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Stays trial in SNCLavalin case, issues notice to Pinarayi Vijayan to respond to CBI Legal Correspondent Crime up by 12% in Delhi, NEW DELHI says police chief Krishnadas Rajagopal senior advocates Mukul Ro In a historic decision, the Su NEW DELHI NEW DELHI hatgi and Raghenth Basant, preme Court collegium, led The Capital registered a 12% The Supreme Court on appearing for the various ap by Chief Justice of India Di increase in crime in 2017 Thursday stayed the trial in pellant accused persons, pak Misra, unanimously re compared to 2016. At his the SNCLavalin corruption said in agreement with the commended the name of se annual press conference, case and asked Kerala Chief CBI. nior advocate Indu Malhotra Delhi Police Commissioner Minister Pinarayi Vijayan to for appointment as a judge Amulya Patnaik attributed respond to the CBI’s appeal ‘HC overstepped’ of the Supreme Court. This this to the increasing use of against his discharge. Mr. Mehta said the High is the rst time a woman la online registration of FIRs. A Bench of Justices N.V. Court had crossed the boun wyer has been recommend DELHI METRO Ī PAGE 1 Ramana and Abdul Nazeer daries of its jurisdiction un ed for direct elevation from DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD issued notice on the CBI ap der Article 227 of the Consti the Bar. Ms. Malhotra is a re peal against the discharge of tution. “The case needs to be puted senior advocate prac Mr. Vijayan, K. Mohanachan reheard,” Mr. Mehta tising in the Supreme Court. has been recommended for on January 10. Now, the Law dran and A. Francis. submitted. Sources said the collegi appointment as Delhi High Ministry has to take a call. The court also sought the Mr. Rohatgi and Mr. Ba um also recommended the Court Chief Justice. Justice The decision on Ms. Mal response of the premier in sant successfully urged the Chief Justice of the Uttarak Abhilasha Kumari, a Gujarat hotra, experts say, is a rare vestigating agency on pleas Bench to grant status quo on hand High Court, K.M. Jo High Court judge, has been recognition of her profes made by three other accused with Mr. Vijayan and his two alone,” Additional Solicitor the trial proceedings while seph, who had quashed Pre recommended for appoint sional talent and contribu — M. Kasthuriranga Iyer, G. coaccused who were re General Tushar Mehta, for the appeals were pending in sident’s rule in that State, for ment as Manipur High Court tion. FRIDAY REVIEW Ī 12 PAGES Rajasekharan Nair and R. Si leased from all charges. the CBI, submitted. the Supreme Court. the SC judge’s post. Besides, Chief Justice. (TABLOID) vadasan — as to why they “I have a problem with the “For once, we both [the Justice Aniruddha Bose, a The recommendations CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 12 DELHI METRO Ī 4 PAGES were not treated on a par release of some accused CBI and the accused] agree,” CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 12 Calcutta High Court judge, were made at a meeting held MAKING HISTORY Ī PAGE 12

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Kallol Bhattacherjee place between India and Pa held a day after the mother Indian in U.S. NEW DELHI kistan, despite the break and wife of death row pri The National Security Advis down in the Comprehensive soner Kulbhushan Jadhav PRESS TRUST OF INDIA ers of India and Pakistan met Bilateral Dialogue (CBD) that met him in Islamabad, but WASHINGTON on December 26 in Bangkok, was launched in December the MEA maintained that the The execution of the rst the Ministry of External Af 2015. The ‘talks on terror’ two NSAs did not discuss Mr. deathrow Indian prisoner, fairs conrmed on Thursday. model to engage Pakistan is Jadhav’s case at all. convicted of killing a baby MEA spokesperson Ra a change in the position that “This was a predeter and her Indian grandmoth veesh Kumar said it was part India had taken following mined meeting and the date er, has been set for Febru of the mechanism to hold the attack on the Pathankot was decided in advance and ary 23. Pakistan accountable for the airbase when New Delhi had it had nothing to do with In 2014, Raghunandan terrorism that emanates cancelled the CBD. things that were happening Yandamuri, 32, was given #4 6 0 4 9 0 from its territory. at that time,” the spokesper the death penalty for kid “We raised the issue of Sushma’s Pak visit son said, answering a ques napping and killing a 61 crossborder terrorism in The dialogue was launched tion on whether the two yearold Indian woman those talks because our main by External Aairs Minister NSAs discussed the issue of and her 10monthold issue is how to ensure the sa Sushma Swaraj during her Mr. Jadhav. He maintained granddaughter. fety of our region from the visit to Islamabad on Decem that the real issue discussed However, he is likely to scourge of crossborder ter ber 9, 2015. was ‘crossborder terrorism’ get a reprieve because of a rorism. We have said earlier The MEA had maintained from Pakistan that targets In 2015 moratorium imposed that talks and terror cannot silence on the talks between dia. The spokesperson said on the death penalty by go together but ‘talks on ter Indian NSA Ajit Doval and NSAlevel meetings were Pennsylvania Governor ror’ can denitely go ahead,” his Pakistani counterpart Lt. part of an “operationallevel Tom Wolf. Authorities al Mr. Kumar said, acknow Gen. Nasir Janjua that were dialogue” similar to the talks leged that the killings were ledging that the NSAlevel reported in the Pakistani held between the DGMOs. part of a botched ransom Band of sisters: The newly raised all-women bikers contingent of the Border Security Force, ‘Seema Bhavani’, will make its parleys are part of the ‘oper and the Indian media last INDIA MUST SEIZE THE CHANCE, plot. Yandamuri had come SAYS U.S. ENVOY Ī PAGE 12 début this Republic Day in New Delhi on January 26. The team rehearses for the parade on Thursday. * SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR ationallevel talks’ that take month. The meeting was to the U.S. on an H1B visa.

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Mahesh Langa Ahmedabad In recent times, runways at Indian airports have been invaded by a variety of mammals — ranging from hyenas and jackals at the international airport in New Delhi, to spotted deer and wild boars in Nagpur, ILLUSTRATION: DEEPAK HARICHANDAN and the common stray dog Airports Authority of India in Chennai. (AAI) chairman Guruprasad But surprisingly, for a Mohapatra told The Hindu. nation that prides itself on veneration of the cow, Inquiry ordered cattle have been “We have ordered an conspicuous by their inquiry,” airport director absence on runways, save Manoj Gangal informed the for a solitary bualo that media. tried to board a SpiceJet Sources said that the ight in Surat in November animal was on the airport 2014. But a bualo is not, premises for about 90 strictly speaking, a cow, minutes before Central and it was nally up to the Industrial Security Force Ahmedabad airport, guards chased it out. traditionally associated The incident has raised more with avian intrusions, security concerns in the to host a cow on its runway. runup to the highprole On Thursday morning, at visit of Israeli Prime least two ights — an Etihad Minister Benjamin Airways ight from Abu Netanyahu, who is Dhabi to Ahmedabad and a scheduled to land in cargo plane — were unable Ahmedabad on January 17. to land on account of the “This is a very serious and cow, which was rst shocking incident just a spotted by the pilots. week before the visit of the Both ights were Israeli Prime Minister,” said diverted to Mumbai and a senior ocial involved in other ights were delayed. VIP security. “It was a stray cow that In November 2016, entered from the cargo tragedy was averted at the terminal side. The cow was Ahmedabad airport when a quite mad and was running Chennaibound SpiceJet around the operational plane, with 189 passengers area. I have asked the and crew, aborted its take airport director to inquire o after some monkeys got into it and submit a report,” on the tarmac. CM A ND-NDE YK 460490 © 2006-2017 Kasturi & Sons Ltd. -UPSC [email protected] -+91815015301 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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DELHI Timings Friday, January 12 CISCE to RISE 07:15 SET 17:44 Paddy price to farmers RISE 03:05 SET 14:18 lower pass Ready for dialogue with Saturday, January 13 within 24 hours: Naveen RISE 07:15 SET 17:45 PRESS TRUST OF INDIA ones, should register their marks for RISE 03:57 SET 14:58 Bhubaneswar names for selling paddy at Sunday, January 14 board exams Mamata: Bimal Gurung Odisha Chief Minister Na mandis this year. RISE 07:15 SET 17:46 veen Patnaik has asked o PRESS TRUST OF INDIA RISE 04:49 SET 15:42 cials to pay cost of paddy to Record registration KOLKATA Gorkha leader rejects Bengal CM’s charge of leading a separatist movement farmers within 24 hours At least 11.05 lakh farmers through cooperative banks have registered till January 9 The Council for Indian PRESS TRUST OF INDIA hold dialogue with Ms. Ba tion in Darjeeling in June last and within 72 hours through against 9.76 farmers en School Certicate Exami NEW DELHI nerjee, he answered in year. other banks. rolled during the corres nation (CISCE) has decided Gorkha Janmukti Morcha armative. Eleven Gorkhas died in ponding time during the last to lower the pass marks for leader Bimal Gurung on “I’m ready for dialogue. police and other violent ac Mandis to remain open kharif season. the Class 10 and Class 12 Thursday expressed his wil Dialogue is the way ahead,” tion, he said. He also directed the ocials A total of 17.90 lakh board examinations from lingness to hold dialogue he said. He also appealed for to ensure that all mandis re tonnes of paddy worth this academic session, a with West Bengal Chief Mi Though his party has peace and asked his suppor main open during paddy 2,736 crore has been pro top ocial said on nister Mamata Banerjee to been demanding a separate ters to stay away from any il procurement. cured from 3 lakh farmers Thursday. defuse the crisis in Darjeel State of Gorkhaland to be legal activity. Mr. Patnaik’s directions till January 9 and a total of Pass marks have been ing and asserted that his carved out of West Bengal, In his absence, a group of were issued on Wednesday 2,356.75 crore has been reduced from 35 per cent ght was for Gorkha identity. he did not touch upon the is other Gorkha leaders led by during a review meeting of disbursed to farmers. to 33 per cent for ICSE stu In his rst direct interac sue in his comments. Binay Tamang had claimed the ongoing paddy procure By this time last year, 14.11 dents and from 40 per cent tion with reporters following Gorkha Janmukti Morcha “Our agitation is for Gork to be the real representatives ment programme. lakh metric tonnes of paddy to 35 per cent for ISC stu a long and violent agitation leader Bimal Gurung. * AFP ha identity,” he said. of people. Ms. Banerjee ap He said more farmers, es had been procured, ocials dents with eect from in Darjeeling last year, Mr. He said he had nothing pointed Mr. Tamang as the pecially small and marginal said. 2018, CISCE secretary and Gurung also rejected Ms. Ba sought an independent en against the people of Bengal head of Gorkhaland Territo chief executive Gerry nerjee’s accusation that he quiry into the matter. but the language and culture rial Administration (GTA) af Arathoon said. was a separatist, saying his His party leaders said Mr. of Gorkhas were distinct ter Mr. Gurung, who was its “Kindly note that the party’s demands were with Gurung was booked in over from them and whatever chief, and his associates change in the pass marks in the purview of Indian 350 cases and had been on they were demanding was resigned. for the ICSE and ISC exam Constitution and he believed the run before the Supreme within the ambit of the People close to Mr. Gu inations will be eective in national integrity. Court asked the police to not Constitution. rung have claimed that the from the examination year He claimed that the State take any coercive measure Mr. Gurung accused the Trinamool Congress had 2018 onwards and not police had implicated him against him after he led a State government of acting propped up Mr. Tamang but 2019,” a circular issued by and his party’s workers in plea there. in a “onesided” manner fol the GJM leader remained the Mr. Arathoon said. false criminal cases and Asked if he was willing to lowing the start of an agita “real leader” of Gorkhas. Assam orphanage director held for alleged molestation of minor Rape, molestation of inmates going on for long time: victim PRESS TRUST OF INDIA 7. After the FIR was lodged the inmates are going on for Lakhimpur on January 8, the director a long time and I somehow The director of a private or was arrested and remanded managed to escape to ex phanage in Dhemaji district to judicial custody, district pose it,” the girl alleged be of Assam was arrested on Superintendent of Police Ni fore the media. Thursday on the charge of lesh Sawakare said. molesting a minor inmate Separate FIR there, the police said. Managed to escape Some local organisations The girl also alleged that The girl said in the FIR that have also led a separate FIR rape and molestation of in she had managed to escape alleging illegal activities in mates have been going on in from the orphanage and the orphanage. the orphanage at Silapathar took shelter in a neighbour’s A group of women also for long, but a section of the house. demonstrated before Sila 0 local people said the direc Ocial sources said the pathar police station de DISCLAIMER: Readers are requested to verify and make appropriate enquiries to tor is being framed. orphanage sheltering manding arrest of its direc satisfy themselves about the veracity of an advertisement before responding to The 13yearold girl lodged around 100 orphans and tor. However, a section of the any published in this newspaper. Kasturi & Sons Limited, the Publisher & Owner of a complaint with the police destitute children is funded local people claimed he is this newspaper, does not vouch for the authenticity of any advertisement or ad- that the director forcefully by the Assam Social Welfare being framed by certain vertiser or for any of the advertiser’s products and/or services. In no event can took her out of her room and and Social Justice quarters as the orphanage the Owner, Publisher, Printer, Editor, Dir- ector/s, Employees of this newspaper/ molested her in another department. has been operating success company be held responsible/liable in any manner whatsoever for any claims room on the night of January “Rape and molestation of fully. and/or damages for advertisements in #4 6 0 4 9 0 this newspaper.

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U.P. continues to reel under cold wave LUCKNOW With no let-up in cold wave conditions, parts of Uttar Pradesh continue to brave the chill with dense to very dense fog occurring at isolated places across the State. Muzaffarnagar recorded the lowest Himachal to withdraw minimum temperature in the State at 3.6 degrees. PTI ‘politically motivated’ cases Arms and ammunition seized in J&K’s Rajouri JAMMU New government emulates that of Yogi Adityanath in U.P. Security forces on Thursday PRESS TRUST OF INDIA recovered two weapons and political signicance as it ed to initiate inquiry into Dharamshala over 400 rounds of was headed by Mr. Thakur losses suered by the go ammunition hidden by The Himachal Pradesh Cabi and the decision to allot land vernment after the move. militants in Jammu and net has decided to withdraw was taken when his father The previous government Kashmir’s Rajouri district, all “politicallymotivated” Prem Kumar Dhumal was had suspended licences is police said. cases led during the pre the Chief Minister. sued to wholesalers and de Acting on a specific input, a vious Congress dispensa signated HPBL as sole agen joint team of police and the tion, including those against HPBL to wound up cy for procurement and sale Army launched a search the Himachal Pradesh Crick The Cabinet, in a meeting of liquor to retail vends. operation in Jatta Malian Sugar rush: Sugarcane arrives at a mill in Modinagar, Uttar Pradesh, on Thursday. * SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA et Association led by BJP MP chaired by Chief Minister Jai The Cabinet also decided forest in Kalakote and Anurag Thakur. ram Thakur, also decided to to x the responsibility on recovered the arms and It decided to review all wind up Himachal Pradesh ocers, responsible for the ammunition, a senior police cases registered during the Beverages Limited set up last creation of HPBL and revert officer said. PTI erstwhile Congress dispen year to eliminate wholesal to the old policy. Cong. blames Raje govt. for sation and withdraw those ers and handle the liquor The Cabinet also gave its SAD to launch campaign that “smack of political trade, an ocial said. nod to disengage the coun to expose ‘debt fraud’ vendetta”. The BJP, while in the Op sels including Kapil Sibal, P. CHANDIGARH Any decision in such cas position, criticised the deci Chidambaram and Salman The Opposition Shiromani es would be taken on the ba sion of the government and Khurshid for representing halt in construction activities sis of merit, the ocial said. alleged irregularities in pro the State in various cases, in Akali Dal on Thursday announced that it would The cases over land allo curement and sale of liquor. cluding those against the launch a State-wide campaign Sand has not been available in the State since November 2017 after SC ban cation to the HPCA attained The government also decid HPCA. - ‘Pol Khol Lehar’ - next month to expose the Special Correspondent out environmental clea struction sector. “All pro “massive fraud” done by the JAIPUR rance, while staying as many jects have stopped and there Punjab government in the With the construction activi as 82 such licences. is displeasure among the pe name of farm debt-waiver. ties coming to a halt in Rajas The Opposition Congress ople,” he said. The SAD will take the issue to than following a ban on sand said the ruling BJP was Mr. Gehlot, the former Ra the people through rallies in mining imposed by the Su “hand in glove with the sand jasthan Chief Minister, said all 117 Assembly constituencies, party preme Court, the Congress maa”, which was even ta the small quantity of ‘bajri’ president Sukhbir Singh Badal has accused the BJP govern ken note of by the Supreme supplied from Nagaur and said after a meeting of the ment of being negligent and Court. During Tuesday’s Bikaner districts, where core committee. PTI serving the interests of sand hearing, the apex court mining was continuing, was maa. An apex court Bench Bench observed that the being sold for exorbitant extended the ban by six State government was creat prices and a loss of revenue Woman constable found weeks, while pulling up the Rajasthan Chief Minister ing a mining maa and they worth 1.25 crore was being hanging in Jodhpur State government, on Vasundhara Raje * FILE PHOTO were killing people. It also caused to the State exche JODHPUR Tuesday. asked the government to ex quer every day. The body of a woman The ‘bajri’ (riverbed Metro works and all other plain how sand was neces “The entire ocial ma constable was found hanging sand), which is mixed with big and small projects. sary for construction work. chinery is engaged in the #4 6 0 4 9 0 from the ceiling fan at her cement for construction, has Senior Congress leader preparations for the Prime house in Osian town of not been available in the Unemployment Ashok Gehlot said here on Minister’s visit to Barmer for Jodhpur, a police officer said State since November 2017 The halt to construction ac Thursday that the State go relaying of foundation stone on Thursday. when the ban was rst im tivities has also rendered vernment’s negligence had for oil renery,” said Mr. Saroj, 25, got married in posed. It has made an ad lakhs of workers and labour resulted in unemployment Gehlot, adding that it would October last year and the verse impact on the con ers unemployed. However, of 25 lakh people, including be too late by the time the videos recorded by her in November revealed that she struction of houses under the Supreme Court has come construction labourers, ‘baj State government wakes up was not happy with her Chief Minister’s Jan Awas Yo down heavily on the State ri’ truck drivers, truck own and takes action for environ marriage, SHO (Osian) jana, residential housing government for giving li ers, contractors and skilled mental studies and clea Nemaram said. PTI projects of builders, Jaipur cences for sand mining with workers trained in the con rance for sand mining. U.P. CM orders probe into alleged lobbying for Lalu Jalaun DC refutes media reports that he had called judge

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA Reports in a section of the However, DM Akhtar re Lucknow media have alleged that Dis futing the allegations, said, Taking note of news reports, trict Magistrate Mannan Ak “I never spoke to CBI Special Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister htar and SubDivisional Ma Judge Shivpal Singh over Yogi Adityanath on Thurs gistrate Bhairpal Singh of phone. I have been here (Ja day ordered a probe into al Jalaun had called up CBI laun) just for four months legations of government o Special Judge Shivpal Singh and he had come to meet us cials calling up a CBI special to seek favours for the RJD in November in connection judge to seek favours for fod chief in the fodder scam with his land dispute in the der scam convict and RJD case. district. Nothing else was chief Lalu Prasad. During the proceedings of discussed.” On the basis of media re the case in Ranchi on Janu “How can someone level ports about lobbying in fa ary 4, the CBI judge had also such serious allegations vour of the fodder scam con stated “Laluji, we are getting without any evidence? I be vict, orders have been a lot of references and calls long to Assam and am work issued to the Commissioner for you”, without naming ing in Uttar Pradesh. I have Jhansi division to carry out a the people who had called no connection of any kind probe and submit a report at him up. with Laluji,” he said. the earliest, a tweet issued Prasad was later awarded A 2011batch IAS ocer, on the ocial handle of the a sentence of three and a Mr. Akhtar became Jalaun CM Oce, GoUP @ CMO half years in jail and a ne of District Magistrate in Sep ceUP, said. 5 lakh. tember last year. J&K HC stays removal of SKIMS director

Special Correspondent The order comes as an Srinagar embarrassment for the Meh The J&K High Court on booba Mufti government, Thursday stayed the govern which removed three senior ment order removing A.G. doctors and Dr. Ahanger Ahanger, the director of the from their posts after a Del Valley’s prestigious Sheri hibased TV channel carried Kashmir Institute of Medical out the sting operation. Sciences (SKIMS) hospital The SKIMS doctors were after a TV sting operation caught oncamera practis caught its doctors indulging ing in Srinagar despite tak in private practice. ing the nonpractising “No reasons appear to allowances. have been given to support Doctors Association the (removal) order. Fair Kashmir president Suhail ness has to be founded on Naik welcomed the court’s reasons. The government decision. “This has restored could have justied its ac the dignity and respect of tion by stating that some in the highest chair of SKIMS quiry was pending against as he was made scapegoat him (the director),” held Jus evolving out of recent inci tice M.K. Hanjura. dents,” said Dr. Naik.

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THE HINDU NOIDA/DELHI FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 2018 SOUTH 5 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF Kerala woman’s conversion Cong. to brainstorm on done by a network: police Karnataka polls tomorrow Will win contest under Siddaramaiah’s leadership: Rahul 25-year-old taken to Saudi Arabia returned home with help from a friend VicePresident visits Sandeep Phukan Tirumala, oers prayers HIRAN UNNIKRISHNAN New Delhi TIRUMALA Two men who rat. She had met Riyas while riage with Riyas. The investi KOCHI <> VicePresident M. Venkaiah allegedly helped studying in Bengaluru in gation also revealed that she As the war of words between Naidu on Thursday visited the The Kerala police team prob the key accused 2014, and was allegedly had been detained in a BJP president Amit Shah and ing the alleged forced con blackmailed by him later. house near North Paravur Karnataka Chief Minister Tirumala temple and offered booked under version of a 25yearold wo Fayas and Siyad were pro for about six months before Siddaramaiah gets intense in prayers. Mr. Naidu, who was UAPA, IPC accompanied by his family man with the intention of duced before the Ernakulam being taken to Saudi Arabia. the run up to the Karnataka members, reached the taking her to Syria and get to the investigation. The of principal sessions court on polls, Congress president temple through the ting her enrolled in the IS cer said one more person Thursday and remanded in Made to watch videos Rahul Gandhi has called a Vaikuntam queue complex. says it has evidence of a from Ernakulam was in pol custody. “Based on the inter After reaching Saudi Arabia, meeting of senior leaders to The authorities received him “dedicated network” that ice custody. rogation, a report will be Riyas made the woman discuss the poll strategy for with the traditional ‘isti kapal’ was behind it. He said two men, Fayas submitted in court. Eorts watch videos of Islamic the State. honours. “We have identied eight and Siyad, were arrested on are on to locate the other ac preacher Zakir Naik and at Lok Sabha MP and Con to 10 people, mostly from Wednesday. They have been cused. To trace Muhammad tempted to take her to Syria. gress’ Karnataka incharge Heavy rush to worship north Kerala and Karnataka, booked under provisions of Riyas, the key accused who The woman became aware K.C. Venugopal conrmed ‘thiruvabharanam’ who were involved in the the Unlawful Activities Pre is believed to be in Saudi Ara of this on reaching the Saudi that they were meeting in PATHANAMTHITTA conversion bid. They in vention Act, besides various bia, Interpol’s help could be border and ew back to her Delhi on Saturday. Helping hand: A le photo of Congress vicepresident Rahul Ayyappa devotees coming clude a woman from Benga IPC sections, including ab taken,” the ocer said. parents with the help of a fa Unlike Gujarat where the Gandhi with Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah in Bengaluru. from afar are flocking to the luru and a couple of lawyers duction and rape. Investigators said they mily friend. Congress did not have a palace town of Pandalam on from Kerala, all of whom will The woman who was con had conrmed the role of Ocials said the National chief ministerial face, the the banks of river Achenkovil be summoned for interroga verted belongs to Pathanam the two arrested men in fa Investigation Agency could Congress would ght under to worship the ‘BJP govt. tapping ‘thiruvabharanam’, the sacred tion,” said a top ocer privy thitta and grew up in Guja cilitating the woman’s mar take over the case. the leadership of incumbent jewellery of the presiding Chief Minister Siddara deity at the Sabarimala maiah. phones of Ministers’ Ayyappa Temple, kept inside ‘Don’t force Naidu to “We have a solid leader the strong room of the Janata Dal (U) decides there, a pro poor leader and Special Correspondent complain to Union Home Srambickal Palace, near the we will win the election in Bengaluru Minister Rajnath Singh Pandalam Valiyakoickal teachers to meet PM Karnataka,” said a condent about this. Asked if his Sastha Temple. to move over to LDF Mr. Gandhi on Monday dur Phone tapping and snoop phone was also being wear coats’ Modi today ing an interactive session ing of Ministers is again in tapped, he said that he was 10yearold thrashed for Special Correspondent with NRIs at Bahrain. the news in pollbound Kar not bothered even if it was missing remedial class PRESS TRUST OF INDIA THIRUVANANTHAPURAM Staff Reporter Karnataka is a key battle nataka. On Thursday, Home done. BENGALURU Thiruvananthapuram What had been rumoured VIJAYAWADA State for both the BJP and Minister Ramalinga Reddy “I will speak to the o In yet another case of The Kerala Women’s Com for long has become a reali After a gap of several the Congress. While the BJP accused the BJPled govern cials on Friday and write a corporal punishment in a ment at the Centre of tap letter to the Union Home Mi private school in the city, a mission has come out ty. The State secretariat of months, A.P. Chief Minister is looking for a comeback in ping the phones of several nister. I have been saying teacher allegedly beat a against an aided school, the Janata Dal (United) has N. Chandrababu Naidu will the only south Indian State 10yearold boy with a stick which insisted that women decided to take the party in meet Prime Minister Na where it formed a govern Ministers and Congress since long that in Karnataka, on Thursday for skipping teachers should wear coats to the ruling Left Democrat rendra Modi in New Delhi ment, for the Congress it is leaders in the State. phones of several Ministers remedial classes. The Class V over saris. ic Front (LDF). on Friday. the only State with econom Speaking to presspersons and Congress leaders are student has a hearing The St. Mary’s High The party secretariat, Mr. Modi met TDP MPs ic and political clout where here, he said he would soon getting tapped,” he said. impairment and was badly School, Pathanamthitta, which met here on Thurs on the last day of the win the party is in power. bruised, said his parents. had no power to give such day, took the decision un ter session of Parliament to Though the party won directions which go against animously, with all the 14 M.P. Veerendrakumar discuss the demands of Punjab last year, Karnataka Chitradurga district, Mr. While the Congress Chief Main accused held in the government circulars, district presidents endors Andhra Pradesh, as a pre is considered among the top Shah claimed that the State Minister described him as Karnataka girl suicide case Commission member Sha ing the proposal. riat’s decision would now go lude to the meeting with economic performers. government was “antiHin the rst freedom ghter and CHIKKAMAGALURU hida Kamal said in her to the party State council Mr. Naidu. Several issues, Retaining Karnataka will du” as it had withdrawn cas the tiger of Mysore in a The Mudigere police on order. ‘Change inevitable’ meeting here on Friday. including release of funds be a big morale booster for es against the Social Demo tweet, the BJP in Karnataka Thursday arrested Santhosh, Beena, a teacher of the In his introductory remarks With the party leadership for the Polavaram project the Congress in the run up to cratic Party of India, the described him as a religious 20, the main accused in the abetment to suicide of a school, had approached at the meeting, party State making its mind clear, the and the implementation of the battle for 2019 while for political wing of the Popular bigot and alleged that the 20yearold college student the Commission after the president M.P. Veerendra proposal to leave the UDF provisions in the Andhra the BJP, the State could play Front of India, a hardline Is Congress was resorting to in Bengaluru. Santhosh, who management had sought kumar told party leaders and ally with the LDF would Pradesh Reorganisation an important part to shed its lamic organisation. Muslim appeasement. is from Badagakajekar village an explanation from her that a change of alignment be accepted without much Act, will be discussed. image of being a predomi Earlier, the BJP had also To counter such allega in Bantwal taluk, works as a for refusing to wear a coat was inevitable for the party ado. Former Minister K.P. Mr. Naidu wanted the nantly Hindi belt party. strongly objected to the Kar tions, Mr. Gandhi is report lift mechanic. The police said over the sari. and that this was the most Mohanan and senior leader Centre to extend special as Even before the parties nataka government observ edly going to continue with Santhosh, claiming to be a According to the com opportune moment for the Manayath Chandran, who sistance to the State by way devise their poll strategies, a ing November 10 as Tipu his public temple visits, a member of the Bajrang Dal, plainant, she had some JD(U) to quit the Opposition had initially objected to the of special dispensation in bitter war of words has bro Jayanti in memory of the strategy that might have had objected to her physical diculties in United Democratic Front proposal, fell in line with the funding of Externally ken out. former Mysore ruler Tipu worked for the Congress #4 6 0 4 9 0 friendship with a Muslim boy. wearing the coat. (UDF). The JD(U) secreta the majority stand. Aided Projects. On Tuesday, at a rally in Sultan. during the Gujarat polls.

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Weather Watch IN BRIEF Vishwas may lose Rajasthan charge Rainfall, temperature & air quality in select metros yesterday Sisodia, Ashutosh being considered as replacements: AAP sources

Soumya Pillai two months, letters have al BJP, Cong. heavyweights New Delhi so been sent by the State Having declared open war leaders to him requesting for bypoll campaign Sonowal for promotion on the party leadership for that he devote more time for its Rajya Sabha picks, rebel the party. PRESS TRUST OF INDIA cludes names of Union Mi of sports medicine JAIPUR GUWAHATI Aam Aadmi Party leader Ku Though a nal call is yet to nisters Piyush Goyal, C.R. Assam Chief Minister mar Vishwas is likely to su be made on the matter, the The BJP and Congress on Chaudhary, P.P. Chaud Sarbananda Sonowal on er a blowback with the AAP party’s political aairs com Thursday announced their hary, Arjun Ram Meghwal, Thursday urged youths to contemplating his removal mittee is considering the list of star campaigners for Gajendra Singh Shekhawat take up sports as a way of life as the party’s Rajasthan names of Delhi Deputy Chief the byelections due in and organisation secretary and also emphasised the incharge. Kumar Vishwas Minister Manish Sisodia and Ajmer and Alwar Lok Sab Ram Lal. need for proper promotion of Party sources claimed sev Ashutosh as replacements. ha constituencies and Man Surprisingly, the name sports medicine. He also laid eral local leaders had ex polls in December. Mr. Vishwas was entrust dalgarh (Bhilwara) Assemb of Ajmer MLA and State stress on adoption of a more pressed concern over Mr. “When a leader has perso ed with the responsibility of ly constituency on January School Education Minister scientific approach in the Vishwas’s level of involve nal interests above the inter the State as a peace oering 29. Vasudev Devnani has not sports sector. PTI ment in the functioning of ests of the party, then dissa after things got bitter bet To launch an aggressive been mentioned in the list. the Rajasthan unit. “We have tisfaction becomes ween him and the party after campaigning in the poll On the other hand, the Temperature Data: IMD, Pollution Data: CPCB, Map: Skymet (Taken at 18.00 Hrs) Girl gang-raped, four had several meetings with imperative. He was more in Okhla MLA Amanatullah bound constituencies, the Congress too announced its men arrested the senior members of AAP’s terested in going to the Rajya Khan accused him of hatch BJP declared a list of 40 star list of 40 star campaigners Forecast for Friday: Dense to very dense fog at many/few/isol- TIKAMGARH (M.P.) Rajasthan wing, where they Sabha, thus the work of ing a conspiracy against par campaigners, including to set the poll pitch on re. ated places is likely over east Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Uttarakhand, A 16-year-old girl was have openly discussed their building the party in the ty chief Arvind Kejriwal. Prime Minister Narendra The top campaigners of Nagaland, Manipur, Sikkim, Mizoram and Tripura. Cold to severe allegedly gang-raped by four dissatisfaction over Vish State that he was responsible On being contacted, Mr. Modi, BJP president Amit the party include national cold wave conditions at a few/isolated places likely over north persons at Modumar village, Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Odisha was’s complete disinterest in for took a backseat,” the Vishwas refused to comment Shah, Union Home Minis general secretary Avinash five km from the Tikamgarh city rain max min city rain max min party aairs. We have been source claimed. on the charge that he is disin ter Rajnath Singh, Union Pande, Ashok Gehlot, C.P. district headquarters, police Agartala...... —.... 20.7...... 9.0 Kozhikode ...... —.... 33.2.... 22.0 Transport Minister Nitin Joshi, Mohan Prakash State Ahmedabad...... —.... 28.2.... 13.8 Kurnool...... —.... 33.3.... 20.6 said. The police arrested all told that he neither has the Party sources also said terested in Rajasthan aairs. Gadkari and Chief Minister Congress chief Sachin Pilot Aizawl ...... —.... 25.2...... 5.3 Lucknow...... —.... 18.0...... 5.6 four accused on Thursday interest in devoting time nor that since taking charge of “These are things that I had Allahabad ...... —.... 23.0...... 5.0 Madurai...... —.... 32.0.... 23.4 morning, said Nawal Arya, in resources for the upcoming the State in May 2017, Mr. foreseen. You can strip me Vasundhara Raje. and Leader of the Opposi Bengaluru...... —.... 29.4.... 17.3 Mangaluru...... —.... 34.9.... 22.1 State elections,” said a senior Vishwas has only visited and o all positions. I was never The list released by the tion in Rajasthan Assembly Bhopal...... —.... 24.8...... 8.4 Mumbai...... —.... 33.5.... 19.4 charge of the Kotwali police Bhubaneswar ...... —.... 29.0.... 11.0 Mysuru...... —.... 29.9.... 17.5 station. PTI party source. met the State leaders four in the movement for power,” State BJP oce also in Rameshwar Dudi. Chandigarh ...... —.... 21.7...... 6.6 New Delhi ...... —.... 22.7...... 8.0 Rajasthan will be going to ve times. In fact, in the past he said. Chennai ...... 1.7.... 29.9.... 23.2 Patna ...... —.... 11.7...... 5.0 Coimbatore...... 1.6.... 30.8.... 20.4 Port Blair ...... —.... 30.6.... 24.8 3 of a family killed in Dehradun...... —.... 20.2...... 5.3 Puducherry...... 0.8.... 31.7.... 22.8 head-on collision Gangtok...... —.... 13.6...... 4.6 Pune ...... —.... 30.9.... 13.5 LUDHIANA Goa ...... —.... 32.0.... 21.4 Raipur ...... —.... 29.4.... 13.0 Bihar cop posts morphed Guwahati ...... —.... 23.4...... 9.2 Ranchi...... —.... 24.2...... 6.6 In a head-on collision Crocodiles and humans coexist Hubballi...... —.... 31.0.... 21.0 Shillong...... —.... 14.3...... 1.4 between a car and a truck on Hyderabad ...... —.... 32.2.... 15.3 Shimla...... —.... 16.9...... 8.7 the Ludhiana-Ferozepur picture of PM, suspended Imphal...... —.... 21.2...... 4.0 Srinagar ...... —...... 8.4.....-3.0 National Highway, three peacefully in Odisha village Jaipur...... —.... 25.0...... 8.3 Trivandrum ...... —.... 32.8.... 23.7 Kochi...... —.... 31.4.... 24.6 Tiruchi ...... 1.... 27.8.... 21.5 members of a family lost their He had shared the message on WhatsApp Kohima...... —.... 17.6...... 5.0 Vijayawada...... —.... 30.8.... 19.8 lives, while a six-month-old Staff Reporter their real numbers might be Kolkata...... —.... 23.1.... 11.5 Visakhapatnam ...... —.... 29.0.... 19.6 BERHAMPUR had a close shave, the police higher. In the 2017 census, Press Trust of India few days ago when a mes Pollutants in the air you are breathing Yesterday

said on Thursday. PTI Fortyve crocodiles or mug 55 muggers were sighted in Khagaria (Bihar) sage was shared from Mr. Is CITIES SO2 NO2 COPM2.5PM10CODE gers were spotted during the the region and 39 of them A police inspector here was lam’s mobile phone on a Ahmedabad...... 45..80..40 . 174.....— ....* Bengaluru...... 5..23..50 ... 62.....— ....* forest department's annual were found within the reser suspended for allegedly WhatsApp group run by the * In observation made at 4.00 p.m., 2 auto-lifters held, three Chennai ...... 23..25..61 . 224.....— .... Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh recorded an enumeration at the Ghoda voir. sharing a morphed picture, traders’ cell of the ruling Ja * stolen cars recovered Delhi ...... 27123114 . 356 .330 .... overall air quality index (AQI) hada reservoir and its ad To get an accurate gure with an objectionable cap nata Dal (United) in Bihar, Hyderabad ...... 8..77..64 . 157 .148 ....* score of 392 indicating an JAMMU Kolkata...... — ...— ...— .....—.....— ....— unhealthy level of pollution. joining ponds in Ganjam dis of the crocodiles, the forest tion, of Prime Minister Na she said. * In contrast, Vijayawada recorded Two people allegedly Lucknow...... 21..81..43 . 431.....— .... a healthy AQI score of 87 trict of Odisha. department has decided to rendra Modi on a webbased The message contained a * involved in several cases of Mumbai ...... 20..31..69 .....— .171 .... The presence of croco A crocodile seen during the conduct another enumera instant messaging group, a photograph of the PM shak Pune...... 33..24..68 ... 93 .121 ....* car theft were arrested on Vishakhapatnam 18..87..52 . 268 .245 ....* Thursday, a police officer diles in this irrigation reser census in Ghodahada tion at the end of winter. senior ocer said on ing hands with Mumbai ter * Air Quality Code: * Poor * Moderate * Good (Readings indicate average AQI) said. Acting on a complaint voir spread over ve square reservoir. LINGARAJ PANDA Crocodiles of the reser Thursday. ror attack mastermind Haz dek- SO2: Sulphur Dioxide. Short-term exposure can harm the respiratory system, lodged by a woman about her kilometres has been attribut voir or those in the ponds According to Khagaria Su Saeed with the caption “ making breathing difficult. It can affect visibility by reacting with other air car being stolen from Sainik ed to humans. According to the annual have not harmed any of the perintendent of Police Mee ho kaun deshdrohi hai” particles to form haze and stain culturally important objects such as statues Colony of Jammu city on During the British era, a crocodile census held on Ja villagers, who are mostly nu Kumari, the suspension (look who is the traitor), she and monuments. NO2: Nitrogen Dioxide. Aggravates respiratory illness, causes haze to form by December 14, the police zamindar family had kept a nuary 8, 28 muggers have shermen, to date. Fisher order of Mohammad Islam, said. reacting with other air particles, causes acid rain, pollutes coastal waters. conducted raids and arrested few crocodiles in a large tank have been sighted in the men of the area have formed who was posted with the The matter was reported CO: Carbon monoxide. High concentration in air reduces oxygen supply to two auto-lifters - Simran adjacent to the Ujjaleswar Ghodahada reservoir while a Maa Ramchandi Crocodile Town police station, was to the DIG who held that the critical organs like the heart and brain. At very high levels, it can cause dizziness, confusion, unconsciousness and even death. Khan and Bhanu Kumar, he temple. Forest ocials say 17 were found in the seven Protection Committee, passed by Munger Range inspector’s alleged act was PM2.5 & PM10: Particulate matter pollution can cause irritation of the eyes, said, adding that three cars some crocodiles from the ponds near it. The Ujjales which is involved in the con DIG Vikas Vaibhav on in violation of the Bihar Go nose and throat, coughing, chest tightness and shortness of breath, reduced were recovered from their temple tank escaped into war temple tank has four. servation of the reptiles in Wednesday. vernment Servants Conduct lung function, irregular heartbeat, asthma attacks, heart attacks and premature death in people with heart or lung disease possession. PTI the reservoir during oods. But forest ocials feel the reservoir and the ponds. The matter came to light a Rules, 1976, she added. (Individual pollutant data for various cities are averages for the previous day) #4 6 0 4 9 0

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Madhumathi D.S. Bengaluru At least three overseas space companies have bet big on Virtual Aadhaar ID: too little, too late? the PSLVC40 launch of Fri Dera violence: framing of day. They each have put a charges deferred to Feb. 21 100kgclass microsatellite CHANDIGARH Problems persist as many have already shared their 12digit number with various entities, say experts on it as a testbed of their po A Panchkula court on tential future constellations. Thursday deferred till Yuthika Bhargava can be used in lieu of the Also, at least two older February 21 framing of NEW DELHI Aadhaar number at the time ‘New measure constellation operators have charges against Honeypreet The move to introduce an of authentication, thus elimi brought new batches to be Insan, who is facing “untested” virtual ID to ad nating the need to share and meaningless’ put in space by the Indian allegations of inciting dress security concerns over store Aadhaar numbers. It lightlifting launcher. violence in Panchkula in Aadhaar database is a step in can be generated only by the Indo-Asian News Service The PSLV, resuming after August, after the Sirsabased the right direction, but may Aadhaar numberholder via New Delhi a failure in August, is plac Dera Sacha Sauda chief be a case of too little, too the UIDAI website, Aadhaar ing these and 25 nanosatel Gurmeet Ram Rahim was Congress leader P. Chidam late, according to experts, as enrolment centre, or its mo lites (up to 10 kg) in orbits convicted on two counts of baram on Thursday said On its 42nd ight, the rape of female followers. many of the 119 crore Aad bile application. the new measure to secure 505 km away from Earth. PSLV’s onus is getting as big Besides Honeypreet, 14 other haar holders have already Experts pointed out that Aadhaar data was mea The nanosats also carry ex as the brand. * PTI/ISRO people are facing charges in shared their 12digit num the virtual ID is voluntary ningless as millions had al periments of companies connection with the violence bers with various entities. and the Aadhaar number ready shared their unique and universities from multi new constellations and the that left 41 people dead and “What about all the data will still need to be used at IDs with service providers. ple countries. requirements for launching more than 250 injured in bases that are already linked some places. He said the damage had al Rakesh Sasibhushan, them in future. Hopefully Haryana. Honeypreet is in up with our Aadhaar num “Unless all entities are re ready been done. CMD of Antrix Corporation, they bring in more business judicial remand at the Ambala ber? Virtual ID will therefore quired to use virtual IDs or which markets the PSLV to Antrix.” Central Jail. not attack the root of the UID tokens, and are barred (and other ISRO services) to problem. At best, it is band from storing Aadhaar num Identity trouble: The UIDAI had on Wednesday introduced the UIDAI relief global satellite operators, Mixed luck Thirty-six die as cold aid,” said Reetika Khera, fa bers, the new measures concept of a virtual Aadhaar ID * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT said, “We have three impor On its 42nd ight and 209 wave grips Bihar culty, Indian Institute of won’t really help,” said Pra for Airtel tant proofofconcept mi foreign customers behind it, PATNA TechnologyDelhi. nesh Prakash, Policy Direc Mr. Jonnalagadda added So, basically, the move will crosats in C40. It is for the the PSLV’s onus seems to be Bihar is reeling under a cold “Can we realistically ex tor, Centre for Internet and that Authentication User exempt the parties that are Press Trust of India rst time that such technol getting as big as the brand; a spell that has claimed 36 lives pect rural folks to use this to Society, Bengaluru. Agencies (AUAs) categorised the problem,” he said. New Delhi ogy demonstrators have few of the current custom in the last 10 days, with the protect themselves? Or are Kiran Jonnalagadda, co as ‘global AUAs’ by the UIDAI Vipin Nair, one of the ad The UIDAI has granted a come together as customers ers have tried other launch temperature plummeting as we pushing the barely liter founder of the Internet Free will be exempted from using vocates representing the pe temporary extension to on a single PSLV vehicle.” ers but with mixed luck. low as 4.5 degrees Celsius. The worst affected region is ate into the hands of middle dom Foundation, agreed. the virtual IDs. “These are titioners who have chal Bharti Airtel to conduct There had been one or two Antrix, the business arm north Bihar, where 16 people men who will ‘help’ them na “The idea is good but it likely to be entities which re lenged the Aadhaar Act in Aadhaarbased reverica before but in singles. of the Indian Space Re have died in Muzaffarpur (8), vigate it?” she questioned. should have been done in quire deduplication for sub the Supreme Court said, “It tion of its subscribers till search Organisation, earns East Champaran (3), The Unique Identication 2010, as now all the data is al sidy transfer, such as banks is potentially a case of unmi March 31. However, the UI New business 95 crore from arranging Darbhanga (2), Sitamarhi (2) Authority of India (UIDAI) on ready out. Now, what can be and government agencies. tigated chaos purely from an DAI has not lifted the sus “Once the technologies are the PSLVC40 ights for 28 and Samastipur (1). Deaths Wednesday introduced the done is revoke everybody’s All the leaks have happened Information Technology per pension on the Airtel Pay proven, they may lead to customer payloads, which have been reported from concept of a virtual ID that Aadhaar and give new IDs.” till now from these entities. spective.” ments Bank’s eKYC licence. their operators’ rming up together weigh 503 kg. Bhagalpur, Purnia, Banka, Lakhisarai, Gopalgunj, Kaimur, Biharsharif, Buxar, Nawada, Aurangabad and Hajipur too. Alliance can wait till State varsity Also, trains and flights to Dhingra to head SIT on 1984 riots Patna have been diverted or gives D. Litt. delayed. polls, says Akhilesh SC directs threemember team to submit rst status report in two months to Mamata One killed in police We will rst set our party right, he says firing in Rajasthan Krishnadas Rajagopal tired IPS ocer. The court December 11, 2017 by an Special Correspondent DHOLPUR Omar Rashid He was responding to a NEW DELHI directed the SIT to submit its apex courtappointed super Kolkata A 24yearold man was killed Lucknow specic question whether The Supreme Court on rst status report on the in visory committee of two West Bengal Chief Minister when the police opened fire at a mob that allegedly The Samajwadi Party (SP) is his party would contest the Thursday appointed the vestigation in two months. former SC judges, Justices Mamata Banerjee was attacked them when an Uttar noncommittal about an Lok Sabha elections in al former Delhi High Court K.S. Radhakrishnan and J.M. awarded Doctor of Letters Pradesh police team detained electoral alliance with the liance with the Congress. judge, Justice S.N. Dhingra, Hearing on March 19 Panchal. This committee (D. Litt.) by the University an elderly person in Congress in the 2019 Lok The two parties unsuc as chairman of its Special In The Bench directed the was tasked with vetting the of Calcutta on Thursday. connection with a buffalo Sabha elections. cessfully fought the 2017 UP vestigation Team (SIT), to Centre to provide the SIT investigation into 241 anti The honour by the State theft case, the police said on Party president Akhilesh elections together but con further investigate 186 cases with all logistic assistance Sikh riots cases closed by the university to the Chief Mi #4 6 0 4 9 0 Thursday. A police team from Yadav on Thursday said the tested the subsequent local in connection with the 1984 and posted the case for hear government’s SIT. These 186 nister has not come with Agra had gone to Dholpur’s talks over an alliance could body polls on their own. antiSikh riots. ing on March 19, 2018. Justice S. N. Dhingra cases are part of the 241 out controversy, with the Sar Mathura police station in wait till the elections and it Even in the Sikandra bypoll, The apex court decided to The apex court decided to cases. matter being challenged Rajasthan to detain the was time for him to streng which the BJP won, both the independently investigate set up its own SIT during a constituted for carrying on On August 16 last year, the before the Calcutta High elderly man. But when the then the SP. “ We will rst Congress and SP had elded these cases after an earlier hearing on January 10. further investigation”. SC decided to independently Court. Opposition parties, villagers attacked them, the set our party right and pre their own candidates. SIT appointed by the Centre A Bench led by Chief Jus The court wanted all the examine the investigation re too, are divided on the is Uttar Pradesh police team pare for the battle on the He, however, said that closed them. tice of India Dipak Misra rea SIT members to be based in cords of the 241 cases and sue. While members of the resorted to firing, in which ground that’s coming up. “we socialists don’t change The threemember SIT soned in its order that “re the National Capital. The de conrm that there was noth Communist Party of India Rameshwar Gurjar was killed, The talks for an alliance can friends easily and when we would also have Abhishek gard being had to the nature cision to form the new SIT ing more to do on them. Marxist (CPIM) challenged Dholpur Additional SP be held when elections enter into a friendship we Dular, a 2006 IPS batch oc of the cases, we think it ap was based on a condential A total of 3,325 people the decision, a section of Rajendra Vera said. come,” he told reporters. do it after a lot of thought.” er, and Rajdeep Singh, a re propriate that a fresh SIT be report placed on record on were killed in the 1984 riots. the Congress backed it. Chandigarh stalking case: Vikas Barala granted bail

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT garh in August last year. Vinod Ghai, one of Barala’s ed as well and, therefore, he (attempt to kidnap). His bail CHANDIGARH Justice Lisa Gill, while counsels, told reporters. should be granted bail. petition was dismissed four The Punjab and Haryana granting bail to Barala, 23, Barala’s counsels submit Vikas Barala, the key ac times by the trial court. High Court on Thursday asked him to stay strictly ted in the court that the trial cused in the case, has been Vikas Barala and his granted bail to Vikas Barala, away from the victim and of the case was going on in in jail since August 9, and friend Ashish allegedly son of Haryana BJP chief her family and in no way try the lower court and that the faces charges under die chased Varnika Kundu — a Subhash Barala, for alleged to inuence the trial of the accused had been in jail for rent Sections of the Indian disc jockey by profession — abduction, wrongfully res case. around ve months. Penal Code, including 354 D in their car while she was re training and stalking of a 29 “Vikas Barala has been Besides, the statement of (stalking), 341 (wrongful res turning home from Chandi yearold woman in Chandi granted bail by the court,” the victim had been record traint) and 365 read with 511 garh on August 4, 2017. Baby girl weighing only Loya death probe: SC to 400 gm at birth survives hear pleas

Legal Correspondent ‘She was the smallest newborn to survive in India, South Asia’ NEW DELHI A Supreme Court Bench Mohammed Iqbal led by Justice Arun Mishra JAIPUR is scheduled to hear on Ja Defying the odds of medi nuary 12 two separate cine, a newborn baby weigh pleas seeking indepen ing just 400 gm has survived dent probe into the death after her premature birth in of special CBI judge B.H. Udaipur and gained normal Loya, who was hearing cy after completing a six the Sohrabuddin Sheikh monthlong clinical course, encounter case. with her parents and doc A Bench led by Chief tors having struggled hard to Justice Dipak Misra on keep her alive and healthy. Thursday took note of the The girl was discharged Small wonder: The baby in her rst week and, right, after a submission seeking ur from hospital on Thursday. sixmonth clinical course. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT gent hearing on the plea Neonatologist Sunil led by Maharashtra Janged, who led a team of to the foetus, a caesarean the neontal intensive care based journalist B.R. Lone doctors and nursing sta for section was conducted on unit (NICU) and put on venti for a probe into Loya’s ensuring the girl’s incredible her on June 15, 2017. lator to expand her tiny and death four years ago. survival, claimed that she Manushi weighed 400 gm immature lungs. was the smallest newborn and measured just 8.6 in The initial days were di Urgent hearing baby to survive in India and ches when she was born, her cult as Manushi's birth Later in the day, another South Asia. The last report minuscule feet being only weight dropped. Paediatri plea led by Congress ed such survival was a baby, slightly bigger than a nger cians attending on her start leader Tehseen Poonawa Rajni, weighing 450 g, at Mo nail. She was not breathing ed with parenteral nutrition, la on the same issue was hali in 2012. when she was born, but the giving all essential nutrients mentioned by lawyer Va The girl, named Manushi couple decided to ght to directly into blood circula rinder Kumar Sharma for by the nursing sta of Jivanta keep her alive. tion. She was able to digest urgent hearing before the Children’s Hospital, was “To salvage a baby of this milk by the seventh week of Bench, which agreed to born to a couple married for size was a challenging task. her life and was able to drink hear it along with the ear 35 years. When her mother’s There is no reported survival from spoon after about four lier one. Loya had died of blood pressure became un of a newborn weighing this months. “The biggest chal cardiac arrest in Nagpur controllable halfway small in the Indian subcon lenge for our team was to on December 1, 2014, through her pregnancy and tinent,” said Dr. Janged. As prevent any infection to her when he had gone to at the ultrasonography re she was struggling to and our team managed it ve tend the wedding of a col vealed absence of blood ow breathe, she was shifted to ry well,” said Dr. Janged. league’s daughter.

NOIDA/DELHI THE HINDU 10 EDITORIAL FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 2018 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE The road still runs through Ramallah Advocating the IsraelPalestine peace process is vital for India to restore its inuence in West Asia dia changed its vote from voting nating the IndiaPakistan relation ‘for’ to an abstention on a resolu ship and the IsraelPalestine issue. tion criticising Israel for encroach Dehyphenating relations with Is Ready for sale ments at the Western Wall and rael and Palestine can only follow near the AlAqsa mosque in Jerusa a peaceful resolution of the issue, The decision to allow 49% foreign stake in lem. which even Israel’s founding fath Suhasini Haidar Air India sets the stage for its privatisation Clearly, India could have easily ers believed was the twostate so he Union Cabinet has approved a series of chang made a case for abstaining on the lution. “The future of the Zionist arendra Modi’s visit to Is UNGA resolution on Jerusalem as project depends on [Israel’s] em es in foreign direct investment norms as the go rael last year, the rst by an well, especially given this recent brace of the twostate solution,” Tvernment prepares to enter the last lap of its eco NIndian Prime Minister, record. The decision was taken former President Shimon Peres nomic policysetting phase ahead of the 2019 election. stood out for his decision not to vi despite strong lobbying from Is wrote in his memoirs. “The dan Key among these was the decision to allow up to 49% sit the Palestinian territories. Two rael in the runup to the vote, and ger, if Israel abandons this goal, is overseas ownership, including by a foreign airline, in months before Mr. Modi’s visit, despite Mr. Trump’s open threats that the Palestinians will eventual Air India. This comes just a little more than six months even Israeli Prime Minister Benja to all those voting for the resolu ly accept a onestate solution. Be after the Cabinet Committee on Economic Aairs gave min Netanyahu’s closest ally, U.S. tion. Another possible tack came cause of demographics, this would President Donald Trump, had cou GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO from Mr. Trump’s own statement leave Israel with a choice: stay Jew its nod for a strategic disinvestment of the airline . The pled his visit to Jerusalem with a During Mr. Netanyahu’s visit to rence point” in its foreign policy, when he announced his decision ish or stay democratic.” It is this relaxation in ownership norms clears the decks for pos trip to Bethlehem to meet the Pal Ahmedabad, where he and Mr. Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj to move the U.S. Embassy to Jeru solution that Prime Minister Yitz sible bidders such as the Singapore AirlinesTata co m estinian leadership. The decision, Modi will undertake a roadshow armed that India’s “expanding salem, saying it was not a “nal hak Rabin was assassinated for es bine and Jet Airways — with its overseas equity and India had said, came from a deter together, he will hand over two de relations” in the region will “only status” position, including on the pousing, and Mr. Peres died hop route partners — to make a more detailed commercial mination to “dehyphenate” rela salinisation vehicles that Mr. Modi strengthen the Palestinian cause”, extent of “Israeli sovereignty in Je ing for — but Israel’s current assessment of the investment opportunity the state tions with Israel and Palestine. saw in Haifa. Showing how little he not weaken it. And in a letter rusalem”. Bhutan has used that dispensation is moving away from owned ag carrier presents. For the scally constrained This was underlined in the India believed the political context mat ahead of the UN International Soli statement to explain its breaking this longstanding consensus. government, the decision couldn’t have come sooner. Israel joint statement, which ters to the bilateral relationship darity Day with the Palestinian Pe ranks with India at the vote, by didn’t refer to the twostate solu anymore, Mr. Netanyahu said that ople in November, Mr. Modi wrote choosing to abstain. On principle With the Union Budget due soon and the government tion, didn’t mention the status of neither China nor India condi that India’s vision for the creation Meanwhile, the bogey of “dom Weeks after winning on principle woefully short of its budgeted strategic disinvestment Jerusalem, and didn’t even call for tioned their relationship with Is of a separate Palestinian state re estic compulsions” used by sever at the UNGA to have its candidate goal for the current nancial year — as of endNovem an early resumption of the Israel rael on the basis of the Palestinian mains, and called for an “early re al governments in the past, a eu overwhelmingly elected to the In ber, only 28% of the targeted 15,000 crore had been Palestine peace process. peace process. “[Mr. Modi said], I sumption of dialogue”. phemism for objections from ternational Court for Justice, India realised — the hope must be for an accelerated timeta need more water, clean wa The biggest shift from what India’s Muslim minority on the Is could not have been seeing bow ble for the stake sale. Still, the fullment of a necessary Strengthening ties ter…where will I get it? Ramallah?” seemed to be a set trajectory for raelPalestine issue, has long since ing to pressure or to the diktats of condition for a strategic sale doesn’t automatically be Instead, the two countries fo Mr. Netanyahu had told a group of the Modi government, however, been called out: there has been no ‘realpolitik’ on the Jerusalem vote cussed on burgeoning bilateral European ocials a few days after came on the oor of the UN Gener major ‘street’ reaction to or prot at the same forum. More to the come sucient grounds for a successful privatisation . ties, most notably the defence and Mr. Modi’s visit. al Assembly (UNGA) on December est of any of India’s overtures to Is point, the government appears to Given the carrier’s accumulated debt of about 50,000 strategic partnership. By one esti 21, when India chose to vote for a rael, or to the visits by the leaders have armed that in calculating crore and the fact that the interest of potential investors mate, India accounts for 41% of Is Dierence of a few months resolution criticising the U.S. for thus far, and the Modi government the national interest, it is neces is likely to be focussed on Air India’s lucrative longhaul rael’s defence exports, and a possi However, the decision to dehyph recognising Jerusalem as the Israe had no cause to worry about a pu sary to value the role of India’s lea international routes and its eet of more than 40 wide ble sale of Spike antitank missiles enate doesn’t seem quite as set in li capital, and also called on Israel blic reaction to an abstention in dership on the international stage bodied aircraft, disinvestment will be neither easy nor during Mr. Netanyahu’s visit to In stone as it had just a few months to end its “occupation that began this case. as well. If there is a realpolitik cal guaranteed. At the very least, the government needs to dia will give this steadfast relation ago. Expectations are that unlike in 1967”. The Foreign Ministry de As a result, India’s position can culation to be made, it is that In ship an added llip. Counterterro in Jerusalem, Mr. Modi will raise fended its decision as consistent only be explained by a desire to dia’s inuence in West Asia cannot set a clear, unambiguous road map for the sale process. rism cooperation remains a the need to pursue the twostate with past policy, but in fact the re reassert its leadership role on the be squandered away so casually, The other reform cleared by the Cabinet was the cru cornerstone of IndiaIsrael coop solution with Mr. Netanyahu di verse is evident. In the past three multilateral stage, and to regain its and advocating the peace process cial decision to put 100% FDI in Single Brand Retail eration and there will be a power rectly during the India visit. Mr. years, barring a vote at the UNGA leverage on the IsraelPalestine is with Mr. Netanyahu will be an im Trading under the ‘automatic’ route, accompanied by ful joint remembrance ceremony Modi is also expected to travel to in 2014, India has turned from its sue, a rehyphenation of sorts. portant step. The road to India’s the longsought relaxation of mandatory local sourcing during Mr. Netanyahu’s visit to Palestine in the next few months, traditional proPalestinian stance, This is in keeping with the special prosperity may well run through norms. This had been a major issue with potential in Mumbai’s Chabad House, one of and receive Jordanian King Abdul to one of abstention. In 2015, India place and moral position India has Jerusalem, but the road to its lea vestors including Apple, which had repeatedly urged the targets of the 26/11 attack. The lah II in New Delhi, during which abstained on a UN Human Rights always assumed on the peace pro dership aspirations on the world biggest growth areas in bilateral the need for the peace process will Council resolution criticising Is cess, and its support to a just solu stage cannot bypass Ramallah the government to take a more benign view given the le ties will also come from memoran be highlighted. rael for an aerial bombing of Gaza tion. It is also a rejection of the either. vel of technological advancement incorporated in its dums of understanding in agricul At a NonAligned Ministerial in that had left 2,200 people dead. It false equivalence often built bet products and the diculty in nding local sources of ture and water technology, given September, calling India’s support repeated its abstention in 2016. Al ween Palestine and Kashmir, or supply at the requisite scale. The veyear holiday on Israeli expertise in this area. to the Palestinian cause a “refe so in 2016, at UNESCO in Paris, In comparisons between dehyphe [email protected] the 30% localsourcing requirement is expected to give companies setting up shop here adequate time to iden tify, train andeven technologically assist in the creation of local supply chains. If this decision was going t o be The ABC of the RTE made, it is surprising it was not done in November 2015, Openminded adoption of the RTE Act’s enabling provisions can radically transform school education when the Centre changed tack and opened up single brand retail to 100% FDI. An early decision would have cernible impact. #4 6 0 4 9 0 sessment, a child learning at her try such as local festivals, sowing helped, given the sector’s potential for jobcreation and The RTE Act is a gamechanger own pace, and ‘no detention’ poli and harvesting seasons, and even technology upgradation. Still, better late than never. in that it establishes that the onus cy are contingent on a school with natural calamities as a result of to ensure free and compulsory an adequate number of teachers. which schools do not function aca education lies on the state. Howev No meaningful teachinglearning demically. It is socially acceptable er, the ‘compulsory’ and ‘state lia is possible unless trained teachers that priority will be given to such a maninder kaur dwivedi bility’ part needs to be imbibed by are physically present at school. local event and not schooling. Not Towards stability the educational bureaucracy, Teachers also need to avail of leave all festivals and State holidays de Nepal must hasten the process which is now lacking. or undergo training, so that ‘two clared by the the State headquar

of governmentformation ree and compulsory educa GETTY IMAGES teachers per school’ is a basic re ters may be locally relevant. So if tion of children in the 6 to 14 Focus on retention inputdriven approach, the RTE quirement. panchayats, perhaps at the district month after the Left Alliance secured a decisive Fage group in India became a Though the Act envisaged that the Act prescribes basic minimum States shy away from recruiting level, decide the working days and victory in Nepal’s parliamentary elections, a go fundamental right when, in 2002, state, i.e. State governments and standards for a school such as pro or posting more teachers keeping holidays, this would not only ex Avernment is yet to be formed in Kathmandu. The Article 21A was inserted in the panchayats, would aggressively vision for toilets, drinking water in mind higher salaries and nanc ponentially increase attendance Alliance was forged just before the elections between 86th Amendment to the Constitu ensure that each child is brought and classrooms. es, but PTR at the school level is and teachinglearning but also the Communist Party of Nepal (Unied MarxistLeni tion. This right was to be governed into the schooling system and also the most critical of all inputs. strengthen local panchayats, be nist) and the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist by law, as the state may determine, “retained” for eight years , it has Pupilteacher ratio Teacher provisioning should be ing closest to the eld, to take ow and t he enforcing legislation for been business as usual . Unfortu The most critical requirement, the rst option to fund as no edu nership of their schools. They Centre). The transfer of power from the Nepali Con this came eight years later, as the nately, tracking dropouts and pre which has also got the least public cationally developed country has would be responsible in ensuring gress to the UMLled coalition was delayed initially due Right of Children to Free and Com paring and mainstreaming them attention, is the pupilteacher ra built up a sound schooling founda the functioning of the prescribed to procedural issues. The Upper House, or the National pulsory Education (RTE) Act, into ageappropriate classes has tio (PTR) . It is impractical to ex tion without a professionallymo instruction days. For inexplicable Assembly, needed to be indirectly elected by the pro 2010, or the RTE Act. been subsumed into existing pect quality education without tivated teaching cadre in place. In reasons, the educational bureauc vincial assemblies. The parties had disagreed on the With examples from over a scheme activities. Even seven this. According to the Education States with an adequate overall racy has not allowed the decen means of this indirect election, with the NC advocating hundred countries having various years after its enactment, there Department’s data, under the Un number of teachers, their posi tralisation of academic schedules a proportional representationsingle transferable vote and similar pieces of legislation or are still children on the streets, in ied District Information System tioning or posting requires ration even in districts. regulations already in place, there elds and in homes. Therefore, for Education (UDISE) database alisation according to the number A law is as good or as bad as its system, and the UML seeking a majority vote. After Pre were practices drawn from similar the problem now is more about 201516, 33% of the schools in the of students. However, this gets implementation. It is unfair to sident Bidhya Devi Bhandari ratied a longpending or experiences. Since its enactment, dropouts than children who were country did not have the requisite more lip service than attention as blame legislation alone for the sad dinance that allowed elections based on the single the RTE Act has been lauded and never enrolled. Strategies to en number of teachers, as prescribed teacher transfers remain a grey state of aairs without implement transferable vote in late December 2017, this issue ap disparaged. But there has been sure retention need to change in the RTE norms, for PTR at the area in most States. ing it in full measure, especially its peared to have been resolved. But there are other pro concern not only over its provi from the earlier approach of en school level. The percentage of enabling provisions. Openmind cedural issues to be sorted out. In consultation with the sions but also about the lacunae in rolling the unenrolled. As c hil schools that were PTRcompliant Think decentralisation ed adoption of these provisions, Left Alliance, the caretaker government has to rst ap the school education system. Ho dren out of the fold of schooling varied from 100% in Lakshadweep The third provision is that the aca keeping the child in mind, can go a wever, there are clauses in the Act are the most hard to reach, such as to 16.67% in Bihar. This didnot fac demic calendar will be decided by long way in radically transforming point governors to the seven provinces. Then, the pro which have enormous catalytic girls, the disabled, orphans and tor in subjectwise teachers at the the local authority, which, for our school education sector. cess of choosing their capitals, in order to convene the potential but that have gone large those from single parent families, upper primary level as this is treat most States and Union Territories, Assemblies, can be completed. Tentative proposals on ly untouched and unnoticed. A fo the solutions have to be localis ed ed dierently in each State. All is the p anchayat. This provision new capitals had given rise to protests in several towns, cus on three of these provisions and contextualised. other forwardlooking provisions recognises the vast cultural and re Maninder Kaur Dwivedi is an IAS ocer. and the main political parties are unwilling to take a can result in an immediate and dis Though criticised as an elitist or of the Act such as continuous as gional diversities within the coun The views expressed are personal clear position on the issue. The caretaker NC govern ment does not seem to be particularly keen on resolv LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Letters emailed to [email protected] must carry the full postal address and the full name or the name with initials. ing this, and a proposal has been oated to allow the provincial assemblies to convene in Kathmandu rst. In Reform track changes may help India’s equal is problematic. The care goals (“Prescription for should not be seen as a medicine, eorts should be the absence of a consensus, this may be best. It is obvious that it is the rank for ease of doing solution lies in empowering the future”, January 11). permanent solution to the made to persuade MBBS The clear and decisive choice by the electorate in the slowing of the economy, business go up a few the women by declaring Abanish Lal, human resource shortage doctors to serve rural areas polls has put the responsibility of operationalising the postdemonetisation, that notches and cash inows husbands too as their Ernakulam, Kerala crisis. by taking suitable measures. intricate provincial model on the Left Alliance. Once has prompted the may make things look exclusive property. Shivam Koushal, When a State such as Tamil the process of nominations to the National Assembly is government to accelerate better, but what about the Balajee Sumant Chemote, I The most contentious Jammu Nadu has ‘successfully complete — with 33% of the overall representation in the process of divestment resultant and adverse Ranchi, Jharkhand provision of the Bill is of attracted doctors to serve in I Parliament reserved for women — the election of the and liberalise FDI norms on consequences in the long ‘crosspathy’. The There is no second opinion rural primary health a large scale. As the real term for the unprotected Reforming medicine government, has about the need to focus on centres’, why cannot a Prime Minister will follow. It is a foregone conclusion estate business has been Indian domestic market? What is often overlooked unintentionally, in its planning for improvements similar scheme be adopted in that UML leader K.P. Oli will be elected: the party got crippled, allowing 100% D.V.G. Sankararao, with healthcare sector attempt to meet the human in rural health care. the rest of the country? A close to the majority mark on its own in the rstpa st FDI under the automatic Nellimarla, Andhra Pradesh reforms, as is the case with resource shortage of medical However, resorting to half major hurdle in attracting thepost seats. Ten years since the end of the civil war route for real estate broking the new National Medical practitioners at the rural measures such as training doctors to rural areas is the and the convening of the Constituent Assembly, the services can help matters. On adultery Commission Bill, is the lack level, ended up rubbing those who strictly do not lack of medical promise of economic development has been belied. As no domestic business In the Editorial page article, of basic medical allopathic practitioners the qualify as trained doctors in infrastructure in primary This is one of the reasons behind agitations called b y house may be ready to “Not a criminal act” infrastructure in rural wrong way. Allopathic order to address the problem health centres. invest in debtridden Air (January 11), the writer’s areas. It is a fact that 70% of practitioners, on the other of a shortage of doctors in Implementing measures democratic and republican forces seeking a new CA. India, permitting 49% focus on individual India’s population lives in hand, also need to rural areas would be such as oering partial fee Nepal’s economy continues to be highly dependent on foreign ownership in the autonomy and the right to the medically underserved understand that this dangerous. Without the reimbursement and remittances from Nepali migrants as the agrarian sector airline may boost its privacy as an argument hinterlands. Such a state of provision allows AYUSH systematic accumulation of additional marks for those and industrial growth, especially in the hydroenergy prospects of survival. But against an adultery law apathy from the practitioners to carry out basic knowledge and willing to serve the rural sector, have stagnated. For too long, political posturing opening the oodgates as seems irrational. Marriage government results in even basic treatments and in no rigorous training that areas for a certain period and the game of thrones involving the major parties, far as single brand retail is not a relation in doctors who are keen on way enables them to go to medical students are after completion of the MBBS the UML, the NC and the Maoists, in Kathmandu have trading is concerned, which vagueness and binds social services becoming the extent of conducting imparted, these ‘doctors’ course, at the stage of is bound to dilute norms partners in a code of apprehensive about something as extreme as a would be illequipped to admission to the course become pursuits in themselves. With the Left Allianc e such as 30% mandatory societal morality. Further practising in these areas. surgery. The drafters of the serve the rural population. itself, may prove to be promising a greater degree of cohesion and winning a local purchase, spells cheating within a marriage The NMC Bill should Bill should have made things Instead of contemplating successful. clear victory, the sooner the process of election of a trouble (‘Business’ page – is a breach of trust and a propose infrastructural more clear by properly halfbaked solutions such as Kosaraju Chandramouli, new Prime Minister is accomplished, the faster Nepal “Centre opens arms to fraud committed on development along with dening the boundaries for designing bridge courses for Hyderabad can get on with the business of governance. single brand retail FDI”, emotional values. Of course structural reforms to AYUSH practitioners. practitioners of traditional more letters online: January 11). The sudden the present law not being achieve our national health However, ‘crosspathy’ systems to prescribe modern www.hindu.com/opinion/letters/

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YES, NO, IT’S COMPLICATED Is radio relevant in the 21st century?

Radio has absorbed new technologies and hours a day — anticipat comprehend and absorb listening to the morning news on 2004 tsunami, and the 2013 Utta YES ing the emergence of news and information. radio remains one of most widely rakhand oods, radio played a stel emerged stronger over the decades Spotify and iTunes by a The cost of content pro reported habits across the globe. lar role in conveying information decade or more. duction is lower than that The accessibility of radio and the on relief work, aid and recovery ef Enamoured of television, media emerged as the ultimate survivor, Hence, to paraphrase incurred on producing economy of the medium have led to forts when other mediums became watchers in the 1940s and ’50s con adapting itself to the tastes of the Mark Twain, the reports visuals — typically one a proliferation of local radio sta inaccessible. dently prophesied the imminent newer generations of listeners and of radio’s death are fth to onetenth of the tions that can cater to niche popula Most importantly, radio perso death of radio. The medium, they absorbing newer technologies. In greatly exaggerated. latter. This allows cheap tions in limited geographies. nalises the experience of listeners, said, couldn’t match the thrill of the 1980s and ’90s, it saw o Broadcast radio today reaches a er broadcasting in a bewildering va driving them to use their imagina seeing moving pictures in the com threats posed by personal video re staggering 99% of the Indian popu riety of languages, dialects and Community radio tion while deciphering what’s un fort of the living room. corders and digital compact discs lation. Rural India relies on it over creative forms. Today, there are more than 180 folding. The advent of rockandroll, em through a greater emphasis on lis whelmingly for information. It also The technology, having existed community radio stations across In “TV gives everyone an image, N. Ramakrishnan is a bodying the rebellion of an entire tenerdriven programmes. By the remains the most inexpensive and for more than 100 years, is not rock dia, broadcasting in languages like but radio gives birth to a million im radio producer. He is generation of youth against the con late ‘90s and early 2000s, radio sta portable medium: A radio set can et science either. It is now, in fact, Bundelkhandi, Garhwali, Awadhi ages in a million brains,” wrote the the founder and servatism of the preceding de tions were reinventing themselves be purchased at 50, which makes possible for even laypersons to de and Santhali — tongues that typical American author Margaret ‘Peggy’ director of Ideosync cades, left a bigger following for ra to cater to niche audiences: There it cheaper than a mobile phone or a sign and manufacture broadcast ly nd little or no space on televi Noonan. In an era that prioritises Media Combine, a dio than before and proved the were stations dedicated to specic television. transmitters and receivers. It is not sion. customised content, her lines pro notforprot predictions of the doomsayers genres of content — talk radio, punk Audio programmes easily sur without reason that radio has been Radio has also been the last man vide the perfect summation of the organisation wrong. rock stations, even stations that mount barriers linked to literacy — the medium of choice for activists standing in times of calamity and immense exibility and the conti In the decades since, radio has played music by a single band 24 allowing even the unlettered to and people’s movements. Further, disaster. During situations like the nued relevance of the medium.

Radio is dying. We are seeing the nal run of the her favourite Netix where radio is currently long time ago. News is something that could have delayed the inevita NO show. useful, like getting trac they could have provided with a ble (death of the radio) by a bit. medium, catering to an ageing generation Radio (especially FM) updates. better policy in place. If, somehow, radio programming has now been relegated An interesting story on However, this has not been possi was to rediscover itself, it will still Internet will, in the near future, re each individual’s device ‘under in our country primarily this note — at 12.01 a.m. ble due to reluctance on the part of probably have to use the Internet as place the ancient technology of ra stands’ her music choices and in to Bollywood music . on August 1, 1981, when policymakers. In 2017, the govern its dissemination technology. In dio and all content forms associat troduces her to new music by curat Why? Because that’s the we witnessed the birth of ment told the Supreme Court that it other words, even if people were to ed with it. Radio does not even bear ing playlists, anticipating what she only content that is the music video with the was against granting permission to listen to what plays on the radio, comparison with the enhanced in would ‘like’. nancially viable. launch of MTV, the rst song played radio stations to broadcast news they would be listening to it over teractive potential of the Internet. The only people who listen to ra was “Video Killed the Radio Star” programmes because of possible the Internet. Streaming platforms allow peo Relegated to Bollywood music dio are those who are commuting by the Buggles. “security risks” involved. Hence, even if the ‘art of radio’ ple to set up their own channels But why talk only about music? to work and those who don’t have a Fast forward by three decades (read ‘audio’) survives, it won’t Ekalavya worldwide. The music battle has al Isn’t the scope of the medium sup dataenabled phone. In every con and into the next phase and we Radio through Internet ‘really’ survive. Bhattacharya is the ready been won by the Internet posed to be broader? Unfortunate ceivable way, the utility of the Inter realise that the Internet has pretty Innovations related to sports com What we are seeing is the nal chief strategy ocer at through apps such as Apple Music, ly, gone are the days when our fami net trumps that of the radio. much killed the 24hour video mus mentary, interactive gameshows, run of an ancient technology cater ALT Balaji, a videoon Gaana and Saavn. lies would huddle around the With advances in voice recogni ic channel. hyperlocal news and events, pre ing to an ageing generation of con demand platform Streaming apps allow users to transistor on the 26th of January tion technology, the Internet will The radio is dying, if not dead sence of an incredible array of fre sumers. With each passing day, ra play everything they want, even re and ‘listen’ to the Republic Day pa present itself as a far superior op yet. Radio networks should have in quencies and a sound monetisation dio is losing its relevance to the play entire playlists. The app on rade. No one would like to ‘listen’ to tion even in scenarios and contexts novated with their programming a strategy are just some of the factors youth of our country.

IT'S Diversication can help in radio’s growth. The grammes. Unfortunate country. This restriction the same audience, the recovery of vernment to reconsider its licens COMPLICATED ly, news is not allowed has hurt the medium in a investment takes its own time. If ing model. The fee can be deter government should allow private news channels and whatever is allowed big way. the license fees were not so high, mined by the content being oered. is news from All India and we could encourage regional There could be content aimed at Yes, radio is still relevant. Though it there is no proper measurement Radio, which most priv Huge licensing fee players, the market would grow. children or women or sports and is easy to say that the world has tool. When you are on a digital plat ate radio stations do not Another point to be con These factors have slowed the the fees can be worked out accord gone digital, the radio is not dead. form, you can measure the au broadcast as they have sidered pertains to the li growth of radio. It does not come as ingly. This could also act as a check Even today, during calamities like dience. There is no proper scientif sister companies within censing fee. The huge li a surprise that in the last 15 years, on the current auctioning process the recent oods in Mumbai , the ic parameter available to measure their respective groups — operating censing fee acts as a deterrent. A the radio market has grown only at which has led to a lot of specula role radio played could hardly be content on radio. A lot of assess through print or television — which single frequency for a single city, a rate of 24%. tion. To give you an example, the overstated. ments are still perceptionled. That specialise in news. Moreover, the dished out for a 15year period, can Diversifying and creating die top three radio operators take away A radio is something which you is one of the biggest drawbacks for fee charged by the Prasar Bharati cost more than 100 crore in large rent revenue streams is extremely as much as 70% of the revenue and Nisha Narayanan can carry around, requires neither the radio industry. Corporation is exorbitant. metros. critical. We can consider the exam survival becomes dicult for the is the Chief Operating data streaming nor Internet band As a consequence, most of them The initial few years are a bit of a ple of the numerous radio stations rest. Ocer of Red FM width, and is free of cost. Monopoly of government end up playing the same music, struggle for any operator as there is — about 23 — based in Colombo. I still feel radio has a place in the But I can see challenges ahead Another area where radio falls be which I think is detrimental to the a lot of clutter in the market . Very They include channels specialising lives of Indians, especially those in #4 6 0 4 9 0 for the medium. Our ecosystem is hind is news broadcasting. There is medium because it is not looked few operators are able to dieren in diverse genres — like news devo the rural areas. It is a far most ac changing fast and radio has sti so much happening around us on upon as a serious one. If there is tiate themselves in terms of con tional music and adult cepted medium outside the metros. competition from the new media . dierent subjects, all of which can any information people need, radio tent. As most radio stations are on programmes. One of the challenges it faces is that make for good current aairs pro is not the rst port of call in our the same bandwidth and targeting The time has come for the go as told to Anuradha Raman

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FIFTY YEARS AGO JANUARY 12, 1968 A needless pursuit Languages Act implications It makes no sense for India, which The implications of the Ocial Languages Act, which received prides itself on its multilingualism, to the assent of the President yesterday [January 10], we re ex plained here [New Delhi] today [January 11] by an ocial spo make a case for Hindi at the UN kesman. According to him, no employee in the Central G o vernment will be compelled to work in Hindi, nor will anyone K. Venkataramanan be compelled not to work in Hindi. No inconvenience will be caused to any employee who does not know Hindi, or knows There is a story in the Genesis that the en Hindi only. For their convenience, translations will be given to tire world spoke a single language before them in the language known to them, and it will not be the res humanity, apparently in arrogance and ponsibility of the person, who writes the note, to translate it in pride, set out to build a tower so high that the other language. Also, no inconvenience will be c aused to

UNITED NATIONS it would reach heaven. And that to under the general public, as work in Government departments, mine such overweening pride, God condemned them to which maintain contact with the public, will be in both the lan speak in dierent languages so that the enterprise failed due guages. to the resulting confusion. Fortunately, when nations came together in the modern era to form a global alliance for A HUNDRED YEARS AGO JANUARY 12, 1918. peace, it was decided that the United Nations should have Tribunal’s Jurisdiction Questioned. two working languages — English and French — lest it should become another Tower of Babel. Chinese, French, Engl ish, Mr. C.R. Das, BarristeratLaw with Mr. A. Sen, Barris terat Russian and Spanish were the UN ocial languages, but by Law appeared today ( January 11) before Mr. Justice Atkinson CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC subsequent resolutions over the years, all ve became work CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC and moved on behalf of one Parmeshwar Ahir for a writ of Ha ing languages too. In 1973, Arabic was adopted by the Gener CONCEPTUAL ACT ONE beas Corpus under the following circumstances: Parmeshwar al Assembly as an ocial and a working language. Ahir along with others was convicted of dacoity and rioting in For the Government of India, obtaining ocial langua ge Original during the last Bakrid trouble by the Special Tribunal appoint status for Hindi at the UN is an attractive way of enhancing auent society Professionalising arbitration ed under the Defence of India Act, and now sitting a t Arrah. its stature among languages and propagating the greater use Anthropology The Tribunal consists of Mr. Allanson, I.C.S., Mr. Patel, Barris of Hindi. The current rules do not make it easy. It may be A proposed legislation addresses the failure of the teratLaw and T.R. Khastoir. Mr. Das averred that neither the possible for India to get the required twothirds support. Ho This refers to a theory GovernorGeneral in Council nor the Local Government had wever, it is apparent that it cannot get all these countries — which states that hunter existing arbitration mechanisms any power to constitute a tribunal to try criminal oences in 129 out of 193 members, to be precise — to share the expen gatherers, contrary to dependently of Acts of Parliament. diture, as the rules stipulate. Even if the funding part was ta popular belief, did not Krishnadas Rajagopal to hold oce for three CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC ken care of, it will be a gross waste of resources to spend mil lead lives of subsistence In its statement of objects years and they will be elig CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC lions of dollars every year to fund the required tra nslation but instead enjoyed signi and reasons for the New ible for reappointment. DATA POINT and interpretation work. The last General Assembly resolu cant auence. According Delhi International Arbi The objectives of the in tion on the status of multilingualism at the UN noted w ith to the supporters of this tration Centre Bill of 2018, stitution are to provide fa concern that the availability of ocial documents in all o theory, which was rst which was introduced ear cilities and assistance for cial languages was “limited in some areas of Secreta riat ac proposed by American an lier this month in the Lok the conduct of arbitration, thropologist Marshall Sah tivity”. As it is, the UN is some distance away from achieving Sabha, the government GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCK PHOTO mediation and concilia its multilingual goals; expecting it to include one more lan lins in 1966 at a science highlighted that rapidly tion proceedings. The Bill guage may be quite naïve. symposium, huntergath changing economic activi mechanism, has not been says the institution will External Aairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has argued th at erers had to work fewer ties demand expeditious able to achieve its conduct arbitration in a Hindi is spoken not only in India, but also in Fiji, Suriname, hours per week than peo settlement of disputes. objectives. professional manner and Mauritius, Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana. It is quite a ple today and enjoyed The government also This Bill proposes the in the most costeective strange thing to say as other Indian languages too a re spo more leisure time because stressed the need for crea establishment of a new in way. ken in several countries. Bangladesh has asked for ocial they were content with ve tion and establishment of stitution called the New The NDIAC will also be language status for Bengali in the UN, and the West Bengal ry little. This idea has, ho mechanisms such as insti Delhi International Arbi entrusted with promoting Assembly has passed a resolution supporting the claim. wever, been criticised by tutional arbitration to in tration Centre (NDIAC) for study in the eld of alter many scholars, who argue spire condence and cred better management of ar native dispute resolution. It’s incongruous that huntergatherers did ibility among the litigants. bitration in the country. The Bill also proposes to It makes no sense for a country like India, which prides itself not enjoy much leisure The huge backlog in The Bill also aims to de set up a Chamber of Arbi on its multilingualism, to make a case for Hindi at the UN. It time and were prone to be courts is another reason clare it as an institution of tration, which would have will be quite incongruous for India to spend good money on easily killed by Nature. for the government to con national importance. a permanent panel of pro interpretation and translation at the UN, when many of its sider instituting other According to the go fessionals at the national own representatives use English. As Congress MP Shashi CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC modes of dispute resolu vernment, the Bill envisag and international levels. Tharoor pointed out in Parliament, the policy seems to as MORE ON tion. Besides, the Interna es appointment of per An Arbitration Acade sume that India will have only Hindispeaking Ministers. tional Centre for Alterna sons of repute and those my is to be set up by Far more than gaining greater global recognition for Hin THE WEB 3 tive Dispute Resolution having knowledge and ex NDIAC to train arbitrators di is at stake here. As a country known for its linguistic plu (ICADR), which was set up pertise in institutional ar in India, so as to empower ralism, India should not give an impression on the glo bal Quiz: Golden Globes 2018 in 1995 with government bitration as the chairper them to compete on par stage that it has one preeminent language. The government trivia funds to promote alterna son and members of the with other reputed arbi must not embark on this needless pursuit. http://bit.ly/GoldenGlobesQuiz tive dispute resolution NDIAC. The members are tration institutions. 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Small traders are the against Kerala CM not in nation’s interest; traders in panic became instrumental in policy, including its decision biggest employment provid bringing FDI in retail this to open up the retail sector, ers but this will accelerate “We have not been dis charge of the accused may Arun S. ers representing dierent time,” said B.C. Bhartia, na the traders’ body had unemployment,” said Delhi charged. Continuation of lead to miscarriage of justice Sandeep Phukan business verticals were tional president of CAIT. worked closely with the BJP Congress chief Ajay Maken. New Delhi trial will be detrimental to and delay the trial,” the CBI meeting next Tuesday to Calling it the rst step to to oppose the UPA. In its 2014 manifesto, the us now,” Mr. Rohatgi petition contended. A day after the government chalk out the future course wards opening up Multiple Not only do traders form BJP had said that “barring submitted. “It is a matter of fact that allowed 100% Foreign Direct of action as the traders’ body Brand Retail Trade (MBRT), BJP’s core supporters, pro the MBRT sector, FDI will be The CBI, in its appeal in there was ample material to Investment (FDI) in Single believed the move would CAIT said the decision will minent members of the CAIT allowed in sectors wherever the Supreme Court against prima facie show conspira Brand Retail Trade (SBRT) hurt the domestic manufac “open the oodgates for mul have been active member needed for job and asset the Kerala High Court’s deci cy in the matter, which may through automatic route, the turing sector, the ‘Make In tinational companies to over supporters of the party. creation, infrastructure and sion to discharge Mr. Vi have been appreciated at ruling BJPled NDA is facing India’ initiative and small power Indian retail trade acquisition of niche technol jayan and two coaccused, the stage of trial only,” the opposition from within. traders. and will have a vital bearing Third bullet, says Maken ogy and specialised exper said there is “ample mate agency said. The Swadeshi Jagran To be held in Delhi, the on the livelihood of crores of Traders fear that MNCs But with many of them angry tise.” rial to show the involve It asked how the High Manch (SJM), an ideological meeting would be attended small businesses in the will kill Indian retail trade. with the latest decision, the However, after it came to ment” of Mr. Vijayan in the Court could hold there is aliate of the BJP, said the by associations of hawkers, country.” Congress is eyeing an oppor power at the Centre, the pro Lavalin deal. criminal conspiracy but dis decision was against “the in transporters, small indus SJM national convener years after the opening of the tunity to reach out to BJP’s hibition on FDI in MBRT has The High Court had ac charges certain accused terest of the country” and tries, consumers, selfem Ashwani Mahajan said, rst store by the foreign com traditional voters. only been a de facto one as cused the agency of adopt persons. called upon the people to re ployed groups, women en “More worrisome is the deci pany. As a result of this deci “This is in a sense the the consolidated FDI policy ing a “pickandchoose” pol The HC, on August 23, sist such decisions. trepreneurs and even sion to set o the condition sion, foreign companies third bullet after demoneti even now has retained on icy in naming certain discharged Mr. Vijayan, K. The apex body of traders, farmers’ bodies. of mandatory sourcing re would get the freedom to sation and GST. Traders were paper the UPA’s decision to persons as accused. But in Mohanachandran, former the Confederation of All In “It is rather more sad that quirement of 30% of pur procure products from already facing the brunt of permit 51% FDI in MBRT fact, the agency countered, principal secretary, Depart dia Traders (CAIT), said trad the set of people making for chases from India for ve anywhere on the globe.” these decisions and now the through the approval route. it was the court which em ment of Power and A. Fran ployed a pickandchoose cis, then joint secretary in policy by discharging cer the same department. tain accused persons while However, it dismissed the leaving the rest of the discharge petitions of K.G. India must seize the chance: U.S. Mallya’s counsel chargesheeted persons to Rajasekharan Nair, then face trial. Member (Accounts) of the American rms cent decision to suspend se “All decisions (in the SNC Kerala State Electricity curity aid to Pakistan came challenges proof Lavalin deal) were taken Board and M. Kasthuriranga are disenchanted because Islamabad “has not with the knowledge of all Iyer, who was Chief Engi with China: envoy done all it can to eliminate the accused persons named neer (Generation) in the terrorist sanctuaries in Pa Case put o till late January in the charge sheet... dis Board. Suhasini Haidar kistan that are contributing Dinakar Peri to unrest in Afghanistan.” Vidya Ram and Indian case law. The de NEW DELHI However, he declined to LONDON fence sought to contest the In a rst, collegium India is a “leading power” in comment on a specic ques The extradition hearing of portrayal of certain conver the IndoPacic and should tion from The Hindu about Indian businessman Vijay sations between Mr. Mallya gear up to become an alter whether groups that target Mallya continued on Thurs and his lawyers as a “blue picks woman lawyer native manufacturing desti India like the LashkareTai day as the defence sought to print” for dishonesty. nation to China to attract ba and JaisheMohammed challenge the admissibility Lead barrister Clare If appointed, Ms. Malhotra bringing more women U.S. business, said U.S. Am would be viewed with equal of certain evidence, used by Montgomery sought to chal would be the seventh wo judges into its fold even as bassador to India Kenneth concern. the prosecution in its eorts lenge the prosecution’s sug man judge in the Supreme more and more gender Juster. “Pakistan is also impor to return Mr. Mallya to India gestion that privilege didn’t Court’s 68yearold history. sensitive and womencen In his rst public address Glad tidings: U.S. Ambassador to India Kenneth I. Juster tant to the situation in Af based on allegations of apply in the case, because of Justice M. Fathima Beevi tric cases reach the Su since taking over as the new speaking in New Delhi on Thursday. * PTI ghanistan. I don’t think we fraud, and money launder iniquity. was the rst woman SC preme Court for envoy, Mr. Juster also made a are going to get stability and ing. 'The prosecution had pre judge appointed 39 years adjudication. pitch for India and the U.S. region,” he told an audience India. We welcome steps by security in Afghanistan if Pa The case has now been sented the evidence as a after the apex court was es Recently, all the direct to negotiate a Free Trade in New Delhi. India to continue its reform kistan does not contribute pushed back till late January “blueprint for dishonesty” tablished in 1950. The se elevations from the Su Agreement. agenda, expand market ac positively to that,” Mr. Juster at the earliest. whereas it was “nothing of cond woman judge was Jus preme Court Bar have been “A number of U.S. compa Market access cess, and further enhance replied, saying that the the sort” but “analysis of liti tice Sujata V. Manohar, who men. Justices Rohinton Na nies have reported increas Mr. Juster, who most recent the protection of intellectual Trump administration On bail till April gation” currently under was appointed in 1994 for a riman, U.U. Lalit and L. Na ing diculties conducting ly served as assistant adviser property. And we want to would not tolerate “safe ha Mr. Mallya is bailed till April way. “What is being de veyear tenure in the Su geswara Rao were recent business in the largest mar to U.S. President Donald work with India to expedi vens for terrorists anywh 2, and the next hearing, in scribed is the ordinary non preme Court. inductions to the Supreme ket in the region — China. Ac Trump on economic issues, tiously resolve trade and in ere” or “crossborder which the defence will con abusive use of lawyers,” she The other four women Court from the Supreme cordingly, some companies also expressed the need for vestment disputes.” terrorism.” tinue to contest the admissi told the court. judges are Justices Ruma Court Bar. Earlier, Justices are downgrading their oper India to expand market ac He said India and the U.S. He placed defence and bility of evidence, will conti Even if the evidence were Pal, Gyan Sudha Misra, S.M. Sikri, who became the ations there, while others cess and intellectual proper can work together in Afghan counterterrorism coopera nue within the next three admissible, she argued, Ranjana Prakash Desai, 13th Chief Justice of India, are looking with great inter ty rights, both of which are istan, partner with Japan tion as the rst pillar of the weeks, at a date to be they did not show what the who was part of the Bench S.C. Roy, Kuldip Singh and est at alternative markets. In the subject of U.S.India liti and Australia in the Indo IndiaU.S. relationship, while determined. prosecution purported they #4 6 0 4 9 0 which conrmed the death N. Santosh Hegde were ap dia can seize the strategic gation at the World Trade Pacic, coordinate their hu calling economic relations, The detailed challenge on did, relating to relations penalty of the lone 26/11 pointed to the Supreme opportunity — through trade Organisation. manitarian assistance, as energy and environment, Thursday involved a highly with another bank and not Mumbai attacks convict Aj Court Bench directly from and investment — to become “We are concerned about well as cooperate on connec science and health, and re technical dissection of indi related to the IDBI case un mal Kasab, and R. Banu the Bar. an alternative hub for U.S. persistent trade decits, in tivity projects in South Asia. gional cooperation as the vidual statements and sec der consideration by the mathi, who was one of the If cleared, Ms. Malhotra business in the IndoPacic cluding the one we have with He said Mr. Trump’s re other pillars. tions of evidence and British court. judges who conrmed the would be the eighth lawyer death sentence for four to be directly appointed to convicts in the Nirbhaya the Supreme Court Bench. gangrape appeals. Justice K.M. Joseph was Ex-BJP MP J&K presents once described as an out Maharashtra clashes worry RSS Women-centric cases standing judge by Supreme Nana Patole populist Justice Banumathi is the Court judge and SC Collegi sole woman among the 25 um member Justice J. Che joins Cong. To check areups. Hindutva outts asked to quickly resolve conict with Dalits budget strong Supreme Court judi lameswar, who had urged ciary. The court has been the collegium to elevate Staff Reporter Nistula Hebbar “For us oppression of Da Peerzada Ashiq facing criticism for not him to the apex court. Nagpur NEW DELHI lits is a aw of Hinduism and Srinagar Former Bharatiya Janata In March 2015, after a meet has to be dealt with for the Jammu & Kashmir Finance Party MP from the Gondia ing of the RSS’s Akhil Bhara sake of Hinduism as well ,” Minister Haseeb Drabu, Bhandara Lok Sabha con tiya Pratinidhi Sabha in Nag added the source. who presented the fourth SC asks for panels on stituency in Maharashtra pur, the body adopted a “Some parties are trying budget of the Peoples De Nana Patole joined the resolution to promote poli to fashion a DalitMuslim so mocratic Party Bharatiya Congress on Thursday. cies that transcend caste dif lidarity which is basically a Janata Party government Mullaperiyar dam Mr. Patole resigned from ferences in Hindu society. political formation or al on Thursday, came up with the BJP and as an MP last “One well, one temple and liance and not something a slew of populist mea Prepare disaster management strategies: SC month expressing unhap one crematorium” for all that will address the issues sures, including welfare in Legal Correspondent piness over the work of the was the aim. faced by Dalits in cities and itiatives for local industry, NEW DELHI Union and Maharashtra Incidents of cow vigilan Policemen trying to control a mob at Koregaon-Bhima village villages. It (Dalit oppression) employees, women and governments. tism targeting Dalits and in Maharashtra after the clashes early this month. * AFP is an issue that has to be ad transgender community. Despite the Centre’s assu The Congress an more recently caste violence dressed by Hindu society In the 80,000crore rance that the Mullaperiyar nounced the induction on following events at Kore of hand. “Over the last week, ings were held in Delhi itself, and a scourge that has to be budget, Dr. Drabu an dam is “safe,” the Supreme its ocial Twitter handle gaonBhima have demon in every State, under the aus one on Sunday at the RSS rooted out. It has nothing to nounced a social security Court on Thursday directed and also released photos of strated that the organisation pices of the RSS prant karya headquarters. do with the condition of net for the poor, em it to constitute a special Mr. Patole with party chief is a long way from getting its vahs a meeting of all frontal “The basic message from Muslim community in In ployees and journalists, in committee to prepare for Rahul Gandhi and senior messaging right. organisations associated all these meetings has been dia,” he said. the form of medical insu disaster management for leaders from Maharashtra. The incidents following with us was called, from that other than just our dis The BJP has gained from rance and education loans. the 122yearold dam. Mr. Patole, an OBC polit KoregaonBhima and allega Vishwa Hindu Parishad to trict samaajik samarasta (so widespread Dalit support in The State’s transgender A threejudge Bench, led ician from the Vidarbha re tions that Hindutva outts the BJP, especially those who cial harmony) teams, all or the 2014 general elections community was extended by Chief Justice of India Di gion, had earlier accused were involved in violence worked closely with Dalit ganisations should be aware and in the 2017 Assembly “all the benets of Below pak Misra, also directed Ta Leaving nothing to chance: the Maharashtra govern against Dalits have however outts, and communities of any small or local incident polls in Uttar Pradesh. Inci Poverty Line citizens, and mil Nadu, which owns the The step is meant to allay ment as well as the Modi impelled the RSS to under like the Valmiki Samaj and of conict between com dents like BhimKoregaon a pension. Pension benets dam, and Kerala, where it is fears of residents regime of doing little for take a period of regrouping, the Jatav Samaj,” said a se munities and try and resolve have been identied as a were also extended to un located, to set up special downstream or in the vicinity the distressed farmers of as its whole Dalit project nior source in the RSS. it before it becomes a cona spoke in the wheel of Hindu married daughters of go committees to prepare dis of the dam. * H. VIBHU the region. could derail if events got out At least three such meet gration,” said the source. consolidation. vernment employees. aster management plans. controversy between Tamil ‘Work in harmony’ Nadu and Kerala, built in It ordered that the three 1895. Afzal Guru’s son gets 88% committees work in harmo The petition was led by Indu Malhotra set to script history ny. The step was taken to al advocate Russell Joy, repre Special Correspondent my family. Situation was not lay the fears of thousands senting three million people Srinagar stable in Kashmir in 2016 who live downstream or in living downstream, in the It is a welcome move to recruit a woman directly from the Bar: Indira Jaising Parliament attack convict and 17 and it was not easy to the vicinity of the dam, it direct line of a catastrophe Afzal Guru’s son Ghalib Af study. However, local teach said. that may arise from a dam Soibam Rocky Singh <> Women have good Samaritans, who save Another Supreme Court zal Guru has passed the ers helped me,” Ghalib said. The court claried that burst. New Delhi nally broken a lives in road accidents. advocate Vrinda Grover said Class 12 examination secur He said his father wanted these committees had noth It said the dam was con Senior advocate Indu Malho huge glass ceiling Senior advocate Indira the addition of another wo ing 441 marks (88.2%) out of him to become a doctor. ing to do with the dam’s li structed “as a composite tra is set to make history as Jaising told The Hindu that, man judge at the top court 500 in the science stream. Afzal Guru was hanged in Meenakshi Arora fespan or safety. Their brief gravity structure” across the rst woman lawyer to be Supreme Court advocate “It’s a welcome move to re was a welcome move. “At “I am thankful to Allah 2013 in the Parliament at would be restricted to pre the Periyar, with “crude directly appointed as a judge cruit a woman directly from present there is only one, we and attribute my success to tack case. venting a disaster or con lime surki mortar, at a time of the Supreme Court. am for the Supreme Court, a the Bar. There has to be need more,” Ms. Grover said. taining the loss of life and when dam engineering was Known to be hard work tough nut to crack for most more women judges at the Justice R. Banumathi is damage to property in case in its infancy...” It was built ing and diligent, Ms. Malho lawyers. Supreme Court.” the lone woman judge in the a tragedy hit the dam. for 50 years and had alrea tra will be the seventh wo In 2007, she became the Supreme Court which cur It noted that a committee dy survived 122 years. man judge in the Supreme second woman to be desig More opportunities rently has a strength of 25 had already been formed, “People live in fear. Do Court, since it was esta nated a senior advocate by Senior advocate Meenakshi judges. as ordered by a Constitution we require the Bhopal gas blished 67 years ago, if her the Supreme Court only af Arora said the development In 1989, Justice M. Fathi Bench in May 2014, to cover disaster or an Ockhi [cy appointment goes through. ter the legendary Justice Lei was historic besides being ma Beevi became the rst the dam’s safety and clone] to understand what a A second generation la la Seth, who was given the “excellent choice.” She said, woman judge in the Su lifespan. disaster is? Kindly have rea wyer, Ms. Malhotra was born honour in 1977. “Women have nally broken preme Court. With only ve The order came on a peti dy an emergency plan. in 1956 in Bengaluru to not She is on the board of a huge glass ceiling to be ap women judges being ap tion to direct the govern Please don’t wait for the ed advocate Om Prakash trustees in SaveLIFE Founda pointed directly as a judge of pointed as Supreme Court ment to appoint an interna structure to be broken to Malhotra. She joined the le tion and represented the the Supreme Court. This will judge till now, the legal fra tional agency to study the act. We have a right to life,” gal profession in 1983 and la NGO in a case which resulted open up a lot of opportuni ternity feels more women longevity of the dam, a pe said advocate Manoj Ge ter secured rst position in in the Supreme Court pass ties for other women in the should be given the oppor rennial source of water and orge, for the petitioner. the AdvocateonRecord ex ing a slew of laws to protect legal eld.” tunity.

THE HINDU NOIDA/DELHI FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 2018 NEWS 13 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF Netanyahu’s visit to give a leg-up to India-Israel ties Reciprocal gesture after Narendra Modi He is not made rst PMlevel visit in 2017 welcome in No plan to postpone Special Correspondent <> The Prime Minister’s India: CPI(M) Nagaland polls: Rajnath New Delhi visit to India is the NEW DELHI Israeli Prime Minsiter Benja grand nale to the The Assembly elections in Special Correspondent min Netanyahu will visit In celebrations of 25 Nagaland will be held on dia between January 1419, New Delhi years of growing schedule, Home Minister 2018, the Ministry of Exter In a scathing attack on the Rajnath Singh said on nal Aairs announced on partnership upcoming tour of Israeli Thursday amid a demand by Thursday. The visit is a reci Daniel Carmon Prime Minister Benjamin Israeli ambassador the State’s civil society procating gesture from Israel Netanyahu, CPI(M) mouth groups for deferring the polls to the rst Prime Ministerle response to President Muk piece People’s Democracy, to facilitate a solution to the vel visit from India underta herjee’s visit to his country. in an edit published on vexed Naga insurgency issue. ken by Prime Minister Naren Ocials of the Ministry of Thursday, said that he was This was conveyed by the dra Modi in July 2017. External Aairs (MEA) said not welcome in India. Home Minister to Nagaland Chief Minister T.R. Zeliang Mr. Netanyahu will be the that during his visit Prime Calling Mr. Netanyahu when the latter met him on second Israeli Prime Minister Minister Netanyahu will de and Prime Minister Naren Wednesday. to visit India; Ariel Sharon liver the inaugural lecture at dra Modi as “ideological was the rst Israeli PM to vi the Raisina Dialogue, the an soulmates”, the edit said: Two Dalits tonsured on sit India in 2003, during the nual foreign policyrelated “One represents rightwing charges of stealing cows tenure of PM Atal Bihari Vaj discussion in Delhi. He will ultra Jewish nationalism BALLIA payee. Commenting on the also participate in the Indo while the other is an advo Two Dalits were tonsured composition of Prime Minis Israeli CEO Forum in Delhi. cate of rightwing Hindutva and paraded under the Rasra ter Netanyahu’s team, o Apart from the events in nationalism.” police station limits here in cials said that an Israeli busi Delhi, the visiting Prime Mi Uttar Pradesh, allegedly ness delegation will nister will travel to Gujarat, ‘In solidarity’ by Hindu Yuva Vahini accompany him. where he will visit the Centre The piece said that “con activists on charges of for Excellence in Vadrad and trary to Mr. Modi’s support stealing cows, the police said. High point inaugurate a Centre of Excel for the Israeli occupation”, The two were then arrested The visit marks the high lence for date palms in Bhuj the people of India had al following an FIR filed on the point of the 25th anniversary via video conference. A press ways stood in solidarity complaint of one Pravin of normal diplomatic ties release from the Embassy of with the Palestinian people Srivastava. One of the two between the two countries. Israel in Delhi said that Mr. and against Israeli aggres men, Uma Ram, later filed a Apart from Mr. Modi’s visit to Netanyahu will also visit the sion. police complaint, saying the ‘India’s vote at UN not an issue’ incident took place on Israel, President Pranab iCreate innovation campus “The coalition headed Monday when some Hindu Mukherjee and External Af and centre. by Netanyahu is the most Yuva Vahini activists stopped fairs Minister Sushma Swaraj The visit of the Israeli lead Netanyahu for to development of Spike An rightwing government them with two cows. On his have also visited Israel in the er is symbolically signicant. expansion of tiTank Guided Missile, the that Israel has had. It con complaint, an FIR was lodged past three years. It is reported that he will be Israeli leader said, “I think sists of ultraright Jewish against one named person India’s ties with the Jewish accompanied by the relatives economic ties you are going to see an ex parties who openly advo and 15 unknown persons und state have been in focus as of the Jewish priest who was pansion of economic and cate expulsion of the Pales er the Scheduled Castes and India voted at the United Na killed along with his wife in Press Trust of India other ties regardless of this tinian people from the oc Scheduled Tribes (Prevention tions General Assembly last the 26/11 attack in Mumbai. Jerusalem or that deal”. cupied territories and of Atrocities) Act. PTI month against the U.S. recog Mr. Netanyahu is expected to Not disheartened by India’s Pointing towards the tre treating the Arabs within nition of Jerusalem as the oer his tributes to the vic vote against Israel at the UN mendous strengthening of the borders of Israel as se Special officers to monitor capital of Israel. The move tims of terrorism during his General Assembly on the is ties on all fronts, Mr. Neta condclass citizens.” BJP youth wing rally: HC was criticised by some sec trip to Mumbai. He will also sue of Jerusalem, Prime Mi nyahu expressed optimism The People’s Democracy KOLKATA tions of commentators, whe reach out to the lm world nister Benjamin Netanyahu A le photo of Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Israeli saying, “overtime I hope I piece criticised Mr. Neta The Calcutta High Court on reas India had defended it, with the ‘Shalom Bollywood’ has expressed hope that bi Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel. * AFP will see a reection of that nyahu’s policies, saying he Thursday directed the citing traditional policy on event. lateral ties would receive a more often in the voting of had legalised the private appointment of two special the twostate solution to the In a statement issued on further boost during his mil rent vote to be frank but I di’s visit was a very impor India in international land expropriated from the officers to accompany the IsraelPalestinian conict. the visit, Israeli ambassador estone visit to the country. don’t think it materially tant milestone in that. My vi forums. Palestinians. Bharatiya Janata Party youth wing rally. The development The visit indicates an Daniel Carmon said, “The India in December voted changes the tremendous o sit to India is the other one,” “It does not nullify the fact The government had de comes after the West Bengal upswing in bilateral ties that Prime Minister’s visit to India in favour of the UN General wering of relations between Mr. Netanyahu said address that with India, with other cided to allow a new settle government challenged the had received a boost when is the grand nale to the cele Assembly resolution, con India and Israel.” ing the Government Press Of countries in Latin America ment to be built in West decision of Justice Debangsu Ms. Swaraj made an announ brations of 25 years of grow demning the U.S. for its deci Prime Minister Narendra ce’s annual endofyear re and Africa there is a tremen Bank after two decades, Basak to allow the Bharatiya cement at her rst press con ing partnership between In sion to recognise Jerusalem Modi had also visited the ception for the foreign press dous increase of relations on while expanding the exist Janata Youth Morcha to hold ference in 2015 about the dia and Israel. The visit will as the capital of Israel. Jewish state in July, becom corps on Wednesday. all fronts,” the Israeli Prime ing settlements. “All this is its 1,600 kmmotorbike rally PMlevel visit to Israel from focus on the progress made Mr. Netanyahu, who ing the rst Indian premier When asked about the im Minister noted. being done to prevent any from Contai in south Bengal India. Israel’s President Reu between India and Israel would be leaving for India on to do so. pact of India’s recent deci “It just takes longer on the possibility of an indepen #4 6 0 4 9 0 to Cooch Behar in north ven Rivlin also paid a visit to since Prime Minister Modi vi January 14, said: “Well I “I think everybody can sion to cancel a half a billion international front,” he dent state of Palestine Bengal. India in November 2016, in sited Israel last summer.” would have preferred a die see that. Prime Minister Mo dollars defence deal related stressed. emerging,” the piece said. Buddhism is basis of an early ED summons form of globalisation: Kovind Karti to record statement ‘It created interconnectedness in our continent’ Special Correspondent special correspondent NEW DELHI Patna The Enforcement Directo Inaugurating the fourth Interna rate on Thursday issued tional DharmaDhamma confe fresh summons to Karti rence on state and social order, at Chidambaram, son of the Rajgir in Nalanda district of Bihar former Union Minister, P. on Thursday, President Ram Nath Chidambaram, for record Kovind said Buddhism was the ba ing his statement in the sis for an early form of globalisa case of alleged irregulari tion, and of interconnectedness in President Ram Nath Kovind with ties in the receipt and use our continent. Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar at of foreign direct invest The President pointed out that Rajgir on Thursday. * PTI ments by INX Media. “the timing of this conference is ve In view of the summons ry appropriate” as “we are marking derstanding of the common roots served earlier this month, the 25th anniversary of the ASEAN and similarities of the diverse tradi Mr. Karti Chidambaram’s India Dialogue Partnership.” tions of Dharma and Dhamma.” legal representative ap “On India’s Republic Day, lead Though known by many names peared before the ED in ers from all 10 ASEAN countries they [Dharma and Dhamma] guide vestigation team on Thurs will be chief guests at the ceremo us to the same truth, he said. day to give replies to the nial events in New Delhi. And today “They emphasise the many questions to be posed by this conference stands testimony to roads, rather than any one road, the agency. However, the the abiding friendship and shared that lead us to the same desired agency decided to sum values of India and ASEAN – as well goal,” said President Kovind. mon Mr. Karti Chidamba as to the spiritual heritage and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Ku ram for recording his state knowledge that belongs to both the mar, Governor Satya Pal Malik, De ment under the Prevention subcontinent and to Southeast puty Chief Minister Sushil Kumar of Money Laundering Act. Asia,” he said. Modi, ViceChancellor of Nalanda Last August, Mr. Karti Mr. Kovind said the conference University Sunaina Singh and a Chidambaram was ques was “an attempt at enhancing un host of dignitaries were present. tioned by the CBI. Modi govt. has compromised border security, says Congress

‘It must be proactive to manage the headlines when it transgressions across the Indian about Chinese comes to critical issues of nation side of the LAC in 2017 and as ma al security. But the reality and ac ny as 120 between May and June transgressions’ tuality of their tall claims are get last year. ting unravelled day by day.” Special Correspondent According to a report, in De Grave concern New Delhi cember, Chinese troops had The Congress spokesperson Reacting to reports about an at come into the Upper Siang region claimed that though the UPA had tempt by Chinese troops to build of Arunachal Pradesh and were planned a separate mountain a road one kilometre inside In engaged in road construction corps to be deployed along the dian territory on the Arunachal when they were stopped by In LAC, not much progress had hap Pradesh border last month, the dian troops and their equipment pened. Congress on Thursday said, “It seized. Stating that the Central The Congress spokesperson was Doklam 2.0 and was a glaring government needs to be more referred to recent news reports example of how the Modi govern proactive about such transgres about the government of India ment has compromised the se sions, the Congress party said the scrapping a 32,000 crore pro curity apparatus.” number of incursions by Chinese ject to build advanced mines Addressing a press confe troops on the Indian side of the weeper – specialised warships to rence, Congress spokesperson Line of Actual Control (LAC) had detect and destroy underwater Tom Vadakkan said, “False brava gone up by as much as 48% in the mines — and the damage to In do, chest thumping and TV stu past one year. dia’s nuclear submarine INS Ari- dio warfare are the tools em Citing news reports, Mr. Va hant, and called it a matter of ployed by the Modi government dakkan said there had been 415 grave concern.

NOIDA/DELHI THE HINDU 14 WORLD FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 2018 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE ELSEWHERE U.S. votes to renew surveillance law Beijing wary of Indian presence in S. China Sea Rejects an amendment that proposed a series of overhauls, including privacy protections Slams Vietnam for inviting India EILEEN SULLIVAN messages of Americans calls in bulk. But lawmakers cials in a Twitter post that NICHOLAS FANDOS swept up under the who favoured extending that criticized an important sur Press Trust of India vant countries in our neigh CHARLIE SAVAGE programmme. overhaul to the warrantless veillance law just as Con Beijing bourhood... “But China WASHINGTON surveillance program fell gress began debating wheth China on Thursday objected rmly oppose relevant par A yearslong eort by a bi Few takers short in adding to that feat. er to approve it. But less than to Vietnam’s invitation to In ty to use it as an excuse to partisan group of lawmakers The legislation still has to go The vote on Thursday was two hours later, the presi dia to invest in oil and natu infringe upon China’s legiti Brexit backer Farage for to impose signicant new through the Senate. But few a victory for the Trump ad dent appeared to reverse ral gas sector in the disput mate rights and interests in second EU referendum privacy limits on the Nation er lawmakers there appear ministration and the intelli himself, telling lawmakers to ed South China Sea, saying it the South China Sea and im LONDON al Security Agency’s war to favour major changes to gence community, which op “Get smart!” Mr. Trump’s is rmly opposed to infrin pair regional peace and sta Leading Brexit campaigner rantless surveillance pro spying laws, so the House posed imposing major new rst tweet on appeared to gement of its rights using de bility,” Mr. Lu said. Nigel Farage suggested on velopment of bilateral ties Thursday that Britain hold a gram fell short on Thursday, vote is likely the eective end curbs on the programme, encourage lawmakers to sup second referendum on EU as the House of Representa of a debate over 21stcentury and for Republican leader port limiting the law. as an “excuse”. Defence cooperation membership which he claims tives voted to extend the le Donald Trump surveillance technology and ship, including House Speak The tweet enraged Repu Vietnam’s Ambassador to Mr. Thanh had also said de would silence those who are gal basis for that programme privacy rights that broke out er Paul Ryan, RWis., who blican leaders who have India Ton Sinh Thanh on fence cooperation is one of against leaving the bloc, but by six years with only mini — even when they are talking in 2013 following the leaks by had blocked the House from been trying to chart a course Tuesday had told an Indian the important and eective the proposed new vote is mal changes. to Americans. intelligence contractor Ed an opportunity to consider a to renew it, more or less in news channel that his coun areas of cooperation bet getting support from pro-EU The vote, 256164, centred Before approving the ex ward Snowden. lesssweeping compromise tact. In a later tweet, he said: try would welcome Indian ween India and Vietnam politicians. AFP on an expiring law, Section tension of the law, the House Congress did, in 2015, package developed by the “With that being said, I have investments in the South and India can be helpful in 702 of the FISA Amendments voted 233183 to reject an vote to end and replace a House Judiciary Committee. personally directed the x to China Sea. expanding Vietnam’s de Israel approves 1,100 Act, which permits the go amendment that proposed a programme that Snowden the unmasking process since Responding to remarks, fence capabilities. homes in West Bank vernment to collect without series of overhauls. Among exposed under which the Trump’s Uturn taking oce and today’s vote Chinese Foreign Ministry China has been opposing JERUSALEM a warrant from U.S. rms, them was a requirement that NSA, under Section 215 of Earlier on Thursday, Presi is about foreign surveillance spokesman Lu Kang said: Oil and Natural Gas Corpo Israel has approved more like Google and AT&T, the ocials get warrants in most the Patriot Act, had been se dent Donald Trump contrad of foreign bad guys on fo “China does not object to ration exploring oil in wells than 1,100 new settlement emails and other communi cases before hunting for and cretly collecting logs of icted his own White House reign land. We need it! Get the development of normal claimed by Vietnam in the homes in the occupied West NY TIMES bilateral relations of rele South China Sea for years. Bank, an NGO said on cations of foreigners abroad reading emails and other Americans’ domestic phone and top national security of smart!” he wrote. Thursday. Some 352 homes received final approval, while the others are at an earlier stage in the process, Hagit Foreign students boost U.K. economy PTI Bangladeshi man indicted Ofran of Peace Now, said.

75 Afghan prisoners loyal to former warlord freed for New York bomb attack Contribute £20 bn, PM May under pressure to take them out of migration targets KABUL The Afghan President has Vidya Ram side the EU were spread “International students vernment gures — includ pardoned 75 prisoners loyal Akayed Ullah could face life in prison if convicted LONDON across the country. While bring economic benets to ing Home Secretary Amber to Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a Pressure continued to pile they had the greatest impact the U.K. that are worth 10 Rudd — are said to be in fa former warlord and U.S.- Press Trust of India bombing and attempting to on the British Prime Minister on the London economy, times the cost of hosting vour of removing students declared terrorist who signed Washington bomb a place of public use to review her policy towards generating £4.6 billion net, them,” said Nick Hillman, di from the numbers, the a peace deal with Kabul in A Bangladeshi immigrant and a public transportation international students, after they had a positive impact rector of HEPI “Trying to Prime Minister (a former 2016. It gave Hekmatyar and has been indicted on terro system; destruction and at it emerged that they have a across the country. While EU persuade the Home Oce Home Secretary) has re his followers immunity for rism charges in the U.S. for tempted destruction of pro positive economic impact on students had a positive net that international students mained implacably opposed past actions and granted last month’s botched bomb perty by means of re or ex every constituency of the impact of £68,000 on the nearly always benet the to change. An eort by the them full political rights. AP ing in a New York City sub plosives; conducting and U.K., contributing a net of economy, nonEU students U.K. can feel like banging House of Lords to bring in way station. attempting to conduct a ter £20.3 billion to the British had a £95,000 impact. one’s head against a brick change was thwarted at the California mudslides: Akayed Ullah, 27, could rorist attack against a mass economy. wall,” he added. last minute last year. death toll rises to 17 face life in prison if convict transportation system. The research, published Large benets The research has boosted However, even ahead of MONTECITO ed of the attack near the Port “As alleged in the indict by the Higher Education Pol “This research lls impor calls for international stu the latest research, media re Anxious family members awaited word on loved ones Authority bus terminal on ment, Ullah constructed a icy Institute (HEPI) and Ka tant gaps in our knowledge: dents to be taken out of net ports suggested the govern on Wednesday as rescue December 11 that left three Akayed Ullah pipe bomb and detonated it plan International Pathways, while we knew that the be migration targets: a policy ment might be forced to con crews searched for more than persons injured. He was also in the heart of New York City involved detailed analysis of nets of hosting internation which many believe is inju cede in order to avoid an a dozen people missing after injured in the explosion. lamic State (IS), and one to terrorise as many people the costs and benets of the al students are large, we did rious to the university sec embarrassing legislative de mudslides in Southern The federal grand jury in count of using and attempt as possible and to bring IS over 230,000 international not previously know how li tor, creating the perception feat, via an amendment to be California destroyed an dicted Ullah on Wednesday ing to use a weapon of mass inspired violence to Ameri students who arrive in the mited the costs are,” said Ga that Britain was an unwel introduced to immigration estimated 100 houses, swept with one count of providing destruction. can soil,” said Acting Assis U.K. every year, and found van Conlon of London Eco coming place for foreign legislation that will pass away cars and left at least 17 and attempting to provide He has also been charged tant Attorney General Dana that the benets of students nomics, a policy students. through Parliament later this victims dead. AP material support to the Is with one count each of Boente. from both within and out consultancy. While many senior go year.

Pakistani child murder: EU backs #4 6 0 4 9 0 underre protests grow stronger Iran Ndeal

Associated Press Demonstrators say police have failed to act against killings BRUSSELS European Union powers Agence France-Presse on Thursday urged U.S. Kasur President Donald Trump to Hundreds of protesters en endorse a key nuclear raged over the murder of a agreement with Iran, say young girl threw stones at ing the deal is essential for government buildings in a international security. Pakistani city near the In The Foreign Ministers of dian border for a second day Britain, France and Germa on Thursday, amid growing ny expressed support to outrage over the killing. the pact limiting Iran’s nu The demonstrators hur clear ambitions and insist led projectiles at a hospital, ed that the Islamic Repu attacked the home of at least United front: Pakistanis call for action against child abuse at a blic is respecting it. “There one local politician, and protest in Lahore on Thursday. * AFP is no indication today that complained of police inac could call into doubt Iran’s tion in the city of Kasur in murdered in Kasur in the commissioner’s oce... Se respect of the deal,” Punjab province, a day after past 12 months, the police curity is deployed and trying French Foreign Minister two protesters were killed said. to control the situation.” JeanYves Le Drian said. when the rallies turned vio Ocials had earlier put The demonstrators had Mr. Le Drian called on lent. her age at eight, but her fa accused the police of failing all parties to uphold the The outrage has spilled mily said she was just six to act over the child mur deal, noting that “our over in Kasur after the body years old. ders. Mr. Sajid said that up to American allies should res of the child was found in a “Up to 1,000 protesters 20 suspects had been appre pect it as well. There is no garbage heap on Tuesday, are in the streets,” Kasur pol hended “but the investiga particular reason for any where she is believed to ice spokesman Muhammad tors have been unable to nd rupture”. Under the ac have been dumped after be Sajid said . “They have any clue so far”. “Police are cord, Iran slowed its nu ing raped and murdered. thrown stones on the build not cooperating with us,” clear programme in ex The child is the eighth mi ings of the government hos Ghulam Rasool, a family change for an easing of nor to have been raped and pital, police and deputy member, said. economic sanctions. Ecuador grants Assange citizenship

It is currently exploring ways for a ‘dignied and just’ solution with the U.K.

Reuters secution over WikiLeaks’ pu tizenship might help in QUITO/LONDON blication of thousands of avoiding his arrest by British Ecuador has given citizen classied military and diplo police. ship to WikiLeaks founder matic documents in one of For some, Mr. Assange is a Julian Assange, who has the largest information leaks cyber hero for exposing go been holed up in the coun in U.S. history. vernment abuses of power try's London embassy for ov “Ecuador is currently ex and championing free er ve years, and is seeking a ploring other solutions in speech but to others he is a “dignied and just” solution dialogue with the U.K., like criminal who has under to his situation with Britain. good oces of renowned mined the security of the The British government authorities, other states, or West by exposing secrets. said earlier on Thursday it international organisations “Ecuador knows that the had refused a request by that could facilitate a just, way to resolve this issue is Ecuador for Assange to be gi nal and dignied solution for for Julian Assange to leave ven diplomatic status as part all parties,” Ecuador’s Fo the embassy to face justice,” of the South American coun Julian Assange reign Minister Maria Fernan said a British Foreign Oce try's eorts to resolve his da Espinosa told a press spokesman. dilemma. dropped their probe into the conference. The former computer allegations but British police hacker enraged Washington Rape allegations said Mr. Assange would be Safety concerns by publishing hundreds of Mr. Assange has been living arrested for breaching bail “There are wellfounded thousands of secret U.S. di in the building in Knights conditions if he left the em fears we have about possible plomatic cables that laid bridge, London since he was bassy. risks to his life and integrity, bare often highly critical U.S. granted asylum there in 2012 Mr. Assange, who denies not necessarily by the U.K. appraisals of world leaders to avoid extradition to Swe the allegations, feared Swe but by third party states.” from Russian President Vla den over rape allegations. den would hand him over to She did not give details on dimir Putin to the Saudi Swedish prosecutors the United States to face pro how granting Mr. Assange ci royal family.

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Eicher Motors...... 28444.70. .... 347.20 in more than 900 cases of The department had set up namidars. related party transactions tor undertakings, on the In GAIL (India)...... 495.50...... -0.60 ‘benami’ properties worth 24 dedicated Benami Prohi In another case, post de and issues concerning man dian Institute of Corporate HCL Tech...... 916.90...... 1.05 more than 3,500 crore. bition Units under its Investi monetisation, two assessees agerial remuneration. Aairs (IICA) campus at Ma HDFC ...... 1741.35...... 14.90

HDFC Bank...... 1872.55...... 8.35 “The department is com gation Directorates all over were found depositing de nesar in Haryana. GETTYIMAGES/ISTOCK Hero MotoCorp ...... 3705.65...... -31.25 mitted to continue its con India in May 2017, to ensure monetised currency into Crucial role P.P. Chaudhary “It is high time to conduct Hindalco ...... 267.75...... -1.05 certed drive against black swift action in respect of be multiple bank accounts in He said that the indepen such orientation pro HPCL ...... 420.95...... -3.60

Hind Unilever ...... 1378.65...... 12.85 money and action against Property Transactions Act nami properties, the Minis the names of their em dent directors must impart a terests, the issue of conict grammes for independent Indiabulls HFL ...... 1228.65...... 24.45 benami transactions will that provides for provisional try said. ployees and associates to be balanced view along with of interest in related party directors on a regular basis ICICI Bank ...... 309.50...... -2.50 continue to be intensied,” attachment and subsequent In ve of the 900 cases, ultimately remitted to their transparency and credibili transactions needs to be on various provisions, even IndusInd Bank ...... 1700.30...... -33.80

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Kotak Bank ...... 1017.65...... 15.40 had stepped up action under icial owner, the benamidar had been conrmed by the mitted to the benecial own controls. looking into such related nomic infrastructure in the L&T...... 1323.55...... -0.20 the Prohibition of Benami and the abettor to benami Adjudicating Authority, it ers was about 39 crore. “In the company’s best in party transactions,” said Mr. country,” he said. Lupin ...... 929.20...... 3.40

M&M ...... 766.65...... 6.80

Maurti Suzuki...... 9339.80...... -36.05

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ONGC ...... 197.90...... 0.00 PowerGrid Corp ...... 197.85...... -2.00 PW to contest SEBI audit ban Sahara LifeICICI Pru merger sent to IRDAI Reliance Ind ...... 937.75...... -4.60

State Bank ...... 302.20...... 1.10 Sun Pharma ...... 587.95...... 2.85 ‘Condent of getting a stay before order becomes eective’ SAT tells regulator to decide in 3 months, upholds appointment of administrator Tata Motors ...... 434.75...... 1.45

Tata Steel ...... 770.95...... -1.90 TCS ...... 2790.50...... -16.10 SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT rishnan signed the accounts emerged that Satyam’s ac SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT ring the case back to the in Roy stepped down since he Tech Mahindra ...... 551.70...... 9.60 MUMBAI MUMBAI UltraTech Cement...... 4406.10...... 2.90 between April 2000 and counts were falsied. surance regulator. was in judicial custody since UPL...... 786.20...... 7.35 Price Waterhouse intends to March 2007, Mr. Talluri did The SEBI order comes al The Securities Appellate Tri March 2014. IRDAI sent not Vedanta ...... 333.90...... -0.90 challenge the Securities and it between April 2007 and most seven years after the bunal (SAT) has directed the Quashes order ices to the company based Wipro ...... 321.10...... -5.60

YES Bank...... 343.15...... 3.35 Exchange Board of India’s September 2008. U.S. Securities and Exchange Insurance Regulatory and “We hereby quash the im on certain observations in Zee Entertainment ...... 580.00...... -0.50 order imposing a twoyear Commission (SEC) agreed to Development Authority of pugned order and restore the annual report . Thereaf auditing ban on the rm in ‘Unprecedented fraud’ a $6 million settlement over India (IRDAI) to take a fresh the whole matter to the le ter, IRDAI passed an order in EXCHANGE RATES the case involving fraud at “As we have said since 2009, charges against Indian a look into the matter related of the IRDAI with a direction June 2017 for appointing an Indicative direct rates in rupees a unit except yen at 4 p.m. on January 11 Satyam Computer Services. there has been no intention liates of Price Waterhouse to the merger of Sahara India to proceed from the stage of administrator for Sahara Life CURRENCY TT BUY TT SELL In an 108page order re al wrongdoing by PW rms related to decient auditing Life Insurance Company seeking a representation/res as it was of the view that the

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Special Correspondent ogies,” he added. Operating strong volume growth in a MUMBAI margins for the Mumbai seasonally weak quarter,” Tata Consultancy Services based IT major expanded 10 TCS COO and Executive Di (TCS), India’s largest infor basis points to 25.2%. TCS rector N Ganapathy Subra mation technology (IT) rm, announced an interim divi maniam said. Suzlon’s Tanti named posted a 3.6% decline in net dend of 7 per share and Total headcount stood at IWTMA chairman prot to 6,531 crore crore this, third interim dividend, 3,90,880, with gross addi HYDERABAD for the third quarter ended would be paid to equity sha tion of 12,534 employees and Inching along: Passenger vehicle exports stood at 7,38,894 Suzlon Energy founder and December on the back of ris reholders on January 31. net addition of 1,667 em units last year, a marginal growth of 0.1%. chairman Tulsi Tanti has been ing cost of revenues and India’s secondmost va ployees. Sanjoy Sen, docto appointed chairman of the weakness in the banking and lued rm by market capitali ral research scholar, Aston Indian Wind Turbine nancial services (BFSI) sation added three clients in Business School, U.K. said Manufacturers Association, sector. $50 millionplus band, 7 in TCS’ results were neither GST refunds hit eective January 11. “With In the quarter, revenue the $20 millionplus range, 9 spectacular nor disastrous. cumulative wind installations of over 32 GW, the industry is grew 3.9% yearonyear to in the $10 millionplus cate “Given the recent drop ahead of the 30 GW target 30,904 crore in what is con gory and 15 in the $5 million ping of the H1B visa restric car exports: SIAM set by government until sidered a seasonally weak Muted numbers: TCS’s Rajesh Gopinathan said the rm put out plus bucket. TCS’ digital re tions, which put an end to FY17,” a statement from quarter for the IT sector. a strong performance in the Dec. quarter. * PRASHANT NAKWE venue saw an increase of the scare around inability to Suzlon quoted him as saying. Cost of revenues, or expens about 40% yearonyear and extend such visas incountry, Industry awaits 2,000 cr. in payment “I am condent we will es, grew 5.83% to 17,862 ahead as ‘the lagging part its ning deals, robust client accounted for 22.1% of the I would expect the market to surpass the government crore. The BFSI vertical grew portfolio turns around’ and metrics and broadbased de company’s revenues, the be in a positive mood gener Press Trust of India ford to manage the blocking target of 60 GW much before 0.2%, compared with an ‘areas of softness reduce’. mand across industry verti company said in a statement. ally and I expect it to take New Delhi of capital. 2022,” he said. 8.4% growth in the yearear cals,” said Mr. Gopinathan. “New deal rampups, in these results on a mild posi India’s passenger vehicle Under the GST regime, lier period. ‘$50-mn digital deal’ We signed our rst $50 mil creasing traction in digital, tive note, with some opti (PV) exports remained at payments are made upfront Santosh Kumar joins Rajesh Gopinathan, CEO “We wrapped 2017 with a lionplus deal in digital this robust demand pick up in re mism regarding the months in 2017, plagued by the issue and manufacturers claim in Anarock as group VC and MD, TCS, said he be strong performance in the quarter, crossing an impor tail and continuing momen ahead, without too much of GST refunds to automo put tax credit refund later. MUMBAI lieved the company was well December quarter, marked tant milestone in the main tum in most of TCS’ industry rise or fall in share prices,” bile manufacturers, which As per SIAM data, after Santhosh Kumar, CEO placed for stronger growth by the signing of industryde streaming of digital technol verticals gave the company he said. has touched 2,000 crore the new tax became reality Operations of JLL India, has since the implementation of in July 2017, exports began joined Anuj Puri’s new age the new tax regime. to decline rapidly. real estate rm Anarock According to the Society In JanuaryMarch 2017 , Property Consultants as of Indian Automobile Manu exports grew 12.56% to group vicechairman. He will IRDAI plans to revoke Jet Airways issues rules on facturers (SIAM), PV exports 1,82,473 units against be based out the rm’s from India stood at 7,38,894 1,62,103 units in the year Gurgaon oce, with its nine form for life products units last year as against earlier period. Similarly, in India oces, Dubai oce and Finance reporting directly to batteries in ‘smart’ luggage 7,38,137 units in 2016, a mar AprilJune, it increased him. Last year, Mr, Puri, the ginal growth of 0.1%. 13.79% to 1,80,669 units former chairman of JLL India, No useful purpose served : regulator “The system of GST re from 1,58,770 units. had acquired the residential Batteries powering baggage to be removed before checkin fund is not functioning and But, in JulySeptember, propery brokerage arm of Special Correspondent which is reviewed under the [is] having an impact on ex exports declined by 12.87% JLL India, renamed Anarock HYDERABAD File and Use procedure at Special Correspondent age to the aircraft,” a Jet Air ports of passenger vehicles. to 1,81,423 units as against Property Consultants. Insurance regulator IRDAI the time of product clea Mumbai ways ocial said. In December, we had a 2,08,223 units . In October plans to withdraw the stan rance. “The proposal forms Jet Airways on Thursday Passengers will be re meeting of vesix top ex December too, PV exports HUL unveils Swachh dard format for life insu are customised by life insur joined major international quired to uninstall the bat porters and what we found stood at 1,94,329 units as campaign for children rance proposal form, four ers for the specic products airlines and issued rules out teries of their smart luggage was that the pending refund against 2,09,041 units, a de MUMBAI years after evolving and put and there is no useful pur lining safetyrelated proce prior to checkin. Post unin amount is around 2,000 cline of 7.04%. Hindustan Unilever Ltd., as ting its implementation on pose served by mandating a dures on the carriage of stallation, the batteries can crore,” SIAM deputy direc Manufacturers such as part of its Swachh Aadat the hold. uniform proposal form for ‘smart’ luggage by passen only be carried as spare bat tor general Sugato Sen said. Ford India and Volkswagen Swachh Bharat initiative, “It is now proposed to re mat for all companies and gers from January 15. teries in cabin baggage. The issue has aected India had in November ex unveiled a campaign to peal the IRDA (Standard products,” IRDAI said. Over the past few days, Passengers carrying companies which export pressed concern over the promote healthy habits Proposal form for Life Insu major carriers such as Unit smart bags as cabin baggage more from India than they challenges related to GST re among children including rance) Regulations, 2013,” Insurers’ feedback ed Airlines, American Air will have to uninstall the bat sell in the domestic market, fund. VW India had even washing hands with soap, Insurance Regulatory and IRDAI had issued the regula lines, Delta, Qantas, British * REUTERS teries and can reinstall them he added. stated that it could be forced drinking clean water and using a clean toilet. Sanjiv Development Authority of tions pertaining to the un Airways have issued issued only upon disembarkation to rethink on exports if the Mehta, CEO, HUL, said: India (IRDAI) said in an ex iform proposal form in 2013. similar regulations . Smart known to overheat and ex at the destination. Smart lug ‘Domestic focus helped’ challenge was not resolved. “Given the complexity of posure draft on the repeal, In their feedback, the insur bags or luggage come tted plode. “If the batteries are gage with nonremovable “One particular company Mr. Sen added that one of hygiene challenges, while seeking comments ers expressed concerns, in with USB charging stations, xed into the bag, airlines batteries will not be permit had around 800 crore of the reasons for drop in PV companies like HUL have a and feedback of stakehol cluding on how a single GPS tracking and builtin hot worry ight attendants will ted on board either as part pending GST refund,” Mr. exports was also due to a key role to play. With our ders by January 23. standard proposal form may spots. not be able to reach them in of cabin baggage or as check Sen said, adding those com major exporter like Hyundai campaign we can support the Presently, life insurers le not suit all types of Lithium batteries power the overhead compartments in baggage, on all Jet Airways panies that had substantial focusing on catering to the #4 6 0 4 9 0 Swachh Bharat Abhiyan.” proposal forms with IRDAI products. ing smart bags have been before they do serious dam ights, the statement said. domestic sales could still af growing domestic demand. Telecom IndusInd Bank net rises 25%, subscriber base falls vehicle nance to see ‘boom’ PRESS TRUST OF INDIA Lender posts 34% rise in overall vehicle loan disbursement NEW DELHI The number of telecom Special Correspondent 1.96% this quarter. The re subscribers dwindled by Mumbai turn on equity has also gone 1.58 crore to 118.5 crore in Private sector lender Indu up. So, the returns have November, even as Re sInd Bank reported a 25% in moved up as much as the liance Jio continued to lead crease in net prot to growth in the balance sheet in customer addition with 936.15 crore for the quarter which means the revenue over 15 crore subscribers, ended December 30 on the and bottomline have kept as per a report by TRAI. back of healthy credit pace with the growth in the “The number of tele growth. balance sheet,” he said. phone subscribers in India Its net interest income He said vehicle nance, declined from 1,201.72 mil (NII) grew by 20% to 1,895 which is now entering into a lion at the end of October crore on the back 25% year boom phase, showed robust 2017 to 1,185.88 million at onyear credit growth, while growth. “There are two star the end of November 2017, noninterest income growth “The highlight of the features during the quarter. thereby showing a monthly was 17% to 1,187 crore. quarter really was balance One, of the growth in savings decline rate of 1.32 per sheet crossed 2 lakh crore bank which grew by 68%. cent,” the Telecom Regula Stable interest margin for the rst time,” said Ro The other is vehicle nance, tory Authority of India The net interest margin mesh Sobti, MD & CEO Indu which is beginning to be a (TRAI) said in a monthly (NIM) was stable at 3.99% for sInd Bank, during the post sort of boom situation. We subscriber report on quarter as against 4% in the earnings media interaction. saw a 34% increase in our Thursday. corresponding quarter of “In spite of the growth in disbursements on overall The decline was mainly the previous year. balance sheet of 25%, we vehicle nance. If you look on account of closure of The bank saw deposit have seen increase in return at only commercial vehicle, mobile services by some of growth of 23% with savings on assets, which went up disbursements grew by the operators. deposits growing at 68%. from 1.9% last quarter to 39%,” Mr. Sobti said. India, U.K. hold trade talks Goldman Sachs exits in Brexit’s shadow, eye FTA Vatika Hotels Minister Prabhu meets U.K. counterpart ahead of JETCO PRESS TRUST OF INDIA NEW DELHI Vidya Ram tries to build on the U.K.In Vatika Hotels on Thursday London dia trade working group es announced it has bought Commerce and Industry Mi tablished last year. back investment made by nister Suresh Prabhu held Liam Fox, a vocal cam U.S. banking group Gold talks with his British coun paigner for Brexit, said ex man Sachs in the company terpart, International Trade panding bilateral trade and for 300 crore and now Secretary Liam Fox on investment with India, and owns 100% equity in the Thursday, as the two coun breaking down trade bar hospitality rm. tries look for opportunities riers, would be central to the Vatika Hotels is planning to boost trade and invest task of Britain preparing for to unveil an initial public ment, including via a poten its independent trade policy. oer (IPO) in the next scal tial Free Trade Agreement, “It’s in our shared interest to fund expansion in hospi as Britain prepares to leave Suresh Prabhu to boost prosperity, generate tality and business centre the European Union. jobs, develop skills, and en verticals, its managing di As part of its eorts to ing British goods and hance the competitiveness rector Gaurav Bhalla said. strengthen trade, Britain’s services. of both our countries,” Mr. “We have given exit to export credit agency U.K. Ex While Britain is unable to Fox said. Goldman Sachs by buying port Finance has doubled hold formal trade talks with Mr. Prabhu is on a four back their stake for about nancial support for British countries outside the EU till day visit to London, as part 300 crore,” Mr. Bhalla rms that export to India. it leaves the union (at the of which he is set to attend said. Goldman Sachs had end of March 2019), the 12 th JETCO. His visit comes ahead invested about 250 crore £4.5 billion support meeting of the U.K.India of the Commonwealth in Vatika Hotels and had The UKEF has now made Joint Economic and Trade Heads of Government Meet about 1415% stake in the £4.5 billion available to Brit Committee (JETCO), being ing in April, which Prime Mi company. Vatika Hotels has ish companies exporting to held this week provides an nister Narendra Modi is ex two hotels in Gurgaon with India and Indian rms buy opportunity for the coun pected to attend. 425 keys. 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Indian Bold decisions could bring parity for India athletics It’s now or never for the visitors as another South African win will shut them out of the series squad for Asian INDIA IN SA Indoors S. Dinakar Bumrah laments not bowling Centurion Special Correspondent The SuperSport Park here is the right length in rst innings NEW DELHI a throwback to another era The Athletics Federation of with grass banks on both Special Correspondent India (AFI) has selected a sides, an open press box, pace colleagues will focus Centurion 13member Indian team for and a general sense of space. on not bowling noballs, a the eighth Asian Indoor In fact, Centurion has a India’s Test campaign in folly that has bit India Athletics championship to rather languorous feel about South Africa has been a during key moments. “We be held in Tehran from Fe it. It’s a quiet town with a learning experience for will focus on where our bruary 1 to 3. quaint ground and a rich his lanky paceman Jasprit foot is going.” The selection commit tory of some titanic duels. Bumrah. Young South African tee, with Olympian Gurba It was here that maestro He said here on opener Aiden Markram, Thursday after India’s talking about the chan Singh Randhawa as Sachin Tendulkar blazed into the chairman, has also se a pumpedup Shoaib Akhtar, practice session, “It’s Centurion pitches in always challenging general, said, “Usually it’s lected a 36member squad bowling seriously quick and to compete in the Asian banging it in short, in the whenever you come to a a good batting wicket here, Jasprit Bumrah. * AP Games test event in Jakarta highoctane IndiaPakistan new country, the wickets there have been some big are dierent, the weather scores. But how they have from Feb. 11 to 14. ICC ODI World Cup duel of innings and were able to Jakarta is scheduled to 2003. is dierent. You get a fair create pressure.” prepared it this time I’m idea of the lines and not too sure.” host the 18th Asian Games This, however, is Test On India’s bowling from Aug. 18 to Sept. 2. lengths to bowl. You need Batsmen, he said, match time here with the se coach B. Arun playing a The teams: to adapt. I never go by ries on a knife edge. big part in shaping his should strive to score runs Asian Indoors, Tehran: The pitch holds the key: perceptions.” career, Bumrah said, “He when the conditions are Men: Muhammad Sadath, Of course, much focus is on He conceded Indian has seen me from the time against them. Elakkya Dasan, S.E. Sam the surface for the Test be pacemen had bowled a tad I walked in as an under19 “It’s not going to be sheer, Shree Shankar, Arpin ginning on Saturday. Will it too full in the rst innings. boy at the NCA where he easy, but I think if you can der Singh, Kamal Raj, Tajinder be another shootout with the Bumrah said, “In the rst was the coach. He knows apply yourself and play for Singh Toor, Om Prakash pacemen pulling the trigger innings we thought we my bowling, my strengths long periods within the Singh. Women: Dutee Chand, San on a responsive wicket? bowled a little fuller than and weaknesses.” gameplan that suits you, the normal here because the runs are up for grabs.” jeevini Jadhav, Nayana James, The pitch might not have About dismissing the Neena Varakil, N.V. Sheena. in India we have to pitch as much grass as the one at Better bet: Playing K.L. Rahul, a sound backfoot player who can cope with the South African big sh, A.B. de Villiers, Talking about the Asian Games test event, Ja Newlands — there is a thinner conditions in place of an outofsorts Shikhar Dhawan, will be a move in the right direction. fuller to get the swing and for his rst Test wicket, Indian team, Markram karta: to get the batsmen on to coating of green here — but * FILE PHOTO: K.R. DEEPAK Bumrah said, “As a bowler said, “There’s a reason Men: Muhammed Sadath, the surface appears hard. the front foot. Over here, you look to get your rst why they are the No. 1 Elakkaya Dasan, Vidya Sagar, there is bounce, so there is wicket as early as possible team in the world — they Anuropop John, Satnaam Consequently, the track ment, simply put, has to take Africa from making inroads ing: If the pitch at Centu a little bit of dierence in Singh, Ch. Sudhakar, Kunhu might not oer as much some bold decisions. rion oers bounce then and I got AB. My motto is have quality players in all when the ball is new. Muhammed, Jithu Baby, K.S. seam movement for the pa the lanky Ishant could be a length.” not to get too excited, take departments. They tick all Play Rahul at the top: In Bring back Rahane for Jeevan, Sumit Kumar, T. San cemen as Newlands did but handful with his line and Bumrah elaborated, the condence into the the boxes and they have dia has to recall K.L. Rahul, a Rohit: Ajinkya Rahane tosh Kumar, M.P. Jabir, Jinson there surely would be extra lift from the back of a “We analysed that, next Test.” come here to compete, sound backfoot player who might not have been in the Johnson, Ajay Kumar Saroj, G. bounce. length or the good length adapted in the second Bumrah said he and his which is great.” can cope with the conditions best of forms going into this Lakshmanan, Davinder Singh There has been a heat area. here, at the top. series but has succeeded Kang, Sahil Silwal, Tajinder wave in these parts recently It might be hard to t Ish Singh Toor, Om Prakash Shikhar Dhawan was here in the past and is his pace dropped in subse on wicketkeeperbatsman dia could pick an extra bat and if the sun beats down the ant in the XI though, given Singh, S.E. Samsheer, Shree found out technically against equipped to play bounce and quent spells — and his tness Wriddhiman Saha who set an sman in his place. But then, pitch and makes it drier, the the performances of the In Shankar, Arpinder Singh, Ka the bouncing ball on these movement. will be closely monitored. If Indian record for most dis Ashwin, as he showed in the wicket could quicken up as wickets at Newlands and Ra dian pace pack, particularly Bhuvneshwar misses out, missals in a Test, at Cape second innings of the rst mal Raj. the match progresses. The This is a Test where India in the second innings, at Women: Jisna Mathew, Soni hul should partner M. Vijay. Ishant will come in. Town — to save a place for a Test, can hold his own with ya Baishiya, Debashree Ma pacemen would be on the The elegant Rahul is com has to play its best XI or is out Newlands. Stay away from outlan specialist middleorder bat the bat in such conditions of the series. And there is a jumdar, Sarita Gaikwad, Nitya prowl again. posed at the crease, has time However, there were occa dish moves: There are sman and a bowler, but such and then nick out batsmen Shree, Hima Das, P.U. Chitra, certain looseness about Ro If South Africa wins here, to play. sions when Bhuvneshwar, some theories doing the a move has its aws. with overspin on bouncy L. Suriya, Sanjivani Jadhav, there will be no comebacks The role of the toporder hit’s game that appears pro who has strappings over a rounds such as getting Par Some question why Ash tracks. Sarita P. Singh, Nayana for India on its African Safari. is crucial in the rst 35 overs nounced in these conditions. few sore areas, appeared to thiv Patel to open — this win should be in the eleven if India has to nd that win James, Neena Varakil, N.V. The Indian teammanage — it needs to prevent South Give Ishant Sharma a be struggling with niggles — would be extremely unfair he if bowls so few overs — In ning edge to its cricket again. Sheena.

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Dipak Ragav DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD the year now.” not defend her title after de Sports Bureau Chennai ciding she was not yet ready Nadal, Halep named top seeds B Australian Open 2018 live Last week Marin Cilic, MELBOURNE for competitive action after With tennis’ evergrowing and exclusive on Sony Six, speaking in Pune, said he Davis Cuppers Yuki Bham childbirth. list of injuries, the era of Sony Six HD, Sony Ten 2 was ne with the scheduling bri and Ramkumar Rama When asked if Williams players picking and choosing and Sony Ten 2 HD, 5:30 and spoke about picking nathan will play their Aus a.m. onwards from January could return to her competi tournaments is the way to tournaments. tralian Open qualifying 15 tive best, Evert while sound go, according to 18time “I am for the season as it second round matches on DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD ing condent about Serena’s Grand Slam champion Chris is. We can still choose tour Friday. Venus Williams — that it’s up physical health, said the big Evert and former tennis naments. So, for me, it is just Yuki will be up against to you as an individual to question would be the player and commentator Pa a matter of picking the sche Carlos Taberner of Spain manage it.” motivation. trick McEnroe. dule and creating little bit Evert, the third highest while Ramkumar will take space and listening to your “I think she can come With Novak Djokovic mis woman Major winner along on Gleb Sakharov of body how you are feeling at a back as good, if not better, as sing half of 2017 and Andy with Martina Navratilova, felt France. certain time,” said the 2014 before. I think she can. But it The results: Men’s qualifying Murray likely to be out for the current spate of injuries US Open champion. will all depend on motiva singles (rst round): Ramku another few months, the pe should serve as a wakeup tion. mar Ramanathan bt Bradley rennial issue of scheduling call and lead to better Evert also added that the “I think having a child — Klahn (US) 67(8), 76(3), has risen again. scheduling. style of play has contributed well, it changes you forever. 62; Tobias Kamke (Ger) bt But with no movement on “Something has to be a fair share of the injuries. “ I Whether it will change her Prajnesh Gunneswaran 46, reducing the number of done. Players also have to re think it’s because of the new competitiveness remains to 61, 62; Alessandro Ganessi The prize: Defending champion Roger Federer holds the events, players have no oth evaluate their schedules, not equipment, the faster be seen. (Ita) bt Sumit Nagal 76(5), men's singles trophy at the ocial draw ceremony ahead of er choice but put up with the only their tournament sche courts, the faster balls — not “She can say she’s just as 36, 63; Yuki Bhambri bt the Australian Open. * REUTERS faster courts, but the balls Brayden Schnur (Can) 16, heavy toll. dules but their tness and competitive as ever, but are dierent. 63, 64. Patrick, a former doubles practice schedules, how they there’s a lot that goes into AUSTRALIAN OPEN Grand Slam champion said, prepare for a tournament, “I think that it’s really having a child and being a “We’ve had this argument how hard they prepare, changed the mechanics of mother. Chris Evert. * AFP Bopanna & Agence France-Presse for years... that the season is when to take weeks o, tennis right now.” “It’s a 24houraday job Melbourne too long. I think you’re see when to rest completely. It’s With the year’s rst Major mentally, emotionally and sented with this situation be a very demanding sport in starting on Monday in Aus physically. fore. It remains to be seen Vasselin duo Roger Federer will open his ing now from the top players that it’s almost 11 months of tralia, Serena Williams will “She’s never been pre how she’s going to handle it.” title defence against Slove in tennis — Federer, Serena, bows out nia’s Aljaz Bedene and has a potential quarternal with SPORTS BUREAU David Gon in the Austra Lanzarote SYDNEY lian Open. Rohan Bopanna and In Thursday’s draw, 36 Hunters hold sway over Blasters double Edouard RogerVasselin of yearold Federer, bidding for France were beaten 64, a record 20th Grand Slam PBL sinks JFC 57, [108] by top seeds Lu title, has a rst round en V.V. SUBRAHMANYAM kasz Kubot of Poland and counter with the 51stranked HYDERABAD PRESS TRUST OF INDIA Marcelo Melo of Brazil in Bedene. MARGAO the seminals of the The Swiss marvel, chasing Hyderabad Hunters warmed Manuel Lanzarote scored a $528,910 Sydney Interna quarters of Djokovic’s sec a sixth Australian Open up for the seminals with a goal in each half to guide tional tennis tournament tion of the draw. crown, could also face big convincing 6(1) win over FC Goa to a 21 win over on Thursday. serving Canadian Milos Former winner Stan Waw Bengaluru Blasters in the Jamshedpur FC in the He The results: $528,910 Syd Raonic in the fourth round rinka, is in the same section Premier Badminton League roISL here on Thursday. ney International, Australia: in the bottom half of the of the draw and faces Lithua at the Gachibowli Indoor Sta Goa, which controlled Doubles (seminals): Lukasz men’s draw. nia’s Ricardas Berankis rst dium here on Thursday. the match throughout, Kubot (Pol) & Marcelo Melo World No.1 and top seed up. Hunters takes on Delhi (Bra) bt Edouard RogerVas scored through Lanzarote Rafael Nadal starts his Aus World No. 3 Grigor Dimi Dashers on Friday while selin (Fra) & Rohan Bopanna (45+1 and 60). 64, 57, [108]. tralian campaign against trov faces a qualier rst up Bengaluru Blasters meets Jamshedpur, which de 83rdranked Victor Estrella and could face American Ahmedabad Smash Masters $75,000 Challenger, Canber fended well to deny the Burgos of the Dominican Re Jack Sock in the quarters. on Saturday. ra, Australia: Doubles (semi Crowd favourite: B. Sai Praneeth mixed big smashes with some delectable drops at the net to home team an early lead, public in the top quarter of Blasters rested World No. nals): Jonathan Erlich (Isr) & Tempestuous Australian down Chong Wei Feng much to the delight of the home fans.* NAGARA GOPAL pulled one back in the 54th Divij Sharan bt Li Zhe the draw. 17th seed Nick Kyrgios, is in 1 Viktor Axelsen to keep minute through Trindade (Chn) & Yasuke Watanuki Nadal could face World the same section of the draw fresh for the seminals. line smashes. The lefthan crosscourt smash and a class to down World No. 16 Matheus Goncalves. (Jpn) 64, 67(5), 104; Quar No. 6 Marin Cilic of Croatia and faces Brazil’s 100th The home team began der looked a far better player splendid net dribble po Kirsty Gilmour in the wo Goa now has 16 points ternals: Erlich & Divij Sharan in the quarternals. ranked Rogerio Dutra Silva. well with the mixed doubles every time he leapt to un wered Sai to a 1310 lead. men’s singles. from nine matches, the bt Andreas Seppi (Ita) & Gavin Sixtime Australian Open pair of R. Satwiksairaj and leash those telling smashes. But, Chong was in no The results: Hyderabad Hun same as Pune City, while van Peperzeel (Aus) 64, 63. champion Novak Djokovic, Venus seeded fth Pia Zebadiah getting the bet But, in the second game, mood to give up and the op ters bt Bengaluru Blasters 6 Jamshedpur remained on $50,000 Challenger, Bang seeded 14th this year, has a Romania’s World No. 1 and ter of the experienced Blas Sai mixed the big smashes ponent also helped his (1) (R. Satwiksairaj & Pia Zeba 10 from nine matches. kok, Thailand: Doubles couple of potential early ob tournament’s top seed Simo ters duo of Manu Attri and N. with some delectable drops cause. Sai missed a simple diah bt Manu Attri & N. Sikki Eduardo Debia Pelaez (quarternals): Enrique Lo stacles with American Do na Halep will face Australian Sikki Reddy. at the net. This heady mix smash at the net. Chong fol Reddy 156, 1415, 159; B. Sai and Ahmed Jahouh com pez Perez & Pedro Martinez nald Young and potentially wild card Destanee Aiava as In the second match, Hun had Wong committing quite lowed it up winning a fantas Praneeth bt Chong Wei Feng bined well in the mideld, (Esp) bt Christopher Rungkat 1015, 157, 1514; Carolina Ma mercurial Frenchman Gael her rst round opponent at ters’ World No. 16 B. Sai Pra a few unforced errors at crit tic rally to make it 1413. But orchestrating the moves (Ina) & Jeevan Nedunchezhi rin bt Kirsty Gilmour 159, 157; Monls in the second round. yan 76(4), 76(3). the Australian Open, while neeth downed a ghting ical junctures. Chong succumbed to crowd Lee Hyun Il (T) bt Subhanker with delicate passes. $15,000 ITF, Anning, China World No. 5 Dominic Thursday’s draw could also Chong Wei Feng to make it The decider was exciting. pressure, landing a back Dey 1511, 1115, 1511; Markis Though the rival defence (prequarternals): Martins Thiem is projected to face see her go up against Karoli 20. In the rst game, Chong, Even though Chong took an hand into the net. Kido & Yoo Yeon Seong bt stood rm initially, it nally Podzus (Lat) bt Manish Su rising young German star na Pliskova in the quarter ranked World No. 45, was early lead (63), Sai fought Olympic champion Caroli Mathias Boe & Kim Sa Rang (T) succumbed to the wave of reshkumar 62, 64. Alexander Zverev in the nals. too good with his downthe back well to surge ahead. A na Marin dished out a master 1510, 1115, 157). Goan attacks.

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TV PICKS RACING NBA: Sony Ten 1 (SD & HD), A win mired in controversy 6.30 & 9 a.m. Kangar in good form, Syed Mushtaq Ali T20: Star Sports 1 (SD & HD), 9 a.m. & 1 Umpire’s error proves costly as Hyderabad loses by ‘two runs’ to Karnataka p.m. ILeague: Star Sports 2 (SD may score an encore & HD), 5.30 p.m. MUSHTAQ ALI T20 PBL: Star Sports 1 (SD & HD), BENGALURU: Kangar, who is in COUNTRY'S PEARL Flora (11) Irvan Singh 56.5, 13. 7 p.m. A. Joseph Antony good form, may score an encore AIR FORCE TRO PHY Able Master (2) Darshan 56 and in the Shapoorji Pallonji Oil And PWL: Sony ESPN (SD & HD), Visakhapatnam (1,200m), rated 45 to 65, 345: 14. Good Word (8) Rayan Ahmed Gas Bangalore 1000 Guineas 3 7 p.m. 1. Magical Dancer (8) Jagadeesh 55.5. (1,600m), the first classic of the 1. AMAZING SKILL, 2. IRON MAN, 3. ISL: Star Sports 2 (SD & HD), 60, 2. Attorney General (7) Ar The HyderabadKarnataka season to be held here on Friday GOOD WORD shad Alam 59.5, 3. El Fenix (1) 8 p.m. (Jan 12). Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy Srinath 59, 4. China One (9) Irvan MEKEDATU PLATE (Div. I), La Liga : Sony Ten 2 (SD & False rails (width about 2.5m Singh 58, 5. Rare Rhythm (4) I. (1,100m), rated 15 to 35, 515: T20 match, which went to from 1,600m to the winning post) 6 HD), 1.30 a.m. (Saturday) Chisty 57, 6. Shan Ben Aari (12) 1. Lady Majestic (10) Suraj the wire at the Dr. Y.S. Raja will be in position. New Zealand vs Pakistan : Kiran Rai 56.5, 7. Legacy Dream Narredu 60, 2. Mistress Of Spice 3rd ODI, SS Select 1 (SD & sekhara Reddy Stadium here Jockeys for Game Guy and Karod (10) P.P. Dhebe 56, 8. Havelock (14) Noornabi 60, 3. Lunar Strom Pati (1st race) will be declared Princess (13) Rayan Ahmed 55.5, (6) Rayan Ahmed 59, 4. Country’s HD), 3.30 a.m. (Saturday) on Thursday, was mired in later. U19 World Cup: Star Sports 9. Silver Legend (3) Mudassar Bloom (2) Nazerul Alam 58.5, 5. controversy. SOMANATHAPURA PLATE 1 (SD & HD), 6.15 a.m. 55.5, 10. Emidio (5) A. Ramu 55, Kasauli (7) Arshad Alam 57.5, 6. O the second over’s 1 (1,200m), rated 15 to 35, 6yo 11. Regal Music (14) Darshan 54.5, Bold Move (12) Sahanawaz 55, 7. (Saturday) & over, 245 p.m.: 1. Capitalize (3) 12. Masada (6) A. Waheed 54, 13. Dontbreaktherules (9) M. fourth ball, Hyderabad’s T.M. Prashanth 60, 2. Perfect Splendid Splasher (11) Nazerul Prabhakaran 55, 8. Halfsies (5) Ir deep midwicket elder King (1) Chetan Gowda 60, 3. Alam 54 and 14. Star Carnation (2) van Singh 55, 9. Kingofhearts (4) IN BRIEF Mehdi Hasan’s foot touched Game Guy (11) () 59.5, 4. El Mata P. Trevor 54. Raja Rao 55, 10. Tokya Rose (11) dor (8) Sunil Samson 57.5, 5. Mas the ropes. Umpire Ulhas 1. STAR CARNATION, 2. ATTORNEY Jagadeesh 55, 11. Angelic Love (1) ters Glory (5) Md. Akram 57, 6. Ar GENERAL, 3. CHINA ONE Janardhan P 54, 12. Brunesco (8) Gandhe signalled two in ziki (2) Darshan 56, 7. Wrekin (10) S.K. Paswan 54, 13. Island Pearl SHAPOORJI PALLONJI OIL AND stead of a boundary to Karun Rayan Ahmed 56, 8. Croziet (4) (13) Rajesh Kumar 54 and 14. Shiv Syed Imran 55.5, 9. Wings Of For 4 GAS BANGALORE 1000 alik Girl (3) S. Shareef 53. Nair. tune (13) Nazerul Alam 55.5, 10. GUINEAS (1,600m), 4yo Fillies, 1. LADY MAJESTIC, 2. KASAULI, 3. (Terms), 415: 1. As Time Goes By Hyderabad’s chase got o Celestial Strom (6) K. Raghu 54.5, TOKYO ROSE 11. Happy Hours (9) S. Shareef (8) Arshad Alam 57, 2. Australis to a delayed start. To the 203 (4) Zervan 57, 3. Glittering Gold KODAGU PLATE (Div. I), 54.5, 12. New Era (12) R. Man (1,400m), rated 30 to 50, 5yo for ve wickets, two runs junath 53.5 and 13. Karod Pati (7) (7) Suraj Narredu 57, 4. Hot N Fire 7 (1) S. John 57, 5. Kangra (2) P.S. & over, 545: 1.Dagobert (5) Md. () 52. Akram 60, 2. Honour (11) P. Tre (which eventually decided 1. WINGS OF FORTUNE, 2. GAME Chouhan 57, 6. Sedulous (3) Trying to reason: Hyderabad captain Ambati Rayudu took up the matter of the revised target vor 60, 3. Colour Of Gold (12) the contest) were added to GUY, 3. CROZIET Srinath 57, 7. Turf Magic (5) David with the umpire. * K.R. DEEPAK Ramesh Kumar 58.5, 4. Frenemee Karnataka’s total. The on Allan 57 and 8. Windsor Forest (6) MEKEDATU PLATE (Div. II), P. Trevor 57. (7) Sunil Samson 58.5, 5. Back Of eld scoreboard displayed a (1,100m), rated 15 to 35, 315: 1. Beyond (4) Arshad Alam 57.5, 6. Injured Shorey set to end, let the match start.’ The never even thought of stop pire Dickie Bird signalled a 2 1. KANGRA, 2. WINDSOR FOREST, miss J&K game target of 206. Oasis Breeze (5) P.P. Dhebe 60, 2. 3. GLITTERING GOLD Sudha (9) R. Pradeep 57.5, 7. Ad match was stopped for nine ping the second match four going by Ravi Shastri at Paradiso (1) Arshad Alam 60, 3. miral Hatsu (8) I. Chisty 56.5, 8. NEW DELHI Hyderabad captain Amba minutes, before the second (which was reduced to 13ov the mido boundary, o a Eye Sign (13) Chetan Gowda 56.5, KODAGU PLATE (Div. II), Campari Girl (14) Suraj Narredu Dhruv Shorey, who guided 4. Perfectasther (11) Ramesh Ku (1,400m), rated 30 to 50, 5yo 56.5, 9. Montenegro (10) Anjar ti Rayudu took it up with the innings. They had no busi ersaside). We were insisting Dean Jones loft. 5 Delhi to a win over Haryana mar 56.5, 5. Premier Premises & over, 445: 1. Amazing Skill (1) Alam 56, 10. Powerscourt (3) S. umpire. “There was some (14) Vivek 56.5, 6. Anmol Hira (4) Suraj Narredu 60, 2. Ninon (5) John 55, 11. Amazing Love (6) on Wednesday, is likely to ness to stop the match once that our match was not com Jones spoke to Bird and as confusion in the middle at the target was declared,” plete, we still have to play did Australian manager Alan S. Shareef 55.5, 7. Nostradamus Rajesh Babu 60, 3. Iron Man (13) Nazerul Alam 54.5, 12. Raw Gold miss Friday’s match against the start of our innings. (3) A. Waheed 55.5, 8. Parting Srinath 59.5, 4. Soviet Union (3) (13) Vivek 54.5, 13. Lightning At Jammu and Kashmir in the Rayudu opined. the Super Over,” Rayudu Crompton after the innings. Shot (6) S. Shiva Kumar 55.5, 9. Rajesh Kumar 59.5, 5. Fiorenzo tack (2) Jagadeesh 54 and 14. What I went and told the um Beauty Queen (7) Sunil Samson (9) Anjar Alam 58.5, 6. Indian ongoing Mushtaq Ali North After the game, several reasoned. The umpires approached Princeazeem (1) Irvan Singh 54. pire was ‘sir you cannot 55, 10. Bellarive (8) Rayan Ahmed Fury (12) Chetan Gowda 58.5, 7. 1. ADMIRAL HATSU, 2. RAW GOLD, Zone T20 league at the Hyderabad players entered India captain Kapil Dev. change the score, we are bat 55, 11. Country’s Pearl (9) Nazerul Fotogenic (6) A. Ramu 58, 8. 3. HONOUR Ferozeshah Kotla. the square. “At the end, we Similar incident The boundary was revised Alam 55, 12. Rare And Famous Goodwill Warrior (4) Sunil Sam Day’s best: KANGRA. Shorey, who hit an unbeaten ting for 204 as our target,’ ” went and asked to start the The incident is not without to a six in a game that the (10) A. Ramu 55, 13. Princess son 58, 9. A Crown (10) Ramesh Double: LADY MAJESTIC — AD- said Rayudu. Holly (2) Kiran Rai 54.5 and 14. Kumar 57.5, 10. Golden Bow (14) MIRAL HATSU. 53 against Haryana, suffered Super Over. That is exactly precedent. In the 1987 World Aussies went on to win by a Amazing Angel (12) I.Chisty 54. A. Qureshi 57.5, 11. Perfect Queen Jkt: 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7; Tr (i): 2, 3 and an ankle injury during the “He said ‘we’ll see it at the our point of contention. We Cup match at Chennai, um run! 1. OASIS BREEZE, 2. EYE SIGN, 3. (7) A. Merchant 57.5, 12. Inter 4; (ii): 5, 6 and 7. course of that innings. Hiten Dalal has been added to the Delhi squad. Given the Railways and nature of the contest, Delhi is Time running out for Pioneer triumphs expected to give an Akanksha moves opportunity to Sarthak Karnataka win MUMBAI: Pioneer, ridden by Suraj Amit up) accidentally got un Ranjan and Hshitij Sharma, Narredu, won the Assert The seated from his mount near ATK and NEUFC Right Plate, the chief event of the two contentious Special Correspondent 300m after receiving a check into the seminals Thursday’s (Jan. 11) races here. from other horses. Amit was GURUGRAM selections this season. Agencies uation to that of Real Madrid The winner is owned by Mr. & taken to hospital for treatment. Guwahati Mrs. Shapoor P. Mistry rep. RAO SAHEB D.K. PARKAR in La Liga. “Did you see the Manjri Horse Breeders’ Farm Pvt. NBA’s Kevin Martin NEW DELHI: Top seed Akank bt Terence Atmane (Fra) 6-3, Railways and Karnataka TROPHY (Div. II) (1,200m), Cl. NorthEast United FC may situation in Real Madrid? Ltd. & Mr. Ram H. 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SHP: 120, FP: 197, Q: 231, player Kevin Martin will visit nior tennis tournament at (Ven) bt Rithvik Choudary & cluded here recently. 1 India as part of the league’s a desperate ATK in a ninth the playos. 60 to 86: VULCAN (A. Imran Tanala: 626 and 176. Favourite: the DLTA Complex here on Abhimanyu Vannem Reddy 7-6 Railways beat Tamil Na Khan) 1, Big Sur (Trevor) 2, Uncle Gold Field. Owners: M/s. Kunal continued efforts to (6), 6-2; Louis Herman & round Hero Indian Super Meanwhile, NEUFC Tech Thursday. du in the nal for the men’s Scrooge (Neeraj) 3 and Frivolous N.Sharma & Chirag Sharma. popularise basketball in the Gauthier Onclin (Bel) bt Dev League clash at the Indira nical Director Grant will (Yash) 4. Ns, 81/4, 63/4. 2m Trainer: Adhirajsingh Jodha. Two other Indian girls — crown, and Karnataka beat country. Martin will visit Javia & Karan Srivastava 6-3, Gandhi Athletic Stadium, look for the attitude which 32.34s. 65 (w), 20 and 11 (p). INDIAN AIR FORCE TROPHY Vaidehi Chaudhari and Shi Kerala for the women’s tit SHP: 28, FP: 130, Q: 177, Tanala: (1,000m), Cl. III, rated 40 to Mumbai on Friday (Jan. 12) 6-1. Guwahati, on Friday. was seen against FC Goa, 468 and 301. Favourite: Big Sur. 6 #4 6 0 4 9 0 ORACLE before travelling to New vani Amineni — retired in le. It was a hattrick of titles 66: (Trevor) 1, Wise Child Girls (quarternals): Akanksha ATK has won just twice in when his side notched up its Owners: M/s. Kishore P. Rungta & (S.J. Sunil) 2, Double Nine (A. Im the second set during their for Karnataka. Mr. & Mrs. Hoosain S. Nensey. Delhi (Jan. 16). He will then Bhan bt Shrivalli Rashmikaa eight games and can cut the rst win after four defeats ran Khan) 3 and Beneficial (C.S. visit the NBA Basketball quarternal matches. While Tamil Nadu won the Trainer: Adhirajsingh Jodha. Jodha) 4. 21/4, 11/4, 1/2. 58.52s. 23 3-6, 6-1, 6-2; Selin Ovunc (Tur) gap to the playo spots to on the trot. It can leapfrog School at Apeejay School, the former was out with a bt Supapitch Kuearum (Tha) mixed doubles title ahead TIGER TOPS PLATE (1,600m), (w), 13, 15 and 24 (p). SHP: 39, FP: just two points with a victo ATK with a win and that will Cl. III, rated 40 to 66: AUBURN 101, Q: 98, Tanala: 451 and 287. Fa Sheikh Sarai, on Jan. 17. He twisted ankle, the latter 6-3, 6-0; Emma Raducanu of Andhra Pradesh, Karna 2 ry. ATK’s assistant coach be the most motivating fac (Neeraj) 1, Gloriosus (Trevor) 2, vourite: Oracle. Owners: Ms. will wind up his tour at Noida called it quits after a bout of (GBR) bt Vaidehi Chaudhari taka and Kerala. Grande Vitesse (Zervan) 3 and El Nazak Chenoy & Mr. & Mrs. Bastob Roy likened the sit tor for them. on Jan. 18. cold. 6-2, 4-2 retd.; Mai Napatt Ni- In men’s doubles, Tamil egant Beauty (Yash) 4. 21/2, 21/2, Shapoor P. Mistry rep. Manjri Calvin Golmei, the only rundorn (Tha) bt Shivani Ami- 51/4. 1m 38.78s. 18 (w), 14 and 11 Horse Breeders’ Farm Pvt. Ltd. Nadu prevailed ahead of (p). SHP: 24, FP: 40, Q: 16, Tanala: Trainer: Nazak Chenoy. Indian left in the boys’ draw, neni 6-1, 2-1 retd. Andhra Pradesh, Telanga 87 and 67. Favourite: Auburn. APRIL BLOSSOM PLATE was beaten in straight sets Doubles (seminals): Ziva na and Mumbai. In wo Owners: Mr. & Mrs. Vijay B. 7 (1,200m), Cl. V, rated 1 to 26: by Zhao Zhao of China. Falkner (Slo) & Selin Ovunc SheetalAmit pair Shirke, Mr. Jay V. Shirke & Mr. POLYNEICES (Zeeshan) 1, Epi men’s doubles, Karnataka K.N. Dhunjibhoy rep. Five Stars The results: (Tur) bt Aunchisa Chanta (Tha) phany (Trevor) 2, Skysurfer emerged champion ahead Shipping Co. Pvt. Ltd. Trainer: (Raghuveer) 3 and Star Anise (C.S. Boys (quarternals): Mathys & Hoi Ki Jenny Wong (Hkg) Vishal Gaikwad. of Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Jodha) 4. Not run: Sweep Aside. 3, Erhard (Fra) bt Louis Herman 6-4, 6-4; Sophia Biolay & Mar- emerges champion 51/4, 1. 1m 12.08s. 27 (w), 15, 10 Maharashtra. ASSERT THE RIGHT PLATE (Bel) 6-7(4), 6-0, 6-1; Zhao gaux Rouvroy (Fra) bt Salsa 3 (1,200m), md. 3yo only: PI- and 14 (p). SHP: 30, FP: 71, Q: 19, Zhao (Chn) bt Calvin Golmei Aher & Yubarani Banerjee 6-0, The results: NEW DELHI: A.K. Jain & Madhavi 21-15, ONEER (Suraj) 1, Oomph (Trevor) Tanala: 103 and 64. Favourite: Sheetal Kargeti of 2, Perpetual Winning (Neeraj) 3 Epiphany. Owners: Mr. Jaydev M. 6-3, 6-4; Gauthier Onclin (Bel) 6-0. Men: Final: Railways bt Tamil Delhi Audit and Amit Shar 21-12. Nadu 35-23, 35-22. and Spitfire (David Probert) 4. Not Mody rep. J.M. Livestock Pvt. Ltd. ma of Ministry of Communi Veterans: Women (nal): Priya run: Gold Magic. 11/4, 7, 21/4. 1m Trainer: Shazaan Shah. Best players: D.V. Ganesh, Ch. 11.54s. 27 (w), 11, 11 and 16 (p). Nalgundwar bt Annie 17-21, RAO SAHEB D.K. PARKAR Vengala Rao, R. Venkatesh, cation and Information SHP: 28, FP: 48, Q: 14, Tanala: 131 21-9, 21-11; Third place: Madhu 8 TROPHY (Div. I) (1,200m), Cl. Mahadev Swamy, R. Anil Technology won the mixed and 108. Favourite: Oomph. Own IV, rated 20 to 46: ROOSEVELT Wrestler Cheema Gritty Sukpreet Gyanchandani w.o. Sarita ers: Mr. & Mrs. Shapoor P. Mistry Kumar. doubles title, beating Abhi (David Probert) 1, Backstreet Bay dies in road accident Kumari. rep. Manjri Horse Breeders’ Farm (Raghuveer) 2, Philadelphia Best upcoming players: Ch. nav Prakash and Annie 21 PATIALA Pvt. Ltd. & Mr. Ram H. Shroff & (Neeraj) 3 and Knight’s Quest Jagdish, Mahadeo Manikrao 18, 2119 in the nal of the in Veterans: Doubles (nal): Ra- Mr. Raj H. Shroff rep. Stride Live Famous wrestler and double gets past Sarthak (Dashrath) 4. 31/2, 1/2. 11/2. 1m Sontakke, Vishal Rajendra terMinistry badminton jeev Sharma & Sunil Yadav bt stock Pvt. Ltd. Trainer: M. 12.14s. 14 (w), 11, 18 and 20 (p). bronze medallist in the 1974 Narredu. CHANDIGARH: Sukpreet Jhoje bt Sarthak Arora 6-7(6), 6-3, Rao Hole, Prasanth Dlal, B. tournament, organised by A.K. Jain & Neeraj Kumar Gup- SHP: 53, FP: 75, Q: 43, Tanala: 401 Tehran Asian Games, overcame a sti resistance 6-1; Arhaan Pahwa bt Shivdev Trindhn Rao. ta 21-18, 21-15; Third place: La- PERCEIVED VALUE PLATE and 121. Favourite: Roosevelt. Sukhchain Singh Cheema, the Central Civil Services (1,600m), Cl. IV, rated 20 to Owners: Mr. & Mrs. K.N. Dhunjib from Sarthak Arora before Walia 6-0, 6-3. Women: Final: Karnataka bt lit Kumar Dhankar & Gulshan 4 was killed in a road accident Cultural and Sports Board at 46: GRAND ACCORD (A. Imran hoy and Mr. Z.K. Dhunjibhoy rep. Kerala 35-26, 35-21. Kumar bt Vijay Kumar & Ajay Khan) 1, Khartoum (David Five Stars Shipping Co. Pvt. Ltd. & near here on Wednesday. The winning 67(6), 63, 61 in Under16 girls: Riya Kaushik bt the AIIMS Gymkhana here Best players: G. Jayakshmi, Tyagi 21-17, 21-13. Probert) 2, Marvel (Ajinkya) 3 and Mr. A.S. Narielwala. Trainer: 67-year old was returning the under14 boys’ semi Harleen Dhanda 6-2, 6-4; Pri- on Thursday. Sumaaq (C.S. Jodha) 4. Lnk, 33/4, Vishal Gaikwad. S.K. Pallavi, R. Sayana, K. Pa- Veterans: Mixed doubles ( home from his farm in Bhanri nals of the AITA Talent se yanka Khanna bt Jyotsana Ya- Lnk. 1m 38.85s. 69 (w), 15, 12 and Jackpot: (70 per cent) 2179 (217 vitra, R. Aparna. The results: nal): Rajeev Sharma & A. Var- village when the accident ries junior tennis tourna dav 6-0, 6-4. 27 (p). SHP: 34, FP: 164, Q: 116, tkts); (30 per cent) 669 (363 Best upcoming players: San- Mixed doubles (nal): Amit sha Kohli bt A.K. Jain & Mee- Tanala: 789 and 879. Favourite: tkts). took place, police said. ment at the Chandigarh Under14 girls: Jyotsana Yadav gita Kumari, Arpita Mondal, Sharma & Sheetal Kargeti bt nakshi 21-15, 21-17; Third Khartoum. Owners: Mr. M.A.M. Treble: (i): 237 (65 tkts); (ii): 192 Club on Thursday. Ramaswamy Chettiar of Chetti Cheema, a Dronacharya bt Sargam Singla 6-0, 6-4; Ri- Roshni, Shivani Hiware Har- Abhinav Prakash & Annie 21- place: Ashwani Kumar & Savitri (142 tkts). awardee, is survived by wife The results (seminals): ya Kaushik bt Anandita Sharma nad Charitable Trust. Trainer: Super jackpot: (70 per cent) 4742 shawardhan, Prerna Shyam 18, 21-19; Third place: Vikram Chaubey bt G. Madhu & R.K. Karthik Ganapathy. (18 tkts); (30 per cent) 1591 (23 PTI 6-0, 6-0. and two sons. Under14 boys: Sukpreet Jhoje Boratkar. Bhasin & A. Varsha Kohli bt Sharma 21-18, 21-16. NOTE: In this race, Wabi Sabi (S. tkts).

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15 Elation about getting digital 5 Guy at hospital room about to Scriptures not only speak of rites and rituals but also show protection perhaps (7) get treatment for hands (8) the way to self realisation, which is after all the ultimate aim of human existence. They state that the enquiry into the self 17 Maiden over earlier at cricket is a pursuit that is necessary for all. ground leads to dismissal (7) 6 Hoodlum's boat circling The Brihadaranyaka says: “The self should be seen, heard harbour (4) 20 Sign of European ace running of, reected on and meditated upon.” This knowledge of the out of luck (8) self is revealed to one who is willing to listen to the sastras 7 Reduced rates to enter bar for and to the instruction of preceptors such as Adi Sankara , 22 Son wearing a posh pullover probationer … (6) who have tried to explain the sastras in simple terms for the that's impressive (6) sake of easy understanding, said Swami Paramananda Bha 23 Bird enthusiast follows quietly 14 … still fellow's often dull and rati in a discourse. (6) pensive (10) The aim of their teaching is to sharpen one’s discrimina tive powers so that one is able to rise above misconceptions 25 Excitement heightened beyond 16 Blind girl on train mistreated and doubts that often arise when engaged in the search for limits when allowed to vote (8) esoteric truth that lies beyond human senses, mind and in (8) tellect. All beings possess ‘Samanya jnana’ which makes one perceive, understand and draw conclusions pertaining to 26 Legal document requiring 18 A news broadcast read loudly the world of existence. But it is very dicult to establish that witness drafted (8) gets acknowledged (8) what one has understood is the truth since there are many Solution to puzzle 12212 Solution to yesterday’s Sudoku 27 Unpleasant persons shot fty opportunities to misread and misinterpret. 19 Goal achieved by cricket side's ousels on lake (6) The analogy of the rope that is wrongly seen as a snake is I ACROSS superstars (7) often quoted to show how it is easy to know things falsely 8 Harry's sibling not one who I and still believe that what is known is true. Though one sees follows Queen? (6) DOWN 21 Avalanche's roar over top of a rope in actuality, the idea of snake is superimpose d on it 9 Contacting individually through 1 Doctor left in very old British valley reverberated (6) and this awareness continues in one’s understanding. phone call (8) war plane (8) It has to be realised that it is a clear case of misconception 10 Girlfriend's diamonds pinched 22 Pattern that's left out from 2 Warned unruly teen to stay in and the rope has to seen as the rope only. Likewise, the self (8) gallery inadvertently (6) line (10) is identied with the body and its coordinates as a matter of 11 Practising lessons to fact and one has to repeatedly examine its true nature as the extinguish res (6) 3 Deant supporter joins 24 Individual in armed forces eternal consciousness that is at the heart of all existence and 12 Points out a part of engine (6) religious school (6) stood up endlessly proud (4) is ever present in the deep recesses of every being.

THE HINDU NOIDA/DELHI FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 2018 SPORT 19 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF Shashi shock for holder Sonia Rahman in lead 21 players share second spot Waiting game between the two counterpunchers was an intriguing aair RAKESH RAO terpuncher is never easy 54kg: Manisha (Har) bt Shavin NEW DELHI NATL. WOMEN’S BOXING whether it is the World youth der Kaur Sidhu (Pun) 32; Mee Bangladesh’s seasoned na Kumari (AIP) bt Jamuna Boro Zidane conrms Y.B. Sarangi championship or the Nation Grandmaster Ziaur Rahman (Asm) 50. contract extension ROHTAK als. My left worked well for emerged as the surprise lead MADRID me,” said Shashi,who would 57kg: Sonia Lather (RSPB) bt er after four rounds following World youth champion Sandhya Rani (AIP) 50; Shashi Real Madrid coach Zinedine Shashi Chopra understood meet Asian championship a spate of draws involving Zidane on Wednesday Chopra (Har) bt Sonia (AP) 32. the value of experience silver medallist Sonia Lather other overnight leaders in the confirmed that he had signed 60kg: L. Sarita Devi (AIP) bt when she got the better of in the nal. Delhi International Open a contract extension which Monika (Har) 50; Pavitra defending champion Sonia (RSPB) bt Priyanka Choudhery chess tournament here on will keep him at the club until Nikhat Zareen upset Thursday. 2020. “It’s signed. I’m by the skin of her teeth in a (Utk) 50. Haryana youngster Ritu Rahman upstaged higher enjoying what I do every day. 57kg seminal bout in the 64kg: Pwilao Basumatary showed her big heart as she rated Vietnamese GM Tran I can’t imagine myself as a National women’s boxing (RSPB) bt Poonam (AIP) 50; Abhijeet Gupta was held upset former World junior * coach in two, three years. I championship at the Rajiv Simranjit Kaur (Pun) bt Pravish Tuan Minh in 48 moves to to a draw. FILE PHOTO: champion Nikhat Zareen 41 know how it goes, even with Gandhi Sports Complex here Chanu (Man) 41. maintain an allwin record. SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA on Thursday. in a close 51kg contest. 69kg: Lovlina Borgohain (Asm) When the dust settled after this contract it does not encounter. change anything,” he said. AP Shashi’s experience of fac Ritu closed the gap to neu bt Heena Tokas (Del) 41; Pooja some close, long battles, Rah On the lower boards, ing a similar boxer, Vietna tralise Nikhat’s blows and (RSPB) bt Memthoi Devi (AIP) man enjoyed a halfpoint lead Misfiring Chelsea cleverly delivered punches 50. there were a few surprises. mese Hung Do in the nal of Experience pays: Shashi Chopra got the better of defending over 21 players. settles for a draw to set up a title clash with 75kg: Pooja Rani (Har) bt Rumi Aradhya Garg held 19th the World youth champion champion Sonia by the skin of her teeth in the 57kg seminal. On the top board, third LONDON former World youth cham Gogoi (RSPB) 32; Alari Boro seed P. Karthikeyan in 33 ship in Guwahati in Novem * FILE PHOTO: RITU RAJ KONWAR seed Abhijeet Gupta, the Chelsea wasted a chance to (Asm) bt K.A. Indraja (Ker) 50. moves, Sankalp Gupta ber, helped her as she beat pion Sarjubala Devi. strongest Indian in the eld, take control of its League Cup 81kg: Kalawanti (Har) bt Nirma proved equal to N. R. Vig Sonia 32 to be in the nal on the rst move. the temptation to stay safe. The results (seminals): was held to a draw by Deepan semifinal against Arsenal as 48kg: Monika (Har) bt Bina De la Rawat (AIP) 32; Bhagyabati nesh and Kaustav Chatter her debut in the Nationals. Sonia, who moved from The youngster landed some Chakkravarthy in 57 moves. the misfiring Blues settled for vi (Man) 50; Rajesh Narwal Kachari (RSPB) bt Salam Ibem jee, rated 2288, brought The waiting game bet Haryana to Andhra Pradesh, accurate left shots and Abhijeet had reasons to feel a 00 draw in Wednesday’s (RSPB) bt Varsha Choudhery cha Devi (Aru) 50. down oform. ween the two counter maintained her composure ducked nicely to evade So he was better o in the firstleg. Antonio Conte’s side (UP) 50. 82kg: Kavita Chahal (AIP) bt Uzbek GM Marat Dzhu punchers was an intriguing to invite the opponent into nia’s attacks. contest. dominated possession for 51kg: Sarjubala Devi (Man) bt Anupama (Har) 50; Seema maev, who has been strug aair as it provided the sus her trap. “I knew it would be a Eventually, his extra pawn long periods but lacked the Meenakshi (RSPB) 41; Ritu Poonia (RSPB) bt Lalfakmawii gling to play to his rating of killer instinct required to take pense as to who would make However, Shashi resisted tough bout. Facing a coun (Har) bt Nikhat Zareen (Tel) 41. Ralte (Miz) 50. in an endgame involving a 2434. Neelash Saha was a step towards the final. bishop each did not prove enough. another surprise winner following his conquest of Aravind out Shade lucky International Master P. Shyaam Nikhil. Rupesh gets the job done Top seed Arkadij Naiditsch of Dakar The results : Fourth round should consider himself a (Indians unless stated) : Ab shade lucky to score over The twotime World champion says his priorities have changed now Sports Bureau hijeet Gupta (3.5) drew with young talent Sammed Shete Deepan Chakkravarthy (3.5); Ashwin Achal drinks and kites. It’s a huge the two players had faced Siddharth Patni (MP) 1018, 84 Arequipa (Peru) in 47 moves after the Indian Yuri Solodovnichenko (Ukr, Bengaluru 102, 10018, 1017; Dhvaj Haria celebration,” Rupesh said. each other once before, at had posed a number of pro 3.5) drew with Arjun Kalyan Livingstone gets callup; (PSPB) bt Sasha Sambi (Kar) India’s K.P. Aravind is out The International Kite Festiv The twotime World the 1999 Nationals. “It is my (3.5); Ziaur Rahman (Ban, 4) 10028, 10017, 1000; Sidd of the Dakar rally after blems with black pieces. Stokes included al (Uttarayan), held in Guja privilege to play against bt Tran Tuan minh (Vie, 3); Ar champion added that he harth Parikh (Rlys) bt Arjun crashing in Wednesday’s Second seed Adam Tuk SYDNEY you,” Muneem told Advani. jun Erigaise (3.5) drew with rat, attracts lakhs of revellers even skipped the 2003 Se Mehta (Kar) 1000, 10152, fth stage. The Sherco TVS haev, too, raised his tally to Allrounder Ben Stokes was Vaibhav Suri (3.5); Moham every year. But while his nior Nationals to attend the S. Shrikrishna recorded 10122; Dhruv Sitwala (PSPB) rider suered a broken an 3.5 points after getting past included in England’s 16man mad Nubairshah Shaikh (3.5) friends are living it up back kite festival. “Of course, my his second straight win to bt Buvaneshwaran (TN) 1036, Kaustav Kundu in 40 moves. cricket squad for its Test tour kle in the rally’s nal stage drew with Roeland Pruijssers home, Ahmedabad cueist priorities have changed now. seal a last32 spot. 10252, 29102, 1002; B. of New Zealand on Thursday, in Peru. The 764km long Similarly, Tiumr Garayev (Ned, 3.5). Rupesh Shah is attending to Rupesh, Advani, B. Bhas Bhaskar (Kar) bt Rovin D’Souza while Lancashire batsman While I’d love to be in Ahme stage featured a 268km and Ivan Rozum, seeded four Arkadij Naiditsch (Aze, 3.5) serious business at KSBA (Rlys) 10037, 10190, 10110; Liam Livingstone, in picture, dabad, competing in the Na kar and Dhruv Sitwala are ‘special’ where the riders and ve, also recovered some bt Sammed Shete (3); Sidhant S. Shrikrishna (TN) bt Kaavya got his first callup. England here. tionals is more important,” some of the others who have had to ride through a di lost ground by scoring ex Mohapatra (2.5) lost to Far Bharath (TN) 79100, 10023, plays two Tests starting in After posting his second Rupesh said. The 44year qualied for the knockout rukh Amonatov (Tjk, 3.5); 10187, 10125; B. Bhaskar (Kar) cult terrain of sand and pected victories. Auckland on March 22. straight victory at the Senior old got the job done with a rounds. Abhishek Kelkar (2.5) lost to bt Rohan Jambu (Mah) 1000, dust. The 30yearold had Sixth seed Deep Sengupta The squad: Joe Root (Capt.), The results (group stage): Bri Deep Sengupta (3.5). National men’s billiards 1018, 84102, 10018, 1017 10078, 10146; Devendra begun the day in 44th continued his steady pro Moeen Ali, James Anderson, jesh Damani (PSPB) bt Ankur Sergei Tiviakov (Ned, 3.5) championship on Thursday, victory over Madhya Pra Joshi (PSPB) bt Subrat Das place (motorcycle catego gress by overpowering Inter Jonny Bairstow, Stuart Broad, Khetan (Guj) 10045, 10016, bt K. Ratnakaran (2.5); Haz Rupesh explained that he is desh’s Siddharth Patni. (Odi) 10255, 10124, 1022; ry). He is undergoing treat national Master Abhishek Alaister Cook, Mason Crane, missing out on all the fun. 10029; M.L. Lakshman (Kar) Arif Abdul (Ina, 2.5) lost to M. Ben Foakes, Liam Livingstone, Pankaj Advani coasted to lost to Kunal Agarwal (Odi) 92 Sourav Kothari (PSPB) bt ment in Lima. Kelkar in 74 moves. Karthikeyan (3.5); Kaustav Dawid Malan, Craig Overton, “Around 4050 of my a 10030, 1000, 10110 win 100, 73100, 1006, 87100; Prem Prakash (TN) 10127, 100 C.S. Santosh, from Hero Similarly, M. Karthikeyan Kundu (2.5) lost to Adam Tuk Ben Stokes, Mark Stoneman, friends are constantly text against Telangana’s Mu Pankaj Advani (PSPB) bt Mu 61, 1020; Dhruv Sitwala Motosports Team, climbed returned to winning ways by haev (Ukr, 3.5); Mithrabha James Vince, Chris Woakes ing me with pictures from neem. After the match, Mu neem (Tel) 10030, 1000, 101 (PSPB) bt Malkeet Singh (Rlys) up from 56th to 51st after stopping Indonesia’s Haz Guha (2.5) lost to David Al and Mark Wood. the festival — plenty of food, neem reminded Advani that 10; Rupesh Shah (PSPB) bt 10112, 10163, 10095. the fth stage. Arif Abdul in their 63move berto (Ita, 3.5).

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