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A s Delhi faced emergency situation second time in the season due to severe plus Air Quality Index (AQI) with value 540 on the National Ambient Air quality Index (NAAQI) on Friday, the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) said a final call on extending the odd-even scheme will be taken on Monday as the air quality is expected to improve in next two-three days. The road-rationing scheme, rolled out on November 4, ended on Friday. “We do not want people to face unnecessary inconvenience. The residents cooperated very much in implementation of the scheme. There were 250-300 challans every day, which are very less considering the pop- ulation. Air quality is predict- ed to improve over the next two-three day. A final call on extending the odd-even scheme will be taken on Monday,” Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said. The Central Pollution con- trol Board (CPCB) has said the vehicle rationing scheme will not help in improving Delhi’s air more than four per cent. Forecasting on the air qual- ity for next three days, System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting And Research (SAFAR) said the air quality in Delhi may improve on November 17. If air quality data of mon- itoring agencies are to be believed there is no significant improvement recorded in pre- vious week as levels of harm- ful Suspended Particulate Matters (SPMs) were recorded above 500 for Particulate Matter (PM) 10 and 300 plus for PM 2.5. On Friday also, values of both were recorded 582 and 390 as a thick layer of toxic smog enveloped Delhi for the fourth consecutive day. All monitoring agencies recorded an AQI above 500 in Delhi on Friday. Neighbouring Faridabad (450), Ghaziabad (475), Greater Noida (445), Gurgaon (461) and Noida (474) too continued to reel under severe air quality. Air quality at different places in Delhi also recorded hazardous level. Dwarka Sector 8 and Okhla phase-II were on top with overall AQI 558 and 688 respectively. Mundka, Punjbai Bagh, Anand Vihar and RK Puram recorded AQI above 400. Air quality in Patparganj also breached severe category with value 475 recorded at Real Time Ambient air quali- ty index of Delhi pollution Control Committee (DPCC). Capital’s Mandir Marg record- ed AQI 650. Najafgarh, Narela and a few outer areas faced noxious air with AQI above 500. Levels of PM 2.5 and PM 10 were nearly eight times high- er than normal at several locations. An AQI between 201 and 300 is considered “poor”, 301-400 “very poor” and 401-500 “severe”. According SAFAR, drizzle on Thursday night proved counter-productive and led to formation of secondary parti- cles — a situation Delhi wit- nessed in the first week of November. The situation may worsen due to a drizzle on Friday night, it said. A cloud cover and slow wind speed due to a western disturbance have been uncon- ducive for dispersion of pollu- tants, experts said. Gufran Beig, project direc- tor, SAFAR, said though the impact of stubble burning is expected to reduce on November 16, high humidity due to isolated light rains may worsen the situation. “Drizzle (last night) delayed the recovery and hence, improvement in ar qual- ity is now expected only by November 17,” the SAFAR said. A mid an assertion by former Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis that no Government is possible in Maharashtra without the BJP, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) president Sharad Pawar on Friday expressed con- fidence that the Shiv Sena- NCP-Congress Government would soon be formed in the State and it would last for a full five-year term. Addressing a news con- ference at Nagpur, Pawar said, “The process has started... Don’t worry. Things will roll out sooner or later. There is no question of mid-term polls in the State. This (Shiv Sena- NCP-Congress) will be formed and it will last for five years. We will be ensure that this Government lasts for its full term.” Replying to a question, the NCP president said, “Our effort is to see that there is stable Government which is devel- opment-oriented. We want a Government that will success- fully address major problems in the State. Towards this end, we will do everything that is necessary”. Declining to give a timeline for the formation of the three- party Government in the State, Pawar indicated that he would meet AICC president Sonia Gandhi in New Delhi and dis- cussed whatever remaining issues relating to the Government-formation in the State. Asked about the Sena’s demand for the Chief Minister’s post, Pawar said, “Discussions are going on. They are still in initial stages. If any party wants the Chief Minister’s post we will definitely consider the demand”. When his attention was drawn to a statement by Fadnavis that no Government was possible without the BJP and if any Government was to be formed in Maharashtra it would be a BJP-led Government, Pawar took a jibe at the former Chief Minister and said, “Something else was going on in my mind... that is (Fadnavis’ oft-repeated statement during election ral- lies) me punha yenar, me punha yenar... (I will return as the Chief Minister)”. On being asked about Fadnavis’ statement that a non- BJP Government would not last for even six months, Pawar quipped, “I have known Fadnavis for quite some time. But I did not know he is an astrologer too.” T he Railway Board has decid- ed to hike price of meals on board Rajdhani, Shatabdi, Duronto trains, resulting in slight hike in their fares, according to a Government order. According to the new order, in first class AC and executive class, tea will cost 35, up by 6, breakfast 140, up by 7, lunch and din- ner 245, up by 15. In second class AC, third class AC and chair car, tea to cost 20, up by 5, breakfast 105, up by 8, lunch and din- ner 185, up by 10. It has also been decided that snacks of regional flavour will be introduced, the order stated. The ‘Snack Meal’ shall be of 350 grams portion and shall be made avail- able at 50, inclusive of GST. “IRCTC shall be accountable for pro- viding the newly introduced menu options in a way that the quantity and quality are com- mensurate with the tariff and no undue benefit is passed on to the service provider,” the order read. A review of menu and tar- iff of pre-paid Rajdhani/Shatabdi/Duronto trains and standard meals or food items that are provided to passengers of mail or express trains on payment basis, has been done taking into consid- eration the requests received from IRCTC and the recom- mendations of the menu and tariff committee set up by the board, the order said. T he Supreme Court on Friday said the odd-even vehicle rotation scheme of the Delhi Government was a “half- baked solution” to the severe pollution level in the national Capital as it is not effective in reducing pollution. The apex court questioned the exemptions given, includ- ing to two and three wheelers, during the scheme and asked the Delhi Government as to whether it helped reduce pol- lution. A Bench of Justices Arun Mishra and Deepak Gupta said as per Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), the contribution of cars in pollu- tion was around 3 per cent and odd-even was not a permanent solution to the problem. “This odd-even is also a half-baked solution. You may go for full odd-even without any exemption,” the Bench told senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi, who was appearing for the Delhi Government. “We have seen that in spite of imposition of odd-even scheme the pollution is increasing in the city of Delhi and the NCR region and pol- lution has reached to very severe level. Drastic steps are required to be taken by all con- cerned working in tandem and to cooperate with each other as it is not an adversari- al litigation,” the Bench said. Additional Solicitor General ANS Nadkarni, appearing for the Centre, told the Bench that as per CPCB’s study, odd-even scheme has no effect on reducing the pollution level. Rohatgi countered this submission and said as per study reports, the pollution level has reduced from five to 15 per cent during odd-even scheme. “If exemptions are removed, it might reduce more. There are large number of two wheelers in the city and if we stop them (during odd- even scheme), the whole city will collapse,” he said, adding, “The real culprit is stubble burning”. I n the last couple of days, Punjab witnessed an over 50- fold decline in stubble burning instances from 520 on November 12 to just 10 on November 13, while Haryana had an over four-fold drop from 68 to 16 instances. Uttar Pradesh registered about three-fold decline from 210 to 79. The latest figures on the basis of satellite imagery show that Uttar Pradesh may have registered an overall decline in the last two days but now has the dubious distinc- tion of being ahead of Punjab and Haryana in terms of stub- ble burning instances. As per data compiled by the Agriculture Ministry, the number of stubble burning cases has decreased from 792 on November 12 to 105 on November 13. As per data, no stubble burning was detected Mahamayanagar, Jyotibaphule Nagar and Varanasi while Agra, Hathras, Mahoba, Mau, Jaunpur recorded one inci- dent each of farm fire till date. As many as 54,776 cases of stubble burning have been detected since October 1 in Punjab, Haryana and UP so far. Of them, 46,221 incidents were found in Punjab; 5,823 in Haryana and 2,732 in UP. There was a decline of 12.4 per cent this year as com- pared to the last year till date. UP recorded 41.3 per cent decline, Haryana recorded 16.26 per cent decline and Punjab recorded 9.3 percent decline of stubble burning. H ome Minister Bala Bachchan has on Friday claimed that the State Government has come across some vital evidences in the Vyapam scam and soon some major revelations would be made in the case. Replying to a query while talking to mediapersons in Jabalpur, Bachchan claimed that the CBI was probing the scam independently and the MP Government has no role to play in it. But the Minister claimed that the State Government has found some vital links of the scam which would help them unravel this mega scam. “Shortly we would be hold- ing a press briefing for sharing the links with the media,” said the Minister. Since Vyapam scam was a major election plank during Assembly elections, the Congress party which came to power in year 2018, is facing criticism from different corners for not taking any strong action in the case. On several occasions, the Congress Ministers have par- ried off queries on the scam in press briefings without offering a reply. Even the whistleblow- ers who had actively exposed the scam during the BJP Government too every now and then put the Government in the dock over alleged inac- tion against Vyapam culprits. Primarily linked to the BJP rule in MP, Vyapam scam was exposed in year 2013 when a middlemen racket was busted which used to rig Pre Medical Tests. A subsequent probe had unearthed a massive examina- tion and recruitment scam in MP Professional Examination Board primarily known by its Hindi acronym — Vyapam. Meanwhile, the Home Minister while commenting on the Godse being wor- shipped in Gwalior by Hindu Mahasabha said that Godse is the murderer of Mahatma Gandhi and those worship- ping him are exposing their culture. In Congress, we all fol- low footsteps of Mahatma Gandhi, he said. T wo years after having failed to install Nathuram Godse’s idol at a so-called temple in Gwalior, Hindu Mahasabha on Friday observed 70th Sacrifice Day of Godse, Mahatma Gandhi’s assassin. Later in the day, the right wing organisation handed over a memorandum to district administration seeking return of the Godse idol seized by the administration in year 2017 and the last deposition of the Godse be included in the school curriculum. Notably, in 2017 the Hindu Mahasabha had attempted to convert its office into Godse temple and the idol of the freedom fighter installed in the premises was seized by the police after massive uproar over the issue. On Friday, the Gwalior unit of Hindu Mahasabha, the organisation Godse was asso- ciated with, organised a func- tion in Gwalior to commemo- rate the 70th sacrifice day of Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte, a communiqué from the organisation said. Chief Guest on the occa- sion Kailash Narayan Sharma said that Godse and Apte had contributed to the freedom struggle. “Godse had elimi- nated Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi as he was responsible for the partition of the country which had led to massacre of lakhs of Hindus,” said Sharma. Godse had received train- ing to use arms in Gwalior, said the chief guest. Corporator Babulal Chaurasia on the occa- sion pledged to forward the last court statement of Godse to one lakh persons. The Mahasabha members later handed a memorandum addressed to the Chief Minister to local district administration representative demanding Godse’s statement offered in the court be included in school curriculum. The organisation also demanded return of the Godse idol seized by the administra- tion in year 2017. They also demanded immediate arrest of those who disrespected Swami Vivekanand statue at JNU. RNI Regn. No. MPENG/2004/13703, Regd. No. L-2/BPLON/41/2006-2008

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As Delhi faced emergencysituation second time in

the season due to severe plusAir Quality Index (AQI) withvalue 540 on the NationalAmbient Air quality Index(NAAQI) on Friday, the rulingAam Aadmi Party (AAP) saida final call on extending theodd-even scheme will be takenon Monday as the air quality isexpected to improve in nexttwo-three days.

The road-rationingscheme, rolled out onNovember 4, ended on Friday.“We do not want people to faceunnecessary inconvenience.The residents cooperated verymuch in implementation of thescheme. There were 250-300challans every day, which arevery less considering the pop-ulation. Air quality is predict-ed to improve over the nexttwo-three day. A final call onextending the odd-evenscheme will be taken onMonday,” Delhi Chief MinisterArvind Kejriwal said.

The Central Pollution con-trol Board (CPCB) has said thevehicle rationing scheme willnot help in improving Delhi’sair more than four per cent.

Forecasting on the air qual-ity for next three days, Systemof Air Quality and WeatherForecasting And Research(SAFAR) said the air quality inDelhi may improve onNovember 17.

If air quality data of mon-itoring agencies are to bebelieved there is no significantimprovement recorded in pre-vious week as levels of harm-ful Suspended ParticulateMatters (SPMs) were recordedabove 500 for ParticulateMatter (PM) 10 and 300 plusfor PM 2.5.

On Friday also, values ofboth were recorded 582 and

390 as a thick layer of toxicsmog enveloped Delhi for thefourth consecutive day.

All monitoring agenciesrecorded an AQI above 500 inDelhi on Friday. NeighbouringFaridabad (450), Ghaziabad(475), Greater Noida (445),Gurgaon (461) and Noida(474) too continued to reelunder severe air quality.

Air quality at differentplaces in Delhi also recordedhazardous level. Dwarka Sector8 and Okhla phase-II were ontop with overall AQI 558 and688 respectively. Mundka,Punjbai Bagh, Anand Viharand RK Puram recorded AQIabove 400.

Air quality in Patparganjalso breached severe category

with value 475 recorded atReal Time Ambient air quali-ty index of Delhi pollutionControl Committee (DPCC).Capital’s Mandir Marg record-ed AQI 650.

Najafgarh, Narela and afew outer areas faced noxiousair with AQI above 500.Levels of PM 2.5 and PM 10were nearly eight times high-er than normal at severallocations. An AQI between201 and 300 is considered“poor”, 301-400 “very poor”and 401-500 “severe”.

According SAFAR, drizzleon Thursday night provedcounter-productive and led toformation of secondary parti-cles — a situation Delhi wit-nessed in the first week of

November. The situation may worsen

due to a drizzle on Fridaynight, it said.

A cloud cover and slowwind speed due to a westerndisturbance have been uncon-ducive for dispersion of pollu-tants, experts said.

Gufran Beig, project direc-tor, SAFAR, said though theimpact of stubble burning isexpected to reduce onNovember 16, high humiditydue to isolated light rains mayworsen the situation.

“Drizzle (last night)delayed the recovery andhence, improvement in ar qual-ity is now expected only byNovember 17,” the SAFARsaid.

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Amid an assertion by formerChief Minister Devendra

Fadnavis that no Government ispossible in Maharashtra withoutthe BJP, Nationalist CongressParty (NCP) president SharadPawar on Friday expressed con-fidence that the Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress Governmentwould soon be formed in theState and it would last for a fullfive-year term.

Addressing a news con-ference at Nagpur, Pawar said,“The process has started...Don’t worry. Things will rollout sooner or later. There is noquestion of mid-term polls inthe State. This (Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress) wil l beformed and it will last for fiveyears. We will be ensure thatthis Government lasts for itsfull term.”

Replying to a question, theNCP president said, “Our effortis to see that there is stableGovernment which is devel-opment-oriented. We want aGovernment that will success-fully address major problems inthe State. Towards this end, wewill do everything that is necessary”.

Declining to give a timelinefor the formation of the three-party Government in the State,Pawar indicated that he wouldmeet AICC president Sonia

Gandhi in New Delhi and dis-cussed whatever remainingissues relating to theGovernment-formation in theState.

Asked about the Sena’sdemand for the Chief Minister’spost, Pawar said, “Discussionsare going on. They are still ininitial stages. If any party wantsthe Chief Minister’s post wewill definitely consider thedemand”. When his attentionwas drawn to a statement byFadnavis that no Governmentwas possible without the BJPand if any Government was tobe formed in Maharashtra itwould be a BJP-ledGovernment, Pawar took ajibe at the former ChiefMinister and said, “Somethingelse was going on in my mind...that is (Fadnavis’ oft-repeatedstatement during election ral-lies) me punha yenar, me punhayenar... (I will return as theChief Minister)”.

On being asked aboutFadnavis’ statement that a non-BJP Government would notlast for even six months, Pawarquipped, “I have knownFadnavis for quite some time.But I did not know he is anastrologer too.”

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The RailwayBoard has decid-

ed to hike price ofmeals on board Rajdhani,Shatabdi, Duronto trains,resulting in slight hike in theirfares, according to aGovernment order. Accordingto the new order, in first classAC and executive class, tea willcost �35, up by �6, breakfast�140, up by �7, lunch and din-ner �245, up by �15.

In second class AC, thirdclass AC and chair car, tea tocost �20, up by �5, breakfast�105, up by �8, lunch and din-ner �185, up by �10.

It has also been decidedthat snacks of regional flavourwill be introduced, the orderstated. The ‘Snack Meal’ shallbe of 350 grams portion and

shall be made avail-able at �50, inclusiveof GST.

“IRCTC shall beaccountable for pro-

viding the newly introducedmenu options in a way that thequantity and quality are com-mensurate with the tariff andno undue benefit is passed onto the service provider,” theorder read.

A review of menu and tar-iff of pre-paidRajdhani/Shatabdi/Durontotrains and standard meals orfood items that are provided topassengers of mail or expresstrains on payment basis, hasbeen done taking into consid-eration the requests receivedfrom IRCTC and the recom-mendations of the menu andtariff committee set up by theboard, the order said.

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The Supreme Court onFriday said the odd-even

vehicle rotation scheme of theDelhi Government was a “half-baked solution” to the severepollution level in the nationalCapital as it is not effective inreducing pollution.

The apex court questionedthe exemptions given, includ-ing to two and three wheelers,during the scheme and askedthe Delhi Government as towhether it helped reduce pol-lution.

A Bench of Justices ArunMishra and Deepak Gupta

said as per Central PollutionControl Board (CPCB), thecontribution of cars in pollu-tion was around 3 per cent andodd-even was not a permanentsolution to the problem.

“This odd-even is also ahalf-baked solution. You maygo for full odd-even withoutany exemption,” the Benchtold senior advocate MukulRohatgi, who was appearingfor the Delhi Government.

“We have seen that in spiteof imposition of odd-evenscheme the pollution isincreasing in the city of Delhiand the NCR region and pol-lution has reached to very

severe level. Drastic steps arerequired to be taken by all con-cerned working in tandemand to cooperate with eachother as it is not an adversari-al litigation,” the Bench said.

Additional SolicitorGeneral ANS Nadkarni,appearing for the Centre, toldthe Bench that as per CPCB’sstudy, odd-even scheme has noeffect on reducing the pollutionlevel. Rohatgi countered thissubmission and said as perstudy reports, the pollutionlevel has reduced from five to15 per cent during odd-evenscheme.

“If exemptions areremoved, it might reducemore. There are large numberof two wheelers in the city andif we stop them (during odd-even scheme), the whole citywill collapse,” he said, adding,“The real culprit is stubbleburning”.

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In the last couple of days,Punjab witnessed an over 50-

fold decline in stubble burninginstances from 520 onNovember 12 to just 10 onNovember 13, while Haryanahad an over four-fold dropfrom 68 to 16 instances.

Uttar Pradesh registeredabout three-fold decline from210 to 79. The latest figures onthe basis of satellite imageryshow that Uttar Pradesh may

have registered an overalldecline in the last two days butnow has the dubious distinc-tion of being ahead of Punjab

and Haryana in terms of stub-ble burning instances.

As per data compiled bythe Agriculture Ministry, thenumber of stubble burningcases has decreased from 792on November 12 to 105 onNovember 13.

As per data, no stubbleburning was detectedMahamayanagar, JyotibaphuleNagar and Varanasi whileAgra, Hathras, Mahoba, Mau,Jaunpur recorded one inci-dent each of farm fire till date.

As many as 54,776 cases ofstubble burning have beendetected since October 1 inPunjab, Haryana and UP sofar. Of them, 46,221 incidentswere found in Punjab; 5,823 inHaryana and 2,732 in UP.

There was a decline of12.4 per cent this year as com-pared to the last year till date.UP recorded 41.3 per centdecline, Haryana recorded16.26 per cent decline andPunjab recorded 9.3 percentdecline of stubble burning.

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Home Minister BalaBachchan has on Friday

claimed that the StateGovernment has come acrosssome vital evidences in theVyapam scam and soon somemajor revelations would bemade in the case.

Replying to a query whiletalking to mediapersons inJabalpur, Bachchan claimedthat the CBI was probing thescam independently and theMP Government has no role toplay in it. But the Ministerclaimed that the StateGovernment has found somevital links of the scam whichwould help them unravel thismega scam.

“Shortly we would be hold-ing a press briefing for sharingthe links with the media,” said

the Minister.Since Vyapam scam was a

major election plank duringAssembly elections, theCongress party which came topower in year 2018, is facingcriticism from different cornersfor not taking any strong actionin the case.

On several occasions, theCongress Ministers have par-ried off queries on the scam inpress briefings without offeringa reply. Even the whistleblow-ers who had actively exposedthe scam during the BJPGovernment too every now

and then put the Governmentin the dock over alleged inac-tion against Vyapam culprits.

Primarily linked to the BJPrule in MP, Vyapam scam wasexposed in year 2013 when amiddlemen racket was bustedwhich used to rig Pre MedicalTests. A subsequent probe hadunearthed a massive examina-tion and recruitment scam inMP Professional ExaminationBoard primarily known by itsHindi acronym — Vyapam.

Meanwhile, the HomeMinister while commentingon the Godse being wor-shipped in Gwalior by HinduMahasabha said that Godse isthe murderer of MahatmaGandhi and those worship-ping him are exposing theirculture. In Congress, we all fol-low footsteps of MahatmaGandhi, he said.

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Two years after having failedto install Nathuram Godse’s

idol at a so-called temple inGwalior, Hindu Mahasabha onFriday observed 70th SacrificeDay of Godse, MahatmaGandhi’s assassin.

Later in the day, the rightwing organisation handed overa memorandum to districtadministration seeking returnof the Godse idol seized by theadministration in year 2017and the last deposition of theGodse be included in theschool curriculum.

Notably, in 2017 the HinduMahasabha had attempted toconvert its office into Godse

temple and the idol of thefreedom fighter installed inthe premises was seized by thepolice after massive uproarover the issue.

On Friday, the Gwaliorunit of Hindu Mahasabha, theorganisation Godse was asso-ciated with, organised a func-tion in Gwalior to commemo-rate the 70th sacrifice day ofNathuram Godse and NarayanApte, a communiqué from theorganisation said.

Chief Guest on the occa-sion Kailash Narayan Sharmasaid that Godse and Apte hadcontributed to the freedomstruggle. “Godse had elimi-nated Mohandas KaramchandGandhi as he was responsible

for the partition of the countrywhich had led to massacre oflakhs of Hindus,” said Sharma.

Godse had received train-ing to use arms in Gwalior, saidthe chief guest. CorporatorBabulal Chaurasia on the occa-sion pledged to forward the lastcourt statement of Godse toone lakh persons.

The Mahasabha memberslater handed a memorandumaddressed to the Chief Ministerto local district administrationrepresentative demandingGodse’s statement offered in thecourt be included in schoolcurriculum.

The organisation alsodemanded return of the Godseidol seized by the administra-

tion in year 2017. They also demanded

immediate arrest of those who disrespected SwamiVivekanand statue at JNU.

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Chief Minister Kamal Nathhas said tribal hero and

freedom fighter Late BirsaMunda was a symbol of strug-gle, sacrifice and renunciation.

At an early age, his namegot inscribed with golden let-ters in the history of India dueto his good deeds. Kamal Nathwas addressing a programmeorganised on Birsa MundaJayanti on Friday.

On this occasion, PublicRelations Minister PC Sharmawas present.

The Chief Minister saidthat freedom fighter BirsaMunda had chosen the path ofstruggle at a very young age forthe upliftment of his commu-nity and for ensuring justice tothe underprivileged.

He raised voice against theoppression of the tribals by the

Britishers before independence.The contribution of Birsa

Munda in the movement againstthe Britishers to liberate thecountry cannot be forgotten.The CM said Birsa Munda gavea new direction and insight tothe tribal community throughhis thinking and struggle. KamalNath said that today youth mustunderstand and adopt BirsaMunda’s thoughts for the soci-ety and the country.

At the outset, the CM gar-landed the portrait of the free-dom fighter Birsa Munda andoffered him floral tributes.Former Minister Chandrap-rabhash Shekhar, former MLABhupendra Jain, RamnivasRawat and Rajiv Singh werepresent on the occasion.

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Mandal, the photo exhibi-tion on wheels on the

truck was launched by Ministerof Women and ChildDevelopment Imarti Devi, withMichael Juma, Chief UNICEF,Madhya Pradesh.

This is for the first time weare having photo exhibition ofimages taken by adolescentsdisplayed on the truck.

Adolescents and youngpeople along with Anil Gulati,Communication Specialist,UNICEF, Gayatri Parihar ofVasudha Sansthan were presentat the occasion.

The truck will travel acrossBhopal and in schools andcolleges across Bhopal.

The images have beentaken by adolescents of Jhabuawho are part of project titledVoices of Adolescents beingimplemented by VasudhaSanasthan in partnership withUNICEF.

Imarti Devi, MinisterWoman and Child

Development, Government ofMadhya Pradesh, encouragedadolescents and said that this

good way to express their viewsand opinions.

Michael Juma, Chief

UNICEF, Madhya Pradesh saidthat child rights with focus onright to survive, grow, develop

and thrive are critical not onlyfor physical growth but alsoneuro-development. Photoexhibition is a great platformfor demonstrating key achieve-ments advancing child rights,but also platform for high-lighting area which requireimprovements,

Anil Gulati,Communication SpecialistUNICEF Madhya Pradesh saidthat this is best way to markchild rights week to see whatadolescents have to say,through their lens. GayatriParihar of Vasudha Sansthansaid that images are taken ofschool, anganwadi, childrenplaying, life in their homes and villages, and the issues they face.

Young people and adoles-cents were present at thelaunch. Minister flagged of thephoto exhibition on wheels bywaving blue flag. The wholetruck is in blue colour as partof GoBlue theme of this yearcoming World Children's Daywhich falls on November 20.

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A60-year-old woman was duped by two mis-creants to the tune of �25,000 by luring him

of providing money in return of gold ornamentsat Hamidia road on Thursday. Hanumanganj police have registered case againstthe miscreants.

Police said that the victim Laxmi Yadav wasduped by two accused who approached her andprovided money in return of jewelry she waswearing and disappeared with the jewellery.

After the victim found that she was cheat-ed a complaint was lodged with theHanumanganj police stating that she was atHamidia road when two miscreants in an autorickshaw appeared and asked her to provideaddress which she agreed and after they reachednear Central library they offered her to providejewelry in return of cash they were having. Themiscreants also claimed that after their mothercould check and choose jewelry they wouldreturn. The victim got assured and provided goldchain and gold ear rings she was wearing.

The accused provided her money which waswrapped in a cloth and after miscreants left thespot and failed to return she checked the moneyit was found to be stack of papers. The victimsearched the auto rickshaw in which the twocame but failed to find them and later approachedpolice and lodged complaint against the accused.

Based on the complaint after the preliminaryinvestigation the police have registered a caseunder sections 420 and 34 of the IPC and start-ed search for the accused.

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Chief Minister Kamal Nathsaid the new investment

will bring change in the State.We will provide new job oppor-tunities of their choice to youth.He said adulteration is deceitwith the people of the State.The Government is committedto make Madhya Pradesh ahealthy State.

Nath was addressing thepublic gathering after dedicat-ing the newly constructed 350bed District Hospital buildingconstructed at a cost of Rs 144crore in Vidisha on Friday.

On this occasion, the ChiefMinister announced that thehospital will be upgraded to500 bed hospital.

The hospital will be namedafter Late Madhavrao Scindia.He also dedicated constructionworks worth Rs 23 crore inVidisha on this occasion.

The Chief Minister said inthe last 11 months we have cre-ated an atmosphere of faith inthe entire State with our clearintentions and policies.

Remarkable decisions havealso been taken to free MadhyaPradesh from the State of back-wardness, inherited by us.

He stated that theGovernment is working withfull commitment to eradicate

unemployment along with bet-ter arrangements for educationand health.

Nath mentioned that effortsmade in the short time haveenhanced the interest of indus-tries in the state and they havecome forward for the invest-ment. He added we aim to pro-vide employment to youth oftheir choice, who wish to moveahead with respect and digni-ty. He informed that a plannedpolicy is being prepared togive quality education to thechildren.

Describing farmers as thefoundation of the economy, theChief Minister said that we willmake farmers prosperous andhappy not by waiving off theloans but by making the agri-culture a profitable occupation.

He informed that the loanof 86,000 farmers have beenwaived off in Vidisha district.The process of waiving off the

loans of the remaining farmersis underway.

The Chief Minister statedthat our farmers have lost cropsand the heavy damage has beencaused to the infrastructuredue to the excessive rainfall inthe past. In the case of relief andhelp, the behavior of the UnionGovernment is discriminatorywith the people of the state.Even after the survey of theCentral Study Group, no assis-tance has been received by theState so far. He said that despitethis, the State Government hasstarted providing relief to the farmers.

The newly constructedbuilding of 350 bed hospitaldedicated by the Chief Ministerwill provide better health ser-vices to 16 lakh people ofVidisha district and also to thepeople of adjoining districts.People will get most modernhealth services in the hospital.

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Abdul Jabbar, an activist fought forthe cause of lakhs of victims of

1984 Bhopal gas tragedy, passedaway on Thursday night followingprolonged illness.

Jabbar, 61, was suffering frommultiple health issues includingblood pressure, diabetes and gan-grene for the last six months.

A modest activist worked forlivelihood of the thousands of sur-vivors after the gas tragedy and wasstruggling for better treatment.Former Chief Minister DigvijaySingh had visited him in the hospi-tal on Thursday and promised treat-ment at Mumabi and later CMKamal Nath too announced to bearhis treatment cost. However, hebreathed his last by evening.

On personal front, he lost almost50 per cent vision in his eyes and hadserious lung ailments due to the gasleak.

He, however, took up the fightagainst Union Carbide in the courtsfor adequate compensation foraround 5 lakh victims and 25000who died.

In 1987, he had set up BhopalGas Peedit Mahila Udyog Sangthan,a survivors’ organisation demanding

sustenance allowance and compen-sation for the victims especiallywidows of the gas tragedy victims. Inhis lifetime, he imparted vocationaltraining to around 5,000 survivorwomen so that they could earn alivelihood for their families.

Besides, apart from severalmarches organised in Bhopal, heorganised several protest marches inthe national capital, making quite a

stir in parliament.The activist always rued that

there was no proper compensation,medical rehabilitation, economicrehabilitation, or environmentalrehabilitation after 1984 incident. Butas he often said, one day we will getjustice. He also agitated for bettertreatment facilities for gas victims atBhopal Memorial Health andResearch Centre (BMHRC).

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The Chief Minister said in a con-dolence message that Abdul Jabbarcontinued to fight for justice for thegas-affected people. He played an

important role in employment andrehabilitation work for gas victims.He was also conscious towards theenvironment and worked for it fromtime to time. The Chief Minister saidthat Jabbar’s death is an irreparableloss to the state as he was alwaysready to help the needy.

Nath has prayed to God forpeace to the departed soul andstrength to the bereaved family tobear the loss. SR

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The record was made by HawaldarSangram Kesari Jena. The achievementis matter of proud for signal core andIndian Army.

On the occasion Lt Col Gen RajeevSabrawal, AVSM, VSM, SO-in-C andColonel comdt, Justice of MadhyaPradesh High Court Sanjay Yadav andSujay Paul and Brigadier Rajeev Singhwere present. SR

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On the occasion of WorldDiabetes Day, a health

awareness and screening campwas organised in Amarpura vil-lage. The camp was organisedby Radharaman AyurvedaCollege here on Friday.

It is to be noted that morethan 200 villagers werescreened in this camp organ-ised to commemorate WorldDiabetes Day. A large numberof cases were also reported inthis camp in which peoplewere found to be in pre-dia-betic condition.

Doctors told such villagersabout some catering exercisemeasures which they can avoidby becoming diabetic. On theother hand, in many cases, evenvillagers who have had diabeteshave been found, but due tolack of awareness, they were

unaware of it. The doctors advised such

people to control their sugar byproviding special counseling.Apart from this, patients suf-fering from other diseases werealso found in the camp, whowere given proper guidance bythe experts.

Among the doctors whogave their services in this camp,Dr. Harshad Salukhe, Dr.Sandeep Kumar Rajak, Dr.

Megha Manohar Chawre, Dr.Vicky Patil, Dr. Rahul Khanna,Dr. Vijay Kumar Rajput.

On this occasion,Chairman of RadharamanGroup, RR Saxena said thatdiabetes is a worldwide diseasethat afflicts a large populationof the world.

The disease enters the per-son’s body silently and is alsoconsidered a silent killer. Sinceits symptoms are very com-mon, people usually delay theirtreatment and this disease doesnot leave them for a lifetime.

He said that we can avoidthis disease to a great extent byreducing our diet, systematicroutine and stress. But if any-one is still in the grip of it thenthat person should pay fullattention to the advice and dietof doctors so that the diseasedoes not become a life-threat-ening one.

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Aplay ‘RajkumariPhoolwanti’ was staged at

Madhya Pradesh State TribalMuseum here on Friday.

The play was performedunder Abhinayan series. Theplay was performed in TurraKalgi style under the directionof Akbar Kakji (Rajasthan).

The centre of this play isPrincess Phoolwanti of Rajgarhand Rajkumar Phool Singh ofSurajgarh. One day PhoolSingh gets angry after leavinghis house. Therefore, he wan-ders and wanders and entersthe border of Rajgarh andtakes shelter with a mistress.

He learns that gardnermakes a garland for flowers.One day Phool Singh makes agarland for the princess byinsisting on Malin. Theprincess likes the garland verymuch. She asks gardner aboutthe garland. So prince PhoolSingh goes to meet the princessdisguised as a woman.

Here the princess recog-nises him as a man.

Ultimately, the truth isrevealed that this person isnone other than the prince ofSurajgarh.

In the end, the two getmarried and on the same note,the drama ‘PrincessPhoolwanti’ ends in Turra Kalgistyle. The time limit of this playwas about 1 hour 30 minutes.In this play, the actors pre-sented the story of PrincessPhoolwanti in the style ofTurra Kalgi in the auditoriumwith the help of singing, danc-ing and acting.

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Afilm Kai Po Che! wasscreened marking the sec-

ond day of children’s film fes-tival. The film was screenedhere on Friday.

Kai Po Che is a 2013Indian buddy drama filmdirected by Abhishek Kapoorbased on Chetan Bhagat’s novelThe 3 Mistakes of My Life.with music by Amit Trivediand lyrics by Swanand Kirkire.Sushant Singh Rajput,Rajkummar Rao and AmitSadh star as the three mainprotagonists while Amrita Puriplays the female lead.

The film title Kai Po Che!is originally a Gujarati phrasethat means ‘I have cut’ whichrefers to Makar Sankranti(known as Uttarayan inGujarat) where one of thecompetitors uses his kite to cutoff another competitors kiteand yells Kai Po Che!

The movie starts with thebest friends Ishaan, Omi andGovind; young, ambitious andrestless are trying to make amark in the India of the early 2000s.

These are exciting times anew millennium has justdawned, India’s a nuclearpower and ostensibly shininga perfect place for the 3Ahmedabad boys to start abusiness that could be theirticket to fame and riches.

In a country where crick-et is religion, they hit upon abrilliant plan to start a trainingacademy that could produceIndia’s next sporting superstars.What follows is without doubtthe greatest adventure of theirlives, as they attempt to navi-gate the big hurdles in the pathof fulfilling their dreams.

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UNICEF and Bansal Newsheld a media meet of jour-

nalists from districts of MadhyaPradesh here on Friday on thetheme of ‘Right to Nutritionand Health’ under activitiesbeing done to mark 30 years ofsigning of The Convention onthe Rights of the Child.

Speaking at the eventImarti Devi, Minister Womanand Child DevelopmentGovernment of MadhyaPradesh said that herDepartment is taking steps to

tackle malnutrition and pro-viding care for severely acutemalnourished children.

She said that department islooking at mobile nutritionalrehabilitation centre, for work-ing women in MadhyaPradesh.

Principal Secretary ofWoman and ChildDevelopment Anupam Rajan

spoke on the food diversity andhow we need to focus on coun-selling of parents.

He also spoke on the needto focus on first thousand daysof life of the child.

Michael Juma, ChiefUNICEF, Madhya Pradesh saidthat nutrition and health arecritical pillars for survival andgrowth of child and on theneed to focus on first thousanddays in the life of the child.Nutrition deprivation in thisperiod has irreversible effect onthe growth and development ofthe child throughout life.

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Stanley Ka Dzabba is a2011 Hindi film written, direct-ed and produced by AmoleGupte, starring Divya Dutta,Partho Gupte, Divya Jagdale,Raj Zutshi, and Amole Gupte.

The film was released in2011. The story of the movie isabout a little boy Stanley andschool-teacher, who forces chil-dren to share their food withhim, forbids one from enteringthe school until he brings hisown lunch-box. Stanley stud-ies in all-boys Holy FamilyHigh School in Andheri East,Mumbai. While his class-matesbring their very own Tiffin-boxes, Stanley does not do soon the pretext that his mother

is away, and shares food withAman Mehra and others muchto the chagrin of the HindiTeacher, Babubhai Verma, whonot only cajoles fellow-teachers,but virtually forces children, toshare their food with him.

With extra classes beingimposed on both students andteachers, and recess-breaksbeing doubled, parents are alsoforced to pack more food inlunch-boxes. When studentsevade Babubhai and continuesharing food with Stanley, hecalls the latter aside and warnshim that he cannot attendschool until and unless hebrings his own food. Bhopaliteswatched what impact this hason Stanley, teachers, and hisclass-mates. The audienceenjoyed the second day of theFestival. SR

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Anubhuti Programme, anextensive campaign for

training and awareness towardsforest, wildlife and environ-ment has taken an institution-al form in the State.

About 2.25 lakh studentsare participating in this cam-paign and are playing the roleof ‘Vandoot’ in their field.With this in view, the ForestDepartment felt the need for aseparate logo for the pro-gramme. As many as 77 entrieswere received in the logo com-petition organized by theMadhya Pradesh Eco-TourismDevelopment Board at an all-India level. After evaluation bya high-level committee, the

design of Vanshilal Ketki, a res-ident of Mumbai, has beenselected for the logo.

In this logo, a girl is seenlaughing which symbolizes apleasant ‘feeling’ of nature. Inthe hair of the girl, elephant hasbeen depicted as terrestrial ani-mal, fish as aquatic and near herthroat a bird has been shown asaerial animal. The tiger’s pug-mark is displayed on the girl’sponytail, which depicts the top

importance of tiger in the envi-ronment along with MadhyaPradesh being the tiger state.Leaves made in the form ofhands display the forests. Underthe hands is the logo of the pro-gramme coordinator EcoTourism Development Boardwhich is the symbol of water,land and sky.

It is noteworthy that theForest Department is organiz-ing eco-camps for students ofClass VIIth to XIIth with theobjective of explaining theimportance of forest andwildlife for life on earth to thechildren living in the vicinity ofthe national parks and sanctu-aries of the state and to devel-op an attachment towards themthrough direct experience.

Various programmes andcompetitions will be organizedin these camps from December15 to January 15. These activitiesare being appreciated by schoolchildren and teachers. Throughthis, trained future citizens of thecountry have emerged as a pleas-ant hope amidst global warmingand climate change.

Chief Executive OfficerSurendra Singh Rajput of EcoTourism Development Boardinformed that this year the pro-gramme is being organizedbetween December 15, 2019and January 15, 2020. In this 1lakh 11 thousand students willbe taking part. Local people’srepresentatives and dignitariesalso take a lot of interest in‘Anubhuti’ programme.

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Indore collector Lokesh Jatavon Friday reached his office

by boarding the public trans-port city bus from his house.He was accompanied withIndore municipal commis-sioner Ashish Singh. Indorecollector while travelling inthe public transport |bus also discussed with the fel-low passengers and listened totheir experience of their dailytravel.

While talking to ThePioneer Jatav told that moreand more people of Indoreshould adopt the habit of trav-elling in the public carrierwhile travelling to their officeor jobs and should give up thethought driving in their per-sonal vehicles as their statussysmbol.

Travelling in the city buseswill also reduce the crowd ofcars and bikes on the road andalso reduce the traffic problemsin the city and will also reducethe pollution problem as wellit will save the precious dieseland petrol.

“I have purchased thesmart card and every Friday Iwill come to office by publictransport bus as well the entireIndore district administrationemployees. Presently we havethe facility of reserved seats forhandicaps and women andsenior citizen but very soon wewill purchase low floor buses inwhich the handicaps can boardthe bus along with his wheelchair,” he added.

ADM Indore Ajay DevSharama District registrarBalkrishna Mourya,CEOIndore smart city Aditi GargAdditional commissioner IMCKrihsna chaitanya CEO IZPNeha Meena and Deputy CEOIZP Madhulika Shukla alsoreached to their office by pub-lic transport.

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Crime branch police havenabbed a 28-year-old man

from Guna for circulatingobscene photographs andvideos of children by forminga social media group overWhatsApp; one of the accusedinvolved in circulating groupwas arrested earlier.

The police have arrestedHemant Bhargava of Gunawho was found involved in cir-culating obscene photographsand videos of children over agroup ‘Bhabhiji Ghar par Hain’and had uploaded obscenephotographs and videos ofchildren several times in thegroup.

After receiving informationof a group involved in circu-lating obscene photographsand videos of children crimebranch started investigationand found that ‘Bhabhiji Ghar

par Hain’ group overWhatsApp had several obscenephotographs and videos ofchildren.

Later during the investiga-tion, police nabbed one of theactive members of the groupand on Thursday anothermember was arrested.

Hemant confessed thataround a year ago he came intocontact with a youth inMandideep who shared detailsof the group ‘Bhabhiji Ghar par

Hain’ after whichhe started to uploadcontents in thegroup.

A complaintwas filed regardingthe crime and afterthe preliminaryinvestigation andcompletion of theinvestigation thepolice have regis-tered a case under

section 67 IT Act.The police have started

further investigation and haveclaimed that there is a possi-bility of more such groupsactively circulating obscenecontents over social media.Providing the modus operan-di accused told the police thatthe group members collectobscene photographs andvideos of children from inter-net and other sources andupload.

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Principal Secretary, TribalWelfare Deepali Rastogi

inaugurated a three-day nation-al seminar on tribal language,culture and development atIndira Gandhi ManavSangrahalaya. Rastogi said thatin today’s global era, it is chal-lenging to take tribal youthtowards development keepingthem connected with culture.

She said that the tribal tra-ditions of our country andstate are very ancient.Continuous research is beingconducted for their develop-ment. Today it has becomenecessary that the conclusionsfrom the research conducted sofar are included in the policiesand plans being prepared forthe welfare of the tribals.

The Principal Secretarysaid that in tribal culture, a lot

of importance has been givento environmental issues. Thereare good traditions of farmingand animal husbandry in thetribal community of their own.She said that it is necessary topreserve the dialects of the trib-al class in Madhya Pradesh insuch a way that they remainpopular among all the com-munities. The PrincipalSecretary hoped that the con-clusions of the national semi-

nar would be helpful in for-mulating plans and policies

Professor Vipin Jojo ofTata Institute, Mumbai said thatthere are 700 tribal communi-ties in the country out of which46 are in Madhya Pradesh.There is much diversity intheir cultures. Abhay Khakha,Convenor of Adivasi BharatSamanvay Manch, informedthat 200 participants from 21tribal communities of 14 statesare participating in the seminar.

He said that today, 170tribal languages are spoken allover the country, whose preser-vation is very important. Hegave information about folk-lore, social traditions and med-ical practices of the tribal com-munity. Director Tribal AreaDevelopment and PlanningRakesh Singh described thenational seminar as a matter ofpride for the State.

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Demonstration Multi-pur-pose School, Bhopal

organised its 44th Inter SchoolPainting Competition on Friday.

This painting competitionwas first started in the year 1975by the renowned artist andsenior art teacher of DMSSushma Shrivastava.

This culture is still carriedout by the DM School to givea platform to the students toshowcase their talent, creativi-ty and imagination throughtheir paintings. This yearapproximately 21 schools ofBhopal participated. Around900 students including DMSchool’s students took part andmade the event successful.

Students were divided into4 groups based on their class-es. Class KG to II and Class IIIto V had free topics, Class VI

to VIII had two topics – “PlasticFree India” and “Save Animals”Class IX to XII were given twotopics – “My Dream School”and “Effective use of Internetand Social Media” In-chargePrincipal and Dean Prof IBChugtai, RIE, Bhopal and AHMPriyanka Chaturvedi, DMS,Bhopal motivated the partici-pants by their encouragingwords. Participants were enthu-siastic and made the event vic-torious.

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Bhopal: Union Bank of IndiaExecutive Director ManasRanjan Biswal would inaugu-rate new residential hostel onSaturday during his two dayvisit November 16- 17, 2019 inthe state capital.

During his visit Biswalwould address staff of localbranches, regional offices,zonal offices and training cen-ter.

Emphasizing on thetheme of Green Bhopal and incontinuation of the traditionof STC Bhopal plantationwould be done at the bankpremises by Biswal. He wouldreview regional offices underBhopal zone.

On the occasion of 101establishment day a specialfunction would be held atSamanvay Bhawan branchNew Market for valued cus-tomers and bank staff. Biswal

would be chief guest of theoccasion.

During the visit on thesecond day Biswal wouldinaugurate marathon Run forProsperity on the occasion ofCentenary year. Bank staffand people from state capitalwould participate in themarathon. SR

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Capgemini on Fridaylaunched its Digital

Inclusion initiative in Noidacomprising of the LivelihoodEducation through Actionagainst Poverty (LEAP) DigitalAcademy to drive employabil-ity for marginalised youth.

The program is aimed toreintegrate a wide range ofpeople from marginalizedbackgrounds and to trainexcluded populations to use thebest digital tools and facilitatetheir integration within thesociety of today and tomorrow.

The Digital Academy waslaunched by Pallavi

Tyagi, CHRO-India,Capgemini, Lucie Taurines,Digital Inclusion Lead-Group,Capgemini, Atul Kulshreshtha,Vice President & Head ofBusiness Services (India) &CBS, Capgemini and PankajSingh, MLA of Noida in thepresence of leaders fromCapgemini India LeadershipTeam.

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Aday after being sworn in, thenewly inducted Ministers in the

Manohar Lal Khattar Cabinet onFriday assumed charge here withChief Minister Manohar Lal Khattaraccompanying them to their chairand office.

Home and Health Minister AnilVij, Education Minister Kanwar Pal,Power Minister and IndependentMLA Ranjit Singh Chautala, Womenand Child Development MinisterKamlesh Dhanda, TransportMinister Mool Chand Sharma andSports Minister Sandeep Singh —assumed charge at the Haryana CivilSecretariat building here.

Soon after taking charge, the newHome Minister Vij said he will nottolerate laxity on anyone's part andthose officials not doing work shouldbe prepared to take voluntary retire-ment. "My message to them (gov-ernment officials) is to perform andif any official feels he cannot do so,then he/she can take voluntaryretirement," he said. Vij, who hasbeen entrusted with heading the keyportfolio of the Home Departmentduring his second consecutive termas minister, said that he will work toimprove the image of the police sothat its acceptability among the pub-lic increases.

He said he will soon convene ameeting of police officers of variousdepartments and take feedback onhow things can be improved, stress-

ing that eliminating the drug men-ace from the State will be among histop priorities.

"Police department is directlyconnected with people. Though youcannot have a policeman for everyperson, but the public should feel safeand secure knowing that if they faceany trouble at any time, police isthere to protect them all the time,"he said.

Kanwar Pal, who began his newstint as the State''s EducationMinister, said he would focus on pro-

viding qualitative education andimproving the performance ofGovernment schools students."People should once again feel thatGovernment schools are at par andeven better than their private coun-terparts," Pal said.

Kamlesh Dhanda, the lonewoman minister in the HaryanaCabinet said that coming from therural hinterland, she will work toimprove the lives of women, espe-cially those living in the State''srural areas.

Ranjit Chautala, son of formerdeputy prime minister late Devi LalChautala, gave the assurance thatthere will be no shortage of electric-ity during his tenure as PowerMinister.

When reporters pointed out thathe was in fact the grand uncle ofDeputy Chief Minister DushyantChautala, Ranjit replied: "In 1987when Devi Lal was chief minister, Iwas in his cabinet. When father andson can be in the cabinet (together),why can''t we both be in the samecabinet. He is doing his work and Iam doing mine."

Former Indian hockey team cap-tain Sandeep Singh said his vision asSports Minister is to take sports for-ward by providing better facilities forsportspersons. "To make sportsstrong at the grassroots level will alsobe my priority," said Singh, who hasearlier worked with the state''s policedepartment. On next year''sOlympics, he said, "Haryana is aheadin the field of sports. Players fromHaryana representing India are expected to do well in hockey,wrestling, shooting, boxing. We havegreat hope of winning medals. Wewill provide better facilities to our sportspersons".

Transport Minister Mool ChandSharma said that he will try to pro-vide better facilities for those usingstate transport buses.

Nearly three weeks after takingoath, the Haryana chief minister onThursday gave shape to his council

of ministers by inducting 10 newmembers including one from ally JJPand an independent.

STATE WILL BE MADE DRUGAND CRIME FREE, SAYS VIJ

Home Minister Anil Vij said nostone would be left unturned to makethe State drug free and to furtherstrengthen the law and order situa-tion so that the State can be madeentirely crime free. Talking toreporters, he said that more reformswill be brought in the police department to make the law andorder system more effective.

He said that the communicationsystem between the State police andpeople will be made friendlier. TheHome Minister said that specialefforts will be made towards build-ing trust between police and the Statepeople. He further said that he willalso ensure to fulfill the needs of thepolice department and will alsowork on removing the shortcomingsof the department.

The Home minister said that asPolice plays an important role in pro-viding justice to the people in theState, so the functioning of thepolice department will be madeunbiased and dispute free.

He said that police officialsshould always have a transparent andunbiased approach towards the Statepeople.

Vij said that he will soon hold ameeting of all his departments so that

all the works can be completed onpriority. He said that the employeesand officers of all his departmentswill have to live up to his slogan of‘Kaam Kiya hai Kaam Karenge '.

MINISTERS TO WORK AS ATEAM, SAYS KHATTAR

Describing the newly inductedMinisters as capable and efficient,chief minister Manohar Lal Khattarsaid that they would work as a teamand take all necessary steps which arein the interest of the State. “Thisbeing the second consecutive term ofthe government, besides taking sev-eral new initiatives, work which arein the pipeline would be completedat the earliest, he said.

Talking to media persons after heaccompanied the newly inductedMinisters to their allotted offices inthe Civil Secretariat, the ChiefMinister said that though all theMinisters are experienced and capa-ble as some of them served asMinisters and MLAs earlier also,they have been asked to take theassistance of their fellow Ministers of the first term incase they feel any difficulty.

Khattar said that caste and areafactors have been kept into consid-eration while inducting theMinisters, but there are always somelimitations. On being asked about thedate of first cabinet meeting of thepresent State Government, the ChiefMinister said that the cabinet meet-ing could be held on next Monday.

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Worsening environmentalpollution in the national

Capital may be getting loads oflip-sympathy from celebritiesand the political class but inreal terms not many seem tobe really geared to mitigate thepoison around as was evidentfrom the 'scary' absence ofmost of the MPs and officialsfrom a meeting of aParliamentary panel on theissue on Friday. The issuegained political connotations asthe non-presence of the DelhiMP and former cricketerGautam Gambhir was circu-lated by the AAP in the socialmedia by showing him as'enjoying Jalabis` with his com-mentary teammates coveringthe India-Bangladesh crickettest match in Indore.

Gambhir was the only MPfrom Delhi who had been

summoned to the meeting ofthe Parliamentary StandingCommittee on UrbanDevelopment scheduled tostart 11 am. Attendance waspoor, with only four of 29MPs on the panel list turningup, according to sources.

Members present at themeeting were upset with thoselike the three municipal com-missioners, DDA vice chair-man and Secretary/joint sec-retary of the EnvironmentMinistry absent and plan toraise the issue with the Speaker.They asked junior officials toconvey to their seniors thatthey should have attended themeeting, sources said.

"Instead of sitting in com-mentary box and enjoy-ing.. .We challenge@GautamGambhir to stopplaying blame games over pol-lution and ATTEND MEET-INGS ON AIR POLLUTION

which he skipped ", tweeted@AamAadmiParty.

In his explanation, the for-mer cricketer-turned-BJP MPsaid his work "will speak foritself " and then criticised theAAP for "making my com-mercial engagements (whichwere entered into before I hadbecome an MP) an issue..."

In an extraordinary " carea damn" response , top officialsof the Environment Ministry,DDA and municipal commis-sioners too stayed away froma key meeting of the parlia-mentary body that too on theeve of the Winter session ofthe Parliament which isexpected to deliberate on thedeadly poison spreading acrossthe city.

The Environment Ministryclarified that " some of its offi-cials were present during thedeliberations" while one wasbusy in critical Supreme Court

hearing. The questions that the

members were planning toraise included: As there areabout 50 lakh cars on theroads in Delhi, is theGovernment coming up withany sort of car pool policy orregulation?

Another question was thatas per the Union Government,�1,150 crores were given by theCentre to the states in the lastone year to combat air pollu-tion along with 14,000machines. Does theGovernment have a quantita-tive and qualitative utilisationreport of the money disbursed?

The third question to beraised pertained to theSupreme Court's recent obser-vation that everybody rangingfrom the secretary to the ̀ grampradhan` will be held respon-sible for losses due to air pol-lution.

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Days after blaming KejriwalGovernment for not

doing enough to curb smog,Union Environment MinisterPrakash Javadekar on Fridaycalled for "joint action" by allagencies to combat the wors-ening air quality in the nation-al capital. Addressing a pressconference here, Javadekarsaid it was not the time for dif-ferent agencies to blame eachother.

"Delhi pollution is not theproblem of this city. Delhi's airhas been worsening since1990s. There are new chal-lenges everyday as circum-stances change. We haveworked towards reducingindustrial pollution, con-

struction waste and dust etc.There is continuous work.

"But everyone shouldwork together. Cooperation ofPunjab, Haryana, Rajasthan,Uttar Pradesh, DelhiGovernment, all three MCDsand NDMC, DDA, and allother agencies is required to fixthis. Everyone has to work

together," the minister said.He said the Government

was "very serious about theissue of air pollution. "Air pol-lution is an issue to be tackledcollectively by agencies. It isnot the time to blame eachother. We are very seriousabout the issue of pollution,"the Minister said.

A few days ago, Javedkarhad slammed the DelhiGovernment for not doingmuch to curb the pollution.

Replying to another query,the Minister said theGovernment has withdrawnthe 'officers' draft on amend-ments in the Forest Act, 1927as the Government is com-mitted to protect the rights oftribals and forest dwellers.

Javadekar said that the

draft was not officially pre-pared by the UnionGovernment.

The provision in theamendment which invitedcriticism was the one whichallowed forest officials to usearms against people to preventforest offence.

The provision read, "Anyforest-officer, may if necessary,to prevent the commission ofany offence under this Act orunder the WildlifeAmendment proposed to pro-vide indemnity to forest-offi-cer using arms etc, to preventthe forest offence.This indem-nity shall be in addition to theimmunity provided under sec-tion 197 of Code of CriminalProcedure 1973 for certaincategories of Public Servant."

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Outgoing Chief Justice India(CJI) Ranjan Gogoi on

Friday expressed his inability tohave one-to-one interview withscribes and lauded the press forits "maturity" and "character" inpreventing "canards and false-hood" in "trying times" of thejudiciary.

Justice Gogoi, the 46th CJIand the first from a north-east-ern State, said it was not therequirement of the SupremeCourt that judges "reach out toour citizenry through thepress".

"Such outreach (to the

press) ought to be symbolic ofan extraordinary situationdemanding an exception tothe norm," said Justice Gogoiwho would demit office onNovember 17, a Sunday.

Justice Gogoi and threeother senior most apex courtjudges - Justices J Chelameswar,Madan B Lokur and KurianJoseph had held an unprece-dented press conference onJanuary 12, 2018 alleging thatthe administration and alloca-tion of cases in the apex court,then headed by the then CJIDipak Misra, was "not inorder".

In a three-page common

letter to journalists, the CJIdeclined the request for inter-views and said: "I would not beable to meet your request for aone-to-one meet."

The letter said: "I am keenthat you would appreciate thatthe ordinary freedoms are fine-ly balanced in our institution-al functioning - while you havethe Bar whose members canexercise their freedom ofspeech to the extent of evenpushing the boundaries of suchfreedom, the bench requires itsjudges to maintain silence,while exercising their free-doms.

"This is not to say that

Judges do not speak. They dospeak, but only out of func-tional necessity, and no more.Bitter truth must remain inmemory."

The CJI lauded the role ofmedia for its reportage duringthe "trying times" of the apexjudicial institution.

"Good press is also a para-meter amongst others that isknown to be indicative of ourinstitutional health. In suchview, I do wish to put onrecord that by and large, thepress corps has been kind tomy office as well as to our insti-tution during my tenure at thehelm of the institution.

"Even during trying times.When our institution was keep-ing an ambush or two at bay,most members of the press dis-played maturity and characterad exercised exceptional dis-cretion to prevent canards andfalsehood from clogging thenews space," the letter said.

Justice Gogoi said that as apublic functionary, who wasentrusted with onerousConstitutional duties to per-form, the idea of "courting thepress" never came as a choicefor him in the interest of theinstitution.

"I chose to belong to aninstitution whose strength lay

in public confidence and trustearned not through good press,but through our work as Judgeson the bench.

"In fact, our work-placesare, by our functional necessi-ty, required to be public placesas justice is ordained to bedelivered in presence of ordi-nary citizens to ensure that it isnever far removed from them.In that view, our institutionalconnect and interface with thecitizenry is proximate," the let-ter said.

Though the CJI isofficially retiring on November17, a Sunday, Friday was hislast working day.

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Union Home Ministry onFriday told the

Parliamentary standing com-mittee on Home Affairs thatthe situation in J&K was gettingnormal after the quashing ofArticle 370 but did not give anytimeframe for the release of thedetained political leaders,including former ChiefMinisters, as sought byOpposition MPs.

Union Home SecretaryAjay Kumar Bhalla andAdditional Secretary in theHome Ministry GyaneshKumar and other Ministryofficials briefed theParliamentary standing com-mittee on Home Affairs,chaired by senior Congressleader Anand Sharma, on thesituation in the union territo-ries of Jammu and Kashmir,and Ladakh.

Opposition MPs quizzedtop Government officials onthe detention of political lead-ers, particularly the formerChief Minister FarooqAbdullah, Omar Abdullah andMehbooba Mufti. It is learnedthat Opposition MPs were agi-

tated while asking questions tothe officials on this regard.Responding to questions on therelease of the detained politicalleaders, Bhalla and his team ofofficers conveyed that somehad been released and otherswill be freed gradually butrefrained from giving any timeline, sources said.

The Home secretary,sources said, told the MPs thatthe situation in the UT of J&Kis getting normal, schools areopen and the apple trade isgoing on, sources said. TheMPs also raised the issue ofcurbs on the internet in theValley since August 5. HomeMinistry officials, it is learnt,said the restrictions wereimposed as the internet couldbe used by terrorists for sub-

versive activities as well as byanti-social elements to spreadrumours.

According to sources pre-sent at the meeting, differ-

ences between the BJP and theCongress MPs cropped up overthe issue of J&K being dis-cussed in the panel. While BJPmembers cited the rule book to

say the panel should not inter-fere in the work of the execu-tive, Congress MPs said theissue was important and had tobe discussed, the sources said.

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The Supreme Court Fridayheld Former Ranbaxy pro-

moters Malvinder andShivinder Singh guilty of con-tempt for violating its order thathad asked them not to divesttheir shares in Fortis HealthcareLimited. The apex court hadearlier asked the Singh brothersto give it a plan as to how theywould honour the arbitral awardof �3,500 crore granted by aSingapore tribunal against them,in favour of Japanese drug man-ufacturer Daiichi Sankyo.

A bench comprising ChiefJustice Ranjan Gogoi and JusticeDeepak Gupta held them guiltyof contempt of court and saidthat they had violated its earli-er order by which the sale oftheir controlling stakes in FortisGroup to Malayasian firm IHHHealthcare was put on hold.The apex court said it wouldhear the Singhs on the quantumof sentence later. The Japanesefirm had filed contempt petitionagainst them alleging that exe-cution of their arbitral awardhad been in jeopardy as the

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Aday after the SupremeCourt left a scope for a fur-

ther probe into the the Rafaledeal, lawyer Prashant Bhushanand former BJP leader andMinister Arun Shourie onFriday demanded that the CBIshould register a case regardingthe deal.

Bhushan, Shourie alongwith another former BJP mem-ber and Minister YashwantSinha had filed a review peti-tion in the apex court after itcleared the Government lastyear in the �59,000 crore dealfor procurement of 36 Rafalefighter jets from France in agovernment to Governmentdeal. Other review petitions onthe same issue were filed bylawyer Vineet Dhanda andAam Aadmi Party lawmakerSanjay Singh.

The apex court onThursday again gave a cleanchit to the Modi Governmentand said there is no ground toorder an FIR by the CBI or aroving inquiry into allegationsof irregularities in the deal.

But Bhushan referred tothe judgment of Justice K MJoseph, one of the three judgesof the bench headed by Chief

Justice Ranjan Gogoi that gavethe verdict.

In his separate but con-curring judgement, Joseph saidthe CBI, the country's premierprobe agency, is expected to act"completely independent" ofthe Government of the day andprofessionalism of "highestquality", uncompromisingindependence and neutrality isexpected of it.

"The CBI has to seek thepermission of the Governmentfor probing the case and it hasthree months to do so,"Bhushan said. If the CBI doesnot do so, it has to cite reasonsfor not probing the case.

Bhushan said here it isbinding on the CBI to probe

their complaint despite theruling by the three-judge apexcourt bench. If the CBI fails todo so, it will again approach theSupreme Court, Bhushan toldreporters at a press conferencealso addressed by Shourie.Sinha was not there.

He also said it has beenmore than a year since thecomplaint was submitted to thethen CBI Director Alok Verma."Accordingly, we expect RishiKumar Shukla, his successor, toseek the necessary approvalfrom the competent authorityunder Section 17A to begin thenecessary inquiry into the com-plaint in earnest in conformi-ty with the judgement of thecourt," he contended.

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The government must readthe "extremely important"

dissenting verdict for imple-mentation of the 2018 judge-ment allowing women of allages to enter Kerala'sSabarimala temple and ensureits compliance, Justice R FNariman of the Supreme Courtsaid on Friday.

A five-judge Constitutionbench, by a majority of 3:2, onThursday referred to a largerseven-judge bench the pleasseeking review of the 2018judgement allowing all womenand girls to enter Sabarimalatemple.Justice Nariman, whopenned the minority verdict onbehalf of himself and Justice DY Chandrachud, did not agreethe majority view of referringthe issue to the larger benchand reiterated that the court's2018 verdict, allowing allwomen and girls into theshrine, be strictly implement-ed.

As the majority verdict,penned by Chief Justice RanjanGogoi, kept review pleas pend-ing for the 7-judge bench anddid not stay the 2018 majorityjudgement, women of all age

groups will be entitled toundertake the pilgrimage to theshrine.

On Friday, a bench head-ed by Justice Nariman whichwas hearing the appeal ofEnforcement Directorateagainst grant of bail toCongress leader D KShivakumar, observed that theGovernment must read his"extremely important" dissent-ing verdict in Sabarimala caseand ensure its compliance.

"Please tell yourGovernment to read the dissentjudgement delivered in theSabarimala case yesterday. Thisis extremely important. Wecannot allow violation of ourorder and it has to be complied

with. Inform your authorityand the Government to read it,"he told Solicitor

General Tushar Mehta,who was appearing for the EDin the case. A bench of justicesNariman and S Ravindra Bhatdismissed the appeal of EDagainst the Delhi High Court'sorder granting bail to theCongress leader in a moneylaundering case.

When Justice Nariman toldMehta that the Governmenthas to comply with the orderspassed by the apex court, thesolicitor general said that thecourt should not have animpression that theGovernment would not complywith the directives.

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The Supreme Court onFriday dismissed the

Enforcement Directorate's pleachallenging the Delhi HighCourt order granting bail toKarnataka Congress leader D KShivakumar in a money laun-dering case.

A bench comprising jus-tices R F Nariman and SRavindra Bhat rejected therequest of Solicitor GeneralTushar Mehta, who appearedfor the ED, and said the issueshould be heard as it raises animportant legal question.

The High Court had onOctober 23 granted bail toShivakumar, saying he cannottamper with evidence or influencewitnesses and no material hasbeen shown to indicate that hewas a flight risk. Shivakumar, aseven-time MLA in Karnataka,was booked along withHaumanthaiah, an employee atthe Karnataka Bhavan in Delhi,and others for alleged offencesunder the Prevention of MoneyLaundering Act (PMLA). TheED had arrested Shivakumar onSeptember 3 in the money laun-dering case.

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The Congress on Fridayattacked the Modi

Government over the deten-tion of mainstream politicalleaders in J&K, and askedwhether sitting Lok Sabhamember from SrinagarFarooq Abdullah will beallowed to attend Parliamentfrom Monday. It also allegedthat the Centre had left "nostone unturned in interna-tionalising Kashmir" and hitout at the Government forallowing European Union(EU) lawmakers to visit theValley but not Indian leaders.Former Chief Minister and

senior National Conference(NC) leader Farooq Abdullahwas detained under the con-troversial Public Safety Act(PSA).

"Kashmir has been in alockdown situation for the last103 days. The Prime Minister(Narendra Modi) is goingaround the world saying 'all iswell'," Congress spokesper-son Pawan Khera said at apress conference.

He said the Governmentmust give reasons as to why ithas kept leaders of estab-lished political parties underdetention. When FarooqAbdullah "sings 'Ram Bhajan'or says 'Bharat Mata ki Jai'", he

does not think what theresponse of separatist forceswill be, Khera said.

The Congress spokesper-son hit out at the ModiGovernment for granting adelegation of EU MPs accessto Kashmir whenParliamentarians of the coun-try were not allowed.

The Government onFriday did not spell out atimeline for the release ofpolitical leaders detained inJ&K even as it said that the sit-uation in the troubled regionis getting normal post therevocation of special statusand bifurcation into twounion territories in August.

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Congress has drawn up anelaborate plan to corner

the Modi Government duringthe month long WinterSession of Parliament thatbegins on Monday and hasbeen in talks with otherOpposition parties to come onboard on raising commonissues concerning citizens likeeconomy, employment, NRCetc. Congress in particular willagain raise the demand ofJPC in Rafale scam.

The performance ofCongress in the just conclud-ed Assembly polls leading toformation of a Government inMaharashtra with its long termally NCP, has also given hopesto opposition parties to buildupon the pressure in corneringthe BJP Governments.Congress leaders said that theissue of an Israeli software tosnoop on Indian civil societywill also rock the Parliament

debates and in this regard theleaders of Opposition togeth-er have written to PresidentRamnath Kovind also to takeup the matter with theGovernment.

The Opposition parties,particularly Congress, are nowhopeful that the result could beused to build consensus uponelectoral understandings, polit-ical positioning and policyviews.

Senior opposition leaderssay that the immediate impactof this can be seen in upcom-ing winter session ofParliament and elections inJharkhand slated for later thisyear.

"Certainly the poll perfor-mance will boost greater coor-dination on the floor ofParliament during winter ses-sion. Two key issues which aunited opposition is likely totake up in the session includestate of economy and situationin J&K.

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Progress and development are thekey pursuits of an aspirational gen-eration in a globalised world.India, too, is on the move, strivingto accelerate transition from the

status of being a developing to a developednation. In this march ahead, there is littletime to seriously monitor regular onslaughtson the democratic principles and norms,imbued with moral and ethical values asenshrined in the Constitution. Is “politicswithout principles” no more a sin — asMahatma Gandhi had termed it in 1925 —but more of a routine practice?

On November 8, 2019, a couple of well-informed individuals — achievers —expressed disappointment on the machina-tions indulged in Maharashtra after theAssembly elections. This was not for the firsttime. Even before, there was a severe senseof disappointment in this group, where noneis bound by political or ideological con-straint. But they appeared seriously involved,concerned and worried. Yes, they all loveIndia; they value its democracy, ethical,moral and spiritual heritage for which thecountry is eulogised globally even today.They were just not able to comprehend howa political party with just 56 seats out of a288-member Assembly could stake claim tothe top post with unimaginable arrogance.One more blazing instance of the decline ofdemocratic values came with Haryana’s cul-ture of “Aaya Ram Gaya Ram”, whichbecame a practice and has resulted in sev-eral anomalous situations.

We have had Prime Ministers andChief Ministers, who should have never beenthere. In the current context, while lengthyreports on the herding of MLAs to hotels ashostages were highlighted in both electron-ic and print media, hardly was there anymention of the trampling of democratic val-ues, neglect of the wishes of the people, whoelect their leaders and expect some swiftaction from them on a plethora of pendingissues that impact daily life. Do the electedrepresentatives in Maharashtra, irrespectiveof their party affiliation, owe no debt of grat-itude to the freedom fighters of India, theirsacrifices, their indomitable spirit, whichalone is responsible for their newly-acquiredperks and privileges and the exalted posi-tions? Did the people elect them to indulgein such unsavoury public conduct forpower, position and creamy Ministries?

It is indeed shocking that not even oneMLA could protest against his/her herdinginto the hotels, which was apparently done“to save them from poachers of the otherside.” Are our leaders so weak and vulner-able? Maharashtra is only a repeat of whathas been happening in several States in thepast few decades. Why should herding notattract the attention of Parliament? Shouldsome provision like making it mandatory toinstall a new Government — in full strength— within seven days of the declarationresults not be put in the statutes? There wasno justification — moral, ethical orConstitutional — for the non-formation ofa full strength Government in Haryana even

after three weeks. All that hap-pens in the intervening periodis that the credibility of democ-racy and of the elected represen-tatives is lowered. It is shamefulto term certain Ministries as“creamy.” People interpret it intheir own way and they arerarely incorrect.

On October 2 this year,India celebrated the 150th birthanniversary of MahatmaGandhi. It was a time to recallhis life, values and that immor-tal one-line statement: “My lifeis my message.” If political lead-ers of today — baring exceptions— reflect on this one-liner, theywill realise what they have doneto Swaraj of Gandhi: “RealSwaraj will come not by acqui-sition of authority by a few butby acquisition of the capacity byall to resist authority when it isabused. In other words, Swarajis to be obtained by educatingthe masses to a sense of theircapacity to regulate and controlauthority.”

On March 19, 1931, Gandhiwrote in Young India: “Theword ‘Swaraj’ is sacred, it is aVedic word, meaning self-ruleand self-restraint and not free-dom from all restraint, whichindependence often means.”Gandhiji wanted Swaraj “tokeep intact the genius of ourcivilisation.” This hardly needsany elaboration: Think of the lastman in the line, his welfare andyour role and responsibility tobetter his life. The Mahatma’s

writings are universallyacclaimed for their simplicity,sensitivity, originating from theheart and are based on hardexperiences and realities of life.To comprehend and to putthem into practice, one requiresinner strength, perseveranceand empathy for others. Swaraj— Independence — is a dynam-ic living entity and it has to bemaintained and sustained withpersistent individual and nation-al effort. It can be sustained onlyif certain basic values and prin-ciples of democracy are adheredto by the people and more seri-ously by their democratically-elected representatives.

Gandhiji tells us how thiscould be achieved: “Swaraj canbe maintained only where thereis majority of loyal and patriot-ic people to whom the good ofthe nation is paramount aboveall other considerations, includ-ing their personal profit. Swarajmeans Government by themany. Where the many areimmoral or selfish, theirGovernment can spell anarchyand nothing else.”

Expectations of Gandhi —and all other stalwarts of thefreedom struggle — and thepeople were that, “If Swaraj wasnot meant to civilise us and topurify and stabilise our civilisa-tion, it would be nothing worth.The very essence of our civilisa-tion is that we give paramountplace to morality in all ouraffairs — public or private.” It

was a warning articulated withunimpeachable logic even beforeSwaraj was anywhere on thehorizon.

In fact, in 1922, Gandhijihad mentioned in a letter thatSwaraj would not bring happi-ness to our people as four thingswould weigh heavily on them.Defects of elections was promi-nent among these four. Theother three were injustice, bur-den of administration andtreachery of the rich. Was he notprophetic indeed?

Post-Assembly electiondevelopments in Haryana andMaharashtra must be viewed asa serious warning sign, whichcreate distress and erode people’strust and confidence in theelectoral process that is so crit-ical to sustain democracy in itstrue spirit. A brighter side couldopen even in a clumsy politicalarena if everyone in the positionof power realises how the worldvalues our contributions andachievements in creative andfields — right from the ancienttimes to the launch ofChandrayaan.

Let Our MPs and MLAsrealise their responsibility inthe light of India’s achievementsin space sciences, ICT andalso that of young Indians,who have brought us fameand global attention throughtheir presence in the SiliconValley, NASA, particularly intop slots in big corporate andglobal institutions. This thread

of India’s greatness becomesvisible in practically every seri-ous analysis of the current sit-uation. It is indeed necessaryfor inspiration and motivationto move ahead with renewedvigour on the path of progressand inclusive growth.

One evening, an interac-tion closed at a point whensomeone mentioned that theAyodhya judgment would bedelivered tomorrow, that allnecessary steps are being takento beef up security, maintainlaw and order and ensure thatno breach of law and ordertakes place. And what a great9/11 this was in India in theyear 2019. It must have causedacute anxiety and anguish tothe perpetual detractors of thecountry, who were expecting acountry-wide unrest, whatev-er the judgment be.

But on this day, the worldsaw a glimpse of a united India,one which was proud of itsancient culture of acceptance ofall, every conceivable diversityand that India has learnt to “livetogether” over a couple of mil-lennia, a skill that some of theWestern nations have no escapebut need to learn now. Our polit-ical representatives should notpresent a disheartening sce-nario before the people. Onceelected, they owe a debt to thecountry, its people andGandhiji. It was a proud achieve-ment for the country, its democ-racy and the Constitution.

People have very high hopesfrom the elected, young repre-sentatives, who must chalk outtheir own path. They can learnso much from the likes of ourgreat leaders like SwamiVivekananda, Sri Aurobindo,Rabindranath Tagore, MahatmaGandhi and other luminaries,who continued to grow in lifeand were at peace with them-selves. JRD Tata had once said,“Always aim at perfection foronly then will you achieve excel-lence.” Gandhiji did just that allalong the journey of his life. Thiscan be the aim of life for anyone.Look around but never be slackin looking within.

To comprehend it, one mustrecall the words of John Dewey:“Not perfection as a final goal,but the ever-enduring process ofperfecting, maturing, refining, isthe aim in living. The bad manis the man who, no matter howgood he has been, is beginningto deteriorate, to grow less good.The good man is the man who,no matter how morally unwor-thy he has been, is moving tobecome better. Such a concep-tion makes one severe in judg-ing himself and humane injudging others.” This canenlighten the path of those inpublic life.

(The writer works in educa-tion and social cohesion)

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Sir — The nation today is in a fluxover reviewing the role of thepantheon of leaders, who helpedshape a post-Independent India.Together, Mahatma Gandhi,Jawaharlal Nehru and SardarPatel represented our nationalethos, which stands incompletewithout any one of them. Nehruis under debate not because theCongress is not in power but ourhistory’s palimpsest is overwrit-ten by aspirations of the day.Because the Nehruvian era wasahead of its times, it helped ussustain both democracy and eco-nomic progress at fair levels.

The first of the famed IITs wasestablished ahead of our first gen-eral election of independent India.In foresight, the Right to Educationwent hand-in-hand with the rightto vote and technological andresearch institutes formed the bul-wark of macro economics. Thereare lessons for a progressive nationlike India. History is not for selec-tive reading. It matters less as towhere we started but more on howwe intend to progress quickly andinclusively.

R Narayanan Navi Mumbai

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Sir — This refers to the editorial,“Sabarimala takeaways” (November15). The Supreme Court hasreferred the Sabarimala issue to alarger bench of seven judges. Thecourt expressed its opinion that“courts should tread cautiously” on“issues pertaining to religion,including religious practices.”Ideally, this view should have been

taken by the top court when it wasdisposing of the case in 2018 itself.By allowing the entry of women inthe age group of 10-50 in 2018, reli-gious sentiments have been hurt. Soit would be better had the courtinterpreted its decision back then aspart of a process to restore demo-cratic rights of women. In this sense,rescinding the 2018 judgment isonly a damage-control exercise.

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Sir — It is indeed welcome thatthe Supreme Court’s verdict putthe office of the Chief Justice ofIndia (CJI) under the arc of theRight to Information (RTI) Act.The verdict will usher in an eraof transparency in the way thehigher judiciary functions. Whilethe judiciary is the mostrespectable institution, it has

often been subject to publicscrutiny, too. In a similar way, allpublic institutions must comeunder the RTI purview.

The top court’s order mayallow the citizens to seek informa-tion regarding theappointment/transfer of thejudges but constraints will remainas most of the collegium’s deci-sions are largely based onIntelligence Bureau reports, whichare not covered under RTI.

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Sir — This refers to the article,“Pay heed to warning signs”(November 15) by Ajoy Kumar.The clash between the police andthe lawyers was uncalled for andshows the country in poor light.This is a delicate issue and needsto be handled prudently. With thelawyers still continuing their strike,the Bar Council of India mustcounsel the lawyers and ensurethat tensions do not escalate.

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Air pollution is all around us, killing usslowly but surely. Because it is an invis-ible killer, (till it doesn’t form a toxic smog

that hangs low in the air during the wintermonths) it often goes unnoticed. However, inignoring the problem, we are letting ourselvesbecome victims of it. Today, air pollution killsmore people than poor diet, smoking, lack ofphysical fitness and high blood pressure do, puttogether. It is an ongoing public health emer-gency in India, claiming one in every eight lives.Larger portions of India’s economy are being lostto health issues, reduced agricultural yields anddamage to biodiversity and ecosystems causedby air pollution. Delhi’s air pollution has beenmaking international headlines and while Indiaendeavours to become a global super power, thestate of air pollution in the national Capital isticking all the wrong boxes for global tourists,investors and the international perceptiontowards India.

When one looks at the various causes ofdeaths, a worrisome fact emerges. According toa health commission report (2017) published byLancet, diseases caused by air pollution wereresponsible for an estimated nine million pre-mature deaths in India in 2015. This was almost16 per cent of all mortalities worldwide; threetimes as many deaths as by AIDS, tuberculosisand malaria combined; and 15 times more fatal-ities than caused by wars and other forms of vio-lence. It is estimated that there could be a 30 percent increase in air pollution-related deaths inIndia by 2021 if particulate matter levels in theair do not come down from the present haz-ardous levels. Continued exposure to pollutedair is causing diminished lung function and acuteand chronic respiratory symptoms like cough,wheezing and asthma in children.

The occurrence of these symptoms is morein areas with higher levels of pollution.Furthermore, air pollution caused by seasonaloccurrences such as stubble burning by farm-ers soon after harvest of the rice crops inOctober-November and fireworks used duringDiwali, triggers diseases during those periods.

The national Capital, for instance, observesepisodic pollution events during the post-monsoon season (roughly from October 26 toNovember 15), due to open burning of paddyresidue in the three neighboring States ofPunjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh (UP).

The problem is exacerbated by the burningof firecrackers during the festivals of Dussehraand Diwali. This year the very next day ofDussehra, PM10 concentration went up to 191ug/m3, which was a 50 per cent increase fromthe previous day’s concentration. In fact, Delhihas earned the dubious distinction of becom-ing the most polluted major city in the worldwith an Air Quality Index (AQI) of 527 onNovember 15, as per data by Air Visual on theWorld AQI rankings. Delhi’s air quality brokeall records on November 5, when it was in thehazardous range for nine consecutive days, mak-ing this the longest spell of hazardous air qual-ity since public records began.

Six of the top 10 cities fall in the Indian sub-continent, Delhi, Lahore, Karachi, Kolkata,

Mumbai and Kathmandu. So within Asia, airpollution is concentrated in South Asia. ThreeIndian cities are on the list, Delhi, Kolkata andMumbai. So air pollution is not necessarily aproblem specific to northern India althoughDelhi’s pollution is double that of Kolkata.

According to a study conducted by TERI in2016, about 36 per cent of the PM2.5 pollutionin Delhi during winter was contributed by localsources, while the rest was owing to trans-boundary pollutants. Even though theGovernment is making efforts to reduce emis-sions within Delhi, it won’t change pollution lev-els by much, because the air quality deteriora-tion during this time has less to do with Delhi’slocal pollution and it is more about meteorolog-ical conditions. Stable wind conditions preventthe pollutants from dissipating, while the shal-low planetary boundary layer (PBL) traps theemissions, increasing its concentration. The lowPBL height is owing to the prevailing low tem-perature, which results in temperature inversionat a lower height. These meteorological condi-tions remain largely unchanged from Octoberto January.

A research report published by theInternational Journal of Epidemiology estimatesthat the economic and health cost of air dete-rioration caused by stubble burning in India isaround $30 billion per year. It further suggest-ed that people, who live in areas where residueburning is intense, are associated with threetimes higher risk of acute respiratory infection.Children are most susceptible to health effectsof crop burning. Many proposals have been for-mulated by environmentalists and Governmentofficials to curb the practice and to promote theusage of alternative sustainable managementmethods for paddy straw. These include the useof Section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code(CrPC) to ban burning of paddy; The AirPrevention and Control of Pollution Act, 1981;The Environment Protection Act, 1986; TheNational Tribunal Act, 1995 and The NationalEnvironment Appellate Authority Act, 1997.Stringent directions have been given by theNational Green Tribunal (NGT) to limit crop-residue burning in the States of Rajasthan, UP,

Haryana and Punjab.Despite all researches pointing to stubble

burning as the major contributor to Delhi’s ris-ing pollution levels, not much has been doneabout it on-ground, because biomass burningis an issue of public concern. The NGT bannedresidue-burning in 2015 but it is still widely prac-tised due to weak enforcement of the order, polit-ical economy issues and lack of viable alterna-tives among poor farmers. The best alternativewould be to use the crop residue on-site, with-out any need of transportation, logistics and stor-age, such that there is sustainable use for the end-product in the agricultural field itself. Accordingto a research on stubble burning in India, pub-lished in 2018 in the International Journal ofEnvironmental Research and Public Health,there are two practices that farmers can adopt— composting and biochar production.

Composting is not a new concept in India,but doing it with residue has its advantages.Composting with organic waste doesn’t have asecure market but compost made with cropresidue can be fed into one’s own field to increasesoil productivity and agricultural yield. InIndia, the practice of biochar production is notwidely prevalent but if crop residue is used tomake biochar, it can secure a market that willhelp farmers economically as well as the watertreatment and construction sectors and the foodand cosmetics industry.

The issue of residue burning is at present farfrom reaching a successful resolution. The inter-ventions undertaken so far, while significant,have been limited in their impact despite theefforts and time that have been invested in them.It is time to think out of the box and tackle theproblem head-on.

The stakeholders — implementing author-ities, citizen groups, industry representatives, sci-entists, researchers, non-government organisa-tions and others — must come together andchalk out a better plan to address the issue, inthe short-term and the long-term, and providethe citizens of India the pollution free air thatthey are entitled to.

(Suresh R is Fellow and Shivang Agarwal isProject Associate at TERI)

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Did Harper Lee know in 1960when she wrote her seminalnovel To Kill A Mockingbird

that her character’s model of persis-tent and peaceful resistance wouldstrike a strong chord with activists ofthe civil rights movement?

Could she have possibly imaginedthat America would continue to feelthe influence of her novel well into the21st century — in the national con-versation on criminal justice, the“Black Lives matter movement” andthe more recent prison reforms.

The powerful work of fiction is atestament to the ways in which sto-ries can reflect society’s mores andattitudes, penetrate public conscious-

ness and set the stage for socialchange. It is not just To Kill AMockingbird that has had considerableimpact on a cultural movement.Almost all of the world’s major reli-gions are built on the bedrock of pow-erful stories that have the power toshape human behaviour and history.In recent years, there have been anumber of initiatives that have recog-nised the power of purposeful storiesto educate and influence the behav-iour of people for the better.

A great example is Amar ChitraKatha, the comic series started by edu-cationist Anant Pai. It used storiesfrom mythology, epics, oral folk-tales, literature and history to impartvalues to a generation of Indian chil-dren.

Underneath the engrossinglywritten stories were subtle hints onpeople’s behaviour, motives and dri-ves. They were designed to preparechildren for the real world that theywould soon enter. A scientist byeducation and an entertainer byvocation, Pai later launched the fort-nightly magazine Tinkle featuringunforgettable characters and stories

that entertained, edu-cated and informedkids simultaneously.Their success rests ona very simple formu-la, one that packageseducation in enter-tainment by harness-ing the power of sto-rytelling. If you areable to weave lessonsinto a story, both chil-dren and adults aremore likely to learnfrom it.

Brands and the power of story-telling: In 2013, an advertisement byGoogle India proved to be so impact-ful that its vibrations were also feltacross the border in Pakistan. The“Reunion advertisement” that narrat-ed the story of two friends separatedby the Partition and reunited with thehelp of Google, became bigger thanits brand as it touched a chord withpeople on both sides of the RadcliffLine. This powerful example of sto-rytelling tells us how this art can behighly useful for brands.

Even in the world of business and

technology, compa-nies are beginning tounderstand thepower a story has toshape markets andw o r k p l a c e s .Maximising humaninterest helps peopleset and attain goalsthat are worth pursu-ing. People genuine-ly crave real values sothat they can becomea better version of

who they are. They look for trust andto be worthy of their trust, brandsmust have the power to change theway they think and act. If you wantto inspire people to change theirbehaviour, storytelling is the best toolat your disposal. There is a growingtrend of brands using strong narra-tives to make profound comments onour social and behavioural traits. Anumber of brands have propagatedideals through stories of equality,comments against patriarchy and onsocial harmony.

The power of narratives: Thereis a neurological basis to the power of

narratives. Researchers from Spainfound that when people are present-ed with vivid and captivating stories,a lot of different centres in the brainlight up. For example, if a battle sceneis described graphically in a novel, thebrain’s movement and sight centreslight up (even if you cannot fight).When a scent is described in evoca-tive detail, the smell centre lights up.In other words, you have a more emo-tional and immersive experiencecompared to a tiny blip in the brainwhen it is presented with a bare fact.Sociologically speaking, stories havethe power to establish and reinforcebehavioural norms that are in align-ment with what you are trying to pro-mote. If a relatable character in a storymakes a healthy diet choice or exer-cises regularly, it conveys the idea thatthis is what people do and the listen-er or viewer should do it too. It worksbecause you are not just promoting aproduct but a better quality of life, onethat resonates with the viewer. Forinstance, the South African series,Soul Buddyz, an award-winning mul-timedia edutainment experience,closely chronicles the lives, hardships

and joys of children. It captured thepublic imagination so fiercely thatthousands of young ones from acrossthe country wrote to the non-govern-mental organisation (NGO) behindthe show, Soul City Institute, askingto participate. Pretty soon, the NGOwas able to establish over 8,500Buddyz Clubs, with nearly 1.5 lakhchildren, dedicated to the education,physical and mental well-being of theyoungsters.

There is a wide body of evidenceto support the power of story-basedadvertising and media to create a sig-nificant shift in societal norms, beliefsand values much more effectively thantraditional advertising and messaging.

Digital technology and socialmedia have made it possible forbrands to maximise the reach of thesestories at negligible costs. Just as ToKill A Mockingbird catalysed thenationwide conversation on civilrights, strong narratives hold thepower to change our world and livesfor the better.

(The writer is director and creativestrategist at an advertising and consult-ing agency.)

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Karnataka Chief Minister BSYediyurappa on Thursday said dis-

qualified MLA R Shankar will be madea member of Legislative Council and aMinister as he announced Arun KumarPujar as the BJP candidate to contestfrom Ranebennur seat represented byhim in the December 5 bypolls.

The move is seen as an apparent bidto mollify Shankar, who along with 15other disqualified Congress and JD (S)MLAs joined the BJP on Thursday andwas keen to contest from Ranebennur.

Yediyurappa announced the nameof Pujar on Friday for Ranebennur seat.

With this, the BJP has named can-didates for all 15 seats for which bypollswill be held following the disqualifica-tion of the Congress-JD(S) MLAs and13 of them have been fielded in theirrespective constituencies.

Bypolls are being held to 15 of 17seats represented by disqualified MLAs,whose resignation and absence from thetrust vote had led to the collapse of HD Kumaraswamy-led coalitionGovernment in July.

By-elections to Maski and R R

Nagar constituencies have been withheldas separate cases with regard to them,are pending before the High Court.

“I have promised Shankar that it ismy responsibility to make him an MLCand a Minister. I am the one who keepsthe promise,” Yediyurappa said after ameeting with Shankar here.

The Chief Minister said he hadasked Shankar to assist Pujar, adding itwas decided to give ticket to him(Pujar) because everybody in the partydesired so.

Though Shankar was adamant oncontesting the byelection, the ChiefMinister had persuaded him to relent,party sources said.

Reacting to the development,Shankar said the Chief Minister hadassured to make him a Minister.

Shankar was elected on theKarnataka Pragnyavantha Janatha Party(KPJP) ticket in the 2018 Assembly polls,and had repeatedly switched sides sincethen. Subsequently, he had merged theKPJP with the Congress.

As he had camped with rebel MLAsleading to the fall of coalition gov-ernemnt, he was disqualified on theCongress’ petition.

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Amid reports he was miffed at beingdenied the BJP ticket for December

5 bypolls, Karnataka Deputy ChiefMinister Laxman Savadi on Friday saidhe was a “disciplined soldier” of theparty and will abide by its decision.

He said the party which made himthe Deputy Chief Minister, despitehim not being a legislator, will decideon his future.

The BJP has fielded disqualifiedCongress legislator Mahesh Kumatalli,who had defeated Savadi in 2018Assembly polls as the party candidatefrom Athani.

“I have been saying that I’m a dis-ciplined soldier of the party. Whateverdirections the party will give me fol-lowing it has been my practice, sincethe beginning. I will abide by theparty decision,” Savadi said.

Speaking to reporters, the DeputyChief Minister said he will put all possible efforts in the bypolls to cam-paign for the party candidates andensure their victory.

Savadi was made Deputy ChiefMinister despite him not being a mem-ber of the Assembly nor or the Council.

His induction into the Cabinet hadcaused resentment among severalsenior BJP legislators as they felt side-lined.

Savadi had not been seen at partyforums and was said to be “out of reach”,after the BJP inducted disqualifiedMLA Kumatalli into the party andfielded him from Athani, from wherehe was planning to enter the fray.

Amid reports that Savadi was upsetand sulking, Chief Minister B SYediyurappa spoke to him and alsoHome Minister Basavaraj Bommaimade efforts to convince him, partysources said.

Responding to a question for notattending the party event where dis-qualified MLAs were inducted onThursday, Savadi said, “Yesterday I hadtold party president, as I had personalprogramme, I could not attend theparty event...I have met the ChiefMinister and have discussed regardingthe polls.”

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JD(S) patriarch HD DeveGowda on Friday said Chief

Minister BS Yediyurappa was“perturbed” about thewinnability of disqualifiedMLAs, whom the BJP has field-ed as party candidates for theDecember 5 bypolls and hencehe was issuing statements aboutmaking them Ministers, withan intention to lure voters.Yediyurappa has spoken aboutmaking all of them Ministers,what is the sanctity (for elec-tion), Gowda told reporters atHassan.

He claimed that soon afterthe apex court paved way forthe disqualified MLAs to con-test bypolls, Yediyurappa hadsaid they will be madeMinisters.

“It shows he was perturbedwhether they were going towin. If you say they will bemade Ministers, people of theconstituency will vote think-

ing that their MLA will becomeMinister.

It is in a way luring.... Justto keep the voters on their side,he said.

Welcoming disqualifiedCongress-JD(S) legislators whojoined the BJP, Yediyurappa onThursday had addressed themas “future MLAs andMinisters”.

The BJP has fielded 13disqualified legislators as itscandidates for the December5 Assembly byelections, hoursafter the rebels joined the rul-ing party in the State.

Stating that JD(S) is con-

testing in all the seats in thebypolls, Gowda said “Whetherwe will win or lose I dont know,its in the hands of the people.I cant say what they will decide.

He said he will be cam-paigning in all the 15 con-stituencies. JD(S) on Thursdayhad announced candidates for10 out of 15 Assembly con-stituencies that will go to thebypolls.

The party has decided tosupport BJP rebel SharathBachegowda, who is contest-ing as an independent candi-date in Hoskote constituency.

Bypolls are being held to 15of the 17 constituencies repre-sented by disqualified MLAs.

By-elections to the Maskiand R R Nagar constituencieshave been withheld as litigations related to them arepending before the KarnatakaHigh Court.

Of the 15 seats, 12 wererepresented by the sCongressand three by the JD(S).

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The Tripura and MizoramGovernments on Friday

differed on the number of Brurefugees repatriated and there isa mismatch of 193 people in thefigures provided by the twoStates.

Mizoram Home SecretaryLalbiakzama said 892 people of221 internally-displaced Bru fam-ilies have been repatriated, whileNorth Tripura DistrictMagistrate Ravel H Kumar putthe figure at 699 refugees belong-ing to 144 families.

Altogether 4,447 Bru dis-placed families, lodged in reliefcamps at Kanchanpur andPanisagar sub-divisions of NorthTripura district, are scheduled toreturn to neighbouring Mizoramfrom where they had fled since1997 following ethnic clashes.This ninth round of repatriationprocess, stated to be the “final”one, will come to an end onNovember 30.

The Mizoram home secre-tary said 892 Bru people, includ-

ing 351 children, belonging to221 families have been repatri-ated till November 14.

Of them, 134 families havebeen settled at Mamit district, 68in Lunglei and 19 in Kolasib dis-trict of Mizoram, Lalbiakzamasaid.

Kumar on Friday sent anofficial report to the chief secre-tary’s office providing date-wisenumber of people repatriated toMizoram between October 3,when the process began, andNovember 15.

However, he said in thereport, no Bru person went toMizoram since October 31,though the process has been on.

The displaced people hadlaunched a roadblock atKanchanpur from October 31demanding resumption ofcash-dole and free ration tothem. It was withdrawn onNovember 7 following anassurance from TripuraDeputy Chief Minister JishnuDeb Varma to resume supplyof free ration.

The Ministry of HomeAffairs has stopped all allowancesto the displaced Bru personsfrom October and the MizoramBru Displaced People’s Forum(MBDPF), a major body of therefugees, claimed that six peoplehad died of starvation after theration supply was stopped.

The Tripura Government,however, said four people diedand the cause of the deaths wasbeing ascertained.

Meanwhile, the MBDPF onFriday said a delegation of theBru refugees had visited NewDelhi to meet Union HomeMinister Amit Shah but couldnot meet him due to his busyschedule.

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Against the backdrop of theSupreme court’s decision to

refer the Sabarimala case to alarger bench, the Lord Ayyappashrine is all set to open onSaturday, even as theGovernment said those womendesirous of visiting the hilltemple should get a “courtorder. “

The top court has decidedto set up a larger bench to re-examine religious issuesincluding those arising out ofits earlier verdict that lifted acenturies-old ban on women ofmenstruating age visiting theshrine.

With the two-month longannual pilgrimage season set tocommence from November17, Devaswom Minister

Kadakampally Surendran saidSabarimala was not a place foractivism and the LDFGovernment would not sup-port those who makeannouncements about enteringthe hill shrine for the sake ofpublicity.

Dismissing reports thatpolice would provide securityto women activists whoattempt to enter the shrine, hesaid there was “some confu-

sion” over the latestSupreme Court order andwomen desirous of visit-ing Sabarimala should geta “court order.”

Government wouldnot encourage thosewomen who want to visitthe shrine for publicity, headded.

The CPI(M) Statesecretariat, which met here, dis-cussed the verdict andexpressed a similar opinion.

“The common emotion ofthe secretariat was not to allowwomen to enter the temple tillthe apex court finalises the ver-dict. Those who want to enterthe temple can approach thecourt and get a favourablejudgment,” a source close to theCPI(M) State leadership toldPTI.

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New Delhi: The CBI on Fridayconducted searches at theoffices of AmnestyInternational India Pvt. Ltd(AIIPL) and Indians forAmnesty International Trust(IAIT) in the national Capitaland Bengaluru for alleged vio-lation of Foreign Contribution(Regulation) Act (FCRA).

The CBI had registered acase on November 5 followinga complaint from Union HomeMinistry AIIPL, IAIT, AmnestyInternational India FoundationTrust (AIIFT) and AmnestyInternational South AsiaFoundation (AISAF) besidesunknown others.

“It was alleged that the pro-vision of the ForeignContribution (Regulation) Act,2010 and Indian Penal Codewere contravened by the afore-said entities by receiving for-eign contributions from M/sAmnesty International U.Kthrough AIIPL even thoughprior registration or permis-

sions were denied to M/sAmnesty International IndiaFoundation Trust (AIIFT) andother Trusts under FCRA,” aCBI official said.

Searches were conducted atthree places places inBengaluru and one place inDelhi.

“The Central Bureau ofInvestigation today conductedsearches at the offices ofAmnesty International IndiaPrivate Limited and Indians forAmnesty International Trust inBengaluru.

Over the past year, a pat-tern of harassment hasemerged every time AmnestyInternational India stands up

and speaks out against humanrights violations in India,”Amnesty India said in a state-ment.

Amnesty InternationalIndia stands in full compliancewith Indian and internationallaw, Amnesty claimed in itsstatement.

“Our work in India, aselsewhere, is to uphold andfight for universal humanrights. These are the same val-ues that are enshrined in theIndian Constitution and flowfrom a long and rich Indiantradition of pluralism, toler-ance, and dissent,” it said..

As part of the Nobel Prize-winning movement, AmnestyInternational India holds itselfto the highest evidentiary stan-dards. Over four millionIndians have supportedAmnesty International India’swork in the last six years andaround 100,000 Indians havemade financial contributions, itadded. PNS

Chennai: DMK pres-ident MK Stalin onFriday expressedconcern over “bleak”economic outlookfollowing an official survey whichreportedly pointed toa fall inconsumer spendingand urged the Centreto take measures toboost rural economy.

A media reportcited a latest con-sumption expendi-ture survey by the National Statistical Office (NSO) to claimthat consumer spending fell for the first time in more than40 years in 2017-18, primarily driven by slackening ruraldemand.

“NSO Consumer Spending Data points to a dire eco-nomic situation and a bleak economic outlook. Data showsthat people are spending less for the first time in 40 years,”Stalin, also the Leader of the Opposition in the Tamil NaduAssembly, tweeted.

“Union Govt must pay heed to the key indicators onspending and immediately take measures to boost ruraleconomy,” he said and tagged the media report. PTI

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In yet another incident of asaffron worker getting

hanged allegedly for politicalreasons a BJP member VarshaHansda was on Friday foundhanging from a tree atSantoshpur village of Dantonblock in West Midnapore dis-trict.

The BJP immediately com-plained that Hansda, 44 hadbeen murdered by theTrinamool Congress goons soas to thwart the saffron outfit’sadvance in the area.

The police have registeredcase of “unnatural death” andsent the body for autopsy.

The BJP had done exceptionally well in the lastyear’s Panchayat elections andthis year’s parliamentary pollsin the jangalmahal districts ofWest Midpanpore, Bankura,Purulia etc.

This is the fourth suchincident in the past couple ofyears when BJP workers were

allegedly murdered and hangedfrom trees in the neighbouringPurulia district. Alleged mur-der and hanging (from trees) ofthree BJP workers — JagannathTudu, Trilochan Mahato, DulalKumar had hit countrywideheadlines last year.

The incidents were repeat-edly referred to by PrimeMinister Narendra Modi andBJP president Amit Shah dur-ing election campaigns.

Reacting to the incidentBJP national general secretaryKailash Vijayvargiya said theTMC was trying to unleash areign of terror in the State. TheTMC was “trying to terroriseBJP workers by establishing areign of terror in the state. Anactive and popular BJP activistwas brutally murdered by TMCgoons. He was the only earn-ing member of his family,” he.

The TMC leadership how-ever dismissed the charge asbaseless saying it was an out-come of intra-party rivalry inthat party.

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There was no respite tothe ongoing conflict

between Raj Bhavan andNabanna (State secretariat)even as Bengal GovernorJagdeep Dhankhar onFriday fired a fresh salvo atthe Trinamool CongressGovernment for denyinghim a chopper to visit Farakkaand Malda in North Bengal.

The Friday’s developmentcame barely a day after ChiefMinister Mamata Banerjeecharged Dhankhar with transgressing his constitution-al limits before appealing to thecentral Government to rein theGovernor in.

“I am not a tourist inBengal and have been deputedto my office with an oath to discharge certain dutiestowards the people of the State,”the Governor said censuringthe Government’s decision todeny him a helicopter for hisvisit to Malda and nearby areas.

“I have never crossed myduties,” the Governor saidapparently referring to theChief Minister’s allegations that“some people (read theGovernor) are acting like BJP’smouthpiece.” Complainingagainst the Government’s deci-sion to deny him a chopper hereiterated “touring the State ofwhich I am the Governor doesnot amount crossing myduties,” and said, “had I crossedmy limits I would have receiveda letter from the Governmentwhich I have not,” adding “Iwill give a reply if an when suchletter comes to me.”

Hitting out at theTrinamool Congress func-tionaries for questioning hisrecent visit to Singur — once anepicenter of Mamata Banerjee’santi-Left land movement thatfinally saw the moving out ofthe much publicised Tata Nanosmall car plant from the area —Dhankhar said “I went to

Singur not without informingthe Government. I had pre-informed the administration,”wondering “what is there tohide in Singur.”

He said “some people aretrying to hide matters in Singurand Nandigram where I wantto visit too because it seemsthat they (Government) aretrying to keep something offpeople’s notice.” He asked “whatis there to hide so that theirleaders raised a hue and cry assoon as I threw a glance atSingur. It seems something isfishy in Singur and Nandigramwhere I will definitely go.”

Earlier the Chief Ministeron Thursday said without refer-ring to the Governor, “I gen-erally do not say anything onconstitutional posts but thereare some people who arebehaving just like BJP’s mouth-pieces,” adding, “they (theGovernor) are running paral-lel administration in the State.”

Returning fire StateMinister ChandrimaBhattacharya questioned theneed of a helicopter to visit thedistricts. She said “theGovernment must know whyhe needs a helicopter. MamataBanerjee travels in a helicopterbecause she has administrativefunctions to discharge. In factshe takes the entire adminis-tration to the districts. Buthere the Governor has no busi-ness to interfere in adminis-trative matters without inform-ing the Government and moreso do the same by using a chop-per provided by theGovernment.”

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Kolkata: The VHP will launchan awareness programme inWest Bengal from next week onthe need for National Register ofCitizens (NRC) to weed outBangladeshi muslim infiltratorsfrom the state and theCitizenship (Amendment) Billto grant citizenship to refugees,its senior leader said. The VHPwill hold its membership drivein the state between November17 to December 1 and willspeak of the two issues duringtheir door to door campaign,VHP leader and spokespersonSourish Mukherjee said onFriday. The VHP has set a tar-get of increasing its number ofmembers from 55,000 to twolakh. “We have been campaign-ing on NRC in Bengal for thepast few months. But within thenext few days we will launch itin a massive way. This time wewill campaign for both NRC andCAB,” he said. PTI

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In complete violation ofNational Green Tribunal

(NGT) directives pertaining tosand mines in Bihar, the StateGovernment on Fridayapproved a Bihar Mining Planeven though the green tribunalhad raised apprehensions in thecomplete mining process in theState.

The State Mines andGeology Department last monthhad suspended the e-auctioningof sand mines following NGTorder and hired a consultant forpreparation of Draft Mine Plan.

The development of

approval of a mining plan forSon River (a copy of which iswith The Pioneer) is a matter ofconcern. This is also in contra-diction to the departments ownNovember 9 order that that e-tendering process for auction ofsand ghats has been suspendedtill the disposal of the case by theNGT.

“When the matter is yet tobe disposed in the NGT, thisnew policy of the departmentraise serious matter as what wasthe hurry by the State,” said K SPrasad, a green tribunal lawyer.People from the State had chal-lenged the new sand mining pol-icy of September 2019 in NGT

on the plea that it is not consis-tent with the Supreme Courtguidelines related to the sameand there was lot of loopholes inthe system ensuring corruptpractices.

Sources said there arearound 400 sand mining ghatsacross the state. The e-tenderingwhich was suspended on NGTorders was being done for freshallotment of the mining rights asper new sand mining policybased on September 2019 Policy.The principal bench of NGT,New Delhi, in its October 23,2019 order stated that e-auctionshall not be carried out until thefinal disposal of the matter.

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Maharashtra’s nextGovernment will be led by

the Shiv Sena and the commonminimum programme (CMP)being worked out along withthe Congress and the NCPahead of its formation will bein the “State’s interest”, saidparty spokesman Sanjay Rauton Friday.

The Uddhav Thackeray-led saffron party will lead theGovernment in Maharashtrafor the next “25 years” and notjust five years, claimed Rautwhile talking to reporters here.

The Rajya Sabha MP, whoturned 58 on Friday, wasresponding to questions onwhether his party will share theChief Minister’s post with theNCP and the Congress, its alliesin the prospective three-partyGovernment.

“Talks are on with theCongress and the NCP to workout a common minimum pro-gramme which will be in theinterest of the State and its peo-ple,” he said.

“Whether it is a single partyGovernment or an alliance, anagenda for governance is nec-

essary. There are infrastruc-ture projects to be taken for-ward, (and issues related to)drought,unseasonal rains (areto be tackled).

“Those coming with us areexperienced administrators. Wewill benefit from their experi-ence,” he said.

Regarding alliance with theCongress, the Sena’s politicalrival till recently, Raut said lead-ers of the country’s oldest partyhave contributed to freedomstruggle as well as develop-ment of Maharashtra.

Asked whether the Senawill share the CM’s post on arotational basis in the next dis-pensation, Raut said, “We wantto have the chief minister’s postfor the next 25 years. The ShivSena will provide leadership tothe state no matter who triesbest to stop it.”

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The Chief Minister’s postin Maharashtra will go to

the Shiv Sena in theGovernment being plannedby the saffron party with theNCP and the Congress, NCPchief spokesman Nawab Malik has said.

The Shiv Sena contested the October21 Assembly polls in alliance with theBJP as part of the ‘Mahayuti’ (megaalliance), which was in a comfortableposition to form Government in theState, winning 161 seats in the 288-member house.

The two parties, however, fell outafter the Uddhav Thackeray-led partypersisted with its demand of sharing theChief Minister’s post on a rotationalbasis.

The Sena is at present working withthe NCP and the Congress on a com-mon minimum programme (CMP) thatwill guide the actions of the Governmentthe three parties plan to form.

“The Chief Minister will be from theShiv Sena. It walked away from the‘Mahayuti’ on the issue of the ChiefMinister’s post. “It is our responsibility

to respect its sentiment,”Malik said. The threeparties are likely to bepart of the Governmentand negotiations onsharing portfoliosamong them are on,sources said.

Earlier, the Congress was expectedto support the Government from outside.“The Congress must be part of theGovernment to ensure its stability,”sources in the NCP said.

The BJP emerged as the singlelargest party, winning 105 seats in theelection, followed by the Shiv Sena with56 seats.

The NCP and the Congress, also pre-poll allies, won 54 and 44 seats, respec-tively.Any party or alliance seeking toform Government in the state needs tosecure support of at least 145 MLAs onthe floor of the House.

The State is currently underPresident’s rule. At a meeting here onThursday, representatives of the NCP, theCongress and the Sena prepared a draftCMP, which will be forwarded forapproval to top leaders of the three parties.

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RJD president Lalu Prasadon Friday slammed Nitish

Kumar Government for metingout “undignified” treatment tothe renowned mathematicianVashishtha Narayan Singhwhose family was denied anambulance after his death atPatna Medical College andHospital (PMCH) hereThursday.

The 74-year-old Singh,who once worked at NASA andCalifornia University, breathedhis last at PMCH after pro-longed illness.

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Amid the current political stalemate inMaharashtra, Union Minister and BJP

leader Nitin Gadkari has likened politics withcricket, saying “anything” could happen inboth these fields as those who appear to belosing the match might actually winthe game.

Gadkari’s statement came at a time whenthe BJP’s estranged ally Shiv Sena is makingefforts to form the Government with the helpof the Congress and the NCP, its politicalrivals till recently.

The three parties have already prepareda draft common minimum programme(CMP) that will guide their prospectiveGovernment.

“Anything can happen in cricket and pol-itics. Somewhere you feel you are losing thematch, but the result is exactly the opposite,”Gadkari said when asked about the current political situation inMaharashtra.

He was speaking at the ‘Outlook BusinessLeading Edge 2019’ event in Mumbai onThursday.

The Minister of Road Transport, however,declined to discuss in detail the political cri-sis in Maharashtra, saying he spends moretime in Delhi and doesn’t know much aboutpolitics in his home State.

Bharuch: Mansukh Vasava,BJP MP of Bharuch in Gujarat,on Thursday claimed SupremeCourt gave a verdict “in ourfavour” on the RamJanmabhoomi dispute inAyodhya because a BJPGovernment is at the Centre.

It drew condemnationfrom the Congress whichdemanded an apology andaccused the MP of “fanningcommunal tension”.

Vasava, how-ever, later claimedhe was only point-ing to how the BJPgovernment (atthe Centre) wasable to maintain law and orderafter the SC verdict was deliv-ered on November 9.

The Supreme Court in aunanimous verdict cleared theway for the construction of aRam Temple at the disputed

site at Ayodhya,and directed theCentre to allot a 5-acre plot to theSunni Waqf Boardfor building a

mosque.Addressing a gathering of

BJP workers in Bharuch townon Thursday evening, Vasavasaid, “The Ram Janmabhoomiissue was quite old. So manyyears went by. The Ram

Janmabhoomi movement wasgoing on even before India gotindependence. So many peoplewere martyred and many tookpart in the movement (to builda Ram Temple at the disputedsite).”

“The Supreme Court hadto give a judgement in ourfavour because the BJPGovernment is at the Centre,”Vasava said at the gathering. PTI

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In their first joint effort toaddress the issues facing the

state ahead of the formation oftheir Government inMaharashtra, a delegation ofthe Congress, NCP and ShivSena will meet GovernorBhagat Singh Koshyari to seekrelief for the unseasonal rain-affected farmers across theState.

Confirming this, StateNCP spokesperson NawabMalik said on Friday eveningthe delegation of Congress,NCP and Shiv Sena wouldmeet the Governor at 3 pm onSaturday.

“After the imposition of thePresident’s rule, the adminis-tration has come to a grindinghalt in theState. The outgoingGovernment announced arelief of �10,000 crore to therain-affected farmers. Afterburning their destroyed crop,the farmers are readying them-selves for sowing. Neither arethey getting relief nor croploans. The farmers are anaggrieved lot”.

“In Mantralaya, applica-tions made by patients seekinghelp from the Government aregathering dust. At yesterday’smeeting, we all decided to goand meet the Governor andrequest him to activate thedormant Government machin-ery and to request him for reliefto the rain-affected farmers,”Malik said.

Earlier in the day, formerMaharashtra Chief Ministerand BJP leader DevendraFadnavis met Governor BhagatSingh Koshyari and urged himto release funds for farmers

affected by unseasonal rains.Fadnavis also urged the

Governor to reopen and ensuresmooth functioning of the CMRelief Fund through the gov-ernor’s office to ensure timelyhelp for needy persons as theState was currently underPresident’s rule.

Fadnavis said that theGovernor had accepted bothhis demands.

“Met Hon GovernorBhagat Singh Koshyari ji at RajBhavan, Mumbai to requestrelease of funds to the farmersaffected due to unseasonalrains. Hon Governor assuredimmediate action on this,Fadnavis tweeted after hismeeting with the Governor.

“I also requested forreopening & smooth func-tioning of CM Relief Fundthrough Hon Governors officeso that no needy patient isdeprived of necessary & time-ly support,” the former chiefminister said.

Meanwhile, NCP PresidentSharad Pawar — who touredthe wet drought-affected areasof Vidarbha region — said onFriday afternoon that he wouldraise the issue of huge lossessuffered by the farmers duringthe winter session ofParliament beginning onNovember 18 and demandmaximum compensation tothe affected farmers.

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The Supreme Court Fridayset aside a NCLAT order

which gave equal rights to thesecured and unsecured credi-tors during the insolvency pro-ceedings of debt-ridden EssarSteel, clearing the decks for ittakeover by Lakshmi Mittal-ledArcelorMittal.

Setting aside the NationalCompany Law AppellateTribunal (NCLAT) order, a 3-judge headed by Justice RFNariman, said the two set ofcreditors will be treated differ-ently during the insolvencyproceedings and taking over ofa debt-ridden firm by anothercompany.

There is no principal ofequality between secured andunsecured creditors, said thebench, also comprising JusticesSurya Kant and VRamasubramanian.

“The NCLAT judgmentwhich substitutes its wisdomfor the commercial wisdom ofthe Committee of Creditors(CoC) and which also directsthe admission of a number ofclaims which was done by theresolution applicant, withoutprejudice to its right to appeal

against the aforesaid judgment,must therefore be set aside,”said the bench.

The NCLAT had said thateverybody (secured and unse-cured creditors) will get 60.7per cent of their dues in theevent of takeover of a debt-rid-den company by another firmunder the Insolvency andBankruptcy Code (IBC), saidsenior advocate RakeshDwivedi, who represented oneof the parties in the apex courtin the case.

“The appeals filed by theCoC of Essar Steel Limited and

other Civil Appeals are allowed.The impugned NCLAT judg-ment is set aside,” the top courtsaid.

Reacting to the verdict,Essar Steel said: “We wishArcelorMittal and Nippon Steelthe very best on their entry intothe Indian market. They areacquiring a world-class facili-ty in a market that has a longrunway for growth.”

The apex court clarifiedthat the Corporate InsolvencyResolution Process of thedebtor in this case will takeplace in accordance with theresolution plan of ArcelorMittaldated October 23, 2018, asamended and accepted by theCoC on March 27, 2019.

It has provided foramounts to be paid to differentclasses of creditors by follow-ing Section 30(2) andRegulation 38 of the IBC, thecourt added.

It said the adjudicatingauthority can send back the res-olution plan to the CoC forimplementation in accordancewith the guidelines but cannotchange the commercial deci-sion taken by the committee.

The bench also relaxed thetimeline of 330 days to find a

resolution plan as prescribedunder the IBC.

“It is only in exceptionalcases that time can be extend-ed, the general rule being that330 days is the outer limit with-in which resolution of thestressed assets of the corporatedebtor must take place beyondwhich the corporate debtor isto be driven into liquidation,”it said.

The verdict came on theCoC plea challenging NCLAT’sorder of July 4 in which it hadapproved steel tycoon LakshmiMittal-led ArcelorMittal’s�42,000-crore bid for the acqui-sition of Essar Steel after thetribunal had rejected a plea bythe lead shareholder of thedebt-laden firm challengingthe eligibility of the bidder.

The National CompanyLaw Appellate Tribunal(NCLAT) had, however, givenoperational creditors equal sta-tus as lenders in the distribu-tion of the ArcelorMittal’s bidamount among the creditors ofEssar Steel.

Essar Steel was auctionedunder the new IBC to recover�54,547 crore of unpaid dues offinancial lenders and opera-tional creditors.

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Realty firm Pacific Indiaexpects about �40 crore of

rental income per year from itsshopping mall at Dwarka in thenational capital. The mallbecame operational fromFriday.

The company completedthe shopping mall and multi-level car parking project, whichit bagged last year from DelhiMetro Rail Corporation(DMRC) through an auction process, with aninvestment of about �100 crore.

“We have completed ourshopping mall project ‘PacificD21’. The mall will open fromtomorrow. This is our fourthmall,” its executive directorAbhishek Bansal said.

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Global steel giantArcelorMittal on Friday

said it is looking forward toclose the acquisition of debt-ridden Essar Steel soon.

The remarks followed theapex court verdict that gavenod to ArcelorMittal’s resolu-tion plan, paving way forArcelorMittal’s takeover ofEssar Steel for �� 42,000 crore.

Essar Steel was auctionedunder the new Insolvency andBankruptcy Code (IBC) torecover ��54,547 crore of unpaiddues of financial lenders andoperational creditors. “We lookforward to the closing of theacquisition soon,” ArcelorMittalsaid in a statement adding thatit is “very pleased with thejudgment that our resolutionplan has been approved”.

The Supreme Court on

November 15, paved the wayfor ArcelorMittal takeover ofdebt-ridden Essar Steel for �42,000 crore and set aside theJuly 4, NCLAT order givingequal status to financial cred-itors and operational credi-tors. The verdict came on a pleaof the committee of creditorschallenging NCLAT’s order ofJuly 4, in which it had approvedsteel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal-ledArcelorMittal’s ��42,000-crorebid for the acquisition of EssarSteel after it rejected a plea bythe lead shareholder of thedebt-laden firm challengingthe eligibility of the bidder.

A bench headed by JusticeRF Nariman clarified thatfinancial creditors enjoy pri-macy over operational creditorsand the adjudicating authoritycannot interfere with the deci-sion approved by the commit-tee of creditors.

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India’s exports contracted forthe third month in a row in

October by 1.11 per cent to$26.38 billion mainly onaccount of a significant dip inshipments of petroleum, carpet,leather products, rice and tea.

Imports too declined by16.31 per cent to $37.39 billionin October, narrowing the tradedeficit to $11 billion, accordingto the government datareleased on Friday.

Gold imports increased byabout 5 per cent to $1.84 bil-lion in the month.

The trade deficit stood at$18 billion in October 2018.

Out of the 30 key sectors,as many as 18 segments showednegative growth in exportsduring the month underreview.

Shipments of petroleumgoods, carpet, leather products,

rice and tea contracted by 14.6per cent, 17 per cent, 7.6 percent, 29.5 per cent and 6.16 percent respectively.

The country’s outboundshipments have remained sub-dued so far this year. It mayhave a bearing on the overalleconomic growth, which fell toover six-year low of 5 per centin the first quarter of the cur-rent fiscal.

Industrial output declinedby 4.3 per cent in Septemberdue to poor performance bymanufacturing, power generation and mining sectors.

The outbound shipmentscontracted by 6 per cent inAugust and 6.57 per cent inSeptember.

In October, oil importsdeclined by 31.74 per cent to$9.63 billion, and non-oilimports fell by 9.19 per cent to$27.76 billion.

New Delhi: The telecom depart-ment has not yet approached theregulator for its views on floorprice for tariffs, Trai ChairmanRS Sharma said on Friday.

“We have not received any-thing,” Sharma said when askedif the Department of Telecom(DoT) has approached TelecomRegulatory Authority of India(Trai) for its opinion on floorprice or minimum tariff fixa-tion for mobile services.

The government has con-stituted a committee of secre-taries to explore a financialbailout package for the telecomsector. Last month, when the

high-level panel was set up, anofficial source had said that sec-tor regulator Trai is expected toexamine prescribing minimumcharge for voice and data ser-vices, which will ensure long-term viability and robust finan-cial health of the sector.

In fact, this is not the firsttime that floor price is beingtalked about in telecom indus-try circles. Way back in 2017,certain operators had initiallysuggested fixation of mini-mum floor price for voice anddata services, but Trai hadsubsequently ruled out impo-sition. PTI

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Finance Minister NirmalaSitharman on Friday said

the Government will bring leg-islations on raising insurancecover on bank deposits fromthe current �1 lakh and regu-lating multi-state cooperativebanks.

These legislations will bebrought during the WinterSession of Parliament startingcoming Monday, the Ministertold reporters here.

These legislations assumesignificance in the wake ofscam in the Punjab andMaharashtra Cooperative Bankaffecting lakhs of customerswho are facing difficulties inwithdrawing their entiremoney due to restrictionsimposed by the Reserve Bankof India.

At present, bank depositorsget an insurance cover of �1lakh on their amount by theDeposit Insurance and credit GuaranteeCorporation.

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insolvency law to deal with res-olution of systemically impor-tant financial service providers,excluding banks.

The corporate affairs min-istry has notified theInsolvency and Bankruptcy(Insolvency and LiquidationProceedings of FinancialService Providers andApplication to AdjudicatingAuthority) Rules, 2019 (Rules).

It will provide a genericframework for insolvency andliquidation proceedings of sys-temically important FinancialService Providers (FSPs) otherthan banks, an official statementsaid. Section 227 of the Codeenables the central governmentto notify, in consultation withthe financial sector regulators,FSPs or categories of FSPs forthe purpose of insolvency andliquidation proceedings.

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Santa Clarita: Authorities saythe biography on an Instagramaccount believed to belong to thegunman who killed two studentsat his California school said,“Saugus, have fun at schooltomorrow.” Los Angeles Countysheriff ’s officials say the messagewas posted on Thursday but it’s

unclear. Authorities say off-dutyofficers whose children went toSaugus High School were thefirst on scene and provided firstaid to the victims. A 16-year-oldstudent shot five classmates andthen himself. It's unclear if theyhad any relationship, and amotive is unknown. AP

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China on Friday condemnedan incident in which Hong

Kong’s justice secretary was jos-tled by masked demonstrators inLondon, and accused Britain offuelling pro-democracy unrest.

Teresa Cheng, Hong Kong’sdeeply unpopular Secretary forJustice, fell while being sur-rounded by a crowd of jeeringpro-democracy protesters asshe prepared to attend a speak-ing event on Thursday night inLondon.

She regained her feetmoments later and was escort-ed away with no visible signs ofinjury in video footage of theincident.

But China called it an“appalling attack” and hasdemanded that Britain offersecurity protection to the HongKong minister.

“If the British side does notchange its wrong practices,and continues to add fuel to the

fire, sow discord and instigateothers, and make false coun-tercharges, then it will bringcalamity on itself,” foreign min-istry spokesman Geng Shuangsaid at a regular press briefing.

Geng said that failing to acton “anti-China elements” inHong Kong will not only causetrouble in the semi-autonomous territory, but willalso “cause serious interfer-ence and destruction to theinternational communityincluding the UnitedKingdom.”

He called for Britain to“bring the culprits to justice,and... Safeguard the personalsecurity and dignity of allChinese personnel in the UK.”

Former colonial rulerBritain, which handed HongKong back to China in 1997,has urged Beijing and HongKong to seek a political solutionfor protesters and condemnedthe escalating violence on bothsides.

New York: An estimated 13.8million people watched livecoverage of diplomats WilliamTaylor and George Kent on thefirst day of the House’s publicimpeachment hearings on

President Donald Trump.The Nielsen company said

10 different networks aired liveor taped coverage of the hear-ing, which stretched nearly sixhours on Wednesday. AP

Bossier City : PresidentDonald Trump said onThursday that the impeach-ment probe has been “veryhard” on his family, even as hetried to flex his political mus-cle to flip the governor’s man-sion in deep-red Louisiana.

Speaking in friendly terri-tory in a state he carried in2016 by 20 percentage points,Trump lashed out atDemocratic investigators andwhat he called a “derangedimpeachment witch hunt.”While arguing it was a politi-cal boon for his reelection, heacknowledged for the first timea personal toll from theimpeachment process thatstands to cloud his legacy.

“I have one problem,”Trump said. “Impeachment tome is a dirty word, it’s been very

unfair, very hard on my fami-ly.” The House began publicimpeachment hearingsWednesday.

Trump repeated his denialsof wrongdoing in his dealingswith Ukraine, asserting he hadno need to ask that nation toinvestigate former VicePresident Joe Biden and hisfamily.

“We took down Bush,Clinton, Obama, with no expe-rience, but I had you and wewon,” Trump said of his 2016victory. “Think about that andthen think about me — ‘gee,let’s get some help fromUkraine in order to beat sleepyJoe Biden.’ I don’t think so.” Headded, “The people of thiscountry aren’t buying it,” claim-ing polls show a benefit toRepublicans as Democrats

focus on impeachment.“We did nothing wrong,”

Trump insisted, “and they’redoing nothing.” AP

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Washington: The House willhear from a singular witnessFriday in the Trump impeach-ment hearings: MarieYovanovitch, the former U.S.Ambassador to Ukraine whowas targeted by the president’sallies in a “smear” campaign nowcentral to the inquiry.

The career diplomat, whoserved both Republican andDemocratic presidents, is expect-ed to relay her striking story ofbeing suddenly recalled byTrump and told to “watch myback” in a swiftly developingseries of events that soundedalarms about the White House’sshadow foreign policy. AP

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Boris Johnson reiterated onFriday that the country willleave the European Union (EU)by January 31, 2020, following the December 12general election.

“There is absolutely noreason why between Januaryand the end of next year weshouldn’t complete that freetrade deal and have a wonder-

ful new partnership with theEU based on zero tariffs, zeroquotas and getting on with allthe other ways in which wewant to be a pro-Europeancountry,” Johnson told the BBCBreakfast programme.

The UK is currently due toleave the EU by January 31,2020, the end of the currentextension period granted by thebloc. AFP

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Gaza City: Israel launchedfresh strikes against IslamicJihad targets in Gaza earlyFriday in response to rocketfire, underscoring the fragilityof a ceasefire agreed after anescalation that killed 34Palestinians. The ceasefirebegan on Thursday followingtwo days of fighting triggeredby Israel’s targeted killing of anIslamic Jihad commander. TheIsraeli military said it carried outnew strikes overnight againstIslamic Jihad, the second mostpowerful Palestinian militantgroup in the Gaza Strip afterHamas. AFP

Colombo: Sri Lanka will go tothe polls on Saturday to choosea new president, an electionthat will decide the future of thecountry that struggles with secu-rity challenges after the EasterSunday bombings and increas-ing political polarisation.

The election will see a closecontest between former wartimedefence secretary GotabayaRajapaksa, 70, and the rulingparty candidate SajithPremadasa, 52. Anura KumaraDissanayake from the NationalPeople’s Power (NPP) coalitionis also a strong candidate.

There are 15.9 million eligi-ble voters who will choose a suc-cessor to President MaithripalaSirisina among a record 35 can-didates. Sirisena, who was elect-ed in 2015, is not seeking a re-election. The front runner can-didates would be either depend-ing on their legacies or hopingthat the larger electorate wouldforget them while making theirchoices. PTI

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Seoul: North Korea haslaunched a visceral diatribeagainst US Democratic presi-dential candidate Joe Biden,calling the former vice-presi-dent a “rabid dog” — while alsoborrowing the terminology ofDonald Trump.

Pyongyang is renownedfor its vitriol, but the verbal del-uge was unusually ferociouseven by its own standards.

Biden “had the temerity todare slander the dignity of thesupreme leadership of theDPRK”, the North’s officialKCNA news agency said lateThursday, referring to thecountry by its official name.

“Rabid dogs like Biden canhurt lots of people if they areallowed to run about,” it wenton. “They must be beaten todeath with a stick.

“Doing so will be beneficialfor the US also,” it added. AFP

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Chris Lynn, David Miller,Jaydev Unadkat and Chris

Morris were among the 71players released by theirrespective franchisees onFriday ahead of next month’sIPL auction.

Friday was the deadlinefor releasing, trading andretaining players. A total of127 players have been retainedincluding 35 foreigners.

Lynn, the big-hittingAustralian opener, wasreleased by Kolkata KnightRiders after five fruitful sea-sons when he got the team offto a flying start on umpteenoccasions.

The other 10 released KKRplayers include West IndianCarlos Brathwaite, SouthAfrican Anrich Nortje, formerIndia players Piyush Chawlaand Robin Uthappa, whostruggled to get going lastseason.

Kings XI Punjab go intothe auction on December 19with a purse of �42.70 crore,the biggest among the eightteams after they released eightplayers including SouthAfrica’s Miller, EnglishmanSam Curran and mysteryTamil Nadu spinner VarunChakravarthy, who wasbought for a whopping �8.4crore last year.

Miller went on to becomeone of the batting mainstaysfor Kings XI Punjab over thepast eight seasons, scoring1850 runs in 79 games at astrike rate of 138.78.

“Kings XI Punjab nowhave the highest salary capavailable going into the auc-tion while Royal ChallengersBangalore have the most num-ber of player slots (12) avail-able (including 6 overseasslots). After today’s deadline,

Chennai Super Kings have thelargest squad size (20),” read aBCCI statement.

“Of the eight franchises,Royal Challengers Bangalore(12) have released the mostplayers while SunrisersHyderabad (5) have releasedthe least players from theirsquad,” it added.

Defending championsMumbai Indians have retained18 players including veteranSri Lankan pacer LasithMalinga despite his fitnessissues while releasing 12.

Among the released play-ers are Australian fast bowlerJason Behrendorff and AlzarriJoseph of West Indies, NewZealand’s Adam Milne, BeuranHendricks and Ben Cutting.

Former India all-rounderYuvraj Singh, who quit allforms of cricket including IPLearlier this year, has also beenreleased.

Kiwi seamer Trent Boult,West Indian SherfaneRutherford and Mumbai pacerDhawal Kulkarni are the threetrade-ins for the franchise.

Three-time IPL champi-

ons Chennai Super Kings havereleased England cricketersSam Billings and DavidWilley besides three Indianplayers including 2015 WorldCupper Mohit Sharma. With20 players already in theirsquad, CSK go into the auc-tion with a meagre purse of�14.60 crore.

Virat Kohli-led RoyalC h a l l e n g e r sBangalore have letgo of their 12 play-ers including sevenforeigners. The bignames releasedare South Africanpacer Dale Steyn,New Zealand all-rounder Colin deG r a n d h o m m e ,Australian MarcusStoinis and WestIndies batsmanS h i m r o nHetmyer. Theyroughly have�28 crore towork with atthe auction.

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had traded in RavichandranAshwin and Ajinkya Rahanefrom KXIP and RajasthanRoyals respectively, haveretained young Prithvi Shawwhose doping ban ends onFriday. There was speculationover Shaw being traded to theRoyals.

The Delhi franchise hasreleased nine players includingtwo South Africans, all-rounder Morris and power-hitter Colin Ingram. NewZealand top-order batsmanColin Munro has also beenreleased and so has beenIndia’s Test specialist HanumaVihari.

Rajasthan Royals havereleased 11 players includingpacer Jaydev Unadkat, whomthey had bought back for �8.4crore last year after paying�11.5 crore for him in the pre-vious season.

The franchise alsoannounced that star Australianbatsman Steve Smith will con-tinue to lead the team.

Sunrisers Hyderabad havereleased the least number ofplayers — five — and theyinclude Shakib Al Hasan, whohas been banned by the ICC,

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Opener Mayank Agarwal grind-ed a below-par Bangladeshbowling unit with a career-

best second double hundred as Indiaburied the visitors under a deluge ofruns on the second day of the openingTest here on Friday.

Agarwal’s third Test hundred, 243off 330 balls, formed the cornerstoneof India’s 493 for 6, which gave thehome side a sizeable lead of 343 runs.

Friday solely belonged to Agarwal,

who in this particular innings, managedto overshadow a batting line-up that hasRohit Sharma (6), Cheteshwar Pujara(54 off 72 balls), skipper Virat Kohli (0)and Ajinkya Rahane (86 off 172 balls)in its ranks.

Agarwal’s partnership of 91 for thesecond wicket with Pujara and 190 forthe fourth wicket with Rahane werehowever important in the context of theIndian innings.

A whirlwind partnership of 123 in23.5 overs with Ravindra Jadeja (60 bat-ting) for the fifth wicket only added

insult to injury for Bangladesh.The match might be over inside

three days if India declare overnight.Bangladesh’s brittle batting line-up

may not have the mental capacity towithstand India’s pace barrage if firstinnings was any indicator.

For Agarwal, his voracious appetitefor runs, carefully cultivated throughsolid performances at the domestic andIndia ‘A’ level, is paying dividends.

Exactly one year ago, Agarwal wasin the fringe, scoring those “DaddyHundreds” but lost out to the prodigious

talent of Prithvi Shaw, who was givenpreference and a headstart at the inter-national arena.

Destiny, however, had other plansas Shaw got injured and also lost a bitof focus. That was the opening Agarwalwas looking for and he is showing witheach innings that he is not going any-where too soon.

The Shubman Gills and the Shawsmay have to wait a wee bit longer.

Having scored those tough runsDown Under, Agarwal has now earnedthe right to consolidate his place withsome heavy duty scoring. And he isdoing that exactly.

It did help that Bangladesh gottheir bowling combination awfullywrong.

On a pitch, where someone withexpress pace and variation was need-ed, the visitors fielded two specialistspinners in left-arm orthodox TaijulIslam (0/120 in 28 overs) and off-spin-ner Mehidy Hasan Miraj (1/115 in 27overs).

The spin duo was like lambs forslaughter as Agarwal went after themwith all his might.

All the eight sixes that he hit cameoff the two spinners. This apart, he alsohit 28 boundaries during his career-best international score.

The coveted double hundred cameby lofting Miraj over long-on while the

stand-out six was an inside out overextra cover off Taijul. Then there wasone down the ground and a coupleover long-off.

The spinners were either bowlingtoo short or too full outside the off-stump. At one stage, Miraj, a formerBangladesh U-19 captain, completelylost confidence as he started cominground the wicket.

The negative field placement for anoff-spinner — a deep point for savinga cut shot and deep square leg for sav-ing a pull-shot — was a reflection ofBangladesh’s approach.

Abu Jayed (4/108 in 25 overs) wasthe only bowler, who showed someheart getting the wickets of Pujara,Kohli and Rahane but his new ballEbadot Hossain (1/115 in 31 overs) nei-ther had pace nor the variation to trou-ble the Indian batsmen.

They attacked him at will anddefended when they found it necessary.

The lack of pace also became a fac-tor and the pitch on which Indian pac-ers looked menacing, Bangladesh’smedium pacers merely went throughthe motions.

Each boundary left their shouldersdropping further and by the timeAgarwal was out trying to hit his ninthsix, the visitors had resigned to the fatethat the remainder of this Test matchwill now be a mere formality.

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The slump in form that heendured early in his

career has taught MayankAgarwal to make hay whilethe sun shines and he didexactly that againstBangladesh, smashing acareer-best 243 on the secondday.

For someone whose con-sistency was an issue someyears ago, Agarwal has nowscored two double hundredsin his last four Test appear-ances. And he wants to makeevery opportunity count tillthis kind of dream form lasts.

“I think it goes down tounderstanding that there hadbeen times when I have notgot runs. So I must respectthe game that I am battingwell. When I am doing that Ihave to make sure that Imake it big and put the teamin driver’s seat or put it insuch a position that theycannot lose from there,”Agarwal said after the secondday’s play.

There are players onwhom selectors would puntpurely on talent and there aresome like Agarwal, who hadto break the door open witha mountain of runs.

Asked if it makes himmore aware that he mightalways have to score morethan say a Prithvi Shaw to bein the mix, Agarwal spokeabout how “his journey is dif-ferent from others.”

“I don’t look at it that way.My journey is not going to besame as someone else’s and Idon’t like comparing twopeople’s journey becausesomebody might get chancequickly and somebody mightget chance late,” he said.

“But that (chance) is notunder our control and it isimportant to understand thethings that are in my controland think I’m glad to play forthe country and from therebuild on.”

The opener gave a peekinto his mindset as he wentonto build a marathon knockwith 28 fours and eight sixes.

“I think it goes down togameplan. Who you are feel-ing comfortable against andwho you want to attack andthen pick the right balls. Youcan’t just say that okay I amgoing to hit each and everyball. You can’t do that. It’s notgoing to happen that way,” hesaid.

“It’s a case of understand-ing, okay, this is the bowler Iam playing well today andthis is the ball that I can goafter. Pick those balls andthen have mental discipline tobuild your innings on that.”

He, however, agreed thatsecond day was better for bat-ting compared to the first day.

“The wicket has settleddown compared to what itwas yesterday. It got better tobat on as there is goodbounce and good value foryour shots.”

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Cholesterol is a waxy, fat-likesubstance that the liver pro-duces. It is also present in ani-mal-based foods. Cholesterolsupports many essential bodi-

ly functions, but high levels can lead tohealth issues.

Having high cholesterol does notcause symptoms, but it can increase therisk of heart disease and stroke. Doctorscan prescribe statins to help lower a per-son’s cholesterol levels, but these medica-tions can cause side effects, such asheadaches, muscle cramps, and nausea.Coconut oil and butter predominately con-tain saturated fat, whereas olive oil containsmostly monounsaturated fat.

High cholesterol increases your risk ofheart disease and heart attacks.Medications can help improve your cho-lesterol. But if you’d rather first makelifestyle changes to improve your cholesterol.

Trans unsaturated fatty acids, whichpeople commonly refer to as trans fats, areunsaturated vegetable fats that have under-gone an industrial process called hydro-genation, which makes them solid atroom temperature. Food manufacturersuse trans fats because they are relativelyinexpensive and long-lasting.

You can’t change your age or familymedical history, both of which can affectyour cholesterol levels. However, you canlose weight if you need to and boost phys-ical activity (which is good for everyone).These two steps can help lower your cholesterol. Probably the most impor-tant thing you can do is watch what youeat. These four simple steps are a great

place to start.Focus on fats. Avoid foods high in sat-

urated fats, which increase unhealthyLDL levels. Steer clear of trans fats, whichraise LDL and lower protective HDL.Instead, substitute healthier unsaturatedfats, which are found in fish, nuts, and veg-etable oils. High-density lipoprotein (HDLcholesterol) is often called the ‘good cho-lesterol’ because it helps to remove otherforms of cholesterol from your blood-stream and helps to keep cholesterol frombuilding up in the arteries. Low-densitylipoprotein (LDL cholesterol) is oftencalled the ‘bad cholesterol’ because it is themain source of cholesterol build-up andblockage in the arteries.

Choose whole grains. Whole-grainbreads, pasta, and cereal help prevent ablood sugar rollercoaster and make youfeel full longer. Many of these foods con-tain fiber that lowers LDL levels.

Make other healthy choices. Eat morefruits and vegetables, especially if you sub-stitute these for processed foods likepotato chips. And make healthy dairy sub-stitutions: fat-free milk instead of wholemilk, or low-fat yogurt instead of sugar-laden versions.

Take a medication if you need to. Iflifestyle changes aren’t enough to getyour cholesterol down to a healthy level,talk with your doctor about taking a cho-lesterol-lowering drug.

The statin drugs are very effective, butif you can’t take this type of drug, there areother options.

Cholesterol levels tend to increase withage. Doctors recommend taking steps ear-lier in life to prevent dangerously high lev-

els of cholesterol developing as a personages. Years of unmanaged cholesterol canbe much trickier to treat.

Children are least likely to have highlevels of cholesterol and only need to havetheir levels checked once or twice beforethey are 18 years old.

However, if the child has risk factorsfor higher levels of cholesterol, theyshould get monitored more frequently.

Typically, men tend to have higher lev-els of cholesterol throughout life thanwomen. A man’s cholesterol levels gener-ally increase as they age. However, womenaren’t immune to high cholesterol. Awoman’s cholesterol often increases whenshe goes through menopause.

The best recommendation for childrenand adolescents to keep cholesterol levelsin check is living a healthful, activelifestyle. This includes eating a healthfuldiet and getting plenty of exercise.

Sedentary, overweight children whoeat a diet high in processed foods are mostlikely to have high cholesterol. Childrenwho have a family history of high choles-terol may also be at risk.

Carrying even a few extra pounds con-tributes to high cholesterol. Small changesadd up. If you drink sugary beverages,switch to tap water. Snack on air-poppedpopcorn or pretzels - but keep track of thecalories. If you crave something sweet, trysherbet or candies with little or no fat, suchas jelly beans.

Look for ways to incorporate moreactivity into your daily routine, such asusing the stairs instead of taking the ele-vator or parking farther from your office.Take walks during breaks at work. Try toincrease standing activities, such as cook-ing or doing hardwork.

You can actually increase and decreaseyour cholesterol at will. It all depends onhow much fat you eat — and, directlyagainst mainstream dietary knowledge, thecorrelation is inverted. In other words, eat-ing more fat will actually lower your cholesterol.

Generally, the earlier an adult starts liv-ing a healthful lifestyle, the better for theircholesterol levels. Cholesterol levels buildover time. A sudden change in lifestyle willhelp eventually, but the older a person is,the less impact they will see in cholesterol levels.

All adults should stay active and

maintain regular exercise routines. Womengoing through menopause and adultswith high levels of cholesterol may wantto consider medication that will helpreduce cholesterol levels more rapidly thandiet alone.

High cholesterol at any age puts a per-son at risk for heart disease, heart attack,and strokes. These risks only increase overtime, especially for adults who are not taking action to reduce their cho-lesterol buildup.

Try to eat it two to four times a week.Not only are the omega-3 fats in fish heart-healthy, but replacing red meat with fishwill lower your cholesterol by reducingyour exposure to saturated fats, which areabundant in red meat. The catch is thatsome types, like shark, swordfish, and kingmackerel, are high in mercury. That canincrease your risk for heart disease.Instead, choose wild salmon, sardines, andbluefin tuna.

Trans fats raise your “bad” cholesteroland lower your “good” cholesterol. They’reoften found in fried foods as well as incommercially packaged baked goods,such as cookies and crackers. Be sure tocheck the ingredient lists on any packagedfoods you choose. Make sure the trans fatpercentage is zero grams and that theingredient list does not contain any hydro-genated oils.

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Be it the role of a terrorist, a gang-ster, a photographer, a writer, apoliceman, a politician, a teacher or

just a person from the crowd, actorNawazuddin Siddiqui has left no stoneunturned in making his presence counton the big screen. However, in his list ofversatile characters and film genres,only a romantic one was missing.

And with his latest venture,Motichoor Chaknachoor, that space hasbeen filled. He tells us what promptedhim to pick up this character since he hasnever essayed such a role before. He says,“I had been thinking on it for a long time.I have played roles like that of Manto,Thackeray, Gaitonde, which could be cat-egorised as serious and intense ones. Sonow, I wanted to do some light-hearted,easy films. I wanted to try the romancegenre too. And then I came across thisscript. It had all those halka-phulka(light) elements as well comedy that I waslooking for.” Another reason for him tochoose this genre was his eight-year-olddaughter. “I also wanted to make a filmwhich my eight-year-old could watch.She is usually not able to watch my filmsbecause they are mostly A-Certified. Iwant her to watch my films as she isgrowing up now,” he says and recalls howshe couldn’t even watch Manto, since ithad some “intense” scenes.

Set the Bhopal, the film revolvesaround Pushpender Singh, a 36 year oldman, who is desperately looking for awife, and Annie (played by AthiyaShetty), who is looking to marry an NRIguy and has her dreams and eyes set inDubai.

Even though with women becomingmore independent now, the idea of themlooking for NRI men to settle is an oldone. They can very much go by them-selves. However, Nawaz clarifies that thefilm is about mid-city aspirations, notmetros. He adds, “If you go in smalltowns, you’ll find girls who are still look-ing for such men, with whom they cansettle abroad. And even though theymight not find someone themselves,they’re free to tell their preferences totheir parents. Even parents ask them

now.”For Nawaz, it is not important that

every film gives a message if the contentis good. “Message automatically comesacross. Deliberately thinking that a filmshould have a message looks preachy.Here, without digging deeper, you auto-matically get to know that the film fol-lows a guy and a girl, who have theirrespective conditions to get married. Thegirl wants her husband to be working inDubai so that she can update herFacebook status as that. The guy has ageda bit and hence, is desperate for marriage.They both live in their own differentworlds and when the two meet, the girlgets to know that the guy doesn’t workabroad. She is disappointed,” he says,highlighting that it’s very much the rea-son why the film is titled as MotichoorChaknachoor. He adds, “Kyunki, uskemotichoor ke sapno ka chaknachoorhojaata hai.”

The film is added to the list of thosewhich have talked about or showcased astory from the small towns in India. Andthere have been numerous recent exam-ples of them, where the hero could beflawed and poor and the heroine couldbe non-glamourous and one among thecrowd yet a powerful one. Nawaz, whosePhotograph was a recent example, pointsout that it’s the trend that Bollywood fol-lows — changing its pattern every fiveyears. He says, “You didn’t watch such‘realistic’ films five years ago. Things keepevolving with time. If you watch a filmthat was made five years ago, it would bedifferent than what is made today. Fiveyears from now, we would again see somedifferent kind of content. And storiesfrom small towns being shown on the bigscreen is a good thing. This way morepeople are able to connect to films andin a way that they remember their ownlives when they watch them. Vaise isse bhibore hojayenge kuch dino me. Then,there will come another trend (laughs).”

He pauses for a while, smiles andcontinues with an example of how filmson bandits and gangsters had become thetalk of the town some years ago. “Sabhipicture bas daakuon ke upar hi thi (All the

films mostly revolved around bandits.There was various types of daakus likeChambal Ka Daaku. And then there wasAakhiri Daaku, the last one!” he chuck-les.

For Pushpender’s role, Nawaz didn’thave to do any special research or hardwork since it came from everyday life.In fact, if there was any reference, it camefrom his own experience. “People willfeel connected with this film becausethey can find its characters around theirneighbourhood. Even I have beenthrough it when my mother waslooking for potential girls for meto get married,” he says andlaughs.

Nawaz’s roles have beena testament of how theidea of the Indian hero hasevolved. The idea herocould be found even in asupporting actor. So how isit that he selects his. He says,“If the role takes me out ofmy comfort zone and chal-lenges me, I’d like it.”

So how have such versatileroles in films like Gangs ofWasseypur, Haraamkhor, SacredGames, Manto, Thackerey, Talaashshaped or transformed him as aperson? The answer lies in emptiness.“Just like they say that if you take some-thing from a character, even that takesa lot from you,” he says and adds, “At theend of the day, I realise that I am emptyin a way that mera apna kuch nahi bacha(there’s nothing that belongs to me). Tofill that up, I go back among my peopleand the world. I try to feel what it’s liketo be around them and hear their stories.And then when I get a role, I fill up thatspace with it.”

For Nawaz, every role is like takingwater from a well and pouring it some-where else to fill it up. “That’s what I do.For me, the world is a well, which is filledwith water. And I keep drowning myselfinto it and dig out the stories and expe-riences of people, which are like water forme.”

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Do you think you really know theclosest person of your life

inside-out? What if one day you findout that he’s not actually who he pre-tends to be? Well, writer, director andactor, Rakesh Bedi’s latest play, PatteKhul Gaye, exposes the hypocrisyand double standards that exist inour society. “Patte Khul Gaye isa metaphor which means youare exposed. Whenever westare into adversity, we dropour guard and our true selfemerges. My play depicts thatthere are various layers behindevery person and when some sit-uations arise, one can be shockedto find out the s/he is not thesame person anymore whothey think they knew,” hesays.

It’s a story of DrManoj Rai (played byAnant Mahadevan)and his wife ManjuRai (played by RoopaliGanguli), who haveinvited their closegroup of friends fordinner. Manju hasplanned a lavish menuand has been doing thepreparations since thepast three days. Withtheir childhood friend Bob,comes Shireen (played by KishwarMerchant), who is extremely richand does not belong to the mid-dle class strata, like the rest ofthem.

The message that Rakesh is try-ing to convey is that the rich have allthe privileges and Shireen argueswith Manju that she has worked hardto get them. However, Manju doesnot agree with her. Her belief is thatthe rich have reached where they are

because of the middle class as theyare the ones who pay huge

taxes. She asserts, ‘Don’tforget that you are

because ofus’.

“Ek tarazu ki sui agar beech meinhogi tabhi toh society chalegi,” feelsthe actor, who has director plays likeMera Woh Matlab Nahi Tha, ShimlaCoffee House and Jab We Separated.

Proceeding further, all the char-acters get together and within notime their masks start falling off andsecrets of one and all start tumblingout to the fore. The ultra richShireen exposes the middle class val-ues and hypocrisy of the others andcondescendingly exposes theirpitiable condition. It’s like a warbetween both strata of society — richand the middle class. She tells themhow the middle class is alwaysshowing off what it has and hidingunder the carpet what it does not.The lady of the house Manju refus-es to buy this argument and takesShireen head on and stronglydefends the great Indian middleclass.

Ask Rakesh where have he takenthe references from to make sucharguments? He states an instancefrom his life saying, “You go to anypart of India, you will find such peo-ple who spend huge amount on wed-dings just for the motive of showingoff. It’s shocking to see. I can recallthat I went to visit a friend once andhe took me to somebody’s wedding.The family where we went took meto show all the arrangements thatwere done for their daughter’s big day.Lastly, he took me to the stall of thedeserts and very proudly said, Bedisahab, ‘please choose any desert of

your choice as we have 54 differentvarieties’. It was very evident from hisactions that he was trying to impressme but I had a feeling of anger. I ama person who would be interested inall this stuff. I really feel sad. I meanis there even a point of keeping 54varieties of something just becauseyou want some kind of approval fromthe society? Aap 2, chalo zada se zada3 ya fir 4 desserts rakhlo lekin voh bhitoh akhir mein muh hi meetha karengena. It’s like participating in a rat race,which you already know that nobodyis going to win and which is nevergoing to end.”

The story takes unexpected turnsand hostess Manju, who has toiled forthree days for the dinner, is unable toeven serve the starters as the dinnerand the party goes for a toss. To topit all, one of the guests Akela (playedby Rakesh Bedi), a poet comes outwith a funny couplet at the drop of ahat, to ease tense moments.

Rakesh believes that the play isan unbelievable comic journey full ofunpredictable twists and turns that issure to leave the audience in splits. Forhim, entertainment is the bottom linefor everything that he does. “Themain principle of life is to convey any-thing with a hint of humour. No mat-ter how serious the might be, Iwould try and move it with the ele-ment of comedy,” says he.

(The play will be staged today at4 pm and 7 pm and tomorrow at 3.30 pm at Shri Ram Centre, MandiHouse.)

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Actor Riteish Deshmukh, who has rede-fined popular comedy genre like nobodyelse, seemed quite different in real life

— quiet and serious. As he sat in a hall’s cor-ner, entertaining people and giving interviewsappeared to be a task for him. When asked ifhe was tired or sleepy, the actor smiled and said,“No, it’s just been a never-ending month forme!” Indeed, he is set to play a villain after acouple of above �100-crore mark films — TotalDhamal (154 crore), and Housefull 4 (200 crore)— in Marjaavaan.

Even though his roles in films like GrandMasti, Masti, Dhamaal, Housefull 4 might haveset a new benchmark as far as the genre is con-cerned, the actor doesn’t want to confine him-self to a single genre and wants to keep explor-ing. So is this an attempt to rebrand himself?“After being in this industry for 16 years I don’tthink I am trying to rebrand myself now. I justwant to do better comedy, different roles andfilms. I also want to explore regional cinema.I want to be in a space where I am happy work-ing with people and enjoy that.”

He feels that he is among the few luckypeople of this industry who have got the oppor-tunity to work with legendary actors likeAmitabh Bachchan, Mithun Chakraborty,Rishi Kapoor, Anil Kapoor, Madhuri Dixit andmany more. He said, “Just to be there and workwith them is great. Everyone comes in thisspace looking for something. I am happy andsatisfied that I got what I was looking for inthis industry.”

Marjaavaan, directed by Milap MilanZaveri, is a love story of Raghu and Zoya. Thevillain, who is a vertically challenged (dwarf),Vishnu (played by Riteish Deshmukh) is a manwith evil intentions, and makes their life hellbecause of his hatred towards them.

There’s an obvious comparison of the filmwith Ek Villain as Sidharth and Riteish aretogether and the latter is playing a villain again.But denying the claims, the actor said that itis a new story and in a completely differentzone. He added, “You can see the difference inthe trailer itself. Marjaavaan is more massy anddialogue-oriented. At the same time the char-acter is completely different. Also Mohit Suri’s(director) sensibility of film making is com-pletely different from Milap Zaveri’s (directorof Ek Villain).” However, Milap is the writer hereand was the director of the 2014 hit. So oneassumes that the direction of one might be sim-ilar to the writing of another. But the actor said,“Writing style is like a colour. Though you mayhave a single colour but you can make a lot ofpaintings from that which have differentinterpretations.”

What excited the actor to go for this rolewas playing the role of a villain again as he feelsit is an unparalled experience. “One becomesa good hero only if the villain is good. Usually,the sequences in a film are such that a threatis created by the villain and the hero has towork on that, there is a hurdle and then he hasto work on that. Whenever you cross a hur-dle, it excites as it becomes a heroic moment.If you see a big boy beating a small boy thereis no heroism. That’s understood. Hence, the

importance of a villain is always there,” said he.Vishnu, who is a vertically challenged has

a dark and mean sense of humour. And theentire story has a reason behind his evilness.It is because his father is a huge mafia ofMumbai. And Vishnu feels that his fatherfavours Sidharth more because he is anorphan and is capable of doing the stuff whichhe can’t. So his insecurity and hatred towardsSidharth grows. “It was exciting. I have alwaysbeen cracking jokes or laughing in a good man-ner but this was different. Vishnu’s sense ofhumour is mean and ruthless. Though he’s adwarf but all his jokes are about heights like,Khushi ki height kya hai, competition ki heightkya hai? (What is the height of happiness andcompetition?),” said he.

But playing a three-feet dwarf is certain-ly not easy. There were scenes where the actorhad to walk on his knees. Not only that he wasalso expected to be visually strong. There weresequences where the actor had to look into theblank spaces and say the dialogues with suit-able expression. That was more challenging forRiteish. There were times where he even feltlike he was handicapped.

When asked if this role enriches his jour-ney or is just a continuity, the actor said thatit is a continuity and it is great to be back intothe space you wanted to.

After investing 16 years of his career inBollywood, the actor doesn’t feel the need tobe ahead or different than anyone. “Everyonein this industry fortunately gets films and spacethey want. Few actors are more lucky than theothers to be offered a certain kind of role. ButI feel there is space for every kind of a film. Andan actor is more capable than the roles that he’sstereotyped for. Today’s audience is slightlymore receptive towards change. People areexcited about me playing this role, so it addsto that acceptability of me doing this. There arevarious kinds of films and as actors we are opento everything. I would be more than happy indoing content driven films too.”

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�How would you describeJake and Amara’s relation-ship?

They are constantly forcedto work together without anyclarity of whether they like eachother or not. But I think whenthey are shipped over to theShatterdome in China, they seethe similarities and help eachother navigate through an envi-ronment that they don’t under-stand. Well, she doesn’tunderstand the environ-ment fully and Jake kind oflost touch with what itmeans to be a part of thesame. So they finda great siblingkind of rela-tionship, whereJake’s like anolder brother.

�How was itworking withC a i l e eSpaeny?

Ia b s o l u t e l ylove workingwith her,because she remindsme of myself, just likeAmara reminds Jake ofhimself. It’s coolbecause you’re able tolook into someone’seyes and see your pastinnocence. We have agood bond and share agood chemistry. So ithas been lovely work-ing with that little girl.

�What drew you to comeback to the franchise?

I was drawn to the fran-

chise because of the opportu-nity to work as a producer, andto have my first co-producinggig in a studio that I reallyadmire. Secondly, the role! Itwas fantastic. And thirdly,Steven DeKnight who is anamazing director and withwhom I always wanted to workwith. He has worked forSpartacus and Daredevils andis directing his first feature film.

I felt like it would be greatcollaborating with him. Itfelt like a fantastic oppor-tunity.

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monster ver-sus robotfilms?

I thinkit’s just thescale of it andthe adventure.

Everybody toa certain extenthas felt the actionfigures in films orwhen you watchfilms like Godzillaand King Kong, thescale of the beast orthe creature goingto the city creates aninstant excitement.

What Pacific Rimdoes is that it givesan answer back tothose monsters thatwe have grown up

watching. So we loveKing Kong andGodzilla but if theywere going to attackus what would we

have? We have the

Jaegers. Seeing that face off ishaving a ticket to the bestbooks in my shelf.

�What would you say on theinternational appeal of PacificRim?

What stands out for me inthis film is that it definitely hasan international appeal. Notonly through the characters butthrough the message too. It saysthat people from all around theworld must work together for

the survival of the planetbecause it has got to a pointwhere there is no fight amongthe countries anymore. It’s likewe’ve got a bigger enemy justrunning around through thecities and around the world.They are in unison, so we toohave to be. So that gives astrong message of unity. Andwhen you go to Shatterdome inChina, there are people from allaround the world who haveflown in and come across.

That makes a story diverse andenergetic.

�Tell us more about the film?This film is larger than life,

its epic, scaled and hard toimagine. It’s nice knowing thatPacific Rim handled the giantof the giant realm in which theheroes are kind of demigods.For me it was something thatI loved being involved in andits scale was absolutely crazy tome. We had a lot of fun withthat.

�Audience loves your charac-ter as you are the hero andanti-hero too. They love theway you play the father figure.It’s phenomenal as it shows alot of empowerment.

Well it’s a film with a bunchof young people, but withinthat group you find that Jaketakes a mentor figure forCailee’s character — Amara.But at the same time theylearn from each other andform a tiny group.

�Since you have also pro-duced the film, tell us aboutyour changing roles?

Acting in the film was notnew for me, I knew about it asI am used to it. But coming asa producer was new for me. Butit was not easy. I had to jumpon a horse while it was moving,and learn and discover differ-ent things simultaneously. I wasable to exercise the educationand training I have collected onthe way. It was fun, I reallyenjoyed it.

(The film premieres at 9 pmon Sony PIX.)

Nupur Sanon has followedher more illustrious elder

sister Kriti Sanon into theworld of glamour with herdebut appearance in B Praak’snew music video Filhall, whereshe features along withBollywood superstar AkshayKumar. Nupur says Kriti is veryprotective about her, and actslike a mother to her, and addedthat apart from complimenting

her for her efforts, Kriti is alsoquite honest about pointing outher flaws.

“Whenever Kriti compli-ments me about something, shealso gives me some kind of neg-ative feedback, because she isvery protective and she is alsolike my chhoti mummy so,” saidNupur about her elder sister,adding that she was scaredabout how Kriti would react to

her debut work.“I didn’t contact her after

the release of my video. Ithought she would contact meafter watching it because shehas been away shooting inMandawa. So, she sent me along text message and there wasnothing negative in it. She waslike ‘I loved the song and I amso proud of you’. I am reallyhappy after reading her mes-sage,” said Nupur, while inter-acting with the media at successpress meet of song along withsinger B Praak and lyricistJaani.

Filhall garnered more than97 million views within fivedays of release.

Asked when she woulddebut as a Bollywood actor,Nupur said, “Hopefully soon. Iam glad that I took my time todo my first music videobecause I never ever dreamtthat I would work with super-star Akshay Kumar in my veryfirst project. I am going to waitfor right opportunities. I am intalks with a few people but Ihaven’t signed anything as ofnow. A lot people haveapproached me after seeingthe music video but I want totake things easy. This career forme is about longevity. I am inno hurry but I just want to bethere for the longest time.”

Talking about the audi-ence response to the song,Nupur said, “I am over-whelmed with the response toour song. We expected thiskind of response because thesong is good. B Praak hasbeautifully sung it and Jaani hasbeautifully written it, so weexpected love from the audi-ence. The kind of love we aregetting is really special.”

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Roger Federer produced a near-flawless performance as heavenged his Wimbledon defeat

by Novak Djokovic and qualified forthe last four of the ATP Finals witha 6-4, 6-3 victory on Thursday.

The Swiss started the tourna-ment with a chastening straight-setsdefeat to Dominic Thiem but foundhis best form when it mattered.

Defeat for the second seed spellsthe end of his bid to overtake RafaelNadal and finish as year-end num-ber one. Roared on by a raucouspacked house at London’s O2 Arena,six-time champion Federer lookedin the groove from the start, crank-ing up the pressure on Djokovic’sserve and dropping just three pointson his own serve in the first set.

The Serbian upped his game atthe start of the second set butFederer, 38, saved the one breakpoint he faced and broke twice tocanter to victory.

The third seed, making his 17thappearance at the ATP Finals, is intohis 16th semi-final at the year-endevent.

Djokovic needed to win thetitle to have a chance at knockingNadal off the top spot, but now theSpaniard is guaranteed to finish theyear as the top-ranked player for thefifth time, tying him with Federer,Djokovic and American JimmyConnors.

“Great atmosphere, great oppo-nent,” said Federer, who hit 23 win-ners and made just five unforcederrors. “It was definitely incrediblyspecial. I enjoyed it from the begin-ning.

“I played incredible and I knewI had to because that’s what Novakdoes. It was definitely magical.”

Speaking about what was differ-ent from the Wimbledon final,where he squandered two champi-onship points on his own serve, hesaid: “I won match point I guess.

“It was so close atWimbledon. It was a privi-lege to play that match, somany ups and downs. Icouldn’t be more happyright now.”

Federer finishes sec-ond in Group BjornBorg, behind Thiem,who also beat Djokovicearlier this week. The Swisswill face the Group AndreAgassi winner today.

METRONOMIC FEDERERDjokovic looked nervy at the

start of the winner-takes-all contest,double-faulting twice in the thirdgame, in which he was broken tolove.

As cries of “Let’s go Roger, let’s go”rang around the cavernous stadium,Federer was dead-eyed on his serve,hitting eight aces, including a sec-ond-serve ace, in the first set.

Federer’s service level dipped inthe second set and 32-year-oldDjokovic earned his first breakpoint of the match in the fourthgame, which the Swiss saved.

In the next game Djokovicslipped to 15-40 and sailed a fore-hand long to give Federer his secondbreak of the match. The Swiss brokeonce more to close out victory.

Djokovic had won his past fivemeetings with Federer, includingtheir epic five-set battle in the finalat Wimbledon in July.

“He was the better player in allaspects and absolutely deserved to

win,” said Djokovic.“He served great,moved well,returned myserve verywell.... He dide v e r y t h i n gright.”

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Indian ace Kidambi Srikanth progressed to the semi-finals of the $400,000 Hong Kong Open after

Olympic champion Chen Long of China decided toquit the contest owing to an injury, here on Friday.

Unseeded Srikanth, ranked 13th in the world, wasleading by a game when Chen decided to concede thematch, thus handing the Indian a place in the last-fourof a BWF World Tour event for the first time sinceMarch.

The last time Srikanth crossed the quarterfinalstage was at the India Open Super 500. He had fin-ished runners-up at the event.

The former world No 1 will next face localfavourite Lee Cheuk Yiu today.

Lee defeated former world champion ViktorAxelsen of Denmark 21-14, 21-19 in another quarter-final. Srikanth had beaten the 23-year-old Lee instraight games at the India Open last year in their onlycareer meeting.

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Minutes after the Blue Tigers secured a point againstAfghanistan, thanks to the late equaliser from

Seiminlen Doungel in added time, coach Igor Stimac shift-ed his focus to Muscat where his wards are slated to face-off with Oman at the Sultan Qaboos Sports Complexin Muscat, Oman on Tuesday (November 19, 2019).

“Oman are much better now than the team weplayed against in Guwahati. We know for a factthat match is going to be very difficult forus. We need to see how quickly we recov-er after the difficult game that we hadjust played,” Stimac mentioned afterIndia played a 1-1 draw withAfghanistan at the CentralRepublican Stadium in Dushanbe.

“We have many new young play-ers coming through and it’ll be difficultto expect great results from them imme-diately. I have enough players in my dispos-al and I’m not afraid to put an all-new teamagainst Oman,” Stimac further added.

“Earlier, it was not very common when Indiaused to come back after conceding. In the last twogames we came back and snatched points in thedying minutes. It clearly shows that we are not ready

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The Euro 2020 line-up began to takeshape on Thursday after big-hittersFrance and England qualified for

next year’s finals alongside Turkey and theCzech Republic.

World champions France reached thetournament without having to kick a ballthanks to Turkey sealing their own qual-ification after a goalless draw with Icelandin the day’s early match.

Chelsea outcast Olivier Giroud thenmoved to within two international goalsof France great Michel Platini with a latepenalty that ensured a comeback win overa Moldova side ranked 175th in theworld.

The scrappy victory at a chilly Stadede France put Didier Deschamps’ side twopoints ahead of Turkey at the top of GroupH ahead of their final match at Albania onSunday.

The celebratory mood was initially

dampened when Vadim Rata punishedabject defending to give Moldova a shockninth-minute lead.

However Raphael Varane levelled forthe hosts 10 minutes before break despitefurious protests from the Moldovan play-ers and their coach, who were convincedGiroud had fouled goalkeeper AlexeiKoselev in the build-up.

Giroud then slotted home his 39thFrance goal from the spot in a confidentmanner that defied the fact he has onlyplayed 20 minutes for Chelsea since lastmonth’s international break.

“I could and should have scoredbefore the penalty. We quite simply did-n’t get off to the start we should have done,”Giroud told French television.

LIONS CONFIRMS TICKETHarry Kane fired England into the

Euros in style with a hat-trick that helpedthe 2018 World Cup semi-finalists disman-tle poor Montenegro 7-0 at Wembley.

Kane struck his treble in the first halfas Gareth Southgate’s side racked up fivebefore the break in England’s 1000thmatch, making light of the absence ofRaheem Sterling, who was dropped bySouthgate earlier in the week after an alter-cation with teammate Joe Gomez.

“We wanted to put on a show in our1,000th game and with five goals in the firsthalf I think we did that,” said Kane.

England displayed the firepower thatwill make them one of the favourites fornext year’s European Championship asthey sealed top spot in Group A.

Thursday’s demolition took them to 33goals in seven qualifying matches follow-ing Tammy Abraham’s first internationalgoal, further strikes from Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Marcus Rashford and anown goal from Aleksandar Sofranac.

Kane meanwhile moved sixth in theall-time list of England goalscorers by tak-ing his tally for the qualifying campaignto 11.

The Czech Republic followedEngland into the tournamentafter coming from behind tobeat third-placed Kosovo 2-1.

They join former WorldCup winners Spain and Italy,who kick off the multi-hosttournament at Rome’s StadioOlimpico on June 12, darkhorses Belgium, Poland,Russia and Ukraine.

RONALDO EYES PORTUGALCENTURY

Reigning European championsPortugal were made to wait for theirplace despite Cristiano Ronaldo hittinghis ninth international hat-trick in a6-0 thrashing of Lithuania in Faro.

Pizzi, Goncalo Paciencia andBernardo Silva rounded off an easywin that keeps Portugal second inGroup B behind already-qualifiedUkraine and one point clear ofthird-placed Serbia, who beatLuxembourg 3-2.

They will secure their spot atnext year’s finals with a victory inLuxembourg tomorrow.

Ronaldo has now scored 98international goals after a seventh-minute penalty, a superb curlingeffort midway through the first halfand a simple finish in the 65thminute, and the Juventus attacker willbe hoping to become the second-everplayer to reach 100 this weekend.

The Netherlands and four-timeworld champions Germany will makeadd to an already mouth-watering line-up today should they make it out ofGroup C.

Ronald Koeman’s resurgent Dutchneed just a draw atNorthern Irelandtoday to guar-antee a spotat their firstinternation-al tourna-ment sincecoming thirdat the 2014World Cup.

J o a c h i mLoew’s Germanymeanwhile have to better theNorthern Irish’s result if they areto make the finals.

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Ben Stokes admitted on Friday he isnot interested in captaining England

in the future.Stokes has emerged as one of the

most charismatic and exciting Englandstars for decades, but the all-rounder isn’tkeen to shoulder the extra responsibil-ity of the captaincy.

After playing a key role in England’shistoric first 50-over World Cup victo-ry earlier this year, Stokes also shone inthe Ashes series against Australia.

He currently serves as deputy to Testskipper Joe Root, but doesn’t believe hewould thrive as the team’s leader.

“That’s not an aspiration of mine. It’sjust not one of those things I’m desper-ate to do,” Stokes told the BBC’s Todayprogramme.

“I’m very happy at the momentbeing vice-captain, we’ve got a greatleader in Joe.

“You never know how you handlethe pressure of being England captainunless you do it. Being the Test captainof England — so much pressure comeswith it.

“It’s a huge burden to carry becauseeverything falls back on you, especiallyif it goes bad, and you never know howyou’ll handle that pressure until you walkout onto the field as England captain.

“So I’ve got no idea how I’d handleit if I did it but, as I say, it’s not an aspi-ration of mine.”

Stokes, 28, is on tour with Englandin New Zealand at present as he looksto finish a memorable year on a highnote.

While he doesn’t like the idea ofbeing a captain, when he eventuallyretires, Stokes would welcome a coach-ing role.

“I guess there always comes a timewhen you have to start seriously think-ing about it and I always say I’d love tobe a coach in the future,” he added.

“But I’m still only 28, I have got plen-ty of years in the tank hopefully. But I’dlove to stay in the game somehow andif that was as a coach I’d love to do that.”

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to give up until the final whistle,” Stimac comment-ed.

“This is a primary trait of a football team wholoves to challenge themselves. We are a team whoprefers to push their limits when they’re behind — thatmakes me proud.”

“Whoever watched the match, must have enjoyed.It was an action-packed exciting match. In the end,

neither of us could have been happy with a draw butthat’s how it is. I feel we deserved more. We cre-ated a few more chances than Afghanistan and so,we deserved at least a point if not three,” theCroatian coach analysed.

Seminlen Doungel, who was introduced inthe 77th minute at the expense of Pritam Kotalblasted the back of the net to provide much-need-ed relief to the Indian dugout. The agile midfield-er expressed his “joy and satisfaction” after scor-ing the equaliser which earned India their con-

secutive third draw in the campaign.“A footballer always nurtures a dream of rep-

resenting his country. I’m no different and then scor-ing for your country when it was needed, gives meimmense joy and satisfaction. But, it’s just the start-ing of the journey for me, I need to keep my headdown and continue the good work as long as pos-sible,” a humble Len spoke.

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