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F ormer Finance and Home Minister P Chidambaram will spend at least four days in the CBI custody. A Delhi court on Thursday allowed the CBI plea for custodial interrogation of Chidambaram in the INX Media corruption case till August 26. The agency had sought a five-day remand to unearth the larger conspiracy in the case. Special Judge Ajay Kumar Kuhar asked the CBI to con- duct medical examination on Chidambaram as per the rules. The court also allowed the family members and lawyers of Chidambaram to meet him for half an hour every day dur- ing his CBI custody. “Considering the facts and circumstances, I am of the view that police custody is jus- tified,” said the judge and remanded him in CBI’s custody till August 26. Even if Chidambaram’s CBI custody ends on August 26, it will not be the end of his woes. The court could either deny him regular bail and send him to judicial custody, or the Enforcement Directorate could seek his custodial interrogation. In both the cases, it will be a while before Chidambaram could earn his freedom. The CBI sources said cus- todial interrogation was required as the agency gathered inputs indicating prima facie involvement of Chidambaram in other approvals by Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) in which the former Finance Minister had alleged- ly received bribes through his son Karti’s firms. A number of Letters Rogatory (judicial requests) is pending in certain countries, CBI sources said. Chidambaram’s advocates opposed the CBI plea on the ground that all the other accused, including his son Karti, have already been grant- ed bail in the case. Senior advocate Kapil Sibal, appearing for Chidambaram, argued that the first arrest in the case was of Bhaskar Raman, chartered accountant of Karti, who is presently out on bail. Besides that, Peter and Indrani Mukherjea, also accused in the case, are out on default bail as they are in jail in connection with another matter, Sibal said. Contending that grant of bail was a rule, he asserted that the issue before the court was of personal liberty. He also con- tested the demand for five-day custodial interrogation of Chidambaram. Solicitor General (SG) Tushar Mehta, representing the CBI, told the court that the agency was not extorting con- fession but it has the right to reach the root of the case. Besides Sibal, senior advo- cate Abhishek M Singhvi appeared for Chidambaram and opposed CBI’s plea saying that the former Union Minister was not a flight risk. Singhvi said that the entire CBI case was based on the statement of Indrani Mukherjea, who has turned approver in the case. Chidambaram cannot answer what the CBI wants to hear and added that the agency cannot seek remand on the ground of evasive replies. There was no allegation of tampering of evidence by the CBI, Singhvi asserted. Singhvi contended that police remand can only be granted in special circum- stances and this was a case where there was no new devel- opment. He said the agency was asking Chidambaram only old questions since his arrest on Wednesday night. Continued on Page 7 I n a desperate move to stoke violence in Jammu & Kashmir after the abrogation of its special status under Article 370 and to internationalise the issue, Pakistan has started recruiting battle-hardened Afghan and Pashtun fighters to create trouble in the State. Nearly 100 of these fight- ers are now perched at launch pads to infiltrate into the State. At the same time, there is fear that terrorists might plan “spec- tacular strikes” within Kashmir and other major Indian cities. Besides this hard intelli- gence input, reports also indi- cate that Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) has deployed a team of at least 12 terrorists to under- take cross-border raids and target security forces on the Line of Control (LoC). Pakistan’s Border Action Team (BAT), Afghan militants and highly trained Special Services Group (SSG) of the Pakistan Army may specially target Lipa Valley in North Kashmir. Giving details of these lat- est developments across the border after the revocation of Article 370 nearly three weeks back, officials in the security establishment said on Thursday the JeM also held a meeting presided over by Rauf Asghar, brother of JeM chief Masood Azhar, in Bahawalpur on August 19 to draw the strate- gy to engineer terrorist attacks. The meeting was also attended by launch comman- ders of JeM. They oversee infil- tration of terrorists after the Pakistan Army gives them cover fire. As regards to using Afghan fighters hailing from North- West Frontier Province (NWFP), officials said the ISI and the Pakistan Army resort- ed to it due to depleting strength of local Kashmiri ter- rorists. Continued on Page 7 I n yet another case of crimi- nal apathy, five sanitation workers who had entered into a sewer died after inhaling toxic gas in Nandgram locali- ty on Thursday. The police have registered a case of neg- ligence causing death and launched an investigation to fix responsibility. Authorities have been asked to submit a report within 15 days. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, while expressing condolence over the death of the workers, announced a compensation of 5 lakh to the kin of the deceased who were identified as Damodar (40), Horil (35), Sandip (30), Shiv Kumar (32) and Vijay Kumar (40), all res- idents of Samastipur in Bihar. They were working at a project, sanctioned by the Ghaziabad Municipal Corporation, to connect domestic sewer lines with the main drainage system of the city, District Magistrate Ajay Shankar Pandey said. They were employed by a private contractor, which was carrying out the project under Amrit Yojna of the civic body’s water department in Krishna Colony near Nandgram area under Sihani Gate police sta- tion limits, he said. Around 1 pm, one of the men went inside the sewer line but did not come out. Then one by one the other four men went inside to find the rest. When none of them came out, another man went inside and saw the five men lying in an unconscious state, the official said. The con- tractor did not provide safe- ty kits to the workers, the DM added. The men were rushed to nearby Mariam Hospital, where doctors declared them brought dead, the DM said. “Bodies of sanitation workers were taken to hospital with help of locals. A worker went unconscious after inhaling poisonous gas, after which other sanitation workers jumped to save him, however, they also lost their lives in rescue attempt,” said a local resident of the area. A case has been lodged against the contractor, EMS Infracon, and three of its engi- neers after the civic body filed a police complaint alleging negligence. E quity markets saw a blood- bath on Thursday sinking by 587 points as the Government dashed any hope of a stimulus — something being talked about for a fort- night — to revive the sagging economy. The bears latched on to the news to go for aggressive selling, pushing the index to six-month low. The rupee also continued with its freefall, and ended at 71.81 to a dollar, hit- ting eight-month low. The market has been con- solidating in the range of 11900-11100 (Nifty) for the past fortnight in the hope that stimulus package was on the way. It is bizarre that all these days no Government official cared to deny media reports about possible stimulus such as withdrawal of surcharge on FIP investment and removal of minimum alternate tax (MAT) as well as a package for revival of the auto sector. Details on Page 10 O pposition parties, includ- ing the Congress, the TMC, the DMK, the RJD, the Samajwadi Party and the National Conference staged a protest in the national Capital on Thursday seeking immedi- ate release of political leaders put under detention in Jammu & Kashmir after the abrogation of Article 370. Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad, CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury, CPI general secretary D Raja, SP leader Ramgopal Yadav, Loktantrik Janata Dal’s Sharad Yadav, RJD’s Manoj Jha and TMC’s Dinesh Trivedi were among those who took part in the protest. Congress leader P Chidambaram’s son Karti took the opportunity to join the protest after his father was arrested by CBI on Wednesday night in connection with a money-laundering case. Addressing the protest, Azad said, “There is something grave happening in the State and the Government is hiding it from us. He also slammed the role of the country’s media, say- ing, “It is being reported by for- eign media but not our media.” Blaming the Modi Government for perpetrating excesses on the people of the State, Azad evoked the mem- ory of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, saying he was a thorough gentleman, a great parliamentarian and a democrat. “If Vajpayee was at the helm of affairs, this would not have happened,” he added. Yechury alleged that the Centre had manipulated the Constitution and the process had started months ago when the ruling BJP withdrew from the coalition Government, headed by Mehbooba Mufti, in Jammu & Kashmir. “All this is a part of a larger conspiracy. They want to make India a ‘Hindu Rashtra’ (Hindu nation) by abrogating the Constitution itself,” he said. In a resolution passed dur- ing the protest, the Opposition parties said as a consequence of abrogation of Article 370 with- out holding consultations with the people of Jammu & Kashmir or their representa- tives, an undeclared state of Emergency had come to force in the Valley. Continued on Page 7 The Press and Offices of The Pioneer will remain closed on Friday, August 23, 2019 on account of Janmashtami. The next issue of the newspaper will be on Sunday, August 25, 2019. C hief Minister Yogi Adityanath carried out a major reshuffle in his council of ministers while creating a new department of Jal Shakti in league with the Union govern- ment. By changing the portfo- lios of several senior ministers, Yogi Adityanath has sent out a clear message that he means business. Dr Mahendra Singh, who has been elevated from minister of state with independent charge to cabinet rank, has been given the charge of the newly-created Jal Shakti department. It includes Irrigation and Namami Gange departments. The Chief Minister has also stripped Sidharth Nath Singh and Nand Gopal Gupta ‘Nandi’ of the important portfolios of Health and Stamps and Registration, respectively. It may be mentioned that the Chief Minister had recently stopped transfers in these departments. However, no change has been made in the portfolios of the two Deputy Chief Ministers, Keshav Prasad Maurya and Dr Dinesh Sharma. Maurya will be heading the important Public Works department (PWD) along with three other depart- ments while Dr Sharma will keep the Secondary and Higher Education portfolios along with three other departments. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will hold 37 depart- ments including Home, Estate, Revenue, Food and Civil Supplies, Mining, Registration, Jail, Vigilance, Appointment, Information and Election. Finance department has been given to Parliamentary Affairs Minister Suresh Khanna, who was Parliamentary Affairs and Urban Development min- ister earlier. Khanna retains the Parliamentary Affairs depart- ment. Finance Minister Rajesh Agarwal had resigned earlier on age issue. Urban Development department has gone to Ashutosh Tandon Gopalji. He was earlier Medical Education minister Health department has been given to Jai Pratap Singh, who was earlier the Excise Minister. Former Health Minister Sidharthnath Singh will head the Khadi Gramodyog, Export Promotion, MSME, NRI and three other departments. Former Test player Chetan Chauhan has been stripped of the Sports department. Upendra Tiwari will now be the Sports Minister while Chetan Chauhan will head Home Guard and Political Pension departments. Among other ministers, Surya Pratap Shahi retains Agriculture and allied depart- ments. Swami Prasad Maurya also retains his Labour and Employment portfolios. Satish Mahana continues to be Industrial Development Minister while Forest Minister Dara Singh Chauhan retains his department. Ramapati Shastri will be Social Welfare Minster, while Brijesh Pathak retains Law department with additional charge of RES. Laxmi Narain Chaudhry is the Animal Husbandry Minister and also in-charge of Fisheries and Dairy Development. Shrikant Sharma also retains the Power portfolio. Rajendra Pratap Singh (Moti Singh) has been given Rural Development portfolio. Earlier, he headed the RES department. Cooperative Minister Mukut Bihari retains his port- folio. Nand Gopal Gupta ‘Nandi’, who has been stripped of Stamp and Registration department, retains Civil Aviation depart- ment and has been given charge of Minority Welfare depart- ment. Suresh Rana, who has been elevated as cabinet minister, retains Cane Development department. Bhupendra Singh Chaudhry is the Panchayati Raj minister. Anil Rajbhar is minis- ter for Backward Welfare while Ram Naresh Agnihotri gets the important Excise portfolio. The lone woman cabinet minister Kamla Rani Varun has been given Technical Education department. Among the minister of state (independent charge) Dharam Singh Saini gets AYUSH port- folio, Swati Singh the ICDS and Women Welfare portfolio, Neelkanth Tiwari the Tourism and Culture departments, Kapil Dev Agarwal gets Vocational and Skill Development portfo- lio, Satish Dwivedi the Primary Education department, Ashok Kataria the Transport portfolio, Shriram Chauhan the Horticulture and Agriculture Marketing departments, Ravindra Jaiswal the Stamp and Court Fees portfolio. The portfolios of minister of state are: Gulabo Devi (Secondary Education), Jai Pratap Nishad (Animal Husbandry), Jai Kumar Singh Jaikey (Prison), Atul Garg (Health and Family Welfare), Ranvendra Pratap Singh (Food and Civil Supplies), Mohsin Raza (Minority Welfare), Girish Chandra Yadav (Housing and Urban Development), Baldeo Aulakh (Jal Shakti), Manohar Lal (Labour), Sandeep Singh (Finance, Medical Education), Suresh Pasi (Cane Development), Anil Sharma (Forest), Mahesh Gupta (Urban Development), Anand Swaroop Shukla (Parliamentary Affairs), Vijay Kashyap (Revenue and Flood Control), Giriraj Singh Dharmesh (Social Welfare), Lakhan Singh Rajput (Agriculture), Nilima Katiyar (Higher Education), Chaudhary Udai Bhan Singh (MSME and Khadi), Chandrika Prasad Upadhaya (PWD), Ramashankar Patel (Energy) and Ajit P Singh (Electronics).
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Former Finance and HomeMinister P Chidambaram
will spend at least four days inthe CBI custody. A Delhi courton Thursday allowed the CBIplea for custodial interrogationof Chidambaram in the INXMedia corruption case tillAugust 26. The agency hadsought a five-day remand tounearth the larger conspiracyin the case.
Special Judge Ajay KumarKuhar asked the CBI to con-duct medical examination onChidambaram as per the rules.The court also allowed thefamily members and lawyers ofChidambaram to meet himfor half an hour every day dur-ing his CBI custody.
“Considering the facts andcircumstances, I am of theview that police custody is jus-tified,” said the judge andremanded him in CBI’s custodytill August 26.
Even if Chidambaram’sCBI custody ends on August26, it will not be the end of hiswoes. The court could eitherdeny him regular bail and sendhim to judicial custody, or theEnforcement Directorate couldseek his custodial interrogation.
In both the cases, it will be awhile before Chidambaramcould earn his freedom.
The CBI sources said cus-todial interrogation wasrequired as the agency gatheredinputs indicating prima facieinvolvement of Chidambaramin other approvals by ForeignInvestment Promotion Board(FIPB) in which the formerFinance Minister had alleged-ly received bribes through his
son Karti’s firms. A number ofLetters Rogatory (judicialrequests) is pending in certaincountries, CBI sources said.
Chidambaram’s advocatesopposed the CBI plea on theground that all the otheraccused, including his sonKarti, have already been grant-ed bail in the case.
Senior advocate KapilSibal, appearing forChidambaram, argued that the
first arrest in the case was ofBhaskar Raman, charteredaccountant of Karti, who ispresently out on bail. Besidesthat, Peter and IndraniMukherjea, also accused inthe case, are out on default bailas they are in jail in connectionwith another matter, Sibal said.
Contending that grant ofbail was a rule, he asserted thatthe issue before the court wasof personal liberty. He also con-
tested the demand for five-daycustodial interrogation ofChidambaram.
Solicitor General (SG)Tushar Mehta, representingthe CBI, told the court that theagency was not extorting con-fession but it has the right toreach the root of the case.
Besides Sibal, senior advo-cate Abhishek M Singhviappeared for Chidambaramand opposed CBI’s plea sayingthat the former Union Ministerwas not a flight risk. Singhvisaid that the entire CBI casewas based on the statement ofIndrani Mukherjea, who hasturned approver in the case.
Chidambaram cannotanswer what the CBI wants tohear and added that the agencycannot seek remand on theground of evasive replies. Therewas no allegation of tamperingof evidence by the CBI, Singhviasserted.
Singhvi contended thatpolice remand can only begranted in special circum-stances and this was a casewhere there was no new devel-opment. He said the agencywas asking Chidambaram onlyold questions since his arrest onWednesday night.
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In a desperate move to stokeviolence in Jammu &
Kashmir after the abrogation ofits special status under Article370 and to internationalise theissue, Pakistan has startedrecruiting battle-hardenedAfghan and Pashtun fighters tocreate trouble in the State.
Nearly 100 of these fight-ers are now perched at launchpads to infiltrate into the State.At the same time, there is fearthat terrorists might plan “spec-tacular strikes” within Kashmirand other major Indian cities.
Besides this hard intelli-gence input, reports also indi-cate that Jaish-e-Mohammad(JeM) has deployed a team ofat least 12 terrorists to under-take cross-border raids andtarget security forces on theLine of Control (LoC).Pakistan’s Border Action Team
(BAT), Afghan militants andhighly trained Special ServicesGroup (SSG) of the PakistanArmy may specially target LipaValley in North Kashmir.
Giving details of these lat-est developments across theborder after the revocation ofArticle 370 nearly three weeksback, officials in the securityestablishment said on Thursdaythe JeM also held a meetingpresided over by Rauf Asghar,brother of JeM chief MasoodAzhar, in Bahawalpur onAugust 19 to draw the strate-
gy to engineer terrorist attacks. The meeting was also
attended by launch comman-ders of JeM. They oversee infil-tration of terrorists after thePakistan Army gives themcover fire.
As regards to using Afghanfighters hailing from North-West Frontier Province(NWFP), officials said the ISIand the Pakistan Army resort-ed to it due to depletingstrength of local Kashmiri ter-rorists.
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In yet another case of crimi-nal apathy, five sanitation
workers who had entered intoa sewer died after inhalingtoxic gas in Nandgram locali-ty on Thursday. The policehave registered a case of neg-ligence causing death andlaunched an investigation to fixresponsibility. Authorities havebeen asked to submit a reportwithin 15 days.
Uttar Pradesh ChiefMinister Yogi Adityanath,while expressing condolenceover the death of the workers,announced a compensation of�5 lakh to the kin of thedeceased who were identifiedas Damodar (40), Horil (35),Sandip (30), Shiv Kumar (32)and Vijay Kumar (40), all res-idents of Samastipur in Bihar.
They were working at aproject, sanctioned by theGhaziabad MunicipalCorporation, to connectdomestic sewer lines with themain drainage system of thecity, District Magistrate AjayShankar Pandey said.
They were employed by aprivate contractor, which wascarrying out the project underAmrit Yojna of the civic body’swater department in KrishnaColony near Nandgram areaunder Sihani Gate police sta-tion limits, he said.
Around 1 pm, one of themen went inside the sewerline but did not come out.Then one by one the otherfour men went inside to findthe rest. When none of themcame out, another man wentinside and saw the five menlying in an unconscious state,the official said. The con-tractor did not provide safe-ty kits to the workers, the DMadded.
The men were rushed tonearby Mariam Hospital, wheredoctors declared them brought
dead, the DM said. “Bodies ofsanitation workers were takento hospital with help of locals.A worker went unconsciousafter inhaling poisonous gas,after which other sanitationworkers jumped to save him,however, they also lost theirlives in rescue attempt,” said alocal resident of the area.
A case has been lodgedagainst the contractor, EMSInfracon, and three of its engi-neers after the civic body fileda police complaint allegingnegligence.
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Equity markets saw a blood-bath on Thursday sinking
by 587 points as theGovernment dashed any hopeof a stimulus — somethingbeing talked about for a fort-night — to revive the saggingeconomy. The bears latched onto the news to go for aggressiveselling, pushing the index tosix-month low. The rupee alsocontinued with its freefall, andended at 71.81 to a dollar, hit-ting eight-month low.
The market has been con-solidating in the range of11900-11100 (Nifty) for thepast fortnight in the hope thatstimulus package was on theway. It is bizarre that all thesedays no Government officialcared to deny media reportsabout possible stimulus such aswithdrawal of surcharge onFIP investment and removal ofminimum alternate tax (MAT)as well as a package for revivalof the auto sector.
Details on Page 10
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Opposition parties, includ-ing the Congress, the
TMC, the DMK, the RJD, theSamajwadi Party and theNational Conference staged aprotest in the national Capitalon Thursday seeking immedi-ate release of political leadersput under detention in Jammu& Kashmir after the abrogationof Article 370.
Congress leader GhulamNabi Azad, CPI(M) generalsecretary Sitaram Yechury, CPIgeneral secretary D Raja, SPleader Ramgopal Yadav,Loktantrik Janata Dal’s SharadYadav, RJD’s Manoj Jha andTMC’s Dinesh Trivedi wereamong those who took part inthe protest. Congress leader PChidambaram’s son Karti took
the opportunity to join theprotest after his father wasarrested by CBI on Wednesdaynight in connection with amoney-laundering case.
Addressing the protest,
Azad said, “There is somethinggrave happening in the Stateand the Government is hidingit from us. He also slammed therole of the country’s media, say-ing, “It is being reported by for-
eign media but not our media.”Blaming the Modi
Government for perpetratingexcesses on the people of theState, Azad evoked the mem-ory of former Prime Minister
Atal Bihari Vajpayee, saying hewas a thorough gentleman, agreat parliamentarian and ademocrat. “If Vajpayee was atthe helm of affairs, this wouldnot have happened,” he added.
Yechury alleged that theCentre had manipulated theConstitution and the processhad started months ago whenthe ruling BJP withdrew fromthe coalition Government,headed by Mehbooba Mufti, inJammu & Kashmir. “All this isa part of a larger conspiracy.They want to make India a‘Hindu Rashtra’ (Hindu nation)by abrogating the Constitutionitself,” he said.
In a resolution passed dur-ing the protest, the Oppositionparties said as a consequence ofabrogation of Article 370 with-out holding consultations withthe people of Jammu &Kashmir or their representa-tives, an undeclared state ofEmergency had come to forcein the Valley.
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Chief Minister YogiAdityanath carried out a
major reshuffle in his council ofministers while creating a newdepartment of Jal Shakti inleague with the Union govern-ment. By changing the portfo-lios of several senior ministers,Yogi Adityanath has sent out aclear message that he meansbusiness.
Dr Mahendra Singh, whohas been elevated from ministerof state with independent chargeto cabinet rank, has been giventhe charge of the newly-createdJal Shakti department. It includesIrrigation and Namami Gangedepartments.
The Chief Minister has alsostripped Sidharth Nath Singhand Nand Gopal Gupta ‘Nandi’of the important portfolios ofHealth and Stamps andRegistration, respectively. It maybe mentioned that the ChiefMinister had recently stoppedtransfers in these departments.
However, no change hasbeen made in the portfolios ofthe two Deputy Chief Ministers,Keshav Prasad Maurya and DrDinesh Sharma. Maurya will beheading the important PublicWorks department (PWD)along with three other depart-ments while Dr Sharma willkeep the Secondary and HigherEducation portfolios along withthree other departments.
Chief Minister YogiAdityanath will hold 37 depart-
ments including Home, Estate,Revenue, Food and CivilSupplies, Mining, Registration,Jail, Vigilance, Appointment,Information and Election.
Finance department hasbeen given to ParliamentaryAffairs Minister Suresh Khanna,who was Parliamentary Affairsand Urban Development min-ister earlier. Khanna retains theParliamentary Affairs depart-ment.
Finance Minister RajeshAgarwal had resigned earlier onage issue.
Urban Developmentdepartment has gone toAshutosh Tandon Gopalji. Hewas earlier Medical Educationminister Health department hasbeen given to Jai Pratap Singh,who was earlier the ExciseMinister.
Former Health MinisterSidharthnath Singh will head theKhadi Gramodyog, ExportPromotion, MSME, NRI andthree other departments.
Former Test player ChetanChauhan has been stripped ofthe Sports department. UpendraTiwari will now be the SportsMinister while Chetan Chauhanwill head Home Guard andPolitical Pension departments.
Among other ministers,Surya Pratap Shahi retainsAgriculture and allied depart-ments. Swami Prasad Mauryaalso retains his Labour andEmployment portfolios.
Satish Mahana continuesto be Industrial Development
Minister while Forest MinisterDara Singh Chauhan retains hisdepartment.
Ramapati Shastri will beSocial Welfare Minster, whileBrijesh Pathak retains Lawdepartment with additionalcharge of RES.
Laxmi Narain Chaudhry isthe Animal Husbandry Ministerand also in-charge of Fisheriesand Dairy Development.
Shrikant Sharma also retainsthe Power portfolio. RajendraPratap Singh (Moti Singh) hasbeen given Rural Developmentportfolio. Earlier, he headed theRES department.
Cooperative MinisterMukut Bihari retains his port-folio. Nand Gopal Gupta ‘Nandi’,who has been stripped of Stampand Registration department,retains Civil Aviation depart-ment and has been given chargeof Minority Welfare depart-ment.
Suresh Rana, who has beenelevated as cabinet minister,retains Cane Developmentdepartment. Bhupendra SinghChaudhry is the Panchayati Rajminister. Anil Rajbhar is minis-ter for Backward Welfare whileRam Naresh Agnihotri gets theimportant Excise portfolio.
The lone woman cabinetminister Kamla Rani Varun hasbeen given Technical Educationdepartment.
Among the minister of state(independent charge) DharamSingh Saini gets AYUSH port-folio, Swati Singh the ICDS and
Women Welfare portfolio,Neelkanth Tiwari the Tourismand Culture departments, KapilDev Agarwal gets Vocationaland Skill Development portfo-lio, Satish Dwivedi the PrimaryEducation department, AshokKataria the Transport portfolio,Shriram Chauhan theHorticulture and AgricultureMarketing departments,Ravindra Jaiswal the Stamp andCourt Fees portfolio.
The portfolios of ministerof state are: Gulabo Devi(Secondary Education), JaiPratap Nishad (AnimalHusbandry), Jai Kumar SinghJaikey (Prison), Atul Garg(Health and Family Welfare),Ranvendra Pratap Singh (Foodand Civil Supplies), MohsinRaza (Minority Welfare), GirishChandra Yadav (Housing andUrban Development), BaldeoAulakh (Jal Shakti), ManoharLal (Labour), Sandeep Singh(Finance, Medical Education),Suresh Pasi (CaneDevelopment), Anil Sharma(Forest), Mahesh Gupta (UrbanDevelopment), Anand SwaroopShukla (Parliamentary Affairs),Vijay Kashyap (Revenue andFlood Control), Giriraj SinghDharmesh (Social Welfare),Lakhan Singh Rajput(Agriculture), Nilima Katiyar(Higher Education), ChaudharyUdai Bhan Singh (MSME andKhadi), Chandrika PrasadUpadhaya (PWD),Ramashankar Patel (Energy)and Ajit P Singh (Electronics).
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Chief Minister YogiAdityanath said that insteadof running for jobs after get-
ting degrees, the students shouldplay a proactive role in the devel-opment of society because theywere the future of the country andtheir ideas could help in bringinga change in society.
Addressing the fourth convo-cation of Madan Mohan MalaviyaUniversity of Technology inGorakhpur on Thursday, the ChiefMinister said the convocationceremony kept alive the traditionof gurukuls that motivates stu-dents to speak the truth, follow theright path and indulge in self-study.
“There is a trend among stu-dents that after completing BTechthey opt for job. Employment isrequired but the students shouldalso think about their society. It isthe time for them to think aboutinnovations that can help the soci-ety,” he said.
Governor Anandiben Patelwas also present at the convocation
ceremony. Speaking about the extensive
role that the engineering studentscan play in various fields, the Chief
Minister said they should comeforward for the successful imple-mentation of the ‘Har ghar nal’scheme that aims at supplying
potable water to every householdby 2024.
“Technological institutes mustalso come forward to help inimplementing pollution controlmeasures and also contributetheir expertise in building afford-able houses for the underprivi-leged people,” the Chief Ministersaid.
Referring to the importance oftechnology in various fields, theChief Minister said it had helpedtremendously in proper distribu-tion of foodgrains by linkingAadhaar with ration cards andinstallation of e-pos machines atration shops.
“It has also helped in checkingcorruption at various levels besideshelping the government in savingcrores of rupees. Today, people areable to buy wheat at �2 per kg andrice at �3 per kg,” he said.
The Chief Minister also high-lighted his fight against encephali-tis. “I fought a 25-year-long battleagainst encephalitis. Many peoplehave succumbed to this diseasefrom 1977 to 2017. However, afterthe formation of the BJP govern-
ment in the state, we launched var-ious awareness drives which havehelped in checking the spread ofencephalitis,” the Chief Ministersaid.
Mentioning some of the wel-fare schemes of Prime MinisterNarendra Modi, the Chief Ministersaid, “Since 2014, around 50 crorepeople have been linked toAyushman Bharat Yojana whileover 2.5 crore citizens have beengiven houses.”
Earlier, the Chief Ministerexpressed his gratitude to theGovernor for visiting Gorakhpurfor the first time and also congrat-ulated Infosys founder NRNarayan Murthy for being con-ferred DSc honorary degree at theconvocation.
The Chief Minister also con-gratulated the students who wereawarded graduate and post-grad-uate degrees.
MMMUT Vice-ChancellorSrinivas and Principal Secretary(Technical Education) RadhaChauhan were also present on theoccasion besides the staff andteachers of the university.
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Gorakhpur (PTI): Each of the Uttar Pradeshuniversities will soon adopt five villages each and col-leges one each in the state and contribute to theirdevelopment, Governor Anandiben Patel said onThursday.
The Governor made this announcementabout UP educational institutions replicating thepractice prevalent in Gujarat and Madhya Pradeshduring her convocation address at the MadanMohan Malaviya University of Technology inGorakhpur.
“Every state university of Uttar Pradesh will soonadopt five villages each and colleges will adopt oneeach,” said the Governor, who is also the chancel-lor of all universities in the state.
“The blue print detailing the activities to be per-formed in adopted villages will be given to vice-chan-cellors and when all will join hands and work in ruralareas, the picture of the state will be changed in fiveyears,” she said.
“The model was adopted in Gujarat and MadhyaPradesh and the results are satisfactory,” theGovernor added.
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New Delhi:Indian MedicalAssociation haswritten to PrimeMinister NarendraModi seeking revo-cation of an ordersuspending UttarPradesh-basedpediatrician KafeelKhan, an allegedaccused in thedeath of infants atthe BRD MedicalCollege hospital inGorakhpur in2017. Stating thatDr Khan and hisfamily have beenstruggling to sur-vive since he wassuspended, thedoctors’ body alsosought withdrawalof all pending legalcases against himand demanded thatthe BRD oxygentragedy be investi-gated by centralagencies.
The IMA alsodrew attention ofthe PM towards the“stress and suffer-ing that Dr Khanand his family wereundergoing” for thepast two years andurged him to com-pensate the sus-pended doctor.
Many children,mostly infants, haddied at the state-run BRD MedicalCollege hospital inGorakhpur due to adisruption in oxy-gen supply overunpaid bills to thevendor, IMA said,adding that “DrKhan played amajor role in savingthe lives of the chil-dren” during theepisode. PTI
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Those willing to take selfies with ‘BalGopal’ can do so at Madhav temple
in Daliganj where a special selfie pointhas been created for Janmashtami cele-brations which will be held on Friday andSaturday. Krishna temples in the city willbe organising bhajans and displayingtableaux depicting the birth and life ofLord Krishna. Devotees also celebrate thebirth of Lord Krishna in the householdsat midnight. Anurag Sahu from Madhavtemple said a ‘dahi handi’ competitionwould be organised as a part of the cel-ebrations. The ‘dahi handi’ will be placedat a height of 25 feet and participants havebeen invited from various areas. For thefirst time, there will be ‘Sufi’ music for thebhajan programme at the temple.
Meanwhile, a tableau competitionwas organised by the temple under thebanner of Shri Radha Madhav SevaSansthan, the institution of Shri MadhavTemple, at Ramadheen Singh Girls PGCollege on the eve of Janmashtami.Principal Renu Singh said the aim wasto highlight aspects like environmental
protection, no plastic use, hygiene aware-ness along with Krishna’s birth, ‘dahihandi’, ‘Kalia Nag Mardan’, ‘rasleela’,‘Brij Holi’, ‘Govardhan Leela’, Kansaslaughter and Gita’s teachings.
Radhika Group consisting of SvetaMishra, Sushma Kumari, Shakti Dwivediand Naina Prajapati won the competi-tion. Sudhish Garg from Khatu ShyamTemple said they would be organisingJanmashtami celebrations on Saturday.A pandal will be decorated as a ‘bhajansandhya’ will be organised from 8 pm tillmidnight. Bhajan singers have beencalled from Jaipur and flowers broughtfrom Bengaluru. Garg said they will cuta 21-kg cake and there would be ‘chhap-pan bhog’ on the occasion. The templewill be decked up with balloons. InGaneshganj, the Mittal family will beorganising a digital tableaux, whichthey have been doing for the past 14years. It will also have a tableau cele-brating the abrogation of Article 370. Thehighlight of this tableau will be a 20-feet‘Shivling’. The organisers said variousfacets of the life of Lord Krishna wouldbe showcased.
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Vice-Chairman of LucknowDevelopment Authority
PN Singh on Thursday strippedofficer on special duty (OSD)Rajesh Shukla off additionalcharge for his alleged involve-ment in bungling in the allot-ment of flats constructed underSulabh Awas Yojana in GomtiNagar Extension (sector-1).He had been given additionalcharge as incharge of the saidhousing scheme.
The LDA Vice-Chairmanalso ordered a departmentalprobe against. Chief financialcontroller Rajeev Kumar Singhwill conduct the inquiry, reportof which has to be submittedwithin a fortnight. Senior offi-cials said Shukla would not begiven any assignment pendingenquiry so that he could notuse his influence in his favour.
Singh also withdrew thefirst-come-first-serve policyfor allotment of shelters orresidential plots and re-intro-duced the lottery system witha view to bringing transparen-cy. The Vice-Chairman wassaid to be surprised over thearbitrary approach in allot-ment of flats and said thereshould be a thorough probe.
Over eight flats in thehousing towers were said tohave been allotted to thosefavourites of the influentiallobby between March 31 andJune 1 this year.
This had come to fore inthe third week of June whendisgruntled applicantsapproached the LDA Vice-Chairman and made himaware about the arbitraryapproach of officials in allot-ment of flats.
Singh immediately soughtdetails and a preliminary inves-tigation revealed that the dealswere not fair and transparent.The Vice-Chairman informedthe state government aboutthis racket on July 31 andordered a high-level probe.
Principal Secretary,Housing and UrbanDevelopment, Nitin Gokarnhas asked the LDA adminis-tration to submit the findingsof the departmental probe tothe state government first andthen action would be takenafter reviewing the report.
The Vice-Chairman said allthe allotments made on thefirst-come-first-serve basiswould be cancelled if the dealswere found to be shady in theinvestigation.
Lucknow (PNS): A build-ing material supplier wasthrashed for demanding pay-ment from one of his cus-tomers and warning him ofpolice action over his refusal inMadiaon on Thursday morn-ing. He sustained head injuriesand was admitted to a hospital.
As per reports, GanjendraKumar of Gudamba deals insupply of building material. Hehad supplied goods to NikhilShukla of Madiaon and was yetto get the payment for thesame.
“I called Nikhil and heasked me to meet at a crossingin Madiaon. When I reachedthere, Nikhil started an argu-ment and refused to pay themoney. As I warned him ofpolice action, Nikhil blew histop and called his aides whowere present at a nearby shop.They thrashed me with metalrods,” Gajendra told the police.
A police spokesman saidGajendra sustained headinjuries and was under treat-ment at a hospital. “The doc-
tors prepared his medicalreport on the basis of which acase was registered in this con-nection,” he said, adding that amanhunt had been launchedagainst the accused.
Meanwhile, a 22-year-oldsupervisor working withLucknow MunicipalCorporation (LMC) died in aroad mishap in Chinhat around3.15 am on Thursday. He wasidentified as Vinay ofBarabanki.
Reports said Vinay wasgoing to Barabanki on hismotorcycle. When he reachednear Saraswati Hospital, someunidentified speeding vehicleknocked his bike from behind.Vinay sustained head injuriesand multiple fractures.Passersby rushed him to RamManohar Lohiya Hospitalwhere doctors declared himbrought dead. Later, the hos-pital sent a memo to the policeinforming them about thedeath of a mishap victim. Apolice team reached the sceneand sent the body for autopsy.
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Lucknow (PNS): The find-ing of the team that re-con-structed the crime scene in themysterious death of privatehospital manager VishwajeetPundir in Gomti Nagar amonth back has the policeapparently tied up in knots.
“The report suggests thatPundeer (31) sustained injurieswhen he was trying to enter hishouse by climbing the pointedgrill fencing on the fateful day,”ASP (North) Sukirti Madhavsaid. He said the police wereexamining other findings too toreach a conclusion.
Pundeer had sustaineddeep cut wounds in his stom-ach and the police had initial-ly claimed that fell on the grillfencing from the balcony of hishouse. Later, the probe hadrevealed that the cut woundswere not as deep as they shouldhave been if he fell from the bal-cony. The forensic report seemsto have muddied the waters.The police had earlier claimedthat Pundir fell on the fencingfrom the balcony of his roomon the second floor. The policehad suspected that Pundeerhad taken intoxicants, emptycans of which were recoveredfrom his room. During inves-tigation, his family had toldpolice that a profusely bleedingPundir reached the room of hismother and asked for help. Hewas rushed him to hospitalwhere he succumbed toinjuries. The post-mortemreport had ascertained excessivebleeding as the cause of death.
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Incessant rains during the last 24hours played havoc in the state,
claiming as many as 19 human livesbesides death of animals and heavy lossto properties. The officials claimed thatraging waters of major rivers have dis-rupted normal life and all efforts arebeing made to extend necessary helpto the victims.
“As many as 15 persons have dieddue to rain related incidents in differ-ent districts of the state. The figureincludes three deaths in Amethi, twoeach in Rae Bareli, Sonbhadra andMirzapur and one death each inSaharanpur, Hamirpur, Pratapgarh,Fatehpur, Basti and Ayodhya,” theRelief Commissioner’s office revealedon Thursday. Besides the 15, fourmore persons died in Ballia andBhadohi, according to reports.
While three people drowned inBallia in separate incidents, anotherperson was killed in Bhadohi district.
Police said in Ballia, one AshishVerma (18) drowned in BST embank-ment while trying to cross flood waters
to cut fodder for animals. In anotherincident, one Kamlesh Kannaujia (26)drowned in Tamsa river while anoth-er youth drowned near Bansdeehtownship.
In Bhadohi, a 75-year-old died aftera roof collapsed at Sonaicha village.
A Central Water Commissionreport said the Ganga was in spate atdifferent places along its route. It wasflowing just below the danger mark atGarhmukteshwar and Fatehgarh andwas crossing the danger mark at Narora(Bulandshahr), Kachchla Bridge(Budaun) and Ballia.
Yamuna river at Mathura, Shardaat Palia Kalan and Ghaghra atBarabanki were flowing above thedanger mark. They were also flowingjust below the danger mark at someother places, the report said.
Ganga water had entered somehouses in urban areas of Ballia, forc-ing people to take shelter on rooftops.
Meteorological department direc-tor JP Gupta said monsoon wouldremain active in the state for the nextfour to five days though there was notmuch likelihood of heavy rains.
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Mystery has shrouded thedeath of a missing LIC agent
whose 3-day-old body was recov-ered from Indira Canal inGosainganj on Thursday. Thedeceased, identified as PiyushGoel (37) of Tulsi Enclave inGhazipur police station area, wasreported missing from his housein Indira Nagar on August 19night and his car was foundparked on bank of Indira Dam thenext day. Police said he died ofdrowning.
The incident exposed the lax-ity on the part of the Ghazipurpolice who, according to the fam-ily of the deceased, did not takemuch interest in searching for him.
As per reports, Piyush left hishouse on August 19 evening say-ing he was going to take the pre-mium amount of a motorcyclefrom a client. Around 8 pm,Piyush called his wife andinformed her that he would beback in few minutes.
“However, he did not returnhome and also stopped answeringcalls,” his father Roshan Lal Goelsaid, adding a missing report waslodged the next day. “On August
20 evening, the police recoveredPiyush’s car on the bank of IndiraDam,” his father said.
He added that he got a callfrom Ghazipur police and wasasked to reach Gosainganj wherea body was recovered. “I wasasked to identify if the deceasedwas his son,” Piyush’s father said.
A police spokesman saidsome villagers of Sithauli Kalanspotted the body in the canal andalerted the cops. A team reachedthe scene and passed on theinformation to different police sta-tions. The Ghazipur policeresponded to the informationand Piyush’s identity was ascer-tained. About autopsy report, thespokesman said the body was esti-mated to be three days old.“Asphyxia caused by drowningwas said to be the cause of death.The deceased had a contusion onhis head but doctors did not findit a reason for his death,” he said.“The doctors categorically men-tioned that contusion did notcause the death of Piyush,” headded. Sources said Piyush hadnot given any indication that hewould commit suicide when heleft the house. “He called his wifewho sensed no foul play as he did
not show any indication that hewas disturbed. If he ended his life,he may have been forced to takethe extreme step by someone,” thesources said.
The Ghazipur police drewflak from different quarters for ashoddy probe into the case. “Thepolice had recovered Piyush’s carfrom Indira Dam on August 20.
There were reports that Piyush hadjumped into the canal but the copsdid not expedite the search oper-ation,” some of Piyush’s kin toldmediapersons.
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Even as the police are battingtheir back by claiming to have
arrested those involved in theIndira Nagar hit-and-run case, theprime suspect is still at large. TheIndira Nagar police on Thursdaysaid that another wanted accusedin the case, Ishuveer Singh, wasnabbed from Metro trisection onPicnic Spot road. “Anotheraccused (Faiz), who is the primesuspect, is still at large,” the policesaid. Sources said Faiz belongs toan influential family and that waswhy the police were giving him along rope. “If the police haveinformation about all the miscre-ants, why did they delay theirarrests? The police swung into
action only when the media high-lighted the issue and families ofthe victims petitioned their caseto senior officials,” the sourceclaimed.
The police suspected that thehit-and-run case was a result oflongstanding hostilities theaccused had with the victims.Earlier, the families had allegedthat Pawan Singh (22) and TusharSingh (23) were crushed to deathfollowing an old enmity. Theircompanion Himanshu Singh (24)had also sustained head injurieswhen a speeding SUV hit theirtwo-wheeler near Aurobindo Parkin Indira Nagar late onWednesday night. A CCTVfootage showed three youths rid-ing a scooter in the wrong lane
without helmets. An SUV was alsoseen hitting the scooter afterwhich passersby rushed the vic-tims to a hospital.
Pawan’s father Subedar Singh,who is a deputy registrar in highcourt, had told the police that theaccident occurred around 10 pmnear Aurobindo Park police out-post and the speeding SUV driverintended to kill his son others withhim. Pawan’s family had told thepolice that they suspected murderbecause four men, including oneof their neighbours identified asSandeep Singh, had attacked himwith an iron rod following a dis-pute over a girl’s photograph onFacebook. Police sources saidPawan had lodged an FIR againstSandeep and his supporters.
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The Hazratganj police arrest-ed the owner of Nanda
Gun House and his employeefor opening fire from the ter-race of the building whichhouse the shop. ASP (East)Suresh Chand Rawat said shop-owner Sumit Singh and hisemployee Sheikhu were arrest-ed under sections 188/ 286 ofIPC. “We have also sent areport to the District Magistraterecommending cancellation ofthe gun shop’s licence,” he said.
As per reports, the policewere informed that some menwere firing in Kewal Tea lane,situated close to HazratganjKotwali, around 4 pm. “A heavypolice force was despatched tothe scene. On investigation,we came to know that the fir-ing was made from the houseof Sumit, who owns the gunshop on the ground floor of thebuilding. It surfaced that Sumit’semployee fired four rounds to
test the rifle of a customer andit created a sensation in thelocality,” he said.
The ASP said the case wasregistered for disobedience toorder duly promulgated bypublic servant (section188 ofIPC) and for negligent conductwith respect to explosive sub-stance (section 286 of IPC).
The incident of firing in aVVIP zone had the cops in atense situation as senior offi-cials called the Hazratganjpolice to seek details of the inci-dent and also expressed dis-pleasure. However, the policeheaved a sigh of relief after theycame to know that it was onlya test-firing.
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Lucknow (PNS): Leakagein piped natural gas (PNG)pipeline at a house near LalKothi (behind a hospital) inGomti Nagar gave scarymoments to residents onThursday night. As officials ofthe gas supply company tooktime to respond to the situa-tion, residents took pre-emp-tive measures as it was difficult for them to breatheproperly.
As per reports, the leakagewas spotted at the house ofShakil Jafri. The house ownerdialled police control roomand a team reached the scene.Investigating officer Shalini
Sahai said: “Shakil was back-ing up his car when he inad-vertently ran car over thePNG pipeline after which gasstarted leaking from it. Shesaid she cordoned off the areaand urged people not to usethe gas at their houses andalso not operate mobilephones. The movement on theroad was also stopped forsome time. The IO said nocasualty was reported in theincident and the leakage wasstopped. Sources privy to theinvestigation said employeesof the gas company reachedthe scene late and it delayedthe rescue operation.
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the state-level consultativeprocess under the aegis ofSLBC at Lucknow, Jaipur andAhmedabad in a bid to reviewinternal performance, rein-force alignment with nationalagenda and contribute to thestrengthening of the macroeconomy. These state level
consultations were part of thestage-2 deliberations followingthe two-day consultative intra-bank workshops held onAugust 17 and 18 involving allbranches of PSBs at the region-al level which led to generationof a number of implementableand innovative suggestions onhow PSBs in general canimprove their performance.
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Baroda organised a debt reliefcamp at Baroda House inVibhuti Khand, Gomti Nagar,on Thursday. Sanction letterswere distributed to the borrow-ers under the One-TimeSettlement Scheme by the MD
& CEO of the bank PSJayakumar. As many as 2,205accounts of Rs. 48.17 crorewere settled.
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Commerce and Industryorganised a workshop on
Goods and Services Tax (GST)at PHD House on Thursday.The welcome address wasdelivered by Anuradha Goel,resident director of PHDChamber, UP Chapter. Sheelaborated the role of theChamber working at the grass-root level to create awarenessrelated to various aspects forindustries and start-ups in thestate and also asserted thatGST was a ground-breakingreform for Indian economy’sindirect tax regime. She addedthat the basic idea of this tax-ation reform was to create asingle, cooperative and undi-vided Indian market to makethe economy stronger andpowerful.
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four-day international Englishliterary festival ‘OdysseyInternational-2019’, organisedby City Montessori School,Rajajipuram Campus I, wasinformative and entertainingat the same time.Approximately 500 partici-pants from South Africa,Nepal and various states ofIndia showcased their skills inchoreography, debate, car-toon making, painting, moviemaking, talent show and othercontests.
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DPS Eldeco organised a‘Sorting of Pulse’ activity forthe students of Nursery. Thisactivity helps develop deter-mination and perseverance toaccomplish a task, solve prob-lems and overcome chal-lenges.
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Prime Minister NarendraModi may have advocated
the virtues of small family andfamily planning from the ram-parts of Red Fort in New Delhion Independence Day, but theYogi Adityanath government inUttar Pradesh, it seems, thinksotherwise for it has decided towithdraw special allowancegiven to government employ-ees who voluntarily follow fam-ily planning norms.
The decision was taken bythe Finance department hereon Thursday. It is among fiveother special allowances thatthe government has decided tostop with immediate effect.
The allowances which havebeen scrapped are bilingualpromotion allowance, com-puter operation allowance,post-graduation allowance,
cash handling allowance, pro-ject allowance (applicable onlyin Irrigation department) andallowance for voluntarilyadopting family planning prac-tices. In his order, AdditionalChief Secretary (Finance)Sanjiv Mittal has said that thegovernment has been givingincentives in the form ofencouragement allowance tomany employees from time totime. After a review it hasbeen found that theseallowances are no longer rele-vant and should be scrapped,
he added. Many employeeswere getting two allowances —computer operation allowanceof Rs 200 per month and fam-ily planning allowance betweenRs 250 and Rs 650, dependingon the pay band.
“Most surprising is thedecision to scrap family plan-ning allowance for employeesas it was an incentive forencouraging small families.On one hand the PrimeMinister calls those havingsmall families as desh bhakts,on the other, the YogiAdityanath government has‘penalised’ employees foradopting family planningmethods,” said SecretariatEmployees Association secre-tary Yadvendra Mishra. Hesaid there was resentmentamong the employees anddemanded that at least familyplanning allowance be restored.
Lucknow (PNS): The YogiAdityanath government hasannounced that the PradhanMantri Krishi Sinchai Yojna(PMKSY) will be implement-ed in all the districts of UttarPradesh to ensure water har-vesting and also increasingthe productivity of farmers.
Horticulture MinisterDara Singh Chauhan said thestate government was provid-ing 35 per cent subsidy in addi-tion to the prescribed subsidyon drip irrigation system,sprinklers and other latesttechniques of irrigation underthe PMKSY.
“Small and marginal farm-ers are given 90 per cent of thecost of these units in the formof subsidy, and 80 per cent inthe case of other farmers. Thesubsidy is transferred directlyto the bank account of farm-ers under the government’sdirect benefit transfer (DBT)policy,” he said.
The minister disclosed thatthe state level approval com-mittee has signed contractswith 68 firms providing dripand sprinkler irrigation sys-tems, for a period of five years.
“Farmers are free to dealwith any of these firms and
take advantage of the scheme,”he said. The government saidthat farmers covered by thePrime Minister CropInsurance Scheme (PMCIS)should avail the benefit ifrequired. Under the scheme,crops of 25.60 lakh farmers on23.70 lakh hectare land wereinsured in the Kharif season in2017. Out of these farmers,4.01 lakh were paid Rs 244.75crore as compensation.
Likewise, in the Rabi sea-son of 2017-18, crops of 28.13lakh farmers on 23.07 lakhhectare land were insuredunder the scheme, out of
which 1.79 lakh farmers werepaid Rs 119.85 crore as com-pensation.
In the same way, crops on26.87 lakh hectare land wereinsured by 31.47 lakh farmersin 2018-19 under the schemeand out of them, 5.58 lakhfarmers were paid Rs. 419.54crore as compensation.
“In the Rabi 2018-19 sea-son, crops on 24.22 lakhhectares of land were insuredby 29.69 lakh farmers underthe scheme and 0.38 lakhfarmers were paid Rs 18.11crore as compensation,” theminister said.
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The stage is set for a grandthree-day-long celebration
of Krishna Janmashtami inMathura and Vrindavan fromFriday in which national andinternational artistes will enthralthose coming to this city. For thefirst time, the Uttar Pradeshgovernment has decided toorganise Janmashtami on agrand scale for three days.
The highlight of this year’sJanmashtami celebrations willbe ‘Dahi handi’ event which willbe inaugurated by ChiefMinister Yogi Adityanath atRamlila Grounds in Mathura onAugust 24. A troupe fromMumbai has been invited spe-cially for the Dahi Handi event,a government spokesman said.
Over 1,000 internationalperformers, Bollywood celebri-ties, folk artistes and studentswill participate in the colourfulcultural programmes sched-uled at the venue.
Artistes from across thecountry and abroad will take out
a ‘Shobha Yatra’ on the openingday (Friday). A cultural pro-gramme will also be held on theoccasion, the spokesman said.On August 24, tableaux will betaken out under the‘Krishnaavatar’ event. Popularmusician Shankar Mahadevanis likely to perform at RamlilaGround in Mathura on August24. Bhajan rendition byPadmashri Anup Jalota is slat-ed for August 25.
Bharatiya Janata Party MPfrom Mathura, Hema Malini, isalso likely to perform during thefunction, the officer said.
Meanwhile, to promotetourism, 10 historical watertanks and ponds are being ren-ovated at a cost of Rs 1,198.40lakh in the Mathura district.Principal Secretary (Tourism)Jitendra Kumar said the renova-tion work would be completedby November this year. He saidthat 80 per cent of the work hadbeen completed at a cost of Rs966 lakh. He added that a sumof Rs 1,100 lakh had beenreleased against the total cost.
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Lucknow (PNS): In a sud-den spurt in crimes againstmembers of the fairer sex in UP,a class 10th student was sus-pected to be gang-raped andmurdered in Etah, anotherminor girl was critically injuredafter a stalker tried to burn heralive in Sitapur, a 5-year-old girlwas raped in Banda and a Dalitwoman was harassed in Shamli.
In the first incident, Reeta(name changed), a native ofJaithra in Etah, reportedly wentto her school on Wednesdaymorning. She was a student ofclass 10. When she did notreturn home in the afternoon,her family members launcheda search for her. The school staffinformed the family that the girldid not attend her classes in themorning. The family membersreported the matter to thepolice. They disclosed thatReeta used to go to school dailywith her friend but onWednesday, as her friend was illshe went alone on bicycle.
Some villagers saw a bicy-cle and a school bag lying nearBamba Ki Khandi area inJaithra and informed the policeabout it. Jaithra SHO SatpalSingh reached the spot andfound the clothes of the girl.The clothes were torn and cir-cumstantial evidence suggest-ed that someone had kid-napped and raped her. As thegirl had resisted, her clotheswere torn.
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Lucknow University’sadmission coordinator
Anil Mishra said that afterphase-1 of the online off-campus counseling whichcomprised allotment, feedeposit as well as upgrada-tion, there are still someseats vacant in MEd pro-grammes. For these seats,one more chance will begiven to the candidatesinterested in resubmittingtheir choices. Mishra saidthe candidates eligible toparticipate in the phase 2 ofcounselling included thosewho registered for theprocess but were not allot-ted any seat in phase 1,
those whose name are in theoverall merit list but couldnot participate in the phase-1 counseling, those whowere allotted the seats but were unable to depositthe fees.
He said there would beno fee applicable if the can-didates were registered inphase-1. “The candidateswho did not participate inthe phase-1 counseling willhave to pay Rs 3200. Thecandidates will have to loginon the admission websiteusing their credentials andre-submit their choices inthe remaining seats. Theremaining procedure willbe the same as declaredearlier,” Mishra said.
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At a time when the Congressis speaking with a forked
tongue on the Government’smove to abrogate the specialstatus to Jammu & Kashmirunder Article 370, there camea new one on Thursday assenior leader and former UnionMinister Jairam Ramesh soughthis party to introspect and seereason why Prime MinisterNarendra Modi’s governancemodel was not a “complete neg-ative story”.
Not recognising his workand demonising him all thetime is not going to help, saidRamesh adding it is time werecognise Modi’s work andwhat he did between 2014 and2019 due to which he wasvoted back to power by over“30 per cent of the electorate”.
Crisis-hit Congress, whichremained headless for two anda half months following itspresident Rahul Gandhi’s res-ignation owning up for theparty’s Lok Sabha debacle, hasbeen speaking in different voic-es on the issue of Article 370with its young turks backingthe Modi Government’s move.In the Lok Sabha elections, theCongress had run a very per-sonalized campaign againstModi and sought to demolishhis model of administrationand governance.
“We talked about farmers’distress throughout our entirecampaign, people realise therewas farmers’ distress but theydid not hold Modi responsiblefor it. You saw what happenedin the elections result
thereafter. We have tounderstand what made himrespectable,” he said.
The BJP got 37.4 per centof votes in the 2019 Lok Sabhaelections and the NDA, as awhole, secured nearly 45 percent of votes.
“Let me tell you it is not a
completely negative story whenit comes to economics of thegovernance, the politics of thegovernance is completely dif-ferent,” he said, adding “thesocial relations that have beencreated out of his governancemodel is also completely dif-ferent”.
To prove his point, Rameshgave the example of the PradhanMantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUJ)and how successful it turned outfor Modi. “In 2019, all of us inthe political discourse madefun of one or two of his pro-
grammes, but it has turned outin all electoral studies that thePMUJ is one single programwhich has been able to connecthim with crores and crores ofwomen and given him the polit-ical traction which he didn’thave in 2014,” he pointed out.
“Now if we are going to runthis down and say this is allhocus pocus and say these arewrong numbers, we are notgoing to confront this guy,” hecautioned.
Ramesh made the remarkswhile launching a book,
“Malevolent Republic: A ShortHistory of the New India” writ-ten by Kapil Satish Komireddi,a political analyst.
“He (Modi) talks in a lan-guage that connects him withthe people. Unless we recognizethat he is doing things whichpeople recognise and whichhave not been done in the past,we are not going to be able toconfront this guy,” said theCongress leader.
“Also, if you are going todemonize him all the time, youare not going to be able to con-front him,” warned the formerUnion minister, who held theportfolios of RuralDevelopment, and DrinkingWater and Sanitation in theManmohan Singh government.
Ramesh, however, soughtto clarify that he is not askinganyone to praise or applaud theprime minister, but only wantsthe political class to at leastrecognise the traits he hasbrought to the governance --particularly the “economics ofgovernance”.
Stating that something hap-pened in the last decade, whichcatapulted Modi from a “non-entity in national politics” in the2009 general elections to some-one who won elections back toback, Ramesh said people of thecountry -- right or wrong -- arenot relating “current distress tohis presence”.
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The Union EnvironmentMinistry has decided to
do away with the mandatorycharging of lease rent of�30,000 per MW from windpower projects, a move aimedto boost the sector as well asbring it at par with the solarand hydroelectric power pro-jects to attract investments.
In a review meeting heldhere on Thursday, UnionEnvironment Minister PrakashJavadekar said the move willboost the investment in windpower projects and will help in
providing wind power atcheaper rate.
Currently, to establish windpower project over forest land,the existing procedure requirespayment of mandatory chargesfor compensatory afforesta-tion and Net Present value(NPV). In addition to manda-tory charges, the wind powercompanies had to pay addi-tional lease rent of 30,000 perMW.
“The Government envis-ages to meet maximum ener-gy requirement by tappingrenewal energy resources and,to achieve the target of clean
energy in a time bound man-ner, various policies and regu-lations are being constantlyupdated,” the Minister added.
This additional cost is notmandatory for other renewalenergy projects such as solarpower and hydel-electric pro-jects. Additional cost for gen-eration of clean energythrough wind power, in turnescalate the per unit cost ofpower at consumer level,added a senior official fromthe Ministry.
The government has set anambitious target of having 175GW of clean energy capacity by
2022, including 100 GW solarand 60 GW of wind energy.
Also, “promotions of suchprojects also strengthen gov-ernment’s commitmentstowards international agree-ments, and one of the nation-al commitments pledged inParis in 2015 was to have 40 percent of the power from renew-able resources by 2030.
“It is noteworthy that cur-rently India has over achievedthe target and is well on trackto ensure that more than 50 percent of our installed capacitywill come from renewable by2030,” said the official.
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The Babri Masjid was builtafter demolishing a Ram
temple at the disputed site inAyodhya and Hindus kept wor-shipping there without givingup its possession, a Hindu lit-igant Thursday told theSupreme Court, while seekingenforcement of right to worshipthere.
Devotee Gopal SinghVisharad, who filed the lawsuitin the lower court in 1950 seek-ing right to pray, died in 1986and is now represented by hisson Rajendra Singh.
The five judge Constitutionbench headed by Chief JusticeRanjan Gogoi heard the argu-ments on the 10th day in the
decades-old politically sensitiveland dispute.
“The mosque was builtafter demolishing the Ramtemple, and despite that Hinduscontinued worshipping thereand did not give up posses-sion...Moreover, Muslims werenever in possession of the site,”senior advocate Ranjit Kumartold the bench which also com-prised Justices SA Bobde, DYChandrachud, Ashok Bhushanand SA Nazeer.
“I am making my submis-sions with reference toParasaran’s and Vaidyanathan’ssubmissions (both lawyers rep-resented the deity) that theplace is itself a divine site andthat I being the worshipper, myright to worship, which is a civilright, should not be curtailed,”he said.
Referring to records, thesenior lawyer said magistrateMarkandey Singh onDecember 29, 1949 had initi-ated proceedings to attach thedisputed structure under theCode of Criminal Procedure(CrPC) following communaldisturbances.
The magistrate had soughtresponses from Hindu andMuslim parties in support oftheir claim and counter claimover the property.
Twenty affidavits were filedin 1950 by persons from bothsides before the magistrate andthey are also part of the judi-cial records of the AllahabadHigh Court.
“Filing affidavits, per se, isnot enough to prove them. Thedeponents will have to appearto prove them... No court cansay that the facts of these affi-davits are proved,” the benchsaid.
These affidavits were filedin 1950 and the trial on lawsuitstook place “much much later”,the lawyer said.
The high court did notaccept the affidavits sayingthat the deponents were notavailable for cross examination,he said, adding that they arepart of the judicial recordsand be accepted by the apexcourt as the magistrate had ver-ified the statements and iden-tity of the deponents (makersof the affidavits).
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Aplea was filed in theSupreme Court on
Thursday challenging the con-stitutional validity of theamendments to the UnlawfulActivities (Prevention) Act(UAPA) on the ground thatthese infringed upon the fun-damental rights of citizens.
The bill for amendments tothe UAPA was passed byParliament on August 2 and itreceived the President’s ascent
on August 9. The amended Actallows the Centre to designateindividuals as terrorists andseize their properties.
The Unlawful Activities(Prevention) Amendment Act,2019 also provides for puttinga travel ban on such individu-als once they are declared asterrorists. The petition hasbeen filed by the Associationfor Protection of Civil Rights(APCR), an NGO, which saidthe amendments infringedupon the fundamental right toreputation and dignity underArticle 21 of the Constitution,without substantive and pro-cedural due process.
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The Regional EmpoweredCommittee (REC), formed
by the Environment Ministry,has granted approval to a roadwidening project from Pathankotto Kullu on the condition that itwill involve minimum felling oftrees. As per the project propo-nent, the road widening workinvolves felling of 1,537 trees.
The REC granted theStage-1 approval to the project,asking the State Public WorksDepartment (PWD), the pro-poser, to deposit with it the NetPresent Value of the forestland being diverted for non-forestry purpose. The projectrequires diversion of 7.67hectare of protected forest land,the panel noted.
“Legal status of the forestland will remain unchanged.Efforts should be made to fellminimum number of trees.The trees should be felledunder strict supervision of thestate forest department,” theREC said, adding that no dam-age should be done to the
adjoining forest land.Clearance under the Forest
Conservation (FC) Act, isgranted in two stages.
While in Stage-I, the pro-posal is agreed to in-principle inwhich usually compensatoryafforestation, funds for raisingcompensatory afforestationthereof, realisation of Net PresentValue (NPV) of forest are stipu-lated and after receipt of com-pliance report from the state gov-ernment in respect of the stipu-lated conditions, formal approvalunder the FC Act is issued.
The in-principle agree-ment and formal approvalunder the FC Act are com-
monly referred to as stage-I andstage-II approval under theFC Act respectively.
“The User Agency (PWD)shall raise strip plantation onboth sides and central verge ofthe road at the project cost withmaintenance of seven to tenyears,” the panel directed whileapproving the project.
The PWD, in its proposal,had submitted that the pro-posed alignment does not passthrough any national park orwildlife sanctuary and involvesfelling of 1,537 trees. It said thatcompensatory afforestation hasbeen proposed at 15.34 ha inPathankot.
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The National HighwaysAuthority of India (NHAI)
told the Supreme CourtThursday that the Rs 10,000crore Salem-Chennai 8-lanegreen corridor road project isof “national importance” andthe Madras High Court haderred in quashing the landacquisition process.
The ambitious 277.3-kmgreenfield project connectingSalem and Chennai under thecentral government’s‘Bharatmala Pariyojana’ schemeaims to cut travel time betweenthe two cities by half, to abouttwo hours and 15 minutes.
The NHAI told a benchheaded by Justice N V Ramanathat the high court had held thatenvironmental clearance (EC)was mandatory for the project.
“The reasons given by thehigh court (in the judgement)are factually incorrect,” SolicitorGeneral Tushar Mehta, appear-ing for the NHAI, told thebench which also comprised
Justices M M Shantanagoudarand Ajay Rastogi.
Mehta said the high courterred in saying that grant ofprior environmental clearancewas necessary for the project.
“If we have to take envi-ronmental clearance first andthen go for land acquisitionthen it will be like putting thecart before the horse,” Mehtatold the bench.
He said there was no dis-pute on the fact that EC isrequired before commence-ment of construction work forthe project.
One of the advocates,appearing for the farmers whohad moved the high courtchallenging land acquisitionproceedings, told the benchthat initially the project was forconnecting Chennai andMadurai but later it waschanged to Salem-Chennai.
The bench told Mehta thathe should give a flow chart refer-ring to legal questions as well asthe factual matrix of the case.
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The EnforcementDirectorate has attached
properties worth over �19 lakhof a man booked under theanti-money laundering law forallegedly duping people bypromising them secure admis-sion in an Uttarakhand medicalcollege.
Rohit Singh Chauhan isbeing probed for cheating peo-ple to the tune of �1.29 crore bydishonestly inducing them ingetting admission in post-grad-uation courses under the man-agement quota in HIHTMedical College, Dehradun,an official said.
The properties attachedunder the Prevention of MoneyLaundering Act (PMLA) are a0.138-hectare plot valued at�4.83 lakh and a flat in NewDelhi worth �14.69 lakh.
The plot is in the name ofChauhan and his father and theplot, in addition to the two, isin the name of his mother, theofficial said.
The ED had initiated theprobe on the basis of an FIRand chargesheet filed byUttarakhand police againstChauhan and other accused inthe case.
Chauhan played an activerole in duping the com-plainants and collected fundsfrom them. He transferred themoney to his and his familymembers’ account and utilisedit for personal use, the officialsaid.
Chauhan and his associatesfraudulently collected �1.29crore from the complainants incash and through bankingchannels and credited theminto the account of a companyhe was a director of, he said.
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The BJP on Thursdayattacked the Congress for
supporting P Chidambaram,arrested in the INX Mediacase, saying it has “united toprotect corruption” and that acourt’s decision to send him tofour-day CBI custody shows a“prima facie case of corruption”.
Senior BJP leader andUnion Minister PrakashJavadekar also rejected theCongress accusation that theaction against the formerfinance minister is “political
vendetta”. “In fact, justice ishappening,” he said.
“The CBI court’s decisionto send him in remand makesit clear that it is a corruptioncase. There is a prime facie caseand that is why the court hasremanded him to the probeagency’s custody. Therefore,the Congress accusation that itis political vendetta is wrong. Infact, justice is happening,”Javadekar told PTI.
With top Congress leaders,including Rahul and PriyankaGandhi, strongly defendingChidambaram and accusing
the Union government of polit-ical vendetta, Javadekar hitback at the opposition party.
The Congress has united toprotect corruption. It is synony-mous with corruption. When inpower, it looted the country leftright and centre,” he said, anddescribed the INX Media case asa “scam of massive corruption”.
He referred to several allegedscams, including those involvingcoal block allocations, 2G spec-trum and the CommonwealthGames, to say the Congress’ ruleduring 2004-14 was “synony-mous” with corruption. He also
spoke of “Jeeja ji scam”, anapparent reference to contro-versial land deals involvingCongress leader Rahul Gandhi’sbrother-in-law Robert Vadra.
Rejecting the Congress’allegation that the governmentwas behind the action of inves-tigation agencies, he said thematter should be left to inves-tigation agencies and courts.
Another BJP leader andUnion Minister MukhtarAbbas Naqvi said on Thursdaythat the opposition party wastrying to convert corruptioninto revolution.
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The Medical Council ofIndia (MCI) has taken
exception to the alleged massragging at Saifai MedicalUniversity in Etawah asking itwhy it should not be fined anddeclared ineligible for newadmissions for a minimumperiod of one year.
“Why exemplary fine of Rs1 Lakh for each incident of rag-ging, that of 150X1 Lakh, thatis equal to Rs 150 Lakhs be notimposed upon the institute,”asked the Board of Governorsin Supersession of MedicalCouncil of India (MCI BoG).
Stating that the incidentbrings out the “complete failureof the College authorities inaddressing the menace of rag-ging,” the MCI has given theuniversity 24 hours to reply inthe matter .
It also asked why the senior
batches admitted to MBBScourse be not suspended fromattending classes for a mini-mum period of one month.
According to reports, sev-eral first-year students of theuniversity were made to paradeon the campus with their headstonsured. A purported videoclip on social media showed thestudents in white coats walkingin a single file, bowing theirtonsured heads and also mak-ing ‘salaam’ gestures. Anotherclip showed them in rows.
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Congress president SoniaGandhi on Thursday said
that former Prime Ministerlate Rajiv Gandhi also got amassive poll mandate in 1984but he did not use it to createan atmosphere of fear or tothreaten people, in an indirectattack on the ModiGovernment.
Addressing an event mark-ing Rajiv Gandhi’s 75th birthanniversary, Sonia said that herhusband gave the message thatunity can be maintained by cel-ebrating India’s diversity.
Sonia said the formerPrime Minister’s 75th birthanniversary is not a ritual beingmarked by the Congress, but anoccasion to reaffirm its resolveto uphold the values thatinspired him. Rajiv Gandhi’sbirth anniversary is an occasionto resolve to stand up and con-front forces determined todestroy the values that inspiredhim, she said in the presence offormer PM Manmohan Singh,senior party leaders includingRahul Gandhi.
“Rajiv Gandhi never poseda threat to democracy, he neversuppressed public opinion. Hisethics and honesty alwaysinspired him. The work done
by the late PM is somethingthat cannot be merely with slo-gans and pride rather it needshard work and strong will,”Sonia said.
Without naming any par-ticular party or name, she saidtoday there are those who arebusy inventing a new past forus, Rajiv was engaged in invent-ing in preparing for a newfuture. “To him, the past has tobe understood in all its com-plexities to build pride, not tostoke prejudice, to strengthensocial harmony, not fuel antag-onism and polarize our society,a society whose heritage hasbeen enriched by multiplestreams of faiths, beliefs andculture. He was proud of ourpast, but, at the same time he
held a firm conviction thatIndia has to be a modernNation,” said Sonia.
She recalled how a sectionaccused him of being elitist butit was he who crafted the neweducation policy in 1986through which he looked uponrural India especially childrenand got a chain of JawaharNavodaya Vidyalayas in everysingle district.
“His political adversariesaccused him of being out oftouch with reality with his fix-ation for computers. Yet it isthis magnificent obsession withtechnology and modernity thathas made millions of youth inour country ready to tackle thechallenges of the digital era. Ibelieve that his strategic reasonslaid the foundations for pros-perity of our country in thecoming century,” Sonia said.
On the occasion she alsoasserted that electoral ups anddowns are inevitable and chal-lenges facing the Congress areformidable, but it must con-tinue with its ideological strug-gle against divisive forces. Soniarecently took over as the party’sinterim President followingher son Rahul Gandhi steppingdown as party chief owningthe dismal performance in LokSabha this year.
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New Delhi : ConservationistVivek Menon, head of Delhi-based Wildlife Trust of India(WTI) has been awarded theprestigious Clark R BavinWildlife Law EnforcementAward-2019 recently by IvonneHiguero, secretary general of theConvention on InternationalTrade in Endangered Species(CITES) at Geneva where theeighteenth meeting ofConference of Parties to CITESis currently being held. PNS
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Bengal Chief MinisterMamata Banerjee broke her
silence on Thursday linking thearrest of senior Congress leaderP Chidambaram to the “sag-ging democratic culture” andthe “suffocating the politicalclimate” in the country.
Speaking to reporters, theChief Minister said, “I will notsay much about the legality ofthe matter as I am not the rightperson to do that but I am cer-tainly concerned about theprocess of arresting such a seniorpolitician … the way he wasarrested,” reminding, “he was theformer Finance Minister andHome Minister of India and asenior parliamentarian” whodeserved a dignified treatment.
The high drama aroundChidambaram’s arrest was notworth it, the Chief Ministersaid, adding, “the way his mat-ter was handled was sad andbad. It was really very bad andmade me extremely sad.”
All the pillars of Indiandemocracy were under attackunder the present Government,Banerjee said reminding howthe “Indian democracy is in abad shape. It is literally cryingin the wilderness.”
Incidentally, a number ofTrinamool Congress leaders,including Ministers and MPs,were facing corruption chargesand were being investigated bythe central investigating agen-cies like the CBI and ED.
Condemning the way theformer Union Minister wasarrested, another Trinamoolleader and Minister FirhadHakim said “this Governmentwill not allow the Oppositionto thrive in India. They havedecided to put all the dissent-ing voices behind the bars.
Attacking the NarendraModi Government for takingthe entire Opposition hostage,Congress leader in Lok SabhaAdhir Ranjan Chowdhury said“there is a deep-rooted con-spiracy behind Chidambaram’s
arrest. He is the person who hasbeen challenging theGovernment’s policies at vari-ous forums including parlia-ment. He was exposing theGovernment through hiscolumns in various Indian andforeign journals which theyare finding difficult to counter,and so they have silenced himby putting him behind the bar.”
Chowdhury also said that“the country is heading towardspolitical insolvency and bigeconomic slowdown againstwhich thisGovernment has noanswer. In order to turn thepeople’s attention from theseburning issues they are creat-ing new political drama … butthe Congress will take the issueto the people of India and fightit tooth and nail.”
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Chennai: DMK president MKStalin on Thursday lashed out atCBI officials for scaling thewalls of Congress leader PChidambaram’s bungalow atDelhi on Wedesday to gainentry, saying he considered it asan “insult to India”.
Stalin, whose DMK is anally of the Congress, backedChidambaram, reiterating hischarge of "political vendetta"behind the former UnionMinister's arrest.
"I saw on TV, the CBI offi-cers scaling the walls (atChidambaram's Delhi resi-dence). I consider it as an insultto India. It is condemnable," hetold reporters here.
On Wednesday, a CBI teamhad first knocked at the gates ofChidambaram's Jor Bagh resi-dence to gain entry, but findingno response, had scaled thenearly five-ft high walls to getinside. Once three officersreached inside, they opened thegates to allow entry to otherteam members waiting outside.
Responding to a query onCBI's handling of the entireChidambaram episode, Stalinrecalled that he had already
dubbed it as "political vendetta"on Wednesday.
He said Chidambaram hadappeared before the agenciesconcerned earlier when sum-moned by them in connectionwith the case.
Stalin also pointed out thatthe Supreme Court has decidedto hear on Friday the Congressleader's petition, seeking a stayof the Delhi High Court orderthat had dismissed his anticipa-tory bail plea. "His arrest whichhas happened in the meantimehas an intention of politicalvendetta," Stalin added.
Referring to the protest inDelhi over the Kashmir issue onThursday, he said the struggle"led by the DMK" and attendedby various political parties,including Congress, TMC,CPI(M) and NC, was a "success."
Restoration of normalcy inJammu & Kashmir post abro-gation of Art 370 of theConstitution, resumption oftelecommunication services inthe Valley and immediate releaseof all political leaders detainedwere the key demands made atthe protest in the national cap-ital, Stalin said. PTI
Bengaluru: Having a tightropeto walk by pacifying disgruntledMLAs who missed out onCabinet berth, coupled withallocation of portfolios to newMinisters, Karnataka ChiefMinister BS Yediyurappa onThursday decided to consultBJP central leadership to dealwith the situation.
Some disqualified formerlegislators of the Congress andJD(S) who helped bring downthe coalition Government head-ed by HD Kumaraswamyreportedly are piling pressure onYediyurappa, seeking theirpound of flesh and plum port-folios.
"Today evening I will go toDelhi and meet our nationalPresident Amit Shah and PrimeMinister Narendra Modi andwill come back tomorrowevening or the day after morn-ing," Yediyurappa said.
Asked whether the alloca-tion of portfolios would takeplace after his return from Delhi,Yediyurappa said: "Today we willdiscuss and take a decision."
More than three weeks afterhe was sworn in as the ChiefMinister, Yediyurappa expand-ed his cabinet last Tuesday,inducting 17 Ministers.
Though the expansionbrought an end to the nearlymonth long wait for the cabinetto take shape, it led to someheartburn in a section of theparty as several MLAs contin-ued to make no secret of theirdispleasure after missing thebus.
With several MLAs openlyexpressing displeasure overbeing left out, Yediyurappa hasbeen making attempts to dousethe embers, by reaching out tothem.
The Chief Minister onThursday too tried to pacifymiffed legislators including
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Sivaganga (TN): A sense of dis-belief and outrage was palpableamong supporters of Congressleader P Chidambaram in andaround his native village ofKaraikudi in Sivaganga districtover his arrest, even as a sectionof people expressed indifferenceand some outrightly opposedhim.
The former FinanceMinister was arrested by theCBI on Wednesday night fromhis residence in Delhi in con-nection with INX media cor-ruption case.
In the sleepy hamlet ofKandanur, about 10 km fromKaraikudi, though life appearedto go on as usual, the arrest ofChidambaram set tongues wag-
ging.Expressing disbelief, V
Nelliyan told PTI "this is noth-ing but an act of politicalvendetta." Condemning thearrest, the young man, beforeproceeding to a protest demon-stration held by Congressagainst the Centre, said theonly hope was the judiciary."The vindictive action hasincensed the common man," heclaimed, adding that the courtswould render justice and theBJP-led government would beexposed for targeting "an hon-est gentleman."
Similar was the responsefrom a couple of others, includ-ing Rajaratinam andAvudayappan, who also lauded
the senior leader for maintain-ing "poise and cool" despite thegovernment "perusing vindic-tive politics."
Congress functionary E MS Abhimanyu of nearbyTirupattur said this is a "brutalmurder of democracy," addingthe arrest was shocking.
'Ilakiya' Natarajan, a long-time associate of Chidambaramhere expressed disbelief andshock over the former minister'sarrest. "He is a respectedParliamentarian and a formerMinister. What is the tearingurgency to arrest him by scal-ing the walls of his house? I justcannot believe that this can hap-pen to him. I am shocked andoutraged," he said.
G Vimal, who runs a con-struction material retail outlet indowntown Karaikudi said"Chidambaram is not a residentof our place. He is usually eitherin Chennai or Delhi..Only someparty workers are agitated hereand not the general public."
The trader alleged that theformer Minister visitedKaraikudi or Sivaganga onlyduring elections.
A couple of men in theperiphery of the very quietManagiri, where the statelybungalow of Chidambaram islocated though eager to knowabout the INX case declined tooffer comments.
Sivaganga is the native con-stituency which Chidambaram
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Mumbai: The Anti TerrorismSqaud (ATS) of MaharashtraPolice has arrested a man fromAssam for allegedly threaten-ing to kill Indian cricket play-ers, an official said onThursday.
Braja Mohan Das (19),resident of Shantipur inMorigaon district, was arrest-ed by a team of ATS with thehelp of Assam police onTuesday, the official said.
Das allegedly sent an e-mail to the Board of Controlfor Cricket in India (BCCI) onAugust 16, threatening to killIndian cricket players, he said.
The Mumbai ATS startedprobe as the cricket body hasits headquarters in the city. TheATS registered a case underIPC section 506 (criminalintimidation).
The investigating agencytraced the IP address fromwhich the email had been sentto Das, and arrested him.
The ATS obtained his tran-sit remand after producinghim before a local court inAssam and brought him here.
Probe revealed that he hadsent the same threatening mailto cricket boards of some othercountries too.
The Mazgaon court heresent him in ATS custody tillMonday, the official said,adding that further probe wason. PTI
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Kolkata: Buoyed by its stu-pendous performance in thelast Lok Sabha polls, the WestBengal BJP has clocked arecord membership of 77lakhs in the State, party lead-ers claimed on Thursday.
The Bengal BJP has sur-passed the target set by thecentral leadership to enroll 60lakhs members when thecountrywide membershipdrive began on July 6, accord-ing to the party sources. "Asper the latest data, the mem-bership dr ive has beenimmensely successful inBengal. The central leader-ship initially had set a targetof 50 lakhs for Bengal, later itwas increased to 60 lakhs.
"But we have surpassed
that target too and with themembership drive closing onAugust 20, we have now 77lakhs members across theState. It is indeed an achieve-ment," BJP national secretaryRahul Sinha told reporters.
It is a massive jump fromthe membership campaignthat was done a few yearsback when the party hadmanaged to enroll 42 lakhmembers in its fold, he said.
Sinha said although themembership drive has closedin other parts of the country,but in a few states such asWest Bengal, which are pri-ority states for BJP, the exer-cise wi l l cont inue t i l lDecember this year. PTI
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MNS chief Raj Thackeraywas grilled for more than
eight hours by theEnforcement Directorate (ED)officials about his financialinvolvement in M/s KohinoorCTNL which is being investi-gated for alleged irregularitiesin the IL&FS’s loans-cum-investments case.
Raj, whose questioning bythe ED officials began around12 noon and continued tillwell past 8 pm, emerged out ofthe ED office at around 8.15pm.
Raj, who looked a bit tired,waved once at the crowd gath-ered there and stepped insidehis car without interactingwith anybody and drove to his“Krishna Kunj” residencelocated near Shivaji Park atDadar in north-central
Mumbai.When Raj returnedto his residence at around 9pm, a huge crowd had gath-ered there to greet him.
Given that he had alsoonly co-operated but alsospent quite some time with theinvestigating officials, officialsources said that he would notbe returning to ED office forfurther questioning on Friday.
The MNS chief, who hadleft from his Shivaji Park res-idence at 10.30 am along withhis wife Sharmila, daughterUrvashi and son Amit,appeared before the ED offi-cials an hour later.
Raj was responding tosummons issued to him lastweek in connection with theinvestments that he had madein M/s Kohinoor CTNL, acompany funded by formerMaharashtra CM ManoharJoshi’s son Unmesh Joshi. The
ED is investigating the allegedirregularities in the IL&FS’sloans and investments worthover �860 crore in M/sKohinoor CTNL. M/sKohinoor CTNL has beenunder ED scanner for being aprominent defaulter of IL&FS,amounting to an estimated�135 crore.
Unmesh along with sonalong with IL&FS and RajThackeray-owned MatoshreeConstruction had in 2005jointly had made a bid andbought for the NTPC’sKohinoor Mill’s 4.8-acre prop-erty for �421 crore. In 2008,the IL&FS reneged from thedeal and surrendered its sharesfor only �90 crore, as againstan investment of �225 croremade in M/s Kohinoor CTNL.Following the IL &FS’s exit,Raj also exited from the ven-ture after selling his shares.
Mumbai: The Bombay HighCourt directed police to reg-ister FIR against NCP leaderAjit Pawar and over 70 othersin the Maharashtra StateCooperative Bank scam onThursday, observing that theyseemed to have "completeknowledge" that their actionswould cause a huge loss to the
bank.The court asked Mumbai
police's Economic OffencesWing to register an FIRagainst the accused withinfive days. Prima facie therewas "credible evidence"against the accused, it added.Pawar, PWP leader JayantPatil and several former direc-
tors of the bank are accused ofviolating banking and RBIregulations while disbursingloans to sugar mills at very lowrates and selling off assets ofdefaulter businesses at throw-away prices. Such sale ofassets, disbursement of cheaploans and a failure to ensurerepayment resulted in losses of
over Rs 1,000 crore to thebank between 2007 and 2011,it is alleged.
The accused also forgedrecords and fudged figures toshow the bank was makingprofits, it is alleged.
Pawar was a director ofthe bank during the relevantperiod.
Inquiries by the NationalBank for Agriculture andRural Development and acharge sheet filed by a quasi-judicial inquiry commissionunder the MaharashtraCooperative Societies Act hadblamed Pawar and otheraccused for the bank's losses.
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Sullia MLA Angara S, even asthe Bunt community threat-ened protest citing lack of rep-resentation in the ministry,and Bovi community membersstaged protest in front of hisresidence seeking induction ofa minister from their commu-nity.
Even as attempts are on topacify sulking MLAs, a phoneconversation between eight timeHukkeri MLA Umesh Katti,around whom several disgrun-tled MLAs are reportedly rally-ing, with Congress legislatorparty leader Siddaramaiah led tospeculation about the former'snext political move.
Speaking to a news channelKatti confirmed his talk withSiddarmaiah last night, but ruledout joining the Congress andclarified that he was with BJP.
"He (Siddaramaiah) called
me last night and addressed meas minister, I told him I'm notminister to which he said he wasaware of it and hence called.
He is my good friend...Imay meet whenever we areboth are in Bengaluru. But, I'mnot joining Congress leavingBJP, I'm 100 per cent in BJP," headded.
Yediyurappa has kept 16ministerial posts vacant toaccommodate some more BJPmembers and from amongthose 17 disqualified former leg-islators who helped him cometo power.
However, the disqualifiedMLAs seeking plum portfoliosis said to be causing delay in theallocation of portfolios for thenew ministers, despite roomsbeing allotted to them atVidhana Soudha, the state sec-retariat.
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Bengaluru: The first picture ofMoon captured by India'sChandrayaan-2 satellite, cur-rently in the lunar orbit, wasreleased by space agency ISROon Thursday.
The picture of Moon wastaken by Chandrayaan-2's LI4Camera from an altitude ofabout 2,650 km from the lunarsurface on August 21, the city-headquarters Indian SpaceResearch Organisation said.
"Take a look at the firstMoon image captured by#Chandrayaan2 #VikramLandertaken at a height of about 2,650km from Lunar surface onAugust 21, 2019. Mare Orientalebasin and Apollo craters areidentified in the picture," ISROtweeted along with the picture.
The space agency had onAugust 4 released a first set ofimages of the earth captured byChandrayaan-2 satellite.
ISRO had on Wednesdayperformed second lunar boundorbit maneuver 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. India'sGeosynchronous SatelliteLaunch Vehicle, GSLV MkIII-M1, had successfully launchedthe 3,840-kg Chandrayaan-2spacecraft into the earth's orbiton July 22. PTI
Jammu: Convener of PanunKashmir, an organisationadvocating the cause of dis-placed Kashmiri Pandits,Agnishekhar released a mem-orandum on Thursday in sup-port of the abrogation of pro-visions of Article 370 and saidthat over 700 eminentKashmiri Pandits haveendorsed it.
He claimed that allKashmiri Pandits are on onepage in support of the Centrescrapping provisions of Article370 "to pave the way for a newdawn of free environment inJammu & Kashmir".
"Over 700 top KashmiriPandits, including Padma Shriawardees, vice-chancellors,academicians and doctors,across the world have signed amemorandum in support ofthe abrogation of provisions of
Article 370 and reorganisationof Jammu & Kashmir,"Agnishekhar told reportershere.
He said that PanunKashmir was batting stronglyfor a Union Territory for theKashmiri Pandits... And thedemand has been finally met.
"It was an outcome of thestruggle of Panun Kashmirfor last 30 years. We welcomethe decision of the Central gov-ernment," Agnishekhar said.
Panun Kashmir ChairmanAjay Chrungoo said that some Kashmiri Pandits, givingstatements opposing the deci-sion of the government ofIndia do not representKashmiri Pandits at all.
"We condemn them...They do not represent any ofKashmiri Pandit organisation,"he said. PTI
Srinagar: Restrictions wereeased in most areas of Kashmirwith barricades being liftedand the movement of peopleand traffic increasing gradual-ly, but markets remained shutand mobile and internet ser-vices suspended for the 18thday on Thursday.
Officials said the situationwas peaceful and no untowardincident was reported fromanywhere in the Kashmir Valleyon Wednesday.
In view of the improvingsituation, the movement ofpeople and traffic was slowlyincreasing in the city and otherdistrict headquarters of theValley, they said.
Public transport stayed offthe roads, but a few inter-dis-
trict cabs and auto-rickshawswere seen plying in some areas.
The attendance of teachersin schools up to middle class-level and employees in govern-ment offices was also improv-ing. However, most students
stayed away due to the prevail-ing situation, they added. TheGovernment ordered thereopening of primary schoolsacross the Valley from Mondayand middle schools fromWednesday.
The officials said restric-tions have been eased in sever-al areas of Kashmir, includingin most parts of Srinagar.
Barricades have beenremoved from uptown andcivil lines areas of the city as
well as from most areas inother districts. However, thedeployment of security forcescontinues to avoid any law andorder problems, they said.
The officials said marketswere shut in most places in theValley, as they have been sinceAugust 5 when the Centrerevoked Jammu & Kashmir'sspecial status under Article 370and bifurcated the state into twoUnion territories — Jammu &Kashmir, and Ladakh. Shopsand other business establish-ments remain shut though thereis no strike call by any separatistgroup or other organisation.
Mobile services and inter-net remain suspended, the offi-cials said, adding that landlinetelephone services have beenrestored at most places.However, they continue to besuspended in several areas,including in Srinagar's com-mercial hub of Lal Chowk andPress Enclave. PTI
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Aligarh (UP): An AligarhMuslim University student wasarrested after his Facebook pageshowed an objectionable posteron Prime Minister NarendraModi carried recently by anti-India protesters in London,police said.
Mohammad Zaid Rashid(20), admitted at the universi-ty's off-campus centre in Bihar'sKishanganj this year, was herewhen he downloaded a picturefrom the protests over the scrap-ping of the special status forJammu & Kashmir.
Some former AMU stu-dents complained online to thepolice after Rashid's post sur-faced on social media.
In their complaint onTuesday they alleged that theposter had been put up on theAMU campus here, but the localpolice and the AMU authoritiesfound that this was not correct.
They traced the localaddress of the youth, a residentof the city's Hamdard Nagar.
AMU spokesman ShafeyKidwai said the incident waswrongly linked to the campus inAligarh.
“We found that the youthhad just been admitted to theoff-campus centre in Bihar. Wepromptly traced him to his res-idence and filed an FIR,” he toldreporters.
"We will take further appro-priate action in this matter afterthe investigation is complete," hesaid. Senior Superintendent ofPolice Akash Kulhari said a caseunder the IT Act and for pro-moting social discord has beenfiled against Rashid. PTI
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ments put forth byChidambaram’s lawyers statingthat everybody was equalbefore the court. Mehta saidcertain facts about the case can-not be narrated in an opencourt and also opposed the pleathat Chidambaram be allowedto argue for himself, saying hehas able lawyers representinghim. Mehta, during his initialarguments, said thatChidambaram entered into acriminal conspiracy with oth-ers in the scam. “He is notcooperating in the investiga-tion,” Mehta said.Chidambaram has been evasivein replies and grave offence wascommitted, he further said,adding it is a serious and mon-umental case of money laun-dering. He also saidChidambaram’s custodial inter-rogation was necessary tounearth the “quid pro quo andlarger conspiracy” and he isrequired to be confronted withdocuments. Opposing CBI’sarguments, Sibal contendedthat what the agency has saidshould not be taken as “gospeltruth”. Sibal said Chidambaramwas asked 12 questions and hehad already answered six ofthem previously. Investigatorsdon’t know what to ask andthey don’t have questions readywith them, Sibal told the court.
After his arrest onWednesday night,Chidambaram was interrogat-ed only on Thursday morningat 11 am, he said.
During the arguments,Chidambaram said he has notslept for last 24 hours. Sibal fur-ther argued that CBI couldhave written a letter toChidambaram for producingthe documents alleged to be inhis possession and the agency
cannot say he was evasive dur-ing the investigation.Contending that what has beenstated in the CBI case diary wasnot the truth, Sibal said it can-not be considered as evidence.Mehta, during his arguments,placed the Delhi High Court’sjudgement dismissingChidambaram’s anticipatorybail plea and also referred tothe observations made in it. Hesaid chargesheet has not beenfiled in the case yet and the caseis at pre-chargesheet stage,therefore, “we need materialwhich Chidambaram is hold-ing”. “Effective investigation ispossible only in custodial inter-rogation,” he argued. Mehtacontended that serious, activeand informed role of theaccused is made out andmoney trail is made out andhas to be probed.Chidambaram’s custodial inter-rogation is required to getanswer of certain questionsfor effective probe, he said.Soon after entering the court-room at Rouse Avenue, 73-year-old Chidambaram wasseen having discussion with hisparty leaders and senior advo-cates Sibal, Singhvi and VivekTankha. Chidambaram’s fami-ly members, including his wifeNalini and son Karti, werealso present in the court dur-ing the hearing. The CBI hadregistered an FIR on May 15,2017, alleging irregularities inthe Foreign InvestmentPromotion Board (FIPB) clear-ance granted to the INX Mediagroup for receiving overseasfunds of Rs 305 crore in 2007during Chidambaram’s tenureas the Finance Minister.Following the CBI case, theEnforcement Directorate (ED)had registered a money laun-dering case in 2018 in this con-nection. Meanwhile, theSupreme Court sentChidambaram’s plea challeng-ing the Delhi High Court ver-dict dismissing his anticipato-ry bail plea in the case for hear-ing before a Bench headed byJustice R Banumathi.
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seen the leadership of nearly alllocal terrorists neutralised andthe shelf-life of local militantsnow ranges from three days tofour months. In this backdrop,Pakistan is determined to raisethe violence level by pushing inAfghan fighters, they saidadding a recruitment drive torope them in PakistanOccupied Kashmir (POK).Moreover, the proscribed JeMlast week conducted a sort ofrefresher course in Mansera inPakistan to motivate the ter-rorists to wage war againstIndia, officials said.
Moreover, the firing pat-tern as part of ceasefire viola-
tions in the last few days indi-cate that the infiltration push islikely to come in from Uri,Keran and Gurez (north of PirPanjal) and Naushera in southof Pir Panjal, sources said.Cautioning that violence will becalibrated, officials said inci-dents will take place oncerestrictions on movement willbe gradually removed in theKashmir Valley. They admittedincidents will see backlash inthe State and other parts of thecountry and security forceshave to prepared to meet withthe challenge. Meanwhile, onthe efforts to take the issue toworld forum, Pakistan has acti-vated Kashmir cell in all itsmissions and their officials areaddressing the PakistanDiaspora in several westerncountries. Moreover, Pakistanhas hired lobbyists to furtherthe so-called cause of Kashmir.If violence takes place in theState, Pakistan will try to takethe high moral ground claim-ing that situation is not undercontrol and no longer an inter-nal matter of India therebynecessitating internationalintervention, they said.
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Jammu & Kashmir in their dif-ficult hour. The decisions takenby the Union Government toimpose a complete communi-cation blackout and the con-tinued detention of formerChief Ministers and politicalleaders...Members of civil soci-ety and even innocent citizensrunning into thousands arematters of serious concern.There has been a chilling crack-down on free speech and theright of Assembly. Such actionsgo against the fundamentalrights guaranteed by theConstitution of India and needto be immediately reversed. Wedemand immediate release ofall public representatives ofmainstream political partiesand innocent citizens,” the res-olution said.
Samajwadi Party (SP) MPRamgopal Yadav asked if thesituation in Kashmir was nor-mal, why political leaders con-tinued to be in detention?” Theway they (Centre) have bifur-cated Jammu & Kashmir,tomorrow they will say UttarPradesh, Bihar, Maharashtraand Tamil Nadu are large Statesand hence, unmanageable.They will divide these Statesinto multiple Union Territories,appoint Lieutenant Governorsand run proxy Governments,”he said. The leaders raised slo-gans demanding restorationof normalcy in Jammu &Kashmir, resumption oftelecommunication services inthe Valley and immediaterelease of all political leaderswho have been detained.
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Pune: An activist from Pune hasblamed the MaharashtraGovernment for the recent del-uge in Kolhapur, alleging thatflood lines of the Panchgangariver there were "redefined" toprovide benefits to the con-struction sector.
Hundreds of villages inKolhapur and neighbouringSangli were flooded after heavyrains earlier this month. While55 people died in flood andrain-related incidents, lakhswere evacuated in these westernMaharashtra districts.
Environmentalist SarangYadwadkar, who claimed tohave accessed some documentsof the irrigation departmentthrough RTI, said around 500hectors land along thePanchganga river, which shouldhave been in the flood-affectedarea (prohibited zone), wasmarked as residential zone inKolhapur's development plan(DP) by "redefining" the floodlines. There are two types offlood lines - blue for the floodlevel that occurs once in 25 yearsand the red for that happensonce in 100 years, he said.
"The irrigation departmentissued a circular in 1989 to markthe flood lines for all rivers inMaharashtra, but it was ignored.Instead of the flood lines, floodlevels (general level of a partic-ular flood) were marked andthese levels were later superim-posed on the DP maps ofKolhapur," he claimed. In one ofthe cases in 2015, the NationalGreen Tribunal (NGT) issueddirectives to the irrigationdepartment to mark both theflood lines over rivers across thestate, the activist claimed.
"The irrigation departmentstarted the survey work in 2017and by 2018 it identified theflood lines (considering waterflow at 2.14 lakh cusec for blueline and 3.22 lakh cusec for redline) for the Panchganga riverand submitted it to the IndianInstitute of TechnologyBombay," he said.
He said the IIT Bombayalso verified the report andstated that the flood lines werecorrect.
But, when the Kolhapurchapter of the Confederation ofReal Estate Developers
Association of India (CREDAI)came to know about it, it foundaround 500 hectors land goingbelow the blue line and bydefault becoming a 'no devel-opment' zone, Yadwadkar said.
The CREDAI, Kolhapur,in October 2018 wrote a letterto the chief minister, stating thatthe work of demarcation offlood lines is done by a privateagency, Yadwadkar said.
"It also stated that the 1989flood-level is marked on the DPand as the flood that year wasthe largest, it was pointless tomark new flood lines. It statedthat new flood lines will createconfusion and unrest amongpeople," he said.
He said the CREDAI alsostated in its letter that coloniesand apartments were devel-oped on most of the portionfalling under the new floodlines. PTI
India’s reputation as one of the world’smost corrupt bureaucracies is well-documented. On the CorruptionPerceptions Index, India ranks 78thand this outlook is with merit and
cause. What is surprising, however, is thatthe civil services examination and the postof a civil servant are still one that attractsgreat attention and fanfare. Any aspirant,who “cracks” the examination, is treated withgreat respect. This is, perhaps, why lakhs ofyoung aspirants spend days together, work-ing towards the goal of being part of theIndian bureaucracy.
A large number of these students arefrom prestigious institutes like the IndianInstitute of Technology and various NationalLaw Schools, among others. As a former civilservant, I find that this desire to join the civilservices, surprisingly, has not dwindled. Afew pessimists would say that these youngaspirants join the bureaucracy to extracttheir pound of flesh. As Theodore Rooseveltsaid, “A man who has never gone to schoolmay steal a freight car; but if he has a uni-versity education, he may steal the wholerailroad.” But levity aside, I think this isunduly harsh and frankly not true. In fact,as is true in most avenues of life, corruptionin the Indian bureaucracy, too, follows thePareto principle (also known as the 80/20rule) that is 80 per cent of all corruption inthe bureaucracy is carried out by 20 per centof the people. The problem is to identify andpunish this 20 per cent, which is bringingthe entire country and the service immenseshame and disrepute.
Corruption has no rigid definition, butthe most common academic connotation,which defines it as “the misuse of public officefor private gain”, seems to be the most appro-priate. While most times the media appearsto cover the “headline” scandals and/orinstances of corruption — ie, the kind ofscams that attract most eyeballs — rarely dowe realise just what the magnitude of every-day corruption is in our country.Transparency International estimates thatIndians end up paying bribes of over �21, 000crore (approx $3.5 billion) every year to accessGovernment services. Therefore, there are dif-ferent types of corruption, which differ fromservice to service. MR Venkatesh, a CharteredAccountant-turned lawyer, said it best in theselines, “IAS officers are after the rich people,IRS officers are after the middle class and IPSofficers are after the poor. This is the new var-nashrama created by the bureaucracy.” Whilethis looks like oversimplifying a complex issue,the crux of the problem does ring true.
So what are the causes of corruption?There are a number of people who have end-lessly theorised on the reasons why the Indianbureaucracy suffers from corruption. Onesuch reason is the country’s complex legal andregulatory framework. India remains anextremely difficult place to do business. To setup or operate any business here, an entrepre-neur or businessman has to jump through var-
ious hoops and then hope to gainfavour from the relevant bureau-crat even before starting his/herbusiness. It is, therefore, no coin-cidence that India’s low rankingon the Corruption PerceptionsIndex corresponds with its lowposition in the World Bank’s indi-cators for doing business.
Just to give an idea aboutthe ease of doing business inIndia, according to a WorldBank survey, the act of obtain-ing a single construction permitin India involves 27 discreteprocedures, takes 162 days andcosts 46 per cent of the totaloutlay to a construction firmbuilding a warehouse. The key-word here is “discretion.” Theminute it is brought in, the cor-rupt official gets an opportuni-ty to make a quick buck.
Another reason as to whycorruption persists in our coun-try is the lack of respect towardsentrepreneurs and businessmen.While we often get to hear prais-es about a Narayana Murthy oran Azim Premji, these examplesare an exception rather than thenorm. This because we, asIndians, have been encouraged totreat a business as an entity thatmakes money by stealing some-one else’s buck. This is why anynew business is looked at withsuspicion first and then withadmiration. While the conduct ofsome Indian promoters does
indicate that there is some truthto this perception, our lack ofopenness and admirationtowards entrepreneurs does thecountry more harm than good.
So what can be done? Weneed to change our attitudestowards businesses. There is nodenying the fact that there shouldbe a strict framework withinwhich all businesses flourish.However, a strict frameworkdoes not necessarily mean thatany new business ought to betreated with contempt. For exam-ple, it is important that everybusiness operates within therealm of the law and obtains allrelevant approvals. However,bureaucrats must not be givenany reason to place more hurdlesin helping them establish a busi-ness than those that are alreadypresent. It is evident that thisGovernment needs cash and,therefore, is on a tax collectionspree. However, in the long-run,it is impossible for anyGovernment to collect taxes if itcontinues to act in a targetted andadversarial manner. It is, there-fore, crucial for the Governmentto intimate and drive home thepoint to bureaucrats that theirrole is to facilitate the lives of hon-est citizens rather than acting asimpediments.
Another way to mitigate theeffects of corruption is toimprove information dissemina-
tion and use technology. Whilethe former is crucial and mustbe encouraged with zeal, the lat-ter must be approached withgreater care in a country likeIndia where technology is real-ly only to the benefit of a fewrather than most. The bestexample of how this can providebenefit is the recent change inthe law which allows drivers tocarry scanned copies of their dri-ving licences and RCs. Mostpeople, however, have not heardabout this change in the rules.
I have personally heard ofmany stories of traffic cops tak-ing bribes from unassuming dri-vers merely because they tellthem that they are required tocarry physical copies of their doc-uments. In such a case if peopleare informed about the change inrules and technology is usedmeaningfully, instances of bribeswill automatically be reduced.
While the problem of cor-ruption is huge, we can at leaststart adopting a differentapproach to tackle it. Bringingabout a change in mindset will beof great help. This should be cou-pled with other innovative solu-tions. With these changes, Ithink, we will find that the problem of corruption is not asinsurmountable as we think.
(The writer is former presi-dent of Jharkhand PradeshCongress Committee)
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Sir — It is a matter of concern thatthere has been a 83 per centincrease in forest fires in theAmazon rainforest area in Brazil.Conservationists have blamedBrazilian President Jair Bolsonarofor its plight, saying that heencouraged loggers and farmersto clear the land. Bolsonaro on theother hand has blamed non-gov-ernmental organisations, sayingthat they may have set the fires toembarrass his Government afterit’s decision to cut funding forthem. Ironically, Bolsonaro has noevidence to support his claim.
Spread across millions ofhectares in multiple countries, theAmazon basin not only hostsmassive sinks of carbon that helpsbring down the pace of globalwarming but is also home to threemillion species. The situationtoday is depressing. First and fore-most, the Brazilian Governmentmust realise the need to protect theforests. The international commu-nity must put diplomatic pressureon Brazil to convince it on the needto protect the forests and also helpit seek higher funds.
Tanisha ShrivastavaUjjain
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Sir — This refers to the editor-ial, “Chidambaram in a spot”(August 22). After a day-longdrama, P Chidambaram did
show up for a surprise Press con-ference at the Congress head-quarters, but by then, the dam-age had been done. During thePress conference, he claimedthat no formal chargesheet wasfiled against him in the INX
Media case and that there wasno question of him evading thelaw.
Had Chidambaram said thesame thing after the Delhi HighCourt rejected his bail plea, hewould have done much good not
only to himself but also to hisparty. The Congress leadership,too, had been crying hoarse,terming the action taken againstChidambaram a “political witchhunt” but the High Court hassound evidence against him.The case against him appears tobe water-tight. All eyes are nowon the courts. Only time willuncover the truth but certainly,the Congress has further lostcredibility among the masses.
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Sir — This refers to the article,“Upping deterrence ante?”(August 22) by Vivek Mishra. TheGovernment must come clear ifit is contemplating a change in its‘No First Use’ policy to checkmatePakistan or is this just anotherexercise to make the peoplebelieve that it can go to any extentto protect the nation’s interests?This issue demands wider debateand discussion.
KarthikVia email
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The small boat at Gujarat’s bustling PipavavPort bobs up and down as it waits to ferrypassengers to Shiyal Bet Island barely 600
metres away. It’s a rainy morning and the watersof the Arabian Sea are beginning to turn choppy.Fifty-year-old Dakuben jumps onto the boat withease, having undertaken the 12-minute journeyinnumerable times to visit her daughter in ShiyalBet. However, this time, her visit is mired in sor-row as she is going to mourn the death of her new-born granddaughter.
Gujarat’s Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) is 30deaths per 1,000 live births and the state rankedtenth in the country according to the NITI Aayog’s2016 IMR report. According to statistics 69 percent of infant deaths in Gujarat were neonatal,higher than the national average of 67.60 per cent.
Anaemia is one of the major factors respon-sible for the rising neonatal, infant and maternalmortality in Gujarat, especially among ruralwomen. According to the fourth National FamilyHealth Survey (NFHS-4) conducted in 2014-15,54.9 per cent women in the age group of 14-49years are anaemic and 51.3 per cent of pregnantwomen have anaemia.
The NFHS-4 placed Gujarat among the top15 states with the highest incidence of anaemiaas the percentage of anaemic women there washigher than the national average of 53 per cent.
The survey revealed that lack of educationplayed a major role and anaemia was particular-ly high among illiterate women due to lack ofawareness about health-related issues.
At 31.2 per cent, Shiyal Bet’s literacy rates aremuch lower than the state’s 78.3 per cent (2011census). With the island’s female literacy rate beingjust 15.48 per cent, it’s no surprise that awarenessabout anaemia and other health issues is low.
In order to change this scenario, Vatsalya, aninitiative to improve the health and nutritional sta-tus of women, children, and adolescents wasundertaken in Shiyal Bet and 21 villages with sim-ilar poor health and development indicators inRajula Block in Amreli district. Launched in 2016by the Centre for Health Education, Training,Nutrition Awareness (CHETNA), a not for prof-it organisation, the three-year programme hasbeen able to bring down undernutrition, improveantenatal and postnatal care and ensure safe moth-erhood.
It has also been able to break myths relatedto early breastfeeding, promote healthy feedingpractices, timely immunization and increaseaccess to basic health services.
The intervention, supported by GujaratPipavav Port Limited (GPPL) APM Terminalsunder their corporate social responsibility initia-tive, used a multi-pronged strategy includinggames, Q&A sessions and street theatre to engagethe community. Sustained efforts, coupled withcommunity participation helped to bring downthe number of children suffering from undernu-trition from 30 per cent in 2016 to 14 per cent in2019. The number of children who attained nor-mal body mass index also rose.
The intervention marked up registration ofpregnancies by almost 42 per cent and increasedthe number of women receiving antenatal care,tetanus injections and folic acid tablets. A rise ininstitutional deliveries by 9.42 per cent was alsoseen at the end of the three years.
“We are committed to bringingchange in the lives of marginalised com-munities. Therefore, empowering themwith factual information and linkingthem to government schemes and pro-grammes was imperative. This interven-tion was more challenging because wehad to work in difficult-to-reach villageslike Shiyal Bet and with migrating pop-ulations and communities that were iso-lated and neglected. But we were able tomake a difference in their lives thanksto our dedicated field team, and our part-nership with the community, frontlinehealth workers and panchayat leaders,”said Pallavi Patel, Director, CHETNA.
A key to this success was the strat-egy to train women from the commu-nity as Vatsalya mitras (friends).This gavethe community a sense of ownership andled to increased participation. So whenShantuben Chauhan became a trainedVatsalya mitra, she used her influence asan anganwadi worker (AWW) to reachout to pregnant and lactating women.Chauhan, an AWW for the last 15 years,is a popular face in Shiyal Bet. With bothher marital and natal home being inShiyal Bet, Chauhan was able to mobilisethe community very effectively.
However, when the CHETNA teamfirst visited Shiyal Bet, they found thatalthough Chauhan was articulate andgood at her work as an AWW, she, likemost of the others, believed in manymyths related to reproductive and sex-ual health. One of the biggest miscon-ceptions she had was related to menstru-ation. Not only was it a taboo subject, butneither she nor her three daughters prac-ticed menstrual hygiene. Consideringthat only 54 per cent of rural women usea hygienic method of menstrual protec-tion (NFHS-4), this was not surprising.
The fact that women with at least 12 yearsof schooling were more than twice aslikely to be using a hygienic method (79per cent) as against women with noschooling (34 per cent) meant thatChauhan who is uneducated, didn’t getaccess to information which could helpher practice menstrual hygiene.
So the first step was to demystifymenstruation. The team knew thatonce they were able to get Chauhan onboard then she would get the others. “Iwas ashamed to discuss this issue. Thetraining helped me understand why Ishould not be ashamed and why men-strual hygiene is important. I used thescientific information to convince otherwomen and adolescents during Vatsalyasamwads (dialogue),” recalled Chauhan.
For Vatsalya mitra VandanabenGoswami, the training cured her of thebelief that she was ‘impure’ during herperiods and going to the temple orkitchen was wrong. “After I became bet-ter informed, I no longer forced mydaughters to follow these customs. I usedmy own example to convince otherwomen and girls,” contended Goswami.
The monthly Vatsalya samwadsproved to be a good move as they helpedbreak the ice on many ‘uncomfortable’issues like the tradition of early marriageand family planning in all 22 villages.Besides explaining the consequences ofearly marriage on the health of adoles-cents, the importance of antenatal careand postnatal care visits for pregnant andlactating women were discussed. Alsoaddressed were myths related to earlyand exclusive breastfeeding. Accordingto NFHS-4, just 50 per cent women inGujarat start breastfeeding in the firsthour of life as recommended by theWorld Health Organisation, thus depriv-
ing newborns of the highly nutritiousfirst milk, colostrums, and the antibod-ies it contains. In fact, about one in fivechildren who were ever breastfed weregiven something other than breast milkduring the first three days.
Raziben’s three children were amongthem. She had followed the custom offeeding her children goat’s milk or hotwater mixed with jaggery immediatelyafter birth. It was only after attending theVatsalya samwads that she understoodwhy this was not healthy for the newborn.This helped her initiate early breastfeed-ing for her fourth child born last year.Inspired by this, her friend and neighbourManjuben also breastfed her daughterwithin 24 hours of her birth in June thisyear. In fact, there was an 22 per centincrease in early breastfeeding by the endof the project.
A big factor in the improving healthand nutrition indicators was the partner-ship with local leaders and panchayats.Leaders like Gangabhai, the sarpanch ofKundaliya Village, played an active rolein mobilizing the community and pro-moting awareness.
“There has been a big change in myvillage after CHETNA began their work.The AWWs have become more informedand active. More women are attendingthe monthly Mamta Divas. Earlier only7-8 women had health cards, now 60 ofthem have cards. I also pay visits to sup-port and motivate them,” he said.
While the success has been encour-aging, challenges remain. Consideringthe entrenched patriarchy and caste bar-riers in Gujarat, sustaining behaviour-al change requires greater investment oftime and resources. Only then, will noone be left behind.
(The writer is a senior journalist)
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Maybe we can get through theclimate crisis without a glob-al catastrophe, although that
door is closing fast. And maybe we cancope with the huge loss of jobs causedby the revolution in robotics andArtificial Intelligence (AI) without asocial and political calamity. But canwe do both at the same time?
We should know how to deal withthe AI revolution because we havebeen down this road before. It’s a bitdifferent this time, of course, in thesense that the original industrial rev-olution in 1780-1850 created as manynew jobs (in manufacturing) as itdestroyed (in cottage industries andskilled trades).
The AI revolution, by contrast, is
not producing nearly enough replace-ment jobs but it is making us muchwealthier. The value of manufacturedgoods doubled in the United States(US) in the past 30 years even as thenumber of good industrial jobs fell bya third (eight million jobs gone).Maybe we could use that extra wealthto ease the transition to a job-scarcefuture. The climate emergency isunlike any challenge we have facedbefore. Surmounting it would requirean unprecedented level of globalcooperation and very big changes inhow people consume and behave, nei-ther of which human beings have his-torically been good at.
These two crises are already inter-acting. The erosion of middle-classjobs and the stagnation (or worse) ofreal wage levels generates resentmentand anger among the victims and isalready creating populist, authoritar-ian regimes throughout the world.These regimes despise internationalcooperation and often deny climatechange as well (Trump in the US,Bolsonaro in Brazil).
And there is a recession coming.Maybe not this year, although almost
all the storm signals are flying: Stockmarkets spooked, a rush into gold,nine major economies already inrecession or on the verge of one, an“inverted yield curve” on bonds andtrade wars spreading. Even USPresident Donald Trump is worried,which is why he postponed the harsh-er American trade tariffs againstChina, which were due next month.
Economists have predicted nineof the past five recessions as they sayin the trade, so I’m not calling the turnon this one. But a recession is overdueand a lot of the damage done by the
Great Recession of 2008 has still notbeen repaired. Interest rates are stillvery low, so the banks have little roomto cut rates and soften the next one.When it arrives, it could be a doozy.
So what can we do about all this?The first thing is to recognise that wecannot plot a course that takes usfrom here and now, through all thechanges and past all the unpleasantsurprises to ultimate safety, maybe 50years from now.
We can plan how to get throughthe next five years and we should bethinking hard about what will be need-
ed later on. But we can’t steer a safe andsteady course to the year 2070 anymore than intelligent decision-mak-ers in 1790 could have planned howto get through to 1840 without toomuch upheaval. They might have seensteam engines but they would havehad no idea what a railroad was.
We are in the same position asthose people with regard to both AIand the global environmental emer-gency (which extends far beyond“climate change”, although that is at itsheart). We know a good deal aboutboth issues but not enough to be con-fident about our choices — andbesides, they may well mutate andhead off in unforeseen directions asthe crises deepen.
But there are two big things wecan do right now. We need to stop theslide into populist and increasinglyauthoritarian Governments (becausewe are not going to stop the spread ofAI). And we have to win ourselvesmore time to get our greenhouse gasemissions under control (because weare certainly going to go through 450parts per million of carbon dioxideequivalent, which would give us +20C
higher average global temperature). The best bet for getting our pol-
itics back on track is a guaranteedminimum income, high enough tokeep everybody comfortable —whether they are working or not. Thatis well within the reach of any devel-oped country’s economy and has theadded benefit of putting enoughmoney into people’s pockets to saveeverybody’s business model.
And the best way to win moretime on the climate front is to startgeo-engineering (direct interventionin the atmosphere to hold the globaltemperature down) as soon as we getanywhere near +20C. To be ready then,we need to be doing open-air testingon a small scale now. There will behowls of protest from the right abouta guaranteed minimum income andfrom the greener parts of the left aboutgeo-engineering. However, both willprobably be indispensable if we wantto get through these huge changeswithout mass casualties or even civil-isational collapse.
(The writer’s new book is GrowingPains, the Future of Democracy and Work)
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The Commerce Ministry willsoon come out with a new
foreign trade policy, whichprovides guideline and incen-tives for increasing exports, forthe next five financial years2020-25, an official said.
The ministry is givingfinal touches to the new pol-icy as the validity for the oldone will end on March 31,2020.
“We have taken views ofall stakeholders. The new pol-icy is likely to be announcedby September-end or early-October,” the official said.
The new policy wouldfocus on simplifying proce-dures for exporters andimporters besides providingincentives to boost outboundshipments.
The ministr y’s arm,Directorate General ofForeign Trade (DGFT), is for-mulating the policy.
At present, tax benefits areprovided under merchandiseexport from India scheme(MEIS) for goods and servicesexport from India scheme(SEIS).
In the new policy, changesare expected in the incentivesgiven to goods as the currentexport promotion schemesare challenged by the US inthe dispute resolution mech-anism of the World Trade
Organisation (WTO).In this backdrop, the gov-
ernment is recasting theincentives to make them com-pliant with global trade rules,being formulated by Geneva-based WTO, a 164 memberGeneva-based multilateralbody.
The Commerce Ministryhas also floated a cabinet notefor a new export incentivesscheme — Rebate of Stateand Central Taxes and Levies(RoSCTL) — that would becompliant with the WTOnorms.
The RoSCTL scheme isavailable for exports of gar-ments and made-ups. It wouldnow be proposed to extend itto all exports in a phasedmanner.
The new scheme wouldreplace the existing MEIS,which was challenged by theUS last year in the WTO. Itwould ensure refund of all un-rebated central and state leviesand taxes imposed on inputsthat are consumed in exportsof all sectors.
Major un-rebated leviesare state VAT/central exciseduty on fuel used in trans-portation, captive power, farmsector; mandi tax; duty ofelectricity; stamp duty onexport documents, purchasesfrom unregistered dealers;embedded CGST and com-pensation cess coal used in the
production of electricity.Exporters are demanding
incentives based on researchand development, and prod-uct-specific clusters under thenew policy.
Ludhiana-based HandTools Association PresidentSC Ralhan said the new poli-cy should have provisions forrefund of indirect taxes like onoil and power, and state leviessuch as mandi tax.
“Sectors like engineeringshould be promoted as theycreate huge number of jobs.There should be relaxation forobtaining l icence underExport Promotion CapitalGoods for modernisation ofindustry,” Ralhan said.
Assistant professor andexpert on agriculture eco-nomics Chirala Shankar Raohas said the policy should lookat ways to promote agriexports as it holds hugeopportunities.
During April-July 2019-20, the country’s exportsdipped 0.37 per cent to USD107.41 billion.
Since 2011-12, India’sexports have been hovering ataround USD 300 billion.During 2018-19, overseasshipments grew 9 per cent toUSD 331 billion.
The government is tar-geting to increase the exportsto USD one trillion in thecoming years.
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Equity markets closed deepin the red on Thursdayafter top government offi-
cials virtually ruled out a stim-ulus package for slowdown-hitsectors, triggering anotherround of selling in banking,auto and metal stocks.
A weakening rupee, whichhit its lowest level in eightmonths, and lackluster globalcues further weighed oninvestor sentiment, traders said.
The 30-share BSE Sensexsank 587.44 points, or 1.59%,to finish at 36,472.93. Thebroader NSE Nifty slumped177.35 points, or 1.62%, to10,741.35. Both the key indicesclosed lower for the thirdstraight session.
Chief Economic AdviserKrishnamurthy Subramanianon Thursday said using taxpay-ers’ money to bail out companiesgoing through a ‘sunset’ phasewould create moral hazards andsuch a step was an anathema tothe market economy.
Power Secretary SubhashChandra Garg also said lowinterest rates and availability ofcredit to private sector were bet-ter tools than a fiscal stimulus.
The comments have dashedhopes of some sort of a stimu-lus package from the govern-ment to boost growth and revive
flagging consumer sentiment,analysts said.
Yes Bank was the biggestlaggard in the Sensex pack,plummeting 13.91%, followedby Vedanta, Bajaj Finance andTata Motors, which declined upto 7.76%.
ONGC, SBI, HeroMotoCorp, ICICI Bank, TataSteel, HDFC twins and RILalso closed with losses.
Tech Mahindra, TCS, HULand HCL Tech were the onlygainers, spurting up to 1.57%.
“Benchmark indices con-tinue to remain weak with rupeehitting fresh lows and lack ofnews on the economic stimulusby the government... Investorsentiment was further damp-ened by statement made byChief Economic Advisor thatIndian economy doesn’t needfiscal stimulus to tackle slow-down.
“Besides policy uncertaintyon the domestic front, weak
global cues, foreign fund flow,currency and oil price move-ment would further determinethe trend of the market,” saidHemang Jani, head (advisory),Sharekhan by BNP Paribas.
Speaking at an event inDelhi, Subramanian stressed onthe cyclical nature of a marketeconomy.
“Since 1991 we are a marketeconomy, and in a market econ-omy there are sectors which goon sunrise and then go throughsunset phase.
“If we basically expect thegovernment to use taxpayers’money to intervene every timewhen there are some ‘sunsets,’then I think you introduce pos-sible moral hazards from ‘too bigto fail’ and as well as the possi-bility of a situation where prof-its are private and losses aresocialized which is basically ananathema to way the marketeconomy functions,” he said.
Speaking at the same event,
Power Secretary SubhashChandra Garg said reduction ininterest rates and availability ofcredit to private sector are bet-ter tools than a fiscal stimulus.Garg, who was FinanceSecretary till last month, alsosaid the first quarter GDP num-ber are likely to be lower than thesame period last fiscal.
Meanwhile, BSE realtyindex was the biggest sectoralloser, cracking 6.01%, followedby metal, finance, oil and gas,bankex and energy.
IT index was the sole gain-er, rising 0.30%, buoyed by aweak rupee.
The broader BSE midcapand smallcap indices followedthe benchmarks, closing up to2.19% lower.
Globally, markets were jit-tery ahead of comments fromFederal Reserve Chair JeromePowell at Jackson Hole,Wyoming, US.
Elsewhere in Asia, ShanghaiComposite Index and Nikkeiended on a positive note, whileHang Seng and Kospi settled inthe red. Equities in Europe weretrading lower in their respectiveearly sessions.
The Indian rupee depreci-ated 33 paise to 71.88 against theUS dollar intra-day.
Brent crude futures, theglobal oil benchmark, rose0.65% to USD 60.69 per barrel.
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price on Thursday hit a new high of �38,970 per 10 gram bygaining �150 in the national capital, according to the All-IndiaSarafa Association, mainly on account of a weaker rupee andsafe-haven buying from investors due to weak equity market.Gold prices have been hitting a fresh high everyday sinceTuesday. Silver advanced by �60 to �45,100 per kg onincreased offtake by industrial units and coin makers.
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Government think tank NITIAayog on Thursday made a
case for extraordinary steps todeal with the unprecedentedstress in the financial sectorwhich has resulted in an eco-nomic slowdown in the country.
The government needs totake steps which eliminateapprehension from the minds ofprivate sector players andencourage them to step upinvestments, NITI Aayog ViceChairman Rajiv Kumar said. Healso said private investments willdrive India out of the middleincome trap.
Terming the stress in thefinancial sector as unprecedent-ed, he said nobody had faced thissort of situation in the last 70years where entire financial sys-tem was under threat.
“Nobody is trusting any-body else... within the privatesector nobody is ready to lend,everyone is sitting on cash... youmay have to take steps which areextraordinary,” he said at anevent here.
Elaborating further, Kumarsaid some of the steps hadalready been announced in theUnion Budget to address stressin the financial sector and givea push to economic growthwhich hit a 5-year low of 6.8 percent in 2018-19.
Script Open High Low LTPLICHSGFIN 437.15 437.15 405.70 412.85YESBANK 65.60 67.70 53.15 56.30DLF 168.60 168.60 137.75 144.30IBULHSGFIN 472.00 472.00 439.05 449.90SUZLON 4.29 4.29 4.12 4.16IDEA 5.50 5.71 5.20 5.26TATAMOTORS 112.20 114.00 106.20 107.65RELCAPITAL 40.60 40.75 30.40 32.00TATASTEEL 340.00 346.70 330.20 333.35RELIANCE 1271.00 1271.05 1239.05 1246.50ICICIBANK 411.20 412.40 397.90 399.15RPOWER 3.19 3.19 2.72 2.81INFY* 800.80 800.80 792.50 795.90RELINFRA 42.50 42.55 34.45 36.25DHFL 45.80 45.80 38.90 39.70SBIN 277.00 278.00 267.30 268.40BAJFINANCE 3260.00 3260.00 3100.00 3117.80MARUTI 6210.00 6297.95 6167.65 6206.95INDUSINDBK 1370.00 1370.00 1330.00 1335.70LT 1312.30 1327.70 1283.30 1294.10RBLBANK 372.00 377.80 343.90 348.15ASHOKLEY 62.30 62.40 57.50 57.95ONGC 121.90 121.90 116.25 116.85STRTECH 130.00 130.00 104.15 104.15VEDL 138.80 138.85 125.70 129.05HDFCBANK 2226.00 2226.00 2168.00 2173.75ITC 242.00 246.00 238.95 240.10HDFCLIFE 533.00 538.05 525.20 528.25SPICEJET 136.45 136.50 130.80 131.45AXISBANK 669.00 669.80 657.95 660.90BANKBARODA 94.20 94.95 89.75 90.55NMDC 89.15 90.05 78.00 78.65JINDALSTEL 97.60 100.70 95.55 96.85COALINDIA 189.95 189.95 177.80 180.70BRITANNIA 2383.95 2477.00 2383.95 2443.55MOTHERSUMI 97.90 97.90 95.00 96.85UPL 535.00 552.75 508.25 518.45IBVENTURES 195.15 196.00 172.20 190.10HATHWAY 33.60 38.60 33.30 34.35ICICIPRULI 387.00 387.00 376.95 382.90CANBK 221.90 221.90 208.40 209.70GAIL 122.45 124.70 120.10 120.65TCS 2186.05 2235.00 2171.00 2214.90TECHM 679.00 684.15 668.65 682.80HINDUNILVR 1856.00 1879.65 1842.25 1872.25BAJAJFINSV 7175.00 7185.00 6742.20 6764.60JUSTDIAL 682.00 682.00 654.05 676.05SUNPHARMA 416.00 420.65 408.85 414.50NTPC 118.00 118.25 113.80 114.65THOMASCOOK 160.85 160.85 129.40 129.40ZEEL 344.90 344.90 323.50 328.40ULTRACEMCO 3924.00 3942.85 3815.00 3835.10HDFC 2070.00 2072.65 2008.00 2014.85TATAPOWER 51.10 55.70 50.70 53.45L&TFH 97.50 97.50 92.05 93.10PNB 64.00 64.25 61.15 61.45INDIGO 1630.05 1650.30 1615.20 1619.90NBCC 30.70 30.70 29.05 29.30BIOCON 225.00 225.85 218.20 221.60IBREALEST 71.00 71.05 66.25 67.00BEL 93.40 94.15 92.05 93.30KOTAKBANK 1506.00 1509.15 1472.00 1477.30SAIL 31.20 31.80 29.70 30.05HEROMOTOCO 2718.10 2718.10 2612.00 2625.85IOC 122.00 122.00 116.55 117.70WIPRO 252.40 253.50 248.60 252.00HEG 960.00 960.00 886.10 894.75SOUTHBANK 11.00 11.00 10.40 10.52PETRONET 239.00 245.15 236.30 238.85SRF 2885.00 2885.00 2772.90 2787.85PCJEWELLER 31.00 31.00 26.65 27.00M&M 525.00 525.00 509.65 512.15GRAPHITE 283.30 286.00 274.90 276.20HINDPETRO 238.50 238.55 225.00 226.35NCC 54.70 54.90 51.25 51.85HAVELLS 650.00 664.80 642.40 656.15FORCEMOT 1257.95 1259.85 1181.80 1190.45PEL 1761.05 1785.00 1713.35 1725.60WOCKPHARMA 256.40 260.00 250.40 254.40UJJIVAN 256.80 267.60 256.80 260.25TITAN 1067.40 1070.00 1048.60 1062.35OMAXE 196.60 200.35 194.40 197.30DCBBANK 210.00 210.40 188.35 193.60ACC 1488.00 1488.85 1454.05 1465.10HDFCAMC 2201.00 2201.00 2125.00 2138.05GRASIM 695.00 708.70 682.00 687.80DMART 1481.00 1503.00 1478.00 1485.65TATAELXSI 634.90 638.75 603.55 606.75EQUITAS 103.90 105.05 101.45 101.95DBL 406.90 406.90 329.55 336.85ADANIENT 131.05 131.55 126.35 126.95GODREJIND 438.60 439.00 426.40 428.35BPCL 328.90 329.65 309.90 312.65BHARTIARTL 352.85 357.05 351.20 352.65BHEL 48.05 48.75 47.80 48.00M&MFIN 315.10 319.70 303.50 305.50EXIDEIND 174.00 178.50 168.70 170.75MGL 852.00 855.60 831.35 833.60HCLTECH 1070.70 1086.10 1056.85 1078.45ADANITRANS 223.65 225.95 214.50 216.30ESCORTS 449.00 449.00 429.50 432.00CGPOWER 10.65 11.65 10.65 10.65SPARC 151.05 151.10 143.10 144.95EDELWEISS 115.00 115.75 105.20 106.75JSWSTEEL 215.70 220.50 213.00 217.05HINDALCO 174.60 179.20 172.75 176.60BANDHANBNK 474.00 475.75 453.00 457.35UFLEX 198.70 202.00 198.00 199.65
SUNTV 415.00 426.15 407.10 415.35INDIACEM 75.75 76.10 70.55 70.90SBILIFE 828.00 837.40 808.10 815.35DELTACORP 146.80 147.70 142.25 146.05BANKINDIA 65.25 65.25 61.70 62.35UNIONBANK 60.00 60.70 57.90 58.45MANAPPURAM 122.00 122.00 117.60 118.20ASIANPAINT 1590.00 1593.90 1567.00 1570.35ENGINERSIN 98.70 102.00 94.10 95.35AMBUJACEM 200.45 200.85 196.50 197.70CADILAHC 211.20 217.00 206.45 214.00DISHTV 22.35 23.10 21.30 21.65GNFC 189.00 189.00 172.15 176.85ADANIPOWER 58.50 59.35 56.50 56.95TATAMTRDVR 52.85 53.05 50.25 50.85MARICO 394.00 394.15 389.65 391.45BATAINDIA 1470.20 1474.45 1447.35 1457.60DRREDDY 2527.00 2558.80 2503.40 2545.10PFC 101.20 102.70 100.05 101.80BOMDYEING 68.75 68.75 62.95 63.45OBEROIRLTY 504.00 504.00 476.10 483.85JUBLFOOD 1131.80 1149.90 1093.60 1104.95FEDERALBNK 82.85 82.85 79.90 80.40NOCIL 77.40 77.40 73.90 75.40CEATLTD 872.30 877.65 852.35 870.05GRUH 246.75 250.05 229.10 232.45IDFCFIRSTB 43.75 43.75 42.35 43.00APOLLOTYRE 160.30 165.25 160.30 163.15RAYMOND 565.85 566.90 543.70 547.65NESTLEIND 12649.90 12795.70 12410.85 12458.55AUROPHARMA 590.15 600.00 584.00 590.85MFSL 445.45 454.35 435.50 439.70STAR 377.90 384.70 370.20 377.05EICHERMOT 16190.00 16190.00 15500.00 15525.70BEML 756.00 757.60 721.00 734.75JAICORPLTD 72.00 72.00 66.50 67.60TVSMOTOR 368.00 368.35 352.85 356.30PERSISTENT 539.00 584.95 533.00 569.45KNRCON 246.15 249.30 237.80 241.00ABCAPITAL 90.00 90.35 86.65 88.05GODFRYPHLP 973.00 973.90 898.00 916.60DCMSHRIRAM 397.50 397.50 373.05 379.85NATIONALUM 38.90 39.30 37.70 38.00
REPCOHOME 312.70 317.20 309.00 312.80JAMNAAUTO 33.75 33.95 31.40 31.85CHOLAFIN 256.00 258.95 247.05 249.55LUPIN 735.85 745.95 731.75 737.25TATACHEM 556.25 556.25 545.40 550.75VENKYS 1420.00 1431.40 1360.30 1369.60DABUR 427.05 431.85 424.60 427.95WESTLIFE 289.70 289.75 271.45 275.75PARAGMILK 138.50 146.60 134.60 136.40NHPC 23.35 23.35 23.20 23.25ITI 67.80 67.80 59.70 60.15MAHLOG 352.00 353.00 325.60 344.85TATAGLOBAL 265.00 265.00 256.35 258.60RAJESHEXPO 717.00 734.25 702.00 728.80SUVEN 255.90 258.00 251.85 253.40GODREJCP 610.00 622.35 603.50 607.95PVR 1468.00 1483.30 1445.05 1453.95IGL 326.40 326.40 314.65 321.80NAVINFLUOR 705.60 706.50 663.00 690.05CIPLA 470.00 470.00 460.65 463.10KEC 273.90 273.90 250.00 251.50JPASSOCIAT 2.28 2.28 2.09 2.11SRTRANSFIN 1005.00 1006.30 981.30 986.95PRESTIGE 289.15 299.90 280.00 291.20IRB 85.45 85.45 80.65 81.50AJANTPHARM 947.00 969.90 931.65 965.25FSL 48.70 49.00 46.00 46.55NAUKRI 2134.65 2140.05 2040.55 2049.85PHILIPCARB 117.60 117.90 112.45 113.25HFCL 19.90 19.90 18.65 18.70MINDAIND 307.65 309.85 301.05 305.45MCX 841.00 852.00 825.75 837.55DIVISLAB 1536.60 1575.65 1532.05 1568.40ADANIPORTS 351.10 351.10 341.00 345.00JUBILANT 440.90 440.90 405.25 408.65RNAM 232.15 244.80 232.00 239.50BERGEPAINT 364.10 365.30 357.50 362.00RADICO 305.00 305.60 287.40 291.45AVANTI 295.10 295.10 281.55 282.40
BAJAJ-AUTO 2773.70 2774.65 2732.40 2741.55BHARATFORG 390.00 390.60 380.00 383.80RAMCOCEM 713.25 716.15 683.55 705.30APOLLOHOSP 1469.85 1474.00 1445.00 1450.45RECLTD 140.15 141.45 137.35 138.55ICICIGI 1131.25 1148.00 1121.80 1140.85PIIND 1108.00 1189.00 1095.00 1145.40ALKEM 1721.40 1792.50 1721.00 1750.05NIITTECH 1366.00 1374.50 1352.50 1360.45SONATSOFTW 313.65 316.10 309.55 315.35INFRATEL 246.50 248.60 244.35 246.55CENTURYTEX 830.00 836.85 809.70 811.95IDBI 25.40 25.40 24.10 24.45GLENMARK 364.05 365.60 356.35 359.55MEGH 43.70 43.80 42.00 42.20VOLTAS 588.00 605.50 586.00 597.95CANFINHOME 380.25 381.05 362.20 369.50SIEMENS 1153.00 1160.00 1131.00 1141.20PIDILITIND 1366.00 1369.50 1347.00 1360.70RCF 40.35 40.65 38.00 38.20DEEPAKNI 273.50 273.50 260.00 260.30SOBHA 471.35 471.35 448.55 450.45REDINGTON 100.70 105.45 98.50 104.70MINDTREE 700.85 703.70 681.50 693.10POWERGRID 204.00 205.55 200.85 202.80ADANIGAS 153.10 153.10 145.45 146.15TORNTPOWER 282.85 287.55 279.70 281.85TIMKEN 704.90 709.90 701.70 704.45COFFEEDAY 76.40 76.40 75.00 76.40GODREJAGRO 448.00 452.60 433.80 437.50HEXAWARE 382.00 384.00 376.45 377.85KAJARIACER 488.60 488.60 467.35 472.15SWANENERGY 100.85 101.50 99.75 100.80WELSPUNIND 47.20 49.35 45.40 47.85CUMMINSIND 570.00 574.25 554.45 568.80IPCALAB 943.70 964.50 943.25 958.70SUNTECK 447.00 448.40 421.30 428.75GODREJPROP 898.00 900.55 880.00 890.85HEIDELBERG 202.00 202.40 186.05 187.35ABFRL 186.00 191.30 185.50 189.65LAKSHVILAS 39.80 40.25 39.80 39.85BAJAJELEC 369.00 370.55 357.20 359.70UBL 1280.00 1308.60 1275.05 1291.60LALPATHLAB 1188.30 1215.00 1162.80 1178.25WABAG 273.15 273.15 261.60 263.40GICRE 172.00 172.00 158.00 160.20MUTHOOTFIN 609.00 619.25 594.50 598.45SYNGENE 303.20 305.50 294.00 304.35CASTROLIND 116.05 116.25 112.75 114.00J&KBANK 35.80 35.80 33.20 33.40BALKRISIND 732.85 738.45 724.70 735.55INOXLEISUR 272.15 274.15 255.00 258.80INDIANB 173.00 173.00 166.20 167.25SHANKARA 293.40 299.90 272.00 285.30AMARAJABAT 611.00 611.00 590.30 602.50RAIN 81.25 82.00 79.05 79.95JINDALSAW 66.65 66.65 64.55 65.10VBL 645.85 649.35 625.00 640.50KEI 458.15 458.15 391.75 413.85PTC 58.50 58.75 57.65 57.95GRANULES 91.10 92.30 88.05 88.60AUBANK 691.05 691.05 664.30 671.10CHAMBLFERT 138.45 139.15 133.70 135.85GMRINFRA 14.70 15.05 14.44 14.69LTTS 1563.80 1586.90 1556.00 1572.65HINDCOPPER 30.20 30.20 28.25 28.80TAKE 102.70 103.35 100.10 102.00CHENNPETRO 193.70 193.70 183.20 189.25ADANIGREEN 44.10 44.50 43.10 43.55PGHL 4315.00 4350.00 4080.00 4175.70MAHINDCIE 149.10 149.85 138.45 144.20JKTYRE 57.00 57.05 55.40 56.35TRENT 474.95 477.95 467.50 470.25OIL 143.70 144.60 141.80 142.30BBTC 758.00 767.70 740.25 757.35HSCL 78.55 78.75 75.00 75.90COLPAL 1204.95 1204.95 1180.30 1190.05MOIL 122.00 125.00 118.55 120.60INDHOTEL 128.60 130.25 121.15 124.70HUDCO 32.50 32.65 30.25 30.35VIPIND 382.00 382.10 369.00 370.70FRETAIL 419.80 423.80 409.40 413.45LTI 1608.15 1615.00 1587.75 1593.30ALBK 32.25 32.25 30.15 30.80TATACOFFEE 71.00 71.00 68.55 68.75BAJAJCON 252.85 265.00 243.10 244.30GSFC 72.10 72.30 68.65 70.85INTELLECT 221.20 221.90 210.25 212.95TATACOMM 426.00 430.10 420.40 423.10GICHSGFIN 172.20 172.20 160.00 161.45CENTRUM 27.80 28.50 27.50 28.10BALMLAWRIE 171.20 171.20 162.50 164.20TRIDENT 57.00 57.00 54.00 54.45CONCOR 482.00 487.70 480.05 482.60JMFINANCIL 71.50 71.55 70.05 70.65HINDZINC 202.35 202.50 198.35 199.55JISLJALEQS 20.40 20.40 19.10 19.50QUESS 446.00 453.55 441.00 449.60CROMPTON 223.35 226.00 221.15 224.00KALPATPOWR 480.50 488.95 464.60 468.80CARERATING 576.10 576.10 521.15 533.05SUNDRMFAST 405.50 412.00 400.00 406.05ISEC 205.00 206.90 200.00 202.25DCAL 176.20 176.50 159.50 165.80MPHASIS 959.85 972.40 954.40 967.90ORIENTBANK 63.05 63.15 60.10 60.40RITES 232.90 234.90 224.65 227.70TORNTPHARM 1668.00 1681.00 1652.50 1673.30KRBL 221.00 221.25 212.30 216.45
GSPL 216.45 219.70 213.60 215.95ENDURANCE 871.20 881.90 852.95 862.15JSWENERGY 67.60 67.80 66.70 67.10RCOM 1.03 1.04 1.03 1.03DEEPAKFERT 81.75 82.10 77.65 77.95CENTRALBK 18.70 18.70 17.90 18.10INOXWIND 35.05 36.80 33.20 33.65ESSELPRO 84.25 84.25 78.85 80.45INFIBEAM 40.15 40.55 39.55 39.85FCONSUMER 30.80 31.00 29.00 29.95KANSAINER 471.00 475.80 462.65 473.30APLAPOLLO 1304.35 1304.35 1259.20 1278.95GET&D 148.95 155.00 144.25 152.30FORTIS 121.70 123.10 120.50 121.65PNBHOUSING 692.00 692.00 671.35 674.45ATUL 3507.45 3574.95 3480.00 3541.70BDL 284.55 285.00 265.90 269.60EMAMILTD 297.00 297.00 280.25 283.50CUB 198.80 199.35 193.75 196.45KTKBANK 74.00 74.60 73.10 73.60OFSS 2883.00 2928.50 2844.00 2909.55GREAVESCOT 118.05 120.05 115.40 115.85GHCL 191.70 194.00 184.75 185.10AIAENG 1609.00 1620.00 1580.00 1593.55IDFC 34.15 34.15 32.75 33.20SCI 25.85 25.90 25.10 25.25IRCON 348.20 354.65 347.00 351.10COCHINSHIP 342.95 342.95 333.80 334.80LEMONTREE 52.60 53.15 52.05 53.00TV18BRDCST 19.05 19.05 18.10 18.30VINATIORGA 2006.05 2070.00 2000.00 2049.35VGUARD 229.60 229.60 225.70 226.95PHOENIXLTD 635.00 638.00 620.35 632.55COROMANDEL 360.00 361.00 348.95 357.10BLISSGVS 90.00 92.00 82.10 82.10MMTC 18.80 18.80 17.55 17.85GLAXO 1210.00 1219.50 1178.55 1204.65GESHIP* 246.30 246.40 232.65 237.45DBCORP 147.10 147.10 137.65 139.05MAHSEAMLES 398.00 398.00 365.45 368.90MOTILALOFS 552.05 575.90 539.00 562.00ITDC 167.50 167.50 154.45 156.25PFIZER 2900.00 2900.00 2860.00 2880.20TATAINVEST 776.50 777.20 745.05 750.65NATCOPHARM 534.00 545.70 531.00 542.80CYIENT 437.70 443.50 436.30 440.00ALLCARGO 91.95 94.60 89.75 91.85IOB 9.70 9.70 9.00 9.25LAXMIMACH 3682.45 3690.00 3600.00 3600.45RALLIS 155.50 157.70 150.25 156.10PAGEIND 17902.35 17984.00 17600.00 17680.50GUJALKALI 389.05 392.90 380.00 380.75ASHOKA 116.50 116.50 109.10 111.95CENTURYPLY 131.30 132.00 125.60 126.70GUJGAS 182.50 182.50 177.75 178.40BOSCHLTD 13701.00 13701.00 13206.00 13408.35ASTRAZEN 1698.00 1718.00 1660.00 1677.30TNPL 177.40 178.40 172.25 173.25GILLETTE 7069.55 7150.00 7057.50 7131.95MAHABANK 11.65 11.71 10.80 11.32ABB 1356.50 1356.50 1341.00 1349.00WELCORP 113.30 113.30 109.50 110.55ANDHRABANK 18.10 18.30 17.55 17.60ZYDUSWELL 1520.40 1550.00 1501.00 1513.55SADBHAV 121.10 122.80 115.15 116.15GSKCONS 8000.00 8122.35 8000.00 8095.95MRPL 46.65 46.75 45.75 45.90VTL 900.00 900.00 880.05 894.10NETWORK18 20.30 20.30 18.00 18.45FLFL 449.80 449.80 425.00 427.65NLCINDIA 54.50 55.20 53.85 54.10JKCEMENT 996.30 1005.30 973.30 987.90AAVAS 1450.55 1499.55 1446.90 1474.40AEGISLOG 200.70 203.45 197.05 199.35ABBOTINDIA 8946.50 9065.00 8577.00 8733.80FINCABLES 370.70 372.55 354.55 368.75THYROCARE 439.10 442.95 436.90 437.90INDOSTAR 274.15 275.85 272.95 273.35IEX 131.00 136.70 129.25 134.30THERMAX 1038.60 1045.00 1000.90 1014.85EIHOTEL 150.70 154.95 145.95 149.40UCOBANK 14.80 15.00 14.30 14.65GPPL 79.20 80.40 77.00 79.35JETAIRWAYS 34.00 34.00 32.85 32.85JSLHISAR 63.55 63.60 61.40 62.20VARROC 405.65 405.65 380.05 392.90SUPREMEIND 1121.65 1125.90 1090.00 1102.85BIRLACORPN 549.60 553.00 530.00 532.80SHRIRAMCIT 1295.00 1398.80 1295.00 1387.40IFCI 7.01 7.11 7.00 7.03FINOLEXIND 504.30 504.30 499.10 499.35SOMANYCERA 275.00 278.80 262.25 265.70GDL 93.40 94.15 89.45 90.30SYNDIBANK 30.00 30.15 29.55 29.75ECLERX 484.00 484.00 453.30 471.95TIMETECHNO 59.00 59.60 56.30 56.65PNCINFRA 197.40 198.10 191.10 192.05SHK 118.00 119.00 117.00 117.70JBCHEPHARM 381.15 381.40 379.70 380.30BAYERCROP 3120.10 3127.80 3055.35 3101.95LAOPALA 154.00 154.00 148.35 149.30NESCO 522.05 529.30 520.00 522.60ORIENTCEM 83.30 83.30 80.00 81.50WHIRLPOOL 1540.10 1550.40 1536.30 1539.55APLLTD 503.00 504.90 498.00 500.35BAJAJHLDNG 3331.75 3382.50 3323.70 3346.65MINDACORP 74.70 74.70 68.30 69.05ADVENZYMES 150.45 150.45 146.65 146.85TATAMETALI 524.00 525.00 498.85 500.55
ASTERDM 117.60 118.00 113.00 115.40TEJASNET 85.40 85.45 81.50 83.05MRF 57300.00 57699.00 57146.00 57585.90SHREECEM 18700.00 18715.50 18310.00 18462.05EIDPARRY 147.25 149.70 144.90 145.50GALAXYSURF 1297.00 1310.00 1290.70 1302.20NIACL 106.00 106.05 103.90 104.10VMART 1760.00 1781.50 1713.25 1745.65CAPPL 405.30 410.10 400.00 403.10PRSMJOHNSN 84.20 84.65 83.10 83.25SCHNEIDER 72.75 73.10 71.50 72.50GMDCLTD 62.00 62.05 60.10 60.35MAHSCOOTER 3978.55 3978.55 3873.10 3891.25PGHH 10399.00 10414.90 10160.65 10288.00CORPBANK 18.10 18.50 17.60 17.75HERITGFOOD 323.15 330.00 318.80 328.70SJVN 24.30 24.35 24.05 24.20SHILPAMED 260.00 260.10 250.10 251.50JKLAKSHMI 322.15 322.20 318.80 319.50TIINDIA 346.50 346.50 335.65 338.05JSL 29.00 29.00 26.80 28.25SREINFRA 10.60 10.73 9.88 10.10SCHAEFFLER 4060.95 4068.55 3952.00 4026.45RELAXO 422.15 425.00 410.15 421.80EVEREADY 81.25 81.40 77.35 77.35ASTRAL 1244.40 1250.65 1233.45 1239.85NILKAMAL 990.00 999.10 980.80 993.15HAL 660.00 666.70 646.60 647.90HIMATSEIDE 124.55 127.95 124.15 124.45NH 227.15 229.80 223.75 227.80BASF 990.00 993.00 976.00 987.70BLUEDART 2201.00 2240.00 2195.10 2230.25ZENSARTECH 215.75 217.00 214.10 215.60ASAHIINDIA 180.00 183.00 175.00 175.25IFBIND 629.70 629.70 602.05 606.30UNITEDBNK 9.61 9.61 9.11 9.24FDC 158.65 160.00 156.00 156.35MASFIN 608.45 616.90 592.50 593.40LUXIND 999.60 1010.00 983.50 995.10LAURUSLABS 335.00 336.15 326.55 331.65CARBORUNIV 273.20 273.65 266.40 269.60FINEORG 1430.25 1438.00 1425.00 1428.50TCNSBRANDS 713.85 713.85 662.45 670.80ELGIEQUIP 240.60 242.95 240.00 241.35ITDCEM 69.00 69.90 67.65 67.95MHRIL 208.85 212.75 208.15 209.65CCL 242.55 246.15 240.45 244.05GRINDWELL 563.30 574.55 563.30 564.70AKZOINDIA 1702.45 1711.00 1691.00 1691.75CRISIL 1242.05 1267.95 1242.05 1250.95SANOFI 6144.55 6145.00 5921.00 5945.70TTKPRESTIG 5681.10 5906.95 5681.10 5793.40GEPIL 721.85 744.35 707.00 739.25MONSANTO 2050.00 2064.20 2022.00 2055.65CREDITACC 510.50 513.00 500.00 506.50DHANUKA 318.85 327.55 307.75 326.90KPRMILL 574.05 574.05 545.05 548.85TRITURBINE 101.75 103.00 98.45 102.15CHOLAHLDNG 460.80 465.00 460.75 464.25APARINDS 529.00 532.80 517.65 528.35ORIENTELEC 152.25 154.40 149.00 153.10STARCEMENT 91.30 94.20 91.20 94.00NBVENTURES 86.00 86.00 83.10 83.65SUDARSCHEM 316.30 318.10 313.15 314.25SHOPERSTOP 361.25 365.00 360.00 360.15TEAMLEASE 2389.70 2425.00 2360.85 2411.80BLUESTARCO 718.40 718.40 708.25 709.05TVSSRICHAK 1655.00 1658.90 1632.35 1643.85JSWHL 2669.15 2785.00 2602.70 2675.00JYOTHYLAB 151.10 151.40 149.05 150.10LINDEINDIA 481.10 482.70 477.00 479.50GAYAPROJ 114.65 114.65 110.95 112.30ERIS 394.30 395.00 388.00 394.55HONAUT 23100.00 23150.00 22875.00 22953.80SUPRAJIT 181.00 181.00 176.25 177.20SYMPHONY 1219.25 1235.25 1219.25 1231.60SIS 702.40 815.35 702.40 796.90SFL 1140.00 1150.00 1124.10 1135.55GULFOILLUB 848.00 870.00 848.00 864.00MAHLIFE 362.40 373.50 362.40 368.70WABCOINDIA 6090.00 6144.00 6068.00 6085.10SKFINDIA 1834.85 1854.75 1834.70 1844.90MAGMA 67.00 68.00 66.15 66.70CERA 2403.55 2425.00 2375.60 2382.25HATSUN 601.90 603.00 581.00 584.30TVTODAY 299.90 301.00 298.00 298.50JAGRAN 69.70 70.10 69.00 69.50RATNAMANI 890.00 918.60 890.00 903.303MINDIA 20250.00 20329.50 20187.15 20213.45IBULISL 91.65 95.20 91.65 91.65SOLARINDS 1089.85 1091.40 1063.25 1071.20MAXINDIA 55.80 55.80 54.10 54.80JCHAC 1571.00 1581.55 1571.00 1576.00
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SCRIP OPEN HIgh LOW LTP CHANGENIFTY 50 10905.30 10908.25 10718.30 10741.35 -177.35BRITANNIA 2393.50 2477.00 2393.00 2425.40 40.90TECHM 672.65 684.00 668.10 683.00 10.20DRREDDY 2503.00 2560.00 2503.00 2533.05 30.05TCS 2187.00 2235.65 2170.00 2210.00 23.80HINDUNILVR 1850.45 1880.00 1841.90 1869.10 19.10HCLTECH 1070.50 1086.35 1056.05 1079.00 8.85INFRATEL 246.10 248.75 244.25 245.90 1.30WIPRO 252.00 253.50 248.50 251.95 -0.45TITAN 1065.80 1070.00 1048.05 1061.55 -3.75MARUTI 6200.00 6298.50 6168.00 6198.00 -30.90INFY 799.90 801.30 792.35 795.40 -4.05AXISBANK 665.00 669.85 657.75 661.15 -3.55ITC 242.20 246.00 239.00 240.00 -1.45BAJAJ-AUTO 2762.00 2775.00 2731.30 2748.00 -16.80BHARTIARTL 355.00 357.20 351.00 351.95 -2.95HINDALCO 174.00 179.30 172.65 175.50 -1.55SUNPHARMA 416.70 420.75 408.50 413.00 -4.00POWERGRID 204.50 205.55 200.80 202.85 -2.05ASIANPAINT 1585.20 1593.90 1566.30 1570.00 -19.15CIPLA 464.90 469.95 460.60 462.00 -6.05JSWSTEEL 215.00 220.40 212.80 216.10 -2.90GRASIM 691.90 708.80 681.25 688.55 -10.25GAIL 122.00 124.70 119.75 120.70 -1.80LT 1302.00 1327.45 1283.15 1290.05 -20.60ADANIPORTS 348.80 348.80 340.80 345.20 -5.50KOTAKBANK 1503.95 1510.00 1472.40 1480.00 -25.75M&M 521.55 523.75 509.85 511.85 -9.05INDUSINDBK 1365.95 1365.95 1330.05 1339.75 -27.45RELIANCE 1270.95 1271.00 1238.90 1244.20 -26.75ULTRACEMCO 3903.75 3943.30 3817.10 3838.20 -83.20HDFCBANK 2220.85 2220.85 2167.05 2177.00 -48.85ONGC 121.20 121.50 116.20 117.70 -2.75NTPC 118.00 118.40 113.85 114.90 -3.00IOC 121.05 121.50 116.40 117.95 -3.10HDFC 2066.00 2073.50 2007.95 2012.30 -54.60TATASTEEL 339.90 346.95 330.40 333.00 -10.00EICHERMOT 16005.00 16052.00 15480.05 15530.00 -470.50ICICIBANK 411.00 412.50 398.00 398.85 -13.20HEROMOTOCO2713.00 2714.25 2606.00 2626.00 -88.25UPL 535.00 552.65 507.85 518.00 -17.90SBIN 278.30 278.30 267.30 268.00 -9.40TATAMOTORS 112.00 114.00 106.20 108.05 -4.35COALINDIA 188.00 188.45 177.70 181.10 -7.70ZEEL 342.15 343.90 323.20 330.00 -14.20BPCL 328.00 329.85 309.55 313.70 -14.10BAJFINANCE 3259.00 3259.00 3098.45 3113.90 -147.55IBULHSGFIN 470.00 470.00 438.30 458.50 -25.05BAJAJFINSV 7164.00 7186.25 6740.00 6774.00 -371.85VEDL 138.60 138.90 125.30 129.30 -10.65YESBANK 66.40 67.70 53.20 57.45 -7.95
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SCRIP OPEN HIgh LOW LTP CHANGENIFTY NEXT 50 25460.85 25476.85 25078.75 25136.90 -345.15DIVISLAB 1537.60 1576.30 1531.50 1569.00 35.90OFSS 2851.05 2927.35 2851.05 2902.60 52.40HAVELLS 647.50 665.00 643.35 658.90 8.25PETRONET 238.00 245.25 236.15 239.95 1.05NHPC 23.30 23.35 23.15 23.30 0.10CONCOR 482.95 488.00 480.00 483.85 0.85PGHH 10325.95 10398.00 10151.10 10299.85 12.80LUPIN 735.30 746.00 730.55 736.00 0.80UBL 1287.90 1309.00 1273.65 1286.00 0.00AUROPHARMA 589.50 600.70 583.85 589.20 -0.30BANDHANBNK 469.00 476.00 452.25 465.00 -0.40DMART 1481.75 1504.00 1477.35 1479.95 -1.80BAJAJHLDNG 3370.00 3389.70 3330.00 3343.30 -8.20DABUR 425.00 431.85 424.80 426.00 -1.05HDFCLIFE 533.95 538.35 525.40 529.00 -1.70ICICIGI 1125.25 1148.70 1120.25 1130.35 -4.00MRF 57502.00 57700.00 56979.00 57449.90 -287.10INDIGO 1625.00 1650.00 1614.80 1616.00 -8.80BHEL 48.15 48.80 47.70 48.00 -0.30PIDILITIND 1369.30 1369.35 1345.55 1357.40 -8.90BIOCON 224.70 226.25 218.05 221.90 -1.55ABB 1361.55 1364.00 1340.00 1350.00 -9.35CADILAHC 210.00 217.30 206.50 212.65 -1.50MARICO 393.00 394.30 389.50 390.35 -3.25MOTHERSUMI 96.90 97.45 94.90 96.00 -0.90GODREJCP 611.90 621.70 603.30 607.00 -6.40ICICIPRULI 386.00 386.00 376.80 381.60 -4.10COLPAL 1200.05 1203.30 1180.00 1185.00 -14.15ACC 1483.15 1489.00 1454.20 1462.70 -22.95HINDZINC 201.00 202.90 198.05 199.25 -3.25SIEMENS 1156.95 1161.20 1128.35 1132.05 -19.85SHREECEM 18672.40 18789.95 18311.05 18341.00 -360.95AMBUJACEM 200.80 200.90 196.50 197.00 -4.10BOSCHLTD 13645.70 13773.45 13213.25 13400.00 -287.95SBILIFE 826.20 837.65 805.55 810.00 -19.45MCDOWELL-N 577.10 587.40 561.00 565.00 -13.85PAGEIND 17950.10 17999.85 17590.05 17607.00 -433.95NIACL 106.15 106.15 103.15 103.80 -2.65HDFCAMC 2199.00 2199.60 2125.90 2138.00 -62.75SRTRANSFIN 1009.20 1009.20 981.35 982.50 -29.35PEL 1777.00 1784.95 1710.85 1724.00 -58.80BANKBARODA 94.30 95.00 89.65 91.40 -3.45L&TFH 96.90 97.50 92.05 93.10 -3.55SAIL 31.30 31.75 29.70 30.10 -1.25HINDPETRO 238.05 238.90 225.00 227.00 -11.75IDEA 5.55 5.75 5.20 5.30 -0.30ASHOKLEY 62.30 62.50 57.40 57.70 -4.20GICRE 173.00 174.00 158.00 158.50 -13.95NMDC 89.40 90.25 77.80 78.10 -8.25DLF 168.80 168.90 137.65 143.05 -28.55
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Fugitive diamond merchantNirav Modi, wanted in
India in connection with thenearly USD 2 billion PunjabNational Bank (PNB) fraudand money laundering case,appeared before a UK court onThursday via videolink fromhis London prison and was fur-ther remanded in judicial cus-tody till September 19.
The routine “call-over”hearing in the 48-year-old’sextradition case atWestminster Magistrates’Court was presided over byJudge Tan Ikram, who toldModi that his trial dates wouldbe confirmed at the next call-over hearing on September 19,when he will again appear viavideolink.
“No progress today, I’mafraid,” Judge Ikram said, as he
gave directions for the courtclerk to seek a confirmation ofthe proposed five-day extra-dition trial dates starting May11, 2020.
There is also likely to be acase management hearing inthe case ahead of the trial inFebruary next year.
Modi, who was dressed ina track suit, appeared in asombre mood during the verybrief hearing.
He has been lodged atWandsworth prison in south-west London since his arrest inMarch on an extradition war-rant executed by ScotlandYard on charges brought by theIndian government, being rep-resented by the UK’s CrownProsecution Service (CPS).
Chief Magistrate EmmaArbuthnot presided over thelast remand hearing in July atWestminster Magistrates’
Court via videolink from theprison where Modi is beingheld, during which she hadindicated that the dates for anestimated five-day trial wouldbe mutually agreed by bothsides soon.
As per the timelines dis-cussed during the brief hear-ing, the judge said she expect-ed to receive all the evidenceand skeleton argument bun-dles in the case by April 8, witha five-day hearing then expect-ed to be slotted in May nextyear. Under UK law, Modi isexpected to be producedbefore the court within a 28-day period.
Since his arrest, Modi hasattempted to get bail but it hasbeen rejected multiple times,the fourth and final time beingby the UK High Court inJune.
In her judgment handed
down at the Royal Courts ofJustice in London, JusticeIngrid Simler had concludedthere were “substantialgrounds” to believe that Modiwould fail to surrender as hedoes possess the means to“abscond”.
Reiterating similar con-cerns as those previouslyraised by WestminsterMagistrates’ Court during ear-lier bail attempts, Judge Simlerruled that after considering allthe material “carefully”, shehad found strong evidence tosuggest there had been inter-ference with witnesses anddestruction of evidence in thecase and concluded it can stilloccur.
“The applicant has accessto considerable financialresources, supported by anincreased [bail bond security]offer of GBP 2 million,” the
judge noted.The High Court judge
stressed that while it was notfor her to take a “definitiveview” on the evidence, she hadproceeded on the basis that thegovernment of India has actedin good faith in what is“undoubtedly” a serious caseand a “sophisticated interna-tional conspiracy” to defraud,together with money laun-dering. Modi was arrested byuniformed Scotland Yard offi-cers on an extradition warranton March 19 and has been inprison since.
During subsequent hear-ings, Westminster Magistrates’Court was told that Modi wasthe “principal beneficiary” ofthe fraudulent issuance of let-ters of undertaking (LoUs) aspart of a conspiracy to defraudPNB and then laundering theproceeds of crime.
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External Affairs Minister SJaishankar and his Nepalese
counterpart Pradeep Gyawalihave reviewed bilateral tieswith special focus on connec-tivity and economic partner-ship, officials said here onThursday.
The two leaders also dis-cussed matters related to coop-eration in international, region-al and sub-regional fora at the5th Nepal-India JointCommission meeting, whichconcluded here on Wednesday,a statement issued by theMinistry of Foreign Affairs inNepal said.
“The fifth Meeting of theNepal-India Joint Commissionreviewed the entire gamut ofbilateral relations with specif-ic focus on the areas of con-nectivity and economic part-nership, trade and transit,power and water resources,culture and education,” it said
The two ministers empha-sised on enhancing coopera-tion in tourism sector, partic-ularly in the context of VisitNepal Year 2020 that aims to
attract two million visitors, thestatement said.
Established in 1987, theNepal-India Joint Commissionmeetings are being held alter-nately in Nepal and India. Thelast meeting of theCommission was held in NewDelhi in October 2016.
During the meeting, viewswere also exchanged on thereview of the Treaty of Peaceand Friendship of 1950 andsubmission of report of theEminent Persons Group onNepal-India Relations, thestatement said.
“The Joint Commissionexpressed happiness at theprogress made in the bilateralprojects, such as Motihari-Amlekhgunj PetroleumProducts Pipeline, four seg-ments of Hulaki Roads, andpost-earthquake reconstruc-tion of private housing inNuwakot and Gorkha districtswhich have been completed,” itsaid.
Both the sides alsoexpressed satisfaction over theprogress made in theJayanagar-Janakpur andJogbani-Biratnagar sections of
the cross-border railway pro-jects and the Integrated CheckPost in Biratnagar.
“The Joint Commissionalso noted with satisfactionthe progress made in three newareas agreed during the visit ofPrime Minister Oli to India inApril 2018, namely, Raxaul-Kathmandu Electrified RailLine, Inland Waterways andNew Partnership inAgriculture,” the statementsaid.
The two sides also agreedto an early conclusion of thereview of treaties and agree-ments related to the trade,transit and rail services. Theyalso agreed to continue upgrad-ing and maintenance of infra-structure and logistic facilitiesat major border crossing-pointsfor facilitating trade and tran-sit between the two countries.
Noting that inundation is aserious problem for people liv-ing in border areas, the JointCommission underlined theneed to address inundationissues mainly due to the inad-equate drainage provision thatobstructs the natural flow ofwater in border areas.
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Countries like India, Iran,Russia and Turkey would
have to fight against terroristsin Afghanistan at some point oftime, President Donald Trumphas said, ruing that the jobagainst the extremists is beingdone only by the United Statessome 7,000 miles away.
Trump said on Wednesdaythat other nations currently aremaking very less efforts againstthe terrorists in Afghanistan.
“At a certain point Russia,Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Turkeythey are going to have to fighttheir battles too. We wiped outthe caliphate 100 per cent. I didit in record time but at a cer-tain point all of these othercountries where ISIS is aroundthey have been decimated bythe way, badly decimated,”Trump told reporters at theWhite House while respondingto a question on the reemer-gence of ISIS in Afghanistan.
“All of these countries aregoing to have to fight thembecause do we want to staythere for another 19 years? Idon’t think so. So, at a certain
point other countries and thatincludes Russia and it includesIran and Turkey and Iraq andAfghanistan and Pakistan andIndia,” he said.
Trump’s comments came aday after he indicated that theUS forces will not completelywithdraw from the warn-tornAfghanistan and America will
have “somebody there” to makesure that Taliban does notregain control.
Trump said that the USwas fighting the terrorists inAfghanistan despite being7,000 miles away while Indiaand Pakistan were not doing soeven after being next door.
“Look, India is right there.
They are not fighting it. We arefighting it. Pakistan is right nextdoor. They are fighting it verylittle. Very, very little. It’s notfair. The United States is 7,000miles away,” Trump said.
Trump said that the USunder him has decimated ISIS.
“We haven’t been hearingmuch about ISIS. We took the
caliphate 100 per cent. When Itook it at 98 per cent I said allright, maybe we go home now,let these other countries in.Everyone went crazy. Theysaid do 100 per cent. They saidit was going to take a year. Ittook me a month and they aregone,” he said.
Asserting that the caliphateis gone, he said the US is hold-ing thousands of ISIS fightersright now and Europe has totake them.
And if Europe doesn’t takethem, Trump said, he will haveno choice but to release theminto the countries from whichthey came which is Germanyand France.
“We beat them. We cap-tured them. We’ve got thou-sands of them and now as usualour allies say, no, we don’t wantthem even though they camefrom France and Germany andother places. So we’re going totell them and we have alreadytold them take these prisonersthat we’ve captured because theUnited States is not going to putthem in Guantanamo for thenext 50 years and pay for it,”Trump said.
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The US is seeking a balanc-ing act in South Asia after
India revoked the special sta-tus of Jammu and Kashmir anddivided it into two UnionTerritories, according to a con-gressional report which saidPresident Donald Trump’s offerto “mediate” on the issue mayhave contributed to the timingof New Delhi’s moves.
According to the latestCongressional Research Service(CRS) report – which runs intoover 15 pages – the longstand-ing US position on Kashmir isthat the territory’s status shouldbe settled through negotia-tions between India andPakistan while taking into con-sideration the wishes of theKashmiri people.
“The United States seeks tobalance pursuit of a broad US-India partnership whileupholding human rights pro-tections, as well as maintainingcooperative relations withPakistan,” the report said.
The Trump administra-tion has called for peace andrespect for human rights in theregion. With key US diplomaticposts vacant, some observersworry that the US capacity isthin, and the US presidentTrump’s July offer to “mediate”on Kashmir may have con-tributed to the timing of NewDelhi’s moves, it said.
The CRS reports are notconsidered as an official posi-tion of the US Congress.Notably the CRS has come outwith a report on Kashmir after17 years, reflecting the interestamong lawmakers about theissue after the recent develop-ment.
“India’s August actionssparked international contro-versy as ‘unilateral’ changes ofJ&K’s status that could harmregional stability,” CRS said.
A copy of the report“Kashmir: Background, RecentDevelopments, and US Policy”dated August 16 was obtainedby PTI on Wednesday.
“Increased separatist mili-tancy on Kashmir may alsoundermine the ongoingAfghan peace negotiations,which the Pakistani govern-ment facilitates,” the CRS said,adding that New Delhi’sprocess also raised serious con-stitutional questions and—given heavy-handed securitymeasures in J&K—elicitedmore intense criticisms of Indiaon human rights grounds.
Observing that there areinternational concerns aboutpotential for increased civilunrest and violence in theKashmir Valley, and the cas-cade effect this could have onregional stability, the reportsaid that the TrumpAdministration has limited itspublic statements to calls for
maintaining peace and stabil-ity, and respecting humanrights.
The UN Security Councillikewise calls for restraint by allparties; an “informal” AugustUNSC 16 meeting resulted inno ensuing official UN state-ment, it said.
The CRS said that NewDelhi’s August moves haveenraged Pakistan’s leaders andelicited concerns about furtherescalation between South Asia’stwo nuclear-armed powers,which nearly came to war aftera February 2019 suicide bomb-ing in the Kashmir Valley andretaliatory Indian airstrikes.
The CRS said develop-ments in Kashmir in 2019raise five possible questions forthe Congress like “Do India’sactions changing the status ofits J&K state negatively affectregional stability? If so, whatleverage does the United Stateshave and what US policiesmight best address potentialinstability?” “Is there any diplo-matic or other role for the USgovernment to play in manag-ing India-Pakistan conflict orfacilitating a renewal of theirbilateral dialogue?”
“To what extent doesincreased instability in Kashmirinfluence dynamics inAfghanistan? Will Islamabad’scooperation with Washingtonon Afghan reconciliation bereduced?”
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The US and India will holdtwo key meetings this week,
including an intersessional ofthe 2+2 Dialogue, to discussways to advance cooperationon critical diplomatic and secu-rity priorities and building onthe shared vision for the Indo-Pacific region.
The US will host the inter-sessional meeting of the US-India 2+2 Dialogue inCalifornia on Thursday. Themeeting is aimed at strength-ening the strategic partner-ship, the State Departmentsaid Wednesday.
“During the intersessional,the two sides will discuss waysto advance cooperation oncritical diplomatic and securi-ty priorities, including ourshared vision of a free and openIndo-Pacific region, and reviewpreparations for the next 2+2Ministerial Dialogue,” the StateDepartment said.
The American delegationwill be led jointly by the ActingAssistant Secretary of State forSouth and Central AsianAffairs Alice Wells andAssistant Secretary of Defensefor Indo-Pacific Affairs Randall
Schriver.There was no information
on who will lead the Indian del-egation.
Meanwhile, on Friday, dur-ing the fourth US-IndiaMaritime Security Dialogue,the two sides will exchangeviews on maritime develop-ments in the Indo-Pacificregion and consider steps tofurther strengthen bilateralmaritime security cooperation,the official US statement said.
The US has been pushingfor a broader role by India inthe strategically importantIndo-Pacific region.
India, the US and severalother world powers have beentalking about the need toensure a free, open and thriv-ing Indo-Pacific in the back-drop of China’s rising militarymaneuvering in the region.
Both the 2+2 intersession-al meeting and MaritimeSecurity Dialogue will be heldat the Naval PostgraduateSchool, Monterey in California,it said. The interactions will laythe ground work for the visit ofExternal Affairs Minister SJaishankar and DefenseMinister Rajnath Singh to theUS later this fall.
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Russia on Thursday launched anunmanned rocket carrying a
life-size humanoid robot that willspend 10 days learning to assistastronauts on the InternationalSpace Station.
Named Fedor, for FinalExperimental DemonstrationObject Research with identificationnumber Skybot F850, the robot isthe first ever sent up by Russia.
Fedor blasted off in a Soyuz MS-14 spacecraft at 6:38 am Moscowtime (0338 GMT) from Russia’sBaikonur cosmodrome inKazakhstan. The Soyuz is set to dockwith the space station on Saturdayand stay till September 7.
Soyuz ships are normally
manned on such trips, but onThursday no humans are travellingin order to test a new emergencyrescue system.
Instead of cosmonauts, Fedorwas strapped into a specially adapt-ed pilot’s seat, with a small Russianflag in his hand.
“Let’s go. Let’s go,” the robot washeard as ‘saying’ during launch,apparently repeating the famousphrase by first man in space YuryGagarin.
The silvery anthropomorphicrobot stands 1.80 metres (5 foot 11inches) tall and weighs 160 kilo-grams (353 pounds).
Fedor has Instagram andTwitter accounts that describe it aslearning new skills such as openinga bottle of water. In the station, it will
trial those manual skills in very lowgravity.
“That’s connecting and discon-necting electric cables, using stan-dard items from a screwdriver anda spanner to a fire extinguisher,” theRussian space agency’s director forprospective programmes and sci-ence, Alexander Bloshenko, said intelevised comments ahead of thelaunch.
“The first stage of in-flightexperiments went according to theflight plan,” the robot’s accounttweeted after reaching orbit.
Fedor copies human move-ments, a key skill that allows it toremotely help astronauts or evenpeople on Earth carry out taskswhile they are strapped into anexoskeleton.
Such robots will eventuallycarry out dangerous operationssuch as space walks, Bloshenkotold RIA Novosti state news agency.
On the website of one of thestate backers of the project, theFoundation of Advanced ResearchProjects, Fedor is described aspotentially useful on Earth forworking in high radiation environ-ments, de-mining and tricky rescuemissions.
On board, the robot will per-form tasks supervised by Russiancosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov,who joined the ISS last month, andwill wear an exoskeleton in a seriesof experiments scheduled for laterthis month.
Space agency chief DmitryRogozin showed pictures of the
robot to President Vladimir Putinthis month, saying it will be “anassistant to the crew”.
“In the future we plan that thismachine will also help us conquerdeep space,” he added.
Fedor is not the first robot to gointo space. In 2011, NASA sent upRobonaut 2, a humanoid robotdeveloped with General Motorsand a similar aim of working inhigh-risk environments.
It was flown back to Earth in2018 after experiencing technicalproblems.
In 2013, Japan sent up a smallrobot called Kirobo along with theISS’s first Japanese space comman-der. Developed with Toyota, it wasable to hold conversations — albeitonly in Japanese.
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President Donald Trump hasthreatened to end what he
called the “ridiculous” US pol-icy of birthright citizenship,which gives citizenship auto-matically to those born inAmerica, as he sought ways tocheck illegal immigration.
“We’re looking at that veryseriously, birthright citizen-ship. It’s frankly ridiculous,”Trump said Wednesday outsidethe White House whileresponding to a question on thebirthright citizenship, whichgrants automatic citizenshipto those born in the US.
His comments echoes hisadministration’s previous vowto unilaterally end the processby which babies born in thecountry automatically becomeUS citizens.
“Birthright citizenshipwhere you have a baby on ourland, you walk over the border,have a baby, congratulations,the baby is now a US citizen.We’re looking at it very, veryseriously,” Trump said.
During his 2016 presiden-tial campaign, Trump had saidthat he will end the birthrightcitizenship.
The 14th Amendment ofthe US Constitution guaranteesbirthright citizenship andstates: “All persons born or nat-uralised in the United Statesand subject to the jurisdictionthereof, are citizens of theUnited States and of the Statewherein they reside.”
Indian-origin Presidentialcandidate Kamala Harris, aDemocratic senator fromCalifornia, mocked Trump’scomments on Twitter
Wednesday, stating thePresident “should ‘seriously’consider reading theConstitution.”
Trump’s statement cameas the administrationannounced a proposal to detainundocumented families togeth-er indefinitely, replacing theagreement that set a 20-daylimit for holding children, TheHill reported.
His administration enact-ed and later reversed a “zerotolerance” policy that led to theseparation of thousands ofmigrant families. He has alsosought changes to asylum lawsto keep refugees in Mexicowhile they wait to be processed.
The White House last weekunveiled a rule that wouldmake it more difficult for someimmigrants to obtain greencards, the report said.
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Beijing on Thursday accusedOttawa of worsening bilat-
eral relations after CanadianPrime Minister Justin Trudeauvowed to stand up to Chinaamid deepening diplomaticand trade disputes.
The two countries havebeen locked in a feud since lastDecember, when Canadadetained top Huawei executiveMeng Wanzhou and — inapparent retaliation — Chinadetained two Canadian nation-als over espionage-linked accu-sations.
On Wednesday, Trudeaupushed back against Beijing ina speech that promised to“always defend Canadians andCanadian interests” and to not“back down”.
“At present, China-Canadian relations are facingserious difficulties,” saidChinese foreign ministryspokesman Geng Shuang.
“The responsibility liesentirely on the Canadian side,”
he told reporters at a pressbriefing in Beijing.
“We urge the Canadianside to reflect on its mistakes,”Geng said, adding that Canadashould “immediately” releaseMeng.
He also called on Canadato refrain from making “irre-sponsible remarks” about HongKong, which has been plungedinto weeks of unrest by pro-democracy demonstrations.
Beijing had warnedCanada on Sunday to stopmeddling in Hong Kongaffairs after Ottawa and theEuropean Union issued a jointstatement in support of pro-testors’ “fundamental right ofassembly.”
Canadians are one of thelargest expatriate groups inHong Kong, numbering300,000, according to Canadiangovernment figures.
Relations between Canadaand China tumbled over thearrest of Meng on a US extra-dition request related to allegedIran sanctions.
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Israeli forces bombed Hamastargets in the Gaza Strip
overnight in retaliation forPalestinian rocket attacks, themilitary said Thursday.
Hamas launched two rock-ets at Israel late Wednesday —bringing to six the number ofstrikes from Gaza in less thana week — the army said, addingthat thy caused no casualties ordamage.
In retaliation, the armysaid it “struck “a number ofmilitary targets in a Hamasnaval facility in the northernGaza Strip”.
A Palestinian securitysource told AFP a naval basewest of Gaza City had been“targeted several times” byIsraeli aircraft.
The source said aircrafthad also targeted “three sites inthe central Gaza Strip and inKhan Yunis” in the south.
He reported no casualties.There have been a series of
deadly incidents along theGaza border since the start ofthe month.
On Sunday, the threePalestinians were killed byIsraeli soldiers in the northernGaza Strip.
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Italy’s president began a sec-ond day of talks Thursday
aimed at solving the politicalcrisis shaking the country afterthe disintegration of the pop-ulist government.
President Sergio Mattarellawas set to meet all the mainparties, including the anti-establishment Five StarMovement (M5S) and far-rightLeague, after the breakdown oftheir dysfunctional coalition.
Prime Minister GiuseppeConte resigned Tuesday aftermonths of alliance sniping anda bid by League leader andInterior Minister MatteoSalvini to force a snap election,just 14 months after coming topower.
The nationalist, populistgovernment’s demonisation ofmigrants, promoted by Salviniin particular, and attempts toflout EU budget rules hadangered many European lead-ers.
Mattarella met the leadersof both houses of parliament onWednesday and has been try-ing to find a way forward.
Talks kicked off Thursdaywith the small far-rightBrothers of Italy (Fratellid’Italia) party, which could
ally with Salvini’s League, along-time ally, if the countrygoes to the polls.
The formation of a newcoalition, a short-term tech-nocratic government or anearly election — more thanthree years ahead of schedule— are the main options.
“The only way to have astable government is to go tothe polls. It’s the only optionwhich respects Italy, its inter-ests, its people and its consti-tution,” Brothers of Italy leaderGiorgia Meloni told the pressafter meeting Mattarella.
The president is deter-mined any political wranglingto form a new government bequick and wants a concreteplan in place by Monday, asource close to him was report-ed as saying by the Repubblicadaily.
A proposed alliancebetween M5S and oppositioncentre-left Democratic Party(PD) — previously almostunthinkable — appears to begaining traction, with PDleader Nicola Zingaretti sayinghe is ready to make a deal.
The PD and M5S havebeen at each other’s throats foryears — but an alliance wouldsee Salvini kicked out of gov-ernment, a powerful motive for
compromise.Zingaretti has said the
party would back an M5S
coalition dependent on fiveconditions, including a radicalshift in Italy’s zero-tolerance
policy on migrants crossing theMediterranean.
He later told “La 7” televi-
sion he was also against theidea of Conte staying on asprime minister.
M5S would like Conte toremain in place but did not givemuch away, saying it would“wait for the end of consulta-tions”.
The parties were also con-sidering a female PM, accord-ing to media reports, whichwould be a first for Italy.
In a bid to get a PD-M5Salliance off the ground, formerPD premier Matteo Renzi hassaid he will not participate.
Many in the anti-estab-lishment party view him as elit-ist. Salvini, who is also deputyprime minister, on Wednesdaysaid: “No matter which gov-ernment emerges, its goals willbe against the League.”
The end of the unstablecoalition government in theeurozone’s third-largest econ-omy has so far been welcomedby the markets, with a sharprise in the Milan stock marketon Wednesday.
The country’s debt ratio —132 per cent of gross domesticproduct — is the second-biggest in the eurozone afterGreece, and youth unemploy-ment is currently above 30 percent.
Governments have consis-tently struggled to bring downdebt levels and unemployment.
“Italy’s disharmonious
political backdrop and thecountry’s budgetary challengesextend well before the sover-eign debt crisis,” said Rabobankanalyst Jane Foley.
Rome needs to approve abudget in the next few monthsor potentially face an automaticrise in value-added tax thatwould hit the least well-offItalian families the hardest andlikely plunge the country intorecession.
“(The crisis) arrives at acritical juncture for Europeamid the risk of recession inGermany and the formation ofthe new EuropeanCommission, and could con-tribute to deteriorate signifi-cantly the confidence on theeurozone,” said AndreaMontanino, chief economistat the General Confederation ofItalian Industry. After last year’selection it took months ofwrangling before a govern-ment was formed.
Mattarella has made it clearhe wants talks to concludequickly but splits within the PDand M5S, as well as sharp pol-icy differences, could compli-cate coalition efforts.
A PD-M5S tie-up wouldrealistically also need supportfrom smaller parties to be aneffective government.
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Aformer Danish prime min-ister on Thursday lashed
out at US President DonaldTrump for his tweet aboutmilitary spending, sayingdefense willingness is not justabout the amount of moneyspent.
Lars Loekke Rasmussen’scomment is the latest in anescalating spat between theUS and Denmark after Trumpscrapped a visit to the country,saying current Prime MinisterMette Frederiksen was “nasty”when she rejected his idea ofbuying Greenland as an absur-dity. Loekke Rasmussen, wholed the country until June,tweeted Thursday to Trump:“We have had (proportionally)exactly the same numbers ofcasualties in Afghanistan as US.We always stands firm andready.” Trump, who has urgedNATO members to do more tomeet the alliance’s goal of com-mitting 2 per cent of grossdomestic product to defense,earlier tweeted that “Denmarkis only at 1.35%”.
“We will not accept thatour defence willingness is onlyabout percentages,” LoekkeRasmussen tweeted. “I toldyou at the NATO Summit inBrussels last year.”
In January, Denmarkagreed to increase its long-termdefense spending after a coali-tion in Parliament agreed toadd 1.5 billion kroner (USD223 million) to the alreadyagreed-upon defense budgetfor 2023, which would putdefense spending at 1.5 per centof gross domestic product forthat year. The US spends about3.4 of its GDP on defence.
Trump abruptly cancelledhis planned September 2-3visit to Denmark on Tuesday,
after Frederiksen had calledTrump’s idea to buy Greenland“an absurd discussion”.
Trump said her comment“was nasty. I thought it was aninappropriate statement. Allshe had to say was say, ‘No, wewouldn’t be interested.’”Frederiksen said the USremains one of Denmark’s closeallies. The political brouhahaover the world’s largest islandcomes from its strategic loca-tion in the Arctic. Globalwarming is making Greenland
more accessible to potential oiland mineral resources. Russia,China, the US, Canada andother countries are racing tostake as strong a claim as theycan to Arctic lands, hoping theywill yield future riches.
Frederiksen has saidDenmark’s doesn’t ownGreenland which belongs to itspeople. It is part of the Danishrealm along with the FaeroeIslands, another semi-autonomous territory, and hasits own government and par-liament, the 31-seatInatsisartut.
The scarely populatedisland which is four timeszones behind Copenhagen,became a Danish colony in1775 and remained that wayuntil 1953, when Denmarkrevised its constitution andmade the island a province.
In 1979, Greenland and its56,000 residents who are main-ly indigenous Inuits, got exten-sive home rule but Denmarkstill handles its foreign anddefence policies, as well ascurrency issues.
Denmark which considersGreenland as an equal partner,pays annual subsidies of 4.5 bil-lion kroner (USD 670 mil-lion) to Greenland whose econ-omy otherwise depends of fish-eries and related industries.
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British Prime Minister BorisJohnson heads to Paris on
Thursday for talks with FrenchPresident Emmanuel Macronwho is expected to rebuff hislast-ditch efforts to renegotiatethe UK’s withdrawal from theEuropean Union.
Macron, who has said pre-viously he is happy to be the“bad guy” on Brexit, roundlyrejected Johnson’s calls to scrapa key plank of a deal negotiat-ed between the EU and formerBritish premier Theresa May.
“Renegotiation on theterms currently proposed bythe British is not an option thatexists, and that has alwaysbeen made clear by (EU)President Tusk,” Macron toldreporters on Wednesdayevening. At stake is the so-called “backstop”, an arrange-ment guaranteeing that borderchecks will not return betweenEU member Ireland andNorthern Ireland which is partof Britain.
Johnson considers thebackstop to be “anti-democra-tic” and an affront to Britishsovereignty because it willrequire London to keep itsregulations aligned with the EUduring a transition exit period.
The EU argues this is nec-
essary to avoid the re-emer-gence of border checkpointswhich could lead to a return offighting on the divided islandwhere anti-British violence hasclaimed thousands of lives.
The Paris visit is the secondleg of Johnson’s first foreign tripsince he became prime minis-ter a month ago.
On Wednesday, he toldGerman Chancellor AngelaMerkel in Berlin that the back-stop has “grave defects for asovereign, democratic countrylike the UK” and insisted theprovision “has to go”.
Merkel appeared to offer a
glimmer of hope by sayingBritain should try to find abreakthrough to the issue overthe next month.
In the search for a solution,“we have said we would prob-ably find it in the next twoyears, but maybe we can do itin the next 30 days, why not?Then we are one step further inthe right direction,” she said.
Johnson told Merkel hewelcomed the “very blisteringtimetable of 30 days,” addingthat “I’m more than happywith that”.
The remarks fit a pattern inwhich Merkel has often been
more conciliatory in publicabout Brexit than Macron,whose abrasive remarks havesometimes caused anger inLondon.
“There is not the width ofcigarette paper between Parisand Berlin on these issues,” aMacron aide said onWednesday on condition ofanonymity.
Macron risked further irri-tating Johnson, whom hedescribed in 2017 as having “nostrategic vision”, with a series ofbruising remarks during hislengthy press conference onWednesday evening.
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Afresh push to repatriateRohingya refugees to
Myanmar fa l l f lat onThursday, with no one turn-ing up to hop on five busesand 10 trucks laid on byBangladesh.
Members of the Muslimminority, 740,000 of whomfled a military offensive in2017, are refusing to returnwithout guarantees for theirsafety and a promise thatthey will at last be given cit-izenship by Myanmar.
“The Myanmar govern-ment raped us, and killed us.So we need security. Withoutsecurity we will never go
back,” Rohing ya leaderNosima said in a statement.
“We need a real guaran-tee of citizenship, securityand promise of originalhomelands,” said MohammadIslam, a Rohingya fromCamp 26, one of a string ofsites in southeast Bangladeshthat are home to around amillion people.
“So we must talk with theMyanmar government aboutthis before repatriation.”
The vehicles provided totransport the first batch outof 3 ,450 earmarked forreturn turned up at 9:00 am
(0300 GMT) at the camp inTeknaf.
But more than six hours
later none had showed up andthe vehicles departed empty.Officials said they wouldreturn on Friday.
“We’ve interviewed 295families. But nobody has yetshown any interest to repa-triate,” Bangladesh RefugeeCommissioner MohammadAbul Kalam told reporters.
He said officials wouldcontinue to interview fami-lies.
The Rohingya are notrecognised as an officialminority by the Myanmargovernment, which considersthem Bengali interlopersdespite many families havinglived in the country for gen-erations.
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Jailed art dealer SubhashKapoor has been charged by
prosecutors in Manhattan withstealing and possessing mil-lions of dollars worth of arti-facts, with officials at theMetropolitan Museum of Artnow looking into whether thelooted antiquities sold byKapoor have ended up in itscollection.
Kapoor was arrested byInterpol in Germany in 2011and is in jail in India.
Manhattan DistrictAttorney Cyrus Vance’s office
filed a criminal complaint lastmonth against Kapoor andseveral others. The complaintcharges Kapoor with 86 countsof criminal possession of stolenproperty, grand larceny andscheme to defraud for pos-sessing artifacts worth mil-lions of dollars.
A report in The New YorkTimes said officials of theIndian government and theMetropolitan Museum of Artare discussing whether sever-al of the prized antiquities thatthe museum began acquiringthree decades ago were theresult of looting by Kapoor.
The report said that since1990, the museum acquiredabout 15 antiquities that passedthrough Kapoor’s hands duringa period in which “his smug-gling ring was active and heroutinely sold or donated rareand costly artifacts to at least adozen American museums.”
The discussions amongofficials in India and the US arepart of a major push by NewDelhi to recover some of thetens of thousands of sacredidols and ancient relics thathave been looted and sold overthe last few decades by smug-glers and temple raiders, the
NYT report said.It added that the first set of
antiquities sourced fromKapoor to arrive at theMetropolitan Museum werefirst-century terra-cotta rat-tles in the shape of Yaksha, anature spirit. The last Kapoor-related piece to enter the col-lection, an 11th-century celes-tial dancer carved from sand-stone, came in 2015.
“Each of the 15 objects waseither gifted or sold to the Met(museum) by Kapoor orobtained from collectors whohad acquired them from the artdealer or his New York gallery
‘Art of the Past’ on MadisonAvenue,” it said.
Officials at the Met muse-um have begun a thoroughreview of the antiquities thattrack back to Kapoor. “As wehave since learned of the mul-tiple law enforcement actions,and in the spirit of ourenhanced procedures overrecent years, we are now seek-ing to identify additional prove-nance information,” the muse-um said in a statement to TheTimes.
The report said Indian offi-cials appreciated the Met’smove to review the collection
that could have been sourcedfrom Kapoor.
“It is a good initiative,” D MDimri, a spokesman for theArchaeological Survey of India,said of the Met’s effort. “Wehope other museums will fol-low suit too and verify thesource of their acquisitions incase they have our stolen antiq-uities.” Indian officials have saidtheir discussions with the Metabout artifacts from Kapoorbegan last year. The Met’s cura-tor for South and SoutheastAsian art, John Guy, had visit-ed the country last August,returning two antiquities that
the Met had on its own deter-mined were likely looted fromthe country. However neitherof those items — an eighth-century sculpture of theGoddess Durga slaying a buf-falo-headed demon, and athird-century limestone bust ofa man’s head — appeared tohave any connection withKapoor.
Leading city-based cultur-al organization The AsiaSociety is also studying theprovenance of at least one item— a 12th-century copper-alloystatue of the deity Shiva danc-ing in the center of a spoked
circle — that Indian officialsbelieve was looted, the reportsaid, adding that it does nothave a lineage that tracks toKapoor. “In the past, the insti-tution has supported the returnof objects that were found tohave been acquired illegally,”Asia Society’s executive vicepresident Tom Nagorski said.“In this particular case, we aretaking active steps to investigateand determine the validity ofthe claim.”
UNESCO estimates thatmore than 50,000 idols, icons,artifacts and antiquities havebeen stolen from India.
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Iran’s president struck a mus-cular tone on dealings with
the US, saying Thursday that“talks are useless” as Tehran’snuclear deal with world pow-ers crumbles further.
President Hassan Rouhanimade the comment in a speechin Tehran during the unveilingof the Bavar-373, a long-rangesurface-to-air missile systemthat he described as animprovement to the Russian S-300. “Now that our enemies donot accept logic, we cannotrespond with logic,” Rouhanisaid in the televised speech.
He added: “When theenemy launches a missileagainst us, we cannot give aspeech and say: ‘Mr. Rocket,
please do not hit our countryand our innocent people.Rocket-launching sir, if you canplease hit a button and self-destroy the missile in the air.’”
On Wednesday, Iran’s stateTV reported that the Bavar-373is able to recognize up to 100targets at a same time and con-front them with six differentweapons.
Since 1992, Iran has devel-oped a homegrown defenseindustry that has producedlight and heavy weapons rang-ing from mortars and torpe-does to tanks and submarines.
The US re-imposed sanc-tions on Iran after the Trumpadministration pulled out ofthe nuclear deal over concernsabout Iran’s missile programand regional influence.
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Kosovo MPs voted onThursday to dissolve par-
liament and trigger early elec-tions, a shake-up that will addnew delays to the deadlockeddialogue with former foeSerbia.
The vote comes after out-going premier RamushHaradinaj, a former comman-der of ethnic Albanian rebelswho battled Serbia in the late1990s, stepped down in Julyafter he was summoned to aspecial court in The Hague,which is investigating crimesfrom that era.
Since his resignation, par-ties have agitated for a snappoll, with some already kick-ing off unofficial campaign-ing and talking about possi-ble alliances.
“The parliament decided todissolve the sixth legislature of
the assembly,” speaker KadriVeseli said after 89 lawmakersin the 120-member body votedin favour of the motion.
There were 106 MPs pre-sent for the vote.
The president will now berequired to schedule an electionwith 45 days.
The political jostling comesas Kosovo is at an impasse withSerbia, which still rejects theformer province’s indepen-dence declaration in 2008.
While most of the Westernworld recognises Kosovo,Serbia and its allies China andRussia do not, effectively shut-ting it out of the UN.
New elections will put theEU-led talks on hold for longer,with a planned summit inSeptember likely to be post-poned.
After Kosovo’s last parlia-mentary election in 2017, ittook several months to form a
government.Earlier this week Serbian
President Aleksandar Vucicsaid he expects negotiations toonly resume “in earlyDecember, at best” because ofKosovo’s possible election.
A new government could,however, offer an opening if itwere to revoke the 100 percenttariff on Serbian goods thatHaradinaj put in place lastNovember.
That move enragedBelgrade and brought the talksto a grinding halt.
Haradinaj has refused tobend to heavy pressure fromthe EU and US to lift the tradebarrier, which Serbia says is arequisite for returning to thetable.
Political analyst ArtonMuhaxhiri says he expects theSerbia dialogue to be at theforefront of any new govern-ment formation.
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The essence of Tappa liesin the name itself, whichimplies to bounce back.
It also makes one reminis-cence of a game from child-hood days. And in the array ofdishes that gracefully crowd themenu, the knowledge of a well-travelled chef is present but sois the taste of the food we hadas children.
While there was a separate‘bloggers menu’ which cata-logued the dishes that the chefswere most proud of, we oscil-lated between that and the a’lacarte menu to diversify the din-ner as well as to have panoram-ic view of the delicacies that areprepared at the restaurant. Sixmonths went in curating themenu which reflected in themost enticing array of dishes.I had never felt as blown away,figuratively speaking.
One of the best things,apart from the food, which willshortly be on the receiving endof my evaluation, were thechefs who were more eagerthan ever to describe the menuto us, and acquainted us withthe fusion dishes, an amiablemix of the Indian and interna-tional flavours.
I have seldom had theexperience of what peoplequote as bad service and myluck seemed to be on my sidethis time around too the flaw-less service meant that therecord remained unscathed. Apleasant smile and an incredi-bly hospitable attitude madeour evening more special, a lit-tle corny but the truth nonethe-less.
Before our ordered disheswere brought, chef Parul servedus amuse bouche, which I haveonly ever heard Monica Gellerrave about, in a little woodenbox. It had the flavour of the
Indian chat put on a tart and itwas in that moment that Iknew that this dinner wouldsoar past any expectations thatI harboured. And close behindwere our dim sums. The chefwho makes the dim sums hasabout 17 years of experienceand it showed in the varietythat he showcased.
The cream cheese, waterchestnut and chilli oil dimsums were suggestive of acheesy encounter but it’s not it.Instead of the chewy cheese thesoft skin of the dough was filledwith warm cream cheese whichcompletely melts in the mouth,and I say it without an ounceof exaggeration. They wereserved with chilli oil, so thespiciness is not too far behindthe warmth of the cheese.
There was five spice chick-en dimsums but if you are look-ing for an ‘authentic’ Chineseflavour from this dish, it is notthe one for you. But then,that’s exactly the aim of thechefs. The five spices usedwere not just Chinese but alsoIndian where the kick of thelatter flavour was quite promi-nent. It was interesting to knowthat the blend was made by thechef himself rather than beinga store-bought concoctionwhich many rely on. You willtaste the Indian-ness as well asthe Chinese-ness in the dimsums.
One of my most favouritedishes of the night, undoubted-ly, were the dim sums, had I satthere longer, I would havewaxed poetry of how soft andappetising they were, delicate-ly wrapped, and the chopsticksdug in the skin of the dim sumsso deliciously. I could feel thesoftness even before they hadthe opportunity to sit on mytongue.
Chillas were up next, and aschef Parul shared with us, theywere a product of endless tri-als and errors. Initially, chillaswere planned like soft crepesbut the chef did not want todesign and make somethingborne out of imitation.
We chose goat cheesechilla, it was crispy and youmight get a feel of a dosa, butthis was not quite that. It wasmade from sprouted wheatflour and though differentfrom the besan ones that aremade at home, it still hits anerve there. It was made invinegar and enveloped cap-sicum, spinach goat cheeseand beet root, which gave it aslight pungent taste. Andthough the chef had warnedthat it would be spicy, it had abalanced flavour. It was a dif-ferent experience altogether.While I did not find any flavouramiss, the chilla gave me flash-backs of the beet root and kalesalad I had at La Roca.
I have said it before, mostof my excursions at restaurantsare incomplete without pizza.And what is different aboutTappa’s menu is that instead ofthe classic round style, theyoffer pide which is a richbread from Turkey. And fromthe plethora of options, wepicked Chauka which was a
four cheese pizza and farm-house. The chefs must fancygoat cheese, because a lot ofthe dishes have it. Chauka wasa cheesy affair, obviously andI loved it and I could singpaean's to it but I prefer toquote Lady Gaga “brilliant,incredible, amazing, showstopping, spectacular.”
The farmhouse pide, onthe other hand, reminded meof the sour dough pizza I hadin Earls Court in London.The chefs don’t hold back onthe toppings, and we were pre-sented with a generous top-ping of broccoli, corns, toma-to, zucchini, jalapenos.Absolutely abundant inflavour.
Another favourite wasDosa a la Tappa. It had thetaste of the regular dosa butthe flavours were different. Itwas served with goat cheesesauce and green tomato chut-ney. The dosas were not full-fledged, rather they were rollsand miniature ones. It wasn’ta messy affair. One thing thatis noticeable and commend-able about Tappa was the pre-sentation of the dishes, whichoffer a vibe of it’s own. Theywere not simply served onplates, but have a creativetwist even in the presentation.The brownie points which
remained after the incredibleservice were given for thestyle of serving.
The green chutney, tangyin taste and spicy in flavour,complemented the dosaexceedingly well. The spicinesssits on the tongue, but that’swhat makes it good. Theflavour isn’t passable, rather itwas impressionable and estab-lishes its taste well enough.Definitely a must try.
I ordered three things formains of which Dosa a laTappa was also one along withKladi Kulcha and Manglorefried chicken. Each stuffedkulcha on the menu had a dif-ferent preparation, differentstyle and the taste of a differ-ent city all together.
The chicken was mari-nated in Manglorean flavours,deep friend and was toppedwith lemon yogurt on topwith some jalapenos and chill-is. The chicken was tender,super soft. If I would callsomething that is absolutelyflavour, it would be this dish.
I was a little perplexedwhen it came to dessert butsided with dark chocolate andlitchi fudge. A great judgementon my part. The fudge wasburied under a thick spread ofmeringue, and pieces of litchicoated in dark chocolateserved with a scoop of ice-cream. If I think hard enough,I might still be able to taste thefudge.
Tappa also offers in-houseice cream and the special ofthe evening was bourbon andfig. The bitter taste of thebourbon found a truce withthe sweetness of the ice cream,I couldn’t hold myself it wassuch a delight. This restauranthas engraved itself on my rec-ommendation list.
When you decide toindulge in authenticItalian cuisine, you
have to pair wine with it. Andit cannot be just ‘any’ wine.The idea is that theflavour of your drinkshould match theintensity of themeal’s sauce.However, everheard of authenticItalian meal beingpaired withwhisky?
Angad SinghGandhi, Glenfiddichbrand ambassador, cele-brated the disruptive fusion ofa fine single-malt whisky withmodern Italian cuisine, pre-pared by Artusi Ristorante chefOscar Balcon. The idea was tocreate an “unusual pairing fortoday’s consumers,” who arelooking for experiences that areextraordinary, and such prac-tices also pave a way for exper-imentation for both consumersand chefs.
Here’s a take of chef Balconwho has carefully handcraftedthe four-course dinner, whichmarried the flavours of the ver-satile Glenfiddich’s 12-year-old, 15-year-old and 18-year-old variants.
�Tell us about the specialfour-course menu.
The menu includes a jour-ney that takes us through dif-ferent time and places. Just likefine whisky, it has firm roots intraditional methods, a founda-tion that is built on the quali-ty of natural ingredients. But atthe same time, it has a bright-eyed glance of contemporarypossibilities. It is a menu thatshowcases how wide-rangingthe pairing options in Italiancuisine truly are.
�How did you curate it? Whatinspired this special menu?
At the Artusi Ristorante,our culinary inspiration isalways the traditional cuisine ofthe Emilia Romagna region inNorthern Italy as it has a richand incredible quality of natur-al products. But this time wechose to look beyond the bor-ders and the quality of some ofthe finest whiskies fromScotland, such as Glenfiddich,fascinated me and inspiredthis spirit-paired dinner.
Just like fine wine, the tast-ing notes of fine whisky also
guide us in understanding itsaroma, taste and finish. Hence,we will deduct that smokey ele-ments that pair well with grilledmeats, while more mellow,round and sweetish notesmight make a match with thedessert. And thus, layer bylayer, we have curated a menuthat marries cheese, vegetables,home-made pasta and flamingdesserts with the correspond-ing notes of peat, smoke orround honey. We were indeedvery pleased with the resultingsymphony.
�What has shaped your foodlogic while growing up? Anyanecdotes to share...
Family, traditions and goodfortune. My food logic hasbeen shaped with the fortuneto be living in the vortex of the“age of great food” (nowadays,you can get great food any-where in the world) and thegood fortune to have had thepossibility to experience thebest dishes both in my homecountry as well as with exten-sive travels and living all overthe world.
�Which cuisine in the worldwould you say comes closestto the perfect sensory andnutritional balance?
Apart from our own, per-haps the traditional Japanese
cuisine is the one that perfect-ly balances the nutrition andsensuous elements.
�How do you source youringredients?
Mostly from Italy but alsoother great sources of top-notch ingredients globally.Also, from the small farmers inIndia who are growing and cre-ating a market for high-endspecialist produce, when inseason.
�European and Italiancuisines are known to beblended or tasted with wine.But here, you have blendedyour menu with whisky. Why?What was the idea behind it.Did it turn out to be as amaz-ing as the regular menu tast-ed with wine?
Wine is the traditionalpairing beverage for a fineItalian meal and I believe thatwill never change. However,every now and then, I think weshould be open-mindedenough for culinary adven-tures. And, more often thannot, we end up with a positivesurprise and great memories,much like the innovative part-nership with Glenfiddich.
�How do you think suchexperiments can help bring achange in the way peoplelook at the Italian cuisine?
Like often in life, an indi-vidual act rarely propels along-lasting change, yet weknow that repeated adventuresare the spice of life and ashumans, we become richerwith each new one. So, I wouldsay, it’s a toast to breaking bar-riers and to new and excitingdiscoveries.
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Did you know dabu or daboo is anancient mud resist hand blockprinting technique from
Rajasthan? The practice almost died inthe last century but was revived and isa flourishing business today. Day two ofthe Lakme Fashion Week Winter/Festive2019, saw designer Alka Sharma withher sustainable label of Udaipur,Aavaran. She presented her collectionMiniature Moon, which has been doneby the same old-age dabu technique. Ithas been embraced for printing intricatemotifs on the finest natural fabrics likemushru, mulberry silk and chanderi.Delicate and ethnic embroidery like pit-tan have been used for embellishing theclothes. Regalia inspired silhouetteshave been blended with modern designsto create this timeless and aesthetic col-lection.
The contemporary clothing labelspecialises in dabu mud resist, handdyed and block printed apparel. Thefabrics were eco-friendly, organic andnatural, which were in perfect syncwith the brand’s ethics of sustainabil-ity.
The process of dabu printing isquite complicated, involving manyworkers and multiple stages of print-ing, washing and dyeing. First, theplain fabric received from the millsis carefully washed to remove anyimpurities which may interferewith the dyeing process. Then,designs are meticulously andpainstakingly hand printed onto the fabric using blockswhich are dipped into fastdyes. The next and crucial stepinvolves the use of the mudresist which makes thisprint so unique.Ingredients like mud,gum, lime and wastewheat chaff are com-bined to make the‘dhabu’ or mud resistpaste which is thenpatted over certainparts of the design.The paste is driedwith sprinkledsawdust. This cov-ering essentiallyprotects theseparts of the fab-ric from the dyeused later on,creating aunique andcolorful effect.
After thisprocess ofprinting, thefabric is spreadout in the sunwhere it completelydries out. It is thendipped into a vat of dye,dried again and finally given a thoroughwashing to remove the paste and anyexcess dye. The dyes used are typically
natural vegetable dyes and pastes. Thusthe unprotected parts of the fabriccatch the colour while the dhabu cov-ered bits remain plain. The fabric maybe dyed more than once in different col-ors to give each part of the design a dif-ferent hue.
Speaking about her debut at thefashion week, Alka said, “The label waslaunched to sustain and revive theancient, traditional craft of dabu printand provide economic empowerment tothe indigenous craftsmen of the region.The designs are very similar to themotifs used in all traditional Rajasthanitextiles, since the ‘blocks’ used forprinting are common to most of thesetechniques. They tend to be natureinspired designs of plants, birds, flow-ers, fruits as well as artistic ethnicmotifs.”
Actresses Mrunal Thakur walkedthe ramp for Aavaran. She said, “I am
excited to be walking the ramp forAavaran. This is truly thrilling as it willbe a debut for us both at the week.”
Designer Amit Aggarwal onWednesday launched his luxury pret col-lection, Flux, with cricketer HardikPandya and actress Lisa Haydon walk-ing on the ramp as showstoppers.Aggarwal, who is known for engineer-ing recycled products in the garmentshe designs, has this time tied up with R-Elan — Reliance Industries’ textile arm— to create the grandeur pieces in fluid,free flowing fabrics.
The designer used recycled polymerstrips to add structure to the gowns,dresses and skirts that comprised thecollection. Sheer wraps, exaggeratedsleeves, power shoulders and billowingskirts were the highlight of the show.There was the use of techniques like asplisse, fine draping and three-dimen-sional embroidery that added texture of
the pieces.Use of electric colours, shiny metal-
lic shades of silver, blue, purple andgreen, hues of emerald, petrol, neutralslike gold, blush and ivory made the col-lection pop up.
Speaking about his collection,Aggarwal said, “The entire collection isabout free flow. The fabric had a such alarge plethora of different coloura-tions... It never really stopped inspiringme. Going ahead and creating 100more looks.”
Haydon, who wore a purple drapegown said, “I really admire what Amitdoes. And especially this collection. It’sa great play of contrasts, structures. Eachtime a model walked the ramp wearingone of his pieces, I felt like ‘Oh my gosh,I want to wear that. And that’s always agreat sign, it means this is an excellentcollection.”
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Imagine yourself in a situation whereyour mother forces you to become
a murderer and you can only surviveby hunting food like animals and eat-ing it from dustbins.
When Sasural Genda Phool fameRagini Khanna heard the script of hershort film, Posham Pa, it fired a mil-lion questions in her head and caughther attention like nothing else hadbefore. She knew that it was going tobe one of her most challenging rolesbut was sure of doing it as she want-ed the audience to see her in charac-ters with different shades and break herestablished image of a happy bubblygirl next door.
When asked as to what appealedher the most? She said, “The script. AsI read it, it generated a lot of emotionsin me which I can’t even express inwords. I was grossed, I was intrigued,I was curious that how can somethingso dark be true?”
Posham Pa is a psychologicalthriller inspired by true events. It talksabout a disturbed mother who forcesher daughter to be a part of heinouscrimes and murders which in turnleads them to be charged with deathpenalty. The film, naturally, forces oneto think.
Ragini feels that the film plungesyou into such depths that you startquestioning everything. She wasimpressed by simplistic storytellingwhich sends a deep message. Raginisaid, “I always wanted to work withSumon Mukhopadhyay Sir (director).He has done films that have redefinedvarious conventions. In this film, it ispure and honest story telling. The truthis kept intact and very little is left toimagination. The way he has retainedthe authenticity of characters was onpoint.” The actress is happy with thecreative liberty the film offered. Sheshared that during the shoots everyonewas on the same page in terms of cre-ativity and there was a smoothexchange of ideas. You subconscious-ly unite when your cause is bigger andyou have a similar motive, the universejust conspires to bring you together.“That’s what happened with this film,
we shared an unsaid bonding whichwas magical. This translated on cam-era beautifully as it sensitive andcatches your aura and energy,” sheadded. This helps the film to connectclosely to the audience and impactdeeply,” she explained.
Talking about her character in thefilm, Shikha Deshpande, Raginishared, “My journey is from aninfant to a 30-32 year old. I haveplayed a street child who is raisedwith no sense of societal boundaries.She is raised like an animal at the costof her relationships and is willingto go to any extent for her sur-vival.” She questioned, “Howcan someone have an animal-istic motivation towardstheir choices? It is extreme-ly scary.” But, the other sideof Shikha is that she is anextremely intelligent girl witha brilliant mind. If she hadbeen raised as a child andnot animal, things wouldhave been different. It’s allabout how you nurture.Ragini shared that thewriters wanted to pointout the concept of natureversus nurture. Givingbirth to a child is verydifferent from raisinghim/her. The former is anatural process but thelatter is a life long com-mitment. Upbringingand education empow-ers you as it gives youa sense of right andwrong.
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that the film offered made it challeng-ing for the actor to get into the skin ofthe character. Ragini said, “Whileplaying this role I developed an unsaidbonding with Shikha. In the process oftrying to understand what she has gonethrough I experienced immense painas it was difficult for me to analyse my
own behaviour. Half the time Iwas shocked by my own acts. Ihad mood swings, I used tolaugh and cry on the set with-out reason.” She talked abouta scene of the film where she
says, ‘Maine kachre ki petimei se khaana nikaal kekhaaya,’ which involveda lot of self-pity. She alsotried to justify herselfthat ‘I am so because ofwhat I am goingthrough and not by
choice.’ Ragini further sharedthat the role made her inhab-it a scary headspace and shewanted to let go of thischaracter very soon as it wastroubling her. “When I wastraveling for the shoot onthe second day, I felt Shikhain my skin. I was so grossedby that because I am raisedon a moral conditioningwhich doesn’t belong tothe value structure Shikhacomes from,” she added.
In recent times wehave seen that more andmore films are inspiredby true events. Ragini’slast one, Gurgaon, wasalso one such. She said,“We live in a fast mov-
ing world where something is alwayshappening somewhere. This is enhanc-ing real story telling. However, thereare also stories which the humanmind has not experienced and are afragment of the directors’ imagination.”
Short films have a very limitedtime frame to leave the audience withthought-provoking ideas but they arestill gaining attention in today’s sce-nario. “They require a low attentionspan as it is only asking for 20 minutesfrom you. A three-hour film or seriesis a long commitment while short filmsare quick,” said she. This digital era haspaved the way for newer platforms andopportunities. Ragini feels that it is giv-ing her the opportunity to play nega-tive roles which she is not sure wouldhave been possible in television. It asa blessing for her as she feels it providesher the chance to explore herself as anartist. She also emphasised on theresponsibility attached to digital con-tent in the past three to four years.Ragini said, “There is a lot of goodwork happening. We are directly com-peting with the international content.”With this increasing competition thecontent is getting better and everythingwith higher accessibility.
Talking about her journey sheshared that her mind has expandedwith it she has led and the people shehas been with. “The more I getenriched with life’s experiences, thebetter my art will be. It will have farmore depth and intensity. But at thesame time I don’t want to lose myunabashed rawness and candidness,”she added.
(The film is streaming on Zee5.)
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Actor Ayushmann Khurrana is riding high onsuccess of all his films. The actor who won
a National Award, (Best Actor) for Andhadhun,was celebrating the success of the film at a partywhen, in a surprising event, he came across a fanwho had gatecrashed the party.
The fun fact about this whole event was that,the fan was dressed in a cotton yellow saree, imi-tating Ayushmann from the poster of his forth-coming film Dream Girl, and he stormedthrough the venue holding his pallu, eager tomeet his favourite superstar. Ayushmann, whois known to be very cordial and loving towardshis fan, thanked him and took pictures with thefan.
Right after the trailer was released, it becamethe top trending video on YouTube and garneredover 15 million views in less than 24 hours.Audience all across the country and the worldare appreciating the actor and lauding him forhis unique choices and him being at the helm ofchanging the course of Indian cinema by puttingcontent based films on the top.
Fans have been going berserk over the trail-er so much so that they have been trying to callPooja aka the dream girl on the number givenat the end of the trailer.
The poster of Dreamgirl has the star look-ing quirky in a cotton saree and sitting on a rick-shaw. Nushrat Bharucha is the lead actress pairedalongside the actor with Vijay Raaz, ManjotSingh, Annu Kapoor and Rajesh Sharma amongothers in the cast. Directed by Raaj Shandilya,produced by Ekta Kapoor, Shobha Kapoor andAashish Singh, the film is set to release onSeptember 13.
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If Lionel Messi listens to RealBetis and sits out anothermatch, Barcelona will likely
have to rely on Antoine Griezmannto finally get some points on theboard.
Betis, which visits the CampNou on Sunday, responded to atweet by Barcelona that Messi wasback to practicing with the team forthe first time since being injured inthe preseason by saying: “Don’trush, Leo. No need for you to forceit!” Barcelona couldn’t make up for
Messi’s absence last weekend whenits attack was held scoreless in a 1-0 loss at Athletic Bilbao.
That was the first time the two-time defending champions had losta Spanish league opener in adecade. And after both RealMadrid and Atlético Madrid won,the pressure is on.
Barcelona acquired Griezmannafter triggering the 120 million euro($133 million) buyout clause in hiscontract with rival Atlético. TheFrance forward was supposed to bethe fourth piece to an alreadyworld class attack featuring Messi,
Luis Suárez and OusmaneDembele. But Griezmann may beleft with all the scoring responsibil-ity in his competitive home debut.
Messi strained his right calf inthe team’s first practice of the sea-son on August 5 and hasn’t playedsince. Although it is possible he willbe back to face Betis, Suárez won’tbe after he injured a right leg mus-cle in the first half at Bilbao.Dembele has also been ruled outfor several weeks with a left thighinjury.
Philippe Coutinho, who couldhave helped out as an attacking
player, is no longer with the teamafter being loaned out to BayernMunich this week. Malcom, aBrazilian forward who played spar-ingly for Barcelona last season, wassold to Zenit St Petersburg.
Griezmann had a lacklustermatch at Bilbao. His only goodscoring chance at San MamesStadium came in the final minuteswith a header.
The Frenchman, however, isused to carrying a team on his back.
Griezmann was a consistentscorer for Atlético, tallying morethan 20 goals a season for five con-
secutive years despite the teamoften not having another attackingthreat to draw away some of theattention of opposing defenses.
The problem at Bilbao, hesaid, was simply “the ball didn’t goin.” The other player who couldmake the most of the opportunitycreated by the injuries is 21-year-old Carles Pérez, a member ofBarcelona's reserve team. Heimpressed in the preseason, evenscoring two goals in a 2-0 win overJapanese club Vissel Kobe, whereformer Barcelona great AndrésIniesta now plays.
Barcelona coach ErnestoValverde included Pérez inWednesday’s team practice. Betis
was the only team to beatBarcelona at its home stadi-um last season, outgunningthe hosts 4-3.
Since then it has changedcoaches, replacing the attack-minded Quique Setién withthe more conservative Joan“Rubi” Ferrer, who led Espanyolto a Europa League berth.
Barcelona also poached one ofits top players, left back JuniorFirpo. Betis lost its Spanish leagueopener, falling 2-1 to Valladolid athome. The last time Betis playedBarcelona was in Seville in March.Messi scored three goals andreceived a standing ovation fromthe Betis fans.
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Brazilian star midfielderPhilippe Coutinho will not
make his first Bundesliga startwhen Bayern Munich travel toSchalke on Saturday, said coachNiko Kovac on Thursday.
Coutinho, 27, has been thetalk of Germany since joiningBayern on a one-year loan dealfrom Barcelona earlier this week.
Yet at a press conference onThursday, Kovac confirmed theBrazilian would begin his firstgame as a Bayern player on thebench.
“He is not quite at the levelof fitness he needs to play for 90minutes,” said Kovac.
“He has said that himself,and we don’t want to take anyrisks. He has only been trainingfor the last two weeks, so heneeds to catch up,” he added, butconfirmed Coutinho would bein the matchday squad.
“I know a lot of people wantus to play him straight away, buteverything has to be right.”
Kovac said Bayern’s othernew attacking signing, Croatiawinger Ivan Perisic, could makethe starting eleven againstSchalke.
“Ivan is much further along,he started training at the sametime as we did, and played sev-eral games for Inter Milan inpre-season,” he said.
Bayern are under pressureto pick up three points againstDavid Wagner’s Schalke side,having been held to a draw intheir opening Bundesliga gameagainst Hertha Berlin last week.
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Neymar remains no closer to getting hisdesired move away from Paris Saint-
Germain amid reports on Thursday the Frenchclub have rejected an offer from Real Madrid of100 million euros ($111 million) plus players.
French sports daily L’Equipe said Real hadoffered cash plus Gareth Bale, James Rodriguezand goalkeeper Keylor Navas, but PSG turnedit down because “the overall value of the offerdid not match their expectations”.
Paris paid 222 million euros to sign Neymarfrom Barcelona two years ago and their sport-ing director Leonardo is understood to be deter-mined to only sell the forward for a deal con-sidered to be of the same value.
Real have spent the summer trying tooffload Bale, while James is unwanted afterreturning from a loan at Bayern Munich andNavas is no longer the club’s first-choice goal-keeper.
Meanwhile, Barcelona remain hopeful ofbringing Neymar back to the Camp Nou, butCatalan daily Sport claims an attempt to sign theplayer on loan with an obligation to buy for 160million euros at the end of the season has beenfirmly rejected in Paris.
Sport claims Barcelona feel “it is very clearthat PSG are trying to prevent the Brazilian from
returning to the Camp Nou inany scenario”.
PSG had previouslyreportedly turned down anoffer from Barcelona of 40million euros plus Philippe
Coutinho and Ivan Rakitic.Coutinho has since joined
Bayern on loan.Juventus are
also believed tohave stated aninterest in sign-
ing the 27-y e a r - o l d ,who has notfeatured inany ofP S G ’ sm a t c h e s
so far thisseason having
been frozen outamid the uncertain-ty over his future.
The transferwindow closes inFrance, Spain andItaly on September2, meaning time isfast running outfor a deal to bedone.
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France football legendThierry Henry is keen for
another chance to prove he canbe a successful manager despitehis unhappy brief tenure atLigue 1 side Monaco.
The 42-year-old —Arsenal’s record goalscorer —told the Daily Telegraph thatalthough his phone did not ringfor four months following hissacking, things have picked upsince then and he has receivedfive offers.
Henry’s dream return lastOctober to manage Monaco,the club where he establishedhis reputation as a top classstriker, turned into a nightmare.
Having been part ofBelgium manager RobertoMartinez’s backroom team atthe World Cup — where theyreached the semi-finals — helasted just over 100 days afteronly four league wins.
“Call me crazy if you want,but I love football and I believe
I can be a successful coach,” hesaid. “I’m not thinking aboutthe pain, I’m not thinkingabout failure. I don’t like easy.
“I like to lead and it’s on meto make it happen. The samewhen I joined Arsenal as a play-er, the same when I went toBelgium with Roberto. It’s anevolution.”
Henry, who was a memberof the France squads that wonboth the 1998 World Cup andthe Euro 2000 title, saidalthough he has been contact-ed over jobs, he has yet to findthe right fit. “My phone didn’tring for four months after I leftMonaco and then all of a sud-den I got five calls,” he said.
“Some were not what Iwas looking for and some wereas a number two.”
“I won’t do a number twojob because I want to be a num-ber one.” Henry says it is frus-trating having to wait aroundfor another opportunity but heis convinced football coachingis where his future lies.
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Cristiano Ronaldo admitted on Wednesdayhis long-time rivalry with Lionel Messi has
made him “a better player” and that he enjoysa “healthy” rivalry with the Argentine great.
However, Portuguese star Ronaldo, whoseinfluence at Real Madrid mirrored that ofMessi at Barcelona before he left for Juventus,admitted that the pair have never socialisedtogether.
“I really admire the career he has had andfrom his side, he has already talked of the dis-appointment when I left Spain because it wasa rivalry that he appreciated,” Ronaldo told TVIin Portugal.
“It’s a good rivalry but it’s not unique —Michael Jordan had rivalries in basketball,there was Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost inFormula 1. The thing they all had in commonis that they were healthy rivalries.”
Ronaldo and Messi have won the covetedBallon d’Or five times each, a factor that helpseach player flourish.
“I have no doubt that Messi has made mea better player and vice-versa. When I am win-
ning trophies it must sting him and it’s thesame for me when he wins,” he said.
“I have an excellent professional relation-ship because we have been sharing the samemoments for 15 years.
He added: “We’ve never had dinner togeth-er but I don’t see why we can’t in the future. Idon’t see a problem with that.”
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World number ones and defend-ing champions Novak Djokovic
and Naomi Osaka were named as topseeds for the US Open onWednesday.
Djokovic, who will be chasing a17th Grand Slam singles title inNew York next week, heads themen’s field with Spain’s Rafael Nadalseeded second.
Former world number one RogerFederer, seeking a 21st Grand Slamcrown, is seeded third for the tour-
nament.The draw for the men’s and
women’s singles takes place onThursday.
In the women’s draw, Osaka isranked number one while 2018 run-ner-up Serena Williams is seededeight.
Japanese ace Osaka won her firstGrand Slam title in a controversialfinal victory over Williams last yearand then followed it up with her sec-ond Slam at the Australian Open inJanuary.
The two other reigning Grand
Slam champions are seeded in the topfour, with Australia’s French Openchampion Ashleigh Barty seededsecond and Romania’s Wimbledonchampion Simona Halep seeded four.
Former world number oneKarolina Pliskova of the CzechRepublic is seeded third in thewomen’s draw.
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India’s B Sai Praneeth dished out asuperlative performance to stun
world No 8 Anthony SinisukaGinting and progress to the quarter-finals but H S Prannoy’s fight endedwith a narrow loss at the BWF WorldChampionships here on Thursday.
World No 19 Praneeth, who hadreached the finals at Swiss Open thisyear, took just 42 minutes to dispatchsixth seeded Anthony of Indonesia21-19, 21-13 to set up a likely clashwith another Indonesian JonatanChristie, seeded fourth and the reign-ing Asian Games champion.
Earlier, Prannoy showedglimpsed of brilliance, especially inthe opening game, but couldn’t stopWorld No 1 Kento Momota from reg-istering a 21-19, 21-12 win, his fifthvictory over the Indian in as manyencounters.
In the opening game, Praneethquickly erased a 0-3 deficit to moveto a 8-5 deficit. The Indian, who hashad success against Anthony at the2018 Asia Team championship and2017 World Championship, kept hisstrangehold to enter the break witha 11-8 advantage.
In the second game, Praneethzoomed to 6-2 but Anthony made his
way to manage a 11-8 lead at thebreather. After the break, the Indianreeled off six straight points to makeit 14-12. He kept marching ahead asAnthony crumbled.
Earlier, Momota dominated theproceedings initially against Prannoyas he moved from a 8-4 lead to graba 11-7 advantage at the break.
Prannoy started putting pres-sure on his rival after the breatherwith an attacking game to claw backat 12-12 and kept snapping atMomota’s heels.
At one stage, after the end of the57-shot rally, an exhausted Prannoywas left prostrated on the floor fol-lowing a perfect net return from theWorld No 1. The point gave Momotaa two-point cushio at 19-17.
But the Indian stuck to his gunsand a precise straight smash helpedhim to level at 19-19.
Momota, however, upped thepace to grab the game point with areturn on the backline and thensealed it with a powerful smash.
After the change of sides,Momota once again found his wayout of tricky situations to run up alead of 11-5 at the break. Prannoytried his best but Momota ensured hehad the last laugh as he convertedsoon after gaining nine match points.
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Lionel Messi gave Barcelona atimely boost on Wednesday by
returning to training with the restof the squad after a calf injury.
Messi trained alone in themorning before joining his team-mates in the afternoon, increas-ing hopes that Barca’s captaincould play a role against Real Betisin La Liga on Sunday.
He strained his calf on August5 in his first training session backfollowing the Copa America andsubsequently missed the club’spre-season.
It would be a surprise ifMessi started at Camp Nou, butBarcelona coach Ernesto Valverdewill be eager to have his star avail-able again, particularly after histeam suffered a surprise 1-0defeat by Athletic Bilbao in theiropening league game last week-end.
Messi’s absence has beencompounded by injuries to otherstrikers.
Luis Suarez is expected to beout for around a month after hob-bling off with a calf problemagainst Bilbao. OusmaneDembele injured his hamstringand will need five weeks to recov-er.
Antoine Griezmann, the 120
million summer signing fromAtletico Madrid, is the only fully-fit forward, with Rafinha and 21-year-old Carles Perez possibleoptions to play behind him.
The shortage up front hasintensified speculation that ParisSaint-Germain’s Neymar couldreturn to Barcelona before thetransfer window closes in Spainon September 2.
PSG sporting directorLeonardo admitted earlier thismonth that the club were in“advanced negotiations” to sellNeymar but a deal is yet to beagreed with Barca, who havealready spent around 250 mil-lion euros this summer.
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India’s top women’s singles playerAnkita Raina crashed out of the
women’s singles US Open qualifyingevent after a hard fought three-setloss to Czech Republic’s DenisaAllertova.
The world No 194 went down 7-6(5), 4-6, 2-6 to her Czech rival in amatch that lasted two hours and 17minutes, on Wednesday night.
Ankita won the first set in a tie-breaker but failed to keep hermomentum as Allertova broke theIndian to take the second set com-fortably.
In the decider, Ankita was bro-ken again as she conceded the match.
Sumit Nagal is the only Indianleft in the qualifiers. He is scheduledto play Peter Polansky of Canada inthe second round of the qualifiers.
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the match to give NER a thumping 15-1 win over Chowk Stadiumin Lucknow Hockey League at Mohd Shahid Stadium onThursday. Ishtiyaq Ahmed struck thrice while Faiz Alam, MohdHaneef, Rais Ahmed and Dhirendra Diwedi scored braces. Inanother match, Northern Railway beat Sports College ‘C’ 3-2.
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of the 2nd Major Durga Mall Memorial District FootballTournament at Chowk Stadium on Thursday. In another matchArmy Boys beat RA Boys while Ex-Students edged past MilaniFC to book the place in last four.
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category of the 7th Jai Shankar Tiwari Memorial Inter-SchoolOpen Chess Championship at D A V College. Tanishq Guptafinished second while Vamsi Krishna settled for third place.Principal DAV Inter College Naerndra Dev gave away the prizes.
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of the 6th Martin Cup at La Martiniere ground on Thursday.Samarth struck twice in the 15th and 25th minute while Chandaninetted one in the 35th minute. In other matches, LMC ‘B’ defeat-ed Siddharth Public School 3-0 while APS and LMC ‘A’ won theirrespective match against Ram Swaroop and DPS, Shaeed Path.
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Under-16 Inter-Zonal trial match at Ekana stadium on Thursday.BRIEF SCORES:Bareilly Zone: 112 (Shubham Mishra 35, Siddharth Narayan 26,Abhijeet Gangwar 15; Yogesh Kumar 17/5, Divyansh Pandey28/2)Lucknow Zone Blue: 65 (Navratan Rajput 18, Varun Pratap 13,Prince Maurya 11; Madhav Gupta 4/3, Shubham Mishra 3/2,Abhishek Pal 15/2, Saurav Patel 16/2).
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Skipper Dimuth Karunaratne helped SriLanka to 85 for two at stumps on a rain-
hit day one of the second Test against NewZealand in Colombo on Thursday.
Only 36.3 overs were possible after rainwashed out the first session and bad lightended play for the day with Karunaratneunbeaten on 49.
Karunaratne, fresh from a match-winningcentury in the first Test in Galle last week lastweek, hit six boundaries during his 100-ballstay in overcast conditions.
Former captain Angelo Mathews was giv-ing Karunaratne company in the middle toremain unbeaten on nought after facing 14
deliveries.New Zealand all-rounder Colin de
Grandhomme, who made the XI in place ofMitchell Santner, said the match was “even-ly poised”.
“There’s a bit of more bounce on this trackthan what we encountered in Galle and that’snice,” he said after play ended.
“If we can get a couple of early wicketson Friday morning that will be nice.”
Karunaratne batted with positive intentdespite losing opening partner LahiruThirimanne and Kusal Mendis either side oftea.
Thirimanne never looked comfortableand his 59-minute stay at the wicket producedjust two runs.
His misery ended when he pushed aWilliam Somerville delivery and was caughtat extra cover by skipper Kane Williamson.He had been earlier dropped by wicketkeep-er BJ Watling off Somerville.
Mendis looked good as he reached 32with four fours and put on 50 runs withKarunaratne to steady the batting.
De Grandhomme got Mendis caughtbehind on a seaming delivery outside the offstump and Watling gloved the catch.
The hosts only need a draw to clinch thetwo-match series.
The entire opening session and anotherhour was lost due to persistent rain and thetoss took place at 1:10 pm (0740 GMT). Theafternoon session went uninterrupted but playwas again delayed by 28 minutes after tea dueto rain.
After 7.3 overs in the evening session, playwas called off due to bad light.
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Former opener Vikram Rathour willbe replacing Sanjay Bangar as India’s
new batting coach while Bharath Arunand R Sridhar were expectedly retainedas bowling and fielding coaches respec-tively.
The senior national selection com-mittee headed by MSK Prasad has rec-ommended three names each for all thesupport staff positions and the topnames in each category will be appoint-ed after the formalities with regards toConflict of Interest declaration is com-plete.
The 50-year-old Rathour, has played6 Tests and 7 ODIs in 1996 withoutmuch success but was a domestic heavy-weight for Punjab. He till few years back(2016) was a senior national selectorunder Sandeep Patil’s chairmanship.
He had earlier applied for NCA bat-ting consultant and U-19 batting coach’sposition but his application was put onhold as his brother-in-law AshishKapoor is the chairman of U-19 selec-tion committee.
“Vikram Rathour has got enoughexperience and we are convinced withhis skill sets (as a coach). We will ask himto declare if he has any conflict,” BCCICEO Rahul Johri told reporters.
As per the recommendations of theselection committee, current incumbentSanjay Bangar came second while for-mer England batsman MarkRamprakash was third.
“The team management had theirown views but looking ahead, we feltthere should be some freshness in thesupport staff,” Johri said.
Former Mumbai Indians physioNitin Patel, who was part of the supportstaff during the 2011 campaign, is backwhile Englishman Luke Woodhouse wasappointed as the strength and condition-ing (trainer) coach.
The other notable candidate to losehis job was incumbent administrativemanager Sunil Subramaniam, who wasremoved for his alleged misbehaviourwith top diplomats of the Indian govern-ment during the ongoing tour of WestIndies. Subramaniam was replaced byGirish Dongre.
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Moments after Ravi Shastriwas re-appointed as the
head coach of the Indian teamtill 2021, Cricket AdvisoryCommittee (CAC) chief KapilDev had said ‘as all of you wereexpecting’ Shastri is the numberone candidate for the job. But ithas now come to the fore thatKiwi Mike Hesson had almosttoppled Shastri.
Speaking about it, a seniorBCCI functionary said that itwas a close call between Shastriand Hesson and New Zealand’strack record under the Kiwifrom 2012 till 2018 had almostsealed the deal for the formerKings XI Punjab coach.
“It was not a walk in thepark for Shastri as some of youseem to believe. Hesson wasreally close to getting the go-ahead. It is there for all to seehow the New Zealand team
improved by leaps and boundsunder him across all formats.
“From being the perennialsurprise package in big-ticketevents, they had become achampion side under him and
that is something that reallyimpressed the CAC.
“Under his coaching, theKiwis reached their first-everWorld Cup final in 2015. Whilehe did resign in 2018, the Kiwis
playing their second final on thetrot in 2019 also had a lot to dowith what Hesson brought tothe table.
His strategizing with thesenior members in the team
can’t be discounted,” the func-tionary explained.
Asked what then turnedthe table back in Shastri’s favour,considering that the CAC madeit clear that skipper Virat Kohliwasn’t consulted before takingthe call, the functionary said itwas Shastri’s experience as aplayer on the internationalstage.
“The CAC felt that Shastri’sproven record as a player wasone area that needed to be givedue recognition as one’s ownstature might become an area ofconcern when handling a teamwhich has big names.
“Hesson hadn’t playedenough cricket himself and aswe know started coaching in hisearly twenties. Shastri on theother hand played 80 Testmatches and 150 ODIs. That issomething that went againstthe for Kiwi coach,” the func-tionary said.
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Virat Kohli had a fan boy moment ahead ofthe first Test as he got an opportunity to
interview legendary cricketer Vivian Richards,whom the Indian skipper has always idol-wor-shipped.
Kohli quizzed Viv Richards on how he dealtwith the fastest of bowlers of his time withouteven wearing a helmet or a guard. He intro-duced the Caribbean master as “the greatestinspiration to all of us batsmen”.
“Whenever I have seen videos of you walk-ing out, you’re in a hat, no helmets back then.Even when there were, after a point you chosenot to. Because it was something that made youfeel like you had the belief and ‘you are chew-ing gum’.
“I know the pitches were not as preparedor as covered back then. What was it like? Whatwent through your head walking out knowingthat you don’t have a lot of protection. Thereis no restriction on bouncers and then you goout and dominate like that.
“What did you feel from the time you leftthe changing room till you got to the pitch.What was the mindset?” Kohli asked.
“I believed I am the man,” said Richards.“It may sound arrogant but I always felt that Iwas involved in a game that I knew. I wouldback myself every time.
“You have to back yourself to get hurt, totake the knocks. But the helmet — I tried, I amnot going to lie and tell you. But, it felt a littleuncomfortable. So I felt my cap, my marooncap which was given to me. I felt so proud withthat.
“My mindset was that if I am goodenough to be here, if I get hurt it’s God’s will.I will survive,” the 67-year-old replied.
Kohli also shared his experience of facingfast bowlers: “I feel like it’s better to get hit earlyon and get to know the feeling than always feel-ing like you might get hit.
“So, I prefer actually getting hit early on andreally hard so it motivates me even further notallow that to happen again, just that pain to gothrough your body and be like — okayenough, it’s not happening again.”
Richards further said that getting hit wasa part of cricket.
“Because to be fair while batting you aregoing to get hurt. It depends on how you comeback from this knocks. In the old days, beforethese little guards (chest guards) around yourribs, you take it there and that’s when you feelit. You take a count but then that’s part and par-cel of the sport,” Richards opined.
Kohli also quizzed him about the chal-lenges Richards faced that made him believein himself. The former Windies skipper said:“I always felt I was good enough to be com-peting and I wanted to express myself in thebest way that I can.”
“I see that little similarity in you and thatsame passion in you,” said Richards as Kohlihad his moment, “There are times when folkswould look at us and say, ‘Wow why are theyso angry?”
Richards, who retired from the sport in1991 had earlier hailed Kohli’s batting skills andhad said that the Indian skipper’s batting stylereminded him of his own days.
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Marcus Harris and Usman Khawajaboth fell cheaply before Australia
reached 54-2 at tea on Thursday’s rain-marred opening day of the third AshesTest against England at Headingley.
Only 18 overs in an original day’s allo-cation of 90 had been bowled when badlight forced an early tea, with DavidWarner 26 not out — his first double-fig-ure score in five innings this series — andMarnus Labuschagne seven not out.
Rain had previously stopped play at2.45 pm (1345 GMT) after delaying thescheduled start by more than an hour.
And there was further frustration forboth England and a crowd who had wait-ed patiently to watch cricket when, afterplay resumed, only 3.1 more overs werepossible before the umpires suspendedplay for bad light even though the flood-lights were on full blast.
After a grinning Warner andLabuschagne sprinted off the field,umpires Chris Gaffaney and Joel Wilsonwere booed as they returned to the pavil-ion.
Wilson was later seen having an ani-mated conversation on the dressing roombalcony with several England playersand backroom staff.
England, looking to level the five-match series at 1-1, had seen captain JoeRoot win the toss in the hope of makingthe most of overcast, bowler-friendlyconditions.
Australia had dropped openerCameron Bancroft, who had made just 44runs in four innings, and brought inHarris to partner Warner at the top of theorder after England had enjoyed the bet-
ter of a rain-affected draw in the secondTest at Lord's.
Both left-handed batsmen struggledagainst England’s new-ball attack of StuartBroad and Jofra Archer.
The experienced Warner was repeat-edly beaten by Broad jagging the ball offa length, while the express Archer, in hissecond Test, went past Harris's outsideedge.
Archer, bowling from around thewicket, squared him up with an 87.3 mphdelivery that saw Harris get a thin edgethrough to wicketkeeper Jonny Bairstow— like Root appearing on his homeground.
Moments after Harris had fallen foreight, with Australia 12-1 off four overs,the umpires took the players off the fieldbecause of rain.
It took Warner 14 balls to get off the
mark as he continued to struggle, althoughBroad may have bowled a fraction tooshort with several deliveries beating theoutside edge without really challenging thebatsmen.
But he did take a wicket when UsmanKhawaja, the third left-hander inAustralia’s top three, made thin contactwith an intended leg glance and wascaught behind as he too fell for eight.
England, however, had to reviewNew Zealand official Gaffaney’s originalnot out decision before reducing Australiato 25-2.
For Australia, fast bowler JamesPattinson came in for paceman PeterSiddle.
England were unchanged after open-er Jason Roy was passed fit having beenhit on the head batting in the nets onTuesday.
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Opener KL Rahul put up a grit-ty fight with a circumspect
Ajinkya Rahane as India partiallyrecovered from a top-order col-lapse to reach 68 for 3 at lunch onthe opening day of the first WorldChampionship Test match againstthe West Indies.
Rahul, who had a wretched 18months in the red-ball format,before this Test match, was com-posed during his unbeaten 37after India were reduced to 25 for3 inside the first eight overs on atrack that offered bounce and lat-eral movement for new ballbowlers Kemar Roach (2/12 in 6overs) and Shannon Gabriel (1/26in 7 overs).
Mayank Agarwal (5), the ever-dependable Cheteshwar Pujara(2) and skipper Virat Kohli (9)were back in the pavilion in thefirst hour after Jason Holder putthe visitors in on a bouncy track.
Rahul (37 batting, 73 balls)and vice-captain Rahane (10 bat-ting, 43 balls) added 42 runs forthe unbroken fourth wicket andstemmed the rot going into thelunch break after 24 overs werebowled during the opening ses-sion.
Agarwal got one from Roach,which held its line and the open-er didn't fully commit forwardwith resultant nick being gobbledby Shai Hope behind the stumps.
The dogged Pujara didn't lastlong as he got a delivery fromRoach that moved a shade awayafter pitching with India's No. 3lunging forward. The edge wastaken low down by Hope.
Skipper Kohli relishes suchadverse situations and tough con-ditions but it wasn't his day despitea promising start that included adrive past point and another pastmid-on.
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that climbed on him from short oflength, saw Kohli fend awkwardly,only to be caught at gully by debutantShamarh Brooks.
At 25 for 3, it could have beenworse but a determined Rahul put hishead down and left a lot of deliveriesoutside off-stump as Rahane also
defended dourly at the other end,waiting for Roach and Gabriel's firstspell to end.
It was only when back-up pacerMiguel Cummins came into operationthat Rahul collected three of his fourboundaries -- a cut and a couple of off-drives.
Not for once did Rahane lookcomfortable during the first sessionand both his boundaries were freakones. The first was a thickish outsideedge that bounced short of second slipbefore going for four runs. The sec-ond was a pull-shot and he wasn'tentirely in control. However, the bestpart was that he hung in there.
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been ruled out of the first Test againstIndia due to an ankle injury and pacerMiguel Cummins was named as hisreplacement by Cricket West Indies.
Paul was ruled out due to aninjury in his left ankle and willremain in Antigua to continue hisrehabilitation.
"With Keemo ruled out for thismatch, it's good to have someone withMiguel's quality back in the squad, ashe brings experience to the team,"Windies interim head coach FloydReifer said in a statement.
Cummins had made his Testdebut against India three years agoand took a career best 6 for 48 in thesecond innings of the second matchof the four-Test series.
"Watching him in the last A Teamseries against India A and the train-ing sessions his lengths haveimproved. He's a very hard worker anda wicket-taker. I'm sure, if given theopportunity to play, he will make avaluable contribution in our bid to winthis series," he added.
The first Test beginning onThursday marks the start of the ICCWorld Test Championship for bothteams. In this series, each team canearn 60 points for a win or 20 pointsfor a draw.
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