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NEARBY Hyderabad techie, M.P. farmer Network for intel agencies to held in Pak. for illegal entry Software engineer aimed to go to Turkey to meet girlfriend share info will go live next year Trinamool MP speaks on pollution wearing mask Mehmal Sarfraz NATGRID will help organisations to access database from a common platform NEW DELHI Abhinay Deshpande Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar of the LAHORE/Hyderabad Vijaita singh and others, will have access Trinamool Congress wore a Two Indian nationals, one New Delhi to the data on a secured plat mask while participating in a from Telangana and the oth The ambitious National In form. discussion in the Lok Sabha on air pollution and climate er from Madhya Pradesh, telligence Grid (NATGRID) change on Tuesday. Calling were arrested by the Pakista project will be operational Periodic review the current state of air ni police for illegally enter by December 31, 2020, the On Tuesday, Minister of pollution a national ing the country, authorities Lok Sabha was informed on State for Home G. Kishan emergency, she demanded have confi rmed. Tuesday. Reddy informed the Lok that the government launch a Prashant Maidam, a soft More than half the sanc Sabha that “NATGRID has ‘Swachh Hawa Mission’. ware engineer from Hydera tioned positions are vacant, developed application soft
CITY Ī PAGE 2 bad, and Durmi Lal, a farm the government said. ware for proof of technology DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD er from Madhya Pradesh, The NATGRID will enable (POT), which is yet to be fully were arrested in the Cholis In custody: Prashant Maidam, who hails from Hyderabad, multiple security and intelli rolled out. NATGRID solu CNG made a diff erence to tan desert area of Bahawal entered Pakistan without valid documents. gence agencies to access a tion is planned to go live by Delhi’s air, says Sonia pur in Pakistan’s Punjab pro database related to immigra 31.12.2020.” He said the pro NEW DELHI vince last week, the police der without any identifi ca with a woman in Turkey and tion entry and exit, banking gress was reviewed from Expressing concern over the said. The Bahawalpur police tion papers and proper doc was going there through Pa and telephone details, time to time, and during the deteriorating air quality in registered an FIR against uments, such as a valid visa kistan and Afghanistan. Mr. among others, from a com current fi nancial year, the national capital, Congress them under the Pakistan and passport, said the Lal wanted to see the border mon platform. tabase for collating scattered At least 10 Central govern ₹ 84.80 crore had been allo president Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday said the introduction (Control of Entry) Act on No police. and crossed over by mistake. The project, initially start pieces of information and ment agencies, such as the cated to the project. of compressed natural gas in vember 14. Sources said Mr. Maidam ed in 2009 with a budget of putting them together on Intelligence Bureau, the Re CONTINUED ON PAGE 12 CONTINUED ON PAGE 12 public transport by the They had crossed the bor told them that he was in love Ī ₹ 2,800 crore, is an online da one platform. search and Analysis Wing Ī Congress government in Delhi made a visible CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC diff erence. CITY Ī PAGE 2 Nithyananda faces charge of DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Tracing His footprints Delhi Jal Board to test 1,400 water samples NEW DELHI illegally confi ning two students The Delhi Jal Board on Tuesday said t will start collecting 1,400 water Bengaluru couple move court for custody of daughters samples for testing from across the city after a study Mahesh Langa When they rushed to Ahme AHMEDABAD by the Bureau of Indian dabad and tried to meet Standards last week said that Controversial godman Nith them, the offi cials at the in water in the city was the most yananda was caught in stitution did not allow them unsafe among 21 State another controversy after inside. capitals. being charged with “illegally
CITY Ī PAGE 4 confi ning” two daughters of Complaint registered DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD a Bengalurubased couple The couple could bring back Cong. sweeps municipal here. their two minor daughters elections in Rajasthan A petition has been fi led with the help of the police JAIPUR in the Gujarat High Court by and the National Commis The ruling Congress swept the couple, seeking its help sion for Protection of Child the municipal elections in to get back the girls from an Nithyananda Rights. But their elder Rajasthan on Tuesday, ashram set up by Nithyanan daughters, Lopamudra Ja winning 965 of the 2,105 da, who faces rape charges. luru in 2013, when they were nardhana Sharma, 21, and wards in 49 urban local The petition will be heard by in the age group of 715. Nandhita, 18, refused to go bodies, for which the polling the court on Wednesday. However, their daughters with them. Based on their was held on Saturday. The Janardana Sharma and his were shifted to another complaint, the Ahmedabad BJP trailed behind with 736 wife, in their habeas corpus branch of Nithyananda Rural police registered an wards. petition, said they had ad Dhyanapeetham, situated FIR against Nithyananda and NATION Ī PAGE 9 mitted their four daughters on the premises of the Delhi other ashram offi cials. DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD From a faraway land: South Korean monks off er prayers at the Maha Bodhi Temple in Bodh Gaya on Tuesday. Buddhism travelled to China from India and then to Korea. Bodh Gaya is the spiritual home of Buddhists across the world.* PTI in an educational institution Public School in Ahmeda OPPORTUNITIES Ī PAGE 15 CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC run by the godman in Benga bad, without their consent. CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 12 Gotabaya to visit Delhi Trade body pegs Kashmir’s JNU students complain of police brutality Shinjini Ghosh Union on Tuesday com that there was no “lathi on Nov. 29: Jaishankar NEW DELHI plained of police brutality charge”, several students, economic losses at over $1 bn Continuing its demand for a and manhandling of women who were part of the protest, New President accepts Modi’s invite complete rollback of the hos protesters during Monday’s recounted the events that left KCCI plans to sue govt. for damages, move court tel fee hike, the Jawaharlal agitation. While the police many of them injured. Meera Srinivasan Reuters of Commerce and Industry beyond us,” said Mr. Khan, Nehru University Students’ had on Monday maintained DETAILS ON Ī PAGE 2 COLOMBO SRINAGAR (KCCI) said development was adding that India’s telecoms Sri Lanka’s newly elected Economic losses in Kashmir elusive, thanks to a protract blackout in the region meant President Gotabaya Raja have run well over a billion ed shutdown after people the body could not reach bu paksa will visit New Delhi on dollars since India revoked its closed markets and business siness owners by telephone November 29, External Af autonomy and statehood in es as a mark of protest, and to prepare estimates. fairs Minister S. Jaishankar August, the main trade body for fear of reprisals from Instead, it had to send staff said after meeting him here in the region said, adding that insurgents. to meet them and gather on Tuesday evening. S. Jaishankar meets it planned to sue the govern details. Mr. Gotabaya’s visit to President Gotabhaya ment for damages. Telecom blackout The Ministry of Home Af New Delhi, his likely fi rst Rajapaksa in Colombo. * PTI India turned its erstwhile It estimated economic losses fairs and local government of trip abroad as the President, State of Jammu and Kashmir ran into at least ₹ 10,000 fi cials did not respond to de comes months after Prime dramodi’s invitation to visit into a federallycontrolled crore ($1.40 billion) by Sep tailed requests for comment. Minister Narendra Modi vi India on 29th November,” territory, tightening control tember, but now exceeded The clampdown has hit sited Colombo in a goodwill Mr. Jaishankar wrote on in a shock move it said would that, said Nasir Khan, its se tourism as well as farming, gesture following the deadly Twitter soon after the meet rein in militancy in the region nior vice president. horticulture and the arts and Easter Sunday attacks. ing. and promote its “We’ll ask the court to ap crafts that contribute the “President @GotabayaR development. point an external agency to most to its exportoriented has accepted PM @naren CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 12 But the Kashmir Chamber assess the losses, because it is economy.
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Vivek Narayanan compose folk songs and to sing the lyrics of Tamil CHENNAI render them with feeling to poet Inquilab. My favourite His name is Isai Arasu and create awareness of social was Manusangada Naanga he frequently breaks into issues. Those include Manusangada,” which song. Chennaiyila vasika untouchability and forced passionately draws attention namakku edamilla, singara resettlement of squatters. to lack of humanity, he Chennai yarruku theriyala He has fi ve own recalls. With his singing (We don’t have a place to compositions, besides many giving him an identity, he live in Chennai, for whom is where he has changed lyrics was invited by many Left Singara Chennai then?) of fi lm songs to carry a parties to render songs at hums the 42yearold message. protests. autorickshaw driver sitting “I fi rst saw the impact He composed in his vehicle in Adyar, music can have when I Chennaiyila vasika after waiting for a passenger. listened to my father singing Ballad of protest: Isai Arasu comes up with impromptu songs seeing the plight of people Mr. Arasu, who makes a lullaby for my little on occasions such as slum evictions. * M. KARUNAKARAN living along a canal at Tod ₹ 500 a day, has several brother. He also used to sing Hunter Nagar. Whenever he personal challenges, an oppari [a lament] to vent in my father’s village sing, He was born in visits sites where people are including the ailment of his the pain of a penurious life. I and even more so after Mylapore’s Ambedkar being evicted, it provokes teenage daughter. This also became fond of the listening to Ilaiyaraaja’s Nagar, and his life has been him to come up with actually spurs him to medium listening to people songs,” says Mr. Arasu. a litany of problems. “I used impromptu songs. CM YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
DELHI THE HINDU 2 CITY WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2019 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Injured students complain of police brutality FIRs fi led in connection JNU moves HC, with JNUSU protest march seeks contempt They say women protesters were molested and manhandled; JNUSU to continue strike over fee hike action against No complaint from students yet: police Shinjini Ghosh administration are what they students, police NEW DELHI demand. Staff Reporter of common object), Continuing its demand for a “Either the MHRD or the NEW DELHI 151(knowingly joining or Press Trust of India complete rollback of the hos JNU administration should The Delhi police on Tues continuing in assembly of New Delhi tel fee hike, the Jawaharlal come out with a statement day registered two FIRs in fi ve or more persons after it The JNU on Tuesday ap Nehru University Students’ saying that the hostel fee connection with the protest has been commanded to proached the Delhi High Union (JNUSU) on Tuesday hike will be rolled back. We march carried out by Jawa disperse) and 34 (common Court seeking contempt complained of police brutali will continue our strike as we harlal Nehru University intention) of the Indian Pe action against its students ty and manhandling of wo are fi ghting for a cause,” said ( JNU) students on Monday nal Code and 3 Damage to and the Delhi police for al men protesters during Mon Ms. Ghosh. against the hike in hostel Public Property Act. legedly violating a court or day’s agitation. Priyanka Bharti, another fee. Police said that no com der against holding a prot The Delhi police had on student, said, “They talk The police said that one plaint has been received est within 100 metres of Monday said that there was about Beti Bachao, Beti Pad- case has been registered in from the students so far. the university’s administra no “lathicharge”, but sever hao but does anybody notice south district’s Lodhi Colo tive block. al students who were part of how the women are being ny police station and anoth No. of injured to rise The JNU claimed that the protest recounted the treated? It seems like our er in south west district’s On Monday, during the the students had grossly events which resulted in in crime is that we want to stu Kishan Garh police station. protest, several students violated the August 9, 2017, juries to them. dy. We will not budge as we Both cases have been regis and offi cers sustained inju order of the High Court by Shashi Bhushan Pandey, a want aff ordable education tered against unknown ries and it was revealed that holding a protest within visually challenged student, and will continue to fi ght for members who were part of 15 students and 30 police of 100 metres of the adminis who is also a JNUSU council Students addressing the media at JNU on Tuesday. * SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA it.” the protest, they said. fi cials were reportedly in trative block and aff ecting lor, said: “I kept telling the The police said if they re Cases have been regis jured. However, the num its daytoday working, police that I am visually chal added Mr. Pandey. have not been seen in the re fairs, then what justice will ceive a complaint, they will tered under Section 186 (ob ber rose to 27 and 46 on which has been disrupted lenged and even removed Another JNU student, Su cent past. The Delhi police the students get? Why look into it but they haven’t structing public servant in Wednesday which was like since October 28. my spectacles but they did cheta, recounted, “We were lathicharged students after should we end our strike?” received any so far. discharge of public func ly to increase. It said the police also not stop hitting. Later, I was bleeding and asked for medi turning off the lights in the Demanding the Vice Meanwhile, the Akhil Bha tions), 353 (assault or crimi The students, during violated the court order by told by one of the policemen cal help but no heed was area. Everything seemed to Chancellor’s resignation, Ms. ratiya Vidyarthi Parishad in a nal force to deter public ser their long march to Parlia refusing and failing to take ‘aandha hain toh protest paid to our requests. The wo happen within a fraction of a Ghosh added, “If the VC is statement said: “The ABVP vant from discharge of his ment House, were con action to maintain law and mein kyun aya’ (why are you men protesters were molest second and the students not listening to the Ministry condemns in harshest terms duty), 332 (voluntarily caus tained near Safdarjung order in the university and participating in the protest if ed and manhandled by the were left severely injured.” too then he should be re the manner in which Delhi ing hurt to deter public ser Tomb after they break removing the blockade you are visually force.” Referring to the highpow moved. We are not going to Police placed barricades and vant from his duty), 188 through several barricades around the administrative challenged).” er committee constituted by succumb to the brutality un manhandled peacefully prot (disobedience to order duly which were set up at multi block. “We are being asked about ‘Turned off lights, caned’ the Ministry of Human Re leashed on us and will march esting students. However, we promulgated by public ser ple points, including the The petition, fi led our socalled “violent prot Into the 23rd day of its strike, source Development to Parliament several times if would like to express our dis vant), 147 (punishment for west gate of the university. through the Central go est”, but what violence will a JNUSU president Aishe (MHRD) on Monday, Ms. required.” agreement with the Left Un rioting), 148 (rioting, armed The students were protest vernment’s standing coun visually impaired person in Ghosh, while addressing the Ghosh said, “We have been Students, including JNU ity’s mode of agitation and with deadly weapon), 149 ing to save ‘public funded sel Monika Arora, sought fl ict? Shouldn’t this question media, said: “It was a histor told that the Registrar has re SU offi cebearers, main we have decided to continue (every member of unlawful education’ and demanded direction to issue contempt be asked to the government ic day on Monday as such fused to meet the commit tained that “dialogue and ne our struggle separately from assembly guilty of off ence roll back of the hostel fee notice against the alleged or the ones with the lathis?” brutal attacks on students tee. If this is the state of af gotiations” with the the Leftled union.” committed in prosecution hike. contemnors. MP wears mask to Lok Sabha No funds for Delhi under Geelani’s son delivers emotional clean air programme Members call for joint action, keeping aside party politics address at his remembrance meet Capital among 102 most polluted cities Bindu Shajan Perappadan al crores of rupees on adver Exstudents, colleagues speak of how he was labelled a ‘terrorist’ NEW DELHI tisements but has done little SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT is one among the 102 most Driving home the adverse to curb pollution. They have NEW DELHI polluted cities as per the Staff Reporter chained by the special cell pursue career as lawyers. impact of air pollution, Kako again spent on publicising Despite being among the NCAP document. New Delhi when he was a child, of the “We had in our hearts that li Ghosh Dastidar of the Tri the oddeven scheme but not most polluted capital cities Narrating the experience of trauma when his father was we will make sure that nobo namool Congress (TMC) taken steps to increase the in the world, Delhi hasn’t Budget allocation his father’s time in jail and shot at after he was released dy goes through all of this wore a mask while participat number of public buses,” he been allotted funds under In the Union Budget this his prosecution, former Del from Tihar in 2004 and how again and do anything we ing in a discussion on air pol noted with both Pinaki Misra the National Clean Air Pro year, Finance Minister Nir hi University professor S.A.R the memories of his impri could to protect the people” lution and climate change in (BJD) and Manish Tewari gramme (NCAP), an initia mala Sitharaman had allocat Geelani’s son, Atif delivered sonment returned when he he said. the Lok Sabha on Tuesday. (Congress) stating that stub tive launched by the Centre ed ₹ 406 crore for NCAP. an emotional address at a re was again imprisoned in “He was such a fi gure to Calling the current state of ble burning is not a major to reduce air pollution in The 102 nonattainment membrance meeting for him 2016. Others present, in me that I still cant believe he air pollution a “national contributor to pollution in 102 cities by 2024. cities have been identifi ed held at Arts Faculty on Tues cluding former students and is not with us. I resume my emergency”, she demanded Delhi and the farmers should In response to a query under NCAP based on the day. Former colleagues, colleagues, also spoke of daytoday work with the that the government should not be vilifi ed. from Prabhat Jha, BJP MP ambient air quality data for friends and students also how the professor was la thought that he will always launch a ‘Swachh Hawa Mis TMC MP Kakoli Ghosh Preneet Kaur (Congress) from Madhya Pradesh, on the period 20112015 and shared stories of the late belled a “terrorist” at Zakir be with me. Always.” said sion’ (clean air mission) on wearing an anti-pollution said farmers of Punjab are details of the NCAP, Union WHO report 20142018. professor, who was acquit Husain College, where he Atif. the lines of the Swachh Bha mask to Parliament on being subjected to harsh crit Environment Minister Pra Of the 102 cities, for 28 of ted of his involvement in the taught, even after his acquit The meeting was called rat Mission. Though she took Tuesday. * SANDEEP SAXENA icism and being projected as kash Javadekar gave a state them with millionplus popu 2001 Parliament attack case. tal and how those who spoke by various students groups, off her mask after being almost villains for pollution ment describing funds al lation and air quality of PM10 “Our family was never left in his support were silenced. including AISA, Pinjra Tod urged by the members of the said the Delhi government in Delhi as “rhetoric is get lotted to cities. Of the 102 > 90ug/m3, the Union Envi alone. We were never al “I can proudly say baba collective, SFI, DSU as well Treasury Bench, the MP said had done little to improve ting better of sound rational cities, that have been iden ronment Ministry is provid lowed to live a life we always devoted all his life to the as a group of students from that it was time the Central the situation and was instead thinking”. tifi ed as the most polluted ing ₹ 10 crore fund in the cur wanted,” Atif told those cause of the people...and I Zakir Husain College, who government took note of the shifting the blame on farm A meeting of a parliamen and submitted voluntary rent year. gathered. am proud to say I am his also spoke against the ongo seriousness of the problem ers in the neighbouring tary committee on the issue emission reduction plans, “For the remaining non He spoke of seeing his son” said Atif, who along ing communication blackout and initiated corrective States. of air pollution in the nation funds allotted for 90 cities attainment cities, a funding father beaten up and with his sister decided to in Kashmir. steps. al capital is scheduled for were provided. Delhi of ₹ 10 lakh per city for those During the discussion in ‘Don’t blame farmers’ Wednesday, after the ab wasn’t on the list. with a population of less itiated by Lok Sabha Speaker BJP member representing sence of most of its members A senior offi cial in the than fi ve lakh and ₹ 20 lakh Om Birla, the MPs noted that West Delhi Parvesh Sahib and senior offi cials in its last Delhi government, who did per city for those with a pop East body proposes hike in taxes party politics should be kept Singh slammed the Delhi go meeting sparked outrage. not want to be identifi ed, ulation of fi ve to 10 lakh have aside to seriously deal with vernment for blaming stub Sources said Mr. Birla pulled confi rmed to The Hindu been sanctioned,” according air pollution, and suggested ble burning for the pollution up some of the key offi cials, that no funds were allocat to the reply. Proposal includes property, betterment and professional tax that a highlevel task force in DelhiNCR and ignoring who had skipped the panel’s ed to Delhi under the The 28 priority cities are: headed by the Prime Minis major pollutants, including meeting on November 15, NCAP. A senior offi cial in Vijayawada, Chandigarh, Staff Reporter ture) at a rate of 10% of the erative wing of the EDMC be ter be put in place. vehicles and dust. “The Delhi and asked them to ensure the Union Environment Mi Raipur, Bhilai, Surat, Ahme New Delhi property tax and introduc fore being implemented. BJP MPs in the Lok Sabha government has spent sever that it is not repeated. nistry, who also declined to dabad, Dhanbad, Bangalore, Presenting the revised bud tion of a professional tax While the EDMC had to be identifi ed, said that Bhopal, Gwalior, Mumbai, get estimates for the current with two slabs. For people revise its estimates for exter funds for Delhi were availa Nagpur, Navi Mumbai, Pune, fi nancial year on Tuesday, earning more than ₹ 5 lakh a nal sources of revenue down ble through multiple Minis Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Lud Commissioner of the East year, a tax of ₹ 100 per by about ₹ 1,300 crore, the tries. “Ministry of Housing hiana, Amritsar, Jaipur, Jodh Delhi Municipal Corpora month and for those earning civic body has signifi cantly CNG made a diff erence to Delhi’s and Urban Aff airs has a pur, Kota, Kolkata, Patna, tion, Dilraj Kaur proposed a more than ₹ 10 lakh a year, a revised its upwards global budget of ₹ 206 crore for Agra, Allahabad, Kanpur, hike in property tax in va tax of ₹ 200 per month was share of taxes based on re pollution.” However, Delhi Lucknow and Varanasi. rious categories, a better proposed. With these taxes, commendations of the Fifth air quality, says Sonia Gandhi ment tax as well as a profes the EDMC hopes to increase Delhi Finance Commission. sional tax — similar to its revenue by at least ₹ 30 From an earlier estimate of Cong. president lauds CSE’s eff orts to protect environment proposals made in the South crore, it said. ₹ 250 crore, the EDMC now Air quality likely to fall and North bodies. With regard to property expects to end the year with Special Correspondent Among new taxes, the tax rates, EDMC had pro ₹ 1,038 crore. We, who live in this New Delhi <> east body proposed the in posed to increase the rate The Commissioner said Capital, notorious Expressing concern over the to ‘severe’ category troduction of an education charged from properties in that with the new devolution now as the world’s deteriorating air quality in cess of 5% of property tax, the C, D and E categories formula and funds received the national capital, Con most polluted city, AQI was in ‘poor’ category on Tuesday introduction of a “better from 11 12% and for proper based on the latest DFC’s re gress president Sonia Gand can recall the ment tax” (levied on im ties in the F, G and H catego commendations, the east hi on Tuesday said the intro diff erence in air Staff Reporter provement of property va ries from 710%. civic body was just able to duction of Compressed quality when CNG New Delhi lue as a consequence of The proposals would have manage it’s daytoday ex Natural Gas (CNG) in public was introduced in The air quality of Delhi improved public infrastruc to be approved by the delib penses. transport by the then Con public vehicles stayed in the ‘poor’ category gress government in Delhi Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday and is expected made a visible diff erence. Sonia Gandhi Congress president to fall to the ‘severe’ on DELHI TODAY Speaking at the presenta Thursday and Friday, said Notice to Centre, AIIMS over tion of the Indira Gandhi the CSE in its fi ght to protect events that are hitting the forecasting agency SAFAR. Book release and discussion: Prize for Peace, Disarma the environment. world should make us sit up; On Tuesday, the average “Commercialisation of Medical Care in China: Changing Landscapes” au ment and Development, “Since its establishment, in India the monsoon is level of PM 2.5 was twice plea on quota for disabled thored by Rama V. Baru and Madhur which was given to the CSE has become virtually In changing – I say again and (122.6.3 ug/m3) the safe li further deteriorate to the ima Nundy will be released in the mit (60ug/m3) in DelhiNCR lower end of ‘severe’ catego Staff Reporter presence of Amb. Ashok K. Katha, Dir Centre for Science and Envi dia’s conscience in the fi ght again, the true Finance Mi rav Kumar Bansal, has con ector, Institute of Chinese Studies and New Delhi ronment (CSE), Ms. Gandhi to preserve, protect and im nister of India was not or is at 6 p.m., as per the Central ry by early Thursday. AQI is tended that AIIMS has failed Prof. Sanghamitra Acharya, chairper recalled how Indira Gandhi prove our natural environ not Mr. Mukerjee, Doctor Pollution Control Board likely to stay in the ‘severe’ The Delhi High Court on to adopt the principle of in son, Centre of Social Medicine & Com munity Health, JNU. The release will had contributed to safe ment. Over the years it has Saab or Nirmala ji – it is the (CPCB). But the level is near category on Friday,” said SA Tuesday issued notice to the clusive education as it pro be followed by a discussion on the guarding India’s natural her striven to raise awareness on monsoon. Today, we are see ly fi ve times the safe limit FAR. Centre and the All India In vided only one PG seat out of book at Lecture Room II, Annexe, In itage and environment even the problem long before it ing extreme rain events like (25 ug/m3) set by the World The wind speed has al stitute of Medical Sciences a total of 435 advertised in dia International Centre, 3 p.m. Health Organization (WHO). ready shown a decreasing (AIIMS) on a petition claim 201819, to PWD when it was Music: SaMaPa Sangeet Sammelan in the midst of the 1971 India became a major crisis we never before; we go from 2019. The second day event will fea Pakistan war. face today,” she said. fl ood to drought; the intensi The contribution of stub trend and is likely to be very ing that the premier institu legally bound to reserve 5% ture a sarod concert by Debasmita “We, who live in this Cap Making her acceptance ty and frequency of cyclones ble burning in neighbouring calm during the next 48 tion was not providing adeq of seats for PWD. Bhattacharya with Mithilesh Jha on the tabla. This will be followed by a ital, notorious now as the speech, Sunita Narain, direc has increased; the poor who States to Delhi’s pollution hours. Calm wind and low uate reservation to persons The petition has also Hindustani classical vocal concert by world’s most polluted city, tor general of the CSE, point did not contribute to the was 13% on Tuesday, and is ventilation index are pred with disabilities (PWD) in its claimed that the United Na Ruchira Panda with Akhtar Hassan on expected to rise to 14% on icted for the next two days the tabla and Paromita Mukherjee on can recall the diff erence in ed out how Indira Gandhi emissions in the atmosphere post graduate seats. tion Convention on the the harmonium at The Stein Auditor air quality when com had moved to protect the en are the victims. And remem Wednesday. and conditions are condu A Bench of Chief Justice Rights of Persons with Dis ium, India Habitat Centre, 7 p.m. pressed natural gas was in vironment by enacting va ber, this is just the begin Delhi’s Air Quality Index cive for sudden accumula D.N. Patel and Justice C. Hari abilities makes it mandatory Exhibition: “Phantom Limb”, an ex troduced in public vehicles. rious legislations with regard ning,” Ms. Narain said. (AQI) on Tuesday was 242 tion of pollutants in Delhi. Shankar sought the response for their member States to hibition of contemporary artists, cur (poor), up from 214 (poor) The ‘severe’ air quality is ated by Meera Menezes at Shridharani This transformation was to water, air and land use. The dignitaries who at on the plea by NGO Prhari adopt the principle of inclu Gallery, Triveni Kala Sangam, 205, made possible by the persua Ms. Narain also dwelt on tended the event included on Monday, as per the 4 not expected to last long. “A Sahyog Association, which sive education. It has urged Tansen Marg, 11 a.m. 8 p.m. sive expertise of the CSE and how climate change and former President Pranab p.m. bulletin by the CPCB. fresh western disturbance is has alleged that there is the court to call for a status Exhibition: “Yaatra”, a paintings the Congress government of weather patterns were now Mukherjee, former VicePre “The AQI is likely to dete expected to increase wind “noninclusiveness of PWD” report from AIIMS indicating show by Dr Anjali Solanki at All India Fine Arts & Craft Society, 1 Rafi Marg, the day,” the Congress chief directly impacting India’s sidenr Hamid Ansari and riorate to the higher end of speed and improve ventila in the institute. the eff orts made by it to pro 11 a.m. 7 p.m. said. economy. Prime Minister Dr. Manmo ‘very poor’ category by ear tion by Saturday,” said SA The NGO, in its petition vide inclusive education to (Mail your listings for this column She lauded the eff orts of “The weird weather han Singh among others. ly Wednesday and then FAR. fi led through advocate Gau PWD. at [email protected]) CM A ND-NDE YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
THE HINDU DELHI WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2019 CITY 3 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Elderly man dies on metro tracks CISF’s canine brigade calls it a day Press Trust of India had undergone eye and upset over the past few new delhi knee surgery around two months. He is survived by a Seven retiring dogs felicitated at fi rstever farewell ceremony, handed over to NGO for oldage care A 75yearold man died on years ago, said the police. son and two daughters. Tuesday after jumping in He had come to the metro Suicide prevention hel- Saurabh Trivedi We organised a He was very naughty but he front of a moving train at station without informing pline: Sanjivini, Society for New Delhi <> felicitation ceremony had a way of telling me ‘get Laxmi Nagar metro station. his family members, they Mental Health, Telephone: Seven canines which for the canines up friend, time to go to The elderly man was a re added. Family members of 011-4076 9002, Monday-Sa- served in the Central Indus because a batch of work’. He was loved by all sident of Laxmi Nagar. He the man said he had been turday, 10 a.m. -7.30 p.m. trial Security Force (CISF) other dogs in the kennel. I seven were retiring for more than eight years have taken one last selfi e received heartwarming sa together... We. will with him,” said Mr. Neeraj. lutes on the last day of ser always be grateful for The canines were trained vice at a ceremony in Prak the undying loyalty, for six months at the CISF riti Park near Shastri Park devotion and faithful Dog Breeding Training metro station on Tuesday. service from all seven Centre in Ghaziabad before These dogs, aged bet of them. They will being inducted into the ween 8 and 10 years, never be forgotten Delhi Mero squad. served in the CISF squad Faithful service: The canines during their farewell ceremony at Raman Kumar During the ceremony, se deployed for Delhi Metro Prakriti Park in New Delhi on Tuesday. * R.V. MOORTHY Deputy Commandant, CISF nior CISF offi cers present protection. ed mementoes, medals and They had developed age “She was very calm and tion ceremony for the ca who attended the ceremo certifi cates to the dogs. related ailments and were sensitive compared with nines because a batch of se ny, especially the dog han Thereafter, they were of deemed unfi t for opera the other canines in the ven were retiring together. dlers. Many CISF personnel fered cakes and given a fi tions by the force. The ca group. During the service, It was a rare moment and gathered around the dogs nal salute as they walked nines — Hina, Veer, Kite, Jel she has cleared 51 unat we wanted to give them a to take a selfi e before bid down the red carpet. ly, Jessy, Lucy and Lovely — tended baggages and 81 memorable goodbye,” said ding them adieu. Mr. Kumar said that a have been adopted by a mock drills,” said Mr. Vijay. Mr. Kumar. team of CISF personnel has Delhibased NGO which Deputy Commandant, “We will always be grate ‘Best friends’ been formed to visit the takes care of ailing animals, CISF, Raman Kumar said it ful for the undying loyalty, Constable Neeraj, the han dogs at the NGO’s Guru said a CISF offi cer. was the fi rst time in the devotion and faithful ser dler of Veer, a male cocker gram centre where they Constable Vijay Kumar, force’s history that a cere vice from all seven of them. spaniel, said he cannot de will be kept for the rest of the handler of Lovely, a fe mony was organised to ho They will never be forgot scribe the pain he is feeling their lives. “We always male labrador, said he will nour the dedication and ten,” added Mr. Kumar. in handing over Veer to so form a team to look after re miss the canine terribly be devotion of retiring The aff ection of the force meone else. “When I got tired dogs to avoid any ill cause she had been a part canines. for the canines was visible Veer he was just a month treatment to them,” said of his life for last 10 years. “We organised a felicita on the faces of all those old. We were best friends. the offi cer.
Fire in Alipur paper Three brothers stab man godown; none injured NEW DELHI A fire broke out in a paper to death in north Delhi godown in Outer Delhi’s Alipur on Tuesday. No injuries were Staff Reporter stepped out, he saw three reported in the incident. The New Delhi persons assaulting ,” the of blaze began around 1.41 p.m. A 22yearold man was fi cer said. Arman said that Fifteen fire tenders were rushed to the spot and the fire stabbed to death allegedly his brother tried to break was brought under control by by three brothers in north away but the men stabbed 4.30 p.m. The cause of the Delhi’s Sarai Rohilla. Two him and fl ed. blaze has not yet been accused have been arrested, Based on the complaint, a ascertained, said the police the police said on Tuesday. case under Section 302 of A senior police offi cer the Indian Penal Code was said the victim has been registered at Sarai Rohilla identifi ed as Firoz, and the police station. accused are Ashfaq, Mush During investigation, it taq and Mumtaz, who is still was revealed that Firoz had absconding. abused the mother of the ac The victim’s brother, Ar cused, which enraged them man, reported the matter and an argument broke out and said that Firoz had been between the two sides lead assaulted. “Arman said that ing to the incident. he was at his shop on Mon The police said that the day around 10.30 p.m., with accused and the victim were his father when he heard a previously involved in crimi person cry. When he nal cases. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
DELHI THE HINDU 4 CITY WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2019 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Over 1,600 died in road accidents in 2018 Delhi Jal Board to collect, Fatal accidents in Delhi register a fi veyear high, hitandrun cases also increase, reveal Centre’s data test 1,400 water samples Jatin Anand ber of people killed in road New Delhi accidents, after Delhi, Move comes after Centre’s report states city’s water unsafe Road accidents in the Capi Chennai recorded 1,260 tal are on the decline but fa deaths, Kanpur 698, Jaipur Staff Reporter tal accidents are at their 692 and Bengaluru 686 New Delhi worst compared to the last deaths, according to the The Delhi Jal Board (DJB) on fi ve years, as per data re report. Tuesday said that it will start leased by the Ministry of collecting 1,400 water sam Road Transport and High Data digest ples for testing from across ways (MoRTH). Out of the 6,515 road acci the city, after a study by the According to the Road Ac dents reported in Delhi in Bureau of Indian Standards cidents in India 2018 report, 2018, the maximum were (BIS) last week said that wa the Capital has been ranked vehicletovehicle colli ter in Delhi was the most un fi rst in the total number of sions: 3,993 incidents, or safe among 21 State capitals. road fatalities when com 61% of total accidents re The result was based on 11 pared to other Indian cities. ported. water samples taken from A total of 6,515 accidents Such collisions claimed across the city. were reported in the city 1,033 lives, in addition to in On Tuesday, the DJB also out of which 1,657 were fa juring 3,694 persons. opened its water treatment tal. A total of 1,690 people There were 2,127 (or over plant in Sonia Vihar to the died in road accidents in 32%) incidents of hitand media and explained the dif 2018 — or fi ve every day. run in which 688 people ferent processes involved in were killed and 1,820 were treating water. The offi cials Straight roads injured. A total of 1,497 road and said that the DJB’s water The number of hitandrun accidents (or close to 23% of is 100% safe. accidents and vehicleto total accidents) were vehi The DJB will deploy 32 pedestrian accidents have cletopedestrian collisions teams to take fi ve samples also increased. in which 420 people died from each ward and a third AAP MP writes to Union taken to a recycle chamber, The report further point and 1,293 were injured. party, which will be part of Minister on water quality and if it is treatable, then it is ed out that the maximum The maximum number of the process, will also test the NEW DELHI taken through the whole number of road accidents road accidents (3,688) oc water at their own facility, AAP MP Sanjay Singh wrote to treatment process again. occurred on straight roads. their lives on the streets. who lost their lives due to of accidents in 2018. While curred on straight roads. said the offi cials. Union Minister Ram Vilas “If there is any problem After a steady decline for Chennai ranked fi rst in such accidents registered a in terms of those killed in In 2017, a total of 6,673 “The Centre has nominat Paswan on Tuesday asking him with the raw water, then we three years — from 2015 to terms of the total number of fi veyear high. 2018, Delhi ranks fi rst fol accidents were recorded in ed two people for a joint in to clarify whether the report stop the production imme 2017 — last year recorded road accidents (7,580) as However, the total num lowed by Chennai Kanpur, Delhi, according to a similar spection and we will also ap stating Delhi’s water quality is diately. If at any point during the maximum number of well as the number of per ber of accidents and the Jaipur and Bengluru,” the MoRTH report released last point two offi cials... after better than European standard the treatment we feel that we is correct or the one which road accident deaths in Del sons injured in these acci number of persons injured report stated. year. There were 2,100 hit that we will hold a joint cannot treat it up to the de finds it most unsafe among 21 hi compared to other Indian dents (7,438). recorded a fi veyear low. Bengaluru recorded 4,611 andrun cases recorded in meeting to work on the de sired standards, then we major cities of India. On cities. The city recorded its In Delhi, both the total “Chennai ranks fi rst fol road accidents, Bhopal which 604 people were tails of how to conduct the September 26, Union Jal Shakti fl ow it out into the Yamuna,” highest road fatalities since number of fatal accidents lowed by Delhi, Bengaluru, 3,508 and Indore 3,434. killed and 1,611 were in sampling process,” said Di minister Gajendra Singh he added. 2014, when 1,671 people lost and the number of people Bhopal and Indore in terms In terms of the total num jured. nesh Mohaniya, vicechair Shekhawat said that Delhi’s Mr. Mohaniya said that the man of the DJB. water quality is better than treatment is done through a Mr. Mohaniya added that European standards. fourstage process. “We do two Central government offi not know from where the ‘Have drafted rules for cials would not be enough to Centre took the water for the Fake cumin factory busted conduct a joint sampling. has to pass all parameters, or study. As per the WHO, one Explaining the process, else we do not supply it.” sample should be taken for vehicle scrapping units’ DJB’s chief water analyst San Mr. Sharma said if they every 10,000 of population, in Bawana, fi ve arrested jay Sharma said, “The treat feel that the quality of the but the Centre took only 11 ed water is tested 24 times in treated water is not up to BIS samples for a city as big as Centre tells National Green Tribunal a day, once every hour, and it standards, then the water is Delhi.” Grass, stone powder, jaggery residue used to make product Staff Reporter New Delhi Staff Reporter The Ministry of Road, Tran New Delhi sport and Highways on The Delhi Police on Tues Man impersonates pilot to Tuesday informed the Na day said that a fake cumin tional Green Tribunal (NGT) manufacturing factory was that the draft guidelines for busted in Bawana and fi ve skip queues, nabbed at IGIA the setting up and operation persons have been arrested of vehiclescrapping centres in connection with the case. have been prepared and Deputy Commissioner of Police also fi nd pictures of him dressed as Army Colonel uploaded on its website for Police (Outer North) Gaurav public suggestions and Sharma said that the ac Staff Reporter sy access during the securi objections. cused have been identifi ed New Delhi ty clearance and enjoyed A Bench headed by NGT The Delhi pollution control as Harinandan, Kamran The accused in custody along with the 19,400 kg of fake A 48yearold man has been preferential treatment from Chairperson Justice Adarsh body told the NGT that it is alias Kammu, Ganga Pra cumin seized during the raid on Tuesday. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT arrested for allegedly im the security agencies and Kumar Goel was informed monitoring scrapping units sad, Harish and Pawan, all personating a pilot of Lufth airlines. “He used to get into by the Ministry that a policy in Mayapuri. * FILE PHOTO residents of Shahjahanpur samples of the fake cumin,” the operation. The other ansa Airlines to get prefe the passage, which is nor paper on the creation of an in Uttar Pradesh. Mr. Sharma said, adding four are labourers. rential treatment. Deputy mally used by the crew ecosystem for scrapping old can be renewed for another The police said they re that a case under relevant Mr. Sharma said that the Commissioner of Police (IGI members for getting into vehicles and ensuring the 10 years. ceived information on Mon sections has been lodged. accused used to procure Airport) Sanjay Bhatia said the aircraft. He wanted to transition into environ Additionally, the Delhi day about manufacturing of During interrogation, the raw material from Rajas that the accused, Rajan escape the long queues. So mentfriendly new vehicles, Pollution Control Commit fake cumin in Bawana. The accused allegedly told the than and would sell the fi n Mahbunani, is a resident of metimes he managed to get has also been circulated. tee (DPCC) submitted before information was shared police that they learned to ished product in U.P. and Vasant Kunj and runs a con Rajan Mahbunani his seat upgraded as well,” According to the draft the Bench that a special task with the Food Safety and manufacture fake cumin Rajasthan. “Now the ac sultancy fi rm. Mr. Bhatia said. Authorised Vehicle Scrap force is monitoring Mayapu Standards Authority of In from people in their cused persons were trying The police said that on search revealed an ID card It was also discovered ping Facility (AVSF) guide ri on a weekly basis to keep dia (FSSAI). A team was con hometown. to run their illegal business Monday, Chief Security Of bearing the name of Lufth that the accused was fond of lines, individuals, fi rms, so a check on any units dis stituted comprising police “The manufacturing pro here in Delhi and they had fi cer of Lufthansa Airlines ansa Airlines. It was found wearing uniforms of diff e cieties and trusts will be mantling vehicles on the men and two offi cials from cess involves a special type taken a warehouse on rent reported that one passen to be fake,” Mr. Bhatia said, rent professions and getting allowed to set up such facili roads. “The DPCC has con the food safety authority. of grass being mixed with in August,” he said. ger, wearing the uniform of adding that based on the himself snapped in diff erent ties. However, it will be sub stituted 16 teams to carry “A raid was conducted in Sheera... then stone powder The police said that the a pilot and intending to tra complaint, a case was regis poses. “There are pictures ject to meeting the requisite out night patrolling of indus Pooth Khurd and it was is mixed in and the material price of cumin in the mar vel to Kolkata by Air Asia, tered and the man was of him posing as an Army eligibility criteria and auth trial areas of Delhi to identi found that some people resembles cumin,” the offi c ket is ₹ 400 per kg but they was found suspicious. arrested. Colonel in his phone. It also orisation from the fy dumping and burning of were manufacturing fake er said. used to sell their product When he was ques During interrogation, he revealed that the passenger authorities. any type of waste, apart cumin with the help of The police said that Hari for ₹ 20 per kg. The police tioned, it was found that he allegedly told the police that had shot videos wearing dif The guidelines added from identifying industries grass, stone powder and nandan and another identi claim to have recovered was pretending to be a pilot he pretended to be a pilot ferent uniforms on the vi that the authorisation will emitting black smoke,” the sheera (jaggery residue). fi ed accused who is at large 19,400 kg of fake cumin and and was not enrolled in because he was a frequent deosharing application Tik be valid for a decade and DPCC submitted. FSSAI offi cials have taken are the masterminds behind 8,075 kg of raw material. Lufthansa Airlines. “A fl yer and wanted to gain ea Tok,” Mr. Bhatia said. Two held with Man to face trial for Amid probe into salary scam, fi re BJP alleges scam in LED heroin worth ₹ 50 crore admission fraud guts logs of Noida Home Guard streetlights procurement Party approaches CBI seeking probe Press Trust of India Had duped Class 12 student of ₹ 50,000 Scam could run into crores of rupees, says investigating offi cer New Delhi Special Correspondent ding that the tenders were Two men were arrested in Nirnimesh Kumar diff erent courses. Special Correspondent The salary muster tions of the districts over a New Delhi fl oated by the discoms to Ghaziabad <> Delhi’s Rohini on Tuesday New Delhi He fi led a complaint in a rolls were in a trunk. period of 45 days. The Delhi BJP on Tuesday procure 2.1 lakh LED lights. for allegedly smuggling he A Delhi court has directed a Metropolitan Magistrate A fi re broke out at the Dis There is no sign of “The sample suggested met the CBI director to in The Rohini MLA further roin into the city. person to face trial in a court seeking a direction to trict Commandant Home fi re on the body of that it was a big scam and form him about a “scam” in alleged that the LED lights The police said they cheating case for allegedly the Delhi Police to lodge a Guard Offi ce in Gautam other districts also opened the procurement of 2.1 lakh procured by the Delhi go the trunk. It seems have seized 14 kg of the defrauding a student of cheating case against the ac Buddh Nagar in the early similar inquiries. We regis LED streetlights by the Aam vernment through the dis drug worth over ₹ 50 crore. ₹ 50,000 on the pretext of cused. The court allowed his hours of Tuesday, allegedly somebody unlocked tered an FIR but didn’t re Aadmi Party government. coms were costlier and have The accused, Sanjeet Ku getting him admitted in the petition. After the probe, the destroying the salary muster it and burnt the veal the names as it was a AAP denied the allegation shorter warranty periods mar Singh (34) and Par Bachelor of Ayurveda Medi city police chargesheeted rolls of the Home Guard. records up to 2014... matter of investigation.” Mr. and accused the BJP of “run than those available in the deep Kumar Yadav (24), cine and Surgery (BAMS) the man under Section 420 On November 13, the Noi the incident will Jaiswal said the home guards ning a factory of lies”. open market. both residents of Uttar Pra course in an Ayurveda Medi (cheating). Later, the court da police had unearthed a limit our knowledge were paid on a daily basis. The BJP delegation, led In response to the accusa desh, were arrested in Ro cal college in Karnataka. added the charge of forgery salary scam allegedly run of when the scam “Their salaries are calcu by Leader of Opposition in tions, AAP chief spokesper hini’s Sector24. They used According to the complai for the purpose of cheating, ning into crores in the Home started and total lated by higher offi cials of the Delhi Assembly Vijender son Saurabh Bhardwaj said: to get heroin from a woman nant, the accused had taken and put him on trial after Guard department. amount swindled the unit but are counter Gupta, demanded a probe “The BJP has started a facto in Manipur, they added. ₹ 25,000 in cash from him framing the two charges Noida SSP Vaibhav Krish Vineet Jaiswal signed by the Station House into the alleged scam which, ry of lies. In the last 4.5 “We got a tipoff that two for admission in the college. The accused, through a na said it seemed like a cri SP (City) Noida Offi cer. In this case, the sig it claimed, was to the tune years, they have fi led two persons will come to Rohi But the man failed to fulfi l revision petition, challenged minal act as only the salary natures and stamps were of ₹ 100 crore. dozen cases against the Del ni with heroin to smuggle it the promise, saying that the the framing of charges in the papers were destroyed in the case, told The Hindu that found to be forged,” he said. Mr. Gupta said that BJP hi government, with the CBI in the national capital,” student could not get admis court of Additional Sessions the room. “An FIR has been the lock was broken in the He added that the fi re MLAs met CBI Director, and the AntiCorruption said Sanjeev Kumar Yadav, sion as his marks in Class 12 Judge Pooran Chand on the lodged and a probe has been Surajpur offi ce of District would not impact the out Rishi Kumar Shukla at his of Branch. Despite the fact that Deputy Commissioner of was less than required for it. ground that the trial court launched to fi nd the cause of Commandant Home Guard. come too much as the inves fi ce and submitted a memo the BJPruled Centre con Police (Special Cell). The accused cheated him did not take into account all the fi re,” he said. “The records were in a tigation offi cer had acquired randum regarding the trols these agencies, noth A trap was laid and the of ₹ 25,000 a second time on the material annexed with The scam is related to trunk. There is no sign of fi re salary documents of the last “scam” in procurement of ing has been found.” accused were arrested the pretext of arranging a the chargesheet while fram fraudulent withdrawal of sal on the body of the trunk. It year a couple of days back. LED streetlights. Mr. Bhardwaj added that around 7 a.m. forged Class 12 marksheet. ing the charges. aries of several home guards seems somebody unlocked “It would only limit our “The Delhi government the discoms were merely ex During the search, two Thereafter, the complai Dismissing the petition, in the district who reported it and burnt the salary mus knowledge of when it all did not entrust the work to ecuting agencies that invited parcels, each containing 7 nant got suspicious and de the Judge said: “Prima facie on duty only 15 to 20 days in ter roll up to 2014.” started and the amount the municipal corporations tenders from the open mar kg of heroin, were reco manded his money back but material exists against the a month. An FIR was regis swindled,” he said. whose mandate is to instal ket. The streetlights being vered from their back the accused refused. accused persons for framing tered against unnamed offi Full salary withdrawn Uttar Pradesh Chief Minis streetlights. It [the govern installed are LED lights and packs, the DCP said, adding Later, the complainant of charges under aforemen cials for fraudulent withdra Mr. Jaiswal had unearthed ter Yogi Adityanath took se ment] arbitrarily chose to they are far more economi that the woman allegedly came to know that the ac tioned sections. I fi nd no wal of salaries of the the scam when he found a rious note of the incident outsource the tendering cal than those being in procures the drugs from cused had cheated many material irregularity or ille personnel. discrepancy of ₹ 7.5 lakh in and directed the district offi process to the power dis stalled by the BJPruled Nepal, Myanmar and Ban students on the pretext of gality in the impugned or Vineet Jaiswal, SP (City) the salaries of home guards cials to take prompt action coms, which are private municipal corporations in gladesh. getting them admission in der” Noida, who is investigating posted in seven police sta and arrest the culprits. players,” Mr. Gupta said, ad the city, he added.
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DELHI Timings Wednesday, Nov. 20 Six peahens RISE 06:47 SET 17:26 Protest against ‘Muslim’ Google removes ‘anti-India’ RISE 00:00 SET 13:24 found dead Thursday, Nov. 21 RISE 06:48 SET 17:26 in Bijnor RISE 00:52 SET 14:04 faculty continues in BHU mobile app from Play Store Friday, Nov. 22 Special Correspondent RISE 06:49 SET 17:26 Ghaziabad RISE 01:56 SET 14:43 Appointment as per norm, clarifi cation not needed: varsity IT giant takes action on request from Punjab Chief Minister Six peahens have died in a village in Bijnor. Four were Special Correspondent guage, but not over SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Lab, Punjab, it was found found dead and four others LUCKNOW religion”. CHANDIGARH that the data of voters regis were recovered in an un Protests against the appoint Umakant Chaturvedi, the Days after Punjab Chief Mi tered through the app was conscious state from a fi eld ment of a “Muslim” assistant head of department, said nister Amarinder Singh also linked and stored in in Shadipur village on Mon professor in the Sanskrit Fa the deadlock was still on and asked Google to remove an the web server of the web day, district forest offi cials culty of Banaras Hindu Un classes were not being held antiIndia mobile applica site, namely www.yes2Khal said. iversity continued on Tues in the department. tion — ‘2020 Sikh Referen istan.org, created and han “Two more died on day, 12 days after it began. Amid speculation that the dum’ — from its play store, dled by ‘Sikhs For Justice’ Tuesday during treat The university, however, administration held another the mobile app has been re (SFJ), an outfi t banned by ment,” M. Semmaran, Divi reiterated that the appoint meeting to convince the stu moved, said a government India. sional Forest Offi cer, told ment was made as per dents to drop the protests statement on Tuesday. The Hindu. norms and there was no The BHU campus and resume classes, BHU A press release from Pun Notice to Google He said two doves and a need for further spokesperson Rajesh Singh jab Chief Minister’s offi ce “Based on these fi ndings, partridge were also found clarifi cation. The students have been clarifi ed there was no such said that the app was not Punjab Chief Minister the Cyber Crime Centre of dead in the same fi eld. Mr The students opposed to demanding that Mr. Khan be discussion by the ViceChan available any more on Goo Amarinder Singh the Bureau of Investigation, Semmaran, who is a vete the appointment of Assis transferred to another facul cellor on Tuesday. gle play store for mobile us Punjab, had moved to get rinary doctor as well, said tant Professor Firoz Khan in ty. “Once appointment is ers in India. Notably, the app invited the app removed from the the cause of the deaths IN BRIEF the Sahitya (Literature) De made as per rules, we have general public to register Google play store and the were not clear yet. ‘False’ dope tests: probe partment of the Sanskrit Vi ‘Dharma yudh’ taken a stand, [there is] no Centre alerted themselves to vote in the website blocked for usage ordered against hospital dya Dharm Vigyan of the “The dharma yudh (holy use to reiterate it,” the spo The Chief Minister, who “Punjab Referndum 2020 in India. Wild berries AMRITSAR central university staged a war) goes on,” posted Shub kesperson said. had also urged the Central Khalistan”. On November 8, 2019, a He said around 100 wild The Deputy Commissioner of sitin and recited the Hanu ham Tiwary, one of the stu However, asked about Mr. government to persuade notice under Section 79 (3) red berries were found Punjab’s Tarn Taran district man Chalisa. dents leading the protest, on Khan not being able to dis Google in the matter, had Data stored B of Information Technolo stuff ed in the digestive on Tuesday constituted a They argued that Mr. Facebook. charge his duties as a teach asked the State Director The statement said that gy Act was sent to the Goo tract of peahens along with team to probe against a civil Khan may be eligible to While he was not reacha er, Mr. Singh said: “He has General of Police to coordi during analysis of the said gle Legal Cell for immediate a few wheat grains. hospital that is accused of teach the Sanskrit ‘language’ ble on phone, in another Fa offi cially joined and is get nate with central security application and an associat removal of the mobile ap Mr. Semmaran didn’t falsely clearing over a dozen but not the Sanskrit ‘vidya cebook post Mr. Tiwary, a ting his salary.” agencies to tackle the threat ed website in the Digital In plication from the Google rule out pesticides that police personnel in dope dharma’, primarily due to Ph.D scholar, said: “Eve Mr. Khan did not respond resulting from the launch of vestigation Training and Play Store,” said the state farmers spray on crops for tests, officials said. PTI his religious identity. ryone has rights over a lan to phone calls. the app. Analysis Centre (DITAC) ment. the deaths.
16 farmers held Savarkar photo found defaced in BHU for stubble Incident took place in Political Science Department; varsity orders probe burning in U.P. Omar Rashid <> Incident was a ters, drawing a parallel with splashed the photograph LUCKNOW minor one, but not the defacing of the statue of with ink, causing discontent Press trust of india Mathura Banaras Hindu University an ordinary one Swami Vivekananda at Jawa among the students. on Tuesday constituted a from the national harlal Nehru University. Mr. Upadhyay said the in Sixteen farmers have been probe after a photograph of “We fully oppose this,” he cident was a minor one but arrested for allegedly burn perspective Vinayak Damodar Savarkar said and demanded that “not an ordinary one from ing stubble and two lekh Ashok Upadhyay placed in a classroom was Head of the Dept., Political Science CCTVs be installed in all the national perspective”. pals suspended for derelic found to be defaced. classrooms and the mis tion of duty in Uttar The incident took place M.A.(fi nal) and reported it creant be arrested. Three-member panel Pradesh’s Mathura district, in the Political Science De to the administration. Fol The department said it A threemember committee offi cials said on Tuesday. partment of the central lowing this, angry students replaced the defaced photo was formed by the Dean of District Magistrate Sar university. sat on a dharna and submit graph with a new one. The the department to probe vagya Ram Mishra said a On Tuesday morning, ted a memorandum de photographs of other na the matter, he said. total fi ne of ₹ 13.05 lakh is students discovered the de manding action against the tional icons also adorn the “We will try to fi nd out being realized from the faced photograph of Savar culprit(s). walls of the department. about the culprits, report guilty farmers. He also said kar lying on the ground in There is a “nexus at Ashok Upadhyay, depart and punish them,” said Mr. 300 cases of stubble burn Lecture Room No. 103, of work,” a student told repor ment head, said somebody Upadhyay. ing have been detected.
Akali leader shot dead in Gurdaspur
Press trust of india Batala (Punjab) A local Shiromani Akali Dal leader was allegedly shot dead and his legs were chopped off following an altercation with his neigh bour in Punjab’s Gurdas pur district, police said on Tuesday. Batala Senior Superin tendent of Police Opinder jit Singh Ghuman ruled out any political motive behind the killing of Dalbir Singh Dhilwan, 51, who was the vicepresident of the Gur daspur unit of the SAD and also a twotime village head. The incident occurred at Dhilwan village in Dera Ba ba Nanak area on Monday. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
THE HINDU DELHI WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2019 WEST 7 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Tiger on prowl BJP’s Mohol all set to be in MIHAN: Prolonged rains help tackle drought forest offi cials Survey predicts dip in number of villages facing water scarcity in 2020 elected next Pune Mayor Press Trust of India Alok Deshpande duct of a survey from almost Nagpur Mumbai every village in the State,” Party has 97 corporators in the 162-seat PMC An adult tiger has been While the prolonged rains in said Kaustubh Diwegaonkar, spotted in Multimodal In Maharashtra have led to des Director, GSDA. He added Shoumojit Banerjee segment. ternational Cargo Hub and truction of crops in many that the survey will help plan Pune The Kothrud seat is consi Airport at Nagpur (MIHAN) parts of the State, it has also and prepare for drought mi The Bharatiya Janata Party’s dered a BJP bastion and was in Maharashtra, forest offi given authorities a breather tigation methods. (BJP) Murlidhar Mohol is set a ‘safe’ constituency for the cials said on Tuesday. in tackling drought. “We will be updating the to become the next Mayor of BJP State chief, whose pres The forest department According to the drought report after incorporating Pune. Election for the top tige was at stake in the elec had installed several came prediction survey 201920, latest reports following the civic post is scheduled to be toral contest. According to ras traps in MIHAN on Sa prepared by the Groundwa total withdrawal of rains by held on November 22. sources, Mr. Mohol, a three turday after they got infor ter Surveys and Develop January,” he added. Though the CongressNa time corporator is being mation about a tiger ment Agency (GSDA) of the Considering the geogra tionalist Congress Party compensated for his part in sighting near the Infosys State government, around phy of Maharashtra, 28% (NCP) alliance has fi elded ensuring Mr. Patil’s victory campus road here. 689 villages in 14 tehsils of area is a highly dissected pla Prakash Kadam, the contest in the Assembly polls. Authorities have alerted the State could face water teau, which includes Kon is expected to be completely In a related development, workers and people living scarcity in 2020. Of these kan, western ghats and other onesided as the BJP has an Murlidhar Mohol the NCP's Surmanjiri Latkar in villages in and around 359 villages may face the hilly regions. At least 44% overwhelming majority of was on Tuesday elected as MIHAN about the presence problem from January while area is moderately dissected 97 corporators in the 162 sail through. the 49th Mayor of the Kolha of the big cat. the rest from April 2020. The plateau with medium water seat Pune Municipal Corpo Mr. Mohol had played a vi pur Municipal Corporation The tiger’s presence was survey was released in the seepage capacity. The rest of ration (PMC). tal role in engineering the (KMC). confi rmed after the inspec fi rst week of November and the 28% area is undissected Current Mayor Mukta Ti victory of BJP State unit pre Ms. Latkar trounced Bha tion of camera traps in the is available online. levels were measured till Oc 700 mm rainfall. The rest of plateau and/or valley fi ll lak’s tenure ends on Novem sident Chandrakant Patil gyashree Shetke, fi elded by area, deputy conservator As per the survey, the vil toberend. the State falls in the less than where groundwater availa ber 21. Ms. Tilak was fi elded from the hotlycontested the BJP and the Tararani of forests (Nagpur) Prabhu lages which might face water According to the survey, 700 mm rainfall category. bility is higher. by the BJP from the Kasba Kothrud Assembly segment Front, by securing 43 votes nath Shukla said. scarcity in 2020 are in Latur, entire Konkan region includ “Earlier, the prediction In addition, 82% of the Assembly segment and won in the recentlyconcluded against Ms. Shetke’s 32. “Forest offi cials and MI Osmanabad, Solapur, Parb ing Mumbai, Kolhapur, was broadly based on merely State consists of balsamic an emphatic victory there. Assembly polls. All four corporators from HAN authorities have ta hani, Yavatmal, Amaravati Bhandara, Gondia, and Gad 32,00 observation wells. But rock which has the capacity Given the changing politi Prior to the Assembly the Shiv Sena remained ab ken necessary steps to and Chandrapur districts. chiroli fall in the region considering the size of the to store merely 1 to 3% water. cal equations in the State fol polls, the party had dropped sent during the voting. avoid any untoward inci The GSDA survey for 2018 which received more than State, we decided to set up Metamorphic rock covers lowing the Assembly polls, its sitting Kothrud MLA, The NCPCongress coali dent,” Mr. Shukla said. 19 had estimated that 11,487 1200 mm rainfall while 32,769 wells this time. These 10% region which too does even if the Shiv Sena, the Medha Kulkarni to make tion is in power in the 81 Several tech companies villages from 167 tehsils Pune, Satara, Nasik, Nandur were geotagged with Maha not hold water. Of the re NCP and the Congress join way for Mr. Patil, who was member KMC. An internal including Tata Consultan would face water scarcity bar, Latur, Parbhani, Hingo rashtra Remote Sensing Ap maining 8%, around 5.5% is hands in the PMC Mayoral perceived as an ‘outsider’ on powersharing arrangement cy Services, Infosys, HCL, due to rainfall defi cit. For li, Nanded, Amaravati, Wash plication Centre. The gram sedimentary rock while rest election to replicate the ‘Ma account of his hailing from between the Congress and Dassault Reliance Aeros this year’s survey, the GSDA im, Yavatmal, Nagpur, panchayat and jal suraksh is alluvium where water stor hashiv Aghadi’, the BJP’s su Kolhapur. Mr. Mohol, too, the NCP necessitates a pace Ltd (DRAL) etc. have had set up 32,769 observa Wardha and Chandrapur re aks were given training. As a age is considerably good, perior numbers will be was an aspirant for the can mayoral election every 18 their campuses in the area. tion wells where the water ceieve around 1200 mm to result, this report is a pro around 5 to 10%. enough for it’s candidate to didature of the Kolhapur months.
CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC ‘Report sought on Navy craft crash’ Let the show begin Two warkaris killed, 15 hurt Press Trust of India Pramod Sawant said. Panaji Mr. Sawant told reporters The Goa government has he sought a report after pre in road mishap near Pune sought a detailed report liminary reports claimed from its district administra the crash was due to bird th tion and the Indian Navy on menace around the airport. Descendant of the 14 century Saint Namdev among the dead the cause of Saturday’s Both pilots of the twin crash of a MIG29K trainer seater aircraft had ejected Special Correspondent Pune of the machine allegedly Noble Hospital. aircraft here, Chief Minister safely. failed, causing it to crash in Off ering his condolenc Two warkaris were killed to the group of warkaris es, Bharatiya Janata Party and 15 injured after a JCB near Dive ghat. (BJP) State chief Chandra earthmover mowed down a The driver was later ar kant Patil, after a visit to the group of pilgrims at Dive rested under section 304 hospital, said the party ghat near Saswad, 25 km (2) (culpable homicide not would bear the expenses of from Pune city. amounting to murder) of those undergoing treat The deceased included the Indian Penal Code ment from a special party Sopan Namdas (35), said to (IPC), a police offi cial said. relief fund. be the 17 th descendant of “Despite the frequency “The BJP has formed a the 14th century Saint Nam of such accidents, police special relief trust from dev (a signifi cant fi gure in have not provided us with which they will give ₹ 5 lakh the Bhakti movement) and adequate protection. We re compensation to the kin of his disciple, Atul Alashi quest that the authorities the deceased and bear the (23). take serious note of this medical expenses of those Last-minute preparations in full swing in Panaji on Tuesday at the venue of the golden jubilee The warkaris had set out during the wari (the annual under treatment. A persis edition of the International Film Festival of India, which begins on Wednesday. * PTI from the temple town of pilgrimage to the shrine of tent refrain from the warka CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Pandharpur carrying a pa Lord Vithoba in Pandhar ri fraternity is that they lanquin bearing footprints pur),” said a pilgrim. ought to have adequate pol of the poetsaint Namdev, The injured were rushed ice protection. We will work ‘Fee hike shouldn’t hit poor students’ and were heading towards to Noble multi speciality on this immediately once a the holy city of Alandi when hospital in Hadapsar. government is in place,” Press Trust of India should be resolved plicable to those who are the tragedy occurred. A pall “Two warkaris were said Mr. Patil. Nagpur amicably. capable of paying them. The of gloom descended among brought dead while two District Collector Naval Biharbased Anand Kumar, Students have been prot rich and those who have no the pilgrims with the pass others, one of whom suf Kishore Ram, who also vi founder of the famed Super esting for nearly three dearth of money should pay ing away of Sopan Namdas. fered head injuries, have sited the hospital, said a 30 facility which prepares weeks over the draft hostel the (hiked) fees,” Kumar According to police auth been admitted to the ICU proposal to provide fi nan underprivileged children to manual, which proposes said. “The authorities, stu orities, the driver of the JCB and are critical. The others cial aid for the deceased crack the IIT entrance ex hostel fee hike, dress code dents should sit together machine, which was head suff ered minor injuries and and injured is being for ams, said here on Tuesday and curfew timings. and reach a solution,” he ing to Pune from Saswad, will be discharged soon,” warded to the State admi that the JNU fee hike protest “I feel fees should be ap added. lost control after the brakes said Dr. H.K. Sale, Director, nistration. Javadekar writes to Goa CM on project on Mahadayi
Press Trust of India Panaji The Union Environment, Forest and Climate Change ministry has written to Goa Chief Mi nister Pramod Sawant stating it would form a committee to look into the decision to ex clude Karnataka’s KalasaBanduri project on Mahadayi river from the need for environ mental clearance. The letter, dated November 18, was in res ponse to a memorandum submitted on No vember 4 by an allparty Goa delegation led by Mr. Sawant, offi cials said here on Tuesday. Goa recently protested over a reported Central nod to Karnataka to go ahead with the KalasaBanduri project which aims at provid ing drinking water to three north Karnataka districts by diverting Mahadayi water. Union minister Prakash Javadekar’s letter to Mr. Sawant says, “regarding the Kalasa Banduri project, it is informed through your memorandum that the proposal submitted to the ministry is more than a drinking water project and thus requires to be reviewed in detail by the ministry”. “In this connection, a committee is being constituted to look into the issues raised in detail,” the letter added. Mr. Sawant said, “The minister has taken due cognisance of the representation submit ted by our all party delegation and has consti tuted a committee to examine the issue.” He said he was confi dent the committee will safeguard Goa’s interest with a favourable decision. Mr. Sawant had led an all party dele gation from Goa on November 4 asking Mr. Ja vadekar to withdraw his ministry’s letter to Karnataka on excluding the need for environ ment clearance for KalasaBanduri project. Earlier on Monday, Mr. Sawant had asked people to have patience on the dispute with neighbouring Karnataka over the sharing of Mahadayi river waters. CM YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
DELHI THE HINDU 8 SOUTH WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2019 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF 12-year-old girl stopped from Maoist held in Coimbatore going to Sabarimala temple associated with armed wing An explosives expert, he was active in Chhattisgarh till 2012 Kerala police stop her at Pampa after examining her Aadhaar card Wilson Thomas Press Trust of India Coimbatore Sabarimala HC allows Cong. MLA Tanveer Sait Maoist Deepak, arrested by out of danger, say doctors A 12yearold girl from Pudu light vehicles the Special Task Force (STF) MYSURU cherry, who had come with from Coimbatore earlier this Former Minister and her father for darshan at the month, was associated with Congress MLA Tanveer Sait Lord Ayyappa temple here, till Pampa battalion1, one of the most was declared out of danger was not allowed to proceed dreaded armed units of the on Tuesday after doctors from Pampa on Tuesday Special Correspondent People’s Liberation Guerrilla found significant morning. Kochi Army (PLGA), according to improvement in his medical The age of the girl had A Division Bench of the Chhattisgarh police. condition. Mr. Sait was been shown as 10 in the ‘Vir Kerala High Court on Tues Shalabh Sinha, Superin hospitalised after an assailant tual Q’ booking. Women pol day allowed private light tendent of Police, Sukma, stabbed him at a wedding ice examined her Aadhaar motor vehicles (LMVs), in told The Hindu over phone ceremony in Mysuru on card and found that she was cluding ones with 15 sea that Deepak was part of bat A fi le photo of the Special Task Force personnel taking Sunday. 12 years old and refused to Police personnel examining the Aadhaar card of a 12yearold ters carrying Sabarimala talion1 of PLGA, the military Deepak for medical examination. * S. SIVA SARAVANAN allow her to proceed further, girl, who had come to off er prayers at Sabarimala. * PTI pilgrims, to Pampa and component of the CPI Walayar case: Congress the police said. back. The Bench of Justice (Maoist), and he was active seeks Shah’s intervention After those accompanying thus far and would have dar preme Court’s verdict allow C.T. Ravikumar and Justice in Chhattisgarh till 2012. CPI(M) leader Mohanan’s NEW DELHI the child were informed shan of Lord Ayyappa again ing women of all age groups N. Nagaresh also made it According to Chhattisgarh In a surprise move, the about the current situation only after she was 50. to off er prayers at the shrine. clear that these vehicles police, Deepak, as he is Congress has sought the in Sabarimala, her father The Pampa base camp is However, the government is should not be allowed to called within the party, had comments trigger a row intervention of Union Home and other relatives proceed at the foothills of Sabarima exercising caution this year, park on the roadside bet been with the battalion1 in Minister Amit Shah to initiate ed to the temple. la, about 5 km from the even though the top court ween Pampa and Nilackal. Bastar, one of the most Special Correspondent ruling party of trying to a CBI probe into the death of shrine. The Lord Ayyappa has not stayed its verdict The court ordered the Maoistaff ected areas in the Kozhikode save itself when its two sisters at Walayar, in ‘Ready to wait’ temple opened on Novem while posting various peti vehicles to drop the pas country. A statement made by members have been which the accused were being A nineyearold girl from Ker ber 16 evening for the two tions on the matter to a larg sengers at Pampa and re He is an expert in making Communist Party of India booked for Maoist links. allegedly shielded by the (Marxist) Kozhikode district The Popular Front of India CPI(M)led LDF government. ala, who came to the temple month long MandalaMaka er bench. turn to Nilackal for park explosives and has also secretary P. Mohanan that said the CPI(M) was echoing Congress MP Kodikummil complex from Karnataka on ravillakku pilgrimage Devaswom Minister Kada ing. The order came on a worked with the communi Muslim extremist outfi ts are the antiMuslim posture of Suresh raised the issue during Monday, had a placard season. kampally Surendran has petition fi led by P. Prasan cation wing of the central zero hour in the Lok Sabha. around her neck that said The State and temple pre made it clear that Sabarima nakumar. The government military committee (CMC), off ering help to Maoists has the Sangh Parivar. The case relates to the “Ready to wait. Will visit the cincts had witnessed prot la was not a place for acti had imposed restrictions the military governing body triggered a political storm P. Abdul Hammed, SDPI mysterious death and sexual shrine after attaining 50 ests by right wing outfi ts and vists, and said the govern on the entry of vehicles to of the CPI (Maoist) which is in Kerala with the Indian State general secretary, said exploitation of two minor years.” Hailing from Thris BJP workers last year after ment would not encourage Pampa last year following responsible for conducting Union Muslim League and the statements only paved Dalit siblings at Walayar in sur, Hridyakrishnan said she the LDF government decid women who wanted to visit the devastation and dam guerrilla attacks and for buy the Social Democratic Party the way for strengthening Palakad in 2017. IANS had visited the shrine thrice ed to implement the Su the shrine for publicity. age due to the fl oods. ing and supplying arms. of India (SDPI) accusing the Hindutva apologists. Mr. Sinha had earlier con DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD fi rmed that Deepak had a was a central committee for fi ve days. Bhavani B. Mo role in the April 6, 2010 am member of the PLGA. han, who appeared for him RTC panel awaits HC bush on Central Reserve Pol Meanwhile, a special on behalf of the Centre for PAC asks Karnataka govt. to put ice Force in which 76 men court in Jagdalpur in Chhat Protection of Civil RightsTa were killed in Chintalnar vil tisgarh issued a warrant mil Nadu, argued that there order, to continue strike lage. As per the records with against him on November 15 could be a threat to the life a stop to all turf club activities the Chhattisgarh police, in a case registered under of the accused in police cus Syed Mohammed have taken everybody’s Deepak’s original name is Sections of the Arms Act and tody. Special Correspondent from December 2. tions taken to the committee HYDERABAD views. The strike will conti Ramlu Korsa, and he hails the Unlawful Activities (Pre Though the court had is Bengaluru It also directed the go in the fi rst week of The TSRTC Joint Action nue till we receive the High from Mankeli village of Bija vention) Act at Bhejji police sued an order on Tuesday With nonrenewal of land vernment to recover pend December. Committee on Tuesday said Court order. Then we will sit pur district in Chhattisgarh. station in 2012. The warrant directing the authorities of lease agreement with the ing rentals amounting to The PAC held delibera that the workers’ strike with our advocate and dis Aged 32, he was also asso directs the police to produce Coimbatore Central Prison Karnataka government for ₹ 32.86 crore before Novem tions on the BTC, located on would continue till they ob cuss it. We are expecting to ciated with the Dandakara him before the court on No and the Coimbatore Medical the last one decade, the Pu ber 30. 83.14 acres in the central bu tain clarity on Telangana receive the order copy on nya Special Zonal Commit vember 26. College Hospital to permit blic Accounts Committee A 15member PAC headed siness district in Bengaluru, High Court’s orders on a Wednesday. The central tee (DKSZC) of the CPI Mr. Mohan and two others to (PAC) of the Assembly on by Congress MLA H.K. Patil and directed Rajneesh batch of petitions seeking committee has decided to (Maoist), according to Police plea dismissed meet Deepak, the police and Tuesday directed the State has directed the Law Secre Goyal, Additional Chief Se declaration of the strike ille abide by the JAC’s decision.” Chhattisgarh police. When On Tuesday, the Principal the hospital did not allow to take steps for the closure tary to take all steps to settle cretary of the PWD, to take gal. Sources at the meeting picked up by the STF men Sessions and District Court, them. On Tuesday evening, of all activities, including a legal dispute regarding the steps to recover the pending Speaking to the media, said that the opinion among from a forest near Anaikatti Coimbatore, dismissed the he was discharged from racing, of the Bangalore Turf BTC in the Supreme Court rental from 201011 to 2017 TSRTC JAC convener E. Ash workers on continuing the in Coimbatore on November petition fi led by the district CMCH after treatment for in Club (BTC) in Bengaluru and submit a report on ac 18, before November 30. wathama Reddy said, “We strike was divided. 9, he had claimed that he police seeking his custody juries and shifted to prison.
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Special Correspondent As he was about to light a Special Correspondent KARIMNAGAR matchbox, revenue offi cials Thiruvananthapuram Even as the people of Telan overpowered him and con The Kerala Assembly on gana are yet to recover from fi ned him in a room and Tuesday adopted a resolu the shocking incident of Ab alerted the police. tion condemning the Union dullapurmet Tahsildar Vi The police took him into government’s move to priva jaya Reddy being burnt alive custody and said they would tise Bharat Petroleum Cor by a villager, an aggrieved register a criminal case and poration Limited (BPCL). farmer doused petrol on the remand him to judicial cus Chief Minister Pinarayi offi ce furniture, computers tody. Vijayan pointed out that the and on some of the em The revenue offi cials said Centre had put up the refi n ployees of Chigirumamidi that there was no delay on ery in Kochi, a BPCL asset, Tahsildar offi ce in Karimna their part for the redressal also for disinvestment. He Pinarayi Vijayan gar district on Tuesday. of his grievance. slammed the Bharatiya Jana Sources said Kanakaiah There was a land dispute ta Partyled Central govern vernment had compro from Lambadipalli village of between the brothers and ment for pushing ahead mised the country’s energy Chigurumamidi mandal had there was no role of revenue with a policy of privatisation security by selling critical been visiting the tahsildar offi cials in it, the offi cials that allowed corporates to sectors to private profi teers. offi ce for the last two years maintained. gobble up profi tmaking pu The State had invested appealing to the revenue of Commissioner V.B. Ka blic sector assets. The BPCL heavily in Kochi refi nery. It fi cials to look into a land dis malasan Reddy warned that had registered profi ts since had planned a largescale pute. people involved in the as its inception. petrochemical plant there Disturbed over the undue sault of revenue or any go at a cost of ₹ 25,000 crore. delay in solving his pro vernment offi cials and ob ‘Security compromised’ Moreover, the fi rm owed blem, the farmer arrived at structing their duties would The move would imperil the Kerala ₹ 1,500 crore in loan. the tahsildar offi ce with a be dealt with fi rmly. Any at future of 30,000 em The State urged the Centre petrol bottle and doused the tack on revenue and govern Students learning selfdefence techniques as a part of ‘Mission Sahasi’ (making of the fearless) to mark the birth anniversary of ployees. It would deprive to withdraw its disinvest same on the offi ce compu ment offi cials would not be Lakshmibai, the Rani of Jhansi, in Visakhapatnam on Tuesday. * C.V. SUBRAHMANYAM households of subsidised ment plan in public and na ter, fi les and on some staff . tolerated, he said. CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC cooking gas. The Modi go tional security interests. Clear look at solar eclipse in Cheruvathur ‘Srisailam dam needs maintenance’ Kasaragod site will have fi rst view of the Dec. 26 phenomenon in India Foundation in peril if plunging pool erodes towards dam, says Rajendra Singh
C .P. Sajit G. Venkataramana Rao ding that infrastructure was KASARAGOD Vijayawada being developed but there The people of Kasaragod dis ‘Waterman of India’ and was no proper maintenance trict will have a rare oppor Magsaysay Award winner Ra of it. tunity to witness the Decem jendra Singh has said the Sri Jalbiradiri national con ber 26 solar eclipse fi rst in all sailam Dam needs repair and vener and environmental ac of India. Cheruvathur here is maintenance works tivist Bolisetty Satyanaraya one of the three places in the urgently. na said that considering the world where the eclipse will Following up on a report fi nancial position of Andhra be most clearly seen. on the damage caused to the Pradesh, the Union govern District Collector Sajith dam, its downstream apron ment should ensure that the Babu said the district admi and plunging pool by the Central Water Commission nistration would make ar several fl oods that have bat included the protecting of rangements for the public to tered it in recent times, Mr. Rajendra Singh at the Srisailam Dam along with dam SE plunge pool works under the watch the eclipse from Ka Singh visited the reservoir Chandrasekhara Rao on Tuesday. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT World Bank’s Dam Rehabili dakkottu in Cheruvathur. and interacted with opera tation and Improvement The partial eclipse will be tions and maintenance the dam would be in danger ded. Mr. Singh said he was Project (DRIP) II. gin at 8.04 a.m. At 9.24 a.m., offi cials. if the plunging pool eroded told that around ₹ 60 crore The extended parts of the the annular phase will begin Speaking to The Hindu ov towards the dam. was needed to take up works dam’s plunge pool should be and the full eclipse would be for this kind of solar eclipse. ly in front of the sun there logical positioning, Cheru er telephone from atop the Mr. Singh said more men to prevent the “expansion” fi lled with M50 concrete, Mr. visible by then. This is a rare event that can and the “ring of fi re” will not vathur will be the fi rst place dam, Mr. Singh said the Su and money were needed for of the plunging pool both to Satyanarayana said. The out The annular solar eclipse be seen only along a relative be visible. Partial eclipses in India where it will be very perintending Engineer had the maintenance of the Sri ward and away from the come of the underwater stu will be fully visible in Cheru ly narrow strip on the earth’s will be seen from Mangaluru visible,” said Sachin Bamba told him that the plunging sailam dam, on which the dam. dy made by National Insti vathur. Observers will be surface. The eclipse is also to Beypore. “The eclipse will of Space India, which works pool was growing and there lives of lakhs of people de Several dams in the coun tute of Oceanography is able to experience the “ring visible in other areas, but the start in Qatar in the UAE, in the fi eld of astronomy was a need to arrest its pended. Top priority should try were poorly maintained, expected in a couple of of fi re” that is characteristic moon will not move central and in Oman. Due to its geo education. growth. The foundation of be given to the issue, he ad Mr. Singh pointed out, ad weeks.
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Weather Watch IN BRIEF Rainfall, temperature & air quality in select metros yesterday ‘53 road crashes, 17 deaths per hour in 2018’ Overspeeding is a major killer, followed by driving on the wrong side, says annual government report
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT based World Road Federa topped the country in terms New Delhi tion’s World Road Statistics of the total number of road More than 1.5 lakh people 2018. It’s followed by China crashes, followed by Madhya Police force to be lost their lives in road crash (63,000 deaths) and the U.S. Pradesh (11%) and Uttar Pra modernised: Minister es in the country in 2018, re (37,000 deaths). desh (9.1%). The highest road CHANDIGARH gistering an increase of 2.4% The annual report also re fatalities were observed In The Haryana Police will be as compared to the year be veals that of the total people Uttar Pradesh (22,256), fol modernised to effectively fore, when there were 1.47 killed in road crash deaths in lowed by Maharashtra tackle the menace of drugs, lakh fatalities. 2018, 48% were between 18 (13,261) and Tamil Nadu trafficking and other criminal The Ministry of Road years and 35 years old. Mi (12,216). activities, State Home Transport and Highways re nors involved in road crash Minister Anil Vij said on leased the annual report on deaths were at 6.6% of the to ‘Urgently implement’ Tuesday. He was launching road accidents in India on tal deaths. Commenting on the report, ‘Operation Prahar’ against Tuesday, which shows a dai Piyush Tewari, CEO and drug abuse in the State. ly average of 1,280 road Overspeeding founder, SaveLIFE Founda ED attaches assets in crashes and 415 deaths. This Overspeeding is a major kill tion, said, “A lot of States NH-74 corruption case Temperature Data: IMD, Pollution Data: CPCB, Map: INSAT/IMD (Taken at 18.00 Hrs) translates into 53 crashes er, accounting for 64.4% of that have opposed the imple NEW DELHI Forecast for Wednesday: Heavy to very heavy rain likely at isol and the loss of 17 lives every the persons killed. This cate mentation of the Motor Vehi The Enforcement Directorate ated places Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Karaikal. hour. Road traffi c injuries gory was followed by driving of the persons killed. the country last year were cles Amendment Act are has provisionally attached 36 city rain max min city rain max min constitute the eighth leading on the wrong side of the Not wearing helmets and caused due to “nonwearing amongst the States with the immovable properties and Agartala...... —....29.4....18.4 Kozhikode...... 21.2....33.4....25.0 cause of deaths in India in road, which accounted for seat belts are not causes of of helmets”. “Nonwearing highest road crash fatalities. Ahmedabad...... —....31.6....16.2 Kurnool ...... —....33.4....24.6 cash deposits in 11 bank Aizawl...... 99.0...... —...... — Lucknow...... —....27.3....14.0 2018. 5.8% of the accident related crashes, but are critical for of seat belts” was linked to The data highlights the ur accounts in connection with Allahabad...... —....31.4....14.6 Madurai...... —....34.0....24.0 India is the most unsafe deaths. Use of mobile avoiding grievous injuries 24,435 deaths or 16.1% of to gent need on part of the the alleged ₹ 215crore Bengaluru ...... —....29.4....19.8 Mangaluru ...... —....36.7....24.6 country in the world for road phones accounted for 2.4% and fatalities. As many as tal road accident deaths in States to implement safety corruption in the National Bhopal ...... —....28.3....13.8 Mumbai ...... —....34.2....24.0 Bhubaneswar...... —....31.0....18.9 Mysuru ...... —....30.0....19.0 users across 199 countries, of the deaths and drunken 43,614 deaths or 28.8% of to the country. Among the provisions of the Motor Vehi Highway74 widening project. Chandigarh ...... —....25.7....11.8 New Delhi ...... —....27.1....12.3 as reported by the Geneva driving accounted for 2.8% tal road accident deaths in States, Tamil Nadu (13.7%) cles Amendment Act, 2019.” Chennai ...... —....32.4....25.3 Patna ...... —....28.7....14.2 Hearing in Maratha quota Coimbatore ...... —....31.4....22.7 Port Blair...... —....31.2....24.0 case posted for next year Dehradun...... —....26.6....11.3 Puducherry ...... —....32.8....23.2 NEW DELHI Gangtok...... —....16.1....12.4 Pune...... —....30.1....15.3 Goa...... —....35.4....24.5 Raipur ...... —....30.5....17.8 The Supreme Court on Guwahati ...... —....29.7....18.2 Ranchi...... —....27.6....13.2 SC recommends permanent Puducherry CM Tuesday posted for January Hubballi...... —....29.0....21.0 Shillong...... —....18.0...... 8.5 22 next year the hearing on a Hyderabad ...... —....31.7....20.2 Shimla...... 00.0....00.0 Imphal ...... —....26.3....12.2 Srinagar...... —....18.8...... 8.6 batch of pleas challenging Jaipur ...... —....28.4....15.4 Thiruvananthapuram...... 0.2....31.6....24.8 lashes out at Bedi the constitutional validity of a Kochi ...... —....31.0....24.4 Tiruchi...... 1.2....33.6....24.6 commission for women in Army Maharashtra law granting Kohima ...... —....20.4...... — Vijayawada ...... —....32.5....24.0 SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT leged that the Lt. Governor reservation for Marathas in Kolkata ...... —....29.8....20.2 Visakhapatnam ...... —....31.8....24.6 PUDUCHERRY was functioning in an auth education and jobs in the (Rainfall data in mm; temperature in Celsius) Court urges the Centre to expand the ambit of benefi t Referring to Lieutenant Go oritative manner. “No other State. Pollutants in the air you are breathing Yesterday vernor Kiran Bedi as “sister Lt. Governor or Governor is CITIES SO2 NO2 CO PM2.5 PM10 CODE Indo-Asian News Service Turkish nationals part Ahmedabad..... 124 142 06 . 107 ...87 ....* ferent way on the world plat to Adolf Hitler,” Puducherry as obstructionist as Ms. Be In observation made at New Delhi of ATM heists nabbed Bengaluru ...... 13 .78 81 .....— ...52 ....* 6.00 p.m., Ghaziabad, Uttar form,” observed the court. Chief Minister V. Narayana di. She is like Hitler’s sister,” AGARTALA Chennai ...... 03 .09 54 ... 67 .....— ....* Pradesh recorded an overall The Supreme Court on Tues samy lashed out against Ms. he said. Delhi ...... — 113 68 . 306 .278 ....* air quality index (AQI) The Kolkata police on Tuesday * score of 330 indicating a day said the armed forces Issued notifi cation Bedi for “armtwisting” offi The offi cials were being Hyderabad ...... 12 .45 39 . 245 .....— .... dangerous level of arrested four persons — two Kolkata...... 08 .91 22 . 280 .218 ....* pollution. In contrast, should consider granting The government has already cials to work in her favour. threatened to toe her line Turkish nationals and two Lucknow...... 24 .40 39 . 121 .....— ....* Tirupati, Tamil Nadu permanent commission to issued notifi cation for per Speaking at the birth an and take orders from Raj Ni Mumbai ...... 06 .48 35 . 243 .144 ....* recorded a healthy AQI Bangladeshis — in connection Pune...... 76 .12 57 . 205 .141 ....* score of 31 women offi cers under the manent jobs to women offi c niversary function of former vas, Mr. Narayanasamy with ATM heists in Tripura. Visakhapatnam .11 .30 40 . 123 .....— ....* Short Service Commission ers in 10 branches of the Ar Prime Minister Indira Gand claimed. The Turkish nationals were Air Quality Code: * Poor * Moderate * Good (Readings indicate average AQI) (SSC) before March 2019. my. hi at the PCC offi ce on Tues “I feel sympathy for the also accused of tampering SO2: Sulphur Dioxide. Short-term exposure can harm the respiratory system, The Army had notifi ed A Bench headed by Jus day, the Chief Minister al offi cials,” he said. with ATMs in Assam. making breathing difficult. It can affect visibility by reacting with other air particles to form haze and stain culturally important objects such as statues permanent commission to tice D.Y. Chandrachud and monuments. women offi cers, who join frowned at the Army’s move NO2: Nitrogen Dioxide. Aggravates respiratory illness, causes haze to form by the forces under SSC, after to grant permanent commis reacting with other air particles, causes acid rain, pollutes coastal waters. CO: Carbon monoxide. High concentration in air reduces oxygen supply to March 2019. mission to women offi cers sion to women offi cers who critical organs like the heart and brain. At very high levels, it can cause with retrospective eff ect, joined the forces under the dizziness, confusion, unconsciousness and even death. ‘Retrospective eff ect’ and expand the ambit of the SSC after March 2019, and PM2.5 & PM10: Particulate matter pollution can cause irritation of the eyes, nose and throat, coughing, chest tightness and shortness of breath, reduced The court asked the Centre benefi t to those serving un not to include those who are lung function, irregular heartbeat, asthma attacks, heart attacks and premature to look at the positive side of der SSC before March 2019. already serving under the death in people with heart or lung disease granting permanent com “It will show India in a dif SSC before March 2019. Congress sweeps municipal elections in Rajasthan The party dominated in most of the 49 civic bodies
Special Correspondent The Congress dominated xist) contestants won at JAIPUR in most of the 49 civic bo three places. The ruling Congress swept dies, situated in 24 districts. The civic bodies which the municipal elections in The results declared by went to polls included three Rajasthan on Tuesday, win the State Election Commis municipal corporations, 18 ning 965 of the 2,105 wards sion showed 385 indepen municipal councils and 28 in 49 urban local bodies, for dent candidates emerging municipalities. The Con which polling was held on victorious. The Bahujan Sa gress got clear majority in 20 Saturday. maj Party’s candidates won local bodies, while the BJP’s The BJP trailed behind in 16 wards, while the Com majority was confi ned to six with 736 wards. munist Party of India (Mar civic bodies. Desperate villagers pool money to make their voice heard Day 4 of sitin by Sardar Sarovar projectaff ected persons Sidharth Yadav camps. Bhopal Just to make sure their Kusum Adivasi, an agricultu voice is heard, villagers ral labourer, has found her from Kotda, Koteshwar, Ka self at the same protest as rondiya and Katnera in the her former employer, Sashi tehsil pooled in travelling kala Patidar. Back in Nisar fare for their representa pur, the two lived miles tives. apart. But in the past three “Since there is no work, days here, they’ve slept be Activist Medha Patkar along we don’t have money to tra side each other on the with the villagers protesting vel to even Indore, 170 km street, shared meals and in Bhopal, on Sunday. * PTI away,” says Lakshminarayan even cried in unison: Medha Patidar, of Nisarpur. “So, tai aaghe badho, hum tum- ery morning. On Day 4 of those back home decided to hare saath hai (Medha aunt the sitin by 1,200 Sardar Sa support us for oneway tra stride ahead, we’re with rovar projectaff ected per vel for the sitin.” Each paid you). sons outside the offi ce of the ₹ 130 for the bus travel to In While Ms. Patidar lost Narmada Valley Develop dore, from where they two acres of fi elds, a pucca ment Authority on Tuesday, boarded a train to reach house and three goats to the the two and 100 others from Bhopal, free on request to swelling backwaters of the Nisarpur tehsil, nominated the Railways. Besides, a Narmada, her labourer for by village elders to repre truck from Barwani carried two years lost her liveli sent them, spelt out issues wheat and rice , gas cylin hood. Cooped up at the confronting their communi ders, stoves, fi rstaid kits, same relief camp now, in ties: incomplete rehabilita tents, computers, micro Dhar district, the two set out tion, inadequate compensa phone systems and fl ags — to hunt for work together ev tion and food crisis at relief all donated by villagers.
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DELHI THE HINDU 10 EDITORIAL WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2019 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE A harbinger of the new hard-right normal Trump is the logical end product of an old GOP strategy of appealing to the white community’s worst instincts
gerrymandering of districts; and a “smoking guns,” and “this time politics of constant spectacle he’s gone too far,” the truth is that House not in order centring on issues such as race, most Americans, but especially abortion, ‘Christian values’, immi those predisposed to like the Presi No Parliament can condone the preventive gration, crime, gun control, and dent, now live in discrete media si detention of its members for long periods antielitism, has kept the GOP los: they hear and see only what S ankaran Krishna from the obsolescence it feared. they already agree with. The idea ore than 1,300 people who were detained While Mr. Trump is the latest ma that these impeachment hearings around the Centre’s abrupt move on August 5 n the weeks after Barack Oba nifestation of this trend within the could uncover something that Mthat downgraded and bifurcated Jammu and ma’s stunning victory in the Republicans, there is abundant would result in a signifi cant num Kashmir ( J&K) continue to be so 15 weeks later. In de Ipresidential elections in No evidence that at least since Ri ber of people changing their tention are dozens of elected representatives including vember 2008, the Republican lea chard Nixon’s “war on crime” minds about him seems unlikely. a member of the Lok Sabha, Farooq Abdullah, who also dership was conducting its own (read “on minorities”) in the name At the same time, the sheer out happens to be a former Chief Minister. Senior function postmortem on John McCain’s de of a “silent majority” (read rageousness of what the whistle feat. Things did not look good at “whites”), the politics of racebait blower revealed about the quid aries of the government have repeatedly said the situa
all. Around 60% of Hispanics; 62% ing, minority voter suppression, GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO pro quo sought to be exacted from tion is normal in J&K, but indefi nite preventive deten of Asians; 95% of AfricanAmeri and pandering to the fears of Ukraine left Ms. Pelosi with no tion of people is diffi cult to justify under any cans; and, most signifi cantly, two whites has long been a core has broken ranks with him; and the House votes to impeach him choice but to proceed with im circumstances. With continuing restrictions on com out of three voters below the age strategy. his approval rating among Repu (quite likely given the evidence peachment. Though it might play munication, gauging the mood of the people may be of 30 had voted for Mr. Obama. So much of the focus on the blican voters runs around 90%, as and the Democratic majority in into Mr. Trump’s hands, it was still tricky, but some signs of normalcy are visible as more While he got only 43% of the white 45th President of the U.S. is it does amongst all those who vot that chamber), the next step is for the right thing to do. In the mean businesses open and vehicular traffi c increases in the votes, Mr. Obama outpolled trained on him being an ‘excep ed for him in 2016. In early No the Senate (where the Republicans time, the already unwieldy list of McCain by a full 10% (54% to 44%) tion’. It is fair to say that no pre vember, a New York Times/Siena have 53 of the 100 seats) to agree Democratic contenders for the Valley. Now that the fi rst Lieutenant Governor has also among young white voters. Other vious President has ever com College poll and analysis found to fi rst hold a trial, and then, by a nomination just increased, bring taken charge in J&K, immediate steps must be taken to than elderly whites and evangeli bined mendacity, ignorance, that only Joe Biden bested Mr. twothird majority, vote to convict ing the scrum up to 19. With none open up political and civil society space. Instead of try cal Christians, the Grand Old Party arrogance, bigotry, and vulgarity Trump in a headtohead contest the President. The GOP’s unanimi of them able to establish a clear ing to hard sell an improbable portrait to the outside (GOP) could not count on any con in the way that he has. And yet, in (but by a margin of less than 2%) in ty that Mr. Trump has done noth frontrunner status, Mr. Trump can world, the Centre would do well by engaging with those stituency as a stronghold. Given contrast to this narrative of Mr. six key States (Michigan, Pennsyl ing impeachable rivals that of the focus on what he does best: be the most aff ected by its decisions — the people of J&K. The the demographic changes under Trump being an ‘egregious excep vania, Florida, Wisconsin, Arizona Politburo under Joseph Stalin, so ringmaster of a media circus that government cannot possibly see merit in undermining way (the proportion of nonHis tion’, it is time to regard him as the and North Carolina). Mr. Trump that possibility can be ruled out. energises his core constituencies panic whites is projected to drop harbinger of the new normal. For was even with Bernie Sanders and and mocks the rest. mainstream political leaders in J&K. to below 50% of the U.S. popula all his distastefulness, Mr. Trump clearly bested Elizabeth Warren in Impeachment hearings Whether or not Mr. Trump wins The paradox of continuing detentions and restric tion by the year 2045), the white is the logical end product of a 50 these States. The piece concluded The fi rst week of televised im reelection, it is clear that one of tions in J&K was stark when Prime Minister Narendra vote as a share of the overall elec yearlong Republican strategy of that if present trends continued, peachment hearings before the the two parties in the U.S. has de Modi spoke about the forthcoming Constitution Day torate has dropped in every elec winning elections through appeal there is a good possibility that Mr. House committee has confi rmed cided to throw away dog whistles and the role of the Rajya Sabha in sustaining India’s fed tion since 1992. Quite simply, it to the worst fears and instincts of Trump may lose the popular vote that Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s initial and openly champion the politics eral structure on the fi rst day of the winter session of was hard to see where the GOP the whites, especially those at the by a larger margin than the three hesitation in embarking on im of racial majoritarianism. How the Parliament. As the PM rightly indicated, Parliament is could turn for renewal. Defeat fol lower end of the educational lad million by which Hillary Clinton peachment was wellfounded. Democrats respond to that chal lowed again in 2012 as Mr. Obama der, whose greatest fear is losing beat him in 2016 — but that he Despite testimony that unequivo lenge could well be the question of for giving meaningful voice to the people, not to make handily beat Mitt Romney, and their status visàvis blacks and might win the Electoral College by cally indicates that President the next decade. Mr. Trump’s disruptive noise. But those prevented from attending pundits were predicting a pro other coloured minorities. White an even wider margin than he did Trump personally vetted a policy reign will end, but the GOP’s swing the House are denied the right to speak for the people longed presidential drought for supremacism has always been last time. of withholding already approved to the hard right may be hard to re they are elected to represent. The PM’s call for frank the GOP. Sen. Lindsey Graham re barely concealed throughout the These facts are the background foreign aid to Ukraine until it verse. In this, the U.S. is in line discussions and dialogues in the current session would marked in 2012, “We’re not gener history of the U.S., and events on against which the Democratic agreed to dig up some dirt on the with developments in Britain and ring hollow when some of them remain in detention. ating enough angry white guys to the ground are making it increas move to impeach the President is Bidens; that he had the U.S. Am all across Europe, and when one The government has refused to make any commitment stay in business for the long term.” ingly likely that the open bigotry unfolding. That Mr. Trump’s con bassador to Ukraine fi red because considers Turkey, Brazil, the Phi espoused by Mr. Trump may not duct clearly exceeds the bar set for she would not play along with lippines, India, and Sri Lanka, in on Mr. Abdullah’s release, while a member of Rajya Sab Angry white voters just disappear when he is done be bringing charges of impeachment such extortion; and that he has sync with the world. Much as one ha, Congress leader P. Chidambaram remains in judi Seven years later, Sen. Graham ing President. (“The President... shall be re since lied about all of this, Mr. might like to think Mr. Trump is an cial custody as government agencies and law offi cers need have no worries about the Consider this: about 41% of moved from Offi ce... for treason, Trump’s popularity within his aberration or a oneoff , I fear it’s show an alacrity that they reserve exclusively for pursu supply of angry white guys in the Americans approve of the job Mr. bribery, or other high crimes and own base is unaff ected. If anyth more probable that the content ing Opposition leaders. The PM’s appreciation of the U.S. And in Donald Trump, they Trump is doing as President (al misdemeanors” as per the Consti ing, the longer the impeachment and style of his politics is here to Rajya Sabha’s role in the hollowing out of Article 370 have ‘one of their very own’ en most the same as Mr. Obama’s ap tution) is beyond doubt to anyone hearings play out, the more credi stay, in the U.S. and elsewhere. through a hurried resolution in the last session was dis sconced in the White House. The proval rating three years into his except the wilfully blind. Yet, the ble his claim — this is all a diver ingenuous. The nondeliberative manner in which a unabashed appeal to the idea of a fi rst term). However, not one Sena chances of impeachment resulting sionary witchhunt — will seem to S ankaran Krishna teaches politics at the white America, alongside the im tor or Congressman from one of in Mr. Trump’s ouster or resigna the faithful. Despite the endless University of Hawaii at Manoa, and can fullfl edged State was reduced into two UTs in one pediments to minority voting; the the world’s oldest political parties tion are practically zero. Even if deployment of phrases such as be reached at [email protected] stroke was an unprecedented assault on federalism. Disruption by the Opposition is a marginal challenge to the role of Parliament at present. The real and graver trial of the legislature is the executive’s refusal to be Turning the policy focus to child undernutrition scrutinised by it. By undermining parliamentary com mittees and brazenly labelling any Bill as a money Bill in order to bypass the Rajya Sabha, the government has India has sustained its progress in reducing stunting and the number of underweight children in the last decade shown scant regard for parliamentary precedents and processes. A course correction is in order. the present stunting level still be ded into nutrition policy, is dietary performance of States reveals that longs to the threshold level of ‘ve diversity. It is important to move Uttarakhand, Arunachal Pradesh, ry high’. Hence, what is of urgent away from the present focus on Gujarat, Punjab and Haryana have requirement is increasing the rate rice and wheat, which studies de reduced wasting by 10% points or Iran on the boil of decline. Though there is no nounce as ‘staple grain fundamen more within just 30 months or magic policy wand to reduce talism,’ of Public Distribution Sys less, the best performer being Ut Iran, struggling under the weight of U.S. S unny Jose stunting drastically within a short tem (PDS), to a more diversifi ed tarakhand that has reduced wast sanctions, needs to revive the nuclear deal span of time, the CNNS report food basket, with an emphasis on ing by 14% points. he Comprehensive National draws our attention to an all too fa coarse grains. It would be worth While a fair measure of decline ationwide protests that broke out over the wee Nutrition Survey (CNNS) re miliar factor, which has not re including millets in the PDS on a in wasting, consistent with that of kend are the latest challenge to the Iranian re Tport, brought out recently by ceived the necessary attention. pilot basis, in States where stunt stunting, is expected, the magni gime that’s already struggling to fi x a battered the Ministry of Health and Family ing levels are high. Evidence sug tude in this case appears rather N Welfare, assumes salience, espe Educated mothers gests that dietary diversity is in high. This is especially so, as all economy, hostile ties with the U.S. and waning in cially against two important fac Stunting among children under deed good for reducing iron these fi ve States had witnessed an fl uence in West Asia. The trigger was the government’s tors. One, the latest Global Hunger four years came down from 46% to GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO defi ciency anaemia, levels of increase in wasting during the last decision to raise the price of rationed fuel. Thousands Index (GHI), 2019 ranks India at 19%, a whopping 27% points de which also remain high in India. It decade, between 200506 and of people took to the streets, reminiscent of recent prot the 102nd position out of 117 coun cline, when maternal education hancing access to safe water and may be useful learning from the 201516. If the decline has actually ests in Hong Kong, Chile, Lebanon and neighbouring tries. Two, India’s past perfor went up from illiteracy/no school sanitation are indeed appropriate virtues, in terms of food habits, of happened, then it means that ma Iraq. The protesters chanted slogans against the Islamic mance in reducing child undernu ing to 12 years of schooling com policy goals, which need to be sus the marginalised than from the ny States have achieved unprece regime, carried “Death to Khamenei” posters, in a di trition has been rather mixed: pleted. This phenomenal decline tained. However, ending open de vices of the privileged groups. The dented decline in wasting, revers there was a moderate decline in was also true for the number of fecation alone will not reduce rising obesity among the latter is a ing their past poor record, within a rect challenge to the country’s Supreme Leader Ali Kha stunting but not in wasting. Bet underweight children. The diff e stunting phenomenally, as is evi cause for concern, and is an short span of time. Surprisingly, menei, and burned down banks and stores. Security ween 200506 and 201516, child rence was close to the gap bet dent from the experience of Ban emerging public health problem these States have not performed personnel reportedly unleashed violence on the protes stunting and the condition of be ween the poorest and richest gladesh. Also, the socalled Mus in India which demands equal equally well in reducing stunting, ters, while the government shut down the Internet. Ac ing underweight declined by 10% wealth groups. It is next to impos lim advantage in child mortality in attention. despite the fact that wasting and cording to Iranian media, at least 12 people were killed, and 7% points, respectively. In sible to transform poorest house India — relatively lower child mor stunting share many common including security personnel, and some 1,000 protes wasting, the decline was a paltry holds into richest so soon. Howev tality among Muslims compared to Decline in wasting causes. Is this ‘empirical reality’ ters were arrested. Both President Hassan Rouhani and 1% point. These factors make the er, increasing the educational Hindus — which occurs ostensibly What about child wasting, in rightly captured by the CNNS? Or, CNNS (20162018) report timely attainment of women signifi cantly due to the former’s better sanita which India’s past performance alternatively, do these estimates Ayatollah Khamenei, the real ruler of Iran, have con and important. is certainly feasible. Women’s edu tion and hygiene practices, does has been rather poor? Here, the indicate a possibility of some sort demned the protests, while the Islamic Revolutionary The report covers dimensions cation, besides being of instru not translate into a similar stunt report reveals an interesting, rath of anomaly in data? An indepen Guard Corps, the country’s top paramilitary force, has of nutrition, some of which are mental signifi cance, has an intrin ing advantage among Muslims. Un er surprising, turnaround. The ex dent validation would not only dis threatened to crack down on the demonstrations, rais new and important, and thereby sic worth of its own. Possibly, as like child mortality, child stunting tent of decline in wasting is larger pel any doubt regarding data qual ing the prospects of more violence. heralds a new beginning in collect studies suggest, women’s secon levels remain almost the same bet than that of stunting: about 4% ity but also help identify the Iran still has one of the lowest fuel prices in the ing national level nutrition data. It dary education might be captur ween Muslims and Hindus. points within 22 months. This is drivers of rapid reduction in child world. But the rise was enough for a people reeling un reveals that India has sustained its ing the cumulative eff ects of hou More eff orts, besides ending indeed a remarkable achieve wasting in India. progress made in reducing the sehold wealth, women’s open defecation, are required, if ment, especially against a measly der high infl ation, joblessness and a collapsing econo number of stunted and under empowerment and knowledge we are to accelerate the decline in decline in wasting in the last ten S unny Jose is RBI Chair Professor at my to take to the streets. President Donald Trump’s de weight children in the last decade. and healthseeking behaviour. child stunting. One related aspect, years: 21% in 20152016 from 19.8% Council for Social Development, cision last year to pull the U.S. out of the 2015 nuclear Despite such sustained decline, Ending open defecation and en which is yet to be fi rmly embed in 20052006. A closer look at the Hyderabad. Views are personal deal and reimpose sanctions has dealt a blow to Iran’s economy. Infl ation has risen to 40%. A quarter of Iran’s youth are unemployed. And according to the IMF, the LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Letters emailed to [email protected] must carry the full postal address and the full name or the name with initials. country’s economy is expected to contract by 9.5% this year, while the currency, the rial, has plunged to record T o read more letters A n MP in detention no misuse of legislation like government for its decision and the good conduct of the no time in greeting him and online, scan the QR code lows against the dollar. It is now evident that the col It is close to four months that of the Public Safety Act to release six convicts prisoners. off ering an invitation to him lapse of the nuclear deal has cost the Iranian economy since the Centre revoked (Front page, “Uproar in LS undergoing life C.V. Aravind, to visit India, it will be a tall dearly. And the protests broke out at a time when Iran’s the special status for over Farooq’s detention,” imprisonment for the Bengaluru order to dissociate the island work allocation. Not only infl uence in Lebanon and Iraq is being challenged by Jammu and Kashmir ( J&K) Nov. 19) gruesome killing of six Dalits nation from its proChina tilt maternity provisions but protesters. In Iraq, protesters burned an Iranian consu and the government has Archana Venkatamadhvaraj, in Melavalavu in 1997. Return of Rajapaksas (OpEd page, “An elusive other womencentred health late and turned their anger against Irantrained militias. inexplicably kept the T hoothukkudi, Tamil Nadu (Editorial, “Wrong signals,” Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s success reconciliation in Sri Lanka,” care services are ignored, as In Lebanon, where Iranbacked Hezbollah is a key pillar National Conference leader Nov. 19). Considering the fact in the presidential elections Nov. 19). is evident from a dearth of Dr. Farooq Abdullah still ■ Dr. Abdullah is a sitting that this was a case where in Sri Lanka marks the return N.J. Ravi Chander, breastfeeding stations and of the government, protesters demand the resignation under preventive Member of Parliament. He the casteist overtones in the of the Rajapaksa family to Bengaluru separate functioning toilets of the entire political class. And now in Iran, the protes detention. The former Chief has every right to take part in crime appeared to be crystal power after about four years in offi ces and workplaces. ters challenge the regime itself. In recent years, Iran has Minister of J&K has played the winter session. To keep clear, the government should in the wilderness. Mr. Maternity benefi ts Underlying such policy seen many protests and labour agitations. And the re an important role in the him under detention is have applied its mind a little Gotabaya’s nationalist The absence of adequate neglect on the part of the gime’s response has always been typical. It branded the politics of the erstwhile illegal. By silencing his voice, more before arriving at the campaign, with a promise of maternity benefi ts and leave government is an protesters as counterrevolutionaries and blamed fo State. The Speaker should the Modi government is only decision to release the security and a vow to crush provisions in India’s policy unwillingness of reign hands. The economic woes have weakened the intervene and facilitate the justifying our suspicion that convicts. While the religious extremism, found measures is despite the fact policymakers to deglorify delicate balance between the regime and its angry participation of Dr. all is not well in Kashmir. government has the favour with the Sinhalese that mothers, even those motherhood and see the Abdullah in the winter T. Anand Raj, prerogative to eff ect such majority in the country but working in the formal sector, liabilities, risks and forgone youth. The latest round of protests might die down. But session. Such detentions Chennai releases, the gravity of the his victory will be a concern are forced to opportunities it entails Iran needs a lasting solution to address its revolting un exhibit the dictatorial case and the heinousness of for Sri Lanka's Tamil and disproportionately bear the (Editorial page, “The mother derbelly. It can’t violently suppress the protesters forev character of the Narendra Release of convicts the crime should have Muslim minorities who voted caregiving burden while of nonissues,” Nov. 19). er and needs to get the nuclear deal back on track. Modi government. In a The High Court has rightly weighed over factors such as against him. While Prime facing discrimination in Tanvi Soni, democracy, there should be rapped the Tamil Nadu the longevity of the jail term Minister Narendra Modi lost recruitment, promotion and J alandhar, Punjab
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THE HINDU DELHI WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2019 OPED 11 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE The threat to the idea of a public university Rebalancing counterterrorism As Israel shows, an eff ective strategy must be comprehensive Education is a right, not a privilege reserved for the select elite are escalatory, like the Balakot strikes. And ly pathetic is that the administration they can create a commitment trap, binding sees it merely as a ‘law and order’ the government to a policy of retaliation, lest problem. Instead of refl ecting on the it be seen as weak in the next crisis. Thus, the roots of the crisis, and engaging mea next crisis will be shaped by the Balakot cri ningfully with students and teachers, sis and, with each side thinking it can safely the administration relies heavily on A rzan Tarapore escalate force, could be more dangerous. Avijit Pathak all sorts of coercive measures. The JNU administration is known for issu An eff ective counterterrorism strategy ing showcause notices and charge How should India respond to the next terro A more eff ective counterterrorism strategy Even though Jawaharlal Nehru Un sheets to its students and teachers. rist attack sponsored by Pakistan? Future at goes beyond punishment. As Israel itself has iversity, where I teach, is in turmoil With a nondialogic administration, tacks are inevitable — the sponsorship of shown, counterterrorism requires a balance, because of an incompetent adminis the presence of police and paramili crossborder terrorism is a core tenet of Pa including at least three other lines of eff ort. tration incapable of communicating tary forces, and surveillance, the cul kistan’s security strategy, even as Kashmiri First, it requires eff ective denial operations, with the students and teachers, the ture of learning has been severely militancy is increasingly dominated by radi to make terrorist attacks more diffi cult for larger crisis confronting the idea of a damaged. Is it the assertion of the calised locals. The BJPled government has the enemy. At the tactical level, this means public university needs to be under profane, and the death of the sacred? repeatedly declared that it will emulate Is simple adherence to security procedures — stood. From Jamia Millia Islamia to As a teacher with a keen interest in rael’s apparently successful strategy in res the attacks on the Pulwama and Pathankot Jadavpur University, from VisvaBha culture and pedagogy, I believe that ponding to crossborder terrorism. But the air force base, for example, were costlier be rati University to Aligarh Muslim Un the larger society has to come for government’s fetishisation of Israeli counter cause of substandard force protection mea iversity, and from the University of ward to save our public universities, terrorism mischaracterises Israeli strategy. sures. Beyond security, this means address Hyderabad to Delhi University, we “JNU aroused hope about the possibility of excellence with social justice and particularly at a time when the cor New Delhi risks overemphasising the showy ing the grievances of the local population, are witnessing an organised attack equity. It is sad that the administration is preparing the ground for the death of porate elite or the marketdriven as but narrow role of military punishment, and which drive radicalisation. This requires ma on the fundamentals of a creative this grand dream.” A student protest in JNU in 2018. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT piring class refuses to see the signifi it elides other elements of strategy, which Is naging tradeoff s: heightened security mea centre of learning: critical pedagogy cance of any shared, egalitarian rael itself has embraced, that are critical to sures since August 5 may help to control the with deep politicoethical sensibili distribution of cultural capital, and monic, we see the repression of what public domain, and the dominant counterterrorism eff ectiveness. population, but likely also exacerbate radical ties; epistemological pluralism; and the resultant reproduction of social I would regard as alternative voices — political force fears creative and crit India’s military responses in 2016 and antiIndia sentiment in Jammu and Kashmir. a minimalist and enabling adminis inequality, we have to nurture crea or a diff erent reading of nation, cul ical ideas. For instance, when JNU 2019 were framed as attempts to impose Second, it requires shaping operations to tration nurturing a transparent and tive, sensitive citizens through an en ture and identity. It is obvious that students protest against the hostel costs on the Pakistani terrorist groups and incentivise the adversary to limit its attacks. democratic milieu for students, re vironment of lifeaffi rming teaching young minds and researchers who fee hike, they are essentially remind their Army backers. But such minor actions Israel can use carrots and sticks in occupied searchers and teachers to fl ourish as and an egalitarian practice of sociali have seen beyond placement and sal ing us of the need for the state to have marginal material impact on the target; territories, including economic develop active participants in the cultivation sation. And for this, we have to keep ary packages, and have engaged with fund public universities so that high at best they may have killed fi ghters and tem ment programmes or harsher security res and dissemination of foundational the dream of a public university Marx and Ambedkar, Gandhi and Ta er education becomes accessible to porarily damaged a training facility, alth trictions, but India lacks such leverage over knowledge traditions. With political alive. As I look at JNU, I feel that its gore, and Foucault and Butler, would all. The message is that education is ough even those claims are contentious. the Pakistani Army and terror groups, and ly appointed vice chancellors, philo promise was essentially the fulfi l interrogate the dominant ideology of our right, not a privilege reserved for must rely on international actors. Thus coun sophically impoverished techno ment of this dream — possibly, some nationalism — its patriarchy, its hie the select elite. Or when the students Uses of punishment terterrorism must be synchronised with wid managers, new technologies of sur sort of a Nehruvian dream of a welfa rarchy, its aggression and its indiff e of the University of Hyderabad ex Strategies of punishment work when an ac er foreign policy, using harsh action through veillance, and the militaristic notion rist state. With an innovative admis rence to cultural pluralism. This is pressed their concern over the sui tor can impose suffi ciently heavy costs on the Financial Action Task Force, or produc of discipline and punishment, it sion policy; heightened sensitivity to why JNU has been castigated as “anti cide of Rohith Vemula, it was an at the enemy such that the enemy is dissuaded tive bilateral talks with China, to isolate Pa seems some of our fi nest universities heterogeneity; a blend of critically national”, this is why a bunch of zea tempt to remind us of the danger of from attacking again. But the Pakistan Army kistan and make its strategy of supporting are dying. nuanced social sciences, cultural stu lots seek to invade Jadavpur Universi violence — physical as well as psychic and its terrorist proxies have already shown crossborder terrorism less appealing. dies and foundational sciences; and a ty, and this is why the curriculum of — that stigmatised students from a willingness to absorb enormous material Third, it requires cultivating resilience, to The purpose of education reasonable degree of autonomy re Delhi University is under scrutiny. marginalised sections are often sub costs, as their wars with India showed — and reduce the political impact of terrorism. The To begin with, it is important to real garding teaching, research and eval ject to. their antiIndia ideology has only hardened BJP’s 2019 election manifesto declared a “ze ise that if public universities with uation, the university made its pre A new politics of knowledge Students and teachers have to be over time. Minor crossborder military ac ro tolerance” policy on terrorism. Such poli good quality, aff ordable education sence felt as a liberating site. It Furthermore, because of a mix of immensely careful and alert. Never tion will not exact a cost suffi cient to change cies only serve to sharpen public fears and begin to crumble, the spirit of egali embraced all: a tribal girl from Mani technocratic rationality and right should they allow their struggle and the adversary’s preferences or strategy. boxin their governments to respond aggres tarian democracy will be in danger. pur, a Dalit boy from Maharashtra, a wing nationalism, a new politics of resistance to degenerate into a reac Punishment can have other uses. Most sively to the next attack. Despite all its coun In times characterised by the market young leftist from Kerala, a radical fe knowledge begins to emerge. It sus tive violent act. And the university particularly, it serves a domestic political terterrorism experience , Israel still suff ers driven principle, where there is com minist from Delhi, an Ambedkarite pects the criticality of social sciences should not be seen as a war zone. It is purpose, shoring up popular support for the terrorist attacks, but most can be absorbed modifi cation of education and reduc from the hinterland of Uttar Pradesh, or refl exivity of liberal arts and quite really sad to see the administrators government — and the Modi government did without generating public hysteria. tion of higher education into market and a young wanderer from Germa often, the young minds pursuing re asking the police to give a ‘tough’ les use its national security credentials after Ba There is a place for punishment in coun friendly technical skills; where there ny or Sri Lanka. JNU aroused hope search in these disciplines are seen son to the students. We need a spirit lakot to win the 2019 election. And as Israel terterrorism, but the Modi government’s sin are fancy private universities and all about the possibility of excellence as a ‘burden’ — something that, as of communion and dialogue. Howev has shown, it can be used to eliminate specif gleminded celebration of it yields primarily sorts of institutes of technology and with social justice and equity. It is sad noisy television channels propagate, er, what is worrying is that it is not ic enemy capabilities, such as weapons ma political benefi ts, rather than security. Eff ec management; and where teachers that the present administration is taxpayers cannot aff ord. For in easy to educate our vice chancellors nufacturing, although such tactics only work tive counterterrorism requires a more com are seen as mere ‘service providers’ preparing the ground for the death stance, when one sees the enthu and other academic bureaucrats. if they are enabled by exquisite intelligence prehensive strategy. It requires a constant and students as ‘consumers’, educa of this grand dream. siasm of the JNU administration to re Quite often, because of their obses and targeting, and even then the destroyed process of evaluation and adjustment – Israel tion becomes a mere utilitarian/in move aesthetically and politically sive indulgence with power and capabilities are likely to be reconstituted. does not have all the answers and relies on strumental transaction. And this sort Repression of alternative voices enriched posters from the walls of psychic insecurity, they miss what Punishment, then, never aff ords a resolu trial and error for diff erent contexts. India of education can by no means be A deeper understanding of the crisis the university, and their urge to in characterises a mentor: the art of lis tion to a rivalry. At best, it allows the punish should learn from Israel’s tragic experience, emancipatory; it is inherently non would enable us to see the changing troduce schools of engineering and tening, the skill of persuasion and er to manage the ongoing confl ict, and com but make sure to learn the right lessons. democratic, conservative and status nature of politics — the Machiavellian management, the message, I believe, the ethics of care. municate diminishing patience with the quoist. play of the ruling regime. As the doc becomes obvious. adversary. On the other hand, it can also car A rzan Tarapore is a nonresident fellow at the If, as a nation, we are really eager trine of hypermasculine religious Yes, students are angry, restless, A vijit Pathak is Professor of Sociology at ry the risks of inadvertent escalation, espe National Bureau of Asian Research, and an adjunct to resist the process of asymmetrical nationalism tends to become hege and unhappy. However, what is real Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi cially if the punishment actions themselves professor at Georgetown University
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Uday Balakrishnan abashed aggression: her eastern part Historic 4-hour moon walk seized by Indian forces. It was this November 19, 2019 marked the 102nd fact that made it diffi cult for our peo Two more Americans, Charles Conrad and birth anniversary of former Prime ple to be reconciled to the fait accom Alan Bean, strode the moon today [Novem Minister Indira Gandhi. Thirtyfi ve pli, more so because the invasion was ber 19] after an astonishing bull’seye land years after her death, she continues not an isolated phenomenon. On the ing at 1224 I.S.T., on the dusty Ocean of to be regarded as the most courage contrary, it was but the climax of a Storms and set up a lunar scientifi c station ous and decisive leader India has long series of hostile and aggressive powered by a nuclear generator. They also had. Her time in offi ce was marked acts by India against Pakistan since raised their nation’s fl ag. The exultant astro by epochmaking achievements, in the establishment of the two as sove nauts stepped out of the landing craft Intre cluding the swift and successful pro reign and independent states”. pid, after a voyage of more than a quarter secution of the war with Pakistan in What the Simla agreement failed million miles and spotted their target – a 1971. But there were also serious laps to achieve for India could well have 1967 Surveyor robot – not more than 180 es of judgment, including the 1975 been obtained through the 1973 Delhi metres away. They returned to Intrepid after 1977 Emergency and the storming of Agreement signed by India, Pakistan spending nearly four hours walking about the Golden Temple in Amritsar in and Bangladesh. the lunar surface in the fi rst of two sche 1984, an illadvised move that cost duled excursions outside Intrepid. The 39 the Prime Minister her life. An infl ection point yearold Conrad, America’s shortest space If ever there was an infl ection point man, hummed as he worked. “I feel great”, Conrad kept saying. Bean joined him on the A disadvantageous peace in India’s relations with Pakistan, it CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Among her failures, the least talked was the moment when India had Pa moon half an hour later, lowering his visor about was also her worst. Until all of kistan on its knees, holding over D ATA POINT against the dazzling sunlight and exclaiming fi cial records related to the Simla 15,000 square kilometres of its terri with delight at the sight of shining glass Agreement signed on July 2, 1972 are tory and 93,000 its soldiers — nearly beads sparkling on the lunar ground. made public, we will never know a quarter of its army — as prisoners of what led Indira Gandhi to war. It is mystifying why conclude such a disad India so easily returned A HUNDRED YEARS AGO NOV. 20, 1919. vantageous peace with both. A former Indian di Pakistan following the plomat, Sashanka Baner Hunter Committee. 1971 war. The Simla jee, provided an explana Agreement, and the sub tion, when he said that Bombay, November 19. — Mr. C.F. Andrews sequent Delhi Agree the decision to repatriate has made the following statement to the re ment, gave Pakistan eve Pakistani prisoners of presentative of the Associated Press in re rything it wanted: the war “was taken to get gard to the decision of the Congress Sub territory it lost to India in the war and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman back to his Committee regarding Hunter Committee. the safe return of all its soldiers with country alive and well”. But that Before sailing for South Africa I wish to iden out one of them being held responsi doesn’t sound right. The repatriation tify myself with the decision of the Congress ble for the genocidal campaign un of Pakistani prisoners of war oc SubCommittee not to appear and lead evi leashed in what is now Bangladesh. curred after the signing of the Delhi dence before the Disorders Enquiry Com The Simla Agreement reads more Agreement, long after Sheikh Muji mittee at Lahore. While I recognise the con like a communiqué than a peace bur Rahman had returned to Bangla ciliatory attitude of Sir Edward Maciagan in agreement with a country that had desh in January 1972. off ering to release on parole the Punjab pol waged war on India. Nothing in the India ought to have rightly insisted itical leaders during the time when they Agreement pinned Pakistan down to that an international tribunal try might be called upon to give evidence, I re future good behaviour. It also includ those prisoners of war who had con gard His Honour’s decision to withheld from ed some laughable expectations, tributed to the welldocumented ge them the right of even ordinary criminals to such as the clause requiring both go nocide in Bangladesh. This would be present under police escort when their vernments “to take all steps within have also eroded the credibility of own cases are being tried as not only nullify their power to prevent hostile propa the Pakistani Army, eliminated it as a ing the value of the concession but also as ganda directed against each other”. political force and led to a more en depriving them of an important safeguard Hardly had the Agreement been during peace in the region. Indira against injustice. It appears to me to be op signed when the Pakistani Prime Mi Gandhi’s inexplicable failure to con posed to every canon of fair play that serious nister Zulfi kar Ali Bhutto, who had vert India’s victory in the 1971 war in allegations refl ecting on the character and never hidden his intention to make to a durable peace will remain a blot honour of these gentlemen should be al Pakistan a nuclear power, began dis on her record. We will continue to lowed to be made behind their backs, and paraging India. Indira Gandhi ought bear its consequences, one of them they themselves prevented from confront to have taken note. Writing in the Fo being confronting a nuclear Pakistan. ing their accusers on the spot. Mr. C.F. An reign Aff airs magazine in April 1973, drews sails for South Africa tomorrow, and Bhutto disingenuously observed that Uday Balakrishnan teaches at IISc, will probably stay for a short time in British “Pakistan had been the victim of un Bengaluru Africa on his way to Natal.
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DELHI THE HINDU 12 NEWS WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2019 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE F ROM PAGE ONE ‘Stonethrowing on the decline’ Oppn. wants Speaker Hyderabad techie, M.P. Home Ministry says such incidents in J&K have reduced after August 5 to act on Farooq issue farmer held in Pakistan Special Correspondent ‘Ensure Srinagar MP’s presence’ New Delhi Bahawalpur Judicial Magis April 11. Mr. Rao said he got The number of stonethrow Special Correspondent trate Yazman asked the local to know that his missing son ing incidents in the Kashmir New Delhi police to travel to Multan was in Pakistan through Valley has come down after The Opposition parties are and hand over the two In news channels. “He was August 5 when Jammu and going to approach Lok Sab dians to the Federal Investi working in Bengaluru for Kashmir was put under lock ha Speaker Om Birla seeking gation Agency (FIA). Baha one and a half years, before down after its special status his intervention on behalf of walpur police sources starting a new job at a soft was revoked, the Union the House to ensure that Sri confi rmed to The Hindu ware fi rm in Hyderabad,” he Home Ministry informed the nagar MP Farooq Abdullah that the two Indian nation said, adding that their fami Lok Sabha on Tuesday. is allowed to attend the on als were thoroughly investi ly moved to Hyderabad The government admitted going Parliament session. gated and were sent back from Visakhapatnam in that pellet guns were used as The Opposition parties from Multan as the FIA 2014. “The earlier our son is a “matter of abundant cau are arguing that the onus doesn’t think this case falls handed over to us, the hap tion” only to deal with “sev lies on the Speaker to en Farooq Abdullah under its jurisdiction. pier we will be,” he said. ere law and order problems sure the presence of Mr. Ab The two are now back in and to avoid civilian dullah in the House since he Monday. The government the custody of the Bahawal Video message casualties”. has not sought a leave of ab has so far not come up with pur police. In a video message to his pa In a written reply to a sence and has been de a concrete reply except for “Prashant is lucky he was rents on Monday night, the question, Minister of State Protesters throwing stones in the streets of Srinagar on August 8, 2019. * ATUL LOKE/NYT tained without any genuine Parliamentary Aff airs Minis arrested here. We don’t techie said he would be re for Home Aff airs G. Kishan grounds for his detention. ter Pralhad Joshi saying that know what would have hap leased from jail within a Reddy said that from August “The government has in against them,” Mr. Reddy ly student attendance in the Mr. Abdullah was reelected the government would look pened if he had gone to Af month and would come 5 to November 15, 765 per itiated multipronged poli said. He said an investigation Valley was thin, but it picked from the Srinagar consti into it and do whatever pos ghanistan via Pakistan,” said home soon. “Now they sons were arrested in 190 cies to check the menace of revealed that separatist or up gradually and stood at tuency in May 2019. sible within the framework one police offi cer. brought me to court from cases of “stonethrowing and stonethrowing and succeed ganisations and activists, 99.7% during the ongoing ex The government has de of the law. Police sources said the the police station after it was law and order”. ed in curbing it to the extent part of the Hurriyat Confe aminations. He said tained Mr. Abdullah under “We seek to take all legiti two will most likely be repa declared that there was no He said 361 such cases that a large number of trou rence, were behind the inci 34,10,219 tourists, including the Public Safety Act (PSA). mate steps within the frame triated after due process is problem. They will now were registered from Janu blemakers and instigators dents of stonethrowing. 12,934 foreigners, visited The Opposition parties had work of Constitution to en followed. The Indian High send me to jail and inform ary 1 to August 4 this year. has been identifi ed, and pre The NIA had chargesheet Jammu and Kashmir in the taken up the issue during sure Mr. Farooq Abdullah’s Commission will have to get the Indian Embassy here The number of arrests dur ventive measures, including ed 18 persons in the terror past six months, and ₹ 25.12 the allparty meeting on presence in the House,” Na in touch with the police and and then I can contact you,” ing this period was not detention under the Public funding cases so far, he said. crore was earned from Sunday, and then once tional Conference MP Has initiate the process of he said. provided. Safety Act, have been taken Mr. Reddy said that initial tourism. again in the Lok Sabha on nain Masoodi said. repatriation. He said the bail process Telangana police said Mr. would start and both the Maidam has been missing countries would exchange from Hyderabad since April prisoners, which would take 2017. Cyberabad Police time. At the beginning of the We’re becoming a police state, counsel tells SC Commissioner V.C. Sajjanar video, Mr. Maidam was seen said they have written to the taking permission from the State government, which Pakistani offi cials to speak Dushyant Dave questions the need for ‘blanket restrictions’ in Jammu and Kashmir, asks court to stand up for the people will contact the Ministry of in Telugu. External Aff airs seeking his The arrest has left resi S oibam Rocky Singh restrictions violate the right issue. “Their affi davit is a ca cluding the freedom to circu extradition from Pakistan. dents of Mithilapuri Colony, New Delhi to life and liberty under Arti sual approach towards what late one’s ideas. He referred Visakhapatnam in a state of “We are slowly becoming a cle 21, he said. they have done in the State,” to a recent verdict of the Ker A father’s appeal shock. “Their family lived police state,” senior advocate “This kind of restrictions Mr. Dave said, adding that ala High Court that had stat Earlier on Tuesday, Mr. Mai for about fi ve years in this Dushyant Dave said in the is unheardof in a democra the blanket restrictions were ed that Internet freedom was dam’s father Babu Rao met Ganga Residency apartment Supreme Court on Tuesday, cy,” Mr. Dave, who was ap not supported by hard facts. a fundamental right. Mr. Sajjanar and appealed to and they were very close to while referring to the “blan pearing for the Foundation He also argued that the After Mr. Dave concluded him to bring his son back. us. Prasanth was nice to eve ket restrictions” placed in for Media Professionals, said, restrictions should be tem his submission, senior advo Two years ago when Mr. ryone and speaks in a Jammu and Kashmir after its urging the Supreme Court to porary and could not go on cate Meenakshi Arora, ap Maidam left for offi ce and friendly manner. He used to special status under Article step in to protect the rights for over 100 days. pearing for activist Tehseen did not return home, his visit Vizag regularly, before 370 of the Constitution was of the people. stituent Assembly debates. ban wearing of masks by Poonawala and Shoaib Qu father lodged a complaint he went missing,” said Ch revoked on August 5. “This court has to stand He said that even in the protesters, he said. Internet freedom reshi, began her arguments. with the Madhapur police of Sai Baba, a resident. Mr. Dave said the govern up for the people,” Mr. Dave Hong Kong protests, which Mr. Dave also brought the Accusing the government of She said that apart from In Cyberabad and a man mis (With inputs from ment had brought “draco said, invoking the words of have been going on for over attention of the threejudge stifl ing voices of citizens us ternet shutdown, there was sing case was registered on Gilai Harish) nian and sweeping” restric B.R. Ambedkar that rights 50 weeks, the government Bench of Justices N.V. Rama ing the Internet shutdown, no public transport such as tions on all persons in the without remedies was of no has not imposed such res na, R. Subhash Reddy and Mr. Dave said the right to bus services in the State. State without knowing use. “Individual liberty can trictions. Even a Hong Kong B.R. Gavai to the “cavalier” freedom of speech and ex The Bench has posted the whether they had a criminal not be subsumed for social court has ruled against the affi davit fi led by the Centre pression included freedom case for further hearing on Intel network to go live history or not. Such blanket control,” he said citing Con government’s decision to and State government on the of propagation of ideas, in November 21. by the end of next year Govt. running away from “Against 119 sanctioned go to be completed by March 31 Cong. protests removal of SPG cover vernment posts, a total of 53 next year and “IT Solution offi cers are presently in po to go live by 31.12.2020.” questions: Opposition sition; whereas against 123 Earlier, Home Minister Speaker warns party MPs of action after they troop into the well of the Lok Sabha contractual posts, 21 consul Amit Shah reviewed the pro Special Correspondent tants have been deployed. gress of NATGRID in Sep Special Correspondent quest to the members to go New Delhi Surrogacy Bill Central agencies will have tember. The NATGRID links New Delhi back to their seats failed to The Opposition expressed access to the data on NAT intelligence and investiga Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla have any eff ect, Mr. Birla is anguish at the abrupt ad introduced GRID platform in the fi rst tion agencies. The 10 user on Tuesday warned of action sued the warning. journment of the Rajya Sab phase,” Mr. Reddy said. agencies will be linked inde against protesting members “There might have been ha within seven minutes of Special Correspondent He said NATGRID was ex pendently with certain data as Congress MPs trooped in precedents of protesting in convening on Tuesday, and NEW DELHI empted from the Right to In bases which will be pro to the well of the House over the well. From today on accused the government of The government on formation Act, 2005 under cured from 21 providing withdrawal of Special Pro wards, no [member] will running away from answer Tuesday introduced the subsection (2) of Section organisations including tele tection Group (SPG) cover protest in the well. If not, I ing their questions. Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 24. com, tax records, bank, im provided to the Gandhi fami will be forced to take action,” The Upper House pro 2019 in the Rajya Sabha, He added that “physical migration etc. to generate ly, and demanded a res he said. ceedings adjourned after an with Health Minister Harsh infrastructure” is planned intelligence inputs. ponse from Prime Minister Members of the Congress Opposition uproar over al Vardhan terming it a Narendra Modi and Home and the DMK later walked leged police action on prot “gamechanger” as it aims Minister Amit Shah. Parliament disrupted: Opposition members protesting in the out in protest after the esting JNU students and de at regulating surrogacy in “Sonia Gandhi ji and Ra Lok Sabha on Tuesday. * PTI/LSTV Speaker did not allow a dis tention of political leaders India for the fi rst time. Nithyananda accused hul Gandhiji are not normal cussion on the issue. in Jammu and Kashmir. CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC protectees. Vajpayee ji had DMK leader T.R. Baalu too to Mr. Chowdhury raising Soon after the House met allowed Special Protection supported the Congress the issue, and pointed out Rahul absent for the day, the Left and oth the House was adjourned. of illegal confi nement Group security for the Gand leader, and questioned in that the Speaker had already During Zero Hour, Mr. Birla er Opposition party mem “The government had hi family. From 1991 to 2019, adequate security to Con rejected his adjournment took note of Congress leader bers raised the two issues. four good reasons to do so. “Our team is probing the “illegal confi nement”, be the NDA came to power gress president Sonia Gand motion on it. Rahul Gandhi’s absence as Chairman M. Venkaiah The fi rst four questions list matter,” Ahmedabad (Rural) fore the court and hand twice but their SPG cover hi, who along with former As soon as proceedings another Congress MP, K. Su Naidu said the adjournment ed today to be answered by Superintendent of Police them over to them. was never removed. I don’t party chief Rahul Gandhi started at 11 a.m. and Ques resh, got up to speak from notices received from mem Finance Minister Nirmala R.V. Asari said. Meanwhile, the Gujarat know what has happened to and party general secretary tion Hour got under way, Mr. Gandhi’s seat. “His [Ra bers do not warrant setting Sitharaman were on hoard In their petition, the cou Congress slammed the BJP them [Modi government],” Priyanka Gandhi Vadra are Congress MPs walked into hul Gandhi’s] question was aside the listed business of ing notes after demonetisa ple alleged that their two government in the State for Leader of the Congress in now provided security by the well, shouting slogans listed for the Question Hour the day. tion, PMC bank fraud, pu younger daughters were not initiating action against the Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan the Central Reserve Police such as “Prime Minister give and I wanted to give him a Trinamool Congress MP blic sector banks fraud and kidnapped and kept in ille the ashram. “It is a well Chowdhury said after raising Force. reply”, “We want justice” chance had he been pre Derek O’Brien pointed out PSU disinvestment. You run gal confi nement for more known fact that Nithyanan the issue during Zero Hour — Union Minister of State for and “Please stop revenge sent,” the Speaker remarked that not a single member of away when you don’t have than two weeks and were da enjoys protection from when an MP can raise any is Parliamentary Aff airs Arjun politics”. and asked Mr. Suresh to the Opposition went into answers to any of the ques deprived of sleep. the State government des sue with notice. Meghwal, however, objected After the Speaker’s re speak from his own seat. the well, yet within minutes tions,” he said. The Sharmas have urged pite the fact that many chil the court to direct the police dren are being confi ned in as well the institution’s auth the ashram against the wish orities to produce their es of their parents,” Gujarat RS Secretariat to revisit daughters who, they al Congress spokesman Man BJP MPs briefed on PM’s foreign tours leged, are being kept under ish Doshi said on Tuesday. marshals’ dress code Modi’s visits abroad boosted India’s standing, says External Aff airs Minister Uniform was recently changed Gotabaya to visit Delhi Special Correspondent Asean meetings besides his Special Correspondent NEW DELHI trips to Russia, Saudi Arabia, New Delhi The BJP held the fi rst meet Bahrain and Bhutan were al on Nov. 29: Jaishankar Following outrage from mil ing of its parliamentary par so highlighted, with Mr. itary veterans and MPs ty for the winter session on Jaishankar telling BJP MPs In another tweet, Mr. Jaish tory in the November 16 alike, Rajya Sabha Chairman Tuesday with External Af that Mr. Modi brought the is ankar said: “A warm meet election. M. Venkaiah Naidu in fairs Minister S. Jaishankar sue of terrorism to the fore ing with Sri Lanka President Replying to Mr. Modi on formed the House on Tues briefi ng MPs on Prime Minis and found support from @GotabayaR. Conveyed PM Twitter, Mr. Gotabaya said day that the Secretariat ter Narendra Modi’s recent most countries. @narendramodi’s message he looked forward to meet would revisit the design of M. Venkaiah Naidu trips abroad and Commerce of a partnership for shared ing him in “the near future”. the uniform of the marshals. Minister Piyush Goyal ex Decision on RCEP peace, progress, prosperity Pakistan’s Prime Minister On Monday, the fi rst day suggestions, has come out plaining to MPs why India In his briefi ng on India’s de & security. Confi dent that Imran Khan, Nepali Prime of the 250th session of the with a new dress code for decided to keep out of the cision to keep out of the under his leadership, #In Minister K.P. Sharma Oli Rajya Sabha, the marshals the marshals. But we have Regional Comprehensive RCEP, Mr. Goyal said it was diaSriLanka relations would and Maldivian President came wearing new olive received some observations Economic Partnership in the national interest as reach greater heights.” Ibrahim Mohamed Solih green uniform, complete by some political and well (RCEP). joining the grouping would Indian High Commission were among the regional with peak cap and lanyard. meaning people. So, I have Mr. Modi was not present Union Home Minister Amit Shah with other leaders after the have widened India’s trade er Taranjit Singh Sandhu leaders who wished the new The marshals used to wear decided to ask the Secreta at the meeting. BJP parliamentary party meeting on Tuesday. * PTI defi cits with some countries was also present at the President, who won with safari suits during summer riat to revisit the same and Party MPs who attended and harmed its domestic in meeting. 52.25% of the vote, riding on and bandhgalas during win then take a conclusive deci the meeting said that Mr. He spoke in detail about tended by thousands of peo dustry, sources said. He said Mr. Modi was among the his promise to revive the ter, along with turban. sion,” Mr. Naidu said. Jaishankar emphasised the the Prime Minister’s partici ple of Indian origin, which the UPA government fa fi rst international leaders to economy and enhance na “I have a small observa Some MPs had said that point that Mr. Modi’s foreign pation in the United Nations was attended by U.S. Presi voured joining the RCEP but congratulate Mr. Gotabaya tional security, a concern tion to make that the Secre the obvious similarity with visits had boosted India’s General Assembly meeting dent Donald Trump. the Modi government had on Twitter and on the for many Sri Lankans after tariat of the Rajya Sabha, af the Army uniform was a vio standing and furthered the in the U.S. in September and The Prime Minister’s par stood for the country’s inter phone, after his decisive vic the bombings. ter considering the various lation of the rules. country’s interests. the “Howdy Modi” rally, at ticipation in the BRICS and est by keeping out of it. 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THE HINDU DELHI WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2019 NEWS 13 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF RS passes House panel to take More litigants Anti-lynching Bills being Jallianwala back Ayodhya Trust Bill up spyware issue review plea examined, says Centre Indo-Asian News Service Special Correspondent Offi cials summoned for meeting today New Delhi Ayodhya The Jallianwala Bagh Na Sobhana K. Nair After the All India Muslim Allow Kartarpur visit They were passed by the Rajasthan and Manipur Assemblies New Delhi without passport: MP tional Memorial Trust will Personal Law Board decid Special Correspondent NEW DELHI information available, two no longer have the Con The Standing Committee on ed to fi le a review petition New Delhi Congress MP Gurjeet Aujla on Bills on the subject passed gress president as a mem Information and Technolo against the Ayodhya ver Tuesday urged the Centre to The antilynching Bills by the State legislatures of ber, and the Central go gy, headed by Congress dict, seven Muslim litigants ensure that pilgrims can visit passed by the Rajasthan and Manipur and Rajasthan and vernment will have the leader Shashi Tharoor, will have announced their sup Gurdwara Kartarpur Sahib in Manipur Assemblies were reserved by the Governor power to end any mem meet on Wednesday to dis port for the AIMPLB. Pakistan with Aadhaar cards still being examined and are for consideration of the Pre ber’s fi veyear term before cuss the recent breach in After the meeting of the instead of passports, and the yet to get the President’s sident had been received. its expiry, according to an WhatsApp using the Pega AIMPLB held in Lucknow $20 fee is waived. He also consent, the Lok Sabha was amendment passed by the sus spyware. on Sunday, the Jamiat Ule urged restoration of informed on Tuesday. Creating awareness Rajya Sabha on Tuesday. The committee has also ma Hind had announced trade between the two Union Minister of State for “The Bills so received are ex The Jallianwala Bagh Na received a representation Shashi Tharoor its decision to fi le a review countries, at least in the Home Nityanand Rai said amined in consultation with tional Memorial (Amend from 17 persons who have petition. border areas. the Centre, following a Su the concerned Central Mi ment) Act, 2019, which was come together on a com government representa The fi rst three Muslim li preme Court directive, had Union Minister of State for nistries,” he said. passed by the Lok Sabha mon platform, “Pegasus tives,” a member of the tigants who supported the Don’t distort Periyar’s issued two advisories to Home Nityanand Rai Mr. Rai said the govern on August 2, replaced the Targeted Persons.” Committee told The Hindu. move were Mohammad image, says DMK State governments to check ment through audiovisual Congress president as a Offi cials from the IT and In its representation, the Umar and Misbahuddin, NEW DELHI incidents of lynching. dents of mob lynching in the media has also generated member of the Trust with Home Ministries have been “Pegasus Targeted Persons” residents of Ayodhya and DMK MP S. Senthilkumar on “In pursuance to the Hon country,” he said in reply to public awareness to curb the the Leader of the Opposi summoned for the meeting. group has asked the com Faizabad, respectively, and Tuesday condemned Yoga ’ble Supreme Court’s judg a written question. menace of lynching. The go tion in the Lok Sabha, or Kudankulam Nuclear Plant mittee to probe the role of Maulana Mahfuz Ur Rah guru Ramdev for allegedly describing Periyar as a “Dalit ment on July 17, 2018, two On whether a number of vernment has also sensitised the leader of the single lar authorities too have been the Indian government, and man of Ambedkar Nagar. terrorist” and asserted that advisories — on July 23, 2018, States have enacted laws, service providers to take gest Opposition party in asked to depose. The nu to fi nd out whether “public On Monday, four more the image of the social and September 25, 2018 — making lynching a nonbail steps to check the propaga case there is no Leader of clear plant had reported a money has been expended litigants — Haji Mahboob, reformer should not be were issued to the State go able off ence and recom tion of false news and ru Opposition. malware attack on its sys for these illegal and unauth Haji Asad, Hafi z Rizwan distorted. “Periyar fought for vernments and Union Terri mending life imprisonment mours having potential to in The Trust was fi rst set tem. “We will summon the orised attacks”. It also and Maulana Hizbullah — social equality and woman tories’ administrations for for those involved in such cite mob violence and up by then Congress presi WhatsApp offi cials later sought to know “who auth said they would back the empowerment,” he said. taking measures to curb inci violence, Mr. Rai said as per lynching. dent Motilal Nehru in 1920. once we have spoken to the orised this expenditure?” AIMPLB and the Jamiat. Electoral bonds: CEC objected to 1% vote share norm Govt. lied about EC view on poll bonds: Congress Finance Ministry brushed aside objections, including those of Law Ministry, documents obtained via RTI application show SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT The Congress released Priscilla Jebaraj Law Ministry recommended votes polled in the last gener In May 2017, the Finance would need to be a national/ dividual candidates and new NEW DELHI the EC letter of May 2017 to TCA Sharad Raghavan the imposition of a 6% vote al election to the House of Ministry wrote to all State State political party. political parties would not The Congress on Tuesday the Law and Justice Ministry NEW DELHI share requirement (similar the People or the Legislative and national parties asking be able to receive donations said it will expose in Parlia in which the poll panel ex In the process of vetting the to the requirement for recog Assembly, as the case may for their comments on the No public comment under the scheme and cau ment how the Finance Mi pressed its strong opposi electoral bonds scheme in nised State, national parties) be, shall be eligible to receive electoral bond scheme. Only On August 5, a draft incorpo tioned that the “somewhat nistry “lied” about the Elec tion. December 2017, the Law Mi or the removal of the vote the bond.” four parties — the Congress, rated the 1% vote share stipu discriminatory” provision tion Commission’s “Despite knowing this, nistry repeatedly objected to share requirement entirely. According to the latest da the Bahujan Samaj Party, the lation for the fi rst time. might be challenged in the objection to electoral bonds the then MoS for Finance the Finance Ministry’s stipu The Chief Election Commis ta from the Election Com Communist Party of India On August 21, the draft courts. in the Rajya Sabha. told a ‘horrendous lie’ in the lation that political parties sioner (CEC) also objected to mission of India, there are and the Shiromani Akali Dal was presented to Prime Mi When the draft went for Addressing a press confe Upper House that the go must have a 1% vote share in the vote share requirement eight recognised national — responded, with most ask nister Narendra Modi. After vetting in December, the rence at the Congress head vernment received no com the Lok Sabha or State As as discriminatory, while pol political parties, 52 recog ing for a draft of the scheme. that meeting, a proposal to Law Ministry recommended quarters with party spokes plaint from the EC,” Mr. Go sembly elections in order to itical parties themselves nised State parties and 2,487 The documents obtained circulate the draft to all na an amendment to a 6% vote person Supriya Shrinate, goi said, adding that the be eligible for the scheme, were not consulted. unrecognised parties regis through Ms. Bhardwaj’s RTI tional and State parties or to share requirement, saying Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi issue was a breach of parlia documents obtained However, the Finance Mi tered with the Commission. application show that in open it for public comment that the scheme should be said when an MP had asked mentary privilege. through an RTI query by acti nistry chose to ignore these A 6% vote share is one condi June, some early drafts of the was scrapped. aligned with the RPI Act. if the Election Commission “The Electoral Bonds vist Anjali Bhardwaj show. concerns and insisted that tion for recognised parties. It scheme only referenced “re On September 22, in a In response, the Econom (EC) had objected to the scheme by the BJP govern The documents, which only registered political par is not clear how many of the gistered political parties” as meeting with the Economic ic Aff airs Secretary replied: electoral bonds, the former ment is nothing but a me were viewed by The Hindu ties which had “secured not unrecognised parties have a eligible to receive the bond, Aff airs Secretary, CEC A.K. “we have to retain the for Minister of State for Finance chanism to legitimise brib on Tuesday, show that the less than one percent of 1% vote share. while another said the party Joti raised concerns that in mulation of 1% votes”. had lied about it. ery,” Ms. Shrinate said. 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DELHI THE HINDU 14 WORLD WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2019 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Israel settlements not illegal, says U.S Swedish prosecutor drops Decision will provide greater space for Israelis and Palestinians to negotiate peace, says Pompeo Assange rape investigation Lara Jakes reality on the ground,” Mr. David M. Halbfinger Pompeo told reporters at Washington ‘Evidence is not strong enough for fi ling an indictment’ the State Department. (Pre The Trump administration sident Ronald Reagan also declared on Monday that told reporters shortly after Agence France-Presse “But altogether, my as the U.S. does not consider taking offi ce in 1981 that he STOCKHOLM sessment is that the evi Israeli settlements in the did not believe the settle Swedish prosecutors said on dence has weakened in such West Bank a violation of in ments were illegal but called Tuesday they have dropped a way that there is no longer ternational law, reversing new Israeli communities in their investigation into Wiki reason to continue the four decades of U.S. policy . Palestinian territory “unne Leaks founder Julian As investigation.” The announcement by cessarily provocative”.) sange over a 2010 rape alle Mr. Assange, 48, has been Secretary of State Mike The settlements have gation, even though they held at a topsecurity British Pompeo was the latest polit been a main sticking point found the plaintiff ’s claim prison since April after pol ical gift from the Trump ad in peace negotiations that “credible”. ice dragged him out of the ministration to Prime Minis have failed to fi nd a solution “My assessment is that all Ecuadoran embassy in Lon ter Benjamin Netanyahu, for generations. They are investigative measures that Julian Assange don, where he had been who has vowed in two elec home to Israelis in territory can be taken have been ta holed up since 2012 to avoid tions this year to push for that Palestinians have ken. But... the evidence is She said she had previously an extradition order to the annexation of the West fought to control, and their not strong enough to fi le an repeatedly refused to have Sweden. Bank. His chief opponent, presence makes negotia indictment,” deputy direc unprotected sex with him. He was subsequently sen Benny Gantz, has until Wed tions for a twostate solution tor of public prosecutions The statute of limitations tenced to 50 weeks in prison nesday night to gather a ma all the more diffi cult. The EvaMarie Persson told in the case was to expire in for breaching bail conditions jority in Israel’s Parliament twostate solution has been Fighting over land: Israeli border guards keeping watch as bulldozers demolish Palestinian reporters. August 2020. when he took refuge in the or he will relinquish his a primary focus of past houses near the al-Arub camp, on the outskirts of the West Bank town of Hebron. * AFP The investigation was Mr. Assange has always embassy. chance to form a new go peace plans, calling for a launched after a Swedish denied the allegation. Swedish authorities vernment, raising the pros separate state for woman who met Assange at “I want to stress that the closed the rape investigation pect of a third round of Palestinians. a WikiLeaks conference in plaintiff has given a credible in 2017, saying it was not elections. Within hours of the an Palestinians rail against Stockholm in August 2010 and reliable account (of possible to proceed as Mr. The U.S. has in the past nouncement, the State De accused the Australian of events). Her statement is Assange could not be described the settlements as partment issued a travel al having unprotected sex with clear, long and detailed,” Ms. reached. But the case was re illegitimate, and Palesti ert to Americans planning U.S. decision, Israelis hail it her while she was sleeping. Persson said in a statement. opened following his arrest. nians have demanded the to visit Jerusalem, the West land for a future state, a goal Bank or the Gaza Strip. that has been backed by the “Those opposed to the Se Agence France-Presse “The Trump administra “dangerous consequences”. UN, European governments cretary of State’s announce Jerusalem tion has corrected an histor The EU reiterated that it and U.S. allies across West ment may target U.S. govt fa Israeli Prime Minister Benja ic injustice and lined up with considers all settlement ac Three killed by ‘rioters’ in Iran Asia. cilities, interests, and min Netanyahu on Tuesday truth and justice.” tivity “illegal under interna citizens,” the department hailed a U.S. announcement Mr. Pompeo said that af tional law”. Political support said on Twitter. that it no longer considers ter legal consultation Wash The direct impact on the Internet will be unblocked once abuse stops, says govt. But President Donald In Washington, Mr. Pom settlements in the West Bank ington had concluded the ground may be limited but Trump has been persistent peo said the decision would and annexed east Jerusalem establishment of settlements analysts say it will further Agence France-Presse across the country”. lence, the authorities say in changing U.S. policy on provide greater space for illegal, but the Palestinians was “not, per se, inconsis embolden the settlement Tehran The situation in the they have arrested hundreds Israel and the Palestinian the Israelis and Palestinians pledged new measures to tent with international law”. movement. Three security personnel streets remains unclear lar of people. territories — moves aimed at to negotiate over the status oppose it. More than 6,00,000 Is The Palestinian Authority have been killed by “rioters” gely due to the government Iran said on Tuesday the bolstering political support of the settlements. Mr. Netanyahu visited the raelis live in settlements in — which considers the U.S. in Iran, the latest deaths in imposed internet outage internet will only be un for Netanyahu, who has He said that the issue Gush Etzion settlement bloc east Jerusalem and the West biased and has rejected the protests that showed no sign now in its third day. blocked when authorities failed to form a government could be largely left to Israe south of Jerusalem, where Bank, alongside more than 3 Trump administration as a of subsiding on Tuesday, Footage of masked young are sure it will not be mis after two rounds of elec li courts to decide, and that he told settler leaders he was million Palestinians. mediator if peace talks are despite a wave of arrests and men clashing with security used. “The internet will tions with razorthin it had no bearing on legal “very moved” by the an The Arab League criti ever revived — denounced an internet shutdown. forces has been broadcast come back gradually in outcomes. conclusions regarding simi nouncement made by U.S. cised Mr. Pompeo’s announ the latest decision. A shock decision to im on State television, which some provinces where there Monday’s decision re lar situations elsewhere in Secretary of State Mike Pom cement, calling it an “ex Chief negotiator Saeb Ere pose petrol price hikes rarely shows any signs of are assurances the internet versed a 1978 legal opinion the world. peo on Monday. tremely adverse kat said the Palestinians sparked the nationwide de dissent. will not be abused,” govern by the State Department Instead, Mr. Pompeo said “Here, we are on a histor development”. would take a series of mea monstrations in which offi In the latest bloodshed, ment spokesman Ali Rabiei concluding that the settle the issue must be solved by ic day with another tremen The only two Arab states sures to oppose it. “We be cials say at least fi ve people assailants wielding knives said. ments were inconsistent the Israelis and the Palesti dous achievement for the to have signed peace treaties gan deliberations in the UN have been killed. and machetes ambushed Netblocks, a website that with international law. Mr. nians. “And arguments State of Israel, which we with Israel — Egypt and Jor to present a draft resolution The United Nations ex and killed three security per monitors global net shut Pompeo said that ruling about who is right and have greatly worked for,” he dan — also sharply criticised in the Security Council,” he pressed alarm on Tuesday sonnel west of Tehran, the downs, said internet con “hasn’t advanced the cause wrong as a matter of inter told them, according to a the U.S. policy shift, with Jor said. “We expect a (US) veto “that the use of live ammuni ISNA and Fars news agencies nectivity in Iran was at 4% of peace”. national law will not bring statement released by his danian Foreign Minister Ay but we will do it. Let the U.S. tion has allegedly caused a reported late on Monday. on Tuesday compared with “We’ve recognised the peace,” he said. NY TIMES spokesman. man Safadi warning of its veto international law. signifi cant number of deaths In response to the vio normal levels. Hong Kong university holdouts Trump’s call with Zelenksy ‘inappropriate’ ELSEWHERE desperately seek escape routes Offi cials give fi rsthand accounts of conversation between Ukraine & U.S. Presidents Sriram Lakshman tifi ed that he spoke to State their hearings were in pro 1,100 protesters arrested; about 100 still remain on campus Washington DC Department offi cial George gress, as in the case of form As the second week of public Kent and an unnamed intelli er Ukraine Ambassador Ma Reuters impeachment hearings got gence offi cial about the call. rie Yovanovitch’s last week. Rajapaksa seeks Hong Kong underway, Americans heard A decorated Army offi cer, The U.S. Army is consider PM’s resignation Antigovernment protesters from witnesses who could who has served in South Ko ing moving Lt. Col. Vindman COLOMBO holed up in a Hong Kong un provide fi rsthand accounts rea and Iraq, Lt. Col. Vind and his family to a military Former President Mahinda iversity were frantically of conversation between man was brought to the U.S. base for their physical safety, Rajapaksa has sought the searching for escape routes U.S. President Donald as a child by his family, if required, the Wall Street resignation of Prime Minister on Tuesday after more than Trump and Ukrainian Presi which left the Soviet Union Journal reported. Ranil Wickremesinghe, two days of clashes with pol dent Volodymyr Zelensky. forty years ago. On Tuesday, Both provided fi rsthand asserting that governance ice, dramatic breakouts by Calling what he heard on the he called attacks on the cha testimonies of the call. This will improve if the President rope and motorcycle and July 25 phone call “inappro Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman racter of testifying public is signifi cant given that one and the Cabinet are from the more than 1,000 arrests in Out in the open: Injured protesters leaving the Hong Kong priate”, Lieutenant Colonel servants “reprehensible” of the core Republican stra same party. PTI 24 hours. Polytechnic University on Tuesday. * AFP Alexander Vindman, the top the call and testifi ed along and “vile”. tegies has been to discount About 100 protesters Ukraine expert at the Nation side Lt. Col. Vindman on Addressing his father dur the testimonies, saying they Sharif flown to London were trapped in the Poly jured were hospitalised. Hong Kong leader Carrie al Security Council, testifi ed Tuesday, called the call “un ing his opening remarks, he are based on second or for further treatment technic University a day af Police have made about Lam said she had told police that it was “improper for the usual”. “… I found the July said his decision to leave the thirdhand accounts. LAHORE Pakistan’s ailing former Prime ter students, some tired and 1,100 arrests in the past 24 to handle the protests President to request… to de 25th call unusual because in Soviet Union forty years ago In his opening remarks, Minister Nawaz Sharif on fearful of police storming hours on charges, including humanely. mand an investigation into a contrast to other Presiden was the right one. “Do not ranking Intelligence Com Tuesday left for London in an the campus, tried again and rioting and possession of of The university is the last political opponent”. tial calls I had observed, it in worry, I will be fi ne for tell mittee member, Devin air ambulance to seek better again to fl ee, only to be bea fensive weapons. The total of fi ve that protesters have Foreign Service profes volved discussion of what ing the truth,” he said. Nunes, focused his criticism treatment for multiple illness. ten back by police fi ring rub number of those arrested occupied to use as bases sional and an adviser to Vice appeared to be a domestic Mr. Trump has publicly on “media”, referring to This comes days after a court ber bullets, water cannon since protests began in June from which to disrupt the President Mike Pence, Jen political matter. criticised those testifying, in some of them as “puppets of here allowed him to travel and tear gas. Some 235 in is more than 5,000. city. nifer Williams, who was on Lt. Col. Vindman also tes cluding on Twitter while the Democratic Party”. abroad for four weeks. PTI
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THE HINDU CROSSWORD 12785 (set by Hypatia) SUDOKU FAITH Log on to crossword.thehindu.com for more puzzles 14 Thin recorder? (5) 7 Boring book fi nally offered for reading to a toddler (4) Narasimha emerges 17 Say, extras in total, e.g. by estimation (3,4) 8 For starters, ultimately When Prahlada said that the Lord was everywhere, even in a someone employing small atom, Hiranyakasipu struck the pillar before him, and 19 Sensible paper trashed without resources (4) liberal notion (7) out came Narasimha. Hiranyakasipu had requested Brahma 12 Worldclass book for that he should not be killed by man or animal; he should not 21 Stole and returned without a students? (5) be killed inside a structure or outside; he should not be fi ght (5) 13 Mother and grandmother killed during the day or during the night; he should not be 23 Cushy life at her Edinburgh rock! (5) killed by any weapon. Brahma had granted him all his re house (9) quests. And that is why Vishnu had to come as Narasimha — 15 Former busybody on the in halfman, halflion form, said M.A. Venkatakrishnan in a 25 Eat bear (7) telephone (5) discourse. The Lord killed Hiranyakasipu in twilight, which 27 Around lunch time, two queens 16 Hard cryptic grid cracked by was neither day nor night. He sat on the threshold and put became increasingly lustful Incognito, at fi rst (5) the demon on his lap and tore him with His nails. So, he was (7) 18 Picked up comfy clothes for killed neither outside nor inside his palace, and since the 30 Face up to something else program (8) Lord’s nails were used, clearly the boon of not being killed (7,3,2,3) by a weapon was also kept. 20 Robbed diamond that made The Lord went to such lengths to kill Hiranyaksipu, be Robinhood broke (314) ■ DOWN cause He wanted to ensure that Brahma’s promises were 22 Awkwardly lift hubby’s coat kept. As Narasimha, the Lord assumed a huge form, which 1 They’re not even large to cover that’s dirty (6) extended beyond Satyaloka, the abode of Brahma. Satyalo priest (4) S olution to puzzle 12784 Solution to yesterday’s Sudoku ka was near His navel. Vedanta Desika, in his Dasavatara Sto 24 Launching regularly, can ISRO tra, writes that it seemed as if Brahma was emerging again ■ ACROSS 2 Roll up fl ag after fi ne address gain gravity with World (4) from His navel. Hiranyakasipu was himself a huge demon, 9 French official boarding party body’s projectile? (3,3) and the Uttara Kanda of the Ramayana gives us an idea of his bus condemned hypocrisy 3 When it doesn’t rain on 25 Members go up and trade (4) size. Ravana goes on a digvijaya, and reaches the nether (6,9) Spooner’s beloved earth (5,3) 26 Crazy man in perfect condition world, of which Mahabali is king. Ravana sees a dazzling 10 Busy Santa Claus oddly left 4 Attack gangster without one (4) mountain there, and asks Bali about it. Bali says that what dried fruit (7) backup (6) Ravana referred to as a mountain had once been the ear or 11 Since French and German 28 Hint: Reverse the fi rst 9 nament of his (Mahabali’s) greatgrandfather — Hiranyakasi 5 Ratnam, perhaps devours articles are separated (7) letters (4) pu! So, if an ear ornament looked like a mountain, the size of Italian’s favourite pasta (8) 12 Drama staged in front of love 29 Scan metal with the other the demon can be imagined. It was such a huge demon sick creature (9) 6 Judge wore a clean suit (6) hand (4) whom Narasimha lifted easily, and killed using His nails.
CM A ND-NDE YK wednesday • november 20, 2019 Bringing the offi ce closer home Companies with multiple addresses in a city can easily help their employees tide over commuting- related problems
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ast month, tyremanu facturing company LCEAT opened an offi ce in Borivali, a suburb in Mumbai, primarily to spare a sizeable section of its work force the hassle of a long commute to the company’s headquarters in Worli. Frequent traffi c conges tion on the Western Express Highway, which is part of the arterial route leading to Wor li, is reportedly among the factors that contributed to The challenges of travelling to work. FILE PHOTO: SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA this decision. In August 2018, semicon ductor multinational com Coworking spaces to the rescue pany Advanced Micro Devic hile some compa their back on the multiple that with many coworking es set up a “satellite offi ce” nies go in for sa offi ces model. Oracle is spaces on off er, having mul in Bengaluru, and the move Wtellite offi ces, joining the club. Last year, tiple offi ces may not be is said to have been shaped there will also be others Flipkart moved its asso great idea anymore. by a survey that showed 40% who go the other way — ciates to a new offi ce at Em Companies with its oper of its workforce lived in bringing their various offi c bassy Tech Village in Ben ations concentrated in one areas close to the Central Bu es in a city into one com galuru. space can always book a co siness District. mon space. “In Chennai, TCS, for ex working space for its em Early this year, when the Usually, the reasons are ample, closed its Cathedral ployees, or let them work Electronic City fl yover, the li obvious: Reducing opera Road offi ce to move its as from home, says Chugh, feline to a major IT Corridor tional costs; and creating sociates to the Siruseri fa adding that many compa in Bengaluru, was closed for synergy among its various cility a few years ago,” says nies off er employees a pick maintenance, Robert Bosch wings. In Bengaluru, this Sanjay Chugh, city head — anddrop provision at the Engineering and Business year, Goldman Sachs, Swig Chennai, Anarock Property closest metro or from their Solutions Private Limited al gy and Quest have turned Consultants. Chugh says houses. lowed its employees to choose any of its four facili ties in the city to work from. ations, and in process shut moved closer to the new of says Aanandita Bhatnagar, When a company has down a few offi ces. In this fi ce; onetime reimburse director, Corporate Commu multiple addresses, it can scenario, a good part of the ment of packingandmoving nications, NetApp. Today, help its workforce tide over workforce will suddenly be charges for those moving the company has 2,000 em commutingrelated pro faced with the problem of a within 10 km from the offi ce; ployees with a host of added blems. It can come in handy long commute. How does a reimbursement in brokerage amenities on the campus. particularly for companies company deal with this fee and onetime broadband “We were able to take our whose nature of operations issue? installation. employees with us and en is not conducive to readily In 2017, NetApp India con A 50% subsidy on items gage them so well that we off ering a workfromhome solidated its offi ces in Benga bought at the cafeteria was climbed nearly 30 spots to arrangement. luru and moved to a 15acre off ered as an incentive to rank #7 in 2017 in the Good space in Whitefi eld. move closer to the new of Place To Work survey. It was A diff erent scenario The company off ered ma fi ce. the same year that we moved Sometimes, companies may ny doles, including a reloca “About 20% of our em to the new offi ce,” says Aa have to centralise their oper tion allowance to those who ployees availed the off er,” nandita.
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ders and English language A hackathon in textile assessors in ensuring pa technology tient safety and quality of A technical textile hack care. athon will be held in Healthcare profession Mumbai on November 22 als, hospital administra to identify solutions to the tors, employers, educa challenges of sustainable tors and academicians can urban living. attend the meet. The hackathon aims to They can register via build business models http://cloud.2occupation that can be funded, alenglishtest.org/Kochi scaled, and taken at a glo Forum19. bal level. It is expected to bring Finding entrepreneurs the country’s top 10 tech in health sector nical textile startups un IIT Hyderabad’s Centre der one roof, according to for Healthcare Entrepre a statement issued by the neurship (CfHE) is calling organisers Messe Frank for applications for its ful furt India. lypaid fellowship for the While the manufactur year 2020. ing side will be represent According to a release, ed by companies engaged the fellowship is dedicat in the production of pro ed to the goal of creating ducts relating to speciality universal healthcare solu fi bres, yarns, textiles, fa tions, and it seeks to brics, along with brands achieve this by igniting and traders, the entrepre the spark of entrepreneur neur side will be repre ship and providing suc sented by SMEs, startup cessful applicants with ecosystems and training and incubation accelerators. opportunities. Topics centred around Successful applicants India’s sustainability chal will learn about the bio lenges will be taken up design process from IIT with the objective of deve Hyderabad academicians loping focused solutions, and be provided with ac the statement says. cess to mentors, industry professionals, investors Forum for healthcare and advisors. The success professionals ful startups selected from The Occupational En this programme will be gi glish Test (OET), the En ven an opportunity to be glish language test de incubated at CfHE Incuba signed specifi cally for tor with a grant of ₹ 25 lakh healthcare professionals, to establish their compa is conducting ‘Healthcare nies, added the release. Communication Forum The last date to apply is 2019’ at Kochi on Novem November 30. Interested ber 21. candidates can apply at The Forum will focus http://bit.do/ on the shared responsibil cfheapplication2019II ity of healthcare stakehol
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19-11-2019 % CHANGE Yes Bank underreported bad Sensex dddddddddddddddddddddd 40,470 ddddddddddddddd0.46 Karvy Group under SEBI scanner US Dollardddddddddddddddddddd 71.71 ddddddddddddddd0.18 Gold ddddddddddddddddddddddddddd 39,028 ddddddddddddddd0.84 loans of ₹ 3,277 crore, fi nds RBI Brent oil ddddddddddddddddddddd 61.57 ddddddddddddd-1.73 after delayed payouts to clients NIFTY 50 Rana Kapoor and his companies exit almost fully from bank PRICE CHANGE SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Adani Ports...... 364.05...... -1.60 Firm cites technical issues, says it’s working on auto payout for online customers his stake in the company. Mumbai Asian Paints...... 1721.35...... -17.65 A year later, Mr. Kapoor Axis Bank ...... 747.80...... 24.85 ASHISH RUKHAIYAR Yes Bank reported a whop and promoter entities, Yes Bajaj Auto ...... 3161.05...... 4.15 settlement mechanisms by MUMBAI Bajaj Finserv...... 9152.80...... 48.55 Kotak Stock Broking, a per ping ₹ 3,277 crore divergence Capital and Morgan Credits, Bajaj Finance ...... 4135.75...... -19.15 The Securities and Exchange son familiar with the deve of bad loans in the fi nancial are left with only 900 shares Bharti Airtel ...... 439.35...... 30.15
BPCL...... 518.95...... -2.80 Board of India (SEBI) has be lopment said. An email qu year 201819, following after they sold 0.8% stake on Britannia Ind ...... 3120.35...... -20.55 gun an initial inquiry based ery sent to SEBI remained which its gross nonperform November 13 and 14, accord Cipla ...... 472.10...... 11.50 on reports that Hyderabad unanswered till the time of ing assets will increase by ing to an exchange fi ling. Coal India ...... 199.60...... -0.70
Dr Reddys Lab ...... 2743.00...... 6.00 based Karvy Group is facing going to press. 41.5%. Morgan Credits and Yes Eicher Motors...... 21747.35. .... 269.95 liquidity issues, even as the Meanwhile, Karvy has de In a communication to been identifi ed as NPAs till Capital started selling stakes GAIL (India)...... 125.10...... 0.30 fi nancial services entity clar nied that it is facing any li the exchanges, the lender September 30. in September. On Septem Grasim Ind ...... 786.15...... 16.65
HCL Tech...... 1134.65...... -6.45 ifi ed that the delay in quidity crisis and added that said it had reported gross The remaining ₹ 2,018 ber 19, Morgan Credits Pvt. HDFC ...... 2212.10...... -24.20 payouts to certain clients it had the “wherewithal” to NPAs of ₹ 7,883 crore in FY19, crore is across four ac Ltd sold 2.3% shareholding HDFC Bank...... 1271.90...... 9.85 was only due to technical settle the dues, which it had but the RBI, during its in counts, of which exposure of in the bank for about ₹ 340 Hero MotoCorp ...... 2468.95...... -33.95
Hindalco ...... 192.35...... -1.25 issues. been doing consistently. spection, identifi ed NPAs ₹ 1,041 crore is across three crore to prepay nonconver Hind Unilever ...... 2037.75...... -18.45 Karvy Group has been in Rule book: According to SEBI guidelines, the client should get “Some of the codes would worth ₹ 11,160 crore. accounts and was internally tible debentures subscribed ICICI Bank ...... 493.50...... -4.85 the news over the last few the money on the second day from the day of trade. * REUTERS have been missed out during Hence, the divergence or rated and disclosed as ‘BB & by various schemes of Anil IndusInd Bank ...... 1392.75...... 18.35
Bharti Infratel ...... 250.55...... 23.75 days after its equity clients reconciliation process [and] underreporting of gross Below’ as on September 30. Ambani’s Reliance Nippon Infosys ...... 712.85...... 7.65 took to social media to air trade. While the market has tion between ledger postings are being processed and set NPAs was ₹ 3,277 crore. The Also, out of the additional Life Asset Management Indian OilCorp...... 133.00...... 0.45 their grievances over de been abuzz with talks of a li and bank payout fi le creation tled, we wish to bring to your divergence in net NPAs was provisioning requirement of (RNAM) Company. ITC ...... 249.30...... -1.45
JSW Steel...... 247.90...... -1.70 layed payouts. quidity crisis at Karvy, the process. This issue has led to notice that such unrecon ₹ 299 crore for 201819. ₹ 978 crore, the bank has On September 26, Yes Kotak Bank ...... 1623.80...... -3.40 Incidentally, some of the company on Tuesday said some delays in giving ciled customers would be As a result of the increase made a provision of ₹ 346 Capital sold 1.8% sharehold L&T...... 1365.75...... 1.25 clients alleged that they had that the delays were only on payouts to some customers less than 50 to 60 unique in NPAs, provisions for bad crore till end September and ing in the bank to prepay M&M ...... 560.65...... -13.05
Maruti Suzuki ...... 7045.45...... -53.00 not received the payout even account of technical issues who have asked for payouts,” customers a day,” said Karvy. loans for FY19 increased to ₹ 632 crore of more provi nonconvertible debentures Nestle India Ltd...... 14117.10...... 31.55 though more than a week and that it was in the “pro Karvy said in a statement in “We are building process ₹ 978 crore. Hence, net profi t sioning will be required. (NCDs) subscribed by va NTPC ...... 117.35...... -0.10 had passed since trading. cess of enabling T+2 auto response to a query from es to ensure that such unre for FY19 fell to ₹ 1,084 crore rious schemes of Franklin ONGC ...... 133.25...... -0.65 PowerGrid Corp ...... 195.45...... 4.80 According to SEBI guide payout for all online custom The Hindu. conciled cases are recon from ₹ 1,720 crore reported Kapoor sells stake Templeton Asset Manage Reliance Ind ...... 1509.75...... 50.55 lines, the payouts should ers to eliminate manual SEBI, however, has taken ciled the very next day, while fi nalising the results. A year ago, Rana Kapoor, the ment. State Bank ...... 330.40...... 5.30
Sun Pharma ...... 425.90...... 1.35 happen on a T+2 basis, which payout process.” note of the developments instead of the existing recon The bank further in bank’s cofounder and form Also in September, Re Tata Motors ...... 167.75...... -2.35 means that the client should “In the month of October and is examining the matter ciliation process which is be formed the exchanges that er MD & CEO, said ‘Dia liance Nippon Life Asset Tata Steel ...... 401.75...... -8.30 get the money on the second 2019, we have had some to ascertain if there were any ing done on a monthly ba out of the ₹ 3,277 crore, monds are forever’, indicat Management invoked 3.92 % TCS ...... 2108.80...... -43.80
Tech Mahindra ...... 763.15...... 11.35 day from the day of the technical issues in reconcilia lapses in terms of risk and sis,” it added. ₹ 1,259 crore had already ing that he would never sell of its stake in Yes Bank.
Titan ...... 1163.20...... 4.40
UltraTech Cement...... 4100.15...... -26.20
UPL...... 551.25...... 2.25 Vedanta ...... 141.70...... -1.70 ‘Vodafone Idea, Wipro ...... 250.40...... 0.95 Brokers complain as Xiaomi to YES Bank...... 64.15...... -1.70 PV sales up 11% in October: FADA Zee Entertainment ...... 285.85...... -8.30 Airtel lose over raise offl ine NSE faces technical glitch Over 2.48 lakh passenger vehicles sold in festive season EXCHANGE RATES 49 lakh users’ presence Indicative direct rates in rupees a unit Special Correspondent except yen at 4 p.m. on November 19 Updation of margin positions hit CURRENCY TT BUY TT SELL Press Trust of India NEW DELHI Special Correspondent New Delhi CHENNAI US Dollar...... 71.51...... 71.83 SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT (NSE) highlighting Tues Retail sales of passenger veh Euro ...... 79.18...... 79.53 MUMBAI day’s glitch and said that it Vodafone Idea and Bharti icles in the country in Chinese smartphone mak British Pound...... 92.45...... 92.87
Japanese Yen (100) . .. . 65.77...... 66.07 Brokers on the National caused huge fi nancial losses Airtel lost over 49 lakh us creased by 11% to more than er Xiaomi, which started as Chinese Yuan ...... 10.18...... 10.23 Stock Exchange (NSE) were to many brokers. ers in September this year, 2.48 lakh units in October, an exclusive online seller, Swiss Franc ...... 72.12...... 72.44 unable to update their mar “Few members reported while rival Reliance Jio ad with consumer sentiment is planning to ramp up its Singapore Dollar ...... 52.56...... 52.80
Canadian Dollar...... 54.14...... 54.38 gin positions in the system their margin fi les are not ded 69.83 lakh new users turning positive amid the offl ine retail presence to Malaysian Ringitt ...... 17.20...... 17.28 on Tuesday due to a techni getting updated and hence to its network, according to festive season, according to 50% across India by this Source:Indian Bank cal glitch in the systems. Ho exceeding 85% limit, appa data from sectoral regula data released by the Federa year end, said a top offi cial. wever, trading was not dis rently forcing [them] to tor Telecom Regulatory tion of Automobile Dealers “We have a clear focus of rupted in any manner. square off the positions, Authority of India (TRAI). Associations (FADA). expanding our offl ine retail IN BRIEF According to brokers, the running into huge fi nancial Total wireless subscrib “October retails were in Top gear: The festival season saw very good footfalls at presence by the year end,” glitch in the system led to a loss to clients,” ANMI said in ers (GSM, CDMA and LTE) the positive, giving a much dealerships across most of the geographies, says FADA. * PTI said B. Muralikrishnan, Now, Reliance Jio to hike scenario wherein they were the letter to NSE. increased to 117.37 crore at needed respite to the auto COO, Xiaomi India. We are mobile tariffs soon not able to view or update “It is further submitted the end of September 2019 industry and especially our 5% to over 13.34 lakh units in The given fi gures, based planning to double the NEW DELHI their margins. that it is becoming very diffi from 117.1 crore at the end dealer community after the last month, as against on the number of vehicle re number of retail outlets Reliance Jio on Tuesday said it Every broker has to main cult for members to handle of August, a monthly months of degrowth. The more than 12.70 lakh units in gistrations from the Ministry from the present 10,000 to will increase mobile phone tain a certain amount of such situations as one can growth of 0.23%. festivals saw very good foot October 2018. of Road Transport and High 20,000 in the near future.” call and data charges in the margin with the exchange, not infuse or remove mar Wireless subscription in falls at dealerships across Commercial vehicle sales, ways Vaahan platform, does Xiaomi ventured into the next few weeks. This comes a based on which the trading gins etc.,” the association urban areas declined to most of the geographies, the however, continued to de not include numbers from offl ine retail route in 2017. day after Airtel and Vodafone Idea announced a hike in call quantum is ascertained. added in the letter. 65.91 crore at the end of consumer sentiment was cline with a fall of 23% to Telangana, Madhya Pradesh Asserting that offl ine re and data charges from next Simply put, if the ex “'The trading systems September, while that in positive, and purchase deci 67,060 units as compared and Andhra Pradesh. tail accounted for one month. Jio said TRAI is likely change systems do not allow were working normally. rural areas increased to sions were concluded as it with 87,618 units in the year Mr. Kale added that while third of mobile sales — both to initiate a consultation the broker to put in more Some members faced pro 51.45 crore, it added. Bhar used to be during the growth ago month. Threewheeler inventory levels for all vehi for Xiaomi and for the in process for revision in tariffs. margin, the trading limit blems with the support sys ti Airtel lost 23.8 lakh users year,” FADA president Ash sales saw an increase of 4% cle categories had come dustry in general — and the “Like other operators, we will will be hit. tems of the exchange due to in September to take its to ish Harsharaj Kale said. to 59,573 units. Total sales down, more needed to be rest online, he said: “Over also work with the Centre and The Association of Na an inadvertent error on the tal user base to 32.55 crore. across categories rose 4% to done towards inventory re the years, our offl ine sales comply with the regulatory tional Exchanges Members part of the vendor. Normal Similarly, Vodafone Idea Two-wheeler sales up 5% over 17.09 lakh units, as duction to avoid dealer loss has been growing by leaps regime to strengthen the of India (ANMI), the umbrel operations resumed from lost 25.7 lakh users in the The data released on Tues against more than 16.38 lakh es “heading into the un and bounds. By the end of industry to benefit la body of brokers, wrote to 11:15 a.m.,” said an NSE spo month to take its total user day showed that retail sales units in the same month last known territory of BS6 the year, it will probably be consumers,” it said. PTI the National Stock Exchange kesperson. base to 37.24 crore. of twowheelers were up by year. transition”. 50:50 [online vs offl ine].” 5 independent Telcos asked to share infra directors’ posts fall DoT advisory aims to boost connectivity in public places Yuthika Bhargava buildings, places like air many cases, building own vacant at CIL NEW DELHI ports, railway stations, bus ers enter into an exclusive In a move that is likely to terminals, metro stations/ agreement with one of the Special Correspondent lead to better telecom con lines, hospitals etc., as per TSPs, and deny access to KOLKATA nectivity for consumers, the the terms and conditions of others. The posts of fi ve indepen government has advised all their respective licenses,” “Such practices not only dent directors at Coal India service providers to share the Department of Telecom limit competition, it also Ltd. have fallen vacant to their inbuilding infrastruc munications (DoT) said in an leaves no choice to consum gether, following the expi ture with their peers in all advisory. ers except to avail services ry of their tenure, the PSU public buildings, including In order to provide a bet from the TSP with whom the said in a regulatory fi ling government offi ces, air ter network for voice calls as contract is done; taking on Tuesday. CIL said the ports, railway stations and well as high speed broad away choice and fl exibility matter had been taken up hospitals. band inside buildings, TSPs from the consumers which with the Union Coal “All the telecom service need to install inbuilding they would have had in Ministry. providers(TSPs) are advised solutions (IBS) as well as lay terms of quality of service The fi ve directors are to share the inbuilding in cables including copper, op (QoS), tariff , redundancy Loretta M. Vyas, S.B. Agni frastructure (IBS, OFC and tical fi bre and LAN cables. etc.,” the Telecom Regulato hotri, D.C. Panigrahi, Kha other cables, ducts, etc.) For this, they may require ry Authority of India (TRAI) nindra Pathak and Vinod with other TSPs, in all the ex permission from the owner observed in its recommen Jain. They were among isting government/public of the building. However, in dations in March 2017. CIL’s seven independent directors. While Ms. Vyas and Mr. Agnihotri had served in the CSB Bank to raise ₹ 410 cr. via IPO Indian Administrative Ser vice, Mr. Pathak is a well known mining expert and Off er opens on Nov. 22 and priced at ₹ 193195 a share Mr. Jain is a chartered ac countant. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT reduce stake to 15%. Promo Their term (reappoint Mumbai ters will have 5 years to re ment for a year) expired on Thrissurbased old genera duce stake to 40%, 10 years November 16, 2019. tion private lender CSB Bank to reduce stake to 30% and They were appointed in — earlier known as Catholic 15 years for bringing it down November 2015 for a pe Syrian Bank — has set a price to 15%. The bank is going for riod of three years. band of ₹ 193195 per share the IPO mainly to meet regu CIL has four functional for its initial public off er latory requirements. directors in charge of mar (IPO), valuing the bank at RBI had asked the lender keting, technical, person ₹ 3,400 crore. The IPO opens to list by September but nel and fi nance, besides on November 22 and closes C.V.R. Rajendran there was a delay due to pro the chairman and manag on November 26. cedural issues. The bank re ing director. The vacancies The IPO consists of fresh Capital Limited and IIFL Se ported ₹ 44 crore profi t for come at a time when CIL, issue up to ₹ 24 crore and an curities Limited. the halfyear ended Septem which produces over 80% off er for sale of up to IndoCanadian billionaire ber 2019 as compared with a of India’s coal, is struggling 1,97,78,298 equity shares. businessman Prem Watsa’s ₹ 197 crore loss for the full fi to increase its output. Oc Three insurance compa Fairfax India, which has nancial year 201819. While tober was its third straight nies — HDFC Life, ICICI Pru 50.09% stake in the bank, the loan book of the bank is month of production de dential and Edelweiss Tokyo will see its stake falling to at ₹ 11,500 crore its deposit cline. Between April and Life Insurance Company, 49.74% post the IPO, C.V.R. base is ₹ 15,000 crore, 25% of October 2019, CIL pro which have stake in the bank Rajendran, MD & CEO, CSB which is from NRIs. Mr. Ra duced 280.4 million — will exit following the IPO. Bank, told reporters. jendran said the bank was tonnes, 8.5% lower than a The book running lead man The RBI has given promo going slow on deposits as the year ago. agers to the off er are Axis ters a 15yeartime period to bank had surplus liquidity. CM YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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a certain point, I realised I needed CONSCIOUS LIVING to pursue things I like,” shares Adam, who even created a web comic on him leaving Buzzfeed. No-waste cooking and plating For Adam, the idea is more im portant than the art work. “I have seen a lot of people, who may not be the most accomplished artists, L ife, cats but are doing well on Instagram. That is because they are smart and funny.” As for his creative process, and a Adam says: “It’s very quick for me. I just sit down at my desk, sketch, add colour, and since it’s all digi tal, it goes pretty quickly. Usually, from the idea to the fi nished pro duct, it takes only a couple of hours and that is one of the things CHILD I love about making stuff for the in American illustrator and author Adam Ellis ternet, you can put your idea out there.” Adam is quite open about says he likes to create comics that he feels his life. His recent book Super good about and not think about how many Chill: A Year Of Living Anxiously, ‘likes’ it gets on social media which, as the title suggests, is GHOST about his emotional struggles . His Handwoven leaves as a platter and bowl other books include Tiny Hats on SRAVASTI DATTA Adam says he stumbled into il Cats: Because Every Cat Deserves A yandrali Dutta, a food lustrating as a career by accident. to Feel Fancy , which shows his blogger, does a 35-hour On Adam Ellis’ Instagram page, “I was working part time at a job love for cats. In 2017, Adam tweet elective on food at the @adamtots, his character (a that I did not like. So in my down ed extensively about a child ghost National Institute of bearded Adam) checks into the time, I started making comics to allegedly haunting his apartment. Fashion Technology. Her airport a day earlier. The airline pass the time and put them on my The ghost, which he called ‘Dear course treads through staff is stupefi ed and asks, ‘why blog Books of Adam in 2010 and it David’, also began to appear in a the Harappan are you so early?’ Well, that is just took off pretty quickly. Within series of dreams. “That is another Civilisation, the Mughal the point. Air travel is so cumber about six months, I was able to thing that was completely unex Era, and moves across major food hubs like some: reaching on time, checking quit my job and focus on comics pected. I told a friend about it. Delhi and Kolkata, while in, waiting for the fl ight while hop and writing full time.” And she said, ‘this is crazy, you also taking into account ing it is not delayed. should put this on the internet.’ I temple foods. Dutta This experience is almost un thought nobody wants to hear breaks the course’s iversal, so it was only natural that Tete-a-tete about my dreams, but eventually evaluation down to illustrator and author Adam Ellis put it out there and went out for Adam says his inspiration is Belgian cartoonist three parts. “The first would depict it. The word ‘natu Georgis Remi, whose pen name was Herge, and lunch. By the time I returned, it evaluation is written,” ral’ is the right word here as created The Adventures of Tintin had gone viral and was trending she says. She asked her Adam’s creativity is spontaneous. The making of the fi lm on Dear David has been on Twitter. It was a complete sur Guacamole served with no recent batch of 40 “I have been told my work is real announced, says Adam prise, and opened up all these ave cutlery, in the fruit’s shell students, a mix from and relatable. But I try not to think Adam says the online space works well for artists nues that I never thought I would various disciplines about what will be relatable to pe looking to reach out to their audience faster: be a part of — like there is a movie within NIFT, to write ople. I try to make stuff I like and “Instagram feels a lot like the Sunday comics in the in production. Then there is about one dish that had think is funny. The fact that people newspaper. It’s removed a lot of obstacles. You Trending Fear , in which my kindled a sense of also relate to them is an added bo don’t have to go through a syndicate or a publisher friends and I travel around Ameri family. “The second is nus. If you try too hard to create ca, investigating other people’s after a food-walk to old something, thinking about how hauntings, and that has been a Delhi, where I ask them many likes it’s going to get on so strangecool experience. We did about the food they cial media, then it does not feel as In 2013, he published Books of six episodes and it is going to pre experienced. The last one, is where I ask them genuine. I like to make stuff that Adam: The Blunder Years— a hu mière in December and that just to make something on feels good to me,” says a bashful morous take on his life. “Even a happened by chance.” The conver the spot, which doesn’t Adam, who was at the Bengaluru couple years ago I would have nev sation veers to his visit to Bengalu need any cooking,” she Comic Con 2019, held last week at er anticipated that being an illus ru—his fi rst time in the city. When says. She encourages Maruti Suzuki Arena, KTPO, Whi trator would allow me to attend asked what comic he would create them to serve and plate tefi eld. conventions in India and Europe. I on his fi rst impressions, Adam re Coconut and corn salad in it with a no-waste Adam adds: “The protagonist have been able to travel and talk plies, “I will probably make a com coconut shell bowls ideology. Adam is a heightened version of about my art and feel lucky.” ment about the traffi c I live in New me. I sort of explore insecurities Adam also worked in BuzzFeed York, so I feel like I know what cra and quirks in a more exaggerated in 2015. “I was there for about Stories and toons zy traffi c is like. This is a complete way. But I am not quite as neurotic fourandahalf years and learned ly diff erent world, though,” he Adam Ellis * SUDHAKARA JAIN as the character.” so much while I was there. But, at signs off .
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An ambitious project in the luxury mall, The Chanakya, the Kimono Club is an establishment whose suc cess will lie in the crowd it will at tract. With interiors which appear inspired from Park Chinois, London (think red velvet, bell lamp shades For the epicurean Dimsums; the interiors; and iceable. From the and dim lighting) the expansive nibbling prawns * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT dessert menu, both space designed by admanartist the caramel choco Freddy Birdy is sexy, but not sexy ders defi nitely know how to shake a prawn, late tart and the enough; kitsch but restrained. It’s cocktail or two. The restaurant perfectly aerated tofu chee almost as if Freddy was not allowed serves a mix of Chinese and Japa fried and secake lacked S kagen, the once-Danish watchmakers, have launched their to go all the way. nese favourites, with a plethora of with a light depth and soul. jewellwey line in India with two collections: Agnethe and On the Monday night I visited, vegetarian options. skin. The Go with: A date Ellen. Agnethe uses imitation pearls and mother of pearl in my wife was fi rst told over the Do try: Their dimsums. Perhaps spicy avoca or your friends. new ways, along with both 925 Sterling Silver as well as phone that they don’t take reserva an empty restaurant!). Others have the fi nest in Delhi by a stretch, the do rolls had Spacebar: 175 stainless steel for its durability and anti-erosion properties. tions after 8.30 pm – a policy which similar complaints, and it is a ‘skin’ of the dimsums are super thin generous covers, 5,000 square The Ellen Collection, also available in both sterling silver I abhor; Bukhara can do it, but a shame because it detracts from the and the fi lling delicious. Their Xiao amounts of avoca feet and stainless steel variations, features rose quartz and onyx stones in its pieces. new and mostly empty restaurant great food that chef Vikramjit Roy longbao’s (soup dumplings) rival do and were well put How much: ₹ 3,500 for just cannot. Then, despite having a puts out. the legendary Taiwanese chain, Din together. two (sans alcohol) A vailable at the Skagen kiosk at Mall of India; and from next month reservation, the ‘posh’ hostess told Kimono Club is part bar and part Tai Fung – bursting with fl avour and Skip: The Duck Carpaccio – Getting there: Let’s face it, online on Amazon, and offl ine at Fossil stores; upwards of ₹ 1,995 us we didn’t, but as a special favour, restaurant. The 40 foot long bar is a juicy. The Crispy Prawn Cheung apart from being too thick, the yuzu you’re either going in your car or if she would arrange a table for us (in lovely place to sit at and the barten Fun was also excellent – succulent and orange fl avours were not not sensible, using a ride sharing app. Contact us at [email protected]
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FAIR FOOD EXHIBITION CUISINE GIG Crafts mela Kulcha special Photography Winter menu Indus Creed live Dastkar has organised Nature 2019, its annual Singh Sahib, an eatery at Eros Hotel, is offering The ongoing exhibition titled 99+1 Japan: Anglow, an Anglo-Indian themed bar and Saints & Sinners will be celebrating their 500th winter mela, dedicated to craftspeople and signature Amritsari Kulcha found on the streets Travelling through Art, Design and Architecture, kitchen, has launched a new winter menu. gig by hosting the award-winning band Indus traditional Indian handicrafts. On till 24th of undivided Punjab. On till 27th November, this at Tenshin Okakura Gallery is based on a Curated by food consultant Bridget White Creed with Traffic Jam tonight. Indus Creed November, the exhibition-cum-sale features a special menu has variety of kulchas such as brochure published by the Japan National Kumar, the menu features Duck Ding Ding, comprises Uday Benegal on the vocals and wide array of paintings, handwoven garments, Murgh Afghani Kulcha, Tandoori Prawn ka Tourism Organisation. The photo show is Chicken Liver & Kidney, Bengal Lancers Shrimp guitars, Mahesh Tinaikar on the guitars and Zubin tribal weaves, wood crafts, terracotta and sea- Kulcha, Kacche Kele aur Pyaz ka Kulcha and organised with an aim to provide tourist Curry, Vegetable Chops, Aubergine and Potato Balaporia on the keyboards. The band plays indie shell craft. Mushroom Methi ka Kulcha, and more. information about the country for the travellers. Vindaloo, Deviled Scotch Eggs, to name a few. alternative and rock. Venue: Kisan Haat, Andheria Modh Venue: Eros Hotel Nehru Place Venue: The Japan Foundation, Lajpat Nagar IV Venue: 57, Khan Market, Rabindra Nagar Venue: Golf Course Road, Gurugram Time: 11 a.m. - 7:30 p.m. Time: 12 noon-3 p.m. and 7 p.m.–12 midnight Time: 11 a.m. - 7 p.m. Time: 11 a.m. - 1 a.m. Time: 7 p.m.
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Rough and ready If it is sheer road presence you seek, then you could check out the V-Cross
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a manual mode, and those who take it off the road will appreciate the fact that it holds on to gears in this mode — it will only downshift automatically if the revs fall too low. This motor is quite refi ned, but it does get clattery when under load, and from there on there’s no hid ing from the fact that there’s a big diesel mill under the bonnet. The VCross rides on massive 255/60 tyres, which iron out road imperfec This truck is now gets new bibeam LED headlamps with with several storage areas, and all the gine is only BSIV compliant. Buyers will tions and smaller potholes, and despite DRLs, a massive chrome grille, and buttons and switches are large and built appreciate the fact that the core charac ISUZU D-MAX V-CROSS riding on 18inch wheels, it fi lters road Z-PRESTIGE AT available with two chrome inserts around the fog lamps. to last. There are multiple charging pro teristic of this engine is very similar to shocks from larger bumps well. The V engines and This Isuzu now sits on large 18inch visions too — three USB slots and two the bigger capacity unit, and it feels ENGINE: 1898cc, 4 cyl, turbo- Cross is typically rearwheel drive; ho alloys, and other new bits include a 12V sockets. In terms of equipment, this smoother now. The bottomend is al diesel wever, it gets a 4high and a 4low mode transmissions and gets sidestep and a sharkfi n antenna. The rangetopping Z Prestige variant gets most as nice as the 2.5’s, and once the to tackle some tricky situations, and MAX POWER (HP @ RPM): 150hp taillamps get LED elements, and the cruise control, six airbags, ESP, traction turbo is at full boost around 2,000rpm, reach places where few SUVs can. In an all-black theme on the at 3600rpm rear sports several badges, massive ‘ISU control, hilldescent control, hillstart performance feels strong and it remains terms of ride quality, there’s plenty of inside ZU’ lettering, and a chunky chrome assist, reverse camera, a new MID, key so until about 3,000rpm, after which MAX TORQUE (NM @ RPM): movement in the cabin at all speeds, bumper. As before, the cargo area re less entry and go, among other features. power begins to taper. It is this strong 350Nm at 1800-2600rpm and it feels rather bouncy, especially at Saumil Shah mains uncovered and has a loadcarry The talking point of the VCross auto midrange that makes the VCross an ef the rear, particularly when the cargo GEARBOX: 6-speed automatic ing capacity of 235kg. matic is its new 150hp, 1,898cc, fourcy fortless cruiser. This 1.9tonne truck bed isn’t loaded up. Its steering feels Pickup trucks are looked at as utilitar On the inside is where most changes linder diesel engine, which makes 16hp sprints from 0100kph in a respectable TYRES (F/R): 255/60 R18 heavy at low speeds and, because of its ian vehicles, but in India, this body style are — it gets an allblack theme, which more than the larger 2.5litre die 13.22sec. large turning circle, it is a bit ponderous FRONT BRAKES: Ventilated discs is rare; it caters to a rather niche set of goes well with its outdoorsy character, sel available in the to drive. On the fl ip side, this heft infus buyers. Isuzu has refreshed its DMax V and there are many premium touches lower variants. REAR BRAKES: Drums es confi dence in the driver at highway Cross pickup truck and added several like some softtouch bits on the dash Curiously, this speeds. LENGTH (MM): 5295mm premium features to go well with its lif board fascia and over the hood of the in new 1.9litre en The VCross is a tough fourwheel estyle image. This truck is now available strument cluster. The WIDTH (MM): 1860mm drive vehicle that ranks high when it with two engines and transmissions — large and comfy seats comes to utility and capability. The au HEIGHT (MM): 1855mm the lower variants are still powered by now wear new brown tomatic transmission and other parking the 2.5litre diesel engine mated to the leatherette upholstery, WHEELBASE (MM): aids have made it a lot easier to live with 5speed manual, while there’s an all which feels nice, and 3095mmAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA than before. Still as a daily driver, the V new rangetopping Z Prestige variant the driver’s seat also Cross isn’t ideal due to its massive di which gets an allnew 1.9litre diesel en gets electric adjust mensions, heavy steering, and large gine mated to a 6speed automatic ment. Getting into the Mated to this engine is an turning circle. At ₹ 19.99 lakh (exshow transmission, and that’s the variant re rear (like the front) is allnew 6speed automatic room, Delhi), this truck is too expen viewed here. a bit of a trek, but, (torque converter), which sive. What you get for this price are sev The Isuzu VCross is a typical ladder once in, you realise the brings some muchneeded eral premium yet usable features, a frame pickup truck that’s equipped space here is generous. The seat convenience while around. It fourwheeldrive system and the conve with fourwheel drive. This massive is lowset and backrest a bit upright, works well and does its job nience of an automatic transmission, truck towers over regular hatchbacks still, passengers will be quite comfy over smoothly, but put your foot and if it is sheer road presence you seek, and sedans, and is even longer than a long journeys. down, and there is quite a pause before there’s simply nothing that comes close Mercedes Sclass. With this facelift, it The cabin retains its practical design downshifting. What’s nice is that there’s to the VCross.
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THE HINDU DELHI WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2019 SPORT 19 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Memories from another era A fan, a player and an umpire recall the fi rstever fl oodlit ODI on Indian soil P INK-BALL TEST Y.B. Sarangi KOLKATA At 60, Praveen Kumar Soni is eagerly waiting to witness another chapter in Indian cricket unfold. As a 25yearold ardent fan, Soni was at the Jawahar lal Nehru Stadium to watch the fi rstever fl oodlit white ball ODI, between India and Australia on September 28, Praveen Kumar Soni. 1984 — six years after the gla * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT morous version of interna tional cricket was fi rst played at Sydney. After 35 years, he is ready to see the country host the fi rstever pinkball Test at the
Slipping away: Oman’s Mohsin alKhaldi, left, gets past India’s Nishu Kumar and Vinit Rai. Oman won 10.* AFP Eden Gardens here from Friday.
‘Fantastic atmosphere’ India almost out of contention “Fantastic atmosphere. I re member coverdrives from Kapil Dev and Sunil Gavas Loses to Oman, courtesy AlGhassani’s 33rdminute goal kar. Also, a tremendous catch by Graham Yallop at Surender Khanna. WC QUALIFIERS India is almost out of reck and Nishu Kumar coming in India had a few raids at gully to dismiss Dilip * FILE PHOTO oning for a third round for Pritam Kotal, Mandar the opposition goal but Vengsarkar. Press Trust of India berth. It has only three more Rao Desai and Sahal Abdul could not pose any threat to “It was great to be part of Muscat matches — maximum nine Samad. the Omani goalkeeper Ali Al history — the fi rstever fl oo The Indian football team points — left to play in this Habsi. dlit ODI match on Indian soil. was on Tuesday virtually second round of the Missed penalty A new cricket culture had ar knocked out of the 2022 qualifi ers. India was, however, lucky Three substitutions rived. I will be at the Eden World Cup qualifying round Even the runnerup team not to have conceded a goal India made three substitu Gardens for the pinkball after losing 01 to Oman is not guaranteed an auto in the seventh minute when tions in the fi rst half with Vi Test,” said Soni, now the Del here. matic spot for the third AlGhassani shot over the nit Rai coming in for Pranoy hi and District Cricket Asso Muhsen AlGhassani round of the qualifi ers. bar from the penalty spot. Halder who was booked in ciation (DDCA) media man scored the allimportant The Indian team is, ho AlGhassani himself the 26th minute while an in ager, told The Hindu. goal in the 33rd minute at wever, still in the hunt for a earned the spot kick after a jury to central defender Adil However, Soni pointed out the Sultan Qaboos Sports third round berth for the clumsy challenge inside the Khan led to Anas Edathodi that the stands of the huge Complex Stadium as Oman 2023 Asian Cup qualifi ers. Indian box by Rahul Bheke ka taking his place. Nehru Stadium were fi lled Here I am... Cheteshwar Pujara arrives in Kolkata on Tuesday, beat India for the second This campaign is also a who was beaten for pace by India played better in the only 60%, perhaps, due to ahead of the historic Test. * PTI Piloo Reporter. * FILE PHOTO time in the campaign. joint qualifying round for Omani striker. second half with a lot of ball the ‘skepticism’ of the cricket Oman had defeated India the 2023 Asian Cup and the AlGhassani later made possession and attack at the purists. ty of fl oodlights, there was lights at Gwalior in 1997. out. For me, it was memora 21 in the fi rst leg in Septem thirdplaced teams and the amends as he fi red home in opposition citadel but a Another Delhiite, Suren history. The fi rst whiteball ODI in ble because both the teams ber in Guwahati. best four fourthplaced the 33rd minute past Indian clear chance eluded it. der Khanna, the Indian wick “The only minus point the country also brought complimented me for my With just three points teams from the eight groups goalkeeper Gurpreet Singh Oman nearly doubled its etkeeper in that match, was when the fi elder had to good tidings for umpire Piloo work,” said the 81yearold from fi ve matches, India still automatically get a spot in Sandhu after a beautiful de lead in the 64th minute but shared his experience of spot the ball in the air with Reporter, who made his in Reporter. remain at fourth spot in the the third round of the quali fencesplitting through pass Indian goalkeeper Gurpreet keeping to the white ball un the lights in the background. ternational debut in that As the Eden Gardens is all Group E table, headed by fi ers of the continental by Mohsin Johar Al Khaldi. dived full length to his left to der lights. You had to wait for the ball to match. set to script a similar history Asian champions Qatar championships. Oman had more of the block an Al Khaldi free kick. “It was an artifi cial turf but descend to spot it. Other “What excitement! It took with the pink ball — fi rst ex which has 13 points from fi ve Earlier, head coach Igor ball possession in the fi rst All of India’s last three the lights were magnifi cent. I wise, it was an unforgettable a few deliveries for us (um perimented in Adelaide, in matches. Oman is at second Stimac made three changes half but it had few clear matches will be played next had no trouble spotting the experience,” said Khanna, pires) to settle down and 2015 – the cricket fraternity spot with 12 points. to his side that drew Afghan chances. Ahmed Al Kaabi year — against Qatar (at ball. who incidentally coached then it was fi ne. I remember in India will keenly watch With a nine point gap istan 11 in Dushanbe on No got a free header in the 27th home on March 26), Bangla “The ODI against Australia Delhi in the Ranji Trophy fi giving an early decision — whether the idea can bring with the secondplace team vember 14 with Manvir minute but sent the ball over desh (away, June 4) and Af was as good as any other nal against Bombay when the caught behind. Light was back the spectators to the (Oman) in the group table, Singh, Farukh Choudhary the bar from a corner kick. ghanistan (at home, June 9). match. There was the novel match was played under fi ne. We had a superb turn longer version of the game. Pink ball a challenge for A sport for nerds which makes millionaires of players umpires, too: Taufel two years’ time, so T20 is a sport far more interesting than the actual Cricket, like all sport, generates the authors explain why. “No for nerds and numbercrunchers. game on the fi eld, whatever the statistics and allows for compari team,” they say, “identifi ed under Press Trust of India Old theories do not apply; nor do number of sixes hit. Some might sons between players and eras. But valued players as consistently as Kolkata old ways of calculating how good a prefer to read the book to watching what is unique to the numbers gen KKR.” This is no mere “gut feeling”. Sighting the pink ball during player is. a match. erated in T20, especially the IPL, is Everything — as in the format itself the twilight period will be a Sometimes the philosophy of a that these lead directly to commer — is supported by fi gures. challenge not only for the BETWEEN WICKETS Variety of changes thing is more interesting than the cial gains for the player. The best Things are still evolving, of batsmen but also the um Some of the changes are inevitable thing itself. batsman is not the one who scores course. As R. Ashwin said in an in pires, who are expected to suresh menon given the essential shift to a win I have been arguing for many the most or averages the highest, terview, “I basically think that six attend some practice ses ningiseverything philosophy. years now that T20 is a sport that but the one who can be relied upon wellconstructed bad balls could be sions to get used to the new ricket’s version of Saul Bellow’s Some changes are cultural, as when looks and feels like cricket, uses the in tight situations. This happy mar the way to go forward…” Thus, the colour, retired Australian Cmuchquoted question: “Who emotions are taken out of team se same equipment, and many of the riage of the concrete and the ab value of unpredictability. umpire Simon Taufel said is the Tolstoy of the Zulus?” is, lections, and top players like Sou same personnel, but it is in fact a stract adds to the format’s Equally important are the pro on Tuesday. “Who is the Cardus of T20?” rav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid are diff erent sport altogether. In time it uniqueness. blems, both current and future. Taufel, who was present The Cardusian philosophy is that dropped by their teams. Some might even have its own governing The chapter ‘Why CSK win and The scope for fi xing games, so at the fi rstever pinkball the scoreboard is an ass, that fi changes nod in the direction of body. Cricket 2.0 is a history of the RCB lose’ summarises the authors’ mething the IPL has seen, is one.
Test in Adelaide as ICC Um Simon Taufel. * AFP gures don’t matter, that beauty is American sport with projections format, its evolution speeded up by clearheaded reading of what With powerhitting an important pire Performance and Train all. It refl ects the mistake in assum worked out by experts. the IPL, and its possible future. makes T20 the sport it is, and why element, there is the likely issue of ing Manager, said the um practice session with the ing that T20 is a version of 50over T20 burst into prominence with Clearly the format works diff erent mining data is so crucial to it. performanceenhancing drugs rais pires can use artifi cial lenses pink ball so that they are or even fi rst class cricket. the IPL just over a decade ago. It ly. Some teams, like Rajasthan ing its head too. In 2018, say the to have a better view. pretty confi dent of seeing But in T20, the scoreboard is was “cricketainment” then, but Royals, were quick on the uptake. authors, there were 719 fi xtures “I don’t know whether the right things at the right everything, and the best writing with so many millions of dollars in Revelations Others, like KKR worked it out as worldwide, hence the potential for they will wear any special time,” he said. would focus on data, its usage and volved, it outgrew that early label. Some of the revelations come with they went along. The basis on corruption. A game built on sixhit lenses to see the ball diff e “You have a twilight pe constant reappraisals. Cricket 2.0: Now the auctions no longer sur the startling force of unexpected which they picked their players, ting is clearly vulnerable to doping. rently. That’s entirely up to riod when the light changes Inside the T20 Revolution by Tim prise, cheerleaders no longer thunder on a still night. Who ima made clear what was expected of By not ignoring the potential for them. But they will be at as it goes from very bright to Wigmore and Freddie Wilde does shock. Data is the new cover drive. gined, for example, that part of them, and suggested the harmful danger, the authors give us a round tending as many net ses sunshine to artifi cial light. exactly that. The beauty is in the relationship Chris Gayle’s impact lay in the way eff ects of ego — whether belonging ed picture. Cardus loved to tell us sions as possible,” Taufel That period is more chal It is the fi rst serious book on a between fi gures. he forced bowlers into bowling to the players or owners — is well the stories behind the scoreboard, told PTI. lenging for the batsmen to format that began by confusing Wigmore and Wilde take us on wides to him to keep him in check, written. of the players behind the fi gures. “They will be going pick up the ball. I would ex players and commentators alike, an absorbing ride while emphasis thus giving his team extra deliveries Wigmore and Wilde do that too. through their net session pect a similar type of chal but has evolved into something ing this change. It is possible that to play with? Gayle received nearly ‘Team’ format But the real heroes are not the and simulation activities. lenge for the umpires as both challenging and fascinating. the pretournament computations twice as many deliveries as the av Kane Williamson says T20 is the players, but the data analysts. This Maybe trying to see some well.” The data may become obsolete in made in airconditioned offi ces are erage batsman! most “team” format of cricket, and is the nerds’ triumph. France overcomes Japan; Russia bests champion Croatia Camp from Nov. 21
DAVIS CUP FINALS while Kazakhstan also need mo Gonzalez & Leonardo Mayer Davis Cup tie to be held at NurSultan ed the doubles match to beat bt Jarry & Hans PodlipnikCas Associated Press the Netherlands 21 in Group tillo 63, 75] Special Correspondent As announced earlier, Ro MADRID E. Group E: Kazakhstan bt The NEW DELHI hit Rajpal will be the non Two days after clinching the Meanwhile on the open Netherlands 21 [Mikhail Ku The Indian Davis Cup team playing captain and Zeesh doubles title in the ATP Fi ing day, Karen Khachanov kushkin bt Botic van de Zan will assemble at the DLTA an Ali will continue as the schulp 62, 62; Alexander Bu nals, French duo Pierre and Andrey Rublev helped Complex here for three days coach. blik lost to Robin Haase 75, Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Russia open with a 30 victo 36, 76(5); Kukushkin & Bublik of training from November Sumit Nagal, Ramkumar Mahut gave France an open ry over defending champion bt Haase & JeanJulien Rojer 21, before departing on No Ramanathan, Saketh Myne ing win over Japan in Group Croatia. 64, 76(2)] vember 24 for the Asia ni, Sasi Kumar Mukund, A of the Davis Cup Finals on Canada claimed a 21 vic Monday: Group B: Russia bt Oceania tie against Pakistan Leander Paes and Jeevan Tuesday. tory over wellfancied Italy to Croatia 30 [Karen Khachanov to be hosted by Kazakhstan Nedunchezhiyan will be tra The French duo squan strike fi rst in Group F and bt Borna Coric 67(4), 64, 64; at NurSultan on November velling for the tie, along with dered two matchpoints Belgium made a victorious Khachanov & Rublev bt Ivan 29 and 30. Sidharth Rawat as the while serving at 54 against start in Group D with a win Dodig & Nikola Mektic 76(3), The International Tennis reserve. Ben Mclachlan and Yasutaka over Colombia. 64]. Federation (ITF) had con Even though he will not Uchiyama, but capitalised on The results: Group D: Belgium bt Colombia fi rmed that the tie would be be travelling for the tie, Sri its chance at 65 to clinch vic Group A: France bt Japan 21 21 [David Goffi n bt Daniel Elahi held at a neutral venue, ram Balaji may assist the tory for last year’s runner [JoWilfried Tsonga bt Yasutaka Galan Riveros 36, 63, 63; which had been decided as team during the threeday up. Uchiyama 62, 61; Gael Monfi ls Sander Gille & Joran Vliegen Kazakhstan earlier itself. training camp in Delhi. lost to Juan Sebastian Cabal & The teams were tied after lost to Yoshihito Nishioka 75, Since, Sasi Kumar Mu Robert Farah 67(5), 64, JoWilfried Tsonga cruised 62; PierreHugues Herbert & Indoor hard courts kund has entered the Nicolas Mahut bt Ben Mcla 76(3)] past Uchiyama 62, 61 and The tie will be played on in €46,600 Challenger in Mai, chlan & Uchiyama 67(4), 64, Group F: Canada bt Italy 21 Yoshihito Nishioka defeated 75] [Denis Shapovalov bt Matteo door hard courts. The In Portugal, this week, he may Gael Monfi ls 75, 62. Group C: Argentina bt Chile 30 Berrettini 76(5), 67(3), 76(5); dian team will have phy join the team later. In other day matches, Ar [Guido Pella bt Nicolas Jarry Pospisil & Shapovalov lost to siotherapists Anand Dubey The rest are scheduled to gentina comfortably defeat 64, 63; Diego Schwartzman Berrettini & Fognini 62, 36, Maximum eff ort: France’s Nicolas Mahut stretches to play a return, as PierreHugues Herbert and Yash Pandey, with Sun assemble in the Capital by ed Chile 30 in Group C, bt Cristian Garin 62, 62; Maxi 63]. looks on, in their exciting decider against Japan’s Ben McLachlan and Yasutaka Uchiyama. * AP der Iyer as the manager. Wednesday evening.
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TV PICKS Legal options explored NBA: Sony Ten 1 (SD & HD), Italy signs off with a perfect record 6.30 a.m. T10 League : Sony Ten 3 & against Ombudsman’s Sony Six (SD & HD), 5.30 p.m. Scores nine against Armenia; Spain blanks Romania, Denmark and Switzerland qualify Euro 2020 Qualifiers: Sony Ten 2 (SD & HD), 1.30 a.m. Adrian Rus put through his action (Thursday) EURO QUALIFIERS New Zealand vs England : own net in fi rsthalf stoppage First Test, day one, Star Agence France-Presse time and Real Sociedad strik I am not happy with the way he has Sports Select 1 (SD & HD), Paris er Mikel Oyarzabal wrapped handled his power, says Manchanda 3.30 a.m. (Thursday) Denmark and Switzerland se up the win amid reports the Australia vs Pakistan: First cured spots at Euro 2020 at match was Robert Moreno’s Test, day one, Sony Six (SD & last as coach. Vijay Lokapally According to Ravinder HD), 5.30 a.m. (Thursday) the expense of the Republic NEW DELHI of Ireland on Monday as Ro The results: Manchanda, there was no berto Mancini’s Italy com Group D: Republic of Ireland 1 In a show of strength, nine transparency in the DDCA IN BRIEF (Doherty 85) drew with Den members of the Delhi and functioning. “The Ombud pleted a perfect qualifying mark 1 (Braithwaite 73); Gibral campaign by scoring nine. District Cricket Association sman has clearly exceeded tar 1 (Styche 74) lost to Switzer (DDCA) Apex Council, as his brief and we are seeking Ireland needed to beat land 6 (Itten 10, 84, Vargas 50, serted their power to run legal options to challenge Fassnacht 57, Benito 75, Xhaka Denmark in Dublin to clinch cricket aff airs at the Fero him. No one has a clue as to 86). qualifi cation for next year’s zeshah Kotla. “We have as how the DDCA is being run Group F: Sweden 3 (Andersson 24team European Cham sembled to make our point today,” he charged. pionship fi nals, but Matt Do 29, Svanberg 72, Guidetti 80) bt Faroe Islands 0; Spain 5 (Fa that we are not being The suspended secretary herty’s late header was only heard,” said Ravinder Man of the DDCA, Vinod Tihara, enough to earn Mick McCar bian Ruiz 8, Gerard Moreno 33, 43, Rus 45+1og, Oyarzabal chanda, leading the cam was invited by those ad Harden, Westbrook shine thy’s men a 11 draw at the to extend Rockets’ 90+2) bt Romania 0; Malta 1 paign against DDCA presi dressing the media. “My Aviva Stadium. winning streak (Fenech 40) lost to Norway 2 dent Rajat Sharma. suspension is not legal and I Switzerland secured top (King 7 Sorloth 62). LOS ANGELES Opening salvo: Martin Braithwaite shoots to score Denmark’s goal against Ireland * AFP Manchanda spoke to the have already challenged it,” James Harden scored 36 spot with a 61 away win Group J: Liechtenstein 0 lost to media in his capacity as a he claimed. points and Russell Westbrook against minnow Gibraltar as making it 10 wins from 10 by before Chelsea midfi elder Jor Meanwhile, Group F win Bosnia and Herzegovina 3 (Civic member of the DDCA Advi bagged a triple double as the Cedric Itten scored twice. hammering Armenia 91 in ginho converted a penalty. ner Spain rounded out its 57, Hodzic 64, 72); Italy 9 (Im sory Committee. “I am not Corrupt practices mobile 8, 33, Zaniolo 9, 64, Ba Houston Rockets extended Skipper and Arsenal outcast Palermo with seven diff erent Riccardo Orsolini came off qualifying campaign with a an Apex Council member The nine members of the rella 29, Romagnoli 72, Jorgin their redhot winning streak Granit Xhaka netted its fi nal scorers. the bench to score on his Italy 50 destruction of Romania in ho 75pen, Orsolini 78 Chiesa but I have spent many years Apex Council claimed cor to eight games with a 132 goal. Ciro Immobile and Nicolo debut and Federico Chiesa Madrid 81) bt Armenia 1 (Babayan 79). at the DDCA and am well rupt practices in team selec 108 rout of the Portland Trail Italy had already wrapped Zaniolo both scored braces, fi nished off the scoring after Gerard Moreno scored Greece 2 (Mantalos 47, Galano versed with cricket adminis tions. Blazers on Monday. up qualifi cation from Group J while Nicolo Barella and Ales Edgar Babayan had pulled twice after midfi elder Fabian poulos 70) bt Finland 1 (Pukki tration. Rajat Sharma is a “Delhi has performed The results: New York Knicks but saved its best for last, sio Romagnoli found the net one back for Armenia. Ruiz opened the scoring. 27). friend but here I am not poorly this season because 123 bt Cleveland Cavaliers happy with the way he has of faulty team compositions 105; Indiana Pacers 115 bt Brooklyn Nets 86; Toronto handled his power at the and we are going to correct Raptors 132 bt Charlotte FMSCI bans its DDCA,” said Manchanda, that by having a new Cricket Hornets 96; Milwaukee Bucks Astha makes a splash, rewrites 100m butterfl y mark whose younger brother, Ra Advisory Committee (CAC) 115 bt Chicago Bulls 101; chief from jan, is the jointsecretary in who will appoint fresh selec Houston Rockets 132 bt SCHOOL SWIMMING meet mark of 4 minutes 33.18 na Chakraborty 1:08.91; 3. Pri (NMR); 2. Palak Kalpesh Dhami the current set up. tors,” said Rajan Portland Trail Blazers 108; seconds. She beat Bhavika yanga Pugazharasu 1:09.03. 33.05; 3. Tanusmita Das 33.06. “Rajat Sharma resigned Manchanda. Dallas Mavericks 117 bt San Special Correspondent Dagar of Tamil Nadu who 4 x 100m freestyle: 1. Tamil 100m butterfl y: 1. Ashtha offi ciating from his position and it is Those who attended the Antonio Spurs 110; Boston NEW DELHI was more than two seconds Nadu 4:16.15; 2. Karnataka Choudhury 1:04.57 ( NMR); 2. deemed to be accepted by meeting, called without the Press Trust of India Celtics 99 bt Phoenix Suns Astha Choudhary of Kendri behind her. 4:23.03; 3. Maharashtra Nilabjaa Ghosh 1:06.87; 3. San the Apex Council in accor sanction of Rajat Sharma, 85; Minnesota Timberwolves 4:24.76. jiti Saha 1:07.78. New Delhi ya Vidyalaya Sanghathan set Aneesh Gowda, Aanya dance with the rules of the were Rakesh Bansal, Rajan 112 bt Utah Jazz 102; Los Boys: Under17: 50m back 4 x 100m freestyle: 1. Interna a new meet mark in the Wala, Kiara Bangera, Tan National motorsports feder association,” insisted Ravin Manchanda, Vinod Tihara, Angeles Clippers 90 bt stroke: 1. Tanmay Das 27.44 tional Board Schools 4:11.40; 2. ation FMSCI has banned its Oklahoma City Thunder 88. heats and broke it in the fi may Das, Nina Venkatesh (NMR); 2. Vedant Bapna 27.97; Council for the Indian School der Manchanda. The grouse Apoorv Jain, Sanjay Bhard AGENCIES own president J. Prithiviraj nals of the under17 girls’ and Ridhima Veerender Ku 3. V. Vinayak 28.13. 4:16.85; 3. Maharashtra of the Apex Council mem waj, Renu Khanna, Nitin 100metre butterfl y event on mar were the others to set from offi ciating in the wake bers was not against Rajat Gupta, Shiv Nandan Sharma ISL: Chennaiyin, JFC 100m butterfl y: 1. Aryan Pan 4:17.00. the third day of the 65th Na new marks. of the organisational blun Sharma as much as the and Alok Mittal. fixture rescheduled chal 57.16; 2. Harsh Saroha Under14: 50m backstroke: 1. tional School Games at the The results: 57.21; 3. Divyansh Arora 58.94. Ridhima Veerendra Kumar der that led to death of “functioning” of the DDCA Justice Ahmed, in his or JAMSHEDPUR Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Men: Under19: 50m back Under14: 50m backstroke: 1. 32.03; 2. Rajoshri Routh 33.09; three, including a minor, Ombudsman Justice (Retd.) der on November 17, put Ra The Indian Super League (ISL) stroke: 1. K. Mohith Kumar Md. Rehan Mirza 30.63; 2. 3. Essha Chattopadhyay 33.21. during the illfated Rally of fixture between Jamshedpur Swimming Pool on Badar Durrez Ahmed. jat Sharma’s resignation in 27.58; 2. Gourav Chavan 28.99; Aryaman Jain 30.67; 3. Abeer 100m butterfl y: 1. Kiara Bange Jodhpur. FC and Chennaiyin FC has Wednesday. “abeyance” and asked CEO 3. Prashanna Khedekar 29.17. Singh Mehta 31.21. ra 1:07.62 (NMR); 2. Dhara Patel been moved to December 9 Astha clocked 1 minute While Prithiviraj will Seeking audience Ravikant Chopra, CFO P.C. 100m butterfl y: 1. C.J. Sanjay 100m butterfl y: 1. Yug Chelani 1:07.97; 3. Subharanshini Priya with a 7.30 p.m. kickoff time. 4.57 seconds to beat Nilabjaa continue to be president of Former First Class cricketer Vaish and GM (Cricket Oper 57.33; 2. .P.A. Prasidha Krishna 1:02.27; 2 Atharva Pradeep Ja darshini 1:11.07. The tie was originally Ghosh of West Bengal for the the FMSCI, he won’t be al and Director (Cricket) San ations) Manvi Dhodhi to dis 57.77; 3. Swapnil Chakraborty range 1:03.31; 3. Parambrata 200m medley: 1. Anushka Patil 100metre butterfl y gold. lowed to offi ciate in nation jay Bhardwaj alleged the charge their duties in the scheduled on Dec. 6 at the 58.88. Biswas 1:04.15. 2:36.32; 2. Sanjana Prabhu al championships for three Ombudsman had not res “interest of the game”. Rajat J.R.D. Tata Sports Complex, Prachi Tokas of Delhi con Women: Under19: 50m back 200m medley: 1. Yug Chelani gaonker 2:38.46; 3. Lavleen here. The rescheduling, the tinued with her record stroke: 1. Soubrity Mondal 2:19.74; 2. Vidith Shankar Das 2:40.14. years. The fi vemember ponded to their complaints. Sharma assumed charge on press release said, is done in breaking performance by 32.11; 2. Bhavjot Kaur 32.57; 3. 2:23.64; 3. Sanskar Bhuyan 4 x 100m freestyle: 1. Maha FMSCI panel recommend “You can see we are in Monday. conjunction with the city winning the 400metre Jispa Doshi 32.66. 2:25.30. rashtra 4:22.96; 2. Council for ed a threeyear ban on majority now. We seek au Justice Ahmed has fi xed authorities and administration freestyle in the under19 100m butterfl y: 1. Shristi Girls: Under17: 50m back the Indian School 4:24.77; 3. Prithviraj, the event’s clerk dience with the Ombud November 27 to hear the in view of the Jharkhand girls’ section with a new Upadhaya 1:07.69; 2. Sucheta stroke: 1. Nina Venkatesh 31.20 Assam 4:29.21. of the course (COC). sman,” said Bhardwaj. matter. State Assembly Phase 2 polling on Dec. 7. Rajput misses the fi nal Messi is Argentina’s SHOOTING WC 13th spot, following 377 in kneeling, 390 in prone and Sports Bureau 380 in the standing posi saviour PUTIAN (China) tions. Sanjeev Rajput shot 1153 but It will be the 25metre Reuters TEL AVIV Bangladesh’s Shahadat missed the fi nal in men’s ri events, the rapid fi re for banned for assault fl e 3position event by one men, and sports pistol for Argentina’s Lionel Messi DHAKA point in the shooting World women, on Wednesday. scored an addedtime pe The Bangladesh Cricket Board Cup Finals here on Tuesday. Asian Games gold medallist nalty to salvage a 22 draw on Tuesday banned former Olympian Sanjeev, who Rahi Sarnobat will be com with Uruguay as it twice national team fast bowler had narrowly missed gold in peting in sports pistol along came from behind in an Shahadat Hossain for five the last World Cup in Rio af with Manu Bhaker, while it entertaining friendly years, two of them ter qualifying with a nation will be Anish Bhanwala in match in Israel on Monday. suspended, after he assaulted al record 1181, shot 384 in the men’s rapid fi re. The result : Argentina 2 teammate Arafat Sunny Jr. in kneeling, 388 in prone and The results: (Aguero 63, Messi 90+2) a National Cricket League 381 in the standing 50m rifl e 3position: Men: 1. drew with Uruguay 2 (Cavani match on Sunday. Shahadat, positions. Filip Nepejchal (Cze) 462.9 34, Suarez 68). who admitted a charge of The other Indian in the (WRJ) 1160; 2. Milenko Sebic “physical assault”, was also fi eld, Akhil Sheoran, who (Srb) 461.5 (1165); 3. Sergey fined 300,000 taka ($3,540), had won gold in the World Kamenskiy (Rus) 449.8 (1165); the board said. AFP 9. Sanjeev Rajput 1153; 13. Ak Riya advances Cup in Guadallajara, Mexi hil Sheoran 1147. co, last year, could muster Sasi Kumar crashes out Women: 1. Seonaid Mcintosh ITF WOMEN’S MAIA (PORTUGAL) only 1147 and placed 13th. (GBR) 462.1 (1171); 2. Pei Rui Daniel Masur of Germany In women’s rifl e 3posi jiao (Chn) 457.4 (1158); 3. Nina tion event, Anjum Moudgil Christen (Sui) 449.1 (1166); 13. Sports Bureau ousted Sasi Kumar Mukund BHOPAL 63, 60 in the first round of also scored only 1147 for the Anjum Moudgil 1147. the €46,600 Challenger Former National champion tennis tournament here on Riya Bhatia saved a bunch Tuesday. of matchpoints to beat Pakistan seeks elusive eighth seed Valeriya Strak hova of Ukraine 16, 76(12), 63 in the fi rst round of the win on Aussie soil $25,000 ITF women’s ten nis tournament on Tuesday. zelwood, however James PAKISTAN IN AUS The results: Singles (fi rst Pattinson will be missing af round): SarahRebecca Sekul Agence France-Presse ter being suspended this ic (Ger) bt Jacqueline Cabaj Luis Enriqu e to return Brisbane week for player abuse. Awad (Swe) 64, 64; Eri Ho as Spain’s coach Pakistan head into the open zumi (Jpn) bt Dan Ni Wang MADRID ing Test in Brisbane on Pakistan may unveil teen (Chn) 61, 61; Hiroko Kuwata Luis Enrique will return as Thursday seeking a rare win age quick Naseem Shah, 16, (Jpn) bt Gozal Ainitdinova coach of Spain and replace for his debut as part of a (Kaz) 60, 62; Riya Bhatia bt Robert Moreno ahead of Euro on Australian soil, and could unleash a 16yearold debu young attack boasting 19 Valeriya Strakhova (Ukr) 16, 2020, the Spanish Football 76(12), 63; Diana Marcin tant in a teenage pace attack yearolds Shaheen Afridi Federation (RFEF) confirmed kevica (Lat) bt Rashi Malviya against seasoned stars Steve and Musa Khan, alongside on Tuesday. Moreno took the impressive Muhammad 60, 62; Karman Kaur Thandi charge in June after Luis Smith and David Warner. Abbas and veteran Imran bt Snehal Mane 61, 61. Enrique had resigned to take Pakistan has drawn a se Doubles (prequarterfi nals): Khan senior. care of his daughter Xana, ries in Australia, but has Emily WebleySmith (GBr) & who died in August of bone never won one, and last tast The squads (from): Rutuja Bhosale bt Vlada Katic cancer. AFP ed a Test victory at Sydney (Isr) & Prarthana Thombare in 1995. Australia: Tim Paine (Capt.), 62, 64; Jennifer Luikham & Rashford puts tough A handful of players, in Cameron Bancroft, Joe Burns, Mihika Yadav bt Humera Shaik start behind him Pat Cummins, Josh Hazle & Sara Yadav 75, 46, [106]; cluding new skipper Azhar Melanie Klaff ner (Aut) & Sa LONDON Ali, Babar Azam and the in wood, Travis Head, Marnus La buschagne, Nathan Lyon, Mi rahRebecca Sekulic (Ger) bt With nine goals in his last 10 form Asad Shafi q, were part games for Manchester United chael Neser, James Pattinson, Sravya Shivani Chilakalapudi of their last tour in 2016/17 and England forward Marcus Steve Smith, Mitchell Starc, & Snehall Mane 62, 62; Sa when they crashed 30, but rah Pang (Sgp) & Arthi Muni Rashford says he has put a Matthew Wade and David yan bt Shrivalli Rashmikaa tough start to the season are better for it, said then Warner. Bhamidipaty & Avika Sagwal behind him and is feeling captain and now head Pakistan: Azhar Ali (Capt.), 62, 62; Jacqueline Cabaj confident once more. “It has coach MisbahulHaq. Abid Ali, Asad Shafi q, Babar Awad (Swe) & Nudnida been a tough period and now How the bowlers fare will Azam, Haris Sohail, Imamul Luangnam (Tha) bt Petia Ar I’m getting consistent games. be key on a Gabba wicket Haq, Imran Khan senior, Iftik shinkova & Gergana Topalova traditionally seen as a pace When you’re in the team it’s har Ahmed, Kashid Bhatti, Mo (Bul) 76(4), 64; Punnin Ko important to come up with man’s paradise. hammad Abbas, Mohammad vapitukted (Tha) & Maria Ti the goods and once you start Australia boasts the expe Rizwan, Nusa Khan, Naseem mofeeva (Rus) bt Berfuu Cen that it becomes second rienced Pat Cummins, Shah, Shaheen Shah Afridi, giz (Tur) & Freya Christie nature,” he said. REUTERS Mitchell Starc and Josh Ha Shan Masood and Yasir Shah. (GBr) 46, 75, [106]. CM YK