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            "        R                     Q        rime Minister Narendra PModi will take oath of office akistan Prime Minister for his second term on May 30,      ! R PImran Khan on Sunday the Rashtrapati Bhavan said called up Prime Minister here on Sunday.     world order,” he said. to congratulate “The President (Ram Nath Modi expressed grief over him on his massive victory in Kovind) will administer the rime Minister Narendra the death of 22 students in the elections, reit- oath of office and secrecy to the PModi on Sunday said the Surat building fire tragedy. erating Islamabad’s desire to Prime Minister and other next five years will be the time “Till yesterday, I was in two work with Delhi. The Ministry members of Union Council of to regain the rightful position minds whether to go for this of External Affairs (MEA) on Ministers on May 30 at 7 pm at of in the world order. He felicitation function or not as Sunday said in a statement that Rashtrapati Bhavan,” the com- was speaking here at a function on one hand, there was PM Modi told his Pakistani strike carried out by India. On muniqué issued by President’s following the election victory, ‘kartvya’ (duty) and on the counterpart on Sunday that May 23, on the day of election Press Secretary Ashok Malik which was kept simple and other hand, there was ‘karuna’ creating trust and an environ- results, Khan had tweeted to said. shorn of pomp because of the (compassion) for those who ment free of violence and ter- Modi on his thumping win. “I Earlier on Saturday, a del- Surat fire tragedy. died in Surat. No amount of rorism was essential for fos- congratulate Prime Minister egation of the NDA led by BJP “Next five years will be very words can reduce the grief of tering peace and prosperity in Modi on the electoral victory of president , along important in the history of the the families who have lost their the region. The MEA said BJP and allies. Look forward to with Prakash Singh Badal, country, as was the period children in that tragedy,” Modi Khan called up Modi to con- working with him for peace, Rajnath Singh, , between 1942 to 1947. It will be said. gratulate him on his re-election. progress and prosperity in Ram Vilas Paswan, Sushma the time to regain the rightful “On the other hand, I had “The Prime Minister South Asia,” he tweeted. Swaraj, Uddhav Thakeray, position of India in the world to thank the people of the thanked the Prime Minister of Modi and Khan are sched- Nitin Gadkari, K Palaniswami, order. In the past our country state and also take blessings of Pakistan for his telephone call uled to meet at the Shanghai Conrad Sangma and Neiphiu had that place. I am sure India my mother as my duty,” the and greetings,” the MEA said. Cooperation Rio, called on the President and will regain its importance in the Prime Minister added. Recalling his initiatives in Organisation Summit in handed over a letter to him line with his Government’s Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan next stating Modi has been elected                          India to the island nation after has been trying to expand its “neighbourhood first” policy, month. the leader of the BJP the Government of President influence. Last week, Solih Modi referred to his earlier sug- Pakistan’s Ministry of Parliamentary Party. Letters of till June 15. A day after the Bhutan was the first coun- of June, while the Maldivian Ibrahim Mohamed Solih came congratulated Modi for his gestion to Khan to fight pover- Foreign Affairs spokesperson support from NDA con- Parliament session begins, try Modi had visited in 2014 media reported the visit will to power in November 2018. “resounding victory”. ty jointly, the MEA said. Mohammad Faisal tweeted that stituents were also handed over Modi is expected to travel to after becoming Prime Minister. take place on June 7-8. Modi attend Solih’s swear- Modi will visit Varanasi on This was the first direct Khan spoke to Modi and con- to the President. the Maldives in his first bilat- News agency PTI quoted External Affairs Minister ing-in ceremony in November, Monday to thank the people for communication between the veyed that he looked forward to Sources said the first ses- eral visit as PM, according to diplomatic sources saying the Sushma Swaraj visited the signalling the importance India “reposing faith” in him and two leaders since the February working with him for the bet- sion of the 17th Parliament will diplomatic sources and Prime Minister is expected to Maldives in March, the first attaches to the island nation, offer prayers at Kashi 14 Pulwama terror attack and terment of the people of the begin on June 6 and continue Maldivian media reports. travel to Male in the first half full-fledged bilateral trip from where China Vishwanath temple. the subsequent Balakot air two countries.   R   #$   %    P       R   &% '(        !""  $%  hear his plea for extension of The interrogation was car-    the shield against arrest. The ried out at Shillong. However ! "  bail was rejected at lower the CBI again moved the    court on technical grounds on court seeking his custody on Saturday and he was likely to the grounds that he had not n the first incident of post-poll       apply for the same past 10 am cooperated with the agency. Iviolence in , a on Monday making the CBI The court provided Kumar a close aide of newly-elected here was more trouble for order directing him to appear seven-day shield against arrest Amethi MP was shot Tformer Kolkata before 10 am significant. directing him to approach a dead by two unidentified men, Commissioner of Police Earlier the CBI on Sunday lower court for a regular bail. with police lodging an FIR Rajeev Kumar. Hours after the issued a “look-out notice” on But the same was refused against five persons and not rul- Supreme Court order provid- Kumar, who is being probed by the Barasat court on ing out the possibility of it being ing the 1989-batch IPS officer in the multi-crore Sharada Saturday. Even as the apex a “political murder”. protection from arrest for and other chit fund cases for court order ended on Saturday Irani asked party workers to seven days lapsed on Saturday his role as the head of the midnight the CBI issued a exercise restraint, even as she tar- midnight, the CBI on Sunday Special Investigation Team look-out notice. The look- geted Congress president Rahul served him a notice to appear formed by West Bengal Chief out circulars are issued to Gandhi over his “take-care-of- before its officials on Monday Minister to trace persons absconding Amethi-with-love” remark, say- morning. investigate the case. He func- from law and also to prevent ing she had got the message A team of CBI sleuths led tioned on the same post in and monitor effectively the “loud and clear”. Surendra Singh by senior officials Partho 2013-2014 until the Supreme entry or exit of such persons (50), a former head of Baraulia Mukherjee and Manish Court transferred the case to who may be required by law village, around 25 km from the Upadhyay on Sunday evening the CBI. Debjani Mukherjee, enforcement authorities. Amethi district headquarters, landed at the top officer’s a prime accused in the case Kumar could not be con- was shot at around 11.30 pm on official residence at Rawdon had earlier deposed before tacted for his comments. Saturday. Singh was referred to Street in Kolkata in search of the agencies that the SIT had Meanwhile, the whole lot a Lucknow hospital, but suc- (#       "        Kumar. seized a number of evidences of IPS officers, who were ear- cumbed during treatment,            !      Apparently failing to find including pen drives, laptops, lier transferred by the Election Additional Superintendent of the top cop there, the officers red dairy etc from the Sharada Commission for their alleged Police Daya Ram said. arrived at the office of DCP office. The CBI, however, told partisan ways following com- Director General of Police ed to the panchayat polls). the minister in-charge of Amethi South where a notice was the court that the Bengal plaints from Opposition out- (DGP) Om Prakash Singh said Ramchandra was involved in a district, said. served for Kumar to appear Police or for that matter fits, were on Sunday restored seven people were taken into scuffle with one of my nephews “I think some pro-Congress before the Economic Offence Kumar had not handed over to their original postings by custody, adding that they were during the Lok Sabha polls, due anti-social elements did not like Wing officials at the CGO the seized objects to its offi- the Mamata Banerjee being interrogated. “We have to which the incident took place.” our celebration following the complex. He has been asked to cers. Government, Home Ministry come to know about an old When contacted, Jamo BJP’s win from Amethi. They report at the CBI office by 10 When Kumar allegedly sources said. enmity. We are also trying to find Station House Officer (SHO) were upset,” Abhay Singh, the                  am in the morning, agency refused to comply with mul- Among the officials out if there was any political Rajeev Singh said, “Wasim, deceased’s son, told reporters. !       "  #    P sources said, adding repeated tiple letters from the CBI returned to their original enmity. The initial investigation Nasim Golu and Ramchandra The women family mem-   %  '     efforts to contact him over demanding his appearance postings were Rajeev Kumar has thrown up some vital clues,” have been booked under section bers of the slain former village telephone had failed. the agency moved the who would now return as he told reporters in Lucknow. 302, IPC. Dharamnath Gupta head were inconsolable.   It would have been a “won- Kumar was frantically try- Supreme Court which direct- ADG CID, Gyanwant Singh “UP police teams are con- has been booked for conspiracy “He (Singh) never had any derful moment” for the YSRCP ing to seek anticipatory bail ed the top cop to cooperate CP Bidhannagar, DP Singh, ducting a very intensive investi- charges. Investigations are going enmity with anyone, despite ndhra Pradesh CM-desig- had the NDA won only 250 from a lower court at Barasat with the agency in investiga- Rajesh Kumar, NR Babu, Anuj gation. We have also got impor- on.” being a village head for years,” a Anate YS Jaganmohan seats but it got 353 seats in the after the apex court refused to tion. Sharma and others. tant evidence through electron- Irani, who was in Delhi, flew teary-eyed elderly woman told Reddy on Sunday met Prime parliamentary election, he said, ic surveillance,” the DGP said, down to Lucknow en route to reporters, adding, “As the polls Minister Narendra Modi and adding, “So they don’t need us adding that he was hopeful that Amethi, where she met Singh’s were over, enemies surfaced. later made a candid confession (to form Government), they are the case would be solved “in the family members and consoled From where they came, who that since the BJP has returned strong”. next 12 hours”. them. The BJP leader and state came, no one knows.” to power with thumping “There is very little we can Yogi minister Mohsin Raza were pre- Deputy Chief Minister majority, he is at the mercy of do in demanding and com- Adityanath had directed the sent when Singh’s last rites were the Centre for special catego- manding. But yes, we did meet DGP to take effective action and performed. A large number of expressed grief over Singh’s ry status to the State. The YSR the Prime Minister and report back to him, a senior offi- people was also present on the death. Congress Party chief also met explained to him why special cial said, adding that the inspec- occasion. “The death of a party work- BJP president Amit Shah and category status is so important tor general in Lucknow was Both Irani and Raza were er is indeed very sad and unfor- sought his support on the issue. for us,” Jagan said. sent to monitor the situation. seen carrying Singh’s body tunate. He was a hard worker. Talking to reporters after He explained to the PM “An FIR has been registered amidst chanting of slogans by vil- Even if his killers are hiding his meeting with Modi, Jagan that the special category status against five persons under sec- lagers. below the ground, they will be said his party could only was a “lifeline” for the debt-rid- tions 302 (punishment for mur- “My request to all party caught. The entire Amethi is sad request and not “demand or den State as Andhra Pradesh der) and 120B (punishment of workers is that we should exer- over the incident,” he said. command” the special catego- requires funds. PM’s support is criminal conspiracy) of the cise restraint,” Irani told reporters Newly-elected Allahabad ry status — a lifeline — for the needed to run the State effi- Indian Penal Code (IPC) on the in Lucknow. MP Rita Bahuguna Joshi said 2.58 lakh crore debt-ridden ciently, he said. complaint of Narendra Singh, She said Singh was killed so there was no place for violence State during a meeting with the “Today, the State’s debt brother of Surendra Singh,” Daya that Amethi could be “terrorised, in a democracy and demanded Prime Minister here. burden is very high. The debt Ram said. disintegrated and bowed down”. strict action against Singh’s Jagan, whose party was at Rs 97,000 crore when the In the FIR lodged at the “On (May) 23, I was given a killers. stormed to power in Assembly State was bifurcated. In the last Jamo police station in Amethi, message that take care of Amethi Baraulia was in the news polls on the promise of getting five years, our debt has swelled the complainant said, “On the with love. To the person, who during the poll campaign after special category status to the up to Rs 2.58 lakh crore. Our intervening night of May 25-26, gave me the message, I would Congress leader Priyanka State, said he requested the PM interest repayment alone is at my younger brother Surendra like to say that I have received the Gandhi Vadra accused Irani of to be “magnanimous” towards Rs 20,000 crore per annum,” he Singh was sleeping in the veran- message loud and clear,” she said, distributing shoes to the villagers the people of Andhra Pradesh. said. dah of the house, along with referring to Gandhi’s remarks in order to insult Rahul Gandhi. “Today, we might not get it The State’s principal and nephews Abhay and Anurag, made on the counting day. “Considering the fact that (special category status). We interest put together amount to when we heard the sound of In the just-concluded Lok the Congress is disappointed, have to be at somebody’s mercy Rs 40,000 crore per annum. gunshots. Sabha polls, Irani defeated the especially after the defeat of its but I will remind him (Modi) “This is the kind of situation we “As we woke up, we saw Congress president from party president in Amethi, a again and again and someday are in. We did explain to him Wasim, his brother Nasim and Amethi, a Gandhi family bastion. high-level probe should be things will change,” Jagan told that this being the situation, we Golu running away. Across the “As per the information ordered and the guilty should be reporters after meeting Modi at need a lifeline from you,” he road, we saw Ramchandra. In received, Singh was attacked in punished,” Rajesh Agrahari, the his 7, Lok Kalyan Marg resi- said, adding that the special sta-   *   %  (#  +%       ,      this case, there is also a conspir- his sleep. This is a very heinous BJP convenor for the Amethi dence. tus is the State’s “right”.            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The juniors created an Government of India for direc-       Career 360 and has bagged the A farewell party was organ-         ambiance of enjoyment and tional and policy inputs has prestigious ASSOCHAM +  $  ised at school premises where       music for the seniors to enjoy selected and assigned Prof      Award for the ‘Emerging all the seniors and juniors had      their last memories in the col- Sanjay Chhalotre of Sagar   Engineering Institute of the --      a lot of fun together. The      lege. Institute of Science and      Year – Central India’ and has The day long event will seniors received a warm wel- As the performances were Technology (SISTec) Bhopal as      been acknowledged with ‘The comprised of different events. come by the juniors as they      so splendid, the faculty mem- ‘Mentor of Change.’     Most Innovative College 2018 n organic Farm Fest There was a Mandi of organic entered wearing elegant attire. bers while addressing the stu- Prof Chhalotre from the 7   in North Zone’ by internsha- A'Ananat Mandi' taught the food products (for sale), being The programme began mony and title distribution. dents said that being students SISTec Department of la.com presented by AICTE. Bhopalotes about Sustainable put up by various organic with the juniors performances. Awards were given to the they will always remember Mechanical Engineering has gram is a strategic nation build- Siddharth Sudhir Agrawal, Framing. Anant Mandi Fest farmers and kitchen gardeners The juniors enthusiastically seniors keeping in mind their their college days and the fac- been assigned as ‘Mentor of ing initiative to engage leaders Managing Director, Sagar was organised at Gandhi in and around Bhopal. performed farewell songs for caliber and capability they have ulty members also wished the Change’ to Saraswati Vidhya who can guide and mentor stu- Group and Principal, SISTec Bhavan here on Sunday. Besides, workshops and the seniors; they sang the good shown throughout the session. seniors luck and well being for Mandir, Higher Secondary dents in thousands at Atal Gandhi Nagar Keshwendra ANANT, in collaboration panel discussions on various bye songs which again created The title of Mr Farewell was their future. School, Rajgarh, Madhya Tinkering Labs (ATL) which Chaudhary has congratulated with Go Rurban brings a aspects of the importance of an ambiance full with emo- given to Shivam Singh Rai and Principal and other facul- Pradesh for the Government of have been established by Atal Prof Sanjay Chhalotre on the Farm Fest Ananat Mandi on organic food and variety of tions. The juniors were beau- Miss Farewell was given to ty members wished all the stu- India flagship program of Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), achievement of Mentor of Sunday. It aimed to promote agriculture, by experienced tifully dressed in traditional Sonali Sahu. dents luck for their future Tinkering Labs, established by NITI Aayog. Change and expressed their the practice of organic farming organic farmers and entrepre- costumes. The programme then was endeavours. They asked them the Atal Innovation Mission Prof Sanjay Chhalotre will gratitude to Government of and kitchen gardening in urban neurs. Later the programme was followed with the group dance to do their best and face life (AIM). conduct knowledge transfer India, NITI Aayog for this settings and to enhance the The Bhopalites also followed with the award cere- performances where the challenges with confidence. SR ‘Mentor of Change’ pro- and sharing sessions with stu- Initiative. relationship of organic farmer enjoyed organic lunch meal producers and consumers. with different and delicious It is a platform being cre- dishes. It was followed by ated for the common urban Harvest music and dance cir-       crowd to find healthy and sus- cles where in a lot of visitors tainable alternatives for food, as participated and took the plea- against the unhealthy and inor- sure of Anant Mandi Farm ganic food materials that they Fest.       consume regularly. It is to be noted that from The objective is to create a now Anant Mandi will be space for urban consumers to organised on the last Sunday of start “living” a healthy life and every month at Gandhi      “adopt” sustainable living prac- Bhavan. Polytechnic Square, tices. Bhopal.                 5    8 3     9'   9         /     / 5        0    8 3       1   2                 90 9        3     / 0     (  -  8 9 :       ) / )            3                                   (  8         3               --      performing 'Mangalacharan' ' %       ( %   %         % %        %   (        %       with fellow artists.      he Bhopalites enjoyed a Mangalacharan presents Lord Tdelightful evening of clas- Ganesh Vishnu's Yasho song sical Ragas. A musical and and devotional dance through dance event was organised dance medium, in this pre-    %  " ! !  #$ % here on Sunday at Madhya sentation, the artist drew the Pradesh State Tribal Museum. nature of Lord Vishnu on the The recital of Tabla, platform with his dance skills. Mridangam and Pakhawaj After the invocation, the fokliwed with Odissi dance 'Pallavi' centered Odissi dance   "   &#'  &(  was performed beautifully. presentation filled the audi- The programme started ence with the expressions in with Pandit Bipalv the auditorium. The pure form --      shield was broken and driver --      president of the club, said that Bhattacharya (Kolkata), Ram of dance in Pallavi is present-    was injured.    this program will increase the Kumar R () and ed on tune and rhythm. After ife of more than 35 passen-  The passengers in the bus he Bhopalites fond of      curiosity of reading literature Romandas (Bhopal) with Pallavi, artists presented dance Lgers was endangered when were not injured. TRuskin Bond answered the and writers among young read- 'Tabla, Mridangam and on Krishna-centric 'Madhur miscreants pelted stones and     Police have claimed that most interesting questions    ers. Pakhawaj recital'. Pandit Bhakti'. tried to rob bus driver and con- only one miscreant was at the about him and his writings. Talking to the Bond's well- Bipalv Bhattacharya on tabla In this presentation, artists ductor of Verma Travels near    spot who stone pelted while The participants also learned  3  known bond style, tips on in the presentation of the presented their devotion to 11 Mill area under Misrod locals who have witnessed the creative writing skills. A com- writing tips on the children. instrument, Ram Kumar R. on Krishna with a great deal of police station late in the night    ""#  crime told that the miscreants petition was organised during 0 ;;  Swati Rajoria, author of 'Purple Mridangam and Romandas beauty in front of the audience. on Saturday.  $%  were on two bikes and were the Ruskin Bond Festival orga-   < Turtle' series talked about chil- collaborated on Pakhawaj. Shubhada Varadkar with his A complaint was lodged by around 4-5 and one of them fell nized by Swami Vivekananda dren's literature and the sim- Artists presented for an fellow artists paused his pre- bus driver of Verma Travel    who was handed over to the Library and Club Literati. The    plicity and amazing imagina- hour in South Indian and sentation while presenting Raghuveer Thakur while dri- police while remaining man- event was held at Swami tion of the words used, in this North Indian style, in 'Jatayu Moksh' inspired by ving Indore – Nagpur bus and    aged to escape and are still at Vivekananda Library. *3 )  episode, 50 children aged 8 - 15 Tiglibandhi. Tabla, Tulsi Ramayana through attacked near 11 Mill area and large. It is to be noted that the participated in Creative Mridangam and Pakhawaj dance medium. was tried to rob of money.     The police have registered first event took place May 11 in  Writing Competition. He recital made the audience mes- During the presentation, Police have refused any a case under section 336 of the which quiz related to Ruskin  summed up his thoughts in 500 merized. Vijay Tambe in music, Manoj attempts of robbery and failed the night and have dispute IPC and started further inves- Bond was organised. The sec- words in short stories or poet- After the mesmerising Desai in singing, Kaushik Basu to reveal the identity of mis- over boarding the bus and tigation into the matter. ond event took place on May ry / essay format. performance Shubhada on Murdh, Agnimitra Behera creants who were detained and scuffled with the bus driver and Miscreants tried to rob 19 in which the cake was har- Ruskin Bond Festival, Amitas The winners of this com- Varadkar presented the 'Odissi on violin, Aparna Deodhar on released on bail. conductor and when they tried money from the bus driver and vested by the Ruskin Bond first highlighted the activities petition will be rewarded in the dance' with her fellow artists. Sitar and Prashant Thakre During the investigation to stop bus on May 25 driver conductors but police failed to Robot on his birthday and the that have taken place so far. last session of June 2, which will Shubhada Varadkar started accompanied dancers on the police found that the miscreant refused to stop and the attacked accept that incident in the treasure hunt were organised. Welcoming the participants, be held in Swami Vivekananda his dance presentation while keyboard. tried to stop bus on May 24 in bus with stone in which wind crime. In the third season of the Seema Riyazada, the founding Library. O(   (  P 

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--      learnt and practiced how to check peripheral and central andar And No More pulse, how to position a MFoundation (MANM) patient’s body in different organised a First Aid Training kinds medical conditions, Program to the Bikers who are including the Left Lateral scheduled to go as far as Spiti Position for unconscious Valley in Himachal Pradesh, patients. for spreading awareness on Dr Bhagwat explained the Water Safety. importance of Medical experts Dr PK Cardiopulmonary Bhagwat of Rotary Club East Resuscitation (CPR) as a life Bhopal and Dr Shripad Joshi saving measure - especially in imparted this training. drowning accidents and the Riders were educated on same was demonstrated by the the Dos and Don’ts in case of visiting experts. a mishap or accident. In very First Aid treatment of var- simple terms Dr Joshi ious kinds of wounds was explained the ABC of First also taught. Various ways of      ',  0 1 (#!    % *  +,   0 1% (#  +%   ,                    2 Aid which stands for Airway, immobilizing a fractured body (         Breathing and Circulation. part were shown along with The participants were very valuable and practical taught in very interesting tips on making slings, trian- manner how the household gular bands and avoiding con- 7,.#+#.(# ./#   # #   and other easily available tamination. Suggestions on things like a towel, stick, carrying an appropriate first strings, spoon can be con- aid box were given and the verted into props for first aid. queries of participants were (#+7!%% /!7!"#/#7 Focus was on the specific answered. The participants )    # precautions required to be expressed their gratefulness to   taken in the cases of uncon- both the experts who volun- E- 8 G       sciousness, collapsing, fainting teered to share their knowl- fter gaining the number             --      $   under section 174 of the CrPC attack, sudden blindness, heat edge and experience to sup- Aone position consecutive- and started further investiga- stroke, burns, nose bleeding, port MANM Team and pro- ly for 3 years in clean India              alaiya police has registered 3  tion. frost bite and hypoglycaemia. mote the cause of drowning campaign, now the Indore    -        Ta case of abetment to com-   Later in the investigation The participants also prevention. administration is set up to          mit suicide against two persons police found that the deceased achieve first rank in India for including a woman whose hus-    was frustrated over acts by his     the better traffic management.         band committed suicide by *  5   wife who used to talk over In this regard a meeting             jumping into Lower Lake few phone with her acquaintance was held at hotel Sayaji meet- months ago. %  0  and the two used to have fre-         ing hall in Indore. ADG Varun   <         Police have booked a quent fights over the issue but Kapur, Indore collector Lokesh           woman identified as Reeti Sen     his wife continued to talk over     Jatav, DIG Indore of Chhola Mandir area and her   5 3 phone. Ruchivardhan Mishra, Indore             friend Shaikh Raees. The deceased got married      municipal commissioner           Reeti married to Rahul *  a year ago and used to run a Ashish Singh, SP Suraj Verma, Shrivas but even after the mar- barber shop in Chhola Mandir SP Awadesh Goswami, ASP left turn projects on all 74 scrutinizing before imple- riage she used to talk over by jumping into the lower lake. area.      3 traffic Mahendra Jain, ASP main squares of the Indore menting. For better traffic of phone and meet Shaikh Raees Before suicide he left suicide On Saturday after the Prahsant Choube ASP Ranjeet which will help to smoothen Indore district Collector and when Rahul came to know note mentioning that his wife investigation was completed     3  Singh Devke were present. the traffic and also the traffic Lokesh Jatav told to focus on about the relationship he tried has relationship due to which and suicide note was checked ADG Varun Kapur while cops have been instructed to 5 Es- Education, Engineering, to persuade Reeti to distant he is taking the extreme step. and matched a case under sec-       addressing the official pre- deal strictly with the people Environment, Enforcement from Raees but she refused and After the preliminary tions 306 and 34 of the IPC was sent told that to improve the who break the traffic rule and Emergency. in the month of October last investigation body was sent for registered against the two. The traffic of Indore is now in the however influential the law Indore municipal com- year Rahul committed suicide the post mortem and a case arrest is yet to be made.        top priority of police, govern- breaker is DIG also urged the missioner Ashish Singh told ment is modernizing the traf- two wheeler riders to wear hel- that the government is plan- fic system implementing traf- met for safe riding. Indore col- ning to introduce world class &)*FC fic rules also increasing the lector Lokesh Jatav told that laser guided traffic signal number of traffic police force Indore is fast growing metro equipment which will control ' # and providing whatever facil- city of the country and the fre- the traffic automatically and ity required for the betterment quency of people coming from the traffic time will be set . !      of the traffic but it is the peo- all over the India and settling according by the presence of +/0 #% 7+#!/!'! &!,(#+. #%+/# ple who have to get themselves in Indore is quite high. density of traffic on the 7+#.% 7,!5!#!7,2!! !'!'# 5.7 ###.% + self aware and self motivated He told that IIT Indore squares also the widening of %#((   ,#! !77#+!.7 !:;6!  !''#,&.7 #.7"# to follow the traffic rules. and IIM Indore students have roads and removal of the "#7#!.7."#! <!7#,  # ." +!7, .7(.7+.% DIG Indore Ruchivardhan prepared the project for the encroachment from the roads !7,# 6 Mishra told that Indore traffic plan of Indore city will be done on administration is working on which the administration is regular basis. --              !    12. 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2* . - -2   ! R  3 ,  %   (% ( +898+:/  (   .9+: ! R  ! #   PURI: In an incident of post-poll violence, <<=+?@A,+ five people were injured after bombs were  +8+:?+: hurled during a clash between two groups PURI: Puri BJD MP at Bhatapada village in Brahmagiri area Pinaki Misra has decided $   % 8,@ 8+:-@ of Puri district on Sunday. Tension was to donate his MP salary brewing in the village after the declara- for the next five years to :8+:B tion of Brahmagiri Assembly seat poll the Fani-ravaged Puri dis-    0  of the Congress in the State but results. trict. He would contribute Sidhu’s failure to do any devel- On Sunday morning, a heated alter- his entire MP salary and he ongoing spat between opment work had hurt the BHUBANESWAR: The BJD’s cation took place between rival groups due daily allowance to the TPunjab Chief Minister party, which had performed first Parliamentary Party meet- demands, namely, Special State they promised during election to passing of comments. Chief Minister’s Relief of Puri,I have decided to Capt and his well in the rural areas in these ing after the elections was held Category status, more funds for campaigning. Kendrapada MP This led to a clash with both sides Fund (CMRF). give my entire MP salary “outspoken” cabinet colleague elections. at party supremo Naveen disaster management and 33- Anubhav Mohanty said he hurling a number of bombs at each He informed his and daily allowance to the Navjot Singh Sidhu is likely to Capt Amarinder went in Patnaik’s residence here on per cent reservation for women would press for railway con- other. The five critically injured people decision on a microblog- CM relief fund for the be taken up by the former with to add that he had raised the Sunday. in the Parliament and State nectivity in his constituency on were admitted to a local hospital. The Puri ging site Twitter after the next 5 years. Will request the party’s national president issue of changing Sidhu’s port- The meeting, presided Assemblies, in the Parliament, a priority basis. Aska MP Sadar police rushed to the spot and took poll results. CM @Naveen_Odisha to Rahul Gandhi in their meeting folio some months ago, but the over by Patnaik, was attended among many others. Pramila Bisoyi said she would control of the situation before it worsened “In view of the awful use it for requests from this week in New Delhi. party decided to take a call on by all newly-elected 12 BJD Besides suggesting the work for an overall develop- further. Police forces were deployed as ten- #CycloneFani tragedy my constituency,” Misra Both Capt Amarinder it after the Lok Sabha elections. MPs. issued to be raised in the Lok ment of her constituency. sion still prevailed in the area. PNS and the misery of people tweeted. PNS and Sidhu have been camping “I am confident that both Following the meeting, Sabha, advised Keonjhar MP Chandrani at the national capital to have Rahul Gandhi and party leader Brahmapur MP Chandra the MPs to work for faster Murmu said she would raise all audience with Rahul Gandhi Priyanka Gandhi Vadra would Sekhar Sahu informed reporters development of their respective issues relating to her region and   3    4 (!     to put forth their respective agree to the decision in the that they would place three constituencies which he and the State as well. PNS cases. interest of the state and the PURI: After 35 years of pro- et for the He had won the civic body The Chief Minister, who is party,” said Capt Amarinder longed power in hand in the Satyabadi chairman post while Mohanty currently in the national cap- after the declaration of results. holy city of Puri, ultimately Assembly was totally against his candi- ital for the Congress Working He had also expressed his -#/2     five-time BJD MLA and constituen- dature. However, Sarangi com- Committee’s introspection unhappiness over Sidhu’s Cabinet Minister Maheswar cy at the pleted five years in the munic- meet following its Lok Sabha “friendly match” jibe by saying BHUBANESWAR: The Nirakar Panda said the col- Mohnaty has been defeated by instance of ipality despite troubles coming debacle, is returning that he should have waited for Thalassemia Care Society lected blood would be given his BJP rival Jayant Sarangi in Maheswar Mohanty, who is the from the Mohanty camp. Chandigarh on late Monday a day to give such a statement Odisha (TCSO) organised a only to the Thalassemics. Dr the election by a margin of party’s Puri district president. Now after the defeat of and will go back to meet in case he had any difference mega blood donation camp Rasmi Manjula Sahu and her 4,008 votes. He termed Mohanty’s deci- Mohanty, questions are raised Rahul later in the week. of opinion. here on Sunday in which 58 Cuttack Central Red Cross Prior to becoming MLA, sion as backstabbing at the who from the BJD would lead “The Chief Minister is While addressing an elec- units of blood were collected. Blood Bank paramedical staffs Mohanty was Chairman of the eleventh hour. Now, he has Puri. Will Mohanty be back to meeting Rahul Gandhi later in tion rally in Bathinda on May The camp was inaugurated collected the blood. Puri Municipality for 10 years. taken a big revenge against electoral fight again after five the week,” a senior functionary 17, Sidhu talked about a by Handicap Empowerment TCSO assistant secretary Sarangi, an outgoing Mohanty. years? Will he wait for next five in the Chief Minister's Office “friendly match” without nam- DSSO Sanyashi Behera and Deepak Jali, treasurer Chairman of the Puri Sarangi, before his entry years? Will BJD supremo told IANS. ing anyone, while asking the Odisha State Blood Das. Raghunath Pradhan, Rajashree Municipality, joined the BJP a into the BJP, was known to be Naveen Patnaik give him Capt Amarinder is said to electorate to “punish” the Transmission Council TCSO president Bijaya Jena and Ranjit Sahu coordi- fortnight before the election an opponent of Mohanty on another chance overlooking have prepared a complete case “players” who have 75:25 Additional Director Swarup Kumar Rout and secretary nated the camp . PNS when he was denied BJD tick- leadership issues in Puri city. the new aspirants. PNS against Sidhu with the list of share. constituencies where Congress Before that, Sidhu’s wife had always fared well, but and former MLA Dr Navjot .$    /     ) failed this time, holding Sidhu Kaur Sidhu had blamed Capt #/.+72O> !7,!+#! <!># + responsible for not doing his Amarinder and state party   *   01$  job well as the Urban affairs’ in-charge Asha Kumari    tremor was 10 km below the sur- wave alerts for districts in northwest Development Minister. for playing a negative role in PURI: A delegation of the World     face of Earth at latitude 23.3 degrees Jharkhand, including Daltonganj, On the other hand, Sidhu declining her nomination Bank arrived here on Sunday for remors were felt in several dis- north and longitude 86.9 degrees Garhwa, Latehar and Chatra, for is also all-prepared with his list from Chandigarh Lok Sabha ascertaining the damages caused by the School of Government and Public Affairs Ttricts of Jharkhand after an east, officials from the next 48 hours. of “urban” segments where seat — a statement backed by Fani in the district. Aunder the Xavier University, Bhubaneswar earthquake with epicentre in neigh- Meteorological Department of Director of Ranchi the party has performed well Sidhu. Sidhu had also declared While one team of the delegation (XUB) is in the offing. Due to an initiative by bouring West Bengal’s Bankura India said. Meteorological Centre, SD Kotal for which he should be given to step down if the Badals were assessed the damages in the affected XIMB Board alumni representative Amar hit eastern India on Sunday morn- Residents moved out of their said maximum temperature was 3 all credits. not punished in the 2015 sac- areas of the district, another ascertained Patnaik, the school will begin from July offer- ing. houses in parts of Giridih and to4 degrees Celsius higher than the The cold war between the rilege cases. the damages in the town Puri. ing a two-year Masters degree in Public Affairs. The mild tremors were felt in Dhanbad during the second earth- normal temperature across Chief Minister and his Local Referring to Sidhu's Later, the delegation will meet Dr Patnaik is the chief of the BJD’s IT Cell. parts of Ranchi, Giridih, Dhanbad, quake. However, no loss of property Jharkhand on Sunday. Bodies Minister intensified remarks on the investigation Chief Secretary Aditya Padhi and hold For the new school, an MoU has been Jamtara, Bagodar and Dumka at or life was reported from any part "The weather will remain hot when Capt Amarinder cate- into the sacrilege cases in talks regarding the scale of damages signed with the Maxwell School of Citizenship around 10.39am after the earth- of the state. MET officials said that and humid for the next three days. gorically blamed Sidhu for Bathinda, the seat that the caused due to the cyclone. and Public Affairs of the Syracuse University, quake measuring 4.8 on Richter the tremors were too mild to cause Minor fluctuation in temperature is the party's poor performance Congress lost to Akali Dal’s Noteworthy, the cyclone hit the New York. scale hit the neighbouring state. any damage to life or property. expected from Wednesday evening in the state's urban areas say- Harsimrat Kaur Badal by a coast near Puri town on May 3, rav- Dr Patnaik has revealed that the new Earlier in the day, an earth- According to the MET depart- due to incursion of moisture from ing that his actions during the slender margin of 21,772 votes, aging entire coastal Odisha. The State school would also focus on building leaders in quake of a magnitude of 4.5 on ment, maximum effect of the earth- the Bay of Bengal,” said Kotal. parliamentary elections had the Chief Minister had said Government has assessed the extent of business, NGOs and media through short and Richter scale hit Andaman & quake was felt in Jharkhand’s Around eight people have not only harmed him but also that the Minister evidently damages to be tentatively worth around medium-term courses. The launch events for Nicobar Islands at 7.49am. This too Dhanbad and Jamtara, the districts reportedly died so far allegedly due Rahul Gandhi. did not understand that the Rs 12,000 crore in a preliminary report the new school would be held at New Delhi caused mild tremors in some parts nearest to the epicentre. to heat in Jharkhand. However, state The Chief Minister had SIT had been set up by the submitted to a visiting Central inter- (May 27), Kolkata (May 28), Mumbai (May 30) of Jharkhand. Meanwhile, the weather disaster management department stated that the urban vote Assembly. Ministerial team. PNS and Bengaluru (May 31). The epicentre of the second department on Sunday issued heat has no such record of deaths. bank had been the backbone (with inputs from agency) +    )) % #$ )-Q%#  # ,, - ). 5 !  (  Q       0  He said that the selected ensured smooth implementa- candidates would be placed tion of the flagship programme *%  4     MPs are from BJP while one a slender margin of 1445 votes. aryana Government will across 22 districts and would of the state. Many of them are MP Chandra Prakash BJP and Munda especially had Hstart the fourth batch of the assist in implementing innova- now working with UN organi- s the BJP-led NDA swept Choudhary is from AJSU to face tribal ire in Khunti as 'Chief Minister's Good tive approaches, ensuring trans- zations, national and interna-    0  sponsible” attitude is not only Ato power with a spectacu- party. tribals were against ruling Governance Associates' parency, efficiency and account- tional NGOs, government think condemnable but also lar performance for second Out of 12 MPs in NDA, party on the issue of (CMGGA) programme from ability of the government ini- tanks such as Niti Aayog and emanding an inquiry by shameful. term, all eyes are now on gov- there are three tribals—Arjun Pathalgadi and July 21. tiatives. The associates spend 6 consultancy firms as well, while Dthe Central Bureau of Cheema said that the law ernment formation, amid spec- Munda from Khunti, Chottanagpur/Santhal Pargana Project Director, CMGGA, to 7 weeks in districts followed some have gone to venture the Investigation (CBI) in a cus- and order situation in the ulation that several new faces Sudarshan Bhagat, Lohardaga Tenancy Act (CNT/SPT) Act. Rakesh Gupta said the pro- by a week-long forum at Ashoka entrepreneurship journey, he todial death case of a 19-year- state is similar to that during will be included in the Modi’s MP and outgoing minister in Sources said that adding more gramme has been a success University, the knowledge part- said. old in Faridkot, the Aam the previous government, cabinet. From Jharkhand too Modi’s cabinet and new face problems for Munda was some since its launch four years ago. ner of the programme, to dis- He said that Haryana Aadmi Party (AAP) on “but it is getting worse every names of some probable can- Sunil Soren who defeated JMM Christian missionaries’ direc- Giving details, Gupta said cuss challenges and way forward Government has been success- Sunday asked the Chief day. A major part of the didates are doing the rounds. heavyweight Shibu Soren. tives to vote for Congress can- that this ambitious fellowship across work modules. ful in ensuring good governance Minister Capt Amarinder police machinery is uncon- In Modi’s last cabinet the state From non-tribal face, didate. Munda who has long programme launched four years Interested candidates can in the state by adopting various Singh to resign in the capac- trollable, the people are wan- had two representations, Jayant names of Hazaribag MP and political experience as he had back in 2016, involves youth as apply to join the team and get new strategies, which has ity of the state’s Home dering door-to-door for jus- Sinha minister of state of civil outgoing Minister in Modi’s served as Chief Minister of change makers in ensuring an impressive exposure to the received overwhelming Minister. tice, but the ‘Maharaja’ is aviation and Sudarshan Bhagat cabinet Jayant Sinha, Godda state is considered as BJP’s good governance and provides government functioning and response from all corners. It is At the same time, the busy in his revelry”. minister of state for tribal wel- MP Nishikant Dubey and tribal face. For Sunil Soren, the a platform to the young talent policy making. The programme the vision of the Chief Minister Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has “Due to all this, Capt fare. Koderma MP Annapurna Devi advantage is that he had across the country towards cre- offers a competitive stipend of Manhohar Lal to involve and declared to visit Faridkot on Amarinder Singh should Sources said that going by and Palamu MP VD Ram are defeated JMM heavyweight ating social impact by working Rs 50,000 to the associates and leverage youth, their energy Monday, where the family immediately resign as the the Jharkhand demography doing the round. and party chief Shibu Soren in directly with district adminis- accommodation in their respec- and fresh innovation in ensur- members of the deceased Home Minister and hand over and regional aspirations this Sources said that while a similar way two decades tration and Chief Minister’s tive districts. More information ing good governance. These were sitting on a dharna in this important responsibility time too there will be at least choosing the ministers, the back when BJP candidate Office. regarding the process of selec- timely updates, gap areas and front of the SSP office alleg- to any other competent two ministers from State in BJP leadership will also go Babulal Marandi defeated The intense process of selec- tion, important dates and the suggestions are directly report- ing that the youth was tor- Minister who can keep the Modi’s Cabinet. A senior BJP through regional aspiration Shibu. Later when Jharkhand tion of 25 associates would overall recruitment process are ed to the Chief Minister every tured to death in the lock-up, disobedient police system in leader requesting anonymity and caste demography as by was formed in 2000 Marandi start from June 1 inviting online available on the official three months by the CMGGAs, and demanding registration discipline and make it said, “This time too there will year end the State has to go for was made the first Chief applications. After the comple- CMGGA website, Gupta said. he added. Elaborating on these of a murder case against the accountable,” he said. be two ministers from Assembly election. Minister of State. tion of the selection process, the He further said that a total programmes, he said that five cops. Cheema said that the Jharkhand in Modi’s cabinet, Among the three tribal For Sudarshan Bhagat a batch would start working in of 80 associates from the last Haryana is the first state in the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Congress and the Badals have one tribal and other from non- MPs, the name of Khunti MP leader who is considered as tandem with the Chief three years have worked on country to digitise over 480 ser- MLA and the Leader of politicised the Punjab Police tribal community.” Arjun Munda and Dumka down-to-earth and always Minister’s office and district multiple programmes over the vices across 35 departments on Opposition in Vidhan Sabha since a long time. The BJP led NDA has won MP Sunil Soren are at the top. away from controversies has Administration from July 21, he last three years and achieved a single online platform called Harpal Singh Cheema “There is tremendous 12 seats out of 14 seats in Arjun Munda in a nail biting become advantageous for said. impressive achievements. They Antyodaya Saral. demanded a CBI investigation political pressure on the Jharkhand out of which 11 contest won from Khunti with becoming the minister again. into the entire incident of a police administration for the death of young boy Jaspal self and political interests, Singh in the police custody and a major faction of this and then disposing of politicised police, which is his body. ready to take the law into the Also lashing out at the hands for their political mas- Chief Minister while demand- ters, has become a gang in ing his resignation as the itself and this Faridkot inci- Home Minister, Cheema said dent is the result of the same,” that a shocking incident has he alleged. took place in Faridkot where Demanding a government a young boy was job for en eligible member of mysteriously died in the the deceased’s family, Cheema police custody and his body questioned why till date no was disposed of in a canal, fol- representative of the lowing which the involved Government or the ruling police officer Narinder Singh Congress party has met the also committed a suicide, but Jaspal’s family which is stag- the Chief Minister’s “irre- ing a protest.       %   0            ,  0  %       3     3   C 3                                         &  5         %   0 P   *   4     "%              M    N           2 (                    %  %      (   (             !    #  $%&'

  schemes launched by the pre-  @@+@./ minister, I will chalk out a plan corruption and clean up the vious government, Reddy said, +D+@ :@: + of action,” Jagan told reporters entire system,” he added. ndhra Pradesh Chief “It is a Catch 22 situation. We + D,  ,+8 here. Asked about the 32 cases AMinister-designate Jagan have to look into the scams.... /D, @8@@D Asserting that the YSRCP- lodged against him, Reddy Mohan Reddy on Sunday said These are not ordinary scams. /+2:@ led Government would be claimed that those were filed by he would order a probe into the They are going to be sensa- “transparent and corruption- the (TDP) alleged financial irregularities tional scams.” Since the Centre declared free”, Reddy said, “We will not and the Congress, adding that in the construction of new Accusing Naidu of mis- it as a national project in 2014, only clean the system and show the huge verdict in the State Capital Amaravati, the leading people about the place an amount of 11,210 crore has how it is cleansed, but we will Assembly polls in favour of his Polavaram project and other where the new Capital would been spent on the Polavaram also show how to stop scams.” party was a clear indication that schemes launched by former come up in order to buy him- project. The Centre has reim- “We will bring in reverse the cases were false. Chief Minister N Chandrababu self land at lower rates, Jagan bursed 6,727 crore to the tendering. If scams are found “The cases were filed after Naidu. said,” “This is an inside story. State Government, according to in a project, we will identify my father’s (former chief min- Set to take oath as the Chief This is something like insider the official data. and cancel that work and ister, late YS Rajasekhara Minister on May 30 , Jagan said trading. He (Naidu) has bought The project aims to irrigate increase the pre-qualification Reddy) death and after I left the a white paper in this regard vast expanses of benami land. 2.91 lakh hectares, generate 960 criteria so that more number of Congress. The petitioners in would be released after review- This scam does not stop there. MW of power, and fulfil the people can participate. We will the cases are none other than ing the works of each depart- He forced people to sell under water needs of industries and give the TDP and the Congress,” he ment in the State. land pooling and exempted 540 villages in Andhra Pradesh. projects to those who quote said, adding that everyone in He was in the national his own benami land,” Reddy He further said his priori- less. Everything will be trans- Andhra Pradesh knew about it Capital to call on Prime said, adding that he had noth- ty would be implementing his parent. We will monitor all pro- and that’s why people had Minister Narendra Modi and ing personal against Naidu.” party’s poll promise of “nine jects,” he added. given this verdict. BJP president Amit Shah to dis- On the multi-purpose large-scale welfare pro- The YSRCP chief said his Reddy’s party has won 151 cuss the issue of special cate- Polavaram project on the grammes”. Government will be “revolu- of the 175 Assembly and 22 of gory status and financial help Godavari river, he said, “We          !       "  #      “I have promised to my tionary” and will set an exam- the 25 Lok Sabha seats in to of 2.58 lakh crore to debt- will probe if there was any scam         !  (    '     people and I have a big respon- ple in the country. Andhra Pradesh, the elections ridden State. in the implementation of the sibility to fulfil those. So, I can- “Within six months or a for which were held on April Asked if his Government project. This project has to be mandate to complete the pro- the Central Government to All I want is that the Polavaram not take any chance. With the year, I will make sure that this 11. Reddy was unanimously would probe the alleged irreg- completed as per the timeline ject but there was a necessity to call for reverse tenders (for the project should be completed in blessings of the god, I will work Government will stand as an elected as the leader of the ularities in the construction of and there is no other option.” finish the work, he added. Polavaram project), that will a time-bound manner,” Reddy towards that direction. In 50 exemplary one in the country. YSRC Legislature Party on the new State Capital and other The state did not have the “If there is a need to involve also be done. We do not mind. said. days after taking oath as chief I will ensure that there is no Saturday. )   //   ()  *+    )  :      '      &  9% New Delhi: Unfavourable the progress on monsoon.  !  8&  ;7:* cross-equatorial flow over the The MJO can be defined as Arabian Sea that aids in the an eastward moving ‘pulse’ of    progress of the monsoon is one clouds, rainfall, winds and    of the reasons for its delay, the pressure near the equator that ecurity agencies have issued national weather agency said on typically recurs every 30-60 he Assam Rifles, a central San alert warning a boat car- Sunday. Monsoon reached the days. It is a traversing phe- Tparamilitary force that rying 15 ISIS terrorists had set Andaman and Nicobar Islands nomenon and is prominent guards India’s border with off from Sri Lanka to on May 18. But it is yet to cover over the Indian Ocean. Myanmar, will soon have pres- Lakshadweep Islands. the entire region, the India In its bulletin, the IMD said ence in Jammu & Kashmir Following the alert, the Metrological Department said. ‘fairly widespread to wide- after the Centre decided to stakeholder agencies for coastal Conditions are likely to become spread rainfall’ activity with place one of its battalion (1,000 security like Navy, Coast Guard favourable for the movement of isolated heavy fall were very personnel) into the National and Coastal police have beefed the southwest monsoon into likely to occur over Assam Disaster Response Force up the level of surveillance off some more parts of south Bay and and sub- (NDRF). Kerala and Lakshadweep of Bengal, Andaman Islands Himalayan West Bengal, The National Disaster coasts, sources said. and north Andaman Sea dur- Sikkim on Wednesday and Response Force (NDRF) will The Navy and Coast Guard ing Wednesday-Thursday, the Thursday. have four new battalions that are maintaining vigil. Ships IMD said. Scattered to fairly-wide- will be based in Jammu & and aircraft have been engaged It is also expected to make spread rainfall activity with Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, to ensure high level of coastal an onset over Kerala on June 6, isolated heavy falls are very Uttarakhand and the National surveillance, the sources said. five days after its normal onset likely to occur over south- Capital Region. The new bat- This besides, the coastal date, it had said. The weather interior Karnataka from May talions of the NDRF will be militia called the ‘Cachar Levy’, graphical area of the country, police has also upped its vigil department said the monsoon 26-28 and over on drawn from the Assam Rifles the paramilitary force has a the government had said. in its domain after the alert was was yet to get traction from the Tuesday-Wednesday, it said. (location in J&K), the Indo- strength of about 47,000 per- The NDRF has 12 opera- passed on Saturday to all the have a considerable presence of A considerable number of Arabian Sea. On the other hand, heat- Tibetan Border Police sonnel. Land is being acquired tional battalions at present. coastal police stations and Islamic State radicals and sym- Keralities are still with the “The slow pace is because wave conditions continue in (Himachal Pradesh and to operationalise the new It is a specialised force that coastal district police chiefs. pathizers if the number of ISIS, which was recently wiped of the lack of cross-equatorial central Indian and parts of Uttarakhand) and the Border NDRF battalions even as the was raised in 2006 for specific The coastal police has also cases registered against the out from Iraq and Syria, flow in the Arabian Sea,” Andhra Pradesh and Security Force (Delhi-NCR move to raise the four new tasks of relief and rescue dur- been asked to be alert in case outfit by the NIA are any indi- according to inputs. Mritunjay Mohapatra, the Telangana. The heatwave is region), officials said. NDRF battalions was approved ing natural and man-made suspicious vessels are sighted in cation. The ISIS is suspected to Sri Lanka witnessed a additional director general of expected in some parts are very The Assam Rifles draws its in August with a view to disasters. their areas. have penetrated a number of so deadly terror attack on Apr 21 the IMD, said. likely to continue over strength of officers from the strengthen India’s disaster The operational battalions The security agencies called mainstream Muslim out- when serial blasts rocked the Mohapatra attributed the Vidarbha and at isolated pock- Army and functions under response set up at an estimat- are located in Assam, West issued the alert following inputs fits. island nation taking a toll of sluggish pace to the ets over central Maharashtra, administrative command of ed cost of 637 crore. Bengal, Odisha, Tamil Nadu, from Sri Lankan agencies NIA investigation in ISIS over 250 lives. unfavourable Madden-Julian Telangana, east MP, the Defence Ministry and the The aim for creation and Maharashtra, Gujarat, Punjab, which were shared on module of Kerala had revealed The Islamic State had oscillation (MJO) and anti- Chhattisgarh, east UP, operational command of the placement of these new units is NCR (Ghaziabad), Bihar, Thursday. that IS operatives had planned claimed responsibility for the cyclonic circulation over the Jharkhand and Odisha during Union Home Ministry. to reduce the response time, Arunachal Pradesh, Uttar The South Indian States attacks in Kerala. Colombo bombings. south Indian Ocean that aids the next four-five days. PTI Established in 1835 as a keeping in view the vast geo- Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh. !' ./ ., !''+.7 567 "%   % %8!'  #4#+,#7   According to ADR, the 0   BJP has 116 MPs or 39 per cent #7>!! !, early half of the newly- of its winning candidates with Nelected Lok Sabha mem- criminal cases, followed by 29 1**     bers have criminal charges MPs (57 per cent) from the against them, a 26 per cent Congress, 13 (81 per cent)   built 25 years ago or earlier can day after being appointed increase as compared to 2014. from the JDU, 10 (43 per cent) be redeveloped with the con- APrime Minister for a sec- According to the Association of from the DMK and nine (41 resident Ram Nath Kovind sent of 75 per cent of the own- ond term, Narendra Modi on Democratic Reforms, of the per cent) from the TMC. Phas given his assent to a Bill ers. Sunday called on Vice 539 winning candidates In 2014, 185 Lok Sabha which will facilitate redevel- Till now, redevelopment President M Venkaiah Naidu. analysed by the ADR, as many members (34 per cent) had opment of 25-year-old group of any group housing society in Sources described it as a as 233 MPs or 43 per cent have criminal charges and 112 MPs housing societies in Gujarat the state required consent of all courtesy call. criminal charges. With 660.19 had serious criminal cases with the consent of 75 per cent residents, which had led to con- Modi reached the Vice- crore assets, Madhya Pradesh against them. In 2009, 162 residents, instead of all, officials flicts in many apartments. President house here to meet Chief Minister’s son, Nakul (nearly 30 per cent) out of the said on Sunday. As many apartments in Naidu on Sunday morning. Nath is the richest MP in the 543 Lok Sabha MPs had crim- The Gujarat Ownership Gujarat are more than 25 years “Shri Narendra Bhai Modi . Nakul Nath, inal charges and 14 per cent Flats (Amendment) Bill 2018 old and require redevelop- ji called on me today morning. who won the elections from had serious criminal charges, it was enacted by the Gujarat ment, the new legislation will Greeted him on being elected Chhindwara in Madhya said. Assembly in September 2018 accelerate such activities, the as the leader of NDA and the Pradesh has declared moveable In the new Lok Sabha, and it was subsequently official said. next Prime Minister. Over assets worth 6,18,41,72,757. nearly 29 per cent of the cases ous criminal cases since 2009,” Sadhvi Pragya Singh ed to hate speech, it said. sent to the President for his Last year, the President breakfast, we discussed many His immovable assets are val- are related to rape, murder, it said. Eleven winners — five Thakur, the newly-elected BJP Dean Kuriakose from the assent. gave his assent to a similar bill issues including accelerating ued at 41,77,74,000, followed attempt to murder or crime from the BJP, two from the BSP, MP from Bhopal, faces terror Congress, who won from the The President has given his enacted by the Maharashtra development and strengthen- by Vasanthakumar H of the against women, the non-gov- one each from the Congress, charges in connection with the Idukki constituency in Kerala, assent to the Gujarat Bill Assembly to smoothen the ing Parliamentary institutions,” Congress, having total assets of ernmental organisation said. NCP and the YSR Congress 2008 Malegaon blasts. The BJP has 204 criminal cases against recently, a Home Ministry offi- process of reconstructing dilap- Naidu’s office tweeted. 417 crore who won the elec- “There is an increase of 109 Party, and an Independent — has faced a lot of criticism for him, including culpable homi- cial said. idated buildings or a complex Modi too tweeted saying he tions from Kanyakumari in per cent (in 2019) in the num- have murder charges against fielding her. Moreover, 29 win- cide, house trespass, robbery, According to the legisla- of buildings in land-starved called on Naidu and posted two Tamil Nadu. ber of MPs with declared seri- them, the ADR said. ners have declared cases relat- criminal intimidation, it added. tion, apartments which were Mumbai. photographs. -   6 7( %     8  

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It reduces the cost-effective technology that Director of the IHBT, “It is well 2025 with an estimated market immunity of the body to fight can help cultivation of highly known that mushrooms — of $35.4 billion and the inter- infections and makes the body nutritious Vitamin D-enriched Shiitake (Lentinula edodes) national demand for vitamin D vulnerable for several killer shiitake mushrooms in two being one of the varieties — are is estimated to reach USD 140 diseases such as cancer, brain months duration against con- the vegetarian source of vita- million by 2025 growing annu- disorders and heart problems, ventional nine-ten months min D. The technology devel- ally at 1.2 per cent. as per the doctors. under local condition. oped by our scientists aim to In fact, the technology A survey by the Associated Once taken on commercial enhance production of ergo- developed by the IHBT is Chambers of Commerce and scale, the nutritional shiitake calciferols (Vitamin D) in already catching the attention Industry of India mushrooms not only promis- Shiitake mushroom which is of the entrepreneurs. Innotech (ASSOCHAM), a trade lobby, es to meet the Vitamin D need most preferred variety in India AgroPustikam Pvt Ltd, conducted between October of the nutrition bereft Indian particularly North India.” Guwahati Biotech Park, Assam, 2017 and March 2018, found population but also boost the Talking about the key fea- to two months from conven- dust substrate. “Capsule of 500 D,” Kumar explained. 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As per latest estimates, there are nearly               106 million people in India who smoke tobac-      ?           co and 32 million who smoke as well as chew      S          ( it. There are a total of 270 million people who                  ( use it. India is home to roughly 11.2 per cent                   of the smokers in the world and 1.35 million people in the country die every year due to    4              0 -        7    O   tobacco-related illnesses. Yet despite harm reduction alternatives  --      O        # being available to smokers, these are yet to be           #    effectively incorporated into tobacco control 4 0          %         policies to complement traditional measures                   ( such as taxation and graphic warnings on cig-        #          4 arette packaging. The fact that the Ministry of                -    Health and Family Welfare issued an advisory to ban the manufacture, distribution and sale  0  6                 2    5                  ( of e-cigarettes, instead of regulating the cate- gory to potentially lower smoking rates and    4                           (     improve public health outcomes is a worrying development that ought to be reconsidered. -  A lot of the stories being circulated are We analysed the data from the distract them from tobacco cigarettes.  .(                Countless studies have shown that    6 simply wrong and constitute misinfor- National Health Interview Survey of We should not forget that all these years,                 *   Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS),     mation, stemming from a time when 2016 and 2017 using the same ENDS usage was allegedly increasing         %      >   such as e-cigarettes and vaping devices, pose     there was inadequate research on methodology as this study. In this among youth, predominantly among   -           only a small fraction of the risks of smoking;   -1 this category. There is also a general case, we examined the association them experimented with e-cigarettes, *                they crucially remove combustion from the 4 0    failure to differentiate between e- between ever using medications to and the smoking prevalence has sub-        *    (E,  process. Research by globally renowned pub- cigarettes and combustible tobacco lower cholesterol and having a heart stantially declined. In the US, for lic health organisations such as Public Health   cigarettes. As a result, the same attack. We found that ever use of anti- example, during the period that ENDS   F P)   2     @ 2      >          @ 2      ( England, The Royal College of Physicians, restrictions are often placed on both. cholesterol medications was associat- became popular (2011-2017), smoking American Cancer Society and National    There is also an attempt to classify e- ed with 115 per cent higher odds prevalence among youth decreased by S Q  03    2                # Academy of Sciences, Medicine and cigarettes as tobacco products due to (more than double the odds) of hav- more than 50 per cent. Engineering publicly acknowledged the lower -   6 nicotine being extracted from tobac- ing had a heart attack. And that was Fake news has become a defining * S            G xv†hH harm potential of e-cigarettes. Further, these      co. This decision is unreasonable and on top of having hypercholesterolemia narrative of this generation. The mis- #               ( are supported by the Heart Care Foundation    has no scientific basis. and adjusted for all other risk factors conceptions around ENDS are discour-     Gxv†hH        >  of India, which has prepared a consensus state-   Tobacco harm reduction is based for heart attack. Should we claim that aging and preventing smokers from    *   6   %       ment on tobacco harm that was signed by lead-   -    on the absence of combustion, which “ever taking prescribed medicine to switching to a substantially less harm-          )      ing medical practitioners in India. is a process that creates almost all of lower cholesterol, adjusted for having ful alternative. Education is the key.   *              Recently, Dr RN Sharan conducted an inde- the toxins that a smoker inhales, hypercholesterolemia as well as other With it, harm reduction efforts can suc-    #           2   pendent review of 299 peer reviewed articles, resulting in high risk for disease and risk factors, is associated with ceed and will create a more open-  -             which demonstrated that toxic chemicals such death. E-cigarettes have no combus- increased risk of heart attack?” Of minded approach needed to motivate         *      as class 1 carcinogens, respiratory toxins and tion and do not contain tobacco. course not. That would be absurd. users to move away from combustible $               carcinogenic metal ions were found to be pre- Available scientific evidence provides The mistakes made by the cigarettes. ENDS provide a substantial- sent in significantly higher quantities in con- that e-cigarettes are by far less harm- researchers in interpreting the data are ly less harmful, yet still satisfying, alter-   1         ventional cigarette compared to ENDS vapour. ful than smoking. In fact, they fit per- unacceptable. They know that the native to millions of smokers who have #    #       ( For instance, Cadmium, a heavy metal which fectly to the definition of tobacco harm statements about increased risk are been unable or unwilling to quit smok-             #      is a class 1 carcinogen, a respiratory toxin and reduction. As I spoke earlier in 2014, wrong and yet they made them to ing. Banning them is equivalent to the           #    a reproductive and developmental toxicant, was “It makes no more sense to argue that great fanfare. This poses an obvious Government hammering a nail in the  O           (    found to be approximately 1,400 times higher nicotine-containing e-cigarettes are question of why they made such coffin of Indian smokers. It also vio-                in cigarette smoke than in e-cigarette vapour. tobacco products than to argue that claims. Predisposition and dogmatism lates a basic human right, people’s   2            ( Similarly, lead and chromium, which are class biodiesel is a vegetable product should never drive methodology and access to reliable and balanced infor-       2          ( 2b probable carcinogens, were 12 and 13 times because it is derived from plants.” interpretation of scientific research. mation and to tools needed to improve                more common in cigarette smoke than in e-cig- Recent well-publicised research, Another myth associated with their health. It is ironic for e-cigarettes        arette vapour respectively. Other carcinogens associating vaping with increased ENDS is that they are a gateway to com- and harm reduction products to be such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons that risk for cardiovascular disease, failed bustible cigarettes. Even if ENDS have banned while legal sales of tobacco cig- 7               are abundant in tobacco cigarette smoke, are to prove either an increased risk or a correlation to subsequent smoking, arettes and other harmful tobacco            "   ( completely absent from e-cigarette vapour. that any such risk even exists. Studies which has not been proven to be the products continues.        -   "   The problem facing vaping is the myths that provide no information on whether e- case, its contribution to smoking preva- (The writer is a research fellow,                 are spread by vested interests. Tobacco harm cigarette use was initiated before (and lence is minimal. At the same time, Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center and at        reduction is a scientific field and must be debat- how long before) or after the develop- ENDS are by far more appealing to the Department of Pharmacy, Uur v‡r v†hryyx‚€hhtr€r‡p‚†ˆy‡h‡ ed on the basis of rigorous scientific evidence. ment of the disease. smokers, making them a perfect tool to University of Patras, Greece)    = 7                               C'*F-& F:F                        

huge tally of more than 300 seats as terrorist attack. He also criticised the that they not only lost direction but Opposition. This, in fact, worked tance at Doklam at Ladakh border also the margin of victory clearly relationship with other neighbours converted the usually multi dimen- towards Modi’s advantage. As for a with China, refusal to participate in indicates that this political exercise and his economic policy. Various sional and multi issues-based elec- large number of people, particular- Belt and Road Initiative summit of was about Modi versus the rest. articles, which portrayed Modi as the tion into a single issue: How to stop ly in rural areas the numerous China despite Chinese persistence, Interestingly, the latter was not at all front-runner of spreading a new lan- Modi from regaining power. schemes like the supply of cooking oil imports with Iran despite US pres- comfortable with the former’s body guage of ‘hate’ and shifting the focus Congress leaders accepted that their gas without black marketing, toilets sures, getting Masood Azhar declared   language that spoke volumes about from fighting corruption to generat- only aim was to stop Modi from for convenience, medical schemes, as international terrorist even after courage and confidence. Modi’s ing ‘hate’ like Trump, also reflected wresting the top seat. cleanliness drive, connect through China’s reluctance, participation in 0 1 motto of ‘Sabka Saath Sabka Vikas’ the lobbying to slander Modi nation- The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) ‘Mann Ki Baat,’ ease of doing things multinational naval and military ##+! !O++ #++. 1$ &.:( became a source for the fall of ally and internationally. the Samajwadi Party even formed an like passport services, makeover of exercises and talking equally with all ''%! ##<!'#7 . #+ Congress chief Rahul Gandhi and the The numerous nicknames — alliance to check the rise of a single cities, infrastructure development, powers to advance India’s interests 7! .+'# '/!# ## he historical win of the Modi- grand old party. ranging from psychopath, bad econ- person. But these groups easily for- digitalisation, transparency, reduced earned Modi a different kind of led NDA has established the This election also changed the omist, nautanki, showman, immature got that it was Modi, who called the corruption and red tapism, admiration and image of being a .77#7!'"..,''!7, Tfact that its claim to form a full narrative of ‘hatred’ and ‘intolerance’ and divisive politician, Hindu nation- shots in this much-hyped and per- Government e-market procurement tough leader. No leader in India has ,./#+ &(' &!#7 # majority Government was based on towards Modi and his style of func- alist, communal, to chowkidar chor sonalised election. The violence in scheme, competition for better facil- earned such ire and adulation, there- !#+6 !+.7 # ground realities and a close assess- tioning, which was also expressed by hai — further amplified the insecu- West Bengal was yet another exam- ities and desire to bringing interna- fore, this phenomenon is quite  7 #&.#.#%!/# ment of the people’s pulse. The con- Manmohan Singh, the former Prime rity which Modi with a humble ple of the fear of Modi and BJP gain- tional standards in education by unique.  #,#(!#!.7,".!'+ finement of the mahagathbandhan Minister, who had stated that Modi’s beginning and background generat- ing an upper hand in Trinamool improving quality facilitated by the The repeat of 2014 victory in not only proves Modi’s popularity but five-year rule was the most traumat- ed in mahagathbandhan leaders. Congress chief Mamata Banerjee’s Modi Government became a very 2019 by the BJP despite so much  !##/.#! #!('#5 also the failure of narrow-minded ic and devastating for India’s youth, The tactful linkage of nationalism to bastion, which to some extent, admirable figure among a large political hatred and caste and poli- (+ ##%+#, ! parties, who played the caste card. farmers, traders and all democratic national security, spirituality, religion proved true. The landslide win is an number of people. Though voting tics of religion is unprecedented. The !''#7"#6.+ #&!++#+ Questions raised by the Opposition institutions. and minimum Government swept example of Modi’s clever rhetoric, percentage was low, but people pre- Government must now vouch for .7!77+.'('#&.('#/. regarding Modi’s recent visits to Singh had also looked down away this coalition in all directions, vision, connect with people and ferred to ignore the pains of demon- achhe din, corruption-free India and !+ #++. . !7.7' Kedarnath and Badrinath shrines Modi’s foreign policy legacy and including the Hindi-speaking belt. affirmative approach. etisation, Goods and Services Tax all-inclusive development for all. during the last leg of the election, his diplomacy by accusing him of adopt- Congress chief Rahul Gandhi and The issues of jobs, poverty, infra- and even the politics of caste and reli- The people have given their support 7 #=.((&./+7". local attire in both places, his med- ing a flip-flop policy towards others proved no competition to structure, development, building of gion and supported Modi uncondi- to the BJP and Modi in particular. It ,. #/&.++('#6 +! itation for soul-searching in a small Pakistan from visiting the neighbour- Modi and BJP chief Amit Shah’s strat- youth, which should have been the tionally. This was all possible due to is now for them to fulfill promises. /+#!('#!7,&.+.7.+ cave, spirituality, dialogue with the ing country uninvited and inviting egy and careful handling of this elec- key to any national election, became the policies of inclusive development. (The writer is professor of politi- '#"! 6 media and love for Uttarakhand the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) tion. The Modi factor had influ- secondary and hatred towards Modi The bold foreign policy steps like cal science, HNB Garhwal University, made him even more popular. The to the Pathankot air base to probe a enced the political parties so much became the primary goal for the Balakot strike, face-to-face resis- Srinagar, Garhwal, Uttarakhand)         !   ?

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Patna: A detailed analysis of first time without its charis- two term MP from Patna Sahib JP leader Mukul Roy on the Lok Sabha election results matic founding president Lalu Shatrughan Sinha failed to Patna: After drawing a blank in They announced that they BSunday said the Trinamool in Bihar suggests that the NDA, Prasad who is serving sen- retain the prestigious seat for the Lok Sabha elections, former would remain with the ruling Congress had outlived its pur- which obliterated the tences in fodder scam cases the the party he had joined recent- Union Minister Upendra coalition and seek recognition pose and would evaporate with Opposition in the State win- RJD drew a blank in the Lok ly. Tariq Anwar put up a fight Kushwaha's Rashtriya Lok from the Election Commission the passage of time. ning all but one out of the 40 Sabha polls putting up the in Katihar but it was not good Samata Party on Sunday as the "real Rashtriya Lok Once the Man Friday of seats, is poised to retain power worst-ever performance since enough. Ranjeet Ranjan, quite received yet another setback as Samata Party". Chief Minister Mamata in the Assembly polls due next the party's inception in 1997. popular in Supaul, lost to a less- all three of its members in the The stupendous victory of Banerjee who jointly built the year. RJD sources said the party's fancied JD(U) candidate. Kirti bicameral legislature joined the NDA in the Lok Sabha TMC with her after quitting the Out of the 243 Assembly attempt to brazen out the Azad, who represented Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's polls, wherein it won all but one Congress in 1998, Roy joined segments in the State, the RJD numerous charges of corruption Darbhanga, was packed off to JD(U). of the 40 seats in the state, the BJP about two years ago led in eight, the Congress in against Prasad and his family Dhanbad in the adjoining Confirming the develop- appears to have made the dis- and said, “TMC is a party four, the RLSP in one and the and its continued patronage of Jharkhand with no better result. ment, Assembly Speaker Vijay sident RLSP legislators realise devoid of ideology and philos- HAM in two. Besides these persons with criminal The only saving grace for Kumar Chaudhary and leg- that it was safer to join the chief ophy of its own. It was formed from the colossal electoral  14 constituents of the antecedents found few takers. the Congress was Kishanganj, islative council deputy chair- minister's party, which con- to remove the CPI(M). Once defeat had insulted the Muslim Mahagathbandhan, Asaduddin In Siwan and Nawada, which the party retained with man Haroon Rashid said letters tested 17 seats and bagged 16, the purpose was served, the populace by comparing them  -   Owaisi's AIMIM and the where wives of RJD leaders a sitting MLA as candidate in to this effect have been for- than seeking recognition as a TMC had no further goal. It with milking cows that  1 CPI(ML) established lead in convicted in cases like murder place of the incumbent MP warded by two RLSP MLAs-- separate group. would now disintegrate and deserved care. two and one Assembly seg- and rape were in the fray. They who had died a few months Lalan Paswan and Sudhanshu Kushwaha was with the soon BJP would take its place.” The Chief Minister had 1   ments respectively. lost by heavy margins to NDA ago. The party defeated the Shekhar-- and MLC Sanjiv JD(U) till 2013, when he Roy, a former Railway earlier on Saturday told the    In 2015 Assembly polls, nominees who were making JD(U), leading in three of the Singh Shyam on Friday. resigned from the party and his Minister and number two man press that she would continue the RJD had won 80 seats and their Lok Sabha debut. six Assembly segments. The "The legislators had also membership fol- in the TMC before quitting the to attend the parties thrown by    its old ally the Congress had 28 The party also scored a AIMIM, which finished third, appended letters of approval lowing differences with Nitish party said a philosophy-less the Muslim community leaders MLAs. The two parties had then self-goal in Jahanabad, which it and yet polled close to three from the JD(U). They were Kumar. outfit that survived only by loot at the risk of being called a    sought to broaden the social lost by about 1,000 votes, a lakh votes, led in two. asked to appear in person for He went on to float his own and crime was destined to “promoter of appeasement pol- —Mukul Roy base of the combine by forging margin less than the number of The Congress also led by a completion of formalities. party which aligned with the meet its end. On the increasing itics” because “I have to take an alliance with the RLSP head- votes polled by a rebel candi- slender margin in Mokama Henceforth, they shall be treat- NDA and won all three seats it polarisation of politics in care of the cow that gives ed by Koeri leader Upendra date who was said to enjoy falling under Munger Lok ed as JD(U) legislators," had contested in the 2014 Lok Bengal Roy said it was Mamata milk.” seeing the end of the Kushwaha, HAM led by Jitan patronage of Prasad's elder son Sabha seat which it lost to the Chaudhary and Rashid told Sabha polls, riding the Modi who had added fuel to com- This was an utter insult to TMC Government anytime Ram Manjhi who is a Musahar Tej Pratap Yadav. JD(U) by over 1.5 lakh votes. PTI here. wave. munal politics in the State and the Muslim community, which soon, Roy said he was leaving (SC) and Vikassheel Insaan The Congress had given With three MPs in the pre- Notably, the RLSP legisla- In the just-concluded Lok reaping the harvest of her own was only considered as a vote it on the electorate saying, “it Party (VIP) founded by Mukesh tickets to four sitting Bihar MPs vious Lok Sabha, The RLSP had tors had earlier revolted against Sabha polls, the RLSP contest- misdeeds. bank by the Chief Minister the is the people to decide the Sahni who belongs to the size- of the previous Lok Sabha but walked out of the NDA when its Kushwaha's decision to snap ed five seats in alliance with the He further said that the BJP leader said. course of things and not a party able Nishad community. it proved to be of little help. demand for adequate number of ties with the NDA and join the RJD, the Congress and two TMC president in her madness On whether he was fore- or a leader.” Facing an election for the Actor-turned-politician and seats was not met. PTI Mahagathbandhan. other small outfits. PTI O   %%    8         9)   % 4   P 3  1" ! ,  + (   #    Rae Bareli (UP): UPA chair- Chennai: Sitting Congress MLA   & person Sonia Gandhi has said Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief received in Uttar Pradesh in But today the same group is H Vasanthakumar on Sunday she is ready to sacrifice every- Minister says favour of the ruling party is the running for cover due to ‘zero announced his decision to quit thing to safeguard the basic val- the massive mandate in the Lok mandate for creating new tolerance' policy of the present from the post following his vic- Patna: Non-matriculates, PhD Vijay Manjhi and Santosh ues of the country, as she Sabha polls was a mandate for India's new Uttar Pradesh. government against criminals". tory in the Lok Sabha election in holders, doctors and engi- Kushwaha, JD (U) MPs from thanked the people of Rae creating “:new India’s new The mandate is against "In last two years, for the Kanyakumari parliamentary neers, Bihar has sent people Nalanda, Gaya and Purnea, Bareli for re-electing her. Uttar Pradesh” and gave a nepotism, casteism, corrup- first time in the history of constituency. from different educational respectively, have studied till In a letter addressed to the leader said she had always befitting reply to those parties tion. It is a befitting reply to Uttar Pradesh, stringent action Vasanthakumar, who is the background to the 17th Lok intermediate and so has LJP's people of Rae Bareli, the tried to look after this extend- which cheated the poor in the those hypocritical parties was taken against criminals proprietor of Vasanth & Co Sabha. Chirag Paswan. Paswan has Congress leader also thanked ed family. name of social welfare and which cheated poor in the without looking at their caste, brand of consumer retail outlets Ajay Mandal and Mahabali retained his Jamui (SC) seat. the Samajwadi Party and the "Like every Lok Sabha elec- relied on caste politics. name of social welfare. It is a religion and political inclina- is a sitting MLA from the Singh, the two JD(U) MPs At the other end of the Bahujan Samaj Party, which did tion, this time also you have Adityanath says his victory over goons of SP who tion. The police department, Nanguneri Assembly con- from Bhagalpur and Karakat, spectrum are the highly qual- not field any candidate against reposed your faith in me. I am Government’s focus on devel- were harassing our mothers which had become infamous stituency. respectively, did not finish ified ones such as BJP's first her. “I promise you that to safe- thankful to each and every opment helped him secure and sisters by collecting ‘goon- for its poor work culture and In the Lok Sabha polls held school, while those who have time MP from Madhubani, guard the basic values of the Congress worker, and friends another term in the politically da tax' from traders and indus- behaviour towards people, is on April 18, he defeated BJP cleared their Class 10 board Ashok Yadav, who is a PhD country and to uphold the tra- from the SP, BSP, Swabhiman important State. trialists," Adityanath said. now going through drastic leader Pon Radhakrishnan by a examinations include holder, JD (U)'s Dinesh dition of the ancestors of the Dal for the hardwork put in for “While the opportunistic During the poll campaign, changes," he said. huge margin of 2.59 lakh votes. Baidyanath Mahto (Valmiki Chandra Yadav, who has won Congress, I will not step back my win." Gandhi said. coalition of the SP and BSP while Modi talked about 55 On the Punjab and After calling on DMK Chief Nagar), Ramprit Mandal from Madhepura, holds a from sacrificing whatever I "My life is an open book in were relying on caste politics, years of Congress and his five- Haryana High Court recently MK Stalin at Anna Arivalayam (Jhanjharpur) and diploma in civil engineering, have got,” Sonia said. front of you all. You are my I kept toiling for development year tenure in rallies, ordering Punjab and Haryana the DMK headquarters, Chandeshwar Prasad and Alok Kumar Suman, who "I know that the coming family. I derive strength from of citizens rising above caste, Adityanath presented the Governments to uproot emerg- Vasanthakumar said he decided Chandravanshi (Jehanabad). bagged the Gopalganj reserved days are going to be very tough, you and this is my real asset," creed or religion. This is the report card of his two-year rule. ing ‘gang culture' and look at to quit from the post of legisla- Others who did not pursue seat, is a doctor by profession. but I am fully confident that she added. reason people voted for the Noting that the law and the measures adopted by UP, he tor. "I held discussions with education after school are BJP Sanjay Jaiswal, BJP MP from with the power of your support Gandhi had won the Rae BJP,” the Chief Minister told order situation in Uttar Pradesh said, "This is the result of com- DMK Chief here and with lawmakers Veena Devi Pashchim Champaran and and trust, the Congress will Bareli seat by defeating the PTI, giving full credit for the was earlier bad, the chief min- mitment of our Government TNCC President K S Azhagiri (Vaishali) and Pradip Kumar Congress MP from Kishanganj, meet every challenge," she said. 's Dinesh massive mandate to PM ister said, "Crime had become that in a very short span of over telephone.. Based on their Singh (Araria) and Lok Mohd Javed, have degrees in Referring to the people of Pratap Singh by over 1.67 lakh Narendra Modi and BJP chief a business in the state because time, the UP law and order directive, I have decided to quit Janshakti Party's Ram Chandra medicine. Javed is the only non- her constituency, the United votes, according to the Election Amit Shah. of nexus of criminals, corrupt model has set an example for from the post of legislator,” he Paswan (Samastipur). NDA candidate to have won his Progressive Alliance (UPA) Commission website. PTI "The massive mandate police officers and politicians. other States to follow." PTI said. PTI Kaushalendra Kumar, seat in Bihar. PTI CF* $'(( EF)%(F  'R!  0&!     )       !/       %9   !  )$'       7 Thiruvananthapuram: Days continue. The Government, which after the massive drubbing it The Chief Minister has completed three years in office  ' !)8  received in the Lok Sabha elec- already made it clear he was in last week, would try to high- Gangtok: Sikkim Krantikari form the next Government in tions, the -led no mood to oblige the light its achievements includ- Nagpur: The Congress' Nana Morcha (SKM) president Sikkim. Panaji: Former Goa Chief LDF Government will be fac- Opposition and the poll out- ing 'improvement' in law and Patole, who lost from Nagpur , popu- Prasad had reportedly told Minister 's ing the Congress-led UDF come was a "temporary set- order situation and lack of any Lok Sabha seat to BJP's Nitin larly known as PS Golay, will the SKM delegation to wait for son Utpal Parrikar on Sunday Opposition heat in the Kerala back" and not a referendum on major corruption taint. Gadkari, was booked along take oath as the new Chief his decision as he sought legal said the BJP will introspect its Assembly session beginning his Government. However, the assembly with his supporters for alleged- Minister of Sikkim on opinion on the matter as Golay defeat in the by-election to the on Monday. Vijayan has also made it would not transact any busi- ly disrupting the vote counting Monday, a Raj Bhavan source had been convicted to a year's Panaji Assembly seat, which While the CPI(M)-led LDF The Opposition front is clear the Sabarimala women ness Monday as it would process on May 23, police said said on Sunday. imprisonment in a corruption was held by his father for long. could win only one seat, the also likely to hammer the gov- entry issue was not the reason adjourn for the day after pay- Sunday. The 51-year-old Golay will case in 2016 and had served Congress leader Atanasio UDF swept the April 23 Lok ernment on the high court for the Left front's rout. ing tributes to late Kerala An official said Patole and be administered the oath of the prison term, sources said. Monserratte on Thursday won sabha polls cornering remain- appointed amicus curiae report The State had witnessed Congress (M) supremo K M his supporters entered the office by Governor Ganga After getting the legal the Panaji bypoll, necessitated ing 19 seats in the State. that lapses in dam management violent protests after the Mani, who passed away on counting centre on May 23 Prasad at a function at Paljor opinion, the Governor invited due to the death of sitting MLA A bouyant UDF, fresh from had aggravated the impact of Government decided to imple- April 9. without permission and then Stadium at 10 am on Monday, Golay to form the next gov- Manohar Parrikar in March. its landslide victory, is likely to the floods which had claimed ment the last year's Supreme A former Minister, Mani got into altercations with polling the source said. ernment, the Raj Bhavan The Congress nominee corner the Government on a over 400 lives besides causing Court verdict allowing women had represented Pala in the staff and also indulged in slo- Some Ministers are likely source added. defeated BJP candidate host of issues such as alleged widespread devastation last and girls of menstrual age also Assembly for five decades. ganeering. He said Kalamna to be sworn in along with The SKM, founded in Siddharth Kunkolienkar by a shoddy handling of rehabilita- year. to offer prayers at the hill During the session, there police filed a case against Patole, Golay, who was elected as the 2013, won a slender majority margin of over 1,700 votes in tion of people affected in the Soon after the poll results shrine. will be discussions and voting local Congress leader Abhijeet leader of the SKM legislature in the 32-member Sikkim the seat, which was held by the August deluge last year, the were out on May 23, Leader of "Sabarimala never affected on demand for grants in the Wanjari and 10-15 polling party on Saturday night. legislative Assembly by bag- saffron party for 25 years. Sabarimala women entry and the Opposition in the assembly this election. If Sabarimala was Budget for 2019-20 fiscal. agents of the party on a com- The SKM supremo, ging 17 seats against 15 won The former Chief the Kerala Infrastructure Ramesh Chennithala has a factor, the biggest beneficia- Besides Government busi- plaint lodged by Shital accompanied by the 17 newly- by the SDF. Golay did not Minister's son was earlier Investment Fund Board demanded Vijayan's resigna- ry would have been the BJP", ness, private members bill are Deshmukh, Additional Election elected legislators of his party, contest the assembly polls to among the candidates short- (KIIFB)'s Masala bonds tion, saying the state govern- Vijayan had told reporters among those which are likely to Officer, Nagpur East con- on Saturday had called on the devote all his time to cam- listed by the BJP, but it later launched recently. ment had no moral grounds to Saturday. be taken up in the session. PTI stituency on May 24. PTI Governor and staked claim to paign for his party. PTI fielded Kunkolienkar in the bypoll, held on May 19. Utpal Parrikar, who active- ly campaigned for the BJP in the bypoll, said the party will -        6! do an assessment of its defeat and make all efforts to win the seat next time. New Delhi: With Zakir Musa's mander of the Hizbul ment is that stone pelters are eral militant commander" as work has its hands full with 41- killed in encounters. While radicalisation and even the "The state BJP leaders and killing, security forces have Mujahideen, the largest of the seamlessly migrating to compared to Musa who settled year-old IG Kashmir SP Pani focusing on anti-militancy Hurriyat hawks are on the workers will introspect on the recorded an extremely impor- militant groups fighting against weaponised militancy. The for nothing except the struggle who is chasing the quarry operations, Pani also relent- margins. results and will ensure that we tant kill in the battle against Indian rule in Kashmir, found- age group of 12-20 is most vul- to establish an Islamic State in relentlessly notching up kill lessly worked to bring mis- Since 2010, despite spo- win the Panaji seat in the next Islamic fundamentalism in the ed his own group and declared nerable to this phenomenon. Kashmir. Kidnappings of fam- after kill. Odisha IPS officer guided youths to the main- radic attempts to recruit young- election," he told reporters Valley in the main south its association with al Qaeda in The next big thing after Musa's ilies of policemen attributed to Swayam Prakash Pani was stream and succeeded in bring- sters in the Valley by militant here.He said he will give his Kashmir where the jungles are 2017. extermination is Riyaz Naikoo. Naikoo forced the police brass appointed the Inspector ing seven youths back to nor- organisations, Kashmiris had inputs about the poll results to now being used to train local Caught between two Riyaz Naikoo, 33, carries a during 2016-17 to tell police- General (IG) of Police, Kashmir mal life. Pani also ensured more or less got used to peace the party leaders, as and when youth. Musa, a byproduct of lovers, one of whom snitched reward of 12 lakh on his men not to visit their families range, making him the securing arrests of militants realising that 'Hindustan there is a discussion on it. generation X, was a neophyte to the intel network which head. He now replaces Zakir in south Kashmir areas without youngest officer to hold the from encounter sites. Chodega nahin' or Pakistan "The party will go through who grew up in turbulence and moved with alacrity to pin Musa as the most wanted mil- security and permission from post last February. A 2000 As many as four militants was no longer an option. the internal assessment and turmoil and experienced the Musa down and kill him. itant commander in the Valley seniors. batch IPS officer of Jammu were arrested from encounter The tipping point came in make the required corrections," so-called 'azadi' struggle first- Apparently a poster boy after Musa's death. Although he This threat become more Kashmir cadre, Pani (41) was sites during his tenure as DIG. January 2013 when Afzal Guru he said. hand, but chose the path of Burhan Wani and Samir Tiger is not affiliated to the Al Qaeda real by circulation of Naikoo's serving as the Deputy Inspector There are now two gener- was hanged and while the Asked if he would have 'sharia' instead. He was brain- too died because their ex- as Musa was, Naikoo is the threatening video clips on General (DIG) of Police, South ations in Kashmir Valley which Omar Abdullah administra- managed to retain the seat had washed through Wahabi lovers squealed to police snitch- most senior commander of social media. Naikoo's appear- Kashmir Range. have openly espoused the cause tion ring-fenced the Valley he been given the ticket, he Salafism. es and gave them the exact the pro-Pakistan Hizbul ances at funerals of slain mil- Pani, a ruthless hunter who of 'azadi,' for the construct of from expected trouble, this said, "I don't think we will Zakir Rashid Bhat, 25, was location of the prey. This is a Mujahideen or HM, to which itants where he would offer relies on intel to manage anti- this war against India is now 40 underling credo of faux peace achieve anything by speaking trapped by security forces in a major downside and new IG Musa too belonged until he got gun salutes became a major terrorist operations, served as years old. Kashmiris have over was shattered and even exac- about the past." three-storey house in southern Kashmir SP Pani is meticu- fed up of the group and problem for the security the Deputy Inspector General these 40 years forgotten they erbated by the extreme Right By-elections were recently Kashmir late on Thursday and lously using his intel network dumped it. forces. He also used these (DIG) of Police, South Kashmir are welded to the sovereign of India BJP going into a held in four Assembly con- to flush him out, the house was to nail these terrorists one by Categorised as "A++" level funerals as a delta for recruit- Range. During his tenure as through the instrument of coalition with the extreme stituencies of Goa, out of which set ablaze during the operation. one. militant, intelligence agencies ment. DIG, south Kashmir, many accession. Kashmiri national- Right of Kashmir soft sepa- the BJP won three seats but lost Bhat or Musa, a former com- The most dangerous ele- believe Naikoo is more of a "lib- But the local terror net- militant commanders were ism has given way to Islamic ratist PDP. IANS the Panaji seat. PTI     !   @

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Ezhimala: Chief of Army Staff  1  the Pulwama attack that :7() General Bipin Rawat has said -  0 claimed the lives of 40 CRPF the Balakot attack in February personnel. was to ensure that terrorists     The Prime Minister's com- being trained across the border ment drew widespread ridicule do not survive to carry out   and condemnation from vari-   ' action against India.   1 ous quarters, including a large Coordinated efforts are number of memes on the being made by various -   social media. Government agencies to tack- 0  The cadets who passed Thiruvananthapuram: The le cross-border terrorism, he out Saturday marked the cul- Navy, Coast Guard and Coastal said.  0  mination of their training at police are maintaining a high "Through the coordinated      the Indian Naval Academy level of survillance off Kerala efforts of various Government (INA) here. and Lakshadweep coasts fol- agencies, now the NIA has  0 The passing-out parade lowing intelligence reports that stepped in, the Enforcement   was reviewed by General a boat carrying 15 Islamic State Directorate has stepped in and Rawat and meritorious mid- Terrorists had set off from Sri all are trying to ensure financ- —General Bipin Rawat shipmen and cadets were Lanka to Lakshadweep islands. ing and funds available to ter- awarded medals after the cer- "The Navy and Coast rorists are cut off," he said, emonial review. Guard are maintaining vigil. responding to a question on gencies. comment of Prime Minister aired recently, Modi had said INA Commandant Vice Ships and aircraft have been insurgency in Kashmir at a "That's because they got Narendra Modi, Rawat said he used his "raw wisdom" to Admiral R B Pandit and engaged to ensure high level of media interaction here. support from our western some types of radar cannot see dispel doubts of defence Director of the Indian Institute coastal survillance", Naval He also said the situation neighbour. At the same time through clouds because of the experts, who wanted the air of Science, Bengaluru, Anurag sources told PTI on Sunday.       there has been brought under many (people) are misguided manner in which it is operates. strike to be deferred due to bad Kumar, were in attendance at Coastal police are also con- control. due to a misinformation cam- "There are various kinds of weather. the parade. tinuing their vigil. The coastal police depart- number of Keralities are still Rawat said the country paign spread by terrorists. But radars working with different "The weather was not good The parade also saw 15 Kerala Police sources had ment said it was on alert since with the ISIS, which was has been facing terrorism since we have brought the situation technologies. Some have the on the day of air strike. There female cadets marching shoul- Saturday said coastal police May 23, the day the alert came recently wiped out from Iraq Independence and that secu- under control," he said. capacity to see through, some was a thought that crept in the der to shoulder with their male stations and coastal district from Sri Lanka. and Syria. rity forces and all agencies sup- The Chief of Army staff don't have the capacity to see minds of the experts that the counterparts to join the ranks police chiefs have been alerted. After the serial bombings Sri Lanka witnessed a porting them have met these was interacting with the media through. day of strike should be of the Indian Navy, a release Though such alerts are a in Sri Lanka, Kerala wason deadly terror attack on Apr 21 challenges head on. here yesterday after reviewing "Some kinds of radar can- changed. issued by the Academy said. usual practice, as there is spe- alert, especially after NIA inves- when eight blasts rocked the "We have been able to the passing-out parade of 264 not see through clouds because "However, I suggested that There were 10 trainees cific information, coastal police tigations revealed that IS oper- island nation,claiming over ensure that the insurgency has trainees, comprising midship- of the manner in which it is the clouds could actually help from various friendly nations, stations and police chiefs of atives had planned attacks in 250 lives. been brought under control. men and cadets of the Indian operating. Sometimes we can, our planes escape the radars," including two each from coastal districts have been the State. The Islamic State had Of course in the Kashmir Navy, Indian Coast Guard and sometimes we can't," Rawat Modi had said while talking Maldives, Myanmar and asked to be alert in case sus- Intelligence agencies claimed responsibility for the Valley, we have been witness- 10 international cadets. said. about the cross-border strike Seychelles, one from Tanzania pecious vessels are sighted. believe that a considerable incident. PTI ing ups and downs of insur- Asked about the radar In a television interview on terror camps in response to and three from Sri Lanka. PTI / "    < 2   '   ; !    ( *     %     (%  &   +)      #080) 9/   -; Pune: A court here on Sunday rity on Sunday. September 2017) were linked. remanded two men, including The prosecution told the On July 23, 2018, Kalaskar  a lawyer, in CBI custody till court while seeking remand dismantled four country-made Srinagar: Life returned to nor- security forces at Dadsara village Chennai: Amid a raging nation- Raveendranath Kumar, son of June 1 in the rationalist that Bhave had helped Sharad pistols by taking out their bar- mal in Kashmir on Sunday after of Tral in the south Kashmir's Kolkata: A low-intensity wide debate over dynastic poli- Deputy Chief Minister O Narendra Dabholkar murder Kalaskar and Sachin Andure, rels and sliders, and threw two days of restrictions and Pulwama district Friday after earthquake, measuring 4.8 tics, five kin of noted politicians Panneerselvam, who won from case. the alleged shooters, to conduct them into the Thane creek shutdown in the wake of the forces launched a search oper- on the Richter Scale, shook in Tamil Nadu emerged victo- Theni, defeating senior Congress Advocate Sanjeev a recce of the spot, and helped while on the way to Nalasopara killing of Zakir Musa — the so- ation on late Thursday evening West Bengal's Bankura dis- rious in the recently concluded leader EVKS Elangovan. Punalekar, who had represent- them escape after the crime. from Pune, the prosecutor said, called head of an Al-Qaeda following specific information trict and its nearby areas on Lok Sabha polls. Other prominent winners ed some of the accused in the He also took the motorcy- adding the dismantled pistols affiliate in the valley — in an about the presence of militants Sunday, the Met department What makes their victories were Karti Chidambaram, son of same case, had asked one of the cle they had used during the were yet to be recovered. encounter with security forces in there. Fearing law and order said here. more noteworthy is that many former Finance Minister P alleged shooters to destroy the crime and left it at an aban- Advocate Virendra Pulwama district, officials said. problems, authorities had A tweet by the India scions of politicians in the North Chidambaram, who triumphed weapons, while Vikram Bhave doned place, it said. Ichalkaranjikar, the accused's They said there were no imposed curfew in parts of Meteorological Department and one in Karnataka bit the at Sivaganga and former Union had helped them in reconnais- As to advocate Punalekar's lawyer, said the CBI has arrest- restrictions in place in any part Kashmir Valley as a precau- said the quake hit Bankura at dust, chief among them being Minister Dayanidhi Maran, son sance before the crime, the CBI role, the agency said in June ed Punalekar on the basis of of the valley on Sunday. tionary measure on Friday. The 10.39 am. former Prime Minister Rajiv of the late Murasoli Maran. said. 2018, Kalaskar visited the Kalaskar's statement to the “Normalcy has returned to curfew continued on Saturday in Official sources in Gandhi's son and Congress Dayanidhi Maran won from Punalekar and Bhave were lawyer's office in Mumbai and Karnataka Police in October the valley as there is no strike view of a strike called by the Jharkhand maintained that President Rahul Gandhi, who Central Chennai segment. arrested in Mumbai on told him about his role in 2018, which Kalaskar had later today and no restrictions have hardline Hurriyat Conference tremors were also felt in the lost from the party's bastion of No less noteworth was the Saturday. Dabholkar's murder. retracted. been imposed anywhere,” an chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani Santhal Pargana region of the Amethi. victory of Kanimozhi, daughter Bhave, a member of the "Punalekar then told The CBI arresting official said. against the killing of Musa and neighbouring state, mainly Jyotiraditya Scindia, son of of late DMK chief M right wing outfit Sanatan Kalaskar to destroy the fire Punalekar on the basis of that Officials said shops, fuel a civilian, Zahoor Ahmad, a res- in Dumka, Rajmahal and former Union Minister Madhav Karunanidhi, from Tuticorin, Sanstha, was earlier convicted arms used in the murder cases statement after seven months stations and other business ident of Naira Pulwama — by Deoghar districts. Rao Scindia lost from Guna, warding off the challenge from in the case related to a low- including the journalist Gauri was "illogical", he said. establishments re-opened this unidentified gunmen on There was no report of while Manvendra Singh, son of BJP Tamil Nadu unit President intensity blast at Gadkari Lankesh murder case," said In February 2019, the CBI morning while public trans- Thursday. Mobile internet was any casualty or damage to Jaswant Singh, founding mem- Tamilisai Soundarajan. Rangyatan auditorium Thane. special prosecutor Prakash annexed a copy of this state- port also operated normally. also suspended on Thursday property so far from any- ber of BJP lost in Barmer. Kalanidhi Veerasamy, son of He worked as Punalkear's Suryawanshi. ment when it filed a charge- The weekly flea market on night across the valley, but the where, according to reports. Karnataka saw Nikhil former DMK Minister 'Arcot' N assistant in his office, the According to the agency, sheet against Andure and the TRC Chowk-Batamaloo axis low-speed service was restored The epicentre of the Kumaraswamy, son of Veerasamy, won from North Central Bureau of Investigation the murders of Dabholkar, Kalaskar, but Punalekar was through the Lal Chowk city cen- in most parts on Saturday earthquake in Bankura was 10 Karnataka Chief Minister HD Chennai, defeating Desiya (CBI) said. communist leader Govind not probed, and "now all of a tre was also open, they said. evening following improvement km below the surface of Earth Kumaraswamy losing from Murpokku Dravidar Kazhagam The duo was produced Pansare (killed in Kolhapur in sudden they are stating that his Musa, the so-called head of in the situation. The high-speed at latitude 23.3 degrees north Mandya. Notable among win- (DMDK) candidate Alagapuram before additional sessions judge February 2015) and Lankesh role was revealed during the the Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind, mobile internet service contin- and longitude 86.9 degrees ners in Tamil Nadu was Mohanraj. PTI S N Sonawane amid tight secu- (shot dead in Bengaluru in investigation," he said. PTI was killed in an encounter with ued to remain barred. PTI east. PTI $   % + .          "       %  -   Chennai: AMMK chief TTV Dhinakaran on Sunday Agartala: A supporter of the and investigation is on. Surat: Two persons who were demanded that the Election ruling BJP was killed in Another BJP supporter on the run in connection with Commission provide details Tripura's West Tripura dis- Biju Bhowmik was killed at the devastating fire in a coach- of alleged non-registration of trict, police said on Sunday. Fatikcherra of West Tripura ing class in Surat which killed 22 votes of his party workers in the The BJP alleged that the district on Friday last, police students were on Sunday arrest- recently concluded Lok Sabha CPI(M) had a hand in the said. ed, police said. elections in Tamil Nadu. death of its supporter, but the Bhattacharya claimed that They were identified as Talking to reporters communist party denied the two BJP supporters were killed Harshul Vekharia and Jignesh here, he said the EC should allegation. since Lok Sabha election results Paghdal, and their arrests come provide information about "A BJP karyakarta was were announced, adding that a day after coaching class owner non-registration of votes in murdered at Banikya 25 BJP supporters were assault- Bhargav Butani was held, an offi- the polling booths during the Chowmuhani area on Saturday ed in the last three days. cial said. Twenty-two students, April 18 elections. our party," he claimed. night. We have report that However, the opposition including 18 girls, of an art and He also termed as "strange" It was EC's responsibility to there is involvement of CPI(M). CPI(M) Sunday rubbished the craft coaching institute died in non-registration of votes for reveal whether the votes of his There is also silent Congress BJP allegations and claimed a massive blaze in the four- his party. partymen were registered or support from behind," BJP that murders of two BJP sup- storeyed Takshashila Arcade in "How can it be possible? not, he said and clarified that state spokesperson Nabendu porters were due to their own Sarthana area of Surat on Friday. Even if a booth has only about he was not targetting anyone Bhattacharya told reporters. factional feuds. "Vekharia is the builder four or five party cadres, on the issue. Police said Shibu Das was CPI(M) central committee while Paghdal used to handle the what happened to their votes?" Asked whether he would found severely injured at member Bijan Dhar claimed on overall management of he asked. take legal action on the matter, Banikya Chowmuhani area Sunday evening that more than Takshashila Arcade. Both were "It is strange that there is the Amma Makkal Munnetra under mysterious circum- 200 cases of attacks and 88 arrested today. We have also got non-registration of votes. I Kazhagam (AMMK) leader stances and he died on way to cases of arson had taken place two-day remand of Butani," have received information from said he cannot do so due to lack      %        %* *          %   a local police station. in Tripura since Lok Sabha Surat Police Commissioner party functionaries that there of evidence to support his      A case has been registered results were announced. PTI Satish Sharma said. PTI was zero registration of votes to claim. PTI .      %    % #>*8'     2   % %

Jammu: Jammu & Kashmir claimed to have scuttled an The state police would Director General of Police attempt by the outfit to revive continue its good work for the +     2   %% Dilbag Singh on Sunday asked militancy in the region. service of the people and with his force to remain alert and The DGP appreciated the their increasing cooperation, Vadodara: Civic and police next couple of days to carry out said apart from sealing estab- expose the elements who want achievements of the police in it will succeed in restoring authorities in Vadodara in the audit," Bhadoo said, adding lishments that were not com- to create disturbance in the the districts in tackling mili- peace in the state, he added. Gujarat have sealed and that it may be the first of its plying with fire safety norms, State. tancy and other crimes and The DGP also appreciat- snapped electricity connec- kind exercise anywhere in the the process of issuing notices to He said the achievements said that the state police was ed the efforts of the police in tions of 192 coaching classes in state and possibly the country. several coaching classes had of the security forces includ- capable and competent of smooth and peaceful conduct fire safety compliance action "The VMC Fire Brigade also begun. ing the state police against handling any kind of contin- of panchayat, local body and initiated against the backdrop has sealed 192 coaching class- Twenty-two students, militancy particularly in neu- gency. the recently held parliamen- of the devastating blaze on es and their power supply halt- including 18 girls, of an art and tralising terrorists like Zakir Singh, who also visited 58 tary elections in the state. Friday in Surat which killed 22 ed over the last two days," he craft coaching institute died in Musa has been appreciated by Rashtriya Rifles and 15 sector Singh said necessary for- students. informed. a devastating fire that engulfed Prime Minister Narendra headquarters of the army and malities for effecting the sec- Vadodara Municipal He said the city has a huge the four-storeyed Takshashila Modi, Union Home Minister interacted with the officers ond phase of promotions in Corporation Commissioner number of small and medium Arcade in Sarthana area of Rajnath Singh and state "You need to expose the during his visit to Gool in there, said police and other the state police force have Ajay Bhadoo Sunday said the sized commercial units in its Surat on Friday. Governor . elements who will try to cre- Ramban and Mahore and security agencies are facing been started and that pre-pro- civic body planned to carry out three industrial estates and the Preliminary probe revealed Musa, the so-called head ate any disturbance... The Reasi in Jammu region. different challenges. motion courses have begun at the first ever fire audit in the fire audit would provide a that use of highly inflammable of the Ansar Ghazwat-ul- police being local has a greater The Ramban and Reasi "Police along with the various places. city for which experts from the detailed assessment of the kind materials and tyres, which dou- Hind, was killed in an responsibility in foiling any districts were declared 'mili- security forces including "Police headquarter is well Delhi-based Institution of Fire of equipment and number of bled up as chairs in the coach- encounter with security forces attempts of reviving the mil- tancy free' about a decade ago Army, CRPF, SSB, ITBP and aware of some difficulties of Engineers will be brought in. personnel required to avert ing class, caused the fire to at Dadsara village of Tral in itancy in the areas (declared but recently two Lashker-e- BSF is doing an excellent job the police personnel and mea- "Experts from the any Surat-type tragedy. spread rapidly, Gujarat Chief the south Kashmir's Pulwama militancy free in Jammu Toiba (LeT) militants were in tackling militancy and sures will be taken to redress Institution of Fire Engineers are Vadodara police commis- Secretary J N Singh said on district on Friday. region)," Singh told policemen arrested in Gool as army other challenges," he said. these issues," he said. PTI expected in Vadodara in the sioner Anupamsinh Gehlot Sunday. PTI     !    ; '  . *    A-* 2!&## 7%!7+.'#7 O#,.+O  %  % "  /##.7 !AB.,+ ++ (,  )'   nesses, including        land parcels and ebt-laden Jaypee Infratech’s Yamuna   shares of multiple banks Dfinancial creditors, which Expressway. C    through a single financial include bankers and home- Clarifications     he Finance Ministry is instrument,” the official said. buyers, will meet on May 30 to from the NBCC Tplanning to launch an Currently, there are two discuss state-owned NBCC’s were sought in -5    exchange traded fund (ETF) state-owned insurance com- bid to acquire the realty firm the wake of consisting of stocks of PSU panies — General Insurance and complete stuck housing Jaypee Infratech’s banks and financial institutions Corp of India and New India projects. Interim   this fiscal and will soon Assurance Co Ltd — and 19 A meeting of Committee of Resolution appoint an advisor to explore public sector banks that are Creditors (CoC) has been Professional single authority for sanc- its feasibility, according to an listed on exchanges. Besides, called on May 30, sources said. (IRP) Anuj Jain Ationing and processing GST official. financial institution IFCI is As many as 13 banks and flagging to the refunds is in the offing as the After the resounding suc- also listed on the exchanges. 23,000 homebuyers have voting lenders that the Finance Ministry looks to speed cess of CPSE ETF and Bharat- The Government current- rights in the committee. in its bid but the public sector state-owned firm’s bid was con- up and simplify the process for 22 ETF, the Government is ly has two exchange-traded Earlier this month, credi- firm was open to negotiating ditional and non-binding. exporters, an official said. (GST) refunds. Thus, the time officer, the counterpart tax looking at diversifying the funds — CPSE ETF and tors rejected a bid by Mumbai- on the offer related to The IRP had written to the The current mechanism taken to clear the entire refund authority at times tends to ETF basket by including stocks Bharat-22 ETF — listed on based Suraksha Realty through unsold flats. CoC that NBCC’s revised bid entails a twin refund sanctioning amount gets longer, leading to delay the GST refund. public sector banks and finan- domestic exchanges. ETFs a voting process. Lenders have shown reluc- was conditional as the plan authority of the central and state liquidity crunch for exporters As per the formula for cial institutions. function like a mutual fund Later, the CoC decided to tance to acquire up to 2,207 would not be binding unless key tax officers but that could well — an issue that the proposed division of GST assessees “We will be soon appoint- scheme and have underlying put on vote the NBCC’s offer unsold flats worth 1,756 crore relief measures such as extin- change by August when the pro- single mechanism for refund decided by the GST Council, ing advisor to suggest on assets of Government-owned even as bankers were opposed as proposed by NBCC in its guishing of income tax liability posed new structure involving a clearing intends to fix. state tax officials administer launching an ETF with PSU companies. to this move citing certain revised offer. and exemption from seeking single authority comes in place. Under the proposed ‘single and control 90 per cent of the bank scrips. The advisor will The Finance Ministry has conditions in the resolution In its latest offer, NBCC has consent of YEIDA (Yamuna As per the system being authority mechanism’, once a assessees below 1.5 crore also look into the feasibility of also started consultations with plan submitted by the public proposed infusion of 200 Expressway Industrial worked out by the Revenue refund claim is filed with a tax annual turnover, and the including stocks of financial global investors for launching sector firm. crore equity capital, transfer of Development Authority) for any Department, the taxpayer will officer, whether Centre or state, remaining 10 per cent is with institutions and insurance CPSE-scrip based ETF in over- On the bankers’ plea, the 950 acres of land worth 5,000 business transfer, were taken. get full refund from his juris- the officer will check, assess the central tax officers. companies into the basket,” the seas market. National Company Law crore as well as Yamuna In 2017, Jaypee Infratech dictional officer once the claim and sanction full tax refund The Centre and states share official told PTI. The official further said Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) Expressway to banks and com- went into insolvency process is sanctioned, while at the (both Central GST and State control of those assessees with The plan to launch a bank that the Government does not had on May 17 annulled voting pletion of flats by July 2023 in after the National Company back-end the Centre and states GST portion), thereby remov- annual turnover of over 1.5 ETF comes on the back of the intend to launch in the domes- by homebuyers and lenders on order to settle an outstanding Law Tribunal (NCLT) admitted will apportion the amount to be ing difficulties faced by the tax- crore in 50:50 ratio. Government seeing huge tic market any new ETFs com- NBCC’s bid and allowed rene- claim of 23,723 crore of finan- an application by an IDBI paid to each other. payers. This will later get Commenting on the move, investor demand for two exist- prising stocks of public sector gotiation on the offer by May cial creditors. Bank-led consortium seeking Currently, once a taxpayer adjusted/settled amongst the AMRG & Associates Partner ing ETFs. It has raised  32,900 companies since in most of 30. Voting process could start On this bid, lenders had revival of the realty firm. files refund claim with the juris- two tax authorities through Rajat Mohan said: “A single crore through two tranches these companies Government from May 31. reservations on certain con- In the first round of insol- dictional tax authority, say the cen- internal account adjustments. window tax refund in a feder- and an additional fund offer of holding is nearing 51 per cent. At present, bankers and cessions sought by NBCC and vency proceedings conducted tral tax officer, then he would clear Currently, the two author- al, democratic economy would Bharat-22 ETF, and 38,000 Bharat-22 ETF, which was NBCC are negotiating on the had sought clarifications from last year, the 7,350-crore bid 50 per cent of the claims, and the ities settling the same refund be a massive jump in ease of crore in five tranches of CPSE launched in 2017-18, has 16 latter’s bid to acquire Jaypee the firm. of Lakshdeep, part of Suraksha remaining is cleared by the state claims adds to unnecessary doing business. Inter govern- ETF in the domestic market. central public sector enter- Infratech. However, NBCC decided Group, was rejected by lenders. tax officers after further scrutiny. complexities and inconve- ment tax adjustments have to “We expect balance sheet prises covering six sectors, Sources had earlier said not to dilute the conditions of Later in October 2018, the A similar system is fol- nience for the taxpayers. It has be done on month-on-month of PSU banks to strengthen three public sector banks and that NBCC was unlikely to exemption from future income IRP started the second round lowed when a taxpayer been seen that even after sanc- basis to avert any possibility of going forward and an ETF three private sector companies dilute certain conditions, tax liability as well as from tak- of bidding process to revive approaches the state tax officers tion/payment of refund by temporary revenue deficit to a would provide risk-averse where the Government holds including exemption from ing consent of development Jaypee Infratech on the NCLT’s for Goods and Services Tax concerned jurisdictional tax particular Government.” investors an option to hold minority stake. future tax liability, mentioned authorities for transfer of busi- direction. R    O' P    %P8     ? ,( 4B  C -  DE -   2 0 Taobao to buy the needed compo- hile Huawei’s founder nents. Another (  Wbrushes aside a US ban dangled the against his company, the tele- prospect of setting com giant’s employees have up dozens of new been less sanguine, confessing companies to make ( )9/:; fears for their future in online purchases from US chat rooms. suppliers. Huawei CEO Ren Zhengfei Many  Q4 FY18. NTPC Coal stations declared this week the compa- denounced the US achieved PLF of 76.68% in ny has a hoard of microchips and proposed he Country’s largest power FY19 as against the National and the ability to make its own China ban Tgenerator — NTPC Ltd. Average PLF of 61.07%. in order to withstand a poten- McDonald’s, Coca- which along with its group On Standalone basis, for tially crippling US ban on Cola and all- companies, has an installed FY19, the Total income is using American components American movies capacity of 55126 MW, declared 92,179.56 crore as against the and software in its products. and TV shows. its audited annual financial Total income of 85,207.95 “If you really want to know “First time results for FY19 along with the crore during previous year,  during 2018-19 increased by what’s going on with us, you posting under my unaudited financial results for registering an increase of  9.66 per cent to 235.35 MT as can visit our Xinsheng real name: we must Q4 FY19 on 25 May 2019. 8.18%. For Q4 FY19, Total compared to 214.61 MT Community,” Ren told Chinese do our jobs well, The Gross Generation of income is 22,545.61 crore as ndia’s coal import increased imported in FY2017-18, latest media, alluding to Huawei’s advance and retreat NTPC Group for FY19 was against 23,617.83 crore in Q4 Iby 13.4 per cent to 20.72 mil- mjunction data showed. internal forum partially open to ties with Huawei as a result of giants behind a “Great Firewall” with our company,” said an 305.90 Billion units as against FY18. Profit After Tax for FY19 lion tonnes in April compared Commenting on the viewers outside the company. the ban. that keeps out Google, employee named Xu Jin. 294.27 Billion units during the is 11,749.89 crore as com- to 18.27 million tonnes (MT) import trend, mjunction MD But a peek into Xinsheng Another critical partner, Facebook, Twitter and dozens The tech ban caps months previous year. On consolidated pared to 10,343.17 crore in in the same last year, according and CEO Vinaya Varma said, shows his words have not reas- ARM Holdings — a British of other foreign companies. of US effort to isolate Huawei, basis, in FY19, the Total income the previous year, registering an to a report. “The flat trend in non-coking sured everyone within the designer of semiconductors “Our domestic market is whose equipment Washington was 97,537.34 crore as against increase of 13.60%. For Q4 Of the total imports during coal import in April was in line Shenzhen-based company. owned by Japanese group big enough, we can use this fears could be used as a Trojan the Total income of 89,641.59 FY19, Profit after tax is April 2019, non-coking coal or with expectations, as the power “During difficult times, Softbank — said it was com- opportunity to build up domes- horse by Chinese intelligence crore during previous year, reg- 4,350.32 crore as against thermal coal shipments were at plants continued to have suffi- what should we do as individ- plying with the US restric- tic suppliers and our ecosys- services. istering an increase of 8.81%. For 2,925.59 crore in Q4 FY18. 15.08 MT, according to provi- cient stock of coal.” uals?” posted an employee tions. tem,” the employee wrote. Still, last week Trump indi- NTPC Group, Profit After Tax The Board of Directors of sional data by mjunction ser- “This scenario may con- under the handle Xiao Feng on “On its own Huawei can’t For his part, Ren advocat- cated he was willing to include for FY19 was 12,633.45 crore NTPC Ltd. has recommended vices. Imports of coking coal, tinue in the current month,” he Thursday. resolve this problem, we need ed the opposite response in his a fix for Huawei in a trade deal as compared to 10,501.50 a final dividend for FY19 25% used in iron and steel making, added. “At home reduce your to seek support from govern- interview with Chinese media. that the two economic giants crore in the previous year, reg- of paid-up share capital i.e. were 3.52 MT in April while The Centre had earlier debts and maintain enough ment policy,” one unnamed “We should not promote have struggled to seal and US istering an increase of 20.3%. 2.50 per equity share of the face metallurgical coke imports dur- urged state-run Coal India to cash,” Xiao Feng wrote. employee wrote last week, in a populism; populism is detri- officials issued a 90-day On Standalone basis, The value of 10/- each, subject to ing the month were at 0.22 MT. pledge self-sufficiency in pro- “Make a plan for your post that received dozens of mental to the country,” he said, reprieve on the ban. Gross Generation of NTPC for the approval of shareholders in Mjunction, a joint venture duction to eliminate import of financial assets and don’t be likes and replies. noting that his family uses In Xinsheng, an employee FY19 was 274.45 Billion units as the Annual General Meeting between Tata Steel and SAIL, is thermal coal. overly optimistic about your The employee outlined a Apple products. with the handle Youxin lament- against 265.80 Billion units in scheduled to be held in the a B2B e-commerce company The Government has set a remuneration and income.” plan for China to block off its Other employees strate- ed: “I want to advance and the previous year thereby reg- month of August 2019. The that also publishes research target of 1 billion tonne of coal This week Google, whose smartphone market from all gized ways to circumvent the retreat alongside the company, istering an increase of 3.26%. Company had paid an Interim reports on coal and steel verti- production by 2019-20 for the Android operating system American components much US ban. but then my boss told me to For Q4 FY19, NTPC generated Dividend of -35.80% of paid-up cals. mining major, but is consider- powers most of the world’s in the same way Beijing One advocated turning to pack up and go”, followed by 69.20 Billion Units as against share capital i.e. 3.58 per equi- Coal and coke imports ing relaxing the timeline. smartphones, said it would cut fostered its internet tech Alibaba’s e-commerce platform two sad-face emoticons. 68.56 Billion Units generated in ty share in February 2019.  "#+7#0..#!+##'# ./+# .O+ A'(     .  .         B; . .! . 0 ! %7!7 !'.#+5##+&# /& #+  )  : New Delhi: The spectrum Indian Council for Research on           price recommended by regu- International Economic   Mathews told PTI. Earlier this year, Bharti lator Trai is high due to incon- Relations (ICRIER) and Asked what the association Airtel Chairman Sunil Mittal !  sistency in the principle applied Broadband India Forum said. he new Government considers to be an ideal level, too had flagged high reserve  ' P  %  by the watchdog for calculating It said that the Telecom Tshould take urgent steps to Mathews said globally levies do prices of 5G spectrum. He had base rates, a joint study by Regulatory Authority of India ease the financial burden on the not exceed 5 per cent and said the Government must    ICRIER and Broadband India (Trai) has placed immense stressed telecom sector, slash hence 4-5 per cent would be price spectrum reasonably and   ‘Jewellery and jewels of gold Forum has claimed. value on the bid price of pre- overall levies to an ideal 4-5 per “ideal”. lower various levies to encour- ssam Rifles will be organiz- and silver’, 1,184 for trade in “Our analysis ... On the vious auctions and this method cent and review spectrum On the issue of debt age rollout of 5G services in the Aing an Ex-Servicemen rally ndians lead the top 10 ‘Gold and precious metals’, 392 pricing of the 1800 MHz band does not always account for prices to make it affordable restructuring, Mathews said country at the earliest. in Darjeeling district of West Inationalities investing in for ‘Goldsmiths and precious finds that a bulk of the reserve changing market conditions ahead of the crucial 5G rollout, telecom operators should be The telecom czar had also Bengal on May 28, 2019. Rally Dubai’s gold sector followed by jewellery’, seven for ‘Gold prices not only continue to or operator circumstances even industry body COAI said. given more time for repayment warned that the spectrum auc- will commence at 8:30 AM at the citizens of Pakistan, Britain, foundry and precious metals’, remain high, there are also if the gap between two subse- Prime Minister Narendra of spectrum bought in auc- tion may fail and Airtel might Gymkhana Club Auditorium, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, and five for ‘Gold liquidation’ inconsistencies in the principles quent auctions is not signifi- Modi has led Bharatiya Janata tions. This, he said, can be done not bid for airwaves if the auc- Darjeeling. Oman, Jordan, Belgium, activity, it said. applied,” the joint report by cant. PTI Party (BJP) to a landslide vic- by increasing the moratorium tions are held at prices recom- The aim of the rally is to Yemen and Canada, according The total gold, jewellery and tory for a second term in office, period to four years and pay- mended by TRAI. assist Assam Rifles Ex- to a new report. diamond sales, reached 274 bil- while the Congress suffered a ment period to 18 years keep- The Telecom Regulatory Servicemen& Veer Naris in res- As many as 4,086 compa- lion dirhams last year, an increase serious setback in the Lok ing the ‘Net Present Value’ Authority of India (TRAI) has olution of their grievances, if any. nies operate in the gold sector of about three per cent compared Sabha polls. unchanged. recommended auction of about It also aims at enhancing their in Dubai and the number of to 2017, according to the Dubai The new Government, The industry also wants the 8,644 MHz of telecom fre- awareness with regard to latest investors stands at 62,125 Gold and Jewellery Group. which is set to be formed in the Government to look at making quencies, including those for policies/ regulations as well as job including 60,012 businessmen The UAE’s trade in gold next few days, will present the spectrum prices “more afford- 5G services, at an estimated opportunities. and 2,113 businesswomen, the and precious stones has also full Budget for 2019-20, and the able”. total base price of 4.9 lakh Stalls would be established Business Registration and grown significantly in recent mobile operators’ association is “If we want 5G to take off, crore. by various branches of Licensing (BRL) sector in the years and its foreign trade in hoping that some of its long- the present pricing will not get The telecom sector is bur- Headquarters Directorate Department of Economic this sector is estimated at about pending demands will be taken you there,” Mathews added. dened with staggering debt General Assam Rifles like Record Development (DED) said in its 400 billion dirhams annually. up in the coming months. He noted that at the pre- levels and cut throat competi- Office, Pension Cell (UPAO), new report. The import of gold was val- Topping its wishlist is cut sent prices proposed, operators tion. Assam Rifles Ex-Servicemen The report includes statis- ued at 142.4 billion dirhams, in levies, as the industry hopes will not be able to afford the Competition has only Association & Welfare and tics on the number of compa- while the value of exports that the current level of 30 per radiowaves which, in turn, will intensified since 2016, when Rehabilitation Board Directorate. nies operating in Dubai, the amounted to 75.9 billion cent levy would be reduced to pose a challenge in rollout of Reliance Jio, owned by richest Civil Administration will also put activities of the gold market sec- dirhams, and the value of re- provide a breather to the 5G services. Indian Mukesh Ambani, up stalls like Banking Services, tor and the distribution of the exports to 26 billion dirhams, stressed sector. A section of the industry stormed into the market and Agriculture and Horticultural companies across the emirate. according to the Federal “Charges like Licence Fee, has questioned regulator offered lifetime free calls and departments, PAN Card It aims to familiarise entre- Customs Authority.  "    %      >   2 %  2 Spectrum Usage Charges and TRAI’s methodology of com- dirt cheap data. Jio’s disruptive &Aadhaar Card services. A med- preneurs with the gold sector, The gold and jewellery %  >%      2      2   redefinition of Adjusted Gross puting the reserve price, claim- offerings forced rivals to slash ical camp will also be organised and highlight its role in adding sector provide residents of   2    2 %  %        2   Revenue (AGR) needs to be ing it has resulted in spectrum rates, affecting profit margins. by the Headquarters Directorate value to the economy, a state- Dubai with gold imports from   2    %            %  2 looked at,” Cellular Operators’ prices being unreasonably Since Jio’s launch, rivals have General Assam Rifles during the ment from the DED said. about 30 countries. This also    2  2      % @A   5;; Association of India (COAI) higher than global bench- either merged, resorted to rally for the benefit of the Ex- Of the 4,086 companies, meets the demand of tourists   2   %B3;;;C         %   Director General Rajan marks. acquisitions or folded up. 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States, succeeding Joe Hockey course for the bloc. it upon himself to act as fig- gible voters to join in on day official visit to Pakistan dur- a statement that comes as the detention,” said Tadamichi The new Cabinet will be when his finishes his term. Greece, Hungary, Bulgaria, urehead for the centrist and lib- Sunday. ing which he will hold talks with US is trying to find a negotiat- Yamamoto, the head of sworn in on Wednesday. Sussan Ley was announced Romania, Lithuania and eral parties hoping to shut the At the last EU election in President Arif Alvi and Prime ed solution to the country’s UNAMA. The ruling conservative the environment minister, Cyprus were the first to nationalists out of key EU jobs 2014, Slovakia had the lowest Minister Imran Khan on a host protracted war. The detainees were shack- coalition, led by Prime Minister replacing Melissa Price. open their polling stations at and decision-making. turnout of any country, at less of bilateral issues including the The UN Assistance led while in captivity and Morrison, defied exit polls to He will also recommend 0400 GMT and France, “Once again Macron is than 14 percent, and centrist smooth development of the Mission in Afghanistan said it almost all said they were beat- deliver a shock defeat to the Mitch Fifield to become Germany, Italy and the rest fol- daring us to challenge president Andrej Kiska is wor- USD 60 billion China-Pakistan interviewed 13 detainees from en. The Taliban told them it opposition Labor Party, forcing Australia’s Ambassador to the lowed over the next two or him. Well let’s take him at his ried that the far-right is poised Economic Corridor (CPEC). a group of 53 recently rescued was punishment for supporting its leader Bill Shorten to resign. United Nations, with Paul three hours. word: On May 26, we’ll chal- to profit. Wang, 70, is a member of from the Taliban, mainly mem- the government, working with Morrison announced Fletcher to take over his com- Seven EU member states lenge him in the voting booth,” “We see that extremists the ruling Communist Party of bers of Afghan forces but also the Americans or fighting the Linda Reynolds to be the munications portfolio. had already voted, but no offi- Le Pen told a rally in France on are mobilising, we see a lot their China’s (CPC) powerful civilians and government offi- insurgents. Defence Minister while Bridget “They will both be excep- cial results can be published Friday. billboards and activities all Politburo Standing Committee. cials captured by the insurgents. The UN statement comes McKenzie will become tional representatives and our until rest of the union has taken Meanwhile, the main- over Slovakia. We can’t let He is also a member of China’s The group was freed on as Washington’s peace envoy, Australia’s first-ever female countries interests abroad will part. The European Parliament stream parties are vying someone steal Europe from Parliament, National People’s April 25 when Afghan troops Zalmay Khalilzad is pressing Agriculture Minister. be well served in that role,” will give an estimate at 1815 between themselves for influ- us. It’s our Europe,” Kiska told Congress and the Central raided a Taliban-run detention ahead with talks with the “I have high expectations Morrison said. GMT and provisional results ence over the choice of a new reporters. Foreign Affairs Commission, a facility in the Khas Uruzgan Taliban, who refuse to negoti- of my ministry and clear goals David Littleproud will now will begin to emerge from generation of top European But the right and the far- key foreign affairs body of the district in southern Uruzgan ate directly with the Kabul for each of their roles,” focus on the natural disaster 2100 GMT. officials, including the power- right have not had everything CPC. province. government. Morrison was qouted as saying and emergency management Eurosceptic parties ful president of the European their own way so far. In the He was received at the air- Most of the captives were The talks so far have by media reports from portfolio. Ken Wyatt becomes opposed to the project of ever Commission. Netherlands, the centre-left port by Foreign Minister Shah held since 2018, with three focused on a timetable for U.S. Canberra. the first Aboriginal person to closer union hope to capture as And Brussels insiders are party of EU vice president Mehmood Qureshi and other since 2016, the UNAMA state- Troop withdrawal as well as “This will include conges- hold the Indigenous Affairs many as a third of the seats in closely following the turnout Frans Timmermans won the high officials. During the visit, ment said, adding they were Taliban guarantees that they tion-busting on regulatory and portfolio. “Incredibly honoured the 751-member Strasbourg figures, fearing that another most votes and added two Vice President Wang will call on kept in poor conditions and won’t harbor terrorist groups or bureaucratic roadblocks, mak- to be the first Aboriginal assembly, disrupting the pro- drop in participation will seats to the Socialists and President Alvi and have a sep- subjected to forced labor. It allow Afghanistan to be used as ing better use of technology Minister for Indigenous integration consensus. undermine the credibility of Democrats (S&D) bloc in par- arate meeting with Prime cites the detainees as saying a staging ground for global ter- and better integrating service Australians,” Wyatt tweeted. The far-right parties of the EU parliament as it seeks to liament, according to exit polls. Minister Khan. that the Taliban killed some of rorist attacks. # . .7%/+      *   %  #   >''#,7 !+ .% - 1 leader Kim Jong Un had who has been on the was there to greet him, sport- / #' .&# pledged he was serious about Chrysanthemum Throne for ing white trousers and a blue S President Donald Trump denuclearisation although less than a month following his top. 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"People take a Indo-Pak about the difficulties of "It was typical English condi- match very seriously and selecting national team and tions, wicket was soft initially but it got some even go on to say that the pressure that comes with better as the game progressed. We are 'we will be happy even if only it. hoping that we don't get this much we can win against India "People think it is easy amount of grass and get a better wick- during the World Cup'," said to jot down 14-15 players in et to bat in the World Cup," Jadeja said Inzamam. order to form a squad but it's at the post-match press conference. "I'm hopeful that we nothing like that because Opting to bat, India were all out will end our losing streak there is a lot of pressure. For for 179 in conditions slightly against India in World Cup example it was very difficult favourable to bowlers, and New matches," he told a Pakistan for us to select fast-bowlers Zealand chased down the target with Cricket website. for the World Cup because plenty to spare. The veteran of 120 Tests, there were a lot of good "This is our first game, it is just one however, said that the World names around including the game and we can't judge players on Cup is not just about the likes of Amir, Junaid and one bad innings, one bad match. So match against India, and (Usman Khan) Shinwari," nothing to worry as a batting unit," "Pakistan have the potential said the 49-year-old. Jadeja said. "I knew that if I could play out the "Everywhere I play, I will contin- to beat other sides as well". On threat posed by "It is always difficult in England, initial overs then it would become easy ue doing what I do. I will not put pres- Pakistan go into the minnows like Afghanistan you are coming from India, where you gradually. I kept my shot selection very :   sure on myself thinking about the World Cup having suffered during the upcoming tour- play on flat wickets, we still have time limited in that initial phase. That world cup, will try to keep it simple," 10 successive ODI defeats nament, Inzamam said no to work on it. There is nothing to proved beneficial. 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His 116 against England in World Cup, every team goes in (Venue: The Oval) Southampton on May 25 was a les- with a chance of winning it and son in pacing an innings, as he pro- that nothing is a foregone con- gressed from caution to chaos. absence of Mitchell Starc and Pat clusion.  "" # $ %"&# "" ' Others, such as David Warner, Cummins, who will lead the attack It wasn't a typical game in Shaun Marsh, Usman Khawaja and in the tournament proper. these conditions. Aus put up 7"'!7,%!+(.'# !> !(!7,.7#, +74&!%# 7,#%#!!+ .7 #77"6 Alex Carey also scored some solid While in their first warm-up fix- 297 — well below what has ..,!+'#% !7#.+ %##'7"&!77 +'#%%..6 P#)''+## .7+. runs. ture, they conceded 338 to South been par in ODIs in this part of !!%# +.',& !7 #+ ..,)+7=4&'!"#, 7 #/.77"6  !7(#!. 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World Cup. claimed 16 wickets for the Mumbai Indians     We will take it stage by stage, step by Boult was the wrecker-in-chief, returning impres- in the Indian Premier League. step, not get too far ahead of our- sive figures of 4/33 to bowl out India for 179 in under He produced a sensational final over in  selves." 40 overs at the Kennington Oval. the Twenty20 final against Chennai Super The presence of big players "Nice to see it swinging around a little bit," Boult Kings to hand Mumbai a record fourth IPL  % such as Andre Russell and Chris told ICC after the game here on Saturday. title. Gayle have helped, acknowledged "I'd love to expect that everywhere, some good Malinga frequently hits speeds of over ■   the 27-year-old skipper. wickets around the country. It's going to be a good 86 miles-per-hour (138 kph), while his dev- "Guys like Andre Russell make challenge, but us as a bowling unit, we're definitely astating slower balls were in evidence dur- elf introspection and social work it easy for me, they tend to give a lot looking forward to it, but we'll take some confidence ing the IPL, a welcome sign for embattled Sduring the year-long ban for his of support. I can't thank them out of today. Sri Lanka ahead of the World Cup in involvement in the infamous ball-tam- enough for the support they have "But yeah, the biggest challenge will be when it's England and Wales, which starts on May pering scandal has helped him grow as given me, I know they continue to not swinging and not nipping around a little bit. Then 30. a better person, says Australia batsman rally behind me. "It's important for how do we take wickets? So we'll look at that." With several inexperienced bowlers in Steve Smith. us to continue to build as a group. With batsmen dominating one-day internation- Sri Lanka's squad, Malinga, with 322 ODI "Having a year to reflect and do It's a relatively young side and we als in England in recent years, there is a belief that wickets to his name, is expected to be the some different things that I'd never done have got one or two experienced this World Cup could see imposing totals being -■   cutting edge to the team's attack. before (was beneficial). Doing stuff in ■    heads in the cam it's a good mix." notched on regular basis. Malinga was Sri Lanka's captain when the mental health space, doing stuff with He has rated hosts England as "We know what early wickets does to the batting asith Malinga will be one of the World they won the 2014 World T20 title with a Gus Worland (an Australian television opes are pinned on a born-again the favourites in the showpiece. side," Boult said. LCup's oldest players but the Sri Lanka host of stalwarts by his side including and radio personality) — that was HWest Indies to relive their glory "England are the number one "We want to be as aggressive as we can to try and paceman shows no signs of slowing down Mahela Jayawardene, Kumar Sangakkara incredibly eye-opening and satisfying in days but skipper Jason Holder says side in the world for good reason, get into any team's batting order, so we know if we as he bids to prove his critics wrong. and Tillakaratne Dilshan. a way to know I was making a differ- the upcoming World Cup is "a case you now they are playing some very get two or three wickets at the top of the order, it puts Malinga was stripped of the Sri Lanka But following the retirement of Sri ence to other people," Smith was quot- of creating our own legacy". good cricket, lot of hype around a lot of pressure on the opposition. That is the basic one-day international captaincy in April Lanka's big guns, a new crop of players ed as saying by cricket.Com.Au. Windies have a proud history at them, they have obviously got the plan, and for me, it's about pitching the ball up and after losing all eight matches in a troubled made their way into the side, a group selec- "I took a lot out of that. I do feel I've the World Cup, winning the first two home advantage. swinging the ball around as much as it can." reign that lasted just four months. tor De Mel believes did not fully back the certainly grown as a person over the last editions of the tournament and "I guess got to give them respect Boult was the joint leading wicket-taker in the Sri Lanka's selectors, led by former fast quick bowler as skipper. New captain year, that's for sure," said the prolific making the final of the third. After being the number side in the world. 2015 edition with 22 scalps from nine matches. The bowler Ashantha de Mel, said Malinga was Dimuth Karunaratne's first major goal will batsman. struggling for nearly two decades, a All teams are practically equally conditions have become more challenging since then, unable to unite the team, while he was also be to bring a hurting Malinga back into the Smith was involved in activities to few stunning wins against England matched, they are well-balanced but he isn't intimidated by predictions of 500-plus accused of falling out with other senior play- fold to ensure the team get the best out of help raise awareness of mental health recently lifted their spirits. sides, sides that can defeat anyone on scores. ers. the old warhorse. during his suspension period. "Not personally," Holder told the any particular day. We have just got "The ball hasn't really swung around as much since That hammer blow reportedly prompt- If SL are to have any chance of repeat- "I've really enjoyed the way every- ICC when asked if he feels pres- to take it game by game, give every- then, but I don't know if I'm going to make any dras- ed Malinga to consider retirement, but he ing their 1996 magic they need Malinga fit one has got around me and Dave surised to re-establish their domi- one the respect they deserve and we tic calls like someone's going to make 500," he said. opted to stay on after being named in the and firing in what is likely to be his final (Warner), it's just like fitting back in like nance, adding, "It's just a case of us will have to execute our plans," "But we'll face it if it happens." World Cup squad. World Cup. we never left in a way." creating our own legacy. Holder said.

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Some feel they have to write because they are lazy good-for-noth- 5   down every word the teacher says. ings. One of life’s lessons is that we get Others have wisely realized the value of the goodies after we do the work.    an outline form of note-taking. Well When you practice shooting hoops  0   prepared teachers present their mater- every day, you start making more bas- ial in a format that lends itself to out- kets. You get paid after you work at your  0  K line form note taking. job. Understand that kids need to buy If your child is not studying and his   5 into the value of doing well. Think grades are dropping, you’re invited in about it in terms of your own life even whether he wants you or there or not.    as an adult, you may know it’s best to Again, you’re there to help set up a  eat right, but actually following through structure that he is not able to create for is another story. In a way, your child himself. The structure might include    must own the importance of doing well scheduled study times, having the com- himself. puter out in a public place in your   For some people, all the stars are home, and saying, “No video games or aligned at the right time—motivation, TV until after homework is done.” You - skill and attitude combine to create a might decide that he must spend a cer-   6  successful outcome. But for most of us, tain amount of hours devoted to study it’s way trickier and a much more time. -  -5 her experiment. But once you find what Recognize that sometimes your ance her life with friendships, other activ- uneven path to motivation and success. If your child’s grades and work works best, keep her in that location. child’s feelings of shame, inferiority or ities, volunteer work and family activi- When you think about it, not every kid habits are not up to par, you can set up O 1 You will not do her work for her, but anxiety can be misinterpreted as a lousy ties. Get involved with her school affairs asks teachers for help, does all their a plan by sitting down with him and his you may need to review her work and attitude, lack of motivation, and irrespon- when you can and take an interest in her homework on time all the time, reviews teachers. He might have to check with     ask her if a certain paragraph makes sibility. Often the cover up for these vul- school projects. the material they learned each night and them to make sure he has everything   sense to her, for example. nerable emotions can take the form of Parents are often so worried about puts aside all the other distractions to before leaving school, and then check Try your best to be a parent who is acting out, shutting down, avoidance, and their child falling behind that they end get down to their studies. The ones who with you before going back to school to    kind, helpful, consistent and firm ver- defiance. Remember that what is happen- up in a power struggle with their kids do are typically the kids who have what make sure all his work is in his bag. sus punitive, over-functioning and con- ing now may look very different as your over it, but nothing gets better. They go is called “good executive functioning,” Once your child gets better at manag-     trolling. For every negative interaction child matures and develops. In the round and round, just fighting about the because the front part of their brain is ing his time, completing his work and with your child, try to create ten posi- meantime, in a positive relationship, lend grades and the work. But if you as the more developed. This plays a significant reviewing his subjects before tests, 6 tive ones. Try to put the focus on sup- him your brain by helping him with the parent can calm down and understand role in school achievement. It helps the then it’s time for you to back off. porting and encouraging him instead of structure and habits he can’t pull off on that this is not just a bad attitude and an regulation of emotions, attention span, You may need to sit with your child worrying and nagging. When you start his own. And calm yourself by under- unmotivated kid—and that you can’t perseverance, and flexibility. while she’s doing her work or at least be to believe his grades are a reflection of standing the bigger picture of what is force them to be motivated—then you Keep a relationship with your kids nearby to help her stay on track. She you or your parenting and that you are going on now. can actually start meeting your child that is open, respectful and positive. may need a quiet location away from responsible for his outcome, you will be Remember to always keep the big where he is and helping where he needs Stay on your kids’ team, don’t play brothers and sisters or she may do bet- on his case—and it will be harmful and picture in mind. Rather than go crazy help. Remember, your goal is to stop the against them. This will allow you to be ter in a room near others. You can help ineffective. over your child’s grades, help her to bal- reactivity and solve the problem.

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It is humbling and Maneesh Sharma, will go on ucts such as sunscreens and face spending more than six hours a day while 43 per cent of adults have a ● Use sunscreen with blue light gratifying that they believed floors in October.   masks before stepping out in the on digital screens, the exposure to job that requires prolonged use of technology when indoors and in my craft and chose me to Maneesh said, “For a   sun. And that is largely the origin blue light from them is significant- a tablet or computer, around 70 per not just when you step out in lead their cinematic vision. producer and a filmmaker,     story behind all the anti-UVA and ly higher than that from the sun. cent of adults, who regularly use the sun as 24x7 protection is All that I have achieved as the holy grail is a script that    anti-UVB skincare products. Blue light has the ability to pene- electronic devices, report symp- required. Organic sunscreens an actor today is due to is a balance of a relevant However, with the changing trate deeper into the skin as com- toms of digital eye strain. While using blue light technology these titanic cinematic message delivered in an    lifestyles today, if you think wear- pared to UVA rays. While long- around 93 per cent of teens have with ingredients such as Aloe forces having put their faith entertaining manner.  / ing sunscreen before stepping out- term exposure to the concentrat- access to or have a computer, at Vera and Kaolin Clay act as in me. I am glad that today Divyang’s script is a great , side is enough to protect your skin ed energy can cause colour least 74 per cent of teens use elec- protective layer on the skin. I find myself in a position example of this balance and       from damage, you would only be changes, inflammation and weak- tronic devices occasionally. ● Don't forget to go for wide- where I can recognise we are all very excited to     partially right. There could be ening of the skin's surface, a con- Given the perils of modern liv- spectrum SPF. exceptional talent and have him helm it. What various other sources even indoors stant exposure to these radiations ing, one cannot escape the screens ● Dim the light on your phone wholeheartedly back the makes this a truly thrilling      which could have devastating can cause more pigmentation, red- completely. Listing a few skincare and computer screens to lessen vision of a brilliant new venture is that I see this as   /     effects on our skin — the blue light ness and swelling as compared to tips, Rahul Agarwal, CEO of a skin- the impact of blue light or writer-director like Ranveer and I ‘paying it for-        emitted from digital devices. UVA rays from the sun, as per care brand, says, “Hence, measures apply a filter, but this does not Divyang. Jayeshbhai Jordaar ward.’ Almost a decade ago,       So what is blue light? It is a studies. to ensure safety of skin both guarantee complete prevention will be my next release after we started our journey  / )  9 colour in the visible light spectrum Looking at the risk of getting indoors and outdoors is very cru- of damage. 83.” together when YRF placed which can be seen by the human pigmentation, dermatologists say cial. It is advisable to wear a sun- ● Some smartphones also have Adding that it is a film their faith in us newcomers      / 0 eyes. Experts suggest that although that blue light could worsen or trig- screen that guards you from all the the option to disable blue light with a “big heart,” Ranveer and today we collaborate       the rising dependence on technol- ger it. One example of this is with screens even while working in favour of yellow light (often said, “Both in its concept as with another new talent to       ogy and digital screens (on TVs, a skin condition called ‘Melasma,’ indoors.” called night mode) which is well as in its appeal, the film offer the audience a content    ///  smartphones, computers, laptops which mainly effects women and He suggests that some chemi- considered to be easier on the encompasses the broadest driven mass entertainer.” &     and gaming systems) might have has been thought to be caused by cal sunscreens now have extended eyes — and in turn, the skin.     F%, (G  /P +F))FE L0  $3 $!    +20 Q  88 8%#   %  #  

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It will be &!%./!75. # someday used to manage hundreds +2,3 .''..,+!+'>#!!72. !5 and thousands of small unmanned  ! >  !75 !/ !75 commercial aircraft delivering pack- !7>! .&!2.7!+5##&>! ages, pizzas and medical supplies. !,>.7#!7, 7&!/ # !# “This activity is the latest and most technical challenge we have !'+.&!, #! .!+716 done with unmanned aerial systems,” said David Korsmeyer, associate direc- tor of research and technology at   J NASA’s Ames Research Centre in Mountain View, California. G +  An autonomous drone took off from the rooftop of a five-storey casi- !&&#4! 5 #%+#,. no parking garage and landed on the (! >,.7.7 ++&&.%. roof of another out of view across the #+,#7 +@:,?/7!7 street. It hovered as onboard sensors !&&#!!7 #.7&.&'!!'>+ . adjusted for gusty winds before n this remake of the eponymous Israeli show, a .+!,##/!7+7#+##+5 returning close to the center of the Isurgeon is held hostage by a group of criminals, launchpad. Equipped with GPS, oth- in 2015, culminating with this fourth munication problems. He said it who want her to compromise with her profession    ers flew at each other no higher than round of simulations, said Ron      became apparent early on that the — kill a patient on the surgery table – in exchange !   " city streetlights but were able to Johnson, project manager for <  travel management plans for drones for her family’s safety. #+!,5L ++ /&O+ 7" avoid colliding through onboard unmanned aircraft systems traffic would have to be completely automat- Directed by Sudhir Mishra, the series stars Tisca tracking systems connected to NASA’s management at NASA’s Ames       ed because FAA air traffic controllers Chopra and Ronit Roy in the leading roles. The show K#,.7) !#.%##' #+!/#      !5(# !# #" .%##' computers on the ground. Research Centre. “We are definitely in can’t handle the enormous workload. premieres on Hotstar from May 31. Similar tests have been conduct- the ‘run’ phase of this development,”   The system is being tested with  !##6+,# +.7. ed in remote and rural areas. The he said.    the help of 36 private partners, includ- ,2223 #!!  Federal Aviation Administration has The results will be shared with the     ing drone manufacturers, operators,      !+! authorised individual test flights in FAA. The agency outlined proposed software developers and other third- cities before but never for multiple rules in January that would ease    party service providers, Johnson said. !.+ .&#.&'# #     + .',7)(#!%!,. drones or outside the sight of the restrictions on flying drones over The system uses software on the operator. crowds but said it won’t take final     ground that communicates flight #&#++.&7.7+5!7# The new round of tests continu- action until it finishes another regu-      3 plans and positions to other software +!,5!,,7" !+ ing this summer in Reno and Corpus lation on identifying drones as they’re    systems. The drones are equipped L7.!(.&.' +6M Christi, Texas, marks the first-time flying — something industry analysts with programmes for landing, avoid- # !,#!'# simulations have combined all those say could be years away. ing crashes, surveillance, detection scenarios, said Chris Walach, execu- Critics assert that the FAA has and identification, optical cameras ###,OL /&!'' tive director of the Nevada Institute stymied the commercial use of drones Amazon and FedEx are among and systems similar to radar that work ,!67#.%/ of Autonomous Systems, which is by applying the same rigid safety stan- the companies that hope to send con- with lasers. %!.#.%/!7 running the tests of unmanned aeri- dard it uses for airlines. sumer products by drone by 2020. Huy Tran, director of aeronautics  7"+!(. ! # al vehicles or UAVs. “There can be a lot of Silicon Drone delivery company Flirtey began at NASA’s Ames Research Center, said he end of the world is nearing. An angel and /& !#&#+#7+. “When we began this project four Valley mentality where people don’t testing delivery of defibrillators for her supervisors at NASA headquar- Ta demon who have become overly fond of life years ago, many of us wouldn’t have want to wait. So, we’re trying to strike cardiac arrest patients last year in ters were surprised to hear they had on Earth must form an unlikely alliance to stop /#+ !&#.&'# !7) thought we’d be standing here today fly- a balance between unleashing entre- Reno under FAA oversight. be testing drones in Reno. “They said, the approaching Armageddon and save the world #''/# !.,. ing UAVs with advanced drone systems preneurship and ensuring we’re doing Johnson said cities present the ‘Are you crazy?’” she said. “We hope before it’s too late. (# !+# )/('! >6M off high-rise buildings,” he said. it safely while trying to accelerate biggest challenges because of limited, the test shows drones can be flown Starring Michael Sheen, David Tennant, Jon The team adopted a “crawl, walk, acceptance of drones in public,” small landing areas among tall build- and land safely.” Hamm, the Original series releases on Amazon run” philosophy when it initiated tests Johnson said. ings that create navigation and com- L! Prime on May 31.   "  ;     !

&#++! ! !7"7"/!>#+ !7, .7%+.7.# ! !7(# #  .77#  '7"(7+ !#%. #, +./# .//7#+.# 7>.##7   ++, ##  '7"&."!//#+  6 hanging markets and confusion over what #" ++#/.%# .7./+.7#  + Ccan be thrown in recy- cling bins have forced some (!+#,.7+. !'=+ #!7,.7# .7./+7" communities to rethink or even suspend their recycling ! # !7(..7"!7,,#% 4%7!7 7"5 programmes. But many more +!+ 210       2 recycling programmes are ./" working well, experts say. The difference is partly based on he US economy is seen as which methods are being used Tthe engine that drives the for collection and processing. world economy and that is why Are you sorting paper '"Q any sign of slowdown in it rais- from plastic at the start, for es serious concerns about instance, or tossing it all in one harmful spillovers in other bin? Are you certain the items Multi-stream tends to pro- *  economies. Any keen student going into the bin are the ones duce a less-contaminated, thus of current economics would your recycler can accept? How more valuable, end product. know that the economic poli- up to date is the processing For the past two decades, cies of America, especially facility in your area? it hasn’t mattered so much during the last few years, have “Some programmes are because China and a few other clables — both domestically Heidi Herzberg, mayor of not been very effective. In hurting and need to adjust, countries were buying large and with big international Deltona, Florida, which sus- fact, the defeat of most power- particularly in the residential quantities of low-grade, single- players like China — remains pended its recycling pro- ful leaders in the presidential stream. But the majority of stream recyclables, which cost strong, experts say. gramme because it had become elections that were held in past them are working successful- them less and could be sorted Areas where single-stream too expensive and ineffective, few decades is attributed main- ly and continuing to grow,” out using inexpensive labour recycling continues to thrive says it’s more complicated than ly to the failure of their eco- says Robin Wiener, president there. tend to be those with a series that. While part of the problem nomic policies which created of the Institute of Scrap All that changed in of good practises to help was that almost 40 per cent of many problems for the coun- stronger, these American facto- Recycling Industries. The non- January 2018, when China ensure a less contaminated what people were putting in try. ries cannot compete with them profit trade association repre- stopped accepting lower-grade recycling stream. They also bins shouldn’t have been there However, most people do and have therefore, closed sents more than 1,300 compa- recyclables. That left many tend to be areas with access to — like lights and greasy pizza not realise that the economic down or retrenched workers as nies that make, process, sell or communities in the US with- advanced sorting and pro- boxes — there also turned out problems faced by Americans was done recently. Also, now consume scrap commodities, out a market for the low- cessing technologies, Wiener to be no market in her area for emanate not merely from when there is no war, they are including metals, paper, elec- grade, mixed recyclables they says. glass or certain types of plastics, wrong policies that have been forced by economic reasons to tronics, plastics, glass and tex- were producing. Of course, tweaking a she said. adopted recently. Their roots sell their military hardware to tiles. “A total of $5.6 billion of recycling programme is easi- “They say ‘reduce, reuse, are hidden in some wrong eco- many Asian countries in order Success or failure seems scrap a year was going to er said than done. Some cities recycle,’ but people have been nomic, political and cultural to keep the workers employed partly linked to whether recy- China before the policy and towns have had to limit skipping straight to recycling concepts and models built over as was done recently when clables are going into one change,” says Wiener. In 2018, zero. Almost all the recycled the types of recycled material in order to feel better,” she said. a period of time. For example, fighter jets were sold. Their mixed curbside bin for pickup that number dropped precip- paper on the West Coast was -  they accept and accept cost Her community was facing a the mounting unemployment country has had either the ills (single-stream recycling) or itously to $3.5 billion, with going to China,” he says. increases. $25,000 a month increase, she and the huge foreign debts are of recession or inflation or are divided by residents into most of the loss in low-grade Despite the challenges of - 1 0 A lot depends on educat- said, and much of the collect- not the phenomena that have heavy taxation or it had to separate bins (multi-stream materials. It takes time to find finding new markets, he says    1 ing the public, says Mitch ed material was ending up in sprung up overnight and the resort to deficit budgets, foreign recycling). another home for that volume his organisation has identified     Hedlund, executive director of landfills anyway. phenomenon of estimated 43.1 debts, protectionist policies, Single-stream was adopt- of materials, she says. only 31 programmes across the Recycle Across America, a “It’s a reality check, and it’s million Americans, living in etc, to keep the economy going. ed by many communities and In some cases, says Dylan country that have suspended 1   non-profit that pushes for very emotional.” poverty, also has not arisen in It would have, therefore, companies because it costs de Thomas of The Recycling their recycling programmes. Its  0    clear, standardised labels on Environmentalists agree the short period of one or two been appropriate if developing less to haul. But creating one Partnership, an industry-spon- data base includes 2,000 of the recycling bins. that producing less waste in years. The roots of their sad nations like India had learnt big pool of recyclables creates sored non-profit dedicated to estimated 10,000 recycling pro-  3   “There are certain materi- the first place is preferable to economic state go at least to as some lessons from the failures more difficulty later, when transforming the recycling sys- grammes across the country, he - 4 als that manufacturers want to even the best recycling pro- far a period as the end of the of the so called developed mod- they must be sorted out. In tem in the country, the problem says. reuse, but the public is con- grammes. World War-II when they adopt- els of economy and had, addition, experts say people is a combination of contamina- Sorting recyclables at the     1 fused about what is recyclable “We need to figure out ed a very lavish life-style and an instead, kept in mind their tend to be sloppier about what tion and macroeconomics. front end turns out to make      and which bin it should go in, how to reduce and reuse, not utterly consumeristic attitude own national ethos and ancient they put in a single, combined “In March of 2017, mixed more sense for many commu-     so there’s too much garbage just how to recycle,” said and built their economy on mil- heritage which suggests that a bin. That produces a lower paper was trading at almost $90 nities and the market for high- ending up in recycling bins,” Herzberg. itarism, giant industries, trans- right system of economy is grade end product. a ton. Now it’s worth roughly er grade, pre-sorted recy- she says. L! actional and multi-national one which is based on social business corporations, import justice and on economising of raw materials at cheaper rates rather than borrowing and from the undeveloped coun- deficit-financing. We should tries and export of their goods also keep in mind our own  #  D to such nations and economic national situation which neces- capture of foreign markets sitates national and regional through their multi-national self-sufficiency and affords . 5 !     !          CE       corporations. In short they opportunities of full employ- thrived on the basis of this ment to its citizens and pro-    !  < A'   %       (  !  !   unfair economic system as long motes balance between rural as other industrial nations other and urban economy, equitable lanning a trip to the beach? Along she sees would be from a water sam- and direction. They can become adept nations did not stand up against distribution of income and Pwith looking forward to some sum- ple collected on Monday morning. Even issuing warnings during particular their economic exploitation or wealth and prevention of the mer fun, beachgoers may be thinking though water quality is generally good conditions that are frequently danger- injustice. Nevertheless, their growth of very wide disparities about the safety of their waterfront des- across the nations beaches, tens of thou- ous to public health. economic system was not based in income and wealth. We must tination. Will the water be clean enough sands of advisories are issued each year. Despite the EPA promoting the use on some morally sound and remember that unbridled con- for swimming, surfing, wading and all Water quality conditions can of these kinds of rapid tests that rely on enduring economic principles. sumerism and commercialism the other ways people enjoy the nation’s change rapidly because of tides, wind analyzing DNA rather than waiting for Since it was based on com- and also large scale borrowing shoreline? and storms, so 24 hours is a long time bacteria to grow, though, their adoption mercialism, competition, con- are against the value-system Across the US, county, city and for the public to wait for accurate noti- has not been widespread. This is sumerism and exploitation of which is embedded in our spir- state water quality managers measure fication. Beach managers are looking because most of the tests recommend- weaker nations and on hot or itual heritage and will, sooner levels of indicator bacteria to gauge for more rapid, cost-effective ways to ed to date have required technical abil- cold war with an adversary or later, lead us to a grave eco- water quality. When bacteria such as E stay on top of water quality. I’m an envi- ity and have been relatively expensive. nation as they had a powerful nomic crisis. So, let us all learn coli — used for monitoring freshwater ronmental microbiologist who’s devel- I’ve developed one rapid test for army which was well-equipped to lead a life of simplicity and beaches like the Great Lakes — and oped and patented one such solution. E coli that’s good for freshwater beach- for war. Now, when some other frugality and be honest and just Enterococcus — used for marine es. Another version looks for industrial nations have grown to all. beaches — are present, so might other FASTER TEST, QUICKER RESULTS Enterococcus bacteria and is used at dangerous bacteria and viruses that are Here’s how it works. A user collects marine beaches. Ultimately, the aim is trickier and more expensive to measure. about a cup of the water of interest and to get these tests to be easily portable. High levels of the indicator bacte- passes the sample through a filter times over. Clinical laboratories have use spreadsheet of the results. Overall, Beach personnel such as lifeguards ria signal that microorganisms that are about the size of a 50-cent piece that widely used this technology for over a the water quality testing process takes could do quick water sample collection a concern to human health, such as captures the bacteria. With the tradi- decade to rapidly test for bacterial infec- only an hour or two, which is a big time and analysis, feeding the data by Salmonella and Norovirus, may also be tional methods, that filter would be tions, influenza and antibiotic-resistant savings. mobile phone to reporting websites. in the water. Viruses and bacteria that placed in a petri dish specially formu- bacteria. Beach water quality has an impact can make you sick sometimes enter lated to help bacteria grow. The user The QPCR machine heats and RAPID BENEFITS AT THE BEACH not only on the public but on business- beach waters through stormwater would incubate the plate around 20 to cools the sample, allowing the enzymes Faster results allow the public to be es dependent on beach visitation such runoff, accidental sewage spills and 24 hours and then count the bacterial and chemicals to copy the DNA; one knowledgeable of beach conditions that as restaurants, shops, parking, rental even failing septic systems. When the colonies that grew. He or she can then copy of E coli DNA in the water sam- are more related to the timing of their vendors and snack bars. The use of the numbers of E coli or Enterococcus in report those final concentrations and ple becomes two, then four, then eight, visit. rapid testing approaches to ensure water samples from the beach exceed give an assessment of whether the water then 16 and so on. Each incorporates Another important advantage is return to good water quality and a certain threshold value, officials was clean or not – yesterday. a chemical that acts as a fluorescent tag that rapid tests can be used immediate- reopening of a high-use beach with either post a sign advising the public not With the newer methods, includ- in the new DNA strands. Then the ly following a storm or accidental thousands of beachgoers each day can to swim or close the beach altogether. ing the versions I’ve developed, the machine can measure how much flu- sewage overflow event to ensure that the be a boon for beach economics, keep- The system generally works well, operator places the same kind of filter orescence is present in all the copies water quality at the beach has returned ing restaurants and shops open and but one serious current drawback is the in a tube. Instead of waiting for bacte- combined. The greater the fluorescence to normal and recreation can resume. active. time it takes to get the results after water ria to grow, she purifies the DNA in the means more bacteria were in the orig- Quicker results also allow beach But most importantly, fast water samples are collected – nearly 24 tube and adds a series of chemicals and inal water sample. managers to understand the conditions quality results would reduce the num- hours. 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     " Rising Greek star Stefanos Tsitsipas moved into the French Open second round on Sunday with a comfortable straight-sets win over Maximilian Marterer on Court Philippe Chatrier. The 20-year-old sixth seed, a semi- finalist at the Australian Open earlier this year, brushed aside German Marterer 6- 2, 6-2, 7-6 (7/4). Tsitsipas raced into a 2-0 lead and :  edged a third-set tie-break to see off an opponent who reached the fourth round in Paris last year.  )  "It was a difficult first match... In the tie-break I managed to play like I did in the first two sets," said Tsitsipas, who was -■    playing on the Roland Garros show court for the first time. erman fifth seed and reigning Wimbledon "These are the moments we're prac- Gchampion Angelique Kerber saw her hopes tising for and dreaming of, I'm really of a career Grand Slam ended by Russian happy to play here." teenager Anastasia Potapova at Roland Garros Tsitsipas will next face either Indian on Sunday as Roger Federer prepared to make Prajnesh Gunneswaran or Bolivia's Hugo his Paris return after a four-year absence. Dellien as he looks to reach the third Fifth-seeded Wimbledon champion Kerber round for the first time. slumped to a 6-4, 6-2 defeat to 18-year-old Potapova who was making her French Open  5.  *  debut. The new Court Simonne Mathieu, a "I had a lot of confidence and I have to 5,000-capacity semi-sunken arena thank my coach for that," said 81st-ranked enclosed by greenhouses, was officially Potapova who hit 28 winners past her German unveiled on Sunday. opponent. It forms part of the 350 million euro Kerber, 31, has now lost six times in the upgrade of the entire site which will also French Open first round. see the demolition of the Court 1 'bull- The German left-hander had come into ring' after the 2018 tournament. Roland Garros carrying a right ankle injury Spain's Garbine Muguruza, the 2016 which forced her to pull out of the Italian Open champion, had the honour of opening and retire from her second round tie in proceedings against America's Taylor Madrid. Townsend and the 19th seed marked the "She played really good, I tried my best," occasion with a 5-7, 6-2, 6-2 win. said Kerber who was broken six times in the -■    for a place in the third round. win at a Grand Slam. the world number 73 who made the quar- "It's cute," said the Spaniard. "It's not match which brought the curtain up on a rebuilt The 20-time major winner hadn't "I missed it so much so thanks for the ter-finals at the Monte Carlo Masters this small, but it's, you know, cosy." Court Philippe Chatrier. oger Federer marked his return to played the tournament since 2015 when welcome," said Federer. year after qualifying. Other winners on the first day "I didn't really have great preparation and Roland Garros after a four-year he reached the quarter-finals. "I felt great playing on this court. It "Two breaks in the first set was very included Japanese seventh seed Kei I was just happy to get on court to play the Rabsence with a 6-2, 6-4, 6-4 win However, on Sunday, it was as if the looks great and attractive, so congratu- important for me and when I was lead- Nishikori, a quarter-finalist in 2015, match. over Italy's Lorenzo Sonego on Sunday 37-year-old had never been away as he lations to everyone involved. ing 4-0 I could take more risks, be more who eased past France's Quentin Halys "I didn't have many expectations coming and said he had "missed playing in Paris swept to victory in one hour 41 minutes "Hopefully I can play here again for aggressive," said the third seed. 6-2, 6-3, 6-4. However, Italian 16th seed in." Potapova's first win over a top 10 player so much". on a rebuilt and packed Court Philippe my next match." "I know that I can play very well on Marco Cecchinato, the man who sent gives her a second round clash against either Federer, the 2009 champion in Paris, Chatrier. Federer broke serve five times and clay and I am very happy to win in Novak Djokovic crashing out in the quar- China's Wang Yafan or Marketa Vondrousova will face German lucky loser Oscar Otte It was his 60th successive first round fired 36 winners past 24-year-old Sonego, straight sets." ter-finals in 2018, fell at the first hurdle. of the Czech Republic. !'#7 !+7 ! ! &  .7.&!,#'#   -■   0

dreadful defeats have now hi Yuqi stunned world spoiled such a brilliant La Liga Schampion Kento Momota success. as hosts China whitewashed "I do not think it's the Japan for an 11th Sudirman coach's fault," said president Cup title on Sunday. Josep Maria Bartomeu. Japan have never won the If Barca's season all but badminton world mixed-team ended three weeks ago, championship and their search Valencia's arguably found life a goes on after they were well few days later, as they moved beaten 3-0 in the Chinese city into the top four for the first time of Nanning. and then held on to qualify for China's dominant victory the Champions League. over the top seeds is an omi- nous indication of the depth O !  7 they possess in their ranks with Winning their first trophy       %   next summer's Tokyo since 2008, in the club's cente- Olympics on the horizon. nary year, completes a remark- -■    childhood deafness can occa- earnings reflect that. Roared on by the home able comeback campaign that, sionally work to his advantage. In 2019, he has banked just crowd, China went 1-0 up after 15 games, had them lan- hen Yannick Hanfmann "A centre court full of spec- $3,600 while world number two through their men's doubles guishing in 15th. "We have Wtakes on 11-time champi- tators doesn't affect me," the Nadal has earned $3.7 million in and then took a 2-0 lead after Japanese rival faded spectacu- made history," said captain Dani on Rafael Nadal in the biggest Munich resident told Germany the same period, taking his a captivating women's singles larly. Parejo. Gameiro added: "In the match of his career at Roland daily Bild in an interview. career total to almost $107 mil- match between Chen Yufei The 23-year-old Shi raced difficult moments we stayed Garros, he won't be fazed by the "I have a hearing aid but it lion. Whatever happens when and Akane Yamaguchi. to the second game 21-5 and close. I don't have the words to noise generated by thousands of doesn't really work. Sometimes he faces Nadal, Hanfmann is Japan needed their talis- took that searing momentum describe it." fans getting behind the Spaniard it's a problem, because not guaranteed his biggest pay day man Momota to beat Shi in the into the decider, winning the Some saw a metaphor in as being partially deaf from everyone knows. yet — 46,000 euros if he exits in men's singles to keep the tie third game — and with it the Barcelona's pre-match tifo, childhood means he probably "If I don't react when some- the first round. alive. Sudirman Cup — 21-11. spelling out 'All Together' split- won't hear them anyway. body calls my name, they think Despite the disparity in The world number one Shi sealed the champi- ting down the middle, while The 27-year-old German, 'what's up with him?'" achievement on court, Nadal had defeated second-ranked onship with a smash and was there were key absentees from ranked a lowly 184 in the world, Hanfmann only turned pro- will not be over-confident. At Shi four times in five previous mobbed by his team-mates, their starting line-up too, Marc- has come through three tough fessional four years ago after a Roland Garros, however, Nadal meetings, including last year's who raced onto the court after Andre ter Stegen, Luis Suarez rounds of qualifying to make the four-year US college stint in has only lost twice in 14 years — world championship final. his surprise win. and Ousmane Dembele all main draw in Paris for the first which he helped the University against the now-retired Robin It looked like more of the China, the long-time pre- -■   injured. time. of Southern California win two Soderling in 2009 and this year's same when the 24-year-old eminent power in badminton, Valencia should have been Likely to play Nadal on the national titles. top seed Novak Djokovic in Momota won the first game reclaim the trophy that they arcelona wanted a trophy to   0 ahead within five minutes, 15,000-seater Court Philippe He has won just one match 2015. Against those two losses 21-15, but Shi suddenly found lost to South Korea two years Bease their Champions - -  Clement Lenglet's error sending Chatrier, Hanfmann says his on the main tour all year and his are an astounding 86 wins. rhythm and his subdued ago. League heartache but instead fell Rodrigo clear but his finish was to another shock defeat as   brilliantly scooped off the line by Valencia pulled off a thrilling 2-   5 the recovering Gerard Pique. ■   the day went to Laura-Georgeta 1 victory on Saturday to win the Barca, with Sergio Busquets Coman of Romania and 16-year Copa del Rey.   in the centre of a back three, set- ndia's Apurvi Chandela con- )   + old Hungarian Eszter Meszaros, Chasing a record fifth con- tled but lacked zip and in the Itinued her golden run of who finished 5th and 6th respec- secutive triumph, Barca were  1 23rd minute they were behind. form, winning the women's tively in the women's 10m air undone by a relentless and gutsy   Jose Gaya scuttled in behind 10m Air Rifle after a closely- had a solid start with Apurvi and rifle, given the top four consist- Valencia side, who hung on after Nelson Semedo and his pull- fought contest on Sunday at the Elavenil taking the top two ing of two Indians and two Lionel Messi pulled a goal back 0 1 back wrong-footed everyone year's third International spots with scores of 633 and Chinese were not eligible. to set up a dramatic finish in     except Gameiro, who fired in. Shooting Sport Federation 632.7 after 60-shots each. India already has five quota Seville. Barcelona stirred before the (ISSF) World Cup Rifle/Pistol Anjum Moudgil shot 628.9 places in Rifle and Pistol com- By then, Valencia were break. Ivan Rakitic volleyed and stage in Munich, Germany. to finish in 11th place, just 1.1 petitions. already two up, Kevin Gameiro then headed wide, before Messi The shooter from Jaipur points outside the final qualify- As a result they forfeited and Rodrigo scoring twice in 13 Barcelona's players sank to their registered their first shot on tar- shot a score of 251 in the final ing score of 630.0. their right to quotas in the frantic first-half minutes, after knees. get in the 43rd minute. to outshine Wang Luyao of Indians had a good day at women's air rifle and men's the latter spurned a golden early "We always had faith," said Malcom and Arturo Vidal China, who shot 250.8, to settle other events as well. 10m air pistol competitions, chance that could have spared Marcelino. "Beating Barcelona to came on for Semedo and Arthur for the silver medal. Another After the first round of given they have already secured them a nerve-shredding last 17 win the cup is very special. We during the interval, as Barca Chinese shooter, Xu Hong, fin- qualifying in the women's 25m the maximum possible two quo- minutes. deserved to win." turned the screw. Messi might ished third with a score of 229.4 Pistol, Asian Games champion tas in these events. Messi drove the comeback Messi admitted on Friday have turned the match but after in the final. Rahi Sarnobat stood in second Apurvi, Anjum, Saurabh effort and Goncalo Guedes his team had still not recovered wriggling through his sumptu- It was a neck-and-neck bat- position with a score of 294. Chaudhary, Abhishek Verma twice should have wrapped it up from the "hard blow" suffered ous flick towards the far corner tle between Apurvi and Wang, A good rapid fire round on and Divyansh Singh Panwar for Valencia, missing a one-on- against Liverpool and certainly brushed the post. There were 17 where the Indian was just 0.1 Monday and she can fancy her have secured quotas for the one and then an open goal they seemed too easily disheart- minutes to survive and with six ahead as she shot a 10.4 to medal bracket -- at fourth place. ing fourth. She lost to eventual chances of winning a medal as country so far. before the final whistle sparked ened here, finding their fight left, Messi headed over but he Wang's 10.3 to clinch the issue. This was also Apurvi's bronze medallist Xu Hong of well as an Olympic quota. India's other quota is in the pandemonium. only once it was too late. was dispossessed by a sliding This was Apurvi's second career's fourth ISSF medal. China by just 0.1 points. Manu Bhaker shot 289 and men's 10m air rifle and thus the Valencia's coach Marcelino, Messi also threw his support challenge. ISSF World Cup gold of the year Another Indian in the fray After 20 shots in the 24-shot was a bit behind in 24th spot, shooters would be eligible for who might have been sacked behind Barcelona's coach Messi drove from the edge followed by a world record today, Elavenil Valarivan also final, Xu edged out Elavenil while Chinki Yadav shot 276 to only one quota. when his team were four points Ernesto Valverde but it remains of the area but it was blocked score in New Delhi in February. made it to the finals along with 208.4 to 208.3. be in 95th place. Monday will witness three off relegation in January, raced to be seen whether the backing and Guedes twice should have In the second Beijing leg she teammate Apurvi but narrowly Earlier, all three Indians in The two Tokyo 2020 finals with six Tokyo quota around the pitch in a frenzy. of the board remains after two wrapped it up, first missing a had finished just outside the missed out on a medal, finish- the 149-strong qualifying field Olympic quotas available on places up for grabs.

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