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P rime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday turned the deportation of Christian Michel, the alleged middle- man in the 3,600-crore AgustaWestland chopper deal, as the final weapon on the last day of campagning against the Congress in the Rajasthan Assembly polls, saying Michel will now reveal the secrets of the political master he had served. “I had mentioned the VVIP helicopter case, I spoke about it, about the letter writ- ten by Sonia Gandhi. After BJP came to power, we looked for the files, we dug around. They had hidden it away. But one middleman finally was caught after years of digging,” Modi said at an election rally in Pali. Modi, who also addressed rallies in Sumerpur in Pali dis- trict and in Dausa, alleged the Gandhi family have been enjoying privileges for four generations. He claimed the Government’s “win” in the apex court on Tuesday was the “victory of the honest”. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court allowed the Income- Tax Department to reopen the tax assessment of Congress president Rahul Gandhi and his mother Sonia Gandhi for 2011-12 in connection with the National Herald case. “Now I will see how you escape... Look at the courage of a ‘chaiwala’ who took those running country for four gen- erations to the court’s door,” Modi said in Sumerpur in a ref- erence to his “chaiwala” roots. Referring to the deporta- tion of Michel, he said, “The entire family is shivering. The ‘raazdar’ (one who hides secrets) will speak up and they don’t know whose name he will disclose… It was a matter of thousands of crore so they are in a state of panic.” Continuing his attack on the Congress, Modi said in Dausa the Congress is a con- fused party with confused lead- ership. “They don’t know the dif- ference between Kumbharam and Kumbhkaran,” he jeered, referring to Rahul Gandhi’s gaffe on Tuesday when he mis- takenly referred to the Ashok Gehlot Government starting the “Kumbhkaran” lift project instead of saying “Kumbharam” project. Modi said such a confused leadership cannot be good for the party or the country. “They do not have leader, policy and intention,” Modi said. The Congress, he asserted, has lost the election and is now contemplating who to hold responsible for its defeat. Continued on Page 4 S everal issues were discussed by political parties during the Telangana Assembly elec- tion campaign to win hearts and minds of voters. While Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao tried to ride on Telangana sentiments and his Government’s numer- ous welfare schemes for various sections, the Opposition People’s Front highlighted issues, like the family rule, alleged corruption, farmers’ distress and failure of the Government in keeping its promises on the job front. The BJP, which is the third corner of the electoral fight, was falling back on its tried and tested formula of trying to polarise the voters by raising issues like alleged minority appeasement by the major par- ties and reservation quota for Muslims. A cursory look on the issues in the campaign: Telangana sentiment No election speech of care- taker Chief Minister and Telangana Rashtra Samiti supremo K Chandrasekhar Rao was without reference to the role he and his party played in more than a decade long move- ment for separate Telangana. He continued to contrast this with the dillydallying by then ruling Congress and antagonistic role of the TDP. He was also trying to use the sen- timents to quest the right of the Chief Minister of neighbouring Andhra Pradesh and TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu to interfere in Telangana politics. “Will you allow a man to come here who tried every trick to obstruct Telangana State,” he asked creating apprehensions that if the Opposition alliance “Praja Kutami” or People’s Front wins it will be remote controlled by Rahul Gandhi in New Delhi and Chandrababu in Amarvati at the cost of Telangana pride. While the TRS was seeking support from the farmers, the dominant force in rural Telangana citing 24 hours free power supply and schemes like investment support and free insurance for farmers as its major success, Congress-TDP alliance was trying to run down the claims of TRS. KCR also point out in every meeting that his Government had fulfilled the promise of waiving 2 lakh loans of every farmer. Congress president Rahul made frequent references to suicide by 4,500 farmers dur- ing TRS rule due to the distress and for not getting the mini- mum support price. KCR has promised anoth- er loan waiver of 1 lakh on returning to power benefiting 4.2 million farmers. A suspected cylinder blast killed a 32-year old tech- nician and injured three others during an experiment in the aero-dynamics laboratory of the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) here on Wednesday, police said. Four technicians of a private start-up company were involved in some experi- ment at the laboratory when an explosion occurred suddenly around 2.20 pm, they said. Technician Manoj from Mysuru died on the spot while three others suffered injuries. The injured have been admitted to a private hospital where their condition is said to be stable, police said. Though the nature of explosion and its cause are yet to be established, it is suspect- ed that the incident occurred due to a blast in a cylinder con- taining some gas, they said. Assistant Commissioner of Police Niranjan Raj Urs told PTI that the start-up company, Superwave Technologies Private Limited, was having a tie-up with the IISc for carry- ing out experiments pertaining to its research. “Forensic experts would ascertain the actual cause of the accident but it seems like a cylinder blast,” he said. T he Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Wednesday expectedly kept interest rates unchanged at 6.5 per cent but held out a promise to cut them if the upside risks to the infla- tion do not materialise. All the six members of the monetary policy committee voted for a hold on the rates. The RBI also coaxed banks to lend more in order to sup- port the slowing economy. The central bank lowered retail inflation projection to 2.7-3.2 per cent for the second half of the current fiscal, citing normal monsoon and moder- ate food prices. It retained its GDP forecast for the current fiscal at 7.4 per cent and said growth will accel- erate to 7.5 per cent in first half of 2019-20. Commenting on the RBI’s policy announcement, the Ministry of Finance said assessment of the RBI with regard to growth and inflation is same as that of the Government. India Inc too said RBI’s sta- tus quo decision was on expect- ed lines in view of headwinds, though it sought more mea- sures by the RBI to improve the credit flow to the economy. Detailed report on P10 F ugitive liquor baron Vijay Mallya on Wednesday took to social media with an offer to pay back 100 per cent of “pub- lic money” to various Indian banks and urged the Government to accept his offer, days ahead of a United Kingdom court’s decision on his plea not to extradite him to India. The 62-year-old former Kingfisher Airlines boss, who has been on bail in the UK on an extradition warrant since his arrest in April last year, is fighting extradition to India on charges of fraud and money laundering allegedly amounting to around 9,000 crore. A ruling in the case is expected at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in London on December 10, but the busi- nessman stressed that the extradition issue was a “sepa- rate” matter which will take its “own legal course”. “The most important point is public money and I am offering to pay 100 per cent back. I humbly request the banks and Government to take it. If payback refused, why,” he questioned in one of his posts on Twitter. F ifteen years ago when civic authorities in Delhi con- structed the “designer flyover” at AIIMS little did they realise that this critical junction on the Ring Road and Aurobindo Marg will be in the grip of grinding traffic snarls once again. Blame it on the lack of far- sightedness of Delhi’s urban planners, no traffic impact assessment was ever conduct- ed before carrying out the major redevelopment work at East Kidwai Nagar. The Delhi Police said devel- opment of the entire township in the area that includes seven colonies and the office complex will have “significant impact” on traffic flow on the Ring Road, Aurobindo Marg and Afria Avenue Road that cater to a large vehicular population in South Delhi areas. Assistant Commissioner of Police (South District ) said, “The redevelopment sites of General Pool Residential accommodation colonies in Sarojini Nagar, Nauroji Nagar, Netaji Nagar and Mohammadpur village are sit- uated along the inner ring road and are well connected with major arterial roads ie; Ring Road, Africa Avenue , Aurobindo Marg, Brigadier Hoshiyar Singh Marg, etc, in the vicinity of major medical sites AIIMS and Safdarjung hospital.” Interestingly, the AIIMS flyover on Ring Road caters to all traffic coming from Ghaziabad, Noida going to International Gandhi Airport (IGIA). Moreover, traffic come- ing from Gurugram to Delhi merges on the AIIMS flyover. As the flyover is already loaded and acting as central bridge to NCR, it will be over- burdened with vehicles from the residential-cum-office complex. South Extension, Hauz Khas, Green Park, Safdarjung Enclave and Defence Colony and many other areas will get severely affected. “Further the introduction of fresh traffic from the upcom- ing projects is likely to increase the traffic congestion and increase the amount of vehic- ular pollution,” said the Delhi Police affidavit. Observations filed by the Delhi Police also highlighted that the development of above noted major complexes in the vicinity of Inner Ring Road and other important corridors will have a significant impact on the traffic as inner ring road, Aurobindo Mary, Africa Avenue Road are already satu- rated with heavy volume of traffic resulting in slow move- ment of traffic. “Before the development of a big commercial project at Nauroji Nagar and General pool residential accommoda- tion colonies in Sarojini Nagar, Netaji Nagar and Mohammadpur village first require to ensure implementa- tion of infrastructural solution by developers like widening of nearby connecting roads name- ly - inner ring road,” the reply field by the Delhi Police stated. As per the report, Africa Avenue, RTR, Shanti path, Brigadier Hoshiyar Singh Marg, Vijay Raje Scindia Road will be the worst affected. “Redesigning and removal of bottlenecks, road markings, carpeting of roads, parking facilities on and off the streets Exxon these roads for smooth movement and traffic management of total traffic generated from the redevelop- ment of the above noted colonies/ projects was essential prior to develop the town- ship,” the Delhi Police said in its reply. “It is assumed that with the increase in the number of vehi- cles on the road the pollution is likely to increase many folds, thus causing more pollution by vehicles. A ccusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi of being the “protector, benefactor and promoter” of AgustaWestland and its parent company Finmeccanica, the Congress on Wednesday demanded a CBI probe into Modi’s role in “exonerating” the Italian defence and aerospace major which was blacklisted by the then UPA Government. The party in a statement said the BJP and the Prime Minister are “latching” on to Christian Miche for a “smear campaign” against Opposition leaders. AICC chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala alleged that facing “imminent defeat” in State polls, Modi and the BJP Government are seeking to “weave a web of lies” and con- struct a “mesh of deception to hoodwink” the people of India in the chopper scam case. In his rally in Rajasthan on the last day of campaigning before the State elections on Friday, Modi referred to the extradition of Michel saying, “The Government has brought the middleman involved in a helicopter scam from Dubai. He served politicians and will now disclose secrets.” “While the BJP and PM Modi are seeking fake credit without being subjected to investigation by the CBI for their own complicity and con- nivance, they are latching on to Christian Michel for commit- ting a smear campaign against Opposition leaders. The truth of Christian Michel is already out in the open,” he claimed. Surjewala alleged the state- ment made by Michel’s advo- cate Rosemary Patrizi Dos Anjos after his detention in July had “clearly brought out” that the Modi Government and its agencies were forcing him to sign a false confessional statement naming UPA chair- person Sonia Gandhi in return for complete exoneration from any charge whatsoever in the case. H ours after he was deport- ed to New Delhi from Dubai, Christian Michel, accused and middleman in the AgustaWestland VVIP chopper deal scam, was on Wednesday produced before a Delhi court which allowed his five-day custodial interroga- tion. The CBI had sought a 14- day police remand. Michel will again be pro- duced in the court on December 10. Michel was pro- duced before Special CBI Judge Arvind Kumar, who allowed discussion between him and his advocate for five minutes. Michel landed in the national Capital around 11 pm on Tuesday. He was then taken to the CBI headquarters at the Lodhi Road here at 1.30 am. In its remand application, the CBI submitted that the cus- todial interrogation of accused Christian Michel is required to unearth the deep-rooted con- spiracy and to identify his accomplices, including the IAF officials, bureaucrats and politicians, who were instru- mental in changing the deci- sions, which made AgustaWestland eligible to participate in the bidding process and ultimately bagged it. The CBI submitted the accused has to be confronted with a number of documents. The counsel for CBI sub- mitted that investigation revealed that Michel had entered into as many as 12 con- tracts through two of his firms, namely Global Trade Commerce Ltd, London, and Global Services FZE, Dubai, with Finmeccanica, AgustaWestland, Westland Helicopters, UK among others to legitimise the illicit com- mission on the procurement of VVIP helicopters by the Ministry of Defence, India. The CBI also submitted that an amount of Euro 42.27 million was paid by the Westland Group Companies to the firms of accused Christian Michel as kickbacks without undertaking any work against the receipt of such amount. The counsel for the accused vehemently opposed the remand application saying there is no need for police cus- tody and none of these docu- ments has been produced in any international court. Continued on Page 4 RNI Regn. No. CHHENG/2012/42718, Postal Reg. No. - RYP DN/34/2013-2015

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Prime Minister NarendraModi on Wednesday turned

the deportation of ChristianMichel, the alleged middle-man in the �3,600-croreAgustaWestland chopper deal,as the final weapon on the lastday of campagning against theCongress in the RajasthanAssembly polls, saying Michelwill now reveal the secrets ofthe political master he hadserved.

“I had mentioned theVVIP helicopter case, I spokeabout it, about the letter writ-ten by Sonia Gandhi. After BJPcame to power, we looked forthe files, we dug around. Theyhad hidden it away. But onemiddleman finally was caughtafter years of digging,” Modisaid at an election rally in Pali.

Modi, who also addressedrallies in Sumerpur in Pali dis-trict and in Dausa, alleged theGandhi family have beenenjoying privileges for fourgenerations. He claimed theGovernment’s “win” in theapex court on Tuesday was the“victory of the honest”.

On Tuesday, the SupremeCourt allowed the Income-Tax Department to reopen thetax assessment of Congresspresident Rahul Gandhi andhis mother Sonia Gandhi for2011-12 in connection with theNational Herald case.

“Now I will see how youescape... Look at the courage ofa ‘chaiwala’ who took thoserunning country for four gen-erations to the court’s door,”

Modi said in Sumerpur in a ref-erence to his “chaiwala” roots.

Referring to the deporta-tion of Michel, he said, “Theentire family is shivering. The‘raazdar’ (one who hidessecrets) will speak up and theydon’t know whose name he willdisclose… It was a matter ofthousands of crore so they arein a state of panic.”

Continuing his attack onthe Congress, Modi said inDausa the Congress is a con-fused party with confused lead-ership.

“They don’t know the dif-ference between Kumbharam

and Kumbhkaran,” he jeered,referring to Rahul Gandhi’sgaffe on Tuesday when he mis-takenly referred to the AshokGehlot Government startingthe “Kumbhkaran” lift projectinstead of saying “Kumbharam”project.

Modi said such a confusedleadership cannot be good forthe party or the country. “Theydo not have leader, policy andintention,” Modi said.

The Congress, he asserted,has lost the election and is nowcontemplating who to holdresponsible for its defeat.

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Several issues were discussedby political parties during

the Telangana Assembly elec-tion campaign to win heartsand minds of voters. WhileChief Minister KChandrasekhar Rao tried toride on Telangana sentimentsand his Government’s numer-ous welfare schemes for varioussections, the OppositionPeople’s Front highlightedissues, like the family rule,alleged corruption, farmers’distress and failure of theGovernment in keeping itspromises on the job front.

The BJP, which is the thirdcorner of the electoral fight,was falling back on its tried andtested formula of trying topolarise the voters by raisingissues like alleged minorityappeasement by the major par-ties and reservation quota forMuslims.

A cursory look on theissues in the campaign:

Telangana sentimentNo election speech of care-

taker Chief Minister andTelangana Rashtra Samitisupremo K Chandrasekhar Raowas without reference to therole he and his party played inmore than a decade long move-

ment for separate Telangana. He continued to contrast

this with the dillydallying bythen ruling Congress andantagonistic role of the TDP. Hewas also trying to use the sen-timents to quest the right of theChief Minister of neighbouringAndhra Pradesh and TDPpresident N ChandrababuNaidu to interfere in Telanganapolitics.

“Will you allow a man tocome here who tried every trickto obstruct Telangana State,” heasked creating apprehensionsthat if the Opposition alliance“Praja Kutami” or People’sFront wins it will be remotecontrolled by Rahul Gandhi inNew Delhi and Chandrababuin Amarvati at the cost ofTelangana pride.

While the TRS was seeking

support from the farmers, thedominant force in ruralTelangana citing 24 hours freepower supply and schemes likeinvestment supportand free insurance for farmersas its major success, Congress-TDP alliance wastrying to run down the claimsof TRS. KCR also point out inevery meeting that hisGovernment had fulfilled thepromise of waiving �2 lakhloans of every farmer.

Congress president Rahulmade frequent references tosuicide by 4,500 farmers dur-ing TRS rule due to the distressand for not getting the mini-mum support price.

KCR has promised anoth-er loan waiver of �1 lakh onreturning to power benefiting4.2 million farmers.

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Asuspected cylinder blastkilled a 32-year old tech-

nician and injured three othersduring an experiment in theaero-dynamics laboratory ofthe Indian Institute of Science(IISc) here on Wednesday,police said. Four technicians ofa private start-up companywere involved in some experi-ment at the laboratory when anexplosion occurred suddenlyaround 2.20 pm, they said.

Technician Manoj fromMysuru died on the spot whilethree others suffered injuries.

The injured have beenadmitted to a private hospital

where their condition is said tobe stable, police said.

Though the nature ofexplosion and its cause are yetto be established, it is suspect-ed that the incident occurreddue to a blast in a cylinder con-taining some gas, they said.

Assistant Commissionerof Police Niranjan Raj Urs toldPTI that the start-up company,Superwave TechnologiesPrivate Limited, was having atie-up with the IISc for carry-ing out experiments pertainingto its research.

“Forensic experts wouldascertain the actual cause of theaccident but it seems like acylinder blast,” he said.

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The Reserve Bank of India(RBI) on Wednesday

expectedly kept interest ratesunchanged at 6.5 per cent butheld out a promise to cut themif the upside risks to the infla-tion do not materialise. All thesix members of the monetarypolicy committee voted for ahold on the rates.

The RBI also coaxed banksto lend more in order to sup-port the slowing economy.

The central bank loweredretail inflation projection to2.7-3.2 per cent for the secondhalf of the current fiscal, citingnormal monsoon and moder-ate food prices.

It retained its GDP forecastfor the current fiscal at 7.4 percent and said growth will accel-erate to 7.5 per cent in first halfof 2019-20.

Commenting on the RBI’spolicy announcement, theMinistry of Finance saidassessment of the RBI withregard to growth and inflationis same as that of theGovernment.

India Inc too said RBI’s sta-tus quo decision was on expect-ed lines in view of headwinds,though it sought more mea-sures by the RBI to improve thecredit flow to the economy.

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Fugitive liquor baron VijayMallya on Wednesday took

to social media with an offer topay back 100 per cent of “pub-lic money” to various Indianbanks and urged theGovernment to accept his offer,days ahead of a UnitedKingdom court’s decision onhis plea not to extradite him to India.

The 62-year-old formerKingfisher Airlines boss, whohas been on bail in the UK onan extradition warrant since hisarrest in April last year, isfighting extradition toIndia on charges of fraud andmoney laundering allegedlyamounting to around �9,000crore.

A ruling in the case isexpected at WestminsterMagistrates’ Court in Londonon December 10, but the busi-nessman stressed that theextradition issue was a “sepa-rate” matter which will take its“own legal course”.

“The most important pointis public money and I amoffering to pay 100 per centback. I humbly request thebanks and Government to takeit. If payback refused, why,” hequestioned in one of his postson Twitter.

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Fifteen years ago when civicauthorities in Delhi con-

structed the “designer flyover”at AIIMS little did they realisethat this critical junction on theRing Road and AurobindoMarg will be in the grip ofgrinding traffic snarls onceagain.

Blame it on the lack of far-sightedness of Delhi’s urbanplanners, no traffic impactassessment was ever conduct-ed before carrying out themajor redevelopment work atEast Kidwai Nagar.

The Delhi Police said devel-opment of the entire townshipin the area that includes sevencolonies and the office complexwill have “significant impact”on traffic flow on the Ring

Road, Aurobindo Marg andAfria Avenue Road that cater toa large vehicular population inSouth Delhi areas.

Assistant Commissionerof Police (South District ) said,“The redevelopment sites ofGeneral Pool Residentialaccommodation colonies inSarojini Nagar, Nauroji Nagar,Netaji Nagar andMohammadpur village are sit-uated along the inner ringroad and are well connectedwith major arterial roads ie;Ring Road, Africa Avenue ,Aurobindo Marg, Brigadier

Hoshiyar Singh Marg, etc, inthe vicinity of major medicalsites AIIMS and Safdarjunghospital.”

Interestingly, the AIIMSflyover on Ring Road caters toall traffic coming fromGhaziabad, Noida going toInternational Gandhi Airport(IGIA). Moreover, traffic come-ing from Gurugram to Delhimerges on the AIIMS flyover.

As the flyover is alreadyloaded and acting as centralbridge to NCR, it will be over-burdened with vehicles fromthe residential-cum-office

complex. South Extension,Hauz Khas, Green Park,Safdarjung Enclave andDefence Colony and manyother areas will get severely

affected. “Further the introduction

of fresh traffic from the upcom-ing projects is likely to increasethe traffic congestion and

increase the amount of vehic-ular pollution,” said the DelhiPolice affidavit.

Observations filed by theDelhi Police also highlighted

that the development of abovenoted major complexes in thevicinity of Inner Ring Road andother important corridors willhave a significant impact on thetraffic as inner ring road,Aurobindo Mary, AfricaAvenue Road are already satu-rated with heavy volume oftraffic resulting in slow move-ment of traffic.

“Before the developmentof a big commercial project atNauroji Nagar and Generalpool residential accommoda-tion colonies in Sarojini Nagar,Netaji Nagar andMohammadpur village firstrequire to ensure implementa-tion of infrastructural solutionby developers like widening ofnearby connecting roads name-ly - inner ring road,” the replyfield by the Delhi Police stated.

As per the report, AfricaAvenue, RTR, Shanti path,Brigadier Hoshiyar SinghMarg, Vijay RajeScindia Road will be the worstaffected. “Redesigning andremoval of bottlenecks, roadmarkings, carpeting of roads,parking facilities on and off thestreets Exxon these roads forsmooth movement and trafficmanagement of total trafficgenerated from the redevelop-ment of the above notedcolonies/ projects was essentialprior to develop the town-ship,” the Delhi Police said inits reply.

“It is assumed that with theincrease in the number of vehi-cles on the road the pollutionis likely to increase many folds,thus causing more pollution byvehicles.

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Accusing Prime MinisterNarendra Modi of being

the “protector, benefactor andpromoter” of AgustaWestlandand its parent companyFinmeccanica, the Congresson Wednesday demanded aCBI probe into Modi’s role in“exonerating” the Italiandefence and aerospace majorwhich was blacklisted by thethen UPA Government.

The party in a statementsaid the BJP and the PrimeMinister are “latching” on toChristian Miche for a “smear

campaign” against Oppositionleaders.

AICC chief spokespersonRandeep Surjewala alleged thatfacing “imminent defeat” inState polls, Modi and the BJPGovernment are seeking to“weave a web of lies” and con-struct a “mesh of deception to

hoodwink” the people of Indiain the chopper scam case.

In his rally in Rajasthan onthe last day of campaigningbefore the State elections onFriday, Modi referred to theextradition of Michel saying,“The Government has broughtthe middleman involved in ahelicopter scam from Dubai.He served politicians and willnow disclose secrets.”

“While the BJP and PMModi are seeking fake creditwithout being subjected toinvestigation by the CBI fortheir own complicity and con-nivance, they are latching on to

Christian Michel for commit-ting a smear campaign againstOpposition leaders. The truthof Christian Michel is alreadyout in the open,” he claimed.

Surjewala alleged the state-ment made by Michel’s advo-cate Rosemary Patrizi DosAnjos after his detention in Julyhad “clearly brought out” thatthe Modi Government and itsagencies were forcing him tosign a false confessional statement naming UPA chair-person Sonia Gandhi in returnfor complete exoneration fromany charge whatsoever in thecase.

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Hours after he was deport-ed to New Delhi from

Dubai, Christian Michel,accused and middleman inthe AgustaWestland VVIPchopper deal scam, was onWednesday produced before aDelhi court which allowed hisfive-day custodial interroga-tion. The CBI had sought a 14-day police remand.

Michel will again be pro-duced in the court onDecember 10. Michel was pro-duced before Special CBI JudgeArvind Kumar, who alloweddiscussion between him andhis advocate for five minutes.Michel landed in the nationalCapital around 11 pm onTuesday. He was then taken tothe CBI headquarters at theLodhi Road here at 1.30 am.

In its remand application,the CBI submitted that the cus-todial interrogation of accusedChristian Michel is required tounearth the deep-rooted con-spiracy and to identify hisaccomplices, including the IAFofficials, bureaucrats andpoliticians, who were instru-mental in changing the deci-sions, which madeAgustaWestland eligible to

participate in the biddingprocess and ultimately baggedit. The CBI submitted theaccused has to be confrontedwith a number of documents.

The counsel for CBI sub-mitted that investigationrevealed that Michel hadentered into as many as 12 con-tracts through two of his firms,namely Global TradeCommerce Ltd, London, andGlobal Services FZE, Dubai,with Finmeccanica,AgustaWestland, WestlandHelicopters, UK among othersto legitimise the illicit com-mission on the procurement of

VVIP helicopters by theMinistry of Defence, India.

The CBI also submittedthat an amount of Euro 42.27million was paid by theWestland Group Companies tothe firms of accused ChristianMichel as kickbacks withoutundertaking any work againstthe receipt of such amount.

The counsel for theaccused vehemently opposedthe remand application sayingthere is no need for police cus-tody and none of these docu-ments has been produced inany international court.

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Seeking to put to rest thecontroversy over EVMs in

Sagar, the ElectionCommission on Wednesdayrejected the Congress' chargeof "suspicious arrival" of thevoting machines in anunmarked bus to the districttreasury office. It said the buswhich was pointed out as“unmarked” (without anynumber) by the Congress,was officially requisitionedfrom the local municipality inSagar on November 15 itself.The EC also showed that theCongress candidate hadsigned the punchnama forthe safe deposit of the EVMsin the district treasury office.

In its complaint to EC,Congress MP Vivek Tankhahad claimed that 48 hoursafter the closing of polls inMadhya Pradesh, a schoolbus bearing no number plateand carrying EVMs reachedthe Sagar district collector'soffice. "This incident is a clearcase of certain parties andindividuals engaging in cor-rupt practices to manipulatethe outcome of the recentlyconcluded election," Congresshad said.

"There has not been anytampering whatsoever with

the machines. The responsibleNayab Tehsildar and AssistantReturning Officer RajeshMehra have been suspendedfor the delayed submission ofthe machines," the EC said.The Commission alsoremoved Vikas Singh, return-ing officer of Khurai con-stituency and placed Tanvihooda in his place.

According to EC, NaibTehsildar and Mehra weregiven the duty to bring thesereserved EVMs and depositthe same.

"These machines werebrought were brought in fourvehicles, three bearing num-bers MP-15-A-4636, MP-15-BA-0559, MP-15-40GA-0970and one without any numberbelonging to the local munic-ipality which had been requi-sitioned for election duty. 50-Bus, 26-CUs and 42 VVPATin Khurai constituency were

deposited on November 30 inthe district treasury office,Sagar. A verification of the listof these deposited machineshas been done by tallyingtheir numbers with the over-al l l ist of the reser vedmachines and no discrepancyis noticed," the EC said in itsorder.

Earlier, Tankha had

claimed, "The objective ofthis was ostensibly to depositthese machines with the officeof the col lector. These spare EVMs were to bedeposited two hours after thepolls and not after two days.This happened in the Khuriaseat from where the StateHome Minister is contestingthe polls."

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The Election Commission onWednesday ordered the

removal of Superintendent ofPolice of Telangana's Vikarabaddistrict over the arrest ofCongress' A Revanth Reddy aspolice observer found his deten-tion "unwarranted".

An official communicationissued by Telangana ChiefElectoral Officer Rajath Kumarin Hyderabad said, "TheElection Commission of Indiahas ordered the transfer of TAnnapurna, IPS, SP Vikarabad,immediately and posted SriAvinash Mohanthy IPS (RR

2005) in place of her withimmediate effect."

It is also directed thatAnnapurna's services are notutilised for election purpose, theorder said. The commissionhas also directed thatAnnapurna be attached to thepolice headquarters, EC officialssaid. The observers are deployedby the EC to keep an eye on var-ious issues related to elections.

In the early hours ofTuesday, the Vikarabad policehad taken Telangana PradeshCongress Committee workingpresident Reddy into preventivecustody citing law and orderissues.

Reddy's arrest came aheadof Chief Minister KChandrasekhar Rao 's meetingat Kodangal. Reddy had givena Kodangal bandh call andasked the party workers to stageprotests across the constituencyagainst the visit of the chief min-ister.

He was let off, but only afterRao's meeting at Kosigi in theAssembly segment got over.Condemning the police action,Congress president RahulGandhi had said the TelanganaRashtra Samithi governmentresorted to it "due to fear ofdefeat." Telangana goes to pollson December 7.

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New Delhi: CBI Director AlokVerma and Special DirectorRakesh Asthana were fightinglike "kilkenny cats", exposingthe country's premier investi-gating agency to "publicridicule", the Government toldthe Supreme Court onWednesday while justifyingthe decision to divest Verma ofhis duties.

Attorney General (AG) KK Venugopal also told thebench headed by Chief JusticeRanjan Gogoi that theGovernment was well "withinits right to intervene" and send

both officers on leave by divest-ing them of their powers. Thetop law officer also assertedthat "only the God knowswhere and how this fightbetween the two top officerswould have ended" if the gov-ernment would not have takenthe action which was aimed atrestoring the public faith in theCBI.

"The Government waswatching with amazement. Thetwo top most officers werefighting like kilkennycats...Dispute between the CBIDirector and Special Directorwas pulling down integrity andrespect of premier institution,"Venugopal told the bench, alsocomprising Justices S K Kauland K M Joseph.

"fight like a Kilkenny cat"refers to an old Irish story

about two cats who fought tothe death and ate each other upsuch that only their tails wereleft. It is often used figurativelyof two people who are vehe-mently opposed in attitudes oropinions to the extent thatthey will never agree and willspark fire off each other when-ever they meet.

The AG further submittedthat the two top officers, Vermaand Asthana, were "fightingagainst each other and wentpublic which exposed CBI topublic ridicule."

Referring to media reports,he said that their public fightgave print and electronic media"a field day". "It was the duty ofthe Government to ensure thatconfidence of public in this pre-mier institution is restored," hesaid. PTI

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New Delhi: Continuingits crackdown on theembattled AmrapaliGroup, the SupremeCourt on Wednesday

ordered attachment and sale of the realty firm's five-starhotel, cinema hall, malls and factories across India, callingit "a worst kind of cheater" and "a perfect liar" for not com-plying with the court's direction.

The top court also ordered attachment of four swankycorporate offices of Amrapali Group situated in Noida andGreater Noida, and asked the Debt Recovery Tribunal(DRT), Delhi to auction them.

The top court gave a window to the firm's directors andtheir family members to return home-buyers' money, if theyhave it, by December 10. It asked the firm to explain bynext week the diversion of around �3,000 crore of home-buyers money for other purposes. A bench of Justices ArunMishra and U U Lalit issued notice to the Amrapali GroupCMD Anil Sharma and its directors, Chief Financial offi-cer and statutory auditor Anil Mittal, asking them why acriminal case for breach of trust should not be lodged againstthem. "You (Amrapali Group) are a worst kind of cheaterin the world. You have cheated the home buyers all alongand now you want to sell the facilities created for them. Thefacility area created for the home buyers is not a charity youhave done to them," the bench said after it was told thatthe real estate firm wants to sell a nursery school, an openspace and a nursing home to raise funds. PTI

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New Delhi: Delhi is facing "severeproblems" due to unauthorised con-struction and encroachment which canbe gauged from the fact that the spe-cial task force (STF) has already clearedas much as 28 lakh square metre ofsuch area, the Supreme Court said onWednesday.

A bench headed by Justice MadanB Lokur was informed that the STF,constituted in April following the apexcourt's order to oversee enforcement oflaws on illegal construction and mon-itor the removal of encroachmentshere, has also cleared about 3,202 sq mtof roads, streets and footpaths.

The bench, also comprisingJustices Deepak Gupta and HemantGupta, was told that so far the STF hasreceived around 7,000 complaints outof which about 3,400 complaints havebeen dealt with and efforts were beingmade to recruit additional staff for thetask force so that they could do theirworks expeditiously. PTI

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New Delhi: The Supreme Courton Wednesday approved theCentre's draft witness protectionscheme and asked all the Statesto implement it till Parliamentcomes out with a legislation.

A bench headed by JusticeA K Sikri said they have madesome changes in the scheme.

The issue of witness pro-tection scheme had cropped upearlier when the top court washearing a public interest litiga-tion (PIL) seeking protectionfor witnesses in rape casesinvolving self-styled preacher

Asaram Bapu.During the hearing on

November 19, Attorney GeneralK K Venugopal had told theapex court that the draft scheme,which has now been finalised,would be made into a law "indue course", but till then thecourt should direct the States tostart implementing it.

The top court was also toldby advocate Gaurav Agrawal,who is assisting the court as anamicus curiae in the matter, thatthe Government has finalisedthe draft witness protection

scheme after discussing it withall the States.

The draft witness protectionscheme, finalised in consultationwith the National Legal ServicesAuthority (NALSA) and Bureauof Police Research andDevelopment (BPRD), has threecategories of witnesses based onthe threat perception.

In April this year, the Centrehad informed the top courtthat it had framed a draft witnessprotection scheme and it wascirculated among the states andUnion Territories administration

for comments.The court had asked the

Centre to finalise the schemeafter getting response from theStates and Union Territories.

The court had said thatwitness protection scheme canbe implemented for at least sen-sitive cases and the Ministry ofHome Affairs could come outwith a comprehensive plan. Thedraft of the Witness ProtectionScheme, 2018 states that it is thefirst attempt at the national-levelto holistically provide for theprotection of the witnesses,

which will go a long way in elim-inating secondary victimisa-tion.

The witnesses, being eyesand ears of justice, play animportant role in bringing per-petrators of crime to justice, thedraft noted. "This schemeattempts at ensuring that wit-nesses receive appropriate andadequate protection. This will goa long way in strengthening thecriminal justice system in thecountry and will consequentlyenhance national security sce-nario," the draft said. PTI

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The Federation of Hotel andRestaurant Associations of

India (FHRAI) on Wednesdayaccused two major online travelaggregators (OTAs) of allegedlyoffering 'illegal' discounts that, itsaid, were harmful to hoteliers andcustomers in the long run.

Citing violation of the legalpact, the FHRAI has now putMakeMyTrip and GoIbibo onnotice and also threatened to holda nationwide protest against OTAentities.

Terming as 'unethical' and'exploitative' business practices bythe OTAs, the FHRAI in a state-ment issued here alleged, "Thebiggest industry concern is thatafter securing discounted ratesfrom a hotel, the OTAs further dis-count it on their online platformswithout our consent. This damagesour reputation and distorts themarket scenario."

FHRAI Vice President andHotel and Restaurant Associationof India, Western India, presidentGS Kohli pointed out that they(OTAs) have a clause in theiragreement forbidding hotels fromdiscounting their own rates but arethemselves free to do so, besidesdemanding exorbitant commis-sions, hosting illegal and unli-cenced Bed & Breakfast accom-modations.

The OTAs commissions rangefrom 18-40 per cent, adversely hit-ting the revenues, business andlivelihood of the hotel industry, healleged.

"An immediate solution to theissues that threaten our livelihood,investments and businesses isextremely necessary and call for anactive dialogue with the OTAs,"added FHRAI Joint SecretaryVenkada Subbu.

The FHRAI also called theOTAs move to provide Bed &Breakfast (B&B), motels or accom-modations even when they wereunlicensed on their platforms as"illegal", which disrupt the businessof the organised hotels.

"More than 40 per cent of theroom inventory available on theOTAs is illegally operated. The socalled B&Bs are operating withoutvalid licenses from local or Stateauthorities. Since these operators donot have to pay for licences and thestatutory fees, they are cheaper bydefault. This disrupts the spirit of alevel playing field by pitting the flyby night operators against the organ-ised sector and is also a huge loss tothe exchequer," S K Jaiswal, VicePresident (North), FHRAI alleged.

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Army Chief GeneralBipin Rawat on

Wednesday urged girlstudents from Jammu& Kashmir to studyhard and compete forArmy's 'Super 30'coaching programmeand build their careerthrough good educa-tion.

Making this pointhere while interactingwith 18 girl studentsfrom various schoolsin the Valley, he saidthere is no other placelike Kashmir when itcomes to scenic beautyand a sublime environ-ment. "But, terrorismhas vitiated the atmos-phere," he said.

"Unlike Kashmir,you do not see bunkersin Delhi or gun-totingsecurity personneleverywhere. Peopleroam here at night inpeace. The KashmirValley also had peaceand people in Srinagareven used to go forstrolling in parks atnight or for a movie, but it's not there anymore," he said.

Rawat reiterated that infiltrators come from Pakistanto our side and create trouble and said if you also wantprogress and development in the Valley, take this mes-sage from here, and tell the people there that guns arenot good. Various militant outfits have been trying toradicalise the youths in Kashmir valley by using differ-ent means including online propaganda.

During the interaction, the Army Chief asked the stu-dents about their aspirations and while some said theywanted to become civil servants or police officers or doc-tors, only a single student said she wanted to be a teacher.

Rawat told them that the Army runs "Kashmir Super-30" — a free, special coaching programme for studentsto prepare them for entrance examinations for admissionto IITs and NITs.

He also said the Army is working with NGOs to havea similar programme for medical examination aspirants."So, work hard, compete for 'Super 30' for engineering career,and for NEET exam too, once we have it in place," he said.

The Army had earlier this year signed an MoU witha state-run firm and the National Integrity EducationalDevelopment Organisation (NIEDO) for medical aspi-rants, under which selected students will be provided withfree residential coaching for the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET).

The students, ranging from class 7-11 arrived hereon Monday and have visited the Red Fort, Rajghat andConnaught Place market in Delhi, and will see the HazratNizamuddin Dargah and take a Metro ride before head-ing to Chandigarh, an official accompanying them said.

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New Delhi: The SupremeCourt on Wednesday observedit was "extremely unfortunate"that Jharkhand Governmenthas not yet prepared an actionplan for urban homeless andsaid that the State should do itsoon so that such people were"spared the vagaries of winterseason".

A bench headed by JusticeMadan B Lokur was informedthat except states of Jharkhandand Jammu & Kashmir, allother states and union territo-ries have finalised action plansfor urban homeless for the win-ter season. When the bench,also comprising Justices DeepakGupta and Hemant Gupta,asked Jharkhand's counsel aboutit, the lawyer said he hasreceived instructions only thismorning and sought a days timeto apprise the court about it.

"It appears that the state ofJharkhand has no plan for thewinter. This is extremely unfor-tunate. We expect the state ofJharkhand to prepare a planwithin next couple of days sothat urban homeless are sparedthe vagaries of winter season,"the bench said. The counselappearing for Jammu &Kashmir said as per 2011 cen-sus, the number of urbanhomeless in the State wasaround 250 and provisionshave been made to provideblankets and other facilities tothem. PTI

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New Delhi: Prime MinisterNarendra Modi will inauguratethe Bogibeel Bridge — thelongest rail-road bridge in thecountry — on December 25,coinciding with the birthanniversary of late prime min-ister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, asenior railway official said onWednesday.

The 4.94-km BogibeelBridge is the country's longestrail-road bridge, connectingthe south bank of theBrahmaputra river inDibrugarh district of Assamwith Silapathar in Dhemajidistrict, bordering Arunachal

Pradesh."The prime minister will

inaugurate the bridge onDecember 25, which is alsoobserved as the GoodGovernance Day by the gov-ernment," the official told PTI.

While the then prime min-ister, H D Deve Gowda, hadlaid the foundation stone forthe bridge in January 1997, thework had started only in April2002, after Vajpayee laid thefoundation stone for the pro-ject, along with the then railwayminister, Nitish Kumar.

The first freight trainpassed through the bridge on

December 3 after several dead-lines for the completion of theproject were missed in thepast 16 years.

The bridge, which hasthree-lane roads on top and tworailway tracks below, is part ofinfrastructure projects plannedto improve the logistics alongthe border in ArunachalPradesh. This includes the con-struction of a trans-Arunachalhighway on the north bank ofthe Brahmaputra and new roadand rail links over the mightyriver and its major tributariessuch as the Dibang, Lohit,Subansiri and Kameng. PTI

New Delhi: Uttar PradeshGovernment told the SupremeCourt on Wednesday they havepaid 80 per cent money, �51.89lakh, to Delhi-based School ofPlanning and Architecture(SPA) which is entrusted withthe task of preparing a visiondocument for protection ofTaj Mahal.

The State Government tolda bench of Justices Madan BLokur, Deepak Gupta andHemant Gupta that the balanceamount as per the terms of ref-erence would be released short-ly to SPA which would sooncome out with the document.

Advocate Aishwarya Bhati,appearing for Uttar Pradesh,said that besides this, remu-neration of about �6 lakh forthree experts who have workedwith SPA in the exercise, hasalso been sanctioned.

On November 29, the apexcourt had told the Uttar PradeshGovernment that the visiondocument should be made pub-lic once it is finalised as there is"nothing secret" about it.

The SPA had told the courtthat process of preparing thedocument would be complet-ed within a "few days" and asper terms of reference, they

would submit it to the StateGovernment.

The Centre had alsoinformed the court that firstdraft of heritage plan for TajMahal, which is to be submit-ted to the United NationsEducational, Scientific andCultural Organisation(UNESCO), was ready and itwould be finalised within eightweeks.

The top court had earlierasked the authorities to take alarger perspective on issues ofpollution and green cover whilepreparing a vision document,saying there would not get a

"second chance" to preserve theTaj Mahal.

The top court, which hasbeen monitoring developmentin the Taj Trapezium Zone(TTZ) to protect the Taj, hadearlier slammed the Centre,Uttar Pradesh Governmentand TTZ authority for theirfailure to restore the pristineglory of Taj Mahal.

The TTZ is an area ofabout 10,400 sq km spreadover the districts of Agra,Firozabad, Mathura, Hathrasand Etah in Uttar Pradeshand the Bharatpur district ofRajasthan. PTI

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The Office of ChhattisgarhChief Electoral Officer

(CEO) will be holding a meet-ing of all the 27 district col-lectors on Thursday here inview of the counting of votesfor 90 assembly constituenciesscheduled on December 11from 8.00 am.

The counting is to be heldat all district headquarters.

Amid the mounting pres-sure from the political partiesover the suspicion of tam-pering of the ElectronicVoting Machines (EVM) inthe state, the meeting is con-sidered to be crucial for all theDistrict Electoral Officers andalso Returning Officers ofassembly constituencies. Theywill be assisted by AssistantReturning Officers in thecounting of votes.

Chhatt isgarh ChiefElectoral Off icer SubratSahoo will chair the meeting

with all other officers of hisoffice.

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re ce ive d , t he Dis t r i c tElectoral Officers will alsobe imparted training on the

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steps to be taken in case ofany e m e rge n c y du r i ngcounting and other aspects.

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The laptop of a Sub-Inspector Vikram Kumar

Nehra deputed for security atthe Strong Room in the premis-es of Agriculture ProduceMarketing Yard here has beenseized, officials informed.

The concerned police offi-cer has been withdrawn fromsecurity duty, said BemetaraDistrict Collector MahadeoKawre while addressing a pressconference here on Wednesday.

EVMs have been deposit-ed in the Strong Room andhacking is impossible. Afterpolling process is completed,the EVM machine is switchedoff to shut it down by thePresiding Officer. The machineis switched on just before thecounting. The machine is notlinked with any internet con-nection, so for anybody hack-ing is impossible, he said.

Kawre said that EVMs havebeen kept on round-the-clockvigil by Border Security Force(BSF) personnel.

The Collector said that inNavagarh Assembly con-stituency 22 rounds of count-ing will be held, whileBemetara (20 rounds) and Saja

(21 rounds).The candidates after dec-

laration of result have to sub-mit their election expenseswithin 30 days, Kawre said.

“During the electionprocess, through Cvigil andNGS portal, 44 complaintswere recorded, out of whichSaja area had 13, Bemetara(20) and Navagarh (8) andthree complaints through NGSportal and local level, whichhave been resolved,” he point-ed out.

Kawre reiterated that theStrong Room would be openedon December 11 in presence ofElection Observer and candi-dates. Each table will have aMicro Observer.

Notably, late on Tuesdaynight, one of the Congressparty representatives, SunilNamdeo had gone for inspec-tion of Strong Room inBemetara where he noticedthe police personnel using thelaptop in the premises.

He raised objection to itand registered complaint withthe Collector and StateCongress President BhupeshBaghel and Bemetara DistrictCongress President AvnishRaghav.

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policeman deputed withTraffic Department here isholding awareness pro-grammes on traffic rules.

Mahesh Mishra hasinstalled traffic sign boardsin all the government col-leges, so that students canlearn about traffic signs .

He had also paid thetotal expense involved ininstallation of road signs

from his pocket.Additional to it, the

policeman holds specialcamps in schools and col-leges to create awarenessamong the youth on roadsigns and is motivating themto follow the traffic rules forsafe driving.

Mishra said, “My aim isto keep the road safety inmind for all and reduce acci-dents. If a person driveshaving knowledge of all traf-fic rules and signs, he willnot violate traffic rules.”

He with help of citizens

fills the potholes mostlyfound near squares and isa lso ensuring that theinjured after accidents areprovided basic medical treat-ment.

Mishra said, “The SchoolEducat ion Departmentshould include a chapter ontraffic signs and rules inschool curriculum.”

He feels that with traf-fic rules taught in syllabus,it will in a way help thechildren to learn the trafficrules and signs to curbaccidents.

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An important meeting ofthe leaders of Janata

Congress Chhattisgarh(Jogi) and alliance partnersBahujan Samaj Party (BSP)and Communist Party ofIndia (CPI) was held here onWednesday.

JCC (J) Supremo AjitJogi chaired the meeting.

All the 90 candidates ofthe alliance and office bear-ers of district units were pre-sent in the meeting whichwas also attended by AmitJogi, Richa Jogi, Renu Jogi,Chhattisgarh In-charge ofBSP, Ashok Siddharth, BSPleader M.L. Bharti, and CPIleader Manish Kunjam.

The senior leaders of thealliance also gathered feed-back from the candidatesabout the poll percentage.

Later JCC (J) SupremoAjit Jogi talking to media persons said thatthe alliance was going to form the gov-ernment after counting on December 11.

Regarding a query about possibility of

tampering of Electronic Voting Machines(EVMs), Jogi said it was not possible.Regarding attempt of other political par-ties to allure his party’s MLAs, Jogi said he

had faith in his candidates and the antidefection law also protects such an attemptas it needs 2/3rd of the members to makea split.

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Leader of Oppositionin the Chhattisgarh

Assembly, T.S.Singhdeo onWednesday said thatelectronic gadgets andequipment are strictlyprohibited in theperiphery of strongrooms and if suchitems are being detect-ed , than it certainlyraises suspicion.

“In one such inci-dent on November 27in Dhamtari, oneresponsible official ofState Governmentaccompanied by fourother persons stayedin strong room formore than three hoursalong with laptop andother instruments”, hesaid.

“It was surprising to notice that theyreached EVMs carrying electronic gadgets”,Singhdeo said.

“Similarly in Baloda Bazar district head-quarters some miscreants broke the securityarrangement at the rear of the strong room”,he charged.

“Now on December 4 once gain a policeofficial was found using a laptop near StrongRoom in Bemetara district headquarters”, hesaid.

Singhdeo further demanded from theElection Commission to take the matters seri-ously and order probe.

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Against the targetted area of 190,000hectares, sowing of wheat crop has

been completed in 55.57000 hectares inChhattisgarh, officials of StateGovernment's Directorate ofAgriculture informed on Wednesday.

Likewise, against the proposed areaof 97.12000 hectares, sowing of corn hasbeen completed in 15.51000 hectares,and paddy sowing work has been com-pleted in 0.05000 hectares against theproposed area of 55.57000 hectares.Barley and other crops have been sownin 4.20000 hectares against proposedarea of 5.56000 hectares. In this way,sowing of food crops has been com-pleted in 70.13000 hectares, against theproposed area of 348.25000 hectares.Chickpeas crop has been sown in115.41000 hectares against the proposedarea of 426.75000 hectares, peas hasbeen sown in 21.23000 hectares againstproposed area of 58.07000 hectares,lentils have been sown in 11.54000hectares against the proposed area of31.25000 hectares, moong has beensown in 6.93000 hectares against pro-posed area of 33.82000 hectares, uradhas been sown in 5.13000 hectaresagainst the proposed area of 23.28000hectares, tiwra has been sown in230.36000 hectares against the proposedarea of 323.28000 hectares, kulthi hasbeen sown in 14.43000 hectares againstthe proposed area of 26.74000 hectares,and other lentils crops have been sownin 0.50000 hectares out of the proposedarea of 0.80000 hectares. In this way,total area in which lentils crops havebeen sown in 405.53000 hectares againstthe proposed area of 923.99000 hectares.

Sowing work of flaxseed crop

has been completed in 25.11000hectares against the proposed area of60.21000 hectares, mustard and toriyahave been sown in 101.57000 hectaresagainst the proposed area of176.49000 hectares, til has been sownin 0.33000 hectares against the pro-posed area of 3.58000 hectares, sun-flowers have been sown in 0.43000hectares against the proposed area of

12.24000 hectares, kusum has beensown in 2.07000 hectares against theproposed area of 7.46000 hectares,peanuts have been sown in 4.98000hectares against the proposed area of34.42000 hectares, and other oilseedshave been sown in 0.44000 hectaresof proposed 1.88000 hectares. In thisway, oilseed crops have been sown intotal 134.93000 hectares against

296.28000 hectares, sugarcane hasbeen cultivated in 11.68000 hectaresin the proposed area of 49.28000hectares, vegetables in 87.46000hectares against proposed area of212.2000 hectares. In this way sowingwork of rabi crops has been complet-ed in 709.73000 hectares against theproposed area of 1.830000 hectares,which is 39% of the target.

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Go v e r n o rAnandiben

Patel appreciat-ed the rich cul-tural heritage oftribals depictedat the Museumo fAnthropologyat Jagdalpur while on a tour toBastar.

The Governor keenlyobserved the art and artefactsdisplayed at the Museum.

She observed the Dhurva,Muriya, Dandami Maadiya,Bhatra, Halba, Gadhba,Abhujmaadiya, Dhorla cultur-al traditions instruments.

The Governor also keenlyobserved the traditional liveli-hood vocations- hunting, fish-ing, agriculture, housing, mak-ing of Bell metal, Terracota,iron arts and other items.

The Governor alsoobserved the deities tribalsworship- Anga Dev, Dev Palki,Dev Doli.

Bastar District CollectorAyyaj Tamboli gave a detaileddescription of the 75-day longfestival and the people’s par-ticipation. She also purchased‘Jhitku-Mitki’ idols made of bellmetal.

The Governor wished theartisans a bright future andcalled upon the tribals to pro-tect their culture and tradi-tions.

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Aspecial CBI court inPanchkula has summoned

former Haryana Chief MinisterBhupinder Singh Hooda andsenior Congress leader MotilalVohra in the Associated JournalsLimited (AJL) land case.

Both of them have beenasked to appear before the CBIspecial court on January 3, 2019.The development comes afterthe CBI filed a chargesheetagainst Hooda and Vohra lastweek in connection with thealleged irregularities in the re-allotment of an institutionalplot in Panchkula to the AJL,which is allegedly controlled byCongress leaders.

The central agency, whichfiled the chargesheet, has allegedthat the re-allotment of the plothas caused a loss of Rs 67 lakhto the exchequer. The CBI hascharged the then Haryana ChiefMinister Hooda, who was also

the chairman of the HaryanaUrban Development Authority(HUDA), the then chairman ofthe AJL, Vohra, and the com-pany under the Indian PenalCode (IPC) sections related tocriminal conspiracy and theprovisions of the Prevention ofCorruption Act. In thechargesheet, the CBI has allegedthat the AJL was allotted a plotof land in Panchkula in 1982, onwhich no construction tookplace till 1992.

The HUDA had subse-quently taken back the posses-sion of the plot. The same plotwas re-allotted to the AJL at itsoriginal rates in 2005 by alleged-ly violating the laid down normsby the then HUDA chairman,Hooda, the CBI chargesheetalleged. The EnforcementDirectorate(ED) has alsoattached under the anti-moneylaundering law the plot of landin Panchkula that was allotted toAJL.

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Stalemate between PunjabGovernment and protesting

sugarcane growers come to anend on Wednesday eveningwith the government announc-ing Rs 25 per quintal bonusdirectly to the farmers besidesasking the private sugarcanemill owners to immediatelystart crushing operations —following which the farm lead-ers also announced to lift dhar-na.

At the same time, theGovernment also announcedimmediate release of Rs 65crores towards the interest onloans taken by private sugarmill owners to clear pendingdues of farmers.

The development cameafter the Chief Minister met theowners of the state’s privatesugar mills, including RajinderSingh Chadha, Kamal Oswal,Rana Inder Partap Singh,Jarnail Singh Wahid and KunalYadav, at his official residencein the afternoon.

Sugarcane growers havebeen holding dharna at sever-al places across state, blockingroads, outside different sugarmills, demanding payment oftheir dues.

After the Chief Minister’sannouncement, the messagehas been sent across and the

farmer leader Jangveer SinghChauhan, who has been lead-ing the protest by sugarcanegrowers at Dasuya, declaredthat they will be lifting thedharna now as their demandshave been met.

Earlier, some protestors atPhagwara refused to lift dhar-na demanding full pendingpayment of Rs 400 crore. Talksof the farmers continued forlong with Kapurthala DeputyCommissioner and SeniorSuperintendent of Police onbehalf of the State Government,who have been camping in ahouse close to dharna.

However, hours later, theprotestors announced remov-ing of dharna with two assur-ances — the Wahid SandharMill should make the pendingpayment by January 15 andsecondly, the mill should starttaking new stock of sugarcanein 10 days.

Capt Amarinder, afterholding detailed deliberationsduring which Cabinet MinisterTript Rajinder Singh Bajwa,Advocate General Atul Nanda,Chief Secretary Karan AvtarSingh, among others were alsopresent, directed the privatesugar mills to immediatelystart the crushing operations,which have already beendelayed by over a fortnight.

The Chief Minister said

that the State Governmentwould pay Rs 25 per quintal onsugarcane to the farmers direct-ly out of the State Assured Price(SAP) of Rs 310 per quintal,while the remaining Rs 285 perquintal would be paid to themby the private sugar mills.

Capt Amarinder has alsodirected the FinancialCommissioner (Development)to ensure smooth commence-ment of crushing, along withmeticulous implementation ofthe settlement reached betweenthe owners of the sugar millsand the State Government,said an official spokesperson.

In line with the commit-ment made by the StateGovernment in 2015 to bearthe interest on the loan of Rs200 crore taken by the privatesugar mills to clear the paymentof farmers for 2015-16 crush-ing season, the Chief Ministeralso announced that the StateGovernment would immedi-ately release accumulated inter-est, amounting to nearly Rs 65crore, directly to the farmers topartly clear dues of Rs 192 crorepending with the private millowners.

The private mill ownersassured the Chief Minister thatthe balance amount due to thefarmers for the crushing season2017-18 would be paid bythem directly at the earliest.

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In next two days, PUNBUSbuses with the National

Tourist Permit (NTP) wouldstart plying the passengersfrom Jalandhar to theIndira Gandhi International

Airport at New Delhi at anominal fare of Rs 1,100 perhead.

“Punjab Government isfully committed to providehassle-free transport services tothe people disembarking atthe Indira Gandhi InternationalAirport, especially the NRIcommunity.

The buses of PUNBUS,carrying national permit,would start plying within two days thepassengers from Jalandhar tothe International Airport at anominal fare of Rs 1,100 perhead,” said the state TransportMinister Aruna Chaudhary.

She said that the PUNBUSwas operating Volvo busesfrom Jalandhar to the IndiraGandhi International Airportfor more than a decade. “Butowing to some technical rea-sons around 15 days ago, thestate carrier buses operated byPUNBUS were stopped by theDelhi Administration citing aruling by the Supreme Courtunder which state carrier busescould operate only from thenotified bus stands,” she said.

Chanduhary said that thematter was taken up with theDelhi Government and theyagreed to make a Volvo busstand at Dwarka opposite inter-national airport.

“As the construction isgoing to take a couple ofmonths, the PUNBUS hasdecided to run buses with thenational tourist permit so as toprovide value for money ser-vices to the NRIs,” she said.

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Three persons were detainedfor possessing fake cur-

rency notes in the town onWednesday. The detainees wereidentified as Ibrar Kaji, HafizAnwar and Sakil Kaji, allBangladeshi nationals.

Locals nabbed the triofrom the Sahadevkhunta bus-stand in the town and seizedthree Rs 2000 counterfeit notesfrom their possession in theafternoon. Later, they handedthe accused to the police.

Reports said that the threeyouths had gone to Remuna byan auto-rickshaw fromSahadevkhunta 15 days ago.The three �100 notes they hadpaid to the autorickshaw driverwas reportedly fake.

However, when the autorickshaw driver spottedthe trio again at Sahadevkhuntabus stand on the day, he withhelp of other locals capturedthe trio and informed the police. Police detained themfor interrogation and seized afew fake notes from their pos-

session. The notes would be sent to

the Regional Office of ReserveBank of India (RBI) inBhubaneswar to ascertainwhether they are genuine or not.

However, the accusedrefuted the allegation of theirinvolvement in any fake noteracket. They said that theywere going to Remuna forfund collection to open amadrasa.

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State Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) Spokesperson

Bhupendra Singh Sawanni onWednesday termed the allega-tion of Chhattisgarh PradeshCongress Committee(CGPCC) President BhupeshBaghel over officials andemployees not complying withthe directives of ElectionCommission of India as ridicu-lous.

In a statement, Sawannisaid that the Congress partywith defeat looming large overit , the party is blaming the gov-ernment officials and employ-ees. He pointed out thatCongress leaders are creatingconfusion regarding the EVMin the state and country also. Itmeans the Congress leadershave lost faith in democracy, itsprocess and public mandate.

Meanwhile, State CongressSpokesperson Sushil Anandwhile reacting to comment of

BJP spokesperson said when-ever Congress raises issue ofEVM security before theElection Commission, BJPgives reply to it, which raisesdoubts.

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The Bharatiya Janata Partyshould not come to power

this time which would be in theinterest of Chhattisgarh”, saidJanata Congress Chhattisgarhleader Renu Jogi.

Renu was talking to mediapersons after the meeting ofJCC (J) held with party’salliance partners-- the BahujanSamaj Party and CommunistParty of India here.

Renu Jogi is at present sit-ting MLA from Kota assemblyconstituency had fought theassembly elections this timefrom her constituency withJanata Congress Chhattisgarh(JCC) (J) ticket. She took thisdecision after she was deniedticket by Congress party.

Talking about her chancesof winning and retaining theKota seat, Jogi said she is cer-tain about winning the pollsthis time too.

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Chhattisgarh PradeshCongress Committee

(CGPCC) President BhupeshBaghel on Wednesday said thatthere was every possibility ofsome officials interchangingreserve Electronic VotingMachines (EVMs) with themachines which were used forpolls.

Addressing a press confer-

ence here at Rajiv Bhawan,Baghel said there was a differ-ence of around 47,000 votes

between official figures and thefigures we received from ourpolling agents, he said.

Baghel also protested use oflaptop by an officer near strongroom in Bemetara, malfunc-tioning of CCTVs in Bhilai andentry of a Tehsildar in strongroom in Dhamtari.

Such an act of responsibleofficials are objectionable andcreates suspicion of tamperingof EVMs, he said.

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From Page 1“The Congress’ ‘gaaje-

baaje’ company thought theBJP was finished in Rajasthan.Now they are saying they arelosing due to infighting andrebel candidates,” he said.

He said in Dausa that fourgenerations of “naamdars”(dynasts) had shown no con-cern for tribal communities.Modi has often referred toGandhi derisively as “naamdar”.

“Their family is everythingfor Congress. The 125 crorepeople of the country is ourfamily,” he said.

Making a point to mentionkhadi, for which Dausa isfamous, he said the Gandhifamily had shattered MahatmaGandhi’s khadi dream.“Mahatma Gandhi worked tomake khadi self-reliant, but thefake Gandhi family obliteratedit,” he said.

Predicting a win for theBJP, he said people in thedesert State were clearly infavour of the party comingback to power. “ T h o s esinging Raag Darbari in NewDelhi will not come to knowabout the direction of waveflowing,” he said.

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and circumstances, submissionsmade by the parties, I deem itfit to grant 5 days police remandof the accused. Accordingly,the accused is remanded topolice custody for 5 days. TheCBI shall get the accused med-ically examined, as per rules.The accused shall also be enti-tled to get assistance from hisadvocate during interrogation.The CBI will permit counsel foraccused Aljo k Joseph or hisassociate Vishnu Sankar SriramParakkat to assist the accusedbetween 10 am to 11 am andfrom 5 pm to 6 pm on each day,Special CBI judge ArvindKumar noted in his order.

Michel’s counsel had alsofiled an application for bail butsought his application to be keptpending.

CBI sources, meanwhile,said, Michel expressed anxietylast night after which he wasexamined by doctors whoadministered him medicines.

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Istanbul: A Turkish prosecu-tor has demanded that arrestwarrants be issued againsttwo Saudi nationals close toCrown Prince Mohammedbin Salman over the murderof journalist Jamal Khashoggi,a Turkish source close to theprobe said on Wednesday.

Khashoggi, 59, was killedshortly after entering the Saudiconsulate in Istanbul onOctober 2 to obtain paperworkfor his upcoming marriage.

The chief prosecutor'soffice in Istanbul filed anapplication on Tuesday toobtain the warrants for Ahmadal-Assiri and Saud al-Qahtani,described in court documentsas being "among the planners"of the murder of theWashington Post contributorKhashoggi.

Assiri often sat in during

Prince Mohammed's closed-door meetings with visitingforeign dignitaries andQahtani was a key counsellorto the crown prince. Bothwere sacked after Riyadhadmitted Khashoggi was killedin the Saudi consulate.

According to Turkey, a 15-member Saudi team was sentto Istanbul to kill Khashoggi.

Turkish President RecepTayyip Erdogan has said theorder to kill Khashoggi camefrom the highest levels of theSaudi government, but hasinsisted it was not KingSalman.

Riyadh has since detained21 people over the murder.Despite speculation that thepowerful crown princeordered the hit, the kingdomhas strongly denied he wasinvolved. AFP

Noumea (New Caledonia): Apowerful 7.5-magnitude earth-quake shook off the coast of thePacific island of New Caledoniaon Wednesday, triggering atsunami warning that was laterlifted. No significant damagewas reported.

New Caledonia is a Frenchterritory in South Pacific witha population of about 270,000.It is a part of the Pacific's "Ringof Fire", where many earth-quakes occur.

The earthquake struck at adepth of 10 km, with its epi-centre 168 km east-south-east ofTadine, a town on one of NewCaledonia's Loyalty Islands, theBBC reported. "Based on allavailable data, the tsunami threatfrom this earthquake has nowpassed," the US-based PacificTsunami Warning Centre said ina statement. IANS

Washington: Robert Mueller,the special prosecutor in chargeof the Russia election meddlingprobe, recommended onTuesday that President DonaldTrump's former national secu-rity advisor Michael Flynn faceno jail time due to his "sub-stantial" cooperation with theinvestigation.

Mueller said in a court fil-ing that Flynn, who admitted

last year to lying about his con-tacts with Russians followingTrump's November 2016 elec-tion victory, had helped in hisand other unspecified federalcriminal investigations, includ-ing being interviewed 19 times.

Mueller also told theWashington Federal court thatdespite his "serious" offense, theretired three-star general andformer Pentagon intelligencechief had a strong record ofmilitary and public service.

The surprise recommen-dation came ahead of Flynn'supcoming sentencing, whichhad been postponed four timesover the past year.

Those postponementsindicated that, once hostile tothe investigation that threatensTrump and his inner circle, hehad possibly become a valuablewitness.

"Given the defendant's sub-stantial assistance and other

considerations set forth below,a sentence at the low end of theguideline range —including asentence that does not imposea term of incarceration —isappropriate and warranted,"Mueller said in a memoran-dum to the court.

Flynn's was the first guiltyplea secured by the Muellerinvestigation into alleged col-lusion between Trump's elec-tion campaign and Russia.

His position as a top-levelinsider in the campaign,accompanying Trump to keyevents, making a keynotespeech at the July 2016Republican convention, andthen taking hold of the WhiteHouse national security appa-ratus in Trump's first weeks inoffice, made him a potentiallyextremely valuable witness.

But many thought his ownproblems had likely compro-mised that value. AFP

Moscow: Moscow onWednesday dismissed USclaims that Russia is violatinga major Cold War treaty lim-iting mid-range nuclear arms,from which Washington isplanning to withdraw.

"Groundless accusationsare again being repeated," for-eign ministry spokeswomanMaria Zakharova said, after USSecretary of State MikePompeo declared Russia in"material breach" of theIntermediate Range Nuclear

Forces (INF) treaty."No proof has been pro-

duced to support thisAmerican position," Zakharovasaid.

She described the treaty asa "cornerstone of global stabil-ity and international security".

Kremlin spokesmanDmitry Peskov meanwhile saidfacts had been distorted "inorder to camouflage the truegoal of the US withdrawingfrom the treaty".

Pompeo said during a

meeting with fellow NATOforeign ministers on Tuesdaythat the US would withdrawfrom the deal within 60 days ifMoscow does not dismantlemissiles that Washington saysviolate it.

NATO said it was now "upto Russia" to save the treaty.

In October, PresidentDonald Trump sparked glob-al concern by declaring theUnited States would pull out ofthe treaty and build upAmerica's nuclear stockpile

"until people come to theirsenses".

But on Monday, the USleader said he wants talks withhis Chinese and Russian coun-terparts Xi Jinping andVladimir Putin "to head off amajor and uncontrollableArms Race".

Signed in 1987 by then USpresident Ronald Reagan andMikhail Gorbachev, the lastSoviet leader, the INF resolveda crisis over Soviet nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles target-

ing Western capitals.But it was a bilateral treaty

between the US and the thenSoviet Union, so it puts norestrictions on other majormilitary actors like China.

Pompeo on Tuesday saidthere was no reason why theUS "should continue to cedethis crucial military advan-tage" to rival powers.

The Trump administra-tion has complained ofMoscow's deployment ofNovator 9M729 missiles, which

Washington says fall underthe treaty's ban on missiles thatcan travel distances of between310 and 3,400 miles (500 and5,500 kilometres).

US-Russia ties are underdeep strain over accusationsMoscow meddled in the 2016US presidential election.

The two states are also atodds over Russian support forBashar al-Assad's regime inSyria's civil war, and the con-flict in Ukraine.

AFP

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A 12-member teamfrom the Saudi-backedgovernment headed byForeign Minister Khaledal-Yamani left Riyadh earlyWednesday, sources toldAFP, a day after rebel del-egates landed in Stockholmaccompanied by the UNpeace envoy.

The first Yemen talkssince 2016 are widely seenas the best chance yet forpeace, as the internationalcommunity throws its

weight behind efforts toresolve a conflict that haspushed the Arab world'spoorest country to thebrink of famine.

The Government del-egation was carrying the"hopes of the Yemeni peo-ple to achieve sustainablepeace", the head of exiledPresident AbedrabboMansour Hadi's office,Abdullah al-Alimi, said ina tweet.

The delegation haddelayed its departure untilthe rebels had arrived inStockholm after they failedto show up for the last UNbid to convene peace talksin September, sources closeto the Government toldAFP.

Washington: Pakistan continues touse Afghan Taliban as a "hedge"against India, a top US commanderhas told lawmakers, as he expressedAmerica's frustration over Islamabad'sfailure to take concrete steps to denysafe havens to terrorist groups.

Marine Corps Lt GenenralKenneth McKenzie's remarks camedays after US President Trump soughtPakistan PM Imran Khan's help in theAfghan peace process.

The Trump administration, in therecent months, has intensified itsefforts to seek a negotiated settlementof America's longest war inAfghanistan where the US has lostover 2,400 soldiers since late 2001,when it invaded the country after the9/11 terror attacks. PTI

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China has lately become very fondof archaeology though it is main-ly a ‘political’ archaeology. OnDecember 1, Xinhua publishedan article titled: ‘Qinghai-Tibet

Plateau first conquered by humans at least30,000 years ago.’ Does this mean that Chinaconquered Tibet much earlier than thought?History books tell us that the People’sLiberation Army (PLA) entered EasternTibet on October 7, 1950.

The news agency explained the earlier‘occupation’: “Thousands of stone artifactsrecovered from a paleolithic site in the TibetAutonomous Region (TAR) in southwestChina indicate that humans might have con-quered one of the highest and most ecolog-ically-challenging places on the globe.”

A total of 3,683 stone artifacts have beendiscovered from the 30,000-40,000-year-oldsite, including blades, flakes, chunks andtools, the last of which range from scrapers,awls, choppers, notches and burins. Thoughthe environment then was much warmer andmore humid, Gao, a researcher from theInstitute of Vertebrate Paleontology andPaleoanthropology, Chinese Academy ofSciences (CAS), admitted that humans didnot settle down permanently on the plateauat that time.

Xinhua concluded: “Most agree that thediscovery enormously prolonged human his-tory on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau with indis-putable archaeological evidence.”

Another article in Science mentioned alocation where the CAS team found piecesof stone artifacts, pottery shards as well as ani-mal bones. It was in a village in Nyingchi inthe TAR. What is interesting (and worrying)is that these researches come close to the dis-puted Indian border. The same phenomenonis happening elsewhere on the Indo-Tibetborder. For example, in Ngari Prefecture ofWestern Tibet. China is probably trying toestablish its political bonafide in the region.

Last month, Xinhua reported: “Chinesearchaeologists have excavated more than 20tombs thought to be around 2,000-year-oldin southwest China’s TAR”. The conclusionwas: “ancient tombs provide clues to mys-terious civilisation in Tibet.”

The idea is to prove that Tibet has notalways been Buddhist (which is true), sidelin-ing the importance of the religious Buddhisthierarchy, particularly the Dalai Lama. In earlyJuly, a project was launched by SichuanUniversity — Huo Wei, head of the School ofHistory and Culture of the universityannounced that “more than 70 artifacts havebeen found in these tombs in Peyang Tunggar[Dungkar] ruins [near Tholing, the capital ofthe former Guge Kingdom], including bronzemirrors, fabric, pottery, and accessories. Wefound millet in a pottery cup and tea in awooden box, which are believed to date backbetween the Han Dynasty and Jin Dynasty.”

Huo explained: “The discoveries showedthat there was a long stage of civilisation in the

Peyang Tunggar region, and thecivilisation had close ties with thesurrounding areas. BeforeBuddhism was introduced toTibet in the seventh century,there was a period calledShangshung culture according tohistorical recordings.”

Why is it important forIndia? It appears that Beijing isgoing to duplicate in Ngari whatit did in Nyingchi area and theexcavations give China a politi-cal legitimacy — it is the first the-oretical step, the road infrastruc-ture leading to the border and astring of model villages are thenext practical stages.

Moreover, three new air-ports will soon be constructed inthese frontier areas — Lhuntse(in Lhoka prefecture, north ofArunachal), Tingri (in ShigatseCity, close to the Nepal border)and Purang — which is locatedat the tri-junction with Nepaland India on way to the Kailash-Manasarowar yatra in Ngariprefecture. But that is not all.

A few days ago, China TibetNews reported that the TAR’sPreserving Institution ofCultural Relics had completedsome archaeological work onRelics of the Qing (Manchu)Dynasty at Yatung in theChumbi Valley, near Sikkim, anarea which witnessed theDoklam incident last year.

The so-called occupationof the Chumbi Valley by theManchus is a new way torewrite history and show thatthese areas close to the Indianborder have always belonged to

China …and are part of the SilkRoad, dear to ChinesePresident Xi Jinping.

The website speaks of “anirreplaceable section of SouthAsian corridor on the Silk Road,Yatung Custom Relics has beenrecognised as the witness of theCentral Government’s [Beijing]valid ruling over Tibet andChina's claim on sovereignty.”

‘Valid’ ruling is a new term,at a time when nobody disputesChina’s occupation of Tibet anylonger. The TAR ordered the‘repairing-for-salvage work’ ofthe relics and the TAR CulturalRelics Bureau set up a jointexpert group and conducted afield research, “during which sixbuildings and roads linking thebuildings have been discovered.”

The press release men-tioned: “The whole relics werefilled with collapse piles, and alarge number of porcelains, ironand bronzes were unearthed,too. Analysis on layout, scale andinterior structure of these build-ings has preliminarily shownthat they have been used asworking offices, dormitories forworkers and garrison, theTemple of Guan Yu, customsclearance place, as well as dailygoods trading center.”

Did the Manchus everoccupy the Chumbi Valley?Nobody has heard of thisbefore. China now wants to pre-serve the ‘evidence’ and con-serve the relics. The YatungCounty’s Communist Partycommittee and the YatungCounty Government jointly

formulated an EmergencyProtective Repair Plan withworking priorities for thepreservation.

Chinese ‘experts’ affirmedthat the Yatung Custom Relics“carries a lot of historical mem-ory. Preserving the relics hassignificant practical and histor-ical significance to study bor-der culture, develop patrio-tism, carry forward fine tradi-tions, safeguard national unity,as well as develop local tourismand economy.” A good prepa-ration to bring millions oftourists (soon by train) toIndia’s border! But there isanother angle omitted byXinhua and its other associatewebsites.

India had a beautiful TradeAgency in Yatung. The build-ing belonged to theGovernment of India. It wasvisited by the Prime Minister ofIndia in September 1958. It wasdestroyed by the Chinese PLAafter the 1962 war. Did not theYatung Relics Committee lookfor the vestige of Indian pres-ence in Tibet? Their approachthen seems rather selective!The Yatung Relics Departmentshould be asked to excavate thearea and open it to pilgrims,passing through the ChumbiValley on their way to theKailash Yatra. But perhaps theWuhan consensus does notallow such requests. Rules ofengagement should be fair.

(The writer is an expert onIndia-China relations and anauthor)

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But a question arises: Arethese efforts enough to pose aserious challenge to Modi’s lead-ership? The jury is still out.Coming to the ongoing electionsto five States, Rajasthan seems tobe a forgone conclusion. TheCongress will register a big win.

And if the grand old party isable to make a comeback eitherin Madhya Pradesh or even inChhattisgarh, even a 2-0 resultwill act as a moral booster forRahul Gandhi and his party inparticular. The twin wins willsurely give more teeth to theCongress to ask for a bigger

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Sir — This refers to Army ChiefBipin Rawat’s statement thatthe Army is not yet ready to

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To accelerate the pace ofdevelopment, it is obligatoryfor the Government to eradicatesuch stereotypes from the soci-ety and promote more recruit-ment of women in the IndianArmy. It must be rememberedthat it is not always necessary tobe great to make a start inorder to be great.

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Sir — This refers to the editor-ial, “Farmers’ plank” (November3). Farmers protest in Delhi,Mumbai and elsewhere bringfore the grim reality that they arefurious, and rightly so. Their aggression is understand-able. They had voted for the pre-sent Government with the beliefthat it would address agrariandistress.

Things as they stand todayare worrisome as farmers’ sui-cides have seen a massive rise.Besides, their problems haveworsened. Farm incomes havebeen affected by slower outputgrowth, higher costs andincreased vulnerability to cli-mate change. The policiesannounced by the Government,like loan-waivers and MinimumSupport Price for their cropshave not yielded results. Years ofcrippling debt, drought andfalling income have cast a shad-ow over the future of Indianfarming.

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With Delhi’s air quality slippingagain to the severe category,a series of desperate emer-

gency measures, such as ban on con-struction activities and restrictions ontraffic, has been imposed in the capi-tal. The Supreme Court-appointedEnvironment Pollution ControlAuthority is even considering a dras-tic ban on the use of non-CNG vehi-cles if air quality continues to deterio-rate. Delhi is just a case in point. Asmany as 14 Indian cities figure in thenotorious list of the world’s 20 ‘mostpolluted’, putting an entire generationof Indians at serious health risk.

Unfortunately, current policiesseem to be working on two fronts —knee-jerk emergency measures (most-ly coming from apex court directives)

and long-term plans to shift to electric-ity. But make no mistake, rolling outelectric vehicles (EVs) will take sever-al decades. And Indian cities do nothave the luxury of waiting for 50 yearsto see EVs become a reality. We needbreathable air now! The need is for animmediate policy intervention to phaseout the most polluting vehicles whilebringing about a rapid shift to cleanergaseous fuels, such as LPG and CNG.

BS-VI norms must be imple-mented immediately: Even amongpetrol and diesel run cars, the most pol-luting are the ones that adhere to 10-year-old emission standards. Replacingthe current fleet of BS-IV vehicles byBS-VI compliant ones rapidly canbring about significant improvement inair quality. BS-VI norms can reducePM 2.5 matter from diesel-run cars by80 per cent and nitrogen oxides by 70per cent. Nitogen Oxide emissions toowill reduce by 25 per cent in petrol-runvehicles after the implementation of BS-VI norms while sulphur emissions areexpected to come down from 50 partsper million to 10 ppm.

It was only last month that the

Supreme Court had directed theUnion Government to ensure thatonly BS-VI vehicles are sold in thecountry from April 1, 2020. TheGovernment must set clear targets toachieve this goal, and look for waysfor faster implementation by offeringincentives and tax breaks to manufac-turers to upgrade their technology. Itis claimed that implementing thesenew norms will require an investmentof nearly $0.013 trillion for newtechnology and upgradation of vehi-cles in inventory. However, the costof unhealthy citizens owing to loss ofman-hours worked on the nationaleconomy, at three per cent of the $2.6trillion GDP, is still larger.

Shift to quickly deployablegaseous fuels: Instead of single-mind-edly chasing the target of shifting toEVs, we need to look for some low-hanging fruits immediately. Switchingpublic transport to CNG in 2001 hadhelped Delhi significantly improve itsair quality in the initial years. However,these gains were offset by the risingnumber of private vehicles on the roads.It is necessary to convert a large num-

ber of private vehicles to gaseous fuelsas well. Again, focussing on CNG willbe another myopic act. Auto LPG isanother viable and quickly deployableoption for private vehicles.

In fact, auto LPG has severaladvantages over CNG. Globally, autoLPG is the third most commonly usedautomotive fuel after petrol and diesel;and seven of the 10 largest car manu-facturers produce LPG-powered cars.Auto LPG occupies meagre space in carboots and can be transported in cylin-ders via lorries to reach distant outpostsfor quick accessibility. Rapidly shiftingto a mix of these two gaseous fuels isa much easier task than shifting to EVs,and can bring about an immediateimprovement in air quality.

The Government needs to incen-tivise vehicle owners who convert toauto LPG and CNG. Incentives, suchas subsidising conversion costs and per-mit-free usage, can prompt a numberof users to make the shift to cleanerfuels. One important policy interven-tion urgently required is changing theexisting system of type approval byagencies like Automotive Research

Association of India. The prohibitiveapproval cost, which is as high as �4crore every three years, has beenextremely detrimental to the CNG andLPG retro fitment industry. TypeApproval Validity must be made per-petual in line with European norms asthere is absolutely no logic for the samevehicle to undergo the same cost pro-hibitive tests every three years.

Focus on two-wheelers:According to a recent report by theIndian Institute of TropicalMeteorology, Pune, under the Ministryof Earth Sciences, emissions from thetransport sector rose by a whopping 40per cent between 2010 and 2018 in theNCR region. The total emission of thedeadly particulate matter (PM 2.5) wasfound to have increased by 15 per centover these eight years, with the trans-port sector accounting for 42.230 giga-grams of emission every year. Notably,more than 40 per cent of the vehicu-lar pollution in Delhi comes from two-wheelers. Across the country, two-wheelers account for more than 75 percent of the vehicular population.

Unfortunately, most policy inter-

ventions fail to address this significantcause of pollution. Two-wheeler pol-lution cannot be addressed by EVs inthe long run. Much like four-wheelers,we need to start pushing two-wheelerstowards cleaner fuels. Here again, autoLPG makes for the most viable alter-native with a Two Wheeler ConversionKit available at an affordable price ofabout �5,000-5,500 along with a con-venient side fitment of LPG tank.

Reward clean commuters: Oneof the most interesting examples isthat of several European countries,such as France, Belgium,Luxembourg and Italy, that offer taxbreaks to those cycling to work. Theidea of rewarding sustainable com-muting behaviour is reaping rich div-idends. For example, over 400,000Belgians, or nine per cent of thecountry’s workforce, receive a cyclingreimbursement based on kilometrescycled to and from work. India cantake a leaf or two out of these suc-cess stories and start incentivising itscitizens who opt for green transport.

(The writer is Director-General,Indian Auto LPG Coalition)

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He wrote as Baba Nagarjun in Hindi butis revered as Vaidyanath Mishra ‘Yatri’in Maithili. Much has been writtenabout the poetic contribution by thisveteran bilingual writer. The truth, how-

ever, is that he was not only a poet par excellencebut also a distinguished novelist who did a great dealto democratise Maithili language and, particularly,its literature through his creative works. Yatri is oftenreferred to as a people’s poet. Accordingly, he choseto write in a language spoken by the ordinary peo-ple and took his subject matter from the life and expe-riences of those common men and women whomauthors before him largely ignored.

His first collection of poems called Chitra, pub-lished in 1949, has been read, understood and inter-preted as a path-breaking work in Maithili literature.It manifests a definite kind of rupture with the wayin which poetry was written by preceding poets, whoemployed ornate poetic diction and focussed on var-ious kinds of myths and conventions for their poet-ic practices. Yatri preferred to chart a different tra-jectory altogether. So, he parted ways from his pre-decessors in no uncertain terms and went ahead torefine and elevate colloquial idioms of the Mithilaregion by writing highly entertaining, engaging andsocio-politically transformative kind of poetry.Equipped with enormously useful literary tools andtechniques, such as irony, wit, humour and sarcasm,Yatri inaugurated what is usually termed as the rad-ical and modernist trend in Maithili literature.However, he never forgot to present a stringent cri-tique of the ill-effects of the idea of modernity itself.

A poem, Param Satya, of this collectionunequivocally highlights the tenets of what are calledprogressive thoughts. It is seen as an indicator of thefact that Yatri did not have inhibitions to exhibit hisindebtedness to Marxist ideas, which supposedly hadtremendous influence on the formation of his cre-ative consciousness. Such influences, indeed com-mitments to an ideological persuasion for certainkinds of socio-political transformation, are bothenabling and disabling for a wonderfully gifted andinsightful author of his stature. These enabled himto openly repudiate both in terms of language andcontent stereotypical conventions perpetuated by theapparently privileged previous poets. It is also dis-abling in the sense that ideologically-oriented poet-ry tends to lose sight of the fact about literature, pri-marily meant to maintain an autonomous status andavoid overtly occupying political space, whichinevitably turns out to be selective, rather exclusivein its approach and reach.

His second collection of poems namely,Patrahina Nagna Gaachha, was published in 1967and it brought the prestigious Sahitya AcademyAward for Yatri the following year. This collectionconsists of 43 poems. They narrate the misery andmisfortune, insult and humiliation, trial and tribu-lation of the people from the periphery because ofthe aggressive and unbridled onslaught of theprocesses of industrial modernisation. It subtly indi-cates the consistent decline and decadence of villages,migration of villagers to the urban centres, and dis-tasteful indulgence of city-dwellers that caused innu-merable problems to the disadvantaged. It indeedembodies the disturbing menace which the so-calledidea of progress has generated in the name of indus-trial development. The very title of the poem remindsus that the notion of industrial growth is inherent-

ly antithetical to the health and happinessof trees and in turn to the sustenance ofour environment. Yatri was critical of thebandwagon of modernity that went hor-ribly wrong despite its vociferous claimsto be a harbinger of progress and prosper-ity all around.

However, in no way was he willing toeither romanticise or glorify traditionalrural structures. In fact, he was extreme-ly critical of some of the prevailing sys-tems of pre-modern set-up. Being akeen observer of the existing realities anda highly discerning mind to make senseto their contemporary relevance, Yatriwalked a tightrope, aiming to bring outthe kind of changes required for a harmo-nious and peaceful co-existence betweennature and human beings. Yatri wrote asmany as 12 novels of which three werewritten in Maithili. Drawing upon the tra-dition of novel-writing by Harimohan Jha,he decided to delve much deeper into theissue of incompatibility in marriage withall the subsequent catastrophic conse-quences in the first two novels, such asParo and Navaturia. The first one unfoldsthe entire story in the first-person narra-tive by protagonist Birju, who narrates theunimaginable sort of suffering and pathosof his cousin, Paro. Through his narration,he brought to fore the inexplicably inhu-man practice of child marriage prevalentin the then Mithila region. Older men withriches and wherewithal used to get mar-ried with young girls with consent andcomplicity of their fathers who, becauseof their abject poverty, could not resist thetemptation of monetary gains out of suchmurky marital deals.

To ensure the successful completionof those material transactions, a personcalled ghatak was always available. Thisperson would arrange meetings betweenthe two parties belonging to the bride andthe bride groom respectively. And hemade sure that marriage took placeaccording to the set terms and conditions.The unfortunate fact was that most of suchmarriages were destined to get doomed

as was that of Paro. Emotionless, aged hus-bands, who were actually agents of cru-elty, tortured young brides. They knewnothing about expressing love and affec-tion, generated not only anger, bitterness,disappointment and frustration, but alsodownright hatred for them and hostilityfor the very institution of marriage. Yatriappeared to ruthlessly expose the brutal-ities committed against young girls in anunequal relationship that mark suchincompatible marriages.

Moreover, the novel mentions themutual attraction, sacrosanct love and afine understanding between two cousins.Paro very categorically acknowledgesher wish that marriage between brothersand sisters would be extremely wonder-ful. Both Birju and Paro nurture beauti-ful wishes for each other but remain alertto the limitations and restrictions that thesocial code of conduct imposes uponthem. This novel rightly raised many eye-brows. A number of readers and criticsdisliked what they thought to be the themeof incest. This part caused such furore thatit was discussed much more for the con-troversy it generated than for the socialproblem it so successfully raised.

Nonetheless, it was an innovativeattempt to deal with the issue of incom-patibility in marriage. With tremendouspoise and poignance, Yatri unfolded thereprehensible behaviour of utterly insen-sitive, irresponsible and indeed absolute-ly cruel men against their own wives, whodue to irresistible kinds of social pressures,were compelled to make many compro-mises to unsuccessfully save the failedmarriages.

His second novel, Navaturia, builtupon the same theme of incompatibilityso pervasive in the then marital relation-ships of the region. He was keen ondemonstrating that young and energeticminds need to come together to sensitisesociety, sometimes even resorting totough measures if persuasive means failto deliver that. The way youngsters comeforward and prevent an ugly marriage

between a 60-year-old man and a younggirl, Visesari, who finally got married witha young boy with a progressive outlook,shows the pre-occupation of the novelistwith making a significant statementabout the indispensability of a concertedactivism for the resolution of the problemof incompatibility in marriage. Besides,Yatri also tried to re-awaken the collec-tive consciousness of the young genera-tion that can effectively protest against theunjust practices of the older generation inorder to free young women from theshackles of an entirely suffocating systemof marriage.

His third and last novel in Maithili,Balchanma, was about a dynamic herowho came from the socio-politicallybackward caste. Yatri’s engagement withdemocratising Maithili literature wasexplicit and at its peak in this novel, whichfocussed on the enterprising character ofpeople from the periphery. It also empha-sised on the need for a mass movementalong democratic socialist lines to sharp-en the sense of camaraderie among thepoor and exploited for the sake of encour-aging them to participate in the decisive,democratic struggle for a just socio-polit-ical order devoid of poverty, exploitationand oppression of any kind.

By and large, his oeuvre evidentlypresented a serious kind of indictmentof those regressive traditions andcounter-productive modern tenden-cies which proved to be a disaster for thedowntrodden as was pretty much evi-dent from his scathing critiques of notjust obscure socio-cultural practices butalso emergent modernity which endedup creating numerous problems for themasses. His creative endeavours weremainly governed by the democraticprinciples dealing as they do with thefundamental question of justice, aimingequality in human relations and theestablishment of an egalitarian societyin our country.

(The writer is Assistant professor ofEnglish at Rajdhani College, Delhi)

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The DMK-led Oppositionparties in Tamil Nadu have

warned the Centre that theywould break India and get theState seceded from the Union.The ultimatum was issued byVaiko, founder of the MDMKand K Veeramani, the DravidaKazhakam leader, during amammoth rally held atTiruchirapalli late on Tuesdayevening.

MK Stalin, president,DMK, who was the chief guestof the rally declared that hefully endorsed the demandsmade by Vaiko and Veeramani.The DMK chief went one stepfurther and declared that hisparty would not allow PrimeMinister Narendra Modi toenter Tamil Nadu.

The root cause for theoutbursts of the Dravidianleaders was the permissiongiven by the Central WaterCommission to theGovernment of Karnataka toprepare a detailed projectreport (DPR) on the dam tobe built at Mekedatu acrossthe Cauvery River.

“We will break India. Wewill not allow Narendra Modi

to enter Tamil Nadu even foran election campaign,” saidVaiko. Others who were pre-sent during the occasionincluded S Thirunavakarassar,president, TNCC.

“Secession from India willbecome inevitable for TamilNadu if Karnataka is allowed tobuild a dam across Cauvery,”declared Vaiko and Veeramani.The DMK leader remindedthe Centre that DMK founderCN Annadurai had said that hisparty would give up thedemand for secession but hehad announced that the reasonsfor secession were still alive.

Tamil Nadu Chief MinisterEdappadi Palaniswamy has writ-ten a letter to Prime MinisterModi informing him about theconcerns of the State over themove by Karnataka to go aheadwith the preparation of theDPR to build the Mekedatu bal-ancing reservoir-cum-drinkingwater project, Palaniswamy hadalleged in his letter thatKarnataka’s motive behindbuilding the dam was not onlyto provide drinking water but toincrease the extent of irrigationin that State and this was againstthe verdict of the Cauvery WaterDispute Tribunal.

Vaiko’s call for secession

and Stalin’s support for thesame has come at a timewhen the Tamil NaduLegislative Assembly is meet-ing to discuss the contentiousissue. Governor BanwarilalPurohit ha convened a specialsession of the legislativeassembly on Thursday to dis-cuss the proposal of theKaranataka Government tobuild a reservoir.

What is to be noted is thatthe call by Dravidian leadersto secede from India hasbecome quite frequent in thelast one year. Stalin, whileaddressing a meeting at Erodein March declared that southIndian States should standtogether and demand a sepa-rate Dravida Nadu.

“If such a situation comes,it would be welcome. We hopethat such a situation arises,”Stalin had said. The DMK his-torian K Thirunavukarassupointed out that the demandfor separate Dravida Nadu wasa live issue and it still figuredprominently in theConstitution of the party.

Govind Bharathan, seniorlawyer, pointed out that Stalin,Vaiko and Veeramani havelanded in trouble with the dec-larations they made onTuesday. “They could be hauledinto a court of law under theprovisions of the Sedition Act.It will cost them dear,” saidBharathan.

The threat of Dravidianleaders to break from India hascome at a time when TamilNadu is preparing to host thesecond edition of the GlobalInvestors Meeting in the monthof January 2019.

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The saffron proliferation inBengal is a direct outcome

of a crumbling red fort. And theTrinamool Congress will neverallow the “CPI(M) harmads” toresurrect into a “saffron jallads(butcher)”, Mamata Banerjeesaid on Wednesday.

The Bengal Chief Ministerwas addressing a rally atBajkul in East Midnaporewhere she told a huge crowdthat “the CPM’s harmads whohad once unleashed a reign ofterror in your area — elimi-nating tens of innocent peo-ple who left their homes neverto come back — are nowentering the saffron camp torise their ugly heads onceagain. They will have to bestopped once again.”

Alleging that the CPI(M)was supplying manpower to theBJP and the Bengal unit of theCongress was playing a catalystto this Mamata’s Bengal wouldnever back a party that was

responsible for driving awaythe Bengalis from Assam.

“They are trying to captureBengal. But why will the peoplehere vote for them when theirparty is driving away Bengalisfrom Assam in the name ofNation Register for Citizens.Out of 40 lakh people who arein NRC’s rejection list, 23 lakhare Hindu Bengalis,” Mamatasaid asking “will you still backthe BJP which is victimisingyour brothers there in Assam?”

The BJP divide people onthe basis of caste, language andreligion and their Governmentin Gujarat was driving away theBiharis. Attacking the BJPGovernment for slappingdemonetisation “that ruined theeconomy” Mamata said “thepeople from Bengal — particu-larly from Malda, Murshidabad,Midnapore North and South 24Parganas who had gone to BJP-ruled States like Gujarat andMaharashtra are now comingback not only out of fear of per-secution but also because they

have lost their jobs due todemonetization.”

Listing the good works herGovernment had done notwith-standing an unfriendly andnon-cooperative CentralGovernment up there in DelhiMamata said “we have intro-duced Kanyashree (providingcycle to lakhs of girl students),Rupashree (providing monetaryhelp for higher studies), SabujSaathi (providing bicycles toboys), �2 per kg rice to about 8crore people, old-age andwidow allowance scheme, apartfrom free education, and med-ical health in newly built super-speciality hospitals.”

None of the Governments inIndia could compete with thegood works her Governmenthad done in Bengal.

“But the BJP is trying toundermine the development byimporting a new divisive culturein our State. They are trying toincite communal violence but wewill not allow them to do so,” theChief Minister said.

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Patidar leader Hardik Patelon Tuesday urged the

Congress party to move a pri-vate member's bill in the nextsession of the GujaratLegislative Assembly for reser-vation to his community.

Patel met Leader ofOpposition in the Assembly,Paresh Dhanani, inGandhinagar to discuss the issue. During their meeting,Dhanani told him that his partyhad already moved a privatemember's bill seeking 20 per centreservation for economicallyweaker sections among the unre-served category.

Addressing a press confer-ence in Gandhinagar after themeeting, Patel said, "We havecome to the leader of opposi-tion with a demand that in thenext session of the state leg-islative assembly, they shouldbring a bill for quota."

He said he urged theCongress to table a bill in theHouse as the BJP Governmentin the State was "not payingheed" to their demands.

"In Maharashtra also thereis a BJP Government. Butthere, the Maratha communi-ty has been given reservation.In Gujarat, the BJP has beenruling for the last 25 years stillthey have not provided any

quota to us," he said.A bill that grants 16 per

cent reservation to Marathas inGovernment jobs and educa-tion was unanimously passedby both the Houses of theMaharashtra legislature onThursday, meeting a long-pending demand of the influ-ential community, which con-stitutes 33 per cent of the state'spopulation of around 13 crore.

"If a private member's billcomes up for discussion, thenthe BJP will have to make itsposition clear on quota for ourcommunity," Patel said.

Dhanani, who was alsopresent at the press confer-ence, said in March this yearhis party's state unit chiefAmit Chavda (who is also anMLA) had moved a bill forreservation to economicallyweaker sections among theunreserved category.

"I told Hardik that theopposition party has alreadydone this," he said.

However, before every ses-sion of the Assembly a draw isconducted to randomly selectthe private members' bills fordiscussion in the House,Dhanani explained.

"I would request the rulingparty to take up the reservationbill without holding a draw inthe next session of the assem-bly," he said.

"In the bill, we have sought20 per cent quota for the eco-nomically backward amongthe upper castes," he said.

In May 2016, the GujaratGovernment had issued anordinance for 10 per centreservation to economicallyweaker sections among theunreserved category in edu-cational institutions andGovernment jobs.

The decision was takenfollowing an agitation by thePatel community. The reserva-tion was to be given over andabove 50 per cent reservationsfor SCs, STc and OBCs.

However, that ordinancewas quashed by the GujaratHigh Court in August 2016,terming it as "unconstitution-al" and "illegal".

From August 2015, Patelhas been spearheading aprotest against the state gov-ernment for quota to thePatidar community.

"It is good that after thePatel community gave an appli-cation last month to the chair-man of OBC commissionSugnaben Bhatt with a demandto conduct a survey of the com-munity to establish its socialbackwardness, some membersof the Rajput and Brahmincommunities have alsoapproached the same commis-sion for a survey of their castesalso," Patel said.

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With the BJP-sponsoredtriple Rath Yatras — the

first one scheduled to begin onDecember 7 from Coochbeharin North Bengal — hitting aroad block in the absence ofadministrative clearance theBengal saffron leadership onWednesday moved the CalcuttaHigh Court seeking appropri-ate orders on the issue.

Approaching the Court ofJustice Tapobrata Chakrabartythe BJP leadership said despiterepeatedly writing letters seek-ing permission from the StateDirector General of Police,Home Secretary and theInspectors General of Policeconcerned they had notreceived any communicationfrom the other side.

The BJP’s Yatras are sched-uled to start from Coochbeharon December 7, Ganga Sagaron December 9 and Birbhumon December 14. All the Yatraswill be inaugurated by partypresident Amit Shah and will

be addressed by top party lead-ers like UP and Assam ChiefMinisters Yogi Adityanath andSarbananda Sonowal. PrimeMinister Narendra Modi willalso address four rallies atSiliguri, Durgapur, Malda andBirbhum during the Yatra.

Responding to the petitionState Advocate General KishoreDutta said that the BJP had notwritten to the appropriateauthorities for permission towhich the saffron outfit saidsimilar letters had also beenwritten to the SPs of the dis-tricts concerned. The Judgehowever advised the parties tosettle the issue amicably beforereturning to the Court. Thematter would be taken up forhearing on Thursday noon.

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Srinagar: National Conferenceon Wednesday paid tributes tothe party founder SheikhMohammad Abdullah, popu-larly known as Sher-e-Kashmir, on this 113th birthanniversary. Commemorative functionswere held across the State,with main congregationalfunction held at his mau-soleum at Naseem Bagh on thebanks of Dal Lake.

National Conference presi-dent Farooq Abdullah and vicepresident Omar Abdullah ledthe senior party leaders andfunctionaries in paying tributesto Sher-e-Kashmir.

"The best tribute to Sher-e-Kashmir would be to leaveno stone unturned to fight forthe honour and dignity of ourpeople who have sufferedimmensely due to variouspolitical machinations, insta-bi l ity and turmoil , " Farooq Abdullah said after

offering 'fatiha' at his father'sgrave.

Omar Abdullah, whilepaying tributes to his grand-father, said the party is com-mitted to nurture his legacy ofsecular thinking and inclusiveapproach for one and all.

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Agartala: Ruling BJP’s allyIPFT has postponed itsWednesday’s shutdown inTripura following a meetingwith Chief Minister BiplabKumar Deb, an IndigenousPeople’s Front of Tripura(IPFT) spokesman said here onWednesday.

They will, however, goahead with a proposed sit-in-demonstration in Delhi nextweek to press for its decade-olddemand for separate State forthe tribals, introduction ofNRC in Tripura, he added.

"After a high level meetingbetween Chief Minister BiplabKumar Deb, Deputy ChiefMinister Jishnu Dev Varmaand our top party leaders thestrike was postponed lastnight (Tuesday)," IPFTspokesman and AssistantGeneral Secretary MangalDebbarma said.

The party delegation was ledby Revenue Minister and IPFTPresident Narendra ChandraDebbarma. "However, we arefirm to hold a sit-in demon-stration in Delhi next week andsubmit a memorandum toPrime Minister Narendra Modiand Home Minister RajnathSingh highlighting the party'sdemands," Debbarma said.

The IPFT, a tribal basedparty, as part of its agitations ear-lier announced to observe a 12-hour shutdown in the Tripura

Tribal Areas AutonomousDistrict Council (TTAADC)areas on Wednesday.

"The IPFT and its sevenfrontal organisations had calledfor the strike in the TTAADCareas in support of the party'slong pending demands." Theother IPFT demands includeintroduction of the NationalRegister of Citizens (NRC) inTripura, withdrawal of theCitizenship (Amendment) Bill,2016, introduction of inner-linepermit in the TTAADC areasand inclusion of tribals'Kokborok language in the 8thSchedule of the Constitution.

The IPFT has been agitat-ing since 2009 for a separateState to be carved out byupgrading the TTAADC,which has a jurisdiction overtwo-thirds of the State's 10,491sqkm area, home to over12,16,000 people.

In the nine-memberCouncil of Ministers, headedby Chief Minister BiplabKumar Deb, there are twoIPFT ministers — Debbarmaand Tribal Welfare and ForestMinister Mevar Kumar Jamatia(General Secretary).

Meanwhile, another tribalbased party — IndigenousNationalist Party of Tripura(INPT) — has also called aroad and rail blockade in Tripuraon December 10 on almost thesame issues. IANS

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Astatement made by Union MinisterPrakash Javadekar anticipating a political

dhamaka in Karnataka has churned the saffronbrigade which has been setting eye on poach-ing a few MLAs to destabilise the coalitionGovernment of the JD(S) and the Congress inthe State. Speculation is rife about luring someMLAs through ‘operation Lotus’, a BJP strate-gy to poach leaders to topple theKumaraswamy Government.

Javadekar had claimed that the “unholyalliance” between the JD(S) and Congresswas set to fall soon. “We were the single-largest party in Karnataka, but fell short offorming the Government by just sevenseats. The JD(S) and Congress are known foropportunistic politics and can never give astable Government in the State,” he said.Javadekar was the BJP Karnataka in chargefor the 2018 elections.

Meanwhile a Cabinet Minister inKumaraswamy Government Ramesh Jarkiholea powerful leader from Belagavi did not attendthe cabinet meeting on Wednesday giving teethto lot of speculations.

Leader of Opposition in the LegislativeCouncil and BJP leader Kota SrinivasPoojary fanned rumours, claiming thatstate cabinet minister Ramesh Jarkiholiwas likely to switch sides. "Ramesh Jarkiholiis mentally away from the current govern-ment. He has talked about his pain. Whoevercomes to the BJP, we will welcome them".

Union Minister DV Sadananda Gowda,also said the Kumaraswamy led coalitionGovernment will fall on its own. He said"The Government would collapse because ofits internal rifts. We will have to wait and seeif the upcoming Belagavi session is com-pleted”.Meanwhile Chief Minister HDKumaraswamy who is running a fragilecoalition rubbished the BJP’s predictions

and said,“ T h i searthquake

by the BJP has been happening for the past sixmonths. It’s only about making noise. OurGovernment is strong as a rock. This topic isdead. We will continue to rule for the full termin office.”

Another Congress leader and a Minister DKShivakumar a powerful vokkaliga leader said"BJP leaders are frustrated. Javadekar’s statementsuggests that they are indulging in horse-trad-ing. We have given our word to CMKumaraswamy that the coalition Governmentwill complete its full term.” Former Karnatakachief minister and the convener of the Congress-JD(S) coordination committee Siddaramaiah hitout at the BJP for its alleged attempts to dislodgethe Government.

"These people are trying to come to powerthrough unethical means from day one.Already they failed once. Now they (BJP) aretrying again by investing money," he said.”Aren't they ashamed for trying to topple theGovernment? This Government will continuedespite their attempts," he added.

Ahead of cabinet expansion the demandsfor berth has led to visible rebellion within thecentury old party. But according to sources theparty high command has asked Kumaraswamyand Siddaramaiah to douse the fire.

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In a relief to the MaharashtraGovernment, the Bombay

High Court on Wednesdayrefused to grant an interimstay on its new legislation grant-ing 16 per cent reservations ineducation and Government jobsto the Maratha community.

Two days after AdvocateGunaratna Sadavarte filed aPublic Interest Litigation (PIL)on behalf of his client JayashreePatil, a member of the IndianConstitutionalist Council (ICI)challenging the new MarathaReservations Act, a HC bench ofChief Justice Naresh Patil andJustice MS Karnik briefly heardthe petitioner and the state gov-ernment, before adjourning thepetition for a detailed hearing onDecember 10.

While refusing to order aninterim stay on the newMaratha Reservations Act, theHC agreed to grant a detailedhearing on all pending petitionson Maratha reservations onDecember 10.

The PIL, filed by Sadavarte,says that the new MarathaReservations – better known asthe Maharashtra State (of seatsfor admission in educationalinstitutions in the state and forappointments in the public ser-vices and posts under the state)for Socially and EducationallyBackward Classes (SEBC) Act,2018 — is in violation of the 50

per cent cap imposed by theSupreme Court on reservations.

Among other things, thepetition States that the Marathacommunity — the Kunbi-Marathas — have already beengiven a reservation under theOther Backward Classes (OBC)category and the additionalreservations will only create aclass within a class, affectingthose who do not belong to anyreserved category.

Opposing a stay on thenew Maratha Reservation Actsought by Sadavarte, State’scounsel VA Thorat told thecourt that the petitioner couldnot seek a stay on the state leg-islation through a PIL.

In his argument, Thoratsaid that most of the pendingpetitions pending in the highcourt opposed the Marathaquota on the basis of the 2014Act that provided for reserva-tion to those belonging tosocially backward communi-ties in the State. However, the2014 Act now stood repealedand the state legislature hadrecently ratified the newMaratha Reservation Act tocover the issue of quota for thecommunity. "The new legisla-tion takes care of all legalgrievances that existed in the2014 Act," Thorat told the HC bench.

After hearing both sides, theHC bench decided to combine

together all the pending petitionson the issue of Maratha reser-vation and hear them collectivelyon the next date.

With the high court agree-ing to a PIL challenging theMaratha Reservations Act, thereis considerable apprehension inthe minds of the ruling BJP,Opposition parties and Marathacommunity that the new reser-vation might get entangled inthe legal complications.

Their apprehension stemsfrom the fact that by enactinga law granting 16 per centreservations to Marathas, theMaharashtra Government hasexceeded the 50 per cent cap onreservations imposed by theSupreme Court and in theprocess followed the suit of theTamil Nadu Government.

Currently Maharashtrahas 52 per cent reservations injobs and educational institu-tions. Of the total 52 per centreservations, SCs and ST com-munities account for 13 and 7per cent, respectively, whileOBCs have 19 per cent percent reservations, Together,Special Backward Class andNomadic Tribes account for 13per cent.

The Marathas, who havenow been accorded 16 per centreservations in education andGovernment jobs, account fornearly 33 per cent of the total11.25 crore population ofMaharashtra.

Once the Maharashtra StateSEBC Act comes into force,then the total reservations in theState will go up to 68 per cent— next only to Tamil Nadu thathas 69 per cent reservations.

Though Devendra Fadnavisdispensation has not clarified asto how it would face the scruti-ny of the new law in theSupreme Court, it looks like theMaharashtra Government willtake the route taken by theTamil Nadu Government underlate chief minister Jayalalithaa,which achieved its objective ofincreasing reservations to 69 percent by passing the Tamil NaduAct of 1994 and adding the 1994Act to the Ninth Schedule of theConstitution.

Article 31B of theConstitution stipulates that thelegislation in the NinthSchedule cannot be challengedin courts. However, in 2007, theSupreme Court in IR Coelho v.State of Tamil Nadu ruled thateven those laws which areplaced in the Ninth Scheduleare subject to judicial review ifthe laws violate the basic struc-ture of the Constitution.Interestingly enough, a petitionchallenging the Tamil NaduReservation policy is expectedto come up for hearing beforethe Supreme Court in the near future.

Even for getting itsMaharashtra Reservation Act2018 included in the Ninth

Schedule of the Constitution,the BJP-led MaharashtraGovernment will have toinvolve the BJP-led NarendraModi Government which ofcourse will be more than will-ing to help the DevendraFadnavis dispensation. But, themove will have to undergo dueConstructional processes whichwill take time – a thing the BJP-led Maharashtra Governmentdoes not have on hand.

As a precautionary mea-sure, the Maharashtra had onMonday filed a caveat in theSupreme Court seeking a hear-ing in the event of anyone chal-lenging the new MaharashtraReservation Act granting 16 percent reservations to Marathas ineducation and jobs.

The move came three daysafter Maharashtra Governor CVidyasagar Rao signed theMaratha reservation bill enact-ing the law. The bill had earli-er been passed unanimously byboth the Houses of Maharashtraon November 29.

The caveat , f i led byAdvocate NishantKatneswarkar on behalf of theMaharashtra Government inthe apex court, reads thus: “Noorder be passed in the matterwithout notice to theMaharashtra Government.The caveator (MaharashtraGovernment) was the autho-rised party who issued theMaharashtra Act.”

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Asoldier sustained injuriesin north Kashmir’s Uri

sector after artillery troopsfrom Pakistan resorted tosmall arm firing during aceasef ire violat ion onWednesday.

Security sources said thatthe ceasefire violation wasreported from Kamalkote vil-lage along the Line of Control(LoC) in Uri sector of northKashmir’s Baramulla district,around 100 ki lometers from here.

Reports said thatPakistani forces used Sniperrifle to target Indian Armyjawan guarding the fence.

The jawan was injured inthe incident and investigationwas launched to ascertain thefacts about the attack.

The Indian troops alsorepulsed the attack. Therewas no conformation ondamaged caused on the otherside of the LoC.

Meanwhile, unknowngunmen shot at and injured acivi l ian Hilal Ahmad at Gangarpora village in southKashmir’s Pulwama district late on Wednesday.

Sources said that Ahmadreceived a bullet in his leg andwas immediately shifted to nearby hospital for treatment.

His condition was statedto be stable.

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Fomer Jammu & KashmirChief Minister Farooq

Abdullah on Wednesdaylauded Pakistan premierImran Khan’s latest peaceovertures and urged uponthe Government of India torespond positively to find outsolutions to the long-pendingissues between the two neigh-bouring countries.

Abdullah who representsSrinagar in Lok Sabha whileaddressing a gathering atannual day function of Sher-e-Kashmir Institute ofMedical Sciences (SKIMS),said that Khan’s recent state-ments have rekindled hopeamong the people of Kashmirthat a day would dawn whenthey would be able to live ina free atmosphere.

“I foresee a time when mycolleagues, friends and familymembers move around with-out security. It is perhaps forthat day, God has kept megoing. I wish that day comeswhen the two neighboringcountries of India and Pakistanlive in camaraderie,” he said.

The SKIMS was foundedby his father SheikhMuhammad Abdullah andwas named after him duringhis lifetime.

Abdullah asserted thatonly democratically electedGovernments will advance

the cause of development andwill work for the socio-eco-nomic emancipation of theunderprivileged.

“I look forward to electionsfor the state assembly at an ear-liest. Only a popularGovernment can mitigate themounting woes of the people.And it is the duty of people toelect honest people to the leg-islature,” he said.

Abdullah said that secularfabric of the country was underconstant threat and polarisationof the population is done tomeet political goals.

“Many powers that are inim-ical to the secular character ofIndia are making bigotedattempts to polarise the people onreligious lines to garner support.This is dangerous for a countrylike India,” he said.

“People want answers forall those fanciful promises thatwere made by the BJP. Peoplecannot forget the ordeal thatthey had to undergo due todemonetization. Small busi-ness men and small enterpriseholders too are at the receivingend due to the promulgation ofGST,” he said.

Earlier, addressing a gath-ering at the grave of his fatheron his 113 birth anniversary,Abdullah accused theGovernor administration inJammu & Kashmir for fid-dling with the autonomousinstitutions.

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The Reserve Bank of India(RBI) on Wednesday

expectedly kept interest ratesunchanged but held out apromise to cut them if theupside risks to the inflation donot materialise.

It also coaxed banks to lendmore in order to support theslowing economy.

With all the six member ofthe monetary policy commit-tee (MPC) voting for a hold onrates, the RBI kept benchmarkrepurchase (repo) rate at 6.5per cent.

Having raised rates twicethis year, the central bankretained its ‘calibrated tighten-ing’ policy stance.

“Even as inflation projec-tions have been revised down-wards significantly and some ofthe risks pointed out in the lastresolution have been mitigated,especially of crude oil prices,several uncertainties still cloudthe inflation outlook,” it said ina statement.

While the statement wassilent on future outlook oninterest rates, RBI GovernorUrjit Patel at the customarypost MPC meeting press con-ference held out hope of a

reduction if upside risks toinflation did not materialise.

“If the upside risks wehave flagged do not materialiseor are muted in their impact asreflected in incoming data,there is a possibility of spaceopening up for commensu-rate policy actions by theMPC,” Patel said.

He said the MPC retainedits stance at calibrated tighten-ing “so as to buy time to pause,reflect and undertake futurepolicy action with more robustinflation signals”.

The RBI lowered inflationforecast for the second half ofthe fiscal year that ends inMarch 2019 to 2.7-3.2 per centfrom a range of 3.9-4.5 per cent.The projection is below themedium-term target of 4 percent.

Inflation in October easedto a 13-month low of 3.31 percent.

It retained GDP growthforecast for the current fiscalyear at 7.4 per cent.

In a bid to boost lendingby banks by freeing upresources, the RBI loweredthe reserves lenders are com-pulsorily required to hold inthe form of Government secu-rities.

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Reserve Bank Governor UrjitPatel on Wednesday refused

comments on the friction withthe Government, including theinvocation of the never-before-used Section 7 or the pro-posed economic capital frame-work for the central bank.

Speaking at the customarypost-policy presser rpt presserafter the fifth bi-monthly policyreview, wherein the policy rateswere left unchanged, Patel parriedthree questions on these issues.

“I would avoid those ques-tions because we are here dis-cussing the monetary policyresolution,” the Governor said.

Another questions seekinghis views on deputy governorViral Acharya’s public postur-ing on RBI autonomy and onthe economic capital manage-ment framework were also metwith similar replies.

“Is this related to the MPCresolution? I don’t think so. Weare here to discuss the MPCresolution and the macro-economy,” said Patel, who was

facing the press for the firsttime since the issues came outinto the open in October.

Relations between the MintRoad and North Block souredsince late October, after thefinance ministry mandarinsstarted consultations under thenever-before-used Section 7 ofthe RBI Act which empowersgovernment to direct the centralbank to undertake certain pol-icy measures in public interest.

According to central banksources, the Government hadsent three letters to the RBIbefore October 10 with nearlya dozen demands, which werereplied to within a week.

The Government primar-ily wants the RBI to help thestruggling non-bank lendersand MSMEs get some liquidi-ty support, liberalise theprompt corrective actionframework on 11 of the state-run banks and undertake othersteps which will help pushgrowth, while RBI has beenmaintaining a conservativestance avoiding any bad prece-dents.

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The Reser ve Bank onWednesday lowered retail

inflation projection in therange of 2.7-3.2 per cent forthe second half of the currentfiscal, citing normal mon-soon and moderate foodprices.

The broad-based weak-ening of food prices impartsdownward bias to the head-line inflation trajectory goingforward, the RBI said in itsfifth bi-monthly monetarypolicy announced here.

Meanwhile, the centralbank maintained status quoin monetar y policyannouncement, leaving thekey interest rate unchanged at6.5 per cent.

In its previous policyreview in October, the apexbank had projected the retailinflation to be around 3.9-4.5per cent in the October-March period of 2018-19.

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Benchmark indices nursedlosses for the second

straight day on Wednesday asthe RBI left the repo rateunchanged, while global mar-kets wobbled on renewed con-cerns over the US-China tradedispute.

The BSE Sensex tumbled249.90 points, or 0.69 per cent,to close at 35,884.41. Similarly,the broader NSE Nifty fell84.55 points, or 0.74 per cent,to end at 10,784.95.

All sectoral indices on theBSE finished with losses, led bymetal, pharma and rate-sensi-tive auto and banking stocks.

The Reserve Bank of IndiaWednesday left the repo rateunchanged at 6.5 per centwhile maintaining the stance of‘calibrated tightening’ of poli-cy.

In a bid to boost lending,the RBI lowered the reserveslenders are compulsorilyrequired to hold in the form ofgovernment securities.

However, it failed toenthuse the markets, which hadopened weak and dropped fur-ther after RBI’s policyannouncement.

Weakness in the rupeeagainst the US dollar alsoweighed on sentiment, traderssaid. The local unit fell 11paise to 70.60 against the USdollar intra-day.

“Nifty performed in linewith the weak internationalcues and shut the shop withlosses... Nifty Midcap andSmall-cap indices fell evensharply by 1.5 per cent and 1.8per cent respectively.

“Key US indices tumbledmore than 3 per cent onTuesday on the combinedonslaught of inversion in bondyields and fresh jitters on trade,”said VK Sharma, Head PCGand Capital Markets Group,HDFC Securities.

Sun Pharma, under theregulatory lens for alleged cor-porate governance lapses, wasthe biggest loser in the Sensexpack, declining 6.59 per cent.

Other laggards includedTata Steel, Vedanta, TataMotors, M&M, Coal India andITC, falling up to 4.27 per cent.

Top gainers included HUL,HDFC, HDFC Bank, Wipro,Reliance Industries and AdaniPorts, spurting up to 2.07 percent.

Global investor sentiment

turned weak following uncer-tainty over negotiationsbetween the US and China ontheir trade dispute.

US President DonaldTrump and his Chinese coun-terpart Xi Jinping had agreed toa truce at the G20 meet.

Trump, however, muddiedthe waters by suggesting thepossibility of an extension oftrade talks.

“The negotiations withChina have already started.Unless extended, they will end90 days” from Saturday, Trumptweeted.

On a net basis, foreignportfolio investors (FPIs) soldshares worth �55.89 croreTuesday, while domestic insti-tutional investors (DIIs) werenet sellers to the tune of�521.38 crore, provisional dataavailable with BSE showed.

Brent crude, the interna-tional benchmark, was trading0.53 per cent lower at $61.75per barrel.

Elsewhere in Asia, Korea’sKospi fell 0.62 per cent, Japan’sNikkei dropped 0.53 per cent,Hong Kong’s Hang Seng shed1.62 per cent and ShanghaiComposite Index gained 0.61per cent.

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The Foundation Stone for theConstruction of New

Integrated Terminal Building ofVijayawada Airport was laid bythe Vice President of India, MVenkaiah Naidu on December4, 2018.

The Ceremony took placein the August presence ofSuresh Prabhu, Union Ministerof Commerce&IndustryandCivil Aviation, Jayant Sinha,Union Minister of State forCivil Aviation and otheresteemed dignitaries. The firstinternational f light from

Vijayawadat oSingaporewas alsoinauguratedthe sameday.

T h eN e wIntegratedTe r m i n a lBuilding ofVijayawadaAirport will spread over 35000Sqm and is being developed bythe Airports Authority ofIndia(AAI) at the cost of �611crores. The airport would be a

steel and glass structure withstate-of-the-art passengerfriendly facilities with peakhour handling capacity of 1200passengers.

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Navratna CPSEunder the Ministryof Coal, Governmetof India has about10,000 employeeson the rolls underthe Non-Executivecategory.

The revisionof wages, allowances and incen-tive schemes benefiting the10,000 employees was due since01.01.2017. To revise the same,a Joint Negotiation Committeewas formed comprising therepresentatives of theManagement and the TradeUnions (CITU & LPF) basedon guidelines receiving fromDPE, Govt. of India.

The Committee after hold-ing several rounds of negotia-tions had arrived at a consen-sus and the same was finalisedby the Senior Managementteam consisting of Functional

Directors and CMD. Based onthe agreement, aMemorandum ofUnderstanding (MoU) for therevision of wages, allowancesand incentive schemes hasbeen inked Wednesday atChennai between theManagement of NLC IndiaLimited and Trade Unions inthe presence of the CMD andthe Functional Directors ofNLCIL and the Senior CentralLeaders of the Trade Unions(CITU & LPF).This will beimplemented after the approvalof Board of directors of NLCIL.

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With elections around thecorner, SKOCH Group,

India’s topmost independentthink-tank for socio-econom-ic issues with a focus on inclu-sive growth, on Wednesdayorganised 54th SKOCHSummit on the state of Power,Oil and Gas to take stock of thepower sector and discuss thereforms carried out in the lastfour years of the currentGovernment.

The Summit witnessed alarge gathering of eminentindustry leaders and dignitariesfrom State and Central govern-ment organizations including,Anand Kumar, Secretary,Ministry of New & RenewableEnergy, Saurabh Chandra,Former Secretary-Petroleumand Natural Gas, Governmentof India and Chairman, MCX,NK Verma, Managing Directorof ONGC Videsh, and BPYadav, Joint Secretary, Ministryof New & Renewable Energy toname a few.

The country’s power sectorhas been going through a mas-sive transformation.

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Ousted Nissan chairmanCarlos Ghosn will face a

further accusation of under-reporting his salary by aboutfour billion yen ($35.5 million)over the last three years,Japanese media reportedWednesday.

Tokyo prosecutors plan to“rearrest” the business tycoonalong with his right-hand manand former Nissan representa-tive director Greg Kelly byMonday, according to majormedia including the Nikkeiand the Mainichi newspapers.

If confirmed, the new alle-gation would come on top of anexisting accusation that thepair conspired to understateGhosn’s pay by some five billionyen in official filings during thefive years up to March 2015.

Japanese prosecutorsdeclined to comment on thereports regarding the duo, whowere arrested on November 19and remain in custody.

In Japan, a suspect can bekept in custody and “rearrest-ed” several times on differentallegations, a system that hassparked some criticism in theinternational media.

They have yet to be offi-cially charged with any crimeand deny the allegations,reportedly insisting they hadchecked with authorities aboutthe way they declared themoney.

In a move that stunned thebusiness world, Ghosn wasarrested at a Tokyo airport onNovember 19 on suspicion ofunder-declaring his income.

Authorities then had 22days to question him overthese suspicions. That periodruns out on Monday, meaningthey are likely to rearrest himover the new allegations, givingthem a further 22 days tointerrogate the tycoon.

He is therefore likely toremain in detention until earlynext year at least. Japan hadlong celebrated Ghosn as acharismatic business leaderwho saved Nissan from thebrink of failure and rebuilt it asa money-making subsidiary ofRenault.

But since his unexpectedarrest, he has been removedfrom the boards of Nissanand Mitsubishi Motors — thethird company in the alliancethat outsold all its rivals lastyear.

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Manchester City opened upa five-point lead at the top

of the table with a seventhstraight Premier League victory,but was made to work for a 2-1win at Watford on Tuesday.

City's goals came either sideof half-time as Leroy Sane chest-ed home to end Watford's resis-tance before Riyad Mahrezswept home early in the secondperiod. However, they had towithstand a nervy finish afterAbdoulaye Doucoure bundledhome five minutes from time.

Pep Guardiola made sixchanges to his starting line-updespite also missing SergioAguero and Kevin De Bruynethrough injury.

Yet, City were still far toostrong for the dogged hosts, whohad goalkeeper Ben Foster tothank for the visitors not rack-ing up the 5-0 and 6-0 thrash-ings they did on their two pre-vious visits to Vicarage Road.

Guardiola changed hisentire back four from Saturday's3-1 win over Bournemouth andleft the in-form Raheem Sterling

on the bench for the full 90 min-utes.

Mahrez came in for theEngland international and theluxury of options on offer toGuardiola was obvious as bothhis wide men found the net inSterling's absence.

However, Watford were left

to rue their chances before thebreak against a City defence thatappeared to miss AymericLaporte as the Frenchman wasrotated for the first time in theleague this season.

City got uncharacteristical-ly slack in the final quarter,though, and were made to pay

when Doucoure finally turnedhome after a goalmouth scram-ble.

Guardiola was forced tothrow on Laporte and NicolasOtamendi in the closing stagesto repel Watford's aerial assault,but City held on.

Elsewhere, Bournemouth

moved above ManchesterUnited, who host Arsenal onWednesday, up to sixth thanksto a 2-1 win over Huddersfield.

Brighton edged into the tophalf as despite playing for overan hour with 10 men, they beatCrystal Palace 3-1.

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Serena Williams will makeher return to the Australian

Open for the first time sincewinning in 2017 when eight-weeks pregnant, it was con-firmed on Wednesday, withvirtually all the world's top 100players due at Melbourne Park.

That includes injury-proneRafael Nadal and AndyMurray.

Williams returned fromgiving birth to her first child toreach the 2018 Wimbledonand US Open finals, but suf-fered upset losses in both toleave her stuck on 23 majorwins.

Australian Open organis-ers said she was among theentries for the opening GrandSlam of the year as she attemptsto equal Margaret Court'srecord of 24.

Her appearance will markher first major since her con-troversial rant at an umpire

during the US Open final lossto Naomi Osaka, which over-shadowed the Japanese star'sbiggest ever win.

In the aftermath, RogerFederer said Williams "wenttoo far".

"Serena Williams, current-ly ranked 16, will make herhighly anticipated return to

Melbourne for the first timesince winning in 2017 wheneight-weeks pregnant withbaby Alexis Olympia," saidtournament organiser CraigTiley.

The evergreen Federer willbe back to defend his title,along with long-time adversaryNovak Djokovic. Caroline

Wozniacki defends thewomen's crown. Organiserssaid the world's top 102 womenand top 101 men have all con-firmed they will be playing.

The only top-100 absenteefrom the women's draw is74th-ranked AgnieszkaRadwanska of Poland whorecently announced her retire-ment.

"It's always special to seeour defending champions —Caroline had her first GrandSlam win here last year so willbe keen to start 2019 on ahigh," said Tiley.

"And of course RogerFederer has special memoriesof Melbourne, having wonhere six times, something onlyNovak (Djokovic) and RoyEmerson have done in thepast.

"I've been in touch withRafa and he's back to full fitnessafter cutting his season shortafter Paris and can't wait toarrive in Australia," he added.

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Radamel Falcao scored a pair of penalties asThierry Henry's Monaco won 2-0 at fellow

strugglers Amiens to climb out of the bottomthree in Ligue 1 on Tuesday.

The Colombian had missed twice from thespot this season but calmly converted on 43minutes at the Stade de la Licorne after EmilKrafth upended Benoit Badiashile. Amiensdefender Bakaye Dibassy was sent off for catch-ing the Monaco captain with a raised boot inthe 90th minute, and Falcao wrapped up a sec-ond victory in three games with anotherpenalty deep into stoppage time.

Henry said he wasn't getting toocarried away with his team's victo-ry.

"From our side of things in termsof how we played it wasn't extraor-dinary but we held on. FortunatelyFalcao was there when we neededhim," Henry said.

"We must not overreact, we need to con-tinue to work and use the positive aspects of

each match to inspire us," he added.The result provisionally bumped

Henry's side up to 17th place aboveDijon and Amiens on goal difference,confirming their recent upturn underthe former France star in recent weeks.

Nice extended their unbeaten rununder Patrick Vieira to six games with

a 0-0 draw at home to Angers, who saw goal-keeper Ludovic Butelle dismissed in the clos-ing stages.

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Kenyan marathon masterEliud Kipchoge and

Colombian jumper CaterineIbarguen won the IAAF menand women's 2018 awards onTuesday.

Kipchoge set a newmarathon world record inBerlin in September, smashingthe previous best by an incred-ible 78 seconds as he clocked2hr 1min 39sec.

The 34-year-old Olympicchampion's effort was thelargest single improvement onthe marathon world recordsince Derek Clayton improvedthe mark by 2:23 in 1967.

Acclaimed as the greatestmarathon runner of the mod-ern era, Kipchoge has domi-nated marathon racing sincemaking his debut in Hamburgin 2013 after a successful trackcareer that saw him win worldGold and Silver (2003, 2007) inthe 5000m and Olympic Silverand Bronze (2008, 2004) overthe same distance.

He has notched up 10 winsfrom the 11 marathons he hasraced, winning three times notonly in Berlin but also London,with victories in Rio forOlympic Gold as well as inHamburg, Rotterdam andChicago.

Ibarguen, also 34, won

both horizontal jumps at theCentral American andCaribbean Games, the IAAFContinental Cup and at theIAAF Diamond League finals- winning the latter two titlesin two different cities withinthe space of 24 hours.

Sweden's 19-year-old polevaulter Armand Duplantis wonthe men's rising star awardafter equalling the second bestever vault with 6.05m at theEuropean champs in Berlin inAugust.

"Pole vaulting's a verystrange discipline," saidDuplantis. "All the stars alignedfor that one meet." Handed the

award by France's RenaudLavillenie, the world recordholder with a best of 6.16m,Duplantis was in a playfulmood.

"I think I can jump higherthan you," he said when askedby Lavillenie on how high hecould go.

American SydneyMcLaughlin won the women'srising star award after settinga world junior indoor 400mrecord of 50.36sec in March.

That was followed up twomonths later with an outdoor400m hurdles mark of 52.75sec- a world junior record and thefastest time recorded this year.

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Two-time champions Germanyoutclassed last edition Silvermedallist Netherlands 4-1 in

their second Pool D match to inchcloser towards booking a direct quar-terfinal berth.

Germany came back from a goaldown and scored through MathiasMuller (30th minute), LukasWindfeder (52nd), Marco Miltkau(54th) and Christopher Ruhr (58th)to register their second consecutivewin in the pool.

Netherlands, however, took theearly lead through Valentin Verga inthe 13th minute.

By virtue of this win, Germany isatop Pool D with six points from twowins ahead of Netherlands, who areon three points.

Germany had earlier defeatedPakistan 1-0 in their opening match,while Netherlands had mauledMalaysia 7-0.

In the battle between world num-ber 4 Netherlands and number 6Germany, the Dutch were the earlyaggressors but the Germans came tothe party as the match progressed.

Netherlands captain Billy Bakerhad the first real scoring opportuni-ty in the eighth minute but his shotfrom a close range was brilliantlysaved by German keeper TobiasWalter.

But the Netherlands, who werethe better team at least in the firstquarter, were not to be denied the leadas Verga broke the deadlock in the13th minute, tapping in MircoPruijser's reverse hit cross from closerange.

The Germans got their firstpenalty corner seconds before the endof first quarter but were unlucky asMathias Muller's strike from a superbvariation struck the post. Another

Germany attempt, this time fromNiklas Wellen's reverse hit was savedby Dutch goalkeeper Pirmin Blaak.

Germany continued to press hardand at the stroke of first quartersecured back-to-back penalty corners,

the second of which resulted in abeautiful goal by Muller from asuperb, well-executed variation.

The Germans continued to beaggressive after the change of ends butit was Netherlands who got four

penalty corners in a span of two min-utes but wasted all the opportunities.

The missed opportunities costNetherlands dear as Germany scoredfrom their fourth penalty cornerwith Windfeder finding the back ofDutch goal with a low grounded flick.

Two minutes later, Germanymade the scoreling 3-1 in their favourwhen Miltkau deflected in a NiklasWellen pass from the right flank. Asif that was not enough for the Dutch,Germany struck again two minutesfrom the final hooter from a penaltystroke which was converted by Ruhr.

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Four-time champions Pakistanplayed out a hard-fought 1-1

draw with Malaysia in a Pool Dmatch as both the teams remainedin the hunt for a knock-out roundberth on Wednesday.

After failing to break the dead-lock for a long time, Pakistan drewthe first blood in the 51st minutethrough Muhammad Atiq's fieldstrike before Malaysia restoredparity four minutes later whenFaizal Saari converted a penalty cor-ner to stay afloat in the competition.

The draw meant both Pakistanand Malaysia remained in the frayfor the knock-out rounds, havinggarnered a point each from twooutings.

Germany are leading the poolwith six points ahead ofNetherlands and Pakistan. Malaysiaare placed last because of an infe-rior goal difference.

Pakistan had earlier lost by asolitary goal to Germany, whileMalaysia were thrashed 0-7 by theNetherlands.

Pakistan will round off theirpool engagements againstNetherlands on December 9 whileMalaysia, with a goal difference ofminus 7, have an uphill task againstthe Germans the same day.

In the encounter betweenworld number 12 Malaysia andnumber 13 Pakistan, there werehardly anything to separate the twosides.

Malaysia started brightly earn-ing two penalty corners in the thirdminute. While the first attempt wasblocked by the Pakistani runner, thenext try was kept at bay by keeperImran Butt.

Next, it was Pakistan's turn toearn a penalty corner but Aleem

Bilal's drag-flick directed at the topright corner was blocked byMalaysia goalkeeper KumarSubramaniam.

Malaysia came close to scoringin the ninth minute but Butt cameup with yet another great save tostop Razi Rahim's drag-flick direct-ed at the bottom centre.

It was an end-to-end battle asexperienced Subramiam madeanother smart save to keep away areverse flick from a midfield passof Tasawar Abbas.

Pakistan attacked mostlythrough the centre with 80 per centof their circle entries coming fromthat area, while Malaysia tried tofind spaces on the right side.

Faizal Saari earned Malaysiatheir fourth penalty corner in the23rd minute but Butt once againmade a good save to deny Saari.

Both the teams made forayswith pace and trickery on eitherends but they lacked the final passinside the box.

Two minutes from half-time,

Umar Bhutta earned Pakistan theirsecond short corner but Bilal'sdrag-flick hit the runner's footresulting in another set piece,which they wasted while going fora variation. Both the teams failedto break the deadlock in the firsttwo quarters.

Ten minutes into the thirdquarter, Malaysia won their fourthpenalty corner but to no avail.

Pakistan finally tasted successin the 51st minute, courtesy skip-per Muhammad Rizwan's inchperfect pass to Atiq inside the box.The striker first received the pass,created space on the right, took a360 degree spin to shoot the ballpast Subramaniam.

Malaysia desperately needed agoal to stay afloat in the tournamentand five minutes from the finalhooter their efforts succeeded whenthey earned their fifth penalty cor-ner and Saari was up to the task,flicking the ball high to the top rightcorner of Pakistan goal to share thespoils.

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Bengaluru FC's unbeaten runin the Indian Super League

remained intact after a dramat-ic 1-1 draw against NorthEastUnited FC at the Indira GandhiAthletics Stadium here onWednesday.

After a tightly-contestedfirst half, Eelco Schattorie'shome side took the lead thoughFederico Gallego (64th minute)midway through the second-half. However, a late acrobaticeffort from Bhutanese strikerChencho Gyeltshen (90th)ensured the Blues shared thespoils.

The result kept BengaluruFC's four-point advantage overNorthEast United at the top ofthe table intact.

On Thursday, Mumbai CityFC will be keen to continue withtheir winning streak when theytake on a beleagueredChennaiyin FC.

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