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F aced with squeezing geo- graphical spread and coor- dinated assault by security forces, the Maoists are prepar- ing to unleash deadly attacks to disrupt Assembly elections in Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan to boost the dwindling morale of the cadre. According to Intelligence inputs with the Union Home Ministry, the Maoists have opened several training camps to train their cadre in making IEDs and carrying out ambush. One such camp has come up in Rajnandgaon (Chhattisgarh) and another one at Gadchiroli (Maharashtra). The Battalion No 1 of the People’s Liberation Guerilla Army (PLGA) has stationed about 150 trained Maoists in the forest of Chhattisgarh’s South Sukma region, which is a stronghold of the Naxals. Intelligence inputs suggest the CPI(Maoist) has expanded the Madhya Pradesh- Maharashtra-Chhattisgarh tri- junction to target the upcom- ing polls in the three States. The CPI(Maoist) has identified Jharkhand as a base area for training of the cadre to target the elections. Dandakaranya region of Chhattisgarh is already an area of concern for the security forces as the ultras had carried out 47 per cent of the total vio- lent incidents and 84 per cent of the total deaths of security forces in this region in 2017. The Dandakaranya region could also be used to launch attacks in the State besides Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. The outfit plans to target the Assembly elections through spectacular attacks to raise the morale of the cadre in the wake of decreasing area of influence and depleting cadre base. The outfit’s plans also signify that the Maoists’ leadership is emboldened despite major reverses in the recent past, including elimination of top commanders at the hand of security forces. The Maoists are planning the attacks in the backdrop of the fact that for the first time since 1989 the number of vio- lent incidents has come down below the 1000-mark with just 908 incidents being reported in 2017. The security forces achieved kill ratio of over one against the Maoists since 2015 and the trend is continuing. The kill ratio depicts the num- ber Maoists killed for every death of security personnel. Likewise, the number of police stations affected with the Maoist violence has come down from the peak of 465 in 2008 to 291 in 2017. The number of Maoist- affected police stations has also come down from the peak of 2,023 in 2008 to just 563 in 2017. However, the security forces recorded a marginal increase in casualties owing to sustained operations in the core areas of Maoist influence. But sources said there was a reduction in the number of civilians’ death in 2017 in com- parison to 2016. A t least one person died and 26 others injured, some of them grievously, and five oth- ers feared trapped in the debris of the collapsed Kolkata flyover. Popularly known as Majherhat Bridge that flies over a suburban railway track connecting Sealdah to Budge Budge caved in taking along with it a loaded minibus, 5 cars, several two-wheelers and some cycles on Tuesday evening. A tin-shed housing at least 70 labourers working at the- under-construction Joka-BBD Bag Metro Railways, which runs a few feet from the caved bridge, was largely empty with only about 7 night staffers sleeping underneath it, said National Disaster Relief Force jawans, adding, “two persons are responding to our calls from inside the debris.” “They are referring to two four more people out of which they suspect two have already died.” Some injured have been admitted to SSKM Hospital, while others were rushed to CMRI Hospital, sources said. A packed office time sta- tionery local train waiting to depart for Budge Budge from the New Alipore Station just about a hundred yards from the accident site was saved by a whisker, even as Railway authorities immediately sus- pended all trains between New Alipore and Budge Budge, “until inspection of the area and further orders”. “I was travelling in a cab at about 4.30 pm when suddenly the vehicle started shaking. Even before I was able to fig- ure out, I found going down along with the car. And in no time a minibus, some cars, including that of a chief judge of the City Civil Court, some motorbikes and cycles had all converged at one point because the section of the bridge had collapsed from the middle," said Sisir Chakrabarty, who despite being in trauma rescued three persons. T he State Cabinet has taken a decision to raise the max- imum limit of economic assis- tance of one lakh, paid to the dependent wife and minor children in case of death of accredited Shramjivi Journalist, to 4 lakh. Similarly, a decision has also been taken in the Cabinet to increase monetary assis- tance of 25,000 to 50,000 from the Journalist Welfare Fund in case of damage caused to vehicles and cameras of shramjivi journalists/ camera- men. Besides, the Cabinet has taken a decision give 5 per cent subsidy on interest, charged from the accredited journalists on housing loan. This interest subsidy will be payable on obtaining loan from any financial institution rec- ognized the Reserve Bank of India. The interest subsidy will be paid for 5 years on housing loan of 25 lakh. This facility will be pro- vided to journalist husband or his wife for single house from the current fiscal year. The Cabinet has given approval to give benefits of 7th pay scale from January 01, 2016, according to the amend- ments of Human Resources Ministry and University Grant Commission to teachers and the entire officers posted at equivalent cadre in Government colleges of Madhya Pradesh and Registrars of the Universities (Excluding Private Universities). Payment of arrears amount from January 01, 2016 will be deposited in the GPF accounts of the officers of these cate- gories in single installment in the year 2018-19 itself. The Cabinet has given approval for upgradation/ establishment of 19 urban and 32 rural health institutions. Under this, District Hospital Bhopal will be upgraded from 300 to 400 bed. Similarly, the District Hospital Panna from 200 to bed, District Hospital Umaria from 100 to 300 bed, District Hospital of Ashok Nagar and Agar-Malwa from 100 to 200, Civil Hospital Hajira Gwalior from 48 to 100 including Community Health Centres of Mungawali, Barghat, Baihar, Amla, Nagda, Chanderi, Kevlari, Mauganj, Jirapur, Gadhakota, Sirmour and Anjad civil hospital into 50 bed civil hospital and civil dis- pensary Banganga will be upgraded into 30 bed commu- nity health centre. H yderabad city police have formed 10 teams to nab the culprits involved in sensa- tional theft of two priceless antiques from the Nizam’s Silver Jubilee Museum in old Hyderabad. Two unknown burglars entered the museum in the wee hours of Monday through a ventilator and stole a three- layer diamond-studded gold tiffin box and a tea cup which was used by seventh Nizam Mir Osman Ali Khan. Police officials said they have found CCTV camera footage and some other clues which can help in arresting the thieves soon. “Ten teams are working on the case and we are hopeful of a breakthrough,” said Hyderabad Police Commissioner Anjani Kumar who visited the Museum locat- ed in Purani Haveli Palace soon after the police was informed by the Museum employees about the incident. Police believes the crime was an insider job as the cul- prits appeared familiar about the design of the museum and where exactly the two antiques were on display in third gallery on the first floor. “They reached the roof of the museum from an adjoining building with the help of a lad- der, entered the building through a ventilator and came down using a knotted rope,” said a police official probing the case. The CCTV footage shows only a part of the face of one thief while the other had his face covered. Probe team found that the CCTV camera focused on the two antiques was tilted away. “This also shows the culprits were fully aware of the topography of the hall,” officials said. Police was questioning the staff of the museum and the personnel of the security agency three of whom were on duty at the time of the incident. They told the police that the museum was locked on Sunday evening and when they reopened on Monday morning they found the glass of a show case broken and the two antiques missing. The team has also found an iron rod which was used to break the glass. Assistant Commissioner of Police Mir Chowk Babu Chouhan said the negligence on the part of the museum authorities and the security agency was also responsible as they were still using old cameras and many of them were not even func- tioning. According to Mohammed Safiullah, an authority on Nizam’s heritage, the two arte- facts could fetch at least 50 crore in international market. “But the fear is that the thieves will melt the art facts to remove gold and diamonds and they will be lost forever.” The two artefacts are part of a priceless collection com- prising of 450 antiques at the HEH Nizam’s Silver Jubilee Museum. Most of them were gifts presented to the 7th Nizam Mir Osman Ali Khan in 1937 on the occasion of silver jubilee of his coronation. Some articles also belonged to his father sixth Nizam Mir Mahbub Ali Kahn. World’s buffet wardrobe used by the sixth Nizam is also part of the Museum which also has an exclusive city gallery where the items on display tell the history of the city. It also has precious jewellery and swords and scabbards. S tolen decades ago, two Indian sculptures Mahishassurmardini (a sculp- ture of Goddess Durga slaying the buffalo-headed demon Mahishasur) dated 12th Century, and head of a male deity hailing from 5th-6th Century AD — are now final- ly back home. Housed in a New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art for years, the process for their return to India had started last year when the museum author- ities approached the Modi Government, expressing their desire to voluntarily return the duo ancient sculptures. On August 10, John Guy, the Metropolitan museum’s senior curator of South and South East Asian Art, travelled all the way to the Archeological Survey of India (ASI) head- quarters in the national Capital to deliver the antiquities to the agency’s officials. A senior ASI official said the Goddess Durga sculpture was illegally export- ed out from India from Nagarjunakonda, an archaeo- logical site in western Andhra Pradesh. The sculpture of the deity is made of limestone from a temple in Uttarakhand. “We were pleasantly sur- prised when the US museum officials contacted us in the matter. During verification of their antiquities, they had sus- pected the two sculptures to be stolen from here and moved in their collection. “They had sought a detail about the sculptures which we provided immediately. The Durga statue has found mention in our 1969 publication, The Archaeology of Kumann by KP Nautiyal, in which it is described as being housed in the Chakravarteswara Temple at Baijnath, a medieval capital in Uttarakhand. The temple was constructed in 1204,” the offi- cial added. Talking about the history of the head of the male deity, identified as ‘Bodhisattava’, the official said it was part of the excavated inventory of the Nagarjunakonda site museum. C hief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan here on Tuesday launched a state-wide traffic aware- ness, road safety and traffic rules adherence campaign from Bhopal. Under the unique cam- paign, those who adhere to traffic rules will be honoured while viola- tors will be counseled to follow the rules. Chouhan formally launched the campaign at Roshanpura square today and honoured the riders of motorcycles who were wearing helmets and car drivers wear- ing their seat belts. He advised the riders who were not wear- ing helmets and seat belts and made them pledge to follow traffic rules. The Chief Minister praised the traffic police for having taken the unique initiative. He said that most of the road accidents occur due to non- adherence to traffic rules, drunken driving and people not wearing helmets. Shri Chouhan appealed to the citi- zens to wear helmets while rid- ing two-wheelers and advised their children also to wear hel- mets and follow traffic rules. He said that the life of youth is not just valuable for their fam- ilies but also for the State. Their security is must under all circumstances. It is not right to be negligent towards life. Director General of Police RK Shukla, Bhopal Division Commissioner Kavindra Kiyawat, senior police officials besides members of NCC and voluntary organisations were present during the programme. C M Y K C M Y K RNI Regn. No. MPENG/2004/13703, Regd. No. L-2/BPLON/41/2006-2008

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Faced with squeezing geo-graphical spread and coor-

dinated assault by securityforces, the Maoists are prepar-ing to unleash deadly attacks todisrupt Assembly elections inChhattisgarh, Madhya Pradeshand Rajasthan to boost thedwindling morale of the cadre.

According to Intelligenceinputs with the Union HomeMinistry, the Maoists haveopened several training campsto train their cadre in makingIEDs and carrying out ambush.One such camp has come up inRajnandgaon (Chhattisgarh)and another one at Gadchiroli(Maharashtra). The BattalionNo 1 of the People’s LiberationGuerilla Army (PLGA) hasstationed about 150 trainedMaoists in the forest ofChhattisgarh’s South Sukmaregion, which is a stronghold ofthe Naxals.

Intelligence inputs suggestthe CPI(Maoist) has expandedthe Madhya Pradesh-Maharashtra-Chhattisgarh tri-junction to target the upcom-

ing polls in the three States. TheCPI(Maoist) has identifiedJharkhand as a base area fortraining of the cadre to targetthe elections.

Dandakaranya region ofChhattisgarh is already an areaof concern for the securityforces as the ultras had carriedout 47 per cent of the total vio-lent incidents and 84 per centof the total deaths of securityforces in this region in 2017.The Dandakaranya regioncould also be used to launchattacks in the State besidesMadhya Pradesh andRajasthan.

The outfit plans to targetthe Assembly elections throughspectacular attacks to raise themorale of the cadre in the wakeof decreasing area of influenceand depleting cadre base. Theoutfit’s plans also signify thatthe Maoists’ leadership isemboldened despite majorreverses in the recent past,including elimination of topcommanders at the hand ofsecurity forces.

The Maoists are planningthe attacks in the backdrop of

the fact that for the first timesince 1989 the number of vio-lent incidents has come downbelow the 1000-mark with just908 incidents being reported in2017. The security forcesachieved kill ratio of over oneagainst the Maoists since 2015and the trend is continuing.The kill ratio depicts the num-ber Maoists killed for everydeath of security personnel.

Likewise, the number ofpolice stations affected with theMaoist violence has come

down from the peak of 465 in2008 to 291 in 2017.

The number of Maoist-affected police stations hasalso come down from the peakof 2,023 in 2008 to just 563 in2017. However, the securityforces recorded a marginalincrease in casualties owing tosustained operations in thecore areas of Maoist influence.But sources said there was areduction in the number ofcivilians’ death in 2017 in com-parison to 2016.

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At least one person died and26 others injured, some of

them grievously, and five oth-ers feared trapped in the debrisof the collapsed Kolkata flyover.

Popularly known asMajherhat Bridge that fliesover a suburban railway trackconnecting Sealdah to BudgeBudge caved in taking alongwith it a loaded minibus, 5 cars,several two-wheelers and somecycles on Tuesday evening.

A tin-shed housing at least70 labourers working at the-under-construction Joka-BBDBag Metro Railways, whichruns a few feet from the cavedbridge, was largely empty with

only about 7 night stafferssleeping underneath it, saidNational Disaster Relief Forcejawans, adding, “two personsare responding to our callsfrom inside the debris.”

“They are referring to twofour more people out of whichthey suspect two have alreadydied.”

Some injured have beenadmitted to SSKM Hospital,while others were rushed toCMRI Hospital, sources said.

A packed office time sta-tionery local train waiting todepart for Budge Budge fromthe New Alipore Station justabout a hundred yards from theaccident site was saved by awhisker, even as Railway

authorities immediately sus-pended all trains between NewAlipore and Budge Budge,“until inspection of the areaand further orders”.

“I was travelling in a cab atabout 4.30 pm when suddenlythe vehicle started shaking.Even before I was able to fig-ure out, I found going downalong with the car. And in notime a minibus, some cars,including that of a chief judgeof the City Civil Court, somemotorbikes and cycles had allconverged at one point becausethe section of the bridge hadcollapsed from the middle,"said Sisir Chakrabarty, whodespite being in trauma rescuedthree persons.

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The State Cabinet has takena decision to raise the max-

imum limit of economic assis-tance of � one lakh, paid to thedependent wife and minorchildren in case of death ofaccredited Shramjivi Journalist,to � 4 lakh.

Similarly, a decision hasalso been taken in the Cabinetto increase monetary assis-tance of � 25,000 to � 50,000from the Journalist WelfareFund in case of damage causedto vehicles and cameras ofshramjivi journalists/ camera-men.

Besides, the Cabinet hastaken a decision give 5 per centsubsidy on interest, chargedfrom the accredited journalistson housing loan.

This interest subsidy will bepayable on obtaining loan fromany financial institution rec-ognized the Reserve Bank ofIndia.

The interest subsidy will bepaid for 5 years on housingloan of � 25 lakh.

This facility will be pro-vided to journalist husband orhis wife for single house fromthe current fiscal year.

The Cabinet has givenapproval to give benefits of 7thpay scale from January 01,2016, according to the amend-ments of Human ResourcesMinistry and University GrantCommission to teachers andthe entire officers posted atequivalent cadre inGovernment colleges ofMadhya Pradesh and Registrarsof the Universities (Excluding

Private Universities). Payment of arrears amount

from January 01, 2016 will bedeposited in the GPF accountsof the officers of these cate-gories in single installment inthe year 2018-19 itself.

The Cabinet has givenapproval for upgradation/establishment of 19 urban and32 rural health institutions.Under this, District HospitalBhopal will be upgraded from300 to 400 bed. Similarly, theDistrict Hospital Panna from200 to bed, District HospitalUmaria from 100 to 300 bed,District Hospital of AshokNagar and Agar-Malwa from100 to 200, Civil HospitalHajira Gwalior from 48 to 100including Community HealthCentres of Mungawali, Barghat,Baihar, Amla, Nagda,Chanderi, Kevlari, Mauganj,Jirapur, Gadhakota, Sirmourand Anjad civil hospital into 50bed civil hospital and civil dis-pensary Banganga will beupgraded into 30 bed commu-nity health centre.

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Hyderabad city police haveformed 10 teams to nab

the culprits involved in sensa-tional theft of two pricelessantiques from the Nizam’sSilver Jubilee Museum in oldHyderabad.

Two unknown burglarsentered the museum in the weehours of Monday through aventilator and stole a three-layer diamond-studded goldtiffin box and a tea cup whichwas used by seventh NizamMir Osman Ali Khan.

Police officials said theyhave found CCTV camerafootage and some other clueswhich can help in arresting thethieves soon.

“Ten teams are working onthe case and we are hopeful ofa breakthrough,” saidHyderabad PoliceCommissioner Anjani Kumarwho visited the Museum locat-ed in Purani Haveli Palacesoon after the police wasinformed by the Museumemployees about the incident.

Police believes the crimewas an insider job as the cul-prits appeared familiar aboutthe design of the museum andwhere exactly the two antiqueswere on display in third galleryon the first floor.

“They reached the roof ofthe museum from an adjoiningbuilding with the help of a lad-der, entered the buildingthrough a ventilator and camedown using a knotted rope,”said a police official probing thecase.

The CCTV footage showsonly a part of the face of one

thief while the other had hisface covered. Probe team foundthat the CCTV camera focusedon the two antiques was tiltedaway. “This also shows the

culprits were fully aware of thetopography of the hall,” officialssaid.

Police was questioning thestaff of the museum and the

personnel of the securityagency three of whom were onduty at the time of the incident.They told the police that themuseum was locked on Sunday

evening and when theyreopened on Monday morningthey found the glass of a showcase broken and the twoantiques missing.

The team has also found an

iron rod which was used tobreak the glass. AssistantCommissioner of Police MirChowk Babu Chouhan said thenegligence on the part of themuseum authorities and thesecurity agency was alsoresponsible as they were stillusing old cameras and manyof them were not even func-tioning.

According to MohammedSafiullah, an authority onNizam’s heritage, the two arte-

facts could fetch at least �50crore in international market.“But the fear is that the thieveswill melt the art facts to removegold and diamonds and theywill be lost forever.”

The two artefacts are partof a priceless collection com-prising of 450 antiques at theHEH Nizam’s Silver JubileeMuseum.

Most of them were giftspresented to the 7th Nizam MirOsman Ali Khan in 1937 onthe occasion of silver jubilee ofhis coronation. Some articlesalso belonged to his fathersixth Nizam Mir Mahbub AliKahn.

World’s buffet wardrobeused by the sixth Nizam is alsopart of the Museum which alsohas an exclusive city gallerywhere the items on display tellthe history of the city. It also hasprecious jewellery and swordsand scabbards.

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Stolen decades ago, twoIndian sculptures —

Mahishassurmardini (a sculp-ture of Goddess Durga slayingthe buffalo-headed demonMahishasur) dated 12thCentury, and head of a maledeity hailing from 5th-6thCentury AD — are now final-ly back home.

Housed in a New York’sMetropolitan Museum of Artfor years, the process for theirreturn to India had started lastyear when the museum author-ities approached the ModiGovernment, expressing theirdesire to voluntarily return theduo ancient sculptures.

On August 10, John Guy,the Metropolitan museum’ssenior curator of South andSouth East Asian Art, travelledall the way to the ArcheologicalSurvey of India (ASI) head-quarters in the national Capitalto deliver the antiquities to theagency’s officials. A senior ASIofficial said the Goddess Durgasculpture was illegally export-ed out from India fromNagarjunakonda, an archaeo-logical site in western AndhraPradesh. The sculpture of thedeity is made of limestonefrom a temple in Uttarakhand.

“We were pleasantly sur-prised when the US museumofficials contacted us in thematter. During verification of

their antiquities, they had sus-pected the two sculptures to bestolen from here and moved intheir collection.

“They had sought a detailabout the sculptures which weprovided immediately.

The Durga statue hasfound mention in our 1969publication, The Archaeologyof Kumann by KP Nautiyal, inwhich it is described as being

housed in theChakravarteswara Temple atBaijnath, a medieval capital inUttarakhand. The temple wasconstructed in 1204,” the offi-cial added.

Talking about the history ofthe head of the male deity,identified as ‘Bodhisattava’, theofficial said it was part of theexcavated inventory of theNagarjunakonda site museum.

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on Tuesday launched astate-wide traffic aware-ness, road safety andtraffic rules adherencecampaign from Bhopal.Under the unique cam-paign, those who adhereto traffic rules will behonoured while viola-tors will be counseled tofollow the rules.

Chouhan formallylaunched the campaign atRoshanpura square todayand honoured the riders ofmotorcycles who were wearinghelmets and car drivers wear-ing their seat belts. He advisedthe riders who were not wear-ing helmets and seat belts andmade them pledge to followtraffic rules.

The Chief Minister praisedthe traffic police for havingtaken the unique initiative. Hesaid that most of the roadaccidents occur due to non-adherence to traffic rules,drunken driving and peoplenot wearing helmets. Shri

Chouhan appealed to the citi-zens to wear helmets while rid-

ing two-wheelers and advisedtheir children also to wear hel-mets and follow traffic rules.He said that the life of youth isnot just valuable for their fam-ilies but also for the State.Their security is must under allcircumstances. It is not right tobe negligent towards life.

Director General of PoliceRK Shukla, Bhopal DivisionCommissioner KavindraKiyawat, senior police officialsbesides members of NCC andvoluntary organisations werepresent during the programme.

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Bhopal: Player Pratik Mishraexhibited a wonderful perfor-mance at the 43rd SeniorNational Power LiftingCompetition. Showcasing animpressive performance, theplayer won a silver medal at thechampionship.

The championship washeld in Satpani, AndhraPradesh, from August 25 to 29.Pratik Mishra of MadhyaPradesh got the silver medal inthe Inter-State by lifting 767.5kg weight in 93 kg weight cat-egory. Similarly, MukeshTripathi got a bronze medal inweight of 120 kg weight of 875kg and won bronze medal inInter State and received silvermedal.

Mukesh has won threemedals to Madhya Pradesh.Explain that no player fromMadhya Pradesh has taken875 kg weight in national orinternational competition. SR

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The theatre lovers of thecity are having a close look

at the life and work of leg-endary playwright BV Karanththrough pictures and his the-atre props. Known as themost noted and pioneer per-sonality of world of theatre BVKaranth is remembered inmost creative way. The theatrebuffs of the city are taking awalkthrough of the life of theeminent playwright in an exhi-bition ‘Ayaam’.

The exhibition is being putup at Rangdarshini gallery ofBharat Bhavan which displaysthe props, stage craft, musicinstruments, masks and pho-tographs of BV Karanth. “It isone of the most unusual exhibi-tions of all times. We organize itevery year in the memory ofBaba Karanth and to rememberhis priceless contribution in theworld of theatre,” says AnoopJoshi who has put up the exhi-bition. The entire exhibition islike walking down the memory

lane. The exhibition is beingorganised under Aadranjali,organised in the memory ofKaranth.

It is to be noted that theprops and all the displays at theexhibition date back to year1982. Besides, the instrumentsused in Karanth’s plays are con-sidered really rare. As in some ofthe plays he used a typical ‘naga-da’ which is rarely used today intheatres.

Other than focusing on histheatre personality, theRangamandal wing of BharatBhavan also focused on his pro-fessional life and his immenseinvolvement in dramas, stage set-tings and preparations related totheatrical presentations. As manyas 40 still photographs ofKaranth’s theatre works, 30 musi-cal instruments that he used inhis productions at Rangmandaland the theatre costumes hedesigned for the actors were ondisplay. The exhibition on BVKaranth is a mesmerizing treatfor the theatre-goers and the artlovers of the city.

Bhopal: The mega books col-lection at Bhopal’s AuthorCorner will be launched onWednesday at SwamiVivekananda Library.

The Bhopal Author Corner,which started on February 5,2017 at Swami VivekanandaLibrary, has collected more than200 books till date. The special-ty of these books is that the writ-ers of 200 books are fromBhopal. There is a collection ofbooks written in Hindi andEnglish. Books from IAS and IPSofficers, including well-knownwriters of Swami VivekanandaLibrary, have joined the city.Bhopal’s author Corner has thebooks written by doctors andwriters from other professions.Yatish Bhatele, the manager ofthe Swami Vivekananda Library,told that the corner was startedon 5 February 2017 only 50books. And currently the num-ber of book-bars has crossed 200.This initiative of the SwamiVivekananda Library is thatcity's authorities can gift bookswritten with their own auto-graphs with autographs. SR

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The city children are makingthe idols of Lord Ganesha

with their little hands out ofclay to spread the message ofeco-friendly GaneshaChaturthi.

A 12-day workshop ‘MittiKe Ganesha’ is being organisedat Nadi Ka Ghar wherein theyhave learnt to create ‘Eco-Friendly Ganesha’.

The city is gripped in thefestivities of Ganesha Chaturthias it is just at the door step. Thechildren of the city are notbehind in preparing for the fes-tival.

As it is known that LordGanesha is among the favouritegods of children, they are leav-ing no stone unturned in wel-coming their lovable ‘Vinayaka’.

The workshop began hereon Monday.

The children enthusiasti-cally participated in the work-shop wherein they learnt tocreate the life-like clay model

of Ganesha.On the first day of the

workshop, the participants aretaught to prepare Lord Ganeshaout of clay.

Besides, to mark the con-clusion of the workshop onSaturday the participants willalso decorate their LordGanesha idol with naturalcolours and natural accessories.

The children are learningto create the Ganesha idolsfrom Paper Mache and clay.Karan Saundiya said that theseidols are being prepared withpaper mache and chalk powder.These idols will be decoratedwith pulses and rice.

The children by showcas-ing their creativity are urgingthe people to install the ecofriendly Ganesh idols at theirhomes to observe the GaneshChaturthi this year.

The children are givingdifferent shapes and forms totheir idols.

The workshop will contin-ue till August 12.

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Afour-day theatre festival inthe memory of Dinesh

Thakur will be held in city fromWednesday. The festival isbeing organised by VihaanDrama Works, Bhopal andAnk theatre troupe, Mumbai.

Dinesh Thakur MemorialTheatre Festival will be held inShaheed Bhavan. The festival isbeing organised to celebrate the42nd anniversary of DineshThakur’s theatre troupe Ank.

The four day event willbegin with the play Totto Chan.On second day play 'Saudagar'will be staged. On Friday mark-ing the third day play 'BiviyonKi Madarsa' and the festival willbe concluded with the play HaiMera Dil.

On the inaugural occa-sion, Rajesh Kumar, CGM,

State Bank of India, BhopalCircle Satosh Choubey, Seniortheatre Director, Bansi Kaul,Director of Madhya PradeshSchool of Drama SanjayUpadhyay, actor AlokChatterjee and senior art crit-ic Ajit Rai will be present.

On this occasion, theSouvenir Magazine created forthe ceremony will be inaugu-rated in the presence of guests.After this, in the evening at 7.00pm, the presentation of Vihanin the direction of SaurabhAnant, 'Totto Chaan’ will bestaged. On September 6,'Saudagar' will be performedunder the direction of BansiKaul. On September 7 and 8,Biviyon Ka Madarsa and HayeMera Dil in the direction ofAtul Mathur and DineshThakur will be held respec-tively. Dinesh Thakur was a

noted Indian theatre director,actor in theatre, television andHindi film, where most notablyhe appeared as one of the leadsin Rajnigandha 1974 anddirected by Basu Chatterjee,which won both Filmfare BestMovie Award and the FilmfareCritics Award for Best Movie.Dinesh Thakur was born in1947 in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India.He was the founder-director ofANK productions, a Mumbai-based theatre company, estab-lished in 1976.

Though he mainlyappeared as character roles inHindi films, as a screenwriterand story writer, he is knownfor writing the story andscreenplay of Ghar (1978),which won him the 1979Filmfare Best Story Award.

He died on 20 September2012 due to kidney failure.

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Betul, Sagar and Raisen dis-trict have been selected

from the 57 districts of the Stateby the Indian Space ResearchOrganisation (ISRO),Department of Space of theGovernment of India andMadhya Pradesh Council forScience and Technology(MAPCST), Bhopal for localEmpowerment of PanchayatiRaj Institutions under the‘EPRIS’ project.

The Panchayat representa-tives of two districts have beenimparted with detail informa-tion for preparing develop-ment oriented activities atground level till now under theproject.

The space technology ofthe Space Department,Government of India will helpreaching development schemesto the doorsteps of thePanchayats and for strengthen

Digital India. Under the project, com-

plete information concerningcapacity building of panchay-at representatives, assets chartand planning for activities hasbeen given to the representa-tives of district, Janpad andGram Panchayats in the work-shops.

The In-Charge of GIS andImage Processing Division andSenior Principal Scientist AlkaChowdhary has informed thatthe first workshop was orga-nized in Betul followed by sec-ond in Sagar.

Representatives of the dis-trict Panchayat will partici-pate in the third workshop pro-posed to begin in Raisen dis-trict from September 5.

The Janpad level work-shop is being organized inSanchi, Ghairatganj,Begumganj, Badi,Obaidullahganj, Silwani andUdaipura.

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Leader of Opposition in theState Assembly Ajay Singh

said that days of Chief MinisterShviraj Singh Chouhan arenumbered due to which he hasstarted using cheap publicitygimmicks. The State is wit-nessing lawlessness and CMChouhan is unable to handlethe situation which has lead toincreasing public ire.

He was addressing KisanMahasammelan at Sitawas inBadwani during road show inAlirajpur. At the occasion for-mer president of MadhyaPradesh Congress CommitteeArun Yadav, Deputy Leader ofOpposition Bala Bacchan andMLA Surendra Singh Baghel‘Honey’ were present.

Ajay Singh claimed thatCM Chouhan has sensed thathe would lose elections whichhas forced him to act pro-peo-ple and at this time he is alsotrying to embrace Uma Bhartiand Babulal Gaur and to regain

power he is ready to perform allkinds of gimmicks and con-solidate his position.

For the past 15 yearsSwarnim Madhya Pradesh,Developed Madhya Pradesh,Kirshi Karman Award likedreams were provided to thepeople by CM Chouhan but thepeople of the state are aware ofthe reality.

The lack of providing prop-er price of crops to the farm-ers, insecure women and girlsand rampant unemploymentamong youths are the prevalentproblems in the state duringthis regime and under theseconditions to regain the throneis impossible which has madethe CM Chouhan to go pro-poor and now he has alsostarted targeting votes of ‘back-ward classes’.

Those who used to blameCongress of adopting‘Appeasement Policy’, are nowtaking decisions which willhave far reaching harmfulimpacts.

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Crime branch of Bhopalpolice has nabbed four

miscreants involved in bur-glaries in different parts of theState capital and recoveredstolen valuables worth � 3 lakhfrom their possession onMonday.

The police acted swiftlyafter receiving information ofthree accused on their way tosell stolen goods at Chowk areaand were near Budhwara andnabbed the three near Fishmarket area. In the initial inves-tigation when the three werefrisked gold and silver jewelrywas recovered from their pos-

session. The total jewelryrecovered was worth � 3 lakh.

The three were identifiedas Naushad Khan (21) KotraSultanabad, Mannu aliasSameer Khan (22) of Kolar andRizwan Khan (22) of KotraSultanabad.

During the further inves-tigation when the three werequestioned they confessed bur-glaries in Kamla Nagar,Ratibad, Kolar and Misrodareas along with their fourthaccomplice Mohammad Yusuf(21) of Kotra Sultanabad.

Based on the detail Yusufwas nabbed from KotraSultanabad and recoveredstolen goods from his posses-

sion. Providing modus operan-di accused revealed that used totarget locked houses late in thenight by breaking the locks andwould escape with the valu-ables. Naushad works as labour,Mannu works as scrap dealer,Rizwan works as automobilemechanic and Yusuf runs a teastall. All the nabbed accusedhave been booked by KamlaNagar.

Police said that morerecoveries would be made andmore crimes would be revealedby the accused in the furtherinvestigation. The four wereactive for long committingcrimes in different parts of thestate capital.

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Shahjehanbad police have booked two bike-borne miscreants who kidnapped a nine-

month-old baby boy from Vajpayee Nagar latein the night on Monday. The offenders are stillat large.

Police said that the victim was kidnappedon the pretext of dressing him like LordKirshna on the festival of Janmashtami. The vic-tim identified as Shiva was kidnapped from hisfather’s hands.

A complaint was lodged by Shiva’s fatherRakesh Dodiar stating that two bike borne mis-creants came to him and asked to have Shiva todress him like Lord Krishna on the occasion ofJanmashtami and offered him to accompanywith them but as soon as he handed over thebaby to the accused they escaped the spot withthe baby.

Rakesh raised alert but before locals couldhelp him accused escaped the spot.

The police have registered a case of abduc-tion against the two bike borne miscreants andstarted searched for the accused. Police claimedthat the two were spotted in CCTV grab mov-ing towards Lalghati but they were not havingbaby.

The family hails from Jaora village ofRatlam district and came to the state capitalsearching job around two weeks ago and wasstaying at Vajpayee Nagar slums. At around 11in the night two bike borne persons kidnappedhis son.

Till the filing of the report bike borne mis-creants remained untraceable and search hasbeen intensified to nab the accused. Rakesh toldthe police that the miscreants were wearing blackclothes and caps while he failed to notice the reg-istration number of the bike.

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During a surprise inspectionby Rajiv Chaturvedi,

Member, National HighwaysAuthority of India, it was foundthat the quality of the repairs tothe RoB near Rayru, Gwalior isbelow standard as substandardmaterials have been used forthe renovation.

Finding lots of irregulari-ties in the repair works andsamples of materials used fail-ing to meet the quality stan-dards, the Member took to taskthe officials of the NHAI whowere entrusted with the mon-itoring of the repair works. Hetold the officials of the NHAIwho were present at the sitethat if this is how repairs aredone, the condition of the roadwill continue to get from badto worse and lives will contin-

ue to be put on the line.Taking a serious view of the

turn of events, the NHAI mem-ber called Anshuman Yadav,the IG of Gwalior seeking thataction be taken against the con-tractor and all the concernedNHAI officials for substan-dard wok of the road and theRoB.

He told the IG that theinspection has exposed notonly the poor constructionstandards but also the pilferingof public property in largequantity.

The officials of NHAI havefailed to properly monitor theconstruction and resurfacing ofthe RoB and this has led to notonly wastage of public moneybut also has forced themotorists to suffer poor roadconditions.

The Member also told the

IG that this is a clear case ofcriminal negligence whichcould trigger many tragediesand requested the IG to fileFIRs against the contractorand the NHAI officials whohave been entrusted with themonitoring of the repair works.The member further informedthe IG that he would be send-ing an official communiqué assoon as he reaches Delhi.

Speaking to the media per-sons, AnshumanYadav, the IGof Gwalior said that he hasreceived a petition from theNHAI Member to file FIRsagainst the concerned people.He added that he has instruct-ed the Gwalior SP to filecharges against the contractorand the concerned NHAI offi-cials as soon as the official com-munication is received from theMember.

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Environment Minister AntarSingh Arya has urged all

states of the country to plantNeem saplings on both sides ofthe roads in State and nation-al highways along with roadsconstructed in MunicipalCorporation and GramPanchayat area.

Taking serious note of cli-mate change in the country andthe world, Arya said that thereis need for serious brain-storming during the trainingprogramme to ensure a cleanand healthy environment forthe coming generations. Aryasaid this while inaugurating thefour-day national training pro-gramme organized on Tuesdayby the Madhya PradeshPollution Control Board withthe support of Centre forScience Environment (CSE)and Sweden EnvironmentProtection Agency (SEPA).

Representatives of SEPA,CSE, Pollution Control Boardsof several states including Goa,Himachal Pradesh,Maharashtra, Bihar, Odisha,Uttar Pradesh, Telangana,Chhattisgarh, Haryana,Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthanare taking part in the trainingprogramme. Arya said that alot of change has taken place inthe environment in the last 20-30 years. Hence there is need tomake environment a public-movement, He urged the rep-resentatives to suggest theirrespective state governments toplant 50 per cent saplings ofNeem and fruit-bearing andshade giving trees in theremaining area in their states.

Arya said that Sweden ismaking use of modern tech-niques in the environment sec-tor. He expressed the hopethat concrete results will beobtained for the state, countryand world environment whilesharing the achievements ofSweden in the training pro-gramme.

Chairman of MadhyaPradesh Control BoardAnupam Rajan said that all thestates will share their achieve-ments and hold brainstormingsessions during the four-daytraining programme for theimprovement of environmentconservation at national andinternational level. He said

that efforts are being made forconservation of environmentwith least possible hindrance inthe industries by establishingcoordination between skilldevelopment and environmentin Madhya Pradesh.

Giving information of theefforts made to reduce pollu-tion in the state and country,Rajan said that it has resultedin reduction of carbon emis-sions and rise in solar energy.India is making constant effortsto fulfill the Paris agreement.

Bo Jansson of SEPA gaveinformation of the works beingundertaken for environmentconservation in Sweden. NivitKumar Yadav of CSE sharedinformation on the works beingundertaken for environmentconservation in India. In thefirst and second session heldtoday, information was givenon the pollution control worksundertaken in India undervarious laws and the experi-ences of Sweden in environ-ment laws by Bo Jansson.Information about the suc-cessful case studies of MadhyaPradesh Control Board andPulp and Paper Industries inSweden was given during theprogramme. Member Secretaryof the Board A Mishra pro-posed the vote of thanks.

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Three murder accused who had killed truckdriver Makhan Singh and escaped with Iron

bars worth � 12 lakh were nabbed by Bilkhariapolice, said DIG Bhopal DharmendraChoudhary while speaking with the media per-sons on Tuesday.

DIG Choudharysaid that intensiveinvestigation led to thearrest of the murderaccused as earlier thoseinvolved in selling theIron bars were nabbedand during the investi-gation three who havekilled the truck driverMakhan Singh werenabbed.

The three wereidentified as JaykaranP r a j a p a t i ( 3 0 ) ,Mohammad Naseem(48) and MaheshRathore (32).

One of theaccused involved inselling the Iron barSabir Kala was alsonabbed along with the three.

Earlier in the investigation Ritesh, Vijayand Shanu were arrested. One of the accusedWahid who facilitated the deal of selling therobbed Iron bars is still absconding.

SHO Bilkharia police Lokendra SinghThakur said that the vital clue which wasfound in the investigation was moving truckwith loaded iron bars and unloaded iron barsand truck appeared in the footage twice with-

in 5 minutes with loaded and unloaded ironbars.

The area was searched and shop whichdeals in iron bars and other material for fab-rication was found which was owned by Shanuwho had bought the stolen Iron bars and wasnot aware of the murder at the time of the buy-

ing the Iron bars. Makhan parked the truck near Peoples

Mall where he got acquainted with Naseem,Karan and Mahesh and later they offered himliquor and killed Makhan.

The three then sold the Iron bars andabandoned the truck in Ayodhya Nagar andreturned and later they dumped Makhan’sbody in Jhagaria. Car owned by Naseem usedin the crime has been seized, he added.

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The Congress here onTuesday alleged the

Narendra Modi-ledGovernment inflicted lossesto a State-run company bybenefitting a private companywith the Rafale deal.

The party demanded aprobe by the JointParliamentary Committee intothe deal.

While talking to mediapersons here on Tuesday,Congress Rajya Sabha memberKumari Selja told media per-sons that the NDA governmentled by Prime MinisterNarendra Modi signed theRafale deal to benefit a privatecompany to the tune of Rs30,000 crore.

While the Congress hasbeen alleging that the Rafaledeal was a scam, the allegationshave been refuted by the gov-ernment.

She further said the UPAgovernment, in December 12,2012, agreed to buy a fighter air-craft from Dassault Aviation for� 526.10 crore and going by thisdeal the price of 36 aircraft was� 18,940 crore. “However, theModi government junked theagreement, and on April 10,2015 went for buying 36 aircraftfor 7.5 billion euros, whichmeans � 60,145 crore. At this

rate, cost of each aircraft jumpedto � 1,670.70 crore," she added.

This way, Modi caused aloss of � 41,205 crore to thestate coffers, she alleged."Besides, the governmentinflicted a loss to a state-runcompany and profited a pri-vate company with � 30,000crore," she said.

The Congress leader saidthe state-run HindustanAeronautics Ltd (HAL) hadinked an offset contract with

inked Dassault Aviation inthe shape of a work shareagreement on March 13, 2014,but it was "snatched awayfrom the HAL and given toprivate company RelianceDefence, which does not haveany work experience, for �30,000 crore.”

Selja further claimed thatthe Modi government gave theReliance firm � 1,00,000 crorelife-cycle cost contract relatedto Rafale.

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The Caterpillar India alongwith its dealers GMMCO

and Gainwell, felicitated andthanked Bhopal-based DilipBuildcon Ltd (DBL), for pur-chasing its 1000th Caterpillarmachine, here on Tuesday.

The company has anexpertise in execution of pro-jects in roads and highwaysconstruction, irrigation, urbandevelopment and mining.Speaking on the occasion, DilipSuryavanshi, Chairman andManaging Director said, "It isvery inspiring and encouragingfor us to get accolades fromCaterpillar and its dealers. DBLhas executed contracts with theNational Highways Authorityof India (NHAI) to execute528.4 km of highways in India."

"We have been involved invarious infrastructure develop-ment projects across the coun-try like construction of theZuari Bridge across Zuari Riverconnecting Panjim (Goa) and

Mangalore (Karnataka), con-struction of Nigahi OPC ofNational Coalfields Limited andDesign, and construction of anelevated viaduct in BhopalMetro Project to name of a few.Caterpillar machines haveplayed a critical role in accom-plishing these projects," headded. On the occasion, H

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structure development in India.”Notably, DBL is one of India'sfastest growing Engineering,Procurement and Construction(EPC) Companies. Establishedin Bhopal in 1987, the compa-ny has an expertise in early deliv-ery of infrastructure projectswith a strong presence across 17States in the country.

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After the information ofrape spread people gathered atHabibganj police station anddemanded strict action againstthe rape accused and take outprocession of the accused butwere pacified by the police.

Later when the three wereaccused Rohit, Naved andAnmol Singh were taken tocourt they were attacked by pro-testors and police used mildforce to disperse the protestors.The three were produced in thecourt and sent under judicialcustody. SHO Habibganj policeVirendra Singh said that the vic-tim a class 8 student is a residentof Shivaji Nagar lodged com-plaint stating that the accusedRohit Khangaar asked her tomeet outside her house by mes-saging her over Instagram andwhen she refused Rohit threat-ened her of life and when shewent outside her house to meethim Rohit was present in a caralong with two of his friendsNaved and Anmol SinghChouhan who forced her insidethe car and escaped the spot andRohit and Anmol molested herinside the car. At Habibganj rail-way crossing Rohit and Anmolalighted off the car while Navedtook her to Saket Nagar wherehe raped her. After the prelim-inary investigation the policeregistered a case under sections363, 366 A and 376 (2) (1) of theIPC and sections 7 and 8 ofPOCSO Act and nabbed thethree accused. SR

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September 5 is celebrated asTeachers Day in the whole

State on the birth anniversaryof former President and greateducationist Late SarvapalliRadhakrishnan.

Teachers will be felicitatedon the occasion. A State-levelprogramme on Teachers Daywill be organised at the GoldenJubilee Auditorium of RCVPNoronha Academy ofAdministration in Bhopal at 12

pm. Governor Anandiben Patelwill be the chief guest at thestate-level teachers felicitationceremony.

The Governor will felicitateteachers selected at the state-level this year during the pro-gramme. The teachers of thestate awarded by the Presidentlast year will be felicitated dur-ing the programme.

School Education MinisterKunwar Vijay Shah will presideover the teachers’ felicitationceremony.

Panchayat and RuralDevelopment Minister GopalBhargava, Minister of State forSchool Education Deepak Joshiand Minister of State for TribalWelfare Lalsingh Arya will bespecial guests.

Governor Anandiben Patelwill release the poster ofMahatma Gandhi Nai TaleemAbhiyan and the Shikshan

Pustak of Gandhi Ji Ki NaiTaleem issued by the Ministryfor Human ResourcesDevelopment on the 150thbirth centenary of Father of theNation Mahatma Gandhi dur-ing the programme.

Meanwhile, the State gov-ernment has on Tuesdayclaimed that constant efforts inthe state to increase rate ofenrollment in schools haveyielded better results.

In order to achieve thisobjective, public participation

has been enhanced under theSchool Chalein Hum Abhiyan,it added.

In the period of 2002 and2016-17, the number of schooldropout children between 6 to14 years of age category hascome down from 6.2 lakh to0.58 lakh.

The school dropout rate(Primary) has declined to 4.9from 15 during the year 2002to 2016 -17. In the same man-ner, the school dropout rate inmiddle schools has become6.7 from 24.7. Besides, thedecline at secondary schoolslevel school dropout rate hasalso registered, the dropoutrate has come down to 14.5from 32. The school switchover rate (Secondary) hasincreased from 53 to 84.1.Similarly, the school switchover rate (Higher Secondary)has grown to 61 from 41.

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The monthly average incomeof a farmer family from

agriculture source in Odishaincreased from �336 in 2002-03 to �1,407 in 2013-14,informed Agriculture andFarmers’ EmpowermentMinister Pradeep Maharathy inthe State Assembly on Tuesday.

In response to a question ofBJP MLA Dilip Ray, theMinister informed that themonthly average income of afarmer family from all sourcesincreased from �1,062 in 2002-03 to �4,976 in 2012-13. Hesubmitted this information asper the National Sample Surveyreports.

However, Odisha stood 13th among States in the month-ly average income of farmerfamilies from different sourcesand 16 th in agriculture sourcecategory.

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Acase has been registeredagainst former Phulbani

MLA Debendra Kanhar forallegedly assaulting a womanand her daughter at Gaudapada

village in Kandhamal districtlate on Monday night.

As per the complaintlodged by the victims with theSadar police here, Kanharreached their house in night and misbehaved withthe girl. The girl’s motheropposed the act, followingwhich Kanhar thrashed theduo, they alleged.

The mother-daughter duoreportedly sustained minorinjuries. A case has been reg-istered against the ex-MLAunder Sections 294, 341,323,354 and 506 of IPC. Actionwould be taken against theaccused if the allegations arefound to be true, saidKandhamal Additional SPUtkal Ranjan Das.

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Ask any functionary in apanchayat office about

whether the Aadhaar hasbrought anything good to thePublic Distribution System(PDS), the answer will be in thepositive.

“Yes, a lot of good,” they say.Ask them to name some of thegood results and they willimmediately retort, “Pilferagehas been checked to a consid-erable extent.”

But if you ask how muchpilferage, they would go cluelessand fumble. On the contrary, ifasked about the problems peo-ple are facing, there would bemany answers.

A Panchayat ExecutiveOfficer (PEO) of Komna blockin Nuapada district says,“Pilferage at pancayat level wasvery insignificant in terms ofghost PDS cards. Aadhaar seed-

ing to check those small leak-ages has brought many otherproblems.” The PEO’s reluc-tance to speak against Aadhaarfades away when he is asked tothink in terms of problemspeople are facing while linkingor seeding.

“Yes, sometimes, the bene-ficiaries have to run to the pan-chayat office twice or threetimes if there is a link failure ormismatch of finger prints in thePOS,” he says.

“There are three main prob-lems in linking Aadhhar toPDS,” says Reetika Khera,Professor of Economics, IIM,Ahmedabad, who visited somevillages of KBK districts recent-ly to study the impact ofAadhaar linking.

“The first is the problem ofenrollment in Aadhaar . Peoplehave to run to the kiosk sever-al times for enrollment and theypay between Rs 60 and Rs 250to the agent. I have seen studentsof primary schools running tokiosks several times, takingleave from their schools. Second

is the failure of internet link dur-ing distribution and third, mis-match of finger prints in thePOS machine. Such problemscost a lot to the poor,” says ProfKhera and adds that the timespent in distribution after thelinking and introduction ofPOS machine has enormouslyincreased.

Many Yogan Sahayaks incharge of distribution of rationat pancayat level agree to thisargument. “The process of dis-tribution has become time con-suming after the induction ofPOS machine due to link failureand mismatch of finger prints.It used to take about a week tocomplete the distribution whenit was maintained manually in

registers, but now it takes morethan two weeks,” they say.

The Aadhaar linking withPDS has also created depriva-tion for the migrant families,”says State advisor to theSupreme Court Commissionon Food Rights RajkishorMishra. “Rice is distributedevery two months and thosewho can’t take their stuff before25th of the month of distribu-tion, their quota lapses. It affectsthe migrant households a lot,”adds Mishra.

It is revealed by most of theYogan Sahayaks that quota ofabout 200 persons in everyPanchayat lapses every monthdue to imposition of datelineand introduction of technology.Previously, the migrant house-holds were entrusting their rel-atives staying in villages to col-lect the rice and store it for thecardholders. It helped a lot tothe migrant households to cel-ebrate the festival of Navannaafter their return. “TheGovernment should think aboutsuch problems,” adds Mishra.

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Hundreds of anganwadiworkers staged a

demonstration at the MahatmaGandhi Marg here on Tuesday demanding fulfilmentof their nine-point charter ofdemands.

The agitators took out arally from Master CanteenSquare and marched towardsthe State Assembly when theywere stopped by police. Soon,a scuffle broke out after the agi-tators tried to break the policebarricades and march towardsthe Assembly.

Following this, around tenplatoons of police forces weredeployed at the location inorder to prevent any unto-ward situation.

The agitators said that theprotest would be intensified in

the coming days if theGovernment ignores theirdemands.

“The State Governmentshould sanction a monthly

pension of Rs 3,000 per month to the Anganwadi workers and should raise theage of retirement to 65,” said aprotestor.

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In a another positive devel-opment after the conversion

of displaced (forest) villageBadmul under Chhendipadatehsil of Angul district into arevenue village, the Director,Land Records and Survey,Board of Revenue, has sent let-ters to all the district Collectorsasking them to furnish up-to-date status on individual andcommunity claims (tehsil-wiseand district-wise) under theForest Rights Act (FRA) to theDirectorate immediately.

The letter from DirectorUN Malick emphasised onconversion of forest villagesinto revenue villages underSection 3(i)(h) of the ScheduledTribes and Other TraditionalForest Dwellers’ for recognitionof Forest Rights Act, 2006.

The letter clearly men-tioned that the rights of settle-ment and conversion of all for-est villages, old habitations andun-surveyed villages into rev-enue villages have been recog-nised as one of the rights of for-est dwelling scheduled caste,scheduled tribe and OTFDcommunities under the FRA.

The Ministry of TribalAffairs had issued compre-hensive guidelines in 2013 toOdisha on various aspects ofimplementation of the actwhich, inter alia, emphasisedon the conversion of forest andun-surveyed villages and oldhabitations into revenue vil-lages.

The Director sought thecooperation of all Collectors tomaterialise the FRA provi-sions.

Forest rights activiststhroughout the State have wel-comed the Board of Revenueinitiative and are hopeful thatit will ease the process of con-version. They maintained thatdespite the MoTA guidelines,

there is lack of understandingand clarity at the official levelto carry out the process of con-version.

Due to this, a number ofcases of conversion, thoughcompleted at district-level com-mittee, are pending due todelay in the settlement process.

According toSharachchandra Lele, distin-guished fellow inEnvironmental Policy andGovernance, Centre forEnvironment andDevelopment, Ashoka Trustfor Research in Ecology and theEnvironment, “The Odishaorder on forest village conver-sion is a positive and welcomestep in the implementation ofthe FRA.”

Lele also mentioned thatconversion of a forest villageinto revenue village is notenough. The community forestrights (CFR) of the inhabitantsof the village are also required,because they are dependent onthe forests surrounding theirvillage for their livelihood.

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Bhubaneswar: A ‘Hockey Hallof Fame’ would be established atthe Birsa Munda Stadium inRourkela before March 2020,informed Housing and UrbanDevelopment Minister NiranjanPujari in the State Assembly onTuesday.

In response to a question ofBJP MLA Dillip Ray, theMinister informed that the‘Hockey Hall of Fame’ would beestablished well before March2020 for which a detailed pro-ject report is being preparednow. “Information regardingglorious history of hockey inOdisha and achievements madein the Olympics, internationaland national matches by Odishaplayers , trophy, feature wall, stat-ues of eminent hockey players ofOdisha and the country, hock-ey galleries and informawouldbe put in the ‘Hockey Hall ofFame,” informed the Minister.

Meanwhile, Ray has dem-anded that the Government pro-vide more supports to hockeyplayers in villages and in Sun-dargarh and facilitate holding ofnational and international hock-ey matches in Rourkela. PNS

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Dr Pramod Kumar Routbeing transferred from the

Ghatgaon CHC, has joined onSeptember 1 as the new paedi-atric specialist of KumarjodaCHC under Joda block. Afterthe controversial absence of DrMonalisa Partra from duty sinceAugust 9, the poor peopledepending on the CHC werefacing a lot of difficulties. TheKumarjoda CHC situated on theoutskirts of the Joda town catersmainly to the need of the pooradivasi people those who cannotafford to go to private hospitalfor treatment.

Some months back whenthere was shortage of doctors inthe CHC, Dr Patra, herself apediatric specialist, had beenappointed by the district admin-istration to be paid from the dis-trict mineral fund, but it wasalleged against her that she was

not coming to the CHC in theafternoon on the pretext thatrequired number of patients wasnot coming during that time.

However, one day the situ-ation went out of control whena patient was reported to havedied due to non-availability ofthe doctor in the CHC.

When the matter was pub-lished in The Pioneer on July 28,there was much hue and cry inthe locality but the irony is thatinstead of taking the correctivemeasures ,the alleged doctorjoined hands with some peoplehaving vested interest who cameforward to give undue sup-port to her on the ground thatshe was a woman and it waswrong to malign her. Even, theywent on threatening that if DrMonalisa resigns, they will gofor “Joda bandh” and also triedto create a panic among localpeople saying that there will beno doctor if she quits. However,thanks to district CollectorAshish Thakre, a new doctor inthe Kumarjoda CHC was post-ed which has been very muchappreciated by the locals.

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Atotal of 4,831 students arepresently out of school in

Mayurbhanj district, accordingto an official survey conduct-ed recently. The number mayeven go up to 5,000, admittedCollector Vineet Bharadwajhere on Tuesday.

At a Press conference,Bharadwaj revealed that at least2,002 students have been longabsentees and 2,638 are drop-outs, while 191 boys and girlsnever enrolled themselves inschools.

A household survey wasconducted in the district byteachers, SMC members andAWW and these three cate-gories of children were identi-fied in the process. Out of thesenon-school-going children, 95are orphans, 567 live in remote,inaccessible areas, 441 havesingle parent, 1,110 hail fromdisturbed families, 298 aremigrants and 62 are workingchildren, whereas other 2,099

children don’t come to schooldue to health reasons, it wasfurther disclosed at the meet.

However, various measuresare being taken to bring abouta change in the dismal situa-tion, Bharadwaj asserted.

Schemes like ResidentialSpecial Training are beingintroduced and soon there willbe a change in the situation atthe grassroot level, he said.

He, at the same time,stressed the need of qualityeducation in schools.

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In yet another incident oflynching, a teenager, who

had entered a house to alleged-ly steal valuables, was lynchedby locals in northwest Delhi’sMukundpur in street no-7 inthe early hours of Tuesday, fol-lowing which two people havebeen arrested, police said.

PCR received a call aboutthe incident about three hoursafter the ghastly act. By the timepolice reached the spot, the 16-year-old boy had succumbed tohis injuries, said police, addingthat four other accused areabsconding. “Around 6.30 am, aPCR call was received about anincident of theft. A team rushedto the spot and found the boylying dead. The body was shift-

ed to Dr Baba Saheb AmbedkarHospital in Rohini for postmortem,” said Aslam Khan,Deputy Commissioner of Police,North-west district. However,the boy’s family claimed that hewas not a thief and there wassome other reason behind hislynching. “He was missing sinceMonday night after he had gonefor walk. We were informed inthe morning around 6 am thatmy nephew is lying on road nearstreet no-7. I rushed there. I sawhim lying motionless on the roadwith his hands tied injuries allover his body. He had come tostudy here and had recentlystarted electrician training,” saidIshtiyaq Ahmed, a relative of thedeceased, a resident ofMukundpur. “The deceasedhad allegedly sneaked into the

house around 3.30 am and wascaught by the house owner.About six men, including twobrothers, beat him in merciless-ly with sticks, eventually leadingto his death on the spot. A FIRunder Section 304 of the IPC hasbeen registered at Bhalaswa Dairypolice station and we are alsoprobing why the PCR wasinformed three hours after theincident,” said the DCP. “Duringinvestigation, six accused peopleinvolved in beating the minorboy to death were identified. Twoof them are brothers, remainingfour are neighbours. We havearrested Nand Kishore and RajKishore (two brothers), whereasTriveni, Deshraj, Sant Lal andSohan Lal are absconding. Teamshave been sent to bring them tothe justice,” the DCP said.

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In a major decision taken infavour of the farmers of

Chhattisgarh, the Cabinet ledby Chief Minister Raman Singhdecided to provide Rs 300 perquintal of bonus on the paddyprocured from the farmers. Itmeans that farmer would getmore than Rs 2000 per quintal.This would benefit around 13lakh farmers of State.

BJP had in its manifestohad promised to give Rs 300per quintal bonus to the farm-ers during last election. Thiskharif year state governmenthas set a target to purchase 75lakh metric tonne of paddyfrom state farmers. The pro-curement for Kharif 2018 is tocommence from November 1.

Cabinet for it has made anadditional Budgetary provi-sion of Rs 2400. Discussion washeld to include the supple-mentary cost, through a sup-plementary budget by calling aspecial two days session of

state assembly i.e. onSeptember 11-12. Permissionof Governor has been sought tocall the session. As per partysources, on September 11 thesupplementary budget wouldbe tabled. Before that Housewould pay tributes toChhattisgarh GovernorBalramji Das Tandon and for-mer Prime Minister late Atal

Behari Vajpayee. Discussionon budget would be held onSeptember 12 and then passed.

The State Government isalso ensuring that the pro-cured paddy price and bonus isdistributed before theDeepawali festival.

At present the commonpaddy procurement price is Rs1750 while the A-grade is Rs

1770 per quintal. State gov-ernment would procure around15 quintal per acre from farm-ers. The amount would bepaid directly to the bankaccount of farmers.

Chief Minister had earlierindicated that farmers wouldget bonus of year 2017 in year2018 during the ‘Atal Vikasyatra’.

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The Atal NagarDevelopment Authority

will outsource operation andmaintenance work for its 1.2MLD Sewerage TreatmentPlant (STP) based on MBRtechnology at capital complexin the new capital city.

Atal Nagar, the high technew capital city ofChhattisgarh is a ‘zero sewagedischarge city’, is equippedwith decentralized sewagetreatment for better efficiency.

Notably, Atal Nagar beingfirst planned city of 21st cen-tury already has state-of-the-art infrastructure at its dis-posal. The city has wellplanned economic and socialinfrastructure, officialsinformed.

The Atal Nagar Smart CitySystem comprises SmartGovernance, City Surveillance,Intelligent Transport manage-ment System, Electricity andWater supply and CityCommand and Control Centreamong others, officialsinformed.

Notably, Atal Nagar as aSmart City will leverage thecollective intelligence createdby connecting physical, insti-tutional, social and economicinfrastructure to deliver aquantum improvement in thequality of life of local popula-tion, they informed.

Notably, the new capitalcity of Chhattisgarh is a ‘greenfield’ city and is planned todevelop its infrastructure grad-ually in order to provide worldclass amenities and facilities toits residents and visitors.

The Atal NagarDevelopment Authority hastaken the next step in “SmartCity’ development with plansnow for ‘Information &Communication Technology”(ICT) enablement of infra-structure and citizen services,officials informed

Atal Nagar is alreadyamong five other cities in the

country chosen as‘Demonstration Cities’ for theCentre’s ambitious SustainableUrban Transport Project(SUTP).

The final five cities partic-ipating as 'DemonstrationCities' under SustainableUrban Transport Project(SUTP) are - Indore (MadhyaPradesh), Mysore (Karnataka),Naya Raipur (Chhattisgarh),Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad(Maharashtra).

Detailed project profileswere prepared by all citieswith the assistance of the SUTPConsultants and then endorsedby the SUTP SteeringCommittee to be included toSUTP as ‘City DemonstrationProjects’, officials stated.

It plans of developing aproject comprising IT-enabledsystems to manage a host ofutilities using state-of-art tech-nology.

The design would com-prise IT enabled land man-agement system, city surveil-lance besides a host of othersystems till now popular andbeing used only in the devel-oped countries.

The other city manage-ment systems include intelli-gent lighting systems, pay anduse parking systems, cityguide map available throughweb browser, intelligent trans-port system, city level wi-fitouch screens across the city,display boards across the cityfor providing real-time infor-mation, emergency alert andcrisis response systems, traf-fic re-routing applicationsbased on real time trafficdata. Atal Nagar DevelopmentAuthority has plans of devel-oping a ‘Transport Hub’ spreadover an area of 161.9 hectaresin the new capital city.

The hub would includesetting up Light Rail TransportSystem (LRTS) stations. Thearea being earmarked for the'Transport Hub' would be 12.55per cent of the total area of thenew capital city, officials stat-ed.

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Chief Minister Raman Singhflagged off the “Udaan

Express” on Tuesday whichwould visit nine districts ofState from his official residence.

It would approach childrenand motivate them on learningUrdu, modern education andemployment oriented educa-tion.

Chief Minister appreciatedthe initiative taken byChhattisgarh Urdu Academyand wished Academy presidentAkram Qureshi along withoffice bearers and member suc-cess for it. Academy has teamedit with Ratba Foundation Punefor it.

CM said that in all the cat-egories and communities basedin Chhattisgarh, there is culturaland communal unity, which isan exemplary example for coun-

try and world. State governmentis making all efforts to provideall public welfare schemes to thepeople so that everyone is withdevelopment. He said that dur-ing the motivational pro-gramme if possible the peoplecan be also linked with publicwelfare programmes/schemes.

As per the plan, the vehicle

would reach Jagdalpuron September 6,Narayanpur on Sept 7,Kabirdham on Sept 8,Mungeli on Sept 9,Raigarh and two days atBilaspur, Raipur on Sept13, Durg on Sept 14 andRajnandgaon on Sept15. Urdu based pro-grammes would be pre-sented in presence ofministers, MPs, MLAs,public representativesamong others. Academywould distribute booklet

on different schemes.Vice president duo Shafique

Ahmed Fugga Bhai and MrsNazma Ajeem, members AbdulHafiz, Zaki Ahmed, UsmanAli, Hamid Shah andChhattisgarh State HajCommittee former chairmanDr Salim Raj among others werepresent.

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Accusing the Congress of“mainstreaming” Maoists,

the BJP on Tuesday quoted aletter purportedly seized inpolice raid alleging that senior Congress leaders werepro-actively funding Maoistactivities.

Addressing a press confer-ence here, BJP spokespersonSambit Patra said a letterexchanged by two Maoists onSeptember 25, 2017, mentioneda telephone number that“belongs to none other thanRahul Gandhi’s mentor andCongress leader DigvijaySingh,” he alleged.

He said the letterexchanged between the twoLeft-wing members details thatthe Congress leaders were “very

much willing to assist” andcontact number given in thecommunication is that ofSingh, Patra alleged.

“A letter b/w 2 comradesSurendra & Prakash ofSeptember 25, 2017, has beenfound in recent raids. A line inletter reads, ‘Congress leadersare very much willing to assistin this process & have alsoagreed to fund further agita-tions whenever such opportu-nities arrive’,” Patra quoted thesaid letter.

“In this regard, you cancontact our friend onthis... .number,” the BJPspokesman further referredthe letter adding “this phonenumber belongs to none otherthan Rahul Gandhi’s mentor &Congress leader Digvijay Singh.Digvijay Singh hasn’t clarified

that it’s not his number &thus, has accepted that it’s his,”the BJP leader added.

Patra said Congress-ledUPA dispensations did every-thing to “mainstream” Maoistsin the Government and gavethem key posts. In this respect,he referred to NationalAdvisory Council (NAC) con-stituted in the first UPA tenure (2004-2009) which hesaid was filled with the left-wing activists.

“There are some who haveromanticised Naxalism withinthe Congress party. The biggestexample of this was the NAC bythe Congress, which was thebrainchild of Sonia Gandhiand closest to her. That body was the ground for sup-porting Naxalism,” the BJPspokesman said.

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In a major technical decisionto deal with punctuality issue

due to deceleration of trainswhile passing railway stationand curves, the Indian Railwayshas decided to opt for worldstandards that allow passengertrains to cross stations, halts,loop lines, turnouts and curva-tures at over 50 kilometre perhour. At present the speed limitin such cases in 15 km per hour.

For instance, a passengertrain starting from New DelhiRailway Station which does nothas a stoppage at HazratNizamuddin Station needs toslow down to 15 kmph whilecrossing the stretch. But afterthe new technicalities approvedby Research Design andStandards Organisation(RDSO) comes in force, thetrain can continue with its topaccelerated speed thus not los-ing time soon after it started itsjourney from New Delhi.

Following the worst everpunctuality figures during thelast several months, RailwayBoard has taken several stepswhich include two significantones related to speed of the

trains. Last month, the Boardallowed train pilots to acceler-ate to the top permissible limitto make up for the loss, if any.The second decision was toseek approval from RDSO tomaximise speed at curves andstation crossings.

RDSO, a CentralGovernment organisation,through a letter August 29,2018, approved the RailwayBoard’s demand for increasing the speed overturnouts and loop lines to 50kmph subjected to certainadditions/modifications andcorrections of the infrastruc-

tures wherever required.“Up-gradation of speed to

50 kmph on turnout and looplines should cover a number ofcontiguous stations at a stretchso as to derive a perceptibleadvantage of the higher speedin train operation,” said RDSO Director General MHussain in his approval sanc-tion to railway board.

However, the RDSO hasinstructed the railways thatbefore the introduction of thenew speed manual, screeningsof thick web curved switchesover pre-stressed concrete(PSC) sleepers, curves with

150mm clean ballast cushion,all rail joints on these turnoutsand other technicalities shouldbe done and duly inspected

Further, it suggested thatlayouts of each and everyturnout and cross-overs wherethe 50 kmph speed is pro-posed, including versines overturn-in curves, has to bechecked for correct laying orgeometrical defects in layoutand be rectified beforeapproaching the Commissionerfor Rail Safety (CRS) who final-ly permits speed.

Last month, the RailwayMinistry directed train dri-vers to hit the top permissiblespeed to make up for the losttravel time. The punctualityperformance of IndianRailways in 2017-18 was worsein comparison to the two finan-cial years before that, withalmost 30 per cent of its trainsrunning late.

The punctuality of mailand express trains during April2017-March 2018 was 71.39per cent as compared to 76.69per cent in the correspondingperiod of 2016-2017, which isa deterioration of 5.30 percent. In 2015-2016, 77.44 percent trains ran on time.

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The Congress on Tuesdaylashed out at the BJP, saying

there was an undeclared emer-gency in the country and tak-ing action against a young girlfor raising slogan, against theBJP Government in a flight wasnot just an assault on the free-dom of speech and expressionbut also on India’s Constitution.

Congress spokespersonManish Tewari said the battle for2019 would be between what hecalled “fascism” represented bythe BJP and democracy repre-sented by the progressive andpluralistic forces in this countryand would be a “battle for thevery soul of India”.

He said the incident involv-ing the young girl in Tamil Naduwas the second one after fiveactivists were arrested from allover the country by the PunePolice. The Congress leaderdubbed the BJP’s Tamil Naduchief ’s defence as “undemocra-tic and uncalled for”, which isalso “completely reprehensible”.

“If this is not undeclaredemergency, then how else wouldyou characterise this situation?What happened in Tamil Naduyesterday on the flight fromChennai to Tuticorin was notonly an assault on the freedomof speech and expression, notonly an assault on our funda-mental rights, it was an assaulton the Constitution of India, itwas an assault on democracy, itwas an assault on the Idea ofIndia. It was fascism playingitself out in its fullest glory,” hetold reporters.

Tewari alleged this was apattern which has been playingitself out repeatedly and sys-tematically since 2014, whenthe BJP-NDA Governmentcame to power.

He said this pattern startedwith the “assault” on students ofFilm Institute in Pune, andincidents like the unfortunatesuicide of Rohith Vemula, dere-cognition of Periyar study cir-cle in IIT-Madras and “vilifica-tion campaign” of Jawaharlal

Nehru University are examplesin this regard.

He said there is a narrativewhich the NDA-BJPGovernment has been consis-tently trying to peddle, whichsays there will be only one voicein this country and that wouldbe of the BJP-RSS.

“If anybody else speaks, hewill be thrown into jail. If youquestion the BJP, you are anti-national. If you question theGovernment, you are a traitor.If you question the establish-ment, you are downright sedi-tious,” he said.

“Is this the India that wewant? And therefore, it isbecoming increasingly clearthat the battle for 2019 is goingto be between fascism repre-sented by the BJP and democ-racy represented by the pro-gressive and pluralistic forces ofthis country.

“This is going to be the bat-tle for 2019. This is not mere-ly the removal of a Governmentand its replacement by anoth-er, 2019 is going to be a battleto be ‘very soul of India’,” hesaid. The Congress leaderalleged “fascism” was on fulldisplay when the young girl inTamil Nadu “hit a raw nerve”when she allegedly raised slo-gans against the BJPGovernment” and alleged that“unbridled arrogance” was ondisplay when the BJP statechief lodged a complaintagainst her and she was sent to15 days of judicial custody.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi onTuesday urged the teachers of the coun-

try to bring out inherent strength and tal-ents from within the students. Modi said thisduring his interaction with the recipients ofNational Teachers’ Awards and on theoccasion he congratulated the nationalawardees for their efforts towards improv-ing the quality of education in the country.

Modi commended their dedicationtowards education and for making it their“life mantra”. He said a teacher remains ateacher throughout his or her life.

During the interaction, Modi urged theawardees to mobilise the community andto make them an integral part of schooldevelopment. He also exhorted the teach-

ers to work towards bringing out the inher-ent strength of students, especially thosefrom poor and rural background.

The Prime Minister said the educatorsshould work towards removing disconnectbetween the teachers and the students, sothat teachers are remembered by the stu-dents throughout their lives. He alsoencouraged the teachers to digitally trans-form their schools and its neighbourhood.

During the interaction with the PrimeMinister, the awardees narrated their sto-ries in transforming their schools into cen-tres of learning and excellence. They alsothanked the Prime Minister for the newonline nomination process and for schemessuch as Digital India, which is bringing abig qualitative change in school educationthroughout the country.

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The Special NIA Court,Ernakulam on Tuesday

framed charges against sevenout of eight accused persons inthe ISIS Omar Al-Hindi case.With the framing of thecharges, the trial is expected tobegin on September 26.

The case was registeredsuo-motu by NIA on October1, 2016, based on reliable infor-mation regarding the activities

of certain youth, who had theintention of furthering theobjectives of the banned ter-rorist organisation ISIS, insouthern Indian States ofKerala and Tamil Nadu.

These youth had allegedlygot together and formed anISIS terror module namedAnsarul Khilafa-KL over socialmedia platforms and had madepreparations to carry out ter-rorist attacks against prominentpersons, including judges,

police officers and politiciansand also against foreign nation-als and rationalists.

The NIA had arrested sixmembers of the terror moduleon October 2, 2016, a dayafter registering the case whenthey were allegedly holding aconspiracy meeting atKanakamala in Kannur districtof Kerala. Subsequently, anoth-er member of the module wasarrested on February 15, 2017,following his deportation fromthe UAE.

In this case, the NIA hadon October 5, 2016, also arrest-ed an ISIS operative SubahaniHaja Moideen, alias, AbuJasmine who had travelled to

Iraq/Syria during April, 2015,and had fought for the terror-ist organisation in the IslamicCaliphate announced by it.Moideen had returned to Indiaduring September 2015 andcontinued his activities in sup-port of the ISIS in India.

The agency had filed thechargesheet against accusedpersons Manseed Muhmood,

Swalih Mohammed, RashidAli, Ramshad NK, Safvan,Jasim NK and ShajeerMangalassery for criminal con-spiracy and various sections ofthe Unlawful Activities(Prevention) Act.

A supplementarychargesheet was filed againstaccused Moinudheen onAugust 11, 2017.

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As many as nine pilot stud-ies have been rolled out in

11 States to test the effective-ness of modern technologies inassessing the extent of yield lossfor payment of crop insuranceclaims. The pilot studies arebeing carried out in AndhraPradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh,Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh,Maharashtra, Odisha, Punjab,Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu andTelangana.

The pilots are being con-ducted by the National RemoteSensing Centre (NRSC),CGIAR Research Programmeon Climate Change, Agricultureand Food Security (CCAFS),SatSure, Space ApplicationCentre (SAC), Skymet, CropIn,Niruthi, Indian AgriculturalStatistics Research Institute(IASRI) and Weather Risk.

Currently, the crop cuttingexperiment (CCE) — the tra-ditional random surveymethod — is used to estimatecrop yields of a location. Underthe Pradhan Mantri Fasal BimaYojana (PMFBY), States arerequired to carry out at leastfour CCEs in every village

panchayat for each crop andsubmit the yield data to insur-ance companies within onemonth of harvest. It hasbecome a challenge to conductCCEs in a short span consid-ering 2.5 lakh gram panchay-ats in India.

In this backdrop, theAgriculture Ministry wants touse modern technologies to getthe crop yield figures faster andaccurately for payment of crop

insurance claims. A workshopwas also conducted on ninepilot studies here Tuesday.

“The Government of Indiahas rolled out nine pilot studieson optimisation of CCE usingmodern technologies aimingto resolve various challengesfaced by the Scheme,” the min-istry said in a statement.

The nine pilot studies areconducted in 23 districts spreadacross 11 States. The study is

expected to be completed byFebruary 2019, after analysingthe use of technology in par-ticular areas of crops during2018 kharif season and crops inrabi season of 2018-19, it said.

Technologies like scalableyield mapper for integratingremote sensing data in cropgrowth simulation model, cropdetection algorithm, crop healthmonitoring, Integrated SamplingMethodology using remotesensing, deep stratification,index based insurance for flood,intelligent and smart samplingtechnique, among others arebeing piloted in the field.

“The inclusion of suchtechnological interventions isexpected to address the issuesof large number of CCE beingconducted during short har-vesting window with limitedmanpower,” the ministry said.

Such technology-basedsolutions will help in achievingthe objective with limitedresource, more accuracy, result-ing in timely settlement ofclaims and will further facilitateto reduce the unit area ofinsurance to a level lower thanthe present village and pan-chayat level, it added.

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The farmers union on Tuesdaysaid the September 5 protest by

workers and farmers at RamlilaMaidan in Delhi will not be the lastrally and they warned to intensi-fy their struggle against the “anti-people” policies of the Centre.

The farmers and workers, par-ticipating in the rally, want remu-nerative prices for crops as per theSwaminathan Committee recom-mendations, debt waiver of allfarmers and agricultural workers,minimum wage of not less than Rs18,000 per month for workers.

The rally — Mazdoor KisanSangharsh March — is beingorganised jointly by CITU, AIKSand AIAWU, organisations andunions affiliated to the CommunistParty of India (Marxist).

“This is the first time...AfterIndependence that farmers andworkers will jointly participate in arally against the Government,”CITU general secretary Tapan Sentold reporters, adding, “And it willnot be the last one of our efforts.”

“We will announce the secondphase of our struggle and waragainst the Government, whoseanti-people policies are affectingthe poor people of our country.This Government is only makingpolicies keeping in mind the inter-ests of the corporate and the rich,”

Sen said.Last week, the organisers said

they were expecting more thanthree lakh people from across thecountry at the rally. Preparations forthe rally had been under way forseveral days but incessant rainover the last few days threw all thatinto disarray, damaging themakeshift shelters at RamlilaMaidan, the venue for the protest.However, the thousands of partic-ipants who have come from all overthe country appeared confident thatthe rally would be successful inhighlighting their issues of concern.

Punik Narayan Rau, 70, hascome from Nashik. Rau said hewas part of the “Long March” offarmers from Nashik to Mumbaiearlier this year. The march offarmers was led by All India KisanSabha and was, among otherdemands, for proper implementa-tion of Maharashtra Government’sloan waiver scheme.

Rau said he was disappointedwith Maharashtra Government.“The BJP Government inMaharashtra fooled us. I have cometo Delhi to raise my voice againstthe anti-farmer policies of theCentre. I will not stop till I get theright price for my crops,” he said.

Swaroop, 25, from Kerala, saidhe had seen more rain in his homeState Kerala this monsoon. Alongwith his three friends, he coveredthe distance on motorbikes.

“Me and my friends travelledfrom Kerala to Delhi in seven dayscrossing many States likeKarnataka, Tamil Nadu, Telangana,Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra,Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradeshmeeting farmers on our way.

“We realised that the state offarmers is seriously bad. We told them that the time has cometo raise our voice against the Government’s policies,”Swaroop said.

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Restoring the prestige of theUpper House is his “imme-

diate” priority, Vice-Presidentand Rajya Sabha Chairman MVenkaiah Naidu said Tuesday ashe called for reframing rules totake care of “erring members”and suggested stricter provi-sions in the anti-defection law.

In an interview to PTI,Naidu also suggested a host ofreforms such as a decision bypresiding officers within threemonths of receiving a com-plaint against a member forchanging party allegiance, andsetting up special courts dedi-cated to election-related peti-tions for speedy disposal.

Those leaving their partiesmust also quit their Housemembership, Naidu said, elab-orating on his suggestion toreform the anti-defection law for quick action againstparty hoppers.

“This is the minimummoral responsibility. I want tomake it a Constitutionalresponsibility. Morals, somefollow, some don’t,” Naidu,who completed a year in officelast month, said. The currentlaw on defections does notprescribe a deadline for pre-siding officers to dispose ofcomplaints submitted by polit-ical parties against defectors.

According to the law, atleast two-third members of alegislature party have to defectfor escaping punitive measureslike losing membership of theHouse. “The time has comethat rules of Parliament shouldbe reframed to take care of erring members and this is pos-sible if there is a consensus,”Naidu said.

He said a committee

appointed by him to reviseRajya Sabha rules has submit-ted a preliminary report andwill submit the final report bythe end of October.

“My immediate concern isrestoring prestige and decorumof Rajya Sabha...,” he said whenasked about his priorities in hissecond year in office. Expressinghis concern over the delay inpresiding officers deciding oncases, he said there have beeninstances when a decision hastaken five years. “That is wrong...Every party tries to take advan-tage. All these petitions shouldbe disposed of in three months,”Naidu said.

Loopholes in the anti-defection act have to beaddressed by amending thelaw to take care of “grey areas”.Citing his decision on a JanataDal (United) plea for disqual-ification of its Rajya SabhaMP Sharad Yadav, he said hehad shown the way.

Naidu had disqualifiedYadav in December last year

within three months of receiv-ing the complaint against him.“If you (presiding officer) sit onit and delay it, then it meansyou are going against the spir-it of the law,” he said.

Naidu also asked politicalparties to forge consensus on anational policy for LegislativeCouncils in states, saying thereis a feeling among people thatit is for the “rehabilitation” ofpoliticians who are unable toget elected.

But he has not taken astand on the issue, the Vice-President clarified. “I am nottaking a specific position in thisregard. I am more on havinguniformity...There has to be abasis even if you want to havea Legislative Council,” he said,noting that only seven of 29States have Legislative Councils.

Days after Prime MinisterNarendra Modi praised him forbeing a “disciplinarian”, thevice president said no countrycan progress, prosper or bestrong without discipline.

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Several Opposition leaders have objectedto resorting to Parliament if the courts areunable to decide soon on the RamJanmabhoomi issue. Muslim leaders areunfortunately not magnanimous enough

not to quibble about the site as a land issue despiteknowing that it is a much greater issue of ‘faith’— most Hindus solemnly believe that Lord Ramwas born there. Fair enough. So, as a believer innational amity, this writer will attempt to look foran alternative solution to the issue of symbols ofthe Hindu faith being accorded their place in ournational life. Neither the Krishna Janmabhoomiin Mathura nor the Gyanvapi mosque next to theKashi Vishwanath temple in Benaras suffers fromany such issue of ‘land dispute’.

The Idgah built adjacent to the KrishnaJanmabhoomi site is an ordinary structure whichcame into being during Aurangzeb’s reign andis used by a few namazis on Fridays. Underneath

the mound, whereupon existed the KrishnaMandir, is now the Janmabhoomi dera, whichis as modest a structure as a garage. In his book,Mathura: A District Memoir, FS Growse of theBengal Civil Service has recorded his exhaustivesurvey and research about Braj Bhoomi. He wasoverwhelmed by the vandalism that inflicted thearea repeatedly and wrote in a heartfelt manneralthough he was far from his home in England.To quote him: “Thanks to Muhammadan intol-erance, there is not a single building of any antiq-uity, either in the city or its environs. Its mostfamous temple, that dedicated to Kesava Deva,was destroyed in 1669, the eleventh year of thereign of the iconoclast Aurangzeb. The Idgaherected on its ruins is a building of little archi-tectural value.” Mahmud of Ghazni was, how-ever, the first iconoclast to vandalise Mathura.That was in 1017 AD, about which Growsewrote: “If anyone wished to construct a build-ing equal to it, he would not be able to do so with-out expending a hundred million dinars, and thework would occupy 200 years, even though theablest and experienced workmen were employed.Orders were given that all the temples should beburnt with naphtha and fire and levelled. Thecity was given up to plunder for 20 days. Amongthe spoils are said to have been five great idolsof pure gold with eyes of rubies and adornmentsof other precious stones, together with a vastnumber of smaller silver images, which whenbroken up, formed a load for more than 100

camels. The total value of the spoils had beenestimated at three million rupees; while the num-ber of Hindus carried away into captivityexceeded 5,000.”

To go back to Aurangzeb, over two centuriesafter the desecration, Growse felt that of all thesacred places in India, none enjoys a greater pop-ularity than the capital of Braj, the holy city ofMathura. For over nine months, festival followsupon a festival in rapid succession and the ghatsand temples are daily thronged with new troopsof way-worn pilgrims. So great is the sanctity ofthe spot that its panegyrists do not hesitate todeclare that a single day spent at Mathura is moremeritorious than a lifetime passed in Benares. Allthis celebration is due to the fact of its being thebirthplace of demi-God Krishna.

Today, Balkrishna is worshiped in a little roomwhich appears like a servant quarter attached tothe back of the Idgah. Pathos can be experiencedby any visitor, whether a devotee or otherwise. Toparaphrase William Shakespeare, not all thescents of Arabia would suffice to wash away thesins of Ghazni and Alamgir at Mathura. And sinceit is not possible to claim back what was destroyedlong ago, the return of the Idgah and the shud-dhi of Krishna Janmabhoomi or the birthplace ofKrishna, is the only viable alternative.

Coming to Benaras and the KashiBisheshwar temple, for the sake of impartiali-ty, it is best to again rely on an Englishman,Reverend Matthew Atmore Sherring of the

London Missionary Society, who resided main-ly in the holy city between 1852 and 1880. Hetoured the whole area repeatedly and surveyedthe scene from a religious point of view. In hisbook, Benares: The Sacred City of the Hindus,Sherring referred to Al-Beruni, who is one ofthe important sources of medieval Indian his-tory. He came to India with Mahmud Ghazniwho reached as far as Benaras during his ninthincursion into India. Some decades later,Muhammad Ghori, after defeating theKannaujian monarch Jaichand, marched toBenaras where he was reported to havedestroyed many Hindu temples. Thereaftercame Aurangzeb, who changed the name of thecity to Muhammadabad. The temple ofBisheshwar was systematically demolished byhim. The large collection of deities, stored ona platform called the court of Mahadev on thenorthern side of the temple, were found fromthe debris. As recorded by Sherring, extensiveremains of this ancient temple were still visi-ble and they formed a large portion of the west-ern wall of the mosque which was built uponits site by the bigoted oppressor. Evidently, theformer temple was much larger than the pre-sent one, which is really small for a shrine asimportant as this one.The new temple was builtat the behest of Rani Ahilyabai Holkar long afterAurangzeb’s desecration.

Sherring explained that the demolition oftemples was not inspired merely by hatred for

idolatry or by greed for loot. It was also drivenby a desire to humiliate the Hindu community.How does one explain the fact that the masjidbuilt by Aurangzeb just had to be bang next tothe Gyanvapi or the well of knowledge? Themosque, built by Aurungzeb on the foundationsof the old or original Bisheshwar temple, is ofinterest not for its own sake — notwithstandingits lofty appearance, it is a structure without anystriking architectural beauty in its own right —but on account of the ancient remains with whichit is associated and from the materials used inits construction.The mosque is altogether com-posed of the remains of an ancient temple of largedimensions and elaborate workmanship. Thehigh pillars, moreover, on its northern face, havebeen transferred from the same spacious build-ing. These remains are Hindu and it is unques-tionable that the edifice, which was destroyed inorder to make way for the mosque, was an oldtemple of Bisheshwar. An excellent ground-planof this temple, prepared from a minute exami-nation of the extant remains, was drawn by JamesPrinsep and published by him in his Views ofBenares. There is no doubt that the Bisheshwartemple stood on this site and was destroyed byMuslim rulers who transferred its stones intotheir own mosque. The neighbouring templebearing this name the Hindus built was for thepurpose of perpetuating the worship ofBisheshwar. Between the mosque and the tem-ple of Bisheshwar is the famous Gyanvapi or

Gyan Kup, well of knowledge in which, asHindus believe, Shiva resides.

What greater evidence is necessary for theGovernment to exercise its sovereignty and takeover these edifices which were part of theinvaders’ loot and once India’s pride? Not doingso would be tantamount to an act of omissioncommitted by a semi-sovereign power. It is clearthat in terms of statesmanship, leaders of theMuslim community would endear themselves toall Indians if as a grand gesture they give up thespace occupied in Mathura and Benaras for thetemples their to be restored. The Government,for its part, should receive such an offer with openarms. There’s no land dispute here.

As an aside, an interesting reverse exampleof wise politics was displayed by then PunjabPremier Sir Sikandar Hayat Khan in Lahore in1938. The High Court gave a verdict that theShaheedgunge Gurdwara should remain with theSikhs although it had once been a mosque. TheMuslim League wanted the Hayat KhanGovernment to appeal to the Privy Council. Buthe rejected the idea on the ground that by thesame logic, Muslims would have to give up hun-dreds of mosques and dargahs, including AjmerSharif. So it was best to let the principle of adversepossession prevail. Regrettably, after the Partitionthere was no such wisdom and the Gurdwarawas violently taken over by Muslims.

(The writer is a well-known columnist and an author)

�������������Sir — Gone are the days when Hindifilms celebrated their silver and gold-en jubilee of release with packed the-aters announcing their stupendoussuccess at the box-office.

Compared to the trend back in theera where the number of weeks a filmspent at the box-office was the biggestparameter to judge a star, today theopening weekend collection is perhapsthe primary tool to gauge an actor’sstardom. Nowadays, breaking into the‘100-crore’ club is the initial achieve-ment that decides the fate of the films.

In the bargain, some films just take acursory bow and vanish without anyfurther trace.

Considered to be a culture econo-my of urban leisure, India’s multiplexbandwagon has gone beyond the met-ros to redefine entertainment in therural sector as well. However, emptytheatres and the disastrous perfor-mances of even the multi-starrers at thebox-office portend a worrisome futurefor cinema in India. Technology hasonly succeeded in driving audiences outof the theaters. If movies are to beenjoyed on mobile-sets and the cozyconfines of one’s drawing room, how

has the technological advancementaided the cause of new-age cinema.

The huge success of Netflix hasmade it more than evident that whenit comes to entertainment, screen sizedoesn’t really matter. With changingbusiness trends, it is necessary that thecineplexes attempt ways to enhance thetheatre experience. Already in the redwith contentions of film piracy andother illegalities denting the profits ofthe film industry, it is a precarious sit-uation the film exhibitors find them-selves in.

Pachu MenonMargao

����� �������Sir — Teachers play a major role inshaping a child’s life. Since childrenspend a lot of time in school in theirformative and impressionable years,teachers wield a great influence onthem.

In India, Teachers’ Day is celebrat-ed on September 5 every year to com-memorate the birthday of SarvepalliRadhakrishnan, the second Presidentof India. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnanwas a thinker, philosopher, academi-cian, diplomat and above all, a greatteacher.

Teachers’ Day celebrations aremeant to convey the message that wecare for our teachers, just as they carefor us. On this day, students oftendress up like their teachers and teachtheir juniors. Sometimes, teachers alsosit in classrooms and act like students,reliving the time when they were stu-dents themselves. This creates a bondof understanding between teachersand students.

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Teacher’s day is a day tohonour the teacherswho contribute themaximum to the stu-dents’ overall develop-

ment. Every year, we celebrateTeachers’ Day on September 5,which is marked by the birthanniversary of Dr SarvepalliRadhakrishnan, who was a teacherpar excellence. When he becamethe President of India in 1962, hewas requested by his studentsand friends that they get his per-mission to celebrate his birthdayon September 5. After hearing therequest, he politely replied,“Instead of celebrating my person-al birthday, it would be better if itis dedicated to the entire teachingprofession.”

The teaching profession has agreat impact on the overallgrowth, development and well-being of the students, society andthe country. A teacher is a beaconin the darkness and a hope thatgives the students courage andstrength to lead their life. Studentscan never repay the valuable con-tribution of their teachers whoarouse their hearts with the lightof knowledge by removing allsorts of ignorance.

Keeping the importance ofteacher-student relationship inmind, Professor Tariq Mansoor, ateacher and the Vice Chancellor ofthe Aligarh Muslim University hadsaid: “Teachers are the backboneof any academic institution andalways play a big role in shapingthe life and career of students”.

A teacher is strict with his/herstudents at times but that does notmean that s/he dislikes them.S/he rebukes his/her students toprepare them for greater chal-lenges and to nurture their learn-ing skill to build a strong founda-tion for the next phase of their life.Under the guidance and supervi-sion of a teacher, students attainedan impressive milestone in theirlife with integrity and honesty.

One of the research scholars,Mohammad Tahir, with Languageof Advertising, Media and Market

(LAMM) at the Aligarh MuslimUniversity said: “Whatsoever Ihave learned in my life, I havelearned it from my teachers. Myteachers are more like friendsand mentors who provided mewith life-changing advice whichhelps me grow a bit every day.”

Teachers’ Day must be cele-brated with lots of excitement, joyand happiness and students musttell their teachers how and why arethey special to them. This is theday when students should recog-nise and honour their teacherswho have given impeccable con-tribution in shaping their future.Teachers are not only the back-bone of our society but also act asa change agent — they shape anddevelop a student’s personalityand make him/her an ideal citizen

of the country and a responsiblemember of society.

Another student, FirdausQamar, wearing a scarf on herhead, expressed her feeling by say-ing that it was her teachers whoguided, helped and imbibed strong

values in her to make her what shewas at present. They had not onlyhelped in increasing her knowl-edge but also helped her under-stand the core values of human-ism.

As we know teaching is a

noble profession and teachers arethe source of knowledge and wis-dom. There is a saying that teach-ers are greater than the parents.Parents give birth to a child where-as teachers mould that child’spersonality and provide a brighterfuture. Apart from academics,teachers always stand by their stu-dents at every step to guide, moti-vate and inspire them to becomea better person in society and alsosucceed in their career.

On the importance of this day,Syed Talha Ali, who recently grad-uated from the Aligarh MuslimUniversity said: “My teachers havehelped me in boosting my spiritswhen I was dejected anddepressed. I thank all my teacherswho have taught me to strive forexcellence and become a better

version of myself.”Teachers act as role models

and always play a prominent rolein influencing and inspiring theirstudents. In our society, parentsare responsible for giving theirchildren quality care, however,teachers are responsible for mak-ing their future bright and success-ful. Teachers are the source ofinspiration to the students whichhelp them to go ahead and be suc-cessful. Teachers make studentsvery strong and prepare them toface the many challenges they canface in their life with confidenceand commitment.

Habibur Rahman, a studentpursuing his PhD in theDepartment of Linguistics atAligarh Muslim Universityexpressed his feeling with muchexcitement. He said, “They havealways shown me the right way todeal with situations and over-come my shortcomings. It isbecause of the advice of my teach-ers that I am able to concentrateon myself and am constantly try-ing to follow the path of goodnessand righteousness.”

Nothing could be learnedwithout the help of a teacher — beit painting, lab experiments orlearning a new language, it is ateacher who guides a student onhow to acquire particular traits toexcel in any specialised or techni-cal field.

Teachers’ Day is a wonderfulopportunity for all students toappreciate the hard work andefforts of the teachers in groom-ing and shaping the lives of his/herstudents in a meaningful way.The most difficult and challeng-ing part for a teacher is to balancethe class where students comefrom different economic, social,religious, linguistic and culturalbackground.

On this very special day, tohonour the teachers, studentsshould and must offer flowers,greeting cards and gifts to expresstheir affection, love and respecttowards them. Celebration ofTeachers’ Day is a wonderfulopportunity for all of us to recallour childhood days and cherishthose school or college memories,crushed under our daily chores.

(The writer is a well-known lin-guist, author and columnist andteaches at the Department ofLinguistics at the Aligarh MuslimUniversity)

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Not all investors look for safe-haven.Some have a penchant for taking risksfor potentially higher returns.

Investment in small and mid-cap mutualfunds can provide just that, albeit at a high-er risk. As the name suggests, small and mid-cap funds invest in companies with lowermarket capitalisation than large companies;and the proportion of investments betweenmid-cap and small-cap may vary from fundto fund. A mid-cap company’s market capi-talisation would range anywhere between twobillion dollar to $10 billion; whereas a small-cap is a company of market capitalisationbetween $300 million and two billion dollar.

In a typical growth curve of companies,large companies are at the top end of thecurve; whereas mid-cap companies are in themiddle, and small-cap at the beginning. Still,in the growth phase, mid-cap companies areexpected to have higher growth and increasetheir profits, market share and productivity.They are riskier than large companies but lessrisky than small-cap companies. On the otherhand, small-cap companies offer investorsmore room for growth but also confergreater risk and volatility than both mid-capand large-cap companies.

Although the Nifty and Sensex are on arise for a major part of the year now, the smalland mid-cap index has underperformed inboth the indices. However, if an investor takesa long-term view of 10 years, historically,small and mid-cap funds have outperformedthe large-cap funds — the latest examplebeing a whopping 55 per cent return in 2017.

However, volatility is the middle namefor small and mid-cap funds. Althoughannualised returns for the last five years havebeen very high, one can also witness hugedownsides for a brief period of time. Forinstance, the first half of 2018 had seen atough phase for small and mid-cap mutu-al funds and these schemes were badly hit.Mid-cap category gave an average return of-5.63 per cent and small-cap schemes gen-erated -7.75 per cent in the six-month peri-

od. Reasons for this lacklustre and almostfrightening performance are many.

After the re-categorisation of mutualfund schemes by SEBI, several AssetManagement Companies (AMC) sold offtheir small and mid-cap holdings along withmany large institutions, which moved theirinvestments to large caps. These sell-offs,along with other macroeconomic factors,like rising crude oil prices, falling rupee,falling interest rates, political uncertainty andFII sell-offs, are putting the burden on mutu-al funds. The downside is small and mid-cap will continue as they are overvalued andfurther corrections are expected, therebyprolonging the pain in small and mid-capsector for some more months to come. Thisis the reason why investments in small andmid-cap funds are not for everybody — itis only for investors who have the stomachto digest the volatility.

Investors should examine certain para-meters while investing in small and mid-capfunds. The first criteria is the construction ofa portfolio with quality stocks and lowerturnover ratio. Past performance of any fund,both in bull and bear runs, is also importantto find a mutual fund with consistent returns.A small and mid-cap fund with a price-earn-ings ratio of less than 30 is acceptable. Any

value higher is considered risky. Quality of the asset management com-

pany and its investment process is also cru-cial for any investor. An investor’s ability toswitch between small, mid and large-capcompanies, depending on the market condi-tions or to hold cash, also makes for a goodmutual fund. As investing in small and mid-cap requires experience, and above all, pre-cise qualitative analysis, the advice of an expe-rienced and a prudent fund manager goes along way in selecting a fund.

Aggressive investors should focus onmutual funds that have invested in growth-oriented small and mid-cap companies thathave delivered consistent returns in thelong-term, with an investment horizon ofnot less than five years. Small and mid-capfunds should be chosen for long-terminstead of short-term expectations. Thestructural reforms should auger well for themid-cap funds to give good returns. Themarkets are expected to be choppy beforethe elections, and investors should take theopportunity to buy on dips.

Investors, who are less aggressive andwanting the best of both worlds might con-sider investing in small and mid-cap mutu-al funds with a higher proportion of invest-ment in mid-cap companies, which have mar-ket capitalisations between two billion dol-lar and $10 billion. Historically, these com-panies have offered more stability thansmall-cap companies. Yet they confer moregrowth potential than large-cap companies.

As many small and mid-cap mutualfunds are opening doors to investors againlike, L&T Emerging Businesses Fund andDSP Small Cap Fund, it is a good opportu-nity for aggressive investors to considerinvesting from now to December in goodmid-cap funds using the systematic trans-fer plan route. However, the investment hori-zon must be for a minimum of five years.For investors with a one-time investment,this could stagger their investments over aperiod of one year, buying on downswings.

However, small and mid-cap funds arestill overvalued. Hence, investors need totread carefully and analyse the scheme’strack record across the market cycles anddecide on the suitable mutual fund scheme,depending on how much diversification isnecessary for the portfolio.

(The writer is Assistant Professor, AmityUniversity)

Avoid aggressive investment

A tribute to our teachersSeptember 5, Teacher’s Day, is an important day to pay tribute to our teachers who nurtured us to face

the many challenges in life with confidence and commitment. We must thank them for what we are

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Asex scandal has beenerupted in Kerala’s ruling

CPI(M) with a woman leaderof its youth wing, DYFI, hasaccused PK Sasi, party MLAfrom Shoranur of trying to sex-ually abuse her. She has lodgeda complaint with the partyleadership.

State CPI(M) secretaryKodiyeri Balakrishnan saidthat the party had alreadystarted looking into a com-plaint the young woman, amember of the DYFI’sPalakkad district committee,

had lodged with him threeweeks ago but the Oppositionparties demanded the MLA’sresignation and police actionagainst him and those who hadfailed to report the matter tothe police.

Asked about the woman’scomplaint against Sasi, CPI(M)general secretary SitaramYechury said in New Delhi, “Ithas been sent there (to theparty’s Kerala leadership). Theywill be looking into it.” Thewoman leader had e-mailedher complaint to Yechury theother day after other centralleaders and the Kerala leader-

ship had failed to respond toher complaint.

“I had received the com-plaint three weeks ago. We havebegun taking action on it,” saidKodiyeri inThiruvananthapuram onTuesday. Asked whether thecomplaint would be forward-ed to the police, “The party istaking action on the basis of acomplaint it has received. If itwas a complaint for the police,(the woman) would havelodged it with them.”

The CPI(M)’s State com-mittee has reportedly consti-tuted a two-member commit-

tee of the secretariat to lookinto the young woman’s com-plaint. The members of thepanel are central committeemembers PK Sreemathy MPand State Culture Minister AKBalan. The committee has beeninstructed to file its report ina month’s time.

In her complaint, the DYFIleader had accused Sasi, also amember of the CPI(M)’s dis-trict committee and districtsecretariat in Palakkad, of try-ing to abuse her sexually at theparty’s Mannarkad area com-mittee office. She also chargedhim with continuing theharassment for over a yearand with making lewd remarksto her over the phone.

The young woman hadlodged her complaint first onAugust 14 with party

Politbureau member BrindaKarat, State secretary Kodiyeriand some prominent leaders inthe party’s State secretariat.However, no action was takenon the complaint and thereforeshe e-mailed her complaint tothe party’s general secretary.

As per reports, there hadbeen efforts to hush up theissue. The woman was report-edly offered �1 crore and a topposition in the DYFI to with-draw her complaint.

Also, the woman hadattached the voice records ofthe phone conversations ofSasi with her, in which he hadallegedly made immoralremarks and of the other offersmade to her for hushing up theissue.

Rejecting the chargeagainst him totally, Sasi said inPalakkad on Tuesday, “I haveno knowledge about such acomplaint. I came to know ofit from the media. I have donenothing wrong. There aremany people who want todestroy me politically. Thesepeople might be adopting cer-

tain vicious ways to defeat me.There is a well-planned con-spiracy behind it.”

CPI(M)’s Palakkad districtsecretary CK Rajendran said,“he had not come across anysuch complaint against Sasi butsources said that the issue hadbecome a huge embarrass-ment for the district leadership.However, instead of ensuringjustice to the victim of thealleged sexual harassment, thedistrict leadership had report-edly been trying to settle theissue.”

Sasi is perhaps the thirdsenior CPI(M) leader to facecharges of sexual harassmentand immoral conduct. P Sasi,former Kannur district secre-tary and one of its most pow-erful leaders at that time, on thecharge of sexually harassing awoman employee of the partyorgan, Deshabhimani, aMalayalam daily.

However, he returned tothe party last June after a courtgave him clean chit.

On August 1, 2011, theCPI(M) had removed senior

leader Gopi Kottamurikkal asits Ernakulam district secretaryfollowing a scandal relating tothe allegation that he had usedthe party’s office premises forimmoral acts.

Meanwhile, the MLA andthe CPI(M) came under severecriticisms from Oppositionparties. The State BJP presidentPS Sreedharan Pillai said, “legalaction under the CriminalProcedure Code should be ini-tiated against the CPI(M) lead-ers including Brinda Karatwho had allegedly tried to set-tle the issue instead of handingover the woman’s complaint tothe police.”

“It is not up to the CPI(M)to take decision on sex abusecases. If the party takes action,it is its internal matter. Thecomplaint should have beenhanded over to the police,” saidState BJP general secretary KSurendran. While the StateWoman’s Congress presidentLathika Subhash demandedthe MLA’s resignation, YouthCongress leader DeanKuriakose sought Sasi’s arrest.

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The Kerala Government onTuesday issued an order

cancelling all celebrations heldat official level using publicfunds for a year, in the contextof the disaster brought about bythe unprecedented flood andthe ongoing relief and rehabil-itation efforts but variousdepartments expressed sur-prise and disappointment at thedecision.

As per the order, issued onTuesday by the GeneralAdministration Department(GAD), festivals that uses pub-lic funds and are organisedunder the Government, like theInternational Film Festival ofKerala (IFFK) and the State

schools art festival, would notbe held for the next one year.The festivals of the Departmentof Tourism also would be can-celled as per the order.

The departments in chargeof holding such festivals havebeen asked to divert the moneyearmarked for the purpose tothe Disaster Relief Fund. TheGovernment had earlier can-celled the week-long officialOnam celebrations due to theflood. The schools art festivalof this academic year wasscheduled to be held inAlappuzha, one of the worst-hitdistricts.

The decision to abandonfestivals and celebrations wasconveyed to the GeneralAdministration Department

before Chief Minister PinarayiVijayan left for the US onSeptember 2 for treatment foran as-yet-undisclosed ailmentat Mayo Clinic at Rochester inMinnesota. No other depart-ment had any knowledge of thedecision till the order wasissued on Tuesday.

“There is need for clarity inthe matter,” said CulturalAffairs Minister AK Balan,who expressed surprise at the

order. “In my personal view, itwould have been more appro-priate if the festivals are cele-brated by avoiding extrava-gance and over-expenditure,”Balan said. The Department ofCulture wrote a letter to theState Chief Secretary seekingclarity in the matter.

Balan had come to knowabout the order after he hadreached Thiruvananthapuramon Tuesday morning for dis-cussions on the film festival tobe held in December. Theorder had come at a time whenthe Kerala State ChalachithraAcademy, which is in charge ofthe film festival, was thinkingof ways to generate additionalrevenue to aid flood reliefoperations.

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Ahouse wife facing sexualharassment from a rowdy

committed suicide by settingherself ablaze in front of apolice station in Hyderabad.

The incident occurred out-side Boenpally police station onTuesday morning. 25-year-oldSabita was shifted to Gandhihospital in a serious conditionwhere she was succumbed inthe evening, police inspectorVijay Kumar said.

Family members of Sabitaalleged that she was facingsexual harassment by a rowdyVenkatesh. He had allegedlyshot her video when she wastaking bath at her home inAnnanagar and was trying toblackmail her.

Despite her complaintspolice did not act against hertormentor and she took theextreme step.

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Air travel in India is facing a new crisis whichhas been named as Thoothukudi Syndrome

by the aviation experts. The phenomenon madeits first appearance Chennai-Thoothukudi flightof the Indigo Air on Monday when an unrulyfemale traveler shouted anti-BJP slogans duringthe flight which upset many passengers and thecrew members.

“Down with the fascist BJP, Down withTamilissai Sounderarajan,” shouted Lois Sofia, a28-year-old woman from Thoothukudi through-out the flight. She was annoyed because of thepresence of Dr Tamilissai Sounderarajan, TamilNadu president of the BJP among the passengers.Sounderarajan who was sitting in one of the frontrows kept her cool throughout the 60 minutesjourney. Sofia continued her tirade against theHindu party even as Dounderarajan was gettingdown from the aircraft. At the Thoothukudi air-port lounge, she asked Sofia why she was rais-ing slogans inside the aircraft while there wasenough space outside the aircraft as well as theairport. The Thoothukudi woman was still in her

fighting spirits and shouted back that she hadevery right to dissent. The BJP leader filed a com-plaint with the airport police and Sofia wasbooked under various sections of the Indian PenalCode and Tamil Nadu City Police Act. “I wasbothered about the safety of the passengers andcrew and that’s why I maintained silencethroughout the journey. I know well that one can-not shout inside the aircraft,” Dr sounderarajantold The Pioneer over phone from Thoothukudi.

Sofia who was arrested by the police andremanded last evening was let out on bail onTuesday morning. But the entire political force inTamil Nadu barring the BJP and the AIADMKcame out in the open supporting Sofia. M K Stalin,the DMK president, lambasted the BJP for throt-tling the right to dissent and reiterated his stancethat the Hindu party was Fascist by all means.

While most of the leaders of the Tamil chau-vinistic outfits jumped into the fray supportingSofia’s actions, M R Shivaraman, veteran bureau-crat, who was also the director general of civil avi-ation, told this newspaper that shouting insidethe aircraft was illegal and an offence punishablewith imprisonment and fine.

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tified militants attacked CRPFpatrolling party by hurling ahand grenade towards them atSangrama Chowk in northKashmir's Baramulla districton Tuesday morning.

Security sources said thatone personnel sustained griev-

ous injuries and was shifted tohospital for specialized treat-ment. Other three receivednon fatal grenade splinterinjuries.

A manhunt was launchedto nab the attackers.

No militant outfit hasclaimed responsibility for theattack.

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Mandir Parisar and lakh (E-payment Months Months unregistered

Bhima River Ghat at gateway) contractor

Pargaon Tal.Daund

Dist.Pune.

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Almost eleven years after twin blastsrocked the city of Hyderabad claim-

ing 44 lives and injuring 68 others, a localcourt found two of the five accused guilty.

Second Additional MetropolitanSessions Judge T Srinivas Rao, who pro-nounced the verdict in make shift court inCharalapally Central Prison convictedtwo accused Anique Shafeeq Sayeed andAkbar Ismail Choudhary and acquittedFarooq Sharfuddin Tarkash and Sadiq IsrarShaikh

However the fate of Tariq Anjum, whowas charged with giving shelter to the otheraccused will be known on Monday. Judgesaid that the quantum of punishment ofthe two convicts will also be announcedon the same day.

Two improvised explosive deviceshad exploded in crowded Lumbini Parknear the state secretariat and Gokul ChatBhandar in Kothi on the evening ofAugust 25, 2007 killing 44 people andinjuring 68 others. Another IED wasfound in time and defused under the overbridge at Dilsukhnagar bus stop.

Counter Intelligence Cell ofHyderabad police had investigated the

case. The accused, allegedly belonging toIndian Mujahideen were arrested with thehelp of Maharashtra police in 2009 and thecharge sheet was filed in 2013 against fiveaccused charging them with murder andviolation of explosives substances act. Theprosecution named two other accusedRiyaz Bhatkal and Iqbal Bhatkal whoremain absconding.

During the nearly five year long trial160 witnesses were examined in the court.Defence Counsel M A Azeem said that theevidence produced against Sadiq andFarooq was circumstantial and the wit-nesses were found by the investigators oneyear after the incident.

However the two acquitted personswere unlikely to be released from their nineyear long imprisonment as jail authoritiessay they will have to send them to Mumbaiwhere they were accused in other bombblast cases.

Prosecution alleged that the operativesof Indian Mujahideen had carried out theblasts to avenge the bomb blast in MeccaMasjid on May 18, 2007 killing six wor-shippers.

Prosecution claimed that AniqueShafeeq Sayeed had planted the bomb atLumbini Park under a seat before the Laser

show and Riyaz Bhatkal was responsiblefor planting the bomb at Gokul ChatBhandar, a crowded eatery. The third bombwhich failed to explode was left behind byIsmail Choudhary. While 12 people diedand 21 were injured in the blast atLumbini Park, 32 people died and 47 wereinjured in the second blast at Gokul Chat.The bombs were timed to go one after theother at a short duration.

Prosecution said that a criminal con-spiracy hatched by Riyaz, Iqbal, Aniqueand Amir Raza Khan to carry out the blastas they believed that Mecca Masjid blastwas carried out by the Hindutva groups.

Most part of the trial was conductedby judge S Radhakrishna Murthy. After hewas arrested by the anti corruption bureau, Srinivas Rao took the charge of the courtand continued the hearing.

The incident had plunged the city intofear and shock as the city had already seenanother blast at crowded Mecca Masjidduring Friday congregation only threemonths earlier.

CBI and NIA who had probed theMecca Masjid blast had arrested membersof right Hindu groups but the NIA courtin Hyderabad acquitted them in April2018.

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Amid the continuing specu-lation about early elec-

tions to the State Assembly,there was a flurry of activity inofficial and political circles inHyderabad.

While the Chief Minister KChandrasekhar Rao has movedto his farmhouse at Erravellivillage in Medak district forholding consultations andchalking out his strategy, offi-cials were conducting a seriesof high level meetings in thecity.

The State Chief SecretarySK Joshi was in the thick of thethings as he met the State gov-ernor ESL Narasimhan andthe Chief Electoral OfficerRajath Kumar. It was believedthat possibility of early pollsfigured in both the meetings.

In his meeting with thegovernor Joshi was accompa-nied by the chief advisor to thegovernment Rajeev Sharmaand other senior officials.

After attending a trainingprogram for the officialsregarding the new software toupdate the electoral rolls in thestate, Rajath Kumar told themedia that the decision regard-

ing the dates of the electionswill be decided by the electioncommissioner. He said thatthe new software will make iteasy for the officials to removethe fake voters from the elec-toral lists as they can verify thedetails along with the photo ofany voter.

Meanwhile after Sunday’sshow of strength of the rulingTelangana Rashtra Samiti ChiefMinister K Chandrasekhar Raowas now confined to his farmehouse where he was meetingthe senior party leaders andweighing various optionsincluding the dissolving of theState Assembly and going foran early elections.

All eyes were on the nextcabinet meeting scheduled forThursday where a clear picturewas likely to emerge.

As part of its preparationsthe TRS has decided to conduct100 public meetings in next 50days and take its campaign tothe rural areas of the State.Senior Minister T Harish Raoafter a meeting with the min-isters and leaders of Siddipetdistrict told the media that firstsuch meeting “People’sBlessing” will be held atHusnabad on September 7.

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Rebel BJP leader and formerUnion Minister in Vajpayee

led NDA GovernmentShatrugan Sinha said thatHardik Patel’s ongoing fast agi-tation was inspired by all par-ties (except BJP) as 25-year-oldpro-quota leader has raisedissues of farmers.

The 72-year-old actorturned politician on Tuesdayreached at Hardik’s residencealong with another BJP rebelleader and former FinanceMinister Yashwant Sinha tomeet the convener of PatidarAnamat Andolan Samiti(PAAS).

“Hardik is youngster andfuture of the nation. Hisdemand for waiver in farmers’debt is appropriate. It is verysad that neither central norstate government representativevisited him. Party is bigger thanan individual and the nation iseven bigger than party,” saidSinha while talking to mediapersons.

He went on to say thatmuch talked about GujaratModel is already failed. If BJPruled Governments in otherstate could waive farmers’ debt,why Gujarat’s farmers shouldbe left behind, added the sittingMember of Parliament fromPatana Sahib Lok Sabha con-

stituency.Former Finance Minister

Yashwant Sinha said that theagitation initiated by Hardik,especially raising the issues of

farmers, would be taken toevery corner of the country.Leaders from different politicalparties were prepared to standwith him, he said adding,

“Strong Maharashtra leaderNana Patole tried to raise issuesrelated to farmers before PrimeMinister Narendra Modi, butPM kept on ignoring him.

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Jammu & Kashmir Police onTuesday arrested a woman

and her son for plotting mur-der and gangrape of her 9-year-old stepdaughter in Uri pock-et of North Kashmir'sBaramulla district.

Girl's father MushtaqAhmad Ganai, a resident ofLari, Trikanjan village had fileda missing report last monthsuspecting she might have beenabducted. Her mutilated body

smeared with acid was found ina forested area on September 2.

During the course of inves-tigation, police found thatGanai was married to twowomen, the younger one hail-ing from Jharkhand who wasthe murdered girl's motherwhile his first wife was fromthe same village.

Police found that his localwife suspected that he wasbiased against her and spentmore time with his non localwife and daughter.

After the recovery of girl's

body, police set up a specialinvestigation team (SIT) only tounearth a bone chilling andhorrible account of murderand rape of the child.

Police said the investigationrevealed that said step motherFahmeeda had been nourishinga long standing grudge againstthe non local wife of her hus-band and her children as shehad the perception that herhusband was more inclinedand affectionate towards hissecond wife (Khushboo) andher children.

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AJD(U) MLA allegedlyshared some vulgar posts

on his Facebook accountapparently being misled thatthe girls shown in the video willput off their clothes. SonbarsaMLA Ratnesh Sada howeverclaimed he had no knowledgeabout it.

Sada, a scheduled caste,who also happens to be whip ofthe ruling party pleaded that hewas under treatment for his eyeoperation alleged it was polit-ical conspiracy against him. “Idon’t have much idea abouthow the posts are shared,” hesaid.

Some people in hisreserved constituency com-plained to the police aftergoing through his Facebookpage where at least two vulgarvideos had been posted one onFebruary and another on July26. These posts claimed thatthose sharing it on social mediacould ultimately see the girlsnaked.

The people in his con-stituency in Saharsa districtwere shocked to see such postson the account of Sada who isotherwise known as a gentle-man and serious legislator. Theposts have now been deletedonly after the matter reached tothe police.

A case was registered withBangaon police station andsome political opponentsburned the MLA’s effigy.Saharsa DIG SureshChoudhary said police wouldinquire into the matter.

“I think someone hashacked my Facebook accountand posted objectionablethings. It’s fine that the policeis investigating the matter,”said Sada who is in his early six-ties.

He also alleged that thecomplainant had once threat-ened him to kill and was arrest-ed and remained in jail for acouple of months.

He alleged it was either thatperson or someone else hackedand shared it.

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The Bombay High Courtsaid on Tuesday that the

special National InvestigationAgency (NIA) court “is boundto consider” the SupremeCourt’s order relating to Lt ColPrasad Shrikant Purohit’sobjection to the applicability ofUnlawful Activities(Prevention) Act (UAPA)against him, before framing thecharges against him in the2008 Malegaon blasts case.

While refusing to stay theframing of charges againstPurohit in the 2008 Malegaonblasts case, a HC bench ofJustices Mridula Bhatkar andSandeep Shinde ordered thatbefore framing of chargesagainst him in the case, the spe-cial NIA court consider anddecide on Purohit’s objection tothe sanction granted by theMaharashtra government forhis prosecution under section45 (2) of UAPA.

“Since the Supreme Courthas directed to expedite thetrial before the Special Court,it may not be appropriate to

stay the trial. However, beforeframing the charge, the SpecialCourt is bound to consider theorder passed by the SupremeCourt on 20/04/2018 and toconsider and decide the objec-tion to sanction under Section45 (2) of the UnlawfulActivities (Prevention) Act,1967 taken by the defence afteraffording a reasonable oppor-tunity of hearing to the partiesand then proceed further,” theHC bench ruled.

The high court was hearingan application filed by Purohitseeking quashing of the orderpassed by Judge VinodPadalkar of the special NIACourt rejecting his applica-tion for framing of chargesagainst him in the 2008Malegaon blasts case.

During the course of thehearing, Purohit’s lawyerShrikant Shivade drew theattention of the HC bench tothe order passed recently by theSupreme Court in a specialpetition filed by his clientagainst the Maharashtra gov-ernment which asked the highcourt and trial court to con-

sider its order on Purohit’sbail application.

The apex court’s order hadread thus: “Mr. Harish Salve,learned senior counsel appear-ing on behalf of the petitionersubmitted that the observationsmade by this Court in theorder deciding the bail appli-cation shall not be totallybrushed aside but shall be con-sidered during framing ofcharges and the trial and theHigh Court shall decide thesame on its own merits with-out being influenced by obser-

vations in respect of sanctionsin para 19 of the order dated21.8.2017. We order accord-ingly”.

After considering the apexcourt’s order, the HC benchgave some relief to Purohit andasked the trial court to considerdecide on the applicability ofUAPA in his case, before fram-ing the charges against him.

The special NIA is slated toframe the charges againstPurohit and other accused inthe 2008 Malegaon blasts caseon Wednesday.

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The equity benchmarkSensex extended its fall for

a fifth straight session onTuesday, making it the longestlosing spree in over threemonths as concerns persist onmultiple fronts in the form ofrising crude prices, tumblingrupee and ongoing global tradetiff.

The 30-share BSE indexalso logged its weakest closingin over two weeks by falling 155points to 38,157.92, followinga widespread selling mainly insectors like consumer durables,financials and banks.

The broader Nifty too fellfor the second straight sessionand closed with a loss of over62 points, or 0.54 per cent, at11,520.30, after hoveringbetween 11,496.85 and11,602.55.

Investors remained con-

cerned over sustained for-eign fund outf lows andwidening current accountdeficit as a result of soaringcrude oil prices, leading to acontinuous fall in the domes-tic currency.

Meanwhile, the Indianrupee crashed to a fresh recordlow of 71.57 against the US dol-lar in intra-day movement,weighing on investors senti-ment.

Besides, the ongoing tradewar rhetorics between the twolargest economies, the US andChina, further hit market sen-timents globally.

"Continued weakness incurrency and surge in oil pricedragged the indices to a con-solidation. Additionally, con-cerns on widening deficit andinflation trajectory led domes-tic bond yield to break 8 percent mark. Weak global marketon account of trade tensions

further steered the investor'ssentiment," Vinod Nair, Headof Research, Geojit FinancialServices Ltd, said.

Domestic bourses saw ahectic selling in almost all sec-tors — consumer durables,PSUs, infrastructure, realty,FMCG, telecom, utilities,power, metal, auto, healthcare,banking, oil and gas, capitalgoods and finance.

The BSE Sensex soared206.04 points to hit a high of38,518.56 in early trade butgave up its gains following awidespread sell-off, whichdragged it down to 38,098.60.The benchmark equity gaugerecorded its longest string oflosses since May 21.

It finally ended at an overtwo-week low of 38,157.92,down 154.60 points, or 0.40 percent. The Sensex had lost584.11 points in the previousfour sessions.

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Po v e r t yand ill-

health are,indeed two

sides of the same coin. It’s avicious cycle where in order toalleviate poverty, effectivehealthcare system has to beprovided to the poor families. Infact, if we consider multiplestudies conducted in the past,they all reveal that when fami-lies from the 'vulnerable sectionsof the society' struggle to pay fortheir illness and healthcare, theyare likely to fall into the never-ending trap of poverty. Thiscoupled with the lack of basichealth infrastructure in rural andremote areas aggravate thehealth conditions of the poor,leaving them in a perpetualstate of poverty.

Over the years, the micro-finance industry in India hasproven to be one of the fewpoverty alleviation strategiesthat has helped poor individu-als improve their household

economic situation by allowingthem to save and borrowspecifically for health careneeds because right from car-diovascular diseases to cancerand diabetes, the poorest pop-ulations are affected by chron-ic health ailments too.

According to the EconomicTimes Report on August 30,2018, MBFC microfinance insti-tutions posted more than 50 per-cent growth in gross loan port-folio at �51,878 crore in the firstquarter of FY19 in India com-pared to the same period of lastyear. In terms of geographic cat-egorization, 66 percent of theportfolio for NBFC-MFIs is ruraland 34 percent is urban. Thesenumbers demonstrate the fun-damental strength of the indus-try and its untapped potential.

And, now with more com-mercial banks turning receptiveto the needs of the medium andsmall MFIs which is also backedby a strong regulatory framework,the once unorganised MFI sectoris now expected to contributelargely for the health of poor.

Born out of the simplenotion that the poor can save and

are bankable, microfinance isbasically the distribution of smallloans to help the impoverishedwho otherwise do not haveaccess to loans, to engage in avariety of economic activities.And, if we go by previous trackrecords, microfinance to someextent has been successful inreaching the economically poorstrata and helping them fighttheir healthcare woes includingfinancing their medicine in fewcases and protecting them fromthe risk of healthcare shocks.

Banking on its success,scores of microfinance institu-tions (MFIs), and self-help pro-moting institutions (SHPIs) pro-moted by the state governments,non-governmental organisations(NGOs) and a few RegionalRural Banks are coming forwardto educate their clients andmembers on a wide range ofhealth topics, from child andmaternal health to preventionand management of diseasessuch as malaria, HIV/ AIDS anddiabetes. Intention should be tospread awareness about healthand nutrition because fundingalone is not the solution.

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If you take a flight nowadaysyou will likely notice that most

planes are full, airports are socrowded that security can takequite a while, with first-time fly-ers travelling in numbers. Andthe average Airbus A320 oper-ating for the low-cost carriersgenuinely feels like an ‘Air Bus’.Yet, a cursory look at airlineindustry results right now havesent shivers through the spinesof investors, with Jet Airways andSpiceJet declaring losses andIndiGo’s profits collapsing 97 per

cent to just 28 crore, the Indianaviation sector is bleeding.Which logically makes no sensewhatsoever to the average flyertoday, but India’s airlines areexpected to post losses of around�15,000 crore this year accord-ing to a report by the Centre forAsia-Pacific Aviation (CAPA).

One crucial reason for thelosses is of course the rising priceof Aviation Turbine Fuel (ATF),and even if a SpiceJetBombardier Q400 recently flewfrom Dehradun to Delhi onjathropa-derived biofuel, don’texpect ‘green’ fuel to make a hugedent in fuel costs for anotherdecade or two. And with crudeprices shooting up coupled withthe fact that the US Dollar has

strengthened against the rupee,airlines are having to pay a lotmore for aircraft leases and ser-vicing, since the entire industryruns on the greenback.

Usually when costs go up,prices usually follow, but the air-lines are finding themselvesforced to offer more and moreseats on discount sales, withIndiGo starting yet another ‘mil-lion seats’ for �999 sale recently.Airlines measure their perfor-mance on two key metrics, Costsper Average Seat Kilometer(CASK) and Revenue perAverage Seat Kilometer (RASK);and while costs have gone upthanks to fuel prices, the fallingrupee and rising wages, revenueshave not kept pace at all. Indeed,

leading airlines have actuallyseen yields from passengers dropaccording to their results. Thisclearly means that Indians wantto fly, but they don’t want to paymore to fly.

This brings in the concept ofprice elasticity, with more Indiansflying and with more flyingoptions, they can look at multi-ple destinations at the sametime on multiple airlines and ifthe fares do not suit them theycan easily cancel their travelplans. The Government and theregulator, the DirectorateGeneral of Civil Aviation(DGCA) have also made it dif-ficult for the airlines to makeancillary revenues with passen-gers calling for caps on cancel-lation charges and calls for capson excess baggage and othercharges. Airlines will soon bepermitted to offer onboard WiFi,

but with costs of installing suchsystems up to a million dollarsper aircraft, can they afford to doso, given that some airlines arebelieved to have less than amonth of cash in hand.

One major reason for loweryields, other than during peakfestive season is one of overca-pacity despite planes being fullleaving the airlines no choice butto offer bargain basement faresto get ‘bums on seats’, the costsof flying an empty seat beingmore than carrying someonewho has paid for a super-cheapfare. India’s busiest sector, andone of the busiest in the world,Delhi-Mumbai has over 60 daily,non-stop services. Another sec-tor, to Goa’s Dabolim airportfrom Delhi, a sector that hadaround five non-stop flights aday five years ago, today has over15 non-stop flights. Some sus-

pect that airlines are offering somany flights just to lock up valu-able slots in airports like Delhiand Mumbai, where despiteexpensive renovation and con-struction over the past decade,almost no slots are available.Delhi’s Indira GandhiInternational Airport, whoseredesign was supposed to be suf-ficient till 2030, has already hitpeak capacity of 60 million pas-sengers and even with threerunways has massive congestionproblems, with aircraft holdingin the air for upwards of an hour.A Delhi-Mumbai flight whichused to take just one hour andforty-five minutes from gate togate a decade ago, can now taketwo hours fifteen minutes whencounting the amount of timeplanes have to wait on theground and in the air.

A combination of too many

flights, too many airlines and thesubsidised Air India adding tothe overall woes of the privateairlines, things are not lookinggood for the airlines. The fact isthat Air India’s privatisationmight now be impossible giventhe overall state of the aviationsector in India, things will takea negative turn before theyimprove. Airlines had a disas-trous first quarter, but the secondquarter could well be worse andairline stocks which gave hugereturns in 2017, will almost cer-tainly be the worst sectoral per-formers in the stock indices in2018. Jet Airways stock has col-lapsed from �870 in earlyJanuary to �282 on August 31,Spicejet from �148 in earlyFebruary to �79 and sectoral dar-ling Interglobe from �1498 inApril to �944 today.

What is the solution? Theobvious one is that theGovernment cuts taxes on fuel,but a crippling fiscal deficit andthe need to promote socialspending ahead of an electionyear will make the Governmenttone-deaf to this, although theneed to cut fuel taxes is also oneof political expediency for theNarendra Modi Government.The second factor could be oneof consolidation, the Tata Groupfind themselves supporting twoairlines right now, Air Asiawhich has a muddled directionand Vistara which is apparentlyfar from profitable. Jet Airwaysincreasingly looks like it mighthave a change of managementand of strategic direction, espe-cially given that its saviour in itslast time of crisis, the Abu Dhabibased Etihad Airlines is itself

bleeding and some of the otherairline groups could pitch in forJet, especially Air France - KLMGroup are also deep in trouble.

The low-cost carriers have tofigure out ways to increase ancil-lary revenues, for European low-cost giants RyanAir and EasyJetthese additional revenues arewhat drive profitability. But forthe likes of GoAir, the possibil-ity of foreign flights could bringin more revenues. Also, the pos-sibility of a couple of industryconsolidation exists, if two play-ers came together they couldimmediately rationalise theirroute structure, cutting Delhi-Mumbai services for example,adding more international routesand routes on underserved legs.But India’s aviation infrastructurewill have to keep up, it isn’t justDelhi and Mumbai that arebarely keeping up, Bengaluru,Hyderabad, Goa and Chennaiairports are all bursting at theseams, and while at Bengaluruwork on the new runway is onand Goa will soon have a newairport despite protest, Indianeeds many more runways.

The fact is that India has lit-tle or no choice but to grow theaviation sector. We once said theIndian railways connected thecountry and they still do whenit comes to freight, but for agrowing number of travellers airtravel is the only option, becausetime is money and India’s eco-nomic progress in the comingdecades depends on aviation.Hopefully the Governmentrealises this and does the rightthings to ensure sectoral growthcontinues apace so that India’sairlines can thrive going forward.

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In a major first step to breakthe language barrier for

Indian customers, AmazonIndia announces the launch ofamazon.in in Hindi. Thelaunch now enables shoppers inIndia to enjoy the ease and con-venience of Amazon’s shoppingexperience in Hindi.

Customers can now readdetailed product information,find deals & discounts, placethe orders, pay for their orders,manage their account infor-mation, track their orders andview order history conve-niently in Hindi. At launch, theHindi experience is availableon the Amazon mobile App onAndroid & mobile website.

Talking about the launch,Manish Tiwary, Vice President,Category Management, AmazonIndia said, “Our aim is to ensureany customer can find anythingthey want on Amazon.in, any-time and anywhere, irrespectiveof the language they speak orwhere they come from.”

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The Government will notcut excise duty on petrol

and diesel to cushion spirallingprices, which touched freshhighs Tuesday, as it has limitedfiscal space available to take anydent in revenue collections, atop official said.

With imports becomingcostlier because of a free-fall inrupee, the government believesthe current account deficit willovershoot the target and it can-not "disturb fiscal maths by cut-ting excise duty on petrol anddiesel," the official, who wishednot to be identified, said.

Petrol and diesel pricesTuesday touched fresh highs asrupee hit record low of 71.54,making imports costlier.

Petrol price in Delhi rose toa record �79.31 a litre anddiesel climbed to an all-timehigh of �71.34, renewing callsfor a cut in excise duty to cush-ion the spike.

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NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETINGNotice is hereby given that the 35thAnnual General Meeting (AGM) of the shareholders ofthe Company will be held at Hotel 'The Cameron', Plot No. 92, Pocket-1, KalindiKunj, NoidaRoad, JasolaVihar, New Delhi- 110025 on Friday 28th September, 2018 at 12.00 P.M. totransact the businesses mentioned in the Notice of Annual General Meeting.The notice of AGM along with Annual Report, Proxy Form and Attendance Slip have beensent in electronic form to those shareholders whose email address are registered with theCompany's Registrar and Share Transfer Agent/Depository Participants, unless the Membershave requested for hard copy of the same. Physical copy have been dispatched through per-mitted mode to all other members. The Company has completed all dispatches through e-mail and other permitted modes on Monday 3rd September, 2018.

Members may note that the Annual Report, AGM Notice inter alia indicating the processand manner of e-voting process, Proxy Form and Attendance Slip are available on Company'swebsite www.nktil.com and can also be obtained from registered office of the Company.

In compliance with the provisions of Section 108 of the Companies Act, 2013 read withthe Companies (Management and Administration) Amendments Rules, 2015 and Regulation44 of the SEBI (Listing Obligation and Disclosure Requirement) Regulation, 2015, the Companyis pleased to provide its member the facility to exercise their right to vote by electronic meansand business may be transacted through remote e-voting facility provided by National SecuritiesDepository Limited (NSDL).The remote e-voting period commences from Tuesday 25thSeptember, 2018 at 9.00 a.m and ends on Thursday 27th September, 2018 at 5.00 p.m. Theremote e-voting shall be disabled thereafter and no e-voting will be allowed thereafter.TheBoard has appointed Mr. SurrinderKishore Kapahi, Proprietor Kapahi and Associates, CompanySecretaries as Scrutinizer for conducting the e-voting process in accordance with the law andin a fair and transparent manner.The voting rights of members shall be in proportion to their share in the paid up equity sharecapital of the Company as on the cut-off date of 21st September, 2018. Members holdingshares either in physical or in dematerialized form, on the said cut-off date, are eligible to availthe facility of remote e-voting .Any person, who acquires shares of the Company after dis-patch of AGM Notice and holds such shares as of the cut-off date i.e, 21st September, 2018,may obtain the login ID and password by sending a request at [email protected] the AGM, facility for voting through ballot paper shall be made available and only the Membersas on the "cut-off date" i.e, 21st September, 2018, who have not cast their votes by remotee-voting , shall be entitled to exercise their rights to vote at the AGM through ballot paper.The members who have cast their votes through electronic means prior to the AGM may stillattend the AGM but shall not be entitled to cast their votes again.The notice of AGM containing, inter-alia, the procedure of e-voting is available on the Company'swebsite www.nktil.com and on NSDL's website https://www.evoting.nsdl.com.In case of any queries, Members may refer to the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQS) ande-voting user manual available at the Downloads sections of https://www.evoting.nsdl.comor contact NSDL at the toll free no. :1800-222-990 or or write a mail to [email protected] is also hereby given that that pursuant to section 91 of the Companies Act, 2013 readwith Rule 10 of the Companies (Management and Administration) Rules, 2014 and Regulation42 of SEBI (Listing Obligation and Disclosure Requirement) Regulation, 2015, the Registerof Members and Share Transfer books of the Company will remain closed from Saturday, 22ndSeptember, 2018 to Friday 28th September, 2018 (both days inclusive) for the purpose oftaking record of the Shareholders at the Annual General Meeting.

Thanking YouFor N K Textile Industries Limited

Sd/-Balbir Singh

Date: 04.09.2018 DirectorPlace: New Delhi DIN:00027438

N K Textile Industries LimitedRegistered office- A-1, Maharani Bagh, New Delhi-110065

CIN: L17299DL1983PLC163230, Tel: 011 26830014Email Id: [email protected], website: www.nktil.com

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Jalaluddin Haqqani, whosedeath was announced by the

Afghan Taliban on Tuesday,was the founder of the dread-ed Haqqani Network which isbelieved to be behind a cam-paign of violence throughoutAfghanistan including the 2008bombing of the IndianEmbassy in Kabul that killed 58people.

The Afghan Taliban didnot share the exact date ofdeath or burial of the militantcommander, who had trans-ferred the operational leader-ship of the group to his sonSirajuddin Haqqani after the9/11 attack.

“...Well known Mujahid,famous Islamic scholar,renowned fighter, leader ofMuhajideen, minister of fron-tiers in (Taliban) IslamicEmirates and member ofLeadership (Taliban) Council,al-Hajj Mullah JalaluddinHaqqani has died after long ill-ness,” the Afghan Taliban saidin statement.

He was believed to be ineighties and several times in thepast the news of his death wascirculated but it was not con-firmed by the militant group.

Jalaluddin studied at theDarul Uloom HaqqaniaNowshera in Pakistan’s Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province - anIslamic seminary dubbed as the‘University of Jihad’ as its alum-ni include slain Taliban chiefsMullah Omar and MullahAkhtar Mansoor and Al-Qaeda

in the Indian Subcontinentleader Asim Umar.

He belonged toAfghanistan’s Paktika province,bordering Pakistan, and rose toprominence during the Afghanwar against Soviet forces in1980s. He was appointed asminister in the Taliban gov-ernment that ruledAfghanistan in 1990s.

Jalaluddin, who main-tained his independent positionduring the Taliban regime,enjoyed close ties withPakistan’s spy agency - InterServices Intelligence (ISI).

He also helped Osama binLaden to set up terror trainingcamps in Afghanistan andlaunch his efforts for globaljihad and maintained closelinks with al-Qaeda and otherArab militants.

After the 9/11 attack andtoppling of the Taliban gov-ernment by the US-led forces,Jalaluddin apparently fled to thelawless tribal region of Pakistanand re-organised his fighters.

His group became mostlethal and carried out severaldeadly attacks against US,NATO and Afghan forces.

The Haqqani network,believed to be behind a num-ber of kidnappings and attacksagainst US interests inAfghanistan, was accused ofbombing the Indian mission inKabul in 2008 that killed 58people. The attack was believedto be among the deadliest inKabul since the fall of theTaliban in 2001.

The attack was believed tobe carried out at the behest ofthe ISI.

The group is accused oftargeting the Indian consulatein Jalalabad twice in 2007 andcarrying out an attack on theIndian mission in Kabul in2009 that killed 17 people. Italso carried out several attacksagainst Indian interests inAfghanistan.

In 2012, the US designatedthe Haqqani network as a ter-rorist organisation. Three yearslater, Pakistan also banned theHaqqani network as part of itsNational Action Plan.

The group is the bone ofcontention between Pakistanand the US as the latter accusethat Haqqani militants werestill using Pakistani soil tolaunch attacks - a charge deniedby Pakistan.

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Dr Arif Alvi, a close ally ofPrime Minister Imran

Khan and one of the foundingmembers of the PakistanTehreek-e-Insaf party, waselected as the new President ofPakistan Tuesday, as the crick-eter-turned-politician consol-idated his grip on power.

The 69-year-old formerdentist defeated PakistanPeoples Party candidate AitzazAhsan and the PakistanMuslim League-N nomineeMaulana Fazl ur Rehman in athree-way contest to becomethe 13th President.

Of the 430 votes cast via asecret ballot in the NationalAssembly and Senate, Alvireceived 212 votes, Rehmanbagged 131 and Ahsan gar-nered 81; six votes were reject-ed, DawnNews reported, citingunofficial results.

Alvi secured 45 of the 60votes cast by the Balochistan’snewly elected lawmakers, it said.

In the PPP-dominatedSindh Assembly, Ahsan got100 votes, while Alvi bagged 56.Just a solitary vote was cast inthe favour of Rehman.

In Khyber PakhtunkhwaAssembly, Alvi received 78 ofthe total 109 votes, whileRehman and Ahsan got 26and five votes respectively.

In Punjab Assembly, Alvisecured 186 votes, whereasRehman and Ahsan received141 and 6 votes respectively; 18votes were rejected.

In his victory speech, Alvithanked Prime Minister Khanfor nominating “me for such abig responsibility.”

Alvi said that “from todayI am not just president that wasnominated by the PTI but I amthe president of the entirenation and all parties. Eachparty has an equal right on me”.

The newly elected presi-dent will take oath of the officeon September 9. OutgoingPresident Mamnoon Hussain’sfive-year tenure ends onSeptember 8.Alvi said he willinvite everyone, including theopposition, for the oath-takingceremony.

“My political struggle datesback to 1967, since the time ofAyub Khan. However, I believethat this nation has gainedmuch awareness since. Thepresident also promises what-ever is promised in theConstitution,” he said.

Alvi is one of the foundingmembers of PTI. He served asthe party’s secretary generalfrom 2006 to 2013.

He won the NationalAssembly elections from NA-247 (Karachi) during the July 25polls. He was also elected mem-ber of the National Assembly inthe 2013 general election.

In Pakistan, the Presidentis considered as a symbol of thefederation and head of thestate and exercises all powerson the recommendations of thePrime Minister.

YangonA global outcry overthe jailing of two Reuters jour-nalists in Myanmar has beengreeted with silence by civilianleader Aung San Suu Kyi, astony response that an officialdefended Tuesday as a reluc-tance to criticise the judiciary.

Journalists Wa Lone, 32,and Kyaw Soe Oo, 28, werearrested while reporting onatrocities committed duringthe violent expulsion by themilitary of some 700,000Rohingya Muslims last year.

A Yangon court onMonday found them guiltyunder the Official Secrets Actand handed them each sevenyears in prison, sparking out-rage from the UN, EU and US-- all of whom supportedMyanmar’s emergence fromdecades of junta rule -- as wellas media and rights groups.

Suu Kyi, who was herselfsubjected to house arrest forsome 15 years, relying on foreignmedia to highlight her plight,has been widely-condemnedfor her silence on the case andverdict, which has posed thesternest test in recent years tofree speech in the country.

Aung Hla Tun, a former

Reuters journalist who nowworks for the government asdeputy Minister ofInformation, defended theNobel Laureate’s reticence.

“Criticising the judicial sys-tem would be tantamount tocontempt of court,” he told AFP,explaining her silence so far. “Idon’t think she will do it.”Lawyers for the pair will appealthe verdict while ultimately thecountry’s president, a close allyof Suu Kyi, can pardon prison-ers.In April the president grant-ed 8,500 jailed people anamnesty, including 36 deemedpolitical prisoners.

But there were still some200 others, including the twoReuters journalists, facing trialslinked to political activities, theAssistance Association forPolitical Prisoners said at thetime.Erstwhile Suu Kyi advo-cates overseas have been left dis-mayed by her attitude to theircase so far.Her one public ref-erence to the Reuters journalistsduring the court case -- tellingJapanese broadcaster NHK thatthe pair had broken the officialsecrets act -- was criticised byrights groups for potentiallyprejudicing the verdict. AFP

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Damascus: Iran’s foreign min-ister said at the start of a visitto Damascus on Monday that“terrorists must be purged”from Syria’s Idlib and the entirenorthwestern province returnedto government control.

Mohammad Javad Zarif ’scomments in Damascus werereported by Iran’s semi-officialFars news agency and came asSyrian forces and their allies arepreparing for an assault onIdlib, the last oppositionstronghold in the country.

“Syria’s territorial integrityshould be safeguarded and alltribes and groups, as one soci-ety, should start the recon-struction process, and therefugees should return to theirhomes,” Zarif said.

He met with SyrianPresident Bashar Assad and hisForeign Minister Walid al-Moallem, who is just backfrom a visit to Moscow. Thevisit comes days before theleaders of Iran, Turkey, andRussia are expected to meet inIran to discuss the situation inIdlib.

President Donald Trumpon Monday sent a tweet warn-ing Assad and his allies againsta “reckless attack” on Idlibprovince. “The Russians andIranians would be making agrave humanitarian mistaketo take part in this potentialhuman tragedy. Hundreds ofthousands of people could bekilled. Don’t let that happen!”Trump said.

During their meetingAssad and Zarif discussed theagenda of the summit in Iran.

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US President Donald Trumpon Monday warned Syria

against launching an attack onthe country’s last rebel strong-hold with the help of Russiaand Iran, saying the offensivecould trigger a “humantragedy.”

“President Bashar al-Assad of Syria must not reck-lessly attack Idlib Province.The Russians and Iranianswould be making a gravehumanitarian mistake to takepart in this potential humantragedy,” Trump tweeted.

“Hundreds of thousands ofpeople could be killed. Don’t letthat happen!” The UnitedNations and aid groups havewarned that a full assault onIdlib could spark a humanitar-ian catastrophe on a scale notyet seen in Syria’s seven-year-old conflict.

Syrian government forcesare now massing around thenorthwestern province ofIdlib, which is held by a com-plex array of rebels and vio-lent extremist fighters, manyof whom have been blacklist-ed as “terrorists” by worldpowers.

Russia and Iran haveinsisted that extremist groupsin Idlib must

be defeated and are expect-ed to back regime forces in anyassault.

Since early 2017, Iran,fellow regime ally Russia andrebel backer Turkey havesponsored a negotiationstrack based in the Kazakhcapital to tamp down hostil-ities in Syria.

Last year, they had desig-nated Idlib as a “de-escala-tion” zone where violencewould halt in preparation for acountrywide ceasefire.

All the while seeking topressure Turkey into reining injihadists in Idlib, Damascus’smain sponsor Russia has beensounding the war drums inrecent days.

Tehran and Moscow pro-vided steady political, financialand military backing to Assadthroughout the war, which hasleft over 350,000 people deadsince it broke out in 2011.

The International CrisisGroup, a Brussels-based thinktank, said an all-out assault onIdlib and its catastrophic con-sequences could still be avoid-ed.

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World Cup champions Francetravel to Joachim Loew'sunder-pressure Germany on

Thursday in an eye-catching start to theinaugural UEFA Nations League, acompetition introduced to replace mostinternational friendlies.

France boss Didier Deschamps hasretained the entirety of the squad that tri-umphed in Russia, with the exception ofcaptain Hugo Lloris and fellow goal-keeper Steve Mandanda, both ruled outby injury.

As just the third man to win theWorld Cup as both a player and coach,Deschamps is more aware than most ofthe increased exposure that comes withsuch success but believes it can serve histeam well.

"It's a galvanising effect to have thistitle, in terms of confidence," Deschampssaid. "This title of world champion, youhave to manage it but it's not a weightor a burden to carry. It's quite the oppo-site."

"With all the positive aspects beingworld champion has brought, on thesporting front but also from a humanand psychological standpoint, it's a hugeboost.

"It won't prevent them from goingthrough tougher times, but it's not nec-essarily linked to the tag of world cham-

pion," he added.Teenage star Kylian Mbappe, voted

the best young player at the World Cup,was sent off for shoving an opponentafter he was fouled late in Paris Saint-Germain's 4-2 win over Nimes at theweekend.

The 19-year-old will discover thelength of his ban following a disciplinaryhearing on Wednesday, but Deschampswas reluctant to be overly critical of hisyoung striker.

"It's also human to react. He should-n't have done it and he knows that, butI'm not going to make a big issue of it,"said Deschamps, whose side then facethe Netherlands on September 9.

Germany, the team France suc-ceeded as World Cup winners, have plen-ty to prove after a catastrophic group-stage exit that has left Loew fighting toprove he is still the right man for the job.

"We are all being specially observedand put under pressure, I am aware ofthat," Loew, who has been in charge since2006, said last week.

"However, I am still convinced of our

class and quality. The World Cup squadwas very, very good, but we did not per-form."

Thomas Mueller, an experiencedmember of Germany's ill-fated squad inRussia, said the sell-out clash in Munichis the ideal opportunity to help the teammove on from their World Cup debacle.

"France isn't just any old team. A vic-tory against them would be a huge steptowards us getting over our huge loss thissummer," said the Bayern Munich for-ward.

- Italian 'low point' -Roberto Mancini will make his

competitive bow as Italy coach at hometo Poland on Friday as the Azzurri begintheir road to redemption after failing toreach the World Cup for the first timein 60 years.

But he touched upon a similar con-cern to England counterpart GarethSouthgate, whose side host Spain atWembley on Saturday, as Mancinibemoaned the lack of opportunitiesafforded to younger players in Serie A.

"There have never been fewer

Italians playing the game," Mancinisaid. "This is a low point.

"Often, the Italians on the bench canbe better than those getting a start atsome clubs," he suggested. "They needto be playing, especially the youngones."

Southgate last week admitted thePremier League's shrinking pool ofhomegrown talent could force him tolook outside the top flight to fill hisEngland squad in the future.

Portugal will be Italy's secondNations League opponent on September10, although the European championswill be without Cristiano Ronaldo, whoasked to be left out following his moveto Juventus.

Ronaldo scored at least 40 goals aseason in the last eight seasons at RealMadrid but has yet to score for his newclub.

World Cup finalists Croatia take onSpain in Elche on September 11 in LuisEnrique's first home game in charge ofthe country he represented 62 times asa player.

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Italy coach Roberto Mancini bemoaned the dearth ofItalian players in Serie A as he focuses on youth in

his attempt to get the Azzurri back to the top of inter-national football.

The national team is at a low point after missing theWorld Cup for the first time in nearly six decades.

According to statistics cited by Italian national newsagency Ansa, only 30 percent of footballers who playtheir trade in Serie A are eligible to play for the nation-al team - compared to 60 percent 12 years ago.

"The use of Italian players has never been so low hereand so we need to invent something," Mancini said onMonday.

"So for that reason I have called up certain players.Because I believe that there are very good Italians, cer-tainly better than so many foreigners who are playingin their place."

Mancini announced his squad on Saturday for Italy'sopening Nations League matches against Poland andPortugal.

Five players received their first calls, including 17-year-old Monaco forward Pietro Pellegri.

"Between the under 19, 20 and 21 sides we have tal-ented youngsters but they need to be able to play, as hap-pens abroad," Mancini said. "There needs to be more

courage."From Coverciano, we're trying to launch a strong

message: We're convinced that those who are playingwell in the youth teams can also do so at a higher level,and so all we have to do is wait and hope to see our younglads out on the pitch, playing regularly and at a highlevel."

Nicolo Zaniolo was also named in the squad, despitethe 19-year-old Roma midfielder never having made anappearance in Serie A. "Zaniolo and Pellegri are thosewe want to see most close up, because we believe theyhave great skills," Mancini said. "He (Zaniolo) did verywell at the Under-19 European Championship and at19 a good player has to play.

"In the past, several of his peers were already play-ing for big clubs and that must be the case today. It hap-pens abroad. He was part of the under-19 team whichgot to the final of the European Championship. So whyshouldn't he play in the top flight?"

Unfortunately, Mancini won't get a chance for a closelook at Pellegri this week as the teenager returned toMonaco with an unspecified injury.

Other players to be called up for the first time weregoalkeeper Alessio Cragno and defenders ManuelLazzari and Cristiano Biraghi .

Italy hosts Poland in Bologna on Friday then visitsPortugal three days later. They are Mancini's first com-petitive matches in charge and the Azzurri's first sincethe humbling World Cup qualifying exit last November.

Striker Mario Balotelli could feature in his first offi-cial match with Italy since the 2014 World Cup.

"Balotelli's fit enough even if he has only played onematch (for Nice)," Mancini said.

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Real Madrid coach Julen Lopetegui hasdefended his decision to sign for Real

Madrid shortly after extending his contractto lead the Spanish national team to the 2020European Championship.

Lopetegui's decision led to him beingsacked by the Spanish Football Federationon the eve of the World Cup and could havebeen one of the main reasons for Spain's dis-appointing display in Russia where they lostto the hosts on penalties in the last 16.

Speaking on Spanish radio on Mondaynight, Lopetegui defended his actions. "Imerely took a decision which I would takeagain, in the most honest way possible. Idon't regret anything," he said.

"I still think I did the right thing fromthe moment I said 'yes' to Real Madrid. Iagreed to sign for Real Madrid and I woulddo that again."

"I hope things go really well for the Spainteam and (new coach) Luis Enrique, I ama fervent supporter of the team, but that isan era in my life that has finished and now

I am focused on coaching Real Madrid,which is an objective large enough to stopyou thinking about other things," com-mented Lopetegui.

He admitted that pre-season at his newclub had been "irregular" due to playersarriving after the World Cup, but added that"we tried to implant our style of play as thefootballers arrived. You need time to adapt,but that is normal and we are trying to doit in a natural way."

Lopetegui also said he didn't try to stopthe Portuguese star joining Juventus.

"He had clearly shown he wanted toleave and the club wanted to make it easyfor him; I respected that strategy," he com-mented.

Finally he insisted that despite Ronaldo'sdeparture, he was "delighted" with thesquad he has inherited. "We have very goodplayers in every line and the squad has thecapacity to fulfil its objectives," he concluded.

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Forward Raheem Sterling haswithdrawn from the England

football squad for the forthcominginternational games against Spainand Switzerland with a back injury.

The English FootballAssociation on Monday confirmedthe decision with a press statement,adding that head coach GarethSouthgate does not plan to call any-one else into his squad to replace the23-year-old Manchester City star.

Sterling is a key player forSouthgate, starting six of England'sseven games at this summer's WorldCup. However, his performancesgenerated a lot of debate with sup-porters saying his pace and will-ingness to run at rival defences wasone of England's main attacking

threats, while others argued that hisactions too often lacked an endproduct.

Sterling has scored just 2 goalsin 44 senior appearances forEngland, a figure which contrastssharply with the 18 league goals hescored for his club last season andthe 2 he has netted in three appear-ances this season.

England will play Spain in theUEFA Nations League on Saturday.

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Asian Games Gold medallist ManjitSingh, who doesn't have a regular job,

Tuesday requested the sports ministry toinclude him in the Target Olympic PodiumScheme to prepare for the upcoming bigevents like the 2020 Tokyo Games.

Manjit, who won a Gold in the men's800m race in the Asian Games, was left with-out a job in March 2016 after the ONGCrefused to extend his contract as he was notproducing results.

Despite the odds, he continued trainingunder army coach Amrish Kumar beforegetting a National Camp call-up.

"I lost my job in March 2016 as theONGC refused to renew my contract. Theysaid I was not producing results. I was get-ting stipends earlier," he said.

"But now I have won a Gold in AsianGames. I hope the sports ministry will takenotice of my achievement and the hardshipsI am facing. I don't have any sponsor or anycompany giving me assistance. I am hopingthat the Sports Ministry will include me inthe TOP Scheme so that I can continuetraining," Manjit said during an interaction.

The international season is over nowand Manjit said next year will be crucial forhim as the Asian Championships andWorld Championships are lined up.

"I want to do well in both the AsianChampionships and World Championshipsnext year. After that is the 2020 Olympicsbut for that I need financial assistance fortraining. I hope the sports ministry will helpme out," he added.

Manjit earned a spot in the Indian ath-letics team for the 2010 CommonwealthGames but failed to qualify for the finalround. He finished fourth in the AsianChampionships in Pune in 2013 and wona Silver medal in the Federation Cup in 2014.

His first and last Gold medal until therecent win came in 2013 and he admittedthat he mostly finished second in Nationals.

He was not selected for the CWG and AsianGames in 2014.

In 2015, Manjit moved to Bareilly andtrained under Amrish Kumar, a formerArmy man who trained athletes at JatRegiment Centre.

He approached the trainer after 2014Asian Games Bronze medallist NaveenKumar told him about the training. Manjitthen won a Silver in the Federation Cup in2015.

"It has been more than 10 years I beganmy career and I have faced a lot of disap-pointments in my career. But I did not losehope and I knew I can do something big,"said Manjit who began competing in thenational circuit in 2008.

Asked about the 800m final he ran inJakarta, he said, "My tactics was to run alongwith the leading pack and then take a chancein the final stretch. I was determined to dosomething.

"Thank God, it was according to thescript I had worked out. I had enough ener-gy to make the final kick and overtake thosewho were ahead of me."

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Defending champions Indiawill start as overwhelming

favourites against Sri Lanka in theopening encounter of the SouthAsian Football Federation (SAFF)Cup at the Bangabandhu NationalStadium here on Wednesday.

The Indian team is essential-ly an U-23 one with the exceptionof striker Sumeet Passi but it iscoming into the tournament withmore than a month long prepa-ration.

India, who are currentlyranked 96 in the latest FIFArankings, have been on the win-ning side 15 times against theirneighbours out of the 22 face-offsso far. The Islanders' noteworthyvictory against India came in the

final of 1995 SAFF Championshipwhich was then named as SouthAsian Gold Cup.

"We're coming from a veryeffective camp in Australia. As wehave spoken before we had threevery different sorts of game andour boys have worked very hardto make a point there," head coachStephen Constantine said.

"Facing some of the goodsides in this tournament would bea real challenge for us and this isthe best scenario to test ourselves,"he added.

He said apart from SunilChhetri, Jeje Lalpekhlua andBalwant Singh, there were not

many out-and-out strikers inIndia.

"Then comes Farukh, Manvir,Passi who have minimal interna-tional experiences so far. Weneed more Indian strikers andthese boys have shown their

potential. Regarding Passi, he'llhave as much chance as anyoneelse to get into the AFC Asian Cupsquad," Constantine said.

Nizam Packeer Ali, thenewly-appointed Sri Lanka coachsaid "better team" will have an

edge on the ground onWednesday.

"There are no favourites oncethe match kicks-off and the bet-ter team will win eventually. It'svery crucial to start the campaignwith a positive result and we're upfor it," he said.

"It's better to face India earlyin such a tournament rather fac-ing them in the knock-out stage."

Notably, Sri Lanka could gar-ner a 1-1 draw againstConstantine-coached India intheir final round-robin fixture ofthe 2003 SAFF Championship,which happened to be the firstedition of the tournament stagedin Bangladesh.

India have won the title of thisregional tournament seven timesout of 11 earlier editions.

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Swapna Barman may havebecome the first Indian

heptathlete to win a Gold at theAsian Games but she ruesthat she could not achieve herbest in some of the events,which made the contest a tightone in the end.

"I could not do my best inhigh jump, 200m, 100m hur-dles and 800m. High jump isthe event I used to do the best.But it did not happen inJakarta. Fortunately, I did wellin javelin and that in a waycompensated," the 21-year-old Barman said in an inter-action.

Shot put and long jumpare the other two events in

heptathlon.Barman collected 6026

points, her career best, to winthe Gold. Her earlier best totalfrom the seven events was5942. The national record of6211 still stands in the name ofJ J Sobha since 2004.

"6000 points is big but Icould have done better. But Iam happy to have won theGold in Asian Games in spiteof so many injuries I have beencarrying in the last one yearand also during this AsianGames," she added.

Barman competed in thetwo-day event with a tapedright cheek to lessen pain aris-ing out of teeth infection.

"The teeth problem arosetwo days before the competi-

tion and the pain was severe.I was having a slight kneeinjury also which I have beencarrying since the AsianChampionships inBhubaneswar last year. But Inever thought of dropping outof the event," she said.

Asked how she recoveredafter trailing behind China'sQingling Wang on the first dayof the event to win the Gold,she said: "The lead (by theChinese) was not much and soI keep trying. Then I did wellin javelin and then I was lead-ing. Barman finished fourth inthe 800m ahead of Wang totake the Gold.

Meanwhile, Hima Das,who returned from the AsianGames with a Gold and two

Silver, said she was happy withher performance. She won aGold in women's 4x400m relayand Silver each in women's400m and mixed 4x400m relay.

She set two nationalrecords in two days. She qual-ified for the final with a nation-al record time of 51s and thenclocked 50.79 seconds to winthe Silver. Bahrain's SalwaNaser won the Gold in a newGames record time 50.09 sec-onds.

"I was not expecting goldin 400m but we were expect-ing a Gold in the mixed4x400m relay. Eventually, wewon a Silver (in mixed relay)but that is also all right as wewere running for the firsttime," she said.

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invites application for newlylaunched Global MBA offeredexclusively on Coursera, one ofthe largest online higher edu-cation platform.

The Macquarie GraduateSchool of Management(MGSM) Global MBA is first-of-its-kind online MBA onfuture-focused capabilities,designed to serve the rapidlygrowing workforce in an agewhen AI is expected to auto-mate half of the activities thatpeople are paid to do in theglobal economy. The coursewill commence in May 2019.

The programme is built forprofessionals who want tofuture-proof and acceleratetheir careers from whereverthey are located. It also featuresa ‘stackable’ model that allowsstudents to earn certificates asthey go through the pro-gramme and start learningbefore even submitting a for-mal entry application.

The Global MBA curricu-lum is designed to build sixcross-disciplinary capabilities:leading, strategising, analysing,influencing, adapting, andproblem solving.

All courses in the GlobalMBA are available onCoursera to enroll in as opencourses not for credit andresult in individual certifi-cates. This means that studentscan choose to take as manyopen courses as they want andgain certificates along the way.The degree also has an inno-vative admissions modelenabling people with non-traditional backgrounds whodo well in the open courses tobe admitted into the degree.

Once admitted, studentscan fit the Global MBA aroundtheir work and personal liveswhile still receiving the rigorouslearning experience they expectfrom a top-quality programme.

Two open courses in theglobal MBA will be launched onSeptember 24 are: Know YourPeople and Adapt YourLeadership Style.

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(DCA) invites application foradmission in four-year degreecourse in Bachelor in Fine Artand Super Professional Diplomacourse in Fine Arts (DFA).

The four-year degreecourse and Super Professional

Diploma course in Fine Artshave been thoughtfullydesigned for those who haverecently passed Class XII. Theprogramme consists of variousmodules covering differentaspects of Fine Arts. It providesdisciplines of Painting,Sculpture and Applied Art atthe Undergraduate Level tohelp each student develop as afull-fledged artist.

EligibilityClass XII pass from any

stream who wants to work inFine arts industry can apply forbachelor degree programme.

How to applyApplication forms &

brochure may be obtainedfrom admission office of DelhiCollege of Art, B-7/7 Basement,Ring Road Rajouri Garden,New Delhi and also can down-load admission form from theinstitute’s website. For details:www.delhicollageofart.com.

Deadline: September 18,2018.

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Language Education (CELE) atAmbedkar University Delhihas announced a unique three-month certificate programmein Teaching English to Speakersof Indian Languages (CTE-SIL) to train graduates as teach-ers of English proficiency.

This programme is open tograduates from any disciplinewith at least intermediate (B1as per CEFR) level proficiencyin English who are interested inteaching English. It is a prac-tice-oriented programme spe-cially designed for the Indiancontext.

Details are available onwww.aud.ac.in.

Deadline to submit appli-cations is September 13, 2018.

Eligible candidates mayget full or partial fee waiversas per AUD norms. Selectionswill be made on the basis of aproficiency test (written) andinterviews to be held onSeptember 15, 2018. The pro-gramme is scheduled to com-mence on September 24, 2018.

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Arecent report AWorld on The Move:Trends in Global

Student Mobility hasrevealed that India’s 350million students — thebiggest student populationin the world — need atleast 1.4 million careercounsellors to maintain aglobally acceptable student-to-school-counsellor ratio.

Compiled by Institute ofInternational Education (IIE)at 2018 Annual InternationalCareer and CollegeCounseling (IC3) Conferenceheld in the Capital recently,the report highlights thatdespite global uncertainty,the demand for internation-al education has consistentlybeen on the rise and will con-tinue to grow.

The conference wasattended by 700-plus dele-gates this year from leadinghigh schools and global uni-versities across India, SouthEast Asia, North America,Europe, and Australia. With100-plus speakers and over40 sessions, the third editionof the IC3 Conference pro-vided an engaging platform

to discuss new ideas andopportunities in globalhigher education and stu-dent counseling.

Talking about IC3,Ganesh Kohli, IC3Conference Chair, president& chief mentor, KICUnivAssist and Former HighSchool College Counselor,said: “We were delightedwith the level of participa-tion and discourse at theconference this year. Thisyear marks a major mile-stone with the launch of theIC3 Institute to realise ourmission of establishing adedicated career counsellingdepartment in all schoolsand colleges in India andthroughout Asia. Never havestudents had so much free-dom to choose courses,careers, and countries thanthey do today. These arehowever also t imes ofextreme uncertainty.Students need guidance andcoaching for career develop-ment like any other disci-pline taught in schools. IfIndia has to realise its demo-graphic dividend, it needs toprovide one career counsel-lor for every 250 students it has.”

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The Department ofChemistry of Gargi

College under DelhiUniversity in association withJiva Ayurveda has introducedan add-on course — Ayurvedaand Yoga-The Science of Well-being for its students.

The six-month course willintroduce students to severalprinciples of Ayurveda andyoga.

It will be covered underfour sections — Basics ofAyurveda, Nutrition, Beautyand Fighting common healthproblems. During the course,the students will learn aboutdifferent body types (Prakriti),principles of healthy living,concepts of nutrition, princi-ples of Ayurvedic cooking, tipsto prevent common diseases,how to attain healthy woman-hood, home remedies forcommon gynaecologicalproblems, Ayurvedic steps toenhance inner and externalbeauty, among others.

Dr Geeta Saini and DrNeha Sharma convened thecourse and the course mate-rial was developed by a teamof senior doctors under theguidance of Dr PartapChauhan. The course will betaught by senior Ayurvedadoctors.

Many times as we climb up the profes-sional ladder, we find ourselves orour peers stuck. The dilemma is

about not being able to achieve the right goalsgiven the opportunities. At times, there is afunctional need to go in-depth on a subjectand learn more to apply it in business. These

demands could be unconventional and dif-ferent from what is offered at institutions.

To provide respite with a lot of compa-nies are offering courses that not only havean industry-academia connect but also haveniche curriculum to help students grab thebest knowledge and excel.

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On the occasion of Teacher’s Day, Avanse FinancialServices (Avanse), one of India’s leading educationfinance company, announces the launch of an exclu-

sive education loan offer to honour teachers across India.Avanse will provide 5% cashback of the funded tuition feeto student applicants who have at least one parent as a teacher.To be eligible for this offer, the student has to opt for a post-graduate course of 2 to 2.5 years at any domestic and inter-national university. The offer is valid for a period of onemonth from September 1-30, 2018.

Commenting on this initiative, Amit Gainda, CEO,Avanse Financial Services said: “To commemorate the con-tribution of teachers to India’s education system, Avanse isglad to dedicate the month of September 2018 towards ful-filling higher education aspirations of students whoseparent/s are teacher/s. This is a way to give back to teach-ers who are the pillars of the society acknowledging theirefforts in being an integral part of student’s life. By keepingaspiring students at the fulcrum of the offer, we are reinforc-ing Avanse’s objective of making quality education accessi-ble to deserving students. This exclusive benefit will facili-tate students across India to pursue an education in their pre-ferred field in India or abroad.”

Eligible students can apply for the offer as a primaryapplicant for the minimum loan amount of �4 lakh to a max-imum of �30 lakh as incurred for the cost of higher educa-tion. The offer is valid for both secured and non-secured loansand collaterals will be required as per credit policy.

The interest rate levied will be in the range of 12% to13% for a loan tenure of 10 years. Students can avail the cash-back amount post the course completion, by submitting thefinal mark sheet and passing certificate. This will be veri-fied and cashback will be given by way of the prepaymentaccount being debited and the student loan account beingcredited.

The brand has also broken barriers and funded uncon-ventional programmes including fine arts, music and voca-tional programmes.

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According to data fromIndeed, a job site, there has

been an increase of 179% in thenumber of searches by job seek-ers for Artificial Intelligence(AI) related jobs in Indiabetween June 2016 and June2018.

The AI-related jobs haveseen an increase as companiesare increasingly working towardsintegrating new technology intotheir core functions, creatingnew openings for skilled profes-sionals. According to an indus-try body, NASSCOM, a growthrate of 9% for new job roles thatrequire a high level of skills hasbeen predicted in the technolo-gy sector. Job searches for theseroles too have continued togrow in recent years.

Since the start of 2018,employer demand for AI skillshas been twice the supply of job-seekers. From 1.2 in April 2017,the AI skills gap in India hassteadily worsened, hitting athree-year high of 2.2 in June2018. That is: Employer demandfor AI skills outstrips job seek-er supply by 2.2 times. This is anindicator of the need for skilldevelopment in the larger STEMsector and the technology sectorin particular. Research by theNational Institute of Skill

Development indicates that onlytwo percent of the country's totalworkforce has undergone skillstraining presently.

The good news is that, morerecently, the talent mismatchlevels have been on a decline,which is an encouraging sign forboth job seekers hoping to workin the sector, and companiesseeking skilled talent in thefield.

Even as larger firms areslowing in terms of hiring,emerging start-ups and e-com-merce firms are recruiting incomparatively larger numbers.

However, companies contin-ue to seek talent with specialisedskills in developing and imple-menting artificial intelligence,given that India is still in the ini-tial stages of the application ofthis technology, which empha-sises the need for job seekers to

work towards acquiring the req-uisite skills.

Apart from the wider tech-nology industry, the automotivesector is a key driver of the appli-cation of artificial intelligence inIndia. Companies are increasing-ly looking at leveraging AI fordata management, analytics andprogramming. According to aBCG study, India is the thirdcountry after USA and China interms of AI implementation inthe automotive sector. This isindicative of the scope of workthat is yet to be tapped in the sec-tor going forward.

Commenting on the subject,Venkata Machavarapu, head ofEngineering, India and SiteDirector at Indeed India, said:“The integration of technologiessuch as artificial intelligenceand machine learning into corebusiness is an inevitable steptowards participating in theeconomies of the future. Whilefirms across industries are adopt-ing a technology-forwardapproach, it is crucial that wealso prepare the workforce byreskilling and upskilling talent inthe requisite capabilities. Ourfocus needs to be not only onfinding talent with the rightskills but also on equippingexisting employees with therequired skills to work with AI-powered solutions.”

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Today, data literacy is as important as reading and writing, but we’re facing a major skillsgap. That’s why Qlik, a data analytics and business intelligence platform, is on a mission

to help people understand, analyse and use data with confidence.Joining the programme grantsaccess to software and continuous classroom online learning platform. People can earn a sensequalification and receive a printable certificate and a digital badge to share on resumes andsocial media sites.

Also people can have access to data analytics curriculum featuring lecture notes, on-demandvideos, handouts, activities and real-world, interactive business use cases, community Academicprogramme space, a forum for professors and students to access resources, collaborate withothers and share experiences. It provides qualified university professors, students, and researcherswith free Qlik software and resources to help educate and train the next generation of expertQlik users. The programme is for professors and students associated with accredited, uni-versity-level institutions, both privately and publically funded.

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Imarticus Learning has recently introducedonline/offline pro-degree courses where aspi-

rants will gain an in-depth understanding of fourkey Fintech domains — Block Chain, Robotics,Machine Learning and Advanced Analytics. The

programme offers a primer on the Financial Sectorand Design Thinking. These programmes are pro-vided in collaboration with reputed corporates likeBarclays, IBM, EY, Genpact, SAP, MCX, MotilalOswal Asset Management and HDFC Bank.

The courses were launched with the purposeof bridging the skill gap in several key sectorsincluding finance and analytics. Each Prodegreecourse will have over 50 hours of video contentand will also feature guest lectures by experiencedprofessionals from the respective organisations.The courses also equip trainees with skills andknowledge crucial for a variety of roles and suc-cessful careers in investment banking, equityresearch and corporate finance.

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Quick Heal Academy (QHA) engaged in sup-porting and securing the cyberspace imparts

cyber security education programmes globally withan objective of building a talent pool of cyber secu-rity professionals.

The academy is committed to providingawareness around the ever-changing and evolvingcyber security domain and creating security pro-fessionals that help deter the threats with the strongcyber skill-sets.

It also offers online, classroom, corporate andneed-based training courses with the objective toempower organisations in effectively addressingcyber security challenges and contribute towardsstrengthening the cybersecurity ecosystem.

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learning platform that co-creates nano degreeswith the industry veterans to train the work-ing professionals for tomorrow. Understandingthe everlasting need of lifelong learning, theplatform offers a series of nano degrees inbooming technologies to help Working profes-sionals stay updated.

Along with the cutting edge technologieslike AI and ML. It also provides unconvention-al niche courses on future technologies likeself-driving car and flying car and drone tech-nology.

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Negotiation happens everywhere. From your home to your workplace, on matters of highstakes, to the mundane tasks of everyday life. It is a skill that you use again and again.

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This logistics and operations training pro-gramme at Safeducate for aspiring women aims

to develop and enhance women’s participation inthe logistics and supply chain sector. This canbe achieved by offering a rich mix of pro-gramme. Th programme prepares women to bethe next generation of supply chain enablers andmanagers by providing them training in the lat-est trends, practices, and innovations in supplychain management and logistics.

To properly address the issues and challengesfaced by supply chains and logistics network,women need to equip themselves with skills andabilities that are commonly sought in logistics oper-ation.

They also provide training and exposure inthose skillsets and abilities in courses today to makethe participants well-equipped with the requiredknowledge, skills and understanding as per theindustry standards and commit ourselves to con-tinue innovations in future supply chain offerings.

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The end of year 2018seems much promising foryou. In the beginning, youmight have faced many issueson the job front. However, youwill see a different level of con-fidence and determinationfrom September onwards.

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Selecting a pre-school that is agood fit for your child can be over-whelming. As a parent, you want tobe confident that you choose the bestpreschool for your child, but how doyou make the best choice? Here aresome factors that can help:

Presence of a Child-CenteredApproach: For a preschool, it’simperative that it must have at itscore, an ideology that aims to keepsolely the interest of the child and theparents at its very centre. A preschoolthat adopts a child first ideology,would have its pre-schooling DNAconformed to its vision of ensuringthat all initiatives and efforts resonatewith this child-centric objective.

Safety & Security: For a parent, apreschooling environment must prin-cipally be a safe and secure environ-ment that can be trusted. Safety andsecurity of the child should be thefirst priority of the school. Thepreschool must be equipped withCCTV cameras, so the child remainssupervised at all times. It must havechild-friendly furniture with roundededges to avoid any untoward incidentat preschool.

Toys used in the school should beof great quality and 100% non-toxicin nature. Teachers and support staff(an all-female staff) must be hired topost a rigorous background checkincluding police verification and pre-vious employer check prior toemployment. Emergency training forthe staff as well as teachers is impor-tant so they remain prepared in eventof an extreme scenario.

Health & Hygiene: A non-nego-tiable factor whilst selecting a pre-school as the environment is wherethe child will play, make new friendsand spend three-four hours each day.The ambiance must be clean and wellsanitised.

Regular health assessments of thechildren by pediatricians and a spe-

cial focus to a child's health and well-being through fitness programs mustbe prevalent at the preschool.

Caring and Qualified teachers:Teachers must be well trained andexperienced to handle children. Theymust be certified in ECCED and theirskills must be continuously updatedthrough periodic, training and devel-opment. Teachers must have a greatdeal of love and patience to handleyoung children.

Close Parent Interaction: Tocomplete the last mile in this pre-schooling world, the school mustensure that it creates a close-knitbond with the parents. They mustreach out to parents through variousplatforms like parent orientation pro-grams, parent-teacher meetings,informal and casual conversationswith parents on an everyday basis sothat they are always assured that theirchild remains in the best of hands.

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a degree in Fine Arts. Visualisingyour future as a commercialgallery manager would be the bestidea to enhance the glory of yourfuture. Commercial gallery man-ager is someone, who manages theart gallery, organises art events,and look after the sales and mar-keting of the art gallery, by col-laborating with the artists and thedealers. Art gallery managerselects the piece of art from dif-ferent artists to intensify hisgallery.

This profession is for someonewho has the passion to painttheir imaginations with colours

and who have the talent to pendown their creativity in the bestpossible way. One should also havebetter skills in accounts, sales,marketing and presentation. Youmay own your personal gallery oryou can work for the gallerydirector. In both the cases, yourresponsibility will be to take careof the success of the artist and thecommercial success of the gallery.

RESPONSIBILITIESIf you love to play with colours

and like to spread those colors topaint and beautify your career andhave skills to bear responsibilitiesthen the profession of gallerymanager suites you. There are dif-ferent types of roles and respon-

sibilities for a gallery manager. Hehas to look after all the ups anddowns happening in the gallery.He looks after all the monetaryrelated issues like income, expen-diture, profit and loss, selects art-work, plans, present, and publicisepiece of arts in exhibitions, man-ages public relations, works withdifferent artists, built good rela-tionships with other artists work-ing under same umbrella andkeeps himself up to date with thelatest trends in the market.

QUALIFICATIONA person from any stream

having knowledge of arts, aboutthe history of arts, or business canbecome an art gallery manager.

Knowledge as well as proper train-ing both are important in thisfield. In this age of knowledge, adegree in the concerned field isimportant and beneficial. Onecan have the degree and certificatefrom any reputed college or insti-tution of art to add stars in his/herwork profile. One can do BFA(Bachelor Of Fine Arts) afterClass XII for heading a step for-ward towards becoming gallerymanager. After doing MFA(Masters of Fine Arts) one can seehimself as a gallery manager.

While beginning your career,for learning new art skills, maybeyou will not be paid for few days,but that skill and training will payyou off in future by adding

sparkles in your career with thecontacts you made and skills youlearned.

SKILLS REQUIREDSomeone having a special

interest in art and history of artcan become a gallery manager. Aperson having creativity in bloodand innovation in mind can be aperfect art gallery manager.Management skills, as well as thenotion of developing good rela-tions with artists and clients, arealso important for an art gallerymanager. An art gallery managershould be up-to-date with theongoing trend of the market sothat he can keep the gallery on thetop.

REMUNERATIONIn this field of creativity, one

can earn a salary according totheir experience and creativity. Inthe first stage of your job you maynot get a hand full of salary, butas soon you get experience,enhance your creative skills, learnmarket techniques your can blazelike stars with handsome salary.The minimum salary of an artgallery manager can be �10 lakh.After experience and promotion,one can earn more.

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● This is the diamond jubilee yearof NMDC. What have been theachievements so far?The performance of NMDC lastyear has been the best since theinception of the company. The com-pany is committed to do well andwith little motivation from themanagement in the right direction,we have performed the best so far.During 2017-18, the companyrecorded a turnover of �11,615crore as against �8830 crore in theprevious year, registering a growthof 32 per cent. We achieved a prof-it before tax (PBT) from continuingoperations of �6,180 crore and theprofit after tax (PAT) stood at�3,806 crore. We achieved the high-est ever record production of 355.76LT and sales of 360.75 LT since theinception of the company. The networth of the company stood at�24,354 crore as on March 31,which was 8.15 per cent higher thanthe previous financial year.

● What are some of the new pro-jects being undertaken by NMDC?NMDC has made a comprehensiveplan to enhance iron ore productioncapacity to 67 MTPA by FY-22 tomeet the growing requirements ofiron ore of the Indian steel sector.The strategy focuses on growthlargely through brown-field expan-sion of existing mines and improv-ing evacuation. The development ofa green-field mine (Deposit 13) hasbeen planned through a joint venturewith the Chhattisgarh State MiningDevelopment Corporation. NMDCis also in the process of setting up aslurry pipeline in phases for evacu-

ation of iron ore at economical costto such locations from where the pel-lets/ore are made available to theindustry. This is the first time thatNMDC is going to undertake goldmining in India. We are the highestbidder in the e-auction for the goldmine located in Andhra Pradesh.

Efforts to increase evacuationcapacity through doubling ofKirandul-Kothavalasa (KK) line isalso in full swing. NMDC is devel-oping iron ore stockyards inChhattisgarh for uninterrupted sup-plies. Besides, as a part of its diver-sification and forward integrationplan, the company is setting up a 3MTPA green-field steel plant atNagarnar in Chhattisgarh. We havealso forayed in pellet-making with a1.2 MTPA pellet plant at Donimalai.Another 2 MTPA pellet plant is inthe works at Nagarnar. NMDC ispromoting Steel SPVs for setting upof new steel plants in the state ofKarnataka and Jharkhand. This ini-tiative is under a collaborativeapproach of the Ministry of Steel andthe respective state governments. TheSteel SPVs shall acquire land, seekwater and power allocation and ironore linkage to set up the steel plantand then invite a strategic partner todevelop and construct it.

● What are some of the overseasprojects of NMDC?We have a majority stake (78.56 percent) in the Australian company—Legacy Iron Ore, which is carryingout exploration in its 19 explorationtenements in Western Australia iniron ore, gold and base metals.Legacy also applied for allocation of

tenements for tungsten in WesternAustralia. International CoalVentures Pvt. Ltd. acquired a cok-ing/thermal coal mine inMozambique in 2014 and operationof the same was taken over by ICVL.It undertook strategic review ofBenga operations and re-started themining operations with new con-tracts from November 2017. Bengamine is presently operational withapproximately 100 per cent capaci-

ty utilisation. We are also workingtowards setting up of a pilot-scaleprocessing plant for gold in our min-ing lease in Tanzania. Tungstenmetal is of strategic importance dueto its essential requirement in defenseand aerospace sector and currentlyIndia meets its entire requirementthrough imports. NMDC has enteredinto MoUs with both the MID-HANI and DMRL to explore tung-sten investment opportunities in

India and abroad. ● How is NMDC supporting thenew Corporate Sports Policy forCPSEs?Till now we have been using our CSRfunds to develop and promote sportsfacilities. Now, with the CorporateSports Policy for CPSEs under theMinistry of Steel, we will earmark acertain amount according to variouscategories as mentioned in the pol-icy. We are giving �1 crore to the

Apex Sports Body (ASB) and thesmaller companies will give �60lakh which the ASB will then use forvarious purposes like sponsoringsportspersons for internationalevents, registration, affiliation and soon. The sports categories listed in thepolicy are indicative. If anyone wantsto open an academy for a differentsport after fulfilling the pre-requi-sites, then we will support them aswell. For example, the tribal areashave talented archers and shootersand we will try to promote thesesports through dedicated academiesfor the tribal communities.

● NMDC has been undertakingmany CSR activities. Please elabo-rate on some initiativesWe have been getting the best CSRaward from all over the world.NMDC is the model PSE in the fieldof CSR and its model of stakehold-er consultation mechanism forimplementation has been recom-mended by theDepartment of PublicEnterprises, Government of India,for emulation by all other CPSEs.We have been spending around��50-190 crore on CSR projects. Wehave done outstanding work in theeducation sector in Dantewada,which the Prime Minster NarendraModi visited himself. We spendalmost 2.5 per cent of our profits onCSR especially on education andhealth.

NMDC has been investing sub-stantially in developing social infra-structure such as educational insti-tutes, sanitation, healthcare, drink-ing water, infrastructure develop-ment and employable skill develop-

ment, integrated village develop-ment, and so on, primarily in theperipheral areas of its operations.

● How is NMDC fostering researchand development in the mining sec-tor?Research and development has beena key focus of NMDC and we havebeen spending a fair share on devel-oping new technologies. NMDCoperates a state-of-the-art researchand development centre atHyderabad, which has been declaredas a “Centre of Excellence” by theUNIDO. The R&D departmentundertakes various projects relatedto the operational problems of theunits of NMDC and provides solu-tions to improve the system or sug-gest changes in technology to bet-ter its processes and operations. TheR&D centre also provides solutionsto the external agencies. For exam-ple, a pilot plant for iron-making byadoption of MATMOR technologyis envisaged in research collabora-tion mode between NMDC, NLCand ECT. The MATMOR technol-ogy is a unique alternate iron-making method for producing high-quality iron from inexpensive, abun-dant Lignite (brown coal) and highor low grade iron ore/mill scale etc.The technology patent is owned byECT, Australia. NMDC's GlobalExploration Centre at Raipur iscontinuously doing explorations inthe mines of NMDC and addingnew reserves every year. The com-pany has offered the state govern-ments to undertake free explo-ration to quantify mineral resourcesin the respective states.

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Roger Federer and Maria Sharapova crashedout of the US Open on Monday in back-to-back seismic shocks under the Arthur

Ashe Stadium lights.Federer, the five-time champion and look-

ing to end his 10-year wait to add to his total inNew York, was beaten by Australia's world num-ber 55 John Millman 3-6, 7-5, 7-6 (9/7), 7-6 (7/3).

It was 20-time major winner Federer's firstloss against a player outside the top 50 in 41meetings at the US Open.

He finished with 77 unforced errors and 10double faults.

"It was very hot. I felt I couldn't get any airand I was sweating more and more and becamemore and more uncomfortable," explainedFederer.

"I guess I was happy when the match wasover."

He added: "John dealt with it better -- he'sfrom Brisbane, one of the most humid places inthe world!"

It was the world number two's earliest defeatat the tournament since a fourth round loss toTommy Robredo in 2013.

The result meant there would be no quar-ter-final showdown with old rival NovakDjokovic who will now face Millmann instead.

"I have so much respect for Roger and every-thing he's done for the game. He's been a heroof mine," said Millman.

"Today he was definitely not at his best. ButI'll take it."

Sharapova, the 2006 champion, suf-fered a second successive last-16 exit inNew York, blasted off court by CarlaSuarez Navarro.

The Spanish player marked her30th birthday in style with a memorable6-4, 6-3 win over the five-time majorchampion whose last Slam title was in Paris in2014.

Federer had cruised through the first setagainst Millman who was appearing in his maid-en last-16 at the majors.

But the Swiss, who lost in the quarter-finalsat Wimbledon where he was defending cham-pion, began to look every bit the 37-year-oldhe is as he struggled in the suffocating humid-ity.

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shortly before 1 a.m. when hehit a weary forehand wide.

Djokovic reached thequarter-finals with a 6-3, 6-4, 6-3 victory over unseed-ed Joao Sousa.

Djokovic, who endeda 54-week title droughtwith his 13th GrandSlam title atWimbledon, said hewas relieved to get past68th-ranked Sousa instraight sets as tem-peratures soaredagain.

"Very happy to

get this one done in straight sets," said Djokovic,who left the court for a medical evaluation earlyin the third set but returned to wrap things up inexactly two hours.

Marin Cilic, seeded seven, beat David Goffinof Belgium 7-6 (8/6), 6-2, 6-4 and next takes on

Japan's Kei Nishikori who saw off Germanveteran Philipp Kohlschreiber 6-3, 6-2, 7-5.

Cilic defeated Nishikori in the 2014final when he won his only Slam title.

Sharapova, the 2006 champion who wastrying to reach the quarter-finals for the first

time since 2012, hit 38 unforced errors anddropped serve six times.

The defeat also ended the formerworld number one's perfect record of23 wins — 22 of them on Arthur AsheStadium — in night sessions atFlushing Meadows.

Suarez Navarro, who was also aquarter-finalist in New York in 2013,

goes on to face American 14th seedMadison Keys, the runner-up in 2017.

"Maria has played here atnight many times so I knew Ineeded to be aggressive,focussed and play solid," saidthe 30th seeded Spaniard.

Meanwhile, NaomiOsaka reached her first GrandSlam quarter-final, beatingAryna Sabalenka of Belarus 6-3, 2-6, 6-4, tearfully admittingshe was prepared to "break aleg" to win the match.

The 20-year-old became thefirst Japanese woman in the USOpen last-eight since ShinobuAsagoe in 2004. Osaka will next

face Lesia Tsurenko, the 36th-ranked who beat Marketa

Vondrousova 6-7 (3/7), 7-5, 6-2.

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India will begin its seven-weekhome series against the West

Indies with a Test match at Rajkoton October 4, less than a week afterthe completion of the Asia Cup.

The BCCI on Tuesdayannounced the fixtures of thehome series against West Indieswhich will culminate on November11.

"The Board of Control forCricket in India (BCCI) and theWest Indies Cricket Board (WICB)announce the schedule for theforthcoming home series againstWest Indies set to be played fromOctober 4 to November 11, 2018.India will play 2 Tests, 5 ODIs & 3T20Is during this tenure," BCCIsecretary Amitabh Choudhary saidin a release.

The opening Test will be heldat Rajkot from October 4 to 8, fol-lowed by the second Test fromOctober 12 to 16 at Hyderabad.

The five-match ODI series willbegin on October 21 at Guwahati,followed by the second ODI onOctober 24th at Indore and thirdODI at Pune on October 27th. Thefinal two one-dayers will be held atMumbai and Thiruvananthapuramon October 29th and November 1.

The one-dayers will be fol-lowed by the three T20Internationals to be held at Kolkata(November 4), Lucknow(November 6) and Chennai(November 11).

The Indian team is currentlyplaying against England in thefive-match Test series where theyare lagging 1-3 after the fourth Test.The final Test begins on Friday atLondon.

India in absence of Virat Kohliwill then play the Asia Cup to beheld from September 15 toSeptember 28, featuringBangladesh, Sri Lanka, Pakistan,Afghanistan and a qualifier.

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India A will need to score anoth-er 199 runs on the final day in

their pursuit of a tricky target of262 against Australia A in the first'Test' of the two-match series.

A stumps on the third day,India A were 63 for 2 with in-formMayank Agarwal batting on 25 incompany of Ankit Bawne (6 bat-ting).

Abhimanyu Easwaran (0)and captain Shreyas Iyer (28) leftthe scene, leaving India A strug-gling at 33 for 2 in 9.1 overs.

Earlier, Travis Head's crucial87 helped Australia A reach 292after bveing reduced to 134 for 4at one point.

Batting first, Australia A hadscored 243 in the first innings withthe help of an unbeaten centuryby Usman Khawaja, but his per-formance was overshadowed bypacer Mohammed Siraj's 8 for 59.

In reply, India took a slenderlead of 31 runs over Australia Abefore posting 274 all out in firstinnings, with the help of Bawne'spatient 91 runs.

Resuming day three at 42 for1, Head scored a fighting 87 off162 balls with 13 boundaries, ashe revived Australia A inningsafter they lost three quick wick-

ets including Khawaja andMitchell Marsh, who unfortu-nately was run out for nine.

He brought respectability tothe Australia A total before he wascleaned up by KrishnappaGowtham.

While Head's dismissal leftAustralia A at a difficult 184 for5, the tail wagged considerably asMarnus Labuschagne (37),Michael Neser (25) and ChrisTremain (25) - made useful con-tributions taking the lead past250-run mark.

The star bowler for India Awas once again Siraj, who pickedthree wickets for 77, taking hismatch tally to 11 wickets. SpinnersGowtham and Kuldeep Yadavbagged two wickets each andNavdeep Saini claimed one.

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The victory against world No 1India in the ongoing five-Test

series is on par with beating Australiain the Ashes, said England coachTrevor Bayliss, who suggested theymight experiment in the final matchstarting at London on Friday.

"It is right up there with beatingAustralia in the Ashes. ObviouslyIndia are a very good team, the num-ber one team, and to knock them offis a very good feeling," said Baylissafter England sealed the series witha 60-run win in the fourth Test.

"There were some difficult con-ditions especially on day one. Wehave said before, under a bit of pres-sure these guys have got a bit of char-acter which is a good sign going for-ward."

With opener Alastair Cookannouncing his retirement after thisseries, and skipper Joe Root eagar tobat at number four, England will have

to figure out their top-order in thefinal Test as well as in the upcomingseries against Sri Lanka and WestIndies.

Moeen Ali was promoted to thenumber 3 spot in the second inningsof the fourth Test, paving the way for

Root to bat at four and Bayliss saidthe off-spinner might be an option inthat position in the right condition.

"I'm sure there will be discussionson a few things in the next couple ofdays. Batsmen would like to have asettled position in the order. You

always find in any era or team thereare one or two guys who have to bea bit flexible," he said.

"Moeen has been that guy for usover the last few years. When Rootasked him if he was keen to do it hejumped at it. In the right conditionsI would not put it past him.

"He works hard at his game. Inspinning conditions he can cover thatpretty well at the moment but hischallenge will be on the faster wick-ets but we haven't got any of those for

a while."Bayliss, however, wasn't sure if

Ali would be a permanent move andhinted it was possible for Root torevert to the role.

"Joe has always said he wants tobat at four. He understood where Iwas coming from that if we had anumber three averaging 50 to allowhim to bat at four, that would behandy. But I thought it was for thebest of the team he batted at three,"he said.

"The coach also said they willtake a call on whether to field bothJames Anderson and Stuart Broad inthe upcoming series.

"We will get together after thisTest and see who is fit and available.We will definitely want to win the lastTest, and I see a future with them(Anderson-Broad) at the moment,"Bayliss said.

"They are the most successfulpace bowlers in this series and it willgo down to how their bodies are feel-ing. We spoke before the series if theirbodies would double up in close Testmatches. So we will have to wait andsee how they are in 48 hours' time.

"The numbers of Tests we haveplayed this year have been spread out.There is another reasonable gapuntil we play the Tests in Sri Lanka.There is a bigger gap again and thenanother couple of months leading into the West Indies. Them only play-ing Test cricket does give them a bitof a break."

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Indian shooter Om PrakashMitharwal picked up his maiden

Gold medal at the ISSF WorldChampionships, claiming the tophonours in the 50m pistol eventhere on Tuesday.

The 23-year-old, a Bronze-win-ner in the 10m air pistol and the50m pistol events of theCommonwealth Games in GoldCoast earlier this year, shot a scoreof 564 to finish on top here.

In the junior competition, theduo of Asian Games Gold-medal-list Saurabh Chanudhary andAbhidnya Patil brought India the10m air pistol mixed team Bronze.

The two medals have helped thecountry surpass the previous besthaul of six achieved at this presti-gious competition in Zagreb 12years ago.

The Silver was won by Serbia'sDamir Mikec (562), while theBronze went to local favouriteDaemyung Lee (560).

The seasoned Jitu Rai, whowon a Silver medal in the 2014 edi-tion of the tournament, endureddisappointment as he finished 17thin the field with a below-par scoreof 552.

The ongoing championship isthe first qualifying event for the2020 Olympics but since 50m pis-tol is no longer a part of the Gamesroster, there were no quota places

to be sealed.The International Shooting

Sport Federation's (ISSF) premiertournament is offering as many as60 berths across 15 events.

In the team competition of thesame category, Mitharwal, Rai andManjit (532) combined for a fifth-place finish with a total score of1648.

Manjit signed off 56th in theindividual field, failing to make thefinals along with Rai.

The women shooters, whocould have sealed Olympic qualifi-cation, faltered in the 10m air pis-

tol event.Teen sensation Manu Bhaker,

after a medal-less Asian Gamescampaign, and senior shooterHeena Sidhu were off-colour andboth failed to make the finals.

Bhaker shot a score of 574 to be13th, while Sidhu was further downat 29th with a total of 571.

The Indian team finishedfourth with Bhaker, Sidhu andShweta Singh (568) combining fora total of 1713.

Later in the day, Chaudharyand debutant Patil qualified with ascore of 761 for the five-team finalalong with the second Indian teamof Devanshi Rana and Anmol Jain,who shot 765 to qualify in secondplace.

Saurabh and Abhidnya shot329.6 in the finals where Gold andSilver went to hosts Korea.

On Monday, Anjum Moudgiland Apurvi Chandela became thefirst set of Indian shooters to securequota places for the Olympics bywinning a Silver and finishingfourth respectively in the women's10m air rifle event.

Though the two shooters havesecured quotas, as per the statedpolicy, the National Rif leAssociation of India (NRAI) willtake the final call on selection,based on the aggregate scores ofshooters (in international tourna-ments and selection trials) leadingup to the Olympic Games.

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Pakistan left all-rounders MohammadHafeez and Imad Wasim out of a 16-

man squad for the six-nation Asia Cup,to be played in Dubai and Abu Dhabifrom next week, selectors announced onTuesday.

But left-handed opener Shan Masoodgets his first chance in Pakistan's one-daysquad after scoring 1,200-plus runs in thetwo domestic one-day tournaments,chief selector Inzamam-ul-Haq said.

The 28-year-old has so far played 12Tests for Pakistan.

Sarfraz Ahmed will lead the side,which opens their Cup campaign againstthe wildcard entrant on September 16before taking on arch-rivals India in ahighly-anticipated match three days later.Both rounds are in Dubai.

Hafeez, 37 was part of Pakistan's 5-0 one-day series win in Zimbabwe in July,but was not played in any of the match-es.

"We conducted fitness tests andsince there is no compromise on fitnesswe have not included Hafeez and ImadWasim," Inzamam told media whileannouncing the squad in Lahore.

The Asia Cup begins September 15and features India, Pakistan, Bangladesh,Sri Lanka, Afghanistan and a qualifierteam.

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