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T he Supreme Court will pro- nounce its verdict on Wednesday on several impor- tant Constitutional issues raised by the 15 rebel Karnataka Congress and Janata Dal (S) MLAs as well State Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy and Assembly Speaker KR Ramesh Kumar. The issues before the SC are following: a) pleas of the rebel MLAs for direction to Speaker Kumar to accept their resignation from the Assembly; b) Kumaraswamy contention that the SC had no jurisdiction to pass the two interim orders asking the Speaker to decide and, later, to maintain the sta- tus quo on the resignations and disqualification of the rebel MLAs; C) Speaker’s plea to the court to modify its earlier order directing him to main- tain status quo in the ongoing political crisis in the State. A Bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi on Tuesday concluded hearing on the pleas of the rebel MLAs, the Speaker and Kumaraswamy. Appearing for the 15 MLAs, senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi asked the Bench to continue with its interim order directing the Speaker to main- tain status quo on the issue of resignation and disqualification of the MLAs. The counsel for the rebel MLAs also asked the Bench that if the House assembles for business, the 15 rebel MLAs be exempted from appearing on despite the whip of the ruling coalition which, he said, has been reduced to minority Government. Senior advocate Rajeev Dhavan, appearing for Kumaraswamy, told the Bench that the Speaker cannot be compelled to decide this issue in a time-bound manner. “When resignation process is not in order, the court cannot direct Speaker to decide by 6 pm,” he told the Bench, also comprising Justices Deepak Gupta and Aniruddha Bose. Kumaraswamy also told the SC that the rebel MLAs were hunting in a pack to destabilise his Government and the court should not have entertained their petitions. Senior advocate AM Singhvi, appearing for the Speaker, told the Bench that no direction was issued to the Karnataka Speaker by the court in the midnight hearing when floor test was ordered and BS Yedurappa was invited to form the Government last year. He told the Bench that the Speaker was yet to decide on the resignation and disqualifi- cation of rebel MLAs and the court had ample power to pun- ish them. The Speaker urged the apex court to modify its earli- er order directing him to main- tain status quo in the ongoing political crisis in the State even as the rebel MLAs accused him of acting in a partisan manner by not deciding on their resignations. Singhvi said the Speaker would decide on both disqual- ification and resignation of the rebel MLAs by Wednesday but the court should modify its ear- lier order asking him to main- tain status quo. Rohtagi argued that the Speaker cannot keep the resig- nation of these MLAs pending and by doing so he is acting in a partisan manner. Countering his submis- sions, Singhvi told the Bench that Speakers cannot be asked to decide the matter in a time- bound manner. “How can the Speaker be directed to decide in a partic- ular manner?” Singhvi asked the court. “Such orders are not passed even to a trial court.” He also said a valid resig- nation should be submitted to the Speaker personally; the MLAs appeared before him only on July 11, five days after they submitted their resigna- tions to his office. The rebel MLAs told the court that the Speaker kept their resignation pending just to disqualify them and there was nothing wrong in resign- ing to escape disqualification. Rohatgi submitted before the Bench that the Speaker can be directed to decide on the resignation of the MLAs by 2 pm and he can take a call on their disqualification later. The Bench asked Rohatgi if there was any Constitutional obligation on the Speaker to decide on the MLAs’ disqual- ification which was initiated after the resignation. Rohatgi said the rules say to “decide now” on resignation. “How can the Speaker keep it pending?” The rebel MLAs told the court that the State Government has been reduced to minority and the Speaker by not accepting their resignations has attempted coercing them to vote for the Government in the trust vote. Disqualification proceed- ing is a mini-trial under the Constitution’s 10th Schedule, said Rohatgi, adding that res- ignation is different and its acceptance is based on a single criterion alone — whether it is voluntary or not. There is nothing to show the rebel MLAs conspired with the BJP, the senior advocate said. The disqualification pro- ceeding was nothing but to scuttle resignation of MLAs, he said. He also told the court that the disqualification proceed- ings were initiated for not being a disciplined soldier of the party and for not attending meetings outside the House. The Bench further asked if all the disqualification pleas are on same grounds, to which Rohatgi replied “more or less same”. He had also told the court that the Speaker has to only see if the resignations were volun- tary or not. “Resignation has to be accepted, there is no other way to deal with it,” Rohatgi told the court. “It is my fundamental right to do whatever I want to do and cannot be bound due to non- acceptance of resignation by speaker,” submitted Rohatgi. I n a big relief to Indian and international airlines, Pakistan on Tuesday opened its airspace for all civilian air traf- fic, lifting nearly five-month- long ban that was imposed after the Balakot air strikes. The move will give relief to international airlines as well as Air India, which suffered a huge financial loss of around 491 crore as it had to re-route its various international flights due to the closure of the Pakistan airspace. Pakistan’s Civil Aviation Authority issued a notice to air- men (NOTAM) around 12.41 am Indian Standard Time, stat- ing that “with immediate effect Pakistan airspace is open for all type of civil traffic on published ATS (air traffic service) routes”. After lifting of the ban, Air India flights AI 184 as well as AI 784 — coming from San Francisco — were among the first flights by an Indian carri- er to pass through Pakistan air- space on Tuesday. “The pilot on AI 184 came to know about the opening of Pakistan airspace while en- route from San Francisco. The flight landed in Delhi around 7 am in the morning,” an Air India official said. Welcoming Pakistan’s deci- sion, Air India said its opera- tion costs for one-way US and Europe-bound flights are like- ly to come down by 20 lakh and 5 lakh, respectively while IndiGo, India’s largest airline by domestic market share, stated that it is “pleased” with the opening of Pakistan airspace and its flights flying via Pakistan “will operate as nor- mal after all regulatory clear- ances”. Following Pakistan’s move, India also issued a “revised NOTAM”, announcing that normal air traffic operations have resumed between the two countries. “Consequent to Pakistan issuing NOTAM to lift all air- space restrictions, relevant authorities have informed that India has also issued revised NOTAM immediately there- after. With this, normal air traf- fic operations have resumed through all Flight Information Regions between India and Pakistan,” a Government source told PTI. P rime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday came down hard on the Central Ministers who skipped their Parliament duty and sought a list of the absentee Ministers. Addressing the BJP Parliamentary Party meeting, the Prime Minister indicated that the Parliament session, slated to conclude on July 26, could be extended if required for legislative purposes. Modi asked MPs and Ministers to attend Parliament regularly and take their roster duties seriously. The PM is learnt to have told the Parliamentary Minister and the party leadership that he be informed if there is dereliction of duty by Ministers or MPs. Ministers are required to be present in both the Houses to answer queries of the Opposition and give clarifica- tions as and when required. Opposition leaders are under- stood to have conveyed to the Government about the absence of Ministers at regular intervals. Setting goals till 2025, the Prime Minister said his Government would target humanitarian issues like lep- rosy, TB or disability and asked all MPs to work on a mission mode and in coordination with officials. Talking about lep- rosy and TB, the Prime Minister invoked Mahatma Gandhi. While inaugurating a hospital for lepers, Modi said that he would rather be invit- ed to put a lock on it. Modi said Mahatma rather stressed the need to eradicate the disease. I n a second major rain-relat- ed mishap in Maharashtra in a little over a fortnight, at least 11 persons were killed and eight others injured when a 100-year-old dilapidated four- storey building collapsed at the congested Dongi locality in south Mumbai. Indications available late on Tuesday suggested that the toll in the mishap might go up as about 40 persons are feared trapped under the debris of the ill-fated building. Teams of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and Mumbai Fire Brigade continued their search and rescue operations till late in the night. The 80-year-old Kesarbai building — which in July last year had been classified in structural audit submitted to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) as a struc- ture “to be evacuated for demo- lition at the earliest” — caved in around 11.30 am, trapping the residents under its debris. There were in all 15 fami- lies in the building when it col- lapsed like pack of cards. As per the fatality and injury figures released by the BMC at 8 pm, at least 11 per- sons were killed and eight oth- ers injured in the mishap. The deceased included an 18- month-old boy Ibrahim, a 13 year-old girl and three women. Eight persons, including a child, were rescued in an injured condition and were rushed to Habib Hospital. Among those killed was one Abdul Sattar Shaikh, said to be the owner of the building. Expressing his anguish over the mishap, Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweet- ed: “Collapse of a building in Mumbai’s Dongri is anguish- ing. My condolences to the families of those who lost their lives. I hope the injured recov- er soon. Maharashtra Government, NDRF and local authorities are working on res- cue operations.” A day after resigning from the Samajwadi Party and the Rajya Sabha, Neeraj Shekhar, son of former Prime Minister Chandra Shekhar, on Tuesday joined the BJP in the presence of its general secre- taries Bhupendra Yadav and Anil Jain. According to sources, Neeraj may be fielded by the BJP from Uttar Pradesh for a RS seat. Neeraj had been con- testing Lok Sabha polls from his father’s pocket borough Ballia and won twice in 2007 and 2009, but lost in 2014. The SP then sent him to the Rajya Sabha. He was not fielded in the recent Lok Sabha polls. Though Chandra Shekhar was not in the Samajwadi Party, SP patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav had never fielded any candidate against him from Ballia. After Chandra Shekhar’s death in 2007, Mulayam had fielded Neeraj from the seat on a Samajwadi Party ticket. T he much-awaited 2.85 km Rao Tula Ram (RTR) flyover was finally thrown open to the public by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday connecting Munirka to Central Base Post office and has been named as “new RTR” flyover. “It is a day of happiness for all the people as travel from South Delhi to IGI Airport and Gurguram will be smooth and easier now. Not only will people save time and effort, but there will also be a decrease in air pol- lution that was caused due to congestion. I want to congratu- late the PWD and the people of Delhi,” Kejriwal said, adding that the Sheila Government had constructed 70 flyovers in 15 years and our Government has constructed 23 flyovers in just 4.5 years. The new RTR flyover is expected to reduce the traffic congestion by 5-7 minutes from IIT to Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA). The people of South Delhi, especially those residing in Munirka, Vasant Vihar, Vasant Enclave, Basant Gaon, Basant Apartment, Moti Bagh, Signal Enclave and Subroto Park had faced hardship earlier as traffic was diverted in the lanes creat- ing chaos and congestion. As per the PWD officials the project was approved in 2013 by the Delhi Government and work was started in 2014. The project was delayed due to various rea- sons. The Residents’ Welfare Associations (RWA) opposed this project and there was issue with the forest and environment department as trees were to be felled on this route. The project was stopped. Moreover, besides the actual budget at 205 crore, the PWD paid a sum of about 28 crore as fine in the court for not completing the project dur- ing the stipulated time. The inauguration was also attended by PWD Minister Satyendra Jain. “This corridor will be the first in the city as it was fully con- structed on portals to allow movement of traffic below the elevated corridor,” said the PWD Minister. The ceremony was also attended by the senior offi- cials, such as Puneet K Vats, Engineer in Chief of PWD, Somnath Bharthi, MLA from Malviya Nagar. Suresh Gupta, Secretary of RWA of Vasant Enclave, said, “Though the pro- ject missed deadlines, we wel- come it as it will provide a relief by reducing travel time as well as the traffic chaos. Till now, the due to heavy traffic the vehicles were diverted to the lanes locat- ed inside the resident colonies.” A s expected, instead of tak- ing stern action against those responsible for not taking immediate action on receipt of ‘Missing Persons’ complaint with the police, the police offi- cials were prompt in taking credit of solving the crime within 48 hours. The district police on Tuesday night issued a state- ment in which it was claimed that the prompt action taken by police solved the case within 48 hours. A list of police person- nel played important role in solving the case was also men- tioned. Besides, it said that the DIG has declared reward for the cops did commendable job. However, factually, the lax- ity by police officials in inves- tigating the abduction case claimed one more life in Bhopal; this time in Bairagarh Chichli locality of Kolar road. Instead of taking stern action against the police offi- cials for negligence in investi- gating the abduction case, Public Relations Minister PC Sharma had felicitated the cops on Monday. They were felicitated for solving the abduction and rape case of 9-year-old girl in Nehru Nagar locality. However, neither the minister nor senior officials took stern action against the guilty police personnel, with whose negligence the girl was raped and murdered. Yet again, the police offi- cials are ready to pat their back over solving the sensational abduction and rape case with- in 48 hours. Local Minister for Public Relations PC Sharma would again felicitate the police personnel in solving the case. Four-year-old Varun Meena had disappeared on Sunday evening from near his residence and the police per- sonnel did not take the incident seriously even after passing the night. On Monday, instead of launching a massive hunt for the boy, the police officials including CSP Bhupendra Singh had told ‘The Pioneer’ that the boy might have been taken away by wild animals. Surprisingly, the police offi- cials were so alert that despite having visited the house of the neighbor who murdered the boy, did not search the house. The investigation conduct- ed so far revealed that the boy remained captive in the same house, but did not search the house despite the fact that wife of the house owner asked the cops to search for Varun in their house. C harred body of three-year- old boy who was kid- napped on July 14 evening from Bairagarh Chichli was recovered from an abdonded house in the same area in the morning on Tuesday; a 40- year-old woman and her son were arrested for kidnapping and killing the boy. Police said that suspecting involvement of deceased’s father in burglary taken place at her house, the 40-year-old woman killed the boy. Her son has also been made accused in the case, as he knew the crime. The woman lives in neighbourhood of the deceased. The accused Sunita suspected that the Vipin Meena had committed burglary in her house in which silver, gold and Rs 30000 cash were bur- gled and based on the suspicion she decided to kill Vipin’s son. On the day when boy went missing Sunita gave a chapatti laced with poison to the boy and after having it, the boy became unconscious. The body was kept for two days inside the house and in the wee hours on Tuesday they dumped the body at an abandoned house and burnt the body. Sunita’s son Shubham helped in the whole crime. The two were arrested dur- ing the investigation and when they were quizzed they con- fessed to the murder and kid- napping. Later in the early morning hours police recov- ered the body and sent the body for the post mortem. Police have detained one sus- pect who would be quizzed in the further investigation. In the initial investigation police have visited the house of the accused woman but failed to search her house and returned after questioning. She lives in the house which is in front of deceased’s house. RNI Regn. No. MPENG/2004/13703, Regd. No. L-2/BPLON/41/2006-2008

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The Supreme Court will pro-nounce its verdict on

Wednesday on several impor-tant Constitutional issues raisedby the 15 rebel KarnatakaCongress and Janata Dal (S)MLAs as well State ChiefMinister HD Kumaraswamyand Assembly Speaker KRRamesh Kumar.

The issues before the SCare following: a) pleas of therebel MLAs for direction toSpeaker Kumar to accept theirresignation from the Assembly;b) Kumaraswamy contentionthat the SC had no jurisdictionto pass the two interim ordersasking the Speaker to decideand, later, to maintain the sta-tus quo on the resignations anddisqualification of the rebelMLAs; C) Speaker’s plea to thecourt to modify its earlierorder directing him to main-tain status quo in the ongoingpolitical crisis in the State.

A Bench headed by ChiefJustice Ranjan Gogoi onTuesday concluded hearing onthe pleas of the rebel MLAs, theSpeaker and Kumaraswamy.

Appearing for the 15MLAs, senior advocate MukulRohatgi asked the Bench tocontinue with its interim orderdirecting the Speaker to main-tain status quo on the issue ofresignation and disqualificationof the MLAs.

The counsel for the rebelMLAs also asked the Benchthat if the House assembles forbusiness, the 15 rebel MLAs beexempted from appearing on

despite the whip of the rulingcoalition which, he said, hasbeen reduced to minorityGovernment.

Senior advocate RajeevDhavan, appearing forKumaraswamy, told the Benchthat the Speaker cannot becompelled to decide this issuein a time-bound manner.“When resignation process isnot in order, the court cannotdirect Speaker to decide by 6pm,” he told the Bench, alsocomprising Justices DeepakGupta and Aniruddha Bose.

Kumaraswamy also toldthe SC that the rebel MLAswere hunting in a pack todestabilise his Governmentand the court should not haveentertained their petitions.

Senior advocate AMSinghvi, appearing for theSpeaker, told the Bench that nodirection was issued to theKarnataka Speaker by the courtin the midnight hearing whenfloor test was ordered and BSYedurappa was invited to formthe Government last year.

He told the Bench that the

Speaker was yet to decide onthe resignation and disqualifi-cation of rebel MLAs and thecourt had ample power to pun-ish them.

The Speaker urged theapex court to modify its earli-er order directing him to main-tain status quo in the ongoingpolitical crisis in the State evenas the rebel MLAs accusedhim of acting in a partisanmanner by not deciding ontheir resignations.

Singhvi said the Speakerwould decide on both disqual-

ification and resignation of therebel MLAs by Wednesday butthe court should modify its ear-lier order asking him to main-tain status quo.

Rohtagi argued that theSpeaker cannot keep the resig-nation of these MLAs pendingand by doing so he is acting ina partisan manner.

Countering his submis-sions, Singhvi told the Benchthat Speakers cannot be askedto decide the matter in a time-bound manner.

“How can the Speaker bedirected to decide in a partic-ular manner?” Singhvi askedthe court. “Such orders are notpassed even to a trial court.”

He also said a valid resig-nation should be submitted tothe Speaker personally; theMLAs appeared before himonly on July 11, five days afterthey submitted their resigna-tions to his office.

The rebel MLAs told thecourt that the Speaker kepttheir resignation pending justto disqualify them and therewas nothing wrong in resign-ing to escape disqualification.

Rohatgi submitted beforethe Bench that the Speaker canbe directed to decide on theresignation of the MLAs by 2pm and he can take a call ontheir disqualification later.

The Bench asked Rohatgiif there was any Constitutionalobligation on the Speaker todecide on the MLAs’ disqual-ification which was initiatedafter the resignation.

Rohatgi said the rules sayto “decide now” on resignation.

“How can the Speaker keep itpending?”

The rebel MLAs told thecourt that the StateGovernment has been reducedto minority and the Speaker bynot accepting their resignationshas attempted coercing them tovote for the Government in thetrust vote.

Disqualification proceed-ing is a mini-trial under theConstitution’s 10th Schedule,said Rohatgi, adding that res-ignation is different and itsacceptance is based on a singlecriterion alone — whether it isvoluntary or not.

There is nothing to showthe rebel MLAs conspired withthe BJP, the senior advocatesaid. The disqualification pro-ceeding was nothing but toscuttle resignation of MLAs, hesaid. He also told the court thatthe disqualification proceed-ings were initiated for notbeing a disciplined soldier ofthe party and for not attendingmeetings outside the House.

The Bench further asked ifall the disqualification pleas areon same grounds, to whichRohatgi replied “more or lesssame”.

He had also told the courtthat the Speaker has to only seeif the resignations were volun-tary or not. “Resignation has tobe accepted, there is no otherway to deal with it,” Rohatgitold the court.

“It is my fundamental rightto do whatever I want to do andcannot be bound due to non-acceptance of resignation byspeaker,” submitted Rohatgi.

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In a big relief to Indian andinternational airlines,

Pakistan on Tuesday opened itsairspace for all civilian air traf-fic, lifting nearly five-month-long ban that was imposed afterthe Balakot air strikes.

The move will give relief tointernational airlines as well asAir India, which suffered ahuge financial loss of around�491 crore as it had to re-routeits various international flightsdue to the closure of thePakistan airspace.

Pakistan’s Civil AviationAuthority issued a notice to air-men (NOTAM) around 12.41am Indian Standard Time, stat-ing that “with immediate effectPakistan airspace is open for alltype of civil traffic on publishedATS (air traffic service) routes”.

After lifting of the ban, AirIndia flights AI 184 as well asAI 784 — coming from SanFrancisco — were among thefirst flights by an Indian carri-er to pass through Pakistan air-space on Tuesday.

“The pilot on AI 184 cameto know about the opening of

Pakistan airspace while en-route from San Francisco. Theflight landed in Delhi around7 am in the morning,” an AirIndia official said.

Welcoming Pakistan’s deci-sion, Air India said its opera-tion costs for one-way US andEurope-bound flights are like-ly to come down by �20 lakhand �5 lakh, respectively whileIndiGo, India’s largest airline bydomestic market share, statedthat it is “pleased” with theopening of Pakistan airspaceand its flights flying viaPakistan “will operate as nor-mal after all regulatory clear-ances”.

Following Pakistan’s move,India also issued a “revisedNOTAM”, announcing thatnormal air traffic operationshave resumed between the twocountries.

“Consequent to Pakistanissuing NOTAM to lift all air-space restrictions, relevantauthorities have informed thatIndia has also issued revisedNOTAM immediately there-after. With this, normal air traf-fic operations have resumedthrough all Flight InformationRegions between India andPakistan,” a Governmentsource told PTI.

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Prime Minister NarendraModi on Tuesday came

down hard on the CentralMinisters who skipped theirParliament duty and sought alist of the absentee Ministers.

Addressing the BJPParliamentary Party meeting,the Prime Minister indicatedthat the Parliament session,slated to conclude on July 26,could be extended if requiredfor legislative purposes.

Modi asked MPs andMinisters to attend Parliamentregularly and take their rosterduties seriously. The PM islearnt to have told theParliamentary Minister andthe party leadership that he beinformed if there is derelictionof duty by Ministers or MPs.

Ministers are required to bepresent in both the Houses toanswer queries of the

Opposition and give clarifica-tions as and when required.Opposition leaders are under-stood to have conveyed to theGovernment about the absenceof Ministers at regular intervals.

Setting goals till 2025, thePrime Minister said hisGovernment would targethumanitarian issues like lep-rosy, TB or disability and askedall MPs to work on a missionmode and in coordination withofficials. Talking about lep-rosy and TB, the PrimeMinister invoked MahatmaGandhi. While inaugurating ahospital for lepers, Modi saidthat he would rather be invit-ed to put a lock on it.

Modi said Mahatma ratherstressed the need to eradicatethe disease.

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In a second major rain-relat-ed mishap in Maharashtra in

a little over a fortnight, at least11 persons were killed andeight others injured when a100-year-old dilapidated four-storey building collapsed atthe congested Dongi locality insouth Mumbai.

Indications available late onTuesday suggested that the tollin the mishap might go up asabout 40 persons are fearedtrapped under the debris of theill-fated building. Teams of theNational Disaster ResponseForce (NDRF) and MumbaiFire Brigade continued theirsearch and rescue operationstill late in the night.

The 80-year-old Kesarbaibuilding — which in July lastyear had been classified instructural audit submitted tothe Brihanmumbai MunicipalCorporation (BMC) as a struc-ture “to be evacuated for demo-lition at the earliest” — cavedin around 11.30 am, trappingthe residents under its debris.

There were in all 15 fami-lies in the building when it col-lapsed like pack of cards.

As per the fatality and

injury figures released by theBMC at 8 pm, at least 11 per-sons were killed and eight oth-ers injured in the mishap. Thedeceased included an 18-month-old boy Ibrahim, a 13year-old girl and three women.Eight persons, including achild, were rescued in an

injured condition and wererushed to Habib Hospital.

Among those killed wasone Abdul Sattar Shaikh, saidto be the owner of the building.

Expressing his anguishover the mishap, PrimeMinister Narendra Modi tweet-

ed: “Collapse of a building inMumbai’s Dongri is anguish-ing. My condolences to thefamilies of those who lost theirlives. I hope the injured recov-er soon. MaharashtraGovernment, NDRF and localauthorities are working on res-cue operations.”

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Aday after resigning fromthe Samajwadi Party and

the Rajya Sabha, NeerajShekhar, son of former PrimeMinister Chandra Shekhar, onTuesday joined the BJP in thepresence of its general secre-taries Bhupendra Yadav andAnil Jain.

According to sources,Neeraj may be fielded by theBJP from Uttar Pradesh for aRS seat. Neeraj had been con-testing Lok Sabha polls fromhis father’s pocket boroughBallia and won twice in 2007and 2009, but lost in 2014.

The SP then sent him tothe Rajya Sabha. He was notfielded in the recent Lok Sabhapolls.

Though Chandra Shekharwas not in the Samajwadi Party,SP patriarch Mulayam SinghYadav had never fielded anycandidate against him fromBallia. After Chandra Shekhar’sdeath in 2007, Mulayam hadfielded Neeraj from the seat ona Samajwadi Party ticket.

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The much-awaited 2.85 kmRao Tula Ram (RTR) flyover

was finally thrown open to thepublic by Chief Minister ArvindKejriwal on Tuesday connectingMunirka to Central Base Postoffice and has been named as“new RTR” flyover.

“It is a day of happiness forall the people as travel fromSouth Delhi to IGI Airport andGurguram will be smooth andeasier now. Not only will peoplesave time and effort, but therewill also be a decrease in air pol-lution that was caused due tocongestion. I want to congratu-late the PWD and the people ofDelhi,” Kejriwal said, addingthat the Sheila Government hadconstructed 70 flyovers in 15years and our Government hasconstructed 23 flyovers in just4.5 years. The new RTR flyover

is expected to reduce the trafficcongestion by 5-7 minutes fromIIT to Indira GandhiInternational Airport (IGIA).

The people of South Delhi,especially those residing inMunirka, Vasant Vihar, VasantEnclave, Basant Gaon, BasantApartment, Moti Bagh, SignalEnclave and Subroto Park hadfaced hardship earlier as trafficwas diverted in the lanes creat-ing chaos and congestion.

As per the PWD officials theproject was approved in 2013 bythe Delhi Government and workwas started in 2014. The projectwas delayed due to various rea-sons. The Residents’ WelfareAssociations (RWA) opposedthis project and there was issuewith the forest and environmentdepartment as trees were to befelled on this route. The projectwas stopped. Moreover, besidesthe actual budget at �205 crore,

the PWD paid a sum of about�28 crore as fine in the court fornot completing the project dur-ing the stipulated time. Theinauguration was also attendedby PWD Minister SatyendraJain. “This corridor will be thefirst in the city as it was fully con-structed on portals to allowmovement of traffic below theelevated corridor,” said the PWDMinister. The ceremony wasalso attended by the senior offi-cials, such as Puneet K Vats,Engineer in Chief of PWD,Somnath Bharthi, MLA fromMalviya Nagar. Suresh Gupta,Secretary of RWA of VasantEnclave, said, “Though the pro-ject missed deadlines, we wel-come it as it will provide a reliefby reducing travel time as wellas the traffic chaos. Till now, thedue to heavy traffic the vehicleswere diverted to the lanes locat-ed inside the resident colonies.”

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As expected, instead of tak-ing stern action against

those responsible for not takingimmediate action on receipt of‘Missing Persons’ complaintwith the police, the police offi-cials were prompt in takingcredit of solving the crimewithin 48 hours.

The district police onTuesday night issued a state-ment in which it was claimedthat the prompt action taken bypolice solved the case within 48hours. A list of police person-nel played important role insolving the case was also men-tioned. Besides, it said that theDIG has declared reward for thecops did commendable job.

However, factually, the lax-ity by police officials in inves-tigating the abduction caseclaimed one more life in

Bhopal; this time in BairagarhChichli locality of Kolar road.

Instead of taking sternaction against the police offi-cials for negligence in investi-gating the abduction case,Public Relations Minister PCSharma had felicitated the copson Monday.

They were felicitated forsolving the abduction and rapecase of 9-year-old girl in NehruNagar locality. However, neitherthe minister nor senior officialstook stern action against theguilty police personnel, withwhose negligence the girl wasraped and murdered.

Yet again, the police offi-cials are ready to pat their backover solving the sensationalabduction and rape case with-in 48 hours. Local Minister forPublic Relations PC Sharmawould again felicitate the policepersonnel in solving the case.

Four-year-old VarunMeena had disappeared onSunday evening from near hisresidence and the police per-sonnel did not take the incidentseriously even after passing thenight. On Monday, instead oflaunching a massive hunt forthe boy, the police officialsincluding CSP BhupendraSingh had told ‘The Pioneer’that the boy might have beentaken away by wild animals.

Surprisingly, the police offi-cials were so alert that despitehaving visited the house of theneighbor who murdered theboy, did not search the house.

The investigation conduct-ed so far revealed that the boyremained captive in the samehouse, but did not search thehouse despite the fact that wifeof the house owner asked thecops to search for Varun in theirhouse.

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Charred body of three-year-old boy who was kid-

napped on July 14 eveningfrom Bairagarh Chichli wasrecovered from an abdondedhouse in the same area in themorning on Tuesday; a 40-year-old woman and her sonwere arrested for kidnappingand killing the boy.

Police said that suspectinginvolvement of deceased’sfather in burglary taken placeat her house, the 40-year-oldwoman killed the boy. Herson has also been madeaccused in the case, as he knewthe crime. The woman lives inneighbourhood of thedeceased. The accused Sunitasuspected that the Vipin Meenahad committed burglary inher house in which silver, goldand Rs 30000 cash were bur-gled and based on the suspicionshe decided to kill Vipin’s son.On the day when boy went

missing Sunita gave a chapattilaced with poison to the boyand after having it, the boybecame unconscious. The bodywas kept for two days inside thehouse and in the wee hours onTuesday they dumped the bodyat an abandoned house andburnt the body. Sunita’s sonShubham helped in the wholecrime.

The two were arrested dur-ing the investigation and whenthey were quizzed they con-fessed to the murder and kid-napping. Later in the earlymorning hours police recov-ered the body and sent thebody for the post mortem.Police have detained one sus-pect who would be quizzed inthe further investigation.

In the initial investigationpolice have visited the house ofthe accused woman but failedto search her house andreturned after questioning. Shelives in the house which is infront of deceased’s house.

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Legal Affairs and PublicRelations Minister PC

Sharma has slammed formerChief Minister Shivraj SinghChouhan for allegedly not act-ing on the promise to constructa temple in Sri Lanka at the sitebelieved to be the place of Sita's'Agnipariksha.'

While talking to mediapersons here on Monday,Sharma said, "Chouhan hadvisited Sri Lanka get politicalmileage. He promised to makea temple at the site where god-dess Sita was held by Ravana.However, nothing has beendone so far in this regard.”

According to reports,Chouhan had earlierannounced the construction ofa temple at Divurumpola in Sri

Lanka, which is believed to bethe site of Sita's 'Agnipariksha'as mentioned in the'Ramayana.'

"So far no progress has

been seen on the ground. Wewill look into the matter (of Sitatemple) and will see what ispossible. Accordingly, we willwork on it," added Sharma.

The minister said thatunlike the former BJP govern-ment, the current Congressgovernment led by ChiefMinister Kamal Nath hasbegun work on the construc-tion of 'Ram Van Gaman Path'in the state. "We have startedwork on Ram Van GamanPath in the state. BJP just madeannouncements but we willcomplete all religious works,"he said.

'Ram Van Gaman Path' isa mythological route inMadhya Pradesh, which isbelieved to be taken by LordRam on way to his 14-yearexile.

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Three persons were arrestedon Tuesday by the Gwalior

Police for the murder of a taxidriver that occurred in May.The arrested murder accusedpersons have been identified asVinod Kushwaha, resident ofDatia; Sudhir and DharmendraRaikawar, both residents ofGwalior. A fourth accusedChottu is still at large. Thedeceased has been identified asGaurav Tomar, a resident ofGwalior.

According to sources in thepolice the four accused hadapproached Gaurav Tomarnear the Railway Station dur-ing the first week of May, sup-posedly for a trip to Karera.They had booked the car withthe driver and had allegedly

strangled him to death duringthe journey.

The driver’s body wasrecovered by the police the nextmorning from Karera and hewas identified as GauravTomar. However the murdererscould not be apprehendeddespite many search opera-tions.

The Police then startedtheir probe and through thehelp of CCTV camera footagefrom the Railway Station andother tips they were able toidentify the culprits.

On Monday police got a tip

off about the whereabouts ofone accused, Vinod Kushwahaafter which he was arrestedfrom Karera with the assistanceof the local police. Duringinterrogation he spilled outthe details about the otheraccused and soon policerounded up two more.

The police said that allfour accused are friends, andhave committed such incidentsof murder and loot in the pastas well. Now the police are onthe lookout for the abscondingaccused, Chottu.

The three arrested havebeen booked under sections302 and 201 of the IPC formurder and disappearance ofevidence respectively, while anintense search operation hasbeen initiated to nab the fourthaccused.

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Aphoto exhibition titled‘Island Cultures of India’

was inaugurated by RKChaturvedi, IAS (AS&FA,Ministry of Culture,Government of India) at RockArt Heritage indoor exhibitionhall of Indira Gandhi RashtiyaManav Sangrahalaya.

The present PhotoExhibition explores diversecultural ecology in the islandsof Andaman and Nicobar,Lakshadweep, Brahmaputrariver island of Assam, floatingvillages of Loktak Lake,Manipur and the coastal lagoonof Odisha.

Generally, the connotationof an island begins with aunique and naturally formedarea of land, surrounded bywater. It has been generallyconceptualized as closed, self-

sustaining eco-system withwater as natural barrier pro-viding life to flourish in har-mony with nature.

Geographically, islands arebroadly divided into two cate-gories- Oceanic andContinental; but the concept ofisland culture is vivid anddiverse.

India is blessed with beau-tiful river island of Majuli andUmanand which is consideredto be the largest and smallestriver island in the world.

An enchanting oval-shapedLoktak Lake in the valley ofManipur has an incrediblestory to narrate about the lifeand people of the fishermenwho thrive on floating vil-lages.

The Chilikalake in the stateof Odisha provide fascinatingexample of life in the coastal

lagoon. The protected tribes ofthe Andaman and Nicobarislands of the Indian sub-con-tinent along with admirablefeatures of theLakshadeepisland along thewestern peninsula, showcasesprofound culture and traditionof island habitation.

Although, they appearsecluded from the mainland,they are united with a strongcultural entity and resilientbelief system.

Life in the islands, be itoceanic, lagoon, riverine, deltaor lake, all of them exhibit spe-cial modes of subsistence whichmake them distinct from themainland habitation.

On this occasion Director,IGRMS, Prof Sarit KumarChaudhuri, Dilip Singh, ITS(Joint Director, IGRMS) andvisitors were present in largenumber.

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A26-year-old woman diedof burn injuries after her

clothes caught fire whilecooking late in the evening ather house in Kadaiya villageunder Nazeerabad police sta-tion area on Monday.

Police said that thedeceased got injured at herhouse at Kadaiya and wastaken to hospital where shedied during treatment.According to the police, thedeceased Nivida Solanki sus-tained burn injuries at herhouse and was rushed to anearby hospital where shedied.\

In the initial investigationit was found that the deceasedsustained burn injuries whilecooking which would beinvestigated. After the pre-liminary investigation thebody was sent for the post

mortem and a case undersection 174 of the CrPC wasregistered. The reason of thefire was falling of chimneyover her saree which soonspread and she sustainedsevere injuries. The injuriesproved fatal for Nivida. Thedeceased was a housewifeand at the time of the incidentshe was alone at the houseand cooking.

Meanwhile, a 19-year-oldyouth died who consumedpoisonous substance onSunday at his house inKarond and in the night onMonday he died duringtreatment.The police haveregistered a case under sec-tion 174 of the CrPC and havestarted further investigation.During the investigationpolice have not found any rea-son behind the suicide andsaid that the reason would beinvestigated.

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A49-year old woman wasrobbed of her gold chain

worth �30,000 at ShantikunjColony under Berasia policestation area on Monday. Policesaid the victim SakuntalaChaturvedi was relieved of hergold chain when she was on herway to neighbours house in theevening.

The incident took place ataround 9 pm when the victimwas on her way to her neigh-bours house in the same colonyand was attacked by two bikeborne miscreants who snatchedgold chain she was wearing andescaped the spot. The victimwho was shocked with theattack victim raised alarm butthe miscreants managed toescape. Victim is a housewifeand claimed that the gold chainwas worth �30000. Later, thevictim approached Beraisia

police and lodged a complaintof robbery. The police haveregistered a case under section392 of the IPC and have start-ed further investigation. Basedon the details provided by thevictim, the police have startedsearch for the miscreants.

Meanwhile, AshokaGarden police have nabbedfive gamblers from Roop Nagararea and recovered �8000 fromtheir possession late in thenight on Monday.

Acting on a tip off a housein Roop Nagar was raided inwhich five persons were foundgambling. The gamblers wereidentified as Ramesh, Haseenalias Michael, Asif, Ankit andRakesh.

The police have registereda case under section 13 of theGambling Act. Crime record ofthe nabbed gamblers would beinvestigated in the furtherinvestigation, said police.

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Sagar Institute of Science andTechnology (SISTec

Ratibad) Department ofElectrical Engineering con-ducted faculty developmentprogramme at its Ratibad cam-pus. The three-day programmefocused on ‘Applications ofSoft Computing Techniquesto Renewable Energy Systems’.

The programme was spon-sored by Rajiv GandhiProudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya(RGPV) under TEQIP-III.

The faculty developmentprogramme began with wel-come of the Chief Guest SCChoube, TEQIP Co-ordinatorRGPV by the Principal SISTecRatibad Jyoti Deshmukh &HOD Prof Ashish Singhal fol-lowed by lighting of lamp inpresence of eminent speakers,

faculties across the state fromvarious engineering collegesparticipated. SC Choube inhis address laid stress on ideageneration and explained onutility of soft computationaltechniques as the fusion ofmethodologies designed tomodel with solutions to realworld problems. He ideated theaim to exploit the tolerance forimprecision, uncertainty,approximate reasoning andpartial truth in order to achieve

tractability, robustness andlow-cost solutions with guidingprinciple to devise methods tooperate just like human mind.Jyoti Deshmukh in her addressemphasized the need of train-ing and development tostrengthen technical knowl-edge and enhanced skill capa-bility to cater needs of buddingtechnocrats.

Rajesh Kumar - Professor,HOD, MNIT Jaipur, Postdocfrom NUS Singapore, AakashSaxena - Professor, Head, SKIT,Jaipur, M Rizwan, PostdocVirginia Tech-USA and ProfVijay Kumar Tewari - Asst. ProfRajkiye Engineering College,Kannauj enlightened the fac-ulties on various principlesand applications in existingcontext and focused on forth-coming areas where it can beused as solutions.

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Cambridge AssessmentEnglish, a department of

the University of Cambridgehas signed a MoU with HigherEducation Department,Government of Madhya

Pradesh. In additionCambridge Assessment Englishhas signed another MoU withmany private universities in

Madhya Pradesh. The aim of these two

MoUs is to enhance theemployability of the students bydeveloping English languageskills.

Cambridge AssessmentEnglish provides qualificationsand tests for more than fivemillion people a year, in over130 countries.

State higher educationdepartment and 32 private uni-versities across MadhyaPradesh will closely work withCambridge Assessment Englishto improve the teaching of

English and to offer their stu-dents internationally recog-nised English language quali-fications.

Representatives of theHigher Education Departmentof Madhya Pradesh and theMadhya Pradesh PrivateUniversity RegulatoryCommission (MPPURC)signed Memoranda ofUnderstanding withCambridge Assessment Englishon 16th July, 2019 in Bhopal.

Under the agreements,Cambridge will offer MadhyaPradesh’s Government HigherEducational Institutes across 11districts and also 32 privateuniversities a package of train-ing for faculty, curriculum sup-port and digital learningresources. Universities will beable to offer their students arange of tests and internation-ally recognised CambridgeEnglish Qualifications, partic-ularly the internationally recog-nised BEC Business EnglishCertificates.

Liam Vint, DeputyDirector, Global Network, fromCambridge Assessment Englishtold media persons, “We aredelighted that universities inMadhya Pradesh are takingsteps to implement interna-tional standards of English.English language skills are keysto graduate employability.Students need to be able tocommunicate effectively on aglobal level, communicatingconfidently and effectively inspoken and written English. Byincorporating CambridgeAssessment English into theirEnglish language programmes,universities can ensure thattheir students develop effectivelanguage skills that preparethem for employment and fur-ther study, both in India andworldwide. All of our testsand qualifications are closelylinked to the CommonEuropean Framework ofReference, known as the CEFR,which is the global standard forlanguage assessment.”

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The first installment of�323,64,29,000 of the gen-

eral basic grant of the 14thFinance Commission for thisfinancial year has been releasedto 378 urban bodies by theDirectorate of UrbanDevelopment.

About 90 percent of theamount released is based on thepopulation of Census-2011 ofthe bodies and 10 percent isbased on the area of the bod-ies.

Total �30 crore 8 lakh 77thousand has been released toBhopal Municipal Corporation,�18 crore 7 lakh 35 thousandto Gwalior, �4 crore 32 lakh 83thousand to Morena, �33 crore17 lakh 30 thousand to Indore,�3 crore 14 lakh 40 thousand

to Khandwa, �3 crore 18 lakh43 thousand to Burhanpur,�18 crore 63 lakh 51 thousandto Jabalpur, �3 crore 25 lakh 14thousand to Chhindwada, �3crore 61 lakh 99 thousand toKatni, �4 crore 19 lakh 5 thou-sand to Rewa, �4 crore 49lakh 14 thousand to Satna, �4crore 59 lakh 95 thousand toSingrauli, �5 crore 16 lakh 64thosuand to Sagar, �8 crore 7lakh 36 thousand to Ujjain, �4crore 76 lakh 65 thousand toDewas and �4 crore 11 lakh 9 thousand to RatlamM u n i c i p a lCorporation.

While �94 crore 59 lakh 72thousand has been approvedfor 98 Municipal Councils,�76 crore 14 lakh 97 thousandhas been approved for 264 citycouncils.

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The device brings an idealcombination of features, utili-ty and aspiration which willsurely catch the attention ofpeople in Bhopal looking for apremium smartphone experi-ence at a highly convenientprice point. With a combina-tion of a 4GB+64GB memory(only phone to offer thisRAM+ROM combination in itsprice category), 4000 mAh bat-tery and multiple AI-poweredframeworks, all packed in anamazing price of INR 7999, theHOT 7 has become the phoneto ‘watch out for’ in the sub 8k

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Anish Kapoor, CEO,Infinix India, told media per-sons that Infinix has had a greatrun in India till now, and wehope to continue our growingpresence across emerging, highpotential markets such asBhopal. The HOT series iscrucial to Infinix’s emergenceas a smartphone brand syn-onymous with innovation inthe sub10k segment, introduc-ing buyers in this category tothe best of smartphone tech-nology which they hithertodid not have access to.

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Addressing the Chancellor'sScholarship Distribution

Ceremony at Rajiv Gandhi Universityof technology, Governor AnandibenPatel today said that students shoulduse their technical knowledge insocial concerns.

This will give a new direction tothe society. Emphasizing on theimportance of tree-plantation forenvironment conservation, she saidthat 5000 saplings of Pipal, which isworshipped in Indian culture, arebeing planted today on the occasionof Guru Purnima, in schools –col-leges and gardens of the state.

Vice Chancellor of the UniversityShri Sunil Gupta said that scholar-ships of about �one crore 9 lakh 20thousand are being distributed toalmost 550 students of all streams inall technical colleges of the state thisyear. Principal Secretary TechnicalEducation Shri Pramod Agrawal

said that it is essential to change thenature of technical knowledgeaccording to the changing times.

While giving away titles andscholarships to the students, theGovernor extended her best wishesto them for a bright future.

She distributed fruits to theschool children of the villages adopt-ed by the University and planted aPipal sapling in the premises.

Later, Governor Anandiben Patelplanted pipal plants at St MontfortSenior Secondary School andKaivalya Dham Public Training Institute.

She said that to secure the life ofthe next generation it is essential thatspecial attention is given to the envi-ronment and water conservationfrom now on.

The wastage of food and watershould be stopped at every level.

Patel said that there is need forregular health checkup of students inschools. She said that by being cal-lous on this front, there may beadverse effects on the physical andmental development of the children.

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Bhopal: A daylong seminaron 'Sexual Harrassment' washeld at Radharaman Group ofinst itutes here on Tuesday.

In collaboration with JoshTalks and Vivel (ITCCompany) the seminar washeld in the auditorium ofRadharaman Institute ofTechnology and Science.Expert speaker Aashna fromJosh Talks conducted theseminar on 'Know YourRights ' which was centered around sexual har-rassment.

In this workshop, infor-mation on social and legalaspects related to tamperingand excessive, and tips onpreventing such cases were shared.

She said that dirty jokes,

fractures physical character-istics, talking about sexualactivities and spreadingrumors, sending writtenmaterial or obscene pictures,touching with wrong inten-tions, and pressing for sexu-al activity etc. things are cov-ered under sexual heritage.

Such a woman or a mancan be with anyone and bothhave the r ight to seek legal help.

Ashna said that in mostcases girls are silently toler-ating such kind of torture,which encourages atrocities.

He said that not only inthese cases should the mem-bers of the family beinformed, but the help of thepolice and the organizationsworking in this area should

be sought from them. Also, girls should also

take self-defense training sothat they can respond to theneedful.

Group Chairman RRSaxena said that all the inci-dents that happen with usrevolve around our rights. Itis a great success for the stu-dents and everyone to knowtheir rights and to be aware.

He said that his grouporganizes various programsthroughout the year from itsfaculty members to keep stu-dents aware of the problemsof their c ivi l r ights and society.

The purpose of these pro-grammes is to make studentsbetter citizens and ensuretheir livelihood in socialdevelopment. SR

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Bhopal: Observing WorldYouth Skill Day a B.Voc pro-gramme and Apprenticeshipworkshop was held at AISECThere on Tuesday.

Those who are alreadyworking in an industry, andthey have a great opportunityto train their skills and accom-plish their degree in the B.Vokprogramme and theApprenticeship scheme.Through this he can continuehis studies and training alongwith his job, which can give hiscareer a new look and height.

This was stated by SantoshChabe, Chancellor ofRabindranath TagoreUniversity. They were address-ing the inaugural function ofthe workshop organized onBWW programme and appren-ticeship scheme organized byShrimadan Auditorium ofRabindranath TagoreUniversity on the occasion ofWorld Youth Skills Day byICT.

He said that for some rea-son, due to lack of studies, theBWok program for less edu-cated people working in theindustries is an opportunity tocomplete their studies and toseek talent. AISECT is presentin the whole country withmore than 15 thousand centers.Where he can take the respon-sibility of expansion of goodprograms such as B. Vok bycompleting his networkthrough youth programs andyouth.

Siddharth Chaturvedi,founder of ICT, said in theworkshop that the cold courseis a Bachelors degree course forthose people who are in theIndustry and want to continuetheir studies only when they arein the job. The best thing aboutthis program is that it hasMultiple Exit and Entry Points.If the candidate is not able to dohis canteen after one year thenhe is given diploma. If he is ableto do the course only for twoyears, he gets an advanced

diploma. After completing thethree year course, he gets adegree. In this course, about 30to 40 per cent theoretic and 60per cent of the Practical Nellesare given, which can beobtained at their work place.This is a very profitable coursefor those who work alongsidereading. In the workshop,Siddharth Chaturvedi, AISECT,and Abhishek Pandit, Director,gave the complete informationabout the program and appren-ticeship scheme. SR

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Bhopal: Grocery goods worth �80,000 were burgled from a gro-cery shop at Kajlikheda under Kolar police station area onTuesday. Police said that the victim Vinod Sahu found that theshop was targeted by the miscreants and goods were grocerygoods were burgled.

A complaint was lodged with the Kolar police stating thathe had left his shop after closing in the night and when hereturned in the morning to open it, he found the lock brokenand on entering the shop, goods were found missing. The mis-creants targeted the grocery goods with premium price.

After the preliminary investigation, the police have registereda case under sections 457 and 380 of the IPC. Police said thatvehicle was used in carrying the goods or not would be inves-tigated as the miscreants might have required vehicle to carrygoods and escape the spot. The shop was not installed with CCTVcamera and nearby CCTV cameras would be investigated.

Meanwhile, valuables worth �20,000 were burgled fromBanskhedi village under Kolar police station area on Tuesday.The victim Bhagwan Singh had gone for some work and whenhe returned the valuables were found burgled. Valuables worth�20000 were burgled from the house claimed the victim.

Singh lodged complaint with the Kolar police and based onthe complaint a case under section 457 and 380 of the IPC wasregistered. SR

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Bhopal: Woman employee should never toleratesexual discrimination at the workplace and ifthey face any kind of sexual discrimination orharassment at the workplace issue should beraised with the grievance committee saidCommandant of 23rd Battalion Simala Prasadin the meeting of “Internal grievance commit-tee “at the State Police Headquarters.

She said that the cases of sexual discrimi-nation at the workplace are heard under judi-cial process and legal help is also provided.Internal grievances committee has also beenconstituted in the Police Headquarters in theimplementation of Sexual Harassment ofWomen at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibitionand Rejection) Act 2013.

Simala is presiding officer of the Internalgrievance committee and she said that in everybranch of the office, such a work culture shouldbe developed in which men and women feelcomfortable and no one should face difficultyin work.

For women police personnel who have kidsand are working at the Police Head Quarterscreche would be opened. Efforts are also madeto open creche in PTRI.

At the meeting she informed that the nodalofficers of all the branches that women employ-ees who want to take training on self-defensehave to send their names to the Crime AgainstWomen Cell at the earliest. In the same man-ner for learning driving of two and fourwheelers and spoken English name should beprovided.

Similarly, the names of women employeeswishing to run two-wheeler and four-wheelervehicles and take training in English speaking,should be made available immediately. He calledupon the women employees to do the work bybeing devoted and prove that they are capableof doing every challenging task just like men.

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tion of School Management regarding drivingof vehicles by school students were given dur-ing a meeting of State Road SafetyImplementation committee held under thechairmanship of the Principal Secretary HomeSN Mishra. Parents would be advised in a par-ents-teachers meeting that an action as per therule could be taken.

Mishra gave instructions that nodal officersof road safety should be present essentially inlead agency office on every Wednesday andFriday. He further said that people with out-standing works in road safety would be award-ed. Collectors and SPs would be told to take nec-essary action in connection to road safety. Hegave instructions to present a report by exam-ining the reasons of accidents on black spots.Mishra informed that special automobile check-ing will be restarted from August 01 to 15.

During the meeting, instructions weregiven to hold a meeting of road safety committeeat district level within one month. Moreover,instructions were given to send complete infor-mation in the prescribed proforma for sus-pending licenses, so that immediate action couldbe taken. Directives were given to send infor-mation regarding training of engineers too dur-ing the meeting. It was informed that 2343licenses were suspended from January toMarch. Furthermore, instructions were given tocomplete construction work of under con-struction trauma centres in Chhatarpur andVidisha. Besides, it was told in the meeting thatsyllabus books in which a lesson about trafficis included should be made available.Discussions on highway patrolling, road safe-ty audit and ambulance facility etc. also tookplace in the meeting. The TransportCommissioner Shailendra Shrivastava, SecretaryHome Mohd Shahid Absar and SecretaryPublic Works PC Baraskar were present at themeeting. SR

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Marking the third day ofEkagra, Kannada film

Samskara was screened atBharat Bhavan on Tuesday.

Samskara is a 1970Kannada-language film writtenby U. R. Ananthamurthy basedon his eponymous novel, anddirected and produced byPattabhirama Reddy.Singeetam Srinivasa Rao wasexecutive director for the film.It is considered a path-break-ing film that pioneered the par-allel cinema movement inKannada. Samskara won theNational Film Award for BestFeature Film (1970).

The story is set in a streetin a small village calledDurvasapura in the WesternGhats of Karnataka.

A majority of the peoplewho live in the street belong tothe community of Madhwas (aBrahmin community).

Two of the main charactersin the story are Praneshacharya(Girish Karnad) andNarayanappa.

Praneshacharya is a devoutBrahmin who has completedhis Vedic education at Varanasiand has returned toDuravasapura and is consid-ered as the leader of theBrahmin community of hisvillage and the surrounding

ones. The other main character,

Narayanappa, a Brahmin bybirth but one who has rejectedthe set rules of Brahminism byeating meat and by keeping thecompany of a prostitute namedChandri.

Once Narayanappa and hisfriends catches the sacred fishin the temple tank, cooks, andeats them.

This causes the Brahminsin the villages to rise up againsthim.

This causes the Brahminsin the villages to rise up againsthim.

They approachPraneshacharya to throw himout of the village.Praneshacharya decides againsttaking this extreme step and hebelieves that Narayanappa canbe convinced to get rid of hisimmoral acts. This follows therest of the story.

Bhopal: The Environment Planning and CoordinationOrganisation (EPCO) is organising lectures by well-knownexperts in the State on environment development, world peaceand Gandhi Darshan on the occasion of the 150th Jayanti of Fatherof the Nation Mahatma Gandhi. As many as 20 youths selectedfrom the country have been presented with fellowships on envi-ronment development and Gandhi Darshan. The youths are beingtaken on an education tour to the country’s institutions inspiredby Gandhi Darshan.

EPCO organized 4 training programmes for capacity build-ing and to develop understanding on climate change and envi-ronment in the society. About 70 persons interested in the sub-ject of environment took part in the programmes. EPCO orga-nized extensive programmes in order to train teachers in uni-versities on the subject of climate change and environment. Sofar nearly 250 teachers of 6 universities in the state have beenimparted training on environment protection and management.

The EPCO Institute of Environmental Studies has been estab-lished with the aim of creating awareness among people towardsenvironment protection and management. Graduate studentsinterested in environment are being trained for environmentalproblems and their management in the institute. So far over 100training programmes have been organized in the institute. Thetraining is mainly based on climate change, environment pro-tection, environment pollution and management, environmen-tal education, protection of bio-diversity, management etc. SR

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The Xavier School of HumanResource Management

(XAHR), Xavier University,Bhubaneswar (XUB), con-ducted its annual HR sympo-sium on July 13 which wasattended by students from theHRM Department.

Graced by industry veter-ans and faculty members alike,it was inaugurated by Registrar,XUB, Fr EA Augustine SJ. Hespoke about the two-foldmetamorphosis in terms of technology and social and leg-islative changes, and intro-

duced the gathering to the idea of super jobs infuture.

Dr Andrew Dutta (Dean,

XAHR) shared insights on thetheme, “Innovations in HR.”The first panel comprisedAntaryami Patra (Associate

VP HR, CEO and HRAnalytics, HCL Technologies),Harish Sharma (Group VPand Head HR, IT and Admin,

Toyota Financial ServicesIndia), and MageshSambasivan (Head HR, SociétéGénéraleGlobal SolutionCentre Pvt Ltd) and was mod-erated by Prof Jose-MariaAulotte(Director of Studies, Magellan Institute,France).

Patra spoke about how allcore HR functions. Sharmareflected on how AI and SMACare transforming the way weinteract, having an impact onorganisations, businesses, andHR professionals, alike.Sambasivan highlighted thedisruptions caused by tech-nology, such as hiring, whichhas witnessed an increased dependence on socialmedia.

The second panel, moder-ated by Prof Girish

Balasubramanian (AssistantProfessor, XAHR), comprisedProf Narayan Chandra Sarangi (Dean, XavierLaw School), Dr Santanu Rath(Director HR, OMC) andKirtyanand (Regional HRManager, Sales HR, GSK) anddeliberated on the theme“Redefining social contractbetween employees andemployers.”

Prof Sarangi emphasizedon the responsibility of those inpower not to indulge in slaveryand exploitation and discussedthe relevance of social contract.Dr Rath advocated the role oforganisations in addressingenvironmental concerns.Kirtyanand shared his experi-ences in the FMCG sector. Itwas followed by a question-answer session.

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India’s fastest sprinter andstudent of Kalinga Institute

of Industrial Technology(KIIT) University DuteeChand was felicitated by theKIIT and Kalinga Institute ofSocial Sciences (KISS) here onTuesday.

Felicitating Dutee, KIITand KISS founder Dr AchyutaSamanta said she has becomethe pride of the nation as shebrought laurels to India bywinning a gold medal in the100-meter race at 30thSummer Universiade 2019 inNapoli, Italy. She is the firstever Indian woman to baggold medal in 100-meter racein a world athletic meet. Sheclocked 11.32 seconds toachieve the landmark.

During the felicitatingceremony, Dr Samantadeclared that an athletic trackin KIIT and KISS would be

named after her, i.e, ‘DuteeChand Athletic Track’ andwould be inaugurated soon.Dutee would also lead theKIIT Athletic Academy, whichwould be established in future.These would be the best giftfrom the KIIT and KISS toDutee, he added.

Dutee thanking DrSamanta and KIIT and KISSsaid that the KIIT and DrSamanta have proved lucky forme.

“What I am today, it isonly due to the support ofKIIT and Dr Samanta. I amconfident that I will bringmore laurels to the country aswell as Odisha, KIIT and KISSin coming days, she said.

KIIT Sports director DrGaganendu Dash, Duteecoach N Ramesh, KIITUniversity VC Prof HKMohanty and Registrar ProfSasmita Samanta were pre-sent.

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Theatre of Bhopal has reachedits niche and is recieving

appreciation from across thecountry. Director of The RisingSociety of Art and Culture andfamous actress of Bhopal, PreetiJha Tiwari has received UstadBismillah Khan Youth Award inthe field of acting.

This award is given to theartists working in the field oftheatre and art. It was organisedby Sangeet Natak Academy.

Preeti Jha Tiwari, whoreceived this award, is fromBhopal and the only actress inthe State who got this award inthe field of acting. Preeti Jha hasbeen active in theatre for overtwo and a half decades.

After recieving the award,she paid her gratitude towardsMadhya Pradesh Directorate ofCulture Directorate and their

representatives and family andfriends. M.A. Theatrical arts,theatrical gems, theatrical poem,the beginning of acting fromMaithili plays since 1992, So far,participation in more than 100myths and Hindi plays.

She also recieved an oppor-tunity to join the actress in manyof the country's dramatic events,Shri Ram Center Theater andNational Theater School.

Jha got the opportunity towork with the color directorsincluding Vijay Kumar,Prasanna, Mohan Maharishi,Ram Gopal Bajaj, Devendra RajAnkur, Suresh Sharma,Chitranjan Tripathi, TripurariSharma, Chetan Dattare, MKRaina, Robin Das, ChitranjanGiri, Bansi Kaul, Mushtaq Kak,Avtar Sahni, Vijay Kumar,Chandrahas Tiwari, K.G.Trivedi, Anoop Joshi Bunty,Gopal Dube, Tanaji.

She performed in plays likeGhasiram Kotwal,Uttamacharitam, Vayalanseashore, Kafka one chapter,Tender gunda dress of Taj MahalRam Naam Satya BanabhattaAnandas' pot Gappu GopaGopagamdas, I want Amrita,Tarpan, Vasanti Sivanani, Babuji,do not go please, then one dayof Ashadha etc.

She has directed plays likeYe Aadmi Ye Chuhe, Seema Par,Angulimal, Bodhayana,Nirvana, Budhuram wise, RaniChennamma, Manto Khud andmore.

She has been awarded forcontribution in acting and the-atre. She has recieved JuniorFellowship on Hindi TheatreMusic by the Ministry ofCulture, Iftikhar Acting Honor,Colored Status Award, KalindikaSamman, Arun Smriti Sammanand Ministry of Culture of India.

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Astudent of Sambalpur,Ashfaque Khan, has

brought laurels for the State byqualifying for the ScienceTechnology EngineeringMathematics (STEM) entranceexamination.

Ashfaque had appeared atan entrance test in which morethan 3,000 students participat-ed from the country. Only 11students qualified in the test

and Ashfaque is one of themfrom Odisha After qualifyingin the examination, Ashfaque,son of senior Congress leaderAsaf Ali Khan, has gone to theTrinity University, Toronto,Canada to take part in the deepsummer camp.

Ashfaque has successfullycompleted Plus Two in Sciencestream from the DAV PublicSchool, Burla and is planningto continue his higher educa-tion abroad.

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Delhi Urban ShelterImprovement Board

(DUSIB) has been directed bythe Centre to complete theirdemand survey for identifyingeligible beneficiaries (slumdwellers) squatting over JhuggiJhopri Clusters (JJCs) in Delhiunder the direction of Ministryof Housing and Urban Affairs(MoHUA).

On Tuesday, in a meeting,Delhi Government directed itsofficials to submit the statusreport to MOHUA on alreadyconstructed 17,660 houses and around 16,000 housesunder construction. This maybe noted that 17,660 houseshave already been constructedwhile 16,000 are under con-struction.

The ministry has askedDelhi Government to submitthe status report of construct-ed and under constructionhouses.

Durga Shankar Mishra,Secretary, MoHUA asked offi-cials of Delhi government,

DUSIB, DDA and Delhi StateIndustrial and InfrastructureDevelopment Corporation(DSIIDC) regarding the largenumber of applicants queuingup outside MoHUA and otheroffices for allotment of houseunder PMAY (U).

“DUSIB and DDA shallcall for application formsonline through their websitesso that beneficiaries may bebenefitted under all verticals ofPMAY-U. These forms will besubmitted through CommonService Centre (CSC) also.DUSIB shall undertake reha-bilitation of slum dwellerswhereas DDA shall undertakehousing demand for otherurban poor,” said a governmentofficial.

Chairing the meeting,Mishra also asked DDA toorganize camps for sellingaround 40,000 houses constructed by DDA by associating with various financial institutes, nation-alised banks and in coordination with NationalHousing Bank (NHB) so that

people get benefit upto Rs.2.67lakh under Credit LinkedSubsidy Scheme (CLSS) underPMAY (U).

“ The officials of DelhiGovernment assured to strate-gically get the houses occupiedin the next six months. Areview of the same will be heldperiodically,” he said.

This may be noted that, during the recent months, some group ofu n k n o w npersons have circulated fakeapplication form among pub-lic that people can submitapplications in the offices of theMinistry of Housing and UrbanAffairs (MoHUA) and otheroffices for allotment of housesunder Pradhan Mantri AwasYojana-Urban (PMAY-U)Mission.

A First Information Report(FIR) was lodged on July 11,2019 at South Avenue PoliceStation, New Delhi againstunknown persons indulged inthe unauthorized activities cir-culating ‘fake application form’among public.

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Delhi Chief Minister ArvindKejriwal said, “We are not

here to do politics but to workand it is for the people to spreadthe word about the work wehave done in the last four-and-a-half years”.

Kejriwal statement cameafter he formally inaugurated2.85 KM Rao Tula Ram (RTR)flyover on Tuesday. The flyoverwill connect Munirka toCentral Base Post office andhas been named as ‘new RTR’flyover.

“The way the cityGovernment has done work inareas of hospitals, mohalla clin-ics, polyclinics, schools and col-leges no other Governmenthas done so much of develop-mental works in the last 70years as our Government,” hesaid.

Hitting out at his detrac-tors, the AAP chief said afterthe inauguration of theSignature Bridge, a member of

the Opposition party hadsought to take credit of thatproject. “We believe in doingour work and not indulging indirty politics. The DelhiGovernment has worked a lotin education, health and othersectors, and our work willspeak,” he said.

The chief minister thatwhile the inauguration of theSignature Bridge was taking

place, a leader from the oppo-sition party was busy hurlingbottles on the stage. “The peo-ple of Delhi know what we havedone in the last four and a halfyears. No Government in thelast 70-years worked so muchfor the education of the poor,which we have done,” he added.

“Our politics is to make thekids of the poor doctor, engi-neer, advocate etc. We want tomake their future bright andour only concerned is overalldevelopment of Delhi.

Interacting with reportersafter the event, he said the AAPGovernment not only workedon mega infrastructure projectsbut also built roads, sewagelines and provided other facilities in unauthorisedcolonies to reach out to theordinary people.

Asked if more projects were in the offing before the end of his Government’stenure, Kejriwal said, “Yes, afew more such projects willcome up soon.”

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Delhi Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) president Manoj

Tiwari on Tuesday said ChiefMinister Arvind Kejriwal andhis deputy Manish Sisodia havelost their right to continue ontheir posts, hours after thetwo AAP leaders were grantedbail in a criminal defamationcase.

Leaders of the Aam AadmiParty (AAP), including theirchief Kejriwal, are sustainingtheir political journey through“lies”, Tiwari said at a press con-ference.

Kejriwal and Sisodia weregranted bail by a court here ina criminal defamation case byLeader of Opposition in theDelhi Assembly and BJP leaderVijender Gupta, who accusedthem of “maligining” his imageby referring him to an allegedconspiracy to kill the chiefminister.

The chief minister also gotbail in another defamationcase over his allegation that the

BJP got deleted 30 lakh namesfrom voters list, particularly ofthe Purvanchali, Bania andMuslim communities, duringthe Lok Sabha polls.

“They are used to gettingbail and tendering apologies fortheir lies. They have lost themoral right to the constitu-tional posts held by them,”Tiwari said. Gupta said thepeople of Delhi are ready togive a farewell to Kejriwal andhis party as they are “relying onlies”. Delhi BJP vice presidentRajeev Babbar, who filed thecase against

Kejriwal and other AAPleaders for alleging that the BJPhad a role in deletion of voters’

names in the run up to the LokSabha polls, said it was a “polit-ical conspiracy” that wasdefeated by the people of Delhi.

The saffron party won allthe seven parliamentary seatsin the city in the 2019 generalelections.

Soon after the chief minis-ter in December 2018 accusedthe BJP of getting names of 30lakh voters of particular com-munities deleted as part of apolitical conspiracy, AAP lead-ers spread the “lie” among theelectorate, Babbar alleged,adding that even call centreswere roped in for the purpose.

The Delhi BJP, throughBabbar, has sought proceedingsagainst Kejriwal, Rajya Sabhamember Sushil Kumar Gupta,MLA Manoj Kumar and AAPspokesperson Atishi Malenafor harming the reputation ofthe BJP by blaming it for dele-tion of names of “voters” fromelectoral rolls in Delhi. Theother accused persons wereearlier granted bail by thecourt.

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South Delhi MunicipalCorporation (SDMC) has

moved at a faster pace in con-verting over saturated Okhlalandfill into a lush green area.The landfill was quite an eye-sore as the mound of garbagehas crossed over 50 meters inheight in place of the permis-sible 20 metres. SDMC topbrass decided to transform theplace after IIT Delhi sent thema detailed action plan to con-vert this hillock of filth into agreen field. The standard“doob” grass has been used tocover the slopes.

According to civic body,more than 70 per cent of theresurfacing and slope stabi-lization work has been com-pleted and grass has beenplanted around 7000 sqm. It isexpected that with start ofrainy season, the plantationwould be complete and thelandfill site would be fully cov-ered.

Additional Commissionerin SDMC Ramesh Verma saidthat with concerted efforts of

SDMC, the height of over sat-urated 23 years old landfill sitehas been reduced from 58from 38 meter. “The civic bodydeployed just 58 workers whoworked in two shifts for the last9-10 months to execute thelandfill remediation project asper specification of IIT Delhi,”he said.

Verma further said that thestabilisation plan of the land-fill was a challenge as it includ-ed lying of a 16m sloppedroad around the landfill. “Eachslope was to be built at 22degrees to avoid occurrencesimilar to that of the Ghazipurlike incident. The top surfacehas become so strong that even

a helicopter can land over it,” hesaid, adding that constructionand demolition waste used tocreate the top layer.

“A soil cover has beenpapered over the stabilizedslope and green look has beengiven by planting grass and dis-playing plants installed in thedrum. It is proposed to lay apipeline from the okhla wastewater treatment plant to enabletreated effluent water to beused to maintain the greenery,”he added.

A senior SDMC officialsaid that a ‘leachate treatmentplant’ has been commissionedto overcome the problem ofseepage like situation wherein

poisonous water damages thealready completed portions.In order to fast execute slopestabilization work four heavyduty bulldozers and five exca-vators work procured to con-tinue remediation activities.

“Leachate is a widely usedterm in the environmental sci-ences where it has the specificmeaning of a liquid that hasdissolved or entrained envi-ronmentally harmful sub-stances that may then enter theenvironment. It is most com-monly used in the context ofland-filling of the industrialwaste. In the narrow environ-mental context leachate istherefore any liquid materialthat drains from land or stock-piled material and containssignificantly elevated concen-trations of undesirable mater-ial derived from the materialthat it has passed through”.(Source Wikipedia).

Last year, the civic bodystopped dumping garbage therelast month considering alarm-ing height of landfill. The sitewas declared as exhausted wayback in 2010.

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State Drinking Water andSanitation department

Minister Ramchandra Sahistoday said that StateGovernment is serious withwater conservation in urbanand rural areas.

The Minister claimed thatthe Government is serious indeveloping a mechanism sothat there is water in ponds,lakes, and farm field roundthe year.

Addressing his weekly JantaDurbar, the Minister said thatthe depleting ground water iscause of concern for everyone.

He said, “The main cause ofdepleting ground water is non-judicious exploitation of groundwater. The Government ispreparing a mechanismthrough which ground watertable in State is maintained.”

The Minister’s observationon depleting ground water andsurface water assume impor-tance as recently StateGovernment launched a cam-paign to conserve and managewater across the State.

The Minister heard thegrievances of people who hadattended at AJSU party office.Hearing the complaint of awoman from Tamar region, theMinister lost his cool andscolded the police inspector ofTamar police station.

The complainant, ReenaDevi stated that some muscle-man have forcefully and ille-gally acquired his land atTamar.

The woman said thatwhen she approached thepolice station to lodge thecomplaint with his brother, thepolice officer detained hisbrother and even tried to mis-behave with her.

The Minister made a callto the police officer directinghim to take action against themuscleman as per laws.

Murtaza Alam, a residentof Itki registered his protest forconstruction of another watertower in his area.

Alam said that at Itkialready there is water tower isin Itki which is non function-al, construction of anotherwater tower will not solve thepurpose.

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Ranchi: Auto Driver Raju waskilled by five criminals at Rukkaunder Ormanjhi Police Stationon Monday in Ranchi. Just aftersome hours, Ranchi Policenabbed the killers.

Shyam Kishore Mahto, In-charge, Ormanjhi Police Station,informed both brothers Rajuand Santosh Kumar were fight-ing with each other regularly.“Two years earlier, they had ren-ovated their house and this isbone of contention betweenthem. Just two month earlier,Santosh Kumar met Rohit, whohad worked at his house at thetime of renovation work asMason and during conversationKumar told Rohit about hiswoes. He also said that he has towipe out Raju from his way to livea happy life. Rohit said that heknew a man can do the job. Rohitfixed meeting of Kumar withSivdani who was also resident ofMunger as Kumar’s permanentaddress was Munger,” he added.

“The deal was finalisedbetween Sivdani and Kumar thatthe latter will pay `1Lakh aftercompletion of the work, Kumarhad given �4K in advance andsaid rest money he will be givenafter execution of the work. PNS

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Stating that private partner-ship is needed to speed up

projects in the country asGovernment does not havemoney, Union SurfaceTransport Minister NitinGadkari on Tuesday said peo-ple will have to pay toll if theywant good roads even as hemade it clear that the toll sys-tem would stay to generatemoney so that the publicmoney could be used to imple-ment road network in ruralregions.

Gadkari informed the LokSabha that his ministry isworking on a new greenexpressway from New Delhi toMumbai, which can be coveredin 12 hours. It will pass throughmost backward and tribal areasof Rajasthan, Gujarat andMaharashtra and also save Rs16,000 crore in land acquisi-tion.

Responding to demandsof several MPs, he said he willconsider if school buses orstate transport buses can beexempt from tolls. The coun-try has a shortage of over 25lakh drivers and he told MPsthat he will open a drivingtraining centre in each state.After Minister's reply, NKPremchandran ( RevolutionarySocialist Party) withdrew all ofhis cut-motions.

Replying to a discussion ondemands for grants for theRoad Transport and Highwaysministry in the house , theminister said land acquisitionwas an issue in implementingseveral projects in West Bengal,Bihar ,Kerala and Goa. Heasked MPs from West Bengal tocomplete land acquisitions andencroachments so that he couldgive green signal to the pendingroad projects in the state.

The Minister said theGovernment has built 40,000kilometres of highway in thelast five years.

Amid concerns expressedby some members over collec-tion of toll in different parts ofthe country, Gadkari said, “Tollzindagi bhar band nahi hosakta... Kam zyaada ho saktahai. Toll ka janamdata mainhoon... (Toll system can neverend though the rates may varyfrom time to time. Toll is mybrainchild.”

“If you want good services,you have to pay for it.Government does not havemoney...,” he said adding thetoll tax concept was first gen-erated in Maharashtra when hewas the State Minister.

Noting that more than 400projects worth 3.85 lakh crorewere closed when he assumedcharge of the ministry in 2014,Gadkari said the Modi gov-ernment saved Non-perform-

ing assets worth 3 lakh croreduring the past five years by re-starting work on these projects.

“There were 403 projectspending when Narendra Modicame to power involving a costof 3,85,000 crore. It is a greatachievement of Indian govern-ment that we saved bankers ofRs 3 lakh crore of NPAs andnow 90 per cent of projects aremoving fast,” he said.

Gadkari referred to formerUS President John F Kennedy'squote that “American roads arenot good because America isrich, but America is richbecause American roads aregood” to emphasise on build-ing good quality of highwaysand roads across the country toboost its economy.

Expressing anguish overdeaths caused by road acci-dents, he said his ministry hadidentified 786 black spots andadded that poor engineering isone of the main reasons forthem.

Gadkari said his ministry isworking to make Delhi pollu-tion-free and cited pollutionhas come down by 32 per centdue to various efforts, includ-ing building peripheral roads toprevent trucks bound for otherstates from entering the nation-al capital. All new vehiclesfrom April 1, 2020 will complywith Euro 6 emission norms, hesaid.

New Delhi: Aimed at prevent-ing sewer deaths in the coun-try, the Centre has asked allStates to set up an emergencyresponse sanitation unit(ERSU) on the lines of fire ser-vices.

Union Housing and UrbanAffairs (HUA) Secretary DurgaShanker Mishra has written tothe chief secretaries of statesand Union territories, sayingthat ERSU will be responsibleto attend any sanitation emer-gency request. The ERSU willbe responsible to meet sanita-tion emergency requests fromall smaller towns within a clus-ter of, say, 75 km radius.

“States/UTs/ ULBs (UrbanLocal Bodies) should set up anEmergency ResponseSanitation Unit (ERSU), onthe lines of the fire service sta-tion, in capital cities of eachstate/UT and also in all majorcities having a MunicipalCorporation and/or Water andSewerage Board (in whatevername it is called) with popula-tion of more than one lakh,”Mishra said in the letter.

Mishra told the states andUTs that the practice of “haz-ardous cleaning” of sewers andseptic tanks is completelybanned under the Preventionof Employment as ManualScavengers and theirRehabilitation Act, (PEMSRA),2013. As per a report, therehave been 1,340 deaths relatedto manual scavenging in thepast 10 years across the coun-try. According to numbers col-

lated by the NationalCommission for SafaiKaramcharis (NCSK), sinceJanuary 2017, one person hasdied every five days whilecleaning sewers and septictanks across the country.

Mishra said the govern-ment was seized of reportsabout incidents of deaths incourse of hazardous cleaning ofsewers and septic tanks.

Sanitation workers, whohave been traditionally engagedin sewer and septic tank clean-ing, should be properly trained,equipped and certified as sewerentry professionals (SEPs), theHUA secretary said.

“States and UTs shouldpromote mechanized cleaningof sewers/septic tanks by estab-lishing such units in each suchcity and keeping their contactnumber readily available forengaging in cleaning sewers/septic tanks at first instance, onpriority,” Mishra also said.

He added that entry of anyperson into a sewer and septictank other than a properlyequipped SEP, duly authorisedby ERSU, should be strictlybanned.

States and UTs should issuedirections to urban local bodiesand other appropriate authori-ties for filing FIR againstemployers if any person isallowed directly or indirectly toenter sewer and septic tankswithout proper protective equip-ments including such individu-als entering into sewer and sep-tic tank, Mishra added. PNS

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Indian Air Force Chief BSDhanoa said here on Tuesday

the force is ready to fight allspectrum of war ranging fromconventional to terrorism anddevelopments undertaken afterthe Kargil war in 1999 haveenabled the IAF to be preparedfor handling all challenges.

Speaking at a seminar on20 years of Kargil, the IAF chiefsaid the force now has the capa-bilities to conduct precisionbombing, like in the case ofBalakot aerial strikes, whichwas limited during Kargil.

During the Kargil conflict,precision bombing capabilitieswhich existed only on Mirage-2000 are now also available onSu-30, Jaguar, MiG-29 andMiG-27 Upg aircraft.Moreover, beyond visualrange(BVR) Missiles are NOWcarried by MiG-29, Su-30 andMirage-2000 aircraft, he added.

Dhanoa said “the IAF is

prepared to fight across theentire spectrum of warfare, beit an all-out war, a skirmish likeKargil conflict or retaliation toa terrorist attack.”

He was the commandingofficer of 17 squadron andwas operating from Srinagarduring the Kargil conflict in1999. Speaking about his expe-riences, the IAF chief recount-ed the operational limitationsthat existed in 1999 and theinnovative ways adopted by theIAF to overcome the difficul-ties during the conflict.

The developments whichtook place post Kargil warhave transformed the IndianAir Force in capability so as tocounter any kind of air threatin conventional and sub-con-ventional domains of warfare,Dhanoa said. IAF now has thecapability to monitor the air-space deep inside the enemyterritory and operates on securecommunication with network-centric warfare capabilities.

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The Defence Ministry hassuspended all commercial

dealings for one year withSwitzerland-based PilatusAircraft Limited followingalleged corruption charges.The decision came after theCBI in June registered a caseagainst arms dealer SanjayBhandari, officials of the Swisscompany, unknown officialsof the IAF and the defenceministry. Pilatus supplied 72basic trainer aircraft to the IAFand is alleged Rs 339 crore waspaid as kickbacks. The dealwas worth over Rs 2,896 croresand inked in May 2012.

The order to suspend busi-ness dealings issued on July 12was for violating the pre-con-tract integrity pact(PCIP) andwill remain in force for oneyear until further orders. Itreferred to the ongoing inves-tigation by the CBI, DelhiPolice, EnforcementDirectorate and Income TaxDepartment into “corrupt prac-tices, unfair means and illegalactivities” by the company.

Under the PCIP ofNovember 12, 2010, Pilatushad agreed that while present-ing the bid or during pre-con-

tract negotiation or before sign-ing the contract, it shall discloseany payments made, commit-ted or intended to be made toofficials of the buyer or theirfamily members, agents, bro-kers or any intermediaries inconnection with the contractand the details of the servicesagreed upon such payments.

The Defence Ministryreceived reports of engage-ment of agents by Pilatus forassistance in the sale of thebasic trainer aircraft for the IAFon payment of a commission,according to the vigilancedepartment order.

The ministry had written aletter to the company inDecember 2016 asking it tooffer comments on the report

along with details of any suchengagement.

In its response submitted inJanuary 2017, the companyadmitted engaging Offset IndiaSolutions, a firm belonging tofugitive arms dealer SanjayBhandari, for the successful res-olution, approval or imple-mentation of Pilatus offset pro-posals, plans and obligations.The ministry then issued ashow cause notice as the replywas not found satisfactory.

The CBI registered a regu-lar case on June 19 this yearunder sections 120-B (criminalconspiracy) and 420 (cheating)of the Indian Penal Code. Theinvestigations by the ED and I-T Department are also under-way.

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Congress MPs staged walkedout from the Lok Sabha

protesting the failure ofGovernment's China policeand reports on the recentChinese incursion attempts inLadakh. Raising the issue soonafter the Question Hour, leaderof the Congress in the HouseAdhir Ranjan Chowduryaccused the Centre of failingthe China policy while PrimeMinister Narendra Modimakes “tall claims”. He said thatModi Government failed toprevent the continuous inter-ference and intrusion by Chinainto India territories.

“China had intruded intoDoklam area in the past andcreated a lot of trouble for usand now. The recent attempt toenter into our territory inLadakh's Demchok area anddisturbing the people,” accusedChowdury, leading to protestsfrom the Treasury Benches.

Cutting short the Congressleader's speech, Speaker OmBirla invited TransportMinister NItin Gadkari tospeak on his Ministry'sDemands for Grants in con-nection with Union Budget.Protesting this Congress MPsstaged walkout for a brief time.

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The Centre on Tuesdaydecided to cancel the exam-

ination for appointment ofpostmen, held on July 14. It willnow be held it in all local lan-guages including Tamil, ademand made Tamil Nadu-based parties who forced acouple of adjournments inRajya Sabha on the issue.

Union Minister RaviShankar Prasad informed theRajya Sabha that the examina-tion will now be held in all locallanguages, as per the notifica-tion of 10-5-2019 of the depart-ment concerned (with) exam-ination, including (in) Tamil.

Tamil parties had beenprotesting that questions inthe postal department's exam-ination for appointments ofpostmen and assistants in ruralareas held on Sunday wereonly in Hindi and English,and not Tamil. The AIADMKwere joined in by DMK, CPIand CPI-M members in theprotests.

Proceedings of the UpperHouse were adjourned thriceduring the pre-lunch periodand again for 30 minutes afterthe Upper House re-assembledat 2 PM on the issue.

When the proceedingsresumed, Prasad, who is theUnion Minister for Law andJustice, Communications andElectronics and IT said he hasexamined the matter and it hasbeen decided to cancel the

examination held on July 14.“Certain issues were raised

in this House by members,including my friends fromTamil Nadu. I have examinedthe matter today itself and it hasbeen decided to cancel theexamination held on 14-7-2019,” Prasad said.

The minister said he wouldlike to assure the House and theentire nation that the govern-ment led by Narendra Modihas respect for all regional lan-guages, including Tamil. “Ihave myself seen the depth oflanguage of Tamil when I was(election) in-charge there, andall other languages. Thereforethis government's commitmentto respecting all languages isfull and total,” Prasad said.

His assurance satisfied theagitating members. VMaitreyan of the AIADMKexpressed gratitude to Prasadand said “due to the develop-ment in the last couple of days

unfortunately we were forced toraise the issue in the morningtoday in our own way. I amreally thankful on behalf of myparty members”.

T K Rangarajan (CPI-M)suggested that all departmentsshould hold examinations inregional languages. DeputyLeader of Opposition in theRajya Sabha, Anand Sharma(Congress) said the larger issueis to pre-empt and ensure thatthere is no recurrence.

“Therefore, will the gov-ernment give a categoricalassurance to this House, andthrough the House to the peo-ple of the country, that for allfuture recruitments, examina-tions, interviews, in all CentralGovernment Departments, thePSUs, paramilitary forces, thethree-language formula, theassurance for which was givenby India's first Prime Minister(Jawaharlal Nehru) shall beadhered to”.

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The Centre informed theSupreme Court Tuesday

that it has constituted a high-powered 8-member expertpanel to ascertain the benefitsand hazards of spraying insec-ticides or fumigation in aircraftwith passengers on board.

The top court gave threemonths till October 31 to thepanel to submit final report andsuggest interim measures at theearliest.

A bench of Justice DYChandrachud and IndiraBanerjee was informed by theCentre's counsel that a notifi-cation on the modalities andworking of the high-poweredpanel will be issued during theweek.

As per the note submittedby the Centre, the eight mem-ber panel include — PrincipalAdvisor (Public Health),Ministry of Health and FamilyWelfare (Chairman); Directorof National Centre for DiseaseControl (Member); Director ofNational Vector Borne DiseaseControl Programme

(Member); Representative ofDirectorate General of CivilAviation (Member) and Headof Epidemiology &Communicable Disease ofIndian Council of MedicalResearch (Member).

The other three membersare National ProfessionalOfficer, International HealthRegulation, WHO (Member);Airport Health Officer, Delhi(Member), and DeputyAssistant Director General(International Health) asMember Secretary.

The Centre's note furthersaid that the panel will take aconsidered decision andinform the top court.Senioradvocate Saurabh Kripal,appearing for InterglobeAviation Ltd (Indigo Airlines)and others, said that as it wasa Monsoon season, some inter-im measures needed to betaken.

The bench said it was apolicy decision the Centre hasto take, but the high-poweredpanel may suggest some inter-im measures as early as possi-ble.

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There are 8,038 cold storagesin the country with a

capacity of 36.77 million tonnesand 92 per cent of the capaci-ty is owned and operated byprivate entities.

In a reply to Lok Sabha,Union Agriculture MinisterNarendra Singh Tomar onTuesday said against totalstocks of 741.41 LMT (as onJune 1, 2019), the total storagecapacity available with FCI,Central WarehousingCorporation (CWC) and stateagencies (both owned andhired capacity), is 862.45 LMT(as on May 31, 2019) compris-ing 739.76 LMT in coveredgodowns and 122.69 LMT inCover and Plinth (CAP) stor-age.

“As per the latest availableinformation received fromStates, there are 8,038 cold

storages with capacity of 36.77million tonnes in the country,”he said during Question Hour.As per a study on All IndiaCold-chain InfrastructureCapacity , there was cold stor-age capacity of 32 milliontonnes in the country againstan approximate requirement of35 million tonnes.

The Minister said the baseline survey conducted duringDecember, 2013 by M/s HansaResearch Group estimated that92 per cent of cold storage areowned and operated by privatesector, three per cent cooper-ative and remaining five percent are under Public Sector.

Tomar said the Ministry ofConsumer Affairs, Food andPublic Distribution deals withstorage of foodgrains post pro-curement by the FoodCorporation of India (FCI)and state agencies.

Replying to another ques-tion, the minister said as suchthere is no harmful effect of fer-tilizers on soil fertility if appliedin a balanced and judiciousmanner.

“The average rate of con-sumption of chemical fertiliz-ers in the country is onlyaround 134 kg per hectare. The

fertility of soil is being lost incertain situations mainly due toimbalanced use of chemical fer-tilizers coupled with low use oforganic manures,” he said.

Tomar said the govern-ment has been implementing'Soil Health Card' (SHC)scheme since 2015 to assiststate governments in soil test-ing and providing soil healthcards to all farm holdings in thecountry regularly in a cycle of2 years.

Soil health cards provideinformation to farmers onnutrient status of their soilalong with recommendationson appropriate dosage of nutri-ents to be applied for improv-ing soil health and its fertility.

“So far 411 new static SoilTesting Labs (STLs), 100 newmobile STLs, 8,752 mini STLsand 1,562 village level STLshave been sanctioned under thescheme since 2014-15. Thisincludes 6 mobile STLs and 28village level STLs sanctioned toBihar.

“Out of these sanctionedlabs, 129 new static Soil TestingLabs (STLs), 86 new mobileSTLs, 6,498 mini STLs and 17village level STLs are alreadyestablished,” he said.

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Around �4,405 crore worthof claims by over 3 lakh

patients have been made forhealth insurance under theAyushman Bharat- PradhanMantri Jan Arogya Yojana(AB-PMJAY) scheme since itwas launched in Septemberlast year.

According to the latestdata tabled in Parliament onTuesday, Gujarat tops the listwith claims worth �915 crorefollowed by Tamil Nadu at�618 crore and Karnataka(�553 crore). The scheme hasbeen most avai led inChhattisgarh where 611,216patients enrolled for the claimfollowed by Kerala (574,448)and Gujarat (523,011).

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have poor health indicators, arenot the biggest users of thescheme as just 56,139, 130,721and 107,718 patients regis-tered under the scheme respec-tively, contrary to the expec-tations. In fact, in as many asfour States less than hundredpatients used the scheme.Similarly, Northeastern Statesexcept Assam too are yet towarm up to the scheme.

In West Bengal, whichwas initially reluctant toimplement the scheme had17,636 patients registeredunder the scheme with claimof over �17 crore. (See table)

Only Delhi, Odisha andTelangana have not signedthe MoU for implementationof AB-PMJAY.

Replying to a quer y,Ashwini Kumar Choubey,Minister of State for Healthsaid that under the scheme,the States have the flexibilityto choose the mode of imple-mentation.

They can either imple-ment it in insurance mode, orthrough a trust or in a mixedmode ie both the insuranceand trust mode. The Statesimplementing schemethrough Insurance mode

select Insurance Companythrough open tenderingprocess. The private insurancecompanies are allowed to bidin the open tendering processto allow level playing field,said the Minister.

However, he added, thedecision lies with the StateGovernment concerned andthe government has no role inthe selection of Insurancecompany.

Choubey further said thatunder the scheme, 1393 pro-cedures have been laid downfor treatment of beneficia-ries.

AB-PMJAY provides acover of up to �5 lakhs perfamily per year, for secondaryand tertiary care hospitalisa-tion to over 10.74 crore vul-nerable entitled families(approximately 50 crore ben-eficiaries).

PMJAY provides cashlessand paperless access to ser-vices for the beneficiary at thepoint of service. Over 15,000hospitals and health careproviders have been empan-elled across the country toprovide healthcare servicesas per these packages, as perthe Ministry.

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When former Defence MinisterNirmala Sitharaman — one offour in the Modi 1.0 government

— presented her maiden finance budget,hope and expectation about the defenceallocation had rocketed, especially after sheflagged national security and economicgoals as her government’s priorities. Thereality was different. The grandstanding ofnational security — rich on symbolism andrhetoric, hollow in providing resources forthe jawans to fight another Kargil whose20th anniversary is being commemoratedwith high drama — is delusion. Nothing haschanged, no lessons learnt especially afterArmy Chief Gen Ved Malik said, “We willfight with what we have” when surprisedby Pakistani incursions. Unfortunately AirChief Marshal B S Dhanoa expressed pre-cisely similar resolve after Balakot whenconfronted with a question about a two-front war by a journalist. In the catastroph-ic 1962 war, Lt Col M S Rikh, CommandingOfficer 2 Rajput at Namka Chu, said thesame: “We will fight with what we have”. Theinfection has spread among the higher mil-itary leadership, which has made a fetish offighting under-resourced even as govern-ments have milked the armed forces forelectoral gains. The Modi governmentthinks that its three quarters-baked OneRank One Pay (OROP) is a substitute formodernisation. Sitharaman’s defence allo-cation got the thumbs down when it madea token increase of six per cent over the lastbudget with hardly any change from theinterim budget in February. “Soldiers gota raw deal from Sitharaman,” said veterans.

In her several media interviews, thesolitary question on defence allocation wasstandard: “You were defence minister;why no increase in defence budget”. Herreply was also standard: “There is anincrease customs duty on imports…MoDis ok with the allocation.” At the India TodayTV’s budget conclave with India Inc, shewas asked how difficult it was for her inthe MoD. Smilingly she answered: “TheGenerals are easy to deal with” — a back-handed compliment with a message: “Youwill continue to fight with what you have”.Militaries fight with essentials.

When the suave and articulate ArunJaitley was Defence Minister, his views onthe Defence Budget were revealing. In hissecond budget presentation, when asked onDoordarshan why there was only a nomi-nal hike in defence, he replied: “I can givethem more. But they can’t spend themoney”. In the next budget, to the samequestion by the same person on the samechannel, he said: “I don’t have the money”.Incidentally, Jaitley, not Sitharaman was thefirst Finance Minister to skip mentioningdefence allocation in the budget speech. Justbefore the last election he told an Aaj Taknational security conclave that defence bud-get would increase once the tax net expand-ed and GDP grew. This esoteric method-

ology of defence allocation wasconfirmed by DefenceSecretary Ajay Prasad onDoordarshan. When askedabout inadequacy of funds formodernisation, he replied:“Towards December, I usuallyexpect a call from the FinanceSecretary asking MoD toreturn ��eight-10,000 crore.”

The plea to increase thedefence budget this year wasmade in Parliament byCongress members — soldier-politician Amarinder Singh,Manish Tewari, Shashi Tharoorand Preneet Kaur. Tewari quot-ed from a parliamentary panelreport that defence expenditurehad fallen in 2017-18 to 1.6 percent of GDP and in 2019-20,the interim budget had declinedfurther to 1.52 per cent GDP,the lowest since 1962. DefenceCapital account has alsoreduced from 45.3 per cent in2009-10 to 31 per cent in 2019-20. Returning to Sitharaman’sbudget, she said as defencehad immediate requirement ofmodernisation and upgradationwhich is a national priority, “Iam exempting defence importsfrom customs duty (started in2016).” Besides, the revenuehead of salary accounts anddefence pension is not includ-ed in the defence budget, thecrux of funding as the ministercited, is in modernisation of thearmed forces. When the inter-im budget allotted a meagreincrease in capital account,

defence Minister Sitharamanpromised to take up the issuewith the Finance Ministry.

The capital outlay this fis-cal is �1,08,248 crore, which is30 per cent of the total govern-ment capital expenditure. TheIAF has received 38 per cent ofthe capital account amountingto �39,303 crore. It has a com-mitted liability of �47,400 crorefor Rafale fighter and S 400 ADsystem. It has paid up �40,000crore of the �59,000 crore toDassault. While the Navy’sshare is �23,156 crore, its com-mitted liabilities amount to�25,461 crore. The Army whichused to get the dominant share,around 51 per cent, hasslumped to 35 per cent to�29,461 crore. It has reported ashortfall of �12,000 crore -�6,300 crore in capital and�5,700 crore in revenue (nonsalary account). The cumulativecapital account shortfall is�25,000 crore without factoringany new projects.

The MoD has a way aboutexplaining deficiencies in fund-ing. It says it is bound by bud-getary ceilings laid down byFinance Ministry, adding thatthe reduced allocations werepassed on uniformly to all thethree services. Here’s the rub.Who is prioritising capital allo-cations in the absence of theCDS? Is it the DefenceSecretary? Or the new czar ofthe Defence PlanningCommittee, NSA A K Doval?

This brings us back to thebasics: the lacunae in thedefence planning process.

“Unless the DefenceMinister has issued her opera-tional directive to the armedforces this month (one has notbeen given to them for morethan a decade; in any case, theservices/Integrated DefenceStaff scripts it), the single ser-vices work independentlyalong their own strategic per-spective to evolve roles and mis-sions without any prior strate-gic and technological environ-ment assessment,” said theStrategic Defence and SecurityReview. Is India going to fighta two or two and a half frontwar? Only former Army Chief,Gen Deepak Kapoor knows ashe evolved this scenario in2009. The force levels to matchthe threats and challenges willemerge from the SDSR, notKapoor’s strategic thinking .

Prime Minister Modi haswaxed eloquent on Uri, Balakotand the soldier, but never saida word on his defence budgets.Next week, Kargil will be show-cased with great symbolism.Sitharaman’s pithy remark thatGenerals are easy to deal with,will haunt Service Chiefs whowill fight with what they have.

(The writer is a retiredMajor General of the IndianArmy and founder member ofthe Defence Planning Staff, cur-rently the revamped IntegratedDefence Staff)

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in Pulwama, a plank later used inthe election battle.

N NagarajanVia email

�������������������Sir —It refers to “Fair game?”Not only New Zealand fans butcricket fans and former crick-eters all over the world are

questioning ICC over the waythe World Cup winner wasdecided. Both England and NewZealand teams showed tenacityand perseverance but cruel lucksnatched the coveted trophyfrom the hands of KenWilliamson. Indeed, it is not fairto decide a final winner on thebasis of the number of bound-

aries scored. Agreed that ruleswere set and disclosed wellahead of the tournament butthen this is not the way it shouldhave ended. Why couldn’t theyhave one more super over ordecide on the number of wick-ets taken as was the practicebefore. Needless to mention theoverthrow by which England

scored six instead of five runs asper ICC law no. 19.8. gave theteam a huge edge. Luck desert-ed the Kiwis. Hopefully ICC willlook seriously into this besidesthe umpiring standards whichwere not great throughout thetournament. ICC needs to cre-ate a bigger and better pool ofumpires for any of its futureevent.

Bal GovindNoida

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Arecent Home Ministry report has publi-cised a fact that was known to many butdid not get due visibility in the media and

hence remained confined to a few. It revealed howhardline separatist leaders received funds fromabroad and utilised them for personal gains —from amassing properties to paying for foreigneducation of their kin. This has not only domi-nated the media but also raised a public outcrythat the misdeeds of these leaders should reachevery household in Kashmir, the people theyclaim to represent.

Ever since Amit Shah has occupied the all-important chair of the Union Home Minister, theMinistry has got a new fillip because of his per-ceived image as a doer. During his recent maid-en visit to Kashmir, he minced no words in reit-erating the zero tolerance policy of his govern-ment towards terror and terrorists, enunciatingthe need to crack down on terror funding firstand ensure that the law of the land prevails.

Tightening its noose around those who wereinvolved in terror funding, terror financing,money laundering and hawala operations, theNational Investigation Agency (NIA), for the firsttime, under the directions of the previous Modigovernment, had arrested many separatist lead-ers, businessmen, hawala operators and close rel-atives of the Hurriyat leadership and put themthrough sustained interrogation to track thesources and origin of terror funding in Kashmir.NIA was successful in not only tracking the trailof terror funding but also revealed the benefi-ciaries and how terror was being sustained in theValley apart from allowing the so-called leadersin Kashmir lead a luxurious life. The regional par-ties, who were heading the governments inKashmir, turned a blind eye to this notoriousmalpractice because of their vested interest incontinuation of terrorism in the state. How elsecan they explain cases of money laundering andhawala operations which were lingering on fordecades together despite the registration of thecases?

This, in fact, has been the misfortune ofKashmir because the regional mainstream par-ties owe their political survival to separatist andextremist forces operating in the Valley. Duringtheir interrogation, the separatist leaders con-fessed that Pakistan was the main source of ter-ror funding with the specific purpose of fuellingseparatist sentiments among the people ofKashmir. Cross-LoC trade was one of the majorsources of hawala operations and terror financ-ing. During interrogation, Asiya Andrabi of theDuktaran-e-Milat admitted that she had beenreceiving funds and donations from Pakistan andother foreign sources for organising protests byMuslim girls and women in the valley. She hasused part of this money to finance the educationof her son in Malaysia while a major portion ofexpenses is borne by Zahoor Watali, a business-man arrested for terror funding. Watali is one ofthe main hawala conduits who received fundsfrom Pakistan, ISI, UAE and had floated variousshell companies to disguise foreign remittancesfor further transfer to separatist leaders andstone-pelters in the valley. Masrat Alam, the mas-ter-mind of stone-pelters, has confessed thatfunds were being distributed among variousHurriyat leaders including Syed Ali Shah Geelani.

Shabbir Shah, another separatist leader,confessed that his hotel in Pahalgamand other businesses are financedthrough funds received from Pakistan.Yasin Malik, who brought together thevarious factions of Hurriyat under thebanner of Joint Resistance Leadership(JRL), which became notorious for issu-ing “bandh rosters” in Kashmir, affect-ing the lives of common Kashmiris,confessed before the agencies thatfunds were received from big businesshouses in Kashmir and other “sources.”These sustained the bandh calls, dis-rupting economic activities in Kashmir,which also indirectly affected the trad-ing community of Jammu.

These funds were used to fuelunrest in the Kashmir valley andorganise violent agitations and anti-India activities, which resulted inlarge scale violence, leading to numer-ous injuries and deaths of innocentcivilians and security forces person-nel. The funds were also used to paystone pelters, Friday protesters, thosetasked to torch schools and govern-ment buildings, particularly panchay-at ghars and the over ground workers.Pakistan has also entrusted Hurriyatthe responsibility of financing “home-grown” terror groups from the fundsreceived by them. Thus, apart frompromoting and sustaining terror inKashmir, these leaders were alsoinvolved in the killings of Kashmiris,closure of educational institutionsand encouraging local youth to jointhe terror ranks. Among all this theyalso indulged in a luxurious life oftheir own and financing foreign edu-cation of their wards. According to thelist released by the MHA, 210 relativesof Kashmiri separatist leaders current-ly live abroad. The documents alsomention that 112 children of theseparatists study in foreign countries,

out of which 21 belong to 14 well-known separatists.

The MHA document also revealsas to how they spread hate and vio-lence in Kashmir to further thePakistani agenda of keeping the potboiling and in perpetual turmoil.While they deny Kashmiris the rightto live peacefully and decide theirfuture as per their own wishes, theythemselves lead a lavish lifestyle.While the separatists encourage theyouth of the Valley to pick up stonesand arms against security forces andjoin militancy, they seem to have noqualms in shielding their own familyfrom the strife in the region by settlingthem not only in the metros butabroad as well. The hands of theHurriyat leadership are soaked withthe blood of innocent Kashmiris, whohave the right to know about their mis-deeds. This is the story of the greatbetrayal in Kashmir by their own andthey need to be exposed so that thefalse image they have built in the heartsof the poor Kashmiri folk is shattered.

Sensing defeat in its design ofannexing Kashmir through “religiousmilitancy,” radicalisation and jihaditerror, it has now resorted to destroy-ing the future generations of Kashmirby making them drug addicts. The fre-quency of seizure of drug consignmentsin the near past must have rung thealarm bells among the concernedauthorities by now. Incidentally, drugmenace is not confined to the Valley buthas also engulfed the border districts ofJammu and is slowly penetrating otherareas. It is more alarming in the Valleybecause the youth there is a vulnerabletarget due to the prevailing circum-stances. The environment is such thatthe youth can be easily lured and theexample of post-militancy Punjab isworth noting. Radicalisation and drug-

addiction are the two major chal-lenges staring in the face of the admin-istration.

There is a desperate need to launch“Back to Village 2.0” in the State. While“Back to Village 1.0” was a massive out-reach programme aimed at taking theadministration to the doorstep of thevillagers, its 2.0 version should aim atlaunching an effective informationcampaign and link it to a massive anti-drug and anti-radicalisation drive.

Apart from extensive coverage inthe vernacular press, the campaignshould also aim at educating the peo-ple and making them aware throughaudio-visual means. One is remindedof the good old days when the teams offield publicity division of theGovernment of India used to visit thevillages with 16 mm projectors andscreen documentary films. Now thetechnology has improved manifold.Rather than depending on in-houseresources, the government should con-sider taking the services of profession-als in the field. The films/songs shouldbe in the local dialects to widen theirreach. One should also revive local cul-ture and use “bhands” to promote localfolk art and messaging. Nukkad natak(street plays) can also be staged by pro-fessional groups to give voice to theyouth angst. If terror has to end andlasting peace ensured in Kashmir, theterror support network, both localand Pak-sponsored, will have to becompletely eliminated. Social awarenesswill ensure that such elements areexposed and are unable to mislead thesimple Kashmiris with anti-India pro-paganda and exploit the Kashmiriyouth.

(The author is a Jammu based polit-ical commentator, columnist, securityand strategic analyst. He can be contact-ed at [email protected])

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first-timers getting an opportunity tomake their maiden speeches. Whilethe 16th Lok Sabha saw a divided andfractured Opposition, the currentone has so far seen only feeble voic-es with no effort to speak unitedly.This could be because the Oppositionis yet to recover from the blow it hasreceived in the elections.

While any democracy needs astable government, it also needs acredible and strong Opposition. Itsmain role is to question the govern-ment of the day and hold it account-able to the public. It is the Oppositionthat puts rein on the power of the gov-

ernment of the day and checks it. Itis indeed a well-established fact thatpolitical parties with massive majori-ties and weak opposition haveadversely impacted crucial issues.

However, when Rajiv Gandhicame to power after the assassinationof Indira Gandhi in 1984 with a brutemajority of 415 seats, the Oppositionwas weak in numbers but not silent.A half a dozen leaders from variousOpposition parties, including MadhuDandavate, Somnath Chatterjee,Inderjit Gupta, Unnikrishnan andJaipal Reddy, had effectively exposedthe Bofors gun deal scam, which real-ly cost Rajiv Gandhi his government.Prior to that, when Indira Gandhi lostthe elections in 1977, she had field-ed vocal leaders like C M Stephan.Unfortunately, the current Oppositiondoes not have many such leaders whocould hold forth in Parliament andoutside. This is indeed the real con-cern. In a blog post titled, The fright-ening and scary scenario of India’sOpposition, BJP leader Arun Jaitley,calling the Opposition camp “frac-tured,” pointed out that they have noagreement on either a leader or pro-

gramme and the common pointbetween them is just to “get rid of oneperson (Modi).” By failing to unite, theOpposition had gifted a whopping352 seats to the BJP in 2019.

The muted voice of theOpposition is also linked to the phe-nomenal growth of the BJP emergingas a pan-national party in the pastdecade or so. That is primarilybecause of the Congress’ inability tofunction as an effective opposition.The grand old party is still living inits past glory without realising that thevoter profile has changed and the

party has lost its connect with the newvoters. Rahul Gandhi, thoughyounger than Prime Minister Modi,is unable to attract his youthful peers.The Congress is yet to introspect whatwent wrong in the 2019 polls or makeefforts to reinvent itself. On the con-trary, Rahul Gandhi’s resignation hasplunged the party into a leadershipcrisis from which it is yet to come out.The Congress is yet to build up theparty at the grassroot level to matchthe BJP. Only boycotting Parliamentand hitting the streets are not enough.Congressmen need to connect with

the masses and educate them onissues that could set the agenda for thenext round of Lok Sabha elections.Above all, even after the defeat in thepolls, the Opposition remains divid-ed as is evident from the way theBahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leaderMayawati broke her alliance with theSamajwadi Party (SP) recently. TheCongress –JD (S) coalition is crum-bling in Karnataka. Also manyOpposition leaders are vulnerable,facing several court cases and are socaught up in their survival that theycan hardly prepare an alternative blue-print of governance to go the peoplewith.

The second reason for the currentstate of affairs is the gradual demiseof the Left parties. From ruling inthree States earlier, the Left partieshave been practically decimated in itsstrongholds of Kerala, West Bengaland Tripura. The comrades have longbeen split between a highly intellec-tual circle and a rural movement withthe result they are gradually losingtheir hold on both. They also havefailed to re-orient themselves to thecurrent day requirements of the vot-

ers without realising that chanting sec-ularism and class struggle no moreattract them.

As for the rest of the parties likethe SP, BSP, RJD, Trinamool Congress,NCP, DMK, JD (S), Shiv Sena, TRS,TDP and most Northeastern region-al parties, they are led by regionalsatraps, who believe in family rule andhave no worldview. The lack of oppo-sition is indeed a great tragedy inIndia today and a worrisome factorin a democracy. The Congress had itgoing for six decades dealing with aweak Opposition. A complete deci-mation of Opposition parties is notgood for the country. Constructivecriticism and not blind agitation is therole of an effective Opposition in aparliamentary democracy.

It is quite clear that politicalpower equations have shifted heavi-ly towards the BJP. Right now PrimeMinister Modi is enjoying a largerthan life image like Nehru once didor Indira Gandhi. Time has come nowfor the Opposition to rise.

(The writer is a senior politicalcommentator and syndicated colum-nist)

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Unusual torrential rainfallin catchment areas in

Nepal and subsequent massivedischarge of water in rivers ledto flash floods in Bihar where25 people have lost their livesin the last few days whilemore than one lakh peoplehave been evacuated, ChiefMinister Nitish Kumar told theAssembly on Tuesday.

A total of 25.72 lakh peo-ple have been affected by thenatural calamity so far, hesaid. In a statement, Kumarsaid floods normally strucknorth Bihar in August or,sometimes, in September, butthis time they came a monthearlier primarily because ofunusually heavy rainfall inthe Terai region of the neigh-bouring country.

For the last three-four days,the Terai region of Nepal hasbeen lashed by rainfalls rangingbetween 280-300 mm whichwas many times higher than the50 mm which is considerednormal for the area during thistime of the year. As a result, sev-eral rivers in Bihar like Kosi,Bagmati and Mahananda havebeen in spate, the ChiefMinister said in the House.

Twelve districtsMadhubani, Sitamarhi,Sheohar, East and WestChamparan, Supaul,Darbhanga, MuzaffarpurKatihar, Purnea, Kishanganjand Araria have been affectedby the floods, the CM added.

He cited the example of thecatchment area for Kamala riverin Nepal which received 203.60-

319.80 mm of rainfall on July 12-13. This led to a massive dis-charge of water in the riverwhich passes through Jayanagarin Madhubani district.

Water has inundated aroad bridge in Jayanagar whilein Jhanjharpur water level at arail bridge has reached 54.50metres, which is higher thanthe all-time record of 54.34registered in 1987.

The Kamala Balanembankment has beenbreached at six places, affect-ing several blocks ofMadhubani and Darbhangadistricts. Water level in theBagmati has broken previousrecords at several places affect-ing people in Sheohar,Sitamarhi and Muzaffarpurdistricts. All embankments

along the Bagmati have, how-ever, so far remainedunharmed, he added.

Besides, a dam over Khiroiriver burst in Darbhanga districtaffecting many villages.Excessive water discharge inMahananda has inundated largeparts of Kishanganj district. Allembankments in theMahananda basin are, howev-er, secure till now, Kumar added.Till 10 am Tuesday, 25 peoplehave died in the floods andinstructions have been issued forprompt payment of ex-gratia tothe next of their kin, he said.

The flood-hit area covers555 Panchayats of 78 blocksspread across these districts.Rescue work is being carriedout by 796 personnel equippedwith 125 motor boats.

Besides 26 teams of NDRFand SDRF are engaged in therescue operations and so far1.25 lakh people have beenevacuated from the maroonedareas, the Chief Minister said.

For those displaced byfloods, 199 relief camps havebeen set up which are at pre-sent inhabited by 1.16 lakhpeople. Their food is beingprepared at 676 communitykitchens. Instructions are inplace for setting up more reliefcamps and communitykitchens if such a need arises,he added.

Good quality of food anddrinking water is beingensured and so is availabilityof bleaching powder and chlo-rine tablets, ORS and anti-diarrhea drugs, he said.

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Katihar: Locals in Dangi Tolavillage of Katihar district inBihar claimed they have nooption but to eat rats as floodshave wreaked havoc anddestroyed houses in theregion.

Around 300 families havebeen affected by floods in the area.

Speaking to ANI, TallaMurmur, a local, said, “Wehave to eat rats as our househas been destroyed by theflood. There are no arrange-ments for us. TheGovernment has given nofacility to us. We are depen-dent on rats only to fill ourstomachs. All my familymembers eat rats as they areeasy to find in the floods.”

“I have come here tocatch a mouse with my grand-father as we don’t have any-thing else to eat,” saidMurmur’s grandson Vijendra.

However, Block

Development Officer ofKadwa constituency, RakeshKumar Gupta said officials areunaware of the conditionsclaimed by the locals.

“We have no informationregarding the condition of thevillagers in the flood-affectedareas. Even if they are eatingrats, maybe it is likely that thetribal people might be eatingit,” he said.

Meanwhile, CongressMLA Shakeel Ahmad Khansaid he has written a letter toChief Minister Nitish Kumar,requesting him to provideassistance.

Bihar is witnessing floodsas the water levels of severalrivers have been rising fol-lowing heavy rainfall in thepast few days.

Many villages of Bihar’sAraria, Darbhanga andMadhubani districts areflooded due to the heavydownpour. Agencies

Thiruvananthapuram: Withthe weather office predictingextremely heavy rains in thecoming days for Kerala, a redalert has been issued in thestate’s six districts, includingIdukki and Malappuram, fromJuly 18.

The red alert, denotinglikelihood of very heavy toextremely heavy rain, has beenissued in Idukki, Malappuram, Wayanad, Kannur, Ernakulamand Thrissur districts on dif-ferent days from July 18-20.

Extremely heavy rain —over 204 mm rains in 24 hours,have been forecast, a IMD bul-letin said. The second spell ofthe South West Monsoon isstarting Wednesday and thereis a possiblity of formation oflow pressure in the Bay ofBengal, Kerala State DisasterManagement Authority sourcessaid. Officials have asked toopen control rooms at taluklevel. Fishermen have beenadvised not to venture into thesea. PTI

Kaziranga/Guwahati: Withover 150 anti-poaching camps inthe Kaziranga National Parkaffected by the Assam floods, theauthorities are working round-the-clock to check poaching atthe UNESCO World Heritagesite, officials said.

The staff and security per-sonnel are performing theirduties using mechanised andcountry boats to deal with anykind of eventualities, they said.Ninety per cent of the KazirangaNational Park in Golaghat and

Nagaon districts of the state wasstill submerged, a statementfrom the Assam Ministry ofForest and Environment said.

Besides forest guards, aState Disaster Relief Force(SDRF) team was engagedalongside Assam Police per-sonnel in vulnerable spots ofthe park, Divisional ForestOfficer, Kaziranga NationalPark, Rohini Ballab Saikia said

The Kaziranga NationalPark is home to the world’slargest population of Indian

one-horned rhinoceroses. Otheranimals such as tigers, ele-phants, sloth bears, monkeysand musk deer are also found inthe forest. Some of the animalshave taken shelter in highlandswithin the park and many aremigrating to the southern high-lands of Karbi Anglong, cross-ing National Highway 37, thestatement said. Though 90 percent of the KNP is submerged,water level inside the park andthe adjoining NH-37 has reced-ed to some extent. PTI

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Amid high drama and clash-es over a board meeting of

West Bengal’s Bongaon munic-ipality called on Tuesday todebate a no-confidence reso-lution, both the rulingTrinamool Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) claimed to have provedtheir majority.

Of the 22 members of themunicipality in the North 24Parganas district, 20 belongedto the Trinamool and one eachto the CPI-M and theCongress. But shortly after theBJP’s victory in the BongaonLok Sabha seat, 11 Trinamool councillors shiftedtheir allegiance to the BJP andclaimed that the Trinamool-run board had been reduced toa minority.

They also approached thehigh court claiming that theno-confidence resolutionmoved by them was rejected bythe Chairman, and the stategovernment was planning toappoint an administrator torun the civic body.

A special board meeting ofthe municipality was scheduledon Tuesday to take up and voteon the resolution.

But the situation becametense in the afternoon when thepolice allegedly stopped tworebel councillors from enteringthe municipality on the pretext of non-bailable chargesagainst them.

The BJP supporters andactivists clashed with the police,broke the barricade and peltedstones at houses and shops inthe area, accusing the cops ofworking at the behest of theruling party.

Police carried out a baton charge to disperse thecrowd.

Meanwhile, the Trinamoolcouncillors claimed they hadretained control of the munic-ipal board as the rebel coun-cillors failed to attend theboard meeting within thescheduled time of 3 p.m.

Srinagar: The brave efforts oftwo CRPF troopers who saveda girl from drowning in Jammuand Kashmir’s Baramulla dis-trict was praised by locals andthe twitterati on Tuesday.

On Monday, the troopers,MG Naidu and Nalla Upendra,immediately jumped into thestream when they saw 14-year-old Nigeena being washed awayby powerful currents. The girlwould have drowned, had notbeen for the timely rescue bythe troopers who risked theirlives to save her. Residents ofthe area, especially the parentsof the girl, have said they cannever fully express the gratitudethey owe to the two troopers.

“It was an extreme act ofbravery for which the entirearea remains i ndebted to thesetwo brave jawans,” said a localfrom the area. Many Twitterusers have also praised thebravery and presence of mindof the two troopers. IANS

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With ISRO yet to officiallyannounce the nature of

the technical snag that prompt-ed it to call off launch ofChandrayaan 2, a former spacescientist on Tuesday com-mended the team for haltingthe high-stake Moon mission.

The launch of India’s sec-ond Moon mission aimed atlanding a rover on the unex-plored Lunar South Pole wasaborted early Monday due to a“technical snag” minutes beforethe scheduled lift-off of thecountry’s most powerful rock-et GSLV-MKIII from the space-port of Sriharikota.

Former Indian SpaceResearch Organisation (ISRO)scientist Nambi Narayanan,credited for his contributions inthe development of cryogenictechnology in the country’sspace programme, said callingoff the launch was disappoint-ing not just for the general pub-lic but even for the brainsbehind the Rs 978 crore project.

“It is a pity that countdownwas stopped. They (scientists)might have noticed somethingwrong. I feel the problem might(have been even) small but theymust not have wanted to takea chance”, he told PTI.

Narayanan’s commentscame even as the ISRO was yetto make any formal announce-ment on what went wrongduring the final hour of count-down that prompted the spaceagency to call it off 56 minutesbefore the lift-off.

Though none of the ISROofficials whom PTI contactedresponded, experts have said aglitch might have been noticedwhen the rocket’s liquid propel-lant was being loaded into thecryogenic upper stage engine.

Incidentally, an update byISRO around 1.34 am onMonday had said, “Filling ofLiquid Hydrogen in Cryogenicstage of #GSLVMkIII-M1 com-pleted. #Chandrayaan2 #ISROStay tuned for more updates.”

Narayanan said it was goodISRO halted the launch after

noticing the glitch. “It may be asmall thing, but that is alwaysgood (halting a launch insteadof going ahead). They are nowtrying to understand what wentwrong. What actually happened.So, we need to wait..” he said.

ISRO had earlier scheduledthe launch of the mission,headed by women scientistsRitu Karidhal and MuthayyaVanitha, in the first week ofJanuary but shifted it to July 15after chosing a launch windowbetween July 9 and 16.

Chandrayan-2, compris-ing an orbiter, a lander and arover, was to have been inject-ed into an Earth orbit about 16minutes after lift-off with thelander to touch down on theMoon surface 54 days laterthrough a series of criticalorbit rising manoeuvres.

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The Kesarbai building col-lapsed at the congested

Dongi locality in southMumbai, which caved in like aproverbial pack of cards onTuesday morning, had in astructural audit report submit-ted to the Brihan MunicipalCorporation (BMC) had beendeclared as a “dangerous” struc-ture which was “to be evacuat-ed for demolition at the earliest”.

Even two years after theBMC classified as it as a dilap-idated structure that should bedemolished immediately, atleast 15 families were continu-ing to live in the Kesarbaibuilding, which is believed tobe 80 years' old.

Incidentally, the name ofKesarbai building is conspicu-ous by its absence in a list of499 “dangerous” buildings inthe metropolis prepared bythe BMC,

In a statement released inthe evening, the State-runMaharashtra Housing & AreaDevelopment Authority(MHADA) that KesarbaiBuilding — 25/C — had beenevacuated last year. The struc-ture, however, collapsed earli-er on Tuesday, leaving at least10 persons dead and eight oth-ers injured.

The MHADA stated thatthe structure that collapsed onTuesday was the illegal rearportion of the same buildingwhich does not fall within thepurview of either MHADA orMumbai Building Repairs &Reconstruction Board(MBRRB).

Meanwhile, an RTI replygiven by the BMC revealed that

from January 2013 till now,Mumbai has witnessed ashocking 2,704 different typesof crashes including buildings,walls, balconies, slabs, por-tions of homes, etc.

“The crashes have resultedin 234 deaths, including 82women and 152 men, besidesinjuring another 840, compris-ing 302 females and 538 males.Despite these tragedies, no stepshave been taken by the BMC todemolish the buildings declared'dangerous' in the past six years,”RTI activist Shakeel AhmedShaikh Sheikh said.

It may be recalled that in2014, a Bombay High CourtDivision Bench comprisingJustice AV Mohta and JusticeAA Sayed had directed theBMC to identify all dilapidat-ed and dangerous buildings inMumbai and put up their liston its website.

Based on the condition ofthe structures, the classifica-tions are: C2 - buildings whichcan be repaired, and C1 -buildings which cannot berepaired and must be demol-ished at the earliest, he added.

The court had also orderedthe BMC to draw up the listirrespective of its ownership -- whether private, Government,BMC, or any other agency --and send notices to the occu-pants to vacate such buildings.

Slamming the BMC andMHADA for passing the buck

like on the previous occasions,activist Shaikh — who had pro-cured several documents underRTI Act — said, “Since the highcourt’s order in 2014, the BMChas done nothing to evacuateall these 499 dangerous (C1)buildings and demolish them.We cannot rule out the possi-bility of another mishap duringthe current monsoon”.

The BMC’s “B ward” hadreceived a report from thetrust that owned the Kesarbaibuilding had received a struc-tural audit report on July 31,2017 stating that this buildinghad been classified as “C1”building. The “C1” categorisa-tion means that the building isin a dangerous state that “it isto be evacuated for demolitionat the earliest”. However, theresidents of Kesarbai buildinghad not vacated the buildingfor the past two years.

Following a complaint by aresident, the BMC had issueda notice to the KesarbaiBuilding owners, Bai HirabaiRahimbhai Aloo Paroo and BaiKesarbai Dharamsay KhakooCharitable and Religious Trust,ordering them to carry out astructural audit of the structure.

A month later, the BMClearnt that the building wasactually a cessed building ofMaharashtra Housing & AreaDevelopment Authority(MHADA), over which it hadno jurisdiction.

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In two separate shootouts inUttar Pradesh, a Vishva

Hindu Parishad (VHP) leaderand a Samajwadi Party (SP)leader were killed, exposing thedeteriorating law and ordersituation in the State.

On Monday evening, VHPdistrict president and advocatePranav Misra was killed byunidentified bike-borneassailants in Pratapgarh whileSP leader Akhilesh Yadav waskilled in Kanakpur village inAyodhya when unidentifiedassailants on bike fired sever-al rounds at him and fled.

According to reports,Misra, who worked at the dis-trict court, was on his way towork when some armed menshot him dead.

Pratapgarh Superintendentof Police, N Anand, wasremoved from the post after theincident and replaced byAbhishek Singh.

Both the Bharatiya JanataParty (BJP) and the SP havecondemned the murders anddemanded immediate arrestof the assailants.

Arif Khan, an advocate anda friend of Misra said:“Advocates are being killed since2014 and as many as seven advo-cates have been killed so far. Thepolice are silent on it and therehave been no strict investigationson the murderers.”

SP spokesman RajendraChaudhary said the incidentwas proof of growing lawless-ness in the State.

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Amid reports that MamataBanerjee has roped in

India’s new age election guruPrashant Kishor to revive herparty Trinamool Congress’electoral fortunes in Bengal, thepoll strategist has kick-starteda grand plan to enroll at least5 lakh youth in his “youth inpolitics” campaign.

These youth, thus draftedin politics will augment abefuddled TMC’s worker force.The Bengal ruling outfit suf-fered stunning reverses at thehands of a surging BJP in therecently concluded Lok Sabhaelections whence the saffronparty romped home with 18out of 42 seats leaving 22 for the

Trinamool and two for theCongress. In its worst defeatsince 2006 the TMC conceded12 seats to the Opposition.

Assembly segment-wisethe Lok Sabha election resultsprojected a whopping gain of127 seats for the BJP in a 294-member House whereas theTMC’s strength hoveredaround 155 and 160, down 55-60 seats from its 2016 tally.

Considering a general per-ception that Bengal ruling partyhad degenerated into a crimi-nalised outfit, Kishor is work-ing on an image-building exer-cise. Recruitment and trainingof clean, well-cultivated anduntested faces is a part of hisprogramme, sources said.

Kishor’s organisation I-PAC

is targeting all classes of youth;but mostly the unemployedones, sources said adding hisrecruitment programme iscalled “Youth in Politics” or YIP.Even those who have voted forthe BJP or admire NarendraModi are welcome in the YIP,sources said adding the grouphas already started enrollingabout 4 thousand youth per day.This rate of enrolment isexpected to rise further until itreaches 10,000 per day sourcessaid adding by the end ofSeptember the number of peo-ple thus recruited would go upto five lakh.

These people will then betrained for a period of 15months or so before they arepushed into the market for

election works, sources said.The team will also analyse ifany particular caste, tribal,Hindi-speaking or industrialbelts in the state had any rolein the vote-share swing.

While similar strategy ofenrolling foot-soldiers workedwell in the case of AndhraPradesh where Kishor workedfor Jaganmohan Reddy’s YSRCongress to trounceChandrababu Naidu, this maynot work in Bengal as here hehas to withstand the anti-incumbency wave against theMamata Banerjee Governmentthat was witnessed in the gen-eral elections.

“We could have won atleast 2-3 more seats likeArambagh and Ghatal had the

Election Commission man-aged to control violenceunleashed by the TMC goons,”said State BJP president DilipGhosh adding, “BJP has a con-nect with the masses andMamata Banerjee has lost thatconnect which is why she hasto purchase an election expert.But she will have to rememberthat Bengal has a politicallyconscious and matured elec-torate unlike in many parts ofIndia. Here professional elec-tioneering will not work.”

Even if the YIP “or what-ever they are called movesdoor-to-door will they be ableto erase the impression of afrightful decade a corruptdecade, a criminalised decadefrom their mind?” another

State BJP leader wondered.Already Kishor has met

Banerjee several times and hasbeen working in close coordi-nation with her nephew andMP Abhishek Banerjee.

Kishor’s endeavour inBengal is part of a multi-crorecontract with the TMC, insidesources said, adding the elec-tion guru — responsible forPrime Minister NarendraModi’s landslide victory in2014 — will also have to watchout for the source of the pay-ment that comes to him as con-tract fee from the TMC, agalaxy of whose leaders are facing a slew of charges fortheir alleged involvement inchit fund and other corruptactivities.

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The credibility of graduatesand post graduates passing

out of Kerala University hascome under a shadow followingthe seizure of bundles of unusedanswer papers and the officialseal of the head of the depart-ment from the office of theCPI-M led Students Federationof India at Thiruvananthapuramand the residences of some ofthe SFI leaders.

The Confederation ofUniversity TeachersOrganisation in Kerala hasdemanded that an independentagency should probe the cir-cumstances that led toUniversity answer sheets andoffice seals of the authoritiesreaching the houses of studentleaders and party offices.

The Kerala Police probingthe last week’s stabbing incidentat the University College in theheart of Thiruvananthapuramwas shocked when they sawbundles of examination papers and the office seal stored in a room in the collegewhich was being used by theSFI as its office.

Empty bottle of importedscotch was one of the itemsseized from the office room ofthe SFI. A probe is on to findout whether the bottle wasdumped into the room byforces which are opposed to theSFI, said a police officer in theinvestigating team.

The University College isa fortress under the full controlof the SFI irrespective of theparty in power at the neigh-bouring Kerala Secretariat.

Once known for academ-ic excellence, the UniversityCollege has become a den ofanti-social activities.

“This college is used by theCPI-M to recruit youngsters tobe deployed in the institutionto annihilate students belong-ing to other unions and polit-ical parties,” said a teacher inthe college who did not wanthis name to be quoted.

It was a group rivalry

between the SFI activists whichled to the stabbing incidentresulting in Akhil, himself a SFIleader hot stab wounds.

The College was in the newsrecently when a second yeardegree student tried to commitsuicide in the college itselfbecause of harassment by the SFIleaders. She was saved in the nickof time and the college authori-ties acceded to her request for atransfer to another college.“During the last one year 150students have left the collegecomplaining of harassment andabuse by SFI leaders,” said thisgirl from her residence at aThiruvananthapuram suburb.

The investigators probingthe case seized bundles ofunused university answersheets from the residence ofShivaranjit, the prime accusedin the stabbing case. Shivaranjithas been selected to the KeralaPolice as civil police officer bythe Kerala Public ServiceCommission which is fullyunder the CPI-M control. Howhe got into the rank list of theKPSC is also being investigat-ed by the police. Shivaranjitand Nazeem the secondaccused have been arrestedand remanded to judicial cus-tody. Following widespreadresentment among the studentcommunity, the State leader-ship of the SFI has disbandedthe wing’s college unit.

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Bareilly: The two wild elephants, wandering from one spot toanother since the past 20 days, have reached Uttar Pradesh’s dis-trict, where it attacked and killed another person.

The incident took place in Mirzapur village, 15 km fromRampur city, on Monday night. The jumbos attacked Raju Yadav,who was returning home from work on his bicycle. Accordingto villagers, Raju was not aware of the presence of the wild ele-phants in the village.

He unwittingly came close to them on the road near hishouse and was trampled and killed. Two weeks ado, the wildtuskers killed a person identified as Baijnath in Bilaspur tehsiland injured two others. Forest officials said that they were nowtrying to divert the elephants towards Bahedi in Bareilly dis-trict. Forest officials have also sought two more cow elephantsfrom the Dudhwa Tiger Reserve for push-and-pull process tolure the tuskers away from human habitation to the forests.

The two adult bull elephants moved out of Bareilly’sMandanpur village to reach Rathonda village in Rampur onSaturday. In the night, they covered another 10 km to arrive atMirzapur village on Sunday. IANS

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French politician ChristineLagarde on Tuesday said she

will resign as the ManagingDirector of InternationalMonetary Fund with effectfrom September 12.

She has been nominated bythe European Council asPresident of the EuropeanCentral Bank. Her resignationhas been accepted by the IMFExecutive Board with effectfrom September 12.

"I have met with theExecutive Board and submittedmy resignation from the Fundwith effect from September12, 2019. The relinquishmentof my responsibilities asManaging Director announced

previously will remain in effectuntil then," Lagarde said in astatement.

David Lipton remains theIMF Acting Managing Directorin the interim period.

In a separate statement,IMF Executive Board said thatit has accepted the resignationof Lagarde and expressed its"greatest appreciation" for whatshe did for the institution.

"Her legacy of achieve-ments has made a lastingimprint on the Fund. Underher guidance, the Fund suc-cessfully helped its membersnavigate a complex andunprecedented set of chal-lenges, including the impact ofthe global financial crisis andits aftershocks," the Board said.

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The rupee on Tuesday depre-ciated by 17 paise to close

at 68.71 against the US dollardue to rising crude oil pricesand foreign fund outflows.

A strengthening US dollaragainst major currencies over-seas also weighed on the rupeesentiment, forex traders said.

However, sustained buyingin the domestic equity marketrestricted the rupee's fall, theyadded. At the interbank foreignexchange (forex) market, thedomestic currency openedlower at 68.59 per dollar, andfurther lost ground to touch theday's low of 69.76. The rupeefinally settled at 68.71, down 17paise over its previous close.

The rupee had settled at68.54 against the US dollar onMonday.

The dollar index, whichgauges the greenback's strengthagainst a basket of six majorcurrencies, moved up by 0.31per cent to 97.23.

Brent crude futures, the glob-al oil benchmark, rose 0.32 percent to USD 66.69 per barrel.

India's exports declinedfor the first time in ninemonths in June hit by tradewar between the US and China.Trade deficit slipped to USD15.28 billion in June from USD16.6 billion in the year-agomonth.

Bond yields slid for a fifthstraight day to 6.34 per cent, atwo-and-a-half-year low markon the hopes of further ratecuts post three consecutiverate cuts announced by the RBIso far in 2019, he said, addingthat yields have come off byalmost a percentage point sincebeginning of the fiscal year.

Foreign institutional investors(FIIs) remained net sellers in thecapital markets, pulling out Rs216.44 crore on Monday, provi-sional exchange data showed.

The BSE Sensex closed at39,131.04 points, showing a riseof 234.33 points or 0.60 percent. The broader NSE Niftyended 72.70 points or 0.63 percent up at 11,661.05.

The Financial BenchmarkIndia Private Ltd (FBIL) set thereference rate for therupee/dollar at 68.5836 and forrupee/euro at 77.3074. Thereference rate for rupee/Britishpound was fixed at 86.1991 andfor rupee/100 Japanese yen at63.49.

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India will be easing manda-tory local sourcing norms

for FDI in single brand retailtrading in the next few weeks,Commerce and IndustryMinister Piyush Goyal said.

"India has opened upopportunities for single brandretail and is easing some detri-mental clauses of the policy innext few weeks which willhelp single brand retail comein a bigger way to the coun-try," an official statement saidquoting the minister.

He was addressing CEOsof multi-national companiesin the UK-India JointEconomic and TradeCommittee (JETCO) meet-ing held on Monday inLondon.

The government inBudget proposed that localsourcing norms will be easedfor FDI (foreign direct invest-ment) in single brand retail

sector.Currently 100 per cent

FDI is permitted in the sectorwith certain conditions,including 30 per cent manda-tory local sourcing preferablyfrom MSMEs.

The minister also request-ed companies around theworld to respect Indian sen-sitivities on restrictions offoreign investment in multi-brand retail.

"Particularly, e-commercecompanies coming to Indiawill have to ensure that theystay within the letter and spir-it of the law when it comes tomulti-brand retail and India'spolicies around that," he said.

He also said that manu-facturing in India, in a cost-competitive environment,could be the key for Britishcompanies to expand theirfootprints to other parts of theworld.

"Designed in the UK -Made in India can be the new

focus area for this partnership.Similarly, in the services sec-tor, India can provide hugetechnical expertise to Britishcompanies," the minister said.

Further he said if the spir-it of research and innovationin British industry and acad-emia is bound together withthe strength of the skilledIndian work force, the twocountries may become thepreferred supplier for the restof the world. B o t hcountries have agreed to setup three new bilateral work-ing groups to tackle barriers inspecific sectors including foodand drink, healthcare anddata services.

India-UK trade and eco-nomic relations are reviewedannually by JETCO at thelevel of Commerce andIndustry Minister.

Till date, 12 meetingshave taken place and the lastwas held in January 2018 inLondon.

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Religare Enterprises saidTuesday that the Reserve

Bank of India has rejected pro-posed appointment of two per-sons to the company's board ofdirectors.

"The Reserve Bank of Indiavide its letter dated July 15,2019 has communicated thatthe company's request forappointment of Ashok Mehtaand Ashwani Mehta as non-executive non-independentdirectors has not been acced-ed to," Religare Enterprisessaid in a regulatory filing.Ashok Mehta has served as theinterim chief executive officerof the company in the past.

Religare had approved toappoint Ashwani Mehta as thenon-executive non-indepen-dent director of the companyon November 20, 2018.Ashwani is an MS in generalsurgery and is one of the pio-neers to start laparoscopicsurgery in northern India.

In June, the company'sgroup chief executive officer(CEO) Milind Narendra Patelhad resigned from his postwhich he had assumed inAugust 2018, after steppingdown of Ashok Mehta as theinterim CEO.

Patel continues as thegroup CEO, serving the noticeperiod as per the companypolicies.

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Europe's biggest airline,budget carrier Ryanair,

will cut flights and close someof its bases beginning thiswinter because of the delay todeliveries of the Boeing 737Max plane, which has beengrounded globally after twofatal crashes.

The airline also warnedTuesday that its growth inEuropean summer traffic for2020 will be lower thanexpected because of theslowed deliveries.

Ryanair chief MichaelO'Leary said the airline"remains committed" to theBoeing 737 Max and expectsit to be back in service beforethe end of the year but that thedate is uncertain.

Ryanair, which is Europe'stop airline by passengers, sayssome delays are expected anddoubts about when the planecan return to the skies meansit will take delivery of only 30Max jets a year from now,rather than the previouslyscheduled 58.

He says the airline willclose some of its bases as aresult with a hope to return to"normal" growth levels in2021. No details about theplanned base cuts were pro-vided.

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Brazil has sought establish-ment of a dispute panel

under the aegis of the WorldTrade Organization (WTO) ina case against India's sugar sub-sidies to farmers.

In February, Brazil andseveral other countries includ-ing Australia and Guatemalahave dragged India into theWTO's dispute settlementmechanism alleging that NewDelhi's sugar subsidies to farm-ers are inconsistent with glob-al trade rules.

Brazil is the largest pro-ducer and exporter of sugar inthe world.

"Brazil respectfully requeststhat the dispute settlement bodyestablish a panel," according toa communication submitted bythe South American country tothe Geneva-based WTO.

Brazil has alleged that inrecent years, India has mas-sively increased the level ofdomestic support under itssupport regime for sugarcaneand sugar.

For example, India hasalmost doubled the fair andremunerative price for sugar-cane from Rs 1,391.2 per tonne

in 2010-11 to Rs 2,750 pertonne in 2018-19, it has stated.

That fair and remunerativeprice is the minimum pricethat, under Indian law, domes-tic sugar mills must pay sugar-cane producers. It constitutesone of India's most importantsupport measures for sugarcaneproducers.

In addition, Brazil saidsome of India's states providefor higher minimum pricesfor sugarcane that local sugarmills must pay local sugarcaneproducers.

Seeking consultation is thefirst step of dispute settlementprocess. If the two nations arenot able to reach a mutuallyagreed solution through con-sultation, complainant requestsfor a WTO dispute settlementpanel to review the matter.

They had filed disputeunder certain articles of WTO'sAgreement on Agriculture,Agreement on Subsidies andCountervailing Measures andthe General Agreement onTariffs and Trade 1994.

If the panel rules againstIndia's sugar subsidies, Indiacan approach the appellatebody of the WTO's dispute set-tlement mechanism.

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The lenders to the bankruptJet Airways, who met here

Tuesday for the first time sincethe carrier was sent to theNCLT, are understood to havedecided to call for expressionsof interest to sell the meagerassets of the airline by Saturday.

The airline's meager assetsinclude 14 aircraft including 10Boeing planes--down from 124before the grounding--and 49percent stake in Jet Privilegeand a few buildings, while itsliabilities are over Rs 36,000crore, including more than Rs10,000 crore of vendor dues, Rs8,500 crore along with interestto the lenders, over Rs 3,000crore in salary dues and morethan Rs 13,500 crore in accu-mulated losses of the past threeyears.

The company is no more agoing concern and had formany years run into negativenetworth.

The lenders also list spares,slots and routes as the "assets"of the airliner that was pro-moted by Naresh Goyal andoperated its last flight on April17. The airline was sent to theNCLT on June 17.

But it can be noted thatgovernment had temporarilygiven away all its domesticslots in April itself and itsinternational routes in June.

The insolvency resolutionprofessional for the airlineAshish Chhawchharia and thelenders led by State Bank will belaying down the bidding crite-ria, a source told PTI.Voting on the timeline for issu-ing the expressions of interestand the eligibility criteria will becompleted by the targeted dateof July 19 and the EoIs are like-ly to be issued the next day onJuly 20, the source added.

Financial creditors havemade a claim of Rs 8,500 crore,while the claims from opera-tional creditors and employees-

-which are much higher thanthe former--are yet to be veri-fied, the source said.

The National CompanyLaw Tribunal had on June 20admitted the insolvency peti-tion filed by the lenders againstJet Airways, and directed res-olution professional to try tofinish the process within threemonths.The tribunal had cited"national importance" of theairline while directing a fasterresolution process, than 180days allowed under the bank-ruptcy code.

Before it was sent to theNCLT, the banks, which ownhalf of the shares in the airlinehad sought expressions ofinterest from both strategicand financial investors to sellbetween 31.2 and 75 percentstake. The bankers had receivedfour non-binding EoIs in April,while Etihad Airways, whichowns 24 percent in the carrier,had submitted a conditionalbid.

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Baseus on Tuesday announcedits entry into the India market

with its entire range of accessories.The company has entered into anexclusive strategic partnershipwith Teleecare Network IndiaPvt. Ltd. (An Optiemus GroupCompany) as its distribution andmarketing partner in India.

The wide range of innovativeaccessories launched includeTWS Earpods, Smart 2-in-1Dual Wireless Charger, DigitalDisplay Power station -30000mAH and Alexa enabledS17 Pro Wireless SportsEarphones.

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Chief Economic Advisor K V Subramanian Tuesday said thereis a need to tap foreign capital to accelerate growth from the

current level of 7 per cent to 8 per cent."Apart from sovereign bond issue, we also need to be tap-

ping into foreign capital to trigger the virtuous cycle. Once thisvirtuous cycle is triggered then other parts start moving," he saidat the book launch of HDFC Bank 2.0-From Dawn to Digital.

Achieving USD 5-trillion economy by 2024-25 is possiblealthough the goal is slightly stretched, he said.

"When we get investment that enhances productivity,exports, jobs which leads to demand and thereby again createsinvestment triggering that is actually important. Of course, weare growing to close to 7 per cent. In order to grow at 8 per cent,we do need to trigger this and, therefore, foreign capital is some-thing that has to be encouraged," he said.

Indian economy reached to the level of USD 1 trillion in 55years and added USD 1 million in the past 5 years to USD 2.75trillion by March 2019, he said.

On the merger in the public sector banks, Subramanian saidthey are being done based on synergies, and policy is to exploiteconomies of scale.

"Rather than any top-down strategy or mandate which sayswe need to have four banks, this should be based on looking atbanks that might combine well because of synergies," he said.

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The voluntary associationof Trade Representatives

of ENDS in India (TRENDS)on Tuesday submitted a repre-sentation to the Chief Secretary,Delhi Government with copiesto Chief Minister, ArvindKejriwal and Health Minister,Satyendra Kumar Jain echoingthe observations of the Courtregarding the sale and distrib-ution of E-Cigarettes in Delhi.

In the representation madeto the Chief Minister, TRENDSpointed out that it concurs withthe concerns of the High Courtof Delhi.

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Alivid Democratic Party hasintroduced a resolution in

the US House ofRepresentatives, condemningthe “racist” tweets of PresidentDonald Trump against fournon-white women lawmakersfrom the Opposition party.

Trump sparked a furore onSunday when he said thewomen lawmakers “originallycame from countries whosegovernments are a completeand total catastrophe” and theyshould go home.

Though Trump did notexplicitly name DemocratCongresswomen AlexandriaOcasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar,Rashida Tlaib and AyannaPressley in his initial Twittertirade on Sunday, the contextmade a clear link to the fourDemocrat women, who areknown as The Squad.

Three of the women wereborn in the US and one, Omar,was born in Somalia but cameto the US as a child.

The Democratic Partyintroduced a resolution in the

House of Representatives con-demning the alleged racisttweets. The resolution byCongressman Tom Malinowskicould be voted on as early asTuesday.

House Speaker NancyPelosi on Monday said thatRepublican lawmakers “mustjoin” Democrats in “condemn-ing the President’s xenophobictweets” and urged Democratsto support a resolution put for-ward by House Democraticlawmakers.

“The House cannot allowthe President’s characterisa-tion of immigrants to ourcountry to stand. OurRepublican colleagues mustjoin us in condemning thePresident’s xenophobic tweets,”Pelosi wrote in a DearColleague letter to HouseDemocrats.

But Trump, a Republican,was in no mood to relent.

“The Dems were trying todistance themselves from thefour “progressives,” but nowthey are forced to embracethem. That means they areendorsing Socialism, hate of

Israel and the USA! Not goodfor the Democrats” Trump saidas he unleashed a series oftweets against four DemocraticCongresswomen.

The four women lawmak-ers held a news conference atthe Capitol on Monday todenounce a tweet by the pres-ident in which he apparentlysuggested that they leave thecountry.

“This is a president whohas overseen the most corruptadministration in our history,”Omar said.

“To distract from that, he’slaunching a blatantly racistattack on four duly electedmembers of the United StatesHouse of Representatives, all ofwhom are women of colour,”she said.

“This is the agenda ofwhite nationalists, whether it ishappening in chat rooms or it’shappening on national TV.And now it’s reached the WhiteHouse garden,” she said.

“This is simply a disruptionand a distraction from the cal-lous chaos and corrupt cultureof this administration, all the

way down,” Pressley said.Both Omar and Tlaib

repeated their calls for Trumpto be impeached.

Trump had in a tweet,which was widely considered asagainst the four Democraticprogressive lawmakers, saidthey should “go back and helpfix the totally broken and crimeinfested places from whichthey came” before speakingout about how the UnitedStates government should berun. PTI

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Wellington: New ZealandPrime Minister Jacinda Ardernon Tuesday said she “com-pletely and utterly” disagreedwith US President DonaldTrump’s racist tweets againstfour non-white DemocraticCongresswomen.

In an interview with statebroadcaster Radio NewZealand, Ardern said she wasproud that in her country,Parliament was meant to rep-resent “a range of different cul-

tures and ethnicities”, addingthat “never should a judg-ment be made about the ori-gin of anyone, and their righttherefore to be in parliamentas a representative”, Efe newsreported.

“We should celebrate ourdiversity, we do in NewZealand, I’m proud of that andso I obviously take a very dif-ferent view to PresidentTrump,” the Prime Ministeradded.

Ardern joined a flurry ofcriticism within the US and bysome international leadersdirected Donald Trump, whohad tweeted on Sunday thatthe four Congresswomen --Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib,Ayanna Pressley -- should “goback” to the countries theycame from and falsely imply-ing that they were not natur-al-born American citizens.

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London: The two candidatesvying to become Britain’s nextPrime Minister both con-demned on Monday USPresident Donald Trump’sxenophobic tweets about pro-gressive Democrat congress-women as “totally offensive”and “totally unacceptable”.

But front-runner BorisJohnson and Foreign SecretaryJeremy Hunt refused to callthe tweets racist when pressedto do so during their lastdebate before next week’sannouncement of who willsucceed Prime Minister

Theresa May.May’s spokesman had ear-

lier said that the outgoingleader’s view was that Trump’scomments were “completelyunacceptable”.

On Monday, Trump dou-bled down on a series of histweets from the day beforeurging the four congress-women of colour to “go back”to the countries they camefrom.

“If you’re not happy here,you can leave,” Trump toldreporters at the White House.

Johnson said the original

tweets expressed sentiments“that went out decades anddecades ago”.

“I think the relationsbetween the UK and US areincredibly important,” saidJohnson.

“But if you are the leaderof a great multiracial, multi-cultural society, you simplycannot use that kind of lan-guage about sending peopleback where they came from,”Johnson said.

“It’s totally unacceptableand I agree with the PrimeMinister.”

Trump has developedgood relations with Johnsonand backs both his leadershipbid and determination to takeBritain out of EU.

Pressed by the moderatorto call Trump’s tweets racist,Johnson said: “I’ve said whatI said.”

Hunt recalled that he hadthree half-ethnically Chinesechildren who are British citizens.

“If anyone said to them, goback to China, I would beutterly appalled,” Hunt said.

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Dubai: China has called the Iran nuclear deal “irreplaceable” andthe sole way to resolve the concerns over Tehran’s nuclear pro-gramme.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said on Tuesdaythat “the complete and effective implementation of the agree-ment is the only viable and effective way to settle the Iraniannuclear issue and ease tensions.”

He said that Iran’s commitment to the agreement should bedealt with by the joint commission that oversees it.

Geng also blamed the United States for causing the currenttensions — last year, the Trump administration pulled out of thedeal and re-imposed economic sanctions on Tehran.

Geng said the US should stop exerting pressure on Iran andcreate the conditions for a political and diplomatic settlementof the issue. AP

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He is a Han and she aTibetan and, in the best

tradition of true love over-coming the biggest odds andthe deepest hostilities, theyrewrote the rules to becomerole models for ethnic unity ina restive land and also be offi-cially recognised as “achievers”.

Long Shi Zhong and BaSang Que Ba fell in love likemany do but theirs was aromance with the hurdles builtin. Fearing hostilities betweenthe Han and Tibetan ethniccommunities they belongedto, the couple had to wait forseveral years to get married,officials said.

In 2015, they finally did.And now Long and Ba, both intheir early 50s, are symbols ofethnic unity in this prefecture-level city of the TibetAutonomous Region (TAR) ofChina.

Their marriage has encour-aged hundreds of young peo-ple to go for inter-communitymarriages, prompting the localgovernment to confer the cou-ple with the “national rolemodel” award for ethnic unity.

A photo of Long and Bafinds place among achievers ofShigatse at a major communi-ty centre, which acts as a plat-form for governance at grass-roots level.

“Our central government ispursuing a conscious policy ofinter-community marriages topromote unity among variousethnic groups in Tibet andelsewhere,” Ci Dan Yangji, alocal government official, tolda small group Indian journal-ists during a rare visit to Tibetat the invitation of China.

Another official added thatLong and Ba set an example formany people in the society.

“Both of them waited forseveral years to get married.

They were apprehensive of thebacklash between the two com-munities. However, there hasbeen a surge in marriagesbetween people from the com-munities after Long and Ba setan example,” he said on thecondition of anonymity.

Ci Dan said around 500families were registered withthe community centre inShigatse, which comprised 40“mixed marriage” couples.

Relations between theTibetan people and Chineseauthorities came under severestrain after the Chinese armyentered various parts of theplateau in 1950.

Tibet’s spiritual leader, the14th Dalai Lama, fled Tibet fol-lowing a Chinese crackdownon a popular uprising in 1959.India granted him politicalasylum and the Tibetan gov-ernment-in exile has sincebeen based on Dharamsala inHimachal Pradesh.

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Dubai: A small oil tanker fromthe UAE travelling throughthe Strait of Hormuz enteredIranian waters and turned offits tracker two days ago, lead-ing the US to suspect Iranseized the vessel amid height-ened tensions in the region, anAmerican defense official saidTuesday. Iran offered no com-ment on what happened to thePanamanian-flagged oil tankerRiah late Saturday night,though an Emirati officialacknowledged the vessel sentout no distress call. AFP

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Bangkok: Thailand’s newCabinet was sworn in onTuesday, creating a nominallyelected Government after fiveyears of military rule but keep-ing power in the hands of thesame allies of the Army.

King Maha Vajiralongkornpresided over the swearing-inof the 36-member Cabinet,during which they pledgedtheir loyalty to the constitu-tional monarch.

“Every task has obstacles.Every mission faces problems,”he told them in brief remarks.

“It is normal to take onwork and solve problems sothat the country can be runsmoothly according to cir-cumstances.”

The Cabinet afterwardregrouped at GovernmentHouse for its first meeting.

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Paris: HIV-related deaths lastyear fell to around 770,000 —some 33 per cent lower than in2010 — the United Nations saidTuesday, but warned that glob-al efforts to eradicate the diseasewere stalling as funding dries up.

An estimated 37.9 millionpeople now live with HIV -- anda record 23.3 million of thosehave access to some antiretrovi-

ral therapy (ART), UNAIDSsaid in its annual report.

Highlighting the enor-mous progress made since theheight of the AIDS epidemicin the mid-1990s, the reportshowed that the number peo-ple dying from the disease fellfrom 800,000 in 2017 to770,000 last year.

The figure was down by

more than a third from 2010,when there were 1.2 millionAIDS-related deaths.

But it also exposed weak-nesses in the world’s fight againstAIDS. While AIDS-relateddeaths in Africa, the continentmost affected by the epidemic,have plummeted this decade,Eastern Europe has seen thedeath toll rise 5 per cent. AFP

Seoul: North Korea on Tuesdaysaid looming US-South Koreamilitary drills could impactthe proposed resumption ofnuclear talks betweenPyongyang and Washington,and hinted that it could recon-sider its moratorium on nucleartesting.

It was the first statementfrom Pyongyang on the talkssince US President DonaldTrump and North Koreanleader Kim Jong Un agreed totheir resumption at animpromptu meeting in theDemilitarized Zone in June, fol-lowing months of deadlockbetween the two sides.

The joint drills have been

held for years but were scaleddown to facilitate dialogue withthe North after Trump’s historicfirst summit with Kim inSingapore last year.

“If the military exercisereally goes ahead, it wouldaffect the DPRK-US working-level talks,” an unnamed foreignministry spokesperson said incomments carried by state newsagency KCNA, using the officialacronym for North Korea.

The official described nextmonth’s drills as “clearly abreach” of a joint statementsigned by the leaders inSingapore and hinted thatPyongyang may resumeweapons tests in response. AFP

Karachi: Pakistani journalistsare holding nationwide proteststo denounce rampant censor-ship by the country’s powerfulsecurity services, massive lay-offs due to budget cuts andmonths-long delays in pay-ments of their wages.

Tuesday’s rallies, dubbedDay of Protests, are spear-headed by the Pakistan FederalUnion of Journalists. It saysjournalists, who face theroughest phase in the country’shistory, have decided to “fightthe unprecedented censorship.”

Afzal Butt, president of theunion, says the rallies are onlythe “beginning of a protestmovement.”

Journalists and press free-dom advocates say the coun-try’s military is pressuringmedia outlets to quash criticalcoverage while the newly elect-ed government is slashing itsadvertising budget, squeezinga key source of revenue for pri-vate newspapers and TV sta-tions. AP

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Indian men’s team, led byskipper A Sharath Kamal, will

start as favourites when the 21stCommonwealth Table TennisChampionships begins at theJawaharlal Nehru IndoorStadium here on Wednesday.

India are clubbed withSingapore and Scotland in

group B, while England, thetop-ranked team here andplaced in group A, have SriLanka and Cyprus for compa-ny.

With the format allowingtwo teams from each group toqualify for the second stage,Sharath and Co are confident ofsweeping the Gold medals.

Sharath’s calculations are

based on the weakest England,Nigeria and Singapore teamsthat have come here.

“Indeed, we are in thetoughest group but sinceEngland, Nigeria and Singaporehave not fielded their best play-ers, Indian men should win theteam and open events,” said thewinner of 10 medals, includingthe 2004 singles and teamchampionship Gold medals.

Sharath said the way GSathiyan, ranked No 24 in theworld, has been playing, of

late, India would always fancytheir chance against even thetoughest. “He is in the form ofhis life. Besides, two seasonedcampaigners in Liam Pitchfordand Paul Drinkhall (England)and Aruna Quadri and SegunToriola (Nigeria) are not here.Singapore, too, have fielded ayoung side while other teamsare not that strong. It makes ourjob easier,” he said.

In comparison, the womenteam draw looks far easier thanone would have expected.

Again, on the basis of teamranking, Singapore is the top-seeded squad but India, at No2, form a part of group B withSouth Africa and Sri Lanka,while group A has Singapore,Wales and Scotland.

The other groups have less-er teams in terms of ranking.

The Indian women, on itsstrength, should be able tocross the first-stage hurdle with-out dropping a sweat.

However, they could facesome stiff competition fromSingapore as the hosts approachthe final. Manika Batra, on

whose shoulder the burden isplaced, may not be in the kindof form she had in 2018 CWGand Asian Games, but she iscapable of pulling it off in ateam event like this, particular-ly when the home crowd wouldbe rooting for her and TeamIndia.

In their first group match,Indian women take onScotland, followed bySingapore.

The championships openwith group matches in womensection for the team champi-onships.

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Defender Matthijs de Ligt hasagreed to join Juventus, Dutch

and Italian media reported onMonday, but it was not clearwhether the Turin club had yetagreed a fee with Ajax.

Reports said that the 19-year-old Dutch international, who cap-

tained Ajax to the semifinals of theChampions League, had agreedpersonal terms with Juventus andwould arrive in Turin on Tuesdayand undergo a medical onWednesday.

Media in Italy said Juventuswould pay Ajax of Amsterdam 75million euros ($85 million).

De Ligt has been linked with

many of Europe's leading clubsafter his impressive play for resur-gent Ajax and Netherland teams lastseason.

He has played 117 games for Ajaxin all competitions, scoring 13 goals,including three as the club reachedthe last four of the ChampionsLeague last season, only to lose in thefinal seconds to Tottenham. De Ligt

scored the winner in Turin as Ajaxeliminated Juventus in the quarter-finals.

He has played 17 times for theNetherlands.

Earlier on Monday, Juventusunveiled Aaron Ramsey, the Welshmidfielder who had agreed inFebruary to join as a free agent oncehis contract with Arsenal expired.

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Ole Gunnar Solskjaer said onTuesday he is optimistic that

goalkeeper David De Gea wouldsign a new deal to remain at OldTrafford as Manchester Unitedprepared to face old rivals Leedsin Perth.

United’s pre-season tour ofAustralia has been overshadowedspeculation over the futures of

several stars, including De Geawho is in the last year of his con-tract and has been linked withFrench champions Paris Saint-Germain.

The Spaniard is reportedlyclose to signing a new five-yeardeal with United worth in excessof £350,000 a week that wouldmake him the highest paid goal-keeper in the world.

De Gea was rested fromUnited’s pre-season openeragainst Perth Glory on Saturdaybut will line up against Leeds onWednesday to wrap up the RedDevils’ 10-day visit to the WesternAustralia city.

“He’ll play and hopefully wecan agree (on a new deal) withDavid, as I’ve said a few times,”Solskjaer told reporters.

“That’ll be up to David toannounce when that happens, ifand when.”

The United boss refused to bedrawn on whether Leicester Cityand England centreback HarryMaguire was on his way to OldTrafford.

“There’s been loads of spec-ulation but I can’t really say any-thing,” Solskjaer said.

“There’s a limit of players andwhoever performs will be part ofthe team and whoever doesn’tthey will have to fight to get backin.”

After an unconvincing 2-0victory over a depleted Perth,United will be hoping for a bet-ter performance against one-timebitter enemy Leeds.

The rivalry has simmeredsince Leeds’ relegation from theEnglish Premier League in 2004but hostilities between the pas-sionate fan bases are still evidentwith extra security measuresbeing put in place by organisersat Perth Stadium.

Solskjaer said United wereexcited to renew the rivalry. “Ofcourse you want to have gamesagainst the biggest clubs,” he said.“It’s a great occasion for both setsof supporters and the playersbecause there were great games(in the past).”

Romelu Lukaku, who isreportedly looking to secure amove to Inter Milan, is set to playhis first pre-season match againstLeeds after recovering from a“niggle”. However, Luke Shaw islikely to miss out after sufferinga hamstring injury in the matchagainst Perth.

United will have further pre-season games against Inter Milanin Singapore on July 20 andTottenham in Shanghai on July25, while Leeds will head toSydney to face Western SydneyWanderers.

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India opener and numberone ODI batswoman Smriti

Mandhana is in no mood totake it easy after a memorableseason and is busy tweakingher all-round game in the leadup to the Women’s T20 WorldCup early next year.

The season that went bysaw the 22-year-old reach thetop of the ODI rankings.Mandhana is not just knownfor her stylish strokeplay any-more, she has added muchneeded power to her game tomeet the demands of themodern game.

After a fruitful fitnesscamp at the NCA inBengaluru, Mandhana saidshe remains a work inprogress.

“It was a good fitnesscamp. Finally after an year or

two, we got a month off. Itwas good for us to comeback and do a fitness camp. Itwas much needed because weare going to have a hecticeight months, so we have toget our body prepared for thegrind,” Mandhana said after

receiving the Arjuna Awardhere on Tuesday.

On her own batting, shesaid: “I and coach Raman sirhave been discussing quite abit about my game. How I canbecome more consistent inT20 cricket, how I can add

more power to my game. Istill feel I need to improve onthat front.

“You have to improvebecause other teams are alsokeeping an eye on you.Adding new shots is notsomething which I am look-ing for, I am looking to con-sistently hit the same lengthof balls in different places,”said Mandhana, who is con-fident of another stellar sea-son in the Kia Super League to

be held in the UK nextmonth.

While Mandhana wasIndia’s stand-out performer inODIs and T20s, the team’sperformance in the shortestformat has left a lot to bedesired as it lost six games ina row. The team did not haveenough f ire-power andthough the issues facing theside were discussed at lengthin the camp, Mandhana feelsthere is still a long way to go.

“Fitness was a majorpoint of discussion after theseason ended. Raman sir andwe collectively discussed thatfitness needs to be better to bea potent T20 side. That thingis being worked out and girlsare looking in better shape.”

With the likes ofMandhana, JemimahRodrigues and HarmanpreetKaur playing their part, the

team needs more aggressivebatters, especially in the mid-dle order.

“Our batting depth has toimprove and Raman sir hasbeen speaking to all the bat-ters on the aspect of powerhitting. Improved fitness willnot only help our power-hit-ting but will also help ourfielding.

“It is more mental thananything else. That is whatRaman sir has been stressingon. He has given the freedomto the batters to express them-selves in the middle ratherthan holding back,” sheadded.

India, who have notplayed international cricketsince March, host SouthAfrica in September. The T20World Cup will be held inAustralia from February 21 toMarch 8.

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Sachin Tendulkar on Tuesdayendorsed a second super

over to decide the winnerinstead of considering theboundary count if such anextraordinary situation ariseslike it did in the World Cup final.

In a gut-wrenching final atLord’s on Sunday, England wereadjudged the World Cup win-ners on the basis of their supe-rior boundary count — 22 foursand two sixes to New Zealand’s16 — after both the regulationmatch and the ensuing SuperOver ended in a tie.

“I feel there should beanother super over to decide thewinner, instead of consideringthe number of boundariesscored by both teams. Not justin a World Cup final. Everygame is important. Like in foot-ball, when teams go into extratime, nothing else matters,”Tendulkar told 100mb.

Current and former crick-eters including Rohit Sharma,Gautam Gambhir and YuvrajSingh, have questioned ICC’s“ridiculous” rule on boundarycount that decided the World

Cup title.After table toppers India

were knocked out of the WorldCup after losing the semi-finalto New Zealand, skipper ViratKohli had suggested IPL-likeplayoffs instead of knockouts inthe World Cup going forward.

Asked if the World Cup for-mat needs to be changed in theknock out stages, Tendulkarsaid: “I think the two teams thatfinish at the top should definite-ly have something going forthem for having played consis-tently through the tournament.”

During India’s semifinal,former skipper Mahendra SinghDhoni was sent at numberseven with Hardik Pandya andDinesh Karthik being promot-ed in the batting order.

Asked what batting orderhe would have gone with for thechase, Tendulkar said: “Withouta doubt, I would’ve sent MSDhoni at his usual position, No5.“With the kind of situationthat India was in and the expe-rience that he has, the need ofthe hour was for him to buildthe innings. Hardik could’vebatted at 6 and Karthik would’vefollowed at 7.”

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UP Yoddha Tuesdayannounced that young

defender Nitish Kumar willlead the side in the seventhedition of the Pro Kabbadileague, starting July 20.

“UP Yoddha’s team cap-tures the warrior spirit ofUttar Pradesh and its playersare ready to give their blood,sweat and tears in the battle-field.

Nitish Kumar will be thecaptain of this side this sea-son,” Team UP Yoddha saidat an event to announce itelsmartphone as their officialpartners.

The Greater Noida basedfranchise made its debut inthe fifth season of the PKLand ended third in both theeditions it has participated in.

The team will play its firstgame on July 24 againstBengal Warriors inHyderabad.

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Chelsea legend Frank Lampardsaid Tuesday he won’t be

looking backwards as he takes onpossibly the biggest challenge ofhis career: managing his formerteam.

Speaking in Japan where theBlues are playing two friendlies,Lampard said he was “veryhappy” with his squad but expectsto work the team hard during thepre-season.

“For me the story is not tolook backwards,” said Lampard,whose return to his former clubas head coach was confirmed ear-lier this month.

“I know the club very well, Iknow the players very well. I havemy own way that I want to workwith the players,” he told reportersin Yokohama, where Chelsea willface Japan’s Kawasaki Frontale onJuly 19.

Lampard acknowledged tak-ing on leadership of the Blues willbe a major undertaking, withChelsea having lost their bestplayer of recent times, EdenHazard, to Real Madrid lastmonth, and serving a two-win-dow transfer ban that preventshim from making new signings.

But he said there was no rea-son to dwell on the ban.

“I think I inherited very goodplayers. We cannot bring in any

players we know that... But I’mvery happy with the squad.

“My job now is to work hardin pre-season with them. I like myteams to play with a lot of ener-gy and speed, with and withoutthe ball, so I want to win it backas quickly as we can,” he said.

Chelsea’s new $72 millionsigning, Christian Pulisic, is list-ed as one of the team membersvisiting Japan, but it was not yearclear when he will arrive.

Lampard declined to revealthe line-up for the two friendlieson Chelsea’s calender, whichinclude a much-anticipated face-off against Barcelona on July 23.

American internationalPulisic signed a five-and-a-halfyear contract with Chelsea inJanuary but was immediatelyloaned back to Germany to fin-ish the season at BorussiaDortmund.

Lampard won 13 trophies in13 years and became Chelsea’s all-time leading marksmen with 211goals from midfield during adecorated playing career atStamford Bridge.

But he has a lot to prove in hisnew role. The former Englandmidfielder has just one season ofmanagerial experience havingled Derby County to theChampionship play-off final inMay, when they were beaten byAston Villa.

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Top Indian weightlifter MirabaiChanu on Tuesday said she lives in

fear of injuring herself ahead of nextyear's Tokyo Olympics despite recover-ing from an unspecified back problem,which marred her progress in 2018.

After the Gold-winning perfor-mance in the Gold CoastCommonwealth Games last year,Mirabai had complained of lower backpain.

The injury puzzled doctors acrossthe country, who were unable to diag-nose the cause, forcing the 24-year-oldto miss the Asian Games and theWorld Championships in the sameyear.

"A lot has changed after the injury.There is a always a fear as to what willhappen if I get injured again. I have tothink twice before every lift, every train-ing session," Mirabai said.

About nine months later, the backpain has subsided allowing Mirabai tomake a successful comeback to thearena. She notched up a Gold medal atthe EGAT Cup in Thailand in her first

outing after the setback.The injury has led Mirabai and

coach Vijay Sharma to tweak their train-ing regimen.

"My approach has changed becausewe don't know why the pain occurredin the first place. Was it because of someexercise or was it because of my tech-nique, we still don't know that," she said.

"She is taking things a bit slowly,"added Sharma, only slightly elaboratingon what has changed for the star.

Mirabai has enjoyed a good runsince her comeback. In the AsianChampionships in April, she missed outon a medal by a whisker.

The 24-year-old had lifted 199kg(86kg+113kg), her personal best, butlost out to China's Zhang Rong, owingto a lower clean and jerk result.

She then got back to winning waysby notching up the gold at the recent-ly concluded CommonwealthChampionships.

"My progress since the injury hasbeen good. I have won Gold EGAT andthen again in CommonwealthChampionships. I am satisfied with theperformance."

The diminutive Manipuri has nowset her sights on the WorldChampionship, scheduled to be held inSeptember. She has fond memories ofthe tournament, where she was crownedchampion in 2017.

With those memories, come theexpectations and with that a lot of pres-sure as the World Championship willalso double up as an Olympic qualify-ing event.

"Compared to 2017 the expectationsare much more because I am returningfor the first time and this is the mainevent for the Olympics. But I try not tothink about it. I just keep in mind whatthe coach tells me," she said.

In order to win at the WorldChampionship, Mirabai will have to upthe ante. She heaved 194kg on way toGold at the 2017 Worlds in Las Vegas.

However, the 2018 world champi-on in the 49kg category lifted a worldrecord weight of 209kgs. While theSilver and Bronze went to 208kg and206kg, respectively.

"I am targeting 202kg-plus in thisevent. Thailand, China Japan, Korea weare all together.

"Because Asia is the powerhouse thesame players will be in the Worlds aswell, and I almost won a medal in theAsian Championship so I'm confidentI'll do well. I have lifted 203kg in train-ing. My aim is 210 but it has to be doneslowly hopefully till Tokyo I will be ableto achieve it," she explained.

After the rejig of weight categories,Mirabai had to move from 48kg to 49kgalongside a lot of lifters participating inthe 53kg.

Asked if that's added pressure con-sidering the 53kg lifters have an advan-tage over her, Mirabai said: "I am notthinking about others. I have to focuson my performance."

"Yes, I am at a disadvantage becausethose who have moved from 53kg canlift one or two kilogram more than usbut I have to focus on my own perfor-mance," she said.

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Industry practices have been nur-tured over the period of years by

pseudo Agilest and the so-called spon-sors of the transformation game fromtraditional project management toagile way of doing the job. Have weachieved success? Do expending mil-lions of dollars justify? How do organ-isations measure Return on Investment(ROI) in their balance sheets? Nobodyhas a clue; the consulting organisationsare making merry and laughing all theway to the bank.

One of the failure points could bethe Scrum Master. Especially on howwe appoint the Scrum Master, whoselects them and what characteristicsand traits should one look for whenselecting a Scrum Master?

Let’s explore how it is done todayin our industry as compared to howshould this happen?

Most of the times (9 out of 10), itwould be the management who wouldappoint a person, whom they feel qual-ified for the job. However, the irony isthat the Management would have lit-tle or no idea what that role entails.Experience has suggested that we findthe job for the person rather than findthe right person for the job.

At times, the selection process ofappointing the Scrum Master hasbeen dictated by the person who is onthe bench and we are trying to find aproject to make the person billable or

the other approach as seen is to nom-inate a person close to the manage-ment.

In fact, according to Scrum co-founder Dr Jeff Sutherland, greatScrum Masters can come from virtu-ally any background or discipline (i.e.,engineering, design, testing, productmanagement, journalism, academia,social work), and their role is relative-ly simple:

�Remove impediments�Guide the team in Scrum prac-

tices�Protect against outside interfer-

enceAll that a Scrum Master can do is

to inspire you through effective coach-ing, enablement and guidance, but theimplementation of the same is in yourhands.

Who should be or become theScrum Master for your new team? Isit your current project manager, TechLead, or the functional manager? Iwould have to argue against the cur-rent industry practices and say, anyonebut one of these above-mentionedroles. Although, understandably, themanagement usually wants a standardanswer for who they should select tobe the Scrum Master in this new workapproach called Agile it is not a one-size-fits-all answer. And the reason isbecause it depends on the person, theteam and the environment. There are

multiple factors that would impact theselection of the person for the role. Itcannot be a cookie cutter approach,which is much standardised, even inthe same organisation across twoteams, the selections could vary (andthey should vary, if the circumstancesvary).

Now, the question is who decidesthe Scrum Master? We often see thatit is the management who decides, butthey make the decision without know-ing what Scrum is and more impor-tantly, how it works.

We commonly see ProjectManagers being given the role ofScrum Master. What makes a greatProject Manager may not make a greatScrum Master. Often, the managementwants Project Managers who can getthings done. They drive performance

and push the team. They may evenmicro-manage for results and visibil-ity by tracking every task, status, risk,change and deviation from the plan.Management loves this (or, moretruthfully, love the results). On theother hand, I’ve also seen ProjectManagers who provide managementwhat they want (helping get more pro-ductivity and more visibility toprogress, issues and options) by serv-ing, empowering and trusting theteam.

To simplify the decision making,one should look for these ideas whenselecting a of Scrum Master:

�A person who understands andcan practice servant leadership andfacilitation

�Always in pursuit of continuousimprovement

�Can create a degree of influencewith team members and other stake-holders

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According to McKinsey study on womenin workplace, women are less likely to be hiredinto entry-level jobs than men and as we climbup the corporate ladder, the disparity increas-es. The ratio stands to be 79:100 when it comesto promotion to management level.

If we pick a red ball from the jar containing79 red and 100 green balls, probability of redball being picked up would definitely be less.Second, Pyramid narrows as we becomesenior and competition becomes fierce.Therefore, it becomes more important forfemale workforce to perform and acquire someextra ordinary skills which stands them apartand if not apart, equivalent to men at that level.

Sync between skills in demand andskills women possess: Problem solving, timemanagement, communication skills, teamworkability, good work ethics are the skills whichare considered at first place to promote a per-son to managerial level. Employers expecthybrid skills from employees which are com-bination of technical and soft skills. Hence, itis very much necessary for women to brushup the technological skills. Also, social mediaskills, knowledge related to ContentManagement Systems, and specific data entrytools are considered an added advantage andwill distinguish you from others.

Networking: The second critical asset forprogress is networking. Build a strong pro-fessional network since organisations are allabout people. Enroll in seminars and work-shops. They would give you better visibilityin the professional world and help with bet-ter networking opportunities. Nurturing rela-tionships is mutually beneficial.

Women can broaden their access toopportunities by raising their professional pro-files. Being in the network of stakeholders, whowould be in right roles to make decision orinfluence decision, helps a lot. They can guidethrough all the career transitions and some-

times on personal front as well.Adaptability: Mid-career drop-offs for

women are common and this can be justifiedas well. This is the time when relationships andlife related decisions are to be made. On theother hand, provision of right opportunitiesat the organisation level goes a long way inhelping women stay focused on their careergoals. Hence, it is all about a woman’s con-scious career management and balancing lifechoices and transitions.She should not let herdreams fade away.

Smart work-life balance also means focus-ing on health, fitness and being happy frominside. This would lead a woman to achievesmart multi-tasking goals and consequentlyincrease her productivity at workplace.

Able to raise the hand: Sometimesopportunities are not visible. They do not pre-sent themselves. Woman needs to boldenough to ask for them. And for it, she should:

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However, the reality is quite dif-ferent. Just like any other busi-ness startups or new aspirants,the one related to fashiondesigning has a lot of hassle anda lot of hard work has to be putinto it in order to achieve greatheights and make the companyscale new heights. There are afew tips to be followed in orderto be successful in a new ven-ture, a few of which have beenmentioned below.

Awareness and properresearch is very important:The fashion world is constant-ly changing and you need toupdate yourself as well in orderto keep pace with it. There is acut-throat competition in thisfield with everyone eyeing to bethe best and people are ready tobring others down to achieve it.The challenge is all the moreprominent now as the numberof aspirants has skyrocketed inrecent times. Something new iscoming up every day and thereis an increased necessity to beaware of all the changes that aretaking place. You need to be

involved in extensive research aswell which needs to be done notonly through the online forumbut also through visiting thestores physically. Only thenyou will be able to keep up andeven stay one step ahead.

Consider your target cus-tomers: The fashion field ispretty huge and widespreadand you are better off targetingone customer niche beforeexpanding the investment withtime. Be very clear about whothe designs exactly are for andis it any better than what isalready available in the market.You have to make a decisionbetween the markets for menand women, older or youngerage group, the type of clotheslike either western or Indianetcetera. There is another pointof consideration while choosingthe target, which section of thesociety will be ready to wear thedesign of yours. Once all ofthese are taken care of, youshould direct most of yourwork towards this direction.

Have a good plan in place:Planning never goes waste andcomes to fruition sometime orthe other. Therefore, it is very

important that you have a busi-ness plan chalked out abouthow you are going to go aboutthe whole process. The mainaspect that needs to be takencare of immediately is the finan-cial aspect of the business. Doyou plan to have investors for itor take a loan for meeting therequirements. If it is the former,you will also need to knowwhom to approach and whenand once that is done, youneed to finalize the deal as soonas possible. The business plan isnot very concrete though. It isalways subjected to differentforms of changes and adjust-ments that might be required.

Find out about manufac-turing and production details:A plan might be in place butyou should also know how toexecute it properly. Looking atit from the perspective of a fash-ion design business, you need totake care of the manufacturingand production units of thematerials and who is going totake the responsibility of dis-tribution. Again, you can spreadyour wings either through theonline or offline source

Promote it well: When

starting a new business, prop-er promotion is as important asanything else. One of the majormediums of doing so is throughsocial media nowadays as thenumber of people hooked it isnumerous. Thus, maximumcoverage can take place throughit only. You must be aware of themultiple advertisement forumsthat are available these days andeveryone wants to make theironline presence felt. You shouldalso jump into this bandwagonand promote your businessextensively.

Look for feedback: Youshould always be looking to sat-isfy the needs of the customersand making amends in yourbusiness accordingly. Onepotent way of doing so is to askyour customers for feedback.The utilities are many. You willnot only know about the poten-tial of your business adequate-ly and also you can addresssome grievances of the cus-tomers as soon as possible.Thus, this tip can be includedin the most important alongwith the others.

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Language requirement:Need meet specific Englishlanguage/other languagerequirements in order to beable to study there.

How to apply: Submitapplication by email to mcken-zie-application-at-unimelb.edu.au.

Application deadline:August 20, 2019.

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Equity benchmark BSESensex on Tuesday rose by234 points, extending

gains for the second straight dayas index major RelianceIndustries, Yes Bank and TataMotors advanced. The 30-shareindex closed at 39,131.04 points,showing a rise of 234.33 pointsor 0.60 per cent. It touched anintra-day high of 39,173.89 and a low of 38,845.27 duringthe day.

The broader NSE Niftyended 72.70 points or 0.63 percent up at 11,661.05. During theday, the index hit a high of11,670.05 and a low of11,573.95. Yes Bank was thebiggest gainer in the Sensexpack, rallying 11.48 per centamid reports that private equi-ty firms have showed interest inbuying a major stake in the pri-vate sector lender.

Tata Motors jumped 5.53per cent after reports suggestedthat its British brand JLR hassecured a loan guarantee fromthe UK government. SunPharma, NTPC, PowerGrid,Tata Steel, Axis Bank, L&T,HUL, Asian Paints, RIL and SBIrose up to 2.57 per cent.

Infosys rose by 0.71 percent, continuing its rise for a sec-ond day after its quarterlyresults. Among others, Dewan

Housing Finance Corprebounded by 4 per cent after amassive selloff on Monday. Thecompany stressed that it wasworking with stakeholders andcreditors to ensure resolution ofliquidity issues, without anyhaircut to the lenders.

On the other hand, TCS,M&M, HCL Tech, Kotak Bank,TechM, Bharti Airtel and HDFCBank fell up to 1.86 per cent.“Indian markets are showingresilience as we move into earn-ings season,” said Sunil Sharma,Chief Investment Officer,Sanctum Wealth Management.The market has clearly fac-tored in dismal earnings, but ischeering the decline in interestrates, improving liquidity aswell as incremental positivenews on resolution of some ofthe large stressed assets, hepointed out.

“Investors seems to takecomfort from positive data fromRBI on India’s services exportreceipts which grew 15.5 percent in May-19,” NarendraSolanki, Head FundamentalResearch (Investment Services)- AVP Equity Research, AnandRathi Shares & Stock Brokers.

Broader BSE midcap andsmallcap indices followed

benchmarks, closing up to 0.69per cent higher. Sectorally, BSErealty, oil and gas, consumerdurables, power, utilities, ener-gy and capital goods indicesended in up to 1.98 per centhigher. While, BSE IT and teckindices settled up to 0.59 percent lower.

Market breadth was nega-tive as 1,300 scrips declinedwhile 1,162 advanced. Bondyields slid for a fifth straight dayto 6.34 per cent, a 2.5-year lowmark on the hopes of furtherrate cuts post three consecutiverate cuts announced by the RBIso far in 2019, he said, addingthat yields have come off byalmost a percentage point sincebeginning of the fiscal year.

Elsewhere in Asia, ShanghaiComposite Index and Nikkeiended in the green, while HangSeng and Kospi settled in thered. Equities in Europe weretrading higher in their respec-tive early sessions.

On the currency front, theIndian rupee depreciated 17paise to 68.72 (intra-day) againstthe US dollar as crude oil pricescontinue to rise. The global oilbenchmark Brent crude futureswere trading 0.36 per cent high-er at USD 66.72 per barrel.

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Automobile dealers’ bodyFADA on Tuesday said

retail sales of passenger vehicles(PV) in June declined by 4.6 percent to 2,24,755 units as com-pared to the same period lastyear, hit by liquidity issues anddelayed monsoon. According toFederation of AutomobileDealers Associations (FADA),PV sales stood at 2,35,539 unitsin June 2018.

PV wholesales, on the otherhand, declined by 17.54 per centto 2,25,732 units in June from2,73,748 units in the year-agoperiod. Two-wheeler retail salesdeclined by 5 per cent to13,24,822 units last month com-pared with 13,94,770 units in theyear-ago period. Commercialvehicle sales dropped by 19.3 percent to 48,752 units against60,378 units in June last year.Three-wheeler sales saw a dip of2.8 per cent to 48,447 units lastmonth from 49, 837 units in thesame period last year.

Total sales across categoriesdeclined by 5.4 per cent to16,46,776 units in June as against17,40,524 units in the samemonth last year. “Despite start-ing the month with a positiveoutlook and hope, the monthlysales ended in a de-growth dueto continued liquidity tightness

and a much-delayed monsoon,”FADA President AshishHarsharaj Kale said in a state-ment.

Even with inquiry levelsbeing reasonably strong, retailsales got affected as consumersentiment continued to be weakand purchase postponementwas seen across all segments, headded. In the April-June quar-ter, passenger vehicle salesdeclined by 1 per cent to7,28,785 units as compared with7,36,290 units in the same peri-od of the previous fiscal.

Two-wheeler sales declinedby 6.4 per cent to 40,64,903 unitsin the April-June period ascompared with 43,44,827 unitsin the same period of 2018-19fiscal. Sales across categoriesdeclined by 6 per cent to51,16,718 units as against54,42,317 units in April-Juneperiod of the last fiscal.

Commenting on outlook,Kale said that due to delayedmonsoon in June and unevenspread in the first half of thismonth so far, the near-term out-look of four-six weeks remainsnegative. “FADA will once againbe engaging with policy makerswith an appeal to look at the cur-rent situation and request forurgent measures to support theauto industry get back to itsgrowth trajectory,” he added.Liquidity still continues to be aworry, both at the retail front aswell as the for dealer workingcapital and with NBFCs andbanks still in a cautious mode,normalcy in lending required toget industry back to growth stillcannot be seen, Kale said. Headded that inventory levels inthe PV segment is returning tothree-week level, helping deal-ers manage their viability andprofitability.

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launched a limited edition of its mid-sized sedan Rapid in Indiaat an introductory price of Rs 6.99 lakh (ex-showroom). The edi-tion, which is powered by 1.6 litre petrol engine, is equipped withessential safety features like dual airbags and anti-lock brakingsystem as standard across the range, Skoda Auto India said in astatement. It also has features such as rear parking sensors, anti-glare interior rear view mirror, rear windscreen defogger withtimer, height adjustable three-point seat belts at the front, roughroad package, and engine immobiliser with floating code sys-tem, it added.

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(SMIPL) on Tuesday said it has launched a refreshed versionof its scooter model, Access 125 priced at Rs 61,788 (ex-show-room, Delhi). The new version comes with all black alloywheels, beige coloured leatherette seat and round shaped chromemirrors to make the rider stand apart in the crowd, the com-pany said in a statement. It also offers a standard DC socketconvenient for charging mobile phones while commuting, itadded. “Access 125 is a major contributor in Suzuki’s Indiagrowth story and we are committed to making it even betterto resonate the love received from the customer,” SMIPL VicePresident Devashish Handa said. The family scooter, poweredby a 124 cc, 4 stroke single cylinder engine offers better mileage without compromising on power, performance andstyle, he added.

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5 lakh on GKS Properties for executing non-genuine trades inthe illiquid stock options segment at BSE. The ruling follows aninvestigation conducted by Sebi in the stock options segment ofthe bourse between April 2014 and September 2015. During inves-tigation, Sebi noted that 81.38 per cent of all trades executed inthe segment at BSE were the ones which involved reversal of buyand sell positions by the clients and counterparties in a contracton the same day, thereby creating artificial volume in the stockoptions segment. GKS Properties was one such entity which exe-cuted reversal trades, Sebi said in an order dated July 15. “Thenon-genuine and deceptive transactions of the Noticee are cov-ered under the definition of ‘fraud’,” it added. The firm byindulging in manipulative trade practices violated the provisionsof Prohibition of Fraudulent and Unfair Trade Practices regulations.

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L&TFH 122.35 122.35 118.60 120.70ONGC 151.30 154.30 150.60 152.35APOLLOHOSP 1365.00 1398.10 1364.60 1390.50HAVELLS 724.50 737.50 715.55 736.45HDFC 2275.00 2285.00 2257.30 2277.35DLF 185.80 193.45 184.60 191.60CIPLA 547.25 558.55 547.25 553.60MANAPPURAM 128.25 137.20 127.60 136.45ITC 271.05 272.75 270.65 271.90HINDALCO 200.60 202.65 197.60 199.05RECLTD 150.65 155.10 149.50 154.15VEDL 166.70 170.20 166.00 166.85NTPC 128.05 131.40 128.05 131.05ORIENTBANK 86.25 87.35 85.50 85.90ESCORTS 528.50 549.50 523.00 545.20ASIANPAINT 1354.95 1375.00 1346.00 1371.90CANBK 273.30 277.20 271.70 276.50HDFCLIFE 494.95 498.40 482.25 491.25SRF 2687.45 2788.25 2687.45 2777.55GODREJPROP 951.95 980.00 943.90 975.70HCLTECH 1020.00 1031.55 1013.50 1020.00HINDUNILVR 1718.50 1750.25 1713.60 1741.80HEROMOTOCO 2533.95 2567.70 2491.20 2542.45IOC 146.15 148.00 145.55 147.05DISHTV 33.35 33.90 32.55 33.00HEG 1190.90 1233.20 1167.00 1198.80BANKINDIA 84.10 85.10 82.90 84.90DCBBANK 239.00 240.00 236.10 238.80HINDPETRO 287.25 296.55 286.95 295.70WIPRO 259.50 262.60 256.40 260.05PARAGMILK 258.45 262.35 255.00 258.85SRTRANSFIN 1059.50 1090.60 1056.90 1083.65GRAPHITE 295.15 306.70 291.00 299.80AUROPHARMA 576.25 584.85 571.50 581.20SPARC 147.80 147.80 138.95 143.20

TECHM 682.40 682.40 670.70 675.55M&M 627.90 627.90 619.00 623.10ADANIGAS 162.65 177.60 161.70 172.20JSWSTEEL 270.70 275.00 269.45 273.85TORNTPHARM 1551.55 1615.85 1551.55 1606.10INDIACEM 97.50 99.55 96.25 98.70SAIL 47.00 47.35 46.45 47.25UNIONBANK 73.75 77.80 73.75 77.50NCC 84.70 85.80 82.90 84.55BATAINDIA 1340.20 1362.50 1337.40 1359.25DRREDDY 2629.50 2683.70 2600.00 2677.85BHARTIARTL 352.95 354.95 349.80 350.85NIITTECH 1344.00 1349.00 1342.00 1345.00MCX 816.45 849.45 809.55 813.55LICHSGFIN 538.10 560.00 532.00 555.85ULTRACEMCO 4620.00 4620.00 4561.75 4593.20LUPIN 768.00 781.40 760.25 779.20AMBUJACEM 220.50 220.65 216.55 219.90LTI 1595.10 1653.95 1591.30 1648.20PFC 124.15 127.80 124.15 125.75CUMMINSIND 741.00 750.90 712.50 744.30RNAM 227.30 227.35 226.75 227.05ICICIPRULI 384.00 394.35 380.00 381.20TV18BRDCST 24.75 24.75 22.85 23.20TATAMTRDVR 77.65 81.25 77.00 80.90BOSCHLTD 16001.00 16019.05 15942.00 15993.80LTTS 1653.10 1668.80 1634.60 1655.55OMAXE 202.45 202.45 200.80 200.85BHARATFORG 462.50 467.30 459.00 465.65EICHERMOT 18900.00 19080.00 18686.00 19044.80CADILAHC 239.95 247.40 238.35 245.20PETRONET 245.30 254.30 245.30 249.15BEML 904.85 915.00 892.10 899.30PCJEWELLER 39.40 39.40 36.10 36.60TATAELXSI 812.80 823.25 804.40 814.95BHEL 64.75 65.20 63.90 64.65ADANIPORTS 409.30 421.35 407.85 418.10POWERGRID 204.30 209.25 204.25 209.00IDEA 11.85 11.89 11.57 11.80PGHL 4350.00 4767.85 4315.00 4709.55KTKBANK 102.55 102.80 99.20 100.05RAJESHEXPO 690.00 690.00 684.00 684.70BAJAJ-AUTO 2700.00 2744.75 2680.00 2732.25IBREALEST 113.70 115.30 112.20 114.80BEL 104.40 105.20 102.50 103.10AMARAJABAT 639.50 646.15 624.00 642.00GSPL 204.05 213.50 204.05 211.95SUNTECK 445.45 451.90 440.00 449.90MRPL 60.15 60.30 59.55 59.80M&MFIN 388.40 388.40 378.35 385.40GRASIM 918.00 936.50 918.00 930.20FRETAIL 451.10 454.95 434.00 435.90QUESS 504.70 504.70 479.65 481.85BRITANNIA 2759.65 2776.90 2738.55 2748.25CENTURYTEX 924.75 952.10 924.75 945.30STRTECH 164.85 166.80 162.65 165.30UJJIVAN 287.90 289.35 282.10 285.45IPCALAB 960.00 963.55 950.00 958.50CANFINHOME 377.90 377.90 370.20 373.00INDIANB 237.30 238.55 232.00 232.75IGL 318.00 321.60 314.00 320.15BIOCON 252.60 258.55 250.10 258.10MUTHOOTFIN 611.85 633.95 610.00 632.10GAIL 145.50 148.00 144.90 147.30GLENMARK 444.75 456.30 444.70 453.15TORNTPOWER 310.00 313.80 307.10 311.05JYOTHYLAB 159.40 162.90 159.00 161.95COLPAL 1127.00 1140.30 1125.00 1134.55MINDTREE 764.00 764.00 745.05 749.35MOTHERSUMI 118.50 119.05 116.70 117.45IBVENTURES 286.00 293.10 281.05 288.90IDBI 34.75 35.45 34.40 35.00WOCKPHARMA 353.60 357.70 350.35 355.25FORCEMOT 1263.00 1312.20 1255.60 1307.50PIDILITIND 1207.15 1225.65 1193.55 1219.20TATAGLOBAL 254.85 260.95 254.15 259.65COALINDIA 230.90 233.60 229.20 232.80SUNTV 474.25 486.15 470.55 480.65KAJARIACER 570.00 573.20 554.55 571.15SBILIFE 787.95 788.10 770.55 776.00MRF 55889.00 56661.10 55799.20 56529.95IDFCFIRSTB 42.50 42.50 41.80 42.05NBCC 54.05 55.15 53.75 54.55ICICIGI 1085.00 1085.00 1045.90 1065.25AJANTPHARM 890.00 925.25 882.75 905.05VENKYS 1530.50 1567.95 1438.00 1516.25RPOWER 4.03 4.03 3.91 3.93OBEROIRLTY 570.45 586.10 561.05 566.10RAYMOND 702.00 711.40 691.30 705.30APOLLOTYRE 185.00 188.05 184.50 187.25STAR 369.95 379.20 368.00 377.80TATAPOWER 68.75 69.40 67.70 67.95BOMDYEING 98.45 101.65 97.25 98.95NATIONALUM 47.00 47.25 46.80 47.00PRESTIGE 269.45 288.00 268.00 278.30JUBILANT 472.00 477.25 460.55 465.65DEEPAKFERT 97.25 98.25 90.05 90.95NESTLEIND 11525.00 11720.00 11489.30 11697.35SIEMENS 1212.85 1234.00 1212.85 1229.20COROMANDEL 394.90 394.90 375.00 385.05NAUKRI 2220.00 2277.75 2217.65 2256.75CASTROLIND 127.60 129.50 123.45 128.60TVSMOTOR 426.00 430.10 420.90 423.55MFSL 417.50 422.75 414.85 419.95IDFC 36.00 36.00 35.50 35.60CEATLTD 894.00 897.00 886.35 893.35VGUARD 239.45 242.40 239.45 241.40EDELWEISS 176.10 176.10 169.20 174.10ADANIGREEN 48.60 49.80 48.10 49.20

GRUH 284.50 288.75 283.70 286.90TATACHEM 592.70 607.90 589.05 606.45UBL 1355.00 1374.60 1355.00 1369.10EMAMILTD 315.95 330.00 315.60 319.60BALKRISIND 758.00 759.00 747.30 754.85NMDC 112.60 115.20 112.50 114.90WESTLIFE 320.00 320.00 310.70 318.10CHENNPETRO 188.50 196.00 187.30 194.00VIPIND 414.45 418.60 401.65 411.30CGPOWER 18.50 18.85 17.65 17.80IRB 88.75 89.85 86.00 86.90BERGEPAINT 305.15 312.10 303.00 311.30SADBHAV 178.20 195.50 176.70 178.95ENGINERSIN 108.35 110.90 107.10 110.10MARICO 369.15 370.05 366.50 368.15PTC 63.70 64.85 63.70 64.25GODREJIND 481.30 492.00 469.00 475.25FCONSUMER 37.75 37.75 35.00 36.80PAGEIND 20403.80 20878.55 20381.60 20535.65DBL 414.30 425.95 414.30 417.25NOCIL 107.70 108.10 102.40 102.70EQUITAS 122.60 122.90 120.50 121.45ABFRL 209.40 209.95 201.70 202.70JAICORPLTD 98.45 99.25 96.10 98.05BANDHANBNK 546.00 555.70 542.00 551.70HFCL 20.75 21.20 20.50 20.70HINDZINC 231.80 232.00 227.65 229.15TATAMETALI 564.35 564.35 541.00 558.15MGL 796.35 805.30 791.00 796.90ABCAPITAL 89.30 90.00 89.00 89.20GREAVESCOT 131.20 132.65 129.45 131.25SUZLON 4.70 4.74 4.46 4.67ALBK 43.50 44.85 43.05 44.35KRBL 228.00 228.00 203.00 217.55PHILIPCARB 117.00 117.00 113.00 113.65FSL 52.15 52.40 51.15 52.20CUB 204.40 209.00 204.40 207.15TATACOMM 494.50 504.05 488.75 495.70JISLJALEQS 24.00 24.35 23.25 23.90CHOLAFIN 276.50 278.55 274.10 277.15PVR 1709.20 1734.00 1705.50 1727.85HEXAWARE 360.00 363.30 357.85 361.25SWANENERGY 104.35 104.75 103.75 104.15RAIN 96.50 96.50 90.60 92.15AVANTI 333.00 334.05 328.00 329.85DELTACORP 161.00 162.25 159.50 160.80NATCOPHARM 525.50 528.20 518.40 520.05DCAL 226.00 232.00 215.30 219.05DEEPAKNI 298.05 308.00 298.00 302.40GSFC 87.35 87.90 86.60 87.10JETAIRWAYS 44.05 48.65 44.05 45.95INFIBEAM 42.30 43.20 41.75 42.95GNFC 226.55 227.80 224.40 225.55ATUL 3727.05 3830.00 3726.00 3825.50SUVEN 238.75 242.25 236.40 241.20INTELLECT 292.00 292.00 282.95 283.95GUJGAS 168.00 168.00 160.50 162.20SOBHA 567.50 587.95 567.45 574.65KEC 327.10 329.60 322.90 323.95VINATIORGA 2090.00 2153.60 2090.00 2147.25SOUTHBANK 13.09 13.26 12.90 13.15IBULISL 158.65 158.80 153.70 153.95JAMNAAUTO 46.65 46.85 45.85 46.65JSWENERGY 69.10 71.75 68.70 71.15CREDITACC 523.00 534.95 523.00 531.00MPHASIS 934.85 938.85 916.05 923.15KEI 476.90 476.90 463.05 465.15BLISSGVS 158.50 158.65 157.55 157.95DCMSHRIRAM 529.35 537.75 517.75 520.15EXIDEIND 206.40 206.40 203.00 205.75NBVENTURES* 99.00 99.00 92.50 97.05ABB 1490.45 1522.15 1477.10 1518.35ITI 86.95 86.95 85.15 85.55WABAG 291.60 293.50 284.65 286.75AIAENG 1759.55 1786.15 1755.00 1775.15GSKCONS 7390.00 7529.75 7348.80 7460.90JINDALSAW 76.70 78.80 76.70 78.15SCHAEFFLER 4450.00 4451.00 4385.60 4395.45OIL 171.90 173.30 170.80 172.35JSLHISAR 74.35 74.50 72.00 73.25SHREECEM 21431.10 21650.00 21350.00 21582.65HUDCO 38.55 38.95 38.25 38.55CYIENT 547.05 557.00 534.05 541.90INDHOTEL 143.95 145.95 142.40 145.10PNBHOUSING 752.50 760.85 748.30 756.70MEGH 59.65 60.10 59.00 59.20RCF 54.95 55.35 54.25 55.05NAVINFLUOR 640.00 646.00 632.00 633.75CONCOR 548.00 553.30 547.00 552.30ADANITRANS 222.75 225.35 221.00 222.35PFIZER 3156.00 3287.00 3140.00 3262.50TAKE 126.30 126.30 122.50 122.90GMRINFRA 15.30 15.30 14.95 15.06THERMAX 1037.10 1088.50 1035.35 1079.50RCOM 1.71 1.74 1.71 1.71RALLIS 151.70 157.50 151.70 154.55RADICO 281.40 288.45 280.45 283.85EIDPARRY 170.50 172.00 163.60 166.10SCI 30.25 31.25 30.00 30.55FORTIS 128.70 130.55 128.70 130.20APLLTD 539.40 539.40 520.60 522.60RITES 286.55 289.20 285.95 288.00SUNDRMFAST 474.75 474.75 450.95 457.20BBTC 900.15 917.55 892.30 912.95LINDEINDIA 502.45 510.85 502.45 506.65RAMCOCEM 771.80 778.70 768.05 773.05NHPC 24.15 24.55 24.00 24.15AUBANK 668.35 673.75 651.35 671.75OFSS 3377.10 3402.35 3333.00 3350.40

TRENT 458.00 458.00 439.40 446.70HEIDELBERG 194.05 200.00 193.55 199.15HSCL 95.90 95.90 89.25 92.00JKTYRE 77.70 79.00 77.60 78.30GLAXO 1170.00 1180.00 1158.70 1174.80GRANULES 95.35 95.35 93.00 94.05PRSMJOHNSN 93.00 93.80 92.30 93.10NETWORK18 25.15 26.60 24.70 25.65CROMPTON 227.00 233.30 225.00 232.30ECLERX 673.65 703.60 665.50 687.90BAYERCROP 3384.10 3424.70 3381.95 3396.80LAKSHVILAS 62.00 63.50 60.30 62.85WHIRLPOOL 1552.05 1579.05 1552.05 1568.80SYNDIBANK 39.60 40.00 38.70 39.70PIIND 1141.70 1150.00 1140.65 1147.15HINDCOPPER 37.75 38.00 37.45 37.55ASTERDM 120.45 127.80 120.45 126.50MAHLOG 460.00 460.00 445.25 453.85NLCINDIA 65.50 65.70 63.40 63.60GODREJAGRO 483.05 496.85 483.00 494.60GULFOILLUB 853.30 864.00 826.80 830.30UFLEX 233.20 233.20 226.15 227.90JMFINANCIL 74.50 74.50 72.25 73.25MINDACORP 107.65 108.85 105.10 105.80ASHOKA 132.00 132.00 124.10 125.00HERITGFOOD 375.35 377.75 353.00 368.55THOMASCOOK 190.00 190.30 188.70 189.55MAHSCOOTER 4150.70 4225.00 4150.70 4207.55INFRATEL 261.00 264.45 261.00 263.60WELSPUNIND 55.55 56.20 55.20 55.80APLAPOLLO 1558.90 1578.00 1551.50 1566.35WELCORP 136.00 137.00 135.80 136.45BAJAJELEC 479.20 479.20 470.25 471.50HIMATSEIDE 165.00 165.60 157.00 157.90MINDAIND 319.50 324.75 315.50 321.60JPASSOCIAT 2.65 2.74 2.64 2.73J&KBANK 39.40 39.45 38.80 39.30CHAMBLFERT 163.35 164.40 161.55 162.003MINDIA 22092.85 22092.85 21952.95 22038.20GUJALKALI 483.25 497.90 473.65 486.35KANSAINER 434.75 437.90 429.80 431.70KALPATPOWR 508.95 516.00 504.75 509.15TRIDENT 60.80 60.80 60.15 60.55FINOLEXIND 518.00 525.00 500.00 504.85GICRE 225.35 227.40 222.20 225.35MOIL 148.20 151.55 147.70 150.95SANOFI 5775.00 5855.00 5762.15 5842.00FINEORG 1360.00 1400.70 1359.95 1387.10TEJASNET 138.40 142.50 136.10 138.25BLUEDART 2497.90 2500.00 2378.85 2390.90LUXIND 1115.30 1147.50 1083.50 1105.15EVEREADY 71.65 72.65 68.60 72.45GICHSGFIN 256.60 262.20 253.90 260.45MAHABANK 15.80 16.00 15.70 15.85JSL 31.85 32.00 30.00 30.55TCNSBRANDS 786.80 817.95 786.80 811.35TATACOFFEE 78.00 78.00 76.50 77.60BIRLACORPN 637.75 637.75 605.50 617.55SUPREMEIND 1084.80 1094.00 1083.15 1089.30ENDURANCE 1006.05 1006.05 990.00 991.90GODFRYPHLP 762.70 775.55 762.70 767.75ESSELPRO 130.20 130.85 130.15 130.25NIACL 138.00 140.30 136.95 137.80PGHH 10936.80 11000.00 10905.00 10999.35IFCI 8.50 8.70 8.50 8.64GRINDWELL 589.00 595.00 579.35 583.30NESCO 561.60 562.20 554.75 560.70GPPL 82.15 82.15 79.50 80.75BDL 297.55 301.95 293.35 294.85COFFEEDAY 220.00 220.00 216.55 218.05JKLAKSHMI 332.10 334.35 331.20 332.10SCHNEIDER 89.00 90.90 88.60 88.80TATAINVEST 860.65 860.65 848.65 850.90CHOLAHLDNG 484.95 495.00 480.00 493.85COCHINSHIP 367.15 370.30 364.95 367.95HONAUT 22800.00 23012.00 22675.10 23011.30CAPPL 420.00 421.00 414.00 414.25ISEC 220.15 222.00 217.50 221.50NILKAMAL 1141.20 1146.75 1124.90 1135.70JKCEMENT 967.50 987.00 962.40 969.45BALMLAWRIE 178.95 179.75 177.00 178.10BAJAJCON 316.70 318.15 311.95 316.45SHANKARA 368.20 369.10 356.70 359.95REPCOHOME 368.70 370.20 360.90 362.60CENTRUM 25.75 26.25 25.00 25.95ANDHRABANK 22.70 22.85 22.50 22.65ASAHIINDIA 201.30 205.15 200.00 201.35HATHWAY 23.00 23.15 21.75 21.85MAHINDCIE 220.50 223.00 217.45 222.05PNCINFRA 192.25 196.60 189.60 192.90GUJFLUORO 920.75 920.75 909.90 913.75SHK 127.10 129.50 124.30 125.25ASTRAL 1285.35 1307.40 1285.35 1306.10SREINFRA 16.65 16.75 16.25 16.45KNRCON 283.00 283.00 258.00 267.95PHOENIXLTD 628.80 657.00 628.80 651.90VARROC 444.60 453.20 444.60 445.90MAGMA 101.85 102.00 98.50 99.15ABBOTINDIA 8840.60 8840.60 8762.80 8792.55INOXLEISUR 321.55 321.55 314.00 315.05ASTRAZEN 1989.30 2020.00 1985.15 2002.20GILLETTE 7051.60 7168.80 7051.00 7152.05PERSISTENT 614.00 619.30 614.00 615.70UCOBANK 18.30 18.40 17.90 18.35CENTRALBK 19.70 19.85 19.50 19.70TEAMLEASE 2955.00 3011.35 2934.20 2997.95BAJAJHLDNG 3540.00 3561.00 3514.50 3555.60TIMKEN 739.90 740.60 730.20 731.90GEPIL 827.00 858.20 822.20 834.55

MMTC 22.45 22.75 22.40 22.65IRCON 390.95 397.00 390.95 392.30CORPBANK 27.25 27.35 26.65 26.75GHCL 223.70 223.70 220.35 220.90MOTILALOFS 669.65 669.65 660.30 663.15SOMANYCERA 423.45 425.50 410.00 419.75VBL 958.80 966.60 942.30 948.30FINCABLES 384.75 384.75 380.00 382.05FLFL 469.55 469.60 456.65 460.80SJVN 26.20 26.30 26.00 26.10LAURUSLABS 344.60 353.15 341.50 347.75CCL 241.25 243.75 234.60 241.55VMART 2011.45 2099.00 2011.45 2048.45GALAXYSURF 1232.05 1246.35 1226.15 1239.35ITDCEM 95.45 95.45 92.55 93.55ERIS 450.85 450.85 444.20 446.90CERA 2735.65 2745.00 2700.80 2711.75BASF 1145.60 1145.60 1125.90 1140.10RELAXO 425.30 428.40 420.00 421.25SONATSOFTW 344.05 349.20 343.90 344.50TVSSRICHAK 1892.00 1892.00 1859.25 1865.00ORIENTELEC 158.90 161.20 157.70 159.00JBCHEPHARM 370.30 374.20 367.90 370.35LALPATHLAB 1050.00 1074.95 1037.60 1071.40SYMPHONY 1224.00 1235.50 1215.10 1229.90ALKEM 1760.00 1785.10 1760.00 1778.45SHILPAMED 356.20 360.90 354.60 359.00HSIL 237.20 237.50 232.55 233.80SFL 1283.00 1290.00 1252.30 1271.45CENTURYPLY 145.50 145.50 142.00 142.40SUDARSCHEM 317.00 317.00 313.30 314.55IOB 12.02 12.13 11.94 12.03

MHRIL 230.90 232.80 226.95 230.20AEGISLOG 211.30 211.30 206.90 208.70LEMONTREE 64.85 65.20 64.65 64.75SKFINDIA 1940.00 1949.85 1914.00 1933.00LAOPALA 198.15 201.85 196.00 200.85JAGRAN 100.70 102.75 98.25 99.05MAXINDIA 63.90 64.50 63.20 63.95TTKPRESTIG 6255.00 6299.10 6255.00 6286.05ZYDUSWELL 1348.15 1374.75 1348.15 1360.10SYNGENE 316.20 323.50 314.25 321.75ZENSARTECH 239.00 247.00 228.00 245.35ALLCARGO 99.25 101.00 98.90 100.10HAL 677.80 686.85 670.00 674.75CRISIL 1398.60 1418.00 1392.35 1400.65ADVENZYMES 163.00 164.35 161.45 161.85WABCOINDIA 6123.00 6129.00 6107.05 6112.35FDC 171.00 171.60 169.10 169.70THYROCARE 468.70 469.00 457.40 463.60TIMETECHNO 90.90 90.90 85.50 86.75CARBORUNIV 342.00 347.95 335.75 339.75UNITEDBNK 10.00 10.02 9.92 9.99GMDCLTD 71.55 73.45 71.05 72.50DBCORP 185.85 185.85 175.00 176.85ITDC 238.65 238.65 235.00 235.90INOXWIND 67.65 67.65 66.40 66.75TIINDIA 407.60 407.60 398.15 401.50GAYAPROJ 138.00 145.30 134.55 141.95GESHIP* 255.80 257.45 248.10 249.00CARERATING 885.70 910.00 885.60 903.70AAVAS 1514.65 1518.40 1498.65 1515.15EIHOTEL 168.60 169.00 167.20 168.20SOLARINDS 1131.15 1172.00 1131.10 1169.20MASFIN 599.00 602.45 593.40 597.65GET&D 225.35 226.20 222.50 223.65BLUESTARCO 742.60 751.55 737.85 743.00SHRIRAMCIT 1500.00 1500.45 1490.00 1499.50IEX 147.00 147.00 144.50 145.05INDOSTAR 357.00 357.00 350.95 352.65TVTODAY 277.40 287.50 277.40 283.80ORIENTCEM 107.85 108.15 106.35 106.90VTL 1038.10 1081.40 1037.00 1047.80GDL 119.35 119.35 115.40 116.00SUPRAJIT 200.10 204.10 200.00 204.00TNPL 177.80 177.80 175.00 175.15JCHAC 1650.00 1660.00 1622.40 1631.40DHANUKA 381.00 395.55 376.70 386.65TRITURBINE 100.55 102.00 97.60 98.05STARCEMENT 113.00 114.20 110.00 111.10KPRMILL 591.55 596.90 584.40 595.05REDINGTON 99.55 100.40 99.35 100.00MONSANTO 2180.00 2195.00 2180.00 2194.20IFBIND 756.65 756.65 749.00 750.60MAHLIFE 413.30 413.30 408.55 409.15AKZOINDIA 1740.15 1743.00 1735.00 1737.10NH 227.95 227.95 222.10 222.10SHOPERSTOP 472.25 472.25 464.15 466.95ELGIEQUIP 273.95 273.95 260.05 261.75MAHSEAMLES 419.35 422.95 417.60 420.65APARINDS 565.95 572.05 563.15 570.70SIS 843.75 854.25 837.65 854.10

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Ben Stokes has already startedturning his attention to theAshes just a day after starring

for England in their dramatic ICCWorld Cup final win against NewZealand.

The al l-rounder made anunbeaten 84 as the host nation tiedthe scores in regulation play atLord’s on Sunday and batted again ina Super Over shootout that alsoended all-square.

The hosts won what Stokesdescribed as the “best-ever” final onsuperior boundary count.

Monday saw a bleary-eyedStokes on the other side of London’sRiver Thames, where he was attend-ing a team celebration event at the

Oval, with Eoin Morgan’s side parad-ing the trophy in front of hundredsof young fans.

“I’ve woken up in better condi-tions, but it’s an incredible feeling,”Stokes, who was man of the matchsaid.

“We would have been devastat-ed if we hadn’t managed to lift thattrophy but looking back over thatgame I think it will go down in thehistory books as the best ever, withall the drama of a World Cup final.

“It’s an amazing thing to be partof.”

The World Cup could be the firsthalf of remarkable double withEngland, for the first time since theinaugural 1975 edition, staging aWorld Cup and Ashes in the sameseason.

First comes a one-off Test againstIreland at Lord’s next week beforeEngland begin their quest to regainthe urn against an Australia sideseeking a first away Ashes series winsince 2001 at Edgbaston on August1.

“We may be world championsbut also want to be Ashes winners aswell,” said the 28-year-old Stokes.

“Everyone here deserves to feellike a champion because we’ve justwon it but when it comes to theAshes it’s going to be heads onagain because it has to be.

“Whether you’re winning or los-ing games, you’ve just got to wipe theslate clean.”

Stokes also revealed how he hadcoped with the highs and lows ofnearly winning the World Cup final

in regulation play before going outto bat again for the Super Over.

“Needing two runs off one ball,all I was thinking was ‘just don’t hitit in the air and get caught’. It was just‘don't try to be a hero and do it witha six’,” he explained.

“I wish it had gone for twobecause I wasn’t best pleased withmyself walking off and back to thechanging rooms for that 10-minuteturnaround.

“I actually had to go and havefive minutes to myself in the show-er area of the changing room. I waspretty annoyed, angry. I had to getmy head switched back on becauseI knew there was a job out there todo.

“I was full of adrenaline so Ineeded to make sure my head was inthe right place.”

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maiden World Cup triumph,England Test captain Joe Root feelsthe team are on the cusp of reachingthe cricket “pinnacle” if they alsomanage to win the Ashes.

“It’s what we set out to do two orthree years ago and we’re halfwaythere,” Root was quoted as saying bythe BBC on Monday.

“We couldn’t be in a better placereally, having achieved what we’veachieved here,” said Root. “This willgive the guys confidence and we’vetalked about taking that forward intoa series like that.

“The way we played againstAustralia in that semi-final atEdgbaston... the guys who wereinvolved relished it and will want abit more: the feeling of euphoria wefelt at that ground...

“To potentially be able to expe-rience all that again is very exciting.Ashes cricket always has a differentedge to it so that in itself will geteveryone going.”

“It’s always so special,” added the28-year old.

“The atmosphere, the way itbuilds up and the way the guys getexcited about it, it’s like no otherseries in Test cricket.

“It’s something I’m really look-ing forward to and it’ll be massive,especially on the back of this. It’llmake it even bigger.”

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England’s World Cup heroBen Stokes is likely to be

bestowed with knighthoodfor his sensational perfor-mance in the summit clashagainst New Zealand whichhelped the hosts claim theirmaiden title in the ICC’s 50-over showpiece event.

Stokes smashed anunbeaten 84 off 98 balls tohelp England tie the finalmatch at the Lord's on Sunday.He then scored eight in theSuper Over which also endedin a tie.

Stokes’ World Cup heroicsimpressed Boris Johnson andJeremy Hunt, the two con-tenders to be the next primeminister of the UK.

“I will give dukedoms,whatever — I will go to themaximum, to, what, theGarter King of Arms,” saidJohnson, the frontrunner toreplace Theresa May asBritain’s PM, during a series ofrapid-fire ‘yes or no’ questionsat the end of leadership debatehosted by The Sun andtalkRADIO.

Asked if Stokes deservesknighthood, Johnson said,“Yes is the answer, absolutely.”

When Hunt was askedthe same question, he repliedsuccinctly: “Of course”.

Eleven English cricketershave been knighted for ser-vices to cricket till now withformer Test and ODI skipperAlastair Cook being the last tobe conferred with the honour.

The 28-year-old Stokeshad missed the 2017-18 Ashesdue to a pending investigationinto his role in a fight inBristol that had left a man inhospital with facial injuries.

Stokes went on to redeemhimself with a superlativeperformance at the WorldCup, amassing 465 runs andclaiming seven wickets forEngland.

His performance waslauded by England captainEoin Morgan, who describedhim as “extraordinary” and“superhuman”.

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New Zealand coach GaryStead has called for the

Cricket World Cup’s rules to beoverhauled, labelling the show-piece final “hollow” afterEngland defeated the Black Capson a technicality.

The teams could not be sep-arated at the end of both regu-lar play and a Super Overshootout, so England werehanded victory because they hada superior boundary count.

“It’s a very, very hollow feel-ing that you can play 100 oversand score the same amount ofruns and still lose the game, butthat’s the technicalities of sport,”Stead told reporters in remarksreleased by New Zealand Cricketon Tuesday.

He said such a thrillingmatch, which has been hailed bymany experts as the greatestone-day game in history,deserved a better way to deter-mine the result.

“There’s going to be manythings they look at over thewhole tournament — I’m surewhen they were writing therules they never expected aWorld Cup final to happen likethat,” he said.

“I’m sure it’ll be reviewed(and) there’s many differentways that they’ll probablyexplore.”

Stead shrugged off sugges-tions England had been mistak-enly handed an extra run aftera throw from a fielder hit the batof a diving Ben Stokes’ anddeflected to the boundary in the

final over of regular play.England were awarded six

runs but former umpire SimonTaufel said they should only havegot five as the batsmen had notcrossed for their second runwhen the throw was made.

“I didn’t actually know that,”Stead said. “But at the end of theday the umpires are there to rule.

“They’re human as well,like players, and sometimesthere’s a mistake but that’s justthe human aspect of sport.”

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No one lost the final,” NewZealand skipper Kane

Williamson said on Tuesday ashis team tried coming to termswith the gut-wrenching defeatagainst England in the WorldCup’s greatest summit clash.

Cricketers, current and for-mer, shared New Zealand’s painon losing the title on boundarycount with many of them ask-ing for a “serious look” into therule, slammed as “absurd”.

“At the end of the day noth-ing separated us, no one lost thefinal, but there was a crownedwinner and there it is,”Williamson told Newstalk ZB.

Widely praised for the gracewith which he and his sideaccepted the defeat, Williamsonsaid they had signed up to therules that governed the tourna-ment.

“I suppose you neverthought you would have to askthat question and I neverthought I would have toanswer it (smiling),” wasWilliamson’s first reactionwhen asked about the rule.

“While the emotions areraw, it is pretty hard to swallowwhen two teams have workedreally, really hard to get to thismoment in time.

“When sort of twoattempts to separate them witha winner and a loser it stilldoesn’t perhaps sort of shinewith one side coming through,you know,” Williamson, one ofthe finest gentleman playingthe sport, said.

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Bangladesh are resting all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan

but have retained skipperMashrafe Mortaza for thethree-match one-day inter-national series against SriLanka later this month, offi-cials said on Tuesday.

Left-arm spinner TaijulIslam and top-order batsmanAnamul Haque were alsorecalled to replace Shakib andbatsman Liton Das, who hasbeen rested for personal rea-sons.

Medium pace Abu Jayed,who was part of World Cupsquad but did not play anygames, was the other player tomiss out.

“Now that the World Cupchapter is over and we arestarting a new season. Thisseries is very important forus,” said Minhajul AbedinNannu.

“We didn’t make bigchanges from the World Cupsquad here. As we don’t haveShakib and Liton, we includ-ed two players in their placesand dropped one player,” hesaid.

Bangladesh f inishedeighth in the World Cup after

just three wins — againststruggling South Africa, WestIndies and Afghanistan.

The Bangladesh CricketBoard (BCB) sacked coachSteve Rhodes after the teamreturned home last week andannounced it will not renewthe contract of bowling coachCourtney Walsh.

Mashrafe, who claimedjust one wicket in eight match-es, shouldered the responsibil-ity for the team’s lacklustreperformance, but the BCBhas kept faith on him.

Bangladesh will becomethe first team to tour SriLanka since the deadly Easterattacks in which 258 peoplewere killed.

The teams will play threeone-day internationals on July26, 28 and 31 at thePremadasa InternationalStadium in Colombo.Squad: Mashrafe Mortaza(Capt), Tamim Iqbal, SoumyaSarker, Anamul Haque,Mohammad Mithun,Mushfiqur Rahim,Mahmudullah Riyad,Mosaddek Hossain, SabbirRahman, Mehidy Hasan,Taijul Islam, Rubel Hossain,Mohammad Saifuddin,Mustafizur Rahman.

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The Indian cricket board onTuesday invited applications for

the men’s team support staff includ-ing head coach who will need to beless than 60 years of age with a min-imum international experience oftwo years.

The BCCI has streamlined theprocess of hiring the support staffincluding head coach, batting coach,bowling coach, fielding coach, phys-iotherapist, strength and condition-ing coach and administrative man-ager. The application deadline for allthe roles is 5 pm, July 30.

Before Ravi Shastri was appoint-ed as the head coach in July 2017, the

BCCI had issued a nine-point eligi-bility criteria which lacked focus andclarity. This time, it is only a three-point criteria for all the coachingroles including head coach besidesthe positions in the batting, bowlingand fielding department.

“The current coaching staff ofTeam India will get an automaticentry in the recruitment process,”said the BCCI in a statement.

The head coach should havecoached a Test playing nation for aminimum of two years or threeyears with an associate member/Ateam/IPL side. The applicant alsoshould have played 30 Tests or 50ODIs.

The criteria remains the same for

batting, bowling and fielding coachexcept the number of games played.The three personnel should haveplayed at least 10 Tests or 25 ODIsand be less than 60 years of age.

The current support staff com-prising Shastri, bowling coach BharatArun, batting coach Sanjay Bangarand fielding coach R Sridhar weregiven a 45-day extension followingthe World Cup, covering the WestIndies tour from August 3 toSeptember 3.

All of them can re-apply but theteam is set to have a new trainer andphysio after the departure of ShankerBasu and Patrick Farhart followingIndia’s semifinal exit in the WorldCup.

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