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Sunday, March 4, 2019Editorial

Our CorrespondentSiliguri, March 4, The JK Tyre Himalayan Drive 7,India’s only in ternational TSD(Time, Speed , Distance) rally,ended on an in tense, patr io ticnote late on Saturday, with thepar ticipants paying homage tothe martyrs of the Pulwama terrorstrike and the winners dedicatingtheir victories to the country’sarmed forces. The three-time champions, AjgarAli and Mohammed Musthafa,made it even more memorable bythe ir tou ch in g ges tu re o fdonating their entire prize moneyof Rupees one lakh to a fund thatwill help the families of the fallenCRPF soldiers. The rally’s pr ize d istr ibutionceremony at Club Montana Vistain Siliguri on Saturday eveningcommenced with the nationalan th em , fo l lo wed b y a tw o-minute silence in memory of thevictims of the perfidy at Pulwama.Among the d ignitar ies presentw er e th e Depu ty In sp ec to rGeneral of Sashastra Seema Bal

Jk Tyre Himalayan Drive 7 Winners Dedicate Victory ToPulwama Martyrs, Donate Entire Prize Money To Their Fund

( SS B) Ami t Kum ar, Ai rCom mo dor e ( r eti red)S.K.Agarwal , Sil igur i RangeDeputy Inspector Gen eral ofCRPF Sunil Kumar Sabita, ColonelJagdeep Singh and Income TaxCommissioner Pankaj Kumar. Th e d ign ita r ies , includingrepresentatives of the sponsors,th e comp etitors an d theorganisers, lit candles in front of

a co llage o f po r tra its of thePulwama martyrs. Air Commodore(retired) Agarwal, speaking onbehalf of India’s armed forces,recalled his training as a fighterp ilo t and the commitment ofsoldiers to sacrifice their lives forthe country. He also recalled interacting withWing Commander AbhinandanVar th am an wh o was a h igh

school student when Agarwalwas posted at an IAF base alongwith Abhinandan’s father AirMarshal (retired) S Varthaman. At th e pr ize d is tr ib ut io nceremony that fo llowed, most ofthe w in ne r s in th e va r iou scategor ie s d ed ica ted th ei rs uccess es to the co un tr y’sarmed forces. Rally championAjgar Ali from the port town ofHald ia in West Ben ga lann ou nced, to th u nd er ou sapplause, that he would donatehis pr ize money of One LakhRupees to the CRPF welfare fundfor martyrs’ families. T he ges tur e was w id elyappreciated . Ajgar ’s yo ungerbro ther Shaikh Ibrahim, whocam e fo ur th in the o penca tego ry, al so d ed icated h isvictory to India’s armed forcesand thank ed th e co un tr y’ssoldiers for guarding the countryin the face of extreme adversities.T he w in n er s in th e o the rcategories also paid homage tothe armed forces and to fallensoldiers.

Our CorrespondentNew Delhi, March 4,

Madhya Pradesh boy PriyanshuRajawat was the only Indian toreach the quarter-finals as thecountry’s campaign came to anend at the prestigious YonexDutch Junior International 2019 atHaar lem , the Nether lands onSaturday.The 17-year-old, hailing f romDhar, put up a gutsy performancein the fourth round to stun thefifth seed Christo Popov 22-20, 15-21, 21-15 in a marathon encounterlasting 1 hour 12 minutes. Theyoungster, however, failed toreplicate that show against thefour th seed Brian Yang in thequarter-finals, going down 13-21,20-22 to the Canadian.While Rajawat showed a lot of

Priyanshu Rajawat The Best Performer AsIndian Campaign Comes To An End At Yonex

Dutch Junior International

promise, the rest of the Indiancontingent could not cross thepre-quarter-final hurdle. MaisnamMeiraba Luwang, the wonderkid

from Manipur, went down 18-21,10-21 to the third seed ChristianAdinata of Indonesia. AndhraPradesh boy Sai Charan Koya,who had upset the top seed a dayearlier, was beaten 15-21, 16-21 byChina’s Li Yunze.In gir l s’ singles, Gayatr iGopichand had her brilliant run cutshort 15-21, 13-21 by the eighthseeded Benyapa Aims aard ofThailand.In boys’ doubles, the Telenganapair of Navaneeth Bokka andVishnu Vardhan Goud Panjalasquandered a one-game lead to godown 21-17, 19-21, 10-21 toIndonesians M. Lucky AndresApriyanda and Yoggi Pamungkas.The Indian team will now focus onputting up an improved show atthe Yonex German Junior 2019 tobe held in Berlin from March 7.

AgencyNew Delhi, March 4

Owning up to his party’s mistake,Janata Dal-United (JDU) vicepresident Prashant KishoreSunday acknowledged that nomember from his par ty or thegovernment was present at Patnaairport to pay tributes to the mortalremains of CRPF personnel killedin Friday’s Kupwara encounter.“We are sorry for the error ofjudgement on part of those of uswho should have been there withyou in this hour of grief,” Prashanttweeted.The reaction came after k in ofCRPF Jawan Pintu Singh in a videosaid, “The one who was to die isgone, he is a martyr now. Theminister has nothing do with him,all they are concerned about isremaining in power.” Upon beingasked what does he think of thestate government off icials notshowing up to pay homage, he said,“This shows how much ourgovernment is helping the forces.”“It’s very unfortunate that chief

JDU-BJP leaders skip CRPF jawan’s wreath layingceremony: Should’ve been there, says Prashant Kishore

minister Nitish Kumar did notbother to come to pay his lastrespect,” NDTV quoted SanjaySingh, uncle of the CRPF inspectorwho was from Dhanchakki villagein Begusarai, 130 km from Patna.The absence of the Nitish Kumar

Cabinet and BJP functionaries fromthe airport is likely due to the rallyof Prime Minister Narendra Modiin Patna.At least four security personnelwere killed in an encounter withmilitants in Kupwara district of

Jammu and Kashmir Friday. Twopolice personnel, two CRPFpersonnel succumbed af tersustaining critical injuries. A civilianwas also killed in clashes betweena group of youngsters and securitypersonnel near the encounter site.

AgencyBengaluru, Mar 4

Rebel Congress MLA UmeshJadhav Monday submitted hisresignation to Karnataka SpeakerRamesh Kumar, according to statesecretariat sources.Jadhav, who appears to have sidedwith the rebel faction led byRamesh Jarkiholi which threatenedto topple the JD(S)-Congresscoalition government in the state,is a two-time MLA from Chincholiin Kalbyrgi district, a bastion ofsenior Congress leader MallikarjunKharge.Jadhav was reportedly unhappywith the “autocratic” style of SocialWelfare Minister Priyank Kharge.Sources close to Jadhav told PTIhe intends to jo in the BJP onWednesday.Commenting on the legislator’s exit,Karnataka Pradesh CongressCommittee president DineshGundu Rao said Jadhav was doing“drama” by promising to remainloyal to the party.“He shouldn’t forget that whateverhe’s today is because of Congress.Anyone can come and go but theparty will remain forever,” Rao toldreporters.He asserted that the other CongressMLAs will remain with the party.The Congress previously urged

Cong MLA Umesh Jadhav resigns from K’taka Assemblythe Speaker to take action againstJadhav and three other rebels afterthey failed to attend the CongressLegislature Party meeting lastmonth.

The speaker is yet to take a call onthat.KPCC working president EshwarKhandre said Jadhav had ruined hiscareer by quitting the party as the

speaker is yet to take a decision onhis disqualification.“Once disqualif ied , he cannotcontest elections,” Khandre said.

Speed of ReactionsThere are all sorts of reactions in chemistry and the speed

of reactions is an important area of research. Many reactions,such as rusting of iron, are slow reactions. Years ago, reactionsthat took a few seconds were considered as fast reactions! Butnow reactions taking milliseconds may be called medium fast!The concept of fastness has changed standards! Life is also afield of actions and reactions! Some are slow and some are fastetc! If we touch a flame, the reaction of feeling the pain (ofhotness) is immediate while ageing is a slow reaction. We donot touch the flame again but people do not care much aboutageing! People learn to adjust fast in the case of fast reactionswhile the response is slow in the case of slow reactions! Heavydrinkers and those who indulge in excessive sex (with differentpartners) get fast reactions in terms of short-lived pleasures.One can see such people in millions all over the world with theassociated crimes, diseases and deaths! These actions haveother slower reactions such as damage of brain, kidneys, liverand venereal diseases. Such slow reactions are ignored by themillions to end up in untold pain, miseries and premature death!The human mind tends to ignore slow reactions and so does notlearn! Had the reactions been fast, people would have learnt tomake the world a better place to live. Excessive tapping ofunderground water, polluting the rivers, atmosphere, oceansetc are ignored (being slow reactions) that will certainly entaildangerous consequences for the planet! Who cares about slowreactions that are dangerous! The human mind is getting morepolluted by such reactions! The future is indeed frightening!

Price of developmentSome of the most beautiful places in Manipur’s Ukhrul

district have been submerged under water as an impact of theMaphou Dam constructed in the name of development.Chadong Village under Litan Police Station of Ukhrul districtwill be now history. The next generation will never know thatthere was once a peaceful village called Chadong inhabited bysome 1000 household in the state of Manipur. After the entirehas gone under water, some villagers managed to findalternative villages and started new live from the beginningbut some are left with no choice but to fight for their survivalalong with their little ones who are forced to leave the school(at a time when govt. talk about RTE) as the school theyattended no more existed because of the situation created bythe Mega Dam. This newspaper reported about some pregnantwomen being shifted to neighbouring Yangangpokpi area at atime when they are supposed to provide best form ofrelaxations.

The construction of the Maphou Dam may have been dueto the requirement because the process of development cannotremain stagnant. But when the kinds of development are meantto sabotage the lives of common man and extinction of someof the precious place, there is reason to put up this question –Why and for whom the development are meant for? It ispertinent to note that who is paying the costs and who isreceiving the benefits of these sorts of constructions beingtaken up in the name of development.

The modern definition says that “Development is a processor set of processes characterized by the consequence of generalsustained economic growth, and sets of natural, human,technological, cultural, f inancial, and organizationalconditions.”

“Development” in a common sense is the systematic useof scientific and technical knowledge to meet specificobjectives or requirements. But these are for the benefit ofthe people. If the so called development works failed to benefitthe people then the kind of constructions cannot be countedas developmental works.

Chadong was a small village with a population of not morethan 3000 people. It is already known to the planner of thismega Dam that the village will no more exist once the Damstarted commissioning. So, why did the government failed toshift this village to some other location where they can makea better living. A mere compensation to please them will notmake their live better – this is a common sense. Everyoneknows that money is important but it is not everything. Whenthe folks they have been living from a very long time cannotgather to continue the kind of happy life they shared, the socalled money provided to them in the name of compensationare valueless.

This senseless government has failed to understand that‘Development’ is not the construction of costly project but itis to provide better living to the citizens. If the constructionis to suffer the people, it is not called developmental project.

Original Certificate andMark Sheet Lost

I have Lost my Certificate and Mark Sheet of Central Board ofSecondary Education, Delhi for class X, bearing Roll no. 3143886 of2015 and for class XII, bearing roll no. 3640000 of 2017 on the wayfrom Singjamei to Imphal on 28-2- 2019 . Finder are requested tohandover the same to the undersigned.

Sd/-Tongbram Makar Singh