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I ndia on Thursday launched a strong counter to China’s objection to the bifurcation of Jammu & Kashmir into two Union Territories, which came into existence at midnight. Asking China to refrain from commenting on matters internal to India, New Delhi charged Beijing with illegally acquiring Indian territories from Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK) under the so- called China-Pakistan bound- ary agreement of 1963. New Delhi’s rebuff came after Beijing on Thursday expressed reservations about creation of Union Territory of Ladakh saying it was “unlaw- ful and void”, “includes” some of China’s territory into its administrative jurisdiction and “challenges” Beijing’s sover- eignty. China had earlier objected to the revocation of special sta- tus to the State of Jammu & Kashmir and formation of Ladakh as UT, saying some of the area involved Chinese ter- ritory. Moreover, the latest round of objection by Beijing came even though the Kashmir issue did not figure in the second informal summit in Chennai between Chinese President Xi Jinping’s and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on October 11- 12. Taking exception to the Chinese objection, External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said the J&K reorganisation is entirely India’s internal affair and the nation does not expect other countries to comment on such matters. India also said China con- tinues to be in occupation of a large tract of area in the Union Territories of Jammu & Kashmir, and Ladakh. A Major General of the Indian Army is likely to face court martial for alleged- ly sending pornographic video clips and obscene mes- sages to National Cadet Corps (NCC) girl cadets on their mobile phones. The case per- tains to 2017-2018 when the senior officer was posted in Gujarat. A court of inquiry (CoI) was ordered into the matter after the NCC girls com- plained against the officer. A gainst the backdrop of rev- elations about WhatsApp’s privacy breach, the Centre on Thursday set a November 4 deadline for the Facebook- owned messaging giant to explain the breach and list out the measures that have been taken to safeguard privacy of millions of Indians. At the same time, the Centre rejected allegations of its involvement in the snooping and termed the charges as “attempts to malign the Government of India” and “completely misleading.” Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Thursday said, “The Government of India is con- cerned at the breach of priva- cy of citizens of India on the messaging platform WhatsApp. We have asked WhatsApp to explain the kind of breach and what it is doing to safeguard the privacy of millions of Indian citizens.” Union Home Ministry offi- cials said, “Some statements have appeared based on reports in media, regarding breach of privacy of Indian citizens on WhatsApp. These attempts to malign the Government of India for the reported breach are completely misleading.” With Congress’ chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala accusing the Modi Government of using services of Israeli spyware Pegasus to snoop the WhatsApp commu- nications of Indian journalists and human rights activists and urging the Supreme Court to hold the Centre accountable over the issue, Prasad retaliated by indirectly attacking the Congress’ first family. P raising the role of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, the first Home Minister of the country, in national integration, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday defended the new system in Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh which emerged following scrapping of Article 370 only bred separatism and terrorism in the State. Attending a function at the Statue of Unity in Kevadiya, Gujarat, on Patel’s 144th birth anniversary, Modi led the gathering in taking the “national unity pledge” on National Unity Day and affirmed that inspired by Patel, his Government was working for the “emotional, economic and constitutional integration” of the country. “Over 40,000 people lost their lives in three decades of terrorism,” he said, adding it was Patel’s inspiration which made him take the deci- sion to revoke Article 370. Sardar Patel’s birth anniversary is celebrated as ‘Rashtriya Ekta Diwas’ (National Unity Day) since 2014. The Prime Minister offered floral tributes to the Statue of Unity, considered to be the world’s tallest statue, as flower petals were showered on it from above by an Indian Air Force helicopter. He also addressed young IAS officers at a separate function in Kevadiya called “Aarambh”. While inaugurating the New Delhi Police headquar- ters, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said internal secu- rity is the top priority of the Government, emphasising sev- eral steps have been taken to ensure it, including improving vigil along borders and crack- ing down on fake notes. T he Public Works Department (PWD) has envisaged a plan to take trav- elers back to the grandeur of the Mughal era by redesigning the entire area starting from Bhogal flyover from Mathura Road to the heritage sites, Nizamuddin Dargah, Humayun Tomb, Khan-e- Khana tomb, Sundar Nursery, Neela Gumbad and Agha Khan Trust. The PWD has submitted an actionable plan to the Delhi Government for re-developing the 1.8 kilometre long stretch from Bhogal Flyover to Neela Gumbad (Sabz Burj). Once completed the entire heritage site will resemble with the pristine glory of the Mughal era and is expected to attract tourists in droves. According to sources, this plan is Delhi Lieutenant Governor (L-G) Anil Baijal’s pet project as he himself inspected the site. Reently, Baijal held a meeting and directed the con- cerned department to carry out the project and give this area and stretch a new look in consonance with the Mughal art and architecture. “The Agha Khan Trust which is also situated around the Nizamuddin area came up with a request to beautify the area, following which the L-G visited the site and directed the PWD officials to carry on the project,” said a senior official adding that the trust also pro- vided a sample of the re- development plan. Officials said the 1.8 km stretch from Bhogal Flyover to Neela Gumbad (Sabz Burj) will be redesigned with fancy curved stones. “The idea is ‘pedestriani- sation’ and de-congestion of these stretch, as currently traf- fic jams are witnessed, besides this stretch also have a large number of footfall, thus, to create a better walking facili- ty and to attract more tourist, it has been decided to inter- connect all these heritage sites with proper disabled friendly footpath, street furniture, cycle track, proper lane for e-rick- shaws, crossings, proper street lights, railings, central verge with greenery, plantation and other facilities,” said the official. To give a Mughal Era look, fancy carved red and beige sand stones, popularly known as Agra stone and Dhaulapur stone will be used. The foot- path will be constructed with 50 mm thick fine chisel dressed sand stone and the railing and its boundary wall will be constructed by thick quartzite wall. “Currently, concrete tiles are used in footpaths, but for this site, the department will use red and beige sand stone with 3-4mm groove and mor- tar will not be visible on the surface. Further, wherever the size of footpath is 2.1m will be widened to 2.3 m. A green look will be given with plan- tation of herbs and shrubs in central verge of the road,” added the official. Roads will also be widened wherever pos- sible and water fountains are also on the plan. Besides, the existing boundary walls will be re-designed like the walls of ‘red fort’ with red-sand stone. Space for parking is also expected on the left of Neela Gumbad. The work is estimated to cost around Rs 10 crore and the construction will com- mence as soon. The officials wants to start the work before the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) comes into force since Delhi Assembly polls are round the corner. As per offi- cials, around 8,000 people visit Nizamuddin Auliya Dargah per day and increases to 15-20 on Thursdays. Further about 10 thousand people visit Humayun Tomb and Sunder Nursery on a daily basis and the number just goes up especially during the winter season. L ife expectancy of people living in the Indo-Gangetic Plain has reduced by up to seven years due to poor air quality, a new study of the region from 1998-2016 has said and underlined that pol- lution is nearly three-times deadlier in north India as com- pared to rest of the country. More than 480 million people or about 40 per cent of India’s population, reside in the seven States and union territo- ries comprising the bulk of the Indo-Gangetic Plain region of north India namely Bihar, Chandigarh, Delhi, Haryana, Punjab, UP, and West Bengal. From 1998-2016, the Indo- Gangetic Plain region experi- enced particulate pollution that was about twice as high as the rest of the country, a new analy- sis of the Air Quality Life Index (AQLI) produced by the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC) said. “By 2016, a 72 per cent increase in pollution in the region further shortened the lives of residents by 3.4 to 7.1 years,” the study said. It said pollution is nearly three times deadlier in north India as com- pared to rest of the country. In comparison, lower con- centrations of pollution in the rest of the country are allowing residents to live longer than those in the Indo-Gangetic Plain, the study said. New Delhi: Half of India’s ado- lescents (10 to 19 years) — almost 63 million girls and 81 million boys — are either short or bony or overweight and obese, as per the findings of a report on adolescents released in a high-level meeting at the NITI Aayog, together with UNICEF India on Thursday. Over 80 per cent of adolescents also suffer from “hidden hunger” i.e. the deficiency of one or more micronutrients such as iron, folate, zinc, vitamin A, vit- amin B12 and vitamin D, said the report “Adolescents, Diets and Nutrition: Growing Well in a Changing World”. Detailed report on P5 S enior Communist leader and veteran CPI parliamentarian Gurudas Dasgupta died after prolonged illness at his South Kolkata residence on Thursday. He was 83 and is survived by his wife Jayashri Dasgupta and a daughter. Dasgupta, a former MP from Panshkura and Ghatal constituencies of West Midnapore, died of heart attack at 6 am, Bengal CPI secretary Swapan Banerjee said, adding “he was suffering from lung can- cer for quite some time.” Though he continued to be a member of the CPI national executive coun- cil he had relinquished all other party posts on account of his failing health Banerjee said. A veteran trade union leader known for one’s excellent oratory in Parliament, Dasgupta was a contemporary of articu- late Left leaders like Somnath Chatterjee, Basudeb Acharya and Abani Roy and was one of the tallest generals of Left pol- itics in Bengal. Expressing his condolence, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, “Shri Gurudas Dasgupta Ji was one of the most committed and articulate proponents of his ideology. He was a strong voice in Parliament, whose interven- tions were keenly heard across the political spectrum. Saddened by his passing away. May his soul rest in peace.” Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu said in his condolence message that Dasgupta was an able parliamentarian. “My heartfelt condolences to bereaved family members, friend and well wishers,” he added. Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said, “Saddened at the passing away of CPI leader Gurudas Dasguptaji,” adding, “He will be remembered for his contribu- tion to the nation as a parlia- mentarian and trade union leader.” D ay one of the bifurcation of the erstwhile State of Jammu & Kashmir into two Union Territories of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh pre- sented a contrasting picture as both Jammu and Ladakh regions witnessed celebrations while normal life remained paralysed in different parts of Kashmir amid continuous shutdown since August 5. The new UTs came into existence 72 years after then ruler Maharaja Hari Singh executed the Instrument of Accession on October 26, 1947, making it part of India. Girish Chandra Murmu in Jammu & Kashmir and Radha Krishna Mathur in Ladakh stepped into history as the first Lieutenant Governors of the new Union territories as the entire nation celebrated the birth anniversary of coun- try’s first Home Minister Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, who is credited for merger of over 560 States into the Union of India. Jammu & Kashmir High Court Chief Justice Gita Mittal administered the oath of office to the new appointees, first in Leh and then later in Srinagar.

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Page 1: English News Paper | Breaking News | Latest Today News in ......2019/11/01  · Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Thursday said, “The cerned at the breach of

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India on Thursday launcheda strong counter to China’s

objection to the bifurcation ofJammu & Kashmir into twoUnion Territories, which cameinto existence at midnight.

Asking China to refrainfrom commenting on mattersinternal to India, New Delhicharged Beijing with illegallyacquiring Indian territoriesfrom Pakistan OccupiedKashmir (POK) under the so-called China-Pakistan bound-ary agreement of 1963.

New Delhi’s rebuff cameafter Beijing on Thursdayexpressed reservations aboutcreation of Union Territory ofLadakh saying it was “unlaw-ful and void”, “includes” someof China’s territory into its

administrative jurisdiction and“challenges” Beijing’s sover-eignty.

China had earlier objectedto the revocation of special sta-tus to the State of Jammu &Kashmir and formation ofLadakh as UT, saying some ofthe area involved Chinese ter-ritory.

Moreover, the latest roundof objection by Beijing cameeven though the Kashmir issuedid not figure in the secondinformal summit in Chennaibetween Chinese President XiJinping’s and Prime MinisterNarendra Modi on October 11-12.

Taking exception to theChinese objection, ExternalAffairs Ministry spokespersonRaveesh Kumar said the J&Kreorganisation is entirely India’s

internal affair and the nationdoes not expect other countriesto comment on such matters.

India also said China con-

tinues to be in occupation of alarge tract of area in the UnionTerritories of Jammu &Kashmir, and Ladakh.

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AMajor General of theIndian Army is likely to

face court martial for alleged-ly sending pornographicvideo clips and obscene mes-sages to National Cadet Corps(NCC) girl cadets on theirmobile phones. The case per-tains to 2017-2018 when thesenior officer was posted inGujarat.

A court of inquiry (CoI)was ordered into the matterafter the NCC girls com-plained against the officer.

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Against the backdrop of rev-elations about WhatsApp’s

privacy breach, the Centre onThursday set a November 4deadline for the Facebook-owned messaging giant toexplain the breach and list outthe measures that have beentaken to safeguard privacy ofmillions of Indians. At thesame time, the Centre rejectedallegations of its involvement inthe snooping and termed thecharges as “attempts to malignthe Government of India” and“completely misleading.”

Information TechnologyMinister Ravi Shankar Prasadon Thursday said, “TheGovernment of India is con-cerned at the breach of priva-cy of citizens of India on themessaging platform WhatsApp.We have asked WhatsApp toexplain the kind of breach andwhat it is doing to safeguard theprivacy of millions of Indiancitizens.”

Union Home Ministry offi-cials said, “Some statementshave appeared based on reportsin media, regarding breach ofprivacy of Indian citizens onWhatsApp. These attempts tomalign the Government ofIndia for the reported breach

are completely misleading.”With Congress’ chief

spokesperson RandeepSurjewala accusing the ModiGovernment of using servicesof Israeli spyware Pegasus tosnoop the WhatsApp commu-nications of Indian journalistsand human rights activists andurging the Supreme Court tohold the Centre accountable over the issue,Prasad retaliated by indirectlyattacking the Congress’ firstfamily.

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Praising the role of SardarVallabhbhai Patel, the first

Home Minister of the country,in national integration, PrimeMinister Narendra Modi onThursday defended the newsystem in Jammu & Kashmirand Ladakh which emergedfollowing scrapping of Article370 only bred separatism andterrorism in the State.

Attending a function at theStatue of Unity in Kevadiya,Gujarat, on Patel’s 144th birthanniversary, Modi led thegathering in taking the

“national unity pledge” onNational Unity Day andaffirmed that inspired by Patel,his Government was workingfor the “emotional, economicand constitutional integration”of the country. “Over 40,000people lost their lives in threedecades of terrorism,” he said,adding it was Patel’s inspirationwhich made him take the deci-sion to revoke Article 370.

Sardar Patel’s birthanniversary is celebrated as‘Rashtriya Ekta Diwas’(National Unity Day) since2014. The Prime Ministeroffered floral tributes to the

Statue of Unity, considered tobe the world’s tallest statue, asflower petals were showered onit from above by an Indian AirForce helicopter. He alsoaddressed young IAS officers ata separate function in Kevadiyacalled “Aarambh”.

While inaugurating theNew Delhi Police headquar-ters, Union Home MinisterAmit Shah said internal secu-rity is the top priority of theGovernment, emphasising sev-eral steps have been taken toensure it, including improvingvigil along borders and crack-ing down on fake notes.

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The Public WorksDepartment (PWD) has

envisaged a plan to take trav-elers back to the grandeur ofthe Mughal era by redesigningthe entire area starting fromBhogal flyover from MathuraRoad to the heritage sites,Nizamuddin Dargah,Humayun Tomb, Khan-e-Khana tomb, Sundar Nursery,Neela Gumbad and Agha KhanTrust.

The PWD has submittedan actionable plan to the DelhiGovernment for re-developingthe 1.8 kilometre long stretchfrom Bhogal Flyover to NeelaGumbad (Sabz Burj). Oncecompleted the entire heritagesite will resemble with thepristine glory of the Mughal eraand is expected to attracttourists in droves.

According to sources, thisplan is Delhi LieutenantGovernor (L-G) Anil Baijal’s petproject as he himself inspectedthe site. Reently, Baijal held ameeting and directed the con-cerned department to carryout the project and give thisarea and stretch a new look inconsonance with the Mughalart and architecture.

“The Agha Khan Trustwhich is also situated aroundthe Nizamuddin area came upwith a request to beautify the

area, following which the L-Gvisited the site and directed thePWD officials to carry on theproject,” said a senior officialadding that the trust also pro-vided a sample of the re-development plan.

Officials said the 1.8 kmstretch from Bhogal Flyover toNeela Gumbad (Sabz Burj)will be redesigned with fancycurved stones.

“The idea is ‘pedestriani-sation’ and de-congestion ofthese stretch, as currently traf-fic jams are witnessed, besidesthis stretch also have a largenumber of footfall, thus, tocreate a better walking facili-ty and to attract more tourist,it has been decided to inter-connect all these heritage siteswith proper disabled friendlyfootpath, street furniture, cycletrack, proper lane for e-rick-shaws, crossings, proper streetlights, railings, central verge with greenery, plantation and other facilities,” said the official.

To give a Mughal Era look,fancy carved red and beigesand stones, popularly knownas Agra stone and Dhaulapurstone will be used. The foot-path will be constructed with50 mm thick fine chiseldressed sand stone and therailing and its boundary wallwill be constructed by thickquartzite wall.

“Currently, concrete tilesare used in footpaths, but forthis site, the department willuse red and beige sand stonewith 3-4mm groove and mor-tar will not be visible on thesurface. Further, wherever thesize of footpath is 2.1m will bewidened to 2.3 m. A green

look will be given with plan-tation of herbs and shrubs incentral verge of the road,”added the official. Roads willalso be widened wherever pos-sible and water fountains arealso on the plan. Besides, theexisting boundary walls will bere-designed like the walls of

‘red fort’ with red-sand stone.Space for parking is alsoexpected on the left of NeelaGumbad.

The work is estimated tocost around Rs 10 crore andthe construction will com-mence as soon. The officialswants to start the work beforethe Model Code of Conduct(MCC) comes into force sinceDelhi Assembly polls areround the corner. As per offi-cials, around 8,000 peoplevisit Nizamuddin AuliyaDargah per day and increasesto 15-20 on Thursdays.

Further about 10 thousandpeople visit Humayun Tomband Sunder Nursery on a dailybasis and the number justgoes up especially during thewinter season.

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Life expectancy of peopleliving in the Indo-Gangetic

Plain has reduced by up toseven years due to poor airquality, a new study of theregion from 1998-2016 hassaid and underlined that pol-lution is nearly three-timesdeadlier in north India as com-pared to rest of the country.

More than 480 millionpeople or about 40 per cent ofIndia’s population, reside in theseven States and union territo-ries comprising the bulk of theIndo-Gangetic Plain region ofnorth India namely Bihar,Chandigarh, Delhi, Haryana,Punjab, UP, and West Bengal.

From 1998-2016, the Indo-Gangetic Plain region experi-enced particulate pollution that

was about twice as high as therest of the country, a new analy-sis of the Air Quality Life Index(AQLI) produced by the EnergyPolicy Institute at the Universityof Chicago (EPIC) said.

“By 2016, a 72 per centincrease in pollution in theregion further shortened thelives of residents by 3.4 to 7.1

years,” the study said. It saidpollution is nearly three timesdeadlier in north India as com-pared to rest of the country.

In comparison, lower con-centrations of pollution in therest of the country are allowingresidents to live longer thanthose in the Indo-GangeticPlain, the study said.

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New Delhi: Half of India’s ado-lescents (10 to 19 years) —almost 63 million girls and 81million boys — are either shortor bony or overweight andobese, as per the findings of areport on adolescents releasedin a high-level meeting at theNITI Aayog, together withUNICEF India on Thursday.Over 80 per cent of adolescentsalso suffer from “hiddenhunger” i.e. the deficiency of oneor more micronutrients such asiron, folate, zinc, vitamin A, vit-amin B12 and vitamin D, saidthe report “Adolescents, Dietsand Nutrition: Growing Well ina Changing World”.

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Senior Communist leader andveteran CPI parliamentarian

Gurudas Dasgupta died afterprolonged illness at his SouthKolkata residence on Thursday.He was 83 and is survived by hiswife Jayashri Dasgupta and adaughter.

Dasgupta, a former MPfrom Panshkura and Ghatalconstituencies of WestMidnapore, died of heart attackat 6 am, Bengal CPI secretarySwapan Banerjee said, adding“he was suffering from lung can-cer for quite some time.” Thoughhe continued to be a member ofthe CPI national executive coun-cil he had relinquished all otherparty posts on account of hisfailing health Banerjee said.

A veteran trade unionleader known for one’s excellentoratory in Parliament, Dasguptawas a contemporary of articu-late Left leaders like SomnathChatterjee, Basudeb Acharyaand Abani Roy and was one ofthe tallest generals of Left pol-itics in Bengal.

Expressing his condolence,Prime Minister Narendra Modi

said, “Shri Gurudas Dasgupta Jiwas one of the most committedand articulate proponents of hisideology. He was a strong voicein Parliament, whose interven-tions were keenly heard acrossthe political spectrum.Saddened by his passing away.May his soul rest in peace.”

Vice President M VenkaiahNaidu said in his condolencemessage that Dasgupta was anable parliamentarian. “Myheartfelt condolences tobereaved family members,friend and well wishers,” headded.

Bengal Chief MinisterMamata Banerjee said,“Saddened at the passing awayof CPI leader GurudasDasguptaji,” adding, “He will beremembered for his contribu-tion to the nation as a parlia-mentarian and trade unionleader.”

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Jammu & Kashmir into twoUnion Territories of Jammu& Kashmir and Ladakh pre-sented a contrasting picture asboth Jammu and Ladakhregions witnessed celebrationswhile normal life remainedparalysed in different parts ofKashmir amid continuousshutdown since August 5.

The new UTs came intoexistence 72 years after thenruler Maharaja Hari Singhexecuted the Instrument ofAccession on October 26,

1947, making it part of India.Girish Chandra Murmu in

Jammu & Kashmir and RadhaKrishna Mathur in Ladakhstepped into history as the firstLieutenant Governors of thenew Union territories as theentire nation celebrated thebirth anniversary of coun-try’s first Home MinisterSardar Vallabhbhai Patel, whois credited for merger of over560 States into the Union ofIndia.

Jammu & Kashmir HighCourt Chief Justice Gita Mittaladministered the oath of officeto the new appointees, first inLeh and then later in Srinagar.

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The National Unity Day wasobserved at Reserve Police

Lines here on Thursday. ChiefMinister Trivendra SinghRawat, along with public rep-resentatives and senior policeofficials, paid tribute to the IronMan of the country—SardarVallabhbhai Patel, on whosebirth anniversary the day iscommemorated in the country.Addressing the gathering onthe occasion, the ChiefMinister said that after inde-pendence even though theBritish left India, they left thenation divided with manyprincely States.

He said that it was SardarPatel who unified all the 562princely States in India withoutthe support of any force. Patelalso had great concern for thefarmers of the country.

He used to believe that with-out farmers, it is impossible toimagine the existence of India.

The CM further stated thatthe Prime Minister NarendraModi is following the footstepsof Sardar Patel and working onthe same model of ‘One India,Best India’. This is the year whenArticle 370 has been abrogatedfrom Jammu and Kashmir and

now the future of Jammu-Kashmir and Ladakh will also bebright.

Speaking about the ongoingmovement against single useplastic in the State, the CM saidthat when Sardar Patel was themayor of Ahmedabad, he hadconducted a sanitation pro-gramme there for 222 days.

Rawat and other dignitariesalso paid tribute to the policepersonnel who died recently ina road accident in Nainital. TheCM said that the families of thesepolice personnel will be provid-ed with all possible help by theState Government.

Director General of Police(DGP) Anil K Raturi said that asthe first Home Minister ofIndependent India, the role ofSardar Patel in uniting the divid-ed parts of the country is veryimportant.

He also played a vital rolein establishing the initial infra-structure for the administrationin the country. The DGP fur-ther said that UttarakhandPolice will always try to walk onthe path that Patel had shown.

On the occasion, the bestpolice station award was givento Clement Town police sta-tion. The armed robbery case

at the residence of RPEaswaran, owner ofAbhimanyu Cricket Academy,was chosen as the best cashwork-out case.

For the same case,Superintendent of Police (city)Shweta Choubey, NehruColony station in-charge DilbarSingh Negi, Special OperationsGroup in-charge AishwaryaPal and Mohammad Yasin were also presented citations by theCM. State Minister Dhan SinghRawat, MP Mala Rajya LaxmiShah and MLAs were alsoamong those present on theoccasion.

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The Congress party leadersand workers paid glowing

tributes to the former PrimeMinister Indira Gandhi andfirst Home Minister of thecountry, Sardar Vallabh BhaiPatel, on their death and birthanniversaries respectively onThurday. The Pradesh CongressCommittee (PCC) president,Pritam Singh, offered floraltributes to the statue of IndiraGandhi at Indira Market andgarlanded the statue of SardarPatel at Clock Tower on the day.

Singh said that IndiraGandhi played a pivotal role intaking the country ahead onpath of development. Heremembered nationalisation ofbanks, twenty-point pro-gramme and poverty alleviationas some of the achievements ofthe former Prime Minister.

Singh also remembered herfor the decisive win of Indiaover Pakistan and creation of aseparate nation of Bangladeshin the war of 1971. He addedthat Sardar Patel played a keyrole in unification of the prince-

ly States and laid the foundationof a strong India.

The leader of Opposition inState Assembly, IndiraHridayesh, former MLA HiraSingh Bisht, Matbar SinghKandari, former MLA GaneshGodiyal, vice president SuryaKant Dhasmana and other werepresent on the occasion.

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The Uttarakhand KrantiDal (UKD) will be cele-

brating the 19th State foun-dation day in Gairsain onNovember 9. Taking the slo-gan ‘Gaon Bachao-RajyaBachao’ as its motto, the UKDwill also be starting its masscontact programme in theState.

UKD Mahanagar headSunil Dhyani said, “Thoughthe Chief Minister TrivendraSingh Rawat has announcedthat the State foundation daywill be celebrated for an entireweek, in true essence, the cel-ebration will be genuine onlyif the government announcesGairsain as the permanentcapital of the state.”

He further said, “Thestatehood movement wasundertaken for the develop-ment of the people of moun-tainous regions ofUttarakhand, but today thepoliticians and the influentialpeople are increasingly gettingcomfortable in the conditionsof Dehradun.

The development inmountainous regions ofUttarakhand has remained asit was in the past. To have cap-ital of a mountain State in themountains was the demand ofall statehood activist and thosewho lost their lives in themovement.”

Dhyani stated that if theState Government once againfails in making the announce-ment to make Gairsain thepermanent Capital, UKD willstart a movement in supportof this demand.

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The police nabbed a personsmuggling liquor in an

expensive Sports Utility Vehiclein Haridwar on Thursday. Theseizure has brought to light thetrend among bootleggers to useexpensive vehicles to avoidsuspicion while undertakingtheir illicit activities.

The police had receivedinformation on Thursday that

a high-end vehicle was beingused to smuggle illicit liquorfrom Ranipur Jhaal to Jwalapur.Acting on the tip off, the policebegan checking vehicles nearSitapur petrol pump. After awhile, they came across aToyota Fortuner with registra-tion number HR 29 AB-0023.On checking the SUV, thepolice found eight boxes ofwhiskey.

These comprised five boxes

of one brand and three ofanother. The driver has beenidentified as Ambreek Singh.He was arrested by the police.

It is pertinent to mentionhere that on the directions ofthe Haridwar senior superin-tendent of police SenthilAvoodai K Raj S, the policehave been focusing more on tackling liquor smug-gling and substance abuse inthe district.

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The State MeteorologicalCentre has forecast the

possibility of shallow fog insome parts of Haridwar andUdham Singh Nagar districtsduring early morning hours onFriday. Overall, the State is fore-cast to experience mainly clearto partly cloudy sky with dryweather is likely to prevail.

In the provisional Capitalof Uttarakhand, the sky will bemainly clear to partly cloudy onFriday. The maximum andminimum temperatures arelikely to be 28 degree Celsiusand 15 degree Celsius respec-tively.

Meanwhile on Thursday,the maximum and minimumtemperatures recorded at var-ious places in the state were28.4 degree Celsius and 16.1degree Celsius respectively inDehradun, 28.8 degree Celsiusand 17 degree Celsius inPantnagar, 20.2 degree Celsiusand 8.5 degree Celsius inMukteshwar, 20 degree Celsiusand 11 degree Celsius respec-tively in New Tehri.

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Aman stabbed his wife andthen stabbed himself after

she refused to return home.The man’s wife was miffed athim and had gone to stay withher parents.

The man went to his in-laws’ home and asked his wifeto return home. When sherefused, he stabbed her andthen stabbed himself after leav-ing the scene. Both have beenadmitted to Roorkee CivilHospital in critical condition.

Superintendent of Police,Rural, Navneet Singh said thatthe woman was angry with herhusband and had gone to staywith her parents.

Her husband identified asJamil reached his in-laws' houseto bring her back but sherefused.

Angered by her refusal,Jamil stabbed her and laterstabbed himself. The case isbeing investigated by the police.

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The StateG ov e r n m e nt

has approved theKumbh Melaadministrat ion’sproposal forinstalling 80 under-ground garbagebins in Haridwar.These garbage con-tainers are expect-ed to boost thelevel of civic sani-tation during theKumbh Mela to beheld here in 2021.

The KumbhMela of f icerDeepak Rawat said thatdesired level of saniation willbe ensured during the KumbhMela in the area under thepur view of MunicipalCorporation of Haridwar andthe surrounding areas.

Rawat said that with theState Government grantingpermission for installinghydraulic undergroundgarbage bins, 80 such garbagebins will be installed in dif-

ferent areas of the city aheadof the Kumbh Mela.

Each of these under-ground garbage bins will havethe capacity to hold about twotonnes of garbage.

There will be chutes over-head to enablepeople to dispose of garbage

in these bins. Machines willbe used to empty the garbagefrom these undergroundgarbage bins, he added.

It is pert inent to mention here that about150 tonnes of solid municipalwaste is generated daily inHaridwar. crores of people are expected to arrive in the city for the 2021Kumbh Mela.

The huge footfall is alsoexpected to increase thequantity of garbage generated in the city during the Kumbh Mela.

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Pressure politics and internalsquabbles are preventing

the State unit of the Congressparty to release its list of can-didates for the posts of the dis-trict Panchayat presidents andblock Pramukhs. Aftermarathon deliberations, theparty, however, declaredShrishta Rana as its candidatefor the post of Mayor ofRoorkee MunicipalCorporation.

The senior leaders of thestate unit of the Congress partyincluding the Pradesh CongressCommittee (PCC) president,Pritam Singh and leader ofopposition in Uttarakhandassembly Indira Hridayeshremained huddled at the head-quarters of the state unit of theparty for second consecutiveday on Thursday but the offi-cial list for the districtPanchayat presidents and blockPramukhs could not bereleased till the time of filingthis report.

Considering the results ofthe first phase of the elections,the principal opposition partyis focusing on the coveted

posts of district Panchayatpresidents in Chamoli, Pauri,Rudraprayag, Almora andNainital districts.

The party believes thatwith the help of the indepen-dent candidates having aCongress party leaning, it is ingood positions in these dis-tricts. Former Cabinet MinisterRajendra Bhandari is said to bekeen to field his wife for thepost of district Panchayat pres-ident in Chamoli. However, heis facing stiff opposition froma group of district Panchayatmembers who are planning tomake someone from the Pindervalley as the official candidateof the party.

A similar situation pre-vails in other districts as well.It is learnt that many Congressleaders are threatening to leavethe party or support BJP can-didate if the candidate of theirchoice is not declared by theparty.

Later in the day, the PCC

president appointed the stategeneral secretary, organisation,Vijay Saraswat as observer forAlmora district and directedhim to submit his report oncandidate selection for the post

of district Panchayat presidentto the PCC president afterholding discussion with partyleaders of district. Saraswat isexpected to submit his reporton Friday.

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Bharatiya Janata Party MLAsin Haridwar have opposed

steps taken by the districtadministration to purportedlypave the way for opening of aslaughter house in Manglaurarea of Haridwar district. Theyhave opposed a report sent bythe district administration to theState Government which report-edly supports grounds for open-ing the abattoir in the area.

BJP MLA from HaridwarRural, Yateeshwaranand, LaksarMLA Sanjay Gupta and JwalapurMLA Suresh Rathore addressedthe media here on Thursdayobjecting to the plan for openinga slaughter house in the district.

The MLAs said that varioussocial organisations and reli-gious bodies had supported theclosure of abattoirs in the districtbut the district administration

appears to be paving the way foropening a new slaughter house inManglaur.

Addressing the media atVed Mandir here, the MLAs saidthat Haridwar is associated withpilgrimage and religious activi-ties.

Most of the local residentsare not in favour of opening aslaughter house.

On the one hand, theGovernment is supposed to beworking to protect bovines as perthe law while on the other hand,officials are paving the way foropening a slaughter house inHaridwar district, which is ques-tionable, said the MLAs.

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Stung by the dismal perfor-mance on various health

parameters of the NationalInstitution for TransformingIndia (NITI) Aayog, the statehealth department has starteddeliberation to prepare draft ofnew health policy.

On Thursday, a workshop ofofficers of National HealthMission (NHM) and the healthdepartment was organisedunder the aegis of theUttarakhand Health SystemDevelopment Project’ to discussthe issue.

Speaking on the occasion,the mission director of NHM,Yugal Kishore Pant said that the

State Government has taken adecision to implement theIndian Public Health Standards(IPHS) for improvement in thehealth services. He said that thehealth and population policy ofthe state is needed to be pre-pared as per the prevailing con-ditions and health servicesparameters.

He emphasised for the needof creating a policy which is inconversant with the prevailingcondition and which is near tothe ground realities. Pant saidthat the Asha workers, ANMs,medical officers from blocks andsupervisors have been invited tothe workshop to share groundrealities.

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For the upcoming humanchain event in the city on

November 5 against the use ofsingle use polythene and plas-tic, the Dehradun trafficdepartment has completedalmost al l preparations.According to Superintendentof Police (traffic) PrakashChandra Arya, they have con-ducted meetings with theother stakeholders as well.However, they are yet tofinalise the duration of themain event, for which a finalmeeting between districtadministration and the organ-isers-Municipal Corporationof Dehradun (MCD) will beconducted in a day or two.

SP Arya said that as theproposed duration of theevent is two hours, the policewill be deploying extra forceon the field. He said that themain event will happen onlyfor about 10 minutes andthat at least one lane of theroad will be open for trafficduring the preparation time.The traf f ic wil l not bestopped, but will of course beslower than on normal days.

It is pertinent to mentionhere that the proposed routefor the 50 kilometre longhuman chain is f romMiyanwala Chowk toMokhampur, then to Rispana,Dharampur, Araghar, EastCanal Road and then to BehelChowk. From Behel Chowkthere will be two turns, onewill continue towards RajpurRoad and then Mussoorie

diversion. The other end of the

chain will start from BehelChowk to Clock Tower,Chakrata Road, GMS Road,Balliwala Chowk, KamlaPalace, Niranjanpur Mandi,Patelnagar, Lalpul,Saharanpur Chowk, AdhatBazaar, Prince Chowk, TehsilChowk to Darshan LalChwok and then back toClock Tower.

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While the Congress con-tinued to struggle in

finalising the names of itscandidates for posts of DistrictPanchayat presidents andBlock Pramukhs, the BharatiyaJanata Party announced thename of its 11th candidate fordistrict Panchayat president’spost. Basanti Devi will be theparty candidate for the post ofdistrict Panchayat president inBageshwar.

On Wednesday, the partyhad announced the name ofJyoti Rai as its candidate for

the post of Champawat districtPanchayat president. OnThursday, the party alsoannounced the names of itsBlock Pramukh candidatesincluding Bhagwan Singh inDoiwala, Divya Bharti inRaipur, Lakshmi Devi inKhirsu, Rajesh Khanduri inBironkhal and Radha Rawat inPokhri. With this, out of the 12posts of district Panchayatpresidents, the BJP hasdeclared its candidates for 11and out of 89 posts of BlockPramukhs, it has announcedthe names of 68 candidates.The party has also appointedits districts election in-charge.

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health services, Dr Amita Upretisaid that the new health policyshould be drafted in accor-dance with the standards laiddown by the NITI Aayog. Shesaid that Uttarakhand shouldstrive to complete the targetsstipulated by the union govern-ment ahead of the time.

Officer of United NationsDevelopment Programme(UNDP), Ashish Vikram gave

an elaborated account of the mil-lennium development goals andsustainable development goals ofthe United Nations and healthindices for the health policy.

The workshop was attend-ed by Dr Tripti Bahuguna, JointDirector of UKHSDP Dr AmitShukla, Chief Medical Officersof the districts and other officers ofhealth department.

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In the case of six deaths inDehradun due to con-

sumption of spurious liquor,the high court of Uttarakhandhas sought replies from theDehradun senior superinten-dent of police, investigatingofficer, Excise departmentand the state government inthree weeks.

The division bench ofchief justice RameshRanganathan and justice AlokKumar Verma issued thisdirection while hearing on apublic interest litigation filedby Dehradun residentPramod Sharma.

The petitioner has statedthat after consuming spuriousliquor on September 19, sixpersons had died inDehradun while six had fall-en sick.

He has alleged that thepolice are delaying the inves-tigation in the case due topolitical pressure.

The State Governmenthas not even provided com-pensation to the families ofthose who died in the episode.

The petitioner has alsostated that he and the local

residents had written to thepolice and excise departmenton many occasions regardingthe illicit sale of liquor in thearea.

However, the authoritiesconcerned did not take anyconcrete action on the com-plaints against the illicit liquorbusiness due to which the saidincident took place.

Alleging that the policeare investigating the deathsunder political pressure andtrying to shield the culprits,the petition has demandedthat the probe into the case behanded over to the CentralBureau of Investigation (CBI).The bereaved families shouldalso be paid compensation,demanded the petitioner.

It will be recalled that sixpersons had died after con-suming spurious liquor inthe Nai Basti locality ofPathariya Peer colony inDehradun during September.

A few persons accused inthe case including formercouncilor Ajay Sonkar werearrested by the police whilesome officials of the policeand excise departments werealso suspended in the after-math of the incident.

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Hitting out at SAD for politi-cizing the auspicious 550th

prakash purb of Guru NanakDev, Punjab Chief MinisterCapt Amarinder Singh onThursday accused them ofobstructing joint celebration ofthe historic event, even as heflayed the denial of permissionor visa to the Punjab Ministers,MPs and MLAs to visit SriNankana Sahib.

“The occasion is one ofpride, which State Governmentwanted to celebrate collective-ly, rising above petty politicalconsiderations,” said CaptAmarinder, talking informallyto the media-persons whilereviewing the arrangementsfor the commemorative events.

However, the Akali Dalscuttled all attempts of theState Government to ensurejoint celebrations, said theChief Minister, terming it sheerpettiness on the part of theAkalis, particularly UnionMinister Harsimrat Kaur Badal.

Pointing out that PunjabGovernment had spent �550crores to ensure befitting cele-bration of the momentousevent, Capt Amarinder saidthat the entire occasion hadbeen transformed to a “politi-cal drama” by the Akalis,backed by their allies, theBharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

On the denial of visa to hisCabinet colleagues and otherPunjab representatives to visitGurdwara Nankana Sahib inPakistan, the Chief Ministertermed it as “extremely unfor-tunate”.

“Politics should have beenkept aside on this religious

occasion,” he asserted, whilereiterating his protest againstIslamabad’s refusal to with-draw the 20 dollar fee on pil-grims visiting KartarpurGurdwara via the corridor.

He urged the Imran Khanled Pakistan Government to belarge-hearted, keeping in viewSikh sentiment and tradition.

Asked if the StateGovernment was ready to paythe said amount on behalf ofthe pilgrims, Capt Amarindersaid that he was, in principle,against giving anything toPakistan on this count.

On Pakistan’s invitation toCongress MLA Navjot SinghSidhu to attend the KartarpurCorridor inauguration, theChief Minister asked themedia-persons to ask his for-mer cabinet colleague about it.

In response to a question,Captain Amarinder rejectedas ‘crap’ SAD’s claims onCentral Government fundingthe majority of the develop-ment projects to commemoratethe 550th prakash purb.

“The Centre gave moneyfor only two projects, and oneof them was only partiallyfunded by them,” he said,adding that the StateGovernment had already spent�550 crores and would bespending more on infrastruc-tural development and variousevents.

The Chief Minister, whoreviewed the progress of workof Kartarpur Corridor, whichwill be opening for devotees onNovember 9 at Zero Line(India-Pakistan InternationalBorder, Dera Baba Nanak),said that all work undertakenby the State Government wascomplete.

“Only the work on theIntegrated Check Post of theLand Port Authority was stillcontinuing under the CentralGovernment’s supervision,” hesaid, but was hopeful it wouldalso be completed byNovember 9.

DERA BABA NANAKREADY TO WELCOME 30kPILGRIMS A DAY

The historic Dera BabaNanak is all set to witness anexciting convergence of awhopping 30,000 pilgrims aday for four days fromNovember 8.

To accommodate the pil-grims, many of whom will becoming from distant lands, thePunjab Government hasturned a sprawling 30-acre-land into a well-equipped tent-ed city including 544 Europeanstyle tents, 100 Swiss cottagesand 20 Darbar style accom-modations, with capacity to putup around 3,500 people a day.

Chief Minister Capt

Amarinder Singh, whoinspected the tented city as wellas the main pandal for the mainevent on Thursday, expressedsatisfaction at the arrange-ments. The main pandal has acapacity for 30,000 pilgrims,expected to converge here oneach day of the Dera BabaNanak Utsav, from November8 to 11.

The Chief Minister alsoreviewed the public utilityarrangements, including drink-ing water and langar facilities.The Langar Hall is designed toserve 1500 persons at a time,with a kitchen equipped withmodern facilities.

The Tented City project,developed at Rs 4.2 crores, hasa mix of European Type (EP)accommodation, which cantake in six persons (with 140separate bathrooms and 140washrooms constructed tomeet their basic needs), SwissCottage (SC) for two personseach, with attached bathroom,and Darbar Tent (DT), also

having attached bathroom, foraccommodating four personseach—which works out to 3544persons.

The booking or registra-tion is free and can be doneboth online and offline. Onlinebooking will start onNovember 2.

CM DEDICATES �96 CRDEVELOPMENT PROJECTSIN SULTANPUR LODHI

To mark the 550th prakashpurb of Guru Nanak Dev,Punjab Chief Minister CaptAmarinder Singh on Thursdaydedicated a slew of projects inSultanpur Lodhi, worth aroundRs 96 crores, to the people ofPunjab.

Capt Amarinder, digitallyinaugurating the projects at apublic gathering, termed themas the State Government’s hum-ble contribution to commem-orate 550th prakash purb atSultanpur Lodhi, where hespent over 18 years of his lifeand attained enlightenment.

“These projects would fur-ther ensure the holistic devel-opment of the holy city, besidesfacilitating millions of devoteesexpected to arrive from acrossthe globe to pay their obeisanceon this sacred occasion,” saidthe Chief Minister, who alsoreviewed the arrangements formega celebrations scheduled atSultanpur Lodhi on the historicoccasion.

The Chief Minister calledupon the people to light a diya(lamp) at their homes in theevening as a humble tribute toGuru Nanak Dev, whose 550thprakash purb’s main eventwould be held at SultanpurLodhi on November 12.

Among the projects

launched were three high levelbridges, constructed over HolyKali Bein at a cost of �9.30crore, as well as six roadsrepaired and widened at a costof �30.72 crores, special repairof 13 roads leading toSultanpur Lodhi has also beencompleted at a cost of �31.30crores, to ensure smooth flowof traffic, especially during themega event. A state-of-the-artrest house has also been con-structed at a cost of �2.39crores.

To facilitate devotees totake a dip in the holy Kali Bein,the State Government hasalready completed the work oflining, cleaning and fencing ofthe Bein, besides strengtheningits left and right side banks by

providing boulder stone pitching at a cost of �10.81crores.

Captain Amarinder Singhfurther inaugurated the ‘SriGuru Nanak Dev Ji BioDiversity Park’ and a conser-vation forest set up at BirShikargah on Kanjli RoadKapurthala at a cost of �2.59crores.

To meet the immediateand projected power supplydemand during the mega event,the Chief Minister also dedi-cated a first-of-its-kind under-ground cable fed 66 KV SubStation in Sultanpur Lodhi at acost of �11 crores. An upgrad-ed bus stand constructed at acost of �5.97 crores was alsoinaugurated.

The Chief Minister direct-ed the state transport depart-ment to ensure plying of spe-cial buses within the state tofacilitate devotees, and alsoasked them to provide free ser-vices of intra-city mini busesand e-rickshaws.

The projects inauguratedon Thursday were in additionto some other major projectsalready completed by the StateGovernment namely the SriGuru Nanak Dev Ji Centre forInvention, Innovation,Incubation and Training(CIIIT) at a cost of Rs 319crores, as well as the BebeNanki University College forGirls besides Sri Guru NanakDev Ji Auditorium, construct-ed at a cost of �20 crores.

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Punjab Government hasdecided to link its Health

and Wellness Centers with thefirst-of-its-kind ‘Tele-MedicineNetwork System’, from wherethe healthcare and treatmentservices of specialists would beprovided through the multi-specialty hospitals and medicalcolleges.

Informing this, the stateHealth and Family WelfareMinister Balbir Singh Sidhu onThursday said that presently, onan average, one lakh patientsare being treated in a month atthe Wellness Centers andaround 23 lakh patients havereceived preventive, rehabili-tative and curative health care

services for various diseases sofar.

Giving out details about thestate government’s flagship pro-gram, the Minister said that thePunjab Government haschalked out a program to con-vert all the 2,650 sub-centres ofthe Health Department intoHealth and Wellness Centers(HWC) in a phased manner by2021.

To strengthen the health-care services in the rural areasacross the state, the Ministeralso handed over appointmentletters to 519 newly-appointedCommunity Health Officers(CHO).

Sidhu called upon thenewly-appointed officers tocome forward and live up to

their responsibilities at Healthand Wellness Centers, wherethe standardized health servicesare being provided throughCommunity Health Officer(CHO) along with a team ofmulti-purpose health workers(male and female) and ASHAs.

He said that the newly-selected officers have beenimparted a special trainingprogram of six months byIGNOU. Notably, 861 sub-cen-tres have already been con-verted into HWCs and 422Community Health officershave been posted in these cen-ters.

Now, the state will have apool of 941 CHOs working inHWC-Sub centers.

����� ����� �9� The ‘Run for Unity’ pro-gramme organised in all

distr icts of Har yana onThursday on the occasion of144th birth anniversary ofIron Man Sardar VallabhbhaiPatel saw the participation ofover one lakh people

Chief Minister, ManoharLal Khattar participated inthe State Level Function orga-nized on this occasion atPanchkula while DeputyChief Minister, DushyantChautala participated in thefunction at Gurugram.

An official release saidmaximum 9500 participantstook part in the Run forUnity programme in districtPanipat followed by 7000part ic ipants in distr ic tGurugram, 6500 inKurukshetra, 6300 in Hisar,6000 in Karnal, 5500 inRohtak, 5000 each in Ambala,Narnaul, Sonipat, Fatehabad

and Yamunanagar, 4,000 eachin Jhajjar and Kaithal, 3000 inSirsa, 5,500 in Faridabad,3500 in Jind, 2,800 in Nuh,2,600 in Panchkula, 2000 inPalwal, 1800 in Rewari, 5500in Bhiwani, 1500 in CharkhiDadri and 1100 in Hansi.

Describing the unity andintegrity of the country asSupreme, the Chief Ministersaid that country occupiesforemost place for all of usand everything else later.

Addressing the gather-ing at “Run for Unity” pro-gramme, Khattar said thatOctober 31 is being celebrat-ed as ‘Rashtriya Ekta Divas’for the last five years. He saidSardar Patel has played avital role in the integration of562 princely states after theindependence of the country.He said that the merger ofthree princely states remainedincomplete after the inde-

pendence out of which SardarPatel had been successful inthe merger of two princelystates of Hyderabad andJunagarh as a result of hisstrong determination.

"It is a matter of great hap-piness that Jammu andKashmir, which was not fullyintegrated with the IndianUnion 70 years ago...but ourPrime Minister NarendraModi and Home MinisterAmit Shah took the decisionto scrap Article 370 and com-

pleted that remaining task.Sardar Patel''s dream has beenfulfilled," said Khattar.

On this occasion, theChief Minister also adminis-tered pledge of national unityand integrity of the countryto youth, students of schoolsand colleges, sportsperson,personnel of ITBP andHaryana Police and residentsof Panchkula. He also flaggedoff Run for Unity and alsoparticipated in the run.

Speaking at an event

organised in Gurugram onNational Unity Day,Haryana' 's Deputy ChiefMinister Dushyant Chautalaalso talked about the Patel''srole in integration of theprincely states.

The 31-year-old JJPleader said, "All of us, espe-cially the youth, should takeinspirat ion from SardarVallabhbhai Patel". "Youthare the future of this countryand they should dedicatethemselves to preserve theunity, integrity and securityof this nation," he said.

A ''Run for Unity'' eventin Chandigarh was flagged offby Punjab Governor andAdministrator, U.T. ,Chandigarh, V P SinghBadnore at Sukhna Lake. Thegovernor administered thepledge to the gathering andlater participated in the run.

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Taking strong exception tothe Central Government’s

decision to construct parallelstage for the inauguration ofhistoric Kartarpur SahibCorridor, Punjab CabinetMinister Sukhjinder SinghRandhawa on Thursday soughtPrime Minister NarendraModi’s intervention to end thiscontroversy.

The state CooperationMinister Randhawa, in his let-ter to the Prime Minister,minced no words to say that thedecision to go in for a separatestage at this juncture when theState Government had alreadycompleted about 90 percent of

the work, was nothing but“playing petty politics”, andthat too on such a pious occa-sion.

Blasting the move asbrazen violation of the centre-state relations, especially federalspirit of Indian Constitution,Randhawa said: “I have beenhaving regular meetings withall the central agencies con-cerned while making prepara-tions for the inaugural functionand never even a hint was givenabout the central governmentplanning separate stage.”

“Moreover, all these centralagencies have been regularlyinspecting the stage construc-tion and other preparations forthe inaugural function by the

Punjab government,” he added.Randhawa pointed out that

the foundation stone layingfunction on November 26,2018, wherein the Vice-President M Venkaiah Naiduparticipated, was organised bythe Punjab Government andnot any central agency. “Thatfunction was an example oftotal coordination between theState Government and the cen-tral agencies,” he said.

Maintaining that it wasessential that the same proto-col must be maintained, theMinister assured that perfectcoordination would be main-tained this time too betweenthe Punjab government and thecentral agencies.

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In a first-of-its-kind initiativein the country, Punjab

Government on Thursdaylaunched a unique Job Helplinefor the unemployed job seek-ers of the state.

Launching the Punjab JobHelpline as part of the StateGovernment’s flagship ‘GharGhar Rozgar’ programme,Chief Minister Capt AmarinderSingh described it as a platformto generate massive job oppor-tunities to lakhs of job seekersacross the State every year,connecting them effectivelywith prospective employers.

The helpline aims to reachevery household in Punjab andis designed to call 75,000mobile and landline numbersdaily. To enable the data thatwill get created through anoperation of this scale, thePunjab Job Helpline has a 110-seat backend call centre.

The Chief Minister direct-ed the state EmploymentGeneration and TrainingDepartment’s secretary, whichhas come up with this initiative,to popularize it in a big way, toenable youth, especially thosein the rural areas, to get max-imum benefit from thehelpline.

Capt Amarinder also askedthe department to furtherintensify its efforts to providemore job opportunities to theyouth, so that their massive

latent potential could be fullytapped.

The Chief Minister wasapprised during a brief pre-sentation that through thePunjab Job Helpline, the gov-ernment will identify jobseek-ers across the state, sourcevacancies from large corpo-rates, SMEs, informal sectoretc, and deliver suitable jobopportunities directly to job-seekers, who will receive noti-fications about new job oppor-tunities matching their profilevia automated phone calls,SMS and WhatsApp.

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Condemning the Congress-led Punjab Government

for affecting the seventeenthincrease in power tariff in thelast three years, the ShiromaniAkali Dal (SAD) on Thursdaydemanded that theGovernment reduce tariff ratesimmediately in keeping withthe promises made to the peo-ple of the State.

“It is shocking that thePunjab Government had giventhe go ahead for a tariff hikewith retrospective effect fromApril this year. This will put afurther burden on the commonman who is already burdenedby repeated hikes which haveincreased power tariff by morethan 30 percent in Punjabsince the CongressGovernment took over,” saidformer minister MaheshinderSingh Grewal.

Grewal said that theCongress Government hadshown its true colours post by-elections to four constituenciesin the State. “The situation issuch that power tariff in Punjabis now among the highest in thecountry,” he said.

Maintaining that every sec-tion of society is affected,Grewal said that this was cou-pled with serving of “inflatedbills” to the poor and levying offixed charges whether anyoneconsumed power or not.

“The government hadeffectively taken back the freepower facility to the tune of Rs1,000 crore extended toBackward Classes andScheduled Castes by the formerChief Minister Parkash SinghBadal. The Congress govern-ment had withdrawn 200 unitsbeing supplied free of cost tothe BC consumers duringSAD-BJP tenure. It has also puta condition on the 200 unitsper month being supplied freeto SC consumers stating that ifmore than 3,000 units are con-sumed in a year, they will haveto pay the full bill,” pointedGrewal adding that these con-sumers are also being present-ed inflated bills of as much asRs two lakh.

SAD leader demanded thatthe entire amount denied to SCand BC consumers be refund-ed to them and the inflated billsbe withdrawn.

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Senior Congress leader andBeri MLA Raghuvir Singh

Kadian will be the pro-temspeaker of the 14th Haryanalegislative Assembly.

Haryana GovernorSatyadeo Narain Arya willadminister the oath to Kadian,a Congress MLA from Beri,here on Monday before thecommencement of the assem-bly session.

Kadian was also the speak-er of the Haryana Assemblyfrom 2005 to 2009 when theCongress government led byBhupinder Singh Hooda was inpower.

"Haryana GovernorSatyadeo Narain Arya hasappointed Dr Raghuvir SinghKadian, MLA Beri, as the pro-tem speaker of the HaryanaVidhan Sabha," an official state-ment said.

The newly elected HaryanaMLAs will also be administeredthe oath on Monday.Polls to the90-member state assemblywere held on October 21 andthe results were declared onOctober 24. The ruling BJP hadformed an alliance with theJannayak Janta Party afterfalling six short of the simplemajority in the recently con-cluded Assembly polls.

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Punjab Vidhan Sabha Speaker Rana KP Singhon Thursday called on former Prime Minister

Dr. Manmohan Singh to extend an invitation forthe special session of the Punjab Vidhan Sabhaon November 6 to commemorate the 550thPrakash Purb of Sri Guru Nanak Dev ji.

The Speaker said that Dr. Singh has accept-ed his invitation and would grace this special ses-sion of Punjab Legislative Assembly to mark thehistoric day. He said that Vice-President VenkaiahNaidu has already given his consent for the spe-cial session of the Punjab Vidhan Sabha.

Other dignitaries and eminent personalitieshave also been invited for the special session.

This session would be dedicated to mark the historic day.

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Half of India’s adolescents (10 to 19years) — almost 63 million girls

and 81 million boys — are either shortor thin, overweight or obese, as per thefindings of a report on adolescentsreleased in a high-level meeting at theNITI Aayog, together with UNICEFIndia on Thursday.

Over 80 percent of adolescents alsosuffer from ‘hidden hunger’, i.e. the defi-ciency of one or more micronutrientssuch as iron, folate, zinc, vitamin A, vit-amin B12 and vitamin D, said the report‘Adolescents, Diets and Nutrition:Growing Well in a Changing World.’

Based on the recently releasedComprehensive National NutritionSurvey (CNNS), the report shouldserve as a wakeup call for theGovernment as it provides unparallelednew insights into all types of macronu-trient and micronutrient malnutrition,dietary habits, life skill behaviours,access to services (school, health andnutrition) and physical activity through-out adolescence (10-19 years) for bothgirls and boys.

The new report reveals that almostall adolescents in India have unhealthyor poor diets. This is the main cause forall forms of malnutrition. It notes thatmore girls suffer from shortness thanboys; anaemia affects 40 percent of ado-

lescent girls, compared to 18 per cent ofboys, and worsens as they get older.

Focusing on adolescent girls, beforethey become mothers, is critical to breakIndia’s intergenerational cycle of mal-nutrition. One of the goals of POSHANAbhiyaan (National Nutrition Mission)is to reduce anaemia among adolescentgirls by 3 per cent per year. Ensuring thatschool and community-based inter-ventions reach all is essential to achievethis goal.

The findings reveal that nearly 25percent of girls and boys do not receiveany of the four school-based services(mid-day meal, biannual health check-ups, biannual deworming and weeklyiron folic acid supplementation).

Addressing this gap will becritical to addressing earlyadolescent nutrition issues.

The report also recog-nizes the how important it isthat meals and snacks at homebe nutritious. Campaigns onhealthy food choices should becentred around the promotionof a variety of items in appro-priate proportions at home.

Risks for non-communi-cable diseases are establishedin childhood and adolescence.

For example, diabetes, car-diovascular diseases andhypertension among adoles-

cents is increasing. The second decadeof life (10 to 19 years), is therefore crit-ical to intervene in early adolescence toprevent such diseases.

All girls and boys are unable to meetthe 60 minutes per day recommendedoutdoor sports and exercise time.

On an average, girls in late adoles-cence spend only 10 minutes per day onsuch activities. Boys do relatively better,with exercise time of 40 to 50 minutesper day. The report recommends thatadolescents themselves be supported asmobilizers and co-implementers atschools and other platforms they access,to spread the right nutrition messagesto aid India’s Jan Andolan to end mal-nutrition.

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President Sonia Gandhi onThursday accused the Modi

Government of launching the“final assault” to decimate the his-toric Right to Information (RTI)Act, diluting the powers of theInformation Commissionersthrough amendments to the legis-lation and enforcing their “majori-tarian agenda without being heldaccountable to people”.

In a statement posted onTwitter, the Congress president saidthat the amendments passed by thegovernment will ensure that noInformation Commissioner shallbe free from interference and sig-nalling by the Modi Government.

“The BJP Government hasnow launched its final assault todecimate RTI. To further erode anddilute its effectiveness, the ModiGovernment has passed amend-ments which diminish the office ofthe information commissioner ina manner that it leaves them at themercy of the very government it isrequired to hold accountable,”

Sonia said.“We have opposed these

amendments in Parliament andwill continue to oppose them inpractice. We condemn this piece-meal destruction of our democra-tic institutions and will continue tofight the Modi Government inthese self-serving actions which arethe very opposite of national inter-est,” she said.

The RTI Act, she said, was ahistoric legislation that gave birthto an institution that in the last 13years has become a “sentinel ofdemocracy, transparency andaccountability to the commonman.”

RTI activists across the coun-try, Sonia said, have used the lawto tackle corruption, to measurethe effectiveness of Governmentpolicies and to illuminate the defi-ciencies in processes such asdemonetisation and elections.

She said the Modi Governmenthas seen this remarkable institutionas an obstacle to enforcing theirmajoritarian agenda without beingheld accountable to people.

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In the backdrop of outcry by serving and retired Services per-

sonnel following a Finance Ministryorder in June withdrawing income-tax exemption on disability pension,the Army is working out modalitiesto retain the exemption to someextent and tax the rest of the amount.

Moreover, the Service hasalready implemented a rule that allofficers above the rank of MajorGeneral with two years of service leftbefore retirement undergo manda-tory medical check up at the com-mand hospitals all over the country.This step was initiated to preventmisuse of availing disability pensionby retiring personnel even if they arein top class physical condition. Theincome tax exemption for disabilitypension is in force since 1922.

In fact, most of the cases of mis-use of disability pension pertain tothe officer cadre, Adjutant GeneralAshwani Kumar said here onThursday. His observations come inthe background of Central Board ofDirect Tax(CBDT)in June this yearissuing a notice withdrawing incometax exemption on disability pension

availed by officers who have servedtheir full tenure of service. However,the invalidated personnel wereallowed the exemption to the fullextent as per the order.

The CBDT note led to unrestamongst the Armed forces and theissue also figured in Parliament andDefence Minister Rajnath Singhassuring the agitated Oppositionthat he had asked his officers to getin touch with the Finance Ministry.He also said the interests of theServices personnel will not beharmed.

Outlining the proposed mea-sures, the outgoing Adjutant General,who is responsible for maintainingdiscipline and welfare measures likepension, said at least 70 to 80 offi-cers retire ever month and 35 per-cent of them avail disability benefitsdue to low medical category attrib-utable to service conditions.

Admitting that some officershad wrongly availed such benefits,Kumar, however, said these guiltyofficers were given due punishment.In view of such cases, ArmyHeadquarters is tweaking its ruleswith bringing more checks and bal-ances into the system. To regulate themedical board, now Major Generaland above in last two years of service,will have to get theirmedical done atthe Armed Forces Clinic in Delhi orto nearest Command hospitals.Earlier they used to any nearest mil-itary hospital, Kumar said. Verysoon this provision will also apply forthe Brigadiers and other officers also.

The Army Headquarters hassent some proposals before theMinistry in this regard for furtherapproval. On the issue of levying taxon disability pension, Kumar said“Not everyone with the disabilityshould be exempted and I feel thereshould be an upper limit for exemp-tion.” Issue of levying tax on the dis-ability pension has been challengedin the Supreme court by several vet-erans. The sensitive issue also saw theArmy Headquarters officially back-ing the decision to tax disability ben-efits.

New Delhi: The Centre onThursday accorded the first HomeMinister’s Special Medal to a 16-member ITBP team for undertak-ing a “rare search and retrieval mis-sion” at Nanda Devi East(Pithoragarh in Uttarakhand) ear-lier this year and successfullyretrieve seven bodies of foreignmountaineers after 500 hour highaltitude operation spanning 15days.

The 15-member decoratedITBP mountaineering search teamwas led by Ratan Singh Sonal,Secondnd In Command. The othermembers included DeputyCommandant Anoop Negi,Insector Hemant Goswami, HeadConstables Devendra Singh,

Kalam Singh and BhagyashaliMeena, Constables Kapil Dev,Pradeep Panwar, Bharat Lal,Jaiprakash Singh, Sanjay Singh,Surendra Singh, DheerendraPratap, Devendra Singh andManjeet Singh.

“The operation was conduct-ed under direct supervision ofDIG, Sector Headquarter, ITBP,Bareilly, APS Nimbadia. It wasconducted in most difficult, inhos-pitable and trying conditions. Theoperation was globally recognizedas one of the toughest of its kind,”ITBP spokesperson Vivek KumarPandey said. The operation wasone of the most difficult exercisein the world at such an altitude andhostile terrain at an altitude of

19,000 feet that entailed retrievalof bodies of three nationalities.

The ill-fated mountaineers’team included seven nationalsfrom the UK, Australia and the US,besides an Indian who was actingas a liaison officer from the IndianMountaineering Foundation.

The body of the team leaderand noted British mountaineerMartin Moran was not located.

Instituted in 2018, the Medalaims to promote high profession-al standards of Investigation ofCrime in State/UT Police andCentral Investigating Agencies(CIAs). Officers of States/UTpolice and Central paramilitaryforces involved Special Operationsare also eligible for it. PNS

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Equating the two-dayKashmir trip by the

European Union MPs with a“familiarisation visit”, theCentre on Thursday sought todownplay the controversy overthe tour organizer being aprivate international lobbyistsaying such delegations do notnecessarily have to comethrough official channels.

Asserting this point here,Ministry of External Affairsspokesperson Raveesh Kumarsaid, “The important pointwas whether such an engage-ment serves larger nationalinterests. The visit was not at allinternationalisation of Kashmirissue. The views of MEPsreflected their understanding ofground realities and threat of terrorism in Kashmir.”

Commenting on the ragingcontroversy about the nature ofthe visit and its funding for thefirst time, the ministry also saidthe tour was not at all interna-tionalisation of the issue.Moreover, the visit was not ced-ing of ground on Kashmir, hesaid.

This counter came afterBJP’s NDA allies Shiv Sena andJD-U on Wednesday put thegovernment in a spot by join-ing the Opposition ranks inquestioning the move to sendthe EU delegation to Kashmir.Sena had taken exception saying Kashmir was “not aninternational issue”.

Moreover, the Congresshad demanded answers fromPrime Minister Narendra Modion the foreign MPs’ visitterming it as the “biggest diplo-matic blunder” in India’s his-tory. And Congress leader inthe Lok Sabha Adhir RanjanChoudhary even wrote to thePM suggesting him to send anall-party delegation to Kashmirto assess the situation there.

The External AffairsMinistry said the important

point was whether such anengagement serves largernational interests. In the firstvisit by a foreign delegation, ateam of 23 MPs travelled toKashmir on Tuesday on a two-day trip to have a first-handassessment of the situationafter the state’s special statuswas revoked in August by abro-gating provisions of Article370.

“We feel that suchexchanges are part of people-to-people contacts,” Kumarsaid adding the visit was not atall internationalisation ofKashmir issue.

Kumar also asserted thatthe views of MEPs reflectedtheir understanding of groundrealities and threat of terrorismin Kashmir.

On Wednesday, a sectionof the visiting MPs also said thegovernment should allow thecountry’s own Opposition par-liamentarians to visit the state.Nicolaus Fest, who is part of thedelegation, said, “I think ifyou let in European Union par-liamentarians, you should alsolet in Opposition politiciansfrom India. There is some kind of disbalance, theGovernment should somehowaddress it.”

But the delegation MPstook exception to them beingbilled as “fascists” and calledthe media coverage on Kashmir“biased”.

Questions have also beenraised about the funding of thetour of the visitors and allega-tions leveled that the NGO hadorganized it and promised theMPs a meeting with PrimeMinister Narendra Modi.

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The Congress on Thursday alleged thatthe Modi Government has been

“caught snooping” after WhatsApp saidthat journalists and human rights activistsin India have been targets of surveillance,as it urged the Supreme Court tohold the Centre accountable over the

issue. Congress chief spokesperson

Randeep Surjewala said India woke uptoday (Thursday) to a bone chillingnews of “flagrant abuse” of privacy byagencies of the present BJP Government“We urge upon the Supreme Court to takesuo moto cognisance of this brazen andblatant illegal hacking of telephones andintroduction of spyware by the BJPGovernment agencies and conduct a court-monitored inquiry,” hesaid.

“We suspect that many oppositionleaders and judges of the Supreme Courtand high courts are on this list,” Surjewalasaid.

The Congress leader said the BJPGovernment has maintained a “conspir-atorial silence” on the entire issue with theInformation and Broadcasting Secretary

and others refusing to respond.“Modi Govt caught snooping!

Appalling but not Surprising! After all,BJP Govt- (1) Fought against our right toprivacy. (2) Set up a multi croreSurveillance Structure until stopped bySC. SC must take immediate cognisanceand issue notice to BJP Government,”Congress’s chief spokesperson RandeepSurjewala said in a tweet. “A Governmentthat spies onjournalists/activists/Opposition leadersand treats its own citizens like criminalshas lost the right to lead in our democ-racy. We urge the SC to take suo motucognizance of these illegal activities andto hold this government to account,” hesaid in another tweet.

Tagging a media report whichclaimed that 1.3 million Indian paymentcard details are up for sale on the darkweb, Surjewala also alleged that “data theftand data fraud” has become the normsince Modi Government came topower.”Is this why Modi ji calls Data thenew Oil (for BJP Machine?). 1.3 millionIndian Payment Card Details are up forsale on Dark Web putting the card hold-ers vulnerable to yet another synchronisedfraud,” he said.

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The Army is making efforts to find away out regarding the Supreme

Court order last year decriminalisingadultery and scrapping Section 377 ofthe Indian Penal Code that penalisedhomosexuality, Adjutant GeneralAshwani Kumar said here on Thursday.

His observations came in the back-drop of adultery and homosexualityinviting severe punishment in the Army.Moreover, while the Supreme Court rul-ing is supreme, the Army so far is reluc-tant in implementing it to enforce dis-cipline. Army Chief General BipinRawat some months back had also sug-gested that the Supreme Court order ondecriminalization of gay sex may not beimplemented in the Army adding suchactions are forbidden in the force

Though stating that the Army is notabove the law, Rawat during his annu-al press conference in January had said“we will not allow this to happen in theArmy.” When asked about the apexcourt ruling on adultery, he had said theArmy is conservative. “We can’t allowit to perpetrate into the Army,” Rawathad said.

Adjutant General Kumar, who issolely responsible for maintaining dis-

cipline in the Army and ensuring wel-fare of the personnel, said the Army isworking out ways to honour theSupreme Court ruling on the one handand maintain the ethos on the other.

The outgoing General said adulteryand gay sex do not figure as separatealleged acts of indiscipline in the Army.Instead, any acts of moral turpitude orsuch actions are covered under section45 of the Army Act. It defines any suchaction as unbecoming conduct and theguilty are punished accordingly.

At present adultery, generallyknown as stealing brother officer’swife’s affection in the armed forces, isdealt with strictly and some officers overthe years have been dismissed from ser-vice.

However, with women officer nowjoining the forces, adultery can also bedefined as stealing affection of sister offi-cers’ husband, Kumar said.

These acts invite severe punishmentin the force, Adjutant General AshwaniKumar said here on Thursday.

While the SC is supreme, the Armyhas been reluctant in implementing itin the force to enforce discipline. TheArmy Chief had some months back cat-egorically rejected implementation ofthe order.

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While increasing accessibili-ty to healthcare facilities

have led to the increased lifeexpectancy of Indians from 49.7years in 1970-75 to 68.7 years in2012-16, at the same time poorlifestyle is resulting into swellingburden of non-communicablediseases, according to theNational Health Profile (NHP)2019 compiled by the UnionHealth Ministry.

Alarming suicide number(44,593) was also reportedamong young adults, between theage group 30-45 years in 2017, asper the NHP report. A total 1.33lakh people died because of sui-cide.

Showing that women livelonger than men, the NHP stat-ed that for the same period, thelife expectancy for females is 70.2years and 67.4 years for males. Atthe same time, the report notedthat “decline in morbidity andmortality from communicablediseases have been accompaniedby a gradual shift to, and accel-erated rise in the prevalence ofchronic NCDs such as cardio-vascular disease (CVD), dia-betes, chronic obstructive pul-

monary disease (COPD), can-cers, mental health disordersand injuries.”

Out of 6.51 crore patientswho attended NCD clinics underthe National Programme forPrevention and Control ofCancer, Diabetes, CardiovascularDiseases and Stroke (NPCDCS)in 2018, around 4.75 per centpeople were diagnosed with dia-betes, 6.19 per cent with hyper-tension, 0.30 per cent with car-diovascular diseases, 0.10 percent with stroke and 0.26 per centwith common cancers.

Taking account of the vectorborne diseases in India, the sur-vey pointed out in 2018, maxi-mum number of cases and deathsdue to malaria have been report-ed in Chhattisgarh (77,140 casesand 26 deaths). “The overallprevalence of the disease hasdiminished in 2012 and 2013 butthere was a slight increase in 2014and 2015 before it again starteddecreasing from 2016. Dengueand Chikungunya, transmittedby Aedes mosquitoes, are a causeof great concern to public healthin India,” the report said.

“Every year, thousands ofindividuals are affected and con-tribute to the burden of health

care. Dengue outbreaks havecontinued since the 1950s butseverity of disease has increasedin the last two decades. However,the reported cases ofChikungunya in the country hasshown a slight decrease from67,769 to 57,813 in 2018 as com-pared to 2017,” said the NHPprepared by the Central Bureauof Health Intelligence (CBHI).

“Data is an important sourceof understanding the needs andissues of the population. It helpsin understanding the goals, ourstrengths and weaknesses and isalso an important means tostrategize area specific interven-tions,” said Harsh Vardhan,Union Health Minister afterreleasing the survey.

According to the report,there has been considerable

decrease in the number of swineflu cases/deaths in the year 2014as compared with 2012 and 2013.However, the number of casesand deaths has been drasticallyincreased in 2015. The numbersdecreased in 2016 but againincreased significantly in 2017and 2018.

There has been consistentdecrease in the birth rate, deathrate and natural growth rate inIndia since 1991 to 2017. As on2017, India has registered birthrate of 20.2 per 1,000 populationand death rate of 6.3 per 1,000population while the naturalgrowth rate was 13.9 per 1,000population in India. The birthrate in rural areas was higherthan in the urban. Similarly, thedeath rate and natural growthrate were also higher in ruralareas as compared to the urban.

“The infant mortality ratehas declined considerably (33 per1,000 live births in 2016), how-ever differentials of rural (37) andurban (23) are still high. TheTotal Fertility Rate (TFR) for thecountry was 2.3 whereas in ruralareas it has been 2.5 and it hasbeen 1.8 in urban areas during2016 as per the latest availableinformation,” the report said.

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Wondering whether Congressleader Rahul Gandhi was

on a “secret operation”, the BJP onThursday targeted him for his“frequent” foreign visits andaccused him of not informingParliament about his tours aswas mandated by the protocolmeant for the MPs.

Maintaining that Rahul’s fre-quent foreign visits were a matterof public interest as he was a pub-lic representative, BJP spokesper-son GVL Narasimha Rao claimedthat the Congress leader hadtravelled abroad on 16 occasionsin the last five years, which wasmore than the number of his vis-its to Amethi in Uttar Pradesh,which used to be his Lok Sabhaconstituency.

Addressing a press conferenceat the party office here, Rao said,“This is also one of the reasons thepeople of Amethi rejected him(Rahul). Of the 16 visits (abroad),on nine occasions, the destinationwas not known.

“Why was it not revealed?

Was he involved in some secretoperation?,” he asked.

Rahul lost the parliamentarypolls held in April-May fromAmethi, a stronghold of theCongress. But former Congresspresident was elected to the LokSabha from Wayanad in Kerala,the second Lok Sabha seat he con-tested from with a big margin.

Rao quoted from a letterwritten by the ParliamentaryAffairs Minister on July 3 toinform the members ofParliament about the norms forthem.

The Minister had informedthe members that they should, inadvance, inform Parliament oftheir foreign visits, even if thosewere purely for private purposes,he said. Rao claimed that the LokSabha secretariat had not receivedany information from theCongress leader about his foreignvisits.

Taking a swipe at the formerCongress chief, Rao said theentire world came to India formeditation but he was travellingabroad frequently.

New Delhi: India has accept-ed a request by the GermanGovernment to allowChancellor Angela Merkel toremain seated while the nation-al anthems of both countriesare played during a ceremoni-al reception at RashtrapatiBhavan on Friday as she is suf-fering from a medical condi-tion.

It is learnt that certainprovisions of the order relatingto the National Anthem ofIndia will be invoked to allowMerkel to be seated when thenational anthem is played.

Merkel, during her two-day visit here, will hold exten-sive talks with Prime MinisterNarendra Modi on furtherexpanding overall bilateral ties.Chancellor Merkel’s difficultiesin standing without support areknown and lately, she has beenseen seated at ceremonialevents, both at home andabroad, which would have nor-mally required her to stand. PTI

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The belligerent Shiv Senaappeared to be in no mood

to relent in its ongoing powertussle with the BJP inMaharashtra on Thursday as itdisapproved the Chief MinisterDevendra Fadnavis’ recent state-ment that the BJP had notgiven any undertaking to it onthe sharing of Chief Minister’spost on a rotational basis andsaid that he would be the ChiefMinister of the State for the nextfive years.

In what came as a boost tothe Shiv Sena on a day when itsMLAs elected senior partyleader Eknath Shinde as theparty’s group leader in the StateLegislature, the OppositionCongress indicated that it wouldconsider any proposal receivedfrom the Sena seeking its sup-port for formation ofGovernment in the State.

In an apparent bid to sparkspeculation on the possibility ofhis party cobbling an alternativethe BJP-led Government in theState and simultaneously mountpressure on its senior ally tohave its way in the Governmentformation process in the State,Sena MP and spokespersonSanjay Raut on Thursday metNCP president Sharad Pawar atthe latter’s residence “SilverOak”. Though Raut claimedthat he had called on Pawar tooffer Diwali greetings, sources

said that he and the NCP pres-ident discussed current politicalsituation in the State.

The day began with the ShivSena’s official mouth-piece“Saamana” admitting in newscolumn that there was stalematebetween the BJP and Shiv Senaover matters relating to thepower sharing in the newGovernment in Maharashtraand reiterating in its editorial theneed for its senior saffron allyimplementing whatever hadbeen “agreed upon” between thesaffron alliance partners aheadof the Lok Sabha polls early thisyear.

At a meeting of newly elect-ed MLAs held at Shiv Senaheadquarters “Sena Bhavan”here, Sena president UddhavThackeray made no bonesabout his displeasure overFadnavis’ statement that theBJP had not given any com-mitment to the Shiv Sena aboutsharing of the chief ministershipon a rotational basis and that hewould himself hold the CM’spost for the next five years. “TheChief Minister should not have

said whatever he said during hisinformal interaction with mediapersons at a Diwali get-togeth-er (two days ago). Because of hisstatement, the scheduled talksscheduled between the two par-ties did not take place,” Uddhavsaid. The Shiv Sena, it may berecalled, had cancelled its sched-uled power-sharing talks withthe BJP on Tuesday, followingthe remarks by Fadnavis’ state-ment.

Notwithstanding the spec-ulation that the BJP had madea proposal to it that it would givedeputy chief ministership and12 to 15 portfolios to the ShivSena, the Sena denied that it hadreceived any proposal from theBJP on power sharing in thenew Government.

Ahead of the Shiv SenaLegislature Party, Shiv Sena MPand spokesperson Sanjay Rautdenied that his party had soft-ened its stand on the con-tentious issue of sharing ofpower in the new Governmentand said: “There is no softeningor shift from our earlier stand.All I said was: the saffron

alliance is intact. The talks willtake place between the two saf-fron alliance partners. In mystatement, where have I softenedthe Sena’s stand?”.

“When we said that equalsharing of power, it also includesthe sharing of the ChiefMinister’s post. The CM’s postis also ministerial position. It’snot some NGO position. It isalso a position in the sharing ofpower,” Raut said.

In an interesting develop-ment which opened up thepossibility of the emergence ofa Shiv Sena-led Government inthe state, Maharashtra’s chiefminister Prithviraj Chavan saidthat the Congress would con-sider any proposal coming fromthe Shiv Sena, seeking his party’ssupport to form a newGovernment in the State.

Speaking to a televisionchannel, Chavan said:”The BJPhas emerged as the single largestparty in the State Assemblypolls. If the BJP fails in formingthe Government in the State, theShiv Sena being the secondlargest party will get an oppor-tunity to form the Government.If the Sena takes the lead,attempts to form theGovernment and formallyapproaches us for support, wewill take up the take up the pro-posal with the Congress highcommand which will take afinal decision in the matter”

Prithviraj Chavan, it may be

recalled, had predicted on thevery day of day of Assemblypolls results (October 24) thathe foresaw “some interestingpossibilities”. "Wait for 15 days.You will get to know,” Chavansaid. He had indicated that theShiv Sena would try to form analternative Government in theState. Informed sources, mean-while, said that some Congressleaders, including AshokChavan, had met Pawar at thelatter’s Mumbai residence “SilverOak” and discussed the currentpolitical situation in the state.

Pawar, who had in the pastsaid that the mandate in theAssembly polls was for the BJP-Shiv Sena alliance and that hisparty preferred to sit in theOpposition, reportedly askedthe State Congress leaders tofirst obtain a go-ahead fromtheir party high command sothat both the Opposition parties(Congress and NCP) could sitacross and decide on what wasto be done.

Earlier at the Shiv SenaLegislature Party meeting, YuvSena leader Aditya Thackerayproposed the name of seniorparty leader Eknath Shinde forthe group leader’s post in theState Legislature. Shinde wasunanimously elected as theleader of SSLP leader.

At that meeting, anothersenior Shiv Sena leader SunilPrabhu was elected as the chiefwhip of the SSLP.

Mumbai: Maharashtra’s histo-ry shows it never bows beforethe “throne of Delhi”, said ahuge banner put up outside theoffice of the NationalistCongress Party here.

The banner was seen onWednesday when newly-elect-ed NCP MLAs met.

"History showsMaharashtra doesn't bow downbefore the throne Delhi," it said.

It echoed the remark madeby party supremo SharadPawar when the EnforcementDirectorate named him in amoney laundering case inSeptember.

"Maharashtra follows the ideology of ChhatrapatiShivaji Maharaj. We don't bowbefore the Delhi `takht'(throne)," Pawar had said onSeptember 25. PTI

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Chennai: The NationalInvestigation Agency (NIA)on Thursday carried outsearches across Tamil Nadu aspart of its probe into a plot tokill Hindu activists inCoimbatore.

The agency said searcheswere carried out inCoimbatore, Sivaganga,Tiruchirapally, Nagapattinamand Tuticorin districts, whereelectronic gadgets and docu-ments were seized.

The agency conductedsearches at six locations inthese districts as part of furtherinvestigation in the ISISCoimbatore Case, according toa spokesperson of NIA.

"The case pertains to thecriminal conspiracy hatched bysix chargesheeted accused per-sons and their associates, withthe intention of furthering theobjectives of ISIS/Daish by tar-geting certain Hindu activistsin Coimbatore," NIA said.

The accused arrested bythe state police in September2018 and chargesheeted byNIA in February this year "hadconducted preparations,including reconnaissance oftargets, for launching suchattacks, which would havecaused communal disharmonyand terror in the state," thespokesperson said.

Investigation has revealedthe charge-sheeted accusedand their associates were rad-icalised on the violent extrem-ist ideology of ISIS/Daish byfollowing the speeches andvideos of the Sri Lankan ISIS/Daish leader Zahran Hashim,over social media platforms.

"During searches, two lap-tops, eight mobile phones, fiveSIM cards, one SD card andfourteen documents have beenseized."

"Seized articles would besubjected to forensic examina-tion. The persons searched are

being questioned to verify theirassociation with the charge-sheeted accused personsbesides any role in this crime,"the spokesperson added.

In Coimbatore, NIAsleuths carried out searches attwo locations. A five-memberteam carried out searches in thehouse of Nissar in GM Nagarand Sauridin in Lorrypet in thecity, police said.

A team of NIA sleuthsheaded by a DSP-level officialconducted searches at a houseat Nagore in Nagapattinamdistrict.

NIA had on September 21conducted a search at the res-idence of a man in Tirunelvelidistrict in the state for hisalleged association with the ter-rorist gang.

Also, it had on August 29conducted searches across mul-tiple locations in Coimbatore inconnection with a terror alertissued to Tamil Nadu. PTI

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Patna: Bihar Chief MinisterNitish Kumar on Thursdayrubbished speculation aboutfresh negotiations being onfor the inclusion of his JD(U)in the Narendra ModiGovernment at the Centre, theoffer of which he had declinedearlier.

Kumar termed as "faltu"(nonsense) queries about hisparty having expressed thedesire to join the UnionCouncil of Ministers in theevent of Prime MinisterNarendra Modi and BJP chiefAmit Shah coming up with anoffer that was commensuratewith the JD(U)s strength inParliament.

"Aisi koi baat nahin hui hai.Sab faltu baat hai" (no suchtalks have taken place. This isall nonsense) said Kumar witha glum face when he was askedabout the JD(U) having"expressed the desire to join theCentral Government" after afunction held here to celebrate

the birth anniversary of SardarVallabhbhai Patel.

The queries emanatedfrom a statement to the effectmade by JD(U) national gen-eral secretary and chiefspokesman KC Tyagi on theprevious day in the nationalcapital soon after Kumar hadaddressed the partys nationalcouncil, a day after gettingformally elected for his secondterm as the national president.

When the media returnedto Tyagi on Thursday withqueries in the light of Kumarsrebuff, he sheepishly replied"there is no contradiction. I had

said we would welcome anoffer of proportionate repre-sentation if it comes fromModi or Shah. But I never saidthere is an offer right now".

Tyagi had on Wednesdayapparently made an out ofturn pitch for JD(U)s propor-tionate representation at theCentre as a reciprocal gestureto Kumar having inductedmany ministers from the BJP,including a Deputy CM, afterthe two parties joined hands in2017 even though the saffronpartys tally in the state legisla-ture was significantly lower.

Notably, after havingfought the Lok Sabha polls asan NDA partner in which theJD(U)s tally jumped to 16from two in the last generalelections, Kumar had initiallyhinted that his party would liketo become a part of the uniongovernment.

He, however, pulled backupon being told by the BJP thatonly a "symbolic representa-

tion" was on offer to eachcoalition partner and that theJD(U) too could have onlyone representative like otherallies.

"The BJP has a brutemajority in the Lok Sabha. Itdoes not need allies to run thegovernment. Our support tothe NDA, which has beenextended in the interests ofBihar, will continue unflinch-ingly though we feel no needfor such a symbolic represen-tation", Kumar had remarkedafter deciding against joiningModi government.

JD(U) sources say Kumarhad felt hurt on two counts.Firstly, the symbolic represen-tation treated JD(U) on parwith much smaller allies likeRam Vilas Paswans LJP.Secondly, the JD(U) was beingasked to make do with just oneministerial berth even thoughthe BJP which had just one MPmore from the state had fiveministers from here. PTI

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Bengaluru: The KarnatakaGovernment has asked the StateTextbook Committee to furnisha report on a chapter on con-troversial 18th century Mysoreruler Tipu Sultan in the middleschool history textbooks, ChiefMinister BS Yediyurappa saidon Thursday.

"There is no confusionregarding removing the lessonon Tipu Sultan.

(Education Minister S)Suresh Kumar told me that acommittee has been formed.Based on the committee report,a decision will be taken,"Yediyurappa told reporters here.

He underlined that therewas no change in the BJPGovernment's stand on theissue. Speaking to reporters inthe city, Primary and SecondaryEducation Minister SureshKumar said the senior BJPMLA Appachu Ranjan has writ-ten to him stating that Kodavasare the victims of Tipu's atroc-ities. Hence, the lesson in thetextbook glorifying Tipu Sultanis not justified and it should bedropped, he added, quotingthe MLA.

The matter of Tipu Sultanin the textbook would bereferred to the textbook com-mittee of the State.

"I will ask the committee togive a serious thought over the-points raised by Ranjan andsubmit to me a report. I will takefurther steps based on thereport," Kumaradded.

Slamming the Government,especially the Chief Minister, onthe issue, Former Chief MinisterSiddaramaiah said, "The sameYediyurappa when he was in theKarnataka Janata Paksha, hadorganised the Tipu Jayanti,sported Tipu dresswith headgear and hailed the Mysore

ruler." "Couldn't he seeTipu asa religious bigot then?" he asked.

The Congress leader wasspeaking to reporters inMandya. Commenting on theGovernment's decision toreview a chapter on Tipu Sultanin the school textbooks,Siddaramaiah insisted that with-out Tipu Sultan and Hyder Ali,the Mysore history will beincomplete.

"Just because Tipu Sultanwas Muslim, removing himfrom the textbook is purely apolitics of hatred. The movesans truth," Siddaramaiah point-ed out. He also reminded theBJP leaders such as JagadishShettar,R Ashoka and PCMohan that they had sportedthe Tipu "dress".

Alleging that the BJP waspursuing hate politics,Siddaramaiah said, "When inOpposition, when out of power,Tipu is their hero.

Removing Tipu from thetextbook aftercoming to poweris nothing but hate politics."

Soon after assuming power,the BJP Government led byYediyurappa had decided toscrap the Tipu Jayanti, started bythe previous CongressGovernment in 2015.

Now, there is growing clam-our from some BJP leaders toremove a chapter in the text-book glorifying Tipu Sultan.

Many in the BJP haveclaimed that the lesson ignoresthe atrocities perpetrated byTipu Sultan especially inKodagu district where thealleged large scale religiousconversions were carried out bythe then ruler. The erstwhileMysore ruler is also accused oflarge scalemassacre ofMandyam Iyengars a daybefore Deepavali. PTI

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Within hours after the Statebade a tearful farewell to

Sujith Wilson, the two-year-oldboy in Tiruchirappalli districtwho lost his life after fallinginto an abandoned borewellnear his house on Friday, twomore toddlers died in differentparts of Tamil Nadu during thelast 24 hours in similar cir-cumstances.

Rudran, a three-year-oldboy, was drowned in a pit dugup for constructing a rainwater harvesting (RWH) struc-ture in a village inVirudhunagar on Wednesdaywhile Pavalavalli, a three-year-old girl, died on late Tuesdaywhen she fell into a septictank in an under-construction

house in Cuddalore district.In both the cases, the par-

ents/guardians of the childrenwere away visiting relatives inconnection with Diwali holi-days. They had left the childrenunder the care of guardianswhose carelessness resulted inthe tragedies,” said a police offi-cial.

The Tamil Nadu WaterSupply and Drainage Board(TWAD) had issued an orderon Tuesday asking its officialsto convert the unused andabandoned borewells into RainWater Harvesting Structureswith immediate effect.

Villages in Tamil Nadu,facing severe shortage of waterare dependent on bore wells tomeet the drinking waterrequirements. “Over the yearsthe depth of bore wells have

gone down and it is notuncommon to find bore wellswith a depth of 200 feet andmore,” said KattumannarkoilKannan, a farmer-turned-author in Cuddalore district.

Meanwhile, a war of wordsis on between the OppositionDMK and the ruling AIADMKover the death of Sujith. WhileDMK chief M K Stalin accusedthe State and Cetral govern-ments for their indifference andcallous attitude, Chief MinisterEdappadi Palaniswami said theadministration had deployedoptimal efforts in the rescueoperation. The chief ministerhanded over a cheque of Rs 10lakh to the kin of Sujith. Healso offered the family anoth-er �10 lakh from the AIADMKfund. Not to be left behind, theDMK too has offered the fam-

ily a solatium of �10 lakh fromthe party coffers.

The North East Monsoonis already on in Tamil Naduand the heavy downpours areexpected to last till December.Instances like drowning ofchildren reach a peak duringthe season and one is certainto hear more such incidents,said RV Giri, president,Consortium of IndianFarmers Association (CIFA).A controversy is on in TamilNadu about the responsibili-ty of the closure of the aban-doned wells. As per thePanchayat Raj Act, the onuson closure of such wells arewith the owners while thereare people and organizationsdemanding that the local bodyofficials should be maderesponsible.

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After a meeting of its eightconstituent member studentbodies of North East, the officebearers addressed a press con-ference and said the bill shouldnot be accepted by any of thestates in the region.

"This is a communal billand we are not going to acceptit. This bill aims to give legiti-macy to illegal immigrants,under which the region hasbeen suffering for long," NESOSpecial Coordinator LurinjyotiGogoi said.

From mid-November,protest will be organised in allthe state capitals of the NorthEast, he added.

"Besides, we also demandNational Register of Citizens (ineach of the states in NE. This willhelp identify the illegal immi-grants here," said Gogoi, who isalso the General Secretary of theAll Assam Students' Union(AASU), which is a major con-stituent of the NESO. NESOdecided to demand for InnerLine Permit (ILP) in each of theNorth Eastern states and itsmembers will launch a coordi-nated movement for this, headded. Gogoi demandedConstitutional safeguards forall the indigenous people livingin this part of the country. PTI

Imphal: Normal life was paral-ysed in many parts of Manipuron Thursday due to "cease-work" stir called in support ofthe demand that the state's ter-ritorial integrity and adminis-trative set up should not beaffected by the Naga peacetalks.

The impact of the protestwas felt more in six valley dis-tricts and Kuki-inhabited hilldistricts of Churachanpur,Kangpokpi and Chandel bor-dering Myanmar.

The 20-hours "cease-work"agitation was called byCoordination Committee onManipur Integrity (COCO-MI).

Though no untoward inci-

dent has been reported fromanywhere in the state, securi-ty personnel are taking nochance and have deployed sev-eral men and women in uni-form to deal with any eventu-alities, a senior officer said.

Educational establish-ments remained closed whileattendance at governmentoffices was negligible duringthe day, the officer said addingall inter-district passenger ser-vices were paralysed.

Security personnel in largenumbers have been deployedat public junctions ofSingjamei, Sanjenthong,Khoyathong, Keisampat andKwakeithel of Imphal townwhich often have seen huge

protest in the past.At Langol Games village,

Lamboi, President of KukiWomen Association said, "wewelcome peace but it shouldnot infringe into the rights ofother communities."

Several Kuki populacedemanded that under no cir-cumstances villages dominat-ed by their community in thehill districts should be com-promised to appease NationalSocialist Council of Nagaland(NSCN-IM).

Meanwhile, to cope withany unseen disturbance in lawand order situation, sevencompanies of paramilitaryforces have reached the capital,sources said. PTI

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As the strike by theGovernment doctors

entered the seventh day onThursday, the State administra-tion has started tightening thescrews giving out enough indi-cation that enough is enoughand it was time for the agitat-ing doctors to get back to work.

“If they are not reporting

back before 2 pm on Thursday,we will consider their postsvacant and new doctors wouldbe appointed against the vacan-cies,” said C Vijayabaskar, TamilNadu Minister for Health.

He disclosed that more than10,000 doctors have applied forthe vacancies which may arise ifthe services of the agitatingdoctors are terminated by theGovernment. Doctors owingallegiance to the Federation ofGovernment DoctorsAssociation are on a path of agi-tation since last Thursdaydemanding pay hike, 50 per centquota in post-graduate coursesamong other things.

The Minister said theGovernment would considerthe demands by the doctors. But

he warned that the agitationscrippling the public health ser-vices was not proper on the partof the doctors. Vijayabaskarsaid quoting from Governmentrecords that a doctor joining theGovernment service gets a takehome monthly pay of �80,247/-in the first year itself. “ On the8th year, the Tamil NaduGovernment doctor draws apay of �97,900/- while doctorswith 15 years service draw amonthly pay packet of �1,22,919/-. On completion of 16years, the doctors in Tamil Naduservice draw a monthly salary of�1,35,365/- and those with 20years experience earn�1,53,027/-,” said Vijayabaskarwhile speaking to reporters onThursday.

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Adelegation of newly elect-ed Shiv Sena MLAs, led by

Aditya Thackeray and theparty’s group leader in theState Legislature EknathShinde, met MaharashtraGovernor Bhagat SinghKoshyari and urged him todeclare a wet drought in theState owing to unseasonal rainin various parts and provideimmediate relief to the farmers.

In a memorandum sub-mitted to the Governor, theSena delegation said that sev-eral persons had been killed inthe unseasonal rains, while thenatural calamity had claimedthe lives of 328 cattle.“Thousands of acres of stand-ing crops of paddy, cotton,Soyabean, onion, grapes andother fruits were destroyed inthe unseasonal rains,” the Senadelegates told the Governor.

The Sena leaders urgedthe Governor to direct thestate administration to carryout an immediate survey ofaffected areas and providecompensation to the farmers,fishermen, agricultural labour-

ers and milk diary and gardenworkers.

The Governor assured theSena delegation that he wouldspeak to the UnionGovernment to provide quickrelief and assistance to thefarmers affected by unseason-al rains in the State.

The Governor said that hewould request the Centre tosend a team of experts to assessthe losses caused by the recentspell of unseasonal rains in theState, so that the affected farm-ers could be provided reliefquickly.

Apart from Aditya andShinde, senior Sena leadersLeeladhar Dake, SubhashDesai, Ramdas Kadam,

Diwakar Raote, Nilam Gorheand others were present in thedelegation that met theGovernor.

Talking to media personsafter the meeting the Governor,Aditya said: “Pending theGovernment formation in thestate, we — 63 MLAs belong-ing to the Sena and those sup-porting us — met the Governorand urged him to take imme-diate measures to provide reliefto the farmers affected by therecent unseasonal rains. Wefrom the legislators and lead-ers from the Shiv Sena will alsobe touring the affected areasand do whatever we can fromthe party to provide relief to theaffected people”.

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New Delhi: Union HomeMinister Amit Shah onThursday flagged off a run tocommemorate the 144th birthanniversary of SardarVallabhbhai Patel in the nation-al Capital.

The 'Run for Unity', whichbegan from the Major DhyanChand National Stadium, sawthe participation of a largenumber of people, includingsports personalities, sportsenthusiasts and personnel ofcentral police forces amongothers.

The 1.5-km run in Delhitakes place at the India Gate C-Hexagon-Shah Jahan Road radi-al. People wearing white T-shirts and bearing Patel's photoassembled at the national sta-dium and India Gate round-about for the run.

The flag off also saw thepresence of Union MinistersRamesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank',Hardeep Singh Puri, RK Singh,Kiren Rijiju, G Kishan Reddy,Delhi Lt Governor Anil Baijaland home secretary Ajay KBhalla on the dais with theHome Minister.

Shah also administered aunity pledge to the participantsof the run.

Earlier, the Home Ministervisited Patel's statue located atthe the national Capital's PatelChowk and offered floral trib-utes. The Central Governmentobserves October 31 across thecountry as a day of specialoccasion to foster and reinforcethe Government's dedication topreserve and strengthen unity,integrity and security of thenation by celebrating it as a

'Rashtriya Ekta Diwas' orNational Unity Day to com-memorate the birth anniversaryof Sardar Patel.

Modi Government hasbeen observing Patel's birthanniversary as 'Ekta Diwas' orNational Unity Day since 2014.

Patel was born on October31, 1875 at Nadiad in Gujarat.

India's first Home Minister,Patel is credited for merger ofover 560 States into the Unionof India.

As part of celebrations,various programmes are beingorganised across the country,recalling Sardar Patel's contri-bution to unification of India.Prime Minister Narendra Modiis attending a special functionbeing organised in Kevadia inGujarat, where a giant statue ofPatel is located. PTI

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The Congress and the BJPlocked horns over claiming

the legacy of Sardar Patel onhis 144th birth anniversary onThursday with Congressleader Priyanka Gandhi Vadraderiding the BJP of beingforced to honour aCongressman as it had nofreedom icons of their own.Priyanka's comments onTwitter sparked off a verbalduel with the BJP as PrimeMinister Narendra Modioffered floral tributes at Patel'smammoth statue at Kevadia inGujarat and Home MinisterAmit Shah flagged off a 'Runfor Unity' in Delhi.

Taking a swipe at theCongress leader, BJPspokesperson ShahnawazHussain said that the stal-warts of this Congress areSonia Gandhi and PChidambaram. "The Congressduring the freedom struggle

had everyone in its ranks whowanted to fight for India'sindependence. It had leaderswho were vehemently opposedto Jawaharlal Nehru. Gandhihad said after Independencethat the Congress should bedissolved," he said adding thatthe Congress were forced torespect Patel.

Describing Sardar Patelas a stalwart of the Congresswho was strongly opposed tothe RSS, party leader Priyankasaid she felt happy seeing theBJP's attempts to "adopt" the"Iron Man of India" as itshowed that the saffron partydid not have a great freedomfighter of its own. In a seriesof tweets in Hindi, Priyankasaid: "Sardar Patel was a stal-wart of the Congress who wasdevoted to the ideology of theparty".

"He was a close compan-ion of Jawaharlal Nehru, thefirst Prime Minister of thecountry, and was strongly

opposed to the RashtriyaSwayamsevak Sangh (RSS),the ideological mentor of theBJP", she said. "Today, seeingthe BJP trying to adopt him

and pay tributes to him givesa lot of happiness, because twothings are clear from thisaction of the BJP: 1. It has nogreat freedom fighter of its

own. Almost all of them wereassociated with the Congress.2. Even enemies have to bowbefore great men like SardarPatel one day," she added.

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The Congress leaders paidtributes to late Prime

Minister Indira Gandhi onher 35th death anniversaryand remembered her contri-bution to national security,economy and foreign policy.

Congress President SoniaGandhi, former PresidentPranab Mukherjee, formerVice-President Hamid Ansari,former Prime MinisterManmohan Singh andRajasthan Chief MinisterAshok Gehlot were amongthose who paid floral tributesto the late Prime Minister at a

remembrance ceremony heldat Shakti Sthal. MPs from theparty and large number ofparty workers were also inattendance at the ceremony.Wayanad MP and formerCongress president RahulGandhi paid tribute to hisgrandmother and formerPrime Minister Indira Gandhion her death anniversary onOctober 31. Rahul , who is notin India at the moment, wrotean emotional post on Twitterabout how his "Dadi's" (grand-mother's) principles are stillinstrumental in guiding him.Sharing a photo of IndiraGandhi from his official

Twitter handle, he wrote inHindi: "October 31 marks theanniversary of my grand-mother's martyrdom. Youriron resolve and fearless deci-sions continue to guide me atevery step of my life."

Recounting the first 'shlo-ka' that Indira Gandhi taughther and her brother RahulGandhi, Priyanka Vadra said inHindi that she was remindedof the last line of the hymn.The 'shloka' means: "Fromignorance, lead me to truth;From darkness, lead me tolight; From death, lead me toimmortality. Aum peace,peace, peace".

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On the 144th birth anniver-sar y of Sardar

Vallabhbhai Patel, UttarPradesh Chief Minister YogiAdityanath said that someanti-nationals were trying todivide the country and the

need of the hour was toexpose such forces and thwarttheir evil designs.

“Today many anti-nation-al forces are active. They areconstantly conspiring todivide the nation. We mustexpose such forces and thwarttheir evil intentions. SardarPatel, as the first HomeMinister of the country, suc-cessfully did this work. Mergerof 563 princely states afterIndependence is proof of hiscompetence. Present day Indiais because of his futuristicvision,” the Chief Ministersaid after flagging off a RunFor Unity in Lucknow onThursday morning.

“To propagate the impor-tant role played by Patel forthe integrity and unity of thecountry, Prime MinisterNarendra Modi constructedthe world’s tallest statue atSardar Patel’s birthplace. Thiswas to make people aware ofSardar Patel’s contribution tothe nation. In order to involveevery citizen of the nation,iron was collected fromhouseholds to build the stat-ue,” Yogi said.

The Chief Minister saidthat the youth should adoptthe ideals and values of SardarVallabhbhai Patel.

Yogi said that numerouspeople made sacrifices for theindependence of the nation.“Let us make a resolutiontoday to keep this freedomintact. It is our duty to payrespect to this great leader andfulfil his dream,” Yogi said,disclosing that Sardar Patelcame to Lucknow on January6, 1948 and planted a tree atRaj Bhawan premises.

To mark the birthanniversary of Patel, the ChiefMinister paid floral tributes athis statue at GPO Park andflagged off the Run for Unityfrom there. It culminated atKD Singh Babu Stadium.

UP ministers BrajeshPathak, Gopalji Tandon, DrMahendra Singh, AdditionalChief Secretary AwanishAwasthi, DGP OP Singh andseveral other dignitaries werepresent on the occasion. TheChief Minister also adminis-tered a pledge to the people towork for the unity and integri-ty of the country.

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Ahmedabad: Gujarat ChiefMinister Vijay Rupani accusedCongress leaders Sonia Gandhiand Rahul Gandhi of not show-ing "basic courtesy" of payingtributes to Sardar VallabhbhaiPatel on his birth anniversaryon Thursday.

The BJP leader said such"contempt" for a national iconis "beyond belief ".

Rupani, however, said hewas not surprised by Congresschief Sonia Gandhi and herMP-son Rahul Gandhi "notpaying" tributes to independentIndia's first Home Minister.

"When entire nation isbowing to the great SardarPatel on his Jayanti, sad butnot surprising to see CongressPresident Sonia Gandhi & MrRahul Gandhi not having evenbasic courtesy of paying trib-utes to the great stalwart!Such contempt for a nationalicon is beyond belief!" Rupanitweeted.

However, Rahul Gandhi, ina Facebook post earlier onThursday, paid respect to thefirst Deputy Prime Minister ofthe country. PTI

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Samajwadi Party chiefAkhilesh Yadav said that the

country needed another SardarVallabhbhai Patel who couldrestrict divisive forces likeRashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh(RSS) so that the country coulddevelop without any bias.

“Sardar Patel might beremembered by the country fordifferent reasons. But for me, hewould be remembered for ban-ning the RSS,” Akhilesh saidwhile paying tributes to SardarPatel on his 144th birth anniver-sary in Lucknow on Thursday.

The SP chief said that today,a person like Sardar Patel wasrequired in the country to takeaction against divisive forces try-ing to divide society in thename of religion.

The SP had directed allparty units in the districts tohold functions on Sardar Patel’sbirth anniversary.

On the occasion, AkhileshYadav also attacked the YogiAdityanath Government overthe misrule in the state andclaimed that law and order wasat its lowest point.

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The India MeteorologicalDepartment (IMD) on

Thursday said that cyclonicstrom 'Maha' in the ArabianSea has intensified into severecyclonic storm. Under itsinfluence, Lakshadweep waslikely to receive extremelyheavy rainfall, even as theIMD has issued "red mes-sage" for the island. The "redmessage" technically refers to"take action," meaning theState Government machineryhas to remain on standby.

According to IMD, tidalwave by about one metreheight above the astronomicaltides is very likely to inundatelow lying areas ofLakshadweep Islands duringnext 12 hours. Sea conditions

over Lakshadweep area andadjoining southeast ArabianSea will be high to very highduring the next 24 hours andrough to very rough in thesubsequent 24 hours.

"The cyclonic stormMAHA over Lakshadweepand adjoining southeastArabian Sea moved furthernorth-northwestwards andintensified into a severecyclonic storm and lay cen-tered over east central ArabianSea and adjoiningLakshadweep area about 90km north-northeast ofAminidivi (Lakshadweep) and25 km east-north east ofChetlat(Lakshadweep). Itis "very likely" to continue tomove north-northwestwardsacross north LakshadweepIslands," IMD said.

Later, Maha is very like-ly to intensify into a verysevere cyclonic storm overeast central Arabian Sea dur-ing 24 hours, it said. As thecyclone intensified, the IMDsaid gale winds very likely toincrease upto 100-110 kmphgusting to 120 kmph overeastcentral Arabian Sea frommidnight.

During the next 24 hours,gale wind speed reaching 80-90 kmph gusting to 100kmphwas likely to prevail overnorthern parts ofLakshadweep area and adjoin-ing southeast Arabian Seaduring the subsequent 24hours and decrease gradually.Fishermen were advised not toventure over eastcentralArabian Sea till November 4,IMD said.

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Kolkata: West BengalGovernor Jagdeep Dhankharon Thursday said the by-pollsto three Assembly seats in thestate on November 25 must befree from violence to erasememories of the 2019 LokSabha elections in the easternstate which had created a "dif-ferent" kind of impression.

Asked to comment on theforthcoming by-polls,Dhankhar told reporters here,he was hopeful that the by-polls would be a milestone andshow the world that "mostpeaceful elections are held inWest Bengal".

"The by-elections must beviolence-free. Last Lok Sabhaelections created a differentkind of impression. We need toget away from that," the gov-ernor, who had been recentlyinvolved in a war of wordswith the state government,

said.Dhankhar was speaking to

journalists after placing awreath at the statue of SardarPatel here.

"Let's hope the by-polls arefree and fair.... And everyvoter has the right to exercisehis franchise," he said.

A Raj Bhavan statementissued later in the day said thegovernor "averred that thecoming by-elections in thestate would be held in a peace-ful manner free from violenceand the voters will fearlesslyexercise their right to franchise.

"This will demonstrate tothe whole nation that whathappened in the Lok Sabhaelections 2019, which weremarred by violence, is a mat-ter of past."

The by-polls are scheduledto be held in Kharagpur Sadarseat in West Midnapore dis-

trict, Karimpur in Nadia andKaliaganj in Uttar Dinajpurwhich are presently held by theBJP, TMC and the Congressrespectively.

The Kaliaganj seat fellvacant after the death of sittingCongress MLA ParmathanathRoy while Kharagpur's BJPMLA Dilip Ghosh won theMedinipur Lok Sabha con-stituency.

TMC's Karimpur MLAMahua Moitra emerged victo-rious from the KrishnnanagarLok Sabha seat.

The BJP had on severaloccasions alleged that its work-ers were killed in politicalviolence unleashed by theTrinamool Congress.

The TMC, however,denied the charges andclaimed that the BJP was try-ing to disturb the peaceful sit-uation in the State. PTI

Kolkata: West Bengal BJP pres-ident Dilip Ghosh on Thursdaysought deployment of centralforces for ensuring "free andfair" bypolls to three Assemblyseats in the state.

The by-elections toKharagpur Sadar assembly seatin West Midnapore district,Karimpur in Nadia andKaliaganj in Uttar Dinajpur willbe held on November 25.

"We have seen widespreadviolence in West Bengal duringthe last Lok Sabha polls. So, wewant a free and fair bypolls inthe and for that deployment ofcentral forces is a must," Ghoshsaid.

The TMC leadership, how-ever, declined to comment onthe issue.

Earlier in the day, WestBengal governor JagdeepDhankhar said the bypollsmust be free from violence toerase memories of the 2019 LokSabha elections in the state,which had created a "different"kind of impression.

The bypoll to Kaliaganjseat was necessitated followingthe death of sitting CongressMLA Parmathanath Roy whileKharagpur Sadar seat fellvacant after BJP's Dilip Ghoshwas elected from MedinipurLok Sabha constituency. PTI

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Court on Thursday dismisseda petition challenging theconstitutional validity of theJammu and KashmirReorganisation Act, 2019.

The court had on October22 reserved its order on themaintainability of the pleawhich sought that the Act bedeclared unconstitutional andnull and void.

The Jammu and KashmirReorganisation Act, 2019, pro-vides for reconstituting thestate into two Union territo-ries -- Jammu and Kashmirand Ladakh.

The legislation got thePresident's assent on August 9,four days after the Centreabrogated Jammu andKashmir's special status underArticle 370 of theConstitution. The Act cameinto effect on Thursday.

A division bench of jus-tices M Sathyanarayanan andN Seshasayee said the peti-tioner was not a resident ofJammu and Kashmir.

"...If at all any person isaggrieved by the abrogation(of Jammu and Kashmir's spe-cial status) and enactment (ofJ-K Reorganisation Act), (it)could be the person who is apermanent resident of thethen State of Jammu andKashmir," the bench said.

It said the issue is beforethe Supreme Court and pend-ing consideration before aConstitution bench.

"In the light of the reasonsassigned above, this court isinclined to uphold the objec-tions raised by the Registry asto the territorial jurisdiction ofthis court to entertain this writpetition," the bench said, dis-missing the plea.

According to the peti-

tioner, Desiya Makkal SakthiKatchi (DMSK), a TamilNadu-based group, the Unionlegislature cannot legislate onthose matters in the UnionList and the Concurrent Listwhich are not in accordancewith subjects in theInstrument of Accession ofJammu and Kashmir.

The petitioner submittedthat the government has abro-gated Articles 370 and 35A byway of a presidential orderand also enacted the Jammuand Kashmir ReorganisationAct, 2019, without theapproval of the Jammu andKashmir Assembly.

"The consultation of thestate government is requiredin any matter that affects thestate," the DMSK said.

The petitioner had alsoexpressed apprehension thatwhat has happened in Jammuand Kashmir may also happenin Tamil Nadu in future.

Observing that assump-tions cannot be answered, thebench had, in the last hearing,reserved its order on themaintainability of the plea.

The Supreme Court hasfixed November 14 to com-mence hearing of a batch ofpleas challenging the consti-tutional validity of theCentre's decision. PTI

Udhagamandalam: A floodalert has been sounded here, fol-lowing the release of water fromthe Avalanche Dam and thepeople living in the low-lyingareas hav been asked to move tosafer places.

Due to incessant rains forthe last few days in Nilgiris dis-trict, Avalanche Dam reached itsfull capacity on Thursday. Forsafety, 500 cusecs of water wasbeing released since morning. Inview of this, the district CollectorInnocent Divya advised thepeople living on the banks com-ing under revenue villages ofMulhigoor, Bikketti and Balacolato move to safer places. With therainy conditions and forecast of

heavy rains, the administrationdeclared Thursday as a holidayfor educational institutions infour taluks, including Kunda.

Till 7.30 AM on Thursday,the district received 822.7 mmof rains from Tuesday morning,with Kodanadu receiving 142mm, followed by Coonoor 97mm, Kotagiri and Kundah 81mm each, Avalanche 65 m,averaging 51.3 mm rains.

Meanwhile, four incidentsof landslip were reported nearBarliar on Mettupalayam-Udhagaandalam Road in theearly hours and traffic was dis-rupted, which was diverted viaKotagiri for nearly six hours,official sources said. PTI

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One of the interesting things thathappened during the recentAssembly elections inMaharashtra was the fact that inat least two Assembly con-

stituencies, NOTA (None of The Above) wasthe runner-up. This phenomenon, while inter-esting, is ultimately inconsequential when itcomes to declaring a winner. Even if NOTAwas to get a majority of the vote, the candi-date with the second highest votes would stillbe declared the winner. NOTA does, howev-er, fulfil the role of showcasing disinterest ormore typically the lack of options for a voter.Another way in which this can be gauged inan election is the voter turnout. The mostrecent round of Assembly elections inMaharashtra and Haryana recorded disap-pointingly low numbers, showcasing onceagain that there is a need for challenging par-ties to show their best selves.

However, the fault does not lie with justthe political parties. In this week’s article, I willtalk about the phenomenon of opinion pollsand exit polls. The latter refer to polls that areconducted after voters have cast their ballotand have left the polling stations. An opin-ion poll, on the other hand, is a survey thatis used to predict and/or gauge voter behav-iour and involves talking to people, who mayor may not cast the ballot, before voting takesplace. During the recent Assembly elections,exit polls got the picture completely wrong.Most polls overestimated the Bharatiya JanataParty (BJP) and its allies in the States ofMaharashtra and Haryana. The ABP-C voterpoll predicted 70 seats for the BJP, while theCNN-IPSOS and Times Now polls went onestep further to forecast 75 and 71 seats forthe BJP, respectively.

There is a theory that if a monkey is givenenough darts, he’ll beat the market. This the-ory emanates from a research article that sim-ulated results of 100 monkeys throwing dartsat the stock pages in a newspaper. It was foundthat on an average, the monkeys outper-formed the index by an average of 1.7 per centper year since 1964. Applying the same logicto the recent exit polls may seem harsh butthe fact that a majority of them got the resultswrong does not lend too much credibility tothem.

The question, however, is what impact dothese opinion and exit polls have on a democ-racy if they are left unchecked? At the end ofthe day, any poll is driven by a variety of fac-tors, including the interview set and the tim-ing. Other than these variables, there are alsoother assumptions that primarily comprise ofguesswork and bias (or ideology). Theimpact of these assumptions and biases is mas-sive. This is because poll numbers — whetherin an opinion or exit poll — serve as a kindof democratic currency or a measure of “elec-tability”, as Richard Seymour from TheGuardian put it. In India, there are certain sec-tions of the media whose lack of desire, will-ingness and mettle to question theGovernment in power has been on sharp dis-

play during the last few years. Itis unfortunate that these mediaorganisations are also the oneswho examine and showcase theseopinion and exit polls as a mea-sure of “electability.”

The inevitable consequenceof the biases and assumptionsthat form a part of the poll num-bers is that they tend to favour thepresent Government and rein-force the notion that there is noOpposition in the country. If aperson is watching an opinion orexit poll on television and is madeto believe that it is almost certainthat the BJP will retain power inMaharashtra and in Haryana,there is little, to no incentive, forthat person to cast his vote.Therefore, even if a potentialvoter is largely unhappy with theincumbent Government and isfrustrated with issues of unem-ployment or the lack of power,there is little incentive for him/herto step out of the house if he/shebelieves that his vote will not real-ly count. Such an outcome has anenormous impact on the work-ing of a healthy democracy.

A look at the results of theAssembly elections inMaharashtra and Haryana showsthat in as many as 25 seats in thelatter and in 37 seats in the for-mer, the victory margin was lessthan 5,000 votes. Of these seats,interestingly, at least 10 seats inHaryana and nine seats inMaharashtra saw the margin ofvictory fall below 2,000 votes.Therefore, in a large number ofseats, the margin of victory isoften excruciatingly slim. It is in

such circumstances that onemust look at the opinion/exitpolls that are showcased duringelections. Television news chan-nels spend a large amount of theirtime displaying these opinion andexit polls, each of which havetheir own biases and assump-tions. Rarely is the Indian pop-ulace educated about theseassumptions and biases. Instead,we have hours of TV studioexperts (this writer included) thatexamine and justify exit andopinion polls as if they are God’sholy truth and unimpeachable.

The results in the last roundof Assembly elections reinforcethe notion that this is hardly thecase. The impact of such analy-sis is huge. Just image how thebattle in close to 62 seats inHaryana and Maharashtra wouldhave played out if there wasn’thours of TV news coverage thatrepeated ad nauseum that theGovernment in power will stay.

While there are certainrestrictions that have been put inplace in relation to the exit andopinion polls, they are hardlyenough. Under Section 126A ofthe Representation of the People’sAct, 1951, exit polls are bannedfrom the beginning of the pollsuntil half an hour after the finalphase of voting has been held.While this is one step, there arestill many more to go. For one,before conducting a full-blown analysis on TV on theverdict these polls throw-up,there must be a clear explanationand breakdown of the method-ology of the poll and the assump-

tions that have been made. Opinion polls, too, must be

regulated or made more account-able. This because some biasedopinion polls often claim a no-contest and therefore, nudgevoters into staying home ratherthan suffering in the sun to casttheir votes. Due to our first pastthe post system, even if 5,000people are affected by these polls,the impact on who ultimatelywins is massive.

There were some steps thatwere taken in this regard. Forexample, in November 2013, theElection Commission of India(ECI) consulted with politicalparties to put a restriction onopinion polls as well. All partiesexcept for the BJP endorsed theECI’s suggestion to ban opinionpolls from the date of notifica-tions until the end of polling.Such a step should be welcomeas it can lead to a more free andfair election. The BJP mustexplain why it is not in favour ofa step that can help ensuregreater transparency and lessermanipulation in an election.

We must remember thatsome vested entities know all toowell just how unscientific someof these polls are and have readhow dart throwing monkeysoutperform the market.Sometimes, it seems that some ofthese entities are conductingtheir own experiments with suchpolls and think we are the mon-keys. Let’s prove them wrong.

(The writer is a former IPSofficer, an MP and currently amember of the AAP)

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Sir — The results of the Assemblyelections in Maharashtra andHaryana prove that people are los-ing faith in the BJP. They havebegun to realise their folly in giv-ing a massive mandate to the saf-fron party in the last parliamen-tary elections. The party hasimposed draconian laws that aredetrimental to the democratic, sec-ular values of the country. Thepeople have also seen through itsstrategy of using religious polari-sation and hypernationalism todivert citizens’ attention fromimportant issues such as unem-ployment. It’s clear that theGovernment will not stand for thecommon man but for the rich.

The Congress, on the otherhand, has improved its tally. Butit has a long way to go as far asregaining its political hold isconcerned. It is high time theparty took some bold steps torevamp its structure. The first steptowards this would be to handover the baton of leadership to ayoung and vibrant leader. Allranks should extend their uncon-ditional support to the candidate.

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Sir — This refers to the editori-al, “Unwelcome visit” (October30). Normalcy has not beenrestored in Kashmir even after 87days of the abrogation of Article

370. It’s true that anger, frustra-tion and harassment have wellmanifested among some sectionsof the people in the Valley. It isalso a fact that Kashmiris desireno protest or violent demonstra-tions. However, some newly-recruited youths in the Valley are,

at the instigation and inspirationof Pakistan extremist elements,unleashing unrest and violence.

Recent incidents, where atruck driver and five migratorylabourers from West Bengal weremercilessly executed by the ter-rorists even during curfew and

clamp down clearly manifeststhat after the release of alldetained political leaders, fero-cious violence will break out. Butthe administration should put itto test for return of normalcy.

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Internet adoption has grown manifold in Indiaand at a stunning pace. According to Ericsson,the average domestic smartphone user con-

sumes around 10 gigabytes of data per month,a stark increase from less than a gigabyte fiveyears ago. Consequently, the growth of the dig-ital economy has outpaced that of traditionalindustries, providing consumers access to seam-less communications and diverse content.However, India employs an inconsistent mix ofresponsive and legacy regulations towards suchtechnological developments.

For instance, a prominent divergence is vis-ible in the progressive approach of the TelecomRegulatory Authority of India (TRAI) towardsinterconnection regulations in communicationsmarkets and the regressive approach adopted byexecutive branches of Government towardslicensing of Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs)in content markets. TRAI’s approach encouragedtechnology transition for the telecom industryand facilitated communications for consumers,while the executive branch is delaying technol-ogy transition in content industries and creat-ing barriers for investment in quality content thatconsumers can now access online.

Let’s consider the progressive approachadopted in telecom first. In 2017, TRAI reducedInterconnection Usage Charges (IUC) from 14paisa per minute to six paisa per minute toencourage transition from legacy 2G and 3G net-works to modern 4G networks. Interconnectionlets telcos access each other’s networks and theIUC is a compensatory mechanism to enable this.Older 2G and 3G networks are based on circuitswitching technology, which requires a dedicat-ed connection for the period of communicationbetween two networks.

Costs of interconnection reduce dramatical-ly in modern Internet Protocol (IP) based 4G net-works. IP-based networks rely on packet-switch-ing that allows rerouting of communicationsfrom capacity deficit parts of a network to partswith a surplus. This dynamic optimisationreduces network congestion and improves effi-ciency, reducing costs. A lower IUC dilutes theincentives to run legacy networks and encour-ages transition to the superior technology. Thishas led to greater consumer access, borne out bythe spike in data consumption in the country.

The increased data consumption enabled byIP-based networks has driven demand foronline streaming services. This is best illustrat-ed by the fact that over 90 per cent of music isconsumed digitally today. More than 80 per centof total music record label revenues come fromdigital music and streaming grew by 50 per centin 2018 to reach 150 million listeners, excludingYouTube. This growing preference for online ser-vices over previously available television (TV) andradio broadcasts reflects consumers’ access to awider choice of content, personalisation andinteractivity.

TV and radio broadcasting are over-relianton advertising revenues, which has led to dissem-ination of homogenised and formulaic content.The primary benefit online subscription servicesprovide is access to niche, personalised content,that users are willing to pay for. This is clearlyseen in both the explosive popularity of online

platforms providing streaming ser-vices and the centering of new businessmodels around personalisation. Withtraditional broadcasting, latent demandfor a wide variety of content is seldomrealised, given the incentives for broad-casters to cater to popular preferences.Online platforms employ new technolo-gies to incorporate user feedback andfacilitate better matching of listenersand viewers with content producers,thus changing the shape of the contentmarket.

On the other side of this new andexciting online content market, a seg-ment of smaller players have a knownhistory of struggling to monetise theirniche content. For smaller producerscreating vernacular content, demandmay be in pockets or scattered. Forexample, communities of overseasIndians have demand and willingnessto pay for quality music content in sev-eral regional languages, but the small-er labels that produce this type of con-tent have not found means to reachthese audiences through traditionalchannels. Such labels now have anopportunity via online platforms toreach users in dispersed domestic andglobal markets.

With smaller producers being ableto monetise their content, online plat-forms will be able to take more diversecontent to their consumers to matchindividual tastes. Leveraging the keybenefits of the new technologyimproves both sides of the market.

However, policymakers appearoblivious to the benefits of new tech-nologies and lean towards legacy reg-ulations. Public policy decision-mak-ers are considering imposition oflicencing rules made for TV and radiobroadcasts to online streaming. Section31(D) of India’s copyright law, alsoknown as the provision for statutorylicencing, is meant to provide TV and

radio stations hassle-free acquisition ofmusic for broadcasting. Policymakersare considering extension of this pro-vision to internet streaming, high-lighting a fundamental gap in theirunderstanding of the market barrierstoday and the opportunities that newtechnologies offer.

Copyright law is generally designedto help content owners licence theirworks for public dissemination at mar-ket-determined prices. Voluntarylicencing under the law is a key mech-anism to enable such access while pro-tecting the commercial and moralinterests of content owners. Section31(D) was specifically created as anexception to voluntary licensing, to pro-vide wider access to content throughtraditional broadcasting. This meantthat TV and radio broadcasters couldseek statutory licencing in the event thatvoluntary licencing negotiations withcontent owners failed.

Involuntary or statutory licensingis a legacy framework that was only rel-evant when radio and television indus-tries were developing. Without radiostations being able to source music,consumers did not have access to con-tent. The original objectives of con-sumer access have been met. TRAIreported All India Radio (AIR) as hav-ing 420 radio stations in 2017, cover-ing almost 92 per cent of the countryby area and more than 99.2 per cent ofthe country’s population. India has 369private radio stations on top, includingin smaller cities and towns. In addition,the push by TRAI for adoption of mod-ern network technologies has led to anexponential jump in access to contentrelative to when TV and radio weredominant. Today, when consumeraccess is no longer a problem, extend-ing the provision of statutory licensingto internet streaming is not justified.

Although consumers have wide

access to mainstream content, the painpoint that new technology addresses isconsumers’ access to variety. Fullyleveraging the technology for person-alised content provision will transformthe listening experience for consumers,offering them music that they do noteven know they may enjoy. India’s vastcultural diversity that currently has lim-ited reach can potentially change themusic market in a way that listenerscannot imagine going back to oldways of accessing content.

Involuntary or statutory licensingwill only prove to be a backdoor forglobal music streaming giants to accessvast vernacular music libraries ofIndian music labels for a pittance. Byextending 31(D) to online streamingplatforms, policymakers will inadver-tently keep the local industry fromusing exclusivity as a negotiating chipfor earning greater value in a marketwhere content supply is not a challenge.This move would limit the futureinvestments of smaller producers whohave already suffered under the previ-ous regime where mainstream contentdominated. It will reduce the impact ofnew technologies on improving theexperience of listeners.

At a time when India is strugglingto stimulate economic activity, it isimportant to adopt a principles-basedapproach to governing technology thathas the potential to generate growth.TRAI led the way in telecom markets,leveraging technological innovation.Decision-makers must learn from eachother and actively desist from path-dependence and legacy regulations,especially in rapidly evolving digitalmarkets.

(Patnaik is an Esya Centre Fellowand Assistant Professor at the IndianStatistical Institute and Sharan is anAdvisor to the Esya Centre and Partnerat Koan Advisory.)

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Data analysis suggests thathistorically an inverted yieldcurve has been a precursor to

an economic slowdown. So, thereare fears that the economy mightenter into a recession in the next fewquarters.

We have to look at the possibil-ity of a massive crisis in the worldeconomy in the backdrop ofunprecedented technological dis-ruptions worldwide, global tradewars and the shift away from fossilfuels.

But first, let’s look at what aninverted yield curve is and why is itso important?

Bonds or Debt instruments that

are listed on the stock exchanges gettraded by buyers and sellers. At anypoint in time, a bond would carrya yield or a likely rate of interest orreturn that an investor is likely togenerate if the bond is held tillmaturity.

However, the yield keeps chang-ing based on the prevalent interestrate scenario, prospects for econom-ic growth, tenure of the debt, cred-it ratings and inflation.

A yield curve is a plot or graph-ical representation of the yields ofbonds growing across maturities —say from three months to 30 years.All l isted bonds issued byGovernments across the world, cor-porates and financial institutionscarry certain yields.

Usually, bonds with a longertenure carry higher interest rates ascompared to ones that are issued forshorter time frames. The idea is thatthe later the redemption or gratifi-cation of the bond, the highershould be the interest offered to theinvestor.

In many western countries and

even some major Asian nations, theyields on long-term bonds are lowerthan those for shorter tenure debtinstruments. Therefore, the yieldscurve now would be ‘inverted’.

So why is the yield curve invert-ing?

Much of the blame has been puton the US-China trade war. Whenit started over two years ago, therewas hope it would get resolved asboth sides kept the talks going. Buta deal hasn’t come through even asUS President Donald Trump has putoff the latest round of tariffs onChinese imports (video games,smart phones, laptops, toys) toDecember 15.

The delay affects about half ofthe $300 billion target list of Chinesegoods. However, tariffs on tools,apparel and some footwear tookeffect on September 1. Trumpapparently backed off his September1 deadline for ten per cent tariffs onremaining Chinese imports, in thehopes of blunting their impact onUS holiday sales.

But the trade tiff between the

two largest economies of the worldis creating uncertainty and investorsare rushing to buy US bonds, large-ly considered a safe haven.

However, the problems beset-ting the Indian economy are differ-ent. Its financial sector is grapplingwith trillions of rupees in bad debtand resolution of most cases is stillslow. Fear of probe agencies overfresh bad debts and a liquiditycrunch are hampering lending bybanks. Even as the world talksabout negative interest rates, Indiacontinues to see high interest ratesand the country is still the second-fastest growing large economy of theworld.

So the question arises, whynegative yields and interest rates?

Investors are willing to buybonds at any price to protect them-selves against sell-offs in other riskyassets in case the fear of a recessionmaterialises. The rise in bond pricespushes yields downward. Holdingcash can be an alternative. But thattoo may not work, as in the case ofmany western countries.

Indian bonds remained volatileover the past year or two on uncer-tainties over the maiden offshoresovereign bonds issuance. India’sbenchmark ten-year bond yield fellbelow 6.40 per cent (in the previousyear it was 6.48 per cent) afterFinance Minister NirmalaSitharaman assured that the offshorebond issuance plan was on track.The Reserve Bank of India (RBI)board met in mid-August to discussthe issuance plan.

Foreign Portfolio Investors(FPIs) shifted from equities to debtin August-September as FPIs turnednet sellers in equities for the firsttime since January. Tax proposalsoutlined in the Budget, includinghigher tax incidence on FPIs andhigh-net-worth individuals(HNWIs), in addition to levy onbuybacks, dampened and punc-tured some of the optimism in theequity markets.

Global cues are under watcheven as the US Federal Reserve onOctober 30th approved the expect-ed 25-basis point (BPS) interest rate

cut, though it indicated that themoves to ease policy could be near-ing a pause. Meanwhile, cash con-ditions are in surplus of �1 trillionand are likely to stay so ahead of theadvance tax payments.

The inversion in the bond yieldis an indication that recession iscoming. But somewhere we need tobe cognisant of the fact that com-modity prices have remained low fora long time and if global liquiditymoves into soft commodities, whichhave been slightly benign, all theassumptions of Indian recessionwill go. The Central Government istrying its best to tackle the econom-ic slowdown. They have come upwith a stimulus package for thebeleaguered automobile sector, theyhave announced mergers of banks,corporate tax cuts and so on but willthis much save the Indian economyfrom a recession or will the slow-down continue further? The answerlies in the future and all we can dois wait and watch.

(The writer is an author andGST and economics specialist)

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The BSE Sensex galloped toits fresh lifetime high in

intra-day trade on Thursdaybefore closing a tad lower asinvestors kept the faith in ITand banking stocks amid firmglobal cues.

After scaling a new peak of40,392.22, the 30-share indexpared some gains to settle at40,129.05, up by 77.18 points,or 0.19 per cent.

The broader NSE Niftytoo advanced 33.35 points, or0.28 per cent, to close at11,877.45.

Both the key indices main-tained their winning run forthe fifth session on the trot.

Robust quarterly earnings,strong foreign fund inflowsand expectations of steps by thegovernment to shore up growthbuoyed market sentiment,traders said.

The US Federal Reserve’sdecision to cut its benchmarkinterest rate for the thirdstraight time added to themomentum. However, theindices turned volatile in thelast hour of the session asOctober futures and optionscontracts expired, they added.

SBI, Infosys, Tata Motors,Bharti Airtel, HCL Tech andHDFC too rallied up to 7.69per cent. On the other hand,Tech Mahindra, Axis Bank,Tata Steel, M&M and ICICIBank fell up to 2.09 per cent.

World stocks surged to 20-month highs after the US Fedslashed interest rates, even as itdimmed hopes of another ratecut in December.

“Market is slowly marchingtowards the all-time high sup-ported by quarter earningsand government’s measures toattract equity investments.Additionally, strong economicfactors like favourable inflation,interest rate and benign oilprices will support the marketsentiment in the long term.

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with increasing FIIs inflow isindicating a change in FIIs’ neg-ative stance towards emergingmarkets,” said Vinod Nair,Head of Research, GeojitFinancial Services

Sectorally, BSE teck, tele-com, IT, realty and healthcareindices rose up to 1.97 per cent,while metal, energy and capi-tal goods fell up to 0.51 percent. Broader BSE midcap andsmallcap indices ended up to1.14 per cent higher.

Foreign institutionalinvestors pumped in a net�7,192.42 crore into the capi-tal market on Wednesday,while domestic institutionalinvestors sold shares worth�185.87 crore, data availablewith stock exchange showed.

Elsewhere in Asia, bours-es in Hong Kong, Seoul andTokyo ended on a positivenote amid, while Shanghaiclosed in the red.

Exchanges in Europe weretrading on a negative note intheir respective early deals.

Meanwhile, the Indianrupee depreciated 12 paise to71.02 against the US dollarintra-day.

Brent crude futures, theglobal oil benchmark, slipped0.13 per cent to USD 60.16 perbarrel.

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New Delhi: The Government is not considering any gold amnestyscheme as part of efforts to unearth unaccounted wealth stashedin the form of yellow metal, official sources said on Thursday.The clarification comes amidst media report indicating theGovernment move to launch amnesty scheme that will allow indi-viduals and entities to declare their unaccounted gold holdingwithout risk of being prosecuted.

There is no such gold amnesty scheme under considerationof Income Tax Department as being reported in media, thesources said. As the budget process is on, typically these type ofspeculative reports do appear ahead of budget process, they said.Reports indicated that scheme would try to overcome limitedsuccess of an earlier amnesty scheme Pradhan Mantri GaribKalyan Yojana post-the demonetisation exercise. PTI

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Shares of Yes Bank onThursday rallied over 24

per cent after the lender said ithas received a binding offer forUSD 1.2 billion (about �8,500crore) funding from an over-seas investor.

Shares of the private sectorlender closed at �70.45 apiece,up 24.03 per cent. Intra-day, the

shares zoomed 34.94 per centto �76.65 apiece on the BSE.

On the National StockExchange (NSE), the scrip set-tled 23.77 per cent up at �70.30.During the day, the stocksoared 38.55 per cent to �78.70.“Yes Bank is badly in need ofcapital for growth. Absence ofpositive news on this front ledto bear hammering in the stocktaking the stock below �30. It

is natural that investors arefinding it attractive to invest inthe stock for a stake. Furtherdevelopments will depend onwho the investor is and the reg-ulatory approvals,” VKVijaykumar, chief investmentstrategist, Geojit FinancialServices, said.

The bank’s market capital-isation increased by over �3,500cr to �17,967.09 crore.

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Output of eight core infra-structure industries con-

tracted by 5.2 per cent inSeptember, the lowest in thedecade, indicating the severityof economic slowdown. Asmany as seven of eight coreindustries saw a contraction inoutput in September. Coal pro-duction fell steeply by 20.5per cent, crude oil by 5.4 percent, and natural gas by 4.9 percent. Refinery products (-6.7per cent), cement (- 2.1 percent), steel (-0.3 per cent), andelectricity (-3.7 per cent) out-put too declined.

The only infrastructuresegment to post growth inSeptember was fertilizers whereproduction increased by 5.4 percent year-on-year. The eightcore sectors had expanded by4.3 per cent in September 2018,according to official datareleased on Thursday.

During the April-September period, the growthof core industries fell to 1.3 percent against 5.5 per cent in theyear-ago period. Commentingon the data, India Ratings andResearch, said that such lowgrowth in core sector industrieshas not been witnessed so farin either 2011-12 base or 2004-05 base series.

“This clearly indicates theseverity of the ongoing indus-trial slowdown,” it said addingeven on a cumulative basis, theperformance is “dismal”.

ICRA expects the Index of

Industrial Production (IIP) toreport a contraction of 2.5-3.5per cent in September. “In par-ticular, the YoY decline in theoutput of coal, crude oil andnatural gas, is likely to weighupon the performance of themining index of the IIP inSeptember. Moreover, manu-facturing may report a YoY con-traction in September,” it added.

Earlier this month, the RBIrevised downwards its GDPgrowth forecast for the currentfiscal to 6.1 per cent from theprevious estimate of 6.9 percent after the first-quarter eco-nomic growth slipped to oversix-year low of 5 per cent.

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As Prime Minister NarendraModi is set to visit Bangkok

for the ASEAN summit fromNovember 2-4, Indian negotia-tors are discussing critical aspectsof the RCEP mega trade deal toensure it is “fair and transparent”,before committing to sign it.

Vijay Thakur Singh,Secretary (East), Ministry ofExternal Affairs, said: “Indiawill wait for the outcome of thenegotiations on the RegionalComprehensive EconomicPartnership. Some critical issuesare outstanding.” “We will onlyparticipate in a fair and trans-parent trading environment,”she said at a media briefing here.

Indian officials have con-cluded negotiations on most ofthe 25 chapters, and the restwould be concluded beforeNovember 4, when PrimeMinister Modi will join leadersof the 10-member Associationof Southeast Asian Nationsbloc and five other countriesfor the summit.

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Maruti Suzuki India’s pop-ular hatchback WagonR

and rival Hyundai’s Santroreceived only two stars whileDatsun RediGo got only onestar in crash tests conducted aspart of the safer cars for India initiative, accord-ing to vehicle safety groupGlobal NCAP.

Car market leader MarutiSuzuki India’s (MSI) multi-purpose vehicle Ertiga, how-ever, scored three stars in thetest. In the sixth round of#SaferCarsForIndia crash test,Global NCAP said it choseentry-level versions of Ertiga,

WagonR, Santro and theRedigo and as a result only theErtiga was fitted with at leasttwo airbags as standard whilethe other models offered onlya driver airbag.

“The results highlight sig-nificant differences in adultoccupant protection in cars thatmeet the latest Indian govern-ment vehicle technical regula-tions,” Global NCAP said.Commenting on the findings,Global NCAP CEO andPresident David Ward said, “Thelatest results in our#SaferCarsforIndia crash testsshow a mixed safety perfor-mance, and disappointingly,there are no five star performers.”

New Delhi: Co-working firmSmartworks on Thursdayannounced raising of USD 25million (about �175 crore)from Singapore’s Keppel LandLtd to fund its expansion planof more than doubling theseating capacity to one lakh.

Founded in April 2016,Smartworks Coworking SpacesPvt Ltd currently has 23 co-working centres, comprising

about 43,000 seats spread over2.3 million sq ft area, acrossnine cities.

“We have raised USD 25million from Keppel Land. Thisis our first round of externalfunding. We wanted to have astrategic partner or growth.The fund will be utilised forexpansion,” Smartworksfounder Neetish Sarda toldreporters here. PTI

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Indian banks are at risk of los-ing over USD 9 billion in rev-

enues over the next six yearsbecause of the changes in thepayments landscape, a consul-tancy firm said on Thursday.

Payments will become“more instant, invisible andfree” in the next few years,which will put the revenues ofthe lenders at risk, despite anevident growth in the seg-ment, the survey said.

It can be noted that the lastfew years have seen a massivesurge in digital payments,which will be giving a conve-nient alternative to users haspresented banks with an attrac-tive revenue stream.

In its study, Accenture saidpayments revenues will growby 10.7 per cent every year overthe next six years to USD 70billion by 2025. However,banks may not be able to gar-ner all the goods for them-selves, as the non-bank playersbecome more active in thesegment, it warned.

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Putting in place a stricter framework, Sebi on Thursday direct-ed all listed banks to disclose any divergence in bad loan pro-

visioning within 24 hours of receiving RBI’s risk assessment report,rather than waiting to publish the details in their annual finan-cial statements. In recent months, there have been severalinstances of under-reporting of bad loans by lenders, prompt-ing regulatory action by the RBI. Sebi’s latest decision has beentake in consultation with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).

In a circular, Sebi noted that disclosures in respect of diver-gence and provisioning are in the nature of material events andhence necessitate immediate disclosure. Further, this informationis also price sensitive, requiring prompt disclosure by a listed enti-ty. Accordingly, the regulator has decided that “listed banks shallmake disclosures of divergences and provisioning beyond speci-fied threshold, as mentioned in aforesaid RBI notifications, as soonas reasonably possible and not later than 24 hours upon receiptof the Reserve Bank’s Final Risk Assessment Report (RAR), ratherthan waiting to publish them as part of annual financial statements”.

The disclosures need to be made in case the banks' additionalprovisioning for non-performing assets (NPAs) assessed by theRBI exceeds 10 per cent of the reported profit before provisionsand contingencies, and if the additional gross NPAs identifiedby the RBI exceed 15 per cent of the published incremental grossNPAs.

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New Delhi (PTI): Bajaj Auto and TVSMotor Co on Thursday said they have set-tled a decade-old dispute related to a patentinfringement case with the two companieswithdrawing several pending proceedingsfrom various courts and fora.

In separate regulatory filings, the twocompanies said they have entered into asettlement agreement on Thursday to ami-cably settle the decade-old dispute relat-

ed to alleged infringement of Bajaj’spatent for digital twin spark plug ignitiontechnology. The settlement also includesdefamation suit against Bajaj Auto filed byTVS Motor and other related proceedingsfiled against each other, which werepending before the Madras High Court,Bombay High Court, the IntellectualProperty Appellate Board, Chennai, andcourts in Sri Lanka and Mexico, the state-

ments added. “Both, TVS Motor and BajajAuto have mutually agreed to withdrawthe pending proceedings and releaseeach other from all liabilities, claims,demands and actions in respect of thepending proceedings,” they said.

As part of the settlement, none ofthem are required to pay any compensa-tion or penalty to the other as part of thesaid settlement, they added.

In September 2007, Bajaj Auto hadaccused TVS Motor of infringing its patenton DTS-i (acronym for digital twin sparkplug ignition) when the later launched itsmotorcycle model Flame 125cc that hadcontrolled combustion variable timingintelligent (CC-VTi) technology.

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Script Open High Low LTPYESBANK 56.2 76.65 54.9 70.45ICICIBANK 474.5 476.95 461.3 462.85SBIN 293.4 318 292.6 312.25INFY 669 695.25 666.45 685.5TATAMOTORS 170.85 179.5 169.05 177.7RBLBANK 289.95 325 281.5 310.1IBULHSGFIN 215.8 219.95 204.25 206.6MOTILALOFS 614.6 667 614.45 619.05TATASTEEL 388.6 390.25 376.3 380.5ZEEL 235.35 263.9 234.95 260.8RELIANCE 1482.25 1489.5 1461 1464.2TATAGLOBAL 292.05 319.75 285 317.3INDUSINDBK 1307 1343.95 1290 1311.5FEDERALBNK 82.9 85.25 81.95 83.75MARUTI 7699 7699 7512.95 7557.5TCS 2250 2285.5 2238 2270.2HINDPETRO 320 327.8 320 325.15BANKBARODA 96.1 99 95.7 97.2BAJAJFINSV 8082.55 8238.9 8082.55 8137.1IDEA 3.81 3.97 3.31 3.89PRESTIGE 297.45 304.8 295.7 302.2HDFCBANK 1255 1263.9 1227.65 1229.95HDFCLIFE 636.9 646.4 622.15 625.9INFRATEL 184 193.1 177.65 189.8AXISBANK 747.25 750.05 732 736PEL 1707.8 1727.6 1652.55 1684.6RNAM 360 372.95 357 362.3POWERGRID 200.95 200.95 197.9 198.25JINDALSTEL 117.05 119.25 113.95 116.15INDIGO 1524.95 1538.75 1450 1456.45ADANIENT 197.5 201.15 196 199.25BPCL 526.5 530.8 520.9 527HDFC 2110 2146 2104.25 2134.1BAJFINANCE 4000 4049.9 3998 4024.9DLF 185.8 190.55 182.05 183.5BHARTIARTL 367.4 376.8 364 374.4PNB 64.6 66.85 64.05 65.4SUNPHARMA 430 440 429.45 433.6ITC 260 262.75 256.4 257.55BHEL 58 58 56.3 56.55KOTAKBANK 1579 1605.55 1566 1573.15VEDL 152 152 147.1 148.3EICHERMOT 22501.1 22666 22303.75 22545.4HINDUNILVR 2170 2187 2159.05 2176.75LT 1482.25 1486.6 1467.75 1473.4ASHOKLEY 78.5 79.15 76.3 76.7KANSAINER 550.2 560.45 547.75 554.65MOTHERSUMI 123 126.75 121.5 122.9JKTYRE 78.8 80 74 75.6IDFCFIRSTB 43 45 42.75 44.65LTI 1694.1 1728.9 1686 1717.4TATAMTRDVR 79.5 82.55 78.8 81.75CANBK 200.2 209.05 200.15 203.65ULTRACEMCO 4188 4188 4091.6 4144.4TVSMOTOR 502 503 478.25 484.4BATAINDIA 1785.5 1815 1779.1 1806.75L&TFH 94.6 98.45 94.2 95.65GRASIM 737.2 774.15 736.35 769.2SFL 1278 1279 1210 1238BERGEPAINT 498.2 533.75 498 526.65JSWSTEEL 235 236.5 227 227.85SAIL 37.35 38.35 36.1 36.65PNBHOUSING 519.45 544.4 515.15 535.6QUESS 476.8 554.7 476.8 519.1IOC 147.9 148.65 144 146.8DMART 1977 2010.8 1977 1994.25TECHM 756 758.8 737 738.85GAIL 134.8 139.6 132.7 137.4M&M 617 621 604 606.1CONCOR 585 608 582.45 589.2ADANIPORTS 399 399 393.7 395.55SRF 2803.4 2919 2760 2897.3APOLLOHOSP 1495 1499.9 1464.8 1484.85PAGEIND 24500 26174 24242.25 25814.05NTPC 121.4 124.2 120.85 122.4FORTIS 139.6 148.4 138.3 146.65ESCORTS 660.1 667.45 650.05 659.65BANKINDIA 71.9 72.65 70.9 71.3HCLTECH 1149.9 1169.5 1138.2 1163.35PIDILITIND 1374.9 1413.9 1371.9 1401.7WOCKPHARMA 277.6 295.8 276.9 287LICHSGFIN 404.95 415.5 404.95 412.45BEML 1054 1063.45 1027.2 1035.2NCC 58.8 59.3 57.3 57.8BANDHANBNK 615.2 626.25 602.75 612.7AUROPHARMA 464 475.8 463.65 469.75TITAN 1323 1336.2 1320.45 1332.35HDFCAMC 3000 3021.85 2971 2994.9ONGC 142.55 142.55 139.75 141.55CUMMINSIND 555.75 557.8 539.85 547.93MINDIA 22408.2 22900 22027.65 22527.85BAJAJ-AUTO 3229 3255 3213.6 3246.75HINDALCO 188 190.75 186.7 188.05PFIZER 3908.8 4134 3856.95 4053.15ICICIPRULI 515.3 516.7 505.05 510.2SPICEJET 114.25 116 113.4 115.15DISHTV 10.85 12.9 10.7 12.5TATACHEM 614.3 632 609 627.25MARICO 372 373.75 364.8 366.05SBILIFE 1000.1 1014 987.3 990.7GRAPHITE 283.1 289.6 281.85 284.45APOLLOTYRE 190 194.4 189.15 190.3NAUKRI 2452.8 2597.8 2406.6 2570.8BIOCON 248.9 249.9 244.8 246.35GNFC 206.65 223.6 205.85 216.75MANAPPURAM 164.5 170.75 163.75 169.7PIIND 1410.7 1441.45 1400.2 1432.25GICRE 301 333.85 301 310.95JUBLFOOD 1565 1605 1565 1600.95

JUSTDIAL 599.1 605.95 586.1 588.85HUDCO 38.6 43.5 38.5 41.1MCX 1160 1177 1132.1 1137.7MRF 65200 66300 65200 65697.5EXIDEIND 184.95 195.8 182.85 193.05RAMCOCEM 798.9 798.9 780 784.25ASIANPAINT 1825.3 1833.65 1804.25 1810.75HEROMOTOCO 2707.85 2715.9 2688.4 2705.25NBCC 38.2 38.95 37.2 37.5WIPRO 255 259.95 254.1 259.2NATIONALUM 44 45.65 43.85 45.45PFC 108.85 110.2 106.8 109.1ABCAPITAL 80.2 82.7 79.8 81.85BOMDYEING 81.75 84 80.3 81.35UNIONBANK 57.5 58.4 56.5 57.35PCJEWELLER 32.5 32.9 32 32.2NIITTECH 1577.55 1591.4 1543.5 1548.6DCBBANK 179 184.5 176.25 180.25NESTLEIND 15035 15150 14798.1 14961.4TATAELXSI 826 831 816.2 818.9ADANIPOWER 66.2 67.75 65.6 66.1MGL 1010 1029.9 1006 1019.3SPARC 139.9 144.8 138.4 139.5CEATLTD 981 1018.35 978.15 1008.5SCI 61.85 62.5 57.15 57.75UPL 584.2 598.95 579.05 596.6IEX 143.4 145.95 142 145BRITANNIA 3299 3342.95 3256.4 3266.4EQUITAS 94.1 95.2 90.85 93.4STAR 395.95 395.95 377.25 385.5ACC 1535 1573.7 1535 1568.8NIACL 170.8 179.05 165.05 168.05BEL 119.35 120.4 117.7 118.15RAJESHEXPO 682 682 674.5 678THOMASCOOK 119.4 135.9 115.3 130.9GUJGAS 198.45 206.95 193 195.5GLAXO 1602.6 1699.95 1602.6 1662.75RECLTD 138.8 140.3 137.7 139.8HEG 1014 1023.4 988.2 992.35BALKRISIND 879.55 893 869.05 884.85DELTACORP 206.5 211.95 205.45 209.2VGUARD 250 259.7 245.25 249.1SYNDIBANK 29.8 32.2 28.45 30.2DRREDDY 2770 2814 2770 2782.85MUTHOOTFIN 710 718.3 699.6 707.4COALINDIA 206.95 208.8 206 207.8HAVELLS 692.9 698.65 686.05 692AVANTI 454.7 466.65 450 453.15

GLENMARK 310 318.9 309.05 315.6JUBILANT 536 561 533.8 555.1UJJIVAN 280 281.1 272 272.85TATAPOWER 58.8 59.7 58.4 59.3LAKSHVILAS 15.45 15.45 14.6 15.45PETRONET 287.7 289.7 285.5 286.7CIPLA 466.85 471.5 460.55 467.15RITES 285.65 294.65 281.35 282.45NMDC 113.4 114.4 110.25 112.65IBVENTURES 97 101 96.95 101LUPIN 729.35 748 729.35 745.65M&MFIN 361.4 362.45 351.55 352.85ABB 1458.9 1498 1448.8 1457.65CADILAHC 251 261.55 249.75 251.3POLYCAB 875 885.55 844.1 856TORNTPOWER 279.45 282 278.4 280.05VOLTAS 717.55 720 705.55 708.3NOCIL 119.35 123.9 119.35 121.45BHARATFORG 456 465 451.05 453.85GMRINFRA 20.85 21.4 20.65 20.75INDIANB 130 134.55 129.55 132.85COLPAL 1537 1559.5 1534 1548.4JAICORPLTD 92.05 92.75 89.25 90.05IGL 385 393 385 391.45HEXAWARE 335 335 324 333STRTECH 134.5 134.5 130.1 130.8EDELWEISS 93.9 94.85 88.1 92.55BAJAJCON 246.2 255 246.2 250.95PVR 1806 1823 1772.15 1778.4

EIDPARRY 171.5 174.5 168.9 171.15GODREJPROP 1003.6 1024.6 990.9 997.1RELINFRA 35.25 35.25 33.65 35.25LAXMIMACH 3910 3910 3481.25 3567.95GODREJCP 737 743.75 729.6 740.75BOSCHLTD 15690.95 15767.95 15136 15283.6BALRAMCHIN 157.7 163.5 156.7 162.9IBREALEST 54.5 55.45 52.9 55SIEMENS 1652.15 1677 1649.95 1658.7UBL 1266.1 1286.2 1260 1273.55SUNTECK 418.05 426.15 411.25 414.75SRTRANSFIN 1166.15 1167.5 1128.95 1139.3ENGINERSIN 117.8 121.7 117.6 119.5ICICIGI 1367 1378 1331 1342.25SOUTHBANK 10.6 11.35 10.6 11.16NAVINFLUOR 891.15 920 880.65 896.2VENKYS 1780.1 1795 1737 1746.8FORCEMOT 1100.05 1132.7 1091.95 1099.3PHILIPCARB 126.6 129.4 124.5 126.25DABUR 462.1 464.6 458.4 462.5DBL 431 447.4 427.95 432.25ITI 96.15 96.2 91.5 92.1AMARAJABAT 678.35 689.3 675.1 682.75ITDC 370.8 384.9 365 373.15INFIBEAM 45.8 48.4 44.9 46.05ASTRAZEN 2712 2805.1 2689.55 2714.3BBTC 1205.3 1222 1185.35 1190.2CHAMBLFERT 161.85 171.4 161.35 170.3CENTRALBK 21.7 23.9 21 22.7ADANITRANS 265.55 277.85 265.55 273.7PTC 60 60.6 59.4 59.65KTKBANK 76.05 80.6 76.05 78.1HINDZINC 214.95 216 212 212.5RCF 56.95 57.8 55.3 55.75OMAXE 187.85 187.85 183 183.55CASTROLIND 154.05 155 145 152.15AMBUJACEM 203.85 203.85 199.35 202.25DIVISLAB 1740 1759.65 1740 1756.2INDIACEM 84.1 85.55 83.2 83.9ABBOTINDIA 11964.15 12025 11600 11701.7TIMKEN 844.95 899.2 842 892.85INTELLECT 192.6 196.5 190 190.75ADANIGAS 148 149.15 147 147.2HFCL 17.5 18.2 17.5 17.75ADANIGREEN 90.2 91.65 88.75 89.65OBEROIRLTY 505 512.3 489.8 506.4INOXLEISUR 364.05 379.8 362.3 364.8AJANTPHARM 1025 1055.75 1025 1051.4SANOFI 6625 6950 6619.8 6748.45SUNTV 519.2 529 519.2 527.35JINDALSAW 88.8 91.2 88.2 88.65GRANULES 129 130.2 124.35 125.1ORIENTBANK 53.4 57.2 53.1 54.6DEEPAKFERT 104.9 110.7 103.75 106.35GSFC 77.9 82.45 77.9 80.2GODFRYPHLP 1111.5 1124 1076 1089.4RAIN 98.15 101.4 97.35 97.95RPOWER 3.39 3.48 3.25 3.34COCHINSHIP 402.15 408 388 388.95TATACOFFEE 84.5 86.9 83.5 85.35FCONSUMER 24.75 26.75 24.25 26.5CHOLAFIN 310 311.2 303.9 305IRCON 436 449 425.6 429.3MINDTREE 711.4 721.55 708.3 712.55MFSL 413.15 413.75 403.1 406.6SWANENERGY 106 106.1 103.5 104.1HINDCOPPER 42.75 43.55 41.2 41.4SHREECEM 20269.95 20269.95 19825 19964.05CANFINHOME 397.5 406.6 391.5 395.5IRB 80.05 83.2 78.05 79.15RVNL 24 24.1 23.7 23.75ALBK 27.5 29.4 26.3 26.85UNITEDBNK 9.83 10.36 9.8 10.04IDBI 33.3 33.8 32.95 33.2GEPIL 744.45 764.4 740.7 749.8LALPATHLAB 1590 1595.8 1533 1539.05SONATSOFTW 328 328 309.55 312.85GILLETTE 8090 8145 8000 8046.15SUDARSCHEM 410.35 420.9 408.55 409.3ADVENZYMES 186.9 191.95 181.3 186.1MRPL 52.3 55.45 51.4 54.7IPCALAB 975 993.65 966.85 980.65IDFC 34.15 35.35 33.9 35.05FSL 49.3 49.65 48.7 49.1PGHL 4763 4800 4651.1 4669.75TIINDIA 372.95 408.35 370.6 401.65DEEPAKNI 342.45 347 336 341.25ABFRL 212 214.7 208.4 212.6OIL 170.75 172.9 169 171.85VIPIND 479 485.7 470.1 472.25BALMLAWRIE 203 204.7 197.15 197.65HEIDELBERG 186 188.2 183.8 187.35MPHASIS 938.2 956.6 935 951.05LTTS 1508 1510 1488.75 1504.25RAYMOND 582.65 587.2 577 581RCOM 0.68 0.7 0.65 0.65TRENT 538.1 552.9 538.1 541.8TATAMETALI 579.15 622 568.4 615.65ISEC 325.15 329.15 319.6 323.45GPPL 83.4 87.9 83.1 86.15WHIRLPOOL 2173.45 2225 2115 2202.25TORNTPHARM 1777 1797.6 1763 1775AUBANK 688 710 683.7 699.25INDHOTEL 151 153 149.4 152.2JAMNAAUTO 47.25 47.5 45 45.25GODREJIND 414 422 412.8 416.25HSCL 76.5 77.1 74.85 75.3KEC 278 278 267.8 270.8CAPPL 400 432.45 400 430.25RELCAPITAL 18.95 19.3 18.9 19.3

SUVEN 284.5 292.95 281.05 282.8GHCL 219 220.25 215.05 216.25CROMPTON 248.85 255 242.2 246.4ANDHRABANK 17.4 19.35 17.4 17.85GICHSGFIN 179.65 181.35 177 177.55J&KBANK 33.75 34.8 33.1 33.35OFSS 3147.95 3177.95 3100 3153.9FINEORG 1932 1957 1890 1902.55ATUL 4270 4305.1 4252.2 4291.5IFBIND 740.1 798.15 738.25 778.15WELSPUNIND 55.7 56.7 54.5 55.5KAJARIACER 552.05 560.25 549 558.75COFFEEDAY 30.75 30.75 30.75 30.75AKZOINDIA 2127.95 2152 2105 2117.8MINDACORP 101 101.7 98.35 99.55PGHH 12503 12521.45 12150 12230.2DCMSHRIRAM 376 378 366.6 367.8SUZLON 2.67 2.73 2.64 2.68TIMETECHNO 62.7 65.75 62.3 62.95WELCORP 149 151.9 147.3 148RADICO 312.1 320.25 311.75 316.35PERSISTENT 601.2 634.5 601.2 619.9CREDITACC 673 675.8 626 637.85MEGH 53.25 53.9 52 52.25JSWENERGY 68.05 69.75 68 68.05THYROCARE 553.35 570.4 553.15 569.1AEGISLOG 173.6 174.9 169.2 171.85TV18BRDCST 25.25 25.25 24.55 24.65EVEREADY 57.35 57.35 52.6 56.8NHPC 23.55 23.95 23.45 23.5GALAXYSURF 1490 1565.1 1489.05 1546JPASSOCIAT 2.46 2.56 2.18 2.2UFLEX 208.25 216.25 206 208.55TATAINVEST 840 857.1 834.75 840.15SJVN 24.9 25 24.35 24.5ASTRAL 1163 1163 1112.4 1118.75KEI 595 601.35 585.55 590.8RALLIS 165.15 172.2 164.9 167.85COROMANDEL 474.05 476.35 470 475.3GSPL 204.45 210 202 209.15GSKCONS 9199 9262 9156.4 9215.5EMAMILTD 326.6 331 324 327MOIL 142.6 142.6 137.8 139.1SOBHA 434.75 436 422.7 423.6MMTC 18.75 19.55 18.75 19.1ALKEM 1979.3 2018.8 1962.6 1989.85SCHAEFFLER 4200 4350 4198 4335.15MINDAIND 362.85 369.8 360 368.5ORIENTELEC 198.05 198.95 190.1 196.6MAHABANK 11.58 12.07 11.2 11.85CUB 208.2 212.9 207.5 211.75IFCI 7.26 7.45 7.1 7.27HERITGFOOD 295 300.2 289.9 299.45PHOENIXLTD 717 737 706 721.15AAVAS 1591.05 1600.9 1577.8 1589.45NLCINDIA 60 62 57.9 58.5VSTIND 3829.9 3890 3749.1 3865.7SUPREMEIND 1169.95 1175 1148.75 1164.95LEMONTREE 62.4 62.4 60.45 61.3VINATIORGA 2197.35 2199.15 2150.8 2167.8IOB 10.44 10.8 10.35 10.78APLAPOLLO 1485.9 1518.4 1440.1 1457.85ENDURANCE 1098 1098 1035.05 1090.2UCOBANK 13.2 13.9 13.1 13.61WESTLIFE 349.15 358 343.25 353.9CYIENT 400 408.2 399.1 406.9ZENSARTECH 186.3 187.15 176.5 180.35ASTERDM 136 139.4 126.4 134.5TRIDENT 61.95 62.5 61.5 61.7BAYERCROP 3380 3629.8 3311 3589.7SCHNEIDER 75.5 77.45 75.5 76.65NILKAMAL 1275 1294 1251.25 1259.6GESHIP* 298.85 301 292 300.3APLLTD 549 560 547.95 549.3HONAUT 28050 28460.3 27901 28037.85ASHOKA 103.3 105.1 102.2 102.7NATCOPHARM 594 595.8 585.5 588.75BASF 1007 1021 1002.6 1005.35JISLJALEQS 15.1 15.1 15 15.1BDL 338 338 325.55 328.7JMFINANCIL 75.1 79.1 73.25 77.95ZYDUSWELL 1735.1 1735.85 1692.7 1705.6DCAL 115 121.25 115 119.7HIMATSEIDE 157.35 157.35 153.25 154.05FRETAIL 385.25 387.7 379 380.3BAJAJHLDNG 3700 3713.7 3650.8 3666.15CRISIL 1405.55 1470 1405.55 1459.05CHENNPETRO 155.9 159.8 155.9 158.25RELAXO 541.65 552 538.95 545.95GREAVESCOT 139.7 140.5 138.95 140.1JCHAC 2090 2175 2011.25 2116.4MAHSCOOTER 4573.2 4611.7 4562.1 4595.5ALLCARGO 99.5 105 99.5 104.05NESCO 563.75 563.75 553.2 555PARAGMILK 143 144.7 141.4 143.15GODREJAGRO 517.25 518.6 510 511.65MAHINDCIE 154.1 154.5 149.15 150.55SHANKARA 332.15 343.2 328 343.2GUJALKALI 460 480 455.25 466.15BLUESTARCO 846.45 850 840 841.05HAL 796.6 796.6 760 764.05WABAG 200.65 202.1 196.15 196.95BAJAJELEC 380.1 381.2 378 378.65CERA 2618 2718.95 2607.65 2693.45KALPATPOWR 426 435.2 425.7 431.05JBCHEPHARM 334.5 345 334.5 340DALBHARAT 811.2 815.55 806.5 809.05NBVENTURES 74.7 75.5 73.5 74.1METROPOLIS 1441 1455 1435.75 1449.5DHANUKA 292.5 305 292 303.35

VBL 618.5 625 610 619.75PRSMJOHNSN 76.95 79.8 76.2 78.5GMDCLTD 63.75 64.9 63.15 63.45JKCEMENT 1125 1125 1101 1115.8SREINFRA 10.4 10.45 10.21 10.45KRBL 223 229.05 222.85 226.25NH 274.35 278 263.25 265PNCINFRA 173.4 173.85 169 170.05JSLHISAR 66.7 68.85 65.6 67.55FINOLEXIND 609.8 610.2 601 606SYMPHONY 1272.35 1306 1272.3 1304.1LUXIND 1244 1247.1 1202 1208.85NETWORK18 24 24.55 23.5 23.7CHALET 317.7 329.85 317.7 326.45THERMAX 1122.05 1130 1111 1127.4

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Billionaire Mukesh Ambani’sReliance Jio on Thursday

strongly opposed any bailout totelecom companies at taxpay-er’s expense, and asserted thattelcos should be mandated todeposit their dues within thecourt-stipulated timeline ofthree months, as they have thecapacity to comfortably cleartheir liabilities.

In a letter to TelecomMinister Ravi Shankar Prasadon Thursday, Jio argued thateven an unlikely event of fail-ure of two operators will nothave an adverse impact on thesector dynamics given the“existence of vibrant competi-tion including presence of thePSUs” as well as absence of anyrestriction on entry of new

operators.Jio said it did not agree

with COAI’s alarmist viewsthat telecom sector will collapsein absence of immediate reliefby the Government. It also lam-basted industry body COAI forwriting to Government “underthe influence of two of itsmembers in furtherance oftheir vested interests” andaccused the association of act-ing as a “mouthpiece of twoservice providers” and har-bouring a negative bias towardsJio.

Launching a full-fledgedattack on Cellular Operators’Association of India (COAI)for writing ex-parte to the gov-ernment on the financial dis-tress in the sector, Jio said thebody was “blackmailing” to“extract relief from the gov-

ernment” after all legal recoursehad expired.

“We submit that the so-called affected service providershave sufficient financial capaci-ty to pay the government dues bymonetising their existingassets/investments and by issuingfresh equity in their companies,”it wrote in the letter to Prasad.

Jio said it “strongly dis-agrees with COAI submissionthat in absence of immediaterelief by the government thetelecom sector will collapseand there would be unprece-dented crisis in the sector astwo of the three private oper-ators will be facing extremefinancial crisis.”

“We submit that COAI hasused threatening and black-mailing tone with the govern-ment by referring to possible job

loss, quality of service loss andloss of investment in the sectorand its contentions border oncontempt of Supreme Courtjudgement, especially when theSupreme Court has prescribedthree months’ time to depositthe due amount,” it said.

“COAI is clearly insinuatingthat if the immediate relief bydoing away with all legal finan-cial obligations emerging fromthe Supreme Court’s judgment inadjusted gross revenue case is notprovided, the two operatorsmight stop operations. Werequest the government tostrongly rebuff such suggestionsand insinuations,” it wrote.

Operators face no con-straint of making funds avail-able to pay-off their legal oblig-ations, the issue seems to beonly with the intent, Jio alleged.

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New Delhi: Former RBIGovernor Raghuram Rajan,who faced a stinging attackfrom Finance Minister NirmalaSitharaman for presiding overthe “worst phase” of the Indianbanking sector, on Thursdayreminded her that two-third ofhis tenure as the head of thecentral bank was under the BJPGovernment.

Rajan, who was Governorof the Reserve Bank of India(RBI) from September 5, 2013to September 2016, said duringhis term a clean up of the bank-ing sector that was “clogging”with bad loans had begun andthe job remains unfinished. Hesaid the country needs a newgeneration of reforms to accel-erate economic growth. At 5per cent GDP growth rate,India was witnessing substan-tial economic slowdown.

“I had just over eightmonths in the previous

(Congress) government and Ihad 26 months under this(BJP) Government. So much ofmy term (as RBI Governor)was under this government,” hetold CNBC in an interview.

He was asked aboutSitharaman’s comments in NewYork where she said that theIndian public sector banks hadthe “worst phase” under thecombination of former PrimeMinister Manmohan Singh andRajan. Rajan, however, hasten toadd that he doesn’t want to getinto a political debate on theissue. “Let me not get into a polit-ical back and forth. The realityis, there is a clean-up which westarted, which is underway,which needs to be completedfast. The recapitalisation hasbeen done, but it also has to bedone in the non-bank financialsector which is ceasing up andyou need to clean-up, get thefinancial system going again if

you want stronger growth,” headded. Sitharaman’s commentsat the Columbia Universitywere in response to a questionon Rajan in his previous state-ments apparently mentioningthat in its first term, theNarendra Modi governmenthad not done better on theeconomy because the govern-ment was extremely centralisedand the leadership does notappear to have a consistentarticulated vision on how toachieve economic growth.

She had retorted back say-ing instead there were majorissues with bank loans duringRajan’s tenure as the centralbank head. “I’m taking aminute to respond… I dorespect Raghuram Rajan as agreat scholar who chose to bein the central bank in India ata time when the Indian econ-omy was all buoyant,”Sitharaman had said. PTI

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New Delhi: The Central Boardof Direct Taxes (CBDT) onThursday extended the dead-line for filing of income taxreturns to November 30 in thenewly-created UnionTerritories of Jammu &Kashmir, and Ladakh.

The policy-making bodyfor the Income TaxDepartment issued an orderstating that “on considerationof reports of disturbances ininternet facility in certain areasof Jammu & Kashmir, theCBDT...Further extends thedue date for filing of ITRs andtax audit reports to November30 in respect of all categories ofincome tax assessees in the UTs of Jammu & Kashmir,and Ladakh...”

It said the ITRs filed byindividual taxpayers, post theset deadline of August 31, willbe considered valid tillNovember 30. PTI

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Coal India’s production inOctober is likely to be 19-

20 per cent lower at about 40million tonne, as compared to49.77 million tonne producedin the year-ago month, theoutput data suggested.

The miner, which has a tar-

get to produce 57.17 milliontonne for the month, has actu-ally produced 37.92 milliontonne of coal till October 30,according to the data.

The coal behemoth hadproduced 30.77 million tonnein September this year. Thedata indicates that the miner’srate-of-production has not

been picked up, which led to ashortfall in the month. CoalIndia aspires to produce 660million tonne of the dry fuel inFY20. According to provision-al data, the miner produced278.92 million tonne of coal tillOctober 30 in FY20, achieving82.17 per cent of the target of339.43 million tonne.

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The Supreme Court inBangladesh on Thursday

upheld the death sentence to topJamaat-e-Islami leader ATMAzharul Islam for committingwar crimes during the 1971Liberation War by siding withPakistani troops.

A four-member Bench ofthe Appellate Division rejectedIslam’s appeal against the capitalpunishment handed down by ahigh powered tribunal.

“Rejected,” pronouncedChief Justice Syed MahmudHossain as he read out the ver-dict summery of the apex courtbench. On January 28, 2015,Islam filed his appeal challeng-ing the International CrimesTribunal verdict that sentencedhim to death for war crimes.

Earlier on June 18, theAppellate Division started hear-ing arguments on the appeal

from both the state and thedefence. However, the benchcompleted the hearing anddeferred the matter as a CaseAwaiting Verdict (CAV) onJuly 10.

Islam’s case was the eighthone to reach the final verdict asBangladesh’s Awami League gov-ernment of Prime MinisterSheikh Hasina initiated theprocess to expose to justice thesuspected war criminals of 1971.

Six of the convicts were bynow executed with five beingleaders of Jamaat, which wasopposed to Bangladesh’s 1971independence. The sixth was aleader of BNP of ex-prime min-ister Khaleda Zia, who is nowserving a 10-year imprisonmenton graft charges.

A former Jamaat assistantsecretary general, Islam was a topleader of notorious Al Badrmilitia force, manned mainly bythe extreme right-wing party’s

youth and student wing sidingwith the Pakistani troops in1971. He was accused of presid-ing over the killing of over 1,400people, rape of many women,abduction and torture.

The Tribunal sentenced himto death on December 30, 2014for committing crimes againsthumanity while he subsequent-ly challenged the verdict beforethe apex court.

According to the legal pro-visions, Islam could now seek areview of the judgment by theAppellate Division itself, and ifrejected could beg a presidentialclemency. President AbdulHamid has binned such appealsin previous such cases involvingthe war crimes.

Islam was arrested from hisMoghbazar home in Dhaka in2012 on the war crimes chargesand now languishes at the highsecurity Kashimpur Jail on theoutskirts of the capital.

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Amassive fire broke out ona moving train in

Pakistan’s eastern Punjabprovince on Thursday after

two gas cylinders explodedwhile some passengers werecooking breakfast, killing atleast 73 people, mostly Islamicpreachers travelling to attenda religious congregation.

The train, TezgamExpress, was on its way toLahore from Karachi whenthe fire broke out early morn-ing, gutting three bogieswhich had over 200 passen-

gers, including women andchildren, at Liaquatpur nearRahim Yar Khan, some 400 kms from Lahore,authorities said.

District EmergencyOfficer RYK Baqir Hussainhas confirmed that 73 passengers lost their lives inthe fire.

Most deaths occurredfrom people jumping off thetrain, the authorities said,adding that the toll could risefurther as more than 40 pas-sengers have suffered severeburn injuries.

Railway Minister SheikhRashid Ahmad said that mostof the victims belonged to theTableeghi Jamaat (Islamicpreachers) who were going toLahore to attend a majorannual congregation atRaiwind.

The Railways Ministersaid two gas stoves carried bysome passengers blew upwhen they were preparingbreakfast on the speeding trainin violation of rules.

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The Pentagon on Wednesdayreleased short videos of the

US forces’ raid in northwesternSyria that resulted in the deathof ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

Baghdadi, 48, died onSunday after he blew up his sui-cide vest following the US raidon his compound in Syria’s Idlibprovince, some four miles fromTurkish border.

Releasing a few shortvideos of the strike, US CentralCommand Commander Gen.Kenneth Mckenzie toldreporters at a Pentagon newsconference that after the raid,Baghdadi’s compound looks“pretty much like a parking lotwith large potholes.”

The compound wasdestroyed in a way to ensurethat it would not be a shrine orotherwise memorable in anyway. “It’s just another piece ofground now,” he said.

Before Baghdadi was found

by the US forces running for lifein a tunnel, American troopskilled five ISIS members,including four women whoengaged with them in fire,Mckenzie said.

He said two children,appeared to be under 12 yearsold, were killed in the raid, notthree as believed earlier.

“About Baghdadi’s lastmoments. I can tell you this, hecrawled into a hole with twosmall children, blew himself upwhile his people stayed on theground. So, you can deducewhat kind of person it is basedon that activity,” he said butrefused to confirm or deny any-thing else about his last seconds.

Washington: A US servicedog who was injured duringthe raid at the hideout of AbuBakr al-Baghdadi in north-western Syria has returned toservice, a top American gen-eral said.

The dog is a four-yearveteran of the SOCOMCanine Program and hasbeen a member of approxi-mately 50 combat missions,US Central Command

Commander GeneralKenneth McKenzie toldreporters at a Pentagon newsconference on Wednesday.

“He was injured byexposed live electrical cablesin the tunnel after Baghdadidetonated his vest beneaththe compound,” the generalsaid, adding the dog, whosename was not revealed, hasreturned to duty.

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Prime Minister BorisJohnson sought Thursday

to blame the OppositionLabour leader for his failure todeliver Brexit, as both menstepped up campaigning onthe day Britain had been dueto leave the EU.

Johnson is riding high inopinion polls ahead of theDecember 12 election but risksa backlash over failing to keephis “do or die” pledge to takeBritain out of the EuropeanUnion on October 31.

“Today should have beenthe day that Brexit was deliv-ered and we finally left the EU,”the Conservative leader said ina statement.

“Despite the great new dealI agreed with the EU, (Labourleader) Jeremy Corbyn refusedto allow that to happen —insisting upon more dither,

more delay and more uncer-tainty for families and business.”

Pro-EU campaignersbreathed a sigh of relief thatBritain had been given a stay ofexecution to avoid a HalloweenBrexit nightmare, after starkpredictions of chaos and dis-ruption.

Johnson had vowed hewould rather be “dead in aditch” than tolerate anotherextension to the tortuousprocess, which began in 2016after a knife-edge public referendum.

But he was forced to askthe EU to delay Brexit untilJanuary 31 after MPs in theHouse of Commons refusedto approve the withdrawalterms he had struck withBrussels.

Labour leader Corbyn laidthe blame squarely at Johnson’sdoor, ridiculing the prime min-ister’s past remarks.

Johnson “said that hewould rather be dead in aditch than delay beyond today,

but he has failed and that fail-ure is his alone. You can’t trusta word,” the veteran socialistsaid.

The fourth new Brexitdeadline of January 31 willinevitably loom large in cam-paigning for what is the thirdgeneral election in four yearsand the first in December since1923.

But Corbyn is seeking toshift the debate onto moredomestic subjects such ashealth and social care, andeducation.

More than three years afterthe referendum that hasincreasingly divided Britain,Labour remains split overBrexit.

Its promise of a new pub-lic vote within six months ofelection has not been matchedwith details on how it wouldcampaign.

“We’ll let the people decidewhether to leave with a sensi-ble deal or remain. It really isn’tthat complicated,” Corbyn toldthe London rally.

London: John Bercow steppeddown on Thursday after 10years as speaker of Britain’sHouse of Commons — a rolethat rocketed him into the heartof the Brexit battle, and won himEuropean fans.

The man in the middle ofmore than three years of fieryparliamentary debates hasproved a controversial figure,loathed by pro-Brexit supportersand hailed by its foes. 56-year-oldBercow has yelled “Order!Order!” more than 14,000 timesduring his tenure as the 157thspeaker. His detractors call himpompous — one MP evenbranded him a “sanctimoniousdwarf”— but his backers say hehas bolstered the rights of back-benchers to hold theGovernment to account. AFP

Washington: President DonaldTrump’s former top adviser forRussian and European affairsarrived on Capitol Hill onThursday to testify to Houseimpeachment investigators , aday after leaving his job at theWhite House.

Tim Morrison, the firstWhite House political appointeeto testify, didn’t respond toreporters’ questions about histestimony, which takes placebehind closed doors, but hisinformation might be central toa push to remove the presidentfrom office.

Morrison, who served onthe National Security Council,stepped down from that postWednesday, and a senioradministration official said he“decided to pursue otheropportunities.”

The official, who was notauthorised to discuss Morrison’sjob and spoke only on the con-dition of anonymity, saidMorrison has been consideringleaving the administration for

“some time.” He has been in the spotlight

since August when a govern-ment whistleblower said multi-ple U.S. Officials had said Trumpwas “using the power of hisoffice to solicit interference froma foreign country in the 2020 US Election.”

Morrison will be asked toexplain that “sinking feeling” hegot when Trump demandedthat Ukraine’s president investi-gate former Vice President JoeBiden and meddling in the 2016election.

Morrison was brought onboard by then-national securi-ty adviser John Bolton to addressarms control matters and latershifted into his current role as atop Russia and Europe adviser.

It was there that he steppedinto the thick of an in-housesquabble about the activities ofTrump’s personal attorney RudyGiuliani, who had been con-versing with Ukrainian leadersoutside of traditional US diplo-matic circles. AP

Beijing: China’s CommunistParty elite concluded a keymeeting in Beijing Thursdaywith a promise to protectthe “stability” of Hong Kong,which has been rocked bymonths of unrest.

The Fourth Plenum ofthe Party’s CentralCommittee is a closed-doormeeting of high-rankingofficials where the country’sfuture direction is discussed,and this week’s meet was thefirst since February 2018.

This plenum came asChinese President XiJinping battles a number ofinternational and domesticchallenges, includingmonths of pro-democracyprotests in Hong Kong, aslowing economy, and a lin-gering trade war with theUnited States.

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North Korea fired two pro-jectiles on Thursday, the

South’s military said, withnuclear talks betweenPyongyang and Washington ata deadlock.

The weapons were launchedfrom South Pyongan province inan easterly direction over the sea,Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff saidin a statement, without specify-ing the type of device involved.

“We are maintaining readi-ness and monitoring in case ofadditional launches,” they added.

It is the latest in a series oflaunches by the North but thefirst since October 2, when itfired a sea-launched missile ina provocative move — a sub-marine-based missile capabil-ity would change the militarybalance.

Beijing: China’s three majorstate telecom operators rolled out5G wireless technologyThursday, as the country races tonarrow its technology gap withthe US amid a bruising trade war.

China Mobile, the country’slargest carrier, announced its 5Gservices were available in 50 cities— including Beijing, Shanghaiand Shenzhen — with packagesstarting from 128 yuan (USD 18)a month.

Rivals China Telecom andChina Unicom are also offeringservices at comparable prices inmajor cities, according to noticeson their websites.

The ultra-fast mobile inter-net service — which is 100times faster than existing 4Gnetworks— allows consumers todownload full-length films with-in seconds, or use apps with vir-tual reality. AFP

Tehran: Iran said onThursday it hopes the UNnuclear watchdog will act“neutrally” under its newhead and vowed to maintaincooperation with its inspec-tors monitoring a landmark2015 nuclear deal.

Argentina’s RafaelGrossi took the helm of theInternational AtomicEnergy Agency on Tuesdayfollowing the death of hispredecessor, Yukiya Amanoof Japan, in July.

The UN agency istasked with monitoringTehran’s nuclear activities toassess its compliance withthe 2015 agreement withmajor powers, which hasbeen severely underminedby Washington’s abandon-ment of it in May last year.

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The next time you visit a cinemahall, close your eyes for a few min-utes and try to understand the

film that’s playing on the big screen. Youmay understand the dialogue-heavysections but when it is emotions thatpredominate without a verbal exchange,it will make you feel disconnected withthe story all of a sudden. This is whatvisually impaired people experiencewhen they ‘watch’ a film along withsighted audience.

Despite cinema holding an undeni-able charm and being a popular part ofour culture, a large chunk of the soci-ety, especially the visually impaired, isdeprived of this enriching experience.This makes them feel excluded from therest of the society. The founder secre-tary of Koshish School in Karkardooma,(a school for specially-abled children),Mridul Singh says that the visuallyimpaired people are aware about theforthcoming films. She adds, “They areexcited about the film and its actors butare not able to understand the plot asthe films are not friendly to them.”

To overcome this issue and makecinema inclusive, the Information andBroadcasting Ministry has issued a

new directive to the Central Bureau ofFilm Certification (CBFC) to use audiodescription in cinemas. This is a facil-ity provided for visually impaired peo-ple in which a film, a television pro-gramme or a play is described throughaudio technology.

Though the government has takensuch a step at a broader level now butvarious efforts have already been madein this direction in the past. Last year,Saksham theatre had launched the XLCinema app, which has audio descrip-tive tracks for 28 films so far. The firstone being Sanju. It has paved a way forpersons with visual disabilities to expe-rience films. What’s it like to be in a the-atre when you can’t see? “Before theadvent of audio descriptions, visuallyimpaired people could only hear the dia-logues. During the non-dialoguesequences, they wouldn’t understand thescenes. People with normal sight canreact to emotions and scenes that theycan watch but those with visual disabil-ities cannot. It is very difficult for themto comprehend,” said Rummi K Seth,founder and managing trustee ofSaksham, during the launch.

In April 2018, PVR Limited too

introduced its The Accessible CinemaProgramme #Cinema4All, which aimedat making films accessible to all.

But the idea of inclusivity harks backfurther in the past. Theatre directorPrateek Kumar says, “We can drawinspiration from the Ancient IndianTheatre where the sutradhar (narrator)described the scenes. He conveyed thestory to the audience by describingactions, facial expressions, mental stateof characters and other elements likecostume, properties and set; present inthe story.” He kept the storyline inter-esting by providing proper descriptions.Prateek feels that this direction of theMinistry will help visually impairedaudience to stay updated and be aware

about the contemporary world, even atpar with the audience with vision.

Though Bengali filmmaker RanjanGhosh finds it to be a good initiative,which focusses on humanism but hepoints out, “There are certain elementsand emotions which cannot be por-trayed through words. It can only bevisually experienced.” So we shouldensure that the creativity and essencedoes not get compromised or dillutedin any way. He adds that before takinga step in this direction, we need to makesure that the visually impaired areinterested in watching films. Ghosh saysthat there should be a culture for themto come and watch films. “I have neverseen any of them coming to watch films.

The central and state governmentshould motivate them to come out anddo that,” he adds. If they are respond-ing positively to this, then we need totake it forward so that there could be awhole new audience.

Contrary to Ghosh, Prateek saysthat the audio descriptions can be addedwithout compromising on the art of sto-rytelling or reducing the interest level ofcinematic or theatrical piece. However, itdepends largely on the storyteller as well.

Aditya Om, an independent film-maker says that 20 to 30 years ago someclassics were made accessible to all. Onewonders the reason for the discontinua-tion of this process. As an independentfilmmaker he says that it might cause ahole in his pockets but it is not a big dealif it is backed by a social purpose. He says,“Audio is a very integral part of our films.To decipher the films through audio ina way that it is understood by the peopleis a different kind of art form.” The film-maker is currently working on his forth-coming Mella, a film on manual scaveng-ing.

It is time that we step into the shoesof the visually impaired and proceedtowards an inclusive tomorrow.

As the streaming wars near afever pitch and viewers are

targeted from every vantage point— Disney Plus has the Marveland Star Wars brands. HBO Maxcounters with Game of Thronesand DC superheroes — Apple TVPlus could be cast as the highlypedigreed and improbable under-dog.

While the venture countsOprah Winfrey and StevenSpielberg among its first wave oftalent, Apple TV Plus launchesjust a handful of original pro-grammes. It also lacks a ware-house of old shows and franchisefilms that can reliably draw nos-talgic viewers and produce spin-offs, such as The Mandalorian forDisney Plus and HBO Max’snewly announced Game ofThrones prequel, House of theDragon.

Zack Van Amburg and JamieErlicht, the former Sony PicturesTelevision presidents, who areheads of worldwide video forApple, say they are undaunted bythe comparisons and optimisticabout the streamer’s future.

“We are working with someof the most tremendously talent-ed people we’ve ever met workingin entertainment today,” VanAmburg said, and he sees themrising to the challenge of buildingan enterprise in general and fortech giant Apple in particular.“There’s an expression that we usehere across the board at Apple:‘Come to Apple and do the bestwork of your life.’ That’s actuallywhat we ask of everyone whocomes here.”

There’s both opportunity andanxiety in being part of such alaunch, said Kerry Ehrin,showrunner for the JenniferAniston-Reese Witherspoondrama, The Morning Show.

“It’s a huge amount of pres-sure, but you can’t really live inthat space,” Ehrin said. “You driveyourself crazy... because you startcreating for, ‘Oh, is this right, oris that going to work?’ instead ofjust creating what you find com-pelling and entertaining.”

Besides The Morning Show,the service’s starting lineupincludes Jason Momoa and AlfreWoodard in the futuristic dramaSee, Hailee Steinfeld in Dickinson,

a revisionist take on poet EmilyDickinson, and the wildlife doc-umentary The Elephant Queen.Forthcoming fare includesSpielberg’s revival of AmazingStories; a book-focussed seriesand other projects from Winfrey;the psychological thriller Servantfrom M Night Shyamalan andThe Banker drama series starringAnthony Mackie and Joe Morris.

A subscription costs $4.99 amonth, with usage allowed for upto six family members. Buyers ofnew Apple devices such as theiPhone and iPad get the stream-er free for a year. Among the com-petition, Disney Plus (launchingNov. 12) is $6.99 monthly, HBOMax (May 2020) is $14.99 and,among the existing services, it’s aslow as $5.99 a month for Huluand $8.99 each for Netflix andAmazon Prime Video (which isincluded with a $119 annualAmazon Prime membership).

There are deals to be had.Buyers of new Apple devices geta free year of Apple TV Plus anda seven-day trial is available with-out charge to all, enticements thatmirror those of its competitors.For the new services, free promo-tions are key to building a sub-scriber base, while retaining themwill be another challenge .

Van Amburg and Erlicht,who in their long tenure at Sonywere involved with some of the

shows their competitors stream,including Netflix’s Emmy-win-ning The Crown, brush awayconcerns about being library-less. Instead, the executives stressa bonus they’re offering con-sumers in this dauntingly prolif-ic television age. The Apple TVapp also functions as a sort ofGrand Central Terminal to effi-ciently access everything stream-ing, including from competitors.

“We want to make it easy forthe user to find all the things thatthey watch,” Erlicht said.

Viewers, especially cord-cut-ters seeking to escape hefty cableand satellite TV bills, likely will bechoosy. A new study found that70 per cent of the 4,816 respon-dents believe there will be toomany streaming services andeven more, 80 per cent, worry thestreaming habit will become tooexpensive to maintain, accordingto the findings from TV Time, amovie and TV tracking plat-form, and United Talent Agency’sdata and analytics group.

According to a research firm,consumers are willing to sub-scribe to an average of fourstreaming services and pay anaverage of $42 a month for them.

The budget for the streamersthemselves? Based on reports,Apple Plus TV is spending $1 bil-lion for its first year of program-ming, with Disney Plus at slight-

ly under that and HBO Max bud-geted for about $2 billion. Bycomparison, Netflix, with its deepbench of movies and buzzy orig-inal series including StrangerThings, shelled out a hefty $15 bil-lion this year.

Apple will have to open itswallet wider, said analyst DanielIves of Wedbush Securities. Thelack of a library is another signif-icant drawback that could forceApple into the acquisition of amajor studio and its creativeassets as early as in 2020. Heoffered a bullish prediction forApple TV Plus of possibly 100 mncustomers within three to fouryears, given its loyalists and the1.4 bn Apple devices worldwide.

Streaming leader Netflix hasabout 160 million subscribersworldwide.

Apple, however, has longstruggled to crack the TV mar-ket, said Pivotal Research Groupanalyst Jeffrey Wlodarczak.While it has plenty of capital tothrow at Apple TV Plus and abuilt-in consumer base, he said,it remains to be seen if its newservice ultimately is among thesurvivors of streaming’s fiercecontest.

“Just because you have a lotof money doesn’t mean you’renecessarily going to be success-ful,” Wlodarczak said.

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Ananya Panday has no timefor things most girls her age

relish doing — not even cele-brate her birthday. She isn’t,however, complaining. Rather,the Student Of The Year 2 debu-tant, who recently turned 21, ishappy to have spent a workingbirthday this year. She says theday highlighted the most specialyear of her life.

“I actually got to live mydream of becoming an actor.That’s what I wanted to do myentire life,” Ananya said.

“I am blessed and lucky. Iam grateful that people haveliked my performance in myvery first film. I hope theycontinue to like me in thefuture as well. This is just thebeginning of a great, beautifuljourney and I am super excit-ed. I feel overwhelmed!,” gushedactor, looking back at her jour-ney.

Her first birthday afterbecoming an actor was all aboutwork as usual, rather thancakes, merriment and party-ing. “I went for dancerehearsals of a song in PatiPatni Aur Woh. It’s been aworking birthday but I amhappy.”

It was dad’s advicethat she work on herbirthday, she reveals.“Dad told me youshould be workingon your birthdaybecause if you workon your birthday,then you will be work-ing throughout theyear. I am going to fol-low his advice andwork on every birth-day,” she added.

On the workfront, the actor willnext be seen in theromantic comedyPati Patni Aur Woh,which is a remake ofthe BR Chopra clas-sic made in 1978,having the same title.In the remake,Ananya stars along-side Kartik Aaryanand Bhumi Pednekar.The film is directed byMudassar Aziz and

slated for a December 6 release.Opening up on the film, she

shared: “I think remakes are alot of fun. We added our owntadka to it and made it modernand relatable in the presenttimes. Even a college studentcan relate to the feeling ofbeing stuck in a relationshipwith someone and liking some-one else or having feelings fordifferent people. I think it is avery universal feeling. I hopeeveryone relates to it. I had a lotof fun shooting the film and Ihope that translates on thescreen.”

On her character in the filmand why she is nervous about it,Ananya said: “I am actually verynervous because I am playing acharacter slightly older than myage. It’s very different fromhow people have seen me inStudent Of The Year 2.”

The actor also expressedher love for the rom-com genre.

“I have always been thekind of person who isinstinctive. I always dowhat my gut tells me todo. I am young andfond of rom-coms and

light-hearted films.That’s the zone Iam sticking toright now. Ithink I amdrawn to scriptsI would like towatch as anaudience.”

Her otherfilm Khali Peeliis the sort ofexperiment shewanted to do.

She is eager toforay the domain

of web shows. “Ihave gotten a few(offers) and I amvery interested inthe digital space. Ilove watching dig-ital shows. I amcompletely opento working in thedigital (domain).I am just waitingfor the rightone,” sherevealed.

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If I have to describe my visit tothe Yeti in Connaught Place inone word, it would be ‘worth-

while.’ The restaurant isn’t themost extravagant place in town.Rather, it scores in its simplicity.Whether in its décor or the cui-sine that it serves, it is the Tibetanand Nepali culture that dominates.A dim-lit place but lively nonethe-less. The ambience is relaxed andthe predominant feeling is thatone can come here to unwind.Maybe, I am looking too closelyinto this but the restaurant is notlooking to impress, it is true to itsroots without having a pretentiousbone. The only disappointingthing about the dinner was that Icouldn’t try more things from themenu and I’ll have to visit againfor that. And about this, I don’thave any qualms.

Before my dinner at Yeti, I hadnever had experienced Tibetan orNepali food and so I went over themenu several times to acquaintmyself with the dishes. I didn’twant my lack of research to causeanother crisis like the one I faced

when I sat at a posh South-EastAsian cuisine restaurant for din-ner. But I was quite confidentabout Yeti’s food. I even said asmuch to my friends who accom-panied me to dinner. And I wasproved right.

We don’t usually order soups,rather purposely skip it. But itnever hurts to take the road less-travelled, so we decided to ordera tomato and chilli chicken. Weweren’t disappointed. The vegetar-ian soup had tiny chunks oftomato which added to the taste.

Next up, we decided to orderAloo sadeko, a Nepali snack to ourfirst round of dishes. It was servedwith three dips,peanut chilli,s c h e z w a nchilli ands e s a m echilli. Thefirst is,h a n d sdown, thebest onethat I haveever had. It

was as spicy as it could get. Thedish could be eaten without thedips too but for me it was the otherway round, for I was eating thepeanut chilli with Aloo sadeko.

It was the spice quotient thatremained a constant from thebeginning to the end of the meal.The spiciness escalated quicklywhich isn’t a problem for me. I caneat spicy food through my tears.But go easy on the dips if you don’tfancy a hot tongue.

The beverage I picked for thisdinner was blushing mojito — aperfect complement to peanutchilli – a sweet-tasting concoction.

Next up we had Chilli chick-en which was hot and spicy or inmy opinion, as good as it gets. Itwas tossed with bell peppers andonions and proved to be one of mybest choices of the evening. Eventhe portion size was appreciable.The servers, quite helpful, readi-ly guided us through the menu. Infact, it was a struggle to recall ifanything had gone wrong with thedinner. Till now, not much.

We decided to order both veg-etarian and chicken Yeti specialkothe-styled momos. The dishcertainly made me sure about onething — one cannot ‘not try’momos while one is at Yeti. Theyare too ideal to be missed. Thechicken ones were big and juicyand I smothered them withpeanut chilli dip. Again, one of thebest momos I have ever had.

The only dish that wasn’tspicy, according to me was vege-tarian Wai Wai noodles. Theywere loaded with vegetables andtasted fine, but I wish I hadordered the Chow Chow instead.

For desserts, we wanted toorder the Yomari, dumplingsserved with nutella but we wereinformed that it usually takes 25-30 minutes to prepare it. It’s spe-cial so if it’s something you don’twant to miss, order it while youhave the main course.

The service was impeccable,though not the quickest but cer-tainly worth the wait. I am prob-ably going to make another trip tothe restaurant to experience therest of the menu. One dinner isn’tnearly enough, especially if thevariety demands for several ofthem. The food was undoubted-ly amazing and if I am allowed tobe corny — it was absolutely lip-smacking! It made us realise howeven a few good dishes can makean evening meal scrumptious,while a huge spread with averageones might not work.

If there is such a thing as baking royal-ty, Apollonia Poilâne might be its

queen.The 35-year-old is a third-generation

baker for the world famous Poilâne inParis. It was founded in 1932 byApollonia’s grandfather Pierre and hasinspired chefs, musicians, poets, andartists worldwide for nearly 90 years:Surrealist icon Salvador Dalí commission-ing a bedroom suite made completely outof bread for a 1971 exhibition. While itstarted in Paris, it has a location in Londonand a pop-up in New York City untilNovember 3.

Now, Apollonia Poilâne is opening thecompany’s oven doors wide with her firstEnglish-language cookbook, Poilâne: TheSecrets of the World-Famous Bread Bakery,a weighty collection of nearly 100 recipes.

Speaking at the bakery’s hub under areplica of the Dalí bread chandelier, thesoft-spoken CEO is reluctant to discussher celebrity clientele, which includesOprah I Love Bread Winfrey, Robert DeNiro, and Natalie Portman. But she quickto praise the women she calls her“guardian angels” — TV chef Ina Garten,cookbook author Dorie Greenspan, andthe owner of Chez Panisse, Alice Waters,the latter of whom provides the book’sforeword.

“They’re ladies I look up to for whatthey have accomplished. They inspire me,and I refer to them as my guardian angelsfor their words of wisdom,” says Poilâne.

Those words of wisdom have provenvery important to Poilâne, who took overthe family business at 18 after her fatherLionel and mother Irene were killed in ahelicopter crash in October 2002, leavingher and her younger sister Athenaorphaned.

“I was incredibly fortunate to be sur-rounded by a fantastic team, let alone thefriends of my parents who helped me alsogo through those times,” says Poilâne.

The day after the tragedy, Apolloniaheaded straight to the bakery, says she satat her father’s empty desk and resolved torun Poilâne.

“There was no question for me ofwhether I was taking over the family busi-ness or not. I had been essentiallygroomed since I was a child, whether Irealized it or not,” says Poilâne, whose sis-ter chose to study visual arts. “It essential-ly happened sooner than planned.”

She was CEO for a company wortheight million euros ($8.9 million) withover 130 staff while also studying econom-ics and business at Harvard University.

Now, with annual sales topping 12million euros ($13.3 million) annuallywith around 160 people employed,demand for the company’s signaturePoilâne loaf has never been higher.

“A Poilâne wheat sourdough loafstands out because of its size, because ofits format, because of its flavors,” explainsthe baker. “The whole sensory experiencewhen you have this big hug of bread isextraordinary — and it keeps. So it’sanother thing that’s very special becauseyou don’t need to waste bread.”

Fans of the famous loaf can now tack-le the “big hug of bread” at home, withPoilâne sharing the secrets of the com-pany’s sourdough in a recipe whichstretches over three pages.

While home cooks may not be ableto entirely replicate the conditions in

which the loaves are baked (unless theyhave a wood-fired oven that can reach500 degrees Fahrenheit), Poilâne is happywith the final product that the book’srecipe produces, saying she was “able toduplicate the elusive balance of acidityand sweetness” of the bread which hasinfluenced countless bakers includingAcme Bread Company founder SteveSullivan.

Sullivan calls the original Poilâne loaf“giant, rich and tangy” and “completelyunlike anything I had ever tasted.”

Another fan is Tartine’s ChadRobertson. “I love that really mild acid-ity that is very balanced that you get withthe Poilâne bread,” says Robertson, whois acknowledged as one of America’sfinest bakers. “That bread never sort offollowed trends. It was its own categoryof everything. Something that’s really justtrue and authentic and elemental at itscore endures.”

As well as containing recipes forFrench classics like croissants, pains auchocolate, brioche, and croque mademoi-selle, Poilâne: The Secrets of the World-Famous Bread Bakery also offers sugges-tions on what to do with leftover breadand provides numerous variations onbreakfast and lunchtime staples.

The recipes that Poilâne is mostproud of are her gluten-free cornbread,developed over the course of 15 years(using a mixture of corn flour, oat milk,and flax seeds), and her late father’s “breadsandwich,” which consists of a piece ofthin bread, buttered and toasted, sand-wiched between two slices of bread.

“It is a wink to my father, who usedto give this recipe partly jokingly,” smilesPoilâne. “But I took it for its word as abread of quality is fulfilling. So, the sand-wich is about using bread as a filling.”

It’s one of a number of playful recipesin a book that celebrates the many andvaried uses of bread and provides a blue-print for where the company might beheading next. As Poilâne states, “my fam-ily would appreciate that there are manymore doors yet to open.”

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The Indian men’s hockeyteam will have to guardagainst complacency

when it takes on lower-rankedRussia, while a tricky contestawaits their female counter-parts against USA in the two-legged Olympic qualifiers heretoday.

Both the Indian teams arejust two matches away frombooking their tickets to Tokyo.

While the Manpreet Singh-led men’s team is up against aneasy opponent in world No 22Russia, the Indian women havea relatively difficult task at handas they face the American girlsin the final round of the FIHOlympic Qualifiers.

Both the Indian teams willplay back-to-back matchesagainst Russia and USA todayand tomorrow and the aggregatewinners at the end of the two-match qualifier (each for menand women) will seal theirplaces in the 2020 Tokyo Games.

On paper, the Indian men,ranked fifth in the world, areexpected to have a cakewalkagainst the Russians.

But coach Graham Reid isvery well aware that one bad dayin office can ruin India’s Olympic

dream. So complacency is some-thing which the Indian mencannot afford in the next twodays.

The biggest improvementwhich Indian men witnessedunder Reid in the last 12 monthsis the defensive structure. Along

with Surender Kumar andJunior World Cup-winningteam member HarmanpreetSingh, India’s defence has been

rock solid in recent times.The backline will be further

bolstered by the return of sea-soned dragflicker Rupinder PalSingh and Birendra Lakra.

The Indian midfield will bemanned by skipper Manpreet inthe company of Hardik Singh,Nilkanata Sharma and VivekSagar Prasad, while the onus ofscoring goals upfront will be onthe shoulders of Mandeep Singh,Akashdeep Singh, SV Sunil,Ramandeep Singh, Lalit KumarUpadhyay and Simranjeet Singh.

The Indian goal will be safeunder the watch of veteran PRSreejesh and Krishan BahadurPathak.

While the men wouldexpect an easy outing against theRussians, the scenario is com-pletely different for the womenas they are up against world No13 USA against whom they

have a dismal 4-22 win-lossrecord.

But past records hardly mat-ters in professional sport and thecurrent Indian women’s team,led by Rani Rampal, is a much-improved outfit from their pre-decessors.

For Indian women, besidesskipper Rani, dragflicker GurjitKaur, young forwardLalremsiami and goalkeeperSavita hold key to the team’ for-tune.

Besides handling USA, theyalso have to handle the crowdpressure as it is the first time thatthey will get to play in front ofa packed 16,000 capacity KalingaStadium stadium here.

India women’s team chiefcoach Sjoerd Marijne exudedconfidence saying his wards areprepared for the contest.

“We are really excited. These

are the two matches we waitedto play the whole year. We knewwe had to play these matches butdidn’t know whether we wereplaying home or away andagainst whom. We’ve preparedwell. The moment is here and weare ready,” he said.

India captain Rani echoedher coach’s sentiment.

“Our first target to qualifyfor the Olympics was the AsianGames and unfortunately wecouldn’t. As soon as AsianGames got over, our focus shift-ed to these matches,” she said.

“Through the year we havewaited as well as prepared forthese two matches. We are excit-ed to play in front of a hugehome crowd.

“I don’t think we will beunder any pressure. At the blowof the whistle our focus shifts toour plan on what we need to do.

It is up to us on how we get thecrowd on our side,” Rani added.

TREAT WITH RESPECTComplacency has no place

in professional sport andAustralian Graham Reid hadclearly passed on this message tohis wards the very day he tookover the high-profile job ofIndian men’s hockey team’s headcoach.

As world No 5 India gearsup to take on lowly Russia,Reid’s message to his wards isstraight forward: “Treat everyteam with respect”.

Against Russia, India willstart as clear favourites to winboth the matches and seal theirplace in next year’s TokyoOlympics but Reid is very wellaware that one bad day in officecan ruin his team’s Olympicdream.

“If you look at last week’sgames in Olympic qualifiers, it’sthe first thing you would see(how complacency can cost ateam),” Reid said.

“My message has been pret-ty much the same ever since Ijoined the team. Always treateveryone with respect, like youare playing the best in the world.We have prepared as well as wecould have and are ready.”

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The national capital’s air quality is in“severe” category right now butIndia’s stand-in captain Rohit

Sharma on Thursday said he doesn’texpect any pollution-related problemduring Bangladesh T20 on Sunday evenas BCCI president Sourav Gangulypromised “practical scheduling” in nearfuture.

Bangladesh batsman Liton Das wasbriefly seen wearing a face mask duringhis team’s first training session at the FerozShah Kotla (Arun Jaitley stadium) but helater clarified that it was not due to air pol-lution.

“No, no it was nothing to do with pol-lution. I just wore it myself as I had someproblems,” Liton told reporters.

Rohit on his part felt that it won’t bea problem as they had not faced issues dur-ing the Sri Lanka Test, where the opposi-tion players were wearing masks and somefell ill.

“We didn’t have any problem when weplayed the Test match here (against SriLanka). We are not aware of the exact dis-cussion and I haven’t had any problem,”Rohit said during a promotional event inthe capital.

Ganguly acknowledged that deterio-rating air quality in NCR is an issue dur-ing post Diwali days but said it’s too lateto change the itinerary.

“It’s too late to do anything, becausea lot of preparations go into matches liketickets, crowds everything. So it’s not pos-sible to cancel things at the last minute.Fingers crossed,” Ganguly said at EdenGardens.

The newly-elected BCCI boss said infuture they would be more “practical”.

“I think we will do that (consultation).In future, when we schedule, especially inthe northern part of India during the win-ter, we will have to be a little bit more prac-tical.”

When Liton was further asked if hehad asthma-related issues, he replied:“Nothing like that. I was just wearing it asI wasn’t feeling well. No problems as such.”

Probed whether Bangladesh teamwas worried about Delhi’s poor air qual-ity, Liton answered in negative. “No prob-lems.”

With a thick Delhi smog hoveringover stadium, Liton was asked if sightingan aerial white ball was a problem in smogwhile trying to catch, the player said thatunder lights, it will be fine.

“I don’t think when floodlights are on,it will be such a problem,” he said.

The BCCI has already made it clearthat the match will go ahead as scheduleddespite the issue of air quality being raisedby environmentalists and cricketer-turned-politician Gautam Gambhir.

“I have just landed and haven’t hadtime to assess. As far as I know the game

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countered effectively at the EdenGardens, says the iconic SachinTendulkar, apprehensive that wet con-ditions might severely hamper pacersand spinners alike.

Tendulkar welcomed the intro-duction of Tests under floodlights inIndia, saying it is a “good move” and willpull back crowds for the traditional for-mat.

“As long as dew does not becomea factor, it is a good move but if dew isgoing to be a factor then seamers as wellas spinners are going to find it challeng-ing,” Tendulkar said.

“Because once the ball gets wet, nei-ther seamers can do much nor the spin-ners. So in that way, bowlers will be putunder the test. But if there is no dew,then surely it is a good addition,” themaestro said about a historic first inIndian cricket.

The dew was a factor at the EdenGardens during ODI games underfloodlights, something Tendulkar isapprehensive about.

“I think the dew factor will play abig role over here. We need to figure outhow much dew is there. The dew willdetermine, to what extent both teamsare competing. The conditions should-n’t hinder anything (competitiveness),”said the highest run-getter in Tests andODIs. However, he agreed with BCCI

president Sourav Ganguly that theexperiment is a good idea to bring thecrowds back to the stadium.

“There are two ways to look at it.One aspect would be from the publicpoint of view. It is a nice concept as peo-ple would be able to watch a Day/NightTest after their working hours. Peoplecan come in the evening and enjoy thegame.”

“From players’ point of view, it won’tbe a bad idea to play with pink ball andcheck how differently it behaves fromthe traditional red ball. It’s about gettingthat pink coloured ball coming to you,”said Tendulkar.

Tendulkar’s homework before fac-ing any particular bowler, be it ShoaibAkhtar or Shane Warne, is a stuff of leg-

ends and he offered a tip to the Indianbatsmen for their net session.

“The batsmen will need to practicewith different balls at the nets. A newpink ball, a 20-over pink ball and a 50-over pink ball and an 80-over ball. Seehow differently a new, semi-new and oldball behaves. Accordingly prepare yourstrategy,” he suggested.

With no Duleep Trophy held thisyear, He urged the Indian team to takefeedback from all the players whoplayed the event in last three years.Duleep Trophy matches were heldunder lights.

“The India boys should also dependon word of mouth feedback from allthose who played Duleep Trophy andthey would have few things to share.”

"!4"��BCCI presidentSourav Ganguly onThursday said that seniorteam’s head coach RaviShastri will be asked to get“more involved” ingrooming talent at theNational CricketAcademy “till the time heis coach”.

Ganguly’s prospec-tive move to have Shastriin dual role, could well bean aim to create a syner-gy between national teamand NCA.

Shastri has now hada new contract till 2021World T20 but his termsof agreement is onlyworking with the Indianteam with an annualsalary of �10 crore.

“We will also create asystem where Ravi’sinvolvement is more at

the NCA till the time he’scoach. We will make it agood Centre ofExcellence. We haveRahul Dravid, Paras(Mhambrey) and BharatArun also goes there,”Ganguly said.

However Gangulysaid that Shastri is doingwell as the coach eventhough Indian needs toaddress the problem ofnot being able to cross thefinal hurdle at the globalevents.

“He’s done well withthe side. He will be withus for next two years. AsI said, India need to wina world tournament.They have the ability andjust need to get the lasthurdle through. We willdeal with it when itcomes.” PTI

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World number one Ashleigh Bartyand Belinda Bencic both

advanced to the semi-finals after con-trasting victories at the WTA Finals inChina on Thursday.

Barty progressed from the round-robin stage with a crushing 6-4, 6-2win over Petra Kvitova in one hour and28 minutes at the Shenzhen BaySports Centre. Bencic prevailed 7-5, 1-0 in 61 minutes after late replacementKiki Bertens retired ill.

Bertens received medical attentionafter the opening game of the secondset, where her blood pressure andpulse were checked, before becomingthe second player in the tournamentto retire mid-match after BiancaAndreescu withdrew against KarolinaPliskova on Wednesday.

“I didn’t feel well on court,”Bertens told reporters. “I had someproblems with my stomach. The ener-

gy was not there. (I felt) a little bitdizzy.” World number eight Bencic willplay defending champion ElinaSvitolina in the semi-final on Saturday.

“I’m so relaxed already. I will just

play and fight like always,” she said.“She’s (Svitolina) one of the players thatthis court suits a lot more.”

Barty, who had already sealed theyear-end No 1 ranking, reboundedafter a three-set loss to Bertens onTuesday. She will play the winner oftomorrow’s Purple Group matchbetween Wimbledon championSimona Halep and world number twoPliskova

“I’m particularly happy with theway I was able to return tonight,” Bartysaid. “I think she was trying to take alittle bit more of a risk. That kind ofworked in my favour a bit.”

For Kvitova, the 2011 WTA Finalschampion, the loss marks a secondstraight winless campaign in her sev-enth appearance at the lucrative year-ender.

“I just couldn’t find rhythm,” shesaid. “When it came to the decidingpoints, she always played better thanme.”

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Rohit Sharma enjoys the leadership role butis not bothered if he will be handed the reins

of the Indian team for the white-ball formatspermanently or not.

In the absence of Virat Kohli, the openingbatsman is set to lead India against Bangladeshin the Twenty20 series.

There was a debate recently that perhaps it’stime that India embrace the idea of split cap-taincy and Rohit should be asked to lead theside in the limited overs formats.

The stylish Mumbaikar, though, refused tobe drawn into the debate, saying he is happy tofill in whenever situation demands.

“These (captaincy) things are not in ourhands. Whether you captain one or 100 match-es, it is an honour,” Rohit said at a promotion-al event.

“When we were growing up, it was all aboutplaying for the country. I have captained theteam and the experience has been good and Idon’t think about for how long I should be madecaptain. Whenever I get the chance to captainthe team, I try and enjoy that,” he said.

Rohit gave a thumbs up to the idea of host-ing a Pink ball Test match against Bangladeshat Eden Gardens next month.

“I am very excited as it is the first time. Ican’t say about others, but I played one matchin Duleep Trophy with pink ball and it was agood experience. The opportunity has come andwill try to do well and win the game,” Rohit,who recently made an impression as Test open-er, said.

“I always try to do well and for me, thethought is to not stop. My job is to keep per-forming and I see it that way. Be it Bangladeshor West Indies after that or when we go to NewZealand,” he said.

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Shiva Thapa (63kg) and PoojaRani (75kg) clinched Gold medals

with impressive wins, while Ashish(69kg) settled for a Silver as Indiaended with a decent haul of sevenmedals at the Olympic Test Event forBoxing here on Thursday.

The other four medals areBronze owing to semifinal losses ofNikhat Zareen (51kg), SimranjeetKaur (60kg) Sumit Sangwan (91kg)and Vahlimpuia (75kg) onWednesday.

Four-time Asian medallist Thapaout-punched Kazakhstan’s nationalchampion and Asian Bronze-winnerSanatali Toltayev 5-0 to claim the tophonours.

Former Asian Games bronze-medallist Rani edged past Australia’sCaitlin Parker in a split 4-1 decisionto ensure that the Indian women’scontingent also had a Gold in itskitty.

Asian Bronze-medallist Ashish(69kg), however, lost to Japan’sSewon Okazawa to sign off with aSilver medal. The Indian went downin a 1-4 judgement.

“Shiva has matured quite a lot inthe last one year and this is showingin the way he is performing. He hasbeen in tremendous form and willcontinue to grow,” national coach CA Kuttappa said.

“Ashish too is developing into agood boxer. His transition fromyouth to senior level has been verysmooth,” he added.

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Novak Djokovic saw offBritain’s Kyle Edmund on

Thursday to reach his eighthParis Masters quarter-final,where he will renew his bur-geoning rivalry with Greekstar Stefanos Tsitsipas.

The top seed, battlingRafael Nadal for the year-endworld number one spot, need-ed seven set points in the firstset before winning 7-6 (9/7),6-1.

The 16-time Grand Slamchampion is chasing a record-extending fifth Bercy title,but will next face world num-ber seven Tsitsipas, who leadstheir head-to-head record 2-1.

Djokovic is hoping to tiePete Sampras’ record of finish-

ing six years as the world’s bestplayer, but Nadal can be sureof denying the Serbian thatachievement with a maidenParis title this week.

The Spaniard takes onthree-time Grand Slam title-winner Stan Wawrinka in histhird-round match.

Former world numberthree Dimitrov produced afantastic performance to beatfifth seed Thiem 6-3, 6-2 andreach the last eight in Paris forthe first time.

It wil l a lso be theBulgarian’s first Masters quar-ter-final since the Canadian

Open last year as he con-tinues his rise up therankings.

Dimitrov was theworld number 78 head-

ing into the US Open,but reached the semi-finalsand is now ranked 27th.

He will take on CristianGarin for a semi-final spot,after the unseeded Chileansaved three match points in adeciding-set tie-break to endthe run of French qualifierJeremy Chardy.

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Bangladesh have a huge opportunity to upsetformidable India in their den due to “depth

in their batting”, former India batsman VVSLaxman said on Thursday as the teams gear upfor the Twenty20 series, beginning Sunday.

“This is the best opportunity for Bangladeshto beat India in their home soil since they havedepth in their batting line-up. However, in theirbowling department pressure will be more onMustafizur (Rahman) to deliver since the fast-bowling line-up looks in-experience comparedto their spin bowler in the team,” Laxman saidon Star Sports show Game Plan.

“Mustafizur would need to play key-role inpicking-up early wicket with the new ball. SinceVirat is not there in the side, team India seemsto be little inexperienced in the middle order,”he said.

Laxman though predicted that India can winthe series 2-1.

“I feel the series will be 2-1 in favour of India.Also with the form Rohit (Sharma) and KLRahul are in right now, with (Shikhar) Dhawanlooking at establishing himself, I am backing theIndian batting power to win the series,” he said.

is to be played on November 3 and will be played,”Rohit, who will lead the side in the three-matchseries in the absence of a rested Virat Kohli, said.

The game Rohit was referring to took placein 2017 when the visiting Sri Lankan players sport-ed face masks during the third Test. Play was alsohalted for about 20 minutes due to haze and the“very poor” air quality.

Delhi’s air quality, at this time of the year,remains either poor or severe owing to Diwali andstubble burning in the neighbouring states ofPunjab and Haryana.

On Thursday, at the start of Bangladesh’s train-ing, Liton, for a period of 10 minutes, wore a facemask.

However, no other Bangladeshi player was seenwearing the mask even though a thick layer of smogcould be seen at stadium.

Liton didn’t wear any mask when he batted atthe nets.

“We are well prepared for the series as we hada training camp in Bangladesh and a couple of daysof training here. It’s a good opportunity to adapt.”

Questioned why Bangladesh can’t win closematches against India, Liton said: “I don’t knowwhat kind of question is this. We have not finishedwell against India and hopefully we will turn thingsaround this time.”

It has also been learnt from team sources thatBangladesh’s Test specialists including new skip-per Mominul Haque and talented spinner MehidyHasan Miraz will be arriving in Nagpur onNovember 8.

“They will be arriving in Nagpur and start withpink ball training straightaway in between their redball practice.”

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