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A s the world gears up to tackle the deadly coron- avirus outbreak, as many as 11 people — seven in Kerala, two in Mumbai and one each Bengaluru in Hyderabad — are under observation in hospitals to check for possible exposure to the deadly virus, which originated in China. The sus- pects are among hundreds of passengers who recently returned from China. Officials in Kerala said another 73 people are being kept under medical surveil- lance at their homes in the State. Over 20,000 passengers returning from mainland China and Hong Kong under- went thermal screenings at the seven international airports of Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Cochin. In Mumbai, two Indian students, who returned from Wuhan, China, has been kept under observation for sus- pected infection of coro- novirus. Also, on the basis of the details provided by the Indian Embassy in China, around 25 students who have returned to India recently from Wuhan are being closely mon- itored, the official said. Their details have been shared with district-level officers and they are being monitored closely for any symptoms. In neighbouring Nepal, a student who came back from the same Chinese city has been found infected with the fast- spreading disease, sending panic across the globe. India is on high alert and sources in the Union Health Ministry said the country may soon start screening all fliers from Nepal and Bhutan and those who travelled by road. In Delhi, AIIMS too has set up an isolation ward and kept beds ready for providing treat- ment to any suspected case of coronavirus infection. AIIMS director Randeep Guleria said, “We have an iso- lation ward and we have beds kept ready for providing care and treatment for suspected coronavirus cases in Delhi or elsewhere in India. All precau- tionary measures — in terms of personal protection equipment for healthcare workers to pre- vent the spread of the disease while treating infected patients — are in place.” Guleria said hospital pre- paredness with regard to man- agement and infection pre- vention control facilities has been also reviewed. “If need be, we have the capacity to increase our isolation ward facilities and provide treatment to such patients,” he added. In Mumbai, Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has creat- ed an isolation ward at the Kasturba hospital. “The isola- tion ward has been created for diagnosis and treatment of persons suspected to have the virus infection,” said Dr Padmaja Keskar, executive health officer of the BMC. Keskar said the two per- sons under observation at the hospital have mild cough and exhibited cold-related symp- toms. Doctors at the airport have been asked to send trav- ellers returning from China to the isolation ward if they show any symptoms of the virus. “All private doctors in the city have been asked to alert us if they observe symptoms of coronavirus in any person who has returned from China,” she added. According to Kasturba Hospital sources, they have received detailed instructions from the Maharashtra Government about how to deal with coronavirus infection. As on January, 24, 2020, nearly 20,844 passengers from 96 flights have been screened for the virus symptoms while health advisory has been extended to 12 more airports- Ahmadabad, Amritsar, Coimbatore, Guwahati, Gaya, Jaipur, Bagdogra, Lucknow, Trivandrum, Trichy, Varanasi and Vizag in addition to the current seven, Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Cochin. The World Health Organisation (WHO) had already alerted Nepal about the possible risk of the spread of the virus. “Coronavirus is responsible for the outbreak of pneumonia in Wuhan, so the movement of people between Nepal and China could spread the deadly virus to Nepal,” said the WHO recently. T o give a major fillip to road constructions across the country, the Centre on Friday set a target of building 40 km of national highways (NH) every day under new projects, expansions, doubling and renovations. Taking stock of the ongo- ing 3 lakh crore projects, Road Transport & Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari said he will hold a review meeting on the first and third Mondays of every month to ensure timely completion at various legs. The target for highway building in the current finan- cial year (2019-20) is 12,000 km, which is higher than the 10,800 km achieved in the 2018-19 fiscal. Till December 31, 2019, road construction stood at 24-25 km/day, which came down from 32 km/day because of extended rains. A senior Road Ministry official explained that by the end of this fiscal, construction will cross 35 km/day because the work is at peak from November to mid-June and it dips from June to November because of weather conditions. NH construction averaged about 12km/day in 2014-15 and had a quantum jump to 30km/day in 2018-19. According to the Ministry, as of March 2019, India had about 1,42,126 kilometres of NH. To deal with the timely construction of projects, Gadkari has directed all chief engineers in the Road Ministry and all members of Central road making agency NHAI to organise two “Review Mondays” every month. Technology and video-con- ferencing will be the means for review and monitoring. “Delay in completion of projects invariably leads to cost escalation. Hence, we need to focus on review and monitoring to keep the con- struction under check in addi- tion to timely delivery of pro- jects,” said Gadkari after the two-day long marathon meet- ing at Manesar near Gurugram. About 740 national high- way projects of 16 States were reviewed where Gadkari instructed to start performance audit of officers and fix respon- sibility for delays. Minister of State for Road Transport and Highways General (Retd) VK Singh and officials of the Ministry and stakeholders were present in the meeting. “The review was done State-wise. All senior officials of the Ministry, NHAI, State Governments, contractors, concessionaires, and consul- tants attended the meeting. Every ongoing project was reviewed with a 360-degree view from all stakeholders. The meeting led to identifica- tion of issues and way forward with clear timelines for most of the delayed projects,” said a NHAI official present in the meeting. Delay in land acquisition and impediment in regulatory clearances such as for quarry- ing, etc, as well as lack of coor- dination and communication between and within Government agencies emerged as main roadblocks in com- pletion of road projects. A dvocate AP Singh, appear- ing for the three of the four death-row convicts — Akshay Singh and Pawan Gupta and Vinay Kumar — in the 2012 Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case on Friday moved a Delhi court alleging that the Tihar jail authorities are not handing over documents and this is causing delay in filing their mercy and curative petitions. Singh moved an application alleging that the jail authorities are yet to give the documents which are required to file the mercy petition for Vinay (26) and curative petitions for Akshay (31) and Pawan (25). The plea is likely to be taken up for hearing on Saturday. The apex court recently dismissed the curative petitions of other two convicts — Vinay and Mukesh Singh (32). Mukesh's mercy petition was rejected by the President earlier this month. The hang- ing of all four is to take place on February 1 at 6 am, accord- ing to the fresh death warrant. In his petition, the lawyer said he had expressed "an urgent will to file a mercy petition before the relevant authorities and undertook sev- eral steps to obtain relevant information to file it". He said Vinay wanted to attach his personal diary con- taining 70 pages with the mercy petition and had asked the jail authorities to provide the same. However, the diary is yet to be provided and because of this the plea could not be filed, he said. The counsel said he had also sought some documents of convicts Pawan and Akshay which have not been provided. The petition sought a direction to jail authorities to provide the documents on "an urgent basis". Meanwhile, Delhi's Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia accused AP Singh of making fun of the system by using tac- tics to delay their hanging. Sisodia said. "In the Nirbhaya case, the lawyer is using tactics to delay the execution. In this way, he is making fun of the system. We must work togeth- er to ensure speedy justice so that laws can be amended to remove shortcomings," Sisodia said in a tweet in Hindi. The 23-year-old paramedic student, Nirbhaya, was gan- graped and brutally assaulted on the intervening night of December 16-17, 2012, in a moving bus in South Delhi by six people before she was thrown out on road. She was flown to a hospital in Singapore where she died. P oha and Bangladeshis. It is bizarre to see any linkage between the two, but BJP leader Kailash Vijayvargiya thinks otherwise. He kicked up a row by claiming some construction workers to be Bangladeshis just because they ate flattened rice (poha). When Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a similar remarks last month by saying that people who are setting fire (to property) can be seen on TV and can be identified by the clothes they are wearing, it caused a countrywide outrage. Vijayvargiya’s claim to identi- fy illegal migrants from Bangladesh by their poha-eat- ing habit triggered both amuse- ment and uproar. While the BJP tried to play down Vijayvargiya’s claim, the Congress cited it as an instance to caution what the National Population Register (NPR) exercise will entail. Vijayvargiya had, at an event in Indore on Thursday to support the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, said that he suspected that some of the construction labourers work- ing at his house were Bangladeshis by noticing their strange habit of eating only poha. Vijayvarigiya was mocked by the twitterati. Poha, a popular breakfast dish, is eaten across north India with no particular con- nect with Bangladesh as sus- pected by Vijayvargiya. BJP leader and Union Minister Prakash Javadekar termed it as a non-issue. Asked about Vijayvargiya’s com- ments, which have drawn flak from several quarters, Javadekar told reporters here, “I also eat poha and serve it to you (journalists). So it’s a non- issue”. T he shortage of fund has put a break on the Centre’s quest for finding a link between the 16th-century Purana Quila here and Indraprastha, the capital of the Pandavas of the Mahabharat era. The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), under the Union Culture Ministry, had to stop the much- ambitious excavation, before it could begin, as the 10 lakh fund allocated for the purpose had to be “urgently” diverted for another work. Purana Quila’s supposed association with the city of Indraprastha has long attract- ed the ASI, though its quest has failed to deliver results for the fifth time in a row. The previous expedition which ended in early 2018 was led by archaeologist Vasant Swarnkar. But it failed to estab- lish the site’s association with the Mahabharat. The approval for the latest excavation to find traces of Indraprastha was given in November last year. The ASI had earmarked around 10 lakh for the job and e-tenders to deploy the labourers have already been floated. But recently, the ASI withdrew the money and diverted it for another “important” job. Now, the fresh fund will come only next fiscal, that too depending on the Budget outlay. VN Prabhakar, the director of ASI’s Institute of Archaeology, Exploration & Excavation, was to oversee the project along with superinten- dent archaeologist BR Singh. When contacted, Prabhakar refused to provide details about the status of the excavation. According to the epic, “Indraprastha” is located inside somewhere Purana Quila. The first attempt to find this assumption was made by ASI in 1955, and then the second one between 1969 and 1972. The third and fourth attempts were made between January 9, 2014, and June 30, 2014, and December 2017 and June 2018, respectively. According to various reports, the digging had unearthed artefacts such as sickles, parers, terracotta toys, kiln-burnt bricks and painted grey bowls and dishes belong- ing to the pre-Mauryan period of the third century BC and are displayed at the Archaeological Museum on the fort complex. Purana Qilla was built by Pashtun ruler Sher Shah Suri and second Mughal emperor Humayun. T he Congress party is devel- oping Chhattisgarh as a people-centric state to counter the BJP's narrative on devel- opment, Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel told IANS in an interview. Baghel said that since he took charge in Dec 2018, the Congress has taken many pro- people steps to make the state a role model in governance. The party returned to power in the state after 15 years. The first signs of the Chief Minister's growing clout came when former Congress President Rahul Gandhi inau- gurated the National Tribal Dance Festival in the state cap- ital Raipur and spoke about the developmental projects being implemented in Chhattisgarh. Thereafter, Baghel was involved in the campaigning for the Jharkhand elections where he spoke about his pro- people policies and also addressed a joint rally along with Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. "We have made individual- centric policies and our aim is that the living standard of every citizen of Chhattisgarh gets better. From farm loan waivers to the minimum sup- port price for paddy and from incentives to farmers and checking malnourishment to health and employment, our aim is the individual person and his betterment," Baghel said. The party claims that since its coming to power, Chhattisgarh is the only state which has shown 25 per cent growth despite the economic slowdown and rising unem- ployment in other parts of the country. State Government sources said that the party is focusing on health, education and employment in a big way with various programmes like the Chief Minister Haat Market Clinic and the urban slum health program to curb mal- nourishment and epidemics. The state government source claimed that giving eggs in free midday meals as well as the Haat Clinics in villages have stopped the occurence of epidemics like diarrhea. A party source pointed out that farmers have been provid- ed incentives for their pro- duce, despite hurdles from the Union government Moreover, direct recruit- ment of 15,000 teachers and police personnel are under process and 2,500 Assistant Professors have also been recruited in higher education. Besides, on the instruction of the Chief Minister, doctors in remote and Maoist infested areas are paid 2 lakh per month salary in order to retain them. In this regard, the party source said: "Bhupesh Baghel is being propped up as an OBC (Other Backward Classes) leader as the party doesn't have a leader in northern India who is an OBC, while the politics is being dominated by the OBC factor with BJP appointing their Uttar Pradesh state pres- ident who is from the Kurmi (community) also an OBC". T he Supreme Court on Friday said it cannot issue blanket orders restraining authorities from invoking the stringent National Security Act (NSA) against people protest- ing against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) as “properties are being burnt and that may be organised”. A bench of Justices Arun Mishra and Indira Banerjee said, “We are of the opinion that general writ will not lie in this case. We cannot invoke powers under Article 32. We agree that the NSA should not be misused, but we cannot issue a blanket order. If a gen- eral direction is passed this will create a chaos. You don’t know what is going on in Kolkata, Tripura and Assam. Properties are being burnt and that may be organised,” said the Bench. Petitioner-advocate ML Sharma said that anti-CAA protests are going on peacefully in Shaheen Bagh area of Delhi and other places and persisted with seeking relief by asking a blanket ban on the imposition of the NSA. To this the Bench said, “If a person is involved in violence and involved in say hundred criminal cases. Then what would Government do. Will not the Government act?” RNI Regn. No. CHHENG/2012/42718, Postal Reg. No. - RYP DN/34/2013-2015

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As the world gears up totackle the deadly coron-

avirus outbreak, as many as 11people — seven in Kerala, twoin Mumbai and one eachBengaluru in Hyderabad — areunder observation in hospitalsto check for possible exposureto the deadly virus, whichoriginated in China. The sus-pects are among hundreds ofpassengers who recentlyreturned from China.

Officials in Kerala saidanother 73 people are beingkept under medical surveil-lance at their homes in theState. Over 20,000 passengersreturning from mainlandChina and Hong Kong under-went thermal screenings at theseven international airports ofDelhi, Mumbai, Kolkata,Chennai, Bengaluru,Hyderabad and Cochin.

In Mumbai, two Indianstudents, who returned fromWuhan, China, has been keptunder observation for sus-pected infection of coro-novirus. Also, on the basis ofthe details provided by theIndian Embassy in China,around 25 students who havereturned to India recently fromWuhan are being closely mon-itored, the official said. Theirdetails have been shared withdistrict-level officers and theyare being monitored closely forany symptoms.

In neighbouring Nepal, astudent who came back fromthe same Chinese city has beenfound infected with the fast-

spreading disease, sendingpanic across the globe.

India is on high alert andsources in the Union HealthMinistry said the country maysoon start screening all fliersfrom Nepal and Bhutan andthose who travelled by road.

In Delhi, AIIMS too has setup an isolation ward and keptbeds ready for providing treat-ment to any suspected case ofcoronavirus infection.

AIIMS director RandeepGuleria said, “We have an iso-

lation ward and we have bedskept ready for providing careand treatment for suspectedcoronavirus cases in Delhi orelsewhere in India. All precau-tionary measures — in terms ofpersonal protection equipmentfor healthcare workers to pre-vent the spread of the diseasewhile treating infected patients— are in place.”

Guleria said hospital pre-paredness with regard to man-agement and infection pre-vention control facilities has

been also reviewed. “If need be,we have the capacity to increaseour isolation ward facilitiesand provide treatment to suchpatients,” he added.

In Mumbai,Brihanmumbai MunicipalCorporation (BMC) has creat-ed an isolation ward at theKasturba hospital. “The isola-tion ward has been created fordiagnosis and treatment ofpersons suspected to have thevirus infection,” said DrPadmaja Keskar, executive

health officer of the BMC.Keskar said the two per-

sons under observation at thehospital have mild cough andexhibited cold-related symp-toms. Doctors at the airporthave been asked to send trav-ellers returning from China tothe isolation ward if they showany symptoms of the virus.

“All private doctors in thecity have been asked to alert usif they observe symptoms ofcoronavirus in any person whohas returned from China,” sheadded. According to KasturbaHospital sources, they havereceived detailed instructionsfrom the MaharashtraGovernment about how to dealwith coronavirus infection.

As on January, 24, 2020,nearly 20,844 passengers from96 flights have been screenedfor the virus symptoms whilehealth advisory has beenextended to 12 more airports-Ahmadabad, Amritsar,Coimbatore, Guwahati, Gaya,Jaipur, Bagdogra, Lucknow,Trivandrum, Trichy, Varanasiand Vizag in addition to thecurrent seven, Delhi, Mumbai,Kolkata, Chennai, Bengaluru,Hyderabad and Cochin.

The World HealthOrganisation (WHO) hadalready alerted Nepal about thepossible risk of the spread ofthe virus. “Coronavirus isresponsible for the outbreak ofpneumonia in Wuhan, so themovement of people betweenNepal and China could spreadthe deadly virus to Nepal,”said the WHO recently.

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To give a major fillip toroad constructions across

the country, the Centre onFriday set a target of building40 km of national highways(NH) every day under newprojects, expansions, doublingand renovations.

Taking stock of the ongo-ing �3 lakh crore projects,Road Transport & HighwaysMinister Nitin Gadkari said hewill hold a review meeting onthe first and third Mondays ofevery month to ensure timelycompletion at various legs.

The target for highwaybuilding in the current finan-cial year (2019-20) is 12,000km, which is higher than the10,800 km achieved in the2018-19 fiscal. Till December31, 2019, road constructionstood at 24-25 km/day, whichcame down from 32 km/daybecause of extended rains.

A senior Road Ministryofficial explained that by theend of this fiscal, constructionwill cross 35 km/day becausethe work is at peak fromNovember to mid-June and itdips from June to Novemberbecause of weather conditions.

NH construction averaged

about 12km/day in 2014-15and had a quantum jump to30km/day in 2018-19.According to the Ministry, as ofMarch 2019, India had about1,42,126 kilometres of NH.

To deal with the timelyconstruction of projects,Gadkari has directed all chiefengineers in the Road Ministryand all members of Centralroad making agency NHAI toorganise two “ReviewMondays” every month.Technology and video-con-ferencing will be the means forreview and monitoring.

“Delay in completion ofprojects invariably leads tocost escalation. Hence, weneed to focus on review andmonitoring to keep the con-struction under check in addi-tion to timely delivery of pro-jects,” said Gadkari after thetwo-day long marathon meet-ing at Manesar nearGurugram.

About 740 national high-way projects of 16 States werereviewed where Gadkariinstructed to start performance

audit of officers and fix respon-sibility for delays.

Minister of State for RoadTransport and HighwaysGeneral (Retd) VK Singh andofficials of the Ministry andstakeholders were present inthe meeting.

“The review was doneState-wise. All senior officialsof the Ministry, NHAI, StateGovernments, contractors,concessionaires, and consul-tants attended the meeting.Every ongoing project wasreviewed with a 360-degreeview from all stakeholders.The meeting led to identifica-tion of issues and way forwardwith clear timelines for most ofthe delayed projects,” said aNHAI official present in themeeting.

Delay in land acquisitionand impediment in regulatoryclearances such as for quarry-ing, etc, as well as lack of coor-dination and communicationbetween and withinGovernment agencies emergedas main roadblocks in com-pletion of road projects.

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Advocate AP Singh, appear-ing for the three of the four

death-row convicts — AkshaySingh and Pawan Gupta andVinay Kumar — in the 2012Nirbhaya gangrape and murdercase on Friday moved a Delhicourt alleging that the Tihar jailauthorities are not handingover documents and this iscausing delay in filing theirmercy and curative petitions.

Singh moved an applicationalleging that the jail authoritiesare yet to give the documentswhich are required to file themercy petition for Vinay (26)and curative petitions forAkshay (31) and Pawan (25).The plea is likely to be taken upfor hearing on Saturday. Theapex court recently dismissedthe curative petitions of othertwo convicts — Vinay andMukesh Singh (32).

Mukesh's mercy petitionwas rejected by the Presidentearlier this month. The hang-ing of all four is to take placeon February 1 at 6 am, accord-

ing to the fresh death warrant.In his petition, the lawyer

said he had expressed "anurgent will to file a mercypetition before the relevantauthorities and undertook sev-eral steps to obtain relevantinformation to file it".

He said Vinay wanted toattach his personal diary con-taining 70 pages with the mercypetition and had asked the jailauthorities to provide the same.However, the diary is yet to beprovided and because of thisthe plea could not be filed, hesaid. The counsel said he hadalso sought some documents ofconvicts Pawan and Akshaywhich have not been provided.The petition sought a directionto jail authorities to provide thedocuments on "an urgentbasis".

Meanwhile, Delhi's DeputyChief Minister Manish Sisodiaaccused AP Singh of makingfun of the system by using tac-tics to delay their hanging.Sisodia said. "In the Nirbhayacase, the lawyer is using tacticsto delay the execution. In thisway, he is making fun of thesystem. We must work togeth-er to ensure speedy justice sothat laws can be amended toremove shortcomings," Sisodiasaid in a tweet in Hindi.

The 23-year-old paramedicstudent, Nirbhaya, was gan-graped and brutally assaultedon the intervening night ofDecember 16-17, 2012, in amoving bus in South Delhi bysix people before she wasthrown out on road. She wasflown to a hospital in Singaporewhere she died.

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Poha and Bangladeshis. It isbizarre to see any linkage

between the two, but BJP leaderKailash Vijayvargiya thinksotherwise. He kicked up a rowby claiming some constructionworkers to be Bangladeshisjust because they ate flattenedrice (poha).

When Prime MinisterNarendra Modi made a similarremarks last month by sayingthat people who are setting fire(to property) can be seen onTV and can be identified by theclothes they are wearing, itcaused a countrywide outrage.Vijayvargiya’s claim to identi-fy illegal migrants fromBangladesh by their poha-eat-ing habit triggered both amuse-ment and uproar.

While the BJP tried to playdown Vijayvargiya’s claim, theCongress cited it as an instanceto caution what the NationalPopulation Register (NPR)exercise will entail.

Vijayvargiya had, at anevent in Indore on Thursdayto support the Citizenship(Amendment) Act, said that

he suspected that some of theconstruction labourers work-ing at his house wereBangladeshis by noticing theirstrange habit of eating onlypoha. Vijayvarigiya wasmocked by the twitterati.

Poha, a popular breakfastdish, is eaten across northIndia with no particular con-nect with Bangladesh as sus-pected by Vijayvargiya.

BJP leader and UnionMinister Prakash Javadekartermed it as a non-issue. Askedabout Vijayvargiya’s com-ments, which have drawn flakfrom several quarters,Javadekar told reporters here,“I also eat poha and serve it toyou (journalists). So it’s a non-issue”.

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The shortage of fund has puta break on the Centre’s

quest for finding a link betweenthe 16th-century Purana Quilahere and Indraprastha, the capital of the Pandavas of theMahabharat era. TheArchaeological Survey of India(ASI), under the Union CultureMinistry, had to stop the much-ambitious excavation, before itcould begin, as the �10 lakhfund allocated for the purposehad to be “urgently” divertedfor another work.

Purana Quila’s supposedassociation with the city ofIndraprastha has long attract-ed the ASI, though its quest hasfailed to deliver results for thefifth time in a row.

The previous expeditionwhich ended in early 2018 wasled by archaeologist Vasant

Swarnkar. But it failed to estab-lish the site’s association withthe Mahabharat.

The approval for the latestexcavation to find traces ofIndraprastha was given inNovember last year. The ASIhad earmarked around �10lakh for the job and e-tendersto deploy the labourers havealready been floated. Butrecently, the ASI withdrew themoney and diverted it foranother “important” job. Now,the fresh fund will come onlynext fiscal, that too dependingon the Budget outlay.

VN Prabhakar, the directorof ASI’s Institute ofArchaeology, Exploration &Excavation, was to oversee theproject along with superinten-dent archaeologist BR Singh.When contacted, Prabhakarrefused to provide details aboutthe status of the excavation.

According to the epic,“Indraprastha” is located insidesomewhere Purana Quila. Thefirst attempt to find thisassumption was made by ASIin 1955, and then the secondone between 1969 and 1972.The third and fourth attemptswere made between January 9,2014, and June 30, 2014, andDecember 2017 and June 2018,respectively.

According to variousreports, the digging hadunearthed artefacts such assickles, parers, terracotta toys,kiln-burnt bricks and paintedgrey bowls and dishes belong-ing to the pre-Mauryan periodof the third century BC and aredisplayed at the ArchaeologicalMuseum on the fort complex.

Purana Qilla was built byPashtun ruler Sher Shah Suriand second Mughal emperorHumayun.

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The Congress party is devel-oping Chhattisgarh as a

people-centric state to counterthe BJP's narrative on devel-opment, Chief MinisterBhupesh Baghel told IANS inan interview.

Baghel said that since hetook charge in Dec 2018, theCongress has taken many pro-people steps to make the statea role model in governance.The party returned to power inthe state after 15 years.

The first signs of the ChiefMinister's growing clout camewhen former CongressPresident Rahul Gandhi inau-gurated the National TribalDance Festival in the state cap-ital Raipur and spoke about thedevelopmental projects beingimplemented in Chhattisgarh.

Thereafter, Baghel wasinvolved in the campaigningfor the Jharkhand electionswhere he spoke about his pro-people policies and alsoaddressed a joint rally alongwith Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.

"We have made individual-centric policies and our aim isthat the living standard ofevery citizen of Chhattisgarh

gets better. From farm loanwaivers to the minimum sup-port price for paddy and fromincentives to farmers andchecking malnourishment tohealth and employment, ouraim is the individual personand his betterment," Baghelsaid.

The party claims that sinceits coming to power,Chhattisgarh is the only statewhich has shown 25 per centgrowth despite the economicslowdown and rising unem-ployment in other parts of thecountry.

State Government sourcessaid that the party is focusingon health, education andemployment in a big way withvarious programmes like theChief Minister Haat MarketClinic and the urban slum

health program to curb mal-nourishment and epidemics.

The state governmentsource claimed that giving eggsin free midday meals as well asthe Haat Clinics in villageshave stopped the occurence ofepidemics like diarrhea.

A party source pointed outthat farmers have been provid-ed incentives for their pro-duce, despite hurdles from theUnion government

Moreover, direct recruit-ment of 15,000 teachers andpolice personnel are underprocess and 2,500 AssistantProfessors have also beenrecruited in higher education.

Besides, on the instructionof the Chief Minister, doctors inremote and Maoist infestedareas are paid 2 lakh per monthsalary in order to retain them.

In this regard, the partysource said: "Bhupesh Baghel isbeing propped up as an OBC(Other Backward Classes)leader as the party doesn't havea leader in northern India whois an OBC, while the politics isbeing dominated by the OBCfactor with BJP appointingtheir Uttar Pradesh state pres-ident who is from the Kurmi(community) also an OBC".

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The Supreme Court onFriday said it cannot issue

blanket orders restrainingauthorities from invoking thestringent National Security Act(NSA) against people protest-ing against the Citizenship(Amendment) Act (CAA) as“properties are being burntand that may be organised”.

A bench of Justices ArunMishra and Indira Banerjeesaid, “We are of the opinionthat general writ will not lie inthis case. We cannot invokepowers under Article 32. Weagree that the NSA should notbe misused, but we cannotissue a blanket order. If a gen-

eral direction is passed this willcreate a chaos. You don’t knowwhat is going on in Kolkata,Tripura and Assam. Propertiesare being burnt and that maybe organised,” said the Bench.

Petitioner-advocate MLSharma said that anti-CAAprotests are going on peacefullyin Shaheen Bagh area of Delhiand other places and persistedwith seeking relief by asking ablanket ban on the impositionof the NSA.

To this the Bench said, “Ifa person is involved in violenceand involved in say hundredcriminal cases. Then whatwould Government do. Willnot the Government act?”

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The Supreme Court hasagreed to hear in open

court former MaharashtraChief Minister DevendraFadnavis’ plea seeking review ofits verdict which said the BJPleader will have to face trial forallegedly failing to furnishdetails of two pending criminalcases in his 2014 poll affidavit.

“Application seeking oralhearing of review petitions inopen court is/are allowed. Listreview petitions before thecourt,” a Bench of JusticesArun Mishra, Deepak Guptaand Aniruddha Bose said in itsThursday’s order.

On Oct 1 2019, the apexcourt had set aside the BombayHigh Court order which hadgiven a clean chit to Fadnavis and had held that hedid not deserve to be tried forthe alleged offences under the Representation of People’s(RP) Act.

The apex court’s verdicthad come on an appeal by oneSatish Ukey, who had chal-

lenged the high court’s order.On July 23, 2019, the top

court, while reserving the ver-dict, had said that the alleged“omission” by Fadnavis of notdisclosing information abouttwo criminal cases in his elec-tion affidavit may be decided inthe trial.

The apex court had saidthat it was concerned with alimited issue whether primafacie Section 125A of the RPAct is attracted or not. The pro-vision deals with the penalty for“filing false affidavit” and saysthat if a candidate or his pro-poser fails to furnish or givesfalse or conceals any informa-tion in his nomination paperon issues like pending criminalcases then the person may beawarded six months jail term orfine or both.

Ukey had contended thatthe chief minister filed a falseaffidavit by not disclosing twocriminal matters and yet thetrial court and the high courtheld that there no prima faciecase was made out for prose-cution of the Chief Minister.

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DMK moved the SupremeCourt on Friday seeking

urgent hearing of its plea fordisqualification of 11 AIADMKMLAs, including Deputy ChiefMinister O Panneerselvam,who voted against Tamil NaduChief Minister Edappadi KPalaniswami in a confidencemotion in 2017.

A Bench headed by ChiefJustice SA Bobde said it willconsider listing the matter forurgent hearing.

Senior advocate KapilSibal, appearing for DMK,sought urgent listing of the pleaand referred to the recent apexcourt verdict in the Manipurminister case in which theSpeaker has been directed todecide on disqualification ofManipur Forest Minister ThShyamkumar in four weeks.

The apex court had onTuesday said Parliament should“rethink” whether the Speakerof a House should continue tohave powers to disqualify law-makers as such a functionary“belongs to a particular polit-ical party”.

During the last hearing inthe AIADMK MLAs’ disqual-ification case however, it won-dered as to why courts shouldventure into the question ofdisqualification of MLAs fordefection when theConstitution has conferred thispower to the Assembly speak-er. The Madras High Court hadin April 2018 dismissed DMK’splea seeking to disqualify theMLAs.

The High Court had reject-ed the petition citing penden-cy of a plea in the apex courton the powers of a court toissue directions to the Speakerof a state Assembly.

The petitioner had soughtdisqualification ofPanneerselvam and ten othersfor having voted against the KPalaniswami Government lastyear when they were in therebel camp.

The petitioner had con-tended in the High Court thatby voting against the trustmotion, these MLAs had vio-lated the whip issued by rulingparty and hence attracted dis-qualification under the anti-defection law.

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Lauding the children whobagged the national awards,

Prime Minister Narendra Modion Friday said he gets inspirationand energy from them, knowingtheir talents. Interacting withchildren who won the PradhanMantri Bal Puraskar at his resi-dence, the Prime Minister saidhe is proud to see the awarenessof their duty towards society andthe nation.

“When I was getting intro-duced to you a while back, Iwas really surprised. The wayyou all have tried in differentfields, the work that has beendone at such a young age isamazing. Whenever I hearabout such courageous work ofall you young comrades, talk toyou, I also get inspiration andenergy,” the PM said.

He told them to enjoydrinking water and juice notmedicine. He also advised themto be physically active. ThePradhan Mantri Bal Puraskar

awards are given to children inthe age group of five to 18 yearsfor their contribution in varioussectors — innovation, socialservice, scholastic, sports, art and

culture, and bravery. It carries amedal, a cash prize of Rs 1 lakh,a certificate and a citation.

The 49 awardees include12-year-old Darsh Malani, who

has performed over 50 magicshows worldwide, and 11-year-old Manoj Kumar Lohar,awarded for his mastery in“tabla vadan”.

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India and Brazil aim to fur-ther expand their strategic

and economic ties as PresidentJair Bolsonaro arrived in NewDelhi on Friday on a four-dayvisit. He will hold wide rang-ing talks with Prime MinisterNarendra Modi and PresidentRam Nath Kovind and will bethe chief guest at the RepublicDay parade.

The two countries are like-ly to ink 15 pacts in the fieldsof social security, cyber secu-rity, health and medicinebesides bio-energy.

The focus of the Brazilianvisit will be to re-energise theties between two countries ina number of key sectors,Secretary (East) in the ExternalAffairs Ministry Vijay ThakurSingh said.

“The visit of President

Bolsonaro is an extremelyimportant visit. It will be anopportunity to re-energise ourstrategic partnership and takeit forward in a focused man-ner,” she had said at a press con-ference on Thursday.

Bolsonaro is accompaniedby eight ministers, four mem-bers of the BrazilianParliament, senior officials anda large business delegation.

It will be the third time thata Brazilian President will be the chief guest at theRepublic Day.

The last time there was aBrazilian president as chiefguest was in 2004 and beforethat in 1996. The lastPresidential visit from Brazilwas by President Michel Temerin October 2016 on the side-lines of the eighth BRICSSummit in Goa. Modi visitedBrazil in November to attend

the XI BRICS Summit.Moreover, Modi met

Bolsonaro on the sidelines ofthe G20 Summit in Osaka inJune last year during whichissues of bilateral importancewere discussed.

Brazilian envoy AndreAranha Correa do Lago toIndia had earlier said over 15agreements will be signed dur-ing the Brazilian president’svisit, including one on theinvestment protection andfacilitation treaty.

Bolsonaro, a former armycaptain, won a landslide victo-ry in Brazil’s presidential elec-tion in October 2018 and tookthe reins of the country inJanuary last year.

Bolsonaro will hold talkswith Modi and PresidentKovind separately on Saturday.Thakur said there would be dis-cussions on cooperation in key

sectors such as defence, ener-gy, trade and agriculture.Giving importance to trade,Bolsonaro will address a groupof Indian and Brazilian busi-ness leaders at the India-BrazilBusiness Forum here onJanuary 27, officials said.

“We have ongoing Defencecooperation as well as spacecooperation and we are looking at how to strengthenthese,” she said.

India-Brazil ties have seenan upward trend in the last fewyears. The volume of bilateraltrade was USD 8.2 billion in2018-19. This included USD3.8 billion worth of Indianexports to Brazil and USD 4.4million as imports by India.Indian investments in Brazilwere around USD 6 billion andBrazilian investments in Indiaare estimated at USD 1 billionin 2018.

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Expressing shock over thestabbing of a 23-year-old

female student in Toronto,Canada, by an unidentifiedassailant, External AffairsMinister S Jaishankar on Fridayasked his Ministry officials toarrange visa for the family ofthe injured.

“Deeply shocked to learn ofthe serious attack on RachelAlbert, an Indian student inToronto, Canada. Am askingMEA officials to help with her family’s visa. Family mem-bers may immediately contactus on +91 9873983884,”Jaishankar tweeted.

The victim, who hails fromTamil Nadu, sustained stabwounds to her neck during the

assault, local media reported.She was subsequently rushed toa trauma centre with life-threatening injuries. Althoughshe underwent surgery, sheremains in hospital in criticalcondition.

The Toronto Police in atweet described the suspect asan Asian male in his mid-20swho is between five-foot-nineand five-foot-eleven. The policeOperations also tweeted phonenumbers to seek any informa-tion about the case.

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Ahead of the Budget Session,Chief Justice of India SA

Bobde on Friday said while taxevasion is a social injustice tothe fellow citizens, arbitrary orexcessive tax is also a socialinjustice by a Government.

Referring to ancient laws inIndia around taxation, theChief Justice said tax should becollected from people likehoney bee draws nectar fromflowers without harming it.

Speaking at the 79th foun-dation day celebrations ofIncome Tax Appellate Tribunal,Bobde emphasised on the useof next generation technologyartificial intelligence to expeditethe process with caution that itshould not replace the humandiscretion required for deliv-ering justice.

“I am firmly of the viewbased on experience of systems

that have used artificial intel-ligence that it is only the repet-itive area or decision makingthat is rates of taxation etc orsomething which is invariablythe same which is in a sensemechanical that must be cov-ered by artificial intelligence. Ido not believe that artificialintelligence should ever beallowed to substitute thehuman discretion which isnecessary for a just decisionmaking,” he said.

The CJI’s suggestion comesagainst the backdrop of thepeople’s expectations of furtherincome tax relaxations being

one of the Budget sops of theModi Government, economicslowdown, high inflation and aweakening rupee..

The CJI also made a casefor speedy resolution of tax dis-putes saying it will act as anincentive for tax payers and freethe funds locked in litigation.

The Chief Justice said taxjudiciary plays a very importantrole in resource mobilisation ofthe country and expressed con-cern over pendency of cases.

“A just and speedy disputeresolution is perceived as a taxincentive by the taxpayer. Tothe tax collector, an efficient tax

judiciary assures that demandsarising out of legitimate assess-ment are not strangled indelayed litigation,” Bobde said.

The pendency of appealcases related to indirect taxes inthe Supreme Court, HighCourt and CESTAT hasreduced 61 per cent to 1.05lakh in almost two years.

According to official data,total pendency of appeals at theSupreme Court, High Courtand CESTAT (Customs Exciseand Service Tax AppellateTribunal) as on June 30, 2017,was 2,73,591, whereas the samesignificantly came down to1,05,756 as on March 31, 2019,a reduction of 61 per cent.

With regard to direct taxes,as many as 3.41 lakh cases werepending before commissioner(appeals), while 92,205 caseswere pending before theIncome Tax Appellate Tribunal(ITAT) as on March 31, 2019.

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Vice President M VenkaiahNaidu on Friday said

Jammu & Kashmir’s accessionto India is “total, final andirrevocable”, and asserted thatArticle 370, which gave theerstwhile State special status,was a temporary provision thathad outlived its purpose a longtime back.

Delivering the Sardar Patellecture on governance, Naiducalled upon all Indians to worktogether to usher in the ‘RamRajya’ envisioned by MahatmaGandhi in which, he said, thereis all-round inclusive growthwithout poverty, discrimina-tion, inequality, illiteracy andhunger, according to an officialstatement.

“Every citizen must striveto protect the unity, safety,security and sovereignty of thecountry,” Naidu said after pay-ing tributes to India’s firsthome minister VallabhbhaiPatel, who is credited with theintegration of hundreds ofregions with the Union.

The accession of Jammu &Kashmir to the Indian Union is“total, final and irrevocable”, thevice president said, adding that“Article 370 was only a tempo-rary provision and it had out-lived its purpose long back”.

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Full dress-rehearsal of Republic Day parade was held at Jagdalpur, the district headquarters of Bastar on Friday. Chief MinisterBhupesh Baghel will be the chief guest here on the occasion. Pioneer Photo

“If patientspressure goesbeyond capabilityof government-runhospitals thencertainly patientscould be divertedto privatehospitals but in acontrolledfashion”ANKIT MISHRA n RAIPUR

Chhattisgarh healthdepartment is soon

going to launch DBT schemefor government hospitalemployees.

Under the schemehospital staff starting fromdoctors to lab technician willreceive money for renderingcertain fixed services.

Talking to The Pioneerstate health minister TSSinghdeo confirmed that thescheme will be launched infirst week of February.

He explained that thereare certain health proceduresthat are insured even in gov-ernment hospital.

“That fund is currentlydivided into several parts

and is deposited in ChiefMinister relief fund, districtJeevandeep Samitis and cer-tain others. We have come upwith a plan to provide thisfund to doctors and hospitalstaff for achieving a certainbenchmark,” the health min-ister said while adding thenuances of this DBT schemeis in its last leg and will befinalized soon.

The minister hoped thatthis will act as a motivatingfactor for doctors and hospi-tal staff to perform well.

According to theminister, scraping insurancemodel of treatment hasprovided financial flexibilityto the department forlaunching such scheme forthe department's employees.

Notably, recentlyChhattisgarh government

had abandoned the insur-ance-based health care andadopted trust-based system.Under this model the stategovernment has currentlyidentified 116 ailmentswhich will be now treated ingovernment hospitals onlyand if anyone decides to goto private hospitals instead,then they will have to payfrom their own pockets.

Replying to query aboutshortage of doctors andmedical infrastructure todeal with large number ofpatients that will be directedto government hospitals, theMinister said that if pressuregoes beyond capability ofgovernment-run hospitalsthen certainly patients couldbe diverted to privatehospitals but in a controlledfashion.

Doctors & medical staff nowget DBT benefits: Singhdeo

NEW DELHI n (IANS)

Chhattisgarh ChiefMinister Bhupesh

Baghel met Congressinterim chief SoniaGandhi and RahulGandhi along with hiscouncil of ministers as hesaid the state Cabinet willalso discuss the anti-CAA resolution.

Sonia Gandhi andRahul Gandhi praisedChief Minister for thesplendid win in theurban local body pollsrecently.

The Chief Ministerwhile speaking on theCAA after the event saidthat the "CAA is diver-sionary tactics of the BJP

as economy is sinking andunemployment is risingand the state cabinet willdiscuss the anti-CAA res-olution."

Interim President ofthe party Sonia Gandhihas instructed the stategovernment to work forthe people so that afterfive years the people againvote for the party.

In Chhattisgarh,Congress has swept themayoral elections withwinning all the 10 munic-ipalities and 60 per cent oftowns 75 per cent of theurban local bodies. Theparty is happy since theurban voters were consid-ered to be with the BJP.

Chhattisgarh cabinet maydiscuss anti-CAA resolution STAFF REPORTER n

RAIPUR

Ajay Singh, ViceChairman, State

Planning Commission onFriday met Amitabh Kant,Chariman - NITI Aayog,and Rajiv Kumar, ViceChairman NITI Ayog, anddiscussed the recent develop-ments taking place inChhattisgarh in line with theNational Biofuel policy 2018.

?Ajay Singh put forth theview of the state governmentthat it has decided to incen-tivise the establishment ofrice based bio ethanol pro-duction units, which wouldproduce bioethanol from thesurplus rice procured by thestate.

To attract private invest-ment into this sector, hesought the help of the Centreon two key issues. One is , toencourage the sales of bioethanol produced, the rate ofsale should be attractive.

Union PetroleumMinister has also beenrequested to decide the rateof rice based bio ethanol atpar with that of sugar/sugarsyrup based ethanol.

Secondly, as per theguidelines of National Biofuel Policy 2018, the ricebased bio ethanolproduction units have toseek permission every yearfrom Agriculture Ministry.This provision is practicallynot viable and needs to bedone away with.

Vice Chairman NITIAayog has positivelyresponded to the issuesdiscussed and has assuredthat an interdepartmental

meeting would be called atthe earliest to resolve theissues.

Ajay Singh has also hand-ed over a copy of the lettersigned by Chief MinisterBhupesh Baghel regardingthe establishment of ricebased bioethanol productionunits in Chhattisgarh.

Devsenapati, MemberSecretary, State PlanningCommission- Chhattisgarhwas also present during themeeting.

NITI Aayog apprised ofC’garh's stand on biofuel

OPD of 17 private doctorsbegins at Raipur hospitalRAIPUR: The services of 17super specialist doctors arebeing provided at RaipurDistrict Hospital, on regularbasis from Monday toSaturday, department wisebased on daily roster.

The services are beingprovided by renowned doctorsfrom private hospitals. Theservices are mainly of heart,kidney, ortho, blood related,urology, laproscopic surgeon,gastro (medicine and surgery),pain management, ENT andothers. All these services arefree of cost from 10.00 am to12.00 pm.

Health minister T SSinghdeo had initiated thescheme of taking services ofprivate super specialist doctorsin government hospitals.

At Raipur district hospital,the services commence withfour departments fromJanuary 1 which has now beenextended to 17 departments.

STAFF REPORTER n RAIPUR

On the occasion ofNational Voters Day, offi-

cers will be awarded onJanuary 25 for their excellentworks during Lok SabhaElections-2019.

In the state-level pro-gramme to be organized atauditorium of Pt RavishankarShukla University by ChiefElection Officer's Office, 10officers of the state will be felic-itated. Bijapur district has beenselected for the state-level

award for excellent works inoverall execution of electionworks in year 2019. Likewise,Dhamtari has been selected forthe State-level Award for thebest execution of SVEEP(Systematic Voters Educationand Electoral Participation)related activities.

Chief Election OfficerReena Baba Saheb Kangaleinformed that for motivatingpeople to vote during LokSabha Elections-2019 undertough circumstances, RaipurJila Panchayat CEO and

District SVEEP Nodal OfficerDr Gaurav Kumar Singh andthe then Deputy DistrictElection Officer ofBalodabazar-Bhatapara dis-trict Sachin Bhootda will beawarded Special Jury Award.

Ram AadhariKuruwanshi, the then DistrictElection Office ofDharamjaigarh constituency,has been selected for StateAward for the highest percent-age of voting during LokSabha General elections i.e.81.96%, and Ravi Kumar

Sahu, the then Deputy DistrictElection Officer of Konta con-stituency, has been selectedfor the maximum increase inpercentage of voting as com-pared to Lok Sabha elections2014, i.e. 16.08%.

For their excellent work inthe election process, ElectionRegistration Officer (ERO) ofTokapal Bastar district andSDO Ms Geeta Rayast, ERO ofPaatan Durg district and SDOVinay Poyam, AERO ofPendra and Pendra Road ofBilaspur district and Tehsildar

Ghanshyam Singh Tanwar,AERO Jashpur and TehsildarKamlesh Kumar Miri M, andAERO Kasdol BalodabazarBhatapara district andTehsildar Shankar Lal Sinhawill be felicitated.

Booth Level Officer ofGirjapur Voting Center andAanganbadi worker GauriSarathi will be felicitated forthe polling booth with thehighest percentage of votingin the entire state during LokSabha GeneralElections-2019.

National Voters Day :10 officers tobe felicitated for exemplary works

STAFF REPORTER nRAIPUR

Chief Minister BhupeshBaghel terming that the

Constitution is in danger hasappealed to the citizens to save itfor the sake of saving themselves.

Expressing apprehension onthe present state of affairs in thecountry, Baghel said constitu-tional institutions in the countryare being destroyed and rights of

people are being snatched.Baghel was talking to

media persons after his arrivalfrom national capital onFriday afternoon.

When media personsasked the motive of inculcat-ing the features of constitutionamong students, Baghel said itwas the duty of all to save theconstitution which accordingto him was now in danger.

Notable, through an order

of school education departmentof state government on Fridayschool students in the state willnow get to know more aboutpreamble, fundamental duties,and directive principles of theConstitution as they wouldmandatorily be taught these inschools after prayer.

Meanwhile, CM speakingon this occasion, said schoolscould be a better medium toconvey the fundamental prin-ciples of democracy. To makechildren more responsible andin order to create awarenessamong them, preamble of theConstitution must be taught.

As per orders issued bythe state government, pream-ble would be taught to stu-dents every Monday afterprayer while the fundamentalrights, fundamental duties anddirective principles should betaught on second, third andfourth Mondays respectively.

‘Save constitution for thesake of saving yourself’

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Union Culture and TourismMinister Prahlad Singh

Patel on Friday said he wouldtake up the issues relating toconservation of the Sun Templeat Konark with theArchaeological Survey of India(ASI) authorities.

Patel, who is on a two-dayvisit to the State, said he wouldlike to know from the ASIabout the allegations of replac-ing sculptured stones from thewalls of the 13th-century tem-ple with plain stones.

“It is alleged that sculptedstones at the temple have beenreplaced by plain stones. If areplica can be made, we shouldnot go for plain stone,” he told

reporters onhis arrival atthe airporthere.

Patel alsosaid, “Thereare also allega-tions of ad e f e c t i v edrainage sys-tem at Konark.Let us exam-ine the truthbehind theallegations.”

He saidKonark wouldbe included inthe list ofIconic Sites

The Centre would soonformulate a new tourism poli-cy, he said, adding that effortsare on to explore virgin tourismdestinations in Odisha.

He said he would alsoreview the tourism develop-ment projects in Puri duringhis visit. “Odisha has huge

tourism potentials. Apart fromthe Shree Jagannath Templeand the Sun Temple, the Statehas a long coastline, forests,hills and other facilities,” hesaid. Besides attending theconcluding session of theNational Tourism Conferenceat the Puri-Konark marinedrive on Friday, Patel reviewed

the progress of differenttourism projects in the State, anofficial said. During his stay inPuri, Patel will visit theJagannath Temple and theSwargadwar, the divine cre-matorium located near seabeach in the town. He is alsoscheduled to attend a SwachhBharat Abhiyan programme.

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Two tribals, includinga woman, from

Odisha have been invit-ed as guests to attend thenational-level 71stRepublic Day celebra-tions on January 26 inNew Delhi.

G a n g a d h a rHembram and Japani Majhifrom the Santal tribal commu-nity in Mayurbhanj districthave reached the national cap-ital to witness the Republic Dayparade.

The duo is among over 50tribals invited by the Ministryof Tribal Affairs from across thecountry to be present at theflag-hoisting ceremony andparade at Janpath, New Delhi.

Gangadhar, a resident HatiSahi village under Khuntablock in Mayurbhanj district, isa teacher by profession. Aheadmaster, he has been work-

ing for promotion of Santalilanguage.

Japani, who hails fromHutapur village under Betnotiblock in the district, is active insocial work.

The duo will have anopportunity to sit beside dig-nitaries at the VIP gallery andwatch the parade. They are alsoscheduled to meet thePresident Ram, the Vice-President, the Prime Ministerand several Union Ministers.Later, they will be felicitated bythe Ministry of Tribal Affairs ata special programme.

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Almost a month after seniorJannayak Janata Party

(JJP) leader and MLA fromNarnaund Ram KumarGautam took on senior partyleader and Haryana DeputyCM Dushyant Chautala forkeeping 11 portfolios in theBJP-JJP coalition government,the JJP on Thursday sought anexplanation from the veteranpolitician.

JJP has given Gautam 15days to explain his remarksagainst Dushyant Talking toThe Pioneer, JJP StatePresident Nishan Singh saidthat the party on Wednesdaysought an explanation fromGautam and asked him tosubmit his reply within 15 days

for passing “negative com-ments” regarding the partyleadership. He has been askedto reply over his statementsthat has damaged the party.

When contacted, Gautamsaid. “I have received a letterfrom the party at my resi-dence. I was not present whenthe letter was received. I wasinformed by staff about thequestions asked by the party inthe letter. I will study the let-ter and send the reply to theparty soon.” Downplaying anyrift at this juncture, Gautamsaid,” I was involved in mak-ing the party and also workinghard to make it strong. We areunited.”

Gautam, who was in therace for becoming a ministerafter the JJP formed an alliancewith the BJP had earlier said

that after becoming theDeputy Chief Minister,Dushyant took 11 depart-ments under his control andforgot the other party leaders.

Upset with the denial of aCabinet berth in the BJP-JJPcoalition government, Gautamhad stated, “He (Dushyant) iskeeping all the portfoliosincluding industry, excise andtaxation, PWD (B&R), rev-enue and food and supply.There is no limit to theirgreed. What can we do? Hedid not share power with any-body else. He made me MLA,but we have made him theDeputy Chief Minister.”

Gautam had also said thathe had no regrets about resign-ing from the post of party vice-president of the party. “JJP isnot a national party. I was

made all India vice presidentin the party even though theparty has influence in a limit-ed pocket in Haryana. I amamong those who follow theideals,” he said, adding “JJP isa party made by me and my

efforts. I nurtured nurturedthe party with my sweat andblood. My self-esteem hasbeen hurt, so I will not go tomeet Dushyant."

Initially, the party hadpreferred to keep the issue

under the wrapswith Dushyantrepeatedly statingthat Gautam was asenior elder and willbe persuaded.

M e a n w h i l e ,video clips showingGautam being crit-ical of DushyantChautala keptemerging in thesocial media. “Theparty can’t allowsuch utterances forlong. It sends a neg-ative image about

the patry,” a senior JJP leadersaid.

With these sentiments, theJJP has now sought clarifica-tion from the veteran politi-cian asking him to explain whydid he express “negative and

baseless views” through themedia.

The party leadership claimthat most of Gautam’s state-ments critical to the leadershipare baseless and are not in theinterest of the party. “Hisrecent statements are not inthe favour of the party,” said aJJP leader privy to the matter.However, the JJP has not hint-ed at taking stern actionagainst Gautam immediately.“The party will take nextaction only after receiving hisreply,” said sources in the JJP.

Last month, Gautam, whohad defeated former stateFinance Minister CaptainAbhimanyu, had announcedhis resignation from the postof JJP’s national vice president.

Besides Dushyant, theonly minister from the JJP

quota in the Manohar LalKhattar Cabinet at present isAnoop Dhanak, a two-timeMLA, who is looking after alow profile ministryArchaeology and Museums(independent charge) andLabour and Employment(attached with the deputy CM)as Minister of State. Gautamhas been a habitual party hop-per in his career. He becamean MLA from BJP in 2005, butin 2010 contested the polls ona Congress ticket. He lost theelection. Then he also got dis-il lusioned with Congress.

He contested the 2014assembly polls as an indepen-dent and lost. In 2019, hefought on a JJP ticket and onlytwo months later, has shownhis rebellious streak.

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fetched a highest biddingprice of �4,62,000 (Rs 4.62lakh) against a reserve priceof only �50000 in an e-auc-tion of fancy numbers held byRegistering and LicensingAuthority, Chandigarh.AcmeBuilders Pvt Ltd made thehighest bid of �4.62 lakh forthe “CH01CA0001” in the e-auction.

The number“CH01CA0005” received thebidding price of �280000against the reserve price ofonly �30000 followed by“CH01CA0003” which wase-auctioned for �255000against the reserve price of�30000.

The fancy numbersincluding “0007” and “0009”in “CH01CA” series receivedbidding price of �1.72 lakheach against the reserve

amount of �30000. Amongother fancy numbers, “0004”was auctioned at �1.68 lakhagainst the reserve price�30000, “0008” fetched �1.60lakh against the reserve priceof �30000, “0010” receivedbidding amount of �1.34 lakhagainst the bidding price of�30000.

Only those who have pur-chased vehicles at aChandigarh address wereallowed to participate in thee-auction after submitting thesale letter, i.e. Form No. 21,UID i.e.

Aadhaar card andChandigarh address proof.

Under the e-auctionprocess, the vehicle ownershave to deposit a registrationfee for participating in the e-auction and reserve amountfor special/choice registra-tion numbers at office of theRegistering and LicensingAuthority in Sector-17 herethrough demand draft .

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Punjab Health Departmenthas joined hands with the

World Health Organization,Central Government’s IndianCouncil of Medical Researchand Vital StrategiesOrganisation for early identi-fication of patients sufferingfrom hypertension andputting them on treatment.

Under the same collabo-ration, the Health Departmenthas launched IndiaHypertension ControlInitiative (IHCI) in five dis-tricts of the state — Bathinda,Hoshiarpur, Gurdaspur,Pathankot, and Mansa.

“The basic objective of theproject is early identificationof cases of hypertension, putthem on treatment, continu-ation of treatment to achieveand maintain control ofhypertension so as to reducethe early mortality due tohypertension,” the state Healthand Family Welfare MinisterBalbir Singh Sidhu on Friday.

He said that 80,000 casesof hypertension had beenenlisted till December 2019under the screening pro-gramme. Under IHCI, doc-tors, staff nurses, ANMs,ASHAs were trained to screenpatients for hypertension andinitiate treatment at the earli-est.

Sidhu said that this pro-gramme is based upon theCentral Government’s pro-ject launched in five states –Punjab, Kerala, Maharashtra,Madhya Pradesh andTelangana. Punjab was thefirst state to launch the projectas a part of NationalProgramme for Preventionand Control of Cancer,Diabetes, CardiovascularDiseases and Stroke (NPCD-CS).

The Minister said thatafter successful implementa-tion of the earlier screeningprogramme for two years,now Punjab Government hasdecided to scale up the projectto the whole State.

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Reacting to the statement ofState minister for Women

Empowerment and ChildDevelopment, Rekha Arya thatthe protest of Anganwadi work-ers is political, protestingAnganwadi workers said that itis disappointing. They also saidthat she is not appropriate for herposition in theGovernment.According toAnganwadi worker Dilma,“Rekha Arya does not evenknow about our working hours,what would she know about ourprotest? She is really not meantfor her position in the depart-ment. The State WomenEmpowerment and ChildDevelopment department haseven won an award due to ourwork in this field but she does

not even know about our work.We are peacefully protestinghere for now almost twomonths.

We have not contacted orcalled any political party to sup-port us. How is our protest polit-ically oriented? We are not pro-moting or opposing any party, weare fighting for our rights. It isvery disheartening to hear suchstatements about us.”Anotherprotester Sarojini Anthwal said,“We submit our data and reportsregularly to our respective super-visors but they will still ask for thereports which are six months orsometimes six years old even latein the night.

They have clerks, comput-ers and all the conveniences tostore data but they expectAnganwadi workers to givethem old data. It is because they

always lose their data and whentheir seniors ask for any report,they trouble us.”She furtheradded, “They have asked us torent a kitchen with a room torun Anganwadi centre but theydon’t ever pay on time. Theydon’t pay for ration to feed chil-dren and neither do they paytravel expenses. We have to doso many things at our expensebut we hardly get paid fully forit. If the Government thinks ourdemand too high, they couldoffer something from their sidetoo but there is no initiationfrom them. At least they couldtalk to us but no, they don’t carefor the struggle of women intheir state.”Dilma said that if noaction is taken by theGovernment soon, she will bethe first to commit self-immo-lation.

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Ayoung woman who refusedthe advances of a man

wanting to marry her has beenthreatened with an acid attackin Haridwar. In addition tothis, the woman's mother andbrother have also been threat-ened with murder. The womanand her family are under severestress after receiving the threats.

The young woman in ques-tion is reported to have left thehouse. On the basis of the com-plaint lodged by her, the policehave filed a case against the

accused and started searching forthe accused. The young woman,who lives in a colony in the area,is working in a customer servicecentre of a government bank.According to the informationprovided by sources, a young mannamed Akshay Rathi used tocome to deposit money in thebank. One day he asked theyoung woman to give her mobilephone number. When thewoman refused to give her mobilephone number, the young manstarted stalking her. It is allegedthat the young man threatened thewoman that if she did not marry

him, he would attack her withacid.

He further threatened thathe would also kill her motherand brother. The woman andher family have been sufferingfrom serious anxiety sincereceiving the threats.

The woman reached theJwalapur Kotwali with her fam-ily recently and informed thepolice about the case. TheKotwali in-charge Yogesh SinghDev said that a case has beenregistered against the accusedAkshay Rathi based on thecomplaint of the woman.

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Beijing: Battling the fastspreading coronavirus, Chinaon Friday said that it is build-ing a 1,000-bed hospital forpatients infected with thedeadly virus that has claimed26 lives so far with confirmedcases rising sharply to over880, prompting authorities toshut down 13 cities during thecountry’s most important hol-iday.

Dampening the celebra-tions of the Lunar New Year,China, in an unprecedentedmove, has shut down trans-portation in at least 13 cities— Wuhan and 12 of its neigh-bours — in central China’sHubei province to containthe coronavirus.

According to the NationalHealth Commission, 26 peo-ple have died so far with over880 confirmed cases beingtreated mostly in Hubeiprovince. Twenty nineprovinces have reported thecases.

China’s biggest cityShanghai raised the emer-gency response of publichealth safety to level 1, thehighest, following Beijing, andHubei, Hunan, Zhejiang,Anhui, and Guangdongprovinces as more cases werereported.

Beijing so far reported 34confirmed cases of coron-avirus infection, official mediareported.

The Chinese disease pre-vention authority on Fridayreleased pictures and infor-mation of the first WuhanCoronavirus that Chineseexperts had discovered.

The Wuhan local govern-ment is rushing to build a1,000-bedded hospital in theoutskirts of Wuhan to treatcoronavirus patients.

Dozens of excavators werefeverishly working at the sitewhere the hospital will bebuilt on the 25000 sq metresjust about 10 days’ time. It willbe put into use by February 3,

state-run Xinhua news agencyreported.

Workers are being paid1,200 yuan ($173) per day,three times their usual wage,to accelerate the construc-tion.

The World HealthOrganisation (WHO) onThursday stopped short ofdeclaring the virus a globalpublic health emergency,despite China’s climbing deathtoll. The virus has spread toHong Kong, Macau, Taiwan,Japan, Singapore, SouthKorea, Thailand, Vietnam andthe United States as ofThursday. Japan on Fridayreported a second confirmedcase. PTI

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The 31-year-old man, whois doing his PhD in Wuhan, hadreturned from the Chinese cityon January 5. He had visited ahospital complaining of respi-ratory problems and was admit-ted on January 13, theKathmandu Post reported.

He was given medicationand once his health conditionimproved, he was dischargedfive days later from the SukrarajTropical and Infectious DiseaseHospital, the Himalayan Timesreported. The hospital had takenspecimens-throat swabs andblood samples-from the patientand sent it to the World HealthOrganisation laboratory in HongKong on Tuesday. "The throatswab and blood sample of aNepali suspected of beinginfected with coronavirus, wastested positive," the Timesreported, citing the Ministry ofHealth and Population. PTI

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Several nations includingthe US have stepped up checkson airport passengers to detectthe coronavirus, which firstemerged in the central Chinesecity of Wuhan.

The virus has caused alarmin China and abroad because ofits genetic similarities to Severe

Acute Respiratory Syndrome(SARS), which killed nearly 650people across mainland Chinaand Hong Kong in 2002-2003.

On Friday, Seoul’s healthministry said a South Koreanman in his 50s started experi-encing symptoms while work-ing in Wuhan on Jan 10.

He was tested upon return-ing to the country earlier thisweek, and was confirmed to beSouth Korea’s second case ofthe virus on Thursday, theministry added. AFP

Washington: Lead Houseimpeachment manager AdamSchiff called dramatically forthe Senate to remove PresidentDonald Trump from officeThursday, saying the US leadercannot be trusted to put thecountry’s interests ahead ofhis own.

“The American peopledeserve a president they cancount on, to put their interestfirst,” said Schiff.

His impassioned wordscapped a long day in whichDemocrats detailed Trump’sillicit scheme to pressureUkraine to help his 2020 reelec-tion campaign.

“You know, you can’t trustthis president to do what isright for this country. You cantrust he will do what’s right forDonald Trump,” Schiff added.

“He’ll do it now. He’s doneit before. He’ll do it for the nextseveral months. He’ll do it inthe election if he’s allowed to.This is why, if you find himguilty, you must find that heshould be removed.” “Becauseright matters. And truth mat-ters. Otherwise we are lost.”

As the 100 senators sat asjurors and millions ofAmericans watched on televi-sion, House impeachmentmanagers mustered scores of

videos, internal documentsand extensive witness testimo-ny to lay out a strong case thatthe US leader abused his pow-ers.

Schiff ’s prosecution teamdetailed how Trump flagrant-ly undertook last year to forceKiev to help him tarnish hispossible 2020 reelection rival,former vice president JoeBiden.

“President Trump used thepowers of his office to solicit aforeign nation to interfere inour elections for his own per-

sonal benefit,” House JudiciaryCommittee Chair Jerry Nadlertold the chamber.

“Since President GeorgeWashington took office in 1789,no president has abused hispower in this way,” Nadler said.

“The president has repeat-edly, flagrantly, violated hisoath... The president’s conductis wrong. It is illegal. And it isdangerous.”

Over nine hours theDemocrats methodically dis-mantled Republican claims thatTrump did nothing wrong. AFP

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Washington: DemocraticHouse prosecutors made anexpansive case Thursday atDonald Trump’s impeachmenttrial that he abused power likeno other president in history,swept up by a “completelybogus” Ukraine theory pushedby attorney Rudy Giuliani.

On Friday, theDemocrats will press theirfinal day of arguments beforeskeptical Republican sena-tors, focusing on the secondarticle of impeachment,

obstruction of Congress’investigation.

As the audience of Senatejurors sat through anotherlong day, and night, the pros-ecutors outlined how they saidTrump abused power for hisown personal political benefitahead of the 2020 election,even as the nation’s top FBI andnational security officials werepublicly warning off the theo-ry that it was Ukraine, notRussia, that interfered in the2016 election. AP

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Baghdad: Thousands rallied inBaghdad on Friday to demandthat American troops leave thecountry, though their numbersfell short of the “million-man”march called for by an influen-tial Shiite cleric.

The rally came amid height-ened anti-US sentiment after aUS drone strike earlier thismonth killed a top Iranian gen-eral in the Iraqi capital.

Since mid-morning, largecrowds gathered on the Muslimday of prayers as loudspeakers

blasted “No, no America!” at acentral square in Baghdad. Achild held up a poster reading,“Death to America. Death toIsrael.” But by the afternoon therally had failed to reach the crit-ical numbers called for by radi-cal cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.Apparently seeking to show con-trol, al-Sadr’s supporters did notengage in altercations with secu-rity forces or target the separate,anti-government protests inneighboring Tahrir Square, apossibility feared by activists in

the lead-up to Friday’s march. Officials and experts said the

rally was the cleric’s attempt tocapitalise on brewing anti-American feeling and show hehad the upper-hand on the Iraqistreet as negotiations amongpolitical elites over who shouldbe the next prime minister stum-ble on. In his weekly Friday ser-mon, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq’s most revered Shiitecleric, called on political partiesstop stalling and move the talksforward. AP

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Washington: US PresidentDonald Trump was to addressthe country’s biggest annualanti-abortion rally on Friday —just blocks from Congress wheresenators are sitting in judgmentat his impeachment trial.

Trump, with his eyes on theChristian evangelical supporthe’ll need for re-election inNovember, will be the first pres-ident to deliver a speech to the“March for Life” campaigners inperson.

In what will surely be aremarkable split-screen

moment, Trump will address acrowd of thousands on thesprawling National Mall asDemocratic prosecutors take tothe floor of the Senate.

The seven Democraticimpeachment “managers” are tomake their final arguments onFriday for why Trump should beremoved from office for abuse ofpower and obstruction ofCongress.

White House lawyers willthen have 24 hours, startingSaturday, to present their defenseof the president, who wasimpeached by the House ofRepresentatives on December18.

While impeachment willforever stain his record, Trumpis virtually assured of acquittalby the Republican-held Senate— and is already looking pastthe trial to the re-election fightthat awaits. AFP

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Houston: Two people diedafter a massive explosion onFriday levelled a warehouse inHouston, damaging nearbybuildings and homes and rous-ing frightened people fromtheir sleep miles away, author-ities said.

The explosion happenedabout 4:30 am inside a build-ing at Watson Grinding andManufacturing, which makesvalves and provides thermal-spray coatings for equipmentin various industries, author-ities said.

The building was reducedto burning rubble and debris,and some of the surroundingbuildings suffered heavy damage to parts of their wallsand roofs. AP

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Gotabaya Rajapaksa has haltedthe arrest of a judge accused ofconspiring with Oppositionleader Ranjan Ramanayake tofabricate evidence in an ongoingcourt case.

Attorney General Dappulade Livera had directed the policeto arrest Judge Gihan Pilapitiyaover tapes where he andRamanayke are heard discussingimpending judgments andongoing investigations.

The recent tapes controver-sy has rocked the island nationin which there are over 1,20,000conversations of Ramanyakespeaking to politicians, theirwives, top judges, policemenand investigators.

Pilapitiya had been inter-dicted following the recordingof his statement on conversa-tions with Ramanayake who

is also under arrest till January29 for alleged judicial interfer-ence. The Attorney Generalcalled for Pilapitiya’s arrest cit-ing possible conspiracy to fab-ricate evidence in a court case.

Senior minister WimalWeerawansa told the Parliamentthat President GotabayaRajapaksa had ordered to stopPilapitiya’s arrest. “This is ridicu-lous, the victim of interferencehas been made the accused”,Weerawansa told Parliament,adding that Pilapitiya had madea complaint over Ramanayakeapproaching him. PTI

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Beirut: Tens of thousandsof civilians fled their homesin northwestern Syria lastweek in the face of intensi-fied bombardment of rebelterritory by pro-govern-ment forces, the UnitedNations said on Friday.

Between 15 and 19January, more than 38,000people fled violence in therebel-held west of Aleppoprovince, which neighboursthe main opposition bastionof Idlib, the UN humani-tarian affairs office (OCHA)said.

OCHA spokesmanDavid Swanson said thedisplaced were headingnorth into territory con-trolled by Turkish-backedrebel forces or west intojihadist-dominated Idlibprovince.

Britain-based war mon-itor, the Syrian Observatoryfor Human Rights, sayssome of the deadliest strikesof recent days have beencarried out by governmentally Russia.

But Moscow has deniedlaunching any combat oper-ations in the region since aceasefire it agreed withrebel supporter Ankarawent into effect earlier thismonth.

The Observatory saidRussian bombardment tar-geted the west of Aleppoprovince on Friday withoutcausing any casualties.

The latest wave of dis-placement compounds adire humanitarian situationin the rebel-held northwestwhere more than 358,000civilians had already beendisplaced by the intensifiedbombardment launched inDecember.

The region hosts at leastthree million people, many ofwhom have fled other partsof the country recaptured bythe government and are inneed of urgent humanitarianassistance. AFP

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At the time of a drought of goodnews in the country, therecomes one to celebrate. TheExpert Appraisal Committee(EAC) of the Union Ministry of

Environment, Forest and Climate Change(MoEFCC) has halted the construction ofan airport at the site of an abandonedWorld War-II airstrip near Jharkhand’sDhalbhumgarh town. The reason? It woulddisrupt an elephant corridor used by 200pachyderms.

The airport near Dhalbhumgarh was tobe the first of 400-of-its-kind, which theAirport Authority of India proposes to buildthroughout the country. Its halting repre-sents one of the rare occasions when a con-cern for animals has won out against agrandiose plan for so-called development.The disruption of the corridor would haveforced the elephants to look elsewhere forpassage, including urban and semi-urbanareas, thus taking them to new places andcreating new dangers of elephant-humanconflict.

The resultant casualties would have hadan adverse impact on Jharkhand’s elephants,whose numbers have been declining. From772 in 2002, the figure came down to 624 in2007. It increased to 688 in 2012 only to comedown to 679 in 2017, according to the ele-phant census titled, ‘Synchronised elephantpopulation estimation India 2017’, released onAugust 12 (World Elephant Day), that year.

The causes, related to conditions creat-ed by continuing human encroachmentupon and activity in elephant habitats,include habitat loss, electrocution by con-tact with sagging and/or low-hanging highvoltage transmission wires, running over bytrains, conflicts with humans besides poach-ing, poisoning and old-age related medicalproblems. According to a report in May,2017, 32 elephants had been killed by elec-trocution and 22 in train accidents inJharkhand until then.

One hopes that the decision to stop theconstruction of the airport will not bereversed under pressure and will prove to theprecursor of many similar decisions concern-ing all animals. Elephants, doubtless, need par-ticular attention. They have been listed inSchedule One of the Wildlife Protection Actof India, 1972, which gives them the highestlevel of protection. Project Elephant waslaunched in 1992 to protect the Asian elephant(the category to which Indian elephantsbelong), its habitat and corridors and addressthe human-elephant conflict. The elephantwas declared India’s National Heritage Animalon October 22, 2010.

Yet serious challenges remain. Almost allthe factors adversely affecting elephants inJharkhand apply to the species throughoutIndia. The most important of these is habi-tat loss, caused principally by continuinghuman encroachment. This is clear from theElephant Task Force’s report, Gajah: Securingthe Future for Elephants in India, submitted

on August 31, 2010. Dwelling onhow various elements contributeto habitat loss and the latter’simpact, it states, “Large develop-mental and infrastructural pro-jects when not planned or locat-ed with adequate care are frag-menting habitat[s], while otherlocal pressures degrade them.” Itfurther states, “The physicalpresence of the roads and railwaylines in the habitat creates newhabitat edges, alters the hydrolog-ical dynamics and creates a bar-rier to the movement of elephantsand other animals, leads to habi-tat fragmentation and loss, apartfrom death due to train andvehicular hits.”

It adds, “Rail and anincrease in road traffic operatesin a synergetic way across sev-eral landscapes and causes notonly an overall loss and isolationof wildlife habitat but also splitsup the landscape in a literalsense. Various developmentalactivities also come up on eitherside of the highways and rail-roads, thereby further frag-menting the habitat and increas-ing biotic pressures.”

With shrinking habitats, ele-phants searching for food raidcultivated areas, devouring anddestroying crops. Attempts toturn them away constitute animportant cause of human-ele-phant conflict, which is taking agrowing number of lives.Replying to a question, BabulSupriyo, Union Minister of Statefor MoEFFC, told the Lok Sabhaon June 28, 2019, that 2,398 peo-

ple had died since 2014.According to other official statis-tics, a total of 1,465 people werekilled between the years 2013-14and 2016-17. In turn, people kill40 to 50 elephants every year,apart from those slain by poach-ers for the ivory of the tusks.

Habitat loss also forces ele-phants to move into other areas.They are now seen in States likeManipur, Mizoram, Bihar,Madhya Pradesh, Haryana,Himachal Pradesh and the UnionTerritory of Andaman & NicobarIslands, where they had not beenpresent earlier. Other factorshave also contributed. A majordrought in Tamil Nadu hadcaused herds of elephants tocross over to Andhra Pradeshwhere they had no presence forover two centuries. The result isan extension of the area witness-ing human-elephant conflict.

The impact of habitat loss iscompounded by that of elephantcorridors, which account formuch of the rail and road acci-dents. According to the report,Gajah: Securing the Future forElephants in India, train accidentshad killed as many as 150 of thesebehemoths since 1987.According to a Ministry state-ment in the Rajya Sabha, 49 ele-phants were killed in railway acci-dents between 2016 and 2018.

The Elephant Task Force’sreport has recommended sever-al measures to protect habitatsand prevent elephants from beingkilled in road and rail accidents.These include the announcement

of principles of forest area, rail-way track and highway manage-ment, the grant of mininglicences and rules governing thedrawing and maintenance ofpower cables through forestareas.

Besides these, attention hasto be paid to nurturing elephantreserves as the basic managementunit for their conservation in thecountry. At present, there are 32of these across India, coveringover 69,000 sq km. The problemis that more than over 40 per centof these is not under ProtectedArea or Government forest.Hence, the main emphasis has tobe on managing land use patternsin the areas outside the preservesto reduce human-elephant con-flict. Also, the havoc bush firescontinue to play in Australiareminds us of the need to beready to cope with such calami-ties which have been taking asevere toll in Uttarakhand andHimachal Pradesh and mayoccur in other parts of Indiathanks to climate change.

All this will require hugeexpenditure and effort. TheGovernment must not balk fromeither. Besides, it needs to reachout to organisations like WildlifeSOS, TREE Foundation andWildlife Rescue andRehabilitation Centre, whichhave been doing outstandingwork in rescuing and nurturingelephants.

(The writer is ConsultantEditor, The Pioneer, and anauthor)

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Sir — Amid raging controversyover the CitizenshipAmendment Act (CAA), BJPleader Kailash Vijayvargiya, whois known for his controversialstatements, apparently saw con-struction labourers eating pohaand suspected they wereBangladeshis. He chose to burpout his angst about it during ameeting on the CAA and lacedit with references to “strange eat-ing ways” of the workers.

It is unclear whether leadersin the BJP have been given thetask of spearheading the party’snationwide outreach programmein support of the CAA or to cre-ate more controversies by makingsuch outlandish claims.

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Sir — This refers to the editori-al, “Another deadly virus”(January 23). The world is beingstalked by the coronavirus thathas locked down the Chinese cityof Wuhan. Already, train, airline,ferry, subway and bus services

have been suspended over there.More than 600 people have beeninfected and around 17 peoplehave lost lives. With outbreaksbeing reported in Singapore andVietnam, other countries in theregion such as Thailand, Japan,South Korea, Australia and Indiahave been put on high alert.

But is India well prepared todeal with the spread of the infec-tion here? None can forget the

H1N1 swine flu outbreak of2009, which claimed more than1,000 lives. It’s welcome thatpassengers are being screened atmajor airports across the coun-try. However, it will be better ifhospitals, too, are put on highalert. They must be better pre-pared to deal with suspectedisolated cases.

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Sir — The Supreme Court’srefusal to stay the CitizenshipAmendment Act (CAA) came asa surprise. However, one is at aloss to understand why the courttook this long a time to hear thepetitions if it only had to consid-er referring the issue to a largerBench. With the people of the

country, particularly the Muslims,still reeling from the shock of thecourt’s Ayodhya verdict, thecourt’s refusal to stay the CAAeven temporarily has added insultto injury. It is alleged that someBJP-ruled States like UttarPradesh have already started act-ing on the CAA. Giving a verdictafter all the damage has beendone will not be of much use.

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Sir — The Supreme Court hasflagged a vital issue by askingParliament to ponder over hav-ing an independent and perma-nent body to decide disqualifica-tion petitions against MPs andMLAs, instead of the Speakerretaining exclusive powers. Whatpurpose is the anti-defection lawwhen all the drama is beingplayed out blatantly? Parties mustnot deviate from their declaredalliances and ideologies, else theelectorate suffers.

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Each year, as soon as the ceremonial halwa isserved in the North Block and FinanceMinistry officials are locked in, the entire

nation starts asking a question which is embossedon the home page of the Press Information Bureau’s(PIB) website — what’s in it for me? Clicking theyouth icon on the portal leads to a dialogue boxwhich identifies five new initiatives under the hash-tag #BudgetForNewIndia. These include the NewEducation Policy (NEP), National ResearchFoundation (NRF), the ‘Study in India’ programme,Higher Education Commission of India (HECI) andNational Sports Education Board (NSEB) under theKhelo India scheme. The fact that each of these pro-posals can radically transform the education sectormakes the forthcoming Union Budget a particular-ly interesting one. And, for the same reason, thereis anxiety too. Moreover, some of the trends in theprevious Budget outlays have added to apprehen-sions. Between 2017-18 and 2019-20, the share ofIITs declined from �8,337 crore to �6,223 crore. TheUniversity Grants Commission (UGC), IIMs(Indian Institutes of Management) and the All IndiaCouncil for Technical Education (AICTE) have reg-istered funds cuts too. Should we be worried?

Let us begin by acknowledging that the mech-anism through which the Ministry of HumanResource Development (MHRD) arrived at someof these schemes was elaborate, inclusive and cer-tainly not hurried. Before the release of the NEPdraft, the MHRD initiated a nationwide multi-stra-ta debate around 20 themes each for school and high-er education. Moreover, the document is refreshing-ly candid, forthright and does not shy away fromasking provocative questions. For example, in thecontext of State universities, it admits to problemssuch as excessive politicisation and deterioratingresearch standards. Further, a number of recurringfeatures across the NEP draft, themes for policy con-sultation and the NITI Aayog’s Strategy for NewIndia (SNI) suggest clear thinking on the part of theGovernment. Training schools for teachers, recruit-ment and retention of faculty with research aptitude,industry linkage and so on are common to all threedocuments.

Similarly, there is an admission that State spend-ing, both by the Central and State Governments,must be significantly enhanced. The NEP draft pro-poses an incremental increase in public spendingon education at the rate of one per cent per year tillit reaches 20 per cent of the total expenditure. But,in a country where educational infrastructure is yetto stabilise with respect to its demographic size anddiversity, challenges are multi-pronged. Increasingthe Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) in higher edu-cation to 35 per cent by 2022-23; establishing newinstitutes; augmenting existing infrastructure andmaking Indian universities globally competitive aresome of the major concerns. It is perhaps for thesereasons that the Government is mulling public-pri-vate partnership in higher education and loan-basedcredit for expansion of facilities. The establishmentof a Higher Education Financing Agency (HEFA),a joint venture between the MHRD and CanaraBank, is a step in this direction. The HEFA intendsto leverage funds from the market and extend lowinterest loans to universities for R&D.

However, repayment of loans, even if stretchedover a decade and offered interest-free, could provean uphill task for most universities. If initiatives suchas ‘Study in India’ were to succeed and India were

to transform into a knowledge economy,one would expect a substantial rise in rev-enue generation through tuition fee.However, this will entail generous endow-ments for creation of world-class infra-structure and a gestation period of someyears for return on investment. Butaccording to the MHRD’s own documents,it is not fair to expect that higher educa-tion institutions will meet operational coststhrough student fee alone. Global trendssuggest that robust infrastructure devel-ops in countries with healthy state support.Moreover, in these countries, state supportis matched by an equally generous grantfrom non-state stakeholders. Theseinclude corporate philanthropists andalumni. But these are either knowledgeeconomies like Australia and South Africaor societies like the UK, the USA andGermany that take immense pride in theinternational stature of their educationalinstitutions.

It should be registered with a certaindegree of alarm that even though individ-ual philanthropy is on the rise, the over-all figures do not appear very encourag-ing for India. According to Bain and Co’sIndia Philanthropy Report, 2019, contribu-tions of �10 crore and above, which con-stitute nearly 55 per cent of the entire vol-ume of individual philanthropy, have reg-istered a decline of four per cent since2014. This is both surprising and sad asthe number of Ultra-High Net WorthIndividuals (UHNWIs) has grown by 12per cent over the same period. Further, thefact that Azim Premji alone accounts fornearly 80 per cent of the aforementioned55 per cent, goes to show that the idea ofCorporate Social Responsibility (CSR) isyet to take roots in India’s corporate cul-ture. Similarly, alumni support is too var-iegated to be factored in as a stable com-

ponent in financial overhaul. While topprofessional institutions like the IITs andIIMs manage to raise huge funds throughtheir alumni, the same may not be true ofNITs and other management institutes, letalone universities specialising in human-ities and social sciences. The sincerest ofefforts at alumni outreach at India’s top-ranked colleges yield at most an annualalumni meet and an abysmal donationthrough membership subscription. Evenwith proactive placement cells and the bestof faculty, strictly in market terms, a stu-dent with a degree in literature cannot bescaled at par with one with a degree fromIIT. Understandably, their ability to payback to the institution is considerablylower than that of an average IITian. Butthe picture isn’t entirely bleak.Government-aided business incubators,established at degree colleges and univer-sities across India, have been moderatelysuccessful. If properly nourished, success-ful business models can provide the hostinstitution with both direct revenue andpotential alumni-philanthropists. But atthe initial stages this, too, shall entail gen-erous risk-free endowments.

At a time when we speak of unbur-dening our students and allowing them thefreedom to explore a career of their apti-tude, it is not advisable to link every aca-demic activity with industrial output. Toquote Chief Justice of India SA Bobde, uni-versities are not supposed to function likeassembly line manufacturing units. Whilewe need capital to run a country, cultur-al capital is equally important for the well-being of a society. Promotion of scienceand industry might take the centrestagebut endeavours to preserve our history,culture, modern Indian languages andclassical languages shouldn’t lag too farbehind. Global trends suggest that while

departments of Indology are getting pro-gressively replaced by South Asian Studies,China is strengthening its soft power byfinancing departments of Chinese stud-ies. It is now up to the Indian universitiesto open centres of excellence where clas-sical cultures of the country may be taughtand translated. Unless UHNWIs come for-ward and fund a project similar toNarayan Murthy’s Harvard-based MurtyClassical Library, the onus of endowmentswould be on the Government.

As per reports compiled by NASS-COM and PurpleLeap, both of which arecited in the MHRD document, only 25 percent of India’s engineering graduates areemployable. Even interventional trainingfails to brighten their prospects. Openingmore technical institutions withoutemphasis on quality would only create anational backlog of technocrats with asense of entitlement and huge educationloans to pay forward. As is promised inthe NEP draft and SNI, serious effortsmust be made to improve teaching stan-dards in India. This alone will solve manyof the problems that afflict the educationsector as only inspired teachers can churnout a globally-competitive workforce.Teachers should be encouraged andempowered to undertake research andwritings. At the same time, NRF shouldnot end as another bureaucratic super-structure with every power to stall projectsand no resource to leverage.

Undoubtedly, the Finance Ministerwill tread a tightrope, juggling betweeninclusivity and resource augmentation.Hopefully, some day, we would deliver onour national commitment of devoting sixper cent of the GDP to education, firstenvisaged in 1968.

(The writer teaches English at theUniversity of Delhi)

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The Forest Survey of India (FSI)had recently released its bien-nial State of Forest Report,

2019 and civil society is busy inanalysing it. The FSI’s reports areeagerly awaited by the Centre as theyapprise the Union Government of theimpact of its policies and an increasein forest and tree cover is a huge polit-ical gain. However, more often thannot, the political masters are unwill-ing to acknowledge adverse impacts.Thankfully, the current assessmenthas shown an increase of 5,188 sq kmof forest and tree cover (3,976 sq kmof forest and 1,212 sq km of tree coveroutside recorded forests). The totalforest and tree cover in the countryis 80.7 million ha (Mha) which cor-

responds to 24.56 per cent of thecountry’s geographic area. The carbonstock is assessed at 7,124.6 milliontonnes, an increase of 42.6 milliontonnes compared to the 2017 assess-ment. For accuracy, the growingstock assessment was done with high-er sampling intensity and uniformly-spread sample plots.

For the first time since 1985, thisyear’s FSI report has providedenhanced information by addingmore parameters. As around 32 Mhaof forests are intimately linked to thelivelihood of people living in 170,000forest fringe villages, the FSI had cal-culated the dependency of people ineach State for fuel wood, fodder, bam-boo and small timber. The reportgives State-wise details of removal ofthese items and per capita consump-tion. This is pertinent information forassessing the contribution of foreststo the Gross Domestic Product (GDP)and also for infusion of financial andtechnical resources for the manage-ment of forests, as a big chunk are notin a good shape. The ground-levelinformation on changes in biodiver-sity and hydrology is key to combat-

ting climate change and in this year’sreport the biodiversity and wetlandsin 16 forest types have been assessed,which will assist foresters in planningmanagement strategies.

The report provides details of fiveNon-Timber Forest Products(NTFPs) for each State, which reflectsthe contribution of this segment in thelivelihood of rural and tribal belts.Most of the NTFP-producing treesand shrubs are under threat of over-exploitation and poor regeneration.The planners, forest, tribal and ruraldevelopment ministries must have alook at these statistics and plan theirregeneration and efficient manage-ment accordingly.

The study also highlights forestsoccurring in different slopes, whichare an indicator of the stability of theforest ecosystem. The report alsoreveals the threat of invasive speciesdue to anthropological and climaticreasons, in each State.

It is well-known that around 28per cent of the recorded forests (76.74Mha) are without trees and comprisesnow-covered mountains, glaciers,desert and inaccessible treeless rocky

areas above the tree line. These areasare critical for our ecological and eco-nomical lifeline and are a continuoussource of water for our rivers, agricul-ture and forest biodiversity. They mustbe integrated within the overall for-est ecosystems though they may nottechnically qualify as forests. If we addthis 21 Mha to the 80 Mha forest andtree cover, then the ecological life-sus-taining system comes to around 101Mha. Planners, therefore, need tospend at least a certain per cent of ourGDP on this land’s stability.

The 71.22 Mha of forest coverincludes around 20 Mha of thetree/forests having areas over morethan one ha outside recorded forestareas. The areas less than one ha(around 9.5 mha) outside recordedforests are clubbed separately, whichbrings us to the figure of 80.7 Mha oftotal tree and forest cover and thus24.56 per cent of the land mass.

The report, however, gives a dis-mal picture of forests in tribal districts,showing a decrease of forest cover tothe tune of 741 sq km. The livelihoodof tribals is dependent on forests andadequate steps must be taken for the

productive management of land vest-ed under the Forest Rights Act. Eitherthe areas have been cleared of treegrowth due to encroachments or theland use has changed in these forests.Another area of concern is that a largechunk of forests (30 Mha) are in theopen category.

The report also gives a scary pic-ture of the growing stock whichshows extremely poor count of maturetrees. Yet another worrying feature isthat 36 per cent of the forests area isfire-prone. The North-east, centralIndia and Himalayan forests are los-ing rich bio-diversity due to forestfires, which must be curbed.

While the mandarins at the pol-icy-making level have much to rejoiceas the report vindicates the hard workput in by foresters in States, the newparameters in the report are food forthought for foresters and plannersalike to use the information for fine-tuning forest governance.

The report highlights that all isnot well scientifically with our forestecosystems and needs infusion of pol-icy, institutional and technologicalinputs with a pragmatic forward-look-

ing approach to forest management.The State Governments must see thetables for their areas and draw strate-gies for sustainable management ofthe forests. Unless this is done, theeuphoria of increase in forest coverwill be over in a few years.

The FSI had done a commend-able job and the way this organisation’sresponsibilities are increasing, it needssubstantial enhancement in man-power and technology so that itmeets its ever-increasing mandate —like the recent Supreme Court orderon survey of illegal occupation of for-est land. It is time its functioning isreviewed and the post of DG FSI andits regional centres need to be upgrad-ed to attract and retain highly quali-fied professionals.

The organisation should beupgraded to the level of an attachedoffice under the Ministry so that it cangive executive directions requiredfor better coordination with States inthe implementation of the policies laiddown by the Ministry. We owe this toour forests.

(The author is a retired civil servant)

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The terrorist, who was killedin a gunfight with security

forces in Pulwama district onWednesday, was identified as aPakistani national affiliatedwith proscribed Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) outfit, asenior police officer said onFriday, adding the ultra oper-ated in militancy-infested southKashmir under code names“Abu Saifullah” and “AbuQasim”.

The officer said the slainterrorist was wanted in connection with the abduc-tion and killing of two civil-ians and threatening specialpolice officers (SPOs) andnon-local labourers to leavethe Valley.

A close associate of JeMself-styled chief commanderQari Yasir of Pakistan, who waskilled in an encounter withsecurity forces in Kupwara dis-trict in July 2013, Abu Saifullahwas trapped along with his

local associate during a searchand cordon operation atZaintrag village in theAwantipora area of Pulwamaon Tuesday morning, he said.

The operation, which waslaunched on a specific infor-mation, turned into a gun-fight when the hiding terror-ists opened fire on the jointsearch parties of police, 50Rashtriya Rifles and 185Battalion of the CRPF, theofficer said.

The heavy firing by theterrorists resulted in grievousbullet injuries to Sepoy RahulRanswal of the Rashtriya Riflesand SPO Shahbaz Ahmad oflocal police, who were evacu-ated to the Army’s 92 BaseHospital in Srinagar but bothsuccumbed to injuries there, hesaid.

During the process ofevacuation of the injuredjawans, the terrorists fled thecordon area, the officer said,adding they were tracked downin the forest area of Nagander

village, which is about oneKilometer away from theencounter site of Zantrag, nextday resulting in a freshencounter. The “most wanted”terrorist, Abu Saifullah, waskilled there.

However, his other asso-ciate managed to escape and ahunt is on to neutralise him, theofficer said.

“Abu Saifullah has beenactive in Tral and the Khrewarea of Awantipora for morethan one-and-a-half years andwas a close associate of slainJeM chief Qari Yasir. He wasinvolved in the abduction andkilling of two civilians – AbdulQadeer Kohli and ManzoorAhmad Kohli – and injuring ashopkeeper, Naseer AhmadGanie, last year,” he said.Saifullah was also wanted in acase related to pasting ofposters wherein the SPOs werethreatened to leave their jobsand non-local labourers wereasked to leave the valley, theofficer said.

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West Bengal CM MamataBanerjee will now take

up the brush on January 28 toprotest against the amendedCitizenship Act and the pro-posed NRC, well knownpainter Shuvaprasanna who isorganising it said on Friday.

The programme will takeplace at the Gandhi statue onMayo Road, where Banerjee, apainter herself, will wield thebrush along with several otherrenowned painters to depict theproblems of the contentiousCAA and NRC, he said.

The theme of the pro-gramme is ‘No CAA-No NRC’.It has been planned byBanerjee, Shuvaprasanna said.

“Around 40 painters alongwith our CM will try to depictthe protests across the country,the pain of the people who arein detention centres in Assamdue to NRC. It will be a differ-ent form of protest,” he told PTI.

According to TMCsources, the paintings will beexhibited in various galleries of

the state and the country.“These paintings will be a

part of our awareness campaignagainst CAA and NRC acrossthe country and state,” a seniorTMC leader said.

The issue of CAA hasemerged as major political flashpoint in West Bengal with theTMC opposing the contentious

legislation tooth and nail, andthe BJP pressing for its imple-mentationBanerjee, as t a u n c hcritic of BJP, has been at theforefront of anti-CAA protest aswell as against the proposedNational Register of Citizensand the NPR.

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Union Minister of State forHome Affairs G Kishan

Reddy on Friday met J&KLieutenant Governor GirishChandra Murmu and dis-cussed the internal securitysituation of the UT.

The MoS and the LtGovernor discussed a rangeof issues pertaining to theinternal security and laworder management in J&K,an official spokesperson said.

They also had a discus-sion on the border manage-ment, administration of theUT, management of CentralArmed Police Forces, disas-ter management and imple-mentation of several devel-opmental projects and publicwelfare schemes in the UT.

Reddy also shared hisviews with the Lt Governorabout the current

security and develop-

mental scenario in the UT.He observed that the devel-

opment of J&K along withrenewed growth prospects forthe people and maintenance ofsecurity, peace and harmony inJ&K is the foremost agenda ofthe Union Govt and all neces-sary steps would be taken inthis regard.

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Bhim Army chiefChandrashekhar Azad on

Friday hit outat the BJP-ledGovernment at

the Centre, accusing it of “ped-dling lies” on the CitizenshipAmendment Act (CAA),National Population Register(NPR) and National Register ofCitizens (NRC).

Azad, addressing a rally inthis north Bihar town, calledupon the people to carry on“sustained and peacefulprotests”, urging them to drawinspiration from the agitationby women at Delhi’s ShaheenBagh.

“I want to tell people acrossthe country that they are notalone in their fight. The BhimArmy is by their side,” he said.

The Bhim Army chiefaccused the Narendra Modi-led Government of “striking atthe country’s unity and integri-ty” by introducing the CAAwhich “discriminates againstcitizens on the basis of reli-gion”.

He said NPR is seen as a

precursor to (nationwide)NRC, which could be “used todisenfranchise people”.

“The government has beenpeddling lies stating that theAct is a benign one, aimed atgiving citizenship and not tak-ing it away, and misleading thenation by claiming that it is notlinked with NRC.

All these measures willharm the common citizens,”Azad said.

The Ambedkarite also paidtributes to socialist leaderKarpoori Thakur on his birthanniversary on Friday.

Sharing an image of a com-memorative stamp issued inthe memory of the formerBihar chief minister, he tweet-ed, “Attended a rally atMuzaffarpur (Bihar) on thebirth anniversary of Jan NayakKarpoori Thakur, the warriorof social justice.”

“Karpoori Thakur had saidthat if the rights of the peopleare trampled upon, they willchallenge the privileges enjoyedby the Parliament. His wordsproved true with people hittingthe streets in protest againstCAA-NRC,” he tweeted.

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The Internet shutdown hascreated an information

black hole in Kashmir by crip-pling the functioning of thelocal press and severely cur-tailing its coverage of how thepeople have been affected,Senior CPI(M) leader MYTarigami said on Friday.

He said Valley based jour-nalists have had to stand inqueues at the ‘MediaFacilitation Centre’ - set up bythe administration in Srinagar- and rely on a dozen comput-

ers with internet access to filetheir stories and communi-cate with their editors.

“As Internet shutdown inKashmir for the last nearly sixmonths has virtually stoppedfree flow of information, jour-nalists continue to face severerestrictions in all processes of

news gathering, verificationand dissemination leavingbehind a troubled silence thatbodes ill for freedom of expres-sion and media freedom,”Tarigami said in a statement.

“Internet facilities remaininadequate for hundreds ofjournalists and districtreporters who can’t make it tothe centre every day,” he added.

This has virtually madethem dependent on the state,and submission to government-regulated conditions makes amockery of freedom of thepress, the CPI(M) leader said.

“There were no reports onthe effects of the communicationshutdown on everyday lives ofpeople, arrests, crippling ofhealthcare and other emergencyservices. What was not coveredin the local press said a lot aboutthe curtailment of the freedomof the press”, he said.TheConstitution provides the rightof freedom, given in Article 19with the view of guaranteeingindividual rights that were con-sidered vital by the framers ofthe Constitution, he said.

“As we are going to cele-brate 70th Republic Day in twodays time, it is imperative ondemocratic forces including,intelligentsia and the civil soci-ety at large, to put their headstogether, discuss the situationintensively and highlight thesufferings of people of J&K andmake this BJP Governmentaccountable,” he said.

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The CBI has opposed a bailplea filed by Indrani

Mukerjea, a prime accused inthe Sheena Bora murder case,saying that the charges againsther are “serious and grievous innature.”

After failing to secure bailfour times on medical grounds,Mukerjea filed another plea inDecember 2019 in the court ofspecial CBI judge JC Jagdale,seeking bail on the `merits’ ofher case.She was arrested in thecase in 2015.

Opposing her plea, theCentral Bureau of Investigationsaid in its reply two days agothat she was accused of killingher own daughter, and the

charges against her were “seri-ous and grievous” in nature.

Accused-turned-approverShyamvar Rai, Indrani’s formerdriver, has deposed in detailabout how the crime was com-mitted and the evidencedestroyed, the CBI said.

Kajal Agarwal, a witness,stated in her testimony how theconspiracy unfolded and howfake resignation letter, leave andlicense agreement and ID cardwere created in Sheena’s name,the agency said.

Of the 253 witnesses, 60have deposed, the agency said,adding that several key witnessesincluding Rahul, Indrani’s thenhusband Peter Mukerjea’s sonfrom earlier marriage, were yetto be examined.

If released on bail, Indraniwould abscond, or try to influ-ence the witnesses, it said.

According to the CBI,Indrani was opposed to Rahuland Sheena’s relationship. Onthe day Sheena was killed, Rahulhad seen Indrani and her driverwaiting with Indrani’s car whenhe dropped Sheena in Bandra.

Sheena told Rahul that shewill stay with Indrani for thenight and it was the last time hesaw her, the agency said in itsreply. In her bail plea, Indraniclaimed that “there was noevidence in the form of mes-sages, conversations or e-mailsor any communication” toshow that she had hatched aconspiracy to abduct or killSheena.

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Apolitical slugfest broke outin Maharashtra over Home

Minister Anil Deshmukh’s alle-gation that phones ofCongress-NCP leaders weretapped by the previous BJPregime during 2019 Lok Sabhaand Assembly polls as ex-ChiefMinister Devendra Fadnavisstoutly rejected the charge onFriday.

A day after Deshmukhmade the sensational claimand ordered a probe, Fadnavis,the then Chief Minister whoalso held the home portfolio,asserted phone tapping was notthe culture of the state and hisGovernment had not givenany such orders.

Fadnavis pointed out thata Shiv Sena leader was theMinister of State for Home dur-ing his tenure.

The Congress, a key con-stituent of the Maha VikasAghadi (MVA) Government,joined the NCP in attacking theBJP and demanded a high-level

inquiry into the entire episode.“The previous BJP-led

Government had tappedphones of senior NCP andCongress leaders throughGovernment mechanism aheadof the Lok Sabha and Assemblypolls held last year,” Deshmukhalleged.

He said there are also alle-gations that the thenGovernment had sent someofficials to Israel and broughtsoftware to “intercept” phonesof leaders of the Congress andthe NCP, which were then inopposition. Deshmukh did notname the NCP and Congress

leaders whose phones theDevendra Fadnavis-ledGovernment had allegedlytapped. “They had stoopedlow in politics. We have initi-ated probe into it,” the NCPMinister said.

Speaking with the media inBhandara district in Vidarbhaon Friday, Deshmukh reiterat-ed the phone-tapping allega-tions against the BJP-led gov-ernment. “The BJPGovernment, before the polls,tried to gather informationabout what and with whomthese (NCP-Congress) leaderswere talking to,” he said.

Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Rauton Friday said a BJP leader hadinformed him that his phonewas being tapped by theFadnavis Government, inwhich his party was an ally.

“A BJP leader had told methat my phone was beingtapped. I said if anybody wantsto listen to what I am saying Iwelcome it. I am Balasaheb’s‘chela’ (disciple), whatever I do,I do it openly,” Raut told

reporters here.“In spite of the phone-tap-

ping, we formed the govern-ment in Maharashtra,” he said.

The Sena formedGovernment with the Congressand the NCP in November lastyear after snapping its alliancewith the BJP.

On Thursday, Deshmukhhad alleged the Fadnavis dis-pensation misused governmentmachinery to tap the phones ofopposition leaders, especiallyduring the formation of theMVA Government inNovember.

“The cyber cell of theMaharashtra police has beenasked to look into the variouscomplaints of snooping/phonetapping that came in during theprevious government,”Deshmukh had said.

Housing Minister JitendraAwhad, an NCP leader, onFriday said the phone tappingepisode smacks of “sick men-tality” of the BJP and added itshould be probed as to why theprevious government did so.

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The Supreme Court allowedthe Rajasthan State

Election Commission (SEC)on Friday to hold ‘panchayat’polls in the State by April thisyear.

The top court had earlierstayed the Rajasthan HighCourt’s order cancelling the notifications reorganisingcertain ‘gram panchayats’ and ‘panchayat samitis’ in theState after November 15-16,2019.

A bench, comprisingChief Justice SA Bobde andJustices BR Gavai and SuryaKant, was told by the StateGovernment that the high court quashed thedel imitat ion of cer tain ‘panchayats’ and that order was stayed by the topcourt.

Later, the SEC stayed the‘panchayat’ polls which should

be conducted, senior advocateA M Singhvi said.

The bench took note of theplea of the State Governmentand the statement of the Statepoll body on the possibility ofconducting the ‘panchyat’ elec-tions.

“KV Vishwanathan, seniorcounsel appearing for thenewly added respondent –State Election Commission,states that the elections will beheld in accordance with thenotifications.

He further states that theelections will be held accordingto law in the second half ofApril, 2020. Order according-ly,” the bench said in its order.The high court, in Decemberlast year, had nullified ‘pan-chayat’ bodies created afterNovember 15-16.

It had termed the delimi-tation notification of 627 gram‘panchayats’ in Rajasthan as“void”.

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Around 50 women sat on aprotest against the

Citizenship (Amendment) Actand National Register ofCitizens in Uttar Pradesh’sSambhal district on Friday.

The women raised slogansagainst CAA and NRC atPakka Bag Kheda in Nakhasaarea, claiming the two are“undemocratic” and “against

Muslims”.They also raised slogans,

including “hum leke rahengeazadi”, “CAA se azadi”, “RSS seazadi”, “Gandhi wali azadi”.

Samajwadi Party MPShafiqur Rahman Barq visit-ed the protestors and said,“The government wants tomake Muslims secondary cit-izens” and added that hisparty will raise the issue inParliament.

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Badrilal Yadav was arrestedon Friday for allegedly makingan objectionable remarkagainst Rajgarh collector NidhiNivedita during a public meet-ing, police said.

However, a JudicialMagistrate First Class (JMFC)court later granted bail toYadav on a personal bond of�20,000, he said.

The former Minister ofState was arrested from his res-idence in Biaora city (inRajgarh district) on Fridayafternoon in the case registeredagainst him under IPC sections294 (obscene act) and 188(disobedience to order dulypromulgated by public ser-vant) on Thursday, RajgarhSuperintendent of Police (SP)Pradeep Sharma said.

“Yadav was produced inthe JMFC court, which grant-ed bail to him on the personalbond of Rs 20,000,” he added.

Biaora City police stationin-charge D P Lohia said thatapart from this, the formerminister was also arrested onFriday in an old case registeredagainst him under IPC section188.

The JMFC granted bail tohim in that case as well on apersonal bond of �20,000.

A case had been registeredagainst Yadav on Thursday formaking an objectionableremark against the woman col-lector, who is accused of slap-ping a BJP worker during a pro-Citizenship (Amendment) Act(CAA) rally held five days ago.

Yadav had made an inde-cent remark against the collec-tor during a protest organisedby the BJP at Biaora in Rajgarhdistrict on Wednesday

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Ten eminent women administrators, artists,scientists and social reformers, including

Hansa Mehta and Devi Ahilya Bai Holkar, willhave Chairs in universities in their names, theGovernment said on Friday.

The announcement was made by thewomen and child development Ministry onNational Girl Child Day.

The 10 Chairs will be set up with theUniversity Grants Commission’s assistance andwith an aim to carry out research in different

fields, according to a statement. The initiative is called “establishment of

chairs in universities in the name of eminentwomen administrators, artists, scientists andsocial reformers”, it said. These will be establishedfor a period of five years initially, as per guide-lines, according to the statement.

The chairs are being named after Holkarqueen Devi Ahilyabai Holkar, litterateurMahadevi Verma, freedom fighter from theNorth East Rani Gaidinliu, physician AnandibaiGopalrao Joshi, Carnatic singer MSSubbulakshmi, forest conservationist Amrita

Devi Beniwal, mathe-matician Lilavati, sci-entist Kamala Sohonie,poet Lal Ded and edu-cational reformistHansa Mehta.

The financialimplications of the pro-posal is �50 lakh perChair for a year and thetotal expenditure forestablishing them willbe about �5 crore perannum, the statementsaid.

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Dalit leader PrakashAmbedkar on Friday

demanded that theMaharashtra Governmentarrest the “political bosses” onwhose instructions the policearrested activists in connectionwith the Koregaon-Bhima vio-lence.

Ambedkar’s remarks followreports of NCP presidentSharad Pawar writing toMaharashtra Chief MinisterUddhav Thackeray, allegingthat the violence was the resultof a conspiracy hatched by thethen BJP-led Government withthe help of police, and seeking

an SIT probe.NCP sources con-firmed that Pawar had writtena letter some ten days ago, butdid not disclose its contents.

Speaking to reporters here,Ambedkar asked Pawar tomake public the “documents”he has in his possession.

“Pawar has written to thegovernment is what I have readin newspapers. My only requestto the Government is it shouldassure the (police) officials whoare involved that it won’t take action againstthem even if they were wrong,” Ambedkarsaid.

“But they should disclosewho were the political boss-es who gave the orders (toarrest activists) and theGovernment should actagainst such political bosses,”the leader of the VanchitBahujan Aghadi said.According to Pune police, theElgar Parishad conclave heldin Pune on December 31,2017, was supported byMaoists and inflammatoryspeeches made at the event

led to caste violence atKoregaon-Bhima war memor-ial in the district the next day.

The Left-leaning activistsarrested during the probe hadlinks with Maoists, policeclaimed, booking them underthe Unlawful Activities(Prevention) Act.

Sudhir Dhawale, RonaWilson, Surendra Gadling,Mahesh Raut, Shoma Sen,Arun Ferreira, VernonGonsalves, Sudha Bharadwajand Varavara Rao were arrest-ed in the case.

Last month, Pawar hadtermed the arrests as “wrong”and “vengeful” and demandedprobe by a special investigationteam.

Meanwhile, BJP leader andformer minister Vinod Tawdealleged that Pawar wanted toprotect “urban naxals”.

“It is unfortunate thatPawar, who had been a ChiefMinister and (state) HomeMinister (should write such aletter.

It is not expected of Pawarsaheb,” he told reporters.

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The BSF said on Friday thatthere has been an increase

in the outflow of illegalBangladeshi migrants to theirhome country over the past onemonth, following the enact-ment of the Citizenship(Amendment) Act or CAA.

A top official of the para-military force said there hasbeen a spike in the number ofillegal settlers apprehendedsince last month.

The outflow has beenhighest through the borders inthe North 24 Parganas district,BSF Inspector General (SouthBengal Frontier) Y B Khuraniasaid. “There has been someincrease in outflow of illegalBangladeshi migrants to thebordering country in last onemonth. In January alone, wehad apprehended 268 illegalBangladeshi migrants, most ofwho were trying to sneak into

the neighbouring country,”Khurania told reporters.

Those leaving were most-ly engaged as masons, maidsand housekeepers in the coun-try, another Border SecurityForce (BSF) official said.

“The highest outflow isvia North 24 Parganas dis-trict. They (migrants) weremostly based in Bengaluru andnorth India. Some wereinvolved in paltry jobs such asmasons, maids, housekeepersand sweepers,” he said.

In 2019, the BSF had

apprehended 2,194Bangladeshis, most of themcaught while trying to illegal-ly sneak into India. But sinceDecember last year, things havechanged, the official said.West Bengal shares about2,216.7-km border withBangladesh, a large part ofwhich is unfenced.

According to BSF sources,troopers were not stopping theimmigrants from crossing overto their home country, exceptin cases when they were foundto be smuggling goods.

“Only when they are con-cealing any contraband or try-ing to smuggle something toBangladesh, we are apprehend-ing them. Otherwise, we are tak-ing a note of their particularsand details and letting them goback,” one of the sources said.

According to the BSF, oneof the biggest achievements ofthe South Bengal Frontier in2019 has been putting a checkon cross-border cattle smug-gling.

“In 2018, the number ofcattle seized was around 39,995and in 2019 it had come downto 31,210. This year so far thefigure is just 1,301,” he said.

The CAA seeks to provideIndian citizenship to Hindus,Jains, Christians, Sikhs,Buddhists and Parsis whomoved to India on or beforeDecember 31, 2014, havingfled religious persecution inBangladesh, Pakistan andAfghanistan.

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The National InvestigationAgency on Friday filed a

chargesheet in a court hereagainst two suspectedBangladeshi terrorists, whohad entered India illegally andconcealed their identity byprocuring fake Aadhaar cards.

The charge sheet wasfiled against Mahmud Hassanalias Shariful Islam andMohamad Sa’ad Hussain aliasMohamad Sayad Hussainunder various sections of theIndian Penal Code,Foreigners Act and UnlawfulActivities (Prevention) Act,the agency said in a state-ment.

The two were detained byvillagers in Silsuri when theycould not produce valid doc-

uments and gave unsatisfac-tory replies about theirantecedents and presence inthe area, it said.

“They were later handedover to the BSF personnel ofSilsuri Border Out-Post(BOP), who in turn handedover the two accused to policestation Marpara.

The local police registeredthe case for investigationwhich was later handed over toNIA,” it said.

The agency said its inves-tigation has established thatboth the suspects are membersof Ansar-al-Islam, a bannedterrorist organisation inBangladesh.

“Both the accused crossedthe international border ofIndia and Bangladesh illegal-ly in the state of Tripura in

November 2018. They con-cealed their location and iden-tity based on fake Aadhaarcards,” it said.

These fake Aadhaar cardswere given to them by theirhandlers in Bangladesh. “Investigation furtherrevealed that accusedMahmud Hassan aliasShariful Islam had travelledfrom Agartala to Bangalore inpursuance to conspiracy ofterrorist acts in India andstayed in Bangalore for eightto nine months (November2018 to July 2019),” theagency said.

He recceed public placesin Bangalore, the NIA said.

Investigation has alsorevealed that on instructions ofhis handler, the accused finan-cially assisted another arrest-

ed ABT (Ansarullah BanglaTeam) member lodged inKolkata jail.

ABT is another bannedterrorist organization inBangladesh.

“Both the accused latercriminally conspired, as perdirections of their handlers inBangladesh and tried to pro-cure weapons from variousplaces in the state of Tripuraand Mizoram in pursuance ofthe conspiracy of committingterrorist acts in India,” theagency said.

A large amount of incrim-inating documents were recov-ered from their seized digitaldevices, it said.

Mizoram police registereda case in this regard in July lastyear, which was taken over byNIA in September.

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Rajasthan Governor KalrajMishra on Friday said the

Government is working tobring a legislation on “right tohealth” to provide healthcarefacilities to people of the State.

Delivering his address onthe first day of the Budget ses-sion, which was later boy-cotted by the opposition BJPand RLP MLAs, Mishra saidthe state government haslaunched ‘Nirogi Rajasthan’campaign on December 18last year and was making con-stant efforts to provide health-care facilities to the people.

He said the Governmentwas working on “right tohealth” legislation to make itmandatory to provide health-care facilities to the people.

Mishra said the StateGovernment has so far allo-cated a budget of �47.80 croreas agriculture grant to farmersin six districts - Jalore,Jaisalmer, Barmer, Bikaner, Paliand Jodhpur - where locustattack has damaged crops.

He said the Government

took prompt action and got the‘girdawari’ (assessment report)prepared in the affected areas.

The Governor saidRajasthan became the firstState in the country to make thearrangement of FIR registrationat SP offices in case the FIR isnot registered at police stations.

Due to this historic deci-sion, the number of FIRs willincrease, he said.

“It is the duty of theGovernment which works forpublic welfare to ensure thateveryone is heard and getsjustice,” he said.

Rajasthan was the firststate to pass a bill to curb inci-dents of honour killing and sec-ond state where a bill againstmob lynching was passed, hesaid.

It was expected that thegovernment of India will coop-erate in implementing them.

Mishra said Rajasthan isthe first state to bring an ordi-nance to exempt MSMEs forthree years from gettingapproval and clearances to startoperations. Certificates to 2,811business units have been pro-

vided under this till December31, 2019, he said.

The governor highlightedother achievements of theGovernment during his speech,which was interrupted by theleader of oppositionGulabchand Kataria.

As soon as the Governorbegan the address, Katariaraised objection over the man-ner in which the session washurriedly called and said therules and procedures were notfollowed.

“A prior notice has to beissued before the session iscalled but this was not followed.The notice has to be issued 21days prior to the beginning ofthe session. The session hasbeen called hurriedly and inemergency,” he said.

Kataria said a bill to extendreservation to SC and ST inLok Sabha and StateAssemblies for another 10 yearshas to be ratified by January 25but the Government was care-less about it earlier. The sessionwas hurriedly called when thelast date of ratification wasnear, he said.

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Maharashtra MinisterJitendra Ahwad on Friday

said the Koregaon-Bhima vio-lence case, filed during the pre-vious BJP regime, was a “con-spiracy” to malign the image ofactivists sympathetic to Dalitcauses.

Addressing a press confer-ence here, the NCP leader saidthe case, in which some humanrights activists have been fac-ing charges of Maoist links andalso booked under the anti- ter-ror act UAPA, should be inves-tigated again.

“I have said several timesthat the Koregaon-Bhima casewas a conspiracy to malignactivists who are sympathetic toDalit causes,” he said.

“Taking action againstthose who recite poems ofNamdeo Dhasal (a Marathipoet & Dalit activist) andarresting people on allegationsof plotting to kill (PrimeMinister Narendra) Modi is toomuch.

The case should be inves-

tigated again,” the ministersaid. Speaking on otherissues, Ahwad said the gov-ernment has decided to reserve10 per cent houses construct-ed by state-run board MHADAfor police personnel and samepercentage for Class 4 employ-ees of the state administration.

The case, also called ElgarParishad case, relates to vio-lence near the Koregaon-Bhima war memorial in Punedistrict on January 1, 2018.

According to the Punepolice, “inflammatory” speech-es delivered

at a conclave, ElgarParishad - held on December31, 2017 - had triggered theviolence at Koregaon-Bhima.

The Pune Police haveclaimed the conclave wasbacked by Maoists. Theparishad, they alleged, insti-gated violence near theKoregaon Bhima war memor-ial on January 1, 2018.

Some rights activists werearrested in the case by the Punepolice and booked for allegedlinks with Maoists.

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The Maharashtra bandh,called by the Prakash

Ambedkar-led VanchitBahujan Aghadi (VBA) tooppose the CitizenshipAmendment Act (CAA) andNational Register of Citizens(NRC) failed to evoke desiredresponse on Friday, even asthe protesters vandalisedbuses and indulged in vio-lence at some places across thestate.

In all, VBA and 35 otherorganisations had cometogether to organise thebandh. In the run up to andduring the course of thebandh, the police haddetained an estimated 3000Dalit activists and othersbelonging to the organisationssupporting the bandh as aprecautionary measure.

The detained activistswere, however, let off later inthe night. VBA’s founder pres-ident Prakash Ambedkarclaimed that the bandh was asuccess.”We have not forcedanyone to join the bandh. Norhave workers indulged in vio-lence. By and large, the bandhwas a total success,”

Ambedkar said, while talking tomedia persons in theevening.There was some impactof bandh in places like Mumbai,Thane, Ulhasnagar, Bhiwandi,Akola, Jalgaon, Baramati, Jalna,Nandurbar, Nashik Hingoli andPune.

Shops and business estab-lishments remained in most ofthese places. There were how-ever, no reports of major dis-ruptions from other parts of thestate. Notwithstanding theclaims to the contrary byAmbedkar, the VBA activistsforced the shop keepers toshut down the shops in placeslike Chembur, Wadala,Mulund, Airoli, Ghatkopar,Govandi, Trombay and Kurla.However, normal life remainedunaffected.

The protesters indulged instone pelting and vandalised aBEST at Chembur in north-cen-tral Mumbai.

The driver, identified asVilas B. Dabhade (53), wasinjured in the incident. He wasadmitted to the ShatabdiHospital at Govandi. However,the passengers in the busescaped unhurt.

There were reports of spo-radic incidents of violence fromsome parts of the state. The inci-dents included creating block-ades along the roads and hurling of stones atbuses.

In Mumbai, Thane andmost other places across thestate, normal life remainedunaffected. The suburban trains– the life lines of Mumbai andsurrounding satellite townships– ran normally, while the roadtraffic was also not hit by thebandh. In his interaction withthe media, Amedhkar said:“Since the people are getting toknow more and more about thedangers posed by the CAA,NRC and NPR, we received fair-ly good response for the bandh.

The CAA and NRC will notaffected just Muslims, they willalso affected a sizeable section of

the Hindus across the country. The people will find it dif-

ficult to prove their citizenship,because of lack of documentswith them”.

Ambedkar said thatFinance Minister NirmalaSitaraman would present a

deficit budget in February. “Inthe normal course, theGovernment was to have raiseda revenue of �24 lakh crore dur-ing the financial year 2019-20.But, the revenue collection maynot even �9 lakh crore,”Ambedkar said.

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IMF chief KristalinaGeorgieva on Friday said

growth slowdown in Indiaappears to be temporary andthat she expects the momen-tum to improve going ahead.

The world appears a betterplace in January 2020 com-pared to what it was when IMFannounced its WorldEconomic Outlook in October2019, she said at the WorldEconomic Forum (WEF) 2020here.

She said the factors drivingthis positive momentuminclude receding trade tensionafter the US-China first phasetrade deal and synchronised taxcuts, among others.

She, however, said 3.3 per

cent is not a fantastic growthrate for the world economy.

“It is still sluggish growth.We want fiscal policies to bemore aggressive and we wantstructural reforms and moredynamism,” the ManagingDirector of the InternationalMonetary Fund (IMF) said.

On Monday, the fund low-ered growth estimate for theworld economy to 2.9 per centfor 2019, citing “negative sur-prises” in few emerging marketeconomies, especially India.

The IMF also reviseddownwards its forecast forIndia to 4.8 per cent for 2019-20.

Regarding emerging mar-kets, Georgieva on Friday saidthey are also moving forward.

“We had a downgrade in

one large market India but webelieve that’s temporary. Weexpect momentum to improvefurther going ahead. There arealso some bright spots likeIndonesia and Vietnam,” shenoted.

According to Georgieva, anumber of African countriesare doing very well, but some

other nations like Mexico are not.

On risks ahead for theglobal economy, the IMF chieflisted factors like weakness inlong-term productivity growthand low inflation.

“We are living in a morerisk-prone world. It is onlyJanuary and there have been

events that are sparking risksfor the global economy,” sheadded.

Releasing an update to itsWorld Economic Outlook(WEO) on Monday, the IMFhad said global growth, esti-mated at 2.9 per cent in 2019,is projected to increase to 3.3per cent in 2020 and inch up further to 3.4 per centin 2021.

Compared to the OctoberWEO forecast, the estimatefor 2019 and the projection for2020 represent 0.1 percentagepoint reductions for each yearwhile that for 2021 is 0.2 per-centage point lower.

“A more subdued growthforecast for India... Accountsfor the lion’s share of the down-ward revisions,” it had said.

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India can end up with a realGDP growth of five per cent

this financial year excluding theinflation rate, Bibek Debroy, thechairman of PM’s EconomicAdvisory Council said onFriday.

In the present scenarioachieving a nine per cent GDPgrowth will be difficult, hesaid at the Tata Steel KolkataLiterary Meet here.

“The aspirational growthrate could be between 6.5 percent to 7 per cent. At this stageit will be difficult to attain nine per cent GDPgrowth,” he said.

“This year the growth ratewill end at five per cent and thisis real and not nominal... Nextyear, the GDP growth ratecould be anything between 6 to6.5 per cent,” he said.

Recently IMF had peggedIndia’s GDP growth at 4.8 percent for 2019-20, much lessthan its October projection of6.1 per cent.

Debroy said that Indianeconomy at present is growing

in an environment which issomewhat protectionist andhas declining exports.

“The period during whichthe country grew at high GDPgrowth rates like nine per cent,the exports-to-GDP ratio was20 per cent. But now withdeveloped countries resortingto protectionism and after thecollapse of the WTO, contri-bution of exports to GDP in alarge way does not seem pos-sible”, he said.

Debroy said “With Indiabeing strong in services and notmanufacturing, the countrywill have to give some to getsome. It is a quid pro quo sit-uation particularly in a region-al trade bloc kind of arrange-ment”.

On taxation regime, hesaid that the country is movingtowards stable direct tax regimewithout any exemption.

“Goods and Services Tax(GST) is still work in progress.GST was supposed to be rev-enue neutral. But the govern-ment has lost revenue post-GST implementation, which isnot tenable,” Debroy said.

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With just a week left for thebudget, Reserve Bank

Governor Shaktikanta Das onFriday called for structuralreforms and more fiscal mea-sures to revive consumptiondemand and the overallgrowth, saying monetary pol-icy has its own limitations toachieve these objectives.

The Narendra Modi gov-ernment in its second term willpresent the first full budget nextSaturday, at a time when theadvance estimate of GDP hasprojected nominal growthplunging to a 48-year-low of 7.5per cent and real growth hittingan 11-year low of 5 per cent orthereabout.

“Monetary policy has itsown limits. Structural reformsand fiscal measures may haveto be continued and furtheractivated to provide a durable

push to demand and boostgrowth,” Das told the studentsof St Stephen’s College, Delhi,his alma mater. The statementhas to be seen in the context ofgrowth hitting a six-year low of4.5 percent in the Septemberquarter.

It can be noted that suc-cessive GDP prints have beenhurtling down quarter afterquarter since the second termof the Modi government.Falling consumer price infla-tion has given the legroom tothe central bank to cut interestrates by a whopping 135 bps to

a nine-year low of 5.15 per centin four successive rate reduc-tions between February andOctober 2019.

Even a historic corporatetax cut to a low 25 per cent lastAugust did not revive the ani-mal spirit of the economy asamidst falling demand compa-nies are holding back invest-ment into capacity addition asmost of them are under-utilis-ing their installed capacity.

Das also listed out some ofthe priority areas where struc-tural reforms are necessaryand if carried out in earnest canact as potential growth driversand through backward andforward linkages can give sig-nificant push to growth.

He called for prioritisingfood processing industries,tourism, e-commerce and star-tups and also making thedomestic economy a part of theglobal value chain.

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The Income TaxDepartment’s searches on

the Bharat Hotels Group thatruns a chain of luxury unitsunder the Lalit Hotels brandhas led to the detection of“undisclosed” foreign assets ofover �1,000 crore and hugeblack money that the businesshouse has “stashed” abroad, theCBDT said on Friday.

While the policy-makingbody of the department did nottake any names in the state-ment, official sources con-firmed it to be the BharatHotels Group that functionsunder its Chief ManagingDirector (CMD) Jyotsna Suri.

The department hadlaunched raids at 13 premisesof the group, Suri, and otherson January 19 in and around

Delhi.“The investigation has suc-

cessfully lifted the veil leadingto detection of undisclosedforeign assets of more than�1,000 crore, apart fromdomestic tax evasion of morethan �35 crore, which may leadto consequences under theBlack Money Act, 2015, asalso, action under the I-T Act,respectively,” the Central Boardof Direct Taxes (CBDT) said.

“Foreign assets includeinvestment in a hotel in the UK,immovable properties in theUK and the UAE and depositswith foreign banks,” it said.

The CBDT said the groupis a “leading member of thehospitality industry, running ahotel abroad and a chain of lux-ury hotels under a prominentbrand name situated at variouslocations in India”.

New Delhi: The Supreme CourtFriday stayed the order of appel-late tribunal NCLAT whichhad dismissed the plea filed byRegistrar of Companies (RoC)seeking impleadment and mod-ification of its last month’s ver-dict in the Tata-Mistry case.

In its January 6 order, theNational Company LawAppellate Tribunal (NCLAT)had rejected RoC’s plea sayingthat no aspersions were cast onthe Registrar in terming as ille-gal the decision to allow con-version of Tata Sons Pvt Ltd(TSPL) into a private company.

Aggrieved by the order,TSPL filed a fresh appeal in theapex court claiming that theNCLAT, while dismissingRoC’s plea, had assigned “freshand additional reasons” to sup-port the conclusion reached byit in its last month’s verdict.

The NCLAT verdict ofDecember 18, 2019, which hadrestored Cyrus Mistry as theexecutive chairman of the TataGroup, has already been stayedon January 10 by the apex courtwhich observed that there were“lacunae” in the orders passedby the appellate tribunal.

The TSPL’s fresh appealcame up for hearing on Fridaybefore a bench comprising ChiefJustice SA Bobde and Justices BRGavai and Surya Kant.

“We will pass the sameorder,” the bench told senioradvocate Abhishek ManuSinghvi, who was appearing forTata Sons Pvt Ltd, and stayedthe NCLAT’s order. The Benchalso issued notices to CyrusMistry, Cyrus Investments PvtLtd and others on the plea andsaid it would be heard alongwith the main matter. PTI

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Around 14.33 lakh jobs werecreated in November 2019

as compared with 12.60 lakh inthe previous month, accordingto payroll data of theEmployees’ State InsuranceCorporation (ESIC).

Gross enrolments of newsubscribers with ESIC were1.49 crore during the entirefinancial year 2018-19, theNational Statistical Office(NSO) said in a report. It alsoshowed that during theSeptember 2017-November2019 period, around 3.37 crorenew subscribers joined theESIC scheme.

The NSO’s report is basedon the payroll data of new sub-scribers of various social secu-rity schemes run by ESIC,retirement fund body EPFOand the Pension FundRegulatory and DevelopmentAuthority (PFRDA).

It has been releasing thepayroll data or new subscribersdata of these three bodies sinceApril 2018, covering a periodstarting from September 2017.

The report showed thatgross new enrolments with theESIC during the September2017-March 2018 period were83.35 lakh.

A net of 11.62 lakh newenrolments with theEmployees’ Provident FundOrganisation (EPFO) wererecorded in November 2019,compared with 6.47 lakh inOctober last year.

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Union Minister PiyushGoyal on Friday discussed

with World Trade Organizationchief Roberto Azevedo chal-lenges in the multilateral trad-ing system as well as India’s pre-paredness to engage in reformsaimed at bringing inclusivityand transparency.

Goyal, who is here toattend the World EconomicForum (WEF) annual summit,met European Union tradecommissioner Phil Hogan, for-mer US Vice President AlGore, renowned economistand Nobel laureate MichaelSpence, and Singapore’sMinister-in-Charge of TradeRelations S Iswaran, amongothers.

He also held discussionswith Blackstone GroupChairman, CEO and Co-Founder Stephen ASchwarzman, South Africa’sMinister of Trade and IndustryEbrahim Patel and ABBChairman and CEO PeterVoser, according to a series oftweets by Goyal.

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The insurance industry isexpecting more tax incen-

tives to increase the penetrationof life and general cover amongpublic in the upcoming UnionBudget.

In a pre-budget memo-randum, the Life InsuranceCouncil has sought a separatededuction in personal taxes oran increase in the present limitfor the premium paid for indi-vidual life policies.

Finance Minister NirmalaSitharaman is scheduled topresent the Budget for financial year 2020-21 onFebruary 1.

“We request FinanceMinister to consider a separatededuction to be provided forpremium paid on individuallife policies,” Life InsuranceCouncil’s Secretary SNBhattacharya said.

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The Supreme Court onFriday exempted Sahara

group chief Subrata Roy andtwo other directors from per-sonal appearance till “furtherorders” in a case related to theiralleged failure in depositing�25,700 crore in the SEBI-Sahara account for returninginvestors’ money.

The top court, on January31 last year, had directed Royand two other directors, RaviShankar Dubey and AshokRoy Choudhary, to personallyappear before it “to enable thecourt to pass appropriate ordersso that the law can take its owncourse and reach the desiredconclusion”.

It had said that the effortsof the Sahara group to pay backdid not “inspire the confi-dence of the court” as its orderfor deposit of �25,700 crore hasnot been complied with so far.

Roy was sent to the TiharJail by the apex court on March4, 2014 and came out on paroleafter spending over two yearsin prison on May 6, 2016 toperform the last rites of hismother Chhabi Roy. He hasbeen out of prison since then.New Delhi: Shares of Infosys on

Friday managed to pare somelosses after falling over 1 per centduring the day amid reports thatmarket watchdog Sebi is likely tocall for forensic audit of booksof the company on whistle-blower allegations of financialirregularities at the firm.

The scrip declined 1.37per cent to �773.80 during theday on the BSE. Later, it closed

at �782.95, down 0.20 per cent.At the NSE, shares of the

company fell 1.37 per cent to�773.60 during the day. PTI

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Liverpool manager JurgenKlopp hailed another

moment of magic fromRoberto Firmino as theBrazilian’s late winner openedup a 16-point lead at the top ofthe Premier League with a 2-1 victory at Wolves onThursday.

The European champi-ons’ now 14-game winningstreak in the league seemed setto end as Raul Jimenez can-celled out Jordan Henderson’searly opener.

Liverpool were even grate-ful to goalkeeper AlissonBecker for not falling behindin the second half.

However, like crucial vic-tories against Leicester, AstonVilla and Crystal Palace earli-er in the campaign, Liverpoolleft it late to snatch anoth-er vital three points in theirquest to end a 30-year waitto win the title as Firminosmashed home six minutesfrom time.

“You just have to finda way to win and have some-one who makes the perfect

decision and that was Bobbyagain,” said Klopp.

“A worldie I would sayfrom Bobby, a super goal.”

Liverpool, who nowhave 22 wins in 23league games this sea-son, also have a game inhand over second-placed Manchester Cityto come.

However, victory couldstill come at a cost as Mane

hobbled off with a hamstringinjury in the first half.

“We don’t know exactly(the severity of the injury). Hefelt something in the ham-string,” added Klopp, whoseside are also still in the hunt forthe FA Cup and ChampionsLeague.

Defeat leaves Wolves stillsix points off the top four inseventh, but Nuno EspiritoSanto’s side showed why theyare on form the most likelychallengers to fourth-placedChelsea for a place in next sea-son’s Champions League.

“It was a fantastic game offootball,” said Nuno. “We haveto keep going and keep gettingstronger.”

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Atletico Madrid were knocked out ofthe Copa del Rey on Thursday,

defeated 2-1 in extra-time bythird division Cultural Leonesa.

Atletico, who are third in LaLiga and are looking forward to aChampions League clash nextmonth against Liverpool, were oneof four top-flight sides dumpedout of the tournament on Thursday atthe last 32 stage.

Argentine striker Angel Correaput them in front in the 62 minutesbefore Leonesa levelled seven minutesfrom the end through Julen Castaeda.

Sergio Benito then delieveredthe winner for the hosts in thesecond period of extra-time.

Defeat completes amiserable January forDiego Simeone’s Atleticowho were defeated in theSpanish Super Cup byReal Madrid and 2-0 atEibar in La Liga last week-end.

“The responsibility ismine alone,” admittedSimeone.

“Cultural deserved thevictory, we had no force-fulness.”

Also exiting the Copa del Rey onThursday were Eibar, Real Betis andCelta Vigo.

REAL TO GO TO ZARAGOZAReal Madrid were on

Friday drawn away to six-timewinners Zaragoza whileBarcelona take on La Ligarivals Leganes in the last 16 ofthe Copa del Rey.

Looking to win the Cup for thefirst time since 2014, Madrid will trav-

el to La Romareda next week toface Zaragoza, who were rele-gated from the top flight in2013 and have not been backbut did beat Mallorca in thelast 32.

The Catalans, who havewon the Copa del Rey moretimes than any other cluband reached the last sixfinals, will entertain aLeganes side sitting in therelegation zone in La Liga.

Meanwhile, third-tierCultural Leonesa’s rewardis a home tie against theholders, Valencia.

Real Sociedad andOsasuna will meet inthe only other tiebetween two top-flight teams.

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Serena Williams crashed out, 15-year-old Coco Gauff stunnedNaomi Osaka and Roger Federer

survived a five-set thriller as the formbook went flying out of the window atthe Australian Open on Friday.

Men’s title-holder Novak Djokoviceased into the last 16 but elsewherethere were surprises all over MelbournePark with Williams the biggest victimand Federer fighting back from 4-8down in a fifth-set tie-break with JohnMillman.

Williams’ bid for a record-equalling24th Grand Slam was shattered by theunlikely figure of China’s Wang Qiang,who triumphed in three tough sets —after winning just one game when theyplayed at the US Open in September.

Gauff then stepped up her giant-killing Melbourne debut as sheousted Japanese defendingchampion Osaka, 22, in dismis-sive style, winning 6-3, 6-4 injust 67 minutes to reach roundfour.

“Oh my gosh. Two years agoI lost first round in the juniors and nowI’m here — this is crazy,” said theteenager, who shocked Venus Williamsin the first round.

Federer came within a whisker ofrepeating his 2018 US Open upset byMillman as he was taken to five pun-ishing sets by the tough Australian.

The 20-time Grand Slam champi-on was facing defeat in the super tie-breaker but he clawed back from 4-8down to clinch his 100th win at theAustralian Open.

“Oh God, it was tough,” saidFederer. “Thank God it was a super tie-breaker (10 points), otherwise I wouldhave lost this one.

“It came down to the wire in theend.”

‘I MADE IT HAPPEN’With Williams now 38, 23 years

older than Gauff, the two players are atopposite ends of their careers.

And with Williams’ close friendCaroline Wozniacki retiring on Friday,after defeat to Ons Jabeur, it looked likea changing of the guard in women’s ten-nis.

But Williams, who has now hadeight winless Grand Slams since return-ing from childbirth, said she hadn’tgiven up hope of matching MargaretCourt’s 47-year-old record for GrandSlam titles.

“I definitely do believe (I can equalit) or I wouldn’t be on tour,” saidWilliams.

Williams was the bookies’ favouriteto lift the trophy for the eighth time butshe came unstuck againsta determined Wang, whowon 6-4, 6/7 (2/7), 7-5.

Her defeat came justminutes after Denmark’s Wozniackiwas knocked out by Tunisia’s Jabeur,bringing a tearful end to the formerworld number one’s final tournamentbefore retiring.

“I had a dream when I was a kid. Iwanted to win a Grand Slam. I want-ed to be number one in the world,” saidWozniacki, the Melbourne winner in2018.

“People thought that I was crazybeing from a small country. But I madeit happen.”

RATTLED OSAKAWilliams’ exit removes a major hur-

dle for Australia’s world number oneAshleigh Barty, 23, who had been on

course to meet her in the semi-finals.Barty, bidding to become the first

Australian champion since 1978, hitform in a 6-3, 6-2 demolition of ElenaRybakina, saying she had played herbest tennis so far this year.

Gauff, who trained with SerenaWilliams in the off-season, hadpromised she would be less nervous thanin her last meeting with Osaka, when shewas thrashed in round three of last year’sUS Open.

And so it proved as the teenagerbroke once in the first set and twice inthe second to floor a rattled Osaka andramp up a rivalry that could run and

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Romelu Lukaku believes hemade the right decision to

leave Manchester United for anew challenge at Inter Milan,saying he had to “re-find” him-self after a difficult time at OldTrafford.

The Belgium striker joinedUnited from Everton for £75million ($98 million) in July2017, scoring 42 goals in his twoseasons at the club before mov-ing to Inter in August last year.

He has been in superb formfor Antonio Conte’s side, scor-ing 18 goals to help the club sus-tain a challenge for the Serie Atitle.

Those performances, andUnited’s reported interest insigning a striker this month afterMarcus Rashford’s back injury,have raised questions as to thewisdom of allowing Lukaku toleave Old Trafford.

But, in an interview with SkySports News, the 26-year-oldsaid the decision was his and ithad worked out well for Unitedas well.

“I think I had to re-findmyself,” he said. “Last year wasdifficult for me on the profes-

sional side because stuff was notgoing how I wanted and I wasnot performing as well... and Ijust came to the conclusion thatit was time for me to changeenvironment.

“I made my decision aroundMarch, and I went to the man-ager’s office (Ole GunnarSolskjaer) and I told him it wastime for me to find somethingelse.”

“I think I made the rightdecision and I think ManchesterUnited now has made space for

the younger players to comethrough so I think it was a bit ofa win-win situation for both ofus,” he added.

The Belgian was signed forUnited by Jose Mourinho andhad an excellent first season,scoring 27 goals as United fin-ished second in the PremierLeague.

But Mourinho was sackedin December 2018 after a disap-pointing start to the season, withLukaku also unable to discoverhis best form.

Former Chelsea managerConte has managed to bring thebest out of Lukaku this season,pairing him with Argentine for-ward Lautaro Martinez to lethaleffect.

Lukaku said the Italianknew how to extract the mostfrom his whole squad butrevealed he was not afraid to gettough with the players.

“The manager, he tells itstraight to your face if you’redoing well or wrong,” he said.

“You work hard, you trainhard and you play,” he added. “Ifyou don’t do what he says, youdon’t play. You know where youstand — and that’s what I respectabout him.”

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Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is convincedManchester United will give him the time

and backing to turn the stumbling giantsaround.

Back-to-back Premier League defeats byLiverpool and Burnley have been compoundedby a toxic atmosphere around the club, with fansvoicing their anger at United’s owners theGlazer family and executive vice-chairman EdWoodward.

Pressure is also ratcheting up on Unitedmanager Solskjaer but the 1999 treble hero isunderstood to retain the belief and confidenceof the Old Trafford hierarchy.

United head to Tranmere in the FA Cupfourth round tomorrow in desperateneed of a victory but the Norwegianremains confident they are on theright track.

“When you start on some-thing, you stick to that plan,”Solskjaer told reporters on Friday.

“For me, anyway. I’m notgoing to change six or eight ornine or 10 months after I gotthe job and start believing in adifferent way of doing things.

“I’m going to stick to whatI’ve been trusted to do by theclub and hopefully that’ll begood enough, and they can seewhat we’re doing is right.

“It’s one of these jobs — we knowhow football is nowadays — but allmy conversations with the club havebeen positive.”

United have lost more Premier

League matches than they have won sinceSolskjaer’s permanent appointment in March buthe said it was important for the club not to “reactto all the noise outside”.

“Of course there’s always going to be criticism— you’ve got to take the criticism at this club.You’ve got to be stronger mentally, probably,than anywhere else in the world,” he said.

“I feel I am, the club is strong. The staffI’ve got with me, they’re very strong men-tally so we’re sticking to what we believein and I’ve got full faith in what we're

doing.”United are looking to make at

least one signing before the Januarytransfer window shuts but

Solskjaer knows it will takemuch longer to turn things

around.“For me, we do have a

way of doing things,” hesaid.

“Of course you cansee other teams havedone well. Jurgen(Klopp) spent fouryears building his teamand they’re doing wellnow, so of course — I’ve

said so many times — it’snot going to be a quick fix.

“And it’s not going to belike eight players in or 10 play-

ers in one transfer window.“We’ve had one proper trans-

fer window in the summerbecause the Januarys are diffi-cult, but we are trying to dosomething now.”

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Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta has urged DaniCeballos to prove he is worth keeping after

the on-loan Real Madrid midfielder was linkedwith a return to Spain.

Ceballos joined Arsenal in August on a sea-son-long loan, but he has struggled to make animpact and is reportedly keen to leave.

The 23-year-old played in Spain’s mostrecent internationals but is said to be concernedabout his chances of making the national squadfor Euro 2020.

Ceballos, who has scored just once in 17appearances for Arsenal, was sidelined bya hamstring injury in November andis yet to feature since Arteta tookcharge.

Speaking ahead of Monday’s FACup fourth round tie at Bournemouth,Arteta made it clear Ceballos will haveto show his quality and desire on aconsistent basis to get back in theteam.

“I had a conversation with Dani.When I joined the club he wasn’t here.He was in Madrid because he wasdoing his rehab for over a month withthe team that owns him,” Arteta toldreporters on Friday.

“I haven’t seen much of him becausehe only trained with us for a week or 10days.

“It’s very early to assess what I can or can-not do with him. I heard about all those thingsbut I have nothing to comment.

“He needs to get back to fitness and fightfor his place like any other player. After that wewill make a selection that is fair with what I seeon the pitch.”

Ceballos wasn’t the only Arsenal playerlinked with a move this week after Barcelona

were connected with a potential bid forPierre-Emerick Aubameyang to cover forthe injured Luis Suarez.

But Arteta rejected those rumours andpointed out the programme notes of the

Gabon forward earlier this month whichstated his happiness at the club.

“A week ago after a game at home wewere discussing that he said he was sohappy, that he didn’t agree with the thingsbeing written in the media and has hisfuture here. I’m so happy with that. That’swhere I stand at the moment,” he said.

In seven matches, the Gunners haveonly lost once under Arteta, althoughthey have secured just two wins duringthat period.

“A lot of things that I wanted toimplement, not just with the playersbut around the club in terms of theculture, I’m seeing very good signs inprogress,” Arteta said.

“In general I can see the directiontowards what I wanted a month ago.”

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Eric Dier has dismissedrumours that

Tottenham’s players arealready growing tired oflife under Jose Mourinhojust two months into hisreign.

Reports haveemerged that Spurs play-ers believe they areregressing under thePortuguese while defend-er Danny Rose is said tohave clashed with himafter being left out of thematchday squad.

But England mid-fielder Dier has deniedthe claims and says anyunhappiness only stemsfrom frustrating resultson the pitch.

“Any club, whenresults aren’t going well,is not a happy atmos-phere,” he said. “But itdefinitely isn’t a negativeatmosphere.

“I don’t feel anythingalong those lines person-ally and I think every-body has been training

very well, training hard,enjoying themselves inthe same way as always.”

When asked aboutthe training methods,which were described inWednesday’s article inthe Sun newspaper as“like lower-league ses-sions”, Dier was quick todefend Mourinho andhis staff.

“Who is saying that?Maybe you lads know —I don’t,” he said. “Butpersonally I have enjoyedit. I enjoy doing newthings.”

Club captain HugoLloris also dismissed suchclaims, insisting every-thing was “positive”.

The Frenchman, whomade his first appear-ance under Mourinho inthe 2-1 win over Norwichfollowing a three-monthinjury lay-off, said: "I cantell you that it’s com-pletely wrong.

“The atmosphere isgreat, we can feel all theplayers involved andready to fight for theclub, the new managerand his staff.”

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But Greek sixth seedStefanos Tsitsipas was also onthe receiving end of an upsetas he went down in straightsets to Canada’s Milos Raonic,the world number 35.

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Sharan and Sitak lost to theBrazilian-Croat pair 6-7, 3-6 in a sec-ond round match that lasted one hourand 17 minutes.

With Sharan’s loss, India’s cam-paign in the men’s doubles ended asRohan Bopanna had made a first-round exit on Wednesday.

But he is the only Indian left in themixed doubles fray now. The 39-year-old will partner Ukraine’s NadiiaKichenok in the mixed doubles event.

The duo will take on France’sNicolas Mahut and Zhang Shai ofChina in the first round today. PTI

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Former India pacer AjitAgarkar on Friday entered

the race for the national selec-tor’s job and is a frontrunner forthe chairman’s post.

Agarkar confirmed that hehas applied for the nationalselector’s position.

Agarkar, who is a formerchairman of Mumbai seniorselection committee, is in con-tention for the chairman’s postas the new constitution doesn’thave provisions for zonal system.

It can also be confirmed thatformer India medium pacerand junior chairman of selectorsVenkatesh Prasad has once againapplied for senior selector’s post

although he has only around oneand half years of his cumulativeterm left. With BCCI settingJanuary 24 as the deadline forsending applications, the 42-year-old Agarkar is certainly themost high-profile name with 26Tests, 191 ODIs and 3 T20Internationals, picking 349 wick-ets across formats.

“Ajit entering the fray is aninteresting development. He issomeone who would have put ina lot of thought before applying.If anyone thought that Siva’snomination as a chairman ofselectors is a given, will nowthink again. It will be every inter-esting to see who all are short-listed,” a senior BCCI officialsaid.

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India A’s top-order bats-men failed to convert

their starts into big scoresas New Zealand A won thesecond unofficial ODI by29 runs and restored pari-ty in the three-match serieson Friday.

The home team reliedon opener George Worker’s135 and Cole McConchie’sbrisk 56 to post 295 forseven in the stipulated 50overs after being sent intobat at the Hagley Oval.

In reply, the visitingteam was stopped at 266 fornine.

Opting to bowl afterwinning the toss, India Atasted early success when

Mohammed Siraj dis-missed Rachin Ravindrafor a nought.

Left-arm spinner AxarPatel accounted for GlennPhillips as New Zealand Afound the going tough inthe middle.

Ishan Porel picked upa couple of wickets by thetime the innings enteredthe middle overs, leavingthe visitors struggling at 96for four in the 22nd over.Krunal Pandya made itworse by removing MarkChapman.

At 109 for five in the25th over, the hosts badlyneeded someone to steadythe ship, and Worker,Jimmy Neesham (33) andMcConchie came to their

rescue. During his 144-ball knock, Workersmashed six sixes and 12boundaries. McConchiethen scored some quickruns, hitting eights fours inhis 54-ball knock.

India A’s reply was notgood as they lost their in-form opener Prithvi Shaw(2) in the first over.

Leading the team inthe absence of ShubmanGill, Mayank Agarwalmade 37 off 42 balls, whileIshan Kishan scored 44 off55 deliveries.

All-rounder VijayShankar contributed 41 off53 balls and Krunal, com-ing in to bat at numberseven, top-scored with a48-ball 51.

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The immensely talented ShreyasIyer enhanced his reputation asa finisher with a scintillating

29-ball-58 in India’s six-wicket vic-tory over New Zealand in a high-scoring first T20 International atEden Park on Friday.

Iyer built on KL Rahul’s (56 off27 balls) blazing start and ViratKohli’s useful 45 off 32 balls as Indiamade short work of a 204-run target,knocking it off with an over to spare.

Credit should be given to Indianbowlers for restricting New Zealandtowards the end considering thedimensions of the ground.

Earlier, Colin Munro and KaneWilliamson had smashed quick-firehalf-centuries as New Zealand scored203-5.

In pursuit of 204, India lost RohitSharma (7) early in the second overas he played one too many shots ina bid to go after spinner MitchellSantner (1-50).

Rahul and Kohli then tookcharge of the innings with an 99-runpartnership coming off only 50 balls.The duo launched a good array ofstrokes with seven fours and foursixes between them as New Zealandstruggled to contain the runs.

Continuing his fine form, Rahulnotched up his half-century off 23balls while Kohli fell short of his land-mark by just five runs. Together, theyprovided the base for India’s middleorder to finish the chase.

The Black Caps roared back intocontention with a double blow. First,Rahul was out caught off Sodhi in the10th over and then seven balls later,Martin Guptill pulled off a scream-er at deep mid wicket to send backKohli.

India lost their set batsmen forsix runs and their ploy to sendShivam Dube (13) up the order onlyhad limited success. Dube and Iyeradded 21 runs to provide someacceleration, before the all-rounderwas Sodhi’s second dismissal of thenight.

Iyer then took charge of proceed-ings as he smacked five fours andthree sixes to propel India to victo-

ry. He added 50 off 29 balls withManish Pandey, who hit 14 not outoff 12 balls with a six.

It was an immaculate display bythe young batsman who showed thebenefits of reaping experience batting

in the middle order and perhapsanswering India’s questions regard-ing the number four situation.

This was after Munro,Williamson and Ross Taylor (54 notout off 27 balls) made the Indian

bowlers suffer. Jasprit Bumrah (1-31)put in a good shift with cleverchange of pace and control.

Also Yuzvendra Chahal (1/32 in4 overs) and Ravindra Jadeja (1/18in 2 overs) kept a check on the run-

flow during the back-end.Munro scored 59 off 42 balls,

including six fours and two sixes,while Williamson hit four fours andfour sixes in his 26-ball 51-runinnings as the Black Caps’ made gooduse of the peculiar Eden Park shapeto pile on the runs.

Shardul Thakur (1-44) andMohammed Shami (0-53) proved tobe expensive in their opening spellsbefore Dube (1-24) got the break-through with Rohit Sharma catchingsmartly to dismiss Guptill. It broughtWilliamson to the crease and theonslaught continued as he put on 36off 24 balls with Munro.

The latter reached his half-cen-tury off 36 balls before holing out offThakur. India quickly got a secondwicket in the space of four balls withRavindra Jadeja (1-18) dismissingColin de Grandhomme (0).

New Zealand, at 117-3 in the13th over, were placed awkwardly butWilliamson and Taylor put on 61 off28 balls to completely decimate theIndian bowling in the second half oftheir innings.

Taylor smashed three fours andthree sixes, taking 22 runs off Shamiin the 16th over, as he raced to a 25-ball half-century. It was his first T20Ihalf-century in six years. Williamsontoo completed his half-century off 25balls.

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Recalled Shoaib Malik smashed a solid half-century to anchor Pakistan’s five-wicket

win over Bangladesh in first Twenty20I onFriday.

Malik’s 45-ball 58 not out for his eighthTwenty20 fifty as Pakistan overhauled amodest 142-run target in 19.3 over to take a1-0 lead in the three-match series.

Bangladesh had managed 141-5 in their20 overs with openers Mohammad Naimscoring 41-ball 43 and Tamim Iqbal hit 34-ball 39 as Pakistan’s three-man pace attackkept them in check on a flat Gadaffi stadiumpitch.

The win further consolidated Pakistan’schances of hanging on to their world num-ber one ranking in the shortest format. If theylose any of the remaining matches — on todayand on Monday, also in Lahore, Australia willreplace them at the top.

Malik, playing his first match sinceFebruary last year, was in sublime form as hehit five boundaries and added 46 for the thirdwicket with debutant Ahsan Ali who made 32-ball 36 with four boundaries.

Malik, fourth leading run-getter inTwenty20 internationals with 2321 in arecord 112 matches, credited bowlers for thewin.

“Congratulations to the whole Pakistanfor this win and for hosting another match,”said Malik.

“It wasn’t an easy pitch and our bowlersrestricted them to a gettable total.

“It’s tough to be in and out of the teambut I have been playing leagues and domes-tic cricket and that helped me stage a come-back in this match.

“I am happy to help achieve this win ina chase.”

Earlier, Bangladesh, who won the toss andopted to bat, were off to a good start as Iqbaland Naim put on 70 for the opening wicket.

Iqbal was run out in the 11th over whileNaim holed out off spinner Shadab Khan inthe 15th.

Skipper Mahmudullah hit two boundariesin his 14-ball 19 not out.

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Chief national coachPullela Gopichand

admitted to crammed BWFitinerary causing a problembut at the same t imebelieves that onus is on aplayer of PV Sindhu’s cali-bre to adapt to the calenderinstead of complainingabout it.

Apart from the WorldChampionships Gold,Sindhu failed to win anyother tournament last year.

“I think the crammed

schedule is a problem forthe top players, but also tobe fair, I think the wholeworld it’s been an issue. Asa top player, it’s her (Sindhu)duty to adapt without com-plaining,” Gopichand said.

“So I think, yes, Sindhuis working on some of thosemistakes, and hopefullywe’ll be able to sort it out.”

Gopichand exuded con-fidence that Sindhu will beable to turn it around intime ahead of the Olympicsand will be able to win amedal at Tokyo, despite her

dip in form.“I do believe that she

has a bright chance. Andhaving said that, I thinkwhether it’s the Tai TzuYing or Carolina Marin,whether it’s the Japanese orthe Thai girls, I think thereis definitely good amount ofcompetition. But I am say-ing who’s done well in thepast, and I do believe thatwith some good prepara-tion, she will do well.”

While Sindhu is assuredof a ticket to Tokyo, time isrunning out for Saina

Nehwal and KidambiSrikanth to make the cut butGopichand said the Indianduo can still qualify withsome good performancesin a couple of tournaments.

London OlympicsBronze medallist Saina andSrikanth suffered openinground losses at the ThailandMasters and are currentlyplaced at the 22nd and 26thspots respectively in theRace To Tokyo BWFOlympic Qualif icationranking.

Each country is allowed

two singles quota providedtheir ranking is inside top-16 within the cut-off date ofApril 28.

“I think it’s about seventournaments going into thethe Olympic qualifications,I think they will need toperform really well to qual-ify for the Olympics,”Gopichand said.

“And they are at themoment of borderline, oneor two good performancescan clearly put them in agood space to qualify for theOlympics.”

��������0 Indian men and womenfailed to deliver when it matteredmost, losing to Slovenia andRomania respectively in the pre-quarterfinals of the Olympic quali-fying team event to significantlyreduce their chances qualifying forthe 2020 Summer Games in Tokyo.

While the 17th seeded womenplayed their hearts before losing tofifth seeds Romania 2-3, the mendisappointed with their 1-3 defeatagainst Slovenia.

The fifth seeded men’s teamcomprising G Sathiyan (world rank30) and veteran Sharath Kamal(WR 33) was expected to get the bet-ter of 11th seeded Slovenia.

After winning the opening dou-bles, Sathiyan, Harmeet Desai and

Sharath came a cropper in the sin-gles, severely denting the chances ofteam qualification at the Olympics.

A quarterfinal finish would haveguaranteed an Olympic berth butnow, both the men and women’ssquad have to win the plate divisionto qualify. All losers in the round of16 will take part in the knock-outplate event.

The Indian women’s team playedreally well to take Romania to thedistance before running out ofsteam.

After Ayhika Mukhejee andSutirtha Mukherjee lost the openingdoubles, India number one and61st ranked Manika Batra levelledthe tie with a fine win over worldnumber 19 Bernadette Szocs.

However, Romania regained thelead in the match after ElizabetaSamara steamrolled Ayhika 10-12,11-5, 2-11, 7-11.

The Indian women looked downand out before Sutirtha, ranked157, gave a new lease of life to herteam with a fighting win over Szocs,an opponent ranked more than 100places higher than her.

In probably her biggest win tilldate, Sutirtha edged Szocs 8-11, 11-7, 11-9, 3-11, 11-4. The match waslevelled at 2-2.

Manika was expected to winagainst 134 ranked Daniela Monteiroin the fifth and deciding rubber butwent down 8-11, 4-11, 11-3, 2-11,much to her and her team’s disap-pointment. PTI

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Left-arm spinner AtharvaAnkolekar showed big

heart while leg-spinner RaviBishnoi was all guile in India’s44-run win against NewZealand as they set-up aquarter-final date withAustralia in the ICC U-19World Cup on Friday.

During a rain-hit finalgroup A league encounterreduced to 23-overs per-side,India scored 115 for no lossin 23 overs with openersYashasvi Jaiswal (57 not outoff 72 balls) and DivyanshSaxena (52 no off 62 balls)hitting half-centuries.

New Zealand needed 193as per DLS method calcula-tions but managed only 147in 21 overs as India emergedgroup toppers with six points.

Left-arm orthodoxAnkolekar, who playedthrough pain with a fracturedfinger on his right hand, hadfigures of 3 for 28 in five overswith some accurate wicket-to-wicket bowling. This wasafter New Zealand No 3Fergus Lellman hit him fortwo sixes off his first twodeliveries.

Bishnoi, a � 2 crore buyfor Kings XI Punjab, is fastturning out to be the biggeststar in the junior line-upwith his variation and control.He bowled googlies, slidersand top-spinners to end with4 for 30 from five overs asvice-captain Dhruv Jurel was

fantastic behind the stumpswith some neat glovework.

India will now meetAustralia in the Super Leaguequarters at Potchfestroom onJanuary 28.

Put into bat, bothYashasvi and Divyansh werewatchful but didn’t wait topunish the loose deliveries.Yashasvi, who will be playingfor Rajasthan Royals in the2020 IPL, again held anchorhitting four boundaries andtwo sixes.

His opening partnerDivyansh was a bit moreaggressive as he hit sixboundaries in his half-centu-ry. Just when they had com-pleted a century stand, theheavens opened up to playspoilsport.

Skipper Priyam Garg washappy that they had a toughgame against New Zealandbefore facing the Aussies inthe semi-final.

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India’s KL Rahul on Friday said “heis loving” the additional responsi-bility as it is bringing the best outof him.

Rahul, who scored 56 runs of27 balls in the first game kept full-time first during three-match ODIseries against Australia last week.Following his good work with bothbat and behind the stumps, Kohlihad said he will continue with hisdual role “for a while” as it lendsmassive balance to the team.

“I’m quite honestly loving it. Atthe international stage, it mightseem very new and it might seemlike I’ve never kept. (But) I’ve keptfor my IPL franchise for the last 3-4 years, and I’ve kept for my first-

class team as and when there is anopening. I’ve still stayed in touchwith wicket keeping.

“I enjoy staying behind thestumps and it also gives me a greatidea about how the pitch is playing,and I can pass on that message tothe bowlers and the captains withfield-sets and everything. As akeeper, that’s also your responsibil-ity to stay active and pass the mes-sage on to your captain as to whatlengths are better and what I feel wecan do better.”

It is extra work but stayingbehind the stumps also helps bat-ting, feels Rahul.

“As a batsman as well, afterkeeping for 20 overs, especially youget a fair idea on what are the goodshots on this kind of wicket and soI’m enjoying the responsibility andso far so good for me.”

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The experienced mid-dle-order batsman saidthat the hosts were prob-ably 10-15 runs short ona batting beauty at EdenPark, but failed with extrasand lack of pressure on theIndian middle order.

“It is hard to tell at

Eden Park. Inthe last threeovers Indiabowled well andwe didn’t get a bigover. We still didget 100 in the last 10overs to put pres-sure on them butit’s always hard togauge,” Taylor said. “Webowled well but some-times have to give cred-it to how batsmen are. InT20s you have to learnquick and we have to

adapt. Our bowlers willhave to look atthem and at thesame time their

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ated the base set earlier butsaid the middle order did-n’t generate enoughmomentum in the lastfew overs.

“A lot of times whenyou play at Eden Parkwind is a factor and youare able to attack fromboth ends. It was hard toknow what a good total is.They won with an over tospare so we were definite-ly 10-15 runs short.” PTI

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