a statement afterhe signed the executive order.

The executive order requiresthe intelligence community andother agencies to assess theextent of any foreign interferenceafter every United States election.If the US determines that any for-eign meddling has occurred,the executive order ensures aquick, forceful, and proportion-ate response, he said. PTI

Beirut: A UN Commission onWednesday called on rebelgroups in Syria’s Idlib provinceto leave urban areas to protectcivilians from any loomingregime assault.

The proposal comes afterthe United Nations’ peace envoyfor Syria, Staffan de Mistura, lastweek suggested a deadline be setfor fighters in Idlib to pull backfrom its cities.

UN agencies and relieforganisations have warnedrepeatedly that any major assaulton the province of Idlib, whichborders Turkey, could spark oneof the worst humanitarian dis-asters of Syria’s seven-year war.

On Wednesday, the UNCommission of Inquiry on Syriacalled for jihadists and opposi-tion fighters to leave the mostdensely populated areas in theregion where some three millionpeople live.

“Most of those terroristgroups and other armed groups,they are in the cities. Perhaps onewonderful scenario is: leave thecities,” commission chief PauloPinheiro said.

Hany Magally, a fellow panelmember, said: “Shouldn’t thearmed groups move out andspare the civilian population?”Idlib and adjacent areas arelargely controlled by HayatTahrir al-Sham, an alliance ledby Al-Qaeda’s former Syrianaffiliate, as well as rival rebels.HTS controls the provincialcapital Idlib city.

The northwestern regionhas seen its population almostdouble with the arrival of Syriansdisplaced from other parts of thecountry, many of whom alreadydepend on aid. AFP

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Hundreds of people attend-ed the funeral prayers of

Begum Kulsoom Nawaz - thewife of former Prime MinisterNawaz Sharif - at a Londonmosque Thursday, as legal for-malities were completed to takeher body to Pakistan for burial.

The funeral prayers atLondon’s Regent Park mosque,which is separate from anotherone to take place in LahoreFriday, were attended by hersons Hassan and Hussain, broth-er-in-law Shehbaz Sharif, formerministers Chaudhry Nisar andIshaq Dar among others.

Hundreds of local Pakistanisturned up at the mosque toattend the funeral. They chant-ed slogans of ‘we salute to themother of democracy’.

Kulsoom died Tuesday in aLondon hospital after a long bat-tle with cancer. She was 68. Shewould be buried on Friday in theJati Umra Lahore residence ofthe Sharif family. She will be laidto rest near the graves of herfather-in-law Mian Sharif andbrother-in-law Abbas Sharif.

Her body will be flownback to Pakistan Thursday nighton a Pakistan InternationalAirlines (PIA) flight scheduledto depart from HeathrowAirport for Lahore.

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South African workers sackedfor singing allegedly offensive

anti-apartheid struggle songsduring a strike should not havebeen dismissed, the country’stop court ruled on Thursday.

Duncanmec, which makesrefuse-handling equipment,fired nine workers whoembarked on an illegal strike in2013 and sang what the com-pany deemed a racist song.

The disputed song includ-ed the lyrics: “climb on top ofthe rooftop and shout that mymother is rejoicing when we hitthe boers (white Afrikaners)”.

The company went to theConstitutional Court seeking tohave its decision to sack theworkers upheld after a longlegal battle. It argued that polit-ical protest songs had no placein the modern workplace.

It said because the songwas sung in front of managersin a disrespectful and aggres-sive way and that it ought to beconsidered racist conduct orhate speech.

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Myanmar’s Aung San SuuKyi on Thursday robustly

defended the jailing of twoReuters journalists who werereporting on the Rohingya cri-sis, as she hit back at global crit-icism ofa trialw i d e l yseen asa nattemptto muz-zle thef r e epress.

Thecountry’s de facto leaderacknowledged that the brutalcrackdown on the Muslimminority -- which the UnitedNations has cast as “geno-cide” -- could have been “han-dled better”, but insisted thetwo reporters had been treat-ed fairly.

“They were not jailedbecause they were journalists”but because “the court has decid-ed that they had broken theOfficial Secrets Act”, she said.

Wa Lone, 32, and Kyaw SoeOo, 28, were each imprisonedfor seven years last week forbreaching the country’s hard-line Official Secrets Act whilereporting on atrocities com-mitted during the militarycrackdown in Rakhine state.

Suu Kyi, once garlanded asa global rights champion, hascome under intense pressure touse her moral authority insideMyanmar to defend the pair.

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The death toll has risen to 11with another 44 people

hospitalized after a manallegedly drove an SUV delib-erately into a crowd in centralChina before jumping out andattacking victims with a daggerand shovel, local authoritiessaid Thursday.

The Hengyang city gov-ernment said the suspect in thecase had previous convictionsfor crimes including drug traf-ficking, theft and assault and,acting alone, had sought to “getrevenge on society.”

That appeared to rule outterrorism, although vehicleshave previously been used inattacks blamed on militantMuslim separatists from theUighur ethnic minority group.

Police identified the sus-pect as 54-year-old YangZanyun from Hengyang’sHengdong county in the large-ly agricultural province ofHunan.

Tuesday night’s attack hap-pened in a public square whereChinese typically gather todance in groups or enjoy thecool evening breezes. The SUVapparently appeared withoutwarning, jumping the curbbefore plowing into the crowd.China has experienced violentattacks in public places inrecent years, including bomb-ings and arson of buses andbuildings.

Occasionally, the attacksare attributed to militant sep-aratists, though such incidents

have become less common inrecent years amid a stiflingsecurity crackdown.

In 2013, an SUV plowedthrough a crowd in front of

Beijing’s Forbidden City beforecrashing and catching fire,killing five, including the vehi-cle’s three occupants. Policeblamed the attack on Uighurextremists inspired by jihadiideology.

More commonly though,the motivation is identified asmental illness, alienation fromsociety or a desire to settlescores.

Chinese law restricts thesale and possession of firearms,and mass attacks are generallycarried out with knives orhomemade explosives. Many ofthose incidents have occurredat schools, including several in2010 in which nearly 20 chil-dren were killed, prompting aresponse from top governmentofficials and leading manyschools to beef up security.

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Asuper typhoon roaredtoward the Philippines on

Thursday, packing fierce windsand heavy rains that are expect-ed to strike the disaster-pronenation at the weekend beforemoving on to China.

Typhoon Mangkhut, whichhas already blasted through theNorthern Mariana Islands, isspeeding across the Pacific withwinds that can gust as high as 255kilometres (160 miles) per hour.

Authorities said some 10million people in the Philippinesare in the storm’s path, notincluding millions more in heav-ily-populated coastal China.

Thousands began evacuat-ing in seaside areas of thenorthern tip of the mainPhilippine island of Luzon,where the storm is expected tomake landfall early Saturday.

“The pre-emptive evacua-tion is going on in our coastalmunicipalities, the villages thatare prone to storm surge,” localgovernment spokesmanRogelio Sending told AFP. “Weare going to evacuate more.” Anaverage of 20 typhoons andstorms lash the Philippineseach year, killing hundreds ofpeople and leaving millions innear-perpetual poverty.

The country’s deadliest onrecord is Super TyphoonHaiyan, which left more than7,350 people dead or missingacross the central Philippines inNovember 2013.

The state weather service

said Mangkhut will be thestrongest typhoon so far thisyear, with sustained winds of205 kilometers per hour.

The typhoon is expected toboost the intensity of seasonalmonsoon rains that havealready caused widespreadflooding in central Luzon, amainly farming region north ofcapital Manila.

Hong Kong is also inMangkhut’s sights and prepara-tions there were already under-way, though the storm was notexpected to hit until Sunday.

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While most authors almost see it asa right to be on board while their

books are adapted for the silver screen,Kanika Dhillon is different. The screen-play writer and author prefers to keepboth separate. “When I have written abook, I’ve done my bit and told it the wayI want to. And I don’t want to do itsscript. I keep telling everyone to getsomeone else to write the screenplay ifyou want to make a film,” she says sit-ting at a five-star hotel in NCR. She is apart of the promotion team ofManmarziyan, the movie which will seeAbhishek Bachchan after a hiatus of twoyears alongside Vicky Kaushal andTaapsee Pannu exploring the layers ofmodern relationships.

There is a reason behind her quirk.“When adapting a book to a screenplay,you need to know what to cut and getrid of. When I am so involved in thestory I will always have my darlings asI will be attached to this or that and I willnever be able to be objective. I need a dif-ferent voice which is brutal and fresh.Maybe I can be a part of it but I can’t bethe only one doing both the things,” saysKanika who has authored books likeBombay Duck is a Fish (2011), a satireon the Indian film industry, the youngadult superhero novel Shiva and the Riseof the Shadows (2013), and the dramaThe Dance of Durga (2016).

She adds that brevity is the key whilewriting a screenplay. “It is more alive inthe sense that it can constantly evolve tillthe time that it is shot. My process as anauthor once I hand over the book to theeditor is over. But in a film I am on theset and can see the words come alive. Theimpact can change because someone elseis interpreting it. A line could soundgreat in my head but it might sound ter-rible when the actor is actually saying it,”says Kanika who started out as an assis-tant director on the sets of Ra.One.

She is very clear cut that though bothinvolve writing, books and films are verydifferent media in the way that the audi-ence consumes them and also the wayshe writes. “How I am going to approacha book and a film depends on the waythe audience or the reader approachesthe two. Writing a book or a novel is avery personal experience as there is nointerpretation from any director or theteam or costume designer. I get todesign every colour, stroke, paint and thefeel as well as the look of it and presentit to my audience and they can enhanceit further with their own imagination. Itis a very direct medium,” she says.

But the two do meet for Kanika inthe sense that both books and thescreenplays are a factor of the environ-ment that she is in. “These are peoplethat surround me. Perhaps we are thesecharacters that I write about,” she says.For Manmarziyan particularly she felt aneed to bring out a complexity ordichotomy that exists in the society. “Ourculture, stories and lores and our entiresystem of cultural experiences tell us thatlove is everlasting. India goes mad onmarriages. But when I actually experi-enced love, I realised its limits. They canactually disable you. We’ve always seenthat love is empowering, it isn’t. It candestroy you. It is not a divine emotion

nor set in stone as it comes and also goesaway. Then you find it again. But I amnot saying that I don’t believe in it. I doand so do the characters ofManmarziyan, but how do we negotiatelove in today’s day and time? That is whatthe film is about,” she explains.

She says that the film evolved out ofa need to express a love story which wasfree of any kind of judgement and gaveus the perspective about a woman’schoice to fall in love, fall out of it andfickle about it. “I wanted to be honest andhave the freedom to create those char-acters which went beyond the sanitisedones that we see on screen. Love is verymessy and we never get to see that side.It is messy, fickle, selfish and not pureor holier than thou.”

She goes on to add that the film isa contemporary take on today’s gener-ation. “Love has become a curse of thisgeneration because there is dichotomy.There is instant gratification as we haveTinder, multiple sexual partners but atthe same time there is this caveman needfor a life-changing relationship. Earlier,happily ever after was possible as we did-n’t have multiple choices.” So even whenthere is a movie about a girl meets a boyand falls in love, there is a way forwardand certainly a change in its treatmentand content. Kanika says, “Content ischanging as well as the audience. They

have access to such varied and strongcontent. One can’t take the audience forgranted which is good as we have towork harder to get retention and toentertain them. The audience wants tohear different kinds of stories because theexposure levels have changed.”

She believes that societal evolutionand internet accessibility have pushedthematic change in our storylines.“When we have a different kind of expo-sure to technology and your life inter-actions are changing, this will natural-ly impact the way you get entertainmentand the way you consume it. Both mir-ror each other. The influence of internetand technology is huge. And it is find-ing its way in new kinds of storytellingwhich are new and fresh,” she says.

This, she believes, is also reflected inthe kind of heroes that the films throwup. “We create the heroes according tothe needs of the time. The angry youngman of the 70s, who lasted through tothe 80s, was about challenging theestablishment after a nation wentthrough its honeymoon phase, and get-ting your worth and identity justly.Today, the common man is the hero whocan change his destiny on his terms. Sowe have stopped looking out for messi-ahs to save us. We don’t have to look atNRIs or global influences to find hero-ism because we are the country that isleading everywhere now. It has percolat-ed down to the stories that we are telling,”says the scriptwriter author dressed inripped jeans, which invites a lot of leg-pulling from Abhishek who is in thesame room as her.

Kanika’s flair will be seen next inMental Hai Kya starring Kangana Ranautand Rajkummar Rao as well asKedarnath which stars Sarah Ali Khan.She admits that she doesn’t have a dis-ciplined approach to writing. “Before Isit down to type, a lot of it has to be inmy mind. I need to get into the emotion-al zone of writing. There is a lot of prepa-ration involved. If I am writing a lovestory then perhaps I would like to listento a certain kind of music to get into theemotional state to write. People thinkthat it is procrastination, which it is not.I might be thinking about it whileshopping and getting to the point of writ-ing,” she says.

Usually she takes about a year to geta script and screenplay along with thedialogues in place. “I need to have myown independent voice. I can’t do dia-logues independently because I feelscreenplay and dialogues are inter-linked. There is no concept of separat-ing the two. In a year’s time, I can giveyou a wholesome story but then it couldbe faster like the way it happened forMental Hai Kya as I was going throughanxiety. I just wrote it,” she says.

What is also interesting aboutKanika is that she is not even remotelyconnected with the industry. “I alwayswanted to be a writer. My mother is aprofessor and teaches literature inAmritsar. So stories were a part of grow-ing up. And then in Amritsar ourbiggest outing was watching movies. Iloved to see those beautiful storiescome alive. No wonder I landed here,”she ends with a laugh.

Imagine worshipping the earthlyGanesha in the open, in a potted pit

with the heavens above as witness. Andthen when the prayers are done and rit-uals over, the clay form dissolves into theearth and the embedded seeds andgrains sprout as flowering plants. It isknown that divinity stays with you for-ever but when you align your earthly rit-uals with that thought, you get a consci-entious society.

Mukesh Goyal of Kriti Creations inKhan Market has been doing eco-friend-ly Ganeshas for the past three-four years.Their sizes vary from four inches to 30inches and they do not use any kind ofresin. The paints used are eco-friendlytoo.

The idol makers are based out ofCalcutta and Maharashtra and sincethese idols are not baked, they break eas-ily during transport. “About 50 per centof the idols break and this pushes up thecost drastically. However, if we have tosave the environment and secure waterfor the future generations, this is essen-tial.”

Kriti Creations also has pots with aseed inside that can be buried in thehouse or in the colony park. “When theplant grows big many years down theline, the children of the family will lookat it with pride,” adds Goyal.

Since last year, the sales of eco-friendly Ganesha have gone up by20 per cent at this shop. “But thegovernment needs to put a ban onplastic and cement ones for theseare harming the environment.”

������������The beautiful Ganesha

made out of Sikki craft fromDarbhanga, Muzaffarpur andMadhubani district can be picked upfrom Dastkar Haat as well as the CraftsMuseum. Standing at 1.5-2 feet, these arepriced between �2,000-3,000.

Artist Puneet Kaushik, who hasworked with the artisans, says, “This ismade of a grass called Sikki from whichthe craft derives its name. These are dyedin natural colours and with the help of aneedle like tool, it is woven to make thefigures of deities, baskets and more.” Onesuch Ganesha takes up a prominent placein his garden.

����G#����������������Lighting designers Prateek Jain and

Gautam Seth have unveiled a new rangeof collectibles for the festive season with

hand-blown glass. The Ganesha and hisaccessories, including coconut offerings,are for keeps and can be re-used.

� �������� !%Online portals like Snapdeal are fol-

lowing an eco-friendly approach byoffering a choice of terracotta idols,

which are made entirely of clay andhave no paint-based embellish-ments. The idols dissolve in waterwithout leaving any harmfulresidue.

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Ganesh Chaturthi by venerating atree dressed as the Lord and not

casting him in any earthly mould.Many Indians have treated trees assacred. How powerful this is today, in theera of climate change.

The commonly-used idols are usual-ly made of Plaster of Paris (PoP) and aredecorated with paints having high leadand mercury content, which are harm-ful for the environment. PoP chokes waterbodies, while the toxic colors make thewater acidic, disturbing the plants andmarine life ecosystem. So stay awayfrom them even if it means scalingdown your celebrations.

Christie’s sale of South AsianModern and Contemporary Arttotaled $8,314,625 with 81per

cent sold by lot and 85 per cent soldby value. The top lot of the sale wasa masterpiece by Tyeb Mehta(1925-2009), Diagonal XV, whichsold for $1,392,500. Other notableresults included Akbar Padamsee’s(B. 1928), Rooftops, which went for$912,500.

Tyeb’s Diagonal belonged to thedistinguished author GurcharanDas. Today, Das has turned hisfocus to the future through philan-thropy. By offering one of the worksfrom his impressive private art col-lection at this auction, Das hopesto raise funds to realise someimportant projects in this direction.

�%#�!���������������'Critic curator and poet Ranjit

Hoskote described Tyeb’s work as,“The diagonal, the fierce weaponby which space could be reorgan-ised and the self could stage its bat-tle with itself was born almost for-tuitously, out of painterly frustra-tion. Having come to an impassein his handling of the relationshipbetween figure, field and colour, in1969, Tyeb suddenly flung a blackslash across one of his paintings:beginning as an improvisatoryresolution to a periodicallyintractable problem, the diagonalbecame a device to activate thepainting, and eventually, a symbolof scission, of that simultaneousseparation and twinning by whichthe self recognises and comes tohealing terms with its own contra-dictions.”

The Christie’s catalogue alsohas Tyeb’s own words, “I was try-ing to work out a way to definespace…to activate a canvas. If Idivided it horizontally and vertical-ly, I merely created a preponder-ance of smaller squares or rectan-gles. But if I cut the canvas with adiagonal, I immediately created a

certain dislocation. I was able todistribute and divide a figure with-in the two created triangles andautomatically disjoint and fragmentit. Yet the diagonal maintained analmost centrifugal unity… in factbecame a pictorial element in

itself.”Having had the privilege of

seeing several works by Tyeb Mehtaover the last 15 years, I am stillamazed by the sophistication andpotency of Mehta’s quintessentialicons — the falling figure, the

trussed bull, the rickshaw puller —every time I encounter them. Theartist seems to freeze these com-pelling moments in his large paint-ings, inviting the viewer to becomepart of them. For me, his paintingsinvoke wonder and devastation inequal measure, as he reveals truthsthat continue to be as relevant anduniversal today as when he creat-ed his paintings,” says NishadAvari, director and head of sales,South Asian Modern andContemporary Art New York.

��"����The second highest bidding

went to the Sanskrit scholar andvoracious reader and thinker AkbarPadamsee, one of the foundingmembers of the Progressives. Amonumental landscape from 1959titled Rooftops, is the first ofPadamsee’s scroll-like paintings ofhis ‘gray period’, significant in itsclear illustration of the artist’s tran-sition to a new method of workingwith paint and a unique way ofvisualising colour, scale and com-

position. Speaking about this, henoted, “[...] in order to overcomethe practical problem of nearness,I discovered this adventurous, newway of composing a picture. It wasnot possible to see the entire paint-ing unless I moved far behind. Asthe angle of our vision is 28°, Iwould conceal the painting andopen it part by part as I went along.It was as if it were unrolling itselfin space. As I started composing inthis way, I found that I had discov-ered a very different kind of com-position.”

A panoramic compositionwith no linear narrative or any def-inite beginning and end, this denselandscape is almost entirely filledby block-like architectural forms,abutting each other on what lookslike a gentle hillside. The perspec-tive Padamsee employs seems toshift from frontal to aerial as thecomposition progresses up thehill, with edifices of various shapesand sizes jostling for space, includ-ing domed Mediterranean towers,red-roofed houses and a few point-ed turrets. As with all his works,

this landscape has no specific geo-graphic or chronological locationor any clear residents. Inspired bya fleeting glimpse of Mumbai’s sky-line from his friend Bal Chhabda’swindow, this carefully orchestrat-ed vista instead suggests the time-less and the infinite. Not only doesRooftops represent a momentouspoint of departure in Padamsee’soeuvre, but it is also a critical med-itation on color, form and move-ment — an examination of the veryact of painting and one that con-tinues to shape and inform theartist’s work even today.

“It was an absolute honour tobe able to handle the sale ofRooftops from 1959, the first ofAkbar Padamsee’s limited series ofmonumental ‘grey paintings’. Forme, this painting is a perfect exam-ple of the eclectic and non-linearapproach to modernism that isembodied in Padamsee’s creativeprocess, which continues to besimultaneously personal and ratio-nal, informed by an ever-growingamalgam of experiences, studiesand instinct,” adds Avari.

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"Before we leave, can I please have onephoto with you?" he asks while takinga camera out of his pocket and hand-ing it to his friend. "Of course," I sayand I start to move nearer to him. Iam typically opposed to random peo-ple taking pictures with me and try todiscourage it as sweetly yet sternly aspossible. However, when the universehas already denied him so much, I can-not conscionably deny him anythingmore. With some eye that hasn't beenblind for the last sixty years, with somefaculty as yet unknown to modern sci-ence, he aligns himself exactly next tome, without laying a single hand on mybody. "Smile" he commands with alaugh, as his mouth widens into a fulltoothed grin which spreads across hisentire face. The camera flashes in oureyes. He doesn't blink, of course."Take one more," he instructs hisfriend. "Just in case."What will he do with this photo of me?He could neither see me sitting in frontof him nor see the camera he removedfrom his pocket nor see the rushingGanga river that flows outside theashram. He can see nothing, as he lostall sight at the age of eight or nine. Yethe sees more than I do. He sees morethan nearly anyone I know.At the age of 19 his mother had triedto kill herself when his father died. Hehad been four at the time, and hismother succeeded only in renderingherself completely deaf, not in actual-ly ending her life. Due to cultural cir-cumstances dictated by severe lack ofeducation and other constraints in ruralSouthern India, his maternal grand-parents decided that the best thing for

his mother would be to live out herremaining years, however many theymight be, sitting on a bed, eating, sleep-ing and chewing pan. "She became ahunchback from bending over all daylong to spit out the pan," he describes."Sixty-six years she lived like that, aforced invalid due to the loss of herhearing." Upon his father's death andmother's deafness he had been sent tolive with his paternal grandparents. "Imade a decision," he explains, "that Iwould become something that I wouldserve the world that I would see evenwithout my eyes."The list of organizations he has initi-ated and headed would put any suc-cessful philanthropist to shame. Anactive Rotarian, president of an NGOdedicated to women's welfare, a leaderin the blind movement in USA andIndia.....He led India's first march forequal rights for the blind, only to belathi-charged by the police whothought the peaceful marchers' caneswere sticks. Grabbed from behind andtossed -- all fifty meager kilograms ofhim -- into a police van, attacked andbeaten along with his fellow conspir-ators, before anyone in uniform real-ized the reason no-one's eyes squeezedshut before the lathi struck their heads.Yet he laughs as he describes it; thereisn't a trace of bitterness or anger, justlessons well learned on the need forproper publicity and education priorto undertaking any further publicprocessions.As he is getting ready to leave he asksme for literature, documents, on ourorganization, on Pujya Swamiji's(Swami Chidanand Saraswati, thespiritual head of Parmarth NiketanAshram in Rishikesh)work. I put a pileof brochures and books into his out-stretched hands, touching his fingersto the spine of each as I explain whatthey all are. "This is a brochure of our

Foundation, this is Pujya Swamiji'sbook on Peace," I tell him, as he gin-gerly fingers each book with the lov-ing and eager attention of a child feel-ing his mother's face for the first time."Unfortunately," I stammer, slightlyembarrassed, "we don't have any bookson tape, although after meeting you Irealize that maybe we should under-take that as well." He smiles. "Oh, don'tworry. I will use these two eyes to readthem. I will find a way."Later in the evening, he is due to leavethe ashram but is determined to havedarshan of Pujya Swamiji first. Hewaits, along with so many others, in thereception area until his name is called.How easy it would have been to leaveon time without waiting for PujyaSwamiji's schedule to free up. For, hecannot see anyway. How easy to offerrespects in his own mind, or throughone of us. But he was adamant. Hewould wait for darshan despite the longjourney ahead of him. I am remind-ed of the story of a great saint ofVrindavan, also blind, who would trav-el by foot each day to Banki Biharimandir. One day in the midst of tor-rential monsoons, he alone braved theflooded alleyways to be present forevening aarti. The priest, looking uponthe sole worshipper that day, asked him,"Swamiji, you of all people, here in thisweather? You could have stayed homeand offered your prayers to the Lordat home, in your own mind. You can-not see the darshan anyway, so therewas no reason for you to come out inthis weather." "Oh, my child," theSwami replied. "I may not be able tosee Him, but surely He can see me."Later, seated in Pujya Swamiji's jyopri(bamboo hut), my new friend bowsdown low to that which is Light to usand yet couldn't have been anythingother than continued darkness for hisnon-seeing eyes. How did he know,

before Pujya Swamiji even spoke,where to bow? How did he know theexact perfect angle at which to lay hishead so it was just in front of PujyaSwamiji's feet? How did his otherwisevacant eyes shine when he lifted hishead? What had been perceived?What is sight? Simply a series of neur-al impulses, connections and infor-mation sent electrically from the reti-na through the optic nerve and ulti-mately to the occipital lobe in the backof the brain? If that's all it were theneveryone who saw the same scenewould encode it and perceive it in thesame way, barring of course any weak-ness or fault in the mechanisms of sen-sation or perception. Then court bat-tles wouldn't be fought with one eyewitness saying the getaway car wasgreen and another swearing it was blue.Clearly our "sight" is so much morethan the encoding of neural stimuli.What is it then? Much research hasbeen done in the field of neuronal per-ception, regarding differing abilities ofthe blind with regard to light, shape,colors, etc. Some are able, even manyyears after losing all function of the reti-na or optic nerve to still "think" in formand imagery, while others seem todescend to a completely formless, col-orless existence relatively shortly.Theories abound regarding the differ-ences being related to damage in dif-ferent areas of the brain, or due to dif-ferent types of personalities or the wayin which each patient "exercises" theabilities they still have. Yet, while science can study the waylight is absorbed, or not absorbed, bythe retina, or the way that form is per-ceived, or not perceived, in the occip-ital lobe, what about that sight whichis so much deeper? What about mynew friend's ability to know where tolay his head or to intuit exactly whereI was standing and to stand perfectly

next to me? What is he seeing througheyes with irises floating about aimlesslylike lily-pads in a clear pond? Is therea mechanism of sight beyond thatwhich we know?Hinduism talks about a third eye, anenergy center (or chakra) located onthe forehead between the eyebrows. Itis said that this eye, when awakened,is the eye of clear vision, the eye whichsees truth amidst untruth, which seeslight amidst darkness, which sees thepath amidst the forest, the eye whichsees the divine in all. Perhaps throughlosing the functioning in his two"normal" eyes, my friend has actuallybeen gifted with heightened func-tioning in the third. It is well docu-mented that losing one sense leads toan increase in ability in the others. So,for example, blind people absolutelyhear and smell better than seeing peo-ple. They are able to differentiatebetween sounds and smells that mostseeing people cannot. However, is itpossible that in addition to havingenhanced functioning in their otherfour senses, blind people -- or at leastthose as spiritually inclined as my newfriend -- also have an easier time see-ing with their third eye? Do we, soheavily and habitually dependent uponwaves and patterns of light and formto see, actually miss that which is beforeus? Do we, even those with peripher-al vision intact, actually succumb to adifferent kind of tunnel-vision byassuming that that which we can "see"is limited to that which falls upon ourretinas? Do we unconsciously filter outthe other sight?Perhaps, in exchange for the pictureand books I gave him, my new friendcould teach me how to see....

(The writer is the president of DivineShakti Foundation, Rishikesh. She leftAmerica in 1996 and settled in Rishikesh.Views expressed here are personal )

"Art, science and religion are butthree different ways of expressing asingle truth," says Sri Ramakrishna

Osho had once said, "Deathbegins with Life". I like to just turnit around and say Life begins withDeath. Death is implied in life,inbuilt; it unfolds as the time comessometimes at young age or moreoften at advanced age. It brings lotof grief to the family especiallywhen it comes to a young person. Itcan cause grief even when it comesat 90 or even later as we saw recent-ly when two celebrated people, for-mer Prime Minister Atal BihariVajpayee and senior journalistKuldeep Nayyar passed away at 93and 95 respectively.

But it seems that death carriesthe seed of life within. The Hindusbelieve in re-incarnation dependingupon one's Karma. Many of the rit-uals after death are aimed at makingthe transition easy for the departedsoul for rebirth. When death hap-pens to someone close or loved

deeply, we usually meditate over italbeit temporarily. Those affecteddirectly like father, mother, wife, sib-lings or a child and the intimatefriends too return to normal activ-ity but with a long shadow of griefthat takes its own time to heal.However encounter with death givesus a deep understanding of life. Thismeditation, therefore, must not stopif one wishes to conquer the fear ofdeath.

Many wise people haveexpressed their thoughts about death,the ultimate certainty of life. I wishto recall some of these reflections bya few illuminated minds.

Rabindranath Tagore in his gen-tle way, tells us how one should bidfarewell to the loved ones:

"I have got my leave. Bid mefarewell my brothers. I bow to youall and take my departure…Thesummons have come and I amready for my journey."

Rumi Jallaluddin reinforces theconcept of energy transformationfrom one living form to anotherform:

"I died as a mineral and becamea plant

I died as a plant and rose to ananimal

I died as an animal and I becamea man

Why Should I fear, When was Iless by dying "

Khalil Gibran sums up his phi-losophy on the close relationship

between life and death:"If you would indeed behold the

spirit of death,Open your heart wide unto the

body of lifeFor life and death are one, even

as the river and the sea are one"

Socrates similarly reaffirmedthe eternal spirit or Atman when hetold Plato and his other disciples,"Catch it if you can".

It was the recent death of AtalBihari Vajpayee, a venerated states-man, a poet and a former Prime

Minister that made me revisit themystique of death. Vajpayee's pass-ing away caused an unexpectednational catharsis. The 93-year-oldBJP stalwart was an eminent politi-cal leader who had remained out ofpublic sight for several years.

Outpouring of immense genuinegrief, therefore, surprised many. Hewas widely respected for his politi-cal acumen but also had the fine sen-sibilities of an acclaimed writer,philosopher and a poet. He haspenned several stirring poems and

several of his poems were resurrectedon TV channels after his death. It issaid that he wrote the much publi-cized poem in a letter to his jour-nalist friend, Dharamvir Bharti,when he was in the US for medicaltreatment in 1998. In this poem, hewrites about his encounter withdeath and almost chides it, claimingsuperior power of life over death:

"Jujhne ka mera irada na tha,mod par milenge iska vaada na tha,

Raasta rok kar khadi ho gyi, yunlaga zindagi se badi ho gayi.

Maut ki umar kya hai? Do palbhi nhi, Zindagi silsila, aaj kal ki nhi.

Mai ji bhar jiya, Mai man semaru, lautkar aunga, kooch se kyudaru?"

The last lines sum up a life welllived when the individual has under-stood the fullness of life, mystery ofdeath and abiding faith in rebirth. Itis true that only a few enlightenedbeings can make such claim with nofear of death.

Vajpayee at another time hadwritten nudging the readers to real-ize that life is short and one shouldnot lose time over trivia:

Do din mile udhaar mein,Ghateke vyapaar mein,

Kshan-kshan ka hisaab joroonya punji sesh lootaoon mai?

Rah kaun si jaaoon mai?(The writer is a Cardiovascular-Thoracic Surgeon from Mumbaipresently attached to RamakrishnaMission Clinic in Dehradun.)

Bharatiya Culture Is Integrated. The f irstcharacteristic of Bharatiya culture is that it looks

upon life as an integrated whole. It has an integratedviewpoint. To think of parts may be proper for aspecialist but it is not useful from the practicalstandpoint. The confusion in the West arises primarilyfrom its tendency to think of life in sections and thento attempt to put them together by patch work. We doadmit that there is diversity and plurality in life butwe have always attempted to discover the unitybehind them. This attempt is thoroughly scientific. Thescientists always attempt to discover order in theapparent disorder in the universe, to find out theprinciples governing the universe and frame practicalrules on the basis of these principles. Chemistsdiscovered that a few elements comprise the entirephysical world. Physicists went one step further andshowed that even these elements consist only of energy.Today we know that the entire universe is only a formof energy. Philosophers are also basically scientists. Thewestern philosophers reached tip to the principle ofduality; Hegel put forward the principle of thesis, anti-thesis and synthesis; Karl Marx used this principle asa basis and presented his analysis of history andeconomics. Darwin considered the principle ofsurvival of the fittest as the sole basis of life. But wein this country saw the basic unity of all life. Even thedualists have believed the nature and spirit to becomplementary to each other than conflicting. Thediversity in life is merely an expression of the internalunity. There is complementary underlying the diversity.The unit of seed finds expression in various form - -the roots, the trunk, the branches, the leaves, theflowers and the fruits of the tree. All these havedifferent forms and colors and even to some extentdifferent properties. Still we recognize their relationof unity with each other through seed.Unity in diversity and the expression of unity in variousforms has remained the central thought of Bharatiyaculture. If this truth is wholeheartedly accepted thenthere will not exist any cause for conflict among variouspowers. Conflict is not a sign of culture of nature: ratherit is a symptom of their degradation. The law of thejungle, "Survival of the Fittest" which the Westdiscovered in recent years was known to ourphilosophers. We have recognized desire, anger etc.among the six lower tendencies of human nature, butwe did not use them as the foundation or the basis ofcivilized life or culture. There are thieves and robbersin the society. It is essential to save ourselves and thesociety from these elements. We cannot consider themas our ideals or standards for human behavior.Survival of the fittest is the law of the jungle. Thecivilizations have developed not on the basis of thislaw but by consideration of how the operation of thislaw will be the least in human life. If we wish toprogress, we have to keep this history of civilizationbefore our minds.

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India's depleted Davis Cup squad willbank on the consistency of PrajneshGunneswaran to pull the side through

when it takes on a shorn-of-star-powerSerbia in the World Group Play-off tie herefrom Friday.

Recently-crowned US Open cham-pion Novak Djokovic's decision to opt outof the play-offs along with world number33 Filip Krajinovic has raised hopes of anequal contest between the two teams.

Playing away is still an enormous taskfor the Indian team, which has landed herewithout its top singles player Yuki Bhambriand Asian Games men's doubles Goldmedallist Divij Sharan.

But the combined experience of theIndian players in Davis Cup is 43 ties ascompared to just 14 of the line-up in thehome side, something which the visitorswould look to exploit.

In the absence of an injured Yuki, alot would depend on how the left-hand-ed Prajnesh, who won a singles Bronzemedal at the Asian Games, performs.

The 28-year-old won the decidingfifth rubber against rising Chinese starYibing Wu to help India reach the WorldGroup Play-off stage for the fifth straightyear.

Prajnesh has shown the mentalstrength to soak in the pressure and he isconfident going into the tie which will beplayed indoors on clay courts.

"Novak is not playing, so everyone elseis beatable if we play well. It will be toughcertainly. But we have a chance. We needto take the opportunities we get," Prajneshsaid.

Ramkumar Ramanathan, ranked 135,has pulled off some big wins in the last 12months but consistency has always beenhis bane.

In Jakarta, he lost to a player who wasranked below 400.

For Serbia, Dusan Lajovic, whostunned US Open finalist and world No4 Juan Martin del Potro at the MadridMasters, will lead the challenge andRamkumar has beaten the world number56 in the past.

It was in the qualifying event of theCincinnati Masters last year. But Lajovicis on song right now and is enjoying thebest phase of his career.

Laslo Djere, ranked 86, is the secondsingles player for the hosts and he lacksexperience in Davis Cup, having appearedin just two ties before this.

The rest of the three players in theSerbian side — Pedja Krstin (1), NikolaMilojevic (1) and Danilo Petrovic (0) —have played two ties between them.

"Our chances remain the same. AfterNovak pulled out, we believe we have achance," said India's non-playing captainMahesh Bhupathi.

Rohan Bopanna will be the mostexperienced player on the courts with 29ties under his belt.

The 38-year-old will have to use hisexperience to ensure that India get thatdoubles point on Saturday. He and NSriram Balaji played well againstUzbekistan last year.

India have not beaten Serbia since1927 when the hosts were calledYugoslavia and there is a possibility thatthis statistic might change come Sunday.

If that happens, India will enter theWorld Group for the first time since 2011when it had lost to Serbia in the first roundof the elite 16-nation event.

In the last four years, India lost at thesame stage to Serbia (2014), Spain (2015),Czech Republic (2016) and Canada(2017).

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Ramanathan will open India's campaignagainst fifth seed Serbia with a matchagainst Laslo Djere even as coach ZeeshanAli downplayed Yuki Bhambri's absence

from the side in the World Group Play-off tie, starting Friday.

Djere is ranked higher thanRamkumar at number 86 but he is yet towin a match in Davis Cup. On the otherside, Ramkumar is placed 135 in the worldbut is far more experienced, havingplayed six ties with a 7-5 Win-Lossrecord.

Left-handed Prajnesh Gunneswaran,being the number two singles players fromIndia, will take on Serbia number oneDusan Lajovic, the highest ranked singlesplayer of the tie at number 56.

On Saturday, Rohan Bopanna and NSriram Balaji will take on the home pairof Nikola Milojevic and debutant DaniloPetrovic in the doubles rubber.

The reverse singles will be played onSunday with Ramkumar taking on Lajovicand Prajnesh, ranked 162, locking hornswith Djere.

Ramkumar has played against Lajovicin 2017 and had emerged victorious but

the Serbian is in form of his life as herecently beat US Open finalist JuanMartin Del Potro.

India are without top singles playerYuki, who is nursing an injured knee, butcoach Zeeshan Ali says it should not bean issue.

"Not having Yuki while playing onclay court is not a big setback for us.Looking at the last nine months, Yuki hasplayed one odd or two matches on clay.His ranking is higher than other two play-ers but his game is not suited for clay. Itwould have been great to have him on theteam but it still is not a great setback con-sidering the surface," Zeeshan said.

"The good things is, that people likeRamkumar, Prajnesh and Balaji, they havebeen training in Europe on clay for the lastfew years. It's not a new surface for theseplayers. They are used to playing on clay.Ten years back, we did not have players,who could play on clay but now it is dif-ferent," Zeeshan added.

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The seasoned duo of L Sarita Devi and M CMary Kom were among the six Indian box-

ers to enter the semifinals and be assured of amedal along with a youth pugilist in the 13thInternational Silesian Championship for womenin Gliwice, Poland.

Sarita, a former world champion and AsianGames Bronze-medallist, defeated CzechRepublic's Alena Czechy 5-0 Wednesday nightafter going past Kazakhstan's AizanKhojabekova in the opening round of the 60kgcategory the day before.

She will now square off against anotherKazakh in Karina Ibragimova in the semifinals.

Five-time world champion and OlympicBronze-medallist Mary Kom is yet to set footinside the ring but is through to the semis owingto the small size of the draw in the light fly-weight 48kgcategory.

India's firstand only AsianGames Goldmedal-winningwoman boxeris returning tothe ring aftermissing therecently-con-cluded editionin Jakarta dueto minor fit-ness issues.

A m o n gother Indiansin fray, RituGrewal wonher boutagainst Russia'sSvetlana Rosja4-1 to make the51kg categorysemifinals along with Lovlina Borgohain(69kg). Borgohain got the better of CzechRepublic's Martina Schmoranzova.

Joining them in the last-four stage wereformer Asian youth champion Manisha (54kg)and Pooja Rani (81kg).

Manisha out-punched former world cham-pion Dina Zholaman of Kazakhstan 5-0, whilePooja defeated Ukraine's AnastasiiaChernokolenko in her quarterfinals bout by asplit verdict.

In the youth competition, Jyoti Gulia(51kg) advanced to the medal round with a 5-0 win over Germany's Rafaela Arampatzi.

However, Seema Punia (+81kg), PwilaoBasumatary (64kg) and Shashi Chopra (57kg)lost their respective bouts to bow out of medalcontention.

Seema was beaten by Kazakh LazzatKungeibayeva 5-0, while Basumatary lost by asimilar margin to Poland's Natalia Barbusinska.

Shashi, on the other hand, lost to England'sAnglia Chapmen, also a unanimous verdict.

In the junior competition, Raj Sahiba(70kg) defeated Poland's Barbara Marcinkowska5-0.

In the 75kg category, Neha got the betterof Daria Parada by a similar margin, whileKomal (80kg) had to toil for a 3-2 win overMartyna Jancelewicz.

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Udhayveer Singh, all of 16,shone bright with an indi-

vidual Gold in the juniormen's 25m pistol event afterspearheading India to theteam Gold in the WorldShooting Championships hereon Thursday.

Singh shot a score of 587(291 in precision and 296 inrapid) in the individual com-petition to grab the Goldahead of American HenryLeverett (584) and KoreanLee Jaekyoon (582).

Compatriot VijayveerSidhu finished fourth with ascore of 581, while RajkanwarSingh Sandhu took the 20thspot with a score of 568.

The trio's combined scoreof 1736 fetched the team Goldfor India followed by China,which totalled 1730. TheBronze medal went to TeamKorea, which shot a score of1721.

In the senior competi-tion, Sheeraz Sheikh was thebest-placed Indian at eighthafter day one of themen's skeet qualifi-cation with a score of49.

Angad VirSingh was 69thafter shooting47, whileM a i r a jAhmed (41)was furtherdown at 79th.

T h eIndian team,comprising thetrio, was 16th inthe overall stand-ings with a score of

137.There were no medals for

India in the 25m centre firepistol event with GurpreetSingh managing the 10th spotwith a score of 581, followedby London Olympics Silver-medallist Vijay Kumar.

Kumar tallied 576 to enda disappointing 24th. A spotbehind him wasCommonwealth Games Gold-medallist Anish Bhanwala,who shot the same score buthad lesser inner-10s to hiscredit.

The team signed offfourth with a score of 1733.

India are placed fourth inthe medals tally with nineGold, eight Silver and sevenBronze medals for a total of24, making this their bestperformance in theInternational Shooting SportFederation's showpiece.

The country has managedto clinch two Olympic quota

places from thefirst qualifying

event forTokyo 2020Games.

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Japan's Naomi Osaka has refused to criticiseSerena Williams after her historic US Open vic-

tory was overshadowed by the American's furious rowwith the chair umpire.

The 20-year-old melted hearts when she brokedown sobbing after thrashing her idol 6-2, 6-4 tobecome Japan's first Grand Slam singles championin New York last weekend.

Japanese tennis legend Kimiko Date said it madeher "heart ache" to see Osaka reduced to tears andunable to savour her moment of glory.

But after returning to Japan on Thursday, Osakainsisted there were no hard feelingstowards Williams, who brandedumpire Carlos Ramos a "thief " in anastonishing tantrum triggered by a

code violation for coaching thatculminated in a docked game.

"For me I don't feel sadbecause I wouldn't evenknow what I'm expected tofeel," said Osaka, who hasclimbed from 19th to sev-enth in the new worldrankings.

"I don't think I eventhought about feeling sadbecause there's no experi-ence for me to draw on inany other Grand Slam final,"

she added."I just thought I shouldn't

have any regrets. Overall I feltreally happy and know I accom-plished a lot."

Osaka, who competes atnext week's Pan Pacific Open inTokyo, also revealed her plans tobreak into the top five this year— and win a shiny Gold medalat the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

"I think for this year myimmediate goal would be to get to

Singapore," said Osaka after putting herself firmly incontention to reach the season-ending WTA Finals.

"I want to do well at the Pan Pacific Open andmaybe year-end top five — but I'm not putting pres-sure on myself. For now I'm just sort of riding thewave."

"Of course I'm very excited the Olympics aregoing to be held in Tokyo," added Osaka, who is ofHaitian-Japanese descent and was raised in theUnited States.

"It's every athlete's dream to play in theOlympics, so of course it would be my goal to winGold."

Date, a former world number four, has tippedOsaka to become Japan's first tennis number one.

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Indian football team chief coachStephen Constantine Thursday

made it clear that the SAFF Cup isa platform for talented players toimpress and earn their places in thesquad for the Asian Cup.

The Asian Cup will be heldearly next year in the UAE.

"These boys have a carrot infront of them which is a berth in theAsian Cup squad. They are wellaware of the fact that they need toperform constantly to earn thesame," Constantine said.

With India having secured asummit clash with Maldives in thefinal of the SAFF Suzuki Cup,Constantine said the "final will bea tough one".

"Maldives have shown theirworth in the semi-final againstNepal. A 3-0 win against Nepal wasnot an easy task. Some of their play-ers didn't play against us and theydid some major damage workagainst Nepal," Constantine stated.

"We are expecting a tough gameagainst Maldives. But as I saidbefore, we have come with a strongintent to win the tournament."

Manvir Singh who scored abrace against Pakistan in the semi-final to win his successive MVPAward of the tournament said thefocus has "already shifted to thefinal".

"It was a group of tough guysand the job was never going to bean easy one. But we had the self-belief to churn out the positive resultand eventually, we did," he said.

"Now, we have another majortask in three days and we will needto focus on the final. We are work-ing as a unit and we just need tokeep our heads down and contin-ue the work," the 23-year-old strik-er who is leading the goal-scorers'chart with 3 goals, maintained.

The coach also lavished praise

on the All India Football Federationfor allowing him to work his ownway.

"I would like to thank All IndiaFootball Federation for giving methe freedom to work my own way.Regarding the team's requirement,I have hardly been denied whatev-er I asked for. The credit of rising to96 from 173 in the FIFA rankingsin less than four years caters toeveryone including the excellentbackroom staffs who I work with.

8�G.0�� �����#�� 5����������Gurpreet Singh Sandhu,the first-choice goalkeeper of theIndian football team, says the cur-rent U-16 boys, preparing for theAFC Championship in Malaysia, arebetter than what the current seniorplayers were at their age.

The colts, being coached byBibiano Fernandes, have played 20international friendlies against var-

ious U-16 national teams sinceJanuary 2018 and are presentlygearing up for the AFCChampionship, which kicks off inKuala Lumpur from September 20.

"It's a very positive develop-ment. If we would have that muchexposure what they have beenreceiving at the moment, whoknows things would have beenmuch different. They are very luckyand need to make the most of it,"Gurpreet said.

"But overall, I'm very happy thatthey are getting such opportunitiesand that youth football is beingtaken so seriously. After all, they areour future."

The U-16 boys are playingVietnam, Iran and Indonesia at thegroup stage.

Asked what would be his mes-sage to the team, Gurpreet said, "Iwould like them to be humble andstay united as a team. When you go

in as a team, you can do thingswhich no one can ever imagine. Ihope they win these games andmake us proud. Good luck boys."

When asked to recall hisyounger days, Gurpreet said, "Everysingle day we would learn some-thing new about the game. Therewas hunger to grow and evolve asbetter players. That was the first timewe started to receive good coaching.

"Those were the days where Iwas still wondering I will ever be aprofessional. Those were the dayswhen I connected with the gameand learnt about Indian football atlarge."

Praising the U-16 team, hesaid, "I have watched some of thehighlights of their games. It is clearthat quality wise, these boys aremuch better than what we used tobe at that age. It makes me feel veryproud. Things are changing and Iam pretty positive."

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England manager GarethSouthgate believes Marcus

Rashford should be given time toflourish despite clamour for theManchester United forward to begiven more minutes at club level.

Rashford was one of fewbright sparks for Southgate in therecently concluded first leg ofUEFA Nations League, scoringboth England's goals in a 2-1defeat to Spain and 1-0 victoryover Switzerland in the pastweek.

However, he has struggled tohold down a regular first-team

place under Jose Mourinho atOld Trafford and will be sus-pended for Manchester United'snext three domestic games afterbeing sent off after engaging in aclash at Burnley before the inter-national break.

Southgate, though, used theexample of England captainHarry Kane and CristianoRonaldo to show that at just 20,Rashford has plenty of time onhis side.

"We have to remember thatHarry, at that age, had hardlyplayed anywhere near the samenumber of matches for Spurs,"said Southgate, who guided Three

Lions to recently concludedWorld Cup semis.

"Even with some of the step-overs and things Ronaldo wasdoing at that age he wasn't con-verting them into the number ofgoals.

"So we have to give himtime to develop. He has stillplayed a lot of football, althoughmaybe not continuous starts,and I'm really pleased for himthat he leaves us full of confi-dence."

Southgate has raised con-cerns over the lack of opportu-nities afforded to English playersin the Premier League, making

the pool he has to select fromever shallower.

Yet, he refused to criticise anyof the top six managers, all ofwhom are foreign, for puttingtheir own interests first.

"It's not my business to inter-fere with club managers. Theyhave a difficult job to do and theyhave big squads at the top six,with huge competition for places.

"Jose thinks the world ofMarcus. He's a huge admirer ofhim, but he has got his job to do.There is huge competition forplaces at his club so you canunderstand that."

Ruben Loftus-Cheek is

another of England's squad thatadvanced to the semi-finals of theWorld Cup struggling for min-utes at Chelsea.

The midfielder made hisfirst start of the season againstSwitzerland having previouslyjust come off the bench twice forMaurizio Sarri's men.

"Right now I am at Chelseaand my focus is at Chelsea andlearning at Chelsea," said Loftus-Cheek. "That is in the future andwe will deal with that when itcomes.

"I'm not sure when I amgoing to play. It is just down tome working hard in training."

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India pacer Jasprit Bumrah will look to main-tain his top position in the ICC ODIbowlers ranking during the Asia Cup which

begins here on Saturday."The Asia Cup in the United Arab Emirates

is going to be huge and I'm really looking for-ward to doing my best here," Bumrah said.

"Being at the top of the ICC rankings is amatter of great pride for me. We will be play-ing against some leading players and I know theconditions can be challenging but I'm hopingto be at my best."

Several leading players, including Bumrah,will go into the Asia Cup aiming to consolidatetheir positions in ICC rankings and also use themulti-nation tournament to prepare for nextyear's Cricket World Cup.

While Bumrah, who has a lead of 20 pointsover Afghanistan leg-spinner Rashid Khan, willhope to continue to hold on to his numero unostatus, spinners Kuldeep Yadav (sixth) andYuzvendra Chahal (joint-ninth) too will look toconsolidate position in the top 10.

Pakistan's Hasan Ali is also looking to clawhis way back two spots to number one in thebowlers ranking.

The Asia Cup commences with a matchbetween Bangladesh and Sri Lanka in Dubai onSaturday.

Among batsmen, Pakistan's Babar willalso look to bridge the big gap with Virat Kohli,who is not playing in this tournament.

"We as a team are looking forward to theAsia Cup and I have some extra incentive in myindividual ranking," second-ranked batsmanBabar said.

"I know Virat is way ahead in terms of rat-ing points but this is definitely a chance to con-solidate my position at number two and gainsome valuable ranking points."

Bangladesh's Shakib will also aim to be athis best and show everyone why he is top-rankedamong all-rounders.

Several openers who figure prominently inthe rankings will be seen in action during theAsia Cup, including the India pair of RohitSharma (fourth) and Shikhar Dhawan (ninth),Bangladesh's Tamim Iqbal (12th) and Pakistan'sFakhar Zaman (16th).

With five of the six teams in the Asia Cupto feature in next year's World cup, the likes ofBumrah, Shakib and Babar are excited at theprospect of being pitted against the best of theregion in the September 15-28 tournament in

the United Arab Emirates.Afghanistan, qualifiers Hong Kong, India

and Pakistan get into action later as they try toqualify for the Super Four stage and get moretournament practice with just eight months togo for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 in

England and Wales from May 30 to July 14.In the ICC ODI Team Rankings, India are

the top-ranked side in the tournament. They arepresently second with 121 points, six pointsbehind England, while Pakistan are in fifth posi-tion and 104 points.

India, Pakistan and Hong Kong are inGroup A while Afghanistan, Bangladesh and SriLanka form Group B for the preliminary stage.The top two teams from each group will advanceto the Super Fours with the top two sides fromthere making the final.

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Former India captain SunilGavaskar reckons that Virat

Kohli still has a "lot to learn" tacti-cally after their humiliating 1-4defeat against England in the just-concluded five-Test series.

"He (Virat) still has a lot tolearn. Like we saw in South Africaearlier and now in England too,there were instances when rightfield placements or timely bowlingchanges made by him could havemade a big difference. That wasmissing again. It has just been twoyears (he took over four yearsback) since he took over as a cap-tain so at times the lack of experi-ence shows," Gavaskar said..

The 'Little Master', however,played down Kohli's much-publi-cised reaction to a reporter's queryabout whether he agreed withcoach Ravi Shastri on this being thebest travelling team in last 15years.

While the question asked bythe scribe was "justified", Gavaskarfelt may be the timing was wrong.

"That is probably the wrongtime to ask him that question. He(Virat) must have been hurtingfrom the defeat. Maybe the reporterwas perfectly justified in asking thatbut I don't think any skipper wouldhave responded with a "you areright but we are wrong" state-ment," he said.

The legendary opener said that

one shouldn't read too much intothe incident.

"His team was 1-3 down andmaybe he just wanted to end on ahigh. I don't think that we shouldread too much into Virat's reactioneither. It was clear that the skipperwas disappointed with what hadhappened and maybe he respond-ed that way," the 69-year-old said.

He also thought that chiefcoach Shastri's intention was not toinsult the teams of yesteryears butonly to talk up his own boys.

"To be honest, Ravi would havesaid that (best touring team in last15 years) to lift the morale of theteam. I don't think so that he wastrying to rubbish the earlier teams.That wasn't the coach's intention Ibelieve," Gavaskar signed off.

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India's Murali Vijay struck a finecentury in a dream county debut,

guiding Essex to a comfortableeight-wicket victory over

Nottinghamshire in aSpecsavers County ChampionshipDivision One match at Trent BridgeThursday.

Vijay scored exactly 100 from181 balls and shared a second-wicket stand of 204 with TomWestley, who finished with anunbeaten 110. Set 282 to win, thevisitors reached their target justbefore lunch to complete a con-vincing win.

The Chennai-born right-han-der had earlier scored a half-cen-tury in his debut innings.

Vijay's feat matched that ofSouth African Hashim Amla, whoscored 181 against Glamorgan in2009, as the last Essex batsman toscore a century on his countydebut.

The 34-year-old Vijay, whostruggled in the just-concluded Testseries against England before beingdropped from the India squad, waseventually bowled off an insideedge by Samit Patel, with 61required for victory.

This was Essex's fifth victory ofthe championship this season.

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The Indian women's cricket team onThursday held its nerves in

pressure situations to beat SriLanka by seven runs in the secondODI, taking an unassailable 2-0lead in the three-match series.

India also earned two addi-tional points as the match is a partof the ICC Women'sChampionship.

Batting first, India were all outfor 219 in 50 overs on a slow trackwhere young wicketkeeper TanyaBhatia's 68 off 66 balls turned outto be a match-winning knock.

In reply, the visitors bowled outthe hosts for 212 in 48.1 overs withseamer Mansi Joshi taking 3/51 and left-arm spinner Rajeshwari Gayakwad chip-ping in with 2/37.

Earlier, put into bat, the Indiansfailed to get going primarily dueto slow batting from veteranskipper Mithali Raj, who con-sumed 121 balls to score 52 withfour boundaries.

Mithali simply couldn't keepthe scoreboard ticking as shefailed to find the gaps during themiddle overs. Coming to bat inthe fifth over, she was finally dis-missed in the 39th over, afterwhich the Indian innings gainedsome momentum.

It was youngsters Tanya andDayalan Hemlatha (35 off 31balls), who propped up the score-board, taking the team closer to

the 220-run mark.It could have been more

but India lost four wickets inthe final over with part-time

seamer Chamari Atapattu takingthree for 42.

Opener Atapattu (57, 95 balls)and Shashikala Siriwardene (49) added

89 runs for the fourth wicket to keep theislanders afloat.

However, Siriwardene was run-out andMansi took a return catch to dismiss Atapattu,as Sri Lanka were reduced to 134 for five from129 for three.

In the lower order, Damayanthi DeSilva (31 off 19 balls) kept their hopes

alive, hitting two fours and two sixes,while adding 40 runs for the eighthwicket with Kalua Prabodhani (7).

At 205 for seven in 46.3 overs, SriLanka needed 15 runs from 21 deliv-eries with three wickets in hand.

But Gayakwad cleaned upPrabodhani and Mansi got Damayanthi

to edge one to Tanya behind the stumpsto make it 207 for nine.

With only eight required off the lasttwo overs, Mithali asked off-spinner

Deepti Sharma to bowl the penultimateover. Last batter Inoka Ranaweera wasstumped by Bhatia as she went for a wildslog, giving India victory.

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3/51). India won by 7 runs.

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Fatigue caught up with India's premier shut-tler P V Sindhu as she was upstaged in

straight games but Kidambi Srikanth enteredquarterfinals of the $ 700,000 Japan Open hereon Thursday.

Sindhu was beaten by China's Gao Fangjiein the women's singles second round, her firstpreliminary exit in almost a year. The Indianwent down fighting 18-21, 19-21 in 55 minutesto the world No 14 Chinese. She had lost in theopening round at the Denmark Open lastOctober.

Former world No 1 Srikanth, however, did-n't break a sweat as he avenged his Asian Gamesloss to Hong Kong's Wong Wing Ki Vincent witha clinical 21-15, 21-14 victory to enter the men'ssingles quarterfinals.

The seventh-seeded Indian, who won aSilver at the Commonwealth Games, will faceKorea's Lee Dong Keun next.

However, it was curtains for the other Indianin the men's draw, HS Prannoy, as he went downto giant-killer Anthony Sinisuka Ginting.

The world No 10 Indonesian defeated for-midable Japanese Kento Momota and Olympicchampion Chen Long at the Asian Games.

Sindhu, who has endured a hectic BWF sea-son reaching five finals including three majorsat CWG, World Championship and AsianGames, seemed mentally drained as errors creptinto her game.

The Indian put up a decent fight as sherecovered from 2-8 down in the opening gamebut squandered a 17-14 lead. She was also 15-20 down in the second game but managed tosave four match points before once again hit-ting the net to hand over the match to Gao.

In doubles, the men's pair of Manu Attri andB Sumeeth Reddy lost 18-21, 21-16, 12-21 toChina's He Jiting and Tan Qiang, while themixed combination of Pranaav Jerry Chopra andN Sikki Reddy lost 16-21, 16-21 to the Malaysian

pair of Chan Peng Soon and Goh Liu Ying inanother match.

In women's singles, Gao relied on her decep-tion to trouble Sindhu early on and took a 8-2lead. But Sindhu slowly got her bearings,reaching the shuttles early and placing them per-fectly.

She put Gao on the wrong foot to narrowthe lead to 8-10 but a weak return going to thenet gave a three-point advantage to the Chinese.

Two unforced errors by Gao brought Sindhuback at 13-13. She grabbed a 17-14 lead but itsoon vaporised with the Indian committing afew errors.

In the second game, Sindhu opened up a 5-0 lead before committing a service error. Gaosoon dominated the rallies and clawed back at7-7 after producing a winner on Sindhu's weakreturn.

Gao continued to dominate the rallies andsoon grabbed five match points at 20-15.Sindhu saved four before hitting the net againto end her campaign here.

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Terming just-retired AlastairCook as the 'mentally toughest

cricketer', English pace great JamesAnderson has said his former skip-per was unflusterable on the pitchwhich helped him become a greatambassador of the game.

Anderson, who recently sur-passed Australian great GlennMcGrath's haul of 563 wickets tobecome the most successful fastbowler in the history of Test crick-et, also said that not counting him-self as one of the most destructivebatsmen made Cook spend longertime at the crease.

"I think Alastair Cook is themost mentally tough cricketer I everplayed with. He accepts that he is notthe most destructive batsman, so hehas to spend more time at the creasein an innings," Anderson told on aStar Sports special - Ace of Pace.

"It is difficult to unsettle him. He

is 'unflusterable'," added the 36-year-old pacer.

Speaking on his greatest influ-ence in the game of cricket,Anderson said: "When I started firstteam cricket, my captain WarrenHegg said don't worry about swingjust try as fast as you can. Thathelped me, picking the right time."

"That experience helped me

later on, when to bowl swing &when to seam. My coach MikeWatkinson taught me how to swingthe ball and that was the biggesthelp. I worked with him very close-ly when I suffered stress fractureand got back to 1st team cricket inLancashire," expressed the pace-man.

Anderson further said that afast bowler needs to be mentally fit-ter than a batsman.

"For a batsman 6 hours on fieldis different than that for a bowler.You can get hot and bothered, it ismore physically demanding. As abowler you have to make a decisionwhat ball you want to bowl," heopined.

Acknowledging his first evermemory on a cricket field, the right-arm quickie said: "My first memo-ry is about being in the stands ofOld Trafford, I was 13-14 years old.Big crowd, I think Yorkshire wasplaying, big game."

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The seasoned Mahendra Singh Dhoniand Rohit Sharma were among the

limited overs specialists who left forDubai on Thursday to take part in the AsiaCup.

To be played in the 50-over format bysix teams, the Asia Cup starts fromSaturday.

All-rounder Kedar Jadhav posted apicture on his Twitter handle of him alongwith Sharma, Dhoni, Yuzvendra Chahaland Kuldeep Yadav.

Jadhav is making a comeback to thenational side post his surgery for a ham-string injury, which he sustained duringthe opening encounter of this year'sIndian Premier League.

"Some of the players have left for theAsia Cup Thursday while the others willjoin them," a BCCI official said.

Chahal and Kuldeep also posted a pic-ture with Dhoni.

India begin their campaign againstminnows Hong Kong on September 18before taking on arch-rivals Pakistan in amarquee clash the next day.

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