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T he Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered immedi- ate police custody of three directors of embattled real estate firm Amrapali Group for their failure to submit docu- ments relating to accounts of all 46 group companies to foren- sic auditors appointed by the apex court. The SC Bench — com- prising Justices Arun Mishra and UU Lalit — castigated the company for playing “hide and seek” and ordered that the three directors — Anil Kumar Sharma, Shiv Priya and Ajay Kumar who were present in the court — would remain in police custody till they hand over all account books. “What is this happening? Why this hide and seek and blatant violation of the orders of this court?,” the Bench asked the counsel appearing for the group and added, “You are playing with the dignity of this court.” The two auditors — Ravi Bhatia and Pawan Kumar Aggarwal — appointed by the court to conduct forensic audit of Amrapali Group, said they have not yet received all the documents. The SC termed it as “gross violation” of the court’s order. The SC was hearing a batch of petitions filed by homebuy- ers who are seeking possession of around 42,000 flats. When the group’s counsel said they have handed over documents to the auditors as called for by them, the Bench said, “You are again telling a lie to this court. When they (auditors) are say- ing that they have not received the documents, you should be the first person to hand over them the documents as per orders of this court.” The Bench also questioned as to why the group has not yet handed over account books of the companies to the auditors. “The flat buyers are saying that their money has been siphoned off. It can easily be found out from account books. As of now, nobody knows where the money has gone. You are definitely playing hide and seek with the accounts. The intent is to interfere with the process of law,” the SC said. “Here the design is very clear. You are trying to buy time to do something,” it said, adding, “You are doing it delib- erately. Every time you are doing this.” When the group’s counsel sought “one last chance” from the court to hand over the doc- uments, the Bench said, “We have given you more than enough time. We have not left any stone unturned to make them comply with our orders.” The apex court observed that account books of the group were finalised by their internal and statutory audi- tors till 2015 only and there were apparently no records of account books from then on till now. T h e Bench noted that as per the two audi- tors, documents of only two out of 46 firms — Amrapali Zodiac and Amrapali Princely Estates — were handed over to them despite court’s order to provide all documents. “We are constrained to observe that it is not only deliberate non-compliance of the order but effort is being made to fritter away the docu- ments in utter violation of the order passed by this court,” it said. B SP supremo Mayawati on Tuesday asserted that the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) will rather fight elections alone than beg seats from the Congress. She also said the party will not compromise “self-respect” of minorities. Her comments assume significance as she had last week dumped the Congress to fight the upcoming Assembly polls in three States as the Congress did not agree to part with as many seats for the BSP as she demanded. A BSP statement quoting her also lashed out at the Congress and the BJP, saying the BSP will never compromise with the self-respect of the Dalits, tribals, backwards, Muslims, other minorities and the upper castes’ poor irrespective of the “mal- ice and torture” of the Governments run by these two parties. That is why the BSP has put forth the condition of being given a “respectable number” of seats to enter into an electoral alliance, Mayawati said, according to the state- ment. “What it clearly means that the BSP will not beg for seats in any alliance. If this (respectable number of seats) does not happen, then it will continue to fight polls on its own,” she said. Speaking on the occasion of the death anniversary of the BSP founder Kanshi Ram, she said neither the Congress nor the BJP works in the interests of the upper castes’ poor and the remaining majority. N ine workers were killed and 14 others critically injured in a gas pipeline blast and the resultant fire at Bhilai Steel Plant on Tuesday around 10.30 am, police said. About 24 staffers were on work at coke oven section at the time of the blast, said Durg-range Inspector General of Police GP Singh. Following the blast, the production at the plant was halted as hundreds of workers refused to resume work com- plaining about poor safety measures despite several reminders by trade unions. The accident pulled down shares of SAIL. Plant officials have termed as “a major incident” the blast at the sprawling complex of the SAIL plant which is India’s sole producer and supplier for the Indian Railways. Steel Minister Chaudhary Birender Singh said, “I have asked for detailed informa- tion. Rescue and relief mea- sures are underway.” According to sources, Minister of State for Steel Vishnu Deo Sai, Steel Secretary Binoy Kumar and SAIL Chairman Anil Chaudhary have also left for Bhilai. According to the officials, SAIL has spent over 18,000 crore on expansion and mod- ernisation of the Bhilai plant in recent years that includes installation of cutting-edge technologies for improvement in productivity, yield, quality, cost competitiveness, energy efficiency and environmental protection, but it spent meager sum on safety measures. I n a major breakthrough, the Special Cell of the anti-terror unit of Delhi Police has bust- ed an inter-State gang operat- ing in illegal fire arms. In simultaneous raids carried out in Delhi and Meerut by the Special Cell sleuths, five per- sons were arrested and an ille- gal arms factory of country- made weapons, was busted. It led to the recovery of 85 semi- automatic pistols. The breakthrough came after the disclosure by Danish, an accused who was arrested by Delhi Police for gun running a few days ago. The information provided by Danish was investigated by the Special Cell teams and gang members involved in the illegal sale of sophisticated arms were identified, sources said. Two arm peddlers were apprehended by a team of the Special Cell when they were en route to Haryana from Delhi for selling illegal arms. Police have confiscated a huge cache of illegal arms including 84 semi-automatic pistols, 50 live cartridges, 40 magazines and several unfinished/semi-fur- nished firearms in the raids. The accused have been identified as Shaidulla (37), Shabir (32), Imtiaz (29), Obayed (33) all residents of Munger in Bihar and Nasim (25) a resident of Meerut. “We received specific inputs regarding the accused and their operations. Accordingly teams were formed and raids were con- ducted in Meerut and Delhi. Sahidulla and Nasim were intercepted while they were on their way to Haryana for sale of illegal arms. In a brief exchange of fire the duo was caught on Singhu border on National Highway (NH-1)”, Sanjeev Kumar Yadav, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Special Cell said. N obody had perhaps expected it but the #MeToo campaign in India spilled out of social media conversations to become a gathering storm in the real world, one which seared Minister of State for External Affairs and former editor MJ Akbar, over mounting com- plaints of sexual harassment at the workplace. In the eye of a storm fol- lowing corroboration and admissions by an unending stream of women journalists, there is increasing pressure on the Government to relieve him from his post. With the Opposition Congress raising a resignation demand, his boss, Union Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj was in a spot as mediapersons accost- ed her. Asked if there would be a probe, she refused comment and walked away. Meanwhile, the ceaseless unspooling by complainants forced redressal mechanisms to crank themselves out of shape and take strong action. The two industries most affected by the confessions of abuse by men in power, the film industry and media, had an actionable plan in place almost overnight. The editors’ and film producers’ guilds called for unbiased enquiries, punishment, demo- lition of a system dependent on a hierarchical sense of entitle- ment and ensuring a safe, gen- der-neutral workspace. Meanwhile, the Maharashtra State Commission for Women issued a notice to actor Nana Patekar, asking him to respond to actress Tanushree Dutta’s allegations of sexual harassment against him. This was the first complaint that has actually stirred up the current storm, with the list of serial offenders going up to 90. And the National Commission of Women started a spreadsheet process of compiling all cases of sexual complaints and rev- elations being made by women, cutting across sectors, and even reaching out to survivors through telephone. All this on a day when a journalist even called out a Coal Ministry official for offer- ing her a trip to Goa and a flight attendant named crick- eter Arjun Ranatunga as grop- ing her in a Mumbai hotel. Noting “with concern and dismay the inci- dence of alleged sexual harass- ment and assault on women journalists by their male col- leagues,” the Editor’s Guild of India condemned predatory practices, particularly “when the perpetrators also happen to be enjoying senior or supervi- sory positions in the profes- sion.” Lauding women journalists who had shown courage to call out the abusers, the Editors’ Guild further said that the newsroom as a “relatively infor- mal, free-spirited and hallowed space” must be protected. It urged all media organisations to hold unbiased enquiries into all reported cases and strength- en internal processes. “It includes training of staff and improving awareness, as man- dated by the law and even beyond. Anybody found guilty of sexual harassment or assault should be punished as provid- ed in the law.” B ihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi found time despite hectic official schedule as well as social and political engagements to author a book — Lalu Leela — which is slated for release on October 11 on the birth anniversary of Jayaprakash Narayan. The 300-page book is mainly a compilation of the details of the properties of RJD supremo Lalu Prasad and his close family members. Sushil documented these offi- cial papers and used to release them regularly through his Press conferences in 2016-17. Sushil has a four-decade long connection with Lalu as both were products of JP’s Sampoorna Kranti movement. Both studied in Patna University and were actively involved in students’ union politics with Lalu as its presi- dent and Sushil as the secretary. Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has written preface of the book brought out by a Delhi publishing house. The book release function will be attended by the Minister and other dignitaries like Radha Mohan Singh, Giriraj Singh, Ram Kripal Yadav, Shahnawaz Husain and some Bihar Ministers of the BJP. During mid-90s Sushil was one of the Opposition leaders who exposed the fodder scam and took Lalu to court. Currently, Lalu is in prison in connection with the fodder scam cases. Last year, Sushil brought out documents related to huge properties and assets held in the name of Lalu’s wife Rabri Devi, sons Tejashwi Prasad Yadav and Tej Pratap Yadav and his daughters. Most of these transactions or transfers of the properties were made when Lalu was Railway Minister during 2004- 09. In April last year as Leader of Opposition, Sushil launched a sustained campaign against Lalu by bringing out secret offi- cial documents about when and how assets were transferred as gifts in the name of Lalu’s kin. On papers, the donors included fourth grade employ- ees of railways and those tak- ing care of Lalu’s cattle. P rime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday unveiled a 64-feet tall statue of venerat- ed Jat farmer leader Deenbandhu Sir Chhotu Ram in Sampla at Rohtak and laud- ed his contribution for empow- ering poor and farmers in pre- Independence era. With an eye on Lok Sabha polls 2019 and Assembly polls due later next year in Haryana, the Prime Minister also used the occasion to highlight the pro-farmer initiatives of his Central Government and BJP led Haryana Government. While addressing ‘Deenbandhu Samriti Rally’ in Sampla after unveiling the stat- ue, the Prime Minister began his speech in Haryanvi dialect lauding the progressive think- ing and political acumen of Chhotu Ram, who is a revered figure in Haryana’s Jat com- munity and also known as a champion of farmers’ right during the British colonial era. “Today, we have unveiled the tallest statue of Sir Chhotu Ram in Haryana and on October 31, we will be unveil- ing the world’s tallest statue- that of Iron man Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel in Gujarat,” he said. Equating the two leaders, Modi said that both Chhotu Ram and Vallabhbhai Patel were farmers and worked for the welfare of poor and farmers. “Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel had once said during India’s partition that if Chaudhary Chhotu Ram was alive, I would not have worried about Punjab. Chaudhary Chhotu Ram would have managed every- thing,” the Prime Minister said while making a connection between the two leaders. In the past four years of my government, we have not only honoured several great leaders and personalities but have been working on their vision and ideals, he said. “Just like Chhotu Ram made efforts for empowering poor and farmers, our government is also working in this regard,” said the Prime Minister while high- lighting his government’s flag- ship initiatives for farmers. Persistent steps are being taken for ensuring remunera- tive prices to the farmers, pro- viding hybrid seeds and ade- quate water for irrigation, he added. About Haryana, Modi said 50 lakh Soil Health Cards (SHC) has been issued to the farmers to ensure that farmers get the benefit of seasonal crops. Apart from this, claim amount of Rs 350 crore has been distributed among the farmers on account of crop damage due to natural calami- ties. Water has reached to even those tail ends in the state which were deprived of water for last about 30 years, he said. Referring to the memo- randum between six states for the construction of Lakhwar Dam, he said that this would benefit Haryana immensely. On the pattern of Mandi Act got enacted by Deenbandhu Chhotu Ram nine-ten decades back for ensuring remunerative prices to the farmers, the present Government has launched a new scheme namely “Pradhan Mantri Annadata Aay SanraksHan Abhiyan” (PM- AASHA). Continued on Page4 Related report on P3

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The Supreme Court onTuesday ordered immedi-

ate police custody of threedirectors of embattled realestate firm Amrapali Group fortheir failure to submit docu-ments relating to accounts of all46 group companies to foren-sic auditors appointed by theapex court.

The SC Bench — com-prising Justices Arun Mishraand UU Lalit — castigated thecompany for playing “hide andseek” and ordered that thethree directors — Anil KumarSharma, Shiv Priya and AjayKumar who were present in thecourt — would remain inpolice custody till they handover all account books.

“What is this happening?Why this hide and seek andblatant violation of the ordersof this court?,” the Bench askedthe counsel appearing for thegroup and added, “You areplaying with the dignity ofthis court.”

The two auditors — Ravi

Bhatia and Pawan KumarAggarwal — appointed by thecourt to conduct forensic auditof Amrapali Group, said theyhave not yet received all thedocuments. The SC termed itas “gross violation” of thecourt’s order.

The SC was hearing a batchof petitions filed by homebuy-ers who are seeking possessionof around 42,000 flats. Whenthe group’s counsel said theyhave handed over documentsto the auditors as called for bythem, the Bench said, “You areagain telling a lie to this court.When they (auditors) are say-

ing that they have not receivedthe documents, you should bethe first person to hand overthem the documents as perorders of this court.”

The Bench also questionedas to why the group has not yethanded over account books ofthe companies to the auditors.“The flat buyers are sayingthat their money has beensiphoned off. It can easily befound out from account books.As of now, nobody knowswhere the money has gone. Youare definitely playing hide andseek with the accounts.The intent is to interferewith the process of law,”the SC said.

“Here thedesign isver y

clear. You are trying to buy timeto do something,” it said,adding, “You are doing it delib-erately. Every time you aredoing this.”

When the group’s counselsought “one last chance” fromthe court to hand over the doc-uments, the Bench said, “Wehave given you more thanenough time. We have not leftany stone unturned to makethem comply with our orders.”

The apex court observedthat account books of the groupwere finalised by their internal

and statutory audi-tors till 2015 onlyand there wereapparently norecords ofaccount booksfrom then ontill now.

T h eB e n c h

noted that as per the two audi-tors, documents of only two outof 46 firms — Amrapali Zodiacand Amrapali Princely Estates— were handed over to themdespite court’s order to provideall documents.

“We are constrained toobserve that it is not onlydeliberate non-compliance ofthe order but effort is beingmade to fritter away the docu-ments in utter violation of theorder passed by this court,” itsaid.

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BSP supremo Mayawati onTuesday asserted that the

Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)will rather fight elections alonethan beg seats from theCongress. She also said theparty will not compromise“self-respect” of minorities.

Her comments assumesignificance as she had lastweek dumped the Congress tofight the upcoming Assemblypolls in three States as theCongress did not agree to partwith as many seats for the BSPas she demanded.

A BSP statement quotingher also lashed out at theCongress and the BJP, sayingthe BSP will never compromisewith the self-respect of theDalits, tribals, backwards, Muslims, otherminorities and the upper castes’poor irrespective of the “mal-ice and torture” of theGovernments run by these twoparties.

That is why the BSP hasput forth the condition ofbeing given a “respectablenumber” of seats to enter intoan electoral alliance, Mayawatisaid, according to the state-ment.

“What it clearly means thatthe BSP will not beg for seatsin any alliance. If this(respectable number of seats)does not happen, then it willcontinue to fight polls on itsown,” she said.

Speaking on the occasionof the death anniversary of theBSP founder Kanshi Ram, shesaid neither the Congress northe BJP works in the interestsof the upper castes’ poor andthe remaining majority.

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Nine workers were killedand 14 others critically

injured in a gas pipeline blastand the resultant fire at BhilaiSteel Plant on Tuesday around10.30 am, police said. About 24staffers were on work at cokeoven section at the time of the

blast, said Durg-rangeInspector General of PoliceGP Singh.

Following the blast, theproduction at the plant washalted as hundreds of workersrefused to resume work com-plaining about poor safetymeasures despite severalreminders by trade unions.The accident pulled downshares of SAIL.

Plant officials have termedas “a major incident” the blastat the sprawling complex of theSAIL plant which is India’s soleproducer and supplier for theIndian Railways.

Steel Minister ChaudharyBirender Singh said, “I haveasked for detailed informa-tion. Rescue and relief mea-sures are underway.”

According to sources,Minister of State for SteelVishnu Deo Sai, Steel SecretaryBinoy Kumar and SAILChairman Anil Chaudharyhave also left for Bhilai.

According to the officials,SAIL has spent over �18,000crore on expansion and mod-ernisation of the Bhilai plant inrecent years that includesinstallation of cutting-edgetechnologies for improvementin productivity, yield, quality,cost competitiveness, energyefficiency and environmentalprotection, but it spent meagersum on safety measures.

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In a major breakthrough, theSpecial Cell of the anti-terror

unit of Delhi Police has bust-ed an inter-State gang operat-ing in illegal fire arms. Insimultaneous raids carried outin Delhi and Meerut by theSpecial Cell sleuths, five per-sons were arrested and an ille-gal arms factory of country-made weapons, was busted. Itled to the recovery of 85 semi-automatic pistols.

The breakthrough cameafter the disclosure by Danish,an accused who was arrested byDelhi Police for gun running afew days ago.

The information providedby Danish was investigated bythe Special Cell teams andgang members involved in theillegal sale of sophisticatedarms were identified, sourcessaid.

Two arm peddlers wereapprehended by a team of theSpecial Cell when they were en

route to Haryana from Delhifor selling illegal arms. Policehave confiscated a huge cacheof illegal arms including 84semi-automatic pistols, 50 livecartridges, 40 magazines andseveral unfinished/semi-fur-nished firearms in the raids.

The accused have beenidentified as Shaidulla (37),Shabir (32), Imtiaz (29),Obayed (33) all residents ofMunger in Bihar and Nasim(25) a resident of Meerut.

“We received specificinputs regarding the accusedand their operations.Accordingly teams wereformed and raids were con-ducted in Meerut and Delhi.Sahidulla and Nasim wereintercepted while they were ontheir way to Haryana for sale ofillegal arms. In a brief exchangeof fire the duo was caught onSinghu border on NationalHighway (NH-1)”, SanjeevKumar Yadav, DeputyCommissioner of Police(DCP), Special Cell said.

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Nobody had perhapsexpected it but the

#MeToo campaign in Indiaspilled out of social mediaconversations to become agathering storm in the realworld, one which searedMinister of State for ExternalAffairs and former editor MJAkbar, over mounting com-plaints of sexual harassment atthe workplace.

In the eye of a storm fol-lowing corroboration andadmissions by an unendingstream of women journalists,there is increasing pressure onthe Government to relieve himfrom his post. With theOpposition Congress raising a

resignation demand, his boss,Union Minister of ExternalAffairs Sushma Swaraj was ina spot as mediapersons accost-ed her. Asked if there would bea probe, she refused commentand walked away.

Meanwhile, the ceaselessunspooling by complainantsforced redressal mechanisms tocrank themselves out of shapeand take strong action. The twoindustries most affected by theconfessions of abuse by men inpower, the film industry andmedia, had an actionable planin place almost overnight. Theeditors’ and film producers’guilds called for unbiasedenquiries, punishment, demo-lition of a system dependent ona hierarchical sense of entitle-

ment and ensuring a safe, gen-der-neutral workspace.

Meanwhile, theMaharashtra State Commissionfor Women issued a notice toactor Nana Patekar, asking himto respond to actress Tanushree

Dutta’s allegations of sexualharassment against him. Thiswas the first complaint that hasactually stirred up the currentstorm, with the list of serialoffenders going up to 90. Andthe National Commission of

Women started a spreadsheetprocess of compiling all casesof sexual complaints and rev-elations being made by women,cutting across sectors, and evenreaching out to survivorsthrough telephone.

All this on a day when ajournalist even called out aCoal Ministry official for offer-ing her a trip to Goa and aflight attendant named crick-eter Arjun Ranatunga as grop-ing her in a Mumbai hotel. Noting “withconcern and dismay the inci-dence of alleged sexual harass-ment and assault on womenjournalists by their male col-leagues,” the Editor’s Guild ofIndia condemned predatorypractices, particularly “when

the perpetrators also happen tobe enjoying senior or supervi-sory positions in the profes-sion.”

Lauding women journalistswho had shown courage to callout the abusers, the Editors’Guild further said that thenewsroom as a “relatively infor-mal, free-spirited and hallowedspace” must be protected. Iturged all media organisationsto hold unbiased enquiries intoall reported cases and strength-en internal processes. “Itincludes training of staff andimproving awareness, as man-dated by the law and evenbeyond. Anybody found guiltyof sexual harassment or assaultshould be punished as provid-ed in the law.”

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Bihar Deputy Chief MinisterSushil Kumar Modi found

time despite hectic officialschedule as well as social andpolitical engagements to authora book — Lalu Leela — whichis slated for release on October11 on the birth anniversary ofJayaprakash Narayan.

The 300-page book ismainly a compilation of thedetails of the properties ofRJD supremo Lalu Prasad andhis close family members.Sushil documented these offi-cial papers and used to releasethem regularly through hisPress conferences in 2016-17.

Sushil has a four-decadelong connection with Lalu asboth were products of JP’sSampoorna Kranti movement.Both studied in PatnaUniversity and were activelyinvolved in students’ unionpolitics with Lalu as its presi-dent and Sushil as the secretary.

Union Minister RaviShankar Prasad has writtenpreface of the book brought outby a Delhi publishing house.The book release function willbe attended by the Minister and

other dignitaries like RadhaMohan Singh, Giriraj Singh,Ram Kripal Yadav, ShahnawazHusain and some BiharMinisters of the BJP.

During mid-90s Sushil wasone of the Opposition leaderswho exposed the fodder scamand took Lalu to court.Currently, Lalu is in prison inconnection with the fodderscam cases.

Last year, Sushil broughtout documents related to hugeproperties and assets held inthe name of Lalu’s wife RabriDevi, sons Tejashwi PrasadYadav and Tej Pratap Yadav andhis daughters.

Most of these transactionsor transfers of the propertieswere made when Lalu wasRailway Minister during 2004-09.

In April last year as Leaderof Opposition, Sushil launcheda sustained campaign againstLalu by bringing out secret offi-cial documents about whenand how assets were transferredas gifts in the name of Lalu’skin. On papers, the donorsincluded fourth grade employ-ees of railways and those tak-ing care of Lalu’s cattle.

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Prime Minister NarendraModi on Tuesday unveiled

a 64-feet tall statue of venerat-ed Jat farmer leaderDeenbandhu Sir Chhotu Ramin Sampla at Rohtak and laud-ed his contribution for empow-ering poor and farmers in pre-Independence era.

With an eye on Lok Sabhapolls 2019 and Assembly pollsdue later next year in Haryana,the Prime Minister also usedthe occasion to highlight thepro-farmer initiatives of hisCentral Government and BJPled Haryana Government.

While addressing‘Deenbandhu Samriti Rally’ inSampla after unveiling the stat-ue, the Prime Minister beganhis speech in Haryanvi dialectlauding the progressive think-ing and political acumen ofChhotu Ram, who is a reveredfigure in Haryana’s Jat com-munity and also known as achampion of farmers’ rightduring the British colonial era.

“Today, we have unveiledthe tallest statue of Sir ChhotuRam in Haryana and onOctober 31, we will be unveil-ing the world’s tallest statue-that of Iron man SardarVallabhbhai Patel in Gujarat,”he said.

Equating the two leaders,Modi said that both ChhotuRam and Vallabhbhai Patelwere farmers and worked for thewelfare of poor and farmers.

“Sardar Vallabhbhai Patelhad once said during India’spartition that if Chaudhary

Chhotu Ram was alive, I wouldnot have worried about Punjab.Chaudhary Chhotu Ramwould have managed every-thing,” the Prime Minister saidwhile making a connectionbetween the two leaders.

In the past four years of mygovernment, we have not onlyhonoured several great leadersand personalities but have beenworking on their vision andideals, he said.

“Just like Chhotu Ram madeefforts for empowering poorand farmers, our government isalso working in this regard,” saidthe Prime Minister while high-lighting his government’s flag-ship initiatives for farmers.

Persistent steps are beingtaken for ensuring remunera-tive prices to the farmers, pro-viding hybrid seeds and ade-quate water for irrigation, headded.

About Haryana, Modi said50 lakh Soil Health Cards(SHC) has been issued to the

farmers to ensure that farmersget the benefit of seasonalcrops. Apart from this, claimamount of Rs 350 crore hasbeen distributed among thefarmers on account of cropdamage due to natural calami-ties. Water has reached to eventhose tail ends in the statewhich were deprived of waterfor last about 30 years, he said.

Referring to the memo-randum between six states forthe construction of LakhwarDam, he said that this wouldbenefit Haryana immensely.

On the pattern of MandiAct got enacted byDeenbandhu Chhotu Ramnine-ten decades back forensuring remunerative prices tothe farmers, the presentGovernment has launched anew scheme namely “PradhanMantri Annadata AaySanraksHan Abhiyan” (PM-AASHA).

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In its campaign to douse theproblem of stubble burning,

Punjab Government has nowmade its employees accountableto check the menace. TheGovernment has issued detailedinstructions to the entire staff ofdepartments, boards, or corpo-rations, and cooperative societiesmaking them accountable forburning any paddy straw on thefarms owned or cultivated bythem.

The state nodal officer ofanti-stubble burning campaignKahan Singh Pannu informedthat Punjab Government hasissued instructions to all depart-ments that in addition to ensur-ing that they themselves do notindulge in straw burning, theseemployees have also been direct-ed to create awareness amongstthe farmers about the ill-effectsof stubble burning causing irre-versible damage to nature, envi-ronment and human health.

He said that in case anyemployee fails to comply withthese directions, disciplinaryproceedings would be initiatedagainst such delinquent employ-ees.

“These officials have alsobeen mandated to bring to the

notice of the concerned author-ities about any incident of stub-ble burning across the state,” hesaid.

Notably, the StateGovernment has alreadyembarked upon a programmefor management of paddy straw,without burning, by the farmers.As many as 24,315 subidizedagro-machines or equipmentsare being supplied to the farm-ers, Cooperative Societies andCustom Hiring Centres toachieve zero burning of paddystraw.

About 8,000 village levelnodal officers have been deput-ed to create awareness againststubble burning amongst farm-ers.

Paddy is grown on 65 lakhacres of land in Punjab. Afterharvesting paddy, about 20 mil-lion tonnes of paddy straw is leftin the fields to be managed bythe farmers before sowing thenext Rabi crops. It is estimatedthat 15 million tonnes of paddystraw is burnt by farmers forearly and easy clearance of thefields.

Chief Minister CaptAmarinder Singh had recentlywritten a letter to the PrimeMinister Narendra Modi seek-ing Rs 100 per quintal as com-

pensation only for those farm-ers who abstain from burningpaddy residue under the StateGovernment’s ambitious pro-gramme for management ofpaddy straw.

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Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira onTuesday slammed CaptAmarinder Singh led PunjabGovernment for “vindictively”penalising farmers for stubbleburning to hide its own failureon the issue.

Deploring Amritsar DistrictAdministration for challaning101 farmers in the past threedays for flouting the ban onburning of crop residue in theirfields, Khaira said that theAdministration has imposed afine of Rs 2.56 lakhs on the farm-ers for no fault of theirs.

“Although I stand for cleanenvironment and do not supportburning of stubble, but thefarmers have no option, as theGovernment has completelyfailed to provide machinery,subsidy or financial assistance tothem to consume the straw inthe fields instead of burning,” hesaid.

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Former Haryana ChiefMinister Bhupinder Singh

Hooda, who is a member ofCongress’ manifesto committee

for 2019 Lok Sabha polls, metfarmers from Haryana andPunjab on Tuesday here toseek their suggestions.

The meeting was held onthe day when the Prime

Minister Narendra Modiunveiled the statue of Jat-farmerleader Sir Chhotu Ram inHooda’s bastion Rohtak.

On the same day, Hooda’sdetractor Haryana Congresschief Ashok Tanwar alsolaunched party’s Jan SamparkAbhiyan ahead of the LokSabha polls 2019.

After the meeting withfarmers from the two states,Hooda, while talking to themediapersons said that we havedecided to seek suggestionsfrom farmers of Uttar Pradesh,Haryana and Punjab so thattheir problems could beaddressed by the party.

In this regard, a meetingwith the farmers of Punjaband Haryana was held here andthey gave suggestions includingcomplete loan waiver, buying ofentire produce of farmers andfixing MSP as per recommen-dations of Swaminathan report,providing financial assistanceand equipments to famers toresolve problem of stubbleburning, removing GST on agriequipments and bringing petroland diesel under GST, resolvingthe problem of stray animals,pension for farmers, free facil-ity of power and water amongothers, said the two-time for-mer Chief Minister.

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Undeterred by the strictstance adopted by the

Punjab Government, the jointteachers’ union continued theirprotest for the third day atPatiala — the home con-stituency of Chief MinisterCapt Amarinder Singh.

The State EducationMinister on late Mondayevening issued suspensionorders of five protesting teach-ers.

Protesting against theCongress-led PunjabGovernment’s “offer” for regu-larising teachers’ job with amassive salary cut, no less than150 teachers, from joint teach-ers’ union of RashtriyaMadhayamik Siksha Abhiyaan(RMSA) and Sarva SikhshaAbhiyaan (SSA), have startedprotest dharna since Sunday

evening at Patiala, while 11 oth-ers are sitting on fast-unto-death.

Taking string note of theprevailing situation, the ChiefMinister has sought a detailedreport of the ongoing agitationfrom the Education MinisterOP Soni.

It has been learnt that theChief Minister has expressedconcern over the manner inwhich the teachers have beenprotesting, and the way theEducation Department is deal-ing with the situation includingthe suspension of five teachers,out of which three hails fromPatiala.

On the other hand,Education Minister Soni isfirm on his stand and wantedthe teachers to join their duties.“No work, no pay,” he made itclear to the protesting teachers,while at the same time, blam-ing the union leaders of “insti-gating the teachers”.

“Teachers have the right toprotest and can do so on non-working days...I have no objec-tion. But if they will lodgeprotest during working days,action will be taken. They can-not play with students’ future,”said Soni.

The Minister maintainedthat only a small section ofteachers is opposing the gov-ernment’s decision regardingtheir regularisation. “It is onlythe union leaders who areopposing the decision andinstigating others, while mostof the teachers are fine with thedecision,” said Soni.

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Haryana Chief MinisterManohar Lal on Tuesday

requested the Prime MinisterNarendra Modi to inauguratethe remaining section ofKundli Manesar Palwal (KMP)Expressway, the work onwhich is likely to be complet-ed within one month.

“Manesar Palwal section ofthe expressway has alreadybeen completed and madefunctional,” said Manohar Lalwhile addressing theDeenbandhu Samriti Rally inSampla at Rohtak,

The State Government hasplanned to organize a megarally on November 1 in CM’sconstituency Karnal and anumber of projects includingKMP will be inaugurated onthe occasion. The rally wouldbe held on Haryana Day,November 1 to celebrate thecompletion of four yearstenure of BJP led HaryanaGovernment.

The Chief Minister, whileblaming the previous govern-ment in the state for delayingthe KMP project, said that thepresent State Government hasfast-tracked the work on theproject which was stalled forlast several years.

He said that the StateGovernment has also decidedto develop Panch Gram Yojanaalong the expressway.

Manohar Lal said thatduring his last visit the PrimeMinister had also announcedto rename Garhi Sampla vil-lage as Chhotu Ram Nagar.

Recalling the contributionmade by Deenbandhu Chhotu

Ram, the Chief Minister saidthat the great farmer leaderhad undertaken various wel-fare works for the upliftmentof villagers, labourers andfarmers.

He said that DeenbandhuChhotu Ram had got imple-mented the rule of 8-hourwork for labourers and one-day holiday for traders.

Following the vision ofDeenbandhu Chhotu Ram,the present Government hadlaunched Pradhan MantriFasal Bima Yojana andBhavantar Bharpayee Yojanafor the welfare of farmers. Asa result of the welfare policiesand schemes of the govern-ment, the state has been mov-ing ahead at both national andinternational level, ManoharLal said.

Highlighting his govern-ment’s initiatives, he said thata provision is being made forthe registry of property lyingwithin ‘laal dora’ in villages.Apart from this, the StateGovernment has also abol-ished ‘remand pratha’ in theinterest of farmers so thatthey would not have to makefrequent rounds of theRevenue Courts to get theirland-related issues settled, hesaid.

Manohar Lal added thatthe state also ensured trans-parency in government jobsand now youth were gettingjobs on merit basis.

Speaking on the occasion,Union Steel Minister BirenderSingh, the grandson of SirChhotu Ram thanked thePrime Minister for making thefarmers financially strong.

He said that DeenbandhuChhotu Ram had resolved towork for the welfare of poor,

farmers, people belonging toScheduled Castes andBackward Classes. It was

Deenbandhu Chhotu Ramwho raised voice for minimumsupport prices for crops, he

added.Birendrer Singh said that

Deenbandhu Chhotu Ramenvisioned the Bhakra Damand today the farmers ofPunjab, Haryana andRajasthan are getting sufficientwater.

The former Congress vet-eran Birender Singh hadswitched to BJP during the

Lok Sabha polls 2014.Others present on the

occasion included HaryanaGovernor Satyadeo NarainArya, Himachal PradeshGovernor Acharya Devvrat,Jammu and KashmirGovernor Satya Pal Malik,Union Minister of State forSocial Justice andEmpowerment Krishan Pal

Gurjar, Finance Minister Capt.Abhimanyu, Agriculture andFarmers’ Welfare Minister OPDhankar, Education MinisterRam Bilas Sharma among oth-ers.

Congress MP fromRohtak, Deepender Hoodaalso attended the event ofunveiling of statue of ChhotuRam.

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On his visit to Haryana, Prime Minister Narendra Modi alsolaid the foundation stone of Rail Coach Refurbishing and

Rehabilitation Factory in Barhi area of Sonepat district on Tuesday. The factory would be built on 163 acres of land given by the

State Government in Barhi, Sonepat. In this Rail Coach Factory,along with new coaches, beautification of old coaches would alsobe done.

The Prime Minister while addressing the rally said that RailCoach Factory which would come in village Barhi at a cost ofRs 500 crore would give impetus to the industrial developmentof Haryana and also provide employment opportunities to theyouth.

He said that with the setting up of Rail Coach Factory, 250coaches of passenger train would be repaired and modernizedevery year. There would be no need to send such train coachesto far off factories for their upkeep. This would help increasingthe availability of passenger coaches and the passengers wouldbe able to get the facility of modern coaches, he said.

Modi further said that the material including sheets, fans,fitting required for this Rail Coach Factory would be made avail-able at the local level which would benefit the industries ofHaryana.

He said that this would also assist local engineers and tech-nicians in enhancing their expertise in the field of rail coach fac-tory. These experts would also be able to render their special-ized services in the other parts of the country in the times to come,he added.

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wheat and sugarcane has beenincreased, Modi added.

He also claimed that the gov-ernment has worked to provideeasy credit and banking servicesto farmers.

The Prime Minister furthersaid that it was due to the visionof Sir Chhotu Ram, who initiat-ed the Bhakra Dam hydroelec-tric project in the 1940s thatfarmers of Punjab, Haryana andRajasthan benefitted for manyyears.

Further citing Sir ChhotuRam’s contributions, Modi said,“Time and again, our countryhas produced great personalitieswho have contributed immense-ly towards building India. SirChhotu Ram is one such per-

sonality.”“There is no village in

Haryana, which did not have therepresentation in our armedforces and the credit for thisachievement goes toDeenbandhu Chhotu Ram as hemotivated the farmers to join theArmy during the British rule,” headded. The Prime Minister alsoappreciated the StateGovernment for achieving thestatus of open defecation freeespecially to the MaharashiDayanand University which hasachieved first rank in theSwachhta Survey.

The state has made aremarkable progress under theambitious Beti Bachao BetiPadhao program and the daugh-ters of Haryana continue tomake the country and the stateproud at international platforms,Modi added.

During his address whichlasted for around 20 minutes, thePrime Minister also called uponthe people to work unitedly forbuilding a new nation as thiswould be a real tribute toDeenbandhu Chhotu Ram.

He concluded his speech by

extending congratulations inadvance to the people of the stateon the occasion of Haryana Dayon November 1.

Earlier after unveiling thestatue of Chhotu Ram, Modipaid floral tribute to the peasantleader and visited a museumbuilt in his memory.

Renowned sculptor andPadma Bhushan-recipient RamVanji Sutar had sculpted the 64-foot-tall statue. As many as 5,500farmers of the state had donat-ed around half kg to 2 kg ironmetal for the construction of thisstatue.

Sir Chhotu Ram, who wasborn on November 24, 1881, wasregarded as a messiah of peasantsand was instrumental in empow-ering farmers in pre-Independence era and gettingpro-farmers law enacted.

The unveiling of the statueassumes significance as elec-tions to Lok Sabha and HaryanaAssembly are slated next year.With Tuesday’s event, the rulingBJP is hoping to appease theinfluential Jat community, whichhave recently stepped up itsante against the BJP Governmentover the key demand of reser-vation.

The Jats, which constitutenearly 29 percent of Haryana’spopulation, had provided theBJP the necessary traction to reg-ister its maiden victory inOctober 2014 assembly polls aswell winning 7 out of 10 LokSabha seats earlier that year.

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Faced with criticism from theopposition parties and stu-

dents’ outfits for conductingindirect elections to students’unions in Universities andColleges of Haryana, theManohar Lal KhattarGovernment’s stand on the elec-tion issue seems to be fluctuat-ing with every passing hour.

After creating a lot of con-fusion and issuing separatedirections thrice related to thestudents’ unions polls onTuesday, the State Governmentfinally announced to hold thesepolls on October 17.

A communication fromAdditional Chief Secretary,

Higher Education Departmentwas sent to 13 Universities onTuesday morning for conduct-ing the students’ union polls onOctober 17. However, only a fewminutes later, another emailwas sent to the Universitiesstating that the communica-tion was sent wrongly and inad-vertently and may be considerednull and void.

Known for its faux pas inofficial orders, the StateGovernment, then issued anoth-er order for the third time, stat-ing that the previous commu-nication sent may not be treat-ed as withdrawn and the elec-tions will be held on October 17.The notification for holding thestudent union elections will be

issued by the concerned affili-ating university in due course oftime with all the details, statedthe third order sent to allPrincipals of Government,Government Aided and SFSDegree Colleges.

Various students’ organisa-tions of Haryana, including theNSUI, AIDSO, INSO and oth-ers have announced to protestagainst the State Government’smove to hold indirect elections.

Reacting to the govern-ment’s orders, Digvijay SinghChautala, Indian NationalStudent Organization (INSO)chief said that we will not allowthe conduct of indirect elec-tions to students’ unions inHaryana.

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Even as Gujarat Chief MinisterVijay Rupani demanded that the

Congress should take action againstits MLA Alpesh Thakor for spread-ing hatred, Congress presidentRahul Gandhi sought to target theBJP dispensation saying that theattacks on the migrant workforce inGujarat are not good for businessand the economy and that theGovernment must act decisively torestore peace and ensure safety ofevery Indian.

In a Facebook post, Rahul said"poor'" economic policies, demon-etisation and a "poorly-imple-mented" GST has led to closure offactories and rise in unemploymentthat is being manifested in violentattacks on migrants across Gujarat.He said there is growing frustrationand anger with the Government's"inability" to create jobs.

"Across Gujarat, poor econom-ic policies, demonetisation andpoorly executed GST have devas-tated industry resulting in shuttingdown of factories and industrialunits, leading to massive unem-ployment. Amongst the youth there

is growing frustration and angerwith the Government's inability tocreate jobs. This anger and frustra-tion is being manifested in violentattacks on migrants, across thestate of Gujarat," the Congresspresident said in his post.

The Congress chief said themigrant workforce is "critical to oureconomic growth" and attacks onthem create an environment offear and insecurity that isn't goodfor business and economy".

"The Government must actdecisively, and do all it can torestore peace and to ensure the safe-ty of every Indian," he also said.

New Delhi: The SupremeCourt on Tuesday directeddoctors of a super-specialityhospital here to furnish areport whether Uttar Pradeshpolitician D P Yadav, facing lifeterm in the MLA murder case,was fit to undergo spinalsurgery and cautioned himagainst taking any "undueadvantage".

Yadav was awarded lifeimprisonment by a DehradunCBI court in 2015 for his rolein the murder of MahendraSingh Bhati, an MLA fromGhaziabad's Dadri area. Thelawmaker was shot dead atDadri railway crossing inDecember 1992.

A bench headed by ChiefJustice Ranjan Gogoi, whichhad earlier granted an interimbail for 15 days to Yadav forundergoing pre-operationtests, today took strong note ofthe fact that the tests have notbeen done as he was having

viral fever and warned that itwould send him to jail.

"Please don't take undueadvantage. We will send youback to jail. We do not want tocomment on the doctors. Youare having viral fever and whatare you taking — Paracetamoland Betadine," said the bench,also comprising Jutices S KKaul and K M Joseph.

The bench, which has nowfixed the matter on October 12,said the doctors of YashodaSuperspeciality Hospital atGhaziabad would certify thesaid fact that Yadav was in a fitcondition to undergo spinalsurgery and then appropriateorders will be passed.

It also said if doctors saythat he was not fit to undergothe surgery then the accusedwill have to go back to jail.

The bench said that itwould grant Yadav bail oncethe date of surgery is fixed bythe doctors.

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Accused by the BJP of instigatingattacks against migrant North

India workers, Congress MLAAlpesh Thakor on Tuesday claimedthat labourers belonging to UP andBihar left the State for their ChhathPuja festival — a bizarre claimsince this festival is weeks away.

Denying Thakor's claims,Mahadev Jha, president of BiharGujarat Maitri Sangh, said that inthe past four days nearly 1 lakhlabourers have left the State out offear of being attacked. Jha main-tained that generally the workerswould go to their States after takingDiwali bonus.

The exodus of Hindi-speakingworkers, mainly belonging to UttarPradesh and Bihar, continued onTuesday despite the arrest of 530persons for attacking migrantlabourers working in highly indus-trialised districts of Gujarat.

Jha and other leaders fromNorth Indian community settled inGujarat met Gujarat Chief MinisterVijay Rupani and demanded sternaction against those elements whoare spreading terror amongst themigrant labourers.

For his part, Minister of State for

Home Pradeep Sinh Jadeja claimedthat the State Government wasmonitoring the situation closelyand as a result of quick action takenby the police there was not a singleincident of attack on migrants overthe past 72 hours.

Not a single person responsiblefor spreading hatred among migrantand local people would be spared,assured Jadeja hinting that as manyas 20 persons were arrested underthe IT Act. Those arrested includ-ed Thakor Sena's media convenorRahul Parmar.

"Names of the leaders would beannounced in couple of days.Analysis of their call details is goingon," he said adding that as of now61 cases of attack on migrant labour-ers were registered. LambastingAlpesh Thakor, Gujarat's DeputyCM Nitin Patel said that theCongress MLA was responsible for

instigating his supporters to attackon non-Gujarati labourers over theissue of rape on 14-month-old girl.Gujarat BJP president Jitu Vaghanitoo came down heavily onOpposition party for disturbingpeace in the state in the name ofregions.

Talking to media persons,Thakor said that the ruling BJP wasplaying dirty politics against him ashe never appealed his supporters toattack the migrant workers. "If suchkind of politics will continue againstme, I would not hesitate to resign asMLA. If I am guilty, put me behindthe bars," he said.

Meanwhile, in a letter to GujaratChief Minister, the GujaratChamber of Commerce and indus-try (GCCI) chief, Jaimin Vasa,urged for the safety of migrantworkers, who are working in indus-tries across the State.

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As a panicked workforce fromUP and Bihar made its journey

back home in the light of incidentsof violence against them in Gujarat,the BJP on Tuesday blamedCongress president Rahul Gandhiand Congress MLA from GujaratAlpesh Tahkor for violence againstthe Hindi-speaking people in thestate.

An estimated 50,000 Hindi-speaking migrants from UP andBihar have fled Gujarat after theycame under attack in differentparts of Gujarat, particularly inindustrial estates and places wherethe migrant workforce stays.

Since the rape of a 14-month-old girl in Sabarkantha district onSeptember 28 and the arrest of alabourer hailing from Bihar for thecrime, six districts, most of them innorth Gujarat, have witnessed vio-lence.

BJP spokesman Sambit Patraclaimed that Congress MLA AlpeshThakor was fomenting attacks onmigrants and sought his dismissalfrom the party.

Patra said that in desperation tolaunch the political career of Rahulhis party has engaged in a conspir-

acy to create division and confusionin different communities in thecountry. He alleged that there wasa pattern to what Congress is doingand cited instances of violence inBhima-Koregaon in Maharashtra,violence in Mandsaur in MadhyaPradesh and "support" to Urban-Naxals by the Opposition party.

He alleged that Congress pres-ident appointed Thakor as deputy-in-charge of Bihar and the latterorchestrated attacks againstmigrants from Bihar in Gujarat. Hesaid 30 Congressmen were arrest-ed by the Gujarat police who heclaimed had instigated violenceagainst the Hindi speaking work-force.

The BJP leader said over a peri-od Rahul was creating confusion inthe country to promote himself.The party has failed to launch hiscareer even though it has used allmethods at its hand. People haverefused to accept his leadership andRahul has "no substance", Patra saidadding that people will give a fittingreply to him and his party duringthe elections.

BJP also showed a short videofilm where Congress leaders in dif-ferent States were purportedly seeninstigating violence.

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If left uncontrolled, then for-est fires in the country threat-

en to engulf India's dream toexpand its forest and tree coverby 2030 to create an addition-al carbon sink of 2.5 to 3 bil-lion tons of CO2 equivalent.Also, forest fires in India causean annual loss of �1,101 crore.

A joint report by theUnion Environment Ministryand World Bank, which wasreleased on Tuesday here,pointed out that every year,forest fires occur in around halfof India's 647 districts and innearly all the States with thosein Northeast region accountingfor the greatest share of firedetections. However, thelargest area affected by fire isin the Central region, thereport on 'Strengthening ForestFire Management in India',noted.

Of the 1,41,747 forest firesbetween 2003 and 2016, 13,453

(9.49 per cent) occurred inLunglei district of Mizoramalone. In central India,Gadhchiroli in Maharashtrahad the largest area affected byforest fire - almost 4106 squarekilometers and 8.24 per cent ofthe share of burnt area, fol-lowed by Bijapur inChhattisgarh at 2,633 squarekilometers (5.29 per cent) andKhammam in Telangana at1923 square kilometers (3.86per cent), said the report.

In India, one estimateshows that nearly 49,000 squarekilometers of forests — an arealarger than the size of Haryana— were burned in 2014 alone(a mild year compared to oth-ers in the recent past), it men-tioned.

Percentagewise, just 20 dis-tricts (mostly located in theNortheast) account for over 40percent of all forest fires detect-ed between 2003 and 2016while 20 districts (mainly inCentral India) account for

about 48 per cent of the totalfire-affected area.

Besides seeking to under-stand how forest fires are deter-ring India's efforts to meet itsclimate change goals, thereport also analysed patternsand trends of forest fires inIndia.

"Forest fires are a challengeacross many countries. Theylead to the loss of lives andlivelihoods for people directlydependent on forest produce.This report discusses policieson forest fire prevention andmanagement and underscoresthe need for better fire pre-vention practices and a well-equipped and trained work-force to fight fires," said JunaidAhmad, World Bank CountryDirector in India.

After the release of thereport, Union EnvironmentMinister Harsh Vardhan calledfor "aggressive strategy" thatcan help in controlling forestfires.

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The National Investigation Agency(NIA) on Tuesday conducted

searches at 15 places in Ranchi,Hazaribagh and Jamshedpur inJharkhand and Durgapur in WestBengal in a Naxal funding case andrecovered cash worth nearly �1 crorein Indian and foreign currency.

"On 09.10.2018, NIA conductedsearches at 15 locations in Jharkhandand West Bengal in connection withLWE Terror funding case. Fifteenteams of NIA assisted by Jharkhandpolice carried out searches at the res-idences and offices of managers ofdifferent companies associated withpurchase and transport of coal inAmrapali and Magadh coalfields fortheir alleged role in providing fundsto (banned) LWE organisation TPC(Tritiya Prastuti Committee)," theNIA said in a statement.

During searches, the NIAclaimed to have seized incriminatingmaterials. Seized documents relate topayments made to Amrapali and

Magadh Area Committee of TPC,bank account details and fixeddeposits, deduction of levy amount,computers, hard discs, mobiles con-taining accounts of companies, diariescontaining entries of money paid toTPC and PLFI (Peoples LiberationFront of India), cash worth �68 lacsbesides 10,000 Singapore dollars and$1300 along with �86,000 demone-tised currency notes.

The case was initially registeredby the Jharkhand police on January11, 2016 at Tandwa police station inChatra district of the State for extor-tion/Levy collection/money laun-dering by Naxal cadres in Jharkhandand Bihar. The NIA took over thecase on February 16 this year fol-lowing a reference from CounterTerrorism and CounterRadicalisation Division of the UnionHome Ministry.

The case was booked under var-ious Sections of the Indian PenalCode and relevant provisions of theIndian Arms Act and UnlawfulActivities (Prevention) Act.

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Congress on Tuesday got an opportu-nity to attack Union Minister for Road

Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari forthe second time in recent months for hisvirtual admission of tall promises by BJPin run up to the 2014 general elections.

Gadkari in a TV show in Marathi,admitted that the BJP made tall promis-es ahead of Lok Sabha elections in 2014.

Congress president Rahul Gandhiwas quick to share the video of the featurewhich also had Bollywood actor NanaPatekar in the show. Gadkari is heard say-ing that the BJP was sure that they wouldnot be able to come to power...."So ourpeople suggested to make tall promises.If we do not come to power, we would notbe responsible anyways. Now the problemis that people have voted us to power."Following this Gadkari and Patekar alsoshare lighter moments on this statement.

"Now people remind us of our promis-es...we just laugh and move on," theMinister says.

Further in a different question,Gadkari also admitted that there is a needfor the BJP to be more open and trans-parent.

Earlier in August this year, Gadkari

received praise by the Gandhi scionwhich, however, was filled with sarcasm.

Reacting to a news report then, Rahulposted that the quote was correct. He wasreplying to questions on the Maratha agi-tation for job quota: "Where are the jobs?"

Rahul Gandhi tweeted: "Excellentquestion, Gadkariji".

"Let us assume the reservation isgiven. But there are no jobs. Because inbanks, the jobs have shrunk because of IT(information technology). TheGovernment recruitment is frozen. Whereare the jobs?" Gadkari had asked, respond-ing to reporters' questions.

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Brahmos scientist NishantAgrawal, arrested by Uttar

Pradesh Anti-TerrorismSquad (ATS), was communi-cating with two FacebookIDs from IP addresses ofBahria town of Islamabad inPakistan.

The two Facebook IDswere identified in the pseudonames of Roopa Khanna andJaspreet Kaur. Agrawal's firstalleged communication, inter-cepted on Facebook, withPakistan women beganbetween April 2 and 6 thisyear. The log-in locations ofthe Pakistani IDs wereallegedly changed five times,sources in the security agen-cies said.

"Their discussions alleged-ly began on strike weapons tonuclear warheads and subma-rine ballistic missiles, devel-oped by Lockheed MartinSpace and those used by RoyalNavy. The two IDs were kept'private' in the profile settingson their Facebook page," theysaid.

However, to add "authen-ticity" of the communicationswith Agrawal, Khanna andKaur held video calls with theBrahmos engineer andengaged him on topics relat-ed to design, standard oper-ating procedure (SOP) involv-ing various missile systemsused by India and implemen-tation of SOPs of several mis-siles used inside and outsideIndia, the sources furthersaid.

The two Pakistani womencreated their fake Facebook IDsand posted CVs on LinkedIn.The duo followed top scientistsand allegedly temptedAgrawal, who too openly

boasted about his profile onLinkedIn.The most recent chatbetween them was till twodays before Aggarwal's arreston Monday.

The agencies are trying tofind out if any financial trans-action was involved duringthese chats or any classifiedmaterial was transmitted by theaccused scientist.

"While BrahMos has com-pleted 20 supersonic years, I gotblessed with 'Young ScientistAward' from the hands ofSecretary Defence R&D andChairman DRDO, HisExcellency RussianAmbassador to India andBrahMos CEO&MD," readAgrawal's last FB post.

Intelligence officials track-ing the developments said theUP ATS might have jumpedthe gun as the State police isyet to gather any evidence tosuggest any suspect transac-tions between the accusedand the Pakistani honey trap-pers.

Another official said thecase may head the ISRO spyingcase way unless prosecutableevidence is collected during thecourse of ongoing investigationinto the case.

Agrawal was posted as asystems engineer at theNagpur-based missile researchcentre of Brahmos AerospacePrivate Ltd., a joint venturebetween India's DefenceResearch and DevelopmentOrganisation and Russia'sMilitary IndustrialConsortium.

He was arrested in a jointoperation by the ATS ofMaharashtra and UP onMonday on charges of spyingfor Pakistan's covert agencyInter-Services Intelligence(ISI).

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Union Home Minister Rajnath Singhon Tuesday said terrorists are

pushing their "limits" and "under-pants" to attack global civil aviationoperations even as he recalled the 2009"underwear bomber", who attempted toblow up an Amsterdam-Detroit flightmid-air.

Speaking at a seminar on aviationsecurity, Singh reminded the top secu-rity brass that security of 40 small air-ports and heliports should be ensuredand cannot be ignored. "The civil avi-ation sector is highly sensitive and highprofile in nature. It also gets worldwideattention when hit by any attack. Often

these incidents have geopolitical ram-ifications," he said after inaugurating atwo-day seminar on 'international avi-

ation security' here."The case of the shoe bomber in

2001, the use of liquid explosives inLondon in 2006 and the case of theunderwear bomber in Amsterdam in2009, clearly indicate that terrorists arepushing the limits and even theirunderpants to hit the aviation sector,"Singh said.

The minister also asked aviationsecurity agencies in the country toundertake "perspective planning" tothwart possible terror-like threats toaviation facilities. Security agenciessuch as the CISF should undertake"untiring and sincere efforts to main-tain fool-proof security" at airports,which are thronged by lakhs of travel-

ers daily, Singh said. The seminar is being organised by

the Central Industrial Security Force(CISF), a federal force that guards 60civil airports at present. It is beingattended by delegates from 18 countriesand several airlines.

Officials said here has been a talkof deploying CISF personnel at airportsunder the RCS or UDAN scheme, no"final decision" has been taken. Thesefacilities continue to be guarded by statepolice forces, which are not as profes-sional as the central force, in render-ing aviation security duties, they said.

Singh said it was essential to inno-vate and think new to meet evolvingthreats to aviation security.

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Defending its decision tohold bypolls to three Lok

Sabha seats in Karnataka, theElection Commission (EC) onTuesday said the decision is inaccordance with theRepresentation of the PeopleAct, 1951, which mandates thepoll body to fill the vacanciesthrough bypoll within sixmonths.

The controversy eruptedafter the EC announced bypollsin Bellary(ST), Shimoga andMandya in Karnataka onNovember 3 but did notannounce bypolls in five LokSabha seats in Andhra Pradesh.

In its clarification, the ECsaid Section 151 A of theRepresentation of the PeopleAct, 1951 mandates it to fill thecasual vacancies in the Housesof Parliament and state legisla-tures through bye electionswithin six months from the dateof occurrence of the vacancy,provided that the remainder of

the term of a member in rela-tion to a vacancy is one year ormore. The term of the 16th LokSabha is upto June 3, 2019.

The EC said vacanciesfrom Bellary (ST), Shimogaand Mandya constituencies ofKarnataka occurred on May 18and May 21, 2018 respectively,whereas vacancies from the fiveparliamentary constituenciesfrom Andhra Pradesh occurredon June 20.

"As the vacancies fromKarnataka have occurred morethan one year before the expi-ration of the term of House, byeelections are required to beheld under Section 151A of R PAct 1951 to fill these vacancieswithin six months from the dateof occurrence of vacancies, thatis 18th and 21st May, 2018. Inthe case of vacancies fromAndhra Pradesh, there is noneed to hold bye elections as theremaining term of the LokSabha is less than one year fromthe date of occurrence of vacan-cies that is 20th June, 2018, EC

said in a statement.Following the announce-

ment, political parties in thestate, while welcoming theschedule for Assembly by-polls,expressed "surprise" about thedecision to hold by-elections tothree Lok Sabha seats. Severalpolitical leaders raised questionsabout Lok Sabha bypolls beingannounced in Karnataka, whilenot doing the same for seats inneighbouring Andhra Pradesh.

The by-elections had beennecessitated after BJP's B SYeddyurappa (Shimoga) and BSriramalu (Bellary), and C SPuttaraju of JD(S) (Mandya)resigned as MPs on their elec-tion to the assembly in May last.Bypolls to Jamkhandi Assemblyseat was necessitated followingthe death of Congress MLASiddu Nyamagouda, whileRamanagara fell vacant as ChiefMinister H D Kumaraswamygave up the seat and retainedChannapatna, the other seg-ment won by him in theAssembly elections.

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An early morning arrest ofthe editor of a Tamil week-

ly in connection with analleged defamation case andthe court’s refusal to therequest of the police for hisjudicial custody has sent shockwaves across the social andpolitical circles in Chennai.

Gopal, known popularly asNakeeran Gopal, editor of theweekly Nakeeran, was arrestedby a team of police officialsfrom Chennai airport earlyTuesday, from where he was tofly off to Pune. He was broughtto Chindradipet police stationand grilled for some time.Though he was presented bythe police in a local court witha request to remand him injudicial custody, the judgerejected the plea by the police.

Though no reason for thearrest was forthcoming, one ofthe police officials who was amember of the team that tookGopal into custody said that hewas picked up in connectionwith a complaint by Raj Bhavan

in Chennai for an article pub-lished in the April issue of hisweekly which portrayed theRaj Bhavan staff in poor light.The article had alleged thatNirmal Devi, an assistant pro-fessor from Tirunelveli districtwho was arrested by the policeon charges of enticing her girlstudents for sexual favours , wasworking for the Raj Bhavan staffin Chennai.

Nirmala Devi, who wasarrested following complaintsfrom some of the girl studentsis still in judicial custody. Leadersof all political parties barring theAIADMK and the BJP had con-demned the arrest of Gopal.

In another incident, aChennai-based journalistalleged on a social media sitethat national award winningpoet Vairamuthu had sexuallymolested a woman who wasworking with him. The victimin messages to the journalist hadstated that Vairamuthu hadmisbehaved with her when shewent to work with him in a pro-

ject in his office-cum-residence.The posting by the journal-

ist says that the message was sentto her by the victim herself. Thewords of the victim were post-ed in the site sans her name. “Irespected him as he is a legend,famous poet and national awardwinner. In the pretext of explain-ing lyrics, he came to me,hugged me and kissed me. I didnot know what to do. I said Oksir, thank you and ran away fromhis house”, said the posting.

The victim further statedthat people were asked to meethim at his Kodambakkam resi-dence (a Chennai suburb oncefamous for film and recordingstudios). “I have shuddered beingalone in a room with him thoughmy work gave me more instanceswhere I had to work with him.”

The victim got a moralebooster when ace singerChinmayi Sripada joined thebandwagon accusingVairamuthu in harshest of words.“The industry knows. The menknow. The time is bloody up,”tweeted Chinmayi. Two moreleading actresses too came out insupport of the victim.

She further stated that thewhole industry knew thatVairamuthu was a “predator”and people were scared toexpose him due to his politicalconnections. “He had alleged-ly used these connections tosilence his other victims,” saysthe message posted by thejournalist.

Vairamuthu had beenhonoured with PadmaBhushan by the President ofIndia in 2014 and has won thenational award for the best lyri-cist a record number of seventimes.

Early this year, the poet,who was close to late DMKchief M Karunanidhi hadearned the wrath of SanghParivar organisations foralleged derogatory remarksagainst Andal, one of the 12Vaishavite Saints. The poet hasnot responded to the charges atthe time of going to Press.

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urgent hearing on a pleaseeking review of its verdictallowing women of all agegroups entr y into theSabarimala temple.

A bench comprisingChief Justice Ranjan Gogoi,Justices SK Kaul and KMJoseph considered the sub-mission of Shylaja Vijayan,president, National AyyappaDevotees Association,through lawyer Mathews JNedumpara, which contend-ed that the f ive-judgeConstitution bench verdictlifting the ban was "absolute-ly untenable and irrational".

"It will be listed in duecourse," the bench said,adding that in any case, thereview petition will be heardin chamber and not in opencourt.

The lawyer, appearing forthe Devotees Association, alsosought a stay on the verdictand said the temple would beopening on October 16 forpilgrimage.

The bench, however, saidthe review petition can onlybe taken up after the

Dussehra vacation.Besides the Association,

another petition seekingreview of the September 28verdict of the apex court hasalso been filed by the NairService Society (NSS).

A five-judge constitutionbench headed by then ChiefJustice Dipak Misra, had in its4:1 verdict, said banning theentry of women into theshrine is gender discrimina-tion and that the practice vio-lates rights of Hindu women.

The review petition filedby Vijayan submitted that,"Faith cannot be judged byscientific or rationale rea-sons or logic".

"The notion that thejudgment under review isrevolutionary, one whichremoves the stigma or theconcept of dirt or pollutionassociated with menstrua-tion, is unfounded.

It is a judgment welcomedby hypocrites who were aspir-ing for media headlines.

On the merits of the case,as well, the said judgment isabsolutely untenable and irra-tional, if not perverse," thepetition submitted.

The second petition filedby NSS, an organisation forthe uplift and welfare of the

Nair community, said as thedeity is a 'Naist ikaBrahmachari, females beforethe age of 10 and after the ageof 50 years are eligible to wor-ship him and there is nopractice of excluding wor-ship by females.

"Hence, the delay or waitfor 40 years to worship can-not be considered as exclu-sionary and it is an error oflaw on the face of the judge-ment," the plea said.

The NSS said many essen-tial religious practices will berendered void and the religionitself may be rendered out ofexistence if the generalground of equality underArticle 14 is resorted to andthe essential religious prac-tices are tested on the princi-ple of rationality.

"Review judgment andorder...On the ground that itis unconstitutional and voidinasmuch as it is vitiated byerrors apparent on the face ofthe record; that it is withoutjurisdiction or in excess ofjurisdiction, that it is in vio-lation of principles of natur-al justice and that it is in vio-lation of express constitu-tional provisions,"the plea filed by the devoteesassociation said.

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Thiruvananthapuram: Rattledby protests by OppositionCongress, BJP and variousorganisations against theGovernment's decision toimplement the apex court ver-dict on Sabarimala, the rulingCPI(M) in Kerala on Tuesdaylaunched 'visadheekaranam'(explanatory) meetings withparticipation of women.

The first of the meetings, toexplain the Government's standon the issue and steps taken byit to implement the SupremeCourt verdict, was inaugurat-ed at Pandalam inPathanamthitta district byCPI(M) central committeemember PK Sreemathy, MP.P Sathi Devi, leader of theJanadhipatiya MahilaAssociation, said the StateGovernment has the duty toimplement the top court ver-dict permitting women of allages to worship at the LordAyyappa temple at Sabarimala.

Volunteers fromKudumbashree, a women'sempowerment and povertyeradication programme, havealso been roped in for themeetings being organised indifferent places for ensuring'equal justice' to all women.

Meanwhile, DevaswomMinister KadakampallySurendran said Governmentwas with the believers andunderstood their sentiments.

"We will not allow anyoneto unleash violence in the nameof devotees," the Minister said,adding the Government willnot go in for any confrontation.

As far as the Governmentis concerned, it wants to pro-vide all facilities to devotees vis-iting the shrine. Last month,�100 crore was sanctionedfrom Kerala InfrastructureFinancial Fund Board (KIFFB)for providing more facilities atSabarimala, he said.

Attacking the Congress andBJP, he said the two parties had

changed their stance only withan eye on the Lok Sabha polls.

The BJP should take out along march to Parliament inNew Delhi and not toThiruvananthapuram, he said.

At Erumeli, an importanthalting place for devotees enroute to Sabarimala, P C George,an independent MLA in thestate assembly, began a fastTuesday morning to safeguardthe traditions of the shrine.

George garlanded a statueof Lord Ayyappa, the presidingdeity at the hill shrine ofSabarimala, before commenc-ing his fast. In the State Capital,believers, including women,took out a march to the RajBhavan asking the state gov-ernment to put pressure on theCentre to bring in a law.

Devotees have also beguncollecting signatures frombelievers to be submitted toPresident Ram Nath Kovind.

Meanwhile, VellapallyNateshan, General Secretary ofSree Narayana DharmaParipalana (SNDP) Yogam, anorganisation of backwardEzhava community, said ten-sion should not be created inthe name of Hinduism.

Agitations over theSabarimala verdict were a chal-lenge to the rule of law, he said.

The Congress, BJP andvarious Hindu organisationshave launched protestsdemanding the StateGovernment file a review peti-tion against the verdict.

The Supreme Court in itsverdict on September 28 hadallowed entry of women of allages into the Sabarimala shrine.

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Former Finance MinisterYashwant Sinha trained

his guns on the CentralGovernment over the deval-uation of the Indian curren-cy against US dollar, sayingthat the Rupee has gone in toa ‘coma’.

Speaking at Ahmedabad ata function of Rashtra Manchheaded by former GujaratChief Minister Suresh Mehta,the former BJP leader said thatwhen Narendra Modi wasGujarat Chief Minister hemade a statement that Rupeewas in ICU when the Indiancurrency was at �60 againstthe US dollar, but now Rupeehas made all time low atalmost �75 per one dollar.

He criticised the ModiGovernment at Centre overRafale deal saying that no one,even the Prime Minister ofIndia, has the right to violatethe Defense ProcurementProcedure. Reacting to therecent attacks on NorthIndian migrants in the state ofGujarat, Sinha said that it wasthe responsibility of the StateGovernment to provide safe-

ty and security. Arebel BJP leader andMP ShatrughanSinha too hit out atthe Government andBJP leadership at theCentre saying theparty hasdodged in‘One ManShow, Twomen Army’referring toP r i m eM i n i s t e rN a r e n d r aModi andBJP presi-dent AmitShah.

He wenton to saythat there isno democra-cy in theparty, onlyautocracy.

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Thus says the Verse number20 of Sankaracharya’s

Brahma Jnanavali Mala:Brahma satyam jagat mithya,jivo brahmaiva maparah(Brahman is the only truth, theworld is unreal, and there isultimately no differencebetween Brahman and indi-vidual self).

In Kathamrita, SriRamakrishna Paramahansa isquoted as saying: Jato MatTato Path (As there are a num-ber of beliefs, there are a num-ber of ways).

Times have changed butthe quotes remain as insepara-ble as the Siamese twins in theirimport: “God is one and insep-arable.”

The above sayings areinterpreted in no simpler amanner than this none-too-pompous Sadhu from Kolkata:

Swami Bedanada. He says:“You cannot dissect the Mother(read Goddess Kali). Shebelongs to one and all.”

At Swami Bedanada’s bare-ly 100 sq ft ashram there is noshortage of place. Literally.everyone comes, finds a placeto stand, prays to the Mother —facing south, smiling mercifullyat her children with a homakunda in front and theSwamiji’s saffron mattresssomehow crammed in betweenthe sacred homa kunda and thewall making for the only placeto sit for the visitors that rangefrom Ministers, MPs to thecommon nondescript devotee.

True, you cannot reallydissect the Mother.

Babuji, as they call him lov-ingly, too is as indissectible asher Mother. At 76, he still hastime for one and all and neverdiscriminates between a so-called VVIP and a down-to-

earth disciple.He has eyes for everyone.

No one can leave the placewithout getting the prasadam!

Lend your ears to what theysay in the vicinity and you willfind a plenty of “inexplicable”things happening under Babuji’sspiritual benevolence. Take, forinstance, the girl who was savedfrom an electrical fire back at herhome “by Babuji’s grace.”Another devotee recounts howgot cured after coming to thisabode of the “Kali and son.”Then they show a photograph ofthe sadhu in a blessing postureand eternal rays coming out ofhis palm.

The Bedanada Swamiholds forth: “Mother belongs toall and She resides in all.” So itbecomes imperative for him toserve ‘one and all’ — much theway Swami Vivekananda prac-tised what he preached, saying:“Jib gyane Shiv seva (serving the

human like he is the LordShiva).”

Apart from running med-ical services and helping thepoor with books and clothings,the Sevapeeth Matri Mandir —the Mission that runs under theaegis of Babuji — also encour-ages the devotees to donatetheir mortal bodies for medicalresearch and organ donationpost death.

The Mission would alsoprovide blankets to childrensuffering from cancer atThakurpur Cancer Hospital.“Our resources are limited outof which we try to do as muchas we can,” says a devotee asso-ciated with the Sevapeeth.

No wonder why a group of18 prominent doctors, socialworkers, educationists et al areassociated with the Mission.And the number is multiplyingby the day. Courtesy, Babujiand his Mother Kali.

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Bengal Chief MinisterMamata Banerjee on

Tuesday came down heavily onthe BJP-led GujaratGovernment for not doingenough to instil confidenceamong the migrant workersfrom north Indian States of UPand Bihar who have been flee-ing in hordes following attackson them.

“I don’t know why the peo-ple from North India are beingattacked like this in Gujarat.The trend is dangerous. It is thefailure of the BJP Government.In fact, the situation in all theStates ruled by the BJP is hor-rible. They should take care ofit immediately before the situ-ation goes out of control,” aworried Chief Minister said.

“Why all people fromother States will be heldresponsible and attacked forwrongs committed by anyperson?” Banerjee said even asshe hopped from one Durgapuja pandal to other inaugu-rating the themes of respectivepujas.

She wondered as to “whythe BJP is trying to create con-

fusion and division among thepeople in all the States includ-ing Gujarat. It is for them toanswer to the people why thesituation is becoming bad inGujarat. Such a situation can-not be allowed to continue fora long period of time.”

In one puja pandal insouth Kolkata, the ChiefMinister reiterated, “religionand faith is personal but fes-tival belongs to all. This feel-ing is preserved as a heritagein Bengal. The people shouldbe encouraged to follow a tol-erant path.”

The Chief Minister said the

political parties (read the BJP)that engineer division and fanhatred would one day fall preyto the same hatred and wouldbe obliterated from the scene.

Meanwhile, asked to com-ment on the BJP’s proposedrath yatras in Bengal that wouldbegin in the month ofDecember to converge inKolkata, senior Bengal MinisterPartho Chatterjee said, “Bengalis not a land of yatra politics.Such tricks were tried in the1990s too but failed to yield anyresult. This time also these so-called yatras will fail to producepolitical results for the BJP.”

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The authorities in Kashmir onTuesday said that prepara-

tions have been completed toconduct the second phase of theurban local bodies’ elections onOctober 10. Chief ElectoralOfficer Shaleen Kabra said thatvoting will take place at 544polling stations across the Statebetween 6 am and 4 pm.

He said 270 polling stationshave been designated for votingin Kashmir division and 274 inJammu division.

The CEO said 1029 candi-dates are in the fray for 263municipal wards including 49 inKashmir and 214 in Jammugoing to the polls in Phase-II. Hesaid 881 candidates are in thefray in Jammu division and 148in Kashmir division for Phase-II. The total electorate is 3,46,980with 1,28,104 in Jammu Divisionbelonging to 18 municipal bod-ies and 2, 18, 876 in KashmirDivision of 5 municipal bodiesin the areas going to the polls.

The Control Rooms havebeen established in all theMunicipal Bodies across theState to respond promptly to anycomplaints of violation of theModel Code of Conduct (MCC)as also to disseminate informa-tion to the public.

Adequate security arrange-ments have been made forsmooth conduct of polling acrossthe State. The Government hasformulated unprecedented secu-rity plan for the smooth conductof Urban Local Bodies (ULB)and Panchayat elections in thestate. The plan covers safetyand security of both contestantsand the voters in most sensitive

areas in Kashmir and elsewherein the State.

Adequate arrangements forthe security of the candidates,their personal security as wellas the accommodation arrange-ments have been made. Areadomination, checking andoperations have been going onto ensure general sense of secu-rity. Additional 400 compa-nies of central security forcesare being deployed in the stateover and above the securityforces already stationed.

The government has alsodeclared holiday on the day ofpoll in the municipal areas goingto polls so as to enable the vot-ers to cast their vote. Pertinently,Municipal Elections-2018 arebeing held in four phases, cov-ering 79 municipal bodies withan electorate of about 17 lakh. Atotal of 3372 nominations havebeen filed for 1145 wards.

In the first phase onOctober 8, Jammu Divisionrecorded 65 per cent turnoutwhile Kashmir Division record-ed 18.6 per cent that includesLeh and Kargil districts ofLadakh region that scored ahighest of 62.1 per cent votes.The overall State Poll Percentagewas recorded at 56.7 per cent.

The third phase is sched-uled on 13th while 4th on16th October.

Separatist conglomerateJoint Resistance Leadership(JRL) comprising of Syed AliGeelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooqand Yasin Malik, has called shut-down in all poll bound areas inthe 2nd phase across Kashmir.Terrorist outfit HizbulMujahideen has also threatenedaction against the contestants

and the participants in the ULBand Panchayat elections. YasinMalik continued to remainlodged in local jail.

Meanwhile, Police havearrested four Over GroundWorkers (OGWs) of HizbulMujahideen terrorist outfit fromPampore area of Pulwama dis-trict on Monday.

A police spokesperson in astatement said that on October8 Police Awantipora received areliable information that theactive militant of banned mili-tant outfit HM namely AdilAhmad Bhat a resident ofMalangpora Pulwama, hashanded over a huge amount toone OGW Rouf-ul-Islam Waniof Batpora Ladhoo Khrew inPampore area for distribution ofsame among other terroristsand OGWs for carrying out mil-itant activities in the area.

The spokesman said thatduring the investigation, Rouf-ul-Islam Wani was apprehendedwho disclosed that he hadreceived huge cash from activemilitant Adil Ahmad Bhat fordistribution of the same amongthe other terrosists and OGWsof HM outfit for raising the nec-essary support structure for theterrorist organisation and also forluring youth towards joiningterrorist ranks.

The spokesman added thatthe accused disclosed that thecash amount was handed overto trio of MohammadMaqbool Wani, ShakeelAhmad Wani and Musaib AzizGojree who were all OGWs ofHM. Police apprehended other03 OGWs and subsequentlycash amounts were recoveredat four different places.

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Senior actor Alok Nath —known for his "sanskaari"

on-screen image – faced theheat on Tuesday, after veteranwriter-producer of yesteryearpopular television show ‘Tara’Vinta Nanda went to townaccusing him of sexually vio-lating her 19 years ago andCine & TV Artists Association(CINTAA) announcing that itwould send him a show-causenotice.

After Nanda wrote a long,heart-wrenching Facebook postexposing the senior actor,CINTAA’s general secretary andspokesperson Sushant Singh saidthat a show-cause notice wouldbe sent to Alok Nath. He urgedNanda to file a complaint against"this vile creature" and assuredher of his organisation’s support.

“Dear @vintananda I am soso sorry. As @CintaaOfficial ashow-cause notice will be sentto @aloknath first thing in themrng, why he shudnt b expld.Unfortunately we’ve to followthe due process. I urge u to filea complaint against this vile

creature, we extend u full sup-port,” Singh tweeted from hispersonal account.

In her Facebook post, Nandawrote: "I have waited for thismoment to come for 19 years,"and indirectly described AlokNath as "predator in question"and "the actor par excellence whois known as the most 'sanskaari'(cultured) person in the film andtelevision industry".

In her lengthy FB post,Nanda tore into Alok Nath, bysaying: "He was an alcoholic,shameless and obnoxious but hewas also the television star of thatdecade, so not only was he for-given for all his bad behaviour,many of the guys would also egghim on to be his worst". Shealleged that the actor evenharassed the show's lead actresswho was not interested in him.

Dwelling upon the "worst"that happened to her 19 yearsago, Nanda recalled the eventsthat followed after she had lefta party at Alok Nath’s house at2 am. She said her drinks hadbeen mixed.

"I started to walk home onthe empty streets... Midway Iwas accosted by this man whowas driving his own car and heasked me to sit in it and said hewould drop me home. I trust-ed him and sat in his car.

"I have faint memory afterthat. I can remember moreliquor being poured into mymouth and I remember beingviolated endlessly. When I wokeup the next afternoon, I was in

pain. I hadn't just been raped,I was taken to my own houseand had been brutalised.

"I couldn't get up for mybed. I told some of my friendsbut everybody advised me toforget about it and move on,”she wrote. Later, she got a jobto write and direct a series forPlus Channel, and again herpaths crossed with Alok Nath.

"The man found his waythrough the casting route andbecame one of the lead actors onthe show. He created an envi-ronment in which I was madeto feel threatened, so I asked theproducers to release me fromdirecting the series because Ididn't want to be around wherehe was. "I continued to write theshow," she wrote.

She said that the "most dif-ficult part" and the "main rea-son" why Nanda took so longto come out with the truth wasbecause while she was workingon this new series, she says, "heasked me to come to his houseagain and I went to allow himto violate me".

"I needed the job and did-n't want to leave it as I neededthe money. It was after this thatI quit,” she said, as she urgedpeople "who have suffered atthe hands of predators, to comeout and say it aloud".

“Don't hold yourselvesback. This is a moment forchange, so your silence willonly hold barriers to its evolu-tion. Speak out. Shout out fromthe top of the roof,” she wrote.Meanwhile, actor Alok Nathdismissed Nanda’s chargeagainst him as "absurd" as he"made her what she is".

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With the pride of the BJP atstake, Chief Minister

Yogi Adityanath will be amongstar campaigners for the partyin three Central Indian Stateswhere Assembly elections areslated for November andDecember.

A meeting in this connec-tion was held at the CM’s offi-cial residence at 5, KD Marg,on Monday night at which theblueprint of Yogi’s forays intoneighbouring Madhya Pradesh,Rajasthan and Chhattisgarhwas chalked out.

Sources told The Pioneerthat the two Deputy ChiefMinisters, Dinesh Sharma and

Keshav Prasad Maurya, mightalso be asked to address ralliesin those States. “But the focuswill be on Yogi as requestshave started pouring in fromthese poll-bound states seek-ing time from the UP ChiefMinister,” the sources said.Assembly elections are alsoslated for Telangana and

Mizoram but Yogi’s electoralparticipation there is not clear.“The CM might also go tothese two States and addressrallies there. It all depends ondirectives from the Centralleadership,” he said.

Earlier too, Yogi had beenthe star campaigner of theBJP and his role in Gujarat wasvery crucial as he was themost sought after leader afterPrime Minister NarendraModi and BJP’s president AmitSingh. “Yogi’s saffron outfit andsanyasi look sends a loudHindutva message which hasproved beneficial for the party.Therefore, he has been sent todifferent States for election-eering,” a leader opined.

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In a new twist to alliancepolitics in Uttar Pradesh,

Shivpal Yadav-led SamajwadiSecular Morcha (SSM) iswarming up to BahujanSamaj Party for a possiblealliance for 2019 Lok Sabhaelections.

Both parties are in con-stant touch and are strugglingto arrive at a consensus.

“Politics is the game ofpossibilities. We are in talkswith so many parties, includ-ing some small outfits. We arealso in touch with BahujanSamaj Party. But it will bepremature at this juncture tocomment on the outcome,’’said SSM spokesmanChakrapani Yadav.

SSM sources said thatShivpal Yadav was asking for13 Lok Sabha seats anddesired that 10 seats be givento the Congress while theBSP could field candidates in 57 seats.

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sion of the Congress in theproposed tie-up had notfound favours from Mayawati.Relations of the BSP with theCongress are strained after

the talks between the two col-lapsed over seat sharing inpol l-bound Rajasthan,Madhya Pradesh andChhattisgarh.

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a m

ix o

f mod

ern,

mat

ure

and

legac

y/ob

solet

e equ

ipm

ent.

In 1

995,

Arm

yCh

ief G

en Sh

anka

r Roy

Cho

udhu

ry w

as fe

d up

writi

ng le

tters

to h

is su

perio

rs ab

out c

ritica

l def

i-cie

ncies

and

was f

orce

d to

go p

ublic

. “Th

e Arm

ysh

ould

not

be h

eld re

spon

sible

for f

ailin

g to m

eet

its m

anda

te.” I

n th

e sam

e per

iod,

Chi

ef of

Nav

alSt

aff,

Adm

iral V

S She

khaw

at, c

once

rned

abou

tth

e sh

rinki

ng si

ze o

f the

Indi

an N

avy,

war

ned

over

dan

gers

at se

a in

the e

vent

of h

ostil

ities

. His

outb

urst

resu

lted

in th

e the

n D

efen

ce M

inist

erM

ulay

am S

ingh

Yad

av c

allin

g hi

m to

a b

reak

-fa

st m

eetin

g and

imm

ediat

ely p

lacin

g ord

ers o

nN

aval

Doc

kyar

ds f

or s

hip

cons

truct

ion.

In

Fran

ce th

is ye

ar, th

e Chi

ef of

Defe

nce S

taff

(CD

S)re

signe

d be

caus

e of

arb

itrar

y re

duct

ion

in th

ede

fenc

e bud

get.

By th

is ya

rdsti

ck, m

any

of o

urse

rvice

chief

s oug

ht to

hav

e res

igne

d. L

ast y

ear,

the d

efen

ce b

udge

t was

lowe

st sin

ce 1

962.

One

is p

erio

dica

lly re

min

ded

that

Chi

na h

asris

en, w

hile

Indi

a is

still

risin

g an

d no

one

will

com

e to I

ndia’

s help

in th

e eve

nt of

conf

lict. I

ndia

will h

ave t

o figh

t its b

attles

alon

e. Bu

t is it

equi

pped

to d

o so

? A st

rate

gic r

eset

is es

sent

ial to

mee

t the

emer

ging

secu

rity c

halle

nges

. Of t

he 34

0 rec

om-

men

datio

ns by

the K

argi

l GoM

, man

y are

uni

m-

plem

ente

d, in

cludi

ng th

e app

oint

men

t of C

DS.

A he

adles

s Int

egra

ted

Defe

nce S

taff

(IDS)

crea

t-ed

mor

e tha

n a d

ecad

e ago

is an

exer

cise i

n fu

til-

ity. I

nteg

ratio

n of

the

thr

ee s

ervi

ces

with

the

Min

istry

of D

efenc

e (M

oD) h

as n

ot ev

en b

egun

while

join

tnes

s is o

nly i

n na

me.

Defe

nce p

lanni

ngon

the b

asis

of 15

, five

and

one y

ear p

lans i

s com

-pa

rtmen

talise

d and

offer

s no s

trateg

ic ch

oice

s. Th

eID

S sim

ply c

ollat

es th

e thr

ee se

rvice

s’ pl

ans a

ndlet

s the

MoD

det

erm

ine p

riorit

ies.

The

serv

ice c

hiefs

hav

e co

nsist

ently

com

-pl

ained

abou

t ina

dequ

ate sa

y in

decis

ion-

mak

ing.

The m

ilita

ry is

seen

to be

subs

ervi

ent t

o the

polit

-ica

l clas

s and

civi

lian

bure

aucr

acy.

Spea

king

at a

publi

c lec

ture

som

e yea

rs ag

o, th

e the

n Com

ptro

ller

and

Audi

tor G

ener

al of

Indi

a (CA

G) V

inod

Rai

urge

d th

e G

over

nmen

t to

rep

ose

trust

in t

heAr

med

For

ces b

y gi

ving

full

finan

cial p

ower

s to

the

serv

ice

chie

fs.

He

said

the

Def

ence

Proc

urem

ent P

olicy

(DPP

) (wh

ich ha

s und

ergo

nese

ven

upgr

ades

and

bec

ome

very

com

plex

)in

volve

d th

e par

ticip

atio

n of

13

agen

cies.

The g

host

of B

ofor

s is a

B, (

you

coul

d ad

d an

R fo

r Raf

ale) p

lus t

he th

ree C

s — C

AG, C

VC an

dCB

I —

the

se a

re r

etar

ding

the

pro

cure

men

tpr

oces

s. Ar

e we s

urpr

ised

that

the A

rmy h

as n

otad

ded a

sing

le ne

w gu

n to

its in

vent

ory s

ince

1986

when

it is

req

uire

d to

det

er a

two

-fron

t wa

r?Tr

ansfo

rmati

on of

the A

rmy —

like t

he N

avy a

ndth

e Ind

ian A

ir Fo

rce (

IAF)

— is

und

erwa

y ind

e-

pend

ent o

f a tr

i-ser

vice

ope

ratio

nal p

lan. T

here

is no

long

-term

Stra

tegi

c D

efenc

e an

d Se

curit

yRe

view

(SD

SR) t

o de

rive

natio

nal s

ecur

ity a

ndde

fence

stra

tegi

es an

d th

en ev

olve

doc

trine

s. W

eha

ve p

ut th

e car

t befo

re th

e hor

se.

Dur

ing

the

limite

d w

ar i

n Ka

rgil,

Arm

yCh

ief G

en V

ed M

alik

des

pairi

ngly

anno

unce

d:“W

e will

figh

t with

wha

t we h

ave.”

But

for I

srae

l’sstr

ateg

ic in

terv

entio

n w

ith 1

55 m

m B

ofor

sam

mun

ition

, UAV

s and

PG

Ms f

or th

e IAF

, vac

a-tio

n of

Pak

istan

’s agg

ressi

on w

ould

hav

e met

cost,

time a

nd ca

sualt

y ove

rrun

s. Fa

st-tra

cked

acqu

i-sit

ions

arriv

ed o

nly a

fter t

he w

ar w

as o

ver.

One

of th

e rea

sons

for O

pera

tion

Para

kram

not

tak-

ing

off w

as th

e disc

over

y th

at th

e mili

tary

was

not c

omba

t rea

dy, p

roba

bly

an a

libi f

or la

ck o

fpo

litica

l will

whi

ch g

ot tr

ansla

ted

as s

trate

gic

restr

aint

. Not

fig

htin

g a

war

sin

ce 1

971

and

acqu

isitio

n of

nuc

lear w

eapo

ns h

ave w

illy

nilly

unde

rmin

ed th

e con

vent

iona

l det

erre

nce.

We c

an fe

el go

od ab

out s

urgi

cal s

trike

s and

claim

cred

it for

such

piec

emea

l ope

ratio

ns in

elec

-tio

ns. B

ut re

mem

ber:

The f

aith

of th

e peo

ple o

fIn

dia r

esid

es in

the d

efenc

e ser

vice

s, be

caus

e lik

eth

e peo

ple o

f Ind

ia, th

e ser

vices

mak

e do w

ith w

hat

they

have

; and

do a

dam

n go

od jo

b in

it. Th

at fai

th,

Gov

ernm

ents

mus

t ens

ure n

ever

bre

aks.

(The

writ

er is

a re

tired

Maj

or G

ener

al of

the

Indi

an A

rmy a

nd fo

unde

r mem

ber o

f the

Defe

nce

Plan

ning

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f, cu

rrent

ly th

e rev

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d In

tegra

tedD

efenc

e Sta

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Thi

s re

fers

to th

e ar

ticle

, “N

opl

ace

for

min

oriti

es i

n Pa

kist

an”

(Oct

ober

8) b

y Pr

aful

l Gor

adia

. The

artic

le ex

pose

s the

disg

race

ful f

ate o

fm

inor

ities

in P

akist

an. F

rom

its i

ncep

-tio

n, P

akist

an is

una

ssai

labl

y dom

inat

-ed

by

relig

ious

fana

tics.

It is

an o

pen

secr

et th

at th

e cou

n-tr

y is u

nder

the h

egem

ony o

f reli

giou

sze

alot

s and

they

wor

k ha

nd in

glo

vew

ith t

he I

nter

-Ser

vice

s In

telli

genc

e(I

SI)

and

the

Arm

ed F

orce

s, ra

ther

than

for t

he d

evel

opm

ent a

nd w

elfa

reof

its p

eopl

e.

The c

urre

nt Im

ran

Kha

n re

gim

e,to

o, li

ke it

s pr

edec

esso

rs, i

s a

mer

epu

ppet

, dan

cing

to th

e tu

ne o

f rel

i-gi

ous c

hauv

inist

s. Si

mila

rly, r

elig

ious

into

lera

nce

is d

eep-

root

ed i

n th

eex

trem

ists

and

min

oriti

es c

anno

tex

pect

free

dom

from

this

jeop

ardy

. N

otw

ithst

andi

ng, P

akist

an is

reg-

ular

ly re

ceiv

ing

garg

antu

an fi

nanc

ial

aids

and

mor

e so

phist

icat

ed m

ilita

ryw

eapo

ns/e

quip

men

t fro

m th

e Uni

ted

Stat

es a

ppar

ently

to w

ipe

out t

erro

r-ism

from

its s

oil.

Emba

rras

singl

y, a

huge

chu

nk o

fth

ese f

unds

/wea

pons

are c

land

estin

e-ly

div

erte

d fo

r te

rror

ist o

pera

tions

,

part

icul

arly

aga

inst

Indi

a.

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uvat

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abar

imal

a is

one

of th

e m

ost

fam

ous t

empl

es in

Indi

a. Th

e fac

t tha

tSa

barim

ala h

as it

s ow

n be

liefs

and

tra-

ditio

ns, m

akes

it a

ll th

e m

ore

popu

-la

r in

Indi

a an

d ar

ound

the

wor

ld.

The

wom

en e

ntry

iss

ue m

ight

have

cre

ated

a r

ift b

etw

een

Ayya

ppa

devo

tees

and

the

Sta

te G

over

nmen

tbu

t the

Sup

rem

e C

ourt

ord

er a

llow

-in

g w

omen

of a

ll ag

es in

side

Kera

la’s

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rimal

a te

mpl

e ha

s br

ough

t th

e

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du c

omm

uniti

es o

n on

e pl

at-

form

. Th

e St

ate

Gov

ernm

ent

mus

tlo

ok f

or w

ays

to r

edre

ss t

he w

ide-

spre

ad d

isqui

et o

ver t

he a

pex

cour

t’sor

der.

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adch

andr

an S

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rs t

o th

e ar

ticle

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ehin

d Bo

llyw

ood’s

bad

beh

avio

ur”

(Oct

ober

6) b

y Ri

nku

Gho

sh. I

n lig

htof

the

rec

ent

alle

gatio

ns b

y ac

tres

sTa

nush

ree D

utta

agai

nst N

ana P

atek

ar,

she h

as so

ught

the M

ahas

thra

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enC

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issio

n’s i

nter

vent

ion

into

the

mat

ter.

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le th

e mat

ter i

s bei

ng d

ealt

with

, he

r al

lega

tions

hav

e le

d to

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mom

ent

amon

g w

orki

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omen

pro

fess

iona

ls. T

his i

s ind

eed

a tu

rnin

g po

int.

Wom

en h

ave

at la

stsh

own

the

cour

age

to s

peak

aga

inst

sexu

al vi

olen

ce, a

buse

and

hara

ssm

ent

that

rem

ains

all-p

erva

sive.

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e big

-gi

es a

re ex

pect

ed to

fall

way

side.

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time

to c

rack

a w

hip.

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e po

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ress

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bers

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arke

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e inv

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rs u

nsur

eas

to w

heth

er th

ey w

ould

end

up m

akin

g m

oney

inth

ese c

hopp

y mar

kets.

Alth

ough

it is

a kn

own

fact

that

one

nee

ds to

be

inve

sted f

or lo

ng to

achi

eve b

etter

than

mar

ket r

eturn

s, in

vesto

rs ar

e seld

omaw

are

of s

trate

gies

to a

chiev

e su

chre

turn

s in

such

a ris

ky m

arke

t. O

ne be

nchm

ark f

or an

y inv

esto

ris

to fo

llow

the s

trateg

y of v

alue i

nves

t-in

g. Af

ter a

ll, th

is is

the s

trate

gy u

sed

by th

e wor

ld’s m

ost s

ucce

ssful

inve

stor,

War

ren

Buffe

tt, w

ho c

reat

ed a

nem

pire

of $9

3 bill

ion

dolla

rs th

roug

hhi

s inv

estm

ent s

tyle

over

a lon

ger p

eri-

od o

f tim

e.Bu

ffett

was i

nflu

ence

d by

oth

erva

lue

inve

stor

s lik

e, B

enja

min

Grah

am, D

avid

Dod

d and

Phi

l Fish

erwh

o he

lped

him

dev

elop

his i

nves

t-m

ent p

rowe

ss. B

enjam

in G

raha

m is

know

n as

the

“go

dfat

her

of v

alue

inve

sting

”, wh

o pr

opag

ated

the

phi-

loso

phy

of v

alue

inve

sting

tha

t is

focu

sed

on p

urch

asin

g eq

uitie

s at

price

s les

s tha

n th

eir in

trins

ic va

lues

by pi

ckin

g or s

cree

ning

stoc

ks, w

hich

have

stea

dy pr

ofits

, are

trad

ing a

t low

price

s to

book

valu

e, ha

ve lo

w pr

ice-

earn

ings

ratio

(P/E

) and

whi

ch h

ave

a rela

tively

low

debt

. Va

lue i

nves

tors

look

for s

ecur

ities

with

pric

es th

at ar

e unj

ustif

iably

low

base

d on

their

intri

nsic

worth

. The

reisn

’t a

unive

rsall

y ac

cept

ed w

ay t

ode

term

ine

intri

nsic

worth

, bu

t it’s

mos

t ofte

n es

timate

d by

analy

sing

aco

mpa

ny’s f

unda

men

tals. L

ike ba

rgain

hunt

ers, t

he va

lue i

nves

tor s

earc

hes f

orsto

cks t

hat t

hey b

eliev

e are

unde

rval-

ued

by th

e mar

ket,

or st

ocks

that

are

valu

able

but n

ot r

ecog

nise

d by

the

majo

rity o

f buy

ers.

Buffe

tt, h

owev

er, ta

kes t

his v

alue

inve

sting

app

roac

h to

ano

ther

leve

lan

d ch

oose

s sto

cks s

olely

bas

ed o

nth

eir o

vera

ll po

tent

ial as

a co

mpa

ny.

By se

ekin

g no

t jus

t cap

ital g

ain, b

utta

king

own

ersh

ip in

qua

lity c

ompa

-ni

es c

apab

le of

pro

fit m

akin

g, th

eBu

ffett

strate

gy is

a ho

listic

appr

oach

. Bu

t fin

ding

a lo

w-pr

iced

valu

esto

ck is

not e

asy a

nd th

ere a

re no

stan

-da

rd fo

rmul

ae to

find

one.

How

ever

,th

ere

are

certa

in m

arke

rs t

hat

can

guid

e us i

n ou

r pur

suit

of ac

hiev

ing

succ

ess i

n va

lue i

nves

ting.

Qua

lity:

Inve

st in

com

pani

esup

ward

of av

erag

e qua

lity h

avin

g rat-

ings

of B

or b

etter

. The

fam

ous c

red-

it rati

ng ag

encie

s in

Indi

a are

CRI

SIL,

ICRA

, CA

RE,

Brick

work

Rat

ings

,In

dia R

atin

g and

Res

earc

h an

d SM

ERa

ting A

genc

y of I

ndia

for s

mall

and

med

ium

ente

rpris

es.

Acco

rdin

g to

the S

ecur

ities

and

Exch

ange

Boa

rd of

Indi

a (SE

BI),

the

long

-term

debt

instr

umen

ts ca

n ha

veth

e hi

ghes

t rat

ing

of A

AA a

nd th

elo

west

of D

, whe

re in

strum

ents

are

alrea

dy in

def

ault

or ar

e exp

ecte

d to

be in

defau

lt. Si

mila

rly, th

e rati

ngs f

orsh

ort-t

erm

deb

t in

strum

ents

can

rang

e fro

m A

1 to

D.

Lowe

r de

bt b

urde

n: H

avin

ghi

gh d

ebt

in c

apita

l stru

ctur

e pu

tsun

due p

ressu

re on

com

pani

es fo

r ser

-vi

cing

fixed

fin

ancia

l ob

ligat

ions

which

can

lead

to fi

nanc

ial d

istre

ssan

d in

wor

st sit

uatio

ns, b

ankr

uptc

y.It

is re

com

men

ded

to av

oid

com

pa-

nies

with

hig

her d

ebt l

oad.

A d

ebt-

equi

ty ra

tio is

a go

od b

ench

mar

k to

iden

tify t

he pr

opor

tion

of eq

uity

and

debt

bein

g use

d to

fina

nce a

ny co

m-

pany

’s asse

ts, an

d high

er ra

tio su

gges

tsth

at m

ore d

ebt —

rath

er th

an eq

uity

— i

s fin

anci

ng t

he c

ompa

ny.

Addi

tiona

lly, a

s a re

feren

ce po

int, b

uy-

ing c

ompa

nies

that

hav

e tot

al de

bt to

curr

ent a

sset

s rat

io o

f les

s tha

n 1.1

0is

advi

sabl

e.H

ighe

r liq

uidi

ty:L

iqui

dity

in

com

pani

es is

very

impo

rtant

to m

eet

its sh

ort-t

erm

obl

igat

ions

and

com

-pa

nies

with

a cu

rrent

ratio

of ov

er 1.

50sh

ould

be c

hose

n.Co

nsist

ent

perfo

rman

ce a

ndhi

gh ea

rnin

gs gr

owth

:Iden

tify c

om-

pani

es t

hat

have

per

form

ed b

etter

than

oth

er c

ompa

nies

in th

e sa

me

indu

stry.

It ca

n be

don

e by

calcu

lat-

ing

the

Retu

rn o

n Eq

uity

(RO

E)wh

ich re

veals

the r

ate at

whi

ch sh

are-

hold

ers a

re ea

rnin

g inc

ome o

n th

eirsh

ares

. How

ever

, look

ing a

t the

RO

Eju

st at

the l

ast y

ear i

sn’t g

ood

enou

ghan

d in

vesto

rs sh

ould

view

the

ROE

from

the

pas

t fiv

e to

10

year

s to

analy

se h

istor

ical p

erfo

rman

ce.

In a

dditi

on, e

arni

ngs p

er sh

are

grow

th d

urin

g th

e pa

st fiv

e ye

ars

shou

ld b

e pos

itive

with

no

earn

ings

defic

its. E

arni

ngs n

eed

to b

e hig

her

in th

e mos

t rec

ent y

ear t

han

five y

ears

ago.

Avoi

ding

com

pani

es w

ith ea

rn-

ings

defic

its du

ring t

he pa

st fiv

e yea

rswi

ll help

inve

stors

stay

clea

r of h

igh-

risk

com

pani

es.

P/E

ratio

: Loo

k fo

r co

mpa

nies

that

are

selli

ng a

t bar

gain

pric

es b

yid

entif

ying

com

pani

es w

ith p

rice t

oea

rnin

gs p

er sh

are (

P/E)

ratio

s of 9

.0or

less

.

Price

-to-b

ook v

alue r

atio

(P/B

Vra

tio): S

ince

P/E

ratio

s can

som

etim

esbe

misl

eadi

ng, b

ook v

alue p

rovi

des a

good

ind

icatio

n of

the

und

erlyi

ngva

lue o

f a co

mpa

ny an

d in

vesti

ng in

stock

s sell

ing n

ear o

r belo

w th

eir bo

okva

lue i

s a go

od st

rate

gy. P

/BV

ratio

sar

e calc

ulate

d by d

ividi

ng th

e cur

rent

price

by

the m

ost r

ecen

t boo

k va

lue

per s

hare

for a

com

pany

, and

inve

stors

shou

ld i

nves

t in

com

pani

es w

ithpr

ice to

book

valu

e (P/

BV) r

atios

less

than

1.20

. D

ivid

end

payi

ng st

ocks

: Sin

cein

vesti

ng in

und

erva

lued

com

pani

esre

quire

s wait

ing f

or ot

her i

nves

tors

todi

scov

er th

e bar

gain

s, an

d som

etim

esth

e in

vestm

ent h

orizo

n is

long

and

tedi

ous,

it m

akes

muc

h se

nse

toin

vest

in co

mpa

nies

that

are c

urre

nt-

ly pa

ying d

ivide

nds a

nd in

vesto

rs ca

nen

joy

divi

dend

s w

hile

they

wait

patie

ntly

for y

our s

tock

to g

o fro

mun

derv

alued

to o

verv

alued

.H

igh

prof

it m

argi

ns a

ndin

crea

sing:

Cons

isten

cy in

per

for-

man

ce is

the m

ost im

porta

nt th

ing f

oran

y com

pany

. A co

mpa

ny’s p

rofit

abil-

ity de

pend

s not

only

on ha

ving a

good

prof

it m

argi

n, b

ut a

lso w

heth

er it

isco

nsist

ently

incr

easin

g. Pr

ofit m

argin

can

be c

alcul

ated

by d

ivid

ing

net

inco

me b

y net

sales

. For

a go

od in

di-

catio

n of

hist

orica

l pro

fit m

argi

ns,

inve

stors

shou

ld lo

ok b

ack t

o at l

east

five y

ears

. A

high

prof

it mar

gin in

dica

tes th

eco

mpa

ny is

exec

utin

g its

busin

ess w

ell,

but i

ncre

asin

g m

argi

ns m

ean

man

-ag

emen

t has

been

extre

mely

succ

ess-

ful a

t con

trolli

ng ex

pens

es.

For

how

long

the

com

pany

islis

ted on

the s

tock

mar

ket?:

Typi

cally

,on

ly co

nsid

er c

ompa

nies

that

hav

ebe

en lis

ted o

n th

e sto

ck m

arke

t for

atlea

st 10

year

s. Va

lue i

nves

ting r

equi

res

iden

tifyin

g com

pani

es th

at ha

ve st

ood

the

test

of t

ime

but

are

curr

ently

unde

rvalu

ed.

An in

vesto

r sho

uld n

ever

unde

r-es

timate

the v

alue o

f hist

orica

l per

for-

man

ce, w

hich

dem

onstr

ates t

he co

m-

pany

’s ab

ility

or i

nabi

lity

to in

crea

sesh

areh

olde

r valu

e. H

owev

er, t

his

has

to b

e ta

ken

with

a p

inch

of s

alt a

s a st

ock’s

pas

tpe

rform

ance

doe

s no

t gu

aran

tee

futu

re p

erfo

rman

ce.

The

valu

ein

vesto

r’s jo

b is t

o dete

rmin

e how

well

the c

ompa

ny ca

n pe

rform

in fu

ture

as it

did

in th

e pas

t, an

d th

at is

ofte

nth

e tric

ky p

art.

Prod

uct m

ix:It

is im

porta

nt th

atid

entif

ied co

mpa

nies

hav

e pro

duct

swh

ich ar

e uni

que f

rom

their

com

peti-

tors

and

it is

not

adv

isabl

e to

inve

stin

com

pani

es w

hose

pro

duct

s ar

ein

disti

ngui

shab

le fro

m th

ose

of th

e

com

petit

ors,

and t

hose

that

rely

sole-

ly on

a co

mm

odity

such

as oi

l and

gas.

Any c

hara

cteris

tic th

at is

hard

to re

pli-

cate

is th

e com

pany

’s eco

nom

ic m

oat,

or co

mpe

titive

adva

ntag

e. Th

e wid

erth

e moa

t, the

toug

her i

t is f

or a

com

-pe

titor

to ga

in m

arke

t sha

re.

Selli

ng at

25 p

er ce

nt d

iscou

nt:

In re

al ter

ms,

deter

min

ing w

heth

er a

com

pany

is un

derv

alued

, is th

e mos

tdi

fficu

lt pa

rt of

valu

e in

vesti

ng a

ndin

vesto

r mus

t dete

rmin

e a co

mpa

ny’s

intri

nsic

valu

e by a

nalys

ing a

num

ber

of b

usin

ess f

unda

men

tals

inclu

ding

earn

ings

, rev

enue

s and

asse

ts.

And

a com

pany

’s int

rinsic

valu

eis

usua

lly m

ore c

ompl

icate

d th

an it

sliq

uida

tion

valu

e, wh

ich is

wha

t a

com

pany

wou

ld b

e wo

rth if

it w

ere

brok

en u

p an

d so

ld to

day.

The l

iqui

-da

tion

valu

e doe

sn’t i

nclu

de in

tang

i-ble

s suc

h as t

he va

lue o

f a br

and n

ame,

which

is n

ot d

irect

ly sta

ted

on th

efin

ancia

l sta

tem

ents.

Onc

e an

inve

stor d

eterm

ines

the

intri

nsic

valu

e of

the

com

pany

as a

whol

e, he

can

com

pare

it to

its c

ur-

rent

mar

ket c

apita

lisati

on —

the c

ur-

rent

tota

l wor

th o

r the

mar

ket p

rice

of ou

tstan

ding

shar

es. I

f the

intri

nsic

valu

e mea

sure

men

t is a

t lea

st 25

per

cent

hig

her t

han

the c

ompa

ny’s m

ar-

ket c

apita

lisati

on, th

e com

pany

can

beco

nsid

ered

valu

able.

The

succ

ess o

f an

inve

stor

will

dep

end

on h

isun

matc

hed

skill

in ac

cura

tely d

eter

-m

inin

g thi

s int

rinsic

valu

e. H

owev

er,

when

ever

we

get

asto

ck at

barg

ain pr

ice, s

ome p

ertin

ent

poin

ts sh

ould

exam

ined

and c

heck

edto

find

the r

easo

n fo

r the

lowe

r pric

es—

if th

e com

pany

is co

mpe

ting

in a

dyin

g ind

ustry

or w

heth

er th

e com

-pa

ny is

suffe

ring

a se

tbac

k fro

m a

nun

expe

cted p

roble

m. It

is ve

ry im

por-

tant

to u

nder

stand

if th

e se

tbac

k is

shor

t-ter

m or

long

-term

and w

heth

erth

e com

pany

’s man

agem

ent i

s awa

reof

the p

robl

em an

d if it

is de

term

ined

to ta

ke a

corre

ctive

actio

n. If

the p

rob-

lem is

shor

t-ter

m in

natu

re a

nd th

em

anag

emen

t has

a p

lan in

plac

e to

tackle

it, it

is co

nsid

ered

a go

od un

der-

valu

ed p

urch

ase.

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e inv

estin

g str

ategy

is m

ore

like

barg

ain h

untin

g th

at r

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ts a

prac

tical,

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n-to

-ear

th a

ttitu

de.

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ough

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inve

sting

style

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t with

out it

s crit

ics, b

ut so

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in th

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ld ha

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lly. I

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w th

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rincip

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good

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cour

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ther

e be a

‘gra

nd al

lianc

e’ of

the

Opp

ositi

on ah

ead

of th

e 201

9 Lok

Sabh

a po

ll? A

s of

now

, m

any

oppo

sitio

n pa

rtie

s, in

cludi

ng th

e Con

gres

s,fe

el t

hat

it co

uld

only

be

a po

st-p

oll

arra

ngem

ent.

For

inst

ance

, N

atio

nalis

tC

ongr

ess P

arty

(NCP

) chi

ef S

hara

d Pa

war

told

a ne

ws c

hann

el re

cent

ly, “A

mah

agat

h-ba

ndha

npr

ior t

o th

e ele

ctio

n (L

ok S

abha

)is

not p

ract

ical

.” Th

e Com

mun

ist P

arty

of

Indi

a (M

arxi

st) d

eclin

ed to

hav

e an

allia

nce

in a

ll th

e fiv

e po

ll-bo

und

Stat

es a

nd it

sG

ener

al S

ecre

tary

, Sita

ram

Yec

hury

, sai

dth

e ‘gr

and

allia

nce’

coul

d on

ly b

e afte

r the

polls

. The

Aam

Aad

mi P

arty

(A

AP)

has

deci

ded

not t

o jo

in a

ny a

llian

ce in

201

9.Sa

majw

adi P

arty

(SP)

chie

f Akh

ilesh

Yad

avan

noun

ced

that

they

coul

dn’t

keep

on

wait

-in

g for

tie-

up w

ith th

e Con

gres

s in

Mad

hya

Prad

esh.

The

last

wor

d is

yet t

o co

me f

rom

Bahu

jan Sa

maj

Party

(BSP

) chi

ef M

ayaw

ati.

Thou

gh s

he h

as a

band

oned

an

allia

nce

wit

h th

e C

ongr

ess

for

the

ensu

ing

Ass

embl

y po

lls, s

he h

as n

ot sa

id an

ythi

ngab

out t

he L

ok S

abha

pol

l. A

ll th

ese p

ostu

ring

afte

r an

impr

essiv

esh

ow o

f str

engt

h of

Opp

ositi

on u

nity

on

May

23

at t

he s

wea

ring-

in c

erem

ony

ofK

arna

taka

C

hief

M

inis

ter

HD

Kum

aras

wam

y. Th

ose

pres

ent

chan

ting

Opp

ositi

on u

nity

inclu

ded

Con

gres

s lea

d-er

s Son

ia G

andh

i and

Rah

ul G

andh

i, Ch

ief

Min

iste

rs M

amat

a Ba

nerj

ee,

Arv

ind

Kejri

wal

and

N C

hand

raba

bu N

aidu

and

SP s

upre

mo

Akh

iles

h Ya

dav,

BSP

su

prem

o M

ayaw

ati,

NC

P ch

ief

Shar

adPa

war

and

Ras

htriy

a Lo

k D

al’s

(RLD

)le

ader

Ajit

Sin

gh.

But s

ubse

quen

tly, t

he m

ahag

athb

and-

han

idea

, for

now

, has

turn

ed so

ur. W

hat

has g

one w

rong

in th

e mea

nwhi

le? U

nion

Fina

nce

Min

iste

r A

run

Jait

ley

has

desc

ribed

it a

s an

ana

rchi

c co

mbi

natio

n,th

e lik

es o

f whi

ch w

ere

“trie

d, te

sted

and

faile

d” in

Indi

a. In

deed

ther

e are

inhe

rent

cont

radi

ctio

ns.

The

oppo

sitio

n pa

rtie

sco

ncen

trat

e mor

e on

chem

istry

than

arith

-

met

ic. T

he q

uesti

on th

at ar

ises i

s: W

hat r

ole

will

the

Con

gres

s pl

ay?

The

part

y w

hich

had

rule

d th

e cou

ntry

for o

ver 5

0 of

the 7

0ye

ars s

ince

Inde

pend

ence

, is y

et to

shed

its

nost

algi

a of

its

mig

hty

past

and

be

mor

eac

com

mod

ativ

e in

sea

t sh

arin

g. T

heC

ongr

ess

need

s to

yie

ld p

lace

to

the

regi

onal

allie

s whe

re th

ey ar

e stro

ng. A

lso,

the o

ppos

ition

par

ties,

too,

shou

ld b

e rea

l-ist

ic i

n th

eir

dem

ands

for

sea

t sh

arin

g.C

ongr

ess

pres

iden

t Ra

hul

Gan

dhi

had

stre

ssed

the

impo

rtan

ce o

f tw

o le

vels

ofal

lianc

es —

one

at th

e Sta

te-le

vel,

and

the

othe

r and

mor

e im

port

ant,

at th

e na

tion-

al le

vel.

The

Stat

e le

vel a

llian

ces h

ave

not

take

n of

f as e

xpec

ted

so fa

r. In

fact

, the

reis

so m

uch

Opp

ositi

on d

isuni

ty in

ens

u-in

g th

e A

ssem

bly

polls

. M

oreo

ver,

the

Opp

ositi

on i

s lo

sing

faith

in th

e abi

lity o

f the

Con

gres

s to

lead

.M

ayaw

ati s

ays t

hat t

he C

ongr

ess i

s not

yet

battl

e re

ady.

The

Con

gres

s doe

s not

wan

tto

dea

l with

the

AA

P. Th

e Sh

iv S

ena

will

not

be a

ccep

tabl

e in

the

Mah

aras

htra

tent

; the

Trin

amoo

l Con

gres

s will

have

no

truc

kw

ith th

e Lef

t par

ties i

n W

est B

enga

l;an

d th

e D

ravi

da M

unne

tra

Kazh

agam

(DM

K)

and

the

All

Indi

a A

nna

Dra

vida

Mun

netr

a Ka

zhag

am (

AIA

DM

K)

are

on

oppo

site s

ides

. Int

eres

tingl

y, th

e SP

and

the

BSP

have

com

e to

geth

er. S

ome

regi

onal

part

ies,

like

the

Trin

amoo

l Con

gres

s, th

eTe

lang

ana R

asht

ra S

amith

i, th

e Biju

Jana

taD

al, t

he SP

and

the B

SP, w

ould

like

to is

o-lat

e the

Con

gres

s and

form

a th

ird fr

ont b

utth

ere c

an b

e no

gran

d al

lianc

e with

out t

heC

ongr

ess a

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The rupee fell 33 paise onTuesday to finish at a fresh

lifetime low of 74.39 against theUS dollar on high crude oilprices, strengthening of thegreenback and unabated for-eign fund outflows.

At the Interbank ForeignExchange (Forex), the rupeemade a cautious recovery of18 paise to 73.88 against theUS dollar in early trade onfresh selling of the Americancurrency by banks andexporters.

However, the domesticcurrency failed to sustain themomentum after Brent crudebreached the $84 per-barrel-mark again and the US dollarstrengthened overseas. Fallingfor the sixth straight sessions,it finally closed at 74.39 againstthe US dollar, down by 33paise.

On Monday, the domesticunit plummeted by 30 paise toclose at 74.06.

Traders said unabated for-eign fund outflows weighed onthe rupee.

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The BSE Sensex erased allearly gains to end 175

points lower in choppy trade onTuesday, posting its fourth fallin five sessions due to wide-spread selling in auto, con-sumer, realty, oil and gas andbanking stocks, amid weaken-ing rupee and boiling crude oilprices.

The 30-share Sensexopened higher at 34,651.82points but slipped into thenegative zone to hit a low of34,233.50 before ending at34,299.47, recording a fall of174.91 points, or 0.51 per cent.

Similarly, the NSE Niftyafter shuttling between10,397.60 and 10,279.35 points,ended 47 points, or 0.45 percent, lower at 10,301.05.

“Volatility continued in themarket in spite of which short-term investors are accumulat-ing select beaten down stockswith an eye on upcoming quar-ter earnings,” said Vinod Nair,Head of Research, GeojitFinancial Services.

However, negative senti-ments from global market onconcerns over a slowing worldeconomy led by lingering tradewar between the US and Chinadragged the market, he added.

According to a Nomurareport, the recent market fallhas to a large extent correctedthe excess. However, it is stilldifficult to call a bottom on thevaluation and further downsidecannot be ruled out.

Market sentiment was alsodampened on unabated foreignfund outflows and theInternational Monetary Fund(IMF) downgrading outlookfor world economy to 3.7growth on Tuesday.

The Indian currency col-lapsed to a new lifetime low of74.27 in intra-day trade, rais-ing concerns on the macro-economic front.

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Shares of Tata Motors fellsharply by over 13 per cent

Tuesday after the company-owned Jaguar Land Rover(JLR) reported 12.3 per cent

decline in global sales inSeptember.

The stock cracked 13.40 percent to end at �184.25 on theBSE. During the day, it slumped19.78 per cent to �170.65, itsmulti-year low level.

On NSE, the scrip dropped13 per cent to close at �184.55.The stock was the worst hitamong the blue chips on boththe key indices during the day.

Led by the sharp fall in thestock, the company’s marketvaluation tumbled �8,228.6 croreto �53,199.40 crore on the BSE.

In terms of the equity vol-ume, 132.54 lakh shares of thecompany were traded on theBSE and over 14 crore shares

changed hands on NSE duringthe day. Steep drop in the scripwas also instrumental in drag-ging the BSE benchmark indexlower by 174.91 points to endat 34,299.47.

JLR Monday reported 12.3per cent decline in global salesat 57,114 units in September,hit by lower demand in China,the auto major said.

The company’s sales inChina declined by 46.2 per centduring September as comparedto the same month last year asongoing market uncertaintyresulting from import dutychanges and continued tradetensions held back consumerdemand.

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With lukewarm responsefrom lenders, debt-laden

Air India has extended thedeadline for submitting bids forloans worth �500 crore to meet“urgent working capitalrequirements”.

Senior airline officials saidthe deadline for bids has beenextended to October 31 but itcould be closed earlier in casethere are minimum three bidsfor providing the loans. Theinitial deadline for submissionof bids was October 10.

The national carrier, whosedebt burden is estimated to bemore than �50,000 crore, islooking to raise �500 croreloans to meet “urgent workingcapital requirement”, as per atender document.

The tenure of theseGovernment-guaranteed loanswould be for one year.

After efforts for strategic dis-investment of the airline did nottake off in May, the governmenthas been working on ways toboost the carrier’s fortunes.

Meanwhile, Air India onMonday paid �100 crore tostate-owned oil marketingcompanies to partly clear duesrelated to purchase of jet fuel,a senior official had said.

In September, the compa-nies asked debt-laden Air Indiato clear its dues towards dailybilling amid rising oil prices.

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Hyundai Motor IndiaLimited (HMIL), India’s

second-largest car manufac-turer on Tuesday announcedthat they are naming theirupcoming small car, hithertoknown as the AH2 as the‘Santro’. In doing so, the Koreancarmaker has brought backthe brand with which it enteredthe country in 1998. Sales of theoriginal Santro ended in 2014.According to YK Koo,Managing Director, HMIL, thenew Santro will be longer andwider than the earlier modeland will bring back the ‘tall-boy’ design for which the orig-inal was famous. “This is theperfect product for us to launchon our twentieth anniversary inIndia.”

HMIL also announced thatpre-bookings for the newSantro can be made from theirwebsite from 10-22 October fora notional amount of �11,100for the first 50000 customers.The Santro will be formally

launched on October 23.Speaking to The Pioneer, Koorefused to speculate on theprice but said that the Santrowill fit between the Eon and theGrand i10 in Hyundai’s lineup.Prices are expected to rangebetween �3.5 to 5 lakh. Thecarmaker will offer a driverairbag and ABS as standard inanticipation of future safetynorms, the top-spec Astamodel will also feature a 17centimetre touchscreen withsupport for Android Auto andApple CarPlay.

The new Santro which hasbeen developed extensively byHyundai India’s research anddevelopment centre will alsohave an in-house developedAutomated ManualTransmission (AMT) system soas to offer a clutch-less optionto buyers. The car will be avail-able only with a petrol engine,a 69PS 1.1 litre four-cylindermodel. HMIL said that the

Santro is the first car in its classto feature a rear air-condition-ing vent.

Koo also told The Pioneerthat the sudden spurt in fuelprices was a dampener to cardemand but he added thatnew products like the Santroshould left demand. However,he did also state that the car-maker which is running at fullcapacity was not planning toadd another production line fornow but expected to get incre-mental improvements whichwould add 50,000 additionalunits in 2019. “ We are not avolume player”, Koo declared,“we want to focus on quality,customer satisfaction and deal-er profitability.” This is despitethe fact that HMIL currentlyhas waiting periods for theirpopular Creta and Verna mod-els. Industry observers believethis has to do with Hyundai’ssister firm Kia entering theIndian market next year.

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Industry chamber PHDCCITuesday urged the

Government to devise “SmartMicro Grid Policy” and alsoappealed for “Separate TariffPolicy” for consumer gettingelectricity through smart gridsparticularly in its solar andwind segment.

The recommendationswere made during a NationalSmart Grid Conclave held herepointing out that with alternatesources of energy beingexplored with intensive aggres-

siveness, and solar and windenergy already making theirdecibel heard, smart microgrid policy and separate tariffpolicy need to be designedafresh, a PHDCCI statementsaid.

According to the state-ment, proposed micro gridspolicy and suggestedredesigned tariff policy foralternate sources of energyparticularly for rural beltsacross the country would beneeded as solar and wind ener-gy would have a larger andabundant takers.

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Mahindra Mutual Fund, awholly owned subsidiary

of Mahindra and MahindraFinancial Services Limited(MMFSL) launches new openended equity scheme‘Mahindra Rural Bharat andConsumption Yojana,’ forinvestors who are seeking long-term capital appreciation byinvesting predominantly inequity and equity relatedinstruments of entities engagedin and/ or expected to benefitfrom the high growth ofIncome & Consumption inrural India.

The New Fund Offer openson October 19, 2018 and clos-es on November 02, 2018. Thescheme will reopen for con-tinuous sale and repurchasewithin 5 business days from thedate of allotment.

V e n k a t a r a m a nBalasubramanian, Chief EquityStrategist, Mahindra MutualFund Mahindra Rural Bharatand Consumption Yojanawould provide investors anopportunity to invest in a seg-ment with strongest contribu-tion potential to India’s growingGDP. The fund will focus onsegments insulated from glob-al volatility such as currencymovements, etc and invest incompanies that can capture theunder-penetration opportunityin Rural India. The schemewould invest minimum 80% inequity and equity related instru-ments of entities having expo-sure towards rural India.

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Isuzu Motors India Pvt. Ltdinaugurated its 2nd show-

room of Torque ISUZU inAhmedabad, making it the 5thtouch-point in the state ofGujarat. Isuzu Motors India hasbeen associated with TorqueCommercial Vehicles since2015 and has been operatingauthorised sales & service out-lets in Ahmedabad, Rajkot,Vadodara and Bhuj. This addi-tional outlet will enhance thecompany’s reach in the city,offering seamless sales andservice support to all its cus-tomers.

The new showroom inAhmedabad is located in thecommercial hub of the city andis spread over an area of 5500sq.ft.

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The postal department hasset a target to more than

double its market share in par-cel business in next two years,Communications MinisterManoj Sinha said on Tuesday.

“Approximately, we have 3-4 per cent share in parcel busi-ness. Private players offer effec-tive service instantly while ingovernment system people atsmall places are required towait for decision of headquar-ter. Therefore, to take instantdecision and to offer compet-itive service, we have created aseparate parcel directorate andset target of achieving 10 percent of this parcel business incoming 2 years,” Sinha said.

He was sharing status ofworks being done at thedepartment on the eve ofWorld Post Day.

In 2017-18, India Post han-dled 618 crore mail articles, 18crore, registered articles and 46

crore speed post articles.According to a KPMG

report, the e-commerce retaillogistics market alone is valuedat $1.35 billion in 2018, and isprojected to witness a growthof around 36 per cent in thecoming five years.

“Around 94-96 per centpeople get articles delivered tothem in time,” Sinha said.

He said that the depart-ment has set-up call centre inVaranasi to handle customergrievances and resolve com-plaints.

The minister also saidthat the postal department isa commercial department ofgovernment and steps arebeing taken to ensure that thedepartment become self sus-tainable.

He said that the depart-ment is on track to set-up aseparate insurance companyunder the DoP and request forproposal have been invitedfrom consultants.

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New Delhi: Japanese auto major Honda Tuesday launched anall-new version of its premium SUV CR-V in India, priced between�28.15 lakh and �32.75 lakh (ex-showroom). The two-wheel drivepetrol variant of the fifth generation CR-V is priced at �28.15 lakh.The diesel variant with two-wheel drive option is priced at �30.65lakh while the trim with all wheel drive (AWD) option is tagged at�32.75 lakh. It is for the first time Honda is introducing diesel pow-ertrain to the CR-V line-up in India. While the petrol variants arepowered by a 2 litre CVT (continuously variable transmission) enginedelivering a power output of 154 PS, the 1.6 litre diesel trims comemated to a nine-speed automatic transmissions. Both petrol and dieselversions of the model will feature automatic transmissions only. “Westrongly believe that the new CR-V has the potential to be a gamechanger in premium SUV segment and we foresee a shift in con-sumer preference towards more luxurious and comfortable SUVs,”Honda Cars India President and CEO Gaku Nakanishi toldreporters here. He added that the company plans to launch threenew products during the current fiscal. Honda plans to introducenew version of its premium sedan Civic later during the fiscal. Ithas already launched all new Amaze earlier this year. “The launch-es would help us further consolidate our position in the premiumSUV segment and the premium sedan segment," Nakanishi said.Honda will assemble the new CR-V at its Greater Noida facility. Thecompany has sold over 17,500 units of petrol powered CR-V unitsin India since launching the model in 2003. Currently, the premi-um SUV segment in the country is dominated by the likes of ToyotaFortuner and Ford Endeavour.

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Tuesday reported a marginal dip in its sales at 11,789 units for theJanuary-September period compared to 11,869 units in the same peri-od of last year. It faced significant headwinds during the period underreview due to various micro-economic factors like rising interest rates,inflationary hikes, depreciation of the rupee and rising import costs,the company said in a statement. Besides, a substantially high baseof last year also posed significant sales challenges in the third quar-ter of 2018, Mercedes-Benz India said in a statement. “We are sat-isfied with our sales performance despite experiencing the prevail-ing micro-economic headwinds and also a high base of 2017, whichwas a result of the strong built up to the GST roll-out and also theonset of an earlier festive season, posing stiff sales challenges,” MichaelJopp, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Mercedes-Benz Indiasaid. Moving into the last quarter of 2018, the company is confi-dent of a good festive season, he added.

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As many as 163 Delhiitesfeatured in the Barclays

Hurun India Rich List 2018and their cumulative wealthstood at a whopping �6,78,400crore, a report said Tuesday.

The Barclays Hurun IndiaRich List, which is a compila-tion of the richest individualsin India having a net worth of�1,000 crore or more, notedthat in terms of cities, Mumbaiemerged as the hub of the richand famous — with 233 nameshailing from the city; whileNew Delhi and Bengaluruaccounted for 163 and 69names, respectively.

The Delhi list was topped

by HCL’s Shiv Nadar with atotal net worth of �37,400crore; closely followed byEicher Motor's Vikram Lalwith �37,100 crore and RoshniNadar at the 3rd place with atotal wealth of �31,400 crore.

Bharati Airtel's Sunil Mittaland family was placed at the4th place with total wealth of�22,500 crore, while RajivSingh of DLF broke into the top10 in the latest edition with anet worth of �21,000 croreand was at the 5th place.

Others in the top 10include, Kiran Nadar at the 6thposition with a net worth of�20,900 crore, Anand Burman(7th, �19,500 crore), RajanBharti Mittal & family (8th,

�13,900 crore), Rakesh BhartiMittal & family (9th, �13,900crore) and Rahul Bhatia (10th,�12,800 crore). While the top10 list had only 2 women;there were as many as 29women among the 163Delhiites who made it to thelist. An industry-wise analysisshows that Auto and auto com-ponent sector contributed 21names to the rich list, fol-lowed by Capital Goods (11names), Pharmaceuticals andFMCG sectors (10 nameseach). However, in terms ofshare of cumulative wealthrepresented by each sector –Software & services toppedthe ranking followed by Auto& auto components, FMCG

and Telecommunications sec-tors at the second, third andfourth position, respectively.

The list was compiled onthe basis of net worth of livingIndians as on 31st July, 2018when the rate of exchange tothe US Dollar stood at �68.51.It relates to Indians only,defined as born or brought upin India.

Meanwhile, the overall listhad 831 super rich individuals,led by Reliance IndustriesChairman Mukesh Ambaniwith a networth of �3.71 lakhcrore. There were 831 Indianshaving a networth of �1,000crore or more in 2018, whichis 214 individuals more thanthe 2017 list.

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South Korean auto major Hyundai Tuesday said it willbring back its once popular hatchback, Santro, in a new

avatar in India later this month.The company, which operates in the country through

its wholly-owned subsidiary Hyundai Motor India(HMIL), had discontinued the previous Santro model inDecember 2014. Hyundai has invested over USD 100 mil-lion on the all-new Santro, which was developed underthe code name AH2, over the last three years.

The new car will be powered by a 4-cylinder 1.1 litrepetrol engine. It will also be available with automated man-ual transmission (AMT) and factory-fitted CNG fueloptions. HMIL managing director and CEO Y K Koo saidthe company decided to name the "new family car" asSantro following an overwhelming response from cus-tomers in an online poll. “The AH2 retains the values ofthe Santro in the form of a ‘modern Tall Boy’ car,” he saidhere.

The company will open online pre-bookings for thenew Santro from October 10-22 with �11,100 as bookingamount for the first 50,000 customers. “We will have theglobal premiere of the all-new Santro on October 23 inNew Delhi,” Koo told reporters here.

When asked about sales expectations from the newSantro, he said: “In the domestic market we are lookingat around 8,000 to 10,000 units per month.” The all-newSantro will compete with the likes of Maruti Suzuki’sWagonR, Celerio and Tata Motors' Tiago in the mid-com-pact segment which is about 30,000 units a month.

“With the new Santro we are looking at about 25-30per cent of that segment,” he said, adding that the com-pany is re-entering the mid-compact segment which itvacated when Santro was discontinued four years ago.

“The target for the new Santro is first time buyers, spe-cially in tier II and III towns and rural areas with metroscontributing for additional purchases.” From exports,which will begin from February next year, Koo said HMILis looking at 20,000 to 30,000 units annually.

The company will be targeting markets in LatinAmerica, Middle East and South Africa and South EastAsia, where the previous Santro was very popular, headded.

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India (SBI) said Tuesday it willbuy good quality assets worth�45,000 crore from NBFCs thatare facing liquidity crunch trig-gered by a series of debt repay-ment defaults by financial con-glomerate IL&FS and its sub-sidiaries.

SBI, which earlier plannedto purchase assets worth�15,000 crore, has decided tobuy additional assets of up to�30,000 crore. “This is a good

commercial opportunity for thebank to increase the loan port-folio as NBFC assets are avail-able at attractive rates,” SBImanaging director PK Guptatold PTI.

It will benefit both SBI andthe NBFC sector as they getmuch required liquidity whilethe bank will get good loanportfolio, he said further.

“Bank had initially plannedfor a growth of �15,000 crorethrough portfolio purchase dur-

ing the current year which isnow being enhanced. As perbank’s internal assessment, theremay be an opportunity to buyadditional portfolio in the rangeof �20,000 to �30,000 crore,” SBIsaid in a statement.The coun-try's largest lender said that ithas stepped up target purchaseof good quality portfolio ofassets from NBFCs. NBFCstocks have wilted due to heavyselling pressure following theIL&FS defaults since late

September as investors raisedconcerns over the rising cost ofborrowing for them amidstIL&FS crisis. “There is a goodopportunity to expand its loanportfolio at attractive rates. Thebank is looking for opportuni-ties both in priority and non-priority sectors,” SBI added.

On September 23, SBIChairman Rajnish Kumar hadsaid that there should not be anyconcern in the liquidity positionat NBFCs.

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The wife of the formerInterpol president who dis-

appeared in China has revealedthat she had received a threat-ening phone call warning ofagents coming for her while shefights a so-far fruitless battle forinformation about her hus-band’s fate.

In her first one-on-oneinterview since Meng Hongweiwent missing, Grace Mengdenied bribery allegationsagainst her high-profile hus-band, and told The AssociatedPress that speaking out abouthis disappearance was placingher “in great danger.”

Meng Hongwei — who isalso China’s vice minister ofpublic security — disappearedwhile on a trip home to Chinalate last month. A long-timeCommunist Party insider with

decades of experience inChina’s sprawling securityapparatus, the 64-year-old isthe latest high-ranking officialto fall victim to a sweepingpurge against allegedly corruptor disloyal officials underPresident Xi Jinping’s authori-tarian administration.

Speaking to the AP lateMonday at a hotel in Lyon,France, where Interpol is based,Grace Meng said her last contactwith her husband was by textmessage, on Sept. 25, when hewrote “wait for my call” and senther an emoji image of a knifeafter traveling back to China.

After a week with no sub-sequent news, and on anevening when she was at homein Lyon having put their twoyoung boys to bed, she then gota threatening call on her mobilephone from a man speaking inChinese.

“He said, ‘You listen butyou don’t speak,’” she said. Hecontinued: “We’ve come in two

work teams, two work teamsjust for you.” She said the manalso said, “We know where youare,” and that when she tried toask a question, he repeated:“You don’t speak, you just lis-ten to me.”

As a result, Mrs. Meng isnow under French police pro-tection. Chinese authoritiessaid Monday that MengHongwei was being lawfullyinvestigated for taking bribesand other crimes that were aresult of his “willfulness.” Hoursearlier, Interpol said Meng hadresigned as the internationalpolice agency’s president. Itwas not clear whether he did soof his own free will.

Mrs Meng suggested thatthe bribery accusation is just anexcuse for “making him disap-pear for so long.”

“As his wife, I think he’ssimply incapable of this,” she

said. She said she would bewilling to make their bankaccounts public.

She said that she spoke outin hopes that doing so mighthelp other families in similarcircumstances.

She refused to provide herreal name to the AP, saying shewas too afraid for the safety ofher relatives in China. It is notcustomary for Chinese wives toadopt their husbands’ names.Mrs. Meng said she has done sonow to show her solidarity withher husband. Her Englishname, Grace, is one she haslong used, she said.

A French judicial official,speaking on condition ofanonymity, confirmed to APthat police are investigating thethreat against Mrs Meng, butsaid the probe has yet to deter-mine whether there were indeedChinese teams sent to Lyon.

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In a sudden move, Indian-American US Ambassador to

the United Nations Nikki Haleyresigned on Tuesday, becomingthe latest casualty in the frag-ile Trump administration justweeks ahead of the crucialmid-term elections.

President Donald Trumphas accepted her resignation,US media reported. Trumptweeted that he has a “bigannouncement” with Haley inthe Oval Office at 10.30 am.

The reason behind her res-ignation was not immediatelyclear. Haley, 46, was the seniormost Indian-American offi-cial in the Trump administra-tion. She was confirmed as UNAmbassador four days afterTrump was inaugurated inJanuary 2017. She had script-ed history by becoming thefirst-ever Indian-American tobe appointed to a cabinet-levelpost in any US administration.

The daughter of Indianimmigrants from Punjab,Haley was the first womantapped by Trump for a top-leveladministration post during histransition to the White House.

Haley’s nomination was aturning point for the Indian-American community which isincreasingly playing greaterrole in American politics.

She was critical of Trumpduring the primary campaignand had backed Senator MarcoRubio in the Republican pri-mary. However, before the gen-eral elections, she switchedher position, saying she wouldvote for Trump.

Born Nimrata “Nikki”

Randhawa, Haley is the firstminority and female Governorof South Carolina, a deeplyconservative state with a longhistory of racial strife.

She is the first Indian-American woman Governorand the second Indian-American governor of any State.Prior to becoming governor, sherepresented Lexington Countyin the South Carolina House of Representatives from 2005 to 2011.

Prior to dedicating her lifeto public service, Haley workedat her family business. Haleyand her husband, Michael, aCaptain in the Army NationalGuard and combat veteranwho was deployed toAfghanistan’s HelmandProvince, have two children,Rena and Nalin.

However, President DonaldTrump said UN AmbassadorNikki Haley is leaving theadministration “at the end ofthe year.” Trump spoke as heand Haley met in the OvalOffice, shortly after word cameof her plans to resign.

London: One of the two sus-pects behind the poisoning offormer Russian spy SergeiSkripal in Britain was an intel-ligence operative who was per-sonally decorated as a hero byPresident Vladimir Putin in2014, investigative groupBellingcat said on Tuesday.

The site said on Mondaythat the man, who used thealias “Alexander Petrov”, was infact Alexander Mishkin, atrained military doctoremployed by Moscow’s GRUmilitary intelligence service.

Bellingcat founder EliotHiggins and researcher ChristoGrozev told reporters at anevent in the British parliamentTuesday that they discoveredMishkin had taken part inundercover operations inUkraine and the breakawayrepublic of Transnistria. Higginsand Grozev said that Mishkinwas made a Hero of the RussianFederation by Putin in theautumn of 2014. People famil-iar with his family believed itwas awarded for activities “eitherin Crimea or in relation to (for-mer Ukrainian presidentViktor) Yanukovych”, accordingto their report. AFP

Kathmandu: The RastriyaJanata Party-Nepal, a keyMadhesi party which has beendemanding amendments toNepal’s Constitution, hasthreatened to withdraw its sup-port to Prime Minister KPSharma Oli-led Government.

The RJP-N leaders, whopresented a memorandum toPrime Minister Oli on Monday,warned that if the governmentfailed to address their demands,the party would withdraw itssupport to his Governmentafter Diwali.

RJP-N has asked the gov-ernment to initiate the processof amendment to theConstitution to address thedemands of Madhesi, Tharu,Muslims and Janajatis.

“This is our last warningand if the government turns itsdeaf ear, we will launch freshagitation after the festivals bywithdrawing support to thegovernment,” said RajendraMahato, member of thePresidium of the RJP-N. “TheGovernment is not listening toour demands and is also tryingto avoid the amendments to theConstitution,” said Mahato, theformer commerce minister.

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China on Tuesday hintedthat the leaders of Shanghai

Cooperation Organisation(SCO) may discuss the issue ofsanctions threat by the US oncountries buying Russianweapons, when they meet inTajikistan on Thursday.

The Donald Trumpadministration has late lastmonth imposed sanctionsunder the CounteringAmerica’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act(CAATSA) on China for pur-chasing S-400 missile defencesystem and SU-35 fighters from Russia.

The US administration isrequired, under CAATSA, toimpose sanctions on any coun-try that has “significant trans-actions” with Iran, North Koreaor Russia.

The Act primarily dealswith sanctions on Russianinterests such as its oil and gasindustry, defence and securitysector, and financial institu-tions, in the backdrop of itsmilitary intervention inUkraine and its alleged med-dling in the 2016 USPresidential elections.

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The US has sought a thor-ough and transparent

investigation into the disap-pearance of a prominent Saudijournalist after PresidentDonald Trump expressed con-cern over the scribe’s where-abouts. Jamal Khashoggi, aSaudi journalist andWashington Post contributor,went missing after he enteredthe Saudi consulate in Istanbulon October 2.

According to some mediareports, Khashoggi, 59, hasbeen killed inside the Saudiconsulate. US Secretary of

State Mike Pompeo said he hadseen conflicting reports on thesafety and whereabouts ofKhashoggi.

“As the President has con-veyed, the United States isconcerned by his disappear-ance. State Department seniorofficials have spoken with theKingdom of Saudi Arabiathrough diplomatic channelsabout this matter,” he said.

“We call on the govern-ment of Saudi Arabia to sup-port a thorough investigation ofMr Khashoggi’s disappearanceand to be transparent about theresults of that investigation,”Pompeo said in a statement.

Trump’s own remarks toreporters were more tentative,saying he was “concerned”about “some pretty bad stories”about what had happened toKhashoggi.

“I am concerned about it. Idon’t like hearing about it.Hopefully that will sort itself out.Right now nobody knows any-thing about it, but there’s somepretty bad stories going around.I do not like it,” Trump said.

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Ankara: Saudi Arabia hasagreed to let Turkish authori-ties search the kingdom’sIstanbul consulate after promi-nent journalist and Riyadhcritic Jamal Khashoggi wentmissing last week, the Turkishforeign ministry said Tuesday.

“Saudi authorities said theywere open to cooperation andthat a search can be conduct-ed at the consulate building,”the ministry spokesman HamiAksoy said in a statement.

The search will take placeas part of the official investiga-tion, which was being con-ducted “in an intense manner”,he said without giving any date.Khashoggi, a Washington Postcontributor who wrote for Araband Western media, vanishedlast Tuesday after visiting theconsulate to obtain official doc-uments. Ankara sought per-mission to carry out a searchafter the foreign ministry sum-moned the Saudi ambassadorfor a second time, Turkish tele-vision reported. AFP

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����$�����$���The Global Music Institute

(GMI), India’s leading musiccollege, is inviting applica-tions for its Music Productionand Advanced MusicProduction programmes. Tobe held from September 29 toDecember 8, 2018, theseexhaustive and intense cours-es are aimed at enhancing astudent’s understanding ofmusic production and take itto the next level.

The classes, spanning over10 weeks, will be held for threehours on Saturdays. GMI haspartnered with The Inventoryand Ableton as an AbletonIndia Education Partner forboth the programmes. Thecurriculum has been designedby Ableton Certified Trainer,Aditya Balani and will betaught by Jay Pei.

The course in MusicProduction is aimed at gettingstudents started with makingmusic using Ableton Live10,an industry standard and apowerful Digital AudioWorkstation. Students willlearn how to organise theirmusical ideas, increase work-flow, and use real-world tech-niques to polish their finalproductions.

The Advanced MusicProduction programme isdesigned to equip studentswith the knowledge and toolsto take music production tothe next level. It will delve intodigital signal processing,dynamic processing, EQ tech-niques, mixing, mastering,and under the hood featuresof Live 10. With advancedmodular sound design withsubtractive, FM, physical,modelling and wavetable syn-thesis, max for live devices,students will be able to under-stand how to create a uniquesonic palette and take thestage using Push, MIDI con-trollers and external hard-ware synth / effects.

The curriculum is inclu-sive of an interdisciplinaryapproach combiningHindustani, western classicaland world music. The choiceof performance major offeredincludes guitar, voice, piano,drums, bass. GMI encour-ages students to develop astrong artistic identity andenables them to be versatileperforming musicians.

Eligibility: The minimum

age to apply is 14 years(younger students may beconsidered on a special casebasis).

Applications forms to befi l led are available atwww.globalmusicinstitute.in/music-production/.

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School, Glasgow is invitingapplications for MSc in GlobalEnergy Management (GEM)course starting in September2019.

The MSc in Global EnergyManagement is accredited bythe Energy Institute, the pro-fessional body for the energyindustry. It is the first Masterscourse to hold academicaccreditation for the profes-sional status of CharteredEnergy Manager.

Through this course, stu-dents will gain a rigorous ana-lytical training and in-depthreal-world knowledge of glob-al energy systems. There’s alsohands-on training in the man-agement of energy-relatedissues. The training will helpto give students an unrivallededge in the energy job market.

The department run aseries of interactive seminarscalled the Global EnergyForum. Leading internationalenergy experts in business,government and other organ-isations provide students withpractical insights and insideknowledge. There are fieldtrips, conferences and summerproject.

Eligibility: Three-yearBachelor’s degree or higherhonours degree. Applicationsare also welcome from candi-dates with significant high cal-ibre industry or Governmentexperience. IELTS (academic):6.5 overall (no individual bandless than 5.5).

Fee: £18,450 for interna-tional students. For furtherinformation, [email protected];https://www.strath.ac.uk/cours-es/postgraduatetaught/glob-alenergymanagement/.

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Covestro, a global manufacturer of high-performance polymer materials, inau-

gurated STEM4GirlsFestival2018 at the NehruScience Center, Mumbai to promote Stemeducation among girls. The company alongwith Greenlight for Girls, Nehru ScienceCentre and Chandra Mohan Foundation pre-sented the third edition of the Stem workshopwhich is being conducted in six cities with thefirst workshop held in Mumbai from October8-13 2018.

The aim is to give one more reason to cel-ebrate with festival2018 by involving over3000 girl students across India in scienceexperiments and interaction.

An MHRD report shows that only 8.52%of the girls enrolled in higher education werepursuing bachelor degrees in engineering ortechnology in 2012-13. This is a major con-cern as the loser in this scenario is not just thewomen who do not get a chance to chase theirdreams but also science itself, which fails tobenefit from other points of view. On the con-trary year after year, in school exams, we hearof how girls have outshone boys, but when itcomes to those who take up research in laterlife, the number of women is minuscule.

This means that many of our best brainsthat showed the maximum potential do notpick research as a career. The programme willfocus on teaching girls in the age group of 11-15 years with various Stem-based concepts.

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Berger Paints India Ltd hasassociated with Paints andCoatings Skill Council and

National Skill DevelopmentCorporation (NSDC) to train sixregional champions from theIndia Skills Competition in thepainting and decorating category.The champions are from Kerala,Chandigarh, Haryana and Bihar.

The India Skills competitionwas organised in Delhi fromOctober 2-5, 2018. The winnerwas Priya Gaira from Chandigarh,Sahil Kapil also from Chandigarh

was the runner up and KartavyaSaini from Haryana was placedthird. The first two will representIndia in the Paint and Decoratingcategory in the world skills com-petition to be held in Kazan,Russia in 2019.

The company will also trainthe winners, help in upscalingtheir skills, and prepare them forWorld Skills Competition. Thecompany came forward with anobjective to promote young talentsof the nation by not only honingtheir skills but also amplifyingtheir employment quotient. Thetraining classes were organised at

Karigari Bhawan in Kolkata.The NSDC organises the

lndia Skills competition everytwo years in association withstate governments and indus-tries. This year more than 400young talents across 27 States andUnion Territories competed in 46skills, 10 traditional skills and fourdemo skills.

Abhijit Roy, MD & CEO ofBerger Paints India Limited said:“The idea behind such an associ-ation is to encourage the youthand provide platforms to representskills along with raising employ-ment quotient.’

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The Ministry of TribalAffairs has bestowed

Amrita VishwaVidyapeetham the title thetitle of Centre of Excellence inTribal Empowermentthrough Digital Inclusion(Amrita CoE-TEDI). TheMinistry also highlighted thedistinctive work done by theuniversity that led to the ful-fillment of UN’s sustainabledevelopment goals through its101 adopted Amrita SeRVevillages.

Dr Prema Nedungadi,director, Amrita Center forResearch in Analytics &Technologies for Education

(Amrita CREATE), AmritaVishwa Vidyapeetham, said:“Amrita is honoured to havebeen given this distinction bythe Tribal Ministry. Ourimmediate plans are to under-stand baseline data and theimpact of technology in areassuch as digital literacy, oral-contraceptive use, oralhygiene, micronutrient defi-ciencies, digital safety, ante-natal-health monitoring, andvaccination, as well as withour adolescent ambassadorsfor awareness programme.We have also already com-pleted awareness training inthe dangers of substanceabuse to 1,000 tribal stu-dents.”

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The Pride of the NationSeries Awards &

Business Summit, celebrat-ing India’s 71 Years ofIndependence, and 3rdEdition — India’s GreatestBrands & Leaders 2017-18was organised by URSMedia and AsiaOne maga-zine, recently. With the nextone to be held in Singapore.

The event was graced byManeka Sanjay Gandhi,Indian Minister for Women& Child Development,

Vineet Jain, MD, BCCL, DrNiranjan Hiranandani,chairman, HiranandaniCommunities, AshishChauhan MD & CEO, BSE,Karisma Kapoor, actress anddiplomats from Bulgaria,Botswana, Iceland,SwedenArgentina,Uganda, Kuwaitand Malaysia.

Several business andeconomy issues and India’sstupendous growth were dis-cussed and celebrated at thehighest level, and ways toimprove investment in Indiawere considered.

Wealth Management is a mostcommon term thrown out inthe board rooms of the com-

panies and in front of the clients.Wealth management is a very straight-forward term from the affluent indi-vidual's perspective; wealth manage-ment is simply the science of solv-ing/enhancing the financial situationof a client. It involves financial advi-sory services, accounting & tax plan-ning, estate planning, will drafting ser-vices as well as other matters thatrequire expert advice.

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very seriously in India. When it cameto building a rewarding career inBanking and Finance, InvestmentBanking was the first preference. Buttimes are changing now. With evolu-tion in the thought process, growingawareness about Wealth creation,and various macroeconomic factors,aspirants are earnestly considering acareer in Wealth Management as aWealth Advisor.

India is witnessing an era ofwealth creation and on the trajecto-ry of becoming a new world playerthat will host the highest number of

millionaires. A report by Oxfamreleased ahead of the World EconomicForum in Davos states that Indiaadded 17 new billionaires last year,raising the number to 101 billionaires.The report further indicated that theWealth of these billionaires grewfrom �15.78 lakh crore to over �20.67lakh crore in 2017-18. The overallgrowth in wealth during 2018 is phe-nomenal.

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grow by 30 % by 2025. Wealth man-agement, by contrast, enjoys explosivegrowth when the economy booms,aspiring wealth managers or advisorcould see the job prospects improvegreatly in the coming years. TheWealth Advisor is able to bring in theappropriate experts and provide theappropriate financial products.

Life of a wealth advisor is quitestressful because having access to per-sonal accounts of clients comes withgreat responsibility and accountabil-ity. The mistakes on the job are rarelyacceptable or redeemable, so the jobinvolves a lot of mental pressure.

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offices, but they do have to travel occa-sionally to meet with clients to discusstheir needs and offer them adviceabout potential investments.

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bachelor’s degree in a related field suchas business finance, or economics.On-the-job training is provided by thehiring firm. The major skills and com-petencies that employers look for areexcellent communication and listeningskills, confidence and presentationskills, Ability to explain complex infor-mation clearly and simply and Goodsales and negotiation skills. A certifiedglobal PG diploma course is also ben-eficial for people who want to pursuea professional career as a WealthAdvisor. The course combines the bestof the global orientation and the strongindustry exposure.

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deal with numbers it is said that a pro-fessional person has to be good inMaths. Whereas the most importantattribute for a successful career aheadis your sales ability.

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Being good with people is also animportant skill for anyone under thebroad umbrella of financial advising.

The high net worth client lookingforward to a person who has top-of-the-line communication skills, shouldoffer good service and maintain greatrelations with them.

A person seeking the profession-al career as a wealth advisor has to bewell versed with different sets ofwealth products like mutual funds,private equity, structured products,real estate, portfolio managementservices and arbitrary strategies.

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The British Council alongwith other organisations

partnered with the IndiaDidactics Association to hostthe annual ministerial and lead-ership conference AsianSummit on Education and Skills(ASES) and the DIDAC Indiaexhibition in New Delhi.

The ASES conference isthe Asian chapter of theEducation World Forum inLondon, which brings togethereducation and skills ministersand senior policy makers. Thetheme of this year’s conferencewas — Learning for tomorrow’sworld, leading exponentialdevelopment. Action today forknowledge, skills, attitudes andvalues education.

The British Council waspleased to be a supportingpartner and be part of thefocused discussion on educa-tion and skills with ministersand senior policy makers fromacross India. The discussioncentered on current trends ineducation and skills sector andpossible solutions. As an offshoot to the ASES conference,the British Council organiseda conference with EducationMinisters and policy makersfrom North-east India. Thediscussion focused on theregion, the opportunities andchallenges that exist in the

North East and support theBritish Council could offer topartner with the governmentsof the North-east to developopportunities for the youththrough educational initiatives.

The DIDAC India is anannual international exhibi-tion about education and tech-nology-based solutions for alllevels. The British Councilinteracted with over 1,000 vis-itors to the exhibition, rangingfrom teachers, educationists,youth, school leaders and headsof organisations. The BritishCouncil interacted with over1,000 visitors to the exhibition,ranging from teachers, educa-tionists, youth, school leadersand heads of organisations

Duncan Wilson, Director,Schools English and Skills,British Council said: “We workextensively with partners inGovernment, non-governmentorganisations and corporates toextend the reach and impact ofour programmes in school andteacher development. We werealso pleased to support theDIDAC exhibition which ranalongside the conference. Weseek to support the develop-ment of quality education andskills at all levels of the educa-tion system. These events werean excellent opportunity toengage with key stakeholdersaround important issues andagendas.”

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The Jawaharlal Nehru University(JNU) opened India’s first-evermulti-purpose cultural and public

information center — Korea Corner onHangeul Day. The Embassy of the Republicof Korea together with JNU organised theopening ceremony of the Korea Corner inJNU’s School of Language, Literature andCultural Studies. The ceremony witnessedthe presence of Shin Bong-kil, Ambassadorof the Republic of Korea to India, KimKum-pyoung- Director of Korean CulturalCenter India, Prof Jagadesh Kumar, VC,Vyjajanti Raghavan and Prof and chair-person Centre for Korean Studies, JNUamong others.

The corner aims at enhancing localpublic awareness about Korea by provid-ing easier access to a variety of materialson Korea at universities or libraries abroad.

Highlighting the importance of corner,Korean Ambassador Shin Bong-kil said:“The Korean Government has madeutmost efforts to strengthen public diplo-macy in India in tune with emergingKorea-India relations. JNU has been at theforefront of promoting Korean languageand Korean Studies in India. JNU is theonly university in India where Korean lan-guage is taught right from undergraduateto Ph. D level. Thanks to the collaborativeefforts between the Korean Embassy andJNU, the first Korean Corner in India hasbeen realised. Korea Corner will be likeLittle Korea in JNU campus and will serveas a popular destination to experience ele-ments of both modern and traditional

Korea.”The corner is located at #129 at the

School of Language, Literature andCultural Studies, JNU. To establish this

facility, JNU has provided the space andthe Korean Embassy extended support interms of interior designing, new equipmentas well as a variety of resource materialson Korea. It will enable JNU students, fac-ulty members and anyone interested inknowing and learning about Korea to havecultural and educational experiences byproviding research materials, academicbooks, audio-video contents, etc., whiledemonstrating Korea’s cultural artifacts,photos, traditional costumes and musicalinstruments.

The corner will also be utilized as avenue for Korea-related events, including,academic seminars, research activitiesand exhibitions. The Korean Embassy incollaboration with Foundation will con-tinue supporting the facility by providingupdated materials on Korea.

The Hangeul Day celebration is a year-ly event which has vibrant and colorfulprogrammes. This year, the three-daycelebration witnessed the participation ofaround more than 250 students learningKorean language from JNU, KoreanCultural Centre, Amity University andDelhi University.

Apart from the inauguration of theKorea Corner, the day also saw 2ndInternational Seminar on KoreanLiterature: Translation, Literature andIndia. On October 9, 2018 the colours ofKorea were seen during the celebration ofCultural programme.

Today, October 10, 2018 JNU will behosting essay competition, quiz, singingcompetition and food festival — all Koreantheme.

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is the Front Desk. Why? Since it’s thehotels’ smile, the place where you getto experience the excitement of deal-ing with guests, the complexity ofoverseeing crisis situations and thecontrol that comes from overseeingthe communications centre for thehotel. It’s a lively and fast-pacedworking environment and beingpart of this operational hotspot isn'tfor the faint-hearted.

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Night auditors, concierges,receptionists, cashiers and bellmenusually report to the Front OfficeManager, who in turn reportsstraight to the General Manager. Itis a very hands-on role and requiresa positive leader who is not afraidto make vital decisions. The FrontOffice Manager must be skilledenough to guide a team, supportother departments and make sure

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Eligibility: Intended forexceptional young scientists(within at most six years ofthe award of their PhD at thestart of academic year 2019-2020). Applicants whoalready hold junior faculty orpost-doctoral positions arewelcome to apply. Applicantswho hold, or expect to hold,postdoctoral appointments atother institutions are encour-aged to apply to spend theduration of one programme.Each fellow will normallyparticipate in at least one ofthe ongoing programs at theInstitute and be resident forthe full programme. Englishlanguage requirements:Applicants whose first lan-guage is not English are usu-ally required to provide evi-dence of proficiency inEnglish at the higher levelrequired by the university.

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The deadline is November15, 2018

Applications are invitedfor Getty GraduateInternships at the GettyCenter in Los Angeles or theGetty Villa in Malibu.

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Imperious Novak Djokovicdeclared that he was "a com-pletely different player" from

the first half of this year after hebeat France's Jeremy Chardy 6-3, 7-5 to roll into the ShanghaiMasters third round on Tuesday.

The rejuvenated Serbian sec-ond seed has now won all 12matches against Chardy andthis victory was never in doubt.

The 31-year-old Djokovichad to contend with a more stub-born Chardy in the second set,before the world number three'ssuperior shot-making wonthrough in 83 minutes.

The 14-time Grand Slamchampion missed six months ofcompetition in 2017 and hadelbow surgery in February.

But he has burst back toform and fitness since the sum-mer, winning Wimbledon, theUS Open and the Masters 1000Cincinnati in a terrific run, andsays he is back close to his best.

Djokovic, who is eyeingRafael Nadal's number one rank-ing, said: "I haven't won toomany matches the beginning ofthe year.

"After the surgery I was notmanaging to play my best, andthat has changed, so obviouslythe more you win, the morecomfortable and more confidentyou feel on the court."

The Serb will play eitherItaly's Marco Cecchinato orSouth Korea's Chung Hyeonnext -- he lost to both during hisdarker days in the first half of theyear.

"I think I'm a completely dif-ferent player than I was in firstfive, six months of the year," hesaid.

"Hopefully the outcome canbe different as well."

In the absence of the injuredNadal, holder Roger Federer isthe top seed in Shanghai and theSwiss great starts his campaignon Wednesday against Russia'sDaniil Medvedev.

Nikoloz Basilashvili won hissixth straight match Tuesday,beating Denis Shapovalov 6-2, 6-2 in the first round.

Basilashvili, who won theChina Open last week and hasmoved up to a career-high rank-ing of No 23, never faced a breakpoint on his serve. The Georgianearned his first victory at thetournament after qualifying in2015 and 2017.

On Sunday, Basilashviliupset fourth-seeded Juan Martindel Potro in the final in Beijing.Earlier this year, he became thefirst Georgian man to win anATP title when he won inHamburg - playing as a qualifi-er.

Basilashvili will next playfourth-seeded Alexander Zverevin the second round.

While, Daniil Medvedev,who upset Kei Nishikori to winthe Japan Open on Sunday,struggled but beat Chinese wild-card entry Zhang Ze 3-6, 7-6 (6),6-4 in the first round.

Medvedev has won all threefinals he has appeared in thisyear and did so by beating thehome favorite. Besides beatingNishikori in Tokyo, he defeatedAlex de Minaur in Sydney andSteve Johnson in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Earlier, French qualifierBenoit Paire upset 15th-seededPablo Carreno Busta 6-3, 6-4.

�����������������$�Roger Federer warned

Novak Djokovic and his otherShanghai Masters rivals onTuesday that he was in prime

condition even as anotherlong season approaches itsclimax.

The 37-year-old Swiss hasbeen carefully managing hisschedule in recent years, cut-ting out the clay-court seg-ment of the season since 2017

to wring the most out ofhis ageing body.

It appears to beworking and the 20-timeGrand Slam winneropens his defence of theShanghai Masters this weekin ominously good shape.

The world numbertwo played in a victori-ous Laver Cup campaignin Chicago two weeksago, following his sur-prise last-16 defeat to

the Australian JohnMillman at the US Open.

"The good thing is afterfeeling good in practice Iplayed a good Laver Cup,have had also some rest afterthe US Open," said Federer.

The Swiss great's primethreats in Shanghai are likelyto come from world number

three Djokovic — who is infine form — and fourth-ranked Juan Martin del Potro.

World number one RafaelNadal, beaten by Federer inlast year's final of the Masters1000 showpiece, is absent withinjury.

Del Potro, who was hin-dered by cold and flu in losingSunday's China Open final tounseeded Nikoloz Basilashvili,said in Beijing last week thathe was running on empty.

Not so Federer, it seems,who is seven years older thanthe Argentine.

"I feel like I'm where Iwant to be," Federer said.

"I know that this is whereI could be playing a lot of ten-nis, depending on how I play."Reflecting on his 2018, whichincluded winning theAustralian Open and severalweeks back at world numberone, Federer said: "I have actu-ally been very successful whenI played.

"I didn't play many poormatches, to be quite honest.There is only maybe a couplethat come to my mind and Ihave been injury-free for overa year now." Federer, who ischasing his fourth title this sea-son, will face either Chinesewildcard Zhang Ze or feistyRussian Daniil Medvedev inhis opener.

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Seven times champion SerenaWilliams will be back at theAustralian Open in 2019 having

missed her title defence this year aftergiving birth, organisers said onTuesday.

The 23-time Grand Slam winner,who won on her last appearance in2017 while pregnant, will be joinedin January's tournament by doubleMelbourne Park champion VictoriaAzarenka who was forced to with-draw from the 2018 event because ofa custody battle with her baby'sfather.

Australian Open tournamentdirector Craig Tiley said Tuesday hewas expecting a full contingent of thetop 100 men and women players inMelbourne next year.

"I'm delighted to announce thatSerena Williams will return to theAustralian Open in January," Tileysaid while launching the 2019 eventat Rod Laver Arena.

"We last saw Serena here inMelbourne as our champion, hold-ing the Daphne Ackhurst MemorialCup in 2017. Of course what we did-n't know at the time was that she wasalready eight weeks pregnant withbaby Olympia," said Tiley.

Williams needs one more GrandSlam singles victory to equalAustralian Margaret Court's all-timerecord of 24.

"Serena loves coming toMelbourne and I know she's excitedabout returning in January with herfamily, it's definitely a very specialplace for her," said Tiley.

"She'll also be super-focused on

winning here, and equalling MargaretCourt's record of 24 Grand Slam sin-gles titles."

Tiley said the tournament wasgearing up to welcome back

Azarenka and Williams -- and theirchildren.

"Vika (Azarenka) is also a newmum to toddler Leo and I'm look-ing forward to showing her, andSerena, our new creche facilities,"said Tiley. "I'm sure they'll be appre-ciated."

Six-time men's winners NovakDjokovic and Roger Federer, whocaptured his 20th Grand Slam titlein Melbourne in January, look to beamong the players to beat again in2019.

Tiley was also looking forwardto the return of Britain's AndyMurray, the five-time losing finalistwho missed this year's tournamentwith injury.

"With his incredible work ethicand competitive spirit it would befoolish to underestimate him," he said

of the Scot.Tiley said prize money at the

January 14-27 tournament will beincreased to Aus$60.5 million ($42.9million) from Aus$55 million in2018 -- split equally between men'sand women's tournaments.

The 2018 singles winners Federerand Caroline Wozniacki both pickedup cheques for Aus$4 million ($2.83million).

The tournament will also intro-duce a 25-second serve clock to speedup play, after the innovation made itsSlam debut at this year's US Open.

"The 25-second serve clock willbe introduced for all matches," saidTiley.

"We know there's a move tospeed up play and we'll continue towork with the players on the bestways to do this."

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Wayne Rooney hascalled on Manchester

United's players to standup and be counted, sayingthat manager JoseMourinho is an easy targetfor the club's troubles.

United battled backfrom two goals down to beatNewcastle 3-2 at the week-end but are languishing ineighth place in the PremierLeague, seven points off topspot.

Following the win,Mourinho accused his crit-ics of staging a "manhunt" toget him sacked after a stringof bad results and rifts withplayers including Frenchmidfielder Paul Pogba.

But former United cap-tain Rooney, who now playsfor DC United in MajorLeague Soccer (MLS), saidthe players had to take someresponsibility for the situa-tion.

"It's tough (at United), ithas been a tough situation,"he said in comments report-ed by Britain's DailyTelegraph newspaper.

"The players, the man-ager, it has been a toughstart to the season. I knowJose is getting a load of stickbut I said a few weeks ago,

the players have to stand up.They have to be countedand they have to be better.

"The manager can do somuch but then it is down tothe players on the pitch toproduce, and probably col-lectively.

It (the poor run) is a bitof ever ything comingtogether but Jose is an easytarget. Some of the playershave to be better."

The former Englandforward said the situation atOld Trafford was similar towhen Louis van Gaal was atthe helm.

"He took a lot of stickbut behind closed doors Isaid to the players 'we haveto be doing better ' .Personally, I think he (VanGaal) set us up brilliantlybut we didn't produce onthe pitch, so I am sure thatis getting said behind thescenes."

Rooney now has ninegoals in 16 matches sincesigning for D.C. Unitedfrom Everton in June.

The 32-year-old strikerhas played a part in a late-season surge that has leftManchester United twopoints behind Montreal forthe sixth and final EasternConference playoff berthwith two games in hand.

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Indian football team head coach Stephen Constantine onWednesday rued lack of preparation time ahead of his team's inter-

national friendly against a much-superior China scheduled onOctober 13.

For the first time, India is travelling to China to play an inter-national match on October 13 at Suzhou Olympic Sports Centrebut the team is having just a couple of days of training time.

The last time India had played against China was in the NehruCup in Kochi way back in 1997. This friendly is a part of India'spreparations for the Asian Cup to be held in UAE in January nextyear.

"Of course, it is a problem (of not having enough time). We don'thave much time to do what we need to do, we needed a few moredays. Going forward, we need to have more time for preparationin future," Constantine told reporters ahead of the team trainingat the JLN Stadium here.

Most of the players are playing in the ongoing Indian SuperLeague. Many of the players in the national team, including cap-tain and star player Sunil Chhetri, played in the Bengaluru FC vsJamshedpur FC ISL match on October 7.

The team leaves for China on Wednesday after a mere two-daycamp.

"The boys played on October 7 (in ISL) and they arrived hereon October 8 lunch time, so we could not train on October 8. Weare training today and then leaving Wednesday. So we have verylittle time for preparation as a team," the coach said.

Constantine's woes were also compounded after strikerBalwant Singh was dropped as his passport's validity period is lessthan six months.

"Balwant's passport will expire in less than six months, fivemonths and a week to be exact. So, he has been dropped. In thepast 18 months, he has done well," the coach said.

Asked if he was happy about the fitness level of the players, hesaid, "If we had time, we could have tested their fitness levels. Butnow we don't have time to test their fitness. Most of them have playedat least two ISL games for their clubs, so I am hoping that they arein good fitness condition.

"When I get the players from the clubs, they need at least twodays to recover before we start a proper camp. But here we don'thave time to do that," the Briton said.

Talking about the Chinese team, Constantine admitted that itwould be difficult for his side to beat the home side on October13.

"We are fully aware that China are a big side in the region. Theywill be a very difficult side. They want to play possession footballand they employ a high line (defenders come up).

"There will be a big stadium, big crowd but we have to play underpressure. These are the matches we need to play, to find out wherewe are, how good we are and how far we have to go," Constantinesaid.

"When you step on the pitch, you always play to win. We willgo all out for a win. But if we lose, we will try to find out the pos-itive aspects."

Constantine has given debut to 44 players since he took overas coach in early 2015 and he said he will continue the trend.

"More than 50 per cent of the current squad is Under-23 andif I feel some more young players need to be given a chance, I willdo that."

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