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, ,  7,$ nizance of the matter. If impor-     tant leaders are not allowed to ours after BJP president hold rallies in the State, then      HAmit Shah’s helicopter was what is the meaning of elec- denied permission by the West tions,” Javadekar said.    Bengal Police to land at The Union Minister said Baruipur under Jadavpur con- the West Bengal administration    stituency for an election rally, has been denying permission to he attacked Chief Minister Shah’s poll programmes and , + !!  &118 Mamata Banerjee for “damag- events of other important BJP ing all the democratic institu- leaders. he southern odyssey of tions and norms in the State.” Mamata’s dictatorship is TTelangana Chief Minister K Shah alleged, “A Bengal on full play in the State, he said, Chandrasekhar Rao, with an that was once a sonar Bangla criticising the Chief Minister. eye on the post-poll scenario in (golden Bengal) has been Javadekar asserted that the , remained inconclusive reduced to a Kangal Bangla denial of permission to the BJP despite a 70-minute long meet- (destitute Bengal).” chief’s helicopter reflected ing with DMK president MK The BJP alleged that the Mamata’s frustration over the Stalin on Monday. Chief Minister has replaced growing support for the BJP, as KCR drove down to Stalin’s democracy with her “dictator- people who had elected her are palatial residence in Chennai ship” after the State adminis- determined to defeat her. and held talks with him in the tration denied permission to a In the seventh and last presence of Durai Murugan rally by Shah. phase of election on May 19, and TR Baalu, close advisers of Mamata immediately hit     !   "     # $   " %&    polling will be held in nine par- Stalin. Both KCR and Stalin back, “The way he (Shah) is liamentary constituencies in did not meet the waiting insulting Bengal and its people communal tension in the area Ram. But here I dare her to be able to save her from immi- West Bengal. reporters after the meeting. will not go unpunished. with the BJP and TMC sup- arrest me as I am also chanti- nent defeat.” Meanwhile, a person This could be because of the Uneducated people like these porters resorting to fisticuffs ng ‘Jai Shri Ram,” Shah said. In a sharp retort to Shah, reportedly a former personal failure of KCR to convince (Shah) who have no idea of prompting a mild lathi-charge The BJP president said, O’Brien said in a tweet, “That assistant of Bengal BJP presi- Stalin about the possibility of a               Bengal and its culture are today by police, sources said. “The Mamata Banerjee puke-worthy Shah had the dent Dilip Ghosh was on non-Congress and non-BJP   P       coming to this State to insult Soon after a political Government is visibly per- audacity to use the term Monday arrested with 1 crore front to lead the nation. the Bengali people.” slugfest began between the two plexed. She wants to stop me ‘Kangal Bangla’ today at a rally. from Asansol Railway Station. The TRS chief had Tamil Nadu Congress Congress will emerge as the TMC MP Derek O’ Brien sides, the Chief Minister called from attending rallies. The The people of Bengal will give The person, along with described Rahul Gandhi as a Committee and the most trust- largest party and form the called Shah’s statement a “puke- the BJP a “party of rioters and TMC can stop me from him and Modi a fitting reply in another person, reportedly buffoon and also as a politician ed ally of the DMK, scoffed at Government,” said Azhagiri. able” stuff. goondas who were distributing addressing rallies, but can’t Phase 7. That #LowLife insults confessed before the GRP that of no significance. Leaders of KCR’s overtures to various Sources close to Stalin told Rejecting Shah’s allegation cash looted during the demon- stop the victory march of the Bengal.” the cash was being brought for the DMK refused to reveal political parties. The Pioneer that KCR may of denial of permission to his etisation” during elections in BJP in Bengal.” Meanwhile, BJP leader and “electoral purposes.” Both of anything about what transpired “Chandrasekhar Rao paid have had second thoughts chopper to land, the State Bengal. “But they will not be Addressing an election Union Minister Prakash them had traveled to Bengal in the meeting. KCR had met his obeisance to Meemakshi about the Federal Front. administration claimed the able to win the elections as the rally in Canning, Shah target- Javadekar urged the Election from Delhi. Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Amman at Madurai. He also “Perhaps he has understood Government had nothing to do people will not give them a sin- ed Mamata, saying, “We will Commission to take cog- While the twosome were Vijayan last week. worshipped at Ramaswamy that a non-Congress, non-BJP with the denial of the permis- gle vote here,” Mamata said. restore the glory of Bengal. nizance of the development, remanded in a three-day police “KCR is on a southern Temple at Rameswaram. Now Government is not viable. Rao sion as the chopper was sup- Shah, who subsequently Mamata Banerjee has turned saying the West Bengal custody, Ghosh refused to political pilgrimage and there he has come to Chennai to pay may be reworking on his strat- posed to land on a private land held a rally at Joynagar also in ‘sonar’ (golden) Bangla into Government wants to to reduce comment saying he would take is nothing significant about it,” obeisance to Stalin,” Azhagiri egy vis-à-vis the Congress,” and that “the land owner South 24 Parganas, attacked the ‘kangal’ (pauper) Bangla. She is the poll panel to a mute spec- information about the matter, said R Balasankar, author and told reporters in Chennai. said Sam Rajappa, political refused to give permission in TMC chief. “She is arresting the only interested in protecting tator. conceding however that the political commentator about The Congress leader said commentator with good rap- the final run”. people and stopping them from infiltrators to secure her vote “This is murder of democ- man arrested was once his KCR’s trip to Kerala and Tamil there no was possibility of any port with the DMK leadership. The incident sparked near- chanting the name of Lord bank. But her vote bank won’t racy. The EC should take cog- personal assistant. Nadu. KS Azhagiri, president, Third Front in India. “The Continued on Page 4  # R    !        "   O" "P    P    #$%          $% &%    R          ! 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Addressing an election Supreme Court that his 26- “What Sam Pitroda said  '    Haasan’s comments drew rally in Aravakurichi on year-old client had no choice about 1984 was totally wrong ( 0   1  sharp reaction from the BJP, Sunday night, Haasan said, “I but to approach the apex court and he should seek an apolo-       which said, “Haasan is in a am not saying this because this as there is a complete strike in gy from the country... I am say-   2   hurry to prove that he follows is a Muslim dominated area... local courts till May 14 in ing this publicly and I also told    the Congress and Communists Free India’s first extremist was Howrah and moreover, she the same to him over phone.       $  in showing Hindus in a bad a Hindu, his name is Nathuram has been remanded in 14 days Pitroda ji, what you had said     "'   "  "$      # $  ' (    " ) light to appease minorities for Godse. There it (extremism) judicial custody by a Howrah was completely wrong and you  * #"        the sake of his new venture.” starts.” local court on May 11. should be ashamed of yourself.    * !!  Addressing a press confer- BJP TN president Tamilisai Priyanka shared on You should seek a public apol- of himself. told his Guru (Pitroda) that he in Punjab, which is going to  ' + ence in Delhi, BJP leader and Soundararajan said the whole Facebook the photo in which ogy,” Rahul said towards the Addressing a poll rally in should be ashamed (for his poll on May 19. $% 30  Union Minister Nirmala nation was shocked when Mamata’s face has been photo- end of his speech in Khanna. Bathinda from where Union remarks). I want to ask Rahul was addressing the     Sitharaman said, “It proves Gandhi was assassinated and shopped on to actor Priyanka However, stepping up his Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal Namdaar why are you pre- rally on Monday in favour of       that he does not understand the none can justify it, and that Chopra’s picture from the MET offensive over the 1984 anti- is seeking re-election, Modi tending to admonish him.” Congress candidates Amar -   40  difference between an assassin Godse was hanged for the Gala event in New York. She Sikh riots issue, Prime Minister said, “Today I want to ask The BJP has stepped up Singh from Fategarh Sahib,      and a terrorist.” “heinous” crime. was arrested on May 10 by the Narendra Modi on Monday Congress, how long they will offensive against the Congress Raj Kumar Chabbewal from  5      The Tamil Nadu unit of the Continued on Page 4 West Bengal Police. said Congress chief Rahul rub salt into our wounds like over Pitroda’s remarks as the Hoshiarpur and Santokh Singh 6 " & BJP slammed Haasan for “divi- Related copies on Page 7 Continued on Page 4 Gandhi should be “ashamed” this. Namdaar (Rahul) has now 1984 riots is an emotive issue Chaudhary from Jalandhar. "           

+ -  1&;&,8 month pregnancy — the “Maternal care has evolved reason it would evolve is sim- stands out among the super While Octopus mom spiderlings swarming over her Melbourne expert from the longest gestation period of any repeatedly across different ply that there is this period of moms. It is known for the starves herself to death, the crab and sucking out the liquid School of BioSciences n octopus may look like a mammal. species,” said Dr Ben Dantzer, time when offspring are high- longest-known egg-brooding spider mother offers herself as from her leg joints. Eventually Professor Raoul Mulder in Amonster and creepy crea- The “super moms” of ani- assistant Professor of ly vulnerable, so anything to period of any animal. Consider a first meal for its just born the mother weakens and another article. ture to many of us, but its mal kingdom who like most of Psychology and Ecology and increase the chances of off- this: In 2011, researchers began babies. It is a phenomenon becomes decrepit, at which In contrast, Dantzer points female species is known for the human mothers show Evolutionary Biology at the spring surviving is going to be keeping tabs on one female off known as matriphagy, where a point the spiderlings just eat her. out, mammals or primates obsessively guarding and tend- extraordinary levels of dedica- University of Michigan in an favoured.” the central California coast mother is consumed by her “They literally suck her have fewer offspring but pro- ing her eggs — she can lay up tion, attention, and selflessness article posted on geek.com. Deep-sea octopus that guarded her eggs for an young. In the case of the crab dry and then start cannibalis- vide longer periods of care for to 4,00,000 eggs. In fact, octo- while caring for their young. He further explained, “The (Graneledone boreopacifica) astonishing 4.5 years. spiders, it starts with the tiny ing her,” said University of their babies. For example, he pus moms don’t leave the eggs said, “Orangutans can keep unattended even to feed them- having babies well into their selves. By the time the eggs 40s, but they only have one hatch, the moms die, starving baby at a time and reproduce and exhausted. only every 9 years or so. That Orangutan, an ape, devotes means that over their lifetime, a very large percentage of their a female orangutan might only total lifespan to caring for one have 2-3 babies.” Given that individual baby. In fact, they orangutans live about 50 years nurse them up to 8 years — or so, Dantzer explained that is longer than any other primate. a huge time investment in rais- Similarly, cheetah mothers, ing just a few babies relative to nurture and train their cubs for their total lifespan. According 18 months as hunters before to World Wildlife Fund, the leaving them to live on their bond between an orangutan own in wild. While African ele- mother and her young is one of phant mothers carry their the strongest in nature. babies in their womb for a 22- Continued on Page 4

   !"# $    (!      !"!#! $! %&' As per the weekly data borne diseases are reported breeding, including creating '( )****  released by the SDMC, ‘the staff between July and November awareness by using various of the civic body has found but this year civic body has media, deploying more dengue  (  (   mosquito breeding in 8,546 traced many cases in months of breeding checkers, and desilt-     households in the city till May March and April. With spurt in ing of drains.  ''    1&;&,8 Municipal Corporation (SDMC) 11. The report further stated number of cases, civic bodies A senior corporation offi- on Monday. Meanwhile, four that 10,280 legal notices have have stepped up awareness cial said that the regarding  ''    1&;&,8  t least three fresh cases of new cases of Chikungunya were been served on owners of hous- campaign and deployed zonal officials have been direct- Adengue were reported last also reported, taking the total es, hotels and others for vari- Dengue Breeding Checkers ed take precautionary mea- elhi Sessions Court on week in the national Capital, number of people suffering ous violations and 452 prose- (DBCs) in various wards in sures and to ensure there was DMonday came down heav- taking the total number of from the disease to 18. cutions initiated till My 11. order to check breeding and no breeding of mosquito larvae ily on the Delhi Police for patients suffering from the dis- Underlining some precau- Among the areas falling advising people to take pre- inside the houses. committing serious lapses dur- ease to 45 this season. The tions to counter Dengue, under the three Municipal cautionary measures. According to the SDMC, ing the investigation of the Capital has also recorded 12 Doctors of the Government Corporations, the cases of “Our DBCs are visiting 10 people had died due to mysterious death of Sunanda cases of malaria in which seven hospitals in Delhi have advised breeding reported were from door to door to make people dengue in Delhi in 2017, of Pushkar. Sessions Judge Arun cases traced within a week. to take precautions like using areas of north, south and east aware and along with they also which five were not residents of Bhardwaj summoned chief Out of total cases of dengue, mosquito repellents, wear Corporations are 2,266, 5,072 spraying insecticides to kill the national Capital. Overall, investigating officer on May 24 36 diagnosed belong to other clothes which cover your full and 1,208 respectively, the larva. He said that the civic the vector-borne disease had to explain on the serious laps- States, according to a data body and avoid places that are report said. body has already adopted a affected 9,271 people in the city es like why the mobile phone released by the South Delhi more prone to the diseases. Usually cases of vector- number of measures to prevent last year. and laptop of the deceased were handed over to accused husband Shashi Tharoor on the ,-. . very next day of her death +! " &  %%" '& ! under highly questionable cir- cumstances.  $   The Judge also asked the  ''    1&;&,8 “Acting on the tip-off Investigating Officer (IO) VKPS He pointed out that Delhi these lacunas. a trap was laid and the Yadav to be present in the Court Police had completely ignored It may be recalled that Dr 26-year-old allegedly accused was apprehend-  "    to explain the reason for the the postmortem report of Swamy had earlier told the Ainvolved in supplying ille- ed. During missing of the certain CCTV AIIMS exposing 12 injury bench that he was not a gal firearms to different gang- interrogation, the ("  visuals of the Hotel Leela, where marks on her body and poison stranger to the case as he had sters in Delhi and Haryana accused disclosed that Sunanda Pushkar, the wife of present in her body. filed the PIL in the Supreme arrested on Monday. Police after death of his father, former Union Minister Shashi Public Prosecutor Atul Court in the matter after which have also recovered four he quit studies and  ''    1&;&,8 Tharoor was found dead on Srivastava told Court, he things started moving. He had sophisticated pistols and a started farming during January 17, 2014. intends to take assistance of said that his PIL was in larger country made pistol with two which he got into the 31-year-old Tibetan died The Judge was responding senior advocates. This was interest of justice. cartridges from the possession addiction of liquor,” said Aafter being electrocuted at to the petition filed by BJP objected by Tharoor’s lawyer Pushkar was found dead in of the accused. the DCP. a guest house in Delhi’s Majnu leader Subamanian Swamy for Vikas Pahwas and the a suite of a luxury hotel in the The accused has been iden- “In 2014, he was ka Tila on Monday. production of Delhi Police’s Prosecutor countered that he is city on the night of January 17, tified as Sumit Kharab alias arrested in Haryana’s The man identified as Vigilance Report detailing the well within his right to seek 2014. The couple were staying Lambu a resident of Mundhela Bahadurgarh area where Dolkar was working as a recep- illegalities and sabotages in assistance during trial. in the hotel as the official bun- Khurd village near Delhi’s he came into the contact tionist with the guest house. He the probe happened during The IO, VKPS Yadav, told galow of Tharoor was being Jaffarpur area. of several gangs which used to stay at nearby Aruna the first probe team headed by court that he needed some time renovated at that time. According to Anto used to operate in Nagar in Majnu ka Tila area. then Joint Commissioner Vivek to reply to the Court’s questions The former Union Alphonse, the Deputy Haryana and Delhi. According to senior Gogia. In his petition under on the missing CCTV visuals Minister has been charged Commissioner of Police He quickly assessed the police official, the incident CrPC 301, Swamy said that the and return of mobile phones. under sections 498-A (hus- (DCP), Dwarka district, on !"  "    "        need of illegal firearms occurred on Saturday night chargesheet filed by Delhi Hearing this, Judge said the band or his relative subjecting May 12, specific inputs were and profit behind it. He when Dolkar had gone to refill Police only accuses Tharoor for Chief Investigator Maneeshi a woman to cruelty) and 306 received that an illegal arm Vardhman Mall, Sector-19 in of illegal arms and if raided, he then engaged himself in the a “cooler” in guest house room domestic violence and forcing Chandra should come to Court (abetment of suicide) of the supplier would come near Delhi’s Dwarka at about 10.00 can be apprehended with those trade of illegal weapons,” said number 409. wife to suicide. on May 24 at 3:30 pm to explain Indian Penal Code (IPC). Nursery Plantation opposite PM with a huge consignment consignment of illegal arms. the DCP. “While pouring water with bucket in the cooler, Dolkar got in contact with naked wire and was electrocuted. Police was +       informed by the other staff members in the guest house following which a team was sent to the spot,” said the senior   !,   police official. “He was rushed to nearby hospital where doctors declared  ''    1&;&,8 Delhi’s Aya Nagar and Prince. him brought dead,” said the Recently, the victim Prince senior police official. he Delhi Police on Monday had abused and threatened “Dolkar was working with Tclaimed to have arrested Rohit Choudhary publicly fol- the guest house for last two three criminals, who were lowing which Rohit was plan- years. A case has been regis- allegedly involved in a murder ning to eliminate Prince. They tered against the owner for neg- of a gangster, near Delhi’s Saket had two times attempted to kill ligence at Timarpur police sta- court last week. Prince but he had escaped tion. Further investigation is The accused have been from their clutches,” said the going on,” the senior police offi- identified as Badal (27) a resi- DCP. cial added. dent of Khanpur, Satender (26), “A new plan was made by a resident of Govindpuri, Delhi accused to kill Prince and on and Asfak Ahmed (24) a resi- 25 Arms Act was registered at May 6, when the victim Prince dent of Subhash Camp in Saket police station and had come to Saket Court, he Delhi’s Dakshinpuri area. investigatoion was taken up,” was closely monitored and fol- According to Dr G Ram said the DCP. lowed by Badal, Asfak Ahmad Gopal Naik, the Deputy “During investigation, spe- and Satender. All the informa- Commissioner of Police cific inputs were received that tion related to his movement (DCP), Crime Branch, on May Badal who was involved in the was passed on to their associ- 6, Prince alias Bihari who had murder of Prince would be ates, who were waiting outside come to attend a court hearing coming in the area of Khanpur the court. Acting on these was shot multiple times by following which a trap was laid inputs, their associates inter- assailants near Saket Court. and the accused was appre- cepted the victim Prince near “The victim was taken to hended. On his instance Saket Court and fired upon Max Hospital, where he was Satender and Asfak were also indiscriminately resulting into declared brought dead. arrested,” said the DCP. his death,” said the DCP. Accordingly, an First “During interrogation, the “Man hunt has been initi- Information Report (FIR) accused revealed that there is ated to nab the remaining under section 302/120B/34 of rivalry between Rohit accused. Further investigation Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Choudhary who is a resident of is going on,” the DCP added. !"!  &' %"!' )** ' !$  '&"   1&;&,8  Dhirubhai Ambani Group (RADAG) — Gautam Doshi, he Delhi High Court was Deepanshu Choithani, the four Surendra Pipara and Hari Tinformed on Monday by individuals said they have plant- Nair, in the CBI’s 2G case. Swan Telecom promoter Shahid ed 500 trees in compliance with On March 19 last year, Usman Balwa and three others, the earlier court order through the ED had approached the whose acquittals in the 2G their authorised representative. high court challenging the spectrum allocation case were “In view of the same, it is special court’s order acquit- challenged by the CBI and the prayed that this court may ting all the accused. ED, that they had planted 500 direct the forest department to A day later, the CBI too trees each in pursuance to its take over the 500 trees as plant- had challenged in the high earlier direction. ed by the applicants,” it said. court the acquittal of the The court had in February Besides, the court had ear- accused in the case. directed Swan Telecom Pvt. lier asked some of the individ- The ED, in its charge Ltd. (STPL) promoter Balwa, uals and firms to plant trees in sheet, had alleged that 200 former Telecom Minister A the ED’s money laundering case crore was paid by STPL pro- Raja’s erstwhile private secretary for seeking more time to file moters to DMK-run R K Chandolia, director of their responses in the appeal. Kalaignar TV. Kusegaon Fruits and Vegetables A special court on The CBI had alleged Pvt. Ltd. Asif Balwa and Rajiv December 21, 2017 had acquit- that there was a loss of Rs Agarwal to plant 500 trees each ted Raja, Kanimozhi and others 30,984 crore to the exchequer here as penalty for seeking in the CBI and ED cases. It had in allocation of licences for the more time to file their respons- acquitted 17 others, including 2G spectrum which were es to the appeal of CBI chal- DMK supremo M scrapped by the top court on lenging their acquittal. Karunanidhi’s wife Dayalu February 2, 2012. The counsel for Deputy Ammal, Vinod Goenka, Asif Special Judge O P Saini, Conservator of Forests (DCF) Balwa, film producer Karim however, had held that the sought time to file an affidavit Morani, P Amirtham and prosecution had “miserably to see whether the court’s ear- Sharad Kumar, Director of failed” to prove the charges. lier has been complied with in Kalaignar TV in the ED case. The special court, which its letter and spirit. Justice A K On the same day, the trial was set up on March 14, Chawla said let the affidavit be court had acquitted Raja, 2011 for hearing 2G cases filed by the DCF in two weeks Kanimozhi and 15 others, exclusively, had also acquitted before the next date of hearing, including former telecom sec- Essar Group promoters Ravi that is, October 24. retary Siddharth Behura, Kant Ruia and Anshuman In separate applications, Chandolia, Unitech Ltd MD Ruia and six others in a sep- filed through advocates Vijay Sanjay Chandra and three top arate case arising out of the Agarwal, Mudit Jain and executives of Reliance Anil 2G scam probe.

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espite the scorching heat Dand roza (fasting) during     "  the holy month of Ramzan, the elections, especial- ly the two Assembly segments  ''   1&;&,8 when he returned to the spot, he could not saw a large number of Muslim find his father. Then he ran towards the voters turnout. Ballimaran and n tragic incident, a 51-year-old busi- house of the accused, where he found his Shakur Basti segments of Inessman was allegedly stabbed to death father lying on the staircase with stab Chandini Chowk constituency after he objected to the lewd comments injuries. He tried to shield his father from recorded the highest voter made by some boys on his daughter in the attackers and in the process, he also turnout of 68.25 and West Delhi’s Moti Nagar area. The man’s sustained stab injuries," he added. 68.7 per cent. 19-year-old son was also injured in the My uncle was attacked and stabbed Besides, the other minori- incident and he is battling for life in hos- multiple times, the family member alleged. ty-dominated areas such as pital. The incident occurred in the early The businessman dropped his daugh- When the father-son duo did not return, Matia Mahal observed voting hours of Sunday. ter home, went to complain to the boys' the family members rushed to the house percentage of 66.94 per cent Confirming the incident, Deputy father about their behaviour. His daugh- of the accused. My cousin sister was held followed by Seelampur (66.47 Commissioner of Police (West) Monika ter informed her brother and mother about by one of the accused so that she does not per cent), Mustafabad (65.22 Bhardwaj said a case has been registered the incident, claimed a nephew of the busi- intervene, he said. per cent) and Babarpur (62.14 ! '   56 1 # $ $  (    and two persons — a 20-year-old man and nessman, who did not want to be named. Hearing the commotion, some people per cent) also recorded an his 45-year-old father — have been arrest- When the man reached there, an argu- came out of their houses, but no one inter- average voter turnout of 60 per ed 66.81 per cent. Okhla and schedule in the month of BJP spokesperson ed. ment broke out over the issue between him vened, instead they started recording cent. New Delhi Assembly seg- Seelampur recorded 58.21 per Ramzan, the Opposition had Shahnawaz Hussain pointed Two other sons of the 45-year-old and the boys, and in the midst of it his son videos on their mobile phones, the fami- ment which had highest criti- cent and 68.11 per cent polling, demanded that the Election out that Navratas, when many man, who are juveniles, have also been arrived, he said. ly member said. cal polling stations and is respectively. Commission postpone the Hindus observe nine-day fast, apprehended in connection with the inci- "The verbal abuse led to heated argu- After a while, someone known to their known for its VVIP voters, Mustafabad recorded 71.50 polls because of the holy will also fall during the elec- dent, she added. ments. My cousin arrived to control the sit- family, rushed to help to take the father- recorded lowest voting per- per cent polling, while month. But the poll date tions. Reacting to the con- The boys made indecent gestures and uation. However, they started thrashing son duo to a hospital, he said. centage of 52.58 per cent. Babarpur and Shakur Basti remained the same for the troversy, the Election passed lewd comments on the business- him and my uncle, who also tried defend Police said the businessman suc- Delhi recorded a voting saw a turnout of 65.34 per cent national Capital. Commission had said that polls man's 27-year-old daughter when they themselves. No one was carrying any cumbed to injuries Monday morning, percentage of 60.34 per cent in and 70.19 per cent, respective- Leaders of the Trinamool are conducted during Ramzan were returning home on a two-wheeler weapon at that point of time," the family while his son is battling for life. the Lok Sabha 2019 elections, ly, in 2014. Congress (TMC) and the Aam as an entire month cannot be from a hospital, police said. member said. My uncle had sustained multiple five per cent less than the 2014 The poll dates had set a war Aadmi Party (AAP) had earli- excluded from the schedule. The man had taken his daughter to a When the situation went out of con- injuries on abdomen and stomach and Lok Sabha polls. In 2014, of words between the BJP and er said that holding elections However, dates of main festivals hospital after she complained of severe trol, the boys fled the spot, he said. "My cousin on shoulder and other vital parts Ballimaran clocked 67.17 per the Opposition parties. during Ramzan will create and Fridays are avoided as headache, they added. cousin chased the accused, and later of the body, the family member said. cent while Matia Mahal record- Witnessing the Delhi elections inconvenience for Muslims. poll days. -        .,   

candidate said he was able to spend time with his son and daughter after months. “After months I got up at 8 am which is very late, as during campaigning I used to wake up around 6 am. I went for a jog to get in shape and then met son Vatsal and daughter Agamya after months as I was forced to be outdoors till late hours during campaigning,” Pandey said. Pankaj Gupta, AAP can- didate from Chandni Chowk, preferred to finish household chores like buying vegetables for his family. “I also cleared pending bills. After months perhaps, I am feeling light, without any stress. I spent some quality time with my family members,” he said. Balbir Singh Jakhar, AAP’s West Delhi candidate, said he resumed his work as an advo-        0           cate. “I went to my Dwarka   1&;&,8       1                    office and resumed my work as   (    a lawyer and social worker. I rom buying vegetables and did puja in the morning had Fspending time with family and workers. She followed for the polls. Union minister campaigning in the last few breakfast with my family, then after weeks, to catching up on her routine like normal Harsh Vardhan, who is con- months and served them I left for my work at 9.30 am,” sleep and playing harmoni- days,” said a close aide of the testing from Chandni Chowk, homemade cookies. “At no he said. um, Lok Sabha candidates in former three time chief minis- spent time reading newspapers point did I feel like I’m fight- Boxer-turned-politician Delhi relaxed and shook off ter of Delhi. and playing with his pet dogs. ing this election alone. I want Vijender Singh, Congress’ can- tiredness Monday, a day after Dikshit’s BJP counterpart BJP’s celebrity candidate to thank each and every one of didate from South Delhi, is polling ended in the national and her rival in North East from East Delhi Gautam you (volunteers) for your spec- recovering from a sore Capital. Delhi seat Manoj Tiwari, who Gambhir left for Mumbai tacular commitment, drive and throat, after campaigning for 18 After spending months was involved in party affairs after voting ended on passion.,” she said. days. preparing for the polls, while besides campaigning, slept till Sunday evening, said party Congress’s Chandni “He spent quality time with some preferred to let their hair 10 am to shake off tiredness. spokesperson Praveen Shankar Chowk candidate JP Agarwal his five-year-old son Abir, down, others returned to their “I woke up at 10 am Kapoor. woke up early at 5.45 am and whom he had not seen in days. normal routines. although usually I leave the bed Gambhir had a chance spent time time with his He used to leave for cam- Delhi Congress chief and around 7 am. After some meeting with his friend grand- daughters besides surf- paigning at 6 am and return North East Delhi candidate stretching and treadmill exer- Harbhajan Singh at the airport ing the Internet, said his son around midnight, when his Sheila Dikshit stayed at home cise, I spent time playing har- and he will return from Mudit. son would be sleeping. He is and spent time with her fami- monium and rehearsing Mumbai after fulfilling his Many candidates, who also catching up on his sleep,” ly, meeting leaders and work- singing with friends,” Tiwari prior commitment and focus were spending most of their said a close aide of Singh. ers of the party. said. on his constituency, he said.’ time campaigning with their All the candidates are wait- “Sheila ji spent time with He also interacted with His rival, AAP candidate supporters, preferred to spend ing with bated breath for March her son, daughter and sister at party workers and leaders get- , relaxed with their day at home with family. 23, when the results will be        1   (      " (    home and met party leaders ting their feedback on voting her team who helped her in AAP’s North East Delhi declared. ' '&  !!!' 1'3   &68      OP"     !# '& !!& ""        56  "     ''    1&;&,8     5 reaky weather condition   1&;&,8 woman employee of the apex  ''    1&;&,8 Fprevailing in the national court.    !+ Capital has caused rare sum- group of men Monday However, the clean chit to hile almost 39 per cent mer air pollution as dust storms Aprotested at India Gate the CJI was met with several WDelhiites remained he Congress and heat over northern belt of here, demanding action against protests by women activists indoors and did not go out to Thas expressed Indo-Gangetic plains took pol- the woman who "falsely" and lawyers. exercise their franchise on concern over the lutant levels to hazardous level. accused Chief Justice of India "Why not punish Sunday, there were many who way electronic Delhi, the national Capital Ranjan Gogoi of sexual harass- the woman who falsely reached to polling booths voting machines of India has already been ment. charged him (Gogoi). What despite adversities to participate (EVMs) were tagged the world’s most pol- Demanding gender about his dignity? If the CJI in the biggest festival of democ- transported to luted city internationally due to neutral laws, the protesters is not safe who else can be? racy to elect their representa- strongroom in emission of toxic fumes and assembled under the banner of Can such women be allowed tives. Nand Nagari in agricultural smoke and facto- Purush Aayog, an NGO to walk free after raping a Inder Singh, a retired Sub- the North East ry waste during winter season, fighting for the rights of man of his dignity?" Trehan Inspector of Delhi Police along Delhi Lok Sabha however uncommon in sum- men, carrying placards that added. with his family members exer- constituency after voting on Officer (CEO) of Delhi, but no mer months. read— "Stop maligning judi- It is bot only about the CJI's cised their franchise in North- Sunday evening. action has taken so far. According to System of Department (IMD) official in North West India including ciary, "Justice for Chief Justice" image being "disrobed" but the West Parliamentary Consti- The party alleged that “We will lodge a Air Quality and Weather said, “We are in the season of Delhi,” SAFAR highlighted in and "We want equality for gen- dignity of every man in this tuency immediately after cre- vehicles carrying EVMs were formal complaint on Tuesday,” Forecasting and Research thunderstorm. High speed graph. ders". nation is at stake, the NGO mating his son Sunil Kumar off-loaded on the road around he said. Dikshit is up (SAFAR), a unit of Ministry of winds are raising a lot of dust, For Delhi, the pollution "We demand strongest said. (35) who died in hospital after 200 metres away from the against Delhi BJP president Earth Science (MoES), there are possibilities of rains in monitoring agency said that punishment for the women Trehan said that they have he met with an accident. strongroom. and sitting MP Manoj Tiwari Moisture incursion from Delhi -National Capital Region Delhi air quality will slowly who accused the CJI. long been demanding the set- Lok “I was shocked the way the and AAP’s Dilip Pandey in a Arabian Sea is ongoing and (NCR),” said MeT official in a improve but will remain in very The Supreme Court ting up of a welfare commission Sabha candidate from North EVMs were carried to the triangular contest in the North leading to increase thunder statement. poor category, “It is predicted should exemplify this case for men but nothing has hap- West constituency Hansraj strongroom. There was no sys- East parliamentary con- storm activities in North - Meanwhile SAFAR in its to improve to poor category by to ensure that a man's dignity pened yet. Hans and Leader of the tem and thousands of EVMs stituency. West region of India. overall air quality forecast men- May16th.” is not raped by false accusa- She also defended Opposition in Delhi Assembly were off-loaded in the middle Voting for seven Lok Sabha On Monday, the air quali- tioned that overall air quality Indian cities made up 14 of tions," Barkha Trehan, television actor Karan Vijender Gupta visited the of the road which raised ques- seats in Delhi ended on 7 PM ty index marked “Red” indi- over Delhi is in “Very Poor” the world’s 15 most polluted President of Purush Aayog Oberoi, accused by a woman family after the incident came tion over their safety,” said on Sunday. cating severely polluted air. As category. “Due to the recurrent cities in a UN survey released said. astrologer of rape and in light to pay their condo- Latika Dikshit, the election Delhi recorded a voting per the readings on Air Quality western disturbances the region in 2018. Air pollution con- Last week, Gogoi got a blackmail on the pretext of lences and share grief with agent and daughter of percentage of 60.34 per cent, Index (AQI)- level of is prone to convective activity tributes to hundreds of thou- clean chit from the apex court's marriage. them. Congress’s East Delhi candidate five percentage points less than Particulate Matter 10 was in next three -four days.” sands of premature deaths each in-house inquiry "If you read the messages, On the one hand people Sheila Dikshit. the 2014 Lok Sabha poll. recorded 379 Micro Cubic per The thunder storms with year in India, according to the committee which "found no if you read the texts shared, the avoid going out for vote due to Delhi Congress’s media The voting percentage in gram (μgm-3) whereas PM 2.5 gusty winds can lead to sudden United Nations. The Delhi substance" in the allegations of woman was forcing herself on hot summer but this family, committee member Parvez said North East Delhi was highest was recorded at 154 μgm-3 peaking of dust on isolated region has been often described sexual harassment levelled him. She was after him," she despite such a tragedy hap- the party had complained to among all the seven seats, at Indian Meteorological places for brief period of time as a gas chamber. against him by a former said. pened went out to vote. the office of Chief Electoral 63.4 per cent.   !"# $      /01     Q! ( 3/ ! "(    1   23    Ahmedabad: A sub inspector channel cameraman. men's suspension came in.  , -4R and three constables were on Junagadh Superintendent Reporters had also protest- Monday suspended in connec- of Police Saurabh Singh said late ed in other parts of the state, Aizawl: Mizoram Agriculture tion with a lathicharge on Monday evening that he has including Ahmedabad, where Minister C Lalrinsanga reporters covering elections of ordered the suspension of sub many of them gathered at Monday said a group of scien- a temple trust in Junagadh inspector JP Gosai and three Vastrapur Lake and submitted tists would soon visit Mizoram town, around 320 kilometres constables. a memorandum to Collector for on the spot study of the out- from here. "Following an inquiry and Vikrant Pandey. break of the Fall Army Worm The incident took place after going through the video After the attack Sunday, (FAW) which has left a trail of on Sunday outside footage of the incident, I have mediamen had confronted the destruction in the maize fields also educating the farmers how Swaminarayan Temple in suspended PSI JP Gosai and Junagadh SP who had, at the across the State. to use the pesticides, Junagadh when the election of three constables of Junagadh time, said action would only be Lalrinsanga said that the Lalrinsanga said. the temple trust was underway, Town police. While Gosai was taken after the probe was com- first case of FAW incidence was "The FAW multiplied and was captured on camera. the one who slapped a media- pleted and not just by watching identified at Nghasih area near rapidly forcing us to use all our Earlier in the day, Gujarat person, the three constables video footage of the incident as Lunglei town on April eight resources to combat the men- Minister of State for Home were involved in either lath- demanded by mediapersons. and had spread to all the eight ace," the minister said, adding Pradeepsinh Jadeja said he had icharge or in manhandling Following this, the districts in the state. that the social organisations ordered an inquiry and asked media crew present there," said reporters and cameramen had Combating the outbreak were asked to cooperate with Junagadh SP to lead it. Singh. sat on protest outside his was undertaken at a war-foot- the Agriculture department in      1   * 0          "      *   In one of the videos of the Earlier in the day, demand- Junagadh office late Sunday ing by the state Agriculture implementing the action plans "    "        # $      incident aired by news chan- ing immediate suspension of evening. department, he said. to fight the outbreak. nels, policemen, including some the policemen, several media- Reporters claimed police This has prompted the As per the latest report, Solan (HP): Prime Minister had tried to reverse it during the eficiaries from the health pro- in civil uniform, can be seen persons of Saurashtra region hit them when they were cov- state government to constitute 2,189 hectare of maize cultiva- Narendra Modi on Monday past five years, claiming that the tection scheme was more than pushing away a cameramen had staged protests at the office ering a confrontation between the Rapid Response Team tion area was under FAW infes- accused the previous Congress defence production had been the total population of USA, and then hitting media crew of Singh. two persons over an election which made efforts to mitigate tation which has affected 5,636 Governments of using defence increased by 80 per cent. Canada and Mexico. "As many with batons. A policeman can They called it off Monday related issue in the premises of the losses of the maize cultiva- families engaged in maize deals as an automated teller Pointing out to Congress as 50 crore Indians are provid- also be seen slapping a TV evening after news of the police- the Swaminarayan Temple. PTI tors by using pesticides and farming. PTI machine (ATM) for the party. leader Sam Pitroda's remarks ed free medical facilities up to Addressing a rally in on the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, he Rs 5 lakh per annum under Himachal Pradesh's Solan dis- said: "If you ask any question to Ayushman Yojana," he said. trict, Modi said: "India was the 'namdaar' (dynast) family, He also praised Chief  7 dependent on foreign countries they say 'hua to hua' (It hap- Minister Jai Ram Thakur for for 70 per cent needs of the pened, so what?)." "exemplary implementation" of defence forces during the pre- Modi accused the United the PM-Kisan scheme. vious Congress governments. It Progressive Alliance (UPA) dis- Modi recalled the days "   * had been deliberately done as pensation of delaying the pur- when he was in charge of the defence deals were ATM for the chase of bullet-proof jackets for state for the BJP, saying he used Congress." six years, which, he said, endan- to stroll on the Mall Road in "India had an 150-year- gered the lives of the soldiers. Solan and take 'chana' (chick- long experience of defence pro- The prime minister urged pea) from vendors. 7  7   duction when it became inde- first-time voters to vote for Solan falls in the Shimla pendent in 1947, whereas ensuring development of the parliamentary constituency, China had no such experience country in the 21st century. He where the BJP has fielded Indore: Congress leader perpetrated a "Rs 30,000 crore at that time," Modi said. "But claimed that had the UPA gov- Suresh Kashyap, while Solan Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Rafale scam". now, China has become an ernment maintained the growth MLA Dhani Ram Shandil is Monday took a jibe at Prime "He is such a big defence exporter of defence production, rate achieved during former contesting on a Congress tick- Minister Narendra Modi over expert that he alone decided whereas we are an importer prime minister Atal Bihari et. his statement about IAF air- that the Rafale aircraft will be because of the bad policies of Vajpayee's term, then it would The four seats of the state crafts evading Pakistan radars manufactured by a company earlier Congress governments." have been much higher now. goes to polls in the last phase of during the Balakot air strike that has never built one ever. It The prime minister said the On Ayushman Bharat, the Lok Sabha election on due to the "cloudy weather". was given land as well. But be Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Modi said the number of ben- Sunday. PTI At a roadshow in Indore's it rain or sunshine, people Rajwada Chowk, the Congress came to know what is the leader, reading from a piece of truth of this man's politics," she paper, said, "During his five- claimed. 4 $  0  year tenure as the prime min- Taking on Modi for berat- ister, Modi has only given jum- ing the achievements of former               ,. .       "   ! las (rhetoric) to the people." prime ministers Jawaharlal "He believed that he won't Nehru, Indira Gandhi and .52     come on people's radar due to Rajiv Gandhi, she said Modi / & & "!! #"" !0 the cloudy weather," said the was like the school student who Congress general secretary in knowing that he would lose the Panaji: The woman who Last month, a missing per- in the district court of North Hindi amid cheers from the race, deliberately falls and starts lodged a rape case against for- son complaint was lodged and Goa. Auda Viegas, director of crowd that had thronged the blaming others for it. mer Goa Minister and later on May 10, the police reg- a South Goa-based NGO, said '# !  ##$"'1  traffic junction. She further alleged that Congress' Panaji bypoll nomi- istered an FIR for offence of the victim was initially kept at In an interview aired on the Prime Minister had no nee Atanasio Monserratte has abduction against an unknown a state-run facility for juveniles, Guwahati: Assam Sahitya Sabha Kendriya Vidyalaya schools in ry had stated that classes on Saturday, Modi had said, "The time for the poor and the one gone missing from a rehabili- person, Chodankar said, adding but later shifted to a convent in (ASS) president Paramananda Assam along with the rest of the regional languages will be given weather was not good on the time she saw a photograph of tation facility here, police said that efforts were on to trace the South Goa as part of her reha- Rajbongshi on Monday alleged country of their birth right and for one hour either before school day of air strike. There was a him holding a child in his arms, on Monday. woman. bilitation. that the Kendriya Vidyalaya democratic right to study begins or at the end of it. thought that crept in the minds it turned out to be that of BJP Verna police inspector Monserratte, who is con- Viegas accompanied offi- Sangathan (KVS) was "conspir- Assamese and other indigenous "This will compel students of the experts that the day of chief Amit Shah's grandchild Sandesh Chodankar said the testing the upcoming Panaji cials of the convent on April 28 ing to deprive students in its languages". to remain in school for long strike should be changed. and not of some ordinary cit- woman, who charged Assembly bypoll on Congress' to file the complaint, after the schools their "birth right" to He claimed that till last hours from 7.45 am till 4 pm, However, I suggested that the izen. Monserratte with drugging and ticket, was booked in May 2016 victim went missing. She said study Assamese and other year teaching of mother tongue naturally it will decrease the stu- clouds could actually help our Modi is a "cowardly" politi- raping her in 2016 when she for allegedly raping the woman the victim was pursuing a fash- regional languages. languages was carried out in dents interest to study their planes escape the radars." cian as he does not have the was a minor, was undergoing in March that year, when she ion designing course, and Rajbongshi at a Press con- Kendriya Vidyalaya schools, but own language, and thereby the The Congress leader fur- courage to listen to the voice of rehabilitation at a facility in was 17 years' old. feared that she might be at "risk" ference here claimed that a the notification of March 29 importance of imparting edu- ther said that Modi promised the public, she claimed. PTI South Goa district from where A charge sheet was later as the case involving her was recent KVS notification "will making physical education and cation in mother tongue in KVs a corruption-free govern- she went missing on April 28. filed against him by the police "high-profile". PTI deprive the students in the some other subjects compulso- will be lost", he said. PTI ment but went ahead and # R    !     5   &#Q /&"0!'! %&"" '#%   #$% $!$"" !' !" $% &%    444   444 From Page 1 Haasan is to create religious She said it was “strongly unrest in society and create From Page 1 From Page 1 &' #!' ! 23 condemnable” that Haasan communal tension in the She was charged under That’s probably because Orangutan moms used the phrase “Hindu Constituency and all over the Section 500 (defamation) of the spend the first two years of their baby’s life as Kolkata: After BJP president Amit 6$ $ extremism” in a Muslim-dom- state.” IPC and under other provisions of their sole source of food and transportation. Shah, the permission for a poll    -  7 inated area. Actor Vivek Oberoi the Information Technology Act Then they spend six to seven years teaching meeting by Uttar Pradesh Chief   $  “Though he talks of taking slammed Haasan’s remarks, on the complaint of a local them where to find food, what and how to eat Minister Yogi Aditynath in the city forward a new kind of politics, saying both art and terror Trinamool Congress leader and how to build a nest to sleep in. Female has been cancelled, top party leader   he also indulged in the old,mis- “have no religion” and asked if Vibhas Hazra, the plea said. orangutans have even been known to visit with claimed on Monday.  - !7 chievous, poisonous and divi- Godse’s faith was mentioned to Earlier, the BJP youth wing their moms when they grow up. Aditynath's meeting on James sive vote bank politics,” corner Muslim votes. “Dear activist’s mother claimed her However, one of the best super mom that Long Sarani at Behala in south west      (  Soundararajan said in a state- Kamal sir, you are a great daughter’s arrest was politically Danzer can think of is the Caecilian that look Kolkata on May 15 was cancelled 2    ment. artist. Just like art has no reli- motivated. “My daughter was like snakes - they’re legless - but in actual are after the permission for it was She said his remarks gion, terror has no religion arrested because she worked for amphibians. “They live underground, usually in withdrawn by the local adminis- amounted to inciting “com- either! You can say Godse was the BJP. This is all part of a big rainforests, and aren’t seen that often, but when tration, he said. al secretary Sunil Deodhar said in munal violence”. a terrorist, why would you plot. This is the first time she is far they are born, they have sharp tiny teeth on the The Uttar Pradesh chief minis- a tweet. In an apparent reference to specify Hindu ? Is it because away from us. Had she been a front of their mouth. ter is scheduled to address a rally at The saffron party has claimed the deadly Easter bombings in you were in a Muslim domi- TMC (Trinamool) worker noth- “When the mom is brooding her offspring, Phoolbagan in north Kolkata and that the West Bengal government Sri Lanka which left over 250 nated area looking for votes?,” ing bad would have happened to she produces this lipid-rich skin and her off- another at Habra in North 24 denied Shah permission to land his dead, she asked whether per- he asked in a tweet. her, this is all done by TMC,” she spring use their little teeth to bite into the skin, Parganas district on the same day, chopper and address the public sons like Haasan were vocal in Haasan, however, found was quoted as saying to news rip it off and eat it.” She then re-grows her skin ahead of the last phase of polling on meeting. discussing the issue “despite support from the Congress agency. every three days to keep feeding them until May 19, the party sources said. Accusing the West Bengal gov- being known that the perpe- and DK, whose leaders said Her arrest was followed by they’re grown, Danzer added. The withdrawal of permission ernment of "replacing democracy trators were Muslims.” they found nothing wrong with protests from the BJP and other But some species are more caring as they for Adityanath's meeting follows a with dictatorship", the BJP in the Soundararajan said the actor-politician’s remarks. social media users. Netizens have spend a lot of time dedicating to their offspring similar action against BJP president morning said the Election Haasan’s remarks in a Muslim TNCC President K S Alagiri been criticising Priyanka’s arrest before they’re even born. Take the case of ele- Amit Shah's scheduled rally at Commission has become a "mute dominated area were “mis- said he concurred with Haasan and have been calling out Mamata phant, said Jan Vertefeuille, senior director for Jadavpur on Monday in the city. spectator" to the Trinamool chievous and agenda-driven.” “1000 per cent”, while DK chief and her government for attacking Advocacy and Wildlife Conservation at the "Democracy is a joke in West Congress's alleged undemocratic The party also filed a com- K Veeramani said Godse her freedom of expression. The World Wildlife Fund in the article. “These Bengal. Permission cancelled at last means to target the party. plaint with the EC against trained with RSS. hashtag#ISupportPriyankaSharma mothers carry their babies for a whopping 22- moment for @AmitShah Jis rally at The TMC, however, rebutted Haasan for his remarks, saying Aravakurichi is one of the is doing the rounds on the inter- month pregnancy - the longest gestation peri- Jadavpur. Once again Yogi the allegations claiming that the BJP they were made at a village in four Assembly constituencies net and netizens are criticising the od of any mammal.” Adityanath Jis rally permission can- had cancelled Shah's rally fearing a Aravakurichi, which was a where bypolls are scheduled on Mamata Government and West So here’s applause for these silent super celled in South Kolkata. DM & CEO low turnout. “thickly-populated” Muslim May 19. MNM has fielded S Bengal police and demanding moms whose action of affection and maternal both are working as agent of ruling It made no comments on area. “The intention of Kamal Mohanraj from this segment. her bail. care does talking instead of words! Trinamool Congress," BJP nation- Adityanath's rally. PTI R     !

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Monday dubbed the saffron have become so blinded by their he Election Commission (EC) on Monday The party said the comments party 'Bharatiya Jinnah Party'. love for Jinnah that they end up Tordered re-polling at polling station 88 at show her desperation in view of Demanding Prime Minister hating Nehru," the Congress Asaoti in Faridabad after a polling agent of the her imminent defeat in the Narendra Modi's apology over spokesperson said. BJP tried to influence voters on May 12 dur- Lok Sabha polls. BJP candidate Guman Singh These are the same people ing the sixth phase of Lok Sabha polls. The EC Making a personal attack Damor's statement, Congress who formed Government with has fixed May 19 for the re-polling. on Modi with a handful of spokesperson Pawan Khera Fazlul Haq's Muslim League The decision was taken after a complaint twisted logic, Mayawati alleged slammed Modi for going to before Independence, Khera of violation of secrecy was found to be true by that women in the BJP are Hitting out at the BSP his personal life, and women in Ratlam and campaign for the said, adding it was in the Sindh Presiding Officer of Asaoti, after a video of a scared of their husbands meet- leader, Union Finance Minister BJP. Behen Mayawati please be saffron party nominee on Assembly that the resolution polling agent, trying to influence voters inside ing the Prime Minister fearing Jaitley tweeted that she is unfit assured we're all absolutely safe, Monday. supporting the two-nation the- a polling booth in Faridabad, went viral on they might also "abandon their to be in public life. "Behan secure and have good profes- Damor, in an election rally ory was passed, but the Hindu social media. wives". Mayawati — She is firm on sional relationships in our on Saturday in Ranapur town, Mahasabha did not pull out of An FIR has been registered against the "I have come to know that becoming a Prime Minister. party," she said. Madhya Pradesh, said, "If Government. accused, identified as Giriraj Singh. He was in BJP, women leaders get Her governance, ethics and "Mayawati ji has under- (India's first Prime Minister) Syama Prasad Mookerjee produced in court and is now out on bail. time, he is told that he is being called outside. scared when they see their discourse stoops to an all-time stood that her gathbandhan is Nehru was not obstinate during was Finance Minister in Bengal Presiding Officer Amit Atri in his complaint He, however, walks into the booth for the third husbands going near PM Modi. low. Her personal attack today getting nowhere and this is the the time of Independence, then with the Muslim League and V said that the accused, "with the excuse of help- time to repeat the violation, before finally walk- They fear that like Modi they on the Prime Minister exposes reason for her worry and sense this nation would not have been D Savarkar first talked about two ing voters", pressed the button meant to cast ing out of the purview of the camera. might also abandon their her as unfit for public life," of insecurity. Will she withdraw divided into two." nation theory, Khera said. votes three times. "I stopped him each time but In the video, no other official present in wives," BSP Chief said in a Jaitley tweeted. the support to the alliance "Jinnah (the founder of "Now Modi-ji is campaign- Giriraj Singh did not listen. While Giriraj Singh the room tried to stop the man from going to press statement issued at At a press conference in because the Congress govern- Pakistan) was an advocate and a ing for his Jinnah-supporting was trying to put a vote, some person record- the voting compartment. After the video went Lucknow. New Delhi, Union Minister ment wanted to push the Alwar learned man. If a decision was candidate. Now it is becoming ed a video film and made it viral. During this viral, multiple people tagged the EC on "Under such circumstances, Nirmala Sitharaman also gangrape case under the carpet? taken to make Jinnah PM at the clear why Modi-ji invited Nawaz time, a crowd of other voters came and Giriraj Twitter asking for action to be taken against I request all the women of the attacked the BSP supremo for She has only revealed that time, then India would not have Sharif for his swearing-in, why he Singh managed to escape," the complainant the man. country not to give their votes making personal remarks she is eminently facing a polit- been partitioned," he claimed. went to Pakistan uninvited and stated. The FIR was registered. The EC said it sent the Faridabad election to such a person. This would against Narendra Modi saying ical failure. I think she is only At a press conference, Khera why Imran Khan wants them to In the video, Singh (in a blue t-shirt) is seen observer to the polling booth at Asaoti in also be their real respect to the that the former UP Chief demeaning the stature of her said, "Those who created furore come to power. This is the walking up to the polling booth on three occa- Prithla for a probe. "Based on the election deserted wife of Modiji," she Minister has demeaned the own leadership. She should over Jinnah's portrait in Aligarh Bharatiya Jinnah Party," he said. sions in less than 1.30 minutes and appears to body's complaint, the man was arrested by the said. Addressing a joint SP-BSP stature of her own leadership. apologise to having comment- Muslim University (AMU) are Khera also urged the Prime have reportedly either pointed to the party police on Sunday evening and has been rally in Gorakhpur, Mayawati "It is absolutely disap- ed so badly over the private life now campaigning for a person Minister, Amit Shah and "blog symbol on the EVM or pressed the button, for charged for alleged booth capturing," EC offi- also repeated her caste swipe at pointing and shocking for her of the Prime Minister," said who praised Jinnah. Damor minister" Arun Jaitley to speak at least three voters, including two women. As cials said. Modi, calling him a "fake OBC". to speak so ill about the PM and Sitharaman. with his remarks has exposed out on the issue. he gets up to walk to the booth for the third Faridabad went to polls on May 12. $! !%!"!&! ! "  ""   '  131%      (  *  " $      *"      (/    1&;&,8 cadre and more precisely by reportedly humiliated Congress. "The result of this is shows the reality of Congress    "  the West UP General them."Out of anger, Priyanka that the whole working com- and exposes their 7  "    senior Congress worker Secretary Jyotiraditya Scindia. Gandhi used such words that mittee of the Congress in the hollow claims of treating every     Ahas levelled serious alle- Chaturvedi has now joined should not have been used by region has given their resig- one with love," he said. gations against party general Shiv Sena. a national general secretary of nation," said Patra. Bhadohi would vote in the New Delhi: The Supreme clear signal has to be sent to the New Delhi: The Supreme secretary in-charge of eastern Neelam too quit the party any party, let alone by a "The Congress workers seventh and last phase of the Court has "strongly deprecated" Government authorities that Court on Monday agreed to Uttar Pradesh Priyanka alleging it ignored its local woman while speaking to said that they gave their res- Lok Sabha elections on May the "casual manner" in which they cannot approach the court hear on May 17 the Centre's Gandhi on the issue of ticket leaders and workers by giving another woman," Neelam ignation after Priyanka used 19 alongwith Varanasi and Bihar has filed an appeal before as and when they please, on plea challenging the Delhi distribution. the ticket to an "outsider". "It alleged. derogatory language. This others. it after a delay of over 700 days account of gross incompetence High Court's verdict which Bhadohi Congress presi- was a big shock for us when She said that the party and said a clear signal has to be of their officers and that too had quashed cadre allocation dent Neelam Mishra has the ticket was given to workers will support sent to the Government author- without taking any action of IAS and IPS officers of the alleged there was a problem in Ramakant Yadav, who is an Samajwadi Party-Bahujan ities that they cannot approach against the concerned officers," 2018 batch. ticket distribution in the State outsider and a former BJP Samaj Party alliance candidate   ((  the court as and when they the bench said in its order. The matter was mentioned and when requested to review, member. Yadav distanced Rangnath Mishra in the ongo- please. "No detail of this delay of for urgent listing before a Priyanka humiliated party himself from the party work- ing Lok Sabha elections, as "he      A bench comprising 728 days have been given as if bench comprising Justices workers, including her in the ers. We were not provided is a local". Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul there is an inherent right to seek Indira Banerjee and Sanjiv run up to the Lok Sabha cam- with any support, despite the Following Neelam's resig- and Indira Banerjee dismissed condonation of delay by State Khanna. paigns. fact that Yadav was given nation, BJP spokesperson  3   the appeal filed by the Bihar Government. The law of limi- Solicitor General Tushar The matter came after crores in funds by the party," Sambit Patra launched an Government in a service mat- tation apparently does not apply Mehta told the bench that the Priyanka Chaturvedi quit the Neelam alleged. attack on Congress, saying ter and imposed a cost of to the state government accord- high court had asked the gov- grand old party as its The party members that the Bhadohi incident New Delhi: The Supreme already over. Only one phase 20,000 on the state, saying it ing to its conduct," the bench ernment to redo the entire spokesman citing humiliation approached Priyanka Gandhi exposes the "naamdaar" Court Friday rejected a plea remains now," the bench was a "complete wastage" of said. exercise. at the hands of State unit with the matter, who in turn (dynast) mentality of the seeking a direction to the observed. judicial time. Referring to an earlier Mehta told the court that Election Commission (EC) to When the counsel The apex court noted that judgement of the apex court, those selected under the cadre advance polling timing to referred to the searing heat in an appeal against the division the bench noted in its order that in the 2018 batch have under- 5:30 am from 7 am for sev- parts of the country, espe- bench order of the Patna High such condonation of delay is no gone training and were sup- ! &' ' "# &   enth phase of the Lok Sabha cially between 12 noon to 3 Court was filed before it after more admissible on the pretext posed to start joining their election in view of searing PM, the bench said, "The a delay of 728 days and the state of "government working lethar- respective cadres from May 10. heat and Ramzan. timings are from 7 am to 6 sought condonation of this gy".The bench also noted that The Delhi High Court had & & #""!" ! ## A vacation bench com- pm. People can come in the "extraordinary" delay stating the state had earlier filed an recently quashed the Centre's prising Justices Indira morning to cast their votes." that it took time to obtain all the appeal before a division bench cadre allocations of IAS and New Delhi: In a relief to the (CPCB) was passed. them by the green tribunal Banerjee and Sanjiv Khanna On May 2, the top court sanction from the respective of the high court against an IPS officers of the 2018 batch Andhra Pradesh Government, A bench of Justices DY before passing the order. said that court cannot go into had asked the poll panel to departments and receive the order of its single judge in the under the new policy and the Supreme Court has sus- Chandrachud and Hemant The bench said that in the issue of poll timings and pass "necessary orders" on affidavit. matter after a delay of 367 ordered fresh cadre alloca- pended the NGT order direct- Gupta in its recent order said order to obviate the grievance most phases of the Lok Sabha Pasha's representation seek- "We are of the view that a days. PTI tion. PTI ing the State to deposit 100 that it is permitting Andhra that there has been a violation elections were already over. ing advancing of voting tim- crores with the CPCB for inac- Pradesh to move an appropri- of the principles of natural jus- "We cannot get into poll ing for the remaining phase of tion to prevent illegal sand ate application before the NGT tice, it will be in the interests of times. It is the Election Lok Sabha polls, which the mining. within two weeks. justice if an opportunity is Commission's call. There EC had rejected on May 5. O:" 7 $    ;"  P In the interest of natural "Until the NGT takes a granted to the state to place its may be logistical issues," the In his fresh plea in the justice, the apex court allowed decision, the direction for the perspective before the NGT. bench told advocate apex court, the petitioner the State Government to place interim deposit of 100 crore The top court requested the Mohammad Nizamuddin had said that the poll panel New Delhi: "For qualifying Sanjiv Khanna said that reser- When the counsel appear- its perspective before the shall remain suspended. We green tribunal to consider the Pasha who had filed the peti- had turned down his repre- examinations there cannot be vation of any class comes into ing for petitioner Rajneesh National Green Tribunal clarify that we have only sus- application that may be filed by tion. sentation as being "adminis- any reservation," the Supreme play only during admissions. Kumar Pandey and others (NGT) with regard to illegal pended the direction of the the state and dispose it of prefer- "Part of elections are tratively not feasible". PTI Court clarified on Monday "For qualifying examina- referred to the notification for sand mining. NGT to the above extent. We ably within a period of three while hearing a plea seeking 10 tions there cannot be any reser- CTET examination which is to The Andhra Pradesh have not expressed any opinion months. per cent quota for the eco- vations. This is wholly mis- be held on July 7, the bench Government has claimed that it on the merits of the appeal," the On April 4, the tribunal nomically weaker section in conceived. This (CTET) is shot back, "The notification for was not granted an opportuni- bench said. while asking the state to deposit 5     Central Teacher Eligibility Test merely a qualifying examina- the examination does not give ty to be heard by the green tri- Senior advocate A K 100 crore with the CPCB with- (CTET)-2019. tion. The issue of reservation any reservation to Scheduled bunal before the order for Ganguli, appearing for Andhra in a month, directed the chief A vacation bench of will come up only at the time Caste and Scheduled Tribe depositing 100 crore with Pradesh submitted that no for- secretary to forthwith prohibit all Justices Indira Banerjee and of admission," the bench said. either." PTI Central Pollution Control Board mal hearing was granted to unregulated sand mining. PTI  %<=>     !!"#!" ! 

  1&;&,8 currency of Vinod Deshmukh,     (  8-9  Puneet Jain, Hemraj Singh, he Enforcement Directorate Pravesh Kumar Gandhi and T(ED) on Monday attached others. movable and immovable prop- Accused Garg, Gupta and + -  1&;&,8 ing complete drone camera surveil- ment of tigers, leopards, rhinos, jum- erties worth 2.95 crore of Kushwaha used to collect lance in tiger reserves. The WII is pro- bos and other wild species. This will Puneet Jain, Hemraj Singh, demonetised form of currency ith the Union Civil Aviation viding required number of drone further help in habitat management, Vinod Deshmukh, Rajeev from different persons and WMinistry yet to decide on its cameras to all the tiger reserves and countering man-animal conflicts and Singh Kushwaha, Mehfooz deposited them in to the account request to 'tweak' some clauses in the also give training to the forest staff. So checking criminal activities. Khan, Pravesh Kumar Gandhi of shell firms/ companies oper- newly-formulated 'The Drone far, drones have been installed in five The Kaziranga National Park in and others in a money laun- ated by the latter. This was done Regulations 1.0' for 'hassle-free' deploy- tiger reserves—Rajaji, Dudhwa , Panna, Assam had already been using UAVs dering case relating to Axis with the help of Axis Bank offi- ment of the high-tech gadgets to keep Kaziranga and Sathamangalam forests to keep a vigil on areas of the forest that Bank demonetised currency cials. The amount deposited in an eye on the poachers and for better in Tamil Nadu. are difficult to access by foot for the past conversion case. these shell companies/firm were wildlife management, the National The sources said while the UAVs five years. Poaching has been a big ED initiated investigation further transferred to the account Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) are fast becoming a necessary hi-tech problem for the park which saw over under PMLA against Mohit of different bullion traders for is mulling over bringing all the tiger tool in wildlife management all over the 500 rhinos being killed in the last two Garg, Raj Kumar Sharma and buying gold. Thus, they con- reserves (50 overall) under the sur- world, the new drone policy has com- decades. Devendra Kumar Jha on the verted demonetised currency veillance of the unmanned aircraft pletely ignored entities (NTCA and Similarly, Rajaji and Corbett Tiger basis of FIR registered by Delhi into gold/RTGS form on com- vehicles (UAVs) as per the existing WII) as security agencies. Reserves too have deployed the Police following seizure of 3.70 mission basis and illegally norms itself. Wildlife experts say that the aim unmanned gadgets to keep a tab on crore in the form of denomi- exchanged demonetised cur- "We will soon hold a meeting with of drones is to make the system easy anti-social elements lurking the tiger nation currency notes of 1,000. rency in to gold. the Ministry to get the approval for for conservationists and foresters to habitats. These are also keeping an eye Investigation revealed that Earlier, two Provisional deployment of drones in all the tiger allow endangered animals to be on checking illegal mining, tree felling, after the announcement of Attachment Orders (PAO) for reserves within the existing norms as Ministry alleging that the policy in its in protected areas and along interna- tracked and monitored easily, and poaching and other anti-wildlife and demonetisation, accused Mohit property worth 11.86 crore our request to tweak the new drone present format "does not augur well tional borders sharing the boundaries proactive way to stop poaching. This anti-environment activities. It will Garg, Nitin Gupta, Vineet were issued. Properties worth policy is yet to be accepted," said for the functioning of the government's of Indian tiger reserves. They also insist- will also help keep a tab on movement patrol high altitude areas of the state. Gupta, Shobhit Sinha and Axis 3.36 crore were also seized sources in the NTCA. wildlife agencies like them which are ed that maintaining "full visual line of of animals in the villages, preventing Ranthambore, Similipal, Bank officials had used shell during searches in the case. So Following the announcement of engaged in curbing wildlife crime and sight" at all times, as prescribed in the human-animal conflicts. Nagarjunasagar-Srisailam, Bandipur, companies/firms namely Beagle far, total properties worth the 'The Drone Regulations 1.0' late last habitat management including human- new guidelines, is impractical. For instance, in Dudhwa Tiger Parambikulam, Namdapha, and Marketing, Sunrise Trading Co. 18.19 crore involved in money year, the NTCA and Dehradun-based animal conflicts". Presently, under the NTCA's e-bird Reserve (DTR) in Uttar Pradesh drone Sundarbans too have already got the RD Traders, Himalayan Traders laundering have been Wildlife Institute of India (WII) had They had sought permissions such project, Dehradun-based Wildlife cameras are assisting the patrolling Ministry's nod for deployment of of Rajeev Singh Kushwaha for attached/seized, the agency represented before the Civil Aviation as allowing it to fly the drones in night, Institute of India (WII) is implement- teams to keep a watch on the move- drones. illegal exchange of demonetised said in a statement.   !"# $ '

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At a rally in the con- Ofray from Bihar for the sev- Shatrughan Sinha president Rahul to work jointly for the victory stituency on Sunday, the two enth and last phase of the ongo- who is now contest- Gandhi will hold a of their eldest sister Misa Bharti. brothers stood side by side, ing Lok Sabha polls, the main ing from the seat for roadshow on Tej Pratap, the mercurial holding aloft a photograph of focus will be on four Union the Congress. Thursday, urging voters to elder son of Prasad, had recent- their jailed father, who is serving Ministers who are facing tough Sinha quit the BJP and choose Sinha. Ram Kripal ly quit as the patron of the jail term in fodder scam cases. battles. The four Ministers are joined the Congress on April 6. Yadav, the Minister of State for party’s students’ wing and even Tej Pratap Yadav also reaf- Ravi Shankar Prasad, Ram Both Prasad and Sinha Rural Development, is con- campaigned against RJD nom- firmed his “fondness” for his Kripal Yadav, Ashwani Choubey belong to the upper Kayasth testing from the Pataliputra seat inees in a couple of seats when younger brother, saying he saw and RK Singh. caste, who are present in size- which is a big challenge for him the names recommended by him as Arjuna, who he was Prasad, the Minister of able numbers in Patna Sahib. as jailed RJD chief Lalu Prasad’s him were ignored. helping as Lord Krishna. Electronics and Information Prasad and the BJP have elder daughter Misa Bharti is He, however, remained The rift between Tej Pratap Technology and also a Supreme left no stone unturned for his also in the fray. unflinching in his loyalty and his family first surfaced Court lawyer, is contesting victory. Party President Amit Misa Bharti, a Rajya Sabha towards Bharti, often cam- when he filed a divorce petition from the Patna Sahib con- Shah on May 11 held a road- MP, had contested unsuccess- paigning in her favour with against his newly married wife stituency which has been a BJP show to seek votes for the fully in the 2014 polls from the mother Rabri Devi. Sunday and widened when his stronghold since over two Union Minister. seat. She was defeated by Ram was the first occasion when he estranged father-in-law decades. Sinha, who is fondly known Kripal Yadav, who had quit the did so alongside Tejashwi. Chandrika Rai, a former min- This is the first time that he as ‘Bihari Babu’, also visited dif- RJD and joined the Bharti is in the fray from ister, was chosen to contest from Saran constituency in two brothers came together at each other they will end up is contesting the polls. Since ferent localities and villages in BJP after being denied a tick- Pataliputra, the Lok Sabha seat from Saran. the past. the insistence of Misa Bharti, falling into the trap of the 2012, he has been a BJP Rajya the constituency despite the et by Lalu Prasad in favour of she had unsuccessfully con- Both Lalu Prasad and An RJD leader said on who made them sit together BJP-led NDA, which wants to Sabha MP from Bihar. scorching heat. Even his wife, his daughter. tested in 2014. Lalu Prasad was Rabri Devi had fought elections condition of anonymity that the and explained that by fighting “finish off the party. BJP put Prasad in the fray Poonam Sinha has campaigned Ashwani Choubey, the Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare, is contesting from the Buxar seat which he #$%;<-,   :,;   won in the 2014 general elec- tions. He is pitted against the RJD’s Jagdanand Singh.   0$1 stand these matters of principle Choubey, who is known to  (   :  and ideology. 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But enior BJP leader Shahnawaz opinion of the “Pakistani ori- as its poll symbol, which was an indirectly referring to the JD(U) except his own Brahmin caste- SHussain has claimed that gin” writer. outdated symbol of violence. chiefs exit from the Grand men, other upper castes, espe- the BJP will win 301 Lok Sabha The American magazine’s The lantern symbol of the Alliance comprising RJD and cially the Rajputs, are not in his seats on its own while the NDA May 20, 2019 international RJD stood for the light of love Congress and return to the BJP- favour. RK Singh, a former IAS will win 39 out of the 40 LS seats editions — the Europe, Middle and brotherhood and, hence, led NDA two years ago. officer-turned-politician, is in in Bihar due to a “Modi wave” East and Africa, Asia and South would burn brighter than ever, Referring to JDU’s poll the fray from the Arrah con- sweeping across the country and Pacific — feature the Modi said the former Chief Minister symbol, Lalu said And a few stituency, considered a CPI-ML a “wave against the entire cover story with the main who is serving sentences in words about your arrow, which stronghold. Opposition” this time. will win 301 Lok Sabha seats headline “India’s Divider in fodder scam cases in 22//% %0%/$$($2/0$,/ %00 has become outdated in this era A Rajput, the BJP candi- Asserting that there is a alone on its own. We (NDA) Chief”. The article is written by Jharkhand. 1(0$!/%2%0;;/($2(;2$02>(%$0 of missiles. The arrow now date is in a direct fight with “Modi wave” across the coun- are in a very good position in Aatish Taseer, son of Indian Lalu made the remark in 0$/2/.-(/;2(2/;?%1(0!20$ deserves to be kept in muse- CPI-ML candidate Raju Yadav, try, the party’s national Bihar and will win 39 out of the journalist Tavleen Singh and an open letter to Nitish, his arch 0.(0$0/02/>(%$0@0%//A1((> ums. And it is up to you to supported by the RJD and the spokesman said here on 40 seats as the BJP-led alliance late Pakistani politician and rival ahead of the last phase of (21(0$$((2.0%/%/0A0(>A(%2?// decide whether you use the Grand Alliance in the state. Sunday, people are voting for is very strong in the state businessman Salmaan Taseer. the ongoing general elections. >(A0$%/(>0$;(( arrow to punch a hole into the With Raju in the fray, NDA candidates riding on the because of the presence of the Hussain said he plans to He was responding to Nitish’s lotus (BJPs symbol) or seek Singh has taken help from Modi wave and the develop- JD(U), which was not a part of write a letter to the magazine oft repeated remark at election you aware the lantern stands Remember, the public will shelter therein. The lantern some tainted and criminal- mental works undertaken by the NDA in the last election,” rebutting what has been writ- rallies that the days of the for light? It is a symbol of love always need the lantern. Of will burn bright, brighter than turned-politicians belonging the Prime Minister in the last Hussain told PTI. ten in its cover story. Modi is lantern are over a metaphor for and brotherhood. It is an course, light is emitted by bulbs ever since you have used your to the powerful Bhumihar five years. Dismissing The Time mag- a PM who believes in ‘Sabka the improved power situation instrument of removing dark- and diyas (earthen lamps) as arrow to backstab the 11 crore upper caste, to woo voters. But “In 2014, people voted for azine’s recent cover story on PM sath sabka vikas’, and has never in Bihar as also the alleged ness from the lives of the poor. well. But you cannot dispel the poor people (of Bihar), the RJD the main problem is that ally Modi on the basis of his per- Narendra Modi titled “India’s discriminated against minori- decline in RJDs political for- In the light emitted by the darkness cast by inequality supremo signed off. Janata Dal-United leader formance as Gujarat CM and as Divider in Chief”, the BJP leader ties, he said. tunes in the State. lantern, we have dispelled the and injustice with the light of Stung by the latest salvo by Meena Singh has distanced an alternative to UPA’s said, “It is an insult and disre- “There has been fewer riots Addressing Nitish, who darkness of inequality, hatred, the bulb. To do so you need to the Opposition party, JD(U) herself from him. Manmohan Singh. Though spect to the country as it has during Modi’s rule in such a big heads the JD(U), as chhote atrocities and injustice. We will become ‘diya aur baati’ (the spokesman Sanjay Singh said Elections will be held for Modi had asked for 272 plus been written against the PM.” country. Minorities are safe bhai (little brother), Lalu said continue doing so. But your earthen lamp and its cotton the letter by a person lodged in the Nalanda, Patna Sahib, seats in 2014, people gave him Hussain said the “vilifica- and secure as the Modi gov- it appears you have developed arrow symbolises violence and wick), the RJD supemo, who prison is a violation of the jail Pataliputra, Arrah, Buxar, 283 seats,” the former Union tion campaign” and “concerted ernment is committed to secu- a hatred for light these days. bloodshed, Lalu said in the let- failed to secure bail during elec- manual. The jail authorities in Sasaram, Karakat, Jahanabad Minister said. disinformation” spread against rity of all citizens,” the BJP You spend your day speaking ter, which was shared by RJD on tions, said. Ranchi should take cognizance constituencies in the last phase “But this time, the BJP the PM by the Congress and leader said. about Lalu and the lantern. Are the social media. But you will hardly under- and act accordingly. on May 19. 3   ;      $  3 3  8&<    ,:17; $   fter a gap of three years, ASamajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Monday  !   ,:17; shared dais with Afzal Ansari in Ghazipur on Monday. In   27.0:. +1A20$-(%2%00$ laiming that Bharatiya June 2016, as Chief Minister of (A0>(0$20$(> CJanata Party is set to sweep Uttar Pradesh, Akhilesh Yadav, amajwadi Party chief C$%2220(C?(> the parliamentary elections in in quest for a clean image of the SAkhilesh Yadav on Monday (/;;%A2%C Uttar Pradesh, Chief Minister party, had rebelled against his alleged that the BJP came to C(%(?$;%673 Yogi Adityanath said that the move a step. They are strand- father Mulayam Singh Yadav power by spreading lies and trend in six phases of polls ed and are standing at one and forced the party to severe hatred and cautioned the peo- country and destroyed small showed that BJP would win point. “Cycle par haathi baith its ties with Quami Ekta Dal ple against falling for its “decep- businesses. BJP snatched the over 74 seats and Narendra gaya hai is liye cycle bhi punc- headed by Afzal Ansari. tion” again. financial assistance in educa- Modi would again be the prime ture ho jayegi (The elephant is Mafia-turned-MLA Ansari Addressing a joint rally tion.... They are conspiring minister of India. riding the bicycle, and so the is the younger brother of Afzal with BSP chief Mayawati, he and trying to come to power Addressing a series of ral- tyres of bicycle would also get Ansari and is presently lodged said there is no difference with deception,” he said. lies in Maharajganj, Faizabad, punctured)”, he said. @  *  in jail. On Monday, Akhilesh between the BJP and the He blamed the Yogi Pipraich and Jaitpur on Polling in this region will  $    Yadav campaigned for Afzal Congress. Adityanath Government for Monday, Yogi said the people be held in the last phase on "  $*  Ansari, the Bahujan Samaj He claimed the Opposition the death of children allegedly had made up their mind to vote May 19.      "   Party candidate from Ghazipur, alliance will give the next PM due to lack of oxygen supply in for the BJP as it was working Listing the works done by       and sought votes for him. who will fulfil the aspirations BRD medical college in for the welfare of the masses. Prime Minister Narendra    BSP chief Mayawati was of the people of the country. Gorakhpur in 2017. “Will you elect one who Modi, Yogi said that all the wel-  "     also present. Akhilesh’s “They came to power by He also raised the issue of stole taps from government fare schemes the Union gov-      1   Opposition to the merge of spreading hatred and speaking stray cattle. “I don’t know about bungalow?” Yogi asked, mock- ernment had launched so far   "    Quami Ekta Dal with SP had lies. Can you tell me whether Gorakhpur but Lucknow is ing at Samajwadi Party presi- do not discriminate people in   !  P  become a major point of differ- farmers’ income has doubled? full of thousands of stray bulls. dent Akhilesh Yadav. the name of caste and religion.    *   ence between the SP chief and Youths are roaming around They attacked people, injuring “Like last year, this year too, “These welfare schemes have     *  "  his uncle Shivpal Singh Yadav, without employment them and many died. Baba CM elephants of BSP (Bahujan been implemented in the inter- %&    who was a close aide of jailed “Demonetisation took is responsible for these deaths,” Samaj Party) would fail to est of the poor,” he added. muscleman Mukhtar Ansari. away the existing jobs in the Yadav said.

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  1&;&,8 election rally for his party can- Representation of the People Upadhyay said the speech Haasan from campaigning for at      didate in Aravakurichi Assembly Act 1951.” at a political rally has also least five days, lodge a FIR he BJP on Monday moved constituency where by-elections breached the Model Code of against him under respective Tthe Election Commission will be held on May 19. Conduct as no one can appeal sections of IPC and take steps to   3&12,:.:    -  -      seeking a five-day ban on Haasan according to the to caste or communal feelings de-register his political party”.  6 -            renowned actor and MNM complaint, said, “The first ter- to secure votes. According to media enior leaders of Karnataka’s             president Kamal Haasan for rorist post India’s indepen- The complaint claimed that reports, Kamal Haasan clarified Sruling coalition, AH -      5&    2$ describing Nathuram Godse, dence is a Hindu.” the statement was a deliberate that his statement did not focus Vishwanath of the Janata Dal- 2  who assassinated Mahatma Establishing the comment and malicious act, and preju- on the dominant Muslim elec- Secular (JD-S) and               O   Gandhi, as the first Hindu ter- as a corrupt practice, the com- diced the maintenance of “har- torate in the constituency. Siddaramaiah of the Congress,             5 rorist in independent India. plaint said, “It is necessary to mony and brotherhooda “I am not saying this are locked in a war of words 2       The complaint has been state that the statement was between communities, which is because many Muslims are ahead of the Lok Sabha poll            filed by BJP leader Ashwini made deliberately in the pres- punishable under Section 153A here. I’m saying this in front of results. Karnataka went to the     6 Upadhyay, saying the statement ence of a Muslim majority of the IPC”. Gandhi’s statue. The first ter- polls on April 18 and April 23       was intended to outrage religious crowd for electoral gain, which The compliant urged the rorist post India’s indepen- and results are likely on May 23. 2        feelings of millions of Hindus. is clearly a corrupt practice poll panel to invoke Article 324 dence is a Hindu. His name is “An avoidable controversy Haasan was speaking at an under Section 123 (3) the of the Constitution and “restrict Nathuram Godse.” has been made out of charges   N  O       and counter-charges by  "       Vishwanath and Siddaramaiah   -"      &%  :  R "   O      0  "P   after a section of the Congress   "   ministers and legislators want-    +         Chennai: President of Tamil Nadu BJP unit Tamilisai Soundararajan ed the latter to become the Chief   $ on Monday slammed actor-politician Kamal Haasan for saying that Minister again,” JDS Education Nagar), is the JDS State unit was not speaking out.  313 the first terrorist of independent India was a Hindu. Campaigning Minister GT Deve Gowda said chief. He quit the Congress and “Coalition ‘dharma’ is not   for his party Makkal Needhi Maiam’s candidate for the May 19 in Mysuru on Monday. joined the JDS a year ago allowing me to speak out. Tuticorin: Makkal Needhi Assembly bypoll in Aravakuruchi in Karur, Haasan has said, “The Advising the media not to before the Assembly elections Vishwanath is speaking irre- New Delhi: Amid a row over Maiyam founder Kamal first terrorist of an independent India was a Hindu — Nathuram take Vishwanath’s comments in May 2018. sponsibly. He is known for Makkal Needhi Maiyam Haasan’s tongue should be cut Godse.” Reacting to this, BJP leader Soundararajan in a tweet said on Siddaramaiah seriously and Criticising the demand for making such provocative founder Kamal Haasan’s off for saying that free India’s recalling Gandhi’s assassination now and calling it Hindu terror- give it a political twist, Gowda making Siddaramaiah the remarks. May god give him wis- remarks on Nathuram Godse, “first extremist was a Hindu”, ism was condemnable. “Standing amid minorities in TN bypoll cam- said the demand to make Chief Minister, Vishwanath dom,” tweeted Siddaramaiah in the BJP said on Monday Tamil Nadu Minister KT paign, he is lighting dangerous fire to gain votes by minority appease- Siddaramaiah the Chief said in Mysuru on Kannada. Haasan does not understand Rajenthra Bhalaji said. ment,” Soundararajan tweeted. IANS Minister did not arise as HD Sunday there was no scope for Advising JDS leaders to the difference between an Bhalaji, a senior AIADMK Kumaraswamy of the JD-S was him to hold office till the rein in Vishwanath, the assassin and a terrorist. leader, also sought a ban on the Chief Minister of the coali- next Assembly elections in Congress Legislature Party BJP leader and Union MNM for “sowing violence” and tion Government and the post May 2023. leader said he would abide by Minister Nirmala Sitharaman demanded that the Election was not vacant. “The post is not vacant. the coalition dharma and allow said the actor-turned-politi- Commission of India act against “I have respect for both the Siddaramaiah can aspire to be Kumaraswamy to continue as cian was following the Haasan. “His tongue should be leaders. Whatever the provo- Chief Minister after the next the Chief Minister. Congress and Communists in cut of..He has said (free India’s cation, Vishwanath should not Assembly elections if the “Some of our Ministers showing Hindus “in a bad first extremist) was a Hindu. have commented against Congress wins majority. and legislators have expressed light to appease minorities”. She Extremism has no religion, nei- Siddaramaiah as there was no Kumaraswamy will complete their wish of seeing me as the was responding to a question ther Hindu nor Muslim nor threat to Kumaraswamy’s con- his five-year term,” said Chief Minister again out of about Haasan’s comments in Christian,” the State Minister for tinuation as the Chief Minister,” Vishwanath. affection and respect they have Tamil Nadu that free India’s Milk and Dairy Development Gowda said. In response, Siddaramaiah for me. What’s wrong in it? first “terrorist” was a Hindu as told reporters here and accused Vishwanath, a legislator said for the sake of coalition They are entitled to their opin- he named Godse, who shot Haasan of “acting” to garner from Krishnarajanagar (KR ‘dharma’ (righteousness), he ion,” Siddaramaiah said. dead Mahatma Gandhi. PTI minority votes. PTI +  + 6   2   5  !        ,  $         "     F,!!-,! "    : 38   ,       eeks after voting for the Lok Sabha +,  + : 38 Welections and with months to go for    80:. the Assembly elections, Maharashtra’s n expelled All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen ruling and opposition politicians have A(AIMIM) municipal corporator from Aurangabad he Rajasthan Government started taking stock of the drought stitu- Sayed Mateen Sayed Rasheed on Monday, as the police Thas courted controversy by ation, billed as the worst in 47 years. booked him for second rape within four months –this proposing changes in freedom Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has time around for allegedly perpetrating sexual assault fighter and Hindutva proponent ordered all his Ministers — from the on a 27 year-old woman at a water park at Khandala Vinayak Damodar Savarkar’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Shiv Sena near Pune. profile in the school syllabus. — to go to the districts where they are Rasheed’s brother Mateen Rasheed Sayyed and Three years ago, the then appointed ‘Guardian Ministers’ and prepare brother-in-law Hameed Siddiqui have also been BJP Government had intro- detailed ground reports on the water crises. booked by the Chakan police for alleged rape. duced Savarkar in the school Officials have also been asked to tour Preliminary investigations have revealed that syllabus as a freedom fighter, a their respective districts and submit com- Rasheed, who had known the victim woman for some patriot and great revolutionary. prehensive reports by May 21. time, took her and her two children along with in a The new Congress gov- These reports would include the exact car on the false pretext that her mother had sudden- ernment wants to change this status of water availability in some of the ly taken ill. After taking her to near a water park at profile and portray Savarkar as worst hit areas in Marathwada, Konkan Khandala, he and two relatives allegedly raped the a man who sent four mercy Minister of State for and Vidarbha, Western and North victim woman at gun point. petitions to the British gov- Education Govind Singh Maharashtra. Around 21,000 villages in Official sources said victim woman is a serving ernment to get freedom after Dotasara said the changes have 151 tehsils across the state are in the grip municipal corporator. Earlier in January, the being tortured at the Cellular been proposed based on the of drought, covering almost half the geo- Aurangabad police had booked Rasheed for alleged- jail in the Andaman and recommendations of a com- graphical area of the State. ly drugging a woman and raping her at a lodge locat- Nicobar islands. mittee formed to review the With water levels in all the big and ed on the outskirts of that city. This has triggered a war of school syllabus. small dams in these regions receding fast, Rasheed, who had been arrested last month in words between the Congress “There is no politics in this Fadnavis is reviewing the status on a daily connection with the first alleged rape case, was report- and the BJP. matter. But we will look into the basis. He asked all Guardian Ministers and edly on bail when the second incident took place. He “The Congress hates matter if there are still any Secretaries to ensure prompt implementa- had allegedly raped the victim woman on several Hindutva and is therefore try- issues,” he said. tion of drought mitigation measures, occasions over a period of some months. ing to belittle the heroism of Chief Minister Ashok including jobs under the Employment Rasheed has been courting controversies over the Savarkar, who is associated Gehlot too said, “Every party in Guarantee Schemes for the affected people. years. He was expelled from the AIMIM in December with Hindutva and the saffron power discusses and reviews a Not to be left behind, Opposition lead- last year for anti-party activities. parties,” said former Education State’s education policy based ers too are out assessing the damage. NCP Rasheed was among the two AIMIM corporators Minister Vasudev Devnani. on its ideology. The president Sharad Pawar has already start- who were suspended from the Aurangabad Municipal “Biographies of revolu- Vasundhara Raje Government ed a two-day tour of Marathwada from Corporation (AMC) on August 17,2017 after they tionaries were included in the did so during its term. We are Sunday. “The drought this year is worse refused to stand up when the “Vande Mataram” was syllabus so that children could doing the same now. But the than in 1972. Back then, people only want- being recited, raised slogans and clashed with other seek inspiration from them. changes are still a proposal ed jobs. This time there are no jobs, no corporators. Changing the facts about their based on the recommenda- drinking water for man and animal, no Later in August 2018, Mateen had created a huge life is insulting them,” Devnani tions of a committee formed to water for farmland, crops and plantations uproar in the AMC by opposing a motion paying trib- added. review the school syllabus.” have completely dried up,” Pawar said. ute to late Prime Minister AB Vajpayee.   !"# $    ) 5!#"%#&5$& -" 9    <$  0     " 9   9 %3%5+)1/:%31* )  7% 6     ,2 $2       $!8  '            1  6   0    - -H    ;  #.   < $  =.<$>          9  . 1 $  =.1$>  (   "  O       1     9         is the context in which Modi         ( arrived in Gujarat; any analy-         sis that ignores this is intrin- sically flawed.      /1$      For honest reporting,          Taseer could have asked the 1    9    9   Union Ministry of Human Resource Development for           statistics regarding the special   *       scholarships for minority stu-       ! O  1    dents, including for study     *  O              abroad; and the free coaching t is unproductive to speculate why for minority (read Muslim)       1 %   9      but a vocal section of the Western aspirants for IAS. Above all, he                  commentariat is showing an could have checked their  /    1  %           increasing intolerance towards mark sheets to see how many strong and nation-centric leaders in made the grade through                    Ithe rest of the world. Three notable exam- (inflated) marks during inter-                  ples are Russian President Vladimir views.   5    9     9    Putin, Chinese Premier Xi Jinping and India’s majority communi- Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. ty had some legitimate expec-       S           ( Putin won in May 2018, Xi can’t be top- tations from the Government  .     ! @         / pled and Modi is currently fighting for re- in 2014. One was scrapping  %          .        election. This is, therefore, an opportune the atrocious Right to moment for venomous attention from Education Act imposed by . 4         1* 1#    underworked writers. the erstwhile regime, under           .<$  9 S ( Smack in the middle of a heated elec- which the State refused to   ,   9     AB     C 1 tion, the burdened White men of The improve education in Economist, London, intoned, “Under Government schools and   S   $            Narendra Modi, India’s ruling party poses made the Hindu middle class                   ( a threat to democracy. Voters should turf pay for underprivileged chil-       .  9 S           it out, or at least force it to govern in coali- dren in private schools. Worse, tion” (May 2, 2019). The magazine assert- the then government exempt-   9$     7D 9C   / $      9 ed that while Modi had not been as good ed minority-run institutions                     for India as his cheerleaders had promised, from giving free education to          .1$S     .<$S ( nor as bad as his critics had imagined, Economically Weaker Section “today the risks still outweigh the rewards. (EWS) children from their       237A *              Indians, who are in the midst of voting in own community, leaving them   .<$    9             a fresh election, would be better off with free to mint money.                   a different leader.” The free education quota              #  India’s swift retaliation for the for EWS forced the closure of Pulwama massacre of Central Reserve thousands of small, cash-     237A       9S     ( Police Force jawans seems to have pro- strapped private schools that    #          .1$    voked of The Economist’s ire. It notes, “… catered to aspirational EWS                #  ( sending warplanes to bomb India’s families. Their children were nuclear neighbour earlier this year was pushed into non-functional    9S   9         not so much an act of strength as reck- Government schools, while  (    / $      ( lessness that could have ended in disas- only a miniscule number                   ter.” Predictably, it disapproves of anti-ter- could be admitted to private rorist actions in Jammu and Kashmir. ished achievements of inde- the Rashtriya Swayamsevak schools. In all honesty, the             1 $  A week later, Time, New York City, the pendent India —secularism, Sangh (RSS), KB Hedgewar, idea of a minority institution =1$>   !   C  =!C> 1  .<$       US, published a cover story titled, “Can liberalism, a free Press — from which most BJP leaders is defeated if it does not cater                  (  the World’s Largest Democracy Endure came to be seen in the eyes of come, the party has comprised to the community to which it Another Five Years of a Modi many as part of a grand con- C7.71&$ largely urban middle class pro- belongs; in fact this should be      ,  "        .1$ Government?” (May 8, 2019). A portrait spiracy in which a deracinat- .&07.$8125 fessionals (doctors, lawyers, a condition of minority edu-           <   (<   ( of a grim, unsmiling Modi frowns at view- ed Hindu elite, in cahoots teachers and engineers) — not cational institutions.    .<$            .  ers even as writer Aatish Taseer describes with minorities from the $&&.7:, exactly an under-proletariat. Taseer laments that Modi India’s ruling dispensation as “rabble.” monotheistic faiths, such as &&$& But the Time article seems may win again because, “the 9  9               Glossing over the unequal treatment of Christianity and Islam, main- to have an agenda. One objec- Opposition, led by Rahul    5    communities under Nehruvian secular- tained its dominion over :1871 818$.D tive is to exonerate the Gandhi, an unteachable medi- #        .<$      1     ism, he says, “Nehru’s political heirs … India’s Hindu majority.” Taseer 7C: 1 Congress for the targetted ocrity and a descendant of established a feudal dynasty, while out- dubs Modi’s victory an expres- killing of Sikhs after the assas- Nehru, is in disarray.” The         .  ! @ S    wardly proclaiming democratic norms sion of that distrust. .&7:.& sination of Prime Minister Congress has little to offer   9       (     "    and principles. India, under their rule, Actually, non-deracinated &&,70 &1$ Indira Gandhi. It says, “The other than the dynastic prin-               +     was clubbish, anglicised and fearful of the Hindus from the same educa- Congress leadership, though ciple: “India’s oldest party has rabble at the gates. In May 2014, those tional and professional back- C7.$$8$8 hardly blameless, was able, no more political imagination           9     (,  gates were breached when the BJP, under grounds led the revolt against even through the selective than to send Priyanka Gandhi        9         Modi, won 282 of the 543 available seats the Nehruvian order. We may .&2.812$& profession of secular ideals, to — Rahul’s sister — to join her                     in Parliament, reducing the Congress to call it the return of the heirs of 0&8, separate itself from the actions brother’s side.” Modi, he con-           (  ,   44 seats, a number so small that India’s Tilak, Aurobindo, Bose and of the mob.” This is simply cludes, “is lucky to be blessed oldest party no longer even had the right others given short shrift by the 7,.80 untrue. Rajiv Gandhi took with so weak an Opposition 9      .<$          9   to lead the Opposition.” historians and hagiographers C7. 817.8$D HKL Bhagat and Jagdish — a ragtag coalition of parties,    / $     9           Modi, claims Taseer, belongs to the of independent India’s new $:&1$5 Tytler (named in many citi- led by the Congress, with no                 brand of populists, who are of the peo- masters. There is no yawning zens’ reports) into his Cabinet. agenda other than to defeat ple they represent, like Erdogan (Turkey) economic chasm between sup- 81,:812C7. However, Taseer blithely him.” It is astonishing that   1  #               and Bolsonaro (Brazil). Son of a tea sell- porters of the Bharatiya Janata blames Modi for the Gujarat Time published these incoher- <  =1  >  4    ,  C   +  er, “his election was nothing short of a Party (BJP) and Congress, $:D3.7 riots of 2002, even though he ent ramblings as a cover story. $      9S             class revolt at the ballot box… [it Taseer insinuates; no French had been sent to the State only (The writer is Senior revealed] a cultural chasm. It was no Revolution-style upsurge of months ago to supervise relief Fellow, Nehru Memorial   longer about left or right, but something have-nots against feudal lords. and reconstruction after the Museum and Library; the more fundamental”. 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The problem is that in an public view is the torture, starva- damage it caused in Sri Lanka.                   2014, it was quick to respond to exploding digital age, we are yet Sir — The Thrissur district tion and mental affliction they Causing harm and hurt to oth-                 ( the need of continuing with unclear about our core areas of administration’s decision to undergo. Further, tedious and ers can never be jihad. The          #         ( welfare schemes and was saga- concern on data privacy. To be revoke a ban on parading ele- taxing temple celebrations take Government must take serious cious enough to link them with fair, every nation is as unsure. phants in the famous Pooram massive toll on our gentle pachy- note of this.                   Aadhaar. Once it became scep- The soul of the issue, which temple festival in Kerala is shock- derms. With every passing year, Amit Jain                   ( tical, the party is now too eager is right to individual privacy, ing. 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However, in India, given the $&& & eficiaries. This will then lead to huge while NYAY will cost about 3.6 lakh Backbone infrastructure: To      S       huge budget required to implement the univer- 7:,$ fiscal costs that will have to be borne crore. If all States wish to implement implement any form of TBI scheme,                sal scheme that aims to benefit 1.3 billion pop- ,&$$.2&$ by the taxpayers ultimately. Even the Rythu Bandhu type of scheme in its the Government will have to identify       (     ( ulation, there is more or less a consensus on the TBI needs checks and balances. current form, it will cost 1.85 per cent targetted beneficiaries without any adoption of non-universal basic income $&37$$7 >* An addition to existing welfare to the GDP. If the scheme has to be scope for errors. For example, for the   #                   0&.&1$7C$&          ,      schemes like the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman schemes: Budget allocation for TBI sustainable in the long run, it must be implementation of PM-KISAN, land Nidhi (PM-KISAN) or the Rythu Bandhu 070:,$871 schemes should not come at the cost targetted only for the poor. records are the basis for identification                  ;8$17             ( scheme of Telangana that targets the farmers or of reducing public expenditure for Further, the means for verification of beneficiaries. However, digitisation others who can be categorised as poor, as per ,&2&81 other sectors like health and education. need to be standardised. The local of land records is still a work in         *           the indices of the Economic Survey of 2016-17. 3&$;&&1 High fiscal costs of TBI may force the administration must not be given an progress, which needs to be speeded           ,       Many even argue that since a majority of the Government to roll back public and opportunity to inflate the number of up. Computerisation of land records                 "( poor thrives on agriculture, this sector may top social services, which will be damag- targetted beneficiaries. This means that has been completed in 87 per cent of     ,              the list to provide Targetted Basic Income (TBI) ing to the weaker sections of society. the programme should at least bene- the villages.             based on their land records. In line with this, If the State retreats from the Public fit the bottom 20 per cent of the pop- Only two States (Karnataka and                many State Governments like Telangana, Distribution System (PDS), it is doubt- ulation with no leakages in between. Odisha) have completed 100 per cent             1      ( Karnataka, Odisha and the Union Government, ful how far the private sector will fill And the costs to the exchequer need computerisation of land records, while              #   too, have promised TBI to farmers. this gap under free market forces. It to be reasonable so that there isn’t any the remaining States have comput-             ( The Union Government’s PM-KISAN may be possible that prices of food backlash from the taxpayers. erised between 80-90 per cent of the          ,    ,S   scheme comes under the TBI category and is grains may go up in the open market Inclusion and exclusion errors: records. Particularly, land records in applicable to all across the country. It aims to and essentials may also become out of Unlike UBI schemes, TBI programmes States like Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and            H     ( benefit over 12 crore farmers, who own five reach for the poor. target the poor and are subjected to other North-Eastern States are not               acres or less than five acres of land and has a In the past, the Government’s inclusion and exclusion of errors. The updated. ,  ,            total budget of 72,000 crore. It assumes that pullback in primary education and inclusion error is the proportion of Under the Pradhan Mantri Jan                ( land records can be used as means for verifi- healthcare led to the proliferation of those selected under a scheme, who are Dhan Yojana (PMJDY), 35.5 crore               cation to identify targetted beneficiaries to min- private schools and hospitals, which not really poor, (like large farmers with Aadhaar-linked bank accounts were      (     $   ( imise leakages. On the other hand, the Congress charged extortionate fees and made 40 acre of land getting benefit of 4 created as against 24.8 crore house-         E P*      has promised a ‘Minimum Income Guarantee them unaffordable for the poor. The lakh per annum under Rythu Bandhu). holds in India, which will be a chan-             .   Scheme’ (MIGS), formally called the Nyuntam State provision for education, health The exclusion error is the proportion nel for direct benefit transfer to the tar-           +        Aay Yojana (NYAY), to five crore ‘poorest fam- and rural infrastructure is more cost- of those intended to benefit but who getted beneficiary households.                  6 ilies’ covering 25 crore people by assuring them effective, socially just, redistributive are excluded from availing it as a result The synergies between digital land a guaranteeing minimum income of 6,000 per and a sustainable way of meeting the of improper design (as in Rythu records and Aadhaar-seeded bank         "        ( month or 72,000 a year. All households with citizens’ needs than leaving the poor Bandhu scheme, where tenant farm- accounts can be leveraged to imple-          Q #          monthly incomes below 12,000 are eligible for to buy from the free market. ers, whose share is about 25 per cent ment the TBI scheme to identify and              %       the scheme. Total budget has been estimated at Balance between beneficiaries of all farmers, are not getting any target beneficiaries and to reduce      S            ( 3.6 lakh crore, which is 1.9 per cent of the and taxpayers’ interests: TBI schemes benefit, although they are more vul- delays in money transfer.               Gross Domestic Product. must not excessively burden the exche- nerable). (The writer is principal scientist,       !" S $%   However, one of the negatives of NYAY is quer. 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if the epidemic of obesity continues gle walk of life. tiable. We have created an econom- national strategy is the only real way mon to see individuals in lower unabated. Already, some 4.0 per The rapidly growing epidemic of ic model where there are tens of mil- forward that can have several other socio-economic classes suffering cent of adults suffer from obesity, obesity can be our opportunity to lions unemployed and those, who positive ramifications for the society. from obesity and its associated dis- making India the third most obese bring about the much-needed radi- have jobs, are working longer hours It is a fact that obesity increases eases. The end result is that nearly 9.0 nation in the world after the United cal change. A new approach, that than ever. This means people have lit- the risk of dying earlier and reduces per cent of the Indians is already suf- States and China. takes a critical look at each and every tle time left to spend with their chil- the lifespan of afflicted individuals. fering from Type-II Diabetes, just one 0.7$&$812 Inevitably, individual health aspect of our society and some of its dren or cook healthy food or pursue This is why rising incidence of obe- of the many diseases related to excess depends much on social norms and outdated thinking, is the need of hour. anything else that is enjoyable. sity in children is particularly worry- of body fat. There are countless : 1.82$ it is almost impossible to address India need not go through the jour- It is possible to employ more peo- ing. It is true that India has a younger more, including some types of can- 1  -  5 / + 6  # health issues in a holistic manner ney that other countries have expe- ple and reduce working hours for all population and it is not faced with the cers. Will our lower middle classes   without analysing the structure and rienced. For example, we may not to allow each one of us to live a problems faced by many ageing with their meagre financial resources t is true that we recognise the true beliefs of society. One does not need have the modern towns and cities, wholesome life. Busy lifestyles mean Western societies but it is also true be able to afford treatment of these          value of health only when we lose to dig too deep to find the complex which developed countries boast, but families do not have the time to that people get old and when the cur- diseases or slip back into the trap of   "&   Iit. It is also true that many a time, web of overpopulation, poverty and we have an opportunity to develop source ingredients and learn skills rent generation gets old, will the chil- poverty they were just beginning to +*5*** -   the choices we make determine our outdated thinking that underpins the townships with trees, playgrounds, needed to prepare a healthy meal at dren of today be fit enough to look get out of? It is a question our      physical as well as mental health. In health of an individual and that of our pavements for walking and cycle home. As a consequence, reliance on after them or need help themselves? healthcare planners should ponder 5    the last couple of centuries, nations country as a whole. Almost every- paths. This will allow us to address processed and fast food is spiralling With a significant number of chil- over. In times when the country is still across the world have made huge thing that we do or don’t influences the twin challenges of obesity and cli- out of control and remains a major dren, including many in the lower dealing with problems like poverty,      strides in improving health but the our health in some way or the other mate change coherently. We could driver of the obesity epidemic. socio-economic group, now either undernutrition and infectious dis-       " dramatic prevalence of obesity world — whether it is the food we eat, the preserve our high street rather than Obesity affects individuals but it overweight or obese, this is the ques- eases like tuberculosis and malaria, ;      over is threatening this continued jobs we take, the hours we work, the blindly imitating the Western model is a disease of the society and the tion that we in India will face soon- how will we muster the resources      progress. Even the richest countries transport we use, the way we think of larger and larger supermarkets. number of individuals suffering can, er or later. Curbing childhood obe- needed to deal with a disease that      of the world do not have the resources and even the personal choices we Every problem, as they say, is also an therefore, be used as an indicator of sity should be a national priority. even the richest countries of the world needed to deal with obesity and all make. It is, hence, impossible to opportunity. the well-being of the society as a Furthermore, obesity is no longer are finding difficult to face? This       5  other associated diseases. India, dream of a healthy society without Worldwide, mental health prob- whole just like we use Infant Mortality just a disease of the rich. Just like makes fighting obesity a major indi-       which is already struggling with an analysing and addressing all its deter- lems are on the rise as more people Rate as an indicator of the quality of Western countries, where obesity is vidual and national issue that needs -  " under-resourced public healthcare minants simultaneously. A healthy are getting sucked into a materialis- any healthcare system. Undoubtedly, now predominantly a disease of the dealing with today.         and an ill-organised private sector run society demands a concerted effort tic competitive lifestyle where no individuals can take steps to manage lower socio-economic classes, we in (The writer is a UK-based by corporates, will find it almost that goes beyond GDP allocation for amount of possession is enough and their own weight and fitness, but a India are also seeing a strong class bariatric surgeon and author of two  -   impossible to deal with the challenges healthcare — into almost every sin- the quest for ‘more’ is almost insa- well thought-out comprehensive migration of obesity. It is not uncom- books)       !"# $ /01

- $  !"   '  &5+ 0++202 ?     "        3  ( >? $     1&;&,8 " 200 +03 even though sales even for However, this does not   1&;&,8 generally transferred to the medium and heavy commer- mean that the Indian automo- hares of Jet Airways (India) bank accounts of such 4 35+ 2 cial goods-carrying vehicles tive industry is is a tailspin, SLimited plummeted over 8 xporters of goods and ser- exporters within a fortnight. also collapsed by 15.24 per most manufacturers are keep- per cent Monday amid contin- Evices as well as suppliers to However, manufacturing 43 6 2/+ cent. ing their India plans on track, ued uncertainty over bidders. SEZ units are likely to get GST exporters and suppliers to SEZ,        $      $'  * And with these numbers and Chinese-manufacturer The scrip tumbled 8.14 refunds automatically from who want to claim a refund of "$        $"       "  2+ 60 2+ only being those for dispatch- Shanghai Automotive per cent to close at 139.45 on June as the revenue department ITC, have to file an application       "15;"  *1* es rather than deliveries by Industrial Corporation (SAIC) the BSE. During the day, it plans to introduce faceless in Form GST RFD-01A on the          $  "    $'  * dealers, with the Federation of is launching the erstwhile plunged 11 per cent to 135.05. scrutiny of refunds and faster common portal and thereafter "$ <        $6 "$$**3#   1&;&,8 Automotive Dealers British marque MG in India On the NSE, shares tanked claim settlement, an manually submit a print out of Association (FADA) claiming this week and the country’s 8.40 per cent to close at 139. official said. the form along with other doc- hen the Society of Indian a few days ago that vehicle reg- second-largest carmaker On the traded volume Under GST, every person uments to the jurisdictional WAutomobile istrations have also dropped Hyundai launching their front, 17.31 lakh shares were making a claim of refund on officer. Manufacturers (SIAM) significantly. Although regis- ‘venue’ utility vehicle next traded on the BSE and over one account of ‘zero-rated’ sup- Once implemented, the released their annual figures trations, which indicated a week. Hero Motocorp also crore shares changed hands on plies has two options. Either he time period for such refunds for the past financial year, year-on-year decline of just unveiled their latest scooters the NSE during the day. can export without payment of will come down to about a fort- they said that sales in the new nine per cent as against the earlier today, but the negative Media reports said a buy- integrated tax under Bond/ night from months at present. financial year 2019-2020 will 17.07 per cent decline in man- sentiments have the industry out offer from Middle Eastern LUT and claim a refund of “The revenue department only grow three per cent. ufacturing is possibly due to worried. Sales have come carrier Etihad Airways was accumulated Input Tax Credit and GSTN is working to However, with the latest data manufacturers adjusting pro- under pressure due to a his- non-binding and might not (ITC) or he may export on pay- make the process of seeking released today, the numbers duction to cope with dealers torical ‘pre-election’ dip but guarantee a deal for the strug- ment of integrated tax and tax refund by all exporters     1   -%B   :&9C%D-B.-=  1 # made for grim reading. Sales of asking for lesser inventories. also due to new insurance gling Indian carrier. Jet Airways claim refund thereof. faceless by next month. It %-=>   :&9C%D-E.-B<! !F     passenger cars declined 19.93 According to FADA whose rules and safety norms that stopped operations on April 17 Currently, the facility of would make the process    ,,<,,F,-F,-<-%<%D-B< cles were down 6.67 per cent, a 21-day dealer inventory, the ularly of two-wheelers. The State Bank of India-led only for those exporters who inating fake refunds,” an offi- 3       %D-=;"     -D>E    G,& sales of scooters collapsed by case is that several dealerships However with even the most consortium of lenders to Jet have paid Integrated Goods cial told PTI.        <%D-B;"     GEF:..:< 25.89 per cent and sales of now have have vehicle inven- optimistic industry marketers Airways Friday said it has and Services Tax (IGST) while GST refunds of exporters motorcycles crashed 11.81 per tories exceeding 45-50 days, not expecting sales to start received bids from Etihad exporting goods. Since the run into thousands of crores cent. Miniscule growth was which has led to manufactur- increasing until the festive sea- Airways and from a few unso- GST Network (GSTN) sys- and any delay in the processing only shown by passenger seg- ers offering higher ‘marketing son, the roads might be emp- licited parties to acquire stake tems are integrated with of refund claims blocks work- ments of commercial vehicles, incentives’ to buyers. tier for a few more months yet. in the grounded airline. Customs, hence, refunds are ing capital of exporters. .      J6  &  +##' #'  @3P  "  *  >"@>P  & 7&!'#& $      "  *H53*3   "  !" 9  " 9C%D-B.-=  ! <*5    1&;&,8 Central Statistics Office (CSO) &""&# #' 8'      A  P   3  '" " <!    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Tderegistered the Infosys de-registered from FCRA fol- ndia on Monday said collapse countries)”. etables, meat, fish and eggs, Inflation in the food basket Foundation under the Foreign lowing its request to the min- Iof appellate body of WTO’s Wadhawan said LDCs and according to the official data was 1.1 per cent in April, up Contribution (Regulation) Act istry,” a statement issued by the dispute settlement system, and developing countries like India released Monday. from 0.3 per cent in March. following its request that its NGO said. the reform agenda being would face more harm due to Inflation based on the Prices of vegetables rose by 2.87 registration be cancelled as the The foundation was regis- pushed by certain developed the impasse over appointment Consumer Price Index (CPI) per cent against a contraction organisation no longer fell in tered under the FCRA Act in economies could harm the of members in the WTO’s was at 2.86 per cent in the pre- in March. Fruit prices, howev- the ambit of the act, officials January 2016. In May 2016, the interest of developing countries. appellate body, which is a crit- vious month and 4.58 per cent er, declined in April compared said Monday. government amended the The issues were flagged by ical part of trade dispute set- in April 2018, the data by the to the year-ago month. All Non-Government FCRA Act in the Finance Bill India on the first day of a meet- tlement system. Organisations (NGOs) are with retrospective effect from ing of senior officials of 22 “There is an urgent need to required to register under the 2010 as a result of which foun- members of the World Trade engage constructively to pre- 6$9       "    $  *6.1" * FCRA to receive foreign dation no longer fell under the Organisation (WTO) here. serve the system and come up " "    $> <#"  &  ..  funding. purview of the FCRA Act. 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They marmalades or eating then whole everyday are Strawberries are powerful teeth whiteners that contain both and body movements and and numbness, along with nation between hands and legs, have extreme pain and their some ways you can use the bright fruits of the an astringent and Vitamin C. The astringent in strawberries effec- speech. This syndrome causes inability to control the urine impaired vision, feet numbness entire body feels twisted and summer season. tively aids in the removal of surface stains while Vitamin C seizures and intellectual dis- and bowels. and dizziness. turned. Such levels of extrem- Chia seeds: One of the healthiest superfood whitens teeth by clearing away plaque. ability sometimes. Studies say  Cranio Vertebro Junction dis-  Autism Spectral Disorder: It ities are developed with time if on the planet. Super low on calories and high An apple contains malic acid, a chemical used in teeth whiten- 1 out of every 15,000 infant orders: This is a critical disor- is a neuro-developmental dis- left untreated in early stages in nutrition value, chia seeds are prized with ing products, which helps dissolve stains. Watermelon contains girls are born develop Rett syn- der as it affects and weakens order which is accompanied by and the condition further ability to provide sustainable energy and Vitamin C which also contributes to natural whitening action. drome the large opening at the bottom weak immune system and worsens with body movements strength. Packed with a powerful nutrition Oranges, pineapples and cucumbers are also good source of  Neuromyelitis optica (NMO): of the occipital bone where all neuro inflammation. It is char- that lasts even upto 24 hours a bunch they area rich source of Omega 3 and 6 Vitamin c and fibers that should be included in the diet .Therefore, It is an autoimmune disease of important nerves like brain acterised by social disconnec- day. that helps in skin regenerations and rejuvena- we should try to consume as much of these fruits as possible. the central nervous system stem pass. As the lower brain tion, incomplete verbal and      "  *   tion. Celery, carrots, apples and other crunchy foods are excel- (CNS) that affects the eye stem and the spinal cord are nonverbal communication, 1" *!  " 1"  White oats: One of the healthiest grains on lent at scraping away stuck on food and plaque. The hard bits nerves and spinal cord. In this flexible, they are prone to com- severely restricted interests,  *!  0  the earth, this gluten free whole grain has great of foods like celery, carrots, and apples get in between teeth and counts of vitamins, minerals, fibre and antiox- into tooth crevices and can help keep your mouth fresh between idants. A great source of silicon with traces of brushings. Crunchy fruits and vegetables also happen to be high minerals required to add elasticity of the skin in fibre, which means they take longer to chew and generate more &" !!! they help maintaining the body glow. Use them saliva. Saliva is great for flush- to replace the flour and make interesting dish- ing the bacteria near the gum  Aneurysm: A brain (cerebral) aneurysm is a bulging, weak  Deep Brain Stimulation: Deep printing has seen a swift rise in the es like puddings, poha and rotis. %0 80  8 line, out of the mouth. Add these area in the wall of an artery that supplies blood to the brain. brain stimulation is most often field of medical interventions and Water, the wonder drink: Consuming water foods to your daily diet as snacks In most cases, a brain aneurysm causes no symptoms and offered to people with advanced diagnosis and the artificial intelli- that responds to your health is very important. 95/+ +93 to help get rid of food particles goes unnoticed. In rare cases, the brain aneurysm ruptures, Parkinson's disease who have gence is transforming the industry. Drinking and eating water in the diet through- 3 0  395/ between meals. releasing blood into the skull and causing a stroke. unstable medication responses. The technology helps the surgeon out the day keeps one’s system internally Gums are the most impor-  Epilepsy: Epilepsy is a disorder of the brain characterised DBS can stabilise medication fluc- to exactly figure out the anatomy hydrated, with in turn reflects on their skin. / ++ 90+: tant part of oral cavity and it is by an enduring predisposition to generate epileptic seizures tuations, reduce or halt involuntary of the organ making it easy for bet- Water not only flushes out the harmful toxins +5/063 impossible to have good denti- and by the neurobiologic, cognitive, psychological, and social movements (dyskinesias), reduce ter diagnostics and understanding. from the system but also keeps the wrinkles at tion without healthy gums. Key consequences of this condition. Epilepsy is a chronic dis- tremor, reduce rigidity, and In case of cranial implants where bay giving one a natural glow. 8  +2 8  to healthy gums is good diet and order of the brain that affects people worldwide. improve slowing of movement. the shapes are irregular and almost Other than the nutritional foods dis-

/  3 gum massages. Consume food  Stroke: Stroke is the third most common cause of death and DBS is effective in controlling unimaginable, this model pro- cussed above, adding few supplements such as that is rich in Vitamin C and use disability in India. It is one of the most dreaded diseases for erratic and fluctuating responses vides standardisation. Astaxanthin, the king of antioxidants proves 5+0 52  + natural oils made of coconut, the patient and their family. Every two seconds, someone to medication for controlling dysk-  Neuro Navigation Technique: to be five thousand times more powerful than 62/ ++ 906 almond and olives for circular has a stroke, and unfortunately, many do not receive prop- inesias that don’t improve with Neuronavigation is recognised as vitamin C. A daily dose of which helps the skin massages of gums. er stroke care, reason being — recognition. Few people face medication adjustments. the next evolutionary step of retain its glow and prevent the damage caused 95/+ If teeth are massaged week- cognitive impairments like trouble speaking or understand-  M6 Cyberknife: The next gener- stereotactic surgery. In its infancy from environmental stress and pollution ly with orange/lemon peel, it ing and remain confused. Loss of vision accompanied by ation of CyberKnife - M6 is high- the purpose of this technology was Along with eating a nutrient rich diet, few adds on to an extra lustre to the severe headache may also be a symptom for the start of stroke. ly precise when compared to the to create a mathematical model things must be avoided consciously from the teeth and in some cases can even  Parkinson’s Disease: It is a progressive disorder of the ner- earlier ones used in India as this describing a proposed coordinate lifestyle. On the journey of nutrition avoid whiten them vous system that affects the body movement. It has a grad- offers some of the exceptional fea- system for the space within a foods that are spicy and processed and junk Enamel, the outer covering ual progression and usually starts with no symptoms or bare- tures and delivers a maximum closed structure, like the skull. This foods such as frozen snacks and foods. Foods of the teeth gives the natural lus- ly noticeable ones in either hand. Usually tremor in hands dose of radiation directly to the fiducial spatial coordinate system with High sodium and high sugar foods such tre to the teeth. Different acidic foods and drinks may cause ero- may be enough to justify the prevalence of Parkinson’s but tumor from many different angles uses fiducial markers as a reference as wafers, chips, sugar candies and aerated sion of the enamel. To make your teeth strong again you need it can also be accompanied by stiffness or slowing down or with sub-millimeter precision for to describe with high accuracy the drinks must be kept away along with oily and to put some minerals back and try to restore what is lost and reactive movements. the higher success rates. The position of specific structures unhygienic food from street vendors and get the natural colour back. Any deficiency related discoloration  Alzeimers: Also known as forgetfulness. Depending upon CyberKnife radiation surgery within this arbitrarily defined restaurants. Overcooked and partially charred is impossible to treat with any cosmetic treatment so prevention the stages it is classified as — Pseudodementia, Dementia offers multiple benefits compared space. foods such as kebabs and alcohol and cigarettes is the only option. Here, calcium and phosphorous comes into and Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI). to conventional radiation treat-     ! 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It provides a richer and mothers in When it comes to the health benefits, antioxidants have ing the skin healthy, it is impor- Venhance the quality of life for people more satisfying quality of life than is oth- WIndia believe almost a celebrity status. How do they help your mouth stay tant to take care of the eyes as with dementia by helping them to recall erwise available, with many positive out- technology has made par- healthy? Antioxidants fight the bacteria that cause inflammation well. ROSHANI DEVI shares past memories, reduce aggression and comes,” said Jim Ang, Professor at the enting easier, 70 per cent and periodontal disease. They help protect gums and other tis- improve interactions with caregivers, University of Kent. mothers claim to have used a smartphone sues from cell damage and bacterial infection. So include lots home remedies that will relax says a study. For the study, the researchers for rearing their kids, according to a new of apples, berries, grapes, raisins, nuts and beans in your diet. your eyes and keep them The technology helped picked eight patients aged survey. Smartphone is the most widely used Lastly, not to forget 10 to 12 glasses of water, everyday, is a protected patients recall old memories by between 41 and 88 who are device for parenting, but only 38 per cent must. providing new stimuli diffi- living with dementia, would recommend it to their family or cult to achieve, due to ill including Alzheimer’s dis- friends, said the study by YouGov, an   he most important thing Cucumber is the most health, or inaccessible with- ease and Huntington’s dis- Internet-based market research and data to keep in mind is to get common home remedy to in a secure environment, said ease. Each patient used a analytics firm. the required amount of keep the eyes cool. Slice chilled the team from the University VR headset to ‘visit’ one of Parenting apps, on the other hand, are    Tamarind is a delicious sweet and sour fruit Tsleep. One should sleep for at cucumber into thin slices and of Kent in the UK. five virtual environments of one of the most used and recommended that has a wide variety of uses, both for medicinal and least six to eight hours. This place them on your eyes for 15 These memories not only a cathedral, a forest, a sandy products of technology used for parenting culinary purposes. Eating it as a fruit or as a spice can helps to refresh your eyes and minutes. You can also grate provided positive mental stimula- beach, a rocky beach and a by mothers in India. The study showed that increase the efficiency of your digestive system because of keeps you fresh. cucumber and place it under tion for the patients but also helped countryside scene. though mothers rely heavily on their fam- the fibre content. It is a very good source of iron, with a The second most impor- your eyes to treat dark circles. their caregivers learn more about their “With further research it will be pos- ily and offline support groups for parent- single serving providing more than 10 percent of your daily tant thing to keep in mind is We have lives before care, thereby improving their sible to evaluate the elements of virtual ing advice, a higher number of young requirement. A healthy supply of to wash the eyes properly. all heard social interaction. environments that benefit patients and use mothers are likely to consult online blogs iron in the body guarantees Splash your eyes, frequently of the “VR can clearly have positive benefits VR even more effectively,” Jim Ang added. for related information (50 per cent), proper red blood cell count, with cold water during the benefits for patients with dementia, their families L!1 compared to older moms (41 per cent). which can ensure day. 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Pompeo made a last-minute and B-52 bombers. cerned about the development the United States and Iran. deploying a number of strate- The UAE said on Sunday visit to Brussels where he met Pompeo’s visit to Brussels and the tensions in the region, It came as US Secretary of gic B-52 bombers in response that four commercial vessels of his counterparts from Britain, was announced at the last that we do not want there to be State Mike Pompeo scrapped a to alleged Iranian threats. various nationalities had been France and Germany — the minute and if he came hoping a military escalation”. planned visit to Moscow to Saudi Arabia, the Islamic targeted by acts of sabotage off three European signatories to ?             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They can’t just       writing is because as a shared resonance, have mushairas and ghazal evenings. Why it is the title of Indian writer, critic and lit- can’t you have a mainstream event?    6 erary historian Rakhshanda Jalil’s latest Khalsa too was a minority institution but   book. the Muslim ones are inward looking.” " The 40 essays in her book under the It is in such a scenario that she feels that    four broad topics of identity, culture, reli- there is a lack of leadership among the   - gion and literature were written over a long Muslim community. “The people who are period of time where some were commis- treated as leaders by the government are    sioned, others were in the nature of acad- nothing more than caricatures as they turn     emic papers, some others she wrote or read up at every do in full costume like jokers.     at seminars. “These were tweaked to suit People like us are not photogenic enough     the tone and tenor of the book. The chap- as we are too normal. And it is these peo- ter on Jamia, for instance, was written right ple who are considered to be our represen-   " after the Batla House encounter. One can tatives,” she says, shaking her head. 5    discern a thread that runs through all of Given her stance, it is not surprising F**   them,” says the author whose book on the that the Shahi Imam of Jama Masjid has  5      lesser-known monuments of Delhi, come in for criticism in her book as well  5M Invisible City, is a bestseller. as when you talk to her. “Neither is he an Rakhshanda, who has also worked on alim (scholar of Islamic law) nor a hafiz    translations of books by well-known names (one who has memorised the Quran). And H " like Krishan Chander, Ismat Chughtai, when was the position of an imam a hered- Shahryar and Intizar Husain, says that the itary one?” she questions and adds, “He cer- idea of the book is to break down the tainly does not have the stature of Maulana O +  stereotypes that surround the communi- Azad, who was an alim.” ty, especially the one that imagines the She believes that for the middle class  020+ 96 /: 8 + Muslims to be a monolith. “A lot of peo- Muslims in India, it is education that is of 9   6+8 30+  ple have written to say that it strikes a chord street but when it comes to street lighting, society. The communal outrages of 1947 primary importance. She also expresses her : 8 +/0   9 as they have heard this all their lives. Of garbage retrieval and civic facilities they should have been an aberration,” she says angst about the fact that not many from the   9 : / course, there is the benign form where you could be different worlds. We need to talk and is quiet for sometime before going on community apply for government jobs or are just calling out stereotypes, that you about these things and address that com- to add that this did seem to be happening avail government schemes. “Why this = 9 don’t look like a Sikh or a Tamil. And then munalisation, discrimination and othering during the 50s and 60s when the talk was ennui? Why this lethargy? It might be 62 23  the slightly less benign ones, where that is a fact of life. Once we accept it, then we about unity and pluralism. because of some nonsense coming from : /02 remark comes from two positions. It is sup- can move forward,” she says waving her “The kind of division that began hap- jaahil (illiterate) imams (one who leads con- 0 03  posed to be a compliment and the subtext hand and without a touch of rancour in her pening from the 1990s, where 1992 was the gregational prayers).” 402= 9 then is ‘if only all Muslims were normal like voice. watershed point and things began to She believes 70 years after the creamy you, we wouldn’t have a problem.’ But I Neither does Rakhshanda shy away change for the Indian society, was not for layer of Muslims migrated to Pakistan,  8  want to ask, ‘How do you know what is in from any issue, nor does she desist from the better. All the progress and develop- India does have a substantial middle class % 2 my heart?’ What is an appearance supposed calling a spade a spade. “Muslims wear it ment cannot take away from the fact that of the community. “My book is targetted 40 5+0 to tell?” she asks. as a chadar of victimisation. There are ways we are a more toxic society today,” she says. at them.We think we are a minority, but we 8 0  + “Everyone seems to think that all and means to bring this otherisation to She explains that pluralism could also aren’t. We are in fairly large numbers across 400 3 0? Muslims are cut from the same cloth. My notice which is possible only if you are edu- be witnessed in films but at the same time the cities and towns. And the average section on my nani and the other gharara cated. On the other hand, it harms not just these perpetuated stereotypes. “The affa- Muslim middle class wants what the mid- 8 236 68 +2=: wearing ladies of UP would be very differ- the community, but the nation at large as ble Afghans or an upright policeman dle class all over the world does — better @5+ 2=03 8 ent from a Muslim of Assam, Kerala, Tamil these communally charged ghettoes are were fringe characters and never main- jobs, housing, education and civic facilities.” 3  20 0   Nadu or Rajasthan. In my section on trav- waiting to explode. Why create them in the stream like a banker, a teacher or something But having said that, she does not agree  3 A+0 el, where I talk about my visit to Saudi first place?” that the great majority of Muslims do,” she with the approach that the community has 404 =45 /+ Arabia and Bangladesh, I have highlight- Parts of her book reminisce a softer, says and goes on to add that the industry adopted of keeping their head down and ed that religion does not mean a shared gentler and almost Nehruvian time where did exemplar service in keeping Urdu alive working towards economic betterment in / 2   90 commonality,” she says. people looked out for the other and at the as the lyrics of songs as well as the dialogues the face of the militant right wing. “Is it ++ 03 8/ And it is in this attempt to break down same time were more in touch with were in Hindustani. good? What does keeping your head 6 2+ 3 20 28 the stereotypes that she mentions in the nature. The descriptions of white chand- However, when it comes to words, she down do to the morale and the spine of the 52  9 :P book’s afterword, “This collection of essays nis being spread out during summer tion would peak during a cricket match or points out to a much-abused one that has largest minority in the country? It is all very L%5 %0//5 — of varying lengths on vastly different top- nights or earthen matkas tied with garlands a war during Pakistan, it has now become lost its relevance — Ganga Jamuni tehzeeb. well for a stop gap measure but if this was ics — is in the nature of a celebration. It is of mogras (Arabian jasmine) are sure to the new normal. “In everyday discourse, “I hate to repeat it as this has been repeat- to become our fate forever and ever, I do akin to opening the doors of my house and invoke nostalgia for anyone growing in we never used words like Hindu or ed so often that it has lost its meaning. In not see it as a good way of living. I would-  "O    6 saying: Come in, come and see who I am. times where air-conditioners rarely made Muslim. The tone was also set by newspa- UP where it actually existed, it no longer n’t want to tell my two daughters to do that.    37 " Celebrate my festivals, relive my memories an appearance in offices, leave alone pers who used words like one communi- does as the State has become polarised,” she I agree Muslims should also not react. But travel with me, share my doubts and dilem- homes. The reference brings a genuinely ty. Now we use our religion all the time. It says, dressed in a dark blue jeans and a at the same time, you cannot say lynchings $        6 mas.” warm smile to her face as she seems to be took me a long time to say, ‘Woh Hindu kurta. or mob attacks are normal and you can-   -  5 6 Sitting in her well-appointed house in looking back. “I did grow up in a family hain,’ because it was not done. The idea of Another fallout of this is that the lib- not. In the past few years we have witnessed     a gated enclave in a tony South Delhi where my parents admired Nehru and we a secular society was that you could be reli- eral Muslim voice is being boxed in. “We events which are not normal but attempts    colony, Rakhshanda tries to break down the were told things like don’t leave the tap open gious without broadcasting it,” she says and have become silent. The attitude is kya faraq are being made to normalise them. They walls of otherisation, in housing, culture, as there is a drought in Orissa or in UP peo- goes on to describe how even though she padta hai? The Muslims are completely happen so often now,” she says as she trails F*">J   education and more that seem to have ple travel long distances to fetch water. I am grew up in a home with practising Muslims, marginalised. Did the Muslims ask for the off. D FA")F become the norm in the country by what sure this was a pan-Indian phenomenon people did not make a big deal about it. tokenism, which the right wing has called She says that the otherisation is pow-    she knows best, the power of her words. as was Nehru. Why have we, as parents, “Log khamoshi se namaaz padhne chale appeasement, like the Haj subsidy, and jus- ered by fear and distrust. “Once I asked  6 “There are two Delhis. This complex for stopped telling our children to finish the jaate the,” she says. Incidentally, even tify this for the discrimination they prac- someone if he knew a Muslim or if he had  5  babus is crazy — the street lighting is solar food on their plate? Partly, it is con- though it is Ramzan, she is not fasting due tise? It was paid to keep the national car- been to a Muslim home. When he replied powered and there are three different ways sumerism, partly it is the global effect where to a health condition, which in no way vio- rier, Air India afloat. Islam is very clear that in the negative, I invited him to mine. Only   to manage waste. If it can be done here why it is okay to throw things. Nehruvian India lates the tenets of the religion. only those who can afford should go for when you go to a person’s home, eat with     not for the rest? Jamia, where I stayed was not such a bad thing as it looked out She laments the drastic change. “In 70 Haj. So there should be voices from with- them or stay with them you realise that     before, there is a cordon sanitaire that for smaller people to weave a narrative years we should have evolved and matured in the community that articulate that we there is nothing to be afraid of,” says    " defines and discriminates between Pocket which was kinder and softer,” she says. in a direction that these differences should never asked for it and don’t want it. Rakhshanda as she signs off. Clearly the 0- A of New Friends’ colony and Zakir Coming back to the present, she not have mattered. It should have been a Similarly issues like like triple talaq and all author and the person are cut from the R    Nagar. The two are divided by a narrow points out that while earlier this otherisa- given that we are a plural, multicultural need not go to the Supreme Court too and same liberal cloth. 3  0  5   e it a group of women languages itself is a reason to Gujarati, Bhojpuri and many    A* )G5(** rowing the boat in the celebrate. He adds, “With more. We want it to reach    " BKerala backwaters, the every few miles, the lan- out to the maximum num- Sikhs praying at the Golden 2   ,  guage changes in the coun- ber of people in the country. Temple in Amritsar, hermits try. When you go to the Hence, the project is ongo- with their ash-smeared bod- USA, they only know ing.” ies bathing at the Kumbh, a            O     America. But we have a lot Mithoon adds that it 3 0P+    mother cradling her baby, more to talk about, which in “depends on how far it goes.”  +4 9 &$! children holding the nation-   &   '3$& 8 itself is a celebration.” Talking about his idea of al flag at schools or all the The struggle, he laughs nationalism, he says that it four flags, showcasing four to recall, included waking up starts from the smallest of major religions in the coun- Lamas from sleep, standing things. “Not throwing our try, changing to the Tiranga in the Ganga (at the Kumbh) garbage from the car on the within the blink of an eye — for six hours without streets is nationalism for the music anthem One India motion, explaining the kids me. It is about every duty My India/ Ek Bharat Mera to not think about the cam- and right that a citizen has Bharat makes one run era and follow their routine- and is mindfully aware of. It through the streets of nostal- ly schedules, surviving the is a vast topic which cannot gia. cold weather at places be covered in a matter of Written and directed by around Ladakh without minutes.”    !  Shailendra Singh, the song “Maggi noodles,” and many Zubin adds that it is the -     3  he tells us, took more than more. He says, “There are unity which matters the a year to complete. “It very less of such nationalist most in a country.  C   $   included real-time expres- songs now like Maa Tujhe “Nationalism is all about  3C$" sions of people. No scene is Salaam, Chakde India. The about unity. It can only be $        scripted. The moments have feeling while listening to held as an emotion. Either  5-   5 been captured by their due such a song is world apart. you can write about it or you -  (2%(A  permission. However, they I wanted to make another can hold it inside you. True are absolutely candid. The song which could give one nationalism is to feel it and -   C   song is spread across 21 dif- goosebumps and make one’s keep it alive for the country.  " ferent locations of India, spine shiver. And for that, it This song aims just that,” $      most of which hold a reli- was important to make peo- says he.      4 gious importance like the ple enjoy every bit of our Art, especially music has    -     Jama Masjid or the Golden country and culture. I want- a huge responsibility Temple.” ed to give an emotion.” towards the society as it has     #$  The director says that Singer Zubin Nautiyal the power to influence peo-          this was quite a different tells us that the album has ple upon various aspects. So -   " experience for him as he been made “without any how do the musicians see  2%C0A110C$ wanted to capture, in the commercial target” and for their project as something visuals, the same level at the people of India, no mat- that could make an impact - -     which he has “enjoyed” ter the community. “Even and call for a change in the       " India. He says, “We were now, the song has three lan- society? For Mithoon, the L84  -  - 6 only three people in the Vishwanath (19), from Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, but it has, for us, taken as culture, legendary cricketer guages — Hindi, Punjabi role of art has never changed  5M  --  5  unit who completed the pro- South Goa, started using a Punjab, New Delhi, long as 16 hours to get the Kapil Dev, who has been the and English. But to make it and it has only meant, “to      duction. There are usually camera only a year before Varanasi, Allahabad. There perfect shot yet maintaining inspiration for many and region-specific, we can communicate with the soci- 35-40 people in a unit who the project began. We trav- are many historic locations its natural element.” someone who has best rep- translate the verses in any ety, to encourage and build 3C$$    " work for the production. elled to places like in the video which appear Talking about the idea of resented India, says that the language, be it Bengali, up for the good. Art is never Our cameraman, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil only for a flash of a second celebrating India and its fact that India has so many Rajasthani, Marathi, constructed with an agenda.”     )1   !"# $

whiff of pine from the Shivaliks, the Himalayan foothills. Apocalypse and renewal, nostal- gia and hope were the themes of Ram Kumar’s idiom. The world is at a slant in these paintings — askew. It seems that everything is about to change its 05? 5 form — the soaring wedge of the mountain, the tumescent fork of the watershed, the streaming avalanche, 0! 0!505 the floodburst. GR SANTOSH’S UNTITLED WORK Another precious work is GR Santosh’s abstract artwork that embraces geometry and symbolism at its best. Santosh was a poet, thinker and a practitioner of tran- scendent yogic meditation. His art 35 was born of his meditative experi- ences and so we see modern man- dalas in his work. He uses elements of nature to create a yogic semblance  O0 2    that has a trademark symbolism of 33 0! '?! sheer ingenuity and the idea of      Purusha Prakriti. tropes. In 1957, Souza was awarded His meditative landscape is a      a prize in the Junior Section of the dynamic equilibrium of floating John Moores Liverpool exhibition. In planes. They are triggered by weight-  5:  18. 2.1$7O.$ 1958, he was selected to represent lessness and the directional vectors Great Britain at the Guggenheim are all combined to form a medita- ;37.17C8 International Award and in 1959, his tive frame, precisely because they f you are looking to collect art, MOTHER AND CHILD ' !13 0 &8$$8& work was exhibited in the US, have moved from the perceptual to then you must participate in The relation of a mother and a child Germany and Sweden. the conceptual, from semblance to IAstaguru’s auction of the sea- is one of the most universal inspira- inspired by folk and rural symbolism. the art lover. It is a character of ugli- &S0&.8&1&17 structure. Architecture and long- son. What makes it so appealing is tions that we see in all art forms since In Dasgupta’s single piece of bronze, ness, not kind in any manner of ;&&& 7&.1 OIL ON CANVAS looped identities symbolise the the fact that there is no reserve the beginning of civilisation. In this we see a modernist mould, a balance speaking. Souza’s major formative The late landscape genius Ram embodiment of energies and inertia, price contingency and the final sale, there are two gems — one being of bronze and entity as we are influences were Georges Rouault, 1,818 Kumar’s Oil On Canvas is a treat for the simultaneous religiosity and bidder takes home the lot. Jamini Roy’s Mother and Child, 1950, reminded of Henry Moore and his Chaim Soutine, Picasso and the ;7."&:& tired eyes. In this work, the landscape spirituality of an individual who sees Furthermore, all bids start at a tempera on card, the other being many Mother and Child series. The Indian sculptures of Mathura and &,& &1$7C1$:.& became its own architecture. Ram a civilisation in the twilight patterns 20,000 which is a great entry Prodosh Dasgupta’s bronze sculpture beauty of both these images shows Khajurao. Kumar commemorated vast, epic of the sky. point for the quality of works that with the same title. Both the artworks devotion and deep love as well as a From Roualt, Souza borrowed $7.&$&)&4 images — the whirling onslaught of For Santosh, the sky and the are put up for auction. All of the are intimate, tender, full of expression combination of styles and influ- the frontal, icon-like compositions, & 3,1&$$ the storm, the descent of ragged mind became the place of the living. 100 lots that are part of this auc- and have a certain sophistication of ences that nonetheless depart from the line-bound figures as well as the forests along the courses of swollen This untitled work looks like a tion have been shortlisted only simplicity about them. the prevailing interests of early thick and porous application of lay- $.& . rivers, the bronze echoes of the sun serene mandala in the sky, unbroken after they have been researched Roy’s work is a characteristic of Renaissance artists. ers of paint; from Picasso, the use of D 37,8 7C&&. roaring above the cliffs, an eclipse by the clouds and rays of the sun. upon. The works include lots by folk art. Minimal albeit sharp shad- Primitivist idioms and from Indian falling like the shadow of a great bird Santosh’s oil on canvas force an eminent artists like Jamini Roy, owing on tempera lends it a charis- PRIEST sculptures, the erotic, highly plastic 812&1:8$D1$& over honeycombed ruins, glaciers awareness of the absolute nature of Ganesh Pyne, MF Husain, Anjolie ma. The grey-light palette, enlivened Souza’s Priest, with a series of three and organic figure-handling. His 8&7C525 # and fault lines. The paintings of this both birth and death, while also Ela Menon, Nandalal Bose, by hues of deep grey as well as the churches behind, is a dulcet drawing subjects included Christ, iconic 2#!2 phase defined the artist’s hallmark countering that life is an elegant ges- Jehangir Sabavala, FN Souza and very elongated almost feather-weight created in 1958. His limpid lines and saints, church functionaries, female palette of ochre, ultramarine, sienna ture of the affirmation of presence. SH Raza to name a few. drapes of her sari, may have been clarity of expression are what excite nudes and a wide selection of social and viridian. They carry a sharp (The auction ends today.) ' "  8 $O                      3   5:18. impact on the fabric of texture in a medium that is as ancient as civilisation itself.

SOLITUDE AND THE STUDIO “I worked in terracotta because it was full of possibilities,” says Himmat. The mind and the hands both work in sync because you can see that he examined problems of con- struction and design by mod- elling damp clay with his fin- gers and tools with incredible  , dexterity. It is amazing to think about his perseverance and his he generous 5.3 hectare of visitors tell us that art is being standing of the sculptor patience as he created works in $ (G  3          plot along Patna’s Bailey valued and appriciated. Each through a careful analysis of his the solitude of his own studio TRoad allowed for a vari- programme zone hand-moulded terracotta mod- and how he would decide care- ake news. Migration. Poverty. Global tiles to create pieces of laundry that are hung performance and installations featuring, ety of site planning approach- (entrance/event, exhibition, els. These not only shape his fully on the perspective of his Fwarming. Armed conflict. Political issues outside the central pavilion, which Rugoff among other details, two living white es, while demanding sensitivi- administration and artistic ferment but also show- magical terracotta composi- that light up the airwaves and social media says serves as a reminder that while inside seabirds pecking along a neglected seaside ty to its low-scale surroundings children/educational) has been case his inner rumination of tions. It is Himmat’s underlying are getting a very open airing at the 58th the building “there is a lot of heavy think- where Murano glass shoes representing and prominent tree growth. given a distinct presence and a simplicity born of history and understanding of both mod- Venice Biennale contemporary art fair, ing and challenging art,” ordinary life con- humanity’s castoffs lie alongside colorful sea Architect Fumihiko Maki has recognisable form within the memory and experience. ernism and the power of con- like so much laundry hung out to dry in the tinues just outside, in the narrow Venetian life, representing the artist’s concern about recreated an art oasis, like the complex,” states Yusuf. The tours that we see in his bril- lagoon breeze. alleyways where everyday flapping laundry climate change and ecology, according to National Gallery of Art in various zones are linked togeth- DYNAMICS AND liance and his ability to sculpt American curator Ralph Rugoff, direc- is show of its own. By juxtaposing art to pro- curator Martha Kirszenbaum. Mist is also Washington DC, in the coun- DIMENSIONS in clay. Just a few pieces of ter- tor of London’s Hayward Gallery, titled the vide comment on worldly events, Rugoff put to effective use inside the Indian try with the Bihar Museum in Himmat’s deep understanding racotta are enough to showcase main exhibition, May You Live in Interesting wants to create conversations and the Pavilion, which is a thematic tribute to Patna. $&;7.0&7C of dimension and dynamics his range as a modeller in this Times. The title is itself an exemplary piece Giardini Central Pavilion emits a vapor sug- Mahatma Gandhi, marking the 150th $&&$71 come into play when we see his historic museum in Patna. of fake news, delivered by a British lawmak- gestive in a very literal way of thought anniversary of his birth. Artist Jitish Kallat INTERCONNECTED &&1&7C$8 &1 terracotta compositions. The er as Europe hurled toward World War II processes, which in turn casts a veil of fog projects a 1939 letter written by Gandhi to LANDSCAPE circular orb with a large aper- IMPASSIONED as an ancient Chinese curse. over the pavilion’s facade, “questioning the Adolf Hitler, appealing to him to prevent war To witness Himmat Shah’s ret- 71$81:8$D"$&D ture is a catalyst for combustion IMAGINATION It was, in fact, made up. Yet, Rugoff authority of that institution.” and addressing him as “friend.” Kallat said rospective by chief curator ,7.&C,&$$& in terms of ideation. We can Himmat’s terracotta pieces notes, “it’s had a presence in political dis- In a Biennale that puts a real emphasis the “Dear friend” salutation projects Roobina Karode of KNMA, at $.:$$$8 $ imagine how he began by divulge an impassioned imag- course ever since.” Rugoff says contempo- on the interactive experience of art, mist has Gandhi’s message across time “and asks the its temporary exhibition space rapidly modeling small clay ination and also raise the cur- rary art is particularly effective at unpack- emerged a major artistic medium across the reader to rethink what they can do to save at the Bihar Museum, is an 8 7&.18$;7 forms in geometry and symbol- tain on the deeper intensities of ing the present-day specter of never-end- sprawling exhibition, which extends into 90 the world from going to a savage state.” awakening about the creativi- ;7.&81$& ism with his own hands. Fired sculpture-making. The beauty ing crises, by revealing complexity, ambigu- national pavilions and manifold collateral Ghana also is making its Biennale debut, ty of the artist in his lifetime of 7,8$:&7C87;1 as terracotta, these studies are of these works is that occasion- ity and conflicting emotions in a way that events. one of only six African nations participat- 60 years where he kept rein- small yet expressive works in ally, he also presented both fin- more traditional media often do not. Israeli artist Aya Ben Ron has created ing. The pavilion was designed by architect venting himself. This shows the 0&1: 3.C7. their own right. Together with ished and unfinished models. “Where do we have a space in our culture a field hospital to treat social ills from David Adjaye as a series of interconnected evolution of Himmat Shah. Of J*D&. small monochromatic draw- The rough hewn edges speak of where this part of being human is given a domestic abuse to racism to occupation, units that form a whole, recalling West course he and Roobina share ings, they preserve the first the testimony of time and the place? It really exists in contemporary art,” which forces hurried visitors to slow down, African dwellings, while the late Okwui the relationship of an artist and traces of Himmat’s fervid imag- power of juxtapositions in the Rugoff said on a preview walk through the take a number and wait their turn. Enwezor, the 2015 Biennale curator who a critic which goes back 30 er via interior and exterior ination and unique creative creative process. These explain main exhibit, split between the Biennale’s Australian artist Angelica Mesiti uses film died in March, served as an adviser. It fea- years and gives a deeper under- courtyards and corridors ensur- process that evolved into some the evolution of Himmat’s two main venues, in the leafy Giardini and to examine ways citizens can assemble and tures all newly commissioned works, from standing of his oeuvre. At the ing that all spaces retain a of the most quaint and curious work, as he shifted between the former Arsenale shipyard. communicate against the backdrop of frag- sculpture, to film and photography, which Bihar Museum it is the terra- connection to the surrounding sculptures in tone and timbre. media like bronze as well as Many of the 79 artists invited to partic- ile democracy. And American Martin will travel to Ghana after the Biennale for cotta sculptures of Himmat landscape while remaining The small rotund form drawings. ipate in the main exhibition make very lit- Puryear explores liberty through a series of show. that entice the eye. sheltered and comfortable with folds, a sliced image of a At the Bihar Museum, it is eral references to present-day woes. Swiss clear, declarative sculptures and installations “Things like this, I guess, is a form of The setting, too, is of throughout the year. bottle and other works in the the few but small terracotta artist Christoph Buechel transported a that are a rebuke against racism and testos- self-politics. It is a way of representing your importance for architect Maki exhibition retrace Himmat’s works that create a rich, unique hulking smugglers’ ship where 700 migrants terone-driven power. culture in a way other than political and eco- conceived the Bihar Museum as FERVID AND FIRED unparalleled approach to sculp- experience for visitors because perished in April 2015 to the edge of the Beyond the Biennale, Marina nomic,” said curator Nana Oforiatta Ayim. a “campus” — an interconnect- There are sculptural wonders tural design and his use of vig- they speak of the ethos and Arsenale, exposing to viewers the gaping Abramovic of Serbia asks whether empathy “We have so many pluralistic expressions, ed landscape of buildings and that embrace both still life and orous clay studies in directing essence of time and continuity. holes in the hull that caused it to sink in the created in a virtual reality experience can so many ways of being in Ghana, but often exterior spaces that maintain a restrained rotund composi- the language of his own soli- They also reflect the truth that Mediterranean. Chinese collaborators Sun motivate action against climate change. so often in the outside world, you just get modest but dynamic profile, in tions which cover the entire tude when he began working in Himmat Shah is a modernist Yuan and Peng Yu constructed a robot that The French pavilion also emits vapour, one, and very often it is negative. This is very harmony with existing site con- spectrum from quaint to curi- the studios of Garhi in Delhi. who has worked in the solitude mechanically spreads a blood-like substance meant to create a dreamlike environment much how we represent ourselves to the ditions. For Mohammed Yusuf, ous. The terracotta works speak The terracotta panels in this of his own penumbra for 60 evenly around. The impact of drug violence for the journey proposed by 41-year-old world in all our plurality, in all our diver- director of Bihar Museum, the of ferment in the oldest medi- exhibition offer viewers a more years, and it is time that the is portrayed in Teresa Margolles’ razor wire- artist Laure Prouvost, only the third woman sity, in all our different layers.” space lends itself to many kinds um of art — the humble clay. profound insight into the artist’s Indian market wakes up to the topped concrete wall “Muro Ciudad Juarez.” to represent France at the Biennale. (Venice Biennale is on till November 24.) of discourse. “A large number The works give a deeper under- dazzling, creative mind and his tenor of his genius. 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But he has yet to win Barcelona and Bayern Munich, this term's winning tally was the a trophy. was in no doubt about lowest by players in English This missing element in his CV could be filled Liverpool's quality. football's top-flight since by beating Liverpool in the June 1 final in Madrid. "We worked a lot," he said. "I 2010/11 when Dimitar Berbatov Overcoming last year's losing Champions League have to say congratulations to     '"    5    #"        #" $    and Carlos Tevez shared the finalists and Premier League runners-up is a tall Liverpool of course. Thank you      !5L  "   <        &.-       Golden Boot with 20 goals order. But history is beckoning, says Pochettino so much. They helped to push us apiece. "I think we can make history," he said after and to increase our standards term, even if the overall tally was in all my career." meet in a Madrid final on June Aubameyang was delighted Sunday's 2-2 draw with Everton which confirmed from last season." lower. But Guardiola said next sea- 1. to be a member of an all- Spurs spot in next season's Champions League by "To compete against this "To win the title we had to son could be even more compet- Liverpool forward Mohamed African trio of winners, saying, finishing fourth. team pushed us to do what we win 14 games in a row," he itive. Salah, whose 22 goals this season "I share this trophy with two "We are creating history because we are making have done. It's incredible, explained. "It will be tougher but we will made him a joint-winner of the other guys I like, great players it, but if we can win we will write history and change 198 points in two seasons." "For two to three be stronger too," he said. Premier League's golden boot and African. We are represent- the perception of this amazing club. "I think last season months we cannot lose "When you can win two in a award, said the Anfield club ing Africa, that's cool. "Of course the club and the fans and we all Manchester City made the one point and we did it all row I have the feeling that next would challenge again next term. "I am happy we won, and I deserve to be focused on the way and how we can standards," Guardiola playing in all competi- season we will come back and try "We only lost one (Premier am sharing this trophy with two win the final. added. "That is the level in tions until the semi-finals to be who we are right now." League) game all season," the other guys I like. "That is the principle objective, there's not anoth- the Premier League and of the Champions Sunday's result meant Egypt forward said. "We gave For Liverpool manager charge of Dortmund. er objective." Liverpool have helped us League. Liverpool's wait for a maiden everything. We got 97 points. We Jurgen Klopp there was the "Auba too? Do they have Pochettino says this has been their best season, to be there all the time." "It's incredible. Premier League title — their last will fight next season for the satisfaction of knowing he had three boots?" said Klopp, who since he arrived from Southampton. Guardiola's side secured Normally if you get 100 points domestic championship was in title." a played a part in the careers of suffered the last-day heartache Reaching the Champions League final and exactly 100 points in winning the the tendency is to go down but 1990 — goes on, although they Liverpool will next face all three of this season's Golden of seeing Liverpool finish just qualifying for next season's campaign has been title last season but the manag- Liverpool helped us to be consis- could yet win the Champions Tottenham Hotspur in UEFA Boot winners, having signed one point behind City. achieved, he said, against the odds as they did not er was arguably even more tent. League if they beat Tottenham Champions League final in Aubameyang from Saint- "It is good. They are all my invest in fresh faces either in the close season or the impressed by their efforts this "This was the toughest title Hotspur when the English rivals Madrid on June 1. Etienne in 2013 when he was in players," the German added. January transfer window. 19,5 $  %3 R    ,  ' ! F  Barcelona: 3 4      ,  -  2 4 I   '■ ,7171 have a final to play and then I will        -      see." The Blues are understood to be -  >6*  1  "  4 den Hazard has told Chelsea he holding out for $100 million.       H      6  3 Ehas made his mind up over his The 28-year-old also admitted -  -           future but has yet to publicly he had wanted his future resolved , 5          H  announce if he will stay at Stamford earlier to avoid it being the season- -                Bridge after persistent speculation long saga it has become.   - 6"T8  -      linking him with a move to Real "Yes, I wanted that but that's not 5T  3I "T;    Madrid. happened. I'm still waiting like you        4   "T 2     The Belgium forward has just a are waiting and like the fans are wait-             year left on his contract after join- ing," he said. &   -           # 0  * * 6   *  *$   ing the Premier League club from "When you are on the pitch, you     $        9-   5       5    Lille for $42 million in 2012. try to be focused on the pitch with  )6A  "T; - 84 And after a substitute outing in the ball. That's it. When I am on the 5T 2  3"T;   Sunday's 0-0 draw at Leicester the pitch I just try to do the best.       4"T Belgium international revealed he "I am not thinking about this      had made the club aware of his deci- and this, my situation or the club's !,  !  '!!*     sion. situation. I just try to win games." Bristol: &     - ,   0    "Yes. A couple of weeks ago. 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OManchester United will tially oversaw a dramatic Ferrari renaissance at the when you arrive and you're      F Ascored late as Roma beat Juventus Juventus and Napoli have already "take some time" to close the upturn in form after he took Circuit de Catalunya, where competing against one or Ghaziabad:     3 -   5    2-0 to keep their hopes of Champions booked their berths in next season's gap to Manchester City and over from Jose Mourinho in they were so dominant in two other teams who are also    :03 :  0  3 - League football next season alive on elite European berths with two places Liverpool after they finished December, said: "It will take pre-season testing, Hamilton bringing their A-game.       :6A@3K2  Sunday. remaining. their season with a dismal 2-0 some time to close in on the was disappointed again at Naturally in those teams,     3 -     >*A@6>* AF Dzeko set up Florenzi for the first Atalanta beat Genoa 2-1 on defeat at home by already-rel- top. We finished five or six their lack of pace, which, that's another two drivers.   0.H &    "$  after 79 minutes in the Stadio Olimpico Saturday to move third two points egated Cardiff. points behind third, fourth, almost incredibly, prompted "But when that's not   -   0.H &    5 with the Bosnian then slotting in the ahead of Inter Milan, who play bottom United finished in sixth fifth and that has to be our paddock talk of the Silver there it's definitely not as 2  -"$           second two minutes into injury club Chievo on Monday. place in the Premier League, 32 aim. Arrows winning all 21 races. exciting from a competition   I     -      time as Juventus fell to just their AC Milan also won 1-0 points behind champions City. "The top two teams have Mercedes locked out the point of view. 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icking the West Indies and  (+  England as the biggest threat, PIndia's Test vice-captain Ajinkya  ■ : 38 started to play decent 50-over Rahane on Monday said an "experi- cricket again and there is no enced" bowling attack on helpful ndia may be packed with team that can go into any English conditions could give Virat Ifabulous 15 but there are no match of the tournament as Kohli's men edge in the World Cup. clear favourites in the upcom- favourites. So every game is "Overall our team is pretty strong. ing World Cup, which will be important, you need those Our overall package is very good. This wide open due to change in points. The change in format time the World Cup will be played in format, stressed former South has made it really wide open," a new format, we will play nine league Africa star Jonty Rhodes. opined Rhodes. games, so momentum and consisten- Rhodes said the Virat For India, all rounder cy will be important," said Rahane, Kohli-led India has balance Hardik Pandya will be an who couldn't find a place in the but it's not something which important cog in the wheel squad. other do not have. and Rhodes believes that the "If you start well you will have to "India might have the fab Baroda all-rounder will have keep up the momentum, you will have 15 but there are probably six to quickly adjust to the 50- to play consistent cricket throughout other teams that might call over format. the tournament. In ICC tournament themselves the same. There "Hardik Pandya's role is any team picks up momentum at any are some very strong teams in really important because he is time, so we can't take any team light- the World Cup and it will coming as a batsman and a ly," added the right-handed batsman, depend on the balanced 11 bowler and he has got the who last played an ODI for India in that they chose on the day, knack of taking wickets. But February 16, 2018 against South Africa depending on the conditions," the key is that he needs to in Centurion. Rhodes, still remembered for quickly adjust because in a The Mumbai batsman said India's his exceptional fielding skills, T20 game you can face seven bowling attack will give them edge on said. balls and bowl may be two helpful English conditions. India will open their cam- overs and make a difference. "Our overall attack, both pace and paign against South Africa "But in a fifty over game if spin, is very experienced. The good on June 5 at Southampton. you are going to finish a game, thing is that all the bowlers in our team Kohli in the showpiece. "India have got a lot of you might have to bat from 35 are wicket-takers and the team which "Virat is a very good leader. experience too. Even young overs, so that is going to be the has wicket-taking bowlers, their Everyone has different qualities. Mahi Q1    "R players like (Jasprit) Bumrah, difference. And he (Hardik) chances increase. We have bowlers bhai (Dhoni) has different quality of is one of the more experienced has got the temperament, he who can pick up wickets in any situ- leadership and Virat will definitely get  ■ : 38 getting better with time and experience death bowlers, so from that backs himself and he just has ation," he said. good support and guidance from and all that. (But) he has to prove him- point of view India will be to know that he has a job to do "The English conditions will def- Mahi bhai. He is such a senior player ormer India all-rounder Mohinder self in this format (50-over), that he can fancing their chances but there (and) it's not about one heli- initely help our bowlers because they and being the wicketkeeper he can set FAmarnath believes that the Virat fit in as a genuine all-rounder. He has are six other sides, top six. copter shot. It is (about) tak- know the conditions well having the entire field and guide the bowlers Kohli-led Indian team has the poten- the potential and he can do the job. But "And I am not even talk- ing a game through like a played their recently. They will defi- on what length and line to bowl," he tial and experience to do well in the you have to access the situation and ing about West Indies, who are Virat Kohli and finishing the nitely have to make some adjustments said. upcoming ODI World Cup, but it play according to the situation," said ranked seventh. They have match for India," said Rhodes. but that won't be a problem." needs to click at the right time. Amarnath. Talking about other teams, Rahane $&277$8128 "I think we (India) have the The 68-year-old feels that pacer picked New Zealand, apart from the potential, we have the players, we have Jasprit Bumrah would make a differ- West Indies and England, as favourites $$,,$& the experience and they have to click ence to India's campaign in the mar- along with India. 37;,&.817:.$& at the right time. And whatever they quee event. "I don't believe in pinpointing any have played and all that, that is in the "He (Bumrah) is a fantastic bowler particular team but England is a good .&;8&$6$&. past, it is fresh tournament, fresh and he is very awkward; he has got a team. New Zealand have done well in 1$&$& ;8 matches and it is like playing like new lot of variation, a crafted bowler and ICC tournaments and West Indies is games, new preparation," Amarnath needs to prove himself in the 50-over I think he is very crucial from India's an unpredictable side. They can beat ;8&$6$812 said. format. point of view. He has to stay fit what any team on their day," he said. 37;,&.5$&8. Amarnath, who was one of the key "I think, we should not compare I personally fell and he will make a dif- Rahane, who led the limited overs 1&81.&& players of the 1983 World Cup win- IPL preparation to a World Cup. IPL ference (to India's campaign). He is side at times in the past, said ning India team, said all-rounder is a different format, different kind of very consistent with line and length," Mahendra Singh Dhoni's vast experi- K -+ Hardik Pandya has the potential but cricket. He (Hardik) is a young guy and Amarnath said. ence will be of great help for skipper 6 , Q$  7  80,    5  #      7A      ;      ■ D&.3 Sixth to the 15th over, he bowled trophy as well," Hardik said in a flash inter- '■ 7:$ 0$71 in November 2015, has scored with a slip there and that was view on Star Sports after Mumbai Indians a quicker ODI hundred for asprit Bumrah is already the some real quality bowling in a lift their fourth trophy. os Buttler refused to put a England. But the 28-year-old, Jbest bowler in the world but his crucial match," Mumbai Indians Hardik and elder brother Krunal were Jlimit on his rapid run-scor- who has five of England quick- best is yet to come, avowed bat- 'Icon' Tendulkar told Star Sports barely into their teens when IPL started in ing as hosts England go in est 10 ODI hundreds to his ting legend Sachin Tendulkar, after the game. 2008 and it was a dream come true for them search of a first men's World credit, believes a new nation- who also termed young leg-spin- Chahar was with the to have won the trophy together on two Cup title. al record could be within his ner Rahul Chahar as "fabulous" Mumbai Indians in 2018 also and occasions (2017). Hardik has now been a Despite appearing in every reach. talent. coach Mahela Jayawardene also part of three IPL winning teams. World Cup since the inaugur- "Absolutely," he said fol- Bumrah has bowled consis- spoke highly of his talent. "I used to have Mumbai Indians posters al edition in 1975, England lowing his match-winning 110 tently throughout the IPL in the "Rahul Chahar was brilliant in my room growing up, and to win with have never lifted the trophy, not out against Pakistan "When death overs. In the final against and created the pressure through them. Amazing." with the last of their three los- the opportunities arise, it gives Chennai Super Kings on Sunday, out for us," said the former Sri He was happy that Law of averages did- ing appearances in the final you lots of confidence. We've the 25-year-old kept his side in Lankan skipper. n't catch up with Mumbai Indians, who had back in 1992. seen other guys around the the hunt by returning remarkable Meanwhile Bumrah, who defeated CSK thrice in this edition (twice But hopes are high that world show it's possible." figures of 2 for 14 in 4 overs. was adjudged Man of the Match, in league stages and then Qualifier 1). 2019 may finally be their year, Buttler, England's one-day "Let me go on record and say said he takes one ball at a time "Lot of people were saying that we had with key batsman Buttler com- wicket-keeper, has also made that he (Jasprit Bumrah) is the which helps him avoid the pres- won three times so they would win the ing into form ahead of his mark in global franchise best bowler in the world at this sure. fourth. But I told Krunal, no, it's going to England's tournament opener tournaments such as the stage and the best is yet to come "In the finals we know that it be 4-0. I lost a few kgs today, such a tight against South Africa at The Twenty20 Indian Premier hopefully," Tendulkar said in an can get close and winning the  ■ D&.3 game it was." Oval on May 30 courtesy of a League and Australia's Big interview with Mumbai Indians title with MI is a special feeling. Brother Krunal had a hand with an stunning century in a 12-run Bash. batsman Yuvraj Singh. Today, surprisingly, I was very fter enjoying an amazing IPL season accurate throw from the deep that got rid win over Pakistan in the sec- "In the last few years, I've Leg spinner Chahar also calm, I wasn't panicking at all Awith Mumbai Indians where he of Shane Watson. ond one-day international at had some brilliant experiences. bowled an astounding 13 dot and very happy to contribute to enthralled the crowd with his prototype of "Unbelievable game. From childhood, Southampton on Saturday. "A couple more years older balls, finishing with superb fig- the team's success," Bumrah said. 'Helicopter Shot', all-rounder Hardik Pandya we wanted to play good cricket together. The 28-year-old went to and worked things out a bit ures of 1 for 14 in 4 overs. "I only take one ball and one has now trained his eyes on World Cup tri- Even when we weren't in the IPL, we want- three figures in just 50 balls, better, managing to drip-feed Those who have seen Chahar day at a time and if you think like umph. ed to play for Mumbai Indians." celebrating the landmark with them into my game really bowl a total of 81 overs in an that you don't feel pressure at all," Shrugging the off-field controversies, For the elder brother, who is now India's a baby-rocking gesture as wife well. Irani Cup game for Rest of India versatility across formats. he added. Hardik was in his element scoring 402 runs T20 specialist, the younger sibling is the Louise and new daughter "I'm really chasing that on a placid Jamtha track, swore "Rahul Chahar stands out. I Bumrah ended this IPL edi- at a strike-rate of 191+ and 14 wickets apart source of inspiration. Georgia looked on from the consistency and want to per- by his talent. The 13 wickets in shared my opinion (with Mahela) tion with 19 wickets from 16 from 11 catches. "He has been unbelievable. I don't need stands. form every day. That's been a 13 games at an economy rate of before he played his first game matches with an impressive "I played well this season, but now time to look elsewhere for inspiration, I have Only Buttler himself, with big part of the last few years to 6.55 in shorter version proved his and I thought he was fabulous. economy rate of 6.63. to move on. I want to lift that World Cup Hardik." a 46-ball effort against Pakistan try and be more consistent."            $"  >-  3 

+     ■ 1&;&,8 "I have been preparing well added her eighth Asian medal for 51kg category. Having got this year. ondon Olympic Bronze a real hand idea of the compe- While the six-time world '■ .7 & Lmedallist Mary Kom will tition in this class in Germany, champion will be India's make her competitive debut at I am ready to give my best at biggest medal hope yet again, erena Williams made a winning return home in 51kg in the second this tournament and test myself Amit Panghal (52kg) will be Sfrom injury beating Swedish qualifier edition of the India Open box- ahead of the World looking to continue his dom- Rebecca Petersen 6-4, 6-2 to advance to the sec- ing tournament, to be held in Championships," said Mary inance after conquering the ond round of the Italian Open clay-court tour- Guwahati from May 20-24. Kom, who led six Indian box- Asian Championships Gold. nament on Monday. With Olympic qualification ers to Gold in the last edition Assam's Shiva Thapa Williams, 37, has not played since a hard- round the corner, India Open in New Delhi. (60kg), who created a record fought three-set win over Petersen in the sec- with witness 35 men and 37 Keeping in mind the by winning medals in four ond round at the Miami Open in March before women boxers from India approved weight categories for consecutive Asian withdrawing with a knee injury. vying for glory, even as close to Olympic qualification, some of Championships, will be aiming The 23-time Grand Slam winner — now 200 pugilists from 16 boxing the Indian pugilists have to impress the home crowd, ranked 11th -- also withdrew from Indian Wells powerhouses will participate in changed their weight divisions. and so will Ankushita Boro in March complaining through illness. who received a wild card entry to the tourna- the USD 70,000 tournament. After her stunning per- (64kg), a Gold medallist at the Watched by her husband Alexis Ohanian, ment she won in 1999, or Belgian Elise Mertens Mary Kom had opted out formance at the Asian 2017 World Youth Williams doubled faulted on her first match in the second round. of the Asian Championships Championships, where she Kachari too has made a simi- Simranjit Kaur, a Silver Championship. point but sealed victory on her second against Should Serena and Venus meet in Rome, it last month in order to prepare became the first Indian to win lar change while Asian medallist at the continental 2017 World Boxing her 58th-ranked opponent. will be their first meeting on European clay in for the World Championships a Gold in 81kg, Pooja Rani has Championships Bronze medal- tournament in 64kg, has Championships bronze medal- A four-time Rome winner Williams last won nearly 17 years. as the event will serve as good gone back to her original list Manisha Moun will be switched to 60kg and will be list Gaurav Bidhuri (56kg) will on the red clay of at the Foro Italico in 2016. Their last meeting on red clay came at the preparatory ground for weight category of 75kg. fighting it out in 57kg for the competing with former world be another of the big medal She will play either her older sister Venus, 2002 Roland Garros final. Olympic qualification. Assam's Bhagyabati very first time. champion Sarita Devi, who bets from India.