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E ven as over 19 lakh appli- cants to the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam stare at an uncertain future as they failed to make it to the final list issued on Saturday, politics heated up in the State with all major parties rejecting the NRC for their own separate reasons. Given the objections over the exclusion or inclusion in the list, it may be a long haul for the finalisation of the NRC with affected people holding the right to appeal with the for- eigners’ tribunals (FT) within 120 days, and move the High Court or the Supreme Court, thereafter. The BJP, the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) and the All Assam Students Union (AASU) expressed unhappi- ness over the small exclusion size and announced their intent to move the SC for reverifica- tion of citizenship in the bor- der districts and an appeal against the final list, published as per the Supreme Court’s deadline of August 31. The Assam BJP said they do not trust the updated NRC specifically prepared for Assam, and appealed to the Central and the State Governments to prepare a nationwide NRC. The Congress blamed the BJP for being unable to bring a free and fair NRC, while the TMC accused the ruling party of driving out Bengalis. Of the total of 3,30,27,661 people who had applied to be included in the NRC, 3,11,21,004 found their names in the list with 19,06,657 being left out. The Assam Government has ruled out detention of people who do not figure in the list “in any cir- cumstances” till the time the FTs declare them foreigners. And Assam Parliamentary Affairs Minister Chandra Mohan Patowary promised that the Government will pro- vide legal support to the Indian citizens not finding place in the NRC list. “One thing is sure that many genuine Indians were left out of the NRC. However, they don’t need to panic and worry. They can appeal in the FTs,” Patowary said. The number of Assamese who could not find their names in the NRC has, however, come down to a little over 19 lakh from the first draft of the NRC which had deleted names of 41 lakh people residing in the State. “We have increased the number of FTs to 300 from 100 earlier. The additional FTs will start functioning from Monday. So people can result approach the FTs,” said Patowary, who is also the spokesperson of the Assam Government. The final list was pub- lished at 10 am and the hard copies of the Supplementary List of Inclusions are available for public viewing at the NRC Seva Kendras (NSK), offices of the deputy commissioner and offices of the Circle Officer dur- ing office hours, a statement by the NRC authority said. Amid prohibitory orders in place, hundreds of people began thronging these offices soon after the list was released, with some returning home happy and some disappointed. Senior BJP leader and Assam Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma led the voices against the NRC list from the ruling camp. “Names of many Indian citizens who migrated from Bangladesh as refugees prior to 1971 have not been included in the NRC because authorities refused to accept refugee certificates . Many names got included because of manipulation of legacy data as alleged by many,” he said. The BJP also alleged that exclusion was less from the border areas where maximum illegal migration allegedly took place over the decades while many genuine citizens in the heart of the state were not fig- uring in the NRC list. Addressing a Press confer- ence, BJP Assam President Ranjeet Kumar Dass said the final NRC contains very small figure of exclusions compared to officially stated figures ear- lier. “We do not trust this NRC... We are very unhap- py...We appeal to the central and the state governments to prepare a national level NRC,” he added. AGP, a member of the rul- ing alliance in Assam, articu- lated its dissatisfaction saying there is scope for its review in the Supreme Court, which supervised the updation process. The number of exclu- sions appear to be ridiculous- ly small, AGP president and state Agriculture Minister Atul Bora said. T he Delhi Police on Saturday urged a city court to pros- ecute Congress MP Shashi Tharoor for abetment to sui- cide or on murder charge in the case of death of his wife Sunanda Pushkar in 2014. “Please frame sections 498- A (husband or his relative subjecting a woman to cruelty), 306 (abetment of suicide) or in alternative 302 (murder) IPC against the accused (Tharoor),” the probe agency told special judge Ajay Kumar Kuhar. Reading out a statement of the couple’s domestics help, who is one of the witnesses in the case, the prosecutor said that the couple had fight over a girl named ‘Katy’ and some Blackberry messages. The prosecutor told the court that before her death, Pushkar wanted to address a Press conference on the IPL issue and had said “I will not leave him (Tharoor)”. The probe agency told the court that according to the post-mortem report, the cause of Pushkar’s death was poi- soning and 15 injury marks were found on various parts of her body, including in forearm, arms and legs. Turn to Page 4 T he teenage Sikh girl, who was allegedly abducted and converted to Islam “at gun- point” before being married to a Muslim man in Pakistan’s Punjab province, on Saturday refused to go home, fearing threat to her life. The girl, who is the daugh- ter of a Sikh priest, was on Friday sent to a shelter home on a court order. Kaur’s family alleged that she was converted to Islam at gunpoint and forced to marry a Muslim boy. Her family says she is 18 years of age. “On Saturday, Punjab Governor Chaudhary Muhammad Sarwar met with the Sikh girl at Lahore’s Darul Aman and tried his best to per- suade her to return her parents’ home but she declined,” an offi- cial told PTI. An FIR was registered on Thursday against six people in the case. Police have arrested one of the suspects named Arsalan, a friend of her hus- band Hassan, who is also the prime accused in the case and currently on a pre-arrest bail. Turn to Page 4 O n a day when the final National Register of Citizens (NRC) list was pub- lished in Assam, several stories surfaced from the State about the toll that the NRC took on some applicants. Consumed by the grief on a rumour that she lost citi- zenship, a 60-year-old woman ended her life by jumping into a well on Saturday, report- ed AP. Residents rushed to res- cue her but she could not be saved. After a few hours, it was known that she had “passed” the NRC test with her name not being excluded. In another case, a resident of Guwahati found that his younger son was left of the NRC list with his three family members making it. There are many such stories of children being left out, but parents in. Some prominent names who are left out the NRC are Kargil war hero retired Army officer Mohammad Sanaullah, AIUDF MLA Ananta Kumar Malo and his son, former AIUDF MLA Ataur Rahman Majharbhuyan, and the daughter of Dalgaon Congress MLA Ilias Ali. RNI Regn. No. MPENG/2004/13703, Regd. No. L-2/BPLON/41/2006-2008

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Even as over 19 lakh appli-cants to the National

Register of Citizens (NRC) inAssam stare at an uncertainfuture as they failed to make itto the final list issued onSaturday, politics heated up inthe State with all major partiesrejecting the NRC for their ownseparate reasons.

Given the objections overthe exclusion or inclusion inthe list, it may be a long haulfor the finalisation of the NRCwith affected people holdingthe right to appeal with the for-eigners’ tribunals (FT) within120 days, and move the HighCourt or the Supreme Court,thereafter.

The BJP, the Asom GanaParishad (AGP) and the AllAssam Students Union(AASU) expressed unhappi-ness over the small exclusionsize and announced their intentto move the SC for reverifica-tion of citizenship in the bor-der districts and an appealagainst the final list, publishedas per the Supreme Court’sdeadline of August 31.

The Assam BJP said theydo not trust the updated NRCspecifically prepared for Assam,and appealed to the Centraland the State Governments toprepare a nationwide NRC.

The Congress blamed theBJP for being unable to bringa free and fair NRC, while theTMC accused the ruling partyof driving out Bengalis.

Of the total of 3,30,27,661people who had applied to beincluded in the NRC,3,11,21,004 found their namesin the list with 19,06,657 beingleft out. The AssamGovernment has ruled outdetention of people who do notfigure in the list “in any cir-cumstances” till the time theFTs declare them foreigners.

And Assam ParliamentaryAffairs Minister ChandraMohan Patowary promisedthat the Government will pro-

vide legal support to the Indiancitizens not finding place in theNRC list.

“One thing is sure thatmany genuine Indians were leftout of the NRC. However, theydon’t need to panic and worry.They can appeal in the FTs,”Patowary said.

The number of Assamesewho could not find their namesin the NRC has, however, comedown to a little over 19 lakhfrom the first draft of the NRCwhich had deleted names of 41lakh people residing in theState. “We have increased thenumber of FTs to 300 from 100earlier. The additional FTs willstart functioning from Monday.

So people can result approachthe FTs,” said Patowary, who isalso the spokesperson of theAssam Government.

The final list was pub-lished at 10 am and the hardcopies of the SupplementaryList of Inclusions are availablefor public viewing at the NRCSeva Kendras (NSK), offices ofthe deputy commissioner andoffices of the Circle Officer dur-ing office hours, a statement bythe NRC authority said.

Amid prohibitory orders inplace, hundreds of peoplebegan thronging these officessoon after the list was released,with some returning homehappy and some disappointed.

Senior BJP leader andAssam Finance MinisterHimanta Biswa Sarma led thevoices against the NRC listfrom the ruling camp. “Namesof many Indian citizens whomigrated from Bangladesh asrefugees prior to 1971 have notbeen included in the NRCbecause authorities refused toaccept refugee certificates .Many names got includedbecause of manipulation oflegacy data as alleged by many,”he said.

The BJP also alleged thatexclusion was less from theborder areas where maximumillegal migration allegedly tookplace over the decades while

many genuine citizens in theheart of the state were not fig-uring in the NRC list.

Addressing a Press confer-ence, BJP Assam PresidentRanjeet Kumar Dass said thefinal NRC contains very smallfigure of exclusions comparedto officially stated figures ear-lier. “We do not trust thisNRC... We are very unhap-py...We appeal to the centraland the state governments to

prepare a national level NRC,”he added.

AGP, a member of the rul-ing alliance in Assam, articu-lated its dissatisfaction sayingthere is scope for its review inthe Supreme Court, whichsupervised the updationprocess. The number of exclu-sions appear to be ridiculous-ly small, AGP president andstate Agriculture Minister AtulBora said.

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The Delhi Police on Saturdayurged a city court to pros-

ecute Congress MP ShashiTharoor for abetment to sui-cide or on murder charge in thecase of death of his wifeSunanda Pushkar in 2014.

“Please frame sections 498-A (husband or his relativesubjecting a woman to cruelty),306 (abetment of suicide) or inalternative 302 (murder) IPCagainst the accused (Tharoor),”the probe agency told specialjudge Ajay Kumar Kuhar.

Reading out a statement ofthe couple’s domestics help,who is one of the witnesses inthe case, the prosecutor saidthat the couple had fight overa girl named ‘Katy’ and someBlackberry messages.

The prosecutor told thecourt that before her death,Pushkar wanted to address aPress conference on the IPLissue and had said “I will notleave him (Tharoor)”.

The probe agency told thecourt that according to thepost-mortem report, the causeof Pushkar’s death was poi-soning and 15 injury markswere found on various parts ofher body, including in forearm,arms and legs.

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The teenage Sikh girl, whowas allegedly abducted and

converted to Islam “at gun-point” before being married toa Muslim man in Pakistan’sPunjab province, on Saturdayrefused to go home, fearingthreat to her life.

The girl, who is the daugh-ter of a Sikh priest, was onFriday sent to a shelter homeon a court order.

Kaur’s family alleged thatshe was converted to Islam atgunpoint and forced to marrya Muslim boy. Her family says

she is 18 years of age.“On Saturday, Punjab

Governor ChaudharyMuhammad Sarwar met withthe Sikh girl at Lahore’s DarulAman and tried his best to per-suade her to return her parents’home but she declined,” an offi-cial told PTI.

An FIR was registered onThursday against six people inthe case. Police have arrestedone of the suspects namedArsalan, a friend of her hus-band Hassan, who is also theprime accused in the case andcurrently on a pre-arrest bail.

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Consumed by the grief ona rumour that she lost citi-zenship, a 60-year-old womanended her life by jumpinginto a well on Saturday, report-ed AP. Residents rushed to res-cue her but she could not be

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In another case, a residentof Guwahati found that hisyounger son was left of theNRC list with his three familymembers making it. There aremany such stories of childrenbeing left out, but parents in.

Some prominent nameswho are left out the NRC areKargil war hero retired Armyofficer Mohammad Sanaullah,AIUDF MLA Ananta KumarMalo and his son, formerAIUDF MLA Ataur RahmanMajharbhuyan, and thedaughter of Dalgaon CongressMLA Ilias Ali.

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There are a very few movieswhich will work on just starpresence or great stunts and

action. After the runaway success ofBahubali series, Prabhas has becomea household name and people expectthat if he is part of a project, thenthey are in for a treat. The sameapplies to his latest venture — Saaho.

Director Sujeeth has definitelycashed in on this aspect. There is noway that the film will disappoint allthose who love chases, bullets flying,cars of all sizes flying in the air,punches being thrown with the villainlying on the ground with just onesock to the jaw. It is a page right outof a Mission Impossible series or evenFast and Furious series.

The CGI is great. Creating afictitious city, Waaji, and weaving a

story around it, kudos to the creativeteam.

One can’t forget the tall, meanand beefy looking men who are outfor blood at the drop of a button. Infact, they don’t even need an excuse.They are just trigger happy men. Thisis where the movie falters.

With the audience wanting moremeaningful and content-driven filmsthat has a story to tell, Saaho hasnothing new to offer beyond theaction and absolutely great stunts thatwill keep you glued to what comesnext. At the end of the day, it is a filmabout a son avenging his father’smurder.

But not all is lost here. Thebackdrop is stunning. ShraddhaKapoor does her bit. Though peoplelike Mandira Bedi, Tinnu Anand andMahesh Manjrekar are wasted here.Of course, Prabhas is nattily dressed,a look different from his Bahubaliseries.

A movie to see, if you are aPrabhas fan.

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Chief Secretary SR Mohantysaid that the adulteration in

food items is not less thanheinous crime towards humanlife and health. Effective stepsshould be taken regularlyagainst the people involved inadulteration in food and drink-ing items to make MadhyaPradesh, an adulteration freestate. These directives weregiven by the Chief Secretary ina review meeting with theCollectors and Senior Officersof Jabalpur division.

Mohanty also directed toconduct camps to resolve therevenue cases registered onRCMS and to prepare anadvance work plan to preventdrinking water crisis during thesummer in rural areas. TheChief Secretary gathered infor-mation on the status of rain,flood relief and crops in the dis-tricts. He said that flooding andexcessive rains have not causedmuch damage in all the dis-tricts owing to the measures ofdisaster management. All theCollectors should completenecessary arrangements fromnow itself for procurement of

Kharif crops on support price.He further mentioned thatnon-FAQ food grains shouldnot be purchased under anycircumstances during the pro-curement of Kharif and RabiCrops on support price.

The Chief Secretaryreviewed the district wise reg-istration and redressal of rev-enue cases registered on RCMS.He said that redressal shouldalso be registered every month

as compared to the revenuecases being registered withinthe next 3 months. He soughtinformation about sowing ofKharif crops, availability anddistribution of fertilizers andseeds and advance fertilizerstorage for the Rabi crops.

The Chief Secretaryobtained information aboutthe rejected claims of forestrights deeds in various districtsand online re-verification of therejected claims according to thedirection of the government.He said that any eligible bene-ficiary should not be deprivedof forest rights. A wide public-ity should be ensured in theconcerned areas and GramSabhas for verification of reject-ed claims and proofs requiredfor the claims of the eligiblebeneficiaries through VanMitra Software. The CS alsoreviewed the disposal of theCM Monit cases received fromthe CM’s office.

The CS said that keeping inview the ensuing festivals,Collectors and SPs shouldmaintain law and order strict-ly. The senior administrativeofficer should keep their infor-mation-network strong.

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Former Chief Minister andsenior Congress leader,

Digvijay Singh was in the cityon Saturday for a few hours. Hewas on way to Bhind to attenda meeting in connection withthe unveiling of the statue ofMaharana Pratap.

Digvijay Singh, during abreakfast get- together at theresidence of the Apex BankAdministrator Ashok Singhmet party leaders and workersand held discussions with themon various issues. He exhortedthe party workers to put in allefforts to strengthen the partyin the state.

On the topic of the PCCChief, Digvijay said there is noconfusion and added that thedecision is up to the HighCommand. He also said thatthere are no squabbles withScindia and added that allspeculations on this are cre-ations of the media. Earlier hehad a meeting with the GwaliorIG Rajababu Singh, DistrictCollector Anurag Chaudharyand Gwalior SSP NavneetBhasin at his hotel room.

Despite Digvijay’s claimsthat everything is fine, it is a factthat the uncertainty over the

appointment of the PCC Chief iscausing chaos and confusion inthe Congress circles in Gwalior.A major pointer was the absenceof any Scindia supporters in themeetings held by Digvijay.

While the supporters ofScindia are insisting thatScindia is the right candidatefor the post, the Digvijay Singhfollowers are resolute that theformer two-time ChiefMinister is the right choice.However both factions havealso said that everyone in theparty is entitled to articulate hispoint of view and that they willabide by the party decision.

Speaking to the media per-sons, Govind Singh, Ministerfor Cooperatives in the MadhyaPradesh government opinedthat the party will benefit in abig way if Scindia is appointed

the party chief. He added thatthe Congress is a democraticparty and as such everyone hasa say in policy matters. He alsosaid that he will abide by what-ever decision the HighCommand takes on this matter.

Transport Minister GovindSingh Rajput said that it wasthrough the combined efforts ofScindia and Kamal Nath that theCongress could come to powerin the state. He added that it willbe a matter of joy if Scindia isappointed the PCC Chief.

Food and Civil SuppliesMinister Pradhuman SinghTomar said that Scindia is theonly choice for the post. Headded that a delegation ofparty leaders has alreadyrequested the party HighCommands to appoint Scindiaas the PCC Chief.

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Presentations of tribal dancesof Madhya Pradesh and

Gujarat were presented onSaturday under Dharohar fes-tival. The dances were per-formed at Madhya PradeshTribal Museum.

Rup Singh Kusharam(Dindori), along with his fellowartists, begar the series of per-formances. He performed the'Karma dance' of the Gond tribeto the audience. The Gondtribes eat their Nava in theShukla Paksha of Bhadon monthby worshiping their deity, KulDev, Bada Dev and other deities.

Only after eating Nava,this dance is performed againwith new zeal and gaiety. TheKarma dance was presented tothe audience by Rup SinghKusharam along with about 15fellow artists on the song 'PaniGiriya Jhim Ke, Nagar FandaiMilke' in the museum court-yard through his artistic dancemedium.

During the dance perfor-mance, Kalarin Bai, Rekha,Sulochana, Mati Bajri Bai,Nahar Singh, Sanjeev, Dalveerand Bihari Bhavedi etc. capti-vated the audience with theirdancing skills. During the pre-sentation, Shiv CharanKusharam and Khuman SinghKusharam Mandal, SatishBhavedi on Timki and RaviMarco accompanied dancers

on Shehnai.Mansharam (Harda) along

with his fellow performers pre-sented the 'Thapti dance' of theKorku tribe to the audience.This dance is performed inspecial festivals and festivals. Inthis dance both the male pan-cha and the female dancers playthe chitkora in the hand.

Thapati dance is performedin the month of Vaishakhmonth. The main instrument ofthis dance is the dholak andflute. During the dance perfor-mance, Narayan, Ganesh,Tarachand, Annu, Ramrati,Pooja and Jyoti etc. mesmerizedthe audience with their dancingskills. During the dance perfor-mance, Anokhi Lal and Balaramcollaborated on the drum andMansaram and Parshuram col-laborated on the flute.

Mori Zakir Bhai (GirSomnath) presented the 'SiddhiDhamal Nritya' of the Siddhitribe to the audience along withhis fellow artists. This dance isperformed on the occasion ofmarriage. The enthusiasm andgaiety of the dancing artists inthis dance is worth seeing.

This dance is usually per-formed on the drum. Duringthe dance performance, Zakir,Sahil, Ezaz, Ramadan andNasuruddin mesmerized theaudience with their dancingskills. Hussain, Mona in Dhol,Sadiq and Imran accompa-nied the dancers.

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Collection of books suggest-ed by members in Swami

Vivekananda Library will bereleased on Sunday at 11 am.This type of collection isreleased once a month.

Like the previous time,this time also a collection ofbooks suggested by the mem-bers will be displayed. In thiscollection, a collection of total30 books will be put on displayat 11 am on Sunday.

Swami VivekanandaLibrary Manager Yatish Bhatelesaid that most of the newbooks have also been includedin the books suggested by themembers. Collections who aremembers of the library canwrite suggestions of theirfavorite books in the name ofregister books or can also givesuggestions on email.

Books like Quichotte bySalman Rushdie, The Curse ofNader Shah Author SutapaBasu, Stranger in a StrangeLand Author Robert A.Heinlein, Visible Muslim,Invisible Citizen: UnderstandingIslam in Indian DemocracyAuthor Salman Khurshid,Outliers: The story of SuccessAuthor Malcolm Gladwell, Gemin the Lotus: The Seeding ofIndian Civilization AuthorAbraham Eraly, Hush Hush(Detective Harriet Blue Series)

Author James Patterson, Floodand Fury: EcologicalDevastation in the WesternGhats Author Viju B, Amity andProsperity: One Family andthe Fracturing of AmericaAuthor Eliza Griswold, TheBlack Dwarves of the GoodLittle Bay Author VarunThomas Mathew are included.

Manager Yatish Bhateletold that Swami VivekanandaLibrary has started a new facil-ity for the members. If a bookis not in the library's collection,then a library member can sug-gest that book. The library'sefforts will be to include thebook suggested by the librarymembers. That is when mem-bers of the book are includedin the collection of the library.So the member of the booksuggested by the member isgiven to the members by phoneor email.

A new collection of bookssuggested by the members in theSwami Vivekananda Libraryand a collection of new books isput in the Swami VivekanandaLibrary every Sunday.

Supported by SwamiVivekananda Library. ManagerYatish Bhatele told that thesebooks will be displayed onSunday. Members can reservethem and members will issue onnext Saturday. With this, a col-lection of Hindi will be installedon the following Sunday.

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Terming the AAPGovernment’s decision to

provide free water, electrici-ty and rides for women inDTC and cluster buses as astunt to garner votes in theforthcoming Assembly elec-tions, senior Congress leader Jai Kishan onSaturday said if Arvind Kejriwal was reallycommitted to the welfare of his citizens, heshould immediately provide free rides inGramin Sewa, State Transport Authoritypermitted buses and other feeder services usedon a daily basis by a large number of peopleto travel by Metro in the national Capital.

Jai Kishan said providing free rides forwomen in Metro and DTC buses was notenough till the Government ensure thatcommuters were provided similar facilities totravel by those modes of transport throughwhich they reach out to the metro stations.More than 25 lakh people commute byDelhi Metro on a daily basis. The Congressleader said that during the Congress regime,electricity bills were issued once in 66 days.“Now, it is issued every month to harass lakhsof power consumers.” He alleged that despitethe Government’s tall claim of free medicaltreatment, there were neither medicines noradequate beds available in any of theGovernment hospitals.

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The Khadi and VillageIndustries Commission

(KVIC) has unveiled a majorprogramme to deal with thedependence of the country onimport of agarbattis mainlyfrom China and Vietnam. Indiaimports nearly �500 cr ofincense sticks while its own vil-lage industry is dying for wantof incentives and lack of com-petitiveness.

In a function in the capital,New Delhi Lok Sabha MPMeenakshi Lekhi and KVICChairman Vinai Kumar Saxenaplanted 100 saplings ofBambusa Tulda, which wouldbe used exclusively for agarbat-ti-manufacturing.

Saxena said taking cogni-sance of steep decline in settingup of new Agarbatti manufac-turing units in the country andmulti-dimensional problems ofAgarbatti industry in India, theKVIC had conducted an inter-nal research and found that iflocal farmers start growinghigh-quality bamboos on theirlands, it would end their depen-dence on import of rawAgarbattis and sticks fromabroad. This would not onlysave precious Forex, but alsocreate employment opportuni-ties to the people engaged in it,

besides increasing the income ofthe farmers.

Stating that despite hugeemployment potential inBamboo sector, number of agar-batti projects have been declin-ing and leading to heavyemployment loss, Saxena saidthat since import duty on rawAgarbatti had been reducedfrom 30 per cent to 10 per centin 2011 and gradually broughtdown to 5 per cent in 2018 dueto Indo-ASEAN Free TradeAgreement (FTA), import ofraw Agarbatti into India hadbeen surged from mere �31crore per annum in 2009 tomammoth �546 crore in 2018.

The impact of the importhas also hampered the growth ofPrime Minister Employmentgeneration programme(PMEGP), a flagship pro-gramme of Ministry of MSMEbeing implemented by the KVIC- involved in Agarbatti-makingindustry. "It is evident from thealarming figures that in 2016-17,we had established 2,831 projectsof Agarbatti making, with thedisbursement Rs10.06 crore asmargin money and created22,648 direct employment in thisfield. Sadly, in 2017-18 and2018-19, we could establish only279 and 397 units respectively —which has created a heavy lossin employment in the Agarbatti-

making industry," the KVICChairman said.

Showing concern on thesudden rise in the import ofround bamboo sticks used inAgarbatti making industry,Saxena said that while the aver-age import of round bamboosticks from 2008 to 2011 waseven less than �1 crore mark,average import of round bam-boo sticks went up to �129 crorebetween 2014 and 2018 - appar-ently after the reduction inimport duty in 2011.

"But if Indian farmers can bemade aware about the potentialof high-quality bamboo i.e.Bambusa Tulda) — which hasinter-nodal length of 22-inch(minimum inter-nodal lengthapt for agarbatti-making must beat least 12 inch), they can addsubstantially to their income bygrowing this bamboo suited forthe incense stick making indus-try," he said, adding, "A researchhas indicated that bamboos cangenerate 516.33 million man-days of work every year."

Similarly, reduction inimport duties on raw agarbat-ti from 30 per cent to 10 percent in 2011 and its subsequentreduction to 5 per cent in2018, has resulted into hugeimport of raw agarbatti fromjust �34 crore in 2010 to �546crore in 2018.

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Afew days after releasing itscontroversial 'First in first

out' order to avoid liquor adul-teration regulating restaurantsserving liquor to destroy oldstock from the counters in theprescribed limit, the DelhiGovernment has made a fewamendments which will beimplemented from October 1,2019 instead of August 31.

In his updated order,released on Saturday, RanjitSingh, Deputy Commissionerin the Department of Excise,Entertainment and LuxuryTax, Delhi Governments said,"For a different pack size theMRP (Maximum Retail Price)shall be adjusted proportion-ately. The time limit at the barcounters for the same shall beeight days only."

This implies that, earlier,the time limit for different cat-egories of liquors like — beer,

wines (including champagne)was for three days, MFL, FL(whisky, gin, vodka, rum,scotch and tequila) for five andliquor falling in MRP (Rs1501-600) were for eight dayshowever as per the new mod-ified order of excise depart-ment , the three-day time limitwould apply only to cham-pagne and wines and the max-imum time limit of eight dayswould now apply only towhisky and vodka sold in pricerange of �1,501 to �4,500 for750 ml pack size, all otherdrinks such as gin, scotch andtequila have been removedfrom the list.

The order also clarifiedthat the order issued on August26 restricting the time for dis-posal of liquor will not applyto liquor stock lying at the des-ignated liquor stores.

Notably, as per the initialorder, in case the liquors werenot destroyed within the stip-

ulated time, the stock thatremained un-exhausted orunserved would be deemed tohave been consumed andneeded to be removed from thebar counters.

Whereas as per the latestorder, the liquor stock wouldneed to be destroyed withinseven days after making an

This liquor stock wouldneed to be destroyed withinseven days after the registra-tion of the same. "Non-com-pliance of the order wouldresult in cancellation and sus-pension of liquor licence ofhotel bars and restaurants," theExcise order quoted.

Citing the issue of refillingof bottles and adulteration inhotels, Delhi cabinet passed aproposal of excise departmenton August 26 ordered beerbars and restaurants servingliquor to destroy old stockfrom the counters on First Infirst Out basis.

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A32-year-old man has been arrestedfor allegedly killing his lover by slit-

ting her throat and later chopping herbody into pieces after she refused tomarry him, police said on Saturday.

The accused has been identified asMohammad Ayub, a resident of LNJPColony, Turkman Gate. He was havingan extra marital affair with the victim,Lata, they said.

The accused was arrested on Fridayafternoon from near Turkman Gate, saidDeputy Commissioner of Police (SpecialCell) Pramod Singh Kushwah.

During interrogation, it was foundthat Ayub, a clothes seller, got marriedin 2008 and has four sons, the police said.

Around four years ago, he came incontact with Lata and got into an extramarital affair with her. Later, he startedforcing Lata to quit her job and marryhim, which she refused, the DCP said.

Dejected by the repeated rejection ofhis proposal, the accused decided to kill

Lata, he said.On August 20, Ayub took Lata for an

evening walk near Bawana and slit herthroat at an isolated stretch before chop-ping her body into pieces, he said.

The victim's mutilated body wasfound near Bawana canal the next day,the police said. A scooter was recoveredfrom Ayub's possession, they said. PTI

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From Page 1The NRC, which vali-

dates the Indian citizens ofAssam, has been updated onthe basis of Assam Accord’sclause of detecting, deletingand deporting foreigners butvery few suspected illegalimmigrants have been left out,he said.

The AASU, which is a sig-natory to the Assam Accord,also expressed its unhappinesssaying NRC is an “incompletedocument”.

For its part, seniorCongress leader and formerAssam Chief Minister TarunGogoi accused the ruling BJPof failing to ensure a free andfair NRC even with the entireadministrative machinery atits disposal.

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detained 10 more people,including relatives and friendsof Hassan, in connection withthe case.

The Sikh community inNankana Sahib held protestsdemanding return of the girlback to her family.

Some reports also said thatthe Sikh community hasannounced a ban on the entryof Muslims in gurudwarasincluding GurudwaraJanamasthan, the birth place ofGuru Nanak Dev, until the girlis reunited with her familyand action is taken against theculprits.

However, Pakistan’sGurudwara ParbhandikCommittee Secretary GeneralAmeer Singh told PTI that thesituation in Nankana Sahibhas been under control and

clarified that the Sikh com-munity had not bannedMuslims entry to gurudwarasin Nankana Sahib.

Before the governor’s meet-ing with the girl, a Sikh dele-gation called on him to discussthe matter.

Under pressure, the PunjabGovernment constituted ahigh-level committee to nego-tiate with Sikhs angry over theabduction and forced conver-sion of the girl.

The committee told thefamily of the girl and the com-munity members that she hadembraced Islam of her free willafter marrying Hassan. It alsoprovided them with videoproof of Kaur’s marriage andher conversion to Islam besidescopies of the documents fromthe National Database andRegistration Authority, show-ing Kaur’s age as 19 years.

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the court that Tharoor’s relationwith Pakistani journalist MehrTarar also added to Pushkar’smental agony. The prosecutoralso apprised the court aboutPushkar’s friend and journalistNalini Singh’s statement, whichis part of the charge sheet, thatthe relation between the couplewas tense and bad. “She(Pushkar) told she helpedTharoor a lot in IPL matter. Shehad found some messagesbetween Tarar and Tharoor. Sherefused to go to their house andinstead went to Leela hotel. Therelation between the couple wasvery bad,” Singh had said in herstatement.

Senior advocate VikasPahwa, appearing for Tharoor,refuted the submissions, sayingthe arguments made by theprosecutor were contrary to thebare reading of the charge sheet

and the charges pressed by himwere “absurd and preposterous”.

The case is now listed for thenext hearing on October 17.The case was earlier sent to thesessions court for further pro-ceedings.

The maximum punishmentfor the offence listed in thecharge sheet is 10 years of impris-onment. However, if convictedfor 302 (murder), the maxi-mum punishment is deathpenalty while the minimum islife imprisonment.Pushkar’sdeath had created a sensation asit came shortly after a bitter spatbetween the couple on Twitterover his alleged affair with Tarar.Pushkar, 51, was found dead ina suite of luxury hotel Leela inDelhi’s Chanakyapuri on thenight of January 17, 2014. Thecouple was staying at the hotel asthe official bungalow of Tharoorwas being renovated at thattime.

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Bhopal: The village has a greatlineage of skilled potters and isknown for its traditionalmethod of making pots andearthen toys. At the KumharPara of IGRMS, the visitorwill find different varieties oftraditional pots like Makhong(oil lamp stand), Walom,Ngangkha, Yukhum,Wangkham, Kambi, KambiMakhong Panba, KharungAchouba and Eshaiphu etcwhich are gradually fadingaway from our social ethos.

L Prem Kumar Metei hail-ing from Andro KharamLeikai, a village located at a dis-tance of 25 km towards east ofImphal city is a young potterwho carries forward the lega-cy of Andro pottery. The pot-ter makes Eshing pun (mediumsize earthen water pot),Walong, Ngangkha, Koret,Ishaiphu which were widelyused in many traditional ritu-als of Meitei community and

for cooking purposes.Potters M Nobin Meitei

said that he makes pots of var-ied designs with the earthenpaste using traditional methodswithout any modern tools ortechnology. He uses a smallstick to pound the paste toform whatever shapes ordesigns he wants to prepare.

Prem Kumar Adhikari toldthat He does not apply anycolour paint to his earthenitems, but manages to give anatural look. The finished prod-ucts are then dried up in the sunfor about three to four days andheated them up in fire whenthey are completely dried up.Heating process should be donewhen the finished items arecompletely dried, otherwisethey crack if burn in the firewhile they are still wet. A Potterusually takes 15 days to give afinishing touch to his work ofpottery while going through allthese procedures. SR

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The Madhya Pradesh StateYouth and Junior

Weightlifting Championship thatwas held for the first time at theMartial Arts Hall at TT NagarStadium, concluded on Saturday.

The Chief Guest of theevent was Director Sports andYouth Welfare SL Thoussenawarded medals to medal-win-ning players. Players of Indoreand Sehore in girls categorywon the title of team champi-onship in the youth and juniorcategory of the competition.

Ashutosh Sharma ofIndore in the Youth Boys cat-egory and Piyush Singh ofBhopal in Junior Boys catego-ry and Tanisha Sharma ofSehore in Girls category wereawarded the Best Lifters Award.

Today the competition wasplayed in different categories ofboys and girls. Athletics

Academy player SameerdeepSingh earned a gold medal inthe junior boys (109 ) catego-ry by lifting 215 kg. Fardeen ofUjjain, 215 and EhteshamQureshi of Chhindwara lifted110 kg and finished second andthird respectively.

Weightlifting sports pro-moted in the state Addressingthe concluding program,Director Sports and YouthWelfare SL Thoussen said thatkeeping in view the betterprospects in the weightliftingsport in the state, every effortis being made by the MadhyaPradesh government to pro-mote this sport.

He said that under theguidance of Sports and YouthWelfare Minister Jitu Patwari,Madhya Pradesh is movingfast in the field of sports. Thesports director expressed hap-piness that the girl player is par-ticipating with enthusiasm in

the field of weightlifting. He informed that in addi-

tion to Indore, Sehore, Morena,Chhindwara district, weightlift-ing equipment will be provid-ed soon in Nagda andBilkisganj. The Sports Directorassured the officials of theweightlifting association that ifthe Madhya Pradesh hosts thenational weightlifting compe-tition, the Sports and YouthWelfare Department will coop-erate in organizing the event.He congratulated and congrat-ulated all the players.

On this occasion, JointDirector Vinod Pradhan andB.S. Yadav and other officialsincluding international playerV.S. Rao, Sharad NagarAbrashwar Paramjit Singh,judge Vimal Prajapat, BhopalGym's founder Razi Ali Baigand Weightlifting Associationofficials and a large number ofplayers were present.

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The Speaker ofUttarakhand Vidhan

Sabha, Prem ChandAgarwal, met the Speakerof Karnataka, VishveshwarHegde, at the office of lat-ter in Bengaluru onSaturday. In the meeting,Agarwal invited Hegde tovisit Uttarakhand. In thevisit, Agarwal sought infor-mation about differentcommittees of Assembly ofKarnataka. The twoSpeakers also spoke aboutthe parliamentary pro-ceedings and work cultureof their respectiveAssemblies.

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In what can prove to be per-ilous for the jobs of thousands

of primary teachers ofUttarakhand, the NationalCouncil of Teacher Education(NCTE) is showing reluctance togrant in retrospection recogni-tion to the Special Basic TeachersCertificate (BTC) course offeredby different District Institutes ofEducation and Training (DIET)of Uttarakhand. The attitude ofthe NCTE, the apex body ofteachers education in the coun-try, regarding the future of morethan 15,000 Bachelor ofEducation (B Ed), TeacherEligibility Test (TET) qualifiedspecial BTC teachers is surpris-ing in the light of passage of

‘National Council for TeacherEducation Bill (Amended)–2019in parliament in December last year.

The Bill provides in retro-spection grant of recognitionfor the special BTC coursedone by these teachers. Afterthe passage of the importantBill, the Union Government hasnotified the Act. It is learnt thatthe officers of NCTE are puttingobstacles in the way of grant ofrecognition to the DIETs ofUttarakhand. Last month, theNCTE has demanded copies ofsyllabus of the special BTCcourse of DIETs. The educationdepartment had promptly pro-vided the required documentbut NCTE still sitting over thefile of the grant of recognition.

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New Delhi: Navy chiefAdmiral Karambir Singh willdiscuss the entire gamut bilat-eral maritime ties with hiscounterparts in Australia andNew Zealand during his visit tothe two countries fromSeptember 2 to 6. The visit willconsolidate existing maritimecooperation initiatives as wellas explore new avenues withAustralia and New Zealand.

Building on a long history ofcooperation, India and Australiahave a matured defence rela-tionship underpinned by the2006 Memorandum on DefenceCooperation and the 2009 JointDeclaration on SecurityCooperation. Following theagreement in 2014 of a bilateralFramework for SecurityCooperation, the defence rela-tionship has grown to include arange of forums for strategic dia-logue, as well as regular interac-tions between the navies throughvisits of senior officers, staffTalks and training exchanges,officials said here on Saturday.

Indian Navy (IN) and theRoyal Australian Navy (RAN)have been regularly interactingto enhance maritime coopera-tion. The third edition of bilat-eral naval exercise AUSINDEXconducted in April 2019 inIndia, witnessed the largest everparticipation from both navies.

Indian Navy and RoyalAustralian Navy are partners inthe Indian Ocean NavalSymposium (IONS), which is amaritime cooperation con-struct conceptualised by IndianNavy in 2008. Both the naviesare also co-chairs for the IONSWorking Group onInformation Sharing and Inter-operability, for which the inau-gural meeting was hosted byAustralia in June 2019.

The visit to New Zealand isaimed to bolster defence coop-eration between the two coun-tries. India's defence relationswith New Zealand date back tothe days of World War I. Navalcooperation activities betweenboth the nations include portcalls by warships, conduct ofPassage Exercises and partici-pation in courses conducted atvarious defence institutes. NewZealand has also been a regularparticipant of MILAN activitiesconducted by Indian Navy.PNS

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Madhya Pradesh cadre IPSofficer of 1984 batch, Vivek

Kumar Johri, on Saturday, tookcharge as the Director General(DG) of the country's largestborder guarding force, BSF.

Johri took charge from hisbatch-mate Rajni Kant Mishraat the BSF headquarters inCGO Complex at Lodhi Road.The new DG, Johri, will retirein September next year and isthe 25th chief of the force thatwas raised in 1965.

Mishra, an Indian PoliceService officer from the UttarPradesh cadre, retired afteroccupying the top post of theBSF for less than a year. Mishratook over as the BSF DG inOctober last year.

The new chief was accord-ed a guard of honour before hetook the baton from Mishra, aBSF spokesperson said.

Johri has been serving asthe Special Secretary in the

external intelligence agencyResearch and Analysis Wing(RAW), under the CabinetSecretariat, till now.

He was appointed as anOfficer on Special Duty (OSD)in the Union home ministry onJuly 29 so that he can take overas the BSF DG.

An engineering graduatefrom Maulana Azad NationalInstitute of Technology(MANIT), Bhopal, Johri hasearlier served in the CBI apartfrom serving in his cadre state.

The BSF, with a presentstrength of over 2.6 lakh per-sonnel, is the country's largestborder guarding force and istasked with securing two ofIndia's most important borderswith Pakistan and Bangladesh,apart from rendering a varietyof duties in the internal secu-rity domain of the country.

The two other borderguarding force under the homeministry are ITBP (China) andSSB (Nepal and Bhutan).

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The EnforcementDirectorate (ED) on

Saturday questioned seniorKarnataka Congress leader DKShivakumar for the secondconsecutive day in a moneylaundering case.

The investigating officer ofthe case had grilled him forover 4 hours on Friday andrecorded his statement underthe Prevention of MoneyLaundering Act (PMLA), theofficials said.

Shivakumar is expected tobe put through documents andqueries through the day with alunch break in between.

While making his firstappearance on Friday, after hearrived by air from Bengaluru,the Kanakapura MLA had saidhe will cooperate with the EDprobe.

“It is my duty (to appear)...I have to respect the law. We arelawmakers and law abidingcitizens. They (ED) have sum-moned me... I don't know whythey have called me underPrevention of MoneyLaundering Act (PMLA). But,let me see, hear them. I amready to face them (ED),” hehad told reporters outside theED office.

Shivakumar had to appearbefore the agency after theKarnataka High Court onThursday dismissed his peti-tion challenging the summonsissued to him by the ED.

Earlier on Friday inBengaluru, Shivakumar indi-cated that his “instrumentalrole” in ensuring safe stay ofGujarat Congress MLAs in aKarnataka resort during theRajya Sabha polls in 2017,amid allegations that the BJP

was trying to poach them, wasthe reason for the I-T search-es and subsequent ED actionagainst him.

The central agency had inSeptember last year registered amoney laundering case againstShivakumar, Haumanthaiah, anemployee at Karnataka Bhavanin New Delhi, and others.

The ED case has been filedbased on a charge sheet (pros-ecution complaint) filed by theIncome-Tax Departmentagainst him last year before aspecial court in Bengaluru oncharges of alleged tax evasionand hawala transactions worthcrores.

The I-T department hasaccused Shivakumar and hisassociate S K Sharma of trans-porting huge amount of unac-counted cash on a regular basisthrough 'hawala' channels withhelp of three other accused.

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Congress general secretaryPriyanka Gandhi Vadra on

Saturday attacked the Modigovernment over the annualeconomic growth, saying theruling BJP “blows trumpet ofgood days but it has deflatedthe economy”. “It is clear fromthe GDP (Gross DomesticProduct) growth rate that theBJP government, which blowsthe trumpet of good days, has

punctured the economy,”Priyanka tweeted in Hindi.

“There is no GDP growthand the rupee is no longerstronger.... employment rate ison a decline. It should be madeclear now who is to blame fordestroying the economy,”Priyanka added.

India's economy expandedat its slowest pace in over sixyears, government data showedon Friday. Growth in the coun-try's gross domestic product

(GDP) stood at 5 per cent inthe first quarter of currentfinancial year (2019-20), com-pared with 5.8 per cent in theprevious quarter, and 8.0 percent in the quarter ended June30, 2018.

In a bid to tackle the slow-ing economic growth, the gov-ernment has within a span ofone week announced a slew ofsteps - from waving off highertaxes on the foreign investorsto recapitalising state-run

banks.The Congress on Friday

expressed doubts at the centre'sgross domestic product growthfigure of 5 per cent, suggestingthe real number could be lower.

“Given that several doubtshave been raised - even by theformer Chief EconomicAdvisor - on the government'sGDP calculations, is 5% accu-rate? Is the real rate of growtheven lower?” the party tweet-ed on Friday.

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At least 13 workers werekilled and 40 others

injured on Saturday, when amajor explosion rocked achemical factory at Waghadivillage in Shirpur taluka ofDhule district in northMaharashtra.

The toll may go up further,as at least 12 others werereported missing till late in theevening and the condition ofnine of the injured wasdescribed as “critical”.

Nearly workers were pre-sent inside RumitInternational’s RumitChemisynth factory at Wagadivillage located on the outskirtsof the taluka town of Shirpurat around 9.45 am.

So massive was the explo-sion that its sound could beheard people in at least 15 kilo-metre radius of the chemicalunit.

There were conflicting ver-sions as to the cause of theexplosion. While one versionsaid that the explosion tookplace due a short-circuit in theboiler unit, the version said thatthere were multiple cylinderblasts that led that contributedto the massive explosion in thechemical factory.

The local fire brigade andNDRF personnel, who thatreached the shortly afterwards,brought the situation under thecontrol later in the afternoon.

Chief minister DevendraFadnavis expressed grief overloss of lives in explosion atchemical factory near Shirpurin Dhule district. “GuardianMinister, Collector, SP on spot.

SDRF team reached too andnow fire is under control,” atweet put out by the chief min-ister’s office said.

The chief ministerannounced a compensation ofRs 5 lakh to the next of kin ofthose killed in the mishap.

Mourning the deaths in theblast, Union Home MinisterAmit Shah tweeted: “Anguishedto learn about the loss of livesdue to explosion at a chemicalfactory in Dhule, Maharashtra.Have spoken to CM@Dev_Fadnavis, state govt isdoing everything possible toassist the people in need. My

condolences with the bereavedfamilies. May injured recoversoon”.

Expressing deep anguishover the loss of lives in thechemical factory explosionnear Shirpur, MaharashtraGovernor CH Vidyasagar Raosaid: “I was extremely sad-dened to know that someworkers have lost their lives andmany others have been injuredin an explosion a chemicalfactory in Shirpur in Dhule dis-trict, earlier today.

“I send my heartfelt con-dolences to the next of thosewho lost their lives and pray for

the speedy recovery of theinjured,” the Governor said.

Describing the mishap as“unfortunate”, leader of theOpposition in the StateAssembly Vijay Wadettiwardemanded that a high-levelinquiry be ordered and thoseresponsible for the explosion bebooked for negligence leadingto the mishap. He alsodemanded the next of kin ofthose killed in the mishap begiven a compensation of Rs 10lakh each, while Rs 2 lakh eachbe given as compensation tothose seriously injured in themishap.

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The Central Bureau ofInvestigation (CBI) has reg-

istered an FIR to probe thealleged illegal phone-tappingscandal in Karnataka, on therequest of the State govern-ment.

A CBI team has been sentto collect all the relevant doc-uments from the State police.“The case has been registeredagainst unknown public ser-vants and other unidentifiedpersons under section 26 of theIndian Telegraph Act 1885 andsection 72 of the Information

Technology Act 2000 ,” said anofficial. As mentioned in theCBI FIR, the State govern-ment also expressed appre-hension that crucial and per-sonal information of seniorpolitical leaders would havebeen leaked due to the allegedunauthorised phone-tapping.

Yediyurappa had recom-mended a CBI probe amid signsthat the scandal was gainingpolitical steam ever since dis-qualified JD(S) MLA AHVishwanath, who served as JD(S)state president and turned rebel,accused the H D Kumaraswamygovernment of tapping phonesand spying on more than 300people, including him.

Congress leaders, includingSiddaramaiah, M MallikarjunaKharge and home minister inthe alliance government M BPatil, had sought a probe whileanother key party leader andformer minister DKShivakumar has rejected thesnooping charges and appearedto side with Kumaraswamy. “Allpolitical leaders, including CLPleader Siddaramaiah, hassought a high-level probe intothe scandal. So I have ordereda CBI probe into it,”Yediyurappa had said inBengaluru.

According to reports,phones of those close toSiddaramaiah, who was thethen coalition coordinationcommittee chief, too had come

under the watch.Several BJP leaders, includ-

ing former chief ministerJagadish Shettar, have directlyaccused Kumaraswamy ofbeing behind the episode tosave his government whichwas then rocked by dissidencewithin.

The snooping controversysurfaced as Bengaluru policecommissioner Bhaskar Raoearlier this month ordered aninquiry into the phone tappingincident against the backdropof a recently leaked telephoneconversation purportedlybetween him and someone in

Delhi lobbying on his behalfwith some politicians for thepost he is occupying now.

“It has come to the noticeof the government that thereare apprehensions that phonesof several ruling and oppositionpolitical leaders, their rela-tives, and other governmentofficials have been interceptedin an illegal unauthorisedunwarranted manner,” the let-ter entrusting the probe to theCBI said.

Because of this illegal activ-ity in the state it is apprehend-ed that crucial and personalinformation of many seniorpolitical leaders and govern-ment servants might have beenleaked which is likely toinfringe upon their privacy, thegovernment alleged.

The government asked theagency to inquire into all suchinterceptions of “telephones ofpolitical leaders belonging tothe ruling party and oppositionparties as well as their associ-ates, relatives and also of thegovernment servants fromAugust 01, 2018 till August 19,2019”.

It urged the agency toidentify and investigate thoseinvolved in the interception.

The letter was forwarded tothe CBI on August 30 by theCentre which was convertedinto an FIR against unidentifiedpublic servants and privatepersons on the same day.

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CPI-M General SecretarySitaram Yechury, who vis-

ited his party collegueMohammad Yusuf Tarigamiin Jammu and Kashmir onFriday, said the situation on theground is “completely con-trary” to what the Central gov-ernment has been claiming.

Yechury met Tarigami onThursday amid tight security athis residence in Srinagar wherehe is under house arrest.

Addressing reporters afterreturning, Yechury said: “I vis-ited Tarigami and enquiredabout his health. I will file anaffidavit in the court regardinghis health condition and alsoreport on what I saw there.”

He said during the drivefrom the airport to Tarigami'shouse, “I saw that the situationon the ground was completelycontrary to what the BJP-ledgovernment was saying”.

Yechury was allowed to goto Kashmir by the SupremeCourt which heard his petitionchallenging Tarigami's deten-tion ahead of the abrogation ofArticle 370 by the governmenton August 5.

He is the first oppositionleader allowed to visit Kashmirafter the government revoked

Article 370 on August 5.On Thursday, Yechury

drove from the Srinagar airportin a security convoy andreached Tarigami's GupkarRoad residence at noon. Themedia was barred from goingclose to Tarigami's residenceand the stretch of road leadingto it was kept out of bounds.

Yechury met Tarigami onhis third visit to Kashmir sincethe abrogation of Article 370.On the previous two times, hehad been sent back from theSrinagar airport.

On August 24, Yechury,along with a dozen other oppo-sition party leaders includingformer Congress PresidentRahul Gandhi were sent backto Delhi from the airport.

On August 9, he, alongwith CPI General Secretary D.Raja, were also detained at theSrinagar airport and sent backto Delhi.

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New Delhi: Delhi student Manogya SinghSuyansh has been selected by the IndianSpace Research Organisation (ISRO) towatch the landing of Chandrayaan-2 onthe surface of moon with Prime MinisterNarendra Modi.

A student of class 9, Suyansh aspiresto be an astronaut.

Speaking to IANS, Suyansh who couldnot hide his glee, said: “I am excited to watchChandrayaan-2 landing on the moon's sur-face as well as to meet the Prime Minister.”

“Since childhood, I had the curiosityto know about space and related devel-opments. I want to get admission to an IITand be an astronaut in the future,” saidSuyansh, a student of Kendriya Vidyalaya,who has taken up a four-year preparationcourse for engineering entrance exams.

Suyansh is among the 60 students whohave been selected from across the coun-try to watch India's ambitious moon mis-sion Chandrayaan-2 landing on the sur-face of moon with Modi at ISRO head-

quarters in Bengaluru. “ISRO has great pleasure in informing

that you have been selected to watch the his-torical Chandrayaan-2 moon landing in theearly hours of September 7, 2019 at theISRO Tracking Centre (ISTRAC),Bengaluru in the presence of HonourablePrime Minister of India Shri NarendraModi Ji. You are requested to reachBengaluru by 1400 hrs on Friday September6, 2019 along with one parent/guardian,”said the letter sent by ISRO to Suyansh.

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New Delhi: India's economicgrowth dropping to an over six-year low of 5 per cent in April-June 2019 is indicating a "sig-nificant deceleration" in bothinvestment and consumerdemand, industry body Ficcisaid on Saturday.

Expressing "deep" concernsover sluggishness in the growthmomentum, Ficci PresidentSandip Somany said "the latestGDP growth numbers arebelow expectations and pointtowards a significant decelera-tion in both consumption andinvestment demand."

He, however, hoped that aseries of measures being takenby the government and thecentral bank to reverse thisslowing trajectory would helpimprove economic situationin the subsequent quarters,according to a Ficci statement.

"The mega bank consoli-dation plan, liberalisation ofFDI guidelines and the stimu-lus package are comprehensiveand address the key pain areasof the economy," he added.

With a mix of both broad-

er measures and sector specif-ic interventions, the Indianeconomy and the industrywould come out of this weakpatch soon, he said.

The PHD Chamber ofCommerce and Industry saidthe recent economic reformsundertaken by the governmentand the RBI will create a strongand resilient economic envi-ronment in the country andrejuvenate GDP growth rate inthe coming quarters.

PHDCCI President RajeevTalwar said: "The big ticket eco-nomic reforms including recap-italisation of public sectorbanks, rollback of enhancedsurcharge on foreign portfolioinvestors, payment of all pend-ing GST refunds toMSMEs...Are inspiring and

would go a long way to fosterstrong, stable and inclusivegrowth environment in thecountry."

Going ahead, he said, fur-ther reforms in ease of doingbusiness at the ground levelespecially for the small andmedium sized businesses alongwith desired reforms in labourlaws such as fixed termemployment for flexibility inhiring by industry across thestates would be crucial tostrengthen the manufacturingsector.

India's economic growthhas slumped for the fifthstraight quarter to an over six-year low of 5 per cent in thethree months ended June asconsumer demand and pri-vate investment slowed amiddeteriorating global environ-ment.

Having lost the tag of theworld's fastest-growing econo-my earlier this year, India'sGDP growth was behindChina's 6.2 per cent in April-June, its weakest pace in at least27 years. PTI

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Bank (PNB) on Saturday said itsboard of directors will meet onSeptember 5 to consider thelender's merger with OrientalBank of Commerce andUnited Bank of India.

In a BSE filing, PunjabNational Bank said "themeeting of board of directorsof the bank is scheduled to beheld on 5th September, 2019"for considering some keyagenda.

The board will meet to"consider the amalgamationof the Oriental Bank ofCommerce and United Bankof India into Punjab NationalBank", the statement said.

Besides, it will also con-sider capital infusion of up to�16,500 crore by the govern-ment by way of preferentialissue of equity share and fix-ing date of extra ordinarygeneral meeting (EGM) forobtaining shareholders'approval in this regard at a pricedetermined in terms of SEBI(ICDR) Regulations, the bank'sfiling said. Meanwhile,Corporation Bank, which isgoing to be merged with UnionBank of India along with

A n d h r aBank, too said a board meetingwill be held to consider themerger. PTI

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New Delhi: The Government'sannouncement to allow single-brand retailers to sell goodsonline first before openingbrick-and-mortar stores is awin-win for global players totap the domestic market, con-sultancy firm Deloitte said onSaturday.

The Government recentlyrelaxed norms for single-brandretailers having foreign invest-ment to attract global players.It has now permitted them tosell goods through online storesbefore opening brick-and-mor-tar stores within two years.

It has also relaxed certainprovisions for complying withthe mandatory 30 per cent localsourcing requirements.

"A retail company can now

start selling to the Indian con-sumers via online platformand open up a physical storelater (within a period of twoyears). This is going to be aclear win-win for global retail-ers to tap the Indian market sit-ting overseas," Anil Talreja,Partner at Deloitte India, said.

He said the move wouldalso give a boost to the pillarsof the Indian retail industry inthe form of transportation,payments, customer care andwarehousing.

"The Indian customerstands to gain as he gets thegoods before the opening of thestore in India. The retailerstands to gain as he can tap theIndian market earlier thannever before," he added. PTI

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Chennai: Members of the AllIndia Bank Employees'Association on Saturdaystaged a protest here againstthe Centre's decision to merge10 public sector banks intofour entities.

Employees of all publicand private sector banks woreblack badges to work as amark of protest to theGovernment's decision.

The Association's GeneralSecretary, C H Venkatachalamsaid the government's movewas "ill timed" and needs areview.

A rally opposing it wasalso planned by theAssociation, Venkatachalamtold PTI.

He alleged the merger ofpublic sector banks wouldmean closure of six banks.

The BJP government at theCentre had on Friday unveileda mega plan to merge 10 pub-lic sector banks into four, tocreate fewer and stronger glob-al-sized bankers as it looks torevive economic growth.

Finance Minister NirmalaSitharaman Friday said 10public sector banks — PunjabNational Bank, Canara bank,Union Bank of India, IndianBank, United Bank of India,Allahabad Bank, SyndicateBank, Corporation Bank,Oriental Bank of Commerceand Andhra Bank would bemerged. PTI

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Chaos engulfed Hong Kong’sfinancial heart Saturday

night as police fired tear gasand water cannon at protesterswho set large fires and threwpetrol bombs, defying a ban onrallying — and mountingthreats from China — to taketo the streets for a 13th straightweekend.

Police had banned thedemonstration on securitygrounds and on Friday arrest-ed several key activists and leg-islators in a dragnet on pro-democracy figures.

But on Saturday afternoon,tens of thousands of protesters— many in their signatureblack T-shirts and under acolourful canopy of umbrellas— defied the order to march onHong Kong island chanting“reclaim Hong Kong, revolu-tion of our times”.

As evening fell, violencericocheted through the city’scommercial centre, with aminority of hardcore protestersunleashing a barrage of petrolbombs and rocks at riot police.

Thick, black smoke swirledfrom a large fire started bymasked demonstrators at a

barricade on a major thor-oughfare, moments from HongKong police headquarters. Thefire was extinguished afterburning for around half anhour.

Earlier, police fired a watercannon and rounds of tear gasto disperse protesters massed infront of the city’s parliament,known as the LegislativeCouncil (LegCo), which wasstormed in July during theearly days of the protest move-

ment.The crowd briefly broke

through the barrier outsidethe building, but were repelledby tear gas and jets of blue-coloured liquid fired from thewater cannon.

Local media reported thatthe blue spray aimed to makeit easier to identify suspects.

“Peaceful protest doesn’twork,” 22-year-old demonstra-tor Stone told AFP, giving onename.

“I think they (the hardcoreprotesters) have to vent theiranger to achieve something.” Asprotesters streamed away, graf-fiti on a pillar inside a nearbymetro station read: “We shallnever surrender.” “Radical pro-testers” threw “corrosives andpetrol bombs” at officers, HongKong police said in a statement,posing a “serious threat” toeveryone at the scene.

Earlier on Saturday, pro-testers marched by the official

residence of Hong Kong’sembattled Beijing-backedleader Carrie Lam, who is thefocal point of anger after try-ing to pass a bill which wouldhave allowed extradition toChina.

Opposition to the extradi-tion bill — now suspended butnot permanently withdrawn— has brought much of HongKong to the streets, with mil-lions marching peacefully butalso groups of radical protest-ers clashing with police.

The protests have expand-ed into a wider pro-democra-cy push and a rejection ofattempts by Beijing to curtailthe freedoms of the semi-autonomous territory.

Protesters were in defiantmood throughout Saturday,which marked the fifthanniversary of Beijing’s rejec-tion of a call for universal suf-frage for Hong Kong thatsparked the 79-day “UmbrellaMovement” in 2014.

Many demonstrators aredetermined not to let the newmovement fizzle out like theUmbrella protests did.

“It’s ‘now or never’ forHong Kong,” said a 33-year-oldaccountant who gave her sur-

name as Wong.“I’m a mother-of-two. They

didn’t come today but theirgrandmother did. We’redefending the right of assem-bly for the next generation inHong Kong.”

At least five high-profileactivists and three lawmakerswere arrested on Friday in asweep aimed at defangingSaturday’s rally.

Rights groups say the tac-tics are cribbed directly fromBeijing’s protest playbook.

Two of the UmbrellaMovement’s leaders, JoshuaWong and Agnes Chow wereamong those arrested, chargedand bailed for “inciting othersto take part in unauthorisedassembly”.

Police confirmed thearrests of the lawmakers butdenied the sweep was timedspecifically to weaken theweekend’s protests.

More than 900 people havebeen arrested since June in con-nection to protests.

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As a fresh set of US tariffs onChinese goods kicks in on

September 1, President DonaldTrump on Friday said 13 percent of companies are going toleave China “in the fairly nearfuture”.

After coming to power,Trump has imposed hefty tar-iffs on import of Chinese prod-ucts, resulting in a trade warbetween the two biggesteconomies of the world.

“It’s a bad situation they(Chinese) have put themselvesin. And I just saw — it cameover the wires — that 13 percent of certain companies aregoing to be leaving China in thenot-too-distant future. That’s abig thing,” Trump toldreporters at the White House.

“Thirteen per cent of thecompanies will be leavingChina in the fairly near future.And I’m not surprised to hearthat. I think it’s going to bemuch higher. Because theycannot compete with the tariffs.They can’t compete,” he said inresponse to a question.

A fresh set of tariffs are setto be imposed on Chineseproducts on September 1.“They’re on. We’ve taken in bil-lions and billions of dollarsfrom those tariffs. As it’s start-ing to come out, if you look atthe Chinese government what

they’ve done with tariffs is veryinteresting. They’ve devaluedtheir currency so much, whichhurts them ultimately. It coststhem much more to buy thingsoutside of China,” he said.

He said, despite theChinese tariffs, the US is notpaying more and instead, it hastaken in tens of billions of dol-lars.

“I gave farmers USD 16 bil-lion, which makes them total-ly whole on China. That’s whatChina spends in a good year. Igave the farmers -- becausethey were targeted. The farm-ers were targeted by China,” hesaid.

Trump asserted that thefarmers are happy and theywant him to continue the fight.

“They want me to win thefight. And we’re going to winthe fight,” he said, adding thatthe administration is continu-ing to have conversations withChina.

“Meetings are scheduled.Calls are being made. I guessthe meeting in September con-tinues to be on. It hasn’t beencancelled. And we’ll see whathappens,” the president said.

At the same time, Chinahas lost a lot of companies, hesaid.

“A lot of companies haveleft China and a lot more areleaving. And they are not doingwell. They are having the worstyear they’ve had, I understand,in 61 years. That’s a lot of years,”Trump said.

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Asenior North Korean diplo-mat on Saturday berated

US Secretary of State MikePompeo over his commentsdescribing North Koreanbehaviour as “rogue” and saidPyongyang’s hopes for talkswith Washington are fading.

In a statement carried bystate media, North KoreanFirst Vice Foreign MinisterChoe Son Hui said Pompeo’s“thoughtless” commentsincreased North Korean peo-

ple’s animosity towardAmericans and made it hard-er for working-level nuclearnegotiations between the coun-tries to resume.

“Our expectations of dia-

logue with the U.S. Are grad-ually disappearing and we arebeing pushed to reexamine allthe measures we have taken sofar,” Choe said.

“We are very curious aboutthe background of theAmerican top diplomat’sthoughtless remarks and wewill watch what calculations he has.

The US had better not putany longer our patience to thetest with such remarks irritat-ing us if it doesn’t want to havebitter regrets afterward.”

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President Jair Bolsonaro saidFriday that Europe has

“nothing to teach” Brazil aboutpreserving the environment, asthe country aligns itself withthe United States over fires rag-ing in the Amazon rainforest.

The far-right leader’s com-ments come as the latest officialdata show thousands of newfires were ignited across Brazilon Thursday — the first day ofa ban on burning — with mostof them in the Amazon basin.

Offers of international helpto combat the worst fires in the

Amazon in years have beenmade, but the issue has pro-voked accusations in Brazilthat foreign countries — par-ticularly in Europe — were try-ing to meddle in its affairs.

Brazil has found an ally inthe United States wherePresident Donald

Trump praised Bolsonaro’shandling of the crisis andoffered US assistance.

After meeting Trump at theWhite House on Friday,Brazilian Foreign MinisterErnesto Araujo said the twocountries had similar viewson the fires.

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The Taliban launched a newlarge-scale attack on one of

Afghanistan’s main cities,Kunduz, killing at least threecivilians, government officialssaid Saturday, even as the insur-gent group continued negotia-tions with the United States onending America’s longest war.

The militants, who havedemanded that all foreignforces leave Afghanistan, nowcontrol or hold sway overroughly half of the country andare at their strongest sincetheir 2001 defeat by a US-ledinvasion.

Such attacks are seen asstrengthening their negotiatingposition.

Afghan officials confirmedcasualties among securityforces but did not say howmany, and said at least 26Taliban members were killed inan airstrike.

They said security forceswere repelling the attack inKunduz, a strategic crossroadswith easy access to much ofnorthern Afghanistan as well asthe capital, Kabul, about 200miles (335 kilometers) away.

Presidential spokesmanSediq Seddiqi told reporters theassault was “completely againstthe peace talks.”

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Pakistan Foreign MinisterShah Mahmood Qureshi said

that war is not an option to dealwith the Kashmir issue amidstfresh Indo-Pak tensions overNew Delhi revoking Jammu &Kashmir’s special status.

His remarks came at atime when Pakistan PrimeMinister Imran Khan has beenrepeatedly threatening the pos-sibility of a nuclear war withIndia over Kashmir after hisefforts to internationalise thematter failed to gain any trac-tion.

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ASudanese court onSaturday charged ousted

president Omar al-Bashir, ontrial for corruption, with illegalacquisition and use of foreignfunds, offences which could puthim behind bars for a decade.

Judge Al-SadiqAbdelrahman said at the thirdsession of Bashir’s trial that for-eign funds of multiple curren-cies were found at his home.

Authorities had “seized 6.9million euros, $351,770 and 5.7million Sudanese pounds athome which he acquired andused illegally,” the judge said.

Bashir, wearing a tradition-al white gown and headdress andseated in a metal cage, admittedto receiving the equivalent of $25million from Saudi royals.

“My office manager...Received a call from the officeof Saudi Crown PrinceMohamed bin Salman sayinghe has a ‘message’ that will besent on a private jet,” Bashirsaid during the trial.

“We were told that thecrown prince did not want hisname to appear (linked to thetransaction)... And if the fundswere deposited with Sudan’sbank or the finance ministry,the source would have to beidentified,” he said.

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Crowds are gathering inLondon and other major

British cities to protest PrimeMinister Boris Johnson’s sus-pension of Parliament for partof the period before the Brexit deadline in twomonths.

Several thousand protestersgathered near Johnson’s resi-dence at 10 Downing Street incentral London, while othersprotested in in Belfast, York andothers cities to show determi-nation to block a “no deal”Brexit.

The crowds were galva-nized by Johnson’s decision toshutter Parliament for severalweeks when a debate aboutBrexit plans had been expected.

In London, they chanted:“Boris Johnson, shame on you.”Some carried signs saying:“Stop the Coup” in reference towhat they say is a move thatthreatens democracy.

The protests have beenorganized by the anti-Brexitgroup Another Europe IsPossible and by Momentum,which is allied with the oppo-sition Labour Party. The groupis urging its membership to“occupy bridges and blockaderoads.”

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Twitter said on Friday theaccount of chief executive

Jack Dorsey had been “com-promised” after a series oferratic and offensive messageswere posted.

The tweets containingracial slurs and suggestionsabout a bomb showed uparound 2000 GMT on the@jack account of the founder of the short mes-saging service before beingdeleted.

Some of the tweets con-tained the hashtag#ChucklingSquad which wasbelieved to indicate the identi-ty of the hacker group.

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cle as an “extremely dangerous”Category 4 storm, bearingdown on the northwesternBahamas early Saturday enroute to the US Southeastcoast.

Millions of people inFlorida, along with the state’sWalt Disney World andPresident Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, are in the poten-tial crosshairs of the hurricane.

Forecasters say Dorian,

which had top sustained windsof 145 mph (230 kph) Saturdaymorning, will hover alongFlorida’s east coast Tuesdayand Wednesday.

But the National HurricaneCenter in Miami cautionedthat its meteorologists remainuncertain whether Dorianwould make a devastatingdirect strike on the state’s eastcoast or inflict a glancing blow.

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Top-ranked defendingchampion NovakDjokovic rolled into the

US Open fourth round onFriday while Serena Williamscruised into the last 16 and KeiNishikori was eliminated.

Djokovic, champion infour of the past five Slams and16 overall, was less bothered byleft shoulder pain that naggedhim in the second round indefeating 111th-rankedAmerican Denis Kudla 6-3, 6-4, 6-2.

“That I managed to playalmost pain-free, that’s a bigimprovement from last matchobviously,” Djokovic said. “Ididn’t know how my bodywould react. That was nice.”

Djokovic, who neededtreatment throughout his sec-ond-round triumph, skippedpractice on Thursday in favorof shoulder treatment.

The 32-year-old Serbian, athree-time US Open winner,booked a Sunday showdownwith three-time Slam winnerStan Wawrinka, the Swiss 23rdseed who eliminated Italianlucky loser Paolo Lorenzi 6-4,7-6 (11/9), 7-6 (7/4).

“There’s something withhim that when I get into mybest game, I know that it’s goingto have some big rallies and I’mgoing to play good tennis,”Wawrinka said.

Djokovic, no worse than aUS Open semi-finalist since athird-round exit in 2006, leadsWawrinka 19-5 in their all-timerivalry, but they haven’t metsince Wawrinka beat Djokovicin the 2016 US Open final.

“We’ve had some great bat-tles over the years, but espe-cially here,” Djokovic said. “Letthe better player win.”

DE MINAUR CAUSES UPSETWilliams continued her

quest for a 24th career GrandSlam title to equal MargaretCourt’s all-time record bycrushing 44th-ranked CzechKarolina Muchova 6-3, 6-2 in74 minutes.

“I had a lot of intensitytoday, which is really good for

me,” said Williams, whose nextopponent is Croatian 22ndseed Petra Martic.

The 37-year-old American,a six-time US Open champion,last won a Slam at the 2017Australian Open and hasn’twon the US Open since 2014.

Japanese seventh seedNishikori, the 2014 US Openrunner-up, lost to Australia’sAlex de Minaur 6-2, 6-4, 2-6,6-3. The 20-year-old Aussie, onhis deepest Grand Slam run,took his first victory over a top-10 foe in 12 tries.

“This is where I feel like mygame’s at. I want to be pushingsecond weeks of Grand Slamsand putting myself out there,”De Minaur said. “Hopefully Ican just keep it rolling.”

Russian fifth seed DaniilMedvedev made an obscene

gesture during his 7-6 (7/1), 4-6, 7-6 (9/7), 6-4 victory overSpain’s Feliciano Lopez.

The ATP Cincinnati win-ner was booed by the crowdrepeatedly after holding anupraised middle finger asidehis head for stadium camerasbut away from chair umpireDamien Dumusois afterreceiving a code violation.

Reigning French Openchampion Ashleigh Barty, theAussie second seed, and Czechthird seed Karolina Pliskova,chasing her first Slam title, also

advanced.Pliskova, the 2016

US Open runner-up,outlasted Tunisia’s OnsJabeur 6-1, 4-6, 6-4while Barty dispatchedGreek 30th seed Maria

Sakkari 7-5, 6-3.Pliskova next plays British

16th seed Johanna Konta whileBarty, a possible Williamsquarter-final foe, meetsChinese 18th seed WangQiang.

“It’s going to be an incred-ibly physical match,” Bartysaid.

Barty and Pliskova are bat-tling top-ranked defendingchampion Naomi Osaka to beworld number one at the endof the Flushing Meadows fort-night.

One more Barty winwould ensure Japan’s Osaka isdethroned but Pliskova couldstill take the top spot by reach-ing the final.

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He didn’t featured in the firstfour games for Haryana

Steelers this season due to injurybut ever since he made hisreturn into the mat after gettingfully recovered, Vikash Kandolais on a roll and his superb raid-ing skills has turned out to be ablessing for the side as they havewon six of the last seven gamesthey played after that.

It is because of his charis-matic style of offensive playthat Haryana’s shattered defensehas also fallen into place and iscontributing well to the teamsuccess but despite that too thestar raider is not yet satisfied andfeels there is a lot more he canimprove in his game to be moreeffective in the coming match-es.

Talking about his perfor-mance in the season so farKandola said, “My preparationsare very good as I am fully fitand ready to roar in the mat. ButI am still looking to improve fur-ther in the upcoming matches tobe more effective.”

On being asked about whatall areas he needs to improve, thestar player said that he hascommitted a lot of errors in theraids which he is well aware ofand his focus now is to makesure that it doesn’t repeat further.

“I want to rectify the mis-take that I have committed in theprevious games and that is myfocus point. Also, I need to workmore on collecting bonus pointsbecause that is one area whereI feel, I’m not doing good. I needto be more consistent.”

Discussing the team’s per-formance, he said that after a dis-appointing start the team hasfinally found the mojo back andis now working towards main-taining consistency.

“The team is performingwell now especially after wob-bles in the first few match-es. The return of PrashantRai along with me hashelped the side andthe result of which isthat now we arewinning matches.We are collectingmore regular points inthe raids and that is helpingbecause until the time raiders

don’t score, defenders can’t alonewin the matches for you.”

Talking about playing underRakesh Kumar, who made hiscoaching debut this season,Vikash was full of praise for theformer Indian skipper and saysthat his experience of the gamehas been a blessing for all theplayers in the dugout.

“It is a wonderful experienceworking with Rakesh sir, he issuch an experienced player andis a very cool minded person.Apart from being a brilliantteacher he never let us take anysort of pressure in the game.”

“Even if we get tackled in anattempt to go for a difficult point,he is always there to motivatesaying ‘Koi Nahi, Agli baarayega’ (It’s okay, it will come nexttime).”

Like every other player par-ticipating in the league,Kandola’s dream also is to winthe Pro Kabaddi League trophybut he is well aware that thecompetition is still wide openand to reach the goal, the sidecan’t afford to lose the grip at anypoint. “Our initial plan is to topthe table and then play the finalto win the trophy.

And we are preparingaccording to it but since thecompetition is wide open so itis too early to predict anything.But we will continue to keepraising our performance and tryto win as many games as possi-

ble.”

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Young Ishan Kishan blasted a blistering24-ball 55 as India ‘A’ beat South Africa

‘A’ by two wickets in the rain-hit secondunofficial ODI to take a 2-0 lead in the five-match series here on Saturday.

Chasing 163 to win in a rain-curtailedmatch, the hosts scampered home with anover to spare, thanks to Kishan’s heroics andKrunal Pandya’s crucial 15-ball 23.

Kishan hit five boundaries and four sixesin his innings, while Pandya’s knock com-prised one six and a four.

Sent into bat, South Africa ‘A’ posted 162for 5 in 21 overs with George Linde top-scor-ing with a power-packed 52 not out whichwas studded with one four and five sixes.

Kishan, who plays for Jharkhand indomestic cricket, walked in with India ‘A’ ina spot of bother at 57 for 3.

He went on the attack from the word goand hammered the spinners nonchalantlyand when the pacy Junior Dale bowled short,he swivelled around and smacked him fora big six. His stunning assault made histeam’s task of chasing down what appearedto be a stiff target easy.

Earlier, Anmolpreet Singh (30, 19 balls,2X4, 2X6) set the tone for the chase alongwith Shubman Gill (21) after the quick dis-missal of opener Ruturaj Gaikwad (1).

Batting first, Linde’s pyrotechnics helpedSouth Africa ‘A’ reach 162 for 5 in 20 oversafter India A sent both the openers back bythe end of the fourth over.

Linde reached his half-century in 24balls to power the visiting team's late surge.

Skipper Temba Bavuma (40, 33 balls, 6fours) and Heinrich Klaasen (31, 27 balls,3 sixes) also provided the impetus to the SA‘A’ innings.

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Mitchell Starc pressed hiscase for a Ashes berth

with a four-wicket haul asAustralia completed theirpreparations for next week’sfourth Test at Old Traffordwith a comfortable innings and54-run win over Derbyshire onSaturday.

Starc, yet to feature in theAshes, ended the match 15minutes before lunch on thethird day in Derby with twowickets in two balls. He hadHamidullah Qadri caught inthe slips by Matthew Wadebefore clean bowling DustinMelton.

With Derbyshire pace-man Tony Palladino unable tobat because of an ankle injury,the match ended withDerbyshire 112 all out.

Left-arm fast bowler Starcfinished with figures of 4-39 in10.4 overs.

Derbyshire resumedSaturday on 53-3, 113 runsbehind Australia’s first innings338.

After Steve Smith hadmade 23 on Friday in his firstcompetitive innings sincereturn, attention turned toStarc. He could be recalled forthe fourth Test, with the pitchat Old Trafford expected to be

the quickest of the series.But it was fellow paceman

Michael Neser, uncapped atTest level, who struck first onSaturday when he bowled AlexHughes for 11 to leaveDerbyshire 58-4.

After a brief rain break,fast bowler Peter Siddle —looking to regain his Test place— had Harvey Hosein (eight)

caught behind by diving wick-etkeeper Alex Carey.

Mitchell Marsh, like Starcpushing for his first Test of theseries, then took two wickets inthree balls to reduceDerbyshire to 99-7.

He had left-hander Leusdu Plooy, who made 86 inDerbyshire’s first innings, lbwfor 37 and then bowled AlfieGleadall for a second-ballduck.

In order to accommodateSmith and MarnusLabuschagne in Manchester,Australia may leave out Harrisand promote Usman Khawajato open with Warner.

Both Harris (64) andstand-in skipper Khawaja (72)made fifties in Australia’sinnings before they wereinvolved in a mix-up that sawHarris run out.

Khawaja averages 96.8 inthe seven Test innings in whichhe has opened.

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Depleted Paris Saint-Germain gavedebuts to two teenagers but still won 2-

0 at Metz on Friday in a another Ligue 1game interrupted by fan banners.

Angel Di Maria and Eric MaximChoupo-Moting scored the goals the visi-tors needed to win an undistinguished gameand move to the top of the table.

“We won, and that was important,” saidDi Maria.

Neymar, who reportedly wants to returnto Spain, was again left out of the squad asnegotiations over his potential transferdrag on.

Another player who has become thecentre of speculation, goalkeeper AlphonseAreola, dropped to the bench.

Areola is reportedly set to go to RealMadrid in a swap for veteran Costa RicanKeylor Navas.

PSG also started without the injured pairof Kylian Mbappe and Edinson Cavani.

“It wasn’t easy because this week therewere a lot of possibilities to be distracted,”said PSG manager Thomas Tuchel.

Marcin Bulka started instead of Areola,making his senior professional debut. The19-year-old Pole arrived in the summer afterspending three seasons in the Chelseayouth system.

PSG also gave a debut to midfielder AdilAouchiche. At 17 years and six weeks, hewas their youngest ever Ligue 1 starter.

Di Maria smashed home an 11th-minute penalty to give PSG the lead.

After play resumed, Idrissa Gueye hitthe Metz bar with a close-range header. Thehome team’s marking had not improvedwhen Choupo-Moting barely had to jumpto head the second goal in the 43rd minute.

Metz gave PSG uncomfortable momentsin both halves, but could not force Bulka tomake a difficult save.

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Timo Werner scored ahat-trick as RB Leipzig

won 3-1 at BorussiaMoenchengladbach onFriday to move top of thefledgling Bundesliga table.

The German inter-national striker was at hisclinical best as JulianNagelsmann's fine startto life as Leipzig coachcontinued with a thirdstraight win to kick offthe league season.

Leipzig, who weredrawn in ChampionsLeague Group G along-side Zenit Saint-Petersburg, Benfica andLyon on Thursday, hadbeaten Union Berlin andEintracht Frankfurt intheir first two games.

They continued theirstrong form as Wernerlatched onto EmilForsberg's through ball to

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Zinedine Zidane insists his rela-tionship with Real Madrid presi-

dent Florentino Perez is strong and heis happy with his squad ahead of thetransfer window closing on Monday.

Madrid have spent around 300 mil-lion euros this summer but Zidane hasnot selected a single new signing in hisfirst starting line-ups for the first twogames of the season.

Zidane hoped the club would signPaul Pogba, but Manchester Unitedwould not sell, and sell Gareth Bale, butthe Welshman remains determined tosee out his contract, which expires in2022.

“The decisions that are up to meare on the pitch,” said Zidane in a pressconference on Saturday, ahead oftoday’s league game away at Villarreal.

“My relationship with FlorentinoPerez has always been very good, hewill always be the president thatbrought me here and I will never for-get that.

“Sometimes it is better to clarifythings and I say the relationship isgood, I don’t care what anyone says.The important thing is my day-to-day

work and that I have the chance tocoach this great team.”

Madrid have brought in EdenHazard from Chelsea but the Belgianhas a thigh injury and will not returnuntil after the international break.Hazard began training alone on Friday.

Real have also signed Eder Militao,Luka Jovic, Rodrygo and FerlandMendy, with Zidane refusing to ruleout further additions before the win-dow shuts.

Neymar’s future at Paris Saint-Germain remains uncertain whileTottenham’s Christian Eriksen andAjax’s Donny van de Beek are alsobelieved to be targets.

“Until Monday at midnight, every-thing can happen, one surprise, twosurprises, but the match is tomorrow,”Zidane said.

“I am proud of the players I have,for me they are the best players. Evenwhen you say you want to make somechanges, the important thing is whenthe season starts, you are happy and Iam happy.

“I cannot complain about thesquad that I have. If I complain, I canchange jobs.”

Keylor Navas has fallen behindThibaut Courtois in the race to beMadrid's first-choice goalkeeper and isexpected to join PSG.

“It could happen,” Zidane said.“Keylor will be with us for the gameagainst Villarreal and until the windowcloses, anything can happen.”

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Rohan Bopanna advanced tothe men’s doubles secondround with DenisShapovalov but LeanderPaes made a first-round exitwith Guillermo Duran here.

Bopanna and hisCanadian partner knockedout formidable fourth-seed-ed French pair of Pierre-Hugues Herbert and NicolasMahut 6-3, 6-1 in just 55minutes on Friday night.

Bopanna andShapovalov lost their servetwice but broke their rivalssix times out of sevenchances.

Paes and Argentina’sGuillermo Duran lost 5-7, 2-6 to Serbia’s MiomirKecmanovic and Norway’sCasper Ruud.

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He made it fivegoals in just threeleague appearances inthe final minute ofadded time after BreelEmbolo had brieflygiven the home fanssome hope, slottingcalmly into the bottomcorner after a poorback-header byMatthias Ginter.

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The day of 12 July 1975started like any other dayfor Rajnath Singh andafter his morning exerciseand bath, as he was about

to step out, he was arrested by theMirzapur police under MISA. By thetime of his arrest, Singh had becomeknown as a formidable force whohad galvanized the JP movementprogrammes, and the authoritieswere instructed to not take himlightly. No one arrested under MISAwas allowed any access to peopleoutside, and Singh being one of theprominent detainees in the area, allcontact was ruled out.

After he had spent a few days inMirzapur jail, Singh was transferredto the Naini Central Jail nearAllahabad. Hearing about the trans-fer, Savitri and Gujarati Devi decidedto meet Singh at Mirzapur railwaystation where the train carrying himwas scheduled to make a brief stop.Savitri had not seen her husbandsince the day he was arrested, but ithad been a few months sinceGujarati Devi had seen her son. Onthe day Singh was being ferried bytrain, both reached the station hoursbefore the train was due. Everymoment that passed filled them withanxiety. No one knew how long hewould be under detention and thenews of thousands more beinghauled up across the country addedto their fears.

The train arrived slightly laterthan it was due and soon the plat-form was full of police personnel. Ina matter of seconds, Gujarati Deviand Savitri were separated from thetrain by a sea of humanity dressed inkhaki. Handcuffed and held bypolicemen at the elbows, Singhemerged from the train hoping tomeet his wife and mother. He spot-ted them at some distance but thesheer number of policemen betweenhim and his family made it impossi-ble for him to meet them. At twentyfour, Singh, who had been a physicslecturer at a local college a few yearsago, was just a young man taking hisfirst steps in politics but the securitypersonnel treated him like a hard-ened criminal. Some of the peoplewhom Singh had worked with dur-ing the JP movement had also madeit to the railway station and theybegan sloganeering. It was impossi-ble for Singh to hear his mother orSavitri in the middle of all thecacophony and sloganeering, askinghim to carry on with his struggle. Asthe policemen whisked Singh away,he finally heard Gujarati Devi. Evenin the face of uncertainty about whatlay ahead for her son, the only thingGujarati Devi told him was not tobow down. ‘Babua, maafi maange kinaheen! Chahe umar bhar kaalkothri

mein kyon na katt jaye ... kabhi sarmat jhukana.’ (Never beg for forgive-ness, my son, even if you have tospend your entire life within theconfines of a prison ... never bowdown). Hearing his mother urginghim to never give in filled Singh withpride as he fought back the tears thathad welled up. Many policemen toowere moved by Gujarati’s comment.That was the last time Singh eversaw his mother.

During the first few weeks inNaini Central Jail, Rajnath Singh wasput in solitary confinement. Despitethe bleak scenario and the uncertain-ty, Singh never lost faith. Thisenforced isolation gave him the timeto reflect on the ideals and the prin-ciples instilled in him by his fatherand the values for which his motherwas willing to let go of the chance tosee her youngest son ever again.

A while later, when the solitaryconfinement ended, Singh saw someof his friends move applications forrelease on parole but he refused to doso. For Rajnath Singh, the time in jailmade him reassess the ideals forwhich he was willing to put his lifeon the line. There were times whenhe caught himself thinking abouthow things had come to such a passin the political history of the country.Irrespective of the differences in ide-ology or political affiliation, mostpoliticians and people in public life,he believed, had one goal: serve thepeople and the country. Despite thecynicism about politicians that wasbeginning to set in among the public,the idea of making India a strongnation, one that would attract theenvy of the world, was perhaps stillthe singular thought amongst peopleoperating in the political sphere. Inthis context, the total disregard forpropriety and decorum, and thehigh-handedness that the govern-ment displayed towards those in theOpposition and anyone who ques-tioned it, in the process pushing thecountry into an era of darknesswhere basic civil liberties weresnatched away, did not make muchsense for young people such asSingh. For them, politics, at least upuntil the Emergency was declared,was about a debate between two ormore theories and ultimately it wasthe voter who decided on which setof ideas suited them.

The Emergency was a tool toelicit a political price from those whochallenged Indira Gandhi, but, formany, it extracted much more.Gujarati Devi had kept abreast of theunfolding situation and counted thedays to her son’s return. She oftenasked the same question every timeshe met any of her nephews: ‘Babuakabhin aayen?’ (When will my ladreturn?) One of Rajnath Singh’s

cousins told Gujarati Devi that MISAwould be retracted in a year’s time andso, if everything went off well, Singhwould probably be released on 25 June1976. Through the course of the firstyear of the Emergency, scores of moth-ers like Gujarati Devi kept track of thedays and waited with bated breath forsomeone to repeal the law or the gov-ernment to release those detainedunder it.

A year later, on the said date, 25June 1976, Gujarati Devi asked thesame nephew about Singh’s release,and unable to give her any goodnews, he told her that the govern-ment had extended MISA and noone had any idea how long itwould take. It could well beanother year. Gujarati Deviwas unable to take it anymore and suffered a stroke. Shewas rushed to the hospitaland the doctors concurredshe had had a brain haem-orrhage. Her conditionworsened over the nextfew days and, preparingfor the worst, the doctorasked Savitri to informher husband.

Upon hearing thenews, Singh refused tomove an application fora furlough to visit hismother in the hospital,preferring to absorb theblow silently. Everymorning at sunrise, hehoped against hope thatany news about his moth-er would be delayed byyet another day. The jailand the treatment metedout to him had not suc-ceeded in breaking hisspirit. The jail authori-ties were followingorders from a dispensa-tion powerful enoughto brush away basicrights of one of theworld’s most populous countries bya mere stroke of the pen. They haddented the self-esteem of many ofthe inmates and ensured that theperson eventually walking out was notthe same as the one who had gone in.

Singh remained determined to not lettinganything undermine him mentally and moreso when the news about his mother’s condi-tion became public knowledge. He remindedhimself of what his mother would have expect-ed from him and carried on. It was in jail thatSingh got to learn about his mother’s passing awayand performed all the post-death rites includingshaving his head within the confines of NainiCentral Jail. To this day, Singh finds it difficult tostop tears welling up in his eyes every time heremembers his mother.

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Poverty is an issue that fails to be addressed. As onephilosophy puts it, there are only two castes in thesociety — the rich and the poor. Biblical cannon

“blessed are the meek...” offers no solace when half-filledstomachs continue to struggle for the next meal. Statisticaldata suggests that we have come a long way as far as pover-ty alleviation is concerned, but the fact remains that themarch ahead is longer. Is there a faster way to poverty erad-ication? Or is this an unending journey. Well, it is not easyto figure. Given the fact that poverty as an issue has alwaysbeen at the top of the agenda of governments since inde-pendence,we can only keep our fingers crossed. The prob-lem persists despite the force of the rhetoric and the grow-ing decibel volume. Not that there are reasons to doubtthe intentions. But the methodology and systemic inter-ventions have not proved their authenticity. True, inter-ventions from outside have their limitations and there areleakages in the system, these will have to be addressed notby external forces but by internal forces that work to changehearts. Institutional remedies depend on human commit-ments for their effectiveness. Moreover, societal transfor-mation is also needed. People with compassion and munif-icence who care for the poor and work for the upliftmentof the deprived. Governments are just one part of the larg-er society. Societal action thus would be more crucial.Wealth accumulation has become the benchmark of excel-lence in the society and people are running madly afterit. Naturally, when this becomes the norm, selfish motivesdrive the society and personal prosperity and amassingriches is the only end. In such a society, we can only breedinequality and push the vulnerable to misery. Wealth, asthe vedic wisdom says, “has to be earned by two hands anddistributed by thousand hands”. We need to realise the sig-nificance of those golden words of wisdom: ‘when wealthis lost nothing is lost, when health is lost something is lost,when character is lost everything is lost’. We need to buildsocietal character. Corruption poses one of the gravestthreats to economic growth, democracy, and political sta-bility. Political corruption has taken on a new prominencein public discourse due to its devastating impact on pub-lic confidence in political and economic institutions andprocesses. But institutions may not be enough. There is aneed for a socio-cultural overhaul and change in individ-ual mind set. Vulgar consumerism coupled with egoisticextravaganza has blurred the line between need and greed.Insecurity of the rich and callousness of the society needsto be addressed. Perhaps, the Gandhi Talisman can throwsome hints. The same is quoted here: “I will give you a tal-isman. Whenever you are in doubt, or when the selfbecomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recallthe face of the poorest and the weakest person whom youmay have seen, and ask yourself, if the step you contem-plate is going to be of any use to that person”. It may berecalled that Gandhi popularised the term ‘Daridranarayan’.

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Afamous film star suffered deepdepression; her latest film hadflopped. And this was the film

which she had hoped would make herstand out in the film industry. She hadco-produced this film after many suc-cesses as an actress. She had workedvery hard and in her mind she had notleft anything to chance. Therefore,once the film bombed at the box office,her heart was broken. She went intoheavy depression. But she was no fool;she was determined to get to the rootof her problem. She began calling herfriends when the numbness caused bythe setback somewhat lessened. Nonecould really help with their words ofsympathy; she wanted to know the realcause of the failure.

Out of desperation, she called a col-lege friend, with whom she was not intouch. This friend had spiritual leanings.That was the reason that she was notexactly her favourite. Desperate timescalled for desperate measures; so shesought her out. That friend was sur-prised to hear from her now famousfriend. They met and this friendrequested the actress to accompany herto the ashram of her guru. After initialhesitation, she agreed to do so becauseher friend was insistent that if anyonecould help her, it was this person.

Upon reaching the ashram, theysought an audience with the guru. Oneof the residents recognised the actressand rushed to the guru in great excite-ment. They were asked to wait. Once thecall came, they went to meet the exalt-ed personality. He asked them to beseated and, then, asked about the pur-pose of their visit. The friend shared theactress’ predicament. The guru lookedunperturbed and asked, “What is new?”The actress was surprised. She thoughtthe guru was joking. She said emphat-ically, “I am very unhappy.” The guru

replied, “I have heard that but what isunusual about it? We all have moodchanges. Who can stay in one fixedmood? Once in a material body in thismaterial world, we all are prone to moodswings.” The actress said, “I have neverfelt so bad earlier.” The guru replied,“You were lucky. By the way, what hascaused this?”

The actress explained about the fail-ure of her latest film. The guru stated,“Success and failure are the results ofone’s fate, especially the big ones. Onecannot ensure success by mere presentefforts.” He then stated, “Do you realisehow many businessmen are tryinghard but never reach the big league. Youwere destined to be successful early onin your career. Now a bad period hascome.” The actress nodded her head andasked, “What can I do now to get overthis extreme disappointment? The gurureplied, “God can help. You pray to Himfor solace and He will respond.”

The actress, not a believer, seemeddisappointed. The guru read her mindand said, “It is not as difficult as you areimagining. God does not normallyinterfere in the working of thekarmaphala principle according to

which we are rewarded or punished forour acts, but He can and does intervenefor His devotees once something badhappens. How do you think that I tryto maintain equanimity? God helps. We,human beings, are intrinsically smalland are given to react in extreme man-ners. No one is exempt from bad hap-penings, because our very presence inthis painful material world indicates thatnot everything was right in our pastlives; that is we carry the baggage fromour past; all of us do. A sound connec-tion with God ensures a degree of sta-bility. The actress listened to the guruin rapt attention. This was somethingshe had never heard before.

She asked for guidance to be ableto do what the guru was telling; she wasdesperate. The guru explained manyprocesses and asked the actress tochoose what suited her. After giving itmuch thought, the actress smiled andsaid, “I feel that I can do what you aresuggesting. I needed a ray of hope andyou have shown me the light. I thankyou sincerely.” And, they left.

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It is quite common for us toencounter life coaches, motiva-tional speakers and gurus speak-ing about managing one’s health,mind and body and to help one-

self before reaching out to others. Itis a trend these days to gift oneself thewell-deserved ‘Me time’ and engagingin therapies to relax and detox.Focusing on oneself is not uncommonto our ethos and culture, where forcenturies together, significant timewas dedicated for prayers, meditationand other productive, self-motivatedactivities. As a result the society ben-efited, ensuring human evolution.This practice holds relevance even intoday’s fast paced life.

First thing first. It is critical tounderstand that often the image of theself we carry is actually a componentof many entities — physical, astral andcausal. The physical body consists ofa physical self, mind and intellect. Thespirit within, the suksham sharir (thebody that exists before, during andafter a birth in this life) and the causalbody or the kaarna sharir which isalways attached to the spirit andcontains the hard disk of our samskars.

Hence, if the focus is loving thephysical body, you may get caught ina web of complexities that physical

existence weaves around you. On theother hand, when you love yourinner self, you set yourself free fromall complexes, attached to the physi-cal existence.

�������������������� ����The point of discussion is not aboutloving yourself frivolously or in van-ity, but learning to accept, respect andrevere yourself. This is certainly notan easy task. The art of loving your‘self ’ has been understood and advo-cated across spiritual forums andreligious doctrines.

Adi Shankaracharya has beenone such proponent of the self and hesays: “As the mind becomes gradual-ly established in the self, it proportion-ately gives up the desire for externalobjects. When all such desires havebeen eliminated, there is the unob-structed realisation of the self.”

If we have to extrapolate this toour current environment, and themany selves one has, it makes theprocess more complex and research -worthy.

In order to understand the con-cept of self-love we must deconstructan old Sanskrit phrase, Tat Twam Asi— That You Are. In this, ‘Tat’ standsfor the consciousness supreme, of

which all human beings belong.‘Twam’ refers to the body, the spirit,the mind and the jivaatma or individ-ual soul. ‘Asi’ means you are a part ofthe consciousness supreme, even ifyou do not know it, even if you do notfeel it, even if you do not want tobelieve it.

Right now the ‘you’ that is read-ing this article is just the physical one.But realising the essence of the arti-cle is done by the spirit self.

Most people believe they love theconcept of consciousness supreme butforget to love themselves as a part ofthe Tat factor. A poignant quote bySaint and poet Kabir explains the con-cept beautifully:

“Boond samani hai samundermein, janat hai sab koi;

Samunder samana boond mein,bujhe birla koi.”

(When a drop merges into theocean, everyone understands it

But when the ocean merges intothe drop, seldom does one understandit.)

This explains how one is not justa part of the consciousness supremebut in fact is the consciousnesssupreme itself.

Perception has an influential roleto play in this study, who we think we

are, is not the reality but is the delu-sion of the mind also known as: Maya.

Your self-assessment is oftenbased on expectations and achieve-ments. Getting the best job, dreamhouse, good looking partner, highestgrades and constant appreciation,work as triggers to boost the level ofself-love. And if you fail to match upto your expected results, the image ofthe self comes crashing down.However, it is futile to succumb tosuch self-created environments anddeprive yourself of the true love itdeserves.

The other factors outside thephysical realm that affect self-imageand love are fate, guilt and thoughtsand are beyond your control.

��������� ��� ����������� �����One of the critical steps to lovingyourself is learning to accept yourself.

We need to accept ourselves on an‘as is where is’ basis. This is not onlyfor self-preservation, but also for ourcollective intent that aids the machin-ery of the consciousness supreme.

There are various impedimentsthat obstruct self acceptance. Forinstance, thoughts. It is not easy todeal with thousands of unnervingthoughts, as they take us to a level ofjudging ourselves poorly and keep usin a state of degradation.

It is easy to worship water in theocean, but not in a glass of fresh limesoda — the core of both being thesame; the lime and fizz are only adul-terations and limitations. These lim-itations are self-created and do notallow us the luxury of self-worship.

A major deterrent in shedding theperceptions we hold of ourselves is ourlack of knowledge of destiny. Until weunderstand this concept better, wecontinue to blame ourselves for all ouractions and often even our thoughts.There are many stories in historywherein the predictions about thefuture have been accurate. If that istrue, then the trends of our life are pre-determined and the future has alreadyhappened in a cross-section of timeand space that lies ahead.Understanding the factor of destinywill make self-acceptance and removalof guilt much easier.

Self-love has to go beyond atten-tion seeking. If you look around, yourdog is asking for it, your kids are ask-ing for it, and many of your friendsare asking for it as well. So do not jointhe attention-seeking club. Once yousee the spark of divinity within you,you will not want attention from any-one else. You will look for vairagyaand that solitude will give you a high.

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On 18 January 1977, Indira Gandhicalled for fresh Lok Sabha electionsthat would be held in the month of

March and although she also ordered therelease of those her government haddetained, the Emergency officially endedon 21 March 1977.

The Opposition soon galvanized peo-ple and left no stone unturned to make itamply clear that this was their last chanceto pick between democracy and dictator-ship. After his release, Singh found greatsupport within his community that wasaware of the hardships he had undergoneduring the Emergency. An entire genera-tion of India’s political class that had beenput through the strongest of fires wasabout to graduate and Singh was amongstthem. Unlike the decision to not give tick-ets to some rising stars such as the ABVPstudents as the Jana Sangh felt they hadbeen overly politicized during theEmergency, which could lead them tolook at things in a different light, therewas no predicament when it came toSingh. He became an automatic choice forthe Lok Sabha ticket from Mirzapur. The

principal Opposition parties-the JanaSangh, the Bharatiya Lok Dal, the SocialistParty and the Congress (Organization)-had come together as the Janata allianceto fight the elections against IndiraGandhi. Singh began campaigning in fullswing for the elections that were to beheld between 16 and 19 Match 1977. Butbefore voting day, an internal understand-ing between the Jana Sangh and the LokDal relegated him to the sidelines. Aneleventh-hour seat-sharing arrangementbetween the parties that constituted theJanata alliance saw the Jana Sangh givingup Mirzapur in favour of Fakir Ali Ansari.As a result, the Jana Sangh could not pitchits candidate and the Lok Dal decided tofield a locally recognized carpet manufac-turer as the contender from Mirzapur.

The news of the change sent shock-waves across the city. Not just the JanaSangh party workers but also the RSS andABVP cadre offered their support toSingh. Much like the earlier elections, theRSS cadre was bound to play a significantrole in mobilizing the electorate in favourof the Janata alliance as it had done for

the Jana Sangh in the past. The word onthe ground suggested that the joint cadrewas willing to go against the executive ifRajnath Singh was not picked and somehad even begun suggesting that he shouldfight the elections as an independent.

Singh made his way to the district col-lector’s office to withdraw his candida-ture, accompanied by a swarm of support-ers. The sight was perhaps too intimidat-ing for Ansari, the Lok Dal candidate, asoft-spoken Muslim gentleman who wasknown to Singh as well. As he entered theoffice, Singh offered him his best wishes.The district collector informed Singh thatthe time to withdraw candidature wasover and his name would remain on theballot paper. As Singh pondered over howto avoid a situation that would be detri-mental for both the Jana Sangh and theJanata alliance, the clamour urging him tofight as an independent candidate grewlouder amongst the cadre. Singh took amoment to think and decided to stand bythe party. He told everyone that if theparty was right in thinking of him as wor-thy enough to contest, how could it bewrong if it changed its mind due to someunavoidable circumstance? In a practicaldisplay of walking the talk, doing theright thing irrespective of the situation,which was also fast becoming a muchtalked about trait of Rajnath Singh, heoffered all his support to the Janataalliance candidate. As he stepped out ofthe DC’s office, Singh addressed thecrowd, underlining that it was his badluck that the rules did not permit hisname to be struck off the ballot paper. Hetold everyone present that if he got evenone vote it would be tantamount to dis-honouring his name. When the votes werecast and the ballots counted, RajnathSingh did not get a single vote. To thisdate, he considers it to be a victory unlikeany other in his entire life.

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The extraordinary blazeengulfing the Amazon for-

est, popularly known as the“Lungs of the Planet”, is at thecentre of global attraction withmany trying to reason out theroot cause of the forest fire thatmilitates against the war on cli-mate change.

Of several reasons doingthe rounds, two popular onesare that the forest fire in theAmazon may be caused by thedry season which runs fromJuly to October. These fires mayoccur naturally because ofevents such as lightning strikes.But others believe that they arethe results of farmers and log-gers clearing lands for crops orgrazing. Herein the activists addthat anti-environment rhetoricof Brazilian President JairBolsonaro has strongly encour-aged forest clearing operations.On the other hand, Bolsonarohas accused NGOs of startingthe fires themselves to tarnishhis Government’s image.

The Brazilian space agency,the National Institute for SpaceResearch (INPE), says its satel-lite data shows 85 per centincrease in fires on the sameperiod in 2018. In fact, the offi-cial figures show more than75,000 forest fires were record-ed in Brazil in the first eightmonths of the year, the highestnumber since 2013. Accordingto the Copernicus AtmosphereMonitoring Service (CAMS), apart of the EU’s earth obser-vation programme, the smokehas been travelling as far as theAtlantic coast. The fire hasbrought black smokes to SaoPaulo, more than 3,200 kmfrom the Amazon. What isworrying for the internationalcommunity is that these firesare releasing a huge amount ofcarbon dioxide, equivalent of228 megatonnes so far this year,highest since 2010. They arealso emitting carbon monoxidebeyond the coastlines of SouthAmerica. Further, the Amazonbasin, home to about three mil-lion species of plants and ani-mals and one million indige-nous people, is critical forfighting global warming as itcan absorb millions of tonnesof carbon emissions each year.

But with the burning ofthese precious forests, the car-bon they store will be soon

released into the atmosphereand hence, the rainforest’scapacity to absorb carbonemission will be fast reduced.

Primarily, tensions havearisen between France andBrazil in the latest round of G7talks after French PresidentEmmanuel Macron tweetedthat fires in the Amazon basinamounted to an internationalcrisis and should be discussedas a top priority at the G7Summit. Bolsonaro immedi-ately responded by sayingMacron’s statement is a mani-festation of his “colonialistmentality”. Later, the G7 groupof industrialised nationsannounced a $20 million assis-tance package aiming to pro-vide it to the Amazoniannations such as Brazil andBolivia, primarily to pay formore firefighting planes. Butunfortunately in thewhataboutery, the chief of thestaff of Bolsonaro appreciatedthe offer and asked the sameresources to be used for refor-esting Europe. This has stirredup a hornets’ nest betweenFrance and Brazil.

Interestingly, theConstitution of Brazil describesthe Amazon as “national trea-sure”. So it should be treatedaccordingly and every inch ofit must be saved and pre-served. Besides, amid globalconcerns for saving theAmazon, one must note what“principle of non-regression”,one of the basic tenets of theinternational environmentallaw, enunciates. This principlelays down that some basiclegal rules should be non-revocable in the common inter-est of mankind. Thus, once alegal regime is set and protec-tion is granted, essentially,there should not be a questionof tempering with such rules.And ironically, this global envi-ronmental dictum is clearlyreflected in the “Right toHealthy Environment”, guar-anteed by the Article 225 of theBrazilian Constitution.

The Article says, “All havethe right to an ecologically bal-anced environment… and boththe Government and the com-munity shall have the duty todefend and preserve it forfuture for present and futuregenerations.” So why does

Brazil need to be told that theAmazon is an integral part ofits heritage and this forestmust be saved? All Braziliansare well aware and it has ademocratically elected regimethat must take enough to safe-guard the “lungs” of earth.

What might drive theBrazilian Government to openthe rich Amazon is to createwealth for the country? Andthis is driven by years of reces-sion and high unemployment.Indeed, Brazil has witnessedthe worst ever political andeconomic upheaval during thetime of both the predecessorsof Bolsonaro, namely DilmaRousseff and Michel Temer. Ofcourse, when the ordinaryBrazilians have chosen a right-wing President like Bolsonaro,the expectations are high as tosee a change in the current eco-nomic downturn.

Succinctly, mining andother economic activities in the

Amazon are not the answers toarrest Brazil out of the eco-nomic gloom. Simply to say,mining operations offer a littleeconomic benefits to the locals.Instead, such operations, attractlarge number of outsiders thatleads to deforestation, violentconflicts on land rights andfinally, adding mercury pollu-tion to nearby rivers.

This blaze might torpedo ahuge trade agreement betweenthe South American nations,including Brazil, and theEuropean Union (EU), whichtook nearly two decades tocome to the current stage.Over the last four decades, thisverdant rainforest has wit-nessed one of the record highdeforestation. This hugeAmazonian blaze is fast block-ing sunlight and enveloping theentire north-western region ofBrazil with thick smoke. Thestates of Northern Brazil suchas Roraima, Acre, Rondonia

and Amazonas are badly affect-ed by the inferno. Meanwhile,the Amazonas, the largestprovince of Brazil, has declareda state of emergency.

And in such a situation,Bolsonaro’s mere hard-hittingstatements would not work.Rather his administration mustdisplay strong public actions inthe form of sending more fire-fighters and soldiers to tacklethe situation. Blaming eitherthe international media or theopposition forces will notdouse the fire. It’s time to actand save the planet.

Precisely, Bolsonaro is notsolely responsible for the cur-rent mess in the Amazon. Butthen he has made the situationworse by weakening the envi-ronment agency, opening of theAmazon to mining, farmingand logging, and finally,pounding on the NGOs andcivil society organisations(CSOs) working in the field of

conservation. Also what hasadded fuel to the fire is that theextreme pressure from theagricultural lobby in Brazil.This lobby is very strong andas a result, it is absolutely easyfor it to break the once power-ful environmental protectionsystem existed in the country,between 2005 and 2014.

Going by the records, onecan rightly state that massivemoves towards deforestationcame up in the last five yearswhen Dilma Rosseff andMichel Temer were in power.

During the time of Temer,he removed the protection sta-tus of the National Reserve ofCopper and Associates, anational reserve much largerthan the size of Denmark.

This reserve forest, called“Renca”, covers 46,000 squarekilometres. It is widely believedthat it contained rich reservesof copper, gold, iron ore andother important minerals. With

this policy, nearly 30 per centof the Renca was made openfor mining operations by theGovernment. Besides, envi-ronmental hazards, the Rencaalso provided home to a num-ber of indigenous ethnic com-munities who were not muchexposed to the outside worldtill then.

But, the rate of deforesta-tion has accelerated in the firstfew months of Bolsonaro’spresidency. Simply to blameright-wing Bolsonaro may notput an end to the blaze in theAmazon as fires are also ram-pant currently under a Left-wing populist regime in Boliviaas well.

Beyond the political gim-micks and blame game playedby the G7 leaders in its last con-clave, the international com-munity needs to see that theBrazil Government takesimmediate measures to curbthe raging fires in the Amazon.

At the moment, the UNand many other internationalorganisations are expressingconcerns and urging responsi-ble players to act swiftly. Butthat is not enough. The top pri-ority should be placed onbuilding a buffer against all thetipping points across theAmazon and bringing an endto massive emissions emergingfrom the fires.

So it is not just protectionof the Amazon, but also con-crete policies to be laid downfor reforesting the entire zoneon war-footing. And for this,Brazil must ensure that morefinance comes on its way ofboth resettling the locals andreforesting the region.

Hence just saying no to thefinancial aid offered by the G7may not support the rebuildingefforts of the BolsonaroGovernment. Much beyondall these, the Government andinternational environmentalagencies must listen and aligntheir policies to the indigenousgroups and reverine commu-nities living in around theAmazon. Also Brazil mustunderstand the global impor-tance of these evergreen forests.It is not simply Brazil that isaffected, but the entire planet.

(The writer is an expert oninternational affairs)

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nessed unprecedentedgrowth of some technologygiants. The large economiesthat exist in digital industrieshave often led to oligopolisticstructures in which a fewemerging players dominatelarge shares of the market.The prominent four players —Amazon, Google, Facebook,and Apple — together have amarket capitalisation of $2.8trillion (GDP of India), a stag-gering 24 per cent share of theS&P 500 top 50, and close tothe value of every stock trad-ed on the Nasdaq in 2001. Theyhave not only succeeded in cre-ating enormous wealth that hashelped millions of familiesacross the planet to earn eco-nomic security, but also trans-formed how we shop, search,and socialise on the six-inchpocket-friendly device.

We have this general per-ception that these tech giantsmust be creating a lot of jobs,whereas, in reality, they have asmall number of very high pay-ing jobs. For instance, Procter& Gamble, with a market cap-italisation of $202 billion,employs 95,000 people. Intel, anew-economy firm that couldbe more efficient with its cap-ital, enjoys a market cap of $209billion and employs 1,02,000people. Whereas, Facebook,boasting a $ 527 billion marketcap, employs only 25,000.

Uber set a new low with$68 billion spread across only12,000 employees. Uber man-ages it by creating a two-class

workforce, where its “driverpartners” act as contractors. Bykeeping them off the payroll,Uber’s investors and 12,000white-collar employees do notshare any of the company’s $68billion in equity. Besides, thefirm is not burdened with pay-ing health or unemploymentinsurance or paid time off forany of its two-million-strongdriver workforces.

In fact, when Uber filed forits initial public offering (IPO),its S-1 filing stated, “Our busi-ness would be adversely affect-ed if drivers were classified asemployees instead of indepen-dent contractors.” The scram-ble for IPO is partly driven byinvestors and founders lookingto cash out at the highest pos-sible valuation before labourlaws catch up with them andpotentially break the modelthat has given them their multi-billion-dollar valuations.

While billions of peoplederive significant value fromtheir galaxy of feature-richproducts, disturbingly a fewreap the economic benefits.This business model is excel-lent for consumers like you andme, who get cheaper, faster, andmore technologically advancedservices, but what about work-ers who generate revenue bydriving and biking day andnight? Are the workers anafterthought in this economy?One could argue that the draw-backs of workers employed onthese platforms far outweighthe benefits. There is no jobsecurity. There is the stress of

unpredictable income. There isa reliance on algorithms to getwork and rating system thatkeeps every one of them ontheir toes.

While it is not yet clearwhether the market powerthese large players enjoy is atemporary or inherent featureof internet markets, this doesraise distributional questions;we are witnessing a scenario,where substantial gains in pro-ductivity are no longer gettingtranslated in higher incomes —a clear breach of “social con-tract” espoused by advocates ofliberal economics.

Moreover, the generationof economic value from low-cost unpaid labour each time auser turns on their device andaccesses computer-mediatednetworks raises additionalquestions about who ultimate-ly benefits from this new formof digital capital.

Big tech companies havedumped an enormous amountof wealth into the laps of asmall cohort of investors andincredibly talented workers —leaving much of the workforcebehind, perhaps believing thata majority of them will be con-tent streaming video contenton an extraordinarily powerfulmobile device.

There is no denying atrend, where a disproportion-ately high amount of wealthgenerated by higher produc-tivity primarily through tech-nological advancement is goingdirectly to the owners of thesetechnologies.

The significant conse-quence of this can be seenwhere wages, in general, are nolonger playing the pivotal redis-tributive role that it has his-torically played so far. This hasresulted in the rise of a newsocio-economic class usuallyemployed in platform-basedcompanies like Amazon, Uber,Flipkart, or Snapdeal.

A majority of peoplebelonging to this class are inse-curely employed as a part-time employee with zero hourcontract. Due to their precar-ious employment status, theynever feel financially secure toget themselves categorised asgainfully employed with full-time job security. As a result,paradoxically, despite growth inemployment opportunities, theactual figure of people cate-gorised under fully engagedwith the security of a perma-nent job has seen a disturbinglysouthward trend. Due to theemergence of this phenome-non, probably for the first timein the history, we are witness-ing an army of the workforcewho are overqualified to fulfillthe demands of low skill jobsavailable in these platformsbased companies.

Let us attempt to see thisentrenched paradox throughthe lens of one of these techgiants — Amazon. Amazon hassuccessfully delivered enor-mous wealth to a handful of itstop executives and sharehold-ers. From its reliance on tem-porary workers to its invest-ment in automation, Amazon’s

vision of labour is one thatseeks to shift its profits to anever smaller group.

A century ago, workersand unions waged hard-foughtbattles to end piecemeal workand grab reliable wages andsalaries. Today, Amazon iseroding this basic agreement,and moving backward to adopta 19th-century labour modelthat drives returns to the top atthe expense of the rest.

Economists Jason Furmanand Peter Orszag in their 2015study suggest that growingmonopoly power is allowing afew dominant firms to extractmore income than they wouldearn in a genuinely competitivemarket, and allowing them todistribute those returns to theirshareholders and top-levelemployees.

Every year in his letter toshareholders, Bezos includes acopy of the shareholder letterhe wrote in 1997, Amazon’sfirst year as a publicly tradedcompany. It’s often held up asan example of the clarity ofBezos’ vision even early on.“We believe that a fundamen-tal measure of our success willbe the shareholder value wecreate over the long term. Thisvalue will be a direct result ofour ability to extend and solid-ify our current market leader-ship position. The strongerour market leadership position,the more powerful our eco-nomic model,” it read.

Amazon has posted anannual profit for only 13 of thepast 21 years. Historically, it has

plowed profits right back intoR&D for robotics and imagerecognition. Besides, Amazonis integrated vertically acrossbusiness lines. In addition toselling stuff online, Amazonnow publishes books, extendscredit, sells online ads, designsclothes, and produces moviesand TV shows. It is also one ofthe world’s largest providers ofcloud storage and computingpower, renting server space toNetflix, Adobe, Airbnb, andNASA.

There’s no question that,nearly 20 years later, Bezos andhis company have established acompelling economic model,attained a market leadershipposition, and succeeded in cre-ating shareholder value. Whena company comes to monopo-lise a market — when it growsso big that it can threaten otherindustries just by entering them— it ceases to be merely a com-pany. It becomes an institutionso powerful that it can rule overpeople like a government. Thequestion now, however, is atwhat cost, and whether they’recreating value for anyone else,other than shareholders and toplevel employees.

An internet-based plat-form like Amazon presents auniquely troubling form ofprivate power. Unlike a tradi-tional monopoly whose powerstems from its control over theproduction and pricing of asingle good, a platform drawsits strength from its position asa kind of middleman, a brokerthat controls the relationship

with producers and consumersalike. Once a platform reachesa critical mass of consumers,producers, or both, thesegroups become vulnerable tothe platform’s control overstandards and policies.

Since the turn of the mil-lennium, firms and investorshave fallen in love with com-panies whose ability to replacehumans with technology hasenabled rapid growth and out-size profit margins. Those hugeprofits attract cheap capitaland render the rest of the sec-tor flaccid. Old-economy firmsand fledgling start-ups don’teven stand an outside chance oftasting success.

The result is a winner-takes-all economy, both forcompanies and for people.Society is bifurcating into thosewho are part of the innovationeconomy (lords) and thosewho aren’t (serfs). One greatidea backed by a group ofinvestors is capable of makinga twenty-something the darlingof venture capital, while thosewho are average or even justunlucky (most of us), have towork much harder to save forretirement.

Therefore, it’s high timepolicy experts got involved inmaking a list of prescriptions toaddress this paradox becausethe distortions created by techgiants are getting way too vis-ible and disturbing.

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

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Agirl having entered her forties andyet not married, would naturallybe a concern for parents. One

such helpless father came asking theother day: “Sir, why has my daughter notbeen able to get married by now? Is hermarriage denied? If not, suggest someremedial measures that would facilitateher marriage. I am approaching 80 anddon’t know how long I will survive. Iwish to get her married before I leavethis world.”

Be assured your daughter’s marriageis not denied. Going by her astrologicalpointers, had she not wilfully evadedmarriage, she would have been marriedat least 10 years back. Bear in mind; anydelay in taking initiatives or grabbingopportunities in hand, you run out oftime. Consequently, you will be leftbehind in the run of life, which applies inyour daughter’s case.

“In God’s plan, if she was to get mar-ried ten years back, why did it not hap-pen? Can God’s will ever get compro-mised?” The old man countered.

Well, there is nothing like a God’splan. It’s always your self-made plan assettled by Karmic carryover from thepast, that you are not conscious about. If

we look at the way the existential order ismade out, unlike other species and exis-tences that are bound by a predefinednature, human beings enjoy the privilegeof having the freedom to make choices.But, if there is a choice, the probability ofits use and misuse remains equal. Andthere is nothing like a free lunch in life.One has to bear with the consequencesof good or bad choices made. This bindshuman beings to a cause-effect chain,which operates in a self-automatedmode. In this scheme of things, thereremains a cause behind every effect,which in turn, sets the premise on whichfuture events take off. Evidently, thecause-effect chain runs in succession,which could stretch on to the next life.This is what sets the premise of the ‘Lawsof Karma’. So, you become a beneficiaryor victim of your own Karma. There isno scope for any extra-terrestrial bodythat would be adjudicating our Karma,and selectively granting boons inresponse to your prayers.

The Karmic imprints carried overfrom the past set the ground on whichour new life takes off. These imprintsavailable in our memory as thought-seeds, carry the potential to bloom out

during the ongoing life, as and whencongenial ground becomes available.Here again, we have to exercise ourchoice and take the call — whether to letit happen, defer it for later times, or evendeny it. In this respect our habit tenden-cies play a major role, often playing atrickster. Let’s now look into astrologicalpointers to her habit tendencies.

She is born in Scorpio lagna, with itslord Mars posited in the 12th house.That makes out a stubborn person, whois vulnerable to becoming a victim of herown making. Mars conjunct Rahu makesher erratic, who may often fritter awayher energies towards unproductive ends.Mars also conjunct Uranus makes herself-willed. Mars again, ill-disposed off tomischievous Neptune points to the possi-bility of suffering from inferiority com-plex, who remains susceptible tounmindfully get into self-undoing acts.Mind signifying Moon occupies the fierysign Aries, again owned by Mars, whichmakes her impulsive, aggressive, intoler-ant, impatient, and domineering. Moonopposed to Mars and Uranus brings inmercurial temperamental, and makes hermoody, rash, argumentative, and eccen-tric. She may jump into action oninstinctive judgment without applyingproper forethought, more often detri-

mental to her interest. It is only when shelands into crisis that she applies hermind. Moon also placed adverse toSaturn brings in a negative mind-set,which makes her inhibitive by nature.Also, she would be habitually suspiciousand overcritical of others. That doesn’t lether take timely decisions, and so her ini-tiatives often get delayed. She also fails tograb the opportunities coming her waywithin time.

What further compounds her prob-lems is her swaggering ego, coming as itmay with the Sun placed adverse toJupiter. That narrows down her vision toself-defined beliefs and perceptions,often out of touch with ground realities.She would not be even open to exploreadvisories and counsel offered by elders.What further acts as a multiplier effect toher already inflated ego is her fixatedone-track mind, as would Saturn placedadverse to Mercury imply. It is still notlate if she begins appreciating living reali-ties.

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