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W ith US President Donald Trump by his side, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday categorically rejected any scope for third party medi- ation on Kashmir, saying it was a bilateral issue between India and Pakistan, and “we don’t want to trouble any third coun- try” — a position that was immediately backed by the American leader who had recently offered to mediate. In an apparent backtrack- ing from his earlier comments, Trump said he feels that both India and Pakistan can resolve the Kashmir problem on their own. The two leaders appeared together to speak to the media after overnight talks on the sidelines of the G-7 summit and ahead of their formal meeting. Modi and Trump were meeting for the first time after the Union Government revoked Jammu & Kashmir’s special status by abrogating Article 370 and bifurcating the State into two Union Territories. New Delhi’s move was severely criticised by Pakistani leadership, including Prime Minister Imran Khan, who made provocative anti- India statements, triggering tensions in bilateral ties. “All the issues between India and Pakistan are of bilat- eral in nature, and we don’t want to trouble any third coun- try. We can discuss and resolve these issues bilaterally,” Modi said. He said India and Pakistan were together before 1947 and he was confident that the two neighbours can discuss their problems and solve them. “When I called Prime Minister Khan after the elec- tions, I told him that Pakistan has to fight against poverty, India too has to fight against it. Pakistan has to fight against illiteracy and disease, and India has to also fight against them...I told him we should work together for the welfare of our people,” Modi said. On his part, Trump said he and Modi spoke about Kashmir “at great length” last night and he feels that both India and Pakistan can resolve it on their own. “We spoke last night about Kashmir, the Prime Minister really feels he has it (situation) under control. They speak with Pakistan and I’m sure that they will be able to do something that will be very good,” Trump said. “I have very good relation- ship with both the gentlemen (Modi and Khan) and I’m here. I think they can do it (resolve the issue) themselves,” he added. Trump’s comments on Monday are being seen as a total climbdown from the time when he had made a startling claim that Modi has asked him to mediate on Kashmir, the claim was strongly rejected by India. Trump has also offered to mediate between India and Pakistan on more than one occasion in recent past. “Pakistan’s propaganda was dealt the final blow in the meeting between the PM and President Trump. Pakistan was hoping to get some statement which will give it a last ray of hope. The meeting has cate- gorically confirmed that any issue concerning India and Pakistan has to be discussed bilaterally,” BJP spokesperson GVL Narasimha Rao said in New Delhi. Trump also said, “We are talking about trade, we’re talk- ing about military and many different things. We had some great discussions, we were together last night for dinner and I learned a lot about India.” Thanking Trump for con- gratulating him after his recent election victory, Modi said their two countries “share democratic values.” Later, Trump tweeted that he had “a great meeting with my friend Prime Minister Modi.” “Excellent meeting with @POTUS @realDonaldTrump! We had useful discussions on bilateral matters. We agreed to address trade issues for mutu- al benefit soon. Looking for- ward to expand cooperation as large democracies for the ben- efit of our citizens and global peace and prosperity,” Modi tweeted. Briefing the reporters after the talks between Modi and Trump, Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale said the two leaders had a “very warm, very positive meeting” which lasted 40 min- utes. This was their third inter- action since Modi was re-elect- ed in May this year for a sec- ond five-year term. When asked about the dis- cussion on the Kashmir issue during the talks, the Foreign Secretary said there was “no discussion” on it during the bilateral meeting. To another question, Gokhale said India has not taken any steps to harm the regional stability. “The nor- malcy is returning to J&K,” he said, adding that certain restric- tions will remain in place in the state to maintain law and order. B enchmark stock indices Sensex and Nifty saw their best day in over three months on Monday, buoyed by the Government move to with- draw additional surcharge on foreign investors and initiate steps to revive the economy. The BSE gauge Sensex set- tled with a gain of 2.16 per cent or 792.96 points, while the NSE Nifty ended 2.11 per cent or 228.50 points higher. Indian equities during the second half of the trading ses- sion also got a boost from the news that the US and China will soon resume trade talks despite many failed negotia- tions in recent months. However, Asian markets closed with significant losses as investor worries grew over the ever-lasting US-China trade war, though sentiment revived in other markets, including India and the Europe, after the news broke out about a possi- ble resumption of talks between the two major economies. Riding on a wave of eco- nomic stimulus optimism, the 30-share Sensex opened over 663 points higher, but global volatility wiped out its gains as the session progressed. It swung 1,052 points during the day before settling at 37,494.12. The index, however, made a roaring comeback in the later half tracking news about US- China trade talks resumption. Similarly, the broader NSE Nifty reclaimed the 11,000- level. During the day, it climbed a peak of 11,070.30 and touched a low of 10,756.55. It finally closed at 11,057.85. Both benchmarks Sensex and Nifty have logged their best single-day gains in over three months, since the return of the Narendra Modi Government for a second term. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday announced a raft of relief mea- sures, including the rollback of enhanced super-rich tax on for- eign and domestic equity investors, for the ailing econo- my. She also announced exemption of startups from “angel tax”, a package to address distress in the auto sector and upfront infusion of 70,000 crore to public sector banks. To bolster consumption, the Government also said that banks have decided to cut interest rates, a move that would lead to lower EMIs for home, auto and other loans. Yes Bank topped the gain- ers’ list on the Sensex. It was followed by HDFC, Bajaj Finance, HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank, L&T, SBI, Axis Bank and Kotak Bank — rallying up to 5.24 per cent. On the other hand, Tata Steel, Sun Pharma, Hero MotoCorp, Vedanta, RIL, Tata Motors, Maruti Suzuki and Bajaj Auto fell up to 2.01 per cent. Sectorally, BSE finance, realty, bankex, capital goods, industrials, FMCG and power index rallied up to 3.86 per cent. While BSE metal index fell 1.12 per cent. Broader BSE midcap and smallcap indices rose up to 1.65 per cent. Meanwhile, the Indian rupee depreciated 36 paise to 72.02 against the US dollar. Brent crude futures, the global oil benchmark, rose 0.92 per cent to $59.34 per barrel. I n a setback to former Finance Minister P Chidambaram, a designated CBI court on Monday extended his CBI cus- tody by four days for interro- gation in the INX Media case. The remand will end on August 30. Chidambaram was produced in the court on the expiry of his four-day CBI custody which was granted to the agency on August 22. Chidambaram, 73, was arrest- ed by the CBI on August 21 from his Jor Bagh residence. Special Judge Ajay Kumar Kuhar said the CBI demand was “justified” that Chidambaram has to be further interrogated in its custody. “Investigation is the pre- rogative of the investigating officer which he has to conduct within the framework of law... I am of the view that further police custody of accused Chidambaram is justified and accordingly the accused is remanded in police custody till August 30,” the judge said in his order. The court allowed Chidambaram’s family mem- bers and lawyers to meet him for half-an-hour every day during the CBI custody. The CBI sought extension of Chidambaram’s custody to confront him with certain e- mails and to unearth the larg- er conspiracy involved in the case. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta and Additional Solicitor General KN Nataraj, repre- senting the CBI, asserted that there is sufficient ground for extension of Chidambaram’s custodial interrogation as he was confronted with a co- accused during the interroga- tion from August 23-26. The confrontation with co- accused is not complete, the prosecutors said, and placed before the court a file contain- ing e-mail exchanges between the accused persons. The former Finance Minister was produced before the trial court hours after the Supreme Court refused to entertain his plea challenging the Delhi High Court order which had dismissed his antic- ipatory bail plea in the corruption case lodged by the CBI. “We need five days of custody of Chidambaram as the confrontation with co- accused will continue to unearth larger conspiracy,” Mehta contended without divulging the name of the co- accused. Mehta also said investiga- tion of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) is going on simultaneously and CBI has received information from it. On being asked by the judge as to what CBI has done in last four days, the agency placed before the court relevant records of the interrogation. The Solicitor General said it was necessary to confront Chidambaram with regard to relevant e-mails and it was absolutely relevant to go into the roots of the issue. “Certain documents and evidence have emerged which need to be confronted and probed,” Mehta argued, adding the ED has filed an affidavit before the Supreme Court in the money laundering case and has shared evidence with the CBI regarding which fur- ther interrogation is required. Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal, representing Chidambaram, opposed Mehta referring to documents filed by the ED. After speaking to Chidambaram for two minutes, Sibal said in the previous remand application, there was a mention of USD 5 million and not a single document was put to him during these four days. He said the case cannot be sensationalised, and not a sin- gle question with regard to shell companies as also bank accounts has been asked to Chidambaram. Sibal claimed that ques- tions regarding the e-mails were already asked and Chidambaram has answered them.“There has been 26 hours of questioning. Still nothing asked on all these issues,” Sibal asserted, adding that he wants CBI to put correct facts before the court. “At least the process of investigation should be fair,” Sibal said. He asserted that the agency should show the docu- ments relied by it in the court. T he Delhi Assembly on Monday approved the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Government's supplementary demands for 290 crore for the free ride scheme for women passengers in Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) buses and Delhi Metro trains. Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, who also holds the Finance portfolio, tabled a proposal under the supple- mentary demands for the grant of 142 crore to fund deploy- ment of marshals in buses and 47 crore for the regional rapid transit system corridors and it has been approved by the Assembly with the voice vote. Sisodia said the free-ride scheme would be implement- ed soon in the public transport buses, but it would take some time incase of metro trains as the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) had to make preparations for it. Over all, the Delhi Assembly approved 479 crore supplementary grants for the transport sector moved by the Finance Minister. According to the supplementary grants tabled by the Minister, the Government has granted 479 for Transport Department, out of which 142 crore is for Road Safety Cell payment to marshals and 140 crore for free travel for women in DTC buses and cluster buses, while 150 crore has been granted for subsidy to DMRC for women commuters and 47 crore for RRTS corridors. Sisodia informed the Assembly that some procedural approvals are under process and once every- thing is finalised and the pro- ject will get a Cabinet nod, the Government will implement the scheme for buses. Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal during his Independence Day address had announced that the AAP Government will implement the free ride scheme for women in DTC and cluster buses from October 29, marking the Hindu festival Bhai Dooj. Under the RRTS, three corridors — Delhi-Ghaziabad- Meerut, Delhi-Panipat and Delhi-Gurgaon-SNB (Shahjahanpur-Neemrana- Behror) will converge at Sarai Kale Khan RRTS station. P rime Minister Narendra Modi speaks very good English, but he just doesn’t want to talk, US President Donald Trump said jokingly on Monday before the two “friends” met for formal talks on the sidelines of the G-7 Summit. The two leaders held 40- minute discussions in Biarritz, the French town which is hosting the meeting of the world’s most industrialised nations. Modi and Trump exchanged a warm handshake and spoke to the media on Indo-Pak tensions, bilateral trade and other issues. Modi answered questions posed by reporters in Hindi. “He (PM Modi) actually speaks very good English, he just doesn’t want to talk,” Trump joked when Modi asked reporters to let the lead- ers talk in privacy. The two leaders also held each other’s hand while every- body present in the room burst into laughter. W ith Pakistan failing to get traction for its bel- ligerent stand on Kashmir, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Monday that he will raise the issue at every international forum, including at the UN General Assembly. Khan once again raised the fear of nuclear war saying, “In a nuclear war, no one will win. It will not only wreak havoc in this region, but the entire world will face conse- quences. It is now up to the international community.”

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With US President DonaldTrump by his side, Prime

Minister Narendra Modi onMonday categorically rejectedany scope for third party medi-ation on Kashmir, saying it wasa bilateral issue between Indiaand Pakistan, and “we don’twant to trouble any third coun-try” — a position that wasimmediately backed by theAmerican leader who hadrecently offered to mediate.

In an apparent backtrack-ing from his earlier comments,Trump said he feels that bothIndia and Pakistan can resolvethe Kashmir problem on theirown. The two leaders appearedtogether to speak to the mediaafter overnight talks on thesidelines of the G-7 summitand ahead of their formalmeeting.

Modi and Trump weremeeting for the first time afterthe Union Governmentrevoked Jammu & Kashmir’sspecial status by abrogatingArticle 370 and bifurcating theState into two UnionTerritories. New Delhi’s movewas severely criticised byPakistani leadership, includingPrime Minister Imran Khan,who made provocative anti-India statements, triggeringtensions in bilateral ties.

“All the issues betweenIndia and Pakistan are of bilat-eral in nature, and we don’twant to trouble any third coun-try. We can discuss and resolvethese issues bilaterally,” Modisaid.

He said India and Pakistanwere together before 1947 andhe was confident that the twoneighbours can discuss theirproblems and solve them.

“When I called PrimeMinister Khan after the elec-tions, I told him that Pakistanhas to fight against poverty,India too has to fight against it.Pakistan has to fight againstilliteracy and disease, and Indiahas to also fight against them...Itold him we should worktogether for the welfare of ourpeople,” Modi said.

On his part, Trump said heand Modi spoke about Kashmir“at great length” last night andhe feels that both India andPakistan can resolve it on theirown. “We spoke last nightabout Kashmir, the PrimeMinister really feels he has it(situation) under control. Theyspeak with Pakistan and I’msure that they will be able to dosomething that will be verygood,” Trump said.

“I have very good relation-ship with both the gentlemen(Modi and Khan) and I’m here.I think they can do it (resolvethe issue) themselves,” he added.

Trump’s comments onMonday are being seen as atotal climbdown from the timewhen he had made a startlingclaim that Modi has asked himto mediate on Kashmir, theclaim was strongly rejected byIndia. Trump has also offeredto mediate between India andPakistan on more than oneoccasion in recent past.

“Pakistan’s propaganda was

dealt the final blow in themeeting between the PM andPresident Trump. Pakistan washoping to get some statementwhich will give it a last ray ofhope. The meeting has cate-gorically confirmed that anyissue concerning India andPakistan has to be discussedbilaterally,” BJP spokespersonGVL Narasimha Rao said inNew Delhi.

Trump also said, “We aretalking about trade, we’re talk-ing about military and manydifferent things. We had somegreat discussions, we weretogether last night for dinnerand I learned a lot about India.”

Thanking Trump for con-gratulating him after his recentelection victory, Modi saidtheir two countries “sharedemocratic values.”

Later, Trump tweeted thathe had “a great meeting withmy friend Prime MinisterModi.”

“Excellent meeting with@POTUS @realDonaldTrump!We had useful discussions onbilateral matters. We agreed toaddress trade issues for mutu-al benefit soon. Looking for-ward to expand cooperation aslarge democracies for the ben-

efit of our citizens and globalpeace and prosperity,” Moditweeted.

Briefing the reporters afterthe talks between Modi andTrump, Foreign Secretary VijayGokhale said the two leadershad a “very warm, very positivemeeting” which lasted 40 min-utes. This was their third inter-action since Modi was re-elect-ed in May this year for a sec-ond five-year term.

When asked about the dis-cussion on the Kashmir issueduring the talks, the ForeignSecretary said there was “nodiscussion” on it during thebilateral meeting.

To another question,Gokhale said India has nottaken any steps to harm theregional stability. “The nor-malcy is returning to J&K,” hesaid, adding that certain restric-tions will remain in place in thestate to maintain law and order.

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Benchmark stock indicesSensex and Nifty saw their

best day in over three monthson Monday, buoyed by theGovernment move to with-draw additional surcharge onforeign investors and initiatesteps to revive the economy.

The BSE gauge Sensex set-tled with a gain of 2.16 per centor 792.96 points, while theNSE Nifty ended 2.11 per centor 228.50 points higher.

Indian equities during thesecond half of the trading ses-sion also got a boost from thenews that the US and Chinawill soon resume trade talksdespite many failed negotia-tions in recent months.

However, Asian marketsclosed with significant losses asinvestor worries grew over theever-lasting US-China tradewar, though sentiment revivedin other markets, including

India and the Europe, after thenews broke out about a possi-ble resumption of talks betweenthe two major economies.

Riding on a wave of eco-nomic stimulus optimism, the30-share Sensex opened over663 points higher, but globalvolatility wiped out its gains asthe session progressed. Itswung 1,052 points during theday before settling at 37,494.12.The index, however, made aroaring comeback in the laterhalf tracking news about US-China trade talks resumption.

Similarly, the broader NSENifty reclaimed the 11,000-level. During the day, it climbeda peak of 11,070.30 andtouched a low of 10,756.55. Itfinally closed at 11,057.85.

Both benchmarks Sensexand Nifty have logged their bestsingle-day gains in over threemonths, since the return of theNarendra Modi Governmentfor a second term.

Finance Minister NirmalaSitharaman on Fridayannounced a raft of relief mea-sures, including the rollback ofenhanced super-rich tax on for-eign and domestic equityinvestors, for the ailing econo-my. She also announcedexemption of startups from

“angel tax”, a package to addressdistress in the auto sector andupfront infusion of �70,000crore to public sector banks.

To bolster consumption,the Government also said thatbanks have decided to cutinterest rates, a move thatwould lead to lower EMIs forhome, auto and other loans.

Yes Bank topped the gain-ers’ list on the Sensex. It wasfollowed by HDFC, BajajFinance, HDFC Bank, ICICIBank, L&T, SBI, Axis Bank andKotak Bank — rallying up to5.24 per cent.

On the other hand, TataSteel, Sun Pharma, HeroMotoCorp, Vedanta, RIL, TataMotors, Maruti Suzuki andBajaj Auto fell up to 2.01 percent.

Sectorally, BSE finance,realty, bankex, capital goods,industrials, FMCG and powerindex rallied up to 3.86 percent. While BSE metal indexfell 1.12 per cent. Broader BSEmidcap and smallcap indicesrose up to 1.65 per cent.

Meanwhile, the Indianrupee depreciated 36 paise to72.02 against the US dollar.

Brent crude futures, theglobal oil benchmark, rose 0.92per cent to $59.34 per barrel.

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In a setback to former FinanceMinister P Chidambaram, a

designated CBI court onMonday extended his CBI cus-tody by four days for interro-gation in the INX Media case.The remand will end onAugust 30. Chidambaram wasproduced in the court on theexpiry of his four-day CBIcustody which was granted tothe agency on August 22.Chidambaram, 73, was arrest-ed by the CBI on August 21from his Jor Bagh residence.

Special Judge Ajay KumarKuhar said the CBI demandwas “justified” thatChidambaram has to be furtherinterrogated in its custody.

“Investigation is the pre-rogative of the investigatingofficer which he has to conductwithin the framework of law...I am of the view that furtherpolice custody of accusedChidambaram is justified andaccordingly the accused isremanded in police custody tillAugust 30,” the judge said in hisorder.

The court allowedChidambaram’s family mem-bers and lawyers to meet himfor half-an-hour every dayduring the CBI custody.

The CBI sought extensionof Chidambaram’s custody toconfront him with certain e-mails and to unearth the larg-

er conspiracy involved in thecase. Solicitor General TusharMehta and Additional SolicitorGeneral KN Nataraj, repre-senting the CBI, asserted thatthere is sufficient ground forextension of Chidambaram’scustodial interrogation as hewas confronted with a co-accused during the interroga-tion from August 23-26.

The confrontation with co-accused is not complete, theprosecutors said, and placedbefore the court a file contain-ing e-mail exchanges betweenthe accused persons.

The former FinanceMinister was produced beforethe trial court hours after theSupreme Court refused toentertain his plea challengingthe Delhi High Court orderwhich had dismissed his antic-ipatory bail plea in the

corruption case lodged by the CBI. “We need five days ofcustody of Chidambaram asthe confrontation with co-accused will continue tounearth larger conspiracy,”Mehta contended withoutdivulging the name of the co-accused.

Mehta also said investiga-tion of the EnforcementDirectorate (ED) is going onsimultaneously and CBI hasreceived information from it.

On being asked by thejudge as to what CBI has donein last four days, the agencyplaced before the court relevantrecords of the interrogation.

The Solicitor General saidit was necessary to confrontChidambaram with regard torelevant e-mails and it wasabsolutely relevant to go intothe roots of the issue.

“Certain documents andevidence have emerged whichneed to be confronted andprobed,” Mehta argued, addingthe ED has filed an affidavitbefore the Supreme Court inthe money laundering caseand has shared evidence withthe CBI regarding which fur-ther interrogation is required.

Senior Advocate KapilSibal, representingChidambaram, opposed Mehtareferring to documents filed bythe ED.

After speaking toChidambaram for two minutes,Sibal said in the previousremand application, there wasa mention of USD 5 millionand not a single document wasput to him during these fourdays.

He said the case cannot besensationalised, and not a sin-gle question with regard to shellcompanies as also bankaccounts has been asked toChidambaram.

Sibal claimed that ques-tions regarding the e-mailswere already asked andChidambaram has answeredthem.“There has been 26 hoursof questioning. Still nothingasked on all these issues,” Sibalasserted, adding that he wantsCBI to put correct facts beforethe court. “At least the processof investigation should be fair,”Sibal said. He asserted that theagency should show the docu-ments relied by it in the court.

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The Delhi Assembly onMonday approved the Aam

Aadmi Party (AAP)Government's supplementarydemands for �290 crore for thefree ride scheme for womenpassengers in Delhi TransportCorporation (DTC) buses andDelhi Metro trains.

Deputy Chief MinisterManish Sisodia, who also holdsthe Finance portfolio, tabled aproposal under the supple-mentary demands for the grantof �142 crore to fund deploy-ment of marshals in buses and�47 crore for the regional rapidtransit system corridors and ithas been approved by theAssembly with the voice vote.

Sisodia said the free-ride

scheme would be implement-ed soon in the public transportbuses, but it would take sometime incase of metro trains asthe Delhi Metro RailCorporation (DMRC) had tomake preparations for it.

Over all, the DelhiAssembly approved �479 croresupplementary grants for thetransport sector moved by theFinance Minister. According tothe supplementary grantstabled by the Minister, theGovernment has granted �479for Transport Department, outof which �142 crore is forRoad Safety Cell payment tomarshals and �140 crore forfree travel for women in DTCbuses and cluster buses, while�150 crore has been granted forsubsidy to DMRC for womencommuters and �47 crore for

RRTS corridors. Sisodiainformed the Assembly thatsome procedural approvals areunder process and once every-thing is finalised and the pro-ject will get a Cabinet nod, theGovernment will implementthe scheme for buses.

Chief Minister ArvindKejriwal during hisIndependence Day address hadannounced that the AAPGovernment will implementthe free ride scheme for womenin DTC and cluster buses fromOctober 29, marking the Hindufestival Bhai Dooj.

Under the RRTS, threecorridors — Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut, Delhi-Panipat andD e l h i - G u r g a o n - S N B(Shahjahanpur-Neemrana-Behror) will converge at SaraiKale Khan RRTS station.

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Prime Minister NarendraModi speaks very good

English, but he just doesn’twant to talk, US PresidentDonald Trump said jokinglyon Monday before the two“friends” met for formal talkson the sidelines of the G-7Summit.

The two leaders held 40-minute discussions in Biarritz,the French town which ishosting the meeting of theworld’s most industrialised

nations. Modi and Trumpexchanged a warm handshakeand spoke to the media onIndo-Pak tensions, bilateraltrade and other issues. Modianswered questions posed byreporters in Hindi.

“He (PM Modi) actuallyspeaks very good English, hejust doesn’t want to talk,”Trump joked when Modiasked reporters to let the lead-ers talk in privacy.

The two leaders also heldeach other’s hand while every-body present in the roomburst into laughter.

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After analysing the distri-bution of force at district

level in Dehradun, SeniorSuperintendent of Police(SSP) Arun Mohan Joshi saidthat they have started scruti-nising the force. He said thatthe force from those units thathave comparatively lesserwork will be used for theenforcement of law and orderand proper traffic manage-ment.

SSP Joshi said, “Duringthe analysis of force distribu-tion it came to our notice thatthe force at police stationlevel is over burdened whilethe force in several units iscomparatively less burdened.

So in order to lift someburden off the police sta-

tions we have started to scru-tinise the force. We havealready deployed 40 person-nel from SSP office for trafficduty with the SP, traffic, alsobeing instructed regardingthis.”

He further added,“Similarly, SP, crime, has beeninstructed to speak with thecircle officers concerned andthen decide which cases canbe transferred to the SpecialInvestigation Section (SIS).” Itis pertinent to mention herethat two inspectors and ninesub-inspectors have also beendeputed to the SIS as part ofthe ongoing exercise.

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After facing public opposi-tion for its plan to replace

the Clock Tower’s old heritageclocks with digital clocks inDehradun, the municipalcommissioner Vinay ShankarPandey clarified that only themachinery in the new clockswill be modern but the clockswill look almost like the oldclocks.

Meanwhile, the MayorSunil Uniyal ‘Gama’ said, “Forover a year citizens of Doonhave been complaining thatthe heartbeat of Doon is notworking. Now that we are inthe last stage of the revival ofthis heartbeat few people arestill not satisfied. The oldclocks were not non-repairable but they will beconserved here at MunicipalCorporation of Dehradun(MCD).”

Commissioner Pandeysaid, “There has been a slightconfusion. The clocks willappear almost like they wereearlier, only the machinerywill be modernised.

Very soon the Chennaibased firm which is providingthe clocks will install theclocks and then people can seefor themselves.” It is pertinentto mention here that accord-ing to an expert few parts of

the old clocks were stolenduring the time when thestructure of clock tower wasundergoing structuralstrengthening work.

The expert said that dur-ing the time doors of ClockTower were open at all timesand several people were ableto visit the interiors of thetower. The heritage clock partsare said to have a high valuein the antique market. It

should be mentioned herethat the most prominent land-mark of Dehradun- the ClockTower was inaugurated by thethen Union Railway ministerLal Bahadur Shastri in 1953.

Plans to replace the orig-inal clocks with digital clockshad elicited strong oppositionfrom citizens. Heritage expertLokesh Ohri had also offeredto get the old clocks repairedfree of cost.

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The Haridwar police haveseized liquor worth �33

lakh which was being smug-gled to Bijnor district of neigh-bouring Uttar Pradesh. Theliquor was being transported

in a truck. When the policestopped and approached thesaid truck, the driver and thecleaner abandoned the vehicleand ran away. The recoveredliquor is of Haryana brand.

Speaking to this corre-spondent, Shyampur policestation in-charge DeepakSingh Kathait said, "OnSunday night during routinechecking drive, the police triedto stop a truck on Haridwar-Bijnor highway nearChandighat. The truck driver

did not stop and acceleratedfurther, breaking the barri-cades. Following them, ourteam caught up with the truckbut both the driver and helperare absconding."The liquorwas being smuggled concealedbehind tin canisters of oil.

Beneath the oil tins werehidden cartons of liquor fromdiverse brands. The cost ofliquor is estimated to be about��33 lakh. In all 481 cartons ofliquor were recovered, said the police.

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After returning from hisvisit to Gau-Sadans at

Mathura in Uttar Pradesh, theDehradun municipal com-missioner Vinay ShankarPandey said that after reform-ing the necessary pointsaccording to the situation herea Detailed Project Report(DPR) will soon be drafted.

Pandey said, “I visited fourGau-Sadans at Mathura alongwith a veterinary doctor and ajunior engineer. The concept isgood but the situation there isdifferent from here.

There the Gau-Sadans arecommercialised, which

means that they keep bothtypes of cattle, the ones whostill give milk and the ones whodo not. They get revenue from

milk production. However, inour case we only get those cat-tle that are abandoned on thestreets.

Most of those cattle areeither hurt in some accidentor are ill.”He added, “Takingall the things into consider-ation, a DPR will be madeand accordingly the work ofsecond phase will begin.” It ispertinent to mention here

that the development of GauSadan in Dehradun is slatedto be undertaken on 84 bighaland in Selaqui.

The development workwill be done in two phases.For the first phase a DPR of�77 lakh has been sent to stateadministration for approval.Work of the first phase hasalready started and is likely tocomplete in about a month.

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In order to effectively stop the con-tinued use of polythene in the area

under the purview of MunicipalCorporation of Dehradun (MCD) ameeting with various stakeholderswill be conducted on Tuesday. TheDehradun municipal commission-er Vinay Shankar Pandey said thatthe meeting will be more like anopen forum for people from differ-ent sectors to put across their sug-gestions and complaints.

Pandey said, “An estimated 150people will be present during themeeting.

Members from merchant asso-ciations, residential welfare associ-ations, non-governmental organi-sations and officers from pollutioncontrol board will also be there.

It will be like an open platformfor them to give their suggestionsand complaints and for us to putforward our plan.” He further said,“A lot of people also have issuesabout the categorisation of poly-thene.

They are confused that up tohow many microns the polythene isbanned. That will be explained in themeeting as well.”

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In order to miti-gate pollution in

Almora, the districtadministration isplanning to intro-duce electric rickshaws on theMall Road here from the firstweek of September. After suc-cessful trial, the electric rick-shaws will be operated fromShikhar trijunction toRaghunath city mall.

In the initial stage onlyfour electric rickshaws will beoperated for a period of twomonths. After this time peri-od, the number of electricrickshaws operating here maybe increased. It is pertinent tomention here that air pollutionhas become an issue even inthe green and clean moun-

tainous regions-especially inthe urban areas.

In order to provide a bet-ter and non-polluting alter-native to the three-wheelersoperating as public transportvehicles, the district adminis-tration has agreed to facilitatethe operation of electric rick-shaws in Almora.

Chairing a meeting withofficials concerned, the districtmagistrate Nitin SinghBhadauriya directed theAssistant Regional TransportOfficer (ARTO) to completeall the necessary official for-

malities related to facilitatingthe operation of electric rick-shaws.

In addition to the electricrickshaws, the district magis-trate has also directed theARTO to check possibilitiesfor operating city buses onnew routes.

The ARTO Alok Joshi saidthat after some changes inroutes, timings and otheraspects of the city bus service,the proposal has been sent tothe Regional TransportAuthority (RTA) office inHaldwani.

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In the alleged rape case regis-tered against Uttar Pradesh

based ‘god-man’ and his aide,magisterial statements of boththe purported victims couldnot be recorded on Monday.Dehradun SeniorSuperintendent of Police (SSP)Arun Mohan Joshi said only onthe basis of proof will furtheractions be taken.

Superintendent of Police(city) Shweta Choubey said,“Application for the magisterialstatement has been filed. OnMonday the complainants wentwith the Investigating Officer atthe crime scene and for othernecessary part of the investiga-tion.” According to police, onSunday the local police record-ed the statements of about 25women who according to one ofthe complainants were presentat the Ashram for the religiousgathering. It is suspected that

there was no religious gatheringon the said day on which thecomplainant has alleged shewas raped. As this is a case ofdelayed FIR and the alleged vic-tim’s allegations are being ascer-tained, the local police are focus-ing on completing their initialinvestigation first. It is pertinentto mention here that police arechecking all angles as one of pur-ported victim is a relative of oneof the accused against whomgod-man Chandramohan fileda case accusing him of extortionin Uttar Pradesh.

It will be recalled that twowomen on Friday filed a com-plaint against Chandramohanwho is the head of ParamdhamNyas, his aide and branch man-ager of Dehradun Ashram,Kuldeep and two other women.One of the complainant statedthat both the branch managerand god-man raped her whilethe other two women were theiraccomplices.

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The Chief Secretary UtpalKumar Singh has directed

all the district magistrates tomark dark areas where the sexratio is skewed in their respec-tive districts. Special actionplans should be drafted forsuch areas, the chief secretarystressed. Singh said this whilepresiding over a video-confer-ence with all district magis-trates to review the Beti BachaoBeti Padhao scheme of theWomen Empowerment andChild Development depart-ment here at the secretariat onMonday.

The Chief Secretary direct-ed all the officers to ensure thatwork is done in all the districtsaccording to the annual workplan. The dark areas where theimbalance in sex ratio is moreshould also be identified and aspecial action plan for suchareas should be drafted. Specialawareness programmes shouldalso be undertaken to addressthis issue, he said. By intro-ducing innovative means, pro-grammes should be organisedto encourage girls.

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Famous dental surgeon DrAshwini Dobhal died on

Monday due to dengue. He wasadmitted in a leading privatehospital of the city on August22 with complaint of high feverwas later detected with dengue.On Monday morning, he suc-cumbed to the disease.Meanwhile, 21 new cases ofdengue were reported in thedistrict on Monday.

The district health depart-ment meanwhile has said thatthe exact reason of death of DrDobhal would be done afterdeath audit.

The death of Dr Dobhalwho was a well known per-sonality of the city shockedthose who knew him. Largenumber of people from allwalks of life attended the funer-al of Dr Dobhal.

When contacted, Dr Prem

Narayan who was treat-ing Dr Dobhal said thathis condition deterio-rated when internalbleeding started. He saidthat he was sufferingfrom dengue shock syn-drome which affectedhis vital organs.

The district vectorborne diseases officer,Subhash Joshi said thatthe sample of Dr Dobhalwas taken for EnzymeLinked ImmunosorbentAssay (ELISA) onMonday. The ELISA test isconfirmatory test of dengue. Headded that the exact reason ofdeath of Dr Dobhal would beknown after the death audit.The state health department hasstarted the practice of doingdeath audit of all the patientswho had died due to dengue. Init a team of doctors studies thecase history of the deceasedthoroughly. In a recent case ofdeath of a female patient whowas found positive for denguein ELISA, the department gavea verdict that she was sufferingfrom other diseases as wellwhich resulted in her death.

Meanwhile, the menace ofdengue is showing no sign ofabating as 21 new cases of thedisease were reported by dis-trict health department ofDehradun on Monday. Withthem the dengue toll in

Dehradun has mounted to 580.The district vector borne

diseases officer Subhash Joshisaid that teams of healthdepartment and MunicipalCorporation of Dehradun(MCD) are visiting the affect-ed areas and activities like fog-ging and spread of insecti-cides are being undertakenapart from spreading awarenesson preventive measures to beadopted for the disease.

He said that people shouldensure that the breeding placesof mosquitoes inside theirhomes and vicinity aredestroyed.

The symptoms of Dengueare persistently high fever,rashes, headache and pain inthe joints. In the acute cases theplatelets number decrease dras-tically which could prove fatalfor the patient.

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Former Union Finance min-ister Arun Jaitley's ashes

were immersed in Ganga atBrahmakund, Har Ki Paidi asper Vedic rituals by his sonRohan on Monday inHaridwar. Among other BJPleaders, the chief ministerTrivendra Singh Rawat, Unionminister for Human ResourceDevelopment, RameshPokhriyal ‘Nishank’, the State’sUrban Development ministerMadan Kaushik, Forest andWildlife minister Harak SinghRawat and others were alsopresent on the occasion. Theoffice bearers of GangaMahasabha and Yoga guruSwami Ramdev also offeredfloral tribute to the departedleader.

Jaitley had passed away inNew Delhi on Saturday at theAll India Institute of MedicalSciences. He was 66. He wascremated at Nigambodh Ghatin the national Capital with fullstate honours on Sunday.

The relatives of Arun jait-ley had reached Haridwar onMonday afternoon and theashes’urn was brought to HarKi Paidi by state CM and cab-inet ministers. The ghat echoedwith slogans “Arun Jaitley amarrahey.” Paying tribute to Jaitley,the chief minister said that hisdemise was an irreparable lossfor the nation.

Swami Ramdev said thatJaitley was a man of wisdomand his death has left a vacu-um in the country. It is anirreparable loss to the nation.He also said that Patanjalifamily had a good relation withthe departed leader who wasnot only expert in financialmatters but other political

issues as well. Vidhan Sabhaspeaker Prem Chand Agrawal,BJP State president Ajay Bhatt,State minister Dhan SinghRawat, MLAsYastishwaranand, DeshrajKarnwal, Pushkar SinghDhami, Adesh Chauhan andothers also paid their tributesto Jaitley.

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Enraged by CentralBureau of Investigation

(CBI) pursuing the stingCD case against formerChief Minister HarishRawat, the state unit ofCongress party has blamedthe ruling Bharatiya JanataParty (BJP) of engaging inpolitics of vendetta.Addressing media personsat Rajiv Bhawan on Monday,the headquarters of StateCongress, the PradeshCongress Committee (PCC)President Pritam Singh saidthat the union governmentis using the agencies like theCBI, Enforcement Directorate(ED) and Income Tax to harassthe leaders of opposition parties.He said that the proceedings incorruption and other cases againstthe opposition leaders are put onback burner as soon as they joinBJP. “It happened in the case of

Narayan Rane and Hemant BiswaSharma. Similarly Mukul Roywas hunted by agencies in theSharda Chit fund scam and whenhe joined BJP, everything waspushed under carpet,’’ he said. ThePCC President added that formerChief Minister Harish Rawat isbeing unduly harassed by the gov-ernment. He added that if CBI isinvestigating Harish Rawat for analleged sting CD then similarinvestigation should be orderedagainst incumbent CM of

Uttarakhand. Former PCC President

Kishore Upadhyaya said that theCongress workers are speciallytargeted by the state governmentand cases are slapped againstthem whenever they raise issuesof public importance and questionthe role of government. He

warned that the Congress partywould retaliate by organisingprotests if the vindictive attitudeof the state government againstCongress workers and leaderscontinues.

The deputy leader ofCongress party in state assemblyKaran Mahra said that same yard-stick should be applied againstCongress and BJP leaders. Heclaimed that when the same per-son who releases sting of CongressChief Minister, the BJP leaders

offer protection to him and whenthis person conducts sting ofthose close to incumbent CM, heis thrown into the jail. Mahraclaimed that in the sting CD ofHarish Rawat no exchange ofmoney or talks relating to it fig-ured but in the sting CD of OSDof CM Trivendra Singh Rawat

such things figured but no actiontill date had been taken.

Former MLA, Rajkumar,spokesperson of state Congressparty R P Raturi, GarimaDassauni and Prabhu LalBahuguna were present on theoccasion.

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In protest against what they allegedmismanagement in disaster relief

operation, the Congress workers heldprotest meetings in all district head-quarters. In provisional state capital ofDehradun, effigy of BJP was burned bythe agitated workers of the party. Onthe day large number of Congress partyworkers and leaders assembled at stateparty office at Rajpur road from whereunder the leadership of PradeshCongress Committee (PCC) PresidentPritam Singh they marched to theAstley hall. Speaking on the occasion,the PCC President said that the stategovernment has failed miserably in dis-aster management. Blaming the stategovernment of being insensitivetowards the victims of disaster he saidthat the condition in all the disaster

affected areas of state is grim. He saidthe proper management of the gov-ernment relief has not occurred and theaffected families are continuing to suf-fer. Singh alleged that the state gov-ernment is trying to defer thePanchayat elections by taking theshield of natural disaster. He alsoalleged that the reservations are beingdone arbitrarily. The PCC chiefalleged that the dalits are being

harassed in the BJP rule. He said thatthe temple of Saint Ravidas in Delhiwas not shifted to another place due topoor advocacy by the union govern-ment. The deputy leader of party instate assembly Karan Mahra, formerMLA Matbar Singh Kandari, chairmanof disciplinary committee PramodKumar Singh, former MLA Rajkumarand others participated in the pro-gramme.

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The BharatiyaJanata Party has

rejected the allega-tions leveled by theCongress at theState and CentralGovernments, stat-ing that these reflectthe fear being expe-rienced by theCongress leaders. The BJP Statemedia in-charge DevendraBhasin said that the Press con-ference held on Monday clear-ly shows that the party whichis without issues to raise is nowmaking an unsuccessfulattempt to spread misinforma-tion through baseless state-ments. It also shows that fromthe national level to the statelevel, they are afraid of inves-tigation by the Central Bureauof Investigation. Bhasin furthersaid that the process for thePanchayat elections is pro-gressing properly and the pollsare slated to be held soon. TheBJP is preparing for these pollsat the organisational level. Butthe Congress, which has dis-appeared from the ground istrying to preserve its existencethrough statements of its lead-ers.

Responding to theCongress reaction to CBIaction in the case of stingoperation carried out on for-

mer chief minister HarishRawat, Bhasin said that at thetime when this sting was car-ried out, the Congress gov-ernment was in office andHarish Rawat was the chiefminister. The case is also in thehigh court. What are theCongress leaders afraid of ifthey feel that nothing wronghas been done, questionedBhasin. Using threatening lan-guage only exposes thestumped state of the Congressand the fear being experi-enced by its leaders. TheCongress has lost ground at thenational and state level so itsleaders are trying to maintaintheir existence by making suchallegations, opined Bhasin.

He also said that the stategovernment had prepared elab-orately for disaster scenariosdue to which officials andassistance was reaching affect-ed areas swiftly. The chief min-ister is himself monitoring dis-aster management, he added.

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Abiogas and manure plant isexpected to take shape in the

near future in the holy city ofHaridwar. Plans are afoot to makethis plant which will convert thesolid waste into biogas and manure.The officials of MunicipalCorporation of Haridwar andIndian Oil Corporation Limited(IOCL) recently held a meeting instate guest house to work outplans for this biogas plant. TheUrban Development MinisterMadan Kaushik has stated thateffort should be made to make thisplant operational before the MahaKumbh Mela of 2021.

Solid waste management is amajor problem of the city whichthis plant can take care of, feel theofficials. If everything goes asplanned, soon the city will get somerespite from the solid waste whichshall be converted into fuel andresidue into manure. From thegreen waste, bio gas can be formedand high quality manure generat-ed from remaining residue throughthis methanation plant. The offi-cials of IOCL alternative energy celland Municipal Corporation ofHaridwar, held a meeting in thestate guest house presided by theState’s Urban DevelopmentMinister Madan Kaushik. Duringthe meeting, Madan Kaushik saidthat to bring the Swachchh Bharatmission into reality, cent per centdisposal of solid waste was neces-sary. With the collaboration ofIOCL, biogas plant will be estab-

lished in Haridwar and under thisprogramme the Shivaliknagarmunicipal council area and SIID-CUL area will also be included.

The AGM of IOCL alternativeenergy cell, Vijay Kumar said,“The Municipal corporation mustgive us evaluation of biodegradableand non- biodegradable waste,segregation of both green andplastic waste and earmarking ofthe land for this plant.” The offi-cial said that in Varanasi, thecompany had established threeplants but as per the capacity of theplants they were not getting thesegregated waste to utilise thecapacity optimally. To avoid sucha scenario in Haridwar theywished to plan out before startingthe groundwork, said Vijay Kumar.The Municipal commissionerUdayveer Rana said that 260 met-ric tonnes of solid waste wasbeing generated every day in thecity and the assessment shall bemade from Shivaliknagar munic-ipal council area and SIIDCUL aswell. After the proposal is sent bythe municipal corporation, anMoU will be signed at the statelevel, he said.

Notably, solid waste disposalplant by KRL company was alsoproposed but has been pending forsome time now. About Rs nine lakhhas been provided for this while thedetailed project report states Rs19.30 crore as the sum needed tocomplete the project. Even door todoor collection of garbage has notbeen streamlined properly, say theobservers.

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The press conference conduct-ed in Rajiv Bhawan on

Monday was a rare show of unityamong the warring factions of theCongress party. In the PC, thePCC President Pritam Singh, for-mer PCC President KishoreUpadhyaya and Deputy leader ofparty in state assembly, KaranMahra took part. All these lead-ers said that the party stands unit-ed behind former CM HarishRawat.

The show of unity assumessignificance in the wake of ensu-ing Panchayat elections and byelection of Pithoragarh assemblyconstituency. The state unit ofstate Congress party is sharplydivided into factions led by HarishRawat, Pritam Singh and KishoreUpadhyaya. In the PC both Pritamand Upadhyaya were presentwhile Harish Rawat camp wasrepresented by Karan Mahra.

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Considering the crores ofdevotees expected to arrive

in Haridwar for the KumbhMela 2021, the works to bedone by various departmentsshould be completed on time.The chief secretary Utpal KumarSingh said this to officials whilechairing a meet regarding prepa-rations for the Kumbh Mela.

Singh said that for the suc-cessful management of theKumbh Mela, all the depart-ments need to work in coordina-tion with each other. He directedthe department officials to main-tain consistent coordination withthe Kumbh Mela officer and

other senior officers. He directedthe home department to soonstart construction of CCTV con-trol room, police station building,watch tower and transit hostel atMuni ki Reti which falls underTehri district. The Kumbh Melaofficer and other senior officersshould be informed about issuesbeing faced in execution ofdepartmental works so that thesame can be The priority worksshould be ascertained, he direct-ed. Approval was also granted forvarious works in the meeting.These include channelisation ofGanga stream to Bhimgoda Kund,beautification of Bhimgoda Kund,construction of 100 metre bridgeon Ranipur Rao river and con-struction of two-lane and cause-way on the stretch of nationalhighway 74 from Kangdi to 12kilometre milestone. Additionalchief secretary Om Prakash, sec-retaries Amit Negi, ShaileshBagauli, DG Ashok Kumar, IGSanjay Gunjyal, Kumbh Melaofficer Deepak Rawat and otherofficials concerned were also pre-sent in the meeting.

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Chief Minister TrivendraSingh Rawat visited an

educational amusement parkdeveloped by Dr Yogi Aeronnear Kuthal Gate here onMonday. Rawat said that thispark was a commendable effortto preserve nature. He appre-ciated the ponds, caves andmuseum along with a numberof banyan trees maintained inan attractive manner in thispark. He also said that con-struction of cabins atop thebanyan trees was a novelexperiment.

Rawat said that this parkwill not only inspire childrento protect the environmentbut will also be helpful inintroducing them to naturalscience.

Such efforts are beneficialfor the society too, he opined.During his visit, the chief min-ister also interacted withschool children visiting theeducational amusement park.

Aeron informed the chiefminister that the educationalamusement park built on fiveacre area is becoming popularamong school children. Special

arrangements have been madehere for physically and men-tally challenged children. This

park helps connect the chil-dren to nature and raise aware-ness among them regarding

the environment, he said. Thetourism secretary DilipJawalkar, Garhwal Mandal

Vikas Nigam managing direc-tor Eva Srivastava and otherswere also present on occasion.

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In a case reported in Kotwali policestation on Sunday late night, 29 year

old Indrajeet Singh committed suicideby hanging himself from a noose in hisroom. According to the informationprovided by the local police, prima facieit appears that the cause of suicide wasfamily dispute.

According to the family membersof the deceased, he was an auto driverby profession and was under stress dueto ongoing differences with his wife.With the help of a team from ForensicScience Laboratory, police have takenevidence from the crime scene. On thebasis of this, further investigation willbe done.

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Terming the CBI move aspolitically motivated and an

attempt to scuttle the stategovernment’s efforts to take thesacrilege cases to their logicalconclusion, Punjab ChiefMinister Capt AmarinderSingh on Monday asked theAdvocate General to legallyoppose the CBI plea for keep-ing its Bargari closure report inabeyance.

The Chief Minister askedAG Atul Nanda to prepare astrong case against the CBI pleafor so-called further investiga-tion in the cases, in which theagency had earlier filed a clo-sure report without a properprobe or grounds.

“The CBI had reduced theentire matter of the Bargari sac-rilege cases to a charade. Wewill not let the CBI get awaywith such a blatantly politicalmove,” asserted the ChiefMinister, adding that his gov-ernment would fight theagency tooth and nail to ensurethe much delayed justice in the

case.Captain Amarinder wasreacting to the fact that theagency, on Monday, prayedbefore the CBI court “that pre-sent application may be takenon record considering that fur-ther investigation is continuingand till its conclusion the clo-sure report filed earlier maykindly be kept in abeyance.”

The CBI plea has come lessthan a week after the state gov-ernment filed a revision peti-tion in the CBI special court atMohali challenging its July 23orders dismissing the state’s

request for a copy of the closurereport filed by the agency.

Instead of sharing the clo-sure report copy, the CBI isnow resorting to cheap tacticsby seeking to reopen investi-gations in the Bargari cases,which it had earlier claimed tomerit no further probe, said theChief Minister.“Why are theynot sharing the copy of the clo-sure report? What are they try-ing to hide?” asked CaptainAmarinder, declaring that theentire affair smacked of a clearattempt to bury the investiga-tion for good.

Lashing out at the CBI foracting on the diktats of its polit-ical masters in Delhi, the ChiefMinister questioned the sud-den need on the part of theagency for further probe. “Theyhad no explanation earlier forfiling the closure report and nojustification now for seeking tokeep it in abeyance,” he said,adding that the CBI plea wasclearly aimed at preventingthe state government from get-ting the cases investigated bythe SIT.

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Sonipat: A man attemptedself-immolation in Rathdhanavillage of Sonipat district onMonday when Chief MinisterManohar Lal Khattar's 'JanAshirwad Yatra' was passingthrough the area.

The man, who identifiedhimself as Rajesh, toldreporters that he took the stepbecause his son was joblessdespite being "assured" a jobwhen he met the chief minis-ter earlier.

Sonipat Superintendent ofPolice Pratiksha Godhara toldPTI that the Yatra was nearinga halt in Sonipat district whenthe man sprinkled someinflammable material nearbyand set himself on fire.

Haryana Minister and BJPMLA from Sonipat, Kavita Jainsaid that when the yatrareached the village, they saw aman engulfed in flames afterwhich security officials wereasked to rush to his help.

"I was on board the yatrabus when we saw the man inflames. Four more persons alsosustained burn injuries in theincident. The seriously injuredperson has been referred to

PGIMS hospital at Rohtak,while the other four are under-going treatment in Sonipatcivil hospital," Jain, the urbanlocal bodies and women andchild development minister,said.

According to the SP, theman was rushed to the burnward of PGIMS, Rohtak, wherepreliminary reports state thathe is out of danger.

There was no breach insecurity and the man had notreached close to the yatra vehi-cle with inflammable material,Godhara said, adding furtherinvestigations are on.

The MLA said, "The reasonwhy the man took the step willbe probed, but the prioritynow is to save his life. The

Haryana government willextend all help to them."

About Rajesh tellingreporters that he attemptedself-immolation because hisson was jobless despite "assur-ances" by the chief minister,Jain replied, "I want to tell youone thing -- first of all we needto know why he took the step,what is his mental state and inwhat circumstances he took thestep."

Crediting the State gov-ernment with ensuring trans-parency in providing jobs, thelegislator said, "In Haryana's52-year-old history, our gov-ernment gave the maximum -- 75,000 -- jobs in the last fiveyears on the basis of merit andin a transparent manner... it isnot like previous governmentswhen favouritism was practisedfor getting jobs."

Defence Minister RajnathSingh had flagged off Khattar'sJan Ashirwad Yatra for theOctober assembly polls inHaryana, from Kalka onAugust 18. After criss-cross-ing the state, the Yatra will cul-minate in Rohtak onSeptember 8. PTI

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To present a picturesqueview to the millions of

devotees likely to convergeduring the 550th PrakashPurb celebrations of Guru

Nanak Dev in Novemberthis year, the PunjabGovernment has under-taken a massive drivefor plantation of flowertrees and flowers in thevicinity of the holy city ofSultanpur Lodhi.

The HorticultureDepartment has been

entrusted with this task andits Director has been deput-ed as a nodal officer to over-see the overall plantationdrive, said the governmentspokesperson.

Under this ambitiousproject to plant 550 trees ofGulmohar and Amaltas,nearly 300 have already been

planted in and aroundthe historic GurdwaraSri Ber Sahib and banksof Holy Bein besidesflower beds are beingmade on both sides ofroads leading to theholy city and to ‘PindBabe Nanak Da’.

M e a n w h i l e ,Kapurthala DeputyCommissioner DPSKharbanda informedthat 1,100 MGNREGAworkers have beeninvolved to undertakethe plantation of fourlakh flowering plantsto be put all along HolyBein river side facingthe historic GurdwaraSri Ber Sahib.

Apart from this,flowers of different vari-eties Celosia, Cristata,French MarigoldLemon, FrenchMarigold Orange,Celosia Plumosa,Gomphrena Purple andCosmos Bippinatuswould be planted in theflower beds spread over

nearly four acres around theVVIP helipad being con-structed at the outskirts ofvillage Bassowal.

It has also been decidedto write 550 on the elevatedsoil platform with plantationof marigold flowers in com-memoration of this sacredoccasion. All the flowersbeing planted would blossomduring last week of Octobertill January.

Pertinently, an eminentfloriculturist from Punjab,Avtar Singh Dhindsa alongwith advocate HarpreetSandhu have conceptualisedthe plan in close coordina-tion with other line depart-ments — Horticulture, PWDand Rural Development andPanchayats to execute thisgigantic task.The seedlings ofall different varieties of flow-ers are being prepared in anursery developed over anarea of 1.5 – two lakh acresat Sultanpur Lodhi.

Notably, on the directivesof Chief Minister CaptAmarinder Singh, theGovernment has already ini-tiated a massive drive toplant 550 saplings in each vil-lage across the State in com-memoration of 550th birthanniversary of Guru NanakDev.The Forests Departmenthas been tasked with under-taking this massive planta-tion campaign in a organisedand a time bound manner.

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Punjab Chief MinisterCaptain Amarinder

Singh on Monday ordered aslew of additional measuresfor the relief and rehabili-tation of the flood victimsin various parts of the state,including supply of freehigh quality wheat seeds tofarmers for the upcomingRabi season.

Reviewing the postflood Action Plan (AP) forthe state, the Chief Ministerasked the Additional ChiefSecretary (Development) toensure timely supply ofwheat seeds to the floodaffected farmers, who havealready suffered huge loss-es as a result of damage tocrops due to inundation oftheir fields in flood water.

The Chief Minister alsoasked the CooperationDepartment to convert theshort-term loans of theflood affected farmers intomedium-term loans. He hasdirected the RegistrarCooperative Societies to

advance fresh crop loanlimits to such farmers toenable them to cultivatethe Rabi crop. Taking noteof the damage to the ruralrink roads and other mar-keting infrastructure, hehas directed the MandiBoard to take on repairwork on war footing as thewater recedes.

Capt Amarinder hasonce again asked thePowercom to move expedi-tiously for the restoration ofpower supply in the floodravaged vil lages. ThePSPCL chairman has beenasked to further intensifytheir efforts by employingspecial teams of engineersto complete the powerrestoration work.

Amid fear of outbreakof water-borne epidemics inthe wake of the floods, theChief Minister has orderedthe Principal SecretaryHealth to take effectivemeasures to check the out-break of diseases like diar-rhoea, cholera, enteric fever,jaundice etc as well as vec-

tor borne diseases likemalaria, chikungunya,dengue etc. He has alsoasked the HealthDepartment to ensure fog-ging of the flooded areas toprevent the breeding ofmosquitoes. The PrincipalSecretary (Food and CivilSupplies) has been directedto ensure adequate supplyof ration and drinking waterto the affected families.

The Animal HusbandryDepartment has also madeelaborate arrangements totackle disease among cattle.Nearly 150 special veteri-nary teams had been deput-ed to provide veterinaryhealthcare to around 61,000cattle affected by recentfloods in 225 villages ofnine districts across theState.

Special veterinary teamsare working round the clockto provide medicines andvaccination to the livestockaffected by the floods in thevillages of Jalandhar, Moga,Ludhiana, Ferozepur, SBSNagar, Ropar, Fazilka, Tarn

Taran and Kapurthala.

NEW RINGEMBANKMENT CON-STRUCTED AT TENDI-WALA

In the wake of damageto the existing embank-ment along the Satluj Riveron the side of Tendiwala vil-lage in Ferozepur districtdue to heavy discharge ofwater from the Pakistanside, the existing embank-ment has been fortified bythe construction of a newRing Embankment.

The Government’s offi-cial spokesperson informedthat the DrainageDepartment has prepared anew ring embankmentwhich will provide morestrength and protection tothe existing one and subse-quently guard againstrelease of excess water fromPak side to Ferozepur.

“The inundation ofwater into the area hascaused massive soil erosionresulting into weakening ofthe existing embankment.

The Army and the NationalDisaster Response Force(NDRF) is deployed, who,with the active support ofthe natives, strengthenedthe embankment,” said thespokesperson. But, appre-hending probable rise inquantum of water owing toincumbent rains, theDrainage Department hasconstructed a new ringembankment in close prox-imity to the existing onewhich is approximately fourfeet to 10 feet high and is400 feet long, said thespokesperson.

Spokesperson said thatthe ring embankment ismuch higher than the exist-ing embankment, so it willsafeguard sudden rise ofwater in river. Notably, thenew ring embankment hasbeen constructed in arecord time of 24 hours.Earlier, the StateGovernment had deniedthe reports as “false” and“incorrect” regarding col-lapse and further breach inTendiwala embankment.

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Delhi Lieutenant GovernorAnil Baijal on Monday

directed the Delhi Governmentofficials to expedite appoint-ment of teachers. The directioncame in a review meetingcalled by Lieutenant Governorregarding the status of vacan-cy position in Directorate ofEducation.

The meeting was attendedby Chairperson of DelhiSubordinate Services SelectionBoard (DSSSB), Secretary ofServices, Secretary andDirector of Education. In thisregard, a detailed presentationwas made by director of edu-cation on various aspects ofvacancy position, pending req-uisitions and dossiers and sta-tus of recruitment rules at alllevels.

Baijal further directed

the officials that regular DPC's should be held to fill thevacancies of departmentalpromotion quota. The issue ofRR's was discusses and it wasadvised that it should be suit-ably amended as per changingneeds, wherever necessary.

Further, the educationdepartment was advised to fol-low-up the matters pendingdue to court cases for early dis-posal. The L-G directed thesecretary of education to reviewthe matter on a weekly basis incoordination with Chairperson(DSSSB) to personally monitorthe pendency and timelines.

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The Haryana Government's decisionto replace IPS Sanjay Kumar with

KK Rao as Faridabad's Commissionerof Police (CP) last week hasn't surprisedmany given the shocking silence of thedistrict's seniormost police official on thesuicide case of former NIT FaridabadDeputy Commissioner of Police,Vikramjeet Singh Kapoor on August 14.

Kapoor had shot himself with hisservice revolver at his home inFaridabad, depressed over blackmailedby a junior officer. A suicide noterecovered from Kapoor's house men-tioned the name of Abdul Sayeed, whois posted as SHO at Bhopani police sta-tion. The note also named another per-son, who is a civilian.Suicide by asenior police officer following blackmailby his junior officer raised many uncom-fortable questions about the dynamicsof the state Police Department.

To evade such questions, SanjayKumar had since maintained a steadydistance from the media with Faridabadpolice PRO Sube Singh doing most ofthe talking. And the state government'sdecision to replace him with K.K. Raolast Thursday didn't surprise many.

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First meeting of the state TB forum washeld in state health directorate on

Monday. Speaking on the occasion, the sec-retary in charge of the medical health andfamily welfare department, Dr PankajKumar Pandey said that the StateGovernment is committed for providingright and complete treatment of TB and forit the cooperation of private hospitals andsocial organisations is taken in this regard.

He said that the private practionersshould identify TB patients so that they canbe notified and the disease is eradicatedfrom the State till the year 2024.

In the meeting, the officials said that atotal of 24444 TB patients are registered inthe state while patients that are almost dou-ble of this number get treatment in the pri-vate hospitals.The director general statehealth services, Dr R K Pandey said that bet-ter coordination between State health ser-vices and private practitioners is needed forcombating the disease effectively. The uniongovernment has formed TB forums for cre-ating awareness, identification, notificationof TB patients and their proper treatment.

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The Election Commission(EC) has barred Nitish

Kumar-led Janata Dal (United)from using its poll symbol‘arrow’ in the upcoming pollsin Jharkhand and Maharashtradue to its resemblance with thebow and arrow symbol of theJharkhand Mukti Morcha(JMM) and Shiv Sena.

The JD(U) said it willapproach the EC and theJharkhand High Court seekinga review of the order and mayeven approach the court if theCommission denied it relief.

The EC’s order came afterthe JMM moved an applicationon June 24, requesting it not to

allow ‘arrow’ symbol to JD(U)in Jharkhand as it may confusethe voters. Just ahead of the LokSabha elections, the JD(U) hadsecured an order from the ECbarring the JMM from con-testing in Bihar on its symbol‘Bow and Arrow’ since it wasvery similar to JD(U)’s symbol,the ‘Arrow’.

According to a senior EC

official, the order is in keepingwith provisions of the ElectionSymbols Order of 1968 asapplicable to all such state par-ties in similar situations. Theofficial explained that while theJD(U)’s symbol is accepted onpriority in Bihar, similarly inJharkhand, it is the JMM’ssymbol that gets priority. TheJD(U) is a recognised State

party in Bihar and ArunachalPradesh, where its symbol, the‘Arrow’, is reserved, the JMM isa recognised State party inJharkhand, and its symbol ‘Bowand Arrow’ is reserved in thatState. Shiv Sena too has thesymbol of ‘Bow and Arrow’,which is its reserved symbol inMaharashtra, where it is arecognised State party.

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In an attempt to mobilisemass support for the Modi

Government’s move to abrogatearticles 370 and 35-A, the BJPon Monday announced amonth-long nationwide contactprogramme, beginningSeptember 1. The Yatra will beaimed creating awareness inpublic about its idea of “one-Constitution-one-nation” in370 smaller towns and 35 bigcities, including Kashmir Valley.

Nine places, including fourin Kashmir Valley, have beenchosen in the erstwhile Jammu& Kashmir, now a UnionTerritory with an Assembly, forthe exercise, said UnionMinisters Dharmendra

Pradhan and Gajendra SinghShekhawat here at a Press con-ference. The conference alsosaw eight political leaders fromKargil and two from Ladakhjoining the BJP.

Barring an Assembly,Ladakh is now also a UnionTerritory directly administeredby the Centre like Jammu &Kashmir. Among others whojoined BJP included Jammu &Kashmir legislative councilchairman Haji Inayat Ali andLadakh Autonomous Council’s executive memberMohammad Ali.

Pradhan said the decisionon revoking Article 370 was“historic” and one of the fewmoments in the history ofindependent India that united

people across political and ide-ological divides.

All the key BJP leaders,Chief Ministers, Central andState Ministers would partici-pate in “jan sampark abhiyan”which would be headed byPradhan and Sekhawat withBJP vice-president Jay Pandaalso included in the team.

BJP Ministers said withthe abrogation of Article 370and Article 35 A, J&K has beenfully integrated in the country and would fulfill theaspirations of “new genera-tion” in the State.

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In a significant boost to theIAF’s strategic airlift capa-

bilities, Boeing, the manufac-turer of C-17 Globemastertransport aircraft, deliveredthe 11th plane to the IAF onMonday. This came about afterthe Government last yearapproved procurement of threeadditional C-17s at a cost of Rs8,000 crore.

At present, the IAF has tenplanes with the inductionbeginning in 2013. The dealinked in 2011 was worth 4.7billion dollars. The contracthad an option clause of buyingsix more planes but shortage offunds delayed the induction ofmore planes.

The C-17 fleet is a vitalfleet of the IAF’s combat airliftcapability as the plane canland in toughest of placesthereby ensuring logistic sup-port to the troops deployed inremote areas guarding the Lineof Actual Control(LAC) facingChina and Line ofControl(LoC)with Pakistan.The planes have in the past fewyears have also carried outhumanitarian assistance duringnatural calamities.

The C-17 is a premiertransport aircraft as it is mas-sive and long-haul aircraft car-rying large combat equipment,troops and humanitarian aidacross long distances in allweather conditions.

“Boeing today deliveredthe 11th C-17 Globemaster IIIadding to India’s capability tomeet current and future strate-

gic airlift requirements,” thecompany said in a statement.

The IAF C-17s have per-formed a wide range of opera-tions in military missions, andprovided peacekeeping sup-port, humanitarian assistanceand disaster relief in India andinternationally, since inductionto the Sky Lords squadronbased at Hindon airbase nearthe national capital in 2013.

In 2016, C-17 Globemastermade a historic landing on ashort 4,200-foot runway of thehigh altitude MechukaAdvanced Air Landing Groundin Arunachal Pradesh, just 29km from the LAC, a move thatdemonstrated IAF’s the abilityto reach the remotest parts ofthe country.

Boeing has been maintain-ing IAF’s C-17 fleet throughtechno-logistics support andtraining for aircrew that oper-ate the platform. “The C-17fleet has maintained high ser-viceability rates since its induc-tion. Boeing is responsible formaintenance, field support ser-vices, modifications andupgrades, technical manualsupport and logistics engineer-ing services,” the company said.

Boeing’s C-17 simulatortraining centre, established in2016, provides training servicesto the IAF, and has completedover 5,100 hours of training foraircrew and loadmasters. “Withthis delivery, there are 275operable Boeing-built C-17saround the globe. Boeing plansto sustain them to ensure theymeet the mission at hand,” thecompany said.

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The Special ProtectionGroup (SPG) protection

given to former Prime MinisterManmohan Singh has beenwithdrawn following a reviewby multiple security agenciesbut he will continue to get Zplus security, officials said onMonday. The former PM’s Zplus security cover will bemanaged by CRPF.

“The current security coverreview is a periodical and pro-fessional exercise based onthreat perception that is pure-ly based on professionalassessment by security agen-cies. Dr Manmohan Singh con-tinues to have Z+ security

cover,” a Home Ministryspokesperson said.

The decision to withdrawthe SPG security, the country’shighest grade of protection, was

taken after a three-monthreview involving the CabinetSecretariat and the Ministry ofHome Affairs with inputs fromvarious Intelligence agencies,

officials said.With the removal of Singh’s

SPG cover, the top notch secu-rity cover will now be givenonly to Prime MinisterNarendra Modi and theGandhi family — Congresspresident Sonia Gandhi andher children, Rahul andPriyanka. According to proce-dures laid down by the SPGAct, 1988, Singh was entitled toSPG cover for one year after hedemitted office in 2014.

His SPG security cover wasrenewed annually after a reviewof the threats faced by him andhis wife Gursharan Kaur. Singh’sdaughters, who were also givenSPG cover, gave up the protec-tion voluntarily in 2014.

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Ahigh-level meeting chairedby Union Home Minister

Amit Shah with ChiefMinisters of the Maoist-affect-ed States on Monday decidedto jointly fight the Left WingExtremism. The meetingreviewed the ongoing opera-tions against Naxals and devel-opment initiatives in theremote areas.

Chief Ministers NitishKumar (Bihar), Naveen Patnaik(Odisha),Yogi Adityanath(Uttar Pradesh), Kamal Nath(Madhya Pradesh), RaghubarDas (Jharkhand), BhupeshBaghel (Chhattisgarh) and YSJaganmohan Reddy (AndhraPradesh), besides top police andcivil officials of 10 Left WingExtremism (LWE)-affectedStates, attended the meetingwhere ongoing operationsagainst Naxals and develop-ment initiatives were reviewed.

“Had a very fruitful meet-ing with the CMs of the LWEaffected States. Discussed sev-eral issues related to the secu-rity & development of theseStates. Left Wing Extremism isagainst the idea of democracyand under the leadership of PM@narendramodi we are com-mitted to uproot it,” Shahtweeted after the meeting.

Top officials of paramili-

tary forces and the HomeMinistry also attended themeeting, first-of-its-kind afterShah assumed charge as theHome Minister about threemonths ago. Senior police offi-cials from the 10 Maoists-hitStates are Chhattisgarh,Jharkhand, Odisha, WestBengal, Bihar, Maharashtra,Telangana, Andhra Pradesh,Madhya Pradesh and UttarPradesh were also present inthe high-level meeting.

Addressing the meeting,Bihar CM Kumar said the fightagainst Left Wing Extremismwas a joint responsibility of theCentre as well as the States.

Kumar flagged the need for achange in the existing policywhich put the entire financialburden of deployment ofCentral forces in the Naxalism-affected areas on the StateGovernments concerned.

Chhattisgarh ChiefMinister Bhupesh Bagheldemanded more funds fromthe Centre to combat LeftWing Extremism in the Stateand said his Government willeliminate the menace throughdevelopment policies as well asproviding security and gener-ating trust among the people.

Uttar Pradesh CMAdityanath said Naxal activities

are fully under control in theState and the wheel of devel-opment is moving even in theareas affected by the menace.Adityanath said the State is ben-efiting from the informationexchange with bordering States.

Jharkhand Chief MinisterRaghubar Das said several topNaxal leaders have surren-dered under the popular sur-render and rehabilitation pol-icy for the Naxalites to join themainstream.

There has been 60 per centdecline in the Naxal-relatedincidents in Jharkhand between2015 and 2019 as compared to2010-2014, he said.

Union Ministers NitinGadkari, Nirmala Sitharaman,Ravi Shankar Prasad, NarendraSingh Tomar, Arjun Mundaand Mahendra Nath Pandeyalso joined the meeting later inthe day and discussed with theChief Ministers issues con-cerning roads, telecommuni-cation, agriculture and others.

According to HomeMinistry statistics, 8,782 casesof Naxal violence were report-ed during 2009-13 as against4,969 during 2014-18, a reduc-tion of 43.4 per cent. As manyas 3,326 people, including secu-rity force personnel, lost theirlives in 2009-13 as against 1,321in 2014-18, a reduction of 60.4per cent, the Ministry said.

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The EnforcementDirectorate (ED) on

Monday filed chargesheetagainst Associated JournalLimited (AJL), senior Congressleaders Moti Lal Vora andBhupinder Singh Hooda inthe designated court atPanchkula in connection witha money laundering case.

“AJL, Moti Lal Vora andBhupinder Singh Hooda weredirectly involved in theprocess/activity connected withacquisition, possession or pro-jection of “Proceeds of Crime”i.e. Plot No.C-17,Sector 6,Panchkula to the tune of Rs64.9 crore,” the ED said in astatement.

The ED had attached theproperty located at Plot No. C-17, Sector 6, Panchkula. TheAdjudicating Authority ofPMLA, had subsequentlyordered confirmation of theprovisional attachments order.

The investigation underPrevention of MoneyLaundering Act (PMLA) wasbased on a case that theattached property was allottedto AJL in the year 1982, but the

same was resumed back by theEstate Officer, Haryana UrbanDevelopment Authority(HUDA) through an order onOctober 30, 1992 as the AJL didnot comply with the conditionsof allotment letter.

The Resumption Orderattained finality after dismissalof the Revision Petition in 1996.However, Bhupinder SinghHooda, the then Chief Ministerof Haryana and Chairman ofHUDA, “blatantly misused hisofficial position and dishonest-ly allotted the said plot afresh inthe guise of re-allotment to theAJL at original rates plus inter-est in violation of necessary con-ditions/ policy of HUDA

through an order on August 28,2005, the ED said.

“Also, Hooda did notadhere to the legal opinion ofLegal Remembrance, Haryanaand recommendations ofHUDA Officers and FinancialCommissioner Town andCountry Planning (FCTCP).Thus, the CM caused wrongfulloss to HUDA and wrongfulgain to AJL,” the agency said.

Hooda further favouredthe AJL by granting them threeundue extensions for con-struction in the said plot fromMay 1, 2008 to May 10, 2012until the AJL completed theconstruction in the year 2014,it added.

New Delhi: The SupremeCourt on Monday soughtresponses from the Centre andseveral States on a plea seekingdirection to State Governmentsto set up online RTI portals forpeople to electronically applyfor the required informationinstead of filing applicationsphysically.

A Bench comprising

Justices N V Ramana and AjayRastogi issued notices to theCentre and 25 states on a PIL,filed by Delhi-based NGO‘Pravasi Legal Cell’, which saidthe RTI Act is a “powerful tool”and its true objective could beachieved only by timelyresponse to citizens’ request.

The plea said the Centrehas established an online RTI

portal in which any Indian cit-izen, including NRIs, can applyfor information under the RTIAct with the desired ministryor department.

It said that the Centre inDecember 2013 had requestedState Governments to explorethe feasibility of implementingonline RTI in their respectiveStates but only Maharashtra

and Delhi have establishedportals for that. “A personseeking information under theRight to Information (RTI)Act from any department of thestate government, at presenthas to make a physical appli-cation and cannot do sothrough any electronic means,”said the plea, filed throughadvocate Jose Abraham. PTI

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Hindu body ‘NirmohiAkahara’ is “unnecessari-

ly” opposing the plea of deity‘Ram Lalla’ for the title of dis-puted Ramjanam Bhoomi-Babri Masjid land as both theparties will “stand” or “fall”together, the Supreme Courtsaid on Monday.

A five-judge Constitutionbench, headed by Chief JusrticeRanjan Gogoi, was critical of thesubmission of ‘Akhara’ thatbeing the ‘shebait’ (devotee),only its lawsuit was maintain-able and the case filed by deity‘Ram Lalla Virajman’, throughnext friend Deoki NandanAgrawal, should not be allowed.

“There is no conflictbetween your (Akahara’s) suitand the suit filed by plaintiffnumber 1 (Ram Lalla)... Evenif the suit of plaintiff (deity andothers) is allowed, your right as‘shebait’ stands,” the Benchsaid while hearing the argu-ments on the 12th day of thedecades-old, politically sensi-tive case.

“You (Akahara) can claimyour ‘shebait’ right indepen-dently. Unnecessarily, you areentering into the conflictingterritory you need not go to. Itis for Sunni Waqf Board to dothat,” said the bench, com-

prising Justices SA Bobde, DYChandrachud, Ashok Bhushanand SA Nazeer.

The Bench asked senioradvocate Sushil Jain, appearingfor ‘Nirmohi Akahara’, that ifthe lawsuit of the deity was dis-allowed then for whom will theAkahara be ‘shebait’ of.

“You (Akhara) standtogether and you will falltogether. Your argument is thatDeoki Nandan Agrwal (whohad filed the lawsuit on behalfof the deity as the next friend)had no right to file the suit.

“You (Akhara) cannot bethe ‘shebait’ of the mosque,” thebench quipped, adding, “Ifyour suit succeeds, it will beadverse to the deity.” Jain, how-ever, said the ‘Akahara’ was notsaying anything against thedeity and moreover, the law isnow well settled that the deityneed not be a party in all thelawsuits and can be represent-ed through ‘shebait’.

“A shebait can maintain thesuit on behalf of the deity in itsown name and need notimplead the deity as a party,”the senior lawyer said.

The Bench asked Jain toapprise it of the view of‘Akahara’ on Tuesday as towhether it was still seekingdismissal of the lawsuit filed bythe deity and others.

New Delhi: The Supreme Courton Monday directed that aforensic audit report be given tothe Enforcement Directorate,Delhi Police and the Institute ofChartered Accountants in India(ICAI) for taking appropriateaction against Amrapali direc-tors and auditors for siphoningoff over Rs 3,000 crore of homebuyers’ money.

A Bench of justices ArunMishra and UU Lalit alsodirected the apex court registryto disburse Rs 7.16 croredeposited by the Amrapaligroup to the National BuildingsConstruction Corporation(NBCC) for completion ofstalled projects of the group.

The Bench also directedthe Noida and Greater Noida

authorities to set up a nodal cellfor issuing completion certifi-cate to home buyers.

It also directed the author-ities to depute one officer notbelow the rank of deputy man-ager to coordinate with thecourt receiver, senior advo-cate R Venkataramani, in deal-ing with the affairs of Amrapali.

The Bench posted matterfor hearing on September 11.The court had on August 13asked the Noida and GreaterNoida authorities to grant com-pletion certificates to thousandsof harassed home buyers resid-ing in various Amrapali projectsin compliance with its verdictand warned that the officialsconcerned will be sent to jail ifthey fail to do so. PTI

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Samajwadi Party presidentAkhilesh Yadav on Monday

dissolved the party’s Delhi unit.The move comes just days

after he dissolved the SP’s UttarPradesh unit, including thestate executive, and districtand youth wings, in an attemptto rejig the party after its LokSabha poll debacle.

“SP president AkhileshYadav has dissolved the party’sDelhi unit with immediateeffect,” a statement issued byparty chief general secretaryRam Gopal Yadav said.

The SP has no presence inthe Delhi assembly and theUttar Pradesh unit was dis-solved on Friday.

New Delhi: A Srinagar-basedCRPF helpline on Mondaynotified three new mobilenumbers for the public, espe-cially Kashmiris, who requiremedical or any other emer-gency help for themselves ortheir families in J&K.

The ‘madadgaar’ helpinepublished the three numbers —9469793260, 9469793430,9469793401 — through its offi-cial Twitter handle,@CRPFmadadgaar, and said it isputting “committed efforts toprovide necessary assistance tothe citizens 24X7”. “In case of anyemergency, medical assistance orany other requirements of essen-tial assistance please dial”, thesenumbers, it said. PTI

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Amacabre demand tobehead Prime Minister

Narendra Modi has been madeby one of the speakers of ameeting held by an Islamicextremist organisation onSunday challenging theGovernment of India for abro-gation of Article 370 of theConstitution and criminalisingthe Triple Talaq which was invogue among the Muslim com-munity.

The video recording of themeeting, organised by TamilNadu Muslim MunnetraKazhagam that went viral allover the State, has a speakeropenly declaring that he wouldbehead Modi and kill UnionHome Minister Amit Shah forcoming up with legislation onTriple Talaq.

The person also declaredthat the Parliament needs to beattacked for enacting such laws.He further added that he wasnot afraid of anything andasked the Intelligence of theState Police to take note of thesame and repeated his threatthat the Prime Minister of thecountry would be assassinated.

The Tamil Nadu BJP has

taken strong note of the inci-dent while the DMK, the majorOpposition party, chose toremain silent over the issue.Narayanan Thirupathy, BJPspokesman, filed a complaintwith the Chennai Police onSunday for which a receipt hasbeen issued by the police.

“This is a seditious speechas he threatens that he would notonly kill the democraticallyelected Prime Minister andHome Minister of the countryand behead them but also wouldattack the Parliament. This isa criminal offence under Section124A of the IPC .

The speaker also invokesreligion thereby creating enmi-ty between different groups onthe ground of religion which isan act prejudicial to the main-tenance of harmony,” saidNarayanan. He pointed out thathe would demand slappingcharges against the speakerunder sections 153A, Sections503, 504 and 505(1) (b) (C), readwith Sections 506of the IPC.

Elsewhere in the State, theDMK, Lefts and Islamic outfitsare busy organising meetingsagainst the abrogation of thearticle 370 of the Constitutionand the legislation against theTriple Talaq. Though the DMK

and the Congress were vocif-erous in their attacks againstChief Minister EdappadiPalaniswamy for describingthe former union finance min-ister P Chidambaram as a bur-den on the earth, they chose tolook the other way when theTMMK meeting called forassassinating the PrimeMinister and the HomeMinister, said a senior intelli-gence official. He said thedepartment was looking intothe details of the speech.

Tamil Nadu Police andNational Investigating Agencyhave taken into custodyIslamic youths who werereportedly planning to subvertlaw and order in South India.

Sunday saw TMMK andMMK, two organisationsknown for their extremiststands, holding a rally inChennai where M HJawahirullah, president ofMMK accusing the Centre forselectively targeting innocentIslamic youth under the pretextof questioning them over theirlinks with various “freedomfighters”. He compared therecently amended UAPA Bill tothat of the Rowlatt Act whichculminated in the JallianwallaBagh massacre of the 1919.

Srinagar: Normal life remainedaffected in Kashmir for the22nd consecutive day onMonday as markets and schoolswere shut, but the movement ofprivate vehicles in the cityimproved, officials said.

Restrictions were lifted inmost areas of the valley, but thedeployment of security forcescontinued to maintain law andorder, they said.

The communicationblockade in Kashmir was easedto some extent as landline tele-phone services were restored inmost places across the valley inview of the improving situation,

the officials added. However,the services continued toremain snapped in the com-mercial hub of Lal Chowk andPress Enclave here. The mobileservices and internet, includingBSNL's broadband and privateleased-line internet, remainedsuspended since August 5when the Centre abrogatedArticle 370 of the Constitutionand reorganised the state intotwo Union territories —Jammu & Kashmir andLadakh.

Meanwhile, the officialssaid the situation remainedpeaceful on Sunday and no

untoward incident was report-ed from anywhere in the valley.

Markets across Kashmirremained shut for the 22ndconsecutive day as shops andother business establishmentswere closed, while the publictransport also was off theroads, the officials said.

They said the movementof private cars in the city andelsewhere in the valleyincreased. Private educationalinstitutions continued toremain closed whileGovernment schools witnessedminimal attendance of the stu-dents, they added. PTI

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claimed that the terrorists aretrying to disrupt 'apple econo-my' to trigger resentment amongpublic.

Twitter handle of theDepartment of Information andPublic relations late Mondayevening posted a tweet saying,"Ultras went to a large appleorchard in Village Wattoo,Shopian, threatened owner,unloaded apple consignment &directed that apple crop shouldnot be shipped". TheGovernment spokesman said,"This is the first such incidentever. where attempt is made todisrupt apple economy & createresentment among public" .The

authorities also refuted reportsabout shortage of life-savingdrugs at SMHS Hospital inSrinagar. The administrationclaimed that there was sufficientmedicines to sustain for a monthand a half. The administrationshared the drug controller reportwhich said that medicines worth�31.76 crore were supplied topharmaceutical dealers and dis-tributors in the Valley in the last35 days and stocks were beingreplenished regularly.

Areas, where local residentshave created road blocks, to pre-vent entry of security forces alsoremained peaceful barring fewodd incidents of protest demon-strations.

Apart from that, 30,000LPG cylinders were distributedin Srinagar in the last four days.

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schools reopened in Poonchdistrict of Jammu region onMonday after remaining closedfor over three weeks due torestrictions imposed in thewake of abrogation of Jammu& Kashmir's special status ear-lier this month, an officialsaid. Colleges in the district,however, continued to remainclosed and are likely to resumework this week after a reviewof the law-and-order situa-tion, the official said.

"The higher secondaryschools have started func-tioning normally across thedistrict. The schools in the cityand adjoining areas registereda 90 per cent attendance, andit was around 70 per cent infar-flung areas," DistrictDevelopment CommissionerRahul Yadav said. PTI

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Jammu: A week after it was sus-pended, the Poonch-Rawalakotcross-LoC bus service resumedon Monday, with 46 strandedpassengers, including 40 fromPoK, returning home, an offi-cial said.

The weekly service wassuspended on August 19 afterauthorities in Pakistan-occu-pied Kashmir (PoK) did notrespond to a call from theirIndian counterparts to let a busget across the Line of Control(LoC), according to officials.

"The bus service resumedwith 40 PoK residents and sixIndian citizens returning totheir homes," DistrictDevelopment Commissioner,Poonch, Rahul Yadav told PTI.

The permits of two otherPoK residents, who had arrivedin Jammu and Kashmir'sPoonch a week ahead of Eid-ul-

Azha to meet their relatives, isyet to expire, he said, addingthat there was no fresh travellerfrom either side.

The bus service, popularlyknown as 'Paigam-e-Aman', ison every Monday and it did notstop despite tension along theLoC in view of frequent cease-fire violations by Pakistanwhich has claimed the lives ofthree army personnel and acivilian since August 17.

However, it was suspendedlast Monday, after officials said"we had sent a message to PoKauthorities for bus service today(August 19), but they did notrespond". The relations betweenIndia and Pakistan is understrain following Centre's moveto scrap special status to Jammu& Kashmir and its bifurcationinto two Union territories —Jammu and Kashmir, and

Ladakh -- early this month. Billed as the biggest confi-

dence building measure, thebus service was started on theSrinagar-Muzaffarabad routein Kashmir in April 2005 andthe Poonch-Rawalakot route inthe Jammu region in June 2006,to facilitate divided familieson either side of the LoC tomeet each other.

The trade, which workson the barter system, betweenthe two parts of Kashmir start-ed in October 2008. However,India announced suspension ofthe trade at two points —Salamabad of Baramulla inKashmir and Chakkan-da-Bagh of Poonch in Jammu inApril, following reports that itwas being "misused" by ele-ments from across the borderto smuggle weapons, narcoticsand fake currency. PTI

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Kolkata/Gaya: A top operativeof terror outfit Jamat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB),who was involved in the 2018Bodh Gaya blast, was arrestedfrom Bihar by the special taskforce (STF) of the KolkataPolice on Monday.

The Centre in Maydeclared the Bangladesh-basedJMB, which was blamed for theterror attack at a cafe in Dhakain 2016 in which 22 peopleincluding 17 foreigners werekilled, as a banned terroristorganisation.

Ejaz Ahmad alias Amir, aresident of Birbhum district ofWest Bengal, was apprehendedfrom a house at Pathan Tolilocality of Buniyadganj policestation area in Gaya district, apolice officer said in Gaya.

"He (Ahmad) is the top-most Indian functionary andthe main recruiter of theorganisation working in thiscountry. He was in constanttouch with JMB terrorists inBangladesh. He is wanted ina number of JMB-related

cases," a police officer said inKolkata.

Acting on a tip-off that theaccused was hiding in Gaya district, a team of theKolkata Police STF and BiharPolice conducted a raid andnabbed him.

"Ahmad had played a vitalrole in the Bodh Gaya blast in2018. He was living with hiswife and children under different names and was regularly changing address,"he said.

A low-intensity bomb hadexploded on January 19 last

year, hours after Tibetan spir-itual leader the Dalai Lama hadfinished a sermon at theMahabodhi temple in BodhGaya.

"He was working as themain recruiter working in dif-ferent illegal madrasas whichcame up in the Indo-Bangladesh borders of WestBengal, Tripura and Assam,"the IPS officer added.

Ahmad has been bookedunder various sections of theIndian Penal Code and theExplosive Substances Act, headded.

No weapon was recov-ered from his possession, thepolice said adding that theywould be sending his mobilephone for forensic tests to findout details of his contacts, headded.

After the Bodh Gaya blast,Ahmad had fled first toBangalore and then to Keralaand in both places, he used towork as a mason from WestBengal. He returned to Gayasometime back. PTI

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Muzaffarnagar (UP): A localcourt has framed chargesagainst five people accused ofkilling a youth whose death wasa trigger for the 2013Muzaffarnagar riots in 2013.

District and Sessions JudgeSanjay Kumar Pachori hasframed charges under sections302 (murder), 147 (rioting),148 (rioting, armed with dead-ly weapon) and 149 of theIndian Penal Code against thefive accused.

The court fixed nextTuesday for producing wit-nesses from the prosecutionside against Prahlad, BishanSingh, Tendu, Devender andJitender.

According to the prosecu-tion, the five are among the sixpeople accused of stabbingShahnawaz to death at Kawal

village in Jansath area of UttarPradesh's Muzaffarnagar dis-trict on August 27, 2013.

His death and that of twoyouths in another incidentwere said to be the triggerbehind the communal clashesin Muzaffarnagar and adjoin-ing areas in August andSeptember 2013, whichclaimed 60 lives and displacedover 40,000 people. PTI

Mumbai: Mumbai Police onMonday registered an FIRagainst senior NCP leader andformer deputy chief ministerAjit Pawar and 70 former func-tionaries in the MaharashtraState Cooperative Bank (MSCB)scam case on alleged charges ofcheating and forgery, days afterthe Bombay High Court direct-ed them to file an offence.

Ajit Pawar, a nephew ofNCP chief Sharad Pawar, hadserved as deputy chief ministerfrom November 10, 2010 toSeptember 26, 2014.

Other accused includePeasants and Workers Party(PWP) leader Jayant Patil andthe then directors and seniorofficials from the supersededbank's units in 34 districts in thestate, an official said.

"We have registered anoffence at MRA Marg police sta-tion based on the complaint ofEconomic Offences Wing," anofficial said.

They have been bookedunder sections 420 (Cheatingand dishonestly inducing deliv-ery of property), 409 (Criminalbreach of trust by public servant,or by banker, merchant oragent), 406 (Punishment forcriminal breach of trust), 465(Punishment for forgery), 467

(Forgery of valuable security,will, etc) and 120 (B) (Punishment of criminal con-spiracy) of the Indian PenalCode (IPC).

On August 22, a bench ofJustices S C Dharmadhikariand S K Shinde of the HighCourt said there was "credibleevidence" against the accused inthe case and directed theEconomic Offences Wing(EOW) to register an FIR with-in five days.

The accused were alleged-ly complicit in causing losses tothe tune of Rs 1,000 crore toMSCB between 2007 and 2011.

An inspection by theNational Bank for Agricultureand Rural Development(NABARD) as well as a chargesheet filed by a quasi-judicialinquiry commission under theMaharashtra CooperativeSocieties (MCS) Act blamed the"decisions, actions and inac-tions" of Pawar and the otheraccused for the loss.

The NABARD audit reportrevealed breach of several bank-ing laws and RBI guidelines bythe accused in distribution ofloans to sugar factories andspinning mills, and subsequentdefault on repayment and recov-ery of such loans. PTI

Chennai: Decrying the prac-tice of allocation of separateburial and cremation groundfor Dalits, the Madras HighCourt observed on Mondaythat it appeared theGovernment itself was encour-aging divisions based on caste.

The court was hearing apetition initiated by itself aftera report said that access routesof a Dalit cremation groundwere blocked in Tamil Nadu'sVellore district for last fouryears, forcing the communitymembers to lower the deadbodies of their relatives froma bridge with the help ofropes onto a river bed.

In its oral observations, abench comprising Justices S

Manikumar andSubramonium Prasad notedthat all people irrespective ofcaste and religion wereallowed in all public places.

The high court said byallocating separate burialground to the 'Adi Dravidars'

(Scheduled Castes), the gov-ernment itself appeared to beencouraging such practice.

The bench also asked whysome schools continued to becalled "separate school forAdi-Dravidars" when the stategovernment had removed

caste names from streets.The court then directed

the Vellore district collectorand the Vaniyambadi tehsildarto furnish the details of theland used by the villagers inand around the burial ground.

According to reports,Dalit members ofNarayanapuram village nearVaniyambadi town, 213 kmwest of Chennai, were forcedto lower the bodies of theirrelatives using ropes from abridge into a river bed as theaccess to the burial ground onits banks had been blockeddue to alleged encroachmentby two people.

The high court had takencognisance of the issue last

week after its attention wasdrawn to a report in anEnglish daily titled "Dalits'airdrop' dead in Tamil Nadu".

The bench had last weekissued notices to the TamilNadu home secretary, theVellore district collector andthe tehsildar and sought theirstands on the issue.

As per the report, theDalit residents of the villagehave been lowering bodies tothe riverbank for the pastfour years. Though the Dalitssaid they did not face anydirect caste discrimination orthreats from other groups,they blamed the districtadministration for not remov-ing the encroachments. PTI

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Jalpaiguri (WB): The West Bengal Governmenton Monday submitted before the JalpaiguriCircuit Bench of the Calcutta High Court thatBimal Gurung, chief of one of the two GJM fac-tions, has fled the country, a claim vehementlydenied by his lawyer.

The court asked the State Government to filean affidavit on its claim that the Gorkha JanmuktiMorcha (GJM) leader was absconding.

A division bench comprising Justices JoymalyaBagchi and M Mandal also directed Gurung'slawyer to file a counter affidavit with regard to hisassertion that he was very much within the coun-try.

The court passed the direction while hearingan anticipatory bail prayer of Gurung in connec-tion with around 120 criminal cases filed againsthim and another GJM leader, Roshan Giri, overalleged incidents of violence during the DarjeelingHills statehood demand agitation in 2017.

The court gave the prosecution and Gurungtwo weeks each to file their affidavits and direct-ed that the matter would be taken up for hearingagain after five weeks. PTI

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Panaji: Reports in a section ofthe media that several crorerupees were spent on the treat-ment of former Goa chief min-ister late Manohar Parrikar was"unwarranted and absurd", StateHealth Minister Vishwajit Ranesaid on Monday.

Parrikar died on March 17this year of a pancreatic ailmentand some media reports in thestate put the cost of treatmentat Rs 5.72 crore.

These reports also tried tocompare this figure with thepoor state of the Goa MedicalCollege and lack of finances toset things right there.

In a statement, Rane said,"The comparison between thehealth care sector and moneyspent on ministers, includingformer CM Manohar Parrikar,for their treatment outside thestate is absurd and unwarrant-ed."

"The contribution ofManohar Parrikar is huge andit cannot be quantified in termsof money," he stressed.

What is the problem ifmoney is spent on MLAs aseven during the Congressregime, money was spent on ail-ing leaders like then MLAGurudas Gawas, Rane added in

the statement.He claimed it was the

responsibility of the state gov-ernment to take care of thehealth of MLAs and leaders whowork for the people of Goa.

The minister said there wasno dearth of money for thehealth care sector in Goa,adding that a super specialtyblock would be completed soonat the GMC.

He also informed that awell-equipped district hospitalwill come up in Margao in southGoa, and it would ensurepatients don't have to travel toGMC for treatment. PTI

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Rashtriya Samaj Paksha(RSP) chief and Dairy

Development MinisterMahadev Jankar’s claim thatSanjay Dutt would join hisparty on September 25 fell flaton his face on Monday, as theactor vehemently denied thathe had any plans to join anypolitical party.

A day after Jankar madethe claim at his party’s 16thfoundation day function aboutthe actor joining his the RSPon September 25, Dutt statedthat he had no plans to join anypolitical party.

In a brief statement issuedto the media, the actor said: “Iwill not be joining any politi-cal party. Mr Jankar is a dearfriend and brother of mine andI humbly wish him good luckfor his future endeavours".

Jankar had made the claimat the RSP’s 16th foundationday event here in the presenceof Minister of RuralDevelopment, Women andChild Welfare Pankaja Munde,after a video of the“Munnabhai MBBS” actor wasplayed out at the event.

In the 17-second videoclip, Dutt had said: "I congrat-ulate RSP National PresidentMahadev Jankar, my friendand my brother. if I wouldhave been here, I would havecome"

Later, speaking at the func-tion held at the historic ShivajiPark in north-central Mumbai,Jankar claimed: "Just now youheard the byte of big boss...bigbrother. Saanjay Dutt has givendate of 25 September to join(RSP).He is in Dubai (today).Had he been in Mumbai, hewould have joined us".

With the actor’s firmdenial about his plans to jointhe RSP, Jankar’s efforts togarner support for his partyhave come to a naught.

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Bengal Chief MinisterMamata Banerjee on

Monday visited parts ofBurdwan village chatting withlocals over cups of tea, listeningto their daily woes and deliver-ing instant promises to solvethem.

After she personally pre-pared tea for inmates of a housein the beach town of Digha,Banerjee visited AlisaBaikunthapur village in EastBurdwan and spoke to the localtribal population. Most of themcomplained about poor roadconditions and lack of dwellingfacilities.

“It was a nice experience. Ispoke to the people shared teawith them and heard their prob-lems,” Banerjee said while com-ing out of the village with seniorcabinet colleague and KolkataMayor Firhad Hakim in her tow.

“There a fare number ofscheduled caste and tribal fam-ilies living here. They were quiteforthcoming in sharing theirissues. They told me about thepoor condition of the road andbad dwelling conditions whichI have already told the DM totake note of,” Banerjee saidadding she had asked the DM toget the road constructed andconstruct dwellings for thosewho do not have their ownhouses.

“Some people were alsotelling about the irregular receiptof widow pensions. I haveassured them that the things willbe taken care of.”

Incidentally, the Bengal BJPleadership has scoffed atBanerjee for imitating PrimeMinister Modi in order to earnpopularity among the masses bypreparing and sharing tea withthem.

“Look at the irony of fate.

A person rose from a chaiwal-la to a Prime Minister whileanother person is going theother way round,” a Bengal BJPleader said ironically ignorantof the fact that his own Stateparty president Dilip Ghosh onMonday roamed the sea beach-es of Digha sharing tea with thelocals and the tourists in a bidto expand his party’s massbase.

“There is nothing wrong inmixing with the people. It is onlywhen you lose contact with thepeople you face political alien-ation,” Ghosh said justifying histea campaign in Digha.

The TMC supremo’s out-reach programme has intensifiedafter her party’s colossal loss atthe hustings whence theTrinamool won 22 — downfrom 34 in 2014 — out of 42 par-liamentary seats and a fastemerging BJP bagged 18, leav-ing two for the Congress.

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Bengaluru: Chandrayaan-2,which is currently orbiting theMoon, has captured some moreimages of the lunar surfaceshowing several craters, theIndian Space ResearchOrganisation said on Monday

Sharing the pictures, theISRO said in a statement that thephotos captured by the lunarspacecraft are those of cratersSomerfeld, Kirkwood, Jackson,Mach, Korolev, Mitra, Plaskett,Rozhdestvenskiy and Hermite.

These craters have beennamed after great scientists,astronomers and physicists.

Crater Mitra has beennamed after Prof Sisir KumarMitra, an Indian physicist andPadma Bhushan recipientknown for his pioneering workin the field of ionosphere andRadiophysics.

The space agency said thesepictures of the lunar surface weretaken on August 23 by theTerrain Mapping Camera-2 ofChandrayaan-2 from an altitudeof about 4,375 km. The first pic-ture of Moon captured byChandrayaan-2 was released byISRO on August 22.Chandrayaan-2, a three-modulespacecraft comprising an orbiter,lander and rover, was launchedon July 22. ISRO had on August21 performed second lunarbound orbit manoeuvre forChandrayaan-2 and said allspacecraft parameters are nor-mal. There will be three moreorbit manoeuvres before thelander's separation from theOrbiter on September 2 andeventual soft landing in thesouth polar region of the Moon,planned on September 7. PTI

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The City of Joy is back towhat it is best known for

rising up to a cause. In a rareshow of eco-consciousness,hundreds of school studentsfrom Kolkata on Mondaymarched at the BrazilConsulate where they submit-ted a memorandum for speedyaction on the ravaging fire inthat country that has been eat-ing away the world’s mostdiverse forest cover.

Alarmed at the steadilydepleting Amazonian forestcover, thanks to the ragingforest fire that has devouredabout 20 percent of Amazon’sthick rain forest cover theschool students carried hand-written banners to the Brazilconsulate and extracted com-mitment for speedy pullingback of the situation, sourcessaid adding “we have submit-ted a memorandum in thisregard.”

Satellite pictures showedabout 20 percent of the thickforest cover had been lickedaway by the raging fire that hadreached the Peruvian borders.The rain forests of Amazonprovide about 20 percent oxy-gen to the world.

Ahmedabad: The StateGovernment on Monday toldthe Gujarat High Court it hasso far constructed 81.06 kilo-metres of chain-link fencing onboth sides of a railway linepassing through lion habitat inAmreli district to prevent thebig cats from being run over bytrains.

In an affidavit submitted tothe division bench of Justice SRBrahmbhatt and Justice APThaker, the State Governmentsaid it has taken a host of mea-sures to curb unnatural deathsof Asiatic lions.

The Government said260.7 km railway track fromPipavav port to Surendranagarpasses through lion habitat inAmreli district, adding that ithad so far completed 81.06chain-link fences on this route.

The High Court had taken

suo motu cognisance of theState Government's disclosurein the assembly last year that184 lions, lionesses and cubsdied in 2016 and 2017, with 32of them dying of "unnatural"causes.

The Gujarat High Courthad sought explanations fromthe Centre and the StateGovernment.

In its affidavit, theGovernment said it has so farconstructed 37,201 parapetson open wells, including 703 in2019-20, to prevent lions fromfalling into them.

Tough measures have beeninitiated against illegal lionshows also, and 40 cases wereregistered against 134 offend-ers since 2016, with four caseslodged this year alone, theState Government told theHigh Court. PTI

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Kolkata: FiveBangladeshinationals werearrested whiletrying to crossover to India,BSF officialssaid on Monday.

A BSF statement said thefive Bangladeshi nationals wereapprehended fromSwarupnagar and Gaighataareas of the Indo-Bangla bor-der in North 24 Parganas dis-tricts on Sunday night.

During preliminary inves-tigation it was found that theyhad crossed over to India withthe help of touts.

The BSF have this yearapprehended 15 Indian nation-als and 731 illegal Bangladeshiintruders so far while theywere trying to cross the inter-national border. PTI

Guwahati: NRC state coordi-nator Prateek Hajela cameunder attack from the rulingBJP on Monday, with the partyraising apprehensions that for-eigners might make it to theregister as he was allegedlyundertaking the revisionprocess in consultation withjust two to three organisa-tions.

The final NRC list, whichwill identify bonafide citizensof Assam, is set to be publishedon August 31. The exercise ofupdating the NRC, unique toAssam, is being conductedunder the supervision of theSupreme Court.

Addressing a press meethere, BJP state president RanjitDass said people have told hisparty members that their

names had appeared in the firstlist, published in 2017, butwas removed from the "finaldraft" in July last year.

"NRC Coordinator PrateekHajela had been carrying outthe revision work based on hisown opinion and those of twoto three organisations, after theSupreme Court asked ChiefMinister Sarbananda Sonowalnot to interfere in the process,"Dass claimed.

The state BJP chief, how-ever, did not name the organi-zations he was referring to.

In such a situation, it is dif-ficult for Assam to come upwith an error-free register, hesaid.

"We have received feed-back. Many have told us theirnames appeared in the first

NRC list, but went missingfrom the final draft. Thesepeople had to appear severaltimes in different offices for re-verification of their documents.

"Also, there are reportsthat people who have beendeclared 'foreigners' were beingengaged for the NRC citizen-ship verification work," heexplained.

Dass claimed that names ofdescendants of freedom fight-ers and Assam agitation mar-tyrs were excluded during the

verification process."It seems we will get an

NRC which will include thenames of illegal foreigners andexclude genuine Indian citi-zens," the state BJP chief said.

Appreciating the Centre'sdecision to extend the deadlineto 120 from 60 days for filingappeals in the ForeignersTribunals, the BJP leader saidaround 40 lakh workers of saf-fron party have been directedto assist the ones approachingthe district legal cells. PTI

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Guwahati: Ahead of the pub-lication of final NRC list inAssam, ten persons declaredforeigners have been releasedon bail from a detention campin Goalpara district, a policeofficial said here on Monday.

The ten have beenreleased as per a SupremeCourt direction that thosedeclared foreigners and areunder detention for more thanthree years should be releasedon bail, he said.

The ten persons, includ-ing a woman, have been grant-ed bail by the ForeignersTribunal for a surety bond ofRs two lakh each and theirbiometric details, district

additional superintendent ofpolice Amitabh Basumotarysaid.

Their conditional releasebegan on August 9 and theywere allowed to leave thecamp which is located insideGoalpara district jai l ,Basumotary said.

The f inal NationalRegister of Citizens list, whichwill identify bonafide citizensof Assam, is set to be pub-lished on August 31.

Of the ten granted bail,nine are from Goalpara dis-trict and one from neigh-bouring Chirang district.They are aged between 39 and69 years. PTI

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Lucknow: The family of apolice officer who was killedlast year in violence overalleged illegal cow slaughterhere, demanded on Mondaythat the accused be sent backbehind bars, days after theycame out on bail to a hero'swelcome by their supporters.

The family's reaction cameafter a video surfaced whichshowed two of the accused —Shikhar Agarwal, who was aBJP youth wing leader, andJeetu Fauji — being garlandedby their supporters amidstcheers and sloganeering inwhat appear to be a festiveatmosphere.

Uttar Pradesh DeputyChief Minister Keshav Mauryatold reporters that his party or

government had nothing to dowith the incident.

"If supporters and rela-tives of someone who has beenreleased from the jail welcomethem, the Government or theBJP have nothing to do with it.The Opposition need not exag-gerate such things," Mauryasaid.

Inspector Subodh KumarSingh was killed last year inDecember in mob violencethat erupted after carcasseswere found near Mahaw vil-lage, officials had said then.

Six accused were released

on bail on Saturday by a courthere.

Reacting to their grandwelcome, slain police officer'sson Shrey Pratap Singh said onMonday that such elements arebetter behind bars than beallowed to roam free.

"I urge Chief Minister YogiAdityanath that these criminalswho were in jail for six monthsshould be behind bars in theinterest of society. Those whocan commit a crime once cando it again. I believe that suchpeople out of jail are danger notjust for me but also for others,"

he said.The deceased inspector's

wife also questioned as to whythe accused "got freedom injust six months".

Inspector Singh, who wentto restore order on that fatefulday, was targeted by a mob ofnearly 400 people.

A video of the attack,where a crowd could be seenopening fire and shouting "golimaaro" (shoot him), hadevoked outrage then with ChiefMinister Yogi Adityanathordering a probe by a SpecialInvestigation Team. PTI

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At last, we are now hearing somevoices of sanity in the Congress!After practising politics of abusefor months and years and beingin denial ever since they were

reduced to a rump in the Lok Sabha after theparliamentary election in 2014, some promi-nent members of the Congress Party are nowadvising party members and political fellowtravellers to come to terms with reality.Jairam Ramesh, one of the saner voices inthe party, who has often tried to ensure thathis political loyalty does not cloud his judge-ment, has recently said that demonisingPrime Minister Narendra Modi all the timeis not going to help the Congress because MrModi’s governance model is not a “completenegative story”.

He seemed to be particularly impressedby Mr Modi’s “economics of governance” andthe Ujjwala Scheme to provide cooking gasconnections to women in poor householdsacross the country, which has given thePrime Minister political traction. AbhishekManu Singhvi, another senior member of theparty, soon joined the chorus to say that“demonising Modi was wrong.” The decisionsof the Modi Government “must be judgedissue wise and not person wise.” He even wentfurther to say that “the Ujjwala scheme is onlyone amongst other good deeds.”

This is quite in contrast to the constantcriticism of the Prime Minister by theparty’s top leadership, including SoniaGandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhion every issue. In fact, though the ModiGovernment has taken many significant deci-sions, which have won acclaim all round thecountry, there is not a single instance whenMr Modi’s work has been acknowledged bymembers of the Nehru-Gandhi family.

As regards abrogation of Article 370, thedecisive move made by the Modi-Shah com-bine has stunned the Congress Party andmade its leaders run hither and thither. Theutter confusion among the party brass isrooted in the party’s loud commitments to“protect” 370 at any cost. Only last April, theCongress declared in its manifesto for theLok Sabha election that “nothing will be doneor allowed to change the constitutional posi-tion.”

Having thus dug itself in on this issue,the party had nowhere to go but to plug thismoth-eaten line, which has been a drag onIndia’s unity and integrity. So, we had RahulGandhi declare loftily that national integra-tion cannot be achieved by “unilaterally tear-ing the state apart.” Priyanka Gandhi tweet-ed and asked “Does the Modi-Shah Govtbelieve India is still a democracy?”

Sadly, the Congress does not appear tohave a mind of its own on such criticalnational issues. Since the late 1960s, whenthen Prime Minister Indira Gandhi neededCommunist crutches to run her government,the party has been nose-led by Left-wingpoliticians and intellectuals, resulting in thecomplete abandonment of its nationalist ide-

ology. The Bharatiya JanataParty (BJP) is now comfortablyensconced in this space and theCongress does not know whichway to turn. As a result, you willfind that invariably the Congressand the Communists sing thesame tune on all issues. AfterRahul Gandhi, P Chidambaramhas accused the government ofdismembering the state.

This is in line with theapproach of Left leaders, includ-ing Sitaram Yechury, who havedemanded that Jammu andKashmir (J&K) be restored to itsearlier status. However, theparty’s response to the 370 issueis not to be seen in isolation. Itis in line with the scepticism anddistrust it has displayed even inregard to the daring surgicalstrike carried out by the IndianArmy to eliminate several terror-ist launch pads across the Lineof Control in J&K on September29, 2016.

While the entire countryhailed the bravery and commit-ment of our soldiers and the sur-gical precision with which theArmy had targeted terroristhide-outs across the border, theCongress claimed that manysuch “surgical strikes” had beencarried out when it was inpower.

However, there were fewtakers for this story. While oneleader of his party inMaharashtra said the surgicalstrike was “fake”, Mr

Chidambaram demanded“proof” that the strike was car-ried out. Rahul Gandhi accusedthe Prime Minister of trying tomake “political capital” out ofsurgical strikes. The disrespectit showed towards the Indian AirForce (IAF) after its daringairstrike on Jaish-e-MohammadTraining Camps in Balakot onFebruary 26, 2019 was evenmore shocking. Chidambaramcriticised the government’s claimabout the number of terroristswho had been killed in the IAFstrike. Another Congress leader,Navjot Singh Sidhu, seemed todebunk the purpose of the strikeby asking “Were you uprootingterrorists or trees? Was this anelection gimmick?”

Finally, what about the phe-nomenal success of several socialsector schemes launched anddelivered by the ModiGovernment? The UjjwalaScheme, which proved to be agame-changer, has ensureddomestic cooking gas connec-tions to 60 million householdswith another 20 million in thepipeline over the next year or so.

Similarly, the medical insur-ance scheme that provides acover of �5 lakh per poor house-hold per year is the biggesthealth insurance scheme in theworld. Similarly, the Jan DhanYojana, which ensured that allpeople below the poverty lineopened bank accounts, has beena spectacular success, resulting

in the opening of over 360 mil-lion new bank accounts. This,too, is a global record. There aremany more such schemes whichhave been planned and execut-ed by the Modi Government butmembers of the Nehru-Gandhifamily have never ever acknowl-edged the efficacy of any one ofthem. Taking a cue from them,members of the Congress Partyhave spent their time pooh-poohing these schemes andthus losing support of the mil-lions of citizens who have ben-efitted from them.

The intolerance of theNehru-Gandhis to the achieve-ments of other national leadersfrom the days of Sardar Patel andDr BR Ambedkar is now awell-established truth and hasbeen adequately chronicled inrecent years. The family got awaywith this for many decades, butthe people have now begun tosee through the pettiness andjealousy that permeates the fam-ily’s responses in this regard.More importantly, public aware-ness has resulted in diminishingelectoral dividends for this fam-ily. If the Congress Party is to cutits losses, its responses to govern-ment decisions and schemes willhave to be more credible. JairamRamesh has shown the way.Hope others will follow!

(The writer is an author spe-cialising in democracy studies. Views expressed are personal)

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Sir — PV Sindhu created histo-ry by becoming the first-everIndian to claim a gold in the BWFWorld BadmintonChampionship. With this win,Sindhu has exorcised the ghost ofheart-wrenching losses in 2017and 2018.

Sindhu, a Hyderabad girl,has been in the internationallimelight for several years at theBWF World Championshipssince 2013. Her hard-workingand rigorous training prelude tothe world championship madeher a winner from the start. Andin the final match, her constantpeppering of Okuhara withsmashes was reminiscent of a fast-bowler torturing a tail-enderwith aggressive bowling. Whatreally did work in India’s favourwas her ability to keep at it with-out taking her foot off the gas.Moreover, she did not allowOkuhara to breathe, making herrun to the corners. Sindhu’s vic-tory is indeed inspiring to thosewho aspire to conquer the world.She certainly is PrakashPadukone’s true successor.

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Sir — Former Finance MinisterArun Jaitley was a gentleman,who contributed a lot to thenation. He was among the rarebreed of politicians whose onlyfocus in life was the developmentof the country rather than polit-ical upmanship. Using his supe-rior intellect, Jaitley was able to

strike a fine balance between hispolitical duties and personalfriendships. For him, there exist-ed no political party but just thenation that was to be servedwith all honesty and passion. Hiscontribution to India, his sharpwit and intellect and speechespeppered with shlokas fromHindu scriptures will be missed.

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Sir — The Indian political sce-nario will miss an erudite andsound politician like formerFinance Minister Arun Jaitley.As a Cabinet Minister holdingdifferent portfolios, his contri-butions to NDA-I and NDA-IIwere immense. His exemplaryoratorical skills can never be for-

gotten. Even when his partywas out of power, he main-tained a strong say as the Leaderof Opposition in the RajyaSabha. His loss will be felt acute-ly by all countrymen.

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The Union Government is considering far-reaching reforms in the gas sector. Theseinclude the setting up of a local gas trad-

ing platform to facilitate price discovery, strip-ping the power sector off its priority status bywithdrawing priority allocation of natural gasand hiving off the transportation unit of the GasAuthority of India Limited (GAIL), a public sec-tor undertaking (PSU) which currently holdsan overwhelming 75 per cent share of the gastransmission network.

The stated objective of these reforms is toenable energy firms to invest in exploration anddevelop gas fields so as to encourage indige-nous production and ensure that the countryattains self-sufficiency in this major source ofclean energy (currently 50 per cent of ourdomestic gas is imported). While theGovernment’s move is laudable, the mootquestion is whether the proposed measures willhelp it come anywhere closer to the goal. Theanswer will be a categorical “no”. The biggeststumbling block towards this is the lack of a“stable” and “predictable” policy environment.

As per the guidelines effective sinceNovember 1, 2014, for all domestic suppliescovered under the New Exploration andLicensing Policy (NELP) as also the blocksgiven on “nomination” basis to Oil Natural GasCorporation (ONGC) and Oil India Limited(OIL) under pre-NELP, the price (call it nor-mal price) is a weighted average of the costs atfour international locations in the US, the UK,Canada and Russia. As per this formula, fromApril 1, 2019, the price is $3.72 per millionBritish thermal unit (Btu).

Under a special package for deep/ultra-deepand high-pressure/high-temperature (HP/HT)fields announced in March 2016, the suppliestherefrom are allowed a “premium” price andare linked to the prices of alternate fuels, includ-ing fuel oil, naphtha and imported LiquefiedNatural Gas (LNG). The current rate deter-mined on this basis is almost double than thenormal price.

Then there’s a third pricing mechanism thatexists for fields given under the Open AcreageLicensing Policy (OALP), which was introducedin July 2017. Supplies from these fields — con-ventional gas as well as unconventional hydro-carbons viz, shale gas, Coal Bed Methane(CBM) — are eligible for market-based price. Thesame also applies to unconventional hydrocar-bons from the fields that come under NELP.

ONGC and OIL have 149 small and margin-al oil and gas fields that account for a mere fiveper cent of their total output (courtesy the littleattention they receive from PSUs). TheGovernment intends to auction them to privateentities. After the transfer, new owners will getcomplete marketing and pricing freedom of sup-plies from these fields. In short, the pricing struc-ture is highly differential and has varying prices,depending on the source of supply and hydro-carbon type. Strangely, it also depends on theoperator in question.

In 2014, when the process of formulating thenew pricing policy was under way, energy com-panies — both private and public sector — lob-bied hard to adopt market-based price for all sup-plies. But the Modi Government opted for a for-

mula-based price applicable to all. TheGovernment’s stated logic behindrejecting a market-led price was thatsince the gas market in our country isat a very nascent stage and supply fallsshort of demand, this mechanism maylead to a sharp increase in price, whichuser industries, particularly fertilisersand power (together they consumenearly 3/4th of the available gas), maynot be able to afford.

There was merit in the argumentand the Government ought to have con-tinued with a “uniform” policy for allsupplies. Even then, seeking a higherprice for a deepwater high pressure,high temperature field is untenable asit is expected to contain much largerreserves than a shallow or on-shorefield, thereby generating extra revenuewith the same price. Likewise, givinghigher market-based price for shale gasor CBM from an existing field underNELP, where all costs have already beenfully recuperated under the subsisting“profit sharing” contract, makes nosense. But it buckled under continuingpressure from lobbyists, thus givingbirth to the present chaos.

Firms may have managed higherprice (via “premium” or market-basedprice) but there is no guarantee that thisalone can yield higher production asother factors, such as their ability to stickto output projections among otherthings, also come into play. In fact, thesefactors may work negatively. Take theexample of the Krishna GodavariDhirubhai 6 (KG-D6), operated byReliance Industries (RIL). Against an

initial estimate of over 10 trillion cubicft (tcf), the actual reserves turned outto be a mere about 2 tcf. As a result, pro-duction from this high-profile fieldplummeted to less than 10 million stan-dard cubic metres per day (mmscmd)against the promised 80 mmscmd.

No wonder, gas production hasdeclined from a high of about 52 bil-lion cubic metres during 2010-11 toaround 33 billion cubic metres during2018-19. This prompted theGovernment to come up with new ideaslike a local gas trading platform andstripping power plants of their priori-ty status. Both these ideas are bizarre.

The distribution of domestic gas istotally under Government control. It isdecided by an inter-ministerial commit-tee under the chairmanship of Secretary,Ministry of Petroleum and NaturalGas (MPNG). Of the total supply, amaximum quantity, 31 per cent, is givento the power sector, 24 per cent to fer-tilisers while 22 per cent is allotted forcity gas. There is no gas left for trading.In this backdrop, what will a tradingplatform do? What will be the relevanceof the price discovered on such a plat-form? To which supplies will this priceapply when almost all of it is regulatedand applicable prices pre-determined?

As regards power, the Governmentgives a boost to gas-based power plants(at 25,000 MW, these plants account forabout 10 per cent of the total genera-tion capacity) by assuring supply ofdomestic gas on top priority and charg-ing low price. Then suddenly, it seeksto withdraw the priority status. This will

result in steep increase in gas prices andexterminate them as well.

Today, there is an unholy mix ofcontrols and market-based principles.This is more dangerous than total con-trol on all aspects, which anyway is notdesirable. Doing things in fits and starts(as may be seen from a flurry of poli-cy changes during the last three years)will not take us anywhere. There is anurgent need for holistic reforms in thehydrocarbon sector.

The Government must dismantlethe existing regime of gas allocation andhighly differentiated pricing for a vari-ety of supply streams. Concurrently, itshould deregulate import of LNG (cur-rently all gas imports are canalisedthrough PSUs such as GAIL). Togetherwith hiving off port handling, gasifica-tion (of imported LNG) and transporta-tion infrastructure from GAIL, this willcreate an ecosystem that will ensureadequate availability (domestic plusimport) of gas to meet the demand.This is the way forward for the devel-opment of competitive markets.

This may as well result in a slightincrease in price over the current for-mula-based level yet, it will remain wellbelow the exorbitant level currentlypromised to specified supply sources.This will also offer a “stable” policy envi-ronment for energy companies to investin exploration and development of oiland gas fields. The larger question, how-ever, is will the Modi Government crackthe whip on these reforms?

(The writer is a New Delhi-basedpolicy analyst)

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On August 8 this year, thepowerful Anjuman-i-TajiranPakistan called off a four-day

shutter-down strike in Lahore. Thetraders’ organisation had announcedthe shutdown due to theGovernment’s new taxation policies.There were rumours that the militaryestablishment had aided theGovernment in getting the traders tocall off the strike. True or not, the factis that a rebellion from the so-called“trader classes” in a Muslim-major-ity country is always treated as a pos-sible precursor to an uprising againsta sitting Government.

Ever since the late 1970s, organ-ised traders have played a significantrole in the politics of various Muslimcountries, especially in Iran,Pakistan, Turkey and Egypt. This isoften explained as ‘bazaar politics’.

The word bazaar has Persian originsand means an enclosed marketplace.Twentieth century Marxist analysissaw bazaar politics at the core of thepolitical and economic action of thepetit bourgeoisie (lower-middle-classes) even though many politicalscientists have also seen it as anextension of middle class politicalactivity.

The study of the bazaar in thecontext of politics is not that old,despite the fact that they have beenintegral economic and physical main-stays of Muslim-majority regionsfor centuries. The expression “bazaarpolitics” first emerged soon after the1979 revolution in Iran. Traditionalbazaars of the country played a note-worthy role in the turmoil which top-pled the powerful Shah of Iran.

The action in this respect was ini-tiated by trader and merchant groupsoperating inside Iran’s many bazaars.The revolutionary movement againstthe monarchy was driven by variousforces, which included the commu-nists, secular democrats and theIslamic clergy. But it was the bazaarswhich eventually tilted the scale infavour of the clergy and the revolu-tion became “Islamic.”

The participation of groupsformed inside Iran’s traditional mar-ketplaces by traders, merchants andshop owners in the revolution wasinfluential enough for political scien-tists to begin studying the concept ofbazaar politics. Many such studies dis-covered that some political activity inthis context did take place prior to the1979 revolution. But it was duringand after the revolution that thebazaar emerged as a major politicalinfluencer.

ME Bonine and NR Keddie inModern Iran Dialectics demonstratethat the Shah’s “modernisation” poli-cies briefly benefitted the economy ofthe bazaars. However, this moderni-sation sought to shift economicactivity away from traditional mar-ketplaces to modern souks andemporiums.

But this did not see the tradition-al marketplaces recede. Instead, withthe continuing influx of migrantsfrom rural and semi-rural areas to thecities, the traditional bazaars were“ruralised.” Their owners and con-sumers now overwhelmingly camefrom petit bourgeoisie backgroundsand from transitional segmentsperched between traditional agrari-

an economics and modern urbancapitalism.

Due to the disorienting impactsof haphazard modernisation, thecustomary bonds between thebazaars and the clergy strengthened.This aided the clergy during therevolutionary turmoil. No wonderthen, Iran’s Islamic regime imme-diately inducted many membersfrom bazaar organisations in thenew regime.

Something similar happened inPakistan. Riaz Hassan’s 1985 study,Religious, Political and Social Changein Pakistan, demonstrates thatincreasing and unplanned urbanisa-tion between the late 1960s and thelate 1970s left a large segment of thepopulation, leading a highly precar-ious existence which was subjected toall kinds of exploitation.

This generated a considerableamount of disillusionment with mod-ernist Governments and their policiesof economic and social develop-ment. The persistent insecurity ofurban existence among many shop-keepers, traders and their families,over the years, resulted in the emer-gence of various religious move-ments. The number of mosques in

the cities multiplied and, throughthem, religious influences further per-meated social life. Much of this tookplace in the urban bazaar areas ofPakistan.

The late political scientist KhalidB Sayeed writes in Politics inPakistan: The Nature and Directionof Change that the bazaar’s firstmajor political endeavour inPakistan was during the 1977 protestmovement, against the populist ZABhutto regime. However, accordingto Phillip E Jones, the bazaar wasactive during the 1968 anti-Ayubmovement as well. But Sayeed is cor-rect in pointing out that trader out-fits were not as radicalised in the1960s as they became in the 1970s.

Sayeed writes that the traders hadwelcomed the Bhutto regime’srhetoric against big businesses butquickly turned against him when hebegan to nationalise small and medi-um enterprises. As mentioned byHassan, by the mid-1970s, the bazaarhad already established close linkswith the clergy and these rapidlyextended to the country’s religiousparties. Umair Javed, in his essay forthe anthology New Perspectives onPakistan’s Political Economy, writes

that mosques were extensively usedin bazaars to propel protests againstthe Bhutto regime.

Just as influential figures ofbazaar politics were co-opted byIran’s “Islamic” regime, the conserv-ative General Zia dictatorship inPakistan appropriated various pow-erful trader outfits, many of whosemembers became part of the local,provincial and national Assemblies.

From the 1980s onward,Pakistani bazaar politics has contin-ued to operate through pressuregroups that keep Governments fromimposing economic policies that areseen as unbeneficial to traders andshopkeepers. Trader organisationsand alliances in the bazaars have alsoretained their exhibition of “piety”and they often associate themselveswith, and even spearhead, cam-paigns against certain religiousminorities and against any move toreform the “Islamic” entries in theConstitution.

The Pakistan Muslim League (N)inherited the bazaar as a constituen-cy in the 1990s. But by the 2018 elec-tion, this constituency (in the Punjab)had split between PML-N, PakistanTehreek-i-Insaf and Khadim Hussain

Rizvi’s Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan.There is no study, as such, on how thebazaar in Karachi evolved after itembraced the politics of the Jamaat-i-Islami and Jamiat-i-Ulema Pakistanin 1977.

Largely, bazaar politics ofKarachi has remained pragmatic.Because even though almost asconservative as the bazaar politics ofPunjab, the one in Karachi hasn’tdemonstrated as much support tocauses that look to oust religiousminorities, impose social moralityor safeguard “Islamic laws,” as muchas Punjab’s bazaars have done in thelast three decades.

Maybe the ethnic diversity ofKarachi keeps this from happening asthe bazaars here are segmentedbetween different ethnic groups. Theyare more concerned about safeguard-ing their respective groups’ econom-ic stakes in a highly competitive, evencontentious, ethno-political environ-ment. That’s why, for example, one canexpect campaigns to restrict the entryof certain minority communities inthe bazaars of Punjab but no suchactivity has ever been reported fromthe bazaars of Karachi.

(Courtesy, The Dawn)

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Shares of public sector bankson Monday zoomed up to

10 per cent after the govern-ment announced upfront cap-ital infusion of �70,000 croreinto them.

The stock of Central Bankof India zoomed 10.08 percent, Allahabad Bank 8.33 percent, Bank of Maharashtra5.98 per cent, Bank of Indiaclimbed 3.96 per cent, UnionBank of India 3.62 per cent,State Bank of India rose 3.38per cent and Punjab NationalBank jumped 3.46 per cent onthe BSE.

Among others, CanaraBank rose 3.39 per cent andBank of Baroda 1.71 per cent.

Finance Minister Nirmala

Sitharaman on Fridayannounced upfront capitalinfusion of �70,000 crore intopublic sector banks, a moveaimed at boosting lending andimproving liquidity situation.

The move is expected togenerate an additional lendingand liquidity in the financialsystem to the tune of �5 lakhcrore, she said at a press con-ference.

Vijay Bhushan, Presidentat ANMI on major announce-ments by finance minister saidanother significant announce-ment is the infusion of liquid-ity by providing an upfront�70,000 crore to PSBs whichwill release liquidity of �5 lakhcrore for easing out pressure onthe banking as well as theNBFC sector.

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between UnitedStates ofAmerica andChina will nothave anyimpact onIndian exportwhich is justbelow 2 percent of theglobal trade,C h i e fE c o n o m i cA d v i s o rKrishnamurthy Subramaniansaid on Monday.

Speaking to reporters onthe sidelines of a programmehere, he said the slew of mea-sures announced by the Centrefor the revival of muted growthin the economy was in the rightdirection, though it was nec-essary to focus on the ‘struc-tural reforms.’

“Our exports share is stillvery small. Our share of glob-al export trade itself is about2%. Therefore, we still haveenormous opportunity to grow.Even if there is actually someshrinkage in the pie of the glob-al trade, still we can grow ourpie. Exports cannot growunless actually we emphasiseon productivity, he said whenasked about the impact of thetariff war between US andChina on India.

“I would also add thatnews that the United States andChina are actually sittingtogether and there may be abreakthrough that is comingpossibly in which case will begood,” he further said.

Last week, Finance MinisterNirmala Sitharaman hadannounced a raft of measures,including rollback of enhancedsuper-rich tax on foreign anddomestic equity investors,exemption of start-ups from‘angel tax’ and a package toaddress distress in the automo-bile sector, among others.

“The measures that havebeen announced actually are inthe right direction. What Ihave said is that it is importantto focus on economic growthand it is also important for usto focus on structural reformswhich is what the policy

announcement that I’ve madeessential in corporate sector,” hesaid justifying the measuresannounced by the FinanceMinister.

According to him, theCentre would do all that is need-ed for the economic growth.Subramanian said investmentsis a key driver of the economicgrowth while consumption is aforce multiplier.

On the proposed Rs70,000-crore capital infusion bythe Centre in public sectorbanks, he said, “I think this Rs70,000 crore that has beenannounced for recapitalisationof banks is quite importantbecause the financial sectormatters a lot for economicgrowth. Credit is basically thelifeline for economic growth.Therefore that is somethingwhich actually is important.”

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India’s economy will grow at amedian rate of 6 per cent dur-

ing the first quarter of the cur-rent financial year ended June30, according to a Ficci report.The country’s economy grew at8.2 per cent in April-June 2018-19. The growth numbers for thefirst quarter are expected to bereleased by the Central StatisticsOffice next week.

“The recently releasedunemployment numbers byNSSO reaffirm the grim situ-ation with regard to employ-ment in the country,” said FicciEconomic Outlook Survey.

It pegged the annual medi-an GDP growth forecast for2019-20 at 6.9 per cent, with aminimum and maximum esti-mate of 6.7 per cent and 7.2 percent, respectively.

The median is the middlenumber in a sorted, ascendingor descending list of numberswhich can be more descriptiveof a data set than the average.

A majority of the partici-pating economists in the sur-vey suggested the RBI willcontinue its accomodativestance, with a further cut in therepo rate in the remainingpart of 2019-20.

They felt that the prevail-ing real interest rates werehigh. They also signalled thattardy deposit growth is haunt-ing the banks as it is limitingtheir ability to lend and is pre-venting adequate transmission.

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The Government mayannounce two more

tranches of support measuresover the next fortnight, fol-lowing last week’s economyboosting package unveiled byFinance Minister NirmalaSitharaman, according to areport by DBS.

Sitharaman on Fridayannounced a raft of measures,including rollback of enhancedsuper-rich tax on foreign anddomestic equity investors,exemption of startups from‘angel tax’, a package to addressdistress in the auto sector andupfront infusion of �70,000crore to public sector banks, inefforts to boost economicgrowth from a five-year low.

“Taking a leaf of theserecent measures, we reckonthat the focus will be on fine-tuning measures along with anaccommodative monetary pol-icy, while steering clear ofbroad-based fiscal stimulus,”said Radhika Rao, Economist atDBS Group Research.

The latter, nonetheless,

could come into play if growthrisks turn starker in second halfof the year and into 2020, sheadded.

“While these measures(announced on Friday) willhelp improve sentiments andbuoy economic activity, wecontinue to see 30-40bpsdownside risks to our full-year growth forecast,” wroteRao.

The June quarter GDPnumbers due this week willmark a slowdown from Marchquarter’s 5.8 per cent year-on-year, as consumption con-tracted, investments in privateand public sectors weakeneddue to elections and servicessector was sub-par.

Third quarter growth isalso likely to stay weak but sta-bilise as Government spendingresumes after the elections.

An accommodative mon-etary policy stance accompa-nied by a jumpstart in thetransmission process is alsoexpected to lower lending rates.Despite a better third quarter,evolving trends lend downsiderisk to DBS forecast.

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The Government has com-pulsorily retired 22 tax

officials accused of corruptionand other malpractice as itcontinues to crack down onerrant bureaucracy.

The Central Board ofIndirect Taxes and Customs(CBIC) - the agency that over-seas GST and import tax col-lections - compulsorily retired22 superintendent rank offi-cers under Fundamental Rule56(J) on corruption and othercharges, official sources said.

Since June, this is the thirdround of sacking of corrupt taxofficials. Previously 27 highranking Indian RevenueService (IRS) officers includ-ing 12 from CBDT - the directtaxes body, were compulsori-ly retired using the same rulefor government employees.

Sources said, the actionwas in line with PrimeMinister Narendra Modi’saddress to the nation from theramparts of Red Fort when hesaid some black sheep in thetax administration may have

misused their powers andharassed taxpayers, either bytargeting honest assesses or bytaking excessive action forminor or procedural viola-tions.

“We have recently takenthe bold step of compulsorilyretiring a significant numberof tax officials, and we will nottolerate this type of behaviour,”a source said.

The off icials retiredinclude 11 from Nagpur andBhopal zone, most of whomare accused of connivance forfacilitating clandestine manu-facturing and clearance of cig-arettes by an Indore-basedcompany.

One official each is fromChennai, Delhi, Kolkata,Meerut and Chandigarh zoneswhile two each are fromMumbai, Jaipur andBengaluru zones. In June, thegovernment had compulsori-ly retired 15 commissioner-level officials of CBIC oncharges of corruption, col-lecting and giving bribes,smuggling and even criminalconspiracy.

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level designed to generate ideasand review performance ofPublic Sector Banks and theiralignment with national priori-ties, was initiated in Delhi. Themeeting was convened byOriental Bank of CommerceSLBC Convener-NCT Delhi andwas scheduled for two days i.e.for 22nd and 23rd of August,2019. The meeting was

addressed by Mukesh KumarJain — Managing Director &CEO- Oriental Bank ofCommerce, S Harisankar-Managing Director & CEO-Punjab & Sind Bank, Vijay Dube— Executive Director, OrientalBank of Commerce, Govind NDongre, Executive Director —Punjab & Sind Bank, SukeshKumar Gupta-General Manager& Convener SLBC — Delhi,Pradeep Chauhan- GeneralManager & AshutoshChoudhury-General Manager.

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New Delhi: TAFE on Mondayappointed Sandeep Sinha asCEO. Sandeep Sinha joinsTAFE with a successful trackrecord spanning over twodecades of global and domes-tic industry experience.

In his previous role asManaging Director, CumminsIndia, he led all the businessesand operation functions in theAsia region, and has beeninstrumental in increasing cus-tomer engagement and leadingtransformational quality ini-tiatives across the organisation.

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India on Monday offered forbidding seven new areas for

prospecting of oil and naturalgas on revamped explorationterms that look to expedite cutin import dependence by rais-ing domestic output. Fiveblocks offered are in little-explored Vindhyan sedimen-tary basin, while one block is inBengal Purnea basin. Theremaining block is the provenbasin of Rajasthan, accordingto the Directorate General ofHydrocarbons (DGH).

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ous problems with it.According to Ayurveda rainy season is also the time for aggra-

vation of vata and pitta accumulates, which the functional ener-gy of our body dominant in fire element, and is primarily respon-sible for metabolism and digestion of food. Digestion is weakduring this time. Diseases caused by pitta like hyperacidity, indi-gestion, skin disorders (boils, eczema, and rashes), hair loss, andinfections are common in this season.

Why skin problems aggravate during monsoon? The rainy season is responsible for aggravation of pitta, the

functional energy of our body dominant in fire element, and isprimarily responsible for metabolism and digestion of food. InAyurveda, though skin diseases are caused due to imbalancesin all the three doshas, the prime dosha involved is pitta. Pittasymbolises heat or fire. Therefore all those foods or activities thatincrease the fire element in the body should be eliminated. Thisincludes hot, spicy, fried, oily and greasy foods. Acidic foods liketomatoes, citrus fruits, yogurt and vinegar should be avoided.Exposure to heat and sun, drinking too much tea, coffee, andalcohol, and smoking also aggravate pitta.

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�Avoid alcohol-based skincleansers: You should avoidalcohol-based skin cleansersbecause it irritates and dries yourskin. Instead use a herbal soapor cleanser regularly to get rid ofexcess oil, grime and dust, andof course to keep you skin freeof bacterial infections.

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�Use aloe vera gel: Aloe vera gel is very beneficial for theskin because it purifies the blood. Fresh aloe vera gel can be takenin the dose of two or three tablespoons on an empty stomachevery day. You can also use fresh aloe vera plant gel on your skin— it has anti-aging, anti-tanning, antimicrobial and anti-inflam-matory properties.

�Take mild laxatives: A clean bowel movement is imper-ative for a healthy skin. Taking mild laxatives such as triphalapowder or other natural laxatives such as prunes, figs and raisinsis beneficial if you don’t have clean bowel movements. A teaspoon-ful of triphala powder can be taken at bed time every night, withwarm water or milk.

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be at significantly higherrisk of suicide and self-harm, warns a new study.

Using Big Data, the researchers foundthat people with restless legs syndromehad a 2.7-fold higher risk of suicide or self-harm, even if they didn't suffer from con-ditions such as depression, insomnia, dia-betes and so on.

Restless legs syndrome causes anuncomfortable feeling in a person’s legsresulting in the urge to move them, oftenduring the night.

“Our study suggests that restless legssyndrome isn’t just connected to physicalconditions, but to mental health, as well,”said Xiang Gao, Associate Professor atPenn State University in the US.

The study looked at health records of24,179 people who had been diagnosedwith RLS and 145,194 people who did nothave RLS.

All participants were free of suicideand self-harm at the baseline of thestudy.

After analysing the data, theresearchers found that people, who hadrestless leg syndrome, had a 270 per centhigher chance of suicide or self-harm thanpeople who did not.

The risk did not decrease even whenthe researchers controlled for such factorsas depression, sleep disorders and com-mon chronic diseases.

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Thinning hair and orfalling hair can be acause of worry for most

as they are our crowning glory.But fret not, there are someways in which one canreduce their fall to agreat extent.

Onion: It ishigh in sulphurcontents. Thishelp prevent hairfall. What to do?Rinse your hairwith onion juicewhile you are wash-ing your hair. You canalso apply the onion juice onyour scalp and leave it on for30 minutes. Shampoo after-wards. Do this twice a week.

Aloe vera: You need acup fresh aloe vera gel. If youhave a plant at home, fresh gelis perfect, two tablespoons ofcastor oil and two tablespoonsof fenugreek powder. Mix all

the ingredients. Apply themixture to your scalp andhair. Leave it overnight. Washwith a mild shampoo. Do thistwice a week.

Coconut: Coconutoil can penetrate into

the scalp and pre-vent protein loss.This helpsreduce hairdamage andb r e a k a g eMassage virgin

coconut oil intothe scalp and hair.

Leave it on for at leastan hour before rinsing it offwith a mild cleanser. Do thisat least twice a week.

One can use coconut milkas well. Take 1/4th cupcoconut milk and warm it.Massage into the scalp for 15minutes. Leave for 45 minutes.Wash hair with shampoo.Apply it once a week.

Hair is your crowning glory.When they fall, it can be a causeof worry for men and women of

all ages. ROSHANI DEVIshares home remedies that can

be beneficial

Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabadresearchers have derived collagen from

waste eel skin and shown that tissue scaf-folds built using such collagen allow growthand proliferation of stem cells. Thepractical applications of thisresearch can lead to utilising eelfish skin-derived collagen as apromising alternative to animalderived collagen, which areexpensive and associated withpathological diseases.

The Researchers believe thatsustainable utilisation of marine dis-carded eel skin derived-collagen for the bio-medical application would boost Indian‘blue’ bioeconomic growth and help in thedevelopment of an alternate industry thatconverts waste into useful products.

Explaining this research and it’s signif-icance, Dr Mano Govindharaj, YoungScientist Fellow, Regenerative Medicine andStem Cell Laboratory, IIT Hyderabad, said:

“Our team’s finding is a valuable asset in thearea of ‘blue’ biotechnology. The color ‘blue’in biotechnology is assigned to the devel-opment of technology on the basis of aqua-

culture, coastal and marine biology. Ourresearch group at IIT Hyderabad

uses a common marine wasteproduct for producing collagen,a biomaterial that is extensivelyused in tissue engineering.”

Low immunogenicity,porous structure, good perme-

ability, biocompatibility andbiodegradability make collagen scaf-

folds useful in tissue engineering applica-tions. Collagen is usually extracted frombovine skin and tendons, porcine skin andrat tail. Such sources are associated with sev-eral problems such as the spread of diseasessuch as the mad-cow disease and religiousconstraints of using certain animals.Extraction of collagen from non-mam-malian sources is therefore attractive.

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to figure, especially whenit come to figuring outhow to stop the gradualdeterioration of the mind.Alzheimer’s, one of thecruelest results of thisdecline, holds a specialspace of worry in the med-ical fraternity, owing to thedevastating effect it has onthe patients and their lovedones. Now, studies haveprovided a sliver of hope inproper detection and diag-nosis — the initial symp-toms of Alzheimer’s maybe depression and irri-tability. These are consid-ered to be non-cognitivesigns, which appear at anearly stage of life. Thesesymptoms are noted tooccur in three stages, withinter-related characteris-tics that meld into eachother. Irritability, depres-sion, and nighttime behav-ior changes are said todevelop first. Anxiety,appetite changes, agita-tion, and apathy follow, ata successive pace. The third stage has a vari-ety of mixed symptoms —elation, mobility disorders,hallucinations, delusions,and impulsive, inappro-priate behavior. Yet, pru-dence is the key to dealingwith these signs, as not allof these are sure-shot indi-cators of Alzheimer. Whileone should not jump intoextreme conclusions, theserecent findings throw aconstructive light on theearly occurrences of thuslife-crippling disorder.

Alzheimer’s can arise from theunlikeliest situations as stud-

ies state that even poor dentalhygiene lead to this crippling dis-ease. Mental deterioration hasevolved greatly as its originsbecome even more complicated.Now, dental hygiene is being por-trayed as the crux towards goodhealth, being linked to a flurry ofbenefits. Studies show that childrenthat have gum-related diseasesfrom an early age are more proneto have Alzheimer’s as they growup. Although a direct link hasn'tbeen established, the nerve endingsof the dental bridge is said to bemain cause of this decline asinflammation of neurons injurenerves and inhibit communicationbetween brain cells. Here too, pre-caution is a better route taken thancure. Firstly, regular dentist visitsare important for prevention ofgum diseases and helps maintainthe dental hygiene. Your dentist canremove tartar, which is plaquebuildup that can irritate the gumsand lead to tooth loss. However,prevention begins at home, wherebrushing and flossing twice daily,eating right and avoiding tobaccowill help prevent gum disease.Most importantly, smoking needsto be curbed in order to maintainoptimal dental hygiene. Withsuch small, proactive steps one cankill two birds with one stone.

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Natural beauty products are farmed andmanufactured organically, which makes themsustainable in nature. These are mostly safe touse as there are no chemicals, toxins or parabenswhich may affect our body. Being free from anysort of synthetics, these natural or organic skincare products cause no harm to people who havesensitivity towards particular ingredients orproducts.

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President Donald Trump saidon Monday that US and

Chinese trade negotiators would"very shortly" resume talks inwhat he described as a break-through in the two economicsuperpowers' trade war.

"China called last night...,said let's get back to the table. Sowe'll be getting back to thetable," Trump told reporters atthe G7 summit in Biarritz.Trump said that Chinese offi-cials had made two "very, verygood calls" and that "they wantto make a deal".

The president's tone was inmarked contrast to the steadyhardening of positions in thenumber one and twoeconomies. Just last Friday,Trump sharply raised tariffs onall Chinese imports after Beijinghiked its own levies.

The United States is tryingto force China into deep reformsof its trading model to enddecades of practices, includingrampant intellectual propertytheft, that US companies sayprevents a level playing field.

However, US allies havepressured Trump at the G7summit in France, saying thatthe trade war puts the worldeconomy at risk.

Trump said that his pres-sure had paid off, bringing theChinese back to the table aftertalks had appeared to have goneoff the rails.

"They hurt very badly, butthey understand this is theright thing to do," Trump said.

"One of the reasons he's agreat leader, President Xi..., isthey understand how lifeworks." "It's going to be great forChina, it's going to be great forthe US, it's going to be great forthe world," he said.

"We're going to start veryshortly to negotiate..., but Ithink we're going to make adeal."

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US President Donald Trumpsaid Monday that it was "too

early" to meet Tehran's topdiplomat, who made a surpriseweekend visit to the G7 summit,but insisted that Washington wasnot looking for regime change inIran.

"It's too soon to meet, I did-n't want to," Trump told repor-ters at the summit, saying he kn-ew that Foreign Minister Mo-hammad Javad Zarif was goingto drop in for unscheduledtalks. "I knew he was coming,"Trump said of the visit, whichwas engineered by France'sEmmanuel Macron in a bid tobreak the diplomatic deadlockover Tehran's disputed nuclearprogramme.

"I knew everything he (Ma-cron) was doing and I approvedeverything he was doing,"Trump said, adding the Frenchpresident "asked for myapproval". A landmark 2015nuclear deal between Westernpowers and Iran all but collapsedafter Trump unilaterally with-drew US support last year, reim-posing sanctions that have crip-pled Iran's economy.

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Israeli warplanes hitthe Gaza Strip's rul-

ing Hamas movementearly Monday inresponse to earlierrocket fire from the ter-ritory into Israel, thearmy said in a state-ment.

Israeli authoritiesalso announced a punitivereduction in the flow of fuel tothe strip's main power station,meaning a deep cut in thealready rationed electricity sup-ply.

Three rockets were firedfrom Gaza into southern Israelon Sunday night, the Israeliarmy said.

"Three launches were iden-tified from the Gaza Strip intoIsraeli territory," it said in astatement. "Two ofthem were intercepted by theIron Dome aerial defence sys-tem." "In response, a shortwhile ago, (Israeli air force)fighter jets struck a number ofterror targets in a Hamas mil-itary compound in the north-ern Gaza Strip, including theoffice of a Hamas battalioncommander," a statement

Monday morning added.A Palestinian security

source said there were no casu-alties.

A separate statement fromIsraeli defence ministry unitCOGAT said the latest fuel cutwas personally ordered byPrime Minister BenjaminNetanyahu, who is also defenceminister.

"The prime minister andminister of defence, BenjaminNetanyahu, ordered to down-size the transfer of fuel throughthe Kerem Shalom (border)crossing to the power station inGaza by half, effective thismorning and until furthernotice," it said in English.

Netanyahu is fighting forreelection in a potentially toughgeneral election on September17 with critics from his right-

wing power base callingfor tougher actionagainst the IslamistHamas.

Nevertheless, ana-lysts say, he is anxiousto avoid escalationahead of the polls.

Israel andPalestinian militants inGaza have fought threewars since 2008.

Since the start of August,an uptick in rocket fire andPalestinian attempts to crossfrom Gaza into Israel havebeen met with Israeli strikes,threatening a fragile ceasefirebetween Israel and Hamas.

Israel has also used fishingrestrictions and fuel supplies asweapons, harshening and eas-ing restrictions on the block-aded coastal strip according tocircumstances.

Fuel deliveries, which arecoordinated with the UnitedNations and paid for by Gulfstate Qatar, were part of thetruce agreement.

They have improved elec-tricity supply in the enclave,where until the latest cut resi-dents were getting around 12hours of power a day, accord-ing to the UN.

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Iran’s President HassanRouhani came out strongly in

favour of talks Monday as histop diplomat came under firefrom hardline media for a sur-prise visit to a G7 summit.

"I believe that for our coun-try's national interests we mustuse any tool," Rouhani said ina speech aired live on state tele-vision.

"And if I knew that I wasgoing to have a meeting withsomeone that would (lead to)prosperity for my country andpeople's problems would beresolved, I would not hesitate.

"The main thing is ourcountry's national interests," hesaid to a round of applause fromthose gathered at an eventmarking government achieve-ments in rural areas.

Rouhani's remarks came ashis government faced criticismover the visit of Foreign MinisterMohammad Javad Zarif to theFrench seaside resort of Biarritzon Sunday for meetings on thesidelines of the G7 summit.

Zarif was invited to Biarritzby French President EmmanuelMacron, who has been leadingefforts to de-escalate tensionsbetween Iran and its arch-enemy the United States.

Iran's economy has beenbattered by US sanctionsimposed since last year whenPresident Donald Trump uni-laterally withdrew the UnitedStates from a landmark 2015nuclear deal between the Islamicrepublic and world powers.

The ultra-conservativeKayhan newspaper stronglycriticised Zarif 's visit onMonday in an article that calledthe trip "improper".

Kayhan said the fact that theminister's visit was the secondto France in a matter of dayssent "a message of weakness anddesperation".

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Hong Kong police onMonday said they were

forced to fire water cannon anda warning shot to fend off"extremely violent" demon-strators, as months of pro-democracy protests veer deep-er into violence.

Sunday's clashes in thesuburb of Tsuen Wan weresome of the worst in twelveweeks of political unresttremoring through the city.

As night fell, a group ofofficers were cornered by pro-testers armed with bricks andother weapons, Hong Kongpolice said in a statement.

An officer fell to theground under a barrage ofblows and "facing threats tolife", six policemen drew theirsidearms and one "fired awarning shot into the sky", itsaid.

It is believed to be the firstlive round fired by an officerduring the crisis.

Fifteen officers were

injured during the clashes, thestatement said, while dozens ofprotesters were arrested --including a 12-year-old -- forunlawful assembly, possessionof weapons and assaultingpolice.

"Police appeal to membersof the public to make a cleanbreak with violent protestors,"the statement added, vowing"relentless action" to bring the

perpetrators to justice.The firing of a live round

prodded an angry responsefrom social media users whomocked a police spokesmanwho had praised the "valiantand restrained" actions of riotcops on Sunday.

"If the police can't controltheir emotion, how can they bevaliant and restrained?" aFacebook user commented.

Earlier Sunday, a peacefulmarch across Tsuen Wan gaveway to violence.

Police used tear gas against the black-clad, gasmask-wearing hardcore pro-testers, who had built barri-cades and thrown bricks andMolotov cocktails at lines ofriot cops.

Police confirmed theydeployed two water cannonvehicles, whose jets hit thebarricades as demonstratorsran for cover.

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Russia on Monday saidradioactive isotopes were

released in a recent accident atan Arctic missile test site thatcaused widespread alarm asauthorities kept details underwraps.

The August 8 blast killedfive scientists and caused aspike in radiation levels butRussia did not admit nuclearmaterials were involved forseveral days.

The accident releasedswiftly decaying radioactiveisotopes of strontium, bariumand lanthanum, news agenciesreported, citing tests by theRosgidromet national weatherand environmental monitoringagency.

Alexander Uvarov, editor

of the independentAtomInfo.Ru news site, said theisotopes did not pose a threatto the population.

These isotopes are prod-ucts of nuclear fission of ura-nium, he told RIA Novostinews agency.

Sensors in the nearby cityof Severodvinsk detectedradioactive elements with ahalf-life ranging from a fewhours to up to 12.8 days andbreak down into radioactiveinert gases, Rosgidromet said.

"These inert radioactivegases were the cause of a briefincrease" in radiation levels, itsaid.

The monitor said earlierthat its sensors in Severodvinskmeasured radiation levels thatwere up to 16 times higher thanbackground levels after the

explosion, returning to normalafter two-and-a-half hours.

Russia's Rosatom nuclearagency has said that its spe-cialists killed in the accidentwere developing "newweapons" and providing sup-port for a missile with an "iso-tope power source."

Norway's nuclear safetyauthority said it detected tinyamounts of radioactive iodinein a region bordering Russiaafter the blast while it could notdetermine if this was related tothe accident.

The Russian authoritieshave confirmed that a doctorinvolved in treating the injuredhad a trace of radioactive iso-tope caesium-137 detected inhis muscle tissue, while deny-ing this was related to theaccident.

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It may be the oldest film festival inthe world but at 76, the VeniceInternational Film Festival is more

relevant and divisive than ever. Thisyear’s festival has already become a hotbed for discussion about the Oscarhopefuls launching there, its embraceof controversial filmmakers likeRoman Polanski and Nate Parker inthe #MeToo era and its lack of femaledirectors.

Among the highest-profile filmsdebuting in competition for the pres-tigious Golden Lion Award, which lastyear went to Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma,include — James Gray’s space epic AdAstra starring Brad Pitt, NoahBaumbach’s divorce drama MarriageStory starring Scarlett Johansson,Steven Soderbergh’s Panama Paperscomedy The Laundromat, with MerylStreep, Waiting for the Barbarians, aJM Coetzee adaptation with JohnnyDepp and Robert Pattinson, and Joker,an unconventional, Martin Scorseseinspired origin story about Batman’sfoe starring Joaquin Phoenix. ForJoker director and co-writer ToddPhillips, the festival debut will be help-ful in “educating the audience” beforeit opens in theatres.“We don’t want tomislead people,” Phillips said. “Comicbook films have been giant, great spec-tacles and this is truly a characterstudy,” he added.

But only two of the 21 films incompetition are from female directors— Shannon Murphy in her directingdebut with Babyteeth, starring BenMendelsohn, and The Per fectCandidate from Saudi Arabian direc-tor Haifaa Al-Mansour about a youngSaudi female doctor who decides torun for office. It’s an increase from lastyear, which only had Jennifer Kent’sThe Nightingale.To add to this, one ofthe coveted competition slots went toRoman Polanski’s espionage thrillerAn Officer and a Spy. The Rosemary’sBaby director has been a fugitive formore than 40 years. He fled the USafter pleading guilty to unlawful sexwith a minor.

The festival is also hosting the pre-

miere of American Skin, the first filmfrom Nate Parker since a rape allega-tion from his past derailed the releaseof his Nat Turner biopic The Birth ofa Nation in 2016. Melissa Silverstein,the founder and publisher of thewebsite Women and Hollywood andco-founder of the Athena FilmFestival, has been one of the mostvocal critics of the programming,which festival director Alberto Barberahas defended as worthy choices.

“There are festivals that are com-mitted to making systemic change andthose that felt forced to be a part of anagenda they had no interest in. TheVenice Film Festival is clearly in lat-ter camp,” Silverstein said. “The onlyway a festival can change is if the lead-ership wants it to change. Nobody isexpecting the change to be easy, butthe message this festival is sending isthat abusers are more welcome than

women directors,” she added.A spot at Venice has helped

launch careers, like Al-Mansour, SaudiArabia’s first female director, whosefirst feature Wadjda was played atVenice in 2012. “Venice has been real-ly an important launch for my career.This time I am in the competition, thishopefully marks a new stage in my lifeas I grow as a director,” Al-Mansoursaid. “I am very grateful for theopportunity to bring my voice to theworld with such an amazing platformfor filmmakers. But it’s still verynerve-wracking. It’s a big screen anda big festival.”

She would like to see more womenin competition, as would OlivierAssayas, who also debuted his first fea-ture there over 30 years ago and cred-its the festival for putting him “on themap.” Known for writing and direct-ing films with complex female leads,

Assayas is coming this year withWasp Network, based on the stories ofthe Cuban Five, a spy ring in the 1990sthat was controversially arrested andimprisoned by the United States. Itstars Edgar Ramirez, Penelope Cruzand Ana de Armas and was partiallyfilmed in Cuba. “For a film like thisit is very important to be in Venice,Toronto and New York. It gives us thekind of visibility we need.” Assayassaid.

Venice is the unofficial start of thefall film festival season, with theToronto International Film Festivaland Telluride and New York festivalsfollowing shortly after. It helps todefine the films in awards discussionuntil the Oscars in February. Last yearsaw the debuts of Oscar winners likeA Star Is Born, Roma and TheFavourite, while in 2017 Venice pre-miered the eventual best picture win-ner The Shape of Water. It is alsoregarded as one of the friendlier fes-tivals for streaming. Netflix is bring-ing three films this year: MarriageStory, The Laundromat, and DavidMichod’s The King, an adaptation ofseveral Shakespeare plays starringTimothee Chalamet.

Julie Andrews is being honouredwith the Golden Lion for LifetimeAchievement, which will coincidewith a retrospective screening ofVictor Victoria, directed by her latehusband Blake Edwards. The festivalopens on August 28 with the premiereof The Truth, Hirokazu Kore-eda’s firstfilm set outside of Japan, which starsCatherine Deneuve as a French moviestar Juliette Binoche as her estrangedscreenwriter daughter.

“The idea to make a film about thenature of performance came to me assoon as Juliette Binoche suggested wemake a film together,” he said. Kore-eda also credits the festival for launch-ing his career. The festival closes thefollowing week with The Burnt OrangeHeresy, featuring Mick Jagger as an artdealer.

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Bollywood actor KanganaRanaut has always tried to

uphold the Indian culture bywearing sarees too often andblending it with modernity tomake it more relevant. She hasproudly taken Indian sareesbeyond borders, a recent exam-ple being Cannes Film Festival atFrance, where she wore aKanjeevaram saree paired withan embellished corset blouse.

Recently, she made headlinesfor wearing a plain cotton sareeworth �600, publicly. She saidthat a generation that is “over-consuming resources” is noticingit. The actress has urged peopleand the fashion industry to be“considerate” and encouragecelebrities to repeat their outfitsand recycle fabrics. She said, “Iam happy that people havenoticed it. I tell the fashionindustry that we, as a generation,are overconsuming resources.Also, the shaming (of people) forrepeating outfits and recyclingfabrics should be stopped.”

Remarking that we need toencourage people every timethey style differently, she added,“They should appreciate thatspirit. Also, we spent so much onorganic stuffs when they comefrom fancy stores. But we don’treally see the farmers and crafts-men. They are so poor that theycan’t even afford pesticides andsynthetic fabrics and are organ-ic, by default. We don’t realisethat.”

Recently, Kangana’s sisterRangoli Chandel took to socialmedia to upload a photograph ofthe actress in the saree. Shetweeted, “On her way to Jaipur,Kangana is wearing �600 sareeshe picked from Kolkata. She wasshocked to know one can getsuch good organic cotton in thisamount and it’s heartbreaking tosee how hard people work andhow little they earn. Please sup-port domestic brands before theinternational ones take over.”

Commenting on this, theNational Award-winning actor

said, “Just because it’s from aroadside shop, it doesn’t meanthat it’s not good. When you buyit from a big store, it does makeit a different stuff.” Kanganasaid that her perception towardsherself changed after she enteredBollywood and now she doesn’tthink of herself as a “small enti-ty” whose contributions are irrel-evant.

She believes that every per-son can contribute to the worldand no matter how small, contri-bution is relevant. “Initially Iused to think that the world isvery big and I’m very small andI can’t make a difference to it. ButI don’t feel the same any more.Believing that we are irrelevantin this scheme of things is thebiggest mistake that we make,”said she.

As a woman, I don’t alwayswant to get struck with big pro-ducers, actors and directors. Idon’t believe in this. I feel as anindividual, I have a standing,”Kangana said.

Wrapped in an all black off-shoulder ensem-ble with layers of silk and net, actress

Kareena Kapoor Khan brought down the curtainsat the Lakme Fashion Week Grand Finale as shewalked the ramp for closing designers Gauri andNainika.

She sealed the look with bold lip colour lay-ing emphasis on Lakme’s theme this season#FreeYourLips, which focussed at freedom ofexpression. The actress, who is the face of themake-up brand, said her association is almost 10years old.

“Walking each season feels very special.Thanks to Lakme as I am getting a chance to strutfor the best of the best. This feels more specialbecause of Gauri and Nainika. We embody thepower of women. The freedom of what womenwant, whether it’s about getting married, wanti-ng to work or wanting to make your voice heard,”said Kareena.

Talking about the collection, the designers saidthat they tried to keep the range true to their DNAwhich is about being “glamorous and feminine.”Nainika said, “This time around there has beena lot of synergy with the Lakme’s new range of lip-sticks. The whole sense of free your lips inspiredus to create the beautiful hues as we use a lot ofreds and pinks. There is a sense of lightness in thefabrics that we use, the matte lipsticks are very lightweight. The freedom to experiment with the linegave me a sense of women empowerment.”

Lots of oversized silhouettes and bows, withsolid colours — monochrome, red, green, hot pinkand golden ruled the collection along with floralsand sequins. Some models wore rubber gloves andboots in hues of yellow and orange among oth-ers. Songs such as Billie Jean and We belong to thelight got the models in a playful rhythm to flauntthe multi-layered ensembles.

Nainika also shared that the range is full ofbold silhouettes, rich embellishments, luxurioussilk and embroideries that are inspired by vintagebotanical illustrations and kew gardens.

(The finale was held at the Richardson andCrudass.)

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In this overcrowded planet, our urbanspaces are no longer the romanticised

natural landscape of our agrarian forefa-thers or the picturesque beauty of heritagemonuments. Presenting a rootedness andaffinity to their respective locales, fiveyoung artists at Rooted - Curator’s Pick atGallery Espace create a visual narrative ofwhat their livelihoods have been. They trig-ger conversations around landscapes, cli-mate, Himalayas and coastal communitiesthrough their architectural sculpture.

The assemblage in ceramics and paint-ing offer an insight into the workings ofyoung contemporary artists and refer tocommon concerns. The artists have manip-ulated the material in different ways withtechnique and patina from opposing endsof the artistic spectrum, creating an offer-ing that is both challenging and innovative.The series will be held once every two yearsand will invite senior artists to curate worksby emerging artists with the objective ofencouraging fresh talent and introducingenthusiasts and collectors to new-age art.

����������������Artist Khokan Giri belongs to a remote

village in coastal Bengal and his works echowith an ecological aura. Not only are theyintrinsically architectural but they also referto an indigenous lifestyle. His stimulus isthe textural detailing of fishing nets, trapsand boats of the nulliah fishermen he grewup around. His landscape ‘colograph’ hasember-like tonality and texture.

Yet another delight is artist HarendraKushwaha’s fragile constructions of paperand cloth. Born to an agricultural familyin the Terai in Nepal, his use of homegrownNepali paper and other kinds of paper turns

into a sculptural idiom with a fragile inge-nuity that is classic as well as uniquely con-temporary. According to Paula Sengupta,who discovered Giri and Kushwaha at theRabindra Bharti University, Khushwaharesorts to means and material that are“intrinsic” to his roots. He weaves, sews and

shreds in order to construct architecturalproportions through lightweight paper,operating between two-dimensional con-structions and sculptures.

������������������Kristine Michael and Mudita Bhandari’s

ceramic works have about them a tensile yettenuous ardour. Mudita weaves urban andrural constructs in a brilliant installation thatblends paper pulp and terracotta. She hasbeen working with terracotta for many yearsand it is her elegance at handling the medi-um that stands out. Her little house-like grids

speak of humanity and abstraction in themodern sense. She had previously said thather work is related to the different phasesin her life, to the things she absorbs,observes and how she responds over manyjourneys. So most of her work that comesabout is both spontaneous as well as reflec-tive of that space within herself. The littlehouses in the sculptural installation Nesting,reference quietude and a silent symphony,“where the real walls are not as significant.Just like empty quiet spaces, these walls arecreated within as if one is just wanderingaround in that empty space.”

Kristine Michael’s Necropolis againmirrors urban dwellings but in its networkof columns, we see the rhythms of solitudeand soliloquies that remain as residualrhythms within us.

In that vein of rhythms but deeplymarine, born of the oceanic tides andbeeches, is Japneet Keith’s urchin series thatcan blow one’s mind. Her compositions her-ald the power of passion and perfection inthe entire sequence of moulding, firing,glazing and creating a series that are a cyno-sure for the eyes. Her initial days at the NID,Ahmedabad, were spent exploring thepossibilities of two and three-dimension-

al media and other materials. Her interestin ceramics and glass ultimately lead her toselect pottery as her true calling. Shehoned her skills under the watchful eyes ofthe master Shantanu Jena. She has workedon improbable things that often make theirappearances on the pottery wheel. It was atime of intense introspection when shelearned the possibilities and limits of clayand glass. She went on to establish a for-mal studio in 2010 with a space for peopleto explore materials and learn.

Japneet says that she developed pro-grammes and workshops in her studio tohelp people explore the possibilities of glassand ceramics as media. But the progressionof her workshops was not skill-based orcourse-based. She adds, “It was designedto introduce people to this wonderful, tac-tile and often quirky medium. You learnalong the way that as you mould clay, claymoulds you.” Nature is at the heart ofJapneet’s pottery, with objects and figuresin the landscape taking its shape at thewheel. An avid traveller, she is oftenfound exploring the forests, mountains ortide pools in foreign lands where she findsher inspiration in people, land and the artshe encounters. From Hummingbirds to SeaShell Murals to the geometric lines ofancient Iznik designs, her repertoire is alsoa record of her journeys. Japneet’s seaurchin halt you in your tracks and ask youto ponder about the goodness of theearth and the beauty within. The colourtones, the detailing and the understandingof design dynamics make her the absoluteAthena of her own world of perfection andpoise.

(The exhibition is on till September 29at Gallery Espace.)

There have been endless debatesaround the origin of the Kirana

Gharana and its founder. Whilesome call Veena player UstadBande Ali Khan, who hailed froma village near Ambala in Haryana,whereas, others mention theDhannu and Dhondu brothers,who were great devotees of LordKrishna and are said to have askedhim to grant their voice the samebeauty as his melodious flute. It’salso said that the foundation waslaid by Ustad Abdul Karim Khanand his cousin Ustad Abdul WahidKhan during the early 1870s astheir singing styles bear manysimilarities with the Carnaticmusic.

While the debate may go ontill eternity, vocalist JayateerthMevundi, who has expertise in theKirana Gharana, is very clearabout the art form and his undy-ing passion for it. The artist, whois all set to perform for the firsttime at the 23rd edition of theParampara Series, says that it wasdue to Raja Reddy “ji”, whom hehas known for many years, that heis performing at the show.

Talking about Ustad Karim’sCarnatic influence in the gha-rana, he tells us that Khan saab’s(Ustad Karim) singing style wasvery different from what is popu-larly known about him today. Hesays, “It was in the then Baroda(now Vadodara) that he was intro-duced to Carnatic music. Thosedays, many Carnatic musicianswould come to perform in theking’s court. And he got deeplyinfluenced by the music form. Helater went to Mysuru to learn itfurther. Thus, his music has aninfluence of the Carnatic style inelements of music like aalaap,khatka or murki.”

Hailing from Dharwad nearHubli in Karnataka, he says that hisgrowing-up years highly influ-enced his music and formed hisinclination towards the KiranaGharana. His initial training beganunder his mother’s guidance, whodespite not being trained profes-sionally, had a strong inclinationtowards the music form. He usedto visit Kundgol, a village nearHubli with his parents which washome of Pt Sawai Gandharvaunder whom Bhimsen Joshi andGangubai Hangal had also receivedtraining. “My first tryst with clas-sical singing was through mymother. There were no such musi-cians in my family who would havetrained me although they wouldlisten to songs on radio and iden-

tify ragas and notes.”His childhood was replete

with memories of music and learn-ings from a culture that revolvedaround rich, classical art forms.However, there is a differencebetween how those traditions havebeen passed on to future genera-tions and how they are actuallytreated today. With the advent ofsocial media and the growingWestern influence on the younggeneration, isn’t classical art losingits charm among the youth?Mevundi says, “It hasn’t lost itscharm. It’s just not being followedvery religiously. Western musicinfluence has been great. It hasmade them more inclined towardsother genres, through which theythink that they would get more ofinternational exposure. Today’syouth just wants to get famousinstantly. And gaining expertise inclassical music is a long process.It takes years of practice to mas-ter the art, which is also why theylose interest mid way, look forother options and leave it inbetween. Not all understand clas-sical. We have also seen parentsbecoming impatient about theneed for their children to ‘becomesomeone’. But we need to realisethat it takes time to gain recogni-tion in this field.”

However, for Kirana andother classical music forms, hefeels they need to grow since theyconnect to people emotionally.“They can easily get in a medita-tive state through it. It’s like med-itating loudly. Classical music isdivine. Melody, deep emotionsand gentleness are the mostimportant elements in thissinging,” he says. Indeed, this iswhy many describe this Gharanaas that of romantic singing as well.

(The series will start from August30 and go on till September 1.)

Who doesn’t like a comedy oferrors? Even WilliamShakespeare did. For it

hilariously teaches us about the dif-ferent ways in which human beingsreact when they are faced withunavoidable circumstances.Directed by Nikunj Wadhawan,Sweet Suite is a Hindi adaptation ofRay Cooney’s comedy play Out ofOrder, which deals with a similarconcept.

Wadhawan says, “It’s basically asituational comedy, where the char-acters create a condition whichturns out to be a comedy. It was wayback in July 2018, I was readingthrough Cooney’s play. He is knowas the farcical king. Many of hisplays like Run For Your Wife and NotNow Darling have been adaptedwithout giving him royalty or tak-ing his permission. So we took therights to adapt this play to Hindi.And the play whenever gets adapt-ed in a different language, the titlecan be changed. And Out of Orderhas already an internationallyacclaimed status. So I changed thetitle to Sweet Suite.”

The play features a govern-ment secretary who lies his way outof situations with the help of hisinnocent junior PA, who gets moreand more entangled in the impro-vised tales as the events unfold. Theaction takes place in a suite in a poshhotel and everything revolvesaround the accidents caused by a

defective sash window. “Mr Das isthe secretary to the CabinetMinister. He has a PA who hebrings to the hotel. There’s a meet-ing happening in his suite but thesecretary has sneaked into the roomof a young lady from the opposition.Now there’s also an affair going onin the hotel. There are certainthings that they find inside the hotel,because of which there are many liesthat keep building up. The windowof the room has a dead body stuckin it. Now only three people knowabout it — Mr Das, his PA and theyoung lady. What you have to see ishow in the two hours, they get outof the situation safely,” saysWadhawan and adds, “The audiencehad actually complained of stomachache because they laughed souncontrollably during the show.When I was reading the originalplay, it had the same effect on me.”

The director tells us that it’s afarce comedy that aims at entertain-ing the audience through situationsthat are highly exaggerated, extrav-agant and thus improbable.Wadhawan feels that any genre ofcomedy is just a way to entertainpeople. There can definitely be amessage at the end. “Take theatreand cinema, for instance, entertain-ment in any form is something thatattracts people and that is why it’san important medium to give a mes-sage also. When people leave alltheir worries behind and they are

actually laughing and relaxing, youcan explain the hard-hitting reali-ty of the world to them and theyunderstand it better in that moment.That is why comedy is used formoral policing also. However, here,the play is just for entertainment,”

says Wadhawan and adds, “There isno moral policing here. We are nottrying to teach anything to anyone.I, as a director, believe that peopleare already aware of everything andthey learn at their own pace. Theydon’t have to be taught about any-

thing.”Since it’s an adaptation, what are

the new elements here? He tells usthat it’s the exact original. But thereis just one important thing whichhas changed from 1990 to now. Thatis the mobile phones. “There wereno phones at that time but in thisdigital era, if you don’t have one, youeither don’t belong to this planet oryou are a small kid. The audiencehas become quite intelligent today.They cross-question. They don’twant to leave their mind back athome. Even while watching a com-edy they’ll ask yeh aise kaise hogyaor voh kaise hua.That is why wealready let the audience know thatwe are not using the phone so eventhey should not in between the per-formance. And also if you have aphone, the situation will neveroccur,” says the director.

The play has had a long run inUK when it was first premiered in1990 and was then adapted toFrench in 1996, followed by aHungarian film. It collected acco-lades internationally as it entered theAPAC region in 2012 with theshow being staged at Singaporeand Malaysia. The play currentlyruns in Russia and China and is allset to tickle the funny bone of theIndian audience.

(The play will be staged onAugust 31 and September 1 at 4 pmand 7 pm at Little Theatre Group(LTG) Auditorium, Mandi House.)

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Antoine Griezmann copied LionelMessi for the goal and LeBron

James for the celebration but it was hisnight for Barcelona on Sunday after hescored twice in a 5-2 win over RealBetis.

Griezmann imitated the basketballsuperstar by tossing confetti into the airto celebrate his second at Camp Nou,a curling effort into the corner that hesaid was inspired by watching Messi.

“I saw Leo do this in training, so Itried to copy him,” said Griezmann.“And for the celebration, I like the rit-ual that LeBron did so we tried to doit as well.”

Yet Griezmann was the star, if onlyfor the night with Messi in the stands,the Argentinian still short of fitness fol-lowing a calf injury.

A brilliant Barcelona performancealso delivered a resounding response tothe doubts arising from their defeat toAthletic Bilbao last weekend, amongthem a reliance on Messi, the need forNeymar and the future of ErnestoValverde as coach.

But as Carles Perez, Jordi Alba andArturo Vidal made it three, four andfive, the gloom was forgotten, alongwith Nabil Fekir’s opener in the 15thminute, that had Betis level at half-time.

“After a defeat, there is always a bigreaction,” Griezmann said. “We reallywanted to play another game andwhen so many players aremissing, the team steps up.”

Loren Moron slammed alate strike into the top cornerfor Betis but by then the gamewas up as Barca ensured nofurther ground was lost onAtletico Madrid, who beat Leganes 1-0 earlier on Sunday, or Real Madrid,who were held to a 1-1 draw onSaturday by Real Valladolid.

Barcelona will hope to have Messiback for the trip to Osasuna next week-end but with Luis Suarez and OusmaneDembele both out for longer,Griezmann’s statement display was

timely.Whether it also affects the

club’s attempts to prise Neymarfrom Paris Saint-Germainremains to be seen.

This was Griezmann’s firstgoal at Camp Nou in 14 appear-ances, five of them for Real

Sociedad and eight for Atletico, and hisoverall performance was of someoneready to lead, rather than serve as onlya foil for Messi.

The crowd also enjoyed a goal fromthe 21-year-old Perez, making his firstBarca start, and a substitute appearancefrom Anssumane Fati, who at 16became the second youngest player ever

to play for the club in La Liga.Earlier Atletico maintained their

perfect start with another 1-0 victory,this time over Leganes as Vitolo cameoff the bench to score a second-halfwinner at Butarque.

Joao Felix, Atletico’s 126 million-euro ($140 million) buy from Benficaand much-hailed replacement forGriezmann, was again quiet but againdelivered the match’s most memorablemoment.

The 19-year-old’s perfectly-timedpass provided set Vitolo free while Felixhad been picked out by Kieran Trippier,who was faultless on his second Atleticostart.

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Paris Saint-Germain starKylian Mbappe will be

out for four weeks andEdinson Cavani for threeweeks after both came offinjured in a Ligue 1 matchagainst Toulouse on Sunday,the French champions haveconfirmed.

F r e n c hWorld Cup-win-ning starMbappe limpedoff after hurtinghis left ham-string during atrademark sprintin PSG’s 4-0 win at the Parcdes Princes.

The injury means hewill miss PSG’s openingChampions League groupgame, which is set forSeptember 17 or 18.

He is also set to sit outthree league matches aswell as France’s Euro 2020qualif iers at home toAlbania and Andorra earlynext month.

Fellow forward Cavanicame off with a hip injury

in the same game and PSGconfirmed the Uruguayanwill be out for three weeks,meaning he could be readyin time for the start oftheir Champions Leaguecampaign.

The injuries come as

uncertainty continues tosurround Neymar.

The Brazilian’s desiredmove back to Spain has yetto materialise with just aweek remaining before theEuropean transfer windowcloses.

However, even if hestays, the world’s mostexpensive player is sus-pended for the first threegames of this season’sChampions League.

Earlier on Sunday, TheFrench champions’ prob-lems continued to mountdespite a 4-0 thrashing ofToulouse.

Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting scored a second-half double, but only aftercoming on as a substitutefor the injured Cavani,while Mbappe also depart-ed the scene after appear-ing to pull up with a ham-string injury following atrademark burst into thebox.

The capital-city giantssit three points behind earlyLigue 1 pace-settersRennes, who made it threewins from three by beatingStrasbourg 2-0.

Tuchel responded tolast weekend's defeat bymaking three changes to hisstarting XI, including drop-ping captain Thiago Silva tothe bench.

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India’s invincible run in the Olympic Testevent has boosted the confidence of the

women’s hockey team but there are still areaswhere it needs to put in the hard yards aheadof the FIH Olympic Qualifiers, said skipperRani Rampal.

India put up a brilliant performance at theOlympic Test Event as they defeated hosts Japan2-1 in the final to win the competition.

Captain Rani seemed extremely pleasedwith the way the side played against the likesof World No 2 Australia, World No 11 Chinaand World No 14 Japan.

“It was incredible to remain unbeatenthroughout the Olympic Test Event. Thehard work put in by all the players in the var-ious training camps ahead of the tournamentpaid dividends. A victory in this tournamentgives us a lot of confidence ahead of the upcom-ing tournaments,” said Rani.

“We still have to improve in certain areas,but the team is confident of booking a placein the Tokyo Olympics. Our preparations have

been excellent so far and we have to just keepbuilding on our game.

“The Olympic Test Event was very help-ful to understand the level of our game as weplayed against some strong teams includingWorld No 2 Australia. Our only aim is to qual-ify for the Olympics and I feel we are on theright track,” she added.

Rani further said that the side is a well-set-tled unit and all players are extremely clearabout their roles.

“Our team consists of players who are veryclear about their roles, and perform themindustriously on the field.

“We have gained momentum at the righttime and have to keep improving our skills asthe team approaches the FIH OlympicQualifiers,” said Rani.

She was all praise for drag-flicker GurjitKaur, who was the top-scorer of the competi-tion with three goals. “Gurjit has improvedimmensely in the last couple of years. She is avital player for us as a drag-flicker and I amdelighted to see her in form ahead of impor-tant tournaments for us,” said Rani.

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Former Pakistan captain Misbah-ul-Haqhas stepped down from the PCB Cricket

Committee after joining the race for theposition of national team’s head coach.

After days of speculation that Misbahwould be appointed head coach cum chiefselector, the 44-year-old on Monday con-firmed he was applying for the head coachjob the deadline for which ended onMonday.

“It has been interesting to see my namebeing mentioned as a future head coach ofthe Pakistan cricket team, but the fact is Ionly made the decision today,” Misbah saidin a statement.

“I am applying for the head coach’s rolefully aware that the competition will betough as I envisage there will be a few morevery competent and highly qualified peopleapplying for one of the most challenging jobsin the game.”

According to insiders, the PCB has notreceived applications from any high profileforeign coaches as yet with the best-knownname being former Australian batsmanDean Jones.

Former captain Waqar Younis hasapplied for the post of bowling coach andsaid he had thought about submitting his

resume for the head coach but with Misbahin the race he would prefer to work as bowl-ing coach.

The change of mind for Misbah cameafter he met with the PCB DirectorInternational Cricket Zakir Khan followingwhich the PCB announced he was steppingdown as a member of the CricketCommittee which recommended not renew-ing the contracts of former head coachMickey Arthur and his support staff afterthe World Cup.

The PCB wants to announce the newteam management by early September sothat it can start work for the upcoming lim-ited over series against Sri Lanka at homefrom September 25.

The PCB on Monday announced thatformer Test batsman Ejaz Ahmed will be thenew head coach of the under-19 team.

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PV Sindhu says she felt “angry andsad” after being criticised for not fin-ishing on top in the last two World

Championship finals and the Gold medalin the just-concluded edition is heranswer to all the critics who questiTwo-time silver-medallist Sindhu ended anagonising wait for an elusive gold with amaiden World Championship title onSunday.

“This is my answer to the people whohave asked me questions over and over. Ijust wanted to answer with my racket andwith this win — that’s all,” Sindhu wasquoted as saying by the Badminton WorldFederation’s (BWF) official website afterher crushing win over Okuhara.

“I felt really bad after the first WorldChampionships final and last year I wasangry, I was sad. I went through all myemotions, asking ‘Sindhu, why can’t youget this one match?’ but today came andI told myself to play my game and notworry — and it worked out,” she added.

The 24-year-old from Hyderabadbecame the first Indian to achieve the featby thrashing familiar rival NozomiOkuhara of Japan 21-7, 21-7 in one of themost lop-sided finals ever.

It was third time lucky for Sindhu,who lost to Okuhara and Olympic cham-pion Carolina Marin of Spain respective-ly in the 2017 and 2018 finals to settle forthe Silver twice.

Sindhu has been at the receiving endof criticism for coming short in the sum-

mit clashes of major events ever since the2016 Rio Olympics, where she had fin-ished second best to Marin.

Two years ago, Sindhu was denied thegold by Okuhara after an epic 110-minute final that went down as one of thegreatest battles in badminton history.

The Indian also lost the finals of theGold Coast Commonwealth Games, the

Jakarta Asian Games, besides the WorldChampionships twice. She had also fin-ished runners-up at Thailand Open andIndia Open last year.

The Gold was her fifth medal at theWorld Championships. She won a Bronzeeach in the 2013 and 2014 editions.

Sindhu is now the joint highestmedal-winner in women’s singles in the

World Championships history with for-mer Olympic champion Zhang Ning ofChina, who won an identical 1 Gold, 2Silver and 2 Bronze between 2001 and2007.

Sindhu credited her coaches for theperformance.

“A lot of credit to my coaches, GopiSir and Kim (Ji Hyun) and also to my par-

ents, my support staff and sponsors whobelieved in me,” she said.

“Everybody was wanting this winfrom me. After Rio Olympics Silvermedal, the expectations from me is real-ly high. Every time I go to a tournament,everyone expects me to win a Gold,”Sindhu said.

“After a year I also thought whatshould I do for it and instead of thinkingabout others, I thought may be I shouldjust play for myself and give my 100 per-cent and automatically I win becausethinking about others would put extrapressure on me.”

Now that Sindhu has added the miss-ing World Championships Gold to hercabinet, next in line for her will be theOlympic crown in Tokyo 2020.

“People are already asking ‘Sindhu,what about Gold in Tokyo 2020?’,” she said.

“Olympics is not so far but right nowit is step-by-step for me. I know theOlympic qualification is going so I hopeI do well, but right now I just want to enjoyit and don’t want to think anything else.

“Badminton is my passion and I feelthat I can win more titles,” she signed off.

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Jasprit Bumrah wreaked havocwith a five-wicket haul, com-plementing Ajinkya Rahane’s

long-awaited 10th Test hundred,as India decimated West Indies by318 runs inside four days to starttheir World Test Championshipcampaign in earnest.

India’s pace spearhead fin-ished with incredible figures of 8-4-7-5 while Ishant Sharma main-tained his fine form with a 3 for31 haul. The West Indies werebowled out for 100 in 26.5 overschasing an improbable target of419 on Sunday.

This was after Indian vice-captain Rahane (102) got his firstTest hundred in two years andadded 125 runs for the fifthwicket with the young HanumaVihari (93) as India declaredtheir second innings at 343 for 7.

The win took India to the topof the World Test Championshiptable with 60 points. NewZealand and Sri Lanka are cur-rently second and third respec-tively although they have equalnumber of points. Australiaand England are currentlyfourth and fifth with 32points each.

The win was 27th ascaptain for Virat Kohli,who now jointly tops thelist with MahendraSingh Dhoni. He hasalso gone pastSourav Ganguly(11) for most awaywins as India cap-tain.

It was a Bumrahshow in perfectweather conditionsas he sent the wick-ets cart-wheelingthrice during a sensational eight-over spell in which he concededjust seven runs. Playing his 11thTest, he also became the fastestIndian pace bowler to take 50wickets.

Bumrah swung the ballboth ways to torment thehome batsmen while Ishantand Mohammed Shami(2/13) too contributed in

India’s resounding victory whichgave them a 1-0 lead in the two-match series.

Kemar Roach (38), MiguelCummins (19 not out) andRoston Chase (12) were the onlybatsmen who managed double-digit mark. Roach added 50 runsfor the last wicket with Cumminsbut it just delayed the inevitable.

No top-order batsman couldresist the furious spell fromBumrah, who first dismissedopeners Kraigge Brathwaite (1)and John Campbell (7) and latersaw the back of Darren Barvo (2),Shai Hope (2) and Jason Holderto complete his five-wicket haul.

After resuming the day at 185for three, Rahane scored a patient102-run knock but young bats-man Hanuma Vihari (93) missedout on his maiden Test ton by justseven runs.

India declared theirsecond innings at 343 forseven, the moment

Vihari was dismissed.

DEDICATED TO PEOPLEBack with a bang, India vice-

captain Ajinkya Rahane dedicat-ed his game-changing perfor-mance in the first Test to all thosewho have stood by him during the

past two years when he wentthrough a rough patch.

“This hundred was special.My time with Hampshire real-ly helped me.

I dedicate this hundred tothe people who backed me,supported me when I wasgoing through a rough patch,”Rahane said at the post-match

presentation ceremony.“It feels special. Getting

this hundred after 29 or 30innings. I’ve been getting70s, but getting a 100 means

a lot to me,” he added.

‘MORE CONFIDENT’India’s pace bowling main-

stay Jasprit Bumrah says he isalways evolving to polish hiscraft, the latest addition towhich is the outswinger that hewasn’t particularly confident ofuntil last year.

“I used to bowl theinswinger earlier, but the moreTest matches I’ve played, I’vegotten more confident to bowlthe outswinger, especially sinceEngland,” said Bumrah referringto the five-match series inEngland last year, which Indialost 1-4.

The 25-year-old has playedjust 11 Tests in his fast-risingcareer and has 55 wickets, aver-aging 20.63 at a brilliant econ-omy rate of 2.64.

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Ben Stokes said his remarkable centurywas “unbelievable” as England secured

an astounding one-wicket win overAustralia in the third Test at Headingley tosquare the Ashes series at 1-1.

England, dismissed for just 67 in theirfirst innings were seemingly dead andburied at 286-9, still 73 shy of a victory tar-get of 359.

But 28-year-old left-handed batsmanStokes, whose five-and-a-half hour inningswas a brilliantly paced mix of defence andaggression, saw England home with asuperb 135 not out.

“Unbelievable,” Stokes told Sky Sports.“It’s one I’ll never forget.

“I’ve got to try and take it all in,” addedStokes, whose batting heroics helped Englndwin the World Cup for the first time in July.

“I’m not sure it’ll ever happen again. It’sone of the two best feelings I’ve ever felt ona cricket pitch.”

He was involved in a run out of JosButtler which looked to have scupperedEngland’s chances, added: “Just never giveup. It’s not over until it’s over. WhenLeachy came in it was pretty clear what hadto be done. It was five and one. I’ll take five(deliveries), you take one.”

Bespectacled Leach, who hit a careerbest 92 as nightwatchman in England’srecent Test win over Ireland, played his partas Stokes acknowledged.

“He’s a super nightwatchman, knowingwhat he had to do. I couldn’t watch in the

end. I was just waiting to see what hap-pened.” Stokes, two not out off 50 balls atFriday’s close, faced 219 deliveries in total,hitting 11 fours and eight sixes.

“I think when it got down to the 30s Iwas thinking, ‘rein it in a little’, but when itwas in the 60s, 70s, 50s I had to really tryand I sort of got in the zone,” explainedStokes.

“We had to win this game to stay in theAshes and we managed to do it.”

‘OUTRAGEOUS’England captain Joe Root labelled his

longtime friend’s display “outrageous”.“We said at the start of the day, ‘we just

have to believe’ and while two people arealive and breathing, we have a chance,” saidRoot, who added just two runs to hisovernight score before falling for 77.

“We’ve seen some freakish thingsalready this summer in the World Cup butI didn’t think we’d see something similar inthis series.

“It was an incredible game of cricket, anincredible atmosphere and Test cricket isalive and kicking. This Ashes is alive andkicking.”

'TIP YOUR HAT'Meanwhile, Australia captain Tim Paine

said: “It’s hard to take, losing from that posi-tion but you tip your hat sometimes.

“Ben Stokes played an unbelievableinnings and in the end he was too good forus. It was probably the best Test innings I’veseen and the rest of the team thought thesame thing.”

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Hanuma Vihari’s primary skill isbatting but he is now trying to

sharpen his off-breaks in order to fitin as the “fifth bowler” in India’s Testset-up.

Being preferred as the sixth bats-man over Rohit Sharma, Vihariimpressed one and all with a com-posed 93 in the Indian second inningsand if the quality of his off-breaksimprove, could well force R Ashwin tocool his heels in near future.

“It is very important that my off-spin keeps developing not only formyself but also for the team. I fit intothe team because of the combinationthat I can be the fifth bowler,” theAndhra right-hander said at the post-match press conference.

“I want to keep improving andkeep getting better at it. So hopeful-ly, I will get in more overs and it will

help the team better,” he added.While his choice as an extra bats-

man kept Ashwin out of the playingXI as India opted for four bowlers witha single spinner in Jadeja, the young-ster is happy to pick the senior off-spinner’s brains whenever possible.

“(I feel) fortunate enough to gethelp from one of the best spinners inIndian cricket history. It’s nice sharingthe dressing room with him and talk-ing to him about off-spin bowling,”Vihari said.

For Vihari, adjusting to the natureof the surface and conditions becameeasier as he had led India A against theWest Indies A in three unofficial Tests,scoring a hundred and two half-cen-turies.

“...I knew how the wicket will play,”the 25-year-old stated.

He was asked to open the inningsagainst Australia Down Under andnow is back to playing in the middle-

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New Zealand held their nerve toclinch a hard-fought and com-

prehensive victory against Sri Lankain fading light in the second TestMonday and level the two-matchseries 1-1.

Victory was achieved with anhour left on day five when Lasith

Embuldeniya edged a short deliveryfrom Trent Boult to KaneWilliamson at gully.

Sri Lanka were bowled out for122 runs after New Zealand declaredtheir second innings on 431 for sixwith a first-innings lead of 185.

The game went to the last hourof day five at Colombo’s P Sara Oval,and although 19.4 overs remained

when tail-ender Embuldeniya wasthe last man dismissed, umpirescould have called off play at any timewith the light fast-deteriorating.

New Zealand’s bowlers werehurrying through their deliveriesknowing too well that they were rac-ing against time.

The first four days’ play had beenseverely affected by rain, wet groundconditions and bad light, but surpris-ingly the final day stayed cleardespite a 30-minute delayed start.

Sri Lanka had given away the ini-tiative to New Zealand after losingfive wickets for 32 runs before lunch,but a terrific fightback by wicket-keeper Niroshan Dickwella kepttheir hopes of salvaging a draw.

He showed plenty of characterduring a 51-run knock that lasted forthree-and-a-half hours.

There was little support from restof Sri Lanka’s batsmen, with skipperDimuth Karunaratne’s 21 being thesecond-highest score.

Suranga Lakmal and Dickwellahad batted for over an hour, but thestand was broken when Lakmalgloved one to close-in fielder TomLatham after tea.

Sri Lanka were still counting onDickwella when he fell for hisfamous sweep shot.

Tim Southee, Boult, Patel andWilliam Somerville claimed twowickets each while Colin deGrandhomme claimed the big wick-et of Angelo Mathews.

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Captain Virat Kohli is well aware that India’s play-ing XIs in Test matches are a subject of intense

debate but insists that all decisions are taken keepingin mind the “best interests of the team”.

There was a debate on the omission of senior off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin in the playing XI. Thelegendary Sunil Gavaskar termed his exclusion as“astonishing”.

But the lone specialist spinner Ravindra Jadeja didhis bit, scoring a timely half-century in the first inningsalong with a couple of wickets vindicating Kohli’s deci-sion.

“We have a group discussion and then we decidewhat’s best for the team. There will always be opin-ions about the XI, but people will know that it’s in theinterest of the team,” Kohli said at the post-match pre-sentation ceremony.

Kohli’s preference for the young Hanuma Vihariover limited-overs vice-captain Rohit Sharma alsoworked wonderfully with the Andhra Pradesh-play-er scoring 93 in the second innings after looking goodduring a 32 in the first essay.

“Vihari got a nod because combination is impor-tant. He’s an effective part-time bowler and helps uswhen we need to catch up with the over-rate.”

Just like white-ball cricket, Jasprit Bumrah’s formand fitness are paramount in the red ball set-up also.And the captain understands that only too well.

“Bumrah’s workload is most important which iswhy he didn’t play any white-ball games (vs WI) afterthe World Cup. He will be a key factor for us as longas the World Test Championship continues.

“Shami is the same and Ishant is a banker, alwaysreliable. Umesh is there too and Navdeep is waitingin the wings. We are settled as our bowling options,but managing workloads will be important,” Kohli said.

He was all praise for man of the match AjinkyaRahane, who is back in form withscores of 81 and 102 in both innings.

“Jinx excellent in both innings,KL solid in both innings too.Mention to Viharitoo. We had tocome back inthis game 3-4times, so that is apositive movingforward fromAustralia,” said theskipper.

Kohli said he ishappy to be in a positionwhere he has a team which isexecuting most of the deci-sions taken by him.

“I am taking decisions,yes, but execution is done byothers who raise their hand.We enjoy everyone’s compa-ny, and that’s the reason forour success,” he said.

“It's a blessing that I amin a position where I can con-tribute to the team in morethan one way, but nothing ispossible without your team. Idon’t think the credit can betaken away from the team atall.”

The skipper expects that histeam will put up another pro-fessional performance inJamaica, starting on Friday.

“Jamaica is another oppor-tunity to do a professional perfor-mance. We know WI will comehard at us, and we will try to plugthe gaps from this Test.”

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“Sometimes they choose a com-bination according to the wickets,sometimes it is according to theopposition. So, our only focus iswhenever we are on the ground, howwell we can perform for the team,” hemade it clear.

Vihari missed out on his maidenhundred by only seven runs but was-n’t disappointed considering that hiscontribution in the team’s victorywas a significant one.

“We had a plan of batting onehour after lunch. So I thought that ifI could accelerate (post lunch) at thestart, I can get closer to my hundred.

That was exactly what (accelerate) Iwas trying to do in that (Jason)Holder over.

“I was trying to take my time andget close to the hundred but I amhappy that I contributed to the team’ssuccess and that day will come whenI will cross the three-figure mark,” heexuded confidence.

He rated Jasprit Bumrah’s spellbefore the tea on fourth day as the besthe has seen him bowl especially afterhe looked rusty in the first innings.

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