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T hree pro-Pakistan Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) terror- ists who had attempted to hijack a transport vehicle on NH-244 near Batote early on Saturday were eliminated by the joint team of security forces during nine-hour-long opera- tion in Ramban district. One civilian who was held hostage by the terrorists inside his house in Batote town was safely rescued by the security forces while one Army jawan sacrificed his life and two other policemen received injuries. Police claimed one of the three terrorists, identified as Osama, was behind killing of BJP leader Anil Parihar in Kishtwar on November 1, 2018. During the operation, traf- fic on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway and the Batote-Doda highway remained disrupted causing inconvenience to hundreds of commuters. Batote town too remained shut as cordon and search operations were launched by the security forces early on Saturday morning to track down the footprints of heavily armed terrorists in the area. For past several days, intel- ligence agencies were issuing warnings about the possibility of terror strikes on vital defence installations across Jammu & Kashmir. Even airbases across north India, including Jammu, Pathankot and Awantipora, were put on high alert follow- ing these reports that at least 60 terrorists had infiltrated into the State to carry out daring strikes. Meanwhile in Kashmir Valley, a terrorist was killed in a separate operation in Ganderbal while unidentified terrorists lobbed a grenade on CRPF personnel in Safakadal area of Srinagar. No injury or loss of life was reported. After the operation was called off, Inspector General of police, Jammu zone, Mukesh Singh told reporters in Batote, “All three terrorists, who were cadre of Hizbul Mujahideen, were eliminated by the securi- ty forces during the operation”. Singh said one of the Army jawans also lost his life while two other policemen received injuries. Mukesh Singh said, “65- year-old civilian, who was held hostage was also safely rescued by the security forces”. S trongly hitting back at Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s rant at the UN General Assembly, India has said its citizens do not need anyone else to speak on their behalf and “least of all those who have built an industry of terrorism from the ideology of hate.” Khan delivered his maiden speech at the 74th UN General Debate on Friday and in his almost 50-minute address, devoted half of his time to India and Kashmir, drumming up hysteria over nuclear war. India exercised its right of reply to the state- ment made by Khan later on Friday and fielded its newest diplomat at its mission at the UN to fend off the allegations made by former Pakistan crick- et captain. “Every word spoken from the podium of this august Assembly, it is believed, carries the weight of history. Unfortunately, what we heard today from Prime Minister Imran Khan of Pakistan was a callous portrayal of the world in binary terms. Us vs Them; Rich vs Poor; North vs South; Developed Vs Developing; Muslims vs Others. A script that fosters divisiveness at the United Nations. Attempts to sharpen differences and stir up hatred, are simply put — ‘hate speech’,” First Secretary in India’s Permanent Mission to the UN Vidisha Maitra said. Maitra said rarely has the General Assembly witnessed such “misuse, rather abuse”, of an opportunity to reflect. “Words matter in diplo- macy. Invocation of phrases such as “pogrom”, “bloodbath”, “racial superiority”, “pick up the gun” and “fight to the end” reflect a medieval mindset and not a 21st century vision.” “Pogroms, Prime Minister Imran Khan Niazi, are not a phenomenon of today’s vibrant democracies,” she said. “We would request you to refresh your rather sketchy understanding of history.” W ith the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) session over, the secu- rity establishment apprehends a spurt in violence with Pakistan’s Border Action Team (BAT) actions on the Line of Control (LoC). There was a lull since abrogation of special sta- tus under Article 370 for Jammu & Kashmir on August 5 as Pakistan did not want to draw negative attention till the UN session ended. Now the terrorists will go all out to infiltrate into Kashmir with active support of the Pakistan Army and carry out BAT actions in north Kashmir before snow blocks all ingress routes by October, officials in the security establishment said. The State did not witness any major terrorist related inci- dent till now. However, the Ramban incident signals that the coming four to five weeks are crucial to foil infiltration bids especially in Tangdhar, Machhal and Keran sectors. Moreover, in an effort to gain moral ascendancy over the Indian Army, the BAT teams comprising militants and elite Special Services Group (SSG) commandos of the Pakistan Army will try to hit the Indian posts and inflict casualties. Explaining the rationale for the likely challenge, officials said, as infiltration starts wan- ing towards October-end or mid November due to weath- er. Given this factor coupled with no violence in the last 54 days, the Pakistan Army will try BAT actions besides push- ing in militants into J&K. The BAT teams having eight to 10 members plan their cross-border raid and ambush to kill Indian soldiers over days by closely observing the patrolling pattern of the Indian troops along the LoC. New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Saturday set up a five- judge Constitution Bench, headed by Justice NV Ramana. It will commence hearing from October 1 on a batch of pleas mounting legal challenges to the Centre’s decision to abro- gate provisions of Article 370 that gave special status to Jammu & Kashmir. The Bench also comprises justices SK Kaul, R Subhash Reddy, BR Gavai and Suryakant. The Bench will examine the constitutional validity of the scrapping of the Article’s provisions and the subsequent presidential orders on it. PNS B ollywood writer, producer and director Anil Ramchandra Sharma (46) is a multifaceted man. As a child, while watching the iconic film ‘Mother India’ Sharma decid- ed that he too wanted to make movies in life. His independent directorial debut ‘Bedaad’ has been internationally acknowl- edged at the 6th Life After Oil International Film Festival held in Italy on September 21st where he received the special jury award in the human rights category. ‘Bedaad’ which means injustice is a movie which highlights a bitter truth of the society. Inspired from two real life incidents, the film revolves around child sexual abuse. It also highlights the fact that the culprit does not necessarily have to be a male but a female can also be involved. “Around 53 per cent chil- dren in India are victims of child abuse irrespective of whether they are boys or girls. Many of these cases don’t just go unreported but are also unnoticed by the family. The story of the film is not fiction- al but is instead based on inci- dents from my surroundings. Through this film I also want to send a message to the culprit and make them realize their mistakes. If even one person can change by watching this movie, it would prove to be a huge success. I wish that these victims should always speak up about the injustice done to them so that eventually it gets uprooted from our society," said Sharma who has written, directed and produced the film. At the Jharkhand National Film Festival (JNFF) in 2018, the film has won the award for the best villain, best supporting actor and the best editor. It has also received tremendous appreciation at the First- time Film Makers Sessions 2019. The film has been pro- duced by Sharma and Aryan Vikal who also plays the male lead of Rudra. Child artists Tirth Thakkar, Ritu Panday, shahi chaudhary and Peeyush Suhaney are also seen in promi- nent roles. Born in Dhanbad, Sharma did his graduation from Sindri College Sindri, before shifting to Mumbai to pursue film making. In his initial days Sharma worked as an assistant director with various film mak- ers like Satish Kaushik and Anees Bazmee and honed his skills. “I have no formal educa- tion in film making but just a craze from childhood took me to Mumbai to make films. While assisting directors like Satish Kaushik it was a great learning experience. Later I got involved in writing TV serials for Doordarshan,” recalls Sharma. Sharma is also involved in making another film on sex education titled Chapter Number 13. “During my school days, chapter 13 in biology was relat- ed to the male and female body. In India people are not very comfortable talking and edu- cating their children about sex education and this is what this film deals with,” remarked Sharma. C hief Minister Raghubar Das' Kolhan campaign for the ensuing Assembly polls named ‘Johar Jan Ashirwad yatra’ was post- poned on Satruday due to heavy rainfall. BJP's district president, Dinesh Kumar, said that Das' chopper couldn't take off due to heavy showers. Even the entire region of Kolhan is wit- nessing heavy rainfall con- sidering the safety the party decided to postponed it. He said that Das is expected to restart the cam- paign from Sunday. Das was scheduled to cover Dugni, Kolebira, Kandra, Gamharia, Kharsawan, Adityapur, Bistupur, Kadma, Sonari and Sakchi (all in Jamshedpur West Assembly constituency) on Saturday. On Sunday, he will cover Potka, Rajnagar (Seraikela), Chaibasa, Jhinkpani (Chaibasa), Tantnagar, Manjhari (Majhgaon). On September 30, the yatra will cover Noamundi and Jagannathpur (Jagannathpur constituency). The tour will end in Kolhan with meetings at Goilkera and Chakradharpur (in Chakradharpur constituen- cy) on October 1.

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Three pro-Pakistan HizbulMujahideen (HM) terror-

ists who had attempted tohijack a transport vehicle onNH-244 near Batote early onSaturday were eliminated bythe joint team of security forcesduring nine-hour-long opera-tion in Ramban district.

One civilian who was heldhostage by the terrorists insidehis house in Batote town wassafely rescued by the securityforces while one Army jawansacrificed his life and two otherpolicemen received injuries.

Police claimed one of thethree terrorists, identified asOsama, was behind killing ofBJP leader Anil Parihar inKishtwar on November 1, 2018.

During the operation, traf-fic on the Jammu-SrinagarNational Highway and theBatote-Doda highwayremained disrupted causinginconvenience to hundreds ofcommuters.

Batote town too remainedshut as cordon and searchoperations were launched bythe security forces early onSaturday morning to trackdown the footprints of heavilyarmed terrorists in the area.

For past several days, intel-ligence agencies were issuingwarnings about the possibilityof terror strikes on vital defenceinstallations across Jammu &Kashmir.

Even airbases across northIndia, including Jammu,Pathankot and Awantipora,were put on high alert follow-ing these reports that at least 60terrorists had infiltrated intothe State to carry out daringstrikes.

Meanwhile in KashmirValley, a terrorist was killed ina separate operation inGanderbal while unidentifiedterrorists lobbed a grenade onCRPF personnel in Safakadalarea of Srinagar. No injury orloss of life was reported.

After the operation wascalled off, Inspector General ofpolice, Jammu zone, MukeshSingh told reporters in Batote,

“All three terrorists, who werecadre of Hizbul Mujahideen,were eliminated by the securi-ty forces during the operation”.

Singh said one of the Armyjawans also lost his life whiletwo other policemen receivedinjuries.

Mukesh Singh said, “65-year-old civilian, who was heldhostage was also safely rescuedby the security forces”.

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Strongly hitting back atPakistan Prime Minister

Imran Khan’s rant at the UNGeneral Assembly, India hassaid its citizens do not needanyone else to speak on theirbehalf and “least of all thosewho have built an industry ofterrorism from the ideology ofhate.”

Khan delivered his maidenspeech at the 74th UN GeneralDebate on Friday and in hisalmost 50-minute address,devoted half of his time to Indiaand Kashmir, drumming uphysteria over nuclear war.

India exercised its right of reply to the state-ment made by Khan later onFriday and fielded its newestdiplomat at its mission at theUN to fend off the allegationsmade by former Pakistan crick-et captain.

“Every word spoken from

the podium of this augustAssembly, it is believed, carriesthe weight of history.Unfortunately, what we heardtoday from Prime MinisterImran Khan of Pakistan was acallous portrayal of the worldin binary terms. Us vs Them;Rich vs Poor; North vs South;Developed Vs Developing;Muslims vs Others. A scriptthat fosters divisiveness at theUnited Nations. Attempts tosharpen differences and stir uphatred, are simply put — ‘hatespeech’,” First Secretary inIndia’s Permanent Mission tothe UN Vidisha Maitra said.

Maitra said rarely has theGeneral Assembly witnessedsuch “misuse, rather abuse”, ofan opportunity to reflect.

“Words matter in diplo-macy. Invocation of phrasessuch as “pogrom”, “bloodbath”,“racial superiority”, “pick up thegun” and “fight to the end”reflect a medieval mindset andnot a 21st century vision.”

“Pogroms, Prime MinisterImran Khan Niazi, are not aphenomenon of today’s vibrantdemocracies,” she said.

“We would request you torefresh your rather sketchyunderstanding of history.”

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With the United NationsGeneral Assembly

(UNGA) session over, the secu-rity establishment apprehendsa spurt in violence withPakistan’s Border Action Team(BAT) actions on the Line ofControl (LoC). There was a lullsince abrogation of special sta-tus under Article 370 forJammu & Kashmir on August5 as Pakistan did not want todraw negative attention till theUN session ended.

Now the terrorists will goall out to infiltrate into Kashmirwith active support of thePakistan Army and carry outBAT actions in north Kashmirbefore snow blocks all ingressroutes by October, officials inthe security establishment said.

The State did not witnessany major terrorist related inci-dent till now. However, theRamban incident signals thatthe coming four to five weeksare crucial to foil infiltrationbids especially in Tangdhar,Machhal and Keran sectors.Moreover, in an effort to gainmoral ascendancy over theIndian Army, the BAT teamscomprising militants and eliteSpecial Services Group (SSG)

commandos of the PakistanArmy will try to hit the Indianposts and inflict casualties.

Explaining the rationalefor the likely challenge, officialssaid, as infiltration starts wan-ing towards October-end ormid November due to weath-er. Given this factor coupledwith no violence in the last 54days, the Pakistan Army willtry BAT actions besides push-ing in militants into J&K.

The BAT teams havingeight to 10 members plan theircross-border raid and ambushto kill Indian soldiers over days by closelyobserving the patrolling patternof the Indian troops along theLoC.

New Delhi: The SupremeCourt on Saturday set up a five-judge Constitution Bench,headed by Justice NV Ramana.It will commence hearing fromOctober 1 on a batch of pleasmounting legal challenges tothe Centre’s decision to abro-gate provisions of Article 370that gave special status toJammu & Kashmir. The Benchalso comprises justices SK Kaul,R Subhash Reddy, BR Gavaiand Suryakant. The Bench willexamine the constitutionalvalidity of the scrapping of theArticle’s provisions and thesubsequent presidential orderson it. PNS

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Bollywood writer, producerand director Anil

Ramchandra Sharma (46) is amultifaceted man. As a child,while watching the iconic film‘Mother India’ Sharma decid-ed that he too wanted to makemovies in life. His independentdirectorial debut ‘Bedaad’ hasbeen internationally acknowl-edged at the 6th Life After OilInternational Film Festival heldin Italy on September 21stwhere he received the specialjury award in the human rightscategory.

‘Bedaad’ which meansinjustice is a movie whichhighlights a bitter truth of thesociety. Inspired from two reallife incidents, the film revolvesaround child sexual abuse. Italso highlights the fact that the

culprit does not necessarilyhave to be a male but a femalecan also be involved.

“Around 53 per cent chil-dren in India are victims of

child abuse irrespective ofwhether they are boys or girls.Many of these cases don’t justgo unreported but are alsounnoticed by the family. Thestory of the film is not fiction-al but is instead based on inci-dents from my surroundings.Through this film I also wantto send a message to the culpritand make them realize theirmistakes. If even one person

can change by watching thismovie, it would prove to be ahuge success. I wish that thesevictims should always speak upabout the injustice done tothem so that eventually it getsuprooted from our society,"said Sharma who has written,directed and produced thefilm.

At the Jharkhand NationalFilm Festival (JNFF) in 2018,the film has won the award forthe best villain, best supportingactor and the best editor. It hasalso received tremendousappreciation at the First- timeFilm Makers Sessions 2019.

The film has been pro-duced by Sharma and AryanVikal who also plays the malelead of Rudra. Child artistsTirth Thakkar, Ritu Panday,shahi chaudhary and PeeyushSuhaney are also seen in promi-

nent roles.Born in Dhanbad, Sharma

did his graduation from SindriCollege Sindri, before shiftingto Mumbai to pursue filmmaking. In his initial daysSharma worked as an assistantdirector with various film mak-ers like Satish Kaushik andAnees Bazmee and honed hisskills.

“I have no formal educa-tion in film making but just acraze from childhood took meto Mumbai to make films.While assisting directors likeSatish Kaushik it was a greatlearning experience. Later I gotinvolved in writing TV serialsfor Doordarshan,” recallsSharma.

Sharma is also involved inmaking another film on sexeducation titled ChapterNumber 13.

“During my school days,chapter 13 in biology was relat-ed to the male and female body.In India people are not verycomfortable talking and edu-cating their children about sexeducation and this is what thisfilm deals with,” remarkedSharma.

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Chief Minister RaghubarDas' Kolhan campaign

for the ensuing Assemblypolls named ‘Johar JanAshirwad yatra’ was post-poned on Satruday due toheavy rainfall.

BJP's district president,Dinesh Kumar, said that Das'chopper couldn't take off dueto heavy showers. Even theentire region of Kolhan is wit-nessing heavy rainfall con-sidering the safety the partydecided to postponed it.

He said that Das isexpected to restart the cam-paign from Sunday.

Das was scheduled tocover Dugni, Kolebira,Kandra, Gamharia,Kharsawan, Adityapur,Bistupur, Kadma, Sonari andSakchi (all in JamshedpurWest Assembly constituency)on Saturday. On Sunday, hewill cover Potka, Rajnagar(Seraikela) , Chaibasa,Jhinkpani (Chaibasa),Tantnagar, Manjhari(Majhgaon). On September30, the yatra will coverNoamundi and Jagannathpur(Jagannathpur constituency).The tour will end in Kolhanwith meetings at Goilkeraand Chakradharpur ( inChakradharpur constituen-cy) on October 1.

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Everyone is hustling. There arepeople who are throwing themoney and there are people

who are dancing. This is the premiseof Hustlers directed directed byLorene Scafaria. Based on true events— New York magazine’s 2015 articleThe Hustlers at Scores by JessicaPressler — the movie is about howfour women dupe men of theirmoney. The subject itself is cringeworthy since women are notsupposed to be doing this eventhough prostitution is an ageoldprofession. Hustling is a totallydifferent ball game since one istaking the men for a ride withouttheir knowledge.

As the story is told, in flashback,one realises that while what these girls

did was amoral, one understands whythey did it. Not that this a justificationfor righting a wrong but gives aperspective. At some level you evenwant them to get away with theircrime. But we all know that taking shortcuts and a life of a crime never last forlong.

It is good to see Jennifer Lopez inthe lead as Ramona. She holds the filmtogether, a storyline that moves at a slowpace and is on a repeat. One gets whatthe women are doing the first time. Yet,to show it again and again and manageto hold interest in the film? Well, kudosto the director and Lopez who hasprobably got to play such a meatycharacter after a long time. Herabsolutely unapologetic take on whatthey were doing and yet be albe toentertain the viewer saying a lot abouther acting.

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�What is your role?I play Angad Jindal.

He belongs to agregarious, full of lifeand well to do Punjabifamily. He is family-oriented. He is in lovewith Sandhya but he isnot able to express hisfeelings to her becauseshe is an employee inhis company. He didn’twant to give the wrongimpression to her.�How similar ordifferent are you fromyour character?

Angad is like a 90sBollywood film hero.

He is a perfectionistwho is good ateverything. So there areno similarities as such.Because in my life Istruggle with even thesimplest of things. But yeshe is family oriented andthat’s something I can relateto with my character.�How did the transition

from a journalist to an actorhappen?

I wasn’t able to handle thepressure that comes withbeing a journalist. We actorsdo have hard working hoursbut a journalist’s schedule isworse. They have to be on callat all times. I used to runaround the city during oddhours for stories. To do thisone needs an insane amountof passion for that kind ofwork. The reason I chose to bea journalist was only becauseI thought I will be seen on TV.I thought that it’s an easy wayout but it didn’t turn out to be

so. I was alwayspassionate aboutacting sincechildhood. Here

also the working hours arelong but I enjoy my work. Idon’t realise when the timepasses by. Whenever I am ableto deliver a tough scene nicely,I feel happy about it the wholeday. On my way back to home,I always recall what I did andtry to imporve like woh lineaese bolni chahaiye thi ya wohscene aese karna chahaiye tha.When your work constantlyruns on your mind, not in anegative way, I believe that youhave found your dream job.�How did you get yourbreak in the industry?

I went to give an auditionfor another project andwalked past Mukesh Chabbra’soffice, a casting director. I wasinvited inside the office. I wasshocked because I have neverbeen there. I was dressed in asuit. A team member askedme to wear the same suit forthe next day’s meeting. Withintwo weeks I was playingAhsaan in Qubool Hai. This ishow I got my first break.During the auditions ofQubool Hai, I met the directorof Ek Duje Ke Vaaste. We hada conversation for about five-10 minutes. He called me forthe auditions. It was my firstshow as a lead where I playedShravan.�How have things changedfor you after playingShravan?

There has been a hugedifference. Now I am on theradar of people and I amgetting offers for shows. It isdifficult to put it into wordsbecause things didn’t pan outin a matter of seconds. It hashappened over time. But,having my take on thecharacters I play and to be ableto do certain changes whichsits well with the script is the

biggest change that came myway.�Having played so manyroles, how hard or easy wasit for you to get into the skinof different characters.

It can be as easy or as hardas you want it to be. If youwant to do the same roleevery time, changes willbother you. It is up to you howdifferent you want your workto be from the previous ones.You can always push yourselfand bring in certain changesin your character. Sometimesit will work and sometimesnot. There’s nothing to worryabout. I am trying very hardto differentiate between mycharacters. I don’t want mywork to be monotonous.�Is there any pressure whenit comes to doing sequels?

Pressure is there everytime you sign a new project.If we talk about sequels, thenKawach Mahashivratri has adifferent story. There is noconnection with the previousseason. So, there’s no specialpressure that comes with it.The only thing that we have inmind is to perform well andthe audience should appreciateour work.�What kind of roles attractyou?

The roles that challengeme and where I get to learnsomething new. It should befresh and unique. I should feelexcited to take up the project.�Is there any mantra thatyou follow?

I believe in working hardand grabbing opportunities. Ibelieve in giving my best.And just be thankful andgrateful for all theopportunities that I get andthis is what has workedfor me.

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He huffs and puffs. But unlike the big badwolf from Three Little Pigs who huffsaway the two homes made from straw,

this creature doesn’t blow away any houses. Justthe opposite. He wants to go home — to MtEverest — even though he is thousands ofmiles away in a city, Shanghai to be precise.Meet Yeti named Everest. Abominable, acomputer-animated adventure film produced byDreamWorks Animation and Pearl Studio that iswritten and co-directed by Jill Culton and ToddWilderman is by far the cutest movie made onthis mythical creature. If Yeti looks like this, wewant this creature to exist.

Not just because he is cute and sweet and canmend broken things in a jiffy or bring alive analmost deadplant to life but because he hasmagic. He can hum, glow and fly. He can beaggressive as well who is considered to be hisfriends even at the cost of putting his life indanger. The fact that he gets high on an aerateddrink wins your heart.

The film is colourful, creative and has a storyto tell that will delight the kids and adults alike.The journey that Abominable takes on is agorgeous one. One will enjoy the adventure thatYeti and his friends take.

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Actor Hrithik Roshanknown for his super hitmovies like Super 30,

Krish, Kaho na Pyaar Haiand many more will be seenthis weekend on The KapilSharma Show. Accompanyinghim will be beautiful actressVani Kapoor to promote theirupcoming movie War. Whilesharing the screen with KapilSharma disciplined manHrithik will be seen having hisfirst cheat meal after wrappingup shoot for the film. Hrithikwill celebrate over samosaswith Vani Kapoor, KapilSharma and Archana PuranSingh. Entire cast will also beseen shaking legs on one ofthe popular song from his filmGhungroo toot gaye.

During the show Kapilcomplimented Hritik forbeing very particular about hisfitness, diet and inspiringyoung actors. To which Hritikmemntions, “War ho gayahai, mote hone ka time aa gayahai.. I am eager to have somany samosas and batatawada”.

Hrithik revealed that aftercompleting his shoot he isvery much eager to break hisstrict diet and have a cheat

meal. To which Kapil pulls hislegs saying: “You must beeating tiny samosas for cheatmeals and not the regular bigones.” He responds: “If I amdisciplined, I am verydisciplined. When I am not, Ijust let go. Fir mera ek do yateen samosa se nhi hota…(laughs). I need minimum of8 samosas.”

In a conversation, Kapilmentioned that HR hastravelled seven countries and

15 cities shooting for the film.Narrating the incidences HRreveals: “The director of thefilm is a foody. He used torecce places across countrieskeeping in mind the variety ofcuisines they offer. Henceduring the entire shoot, Ihave tried many differentcuisines.”

Talking about his cheatdays HR shares an interestingstory when Vani took him tothe world’s worst pizza place

saying that they serve bestpizzas in the world. HR shares,“I was having my cheat dayafter really long time. I wantedto eat too much of pizzas. Vanitook me at a restaurant sayingit is the best pizza place and Iordered 5 large pizzas. Itturned out to be the worstpizza experience for me.”

Vani covers up and says:“I did it purposely so that HRdoesn’t put on much weight.(laughs).”

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breathtaking looks andperformance as Timnasa onBaalveer Returns. She is takingsword fighting lessons to make heraction sequences more realisticand to bring out the viciousness ofher character even more. Hercharacter Timnasa is fierce and evil,who is on a quest to destroyBaalveerto gain the ultimate powersof the world.

Pavitra Punia on taking sword

fighting lessons for her roleas Timnasa said: “I havealways enjoyed portrayingnegative characters and witha strong character likeTimnasa, the stakes are high.This role is inspiring me topush boundaries as an artist.In order to add moreperfection to my role inBaalveer Returns I have

started taking sword fighting lessons.Initially, I used to get hurt during the swordfighting sequences and I realised I waslacking some details. I have poured myheart and soul in this character and I didn’twant to stop. I am thoroughly enjoying thisart and it makes me feel alive and makesme Timnasa ready. Sword fighting makesme feel powerful and I will leave no stoneunturned to perfect every little detailabout Timnasa.”

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President of India, RamnathKovind, reached the State

Capital on Saturday on histhree-day visit of Jharkhand.Kovind landed at 5.10 pm atBirsa Munda InternationalAirport from Bhubaneswar.Governor, Droupadi Murmu,Chief Minister, Raghubar Das;Chief Secretary DK Tiwari;Ranchi Mayor, Asha Lakraamong dignitaries were presentat the airport to welcome thePresident of India.

More than 10,000 securitypersonnel including JharkhandPolice, Military and para

Military were deployed toprovide security cover to thePresident Kovind so that nountoward incident takes place.The regular traffic fromAirport to Rajbhawan (officialresident of Governor) waseither diverted or halted foraround 45 minutes duringKovind’s journey. Policepersonnel were deployed evenin small link roads also whichfall near President’s route.

The President’s convoystarted its journey at 5.20 pmfrom Ranchi Airport andentered Rajbhawan at 5.45 pmin tight security arrangement.Kovind will meet with Chief

Justice of Jharkhand HighCourt and other judges afterthat he will participate in adinner with the judges andwith their family membersthen he will go for night rest.

As per President’s office onSeptember 29 the President willvisit Vikas Bharti, Bishunpur,Gumla on Sunday. OnSeptember 30, he will grace the33rd convocation of RanchiUniversity.

As per districtadministration sources, onSunday Kovind will leave forBishunpur where he willparticipate at cultural functionof Vikas Bharti. The Presidentwill stay at Bishunpur for 30minutes.

The visit of Kovind atcultural events of Vikas Bhartiassumes importance as recentlyRashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh(RSS) Sarkaryawah (GeneralSecretary), Suresh Bhaiyyaji

Joshi visited Bishunpur.Sources said that the President’svisit to Vikas Bharti will helpthe social organization inputting it on international map.

The President on the sameday will leave for Deoghar,where he will perform puja atBaba Baidyanath Dhamtemple. Kovind will returnRanchi in the evening and willhave night stay at Raj Bhavan.

On next day he will gracethe 33rd Convocation ofRanchi University. The RanchiUniversity for making thefunction a grand affair hasstarted preparations.

The convocation will beheld at Ranchi UniversityConvocation ground and hold33rd annual convocation inwhich around 4,000 studentswill get their degrees and hewill personally hand over thedegrees and certificates to 56gold medalists from different

faculties out of which 46 aregirls student.

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The State Government willhold a crucial meeting on

the demands of AnganwadiSevikas on September 30. Themeeting will be chaired byDevelopment Commissionercum Additional Secretary ofHome department on the issueof payment of surplusremuneration to the Sevikas.

Shortly after theannouncement of the meetingdate, the Anganwadi WorkersUnion and AnaganwadiKarmchari Sangh, JharkhandPradesh have postponed theirstrike that was continuing forthe past 42 days.

The members of thestriking groups have beencalled to participate in the

meeting.The Anganwadi Sevikas

hit headlines across the countryafter police used mild force tostop the agitated workers nearChief Minister’s officialresidence on September 24.The incident grabbed eyeballsas male police personnellathicharged on the protestingwomen near Governor House.A number of Anaganwadisevikas were said to be injuredin the lathicharge.

A large number ofAnganwadi Sevikas (allwomen) were holdingindefinite protest under thebanner of Anganwadi WorkersUnion and AnganwadiKarmchari Sangh and were onstrike for over 42 days near RajBhavan.

The Sevikas are demandingregularisation of job, hike insalaries of Sevikas andSahayikas apart from otherbenefits and increase inretirement age to 65 from 60

years.On September 04 Chief

Minister Raghubar Das hadordered to raise the retirementage of Anganwadi workersfrom 60 to 62 years and askedto form a high level committeeheaded by DevelopmentCommissioner of the State.The CM had also asked toprovide special leave to PoshanSakhis.

The CM had also saidthat the Anganwadi workerswill be covered under PradhanMantri Jeevan Jyoti Yojna andPradhan Mantri SurakshaBeema Yojna.

However, despite the

assurances that thegovernment will seriouslyconsider on the demands ofthe sevikas, they continuedtheir strike. The Governmentlater also issued notices to theAnganwadi workers askingthem to join their duty else itwill start dismissing them,but the protest continued.

There are nearly 40,000Anganwadi centres across theState. Anganwadis were startedunder the Integrated ChildDevelopment Scheme (ICDS)of the Centre in 1975 tocombat malnutrition and offerchild and mother carefacilities.

Earlier this month, theAnganwadi Sevikas hadplanned to stage protest duringPrime Minister NarendraModi’s visit to Ranchi.However, the Administrationhad prevented them fromreaching the venue and manyof them were put in preventivecustody for a day.

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With the onset of thefestive season, the

Durga Puja pandal organisersand the pandal revellers of thecity are hoping for some relieffrom the constant showers.From October onwards,Ranchiites will have somerespite from the rain, althoughthere are still some chances oflight to moderate rainfallactivity for the first few daysof the month.

Convener, Ranchi Durga

Puja Committee MunchunRai is of the opinion that thecontinuous showers havehampered the last minutepreparations of the pujapandals across the city. “Withconstant rainfall, the work atthe puja pandals has come tostand still.

Due to the showers,artifacts made of thermocoolhave been spoilt.

The painting work to givethe finishing touches needs tobe completed on time. Lightfittings which are an integral

part of the festivities cannot beproperly installed till the rainstops. The uncemented roadsleading up to main structurehave turned slushy,”complained Rai who is alsothe President of the RanchiRailway Station Durga PujaCommittee

According to the METObservatory Centre Ranchi,from October 1 onwards,though there are not muchchances of heavy rainfallacross Jharkhand but manyplaces will still continue to

receive light to moderateshowers. “From October 1 toOctober 3, there will be one or

two spells of light to moderaterain at many places, instead ofintermittent heavy rainfall.The State capital will alsocontinue to witness moderaterainfall activity during thisperiod,” said Senior Scientist,MET Observatory Centre-Ranchi, Dr. RS Sharma.

According to theDepartment, monsoon acrossthe country is from June 1 toSeptember 30 and theincreased rainfall activity isquite normal during this timeof the year. “Monsoon is still

active over Jharkhand whichis absolutely normal.Practically till the time it doesnot withdraw from the State,it will be said that monsoon isactive,” added Sharma.

Presently a trough line isactive over the State withstrong moisture content in thewind.

With the monsoon activefor the past few days, the raindeficit which was recorded at31 percent on September 24has now improved to 24percent as of on September 28.

“Because there was latesowing, this is the time whenrainfall was most requiredespically for the agriculturesector.

There wil l be amplemoisture and water availablefor farming. This rainfallactivity is very useful mostlyfor paddy as well as othercrops,” said Sharma.

According to theweathermen for the past threeto four days, Jharkhand hasreceived good amount ofrainfall.

In the last 24 hoursvigorous monsoon activityhas been recorded across theState. In the northern parts ofJharkhand heavy to veryheavy rainfall has beenreported at some places withthe highest being at Kodermadistrict at 198 mm.

As per the weatherdepartment, on September 29most places of Jharkhand willreceive good amount ofrainfall while the north-eastern parts will witnessheavy to very heavy showers.

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Special Secretary of the ChiefMinister’s Secretariat,

Ramakant Singh on Saturdaysaid that it is necessary tomake the administrativeofficers aware at all levels forspeedy redressal of thecomplaints lodged at the ChiefMinister’s Jan Samwad Kendra.

Singh was speaking duringa workshop of Nodal Officerorganize for the speedyredressal of the grievanceswhich comes from across theState.

“After the execution ofcomplaints in various districts,its report should be uploadedonline on the portal of massdemocracy, so thattransparency is maintained,” headded.

Director of Information

and Public Relations,Ramlakhan Prasad Guptainformed the nodal officialsabout the nuances of thecompliance and reporting ofgrievances being lodged in themass media. He said that theaim of Jan Samwad Kendra isto make people aware ofwelfare schemes of theGovernment along with timelyexecution of public grievances.

Chief Executive Officer,Jan Samwad Kendra, SanjayJain gave information about thetechnical aspects of reportingon the portal of Jan Samwad.He informed that the portal hasbeen made informative and forpublic use. Compliance expertspromptly upload reports at theJan Samwad Kendra whichcome from the districts anddepartments.

Nodal officials from all

the districts of the State werepresent in the workshop.

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There comes a time whenone looks back in history in

order to introspect andappreciate one’s tryst withTime. Vikas Bharti Bishunpur,a voluntary organisation rootedin the soil of tribal State ofJharkhand, wants to do exactlythe same soliciting the graceand guidance of the FirstCitizen of the great Republic ofIndia.

In its 36 years of arduousjourney with the people ofone of India’s beautifulgeographical regions, VikasBharti Bishunpur (registeredunder Society Registration Act,1860, set up on 14th January,1983) today prides in havingenabled tribes of Jharkhand oneducation, healthcare,livelihood, water conservation,ecological conservation,agriculture, food processing,horticulture, bee-keepingamong many other things.Though the good works of theorganization has its spread allacross, main concentration is inGumla—a district andgeographical region, noted forits scenic beauty, tribal culturalepicentre and historicity. Whenit looks back, it finds that thetribes in the region today canproudly walk shoulder toshoulder with the rest of thelarger national andinternational community, atthe same time being able tokeep their language, culture,religion and tradition.

The journey began with ababy-step when three zealousyoung men—Mahesh Sharma,Late Dr Rakesh Popli—bothengineering graduates fromIIT, Kanpur and Ashok Bhagat,

an alumni of GorakhpurUniversity, arrived in Gumla’sNetarhat Valley, famouslyknown as Queen of Jharkhand’sscenic landscape (then inUnited Bihar), inhabited bytribes and primitive tribegroups (PTGs), with the soleaim of making the world therea bit better to live in. After aninitial survey of situations here,they decided to work on issueslike Education, Health, Poverty,Community Mobilization,Ecology, Language and Cultureand Skill Development. Asocio-economic forum called‘Vikas Bharti Bishunpur’ wasformed in order to give realityto the dream that twinkled inthe eyes of the three zealousmen for this region.

Vikas Bharti opened thegateway to self employmentand self-reliance by enhancingvillagers’ traditional skills andarts. It supported the ruralmass with technological inputs,fiscal inputs, marketingnetwork and human resourcedevelopment. On the way as itprogressed, concepts likeGRAM SWARAJ ABHIYAANemerged—encompassing in itmovements like Right toInformation (RTI), MahatmaGandhi National RuralEmployment Guarantee Act(MGNREGA), VAN

ADHIKARITA, Right toEducation Act, and Health—allof which entailed working withthe Government agenciesalongside the people, the tribesof the region. Vikas BhartiBishunpur soon became a‘people’s organization’, verymuch keeping to the mantra of‘Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas’ ofPrime Minister Nrendra Modi.Today, it has the privilege ofserving under-privilegedpeople of all 24 districts ofJharkhand. Empowerment ofyouths and women is a missionthat is seen through theendeavors of their socio-cultural, sports and other day-to-day activities. Theorganization has itsheadquartres in Bishunpur,Gumla and Co-ordinationoffice at Ranchi, Jharkhand.

Vikas Bharti believes thatdevelopment can only beactualized through meaningful,long-term and strategicpartnership with community-based institutions, governmentagencies, national andinternational agencies willingto help the poor.

At present, Vikas Bharti isa trustworthy and one of thelargest partners of theGovernment. Besides, manynational and internationalagencies have come forward topartner with its endeavours toensure deprivation-free society

The two major needs thatwere identified in the regionwere education and health. Inthe process of exploringsolutions to these two problemsthe team of Vikas Bhartirealised that the root cause ofinaccessibility to services waspoverty and limited livelihoodopportunities.

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Jharkhand Vikas Morcha(JVM) MLA Pradeep Yadav

has got a big relief from theJharkhand High Court onSaturday. Yadav has been jailedfor sexual exploitation by awoman leader of his own party,got bail from the High Court.The Podeyahat MLA wasgranted bail by the court ofJustice R Mukhopadhyay.

The MLA was facingcharges of sexual exploitation,a hearing was completed relat-ed to the case on Thursday inthe Jharkhand High Court.During the hearing the HighCourt had reserved its decision.

It may be mention herethat Jharkhand High Court

had rejected anticipatory bailapplication filed by Yadav onJuly 16. Justice Anil KumarChoudhary had rejected hisbail plea.

After that Yadav moved tolower court for bail but gotrejected and Yadav had to go tojail. Then Yadav applied inHigh Court for bail.

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Incessant rainfall for the lastsix days has created mayhem

among the residents of Bokaroand Dhanbad. The heavydownpour has resulted in pro-longed power cuts and prop-erty damage across the twincities over the last many days.

With power disrupted,trees and electric pole uproot-ed, traffic snarls, rooftops andhoardings were blown off inseveral parts of the districts.Rains lashed most parts of thedistricts. At least nine houseswere completely collapsedwhile five partially. Incessantrainfalls washed out many con-necting roads, ten small cause-ways, pools across both dis-tricts were reported.

Several low-lying areas arestill inundated. About 3 to 5feet rainwater lodged at sever-al spots on the NationalHighway. The torrent flow ofriver blown-off two youthsone in Giridih and another inDhanbad, both went to take abath in the river, said an eye-witness. Later, the villagerstried a lot to save them, but allwent in vain.

People, residing in the firezone of Dhanbad district, haddistressing experience as thicksmokes due to the under-ground fire, started coming outafter incessant rainfall in the

wee hours on Saturday.Many areas on the bank of

Garga River continue to be sub-merged in rainwater. As thewater level increases in theTenughat and Garga reser-voirs, the dam authoritiesissued a red alert and askedpeople not to go into the riveras water flow increased into theriver.

Heavy rains resulted inDamodar River to flow abovethe danger mark, the Bokarodistrict administration haswarned all residents livingclose to the riverbanks to moveto safer and higher places, anofficial informed.

All ten gates of the damhave been opened and hugewater was released from thedam, informed an officer ofTenughat Dam. It may beassumed that 26,000 cusecs(736.80 cubics) water per sec-ond would be released from thedam after opening all 10 gatesas the water level increases inthe reservoir of Tenughat Dam,he said.

Authorities (of both reser-voirs) also warned all resi-dents living close to the river-banks to move to safer andhigher places. The Bokaro SteelPlant management also issueda warning, not to go into theriver Garga as the water levelincreased into the dam as wellas in the river too.

The officials, who are mon-itoring the rise in the river’s anddam’s water level, said thethreat of a flood persists. Butthe possibility of a major floodin the district was low, theysaid.

The heavy downpourforced people to take shelter inhigh rising places living in thelower areas.

More than ten smallbridges continue to be sub-merged in rain water whileflash flood washed away threesmall pools (bridge) in thetwin districts.

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Incessant rains had had itsbearing upon the customary

peace committee meeting forthe Durga Puja here inDaltonganj when the venue ofthe meeting which used to beunder a grand old Neem tree ofthe Daltonganj town policestation was shifted to the AChall of Pt Deendayal UpadhayaSmriti Bhavan on Saturday.

This is for the first time ina span of more than 40 years orso said elderly residents. Officerin charge of Daltonganj policestation A K Mishra said therains forced them to have thismeeting from ground to thehall and today when this meet-ing was on it was raining out-side.

The meeting was attendedby members of the variouspandal organisations, alongwith SDO S K Singh, DSPBhola Pd Singh president of theSri Kendriya Durga PujaMahasamiti Durga Johri,inspector of police DeepakKumar, chief of MuharramInteezamiya CommitteeMustafa Kamal and others.

There was one morechange in this meeting today.Police showed special report ofa popular Hindi news channelon extremism, its fall out, itsdecline and how police tacklethis on a screen available in thehall with a projector. Police alsoshowed one small film made onwitchcraft which was scriptedand produced by the DIGpolice Palamu Vipul Shukla.

These shows kept engagedthe modest audience for morethan one hour as this meetingwhich was to start at 3 in theevening finally took off at 4.15pm.

Mishra appealed to theaudience not to name or iden-tify any member on the dais intheir speech as it consumes a lotof time and this advice clickedmost since three women weregiven the chance to speak firstin this meeting who abstainedfrom mentioning names of thedignitaries sitting there.

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Ayouth was swept away inflooded river and four per-

sons injured after their housecollapsed here on Saturday.Around half dozen houses col-lapsed under Kandi block whilemore than two dozen housesincluding government schoolsubmerged. Besides this cropsof 100 acres damaged whenflood submerged in the fields.

Kamlesh Singh (20), anative of Ajaniya village underKetar police station was sweptaway to cross the Panda river.He was coming from the for-est.

In another incident fourpersons were hurt after a mudhouse of Sarjun Mian collapseddue to heavy rainfall at Adhauravillage under Kandi police sta-tion, on Saturday early in themorning. Besides this houses of

Kameshwar Thakur and GopalRam also collapsed.

Several crops field of sev-eral villages of Hethar area ofKandi block includingAdhaura, Teliabandh, Garakhurd, Kasnap, Kala Gara,Sundipur, baliyari, currentlysubmerged in floodwater.

More than dozen housescollapsed and two dozen hous-es including government build-ing submerged in floodwater atone dozen effected villages.Flood water also submerged inPrimery school, Adhaura,Upgraded Primery school,Kurkuta and Primery schoolTeliabandh.

JMM leader Pinku Pandeysaid that they requested the dis-trict administration to makearrangements for

food for the people whichhouse submerged in floodwa-ter but "no arrangements havebeen made so far".

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Soil test lab set up inDaltonganj based district

agricultural office is proving agreat friend of farmers inknowing the ‘ills’ of their soiland also suggests measures to‘cure’ those ills. Rampant use ofurea in a haste to have highyield of crop is causing farmsmore and more sterile said oneof the 4 soil test experts of thislab Sanjay K Ram.

Palamu district agricultur-al officer Md Jubair Ali said heand his team of officials wereinstrumental in setting up thissoil test lab here which issuessoil health cards on the testfindings of the soil samples.

Jubair (he is known by his

first name more) said farmersof Palamu are taking benefits ofthis soil test lab here by gettingtheir farm land soil tested toknow if the soil is any wantingin its 12 parameters whichhave secondary and micronutrients also.

Deputy project directorPravin Raj said the 12 parame-ters of soil are power of hydro-gen (pH) organic carbon (OC)electric conductivity (EC) nitro-gen (N) sulphur ( S) potassium(K) zinc ( Z) copper ( Cu) iron( Fe) boron (B) manganese(Mn) and phosphorous (P).

Raj said the soil healthcard is given with findings oneach of these 12 parameters ofthe soil test with recommen-dation to improve the health ofthe soil.

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Delhi Chief Minister ArvindKejriwal on Saturday

flagged off 70 mobile vans fromthe Delhi Secretariat gate forsupplying onions at �23.90 perkilogram (kg) in nationalCapital. Besides the vans, onionswill also be sold at 400 fair priceshops across the city.

Chief Minister said thatafter first five days, the pro-curement of the onion stock willbe reviewed as per the require-ment. One person can get amaximum of five kilograms ofonions a day. The sale of onionswill be held from 10 am to 5 pm.

While flagging off themobile vans, Kejriwal said thatthe retail market in Delhi is sell-ing the onions at �70-80 kg. "Wedo not want people of Delhi tosuffer from these eye-wateringprices of onions. So, we havedecided to sell onions at �23.90

per kg. One mobile van eachwill be taken by the MLAs totheir respective constituencies to

cover all the 70 Assembly con-stituencies in Delhi," he said.

"We are directly putting

into the market whatever hasbeen procured from the Center.Two Delhi Government officials

will visit Nagpur to examine thequality of onions and to ensuresupply of good quality onions toDelhi," said the Chief Minister.

He also said that theGovernment is also keeping aneye on the hoarders and legalaction will be taken againstthem.

Onions are currently avail-able at �60-80 per kg in theretail market in Delhi. Thewholesale price of onion atAzadpur Mandi in Delhi hasgone up to �60 per kg, thehighest since 2015. On theother hand, Asia's largest onionmarket in Lasalgaon inMaharashtra is also selling theonions at �50 per kg.

The traders said that thestock of onions in the countryis very low due to which supplyof onions to the mandis is com-ing down. The price of onion isrising due to lower inflows thanconsumption.

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National Building ConstructionCorporation (NBCC) has been

fined �5 lakhs by Delhi PollutionControl Committee (DPCC) for theirnegligence in checking dust emission atthe site of an under-construction WorldHealth Organisation (WHO) building innational Capital. The construction siteis located at ITO, the busiest intersectionin Delhi.

According to an official, as part ofits ongoing drive to check dust emissionsat construction sites, a DPCC team vis-ited the site of the WHO building andfound a huge quantity of constructionmaterial lying uncovered and earth dugout indiscriminately.

"The DPCC imposed a fine of �5lakh on the NBCC, the occupier of the

land at present for carrying out the con-struction work," he added. DPCC mem-ber secretary Arun Mishra said theNBCC had been negligent even thoughthe entire Delhi-NCR region has beenput on high alert to prevent air pollution.

The pollution control body alsoimposed a fine of �5 lakh each againstpolluters at a few other large construc-tion sites in Delhi including a hotel pro-ject in Motia Khan, Deepak MemorialHospital on Vikas Marg in East Delhi,ESIC Hospital and Medical College inBasai Darapur and Rajiv Gandhi CancerInstitute in Rohini.

The DPCC directed the polluters atthe sites, located along major transportcorridors, to take corrective measureswithin three days, failing which the con-struction work will be stopped and pros-ecution launched.

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With the arrest of two persons, the DelhiPolice on Saturday claimed to have bust-

ed an inter-State racket involved in supplyinghash and marijuana oil in the national Capitaland its peripherals.

The seized 400 gram hash was worth �4 lakhin the national market.

The accused have been identified as DhruvSareen (30), a resident of Delhi's Karol Bagh andSameer Sharma (28), a resident of Pusa Road inDelhi.

According to Dr G Ram Gopal Naik, theDeputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), CrimeBranch, on September 27, specific inputs werereceived that Dhruv, along with his associateSameer, is indulged in supply of malana creamcharas and imported marijuana oil (THC shat-ters) in west Delhi and Gurugram (HR).

"Acting on the inputs, surveillance wasmounted and the duo were nabbed from theShanker Road area. During search, police teamrecovered 300 grams charas, along with oneTHC Shatter (500 MG Cannabis oil) from pos-session of Dhruv Sareen while 100 gram cha-ras was recovered from Sameer Sharma pos-session," said the DCP.

"During interrogation, Dhruv disclosedthat he came in contact with one who was sup-

plying charas in Delhi and NCR. The man luredDhruv in supply of charas following whichDhruv started supplying charas. To not gettraced and nabbed by police Dhruv bought a carand started procuring and supplying of charasin his vehicle," said the DCP.

"The accused Sameer disclosed that he camein contact of Dhruv through common friendsand started purchasing charas from him.Gradually, he became partner in these nefari-ous activities and actively participated in hisdeals and supply," said the DCP.

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Aday after the Pakistan PrimeMinister made a sharp attack on

the RSS at the United GeneralAssembly (UNGA) on Friday, theNagpur-based outfit thanked "ImranSaheb" for what it said" spreading ourname".

Pakistan Prime Minister ImranKhan has made RSS' name synony-mous with India and targeted theSangh as it is against terrorism, saidsenior RSS functionary Krishna Gopal.

Gopal also added wryly that Khanhas ended up spreading the RSS'name and prayed that the PakistanPrime Minister does not stop now.

"The RSS is only in India and forIndia. It has no branch anywhere elsein the world. Why is Pakistan angry

with us? It means if it is angry withSangh, then it is angry with India. TheRSS and India have now become syn-onymous.

"We also wanted that the worldshould see India and the RSS as oneand the same, and not two separateentitles. Our Imran sahab has done thisjob very well and we congratulate himfor that. He is spreading our name," theRSS joint general secretary said. Gopal,who was speaking at an event here, saidpeople who are victims of terrorism oropposed to it now realise that the RSSis also against it. That is why, he said,Khan is attacking the RSS.

"It is getting so much of famewithout doing much and we pray thathe should not stop now," Gopal said.

Attacking the RSS and PrimeMinister Narendra Modi, Imran

Khan said that the Indian PrimeMinister's "whole life is RSS" and theSangh is "inspired by German dicta-tor Adolf Hitler, Italian dictator BenitoMussolini".

"RSS believes in the ethnic cleans-ing of Muslims. RSS goons butcheredhundreds of Muslims. This is arro-gance. This makes people do cruelthings. Something PM Modi hasdone. Arrogance has blinded PMModi," he said while addressingUNGA after Modi had addressed itwithout even once mentioningPakistan in his speech.

In his 45-minute speech at UNGA,Khan also quoted Congress to beratethe RSS. "The previous CongressHome Minister gave a statement thatin RSS camps, terrorists are beingtrained," he said.

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The 22.3 km-long thirdphase of the Delhi-Meerut

Expressways from Dasna toHapur will be inaugurated onSeptember 30. After the com-pletion of this stretch, com-muters will be able to reducetravel time by more than anhour. Commuters will be ableto reach Hapur from Dasnawithin 15-20 minutes.

Union Road Transport andHighways Minister NitinGadkari will inaugurate Dasna-Hapur stretch on September30. This stretch will have aspeed limit of 100 km perhour. The total cost of thirdphase of this stretch is �1,989crore.

According to officials,Dasna-Hapur stretch, having10 lanes, was scheduled to becompleted by June, 2019 butwork on the stretch was onlycompleted by August 28, aftera delay of two months. "Thestretch was opened for com-muters for trial. Now, thestretch will be formally inau-gurated by the Union MinisterNitin Gadkari on September30," officials said.

The project will help indecongesting National CapitalRegion and bring significantreduction in pollution level. Itwill also lead to reduction intravel time by more than anhour. After the inauguration ofphase 1 of the expressway,from Akshardham to UP Gate,this is the second stretch on theexpressway to be operational.

Officials said the Dasna tollplaza has been removed and anew toll plaza has been put upat Chhajarsi. "The other phase2 of the project, which spansfrom UP Gate to Dasna, will bethe next phase that would beoperational. The stretch is like-ly to open in December," offi-

cials added. This 6-lane section has

2+2 lane service roads on eithersides, or a 4.68-kilometre long6-lane elevated corridor atPilkhuwa. The project involvesconstruction of a major bridgeacross Upper Ganga Canal,seven new minor bridges, a fly-over at Hapur bypass, 11 vehic-ular underpasses, two pedes-trian underpasses, two footover-bridges, six major junc-tions and 105 minor junctions.During the inauguration,Minister of State for RoadTransport and Highways Dr VK Singh will be present on theoccasion.

The 82-kilometre longDelhi-Meerut Expressway pro-ject connects Delhi withMeerut in western UttarPradesh is likely to cost Rs 8346crore.

The 4.68-kilometre long6-lane elevated corridor atPilkhuwa has been conferredGold Medal for innovation inconstruction technology. ThePilkhuwa Viaduct has alsobeen awarded as outstandingconcrete structure of westernUP.

The Delhi-MeerutExpressway project is beingimplemented in four packages- (i) an 8.72 km long 6-laneexpressway/ 8-lane NationalHighway (NH) 24 from SaraiKale Khan in Delhi toGhazipur border, already com-pleted in June 2018, (ii) a 19.28km long 6-lane expressway/ 8-lane NH 24 from Ghazipurborder to Dasna in UP whichis 60% done, (iii) 22.23 km long6-lane NH 24 with 2+2 laneservice roads on either sidesfrom Dasna to Hapur in UP,which is being inaugurated,and (iv) a 31.78 km long green-field 6-lane expressway fromHapur to Meerut, work onwhich is 57 % done.

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The Congress on Saturdayannounced the names of

candidates for the upcomingAssembly bypolls in Assam,Puducherry, Kerala, HimachalPradesh and Chhattisgarh. Thebypolls will be held on October21, along with the Assemblyelections to Maharashtra andHaryana.

In Assam, there will bebypolls in four seats for whichKeshab Prasad Rajak(Ratanbari), Shamsul Haque(Jania), Kartik Kurmi(Rangapara) and Sushil Suri(Sonari) will be the Congresscandidates.In Kerala, theCongress has nominated TJVinod from Ernakulam, AdvShanimul Osman from Aroor,P Mohanrajan from Konni andDr K Mohan Kumar from

Vattiyoorkavu.John Kumar has been

nominated for the Puducherryby-election for the lone KamrajNagar seat.

In Chhattisgarh, RajmanBenzam will contest the bypollfor the Chitrakoot Assemblyseat on a Congress ticket.

In Himachal Pradesh, VijayInder Karan will contest fromDharamshala seat and GanguRam Musafir will contest fromPachhad reserved seat from theCongress ticket.

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As a humanitarian gestureon the 550th birth anniver-

sary of Guru Nanak Dev inNovember, the ModiGovernment will release eightSikh prisoners, lodged in dif-ferent jails in the country forcommitting crimes during themilitancy period in Punjab.

The Union Home Ministryalso announced that through aspecial remission, the deathsentence of another Sikh pris-oner has been commuted to lifeimprisonment.

The Central Governmenthas taken a decision to grant aspecial dispensation to nineSikh prisoners from variousjails in the country, a HomeMinistry spokesperson said.

In one case, a decision hasbeen taken to commute thedeath sentence to life impris-onment, and in the remainingeight cases, the decision hasbeen taken for prematurerelease of prisoners servinglife and other sentences,through special remission.

These individuals were

convicted by various courts inthe country for the offencescommitted by them duringthe militancy period in Punjab,the spokesperson said.

The above decision wastaken by the CentralGovernment as a token ofgoodwill in response to thelong-pending demands of therelease of Sikh prisoners artic-ulated by various sections of theSikh community.

A communication to thiseffect was sent on Saturday tothe State Governments andUnion Territories concernedfor release of the Sikh prisoners.

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To help lessen the agony ofthe patients battling sarco-

ma cancer, a 24x7 helpline hasbeen launched here whereinthose afflicted with the diseasecan seek any informationregarding their condition aswell as medical treatment.

Sarcoma is the type of can-cer that develops from tissuessuch as nerves, muscles, fats,blood vessels and deep skin tis-sues. In fact, if Sarcoma isdetected at an early stage, cureis still possible. However, manya times the diagnosis of sarco-ma is very tedious and arduoustask because of intricate pathol-ogy of these tumors, said DrSameer Rastogi, MedicalOncologist at Delhi-basedAIIMS.

The purpose of launchingthe helpline 9667248800 is tocounsel the patients on variousaspects of the disease, ensurethem emotional support, andspread awareness about thetreatment and current therapiesneeded to tackle the disease,said Rashi Kpoor from SachinSarcoma Society whichlaunched the helpline recentlyat a sarcoma support group

meeting here. On our part, saidRashi, who is a sarcoma sur-vivor, said, we are counsellingthe patients, spreading aware-ness of sarcoma by distributinginformation sheets, assistpatients in terms of gettingscans done free of cost or ondiscounted basis with the helpof our collaborators.

We are also assistingpatients by distributing dis-ability aids, medicines and helppoor and needy patients byproviding accommodation, sheadded. Sarcomas can developin children and adults. Forchildren under 20 approxi-mately 15 percent of cancerdiagnosis are sarcomas.

Dr Sameer added that"Unlike lung, breast and cervi-cal cancers, Sarcoma is a littleknown cancer but has morethan 200 subtypes. Connectivetissues include all tissues thatsupport, connect or separatedifferent tissues in the body.

"Therefore it can be foundin the structure of organs in thebody (e.g., the uterus), but aremost common in arms and legs(50 per cent), followed bytrunk and abdomen (40 percent), and head and neck (10per cent)."

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Hyderabad: Hitting out at UttarPradesh Chief Minister YogiAdityanath for his reportedcomments that the Mughalsand the British were responsi-ble for weakening the economy,AIMIM chief AsaduddinOwaisi on Saturday claimedthat it flourished during thereign of Jahangir andAurangazeb.

Owaisi said that the UttarPradesh should instead focus onensuring law and order in hisstate.

"First of all, YogiAdityanath has once againproved that he has no knowl-edge about anything. It is justthat he is lucky enough tobecome the Chief Minister of

the biggest state of India.What history tells us,had

the Chief Minister read historyand economy, during the timeof Mughals, when Jahangir wasthe ruler, Indias contribution tothe world GDP was 25 per cent.

"This continued tillAurangazeb. DuringAurangazebs tenure, India over-took the economy of China," hesaid, quoting an internationaleconomist.

The AIMIM chief claimedthat Dadabhai Naoroji (the firstIndian member of the BritishParliament), had also writtenthat the Indian economydeclined after 1800 "when theMughals were no more".

"I would request the Chief

Minister to tell someone toread Dadabhai Naoroji, who inhis famous book 'Poverty andunbritish rule' said the samething, that the Indian economycame down after 1800 when theMughals were no more," he toldreporters here.

Owaisi said he understandsthat Yogi Adityanath has "hatredfor anything to do withMuslims", but history andempirical-based studies cannotbe changed.

The AIMIM leader said heaccepts that the economy was'completely devastated' duringBritish rule, but claimed that itwas the other way around dur-ing Mughal rule.

He alleged that the Uttar

Pradesh Chief Minister andBJP have no answer to job loss-es and unemployment in thecountry.

He said the Uttar PradeshChief Minister should focus onlaw and order in his state likeensuring that the Unnao rapevictim gets justice and thatatrocities on Dalits do not takeplace.

....'Please dont worry aboutissueswhich you will never com-prehend," Owaisi said.

Yogi Adityanath reported-ly made the statement aboutMughals and the British onSaturday at the ongoing threeday World Hindu EconomicForum in Mumbai, which willconclude tomorrow. PTI

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Muzaffarpur (Bihar): A com-plaint was filed in a court hereon Saturday seeking thatPakistan Prime MinisterImran Khan be tried for wag-ing war against the countryand other offences for hisspeech at the UN GeneralAssembly.

Sudhir Kumar Ojha, alawyer, who earlier filed peti-

tions against Bollywood actorsand top political leaders,moved his latest application inthe court of Chief JudicialMagistrate Surya Kant Tiwari.

In the petition, the 50-year-old advocate objected toKhan's speech at the UnitedNations General Assembly onFriday in which he had spo-ken of the Narendra Modi

government's actions inKashmir and about its possi-ble fallouts.

The matter is likely to beheard on October 24.

Ojha accused Khan ofhaving indulging in war mon-gering and prayed for direc-tions to the police to lodge anFIR against the cricketer-turned-politician. PTI

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New Delhi: Suspended paedia-trician Kafeel Khan, who hasbeen absolved of charges ofmedical negligence and cor-ruption in connection with theGorakhpur's BRD hospitaltragedy of 2017, on Saturdaydemanded he be reinstated withdue honour.

Addressing mediapersonsat the Press Club of India here,he reiterated the Uttar Pradeshgovernment should apologise tothe families of the children whodied and provide compensationto the kin.

"The departmental inquiryhas shown that I did not do anymedical negligence or indulge inany corruption...That tag of'murderer Kafeel' and infamousdoctor Kafeel is off my headnow," he said. "I demand that Ishould be reinstated in my jobwith due honour and a CBIinquiry should be conductedinto the case or a court-moni-tored probe outside the UttarPradesh," he said. About 30children had died at the hospi-tal during the night of August 10,2017 and 34 more over the nextfew days, officials had then said.

Many of the infants diedallegedly because of disruptionin oxygen supply on the night ofAugust 10 due to pending pay-ments to the supplier, a chargerefuted by the StateGovernment. PTI

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The Government onSaturday set October 15 as

the deadline for central PSUs toclear overdue payments to ven-dors and exhorted them tofront-load capital expenditureas it looks to lift economicgrowth from six-year low.

Finance Minister NirmalaSitharaman, who reviewed cap-ital spending programmes withheads of 32 maharatna andnavratna Central Public SectorEnterprises (CPSEs), said state-owned companies have beenasked to front-load investmentfor the second half of the cur-rent fiscal.

CPSEs have been asked tosubmit a roadmap for the nextfour quarters by October 15,she said after the meeting.

This meeting was held aspart of the series of consulta-tions the finance minister hasbeen holding with variousstakeholders to brainstorm onmeasures needed to accelerateeconomic growth, whichdipped to a six-year low of 5per cent in the first quarter of2019-20.

“It was decided that all

pending dues to be cleared byOctober 15 and by October 15they will have a portal throughwhich all dealers and contrac-tors shall start monitoring theirpayment,” Sitharaman said.

“Meeting (will be held)with the RBI and the financesecretary and selected numberof CPSEs to talk about whybank guarantees are becominga big hitch or hurdle in gov-ernment paying up the 75 percent post arbitration awards. Ifthat is the case, I want RBI’shelp also,” she said.

Also, CPSEs have beenasked to detail the lifespan ofarbitrations that lock payments

after disputes with vendorsand contractors, she said.

The finance ministerstressed that capital expendi-ture (capex) needs to be givena vigorous push in the next twoquarters.

CPSEs must ensure thatregular payments are clearedexpeditiously as it spurs invest-ment cycle and establish the e-billing portal for enablingstakeholders to track the statusof payments, she said, addingspecial efforts must be made toclear dues of MSMEs andresolve cases on the SAMAD-HAN portal of the Departmentof MSME.

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The Reserve Bank has initi-ated Prompt Corrective

Action (PCA) against LakshmiVilas Bank (LVB) due to highlevel of bad loans, lack of suf-ficient capital to manage risksand negative return on assetsfor two consecutive years, theprivate sector lender said onSaturday.

The RBI move comesamidst the Delhi Police’sEconomic Offences Wing reg-istering a complaint against theboard of LVB alleging cheatingand misappropriation of funds.

The regulatory action maycast doubts over the proposedmerger of Indiabulls HousingFinance with LVB, which isawaiting RBI nod.

The Delhi High Court onFriday agreed to hear a petitionalleging Indiabulls gave loansworth crores of rupees to shellcompanies.

In a regulatory filing, LVBsaid RBI has taken the action“on account of high net NPAs,insufficient Capital to Risk(Weighted) Assets Ratio(CRAR) and Common EquityTier 1 (CET 1), negative return

on assets for two consecutiveyears and high leverage.”

The PCA was initiatedafter an on-site inspection,under the risk-based supervi-sion, was carried out for theyear ended March 31, 2019.

“RBI has also advised theBank on the restrictions put inplace and the actions to betaken by the Bank, which theBank has taken note of for nec-essary compliance, withprogress to be reported on amonthly basis to RBI,” it added.

For FY19, the bank’s netNPA stood at 7.49 per cent,capital adequacy ratio was at7.72 per cent and its return onassets was (-) 2.32 per cent. Ithad reported a net loss of Rs894.10 crore for 2018-19.

PCA is aimed at improvingthe performance of the bankand will not have any adverseimpact on the day-to-day oper-ations, including accep-tance/repayment of depositsin the normal course, LVBsaid.

Under PCA, banks aremandated to cut lending to cor-porates and focus on reducingthe concentration of loans tocertain sectors.

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Indiabulls Real Estate onSaturday said shareholders

have approved proposal to sellits London property to pro-moters for 200 million poundsin an annual general meetingheld on September 28.

Earlier, the company haddisclosed its plans to focus onits India business and cut downon debt. The resolution to sellthe London property has beenapproved by the requisite major-ity of shareholders, stated aBSE filing by the company.

In the notice for AGM, thecompany had said, “In light ofcontinuing Brexit related issues

and uncertainty around it, theLondon property market remainssluggish. The Great BritainPound has also had a sustaineddepreciation from around thetime of Brexit referendum result.”

The continued uncertain-ty associated with Brexit con-tinues to provide headwindsagainst both the London prop-erty market as well pound as acurrency, it said.

As per assessment withlenders, a further loan ofapproximately 133 millionpounds is to be availed tocomplete the ongoing con-struction on 22 HanoverSquare property (London property).

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Glenmark Pharmaceuticalson Saturday said its share-

holders have approved a pro-posal to raise up to $200 mil-lion (about �1,413 crore)through issuance of debt secu-rities.

The proposal was approvedat the company’s annual gen-eral meeting held onSeptember 27.

“All the Resolutions weredeclared passed with the req-uisite majority,” the companysaid in a BSE filing.

New Delhi: Midnapore railwaystation in West Bengal hasbecome the 5000th station inthe country to have free pub-lic Wi-Fi, officials said.

RailTel, a PSU under therailways, started providing freeWi-Fi from Mumbai Centralstation in January 2016.

In a span of 44 months,RailTel has successfully provid-ed Wi-Fi at 5000 stations acrossthe country, the railways said.

Talking about the journeyso far, Puneet Chawla,CMD/RailTel, said, “We arenow just few hundred stations

away from achieving the ambi-tious target of providing freepublic Wi-Fi at all Indian rail-way stations (except the haltones).

“The dedication of theRailTel team, our partners andsupport from the Indian rail-ways has made it possible. Thefree Wi-Fi is becoming moreand more popular with users.

“The month of August2019 saw total 1.14 crores ofuser logins in ‘RailWire’ Wi-Fiservices with 10192.55 TB ofdata usage across all stations,”the railways said. PTI

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The pilot project for usheringin Industry 4.0 in the coun-

try has been launched at theModern Coach Factory in UttarPradesh’s Raebareli district, therailways said on Saturday.

Industry 4.0, commonlyreferred to as the fourth indus-trial revolution, is a name givento the current trend of automa-tion, inter-connectivity anddata exchange in manufactur-ing technologies to increaseproductivity. Industry 4.0 is a

complex cyber-physical systemwhich synergies productionwith digital technologies,Artificial Intelligence, Big Data,Analytics, Machine Learningand Cloud Computing.

The Ministry of Railwaysand the Department of Scienceand Technology have joinedhands in partnership with IITKanpur for taking up a uniqueproject on ‘Industry 4.0’. Theylaunched the pilot project onFriday for implementation atthe Modern Coach Factory, anofficial statement said.

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Reliance Capital hasannounced the completion

of 21.54 per cent stake sale inits mutual fund arm RNAM tojoint venture partner Japan’sNippon Life Insurance for Rs3,030 crore. The company willfurther monetise its balance4.28 per cent stake in RelianceNippon Life AssetManagement (RNAM) worth�700 crore, Reliance Capitalsaid in a statement.

Reliance Capital, the finan-cial services arm of AnilAmbani-led Reliance Group,had earlier sold 17.06 per centshareholding in RNAM inthree successive past offers forsale, aggregating over �2,480crore. The entire RNAM stakemonetisation proceeds of�6,200 crore will be utilised toreduce Reliance Capital’s out-standing debt obligations.

In a statement issued lateFriday, Reliance Capitalannounced “the successful com-pletion of 21.54 per cent stakein RNAM to Nippon LifeInsurance of Japan for sale pro-ceeds of �3,030 crore pursuantto binding definitive agreementsigned on May 23, 2019”.

In May, Reliance Capitalhad announced that it hadsigned binding definitive agree-ments with Nippon LifeInsurance of Japan.

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The deadline to link perma-nent account number

(PAN) with Aadhaar has beenextended till December 31, aCBDT order said Saturday.

Earlier, the deadline wasSeptember 30. This is the sev-enth time that the Governmenthas extended the deadline forindividuals to link their PAN

with Aadhaar. The CentralBoard of Direct Taxes (CBDT)has extended the date for link-ing PAN and Aadhaar fromSeptember 30 to December 31and a notification has beenissued on Friday in this con-nection, the policy-makingbody for the Income-TaxDepartment said.

It is now mandatory to linkthe two unique IDs for

incometax purposes.The Supreme Court, in

September last year, haddeclared the Centre’s flagshipAadhaar scheme as constitu-tionally valid.

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President Donald Trumpcalled his struggle with

Democrats threateningimpeachment a “war”, a videoof comments that he expectedto remain private showedFriday.

"We're at war. These peopleare sick," Trump says in thevideo obtained by Bloomberg.

He was speaking at aclosed-doors gathering withUS diplomats in New York onThursday and apparentlyfilmed by one of the peopleattending.

The event was held in thewake of the Democrats' deci-sion to launch an impeachmentinvestigation into Trump'salleged attempt to arm-twistthe Ukrainian president intoproviding dirt on one of hismain 2020 election rivals, JoeBiden.

The recording of the event,part of which was first pub-lished by the LA Times, showedTrump suggesting that whoev-

er gave compromising infor-mation to the whistleblowerwas "close to a spy." He went onto say that "spies and treason"used to be handled "a little dif-ferently than we do now."

While that commentprompted chuckles from thecrowd, it has since been criti-cized by Trump's opponents asbeing a veiled threat to the safe-ty of the whistleblower and hissources.

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A person familiar with

the matter who requestedanonymity confirmedVolker's resignation Friday,which was first reported by the student newspaper at Arizona State University,where he directs an institute. AFP

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Egyptian authorities liftedSaturday some tight secu-

rity measures in the capital,Cairo, a day after they sealed offthe main square and downtownthoroughfares to thwart a pos-sible protest against the coun-try's president.

The measures were part ofa harsh security clampdownfollowing rare demonstrationsin several cities last weekend, allof which were broken up bypolice.Calls for fresh protestson Friday were largely stifled bythe deployment of thousands ofpolice in Cairo's streets, butthere was a small protest of atleast three dozen people on el-Waraq island at the northernfringes of the capital, which wasquickly dispersed, according tothree witnesses who spoke oncondition of anonymity for

fear of reprisals.Security personnel were vis-

ible in Cairo's main streets andsquares on Saturday but did notprevent normal traffic as in thepast days. Tahrir Square, the epi-center of the pro-democracyuprising in 2011 that toppledlongtime autocrat HosniMubarak, was reopened, as weresubway stations in the area thathad been closed the day before.

Last week's small but rareprotests against el-Sissi markeda startling eruption of populardissent, which has been com-pletely silenced in the pastyears by draconian measuresimposed under the general-turned-president.More than2,000 people were arrested inthe days after, according toright lawyers. The country'sgeneral prosecutor said hisoffice had questioned no morethan 1,000 people over protests.

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Afghans voted in presiden-tial elections amid tight

security Saturday, even asinsurgents attacked pollingcentres in a series of blastsacross the country that left atleast one person dead.

The first-round vote marksthe culmination of a bloodyelection campaign that is seenas a close race betweenPresident Ashraf Ghani and hisbitter rival Abdullah Abdullah,the country's chief executive.

Wary authorities placed anuneasy Kabul under partiallockdown, flooding streets withtroops and banning trucksfrom entering the city in aneffort to stop would-be suicidebombers targeting residents asthey cast their votes.

By midday, the toll

appeared relatively light com-pared to previous elections,though Afghan national author-ities provided little, if any, infor-mation about reported blasts.

One person was killed andtwo others wounded in anexplosion near a polling centrein Jalalabad in the easternprovince of Nangarhar, provin-cial governor's spokesmanAttaullah Khogyani said.

And at least 16 people werewounded in the southern city ofKandahar when a bomb wentoff at a polling station, a hospitaldirector told AFP, while officialsacross the country reportedseveral small explosions at otherelection sites.

The Taliban, whounleashed a string of bombingsduring the two-month electioncampaign, claimed to have hitseveral polling stations.

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The University of Oxford isplanning to issue a new

'family guide' translated intoHindi, Urdu and Bengali toreach out to ethnic minorityhouseholds in order to addressthe challenge of attractingdeserving students from allbackgrounds.

The new guide is part of adrive which includes a series ofevents, open days and pro-grammes set to kick off inJanuary 2020 and run through-out the year, to encourageteenagers from low-incomehouseholds around the UK toapply.

The drive follows researchwhich found that the extendedfamily can play a crucial role inyoungsters' decision makingabout the university, especial-ly from South Asian back-grounds.

"In the past we havethought about mum and dad.The research has made usthink more widely, aboutgrandad, grandma, aunts and

uncles," Dr Samina Khan,Oxford's director of under-graduate admissions, told TheDaily Telegraph.

She added that schools donot always offer the "depth" ofinformation about Oxfordadmissions that teenagers arelooking for, so the new infor-mation campaign targetted atfamilies is another way toinform prospective students.

"We know particularly withcertain ethnic minorities, par-ents and the community arevery big influencers. It may bethat mum and dad haven'tgone to university, but is theresomeone else in the familycircle has gone to universitywho might be able to help," shesaid.

Oxford's new family guidewill include information onwhat it is like to study at theuniversity, what support isavailable for students and howmuch it will cost.

A number of colleges havestarted piloting "family days"where prospective students andtheir relatives are invited to

meet tutors and learn moreabout Oxford. "This wouldinvolve spending a day in thecollege, in the gardens, havingcake and tea," Dr Khan said.

She added: "The big effectit has is that it provides reas-surance to the parents andguardians that the students aregoing to a safe place. They canask questions about the cost,debt and financial support.

"It also helps them torealise that their son or daugh-ter will fit in here. The familydays are specifically for thosefrom background where mum

and dad might not have goneto university. To make it suc-cessful we invite everyone sothere is no stigma attached tocoming."

Earlier this year, OxfordUniversity announced it willoffer places with lower gradesto students from disadvan-taged backgrounds for the firsttime in its 900-year history.

From 2020, 250 state-fund-ed school students will receivefree tuition and accommoda-tion as part of a multi-million-pound recruitment bid for dis-advantaged students.

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While voters ofMaharashtra and

Haryana will elect their lawmakers for the next five yearson October 21, people in TamilNadu and Kerala in the southwould not be left devoid of anyelection fever. The election dayin the west and north IndianStates will see electorate inKerala and Tamil Nadu pickingthe right candidates in by-polls to be held in seven assem-bly constituencies from theStates( five in Kerala and twoin Tamil Nadu).

The Indian NationalCongress has fielded RubyManoharan from Nanguneri inKanyakumari district whichfell vacant following the res-ignation of Vasanth Kumar, thesitting MLA who got elected tothe Lok Sabha in the 2019 gen-eral election. N Pugazhendi isthe DMK candidate fromVikravandi, the by-election forwhich was necessitated by thedeath of sitting MLA KRadhamani (DMK).

Though the results of theby-elections in the two assem-bly constituencies are notexpectedto make any change inTamil Nadu politics, the battlesare seen as a precursor to thelocal body election in the Statewhich may take place in themonth of November. Thetenure of the Tamil Nadu leg-islative assembly comes to anend in May 2021.

Vikravandi and Nangunericonstituencies were representedin the House by the DMK andthe Congress respectively. Sincethe Congress could not field anyChristian community candi-dates in the Lok Sabha election,as an act of atonement it has

fielded Manoharan , a Christianhailing from Kanyakumari. Asthings stand today, the DMKand the Congress are expectedto retain the seats.

The AIADMK is contest-ing both the seats and its allieshave declared support to theparty candidates. In the Housewhich has an effective strengthof 234, the ruling AIADMK has123 members while the DMKhas 100 seats and the Congress,the third largest party hasseven members. Though theTamil fringe groups have putup candidates in both the con-stituencies, the by-poll is main-ly between the AIADMK andthe DMK.

Neighbouring Kerala willalso elect five representatives tothe assembly on October 21.The Congress is contestingfour seats while the MuslimLeague has been allocated theManjeswaram constituencywhich fell vacant after thedeath of PB Abdul Rasaq, thesetting MLA.

The CPI-M is contesting allthe five constituencies. Theparty’s morale went up by leapsand bounds as the LDF sup-ported Mani C Kappan of theNCP wrested the Pala assem-bly constituency which hasbeen represented by K M Manifounder-chairman of the KeralaCongress for the last 54 years.Mani passed away in Aprilwhich led to the Pala seatbecoming vacant.

Though the by-election toPala saw some high potchcampaign by the top Congressleaders including A K Antony,Oommen Chandi, BennyBehanan MP who also headsthe UDF, the Kerala Congresscandidate was defeated by morethan 2900 votes by the LDFnominee.

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In a lethal addition the IndianNavy’s conventional subma-

rine arsenal, INS Khanderi,the second of the Kalvari Class

diesel electric attack sub-marines of the Navy, was com-missioned by Defence MinisterRajnath Singh at the NavalDockyard here on Saturday.

In two other ceremonies

where he was the chief guest,the Defence Minister inaugu-rated the new Aircraft CarrierDry Dock at Naval Dockyardand launched the first StealthFrigate under the Project 17-A,

at Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders(MDS) Limited here.

Built indigenously by MDSLtd, INS Khanderi is designedfor silent and stealthy sub sur-face operations.

Addressing an august gath-ering at the Naval Dockyardhere, the Defence Ministerdescribed the commissioningof INS Khanderi as "a proudmoment for the Nation, theIndian Navy and MDL"

“It's a matter of great pridefor us that India is one of thefew countries capable of con-structing submarines,” Singhsaid.

Congratulating the IndianNavy for induction of thepotent platform and expressedhis confidence in theCommanding Officer and theCrew of Khanderi, the DefenceMinister complimented the

Western Naval Command foran impressive Guard of Honourand expressed his keenness tointeract with the officers andsailors of the Navy at sea.

INS Khanderi is the follow-on to INS Kalvari, which wasthe first of the French originScorpene class submarinesbeing indigenously construct-ed in India and commissionedby Prime Minister NarendraModi in 2017.

First put out to sea in2017, INS Khanderi has under-gone comprehensive sea trials,torpedo and missile firings tovalidate her fighting capability.She was handed over to theIndian Navy on completion oftrials on 19 Sep 19.

Khanderi, which 67.5meters long and 12.3 metershigh, embodies cutting edgetechnologies that ensure

stealthy, silent operationsunderwater and is equippedwith an array of torpedoes,missiles and sensors that enableher to detect, identify anddestroy enemy targets.

The crest of Khanderidepicts three sail ships at peakof the crown, symbolisingIndia’s rich maritime heritage.The design of the lower parthas the Ashoka Chakra flankedby a Horse and a Bull on eitherside with a plaque bearing theship’s name in Devanagiriscript. Khanderi’s motto“Akhand Abhedya Adrishya”signifies the indomitable spir-it of the stealth platform.

The Submarine inheritsher name from the original INSKhanderi, which was a Sovietorigin Foxtrot Class submarine,inducted into the Indian Navyin 1968.

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After a two-and-a-half-hourlong grilling by the Central

Bureau of Investigation in con-nection with the Narada TVsting case, BJP leader MukulRoy on Saturday accused WestBengal Chief Minister MamataBanerjee of hatching a “bigconspiracy” to frame him, butpromised to cooperate with theprobe agency whenever he getsa call from them.

Roy was summoned bythe CBI within a day after thearrest of IPS officer SMH Mirzawho was caught accepting cash—from journalist MathewSamuel acting as a prospectiveinvestor —in the Narada vide-ofootage grilled.

Emerging from a two-and-a-half hour grilling sessionwith the CBI — where he wasreportedly made to sit oppositeMirza to respond to his claimsfor some time — Roy said,

“Mamata Banerjee is trying tohatch a big conspiracy againstme. She is instructing everyonewho is caughtof corruptioncharges to take my name. ButI will handle this because truthwill prevail.”

Mirza a formerSuperintendant of Police wasamong a group of 13 peo-pleincluding TMC MPs andMinisters who were seen in thesting videoaccepting cash for

alleged.The IPS officer reportedly

told the CBI after his arrest thathe had taken cash at the behestof Roy.

The former RailwayMinister however rejected hisclaims saying “nowhere in thecamera I was seen taking cash.”

When asked as to why hadhe sent Samuel to Mirza Roysaid, “He had come to me forland to set up industry at

Burdwan after which Idirectedhim to Mirza who was the SPbecause in such cases one hasto approach the local adminis-tration.” The BJP leader said hewould go to the CBI “whenev-er they call me.”

He said “nothing can joinmy name with Narada. It isonly the handiwork of MamataBanerjee who is trying to hatcha conspiracy against me by ask-ing the arrested persons of theTMC to take my name.”

Meanwhile, TMC MPKakoli Ghoshdastidar conced-ed having taken cash fromSamuel saying the money wastaken by her for electoralexpenses of her party. “I tookmoney and I have already saidthat because I have nothing tohide. I took the cash for elec-toral expenses of my party andI even gave receipt for that,” shesaid adding she would cooper-ate with the CBI whenevercalled upon to do so.

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Sixty five- year-old VijayKumar Verma had a close

encounter with death Saturdaymorning when three heavilyarmed terrorists barged inside hishouse in Batote area of Rambandistrict while security forceswere chasing them to pin themdown.

With his presence of mind,Kumar,a tailor by profession,managed to save his life.

Narrating his nightmarishexperience of spending timewith terrorists before they wereeliminated in the intense gun-fight, Vijay Kumar told reportersin Batote, "when terrorists bargedinside his house in Batote theywere thirsty and hungry.

Soon after they came theyasked for water and some eata-bles. He said, "I offered themwater and left over ‘apples’ to eat.

He said, one of the three terror-ists even gulped some tabletsalong with water in front of myeyes.

Without losing his calm ,Vijay Kumar, stood firm stand-ing close to them and directedhis family members to shift to anadjacent room and bring somevegetables from the market.

The terrorists, inside theroom directed him to stay backin a corner without making anynoise. Vijay Kumar claimed, ter-rorists also warned his son, pre-sent in the house, against inform-ing security forces about theirpresence in the house.

Around the same time whensecurity forces started makingannouncements and appeals tothese terrorists to lay down theirarms and surrender before thesecurity forces, Vijay Kumarclaimed terrorists appeared con-fused and in two minds.

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They chose a privatefarewell for one of Africa'smost divisive figures after aweeks-long dispute with theadministration that forced himfrom power.

"This man lives forever,"declared the priest, to cries ofapproval.Mugabe died thismonth in Singapore at age 95after leading the country fornearly four decades and beingpushed into a shocking resig-nation as thousands danced inthe streets. "I was ridiculed," arelative said Mugabe told them.His coffin, draped in the coun-try's flag, was carried by mili-tary pallbearers. AP

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Meghan Markle has visitedthe site where a young

female student was murderedin South Africa last month in

a show of solidarity withvictims of gender violence inone of the world's most dan-gerous countries for women.

The Duchess of Sussex tieda yellow ribbon in memory of19-year old Uyinene Mrwetyana,brutally raped and killed in thecoastal city of Cape Town, whereshe was attending university.

The visit took place secret-ly this week but was announcedon the official Sussex RoyalInstagram page onSaturday."Visiting the site ofthis tragic death and being ableto recognise Uyinene... Waspersonally important to TheDuchess," said the Instagrampost, adding that Meghan alsomet her mother to relay her

condolences.South Africa is plagued by

gender-based violence, with atleast 137 sexual offences com-mitted per day, according toofficial figures. In August alone,more than 30 women werekilled by their spouses.Mrwetyana's murder is amonga handful of recent cases thatsparked widespread demon-strations across the country.

Protesters are calling on thegovernment to do more toprotect women and crack downon perpetrators.

Meghan — an outspokenwomen's rights advocate — isin South Africa as part of a 10-day official trip with her hus-band Prince Harry and theirbaby son Archie.

The Duke and Duchessboth expressed their supportfor the ongoing fight againstgender violence on the first dayof their tour earlier this week.

�'���$��!��>! ���������(�!��� ��London: While the US scram-bles to crack down on vaping,Britain has embraced elec-tronic cigarettes as a powerfultool to help smokers kick thehabit.

Royal College of Physiciansexplicitly tells doctors to pro-mote e-cigarettes "as widely aspossible" to people trying toquit.

Public Health England'sadvice is that vaping carries asmall fraction of the risk ofsmoking.

US public health officialshave taken a more waryapproach, and have been slowto regulate e-cigarettes.

That caution turned toalarm, though, with an explo-sion in teen vaping, promptingthe federal government andsome states to take steps to banfruit and minty flavours thatappeal to youths. AP

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Indian shuttler ParupalliKashyap’s impressive run at

the Korea Open Super 500 tour-nament came to an end after helost to world number 1 KentoMomota of Japan in the men’s sin-gles semifinals here on Saturday.

A former world No 6,Kashyap, who was the lone Indianleft in fray, went down 13-21, 15-21 to the two-time reigning worldchampion Momota in 40 min-utes.

The 33-year-old had noanswers to Momota’s precision asthe Japanese opened up a 9-5 leadearly on. A deceptive return anda body smash gave the Indian acouple of points before theJapanese entered the break witha four-point advantage after along rally.

Kashyap didn’t take enoughinitiative and often hit wide andlong to end the energy-sappingrallies. It acted in Momota’sfavour as he continued to accu-mulate points, reaching 18-10.

The Japanese committed anuncharacteristic unforced errorand soon Kashyap added twomore points but unforced errors,

including a wide shot, gaveMomota a comfortable 20-13lead and he sealed it whenKashyap went wide again.

In the second game, the ral-lies became faster as Momotaproduced angled returns to putKashyap out of position andthen unleashed his precisestrokes.

The left-handed Momotasoon worked up a lead of 7-2with Kashyap missing the line fartoo many times.

Kashyap slowly startedputting pressure on Momotaand gathered five straight pointsbut the Japanese managed to heldon to a 11-7 lead at the breather.

The Indian unleashed a cou-ple of smashes on Momota’sforehand to slowly narrow thelead to 11-12. A superb netstroke brought Kashyap to levelpar but he then hit the nets andsend one long as the Japaneseagain surged ahead.

Momota soon made it 19-13and grabbed six match pointswith a cross court smash.Kashyap saved one before theJapanese unleashed anotheraccurate return to seal his placein the summit clash.

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Rohit Sharma’s trial run asan opener lasted only two

deliveries as he left withouttroubling the scorers in adrawn three-day warm-upgame between BoardPresident’s XI and SouthAfrica here on Saturday.

Test aspirants PriyankPanchal (60, 77 balls) andkeeper batsman Kona Bharat’squickfire 71 off 57 balls werethe highlight of BoardPresident XI’s 265 for 8 in 64overs.

Mumbai batsmanSiddhesh Lad (52) also helpedhimself to a half-century afterSouth Africa declared theirfirst innings at 279 for 6.

Temba Bavuma (87)remained unbeaten, whileVernon Philander (48 off 49balls) added quick runs to thetotal.

All eyes were on Rohitduring the final day of thegame as he came out to openalongside Mayank Agarwal(39).

Seamer Philander got hisdelivery to move a shade andRohit edged one to substitutekeeper Heirich Klaasen, whokept wickets instead ofQuinton de Kock.

It was an ideal situation toget quality batting time aheadof the first Test but Rohitfluffed his lines at the onset.

With selectors promisinghim the full series and a fairrun, India’s limited overs vice-captain will like to put up abetter account of himself dur-ing the first Test inVisakhapatnam, starting onOctober 2.

While Kagiso Rabada istheir strike bowler, Philanderwith his ability to swing thenew ball both ways couldprove to be a bigger threat for

Rohit, who is not exactly bigon feet movement during theinitial part of the innings.

The first four batsman inthe order (now that includesRohit) were all openers andAgarwal and Panchal had abetter day in office comparedto Rohit and AbhimanyuEaswaran (13).

Easwaran was dismissedby Rabada, caught by AidenMarkram and then Gujarat’sPanchal joined forces withAgarwal.

The duo added 52 runsfor the third wicket beforeAgarwal was out trying to giveleft-arm spinner KeshavMaharaj (3/35 in 13.1 overs),the charge. His 92-ball knockhad six boundaries.

Coming in at No 4 in the11th over, Panchal lookedsolid as he hit 10 fours and asix, adding another 49 runswith Karun Nair (19).

It was Philander (2/27 in9 overs), who dismissed himin his second spell, caught byskipper Faf du Plessis.

Nair was also out edgingone off Maharaj to Klaasen asBoard President’s XI wasreduced to 136 for 5.

Once Rabada andPhilander, who are going tostart off in Visakhapatnam, gota feel and didn’t bowl further,the second string Proteasbowlers were easy meat for theother batsmen.

Bharat and Lad added100 runs in only 20 overs forthe sixth wicket.

The Andhra ‘keeper, whois in the mix for the red-ballversion, hit seven fours andfive sixes. He was especiallysevere on off-spinner DanePiedt (1/80 in 14 overs),repeatedly carting him formaximums.

Lad was more conserva-tive in his strokeplay even

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Jurgen Kloppsaid he washappy to win

ugly afterL i v e r p o o lextended theirperfect start tothe PremierLeague seasonthanks toG e o r g i n i oWijnaldum’s for-tunate strike in a1-0 victor y at

Sheffield United on Saturday.The European champions

looked short on invention againstthe well-organised Blades until

Wijnaldum’s shot from the edge of thebox 20 minutes from time trickledbetween the legs of United goalkeep-er Dean Henderson.

The win — Liverpool’s 16thconsecutive victory in the topflight — moved Klopp’s men eight

points clear of championsManchester City ahead of City’s

game against Everton at GoodisonPark.

Liverpool missed out on winningthe Premier League by a single pointlast season but are now setting a sear-ing pace as they chase their first top-flight title since 1990, with seven vic-tories in as many matches.

“For us it was important to win,we had unbelievably big chances,”Klopp told BT Sport.

“In the first half we had two big

chances and in the second one whichwe scored from.

“These games, they arenot all beauties and you haveto work hard for the results.

“You have to respect theopponent. We had goodmoments and it was one ofthese games you have to winbut not think too much aboutit. One team deserved to win, whichwas us, but all respect to SheffieldUnited, they were tough.”

LIVERPOOL CHANCESChances began to come

for Liverpool towards the endof the first half as Sadio Manesliced horribly wide with justHenderson to beat and thenhit the post when it seemedeasier to score from RobertoFirmino’s pass.

Mane was unfortunateminutes into the second period,though, as he was taken out by JohnLundstram as he broke into the box.

Referee Anthony Taylor wasunimpressed and it was another exam-ple when VAR backed the official’sdecision when it should have beenoverturned.

The hosts had their chances tospring a huge shock as Adrian turnedbehind a long-range drive from OliverNorwood before Andy Robertsonmade a brilliant block to deny JohnFleck the opener.

All of Sheffield United’s goodwork was undone with one mistakewhen Wijnaldum pounced on a looseball 20 yards from goal, but his strikeshould have been easily handled byHenderson, who instead watched onwith horror as the ball slipped underhis grasp.

The Manchester United loaneemade some amends 11 minutes fromtime when Mohamed Salah brokeclean through, but could not beatHenderson with a low finish.

That save could still have salvageda point had substitute Leon Clarke notblazed over with the goal at his mercylate on.

Instead, Liverpool held on togrind out the sort of win that couldfinally make them champions comeMay.

Sheffield United boss Chris Wilderwas irritated his side did not takeadvantage of a sub-par Liverpool.

“I am not bothered about pride, Iam bothered about the result,” he said.

“Liverpool had an off day and Ithink we missed an opportunity. Inpressurised situations we need toremain composed. We were delightedwith the shape but their chancescame from our mistakes.”

Crystal Palace were 2-0 winnersagainst Norwich, thanks to a LukaMilivojevic penalty and a late AndrosTownsend goal while a Matt Dohertystrike and a Daryl Janmaat own goalgave Wolves a much-needed 2-0 vic-tory against Watford.

Aston Villa’s John McGinn gavehis side a 2-1 lead in the 79th minutebut Chris Wood levelled for Burnleyjust two minutes later and the matchfinished level.

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Defending championsMumbai were in for a

shock as minnowsChhattisgarh defeatedthem by 5 wickets in ahigh-scoring thriller in theVijay Hazare trophy hereon Saturday.

At the Alur CricketStadium III, put into bat,Mumbai posted a descent317/5 in their allotted 50overs, but Chhattisgarhchased the target with oneball to spare and rode on agritty 117 not out by mid-dle-order batsmanAmandeep Khare.

Put into bat, Mumbai’sexperienced opener AdityaTare slammed 90 off 107balls and remained the top-scorer.

After Jay Bista (24) wasdismissed cheaply, Tare gotsupport from young prodi-gy Yashasvi Jaiswal (44) asthe two rebuilt the innings.

Skipper Shreyas Iyertoo chipped in with a 46-ball 50.

And when Iyer depart-ed ever-reliable SuryaKumar Yadav had somedifferent plans as he ham-mered 8 fours and six sixesin his quick fire 81 off 31balls and took Chhattisgarhbowlers to task.

It was due to Surya’sblistering knock thatMumbai went past the 300-run mark.

Chhattisgarh did nothave a good start withopener ShashankChandrakar (5) fallingearly.

Jiwanjyot Singh (44)and one-down AshutoshSingh (35) tried to rally theinnings.

But Jiwanjyot wastrapped by spinner ShamsMulani as Chhattisgarhwere 82-2 and thenAshutosh also fell whenthe score was 95.

However, AmandeepKhare showed his mettleand made a gritty 117 offjust 94 balls, with 8 foursand 4 sixes to his credit.

He first got support

from Shashank Singh (40)and then shared an unbeat-en 96-run stand with AjayMandal (39 not out) as thetwo took the side home.

For Mumbai, ShamsMulani (3-33) was suc-cessful, but others, includ-ing experienced pacerDhawal Kulkarni (1-66),had a bad day in office.

At the MChinnaswamy, Karnatakadefeated Kerala by 60 runs,with K L Rahul slamminga hundred.

Rahul, who plays forIndia, took the oppositionbowlers to task as he hit astroke-filed 131 off 122balls.

He hit 10 fours andfour sixes and remained thetop- scorer for his team.

Skipper ManishPandey also chipped inwith 50 off 51 balls, butthen Kerala bowlers weresuccessful in restrictingthem to 294.

But Karnataka bowlersput a spirited show despitea fighting hundred byKerala opener VishnuVinod (104) to bowl themout for 234 and register awin.

Meanwhile, in anotherElite Group A match,Hyderabad defeatedSaurashtra by 121 runs.

SHANKAR SMACKS 91)�������All-rounder VijayShankar marked his returnfrom injury with a superbknock of 91 (88 balls, 6fours, 1 six) to power TamilNadu to a seven-wicketwin over Bihar in a GroupC match.

Tamil Nadu made 218for 3 in 46.5 overs in replyto Bihar’s 217 for 7 in 50overs to notch up a thirdstraight victory.

Shankar bowled sixovers to pick up 1 for 17from six overs and thenunfurled a series of superbshots to showcase his form.

Earlier, captain BabulKumar made 110 as Biharrecovered from a poor startto make 217 after electingto bat first.

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no, Vernon Philander 48).Board President's XI 265/8 (RohitSharma 0, KS Bharat 71 off 57 balls,Priyank Panchal 60 off 77 balls,Siddesh Lad 52 no off 89 balls,Vernon Philander 2/27, KeshavMaharaj 3/35).

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Charles Leclerc confirmed Ferrari'sFormula One resurgence when he

reeled off his fourth consecutive pole posi-tion with another stunning lap on Saturdayas he topped the times in qualifying forSunday’s Russian Grand Prix.

The in-form Monegasque clocked abest lap of one minute and 31.628 secondsto improve his time in the final seconds andset up an end to Mercedes’ five-year dom-ination of the event since it began in 2014.

After three successive Ferrari wins, twoby Leclerc, he appears set to extend thescarlet scuderia’s run of current success tofour races.

His performance made him the firstFerrari driver since Michael Schumacherin 2001, when Leclerc was only three yearsold, to secure four straight poles.

Series leader and defending five-timechampion Lewis Hamilton pulled out adazzling final sector and final lap to take

second ahead of Sebastian Vettel in theother Ferrari by a narrow margin.

Vettel, who won in Singapore lastSunday, was third ahead of Red Bull’s MaxVerstappen, who is set to take a grid penal-ty, Valtteri Bottas in the second Mercedesand Carlos Sainz of McLaren.

“The car felt amazing. It definitely feelsamazing to be back on pole, but I don’tknow if it’s the best track to start on pole,”said Leclerc.

“The straight at the start is very long.It definitely feels very special (to take fourconsecutive poles), but I don’t want tothink about those stats!”

Hamilton said he remained amazed atFerrari’s power and speed on the straights.

“I tell you, it was a tough session.These guys have another level on thestraights — jet mode.

“I gave it everything I had and theteam was able to tinker and push for-ward… I didn’t expect to get on the frontrow.”

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Since my teens I would haverecurring bouts of cold andcough, and almost every othermonth would be on antibiotics.This continued for years and

had become a way of life. Emotionallyand physically I was “fragile” — I wasalways told that, and I had slowly start-ed believing in that. As Louise Haysaid, “you are the only thinker in yourmind,” I wired my mind to believe that

I am weak and myhealth wouldalways be a con-cern. And everytime I reinforced it,the thought wentdeeper and deeperinto my soul.

I smiled, putup a brave frontand hardly ever

shared my mental and emotional agonywith anyone. I thought “I am like thatonly”. That was okay — to feel bad, tohold anger, to be hurting, to occasion-ally harbour thoughts of harmingmyself… I wish someone would havegiven me then the Bach Flower remedyof Agrimony — a flower essence thathelps you face your demons rather thansuppressing your fears and sadnesswith a smile.

And then, I simultaneouslyencountered Nichiren Daishonin’sBuddhism (my husband introduced meto this) and Bach Flower Therapy (afamily friend brought these remediesinto my life). I believe that nothing is acoincidence in life and now in retro-spect I understand how synchronisedthis was. Buddhism gently helped meundergo a subtle yet deep inner trans-formation, which is often referred to as“human revolution” and Bach FlowerTherapy aided the process.

At first I took the flower essenceswithout questioning, as just anothermedicine. However, my skepticismcrept in and I started questioning theworkings of the remedies. This led meto research more on them and in turnguided me to do a weekend course onBach Flower Therapy from Ainsworthin London. So you see a “negative ten-dency” of disbelief worked as a catalystfor learning a healing therapy. That’swhat you would call “changing poisoninto medicine”.

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icines, apart from being sold by home-opathy companies, nor are they essen-tial oils. Flower essences are flowerwaters or water “energised” by flowers.

Bach Flower Remedies are 38flower essences that comprise a com-plete system of alternative healing.These flower remedies were discoveredby Dr Edward Bach in the 1930s inEngland. Dr Bach was a physician andhomeopath. He believed that attitude,mind and emotions play a vital role inthe health and well being of an individ-ual, and when a person’s emotions are“balanced” or restored to their positive

potential the health improves and ail-ments can in turn be cured.

The principle of flower essences issimilar to any other vibrational healingtherapy. Flowers have their uniqueenergies and when the “essences” ofthese flowers are taken by us they affectour vibrations and bring in a balance.The way in which they are chosen, isdetermined based on the current emo-tions or personality of the individual.Therefore, you will not be given a par-ticular remedy for your headache butfor your emotional state while experi-encing the headache. For instance, if Iam having a headache I may getextremely irritable and impatient andwould be advised to have Impatiens,but another person when experiencingheadache may keep quiet and suffersilently because she doesn’t want tobother anyone else she should ideallytake Agrimony; while another individ-ual can get so perturbed by it that shewill continue talking about it and in theprocess disturb others around her.Heather wouldbe apt for her.

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That’s a very legitimatequestion and it should crossyour mind. The answer to it is —Yes. These remedies can heal us.However, a lot of the healing involves aself transformation and depends onyour current emotional state. Whenyou go for a Bach Flower consultationyou are gently led to recognise andown your emotions. Just the process ofrecognising your feelings can beextremely healing. For instance, I suf-fered from chronic cold and any slightchange in temperature, climate or per-sonal/professional life would trigger it.I started taking Walnut Bach FlowerRemedy, a flower essence that helps usaccept change. I also took Crab AppleBach Flower remedy with it to get ridof negativity. Together these remedieshelped me clear my mind and acceptchange as the single most importantfact of life. When my attitude changed,slowly my chronic ailment disap-peared. Dr Bach believed that theseremedies in different combinations canbalance and heal any emotion. It isimportant to bear in mind that theremedies won’t push down negativeemotions; rather they will raise yourvibrations or improve your life state todevelop positive emotions, the way, forinstance, music works in uplifting ourmood or soothing ruffled souls. Inother words, the remedies help usunderstand our troubles and therebyempower us to heal ourselves. Theprocess is gentle and simple. Whileacute and emergency emotions getaddressed quickly, chronic or pro-longed feelings take a while to balance.However, within two weeks one shouldbe able to perceive a change.

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there are no“actual” side

effects. In rarecases, there may be

an upheaval of somenegative emotions but

like any other alternativeremedy, it is akin to a cleans-

ing effect. If the condition isacute, as an emergency, take

Rescue Remedy till the emotionssettle down. Any other symptom is

usually coincidental. Bach Flower Remedies can be taken

by anyone. Even babies and expectingmothers can be given these essences.We all have emotions and it is naturalfor them to get disbalanced from timeto time. It’s as common as cold, cough,flu or stomach bug. So whenever youfeel emotionally disturbed, reach out forBach Flower remedies.

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included in Dr Bach’s system of flowerremedies are listed below with the traitsand emotions that they heal:

Agrimony-mental torture behind acheerful face; Aspen-fear of unknownthings; Beech-intolerance; Centaury-the inability to say no; Cerato-lack oftrust in one's own decisions; Cherryplum-fear of the mind giving way;Chestnut bud-failure to learn frommistakes; Chicory-selfishness, posses-sive love; Clematis-dreaming of thefuture without working in the present;Crab apple-the cleansing remedy, alsofor self-hatred; Elm-overwhelming feel-ing of responsibility; Gentian-lack of

inspiration caused by a setback; Gorse-hopelessness and despair; Heather-self-centeredness and self-concern; Holly-hatred, envy and jealousy;Honeysuckle-living in the past;Hornbeam-tardiness and lethargy;Impatiens-impatience; Larch-lack ofconfidence; Mimulus-fear of knownthings; Mustard-deep gloom for noreason; Oak-compulsive ploddingbeyond the point of exhaustion; Olive-exhaustion following mental or physi-cal effort; Pine-guilt; Red chestnut-over-concern for the welfare of lovedones; Rock rose-terror and fright; Rockwater-self-denial, rigidity and self-repression; Scleranthus-inability tochoose between alternatives; Star ofBethlehem-shock; Sweet chestnut-extreme mental anguish, when every-thing has been tried and there is nolight left; Vervain-over-enthusiasm;Vine-dominance and inflexibility;Walnut-protection from change andunwanted influences; Water violet-quiet self-reliance leading to isolation;White chestnut-unwanted thoughtsand mental arguments; Wild oat-uncertainty over one’s direction in life;Wild rose-drifting, resignation, apathy;Willow-self-pity and resentment.Rescue Remedy, a mix of five flowerremedies-cherry plum, impatiens, starof Bethlehem, clematis and rock rose-to tide over crises or emergencies

The list above offers a briefoverview of the remedies. To start with,you can first think what kind of a per-sonality you are and what you are feel-ing right now and then check whichsituations/emotions from the list applyto your current state. Initially you mayfeel that you need all or several ofthem. Go over the list again and makenote of the ones that seem to apply toyou. If you are focused enough, yourlist wouldn’t go beyond 10-12 remedies.Now, ponder over this narrower list

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There are various ways inwhich you can take the remedies,

however, for beginners, I would recom-mend the “glass of water” methodwherein you put two drops of each ofyour 6-7 chosen remedies.

For chronic problems, it’s best tomake a remedy mix that will last you 2-3 weeks. In a 30 ml glass bottle withdropper (you will find it in homeopa-thy stores or you can even purchase itonline) add two drops of your chosenremedies and/or four drops of RescueRemedy — if it’s a part of your remedyselection — and top it up with mineralwater. From this bottle take four dropsdirectly or mixed in water or any bev-erage, four times a day.

You can also take the remedies“neat” on your tongue directly. Themath is two drops of each chosen rem-edy and/or 4 drops of Rescue Remedy.

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Our difficulties can be seen as lay-ers of an onion. Bach Flower Remedieshelp peel away the surface emotionsand then the next layer emerges.There’s no need to jump the gun andtry to unearth what’s not apparent.Don’t push yourself. Address only whatyou are prepared to face. Allow theremedies to work and a new layer ofemotions emerge. Change your reme-dies when that happens. So this mayseem like a continuous process butthen self improvement is a lifelongprocess. Bear in mind that remedies arenot habit forming. Benefits are longlasting, so you may not have to returnto a remedy for a while. However, theremay be a relapse but if you are attunedto the remedies, you will be ablerespond quicker.

While you can always select yourown remedies, it would be best if youcan discuss and take a recommenda-tion from a therapist.

Even if you don’t talk to a therapist,discussing it with a friend would makeit better. A lot of healing happens whenthere is somebody to listen to you.Remember a human contact needs tobe kept alive.

Jhelum Biswas Bose’s book, PhoolProof talks about Indian flowers, their

myths, traditions and usage. Publishedby Pengiun, �299

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India is celebrating 150th year of Gandhi. And rightly so.A fitting tribute to someone who is India’s biggest glob-al icon, whether anybody likes it or not. When his birth-

day is recognised by The UN as a global affair, the man mustbe having something. It is important, therefore, to try andunderstand why this is so. Why do we say that Gandhi is aGlobal Icon? The man who lived for 79 years and sat on 17big fasts unto death, staying without food for 144 days inthe process. On two occasions his fasting went on for 21 con-tinuous days. In 1921, he took a resolution to observe a fastevery Monday. That adds another 1,341 days of fasting. Hewas arrested 13 times and remained incarcerated for a totalof six years and five months. He stayed abroad for 24 years.Gandhi statues are there in more than 100 countries includ-ing Pakistan and Great Britain. Interestingly, his statue findsa place besides that of Winston Churchill at the ParliamentSquare in Britain. The same Churchill who gave Gandhi theepithet of the ‘Naked Fakir’. There are more than 250 citiesin some 70 countries where many major roads are namedafter Gandhi. In all the 719 districts of our country there areeither schools, roads, buildings or parks in the name ofGandhi. Some 70 cities here are named MG (MahatmaGandhi) Road. About 150 countries have issued 800 kindsof stamps on Gandhi. In 1969, commemorating his cente-nary the British Government issued a stamp on Gandhi.Before that only the members of the Royal Family were givenplace on stamps. There have been 45 films and 500 docu-mentaries made on Gandhi and a film on Gandhi also gotan Oscar. Some 90,000 books have been written on Gandhi.And all these were not managed. These were spontaneousactions to respect a man who till date remains the greatestmass leader in the Indian history, and the global, too. Theintriguing question is how all that happened. One word thatepitomises Gandhi is Truth. His advocacy of truth, his prac-tice of truth and his commitment to truth are the reasonswhy Gandhi is still living, more than seven decades after hisdeath. From Mister Gandhi in South Africa his names kepton changing periodically. In Champaran, he was called Bapufor the first time in 1917. In 1919 Tagore addressed him asMahatma and in 1944 Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose in hisradio message addressed him as Father of the Nation. It washis experiments with truth that went on evolving Gandhitill his transformation from Mohandas to super human. Inhis 150th year let the young India know, and if possible,understand Gandhi. Particularly, because for the Indian youthtoday the two greatest sources of knowing Gandhi are RichardAttenborough who made Gandhi and Rajkumar Hirani whomade Lage Raho Munna Bhai. But Gandhi has many moreattributes that ought to be known. A man who was not evena regular 25 paise member of the Congress Party and whonever occupied any position in the party still remains theall-time greatest leader of the Congress. While we are toobusy trying to sort out the Ram Janma Bhoomi issue, it isalso important to understand Ram from Gandhian perspec-tive. For Gandhi, Ram was different. For him, Ram was bothIshwar and Allah who would give good intentions to all.

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Really? Have you ever heard of ananimal committing suicide? Iwas watching a programme about

mental health on CNN recently. Theseare some of the facts they presented.Roughly 47,000 Americans committedsuicide in 2017. One in four Americanssuffer from depression. And America isthe most developed country in theworld. Do these facts gel?

No, because those who are sohopeless that they are taking the extremestep of killing themselves do not knowthe reality of the cosmic design. It is soperfect that for most it is unimaginable.There is a solution of every conceivableproblem, but one needs to know thedetails of the cosmic design. There is atwo-tier system. The first tier is what wegenerally know or at least are supposedto know is the karmaphala principle,which means that you reap what yousow. This is the guiding principle for allour acts except those carried out in con-nection with the soul/God. If there issome ignorance about the karmaphalaprinciple, evidenced by some people try-ing to be too smart by trying to cheatthe system, there is almost total igno-rance about what God can do for us.The system that we see and know does-n’t have all the answers; we need to goto God, who has. If it wasn’t so, the cos-mic design would be defective, whichis not. When we feel that our problemis impossible to deal with, we need toapproach God; He will have the answer.

This is how the second tier works.First of all, we must accept that we aresouls – parts of God. In spite of all thetalk about rebirth, heaven, etc. wemore or less live in ignorance; we real-ly believe that we are material bodiesthat we see. We have to go past this falseassumption of our reality. Our scriptureshave provided great details about the

soul. A child is conceived only when asoul comes, otherwise every copulationwill result in the woman conceiving.Does it happen like this when the sexis unprotected? The sperm is there andthe egg is there. I am referring to thegeneral situation, not where there is amedical problem. Once the body isformed in the womb, the person staysalive till the soul is there inside the body.Once the soul departs, the material bodybecomes a material body in reality. Whatdistinguishes a material body from ahuman being was the presence of thesoul in the body.

When this fact is accepted or, moreimportantly, realised, we go to the nextstep, that is begin doing activities ben-efitting us souls starting with activatingthe connection with God. This is doneby carrying out spiritual activities likechanting, meditating, and so on.Essentially, what is required is an activ-ity related to the soul not to the mate-rial body, ie spiritual — the worddeprived from the spirit or soul. Believethat there are so many options that one

is spoilt for choice. What will you sayabout buying a photo of God in theform, which attracts you most and hangit where you see it frequently. This canbe a start for you to begin your spiritu-al journey. You won’t fail to notice theresponse from God. He won’t exactlytalk to you in the beginning but Hismessages will be difficult to ignore. Godguides, protects, supports, etc.

I will share my personal experiencein this connection. My active contactwith God started when I started chant-ing. Gradually, I began benefittingfrom God. He empowered me to writespiritual articles. Now I am able to getanswers to my questions. He hasblessed me with everything one canhope for just as Sanjaya had observed,ie there will be opulence, victory (suc-cess), wealth and moral principles. (TheGeeta 18.78)

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In the last few years there has beena great interest amongst doctors,researchers, and people in thefield of psychology concerningthe effect worry has on health.

Worry is one of the causes of stress thatcan, in turn, create stress-related illness-es. It is interesting that the word“worry” comes from old English andoriginally means to choke or strangle.If we think about the original mean-ing of the word “worry,” we find thatit accurately describes what worryingdoes to us.

When we choke or are strangled,we cannot breathe. Our air supply is cutoff and we struggle for life. While wemay not associate choking with worry,if we think about it, when we worry weare actually cutting off our life. We maynot shows signs of physical distressright away, but slowly over time, ourbody exhibits some form of deteriora-tion. Stress produces hormones thatwere meant for escaping danger. Weeither run or fight. It sends hormonesthat pump up our strength in our armsor legs to run or fight. But when we feelstress without the necessity of runningor fighting, those hormones circulatethrough our body. An excess of thesehormones have the effect of causinglong-term damage to different parts ofthe body. Although we do not chokeor become strangled, they definitely

cause physical illness over time.Thus, doctors and psychologists

have been focusing their attention onhelping people avoid worry as a meansto better health, both mentally andphysically. Some of the research pointsto the fact that worry is a condition thatarises from fear. A study was doneabout worry that analysed the kinds ofworry that people have. More than one-third of what people worry about dealswith things that never happen. Anotherone-third of worry deals with thingsthat happened in the past that cannotbe changed. The remaining one-thirdof worry is divided between worryingabout things that concern other peo-ple and are not our business, things thatdeal with sickness that we really haveor imagine we have, and a small per-centage are real things about which weshould worry.

Think of how often we worryabout things tremendously, yet theynever happen. For example, considerhow many times in the past years theweather reports spoke of heavy rainsand thunderstorms that threatened toruin the plans over the Fourth of Julyholiday. Yet, the day turned out to besunny and beautiful. Our mind projectsevents into the future that cause us toworry, with some people even worry-ing themselves sick over some impend-ing disaster. They may think about the

perceived threat day and night. Theymay talk about it with others. Somepeople may even lose sleep over it.Most of the time, whatever they wor-ried about never came to pass. Theresults are that all those days and weeksthey spent thinking about their fear ofthe future has wasted much precioustime of their life. It was as if they werechoking on their fears. Those life-breaths allotted to them were wasted.The quality of their life was cut shortdue to worry.

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can consider whether it is worth thetime of our precious lives to engage inthoughts about things that may or maynot ever happen. If there is really a dan-ger, then instead of worrying, weshould make specific plans to avert thethreat. If we take actions, we have doneall we can do. We do not need to sup-plement those actions with worry.Taking action is useful; but worry isuseless. We do our best, and then putin the remaining time to somethingthat is going to be beneficial to otherpeople or ourselves. In this way, we caneliminate one-third of our worries.

Another cause for worry is eventsthat happened in the past that we can-not change. It may be true that whathas happened in the past was not to our

liking or to the liking of other people.Once the event is gone, it does no oneany good to worry about it. What hashappened has happened. Worryingabout it will not change it; worry willonly make us sick. Thus, we suffer dou-bly for the events of the past. We suf-fered once for the situation we did notlike. But then we suffer repeatedly eachmoment we worry about it because itmakes us relive that situation again andagain in our minds. It is like replayingthe same bad movie over and over. Isn’tonce enough?

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The value in thinking about thepast is only to learn from it, take stepsnot to repeat our mistakes, and thenmove on. Worrying about it will notchange it. Worry will not even makeus avoid the same mistakes in thefuture. We should take a lesson fromthe past, and we should resolve to dobetter in the future. If we could forgetthe past, we could eliminate anotherlarge chunk of our worries.

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independence from worry is to trust inGod. Sometimes in life we go throughgood times and at other times, difficul-ties. When things are going well for uswe believe in God. However, whendespite our best efforts and goodnessof heart we hit bad times, then we ques-tion whether there is God.

In our own lives, we can reflect ontimes when we worried that thingswere not going our way. We began toquestion God and how bad thingscould happen to us. Yet, later we cometo realise that in the end all worked outfor the best. What seemed to be a set-back actually was a blessing, becausethings in the end worked out betterthan we could have arranged them forourselves.

We realise that God is always withus and looking out for us. Sometimeswe cannot see it right away but at theappropriate time we find out that God’swisdom knew what was best for us.

One way to develop trust in Godis to meditate. When we meditate andgo within we discover God within us.Then, there is no more questioning ofwhether there is God or not. We cometo see God and all the wonders with-in. With this awareness, we no longerhave to question God’s wisdom. We seeGod’s hand in all things and know thatwhatever happens is for the best for us.

So let us declare independencefrom worry by trusting in God in allareas of our life. We can do so throughmeditation where we will experiencefirsthand the presence of God in ourlives.

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We are the most blessed generationin the history of human race.Never before, has there been so

much material prosperity, freedom ofthoughts and opportunities available to peo-ple. Even an ordinary person today possess-es items of luxury, like car, air-conditioners,televisions, computers and mobile phones,which were available only to the rich class ageneration ago. However, despite all theprosperity, the modern generation is per-haps the unhappiest generation of all time.It is suffering from poor health, obesity,stress at the work place and poor relation-ships with their friends and family.

Let us try to find out what is makingpeople unhappy in the present times.

�������� �������We often associate happiness with suc-

cess. We are happy if we succeed in achiev-ing, else we feel unhappy. Associating suc-cess with happiness is a trap that takes awayyour happiness since you can’t alwaysachieve success. Even when you become

successful, you set a new and higher para-meter of success till you are no more able toachieve it. Thus you tend to make your lifemiserable despite so many successes in yourlife. In order to achieve happiness, we mustkeep our expectations realistic and attain-able. Let us learn to seek only what is neededand be content. This will ensure lasting hap-piness in our life.

����� �� ������ �Our mind is conditioned from the child-

hood that we must be better than others.Even when we grow up, we keep comparingourselves to others and become unhappywhen we come across a more successful per-son. Jack Canfield, the co-author of theChicken Soup for the Soul series explains, ‘Igenerally find that comparison is the fasttrack to unhappiness. No one ever comparesthemselves to someone else and comes outeven. Nine times out of ten, we compareourselves to people who are somehow betterthan us and end up feeling more inadequate.’

We must learn to appreciate and focus

on what we have rather than what othershave. If we avoid comparisons, we can makeour life happier.

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on the basis of their human qualities, but onthe basis of what they have. They seek morewealth in the hope that it would make givethem happiness. When that does not hap-pen, they seek even more wealth in life andwork even harder. They become part of therat race that never ends, nor do they everenjoy life. Instead, we must earn only asmuch as necessary and make money only ameans to good life and not an end. We mustlearn to derive happiness in non-materialthings like love, friendship, reading, writing,music, arts and so on, which do not needmuch money.

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power, reputation and fame, which dependson others. They feel happy when they areappreciated and unhappy when others criti-cise them. The happiness of such people isalways dependent upon others whom theyalways try to please. However, as they say,‘You can’t please all people all the time’.These rarely find happiness since some peo-ple are always critical of them.

Instead, we must try to discover happi-ness within. If we know ourselves well andidentify our passion, we can live life accord-ing to our nature and discover the source ofjoy within. Hence, no one can take our hap-piness from since its source is within us.

It is possible to be happy if we recognisethe importance of happiness in our life anddirect all our actions towards achieving hap-piness. Aristotle has said it wisely,“Happiness is the meaning and the purposeof life, the whole aim and end of humanexistence.”

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Union Home Minister AmitShah’s assertion that the

promotion of Hindi will helpunite India with a commonlanguage invited him the ire ofthe leaders of the non-HindiStates, particularly from south-ern India. The outrage ensuedin Shah’s clarification that henever stood for the impositionof Hindi on any other mothertongue, his own being Gujarati,but advocated the promotion ofHindi as a common secondlanguage to encourage nation-al integration.

However, Shah’s clarifica-tion didn’t have so much atten-tion as his purported firststatement. Between his twocomments, there was immedi-ate pushback from the leadersfrom southern States, includingfrom his own party membersin Karnataka. While the nationdiscussed Shah’s contentionfrom various perspectives,ranging from cultural and lan-guage domination to northIndian hegemony, not muchtime was spent on some otherunderlying messages.

Language may be oneissue, but the social reality ofthe society of its speakers isanother matter. There are someunspoken codes encrypted intoit which need thinking itthrough. They might not makefor pleasant reading.

Like all languages, Hindiand its dialects, are as beauti-ful as any on the planet. ButHindi cannot paper over thepoor public image its nativespeakers have in the eyes of therest of Indians. The reactionagainst the Home Minister’sstatement is a collective dis-agreement with what the Hindibelt stands for. To a largeextent, it has a poor social trackrecord. Law and order, justice,gender equality, poverty alle-viation and many other indicespaint an abysmal picture. It isnot that these are not true ofother parts of India; but in largeparts of the north they appearto be the norm. In journalisticand anecdotal accounts, evennorth Indians living in thesouth have concurred withsuch a perception.

For long, it has been a truthuniversally acknowledged thatthe capital of India has a bad

name in India and abroad. Therefore, it is tough to

make Hindi appealing to oth-ers. Sure, there have beenchanges in many parts of northIndia for the better, but onmany human developmentindices, they have been foundwanting. A study conducted bythe Bengaluru-based PublicAffairs Centre in 2013 said so.Better leadership and quality ofgovernance has led to southernStates surging ahead andwidening the gap in terms ofper capita income and poverty between the south andnorth.

The non-northern regionshave better schools, publicservices and localGovernments. There are more

north Indians working there,than the reverse. Indeed, beinglinked as Hindi speaking Statesof the north and getting con-flated with the Hindi belt doesinjustice to Punjab, HimachalPradesh and Uttarakhand,which have seen more progressas compared to the Hindiheartland. And this brings usto the biggest elephant inIndia’s political room: UttarPradesh. No state has such out-size power and say over whatIndia does. It is Hindi chau-vinism’s seedbed. How does itfare in human developmentmarkers? The Giri Institute ofDevelopmental Studies con-ducted research which it pub-lished in 2018 that said it hadamong the lowest quality of life

among Indian States. Uttar Pradesh’s size is its

blight. Uttarakhand was carvedout due to long agitationamong otherwise feuding hilltribes who united as theiropponent was common. Thereare long-standing demands forstatehood in water scarceBundelkhand, and in the sug-arcane and industrial belts ofPurvanchal and Harit Pradesh.Given its hulk, Uttar Pradesh iskeeping India backward, anddenying its own people rightsand services as citizens.

If the State with the largestnumber of Hindi speakers isthe bellwether of so much thathas gone awry in India, howcan its language become thenational one, so think the non-

Hindi people. Any languagecannot become an importantone till it hasn’t earned publicapproval. With his comments,the Home Minister may haveeroded any toehold of legiti-macy Hindi may have hadwith non-Hindi speaking peo-ples of India. He might havealso played a cruel joke onHindi’s first-born speakers. Forthey too aspire to move toEnglish.

Pride in one’s language is ofno value till it rewards itscommunicators. This applies toevery tongue in the world. IfAmit Shah and our politicalancestors were serious aboutHindi or any other language,we would have seen an indus-try develop around it that sus-

tained its speakers. Spanish,Standard Chinese, French,German, Portuguese, Arabic,and, of course English, aresome of the most powerful lan-guages of the world, as to agreat extent their speakers canget better chances to earn bet-ter livelihoods. Not manyIndian languages offer thatopportunity. For all their cul-tural capital what’s the future ofan individual learning Sanskritor Urdu in today’s India? Havethese languages been empow-ered to generate sustainableemployment? How does onemake an ancient or old lan-guage germane today?

Perhaps, it would be prag-matic and advisable for India todevelop the means to master

the English language andbecome its world champion.The economic and other incen-tives will be aplenty. Our cur-rent political masters hail fromIndia’s most trade savvyregions. If they plan it well, theycan leverage the chance tomake India the best Englishcommunicating country in theworld, to great ends. Languageand culture are also a form ofcapital. The subcontinent’smany languages prospered dueto state patronage. So, let’sleave Hindi aside for themoment. Can we focus onEnglish?

(The writer is AssociateProfessor, Jindal School ofLiberal Arts & Humanities.)

If you ever went through arough patch in your person-

al or professional life and hap-pened to search the existingself-help space for any practi-cal solution, you are most like-ly to stumble upon theomnipresent advice of lookingat the positive side of your cur-rent situation. Quite a vastlandscape of self-help space isoften found dispensing theadvice of positive thinking - theefficacy of which is debatable,to say the least.

A person with low self-esteem is highly unlikely tobecome a confident person bymerely faking the so-calledbehavioural nuances of a con-fident person. Since that per-son didn't feel particularly con-fident, to begin with, in hishonest effort to convince him-self otherwise merely reaf-firmed his negativity. In short,“positive thinking” in all like-lihood will make him feelworse and less happy in theprocess.

A set of thoughts which arein direct dissonance with yourbehavioural pattern will strug-gle to leave an imprint onyour psychology.

Most of us usually gothrough life under the delusionthat it is certain people, situa-tions, or events that make ussad, anxious, or angry. But

nothing outside your mindcan properly be described asnegative or positive at all. Whatactually causes suffering are thebeliefs you hold about thosethings.

The inherent flaw in posi-tive thinking is captured best byone of the characters in an EdithWharton story, “There are lotsof ways of being miserable, butthere's only one way of beingcomfortable, and that is to stoprunning after happiness.”

Our insatiable urge to findperfection in everyday life isone of the primary causes ofour general dissatisfaction.Denying failure doesn't meanthat it does not exist. Similarly,denial of obstacles and con-comitant failure is never goingto help you prepare for unfore-seen challenges. Avoidance ofimpending obstacles is hardlythe answer.

Clinging to a particularversion of a happy life, whilefighting to eliminate all possi-bility of an unhappy one, is thecause of the problem, not itssolution. The sooner you cometo terms with your own set ofvulnerability and imperfec-tions you are ready to acceptfailures as a part of the grow-ing process. You start believingthat nothing is going to keepyou down and out for long.

Your tireless effort to dot

every “i” and cross every “t” inlife often results in unmanage-able stress in life. Mindless pur-suit of positive fantasizingmight give you a false sense ofcalmness, while obstructingyou from realising your mostcherished dreams.

But if positive thinking is

not the best solution then whatthe alternative is?

Gabrielle Oettingen andPeter Gollwitzer, experts on thepsychology of motivation atNew York University, discov-ered that people are far morelikely to achieve their goals ifthey think hard about both the

outcome they want and theobstacles they are facing andplan for both.

Goals without plans andplans without a schedule arenothing but a hopelessly unre-alistic dream. Plans and sched-ules have the potential to trans-form a seemingly unrealistic

dream into realistic milestones.Therefore an approach to

goal-setting that contrasts theideal outcome with the realityof the obstacles results in amore robust and successfulplan of action — known asmental contrasting.

Why does mental con-

trasting work so well?The mental contrasting

allows people to direct moreenergy towards goals; they hada chance of achieving. Itenhances our awareness ofobstacles in our path. It alsostrengthens cognitive linksbetween the future and obsta-cles, as well as between obsta-cles and what we need to do toovercome them. All of thisprimes us to tackle obstaclesthat seem possible to overcomeand to shrink away from obsta-cles that we believe are insur-mountable.

People with realistic goalsinvariably apply more effortand perform better, and peoplewith unrealistic goals oftentend to leave midway. Thepath of least resistance is rarelythe preferred choice for achiev-ers. Invariably all breeds ofachievers train themselves toface the worst fear withoutbeing intimidated by them. Asa result, they are ever ready toadapt their strategies accord-ingly and tend to thrive underall sorts of challenging cir-cumstances. “Enthusiasm iscommon. Endurance is rare.”

Our cognitive associationbetween the future possibilitiesand possible impedimentsprove to be a significant factorin deciding how long we willpursue a seemingly challenging

task and to what extent we arewilling to stretch ourselves tofind a solution. And a lot of itdepends on how you treat yourmind and feelings.

Have you seen the skyclinging on to a specific weath-er condition or trying to get ridof the bad ones? The humanmind is a lot like a screen onwhich our feelings get project-ed but should screen get con-fused about its own identity bythe content of the things thatget projected on it?

However, we all are com-mitting the mistake of identi-fying ourselves with emotionsthat get often projected througha diverse set of experiences. Weoften let those emotional expe-riences shape the contours ofour identity; which is not a wisedecision on our part.

Your current feelingshouldn't be an obstacle in exe-cuting your daily plan of action.Making it a hostage to yourever mutable feeling is not thewisest of decisions. Your feel-ings are just part of your innerexpression. Accept it and let itbe. Your mind can coexist withthe diversity of your feelingswithout being affected by it.Just give it a try.

(The writer is an IRS officer. Views expressed are personal.)

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situations at works and even on personalscore for the last three years. He cameasking the other day: “Why is it happen-ing so, particularly during second half ofSeptember? It takes almost two monthsto get over the problem. Otherwise, myoverall performance level is quite good.Some pundits say that my problems willcontinue till sadhesati exists, whichmeans for the next three years. They havesuggested some belief driven practices toappease shanideva, the possibility ofwhich doesn’t exist in a foreign country.Please suggest some remedial measure,which is workable in my present environ-ment to overcome recurring problem.”

Well, your problems can’t be simplyattributed to sadhesati. I do not subscribeto the pundit’s view that you may have tonecessarily go through similar ordeal forthe remaining period of sadhesati, whichends in January 2023. The remedial mea-sure they suggested wont help you any-way. Sadhesati began five years back, butit didn’t bother you during its beginningphase of two and half years. You gotaffected with the onset of its second

phase in January 2017, when transitSaturn closed up with natal Moon. Thattriggered your inherent mind-traits tocome out full force in their true colours.The fact that you carried lot of negativetraits, is what accounts for your problems.

Remember, planets are not doers thatcould do good or bad in our life in theirown right. Planet’s progression just servesas pointers to the way your karmic cycleis expected to play out during a particularperiod. We, however, are not necessarilybound by them. Should we be aware ofthe basic fabric of our mind’s making, wecould make necessary correction and bewell geared up to intelligently take on anynegative implication. Also, we must opti-mise our inherent strengths to successful-ly avail of the opportunities expected tounfold. The paradox, however, is that sel-dom people are found to be consciousabout exploring their own fault lines fornecessary correction.

Bear in mind — life runs throughvarious phases from birth to death, eachone calling for a particular mode ofworking. Accordingly, we need to reori-ent our thought process and workingmodalities from time to time in order tokeep pace with the asking of the emerg-

ing phases of life. Otherwise, our life willbecome subject to unwanted twists andturns. The human tendency is to stick topast habits and beliefs unless otherwiseforced by circumstances. That makes itincumbent upon you to take charge ofthe self, and willingly change with time.There could be no better remedial mea-sure than this. Those who do, sadhesatidoesn’t pose any problem. Otherwise, youmay become victim of your own making,as has happened with you.

Here, an insight into astrologicalpointers to your mind-traits becomesimperative. The Sun, which stands foryour identity, is conjunct Saturn, andadverse to Neptune. This, in the firstplace, speaks of an inherent sense of fearand insecurity, which puts you in a nega-tive mode particularly when confrontedwith a situation not to your liking.Second, you are stuck to your imaginaryperceptions, often distanced from groundrealities. Also, you may not acknowledgetruth on its first appearance, and ratherpursue your line of thinking till pushed tothe wall.

Moon occupying your 10th house, onone hand promises occupying prominentposition, which you are already enjoying.But that it occupies Sagittarius signmakes you tactless, undiplomatic, and

habitually suspicious of others. Moon alsolocks horns with Saturn and Venus. That,in the first place, further adds to yoursense of negativity. Also, it doesn’t let youremain alert enough to foresee challengescoming your way. Second, it makes youextremely emotionally touchy and sensi-tive, whereby you may overreact to eventrivial issues, which may tempt you tounnecessarily get into a combative mode.On top of that is your inflated ego, aswould Mars placed adverse to Jupitermean. This makes you stuck to self-defined dos and don’ts, not open to lookbeyond for a reality check. It also makesyou judgmental of the highest order.

No wonder, as transit Saturn trig-gered your natal Moon, your inherentinfirmities came into full play. That madeyou vulnerable to become a victim ofown making, particularly when transitSun enters Virgo sign as it becomesopposite natal Saturn. Should you try toresolve your fault lines, sadhesati may notbother you anymore.

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