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In an apparent rebuff to theCongress-led Bharat Bandh
call over the rising fuel prices,oil companies once again hikedthe prices of petrol and dieselon Monday even as the shut-down met with mixed responseacross the country. The bandhturned violent in some parts ofthe country and normal lifewas affected in both the Hindiheartland and in south India.Except Trinamool Congress, allmajor Opposition parties hadbacked the bandh.
Normal life remained unaf-fected in Delhi with offices,schools and colleges opening attheir regular time and vehiclesplying on the roads. The protestremained largely “peaceful”.In the national Capital the daybegan with Congress presi-dent Rahul Gandhi and seniorparty leaders, including SoniaGandhi and Manmohan Singh,offering prayers at Rajghat andthen leading protests that led totraffic congestion in the NewDelhi area. NationalistCongress Party’s Sharad Pawarand Loktantrik Janata Dal’sSharad Yadav were also present.
Addressing a protest rallyat Ramlila Grounds, Rahulquestioned the silence of PrimeMinister Narendra Modi onrising fuel prices and the Rafalefighter jet deal, in which theparty has alleged a scam. Rahulsaid the country is being divid-ed under Narendra Modi, andhence a united Opposition willdefeat the BJP in the next elec-tions. “People believed in himand helped form hisGovernment,” he said.
Former Prime MinisterManmohan Singh said it wastime for all Opposition parties
to shed their differences andmove forward unitedly “tosave” sovereignty and democ-racy in the country. TheNarendra Modi Governmenthas acted against the interestsof the country and has now“crossed the limits”, Singh said.
Hitting out at Modi, SharadPawar said that the BJP-ledCentral Government has“failed” to deliver on its promis-es. RJD leader and Rajya SabhaMP Manoj Jha said that peopleare suffering due to theunprecedented hike in petroland diesel prices. While inBihar, Maharashtra andRajasthan, the bandh receivedgood response and saw spo-radic incidents of violence, itmet with mixed response inWest Bengal and Tripura.Normal life was also affected in BJP-ruled Assamand Arunachal Pradesh andOdisha.
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The BJP on Mondayslammed the Opposition
parties for the Bharat Bandhcalled over rising in fuel pricesand said the inflationary trendwas temporary and caused byglobal factors which werebeyond the control of theCentral Government.
Hitting out at the Congressand its allies, Union MinisterRavi Shankar Prasad allegedthat they resorted to violenceduring the Bandh due to lackof support from the masses.
“We are standing with thepeople in their concern, but this
is a problem whose solution isnot in our hands,” he said.
The Modi Government hasworked a lot to bring downinflation and has achieved suc-cess as well, said Prasad, addingthat inflation was 10.4 per centbetween 2009 and 14 of UPArule and is now 4.7 per cent.
“The people were indiffer-ent to the nationwide shut-down, because they understandthe rise in fuel prices, thoughtemporary, is because of factorsbeyond the control of the IndianGovernment,” he said. UnionMinister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvialso criticised the Congress say-ing it has been a “history-
sheeter” on the issue of price risewhenever it was in power and isnow shedding crocodile tears.
Accusing the Opposition oftying to create a “negativeatmosphere” in the countrysince Modi came to power inMay 2014, he wondered if some“invisible hand” gave “supari”(contract) to destroy theprogress India has made.
“The Congress is a cruiseof corruption and whicheverparty joins it will sink with it,”he said, adding this is the rea-son several Opposition partieshave kept away from the‘Bharat Bandh’ call given by theCongress.
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Samajwadi Party presidentAkhilesh Yadav criticised
the Modi Government onMonday for hiking the pricesof petroleum products on theday Opposition partiesstaged ‘Bharat Bandh’.Akhilesh said theGovernment attitude showsits “insensitivity” towardscommon people.
Akhilesh said, “Whilethe Opposition is protesting,prices of petrol and dieselhave been hiked again thismorning. This reflects theGovernment’s audacity andarrogance and insensitivitytowards the common man.”
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The BJP has registeredstrong objection over
Congress party spreading mythand adopting political doublestandards regarding hike inprices of petrol and diesel,State BJP president DharamlalKaushik said on Monday.
Kaushik in a statement said it is glob-al pressure which is reason for hike inpetroleum prices. Shortage of productionof petrol and diesel globally and suddenhike in crude oil prices have been the rea-son for such a hike. In addition to it , theUS dollar has further strengthened whencompared to other currencies, he said.
State BJP chief said BJP-ruled Stateswhen compared to other States have lessVAT where Chhattisgarh has 26% whilePunjab ruled by Congress has 35% tax. Itmeans petrol is Rs 8 cheaper inChhattisgarh, he said. During Congressregime in 2013, petrol was sold at Rs 82.07per litre. Congress is trying to establish false-hood again and again, Kaushik said.
During the Congress government,when crude oil was at 160 US dollars perbarrel, then petrol and diesel was not cost-ly but the price of daily items and foodmaterials registered unprecedented hike.
But in present condition, evenafter such hike in petrol anddiesel prices, the prices ofdaily use commodities andfood products are under con-trol, he said. Citing examples,he further said that in year2013, the pulse was selling atRs 110 per kg, sugar at Rs 42
per kg and onion at Rs 55 per kg but nowpulse is selling at Rs 60 per kg, sugar at Rs35 per kg and onion at Rs 18 per kg.
Appreciating the economic policy ofCentral government, Kaushik said thatinflation rate from 9.6 percent has beenreduced to 4.2 percent which is stable.
On GDP growth rate, he said in year2008, GDP growth rate was 6.7 while in2013 it was 4.7 but today it has increasedto 7.7 per cent. The country is emergingas an economic power in the world, he said.All the achievements have been made bynot putting any additional burden on theexchequer. The Congress party is demand-ing to reduce VAT in BJP ruled states butin states ruled by the Congress it hasincreased taxes like in Karnataka, he said.
Kaushik urged the Congress leadersto face the truth and not to indulge inspreading rumours. The failure of bandhis a lesson for Congress to indulge in pos-itive politics, he said.
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The Chhattisgarh Cabineton Monday endorsed the
proposal that in the inhabitantland (Present/Secured) occu-pied by families eligible underPrime Minister HousingScheme as beneficiaries, they would be given beneficia-ries certificate and assistance amount for con-struction of houses.
The meeting was chairedby Chief Minister Raman Singh at his official res-idence here.
Under House for AllMission 2022, the PrimeMinister Housing Scheme wasstarted in year 2015 and in all
168 urban bodies of the State,the Mission work is beingimplemented.
There are many beneficia-ries who are eligible for thescheme but are living onencroached government/civicbody land and they do not haveownership validity certificate.
The Chief Minister on July18, 2018 during review ofscheme had considered theproblem and directed to pro-vide alternative certificate forthe beneficiaries. Based on thecertificate, the scheme benefitscan be extended. Thus, afternecessary modification it hasbeen cleared by the Cabinet.
In another decision, forfarmers involved in growing
vegetables, fruits and flowers,a Chhattisgarh ShaakambhariBoard would be constituted. Alarge category of farmers areinvolved in farming in riverbeds and river banks. Out oftotal 37.46 lakh farmer families,around 80 percent are small
and minor category farmers.The Board would try to
resolve the problems faced bythem along with overall devel-opment, commencement ofnew schemes, improvement inexisting scheme, processingand value addition, logisticsupport among these can beprovided.
Through forming groups,direct market access along their active participation can be ensured.
The Board would haveChairman and five non-gov-ernment members. The State Government would nom-inate them.
Ex-officio Member wouldbe Agriculture Production
Commissioner, WaterResources and EnergyDepartment Secretary nomi-nated representative,Commercial Tax andIndustries, Agriculture andHorticulture Department
Director, State Mandi BoardManaging Director would bemembers. Agriculture/Horticulture DepartmentDeputy Director will be Board'sMember Secretary.
In the meeting, it was decid-
ed that for Kharif MarketingYear 2018-19, Cooperative com-mittee for paddy procurementdata-entry operators would bedeputed by committees insteadof outsourcing through agencies.The process has been kept sus-
pended for a year. The expens-es would be borne butChhattisgarh State CooperativeMarketing Federation, theGovernment would compensateit. It would benefit around 2000data entry operators.
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Chhattisgarh Chief MinisterRaman Singh on Monday said
highway development has wit-nessed unprecedented growth dur-ing tenure of Union Minister forRoad Transport and HighwaysNitin Gadkari under leadership ofPrime Minister Narendra Modi.
The CM made this statementduring a foundation laying andinaugural ceremony of NationalHighways projects worth Rs 4,239crore in Chhattisgarh in the pres-ence of the Union Minister.
Speaking at the event, Singhsaid, "If we compare the work thathas been done in the highwaydepartment since Independence to2014 and from 2014 to 2018, wewill find that 10 times more workhas been done in last four yearsduring the tenure of Nitin Gadkari.
He has approved projects worthRs 35,267 crore which is 10 timesmore than projects that wereapproved from Independence to2014." Comparing the past devel-
opment with the present scenario,he said, "Chhattisgarh was onesuch state of India where there wereNational Highways of soil whichhas all been converted to concretenow. Roads have been constructedin all parts of the state and they havealso been widened by 10 metres."
After Gadkari took charge, hecreated a web of roads with a bud-get of Rs 35,000 crore to Rs 36,000crore. It is him who has facilitat-ed the construction of all bypass-es of the State. Some internalroads are left which we want himto approve as well, Singh said.
Chhattisgarh is fastest growingstate among the three states consti-
tuted by former Prime Minister lateAtal Bihari Vajpayee in 2000, saidUnion Minister for Road Transport& Highways, Shipping and WaterResources, River Development &Ganga Rejuvenation Gadkari .
Later, Gadkari along withChief Minister Raman Singh con-ducted public dedication and‘bhoomi pujan’ of works worth Rs4251 crore, eight constructionworks. On the occasion, he alsoannounced upgrading of five roadsand four bypass routes and con-struction of five new bypass routesat cost of Rs 2,218 crore.
The Union Minister saidChhattisgarh can become Bio-fuel
hub in the country. There existsample potential. In Nagpur, around1,000 tractors are being run on bio-fuel. Today there is need for researchin bio-fuel sector. Recently, mixingethanol with petrol the successfulexperiment to run vehicle has beendone. It has to be promoted.
Chhattisgarh which growspaddy, the hay can be used to pro-duce ethanol, which would bene-fit the farmers economically andalso help in reducing the rates ofpetrol, he said.
On request of the ChiefMinister, Gadkari sanctioned theupgrading of 37 kilometres Jhalmalato Serpur at cost of Rs 268.11crore, Madanguda to Khutagaonbordering to Odisha with distanceof 27.60 kilometres at cost of Rs 169cr, Serpur to Kohka having 47 kmat Rs 368.70 crore, Rs 304 croreMungeli to Podi 42 km road andAbhanpur to Pond 31 kilometresroad at cost of Rs 262.98 crore.Similarly, at cost of Rs 229 crore theTakhatpur, Mungeli, Pandariya andPondi bypass road upgrading workhas been sanctioned.
Gadkari also announced newbypass road construction at a costof Rs 458 crore at Kondagaon,Jagdalpur town, Lakhanpur,Kawardha and Bemetara.
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Congress leaders led byDeputy Leader of
Opposition in the ChhattisgarhAssembly, Kawasi Lakhma,complaint on Monday to theChief Electoral Officer of theState Subrat Sahoo against Sukma DistrictCollector for being biasedtowards the ruling BharatiyaJanata Party (BJP) and can-vassing for it throughSystematic Voters Educationand Electoral Participation(SVEEP) programme.
Congress leaders called onthe CEO, Sahoo and lodged acomplaint that SukmaCollector Jaiprakash Mauryawas acting as a BJP agent in theNaxal-hit district.
The BJP State President,Dharamlal Kaushik had alreadysaid that several other IASofficials too are in line to jointhe party fold after formerRaipur Collector O.P.Choudhary recently joined BJP.
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The Enforcement Directorate(ED) on Monday moved
for custodial interrogation of for-mer Finance Minister PChidambaram's son Karti inAircel-Maxis probe.
In its detailed petition in the2G Special Court, the EDcharged Karti with being evasivein replying to questions anddelaying his appearance, citingthat the interim protectiongranted by the trial court is total-ly misused by him. After hear-ing the arguments of AdditionalSolicitor General Tushar Mehtaand Karti's advocates, the SpecialJudge OP Saini sought replies
from Karti by September 18.Detailing the various inci-
dents of Karti's evasive andaggressive nature during thequestioning and delaying tactics,ASG Tushar Mehta argued thatthe agency must need the cus-todial interrogation of Karti.Mehta informed the trial judgeOP Saini that Karti was totallymisusing the interim protectiongranted by the trial court andsaid that the agency is going toapproach SC for getting moretime for completion of theprobe.
As per the Supreme Court,CBI and ED have to finish theprobe by September 12. "Weneed his custodial interrogation.
He is totally evasive to basicquestions. He is not answeringto questions like is this emailsend by him or not," said Mehta,reiterating that Karti was mis-using the interim protectiongranted by Judge OP Saini.
In the petition, ED saidthat Karti is arguing his "right ofsilence" during questioning."Whenever he was confrontedwith the documents, he showedhis irritation, sometimes angerand then conveniently avoidedto answer the questions on onepretext or the other," said EDnarrating the tantrums played byKarti due to interim protectionfrom arrest granted by Judge OPSaini.
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The Supreme Court onMonday asked a local
authority in Uttar Pradesh todeposit �66.82 crore, receivedfrom realty firm Unitech Ltd,with its registry to refund thosewho have opted out of one ofits housing schemes in theGreater Noida area.
A bench headed by ChiefJustice Dipak Misra, however,made it clear that the aggriev-ed persons, who had bookedplots in the Uniworld City-UniHomes Plots Sector-MU atGreater NOIDA of the project,could approach the consumercourt for redressal of theirgrievances.
The bench, which alsocomprised Justices A MKhanwilkar and D YChandrachud, asked lawyerPawan Shree Agrawal, assistingthe court as an amicus curiae,to verify the names and otherdetails of the plot applicantswho wanted refund.
Earlier, the court had askedAgrawal to create a portal forregistering the names of thebuyers of homes or plots of theUnitech Ltd who wantedrefund by opting out of therealty firm's housing schemes.
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In an effort to make the Army"lean and mean" to fight a
modern-day war, Army ChiefGeneral Bipin Rawat willreview the ongoing studies torestructure the force with hiscommanders here on Tuesday.The four studies entail reduc-ing the 13-lakh strong Army byat least 1,50,000 over the nextfew years and revamping thecadre to optimise the func-tioning at various levels. It willsave �5,000 to 7,000 croreannually in revenue expendi-ture.
The idea is to place thestudies for a threadbare dis-cussion at the Army'sCommanders Conference nextmonth and finalise the modal-ities and roll them out byNovember-December, officialssaid.
The four studies now on byseparate study groups with 7-8 officers each are tasked tolook into restructuring of ArmyHeadquarters. The restructur-ing includes cutting down thestrength, cadre review of offi-
cers and review of terms andconditions of JuniorCommissioned Officers (JCO)and Other Ranks (OR).
The proposed reductionin strength, which will be in aphased manner, is expected tosave at least �5,000-7,000 croreannually and will add at least20% to the existing capitalexpenditure of the budget, theysaid.
The Army is facing anincreasing burden of revenueexpenditure and pensions leav-ing very little funds for newpurchases and modernisation.In this year's defence budget,the Army's share was �1,28,076crore for revenue stream while�26,688 crore was the capital
allocation. The current revenueto capital ratio is around 83:17which is unviable. While theideal ratio is 60:40, the target is65:35 which itself will be a greatachievement, officials said.
Apart from reducing thestrength to make the forceleaner and better equipped,the Army is also mulling doingaway with the rank of Brigadierand brigade headquarters aspart of the officer cadre review.This is expected to free up sig-nificant number of officerswho will be available for fieldduties. Army headquarters toois likely to see a major churnwith several departments doingoverlapping functions mergedor off-loaded away from theheadquarters.
In fact, the Governmenthas already approved rede-ployment and revamping of thenearly 58,000 including offi-cers, soldiers and civilians.Last year, a decision was alsotaken to close down British era39 military farms in a timebound manner. Similarly, nodwas given to refashion thevehicle maintenance and repair
depots besides some other suchunits to free up more soldiersfor combat duties from theexisting static functions whichcan be outsourced.
Moreover, such steps weretaken to reduce expenses andimprove teeth to tail ratio asrecommended by a committeeheaded by Lt General (retired)D B Shekatkar. It was man-dated to suggest ways toincrease combat effectivenessof the Army and rebalancingdefence expenditure. The com-mittee submitted its report in2016 and the CabinetCommittee on Security(CCS)approved some measures likeclosing down military farmslast year.
Among other reformsapproved by the CCS arerestructuring of base work-shops, advance base work-shops, streamlining of ord-nance depots, restructuringinventory control mechanisms,better utilisation of supply andtransport echelons, animaltransport units and closure ofarmy postal units in peacelocations.
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The Railways has decided tobuild 100 additional barracks
at key locations to depute RailwayProtection Force (RPF) personnel.The decision comes following acrucial meeting between RailwayBoard Chairman Ashwani Lohaniand RPF Director-GeneralDharmendra Kumar on the safe-ty and security issues of passengers and rail properties.
DG RPF mentioned about non-availability of barracksand said it was essential for the secure and safe operationsof railways. He requested barracks be built on priority.Lohani has now directed the zonal railways to identify loca-tions and take immediate steps to ensure availability of bar-racks. "In fact, a need for 100 additional barracks for theRPF personnel was highlighted by the RPF DG. In phaseone, 10 locations have been short-listed for expeditious con-struction of the barracks," said a senior rail official.
There are 744 barracks in the country for residentialfacilities of RPF and RPSF personnel while 740 posts and527 outposts of the RPF across the railway network. Thebarracks are usually built near railway stations for easy accessto them.
The 10 barracks include one each near station premis-es in West Bengal's New Jalpaiguri and Kolkata Terminalin Sealdah, Kishanganj in Delhi, Raipur in Chattisgarh andRayagada in Odisha. There would be two barracks each inDanapur, one for women personnel, and Lumding in Assam.
The railways board had said that basic amenities likedrinking water, toilets and vehicles for the railways' secu-rity personnel, both at their barracks and work, should beimproved as it had been pending for decades.
The RPF is a security force of India entrusted with pro-tecting railway passengers, passenger area and railway prop-erty of the Indian Railways. It also has the responsibility ofescorting passenger trains in vulnerable areas.
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The Supreme Court on Monday soughta report in sealed cover from a lower
court judge on how he intended to completethe trial in the Babri Masjid demolition caseinvolving BJP veterans LK Advani, MurliManohar Joshi and Uma Bharti within theApril 2019 deadline.
A bench of Justices R F Nariman andIndu Malhotra also issued notice to the UttarPradesh Government on a plea of trial courtjudge S K Yadav, who is adjudicating theBabri Masjid demolition case.
Maintaining that his promotion to thepost of district judge was due, Yadav hassought a direction of the court to this effect.
The bench told the counsel for Yadavthat it was issuing notice on the plea.
"We also issue notice for a report to bepresented in a sealed cover as to in whatmanner is the district judge going to com-plete the trial with the specified time limit,"the bench said.
Yadav had moved the top court after hispromotion was stayed by the AllahabadHigh Court on the ground that the apexcourt had directed him to complete the trial.
On April 19 last year, the apex court hadsaid BJP stalwarts Advani, Joshi and UmaBharti would be prosecuted for seriousoffence of criminal conspiracy in the polit-ically- sensitive 1992 Babri Masjid demoli-tion case and ordered day-to-day trial to beconcluded in two years, that is April 19, 2019.
The apex court had then dubbed thedemolition of the medieval-era monumenta "crime" that had shaken the "secular fab-ric of the Constitution" and allowed theCBI's plea on restoration of criminal con-spiracy charge against the VVIP accused.
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The Supreme Court Monday agreedin principle that filing of a false affi-
davit during an election is a "corruptpractice" but refused to directParliament to enact a law to disquali-fy such a person from contesting thepolls.
The top court said it "agrees thatthe election affidavit should be treat-ed seriously, but we cannot direct fora legislation".
A bench of Justices S A Bobde andL Nageswara Rao tagged the pleaalong with the pending petition andsaid all the petitions will be heardtogether.
"We agree with you in principlethat the affidavit should be treated seri-ously. We agree with you on morality,but we cannot direct for a legislation.We cannot direct Parliament that they
should include it in corrupt practices,"the bench said.
The bench was hearing a petitionfiled by BJP leader and advocateAshwini Kumar Upadhyay seeking adirection to the Centre to take appropriate steps to make false declaration before the ElectionCommission and Chief ElectoralOfficer an electoral offence in line withthe important electoral reforms pro-posed by the poll panel.
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India will work with Africa tokeep the oceans open and free for
the benefit of all nations, ExternalAffairs Minister Sushma Swarajsaid on Monday and asserted thatthe two sides must work togetherto ensure that the second largestcontinent does not again turn intoa "theatre of rival ambitions".
Swaraj said the two sideswill work together for a "just, rep-resentative and democratic" glob-al order that has a voice and a role
for one-third of humanity thatlives in Africa and India.
India's own quest for reformsin global institutions is incom-plete without an equal place forAfrica, she said.
"We will work with Africa tokeep the oceans open and free forthe benefit of all nations. India'svision of Indian Ocean Security iscooperative and inclusive, rootedin security and growth for all inthe region. We must all worktogether to ensure that Africa doesnot once again turn into a theatre
of rival ambitions, but becomes anursery for the aspirations ofAfrica's youth," Swaraj said.
The Indian Ocean has beenwitnessing a growing presence ofChina. The African continent toohas been witnessing increasingpresence of Beijing.
Swaraj was speaking at thesigning of an agreement betweenthe Ministry of External Affairsand TelecommunicationsConsultants India (TCIL), a gov-ernment owned enterprise, forthe e-VBAB Network Project.
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In a big jolt to the Congressleadership, the Delhi High
Court on Monday dismissedthe pleas of Sonia Gandhi,Rahul Gandhi and OscarFernandes challenging thereopening of their tax assess-ments for 2011-12.
The Income TaxDepartment had issued ordersto re-assess their tax returns,after finding that the Congressleaders did not reveal theirdirectorship in the firm YoungIndian, which took over theNational Herald newspaperpublishing firm AssociatedJournals Limited (AJL).Dismissing the petitions, theBench comprising Justices SRavindra Bhat and AK Chawlasaid that the Income TaxDepartment has the right toissue such orders and directedthe petitioners to approachthe appropriate forum, ifaggrieved by the Income Tax'sorder.
Sonia Gandhi was repre-
sented by former FinanceMinister and senior lawyer PChidambaram and RahulGandhi was represented bynoted tax lawyer Arvind Datar.The Court has already rejectedthe Congress leaders' demandfor restraining media housesfrom publishing the news relat-ed to Income Tax process in theNational Herald cases.
The Income TaxDepartment had in December2017, fined Young Indian � 250crore for suppressing the tax-able income of �414 crore in2011-2012. After this IncomeTax issued orders in March2018 for re-assessing theincome of the leaders as theyhad suppressed the director-ship in Young Indian.
The High Court had onAugust 16 reserved its order onthe pleas of the three leadersafter the Income TaxDepartment had contendedthat Rahul Gandhi's tax assess-ment for 2011-12 wasreopened as material factswere concealed. The bench
had orally asked the tax depart-ment not to take any coercivestep against Sonia, Rahul andFernandes till pronouncementof its verdict.
Appearing for the IncomeTax Department, AdditionalSolicitor General Tushar Mehtahad argued that the Congressleaders had alleged mala fide onthe part of the tax departmentbut had not made any aver-ments in this regard. Congressleaders accused Income Tax for"coercing" and acting on thecomplaints of the BJP leaderSubramanian Swamy.
The Income TaxDepartment also found thatthe Congress claim of giving�90 crore to AJL was bogusand this claim was floated toacquire the assets of AJL,which has more than �5000crore land assets across thecountry. The tax departmenthad said the shares Rahul hasin YI would lead him to havean income of �154 crore andnot about �68 lakh, as wasassessed earlier.
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NCP chief Sharad Pawar onMonday announced that
he may contest the forthcom-ing Assembly polls inRajasthan, Madhya Pradeshand Chhattisgarh on its ownbut will ensure that it does nottake any steps to harm theprospects of the Congress tothe advantage of the ruling BJPin these poll bound States.
Pawar announced this aftersharing the platform withCongress chief Rahul Gandhi,former Prime MinisterManmohan Singh and UPAChairperson Sonia Gandhi atthe Congress called BharatBandh to protest rising fuelprice.
Pawar said that the partywas contemplating to contestRajasthan on its own for longas the party feels that it is strongin this agricultural State. Theformer Union Minister duringthe Manmohan SinghGovernment also announcedthe joining of former Congressleader Umed SinghChampawat whom he appoint-ed as the Rajathan State unitNCP chief. Champawat hasbeen a former legislator andhad once taken on BJP stalwartlate Bhairon Singh Shekhwat inBali which he lost by a whisker.
Pawar said that joining of
Champawat who is an oldhand in the State will certain-ly boost the party's prospect inRajasthan and will certainlyhelp Opposition Congress toseal a good number in forma-tion of the next Government.
"Ruling BJP is in bad shapein the State and Congress hasa good chance there. We willadd on to their prospect andcontesting elections does notmean to dent Congress votes.We will contest on seats whereBJP has been and is strong foryears and thus add onCongress numbers for theassembly polls. We will cer-tainly look for an alliance andeven if there is not any, NCPwill contest those seats whereit will feel either the seats areworthy or the candidates arewinnable," Pawar said flankedby party General SecretaryPraful Patel and Champawat ata Press conference in his Delhiresidence.
On a question whether theRajasthan model will be repli-cated in MP and Chhatigarh aswell, Pawar said we havealready contest there in pastand the party have strongstates' units in these regions."We will only help Congressand in a large way consolida-tion of the Opposition againstthe Modi regime which hasfailed in all fronts," he said.
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As many as 31,475 real estate projects and 24,000 realestate agents ( developers and property dealers)
have been registered under Real Estate RegulatoryAuthority (RERA) across the country.
According to Union Housing and Urban AffairsMinistry, 28 States and Union Territories (UTs) havenotified the rules under RERA, except Jammu &Kashmir; 6 North Eastern States (because of land issues)and West Bengal. Of them, 12 have set up regularAuthorities while 16 are interim authorities. As manyas 20 States / UTs have set up the Real Estate AppellateTribunals so far while 21 have set up web portals bygiving facility of online registration.
Earlier, addressing the inaugural address at the "FirstRegional Workshop on RERA — a New Era ofTransparency and Accountability in Real Estate — 2years of implementation and way forward, UnionHousing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep SinghPuri said: "The NDA Government at the centre is com-mitted to provide positive solution to the problems ofhome buyers, so that they get their home as soon aspossible."
Stating that the real estate sector has witnessedtransformative reforms in the last few years, Puri said,"According to CREDAI-JLL report, the contribution ofhousing sector to the Indian GDP is expected to be 11percent by 2020, up from current 5 to 6%" the Indianreal estate market is expected to touch $180 billion by2020 and $350 billion by 2027 — where the productswill be more structured and pre-planned".
According to a report by property consultantANAROCK, over 5.76 lakh housing units worth�4,64,300 crore are delayed in seven major cities/regions— Mumbai, NCR, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad,Kolkata and Pune — of India despite the implemen-tation of RERA that came into effect May last year.
According to the report, the residential real estatelaunched in or before 2013, that is stuck in variousstages of (non) completion, is collectively worth�4,64,300 crore for a total of 5,75,900 units.
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State Home MinisterRamsevak Paikra on
Monday said that in tribaldominated regions ofChhattisgarh, it is the outsidersthrough Naxalism who are cre-ating hurdles in the develop-ment process.
During the last 15 years,there had been a phenomenalrise in the strength of policepersonnel in ChhattisgarhPolice which had been makingcitizens feel more secure in theState, he said.
The Chhattisgarh govern-ment is working to fully elim-inate insurgency in southernparts of the State while havingwiped off Naxalism from itsnorthern parts , Paikra said.
Addressing the 17 Deputy
Superintendents of Police(DSPs) after their ConvocationParade at the Chhattisgarh StatePolice Academy at Chandkhurihere, the Minister said that theAcademy had a been providingpsychological and physicaltraining to the recruits.
He said that the new offi-cers need to establish them-selves as role models in front ofcitizens.
The Minister said that it isthe responsibility of the officersto remain impartial and dotheir duty with dedication.
Director General of Police(DGP) A. N. Upadhyay saidthat police service is based onscience and principles; so bring-ing it on to the field level dutyis also an art .
Police Academy providesbasic training during service
period, but an officer continueswith training during his entire
service period. It is the respon-sibility of the officers to retain
all human sensitivity and takestern action against criminals
within the legal frameworkalong with winning the faith of
people, he said.The Home Minister later
gave away citations and medalsto best trainees. The names oftrainees who received citationsand medals were-- AbhinavUpadhyay, Unnati Thakur,Bhavesh Kumar Samarth andUnnati Thakur besides severalothers .
The ‘Union Home MinisterMedal 2015’ was also given tothe officers and employees.They were-- Tushar KantMazumdhar, CompanyCommander, Ravi KumarThapa, Head Constable, VijayKumar Nimbalkar of CTJWCollege, Kanker and others.
The special guest on theoccasion was Labchand Bafna,Parliamentary Secretary, Home,Jail and PHES, Arang MLANaveen Markandey, ADGPSanjay Pillai and other seniorofficials who were also present
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Chhattisgarh being the mostaffected State receives a
substantial share of theresources committed by theCentre for combating LeftWing Extremism, the CentralGovernment has informed.
The success of the strategyis evident in reducing securityvacuum and increasing reach ofgovernance to interior areas, itinformed.
The Central Governmentassists the State Governmentsin every manner possible. TheGovernment has a multi-pronged strategy in place todeal with the LWE menace.
The strategy involves securityrelated measures, develop-mental interventions andensuring rights & entitlementsof local communities etc.
Security related measuresinclude assistance to LWEaffected States by providingCAPF Battalions, helicopters,UAVs, construction of fortifiedpolice stations, funds for mod-ernization of State Police forces,arms and equipment, trainingassistance, sharing of intelli-gence etc.
On development side,apart from flagship schemes ofthe Central Government ininfrastructure, education, skilldevelopment etc, several ini-
tiatives have been taken specif-ically for development of LWEaffected areas.
These include focussedschemes for development ofroads, installation of mobiletowers, skill development,improving network of banksand post offices and educationfacilities, particularly in the 35worst affected districts.
Recently the Governmenthas approved the SpecialCentral Assistance Schemewhich envisages an outlay of Rs1000 crore per annum for threeyears for the 35 worst affectedLWE districts to cover gaps incritical infrastructure and ser-vices.
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The Congress sponsoredBandh against spiralling
fuel prices across Chhattisgarhpassed off peacefully onMonday with a majority ofcommercial establishmentsdowning shutters.
The petrol pumps andcinema halls also remainedclosed and private transportvehicles also remained offroads.
Government schoolsremained open, privateschools opted to close on theday in the capital city and thedistrict administration decid-ed not to get open the schoolsas a precautionary measure.
The commercial banksfunctioned but witnessed thinattendance. So was the casewith various governmentoffices.
The Bandh was sponta-neous across the state and noincidence of violence wasreported from any district.
The Bandh supporters ofCongress party were out onthe streets right from earlymorning to appeal to the own-ers of business establishmentsnot to open their shops before3 pm.
As the Bandh was sup-ported by ChhattisgarhChambers of Commerce andIndustries (CCCI) andOpposition parties such asleft front, the agitators did nothave to push hard to make theBandh successful.
The senior leaders ofCongress party too were onthe roads appealing to tradersfor participating in the Bandh.Chhattisgarh In-charge of AllIndia Congress Committee(AICC), P.L. Punia moved inan open jeep on the roads of
capital city Raipur. On the other hand, Leader
of Opposition T.S. Singhdeoled the agitators at NorthernChhattisgarh’s headquartersAmbikapur while DeputyLeader of Opposition, KawasiLakhma led the agitation inSouth Chhattisgarh (Bastar).
To highlight their protest,Congress leaders of Bilaspurtook out a bullock cart rallywhile Congress party workersin Raipur organized a streetplay in the heart of the city atJaistambh Chowk.
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Congress party devoidof any key issue akin to
its culture created anatmosphere of fear and vio-lence in the country includ-ing Chhattisgarh.
The party wants politicsbased on aggression. Thepeople of the country andthe State have rejected the‘Bharat Bandh’, said StateBharatiya Janata Party (BJP)Spokesperson ShrichandSundrani on Monday.
Terming the ‘BharatBandh’ as act of creatingterror in minds of people,he said the people have givena befitting reply by ignoring it.
In Chhattisgarh also, peo-ple have not given any impor-tance to the Bandh.
The UPA led by Congressparty is responsible for such ahike as they have put heavydebt on the country and BJPgovernment is trying to eraseit, Sundrani said.
The Government does nothave any control over theprices of petroleum products
he said , adding, the BJP gov-ernment in this direction isfinding solutions for positiveand long term results.
He said that due to Bandhthe school childrens' educationwas affected and even the illwere not allowed to reach thehospitals. The public transportwas also affected.
The daily earners werethe worst hit as the Congressleaders had forced them tokeep off work , Sundrani said.
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State Agriculture Departmentwill be organising two-day,
State-level Workshop on ‘ZeroBudget Natural Farming’ onSeptember 11 and 12 in thecity.Agriculture and WaterResources Minister BrijmohanAgrawal would inaugurate theevent at GovernmentAgriculture College at 2.00pm.
Chief Secretary Ajay Singhwould be present in theWorkshop.
Special guests on the occa-sion would be Additional ChiefSecretary and AgricultureProduction CommissionerSunil Kujur, Indira GandhiAgriculture University(AGAU) Vice Chancellor Dr SK Patil, Zero Budget Natural
Farming expert PadmshreeSubash Palekar and T. VijayKumar, Advisor to AndhraPradesh government.
T Vijay Kumar wouldthrow light on the differentprogrammes of AndhraPradesh Government on ‘ZeroBudget Natural Farming’.
Padmshree Subash Palekarwould be holding six technicalsessions during the two-dayWorkshop.
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NMDC Ltd, in its diamondjubilee year has won one
more prestigious nationalaward at the ‘India GreenEnergy Award - 2018’ ceremo-ny held recently in New Delhi,a company press releaseinformed on Monday.
The said prestigious awardwas presented by SureshPrabhu, Union Minister ofCommerce & Industry andCivil Aviation and the awardwas received by E.R.Sreekumar,ED(Engg.) on behalf ofNMDC.
The programme was orga-nized by Indian Federation of
Green Energy (IFGE) andNMDC bagged this presti-gious award in the category“Outstanding RenewableEnergy Generation Projects byPublic Sector-Wind” for theinstallation and operation ofthe 10.5MW capacity WindMills at Chitradurga District inKarnataka State.
NMDC is also known forits Eco-friendly mining oper-ations for which all its MiningComplexes are awarded 5 Starrating by the Ministry of Mines,Government of India, itinformed.
In the recent past NMDCreceived the prestigious S&PPlatts Global Metal Award
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The ‘Shikshakarmis' who arenow teachers are going to
organize a ‘Teachers’ Conclave’at Sardar Balbeer Singh JunejaIndoor Stadium here onSeptember 30 to thank ChiefMinister Raman Singh formerger and regularization oftheir services with SchoolEducation Department.
In a press conference heldhere on Monday, the StateConveners of the Teachers’organization, Veerendra Dubeyand Kedar Jain informed thatthe Chief Minister had given hisconsent for being present at thefunction as a Chief Guest whileChhattisgarh State AssemblySpeaker, Gaurishankar Agrawal
would preside over the func-tion, they said.
“The Shikshakarmi systemwas inherited in Chhattisgarhstate from undivided MadhyaPradesh where it was enforcedin the academic year 1994-95”,the leader duo informed.
After a long struggle, theChief Minister Raman Singhdeclared of merger of our
services on June 10 and thedecision took shape with cab-inet decision on June 18, theysaid.
It was a fulfillment of a longcherished dream and with thehistoric decision ofChhattisgarh government, aprocess of making 1.10 lakhShikshakarmis, governmentemployees begins, they said.
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Hundreds of tribals ofNageshia community under
leadership of Surguja DistrictGeneral Secretary of KisanCongress, Ramjivan Nagesh, onMonday extended support toformer Chief Minister Ajit Jogi’soutfit Janata CongressChhattisgarh (JCC) (J.)
Addressing a press confer-ence here, Jogi said several lead-ers of the party were leaving theorganisation , but many werejoining too.
Jogi earlier welcomed theNageshia tribals and gave themmembership of the party.
The leaders of Nageshiacommunity after joining JCC (J)blamed the two political partiesCongress and Bharatiya JanataParty of cheating their tribalcommunity.
They expressed hope that
Jogi will fight for their rightsalong with the rights of 2.5crore people of the state.
Speaking before the mediapersons, the leaders of Nageshiacommunity said they will soonorganise a massive public meet-ing of the community in Surgujato felicitate Jogi.
The prominent leaders ofthe community who joined JCC(J) include Ramjivan Nagesh,Hariprasad, Somar Sai, Chetram,Chamsu, Suna Sai, Cangras Sai,Manik, Vinod, Mohan Ram,Chanpalal Nagwanshi, Pitan Rai,Somar, Khulan Ram, and RajeshNageshia.
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Noisy scenes, heated alter-cations and Opposition’s
walkout marked the second dayof the monsoon session ofHaryana Assembly on Monday.
The Opposition parties—Indian National Lok Dal andCongress–lambasted theManohar Lal KhattarGovernment on the issues ofnon-completion of SutlejYamuna Link (SYL) canal andenforcement of ESMA to banstrike by government employ-ees in the state.
As soon as the questionhour ended, Leader of opposi-tion in Haryana Assembly andINLD’s senior leader AbhaySingh Chautala demandedmoving an adjournmentmotion to discuss the issue ofSYL canal.
Lashing out at the StateGovernment, Chautala saidthat the government is delib-erately delaying the construc-tion of SYL canal. The issue isnot sub-judice in the Court andthe BJP is trying to mislead thegeneral public on the issue ofSYL canal, he alleged.
The INLD had on
September 8 held ‘HaryanaBandh’ to press for the demandof construction of SYL canal.
“Despite the directions ofSupreme Court, both BJP ledCentral and HaryanaGovernments have failed toensure completion of SYLcanal, which is a lifeline offarmers of the state,” Chautalasaid.
He also slammed the StateGovernment for enforcing theEssential Services MaintenanceAct (ESMA) to prevent thestrike of roadways employees inthe state.
“The employees are againstthe privatization and the strikewas called against the StateGovernment’s decision to hiremore than 700 private buses toply outside and within thestate. But, this government isbusy in implementing its anti-employee policies,” the INLDleader alleged.
Kiran Choudhry, Leader ofthe Haryana CongressLegislature Party, also backedthe demand of discussion onissues of SYL canal and prob-lems of government employees.
The Speaker Kanwar PalGujjar, however, rejected the
motion of adjournment sayingthat since the matter related toSYL canal is sub-judice, it can-not be discussed in the House.
Kanwar Pal said that thelegislators were allowed tospeak on the SYL canal issueduring the budget session of
Haryana Assembly and theadjournment motion cannot beaccepted now.
Following this, all INLDlegislators were on their feetand started shouting slogansincluding ‘Kisan Virodhi SarkarMurdabad’, SYL Virodhi Sarkar
Murdabad’, KaramchariVirodhi Sarkar Murdabad’against the State Government.
Amid sloganeering byINLD legislators, the CongressMLAs rushed to the well andsought time from the Speakerto speak on SYL canal issue and
problems of governmentemployees. Earlier CongressMLAs Kuldeep Sharma andKaran Singh Dalal had alsorushed to the Well demandinga discussion on the problemsand protest of governmentemployees in the state.
After the Congress legisla-tors returned to their seats, theINLD MLAs led by AbhayChautala trooped into the Wellof the House and demandedthe Chair accepts the adjourn-ment motion on SYL canalissue.
The Speaker then askedChautala to return to his seatand speak on Dadupur Nalviirrigation project and otherissues during calling attentionmotion.
Even as the INLD legisla-tors returned to their seats, theycontinued sloganeering againstthe State Government despitea warning by the Speaker.
As soon as the Speakerstarted ‘naming’ the INLD leg-islators for their ‘unruly behav-ior’, they staged a symbolicwalkout from the House on theissue of SYL canal and returnedafter a minute to attend theHouse proceedings.
The noisy scenes, sloga-neering followed by a walkoutcontinued for more than halfan hour in the House.
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The second day of themonsoon session of HaryanaAssembly on Monday began ona stormy note with the oppo-sition parties—INLD andCongress—accusing the BJP ofneglecting the sportspersons ofthe state.
As soon as the Houseassembled for the day, HaryanaSports and Youth AffairsMinister Anil Vij said that theHouse should congratulate themedal winners from Haryanain Asian Games.
He informed that theHouse that sportspersons fromHaryana won 17 medals inthese games held at Jakartarecently. In these games,Haryana won 5 gold medals, 5silver medals and 7 bronzemedals, he said.
He also mentioned thenames of medal winners andassured to give them prizemoney and jobs as per the
sports policy of the StateGovernment
While the Sports Ministerwas showering praise on sportspolicy of HaryanaGovernment, the INLD andCongress MLAs accused thegovernment of neglecting themedal winners.
INLD MLAs ParminderSingh Dhull and NaseemAhmad alleged that the medalwinners in CommonwealthGames were ignored by theState Government and theyalso held protest as their prizemoney was proposed to bereduced.
Reacting to this, Anil Vijsaid that the government willgive cash reward and a job ofHCS/HPS to medal winners asper its sports policy.
Former Chief MinisterBhupinder Singh Hooda alsoattacked the State Governmentsaying that its behavior towardssportspersons is condemnable.
Earlier, CLP leader KiranChoudhry and MLA KaranSingh Dalal raised objection onthe statement of the SportsMinister and said that suchissues should be raised duringthe zero hour.
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Setting up a new tradition inthe Vidhan Sabha, Haryana
Chief Minister Manohar Lal onMonday announced severaldevelopment works for Jindassembly constituency on thebasis of demands of MLA LateHari Chand Middha which hewas scheduled to take up in thecurrent monsoon session.
Manohar Lal was speakingon the second day of ongoingsession of monsoon session ofHaryana Assembly.
Middha who was repre-senting Jind assembly con-stituency passed away onAugust 25.
The Chief Minister saidthat today, Middha is no morewith us but fulfilling thedemands of his area would bethe real tributes to him. Ninequestions of Middha includingeight starred and one un-starred were lined up for theSession, he said.
On the basis of demands ofMiddha, Manohar Lalannounced that three newroads for his constituency andsaid that the work for the set-ting up of 132 KV Sub Stationin Sector -9 Jind would be com-pleted by December 2018.
He said though there is noproposal to upgrade theGovernment Girls High Schoolat village Barsola yet we havedecided to upgrade it toGovernment Girls SeniorSecondary School as a tribute toMiddha.
Replying to a questionwhich was to be raised byMiddha, the Chief Ministersaid that from the year 2014 totill date, 12 Government HighSchool have been upgraded toSenior Secondary School andeight Primary School to MiddleSchool in the Jind AssemblyConstituency.
The 76-year-old Jind MLAwas suffering from a kidney ail-ment and had died at the hos-
pital in Delhi.Middha was first elected to
public office as a municipalcouncillor in Jind in 1986. Hewas elected as MLA of Jind,considered the political heart-land of Haryana, for two con-secutive terms in 2009 and2014.
While the Chief Ministerwas making announcementsfor Jind, the Congress allegedthat the announcements arebeing made as the BJP is wor-ried about the Jind by-elections.
On the other hand, Leaderof opposition and INLD’s seniorleader Abhay Chautala askedthe State Government to acceptall demands of Midha which hehad raised during the last fouryears, if they are serious aboutgiving a tribute to him.
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Haryana Governmentwould soon launch a toll free
number for farmers to prompt-ly inform about the damagecaused to crops due to naturalcalamities. Till now, only theCentral Government has madeavailable such toll free number,said Agriculture and Farmers’Welfare Minister, OP Dhankarwhile replying to a question.
Dhankar informed theHouse that during last threeyears, the State Government hasdistributed Rs 932 crore underPradhan Mantri Fasal BimaYojana (PMFBY).
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Haryana Health MinisterAnil Vij on Monday informedthe State Assembly that 222shops have been raided in thestate including Jhajjar, whereChinese salt was being sold ille-gally.
Replying to a question, Vijsaid that generally this saltwhich is known as
Monosodium Glutamate and isnot banned under GoodsManufacturing Practices(GMP) Act. Thus as per FoodSafety Regulations with properlabelling and level, it can bemixed in Chinese Food likeNoodles, Pasta etc.
Classes at MedicalUniversity will be started soon:CM
Haryana Chief MinisterManohar Lal said that while theKalpana Chawla MedicalCollege, Karnal has been inau-gurated and started, a MedicalUniversity in the name of Pt.Deen Dayal Upadhyay is beingset up in village Kutail of districtKarnal.
The Chief Minister alsosaid the as per the announce-ment, work has been started forthe setting up of a MedicalUniversity in village Kutail afterthe name of Pt. Deen DayalUpadhyay and the classes arelikely be started from next aca-demic session.
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Punjab panchayat polls onMonday took a bloody turn
with the “murder” of AamAadmi Party’s candidate forGill Kalan Zila Parishad.
The 42-year-old HarvinderSingh Hinda was found dead athis home in Jethuke village inBathinda district on Mondaymorning with the police sus-pecting that he was killed.
Hinda had filed nomina-tion papers from Gill KalanZila Parishad zone, whichcomes under Maur assemblysegment represented by AAPMLA Jagdev Singh Kamalu.
The elections to ZilaParishads and PanchayatSamitis in Punjab are slated tobe held on September 19, andcounting will take place onSeptember 22.
As per preliminary investi-gations, the police has observedthat Hinda was being mur-dered, and the deceased wasalready familiar with his attack-ers. “We came to know aboutthe killing of Harvinder SinghHinda on Monday morning.There was an injury mark onhis head. We are investigatingthe matter,” said BathindaSenior Superintendent of Police(SSP) Nanak Singh.
SSP said that we have beeninformed that three personshad come to meet Hinda theprevious night, and the nextmorning, he was found dead.We suspect that “these threepersons”, who know him, arehis murderer. Deceased report-edly bore an injury mark on hishead. “The deceased's wifedoes not know them, but webelieve that the AAP leader is
already known to them.Harvinder Singh was killedafter receiving injuries at head.Police has already started inves-tigating the case after registra-tion of the FIR,” said the districtpolice chief.
Meanwhile, AAP MLA andthe Leader of Opposition in theVidhan Sabha Harpal SinghCheema sought immediatearrest of those who killedHinda, while at the same timeaccusing the Congress of try-ing to win the Zila Parishadelections “by using force andthreatening people”.
“AAP candidate HarvinderSingh Hinda was brutally killed last night. We condemnthis incident and we demand from the PunjabGovernment to immediatelyarrest those who were behindthis,” Cheema said.
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The State Government onMonday carried out a
major reshuffle in the OdishaAdministrative Service (OAS)cadre and transferred as manyas fifteen officers.
A General AdministrationDepartment notification saidBiswajit Biswal was appointedas the Shree Jagannath TempleAdministration (SJTA) NitiAdministrator.
While Pradip Das wasposted as the AdditionalSecretary of Water ResourcesDepartment, Pramod Prustywas appointed as the DeputyCommissioner of BhubaneswarMunicipal Corporation(BMC).
The State Governmentposted Rabindar Nath Mishraas Deputy Chairman ofCuttack DevelopmentAuthority (CDA). BiswaMohan Ray was appointed asManaging Director of the SmallIndustries Department.
Similarly, Sukant Tripathywas appointed as SambalpurDRDA Project Director, whileJyoti Shankar Mohapatra post-ed as Deputy Director ofRecruitment.
Similarly, the State gov-ernment appointed NarayanMurmu as Additional Collectorof Koraput. Tarinisen Nayakwas appointed GeneralManager of Odisha ForestDevelopment Corporation(OFDC).
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The five-day 24th OMCGuru Kelucharan
Mohapatra Award Festival con-cluded here on Sunday.
This year, the Nalco GuruKelucharan Mohapatra Awardwas conferred on Dr SachiDas for his contribution to thefield of theatre and dramaticsand on Lingaraj Behera forOdishi dance on Sunday.Additionally, the Nalco GuruKelucharan Mohapatra YuvaPrativa Samman was present-ed to four meritorious youngartistes in the area of classical
dances and Odishimusic.
They include SonaliM o h a p a t r a(Bhubaneswar) andSubikash Mukherjee(Kolkata) for Odishidance, Swati Sinha (NewDelhi) for Kathakandand Rohan SureshDahale (Mumbai) forOdishi music.
A book namely“Dancing into Eternity”,an endearing view ofthe multifaceted life andwork of Guru Keluc-haran Mohapatra, published bySrjan director RatikantaMohapatra was inaugurated.
Srjan opened the eveningwith Kirwani Madhurima, aneo-classical Odishi dance pre-sentation, scripted by Pt
Nityananda Misra to the orig-inal music composition of DrVyzarsu Balasubramaniam andthe choreography of RatikantMohapatra. They then pre-sented a special performance‘Maati’, derived from an inspir-
ing and popularpoem by the icon-ic Odia poetRadha MohanGadanayak. Thedance choreogra-phy was done byR a t i k a n tMohapatra. Themusic composi-tion was made byLaxmikant Palitand the scriptadaptation was byJaydev Das.Dancers RajashriPraharaj, Ritu
Sengupta, Pragna Parimita Das,Riyanka Chakrabarty,Aishwariya Singhdev, SipraSwain, Maya Krishnamurty,Preetisha Mohapatra and Reebdhita Barua present-ed the show.
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The Media and PR Cell ofXavier Institute of
Management, Bhubaneswar(XIMB), IlluminatiX, held thefifth edition of annual mediaconclave Communiqué on“Changing paradigms of themedia landscape in the digitalage” here on Sunday.
India Today TV NationalAffairs Editor RahulShrivastava, The Hindu,Business Line, Chennai editorR Srinivasan, InsideIIM.com,Kampus Konversations Appcreator Ankit Doshi, ChetChatfounder Chetna Vasishth andTanvi Bhatt Internationalfounder and CEO Tanvi Bhattattended as guests.
Chetna Vasishth enlight-ened on the three big gamechangers in the future of sto-rytelling- Technology, Data,and Democratisation of story-telling. She also said tradition-al media played a significantrole in embedding precon-
ceived opinions and notionsamong people while, in thisgolden age of content creation,all you need is an idea.
R Srinivasan shared hisreservations regarding inves-tigative journalism and genuinedata collection not being doneeffectively and suggested thatstories made should be wellinformed to make a difference
and media houses should honeon their strengths for story dis-covery. He opined that tech-nology has not changed theprocess, but just made infor-mation easily accessible.
Ankit Doshi elucidated theimportance of expressing your-self. Tanvi Bhatt talked aboutpersonal branding and how anindividual can be both a medi-
um and the content. She alsodifferentiated between a story-teller and a story shaper, whileurging the audience to be thelatter.
Rahul Shrivastava, whocould not attend the event senta message to the students through a video whichencompassed social mediabecoming a personal evange-
lizer of audience-centric mar-keting.
He also stated how digital-isation has enabled more socialparticipation than before.
On the occasions, an inter-active question and answersession was held and the sec-ond edition of Communiqué,the yearly newsletter byIlluminatiX was released.
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Jagatsinghpur BJD leaders onMonday met BJD supremo
and Chief Minister NaveenPatnaik here and soughtParadip MLA and formerMinister Damodar Rout’sexpulsion from the party.
A group of leaders led byJagatsinghpur BJD district pres-ident Bishnu Das andBalikuda-Erasama MLAPrashant Muduli met Patnaikat the Naveen Niwas and sub-mitted a memorandum to himdemanding Rout’s removal
because of anti-party activitiesby him.
Bishnu Das alleged thatRout has supported BapuParida, a close associate ofarrested gangster Sayed UsmanAli alias Tito.
Rout has been continu-ously making statementsagainst the party chief, otherparty leaders and Dalits. Hisstatements are giving a badname to the party inJagatsinghpur district. So, heshould be removed from theBJD, said Das. Notably, theChief Minister had onDecember 22, 2017 removedRout from his Cabinet over hisseveral controversial remarks,including those against theBrahmin community.
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The State Assembly was onMonday adjourned for a
whole day till Tuesday asCongress and BJP membersprotested against the fuel pricehike and the horticulturesapling scam, respectively.
At the outset, Congressmembers rushed into the Wellof the House and shouted slo-gans against both the UnionGovernment and the StateGovernment while protestingskyrocketing of petrol, dieseland gas prices. BJP memberstried to climb up to theSpeaker’s podium demandinga probe into the alleged saplingand cooperative bank loan
scams.Chief Minister Naveen
Patnaik was late by four min-utes to reach the House.
Amid protests and sloga-neering, Speaker PradeepKumar Amat adjourned theHouse at 10.34 am till 10.30 amon Tuesday.
“Chief Minister NaveenPatnaik had to give reply toquestions regarding HomeDepartment during theQuestion Hour, but he arrived
in the Assembly late by fourminutes. This shows that theBharat Bandh called by theCongress has been successful,”Opposition Chief Whip TaraPrasad Bahinipati toldreporters outside the House.
On the other hand, BJPMLA Pradip Purohit allegedthat due to a secret under-standing between the BJD andthe Congress, the ChiefMinister intentionally camelate to the Assembly.
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Sweden faced political dead-lock on Monday after the
far-right made gains in legisla-tive elections that left the ques-tion of who will form the nextgovernment up in the air.
The Prime Minister is usu-ally the leader of the party withthe most votes, but Sweden’sfragmented political landscapeafter Sunday’s election makes itimpossible to predict who willform the next Government.
As expected, neither thecentre-left nor the centre-rightbloc obtained a majority.
The far-right SwedenDemocrats solidified theirposition as third-biggest partyand kingmaker, albeit with alower score than they hadexpected.
Far-right parties havegained strength in elections inrecent years in severalEuropean countries, includingGermany and Italy.
Politicians in Sweden willnow “need a lot of imagination”to form a government, dailySvenska Dagbladet wrote.
“However the dramaticbloc battle plays out, it lookslike it will be difficult forSweden to have a functioninggovernment,” paper of refer-ence Dagens Nyheter wrote inan editorial. Social DemocraticPrime Minister Stefan Lofven’s“red-green” left bloc enjoys arazor-thin one-seat lead overthe centre-right OppositionAlliance.
Fewer than 30,000 votes
separate the blocs and nearly2,00,000 ballots have yet to becounted, including votes cast inadvance and abroad. The SocialDemocrats won 28.4 percent ofvotes, down 2.8 points from the2014 elections, their worstscore in a century.
“Nevertheless, voters madethe Social Democrats Sweden’sbiggest party,” Lofven said.
He has extended an invi-tation to the Opposition in abid to break the deadlock.
“We need a cross-bloccooperation,” he told his partysupporters. Lofven was meet-ing Monday with his partyexecutive to discuss the roadahead. The four-party Alliancehas however rejected his offer,urging him to step down andmake way for them to build aGovernment.
“This Government has had
its chance. It has to resign,”Alliance Opposition leader UlfKristersson told his conserva-tive Moderate party supporters.
Lofven is seeking a newfour-year mandate but he willhave difficulty forming a stablegovernment. He, like all of theother parties, has categorical-ly ruled out any cooperationwith the far-right. He could tryto build a similar Governmentto the one he formed in 2014:a minority coalition with theGreens that relies on the infor-mal support in parliament ofthe ex-communist Left Party.
But it would then be underconstant threat from theSweden Democrats, out to top-ple it at the first opportunity.They are ready to block anyattempt to pass legislation,such as the autumn budget bill.
Lofven could also invite the
Centre and Liberal parties tojoin him at the negotiatingtable.
“If the red-green bloc isbigger, the Centre and theLiberals hold the key and notJimmie Akesson,” the SwedenDemocrat leader, saidUniversity of Gothenburg polit-ical science professor MikaelGilliam on Swedish publicradio. With one major caveat:the Centre and Liberals aremembers of the Alliance,together with the Moderatesand Christian Democrats.Despite their differences,notably on immigration policy,the Alliance parties that ruledSweden from 2006 to 2014 haveagreed to try to form a gov-ernment together.
But that is no easy task.The Alliance would need
the far-right’s support to obtaina majority.
It would have to eithermake policy concessions inexchange for the SwedenDemocrats’ support or offerkey positions on parliamentarycommittees that draft legisla-tion. The Sweden Democratswon 17.6 percent of votes — upalmost five per cent from theprevious election. The party’sleader Akesson told Swedishpublic radio on Monday heexpected to wield major influ-ence.
“He who understands firstthat he can talk to me will havethe easiest time building agovernment and leading thiscountry for the next four years,”he said.
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Taliban fighters killed near-ly 60 members of
Afghanistan’s beleaguered secu-rity forces in a spate of attacksacross the country’s north, offi-cials said on Monday, as diplo-matic efforts to end the 17-yearwar intensify.
Heavy fighting overnightin four provinces followed awave of violence across thewar-torn country in recentweeks that has left hundreds ofcivilians, police and soldiersdead.
After seizing a militarybase in Sar-e-Pul, Taliban fight-ers were threatening theprovincial capital in a situationthat could result in “disaster” ifreinforcements were not sent,the area’s police chief Abdul
Qayom Baqizoy warned.Baqizoy compared the
threat to the Taliban’s extraor-dinary raid last month on theprovincial capital of Ghazni --fighters held large parts of thecity located just two hoursfrom Kabul for days.
At least 17 security forceshave been killed near Sar-e-Pulcity after militants seized acheckpoint in Sayyad districtand burned it to the ground,provincial governor ZahirWahdat told journalistsMonday. Air support has beencalled in, he said. About 39Taliban fighters have beenkilled and 14 wounded.
“The fighting is still ongo-ing near the city and the cen-tral government is going tosend more reinforcementssoon,” Wahdat said.
Elsewhere in Afghanistan’snorth, the Taliban’s elite Redunit attacked several policeposts in Kunduz, killing atleast 19 officers and woundingaround 20, Dasht-e-Archi dis-trict chief Nasruddin Saaditold AFP.
Insurgents also raided twopolice checkpoints in Dara-e-Suf district of Samanganprovince, killing 14 officers,northern Afghanistan policespokesman Sarwar Hussainisaid.
In Jowzjan province hun-dreds of Taliban fightersstormed Khomab district cen-tre, near Turkmenistan, killingeight security force membersand seizing control of govern-ment headquarters, provincialdeputy police chief AbdulHafeez Khashi told AFP.
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The UN’s new humanitarianchief warned Monday that
a large-scale military operationagainst the rebel-held Syrianprovince of Idlib could create“the worst humanitarian cata-strophe” of this century.
“There needs to be ways ofdealing with this problem thatdon’t turn the next few monthsin Idlib into the worst human-itarian catastrophe with thebiggest loss of life in the 21st
century,” Mark Lowcock toldreporters in Geneva.
His remarks came as Syriantroops, backed by Russia andIran, massed around the north-western province ahead of anexpected onslaught against thelargest rebel-held zone left inthe country.
Since 2015, Idlib has beenhome to a complex array ofanti-regime forces: secularrebels, Islamists, Syrianjihadists with ties to Al-Qaeda— and their foreign counter-
parts.It is home to some three
million people — around halfof them displaced from otherparts of the country, accordingto the United Nations.
Lowcock acknowledgedthat “there is a large number offighters there, including ter-rorists from proscribed organ-isations.”
But he stressed that “thereare 100 civilians, most of themwomen and children, for everyfighter in Idlib.”
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Islamabad: Pakistan PrimeMinister Imran Khan’s newlyelected government plans torenegotiate the agreementsreached under China’s ambi-tious Belt and Road Initiative(BRI) as it “unfairly benefitsChinese companies”, accordingto a media report.
The projects concerned arepart of the multi-billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor(CPEC) plan - the most ambi-tious part of the BRI, whichseeks to connect Asia andEurope along the ancient silkroad, The Financial Timesreported.
The ministers and the advi-sors of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf government said theagreement “unfairly benefitsChinese companies,” the paperreported.
The CPEC, launched in2015, is a planned network ofroads, railways and energyprojects linking China’sresource-rich Xinjiang UyghurAutonomous Region withPakistan’s strategic GwadarPort on the Arabian Sea.
Prime Minister Khan, whowas elected on a platform ofanti-corruption and trans-parency, in the past had criti-cised jailed former PrimeMinister Nawaz Sharif for thelack of transparency and cor-ruption in the CPEC projects.
Khan has pledged to pub-lish details of existing CPECcontracts whose detailsremained closely guardedsecrets.
“The previous governmentdid a bad job negotiating withChina on CPEC — they didn’tdo their homework correctlyand didn’t negotiate correctly sothey gave away a lot,” AbdulRazak Dawood, Prime MinisterKhan’s Adviser on Commerce,Textile, Industry & Productionand Investment, was quoted assaying by the UK-based paper.
“Chinese companiesreceived tax breaks, manybreaks and have an undueadvantage in Pakistan; this isone of the things we’re lookingat because it’s not fair thatPakistan companies should bedisadvantaged,” he said. PTI
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Aspecial court hearing thetreason case against
Pakistan’s former dictator Gen.Pervez Musharraf on Mondayasked the Interior Ministry tofind ways to extradite theabsconding ex-president fromthe UAE.
While deciding to conductdaily proceedings fromOctober 9 against the formermilitary ruler, a three-membertribunal lead by Justice YawarAli asked prosecution lawyerNasser-ud-Din Nayyer to guidethe court if Musharraf ’s state-ment can be recorded througha video link.
The previous PakistanMuslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) government had filed thetreason case against the ex-army chief Musharraf in 2013over the imposition of extra-constitutional emergency inNovember 2007.
Adjourning the case onMonday, the court said it will
be heard against the 75-year-old Dubai-based ex-presidenton a daily basis from October9. Justice Ali asked the InteriorMinistry to give in writinghow Musharraf “could bebrought back to Pakistan”.
“Is there not anotheroption besides Interpol to bringhim back?” he asked, addingthat the ministry shouldapprise the court during thenext hearing.
“We now have to rule onthis case and bring it to its finalconclusion,” the judgeremarked.
Musharraf left Pakistan forDubai for medical treatment onMarch 18, 2016 with a com-mitment to come back. Hemanaged to go abroad after hisname was removed from theExit Control List on the ordersof the Supreme Court.
A few months later, how-ever, the special court declaredhim a proclaimed offender andordered the confiscation of hisproperty owing to his no-show.
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Former UN SecretaryGeneral Ban Ki-moon and
billionaire businessman andphilanthropist Bill Gates willhead an international com-mission on climate change tolaunch next month, the Dutchgovernment said on Monday.
The commission, to beco-hosted by the GlobalCenter on Adaptation, hostedby the Netherlands in part-nership with the WorldResources Institute, seeks to“convince countries across theglobe to take measures to armthemselves against the conse-quences of climate change,” theDutch minister for infra-structure and water manage-ment said.
World Bank CEOKristalina Georgieva will alsooversee the Rotterdam-basedcommission, which styles itselfas a ‘solutions broker’ to speedclimate reform linkingGovernments and inter-
Governmental bodies, the pri-vate and public sectors accord-ing to the announcementwhich came two days afterglobal climate protests.
“We hope that the need toadapt to climate change may befelt on a global scale,” said theminister, Cora vanNieuwenhuizen, who added aplan of action would beunveiled on protecting thezones most vulnerable to cli-mate change in September ofnext year.
“Today’s announcementsby the Government of theNetherlands is a critical stepforward to set in motion morevigorous attention to andaction around climate adapta-tion,” said Ban, who said thecommission was embarkingon a “worldwide mission toaccelerate adaptation”.
Ban, Microsoft founderGates and Georgieva will be inthe Netherlands on October 16for a conference officiallylaunching the commission.
Lyon: French Police arrested aman on Monday following ahigh-speed chase on the run-way at Lyon airport after thedriver rammed his car into theterminal and drove through thebuilding.
Police said they began pur-suing the white Mercedes whenit was spotted speeding thewrong way down a nearbyhighway. The driver firstsmashed through a securitybarrier at the Lyon-Bron busi-ness airport before changingdirection and heading to Lyon'smain Saint-Exupery airportabout 20 kilometres away.
There he rammed intoautomatic glass doors near themain entrance to Terminal 1and drove through the build-ing, smashing through anoth-er set of doors before emergingonto the runway, chased byabout a dozen police vehicles aswell as a helicopter.
A video posted onlineshowed the car smashing intothe building with a bang andshowed the view afterwards ofthe smashed doors on eitherside. AFP
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Opposition supporters stagedprotests across Bangladesh onMonday demanding immedi-ate release of their leader andthree-time former premierKhaleda Zia, jailed early thisyear for graft. Zia, 73, is cur-rently on trial on more cor-ruption charges in a makeshiftcourtroom inside a 19th-cen-tury British-built prison whereshe is the only inmate and infailing health, her lawyers say.
A police official told AFPthat some 4,000 activists of themain opposition BangladeshNationalist Party (BNP) joinedprotests outside the NationalPress Club at the heart of cap-ital Dhaka. Thousands morejoined similar demonstrationsin cities and towns across thecountry.
But Opposition spokesmanFakhrul Islam Alamgir hassaid some 20,000 protesters,many shouting slogans callingZia's jailing illegal and a sham,turned up at the Dhaka rally.
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insi
ght i
nto
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ress
bru
talit
yw
ww
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Congr
ess p
resid
ent R
ahul
Gan
dhi’s
asse
rtio
n th
at h
is pa
rty
was
not
invo
lved
in th
e ba
rbar
ous
assa
ult
on th
e Sik
h co
mm
unity
afte
r Ind
iraG
andh
i’s as
sass
inat
ion
in 1
984
flies
in th
e fac
e of t
ruck
load
s of e
vide
nce t
hat w
aspl
aced
bef
ore s
ever
al co
mm
issio
ns an
d co
m-
mitt
ees
of in
quir
y th
at p
robe
d th
e vi
olen
ce.
The t
estim
onie
s of t
hous
ands
of w
itnes
ses n
oton
ly es
tabl
ished
inst
igat
ion
of fr
enzi
ed m
obs
by C
ongr
ess p
oliti
cians
but
also
the u
npar
don-
able
par
alys
is of
the
adm
inist
ratio
n an
d th
epo
lice f
orce
s in
the n
atio
nal C
apita
l and
man
yot
her c
ities
in n
orth
Indi
a whi
le th
e mob
s wer
eru
nnin
g am
ok.
The
anti-
Sikh
pog
rom
beg
an a
lmos
tim
med
iately
afte
r the
Gov
ernm
ent a
nnou
nced
on th
e eve
ning
of O
ctob
er 31
, 198
4, th
at In
dira
Gan
dhi h
ad su
ccum
bed
to th
e bu
llets
of h
eras
sass
ins.
As n
ews o
f her
assa
ssin
atio
n sp
read
,th
e Gov
ernm
ent j
ust p
acke
d up
. A h
uge m
ob
of C
ongr
ess
wor
kers
that
had
col
lect
ed o
ut-
side t
he A
ll In
dia I
nstit
ute o
f Med
ical
Sci
ence
sbe
gan
targ
etin
g Sik
hs fo
und
in th
e vic
inity
and
this
set t
he tr
end
for a
kin
d of
sava
gery
that
Indi
a had
not
witn
esse
d sin
ce P
artit
ion.
The
irbe
llige
renc
e tur
ned
into
slog
ans l
ike K
hoo
n k
ab
ad
la k
ho
on s
e le
nge
(w
e w
ill a
veng
e bl
ood
with
blo
od) i
n Te
en M
urti
Bhav
an w
here
Indi
aG
andh
i’s b
ody
lay
in s
tate
and
thi
s w
as n
oem
pty t
hrea
t. Fo
r the
nex
t thr
ee d
ays,
Cong
ress
cadr
es ro
amed
the n
atio
nal C
apita
l and
citie
sin
the n
orth
torc
hing
Sik
h pl
aces
of w
orsh
ip,
esta
blish
men
ts a
nd p
rope
rty
and
the
vict
ims
had
now
here
to
go b
ecau
se p
olic
e st
atio
nsclo
sed
shop
and
a goo
d pa
rt o
f the
pol
ice f
orce
rend
ered
ove
rt an
d co
vert
supp
ort t
o Co
ngre
ssho
odlu
ms.
With
in h
ours
of t
he an
noun
cem
ent o
f the
deat
h of
Indi
a G
andh
i, he
r son
Raj
iv G
andh
iw
as sw
orn
in a
s Prim
e M
inist
er a
nd, t
echn
i-ca
lly s
peak
ing,
a n
ew G
over
nmen
t w
as i
npl
ace,
but t
here
was
no
Gov
ernm
ent.
The s
tate
had
with
ered
aw
ay. I
n al
l 2,7
32 S
ikhs
wer
eki
lled
in th
ose r
iots
— 2
,146
in D
elhi
and
586
in so
me
othe
r tow
ns in
the
nort
hern
regi
on.
The S
ikhs
suffe
red
loss
of h
omes
and
prop
er-
ty in
an
unpr
eced
ente
d sc
ale.
The
Just
ice
Nan
avat
i C
omm
issi
on o
fIn
quiry
, whi
ch p
robe
d th
e rio
ts, fo
und
shoc
k-in
g ev
iden
ce o
f the
com
plic
ity o
f the
pol
ice i
nth
e rio
ts in
Del
hi. A
lthou
gh th
e vio
lenc
e was
spre
ad a
ll ov
er t
he n
atio
nal
Cap
ital,
the
poli
ce h
ad r
egis
tere
d on
ly 5
87 F
irst
Info
rmat
ion
Repo
rts (
FIRs
) aga
inst
the m
ob-
sters
and
even
of t
hese
,the
pol
ice d
ecla
red
241
case
s as
“un
trac
ed”
and
anot
her
253
case
sen
ded
in a
cqui
ttals.
Fur
ther
, 11
FIRs
wer
equ
ashe
d an
d in
anot
her 1
1 ca
ses,
the a
ccus
edw
ere
disc
harg
ed. T
he C
omm
issio
n w
as to
ldth
at o
ne c
ase
was
pen
ding
inve
stig
atio
n an
d42
cas
es w
ere
pend
ing
tria
l.A
fter
wei
ghin
g th
e ev
iden
ce t
hat
cam
ebe
fore
it, t
he C
omm
issio
n ca
me t
o th
e fol
low
-in
g co
nclu
sions
: Slo
gans
like
Kh
oon
ka
ba
dla
khoo
n
se
len
ge
wer
e ra
ised
by t
he m
obs.
Rum
ours
wer
e circ
ulat
ed w
hich
had
the e
ffect
of i
nciti
ng p
eopl
e ag
ains
t th
e Si
khs
and
prom
pt th
em to
take
reve
nge;
ther
e w
as e
vi-
denc
e to
sho
w t
hat
at s
ome
plac
es,
mob
sin
dulg
ing i
n vi
olen
t atta
cks h
ad co
me i
n D
elhi
Tran
spor
t Cor
pora
tion
buse
s with
wea
pons
and
infla
mm
able
mat
eria
ls lik
e ker
osen
e, pe
trol e
tcor
wer
e sup
plied
such
mat
erial
s “so
on af
ter t
hey
wer
e ta
ken
to th
e lo
calit
ies
whe
re th
e Si
khs
wer
e to
be
atta
cked
”; th
ere
was
evi
denc
e to
show
tha
t “..
.per
sons
who
cou
ld o
rgan
iseat
tack
s wer
e con
tact
ed an
d gi
ven
inst
ruct
ions
to k
ill S
ikhs
and
loot
thei
r hou
ses a
nd sh
ops;
the a
ttack
s wer
e mad
e in
a sys
tem
atic
man
ner
and
with
out f
ear o
f the
pol
ice,
alm
ost s
ugge
st-in
g tha
t the
y wer
e ass
ured
that
they
wou
ld n
otbe
har
med
whi
le c
omm
ittin
g th
ose
acts
and
even
ther
eafte
r”; m
ale
mem
bers
of t
he S
ikh
com
mun
ity w
ere
take
n ou
t of
the
ir ho
uses
,be
aten
and
bur
nt a
live;
and
tyre
s w
ere
put
roun
d th
eir n
ecks
and
then
set o
n fir
e by p
our-
ing
kero
sene
or p
etro
l on
them
.Th
is is
just
a br
ief s
umm
ary o
f the
gra
ph-
ic d
escr
iptio
n of
the
cru
elty
per
petr
ated
by
Con
gres
s go
ons
that
the
Com
miss
ion
took
note
of.
As r
egar
ds th
ose
who
inst
igat
ed th
em
urde
rous
, fre
nzie
d m
obs a
gain
st th
e Si
khs,
the C
omm
issio
n m
ade t
he fo
llow
ing o
bser
va-
tions
: Lar
ge n
umbe
r of a
ffida
vits
indi
cate
that
loca
l Con
gres
s (I
) le
ader
s an
d w
orke
rs h
adei
ther
inci
ted
or h
elpe
d th
e m
obs
in a
ttack
-
ing
the S
ikhs
. But
for t
he b
acki
ng an
d he
lp o
fin
fluen
tial a
nd re
sour
cefu
l per
sons
, kill
ing
ofSi
khs
so s
wift
ly a
nd in
larg
e nu
mbe
rs c
ould
not
have
hap
pene
d; i
n m
any
plac
es t
heri
otou
s m
obs
cons
isted
of
outs
ider
s an
dbr
ingi
ng t
hem
fro
m o
utsid
e re
quire
d an
orga
nise
d ef
fort;
ther
e is e
vide
nce t
o sh
ow th
atou
tsid
ers w
ere s
how
n th
e hou
ses o
f the
Sik
hs;
whe
n Si
khs c
ollec
ted
at a
Gur
udwa
ra to
def
end
them
selv
es,
the
polic
e pe
rsua
ded
them
to
retu
rn to
thei
r ho
mes
on
the
assu
ranc
e th
atth
ey w
ould
be p
rote
cted
; the
reaf
ter t
he m
obs
took
ove
r and
the p
olic
e loo
ked
the o
ther
way
.A
ffida
vits
filed
bef
ore
the
Com
miss
ion
show
that
loca
l pol
itica
l lea
ders
exp
loite
d th
esit
uatio
n; th
e affi
davi
ts sta
te th
at C
ongr
ess l
ead-
ers a
nd w
orke
rs w
ere b
ehin
d th
e rio
ts; “n
o ot
her
pers
on o
r or
gani
satio
n…in
alle
ged
to h
ave
take
n pa
rt in
thos
e inc
iden
ts”; t
he sl
ogan
s rais
eddu
ring
the r
iots
also
indi
cate
that
som
e of t
hepe
rson
s w
ho c
onst
itute
d th
e m
obs
wer
eC
ongr
ess
wor
kers
or
sym
path
isers
. So
me
mat
eria
l was
also
put
bef
ore
the
com
miss
ion
whi
ch in
dica
ted
that
Raj
iv G
andh
i, w
ho h
adbe
com
e Pr
ime
Min
ister
soon
afte
r his
mot
h-er
’s as
sass
inat
ion
had
told
one
of t
his o
ffici
als
that
“the
Sik
hs sh
ould
be t
augh
t a le
sson
”. Th
eco
mm
issio
n ho
wev
er d
id n
ot p
ursu
e th
isbe
caus
e th
e ev
iden
ce a
vaila
ble
was
vag
ue.
How
ever
, the
com
miss
ion
indi
cted
the g
over
n-m
ent
for
the
com
plic
ity o
f th
e po
lice
and
adm
inist
ratio
n wi
th th
e rio
ters
and
for t
he in
or-
dina
te d
elay
in ca
lling
in th
e ar
my.
The
Indi
an st
ate
was
in a
stat
e of
par
aly-
sis af
ter I
ndira
Gan
dhi’s
assa
ssin
atio
n an
d th
isis
expl
aine
d by
the s
hock
ing
non-
resp
onse
of
the t
hen
Pres
iden
t Gia
ni Z
ail S
ingh
to th
e plea
sfo
r pro
tect
ion
from
the S
ikhs
. The
not
ed w
riter
Patw
ant S
ingh
told
the C
omm
issio
n th
at h
e was
part
of a
del
egat
ion
of em
inen
t citi
zens
whi
chca
lled
on t
he P
resid
ent
on t
he m
orni
ng o
fN
ovem
ber 1
. The
y tol
d hi
m h
e had
a m
oral
and
Con
stitu
tiona
l obl
igat
ion
to en
d th
e vio
lenc
e.Th
e Pr
esid
ent
said
he
“did
not
hav
e th
epo
wer”
to in
terv
ene.
The d
elega
tion
aske
d Za
ilSi
ngh
if he
was
sayi
ng h
e had
no
powe
r to
stop
anac
hy a
nd b
lood
shed
? “T
he P
resi
dent
rem
aine
d sil
ent”.
But
the d
eleg
atio
n pe
rsist
edan
d ur
ged
the P
resid
ent t
o sp
eak
forc
eful
ly to
the
Prim
e M
inist
er. Z
ail S
ingh
said
“I w
ill d
oso
in th
ree
or fo
ur d
ays
time”
! Tha
t was
the
thre
e or
four
day
s in
whi
ch th
e m
ass m
urde
rof
Sik
hs to
ok p
lace
.
Ther
e is
suffi
cien
t evi
denc
e to
indi
ct th
eCo
ngre
ss o
n tw
o co
unts
— fo
r unl
eash
ing b
ru-
talit
y of
the w
orst
kin
d on
mem
bers
of a
reli-
giou
s min
ority
and
for t
he G
over
nmen
t’s co
l-la
bora
tion
with
the
perp
etra
tors
of v
iole
nce.
Rahu
l G
andh
i is
only
rub
bing
sal
t on
the
wou
nds o
f the
Sik
hs b
y now
clai
min
g th
at h
ispa
rty
was
not
inv
olve
d. H
e m
ust
read
the
Nan
avat
i Com
miss
ion
repo
rts
and
the
affi-
davi
ts fi
led
befo
re it
.(T
he
wri
ter
is C
hai
rman
, P
rasa
r B
har
ati)
���
����
���
���
��Si
r —
Thi
s re
fers
to
the
edito
rial,
“Thr
ee st
rikes
...” (S
epte
mbe
r 10)
. The
mos
t st
riki
ng f
eatu
re o
f th
e 2+
2D
ialo
gue
betw
een
Indi
a an
d th
e U
Sw
as th
at it
bro
ught
wom
en p
ower
toth
e fo
re. T
he i
mag
e of
tw
o w
omen
Min
iste
rs,
Sush
ma
Swar
aj a
ndN
irmal
a Sith
aram
an, b
eing
a pa
rt an
dpa
rcel
of c
ruci
al ag
reem
ents
conc
ern-
ing
the c
ount
ry sp
oke v
olum
es ab
out
the
capa
bilit
ies o
f the
two
wom
en in
hand
ling
high
-pro
file
jobs
. Ku
sum
Via
emai
l
���
���
�� �
����
Sir
— T
he B
hara
th b
an
dh
cal
led
byO
ppos
ition
par
ties o
ver a
n in
crea
se in
pric
es o
f pet
rol/d
iese
l was
unw
ante
d.Th
e fac
t of t
he m
atte
r is t
hat t
he o
cca-
sion
was
use
d to
show
thei
r str
engt
han
d un
ity. I
t is w
ell-k
now
n th
at In
dia
and
othe
r cou
ntrie
s are
witn
essin
g a
stee
p ris
e in
oil
pric
es d
ue t
o th
ere
turn
of U
S sa
nctio
ns o
n Ir
an, w
hich
has
forc
ed t
he l
atte
r to
low
er i
tsex
port
s. Be
sides
, flu
ctua
tions
in th
egl
obal
mar
ket t
oo a
re re
spon
sible
. Th
ese a
re th
ings
bey
ond
our c
on-
trol
. In
any
cas
e, t
he O
ppos
ition
,
incl
udin
g th
e
Con
gres
s,
the
Com
mun
ist P
arty
of I
ndia
(Mar
xist
)as
also
oth
er p
artie
s, m
ust g
et th
eir
acts
toge
ther
in su
gges
ting
way
s and
mea
ns t
o co
ntro
l the
situ
atio
n th
atde
man
ds im
med
iate
atte
ntio
n.Sr
avan
a Ra
mac
hand
ran
Che
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r —
It
seem
s b
an
dh
s an
d h
art
als
have
bec
ome a
par
t and
par
cel o
f our
daily
liv
es.
Polit
ical
org
anis
atio
nslo
se n
o tim
e to
decl
are b
an
dh
s, im
mi-
nent
ly to
pro
test
eve
ry a
ctio
n of
the
Gov
ernm
ent a
t the
hel
m. T
hey
clai
mth
at it
is th
eir r
ight
to p
rote
st. T
heir
argu
men
t is
that
the
Con
stitu
tion
guar
ante
es th
e rig
ht to
form
ass
ocia
-tio
ns a
nd r
ight
to
free
spe
ech
and
expr
essio
n. T
hat’s
true
. But
it is
also
a fac
t tha
t the
righ
t is n
ot an
abso
lute
one.
One
mus
t pro
test
, but
pea
cefu
l-ly,
with
out
ham
peri
ng d
aily
bus
i-ne
ss. W
hile
laun
chin
g ba
nd
hs,
par
ties
forc
e the
peo
ple t
o ob
ey th
eir o
rder
s.Th
is i
s no
thin
g bu
t ho
olig
anis
m.
They
inf
ringe
on
the
fund
amen
tal
right
s of c
itize
ns. T
his m
ust e
nd.
Jube
l D’C
ruz
Mum
bai
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Sir
— T
his
refe
rs t
o th
e ed
itoria
l,“T
hree
str
ikes
...” (
Sept
embe
r 10
).Th
e 2+2
Dia
logu
e bet
wee
n In
dia a
ndth
e US
was
a su
cces
s. O
ne h
opes
that
issue
s an
d irr
itant
s w
ith r
egar
d to
Indi
a im
port
ing
oil f
rom
Iran
will
inno
way
affe
ct th
e lan
dmar
k pa
ct. T
heca
ll to
Pak
istan
to e
nd te
rror
ism to
om
ust n
ot b
e le
ft un
hear
d.Sh
ashi
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emai
l
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hara
t Ban
dh w
as su
cces
sful a
cros
sthe
coun
try. A
t lea
st no
w, th
e Gov
ernm
ent
shou
ld re
duce
price
s and
men
d its
ways
. —
Senio
r Con
gres
s lea
der
ASHO
K GE
HLOT
Ever
yone
has a
righ
t to p
rotes
t but
what
isha
ppen
ing to
day?
Seve
ral li
ves a
re be
ing pu
tat
risk.
Cong
ress
mus
t ans
wer.
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ion M
iniste
rRA
VI SH
ANKA
R PR
ASAD
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The In
dian
educ
ation
secto
r,as
also
the g
loba
l indu
stry,
stand
s at c
ross
road
s. In
aco
mpl
ex w
orld
, indi
vidu
-als
, gro
ups a
nd n
ation
s are
tryin
g to
find
solu
tions
to m
ater
ial
and
polit
ical p
robl
ems t
hrou
gh ed
u-ca
tion.
In a
world
that
has
lost
dire
c-tio
n an
d wh
en ev
eryo
ne w
ants
to ge
tm
ater
ially
ric
h an
d af
fluen
t,G
over
nmen
ts an
d pa
rent
s wan
t edu
-ca
tion
to d
evelo
p co
mpe
tenc
ies th
atca
n he
lp th
em ea
rn m
ore m
oney
and
get m
ateria
lly ri
ch. E
duca
tion
has,
infa
ct, le
d to t
he de
struc
tion
of an
indi
-vi
dual’
s cr
eativ
ity a
nd h
appi
ness
inste
ad of
bein
g a ‘m
an m
akin
g’ an
dso
ul-se
arch
ing p
roce
ss. M
ost in
divid
-ua
ls, w
ho su
cces
sfully
pas
s thr
ough
the
syste
m o
f ed
ucat
ion,
bec
ome
mor
e self
-cen
tere
d an
d m
ateria
listic
.Th
is is
what
our
pre
sent
sys
tem
isge
ared
to
impa
rt. I
nstit
utio
ns a
rebe
ing a
ssesse
d on
the s
alary
the g
rad-
uate
s get
and
not o
n ho
w ha
ppy t
hey
are i
n lif
e. Ar
ound
125 y
ears
back
, in 18
93,
Swam
i Vi
veka
nand
a, du
ring
his
Chi
cago
add
ress
to
the
Wor
ldPa
rliam
ent
of R
eligi
ons,
had
very
clea
rly
delin
eate
d th
e es
senc
eH
indu
ism; a
nd th
e ess
ence
of ed
uca-
tion
cann
ot be
anyt
hing
but w
hat w
asde
scrib
ed b
y Swa
miji
as th
e ess
ence
of H
indu
ism. T
he o
bjec
tive
of a
nysy
stem
of e
duca
tion
or a
uni
vers
ityca
nnot
be
diff
eren
t to
wha
tVi
veka
nand
a sp
oke o
f at t
he W
orld
Parli
amen
t as t
he p
hilo
soph
y of
life
and
Hin
duism
. Tod
ay, th
e wor
ld h
assta
rted
view
ing e
duca
tion
as an
end
in it
self;
whe
reas
the n
eed
is to
see i
tas
a m
eans
to an
end.
Ed
ucat
ion
has t
o be
a se
arch
for
truth
and
this
jour
ney
cann
ot h
ave
a beg
inni
ng o
r an
end
date
. It h
as to
be a
life-
long
pro
cess
. Our
uni
vers
i-tie
s do
not
im
part
skill
s to
kee
pse
arch
ing f
or tr
uth
and v
alues
, whi
chca
n co
nver
t in
divi
duals
into
sou
l-se
arch
ing i
ndivi
duals
. Stu
dent
s com
eto
uni
vers
ities
to ea
rn a
degr
ee. T
hebe
tter t
he qu
ality
of th
e deg
ree i
e, th
ebe
tter t
he re
puta
tion
of th
e un
iver
-sit
y, hi
gher
are t
he ch
ance
s of g
ettin
ga g
ood
salar
ied jo
b. Un
ivers
ities
as di
vers
ity in
unity
cent
res:
Indi
vidu
als h
ave
diffe
rent
idea
s and
belie
fs. T
hey a
re to
be n
ur-
ture
d du
ring
the
early
yea
rs a
nd a
sth
ey co
me t
o th
e ter
tiary
leve
l, th
eym
ust b
e exp
osed
to d
iffer
ent s
hade
sof
idea
s so t
hat t
hey d
evelo
p as t
hink
-in
g in
divi
duals
. Sw
ami
Vive
kana
nda
belie
ved
that
edu
catio
n ha
s a d
ual p
urpo
se—
that
of c
reat
ing
new
kno
wle
dge
thro
ugh
cutti
ng-e
dge r
esea
rch
and
reac
hing
the
ben
efits
of
rese
arch
and
know
ledg
e fo
r the
cre
atio
n of
a co
mm
on p
erso
n. U
nive
rsiti
esca
nnot
affo
rd to
be
Eiffe
l Tow
ers.
If w
e lo
ok a
t our
anc
ient
sys
tem
,ex
actly
the s
ame w
as o
ur sy
stem
of
educ
atio
n. M
oder
n ed
ucat
ion
cre-
ates
indi
vidu
als w
ho b
ecom
e pa
rtof
the
sys
tem
. Thi
s br
ings
mor
ebe
nefit
s to
the r
ich an
d th
e affl
uent
and
mise
ries f
or th
e po
or a
nd th
edo
wnt
rodd
en.
Educ
ation
is es
sent
ially
a pro
cess
of l
earn
ing
to l
ive
in d
iver
sity.
‘Tol
eran
ce’ is
the k
ey w
ord.
We n
eed
to d
evelo
p to
leran
ce f
or d
iffer
ent
idea
s, id
eolo
gies
, cu
lture
s. Bu
t in
toda
y’s t
imes
, we
are
witn
essin
gm
ore
and
mor
e in
toler
ance
on
our
cam
puse
s. W
hen
Pand
it M
adan
Moh
an M
alviya
ji wa
s esta
blish
ing t
heBa
nara
s H
indu
Uni
vers
ity, h
e wa
sas
ked
to r
eser
ve s
eats
for
the
loca
lpe
ople.
He
had
defin
ed th
e un
iver
-sit
y as a
‘visw
a’ gl
obal
insti
tutio
n an
dsa
id th
at a
s suc
h th
ere
coul
d be
no
rese
rvat
ion
for t
he lo
cal.
Toda
y, we
can’t
fin
d stu
dent
s in
a u
nive
rsity
com
ing f
rom
mor
e tha
n 50
or a
100
kilo
met
ers.
Our
uni
vers
ities
hav
ebe
com
e loc
al in
stead
of b
eing
glob
-al.
Thi
s is t
he ou
tcom
e of i
ntol
eran
ceon
cam
puse
s for
anyt
hing
not
loca
l.St
uden
ts fro
m o
ther
par
ts of
the
coun
try ar
e ofte
n un
der t
he th
reat
ofun
equa
l tre
atm
ent.
This
is ne
ither
the H
indu
idea
lno
r the
idea
l of a
uni
vers
ity w
hich
Swam
ijiha
d ta
lked
abou
t. W
e hav
eco
nven
iently
forg
otte
n ab
out t
hem
.In
rec
ent
past,
we
find
mor
e an
dm
ore
univ
ersit
y ca
mpu
ses
unde
rtu
rmoi
l. St
uden
ts ar
e up
aga
inst
teac
hers
or st
uden
ts an
d te
ache
rs ar
eup
in ar
ms a
gain
st th
e vice
-cha
ncel-
lor a
nd ad
min
istra
tive s
taff.
For
one
or th
e ot
her
reas
on, t
he te
achi
ng-
learn
ing p
roce
ss is
stall
ed or
the u
ni-
vers
ity i
s clo
sed.
Inc
iden
ts at
the
Jaw
ahar
lal N
ehru
Uni
vers
ity, N
ewD
elhi;
Bana
ras
Hin
du U
nive
rsity
,Va
rana
si;
Man
ipur
Uni
vers
ity,
Imph
al; a
nd o
ther
s sp
eak
volu
me
abou
t th
e m
anag
emen
t of
hig
her
educ
atio
n in
our
coun
try.
Educ
atio
n m
ust
expa
nd i
tsho
rizon
: Edu
catio
n m
ust h
elp u
s see
beyo
nd th
e app
aren
t. Som
eone
, who
has
been
to th
e un
iver
sity
and
got
good
educ
ation
, sho
uld b
e abl
e to s
eebe
low
the s
urfa
ce. T
his w
ould
mea
nno
t bein
g ca
ught
up
in th
e na
rrow
bigo
try o
f m
unda
ne l
ife. S
wam
iji,
thro
ugh
an a
necd
ote
of a
frog
, had
expl
ained
how
a fr
og, w
ho li
ved
allth
roug
h hi
s life
in a
well
, cou
ld n
otco
mpr
ehen
d th
e vas
tnes
s of t
he se
a.H
indu
ism, w
ith its
long
and d
eep p
hi-
loso
phy a
nd li
tera
ture
, tea
ches
us t
oas
simila
te d
iffer
ent p
eopl
e fro
m d
if-fer
ent c
ultu
res a
nd b
ackg
roun
ds. I
nsp
ite o
f peo
ple f
rom
diff
eren
t fait
hsco
min
g to I
ndia,
it co
uld
not d
estro
yth
e bas
ic ten
ets of
Hin
duism
. Hin
dus
have
giv
en sh
elter
to p
eopl
e dr
iven
from
their
own
land
in In
dia
with
-ou
t los
ing i
ts ow
n id
entit
y. Si
mila
rly,
our i
nstit
utio
ns m
ust b
ecom
e cen
tres
of le
arni
ng w
here
peop
le fro
m al
l dif-
feren
t par
ts of
the c
ount
ry an
d wo
rldm
ust c
onve
rge
and
learn
to li
ve in
peac
e. U
nfor
tuna
tely,
our
edu
ca-
tiona
l cam
puse
s hav
e bec
ome m
ost
into
leran
t to
diffe
rent
ideo
logi
es.
Ever
sin
ce t
he B
ritish
esta
b-lis
hed
univ
ersit
ies in
Indi
a, es
pecia
l-ly
afte
r In
depe
nden
ce, u
nive
rsiti
esha
ve n
ot be
en se
en as
cent
res o
f lear
n-in
g an
d kn
owled
ge c
reat
ion,
but
as
cent
res f
or cr
eatin
g sub
jects
to se
rve
the m
aster
s. Id
eals
of th
e Ind
ian ed
u-ca
tion
have
bee
n lo
st. U
nive
rsiti
es
mus
t hav
e au
tono
my
to d
ecid
e on
what
to te
ach
and
how
to te
ach.
U
nfor
tuna
tely,
agen
cies o
utsid
eth
e uni
versi
ty de
cide o
n wh
at un
iver-
sities
shou
ld te
ach.
It is
grea
ter m
is-fo
rtune
, it m
ust b
e said
in th
e sam
eve
in, t
hat w
here
ver
auto
nom
y wa
sex
ercis
ed, it
has
ofte
n be
en m
isuse
dby
our
plan
ners
. One
ideo
logy
has
been
prom
oted
over
othe
rs. T
he pu
r-po
se a
nd id
eal o
f the
gre
at In
dian
univ
ersit
y ha
s be
en d
erail
ed.
We
need
to re
vers
e the
proc
ess.
We n
eed
an e
duca
tion
polic
y w
hich
rise
sab
ove n
arro
w bi
gotry
and
aspi
res f
orea
ch i
ndiv
idua
l to
atta
in m
oksh
ath
roug
h th
e pro
cess
of ed
ucat
ion
—Sa
Vid
ya y
a V
imu
ktay
e. Ed
ucat
ion
is a
cont
inuu
m:
Swam
iji,
in h
is ad
dres
s in
Chica
go,
had
men
tione
d th
at it
is sa
id th
at th
eV
edas
neit
her h
ave a
beg
inni
ng n
oran
end.
Thi
s nee
ds to
be u
nder
stood
in c
onte
xt. H
e ha
d als
o m
entio
ned
that
the
re i
s on
e tru
th a
nd t
hepr
oces
s to
rea
ch c
an b
e di
ffere
nt.
Trut
h ca
nnot
be m
any.
The c
once
ptof
uni
vers
ity in
Indi
a is t
he se
arch
for
truth
— th
e ulti
mate
one.
Unive
rsitie
ssh
ould
be t
he ag
encie
s to
sear
ch fo
rth
at u
ltim
ate t
ruth
. V
edas
talk
of al
l diff
eren
t are
as of
hum
an k
nowl
edge
, in
cludi
ng s
ci-en
ce, b
ut w
e do
not f
ind
it an
ywhe
rein
our
curr
iculu
m. W
e hav
e reje
cted
all t
hat i
n th
e na
me
of m
oder
nity.
Educ
ation
shou
ld n
ot b
e a p
roce
ss of
trans
plan
ting
the
recip
ients
of th
eirow
n cul
ture
s but
that
is wh
at ha
s bee
nth
e pro
cess.
We n
eed t
o brin
g bac
k our
own k
nowl
edge
syste
m in
to th
e main
-str
eam
with
out k
eepi
ng th
e mod
ern
out o
f our
sylla
bus.
Con
clus
ion:
Succ
essi
veG
over
nmen
ts i
n In
dia,
sin
ceIn
depe
nden
ce,
have
al
way
spr
omise
d a
new
edu
catio
n po
licy
base
d on
Indi
an va
lues
and
syste
ms.
But t
hey h
ave f
ailed
to co
me u
p wi
tha
polic
y th
at c
an b
e ca
lled
a tru
lyIn
dian
pol
icy or
syste
m of
educ
ation
.Ev
ery
Indi
an, w
ho h
as b
een
con-
cern
ed a
bout
the
con
tent
and
proc
ess
of e
duca
tion,
esp
ecia
llysin
ce In
depe
nden
ce, w
hich
has
been
a con
tinua
tion
of M
acau
lay’s v
ision
of In
dian
educ
atio
n an
d pr
o-eli
te, is
amaz
ed w
hy w
e hav
e not
bee
n ab
leto
prop
ound
our o
wn sy
stem
in sp
iteof
the
fact
that
we
have
mor
e th
an5,
000-
year
-old
trad
ition
of k
now
l-ed
ge cr
eatio
n an
d pr
eser
vatio
n. T
hepr
oces
s nee
ds n
o ela
bora
tion.
Rea
dSw
amiji
and
hear
his
spee
ch a
tCh
icago
and
you
will g
et th
e for
mu-
la fo
r rev
ampi
ng In
dian
educ
atio
n.
(Th
e w
rite
r is
P
rofe
sso
r o
fE
duca
tion
at I
ndi
ra G
and
hi N
atio
nal
Ope
n U
niv
ersi
ty, N
ew D
elhi
. Vie
ws
are
pers
onal
)
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e of
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sis w
ho p
enne
d on
the
issue
of
relig
ious
rad
icalis
atio
n in
Pak
istan
,ha
ve al
mos
t squ
arely
conc
entra
ted on
the p
ro-
lifer
ation
of th
e mor
e bell
igere
nt st
rand
s of t
heM
uslim
Sunn
i Deo
band
i and
of W
ahib
i sub
-se
cts. E
ven
thou
gh bo
th ar
e min
ority
sub-
sects
in P
akist
an, th
ey be
gan
to en
joy s
trateg
ic sta
tesu
ppor
t fro
m th
e 198
0s on
ward
s — es
pecia
l-ly
when
Pak
istan
bec
ame a
fron
tline
stat
e in
the
insu
rgen
cy a
gain
st th
e So
viet
-bac
ked
Gov
ernm
ent
in A
fgha
nista
n. T
he S
unni
Bare
lvi su
b-se
ct, th
at a
majo
rity o
f Pak
istan
isbe
long
to, d
id n
ot h
ave a
ny h
istor
ical t
radi
-tio
n re
lated
to ar
med
jihad
. The
refo
re, th
e stat
eof
Pak
istan
, with
help
from
the U
S and
Saud
iAr
abia,
fork
ed o
ut m
illio
ns o
f dol
lars t
o pu
llin
rad
ical
Deo
band
i ele
men
ts fro
m t
hefri
nges
and
into
the m
ainstr
eam
. Eve
r sin
ce19
th an
d ear
ly 20
th ce
ntur
ies, b
oth D
eoba
ndis
as w
ell a
s Wah
abis
had
histo
ries o
f org
anis-
ing
them
selve
s dur
ing
upris
ings
, ena
cted
inth
e nam
e of j
ihad
. The
Bar
elvis
did
not.
The B
arelv
is em
erge
d as a
Sunn
i sub
-sect
in t
he la
te 1
9th
cent
ury.
It wa
s a
reac
tion
again
st th
e th
eolo
gica
l on
slaug
ht o
f th
eD
eoba
ndis
agai
nst
the
tradi
tions
of
the
majo
rity o
f Mus
lims,
who,
durin
g the
500-
year
Mus
lim ru
le in
Indi
a, ha
d mer
ged v
ario
us el
e-m
ents
of Su
fism
with
the r
ituals
of pr
e-Isl
amic
cree
ds ex
istin
g in
Indi
a. Th
e Bar
elvi w
ere n
ever
an or
gani
sed
lot. F
or ex
ampl
e, wh
en in
1919
,th
e D
eoba
ndi c
lerics
org
anise
d th
emse
lves
into
a la
rge
polit
ical p
arty
in I
ndia
— th
eJa
miat
Ulem
a-i-I
slam
Hin
d (JU
IH)
— th
eBa
relvi
figu
rehe
ads (
pirs
) ins
tead
join
ed va
r-io
us n
on-r
eligi
ous p
oliti
cal o
utfit
s.Fo
r exa
mpl
e, in
stead
of f
orm
ing
a par
tyof
their
own,
they
first
join
ed th
e Uni
on P
arty
(in P
unjab
) and
then
, in 19
45-4
6, Jin
nah’s
All-
Indi
a Mus
lim L
eagu
e. H
owev
er, a
yea
r afte
rPa
kista
n’s cr
eatio
n in
1947
, a gr
oup
of B
arelv
icle
rics f
orm
ed th
e Jam
iat-i-
Ulem
a Pak
istan
.Bu
t acc
ordi
ng to
Muj
eeb A
hmad
in h
is es
say
in S
tate
an
d N
atio
n B
uild
ing
in P
akis
tan
:B
eyon
d Is
lam
an
d Se
curi
ty, th
e JU
P ha
rdly
reg-
ister
ed o
n Pa
kista
n’s p
oliti
cal l
ands
cape
till
1970
. Nev
erth
eless,
Alix
Phi
llipon
, in th
e sam
ean
thol
ogy,
poin
ts th
at e
ven
thou
gh t
heBa
relvi
majo
rity
was p
oliti
cally
scat
tere
d, it
sso
cial i
nflu
ence
was
not
lost
on th
e sta
te o
f
Paki
stan.
In he
r boo
k, A
rgu
ing
Sain
thoo
d, Ka
ther
ine
Prat
t Ewi
ng ch
arte
d in
det
ail h
ow th
e sta
te of
Paki
stan
(and
vario
us G
over
nmen
ts) m
ould
-ed
and
rem
ould
ed re
ligio
us im
ager
y re
lated
to B
arelv
i beli
efs t
o fit
wha
teve
r or h
owev
erth
e sta
te, a
t the
tim
e, wa
s dem
onstr
atin
g as
the c
onte
nts o
f Pak
istan
’s nat
iona
list-e
xiste
n-tia
list n
arra
tive.
Sinc
e th
e ve
nera
tion
of th
ede
ceas
ed a
s well
as l
ivin
g sa
ints
is a
cent
ral
plan
k in
the
Bare
lvi b
elief
syste
m, t
he st
ate
tried
to m
onop
olise
the w
ritin
g of t
he h
isto-
ries o
f the
sain
ts. E
wing
dem
onstr
ates
how
,on
the
sugg
estio
n of
Jave
d Iq
bal,
the
Ayub
Khan
regi
me
(195
8-69
) neu
tralis
ed th
e pi
rs(a
nd al
so cl
erics
) by b
ringin
g und
er st
ate co
n-tro
l the
coun
try’s
Sufi
shrin
es, m
osqu
es an
dm
adre
ssah
s. Th
is wa
s do
ne b
y fo
rmin
g a
depa
rtmen
t call
ed A
uqaf
.Th
en, th
e hist
ory o
f var
ious
fam
ous S
outh
Asian
Sufi
sain
ts wa
s writ
ten
by A
uqaf
in th
elig
ht of
how
the A
yub r
egim
e was
expr
essin
gits
elf. A
ccor
ding
to bo
th E
wing
and P
hillip
on,
the l
itera
ture
pro
duce
d by
Auq
af d
urin
g th
eAy
ub er
a des
crib
ed sa
ints
to b
e enl
ight
ened
and
forw
ard-
look
ing m
en as
opp
osed
to th
ecle
rics
whos
e lit
erat
ure
pres
ents
itself
as
bein
g rea
ctio
nary
. The
sain
ts we
re p
rese
nted
as a
ncien
t pro
jectio
ns o
f Ayu
b’s ‘m
oder
nist’
appr
oach
towa
rds I
slam
.Th
e sa
ints’
per
sona
lities
wen
t thr
ough
anot
her
rewr
ite d
urin
g th
e ‘so
cialis
t’ ZA
Bhut
to re
gim
e (1
971-
77).
Analy
sing
the
lit-
eratu
re pu
blish
ed by
Auq
af du
ring t
he B
hutto
perio
d, E
wing
not
ed h
ow t
he s
aints
now
beca
me p
opul
ist m
en w
ho o
ppos
ed o
ppre
s-siv
e kin
gs, f
euda
l lord
s and
‘their
agen
ts’ (i
.e.th
e orth
odox
mul
lahs).
Phi
llipon
sugg
ests
that
this
was d
one t
o brin
g the
histo
ries o
f the
sain
tsin
line w
ith B
hutto
’s ide
a of ‘I
slam
ic So
cialis
m’.
It wa
s also
durin
g the
1970
s tha
t the
JUP
beca
me a
lot m
ore p
oliti
cal. I
ts lea
ders
rejec
t-ed
the i
dea o
f Suf
ism th
at w
as fo
rmul
ated
byth
e Ayu
b and
Bhu
tto re
gim
es. A
hmad
writ
esth
at th
e JU
P sa
w th
e sa
ints
as b
eing
‘pure
Mus
lims’.
In h
er b
ook,
Pow
er F
ailu
re, S
yeda
Abid
a Hus
sain
writ
es th
at th
e JU
P “u
sed
the
anti-
Shia
card
” in
Jhan
g dur
ing t
he 19
70 el
ec-
tions
. In 19
74, th
e JU
P be
cam
e one
of th
e thr
eem
ain re
ligio
us o
utfit
s to
dem
and
the o
uste
rof
the A
hmad
iyya
from
the f
old
of Is
lam.
The
Bare
lvi
majo
rity
was
even
tuall
yov
erwh
elmed
by th
e pol
itica
l rise
of D
eoba
ndi
mili
tanc
y du
ring
the
Zia
dict
ator
ship
.H
owev
er, E
wing
’s stu
dy de
mon
strate
s tha
t the
cons
erva
tive Z
ia re
gim
e, to
o, re
mou
lded
the
imag
e of
the
Suf
i sa
ints.
The
y we
re n
owex
plain
ed a
s be
ing
‘Islam
ic sc
holar
s’ an
dim
ams.
But
as t
he r
ise o
f sta
te-b
acke
dD
eoba
ndi m
ilita
ncy
in th
e 198
0s ev
entu
ally
led to
the f
orm
atio
n of
vario
us an
ti-sta
te m
il-ita
nt g
roup
s, th
e M
usha
rraf
Gov
ernm
ent
(199
9-20
08) r
eviv
ed th
e ide
a of
usin
g sta
te-
spon
sore
d Su
fism
to
colo
ur h
is re
gim
e’s‘m
oder
nist’
disp
ositi
on.
A N
atio
nal S
ufi C
ounc
il was
form
ed an
dth
en a
Rum
i For
um. B
oth
gene
rate
d ac
ade-
mic,
pro
mot
iona
l and
cultu
ral p
arap
hern
alia
prom
otin
g Suf
i phi
loso
phy,
poetr
y and
mus
ic.Th
is tim
e, Su
fi sa
ints
were
expl
ained
as be
ing
men
who
pro
mot
ed ‘t
rue e
lemen
ts of
Islam
’:Pe
ace,
love a
nd to
leran
ce. In
teres
tingly
thou
gh,
Phill
ipon
writ
es th
at fr
om w
ithin
this
narr
a-tiv
e, “w
ittin
gly or
unwi
tting
ly”, e
mer
ged a
n ide
awh
ich e
quate
d th
is ve
rsio
n of
Suf
ism w
ithPa
kista
n’s m
ajorit
y Sun
ni su
b-se
ct, th
e Bar
elvi.
It is
true t
hat t
he re
ligio
us B
arelv
i lead
er-
ship
was
stau
nchl
y ag
ainst
extre
mist
gro
ups
of o
ppos
ing
Sunn
i sub
-sec
ts. B
ut w
hat w
asov
erlo
oked
was
that
they
wer
e equ
ally o
ppos
edto
the i
dea o
f Suf
ism b
eing f
orm
ulate
d by
the
state.
Thi
s was
firs
t dem
onstr
ated
by th
e JU
P,an
d late
r, mor
e bell
igere
ntly,
by ou
tfits
such
asth
e Sun
ni T
ehre
ek. T
he ra
dica
l Bar
elvi f
inal-
ly di
scov
ered
their
crus
adin
g nich
e by b
ecom
-in
g the
self-
claim
ed p
rote
ctor
s of t
he Se
cond
Amen
dmen
t and
Ord
inan
ce (r
egar
ding
the
ouste
r of t
he A
hmad
iyya f
rom
Islam
), an
d the
1986
clau
se o
f th
e bl
asph
emy
laws
in t
hePa
kista
n co
nstit
utio
n.Th
eir d
istas
te to
ward
s th
e sta
te-ba
cked
imag
e of S
ufism
erup
ted m
ore p
rom
inen
tly in
the s
hape
of th
e rad
ical T
ehre
ek-i-
Labb
aik. A
sym
path
iser o
f the
out
fit to
ld P
hilli
pon
that
Sufis
m (
form
ulate
d by
Ayu
b, Bh
utto
and
Mus
harra
f) wa
s ‘Was
hing
ton’s
agen
da’ a
nd th
atSu
fism
doe
sn’t
diss
uade
peo
ple f
rom
vio
lent
strug
gle. T
his c
an be
seen
as th
e cur
rent
stra
ndof
Bar
elvi r
adica
lism
look
ing t
o tra
nsce
nd it
sold
imag
e of b
eing a
polit
ical, ‘
peac
e-lov
ing s
pir-
ituali
sts’. S
houl
d th
e Pa
kista
n sta
te sta
rt to
worr
y? I’
ll lea
ve th
at fo
r the
state
to an
swer
.(C
ourt
esy:
Th
e D
awn
)
The
rise
of t
he m
ilita
nt B
arel
vi
Red
efin
ing
mod
ern
educ
atio
nO
n th
is d
ay, a
s w
e ce
lebr
ate
the
125t
h an
nive
rsar
y of
Sw
ami V
ivek
anan
da’s
fam
ous
Chic
ago
Spee
ch, w
e m
ust b
etr
ue to
the
idea
ls p
ropa
gate
d by
him
. His
wor
ds, s
till r
elev
ant,
hold
the
form
ula
for
reva
mpi
ng th
e ed
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ion
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Atwo-year old girl died dur-ing Bharat bandh on
Monday in Bihar’s Jehanabadwhen her father failed to take herto hospital as bandh supportersdid not allow the auto to passthrough. A youth was shot at acritically wounded when theprotestors chased him and firedat his residence in Muzaffarpur.
After a great persuasionwhen the auto carrying sick girland her father was allowed toproceed it was too late and thechild breathed her last.Cradling the corpse of Gauri,her father Pramod Manjhi ofBalabigha village said she wassick and on Monday her con-dition deteriorated. “I crosseda swollen rivulet and tried tofind out a vehicle but could notdue to bandh. Somehow I gotan auto but it was not allowedto move ahead by the bandhsupporters. Had there been nobandh she could have reachedSadar Hospital and saved,” saida wailing Manjhi.
In Muzaffarpur a youthSwayam Prakash Choudharywas shot at after he had heatedexchange with bandh support-
ers on zero mile under Ahiyapurpolice station. As he fledtowards his home nearby somemiscreants carrying weaponschased and fired several rounds.The injured was rushed toSKMCH hospital from wherehe was referred to private hos-pital under critical condition.
Violence, clashes and ram-page marked the Bharat Bandhagainst rising fuel prices acrossBihar. The Congress was sup-ported by other oppositionparties like RJD, Left parties,HAM and Jana Adhikar Party(JAP) of Pappu Yadav.
Apart from vehicular traf-fic, movement of trains wasbadly affected in almost all rail-
way divisions in Bihar andlocal as well as long distancetrains were stopped at manystations with bandh supporterssquatting on tracks. Sometrains were also brick batted.
The workers of JAPindulged in violence and ram-
page in Patna who smashedwindscreens of several vehiclesincluding Government buses.Shops were forcibly closed andcommon people faced a lot ofproblems in reaching to theirdestinations. Public transportsystem was fully paralysed.Private educational institutionsremained closed.
All the senior leaders ofCongress and RJD hit the roadsand claimed success to theirbandh call with spontaneoussupport. In Bhojpur, Gaya andJehanabad the Left parties par-ticularly CPI(ML) took thelead in ensuring shut down.
However, the death of a 2-years old girl came as a blot onthe parties behind bandh butthey pleaded she did not die ofbandh. Leader of OppositionTejashwi Prasad Yadav saidthe child died due to serious ill-ness and she was sufferingfrom diarrhoea for some days.“Our workers were very disci-plined and they did not indulgein hooliganism, claimed BiharRJD president Ram ChandraPurbey. State Congress chiefKaukab Quadri blamed BJPand RSS workers of indulgingin violence to give a bad nameto bandh supporters.
The BJP leaders includingUnion Minister Ravi ShankarPrasad and former UnionMinister Shahnawaz Hussainstrongly condemned the deathof child and violence in Biharand asked who was responsi-ble for the death.
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Andhra Pradesh ChiefMinister N Chandrababu
Naidu on Monday announcedreduction of �2 per liter inprices of petrol and diesel. Heannounced the reduction in the
value added tax on the fuel in theState Assembly when most of thenon BJP political parties wereobserving Bharat Bandh (coun-try wide shut down) and protest-ing against the steep hike in thefuel prices in the recent months.While the TDP did not official-
ly supported the shut down callof Congress party, its workersorganised protest programs.
The new prices will come into effect from Tuesday morning.�2 per liter reduction will put aburden of �1,120 crore on thestate exchequer, Naidu said.
A n d h r aPradesh hasbecome thesecond State inthe countrya f t e rRajasthan, aBJP ruledS t a t e .R a j a s t h a nChief MinisterVasund haraR a j eannounced onWe d n e s d a ynight reduc-tion of 4 percent VAT onfuel which willresult in reduc-tion of pricesby �2.5 perliter both ofdiesel andpetrol.
Poi nt i ngout that mostof the taxes onthe fuel weregoing in thekitty of theCentre, Naidusaid that the
Union Government shouldalso decrease the taxes to savethe people from the burden ofburgeoning prices of dieseland petrol.
“The increase in the pricesof petrol and diesel has becomean unbearable burden for thepeople of all sections. It ispainful that the Centre has nottaken any measure to reducethe prices which was causingacute financial difficulties tothe people.
In solidarity with thecountrywide protest TeluguDesam supporters also tookactive part in protest pro-grams and expressed theresentment of the people”,Naidu said in a statement inthe State Assembly,
Central Government wasdoing propaganda that theprices were increasing becauseof the increase in the crudeprice in international marketand increase in the VAT by theState Government. UnionPetroleum MinisterDharmendar Pradhan has saidthat reducing the petroleumprices was not possible. This isfar from truth and an attemptto hoodwink people. I con-demn it”, he said.
“The way the Centre andthe oil companies haveincreased the prices over thelast four years has causednationwide anger among thepeople. Extraordinary responseto today’s Bharat Bandh is aproof of it”, he added.
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The Bharat Bandh called bythe Congress, Left and
other parties against theincreasing fuel prices drewnear total response in BJPruled Assam and other statesin the northeast.
In Assam capital townGuwahati and in other places,Congress leaders and sup-porters took to the streetsshouting slogans against thespiraling price of fuel pricesand against the failure of theBJP led governments to keepits promises of bringing the change.
Some of the bandh sup-porters blocked the roads inmany places by burning tyresand putting up obstacles onroads in different parts of the,which have also led to strayincidents in different parts.There is also report of someminor clashes between bandhsupporters and opposinggroups in some places.
“ The ruling BJPGovernment is cheating thepeople across the country.Whatever they are doing nowis anti-people and contradic-tor y to what they havepromised before the last elec-tions. They have failed tocontrol the price of fuelswhich is spiraling the pricerise of essential commodities,”said AICC incharge of thenortheast Harish Rawat.
President of the AssamPradesh Congress Committee(APCC) Ripun Bora, HarishRawat and several otherCongress leaders, who hadregistered a massive protest infront of Assam Secretariat atDispur, were detained by thepolice. They were however,released later.
Apart from the move-ment of vehicular traffic, thethe movement of the trainshave been affected to a greatextent due to the bandh.
Chief Public RelationOfficer of the NF Railway, PJSharma said that at least ninemail/ express and passengertrains had to be detained andwere delayed by 20 to 80minutes due to picketersobstructing tracks at variousstations in Lumding andTinsukia division of NFRailway.
“Seven other trains had tobe cancelled, two trains short-terminated and four trainshad to be diverted because ofdamage to tracks due to heavyrain last night in AlipurduarDivision. Picketers had resort-ed to blockade of railway tracksat Silchar, between Kalkalighatand Baraigram, betweenMoranhat and Sibsagar Town,at Digboi, and betweenNakachari and Mariani.
However, these blockadeswere l i f ted later and train services resumed,”Sharma said.
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Bandh cannot be the firstweapon of resistance
against undemocratic forcesBengal Chief Minister MamataBanerjee on Monday said, pro-viding the reason why sheresisted the general strike in herState regardless of her supportto the issues behind the BharatBandh called by the Congressand backed by the Left Front.
Congratulating the peopleof the State for foiling anotherattempt to bring economicactivities to a standstill she said,“I too condemn their(Narendra Modi Government)policies for ruining the Indianeconomy. I have been contin-uously fighting against themisrule perpetrated by them.But I think bandh is not theanswer to their misrule,” shesaid.
Her statements came evenas the 12-hour bandh came toa close evoking minor responsewith most educational institu-tions, industrial establishmentsincluding the IT sectors andGovernment offices reporting
near-normal attendance.Barring some stray inci-
dents the bandh passed peace-fully with some interruptions intrain and bus services in themorning. As the day pro-gressed things came back tonormal, police said.
Attacking the ChiefMinister for using theGovernment agencies to foilthe bandh CPI(M) State secre-tary Suryakanto Mishra said“Mamata Banerjee cannot goagainst Narendra Modi becauseher life is in his hands. This iswhy she is suppressing thepeople’s wishes by trying to foilthe bandh.”
Banerjee however said she“fully endorse the issues forwhich the bandh was called buton principle I am against call-ing bandhs as a first weapon.”
“Bandh cannot be the firstweapon of resistance but a lastresort to fight the undemocra-tic forces,” she said even as theState Congress lambasted herfor circuitously backing theModi Government.
“In Delhi her party leaderSukhendu Shekhar Roy is join-ing Sonia Gandhi’s dharna andin Kolkata her Government isattacking the Congress workerscalling the bandh. The peoplehas seen through herhypocrisy,” PCC presidentAdhir Chowdhury said adding“Narendra Modi will be happy
that Mamata Banerjee is doingeverything to strengthen hishands.”
Banerjee made such state-ments in a Government func-tion ahead of the next month’sDurga Puja. Warning the peo-ple and the police against the“nefarious designs of a partic-ular party” (read the BJP)which was trying to igniteriots and trigger clashesbetween various groups inBengal, Banerjee said “DurgaPuja is coming and so isMuharram. We must remainalert about a political ideolo-gy that has been newly import-ed in Bengal with a view toignite clashes between groupsand reap political dividends.”
Complaining how in 2017how malicious campaigns weremade through the social mediaaround an administrative orderearmarking two different slotsfor the immersion pro-grammes, post Durga Puja andMuharram, Banerjee said “theywill try to create nuisance butwe will have to remain alert.”
Banerjee on Mondaygranted �10,000 each for theState’s 28,000 Durga Puja com-mittees. “The State will have tospend �28 crore from theCommunity DevelopmentProgramme funds so that thepeople can observe their festi-vals in a better manner,” she said.
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The Opposition parties inTelangana have taken their
first step towards forming aMaha Gathbandhan or GrandAlliance against the rulingTelangana Rashtra Samiti in theforthcoming Assembly elec-tions. Telugu Desam party andthe Communist Party of Indiahave reached a broader under-standing to fight the electiontogether. This has come aheadof state TDP President LRamanna’s proposed metingwith the State Congress meet-ing N Uttam Kumar Reddy toexplore the possibility of a tieup. TDP was also in talks withnewly launched Telangana JanaSamit (TJS) of Kodandram,the convenor of the erstwhileTelangana Joint ActionCommittee under the banner ofwhich the movement for sepa-rate State was spearheaded.
However despite the moves,the State was likely to witness amulti corner contest as the BJPhas said it will field its candiatesin all the constituencies. JanaSena party of film star PawanKalyan and the CommunistParty of India – Marxist (CPIM)were planning to have theirseparate tie up. YSR Congress
party of Jaganmohan Reddywas also likely to enter the fray.
Congress and CPI reachedthe understanding at a meetingL Ramanna had with the StateCPI Secretary Chada VenkatReddy. “We have decided to havean understanding to effectivelycounter the ruling TRS and putan end to its autocratic and antipeople rule. The state which wasachieved by crores of people isnow under a dictatorship”,Venkat Reddy told the media.
TJS leaders were holdingdiscussions within the partyon how to avoid split in the antiTRS votes. ThoughKodandaram was insisting fromtime to time that his party willcontest the elections on its own,party sources said that in viewof the present political situationthe party was willing to joinhands with other parties. In caseof party joining the GrandAlliance it will seek 30 seats.
However these develop-ments can spell trouble for themain opposition Congress partyas it was not in a position to leavetoo many seats for the other par-ties. Many Congress leaderswere worried that if party had toforego too many seats it willharm the long term interest ofthe party.
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Bharat Ratna, the country’stop civilian award, has
become the new weapon forthe ruling AIADMK and theopposition DMK , the twomain protagonists of TamilNadu politics
By Sunday evening, theState cabinet which met toinvoke Article 161 of theConstitution seeking remis-sion from life sentence for theseven assassins of formerPrime Minister RajeevGandhi, also disclosed that ithas recommended to theCentre to honour late ChiefMinister CN Annadurai withBharat Ratna.
Annadurai was thefounder of the DMK and wasChief Minister of the State ofTamil Nadu from 1967 to
1969. He had demandedDravida Nadu, a separatecountry for Tamils in India.As member of the RajyaSabha, Annadurai delivered apower packed speech on May1, 1962 demanding secessionfrom the Indian union toform the Dravida Nadu.
But the Chinese aggres-sion forced him to put thedemand for a separate nationin backburner.
The Constitution of theDMK specifically states thatcreation of a separate DravidaNadu is the agenda of theparty, according to KThirunavakarassar, the party’sideologue and chronicler. Howcan a person who spoke againstthe integrity of India and ledthe anti- Hindi riots could behonoured with Bharat Ratna isthe question all Dravidian par-ties refuse to answer.
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Acourt in Hyderabad hassentenced two convicts of
twin blast case to death whilea third convict was sentencedto life imprisonment onMonday.
Second AdditionalMetropolitan Sessions Judge TSrinivas Rao awarded capitalpunishment to accused oneAnique Shafeeq Sayeed andaccused two Akbar IsmailCoudhary and ordered them tobe hanged till death. Earlier onSeptember 4 the court hadfound them guilty of conspira-cy and planting bombs, murderand many other offences. Thecourt also imposed a fine of�10000 each on the two convicts.
Earlier on Tuesday morn-ing the court also convictedthird accused Tarique Anjumon charges of provision shelterto the two other accused in
Delhi after the blasts in2007.The court sentenced him to life
imprisonment. The verdict came more than
11 years after the terror attack inthe heart of Hyderabad.
Judge pronounced thepunishment on Mondayevening after hearing thearguments of prosecution andthe defence. The prosecutionhad demanded capital punish-ment in view of the gravity ofthe crime. The blasts on August25, 2007 in Lumbini Park,Open Air Theatre and GokulChat Bhandar eatery in crowd-ed Kothi area had killed 44people and injured 68 otherswhile third bomb planted atDilsukhnagar failed to explode.
Defence lawyers said theywill challenge the verdict inHigh Court. They argued beforethe court that the accused wereinnocent and the evidenceagainst them was only circum-stantial but the court on thebasis of eye witnesses accountfound them guilty.
The court had found A1Anique Shafeeq Syed andAkbar Ismail Choudhary, both
from Pune, guilty on Tuesdaylast while acquitted two othersFarooq Sharfuddin Tarkashand Sadiq Israel Shaikh ofMaharashtra.
The first two accused wereconvicted on many accountsincluding planting bombs intwo crowded public places.Three other accused RiyazBhatkal, Iqbal Bhatkal andAmir Raza Khan wereabsconding.
Prosecution has chargedthe accused with hatching con-spiracy and executing the blaststo avenge the bomb blast in his-toric Mecca Masjid on May17,2007 during Friday con-gregation killing 8 and injuringdozens of others. Prosecutionclaimed that the accused knewthat the blast in Mecca Masjidwas carried out by Hinduextremist groups and they car-ried out counter attacks totake revenge.
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The dawn-to-dusk shut-down observed by the
CPI(M)-led ruling LDF andCongress-headed OppositionUDF to protest fuel price risebrought Kerala to a virtualstandstill on Monday. Theresponse to the hartal,observed in response to theCongress’s call for BharatBandh, was total in the Statewhile isolated incidents ofstone-pelting and violencereported from some areas.
Shops, commercial estab-lishments and offices remainedclosed while Governmentoffices recorded skeletal atten-dance. The public transport
system was paralysed withbuses of private operators andthe State-owned KSRTC,autorikshaws and taxis keepingoff the roads. Not many privatevehicles were seen on the roadsin cities and major towns.
Incidents of stone-peltingand other small-scale violencewere reported from severalplaces. UDF workers alleged-ly indulged in violence exten-sively in Kollam district. Theyblocked the vehicle of ShahidaKamal, member of the State
Commission for Women, androughed up her in Kollam fol-lowing which she was hospi-talised with injuries.
“A group of Congress work-ers attacked me as I was goingto Pathanapuram. They brokethe car’s windowpanes andpulled on my hair. They attackedme physically and beat me in theface. They also abused me bycalling me a traitor. They alsoattacked my driver,” Shahidasaid. The incident took placeduring early hours of the hartal.
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Bharat Bandh givenby the Opposition
Congress party in wakeof increasing prices ofpetroleum productsevoked mixed responsein the Prime MinisterNarendra Modi’s home-State Gujarat on Monday.
In the biggest city ofthe State Ahmedabadeducational institutesremained closed.However, petrol pumpsand majority markets inthe commercial capitalof the State remainedopen. However in someareas, Congress workersforcefully closedownpetrol pumps. Schoolsalso remained closed inother major cities like
Rajkot, Surat andMehsana.
Interestingly StateGovernment schoolsremained open in thesecities.
Protesting Congressworkers blocked roads inChhota Udepur, Suratand Bharuch areas. Insome places they burntold tyres and as result ofit ST bus services wereadversely affected inparts of Gujarat.
Though there wasno major untoward inci-dent reported, more than300 Congress workerswere detained by thepolice as part of precau-tionary measure. Amongthose detainees wereGujarat Congress in-charge Rajiv Satav andGujarat PradeshCongress Committeepresident Amit Chavda.They were detained fromLal Darwaja area ofAhmedabad. Leader ofOpposition in GujaratAssembly PareshDhanani was detainedfrom his home-town inAmreli by the policewhen he set on protest.
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JDS- Congress ruled Karnataka wit-nesssed a good response to the ‘Bharath
Bandh’ call given by various organisationsand supported by opposition parties toprotest against rising prices of petrol,diesel and LPG.
With coalition partners Janata Dal (S)and Congress the State extending supportto the bandh, the entire State witnesseda shutoff of business establishments,public transport was totally suspendedand while essential services were exempt-ed from the bandh.
However, flood ravaged KodaguDistrict was exempted from the Bandh asrehabilitation works are going on in war-footing. The District Congress unitexempted itself from participating in theBandh stating that it would affect the ongo-ing works and people will suffer further.
Almost all business establishmentsremained closed and public transport ser-vices, including Karnataka RoadTransport Corporation bus service, taxisand auto-rickshaws remained off theroads, while the State government hadannounced holiday for schools and col-leges as a precautionary measure.
Air passengers were warned by theirrespective aircraft operators yesterday itselfabout Bharat Bandh and possibility of non-availability of transport from the airport toreach their respective destinations.
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The “Bharat Bandh” called bythe Congress against the ris-
ing fuel prices evoked a mixedresponse in Mumbai and otherplaces across Maharashtra onMonday, as the protesters dis-rupted briefly public transportservices and forced closure ofshops and business establish-ments but normal life remainedby and large unaffected.
The day began with pro-testers belonging to variousOpposition parties, particu-larly the Congress and MNS,staging “rail roko” at varioussuburban and metro railwaystations in the metropolis andthe neighbouring Thane andPalghar district.
Maharashtra Congresspresident Ashok Chavan andMumbai party chief SanjayNirupam led the charge bystaging a noisy protest outsidethe Andheri station bus depot,later blocked the railway tracksand shouted anti-governmentslogans.
Following the protests,100-odd Congress leaders andworkers, including Chavan,Nirupam, Naseem Khan,Manikrao Thakre, BabaSiddiqui and Suresh Shetty,were detained by the police.
The police also detainedscores of protesters when theystaged a “raik roko” at Dadarrailway station.
Stone throwing was report-ed in north-central and north-east Mumbai in the early part ofthe day, with protesters vandal-ising at least 15 BrihanmumbaiMunicipal Corporation (BMC)-run BEST buses across themetropolis.
However, suburban trainsoperated normally for mostpart of the day. Auto-rick-shaws and taxis were on theroads. However, thousands ofoffice-goers took advantage ofthe bandh and chose to stayaway from work.
While the shops, hotelsand business establishmentsremained closed in most partsof the metropolis, schools,colleges, banks and officesfunctioned normally.Essential services had beenspared from the bandh. InMumbai, the MNS activiststried unsuccessfully to waylayto Chief Minister DevendraFadnavis’s motorcade nearSiddhivinayak Temple innorth-central Mumbai,where he had come for an event.
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The Bombay High Court onMonday upheld the dis-
charge granted by a trial courtof ex-Gujarat ATS chief DGVanzara and five other policeofficers Gujarat and Rajasthan,in the case of encounter of sus-pected gangster SohrabuddinShaikh, his wife and aide, afterholding the pleas challengingtheir discharge were "devoid ofmerit".
Dismissing revision appli-cations filed by RubabuddinShaikh, brother of deceasedSohrabuddin Shaikh, and theCentral Bureau of Investigationchallenging the discharge offive police officers in thealleged fake encounters, JusticeAM Badar of the High Courtgranted relief to former IPSofficers Vanzara, RajkumarPandian and NK Amin of theGujarat police, Dinesh MNand Dalpat Singh Rathod of theRajasthan Police.
Justice AM Badar also dis-charged Gujarat police officerVipul Aggarwal, a co-accusedin the encounter ofSohrabuddin Shaikh, his wifeKausar Bi and their aideTulsiram Prajapati.
Justice Badar held thatthere was not enough evidenceagainst the accused police offi-cers to directly link them withthe alleged fake encounters ofSohrabuddin, Kausarbi andTulsiram Prajapati. Heobserved that prior sanction toprosecute a public servantunder Section 197 of CrPC wasrequired in the case and thatthe accused police officersenjoyed this protection underlaw.
“In the instant case, asallegations made against thedischarged accused in chargesheets filed by the prosecutingagencies show that the alleged
offence was committed by therespondent/discharged accusedno.1 in discharge of his officialduty and under the colour ofoffice, even if it is assumed thatthe discharged accused acted inexcess of his official duty, thenalso he is entitled to claim pro-tection of section 197 of theCode of Criminal Procedure,”the Judge noted.
The Prosecution’s case wasthat in order to curb the nui-sance created by SohrabuddinShaikh, who was “a dreadedcriminal”, accused police offi-cers from both Gujarat andRajasthan had entered into acriminal conspiracy to elimi-nate him which they did and infurtherance of this conspiracy,they killed Kausarbi andTulsiram Prajapati. The GujaratPolice had earlier claimed thatSohrabuddin had links withDawood Ibrahim and the ISI.
The police officers, whomthe High Court granted relief,were among the 33 accused inthe "fake" encounters ofSohrabuddin Shaikh, Kausar Biin November 2005 andPrajapati in December 2006.
The alleged Sohrabuddinfake encounter case was trans-ferred to Mumbai in September2012 at CBI’s request for fairtrial. In 2013, the SupremeCourt had clubbed TulsiramPrajapati’s encounter killingcase with that of Sohrabuddin.
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The rupee weakened fur-ther to hit a fresh low of
72.48 against the US currency,falling 75 paise in late morningdeals on Monday on risingcrude oil prices, strengtheningdollar and a widened currentaccount deficit.
Earlier the rupee resumedslightly lower at 72.18 againstlast Friday’s closing level of71.73 a dollar at the InterbankForeign Exchange here.
The domestic unit wit-nessed intense volatility andtraded between 72.07 and hitall-time low of 72.48 duringmorning deals.
India’s current accountdeficit (CAD) widened to USD15.8 billion in April-June invalue terms this year as againstUSD 15 billion in the same quar-ter of 2017-18, mainly due to ahigher trade deficit, according toRBI data released on Friday.
Domestic macro situationand dollar’s strength amid fearof currency crisis continued tospook the rupee, a dealer said.
Overseas, the US dollaredged higher against a basket
of currencies in early Asiantrade on strong US August jobsdata and fears of an escalationin the China-US trade conflict.
Meanwhile, the 30-shareBSE Sensex is trading lower by238.01 points, or 0.62 per cent,at 38,151.81 at 1055 hrs.
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Stock markets tanked morethan 1 per cent to close at
three-week low levels onMonday following a globalslide in equities due to tradewar concerns which alsodragged the rupee to a recordlow of 72.67 in day trade.
The benchmark 30-shareBSE Sensex closed at a three-week low of 37,922.17, down by467.65 points or 1.22 per cent,which was its biggest single-dayfall since March 16 when it lost509.54 points.
The 50-share NSE Niftyalso dropped below the 11,500-level by plunging 151 points or1.30 per cent — its biggest sin-gle-day fall since February 6 —to close at 11,438.10, the lowestclosing since August 16. Intra-day, it hit a low of 11,427.30.
Negative leads from glob-al markets as investors turnedcautious amid fears of a possi-ble escalation in the US-Chinatrade conflict hit the marketsentiment.
“Markets slid as fears ofescalating US-China trade wardented the confidence. As a
direct impact of rising crude oilprice, widened current accountdeficit and strengthening dol-lar on account of a strong USjob data, rupee succumbed toa new low and 10-year yieldrose further,” Vinod Nair, Headof Research, Geojit FinancialServices Ltd said.
US President Donald Trumpon Friday threatened to slap tar-iffs on all Chinese imports, fan-ning fears of intensifying tradewar between the two majoreconomies and their rippleimpact on emerging markets.
Beijing also warned ofretaliation if the US goes aheadwith any new measures.
Sentiment also took a blowafter Moody’s Investors Servicesaid sustained weakening of therupee is “credit negative” forIndian companies which gen-erate revenue in rupees but relyon US dollar debt to fundtheir operations.
The Indian rupee hasdepreciated 13 per cent so farin 2018 and touched a historiclow of �72.67 to a dollarMonday before a rebound onstrong intervention of theReserve Bank.
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Sustained weakening of the rupee is “credit negative” for Indiancompanies which generate revenue in rupees but rely on US
dollar debt to fund their operations, Moody’s Investors Service saidon Monday.The Indian rupee has depreciated 13 per cent so farin 2018 and has touched a historic low of �72.32 to a dollar.
“Nevertheless, most rated India-based corporates have protec-tions in place — including natural hedges, some US dollar revenuesand financial hedges — to limit the negative credit implications ofa potential further 10 per cent weakening of the rupee to the USdollar from Thursday’s (September 6) rate (of 72.11 a dollar),”Moody’s VP and Senior credit officer Annalisa DiChiara said.
Of the 24 Moody’s-rated India-based corporates across thehigh-yield and investment grade categories, 12 generate most oftheir revenue in US dollars or have contracts priced in US dol-lars, providing a natural hedge, and thus limiting the effect a weak-ening in the rupee could have on their cash flows, it said. These24 corporates include those in the IT, oil and gas, chemicals, auto-mobiles, commodities, steel, and real estate development sectors.
“A sustained weakening of the rupee would be credit nega-tive for its rated Indian companies, particularly those that gen-erate revenue in rupees but rely on US dollar debt to fund theiroperations and have significant dollar-based costs, including cap-ital expenses,” Moody’s said.
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Moody’s Investors Serviceon Monday said robust
steel demand, especially fromthe domestic construction,infrastructure and automotivesectors will keep end-productprices high, even as rising costsfor key inputs, coking coaland iron ore pressure prof-itability.
In its latest report, Moody’ssaid the outlook for the Asiansteel industry is stable, reflect-ing the consideration that theprofitability of rated producerswill increase moderately overthe next 12 months against thebackdrop of overall steady
regional demand, it said.For India, the US-based
agency said that “with minimalnew steel capacity expected tobe commissioned until 2021 inIndia, robust steel demandespecially from the construc-tion, infrastructure and auto-motive sectors will keep end-product prices high, even as ris-ing costs for key inputs, cokingcoal and iron ore, pressureprofitability.”
Meanwhile, India’s steelsector consolidation will driveimprovement in the industry’scapacity utilisation levels and
mute the pressure on prof-itability, Moody’s said.
India has set a target ofincreasing its steel makingcapacity to 300 million tonneby 2030-31.
It further said India will bethe brightest spot over the next12-18 months, with the coun-try’s steel consumption rising atleast 5.5-6 per cent every year,tracking strong GDP growth of7.3-7.5 per cent.
Under the new steel poli-cy, the country aims to increaseper capita steel consumption tothe level of 160 kg by 2030.
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India’s second largest soft-ware services firm Infosys
said on Monday it has signeda three-year partnership withthe Australian Open as its offi-cial digital innovation partner.
Infosys will leverage itsexpertise in emerging technolo-gies like Big Data and Analytics,Artificial Intelligence as well asVirtual and Augmented Reality,to provide unique, innovativeand engaging experiences forfans, Infosys said in a statement.
The financial details of thedeal were, however, not dis-closed.
“Partnering with Infosys isan exciting next step in ourongoing quest to innovate theAustralian Open and engage
new audiences across theworld,” Craig Tiley,Tournament Director,Australian Open, said.
Tennis Australia is the gov-erning body of tennis inAustralia, promoting and facil-itating participation the sportat all levels, as well as con-ducting national and interna-tional tournaments and events.
The partnership is aboutcreating new ways of experi-encing the Australian Open,Infosys CEO and ManagingDirector Salil Parekh said.
“We are really excited aboutthe opportunity to showcasehow digital technologies canenhance the boundaries of thistournament, to change the waythe Australian Open is watched,analysed and played,” he added.
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Jack Ma, one of China’s rich-est men, announced on
Monday he would step down asAlibaba’s executive chairmannext year as he unveiled anunprecedented succession planon his 54th birthday, namingthe e-commerce giant’s CEO ashis successor.
Ma will remain Alibaba’sexecutive chairman during theyear-long period to ensure a“smooth and successful” tran-sition, and stay on as anAlibaba director until a share-holder’ meeting in 2020, HongKong-based South ChinaMorning Post, which is ownedby Alibaba, reported.
Ma will hand over the keysof his company to 46-year-oldDaniel Zhang in an unprece-dented succession plan that willslowly take the focus off one ofChina’s most recognisable cor-porate names over the next 12months, the Post report said.
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India’s economic growth isexpected to moderate in the
second half of this financialyear after a strong first quarter,owing to tighter financial con-ditions, high oil prices andslowing global growth, says aUBS report.
The global financial ser-vices major expects real GDPgrowth to slow to 7-7.3 per centin the second half of this fiscalfrom 8.2 per cent in June 2018quarter.
“We believe headwinds,including tighter financial con-ditions, high oil prices, slowingglobal growth and a still mutedprivate corporate capex recov-ery on legacy issues of highdebt and weakened balancesheets will weigh on India’sgrowth momentum,” UBSSecurities India’s EconomistTanvee Gupta Jain andStrategist Rohit Arora said in aresearch note.
According to official data,the Indian economy grew at a
two-year high of 8.2 per cent inthe April-June quarter of cur-rent fiscal on good show bymanufacturing and farm sec-tors.
On the monetary policyfront, the report said that theMonetary Policy Committee(MPC) of the Reserve Bank isexpected to take a breather inthe near-term amid rising glob-al uncertainties like trade warsand oil prices.
“In a scenario where tradewars drag global growth andpush commodity prices lower,India might benefit as a disin-flationary environment lowersexternal stability risks. Rateswill likely be kept on hold inthis case,” the report said.
However, “in an alterna-tive scenario where India con-tinues to be affected by theheadwinds of rising oil prices,capital outflows, populistspending and political uncer-tainty leading to financial sta-bility concerns, a 50 bps hikeis likely for the rest of this fis-cal,” it noted.
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The major fac-tor for rising
prices of petroland diesel is theglobal macro sit-uation, saidindustry bodyASSOCHAM butexpressed hopethe tax burden would bebrought down to some extent.
“It has been our stand thatpetrol and diesel should bebrought under the Goods andServices Tax (GST). However,it may not be feasible at thispoint of time”, ASSOCHAMsecretary general, Uday KumarVarma, told.
The major factor, at thispoint of time, for rising pricesof petrol and diesel is the glob-al macro situation, impactingthe entire pack of EmergingMarkets, with India being noexception, he said.
The US dollar, Varma said,has been appreciating againstmost currencies of the world,
so the weakening of rupeeagainst the dollar has to be seenin that context.
With India being a largeimporter of crude oil, the cur-rency depreciation does havean impact on the landedprices, he said. Besides, thecrude, in any case, has beenrising amidst a firm globalsentiment.
“We, in the ASSOCHAM,are confident that the govern-ment and the Reserve Bank ofIndia (RBI) are seized of thematter and are consideringvarious options including theoption of bringing down thetax burden to some extent,” hesaid.
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The NSE Academy Limited,a wholly owned subsidiary
of National Stock Exchange ofIndia Limited (NSE),Knowledge@Wharton (K@W),the online journal of researchand business analysis of theWharton School of theUniversity of Pennsylvania andWharton Executive Education(WEE) have signed aMemorandum ofUnderstanding (MoU) toimpart financial knowledge
and skills to Indian high schoolstudents across the country.
The 9th and 10th gradestudents in Tier II and IIIcities would get a great oppor-tunity to have access to thecourses from one of the world’smost renowned businessschool, Wharton School.Wharton’s specialized globalcourses will be offered to stu-dents in smaller towns throughstate of art technology.
The think-tank at the NSEand Wharton are in the processof designing developmental
and customized content forthe course based on materialsdeveloped byKnowledge@Wharton HighSchool and Wharton ExecutiveEducation. This course will bedelivered through a digitalplatform and will enable stu-dents to understand intricaciesof finance.
Limaye, MD & CEO, NSEand Michael R Gibbons,Deputy Dean, Wharton School,University of Pennsylvania,signed the MoU at TheWharton School of the
University of Pennsylvania,Philadelphia.
NSE Academy, WhartonExecutive Education andKnowledge@Wharton will col-laborate to educate high schoolstudents in India about financeand investment. They will alsowork together to furtherexpand theKnowledge@Wharton HighSchool (KWHS) InvestmentCompetition, which has beenoffered to high school stu-dents in India and other coun-tries in recent years.
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Alastair Cook scored 147 in hisfinal innings in company of skip-per Joe Root, who was back in
form with a three figure mark asEngland reached 364 for 6 at tea on thepenultimate day of the fifth Test.
England now enjoy an overall leadof 404 runs and the 259-run stand forthe third wicket between Cook and Root(125) killed the contest.
While Cook made it a memorableending to his illustrious career with a33rd hundred, Root scored his first hun-dred in 28 innings as Indian bowlersstruggled in absence of an injuredIshant Sharma.
While Cook's 286 ball knock had 14boundaries, Root hit 12 fours and a sixoff 190 balls as both were dismissed offsuccessive deliveries by debutantHanuma Vihari (2/24).
In the post lunch session, the duolooked to build on their partnership andfurther frustrate the Indian bowlers,bringing up their 200-stand off 303 balls.
Root, on 94, got a second life asCheteshwar Pujara dropped him at firstslip off Mohammed Shami (2-97) in the77th over. He then went on to score his14th Test hundred off 151 balls.
Thereafter, Root started attacking asEngland crossed 300 in the 88th over.India were a bowler short with Ishantleaving the field due to ankle pain.
Vihari struck twice in the 95th over.First, Root holed out and then Cook wascaught behind, with the opener walkingoff to a standing ovation as well as con-gratulatory handshakes from the Indianteam.
Shami then got reward as JonnyBairstow (18) played on and RavindraJadeja (2-147) removed Jos Buttler fora duck as England looked to score somequick runs in sight of a declaration.
Earlier, Cook's hundred helpedEngland reach 243-2 at lunch. Startingfrom overnight 114-2, first up he reachedhis half-century off 127 balls.
He and Root continued to plunderruns at an easy pace as 55 runs came inthe first hour of play, and 129 runs over-all in this morning session, the best ofthis fifth Test.
In doing so, the duo raised their 100-partnership off 171 balls as Cook start-ed breaking records. First, on 76, he wentpast Kumar Sangakkara as the highest-
scoring left-handed batsman in Testcricket history, and will finish as thefifth-highest run-scorer overall afterSachin Tendulkar, Ricky Ponting,Jacques Kallis and Rahul Dravid.
Meanwhile, at the other end, Rootscored his half-century off 81 balls asEngland crossed 200 in the 63rd over.He had been dropped at slip by AjinkyaRahane, on 46, off Jadeja in the 56thover.
The big moment then came in the70th over of this innings as an overthrowfrom Jasprit Bumrah (0-61) gave Cookhis 33rd Test century off 210 balls, sur-passing Australia's Steve Waugh (32).
Additionally, Cook became only
the fifth batsman in Test cricket histo-ry to score hundreds in his first and lastmatches, after Australians Reggie Duff,Bill Ponsford, Greg Chappell and India'sMohammad Azharuddin.
Further, this was his seventh Testhundred against India, more than anyother English batsman, ahead of KevinPietersen's six hundreds. He is now alsothe second-highest run-scorer in Testcricket after Ponting (2555 runs).
With 15 hundreds in second inningsin Test cricket, he also over tookSangakkara (14 hundreds).
India seemed to have gone off theboil especially with one strike bowlershort, as the duo ground them for runs.
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Legend has it that Sir Don Bradman was teary-eyedwhen he was beaten by Eric Hollies' googly in his
final Test match at the Oval in 1948.However, just over 70 years later at the same ground,
Alastair Cook showed no such emotions as he scoredanother workmanlike hundred, his 33rd and final onein Test cricket, against India.
Interestingly, his debut hundred was also againstIndia, at Nagpur in 2006.
Not many have scored a hundred on their debut andfarewell Test and Cook joined the elite club which alsohas Greg Chappell and Mohammed Azharuddin.
He is only the fifth such cricketer with the other twobeing Bill Ponsford and Reginald Duff.
While Chappell's was an official retirement, in caseof Azhar, the Test match against South Africa was his
99th and last one as he was never picked again due tomatch-fixing allegations.
Purists equate left-handed batsmen with grace butCook was a paradox with his effective batting that wasdevoid of elegance.
David Gower's cover drive remains a stuff of leg-ends but Cook has been a working class hero as JohnLenon would have put it.
If the ball is on his pads, he would just whip it anddeliveries with width would be ferociously cut.
However, it will be difficult to remember Cook'sshots even though the impact of his innings has alwaysbeen felt if one looked at the larger picture.
"He is totally committed to England and hedeserved a sweet send-off," said Sunil Gavaskar, whoscored one century more than the former England cap-tain. Cook's daughters were present and the applausewas generous as the Oval gave him a standing ovation.
But it never felt like an event taking place in anamphitheatre like it happened with Sachin Tendulkarat the Wankhede.
The celebrations were as minimal as it they havebeen for his eighth, 17th or 23rd century. Happy andmatter of fact.
After all, he had a job at hand. To frustrate the Indianattack no end and kill the match as a contest.
Rahul Dravid's team tasted it first in 2006,Mahendra Singh Dhoni's men suffered in 2011, 12 and14 and now it was the turn of Virat Kohli's band to meetthe same fate in 2018, albeit the last time.
Cook said that he had "nothing left in the tank" butwhat he didn't say was that there was a last ounce pre-sent and it was meant for the 'Three Lions'.
There was no place for any over-riding emotionsand he was as focussed against Ishant Sharma's angu-lar deliveries on third evening as he was against rook-ie Hanuma Vihari's off-breaks at the stroke of lunchMonday.
In the end, he has given it his all and even ensuredthat Mick Jagger donates 20,000 pounds for charity ashe had promised if someone scored a century or tookfive wickets. Really, he had nothing left in the tank andas his one-time teammate Graeme Swann aptly put it"Cookie is the oldest 33-year-old on the planet."
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Abundle of nerves ahead of hisTest debut, Hanuma Vihari
said a phone call to Rahul Dravidput his mind at ease and helpedhim get the maiden fifty that res-cued India from a difficult situationagainst England.
Vihari scored 56 and put on avital 77-run partnership withRavindra Jadeja (86 not out) to helpIndia post 292 in their first inningson Sunday.
"I called him the day before Imade my debut. He spoke to me fora couple of minutes and I thoughtit eased my nerves a little bit. Heis a legend of the game; and hisinputs especially in the battingdepartment (helped me)," Viharispoke about the influence of theformer captain, who is currentlythe India A coach.
"He just told me that 'you havethe skill set; you have the mind setand the temperament, just go outthere and enjoy yourself '...I wouldlike to give him a lot of creditbecause my journey with India Awas very important for me tocome here, his inputs made me abetter player."
Vihari said that he was nervouswhile facing James Anderson andStuart Broad in his maiden innings.
"Initially I felt the pressure tobe honest...But once I got myself in,it eased my nerves and it was animportant partnership betweenJadeja and me," he said.
"They are world-class bowlers.They have 990-odd wicketsbetween them. Going out to bat, Ijust wanted to be positive in my
intent. Especially when Virat isthere, you just have to be there withhim, rotate the strike and try tobuild a partnership.
Vihari also credited skipperVirat Kohli for guiding him in hisTest debut.
"...Having Virat at the othermade my job a little easier I guess.His inputs helped me initially. Hegave me some cues so that I couldplay it comfortably," he said.
"I will give a lot of credit to himfor helping me out initially. Butonce I settled down, the wicket wasvery good to bat on especially withthe medium pacers it got a lot slow-er yesterday," he added.
Vihari said that he found outabout his selection in the team aday before the final Test.
"Obviously, I was very thrilled.Because that was my dream, grow-ing up playing cricket. I firstinformed my family about it andthey were very happy as well.
"It's just the start. I know I haveto do a lot of things to cement myplace in the Indian team, which Idefinitely want to do. Getting a 50on debut is just the start. Going for-ward, scoring a lot of runs for Indiais my main goal."
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Proud of his players for com-peting well against a superi-
or French team, India's U-19football head coach Floyd Pintosaid his boys proved that theybelonged on the same pitch astheir elite opponents.
The Indian U-19 team wentdown 0-2 against the French U-19 side in the four-nation tour-nament, which concluded onSunday.
"I am happy with the team'sperformance in the tourna-ment," Floyd said.
"The boys stood firm andrestricted a far superior oppo-nent for most of the match.Considering some of the Frenchplayers are playing in FrenchLigue 1, our boys did a brilliantjob. They proved that theybelonged on the same pitch astheir elite opponents," he added.
A goal in each of the twohalves helped France eke out a2-0 victory.
"In such matches, it is
imperative that we defend well.The two goals we concededcame from minor errors. Weneed to work on that aspect," hequipped.
The Indian team had earli-er lost by a late goal againstSlovenia (0-1) and had gonedown 0-5 to Croatia in its firstmatch.
"All three games wereagainst high quality opponents,preparing for the Euro U-192019 qualifiers. I am extremely
proud of my boys. Lookingback, we were unable to take ourchances, especially those againstSlovenia. The only blip was thefirst half against Croatia wherewe conceded a lot of goals,"Floyd said.
The team will now departfor the Serbian shores where thecolts will clash against the hostsin back-to-back Internationalfriendlies on September 13 and17.
"Serbia will be another chal-
lenge and we are hopeful aboutcarving out a win. Those match-es will further help us in ourpreparation for the seasonahead," Floyd said.
In the match, goalkeeperPrabhsukhan Gill denied theFrench colts a scoring opportu-nity in the eighth minute but theopponents grabbed the lead inthe 18th minute.
India had a chance in the34th minute to level proceedingsbut Aniket Jadhav was unable toget the ball past the French goal-keeper.
Goalkeeper Gill came upwith another acrobatic save inthe 44th minute as both teamsheaded to the interval withFrance enjoying a 1-0 lead.
Changing over, Aniket hadanother chance to level the pro-ceedings in the 65th minute buthis lob went inches over thecrossbar.
France sealed the fate of thematch in the 73rd minute, mak-ing it 2-0. India ended the tour-nament without a win.
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Srikar Bharat hit a splendidton and his century stand
with Kuldeep Yadav put IndiaA in command over AustraliaA in the second unofficial Testat Alur on Monday.
Bharat struck a brilliant106 off 186 balls with 12boundaries and a six andtogether with Kuldeep (52)shared crucial 113 runs for theeighth wicket to take India A to505 all out in their first inningsin reply to Australia A's 346.
At stumps on day three,Australia were 38 for two intheir second innings, still trail-ing India A by 121 runs.
Earlier resuming the day at223 for three, India A lostcaptain Shreyas Iyer (42) first,cleaned up by Mitchell Marsh.
Then Bharat walked intothe middle and built a 41-runpartnership for fifth wicketwith Shubman Gill (50), whowas bowled by Chris Tremainbefore lunch.
In the second session, IndiaA lost two more wickets—Krishnappa Gowtham (20)
and Deepak Chahar (6) withthe scoreboard reading 370 forseven.
But then Bharat andKuldeep managed to hold thefort and stitched a fine stand tohelp India A post a mammothtotal.
Ashton Agar (3/87) andTremain (3/41) picked up threewickets apiece for Australia A.
Australia A began theirsecond innings on a disastrousnote, losing Kurtis Pattersonand Matt Renshaw early.
Patterson (4) was picked byGowtham while Renshaw (19)fell to Shahbaz Nadeem.
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Indian football team headcoach Stephen Constantine
says the upcoming SAFF Cupsemifinal against arch-rivalsPakistan will be "just anothermatch".
India's back-to-back victo-ries against Sri Lanka andMaldives helped them book asemi-final clash with Pakistan onWednesday.
"We are aware of the contest.But that is nothing different. It'sjust another match. We can't letthe occasion get over us andhopefully, we will beat them toadvance to the final,"Constantine said on Monday.
The two sides last played anofficial match in September2013 in Kathmandu. India hadpiped Pakistan by eking out asolitary goal on that occasion.
Incidentally, Pakistan havequalified for the last-four ofSAFF Cup after 13 years andthey now lock horns with theseven-time champions, India.
Constantine also lauded
Nepal's achievements and calledthem deserving entrants into thesemifinals.
"Nepal have played somestupendous football and theyhave deservingly reached thesemis. Hopefully, we get a winagainst Pakistan and face Nepalin the final," he maintained.
Nepal will play Maldives inthe other semi-final.
Meanwhile, Manvir Singh,who was declared the MostValuable Player for his perfor-mance against Maldives, stated
his first international goal washis "most delightful moment" asa footballer.
"Scoring for the country isalways special. The first goal - it'sa different emotion. I was sniff-ing around but the goal waseluding me," he quipped.
"So finally, when I made it,it was the most delightfulmoment for me as a footballer.The win has been a result of ourteam game and now we're look-ing forward to the semi-finals,"he added.
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The Indian women's teamwill tour Sri Lanka from
September 11 to 16 for thethird round of the ICC Women'sChampionship, cricket's gov-erning body announced onMonday.
The bottom four sides in thepoints table — Sri Lanka, India,West Indies and South Africa—will look to make up groundon Australia, England, Pakistanand leaders New Zealand in therace to qualify for the ICCWomen's World Cup 2021.
The ICC Women's WorldCup 2017 finalists, India, areplaced sixth with a tally of fourpoints after six matches, bothwins coming in a 2-1 series winover South Africa, while SriLanka are yet to earn a pointafter completing their engage-ments against Pakistan and theWest Indies.
Sri Lanka will host Indiafrom September 11 to 16 in aseries that is important for bothteams.
For India, it is a chance tobounce back after their recentdefeat at the hands of defendingchampions Australia at home.While Sri Lanka will look to cap-italise on the opportunity toopen their account in home con-ditions while trying to forgettheir 0-3 series loss to India inthe last edition of the tourna-ment.
"We will definitely play toour calibre and potential tohelp us gain maximum pointsfrom our series against SriLanka. We look forward toclimb up the table and willwork together as a team," Indiacaptain Mithali Raj said.
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Novak Djokovic clinched his third USOpen title on Sunday with a 6-3, 7-6(7/4), 6-3 triumph over Juan Martin del
Potro, taking him level with Pete Sampras's markof 14 Grand Slams.
Djokovic, playing in his eighth final in NewYork and already the champion in 2011 and2015, is now just three Slams behind RafaelNadal and six back from the record 20 held byRoger Federer.
It was also the third time the 31-year-oldSerb —who missed last year's tournament withan elbow injury which sent his career into a mini-crisis — completed the Wimbledon-US Opendouble.
For world number three Del Potro, it was aheartbreaking experience coming in just his sec-ond Slam final, nine years after he was crownedUS Open champion.
It was Djokovic's 15th win over theArgentine and fifth in five at the Slams. Victoryalso means that 50 of the last 55 majors have beenwin by the 'Big Four' of Federer, Nadal, Djokovicand Andy Murray.
After taking just two points off Del Potro'sfirst three service games, Djokovic, in hiseighth final in New York and 23rd at the majors,pounced to break for 5-3.
The key was his success with a lung-bust-ing 22-shot rally and he pocketed the set whenthe 29-year-old del Potro netted a forehand.
It was only the second set dropped by theArgentine at the tournament.
For Djokovic, it was an illustration of himgrowing into the championships as he took hisrun of consecutive sets won to 14, stretching backto the second round against Tennys Sandgren.
Djokovic was soon 3-1 up in the second setbefore Del Potro carved out his first break pointof the match to level at 3-3.
He had three more chances in the eighth,all saved by Djokovic in a marathon 20-minutegame which left even Hollywood superstar MerylStreep clasping her head in astonishment.
The effort took its toll on a suddenly weary-looking Del Potro as a 95-minute set was claimedby Djokovic in the tiebreak.
Del Potro was looking at having to becomethe first man since Pancho Gonales in 1949 towin the US title from two sets down. Djokovicsprinted into a 3-1 lead in the third set beforea battling Del Potro clung on, hitting back for3-3.
But off the back of a 24-shot rally, Djokovicbroke again for 5-3 and he was within tantalis-ing touching distance of his 14th Grand Slam
title, just three months after he had left RolandGarros in despair after a shattering quarter-finalexit.
A �3B��6������/�����-Novak Djokovic was thrilled to match Pete
Sampras with a 14th Grand Slam title at the USOpen on Sunday, but he said it's Roger Federerand Rafael Nadal who have made him the play-er he is.
"Pete Sampras is one of the biggest legendsever to play the game," Djokovic said after earn-ing a third US Open crown with a 6-3, 7-6 (7/4),6-3 victory over Juan Martin del Potro.
"He was my childhood idol. He was some-one I was looking up to. The first actual thingI saw related to tennis on the TV was his firstor second Wimbledon championship. Thatinspired me to start playing tennis.
"There is a lot of significance of me beingnow shoulder to shoulder in terms of GrandSlam wins with him." The victory puts Djokovicthree Slam wins away from Nadal's 17 and six
behind Federer's record 20.It will also see him rise to number three in
the world behind Nadal and Federer — the rank-ings again reflecting the "Big Three" status theyhave shared for so long.
Djokovic had tumbled down the rankings,slowed last year by an elbow injury and a lossof confidence that accompanied a 54-week titledrought.
Since bursting out of the slump with anunexpected Wimbledon title he has gone from
strength to strength, adding a long-awaitedCincinnati Masters title to his resume beforeadding the US Open title to those he won in 2011and 2015.
Djokovic faced neither of his greatest rivalsen route to the title in Flushing Meadows.
Seeded to face Federer in the quarter-finals,he found himself instead across the net fromJohn Millman after the unheralded Australianstunned the Swiss great.
Nadal hobbled out of a semi-final matchagainst Del Potro after two sets. Djokovic wouldhave relished taking on either — or both,although he admits that early in his career thatwasn't always the case.
"Maybe 10 years ago I would say I'm not sohappy to be part of this era with Nadal andFederer," he said.
"Today I really am. I feel like these guys, rival-ries with these guys, matches with Federer andNadal, have made me the player I am, haveshaped me into the player I am today."
"I owe it to them."
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Juan Martin del Potro believesNovak Djokovic can end his
career as the most successfulGrand Slam title winner, sur-passing Roger Federer's currentmark of 20.
Djokovic clinched his thirdUS Open title on Sunday with a6-3, 7-6 (7/4), 6-3 triumph overdel Potro, taking him level withPete Sampras's mark of 14 GrandSlams.
The 31-year-old Serb is nowjust three behind Rafael Nadaland six back from Federer.
"Of course he can," said DelPotro when asked if Djokoviccan claim the record over
Federer who is almost sixyears his senior.
"He has 14 already. Hewon two Grand Slams inone year. He's healthy. Hehas a great team workingwith him.
"Hopefully him, Rafa,Roger will still fight for Grand
Slams, because it is so nice towatch them fighting for thehistory.
"We just do what we canagainst them. But Novak haseverything to make records inthis sport." Del Potro was play-ing in his first Grand Slam finalsince lifting the US Open title in2009 at the age of 20, beatingNadal and Federer back-to-back.
He owns 10 wins over worldnumber one players — the mostby anyone who has neverreached the top ranking them-selves.
This year he defeatedFederer in the Indian WellsMasters final while in 2016 hewas a key figure as Argentinawon a first Davis Cup.
Playing at a career highthree in the world, Del Potroinsists he is happy to be playingin the era of Djokovic, Federerand Nadal.
"Of course, it is a big chal-lenge to take these kind of tour-naments to them. But also Ithink we are proud to be close to
these legends," said the 29-year-old.
"I've been during all mycareer learning with Novak,Roger, Rafa, seeing them win-ning these events very often. It'samazing.
"I don't feel sad that I could-n't win Grand Slams because ofthem. I am just one of the guysthat have lucky to be in the sameera as them, and it's great."
Del Potro went into Sunday'sfinal buoyed by seeing offdefending champion and worldnumber one Nadal who wasforced to quit their semi-finalwith injury.
But he had a 4-14 losingrecord against Djokovic, includ-ing four at the Slams — two ofthem at the US Open in 2007 and2012.
"When you see a friend hold-ing the trophy, it's good. I'm gladthat Novak is the champion."
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The WTA is calling for equal treatmentof all tennis players and coaching to be
allowed across the sport in the aftermath ofthe US Open final.
Serena Williams was given three codeviolations by chair umpire Carlos Ramos inher 6-2, 6-4 loss to Naomi Osaka onSaturday, and Williams and critics inside andoutside of tennis argued that she wasn'ttreated the same as some male players.
The women's pro tour agreed."The WTA believes that there should be
no difference in the standards of toleranceprovided to the emotions expressed by menvs women and is committed to working withthe sport to ensure that all players are treat-ed the same. We do not believe that this wasdone last night," CEO Steve Simon said ina statement.
Men's champion Novak Djokovic saidhe thought Ramos should not have pushedWilliams so hard.
"Just maybe changed - not maybe, buthe did change the course of the match,"Djokovic said. "Was, in my opinion, maybeunnecessary. We all go through our emo-tions, especially when you're fighting for aGrand Slam trophy."
But he disagreed with Simon that menand women are treated differently.
"I don't see things as Mr Simon does. Ireally don't," Djokovic said. "I think men andwomen are, you know, treated in this way
or the other way depending on the situation.It's hard to generalize things, really. I don'tsee it's necessary really to debate that."
The first violation given to Williams wasfor coaching, which isn't allowed during anymen's matches but is permitted on thewomen's tour except in Grand Slam tour-naments.
Though Williams said she follows therules and never receives coaching during amatch, coach Patrick Mouratoglou acknowl-edged that he does it and says it's well knownthroughout the sport that all coaches do.
"We also think the issue of coachingneeds to be addressed and should beallowed across the sport," Simon said. "TheWTA supports coaching through its on-court coaching rule, but further review isneeded."
3�����A�����6-US Open champion Naomi Osaka on
Sunday tweeted that she was "grateful" forthe chance to take on childhood hero SerenaWilliams for her first Grand Slam title.
Osaka became the first Japanese play-er to win a Grand Slam with a 6-2, 6-4 vic-tory over Williams.
"So there's been a lot going on but I justwant to say, I was grateful to have the oppor-tunity to play on that stage on Saturday.Thank you," tweeted the 20-year-old Osaka,who is projected to rise to seventh in theworld rankings on Monday.
She posed with her trophy at Top of theRock Observation Deck at RockefellerCenter in New York.
Osaka's victory was overshadowed bythree code violations meted out to Williams,which led to an emotional outburst from the23-time Grand Slam champion in the sec-ond set and made for a chaotic end to thematch.
Williams was hit with a $17,000 fine forthe violations, and debate raged as towhether it was the actions of chair umpireCarlos Ramos or of Williams herself thatwere more deserving of censure.
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Ahistoric Asiad Silver added to herpath-breaking career collection, ace
Indian shuttler P V Sindhu would be des-perate to break the final jinx that hasplagued her for a while when she com-petes at the Japan Open starting Tuesday.
Sindhu has been outstanding this sea-son with Silver medals in all the majorevents this year -- the CommonwealthGames, the World Championship and theAsian Games.
They are all medals to be cherishedbut a hectic schedule leaves her with verylittle time to stay in the moment.
Add to it, the questions that have beenstaring at the Olympic Silver-medallist fornot being able to go the full distance inmarquee summit clashes.
Heading into the Asian circuit events,which include China and Korea, Sindhuwould look to put these questions to rest.
The third-seeded 23-year-old beginsher campaign against Japan's SayakaTakahashi.
She is expected to reach the quarter-
final where she islikely to face thethree-time eitherworld championCarolina Marin
or the formidable Akane Yamaguchi ofJapan.
Saina Nehwal, who won a Bronzemedal at the Asiad, has pulled out of the$ 700,000 BWF World Tour Super 750.
Among the men, Kidambi Srikanthand HS Prannoy will look to get over thedisappointing campaigns in the Worldchampionship and the Asian Games andgo deep into the draw.
Srikanth, a former world No 1 whosebest finish this season has been a semifi-nal appearance at the Malaysia Open, willface China's Huang Yuxiang. Prannoy willtake on Jonathan Christie, the Indonesianwho earned his country a maiden AsianGames Gold in August.
Sameer Verma, who clinched theHyderabad Open Super 100 tournamenton Sunday, will look to continue his goodrun when he faces Korea's Lee DongKeun.
However, B Sai Praneeth, who wonthe Singapore Open last year, withdrewfrom the tournament. The reasons for hispullout are not known.
In men's doubles, CommonwealthGames Silver-medallists SatwiksairajRankireddy and Chirag Shetty, who alsowon at Hyderabad, will square off againstthird seeded Japanese Takeshi Kamuraand Keigo Sonoda.
Manu Attri and B Sumeeth Reddy willmeet Malaysia's Goh V Shem and TanWee Kiong.
CWG Bronze-medallists AshwiniPonnappa and N Sikki Reddy will fightit out with Korean combination of ChangYe Na and Jung Kyung Eun in women'sdoubles.
In mixed doubles, Pranaav JerryChopra and Sikki Reddy, who lost thefinals at Hyderabad on Sunday, facethird-seeded Indonesian pair of TontowiAhmad and Liliyana Natsir.
Satwik and Ashwini, on the otherhand, will hope to put it past second-seed-ed Chinese pair of Wang Yilyu andHuang Dongping.
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Aussie tennis great MargaretCourt has offered little sym-
pathy to Serena Williams after hercontroversial blow-up in the USOpen final believing that being out-played by Naomi Osaka led toSerena’s meltdown in on Saturday.
Serena has been criticised by24-time major champion MargaretCourt for her dramatic outburst atthe umpire during her US Openfinal loss to Naomi Osaka.
In incredible scenes at FlushingMeadows, Williams, aiming toequal Court's record of grand slamtriumphs, received a series of codeviolations en route to a 6-2, 6-4defeat to her 20-year-old opponent.
Williams initially felt hard doneby when handed a first-set warningfor what chair official Carlos Ramosbelieved to be on-court coaching.
The home favourite was thendocked a point for racket abuse,having been broken in the secondset, subsequently brandishingRamos a "liar" and a "thief ", com-ments which the umpire deemed tobe verbal abuse, warranting a gamepenalty.
Williams felt she had been
treated more harshly than a manwould in the same situation, butCourt, whose tally of Grand Slamsingles titles is being chased byWilliams had little sympathy for the36-year-old.
"We always had to go by therules," said Court, in quotes report-ed by The Australian.
"It's sad for the sport when aplayer tries to become bigger thanthe rules.
"Because the young player out-played her in the first set, I thinkpressure got her more than any-thing."
After the match, Williams''class' was hailed by the USTA pres-ident Katrina Adams, though plen-ty in the tennis world were lesscomplimentary.
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