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A debate on Delhi’s alarming pollution level kicked off in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday on the second day of the Winter Session with Congress MP Manish Tewari suggesting a standing committee on pollu- tion and climate change. Trinamool Congress’ (TMC) Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, who wore a mask during her speech in the Lok Sabha, called for a Swachchh Hawa Mission. She said Delhi is staring at mass asphyxia. Many MPs reasoned that it is was unfair to blame only farmers for stubble burning, while keeping a blind eye to major polluters like industry, vehicles, civil constructions in Delhi. They criticised the Delhi Government for its failure to provide clean water. Initiating the debate, Tewari pointed out how Beijing recovered from the hazardous pollution by curbing industri- al and thermal wastes. He urged the Centre and the Delhi Government to resolve the issue with integrated actions. Tewari said stubble burn- ing is not a major pollutant in Delhi and adjoining areas, hence small farmers should not alone be blamed for the present situation in Delhi. Participating in a discus- sion on “pollution and climate change”, BJP MP from West Delhi Pravesh Verma slammed the AAP Government for pass- ing the buck to neighbouring States where stubble burning is an annual phenomenon around this time every year. The BJP MP alleged that the AAP Government had spent 70 crore on publicising the odd-even road rationing scheme but did not take steps to increase the number of pub- lic buses. People are using per- sonal vehicles due to inade- quate and poor public trans- port facilities in Delhi, he said. He alleged 600 crore was spent by the Delhi Government on advertisements but little was done to curb pollution. Earlier Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal used to cough, but now the entire city and members of Parliament are coughing, he said sarcastically. Verma claimed the pollu- tion level in Delhi has has reached a saturation point point and that is why many res- idents want to leave the city. He questioned the usefulness of the purchase of 50 lakh masks by the City Government. Verma alleged that by blaming villagers for pollu- tion, Kejriwal was only widen- ing the urban-rural divide. The Speaker reminded Verma not to take the name of Kejriwal, but he went on attack- ing the Delhi CM. Verma also called upon the MPs to donate 2 crore from their Members of Parliament Local Area Development (MPLAD) fund for setting up pollution control towers in Delhi as they spend over 200 days of the year in the city. Pinaki Misra (BJD) too said stubble burning is not a major contributor to pollution in Delhi and the farmers should not be vilified. However, he suggested utilising stubble for bio gas to incentivise farm- ers against burning it. Misra urged for combined efforts of the Centre and States in curb- ing the rising pollution levels of water and air. Meanwhile, the Parliamentary Committee on air pollution in Delhi is sched- uled to meet on Wednesday after most of its members and senior officials were absent at its last meeting. Their absence from the meeting had triggered outrage and raised questions about their seriousness in fight- ing the menace. Panel’s head and BJP MP Jagdambika Pal had written to the Speaker over the matter, expressing his “displeasure” at the absence of Government officials who were scheduled to brief MPs on the pollution crisis, especially in Delhi. I n the last 50 years, sea level along the Indian coast has risen by 8.5 cm with the decade between 2003 and 2013 show- ing the annual average rise at a greater speed. On an average, the sea level along the Indian coast is considered to be rising at about 1.70 mm/year, but during the last decade (2003-2013) (till the time the reading was made) it experienced a rise at a rate of 6.1 mm/year, the Centre informed the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday. Union Minister Babul Supriyo, however, said since no long-term data on land subsi- dence or emergence are avail- able the rate of increase of sea level due to climate change can- not be attributed with certain- ty. He was responding to a question on whether several cities will be submerged as temperatures are rising due to global warming. “However, the coastal areas that might get inundated due to the rising sea level need to be evaluated based on their eleva- tion above mean sea level. Since no long-term data on land sub- sidence or emergence are avail- able for these locations, the rate of increase of sea level due to cli- mate change cannot be attrib- uted with certainty,” he said. “For example, the higher rate of sea level increase at Diamond Harbour is also due to the larger land subsidence happening there. The same may apply to Kandla, Haldia and Port Blair as well,” Supriyo told the Rajya Sabha. The Minister further said that the rising sea levels can exacerbate the coastal inunda- tion along the low lying areas during extreme events such as tsunami, storm surge, coastal flooding and coastal erosion. “The most vulnerable areas are in Japan, China, Bangladesh and India,” Guterres said speak- ing to reporters in Bangkok after attending the ASEAN Summit. A fter a brief breather, air quality in Delhi deterio- rated again on Tuesday with overall Air Quality Index (AQI) at 249 μgm-3, mainly due to wind losing speed and resumption of farm fires in neighbouring States. The Ministry of Earth Sciences’ air quality monitor SAFAR said as stubble trans- port-level winds are favourable, stubble burning is expected to account for 14 per cent of Delhi’s pollution on Wednesday. It was 13 per cent on Tuesday. Kuldeep Srivastava, a senior scientist at the India Meteorological Department (IMD), said the maximum wind speed dropped from 18 kilometres per hour on Monday to 10 kmph on Tuesday. Calm winds and low ven- tilation index are predicted for the next two days and the con- dition is conducive for the sudden accumulation of pol- lutants in the Delhi region, SAFAR said. The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) said on Tuesday that air quality will slip into very poor category from poor cat- egory. Particulate Matters (PM 2.5 and PM 10) were record- ed 179 and 111 respectively. Pollutant values will esca- late three folds, according to pollution monitoring agen- cies. PM 10 will exceed 400 and PM 2.5 will cross 250 by Wednesday. Delhi’s 13 hotspot areas are facing tough time in dealing with air pollution. Dwarka Sector 8 recorded 460 μgm-3, Greater Noida (272), and Noida (256). RK Puram, Punjabi Bagh, Anand Vihar, Mandir Marg, Mundka wit- nessed toxic air. The Supreme Court-man- dated anti-pollution authority, EPCA, asked Delhi-NCR to step up surveillance and enforcement to check local sources of pollution and crop burning in view of the pre- dicted dip in air quality. C ultivation of cannabis would continue to remain illegal as the State Government did not give permission for it, informed Excise Secretary Sushil Lohani after a meeting held on the issue at the Lok Seva Bhavan here on Tuesday. Lohani told reporters that even as sev- eral industrial companies had sought per- mission for cultivation of ganja in the State due to its medicinal values, the Law Department has rejected the proposal. “Various industries had repeatedly pro- posed to the Excise Department to supply ganja or grant permission for cultivation of this narcotic item for manufacturing of medicines. We referred it to the Law Department asking as to whether this can be permitted. Based on the present rule and the Law Department’s opinion, we rejected the proposal,” said the Excise Secretary. P olice, excise and revenue officials in joint raids conducted on Tuesday in forests under the Adaba police station in Mohana block of Gajapati district burnt 1.48 lakh ganja plants cultivated in 74 acres of land. The value of the plants would be worth Rs 14.48 crore. According to R Udayagiri SDPO AK Mohanty, the raids were conducted at Galimera village under Guruba panchayat on a tipoff that ganja cultivation had been undertaken in a vast area of mountainous and forested land. Gajapati district Collector Anupam Saha and SP Sarah Sharma ordered the raids. Destruction of cannabis plantation has become almost a daily routine mainly in Gajapati and Kandhamal districts. T he State Government has sent a proposal to the Union Government for creation of a Legislative Council in the State after a reso- lution was passed in the State Assembly on September 9, 2018. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Bikram Keshari Arukha informed this in the State Assembly in response to a question of BJD MLA Ananta Narayan Jena on Tuesday. “To form a Legislative Council, a committee had been formed during the 15th Assembly. The committee members visited Legislative Councils of States like Karnataka, Maharashtra, Bihar and Telangana and submitted a report. The report suggesting establishment of a Legislative Council in Odisha got the Cabinet nod on August 24, 2018. Then, a bill was passed in the Assembly on September 6, 2018. Later the same was sent to Secretaries of Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha, Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs and the Ministry of Law for approval of the Parliament,” said the Minister. The Minister said issues relating to the State can be dis- cussed broadly and Bills passed in the Assembly can be exam- ined further if a Legislative Council is formed. E motionally moved by reports of farmers com- mitting suicide because of crop failure, 16-year-old Rishikesh Amit Nayak thought someone should go to the root of the problem. Two years later, he has come up with a device, which can alert even an uneducated farmer about pest and bacteria attacks in his field and initiate remedial action to save the crop. “Crop failure has many reasons, but the most common is pest attack. Once the crop is attacked by pests and the farmer is not able to detect it, it can destroy the entire crop,” Amit, a student of Class-XI at the DAV Public School, Chandrasekharpur here, said. Amit’s device, which he has named ‘Kishan Know’, was on display at the exhibition for school and college students held at the SOA University here from November 17 to com- memorate the birth centenary of legendary scientist Vikram Sarabhai. “My grandfather is a farmer and I have seen him depressed when crop failure occurred. It motivated me to go deep into the problem and find out what could be done,” Amit said, adding that he has applied for patenting his device. Amit, who took the advice of experts at the Odisha University for Agriculture and Technology (OUAT), said crop failures are generally caused by excessive rainfall and scarcity of water besides bacterial and fungal attacks. He focused on bacteria as it accounted for 80 per cent of the crop loss. He developed the device to detect bacteria, fungi and virus in crops using the Internet of Things (IOT) to arrive at micro-level solution. “The requirement is a GSM module, a chip of circuit that can be used to estab- lish communication and a thermal cam- era,” he said. The prototype when developed properly would cost about Rs 1,500, Amit said, adding that the farmer would have to move around the field, in the perimeter where the pest attacks occur first, to take the thermal images of the plants. He would need to do the exercise twice, once in the morning and then in the evening, and send the data to a database for analysis. “If any change is found in the plant temperature, it would indicate certain pest or bacte- ria attack in the field enabling the farmer to undertake reme- dial measures,” he said. O pposition BJP and Congress members on Tuesday came down heavily on the State Government, saying “failure” of paddy procure- ment has lead to distress sale and forced farmers to take to the streets in the entire western Odisha. However, the Government refuted the charges saying paddy procurement has start- ed in the State and payments are being made in a transpar- ent manner. Initiating a discussion on a concerned Adjournment Motion, BJP member Jaya Narayan Mishra expressed strong resentments, saying farmers have staged agitations in front of Sambalpur Collector’s office and MLAs’ houses with tractors loaded with paddy bags since Monday as the Government has failed to procure paddy from them. “The token system of paddy procurement is very faulty. Millers are taking advan- tage of delay in paddy pro- curement. Farmers have suf- fered heavy losses due to non- procurment,” alleged Mishra. He demanded that the token system be removed soon and district committees given authority to procure all paddy (with limits of 13 quintal per acre of non-irrigated and 19 quintal per acre of irrigated land) from famers. BJP members Nauri Nayak and Mukesh Mahaling too made same demands and urged the Government to procure paddy at scheduled MSP at the earliest. Congress MLA Santosh Singh Saluja questioned the list of registered farmers and the Government’s target of procur- ing paddy from farmers during the current year. “When the Government had procured 65.5 lakh metric tonne of paddy from 10.11 lakh registered farmers in 2018-19, it is not understood how the Government has set a target to procure 60 lakh MT paddy from 12.35 registered farmers during the current year,” asked Saluja. Alleging that the Government has completely failed in procuring paddy, he demanded that the Government remove the token system and procured all paddy and make direct payment to farmer soon. Congress Legislative Leader Narasingha Mishra slammed both the State and Union Governments for not procuring paddy at right prices (cost of production plus prof- it) from farmers. “While famers spend Rs 2,430 per pro- duction of paddy per acre of land, it is disappoint- ing that paddy is being procured at much lesser prices,” alleged Mishra. He alleged that there has been a scam of thousands of crores of rupees in paddy pro- curement sector in the State. BJD members like Kishore Mohanty, Dhruba Charan Sahu, Kishore Nayak and Sarada Nayak refuted the charges, saying procurement through PPass system and pay- ment to famers’ bank accounts are being done in transparent manner. In his reply, Food Supplies and Consumer Welfare and Cooperation Minister said the Governemnt has targeted to procure 60 lakh metrice tonne of paddy during the current Khariff and Rabi season. Paddy procurement has started in the State. The Government is committed to procure paddy in a transparent and efficient manner, he said. Expressing dissatisfaction over the Minister’s reply, BJP members staged a walkout. Following the Minister’s reply, the Speaker disallowed the Adjournment Motion. (Related stories on inside pages)

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Adebate on Delhi’s alarmingpollution level kicked off in

the Lok Sabha on Tuesday onthe second day of the WinterSession with Congress MPManish Tewari suggesting astanding committee on pollu-tion and climate change.

Trinamool Congress’(TMC) Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar,who wore a mask during herspeech in the Lok Sabha, calledfor a Swachchh Hawa Mission.She said Delhi is staring at massasphyxia.

Many MPs reasoned that itis was unfair to blame onlyfarmers for stubble burning,while keeping a blind eye tomajor polluters like industry,vehicles, civil constructions inDelhi. They criticised the DelhiGovernment for its failure toprovide clean water.

Initiating the debate,Tewari pointed out how Beijingrecovered from the hazardouspollution by curbing industri-al and thermal wastes. Heurged the Centre and the DelhiGovernment to resolve theissue with integrated actions.

Tewari said stubble burn-ing is not a major pollutant inDelhi and adjoining areas,hence small farmers should notalone be blamed for the presentsituation in Delhi.

Participating in a discus-sion on “pollution and climatechange”, BJP MP from WestDelhi Pravesh Verma slammedthe AAP Government for pass-

ing the buck to neighbouringStates where stubble burning isan annual phenomenonaround this time every year.

The BJP MP alleged thatthe AAP Government hadspent �70 crore on publicisingthe odd-even road rationingscheme but did not take stepsto increase the number of pub-lic buses. People are using per-sonal vehicles due to inade-quate and poor public trans-port facilities in Delhi, he said.

He alleged �600 crore wasspent by the Delhi Governmenton advertisements but littlewas done to curb pollution.

Earlier Delhi ChiefMinister Arvind Kejriwal used

to cough, but now the entirecity and members ofParliament are coughing, hesaid sarcastically.

Verma claimed the pollu-tion level in Delhi has hasreached a saturation pointpoint and that is why many res-idents want to leave the city. Hequestioned the usefulness ofthe purchase of 50 lakh masksby the City Government.

Verma alleged that byblaming villagers for pollu-tion, Kejriwal was only widen-ing the urban-rural divide.

The Speaker remindedVerma not to take the name ofKejriwal, but he went on attack-ing the Delhi CM.

Verma also called upon theMPs to donate �2 crore fromtheir Members of ParliamentLocal Area Development(MPLAD) fund for setting uppollution control towers inDelhi as they spend over 200days of the year in the city.

Pinaki Misra (BJD) toosaid stubble burning is not amajor contributor to pollutionin Delhi and the farmersshould not be vilified. However,he suggested utilising stubblefor bio gas to incentivise farm-ers against burning it. Misraurged for combined efforts ofthe Centre and States in curb-ing the rising pollution levels ofwater and air.

Meanwhile, theParliamentary Committee onair pollution in Delhi is sched-uled to meet on Wednesdayafter most of its members andsenior officials were absent atits last meeting. Their absencefrom the meeting had triggeredoutrage and raised questionsabout their seriousness in fight-ing the menace.

Panel’s head and BJP MPJagdambika Pal had written tothe Speaker over the matter,expressing his “displeasure” atthe absence of Governmentofficials who were scheduled tobrief MPs on the pollutioncrisis, especially in Delhi.

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In the last 50 years, sea levelalong the Indian coast has

risen by 8.5 cm with the decadebetween 2003 and 2013 show-ing the annual average rise ata greater speed.

On an average, the sealevel along the Indian coast isconsidered to be rising at about1.70 mm/year, but during thelast decade (2003-2013) (till thetime the reading was made) itexperienced a rise at a rate of6.1 mm/year, the Centreinformed the Rajya Sabha onTuesday.

Union Minister BabulSupriyo, however, said since nolong-term data on land subsi-dence or emergence are avail-able the rate of increase of sealevel due to climate change can-not be attributed with certain-ty. He was responding to aquestion on whether severalcities will be submerged astemperatures are rising due toglobal warming.

“However, the coastal areas

that might get inundated due tothe rising sea level need to beevaluated based on their eleva-tion above mean sea level. Sinceno long-term data on land sub-sidence or emergence are avail-able for these locations, the rateof increase of sea level due to cli-mate change cannot be attrib-uted with certainty,” he said.

“For example, the higherrate of sea level increase atDiamond Harbour is also dueto the larger land subsidencehappening there. The samemay apply to Kandla, Haldiaand Port Blair as well,” Supriyotold the Rajya Sabha.

The Minister further saidthat the rising sea levels canexacerbate the coastal inunda-tion along the low lying areasduring extreme events such astsunami, storm surge, coastalflooding and coastal erosion.

“The most vulnerable areasare in Japan, China, Bangladeshand India,” Guterres said speak-ing to reporters in Bangkokafter attending the ASEANSummit.

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After a brief breather, airquality in Delhi deterio-

rated again on Tuesday withoverall Air Quality Index(AQI) at 249 μgm-3, mainlydue to wind losing speed andresumption of farm fires inneighbouring States.

The Ministry of EarthSciences’ air quality monitorSAFAR said as stubble trans-port-level winds arefavourable, stubble burning isexpected to account for 14 percent of Delhi’s pollution onWednesday. It was 13 per centon Tuesday. KuldeepSrivastava, a senior scientist atthe India MeteorologicalDepartment (IMD), said themaximum wind speeddropped from 18 kilometresper hour on Monday to 10kmph on Tuesday.

Calm winds and low ven-tilation index are predicted forthe next two days and the con-dition is conducive for thesudden accumulation of pol-lutants in the Delhi region,SAFAR said. The CentralPollution Control Board(CPCB) said on Tuesday thatair quality will slip into verypoor category from poor cat-egory. Particulate Matters (PM

2.5 and PM 10) were record-ed 179 and 111 respectively.

Pollutant values will esca-late three folds, according topollution monitoring agen-cies. PM 10 will exceed 400and PM 2.5 will cross 250 byWednesday.

Delhi’s 13 hotspot areas arefacing tough time in dealingwith air pollution. DwarkaSector 8 recorded 460 μgm-3,Greater Noida (272), andNoida (256). RK Puram,Punjabi Bagh, Anand Vihar,Mandir Marg, Mundka wit-nessed toxic air.

The Supreme Court-man-dated anti-pollution authority,EPCA, asked Delhi-NCR tostep up surveillance andenforcement to check localsources of pollution and cropburning in view of the pre-dicted dip in air quality.

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Cultivation of cannabis would continue toremain illegal as the State Government did

not give permission for it, informed ExciseSecretary Sushil Lohani after a meeting heldon the issue at the Lok Seva Bhavan here onTuesday. Lohani told reporters that even as sev-eral industrial companies had sought per-mission for cultivation of ganja in the State dueto its medicinal values, the Law Departmenthas rejected the proposal.

“Various industries had repeatedly pro-posed to the Excise Department to supplyganja or grant permission for cultivation of thisnarcotic item for manufacturing of medicines.We referred it to the Law Department askingas to whether this can be permitted. Based onthe present rule and the Law Department’sopinion, we rejected the proposal,” said theExcise Secretary.

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Police, excise and revenue officials in joint raidsconducted on Tuesday in forests under the

Adaba police station in Mohana block of Gajapatidistrict burnt 1.48 lakh ganja plants cultivated in74 acres of land. The value of the plants wouldbe worth Rs 14.48 crore.

According to R Udayagiri SDPO AKMohanty, the raids were conducted at Galimeravillage under Guruba panchayat on a tipoff thatganja cultivation had been undertaken in a vastarea of mountainous and forested land. Gajapatidistrict Collector Anupam Saha and SP SarahSharma ordered the raids.

Destruction of cannabis plantation hasbecome almost a daily routine mainly in Gajapatiand Kandhamal districts.

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The StateGovernment has

sent a proposal to theUnion Governmentfor creation of aLegislative Council inthe State after a reso-lution was passed inthe State Assembly onSeptember 9, 2018.

Parliamentary AffairsMinister Bikram KeshariArukha informed this in theState Assembly in response toa question of BJD MLA AnantaNarayan Jena on Tuesday.

“To form a LegislativeCouncil, a committee had beenformed during the 15thAssembly. The committeemembers visited LegislativeCouncils of States likeKarnataka, Maharashtra, Biharand Telangana and submitteda report. The report suggestingestablishment of a Legislative

Council in Odisha got theCabinet nod on August 24,2018. Then, a bill was passed inthe Assembly on September 6,2018. Later the same was sentto Secretaries of Lok Sabha,Rajya Sabha, Ministry ofParliamentary Affairs and theMinistry of Law for approval ofthe Parliament,” said theMinister.

The Minister said issuesrelating to the State can be dis-cussed broadly and Bills passedin the Assembly can be exam-ined further if a LegislativeCouncil is formed.

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Emotionally moved byreports of farmers com-

mitting suicide because of cropfailure, 16-year-old RishikeshAmit Nayak thought someoneshould go to the root of theproblem.

Two years later, he hascome up with a device, whichcan alert even an uneducatedfarmer about pest and bacteriaattacks in his field and initiateremedial action to save thecrop.

“Crop failure has manyreasons, but the most commonis pest attack. Once the crop isattacked by pests and thefarmer is not able to detect it,it can destroy the entire crop,”Amit, a student of Class-XI atthe DAV Public School,Chandrasekharpur here, said.

Amit’s device, which he hasnamed ‘Kishan Know’, was ondisplay at the exhibition forschool and college studentsheld at the SOA University here

from November 17 to com-memorate the birth centenaryof legendary scientist VikramSarabhai.

“My grandfather is afarmer and I have seen himdepressed when crop failureoccurred. It motivated me to godeep into the problem andfind out what could be done,”Amit said, adding that he hasapplied for patenting his device.

Amit, who took the advice

of experts at the OdishaUniversity for Agriculture andTechnology (OUAT), said cropfailures are generally caused byexcessive rainfall and scarcity ofwater besides bacterial andfungal attacks. He focused onbacteria as it accounted for 80per cent of the crop loss.

He developed the device todetect bacteria, fungi and virusin crops using the Internet ofThings (IOT) to arrive at

micro-level solution.“The requirement isa GSM module, achip of circuit thatcan be used to estab-lish communicationand a thermal cam-era,” he said.

The prototypewhen developedproperly would costabout Rs 1,500,Amit said, addingthat the farmerwould have to movearound the field, inthe perimeter where

the pest attacks occur first, totake the thermal images of theplants. He would need to do theexercise twice, once in themorning and then in theevening, and send the data toa database for analysis.

“If any change is found inthe plant temperature, it wouldindicate certain pest or bacte-ria attack in the field enablingthe farmer to undertake reme-dial measures,” he said.

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Opposition BJP andCongress members on

Tuesday came down heavily onthe State Government, saying“failure” of paddy procure-ment has lead to distress saleand forced farmers to take tothe streets in the entire westernOdisha.

However, the Governmentrefuted the charges sayingpaddy procurement has start-ed in the State and paymentsare being made in a transpar-ent manner.

Initiating a discussion on aconcerned Adjournment

Motion, BJP member JayaNarayan Mishra expressedstrong resentments, sayingfarmers have staged agitationsin front of SambalpurCollector’s office and MLAs’houses with tractors loadedwith paddy bags since Mondayas the Government has failed toprocure paddy from them.

“The token system ofpaddy procurement is veryfaulty. Millers are taking advan-tage of delay in paddy pro-curement. Farmers have suf-fered heavy losses due to non-procurment,” alleged Mishra.

He demanded that thetoken system be removed soonand district committees givenauthority to procure all paddy(with limits of 13 quintal peracre of non-irrigated and 19quintal per acre of irrigatedland) from famers.

BJP members Nauri Nayakand Mukesh Mahaling toomade same demands and urgedthe Government to procurepaddy at scheduled MSP at theearliest.

Congress MLA SantoshSingh Saluja questioned the listof registered farmers and theGovernment’s target of procur-ing paddy from farmers duringthe current year.

“When the Governmenthad procured 65.5 lakh metrictonne of paddy from 10.11 lakhregistered farmers in 2018-19,it is not understood how theGovernment has set a target toprocure 60 lakh MT paddyfrom 12.35 registered farmersduring the current year,” askedSaluja.

Alleging that theGovernment has completelyfailed in procuring paddy, hedemanded that theGovernment remove the tokensystem and procured all paddyand make direct payment tofarmer soon.

Congress LegislativeLeader Narasingha Mishraslammed both the State andUnion Governments for notprocuring paddy at right prices(cost of production plus prof-it) from farmers.

“ W h i l efamers spend Rs2,430 per pro-duction of paddyper acre of land,it is disappoint-ing that paddy isbeing procuredat much lesserprices,” allegedMishra.

He allegedthat there hasbeen a scam ofthousands ofcrores of rupees in paddy pro-curement sector in the State.

BJD members like KishoreMohanty, Dhruba CharanSahu, Kishore Nayak andSarada Nayak refuted thecharges, saying procurementthrough PPass system and pay-ment to famers’ bank accountsare being done in transparentmanner.

In his reply, Food Suppliesand Consumer Welfare andCooperation Minister said theGovernemnt has targeted toprocure 60 lakh metrice tonne

of paddy during the currentKhariff and Rabi season. Paddyprocurement has started inthe State. The Government iscommitted to procure paddy ina transparent and efficientmanner, he said.

Expressing dissatisfactionover the Minister’s reply, BJPmembers staged a walkout.

Following the Minister’sreply, the Speaker disallowedthe Adjournment Motion.

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Leader of Opposition (LoP)Pradipta Naik (BJP) raised

the alleged killing of Jajpur dis-trict’s Haridashpur PEOSmitrarani Biswal again in theState Assembly on Tuesdaydemanding dismissal of the SPand the SCW Chairperson anda CBI probe into the matter.

Raising the issue duringZero Hour, Naik alleged thatproper investigation into thematter has not been done yet.The death of PEO raises manyquestions as to why she wouldcommit suicide while her hus-band is a Government servantand while she has a daughter.He also wanted to know as onlyone person (main accused

Rupesh Bhadra) hasbeen arrested and fourothers, who were pre-sent at the time ofincident, have notbeen brought underthe purview of inves-tigation.

“There were tworuling party SamitiMembers, a ZP mem-ber and an agent of theRamco Cement,besides RupeshBhadra. While Bhadrahas been arrested, whythe four others would not bebrought under the purview ofinvestigation,” wanted to Naik.

He too questioned whyRupesh has been booked underthe Section 306 and not underthe Section 302 of the IPC.

Naik demanded thatremoval of the SP for giving“character assassination”remarks against Smitarani andthe Chairperson of the StateCommission for Women fornot properly conducting an

investigation. He too reiterat-ed that a CBI inquiry be con-ducted into the matter.

However, Speaker SurjyaNarayan Patro requested himnot to discuss the matter as itwas discussed earlier in theHouse.

Earlier, the Speaker hadtold “sorry” to Naik saying thathe didn’t allow him (Naik) tospeak on Monday afternoon ashe could not get what he want-ed to say.

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Farmers inSambalpur

and Bargarhdistricts onT u e s d a yi nte ns i f i e dtheir agitationin protestagainst thecentra l i sedtoken systemfor paddyprocurement.

I nSambalpur,the farmersstaged protestby parkingpaddy-ladenvehicles nearthe residence of Rengali MLANauri Nayak at Bhatra andRairakhol MLA Rohit Pujari atSakhipada.

They also dumped sackscontaining paddy in front of

the house of Sambalpur MLAJayanarayan Mishra and stageda dharna near the residence ofKuchinda MLA KishoreChandra Naik.

Police forces were deployedat the spots to avert any unto-ward incident.

An effigy of Food Suppliesand Consumer WelfareMinister Ranendra PratapSwain was burnt by farmers atAttabira in Bargarh district.The farmers also locked up the

office of the Civil SuppliesDepartment in the district.

The farmers reiterated theirallegation that the introductionof the centralised token systemhas resulted in the delay inpaddy procurement.

As per this system, tokens

will be issued 15 days prior toprocurement of paddy andsent to the registered mobilenumbers of farmers for sellingpaddy at the Mandis (marketyards).

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Aservitor of Puri JagannathTemple on Monday

demanded that theGovernment open the RatnaBhandar (treasure trove) andmake public deposits of gold,diamonds and precious jewelsinside it.

Reacting over a hearingon the Jagannath Temple inSupreme Court (SC) scheduledfor January 8 next year,Daitapati servitor BinayakDasmohapatra made thedemand and said the gold, dia-mond and jewels which havebeen protected in the RatnaBhandar should be recountedand made public in order toclear the air about their safety.

He also urged that theGovernment make public theinquiry report of the missingkey of Ratna Bhandar whichhas already been submitted bythe Raghubir Das Commission.

However, the templeadministration stated that the

shrine’s managing committeewould take a decision whetheror not to open the treasure trove.

On January 9, theGovernment will submit areport at the SC about decisionof the temple managing com-mittee and the inquiry reportof Raghubir Das Commission.The SC Bench is likely to givean order to the Government forunlocking of Ratna Bhandar, itis presumed.

Reportedly, as many as 629kinds of gold, diamond, silverand coloured jewels exist in theRatna Bhandar. While 598types of ornaments have beenprotected in the inner chamber,the rest are kept in the outerroom for uses in attires of theLords. In 1926 and 1978, enu-meration works had been con-ducted. After checking of thejewelleries in treasure trove in1978, which took 70 days tocomplete, a 142-page bookletcontaining their numbers andtypes had been prepared by theGovernment.

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The East CoastRailway (ECoR) on

Tuesday introduced theSegway patrolling sys-tem at the Bhubaneswarrailway station toenhance the visibility ofthe Railway ProtectionForce (RPF) personneland reduce the responsetime to reach the pas-sengers in distress.

ECoR GeneralManager Vidya Bhusan, who

inaugurated the Segway facil-ity, said, “With the introduc-tion of this system, we aim tointensity patrolling at the sta-tion. Subsequently, it will alsobe introduced in the Puri andCuttack railway stations.”

“The battery-operated and

eco-friendly Segway system

will help the RPF personnelmove from one place to anoth-er during their patrolling dutyat the station in less time andalso help in crowd control,” anECoR release stated.

The new facility wouldalso help the RPF personnel

ensure safety of passengers

and protection of railway prop-erty as it would increase theirmobility. Apart from beinghelpful in ensuring more visi-ble policing, the system wouldhelp the force deal with theft,chain snatching and other suchcases in an effective manner, it

added.

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Cuttack DCP AkhileswarSingh on Tuesday placed

Special Squad Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) Arjun Kanharunder suspension on charges ofcorruption.

Reliable sources said thatacting on multiple corruptioncharges levelled against Kanhar,the Commissioner of Police haddirected the Cuttack DCP toinitiate an inquiry in this con-nection. After obtaining evi-dence against the ASI, the DCPsuspended Kanhar from hisservice.

Sources said that besidescorruption allegations, Kanharwas also accused of having anexus with antisocial elements.

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Panchayati Raj and DrinkingWater Minister Pratap Jena

on Tuesday told the House that19,504 out of total 47,306 vil-lages have been supplied withpiped drinking water by nowand all the rural households inthe State would be providedpiped water by 2024-25.

The Minister informed thiswhile replying to a question ofCongress MLA Tara PrasadBahinipati, CongressLegislature Party Leader

Narasingha Mishra andMember Santosh Singh Saluja,BJD Members PradeepMaharathy and Pradeep Amatand many other members.

The Minister said of the Rs17,372 crore earmarked forthe project, the UnionGovernment has provided Rs549 crore only. Not satisfiedwith the answer, Bahinipatialleged that the Minister hasfurnished false data. He statedthat more that 50 per cent ofthe drinking water projectsare lying defunct in the State.

While Maharathy said theGovernment had earlier setMarch 2020 time limit fordrinking water, the Ministersaid the Government would

supply safe drinking water to allurban households by that time.

When Amat wanted toknow a project in his con-stituency has been going on forthe last 13 years, the Ministerassured him that the depart-ment would take action in 24hours and complete the projectat the earliest. The Minister fur-ther assured that House that alldefunct water supply projectswould be repaired soon.

In view of a big number ofmembers wanted to put ques-tions, Speaker Surjya NarayanPatro asked the members topersonally submit grievances tothe Minister and askedMinister to respond to themaccordingly.

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Chief Minister NaveenPatnaik conferred an hon-

ourary doctoral degree on filmpersonality and humanitarianKamal Haasan at the CenturionUniversity of Technology andManagement at Jatni onTuesday.

The ceremony was pre-ceded by a tour of various skillcentres by Patnaik and Haasan.Patnaik interacted with girlstudents trained under theSkilled in Odisha programme.He also visited wood-engi-neering and waste to wealthunits and the Centre forInnovation andEntrepreneurship.

In his speech, Patnaik said,“It is a matter of great pleasurethat participants from Odishahave shown the talent andbrought laurels for the State aswell for the country both at thenational and international lev-els. My Government is working

relentlessly to ensure the besteco-system in the field of skilldevelopment for our youth. Weare partnering with ITEES,Singapore, to establish a WorldSkill Centre at Bhubaneswar

which shall impart interna-tional standard skill develop-ment training to our youth andenhance their employability.”

The CM also praised theCenturion University of

Technologya n dManagement’sskill initiativesand said theGram Tarangprogramme ofthe institutewas bringingtransforma-tive changeson the lives ofthousands ofrural youth,particularlyfrom tribals.

P a t n a i kalso interact-ed with thedif ferently-abled studentsg e t t i n gtrained at theApparel andTextile Centreof Excellenceand theHospitality

A welcome address wasgiven by the university Vice-Chancellor. The functionended with the president ofuniversity thanking the guestsand the audience.

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Congress Legislature PartyLeader Narasingha Mishra

on Tuesday brought a PrivilegeMotion against SP, Security,Bhubaneswar, Kanhu CharanPatnaik, alleging that heexpressed his views regardingremoval of the PSO from him(Mishra) in a section of media.

“The SP, Security,Bhubaneswar is a public ser-vant and he should not havetold the Press about the issue oftaking out of PSO from meregarding which I hadappraised the House. His views

in the Press amount to breachof privilege of a member andthe House as well. I demand he

be called to the House and rep-rimanded or any other actiontaken by the Chair,” demand-

ed Mishra.However, Speaker SN Patro

said he would examine thematter and come out a state-ment soon. Later during ZeroHour, Mishra demanded thatthe SP, Security, Bhubaneswarshould be shifted from thepost as the State AdministrativeTribunal (SAT) has asked theGovernment to fill the post byan OPS officer.

“Patnaik is not an OPScadre officer and he should notcontinue in office as per thedirection of the SAT,” demand-ed Mishra.

Mishra too slammed theGovernment for not imple-menting SAT order that askedto appoint an OPS officer in thepost.

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Forest and Environment Minister BikramKeshari Arukha on Tuesday informed the

Assembly that as many as 119 elephants diedof electrocution in the State during the last 10years from 2009 to 2019.

In response to a question of BJD mem-ber Badri Narayan Patra, the Minister saidKeonjhar reported the maximum electrocu-tion deaths during the period. As many as 26elephants have been electrocuted during thecurrent year, which is the highest ever in State’shistory.

While 12 died due to coming into contactwith sagging wires, another 12 died of live wiretrapping by the poachers, according to theinformation submitted by the Minister.

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The Instituteof Company

Secretaries ofIndia (ICSI),BhubaneswarC h a p t e rreceived theICSI NationalBest ChapterAward for theyear 2018 at the47th NationalConvention ofC o m p a n ySecretaries held at Jaipur in Rajasthanrecently.

The Chapter Chairman said that theachievement is due to support, cooper-ation and participation from each of thestudents, members, Government Offices,

corporate houses, print and electronicmedia houses of Odisha, EIRC, andoffices of the ICSI, ICSI HQ and ICSIstaff members.

This is the fifth time the Chapter hasbagged the ICSI National Award.

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The National Human RightsCommission, (NHRC) has

sought a detailed report with-in a week from the ChiefSecretary, Government ofAndhra Pradesh on the suf-fering of 32 bonded labourersfrom Odisha in a brick kilnwho were denied minimumamenities and made to liveunder wretched conditions.

The Commission took suomotu cognisance of the factfrom a media report where itwas reported that the Odialabourers were pleading fortheir rescue from the brickkiln at Kanumpalli Cross inGarladinne Mandal of theAnantapur district in AndhraPradesh.

As mentioned in the newsreport, the victim labourerssent out an SOS to their rela-tives and friends back homefor their rescue from travailsthey were undergoing for thepast several months.

The Commission

observed that the contents ofthe media report, if true, indi-cate that the district authori-ties have failed to do their law-ful duty to protect the labour-ers from victimization; hencestrict action is required to betaken against the delinquentofficers and appropriate legalaction is also required to betaken against the brick kilnowner.

It also observed that thedistrict authorities are expect-ed to immediately rescue allthe bonded labourers, issuerelease certificate and startprocess of the payment of thestatutory relief, immediately.The authorities are alsoexpected to ensure safe jour-ney of the rescued labourers totheir native place and in caseany of them requires medical/healthcare assistance thatshould be provided without fail.

The Commission has fur-ther said the case to be viola-tion of human rights of thevictims.

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In an effort to ensure fire safe-ty norms in all types of

buildings, the StateGovernment on Tuesdaydecentralised the power ofissuing fire safety recommen-dations and certificates to thefield-level officials.

The move of theGovernment aims at makingservice delivery hassle-freeunder the 5T initiatives of gov-ernance.

“The new reforms wouldensure that applicants neednot come to the Directorate ofFire Services from far off areasto obtain the fire safety rec-ommendations and Fire Safetycertificate,” said an official.

The field-level officialswould issue such certificatesexpeditiously after followingthe procedural formalities, headded. As per the new norms,fire safety certificates would beissued within the 18 days ofreceipt of application. Thismove of the Governmentwould bring about improve-ment in the process of obtain-ing fire safety certificates.

The whole process wouldalso be covered under ‘MoSarkar’ from January 1, 2020 totake random citizen feedbackon service delivery.

The Government has alsodecided that the whole processof obtaining fire safety certifi-cates and fire recommenda-tions would be made onlineand best of practices would beimplemented from April 1,2020 as part of the 5T charterof governance.

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The Orissa High Court onTuesday ordered the

Superintendent of Police (SP)of Sambalpur district to pro-vide adequate security andprotection to the litigants andlawyers who are approachingthe local District and SessionsCourt in connection with theircases.

Adjudicating a PIL filed byadvocate Shivsankar Mohanty,a Division Bench headed byChief Justice KS Jhaveri passedthe order, informed Mohanty,adding that the order assumessignificance in view of the factthat the agitating lawyers ofSambalpur are meeting onWednesday to chalk out theirnext course of action.

Mohanty had filed the PILin 2018 with a prayer seekingthe court’s intervention infacilitating the litigants and the“willing” advocates to conducttheir cases in the district court.Mohanty in his petition hadpointed out that members ofthe Sambalpur Bar Associationare on strike since September2018 and preventing theDistrict Judge and other judi-cial officers from attending thecourts. The lawyers have alsoparalysed all the judicial and

revenue courts of the district,Mohanty had mentioned inthe petition.

The lawyers are on strikedemanding establishment ofan additional Bench of theOrissa High Court somewherein western Odisha. Similarly,lawyers of Ganjam district arealso on agitation since longdemanding another Bench ofthe High Court somewhere insouthern Odisha. ButMohanty in his petition hasclaimed that the requirementof approval under Article 10 ofthe Orissa High Court Order-1948 does not authorise theState Government to take anydecision on setting up addi-tional Benches of the High

Court.Mohanty has also relied on

a judgment delivered by theOrissa High Court way back in1991 wherein the court hadsaid: “The State Legislature hasno authority to enact law asregards the seat or seats of theHigh Court or to change theprincipal seat of the HighCourt from its present loca-tion.” The petition had alsosaid that any attempt by theState Government to establishHigh Court Benches elsewhereother than the principal seat(Cuttack) would be viewed asviolation of the theory of sep-aration of powers or infringe-ment in the independence ofjudiciary.

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In order to take forward the‘Swachh Odisha Sustha

Odisha’ mission, the Housingand Urban DevelopmentDepartment has embarkedupon decentralised model ofcompost management throughMicro Composting Centre(MCC) and Material RecoveryFacility (MRF), an innovativemethod for complete manage-ment of waste.

The man who pioneeredthe MCC model in TamilNadu, Dr Murgesan visitedKotpad and Paradip MCCs setup by the urban local bodies(ULB). Urban DevelopmentMinister Pratap Jena is con-stantly reviewing the progressof MCCs in the field as well.

Dr Murgesan praised theefforts undertaken by theHousing and UrbanDevelopment Department andexpressed his satisfaction overthe implementation and aware-ness level amongst variousstakeholders involved in theprocess and also suggestedsome corrective measures.

It has been a nice experi-

ence of witnessing good qual-ity organic manure comingout of MCC, managed by theParadip Municipality brandedas “Mo Khata”. The role of vol-unteers, ‘Swachh Sathi,’ hasbeen instrumental in generat-ing awareness on waste segre-gation at household level andkeep the momentum going,said Dr Murgesan while dis-cussing with senior officials.

It is to note here that a teamheaded by Principal Secretary,Housing and UrbanDevelopment GMathivathanan and MissionDirector, Swachh BharatMission, Sangramjit Nayak hadvisited Tamil Nadu to under-stand the best practices and toreplicate the same in ULBs ofOdisha.

Considering the appropri-ateness of the MCC model, theHousing and UrbanDevelopment Department has

decided to adopt the practice inall 114 ULBs of the State.

In order to ensure properimplementation of the process,a State level training of ULBpersonnel was conducted andthe ULB personnel in turnprovided training to 28,606sanitation workers across theState two times.

“The composting processhas already started in severalULBs and the organic compostgenerated in the ULBs will behaving very high nutrient val-ues which will have good mar-ket value for use in agricultureand horticulture. We are plan-ning to create an exclusivebrand for the urban organicmanure and market in Odishaand in other States. Our targetis to achieve production ofminimum 100 tonnes of organ-ic manure every day,” saidPrincipal SecretaryMathivathanan.

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ASub-Inspector of Policewas killed when he was

hit by a speeding motorcyclewhile cops were conductingvehicle checking at Takatpurhere in Mayurbhanj districton Monday evening.

The deceased was identi-fied as Dayanidhi Das. Hehad been posted as an SI atthe Town police station.

Reports said that themotorcycle hit Das when hetried to intercept the two-wheeler, whose rider tried toflee from the spot. He sus-tained critical injuries in theincident and was rushed tothe Pandit R aghunathMurmu Medical CollegeHospital here.

But doctors at the hospi-tal declared him broughtdead. The motorcyclist waslater detained for question-ing.

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The Inner Wheel Club of Athagarh inassociation with the Yuva, a voluntary

service mission organisation, observed theAdoption Awareness Week at the MaharshiDayanand Service Mission here onMonday.

Club president Pulin Mishra presidedover the meeting. Yuva president BhabaniPrasad Mishra and secretary Pradip KumarSahoo spoke about the mission of theorganisation for adoption of destitutechildren.

Club secretary Manjulata Mahalikand members Kalpalata Dash, SudamaMishra, Manjula Das and Gayatri Acharyaspoke about the objective and socialresponsibility of the club.

Lawyer Deepali Dash stressed on thelegality of adoption of children. Membersof the club and Yuva spent the day with thedestitute children of the Maharshi Dayanand Service Mission and distributed clothes and foods to them.

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Three armed miscreantslooted gold ornaments

from a garments showroomowner and his wife inBadadanda Sahi under theBadagada police station inGanjam district on Mondayevening. As per reports, themiscreants entered the shop ataround 8 pm posing as cus-tomers. As there were no othercustomers in the shop then, themiscreants brandished guns

and looted gold jewelleriesincluding gold chain, threerings and a mobile phone fromthe trader and his wife by ter-rorising them. Later, the rob-bers fled the spot by locking theshop from outside.

Getting information, ateam of police officials reachedthe spot and launched a probein connection with the inci-dent. The armed robbery in theareas has triggered panicamong the traders and localresidents.

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The general body meeting ofRegional Rural Bank

Retirees’ Welfare Society(RRBRWS) was held in Puri.The event was hosted by theOdisha unit of the Society.More than 200 delegates fromall over India attended themeeting. The flag of the soci-ety was hoisted by workingpresident Manoj Krishna Singhwith inauguration of the ses-sion. The session was presidedby C Raja Reddy, president ofthe RRRBWS. Ramesh Vij,founder chairman of HUM,attending the meeting as chiefguest, spoke on contribution ofretired people for the society.He spoke on role of HUM foremployment of aged andretired persons.

AOR Supreme CourtSharmila Upadhyay attendingas guest of honour in heraddress assured to extend allpossible legal help for the legit-imate claim of RRB employees.

Rabindra Tripathy spokeon the hurdles faced duringtrial of the SLP and the role ofvarious trade unions in creat-ing hurdles. Chakradhar Singh,President, Odisha Unit andGirija Sankar Mohanty, con-vener, Odisha State Unit, etc.addressed the delegates.

In the evening session, theelection of the office bearerswas held. C Raja Reddy, ManojKrishna Singh, Girija SankarMohanty and Bisweswar Jenawere unanimously elected aspresident,working president,general secretary and treasur-er of the society respectively.

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Aperson died and six otherssustained injuries when an

SUV by which they werereturning after conducting acremation rite crashed into aroadside tree at Kalaseria underthe Birmitrapur police stationin the district late on Mondaynight.

According to reports, sevenpersons of Kuarmunda areawere returning home whentheir vehicle rammed into aroadside tree and overturned

leaving all the occupants of thefour-wheeler critically injured.

Locals rescued the victimsand shifted them to theRourkela Government Hospital(RGH), where one of them suc-cumbed to injuries early onTuesday morning. Thedeceased was identified asDeepak Kumar Xess.

Two of the injured werelater shifted to the IspatGeneral Hospital in Rourkelaas their condition deteriorated.Police are investigating into theincident.

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Mahanadi CoalfieldsLimited (MCL)

Chairman-cum-ManagingDirector BN Shukla released abook depicting 40 success sto-ries of the company in the fieldof Corporate SocialResponsibility (CSR).

The book named“Enriching Lives, ImpactingCommunities”, published bythe company’s Department ofCSR, was released in the pres-ence of OP Singh, Director(Technical/Operations), KRVasudevan, Director(Finance/Personnel), and BSairam, General Manager

(Mining/CSR).Showcasing com-mitment of thecompany towardsdevelopment ofunderprivilegedsegments of thesociety, the bookcontains informa-tion on someongoing and com-pleted impactfulCSR projects ofMCL along withdetails like objec-tive, outreach,o u t c o m e ,progress, timeline,impact and pho-tographs.

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Aday after uproar in theAssembly over farmers’

woes, the district administra-tion has begun lifting paddy inKalahandi.

It was seen that there weredivided opinions on the onlinesystem of paddy procurementas some farmers were sup-porting it while some otherswere against the system.

A farmer of Mandal pan-chayat, Badri Narayan Pandasaid he had been a victim ofdistress sale for the past fouryears. “I cannot wait in themandis for a long time in thewinter season. In the name ofFAQ, 5 to 8 kg paddy is deduct-ed per quintal and we face losswhile trading. TheGovernment’s online system

has again made the matterworse,” Panda opined.

Another farmer ofDharmagarh, Asit KumarKhansama said he was eager tosell the produce through onlinesystem. “The token will beprovided within a week and wewill sell paddy at FundaPrimary AgriculturalCooperative Society (PACS).Earlier, we used to sell paddyafter going 5 km from homebut it is available in the villageitself now,” Khansama said,adding, “We hope that moneywill be transferred onlineimmediately in our accountsoon after selling paddy.”

A farmer of Golamundarequesting anonymity said thetransaction is done in pen andpapers by the PACS authoritieswhereas practically most ofthe farmers sell the producethrough middlemen.

“From most of the yards,middlemen lift the paddywhich is transported to themiller’s point directly. Farmersdon’t want to be the part of theGovernment system because ofharassment in the PACS,” he

alleged.The administration has

initially fixed a target to pro-cure 26 lakh quintal paddy dur-ing the kharif marketing season(KMS), 2019-20 which may goup to 35-40 lakh quintal.

It has given priority for thesmall and marginal farmers.The district has registered72,000 farmers. On Tuesday,PACS of Brundabahal villagelifted 142 quintals of paddyfrom a farmer. 18 PACs out of74 were opened on Tuesday.

The administration hasprovided advance token to thefarmers for 32,000 quintalpaddy to be procured underDharmagarh sub-division.

Civil Supply Officer,Kalahandi, Siba Prasad Dorasaid farmers’ land record, bankaccount, Aadhaar card, eyeball testing have been record-ed through biometric system.“All the PACS along with 23SHGs will be operative in thecoming days and the onlinesystem will drive away themiddle men who were posingthemselves as actual farmersearlier,” he said.

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The week-long KalingaBaliyatra here concluded

on Monday with Revenue &Disaster Management MinisterSudam Marndi, I & PR andWater Resources MinisterRaghunandan Das,Jagatsinghpur MLA PrasantaMuduli, Paradip MLA SambitRoutray and ParadipMunicipality ChairmanBasanta Kumar Biswal andVice-Chairman Pravati Nayakas guests.

The function was presidedover by Jagatsinghpur districtCollector and Kalinga BaliyatraCommittee (KBC) chairman

Sangram KeshariMohapatra. ADM andcommittee vice-chair-person Dr KanhuCharan Dhir gave thewelcome address.

This year, more than400 stalls and shopswere set up at the fairground. Various cultur-al groups performedevery evening.

Despite adequatearrangements by theKBC and the districtadministration, crowdswere much less thanexpectations due to lackof proper advertisementand propaganda.

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Kh a n d a p a d aDivision Forest

officials on Mondayconducted surpriseraids at differentplaces in Banapur vil-lage underKhandapada block inNayagath district andseized sandalwoodplanks and furnitureworth Rs 10 lakh.

Acting on a tipoff,a team of forest offi-cials under leadershipof Nayagarh DFO HDDhanraj raided dif-ferent places of timber mafiasMaya Pradhan, RaghavPradhan, Dinabandhu Nayakand Dhulia Das and seizedhuge amount of sandalwoodplanks and furniture.

The forest officials saidthe timber mafias managed toflee from the spot during the

raids. But on the directions ofDhanraj, relatives of the mafiashave been detained at the DFOoffice.

Khandapada TehsildarParthasarathji Hansda andKhandapada police station IICBimal Kumar Mallick werepresent during the raid.

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The Mahanadi CoalfieldsLimited (MCL) would con-

struct a new building for thePhuljharan Ashram, an oldage home on the outskirts ofSambalpur as part of its CSRinitiatives.

Jagriti Mahila Mandal pres-ident Manjula Shukla onTuesday laid the foundation-stone for the proposed build-ing named “Red Cross ParbatiGiri Matru Bhawan”,

Phuljharan, which is to bebuilt by the MCL at a cost of Rs72.76 lakh. The building, withall modern facilities for com-fort of elderly and destitutewomen, would have 12 roomsand four bathrooms and toilets.The project is expected to becompleted in six months.

The MCL, being the topcontributor in Odisha underCSR, has remained activelyinvolved in carrying out socialwelfare activities in and aroundits operational areas.

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Following a controversy trig-gered by Congress leader

Narasingha Mishra in the StateAssembly on the surname ofPuri SankaracharyaNischilananda Saraswati, reac-tions have come from theGobardhan Peetha and theMuktimandap of JagannathTemple as well.

A statement from theGobardhan mutt has revealedthat Jagadguru Sankaracharyaneeds no recommendation ofNarasingha Mishra as the StateGovernment and court havemade the title issue clear in thepast.

“No need of recommenda-tion of Mishra and theGovernment and court havecleared in the past,” saidGobardhan Peetha PRO ManojRath.

Muktimandap ofJagannath Temple has dis-tanced itself from the surnamerow by stating that rule mustprevail. Its president PunditBiswanath Mishra told ThePioneer that Sankaracharya isthe ‘Nayak’ (head) ofMuktimandap as per the recordof rights; hence they cannotquestion on him. However, hecleared that there is a rule andit must prevail.

Two days ago, during adebate on Odisha HinduEndowment Act, Congressleader Mishra raised title issueof Nischalanda Saraswati,questing Saraswati in place ofDevatirtha. Mishra had saidthat the earlier seer of themutt Niranjana Devatirtha hadwritten in his will that only‘Devatirtha’ surname could be

enthroned here which the pre-sent seer Saraswati did nothold anymore. The Congressleader also sought to knowfrom the Law Minister theactions taken against theGobardhan Peetha for failing tosubmit expenditure details inlast 10 years and deposit 5 percent of mutt’s incomes with theGovernment as per theEndowment Act.

Notably, the StateGovernment re-amended theEndowment Act in theAssembly and freed theGobardhan mutt from itsclause. Now, the Gobardhanmutt was made independentheaded by the Sankaracharya.The steps from theGovernment came followingindependent status enjoyed byother three monasteries inIndia established by AdiguruSankaracharya. However, inthe debate, Congress leaderMishra opposed the bill by rais-ing title issue of the present seerand deposit of revenues.

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Apart from members ofCouncil of Ministers, 15

MLAs and 10 non-MLAs (total25) are enjoying Cabinet orMinister of State or DeputyMinister ranks.

While two MLAs (Leaderof Opposition and GovernmentChief Whip in Assembly) andtwo non-MLAs (President,WODC and Advisor Health)have been accorded status ofCabinet Ministers, 12 MLAsgiven Minister of State status(District Planning CommitteeChairpersons), an MLA ofDeputy Minister rank (DeputyGovernment Chief Whip inAssembly) and eight non-MLAs (heads of differentGovernment bodies such as

WODC) given Minister of Statestatus.

Parliamentary AffairsMinister Bikram KeshariArukh informed this in theState Assembly in response toa question of Congress MLATara Prasad Bahinipati.

While a Cabinet rankedMLA is getting about 1,60,000towards salary and perks, theDeputy Minister ranked gets alittle less than him. Exceptingthe WODC Chairman, othernon-MLAs are not getting anysalary or perk.

DPCs are getting Rs 38,000as monthly honorarium, vehi-cle hiring charge of maximumof Rs 42,000 and dailyallowance of Rs 800 and tele-phone charges of Rs 1,500 permonth. .

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The Dalmia-OCL onTuesday announced inau-

guration of an integratedsnorkel manufacturing lineat Rajgangpur. Snorkel is acritical product used in RHdegasser for clean steel pro-duction.

The new line will allowIndian steel producers tosource high-quality indige-nously manufactured snorkelsfor producing high-grade steeleliminating the need toimport.

With an annual capacityto manufacture 240 sets, thenew snorkel manufacturingline features high-accuracyautomated equipment likezero-tolerance grindingmachines and high-tempera-ture dr yers to producesnorkels that match globalstandards. Dalmia-OCL’sonsite R and D centre, DalmiaInstitute Scientif ic and

Industrial Research (DISIR),will also help accelerate fur-ther innovations in refracto-ry technology for clean steelproduction.

“The Indian steel makersare moving towards manu-facturing high grade steelwhich needs tailored refrac-tory solutions that supporthigh performance and at thesame time, ensure local avail-ability,” said Group CEO -Refractory Business, DalmiaBharat Group Sameer Nagpal.“This is a significant steptowards Make-in-India. Withthis development, we aim togive Indian steelmakers accessto high quality snorkel prod-ucts right here in India whichhave been previously import-ed. This will lead to lesserlogistics, shorten lead times,reduce environmental impact,while boosting theGovernment’s mission to pro-mote manufacturing in India,”Nagpal added.

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The Action AidOdisha in associ-

ation with its partnerorganisations AdivasiEkta Sangathan,Koraput, Antarangaand Kandhamal, theCIRTD, Sundargarh,C C W D ,Bhubaneswar, SAI,Nuapada, Patang,Sambalpur andShehada, Jharsuguda,held a two-day State-level meeting of sin-gle women at Phulnakharafrom Monday.

Around 50 single womenfrom 10 districts took part inthe capacity building pro-gramme on “Women’s share -A campaign for gender justicein property rights,’ which pro-vided them to come togetherto share their issues and expe-riences as single women.

The main objective of the

meeting was to build anunderstanding on the issue ofproperty rights and landrights of single women,underscore a need for anational policy for socialsecurity for them and linkingthem with different liveli-hood options.

State Commission forWomen Chairperson Dr

Minati Behera inauguratingthe meeting assured to con-duct a survey for the singlewomen in the State to providethem necessary support inlinking to different schemesand entitlements.

The Commission wouldprovide necessary support tothe State-level forum toaddress the issues of singlewomen, she added. Women

rights activist Bisakha Bhanjasaid that the Odisha StatePolicy for Girls and Women2014 needs to be reviewed forthe benefits of single womenand demanded 30 per centreservation in job allocationunder the MGNREGA at pan-chayat-level, especially forsingle women.

Action Aid programme

manager Ghasiram Pandastressed on formulation of theOdisha Prevention of Witch-Branding Rules as singlewomen always are branded aswitches and face violence atlarge.

Though there is theOdisha Prevention of Witch-Branding Act 2013, but itneeds to be implementedproperly, he added.

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The Vigilance police onMonday caught

Bhubaneswar HarekrushnaMahatab State Library SeniorClerk Kishore ChandraSwain red-handed fordemanding and acceptingillegal gratification of Rs20,000.

Swain was caught thebribe from complainantNrushing Charan Senapati ofBalianta in Khordha districtin order to process the pend-ing medicine bill and pensionpapers of his bed riddenfather Prasanna KumarSenapati, who was serving asbook binder in the library.

His res ident ia lGovernment quar ter atBhubaneswar was searched.Later he was arrested andforwarded to court.

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The People’s CulturalCentre (PECUC) in

collaboration with theLabour and ESIDepartment held awalkathon against childlabour, exploitation andabuse from the RamMandir Square toMaster Canteen and asignature campaignnear Master Canteenon Tuesday to mark theWorld Day forPrevention of Child Abuse

Chairperson of OdishaBuilding and ConstructionWorkers’ Welfare Board SubashSingh and Labour

Commissioner NiranjanSahoo, PECUC GoodwillAmbassador Anshika Routray,secretary PECUC and chair-person of NACG EVAC, India,Ranjan Kumar Mohanty inau-

gurated the events.Divisional Labour

Commissioner Pradeep KumarMohapatra, OlympiadAnuradha Biswal, Women and

Child DevelopmentDepartment advisor SulataDeo, Assistant Labour OfficerSN Acharya, Assistant LabourOfficer Dharashree Mohapatra,Labour Inspectors Pravakar

Biswal and Kaliputra KuldeepPrasad were present. Thespeakers emphasized to stopchild labour and all forms ofchild abuse.

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Odisha Bhumihina PrajaSamiti president and rights

activist Er Debashisha Hotafelicitated Union Minister ofState for Home AffairsNityanand Rai for the abroga-tion of Article 370 and 35 A andintegration of the trouble-tornState of Jammu and Kashmirwith the national mainstream.

He along with a delegationof 47 members from the State

including Kalandi Behera, AjaySahoo, Mirnal Mallick,Lokannath Mallick andSanatan Sahoo met the UnionHome Minister at New Delhiand expressed their thankful-ness. “ Also, we handed over athank-giving letter for PMNarendra Modi and UnionHome Minister Amit Shah.We salute the courage of Shahfor the step, which the prede-cessors were unable to do inlong 72 years,” said Hota.

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The Archaeological Surveyof India (ASI) spent Rs 2.37

crore for conservation of theJagannath Temple in Puri in2018-19.

This was stated by UnionMinister of State for Culture andTourism Prahlad Singh Patel inthe Lok Sabha on Tuesdayreplying to un-starred ques-tions by BJP MPs Jual Oram andNishikant Dubey on Monday.

The Union Minister said ina written statement that the ASIhad spent Rs 4.02 crore and Rs6.07 crore on conservation ofthe Lord Jagannath Temple in2017-18 and 2016-17 respec-tively. Patel further said the ASIhad borne Rs 1.70 lakh and Rs7.12 lakh on conservation workat the Lord Lingaraj Temple inBhubaneswar in 2018-19 and2017-18 respectively. Rs 11.86lakh were spent on the templein 2016-17.

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The Vigilance police onTuesday conducted raids

at several places includingthe residence of JayprakashPatel, Principal ofPrabhudayal Rural College atKesaibahalss in the district forallegedly amassing dispro-portionate assets to his knownsource of income.

Acting on the allegationagainst the Principal, a teamof the Rourkela Vigilance divi-sion on carried out raids at sixplaces.

The total assets of Pateland his family members werecalculated as Rs 3.19 crore.

Verification of severaldocuments and papers wasbeing carried out by theVigilance officials.

Bhubaneswar: The first two-day Commissioners andDirector Generals conferenceon Goods and Services Tax(GST) was held here recentlyunder chairmanship of CBIC-Investigation-GST and CXMember SM Bhatnagar.

Central Excise and CustomsZone, Chief Commissioner ofthe Bhubaneswar GST NareshPenumaka gave the welcomeaddress at the meeting whichdiscussed on the recentlylaunched Sabka Vishwas(Legacy Dispute Resolution)Scheme. Besides, discussionswere held on various aspects ofGST including challenges facedby the trade and industry as wellas the department in imple-mentation of the new enact-ments and emphasis was laidupon to simplify the mechanismof GST and for facilitating Easeof Doing Business.

A promotional videoregarding the scheme wasreleased to create awarenessamongst the erstwhile CentralExcise and Service Tax assess-es to come forward and availthe scheme to clear their taxdues to the Government toreduce the litigation. PNS

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AShiromani Akali Dalleader was allegedly shot

dead on Tuesday and later hislegs were chopped off after analtercation with his neighbourin Gurdaspur.

Batala SeniorSuperintendent of PoliceOpinderjit Singh Ghuman saidthat there wasn’t any politicalmotive behind the killing of51-year-old Dalbir SinghDhilwan who was the vice-president of the SAD”sGurdaspur unit. He was also atwo-time village sarpanch.

It has been learnt that theincident happened at Dhilwanvillage in Dera Baba Nanakarea on Monday evening.

Dalbir Singh and hisneighbour, Balwinder Singh,had earlier entered into a ver-bal spat over the hiring of a ser-vant.

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Acceding to Punjab ChiefMinister Capt Amarinder

Singh’s demand, IT giantGoogle has removed the seces-sionist, “anti-India” mobileapplication ‘2020 SikhReferendum’ from its PlayStore with immediate effect.

“This app is not availableany more on Google Play Storefor mobile users in India,” saida spokesperson of the ChiefMinister’s office.

The app had asked thegeneral public to register them-selves to vote in the ‘PunjabReferendum 2020 Khalistan’

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The exercise for Governmentformation in Maharashtra

made no headway on Tuesdaywith the scheduled meetingbetween the leaders of theCongress and NCP to thrashout niggling issues called offdue to the former’s “pre-occu-pation with late former PrimeMinister Indira Gandhi’s birthanniversary events”.

But then, Congress chiefSonia Gandhi did chair a meet-ing with senior party leadersMallikarjun Kharge, AKAntony and Ahmed Patel, whohave been tasked to hold thediscussions with the likes ofPraful Patel, Sunil Tatkare, AjitPawar from the NCP.

Despite of several roundsof talks between leaders of thethree parties in Mumbai andDelhi, possibility of a Sena-ledGovernment still remains at anascent stage. NCP presidentSharad Pawar held a meetingwith Congress chief SoniaGandhi in Delhi on Mondaywho later said if the NCP-Congress have to take a view onGovernment formation, theyhave to first discuss it betweenthemselves.

In the meeting Congress

decided to hold another roundof talks with NCP in NewDelhi to finalise the draft com-mon minimum programme(CMP) while Kharge will leadthe talks along with PartyGeneral Secretary K CVenugopal and state leaders.

AICC sources said thatCongress leadership wasinformed that NCP is pushingfor the rotational arrangementfor the Chief Minister postbetween Sena and NCP. Thedeliberations on power sharingwill be finalised by the high-powered committee for thethree parties in this week andthe final stamp will be put bythe leaders of all the three par-ties.

As per the deal negotiatedtill the end of Sonia-Pawarmeeting, sources said Congresswill rest with Speaker’s post anda Deputy Chief Minister postin the Government while NCPwill get post of legislative coun-cil chairman. All three partiesare likely to get an equal sharein the Council of Ministers.

“The parties are negotiat-ing for portfolios and the grandold party is seeking Home andRevenue while NCP desires tosit over Finance andCooperatives. The Ministry ofCoperatives is Maharashtra is

perceived a important portfo-lio,” said a senior Congressleader closely monitoring theMaharashtra developmentsadding that Congress wantsfinalisation of the CMP before

moving forward to an officialannouncement.

The UPA alliance partnershave deputed leaders for hold-ing talks on a possible alliancewith the Shiv Sena, a party

closely associated with Hindutvaand anti-Congressism.

Amid cautious approach bythe NCP -Congress, Shiv Senatoo has called a meeting of allits MLAs and senior leaders on

Friday to be chaired by Senachief Uddhav Thackeray.

In the last month’s assemblypolls, the NCP and theCongress, pre-poll allies, won 54and 44 seats, respectively in the

288- member assembly wherethe majority mark is 145. Shiv

Sena has 56 seats in its bag BJPemerged largest at 106 seats.

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As long-time allies BJP andthe Shiv Sena remain

unrelenting on their stancewith the latter choosing tobreak the alliance, RSS chiefMohan Bhagwat on Tuesdayhad a word of caution andadvise for the two sides with-out naming them.

“Everyone knows that self-ishness is a bad thing but veryfew people give up their self-ishness. Everybody knows thatboth of them will face loss ifthey are going to fight over amatter,” he said.

The head of the RSS towhom both the BJP and theShiv Sena show their ideo-logical adherence to, warnedthem of the adverse impact offallout of their tug-of-war forpower in Maharashtra.

Bhagwat, without namingthe two former partners of the

previous alliance Governmentin Maharashtra, warned that“both will face loss” if theyfought over any matter.

“Everyone knows that self-ishness is a bad thing but veryfew people give up their self-ishness. Take the example ofthe country or of individuals,”Mr Bhagwat said at an event inNagpur on Tuesday, newsagency ANI quoted him as say-ing.

“Everybody knows thatboth of them will face loss ifthey are going to fight over amatter,” he said.

The Sena’s insistence ofsharing Chief Ministershipwith the BJP had led bothfalling apart on the issue ofGovernment formation inMaharashtra with formermaking friends with politicalrivals Nationalist CongressParty and the Congress in itsbid to wrest power in the State.

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The CRPF has written toStates and Union

Territories about the new pro-tocols for Congress presidentSonia Gandhi and her familymembers’ security and willsoon seek Government nod forraising one more battalion forsecuring them.

But in the meantime, theCongress has given a notice tomove an adjournment motionin the Lok Sabha against thewithdrawal of SPG cover of theGandhi family. Describing themove as “arbitrary”, theCongress in the notice said thesecurity cover was withdrawnignoring the existing and prob-able threats to the Gandhifamily.

The Union HomeMinistry central Governmentearlier this month replaced theSpecial Protection Group(SPG) security cover given toSonia Gandhi, her son RahulGandhi and daughter PriyankaGandhi Vadra by the ‘Z-plus’

category security of theCentral Reserve Police Force(CRPF).

Officials said the paramil-itary force will seek sanctionfrom the government for pro-curement of specializedarmoured vehicles to secure thenew protectees including for-mer prime ministerManmohan Singh besides theGnadhi family.

Informing the States andthe UTs, the CRPF has articu-lated that the Gandhi familyhas been accorded an advancesecurity liaison (ASL) protocoland this will require the “sup-port” of their intelligence,police and administrativemachinery prior to any of thefive new protectees -- SoniaGandhi, Rahul, Priyanka,Manmohan Singh and his wifeGursharan Kaur -- reachingtheir jurisdictions on official orpersonal tours.

Former PMManmohan Singh’s SPG secu-rity cover was withdrawn bythe Centre in August.

As part of the ASL drill, aspecial CRPF team will travelat least 24 hours in advance tothe location to be visited bythese protectees and liaise withlocal authorities to sanitise thevenue and isolate the areas thatthe VVIPs will visit.

Through the official com-munication, the five protecteeswill need to be given all admin-istrative and police supportalong with route plans andtravel maps.

In the Lok Sabha, theCongress on Tuesday gave anotice to move an adjournmentmotion against the withdraw-al of Special Protection Group(SPG) cover of the Gandhifamily.

Describing the move as“arbitrary”, the Congress inthe notice said the securitycover was withdrawn ignoringthe existing and probablethreats to the Gandhi family.

An adjournment motion ismoved to stop the proceedingsof the House to take up theissue raised in the motion.

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The Union Home Ministryon Tuesday informed Lok

Sabha that security forces hadarrested 765 people in con-nection with stone pelting casesand incidents of stone peltinghas declined in J&K since theabrogation of Article 370.“Since August 5, 2019 toNovember 15, 2019, 765 peo-ple have been arrested in 190cases registered relating tostone pelting/law and order.

From January 1, 2019 to August4, 2019, 361 such cases wereregistered,” said Minister ofState for Home G KishanReddy, replying to a writtenquestion in the Lok Sabha.

“Investigation has revealedthat various separatist organi-sations and activists, whichare part of the Hurriyat, havebeen behind the incidents ofstonepelting in the Kashmirvalley. The NIA haschargesheeted 18 persons interror-funding cases so far,” hesaid.

Reddy said theGovernment had adoptedmulti-pronged policies to checkthe stonepelting menace andhad succeeded in curbing it tothe extent that a large numberof troublemakers, instigatorsand mob mobilisers were iden-tified and various preventivemeasures taken against them,

including detention under thestringent Public Safety Act(PSA) and preventive arrests.

Replying to another ques-tion, Reddy said the J&Kadministration had informedthat a total of 34,10,219 tourists,including 12,934 foreigners,visited J&K in the last sixmonths and an income of �25.12 crore was earned throughtourism during this period.The Minister said after theabrogation of Article 370, ini-tially, attendance of studentswas thin in the schools of J&K,which gradually picked up andat present, stood at 99.7 percent during the ongoing exam-ination.

On a question related touse of pellet guns since August5, the Minister said pellet gunswere used with abundant cau-tion, only to deal with severelaw-and-order problems to

avoid civilian casualties. Regarding Left Wing

Extremism, the Minister saidviolence dropped by 43 percent between May 2014 andApril 2019 compared to the fiveyears before that, the Centresaid on Tuesday, and disclosedthat only 10 districts account-ed for two-third of the inci-dents. Reddy said that thesteadfast implementation ofpolicy has resulted in consistentdecline in violence and in thegeographical spread shrink-ing.

“Only 10 districts accountfor 2/3rd of Left WingExtremism violence. The LWErelated incidents of violencebetween May-2014 to April-2019 have been 43 per centlesser while compared withthe preceding five years period,”he said in response to a writtenquestion.

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Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birlaon Tuesday warned that he

will be forced to take actionagainst members protesting inthe Well as Congress and otherOpposition parties, includingDMK and TMC, indulged insloganeering.

The Speaker also took noteof Congress leader RahulGandhi’s absence from theHouse and said he had want-ed to give a chance to the for-mer Congress president duringQuestion Hour as the latter’sname being listed for a ques-tion on `PM Gram SadakYojna’ in Kerala.

From the word go, LokSabha again witnessed, for thesecond-day, scenes of slogan-shouting with Congress-led-opposition trooping in the wellof the house, shouting againstthe Modi-Government.

This followed Congress,

DMK and TMC seeking toraise their respective issuesduring the question hour butwere disallowed by the Speaker.Birla, however, did permittedthem to speak soon after thequestion hour which wasforced be undertaken in theloud din created by the oppo-sition MPs.

There were around 20MPs from the Congress whohad collected in the well of thehouse shouting “Tanashahinahin chalegi”.

Besides the Congress,members from the NationalConference were also in theWell.

Birla repeatedly requestedthe protesting members to goback to their seats as the ques-tions were about farmers’issues.

He asked Congress andDMK MPs to speak on thefarmers issue which was beingtaken up in the house.

As the protests continuedand seemed coming closer tohis chair, an indignant Speakerwarned that action would betaken against members andhe may even name them.

“There might have beenprecedents of protesting in theWell. From today onwards, no(member) will protest in theWell. If not, I will be forced totake action,” he said. At onepoint of time, the Speaker alsosaid that he would give achance for protesting membersto ask supplementaries if theygo back to their respectiveseats.

The members continuedwith their noisy protests until thecommencement of the zerohour when they spoke on theirrespective issues including policeaction against JNU students, andthereafter staged a walk-out.

Congress members soughtto raise various issues, includ-ing the withdrawal of SPG

security cover of party presi-dent Sonia Gandhi, her sonRahul Gandhi and her daugh-ter Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.

The Speaker took note ofCongress leader RahulGandhi’s absence from the LokSabha saying he had wanted togive a chance to the formerCongress president duringQuestion Hour.

“His (Rahul Gandhi’s)question was listed for theQuestion Hour and I wanted togive him a chance had he beenpresent,” Birla remarked whenK Suresh , Congress MP fromKerala, got up to speak duringZero Hour from Rahul’s seat.

The speaker asked Sureshto move to his designated seatand continue.As per the LokSabha schedule, question num-ber 28 was listed against thename of Rahul.

The question pertained toPradhan Mantri Gram SadakYojana for Kerala.

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President Ram Nath Kovindon Tuesday exuded confi-

dence that the IITs and NITs,with their specialisations, will beable to find solutions to addressthe problem of air pollution aswell as create sensitivity amongstudents and researchers.

He was addressing theannual ‘visitor’s conference’ atthe Rashtrapati Bhawan,attended by directors of 23Indian Institutes of Technology(IITs), 31 National Institutes ofTechnology (NITs) and IndianInstitute of Engineering ScienceAnd Technology (IIEST),Shibpur.

“This is that time of theyear when the air quality of thenational capital as well as ofmany other cities worsensbeyond all norms. Many sci-entists and futurologists havepainted doomsday scenarios.On days of smog and poor vis-ibility in our cities, we fear thefuture might already be here,”Kovind said. “We are facing akind of challenge here that wehave never faced before.Hydrocarbon energy changed

the face of the world in the lastcouple of centuries, but now itis threatening our very exis-tence. The challenge is com-pounded for nations battling tobring substantial sections ofpopulations out of poverty.

Yet, we will have to find alter-natives,” President Kovind said.

He expressed confidencethat institutions like IITs, NITswith their various specialisa-tions, would take care to createa sensitivity and awareness

among students andresearchers towards our com-mon future,” Kovind said.”Iam sure that your institutes,with your various specialisa-tions, will find a solution andtake care to create a sensitivi-ty and awareness among stu-dents and researchers towardsour common future,” he added.

The conference was thepart of regular interactions ofthe President with such insti-tutions in his capacity as a vis-itor to 152 Central Universitiesand institutions of higher learn-ing.The president said thatafter the government’s efforts toimprove India’s ranking on theEase of Doing Business Index,the aim is now to improve theEase of Living for all citizens.

“How can we move for-ward in that direction, andmake life easier for all, espe-cially those on the margins ofsociety? Later this week,Governors of states will behere in Rashtrapati Bhavanand this will be one of themajor points of deliberation intheir conference. I am surethere are solutions in the areaof Governance,” he said.

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BJP Parliamentary Partymeeting on Tuesday

focused on Prime MinisterNarendra Modi’s “successful”visits to several countries aswell as his participation inevents such as the UNGA andBRICS meetings, and India’srefusal to join RCEP in “nation-al interest”. Modi did notattend the meet.

Foreign Minister SJaishankar and Commerce andIndustry Minister Piyush Goyalbriefed BJP MPs on the issue inthe first meeting of the WinterSession of Parliament and whatit meant for India.

Interestingly, in the LokSabha BJD leader BhartruhariMahtab, during the day, soughtto know during the zero houras what were the gains for thecountry by joining BRICS vis-à-vis China who he said hasfavourable trade deficit and hademerged an economic power.

Jaishankar told MPs thatrefusal of India to join theRegional ComprehensiveEconomic Partnership (RCEP)had secured country’s interests.

He spoke in detail aboutModi’s participation in theUnited National GeneralAssembly meeting in the US inSeptember and the ‘HowdyModi’ rally, attended by thou-

sands of people of Indian ori-gin (PIO), which was attendedby US President DonaldTrump. The Prime Minister’sparticipation in the BRICS andASEAN meetings besides histrips to Russia, Saudi Arabia,Bahrain and Bhutan were alsospotlighted, with Jaishankartelling the ruling party’s law-makers that Modi brought the

issue of terrorism to the foreand found support from mostcountries. The ForeignMinister mentioned the deci-sion of Saudi Arabia andBahrain to accord their high-est civilian honour on Modi.

In his briefing on India’sdecision to keep out of t theRCEP, Goyal said it was innational interest as joining thegrouping would have widenedIndia’s trade deficits with somecountries and harmed itsdomestic industry, sources said.

Goyal said the UPA gov-ernment favoured joining theRCEP but the Modi govern-ment has stood for the country’sinterest by keeping out of it.

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Onion production in kharifand late-kharif seasons of

2019-20 is estimated to fall 26per cent to 52.06 lakh tonne,putting pressure on supply andprices, Food Minister RamVilas Paswan said on Tuesday.

The all-India averageretail price of onion stood at�60.38 per kg on November 15,compared with �22.84 per kgon the same date last year.

In a written reply to theLok Sabha, he said onion is aseasonal crop with harvestingperiod of rabi (March to June),kharif (October to December)and late-kharif (January-March). During July to

October, the supply in themarket comes from storedonions from rabi season.

“During 2019-20, therewas a 3-4 weeks delay in sow-ing as well as decline in sownarea of the kharif onion becauseof late arrival of monsoon.Further, untimely prolongedrains in the major growingStates of Karnataka,Maharashtra and MadhyaPradesh during the harvestingperiod caused damage to thestanding crops in theseregions,” Paswan said. As aresult, the Minister said theproduction of kharif crop wasaffected.

The rains duringSeptember-October also hit

transportation of crop fromthese producing regions toconsuming centres, he said.

“This led to limited avail-ability of kharif onions in themarket and has put pressure onits prices,” Paswan said.

During the current year,the production of kharif andlate-kharif is estimated to be52.06 lakh tonne, which isabout 26 per cent lower thanthe previous year's productionof 69.91 lakh tonne in thesame seasons, the Ministersaid.

Paswan said theGovernment has banned onionexports and imposed stocklimits to boost domestic supplyand check prices.

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Aday after Mamata Banerjeecharged the BJP and All

India Majlis-e-IttehadulMuslimeen for conspiring tolure the Hindu and Muslimpopulation of Bengal into polit-ical extremism, war of wordsintensified between two sideswith AIMIM chief AsaduddinOwaisi charging the ChiefMinister with playing a host tothe saffron outfit in the Statewhile the Trinamool Congresshitting back by insisting thatHyderabad party was a paidagent of the RSS.

Slamming Banerjee, theAIMIM chief and one of themost noticeable minority facesin the country tweeted, “ifDidi (read Mamata Banerjee) isworried about a bunch of usfrom Hyderabad then sheshould tell how BJP won 18/42seats from Bengal.”

By displacing the Left Frontas the main Opposition partyin Bengal the BJP wrested 18out of 42 seats in this year’s par-liamentary elections. The TMCwon 22 and the Congressbagged two seats. What wasmore in at least three otherseats the margin of victory forthe Trinamool was between fivethousand and fifty thousand.

Telling reporters thatBanerjee owed an explanationon the rise of the BJP in BengalOwaisi on Tuesday said, theChief Minister’s nervous comments on the presence ofAIMIM in her State was itselfan admission in favour of hisparty’s growing prowess herbackyard.

“By making allegationsagainst me you (Banerjee) are

giving the message to Muslimsof Bengal that AIMIM hasbecome a formidable force inthe State,” Owaisi added,“Mamata Banerjee is show-casing her fear and frustrationby making suchcomments.”

Addressing a meeting inNorth Bengal town ofCoochbehar bordering Assamthe Chief Minister had onMonday made veiled refer-ence to Owaisi and his partysaying that there was a partyfrom Hyderabad which was

hand-in-glove with the BJPand was in its payroll.

She said a trap was beinglaid down by some Hindu andminority parties (fromHyderabad) “who are takingmoney from the BJP to spreadextremist ideas in Bengal.”

She said, “there is a politicalparty which is trying to makeinroads in Bengal by fanning acommunal divide. Just like thereare some extremists in Hindus,same with minorities. They takemoney from BJP. They stay inHyderabad. They don’t stayhere. They come here and say I’llgive you protection. Don’t fallinto this trap of my minority brothers.”

Hitting back at Owaisi forhis “outrageous statementagainst Mamata didi who is likea mother of crores of people,”a senior Trinamool leader andMinister from South Kolkataon Tuesday said “those who arethinking of taking place ofMamata Banerjee in Bengal areliving in a fools’ paradise. Boththe Hindus and Muslims wor-ship her and a rank outsider,who is a filthy rich person nothaving broken bread with apoor man is dreaming to mak-ing inroads in this State. Thepeople will not let him crossDum Dum Airport.”

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The Madras High Court is allset to pronounce verdict on

the August 30 order issued bythe Tamil Nadu Government tofacilitate the sale and transferof missing lands owned by thetemples in the State adminis-tered by the Hindu Religiousand Charitable EndowmentDepartment.

A Bench consisting ofJustices M Sathyanarayananand N Seshasayee completedon Monday the hearing ofpetition filed by TR Ramesh,president, Temple WorshippersSociety, questioning the legal-ity of the order which empow-ers the Government to issuepattas to the encroachers of thetemple lands for a nominalamount.

More than 50,000 acres ofprime land valued at thousandsof crore rupees and owned bythe temples under the HRCEDepartment has been missingfor long. In February 2018,Justice R Mahadevan of theMadras High Court had asked

the HRCE Department to tracethe missing lands and updatethe details in the website of thedepartment.

But the Government andthe HRCE Departmentremained unperturbed by thecourt verdict and came outwith an order to bypass theFebruary 2018 verdict.

The lands were donated tothe temple for their upkeep andalso for ensuring the welfare ofthe devotees coming underthe jurisdiction of the

temples.The justices after hearing

both the sides expressed theirshock and asked how theHRCE could issue an orderwithout even carrying out amassive enumeration exercisewith respect to the extent oflands owned by around 38,000temples under the departmentand the extent of land that wasunder encroachment.

They also questioned theauthority of the HRCEDepartment to decide which of

the temple land couldbe sold to the govern-ment and which couldnot be when all templelands were actually pri-vate properties that hadbeen given away bytheir owners for thebenefit of temples andnow belong to thedeities of the templesconcerned.

“The HECEDepartment was creat-ed to protect the tem-ple lands and not to seelthem away,” said thejudges.

Ramesh said that the wholeepisode speaks about “criminaldereliction of duties andresponsibilities by the staff ofthe HRCE Department”. Thereexists a criminal axis betweenthe HRCE staff and encroach-ers which we could convincethe court”, said Ramesh. This isthe eagerly awaiting verdict bythe temple worshippers and isequal in importance to theRam Janmabhumi case, hesaid.

The Madras High Court is

hearing a number of petitionsrelated to the misappropriationof temple properties by indi-viduals in connivance with theofficials of the HRCE officials.Jebamani Mohanraj , a formerCBI official has filed a case inthe MHC in December 2018challenging the move by thetrustees of the centuries oldAgastheeswarar Temple atNungambakkam in Chennaito sell the entire temple prop-erty to a private group.

The famous KapaleeswararTemple in the city is also in acontroversy as the trustees aretrying to sell off the leased landof the temple to private indi-viduals. The Madras High Court is hearing thiscase too.

Ramesh told this newspa-per that if the observationsmade by the court in theGovernment Order case areany indication, chances arethat the officials of the HRCEDepartment are in for troublefor their failure in maintainingthe data associated with theproperties owned by the temple.

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December 5 bypolls to fif-teen constituencies in

Karnataka are a litmus test toChief Minister BS Yediyurappawho is heading a minorityGovernment in the State. Thiselection is also crucial forLeader of the Opposition of theCongress, Siddaramaiah who isfacing internal and externalrebellion.

Both the politicians arebetting high stake in proving apoint need no explanation. Forthe lingayat strongmanYediyurappa, he has to prove tothe high command that he isindispensable in Karnatakapolitics and also consolidatehimself to face political heatwithin the party. ForSiddaramaiah, who is leadingthe Congress, being an outsiderhas to consolidate himselfagainst the weakened highcommand.

Monday being the last dayfor filing of nominations, a totalof 248 candidates includingthose belonging to the

Congress, JD(S) and rulingBJP have filed their nomina-tions for December 5 bypolls to15 Assembly constituenciesAmong the total 248 candidateswho have filed nominations tillMonday, 56 are from Nationalparties, 17 from State parties,47 from registered unrecog-nised parties, and 128 are inde-pendents. While the highest-28 candidates have filed theirnomination from Shivajinagarconstituency, followed byHoskote with 27 candidates;Krishnarajpet has least- 8 can-didates have filed their nomi-nations.

Karnataka witnessed a highpolitical drama and the bypollswas necessitated after the res-ignation and absence of 17

Congress-JD(S) legislators,which led to the collapse of HD Kumaraswamy headed coali-tion government of JDs and theCongress and paved way forBJP to come to power.Seventeen legislators were sub-sequently disqualified by thethen Speaker K R RameshKumar, however the SupremeCourt that heard MLAs’ peti-tion challenging the disqualifi-cation, last week allowed themto contest the by-elections.

All of them have joinedthe saffron party and now 13 ofthem are contesting the bypolls setting the stage for theirre-entry into the poll fray .

Bypolls to 15 of 17 seatsrepresented by disqualifiedMLAs — 14 of the Congressand three belonging to theJDS— will be held onDecember five. Bypolls in theremaining two segments –Maski and R R Nagar — havenot been declared due to theongoing election-related casesin court. The strength of theassembly will be 222, post thebypolls.

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Bengaluru: Senior JD(S) leaderBasavaraj Horatti on Tuesdayreaffirmed that there are “allchances” that his party maysupport the BS Yediyurappa-led-BJP Government, if it fallsshort of numbers after theDecember 5 bypoll results.

The MLC who met theChief Minister felt that MLAsacross political parties do notwant mid-term polls.

“Kumaraswamy and DeveGowda have said they will notlet the Government collapse.

On the basis of their state-ment I have said in case the BJPfalls short of numbers there areall chances that JD (S) may sup-port until his three and halfyear term ends, I still stand byit,” Horatti said.

He said, no MLA from thethree political parties -- the BJP,the Congress and JDS -- areready to pull down the gov-ernment as no one wants mid-term polls.

“Let any government be inpower, our MLA post shouldremain for remaining three-

and-half years, is the feelingamong MLAs...” he added.

In what is being perceived asJD(S) softening of stand on theBJP, JD(S) patriarch H D DeveGowda -- not wanting mid-termpolls in Karnataka -- had said hewants the government to com-plete its term as it would givehim time to build his party. Hisson and former Chief MinisterH D Kumaraswamy too hadrecently said JD(S) would not tryto dislodge the government.

Fifteen out of 17 assemblyconstituencies represented bydisqualified Congress-JD(S) leg-islators, whose resignation andabsence from trust vote had ledto the collapse of theKumaraswamy-led coalitiongovernment and paved way forBJP to come to power in July,will go to bypolls on December5.

The BJP that has fieldeddisqualified MLAs as its can-didates in 13 constituencies,will need to win at least six ofthose 15 seats to remain inpower. PTI

Chennai: Superstar Rajinikanth onTuesday said he would join hands withactor-turned politician Kamal Haasan forthe welfare of people of Tamil Nadu ifsuch a situation arose.

Rajinikanth, who has announced hewould launch his political party to con-test the State Assembly elections due in2021, was responding to questions fromreporters on Haasan’s remarks earlier onTuesday that he (the latter) would joinhands with him for Tamil Nadu’s welfare.“If a situation arises wherein me andKamal have to join hands for the welfareof people of Tamil Nadu, we will surely come together,” Rajinikanth saidin a brief interaction with media at theairport here.

While backing Rajinikanth’s comments on Chief Minister KPalaniswami which have drawn the ire ofruling AIADMK, Haasan said he would“travel together” with his contemporaryfor Tamil Nadu’s welfare.

However, Haasan gave no indicationsof the two aligning politically. PTI

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AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Tuesday claimedthat the Supreme Court’s verdict on the Babri

Masjid-Ramjanmabhoomi land dispute was by nomeans “complete justice” that the powers under Article142 are required to be used for.

Article 142 of the Constitution deals with the apexcourt’s power to exercise its jurisdiction and pass orderas is necessary for doing complete justice in any causeor matter pending before it.

“The Supreme Court’s judgement in the BabriMasjid title suit is by no means the complete justice thatthe powers under Article 142 are required to be usedfor. It is at best incomplete justice or at worst completeinjustice, he tweeted.

Owaisi was responding to media reports on theAyodhya verdict and whether judicial discretion andthe resultant directions guarantee complete justice.

The SC, in its verdict in the Babri Masjid-RamJanmabhoomi title case on November 9, said the entire2.77 acres of disputed land should be handed over tothe deity Ram Lalla, who was one of the three litigants.

The five-judge Constitution bench also directed theCentre to allot a five-acre plot to the Sunni Waqf Boardin Ayodhya to build a mosque.

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Kolkata: The West Bengal BJPunit has been asked by its Central leadership to refrainfrom getting into the frequentverbal spats between the StateGovernment and GovernorJagdeep Dhankhar, a seniorparty leader said.

There is a general percep-tion that the Governor and thesaffron party “complement”each other through their state-ments, he said.

A verbal directive in thisregard has been communicat-ed to the State leadership fromthe top echelons of theparty, the senior BJP leadersaid.

“We have been asked by ourCentral leadership to refrainfrom commenting on the war ofwords between the stateGovernment and the governor.Henceforth, none of our state

leaders will make any commenton the verbal spat,” he said.

According to party sources,the move is aimed to allaycharges that the BJP is using thegovernor to “pinprick” the stateGovernment.

“Whenever there has beena verbal spat between the stateGovernment and Raj Bhawan,for obvious reasons, we havespoken in favour of the gover-nor, be it the present governorJagdeep Dhankhar or his pre-decessor K N Tripathi,” he said.

The tussle betweenDhankhar and the TMCGovernment reachedParliament on Monday whenits Rajya Sabha MP SukhenduSekhar Roy raised the issue ofthe governor “exceeding hisbrief and trying to run a par-allel administration” in theState. PTI

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Imphal: Normal life was crippledin Manipur on Tuesday in an 18-hour shutdown called to protestagainst the proposed CitizenshipAmmendment Bill (CAB) which islikely to introduced in the ongoingwinter session of Parliament.

The shutdown was called joint-ly by Manipur People AgainstCitizenship Ammendment Bill(MANPAC) and North EastForum for Indigenous People(NEFIP) and there was no reportof any untoward incident duringthe strike, which ended at 6 pmTuesday, the police said.

Official sources said all busi-ness establishments, shops, ven-dors, hotels, motels, entertain-ment houses and oil depots wereclosed in response to the call for theshutdown. No educational institu-tions functioned during the bandh,the sources said.

Attendance in Governmentoffices was thin despite the strictorders of the State chief secretary

to Government employees andeducation institutions to carry outnormal duties or face action.

Inter-State and inter-districtbuses did not play. Taxis andautorickshaws too kept off theroad.

Manipur police arrestedMANPAC convenor YumnamchaDilipkumar along with three otherassociates from Manipur’s ImphalWest district during the bandh.

Police also arrested threewomen leaders of KhwairambanKeithel, the biggest women marketof the country which had remainedclosed during the day.

The North East has been onthe boil against the proposed CAB,which the people fear will create ahuge demographic imbalance asmillions of illegal immigrants fromBangladesh reside in the area.

The CAB was passed by theLok Sabha on January 8 this yearbut was not tabled in Rajya Sabhaand lapsed. PTI

Srinagar/Jammu: Jammu &Kashmir police chief DilbagSingh on Tuesday asserted thatPakistan is in no way a friendof the people of the Union ter-ritory and said the neighbour-ing country has only brought death and destruc-tion for them.

He also said Pakistan’sproxy war against India is notover yet and the police forcewill continue fighting theenemy to ensure the nation’ssafety.

Singh made the remarks inan official statement after a visitto Handwara town of Kupwaradistrict and Ganderbal dis-trict.

During his visit, the direc-tor general of police (DGP)reviewed the law and order sit-uation in different areas, inter-

acted with the respective juris-dictional officers and alsoaddressed ‘darbars’ of policepersonnel.

“Pakistan is in no way afriend of the people of Jammu& Kashmir as it has brought death and destruc-tion, and disrupted the peaceand order here,” Singh said.

The proxy war thatPakistan is waging against Indiais not over yet and “we will con-tinue our fight to defeat theenemy for the security andintegrity of our nation,” hesaid.

He also called on officersand jawans to foil the “wickedacts or designs” of elementsinimical to the peace and pros-perity of Jammu & Kashmir. PTI

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Around 32,000 devoteesoffered prayers at the Lord

Ayyappa temple at Sabarimalaon Tuesday, even as policeprevented a 12-year-old girlfrom Puducherry to proceed tothe hill shrine from Pamba.

While two women in thebarred age group of 10-50years were stopped by police onMonday from visiting theshrine, on Saturday, when thetemple opened, at least 10young women from AndhraPradesh were sent back.

Approximately 32,000devotees offered worship onTuesday, TravancoreDevaswom Board (TDB)sources said.

There was a dip in thearrival of pilgrims against theheavy rush seen sinceNovember 16 evening, whenthe shrine was opened.

There was heavy rain in theafternoon, causing difficultiesto the pilgrims.

Unmindful of the heavy

showers, policemen standingon the 18 holy steps, helped thedevotees climb and offerprayers.

A total of 9.6 lakh devoteeshave made virtual Q bookingfor darshan till 10 am thismorning, sources said.

The 12 year-old had comewith her father to offer prayersat the shrine.

The age of the girl, with“irrumudikettu” (offerings toLord Ayyappa) had beenshown as 10 in the virtual Qbooking.

When women police per-sonnel checked her Aadhaarcard it was found that she was12-years-old following whichthey did not allow her to pro-ceed further from Pamba to thetemple complex, policesaid.

After those accompanyingthe child were informed aboutthe current situation inSabarimala, her father andother relatives proceeded to thetemple.

Supporting the shrine’s tra-

dition, a nine-year-old Keralitegirl, who came to the templecomplex from Karnataka onMonday, had a placard aroundher neck inscribed with thewords “Ready to wait. Will visitthe shrine after attaining 50years.”

The Pamba base camp is at

the foothills of Sabarimala,about 5 km from the shrine.

The Ayyappa temple hadopened on November 16evening for the two-monthlong Mandala-Makaravillakkupuja.

A UDF delegation, whichvisited Pamba and Nilackal

base camps onTuesday to have afirst hand experi-ence of the facilitiesfor the pilgrims, saidthey were inade-quate.

The delegationled byT h i r u v a n c h o o rRadhakrishnan andP J Joseph said park-ing facilities werenot enough and theLDF governmenthad failed to provideenough facilities forpilgrims.

Radhakrishnansaid the arrival ofdevotees may beincrease, but facili-

ties like toilets and drinkingwater were lacking at the basecamps.

During the two-monthlong pilgrimage season, theKerala Water Authority hasdecided to provide 130 lakhlitres of water daily.

While at Pamba 60 lakh

litres would be distributed 70lakh litres would be supplied atSannidhanam, a KWA pressrelease said.

The state and templeprecincts had witnessedprotests by right wing outfitsand BJP workers last year afterthe LDF government decidedto implement the Supremecourt’s verdict of September 28,2018 allowing women of all agegroups to offer prayers at theshrine.

Though the apex court didnot stay its earlier order allow-ing entry of women in the LordAyyappa temple, the LDF gov-ernment in Kerala this timesaid the shrine is not a groundfor activism and made

it clear that it would notencourage women who want tovisit the temple forpublicity.

A five-judge bench of theSupreme Court had referred toa larger bench the matter relat-ed to entry of women into thehill temple and other issuesrelated to various faiths.

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Guwahati: Newly appointed NRCState Coordinator Hitesh Dev Sarma,who is embroiled in a row over hisalleged social media posts criticisingthe updation work of the NationalRegister of Citizens, has not joinedoffice, official sources said onTuesday.

Sarma, an Assam Civil Serviceofficer, was appointed on November9 as the NRC State Coordinator inplace of Prateek Hajela who wasreleased from his duties two dayslater.

The office of the NRC Authorityis headless for more than a week.

“The new State Coordinatorhas not joined yet. We have notreceived any official communicationregarding his date of joining,” an offi-cial at the NRC Authority told PTI.

Sources said Sarma has notstepped into the office of the NRCAuthority here after his new appoint-ment. He had earlier served as itsexecutive director from 2013 to2016.

“We are clueless about when he

will join. We have come to knowfrom media reports that he is on amonth-long leave,” the officialsaid.

Repeated calls to theCommissioner of the PersonnelDepartment which is responsible forappointments of government offi-cials, remained unanswered.

At present, NRC AuthorityExecutive Director ChandanaMahanta is the in-charge of the NRCAuthority and looking after theday-to-day affairs since Hajela, theprevious State Coordinator, wasreleased.

Hajela, an IAS officer, was trans-ferred to his home state MadhyaPradesh following a direction fromthe Supreme Court which supervised the updation of the National Register of Citizens(NRC).

Published on August 31, theupdated final NRC, which validatesbonafide Indian citizens of Assam,has left out over 19 lakh applicants. PTI

Jammu: Drass emerged as thecoldest place in Jammu &Kashmir, and Ladakh, record-ing a low of minus 11.5 degreesCelsius, as the mercury dippedin most parts of the two UnionTerritories on Tuesday, aMeteorological (MeT)department spokesman said.

The weatherman has pre-dicted light to moderate rain orsnow in plains and moderatesnow over higher reaches of thetwo Union Territories onThursday and Friday with pos-sibility of temporary disruptionof traffic on Srinagar-Jammuand Srinagar-Leh highways.

Drass town, popularlyknown as ‘the gateway toLadakh’, recorded a minimumof minus 11.5 degrees Celsius,making it the coldest recordedplace in the region, thespokesman said.

He said Leh town ofLadakh continue to freeze at alow of minus 6.8 degreesCelsius, while Kargil townrecorded a night temperature ofminus 3.2 degreesCelsius. PTI

Mathura (UP): Sixteen farmers have beenarrested for allegedly burning stubble and twolekhpals suspended for dereliction of duty inUttar Pradesh’s Mathura district, officials saidon Tuesday.

District Magistrate Sarvagya Ram Mishrasaid a total fine of � 13.05 lakh is being real-ized from the guilty farmers through tahsil.

While 300 cases of stubble burning havebeen identified, two lekhapals (revenue offi-cer) have been suspended for failing to preventthe farmers from burning their crop residue,the DM told reporters.

He said the lekhpals were responsible forpreventing stubble burning but they failed intheir mission, resulting in punitive actionagainst them.

The district magistrate said farmers weregiven full opportunity for preventing stubbleburning.

Through ‘Kisan Pathashala’, they were notonly apprised of hazardous effects of stubbleburning, but also tutored on alternative use ofstubble, Mishra added.

He said, these ‘pathashalas’ have helpedreduce stubble burning cases.

While last year 1,046 cases of stubble burn-ing were identified using satellite images, thenumber has gone down to 459 so far this year,he said. PTI

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The Kerala Highcourt on Tuesday

made it clear thatvehicle parking shallnot be allowed on theroadside fromNilackal to Pambaduring the Sabarimalapilgrimage season asthe Government informed thatlight vehicles of 12-seatercapacity will ferry devotees tillPamba.

A division bench of JusticesC T Ravikumar and NNagaresh said the police cantake appropriate action againstunauthorised parking.

The State Governmentinformed the court that 12-seater capacity light vehiclescan take passengers till Pamba,which is five km from theshrine, and they have to returnto Nilackal for parking.

The court also permittedthe Kerala State RoadTransport Corporation toemploy 1386 drivers tem-porarily from the PublicService Commission list duringthe Sabarimala season.

The order was issued onan application filed by KSRTCseeking permission to appointexperienced drivers for 504buses during the season.

The court permittedKSRTC to employ drivers fromPSC list from November 16,2019 to January 31, 2020.

Patna: A special court here hasissued a production warrantagainst RJD chief Lalu Prasad,who is lodged in a jail inRanchi, in connection with adefamation case.

Special MP/MLA courtjudge Kumar Abhinav onMonday issued the productionwarrant against Prasad in thecase filed by Uday Kant Mishra,a member of Bihar StateDisaster ManagementAuthority, for making objec-tionable comments against him.

The court asked the author-

ities of Birsa Munda jail inRanchi to produce Prasadbefore it on December 2, 2019,which is the next date of hear-ing in the case, Mishra’s coun-sel V S Dubey told PTI.

The Rashtriya Janata Dal(RJD) supremo is in the highsecurity jail following his con-viction in several fodder scamcases.

The court on Mondayissued fresh production warrantagainst Prasad as he could notbe produced before it via videoconferencing, Dubey said.PTI

Srinagar: Several schoolsreopened here on Tuesday afterremaining closed for over threemonths due to the unan-nounced shutdown followingthe Centre’s decision to abro-gate Article 370 provisions,even as life was inching towardsnormalcy in Kashmir, officialssaid.

The move by several pri-vate schools to resume classescame as public transport hasstarted to ply in the Valley andlife was fast returning to nor-malcy, they said.

The managements have

decided to open the schoolsfrom 10 am to 1 pm and stu-dents have been asked to comewithout wearing the uniform,the officials said.

The city and most areaselsewhere in the valley saw asignificant improvement in themovement of public transporton Monday. The officials saidthe intra-district as well as theinter-district connectivity hasimproved significantly.

Auto-rickshaws and inter-district cabs have been plyingfor a while now, but in the lastfew days, the movement of

intra-district cabs across thevalley has also increased, theyadded.

The officials said the pri-vate transport was plyingunhindered.On Sunday, therail service from Srinagar toBanihal also resumed.

The train service in the val-ley was suspended due to secu-rity reasons on August 3 —days before the Centre abro-gated the Jammu & Kashmir’sspecial status under Article370 of the Constitution andbifurcated the State into twoUnion territories. PTI

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Gotabaya (Gota) Rajapaksa’s deci-sive victory in the presidentialelection was not entirely sur-prising though it has shockedthe liberals in Colombo,

becoming the most ethnically polarised ver-dict. Gota has shown that presidentialelections can be won without the ethnicminority vote. Ever since the MahindaRajapaksa regime was voted out of powerin 2015 and following the passage of the 19thAmendment, Gota’s choice was natural as19A had ruled out a third term for thePresident and raised the bar for age to 35years, thus rendering Mahinda and his sonNamal Rajapaksa ineligible for contestingthe presidential election.

For an Army Colonel, Gota’s decade asthe Defence Secretary to elder brother andformer President Mahinda Rajapaksa facil-itated the straightening of many wrinkles indefence and national security, though manyof his Army colleagues and friends hadturned adversaries. By the time Gotabecame a presidential hopeful, he wasaccused of corruption, human rights viola-tions during the war, “white van” disappear-ances, murder of the editor of a newspaperand linkages to a Buddhist extremist grouptargetting Muslims. But his image as a warhero endured.

Gota won exclusively on the plank ofnational security. The catastrophic EasterSunday bombings by radical Islamistslinked to Islamic State (IS) were the resultof infinite bungling by an incumbentGovernment already charged with lack-adaisical performance. The clamour forreturn of the Rajapaksas, who had usheredin a decade of peace, began to pick up. Gotasensed his moment. He blamed theGovernment for dismantling the intelligenceapparatus he had established across thecountry for surveillance and early warning.The bombings were a clear systemic failure.

As President, Commander-in-Chiefof the armed forces, Defence Minister orwhichever portfolio he assigns to himself,Gota’s first task will be to ginger up the intel-ligence network and reinstate the intelli-gence grid and to eliminate the residualsleeper cells of the IS linked to radicalisedMuslims in Sri Lanka. The reorganisationof higher defence management, whichhad become esoteric under his predecessor,is bound to be revamped. The post-EasterSunday appointments of the chief ofnational intelligence, Inspector General ofPolice and Defence Secretary, who reportdirectly to the President, will be reviewed.

Gen Shantha Kottegoda, whose term asArmy Commander was prematurely termi-nated in mid-2000 to accommodate GenSarath Fonseka, is current Defence Secretary.The extended term of Chief of Defence Staff,Admiral Ravi Wijegunaratne, a war herowho had to go to jail, ends next month andhe may get an extension. Army Chief, LtGen Shavendra Silva, another war hero

whose appointment in Augustattracted Western criticism onaccount of alleged human rightsviolations, will certainly get anextension beyond December.

As pledged, Gota will like-ly arrange the release from jailof military intelligence officialsunder trial. Similarly, he willend speculation over anydomestic or internationalinvestigation about alleged warexcesses and also close theUnited Nations Human RightsCouncil (UNHRC) resolutiondated January 30, 2015, co-sponsored with the US —which has already quit thecouncil — on post-war transi-tional justice and reconcilia-tion. Most of the military isjubilant about Gota’s return. Soexcited was the Army that itreportedly endorsed Gota’spresidential candidature in anewspaper advertisement.

Simultaneous with alter-ations in defence and securityarchitecture, Gota will use hisexecutive and persuasive pow-ers to change the Governmentand make Mahinda the PrimeMinister. This can happen intwo ways: First by PrimeMinister Ranil Wickremesingheand his Cabinet resigning in theaftermath of his party’s electoraldefeat. Ministers aligned withthe presidential loser SajithPremadasa have alreadyresigned and have urged

Wickremesinghe to quit, whosaid he will consider. A snapelection could follow.

Second, according to the19th Amendment, thePresident can dismiss theGovernment four-and-a-halfyears into its term, which issometime in February 2020 topave the way for a newParliament by August 2020.

Either way, Mahinda willnow certainly be the next PrimeMinister. And as he recently tolda Tamil newspaper: “PM is thereal power.” The last and onlytime two brothers have beenPresident and Prime Ministertogether was a decade ago inPoland with twins — theKaczynskis. By abolishing the19th Amendment with a two-thirds majority, the Rajapaksasand the Sri Lanka People’s Party(SLPP) may rule, preferably bytaking minorities along, tillkingdom come.

Gota must also attend tothe declining economy crippledby the IS-linked terroristattacks. Soon after the war, theeconomy was zipping at eightper cent growth. The centralbank bonds scam under theWickremesinghe Governmentwas the proverbial last strawthat broke the people’s confi-dence in the Government.

Multi-lateral financial agen-cies are uniformly predictingGDP slipping below the

International Monetary Fund’s(IMF) growth forecast of 3.5 percent for 2019.

The Governor of theCentral Bank of Sri Lanka haswarned of a Greece-like crisisunless deep structural reformsare implemented. Colombo’stotal indebtedness to Beijing isunknown but is estimated at 60per cent of all foreign borrow-ings. Mahinda had given verygenerous concessions to China,resulting in both Hambantotaand the Colombo Port Cityprojects being leased toChinese companies for 99years. China and Sri Lankadecided last month to establishan international financial centre — to rival India’splanned international financialcentre in Gandhinagar —halfway between Dubai andSingapore. Notwithstanding itsviability, the financial centrewill give China anotherfoothold in Sri Lanka.

Where does the landmarkregime change in Sri Lankaleave India given that it wasinstrumental in dislodgingMahinda in 2015? This timearound, India’s non-interfer-ence is impeccable. With theRajapaksa redux, it is easy topaint doomsday scenarios. TheRajapaksa’s indebtedness toBeijing started during the warwhen New Delhi rejected sev-eral requests from Colombo for

military hardware to fight theLiberation Tigers of TamilEelam (LTTE). It was Chinaand Pakistan, who bailed themout. Upon which India hadmocked Lanka for approachingthese countries when it waswilling to supply only non-lethal stores in deference todomestic political compulsionsin Tamil Nadu. The strategiccost of India’s hedging lingersthough that constraint is gone.Gota famously described NewDelhi’s non-interference in thewar as “management” of India.China’s ingress in Sri Lankapredates Rajapaksas.Hambantota was offered twiceto India. The rest is history.

It will be unwise to go bythe track record of a feistywartime defence secretary, whoas part of the famed troika withbrother Basil and Secretary toPresident Lalith Weeratunga,dealt with an intransigent India.Now President GotabayaRajapaksa, who has said he willbe “neutral but friendly” inforeign relations, must bejudged by his deeds not words.Like Nepal, geography and his-tory militate against Sri Lankabeing hostile to India.

(The writer, a retired MajorGeneral, was Commander IPKFSouth, Sri Lanka and foundermember of the Defence PlanningStaff, currently the IntegratedDefence Staff.)

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Sir — This refers to the editorial,“Dealing with a new Lanka”(November 19). In 2015, votersseemingly en masse voted todefeat a supposedly corruptRajapaksa regime, which wasblamed for many negatives,including nepotism of the high-est degree. This, with utter disre-gard to the fact that it was the verysame leader, who along with thedefence guidance of his ownbrother, had been responsible forthe defeat of the most feared ter-rorist organisation.

Five years on, people appar-ently sought the very people tosalvage the country from theabyss it is said to find itself in. SriLankans feel that GotabayaRajapaksa is their saviour and theypinned new hopes from the newPresident.

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Sir — This refers to the editori-al, “Dealing with a new Lanka”(November 19). India’s relationswith neighbouring countries have

always remained wanting. Onecan understand the thorny histor-ical issues with those in the land-locked arc of the Northwest to theNortheast, the gateway of ourinvaders. There was no reason forthe recurrent indifferent ties withSri Lanka.

We were naive to be overinvolved in the Indian PeaceKeeping Force (IPKF) operation.This peace-keeping exercise notonly alienated our own Tamil sen-timent but also earned the dis-pleasure of the Sinhalese. FormerPrime Minister Rajiv Gandhi

paid the ultimate price.Things may look better today.

But in the election of GotabayaRajapaksa as the Sri LankanPresident, we have a proponent ofmajoritarianism, much like ourown present dispensation and,thus, they could vibe well.

That said, the dormantTamilian schism, both at homeand in Sri Lanka, may well findcause for resurgence. This iswhere we need to tread with carelest we repeat history.

R Narayanan Navi Mumbai

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Sir — This refers to the editorial,“Dealing with a new Lanka”(November 19). The election ofGotabaya Rajapaksa as the SriLankan President will have seriousrepercussions back home. It is thepolitical shift that is a cause ofworry. If Mahinda Rajapaksabecomes the Prime Minister, theTamil and Muslim populationsover there will suffer the most.

But it will be better for theRajapaksa brothers to focus onissues plaguing the country, mostimportantly the economy. India,too, needs to pay close attention tothe developments in the islandnation and protect the interests ofthe Tamil population there.

ShivanshVia email

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The London smog of November 1952 isconsidered to be the worst-ever suchcase of environmental hazard which led

to the death of a few thousand people.Winston Churchill, who was the PrimeMinister at that time, himself suffered abronchial attack due to the toxic air. Eventhough the Clean Air Act came up only in1956, stringent action had been initiated bythe local authorities well before that, bring-ing in a dramatic improvement in the stateof the environment in the city.

Back home, even though the NationalGreen Tribunal (NGT), in the case of GangaLalwani vs Union of India (2015), had madeburning of crop stubble a penal offence andadditionally, formulated a National Policy forManagement of Crop Residue, the result ofthe enforcement effort has been rather half-hearted and its dismal and disastrous resultsare being experienced by all of us in the formof a health emergency being declared in theDelhi-National Capital Region (NCR).According to medical experts, air pollution inDelhi-NCR is no longer just a health risk, it hasbecome a hazard. Everyone in Delhi, particu-larly asthma patients, infants, children and theelderly are affected by this pollution. It doesn’tmatter whether a person is a smoker or not, thetoxic air people are breathing in is equivalent tosmoking 15 to 20 cigarettes a day.

Except for the States of Odisha , AndhraPradesh and Tamil Nadu, where some seri-ousness has been shown in combatting air pol-lution, the enforcement of the NGT’s ordersand follow-up on the policy in some of theother States, particularly in Punjab and tosome extent in Haryana, has been very poor.

However, according to an affidavit filedby the Central Government in the SupremeCourt (SC), stubble burning has gone up byseven per cent in Punjab and gone down by17 per cent in Haryana. In order to addressthis problem, a new Central scheme,“Promotion of Agricultural Mechanisation forIn-Situ Management of Crop Residue in theStates of Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh andNCT of Delhi,” was approved in 2018.

This provided for subsidising machin-ery required for in-situ management of thebiomass, for which a sum of �1,151.80 crorehas been allocated for the period of 2018-2023. Out of this provision, Punjab has gotthe largest share. The objective of the schemewas to procure agricultural machinery andequipment for in-situ management of cropresidue, create farm machinery banks andconduct multi-media awareness campaigns.

Delhi, leading the NCR with a combi-nation of adverse factors, has already bro-ken the world record for Air Quality Index(AQI), making the headlines bold and telling.But perhaps waking up will take some time.There is no dearth of authorities who are,and were aware of the impending environ-mental hazard, but instead of a well thoughtout long-term strategy or some short-termrelief our approach appears to be a classiccase of ad-hocism. For instance, it is nowknown that the burning of stubble is respon-

sible for about 37 per cent of the pollution,which is more or less of a seasonal nature.For the remaining, it is understood that two-wheelers, whose number in Delhi alone is88 lakh, happen to be the source of about33 per cent of the pollutants, while four-wheelers, whose number is about 35 lakh areresponsible for just about 15 per cent of it.

In these circumstances, forcing somefour-wheelers to be off the roads is boundto have just a marginal impact.

On the other hand, as is well known,the two-stroke two-wheelers and three-wheel-ers emit a far more hazardous mixture ofhydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides, some ofwhich like benzene are known to be car-cinogenic, but their numbers continue toincrease.

In respect of automobile emissions, com-plete combustion within the engine is essen-tial to reduce the extent of pollutants. Thefour-stroke engine is cleaner because it burnspure petrol; the two-stroke engine, on theother hand, burns a combination of lubri-cating oil and petrol and a fair amount ofthe oil is emitted as unburnt vapour.

Some 94 per cent of the two-and three-wheelers in India are powered by two-strokeengines that are simple and compact indesign, cheap and easy to maintain. But theconventionally-designed two-stroke enginesproduce high levels of hydrocarbons inexhaust emissions — 5,500 parts per million(ppm), compared to 850 ppm from four-stroke engines. According to a research atthe Indian Institute of Petroleum atDehradun, four-stroke engine-powered motorcycles have been observed to emit just one-sixth to one-tenth of the hydrocarbons emit-ted by two-stroke engines. In addition, theirfuel economy is better by 20 to 50 per cent.However, manufacturers prefer two-strokeengines because they are more powerful and

have greater pick-up. In the long run, elec-tricity-powered two-wheelers could be a suit-able alternative. The latest figures availablefor usage of public transport in Delhi indi-cate that the Delhi Transport Corporation(DTC) and Delhi Metro carry just 12 and10 per cent respectively of the entire com-muter traffic.

This is an extremely low proportion andobviously leading to a much greater usageof highly polluting two-wheelers. Obviously,we have to create conditions for encourag-ing greater ridership on public transport. Atthe same time we must ensure a larger num-ber of Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) fuelstations so as to reduce the waiting time,since mostly these cater to public transportvehicles or taxis.

Last year a group of industries had con-ducted a pilot project in two districts ofPunjab covering an area of 16,000 acres offarm land, where 25,000 tonnes of rice strawwere processed and converted into fibre-basedcellulosic products. The details of the pro-ject need to be analysed to enlarge its scope.

The apex court has pulled up theGovernment of India as well as the DelhiGovernment for “passing the buck” even asDelhi and nearby areas face a public healthemergency due to the severe air pollution.

Further, the Centre has been asked tocall environmental experts including thosefrom the Indian Institutes of Technology sothat their views on the current situationcould be taken into account for suitabledirectives. It can thus be easily observed thata rational public policy based on scientificinputs needs to be operationalised whileensuring its stringent implementation andmonitoring.

(The author is a former Governor and aSenior Advisor at the Pranab MukherjeeFoundation)

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Sri Lankan People’s Front candi-date Gotabaya Rajapaksa,younger brother of former

President Mahinda Rajapaksa, hasnow taken over as the country’sPresident. A retired Lieutenant-Colonel, who presided over the coun-try’s Defence Ministry for a decadeduring his brother’s tenure (2005-2014), Gotabaya swept the polls in theSinhala-majority districts, while hismain opponent RanasinghePremadasa, garnered most of thevotes from the Tamil-dominatednorth and east of the country.

Gotabaya’s victory would meanthe return of the powerful Rajapaksafamily as he is expected to appoint hisbrother Mahinda as the Prime

Minister, sooner than later. The new Sri Lankan President,

known as “terminator” for his role inwiping out the Liberation Tigers ofTamil Eelam (LTTE) a decade ago, hasfaced lawsuits in Sri Lanka and in theUnited States (US) over allegations ofstaged killings of Tamil separatists, crit-ics and journalists during the civil war.

In a fascinating interview withthis journalist in 2014, Gotabayarevealed many things, including howhe the then government finished offthe LTTE. Giving a graphic descrip-tion of what happened in the last daysof the LTTE War IV, (the name givento the fourth phase of the armed con-flict between the Sri Lankan militaryand the separatists), he pointed outthat the biggest advantage was that hisbrother had full trust in him and thethen Army chief Sarath Fonseka.Mahinda had the political will to neu-tralise the LTTE.

Second, the leadership agreedwith the defence assessment that alarge-scale expansion was neededwithin a very short period. “Webriefed the President. It was not aneasy thing to achieve. You need torecruit people, train them and also

equip them. But, wedid it,” he said. Givingmore details,Gotabaya said thatthe President also cre-ated a core group tocut down red tape.

“From our side itwas Basil Rajapaksa,Lalith ChandrakumarWeeratunga, who wasthe President’sPermanent Secretaryand me. From theIndian side it wastheir National Security Advisor MKNarayanan, Foreign SecretaryShivshankar Menon and DefenceSecretary VJ Singh, who were in theloop. We coordinated everything. Wewent to India and they came to SriLanka. And we discussed everything,even the operational plan and intelli-gence inputs.”

Gotabaya also exposed the dou-ble face of the then Tamil NaduChief Minister M Karunanidhi, whoput tremendous pressure on theManmohan Singh Government tostop the war on the LTTE, while theruling DMK adopted a strategy of run-

ning with the hareand hunting with thehound.

S h i v s h a n k a rMenon in his book,titled Choices: Insidethe making of India’sForeign Policy, con-firms that New Delhiwas in “intense” and“constant” touch withColombo.

“I vividlyremember the atmos-phere of the crisis

that built up during that period andrepeated visits from and to Colomboin the first five months of 2009,”Menon notes in his book, adding thatby mid-January 2009, the Sri LankanArmy and leadership were convincedthat they had the measure of the LTTEand the victory would be theirs. As astrategy, the Sri Lankan Army strong-ly occupied the north and the southso that the Tigers were kept away andwere stopped from procuring militarysupplies.

As for the last phase of theEelam War IV, Gotabaya noted, thateven at the last minute

Thiruvenkadam VelupillaiPrabhakaran, the founder and leaderof the LTTE, broke from the line andwent into the small island with hisbodyguards.

“Kandasamy Pathmanabha, aSri Lankan Tamil rebel, founder of theEelam People’s RevolutionaryLiberation Front and the LTTE’sfinancier, spoke to Prabhakaran inJanuary 2009 over the phone askinghim to escape. We intercepted the con-versation. Prabhakaran refused tohide at that time. Two weeks before thewar ended KP spoke to him again andasked him to escape. The LTTE Tigeragain refused,” he said.

Gotabaya pointed out that, “Doyou think that such a person will comeout holding his hands up and surren-der?”

The then Army chief SarathFonseka, in an interview to this jour-nalist also observed that the strategywas to take on the LTTE in the jun-gles. “By May 17, 2009 the troops cor-nered the LTTE within an area of400X400 metres. That night when theytried to escape they were preventedfrom doing so, by all three lines ofdefence put up by the Army.

“On the night of May 18, the topLTTE leadership divided itself intothree groups. They attacked theArmy’s forward defence line along theNandikadal lagoon and did manage tobreak through. Jeyam, Pottu Ammanand Soosai led these three groups.Prabhakaran and his closest guardsthought they would manage to escapebut in reality all these LTTE fighters(around 250) had got trapped betweenthe Army’s first and second line ofdefence. “After fierce fighting thatnight, almost the entire leadership ofthe LTTE was eliminated in thatarea. “We discovered Prabhakaran’sbody on the morning of May 19. I gotthe news of his death around 11 AM.I got a phone call from theCommander who gave me the infor-mation. Looking back, I was confident.I said I would finish the LTTE in threeyears and I did it in two years and ninemonths,” Fonseka said.

Those were different times buttoday it is a time for peace and asPresident how will Gotabaya deal withthe Tamil minorities in Lanka now?The fact that the Tamils did not votefor him reveals their apprehensions.

(The writer is a senior journalist)

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The telecom regulator willwait for operators to report

their new tariffs to the authori-ty before taking a view onwhether the revised pricing iswithin the regulatory frame-work, according to a Trai source.Confronted with intense com-petition and unprecedentedstatutory dues, Bharti Airteland Vodafone Idea on Mondayannounced a hike in mobilephone call and data chargesfrom December saying theincrease was warranted for via-bility of their business. The two,however, did not quantify theincrease in rates but said that thehike will be effective beginningnext month.

A senior Trai official toldPTI that the regulator will waitand watch to see the finer detailsof the announcement. “Let themreport the tariffs, and we will see.Also, the tariffs are under for-bearence,” the official said.Another official said that as

things stand now there is nomove to initiate any consultationon floor price. On Mondayevening, Vodafone Idea, in astatement, announced plans toraise tariffs for the first time in3 years only to be followed by asimilarly-worded statement min-utes later from Airtel. VodafoneIdea and Bharti Airtel, the twolarge telecom operators, lastweek had reported a combinedloss of �74,000 crore for the sec-ond quarter ended September2019, mainly on account ofstatutory dues arising from therecent Supreme Court order onadjusted gross revenue (AGR).

The apex court has upheldthe government’s position onincluding revenue from non-telecommunication businessesin calculating the annual AGRof telecom companies, a share ofwhich has to be paid as licenceand spectrum fee to the exche-quer. The ruling over statutoryliabilities had prompted a rushfor provisioning by telecomcompanies.

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Ambani’s Reliance Jio onTuesday said it will increasemobile phone call and datacharges in the next few weeksin compliance with rules, as itfollowed similar announce-ments by Bharti Airtel andVodafone Idea on tariff hike.

Jio, which had stormedthe telecom sector with freevoice calls and dirt cheap data,had for the first time lastmonth decided to chargephone calls by its users to rivalphone networks to compensatefor interconnect usage charges.

In a statement on Tuesday,Jio said that the telecom regu-lator TRAI is likely to initiateconsultation process for revi-sion in telecom tariffs.

The company underlinedits commitment to bringing the40 crore 2G customers to expe-rience and participate fully inthe Digital India eco-system,and pledged its full support toproviding the best quality andexperience to all its customers.

"Like other operators, wewill also work with theGovernment and comply with

the regulatory regime tostrengthen the industry to ben-efit Indian consumers and takemeasures including appropri-ate increase in tariffs in nextfew weeks in a manner thatdoes not adversely impact dataconsumption or growth in dig-ital adoption, and sustainsinvestments," Jio said.

The company did notdivulge the extent of price hikein the offing.

"Despite the staggeringgrowth in data-consumptionand 4G coverage across thecountry, there are still over 40crore Indian consumers whohave not benefitted from theadvent of the latest technolo-gies. We believe that the ambi-tious objectives of the ‘DigitalIndia' mission can be achievedonly if India is made ‘2G-mukt’ in the shortest time-

frame possible," Jio said.The Government and the

sector regulator TRAI shouldmandate this through policy, itadded.

"This requires continuedinvestment at an industry level.The whole industry needs tocome up the curve and raisestandards to meet the aspira-tions of Indian citizens and ful-fill the nation's digital agenda,"the statement added.

The operator - known forits aggressive stance on pricingsince it launched services in2016 - said it is committed tobringing the 40 crore 2G cus-tomers to experience and par-ticipate fully in the DigitalIndia eco-system.

The company said it willcontinuously innovate in thedigital eco-system to provideaffordable services and prod-ucts to Indian consumers.

"Jio is committed to alwaysbeing regulatory compliant,and work with the industry tokeep the telecom sector avibrant part of the Indian econ-omy and a vital engine for ourcountry's growth," it said. PTI

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on Tuesday categorically statedthat it does not intend to reviseits fiscal deficit target of 3.3 percent of gross domestic product(GDP) for the current financialyear notwithstanding slowdownin economic activities.

“No sir,” Minister of Statefor Finance Anurag Thakursaid in a written reply in theRajya Sabha to a query if theGovernment intends to revisefiscal deficit in view of the eco-nomic slowdown

The Minister further said

expenditure of variousMinistries and departments ofthe Government is as per theestimates approved byParliament.

In the first half of the finan-cial year, 53.4 per cent of BudgetEstimates was spent by variousministries and departments.

Thakur also listed out thesteps taken by the Governmentto boost economic activities.

The real GDP growthslowed to an over six-year lowof 5 per cent in the first quar-ter of the current financial year.

Replying to another ques-tion, Singh said non-perform-ing assets of banks, after reach-ing a peak of �10,36,187 croreas on March 31, 2018, havedeclined �97,996 crore to�9,38,191 crore as on June 30,2019.

Banks have also "effectedrecord recovery" of �4,27,115crore over the last four finan-cial years and the first quarterof the current financial year,including recovery of �1,56,702crore during the financial year2018-19. PTI

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London: Tata Steel has con-firmed cuts of up to 3,000 jobsacross its European operations aspart of a wider restructuring andcost-cutting strategy to counterstagnant steel demand in Europeand global overcapacity.

The Indian steel giant saidit plans to lower employmentcosts with the "estimated reduc-tion" in employee numbers,about two-thirds of which areexpected to be office-basedwhite-collar roles – a majorityexpected at its Netherlands unit.

"The information sharedwith the European WorksCouncil select committee laysout the case for change, explainsour transformation programmeand gives a first overview of theorganisational impact," a com-pany statement said.

"A transformation is need-ed to mitigate the current struc-

tural and cyclical headwinds andcreate the foundation for thecompany's future success.Stagnant EU steel demand andglobal overcapacity have beencompounded by trade conflictswhich have turned the Europeanmarket into a dumping groundfor the world's excess steel capac-ity," it noted.

Through its proposed trans-formation programme, Tata SteelEurope said it is initially target-ing a positive cash flow by theend of its financial year endingMarch 2021. It is also aiming foran EBITDA margin of around 10per cent throughout the marketcycle. "We intend to align on ourapproach and the process goingforward and engage with variousstakeholders to develop the pro-posed decisions and ensure com-pliance with all European andnational obligations. PTI

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New Delhi: Yes Bank onTuesday reported a lower netprofit of �1,084.03 crore for2018-19 compared to�1,720.28 crore announcedearlier due to higher non-per-forming assets assessed bythe Reserve Bank.

The divergence in netnon-performing assets (NPAs)of the bank — the differencein bad loans reported by thebank and the assessment doneby the RBI — stood at �2,299crore for 2018-19, Yes Banksaid in a regulatory filing.

The private sector lenderhad reported a net profit of�1,720.28 crore in 2018-19.

"The adjusted (notional)net profit after tax for the yearended March 31, 2019 aftertaking into account the diver-gence in provisioning was at�1,084.03 crore," it said.

The divergence in provi-sioning was at �978 crore.

Additionally, the bank saidthat it intends to convene ameeting of its board of direc-tors by the end of this monthto finalise its capital raise.

Market regulator Sebi has put in place tighter dis-closure norms, directing alllisted banks to disclose anydivergence in bad loan provi-sioning within 24 hours of receiving RBI's r isk assessment report, rather thanwaiting to publish the detailsin their annual financialstatements. PTI

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Mumbai: The rupee recoveredfrom initial losses to settlehigher by 13 paise at 71.71against the US currency onTuesday, propped up softeningcrude oil prices and gains indomestic equity markets.

Forex traders said the rupeeconsolidated in a narrow rangefollowing lack of cues on thedomestic as well as the globalfront. During the day, thedomestic unit f luctuatedbetween a high of 71.68 and alow of 72.

"The Indian rupee openedlower at 71.97 a dollar, tackingcues from most Asian curren-cies as a lack of progress in US-China trade talks had an impacton risk appetite. However, therupee recovered from day's lowamid stronger domestic equityand lower crude oil prices," saidVK Sharma, Head — PCG &Capital Market Strategy, HDFCsecurities. PTI

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In a candid admission that thePunjab & Maharashtra

Cooperative (PMC) Bank hadtaken it for a ride, the ReserveBank of India (RBI) on Tuesdayinformed the Bombay HighCourt that the PMC Bank hadsubmitted “fraudulently manip-ulated data” to it for samplechecks.

In a detailed affidavit filedbefore a HC bench of JusticesSatyranjan Dharmadhikari andRiyaz Chagla, the RBI stated:“Since transaction testing is notdone in the RBI inspection,and the bank submitted fraud-ulently manipulated data to RBIfor sample checks, the sample ofaccounts picked for inspectiondid not contain undisclosedHDIL related accounts. Thedisclosed HDIL related accountswere seen and majority of themwere assessed as NPAs”

In an affidavit filed beforethe high court, Rajlaxmi Sethi,Assistant General Manager,

Department of Co-operativeBank Supervision, RBI, stated:“Further, non-monitoring ofend use of funds despite instruc-tions to this effect contained inthe Master Circulars onAdvances and conflict of inter-est of Shri Waryam Singh asChairman of PMC bank and asa former director of HDIL groupwas also commented upon inthe report along with the attemptby the bank to show disclosedaccounts of HDIL group asstandard by sanction of newloans to close/regularise the oldNPA accounts in non-adherenceto RBI Master Circular (MC)dated July 1, 2015 on lRACnorms”.

“The bank had also sanc-tioned mortgage overdraft lim-its to a wholly owned groupcompany of HDIL while the pre-sent Chairman (then director) ofthe bank was one of theDirectors in the company. Thiswas a violation of para 5.1 of thethen RBI Master Circulars onBoard of Directors dated July 1,

2010 and July 2, 20l2,” the RBIstated, in its inspection reportthat has been made part of itsaffidavit filed before the highcourt.

“Waryam Singh chaired theBoard meeting to ratify theapproval of the mortgage over-draft, in which he was directlyinterested in non adherence topara 2.3 (b) (iii) of RBI MasterCircular on Board of Directors- UCBs, requiring non-partici-pation by the Directors con-cerned Board discussion, if aproposal in which they aredirectly' or indirectly interested,comes up for discussion/to dis-close their interest, well inadvance, to the Board of thebank,” the affidavit stated.

“The Inspection team hadalso established the relationshipbetween the Chairman of thebank and HDIL promoters,which might have acted as theprimary consideration for sanc-tion of credit facilities and result-ed in their utilisation to payoffone-time settlement dues with

other lenders,” the affidavit stat-ed.

The high court is hearing aPIL seeking the removal ofrestrictions on the withdrawalamount from PMC Bank cameup for hearing. The HC benchheard the matter and scheduledthe next hearing of the case forDecember 4.

The RBI’s affidavit beforethe high court should be seen inthe context of a finding duringthe ongoing investigations thatthe PMC Bank’s exposure to theHDIL group was nearly 73 percent of its total loan book size ofRs 8,880 crore as of September19, 2019.

The Economic OffenceWing (EOW) of the Mumbaipolice, which is investigating thecase, suspects a nexus betweensome of the accused and realtygroup HDIL, whose mammothloan defaults are said to havecaused a liquidity crisis at thebank, leading to appointment ofadministrator and restrictionson withdrawal of funds.

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Market benchmark Sensexrose by 186 points on

Tuesday, driven by substantialgains in Reliance Industries,Bharti Airtel and HDFC Bankamid positive trends in globalequities. The 30-share indexended 185.51 points, or 0.46per cent, higher at 40,469.70with 11 of its constituents clos-ing with gains. The broaderNifty of the National StockExchange rose by 55.60 points,or 0.47 per cent, to end at11,940.10. Reliance Industriesled the gains, rallying nearly 4per cent to its life-time high ofRs 1,514.95 (intra-day) on BSE.It became the first Indian com-pany to hit the Rs 9.5 lakh-crore market capitalisationlevel. Telecom stocks surgedafter two older playersannounced a hike in data andmobile telephony plans fromnext month.

Bharti Airtel jumped to afresh 52-week high before set-tling up 7.36 per cent on BSE.Vodafone Idea rallied 34.68 percent. The two players haveannounced a hike in mobilephone call and data chargesfrom next month. “Theincrease in tariffs will help thetelecom industry players ser-vice huge debt on their balancesheets. This would have a pos-

itive impact on the bankingsector which fuelled a sharprally in PSU banks,” SunilSharma, Chief InvestmentOfficer, Sanctum WealthManagement.

Among banking stocks,Axis Bank rose by 3.43 per cent,SBI by 1.57 per cent, IndusIndBank by 1.26 per cent andHDFC Bank by 1 per cent.Among other gainers,PowerGrid jumped 2.44 percent Tech Mahindra by 1.84 percent and Infosys by 1 per cent.On the other hand, Yes Bankdropped 2.66 per cent toemerge as the biggest Sensexloser, M&M fell by 2.19 percent, and Tata Steel by 2.02 percent. TCS, Tata Motors andHero MotoCorp also declined.

“Domestic indices endedhigher on the back of buyingseen in the PSU bank, infra andenergy stocks. Telecom stocksalso edged higher after talks ofraising tariffs from Decemberonwards while energy stockswere lifted by a sharp fall incrude oil prices,” Paras Bothra,President of Equity Research,Ashika Stock Broking, said.Sectorally, BSE telecom rallied8.52 per cent, followed by BSEenergy, power, teck, oil and gas,utilities and bankex. However,BSE metal, auto, FMCG and IT indices fell up to 0.94 per cent.

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Reliance Communications’Committee of Creditors

(CoC) will hold a meeting onNovember 20, the companysaid in a regulatory filing onTuesday. Last week, RelianceCommunications ChairmanAnil Ambani along with fourdirectors had resigned fromthe company, that is goingthrough insolvency process.

The company posted aconsolidated loss of Rs 30,142crore for September 2019quarter due to provisioningfor l iabi l it ies af ter theSupreme Court ruling onstatutory dues. This hadmarked the second highestloss posted by any Indiancorporate till date, after VIL’sRs 50,921 crore losses. “... wewish to inform you that the11th meeting of Committee ofCreditors of RelianceCommunications Limited isscheduled to be convened onWednesday, November 20,2019,” RCom said in a BSE fil-ing. During July-September2019, RCom set aside Rs28,314 crore on account ofprovisioning following theSupreme Court order on cal-culation of annual adjustedgross revenue (AGR) of tele-

com companies. The apexcourt, last month, upheld thegovernment’s position onincluding revenue from non-telecommunication business-es in calculating the annualAGR, a share of which has tobe paid as licence and spec-trum fee to the exchequer.

RCom’s total liabilityincludes Rs 23,327 crorelicence fee and Rs 4,987 crorespectrum usage charges. Thecompany is going throughinsolvency proceedings fol-lowing an application filed bySwedish telecom gear makerEricsson. The NationalCompany Law Tribunal hashanded over control of thecompany to an insolvencyresolution professional.Sources estimate that RComGroup’s total secured debt isaround Rs 33,000 crore.Lenders have submitted claimof around Rs 49,000 crore inAugust. RCom has put its allassets for sale which includespectrum holding of 122 MHzthat the company beforeinsolvency proceedings esti-mated to be around Rs 14,000crore, towers business for Rs 7,000 crore, opticalfibre network Rs 3,000 croreand data centres worth Rs 4,000 crore.

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Bulgaria’s Deputy PrimeMinister for Economic and

Demographic Policy MariyanaNikolova on Tuesday invitedbusinesses from India to investin the nation, pitching it as agateway to the EuropeanUnion, thereby offering dutyfree access to a market with 500million consumers.

Addressing the India-Bulgaria Business Forum here,Nikolova said the nation offersattractive conditions and envi-ronment conducive to thedevelopment of successful busi-ness and investment projects.“One of the things we are par-ticularly proud is our tax pol-icy, we have some of the low-est tax rates in the EuropeanUnion. Besides having a cor-porate tax of only 10 per cent,we do not tax profit reinvest-ed in municipalities with highunemployment rates,” theBulgarian Deputy PrimeMinister said.

She said the country’slabour market has a skilledworkforce and operating costsare reasonable. “Our strategicgeographic location and ourmembership in the EuropeanUnion provide unhindered andduty free access to a marketwith 500 million consumers,”she added.

New Delhi: The Union Cabinetwill soon consider a proposalto bring down Governmentstake in central public sectorenterprises (CPSEs) to below51 per cent even while retain-ing the State control, sourcessaid.

Besides, the Cabinet head-ed by Prime Minister NarendraModi is likely to take a call onthe merger of public sector gen-eral insurance companies.

The Budget for 2018-19had proposed the merger ofthree public sector generalinsurance companies and sub-sequent listing of the mergedentity on stock exchanges.

Last week, FinanceMinister Nirmala Sitharamansaid the Government wouldmove forward on the merger ofthe three State-owned generalinsurance companies —National Insurance Company,United India Insurance andOriental Insurance Company— as announced in the previ-ous Budget.

In her Budget Speech of2019-20, Sitharaman hadannounced the Governmenthas been following the policyof disinvestment in non-finan-cial public sector undertakings

maintaining the Government'sstake not to go below 51 percent.

"The Government is con-sidering, in case where theundertaking is still to beretained in Government con-trol, to go below 51 per cent toan appropriate level on a case-to-case basis. The Governmenthas also decided to modify pre-sent policy of retaining 51 percent Government stake toretaining 51 per cent stakeinclusive of the stake of theGovernment controlled insti-tutions," she had said.

Such a move is possible byamendment to Section 241 ofthe Companies Act.

Sources said theGovernment envisages that theGovernment can bring down

its stake in a public sectorundertaking by roping in otherState-owned entities to retainthe public sector nature.

For example, the sourcessaid, if LIC picks up stakewhich lowers the Governmentholding below threshold levelof 51 per cent, the companiesstill are majority controlled bythe Government.

The Government fixed anambitious disinvestment targetof �1.05 lakh crore for the cur-rent financial year, up from�90,000 crore projected inInterim Budget 2019-20 inFebruary.

In 2018-19, theGovernment raised �84,972crore from CPSE disinvest-ment, while in 2017-18, the fig-ure was �1,00,056 crore.

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CEATLTD 952.60 966.00 949.70 954.45RAJESHEXPO 724.00 724.00 698.50 705.85GRAPHITE 297.70 303.95 297.60 301.60MFSL 485.40 495.00 479.40 487.90NBCC 38.40 38.40 36.80 36.90MOTHERSUMI 134.50 135.10 133.40 134.10ESCORTS 661.10 669.90 654.90 662.60EICHERMOT 21686.40 21773.15 21442.95 21748.75RAYMOND 717.00 727.90 694.60 700.30ADANIPOWER 59.70 61.00 59.15 60.25CASTROLIND 147.00 154.55 145.55 153.55ADANIGREEN 95.50 97.50 91.95 96.20IOC 132.00 133.55 131.80 133.00SCI 60.25 63.35 59.20 62.55TATACHEM 650.80 666.00 643.80 645.25ICICIPRULI 521.15 522.10 504.10 505.40CORPBANK 23.70 26.45 23.40 26.45INDIANB 119.85 127.90 117.50 123.90TATAGLOBAL 306.00 308.65 300.90 302.35ONGC 135.40 135.40 132.80 133.15LTI 1714.10 1715.50 1687.10 1690.65AVANTI 509.00 518.90 496.45 508.70GMRINFRA 21.40 21.40 20.55 20.75HINDALCO 194.75 194.75 190.70 192.25UJJIVAN 289.90 292.05 286.85 288.40WIPRO 249.60 250.95 247.65 250.40BRITANNIA 3125.10 3156.95 3113.50 3121.35

SUVEN 301.15 315.65 300.20 302.90GAIL 125.00 125.75 123.20 125.20MANAPPURAM 164.45 169.50 162.20 168.90EXIDEIND 192.90 193.10 189.10 189.95BHARATFORG 450.00 459.50 445.95 454.60JYOTHYLAB 184.35 185.00 178.20 178.85M&MFIN 327.05 335.15 324.65 327.70SYNDIBANK 27.30 31.60 27.05 30.40DABUR 455.00 456.40 448.30 454.30IDBI 32.90 35.15 32.50 33.85JUBLFOOD 1593.10 1605.00 1576.00 1592.90LUPIN 747.00 754.35 740.70 747.45UCOBANK 13.00 15.58 13.00 15.58ITDC 353.35 387.45 346.80 381.20CANFINHOME 383.95 409.75 383.85 393.55FORTIS 142.60 144.55 141.65 143.85RECLTD 140.90 143.45 140.00 142.95COALINDIA 200.95 201.00 198.25 199.55IDFCFIRSTB 42.60 43.05 42.45 42.80NMDC 100.80 102.00 99.40 100.10GICRE 246.00 261.00 236.05 256.35LALPATHLAB 1618.40 1698.00 1610.60 1649.35NOCIL 103.45 108.00 102.95 106.35JAICORPLTD 96.95 98.25 95.20 96.05GODFRYPHLP 1170.00 1245.20 1170.00 1223.30PCJEWELLER 32.00 32.70 31.25 32.00HEG 1009.20 1026.90 1007.00 1012.00ABCAPITAL 82.00 84.05 81.95 83.60SPARC 155.90 157.00 151.85 153.50TATAMTRDVR 79.00 79.40 77.00 77.45HINDZINC 211.20 216.50 208.70 215.60VOLTAS 711.90 717.95 709.50 713.40IRCON 408.05 422.30 406.05 416.75BIOCON 261.15 262.45 257.40 258.75LAXMIMACH 3424.90 3424.90 3159.90 3323.35ANDHRABANK 17.45 20.85 17.45 20.25BEML 942.60 947.15 926.30 936.45CREDITACC 794.00 837.90 794.00 806.00HAVELLS 670.25 673.20 662.40 665.55PARAGMILK 147.60 156.65 146.00 154.50NESTLEIND 14155.00 14198.70 14021.60 14107.25AMARAJABAT 753.90 760.60 746.25 754.80ALBK 25.80 27.10 25.00 25.80IPCALAB 1178.50 1188.00 1133.05 1145.65TEAMLEASE 2625.00 2625.00 2525.00 2549.90STRTECH 123.00 126.55 122.30 122.95CADILAHC 244.90 246.55 239.40 243.65AUBANK 801.85 828.00 779.25 817.00GREAVESCOT 138.00 142.70 136.40 138.80BEL 110.30 111.90 109.65 111.45ADANIPORTS 370.60 370.60 361.70 363.90FRETAIL 337.00 337.00 323.55 328.10APOLLOTYRE 170.80 170.80 167.45 167.80TEJASNET 70.00 81.45 70.00 81.45JKTYRE 67.80 69.20 67.05 67.30TVSMOTOR 452.05 456.25 445.60 447.70

TATAPOWER 56.00 56.35 55.35 55.75TORNTPOWER 294.00 294.95 287.30 288.30PFIZER 4099.95 4114.95 4044.10 4051.60PAGEIND 23729.95 23730.00 22945.00 23049.80UBL 1270.00 1270.00 1223.20 1230.45MRF 64400.00 64405.15 63400.00 63525.45EQUITAS 88.90 90.95 88.20 88.70DBL 406.30 423.00 404.25 415.45POLYCAB 943.50 948.95 922.30 931.20ICICIGI 1358.30 1359.00 1336.35 1340.80HCLTECH 1139.00 1143.00 1129.40 1134.70RVNL 24.60 24.75 24.15 24.25IGL 417.40 420.70 415.90 417.75CENTRALBK 20.95 23.80 20.65 22.75COFFEEDAY 50.50 50.50 50.25 50.50KTKBANK 75.05 76.95 73.95 75.30NIACL 151.30 156.45 145.00 153.75AMBUJACEM 201.90 202.35 198.80 201.25BOMDYEING 79.75 80.00 77.60 77.95SHREECEM 20000.00 20073.15 19692.25 20022.35SUNTV 499.95 499.95 488.25 490.30EDELWEISS 128.20 130.00 122.25 122.80RADICO 305.00 308.65 299.20 301.25SWANENERGY 102.45 102.90 100.50 101.90JUBILANT 493.80 503.95 491.90 498.80INDHOTEL 154.90 154.95 150.75 153.10INTELLECT 143.60 153.00 143.20 148.60NATIONALUM 42.40 42.50 41.90 42.05DIVISLAB 1737.00 1746.75 1718.05 1732.60SRF 3200.00 3229.10 3184.10 3202.45NAVINFLUOR 919.00 935.05 892.00 898.95GODREJCP 719.35 719.35 700.15 702.95VENKYS 1725.00 1745.00 1691.50 1699.70TV18BRDCST 22.30 23.00 22.20 22.80IBREALEST 69.80 71.95 66.60 69.15JINDALSAW 80.40 82.35 80.35 80.75NESCO 624.25 639.50 624.25 632.75DRREDDY 2736.25 2756.50 2724.15 2745.30ADANITRANS 269.20 271.50 265.20 267.90J&KBANK 32.00 34.75 31.10 33.65GLAXO 1638.00 1671.00 1630.10 1640.50INFIBEAM 43.90 45.30 43.90 44.55GODREJPROP 891.80 897.00 876.70 883.35GRANULES 128.10 129.60 126.70 128.65INDIACEM 80.00 81.35 79.25 79.55HEXAWARE 337.95 341.45 334.45 339.00JSWENERGY 70.65 72.45 70.00 71.95ENGINERSIN 103.50 104.90 102.90 104.55EIDPARRY 196.90 199.20 192.95 194.75FDC 195.95 204.30 192.05 198.30ABBOTINDIA 12870.00 12871.05 12640.00 12775.30PRESTIGE 304.00 304.00 295.00 297.35ESSELPRO 134.45 150.15 134.45 147.60JISLJALEQS 11.45 12.30 11.45 11.45ABFRL 212.15 219.90 208.40 217.85GUJGAS 197.90 197.90 193.15 194.25BBTC 1151.80 1151.80 1109.30 1113.10RCOM 0.55 0.59 0.55 0.58WELCORP 136.55 138.95 135.10 136.80BALRAMCHIN 144.95 147.00 142.55 145.70IFCI 7.25 7.95 7.10 7.62SUZLON 2.44 2.48 2.36 2.39IBVENTURES 144.00 147.30 141.85 145.35VBL 695.00 712.85 688.00 695.40FORCEMOT 1030.40 1045.00 1016.10 1020.45MINDTREE 704.50 709.45 702.95 705.20BOSCHLTD 15125.00 15125.00 14924.05 14980.90GSKCONS 8810.80 8810.80 8585.00 8740.75ABB 1475.00 1479.55 1453.40 1471.40DEEPAKNI 358.30 359.60 354.00 355.35JAMNAAUTO 45.50 45.50 44.40 44.60FINEORG 2037.55 2098.00 1997.00 2019.15WHIRLPOOL 2320.00 2322.85 2260.00 2280.35ADANIGAS 146.25 147.70 146.05 146.40RAMCOCEM 796.45 798.60 786.75 792.65SOUTHBANK 11.30 11.47 11.01 11.28JAGRAN 50.95 50.95 46.30 46.65GNFC 193.95 195.30 191.25 193.95HINDCOPPER 37.55 40.15 36.95 39.20RALLIS 180.75 182.40 177.35 179.00EIHOTEL 151.50 152.00 147.10 149.85GALAXYSURF 1579.85 1589.80 1542.55 1556.75RAIN 105.35 107.15 103.00 103.40IOB 9.96 11.46 9.96 10.83COCHINSHIP 408.20 416.60 405.00 410.35CROMPTON 264.45 267.90 264.25 264.85METROPOLIS 1385.85 1440.00 1385.85 1412.15DEEPAKFERT 103.05 104.30 97.90 99.30NH 296.00 307.00 293.50 299.95STAR 383.00 383.50 377.75 381.50GODREJIND 443.65 446.65 434.00 443.40ITI 87.50 88.00 86.10 87.05SANOFI 6850.00 6940.00 6826.25 6908.10BAJAJELEC 318.50 320.95 308.60 309.45ALKEM 2101.00 2149.00 2101.00 2113.65PHILIPCARB 127.00 128.25 124.65 125.55VIPIND 447.50 447.50 437.10 439.25HUDCO 43.00 43.05 42.10 42.35TTKPRESTIG 6030.00 6045.45 5967.40 5990.25MAXINDIA 74.85 78.80 74.85 77.80TIMETECHNO 60.00 60.00 54.75 56.65FSL 40.85 41.35 40.30 40.75VINATIORGA 1945.50 1945.50 1901.00 1920.25KAJARIACER 514.60 523.40 514.60 522.25DCBBANK 180.80 181.70 178.00 178.50QUESS 551.20 560.35 540.75 543.45RCF 49.90 50.40 48.85 49.30CUMMINSIND 558.20 566.80 558.20 562.75HFCL 17.10 17.50 17.10 17.15

JSL 37.20 40.00 37.10 38.15BLISSGVS 137.00 138.25 135.50 136.60UNITEDBNK 8.90 9.71 8.80 9.68MEGH 54.15 54.20 52.70 52.85TRENT 513.60 519.70 503.00 506.55DALBHARAT 837.50 854.35 833.40 845.25PGHH 11105.00 11161.00 10975.00 10997.50CAPPL 350.00 363.65 343.90 346.95AEGISLOG 175.90 179.15 174.70 175.65OIL 159.50 161.80 158.00 161.25SHANKARA 320.40 327.85 316.00 317.40SONATSOFTW 304.75 304.75 299.00 300.90ENDURANCE 1045.00 1109.30 1041.30 1095.60AJANTPHARM 976.20 982.00 968.00 971.55GICHSGFIN 146.65 155.45 145.50 152.50ZYDUSWELL 1530.70 1544.50 1517.95 1533.95ZENSARTECH 185.80 187.45 181.00 185.10ERIS 415.80 426.85 412.60 421.85JSLHISAR 72.20 73.80 70.70 71.20BAJAJHLDNG 3721.80 3791.50 3700.00 3732.40OBEROIRLTY 506.65 519.75 501.45 514.30MAHABANK 11.95 13.11 11.50 12.56BALMLAWRIE 190.20 191.70 189.20 190.85REPCOHOME 286.50 302.30 286.25 291.10TIINDIA 446.20 449.00 446.00 447.10MOIL 140.55 142.60 140.55 141.70GSFC 70.90 71.00 70.25 70.60RPOWER 3.61 3.61 3.61 3.61KEI 531.10 531.75 517.15 530.55PTC 56.60 57.20 55.20 55.35GSPL 220.00 221.25 217.55 219.25MAHINDCIE 149.10 153.20 146.95 147.40ITDCEM 55.35 57.60 54.45 57.60PGHL 4377.35 4378.80 4312.05 4326.40IRB 71.00 72.00 70.40 71.50INOXLEISUR 360.60 368.90 357.65 358.60SOBHA 402.00 402.20 396.00 398.00CENTURYPLY 170.30 176.50 170.30 172.15CENTRUM 22.00 23.25 21.35 22.85GILLETTE 7000.05 7138.40 6992.00 7105.70SUDARSCHEM 393.60 403.00 393.00 396.45MOTILALOFS 745.25 745.25 729.40 736.65IDFC 35.10 35.20 34.25 34.45ASTRAL 1074.00 1089.40 1053.50 1070.25THOMASCOOK 139.55 143.60 137.65 142.40BDL 326.35 333.50 325.20 328.90KEC 280.25 281.10 277.05 278.80TORNTPHARM 1787.00 1794.40 1755.45 1758.90NETWORK18 23.95 26.20 23.65 25.75CUB 216.00 216.20 214.80 215.15MPHASIS 922.95 922.95 909.10 911.65APLAPOLLO 1529.60 1536.85 1516.20 1525.80KANSAINER 542.00 550.85 528.25 547.55ASTRAZEN 2653.00 2662.00 2589.75 2599.40CHAMBLFERT 158.25 159.50 155.40 158.10LAKSHVILAS 19.95 19.95 18.90 19.05EMAMILTD 324.70 324.70 310.05 314.05BAJAJCON 238.20 239.30 236.25 238.60HSCL 64.05 64.40 62.40 62.65NILKAMAL 1314.75 1318.00 1280.95 1308.80CRISIL 1505.60 1526.00 1497.50 1510.00MMTC 18.20 18.80 18.10 18.45NLCINDIA 53.35 54.00 53.10 53.40TATACOFFEE 80.95 81.75 80.00 80.10MAHSCOOTER 4840.00 4868.15 4808.00 4828.90IIFL 154.00 157.70 149.00 157.00CHOLAHLDNG 475.00 497.45 475.00 492.25JBCHEPHARM 396.40 397.50 394.30 396.60MINDAIND 339.40 342.85 335.00 341.15RELAXO 551.75 555.00 544.00 548.75BIRLACORPN 653.15 653.15 637.50 646.60LUXIND 1316.00 1355.00 1292.40 1339.50TRIDENT 61.05 61.85 60.45 60.50CHENNPETRO 141.00 141.00 137.35 137.80TATAMETALI 591.10 596.70 571.50 574.40WELSPUNIND 52.40 53.45 52.35 52.503MINDIA 22455.15 22455.15 22199.95 22244.20HEIDELBERG 188.05 191.80 187.20 191.45CCL 206.15 215.25 204.80 210.55ISEC 304.00 311.80 303.00 306.95PERSISTENT 649.00 664.80 649.00 660.80ORIENTELEC 183.15 190.45 181.60 187.05SCHNEIDER 66.65 66.65 64.00 64.45JMFINANCIL 94.45 94.45 92.65 93.35WABAG 169.15 171.45 167.25 168.20MINDACORP 96.35 96.70 92.50 93.00KRBL 196.00 196.00 190.10 190.95NATCOPHARM 550.00 560.15 547.00 549.35FCONSUMER 22.80 23.50 22.75 23.05AIAENG 1641.80 1650.95 1631.00 1647.70AKZOINDIA 1920.75 1920.75 1900.00 1908.30CYIENT 400.00 400.00 393.00 397.25HONAUT 27160.00 27160.00 26900.00 26979.80GODREJAGRO 469.00 473.05 469.00 472.45ADVENZYMES 163.70 165.00 160.30 161.35SREINFRA 8.99 9.13 8.66 8.70JCHAC 2015.00 2075.00 1964.10 2027.40PNCINFRA 186.65 191.80 184.00 188.95THERMAX 1025.00 1046.20 1025.00 1040.50ATUL 4035.80 4055.85 4035.65 4048.75NHPC 23.25 23.45 23.25 23.35KNRCON 246.85 246.85 235.00 236.85THYROCARE 566.30 566.30 538.00 540.15KALPATPOWR 446.80 451.00 438.60 439.85DCMSHRIRAM 326.55 331.10 320.00 320.70LAURUSLABS 341.95 349.05 332.10 341.35SJVN 24.60 24.65 24.50 24.55JPASSOCIAT 2.13 2.14 2.10 2.13IFBIND 704.00 705.90 681.10 685.40

TIMKEN 899.00 910.00 860.00 861.55CGPOWER 15.67 15.67 14.33 14.49KPRMILL 660.05 683.40 660.00 675.60COROMANDEL 475.10 476.80 471.35 475.55INDOSTAR 186.80 190.00 181.15 183.40PHOENIXLTD 735.35 738.05 724.10 732.75GESHIP* 295.00 297.00 294.00 296.30ASTERDM 155.00 155.00 151.00 152.55VGUARD 231.75 231.75 230.45 230.85HAL 795.00 798.40 781.80 783.05JKCEMENT 1166.10 1178.40 1163.85 1176.55JKLAKSHMI 291.75 292.55 282.40 284.15SYNGENE 320.55 326.25 319.30 324.95SYMPHONY 1213.10 1218.95 1200.00 1201.85SADBHAV 119.50 125.55 119.50 122.30APARINDS 472.55 472.55 447.00 448.25FINOLEXIND 578.65 578.70 565.00 566.50PRSMJOHNSN 68.80 69.25 68.05 68.15TAKE 103.10 103.10 98.90 99.45APLLTD 550.75 561.00 549.00 549.30GHCL 207.60 207.60 204.25 206.70RELINFRA 34.95 34.95 34.95 34.95BASF 947.10 960.00 947.10 953.95BLUESTARCO 797.00 799.40 793.00 794.85SOMANYCERA 177.75 179.90 175.00 175.70STARCEMENT 100.60 101.00 97.60 98.20SUPREMEIND 1140.00 1145.00 1139.00 1140.95VARROC 438.00 452.00 438.00 444.90NBVENTURES 61.20 63.50 60.20 62.50SUNDRMFAST 462.85 468.40 462.15 466.95GAYAPROJ 87.35 89.75 86.00 86.85

ALLCARGO 95.00 95.15 94.20 94.45JSWHL 2309.00 2345.00 2231.00 2283.25BLUEDART 2150.00 2165.00 2140.00 2143.40WABCOINDIA 6200.05 6239.00 6200.00 6213.30RELCAPITAL 19.00 19.00 19.00 19.00MAGMA 40.00 40.95 38.10 38.70GDL 87.45 91.55 87.15 88.20SHK 120.00 122.00 114.95 115.85GMDCLTD 59.45 59.65 58.60 58.80DHFL 20.95 20.95 20.95 20.95OFSS 3065.00 3066.25 3038.50 3054.85MRPL 47.85 48.15 47.50 47.80GUJALKALI 416.85 416.85 407.50 409.00HIMATSEIDE 129.20 129.95 127.95 128.35UFLEX 205.60 205.60 200.75 201.05CHALET 351.00 367.80 343.00 361.90EVEREADY 54.80 54.80 51.85 52.05REDINGTON 114.50 115.00 113.10 113.55SHOPERSTOP 358.20 358.20 349.95 352.20TNPL 180.40 180.40 176.00 179.35MAHSEAMLES 380.55 385.30 378.10 382.80HATHWAY 20.60 20.60 19.85 20.15CARBORUNIV 306.85 309.10 306.80 307.50VMART 1732.30 1775.00 1725.00 1756.85CERA 2455.05 2461.70 2418.00 2424.75DHANUKA 322.80 327.55 322.80 325.00GPPL 84.90 86.75 84.40 85.90GET&D 171.50 177.45 170.20 174.70VTL 895.60 905.70 890.10 895.45ECLERX 438.25 440.00 433.50 433.75FINCABLES 358.00 364.60 355.70 361.05WESTLIFE 378.00 378.00 369.20 369.65ORIENTCEM 75.00 75.80 73.85 74.55HERITGFOOD 319.75 322.45 315.55 319.35IEX 142.90 144.15 142.80 143.65SHRIRAMCIT 1335.00 1342.05 1307.85 1320.45SFL 1310.00 1320.00 1308.00 1313.95GRINDWELL 598.60 602.40 595.05 598.25LAOPALA 143.55 143.55 137.00 140.80VSTIND 4400.00 4417.40 4365.00 4410.10RATNAMANI 949.55 970.00 949.50 958.75TCNSBRANDS 727.65 742.90 713.25 717.95SCHAEFFLER 4472.40 4497.80 4380.10 4396.00MAHLOG 396.00 396.65 391.00 391.00SUPRAJIT 177.25 179.00 176.45 176.70TVSSRICHAK 1721.90 1791.25 1714.00 1773.70SHILPAMED 295.00 299.40 295.00 298.00MASFIN 709.50 731.00 709.05 725.00SKFINDIA 2132.10 2135.60 2126.35 2134.50TATAINVEST 814.75 817.05 812.50 815.25TVTODAY 293.25 293.25 286.20 289.85MAHLIFE 396.35 397.80 389.15 392.55IBULISL 70.00 70.00 70.00 70.00TRITURBINE 97.40 98.20 97.35 97.40MHRIL 224.00 224.90 222.40 223.15GEPIL 697.15 704.00 697.15 699.25SIS 941.85 945.50 932.00 938.60SOLARINDS 1010.00 1029.95 1010.00 1022.30INOXWIND 32.80 33.15 32.70 32.80DBCORP 141.90 143.85 141.00 141.85GULFOILLUB 862.90 862.90 860.00 860.00

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SCRIP OPEN HIgh LOW LTP CHANGENIFTY 50 11919.45 11958.85 11881.75 11940.10 55.60INFRATEL 227.95 259.85 227.70 251.65 24.85BHARTIARTL 426.90 445.65 421.45 444.65 35.45AXISBANK 725.00 750.20 725.00 749.80 26.85RELIANCE 1467.00 1514.90 1465.00 1511.55 52.35POWERGRID 191.00 196.00 190.20 195.95 5.30CIPLA 461.20 477.50 459.55 473.30 12.70GRASIM 775.00 793.50 772.00 789.00 19.50SBIN 325.80 331.80 322.10 331.40 6.30TECHM 754.00 766.00 752.00 763.25 11.45INDUSINDBK 1382.00 1409.00 1374.55 1395.00 20.60EICHERMOT 21600.00 21799.95 21424.20 21780.05 302.65INFY 709.90 714.00 705.00 712.80 7.60HDFCBANK 1265.30 1275.00 1261.10 1274.75 12.70IOC 132.40 133.60 131.75 133.50 0.95BAJAJFINSV 9070.00 9189.00 9066.30 9163.00 58.75DRREDDY 2741.00 2760.45 2724.50 2751.00 14.00TITAN 1158.80 1167.80 1153.10 1164.00 5.20WIPRO 248.20 251.15 247.70 250.45 1.00GAIL 124.70 125.80 123.15 125.30 0.50LT 1364.50 1378.20 1361.50 1369.50 5.00UPL 551.00 556.75 538.10 550.20 1.20SUNPHARMA 425.00 429.90 421.60 425.20 0.65NESTLEIND 14110.00 14211.90 14009.60 14100.00 14.45NTPC 117.75 118.30 116.80 117.50 0.05BAJAJ-AUTO 3156.00 3171.50 3122.10 3156.30 -0.60HINDALCO 193.60 194.00 190.65 193.25 -0.35BPCL 520.65 521.90 513.50 520.70 -1.05KOTAKBANK 1629.90 1631.10 1614.15 1623.00 -4.20COALINDIA 200.95 201.30 198.25 199.75 -0.55BAJFINANCE 4165.00 4182.15 4126.25 4140.00 -14.90ADANIPORTS 367.50 368.15 361.55 364.00 -1.65BRITANNIA 3140.90 3158.35 3110.00 3124.50 -16.40ONGC 135.00 135.10 132.80 133.10 -0.80ITC 251.75 251.80 248.80 249.25 -1.50HCLTECH 1139.00 1143.50 1128.65 1133.90 -7.20MARUTI 7146.00 7155.00 7032.00 7054.00 -44.45JSWSTEEL 249.40 250.85 246.60 248.00 -1.60ULTRACEMCO 4130.00 4130.00 4085.25 4097.00 -29.35VEDL 143.75 143.90 140.40 142.30 -1.10ICICIBANK 497.95 502.00 489.85 494.30 -4.05HINDUNILVR 2060.05 2060.05 2030.00 2039.00 -17.20HDFC 2235.60 2238.75 2202.20 2215.70 -20.60ASIANPAINT 1747.95 1748.00 1718.50 1723.00 -16.00HEROMOTOCO2520.00 2520.00 2463.10 2473.00 -29.90TATAMOTORS 170.80 171.75 167.10 167.90 -2.20TATASTEEL 414.00 414.85 400.00 403.00 -7.05TCS 2153.00 2154.65 2105.00 2110.00 -42.60ZEEL 293.75 293.75 282.50 288.00 -6.15M&M 573.75 575.00 559.65 561.00 -12.70YESBANK 65.00 67.25 63.05 64.20 -1.65

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The United States no longerbelieves that Israeli settle-

ments in the Palestinian terri-tories are illegal, Secretary ofState Mike Pompeo announcedon Monday, in the latest pro-Israel shift by Washington.

The statement puts theUnited States at odds with vir-tually all countries as well asUN Security Council resolu-tions and was hailed by IsraeliPrime Minister BenjaminNetanyahu, a close ally ofPresident Donald Trump whois days away from potentiallylosing office.

“After carefully studyingall sides of the legal debate,”Pompeo told reporters, theUnited States has concludedthat “the establishment ofIsraeli civilian settlements inthe West Bank is not, per se,inconsistent with internation-al law.”

“Calling the establishmentof civilian settlements incon-sistent with international law

hasn’t worked. It hasn’tadvanced the cause of peace,”Pompeo said.

Pompeo said that theUnited States was not neces-sarily considering the settle-ments legal either but insteadwould defer to the judgment ofIsraeli courts.

The Palestinian Authority— which has refused negotia-tions through the Trumpadministration, which it con-siders biased -- denounced thelatest decision.

Washington is “not qual-ified or authorized to cancelthe resolutions of interna-tional law, and has no right togrant legal ity to any Israeli settlement,” Palestinianpresidential spokesman NabilAbu Rudeinah said in a statement.

But Netanyahu said thatthe US shift “rights a historicalwrong” for the 600,000 Israelisettlers who live in the WestBank and east Jerusalemamong around 2.9 millionPalestinians.

Washington: US Chief JusticeJohn Roberts said that theSupreme Court has issued atemporary stay of a federalappeals court ruling that grant-ed a House Committee accessto eight years of PresidentDonald Trump’s financialrecords from his accountingfirm.

The ruling was set to gointo effect on Wednesday. Thesubpoena from the HouseOversight and ReformCommittee will be unenforce-able while the Supreme Courtdecides whether to take up thecase, reports Xinhua newsagnecy.

The House panel said onMonday in a letter to theSupreme Court that it wouldagree to the temporary stay toallow the justices to weigh in.

Trump’s legal team onNovember 15 had asked theSupreme Court to put a holdon the panel’s subpoena, argu-ing that if the lower court rul-ings are allowed to stand, anycommittee of Congress couldsubpoena any personal infor-mation it wants from aPresident. IANS

Washington: A slim majorityof Americans believe PresidentDonald Trump should beimpeached and removed fromoffice for his controversialUkraine actions, according tothe first poll after the launch ofpublic hearings in Congress.

Fifty-one per cent of thoseasked said they think Trumpshould be tried and convictedin the US Senate, while anoth-er six per cent favour impeach-ment but not removal, accord-ing to the ABC News-Ipsos pollreleased Monday.

That appeared to representan increase from before thehearings in the HouseIntelligence Committee beganWednesday. An average of pre-vious polls showed about 48per cent supported Trump’sremoval, according to the web-site FiveThirtyEight.

The ABC-Ipsos poll sug-gested as well a drop in thenumber of people opposingimpeachment, to 38 per cent,compared to theFiveThirtyEight average ofabout 46 per cent. But a quar-ter of all those polled did notthink Trump did anythingwrong. AFP

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China insisted on Tuesday italone held the authority to

rule on constitutional mattersin Hong Kong, as it con-demned a decision by the city’shigh court to overturn a ban on

face masks worn by pro-democracy protesters.

The statement raised hack-les among activists in Hong

Kong after months of violentprotests over concerns thatBeijing is chipping away at theautonomy of the financial hub.

Hong Kong: Arms covered incling film and torches in handas they drop into the sewers,clusters of pro-democracy pro-testers still inside a Hong Kongcampus are plotting increas-ingly ingenious — and des-perate — ways to escape apolice siege.

Among the detritus of ascorched and graffiti-sprayedconcourse at Hong KongPolytechnic University, sever-al plastic covers -- some withtorches placed above them --betray extraordinary under-ground escape plans.

Protesters have removedmetal manholes, some makingexploratory forays into thefetid tunnels, followingrumours of successful exfiltra-

tions from a campus ringed forthree days by baton-wieldingpolice determined to arrestthem.

Pockets of protesters, somewith thick bandages wrappedaround their knees in antici-pation of a long crawl to free-dom, knot the holes discussingan unlikely — and highly dan-gerous — breakout.

AFP reporters saw onegroup on their stomachs prac-tising crawling. Another grouphugged each other in consola-tion after apparently agreeingnot to take the route down intothe unknown.

“The people outside can’thelp us,” a protester told localtelevision as he prepared todescend into a sewer. “So what

can we do?” One protester, gasmask on, and cling filmwrapped around his arms, car-ried a torch as he descendedwith his backpack down themetal rungs into the subter-ranean gloom. AFP

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Asenior North Korean offi-cial has put forward new

conditions for talks with theUS, saying Washington shouldgive up its hostile policy beforecoming to the negotiation tablewith Pyongyang.

“The US always calls fornegotiation for denucleariza-tion, but there is no room to say

about the negotiation beforethe complete and irrevocablewithdrawal of its hostile poli-cy toward the DPRK, the rootcause of the nuclear issue of theKorean peninsula,” the state-run Korean Central NewsAgency reported on Tuesdayciting Kim Yong Chol, chair-man of the Korea Asia-PacificPeace Committee, as saying onMonday night.

Lahore: Ailing former PakistanPrime Minister Nawaz Sharif onTuesday left for London fromhere in an air ambulance for fur-ther treatment. He was accom-panied by his brother, PakistanMuslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Shehbaz Sharifand other personnel, includinghis personal physician AdnanKhan, reports Dawn news.

The air ambulance, whicharrived from Doha on Tuesdaymorning, is equipped with anintensive care unit and an oper-ation theatre, with a team of doc-tors on board. IANS

Colombo: Sri Lanka’s formerstrongman President MahindaRajapaksa has sought the resig-nation of Prime Minister RanilWickremesinghe after hisyounger brother GotabayaRajapaksa became the President,asserting that governance willimprove if the President and theCabinet are from the same party.

Addressing the media aftera religious ceremony organisedfor his 74th birthday on Monday,the Opposition Leader inParliament said it would bemore effective to have aGovernment where thePresident and the Cabinet arefrom one party . PTI

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of liberties.Pompeo’s remarks came

amid a dramatic escalation inunrest, with Hong Kong policethreatening to fire live bulletsif demonstrators did not stopusing weapons in the latestanti-government protests. PTI

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Bringing the structural fundamentals of aclassroom through the wide reach of dig-

ital technology, PaperVideo — India’s first dig-ital classroom for supplementary learning, haslaunched its Math curriculum for Classes VIIIto XI. PaperVideo’s digital classroom, whichis free for all students, offers a comprehen-sive and holistic Math programme congru-ent with CBSE, ICSE, HSC, SSC and all StateEducation Boards of India.

Research has stated that the lack of qual-ity teachers and curriculum are the primaryreasons why India consistently ranks low inall global education indexes. The AnnualStatus of Education Report for 2018 mentionsthat 61 per cent of Indian eight graders strug-

gle with simple Math. Another shockingobservation made by the researchers suggeststhat only 26.6 per cent of Class VIII studentsare fluent in subtraction — a fundamentalarithmetical function.

Chirag Arya, Founder, PaperVideo, said:“The education sector has a critical role to playin driving the economic and social develop-ment in the country. Lack of access to qual-ity education has been a persistent barrier forstudents beyond metro cities. ThroughPaperVideo, we want to bridge this gap andbring academic resources to those who needit.”

The curriculum is based on a structuredlearning method which helps students to har-ness their optimum potential, resulting in ahigh-quality personalised learning arena.

The three-day 47th NationalConvention of Company

Secretaries of the Institute ofCompany Secretaries of Indiawas inaugurated at Jaipur,Rajasthan on November 14, 2019and was concluded on November16, 2019 with much gusto.

Attended by more than 1,800participants from across thenation and abroad, the NationalConvention comprised TechnicalSessions on areas of profession-al interest and variousMotivational and SpecialSessions. Two special sessionswere dedicated to artificial intel-

ligence and appearance beforequasi-judicial bodies.

The valedictory session ofthe convention was graced by DrSudhanshu Trivedi, NationalSpokesperson of Bharatiya JanataParty, Dr Satish Poonia, State

President, Bharatiya Janata Party,Rajasthan and Ashish Chauhan,Managing Director and ChiefExecutive Officer, BSE Limited.

In his concluding address forthe event, CS Ranjeet Pandey,President, ICSI thanking all thedelegates for their tremendousparticipation said that: “We havemade great progress so far as aprofession. In the last 51 years ofour history, we have become aprofession to reckon with. Ourmembership has doubled and themembers are taking up roles ofinsolvency professionals and reg-istered valuers.”

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The British Council, UK’sinternational organisation

for educational opportunitiesand cultural relations, is host-ing ‘Study UK Fair’ onSaturday, November 23, 2019at British Council, 17,Kasturba Gandhi Marg, NewDelhi .

The education fair willhost anyone who aspires tostudy in the UK and wants bea part of its rich and vibrantculture. Representatives fromover 40 UK universities will bepresent at the fair to address

face-to-face queries.The fair also welcomes

parents, teachers and educa-tionists.

The education fair pro-vides a unique opportunity tomeet academic institutions-from the UK under one roofand seek information on appli-cation procedure, shortlistingof courses and institutions,scholarships and financialassistance, post-study workopportunities, IELTS andmuch more.

Interested candidates canregister at the venue or onlineon British Council’s website.

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of International HotelManagement invites applica-tions for admissions to itsunder graduate programmesand post graduates pro-grammes in HotelManagement.

Eligibility: For BSc inHotel Management, applicantsmust have passed Class XIIfrom a recognised central/State board or from a recog-nised university. Selection willbe based on personal inter-view. For MSc in HotelManagement, applicants mustcomplete their graduationfrom a recognised university.

Duration: Three years forBSc and two years for MSc.

How to apply: Log on towww.lbiihm.com.

L ast date to apply :November 29, 2019.

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for Management invites appli-cations for admissions to itsProfessional Diploma inBanking Management course.

The bankers of tomorrowwill need the skills to managethese new innovations alongwith having knowledge of corebanking applications. Thiscourse provides highly sub-sidised banking programme tofresh college graduates andcreate the bankers of thefuture.

In keeping with this, thecourse includes a smart phoneenabled Banking Mobile Appthrough which students canview banking jobs availableand see how their skills matchwith the job requirements andlearn the subjects needed toget the desired job. The lec-tures are conducted only onweekends which are taught bythe real time Bankers on var-ious subjects such as CoreBanking, Banking Processes,Consultative Selling, InterviewPreparedness and Language &Communication.

Duration: Four monthsHow to apply: Log on to

https://ask.careers/courses/pro-fessional-diploma-in-banking-management/ or contact —022 6670 1111/91 9930088330.

L ast date to apply :November 29, 2019.

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Strathclyde, Glasgow invitesapplications for admissionsto its new MSc ManufacturingManagement course.

Eligibility: First or uppersecond-class honours degree,or equivalent, in a relevantengineering, technology, sci-ence or business-related dis-cipline.

IELTS 6.0 overall with noindividual component below5.5.

Fee: £20,900 for interna-tional students for 2020/21.

How to apply: Log on tohttps://www.strath.ac.uk/cours-es/postgraduatetaught/manu-facturingmanagement/#whythiscourse or contact - [email protected].

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Times invites applications foradmissions to its content writ-ing courses for 2019-2020 ses-sion.

Eligibility: Anyone whohas appeared for or passedClass XII exam can enroll forcontent writing courses atECT. You should be able toread and understand Englishlanguage to be eligible toattend the class.

How to apply: Log on tohttps://ect.co.in or contact7827916060.

L ast date to apply :November 29, 2019.

The last six months have beentough on the Indian economy,

which is adversely impacting employ-ees and individuals across the indus-try. GDP touched a six-year low. Theauto sector and FMCG were the mainsectors that were severely impacted.Infrastructure projects slowed down,unemployment increased, invest-ments reduced.

One can see and feel the impactof the slowdown. Reports say around2.30 lakh jobs have been lost in theauto sector. The majority of the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG)companies have reported a decline involume growth in the April-Junequarter.

The slow down has a percolatingeffect on employee engagement andperformance. There is high pressureto deliver on business results, stressis high, demands are high, resourcesare low. There are budget cuts.Training, travel is frozen. News of lay-offs, decrease in consumption, shutdown days at factories further impactsentiments. Low motivation furtherimpacts productivity, retention andtriggers the vicious downward spiral.

This brings us to the question,how can organisations, and employ-ees as individuals tide over this peri-od. Well, in our opinion, the econo-my has its cycles, and if we are expe-

riencing a slowdown, we will experi-ence a boom as well. And we suggestthat organisations and individualsspend this time preparing for theboom.

What should organisations doduring the slowdown?

We understand the budgets aretight and some tough calls might needto be taken. But it is at this time thatthe true mettle or organisational cul-ture and leadership is tested.Maintaining transparency and ongo-ing communication to avoid anysudden big decisions is key. This willhelp in ensuring that employees con-tinue to trust the management andinsecurity is kept at bay.

Managers and leaders will play animportant role, and organisations willsee the emergence of new leaders.Managers who hold teams together

in these difficult times are your lead-ers of tomorrow.

This is also the time to thinkinnovatively and invest in employeedevelopment. Use technology, opensources, in house resources, leadersfrom other companies to come andhold guest lectures. These are zerobudget initiatives but will keepemployees engaged. Reskilling, rede-ployment, cross-functional projectsare easy wins.

Carry out those internal devel-opment projects that one never foundthe time for. Streamline processes, useinternal resources to automate, devel-op apps. Create internal communi-cation and involvement platforms.Work on improvement areas. Workon the intranet, update your policiesand communicate, communicate &communicate. Keep the atmosphere

positive. Gear up for the future. What will

you need when the economy starts tolookup? Focus the attention ofemployees in that direction and geteveryone working towards hope.

What can Employees do?The onus is not entirely on the

organisation. Every employee has arole to play. We are responsible for ourskill development as well. Read,explore new developments in yourfields, and attend industry events andconferences, volunteer for cross-functional/location projects.

Work on your branding, leveragesocial media, publish opinions, takeguest lectures at institutes, do socialwork, contribute to society.

Grow your Network. Professionalnetworking platforms and events aregood areas to find peers with com-mon interests as well as industry men-tors.

On a personal front, spend moretime with your family. Connect withfriends from school, college or wher-ever last you met them. Focus on yourhealth. Join the gym again. Take thatbucket list holiday. Rekindle thathobby that you never had the time for!

In a nutshell, take charge and pre-pare yourself for tomorrow.

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industry, cloud computinginvolves the delivery of services suchas servers, storage, databases, net-working software, analytics andintelligence over the internet. Apopular option for businesses toincrease productivity, performanceand security of their services, cloudcomputing reduces the require-ment for large upfront investmentsin hardware.

Offering valuable services toorganisations, the demand for cloudcomputing services is on an expo-nential rise. As per IDC, the Indiancloud computing market is expect-ed to grow to $4 billion by 2020 withan annual growth of more than 30per cent, thereby creating one mil-lion new jobs in India.

Here are few job roles one cantake up to advance their career inthis domain.

DevOps: A set of applicationsthat automates the processesbetween software development andIT teams, DevOps builds, tests,and releases software faster andmore reliably. A DevOps managerneeds to manage the infrastructure,ensuring that everything is perfectlyin tune with the needs of the appli-ance. A DevOps manager should beadept with managerial skills tomaximise the predictability, effi-ciency and security of the opera-

tional processes.Cloud Architect: Responsible

for bridging the gap between com-plex business problems and solu-tions in the cloud, a Cloud Architectconverts the technical requirementsof a project into the architecture thatwill guide the final product. Theymanage the cloud computing archi-tecture in an organisation includingthe front-end platforms, servers,storage, delivery and networks.

Cloud Software Engineer:Responsible for any duties related tocloud computing, including design,planning, management and support,the roles of a Cloud SoftwareEngineer can be broken into mul-tiple divisions. A Cloud SoftwareEngineer is responsible for over-seeing the development of the pro-gramming systems, maintaining

them and ensuring that they func-tion correctly.

Cloud System Administrator:With primary job responsibilities ofconfiguring the cloud managementservice and manage these services,a Cloud System Administratorworks in a mixed Windows andUnix software environment. Theyalso lead, oversee and maintainmulti-user computing environmentas per the organisation’s require-ments. They are required to possessstrong technical knowledge of vir-tual machines such as IaaS, PaaS andSaaS. These professionals are usu-ally responsible for the design anddevelopment of disseminated soft-ware modules that combine withcloud service providers.

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Science has been one of the mostpopular streams among most ofthe students. It is the streamwhich opens gates to popular

courses including Engineering,Medicine and other ailed disciplines.The majority of students with sciencebackground (medical and non-med-ical) in Class XII are inclined towardsengineering and medical careeroptions. These courses attract most ofthe aspirants as they offer high salarypackages and high esteem of respectin the society. If not engineering andmedicine then what are other careeropportunities for Science stream stu-dents? Students don’t explore othercareer options. They are generally pres-surised by their parents/friends/soci-ety to believe that engineering andmedicine are only two options avail-able after studying PCM and PCB inClass XII.

There was a time when the crazefor engineering and medicine was atits peak as option in other streams waslimited. But now the scenario ischanging exponentially. The numberof applicants is increasing as the num-ber of seats available is limited. As pera report the selection in the last fiveyears is around only a per cent. Thisis because engineering students lackadvanced digital skills including arti-ficial intelligence, machine learning,data science and wireless technologiesamong others that the companiesrequire.

But still most of the science streamstudents tend to go for medical andengineering option. The two disci-plines of the stream have reached thesaturation point. This has made stu-dents to opt for other academicavenues to satisfy their creative aspectswhile offering great career prospectsin the future. Many generations havebeen and are a part of this vicious cir-cle. But now, more and more studentsare opting for unconventional cours-es like management, law and hotelmanagement. Not only opportunitiesin private sector and MNC’s, thesecourses provide a gateway for theGovernment jobs as well.

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offers a solid foundation for a reward-ing career. The statistics suggest thatthe postgraduate management collegeshave witnessed an upswing in thenumber of students from the sciencebackground opting for it.

After completing MBA and grad-uation degree in management manystudents aspire for the jobs in PublicSector Units (PSU).

Along with higher pay, trans-parency in promotion and medicalfacilities, Job security is the prime rea-son that makes a government job alucrative option. Some of the jobopportunities that a student can optafter completing management degreeinclude.

� Banking sector: Banking sectoroffers number of job opportunities formanagement graduates in the publicsector which includes personnel offi-cer, marketing officer, and additionalprogramme officer. These are recruit-ed via competitive exams like Instituteof Banking Personnel Selection (IPBS)while some banks like State Bank ofIndia and other PSU’s conduct theirown exam for the recruitment.� Management and operationalmanager: Various PSU’s offers vacan-cies in different departments such asmanagerial role, operations, HR andFinance etc. The criteria for this posi-tion are either on entrance on meritbasis which are conducted by few

PSU’s.

���Law, as a career, is more than

black and white but is now one of themost promising career options withimmense opportunities.

The exam for it is called CommonLAW Admission Test (CLAT). Alongwith private sector and entrepre-neurship, there are some career oppor-tunities in Public sector. Some of theminclude:� Legal Advisors and Consultantsin legal departments: A student pos-sessing qualification required bydepartment of legal affairs and leg-islative department can practice as alegal advisor and consultant. Theseofficers can reach the level of secre-tary to the Government with the pas-sage of time and their performance.

Legislative counsels are alsoappointed in the official wing of leg-islatives department for Hindi andregional languages.

All these posts are filed throughUPSC exam and State Public ServiceCommission on regular basis. Theseofficers are also recruited in the legalbranches of Indian Army, navy andAir force.� Judiciary: A person holding a lawdegree can also work at a junior cadreposts of Magistrate or sub- Judge.These are generally recruited throughUPSC exam or through Public serviceCommissions.

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doubling in the past two years. According tothe State of India’s Environment report (2019),the unemployment rate has gone up from 4%to 7.6% in the last two years. This can be con-tributed to the fact that one should not blamethe employers but the lack of employabilityamongst students. The complaint is unani-mous — a lack of employability is rampant asstudents get entrenched in bookish knowledgewhile failing to grasp basic practical skills likeas communication, aptitude, ability to thinkon their feet and so on.

There is an evident skill gap that isrequired to be bridged to harness prosperityfor the nation and at the pace at which hir-ing is evolving, it is even more essential to pickup the pace, rather remaining behind. Yet,institutions and schools, as well as parents/stu-dents, aren’t aware of the importance of incul-cating vocational training and nurturingskills into the regular curriculum.

Here are a few salient reasons why voca-tional and skill training is essential for the pre-sent scenario:

Cultivates learning style: Every personcomes with his style of learning that remainsincomparable to the rest and this holds for stu-dents as well. Some students can simply readand understand a concept, while others havea penchant for probing further to unearth aninteresting feature that would encourage theassimilation of knowledge.

Yet, our curriculum is molded in such away that individual minds are forced to be slot-ted into a particular type of learning that isfit for society.

In such situations, it is the students whoare unable to learn properly as their naturalpace of learning faces a severe roadblock,inhibiting them to apply their faculties to thefullest. Vocational training provides the spacefor learning at one's own pace.

Cultivates job readiness: The transitionthat one goes through from educational tooccupational level is huge as one move to astage where he has to apply all the lessonslearnt all this while. And yet, more often thannot, they fail at grasping every basic that isrequired from them, making work even moredifficult.

Adapting to the corporate world, with itsset of ups and downs, remains a challenge thatpeople fail to tackle. Vocational trainingenables students to adapt to the corporateworld at a much faster rate; adding depth theirportfolio and helping them materialize their

vision. With vocational training, young pro-fessionals wouldn't shy away from taking theinitiative to work.

Cultivates communication and criticalthinking: Irrespective of whichever segmentyou work for, communication skills are thekernel of growth and development.

Vocational training improves the level ofcommunication as it exposes the students toa plethora of people from all walks of life- bothnovices and veterans, therefore giving themthe industry experience and exposure need-ed to enhance their portfolio. As for criticalthinking, students would learn the process ofactively and skillfully conceptualizing, apply-ing, analyzing, and/or evaluating informationgathered. This would further urge them toexpand their thinking and function aptly.

Why Government and private entitiesneed to work together to harness this trend:There is a requirement for the proper admin-istration of vocational education by variousstates government and better co-ordinationbetween different state departments andagencies, to secure relevant talent.

While there is a place for promises, whatthe Indian educational scenario needs is anactionable approach, which organizationslike Youth4work are trying to bring in, via pro-viding a variety of skill-building courses toenhance career and growth. Soon the draughtof employability will meet the right skilledforce to empower the nation that is as vividas India.

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The IIT Hyderabad’sCenter forHealthcare

Entrepreneurship (CfHE)invites Applications for itsFellowship for 2019-20.The fellowship is dedicatedto achieving universalhealthcare solutionsthrough entrepreneurshipand providing successfulapplicants with trainingand incubation opportuni-ties

The fellowship is dedi-cated to achieving univer-sal healthcare solutions byigniting the spark of entre-preneurship and providingsuccessful applicants withtraining and incubationopportunities.

The Center is invitingapplications for admissionto the prestigious CfHEfellowship for the year2020 starting from January2020.

The Fellowship pro-vides a stipend of �50,000per month during the firstyear of training, whichincludes deep clinicalimmersions in private andpublic hospitals and expo-sure to the healthcareindustry.

For more details:http://hc.iith.ac.in

Application deadline:

The last date to apply isNovember 30, 2019.

Interested candidates canapply at http://bit.do/cfhe-application2019-II.

The Erasmus Mundusaward is now available topursue a master degreeprogramme. TheUniversity of Glasgow isthe leading partner in theconsortium of universitiesthat have developed thismultiple master pro-gramme.

Nationality: Allnationalities (Programmeand partner countries).

Eligibility: Copy (orcopies) of your officialdegree certificate(s); copy(or copies) of your officialacademic transcript(s),showing full details of sub-jects studied andgrades/marks obtained;Official English transla-tions of the certificate(s)and transcript(s); Two ref-erence letters on headedpaper; CV; Evidence ofyour English Languageability (if your first lan-guage is not English); copyof the photo page of yourpassport (Non-EU studentsonly)

How to apply:Applicants can apply as anErasmus Mundus scholar-ship student and a self-funded student throughthe online application.

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With varied surround-ings turning into can-vases, art is expanding

beyond galleries. In the realm ofart and technology, visual artand immersive lightning is anemerging career platform whichis grasping the attention of theyouth today. It is a thoughtprocess that knows no bound-aries which culminate into avisual language.

The dynamic world with anintersection of art, design andtechnology provides an array ofcareer opportunities from set-designing to creating 3-D mod-els with projection-mapping.These range of careers opennew doors to every creativeenthusiast.

If you are creative andimaginative, a degree in visualarts could be just what you arelooking for to express yourself.Students interested in this fieldcan apply for the visual artsdegree — Bachelor of VisualArts or Bachelor of Design andBachelor of Fine Arts. Some ofthe popular specialisations areanimation, digital composition,game developing, fine arts,multimedia, and many more.

If you’d like to make a liv-ing through art and design,keep reading and looking outfor common paths with themajor careers they lead to.

There’s a growing need forpeople who can understand,operate, and provide innovationthrough 3D printing and mod-elling concepts. This rapidlyadvancing technology calls forengineers who can understand,maintain, and operate thisequipment.

Mechanical, industrial, orsoftware engineers will have abetter grasp of what’s involvedin producing accurate working

models and components formanufacturing architecturaldesigns.

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someone who creates displaysand fixtures for large exhibi-tions, shows, businesses,museums, libraries, and gal-leries. They are speciallytrained in the art involvedin the layout design andmay work exclusively for amuseum, gallery, or a pri-vate firm.

Activities inherent to thecareer include concept anddesign development, schemat-ic design, construction docu-ment development, fabricationand installation.

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opers, also known as videogame programmers, write codefor games for various platformssuch as PCs, consoles, webbrowsers, and mobile phones.They take inputs from gamedesigners with ideas sketches,dynamics and mechanics anddevelop a final playable game.Creativity and strong analyticalframe of mind are the crucialkey skills required to be a devel-oper in the field of digital gam-ing.

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ware and the chief processinvolves writing various lines ofcode.

Coding (a common phraseused for programme develop-ment) is achieved by analysingand implementing algorithms,understanding data structures,solving logical problems, andmore. It is the role of a com-puter programmer to assurethat the software respondsappropriately to users/viewersand provide the desired func-tionality.

+��.�������/���.������An artist’s constant struggle

to commercialise his artwork inthe mainstream market is notnew to us. This is where theguidance and mentorship of avisual art consultant can proveextremely beneficial.

Art consultants arerequired to have in-depthknowledge of various forms ofart and different artistic tech-niques and language. Althoughthere are no absolute academ-ic requirements, and it is pos-sible for a person who is an artenthusiast to start their ownfirm and work in this role, for-mal post-secondary training is

an asset.Strong sales skills, negotia-

tion skills, and customer serviceskills are a great add-on to artconsultants.

�������������������Installation art is an artis-

tic category which uses three-dimensional works that oftenare site-specific and designed totransform the outlook towardsspace or to give away certainmessage.

In order to be an installa-tion artist, students can choosea specialisation in the followingcreative expressions: Sculpting,painting, applied art or art his-tory in their graduation cours-es. Installation artists are hiredby several firms, museums, gal-leries, toy industries, and evenfilm industries to create andbeautify atmospheres, mouldfigures and provide artisticadvice for film direction andsets.

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Lionel Messi scored a latepenalty as Argentina drew

2-2 with Uruguay in a friend-ly held in Israel on Monday,with the Jewish state consid-ering the match a victory.

The game pitted Messiagainst his Barcelona team-mate Luis Suarez, and itlooked as though theUruguayan had gotten thebetter of him as he scored onegoal and set up another togive his team a 2-1 lead goinginto injury time.

But a ball into the boxwas handled by a Uruguayandefender, and Messi calmlyslotted the resulting penaltyhome to ensure an engagingfriendly ended all square.

The 32-year-old had ear-lier teed up Manchester Citystriker Sergio Aguero to makeit 1-1, after Edinson Cavani

had opened the scoring.Suarez scored a free-kick

from outside the box to givehis side the lead before Messi’slate intervention.

The game had beendubbed by organisers as animportant moment for Israel,following the cancellation ofanother Argentina match ayear earlier after pressurefrom pro-Palestinian cam-paigners.

On the pitch at times itfelt like the Messi show, withthe crowd chanting his nameand every mazy run greetedby vociferous cheering.

While not at his electricbest, he showed moments ofquality — slaloming pastdefenders and forcingUruguay goalkeeper Martin

Campana into a number ofsmart saves.

The match comes afterthe cancellation of a pre-World Cup friendly fixturebetween Argentina and Israelin June 2018 after boycottcalls.

That match had been dueto be played in Jerusalem,sparking Palestinian angerand criticism of Argentinaonline.

Israel considers Jerusalemits “indivisible” capital, whilePalestinians claim the easternpart of the city — occupied byIsrael in 1967 and laterannexed — as the capital oftheir future state.

Monday’s game was heldin the Israeli commercial cap-ital Tel Aviv.

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Denmark and Switzerlandsecured spots at Euro 2020 atthe expense of the Republic of

Ireland on Monday as RobertoMancini’s Italy completed a perfectqualifying campaign by scoring nine.

Ireland needed to beat Denmarkin Dublin to clinch qualification fornext year’s 24-team European

Championship finals, but MattDoherty’s late header was onlyenough to earn Mick McCarthy’smen a 1-1 draw at the AvivaStadium.

A closely-fought con-test, low on technicalquality, swung the vis-itors’ way when theunmarked Martin

Braithwaite stuckout a boot todivert aHenrik Dalsgaardcross into the neton 73 minutes.

However, Irelandscored a late equaliser to

draw 1-1 in Copenhagen in June andthey repeated the feat here asWolverhampton Wanderers right-back Doherty headed in an EndaStevens cross with five minutes left.

Needing to win, the home side

then threw everything at their oppo-nents in the dying moments, butDenmark held on to clinch secondplace in Group D behind Switzerland.

“We had opportunities but I amnot going to criticise the lads,”McCarthy told Sky Sports.

“They have been brilliant. We lostone game out of eight. I am very proudof them. We can beat anyone in theplay-offs.”

The Danes, European championsin 1992, can now look forward to play-ing at home during the finals, withCopenhagen one of the 12 host citieschosen for the tournament.

Switzerland secured topspot with a 6-1 away winagainst minnows Gibraltar asCedric Itten scored twice.Skipper and Arsenal outcastGranit Xhaka netted theirfinal goal.

Italy had alreadywrapped up qualification from GroupJ but they saved their best for last,making it 10 wins from 10 by ham-mering Armenia 9-1 in Palermo withseven different scorers.

Serie A top scorer Ciro Immobileand Nicolo Zaniolo both scoredbraces, while Nicolo Barella andAlessio Romagnoli found the netbefore Chelsea midfielder Jorginhoconverted a penalty.

Riccardo Orsolini came off thebench to score on his Italy debut andFederico Chiesa finished off the scor-ing after Edgar Babayan had pulledone back for Armenia.

It was an 11th straight win in allfor Mancini’s side, with Italy scoringnine times in a game for the first timesince beating the USA 9-0 at theLondon Olympics in 1948.

“We had the right approach to thegame and you don’t score nine goalsby chance,” Mancini purred.

“We need to improve variousaspects of the game but for me it willbe really difficult to leave some peo-ple at home when I select the squadfor the finals. They would all deserveto be there.”

Having wrapped up a historic firstqualification for a major tournamentthree days earlier, Finland lost 2-1 toGreece in Athens despite NorwichCity striker Teemu Pukki giving thema first-half lead with his 10th goal ineight international games.

Bosnia and Herzegovina finishfourth in the group despite a 3-0 winin Liechtenstein, but they will haveanother chance to qualify via the play-offs next March.

LAST GAME FOR MORENOMeanwhile, Group F winners

Spain rounded out their qualifyingcampaign with a 5-0 destruction ofRomania at a barely half-fullMetropolitano Stadium in Madrid.

Gerard Moreno scored twiceafter Napoli midfielder Fabian Ruizopened the scoring. Adrian Rus putthrough his own net in first-half stop-page time and Real Sociedad strikerMikel Oyarzabal wrapped up the winamid reports the match was RobertMoreno’s last as coach.

Having already qualified as run-ners-up in the same group, Swedendefeated the Faroe Islands 3-0, whileNorway, who go into the play-offs,won 2-1 in Malta.

The final automatic qualifyingberth will be decided after Wales hostHungary with the winner goingthrough from Group E, while a drawin Cardiff could allow Slovakia to pipboth of them by beating Azerbaijan.

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Luis Enrique will returnas coach of Spain and

replace Robert Morenoahead of Euro 2020, theSpanish FootballFederation (RFEF) con-firmed on Tuesday.

Moreno took chargein June after Luis Enriquehad resigned to take careof his daughter Xana, whodied in August of bonecancer.

“Today we can con-firm Luis Enrique returnsto his position of work,”RFEF president LuisRubiales said in a pressconference at the nation-al team’s training base inLas Rozas.

Rubiales said LuisEnrique has a contractuntil the 2022 World Cupin Qatar and that it will beup to him whetherMoreno is offered achance to resume his pre-vious role as assistantcoach.

The pair were closefriends and also workedtogether at Barcelona,Celta Vigo and Roma butMoreno appears upset atthe manner of his depar-ture.

“Luis Enrique steppeddown because of the worstpossible thing that canhappen to a father,”Rubiales said.

“He has always beenthe leader of our projectand he has a contractuntil (the) World Cup inQatar.”

Luis Enrique wasappointed Spain’s coachafter the 2018 World Cupand his readiness toreturn will be welcomed,after the death of his nine-year-old daughter threemonths ago.

But the RFEF’s han-dling of the change has

been clumsy, with reportsemerging before Spain’s 5-0 win over Romania onMonday that he wouldnot lead the team at nextyear’s finals.

Moreno did notappear for his post-matchpress conference andreportedly left the players’dressing room in tears.

Rubiales said Morenoalso chose not to show upfor a meeting with theRFEF on Tuesday.

“We had a meeting setup with Robert Moreno at10am this morning,”Rubiales said.

“But he did not come,only his two lawyers.”

Moreno said inSeptember he would be“the first and mostdelighted to step aside” ifLuis Enrique decided hewanted to come back buthe may have hoped formore transparencyaround the decision.

Rubiales rejectedaccusations of dishonesty,insisting he spoke to LuisEnrique in October andthen again on Monday,having learned he wasready to return throughMoreno.

“It was clear that assoon as Luis Enrique feltstrong enough to return,the door would be openfor him,” Rubiales said.

“I have been honestabout that. Nobody canfeel tricked.”

Rubiales added: “Wethank Robert Moreno forhis work, he did a verygood job, and we are veryhappy with what he did.

“But I repeat thatRobert Moreno told usthat he had spoken toLuis Enrique, who toldhim he wanted to return.We found out LuisEnrique wanted to comeback through Moreno.”

��/������� Pep Guardiola’s agent hasruled out a return to Bayern Munich atleast until the Spaniard’s contract expiresat Manchester City in 2021, according toreports.

The German champions are current-ly looking for a new head coach followingthe sacking of Niko Kovac after a 5-1thrashing at Eintracht Frankfurt at the startof the month.

Caretaker boss Hansi Flick will remainin charge at least until Christmas when theBundesliga goes into recess but theGermans are already on the lookout for apossible high profile replacement.

“Pep is content and very happy inManchester. His contract is until June2021,” Guardiola’s agent Josep MariaOrobitg told German daily Bild onWednesday, having also been quoted bywebsites SPOX and Goal.

“Guardiola always fulfils his con-tracts.

“I haven’t spoken with anyone inGermany about him — neither withintermediaries nor club bosses.

“Pep has good memories of Munichand still has friends there, but at themoment he has shown no interest inreturning to Germany as a coach.

“That is something that is just asimpossible at the moment as it was lastsummer with Juventus.

“I deny all rumours.”Guardiola won the German league and

cup double in his final season at Bayernin 2016 having lifted the Bundesliga titlein each of his three seasons at the Munichclub, who he joined in 2013.

Ajax coach Erik ten Hag and ParisSaint-Germain’s Thomas Tuchel havebeen linked to Bayern, but both have madeit clear they will not leave their respectiveclubs this season. AFP

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Newly-appointed Montreal Impact boss ThierryHenry vowed to learn from the mistakes of his dis-

astrous reign at Monaco on Monday but called forpatience as he attempts to revive the fortunes of thestruggling Major League Soccer outfit.

Speaking at his first press conference since hisappointment by Montreal last week, the 42-year-old for-mer France and Arsenal superstar insisted he is readyfor the challenge despite his troubled tenure with Ligue1 side Monaco.

Henry was sacked by Monaco in January after only100 days in charge as the team nosedived into the rel-egation zone following his appointment, with just fivewins in 20 matches.

“For me, the way I put it is always [either] you winor you learn, and I learned a lot there,” Henry said ofhis spell at Monaco.

“It’s about coming back, always. You have to get upand be in front of what happens. The only mistake thatyou can make is not learning from what happened.”

Henry, who was also an assistant coach to Belgiumduring the country’s 2018 World Cup campaign, wherethey finished third, said his experiences were part ofhis evolution as a manager.

“You have to start somewhere,” he said of his timewith Belgium and Monaco.

“I learned a lot about myself. It’s about fighting. Thisisn’t just my story but the story of everyone in life.Everyone falls. It’s about how you get up.”

The Impact’s sporting director Olivier Renard saidHenry beat out several candidates under considerationfor the Montreal position.

After meeting Henry in mid-October, it wasdecided then that he should take on the job of rebuild-ing the foundering franchise, he said.

Henry, who spent four years in MLS with the NewYork Red Bulls at the tailend of his playing career,meanwhile urged Montreal’s fans to be patient, sayingsuccess won’t come overnight.

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Dismissing Pakistan’s reviewappeal, the International Tennis

Federation (ITF) on Tuesdayannounced Kazakhstan’s capital Nur-Sultan as the neutral venue for theupcoming Davis Cup tie betweenIndia and Pakistan.

Pakistan Tennis Federation(PTF) had filed an appeal contestingthe ITF Davis Cup Committee’sNovember 4 decision to shift theNovember 29-30 tie to a neutralvenue.

PTF had argued that if Indian pil-grims can visit Pakistan without anysecurity threat, why can’t the Indianteam play matches in Islamabad, butthe Independent Tribunal of theworld governing body kept the gamesat a neutral venue.

“The Pakistan Tennis Federation(PTF) appealed the Davis CupCommittee decision to move the tiefrom Islamabad. The appeal wasdismissed by an independent tribunalon Monday 18 November,” ITF saidin a statement.

“Further to the decision of thePTF not to nominate a neutral venue,in accordance with Davis Cup regu-lations, the Davis Cup Committee hasvoted in favour of the tie being host-ed by the ITF on neutral ground atthe National Tennis Centre in Nur-Sultan (previously Astana),Kazakhstan on 29-30 November,” thestatement added.

The matches will be played onindoor courts since extreme cold con-ditions there won’t allow them to bestaged outside.

“Playing indoor suits our players.It will work in our favour, not that ourplayers can’t play on grass but they alot more comfortable on hard courts.The weather conditions are harsh andthough we are playing indoors, it stillaffects the body,” India coach ZeeshanAli said.

“The quality of tennis is betterplaying indoors because factors likesun and wind do not affect thematches.” The tie was scheduled to beheld in Islamabad in September butwas pushed to November 29-30 afterIndia expressed concerns about thesafety of their players due to diplo-matic tensions between the twonations.

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New Zealand and England will taketheir cricketing rivalry into the Test

arena on Thursday after finding them-selves evenly matched in recent limited-overs thrillers.

England have bragging rights afterwinning a rollercoaster World Cupfinal in July, then edging the Black Caps3-2 in a desperately close Twenty20series completed earlier this month.

Both the one-day decider and T20series needed tie-breakers to find a win-ner and there will be no shortage ofmutual respect when the rivals face offagain on Thursday in the First Test atMount Maunganui.

On paper, there again appears to belittle to separate the teams, with NewZealand second in the Test rankings andEngland third.

But England skipper Joe Root ispainfully aware that his team underper-formed when it lost a two-Test series inNew Zealand last year after underesti-mating the Black Caps’ bowlers on theirhome turf.

Pacemen Trent Boult and TimSouthee bundled the tourists out for 58in the first innings of the opening Testas England tried to play what Rootdescribed as “fast forward” cricket.

England’s skipper said his teamwould be taking a more measured

approach this time, with batsmen plac-ing an emphasis on protecting theirwickets.

“We have to be prepared to playsome attritional cricket at times,” he said.

“We have to try to bat longer... itwould be nice to get used to batting for120 overs more regularly, especially inthe first innings.”

The series will not count towards theWorld Test Championship, giving newEngland coach Chris Silverwood roomto experiment in his first Test series in

charge.He is expected to hand opening

batsman Dom Sibley his debut, partner-ing Rory Burns, with Root moving downto fourth in the order.

New Zealand will take the oppor-tunity to blood speedster LockieFerguson, who has already excelled inlimited overs internationals and wasdescribed as “an extreme talent” byshort-ball specialist Neil Wagner.

“I know he’s raring to go. If he getsthe opportunity he’ll make the most of

it,” Wagner said.New Zealand will also be bolstered

by the return of captain KaneWilliamson, who sat out the T20 serieswith a nagging hip injury.

It will be the first Test match everstaged at Mount Maunganui’s Bay Oval,which has been hosting limited-oversinternationals since 2014.

The beachside venue is Wagner’shome ground and he said the wicketcould take time to get used to.

“It’s been a pretty good wicket that’stended to be on the flatter side but there’salways pace and bounce that you canwork with,” he said.

“It’s also got it’s own unique chal-lenges with wind that swirls around abit.”

SQUADSNew Zealand: Kane Williamson (capt),Todd Astle, Tom Blundell, Trent Boult,Colin de Grandhomme, LockieFerguson, Matt Henry, Tom Latham,Henry Nicholls, Jeet Raval, MitchellSantner, Tim Southee, Ross Taylor, NeilWagner, BJ WatlingEngland: Joe Root (capt), Jofra Archer,Jonny Bairstow, Stuart Broad, RoryBurns, Jos Buttler, Zak Crawley, SamCurran, Joe Denly, Jack Leach, SaqibMahmood, Matthew Parkinson, OlliePope, Dominic Sibley, Ben Stokes, ChrisWoakes.

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With Pakistan set to chal-lenge Australia in a two-

Tests series starting Thursday,former Australia skipper RickyPonting believes that BabarAzam could be a threat for thehome team as the World Cup-winning skipper feels thatBabar is yet to play to potential.

“We haven’t seen the bestof him yet,” Ponting told crick-et.com.au. “Twenty-odd Testsfor an average of 35 — he’s bet-ter than that. He averages 54 inone-day cricket at a strike-rateof about 90. He’s a very, veryclassy player.

“He’s a really exciting tal-ent and probably the guy I’mlooking forward to seeing themost this summer. I’ve seen theAussies a lot and I’ve seen a lotof the Kiwis, but I’m reallyexcited to see him. He could beanything,” he added.

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Pakistan coach Misbah-ul-Haq said that pitching the

ball consistently on the blindspot or near the top of the offstump would be key to dismiss-ing Australian stalwart SteveSmith.

Smith returned to Testcricket by taking the Ashes bystorm earlier in the year. In thefive-match series that was heldacross August and September inEngland, Smith scored a whop-ping 774 runs at an average of110.57. He carried the goodform into the recently conclud-ed T20I series against Pakistanat home.

“As far as Steve Smith goes,there’s a blind spot for every topbatsman in the world; as abowler you’re always interestedin pitching the ball there,”Misbah is quoted assaying byESPNCricinfo.

“It’s importantthat we bowl withconsistency there.

Our bowlers are executing theplans very well right now, andhopefully we’ll be able to buildthat kind of a pressure, and staydisciplined especially early in theinnings. No matter how good abatsman is batting, it’s aboutconsistency and bowling themaximum balls in those areasthat build pressure and the bats-man respects you, and you force

him to make a mistake.”Pakistan are going into the

series with a pace attack thatconsists of Mohammad Abbas,Shaheen Afridi, MuhammadMusa and the 16-year-oldNaseem Shah.

“All the batsmen you talk to,any batsman in the world, that’sthe area where you have todefend a ball, and that is a six toeight metre spot where youhave to play the top of offstump,” he said. “That’s the areafrom where if it’s happening thenthat creates a great chance. Evenif it’s not happening, you haveless chances to do anythingwith the ball.

“So it’s about consistency,and top players in the world, ifyou miss those areas, that spe-cial length and line, then they are

good enough to just cash inon that. So you have to

be very, very disci-plined, just keep

the ball there, andif it’s happeningyou are already

in the game.”

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At the floodlit Eden Gardens,wrist spinners landing thepink ball with scrambled

seam will be far more difficult topick than finger spinners, feelssenior off-spinner HarbhajanSingh.

India will be playing its much-awaited first Day/Night Test againstBangladesh at the Eden Gardensfrom Saturday and there is a lot ofcuriosity regarding how the pinkball would behave.

"Wrist spinners will have oneadvantage if you see because it'sgoing to be very difficult to pick theseam (with black stitches) of pinkball," Harbhajan told PTI during aninteraction.

India has a wrist spinner inKuldeep Yadav but Harbhajan did-n't want to talk on selection mat-ters.

"Well, that's the team manage-ment's call and I can't comment.But then Bangladesh need to playthe Indian pacers on the seamerfriendly track before spinners arefully operational," he said, referringto their performance against MohdShami and Co. In the first Test.

"And also between 3.30 and4.30 pm, the time of sunset inKolkata where seamers are knownto do maximum damage. But yeswe need to figure out more aboutspinners if we want to play moreD/N Tests in future."

He reminded how Kuldeepturned out to be lethal during the2016 Duleep Trophy, played withthe pink ball.

"If you remember DuleepTrophy, no one could effectivelyread Kuldeep from his wrists. Legspinners got lot of wickets duringthat edition," Harbhajan said.

He explained why wrist spin-ners are more effective.

"When a finger spinner bowls,the ball is released with seam sothat there is turn and bounce.When you are bowling the googly,the seam will be scrambled andvery difficult to pick," he explained.

However, someone like aMuttiah Muralitharan might just bevery effective.

"But there are exceptions likeMuttiah Muralitharan, who couldhave been a killer with the pink balldespite being a finger spinner

because unlike other finger spin-ners, both his off break and doos-ra were released with scrambledseam," said one of India's greatestspinners.

However, the pink SG in gen-eral will be a challenge for the spin-ners with the extra lacquer that willbe applied to keep its colour intactunder lights.

"More lacquer means that youwill not have a good grip on theball, especially finger spinners.And the ball starts skidding fromthe hand."

He then went on to explain thefundamental difference betweenbowling with white ball and pinkball when the dew sets in.

"A lot of people think that theball will be like a slippery soap baras it happens with white ball inD/N games. It's not the same. Thewhite ball becomes slipperybecause the white lacquer goes offthe skin of the ball gets wet.

"With extra lacquer, pink ball'sskin wont get wet but the stitcheswill be very soggy. And therein liesproblem with finger spinners.

Also the format of the gamemakes it difficult.

"In 50 overs or 20 over crick-et, whenever the ball gets wet, youcan just alter the length a bit andlet the batsmen play on backfootgetting those singles.

"But in a Test match, you willnot have a field setting like that.You have to pitch it up. Now land-ing six deliveries on one spotwhile trying to grip a wet seam canbe a challenge because trying theODI length will be easy meat forbatsmen."

For spinners to be more effec-tive, they have to play more gamesat the domestic level.

"If BCCI creates a window sothat all top national players areavailable for a couple of specificrounds in Ranji Trophy, then youcan learn more.

"Even Duleep can go back topink ball but only if stars play. Withno disrespect to any player, if topplayers dont play here, the purposeis lost and no advantage gainedwhile playing next pink Test," heconcluded.

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India speedster MohammedShami said altering length to

keep the batsmen guessing wouldbe key when India take onBangladesh in their maiden Pink-ball Test.

Shami, who has been in terrif-ic form, returned with the figuresof 3/27 and 4/31 in the first Test atIndore to achieve his career-bestranking, said he intends on keep-ing things simple for the historicTest.

“What one thing bowlersshould do is keep an eye on thewicket and how is it behaving, sowhat I do is as the pitch gets slow-er I keep pushing myself andwhen I notice that the batsman isuncomfortable I go over the top...So the length has to keep chang-ing,” Shami said on Nerolac CricketLive on Star Sports.

Meanwhile, former India cap-

tain Sunil Gavaskar cautionedMayank Agarwal, who scored adouble century in the Indore Test,saying opposition would be better-prepared to counter him in futurematches.

“He is enjoying Test cricket,this is his first year and hopefullyhe keeps scoring on the secondyear also because in the second sea-

son there is a lot more data avail-able of you to the opposition.

“But he has been batting beau-tifully, the way he balances himselfwithout falling on the offside as heplays so straight and his movementof the front and back foot has beenfantastic making him the man inform who is full of confidence,”Gavaskar said.

Former India opener GautamGambhir said the Men in Blue havea complete bowling unit withquality spinners and pacers in theirranks.

“If you see other oppositions,some teams have got quality fastbowling attacks, some have qual-ity spinners but if you look at thisIndian side, they’ve got two qual-ity spinners, three quality seamersplus Jasprit Bumrah andBhuvneshwar Kumar who are notin the playing 11.

“So they’ve got proper 5 seam-ers plus Kuldeep Yadav.”

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Australia coach Justin Langer has reck-oned opener David Warner will put his

bad form in the Ashes this year behind himin the upcoming Test series against Pakistan.Warner had a horrible outing during theAshes campaign this year as he managed just95 runs at an average of 9.5 from five games.

“I cannot wait to see him play well.

When he simplifies the game, stays still andwatches the ball, keeps his mind clear, weknow there’s no more destructive player inthe world, probably,” Langer was quoted sasaying by cricket.com.au.

“He loves batting in Australia, he lovesbatting, basically. We are looking forward tohim having a great summer. I know howimportant he is to our team, that’s why I hadno doubt after the Ashes that he’d be in thefirst Test of the summer,” he added.

When Pakistan last toured Australia,Warner averaged 71.20 across three Testmatches.

Earlier, Aussie spinner Nathan Lyon feltthat Warner would come out all guns blaz-ing in the two-Test series against Pakistan.

“Dave is a world-class player. I’m expect-ing him to come out here and play excep-tionally well,” Lyon had told reporters onSaturday.

“No doubt, he would have been downand disappointed about the Ashes that hehad. But he was still part of the side to goover there and retain the Ashes, which ispretty bloody special, if you ask me,” headded.

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