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F lood situation in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh worsened on Monday with over 141 killed in rain-related incidents in the last four days. Normal life in the two States has been thrown out of gear due to heavy rain and severe waterlogging in the past two days. In 23 flood-hit dis- tricts of Bihar, prices of essen- tial commodities have sky- rocketed due to short supply. Healthcare services have been hit hard with reports coming from several districts, includ- ing Patna, of hospitals and nursing homes flooded and paitents left in the lurch. Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who carried an aerial survey on Monday to assess the situation, held a high-level meeting to review the situation. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has fore- cast no let-up in rain in Bihar and eastern UP and issued red warning of heavy rainfall in the next 48 hours. In neighbouring Uttar Pradesh, the flood situation remained grim in many parts of the State. The authorities had to shift about 900 prison- ers to Azamgarh and Ambedkarnagar jails. Floodwaters entered the bar- racks of the Ballia district jail located near the Ganga river. The Bihar Government said at least 30 people have been killed in the last four days in different rain-related inci- dents as rainfall continued to batter several parts of the State. Parts of the Patna remained submerged in 4-to-8-foot deep water. Bihar’s Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi and his family and thousands others across the State were rescued by the disaster man- agement forces. Renowned singer of Bihar Sharda Sinha, who was stuck in Patna’s Rajendra Nagar, too was rescued. Interestingly, Union Minister Ashwini Choubey on Monday said it was a "natural calamity" and blamed a par- ticular “Hathiya Nakshatra” (constellation), for the heavy downpour. Union Law Minister and Patna Sahib MP Ravi Shankar Prasad, who was in Patna Sahib on Monday, admitted drainage blockage triggered waterlogging. Patna has not witnessed waterlogging of such grave intensity since the 1975 floods. Officials said due to choked sewerage system rain water has not receded. The water- logging has severely affected Nalanda Medical College and Hospital (NMCH), one of Patna’s leading Government hospitals. Several trains and flights have been cancelled, rescheduled or diverted owing to the situation. The Bihar Government has also asked for two helicopters from the Air Force for air- dropping food packets and medicines. The Patna district administration has ordered the closure of all schools till Tuesday. NDRF spokesperson said in most of the places people are stuck in their houses. “Patna is among the worst affected places,” the spokesperson said. Ministry of Home Affairs said 23 flood affected Bihar dis- tricts include Araria, Kishanganj, Madhubani, East Champaran, Supaul, Katihar, Purnia, Lakhisarai, Buxar, Khagaria, Bhagalpur, Munger and Saran. T he Delhi High Court on Monday denied bail to for- mer Finance Minister P Chidambaram, saying the investigation is at an advance stage and possibility of him influencing the witnesses can- not be ruled out. However, the court reject- ed CBI’s arguments that Chidambaram could flee the country or tamper with evi- dence in the case. Dismissing the bail appli- cation, Justice Suresh Kait pointed out that the CBI in a sealed cover informed it that Chidambaram approached two co-accused and told them not to disclose any information. “As argued by learned Solicitor General, (which is part of the sealed cover) two material witnesses (accused) have been approached for not to disclose any information regarding the petitioner and his son (co-accused). This court cannot dispute the fact that the petitioner has been a Finance Minister and Home Minister and currently a member of Parliament. “He is respectable member of Bar Association of the Supreme Court of India. He has a long standing in Bar as a senior advocate. He has deep root in the Indian society and may have some connection abroad. But, the fact that he will not influence the witness directly or indirectly cannot be ruled out in view of above fact. Moreover, the investigation is at advance stage, therefore this court is not inclined to grant bail,” said the judgment. “The economic offences constitute a class apart and a class by itself, as it cuts the very root of probity and purity of public administration and results in eroding the public confidence which it reposes on the Government elected by it,” Justice Suresh Kait said while dismissing the bail petition. Meanwhile, the court rejected CBI’s arguments that Chidambaram is a flight risk and would tamper evidence. Regarding the flight risk, the judge said it can be secured by putting conditions, including surrender of passport, issuance of look-out notice and the accused not being allowed to leave the country without the permission of the court (even via Nepal and Bhutan). T wo days after guidelines were issued for regional transport officers (RTOs) across the State to create a broker-free environment, an eviction drive was launched on Monday to remove the unauthorised constructions near the RTO offices in the State capital. The demolition drive was carried out in front of the RTO-I office at Acharya Vihar by officials of the Bhubaneswar development authority (BDA), the Bhubaneswar municipal cor- poration (BMC) and the com- missionerate police. During the eviction drive, 66 pindis and cabins, an OMFED booth, an OPOLFEED booth, a temple and about 60 feet of a bound- ary wall constructed on Government land were demolished around the RTO-I office. The makeshift structures were being used by the dalals to function in the RTO office. Earlier, transport Ccmmissioner Sanjeeb Panda on September 28 had direct- ed the RTOs to dismantle all temporary structures erected along the boundary wall of Government land. He also instructed the RTOs to put a notice prohibiting agents or middlemen to enter into the office premises and testing tracks. In a related development, the Transport Department launched two places in the city to issue learner’s licence. The two places are at the BMC office in Saheed Nagar and the OSRTC office, which are functional from September 30 to October 4. After the Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Act, 2019 came into force from September 1 in the State, there is a huge rush of applicants at the two RTO offices in Bhubaneswar. It is hoped that the move is likely to reduce rush of applicants at the RTOs and expedite the process in getting a driving licence. M uch to the relief of large depositors duped by sev- eral chit fund firms in the State, the Justice MM Das Commission, which is probing the ponzi scam, on Monday began a process to identify such victims. The identification would be done on basis of the affi- davits filed by the victims in 2013 in the first phase. Notice would be served to the con- cerned chit fund firms very soon, sources said. While small depositors are getting their refund following verification by the panel, the large depositors were uncertain to get their money back. The commission has sub- mitted seven interim reports to the Sstate Government after identifying a total of 4,97,844 small depositors during the probe. While the identification process to refund deposits to small investors is still under- way, the latest move to identi- fy large depositors has created hope among the victims. According to reports, around 8,17,253 affidavits had been submitted by the small depositors before the commis- sion between August 5, 2013 and October 31, 2013. The last interim report was presented to the Government on July 12 this year. Sources said that around 2,000 small depositors have got their money back by now. The large depositors will be identi- fied after verifying around 3.75 lakh affidavits filed by the small investors. Meanwhile, the commis- sion has written to the Government suggesting digiti- sation of affidavits, which are still pending for verification. After getting a nod from the Government, the affidavits will be digitised for smooth and error-free verification. A man of the Ranpur police station area in Nayagarh district allegedly tried to sell off his two daughters for 2 lakh to a child trafficker in Ranchi. This came to light after the two sisters fled from their house before execution of the deal. The accused father had struck the deal with a middle- man in Ranchi and taken 2 lakh in an advance from him. When the girls learned of this on September 22, they somehow managed to run away from the house deep into the forests of Chandradeipur. The sisters stayed there for three days until they were rescued by police and officials of the Child Welfare Committee (CWC). It is then that the sisters narrated their ordeal before police and the CWC. Police have launched an investigation into the allega- tion. G overnor and Chancellor of universities Prof Ganeshi Lal on Monday appointed new Vice- Chancellors for the Berhampur University and the Shri Jagannath Sanskrit Vishwavidaya, Puri. Prof Govind J Chakrapani was appointed as Vice- Chancellor of the Berhampur University while Prof Hari Har Hota was made the new Vice- Chancellor of the Shri Jagannath Sanskrit Vishwavidaya. P olice on Monday conduct- ed raids and arrested 26 middlemen from different hos- pitals and Regional Transport Offices (RTOs) across the State. A total of 18 middlemen were arrested from RTOs whereas eight persons were apprehended by police from hospitals during the crack- down against touts and agents. In Bhubaneswar, eight bro- kers were held from Bhubaneswar RTO office. Two brokers each were held from the RTOs in Kendrapada, Puri and Gajapati, respectively. Three middlemen were arrested from Deogarh hospi- tal followed by two each in Cuttack and Sonepur and one in Gajapati. Notably, 16 middlemen were arrested from the RTOs and hospitals by police on Sunday.

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Flood situation in Bihar andUttar Pradesh worsened on

Monday with over 141 killed inrain-related incidents in the lastfour days.

Normal life in the twoStates has been thrown out ofgear due to heavy rain andsevere waterlogging in the pasttwo days. In 23 flood-hit dis-tricts of Bihar, prices of essen-tial commodities have sky-rocketed due to short supply.Healthcare services have beenhit hard with reports comingfrom several districts, includ-ing Patna, of hospitals andnursing homes flooded andpaitents left in the lurch.

Bihar Chief Minister NitishKumar, who carried an aerialsurvey on Monday to assess thesituation, held a high-levelmeeting to review the situation.

The India MeteorologicalDepartment (IMD) has fore-cast no let-up in rain in Biharand eastern UP and issued redwarning of heavy rainfall in thenext 48 hours.

In neighbouring UttarPradesh, the flood situationremained grim in many partsof the State. The authoritieshad to shift about 900 prison-ers to Azamgarh andAmbedkarnagar jails.Floodwaters entered the bar-racks of the Ballia district jaillocated near the Ganga river.

The Bihar Governmentsaid at least 30 people have

been killed in the last four daysin different rain-related inci-dents as rainfall continued tobatter several parts of the State.Parts of the Patna remainedsubmerged in 4-to-8-foot deepwater.

Bihar’s Deputy ChiefMinister Sushil Kumar Modiand his family and thousands

others across the State wererescued by the disaster man-agement forces.

Renowned singer of BiharSharda Sinha, who was stuck inPatna’s Rajendra Nagar, toowas rescued.

Interestingly, UnionMinister Ashwini Choubey onMonday said it was a "natural

calamity" and blamed a par-ticular “Hathiya Nakshatra”(constellation), for the heavydownpour. Union LawMinister and Patna Sahib MPRavi Shankar Prasad, who wasin Patna Sahib on Monday,admitted drainage blockagetriggered waterlogging.

Patna has not witnessed

waterlogging of such graveintensity since the 1975 floods.Officials said due to chokedsewerage system rain waterhas not receded. The water-logging has severely affectedNalanda Medical College andHospital (NMCH), one ofPatna’s leading Governmenthospitals. Several trains and

flights have been cancelled,rescheduled or diverted owingto the situation.

The Bihar Government hasalso asked for two helicoptersfrom the Air Force for air-dropping food packets andmedicines. The Patna district

administration has ordered theclosure of all schools tillTuesday.

NDRF spokesperson saidin most of the places people arestuck in their houses. “Patna isamong the worst affectedplaces,” the spokesperson said.

Ministry of Home Affairssaid 23 flood affected Bihar dis-tricts include Araria,Kishanganj, Madhubani, EastChamparan, Supaul, Katihar,Purnia, Lakhisarai, Buxar,Khagaria, Bhagalpur, Mungerand Saran.

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The Delhi High Court onMonday denied bail to for-

mer Finance Minister PChidambaram, saying theinvestigation is at an advancestage and possibility of himinfluencing the witnesses can-not be ruled out.

However, the court reject-ed CBI’s arguments thatChidambaram could flee thecountry or tamper with evi-dence in the case.

Dismissing the bail appli-cation, Justice Suresh Kaitpointed out that the CBI in asealed cover informed it thatChidambaram approached twoco-accused and told them notto disclose any information.

“As argued by learnedSolicitor General, (which ispart of the sealed cover) twomaterial witnesses (accused)have been approached for notto disclose any informationregarding the petitioner and his

son (co-accused). This courtcannot dispute the fact that thepetitioner has been a FinanceMinister and Home Ministerand currently a member ofParliament.

“He is respectable memberof Bar Association of theSupreme Court of India. He hasa long standing in Bar as asenior advocate. He has deeproot in the Indian society andmay have some connectionabroad. But, the fact that he willnot influence the witnessdirectly or indirectly cannot beruled out in view of above fact.Moreover, the investigation isat advance stage, therefore thiscourt is not inclined to grantbail,” said the judgment.

“The economic offences

constitute a class apart and aclass by itself, as it cuts the veryroot of probity and purity ofpublic administration andresults in eroding the publicconfidence which it reposes onthe Government elected by it,”Justice Suresh Kait said whiledismissing the bail petition.

Meanwhile, the courtrejected CBI’s arguments thatChidambaram is a flight riskand would tamper evidence.Regarding the flight risk, thejudge said it can be secured byputting conditions, includingsurrender of passport, issuanceof look-out notice and theaccused not being allowed toleave the country without thepermission of the court (evenvia Nepal and Bhutan).

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poration (BMC) and the com-missionerate police.

During the eviction drive,66 pindis and cabins, anOMFED booth, anOPOLFEED booth, a templeand about 60 feet of a bound-ary wall constructed onGovernment land weredemolished around theRTO-I office.

The makeshift structureswere being used by the dalalsto function in the RTO office.

Earlier, transportCcmmissioner Sanjeeb Pandaon September 28 had direct-ed the RTOs to dismantle alltemporary structures erected

along the boundary wall ofGovernment land. He alsoinstructed the RTOs to put anotice prohibiting agents ormiddlemen to enter into theoffice premises and testingtracks.

In a related development,the Transport Department

launched two places in the cityto issue learner’s licence.

The two places are at theBMC office in Saheed Nagarand the OSRTC office, whichare functional fromSeptember 30 to October 4.

After the Motor Vehicles(Amendment) Act, 2019 came

into force from September 1 inthe State, there is a huge rushof applicants at the two RTOoffices in Bhubaneswar.

It is hoped that the moveis likely to reduce rush ofapplicants at the RTOs and expedite the process in gettinga driving licence.

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eral chit fund firms in the State,the Justice MM DasCommission, which is probingthe ponzi scam, on Mondaybegan a process to identify suchvictims.

The identification wouldbe done on basis of the affi-davits filed by the victims in2013 in the first phase. Noticewould be served to the con-cerned chit fund firms verysoon, sources said.

While small depositors aregetting their refund followingverification by the panel, thelarge depositors were uncertainto get their money back.

The commission has sub-mitted seven interim reports tothe Sstate Government afteridentifying a total of 4,97,844small depositors during theprobe. While the identificationprocess to refund deposits tosmall investors is still under-way, the latest move to identi-fy large depositors has createdhope among the victims.

According to reports,around 8,17,253 affidavits hadbeen submitted by the small

depositors before the commis-sion between August 5, 2013and October 31, 2013. The lastinterim report was presented tothe Government on July 12 thisyear.

Sources said that around2,000 small depositors have gottheir money back by now. Thelarge depositors will be identi-fied after verifying around 3.75lakh affidavits filed by thesmall investors.

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Ganeshi Lal on Mondayappointed new Vice-Chancellors for the BerhampurUniversity and the ShriJagannath SanskritVishwavidaya, Puri.

Prof Govind J Chakrapaniwas appointed as Vice-Chancellor of the BerhampurUniversity while Prof Hari HarHota was made the new Vice-Chancellor of the ShriJagannath SanskritVishwavidaya.

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Police on Monday conduct-ed raids and arrested 26

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A total of 18 middlemenwere arrested from RTOswhereas eight persons wereapprehended by police fromhospitals during the crack-down against touts and agents.

In Bhubaneswar, eight bro-kers were held fromBhubaneswar RTO office. Twobrokers each were held fromthe RTOs in Kendrapada, Puriand Gajapati, respectively.

Three middlemen werearrested from Deogarh hospi-tal followed by two each inCuttack and Sonepur and onein Gajapati.

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The NITI Aayog on Monday releasedthe School Education Quality Index

(SEQI), which shows that Odisha has reg-istered a significant improvement in thisindex.

While Odisha had been placed at the13th rank in base year 2015-16, it movedup to the 7th position in the reference year2016-17, the report said.

Odisha and four other States, Haryana,Assam, Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat, regis-tered high rates of improvement in theiroverall performance score between 2015-16 and 2016-17.

Odisha is the fourth best State in term

of improvement. The percentage figureincreased from 47.8 in 2015-16 to 60.2 in2016-17 with a 12.4-per cent improvement,the report added.

When apprised by Chief Secretary AsitTripathy and School and Mass EducationSecretary Chitra Armugam, Chief MinisterNaveen Patnaik advised the department tokeep up the good work and endeavour forgetting into top three.

It was also revealed that the Stategained 18.5 per cent to rise from 43.4 percent to reach at 61.9 per cent in the cate-gory of Governance Processing AidingOutcomes, which consider factors cover-ing student-teacher attendance, administrative adequacy, training, account-ability, and transparency.

The other outcomes that the NITIAayog considers are learning out comes,access outcomes, infrastructure and facil-ities and equity outcome. The State has alsoperformed in these factors.

Notably, the SEQI was developed to evaluate the performances ofthe States and the Union Territories (UTs) in the school educationsector. The index aims to bring an outcomefocus to education policy by providing theStates and the UTs with a platform to iden-tify their strengths and weaknesses andundertake requisite course corrections orpolicy interventions.

AJapanese table tennis (TT) coach has becomequite active in Bhubaneswar since August this

year. He was dispatched by the JICA (JapanInternational Cooperation Agency) for a term oftwo years. After falling in love with this wiff-waffsports, he has been cavorting with table tennisfor the last 28 years that too when he was in histeens. The Japanese ping-pong lovers were over-joyed when Takuya Sakamoto emerged asthird spot holder in the national high school selec-tion tournament in Japan. This is Takuya’s sec-ond assignment as an international coach in aforeign country. The first time he was dispatchedto Morocco in 2010. He taught Moroccans boysfor about three years at a local club as a nation-al team coach. A 16-year-old trainee of Takuyaparticipated in the World Championship in Parisin 2013. Subsequently, he participated in theAfrican Club Team Championship and theArab Club Team Championship as a Moroccannational team player. The hand that rocks the cra-dle rules the world. Takuya owes everything toher mother, who herself is an international TTplayer even at her age of 67. The elegant style ofTakuya, his strong footwork, robust backhand,his subtle variations, service, chop block in thislyrical game of legs and pace is awesome andamazing indeed! In an interview to The Pioneer,Sakamoto spoke to Sugyan Choudhury at hisSahid Nagar table tennis courtyard while he wasfrisking and frolicking with his trainee students.

What does your name Takuya mean inJapanese language?Taku means table tennis and ya means boy. Themeaning of my name is ‘Table Tennis Boy’.

Who gave you this name?My parents gave me this name because mymother herself is a TT player having representedJapan in international tourna-ments. Today even at the age of67, she plays TT every week andparticipates in national events.She is very passionate about thisgame.

So you have TT in your genes.In a way, yes; I believe so.

What’s the contribution ofyour mother in shaping you asa player and a coach?I learnt many things about TTfrom her. What I am todaywould not have been possiblewithout her. However, she wasa pen holder player and I didn’thave a coach. So, I studiedmodern European and Chineseshake hand plays by videos. Thisexperience is useful for teaching now.

Any similarity between the people of Japanand the people of Odisha?Both are peace-loving. Both are fond of rice andfish.

To what extent fish and rice as food help inthe game of TT?Only fish and rice are not enough to produceinternational players. We have to follow theadvice of sports dieticians in this matterbecause physical fitness is very vital in winningover tough opponents.

You were in Morocco for three years as theirnational coach. What’s the standard of youngplayers in Odisha compared to theirMoroccan counterparts?The standards are the same. But players inOdisha, especially young ones, show greatpromise for a bright future because they are veryhard working and have great zeal for learningboth fundamentals and new techniques.

You are already 38 years of age. Are you plan-ning to get married?I am already married to TT. I am happy withthis single marriage now. But I want to get mar-ried after returning to Japan two years later.Because teaching TT to my future son anddaughter is also my dream.

What is it that makes you different from othercoaches?I love my students; I do not have ego. That iswhat makes both the coach charismatic and stu-dents comfortable which in turn makes thelearning process enjoyable and receptive.

It is said a Japanese wants to be born in Indiain his next birth because Gautam Buddha wasborn here? Is it a fact?Although I think it is not a fact, nobody knowsthe mind of people. However, Buddha is great-ly respected and worshipped in Japan.

What is Japanese patriotism?It is not that Japanese people are the best amongthe humans. But whatever is produced in Japanis the best in the world qualitatively. And theyare proud of the beauty of four seasons in Japanand their unique culture.

What fascinates you most in Odisha?The simplicity of its hospitable people and thebeauty of its green look of trees that makes meforget where I have come from. I am from Osakaand am an ambassador for international coop-eration to this city. I think people who are activeat festivals and bustle in Odisha resemble Osaka.

How much satisfaction you get from thisassignment as a coach?Onagawa town where I worked as a town’s pressofficer for last five years is known to have beensupported by 46 Indians rescue team after theGreat East Japan Earthquake in 2011. Thanks

to support from all over theworld, the town is gradual-ly rebuilding. However,Odisha was also damagedby a cyclone in May thisyear. So, I feel that teachingtable tennis in India is akind of service returned toIndia even if it is not of thatmagnitude.

In recognition of yourcontribution in Morocco,you were given an oppor-tunity to meet formerEmperor Akihito andEmpress Michiko. Whatdid they say?I was very nervous, butthey appreciated my workwith their inspirational

words. I was thrilled with joy. It was a great hon-our and the most memorable moment for me.

How tall is suitable for table tennis? DoJapanese and Chinese heights help them play?In my opinion, because of the size of ball, 175cm to 178 cm is the best for men. World cham-pion Ma Long and almost all Chinese nation-al team members are just that tall. In the caseof women, Asians are not so tall and Japaneseare particularly short players. However, thishandicap is covered by the speed of movementand hitting the ball on the rise. It is by sheer dintof effort.

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Soon after the plight of 11-year-old orphan girl

Seema Munda ofSalarapentha vi l lage inKeonjhar district was report-ed in media as she wasdeprived of subsidised publicdistribution system (PDS)rice for two months, theGovernment on Mondayswung into action mode tohelp her out.

The girl had not receivedPDS rice as she does not havean Aadhaar card to link withher ration card.

Women and ChildDevelopment MinisterTukuni Sahu took to Twitterand asked the district admin-istration to come to the girl’shelp immediately.

Later, Food SuppliesMinister Ranendra Pratap

Swain visited Keonjhar, metSeema in her house andinstructed officials concernedto provide her the quota ofPDS rice of last two months.He also directed the officialsto make her Aadhaar cardand seed it with her rationcard.

“She will also be extend-ed help for her education,”said Swain.

The Keonjhar Sub-

Collector, District ChildWelfare Officer (CWO) andAdditional District WelfareOfficer (ADWO) visited thevillage and enrolled Seema inthe nearby Kusumita AshramSchool. They also assuredher all help for her higherstudies in future.

Notably, Seema had beenstaying with her grandfatherafter her mother left her andfather died when she was achild.

Two years back, hergrandfather died due to oldage-related ailments.

She used to get 5 kg ofrice under the National FoodSecurity Act (NFSA) tillAugust this year. However,after the Centre made itmandatory for linking ofAadhaar with ration card,Seema failed to get the sub-sidised rice.

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In an incident of mobjustice, three youths

were severely thrashed bylocals at Shyamraipur vil-lage under the Singlapolice station in the dis-trict late on Sunday nightafter they were caughtred-handed while com-mitting burglary in ahouse in the locality.

Sources said almostmost families of the villagehad gone to watch anopera when five youths

attempted to burgle ahouse but some localsmanaged to nab three ofthem while two others

fled.Later, the locals

brutally thrashed thetrio, identified as Padmalochan Tarai,Jhadeswar Jena andDebasis Jena leavingthem criticallyinjured. On receivinginformation, policereached the spot andrescued the trio fromthe villagers’ custody.

The trio was lateradmitted to the BastaCommunity HealthCentre (CHC).

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Candidates of the threemajor political parties, the

BJD, the BJP and the Congress,on Monday filed their nomi-nation papers to fight the by-election to be held for theBijepur Assembly seat onOctober 21.

BJD candidate Rita Sahu,Congress’ Dillip Kumar Pandaand BJP’s

S Sanat Gartia submittedthe nomination papers beforethe Returning Officer at theSub-Collector’s office atPadampur in Bargarh district.

The candidates came inhuge rallies at different timesand filed papers in presence oftheir proposers. Adequate secu-rity arrangement had beenmade for smooth filing of

nominations.According to the schedule,

scrutiny of nominations paperswill be held on October 1 andlast date of withdrawal of can-didature is October 3. Countingof votes and declaration ofresult will be held on October24. The by-poll has been neces-sitated in Bijepur after ChiefMinister Naveen Patnaik vacat-ed the seat and retained his oldHinjili constituency in Ganjamdistrict. He had won from boththe seats in the Assembly elec-tions held in April this year. Asmany as 2,32,005 voters inBijepur comprising 1,19,916males, 1,12,074 females and 15third gender voters are eligibleto cast their votes at a total of285 polling booths. The by-pollis all set to witness a triangularcontest.

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After fighting for life for thelast five days, an ailing

female elephant in the BanraKuamada forest in Banki suc-cumbed on Monday afternoon.

While the exact reasonbehind its death was yet to beascertained, the jumbo was sus-pected to have died of herpesvirus infection. The pachydermwas undergoing treatment underthe supervision of a team ofOUAT veterinary doctors and anexpert team from Assam.Notably, four elephants died ofherpes virus at the NandankananZoological Park here in a monthrecently. Following the deaths,the Government has soughtassistance from experts of Assamand Kerala.

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Asix-year-old boy suffered criticalinjuries when a truck hit him near

the Banapur Upper Primary (UP)School on the Cuttack-BhubaneswarNational Highway-16 on Monday.

Reportedly, Shankar Das, a stu-dent of the Banapur UP School, wascommuting on the NH as the serviceroad used by the school kids on a reg-ular basis has been inundated byrainwater. While crossing the road, aspeeding truck hit him and fled fromthe spot.

The minor was rushed to a near-by private hospital and later shifted tothe SCB Medical College Hospital hereas his condition deteriorated.

Receiving information, the Sadarpolice reached the accident spot andbegan an investigation to trace thetruck.

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The Pradesh Congress SevaDal would celebrate the

150th birth anniversary ofMahatma Gandhi for a year inthe State from Gandhi Jayantion October 2.

Padayatras, seminars,health checku camps, planta-tion, award distribution cere-mony for child talents andservice to leprosy programmeswould be organised at differentplaces, informed Seva Dal Statechief Monoj Jena.

The Seva Dal also held apreparatory meeting for thepurpose. PCC presidentNiranjan Patnaik and Odishain-charge Rudra Raju gracing

the occasion advised Seva Dalmembers to create awarenessabout Gandhi philosophy andideals among people in thenook and corner of the State.

It was decided that leaderwould garland the GanhidStatue at Nalco Square here andparticipate in a huge Padayatraat Salepur in Cuttack district onOctober 2. A seminar onGandhi philosophy would alsobe organised on the day.

On October 3, a Padayatrawould be organised at Bijepurin Bargarh district. .

“Various programmes andseminars will be organised atblock and district levels tospread peace massages ofMahatma Gandhi,” said Jena.

V i c e - p r e s i d e n t sRamprasad Jayaswal, AshokSingh and Madhab ChandraBiswal, general secretariesJyotish Kuamar Sahoo,Rabindra Nath Behera, NiradCharan Khuntia, Nalini Beheraand Kulamani Sahoo, womanconvenor Usharani Behera andtreasurer Niresh Patra werepresent.

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An engineer was caught red-handed by the Vigilance

police while he was takingbribe from a contractor onMonday.

The accused was identifiedas Durga Prasad Dalai, JuniorEngineer (JE) of Banpur blockin Khordha district.

The official was appre-hended by a Khordha squad ofVigilance policet while he wasdemanding and accepting abribe amount of �20,000 fromthe contractor to clear one ofthe latter’s bill.

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Cuttack DCP AkhilesvarSingh on Monday denied

the allegation of KendrapadaBJD MP Anubhav Mohantythat a city police inspector hadmisbehaved with him.

“The allegation of aboutthe Purighat police station IICmisbehaving with the MP isnot correct,” Singh said, addingthat an investigation would bemade if a formal complaint ismade in this regard.

Over a spat betweenMohanty and BJD studentleader Manjit Das late onSunday night, the former hadtweeted to the Twin CityCommissioner of Police alleg-ing that he was misbehaved bythe IIC.

Sharing a common bound-ary in a locality under thePurighat police station here, theMP and the student leader ofthe same party had entered intoa heated exchange of wordsover vehicle parking.

The MP reportedly hadbrought this to the notice of thelocal police over telephone;and soon after, twitted allegingthat the police misbehavedwith him and subsequentlytwitted another video.

On the other hand, Manjitalleged that the MP has actu-ally defamed him in the pub-lic.

When contacted, an officerof the police station informedthat no FIR has been filed byany of the parties in this regard.

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In an initiativeof Swachh Bharat Abhiyan,

the East Coast Railway (ECoR)will establish a poly crackplant here.ECoR GeneralManager Vidya Bhushan laidthe foundation-stone of theproposed plant at the CarriageRepair Workshop,Mancheswar here.

Lots of non-ferrous scrap isbeing generated in the CarriageRepair Workshop atMancheswar, which has noefficient method of disposal.

As a result, they find theirway to landfills, which is envi-ronmentally hazardous.Carriage Repair Workshop,Mancheswar has found a wayfor tackling this problem in apatented technology calledPolycrack.

It is world’s first patentedheterogenous catalytic processwhich converts multiple feedstocks into hydrocarbon liquidfuels, gas, carbon and water.This is the first-of-its-kind inIndian Railways and third inIndia.

The plant can be fed withthe all types of plastic, petro-leum sludge, un-segregatedMSW with moisture up to 50per cent, e–waste, automobilefluff, organic waste including bamboo, gardenwaste, etc., and Jathropa fruitand palm bunch.

The plant will be con-structed in four months and thetarget date of commissioning isJanuary 2020. About Rs 2 crorewill be spent.

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The Vigilance police onMonday caught MARK-

FED Auditor SomanathSatapathy red-handed fordemanding and accepting ille-gal gratification of �3,000.

He was caught the bribefrom complainant RabindraKumar Mishra, formerMARKFED Mayurbhanj’sBatanati Godown in-chargeand now MARKFEDBhubaneswar Sales Assistant, inorder to submit audit report inhis favour.

His residential house atIRC Village, Bhubaneswar wassearched. He was arrested andwill later be forwarded to court.

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Non-resident Odia (NRO)professor Digambara Patra

has urged the Prime Ministerto establish a Central agricul-tural university inBhawanipatna of Kalahandidistrict to give the much-need-ed boost to the agricultureproduction in the KBK region.

The performance of agri-culture in Odisha has beenrecently adorable. Thus,Central Agriculture Universityin Kalahandi will not onlyboost the development ofadvanced technology andresearch skill in agriculturesector at par with other nation-al institutions in the worldclass level but also benefit thelocal economy by improving

the living standard for mar-ginalized people in backwardcluster of KBK, Gajapati andKandhamal. And sinceBhawanipatna is located cen-trally to this tribal and back-ward cluster, it would be theideal location, said Dr Patra.

Besides, he said socialdevelopment of backward partslike KBK districts of the coun-try largely depends on thedevelopment of agriculture sec-tor and many of these back-ward pockets in the nation havea great agriculture potential.

Kalahandi was known asthe rice bowl of Odisha at onetime. Today this region sharesa high percentage in rice, puls-es and cotton production in theState.

He further said that theMinistry of Agriculture hasalready established CentralAgriculture University atImphal, one of the backwardlocations, for serving NorthEastern States.

The Union Agricultureministry has also made CentralAgriculture University in Jhansiin Bundelkhand, anotherbackward location, and DrRajendra Prasad CentralAgriculture University, Pusa(Samastipur).

All these three Centraluniversities are under IndianCouncil of AgriculturalResearch (Ministry ofAgriculture and FarmersWelfare). The Banaras HinduUniversity, a Central universi-ty, has also agricultural disci-pline serving the interest in thenorth part of the nation.

In eastern part of thenation, especially, for Odisha,West Bengal, Chhattisgarh,there is no Central AgricultureUniversity.

Apart from PM Modi, DrPatra has also addressed his let-ter to Chief Minister NaveenPatnaik, Union MinisterDharmendra Pradhan andKalahandi MP Basanta Panda.

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Police on Sunday arrestedthree persons, including a

woman social activist, on thecharge of duping job aspirantsof lakhs of rupees in theUmarkote area of Nabarangpurdistrict.

The arrestees’ were identi-fied as Ranjana Verma, her hus-band Asish Kumar Patra andassociate Anil Banerjee. Theyset up a placement agencynamed ‘Manabika AdhikaraCommittee’ and collectedmoney from youths from dif-ferent parts of the State on the

guise of providing them jobs.To win the trust of people,

they used to hold awarenesscamps in rural areas and invitenoted personalities,Government officials and localmediapersons as guests.

Later, with the help of herhusband and the associate,Ranjana was collecting moneyfrom the job aspirants whilegiving false promises to providethem employment.

Nabarangpur SP NitinKusalkar said that when theduped job aspirants failed to getback their money, they lodgedpolice complaints, followingwhich the accused were arrest-ed. It is suspected that hun-dreds of youths from Keonjhar and Nabarangpurdistricts were cheated by thefraudsters.

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Police rescued a minor girlhours after she had been

abducted by miscreants fromthe Gandahati waterfall inGajapati district on Sundayafternoon.

The police also detained ayouth in this connection. Theyouth was identified as BijayKumar Mohanty of Anka Sahi,Paralakhemundi.

According to information,two sisters had gone to thewaterfall for a move on Sundayafternoon. While they weremoving, some miscreants cameand forcibly took away the

elder one, aged about 14. Themiscreants also attacked thegirl’s younger sister and mater-nal uncle as they protested.They took away the girl by amotorcycle.

Later, the victim’s fatherlodged a complaint at theGarabandha police station inthis regard.

Acting on the complaint,the police made a search driveand found the girl and theyouth near Bhubani village onSunday night.

“A case has been regis-tered and further investigationsare on,” said Garabandha PSIIC Sushant Sahoo.

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The volume of blood contentin a human body can be

easily derived from a mathe-matical calculation. As per theformula, if we want to know thetotal volume of blood inside thebody, then we have to simplymultiply the body weight of theperson with 76 ml for men and66 ml for women.

After computation fromthe scientific formula we canknow that normally a healthyman has roughly at least 76 mlblood per kilogram of his bodyweight, whereas this amount is66 ml per kilogram of bodyweight in case of women. Outof the total quantity only 50mlof blood is sufficient for effec-

tive blood circulation.Hence 26 ml and 16 ml of

blood are surplus in a humanbody of men and women,respectively. From this surplusamount if we are donating 8mlper kg only, then also 18 ml formen and 8 ml for women, perkg weight, would still remain assurplus, which proves thatthere is no harm in the bloodcirculation system.

But in our mind theremight arise one question, whywould we only donate 8 ml ofblood per kg weight of body?The answer to this is, for donat-ing blood in India one musthave a minimum body weightof 45 kg, that is, anybody hav-ing weight of 45 kg can donate(45x8) 360 ml of blood.

In India not more than 350ml of blood is collected from adonor in normal case. The liq-uid part of the donated bloodis made up automatically with-in 2 days and cells are com-pletely replenished within 21days, but still no one is allowedto donate blood within 90 daysi.e. three months after donationwhereas, in case of women it issix months. So a man candonate blood four times in a

year and a woman can donatetwo times in a year. Like in ourcountry, we are eligible to castvote and drive at the age of 18,similarly we become eligible todonate blood at 18 years of agewhereas, the upper limit fordonating blood is limited to 60years. So from the age of 18 to60,a man can donate 168 times(60-18) x4 and a woman candonate 84 times(60-18) x2.

Hence in India, men andwomen have the capability ofdonating 168 and 84 timesrespectively. But our simplemessage to this humanityis toat least donate blood once intheir life time.

In our country, the popu-lation is 134 crore and inOdisha the population is 4.5

crore. In our State, only 4.5lakh units of blood arerequired. The total require-ment is only 1 per cent of thepopulation. From our totalpopulation even if we woulddeduct 75 per cent, who aren’teligible, like children up to theage group of 18, senior citizensabove 60 years, unhealthy peo-ple and the recipients, then alsomore than one crore peoplewould be eligible to donate, butin reality we only need 5 lakhunits of blood, which is notmore than 5 per cent of the eli-gible persons.

But alas! Till date we havereached only up to 70 per centin voluntary blood donation inour State whereas 30 per centof the total requirement isstill

short. Therefore, nearly onelakh of people always movehere and there in panic to col-lect blood during urgent needfor their near and dear ones. Soas to help others, the thing wecan do is to donate blood atleast once in our eligible peri-od which would be sufficientfor our State and country tohave surplus stock in our bloodbanks. This message is espe-cially for the people whohaven’t donated blood at leastonce in their life time. There isno great joy than saving asoul.

(The writer is founder pres-ident, Odisha Voluntary BloodDonors’ and Motivators’Association, Mob: 9938537600,8984007600)

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Apoor, helpless elderly per-son has been residing

under a polythene shed inHemgiri block of Sundargarhdistrict and struggling to sur-vive. Years back, BhagirathiRaksa (70) was living with hiswife, three sons and fourdaughters at Kaudarah villageunder Ankelbira panchayat.But today he is all alone. Whilehis wife, two sons and threedaughters have died, his onlyson works as a driver and is notin touch with him. Similarly,Bhagirathi’s only daughter, afterher marriage, has not come tomeet her father once.

Bhagirathi had gone toChhattisgarh to work as alabourer there; but after return-ing to his house in his villagesix years ago, he had found hishouse in completely damagedcondition and his name wasnot found in the voter list of thepanchayat.

Bhagirathi has been stayingunder a polythene shed, whichwas provided to him by thelocal Sarpanch.

In rainy season, he faceslots of difficulties, due to whichhe cannot stay under the poly-thene shed and roams in villageand takes shelter at otherplaces.

“I have no idea about theplight of this elderly person. Iwill immediately look into itand will try to ensure that hegets necessary assistance imme-diately,” said Hemgiri BDO-in-Charge SN Patel.

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Five villagers of Ghantasahiunder Berhampur police

station in the Nilgiri area haveallegedly duped a Delhi-basedIT company of �8 lakh and areabsconding.

The matter came to thefore after a team of the com-pany personnel reachedGhantasahi and searched forthe youths on Sunday. Failingto trace them, the companymen talked to the police.However, they didn’t lodge anywritten complaint.

According to the team, thefive persons were engaged as

retailers in the software com-pany by under an agreement.Following verification of all tes-timonials, the company allot-ted them ID to operate onlinecash transactions between thecompany and its clients.

It was agreed that the retail-ers would get one per centcommission of each transactionmade by them and two per centwould go to the company’saccount.

Recently, the companycould know that althoughtransactions of over �8 lakhwere made, not commissionwas credited into its account.

These touts defrauded thefirm by adopting certainunscrupulous means, said com-pany officials.

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Keeping in view the long-felt need of thelocality, test trial runs of two sewage treat-

ment plants (STPs) of a total daily capacity ofapproximately 4.5 million litres were startedin Paradip by PPT Chairman Rinkesh Roy onMonday.

The STPs are stat-of-the-art facilities andhave been constructed at a cost of about Rs 22crore. The key highlights of these STPs are con-version of sewage water into manure and waterthat can be used for gardening and sprinklingactivities. The much-awaited STPs have beenconstructed with the technical assistancefrom Richardson & Cruddas (1972) Ltd,Mumbai. This is the first phase of the inte-grated sanitation project, which aims atimproving overall sanitation through dischargeof waste water after proper treatment. The twoplants will become fully operational inDecember.

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A17-feet king cobra, which sneaked intohuman habitation supposedly from the

Kuldiha sanctuary of Nilgiri in search of food, wasrescued by Snake Helpline members on Sundaynight and handed over to the Forest Department.

The highly venomous reptile had strayed intothe backyard of one Antaryami Rout of Dholpurvillage in Oupada block.

After hearing hissing sound from the back-yard, Rout informed forest officials and the SnakeHelpline about it. Snake Helpline membersreached the spot and recued the reptile and hand-ed over to forest officials, who released it in thesanctuary on Monday.

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As many as seven wagonsof a goods train derailed

near Jijharpur under theTihidi police station in thedistrict on Monday morn-ing.

Sources said the coal-laden train was on its waytowards Dhamra when itderailed around 6.45 am .

After the incident, two ofthe seven derailed bogiesoverturned and the wheels ofsome bogies were detached.Besides, some portion of therailway track was also dam-aged in the mishap following which the trans-portation of coal was dis-rupted.

Later, the Dhamra Portand railway authorities rushedto the spot and launched aninquiry into the matter.

The rai lway authorities said efforts wereon to repair the damagedtracks and restore normalcyin movement of trains on theroute.

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Food Supplies and ConsumerWelfare and Cooperation

Minister Ranendra PratapSwain on Sunday reviewed thefunctioning of the CooperationDepartment in Keonjhar andMayurbhanj districts in theperspective of the 5T(Teamwork, Transparency,Technology, Transformation,Time) policy of the ChiefMinister in a meeting heldhere.

He warned the members ofthe department that actionwould be taken if anyone fails

to implement the 5Ts. He calledupon the officers to see howpeople particularly farmers canbe benefitted by cooperativemovement.

The Minister also reviewedthe total loans disbursed by thecooperative banks last year inthe districts and directed totake action against the default-ers. He stressed on properauditing of the cooperativebanks.

Keonjhar CentralCooperative Bank PresidentBana Pahi, Director Deba Patraand VP Sushama Mohanty,Mayurbhanj CentralCooperative Bank PresidentRajkishore Acharya and VPJoshna Majhi and DRCSs,ARCSs, Auditors of both thebanks were present in themeeting.

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The Khariar police nabbedfive youths involved in dif-

ferent cases of robbery. Threemotorcycles and several cellphones were recovered from thepossession of the accused.

A police team led by SI JituMohan Beshra under the super-vision of SDPO, Khariar wasformed to investigate the case.The investigation revealed thatthe accused are also involved inseveral other cases in the past.

The police acted after get-ting a complaint from oneMakardhwaj Meher ofJholpathar village underKhariarpolice station, whoalleged that he along withKoshal Meher and Dasrathi

Tandi of his village had beenphysically assaulted and robbedof their money by threeunknown youths. The policeteam identified the accusedpersons and nabbed them fromdifferent places of the district bytracking them through mobilecalls and basing on informationfrom spy. The police after arrest-ing the accused have estab-lished their links with two othercases of robberies which hap-pened a few months ago underthe limits of Komna police sta-tion of Nuapada district andBisam Cuttack police station ofRayagada district. The arrestedwere identified as ManoranjanSaraf, Trilochan Sabar, BighnarajSabar, Niranjan Khura andLoknath Sagaria.

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India on Monday successful-ly test-fired a land version of

the BrahMos supersonic mis-sile from the Chandipur coasthere. The test met all flightparameters, said a source in theDefence Research andDevelopment Organisation(DRDO).

According to sources,though the missile is developedby India with collaborationwith Russia but in today’s testindigenous booster as well as

warhead were used and testedfor the first occasion.

“One can say about 70 percent of the missile compo-nents now are indigenous. Thiswill be cost-effective as com-pared to importing them fromoutside. The missile, with astrike range of 290 km, can befired from land as well as sea-based platforms,” added thesources.

On March 11, 2017 the firstextended version of the missile,which had strike range of 450km, was successfully tested.

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Awoman allegedly commit-ted suicide after being

unable to repay the loan shehad taken from a woman self-help group (SHG). Thedeceased was identified asNalini (40) of Bhimapur villageunder Begunia block inKhordha district.

Sources said the womanhad taken a loan of Rs 70,000from the SHG. But due tofinancial crisis, she couldn’trepay the loan amount. Familymembers said she was missingfrom last Tuesday and they did-n’t trace her despite a franticsearch.

On Monday, Kotalanga vil-lagers under Routpada grampanchayat spotted her bodyhanging from a tree near thevillage and informed the police.

After getting information,Begunia police led by IICRashmi Ranjan Sahu reachedthe spot and started investiga-tion. Tehsildar VivekanandaParida also visited the spot. AUD case was registered andbody was sent for postmortem,said police.

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The Vedanta Ltd,Jharsuguda’s Team CPP

1215 MW bagged the EnergyEfficient Unit Award 2019 forexcellence in energy manage-ment and Gold Award at SEEMNational Energy ManagementAward 2019 (SNEMA) forenabling the best energy prac-tices within power plant sectorrecently. Speaking on the occa-

sion, Vedanta Ltd, JharsugudaCEO CN Singh said, “It is aproud moment for all of us tobe recognized by two of themost illustrious industry asso-ciations for our energy effi-ciency efforts”.

The CPP team has beenawarded the CII NationalAward for Energy Managementfor a record sixth time and theGold Award for the secondconsecutive year.

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Awareness Camp for Studentsand Employees of CUO’ wasorganised at the CentralUniversity Odisha campus atSunabeda on September 27.

The university organisedthe camp in collaboration withthe State Bank of India,Sunabeda branch. CUO Vice-Chancellor Prof Sharat KumarPalita attended as chief guestwhile Chief Manager, SBISunabeda, Kola Balaji, ChiefManager (CSCM) RBOJeypore Manas Ranjan andRBO, Jeypore Alok Kumarattended as the resource per-sons.

“People like us must under-stand various digital services ofthe modern banks and get thefacilities and benefits out of it,”Prof Palita said.

Balaji highlighted the facil-ities and benefits offered by theState Bank of India for the uni-versity community.

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The 39th World Congress ofPoets (WCP) will com-

mence in KIIT Deemed to beuniversity from October 2,coinciding with the 150th birthanniversary of MahatmaGandhi. More than 1,000 poets,writers from 82 countries and500 poets from Odisha willattend the meet, which has‘Compassion through Poetry’as its theme.

This is the third time WCPis being hosted in India. Onprevious two occasions it washeld in Chennai in 1986 and2007. It is a matter of pride forOdisha and India to be hostingsuch a coveted Congress.

Founder, KIIT and KISSand president of the 39th WCPDr Achyuta Samanta took ini-tiatives to bring the mega eventto Odisha to promote the art,culture, heritage, literature, tra-dition and tourism of India andOdisha at international level.He has taken all steps to makeit a grand and colourful event.

During different days ofthe five-day Congress,Compassion Poetry, WisdomPoetry, Tourism Poetry,Spiritual Poetry and ReflectionPoetry will be held. TheWisdom Poetry will be held onOctober 3 at KIIT, while theTourism Poetry will be held atKonark Sun Temple onOctober 4. The venue for

Spiritual Poetry is Puri SeaBeach, Reflection Poetry will beheld at KISS.

Chief Minister NaveenPatnaik will inaugurate event,whileUnion Minister of Statefor Culture and TourismPrahlad Singh Patel will inau-gurate the Wisdom Poetry.Vice-President M VenkaiahNaidu will grace the valedictorysession on October 6 as thechief guest, while GovernorProf Ganeshi Lal and UnionMinister Pratap ChandraSarangi will join as guests.

The WCP ‘Golden Gabel’will be conferred on DrSamanta. Besides that, hon-orary DLitt will be conferredon six eminent litterateurs andhonorary diploma on five emi-nent persons. The Gandhi Prizefor Literature will be awardedto noted Gandhian AcharyaBhabananda.

A statue of MahatmaGandhi will be unveiled too.

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In the Green Action Week, acity-level campaign was

organised on sustainable con-sumption at Brahmapur .

More than 45 participantsfrom civil society groups par-

ticipated and understood theconcept of sharing communi-ty, best practices and benefits ofcollaborative consumption andalso signed a pledge for shar-ing community.

Environmental activistGuru Chandra Patro, ShankarNarayan Bej of Eco Club,Saktidhar Rajguru, SabujaBahini besides representativesfrom a slew of organizations

like Robin Hood Army, EcoClub, Anchalika VikashParishad, Mahatma HelpingClub, Boxing Club and TeamClean City joined and narrat-ed responsible consumption.

Bibhu Prasad Sahu of YSDset the context for collaborativeconsumption and ChandanKumar Sahu, Abhiram Kanharand Tapash Patra of YSD coor-dinated.

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Chief Secretary Asit Tripathyfelicitated his Public

Relations Officer UmakantaMohapatra for his qualityresearch work on role of civilsociety, particularly voluntaryorganisations (VOs) in ruraldevelopment.

Tripathy said such creativ-ity will add to professionalproficiency of VOs in creatingdevelopmental awarenessamong the masses.

Dr Mohapatra's Thesisentitled “Role of VoluntaryOrganizations (VOs) in RuralDevelopment: An EmpiricalAssessment” has been noti-fied for award of PhD by theKIIT University. The Thesishas been highly praised byProf Leandro Moris, StateUniversity of Sau Paulo, Brazil;Prof BB Mohanty, PondicheryUniversity and Prof Ranju

Hasini Sahoo, Indira GandhiNational Open University. DrMohapatra conducted hisresearch under the guidance ofProf Navneeta Rath of UtkalUniversity and Dr SuchetaPriyabadini of KIIT University.

To his credit DrMohapatra has authored thebooks like “Social ChangeThemes and Perspectives” and“Rural Sociology” in co-author-ship with Dr DN Jena, ex-Vice-Chancellor of CultureUniversity.

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The Orissa High Court hasissued notice to BJD MLA

Sarada Prasad Naik of Rourkelaasking him to file counters toan election petition filed byNihar Ray of BJP challenginghis election to the Assembly.

Justice Dr AK Mishra,admitting Ray’s petition lastweek, has fixed November 20for the next hearing in the mat-ter, informed Ray’s counsel SPDas.

Ray, who lost to Naik in theelections held in April thisyear, has alleged that Naik wasChairman of the RourkelaMunicipal Corporation on theday he filed his nominationpapers for the elections.

Urging the court to dis-qualify the MLA under theoffice of profit law, the peti-tioner has also claimed thatNaik had given a false state-ment in the form of an affidavitwith reference to his movableand immovable assets.

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Additional District andSessions Judge Ashis

Kumar Tripathy on Mondayawarded life imprisonment tothree persons after convictingthem in a kidnapping case.

They were identified asUgrasen Bag, Umesh Bag andPadman Bag. However, thejudge reserved his order againstother two accused, Nitu Hialand Dinesh Kadia, who are stillat large.

The accused had kid-napped two youths inKaliapada ghati under Tikiripolice limits of the district in2014.

While the two youths,Rajesh Kumar Sahu andChhabi Narayan Sahu werereturning home fromNarayanpatna in a car onAugust 10, 2014, they were

waylaid by five persons inanother vehicle in Kaliapadaghati. Then, the two were kid-napped by the five persons andkept hostage at a forest inMuniguda.

The kidnappers demanded�5 lakh to release the twoyouths.

After receiving a call fromRajesh, his father lodged acomplaint at the Tikiri policestation. Fearing police action,the kidnappers later releasedthe abductees.

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Vigilance sleuths onMonday arrested SI

Debendra Kumar Sahoo oft h eBalakati police outpost inKhordha district on the chargeof taking bribe of �10,000from complainant RamakantaSahoo for release of originalinvoice in connection withpurchase of copper/bell metaland for allowing him to run hisbusiness smoothly in Balakatiarea. On the complaint ofSahoo, the anti-corruptionagency offers laid a trap and nabbed the SI red-handedwhile taking the demandedmoney near Central Mall atVani Vihar in Bhubaneswar.

His room within Balakati outpost premises andresidential Government quar-ter at Unit-9, Bhubaneswar were undersearch, informed an officialrelease.

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The writing is on the wall,but no one seemed to be

bothered. Kullu’s Parvati Valley,a tourist destination inHimchal Pradesh, has beenidentified as a major riskhotspot for monsoon flood,landslides, cloudburst mishapsand potential glacial lake out-burst floods (GLOFs) in theIndian Himalayan Region (IHR).

But the Centre continues tolook the other way as a Rs 20crore proposal for early warn-ing system with last mile con-nectivity to community is gath-ering dust with UnionEnvironment Ministry since2015. The installation of theEWS as a preparedness mea-sure is one of the main recom-mendations of the IHCAP(Indian Himalayas ClimateAdoptation Programme) of theSwiss Development Agency forDevelopment andCooperation. The EWS has toimplemented in cooperationwith the Central Government’sDepartment of Science andTechnology (DST) while theUnion Environment Ministryhas to fund the project.

The recommendation fol-

lowed a study conducted in thewake of the big cloud bursttragedy that struck in 1994 inthe region where Parvati river,a tributary of Beas river flows.Atleast 27 died while severalwere left injured.

The EWS aims at warningthe population in in ParvatiValley and adjoining areasinhabited by around 1,600 vil-lagers and frequented bytourists regularly.

DC Thakur, a senior offi-cial from Department ofEnvironment and Science &Technology, HP said: “Theproposal is pending with theUnion Environment Ministrysince2015.” He asserted thatParvati Valley in the IHR is athigh risk of floods due todevelopmental pressures,changes in land holding patternin terms of urbanisation andtourism besides impacts of cli-mate change and extremeevents.

Considering the geo-graphical position of the local-ity we cannot avoid disastersbut intervention measures needto be taken to ensure minimumloss to life and property, he said.

The locals too voiced theirconcern demanding timelyintervention measures. “Even

though cloud bursts with suchseverity have not occured in thelast 25 years, there is no guar-antee that it would not happenin the future,” apprehendedinhabitants of Shaat andLadari villages of the Valley. Infact, they said matter-of-fact-ly that the 1994 cloudburstsprovided a demonstration ofwhat could be expected in thefuture and the need for pre-paredness to deal with such asituation.

The memory of the dev-astation refuses to go away.Kamal Chand, ex-sarpanch ofLadari village recalled, ”It wasall over in a few minutes. Thewater level in the river rose 40to 50 feet high on that fateful day.”

Many lives would havebeen saved had the peoplebeen alerted about the disas-ter that day, he told a group ofjournalists during a field visitto the valley as part of a mediaworkshop organised by theCentre for Media Studies(CMS), an advocacy groupunder the IHCAP recently.

Shaat village resident,Mohinder Singh and Hemraj,both survivors, minced nowords as they said that theGovernment had not done

much to improve resilience ofthe locals against future hydro-logical-disasters, if any.

According to the IHCAPassessment, the GLOF willincrease across all blocks ofKullu, with Parvati Valleyemerging as the most vulner-able one.

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Punjab Chief Minister CaptAmarinder Singh on

Monday differed from a partyMP''s stand on the commutationof terrorist Balwant SinghRajoana''s death sentence, sayinghe is against capital punishment.

Ludhiana Congress MPRavneet Singh Bittu, who is thegrandson of slain former chiefminister Beant Singh, has ques-tioned the Centre''s move, sayingthe dreaded terrorist should notbe "spared" at any cost.

Rajoana was given deathpenalty for involvement in thekilling of Beant Singh, creditedwith ending terrorism in Punjab,

on August 31, 1995.Talking to reporters here in

Ludhiana on Monday, the CMsaid he was personally againstdeath penalty, which he had saidback in 2012 too. All cases ofdeath penalty should be com-muted to life imprisonment, hesaid, indirectly endorsing thecommutation of the death sen-tence.

He however, said theCongress stand on Beant Singh''skillers had always been clear andconsistent--that they should servetheir full sentence.

The CM said the Centre haddemanded a list of 17 prisonersbooked under the Terrorist andDisruptive Activities (Prevention)

Act from the state government."Rajoana''s name was in the list ofthe 17 prisoners submitted to theCentre as he was a TADA prisonerwho had completed more than 14years in jail, like the other pris-oners on the list," he said, addingthat the state had no role in theCentre''s decision. In fact, he said,the state government was yet toreceive the names of the nine pris-oners who had been given a spe-cial exemption by the Ministry ofHome Affairs.

On the other hand, Bittuquestioned the Union govern-ment''s move. "Who are they to

commute the death sentence to lifeterm when the Supreme Courthas given capital punishment (toRajoana)," Bittu said in Ludhianaon Monday.

"He (Rajoana) is a dreadedterrorist and should not be sparedat any cost," the LudhianaCongress MP said.

Hitting out at the saffronparty, Bittu said the BJP indulgedin petty politics to woo Sikh vot-ers despite the prime ministervowing to fight terrorism on aglobal platform. Apprehendingthat Prime Minister NarendraModi and Home Minister Amit

Shah were playing with fire andputting peace in Punjab in jeop-ardy, the Beant Singh''s grandsonsaid they won''t let this happen.

"My family suffered a hugeloss with the killing of my grand-father but we are prepared foranother battle and would not letthe BJP push Punjab into days ofterrorism," Bittu said. Reacting toqueries the Punjab CM said, "Asan ex-Armyman, I can assure thepeople that we are fully preparedto counter any threat and will notlet the peace of Punjab be dis-turbed under any circumstances."He said Pakistan was striving todestroy Punjab''s hard-earnedpeace by pushing terrorists andweapons into the state and his

government would take all pos-sible steps to tighten the securityfurther.

Meanwhile, the ShiromaniGurdwara ParbhandhakCommittee (SGPC) welcomedthe decision on Rajoana. SGPCchief Gobind Singh Longowal saidthe matter related to sentiments ofthe Sikh community.

On Bittu''s opposition to theCentre''s move, Longowal said thiswas his own thought. "We respectthe decision of the Centre onRajoana," he added.

Echoing similar sentiments,Rajoana''s sister Kamaldeep Kaursaid her brother had alreadyspent 24 years in jail and ques-tioned Bittu on opposing the

move."My brother has always raised

voice against atrocities of Congressleaders during the anti-Sikh riots.We thank the Union governmentfor having some sympathy for us,"she said.

STATESMANLIKE, FAR-SIGHTED AND HUMANE’DECISION: BADAL

Punjab’s five-time ChiefMinister and SAD patron-in-chief Parkash Singh Badal onMonday lauded as “statesmanlike,far-sighted and humane” CentralGovernment’s decision to releaseeight Sikh prisoners who hadalready served their full term andto commute the death sentence of

Balwant Singh Rajoana into life-imprisonment. Badal said thatthese gestures would go a long wayin assuaging the hurt sentimentsof the Sikh masses, lacerated dur-ing successive Congress regimes.

“Wholeheartedly thanking”Prime Minister Narendra Modiand Union Home Minister AmitShah for the “strong positive ges-ture” on the eve of 550th parkashutsav of Guru Nanak Dev, Badalsaid that like on many such occa-sions in the past, Badal said thatwith the latest decision, they havecarried the process of healing thepast wounds of the Sikh massesdecisively forward.

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Chief Minister Raghubar Dason Monday asked the youths

to dream big and work hard toachieve success. Das asked theyouths to have strong determi-nation in achieving their goals.He was addressing youths at the33rd annual convocation ofRanchi University.

Giving reference from hispersonnel life he said, “I want toinform you in how I reached thisposition despite several odds inlife. After completing LLB fromRanchi University, I joined Tataworking a labourer. Working aslabourer, I become MLA andthen I reached this positionworking as Mukhya Sewak ofthis State.”

The Chief Minister said thismessage is for educated youthswho despite being educatedbecome depressed due to lack ofjobs. “Don’t get depressed fromfailure, work hard to achieve thegoal,” he said.

Making a call for reform inhigher education, the ChiefMinister said, “We have to devel-op such education system underwhich a youth gets a job rightafter completing his education.”Das said that there is no dearthof jobs in State, youths havecareer opportunities in field ofagriculture, tourism, IT andeven Government jobs.

The Chief Minister said thatthe real power of the State lies inthe hand of youths, the youthpotential can help in rapid

growth and progress of State.Governor Droupadi Murmu,who is also the Chancellor ofUniversities stressed on qualityeducation in higher educationinstitutions. The Governor onthe occasion also highlighted thework carried out by ChancellorOffice for reforming higher edu-cation. She said, “I have asked alluniversities and colleges to go forNAAC accreditation at the sametime university have been askedto carry out admission throughchancellor portal.

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The Congress on Mondayslammed the Uttar Pradesh

Government for not allowing itsmarch in support of the studentwho has accused former UnionMinister Chinmayanand of rapeand asserted that party workerswill stay put on the streets andface oppression.

Using the hashtag ‘BJPBhagao Beti Bachao’, formerCongress chief Rahul Gandhisaid, “The BJP Government ofUP is standing with the onecommitting atrocities ondaughters and is taking protest-ing Congressmen into custody.In this path of struggle, ourparty workers will stay put onthe streets and face oppression.”

His sister and Congressgeneral secretary PriyankaGandhi Vadra lashed out at the

UP Government saying, “In thearrogance of power, the BJPGovernment is destroyingdemocracy. It can go to anyextent to save a rape accused andsuppress the voice of the daugh-ter of Shahjahanpur.” In a tweetin Hindi, she described the BJP-led regime in Uttar Pradesh asa nervous Government.

About 80 Congress work-ers were arrested on Mondaywhile holding a public meetingahead of the march they hadplanned in support of the student. Accusing the UttarPradesh police of blocking themarch, the Congress said its

leaders, including formerUnion Minister Jitin Prasada,were detained. The borders ofShahjahanpur district wereblocked from all sides, theOpposition party said on itsofficial Twitter handle.

Congress leaders haveplanned a 180-km march insupport of the student fromShahjahanpur to Lucknow.

“As soon as they get toknow that there is going to bea demonstration against them,they impose (section) 144 (ofthe CrPC),” Priyanka said. “Thevoice of the people cannot besuppressed, injustice and tyran-

ny cannot be hidden. The morethey try, louder will be thedemand for justice. Give justiceto the girl from Shahjahanpur.Stop saving your minister,” shealso said with hashtag “BJPBhagao Beti Bachao”.

Earlier, Priyanka Gandhialleged that criminals in UttarPradesh had the protection ofthe government so that theycould intimidate the rape sur-vivor. “The UP BJPGovernment wants to suppressthe voice seeking justice for thedaughter of Shahjahanpur. Thepadyatra is being stopped. Ourworkers and leaders are beingarrested. What is there to beafraid of?,” she wrote on Twitter.

The student was arrestedon Wednesday on charges ofextortion and sent to judicialcustody for 14 days. Hourslater, her bail plea was rejected. Chinmayanand, sentto judicial custody after hisarrest, has been booked undersection 376C (intercourse bysuperintendent of jail, remandhome etc.) of the Indian PenalCode (IPC), a charge with alesser punishment than incase of rape.

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The HRD Ministry hasdirected the prestigious

Indian Institutes of Technology(IITs) to come up with anaction plan to improve theirnational and international rankings. HRDMinister Ramesh Pokhriyal‘Nishank’ had raised the issue ofrankings in the recent meetingof the IIT Council, the highestdecision-making body of 23IITs.

“The issue was discussed inthe Council meeting. It isimportant to work on researchexcellence. The IITs have beenasked to work on improvingtheir national and internation-al rankings. For this each, IITwill come up with an actionplan,” a senior HRD Ministryofficial said on Monday.

The QS (QuacquarelliSymonds) and Times HigherEducation (THE), both ofwhich are based in London, aretwo of the most prominenthigher-education surveys inthe world.

New Delhi: The Supreme Courtrefused on Monday to furtherentertain Rajya Sabha MPVaiko’s plea seeking formerJammu & Kashmir ChiefMinister Farooq Abdullah’s pro-duction before it and said theMDMK leader could challengethe NC leader’s detention orderunder the Public Safety Act.

“He (Abdullah) is underdetention under the PublicSafety Act,” a bench headed byChief Justice Ranjan Gogoitold Vaiko’s counsel.

The MDMK leader’s coun-sel questioned the conduct ofthe Jammu and Kashmiradministration and claimed thata few minutes before the sched-uled hearing in the apex courton September 16, Abdullah wasdetained under the Jammu &

Kashmir Public Safety Act.The bench, also compris-

ing justices S A Bobde and S ANazeer, said the petitionercould challenge the detentionorder against Abdullah underthe Jammu & Kashmir PublicSafety Act before the appro-priate authority.The court had,on September 16, directed theCentre and the Jammu &Kashmir administration torespond to Vaiko’splea.Abdullah, 81, a three-timeformer chief minister of the stateand a five-time parliamentari-an, has been detained under theJammu & Kashmir Public SafetyAct.Vaiko’s counsel had pressedfor the original prayer for producing the NationalConference (NC) leader beforethe court. PTI

New Delhi: The SupremeCourt on Monday referred abatch of petitions challengingthe Centre’s abrogation ofArticle 370 in Jammu &Kashmir and related issues toits Constitution Bench whichwould commence hearing onthem on Tuesday.

A bench headed by ChiefJustice Ranjan Gogoi referredthe pleas, which have alsoraised matters such as allegedrestrictions imposed on themovement of journalists inKashmir and illegal detentionof minors in the Valley, to a5-judge bench of the apexcourt.

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New Delhi:The Supreme Courton Monday directed the Gujaratgovernment to give within twoweeks Rs 50 lakh compensation,a job and an accommodation ofchoice to Bilkis Bano, who wasgang raped when she was fivemonths pregnant during the2002 riots in the state.A benchheaded by Chief Justice RanjanGogoi asked the Gujarat gov-ernment as to why it has notcomplied with the apex court’searlier order of April 23 andgiven the compensation to Bano.“Why has the compensationnot been paid?,” the bench, alsocomprising justices S A Bobdeand S A Nazeer, asked SolicitorGeneral Tushar Mehta appearingfor the state. PTI

New Delhi: The Supreme CourtMonday refused to entertain aplea of flat owners seeking stayon its order on demolition offour apartment complexes inKochi’s Maradu which werebuilt in violation of CoastalRegulation Zone norms.

A bench of justices ArunMishra and S Ravindra Bhat dis-missed the plea of flat owners,who have also challenged thelegality of a panel which had rec-ommended the demolition.Theapex court had on Friday direct-ed demolition of the flats with-in 138 days, a timeline given bythe Kerala government, and hadasked the state to pay Rs 25 lakhinterim compensation to eachflat owner within 4 weeks.

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Breathtaking rock-powder-made colourful rangolis,

showcasing various facets ofMahatma Gandhi’s life, captureyour eyes as you step into theIndira Gandhi National Centrefor the Arts (IGNCA) atJanpath.

The unique exhibition,titled ‘Bapu in a multitude ofcolours’, will be inaugurated onTuesday by IGNCA membersecretary Dr SachchidanandJoshi on the eve of MahatmaGandhi’s 150th birth anniver-sary being celebrated across thecountry on October 2. Thecreation will be on display tillOctober 8.

As many as eight youngartists from Konkan regionare creating the artwork underthe guidance of their septua-genarian mentor SB Polaji (78), a native of Sindhudurg(Maharashtra). Around 20 por-traits in dazzling colours show-case young Bapu, his role in thesalt movement, as a barristerand in his several sombermoods.

“Usually Rangoli, a popu-lar folk art, is made in homesduring auspicious occasionsacross the country. But Ithought of using it as a medi-um to portray figures. This isour way of paying tribute to theFather of the Nation. IGNCAhas provided us the platform,”

said Polaji, who has taken theart to various India citiesbesides New York and Ceylon.

His students like Makarandand Ravi Kiran pointed out thatmaking rangolis was their pas-sion. “For livelihood, we havetaken up other jobs,” theyadded.

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India on Monday askedBritain to ensure that Indian

students there do not face anyvisa issues and their rights areprotected.

In a meeting, Union HomeSecretary Ajay Kumar Bhallaspoke to Director General forBorders, Immigration,Citizenship and InternationalStrategy at UK Home OfficeGlyn Williams regarding this.

Bhalla told Williams thatthere were instances whenIndian students faced visa-relat-ed problems in Britain, an offi-cial of the Home Ministry said.In the delegation-level talks,both sides discussed issues ofmutual concern related toimmigration and citizenship.

Kieran Drake, MinisterCounsellor, Political and Pressin the British HighCommission in New Delhi,who was part of the UK dele-gation, said they had wide-ranging discussions. “It was aproductive meeting,” he said.

Last year, as India wasexcluded from Tier 4 overseasstudent visa relaxationsunveiled by the UK HomeOffice, there was outrageamong Indian student groupsin Britain and other leadingfigures within the bilateralspace. Many termed it an“insult” to India as non-demo-cratic countries were includedin the list but the world’s largestdemocracy was excluded.

The UK government hadthen directly linked the exclu-sion of Indian students fromthe list of countries offered eas-ier visa norms to India’s refusalto sign a memorandum ofunderstanding (MoU) on thereturn of illegal migrants.

Last year, the UnionCabinet had approved the pacton returns to facilitate thedeportation of alleged illegalIndian immigrants in the UKto India and vice-versa.However, at the eleventh hour,India did not sign the pactwithout specifying any reasons.

New Delhi: Air Chief MarshalRakesh Kumar SinghBhadauria on Monday tookcharge as the 26th chief of theIndian Air Force, and identifiedmodernisation of the force bybringing in crucial technologiesand critical capabilities as hiskey priority.

Bhadauria, who has around4,250 hours of flying experienceon 26 types of aircraft and ledcommercial negotiations forprocurement of the 36 Rafalejets, also stressed on the need torapidly operationalise newlyinducted platforms.

He succeeds Air ChiefMarshal BS Dhanoa, whoretired after 41 years of service.With the force grappling withrising number of accidentsinvolving its aircraft, the IAFchief said ensuring safety of air-craft and other war fightingequipment will be anotherfocus area for him, besides pro-moting indigenisation for sus-tenance of existing fleets.

“The focus of the IAF shall

be to rapidly operationalisenewly inducted platforms andequipment as well as to ensureearliest and complete integra-tion of these capabilities inIAF’s operational plans,” hesaid in a brief message to theIAF personnel.

“There shall be impetus onmodernisation through acqui-sition of crucial technologies andcritical capabilities withincreased reliance on indigenousdesign and development. Weshall pro-actively promote indi-genisation for sustenance of allexisting fleets and equipment,”the IAF chief added. PTI

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Kerala, Rajasthan andKarnataka occupied the

top three places while UttarPradesh languished at the bot-tom in the School EducationQuality Index (SEQI) that eval-uates the performance of Statesand Union Territories in theschool education sector. TheNITI Aayog on Mondayreleased the rankings.

Giving Uttar Pradeshcompany in the bottom leagueare Jharkhand, Bihar, Punjaband Jammu and Kashmir. TheSEQI, SustainableDevelopment Goal (SDG)India Index and the DigitalTransformation Index (DTI)measure states’ progress insectors like health, education,water and sustainable devel-opment goals. With anemphasis on outcomes, NITIAayog finalized indices tomeasure incremental annualoutcomes in critical socialsectors.

With states like Manipur,Tripura, Mizoram, Sikkim,Nagaland, Meghalaya,

Arunachal Pradesh and Goabeing counted among the eightsmall states, West Bengal is theonly state to be excluded fromthe list.

“The indicators that led tothe rankings are the quality ofeducation, its reach, infra-structure and administration.The ranking, which is basedon 2016-17 statistics, was pre-pared with the help of theWorld Bank and other tech-nical experts. HRD Ministrywill soon release this report onthe quality of education,” saida senior HRD Ministry official.

The government identifiesthe strength and weakness inschool education and takesrequired correction measureslike policy interventions torectify them through suchindex of the Centre’s plan thinktank.

As per the report releasedby the NITI Aayog, among 20large states in the country 18have improved their overallperformance between 2015-2016 and 2016-2017, which isotherwise referred to as the

incremental performance inthe report.

The highest incrementalperformance has been record-ed in Kerala. As against 77.6percent score in 2015-2016, thestate has recorded 82.2 percentin 2016-2017.

Tamil Nadu, Haryana,Gujarat and Himachal Pradeshhave improved their perfor-mances in school educationsector.

For ease in comparability,the states have been categorizedas small and large states. Theunion territories have beencategorized separately.Thereport has considered 2015-2016 as the base year and2016-2017 as the referenceyear.

Among all the improvingstates, Rajasthan has made aquantum jump in the education sector by scoringmore than eight percentagepoints than its previous score.Other states like Haryana,Assam, Uttar Pradesh and Odisha have improved their ranking aswell.

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India on Monday made itclear to the developed

nations that reduction of coalconsumption is not a one-dayprocess and the Governmenthas a long-term plan to grad-ually replace coal with renew-able energy.

Developed countries havebeen blaming the developingcountries like India that tack-ling climate change is impos-sible without reducing ourdependence on fossil fuels,especially coal.

“Reduction of coal is not aone-day process. We have aplan in place. A long-termplan where we will replacecoal with renewable energyslowly to achieve the goalannounced by the prime min-

ister to reach 450 gigawatt,” saidUnion Environment SecretaryC K Mishra while addressingthe first day of the Inter-gov-ernmental Panel on ClimateChange(IPCC) here.

“But plants which arealready coal based, will con-tinue to consume coal,” Mishrasaid.

On the issue of reducingcoal consumption and carbonemissions, he said, “We havealready 80 gigawatts renewableenergy replace coal in last 5years and we are movingtowards it but we cannot denythat coal will still continue tobe required for some time inIndia”.

The secretary alsoacknowledged that the demandfor electricity in India willcontinue to rise due to which

coal cannot be totally banned.He said this does not mean thatthe government is not workingon the process to replace coalwith alternative renewableenergy.

“The demand for electric-ity in India will continue to rise.That does not mean we are notquickening the process ofreplacement.

“We already have 80gigawatt of renewable in last 2-3 years. Ultimate idea is reduc-tion of coal but we cannot denythat coal will still continue tobe required for some time inIndia,” Mishra said.

The IPCC Working GroupIII is working on the SixthAssessment Report to miti-gate climate change with over200 authors, in which 12 arefrom India.

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The Congress on Mondayalleged that the Election

Commission’s decision toreduce Sikkim Chief MinisterPrem Singh Tamang’s disqual-ification period by almost fiveyears gives the “clear message”that one is immunised from thelaw of the land if that personsings praises for theGovernment.

Congress spokespersonAbhishek Singhvi said recentexamples of Tamang’s case, theHome Ministry’s decision tocommute the death sentence ofBalwant Singh Rajoana in theassassination case of formerPunjab chief minister BeantSingh, and the Chinmayanandcase in Uttar Pradesh, have a

running thread of “completeabuse of law”.

The actions in these casessend a “clear message that youare immunised from the law ofthe land if you chant ‘Tusi greatho’ (you are great), day in andday out, and you are subjectedto harassment, vendetta, if youdo not chant this. It exhibitsextreme irresponsibility aboutthe law,” Singhvi said at a pressconference here.

The EC on Sunday reducedTamang’s disqualification peri-od by almost five years under aprovision of the electoral law,paving the way for him to con-test the state assembly elections.His disqualification period of sixyears, during which he wasbarred from contesting polls,began on August 10, 2018 — the

day he completed a year’s jailterm in a corruption case. It wasto end on August 10, 2024. Butthe Election Commission (EC)on Sunday reduced it to oneyear and one month.

Tamang, whose SikkimKrantikari Morcha Party wonthe state assembly electionsheld in April, took over as chiefminister on May 27. However,he could not contest the elec-tions due to his disqualification.

He has to contest assemblypolls within six months ofbecoming the chief minister tohold the office.

Tamang was found guilty ofmisappropriation of govern-ment funds in a cow distribu-tion scheme while he was min-ister of animal husbandry in the1990s.

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It is unlikely that former primeminister Manmohan Singh

will attend the inaugural cere-mony of the landmark KartarpurCorridor in November on theinvitation of Pakistan. And theformer PM’s office also has so farno information about the inviteto him. Foreign Minister ShahMahmood Qureshi said onMonday that Pakistan has decid-ed to invite Singh to attend theinaugural ceremony of theKartarpur Corridor.While theCongress remained tight-lippedabout the issue, sources said theoffice of the former prime min-ister has no information aboutthe invite so far.

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India recorded 10 per centexcess rainfall, which is high-

est this monsoon since 1994,the India MeteorologicalDepartment (IMD) said clas-sifying it ‘above normal’ as theseason officially ended onMonday. The monsoon rain-fall was 110 per cent of its LongPeriod Average, which is 88 cm.However, rain bearing windsstill remain active over severalparts of the country. Delhimay witness scattered rainsover the next three to four days,according to the IMD.

Rainfall was “above nor-mal” this year, the IMD said.Monsoon, however, stillremains active over severalparts of the country, the weath-er agency said. This could bethe longest recorded delayed

withdrawal of the rain-bearingwinds, it added. Of the 36meteorological subdivisions ofthe IMD, two — MadhyaPradesh and Saurashtra andKutch — recorded precipitationin “large excess”.

The 2019 southwest mon-soon season comes to end withabove normal seasonal (June toSeptember) rainfall. Out of 36meteorological subdivisions,10 received excess and 19 subdivisions received normalmonsoon rainfall. Out of 36sub divisions, 5 sub divisionshowever received deficientrainfall, but deficiency was in20s except for Haryana, Delhiand Chandigarh where thedeficiency was 42 percent. Thefive sub divisions accountedabout 15 percent of total areaof the country.

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of area of the country receivesdeficient or scanty rainfall dur-ing the monsoon season. Inspite of late monsoon onset andlarge deficient rainfall duringthe month of June, the season-al rainfall ended in above nor-mal category with 110% of itsLPA. Monsoon rainfall duringJuly, August and Septemberwere 105%, 115% and 152% ofits Long Period Average respec-tively,” the IMD said.

After 1931, this is the firsttime, the seasonal rainfall ismore than LPA even after theJune rainfall deficiency wasmore than 30% of LPA. This isthe second highest Septemberrainfall (152 of LPA), after1917 (165% of LPA). After2010, this is the first time, rain-falls during all the last threemonths (July to September)were above LPA.

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Despite the drubbingreceived by the BJP-led

NDA from Tamil Nadu in the2019 General Election, PrimeMinister Narendra Modi inhis first visit to the State afterthe electoral victory, had someinspiring words for the peopleof the State.

His critics including theDMK, the Congress and theLefts were in for a surprise asPrime Minister Modi eulogisedTamil Nadu and the Tamil lan-guage during the convocation ofIndian Institute of Technology-Madras on Monday.

“It is heartening to be inTamil Nadu which is home tothe oldest language in theworld, Tamil,” said the PrimeMinister in his convocationaddress. This is seen as a rebuffto his political rivals who havebeen campaigning across theState that he was anti-Tamil.

The Prime Minister’sspeech was full of praise for theState and its culture. He alsodescribed the delicacies of TamilNadu as one of the best in theworld. Idli, vada, sambar, pon-gal all came for appreciation bythe Prime Minister who termedthem as nutritious and healthy.

He asked the youth of theIIT-Madras who graduated outof the institution to keep inmind the needs of India irre-spective of where they livedacross the world and think ofhow their research, work andinnovation can help otherIndians.

Referring to his recent visitto the United States,where heheld a series of meetings withworld leaders and businessbarons, Prime Minister Modisaid wherever he went andwhoeber he met, he couldmake out a common threadwhich connected these people.“It is their optimism aboutnew India. The Indian com-munity in USA has made amark for themselves globally inscience and technology,” thePrime Minister said.

He reminded the younggraduates that they were pass-ing out of the IIT at a time whenthe whole world was lookingtowards India as a ‘land ofunique opportunities’. ThePrime Minister was all praise forthe IITians and paid big com-pliments in his speech whichdrew frequent ovation fromthe students and faculties alike.

He said that the Indiancommunity has made a markfor itself all over the world, espe-cially in science, technology

and innovation. And many whowere powering this “are your IITseniors,” Modi said adding“you are making brand Indiastronger globally.”

He said the number of IITgraduates making it to thecountry’s civil service has sur-prised him. “These days I inter-act with young officers clearingUPSC exams. The number ofIIT graduates (among them)will surprise both you and me.Thus you are also making Indiaa more developed place,” he said.

The Prime Minister alsoasked the graduates to keep inmind the needs of India irre-spective of where they livedacross the world. “Your work,research and innovation shouldhelp other Indians. Today, Indiais aspiring to become a 5 trilliondollar economy. Your innova-tion, and application of tech-nology will fuel this dream. Itwill become the bedrock ofIndia’s big leap to become themost competitive economy,”said the Prime Minister.

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Kolkata: Senior TMC leaderSabyasachi Dutta, who wasstripped of his decision-mak-ing power as Bidhannagarmayor for alleged anti-partyactivities, said on Monday hewill join the BJP in the presenceof its national president AmitShah in the city.

Shah is scheduled toaddress a seminar on NationalRegister of Citizens andCitizenship (Amendment) Billat Netaji Indoor Stadium hereTuesday.

“I will join the BJP tomor-row at Amit Shahji’s pro-gramme at Netaji IndoorStadium. The TMC is no longera party of the masses, it hasbecome a family enterprise.The people have already reject-ed TMC,” Dutta, an MLA, toldPTI over phone.

West Bengal BJP presi-dent Dilip Ghosh said he hasheard of Dutta’s proposed join-ing the saffron party tomor-row.

“We will welcome him(Dutta), if he is joining tomor-row. We are happy that he isjoining. The TMC is a sinkingship and in the next few months more leaders fromthat party will abandon it,”Ghosh said.

Dutta, TMC MLA fromRajarhat-New Town who wasseen with BJP leader MukulRoy over the past few months,had resigned from the post ofBidhannagar MunicipalCorporation mayor in July thisyear.

Since the 2019 Lok Sabha

poll results, seven TMC MLAand two Congress and CPI(M)MLAs have joined the saffroncamp.

Reacting to the develop-ment, TMC secretary generalPartha Chatterjee said the partyis not at all bothered aboutDutta’s proposed switchoverto the saffron party.

“We (TMC) have no rela-tion with Dutta for the last sev-eral months. It hardly bothersus,” He said.

Dutta was in the eye of apolitical storm after he par-ticipated in an agitationagainst West Bengal’s powerdepartment and slammed theTMC Government for notfulfil ling the employees’demands for increasing theirsalaries.

The party leadership isalso annoyed with Dutta overhis meetings with senior BJPleader Mukul Roy. Dutta had,however, said that Roy visitedhim as an elder brother. PTI

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God is in all men, but allmen are not in God; that

is why we suffer — ShriRamakrishna Paramahansa.

Thus says AdiShankaracharya: “When ourfalse perception is corrected,misery ends also.” And what isthat false perception? AllIndian sages have identifiedthis ‘false perception’ in termsof all-pervading, eternal con-fusion between Brahma or theSupreme Being and Maya orthe great illusion.

To quote Shri RamakrishnaParamahansa again: “Becauseof the screen of Maya that shutsoff God from human view, onecannot see him playing in one’sheart. After installing the Deityon the lotus of your heart, youmust keep the lamp of remem-bering God ever burning.While engaged in the affairs of

the world, you should con-stantly turn your gaze inwardsand see whether the lamp isburning or not.”

Cut to Sevapeeth MatriMandir: The blissful abode ofSwami Bedananda the tran-scendental Babuji who belongsto the Raja (king) and theRank (commoner) alike. MatriMandir assumes its name fromMother Goddess Kali whosesmall dark deity eternally light-ens up the small room of theSwami. The unassuming saf-fron-clad sadhu prescribes anuncomplicated ploy to distin-guish Brahma from Maya.“Discover and feel the God toemancipate yourself form suf-ferings,” he says. Suffering willgo the next instant.

And the best way to dis-cover Him is to look “within.”The Swami too says: “where tofind God! It is easy. Don’t gohere and there. Go find Him out

within your own self. He residesthere eternally. Retreat andretire from the outwardly pompand sink within yourself … Youmay have many mansions butyou have only one room.” Andthere on a throne He resides.“Watch out. The God’s throne inyour heart must not wobble.”

The Swami explains thephilosophical truth behind thegreat saying: “that what blos-soms must wither and fall intodecay,” and dissects life intofour chapters. The first chapterresembles a horse when “you

act on like performer,” secondchapter reminds of an donkeylugging the baggage of familylife, third chapter is like that ofa dog “when you bark and keepoff intruders from taking awayyour earnings.” The fourthchapter resembles a tortoise:“when you turn turtle andwatch the proceedings of theworld powerlessly.”

To emancipate oneselffrom this mundaneness onehas to discover God “within.”And one who discovers Godserves His children. This is why

Swami Vivekananda says: “JibeSeva karey jei jon sei jonsebiche Ishwar (Those whoserve people, serve God).”

The Swami Bedananda’sways are no different. And heleads his disciples and follow-ers by example. He has donat-ed his body for medical exper-iments -- post death. Followingin his footstep about 15 peopledonated their bodies for thesame purpose this MahalayaDay (the eighth day beforeDurga Puja).

“Under the inspiration ofBabuji we have been doing awhole lot of humanitarian worksfrom providing the poor chil-dren with scholarships, helpingthe differently-abled persons,setting up eye-camps and soforth,” says an inmate of theMatri Mandir hoping in the daysto come they too will be able todiscover God “within” followingin the footstep of the Sadhu.

Bengaluru: DisqualifiedCongress-JD(S) MLAs wouldbe given BJP tickets for thebypolls if they wanted,Karnataka Chief Minister BSYediyurappa said on Monday,amid growing Opposition insome quarters within the partyagainst any such move.

He said party presidentAmit Shah has said it was “ourresponsibility” to give tickets tothe former MLAs.

The rebellion by the thenMLAs had led to the fall of theCongress-JD(S) Governmentin July paving the way for theBJP to come back to power inthe southern State. By-electionsto the constituencies held bythem are slated in December.

Yediyurappa tried to paci-fy ticket aspirants within theBJP and candidates defeated inthe 2018 Assembly polls, say-ing “opportunity” will be cre-ated for them in state-runboards and corporations.

“By-elections are comingup, dates have been announcedfor 15 seats, Amit Shah has saidthat those who have resignedand want to contest from BJP,all of them will be given seats(tickets), it is our responsibili-ty,” he told reporters in hishometown of Shikaripura inShimoga district.

Seeking to clear the air inthe backdrop of Opposition togiving tickets to them, thechief minister said there was noneed for any confusion.

“If you desire to contestfrom our party, priority will begiven to you in making youcandidates. BJP karyakartasand leaders will take responsi-bility for your victory,” he said.

His comments assume sig-

nificance as there has beengrowing opposition within sec-tions of the state BJP againstgiving bypoll tickets to thedisqualified MLAs.

Aspirants and party candi-dates defeated in the 2018assembly polls in segmentsincluding Hosakote, Hirekerur,Kagwad and MahalakshmiLayout, have said tickets shouldbe given to loyal party cadreswho have worked to build BJP.

Senior BJP MLA UmeshKatti on Sunday had said thedisqualified MLAs “will have tofind their way.”

Reaching out to aspirantswithin the party, Yediyurappasaid after discussion in thecabinet in 3-4 days, opportu-nity would be created in boardsand corporations for 10-12BJP leaders who had lost the2018 polls by narrow margin.

“The opportunity will becreated for them so that theywill work for the victory ofthose (disqualified MLAs) whowere responsible for the partycoming to power,” he added.

Welcoming Yediyurappa’sstatement, disqualified

Congress MLA B C Patil said,“It is a matter of happiness. Wewill all sit together and decideon it in the future.”

Stating that disqualifiedMLAs have not yet discussedabout joining BJP, he said, “letthe court decide on our dis-qualification, then we will dis-cuss on it and come to a deci-sion.”

The bypolls to 15 out of 17seats represented by them hasbeen scheduled for December5 even as the Supreme Court,hearing their pleas challengingthe disqualification, is yet todecide on their eligibility tocontest the polls.

Though the MLAs hadsubmitted their resignationsfrom the Assembly, thenSpeaker KR Ramesh Kumar,acting on petitions by Congressand JD(S), disqualified themfor alleged anti-party activitiesunder the anti-defection law tillthe expiry of the term of thecurrent assembly in 2023.

Among the 15 constituen-cies going for polls, 12 wererepresented by Congress and 3by JD(S).

BJP will need to win at leastsix seats in the coming by-elec-tions to stay in power.

The ruling party has 104MLAs and is supported by anindependent in the assemblywhose current strength is 208with 17 vacancies.

While the Congress’strength is 66, JD(S) has 34MLAs in the assembly that alsoconsists of one BSP member, anominated member and theSpeaker.

The actual strength of theAssembly is 225 and the halfway mark is 113.

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Jammu: Union MinisterJitendra Singh on Mondayclaimed the Congress, NationalConference (NC) and PDPhave never wanted to holdPanchayat and BlockDevelopment Council (BDC)elections in Jammu & Kashmireven though they always“hoodwinked” the people inthe name of fanciful sloganslike “autonomy” and “self-rule”.

Addressing a rally here,Singh lauded the announce-ment for conducting BDC elec-tions next month that will givean opportunity to the people ofJammu & Kashmir to expresstheir democratic aspirations, inmuch the same manner as in

the rest of the country.The Minister alleged

Kashmir-centric political par-ties had always put a stumblingblock against genuine grassrootdemocracy in Jammu &Kashmir.

“The hollow claims ofautonomy made by theNational Conference stoodexposed on the day it decidedto boycott the Panchayat elec-tions and also tried to dissuadepeople from participating in it,”he said.

Similarly, Singh said, theself-righteous agenda of “self-rule” put across by the PDP alsostood exposed, when it boy-cotted the Panchayat elections.

He said 40,000 sarpanchsand panchs were elected whenPanchayat polls were held lastyear.

It is the right time for thepeople to ask whether it is“autonomy for the self ” or“rule by the self ” that thesepolitical parties have been pro-moting in order to continuetheir dynastic rule, he said.

He said Prime MinisterNarendra Modi is committedto strengthen grass rootdemocracy in Jammu &Kashmir and it was during theGovernor’s rule that thePanchayat election was heldand not a single incident of vio-lence took place. PTI

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Lucknow: A total of 155 nom-inations have been filed for theUttar Pradesh bypolls, votingfor which will be held onOctober 21, the ElectionCommission said on Monday.

Of the 155 nominationsfiled so far for the 11 assemblyseats going to by-election in theState, 121 were filed on Monday— the last day of filing thepapers. The highest number ofnomination papers — 20 each— were filed from Govindnagar(Kanpur) and Jalalpur(Ambedkarnagar). The leastnumber of nomination papers -- 10 each -- were filed fromRampur, Iglas (SC), Manikpurand Zaidpur (SC).

Fifteen candidates each filedtheir nomination papers fromGangoh, Lucknow Cantonmentand Ghosi assembly con-stituencies.

As many as 18 candidatesfiled their nomination papersfrom Pratapgarh, while 12 can-didates are in the fray fromBalha (SC).

Scrutiny of nominationpapers will be done on October1, while October 3 is the last dayfor withdrawal of nomination.

Voting will be held onOctober 21, while counting ofvotes will be done on October24. On Monday, 10 BJP candi-dates filed their nominationpapers in presence of seniorparty leaders and UP Cabinetministers.

In Pratapgarh, Apna Dal (S)candidate Rajkumar Pal filed hsnomination papers.

The BJP on Sunday namedits candidates for bypolls to 10Assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh.

The saffron party has field-ed Keerat Singh (Gangoh),Bharat Bhushan Gupta(Rampur), Rajkumar Sahyogi(Iglas-SC), Suresh Tiwari(Lucknow Canotonment),Surendra Maithani(Govindnagar), Anand Shukla(Manikpur), Ambrish Rawat(Zaidpur-SC), Rajesh Singh(Jalalpur), Saroj Sonkar (Balha-SC) and Vijar Rajbhar (Ghosi).

Apna Dal MLA fromPratapgarh, Sangam Lal Gupta,had contested the 2019 LokSabha elections on a BJP ticketfrom Pratapgarh parliamentaryconstituency and had registereda win. In most of the segments,the bypolls were necessitatedbecause the sitting MLAs wonthe Lok Sabha elections andresigned as members of theState Assembly.

The Assembly constituen-cies which go to the bypolls areGangoh, Rampur, Iglas (SC),Lucknow Cantonment,Govindnagar, Manikpur,Pratapgarh, Zaidpur (SC),Jalalpur, Balha (SC) and Ghosi.

Ghosi fell vacant followingthe resignation of sitting MLA Phagu Chauhan after hewas appointed as BiharGovernor. PTI

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Ahmedabad: The Bajrang Dalhas asked garba organisers inGujarat to stop the entry of“non-Hindus” at their venues,claiming that the nine-day-longNavratri festival has become aplatform to lure Hindu women.

The right-wing group hasalso formed teams for continu-ous patrolling outside the garbavenues and put up posters alert-ing people about ‘love jihad’.

In Ahmedabad, suchposters have been put up near allmajor garba event venues, spe-cially those near Muslim- dom-inated areas, Bajrang Dal’sAhmedabad zone coordinatorJwalit Mehta said on Monday.

“Through these posters, weare alerting the masses about aconspiracy wherein Hindu girlsand women are targeted bynon-Hindus during Navratri.Every year, over three lakhHindu girls/women fall victimto this love jihad,” he claimed.

The group has also urgedparents to remain alert and savetheir daughters, he said.

“We have already askedgarba organisers to stop theentry of non-Hindus in thegarba venue,” Mehta said.

The group has also formedteams to keep a check at majorvenues in the city. “If we catch a‘vidharmi’ (schismatic) with any

girl/woman, we will first informher parents and then extract alldetails of that non-Hindu personto find out if he had any hiddenmotive,” said Mehta.

The group has also urgedlocal police and administra-tions of various districts tomaintain “sanctity” of the Hindureligion and save girls from‘love jihad’. “Navratri is animportant festival of Hindus. Itmust not become a platform forlove jihad. Non-Hindus, whohave nothing to do with thisHindu festival, take advantage ofit to lure our girls/women,”Bajrang Dal’s north Gujaratcoordinator MK Patel said. PTI

Jaipur: Over 100 people havebeen hospitalised in Rajasthan’sDungarpur district after theyfell ill apparently due to cont-aminated drinking water, offi-cials said on Monday.

Those taken ill complainedof vomiting and diarrhoea,Dungapur Chief Medical andHealth Officer MahendraKumar Parmar said.

There were four childrenamong those who were admit-ted at the hospital on Sunday.

Parmar said the waterapparently got contaminated asthe district is witnessing heavyrainfall over the last two daysand the pipe got damaged dur-

ing cable laying work of a tele-com company.

He said those under treat-ment are recuperating and asample of contaminated waterhas been sent for testing. PTI

Bengaluru: Amid differencesover Karnataka Government’splan to create a newVijayanagara district by carvingout six taluks from Ballari,senior Congress leader GParameshwara on Mondayrequested Chief Minister BSYediyurappa to consider creationof another new district by bifur-cating Tumakuru.

In a letter to the ChiefMinister, Parameshwara pro-posed announcement ofMadhugiri district consistingof Pavagada, Madhugiri,Koratagere and Sira taluks.

Stating that geographicallyMadhugiri taluk is large and hassub-divisions of various gov-ernment departments alongwith additional district court, hesaid, “Madhugiri can be con-verted into a district, and it hasbeen a long standing demand ofthe people of the region toannounce it as a district.”

The request for creation ofseparate Madhugiri district hascome amid voices both in favourand against the government’sproposal for bifurcation ofBallari district.

Much to the concern of theYediyurappa government, sev-eral BJP leaders like Minister BSriramulu, MLAs SomashekarReddy and Karunakara Reddywere against the division ofBallari. Realising the intensityof the issue, Yediyurappa onSaturday had said he wouldconvene a meeting of MLAsfrom Ballari to discuss on theissue. Voicing Opposition tothe move, Somashekar Reddysaid, “any approval for a sepa-rate Vijayanagara district willignite a fire. We will not allowit to happen.” PTI

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Ahmedabad: The Gujarat HighCourt on Monday directed StateAssembly Speaker RajendraTrivedi to decide quickly on theapplications seeking disqualifi-cation of two former CongressMLAs Alpesh Thakor andDhavalsinh Zala.

Thakor and Zala hadresigned as Radhanpur andBayad MLAs respectively on July5 and joined the BJP, followingwhich the Congress, throughchief whip Ashwin Kotwal,approached HC demandingtheir disqualification under theanti-defection law claiming thetwo had cross-voted during the

Rajya Sabha polls.Thakor and Zala have been

nominated by the BJP to contestRadhanpur and Bayad bypollsrespectively scheduled forOctober 21.

Leader of OppositionParesh Dhanani had made twoapplications, on April 25 andJuly 5, to Speaker Trivedidemanding that Thakor andZala be disqualified.

During a hearing in an ear-lier petition, order on which waspronounced on July 2, SpeakerTrivedi had said he would decideon the applications within fourmonths. PTI

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The stalemate in Kashmir fol-lowing the abrogation of

Article 370 of the Constitutioncontinued on Monday withnormal life affected in theValley for the 57th consecutiveday as markets were shut andpublic transport was off theroads, officials said.

Even though securityforces have been deployedacross Kashmir in large num-bers, the officials said norestrictions, barring suspensionof mobile services, were inplace anywhere in the Valley.

The shutdown has intensi-fied as miscreants have taken tovandalising cars and threaten-ing shopkeepers at several

places, they said, adding thatsuch incidents have been takennote of.

Main markets and otherbusiness establishments acrossthe Valley remained shut andpublic transport was off theroads, the officials added.

However, private cars anda few inter-district cabs andauto-rickshaws were plying insome areas of the city, they said.

The functioning of schoolsin Kashmir has remainedaffected since August 5 whenthe Centre abrogated the spe-cial status of Jammu andKashmir and bifurcated thestate into Union territories.

The state government istrying its best to bring theschools to function normally

but its efforts have not bornefruit as most parents continueto keep their kids at home dueto apprehensions about theirsafety, the officials said.

Mobile services remainedsuspended in Kashmir, exceptin Handwara and Kupwaraareas in the north, while inter-net services — across all plat-forms — continued to besnapped for the 55th consecu-tive day, they added.

Most of the top-level andsecond-rung separatists havebeen taken into preventive cus-tody, while mainstream leaders,including two former chiefministers Omar Abdullah andMehbooba Mufti, have beeneither detained or placed underhouse arrest.

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In a significant milestone inthe history of the 53-year-old

Shiv Sena, the first-everThackeray and its youth wingleader Aditya on Monday tooka formal plunge into electoralpolitics, raising the prospect ofhis landing deputy ChiefMinister’s post — if not the topjob — in the event of the BJP-Shiv Sena combine returning topower in Maharashtra.

Addressing a “VijaySanklap” rally in the presenceof his mother Rashmi andyounger brother Tejas, AdityaThackeray announced his deci-sion to contest the StateAssembly polls from Worliconstituency in south-centralMumbai.

His father Uddhav was notpresent at the rally when Adityaannounced his decision to con-test the State Assembly polls. “Ihave taken the Sena president’spermission to contest the elec-tions. He is not here because heis busy finalising party candi-dates for the elections. If the sit-ting Sena MLA permits and ifthe Shiv Sainks permit me, Itake a pledge in the name ofMaratha warrior Shivaji, otherbig leaders, my grandfatherand grandmother andannounce that I would contestthe elections”.

“I have not taken the deci-sion to enter electoral politicsto realise my dreams. But, Ihave taken the decision for thesake of people. I have nottaken the decision to becomean MLA, Minister or a ChiefMinister. I have taken the deci-sion to fulfil the dreams of thepeople,” Aditya said.

“I am contesting the peo-ple to fight for the justice and

rights of the people. This is thetime to make Maharashtraunemployment-free, debt-freeand pollution-free. This is thetime to build new Maharashtrawhere there are no barriers ofreligions, caste etc,” the Senayouth wing leader said.

Interestingly enough,Aditya’s announcement thathe would contest the StateAssembly polls came two daysafter his father and Sena pres-ident Uddhav disclosed at partyworkers’ meeting that that hehad promised late Sena chiefBalasaheb in the latter’s finaldays of life that he would ShivSainik a Chief Minister one dayand that he would fulfill hispromise made to his late father,come what may.

Though the Shiv Sena hasstaked claim for the ChiefMinister’s post, it is quiteunlikely that the Sena wouldhave its way, given that the BJPhas already announced that theincumbent Chief MinisterDevendra Fadnavis would bethe next Chief Minister as wellin the event of the saffronalliance Government returningto power. On his part, Fadnavishas offered deputy ChiefMinister’s post in the new BJP-Sena Government if the saffronalliance recaptures power in thestate.

Admitting that he doesnot know anything except pol-itics, Aditya said: “I have learntthings from the times of mygrandfather (late BalThackeray) and Shiv Sena lead-ers that one has to involve insocial work for 80 per cent oftime and devote 20 per cent ofthe time to politics”.

Aditya, who is being tippedas the deputy Chief Minister ofMaharashtra in the event of the

saffron alliance Governmentrecapturing power in the State,made it clear that he wants torepresent not just Worli con-stituency but the entire state. “Iwould like to develop Worli.Alongside, I would like toMaharashtra forward. EntireMaharashtra is myKarmabhoomi. Hence, I willnot work just for Worli but forentire Maharashtra”.

Aditya said that he hadtravelled through the lengthand breadth of Maharashtraduring the last ten years. “I havereceived a lot of love from thepeople during the course of myrecent Jan Ashirwad Yatra. Itwas during this yatra that Ielicited the opinion of the peo-ple whether or not contest theState Assembly polls”.

Twenty-nine-year-oldAditya is the first Thackeray inthe four generations ofThackerays that Maharashtrahas seen in public life, to con-test an election.

His great grandfatherKeshav Sitaram Thackeray —better known as PrabodhankarThackeray — was one of thekey figures in the Samyukta

Maharashtra movement whoplayed a key role in the cam-paign for a linguistic state ofMaharashtra, while most pop-ular grandfather Bal Thackeray— a cartoonist-turned politi-cian — founded Shiv Sena in1966. He carved a place forhimself in Maharashtra politics,but chose to remain a king-maker than a king

His father UddhavThackeray – a wildlife photog-rapher-turned-politician – wasreluctant beginner in publiclife. Uddhav was anointed byhis late father as the Shiv Sena’snational executive presidentway back in January 2002. Hehas never contested an election,even though he has establishedhis firm hold over the party set-up during the past 17 years.Nor has his uncle andMaharashtra Navnirman Sena(MNS) chief Raj Thackeraycontested any election.

Aditya’s rise in the ShivSena began nine years ago,when late Thackeray launchedthe Shiv Sena’s youth wing“Yuva Sena” and anointed hisgrandson Aditya Thackeray asits head in October 2010, two

years before he passed away onNovember 12, 2012.

A Bachelor of Arts inHistory from Mumbai’s eliteSt. Xavier’s College, Adityahas come a long way since hiscollege days. As a third-yearArts student, Aditya had hitheadlines ahead of his anoint-ment as the Yuv Sena chief in2010, when he forced theBombay University withdrawRohinton Mistry's novel SuchA Long Journey, prescribed forthe second year Bachelor ofArts (English) as an optionaltext book, from the syllabus.Aditya had opposed Mistry’sbook on the ground that itcontained foul language andderogatory references to theShiv Sena.

The year 2010 proved tobe eventful for Aditya. It wasin that year the Yuv Sena forthe first time swept theMumbai University (MU)Senate polls from theGraduates’ constituency. Eightyears later – in March 2018,the Yuv Sena once again sweptthe MU senate by decimatingthe BJP’s student outfit AkhilBharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad(ABVP) and Congress-backedNSUI and winning all the 10seats.

Between 2010 and 2019,Aditya has not only estab-lished a following of his ownamong the youth in variousparts of the state, but he hasalso learned the ropes of partypolitics by working in tandemwith his father and party pres-ident Uddhav.

During the last two tothree year years, Uddhav hasbeen promoting Aditya in a bigway. In recent months, theSena has gone to the extent ofprojecting Aditya as a chief

ministerial candidate.On hispart, Shiv Sena MP andspokesperson Sanjay Raut --speaking at the party workers'rally where the party's youthwing leader announced hisdecision to contest the StateAssembly polls --predicted thatafter the elections, Adityawould occupy the sixth floor

office at Mantralaya ( the chiefminister's office is on the sixthfloor at the state secretariat).

In the event of the Sena onits own winning more than 90to 100 seats in the StateAssembly polls, it is likelythat the Sena will demand thechief ministerial post on arotational basis i.e., first two

half years the Chief minister’spost would be with the BJPwhile for the remaining twoand a half years it would bewith the Shiv Sena. In such asituation, the Shiv Sena wouldrealise its dream of installingits man (read AdityaThackeray) as the chief min-ister of the state.

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At a time when both theLeft and the Congress are

facing an existential crisiswith both the groups jointlyaccounting for not more than13 per cent votes in this year’sLok Sabha elections, theCongress on Monday hostedthe Marxist leaders in a smalltea party.

The event marked awatershed for Bengal politicsahead of 2021 Assembly elec-tions even as the Marxistsentering for the first time in

the history of Left politics atthe Pradesh Congress head-quarters said experts even asthe Left leaders said “at timesthe political parties have torespond to extraordinary sit-uations.”

Senior Left leaders fromthe four larger parties CPI(M),CPI, Forward Bloc and RSPmet with PCC presidentSomen Mitra and other seniorleaders l ike PradipBhattacharya, sources said.

When asked to commenton the sudden developmentCPI(M) politburo memberBiman Bose said “we were

invited by the PCC leader-ship to an exhibition onGandhi Jayanti and so wehave come here.” Whenasked whether it was a pre-lude to a future Left-Congress alliance, he said“no one can predict whatwill happen in the future.”

However, Bloc leaderNaren Dey was more forth-right saying “there are timeswhen political parties haveto respond to extraordinarysituations. This could beone of those situation.”Another leader said “some-times you have to sink polit-ical differences for the peo-ple’s cause.”

Mitra on the other handsaid “we welcome this moveof t he Left leaders and Ihope this wil l provideopportunity for future coop-erations.”

Among those who visit-ed the Congress office wereCPI(M) State secretarySuryakanto Mishra, hispolitburo colleague BimanBose, Bloc leader Naren Deyand RSP leader KshitiGoswami.

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Ending weeks of uncertain-ty and consequent specula-

tion in the media, the rulingBJP and Shiv Sena on Mondayevening announced an alliancefor the Maharashtra Assemblypolls, scheduled for October 21.

However, the two partiessaid that the details about theseat-sharing arrangementwould be announced soon.

In a joint statement issuedlate in the evening, the BJP andShiv Sena announced thathaving ruled the State as analliance for the past five years,the two parties would, in linewith the democratic tradi-tions, contest the StateAssembly polls together.

The two saffron partiesannounced that they fight thepolls in alliance with smallerparties like the RamdasAthawale-led Republican Partyof India (Athawale), RashtriyaSamaj Paksha led by MahadevJankar, Vinayak Mete-led ShivSangram and Sadabhau Khot-led Rayat Kranti Sangathana.

Earlier, addressing a newsconference, BJP’s State presi-dent Chandrakant Patil saidthat the two parties mightannounce the seat-sharingdetails later in the night. “ChiefMinister Devendra Fadnavis isaway in his Assembly con-stituency in Nagpur for prepa-rations to file his nomina-tions. After he returns toMumbai, he and Sena presi-dent Uddhav Thackeray willaddress a joint news confer-ence and give the details of theseat-sharing formula arrived atbetween the two parties," Patilsaid.

Replying to a question,Patil said that the seat-sharingpact had nearly been finalisedbetween the BJP and Shiv Sena.“Only a formal announcementis awaited,” he said.

The seat-sharing betweenthe two parties was approvedby Prime Minister NarendraModi, BJP president andUnion Home Minister AmitShah and BJP working presi-dent JP Nadda.

Fadnavis, who had earlier

held two to three rounds oftalks with Uddhav, had flownto New Delhi had flown toNew Delhi to obtain approvalfor the alliance between thetwo saffron parties.

According to sources inthe two parties, the saffronalliance partners have reachedan understanding that of thetotal 288 seats, the BJP willcontest 144 seats, while theSena will field candidates in126 constituencies. The twoparties will leave the remain-ing 18 seats to the smallerallies.

In the 2014 polls which thesaffron alliance partners hadcontested on their respectivestrengths, the BJP had won anall-time high of 122 seats asagainst 260 out of the total 288seats it had contested. The ShivSena had walked away with 63seats out of 282 seats it hadcontested. On the other hand,the Congress bagged 42 seatsout of 287 seats it had con-tested, while the NCP emergedfourth by winning 41 out of278 it had contested.

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Ballia (UP): Flood water hasentered the barracks of the dis-trict jail located near the RiverGanga here, prompting author-ities to shift around 900 prison-ers to other jails, a senior officialsaid on Monday.

Four DeputySuperintendents of Police, 20SHOs, 80 sub inspectors, 146head constables and 380 con-stables have been deployed toensure safe shifting of theinmates.

The decision to shift theinmates to other jails has beentaken to ensure their safety andhealth, District MagistrateBhawani Singh Khangaraut said.

There is heavy water loggingin jail premises as of now, the

DM said, adding low-lying areashave been specially affected.

Of the 900 prisoners, 500 arebeing shifted to Azamgarh Jailand remaining toAmbedkarnagar, AdditionalDistrict Magistrate, Ballia, RamAsrey said.

The ADM said the jail isnear the River Ganga which hasbeen in spate and it is not pos-sible to pump out water as largeareas have water.

Another senior official saidall barracks are submerged inabout three feet water.

"All the barracks havealmost three feet water while theplace where the inmates sleephas about one feet water. Thesewer and drains are also over-

flowing," ASP Sanjay Yadav said.There are a total of 863

inmates in the district jail ofwhich 500, including 44 women,are being shifted to Azamgarhjail and others toAmbedkarnagar jail, Yadav said.

Rains have severely hitlife in Baria tehsil area wherean ashram in Keharpur villagehas been submerged while apopulation of one lakh inabout 15 villages is totallyaffected, SDM DushyantKumar Maurya said.

A release from the North-Eastern Railway said traffic onthe Ballia-Chappra route hasbeen hit after tracks were dam-aged and repair work was on infull swing. PTI

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Kolkata: A special CBI court onMonday remanded suspendedIPS officer SMH Mirza in judi-cial custody till October 15 in theNarada tapes scandal case.

Rejecting Mirza's bail plea,Judge Anupam Mukhopadhyayremanded him in 14 days' judi-cial custody till October 15 ona prayer by a CBI lawyer.

Mirza was the BurdwanSuperintendent of Police whenthe sting operation was alleged-ly carried out by SamuelMathews of Narada news por-tal in 2014.

Mirza was arrested last weekand produced in the court,which had initially remandedhim in the agency's custody forfive days.

Opposing the suspendedofficer's bail plea, the CBI coun-sel on Monday prayed for hisjudicial custody, claiming that heis an IPS officer and an influ-ential person.

He said Mirza, if released onbail, may try to influence wit-nesses. Mirza's lawyer, however,submitted that the officer was

suspended in November 2017and as such there was no ques-tion of him being an influentialperson. The lawyer also sub-mitted that Mirza has cooper-ated with the investigation allalong and has appeared beforethe CBI whenever he was sum-moned by the investigators.

The purpose of Mirza's

arrest has been served, with hebeing questioned along withanother accused on Monday andthe subsequent reconstruction ofthe events surrounding thealleged pay-offs which hap-pened at a flat in south Kolkata,the counsel added.

The tapes had surfacedahead of the 2016 West Bengalassembly polls and persons

resembling senior TrinamoolCongress leaders and Mirzawere seen accepting money fromrepresentatives of a fictitiouscompany in return for favours.The Calcutta High Court hadordered a CBI probe into theNarada sting operation case ona public interest litigation whichsought an impartial investigationinto the footages. PTI

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Ahmedabad: Hours after theSupreme Court ordered theGujarat Government to give2002 riots gang-rape survivorBilkis Bano a compensation of�50 lakh within two weeks, herhusband criticised the Rupani-led dispensation for "not pro-viding any assistance" to themall these years.

Bilkis Bano suffered for 17years, but the GujaratGovernment refused to helpher despite being ordered to doso by the country's top court,her husband Yakoob Rasooltold PTI over phone fromDahod on Monday.

"The Supreme Court onApril 13 asked the State

Government to give her com-pensation within 15 days. It hasbeen over five months now, butthe Government did not con-tact us even once, let alone fol-low the court order," he said.

Rasool said his family senttwo notices to the VijayRupani-led state government,reminding it of the SC order,but it did not even reply, fol-lowing which they approachedthe apex court again.

"Let us see what the StateGovernment does now. It hasto comply within 15 days or itwill amount to contempt ofcourt. All we know is that Bilkissuffered a lot in last 17 years,but never gave up the fight," he

said.She lost her family in the

post-Godhra riots but stillmanaged to raise her children,despite the State Governmentnot helping her in any way,Rasool said.

A bench headed by ChiefJustice Ranjan Gogoi onMonday asked the GujaratGovernment as to why it hasnot given the compensation,job and accommodation toBilkis Bano despite the apexcourt's April 23 order.

Solicitor General TusharMehta, appearing for the state,told the bench that the com-pensation of �50 lakh was notprovided in the victim com-

pensation scheme of Gujaratand they would also file a pleaseeking review of the topcourt's April order.

Later, Mehta gave anundertaking in the court thatthe compensation, job andaccommodation would begiven to her within two weeks.

On March 3, 2002, BilkisBano and her family wereattacked by a mob atRandhikpur village nearAhmedabad during the post-Godhra riots.

Bilkis Bano, who was fivemonths' pregnant at the time,was gang-raped and sevenmembers of her family werekilled. PTI

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Aizawl: Political parties andcivil societies of Mizoram onMonday appealed to all the Brurefugees living in relief campsin Tripura to return to theirhome state during the repatri-ation to commence fromOctober 3.

Altogether 4,447 Bru fam-ilies, lodged in six relief campsin Tripura, were scheduled toreturn to the neighbouringstate from where they had fledsince 1997 following ethnicclashes.

A meeting of the politicalparties and civil societies, con-vened by Home MinisterLalchamliana, also urged thepeople of the villages where therefugees were proposed to beresettled to welcome them, anofficial statement said here.

The ninth round of repa-triation is scheduled to beginfrom October 3 and expected tobe completed by November 30.

As a part of the repatria-tion, 2,051 Brus belonging to364 families from four reliefcamps have been identified tobe resettled in four villages ofsouthern Mizoram's Lungleidistrict, bordering Bangladesh.

The statement said 71 offi-cials including security per-sonnel have left Lungtei townthis morning to conduct therepatriation in five batches.

In the first of the fivebatches, 408 people of 65 fam-ilies would move from therelief camps on October 3.

The Centre has approved Rs350 crore for the ninth phase ofrepatriation and the amountcovers transportation and reha-bilitation package expenses,which include �5,000 permonth for each resettled Brufamily in Mizoram and freeration for them for two years.

The Mizoram governmenthas identified members of

4,447 Bru families lodged in therelief camps as bona fide resi-dents of the state last month.

The home secretary hadearlier said all the identifiedfamilies expressed willingnessto return to Mizoram thoughobstruction from hard-linersand anti-repatriation elementscannot be ruled out.

Eight attempts had beenmade to repatriate the Brus, alsocalled Reangs, and only around1,681 families have returned toMizoram since 2010 and wereresettled in Mamit, Kolasib andLunglei districts.

The vexed Bru problemstarted when the Bru people,spearheaded by an organisa-tion, Bru National Union,demanded a separateautonomous district council bycarving out areas of westernMizoram adjoiningBangladesh and Tripura inSeptember, 1997. PTI

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Panaji: A Goa court onMonday posted for October 7the next hearing in trialagainst Tehelka magazinefounder Tarun Tejpal in asexual assault case lodged byhis former woman colleague.

North Goa district andsessions judge Kshama Joshiheard the case on Mondayfollowing which it was keptfor next hearing on October7, public prosecutor FranciscoTavera said. A Supreme Courtbench headed by Justice ArunMishra last month asked thelower court to complete thetrial in the case, preferablywithin six months. JudgeJoshi said the trial will becompleted within the giventime. "There is direction inthe matter and it is the dutyof the court to comply withit," she said. PTI

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Gulalai Ismail, activist forwomen’s empowerment andPashtun human rights,escaped to the US inSeptember after four months

in hiding after denouncing the PakistanArmy’s alleged involvement in sexual vio-lence and disappearances. Expressinganxiety for her parents left behind, shesaid, “I do not see a prosperous Pakistanuntil the military establishment decidesit needs to go back to its barracks.”Unfortunately, the Army sees itself as theguarantor of a security state and thePashtun Tahafuz Movement, like theBaloch activists, is now in its crosshairs.

West Punjab-dominated Pakistan isnow in open conflict with activists fromBalochistan, Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa,even Gilgit Baltistan. All are highlightingthe atrocities being perpetrated by thePakistan Army. Islamabad’s machinationsrecently made Pakistan-born Balochactivist, Baseer Naveed, stateless. Thougha permanent resident of Hong Kong, theexecutive director of the InternationalHuman Rights Council, Hong Kong(IHRC-HK) is now in danger of arrest,deportation or house arrest. After his sonwas killed in 2004, Naveed moved to HongKong in 2006 and took cases of enforceddisappearances in Pakistan to the UNWorking Group on Enforced andInvoluntary Disappearance (WGEID).

After an attempt to pick him up inThailand in 2016 failed, Naveed decided toseek Chinese citizenship with Hong Kongpassport, which was approved by theHong Kong Immigration in January 2018.As required, he surrendered his nationalidentity card and passport but the PakistaniConsulate-General retained his passport(now expired) at the behest of unseen mas-ters, his Renunciation Certificate ofPakistan Citizenship was cancelled, mak-ing him very vulnerable.

An elected member of the UN HumanRights Commission, Pakistan, has breachedArticle 15 of the Universal DeclarationHuman Rights that states, “Everyone hasthe right to a nationality” and “no one shallbe arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nordenied the right to change his nationality.”

Meanwhile, disappearances continue.On March 23, 2019, medical doctor ZafarSaleem was picked up by intelligenceagencies from Turbat, Kech, and releasedin a very critical condition in May 2019.In Karachi, doctors said his head injury,sustained as a result of torture, was fatal.Despite four months in hospital, he diedon September 2, 2019.

On September 4, 2019, UsmanMaqbool and his cousin Doda Rashid wereabducted from Pidrak, Kech, by ShahmeerAziz of Lashkar-e-Khurasan, an IslamicState affiliate. They left Maqbool’s minorson behind. Both men were handed overto the Frontier Corps and have since been

missing. On September 10,2019, activist Mir AliMohammad Chakranireturned home in Washuk dis-trict after attending a weddingwhen Armymen dragged himout in front of his family andsprayed him with bullets. Fivemembers of Chakrani’s familyhad been abducted previously;while four were released againsta ransom of �6.5 million, thefifth is still missing.

Newly wed HammalMurad and seven others wereforcibly abducted from TankGazzi in Mashkay, Awaran, inAugust 2019. On September 9,the Army brought Murad’sdead body home to show hisparents but took it back to theOoghaar military camp andburied it in an adjacent grave-yard. One abductee wasreleased the same day but thewhereabouts of the other six areunknown.

On September 16, 2019,Hani Gul, a student fromGwadar, told the media that sheand her fiancé, MohammadNaseem, were picked up byintelligence agencies fromKarachi, where they werestudying, and kept in torturecells for three months. At theVoice for Baloch MissingPersons’ protest camp in frontof Quetta Press Club, Hani Gulsaid that while she was released

after three months, her fiancéis still missing.

Meanwhile, four unidenti-fied bodies, discovered sepa-rately, were brought to CivilHospital, Quetta, where theywere declared unrecognisableand buried in Dasht onSeptember 16, 2019, by EdhiFoundation volunteers. Manymutilated bodies are routinelyburied every year even thoughPakistani courts have orderedthat DNA analysis must beconducted on all “beyondrecognition bodies.”

At the UN Human RightsCouncil (UNHRC) meeting inGeneva (September 9-27,2019), Baloch writer QambarMalik warned, “Islamic radi-calisation in Balochistan isbeing used by the Pakistaniauthorities as a tool to counterthe Baloch national strugglefor the right to self-determina-tion. These go together withthe enforced disappearancesand extra-judicial killing ofBaloch nationalists by thesecurity forces.” Malik saidthat the number of madrasas,which are a major source ofrecruits for the Taliban and theIslamic State, now exceeds thenumber of schools inBalochistan. Schools and uni-versities are under constantattack from Islamic militants.Activists from Sindh also

spoke of the grim atrocitiesinflicted on the people by themilitary, claiming that over300 people have disappearedsince February 2017.

The Government-estab-lished Commission of Inquiryon Enforced Disappearanceshas registered around 5,000cases of enforced disappear-ances since 2014, most ofwhich are still unresolved.Independent Pakistani andinternational human rightsorganisations claim that thenumbers are much higher.Nearly 20,000 have reportedlybeen abducted fromBalochistan alone; of thesemore than 2,500 have beenfound riddled with bullets andbearing signs of extreme tor-ture. In fact, before he becamethe Prime Minister, ImranKhan often stated in mediainterviews that Pakistan’s intel-ligence agencies were involvedin enforced disappearances andextra-judicial killings ofactivists in the country; hepromised to resign if he failedto end this practice and bringthose involved to account.

Samad Baloch, Secretary-General of the Baloch HumanRights Council, accusedPakistan of institutional viola-tion of human rights in theprovince, in Sindh, and KhyberPakhtunkhwa. Mehran Marri,

son of veteran Khair BakhshMarri, told the UNHRC thatPakistan continues to commit“genocide and human rightsviolations in Balochistan”, evenas it petitions the internation-al community about humanrights in Kashmir. Marri saidPakistan poses as internation-al policeman for safeguardingthe rights of Muslims aroundthe world but cannot dare seewhat is happening to theUighur Muslims in Xinjiangprovince because Beijing is a“partner-in-crime” inBalochistan.

At the UNHRC session,Pakistan failed to muster min-imum support for a resolutionagainst India for reorganisingits northern state of Jammu &Kashmir, while activists fromBalochistan, Sindh, Pakistan-held Kashmir and KhyberPakhtunkhwa clamoured for aUN investigation into thePakistani States’ crimesagainst humanity. Indeed, thePakistan Army has enjoyedtoo much impunity for osten-sibly serving Western strategicinterests. But now, it is appar-ent that it cannot provideWashington with a safe exitfrom Afghanistan.

(The writer is Senior Fellow,Nehru Memorial Museum andLibrary; the views expressedare personal)

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Sir — This refers to the editorial,“Takeaways from UN” (October1). It just took less than six min-utes for Vidisha Maitra, FirstSecretary for India’s PermanentMission to the UN, to counterPakistan Prime Minister ImranKhan’s pack of lies at the UnitedNations General Assembly.Pakistan stood thoroughlyexposed in the eyes of the globalcommunity for its nuclear sabre-rattling and its thinly-disguisedagenda to instigate communaltensions in the neighbouringcountry. Khan’s appeal to the larg-er Islamist world that they shouldcome forward and help rescue theMuslims in Kashmir shows hismeanness. For Pakistan, the onlymatter worth talking about ininternational fora is Kashmir. ButIndia has been very firm in itsstand that it is totally its internalmatter.

That said, despite the discor-dant voices back home, PrimeMinister Modi has every right tofeel contented with his week-longstay in the US. He emerged as aclimate change champion bypromising to front-load India’sgreen energy commitments,

though the over-polluted andfilthy cities suggest we have a fairdistance to travel beyond declara-tory pronouncements. India maynot have become a better place in

five years but the Prime Minister’svisit to the US was indeed animage-booster.

KS Jayatheertha Bengaluru

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Sir — In his monthly radio address,Mann ki Baat, Prime Minister

Narendra Modi asked people toshun tobacco and said that e-cig-arettes had been banned to preventthe youth from falling into the newmethods of intoxication.

As modern technology striveshard to make our living morecomfortable and enjoyable,advanced technology, too, findsways to entertain people at theexpense of their health. The useof e-cigarettes, vapes, vape pensand e-hookahs has seen anincreased use among the youththough the Electronic NicotineDelivery System (ENDS) wasbanned long back. A myth doingthe rounds among them is alsothat e-cigarettes pose no danger.

Unlike conventional ciga-rettes, vapes do not let out anodour as fragrant chemicals areadded to it and these chemicalsare harmful to one’s health. Youngpeople are the asset of the nationand if they are not physically andmentally sound, they cannot lead.It is the responsibility of thosewho are aware of the ill-effects ofsmoking to wean others off thishealth hazard.

TK NandananChennai

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On his visit to London for the Round TableConference of 1931, Mahatma Gandhi wasgrossly under-clothed to face the British

winter. Dressed in his trademark homespun loin-cloth, a sartorial choice picked to identify withIndia’s poorest, Gandhi went all the way to theBuckingham Palace to meet King George V. “TheKing was wearing enough for both of us”, heremarked later with characteristic humour whenasked if his clothing felt appropriate for such ameeting. When then British Prime MinisterWinston Churchill disparagingly referred to himas the “half-naked fakir”, he took it as a compli-ment!

Gandhi’s sense of humour was an insepara-ble part of his personality, as were his views onnon-violence, sustainable living, economical useof resources, role of mass media in a nation’s devel-opment and humane treatment to animals. Therewere multiple dimensions to his personality, muchbeyond the saintliness we usually associate withhim. Unfortunately, in the process of revering himas the Father of the Nation, we have unwittinglyburied a series of interesting facets of his thoughtand philosophy, rendering him a uni-dimension-al monotonous figure. This failure to keepGandhi alive as a living philosophy is responsi-ble for the young generation’s loss of interest inhim.

Popular yet misunderstood: If you ask ayoung Indian about Mahatma Gandhi, chancesare that he/she will fail to identify him as anythingbeyond a freedom fighter. Worrisomely, a num-ber of youngsters bred on a constant diet of socialmedia forwards even openly deride him, holdinghim responsible for a series of ills, including India’sPartition, failure to seek clemency for Bhagat Singhand for preferring Jawaharlal Nehru over SardarPatel. The problem lies in the fact that the Statehas failed to make Brand Gandhi relevant to thepeople. The Father of our Nation was much morethan a saint or a leader of a non-violent freedommovement. As a human being, he deeply under-stood this country and laid out a philosophy thatcovered all dimensions of our lives. Truth be told,never have Gandhi’s ideals been more relevant tothe world and to our country than they are today.As we face unprecedented challenges of violence,hate, environmental degradation, depletion ofresources and increasing chasm between the richand the poor, we desperately need Gandhi’s phi-losophy as a guiding light.

There is also an urgent need to rebrandGandhi to make him more palatable to the youngIndians. This needs to be done by popularisingthe unknown facets of his personality.

Rebranding the Mahatma: In 2006, aBollywood comedy called Lage Raho Munna Bhaidid more to popularise Gandhi among the youththan State-led programmes could do in 60 years.It did so by simplifying his teachings and exhibit-ing how they can make a real difference in ourdaily lives. However, we need more than a filmto realise this goal, we need to contemporiseGandhi for contemporary Indians and restore dig-nity to his brand.

Gandhi’s ideas on sagacious use of resources,blunting hatred with love and forgiveness, andinvesting in nature are key to this age of excess-es. His unknown love for music, his absolute ded-

ication towards fitness (who could havewalked 284 km to Dandi at the age of63?), his advocacy of eco-friendly prac-tices and his emphasis on humility andnon-violence need to be revived andadopted.

Environment and sustainability:Millions of young people took to thestreets across the world last weekdemanding concrete action from thecountries to curb and reverse climatechange. The explosion of the youthmovement ignited by Swedish activistGreta Thunberg reminded the worldabout how the human race has endan-gered itself through its unsustainableexploitation of natural resources. As wecelebrate Gandhi’s150th birth anniver-sary, it is pertinent to revisit his idealson environment and sustainability.

As an astute critic of greed-centricmodernity, Gandhi was very concernedabout the social order that exploited nat-ural resources for short-term and short-sighted gains. He wrote extensivelyabout our need to exercise collectiverestraint when it came to exploitingnature. What seemed like counter-fac-tual thinking at the time has nowbecome mainstream with climate changebecoming the single-greatest threat tothe future of human beings as a species.

Gandhi had astutely foreseen aworld running rampant with unre-stricted materialism and industrialism,a world where the natural resourceswould not be enough to sustain the bur-geoning population and its needs. It istime we understand the value of hisvision to the discourse on climatechange, environmental conversation,and sustainability.

Gandhian philosophy: The centraltenet of Gandhi’s philosophy was thatman should be at the centre of any devel-opmental roadmap. He believed that itwas essential to take the long-term view

of things into account to ensure ourprosperity and wellbeing. He advocat-ed using natural resources judiciouslywithout disturbing the ecological balanceof increasingly fragile ecosystems. Healso talked about a developmentalmodel where everyone could partake inthe progress. In his translation of JohnRuskin’s tract on political economy,Gandhi used the term sarvodaya, (wel-fare of all), which was to become the cen-tral basis of his beliefs and actions laterin life. He was a strong proponent of acommunity-based approach towardsenvironmental sustainability andbelieved that by keeping the welfare ofall human beings at heart, we will be ableto avoid exploitation of man and natureand uphold human dignity.

Although he did not present astructured model for the conservationof environment and sustainable devel-opment, we can form a picture of hisvision by linking his thoughts together.He was strongly for dencentralisation ofpower at all levels of society. He visu-alised sarvodaya at the national level,Gram Sabha at the local level andSwaraj (economic freedom) at the indi-vidual level. He firmly believed that thepower to change the world resided in theindividual and that by mutually interde-pendent cooperation, we would be ableto create a noble environment for all.Every individual is the trustee of thewealth generated by our collectiveefforts and we should always try to con-vert that into wealth of all for a betterworld instead of selfishly pursuing indi-vidual interests and personal gains. Byachieving inward change, we can affecta shift from a consumer society to a con-server one.

Energy crisis and sustainable trans-port: During the historic Dandi march,a supporter on a bike offered oranges toGandhi. He politely declined them and

told him to walk and avoid using thebike. This in many ways formed theessence of his thought. Gandhi was anadvocate of walking and cycling. In ret-rospect, his ideals seem far ahead of histimes, but relevant nonetheless.Indiscriminate use of fossil fuels has ledto global warming. Increasing use ofethanol and biodiesel from sugarcaneand corn will result in food shortage andincreased water consumption. We con-tinue to mindlessly consume unsustain-able resources. The solution lies intempering our wants and turning to sus-tainable transport as much as possible.Simple changes to our lifestyle, such aswalking and cycling, car pooling and theuse of non-conventional energy sourceswhen adopted on a large scale, can makea positive impact.

Water problems: When Kathiawarin Gujarat experienced drought duringthe Independence struggle, Gandhiurged the people to plant more trees,knowing very well that afforestation ona large scale can help curb water crisis.He also pushed for the practice of waterharvesting for irrigation to avoid foodshortages and famines, a suggestion thatwas well ahead of its time. As we wit-ness a major impending water crisis anddepletion of ground water resources,invoking Gandhi’s ideals seems to be thenatural recourse. Gandhi famously saidthat “If you want to change the world,start with yourself.” If we had paid heedto his words earlier, we wouldn’t be ina world where future generations areblaming us, and rightly so, for the worldwe are leaving them with. Unless indi-viduals rethink their consumer lifestyleand governments rethink developmentagenda to make them sustainable, therecan be no lasting peace and happiness.

(The writer is Director and CreativeStrategist at an advertising and consult-ing agency and Return of Million Smiles)

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don’t call them worthless. At least, don’t doit in front of me. The people that I have methave been extraordinarily qualified. Theirintent is good. Their commitment is true.They are righteous, and they are patriots.And I’m their lawyer,” says the RepublicanAinsley Hayes in the popular TV show TheWest Wing. Ainsley’s words could come asa wake-up call to many who dismiss theGovernment and its leaders as “worthless”and often choose to undermine the workaccomplished as they run after mirage-likechampions of causes. Therefore, it is impor-tant to set the record straight. Over the lastfew weeks, so much has been said about cli-

mate change, the environment and sustain-ability, with Prime Minister NarendraModi’s participation at the United NationsClimate Action Summit in New York. OnOctober 2, the Swachh Bharat Mission(SBM) completes five years. Therefore, it isimportant to recall how sustainability andenvironmental consciousness have been atthe heart of several policy intervention.

It is also important to highlight thatthemes like cleanliness, toilet construction,sanitation, environmental impact ofLiquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) cylindersand solar energy have emerged at a globalstage consistently over the last five years,which is unprecedented. Therefore, it wouldbe prudent to discuss three major reformsof Swachhta, Ujjwala and Saur Urja (solarenergy) in this context.

When we talk about SBM, it is impor-tant to note how the mission has evolvedfrom a sanitation, open-defecation free(ODF) behavioural mass movement andurban waste-segregation initiative to free-ing the country from single-use plastic. FromMicrosoft founder Bill Gates to SulabhInternational founder Bindeshwar Pathak,the far-reaching impact of the SBM has beenassessed through different parameters, bothtangible and intangible. Pathak has rightly

said that it took Prime Minister NarendraModi’s courage and steady focus to bring an“unpalatable” yet fundamental subject liketoilet construction to the fore and make ita people-centric movement.

Some facts with regards to SBM mightbe known to us — the increase of rural san-itation coverage from 38 per cent in 2014to 99 per cent in 2019, construction of 110million toilets and 30 States and UnionTerritories becoming Open Defecation Free(ODF). Recent studies by UNICEF and theBill & Melinda Gates Foundation, have alsoascertained the effect of the SBM on theenvironment and in terms of money spenton information, education and communi-cation (IEC) activities. The studies conclud-ed that achieving the goal of ODF villageshas positively affected the quality of ground-water by reducing contamination. Thestudy found that non-ODF villages were“11.25 times more likely to have theirgroundwater sources contaminated (12.7times more from contaminants traceable tohumans alone).”

The findings of the Gates Foundationstudy are particularly interesting in the back-drop of the criticism received on the expen-diture on IEC-related activities. It says, “Anaverage person living in rural India was

exposed to between 2,500-3,300 SBM-related messages over the last five years.”While the targeted communication throughIEC interventions is a tangible outcome,Modi’s consistent mention of the theme inhis Mann Ki Baat radio programme has alsocatalysed the necessary behavioural change.Yet, Modi, does not choose to stop at thispoint and gave a clarion call to make Indiafree of single-use plastic.

It’s well known that environmentaldegradation has a disproportionate impacton the poor and lack of access to resourcesis responsible for depletion, which furtherperpetuates poverty. The fact is that thisrenewed understanding has become an inte-gral aspect of India’s new development par-adigm.

Let’s consider indoor air pollution,which is known to cause asthma or bron-chitis. Several estimates suggest that the costof asthma treatment per year for 2015 was�139.45 billion. Part of this cost is on theGovernment, while the rest comes from out-of-pocket expenditure on healthcare. TheGovernment launched the Ujjwala Yojanaand has already distributed over eight croreLPG cylinders to facilitate a switch fromburning firewood in rural areas. Doing sohas already started to show a considerable

impact in reducing indoor air pollution,which will further reduce the incidences oflung-related disorders, eventually savingmoney for both the Government and thepoor. There’s recognition of the linkagesbetween the environment and its conse-quences on health outcomes, be it access toclean fuel or improved sanitation. The socialbenefits of these programmes are not justlimited to environment preservation, as theywill yield rich dividends in terms ofimproved healthcare outcomes which willonly reduce the burden of disease.

India’s pollution woes are not just lim-ited to indoor air. Several of our major citiessuffer from poor air quality, while our riverstoo, have witnessed a steady increase in pol-lutants over the last couple of decades. Thefact that these changes can be catastrophicis well known and perhaps that explains oneof the world’s most ambitious renewableenergy initiatives.

The International Solar Alliance, aimedat reducing India’s global carbon footprint,was launched by New Delhi in 2015. It hasbeen joined by 121 countries, which showsthe extent of the impact that India has hadin shaping the global environmental conser-vation discourse. India’s target for solar gen-eration is an ambitious 450 gigawatt (GW)

and the country is now making rapid stridestowards achieving the target of 175 GW by2022.

It is equally important to recogniseIndia’s push towards electric vehicles (EVs)to further reduce its carbon footprint. Be itthrough tax incentives for electric cars or thepush for electric buses, there’s a concentrat-ed effort by the Government to create arobust infrastructure that facilitates asmooth transition to a cleaner technology.

Though reducing our carbon foot-print will help address the problem of cli-mate change that affects the entire planet,moving towards EVs and reducing India’sreliance on coal-based power plants are crit-ical towards reducing air pollution in someof our major cities.

There are long-term benefits from allsuch interventions and these benefits are notjust limited to India and its citizens, but theyare global. While we may have several envi-ronmental activists, who find it convenientto consider development as a direct conflictwith environmentalism, India has managedto balance the two and carve out a practi-cal model of sustainable development.

(Bhasin is a New Delhi-based public pol-icy researcher and Chauthaiwale is a digitalcommunication and policy professional)

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three-and-half year low of 0.5per cent, due to decline in out-put of coal, crude oil, naturalgas, cement, and electricity,according to a governmentdata released on Monday.

The eight core sectorindustries - coal, crude oil, nat-ural gas, refinery products,fertiliser, steel, cement andelectricity - had expanded by4.7 per cent in August last year.

The previous low wasrecorded at (-) 1.3 in November2015.

Coal, crude oil, naturalgas, cement, and electricityrecorded a negative growth of8.6 per cent, 5.4 per cent , 3.9per cent, 4.9 per cent and 2.9per cent, respectively, inAugust, according to the dataof the Commerce and IndustryMinistry.

However, fertiliser and steelproduction grew by 2.9 percent, and 5 per cent, respec-tively, during the month underreview. Growth rate in the pro-duction of refinery productsdipped by 2.6 per cent inAugust this year as against 5.1per cent in the same month lastyear.

During April-August,growth in the eight core indus-tries grew by 2.4 per cent from5.7 per cent in the year-agoperiod.

Commenting on the data,rating firm Icra Ltd said: "Theperformance of the core sectorsin August 2019 was disap-pointingly weak, with a broad-based deterioration in six of the

eight constituents and as manyas five sectors recording a year-on-year contraction in thatmonth".

The contraction in the coresector growth in August 2019confirms the view that themodest pickup in the IIPgrowth in July did not signalthe start of an industrial recov-ery, it added in a statement.

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the former bank managementand promoters of HDIL in thePunjab and MaharashtraCooperative Bank case andsaid a special investigationteam will be probing the case.

Based on a complaint byRBI-appointed administrator,the city police's EconomicOffences Wing filed a firstinformation report (FIR) in thecase for forgery, cheating andcriminal conspiracy againstthe officials.

As per initial investiga-tions, the bank's losses since2008 were �4,355.46 crore,police said.

The bank's former chair-man Waryam Singh, managingdirector Joy Thomas and othersenior officials, along with thedirector of HDIL, Wadhawan,have been named in the FIR.First name of Wadhawan wasnot immediately available.

Explaining the modusoperandi of the case, the FIRsaid HDIL promoters alleged-

ly colluded with the bank man-agement, to draw loans fromthe bank's Bhandup branch.

Despite non-payment, thebank officials did not classifythe loans as non performingadvances and intentionally hidthe information about the samefrom RBI, an official state-ment from the police said.

They also created fictitiousaccounts of companies whichborrowed small sums ofmoney, and created fakereports of the bank to hidefrom the regulatory supervi-sion, it said.

The FIR has been filedunder sections 409 (criminalbreach of trust by a public ser-vant or banker), 420 (cheating),and 465, 466 and 471 (related

to forgery) of the Indian PenalCode along with 120 (b) (crim-inal conspiracy).

The bank, which has 137branches and over �11,000crore in deposits, has been putunder restrictions since lastweek after the RBI discoveredcertain financial irregularitiesin the functioning of the multi-state lender.

According to sources, theoverall exposure of the bank tothe financially stressed HDILgroup is around �6,500 crore orover 73 per cent of theadvances, and all of it is notbeing serviced.

Under the restrictions,which are to be applicable forsix months, a depositor is ableto withdraw only �10,000 peraccount. It can also not takefresh deposits or extend anynew loans.

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will expand to seven more dis-tricts of Haryana from October1 to cover the entire nationalcapital region as oil companiesextend the fuel coverage to allover the country in a phasedmanner.

While the country willleapfrog from the current BS-IV grade fuel to BS-VI, whichhave emission standards equiv-alent to Euro-VI fuel, fromApril 1, 2020, state-owned oilfirms began supplying theultra-clean fuel in the nation-al capital in April last year.

Supplies of BS-VI gradepetrol and diesel was extendedto neighbouring districts inRajasthan and Uttar Pradesh inApril this year and now it hasbeen extended to Haryana.

"In line with the commit-ment to roll out Bharat Stage(BS) VI fuels in national capi-tal region (NCR), 2200 petrolpumps of Indian Oil Corp(IOC), Bharat Petroleum CorpLtd (BPCL) and HindustanPetroleum

Corp Ltd (HPCL) wouldbe supplying BSVI grade fuelsin 7 districts in the State ofHaryana with effect fromtomorrow, October 01, 2019,"IOC said in a statement.

Mumbai: Markets buckledunder selling pressure onMonday as wary investorsoffloaded banking and finan-cial services stocks amid adrumbeat of negative newsfrom the sector.

The BSE Sensex tumbled155.24 points or 0.40 per centto finish at 38,667.33, while thebroader NSE Nifty dropped37.95 points or 0.33 per cent to11,474.45. Market sentimentwas jolted by a slew of reportshighlighting governance andstructural issues in the finan-cial services space, traders said.

Lakshmi Vilas Bank sharestumbled about 5 per cent to hitits lower circuit limit after theRBI initiated prompt correctiveaction against the lender due tohigh NPA levels amid allega-tions of wrongdoings by somedirectors.

The regulatory action maycast doubts over its proposedmerger with IndiabullsHousing Finance, which tooplunged over 30 per cent.

Reliance Capital dived over14 per cent after the companydecided to exit the lendingbusiness. All this comes againstthe backdrop of PMC Bankcoming under the regulatoryglare following a spate ofalleged irregularities. PTI

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The Government onMonday cut domestic nat-

ural gas price for the first timein two-and-a-half years butrates for gas produced from dif-ficult fields such as RelianceIndustries' under-developmentfields in KG-D6 block are stillat almost the same level as theone fixed during the Congress-led UPA regime.

The price of most of thenatural gas produced by state-owned ONGC and Oil IndiaLtd, which account for bulk ofIndia's existing gas output, wascut to $3.23 per million Britishthermal unit for the six-month

period beginning October 1,from $3.69 as of now, accord-ing to the oil ministry'sPetroleum Planning andAnalysis Cell (PPAC).

This is the first reductionin rate since April 1, 2017.

Simultaneously, the gov-ernment cut the price of gasproduced from difficult fieldsto $8.43 from $9.32, the PPACnotification said.

Prices of natural gas, whichis used to produce fertiliser andgenerate electricity and is alsoconverted into CNG for use inautomobiles as fuel and cook-ing gas for households, are setevery six months — on April 1and October 1 each year.

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India's real GDP growth forthe current financial year is

likely to be 5.2 per cent asmuted business confidence,subdued demand conditionsand concerns in the financialsector are hurting investments,according to the EconomistIntelligence Unit.

According to the theEconomist Intelligence Unit,annual real GDP growthdropped to a six-year low of 5per cent in the second quarterand data from the third quar-ter show "little sign of

improvement".India's economic growth

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

"Consumer and businessconfidence are low, car salesplunged by 30 per cent year-on-year in July. Credit growthremains hobbled by problemsin the financial sector, which ishurting investment," EIU saidin a report.

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The Government onMonday said its borrowing

in the current fiscal will bewithin the budgeted �7.1 lakhcrore, and will stick to the fis-cal deficit glide path, but itremained non-committal onthe country's maiden overseassovereign debt plan.

With over 62 per cent ofthe budgeted borrowing beingalready resorted to in the sixmonths to September 30,Economic Affairs SecretaryAtanu Chakraborty said the

remaining half of the currentfiscal will see the remainder of�2.68 lakh crore being bor-rowed in rupee denomination.

With the �1.45 lakh croretax dole threatening to upsetbudgeted numbers, he soughtto allay concerns saying thegovernment is sticking to theglide path of keeping fiscaldeficit at 3.3 per cent of theGDP in the current fiscal.

Chakraborty, however, didnot say how the governmentwill bridge the revenue shortfallarising out of lowering of thecorporate tax rate, steepest ever.

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Oil prices fell more than oneper cent on Monday after

Saudi Arabia's de facto leadersaid war with Iran woulddestroy the world economyand hinted instead at a non-military solution.

Washington, Riyadh,Berlin, London and Paris blameIran for attacks that damagedthe Saudi oil sector onSeptember 14 and forced theworld's largest crude exporterto sharply reduce production.

Stock markets were most-ly higher as traders tracked thelatest twists and turns regard-ing the US-China trade war.The dollar was mixed againstmain rivals.

"In terms of geopoliticalconcerns, common sense isprevailing for now in SaudiArabia," noted analyst NaeemAslam at tradersThinkMarkets, in reference tothe comments by SaudiArabia's crown prince in aninterview with CBS show "60minutes" broadcast over theweekend.

Mohammed bin Salmansaid a war would be cata-strophic for global growth.

"Oil supplies will be dis-rupted and oil prices will jumpto unimaginably high numbersthat we haven't seen in our life-times," the prince said.

"The region representsabout 30 percent of the world'senergy supplies, about 20 per-

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Pakistan Economic Corridor(CPEC) projects and the twocountries have identified threekey areas to promote the USD50 billion initiative as it entereda "new phase".

The CPEC, which con-nects China's Xinjiang provincewith the strategic Gwadar Portin Balochistan, is the flagshipproject of Chinese President Xi Jinping's ambi-tious Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).

The 3,000-km CPEC isaimed at connecting Chinaand Pakistan with rail, road,pipelines and optical fibre cablenetworks. India has beenseverely critical of the CPEC asit passes through Pakistan-occupied Kashmir(PoK).

"CPEC is running accord-ing to our satisfaction andthere is no slowdown in it,"Chinese ambassador toPakistan Yao Jing said at a sem-inar titled 'Friends of SilkRoad', organised by thePakistan-China Institute, inIslamabad on Sunday.

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Incidences of joint replacement surgeries have seen an upsurgein the past five years. India is at present facing knee ailments

epidemic. According to a recent study, more than 15 crore Indianssuffer from knee related problems like loss of cartilage, ACL tearand various types of age related degenerative arthritis likeosteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, unicompartmental arthritisamong many others. Out of which over four crore of them needan immediate knee replacement surgery, which is affecting theirquality of life and also imposing a huge health burden on the coun-try. According to the recent data provided by joint registry (ISHKS),over 35,000 total knee replacements (TKR) have been performedin India last year.

Evident from the data it is clear that more than 75 per cent ofthe TKR were performed on women ranging in the age bracket of45-70 years. More than 33,000 cases of TKR were attributed toosteoarthritis.

Though most of the TKR are sustainable in more than 90 percent of the cases and have a life of around 15-20 years, but overtime if the knee replacement fails due to variety of reasons. In suchcases patients may require to undergo a Revision TKR (RTKR) dueto the increased swelling and painful knee joints. The patients mayalso feel stiffness, instability that may hinder in their day-to-dayactivities.

During the knee replacement surgery, the knee joint is replacedwith an implant. But sometimes due to loosening of the implants

or wear out, a revision proceduremay be required. Dependingupon the condition, the revisionsurgeries may include replace-ment of partial components of theimplants, unicompartmental jointreplacement or complete replace-ment. In some of the cases due totrauma or an injury to the bonemay make it harder for the sur-geon to use standardised implantsduring a revision surgery, wherespecially designed implants arerequired.

Avoiding such complicationsof injury to the joints or adjacentareas and taking certain precau-tionary measures can ensure anenhanced lifespan of the implantsand avoids the need for a revisionknee replacement surgery.

Maintain Body Mass Index(BMI): Poor eating habits and asedentary lifestyle often postsurgery ends up in unwantedweight gain. It is advised to eat a

healthy and balanced diet along with regular mild exercises. Physical activity and regular exercise: Regular exercise is a

must and one should always consult the treating doctor for the mod-eration, before taking up heavy workouts. It is usually advised forbrisk walking, basic physical exercise like aerobics for atleast fivedays a week. This will not only help in strengthening the musclesbut also helps in proper settling and adjustment of the implants.Regular exercise will also benefit the patient for a prolonged lifeof the implant.

Avoid sitting cross legged: Adopting to a table chair lifestylefor initial few months post a knee replacement will reduce the wearand tear allowing the implants to settle better. Consult the surgeonwhen to involve in such activities.

Yearly check-ups: TKR patients must visit the surgeons year-ly to keep a check on loosening in the joint which can be dealt withtime.

If these measures are properly taken then the lifespan of kneereplacement surgeries may last long. In case of any problem, it isimportant to consult the concerned surgeon.

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The disinfectant,detoxifying, antiseptic, anti-fungal and antioxidant proper-ties of coriander are ideal for clearing up skindisorders such as eczema, dryness, and fungalinfections. It also helps is healing and preventingmouth ulcers from getting worse.

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September 29, 2019, SRLDiagnostics released ananalysis of data that it gener-ated from comprehensive coronary risk pro-file testing, done over the last three years.The analysis was based on 2,487,202 sam-ples of serum triglyceride tests performedat the labs across India and revealed thatabnormal serum triglyceride was found tobe higher in men (65%) than in women(35%). Also, abnormal serum triglyceridewas highest in North Zone (54%) comparedto all other zones.

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Hypertriglyceridemia is a condition inwhich triglyceride levels are high. Mostoften, there are no symptoms of having ele-vated triglycerides. It is often caused or exac-erbated by uncontrolled diabetes, obesity,and sedentary habits. Elevated triglyc-erides may contribute to hardening of thearteries and inflammation in the pancreas.This increases the risk of stroke, heart attack,other heart diseases and pancreatitis.

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Dengue. The word creates ghastly images inone’s mind and why not? It has serious con-

sequences which can be fatal or lifelong. Manyknow Dengue causes thrombocytopenia(decreased platelet count), but how many knowwhat it leads to?

The virus causesdestruction ofplatelets hence theirnumber decreases.Platelets are an impor-tant factor for bloodcoagulation to pre-vent blood loss. Whenplatelets are deplet-ed, stopping bleedingisn’t easy. Apart fromplatelets the virus also damages cells of skin,mucosa, heart, brain, eye and other organs. Thedamage causes cell death/cell break down. As aconsequence there is bleeding/fluid collection invarious body pockets.

The virus is known to affect the cardiac mus-cles which when injured do not function optimal-ly as a consequence the heart pumping decreas-es. Many a times this injury recovers over a yearbut some unfortunate few cases it becomes irre-versible. And the person lives with reduced pump-ing for the rest of the life. It also affects the elec-trical circuits of the heart which lead to rhythmdisorder (abnormal pulsations).

Similarly, the kidneys are also known to beaffected causing acute renal failures. Many times,renal affection is self-limiting but kidney involve-ment can be fatal.Other documented rare com-plications are permanent loss of sight due to eyeinvolvement, progressive paralysis (GB syn-drome). The virus is known to cross the placen-tal barrier and reach the fetus. So, pregnant ladiesshould be very careful.

Here are some signs and symptoms alongwith some preventive tips that you can watch for:� Fever for three to seven days� Intense headache and pain behind the eyes� Muscle and joint pain� Loss of appetite� Vomiting and diarrhoea� Skin rash� Bleeding, usually from the nose or gums.

Preventive measures for Dengue:� Clothing: Reduce the amount of skin exposed

by wearing long pants, long-sleeved shirts, andsocks, tucking pant legs into shoes or socks,and wearing a hat.

� Mosquito repellents: Use a repellent with atleast 10 per cent concentration of diethyltolu-amide (DEET), or a higher concentration forlonger lengths of exposure. Avoid usingDEET on young children.

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Morbid obesity has becomean epidemic in India.Unfortunately, not many

people consider it a disease. It israther a sign of coming from akhate-peete ghar ka. This is noth-ing more than a common miscon-ception.

Obesity is dangerous not onlybecause it disrupts the body func-tioning but also because it gives riseto a lot of other diseases —Diabetes and cardiac to name a few.

A study has found that thenumber of men and women hav-ing central obesity are almost thesame.

To address this issue,Department of SurgicalGastroenterology, Bariatric andMinimal Access Surgery, Institutefor Digestive & Liver Diseases, BLKSuper Speciality Hospital, organ-ised a three-day fellowship pro-gramme from September 26 toSeptember 29, 2019 to train doc-tors in bariatric surgery. It wasendorsed by Obesity SurgerySociety of India.

Dr Deep Goel, organisingchairman says that a completeunderstanding of the disease is keyin order to conduct the surgery.

“Complete understanding ofmorbid obesity and its manage-ment is necessary before we canoffer bariatric and metabolicsurgery to patients. Keeping this inmind, we organised the 4thFellowship Course in Bariatric andMetabolic Surgery (FALS) in NewDelhi under the aegis of IAGES.This course dwells on severalaspects of Bariatric surgery,” he tellsyou.

Not only unhealthy eating butthere are a lot of other factors as

well that contribute to obesity.“Eating fatty and junk food, drink-ing alcohol are definitely some ofthe major reasons of obesity. Butthere’s much more to it. Followingan unhealthy lifestyle, eating atunusual and different times andlack of exercise are some of thecommon reasons that contribute toobesity,” he says.

Many people consider thebariatric surgery the last option togo for. But it’s actually vice-versa.

“There is a misconception thatbariatric surgery is the last optionfor an obese patient, however thisis not the case. This is one of thesafest surgeries till date; safer thana gall bladder surgery, and can beperformed on patients at an earlystage. For instance, if a personweighs 50 kg more than the aver-age weight then we can’t put himon medications only because thiswill not get us the desired results.To shed around 50 kg of unwant-ed weight, surgery is the onlyoption,” Dr Goel tells you. The pro-cedure is simple, the stomach is cutopen and its size is decreased. If thesize of the stomach is decreasedthan automatically the amount offood intake by the patient will bereduced. The patient will feel fulleasily. This will help the patient tonot gain unnecessary weight.

But everything comes with aprice. Though the surgery is muchsafer from all the other surgeries,there are chances of complicatonsafter the surgery.

“Complications can arise inanyone. Some of the commoncomplications can be delay in heal-ing of the stomach. Others includethe risks of anaesthesia. Thechances of these complications are

however very less. Because thepatient is selected for the surgeryonly after a complete analysis of hisbody. All safety measure are high-ly practiced during this,” he tellsyou.

However, the surgery is not apermanent cure. The disease canrelapse after a period of time. “Insuch cases, counselling of thepatients is done. We tell them thatthey are the ones who have to keeptheir diet in check. We train themso that they can learn to controltheir apetite and develop healthyeating habits,” says Dr SandeepAggarwal, Professor of Surgery,Department of Surgical Disciplines,All India Institute of MedicalSciences, New Delhi.

The reason why this disease isgoing unnoticed in India is becausethe mindset of the people. “Themindset of the people has to bechanged. For this, proper awarenessof the disease should be created. Inmany cases we see that the parentsthemselves forcefully feed gheeand other fatty foods to children.The reason being yahi to umar haikhaane ki. This is the reason whywe are seeing a rise in paediatricobesity cases. India has the secondhighest number of obese childrenin the world. The figure stands at14.4 million. In such cases aware-ness is the key. It should be doneon the grassroot level. Childrenshould be taught the cons ofunhealthy eating and lifestyle inschool. They should be taught theimportance of a balanced diet,” hetells you. He adds that manyGovernment schools today are fol-lowing the balanced diet chartand preparing the mid-day meals accordingly.

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provider Cigna TTKrevealed that 9 out of 10Indians suffered from stress.Over three fourths of themwere not comfortable talk-ing about it to a medicalprofessional. Respondentssaid that prohibitive consul-tation costs ruled out regu-lar mental health checkupsas a viable option. The com-prehensive survey, with over14,000 respondents from 23world markets, identifiedwork pressure as one of thekey triggers of stress, whichdoes not come as a surprise.

A company might offerthe greatest services or prod-ucts in the industry, but ifyour employees are over-worked to the point thattheir mental health is takinga beating, then it is going toaffect their long term pro-ductivity and create a workculture that is going toadversely affect your bottomline.

The millennial work-force: Going back to the sur-vey, it was found that over 95per cent of Indian millenni-als suffered from workplacestress, which is significant-ly higher than the globalaverage of 86 per cent.

Although they are con-fident and driven, researchhas also revealed that mil-lennials are also more proneto stress induced anxietyand depression.

Meanwhile, the emer-gence of a 24/7 work culturebacked by constant connec-tivity and the demand toalways stay on the job leaveslittle leisure time for theyoung workforce. Absenceof adequate social supportand lack of time to tacklestress further exacerbatesthe situation. On top of it,most corporate organisa-tions hardly have any men-tal support policy for theiremployees in place.

Need to break thesilence: If the situation is so

grave, then why aren’temployees talking about it inthe open? The answer lies inthe collective attitude of oursociety towards mentalhealth problems. A recentsurvey conducted by theLive Love Laugh Foundationfound that close to 50 percent of respondents werejudgmental of people suffer-ing from mental illness, andthis reflects in the workplaceas well. Managers often tendto be wary of employees whocome forward with theirmental health concerns, andeven tend to dismiss themoutright in some cases.

Considering the seri-ousness of the situation,organisations can no longer

afford to put discussionsabout mental health on theback burner. However, track-ing the mental health ofemployees is a double edgedsword. On the one hand, youare creating a safe space forthem to come forward andtalk about their struggles. Onthe other, they might look atit as an invasion of their per-sonal space, feel targetedand withdraw into theirshells, making it even moredifficult to get them to talkabout it again. For the inter-vention to be effective in thelong term, it is importantthat companies raise aware-ness about mental illness.This will help normalise aculture where people don’tshy away from talking abouttheir mental health issuesout in the open.

What can companiesdo to address the mentalhealth concerns of theiremployees?

Conducting regularscreenings and seminars to

educate employees, encour-age open dialogue and helpthem by offering a supportsystem. Protect the rights ofyour employees and draftpolicies to help curb dis-crimination and end thestigma associated withdepression and other men-tal health issues. If anemployee needs to take abreak from work to work ontheir mental health, be sup-portive, and introduce clearguidelines to help them easeback into the work environ-ment after the break.

Hiring the services of atrained mental health expertis the most important inter-vention needed in today’stime. A mental health coun-selor who makes regularvisits to offer counselingand conduct stress man-agement sessions can act likea safety valve.

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Sanaa (Yemen): Yemen’s rebelson Monday released scores ofdetainees they had rounded upand held for years in rebel-con-trolled territory, a develop-ment that raised hopes of reviv-ing stalled peace talks betweenthe warring sides.

The InternationalCommittee of the Red Crosssaid the Iran-aligned rebels,known as Houthis, freed 290detainees.

Franz Rauchenstein, theICRC’s chief in Yemen, said theRed Cross facilitated the releasefollowing a request from theHouthis.

He expressed hope thiswould open the door to “fur-ther releases to bring comfortto families awaiting reunifica-tion with their loved ones.”

Most of the prisoners weretaken in raids since 2014, whenthe rebels overran the capital.

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Manchester : UK PrimeMinister Boris Johnson facedpolitical opposition and per-sonal allegations on Monday ashe tried to fulfil his pledge tolead Britain out of theEuropean Union in just over amonth.

As he tried to energiseConservative members andlawmakers at the party’s annu-al conference, Johnson wasforced to deny a journalist’sclaim that he had grabbed herthigh at a private lunch twodecades ago.

Sunday Times columnistCharlotte Edwardes says theincident took place when sheworked at The Spectator, aconservative newsmagazine,while Johnson was its editor.

Asked Monday if the alle-gation was true, Johnson said:“No.”

Edwardes stood by herstory, tweeting: “If the primeminister doesn’t recollect theincident then clearly I have abetter memory than he does.”

Johnson also is underscrutiny for claims that anAmerican businesswoman,Jennifer Arcuri, receivedmoney and perks from London

coffers while Johnson wasmayor of the British capital.

He also denies wrongdoingover Arcuri, who was givengrants and places on overseastrade trips for her small techstart-up, saying everything wasdone “with full propriety”.

The case has been referredto Britain’s police watchdog,which will decide whether toinvestigate Johnson for mis-conduct in a public office.

Johnson has vowed thatBritain will leave the EuropeanUnion on the scheduled date ofOctober 31, with or without adivorce deal governing futurerelations with the bloc.

His foes in Parliament aredetermined to avoid a no-dealexit, which economists saywould plunge Britain intorecession.

The personal allegationsovershadowed theConservative Party’s four-dayannual conference inManchester, northwestEngland, where Johnson is try-ing to rally the party — andprepare for an election thatcould come within weeks —under the slogan “Get BrexitDone.” AP

Dakar: Senegal’s PresidentMacky Sall has pardoned for-mer Dakar mayor and politicalrival Khalifa Sall, who hadbeen sentenced to prison forfraudulent use of public funds,the presidency announced onSunday.

Khalifa Sall, no relation ofthe president, has been in jailsince March 2017 and wassentenced to five years inprison in August 2018.

He was therefore barredfrom taking part in the presi-dential election in February.

Khalifa Sall emerged fromprison a few hours after thepardon was announced to begreeted by a crowd of sup-porters.

Police fired tear gas to dis-perse the crowd, witnesses.

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The president’s lawyer insiststhe real story is a debunked

conspiracy theory. A seniorWhite House adviser blames the“deep state.” And a Republicancongressman is pointing at JoeBiden’s son.

As the Democrats drive animpeachment inquiry toward apotential vote by the end of theyear, President Donald Trump’sallies are struggling over how heshould manage the starkestthreat to his presidency. Thejockeying broke into the openSunday on the talk show circuit,with a parade of Republicanserupting into a surge of second-guessing.

At the top of the list: RudyGiuliani’s false charge that it wasUkraine that meddled in the2016 elections. The former NewYork mayor has been encour-aging Ukraine to investigate

both Biden and Hillary Clinton.“I am deeply frustrated with

what he and the legal team isdoing and repeating thatdebunked theory to the presi-dent. It sticks in his mind whenhe hears it over and over again,”said Tom Bossert, Trump’s for-mer homeland security adviser.“That conspiracy theory has gotto go, they have to stop withthat, it cannot continue to berepeated.”

Not only did Giuliani repeatit Sunday, he brandished piecesof paper he said were affidavitssupporting his story.

“Tom Bossert doesn’t knowwhat’s he’s talking about,”Guiliani said. He added thatTrump was framed by theDemocrats.

Senior White House policyadviser Stephen Miller, mean-while, noted that he’s worked inthe federal government “fornearly three years.”

“I know the differencebetween whistleblower and adeep state operative,” Millersaid. “This is a deep state oper-ative, pure and simple.”

Meanwhile, Rep. Jim

Jordan, R-Ohio, heatedly saidTrump was merely askingUkrainian President VolodymyrZelenskiy to root out corrup-tion. That, Jordan said, includesHunter Biden’s membership onthe board of a Ukrainian gascompany at the same time hisfather was leading the Obamaadministration’s diplomaticdealings with Kyiv. There hasbeen no evidence of wrongdo-ing by either of the Bidens.

Mixed messaging reflectsthe difficulty Republicans arehaving defending the presidentagainst documents released bythe White House that featureTrump’s own words and actions.A partial transcript and awhistleblower complaint formthe heart of the House impeach-ment inquiry and describeTrump pressuring a foreignpresident to investigate Biden’sfamily.

In a series of tweets Sundaynight, Trump said he deservedto meet “my accuser” as well aswhoever provided the whistle-blower with what the presidentcalled “largely incorrect” infor-mation.

Beijing: Chinese President XiJinping vowed on Monday touphold the “one country, twosystems” principle in HongKong, after months of pro-democracy protests in thesemi-autonomous city.

Speaking at a reception inBeijing the night before cele-brations to mark the country’s70th anniversary, Xi said thecountry would “continue tofully and faithfully implementthe principles of ‘one country,two systems’” and a “highdegree of autonomy.” HongKong has been plagued bymonths of unrest over whatprotesters say are eroding free-doms in the financial hub,which was handed back toChina by Britain in 1997.

“We are confident thatwith the full backing of themotherland and the concertedefforts of our fellow Chinese in

Hong Kong and Macau wholove the motherland... (HongKong) will prosper andprogress alongside the main-land,” Xi said.

China is preparing for ahighly-choreographed anniver-sary celebration on October 1,including a huge militaryparade and anniversary gala.Protesters in Hong Kong arehoping to upstage the eventwith another demonstrationon Tuesday following a week-end of intense clashes withpolice.

Beijing has been position-ing the event as a triumphantcelebration of its economicgrowth over the last sevendecades, as well as emphasisingthe importance of a unified ter-ritory and nationalism.

“Unity is iron and steel.Unity is a source of strength,”Xi said in his speech. AFP

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WASHINGTON: PresidentDonald Trump is warning thatthe Democrat-driven impeach-ment proceedings and any moveto oust him from office amountto “treason” and would spark acivil war, prompting outragefrom a Republican congressman.

Trump tweeted a conserva-tive pastor’s comment thatremoving him would provoke a“civil war-like fracture” inAmerica.

Rep. Adam Kinzinger, aformer Air Force pilot who rep-resents an Illinois district Trumpwon in 2016, tweeted on Sunday,“I have visited nations ravagedby civil war. ... I have never imag-ined such a quote to be repeat-ed by a President. This is beyondrepugnant.”

Trump on Monday wasthundering through a newround of counter-punchesagainst his opponents by ham-

mering home the suggestion thatthey should be arrested andcharged with treason and couldlaunch a civil war — or a com-bination of those. His top foeswere the whistleblower whosecomplaint launched the House’simpeachment investigation andthe congressman leading it,Intelligence CommitteeChairman Adam Schiff.

“Arrest for Treason?” Trumptweeted of Schiff on Monday inone of many presidential sug-gestions that his opponents

should be investigated for oper-ating under their constitution-al duties and within the law.

Fact check: Treason isextremely narrowly defined,both in the nation’s foundingdocument and in federal law.

The Constitution states:“Treason against the UnitedStates, shall consist only in levy-ing War against them, or inadhering to their Enemies, giv-ing them Aid and Comfort.”

Note the word “only.”Treason occurs when a U.S. cit-izen, or a non-citizen on U.S. ter-ritory, wages war against thecountry or provides materialsupport, not just sympathy, to adeclared enemy of the UnitedStates.

That came after Trumptweeted a comment from theRev. Robert Jeffress, pastor of theSouthern Baptist megachurchFirst Baptist Dallas. AP

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Washington: Top aides toDonald Trump sought Sundayto turn the tables on Democratspushing for his impeachment,insisting the president was thetrue “whistleblower” in urgingUkraine to probe the son ofrival Joe Biden for corruption.

Trump’s Republican allieshave closed ranks as he battlesthe deepest crisis of his presi-dency, flatly denying he abusedhis power and seeking to dis-credit the anonymous whistle-blower who exposed the scan-

dal. That person will testifybefore Congress soon, law-makers said.

“The president of theUnited States is the whistle-blower,” Trump advisor StephenMiller told “Fox News Sunday.”“This individual is a saboteurtrying to undermine a democ-ratically elected government,”he said. “Getting to the bottomof a corruption scandal inUkraine is in the Americannational interest.”

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Washington: PresidentDonald Trump said Sundayhe wants to meet the anony-mous whistleblower at thecenter of the scandal threat-ening his presidency.

Trump has been relative-ly quiet this weekend but in aseries of evening tweets healso blasted Democratic law-makers and the media as herailed against the impeach-ment inquiry launched lastweek.

That probe was triggeredby the release of a rough

transcript of a July phonecall in which Trump asked thepresident of Ukraine to inves-tigate Joe Biden, a potentialDemocratic candidate in the2020 US election.

He also enlisted his attor-ney general and personallawyer to help in that effort.

The whistleblower filed acomplaint over the contents ofthe conversation back inAugust, saying Trump hadtried to get a foreign power tointerfere in a US election forhis own gain. AFP

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Their story gripped the world — deter-mined divers racing against time and

water to rescue 12 boys and their soccercoach trapped for more than two weeksin a flooded cave deep inside a northernThai mountain.

The ordeal in late June and early July2018 had barely ended when filmmakersbegan their own race to get the nail-bit-ing drama onto cinema screens. The firstof those projects will premiere this week-end, when director Tom Waller’s The Caveshows at the Busan Film Festival in SouthKorea.

The film was shot over three monthsearlier this year and has been in post-pro-duction since then. The 45-year-old Thai-born, British-raised filmmaker said theepic tale of the wild boars football teamwas a story he simply had to tell. The boysand their coach entered the Tham Luangcave complex after soccer practice andwere quickly trapped inside by risingfloodwater. Despite a massive search, theboys spent nine nights lost in the cavebefore they were spotted by an expert diver.It would take another eight days beforethey were all safe.

Waller was visiting his father inIreland when he saw television newsaccounts of the drama. “I thought thiswould be an amazing story to tell onscreen,” he said. But putting the partstogether after their dramatic rescue provedto be a challenge. Thailand’s government,at the time led by a military junta, becamevery protective of the story, barring unau-thorised access to the wild boars or theirparents. Waller often feared his produc-tion might be shut down.

His good fortune was that the eventsat the Tham Luang cave in Chiang Raiprovince had multiple angles and interest-ing characters. Especially compelling werethe stories of the rescuers, particularly theexpert divers who rallied from around theworld. He decided to make a film “aboutthe volunteer spirit of the rescue.” Otherpeople proposed telling the story from thepoint of view of the boys, and Netflixnailed down those rights in a deal brokered

by the Thai government.“I took the view that this was going to

be a story about the people we didn’t knowabout, about the cave divers who came allthe way from across the planet. They lit-erally dropped everything to go and help,and I just felt that that was more of an excit-ing story to tell, to find out how these boyswere brought out and what they did to getthem out,” Waller said.

Waller even had more than a dozenkey rescue personnel play themselves. Hesaid that they were natural actors, blend-ing in almost seamlessly with the profes-sionals around them, and helped by theaccuracy of the settings and the produc-tion’s close attention to detail.

“What you are really doing is askingthem to remember what they did and toshow us what they were doing and feel-ing that time. It was an emotional momentfor us because it was so real,” said he.

Waller said his film is likely to have a

visceral effect on some viewers, evokinga measure of claustrophobia. “It’s animmersive experience with the sound ofthe environment. The fact that is very darkand murky, and that the water is not clear,”he added. “In Hollywood films, when theydo underwater scenes, everything is crys-tal clear. But in this film it’s murky and Ithink that’s the big difference. This filmlends itself to being more of a realistic por-trayal of what happened.” Some sceneswere filmed on location at the entrance tothe actual Tham Luang cave, but most ofthe action was shot elsewhere, Waller said.

“We filmed in real water caves thatwere flooded, all year-round. It is veryauthentic in terms of real caves, floodedtunnels, divers and creepy-crawlies inthere. So it was no mean feat trying to geta crew to go and film in these caves,” headded.

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Actor Seema Pahwa’s directorial debutfilm Ram Prasad Ki Tehrvi will be

screened at the Jio MAMI 21st Mumbai FilmFestival with Star 2019.

The film, features Naseeruddin Shah,Supriya Pathak, Konkona Sen Sharma,Parambrata Chatterjee, Vinay Pathak,Vikrant Massey and Manoj Pahwa. Itrevolves around a family that comes togeth-er for 13 days after the head of the familyBauji passed away.

Excited about the screening, Seema said,“I am so honoured to have my directorialdebut make its world premiere at the pres-tigious Mumbai International Film Festival,among some of the best films that Indiancinema has to offer. From acting to writingand directing, it has been a long fulfillingjourney and I am grateful to my producersDrishyam Films and Jio Studios for havingfaith in my story. I am very excited to startthis journey by showing our labour of loveto the incredible audience at MAMI. The fes-tival will take place from October 17 to 24.

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The beauty of drapes, unlike struc-tured garments, is that they can bemoulded as per any body shape,

said a designer once. They have theirown signature. The same sari worn bythree women would look totally differ-ent, whereas three women walking inthe same Prada dress would lead to aminor crisis at the party. Through thegrand sari fair, Dastkar celebrates theageless garment and brings forth the tra-ditions and culture that envelopes its lifecycle.

The garment is being interpreted tosuit the modern form while staying trueto its traditional roots. Designers pointout that the colour palette that has foundfavour among people includes white,beige, corals and pink. But there arevariations in each as designer RekhaKapoor points out, and says that white,corals and pink are in. But not withKalamkari. It cannot have pink as itworks only with natural products. Thetextile is not that vibrant and is veryrestricted, but beautiful in its own way.And designer Saksham Pal from SutraHandicrafts says that the trends clear-ly point towards pastel shades, linens,silk and other fabrics which have a softappeal. Another arena where the bigchange is happening is not in the sariitself but what it is paired with. Croppedtop to t-shirts as well as blouses whichare a far cry from the regular can be seendotting the ramps and the roads. Theyoung generation is experimenting andcoming up with their own styles of drap-ing.

However, it is the age-old techniquesand textiles such as Kalamkari,Bandhani, Jamdani, Ikkat, Benarsi,Mekhla Chadar or Kotpad weaves ofOdisha, which have always enhanced

the beauty and significanceof the traditional gar-ment. DesignerAnuradha Ramam, whoshowcased her collectionat the sari fair, says, “Thecurrent trends are steepedin traditional art.Possessing the age-old techniques suchas Ikkat, Kalamkarior Jamdani couldmake one feelproud of our rootsand heritage.”

H o w e v e r ,many of these tra-ditional weaves arelanguishing and indefinite need ofrevival, feel designersAnuradha, Rekha,Saksham, JoyNongthombam fromHilli Valli, ManipurHand Weaves andDilip Khudecha fromBhujodi, Kutch.

Weaving is centralto all of these saris,which is also acknowl-edged as one of theoldest surviving craftsin the world. In theearly 1900s, MahatmaGandhi famouslyused hand-spunKhadi-weaving as asymbol of free-dom. It is indeedsad to see thattoday, we as acountry, areonly export-

ing powerloom textiles run by big cor-porate groups. Joy says, “India used toexport various hand-woven products toforeign countries but now, all that hastaken a back seat. Only a few people areaware of traditional weaving these days.Maybe it’s because the young generationis not associated with it. But we have tofocus on how can we sustain the age-oldtechniques and take it forward.”

Dilip tells us that Jamdani is a vivid-ly patterned, sheer cotton fabric, tradi-tionally woven on a handloom bycraftsworkers and apprentices aroundDhaka. “Weaving is thriving today dueto the fabric’s popularity for makingsaris, the principal dress of Bangladeshiwomen. The Jamdani sari is a symbol ofidentity, dignity and self-recognition. Itprovides wearers a sense of culturalidentity and social cohesion. This is whythere is a strict need to revive such tra-ditional techniques,” says he.

Jamdani is a time-consuming andlabour-intensive form of weavingbecause of the richness of its motifs,which are created directly on the loomusing the discontinuous weft tech-nique. “The weavers develop an occu-pational identity and take great pride intheir heritage,” he adds.

Moving on to Kalamkari, namesuggests it is the art of hand paintingsymbols and motifs of cultural and reli-gious significance. The art, whichpeaked during the Mughal and theGolconda Nizam period, takes about 23tedious steps to be completed and hastwo primary forms — Machlipatnamand Srikalahasti. The former involvesthe use of blocks for printing, while thelatter is much more tedious, using akalam or pen to draw freehand patternsand further filling it in with colours. The

art is popularly found in saris as well asstoles nowadays.

Whereas Bandhani, hailing fromRajasthan and Gujarat, is carefully car-ried out by knotting various sections offabric before dip dyeing it in a varietyof colours. Most Bandhani artisans areeasily recognised with a noticeablylong nail on the little finger or wear asmall metal ring with a point thathelps them facilitate the knot of the gar-ment. Once the knots are opened, thework results in patterns of waves orlehariya, dots, stripes and squares. Anintricate sari will have about 75,000 dotsor so.

“The garments are often embell-ished using gota work and make for agreat garment for festive wear,” suggestsJoy.

Reviving the traditional techniquesis necessary but designers insist thatweaving it with newer techniques is evenmore crucial to keep up with the mod-ern times. Ask the experts why it isimportant for the designs to maintaintheir originality and presented as theyare — rich and raw? DesignersAnuradha, Saksham, Rekha, Joy andDilip have the same response. They say,“When the raw and age-old techniqueis given another dimension, it gets a newlease of life. With evolution in every sec-tor, one has to keep up with the chang-ing times in this industry too and it’simportant to keep the creativity grow-ing. However, at the same time, it is alsovital to maintain and protect the rich-ness and rawness of the authenticity.”

As the craft sector is becoming apart of the fashion industry, which isquite volatile, the craft requires a littlecontemporary touch while maintainingthe originality, feels Saksham.

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What cultural space do you intend toachieve through the festival?

We intend to promote arts and its pro-duction from South Asia. It will aim at cre-ating additional centres for arts and culture,while also showcasing the diversity of ourcultural heritage to the region and the restof the world. We also make a consciouseffort to make art accessible to all and notto stay confined to a particular section ofthe society.

Why do you think it is important toencourage arts at such a large scale?

Our identity lies in our heritage andspeaks volumes about our deep culturalroots, our people and their shared histories.Art in the South Asian region has beenintrinsically inter-disciplinary and to show-case just a fraction of it, we need a large scaleinfrastructure and production ability.

But as per reports, over the last 30 years,we have lost about 30 per cent of our inher-ited arts and cultural heritage (one of thelargest in the world) because it’s not remu-nerative and young people are moving awayfrom it. The scale of this initiative not onlyhelps the artist but also brings the requiredattention towards his offering. Through thefestival, we have a scope to create a platformto showcase some of our traditional, mod-ern and contemporary art and craft formsand shed light on the importance of

patronage for their future. It’s an attempt toengage with the sector and help artisanswith design and process inputs, and con-nect them with markets both in India andoverseas. We also hope to nurture a possi-bility to build sustainable livelihoods forthem and their families. If we can do that,we have the potential to create the largestjob opportunities in the nation.

What is new at the festival this year?Our programming evolves organical-

ly every year. With each edition bringingdifferent world views and new partnerships,we hope to develop the idea of culturalspaces. Many of the exhibitions, perfor-mances and/or visual art pieces are eithercommissioned or comprise original content,curated specially for the festival. It is anexperience that provides an opportunity toengage with never-seen-before projects inpublic spaces.

This year, we are looking at a few newvenues for the festival and a much tighteroperation in terms of the volunteers’ pro-gramme. We also are introducing an appfor the visitors and people associated withthe festival. The app will principally haveall the aspects of registration and event-scheduling to make the experiencesmoother. It’s our attempt to reduce the useof paper and create a mandate for sustain-able measures for events like this by mak-

ing an efficient use of technological solu-tions.

What is your intention behind includingbusinessmen in this festival?

It’s to raise the attention of the patrons,because worldwide, whether it’s educationor healthcare or arts or any other culturalactivities, they grow, stabilise and thrive onpatronage. Be it any major museum in theworld, a university or a research institute,they all have support through philan-thropy and corporates. This is one of thereasons why we want to introduce the fes-tival to the corporates and the big business-es in India. If you go back in history, thepatrons of art used to be royalty. At somepoint, the government became the patronand it has done what it could do. But it’s notenough. Today, we are using e-commerceto reach out to customers around the world.

Why should our traditional arts and craftsector not have an access to this after all?If it can be branded and positioned appro-priately, it will truly build India’s softpower.

Along with arts, the festival also blendseducational workshops with it. Any spe-cific motive behind this?

We have been emphasising on the needfor arts education as a means for commu-nity-building and encourage community-led and engaged learning. Also, largely, theseworkshops are meant for making the expe-rience of the festival more immersive andinspiring for all the demographics and espe-cially, the younger generation. There areworkshops and talks about preservation ofthe ecosystem and encouraging sustainabil-ity practices through arts.

The workshop models look at anenhanced proposition of driving creativeinclusion, which greatly includes the differ-ently-abled and address their requirementstoo. In fact, as part of our festival curation,ever since our inception, we have been offer-ing complete accessibility to the artsthrough a number of workshops and spe-cial projects like Senses by Siddhant Shah.The purpose here is to have a broader spec-trum of engagement for the people attend-ing the festival, from different age brack-ets. We will also have workshops on theatre,film, music, dance and photography amongothers, which would be very informativeand educational on its own.

Why do you think it’s important to bringvarious genres together?

Conversations about arts in India havemostly concluded one thing — art is eitherseen as elitist or mediocre. Serendipity wasset up to change this perception. Also, wefelt that India’s arts, over the centuries, hadsomehow lost their inter-disciplinary nature.It existed mostly in silos, like the West. It’squite evident with today’s generation howseveral arts have been dying or losing their

essence. Serendipity was developed toaddress issues like — bringing back inter-discipline, reviving ancient arts throughsupport and proper documentation, re-introducing patronage and injecting enthu-siasm in the arts among the youth. We alsoaim to initiate conversations across fields,disciplines, experts and genres. It acts likea cultural platform that can make art inclu-sive, immersive and accessible to all.

How do you see the Indian arts and cul-ture industry evolving and spreading toa global audience?

The arts and culture of our country hasbeen inseparable from our individualisticidentities. We are a diverse nation withbroad offerings in traditional and contem-porary arts. Through Serendipity, we havebeen trying to demystify the isolated clus-ters and bring them together by buildingmore cultural centres in the country.

Goa was a conscious choice when itcomes to naturally interfacing the globalaudience with the arts from the South Asiaregion, all at one place. We have been suc-cessful in bringing the world to the arts,rather than taking the arts to the world.Such festivals give us that chance to promotenew art experiments in the South Asianregion and support art production of localand tribal artists. Perhaps, we all have tothink in that direction of creating that senseof intrigue in the global markets andrecognised centres of arts and culture. Theycan prove to be a better exposure to SouthAsia. It can also become India’s most pow-erful strategic weapon in the 21st century.

India needs a robust policy environ-ment that promotes culture and makes iteasier to host world-class art and culturalevents. We need the private sector, citizensand the government to work in unison.Flow of financial resources into this sectormust be encouraged, and the governmentat the centre, state and civic level mustremove all forms of bureaucracy and redtape when it comes to permissions and useof public facilities.

Promoting culture is not the responsi-bility of a single person or entity. It is rathera national responsibility. What will also helpthe arts and culture of this region evolve andspread, is more cohesion, along with pur-pose. Multiple ministries and governmentdepartments currently handle differentaspects of art and culture; their efforts mustbecome more coordinated with each otherand more sustainable practices must be putto a regular use.

(The Serendipity Arts Festival 2019will be held in Panaji, Goa from December15-22.)

Promising Mahatma Gandhi’sjourney in ways that gobeyond textbook literalism,

Lalit Kala Akademi has broughttogether works by five printmak-ers to commemorate the nationalicon. It is intrinsic to use MahatmaGandhi’s portrait to create conver-sations. The works create a contextof metaphors, moulding with theiconic image of the ‘Father of theNation’ in this commemoration of150 years of Gandhi.

Behera’s Gandhi with wingsBaroda printmaker Subrat

Behera creates a hand-colouredlithograph that excels in everyway. He creates a Gandhi whowalks across the skies and keeps awatch over a self-destructive world.Behera brings alive the words of thegreat anatomical artist and thinkerLeonardo da Vinci when he said,‘Painting is poetry that is seenrather than felt, and poetry ispainting that is felt rather thanseen.”

The printmaker’s Gandhi is afigure of strength with a pair ofwings that remind us of an eagle.His eyes probe and penetrate intothe layers of the world in the wakeof the ugly mapping of terrorism.Three monkeys sit at the bottom,holding the scroll of realms thatspeak of truth, his experimentswith it and ahimsa.

The artist’s entire choreographyof the lithograph echoes with thephilosophy of the Gandhian way ofliving, and his power and poignan-cy. One cannot forget that he gavea language of peace to the worldthrough simple living and highthinking.

Hemvathy’s leaders Hemvathy Guha creates a set of

human figures with dotted details.A printmaker of rare esteem and

devotion in her work at the PrintBiennale in Delhi at the NGMA lastyear, stood out for its brilliance inconception, the controlled compo-sition and the beauty of perfectionin the contour of its woodcuts.

In these three prints, we thinkof the silence when a great leaderdeparts and we bow our heads inreverence. Hemvathy asserts cre-ative control, suggesting that hercontribution is not just the designbut the technique and technicalfinesse as she transfers the imageto the rice paper or other sheets tocreate a universe that is indeed bothintricate and deeply intriguing.The rendering of the people, theirheads and their deftly-contouredbodies, all conform to the brillianceof not just execution but also of afine and deeper understanding ofthe human figure.

Apte’s zinc plateDattaraye Apte is more than a

mere printmaker. Over the years,he has a prodigious output inprintmaking techniques and isindeed one of the finest. Apte cre-

ates his Mahatma on a zinc plate.We can see a glimpse of Gandhi,shown as a figure who is walkingaway from us. It sets a nostalgia-filled tone of how Bapu gatheredstrength from distress and grewbrave by reflection of himself.Apte creates the father of thenation as a humanist as well as acolossus.

Anandmoyi’s two viewsAnandamoyi presents two

works that look at an artist’s role asan active commentator and how itinspires to create works that lookclosely at the structures of the soci-ety and the individual. He calls hisfirst work, Who is he?, whereas, thesecond one is called It’s now ornever, which recalls the popularElvis Song but the mood is far fromromantic.

His major conceptual directionhas been about caste and colour inour society and Gandhi was animportant link. “The Dandi March,regardless of anything or every-thing, was directed towards as if it’snow or never,” says Anandamoyi

and adds, “The man in black andwhite is a question for men ofcolour in society, these were andstill are probably important issuesfor our society to address.”Anandamoyi uses drawings overand over again to create new formslinking them to relationships insociety. He finds relations betweenlayers in his prints as well as in timeand space in society.

Tammineni’s Birth of a NationJagdeesh Tammineni began his

Birth of a Nation series in 2013 andhis penchant for asking questionsis what surfaces as an embodimentof principles in reason and rational-ity in the domain of human under-standing. His Gandhi with the cowand the peacock are both seminalworks that reflect a deeper under-standing of the ideas of Gandhi thatseem to have eroded somewherealong the way.

Jagdeesh’s sense of judgment inthe composition of his two wood-cuts is precise and full of expres-sionist excellence. We must look atboth these works at a glance andmuse over the lack of harmony andproportion in society’s fabric whichwe rarely think about when wedwell on divisions within divisionsand economic struggles.

All these five printmakers bringforth the epoch of a man whosesuccess is gauged by his self-mas-tery. And this law is the expressionof eternal justice. He who cannotestablish dominion over himselfwill have no dominion over others.In more ways than one they alsomirror Gandhi’s reflection: Seek notgreater wealth, but simpler pleasure;not higher fortune, but deeperfelicity.

(The exhibition is curated by RNSingh and will be on display at theLalit Kala Akademi from October 2to 22.)

Think of botanical illustrators, andyou might envision a world of

medieval herbalists, tulip or orchid col-lectors or affluent young women of the17th and 18th centuries makingdetailed drawings and paintings of gar-den plants.

But there’s nothing old-fashionedabout botanical illustrations. “Plantsand flowers eternally speak to us andthere’s a great admiration now for real-istic drawings and observing nature,and a renewed interest in handmadecrafts,” says Femke Speelberg, associ-ate curator in the department ofdrawings and prints at TheMetropolitan Museum of Art in NewYork. “As a source of inspiration, therelationship between decor and naturehas always been very important,” sheadds.

Today, as we lose biodiversity,botanical drawings are also an impor-tant way to examine and documentplants that might not always be there,says Helen Bynum, who along with herhusband, William Bynum, compiledBotanical Sketchbooks (PrincetonArchitectural Press, 2017), a com-pendium of botanical illustrations by80 artists from around the world.

“Being a sketcher of whatever abil-ity makes you really engage withwhat you are looking at it,” saysBynum.

Botanical drawings date back to atleast to the times of the Pharaohs. Theywere particularly developed in theMiddle Ages, when plants were oftenused for medicinal purposes and peo-ple needed to be able to tell safe frompoisonous plants. A lot of plant fam-ilies contain both. For instance, thenightshade family of plants includesBelladonna, a poisonous plant, andalso edibles like tomatoes, peppers andeggplants.

Explorers often brought a botan-ical artist along to record the plantsencountered. During Tulip Mania in17th-century Holland, when rarebulbs sold for the equivalent of an aver-age person’s annual salary, it was cru-cial for collectors and breeders torecord each flower’s unique patternsand contours. And botanical art canbe about more than accuracy.

Often, the story a botanical illus-tration tells is more mesmerising thanthe perfection of the drawing itself, saysBynum. “What I learned doing thisbook is that you don’t have to be a greatartist to get things down on paper ina way that can communicate to otherpeople,” she says.

Robin Jess runs the Botanical Artand Illustration program at the NewYork Botanical Garden, the oldest cer-tificate program in the subject in thecountry. “We tend to be very accurate,

and to pay attention to all the details,we require that students take classes inplant morphology, so they understandwhat it is exactly that they are draw-ing. It requires a strong basis inbotany,” she explains.

The garden is also the headquar-ters of the American Society ofBotanical Artists, with about 1,800members. “Contemporary botanicalartists share a concern for the environ-ment, particularly in light of climatechange, as well as for drawing atten-tion to plants,” Jess explains.

Before photography was invented,botanical illustrations were essential tounderstanding plants. But today, too,drawings can illuminate aspects ofplants in a way photographs cannot.“An illustration can show variousparts of a plant at the same time, some-thing a photo really can’t. It can showextra details of the fruit, for example,and what it looks like bisected,” Jessexplains.

And making botanical illustrationsfor a patron is alive and well, she pointsout. Florilegia — documentation of allthe plants growing in a specific garden— is a big thing right now, she says.“From a florilegium of a small herbgarden in Minneapolis to a completeflorilegium of Alcatraz, they’re reallydrawing a lot of attention,” Jess says.

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There is a definitespring in AjinkyaRahane’s steps after

he ended a 17-Testrun of not scoring a

hundred, a numberwhich has proved

to be lucky forhim.

Rahane,India’s Test

vice-cap-tain, wasu n d e rp r e s -sure to

performin the West

Indies and he deliv-ered with an 81 and 102 inthe first Test in Antigua.

“You get to learn fromevery match and every seriesand I had to wait for twoyears, 17 Tests, for my Testdebut and for this century(in West Indies) I had towait for 17 Tests. I thinkthere was some co-ordi-nation,” said Rahaneahead of the first Testagainst South Africabeginning here onWednesday.

“When I was playingfor Hampshire, I was

thinking, when I made mydebut, how my mindset wasbefore that. In these 17 Tests,

I was not getting a hundred,

I was going behind getting a hundredand it was not coming.

“So, in the West Indies, my thoughtprocess was that I will not think of get-ting a hundred even once, whatever hasto be happen will happen. If a hundredhas to come, it will come,” said Rahanewho could not hide the excitement ofbecoming a father soon.

Rahane insisted that he did notwork too much on his technique to getback amongst the runs.

“From outside it may look easy,for me it was about believing in myability. Not thinking about the tech-nical stuff, it was all about how I makethe mental adjustment like handlingdifficult situations,” said the 31-year-old.

South Africa may not have theservices of star players like AB deVilliers and Dale Steyn anymore butRahane said India cannot afford totake the Proteas lightly. India ham-mered them 0-3 at home four yearsago.

“There are five Tests at home ver-

sus South Africa (three Tests) andBangladesh (two Tests). Because of theTest Championship, you cannot takeany team lightly. Even before the cham-pionship, we were not taking any teamlightly and since the points system isinvolved, every match is important.

“There is a big difference betweenwinning and drawing a Test in terms ofpoints. When you win home Tests andthen go away, there is an advantage thatyou have points.

“Also, the likes of Aiden Markramand Temba Bavuma did well in thewarm-up and Faf du Plessis is an expe-rienced campaigner. You can’t takethem lightly.”

The pitch for the game looks like aflat one with hardly any grass on it. Indiaare expected to play two spinners and asmany pacers.

“Depending on the conditions wewill decide the combination. Hanuma(who bats at 6) can also bowl some spinand that makes a difference. In India, wehardly see three pacers playing,” headded.

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Jamaican sprint queenShelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

surged to an unprecedentedfourth 100m crown and USlegend Allyson Felix brokeUsain Bolt’s Gold medalrecord tally as the returningnew mothers lit up the WorldChampionships here Sunday.

Fraser-Pryce and Felix,both racing in their firstmajor championships sincetaking time off from thesport to have children, lit upa pulsating day three of com-petition even if the actionwas played out inside a near-empty Khalifa Stadium.

The 32-year-old Fraser-Pryce, who skipped the 2017championships to give birthto her first child, delivered abarnstorming run to takethe 100m in 10.71sec.

Britain’s Dina Asher-Smith took Silver with atime of 10.83sec while IvoryCoast’s Marie-Josee Ta Louclaimed Bronze in 10.90sec.

“To be standing here asworld champion again afterhaving my baby, I am elated,”said Fraser-Pryce.

“The females keep show-ing up. We love to put on aperformance and for me I amjust really happy to comeaway with the win.”

The two-time Olympicchampion’s dominant dis-play was the highlight of aday three which also saw UStrack queen Felix win a

record 12th WorldChampionship Gold medal.

Felix only returned to thesport in July after a 13-month layoff which saw hergive birth to her daughterCamryn by emergency C-section last November.

The 33-year-old, whofailed to qualify for the indi-vidual 400m event in Doha,took Gold in the 4x400mmixed relay as the UnitedStates motored to victory ina world record time of 3min09.34sec.

Felix’s 12th gold medalbroke Jamaican legend Bolt’srecord tally of 11 WorldChampionship Gold medals.

Overall, she now has anincredible 26 medals, a daz-zling haul that also includessix Olympic Golds.

There was another victo-ry for a returning mother inthe final event of the day, the

women’s 20km race walk,where China’s 2016 Olympicchampion Liu Hong wonGold.

Liu, 32, who took amaternity break from 2017-2018, shrugged off steamyheat and humidity to lead aChinese sweep of the medalsin 1hr 32min 53sec andsecure her third world title.

Qieyang Shenjie tookSilver in 1:33:10 while com-patriot Yang Liujing wonBronze in 1:33:17.

Elsewhere Sunday, triplejump king Christian Taylorcompleted a superb hat-trickof World Championshiptitles after surviving nearelimination in a nerve-jan-gling final.

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South Africa’s most experienced spinner KeshavMaharaj wants to be as consistent as seasoned

Indian duo of Ravindra Jadeja and RavichandranAshwin during the upcoming three-Test.

The orthodox left-arm spinner with 94 wick-ets from 25 Tests had a successful county perfor-mance and is hoping to make life “uncomfortable”for the Indian top-order.

“It is nice that people speak highly of you. Lookat Jadeja and Ashwin. Ashwin has got a lot of vari-ations and Jadeja keeps it simple but the key is con-sistency and that make it uncomfortable for thebatsmen. I can (want to) emulate that going for-ward and do my job from one end,” said Maharaj,who is on his maiden Test tour of India.

Spin will hold key but reverse swing can alsoplay a huge role in the series, he said.

“You got to expect the ball to turn in the sub-continent and that is why people carry an extraspinner here. As far as bowling to Indian batsmengoes, you can only Test yourself against the best.The series will tell me how good I am and if Ibelong here in international cricket,” Maharaj said.

“Besides spin, reverse swing will be key. Everybowling unit everywhere in the world likes to utiliseif reverse swing is available. India have got strongbowlers including Mohammad Shami, who isunplayable at times. If it starts to reverse, then wehave also got amazing bowlers, who can utilise theconditions.”

The South Africa pace attack comprisesVernon Philander, Kagiso Rabada and Lungi Ngidi.

India will be without the the services of theirlethal weapon Jasprit Bumrah, who was ruled outof the series due to a stress fracture in the lowerback. Maharaj said India will miss him badly.

“It is a big loss for India. He has turned thewhole Test side for India in terms of playing in var-ious conditions but lets face it India have enoughquality to replace him. Umesh Yadav is anotherworld class bowler.”

South Africa got a decent hit in the middle

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Stylish batsman Babar Azamthrashed a swashbuckling hun-

dred to steer Pakistan to 305-7 inthe second day-night interna-tional against Sri Lanka onMonday as Karachi staged its firstODI in ten years.

The 24-year-old proved he iscurrently one of the best batsmenin limited overs cricket with a105-ball-115 to lift Pakistan to abig total after the home team wonthe toss and batted.

Azam, when on 54, becamethe fifth batsman to complete1,000 ODI runs in 2019 — behindIndia’s duo Virat Kohli and RohitSharma, and Australian coupleAaron Finch and UsmanKhawaja.

He added an innings building111 for the third wicket withHaris Sohail (40), as Sri Lankanbowlers toiled to break the stand.

It was only through an unfor-tunate run out that Sohail fell,leaving Azam to anchor theinnings. He square cut pacerLahiru Kumara for a boundary tocomplete his 11th ODI hundredoff 97 balls.

Azam was finally out at deepmid-on off Kumara, crackingeight boundaries and four sixes.

Iftikhar Ahmed battedaggressively for his 20-ball 32 notout — two sixes and as manyboundaries — as Pakistan made89 in the last ten overs.

Openers Fakhar Zaman (54)and Imam-ul-Haq gave Pakistana solid start of 73 before SriLanka’s best bowler, leg-spinnerWanindu Hasaranga, trappedImam for 31.

Hasaranga also had Fakharfor 65-ball 54 studded with sixboundaries and a six. Hasarangafinished with 2-63.

Skipper Sarfaraz Ahmed wasalso run out for eight while ImadWasim made 12.

While the first match wasrained off in Karachi on Friday,the third and final game will beheld in the city on Wednesday.

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After helping Australia retainthe Ashes, pacer Pat

Cummins now wants to emu-late his good show in the short-est format of the game with aneye on the 2020 T20 World Cupon home soil.

The T20 World Cup is theonly major trophy that haseluded Australia’s male crick-eters.

Cummins, ranked No 1 inthe world, took 29 wickets inthe five-test Ashes which endedin a 2-2 draw and bowled themost overs by an Australian fastbowler in a Test series since theturn of the century.

“It was a really tense series,so it felt like every day’s play wasquite exhausting,” Cumminstold cricket.com.au. “I felt like Ineeded a break. Those last twoweeks I bowled close to 100overs. That was pretty taxing.But I’ve had a good week off, so

feeling pretty good now,” headded.

Talking about the T20World Cup, the 26-year-oldsaid: “The last year has been areal one-day focus leading intothe (50-over) World Cup. Ithink we'll see a shift,” saidCummins.

“We’ve got 20-odd gamesbefore that T20 World Cup.Personally I want to be in thatWorld Cup squad, so I want toplay as many of those games aspossible.

“There’s a lot I want to workon in T20 cricket, so it's goodthere’s more opportunity now toconcentrate on that with sixgames in a row (to start thesummer). I don’t feel like I’vehad that in a long time.”

Cummins has beenextremely consistent despitenot missing a single match inAustralia’s World Cup cam-paign and then taking part inthe gruelling Ashes.

� ����Top Indian woman javelin throw-er Annu Rani qualified for the final roundof the World Athletics Championships bysmashing her own national record hereon Monday.

The 27-year-old Annu sent the ironspear to a distance of 62.43m in her sec-ond round throw, bettering her earliernational record of 62.34m, which sheachieved in March, to book a place forTuesday's finals.

In the process, she became the first

Indian to reach the finals of the women'sjavelin throw in the WorldChampionships.

Annu finished third in Group A andqualified for the finals as the fifth best per-former of the qualification round.

Only two javelin throwers, Asianchampion Lyu Huihui (67.27m) of Chinaand Christin Hussong (65.29m) ofGermany, could cross the automaticqualification mark of 63.50m whileanother 10, including Annu, made up the

12, who will compete in the finals.Annu opened with a 57.05m before

coming up with her career-best throw inthe second round. She had a 60.50m inher third and final throw.

World leader and Asian Gameschampion Liu Shiying (63.48m) of Chinaand Ratej Martina (62.87m) of Sloveniafinished ahead of Annu in Group A, whilereigning Olympic champion Sara Kolakof Croatia was sixth with a best throw of60.99m. PTI

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When a SouthAfrican team in

transition take on Indiain the three-Test series

starting Wednesday, theywill be more relieved inthe knowledge that JaspritBumrah will not pick up

the red cherry and come atthem than Virat Kohli pick-ing up the bat and sendingtheir bowlers on a leatherhunt.

Arguably one of thebest in the business,Bumrah has been ruledout of the series due to a

minor stress fracture in hislower back. Needless to say, itwas a body blow to the teammanagement as they lost aplayer who in 12 Test match-es has picked up 62 wickets, allon foreign soil including ahat-trick in the West Indies.

Sources in the team man-

agement have said that theBangladesh series is not in theradar as skipper Kohli andcoach Ravi Shastri wantBumrah to recover complete-ly and return to action asIndia also have an eye on the2020 World T20 in Australianext year.

Many have spoken aboutthe 25-year-old’s workloadtaking a toll on his body. Butthe overall picture which hascome to the fore is how doesthe bowling unit, spearhead-ed by the ace fast bowler, per-form without his services.

A young South Africanteam, thin on batting experi-ence after the retirement ofHashim Amla, might not testa strong Indian bowling bat-tery but it surely will lackteeth against the likes of Fafdu Plessis, Aiden Markramand Temba Bavuma overthree five-day rubbers despitehome conditions bringing

into play spin factor morethan pace.

Bumrah is yet to play athome and the injury has now

delayed his debut as he isunlikely to take part in theBangladesh series also. Butgoing by his exploits in 12

Tests, odds were that the sec-ond-ranked bowler in red-ball cricket would definitelyhave had an impact in theoutcome of the series, whichnow will rest on his supportcast led by veteran IshantSharma, who is perhaps bowl-ing like he has never bowledin his career.

Besides Ishant, a leanerand meaner MohammedShami will also look to shoul-der more responsibility andtake the load of spinnersRavichandran Ashwin,Kuldeep Yadav and RavidraJadeja, based on whoever isplaying.

It is also an opportunityfor Bumrah’s replacementUmesh Yadav to impress theselectors and team manage-ment and get back in thesquad after falling down thepecking order due to a seriesof underwhelming perfor-mances.

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India go into the three-match homeseries against South Africa looking

to build on their early success in theICC World Test Championship, whilethe visitors open their campaign in thecompetition.

India’s 2-0 victory in the WestIndies series helped them grab the full120 points available for a series, theonly team to do so in three seriesplayed so far.

Sri Lanka and New Zealand drewtheir two-match series 1-1 and are on60 points each in the points table whileEngland and Australia are on 56 eachafter their five-match Ashes seriesended 2-2.

Each match of the India-SouthAfrica series, to be played inVisakhapatnam, Pune and Ranchi isworth 40 points since points in theWTC are evenly distributed over thenumber of matches in a series (two tofive), ranging from 60 points for eachmatch of a two-Test series to 24 foreach match of a five-Test series.

So, India can go up to 240 pointsby grabbing all the points at stake inthe series starting Wednesday. On theother hand, South Africa can joinIndia at the top of the table with 120points.

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India and South Africa starting hereon Wednesday with rains predicted onall five days.

It has been raining here regular-ly since the last one week and thereis an 80 percent chance of showers onthe opening day of the series opener.

There is 50 and 40 percent chanceof rain on day two and three and playcould also be affected on the final twodays.

The warm-up game betweenSouth Africa Board President’s XI inVizianagram, around 50 kms fromhere, too was affected by rain. No playwas possible on day one of the three-day game and start of day two wasdelayed due to a wet outfield.

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The Indian 4x400mmixed relay team fin-

ished seventh in the finalrace of the WorldChampionships with a sea-son best effort here.

The team ofMuhammed Anas, V KVismaya, Jisna Mathewand Tom Nirmal Noahclocked 3 minute 15.77seconds to finish seventh inthe field of eight countrieson Sunday.

It was just a tad slow-er than the 3:15.71 clockedby the Indian team whilewinning Gold in the AsianGames last year.

Anas began the race inlane number 8 and early inthe second leg, Vismayawas running last. Third legrunner Jisna collided witha second leg runner ofanother country after col-lecting the baton fromVismaya, leading to the lossof crucial time thoughIndia was at the last spot bythat time.

in the one-off practice gamedespite the rain with AidenMarkram (100), TembaBavuma (87) and Philander(47) getting some much need-ed in the middle. Maharajstruck thrice in that game.

“It was important that ourbatters got some time in themiddle. They have been work-ing on how to tackle Indianconditions and it is nice to geta hit.”

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Bayern Munich captainManuel Neuer heads intotoday’s Champions League

clash with Tottenham Hotspur atWhite Hart Lane aiming for a dis-play that settles the debate aboutwhether he should remainGermany’s first-choice goalkeep-er ahead of Barcelona’s Marc-Andre ter Stegen.

The showdown in Londonwill be key in deciding who willwin Group B, with Bayern cur-rently top after beating Red StarBelgrade 3-0 in their opener afortnight ago and Spurs needinga home victory to get back ontrack after throwing away a two-goal lead in a 2-2 draw atOlympiakos.

Neuer will want to use thehigh-profile clash to prove hisform after a shaky display onSaturday, in which he was twicebeaten — including once fromlong-range effort — at bottomclub Paderborn.

Neuer could do little about thefirst goal, but was at fault whenPaderborn defender JamiluCollins scored from 30 metres outto make it 3-2 and give Bayern anervy final 10 minutes before theyeventually won and topped theBundesliga for the first time thisseason.

That display came on thesame day Ter Stegen launchedBarca to a 2-0 win at Getafe witha sensational long-range pass forLuis Suarez’s opener after snuffingout an attack from the homeside.

Ter Stegen had sparked a warof words between Germany’s topgoalkeepers when he said it was a“tough blow” to remain on thebench after watching Neuer beat-en four times in a heavy homedefeat by the Netherlandsin this month’s Euro 2020qualifier.

The Barca keeperhad been promised moregames in 2019 by nation-al coach Joachim Loew,but he has so far only hada 45-minute cameoagainst Serbia in March, andNeuer telling the 27-year-old hiscomments were unhelfpful toteam spirit only led to a terse replyof “Manu doesn’t need to com-ment on my feelings”.

At 33, Neuer is entering thelatter stage of his career and onlya strong display at Spurs willsilence the raging debate backhome as to whether his rivalshould be promoted and endNeuer’s nine-year reign asGermany’s first-choice stopper.

With a high-profile friendlyinternational looming at home to

Argentina, Loew is under pressureto drop his captain who has keptnearly 300 clean sheets in just over600 Bundesliga games and wasnamed in FIFA’s World XI fouryears running up until 2016,when he was made German cap-tain.

‘HAPPY WITH SQUAD'Tottenham boss Mauricio

Pochettino said he is “so happy”with his squad as they prepare to

face Bundesliga leadersafter a turbulent fewweeks.

Spurs have strug-gled to find consistencythis season after anunsettling summertransfer window beforelast week’s League Cup

exit against fourth-tier Colchesterwas a low point and Pochettinoblamed that setback on “differentagendas in the squad”.

But their 2-1 victory againstSouthampton on Saturday liftedthem to fifth in the PremierLeague table and helped calmnerves.

Spurs let slip a 2-0 lead in theirChampions League opener againstOlympiakos to draw 2-2 butPochettino pointed out that lastseason the club had just a singlepoint after three games and stillreached the final, where they lost

to Liverpool.“I am so happy with the

squad and we’re in a positionwhere everything is possible,” theSpurs boss told his pre-matchpress conference on Monday.

“We need to be calm and bestrong in our mentality. The mostimportant thing is the belief andspirit.”

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Bianca Andreescu said that she has“forgotten how it feels to lose”

after the US Open champion reeledoff her 14th victory in a row onMonday in Beijing.

The 19-year-old Canadian beatAliaksandra Sasnovich of Belarus 6-2, 2-6, 6-1 in the China Open firstround despite a second-set wobble.

But Simona Halep became thefirst major casualty in the Chinesecapital, beaten by Russia’s EkaterinaAlexandrova with the Romanianstruggling once more with a backinjury.

Andreescu’s run of victories hasbrought her the US Open and herhome Canadian Open in recentweeks, propelling her into the lime-light.

“I wanted to just keep themomentum going,” said the teenag-er, after her first match since stunningSerena Williams in the final atFlushing Meadows.

“I’m on a roll right now, hopeful-ly I can just keep it up because I thinkit gives me a lot of confidence,” addedthe world number six, who qualifiedfor the season-ending WTA Finals.

“I don’t want to sound cocky or

anything, but I kind of forgot how itfeels to lose, which I think is a goodthing.”

In round two the Canadian playsElise Mertens, the world number 23from Belgium.

HALEP HEADS HOMEReigning Wimbledon champion

Halep lost 6-2, 6-3 in 64 minutes tobring her campaign to an early end.

She was far from her best as shewent down meekly to Russia’s 38th-ranked Alexandrova in the secondround.

“I didn’t recover well after my firstmatch so it was very tough for me toplay and she played really well,”Halep said.

China Open title-holder CarolineWozniacki swatted aside LaurenDavis of the United States, 6-1, 6-3,to give her the perfect start.

In the men’s draw, second seedAlexander Zverev of Germany was acomfortable 6-3, 6-2 winner over theAmerican Frances Tiafoe.

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set win over home favouriteFacundo Bognis to claim themen’s singles title at the $ 54,160ATP Challenger Tournamenthere.

The 22-year-old fromHaryana, seeded seventh, out-classed 8th seed Bognis ofArgentina 6-4, 6-2 in an hourand 37 minutes to win the title.

It was Sumit’s secondChallenger title of his career, fol-lowing the triumph in theBengaluru Challenger event in2017.

“Brilliant performance@nagalsumit and I extendhearty Congratulations onWinning ATP Buenos Aires

Challenger Title. Sumit Nagalwill enter Top 135 in Rankings!,”Sport minister Kiren Rijiju wroteon his Twitter handle.

The talented youngsterjumped of 26 spots to achieve acareer-best ranking of 135 onMonday.

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The technical director believes thatthe state units, along with their respectivedevelopment officers, will be crucial inspreading the sport throughout India.

“The states covered by development

officers gives us opportunity to cover alarger area and a larger number of peo-ple. This larger reach can only be capi-talised upon if more competitions areheld, giving the footballers across all lev-els more opportunities to play the gameand improve themselves,” said Doru.

“We need more competitions. Weneed more games to build a better future.I read a lot about training techniques, andthis and that. But the harsh reality is thatwe need our footballers to play moregames, to play more competitions. A larg-er reach will certainly help us attain that.”

He stressed on the significance of“capacity building” of the state associationsduring a FIFA capacity-building work-shop.

Doru stated that the state associationsare the “building blocks” of Indian foot-ball. “The state associations are the bricksthat build up the future of Indian football.These bricks make up the foundation. Itis our job, as the federation, to worktogether in harmony and help footballgrow,” said Doru. PTI

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Mislav Orsic gaveDinamo Zagreb a

dream start in theChampions League witha sensational openinground hat-trick againstAtalanta, and now thejourneyman striker has ashot at downing all-con-quering Manchester City.

The 26-year-old isthe competition’s leadingscorer heading into theirdaunting clash at theEtihad Stadium alongsideRB Salzburg’s teenagesensation Erling BrautHaaland.

Dinamo go into theirtrip to City top of GroupC thanks in large part to

Orsic’s treble over fanciedAtalanta, who are takingpart in their first-everEuropean campaign.

That is already a bigstep up for a club thatfailed to score a singlegoal on their way to los-ing all six matches in

their last group stageappearance in 2016-17.

Dinamo already haveone goal more than intheir previous 12 tourna-ment matches.

Pundits in Croatiasay that Nenad Bjelica’sside are ready to make animportant step forwardand could even fight forthe second place in agroup that also includesShakhtar Donetsk, andOrsic shares that viewafter seeing the team getto the Europa Leaguelast 16 last season.

“We already had a

great European result lastseason and this is onlythe continuation. Wehave everything neces-sary to become a pres-ence in Europe,” he said.

Orsic is an evenoptimist ahead of theencounter with City.

“We all know whowe are playing but thatshouldn’t demotivate us,”he said.

“We badly wantedthe Champions Leagueand to compete with thebest clubs and that's whatwe have, it’s all up to us.

“If we play to 110percent of our abilitiesand catch City by sur-prise then anything ispossible”.

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launching his Real Madrid careerhaving failed to score since join-ing the Spanish clubthis summer.

Hazard, who costReal 100 millioneuros in July, is yet to get off themark during the new seasonwith his appearances restricted tofour matches due to a thighinjury.

“Honestly I feel at 100 percent, the injury is behind me.When I start scoring, being deci-sive, having good matches, it willall come together,” Hazard said

ahead of playing Club Brugge.“That’s what I’m missing,

one good match, one goal, onepass, something to start my sea-son.

“When I say it’s down to con-fidence, once I’m con-fident, I’ll give my beston the field.”

Real host Bruggeafter falling to a humiliating 3-0loss to Paris Saint-Germain intheir opening Champions Leaguegame of the campaign.

They sit top of the La Ligatable after seven matches withFrance international KarimBenzema their top goal-scorer onfive, followed by Wales forwardGareth Bale on two.

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Juventus coach Maurizio Sarribelieves his side need to enjoy

themselves more if they aregoing to have any chance ofending their 24-year wait forthe Champions League tro-phy.

The 60-year-old Sarriwill oversee his f irstChampions League matchat home in the AllianzStadium today.

Juventus host BayerLeverkusen in theirsecond Group D clash,having being held 2-2at Atletico Madrid intheir opener.

“The ChampionsLeague is really thetop for a player andcoach, but at thesame time weshould also havefun,” Sarri told apre-match pressconference inTurin.

“At themoment it’s diffi-cult for Italianteams to be amongthe favourites.English teams arefavourites for obvi-ous reasons but weshould be easier on our-selves.

“The idea is to really cheerup a little bit.

“Our goal is to go all theway until the ChampionsLeague final but it’s a competi-tion that can only be deter-mined in certain moments.

“I’m expecting a good resulttomorrow.”

The eight-time reigning

Italian champions are unbeat-en so far this season.

They are up against a BayerLeverkusen, who finishedfourth in the Bundesliga last

season, and are sixth this term.The Germans slumped to

a surprise 2-1 defeat at homeagainst Lokomotiv Moscowin their opener.

Leverkusen won 3-1 thelast time the two teams metin 2001-02, when theGermans reached the final.

Sarri said he wouldmake his team selection

after training onMonday, decid-

ing who wouldplay up fronta l o n g s i d eC r i s t i a n o

Ronaldo.“ P l a y i n g

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required,” said Sarri.“For now we could

only try this solutionfor parts of the match.”

Leverkusen’s dan-ger man could be 20-year-old German mid-fielder Kai Havertz, aplayer Sarri tipped to“become one of themost important play-ers in Europe”.

In the other gamein Group D,Lokomotiv hostAtletico Madrid inMoscow.

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