Show Collective Will to Build a New India, Says Modi

follow us: wednesday, august 16, 2017 Delhi City Edition thehindu.com 24 pages ț ₹10.00 facebook.com/thehindu twitter.com/the_hindu

Printed at . Chennai . Coimbatore . Bengaluru . Hyderabad . Madurai . Noida . Visakhapatnam . Thiruvananthapuram . Kochi . Vijayawada . Mangaluru . Tiruchirapalli . Kolkata . Hubballi . Mohali . Malappuram . Mumbai . Tirupati . lucknow

NEARBY Show collective will to build Crisis-hit Gorakhpur hospital a New India, says Modi staggers under patient load 200-250 encephalitis patients treated here every day

Asks country to adopt ‘Bharat jodo’ slogan and shun ‘chaltha hai’ attitude Damini Nath UP madrasas defy GORAKHPUR Yogi’s diktat Special Correspondent The Baba Raghav Das Med- MEERUT NEW DELHI ical College in Gorakhpur All madrasas across Uttar In his shortest Independ- draws a large number of Pradesh, big and small, ence Day address yet, Prime frantic families with sick celebrated Independence Minister Narendra Modi on children from places like De- Day, like they used to in the Tuesday sketched out the oria and Khadda, 60 and past with traditional broad contours of his idea of 100 km away and even bey- nationalistic fervour. But a “New India” as one that ond, because local hospitals angry over their patriotism was free of communalism, cannot give them intensive being questioned and casteism, terrorism, corrup- medical attention. suspected by the BJP tion and nepotism, and also Alfaz, an infant brought government, they deed the one that would require the by his mother Nesa Khatun, Adityanath government’s citizens to do their bit to cre- is one of them. The family diktat on keeping video proof ate it. has come from Khadda, in of their celebrations. Making special mention of Kushinagar district of Uttar

NORTH Ī PAGE 2 the fact that those born in Pradesh. No let-up in situation: A patient being brought for admission DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD the new millennium, in the “The doctors back home to the emergency ward of the Baba Raghav Das Medical year 2000, will be turning 18 sent us here. This is the only College Hospital in Gorakhpur on Tuesday. * V.V. KRISHNAN next year, he underlined the option we had,” says the Chinese incursion fact that just as the period mother. son, Siddharth Gautam, is were available on the bid foiled between 1942-47 was a decis- The BRD Medical College treated. The 7-year-old has causes. The government-run LEH/NEW DELHI ive one for India’s struggle principal, Dr. P.K. Singh, fared better than many oth- medical college hospital has The Indian Army on Tuesday for independence and said that on a given day, ers, after a spell of uncon- witnessed the death of over foiled an attempt by Chinese demonstration of a firm col- Making a point: Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressing the nation from the ramparts about 200 to 250 encephal- sciousness. He started walk- 60 children in the encephal- soldiers to enter Indian lective will for change, so too of the Red Fort in New Delhi on Tuesday. * SANDEEP SAXENA itis patients are under treat- ing around the ward. The itis ward and Neonatal In- territory along the banks of should the period of 2017-22 ment at the institution, and woman cooks food on a tensive Care Unit (NICU) Pangong lake in Ladakh be for creating a “New India” happy about, it will not be last few days, we heard of He spoke at length on de- the mortality rate is 7 to 8%. stove she brought from from August 7 to 11. resulting in stone pelting that with the same collective will. accepted in India. The senti- the death of several of our monetisation, announced by Infants and children are of- home in Deoria. The medical college caused minor injuries to “When Mahatma Gandhi ment in India should be innocent children. In this his government last year, as ten brought on referral caters not only to Gorakh- people on both sides, ocials stood against the might of Bharat jodo,” he said, adding hour of grief, the entire a move that may have cre- when their condition is Three-hour wait pur and neighbouring dis- said. Chinese soldiers tried to the British, it was the crores that the status quoist “chalta country is with those af- ated some difficulties for the already critical. On Tuesday, a family with a tricts, but also to Bihar and enter the Indian side twice of Indians, with the khadi hai” attitude should be fected, and I assure you that people, but that which as- Sohan, who has come one-year-old with suspected even Nepal. The focus has between 6 a.m. and 9 a.m. yarn in their hands, who shunned. whatever needs to be done sured citizens that keeping with his extremely ill new- encephalitis waited for three now turned to the probable But on both the occasions bolstered his efforts. We as remedy shall be done with to the law and honesty was born nephew, is from Deoria hours for a doctor to see the causes of Acute Encephalitis their attempts were nixed. need to show that collective Gorakhpur deaths utmost sensitivity.” being celebrated again. district and was sent to the baby. They had arrived at 5 Syndrome and the number will now,” he said. Early on in his speech, he Corruption and the steps BRD Medical College by a.m. of Japanese encephalitis NEWS Ī PAGE 11 DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD The Prime Minister said spoke about the death of taken by his government to CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 10 local hospitals that could not The principal said 24 cases. communalism had no space over 30 children at a govern- deal with it were highlighted CONGRESS CALLS PM’S ADDRESS treat the infant. deaths had occurred in a in this conception of New In- ment hospital in Gorakhpur, by Mr. Modi. He returned to DISAPPOINTING; J&K WELCOMES Geeta Devi has camped span of 24 hours from mid- CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 10 OPPORTUNITIES Ī PAGE 4 dia. “Violence in the name of reportedly due to a shortage the theme three times in his MODI’S REMARKS Ī PAGE 10 outside the encephalitis night on Sunday in the pae- CM BLAMES IT ON LACK DELHI METRO Ī 6 PAGES faith is not something to be of oxygen cylinders. “In the 56-minute speech. FUTURE PERFECT? Ī EDITORIAL ward for 17 days now, as her diatrics ward, but no details OF HYGIENE Ī PAGE 11

Shiv Sahay Singh the State government, nor grandson of Mahatma Kolkata the Centre, had organised an Gandhi] was the Governor Silence. That was all that event; only a few elderly [of West Bengal]. After his could be heard at Hyderi Gandhians were there. tenure, all activities came to Manzil in Kolkata on Maya Das, the treasurer of a halt. A few years ago we Tuesday, even as the country Purba Kolkata Gandhi were discussing with the celebrated Independence Smarak Samity, a voluntary State tourism department on Day. It was here that organisation comprising placing it on the list of Mahatma Gandhi, seeking to those who believe in prominent tourist sites, but douse the flames of Partition Gandhian ideals, was the nothing happened,” Ms. Sen in Bengal, had stationed first to arrive. She placed said. himself exactly 70 years ago. flowers at a portrait of the Mr. Gopalkrishna Gandhi His presence is marked in Mahatma. described it as “a monument the house in the form of a Historic site: Articles used by Mahatma Gandhi kept on More people trickled in, to the freedom struggle’s mattress (and on top of it a display at Hyderi Manzil. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT almost all of them in their commitment to India’s pillow, bolster and his sixties and seventies. Bulbul composite culture”. The site walking stick), surrounded to Noakhali, hit by on September 6, 1947. Sen, a retired school teacher “ranks next only to the by three charkhas, three communal riots, and of his Seventy years later, this and joint secretary of the house on Tees Janvari Marg pairs of slippers, a lantern hunger strike in the city, historical site, at 150B Samity, said that without the in New Delhi for the power and a tumbler — they are all adorn the galleries of the Suresh Chandra Banerjee government’s support, the of its historical magnetism. preserved. Three swords — single-storied house. Road in north Kolkata, house languished in Its preservation...is a duty weapons surrendered to him A plaque says, in Bengali, hardly has the kind of obscurity. “The place got we owe to our future as a by rioters — are in a glass that the Mahatma came here visitors one would expect on some attention when plural society,” he told The case. Photographs of his visit on August 12, 1947 and left Independence Day. Neither Gopalkrishna Gandhi [a Hindu in an email.

CM A ND-NDE YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

NOIDA/DELHI THE HINDU 2 NORTH WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2017 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

DELHI Timings Another Wednedsay, August 16 Khattar defends Subhash Barala RISE 05:51 SET 19:00 Minor on the way to RISE 00:16 SET 14:00 woman Thursday, August 17 He was replying to a question on Chandigarh stalking case RISE 05:52 SET 18:59 complains of Ashok Kumar RISE 01:07 SET 15:03 celebrate I-Day raped GURUGRAM being stalked Friday, August 18 Defending State BJP presid- RISE 05:52 SET 18:58 ent Subhash Barala in the Press Trust of India RISE 02:03 SET 16:03 She was kidnapped by an unidentied man in Chandigarh high-profile stalking case in- Chandigarh volving his son Vikas, Hary- Barely over a week after an Special Correspondent <> The incident took narrated the incident to her ana Chief Minister Manohar IAS officer’s daughter was Chandigarh place around 8.15 family, following which the Lal Khattar on Tuesday said stalked here, another wo- A minor girl was allegedly a.m. on Tuesday. She police was informed. The ac- that no one would have man has complained of be- kidnapped and raped by an was going to school cused dragged her into the asked for the resignation of ing chased by three men in unidentified man in Chand- and entered the nullah that flows through the accused’s father if he a car. igarh on Tuesday when she children’s trac the park and sexually assaul- were the son of an IAS In her complaint, the was on her way to school to ted her, said police sources. officer. woman alleged that on park from the back celebrate Independence Monday night, while re- Day. gate Assault confirmed Resignation issue turning home from market The victim, a Class VIII Eish Singhal The police later took the Replying to a question on the in a two-wheeler, she was student of a government Chandigarh SSP victim to the government Chandigarh stalking case at a chased by three men from senior secondary school in the morning on Tuesday. hospital in Sector 16 for a press conference here, Mr. Sector 36 till Sector 40 here, was allegedly raped by “The girl was going to medical examination, which Khattar said had the ac- here, the police said on a middle-aged man at the school and entered the park confirmed sexual assault. cused’s father been an IAS Tuesday. children's traffic park, situ- [children’s traffic park] from Asked if the victim was officer and the woman “The men started chas- ated in the heart of the city. the back gate. An FIR has raped at knife point, Mr. happened to belong to a ing her after she bought been registered under sec- Singhal said “it’s being political family no one of us some fruits from the mar- Case registered tion 363, 376 of the Indian investigated.” would have sought the resig- I-Day celebrations: Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal ket,” Chandigarh Deputy The police said a case of Penal Code, besides relevant The incident comes close nation of the accused’s Khattar with families of freedom ghters at a function in Superintendent of Police Building rape and kidnapping has sections of Protection of on the heels of the “stalking father. Gurugram on Tuesday. * PTI Deepak Yadav said. been registered following a Children from Sexual of- and attempted abduction The woman, who be- renamed complaint by the victim that fences (POCSO) Act,” he case” of Varnika Kundu, ‘Politics’ The law will take its own legedly stalked her and tried longs to Hisar and has been she was sexually assaulted said. daughter of an IAS officer. Saying that a “lot of politics course,” said Mr. Khattar, to abduct her. The two were staying here as a paying Press Trust of India by the man, who fled the “We have rounded up a The Kundu incident sparked was being played on the mat- without naming Mr. Barala earlier let off on bail, but guest, noted down the Dehradun spot after committing the few suspects and investiga- a nation-wide outrage on the ter”, Mr. Khattar added that and his son. were later arrested and sent car’s number and informed The Uttarakhand Secretari- crime. tion is under way. The girl is issue of women safety and what had happened was not Varnika Kundu, the to jail. The incident led to the police, the DSP said. at’s main building will be Chandigarh Senior Super- stable but traumatised by dented the image of Chand- good and he criticised it. daughter of a senior IAS of- hue and cry and the Opposi- A case has been named after former Presid- intendent of Police (SSP) the incident,” Mr. Singhal igarh, which is seen as a rel- “The accused has been ar- ficer, was on her way home tion parties sought the resig- registered. ent A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, an Eish Singhal said the “incid- said. atively safe city in northern rested and the police is tak- on August 5 night when Vi- nation of Mr. Subhash Barala “We will soon appre- official release said. ent” took place around 8.15 The police said the girl region. ing legal action in the case. kas and his friend Ashish al- on moral grounds. hend the accused,” he said. Slain ocer’s daughter, wife unfurl ag UP madrasas defy Yogi’s diktat He was killed in a militant encounter minutes after hoisting the ag at the camp Angry over patriotism being questioned, they celebrate I-Day without video proof Press Trust of India Srinagar soil where my husband lost his life, to mark his first The six-year-old daughter of death anniversary. slain CRPF commandant Last Independence Day, Pramod Kumar and his wife the CRPF commandant had on Tuesday unfurled the Tri- hoisted the flag around 8.30 colour from the same bat- a.m. and in his speech re- talion camp here, where ex- marked that with India clock- actly an year ago he hoisted ing 70 years of its freedom, the flag and was killed the responsibility on security minutes later in a militant forces had “increased” and encounter. they have to effectively Mr. Kumar’s wife Neha tackle militants and incid- Tripathy and daughter ents of stone throwing in Aarna performed the cere- Jammu and Kashmir. monial unfurling and salut- While Mr. Kumar and his ing the flag at the 49th bat- men eliminated the two talion camp in Karan Nagar. armed foreign militants, nine Ms. Tripathy then per- other personnel, including a formed the traditional drill state police official, were in- of distributing sweets to the jured in the attack. The CO men of the battalion, once was posted to Srinagar in commanded by her hus- Honouring the sacrice: Martyred CRPF Commandant Pramod April 2014 and was pro- band. She also placed a Kumar’ wife Neha Tripathi and daughter Arna at the CRPF camp moted as a Commandant wreath at the martyr’s me- in Srinagar on Tuesday. * PTI only a few days before the morial built at the camp. fateful day, on July 12. party was under attack, dur- his first death anniversary at He hailed from Patna in Kirti Chakra ing the last Independence the same camp where he Bihar but lived in neighbour- Mr. Kumar (44) was on Day. He suffered a fatal bul- took his last salute. ing Jharkhand’s Jamtara dis- Monday decorated by the let shot in his head during trict. The officer had been government with the Kirti the encounter at Nowhatta ‘For daughter’ thrice decorated with the Chakra (posthumously), the Chowk area and succumbed “I want my daughter to CRPF Director General’s third highest peacetime gal- soon after. know what her father stood commendation in 2015, 2014 At a crossroads: I-Day celebrations in full swing at Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama in Lucknow on Tuesday. * RAJEEV BHATT lantry medal, for his dare- On Monday Mr. Kumar’s for and what he did. She and in 2011. devil action where he picked wife said she wanted her should know that what is the He had also served in the Staff Reporter Darul Uloom Deoband Darul Uloom Deoband in written in praise of George V, up his AK-47 rifle and rushed daughter to know what her importance of earning a Special Protection Group Meerut vice-chancellor Mufti Abul 1969, said: “I have had rela- the then king of England. to the Nowhatta Chowk area father did for the country Kirti Chakra. Hence, I made (SPG) for three years. The of- All madrasas across Uttar Qasim Nomani unfurled the tions with Darul Uloom since “Singing of the national after he was told his patrol and hence decided to mark it a point to be on the same ficer joined the force in 1998. Pradesh, big and small, cel- Tricolour at the top of the the time Maulana Mahmood anthem actually belittles and ebrated Independence Day, main gate of the seminary in Hasan was alive. Sitting here insults the struggle of our like they used to in the past the presence of hundreds of we used to make plans for freedom fighters. So, it has with traditional nationalistic students and faculty. the Independence move- been unanimously decided Swine u: no morning assembly in UP schools fervour. But angry over their One of its faculty mem- ment ...how we might drive that such songs will not be patriotism being questioned bers told The Hindu that away the English from this sung on Independence Day,” and suspected by the BJP earlier the flag hoisting cere- country and how we could the Bareilvi sect clerics from 695 cases of swine u reported in the State till August 13 this year government, they defied the mony used to happen in the make India free from the Bareilly said in a press re- Adityanath government’s inner ground of the semin- yoke of slavery of the Eng- lease. Press Trust of India cipal Secretary Health and director general, medical oring the swine flu situation. diktat on keeping video ary but “this time it was lish”. Maulana Shahabuddin Lucknow Family Welfare Prashant and health services has said. Instructions have also been proof of their celebrations. done at its main gate because Rizvi, general secretary of The Uttar Pradesh govern- Trivedi said. To check the spread, the issued to combat any emer- the institution had to give a National anthem Jamat Raza-e-Mustafa, a ment has asked all schools of government has already gency—like situation pertain- ‘Patriotism test’ befitting reply to its detract- While most of the madrasas group of Bareilvi Sunni sect the State to put on hold Preventive measure formed district-level rapid ing to Influenza A (H1N1),” Their opposition at being ors who keep asking for pat- celebrated Independence in Bareilly, questioned the in- morning assemblies from The decision in this regard response teams, which will Mr. Trivedi said. singled out for what they riotism certificate”. Day by singing the national tention behind the circular Wednesday to prevent the has been taken to check the consist of a public health The officer said all the termed “patriotism test” was “This institution has made anthem, some madrasas of issued by the UP government spread of swine flu. spread of the disease and en- specialist, a physician, an doctors and paramedical a constant refrain in the In- great contributions to the the Bareilvi sect, whose main last week making in mandat- “An advisory has been sure that school children do epidemiologist, a pathologist staff posted at the casualty dependence Day speeches of freedom of the country. But seminary is Manzr-e-Islam, ory for all seminaries to not sent to all the district magis- not catch the infection, he and lab technician. wards and emergency wards the heads of seminaries. All people who want to divide celebrated Independence only celebrate Independence trates and commissioners in added. “In all the district hospit- who treat patients infected of them said they do not the country, doubt our patri- Day without the national an- Day but also keep video the state asking them to put Till August 13 this year, als of the state, a 10-bed isol- by H1N1 have been want to show any “patriot- otism and look at us with them. With small Tricolours proof of it. on hold morning assembly 695 cases of swine flu had ation ward has been estab- vaccinated. ism certificate” to anyone. suspicion, and we are being in their hands, the students “Why were the Christian prayers in all private and been reported in UP. Of lished. The state surveillance “A toll free number Darul Uloom Deoband in asked to produce a certific- in Manzar-e-Islam, stood at- schools and the schools run government schools in view these, 21 have died, an offi- unit and district surveillance 18001805145 has been activ- Deoband, Darul Uloom Nad- ate, but none of it is going to tentive and sang Saare jahan by the RSS not asked to man- of the swine flu scare,” Prin- cial statement by the state unit are continuously monit- ated,” he added. watul Ulama in Lucknow and lessen our patriotism and se accha Hindositan hamara, datorily keep video proof of Manzr-e-Islam in Bareilly, the our contribution to the free- the popular patriotic song the Independence Day celeb- three biggest and most influ- dom movement of this coun- written by Iqbal, when the rations? All the madrasas are 0 ential seminaries with fol- try,” Mufti Nomani said. Tricolour was unfurled. unanimous in opposing this DISCLAIMER: Readers are requested to lowers in the entire sub-con- He quoted Frontier Bareilvi clerics later justi- unconstitutional and com- verify and make appropriate enquiries to satisfy themselves about the veracity of tinent, led the Independence Gandhi Khan Abdul Ghaffar fied their decision, alleging pletely unfair order of the an advertisement before responding to any published in this newspaper. Kasturi Day celebrations. Khan, who during his visit to that the national anthem was government,” he added. & Sons Limited, the Publisher & Owner of this newspaper, does not vouch for the authenticity of any advertisement or advertiser or for any of the advertiser’s products and/or services. In no event can the Owner, Publisher, Printer, Editor, Dir- ector/s, Employees of this newspaper/ company be held responsible/liable in any manner whatsoever for any claims ‘Will implement farm debt waiver soon’ and/or damages for advertisements in this newspaper. Amarinder appeals to farmers not to consider suicide to escape loan burden

Press Trust of India paign for the government crore annual repair pro- ernment has announced the Gurdaspur sector to fill all critical va- gramme for all link roads. waiving of crop loans up to ₹ cant posts. The programme will be 2 lakh for small farmers, be- Punjab Chief Minister Cap- launched shortly with the sides extending debt relief tain Amarinder Singh on Poll promise laying and repair of 22,870 up to ₹2 lakh provided to Tuesday assured farmers Job fairs would be held km of such roads in the marginal farmers having that his government will across the State to imple- State, he said. Each house- total debt of over ₹ 2 lakh soon implement the prom- ment the poll promise of hold in the State will have a each, he appealed to them ised farm debt waiver providing employment, he toilet before December 31, not to commit suicide to es- scheme in about a month said. Captain Singh, who he said, adding that ₹2,100 cape their debt burdens. and appealed to them to not earlier took the guard of crore had been set aside to The debt waiver scheme consider suicide or any honour and enjoyed a gatka ensure complete facelift of will be implemented in other extreme step to escape performance by students, schools besides providing about a month’s time and their loan burden. vowed to make Punjab a the requisite infrastructure the government will ensure Speaking at the Independ- peaceful, healthy and pros- and another ₹806 crore had that the loans of the farmers ence Day celebrations here, perous State “free of drugs been allocated for upgrada- are paid, without necessitat- he also announced the and debt.” tion of health infrastructure. ing any payment from them, launch of a recruitment cam- He announced a ₹2,500 Pointing out that his gov- he said.

Published by N. Ram at Kasturi Buildings, 859 & 860, Anna Salai, Chennai-600002 and Printed by S. Ramanujam at HT Media Ltd. Plot No. 8, Udyog Vihar, Greater Noida Distt. Gautam Budh Nagar, U.P. 201306, on behalf of KASTURI & SONS LTD., Chennai-600002. Editor: Mukund Padmanabhan (Responsible for selection of news under the PRB Act). Regd. DL(ND)-11/6110/2006-07-08 ● RNI No. TNENG/2012/49940 ● ISSN 0971 - 751X ● Vol. 7 ● No. 195

THE HINDU NOIDA/DELHI WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2017 EAST 3 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Sikkim people unpaid Naveen Patnaik falls ill during Nagaland CM calls for soldiers: CM Press trust of india Independence Day celebrations broad-based talks Gangtok Sikkim Chief Minister Pawan Chamling on Tues- Hopes it will facilitate resolution of political problem day said its people are like I felt a bit dehydrated. I am perfectly ne now with two glasses of nimbu pani: CM Press Trust of India “unpaid soldiers” defend- riculture development in the STAFF REPORTER Kohima ing the motherland and hit state utilising the natural re- BHUBANESWAR out at the West Bengal gov- Nagaland Chief Minister T. R. sources of land, water and ernment for their “suffer- Chief Minister Naveen Pat- Zeliang on Tuesday hoped rich genetic endowment ju- ing” due to the ongoing naik had to cut short his that broad-based consulta- diciously. Gorkhaland stir. speech during the 71st Inde- tions with all sections of so- The main celebration was “Sikkim’s location states pendence Day function at ciety will facilitate resolution held at Secretariat Plaza how strategic it is to the Mahatma Gandhi Marg here of the Naga political prob- here with the Chief Minister unity and integrity of the on Tuesday, after feeling un- lem, which will be “inclus- unfurling the Tricolour and nation ... Our people are well due to dehydration. ive, honourable and accept- T. R. Zeliang taking salute from 27 march- like unpaid soldiers de- He recovered afterwards able to all”. ing contingents, which in- fending our motherland. and received salute from the “With the objective for a “I am confident that such cluded security forces, civil Unbounded peace and har- contingents participating in more substantive contribu- broad-based consultations police NCC, scouts and mony for people living in the parade. tion of the State, not only as will all sections of the soci- guides and school students. the border states are great At the start of the celebra- a mere facilitator but to play ety will facilitate resolution The prime attraction of assets for the nation,” he tions, Mr. Patnaik hoisted an instrumental role in of our political problem — the celebration was the arms said unfurling the National the Tri-colour and then resolving our political prob- one that is inclusive, honour- drill by 15th Nagaland Flag here on the occasion began his address. During lem, the Nagaland Assembly able and acceptable to all,” Armed Police Mahila Bat- of Independence Day. the speech, he was seen tak- has constituted the Political the CM hoped. talion and dance display by “... I am pleased to say ing several pauses to wipe Affairs Committee to vigor- Nagaland Adolescent Girls that the State government sweat off his brow. Midway ously pursue with the Gov- Law and order Club, besides cultural per- of Sikkim and every through, the CM fumbled on ernment of India for early The law and order situation, formance by different Naga Sikkimese citizen are some words and finally sat Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik takes rest after feeling uneasy during the Independence Day settlement of the Naga polit- he said, has significantly im- tribes. solidly behind the Central down in a chair near the po- function in Bhubaneswar on Tuesday. Photo: * BISWARANJAN ROUT ical problem,” Zeliang said. proved and the State has re- The chief minister re- government to safeguard dium. Addressing the 71st Inde- mained peaceful during the leased the Nagaland State the integrity and sover- Top officials, including fine now with two glasses of grammes undertaken by our elaborated on his govern- pendence Day celebration at last one year, barring the Human Development Report eignty of our great nation,” Chief Secretary A. P. Padhi nimbu pani (lemon juice).” government helped reduce ment’s emphasis on skilling Secretariat Plaza here, the eruption of mass protests and handed over the Presid- he added. Speaking on the and Director-General of Po- Mr. Patnaik managed to poverty by 25%. Odisha is youths and creating job op- Chief Minister said that the during February this year ent’s police medal for merit- ongoing Gorkhaland agita- lice K. B. Singh rushed to in- attend all the programmes ahead of others States in portunities. “At the govern- Naga people were encour- against conduct of urban orious services to eight per- tion, he said it is common quire about his health. Mr. scheduled after the Inde- poverty reduction rate”. ment level alone, there were aged after witnessing the local bodies elections. sonnel, one President’s knowledge that the State Patnaik later recovered. pendence Day celebration. “I am hopeful that Odisha 50,000 recruits.” proactive steps being taken Maintaining that Naga- Home Guards and Civil De- has been suffering for the Later, the CM tweeted: “I will eliminate poverty by On development of tri- as evident in holding con- land is an agrarian State, the fence medal and one Presid- last 33 years due to it as should have had adequate Poverty down 2036, when the State celeb- bals, he said that special tri- sultations with all leading CM emphasised the import- ent’s Fire Service medal. Sikkim remains totally cut- water for parade in sunny In his speech at Mahatma rates its 100th year of forma- bal councils would be Naga civil society bodies, in- ance to promote economic- He also handed over the off when bandhs are called humid conditions. I felt bit Gandhi Marg, the CM said: tion,” he added. formed to give them a voice cluding the Nagaland Gaon ally viable, environmentally Governor’s gold medal to 16 by parties in Bengal. dehydrated. I am perfectly “Various welfare pro- The Chief Minister also in the development process. Burahs Federation. friendly and sustainable ag- individuals.

Staff Reporter ber and November. The 2015. lems related to electrical BERHAMPUR Doppler radar would be The Doppler radar connections in the build- The much-awaited Dop- able to provide accurate centre at Gopalpur is being and operation of the pler radar station at Go- and timely forecast of cyc- ing established as a joint radar, which are being palpur in the cyclonic lonic storms, thunder- venture of the Centre and sorted out by the Odisha storm-prone Ganjam dis- storms and hailstorms in State government. The PWD and ISRO. The PWD trict of Odisha is expected comparison to traditional Odisha government had had built the building and to become operational by radars used until now. It provide free land and the laid electrical wiring for September-end. will provide meteorolo- Odisha State Disaster Mit- the radar centre. On Au- Talking to The Hindu, gical information for a igation Agency had alloc- gust 11, a joint team of ex- Indian Meteorological De- 300-km radius around ated Rs. 25 lakh towards perts from ISRO, BHEL partment (IMD), Odisha, Gopalpur. construction of its and PWD reached the director S. C. Sahu ex- building. centre site in Gopalpur pressed hope that the Joint venture The Doppler radar has along with Mr. Sahu to radar station would be The landfall of the devast- been indigenously built by make an on-the-spot en- ready before the start of ating Phailin cyclone that the Indian Space Research quiry to sort out all issues the cyclonic storm season hit the Ganjam coast on Organisation (ISRO) and before its inception. in Odisha to provide vital October 12, 2013, oc- theBHEL. ISRO has de- Work on the Doppler meteorological forecast. curred at Gopalpur. Gan- signed the software of the radar centre had started Usually the Odisha jam district had also faced radar, said Mr. Sahu. in 2013 and it was expec- coast is hit by cyclonic a super cyclone in 1999 According to Mr. Sahu, ted to become operational storms between Septem- and Hudhud cyclone in there were some prob- in 2016.

Flood-aected villagers shift with their belongings to safer places near Balurghat in South Dinajpur district of West Bengal on Tuesday. * PTI Train services from Kolkata to N-E suspended for 3rd day

Press Trust of India were to travel to different destina- Kolkata tions in north Bengal and Assam Thousands of passengers were in- were inconvenienced owing to the convenienced as train services cancellations as tracks continued connecting the metropolis with to remain flooded. north Bengal and Assam remained The trains cancelled are 12041 suspended for the third consecut- Up Howrah-New Jalpaiguri Shat- ive day on Tuesday due to the abdi Express, 12345 Up Howrah- flood situation in Bihar, sub-Him- Guwahati Saraighat Express, 15959 alayan West Bengal and Assam. Up Howrah-Dibrugarh Kamrup Ex- Fourteen express trains from press, 13147 Up Sealdah-New Howrah, Sealdah and Kolkata sta- Cooch Behar Uttarbanga Express, tions here were cancelled for the 13149 Up Sealdah-Alipurduar Kan- day owing to flood water flowing chankanya Express, 12343 Up above the railway tracks in North Sealdah-New Jalpaiguri Darjeeling East Frontier Railway system, an Mail, 22309 Up Howrah-New Eastern Railway statement said. Jalpaiguri AC Express and 12377 Up Thousands of passengers who Sealdah-New Alipurduar Express. Building collapses in Kolkata; eight rescued

Press trust of India Kolkata A portion of an old dilapidated building in central Kolkata collapsed on Tuesday following which eight persons were evacuated to safety. “No one is hurt or trapped inside,” a senior police official said. The front portion of the building collapsed around 2.30 p.m. on Tues- day, the police said. The incident happened when the central wall of the building at 65 Burtolla Street in Posta police station limits collapsed. “All the eight inmates of the building have been safely evacuated,” the police said. The building is used both for residential and commercial commercial purposes, he said. Besides personnel from Kolkata Po- lice Disaster Managemnt Group, Kolk- ata Municipal Corporation officials also rushed to the site.

CM A ND-NDE YK NOIDA/DELHI THE HINDU 4 WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2017 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

The challenges Are you hiring leaders your business really needs? of hiring freshers

With productivity and protability at stake, organisations have to increase their strike rate in the area of talent evaluation isdomjobs.com, an curate resumes when they

DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD end-to-end online are hiring freshers. Con- Dipali Naidu leadership role. They are: applied. Consider, for ex- DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Wrecruitment and sequentially, resume-related knowledge, experience, ample, the massive move to The must-do list career solutions portal, re- hurdles are the most com- iring and promoting competencies and personal digital. While it may be easy cently released a survey on monly cited issue by recruit- B the right talent are attributes. Developing suc- to identify the knowledge Gather clear and “Hiring Freshers: Challenges ers. timeless challenges cess profiles will require you and past experience needed consistent performance- Faced by Recruiters”. The * 62% of the surveyed re- H related data while hiring for organisations. Mistakes to review job documenta- to drive technological trans- survey, conducted across 10 cruiters said that they regu- or promoting leaders in this area can prove ex- tion, interview job incum- formation, it is much more cities with 850 recruiters larly came across embel- tremely costly. They are not bents, conduct a focused difficult to assess the most B Make decisions about from 10 industries/ sectors, lished resumes. only a drain on financial re- group discussion with other relevant behaviour ( for ex- future leaders with understands the challenges * 52% of those surveyed sources, but also reduce pro- stakeholders of the job and ample, creating disruptive scalable tests recruiters address while hir- said that falsified educa- ductivity, diminish morale have senior leader visionary innovation) and personal ating freshers. The survey also tional qualifications/ fake B Equip your hiring and distract the organisation meetings. tributes (example: navigat- managers with the tools takes a look at the skills and academic degrees were the from effectively focusing on ing ambiguity), with high ac- that enable structured qualities that recruiters are major embellishment. business strategy. Job simulations curacy. behavioural interviewing looking for, in freshers. *24% said that fake pro- With productivity and While knowledge and exper- DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD With freshers making up jects and internships were profitability at stake, organ- ience are best assessed by Operational excellence the major chunk of annual the biggest falsehood while isations, regardless of size, the hiring manager, assess- If a business has process in- hiring for most mid- and 20% also mentioned non-ex- industry or geography must ment of competencies and efficiencies and breakdowns large-sized organisations, re- istent colleges as a common work towards increasing personal attributes require a leading to sagging customer Key questions cruiters and companies in- lie in fresher resumes. their strike rate in talent thoughtful design, which in- confidence, the leaders at vest a lot of time and effort evaluation and decision cludes a combination of job the helm have to drive oper- hile organisations in ensuring that they find Skill gaps making, through seamless, simulations, personality and ational excellence to meet its design assess- the right talent. While re- *57% of recruiters felt that efficient, focused and accur- aptitude test, cognitive tests strategic objectives. Opera- Wments they need cruiting freshers offers the the engineering freshers ate hiring solutions that help and structured behavioural tional excellence in the con- to ask some key questions. most cost-effective means of they hired did not have ne- hire the right leaders and interviewing. Job simula- text of a leadership role in- 1. Does the assessment hiring entry-level talent, hir- cessary technical skills re- also help place in them in tions, if validated, have high cludes an ability to drive go beyond mere ratings and ing them brings its own set quired of their profiles, in- the right position. How do predictability of a candid- change, strong operational reports and evoles business of challenges for hiring man- cluding coding skills. we identify the right leaders? ate’s behaviour in a realistic decision-making and a tre- intelligence which is neces- agers. The corresponding num- The better question would job scenario. The caution for mendous focus on executing sary for formulating critical ber for non-engineering be: What are the qualities ex- organisations is to use valid- plans. They must also be talent decisions? Inaccurate resumes graduates (MCA) was 35% pected in leaders? ated tools for assessing lead- pragmatic and process-fo- 2. Does the assessment Freshers lack the requis- *36% of the recruiters ers. Despite the quantity of cused and demonstrate high screen for skills and person- ite experience and exposure said non-engineering under- Four key factors candidate information that is energy to drive themselves ality traits that aren’t easy when it comes to creating an graduates were under- Leaders have to be evaluated collected, the quality is often and others. to develop, and accurately impact upfront with their re- skilled in their core areas on the basis of four factors poor. The data is either in- (Dipali Naidu is Head of predict both near-term and sumes. Consequently, re- while the corresponding which are essential for suc- complete, ambiguous or in- Consulting at DDI India Pvt. long-term performance? cruiters have to sift through number for postgraduates cessful performance in a consistently integrated and Ltd.) ILLUSTRATION: MIHIR BALANTRAPU several incomplete and inac- was 40%.

CM ND-NDE YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

THE HINDU NOIDA/DELHI WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2017 SOUTH 5 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF 2 held in Karnataka RSS Heavy spell of showers in Bengaluru worker’s murder case City gets 128.7 mm of rainfall — the highest for August in more than a decade taff Reporter Bengaluru Suspected to have sheltered those involved in murder In one spell lasting a few Siddaramaiah ays hours, the city got as much imposition of language Special Correspondent They have been accused rain as it did through the BENGALURU MANGALURU of arranging vehicles for the whole monsoon season so The ‘imposition’of any Dakshina Kannada police murder and escaping from far. language on a State was have arrested two persons, B.C. Road. Between midnight and ‘unconstitutional,’ Karnataka including a Popular Front of A 30-member special in- dawn on Tuesday, the city Chief Minister Siddaramaiah India (PFI) leader, in connec- vestigation team, which in- centre received 128.7 mm of said in his Independence Day tion with the murder of cludes Assistant Commis- rainfall — the highest for Au- speech. It was “against the Sharath Madiwala, 28, an sioner of Police Valentine gust in more than a decade. spirit of formation of States RSS activist, at B.C. Road, D’Souza, has been formed to This figure matches the rain- on linguistic basis,” he said. near here, last month. crack the case. fall the city received till The police are searching Monday after the monsoon ‘Defeat attempt to poison for five more persons sus- 50 questioned began, shows Indian Meteor- idea of nationalism’ pected to be involved in the Sharath Madiwala Apart from questioning over ological Department THIRUVANANTHAPURAM murder. 50 persons, the team collec- observations. Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi The arrested are Kalilul- police are yet to ascertain it. ted information from district Vijayan on Tuesday urged the lah, 30, president of the P. Harishekaran, In- and central prisons and vis- Heavy in south Bengaluru Boat on road: Rescue eorts on after heavy rain in Bengaluru on Tuesday. * SAMPATH KUMAR G.P. people in his I-Day address to Chamarajanagar unit of the spector-General of Police ited several places in Shiva- The numbers, however, hide defeat any attempt to “poison PFI, and Abdul Shafi, 36, of (Western Range), told mogga, Karwar, Bengaluru, the localised intensity of show that rainfall was partic- gauge measured 182 mm Bengaluru remained relat- and dilute” the idea of Sajipamunooru village in presspersons here on Tues- Kerala, and Maharashtra. rainfall. Figures released by ularly intense in south while the area stretching ively dry, with Nagawara, nationalism in the country, Bantwal taluk of Dakshina day that the two had been Following the attack and the Karnataka State Natural Bengaluru where 10 stations from Kumaraswamy Layout Nandini Layout, San- “which has evolved through Kannada. accused of giving shelter to severe injury on July 4, Disaster Monitoring Centre recorded rainfall exceeding to HSR Layout recorded jaynagar, Horamavu and Ye- diversity, secularism and Shafi is said to be associ- persons involved in the at- Sharath died in a hospital in (KSNDMC), which manages 124.4 mm. The highest was more than 120mm. lahanka receiving less than democratic values”. PTI ated with the PFI, but the tack. Mangaluru on July 7. 91 rain gauges in the city, at Bilekahalli where the In contrast, north 20 mm of rain. 2 new aircraft for Schoolchildren attempt a record 2-year-old boy falls into borewell in Guntur aviation academy Paint 1,186 National Flags on sand structures on beach in Nellore district Telangana govt. issues loan of ₹5 crore P. Sujatha Varma their base removed to get the Rain hampers rescue operations Nikhila Henry though Diamond carrier is VIJAYAWADA shape of a round elevated Hyderabad multi-engine aircraft. This Independence Day, the base. Using ‘rangoli’ colours Staff Reporter The boy was The Hindu VIJAYAWADA <> The only government- Speaking to , Mypadu beach in Nellore dis- of white, green and orange, playing near his backed aviation academy in Captain. S.N. Reddy, Chief trict witnessed a rare buzz. the hues of the Tricolour, A two-year-old boy, house and slid into the city is set to get two new Executive Officer of the About 200 children drawn they coloured one side of the Chandrasekhar, fell into a aircraft almost five years academy, said, “Our peak from two schools at Kodur sand block, moving gently borewell at Ummadivaram the borewell to a after a massive fire gutted enrolment season starts by and Muthukur in Nellore dis- from bottom towards the village in Vinukonda Mandal depth of 15 to 20 six of its training carriers on November each year. As trict descended on the beach top. of Guntur district on Tues- feet December 17, 2012. While soon as the State govern- to celebrate the occasion in The attempt is to break day evening. the State government issued ment releases the loan, we an innovative way. the record of renowned sand A concerted effort by the According to information a soft loan of ₹5 crore on Au- will place the order for two The schools are run by the artist Sudarshan Patnaik personnel of the National reaching here, gust 10, Telangana State Avi- aircraft to procure the train- Andhra Pradesh Social Wel- who created 1,000 images of Disaster Response Force Chandrasekhar was playing ation Academy (TSAA) will ing aircraft.” fare Residential Educational Santa Clause in sand in three (NDRF), State Disaster Re- near his house located close- procure two multi-engine, A total of 35 students are Institutions’ Society days. sponse and Fire Services De- by and slid into the bore- diesel (Aviation Turbine now taking training in the (APSWREIS). Creativity to the fore: Schoolchildren painting national ags on “The children did a re- partment and the police to well to an estimated depth Fuel) run aircraft by Novem- academy which is suppor- Led by their teachers, the Mypadu beach on Tuesday. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT markable job. A mere 15- rescue the boy continued till of 15 to 20 feet. The borewell ber this year. ted by Ministry of Civil Avi- children marched to the minute demo in their school late in the night. is abandoned and was left Currently, the academy, ation. The academy offers sandy beach with an excite- The sand blocks spread Kumar, started the sand play was what they knew about However, a sudden spell uncovered by the owner of which restarted operations 200 flying hours of training ment of doing something over 200 metres on the and in a short while, there the art. Since the kids were of rain hampered their at- the field. 30 days after the massive apart from theory classes. that could earn them a place beach with the National Tri- stood colourful rows of sand spread over a long stretch tempts as water started en- His cries caught the atten- fire, has four used aircraft The duration of the course in the Limca Book of colour painted on them pillars bearing the flag. and there was no mike to in- tering the borewell despite tion of the residents of the including three Cessna-152 is usually 18 months. Each Records. made an interesting spec- struct everybody at once, I the efforts of the workers to area, who alerted the rev- and one Cessna-172. It also student is charged ₹18.5 In the next 2 hours 40 tacle. ‘Rangoli’ colours was worried about a possible stop the flow. Digging the al- enue and police officials. has a brand new Diamond lakh for single engine air- minutes, they painted 1,186 Bringing their creative After making mounds of botch-up. But they observed ternative pit became tough Oxygen was being sup- DA-42. The Cessna aircraft craft training and ₹ 23 lakh Indian Flags on elevated side up, the students, under sand, they added water to the work of their closest as the earthmover hit a huge plied through tubes by the are single engine carriers, for multi-engine training. sand blocks raised using the watchful eyes of young make it wet. They then over- friends and followed it,” said boulder necessitating a staff of the Medical and plastic buckets. sand artist Manchala Sanath turned the buckets with Mr. Sanath Kumar. change in the direction. Health Department.

Court verdict Human-avifauna conict continues to escalate in Uppalapadu “The Land Acquisition Act of 2013 cannot be applied to the Vamsadhara-dis- But after nearly two decades of waiting, residents are vexed with the Andhra Pradesh Government for not fullling promises placed as the acquisition process had started in G.Venkataramana Rao ment for not fulfilling prom- throughout the sub-contin- ter with their droppings. We drinking water tanks. 2005-06 and a majority of Uppalapadu ises made to them. The initial ent, has occupied the entire cannot put up with the birds Ornithologist and wildlife the displaced had been Uppalapadu, the artificial euphoria of being hosts to place. While no pelican nests at the cost of people. More conservation activist K. given compensation long haven for a variety of water- several celebrities who came are seen, the openbilled land is also needed to grow Mruthyunjayara Rao, who ago,” he said. fowl, has always been in the to see these exotic birds too storks are busy collecting trees for the birds to perch was instrumental in getting Those who approached centre of a human-wildlife seems to have died down. twigs for nest building. on. The birds do not enjoy the people of the village ac- the High Court could not conflict. It took many prom- Though the numbers of the goodwill they had cept the birds to roost in the get a favourable verdict as ises and a lot of convincing the pelicans dwindle in sum- Drinking water earlier,” said a gram pan- village, told The Hindu that the court made it clear that for the residents of the vil- mer, they bounce back with “We were promised drinking chayat member emphatic- neither the pipeline was laid the new Act would not be lage, about 10 km from Gun- the onset of the monsoon. water round the year, dir- ally. nor the additional land allot- relevant if 90% of the ac- tur city, to accept the birds This year, however, they have ectly from Krishna, through a ted. Funds lapsed because quisition was completed and not to drive them away. not returned even two and dedicated pipeline. The num- Trees cut the officers concerned had prior to 2013. The villagers agreed to half months after the onset of ber of birds flocking to Up- Succumbing to public pres- failed to utilise them. The The land acquisition share one of their seven Facing a threat: Open-billed storks have taken over the the South-West Monsoon. palapadu has increased man- sure, the Uppalapadu gram pelican would return in good process for the Kovvada drinking water tanks with the Uppalapadu waterfowl haven near Guntur. * CH. VIJAYA BHASKAR During the season, pelic- ifold and they are also panchayat has cut down sev- numbers again in the winter, nuclear power plant was birds. They include the ans and painted storks rule spreading to the other six eral trees in the Zilla Par- but the demographic stress progressing smoothly be- exotic spotbilled (or Grey) which have the habit of nest- acres, at any given time. the roost. Currently, however tanks. Knowing the import- ishad School compound to was bound to wreak havoc cause of the huge com- pelicans, painted storks, ing in colonies. Thousands of But after nearly two dec- the Asian openbilled stork ance of these birds, we can- tide over the bird menace. and increase the conflict pensation being paid, he more than one kind of ibises birds are seen in the restric- ades of waiting, the residents that does not migrate season- not kill or drive them away, The school is located in between the people and the said. and many local water birds ted area, fewer than eight are vexed with the govern- ally, but is distributed but they are ruining the wa- the midst of the half a dozen winged guests, he said. CM A ND-NDE YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

NOIDA/DELHI THE HINDU 6 NATION WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2017 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

IN BRIEF Weather Watch Kanjia lake undergoing restoration Rainfall, temperature & air quality in select metros yesterday Dense thickets over 39 hectares of the 66-hectare lake already cleared; de-weeding also under way

Satyasundar Barik migratory birds. More than BHUBANESWAR 37 species of birds have been Khattar: winds of change The Kanjia lake — a wetland spotted in the lake ecosys- in Haryana under BJP of national importance and tem. Besides, 20 species of GURGAON lifeline for wildlife at the reptiles, 10 species of amphi- Haryana Chief Minister Nandankanan Biological bians, 46 species of fish and Manohar Lal Khattar on Park (NBP) here — is now un- three species of prawns have Tuesday said that efforts of his dergoing restoration as been recorded so far,” it government have led to workers are clearing the says. efficient governance and dense thickets that eclipsed elimination of corruption. “As a the lake’s beauty and Floral composition result of concerted efforts by choked its water discharge. The floral composition of the government, the winds of Thickets over 39 hectares the lake consists of 10 spe- change are blowing and the of the 66-hectare lake have cies of sub-merged macro- people have seen results in already been cleared. The phytes, 14 of floating macro- over 1,025 days,” he said. PTI NBP authorities plan to phytes and 24 of emergent carry on with the clearing macrophytes. work till the lake is fully re- “The lake is a perennial Four killed as bus falls stored. A barge-mounted water body. It is blessed with Temperature Data: IMD, Pollution Data: CPCB, Map: Skymet (Taken at 18.00 Hrs) into gorge in Himachal heavy duty de-weeding ma- a good aquifer which allows Forecast for Wednesday: Heavy to very heavy rain likely at SHIMLA chine has been deployed to the groundwater to flow isolated places over Andaman & Nicobar islands, Jharkhand, A Himachal Road Transport clear the thickets that have through the rocks. Besides, West Bengal, Assam, Meghalaya, Andhra Pradesh and Corporation (HRTC) bus fell been running over the lake Kanjia gets surface water Karnataka. into a deep gorge near Khanag for the past 30 years. The Crystal clear: The thickets at the lake had been growing for 30 years and had even turned into a from the nearby Chandaka city rain max min city rain max min in Kullu district on Tuesday situation had grown to such grazing ground for cattle. * BISWARANJAN ROUT forest, because of which the Agartala...... 13.1.... 32.6.... 25.7 Kozhikode ...... -.... 33.0.... 26.0 killing four persons, including an extent that the thickets lake hardly ever dries up,” Ahmedabad...... -.... 33.2.... 25.2 Kurnool...... -.... 34.9.... 24.7 Aizawl ...... 14.0.... 27.9.... 11.2 Lucknow...... -.... 34.1.... 26.3 two women, and injuring nine had turned into a grazing mini barge to clear the thick- after it is chlorinated. If the gical Park. The zoological said Mr. Acharya. Allahabad ...... -.... 34.6.... 27.5 Madurai...... 22.3.... 34.6.... 22.6 others, the police said. Around ground for cattle. ets on a regular basis, rather water is polluted, it will spell park remains to the south of Mr. Acharya said authorit- Bengaluru...... 128.7.... 28.3.... 19.2 Mangaluru...... -.... 30.7.... 24.5 20 passengers were in the than delaying it for decades. doom for the animals,” Mr. the lake, whereas the botan- ies were aware that some un- Bhopal...... -.... 30.2.... 23.1 Mumbai...... 53.7.... 29.8.... 23.7 Bhubaneswar ...... 6.6.... 31.8.... 25.8 Mysuru...... 4.0.... 29.4.... 19.8 ill-fated bus which was on its Water for the zoo A sizeable area of the lake Acharya said. ical garden is situated to the scrupulous elements had Chandigarh ...... -.... 34.5.... 27.0 New Delhi ...... -.... 37.0.... 27.7 way to Bagipul from Kullu, Every year, the NBP author- near the Botanical Garden is north. blocked the outer channel of Chennai ...... -.... 35.2.... 26.2 Patna ...... 28.6.... 30.2.... 25.6 they said. PTI ities carry out minimal de- also affected by thicket form- Important wetland In 2006, the lake was re- Kanjia by ground-filling. “We Coimbatore...... 3.2.... 31.2.... 23.4 Port Blair ...... 1.5.... 30.6.... 24.8 weeding to facilitate boating ation,” said NBP director According to NBP, it is an im- cognised as a wetland of na- have already moved a pro- Dehradun...... -.... 33.0.... 24.6 Puducherry...... 10.2.... 33.2.... 23.8 Gangtok...... 8.4.... 23.2.... 18.5 Pune ...... -.... 29.4.... 22.2 as well as supply water to Sisir Acharya. portant wetland lying to the tional importance by the posal to clear encroach- Goa ...... -.... 28.0.... 24.0 Raipur ...... -.... 32.5.... 24.7 Four minors killed in road the Nandankanan zoo. “The water from Kanjia is south of the Mahanadi delta Ministry of Environment ments on the lake’s outlet. Guwahati ...... 0.1.... 33.6.... 26.0 Ranchi...... -.... 31.0.... 21.5 accident in Uttar Pradesh “Now, we are exploring vital to the zoo as we supply head, within the boundary and Forest. One cannot block a water Hubballi...... -.... 29.0.... 21.0 Shillong...... 22.7.... 25.0.... 14.7 Hyderabad ...... -.... 31.9.... 22.1 Shimla...... -.... 24.5.... 16.4 SITAPUR the option of purchasing a them water from the lake of the Nandankanan Biolo- “It is home to many local channel,” he said. Imphal...... 0.1.... 27.0.... 23.0 Srinagar ...... -.... 27.6.... 16.3 Four children, including a girl, Jaipur...... -.... 34.8.... 24.4 Trivandrum ...... -.... 31.7.... 25.2 were killed when a car hit Kochi...... -.... 31.6.... 25.6 Tiruchi ...... 9.9.... 33.9.... 22.2 them at Ataria on National Kohima...... 9.2.... 25.4.... 18.2 Vijayawada...... -.... 35.6.... 25.9 Kolkata...... 0.1.... 33.6.... 26.0 Visakhapatnam ...... -.... 33.0.... 27.6 Highway-24, the police said Odisha: three killed on Tuesday. The accident took 2 beach shack owners held Particulate matter in the air you are breathing Yesterday place last evening when CITIES SO2 NO2 CO PM2.5 PM10 CODE Ahmedabad ...... -...... -.....-...... - ...... - ...... - Neeraj (15), Vikas (12), Rajveer as coal stack caves in * In observations made at Bengaluru...... 4 ...18 ..24...... 32 ...... -...... (10) and Mansi (11) were Police raid nds waiters, patrons in possession of drugs * 4 p.m., Jodhpur recorded Chennai...... 6 ...13 ..80...... 75 ...... -...... an air quality index (AQI) grazing their goats along the Incident on Dhamra Port campus Delhi ...... 15 ...53 ..24.... 100 ...... -...... * score of 158, indicating highway, SO of Ataria police Prakash Kamat “They have been arrested the police crackdown on Hyderabad...... 6 ...29 ....9...... 53 ...... -...... * relatively Kolkata...... 20 ...54 ..23...... -...... 76...... * high levels of pollutants Staff Reporter Panaji station O. P. Rai said. PTI the coal stack to remove under Section 25 of the Nar- drugs, rave parties and late Lucknow...... 5 ...29 ..40...... 95 ...... -...... * in the air. In contrast, BHUBANESWAR Muzaffarpur recorded a polythene for the mechan- The North Goa police on cotic Drugs and Psycho- night music events would Mumbai...... 7 .....5 ..23...... 28...... 44...... * healthy AQI score of 44. Three workers were killed ised loading equipment to Tuesday arrested owners of tropic Substances Act,” she continue. Pune ...... 41 .....3 ..68...... 19...... 31...... * Visakhapatnam .....13 ...13 ..21...... 86....123...... * Trailer-tractor trolley and an equal number are handle the cargo. two popular beach shacks in said. Three tourists from “The reason for increase collision kills four battling for life after a coal Anjuna village following a Bengaluru, have been in drug use in Goa is because Air Quality Code: * Poor * Moderate * Good JAIPUR stack caved in on the Workers turn violent SO2: Sulphur Dioxide. Short-term exposure can harm the respiratory system, raid which found waiters booked after they were of increased frustration and making breathing difficult. It can affect visibility by reacting with other air Four people were killed and Dhamra Port campus, 200 The workers were rushed to and patrons at the establish- found in possession of lack of direction among particles to form haze and stain culturally important objects such as statues 15 others injured on Tuesday km from here, on Tuesday. the Bhadrak district ments in possession of drugs, according to a press youngsters,” Mr. Parrikar and monuments. when their tractor-trolley Sources said the death toll is headquarter hospital. Three drugs. release issued by the Anjuna said. NO2: Nitrogen Dioxide. Aggravates respiratory illness, causes haze to form by collided with a trailer in the likely to rise as three more workers were declared dead reacting with other air particles, causes acid rain, pollutes coastal waters. Superintendent of Police, police on Tuesday evening. “Late night rave parties CO: Carbon monoxide. High concentration in air reduces oxygen supply to Bhagsoda police station area workers are said to be at the hospital while the North Goa, Chandan are illegal and it is where critical organs like the heart and brain. At very high levels, it can cause of Chittorgarh district, the trapped under the coal condition of three others Choudhury confirmed the CM backs action drugs are consumed and dis- dizziness, confusion, unconsciousness and even death. police said. The trailer driver heap. was said to be critical. When arrests of Edwin Nunes, At his Independence Day tributed. Rave parties on PM2.5 & PM10: Particulate matter pollution can cause irritation of the eyes, was arrested and booked nose and throat, coughing, chest tightness and shortness of breath, reduced The incident happened other workers got to know owner of Curlies shack, and speech at the State-level cel- beaches or remote areas lung function, irregular heartbeat, asthma attacks, heart attacks and under relevant sections of the around 12 noon when about of the accident, they al- Rohan Shetty of Club Nyex, ebrations here, Chief Minis- should be totally stopped,” premature death in people with heart or lung disease IPC, the police said. PTI nine workers had gone up legedly resorted to violence. both located at Anjuna. ter Manohar Parrikar said Mr. Parrikar added.

THE HINDU NOIDA/DELHI WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2017 NATION 7 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Everyone 1 2 gets equal chance: CJI

Legal Correspondent NEW DELHI In his Independence Day address, Chief Justice of India J.S. Khehar made his own former identity as a Kenyan citizen and his rise to become the first Sikh Chief Justice of the country as an example of how India embraces people cutting across ethnicity and religious identities and treats them equally. “You are no less or more than anyone else... Christians, Buddhists, Hindus, Zoroastrians, Muslims or Jains, everybody... everybody should be proud of his own religion, proud of his own ethnicity. Proud to be an Indian,” Chief Justice Khehar, who is scheduled to retire by the end of August, said after saluting 3 4 5 the Tricolour on the Supreme Court lawns in a function organised by the Supreme Court Bar Association on Tuesday.

No discrimination To buttress his point that the nation provides equal opportunity to all regardless of class, caste or religion, the Chief Justice pointed to the humble origins of the nation’s highest constitutional authorities — a President who is a Dalit and spent his childhood in a mud hut, a Vice-President who started 1. Children perform a cultural show at the police parade grounds in Vijayawada on Tuesday during the 71st Independence Day celebrations. 2) Braving rain and ood, sta and two students hoist the Tricolour at a school in Fakirganj, his political career pasting Assam. 3) Mountaineer Raghunath Reddy, who scaled Mount Kilimanjaro, waves the Tricolour atop Africa’s highest peak. 4) Rajasthani artists perform in Puducherry. 5) Members of the Rotary Club in Hassan, Karnataka, celebrate posters and a PM who was a tea vendor. with a procession, where they displayed a 1,759 ft-long Tricolour. * V. RAJU, MIZANUR RAHMAN, SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT, T. SINGARAVELOU AND PRAKASH HASSAN

Restore SC to plug loopholes in bail process dignity to Remove dangerous game: Centre Wants to stop accused exploting procedural labyrinth widows: SC Social media platforms ordered to kill links to Blue Whale Challenge game Legal Correspondent A Bench of Justices Ran- they surrender before the NEW DELHI Krishnadas Rajagopal Special Correspondent The Electronics and In- This game... may injuries including suicide,” jan Gogoi and Naveen Sinha local trial court and use the NEW DELHI <> NEW DELHI formation Technology Min- eventually lead the senior director in the min- The accused in criminal recently came across the interim order for protection Widows choose to come to The government has asked istry in an order issued last child to extreme istry, Arvind Kumar, noted in cases take anticipatory bail phenomenon of accused ap- against arrest from the holy places like Vrindavan all major social media and Friday has asked the heads his order. from the Supreme Court or proaching multiple forums higher court to flex their steps for self- to escape social ostracisa- communication platforms to of Google India, Facebook, High Courts and use it to get to get bail in the case of a muscles before the trial tion, but only to fall into a ‘immediately remove’ any Whatsapp, Instagram, Mi- inicting injuries, Strict order regular bail from trial woman accused of abetment judge to get regular bail. mire of indignity and beg- links to the Blue Whale Chal- crosoft India as well as Ya- including suicide “You are hereby required to courts, taking advantage of to suicide. The fallout is that in fu- gary, the Supreme Court lenge game that has led sev- hoo India to prevent the dis- Arvind Kumar ensure that any such link of the procedural labyrinth in ture, even if the higher court said. eral children around the semination of the game senior director, IT Ministry this deadly game in its own criminal law. Modus operandi cancels or decides not to re- It condemned the mod- world, including India, to citing ‘instances of children name or any similar game is The Supreme Court has Usually, the modus operandi new the interim bail, the ac- ern-day stigma against wid- commit suicide as a final committing suicide’ while istrator of the game uses so- immediately removed from asked the directors of judi- is that the accused would ap- cused would remain on bail ows, while setting up a task. playing it. cial media platforms to in- your platform. The pro- cial academies and criminal proach the Supreme Court on the strength of the trial committee of experts to It ordered that pro- “The government is con- vite/incite children to play ponent of this game should courts across the country to or the High Court concerned court’s regular bail. study reports collected by ponents of the fatal and mas- cerned about the availability this game, which may even- be reported to law enforce- guard against such wily acts or even the sessions court The Bench was informed the court during the past ochistic game be reported to of such games on Internet. It tually lead the child to ex- ment agencies,” the order by persons trying to get the for interim pre-arrest bail. this loophole by Jharkhand decade and come up with a law enforcement agencies. is understood that an admin- treme steps for self-inflicting stressed. better of the law. Once this is procured, Atulesh Kumar. plan to rehabilitate the hapless widows of Vrin- davan and other ashrams by November 30, 2017. Are politicians not 150 ocials under CBI Plan to use software One of the suggestions is to creditworthy, asks MP scanner over note ban kick into motion an Aadhaar-enabled software 53 cases related to banks already led to identify widows when Telangana lawmaker was refused loan they enter as inmates of Devesh K. Pandey sheets have already been Swadhar homes. Sandeep Phukan NEW DELHI filed. In all, 53 probes are re- The court highlighted New Delhi A massive crack down by lated to various banks and reports which recommen- Can a bank discriminate the CBI on illegal exchange more than 10 pertaining to ded widow remarriage. against a politician when it of demonetised notes has post offices. Based on the “This is a subject of hope comes to offering a loan? resulted in registration of documents made available that might enable our soci- That’s what Dr. Boora Nar- more than 70 cases and pre- by other agencies, more ety to give up the stereo- saiah Goud, a first-time law- liminary enquiries, in- cases are being contem- type view of widows. We maker from Telangana, volving an initial sum of plated. request the committee to asked in the Lok Sabha last ₹400 crore, and arrest of consider this during its de- Thursday, while participat- about two dozen persons Major cases liberations,” a Bench of ing in a debate on the mer- Boora Narsaiah Goud across the country. The major bank-related Justices Madan B. Lokur ger of State Bank of India’s The agency has booked cases include one registered and Deepak Gupta ob- subsidiary banks with the bank had “initially approved close to 150 officials of pub- in February this year against served recently. parent company. the amount he had asked lic and private banks, the a Deputy General Manager “There can be little or Mr. Goud now plans to for”, it went back on it after Reserve Bank of India, post (Regional Office) and no doubt at all that widows take up the issue with Fin- senior management execut- offices, railway, insurance Branch Manager (Mumbai’s in some parts of the coun- ance Minister Arun Jaitley. ives discovered that he had and other government of- Zaveri Bazar) of Union Bank try are socially deprived “I will be writing to him to become a member of fices over the past nine of India, besides jewellers. It and to an extent ostra- ask if politicians have low Parliament. months. is alleged that ₹84.60 crore cised. Perhaps this is the creditworthiness,” he told “When my source of in- Over 300 private per- in cash was fraudulently reason why many of them The Hindu. It is an interest- come, tax details are the sons, including tax consult- shown as deposited in the choose to come to Vrin- ing question to ask at a time same, how can they dis- ants, chartered account- accounts of private firms. davan and other ashrams when public sector banks criminate just because I am ants, middlemen, jewellers Several cooperative where, unfortunately, they are struggling with non-per- now a politician? Under and businessmen running banks were found indulging are not treated with the forming assets to the tune of what law can they do this?” shell companies, have also in illegal exchange of the de- dignity they deserve,” ₹6.8 lakh crore. asks the Telangana Rashtra been named. In coordina- monetised notes. Justice Lokur said. The ver- A well-known laparo- Samithi member. Dr. Goud tion with other agencies, the One case allegedly in- dict was based on a PIL pe- scopic surgeon in Hydera- also claimed that banks CBI seized ₹36 crore in cash volves four employees of tition filed almost 10 years bad, Dr. Goud had applied have an “unwritten rule not during various operations. Vaidyanath Cooperative ago by the Environment for a loan from one of the to easily offer loans to pro- While 55 of the cases are Urban Bank, a well-known and Consumer Protection biggest private banks in fessionals like lawyers and currently under investiga- doctor and an Aurangabad- Foundation. April. He claims though the policemen.” tion, about a dozen charge based hospital. Maoists trigger pipe-bomb blast Three STF personnel returning from operation injured

Press Trust of India under Fulbagdi police sta- forests of Sukma, around Raipur tion limits when a joint team 400 km from here, the offi- Three Special Task Force of security forces was re- cial said. (STF) personnel were in- turning after an anti-Maoist Maoists are known to jured on Tuesday, one of operation, a senior police mount attacks on I-Day. them seriously, when official told PTI. On their way back, when Maoists triggered a pipe- Separate teams of secur- one of the patrol teams was bomb blast in Chhattisgarh’s ity forces, comprising CRPF, nearing Pariya village, nax- insurgency-hit Sukma dis- STF, DRG (District Reserve als triggered the blast from trict, police said. Guard) and district force, inside the forest, injuring The incident took place at had launched the operation the three STF personnel, the around 3 p.m. in the forests since Monday in the interior official said. CM A ND-NDE YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

NOIDA/DELHI THE HINDU 8 EDITORIAL WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2017 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Caution from a sobering Survey Given the macroeconomic context, India should have recorded higher economic growth this year is higher than the capital base (RBI) for thwarting industrial available to most public sector growth. Even when the monetary banks. So technically their net policy framework has now become Future perfect? worth is negative. On the other focussed on ination targeting, the hand, corporates too are reeling RBI’s forecasts have overshot six The PM looks beyond his term to a developed, under stretched balance sheets, out of 14 times in as many quarters. burdened by excessive borrowing Isn’t it being too conservative? ajit ranade corruption-free India. But is there a road map? at high interest rates (from the Why can’t it slash interest rates ag- n talking of a New India free of casteism, terrorism, past), excess capacity and not-so gressively to enable growth? To be y tradition the Economic Sur- robust demand for their products. fair, the Chief Economic Adviser corruption and nepotism by 2022, in his Independ- vey used to be presented to Their situation is made worse with has said this many times, so the Ience Day address, Prime Minister Narendra Modi BParliament on the eve of the the ood of imports, which take Survey is echoing the Ministry line, was seeking to sell a longer term vision to Indians, a vis- Union Budget. But then, the gov- away their domestic market share. but the debate is inconclusive. The ion that goes beyond the limit of his current term in of- ernment under Prime Minister The strong rupee makes imports ination expectations surveys of ce. While he did dwell on the achievements of his gov- Narendra Modi is known to break more attractive. Under the GST re- the RBI consistently show people’s ernment in the last three years, Mr. Modi was largely with tradition. For instance, it ad- gime, the countervailing duty paid anxiety about future price rise. focussed on his vision for the future, one in which vanced the presentation of the GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO in lieu of excise (now GST) is now And it is not as if the investment Budget by one month; it has done by was not available in February, loss of national income of close to tax deductible. Earlier it was not train will zoom in as soon as in- farmer income would double and where youth and wo- away with a separate Railways hence the delay. The second part of ₹5 lakh crore in nominal terms. for many products. This makes im- terest rates are cut. Many other men would have many more opportunities. The road Budget; and it has merged the two the Survey comes almost six The continuing deationary trends ports that much more attractive in factors weigh on the minds of in- map was not clear, but Mr. Modi is convinced that his categories of “plan” and “non- months later, so has some addi- arise from lower investment ratio, comparison with domestically vestors. The key problem is of achievements are steps toward a happier, more secure plan” spending. These are signic- tional analytical pieces. The data low farm prices especially for non- produced goods. The strong rupee course the continuing burden of future for the country. Demonetisation, the Goods and ant breaks from the past. The big that it presents and its prognosis cereals foods, the cutting back on has also been agged by the Survey non-performing assets (NPA). Re- Services Tax, the movement toward a digital economy, one, of course, is the winding for the near term future call for development spending by State as potentially harming the do- peated and innovative proposals all these were spoken of as part of a movement inexor- down of the Planning Commission sobering reection. governments owing to the burden mestic economy. from the RBI (under various ac- itself. So also, in a break from tradi- Economic growth for scal year of loan waivers, and of course the Is the weakness in industrial ronyms such as CDR, SDR, S4A, or ably leading to a corruption-free, transparent India. Un- tion, this year, the full Survey was 2016-17 was 7.1%. This was the year twin balance sheet problem (more growth a structural problem or a corporate debt restructuring, stra- like last year, when he was silent on the violence in not presented at the beginning of when oil prices and ination were about this below). The Survey cites cyclical one? If the latter, then we tegic debt restructuring and Kashmir, this Independence Day he went so far as to ask the Budget session. Only Part I was moderate, monsoon rains were the example of Uttar Pradesh should see an upswing. But it also scheme for sustainable structuring terrorists to join the mainstream, insisting that the presented. This is the part which is abundant, inbound foreign direct which had to slash its development has long-term structural dimen- of stressed assets) have not borne Kashmir problem cannot be solved by bullets, but only policy oriented and future looking. investment was at record peak, the spending by 13% in order to accom- sions. The investment-to-GDP ratio fruit. by embracing fellow Kashmiris. But more important, It reads like a doctoral thesis, with currency was stable and the scal modate the farm loan waiver. has been steadily falling for ve he went on to speak against violence in the name of many conceptual ideas and analyt- decit was under control. With years in a row. Of this the private The silver lining ical pieces. It covers various topics: such macroeconomic context, the Industrial problems sector component growth is Finally as with all things Indian, faith, saying it is unacceptable in India. Mr. Modi has the puzzle of lack of convergence year should have recorded at least On the industrial front, the news is abysmally low. The bank credit one must end with optimism. The spoken about communalism and casteism as twin evils in growth of States, the challenge one percentage point higher not upbeat. The latest June data on growth to industry has been con- scal situation at the Centre is im- before, but the specic reference to violence in the of governance of cities, a new scal growth than the previous year. But the index of industrial production sistently negative since September proving. Exports are nally in pos- name of faith appeared intended as a word of caution framework for India, etc. It also that was not to be, and demonet- (IIP) shows negative growth, i.e. 2016. How does one revive this sen- itive territory. The basic building meant for the overzealous in his own political constitu- presents a much-awaited longish isation could be the biggest reason. contraction of the index, which is timent, so that one sees at least two blocks of longer term growth are ency, especially lynch mobs that have targeted Muslim piece on demonetisation (without Indeed the second half of the last the rst in the last four years. It dozen prominent industrial pro- being put in place. The four major and other traders in the name of cow protection. In this, giving away precise quantitative es- scal saw the growth rate plummet may very well be due to de-stock- jects worth ₹10,000 crore each? At reforms are: GST, a new insolvency timates of its impact). Such is the by 1.2 percentage points compared ing of warehouses before the July 1 a time when the Sensex scales new and bankruptcy code to deal with he seemed to echo President Ram Nath Kovind, who impression of the scholarly tome to the rst half. launch of the Goods and Services peaks, somehow that sentiment is NPAs, a new monetary policy called for a compassionate society that does not dis- on the research community, that The Survey says that signs of Tax (GST), but it does not seem so. not infecting physical investment framework, and Aadhaar linkage criminate on the basis of gender or religious back- the University of Mumbai has ad- slowdown were evident even be- The contraction is particularly in plant and machinery. Opportun- to government services. While the ground. And like Mr. Kovind, who called for a partner- opted it as a textbook in its eco- fore the surprise November an- widespread across manufacturing ities from Digital India, Smart Cit- near term may not cross 7%, the ship between the citizen and the government to ensure nomics courses. nouncement of demonetisation. sectors, with 15 out of 23 industries ies Mission and Housing for All are medium term has the potential to that the benets of government policy reach all sections Next year too, the Survey forecasts showing negative growth. This is huge, but a kickstart is needed. see a sustained 8% growth path. The update a growth closer to its lower bound, where the twin balance sheet prob- of the people, Mr. Modi invoked Team India to run for a The third area highlighted by The caution of the Survey is tinged But Parliament wants hard data, possibly lower than 7%. In three lem hits hardest. Bank balance the Survey is the nancial sector, with this optimism! New India. which is in Part II of the Survey. years if the economy has missed sheets are stretched with a non- including money and banking. It Although he spoke about the support India has re- This data has the stamp of authen- one percentage point every year, performing assets (loans) ratio implicitly blames the high interest ceived from several countries in its ght against terror- ticity. The data about the year gone cumulatively that’s a permanent close to 10% of their total loan. This policy of the Reserve Bank of India Ajit Ranade is an economist ism, Mr. Modi made no mention of Pakistan other than in relation to the surgical strikes, which, he said, had forced the world to accept India’s capability and strength. Last year, he had made specic references to No case for an all India judicial service Balochistan, speaking about the attacks on Balochs in Pakistan, and how people there had commended him Centralising recruitment will not address the multiple problems in the judiciary for his support for them. There was no mention of all-India examination and alloc- reers and tend to have shorter ten- diciary as of October 2016 was China or the Doklam stand-o either. The speech ated to each State along the lines of ures than judges appointed dir- 21,374 while the total number of seemed directed entirely at the domestic audience, the AIS. This, it is argued, will en- ectly from the Bar. Even if a lawyer sanctioned posts for the three AIS with the focus largely on development and a reliance on sure a transparent and ecient is eager to serve as a judge, she was 14,355. Of these, 22.67% of technology-enabled solutions to transform the country method of recruitment to attract would rather wait to be eligible for posts were vacant in the subordin- over the next ve years. That is a period that goes bey- the best talent in India’s legal pro- direct elevation to the High Court ate judiciary while it was 20.47% of fession. A milder version of this, than have to go through the grind posts in the AIS. Data from Decem- ond the next general election and quite clearly Mr. Modi alok prasanna kumar with judges recruited by High in the district judiciary. ber 2011 show that 24.91% of AIS va- sees himself as serving a second term. Courts on the basis of a common An AIJS addresses neither the cancies were unlled, while the g- he proposal to create an All- examination is currently being de- problem of disproportionately low ure for the subordinate judiciary India Judicial Service (AIJS) bated in the Supreme Court. This is pay nor the lack of career advance- was 20.45%. Therefore, both the Talong the lines of the All India also a proposal with serious ment. While the former is in the decentralised approach of each Making friends Services (AIS) is one that has been drawbacks. hands of the State governments High Court conducting its own ap- endlessly debated since the idea The rst objection to this idea is GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO concerned, the latter is in the pointment and a centralised one The BJP would like a united AIADMK was rst mooted by the Law Com- that it does not adequately dia- tor, notably law rms, litigation hands of the judiciary itself, but no seem to have roughly the same ef- mission in the 1950s. It has never gnose the problem. What exactly is and the corporate sector. A civil changes have been made to ensure cacy in lling up the vacancy. as an ally, but with a weak leadership really moved forward as the same holding back the smartest and the judge (junior division), and the better district judge representa- The problems of the Indian judi- n theory, the two factions of the All India Anna arguments both for and against it best from the judiciary? The an- lowest entry level post, can expect tion in the High Courts. ciary at all levels have reached Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam have every reason to have been made over and over swer lies in the fact that the Bar a basic pay of ₹27,700 per month. catastrophic levels. The public is again. There are no neat lines Council of India has mismanaged Top graduates can expect to earn Causes new problems losing condence in the judiciary merge. The original cause of the split, the domin- I which can be drawn between those legal education. Barring a few is- at least three times as much in In- On the other hand, an AIJS creates despite the latter’s assertions. Data ance of the Sasikala family in the party, is now seem- who favour and oppose it as there lands of excellence, almost no ef- dian law rms in equivalent entry new problems. A “national exam” show that they are acting on this ingly irrelevant: Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palan- have been disagreements within fort has gone into improving the level positions. risks shutting out those from less belief by ling fewer cases year on iswami, who was elected as the leader of the AIADMK the judiciary, the government and standard of legal education across Lower pay would also be accept- privileged backgrounds from being year. It is likely to be a combination legislature party at a meeting presided over by V.K. the Bar over its necessity and de- the country. The best law schools able, as with the civil services, if able to enter the judicial services. It of delays, cost, uncertainty, ine- Sasikala, is more assertive now, shepherding a resolu- sirability. The debate has once in India are the few set up and fun- the position was accompanied by may also end up not taking into ac- ciency and corruption. Not one of tion to rescind the appointment of her nephew, T.T.V. again come to the fore with a fresh ded by the State governments, bar- suciently good terms and condi- count local laws, practices and cus- these problems is solved to any de- move to implement it and nine ring a few exceptions. tions of service, and a dened ca- toms which vary widely across gree by centralising the manner of Dhinakaran, as deputy general secretary of the party. High Courts expressing their disap- Within this incredibly small tal- reer progression. While trial court States, vastly increasing the costs recruitment of judges. On the con- Also, both factions need to retrieve the party election proval. ent pool, the judiciary competes judges face much the same prob- of training for judges selected trary, this endless, stagnant debate symbol, Two Leaves, that has been frozen by the Elec- by oering very unremunerative lem in the case of transfers and through the mechanism. Even if on the AIJS only takes up time and tion Commission. This is unlikely without a formal mer- Why it is a bad idea pay and limited avenues for career such issues as civil services of- the language aspect can be ad- energy instead of focussing atten- ger. However, things are not exactly what they seem. An AIJS is a terrible idea in so far as advancement. cers, they have fewer avenues for dressed adequately, the question tion on implementing more direct Despite the distancing from Mr. Dhinakaran, the ruling judicial reforms in India are con- While a lot of eort has been un- growth and promotion. A study still remains this: To what end an solutions to address the problems faction of the AIADMK, the AIADMK (Amma), is hesit- cerned and does not solve even a dertaken by the Supreme Court to published in the Economic and AIJS? of the Indian judiciary. single problem being faced by the ensure uniformity in pay scales Political Weekly in 2016 showed If the answer is to ll up vacan- ant to speak harshly of Ms. Sasikala, other than to say Indian judiciary. across States through its orders in that less than a third of seats in the cies faster, compare the vacancy the party’s cadres would not like anyone else to occupy Alok Prasanna Kumar is Senior Resident The brief outline of the AIJS is the All India Judges’ Association High Courts are lled by judges position in the AIS and the subor- Fellow at the Vidhi Centre for Legal the post of “permanent general secretary” held by Jay- generally this: district judges will case, it is still abysmally low when from the district cadre. They are dinate judiciary. The total number Policy, Bengaluru and an advocate based alalithaa. O. Panneerselvam, the leader of the break- be recruited centrally through an compared to that in the private sec- also appointed later in their ca- of positions in the subordinate ju- in the city away faction, met Prime Minister Narendra Modi to “convey the sentiments of the AIADMK cadres”, a short- LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Letters emailed to [email protected] must carry the full postal address and the full name or the name with initials. hand for opposition to the merger proposal. With elections to the Lok Sabha two years away, and to the State Timeless advice ecosystem where citizens clout. Legislative safeguard the distinctive should have a larger debate bulls had no say in the Assembly four years away, there is no pressure to hurry The Hindu’s rst editorial in participate enthusiastically interventions such as identity of the State. And in on Article 35A. Does this matter, students have no say through with the merger process. But issues that stand independent India was a with the state. If the pace of women’s reservation in the present circumstances, mean that apart from Article too in the passing of this in the way, the competing ambitions of Mr. Palaniswami riveting read (“A Red-Letter purposeful welfare panchayat elections and it may be necessary to 368 which deals with the ordinance. Was it right to and Mr. Panneerselvam, and the acute dierences over Day”, August 15). initiatives are positively minimum educational continue the ‘status quo’ as power and procedure of have made students appear sharing ministerial berths and party posts, are unlikely Notwithstanding our seven sustained and governments qualications became a long as the people of that amending the Constitution for NEET, clear it, give them to disappear. The demand for constituting a probe into decades of a tryst with at both levels show the positive reinforcement. As State want it. The Supreme (a tardy process), the hope, and then at the last freedom, these erudite and fortitude to usher in political the writer says, “it was more Court is already hearing a government has found a minute when all other Jayalalithaa’s death is a cover for other unstated claims insightful words are still and economic reforms in due to default rather than Public Interest Litigation on shorter way to get it done? admissions are over, leave to power and pelf. After months of deep distrust, the relevant. Defeating the the coming days, “we, the design” that the interplay of the constitutional validity of Although presumption of them in the lurch? two factions are not going to magically come together communal parasites and people” will have new armative laws and the the Article. The process of constitutionality is a Why not publish a list of all of a sudden without working out a practical power- giving minorities their substantial and cogent systematic challenges for discussion, dialogue and principle of law, it might those students who will sharing arrangement. political freedom and reasons to celebrate more males to contest elections debate can eventually lead perhaps function dierently “reap the benets” if NEET As things stand, a merger can only be mediated by economic opportunities exuberantly the 75th led to more political to convergence. when the might of the state is exempted? The whole the Bharatiya Janata Party, which seems to wield con- without discrimination or anniversary of our participation of women. Raghavan Sampath, is against a law. Another world will then know disdain are of paramount Independence. Still, these women are a Chennai question that arises is whether any of these poor siderable inuence with both factions on account of be- importance and the Bibhuti Das, shadow of their male whether there would be a village schoolchildren are ing in power at the Centre. In recent times, searches by responsibility of the state. New Delhi relatives. ■ The accepted petition dierent result if the Union the real beneciaries or Income Tax, Enforcement Directorate, and the Central Freedom is also about Indhumathi S., against the constitutionality Government is led by a whether this is another Bureau of Investigation have made leaders of both fac- restructuring our economic Poles apart Chennai of Articles 35A and 370 party which believes in gimmick to help the wards tions cosy up to Mr. Modi. The BJP needs a united AI- policies of resource A possible reason for the throws open many Articles 370 and 35A. Before of doctors, politicians or ADMK, with its election symbol et al, but without a allocation. Economic disconnect between social Relevance of Article 35A questions, the primary one looking into the businessmen. It is apparent freedom must also be status and political Though Jammu and Kashmir being whether the Supreme constitutionality of the that these politicians are strong leadership, as an instrument to nd a political supplemented by political representation of women Chief Minister Mehbooba Court is competent to Articles, the Supreme Court trying to appease the foothold in Tamil Nadu. Over the long term, the na- freedoms that constitute the could be the economic Mufti is perfectly entitled to decide on the has to consider all these managements of some tional party would like to eat into the vote bank of the basic principles of a auence of Haryana (“A her opinion that Article 35A constitutionality of a questions. schools in so-called rural AIADMK, but in the near term an alliance with a relationship between the great divide”, August 15). As should be retained in the constitutional provision. Arnab Roy, areas whose business it is to weakened AIADMK would do. Just as the split earlier state and the citizen in a an agrarian economy which best interests of her State The second one stems from Lucknow churn out students like served its purpose of isolating the corruption-tainted modern, progressive benetted a great deal from and the country as a whole, the attitude of the Union robots to score well in the Sasikala family, a merger now would serve the purpose democracy. The Prime the Green Revolution, her remark, “any attempt to Government, led by the BJP. NEET exemption State Board exams. This is a Minister has envisaged a Haryana saw the tinker with it ... and India Ordinarily, it is the duty of Instead of equipping rural disgusting, an alarming and of nding an important, but non-domineering ally. But developed and progressive embourgeoisement of low will not get a shoulder to the state to argue in favour children in Tamil Nadu with new low in medical the inuence of the Sasikala family works also in unseen India by 2022 which income groups. These carry its national ag in of the constitutionality of the skills and ability to admissions. ways, and the BJP could well be overestimating its own includes defeating groups which got economic J&K”, is in bad taste (“Centre any impugned provision. It compete, State politicians Sheela Ramesh, power over the ruling faction of the AIADMK. There is corruption, poverty, empowerment because of a likely to dier with J&K on was not unexpected, have, in connivance with the Chennai no telling who is using whom. illiteracy and malnutrition. technological change looked Art. 35A”, August 15). Article however, when the Attorney Centre, chosen the jallikattu more letters online: This is possible only in an to improve their political 35A was drafted to General suggested that we ordinance route. Just as the www.hindu.com/opinion/letters/

THE HINDU NOIDA/DELHI WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2017 OPED 9 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

THE WEDNESDAY INTERVIEW | M.S. SWAMINATHAN ‘Why can’t the government provide a higher income for farmers?’ Fifty years since the Green Revolution, the architect of the reform highlights the crisis facing Indian agriculture today vidya venkat by wheat farmers in States (M.S. Swaminathan Research ■ Both less rainfall and a like Punjab to ensure sustain- Foundation), we used GM higher mean temperature af- It is 11 years since agronomist M.S. Swaminathan handed over ability of farming. We can technology with mangroves fect farming adversely. Cur- his recommendations for improving the state of agriculture in also declare fertile zones to create salt-tolerant variet- rently we are witnessing India to the former United Progressive Alliance government, at capable of sustaining two to ies of rice. For this we took drought, excess rainfall, sea- the height of the Vidarbha farmer suicides crisis, but they are three crops as Special Agri- the genes from the man- level rise… There are both still to be implemented. To address the agrarian crisis and farm- cultural Zones, and provide groves and inserted them it adaptation and mitigation ers’ unrest across the country, he urged the government to take unique facilities to farmers into rice. To make the most measures to follow in this re- steps to secure farmers’ income. As India marks 50 years of the here to ensure food security. of GM technology we must gard. I’ve evolved a drought Green Revolution this year, the architect of the movement says Soil health managers should choose a problem where code and a flood code... sustainability is the greatest challenge facing Indian agriculture. be appointed to monitor and there is no other way to ad- some of the recommenda- Excerpts: ameliorate the soil condi- dress the challenge. tions I’ve made in recent tions in degraded zones and Barring the U.S., most times include setting up a The greatest challenge why they are unable to repay rectify defects like salinity, countries have reservations multi-disciplinary monsoon facing Indian agriculture loans. Addressing the ecolo- alkalinity, water logging, etc. about adopting GM techno- management centre in each 50 years back was gical challenge requires more The Prime Minister re- logy. Europe has banned it drought-affected district, to achieving self-sufficiency technology while the eco- cently went to Israel. We on grounds of health and en- provide timely information in foodgrain production. nomics requires more public have several practices to vironmental safety. I’d say to rural families on the meth- What is the greatest policy interventions. In my emulate from there. They GM in most cases is not ne- ods of mitigating the effects challenge today? 2006 report, I had recom- have a clear sense of where cessary. Normal Mendelian of drought, and maximising mended a formula for calcu- water is needed and where breeding itself is sufficient in the benefits of good growing ■ There are two major chal- lating Minimum Support it’s not. The idea of more most cases — 99% of what is conditions whenever the sea- lenges before Indian agricul- Price, C2+50% (50% more crops per drop has been im- being done under GM initiat- son is normal. Animal hus- ture today: ecological and than the weighted average plemented well in Israel. We ives is not justifiable. Parlia- bandry camps could be set economical. The conserva- cost of production, classified * NAGARA GOPAL should adopt those practices ment has already suggested a up to make arrangements for tion of our basic agricultural as C2 by the Commission for here. You should see how a law based on the Norwegian saving cattle and other farm assets such as land, water, Agricultural Costs and inflation, but they cannot <> The idea of more policies today are related to water controller works in an model where there are con- animals because usually an- and biodiversity is a major Prices). This would raise the provide a higher income for crops per drop has corporate powers. What Israeli farm. Everything is re- siderable restrictions on imals tend to be neglected challenge. How to make agri- current MSP and has now be- farmers to improve their lot? been implemented about food security and 50 mote-controlled. They know GMOs. during such crises. Special culture sustainable is the come the clamour of farmers If you really look at what is well in Israel. We crore farmers? We need to exactly which portion of the provisions could also be challenge. Increasing pro- and the nightmare of happening now, farm loan think about them too. field requires how much wa- What is the scope for made to enable women to should adopt those ductivity in perpetuity policymakers. waivers are posing a bigger ter and release only the exact organic farming when it manage household food se- without ecological harm is burden on the government practices here. The Green Revolution of amount. We cannot sacrifice comes to addressing food curity under conditions of the need of the hour. In Pun- The NDA government has exchequer compared to what 1967-68 may have on productivity now, be- security? agrarian distress. jab, and in other Green Re- said it wants to double higher pay for farm produce ■ We are not really analysing resolved the food crisis in cause land under crop cover In the case of temperature volution States, the water farmers’ incomes by 2022. will incur. But the govern- the causes of farmer sui- the short run, but the is shrinking. Post-harvest ■ Organic farming can have a rise, wheat yield could be- table has gone down and be- But they haven’t ment is not prepared to give cides. Instead, we are simply heavy use of pesticides technologies like threshing, good scope only under three come a gamble. We should come saline. Further, during implemented the the ₹20,000 crore or so for attributing it to the inability and high-yielding storage, etc. will have to be conditions. One, farmers start breeding varieties char- the Green Revolution the recommendations of the farmers by way of higher to pay off debts. Some seri- varieties of paddy have given greater attention now. must possess animals for or- acterised by high per day population was about 400- Swaminathan MSP. In 2009, the UPA gov- ous thought needs to be resulted in environmental ganic manure. Two, they productivity than just per 500 million; now it is 1,300 Commission Report that ernment gave ₹72,000 crore given to how we could re- degradation and loss of Opinion is divided on the must have the capacity to crop productivity. These will million and it is predicted to you submitted to the UPA as farm loan waiver, but no duce the cost of farm pro- biodiversity. How do we benefits of genetic control pests and diseases. be able to provide higher be 1.5 billion by 2030. The government in 2006. government is prepared to duction, minimise risks and cope with these adverse modification technology Three, they should adopt ag- yields in a shorter duration. growing population pressure take long-term steps to en- maximise returns. The solu- effects? to improve yields of food ronomical methods of sow- has made it pertinent to in- ■ Yes. All kinds of excuses sure the economic viability tion for ending farmer sui- crops. Can GM technology ing such as rotation of crops. India’s ranking on the crease crop yield. have been given by govern- of farming. cides is not only paying com- ■ After the Green Revolu- help address food Even genetic resistance to Global Hunger Index has Also, the economics of ments for not implementing There are three ways to pensation. I’ve seen in tion, I came up with the security challenges? pests and diseases can help become worse over the farming will have to be made this recommendation like improve the incomes of Vidarbha — so many men concept of the Evergreen Re- organic farmers. years and we missed out profitable to address the cur- food price inflation. But the farmers. MSP and procure- have committed suicide and volution. In this we will see ■ There are many methods If you look at the organic on the Millennium rent situation. We have to de- question is, do the farmers of ment is one. We also need to their families are left in the increase in farm productivity of plant breeding, of which farms in Pillaiyarkuppam Development Goal of vise ways to lower the cost of this country, who constitute improve productivity. The lurch. One of the first pro- but without ecological harm. molecular breeding is one. near Puducherry that were halving hunger. What are production and reduce the nearly half of the working marketable surplus from ag- jects we initiated in Vidarbha This will include integrated Genetic modification has started by the Sri Aurobindo the steps we should take risks involved in agriculture population, also not need to riculture has to be enhanced. at that time was to rescue pest management, integrated both advantages and disad- Ashram, it is a good model to to address the matter? such as pests, pathogens, eat? The government is will- We should also look at mak- children and give them edu- nutrient supply, and sci- vantages. One has to meas- follow for organic farming. and weeds. Today, the expec- ing to pay Seventh Pay Com- ing a value addition to bio- cation. Farming is the most entific water management to ure the risks and benefits be- They have adopted the re- ■ India has done well in pro- ted return in agriculture is mission salaries to insulate mass. For example, paddy important enterprise in this avoid the kind of environ- fore arriving at a conclusion. quisite crop-livestock duction, but not in consump- adverse to farmers. That’s government servants from straw is a biomass product country and farmers are an mental damage witnessed First, we need an efficient integration. tion. What we are witnessing that could be used to make integral part of our country. during the Green Revolution. regulatory mechanism for today is grain mountains on edible mushrooms. In China, farms are owned by I’ve addressed these issues in GM in India. We need an all- Climate change has upset the one side and hungry mil- Farm loan waivers are posing a bigger burden on the government, and farmers my 2016 paper on Evergreen India coordinated research rainfall patterns and we lions on the other. The Food <> The incidence of farmers are mere contractors. In our Revolution. I recommended project on GMOs with a bio- have this cycle of Security Act must be imple- the government exchequer compared to what committing suicides has case, land is owned by the mandatory rainwater har- safety coordinator. We need droughts and floods, mented properly to address higher pay for farm produce will incur. But the shown no signs of abating. people. How do you treat vesting and introduction of to devise a way to get the which has rendered the situation. We should also government is not prepared to give the ₹20,000 What needs to be done to this largest group of entre- fodder and grain legumes as technology’s benefit without farming risky. How do we enlarge the food basket to in- crore or so for farmers by way of higher MSP. address the crisis? preneurs? Unfortunately, all rotation crops to be adopted its associated risks. At MSSRF address these challenges? clude nutri-millets.

FIFTY YEARS AGO AUGUST 15, 1967 (NO ISSUE ON AUGUST 16) The Sarahah brouhaha India’s political stability: Praise in U.K. The initial impact has been positive, but India’s Independence Day this year has provided the occasion for various assessments in the British Press and on radio and dangers lurk around the corner television of where India stands to-day, 20 years after attaining freedom. Indian students and workers are also celebrating the P.J. GEORGE anniversary in their own way in London and the provincial centres, with meetings and cultural shows, especially got up Born in the early ’80s, I am a border- for the occasion. By a happy coincidence, a group of artistes line millennial. It means I had a cas- from the Kerala Kalamandalam are here [London], too, giving sette player once, but am on Ins- Londoners an opportunity for the first time to appreciate the tagram now. It also means I saw the Kathakali dance drama in one of the City’s leading theatres. Internet grow out of the sweet inno- cence of blogs, hit puberty with social

GETTY IMAGES/ ISTOCK media, and reach adulthood with A HUNDRED YEARS AGO AUGUST 16, 1917 fake news. It is now essentially a sales- man with a major personality disorder. Vaccination in Burma. It is safe to say that looking for personal improvement and constructive criticism on the Internet is the equivalent of In the course of the triennial report for the years 1914-17 on watching a Pahlaj Nihalani lm to understand Indian culture. vaccination in Burma the following occurs: Rangoon is never The idea of India, even culture itself, is irreversibly damaged in free from small pox, but usually shows exacerbation of the dis- the process. There are comment sections on Reddit where dig- ease in the year preceding the development of the epidemic in nity and self-respect are tightly curled up in a corner sucking CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC coastal and interior districts of Lower Burma. Recent epidem- their thumbs. Now WhatsApp forwards deliver more pop psy- ics in Rangoon have been less severe than formerly owing to chology and misogyny to the average Indian household than a CONCEPTUAL NOTEBOOK the improved vaccination department and more particularly TV serial. Self-esteem in young adults is currently quantiable to the passing of the Vaccination Act of 1909 which permits of under likes, shares and comments. Reflexivity Social theory Friend, foe, poacher, watcher examination of all incoming deck passengers of laboring It is into this steaming pile that Sarahah arrived. For the un- classes and their summary vaccination if found to be unpro- initiated, Sarahah is an App that “helps you self-develop by re- This refers to the circular A search for an alleged poacher had an unexpected end tected. ceiving constructive anonymous feedback.” The present-day relationship between ironies in that sentence are strong enough to tear the fabric of cause and effect in certain Rohan Premkumar Fortunately for us, the staffer nimbly led us conscious thought. And in the age of Aadhaar verication, one social phenomena. Both forest department staff, through a small Shola CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC would expect the Indian populace to be more circumspect the cause and effect are In the Nilgiris lies Gudalur mostly anti-poaching forest, across a stream, about claims of anonymity. But it has become quite popular, mutually reinforcing, thus taluk, a region dotted with watchers recruited from and into the hamlet, and DATA POINT going by the speech bubbles popping up across social media making it harder to delin- patches of seemingly the local communities sur- left us to our own devices. platforms. eate the two. In the stock pristine rainforest and rounding Gudalur, are After speaking to the The App was apparently designed for employees to submit market, for instance, rap- grassland. Given the as- happy to ensure that curi- locals, we learned that our anonymous feedback to employers, but mutated along expec- idly rising prices can cause tonishing variety of plants ous journalists, especially information was right, and ted lines to serve secret crushes and passive-aggressive co- more buyers to enter the and wildlife in the area, from the English media, that there was a “fixer” workers. It is now in the hands of people like me who are oth- market. At the same time, conserving these forest are accompanied safely to who brought hunting en- erwise on WhatsApp alumni groups where marriage an- the entry of more buyers patches is a key objective these remote locations thusiasts to the village. nouncements have bottomed out, births have plateaued, and can cause stock prices to for the forest department without being pounced Asking around, we fi- divorcees or marathon runners are on the rise. Surprisingly, rise further away from and conservationists. upon by a sloth bear or an nally found his house and the initial impact has been positive. Instead of triggering many their fundamentals. This is For a reporter too, this angry tusker. Or, in the peered across the door- premature mid-life crises, most messages seem to be positive. a good example of a posit- region is a great draw. event that we are, at least step. In front of us was the However, the risks inbuilt in such a platform are too high to ive feedback loop. The After all, where else can show us the direction in organiser of the hunts and ignore. concept of reflexivity was you experience the pos- which to flee. an alleged smuggler of made popular by Amer- sible threat of wild ele- Once we were heading scheduled timber. From The threat in your child’s phone ican billionaire investor phants around the corner, to a hamlet where, we had the sound of it, he seemed Recent incidents of young adults committing suicide that were George Soros who has and simply tell others that heard, the felling of indi- to be hosting guests. We directly linked to the Blue Whale challenge or reportedly to used it for the purpose of this experience is just an- genous varieties of trees entered unannounced. the Netix original “13 Reasons Why” are indicators of how speculation in financial other day’s work? and the sporadic hunting Much to our shock, we much the well-being of impressionable minds is now linked to markets. In this region you can of game such as black- saw a familiar face there: their online world. The threat is credible enough now that the also find, after many ardu- naped hare, mouse deer, the same forest staffer Central government has issued a letter to the major online CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC ous treks, hamlets where and wild boar had been who helped us get to the platforms to remove any links to the Blue Whale challenge. tribal communities, in- sighted. We asked for a hamlet was now sipping Another veritable danger in such a messaging App is bully- MORE ON cluding the Kattunaickers local anti-poaching watch- tea with the alleged smug- ing. Cyberbullying is harmful enough without being handed THE WEB 3 and Paniyas, live. These er’s help to help us get to gler and sharing what the advantage of anonymity. When bullying moves online, it communities still remain the village. He turned out seemed like a hilarious gets much more dicult to track; and unlike the physical play- From the annals of history: marginalised, with access to be an affable man and story with him. That day ing eld or classroom, there is no escaping it even at home. to these hamlets limited. an expert animal tracker. we realised that in these It may not be long before Sarahah descends into the online The Hindu as published on Aug. 15, 1947 Many of them can be In his mistaken notion dense forests, the lines equivalent of the wall of a passenger train toilet, and people reached only after travers- that our mission was to go between the hunter and move on to the next viral phenomenon. But in the meantime, ing farmlands, trails, and see the Paniya community hunted, law enforcer and http://bit.ly/Hindu1947 the threat is real and in your children’s phones. leech-infested swamps. living there, the forest violator, blur effortlessly.

NOIDA/DELHI THE HINDU 10 NEWS WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2017 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE FROM PAGE ONE Congress calls PM’s address ‘disappointing’ Show collective will to Modi accused of being ‘insensitive’ to the victims of the Gorakhpur tragedy by comparing it with natural disasters build a New India: PM Special Correspondent sections,” Mr. Sharma told Abdullah tweeted to say that New Delhi the media. the Prime Minister’s words “Even today the corrupt are but the people of India par- Congress president Sonia Far from the pre-election were well-received in the Val- not getting a full night’s ticipated in the drive,” he Gandhi urged every Indian promise of creating 2 crore ley but everyone was rest,” he said. added. “We brought in the to fight ‘divisive forces’ on In- jobs every year, the Congress “weary” of mere talk with He revealed that ₹3 lakh Benami Properties Act that dia’s 71st Independence Day said demonetisation had led “no concrete action.” crore had come back into had been hanging fire for while her party termed to job losses on a large scale. D. Raja, the national sec- the banking system, ₹1.75 long and managed to seize Prime Minister Narendra Mr. Sharma said small retary of the Communist lakh crore transactions were ₹800 crore worth of prop- Modi’s Red Fort speech as traders and entrepreneurs Party of India, said the words under the scanner and ex- erty,” he said. disappointing. were not prepared for the lack conviction. “They (the planations had been sought He linked strong action Ms. Gandhi, after unfurl- switchover to the Goods and government) believe in a mil- for ₹2 lakh crore deposits. against corruption by his re- ing the national flag at the Services Tax (GST) and “the itary solution to the dispute Mr. Modi also said that gime to a concomitant party headquarters, issued a government did nothing to but he talks about embracing nearly 18 lakh individuals speed in decision-making statement “urging citizens to assist them”. Kashmiris. There is no con- had been identified as those and good governance, link- unite and protect the basic viction in what he said,” said with more than known ing it further to people’s ex- principles of Indian-ness”. Silent on Doklam issue Mr. Raja. sources of income, and at pectations of governments. “There is a greater need The Prime Minister’s silence The CPI leader also ques- least three lakh bogus shell “We can, as a nation, reach today for all Indians to speak on border issues like the tioned Modi’s assertion that companies have been iden- Mangalyan in nine months, in one voice and fight separ- Doklam face-off was also “violence in the name of tified and action initiated but the other day when re- atism, terrorism and all such At home: Narendra Modi and Sonia Gandhi greet each other as Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra questioned. “What is being faith is not acceptable”. He against them. (These fig- viewing a railway project, I forces which divide and Mahajan looks on during the function at Rashtrapati Bhavan on Tuesday. * PTI done to de-escalate,” asked told The Hindu, “In his first ures, in the absence of pre- found that we had failed to spread hatred in society. All Mr. Sharma. Independence Day speech cise figures by the Reserve build a 70 kilometre stretch should unite to protect the clared that the Modi govern- of the Gorakhpur tragedy by After three years, it was time Mr. Modi’s call to embrace he said that he is Pradhan Se- Bank of India till now, will of of track in 42 years. When basic principles of Indian- ment had failed to deliver on comparing it with other nat- for him to give an account of the people of Kashmir as a wak. What has he done? course be up for scrutiny). an ordinary citizen looks at ness,” the statement said. its promises. ural disasters. the failure of his government way forward to resolving the There are instances of lynch- “Some people said, when governance, he will wonder Soon after the official flag- Mr. Sharma also accused “The Prime Minister’s In- in fulfilling its promises to issue drew a mixed re- ings, communalism is on the I announced demonetisa- how it pertains to him,” he hoisting function, Congress the Prime Minister of being dependence Day address has the people, especially the sponse. Former Jammu and rise and he remains a mute tion, that now Modi is gone, said. leader Anand Sharma de- “insensitive” to the victims been most disappointing. youth, farmers and weaker Kashmir Chief Minister Omar spectator.” ‘DD blacked out Range Rover drives in Speech time Tripura CM’s speech’ reduced Special Correspondent In a series of tweets, CPI(M) youths were jobless despite for Modi’s I-Day fete NEW DELHI general secretary Sitaram having professional degrees. What Prime Minister Nar- Yechury said DD’s and AIR’s “The main political parties endra Modi would say this behaviour was against “co- are misguiding the people, The PM had been using a customised BMW since 2014 Independence Day from operative federalism” that especially the youth, for the ramparts of the Red Mr. Modi talked about. their narrow political in- Special Correspondent Fort was a cipher, but that “Doordarshan is not the terests. Divisions are being New Delhi it would be shorter than private property of the BJP created among people in Prime Minister Narendra his speech last year (a or the RSS. Its refusal to the name of religion and Modi chose a Range Rover marathon 96 minutes) was broadcast Tripura CM’s other issues,” he said. instead of the usual BMW, something that the country speech is undemocratic and According to sources, this when he came to deliver his had his word on. Mehbooba Mufti during the Independence Day celebrations at illegal,” he said. The IANS year, Doordarshan has shif- speech at Red Fort on the oc- Mr. Modi had promised Bakshi Stadium, Srinagar, on Tuesday. * NISSAR AHMAD news service quoted Mr. ted the speeches of all CMs casion of the 71st Independ- that he would try and keep Sarkar as saying in his from main DD channels to ence Day. this year’s speech within speech that India was yet to DD Bharati. A former Prasar The full armoured and the 50-minute time frame. get economic independ- Bharati official, speaking on customised BMW 7-series He managed to keep it to J&K welcomes ence. “India got independ- condition of anonymity, vehicle has been the Prime 56 minutes. ence 70 years ago. Indians said it was a break from the Minister’s official car since got political freedom, but past. “There is no precedent he took over in May 2014. Modi’s remarks they have not got economic of DD or AIR dictating a independence yet,” he said. CM’s speech,” he said. Re- Reasons not known Grand entry: Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives at the Red Trademark He claimed that over 70 lakh peated calls to AIR and While an official in the gov- Fort in Delhi to address the nation on Tuesday. * R.V. MOORTHY CM, Mirwaiz for talks to resolve crisis workers were retrenched in Doordarshan Directors-Gen- ernment confirmed that Mr. kurta, turban one year and over 1.35 crore eral went unanswered. Modi had used the luxury front seat of the Range rated across the country on Peerzada Ashiq J&K’s special status and ex- SUV for the first time, the Rover. Monday. The Special Protec- Press trust of india Srinagar pressed hope that the Su- reasons for it — security con- After moving for a few tion Group (SPG), which is New Delhi Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) preme Court, hearing a case cerns or any other, were im- metres, he stopped to meet entrusted with the PM’s se- Prime Minister Narendra Chief Minister Mehbooba on Article 35A, will “con- Assam, Manipur can mediately not known. the school children who curity, decides the make of Modi was dressed in his Mufti and Hurriyat Confer- tinue delivering justice to Another source con- were present in the pre- the vehicle to be used. There trademark half-sleeved ence chairman Mirwaiz J&K in its historical perspect- firmed that during the full cincts and interacted with are multiple bulletproof kurta and sported a Umar Farooq on Tuesday ive”. now decide on AFSPA dress rehearsal on August 13, them briefly. vehicles, which form a part turban. Wearing a beige welcomed Prime Minister “We have decided to rescind later changed to three a BMW was deployed for the The children jostled for of the PM’s motorcade. half sleeved kurta and Narendra Modi’s remarks on Special status the power of invoking the months, pending a periodic dummy run. During the Re- Mr. Modi’s attention and he Besides Mr. Modi, Con- white pyjamas, the PM Kashmir in his Independ- “Entire political class of J&K AFSPA in two States for review. On August 4, the public Day parade also, Mr. decided to get clicked with gress president Sonia kept up with the spirit of ence Day speech. is united in defending and now: Assam and Manipur. Ministry extended the AF- Modi had come in a BMW some children, who were Gandhi and her children the crowd. Schoolchildren “All along I believed that preserving the special The States are competent to SPA in Assam for 27 days. car. dressed as Hindu god Rahul and Priyanka, as well took positions to form the dialogue and peaceful status. I was happy to note decide whether they want It is effective in the whole After delivering his Krishna. Janmashtami, the as former PM Manmohan word Bharat in front of the means only can help in there was an overwhelming to continue with it in en- of Nagaland, Assam and Ma- speech, Mr. Modi sat on the birth of Krishna, was celeb- Singh have SPG cover. ramparts of the iconic fort. resolving issues as the futil- consensus on this issue,” tirety or impose it in a few nipur (excluding seven As- ity of violence has been es- said Ms. Mufti. pockets where disturbance sembly constituencies of Im- tablished all around,” Ms. In a rare gesture, she is expected,” the official phal). In Arunachal Mufti said, referring to PM’s praised former Chief Minis- said. Pradesh, it is in force in 16 remark that “not bullets or ter and Opposition National 990 personnel awarded medals abuse can resolve issues but Conference president Another official clarified police station areas and in that there was no such pro- Tirap, Longding and by embracing people of Farooq Abdullah. posal for Jammu and Kash- Changlang districts border- Kashmir”. “Farooq sahib listened to mir. ing Assam. Tripura with- CRPF bags highest number of gallantry medals, followed by A.P., J&K police The Mirwaiz, who was me like an affectionate Earlier, the Home Min- drew the AFSPA in 2015. It is placed under house arrest, father on Article 370 and Special Correspondent President’s Police Medal for ded to J&K police. Andhra medals for distinguished and tweeted: “I welcome that gave some suggestions on istry used to issue a notifica- not in force in Meghalaya New Delhi tion declaring States “dis- (except in a 20-km area Distinguished Service to 93 Pradesh police received the meritorious service. Mr. Modi also believes goli which I acted,” said Ms. turbed areas” every six along the border with As- As many 990 police person- personnel and Police Medal medals for killing 24 mem- Superintendent of Police, [bullets] and gaali [abuses] Mufti. months. The duration was sam) and Mizoram. nel have been awarded with for Meritorious Service to bers of the banned CPI NIA, Arvind Digvijay Negi, will not help resolve Kash- She also hoped “Pakistan Police Medals on the occa- 706 personnel, a statement (Maoist) in an encounter who is handling investiga- mir. If insaniyat [humanity] would also understand the sion of the Independence by MHA said. near Jantri in Malkangiri dis- tions into the case of alleged and insaaf [justice] replace need for peaceful engage- Day this year. The CRPF bagged the trict of Odisha on October 24 terror-funding linked to sep- these words, (a) resolution ment with India”. “Good U.P. hospital staggers President’s Police Medal highest number of gallantry last year. aratist leaders in Kashmir, can become a reality.” neighbourly relations for Gallantry has been awar- medals with 53 in its kitty, Twenty-nine CISF officials has been awarded police Earlier in her I-Day between India and Pakistan ded to one personnel, Police followed by 52 by Andhra have been decorated with medal for meritorious speech in Srinagar, Ms. are very crucial for J&K… under patient load Medal for Gallantry to 190, Pradesh police and 25 awar- the President’s police service. Mufti called for protecting Dialogue is only way out.” The medical college celeb- “Every two or three rated Independence Day, hours I go and ask the staff if with Dr. Singh hoisting the we can see the infant and if Tricolour and leading the he’s okay. All they say is that Trump, Modi review progress of June initiatives staff in taking a pledge on he is serious and is being Tuesday. given oxygen. We heard Around the campus, rel- about oxygen supply prob- Crude and natural gas imports to India from the U.S. become new thrust area of bilateral cooperation atives of patients in the lems in the news. We don’t NICU and encephalitis ward know what is wrong,” he Varghese K. George bilateral cooperation, and dialogue, involving defence celebrate 70 years of free- place in Hyderabad. “Presid- waited outside for any news says. Washington the first shipment of Amer- and foreign ministers, was dom and independence on ent Trump further wel- at all. Sohan, whose nephew Geeta Devi says she did President Donald Trump and ican crude for India will announced during Mr. August 15”. comed the first ever ship- was admitted to the NICU not know about any trouble Prime Minister Narendra leave from Texas this week. Modi’s visit. The dates and “As the leaders of two of ment of American crude oil on Monday night a few with oxygen supply at the Modi reviewed the progress venue are not finalised yet. the world’s largest and fast- to India, which will occur hours after he was born, hospital. Her son, she adds, of a series of bilateral initiat- Enhance stability The Trump administra- est-growing major econom- from Texas this month, says he had no idea how the was given oxygen support ives kicked off during the lat- “The leaders resolved to en- tion has been ratcheting up ies, President Trump and pledging that the U.S. would baby is doing. for nine days. ter’s visit to the U.S. capital hance peace and stability pressure on China to weigh Prime Minister Modi looked continue to be a reliable, in the last week of June. The across the Indo-Pacific re- down more heavily on North forward to the Global Entre- long-term supplier of en- appraisal came during a call gion by establishing a new 2- Korea to stop its nuclear preneurship Summit in India ergy,” the statement said. from Mr. Trump on the occa- by-2 ministerial dialogue that plans. The administration this November. President “Prime Minister Modi RSS chief Bhagwat sion of India’s 70th will elevate their strategic has also announced this Donald Trump Trump has asked Advisor to thanked President Trump for independence. consultations,” a readout is- week a review of Chinese the President Ivanka Trump his strong leadership uniting Crude and natural gas sued by the White House, practices that are harmful to Mr. Trump called Mr. Modi to to lead the U.S. summit del- the world against the North dees ban, hoists ag shipments to India from the after the call, said on Tues- American high-tech indus- “congratulate the 1.2 billion egation.” Korean menace,” the White U.S. are a new thrust area of day. The 2-by-2 ministerial tries. The White House said citizens of India, who will The Summit is taking House said. Special correspondent panied by a group of BJP and palakkad RSS leaders, at 8.25 a.m. and RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat hoisted the flag. hoisted the national flag at a In her order, the district State government-aided collector had reminded India did not act against cow vigilantes, says U.S. school at Moothamathara school authorities that no near here on Tuesday, defy- political leader could be per- ing the district administra- mitted to hoist the national State Department’s annual international report notes spike in violence related to religious intolerance in the country tion’s order. flag at a government-aided District Collector P. school on occasions like the Varghese K. George spread of laws and cam- the restrictions imposed on listing the series of violent in- ligiously motivated killings, assaulted Muslims and Chris- Marykutty sent a written dir- Independence Day. Citing Washington paigns for cow protection American Christian NGO cidents in India last year. assaults, riots, discrimina- tians and destroyed their ection late on Monday to the rules, she said only the India has recorded a spike in and against religious conver- Compassion International’s The Ministry of Home Af- tion, vandalism, and actions property. According to the authorities of the headmaster of the institu- violence related to religious sion among reasons for the operations in India. fairs (MHA) reported 751 con- restricting the right of indi- Evangelical Fellowship of In- Karnakiyamman High tion or an elected represent- intolerance in 2016 and the increase in violence. “Authorities frequently flicts between religious com- viduals to practise their reli- dia (EFI), there were more School, restraining them ative of the people could be authorities have routinely re- It noted that 24 of the 29 did not prosecute members munities, which resulted in gious beliefs and proselytise. than 300 incidents targeting from allowing the RSS chief allowed to do so. However, fused to take action against States have “imposed full to of vigilante “cow protection” 97 deaths and 2,264 injuries There was an increase in Christians during the year, to unfurl the Tricolour. the BJP-RSS leaders justified cow vigilantes, the U.S. State partial restrictions and pen- groups who attacked alleged in 2015, jumping from 644 violent incidents by cow pro- compared with 177 in 2015. The order cited rules on Mr. Bhagwat’s action saying Department noted in its an- alties on the slaughter of smugglers, consumers, or communal incidents, result- tection groups against Incidents included assaults who could have the honour. the flag code permitted all nual International Religious bovines,” and six out of 29 traders of beef, usually ing in 95 deaths and 1,921 in- mostly Muslim victims, in- on missionaries, forced con- However, Mr. Bhagwat citizens to hoist the national Freedom Report released on State governments enforce Muslims, despite an increase juries the previous year, the cluding killings, mob viol- versions of non-Hindus, and reached the school, accom- flag on Independence Day. Tuesday. anti-conversion laws. The in attacks compared to previ- State Department noted. ence, assaults, and intimida- attacks on churches, schools, The report cited the State Department also cited ous years,” the report said, “There were reports of re- tion. Hindus threatened and and private property. CM A ND-NDE YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

THE HINDU NOIDA/DELHI WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2017 NEWS 11 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Yogi blames lack of hygiene for Gorakhpur deaths In his Independence Day speech, the CM says lessons should be learnt from every ‘incident’ and ‘accident’, and their recurrence should be prevented

Omar Rashid Adityanath said in his first In- sion,” he said. Mr. Pushpa Sales Private thorities of the State govern- then, be paid at the earliest Another letter was sent to LUCKNOW dependence Day speech as Adityanath said that for the Limited. ment since February, at least so that they could continue the U.P. DGME on April 12, Though he avoided a direct Chief Minister. He referred to last two decades, he had one was also marked to the to supply oxygen to the when the due had climbed to reference to the death of chil- the deaths of children caused been fighting the disease (En- Complaints to authorities Chief Minister and the State hospital. ₹55 lakh. Pushpa Sales had dren in the BRD Medical Col- by diseases infectious dis- cephalitis), which claims “First supply for the month Health Minister, apart from The firm also stressed that then informed the govern- lege Hospital in Gorakhpur, eases such as encephalitis, 500-1000 lives every year of August was made on Au- being sent to the Director due to non-payment of dues, ment that due to the delay in Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister chikungunya, dengue and and urged the people of the gust 4. The next intimation General Medical Education they would be unable to making payment, INOX had Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday Kala Azar in eastern U.P. and State to make the Swachh of refilling request from BRD (DGME) and Principal Secret- source oxygen from the sup- communicated to it that it said every “incident and ac- blamed unhygienic condi- Bharat Mission a part of their medical college was given on ary of the department. plier INOX and that the re- would not be able to supply cident,” should serve as a tions for their rampant lives. August 11, which was also sponsibility for the lack of it with oxygen post April 16. lesson. spread. Meanwhile, the private made available on August 12 ‘Dues not paid’ oxygen would fall upon the Pushpa Sales has now also “We must take lessons agency supplying oxygen to by Pushpa Sales,” Ms. Walia In the letter dated April 6, medical college. Though it is questioned why only 50-60 from every incident and acci- Swachh Bharat solution the BRD Medical College has Yogi Adityanath said. which was marked to the not certain if the Chief Minis- cylinders were available with dent (ghatna aur durghatna) “The solution to diseases like claimed that despite the The documents made Chief Minister, Pushpa Sales ter’s office acknowledged the the hospital between August and prevent their recurrence encephalitis is hidden in the pending payments over the oxygen to the BRD hospital public by the firm also had requested the principal letter, if it did, it raises ques- 10 and 11 when it was re- with firmness. So that such a Swacchh Bharat Mission. It is last six months it did not cut was “maintained irrespective showed that among the of BRD Medical College to en- tions on the claim of the gov- quired by norms to maintain situation does not arise in not just Swachh but also the supply of oxygen cylin- of overdue payment,” said dozen reminders it had sent sure that their dues, which ernment that he did not 350-400 filled cylinders at any other field of life,” Mr. Swasth (health) Bharat Mis- ders. The supply of liquid Meenu Walia, HR manager of to the BRD hospital and au- had touched ₹52.34 lakh know of the payment issue. any given point of time. Born after eight-year wait, dead in eight days

U.P. couple’s twin babies were among the hospital’s many victims

Damini Nath they were being given oxy- GORAKHPUR gen and then died when the Suman and Brahmadev Ya- oxygen stopped. Since we dav, a couple from are not educated and are

Baghagada village in poor, no one explained to us Before & after: A sign board leading to sacked ward head Dr. Kal Khan’s oce undergoes a makeover on Tuesday. * V. V KRISHNAN Gorakhpur had been trying what happened,” she says. for eight years to have a On Monday, Samajwadi child. And finally on August Party leader and former 2, Suman gave birth to twins Chief Minister Akhilesh Ya- at the district hospital, much dav was supposed to visit to the joy of their families. the Yadavs but had to cancel However, their happiness the trip due to incessant rain was shortlived as both ba- Anara Devi shows the that made the mud paths to bies died within eight days death certicate of her the village impassable. after being shifted to the grandchildren. * V.V. KRISHNAN “All we can say now is Baba Raghav Das Medical that my son should get some College on August 3. Devi, pulling out a plastic help. At the least, the gov- The death certificate is- box with the death certific- ernment can make roads in sued by the hospital for the ate, medical bills and pre- the village,” says Anara Devi. infant girl says she died of scriptions. Holding the only photos “cardio-respiratory failure”. Anara Devi doesn’t know of her grandchildren ever The family did not get a if her grandchildren were taken, she says the family death certificate for her twin among the over hundred pa- had bought sweets and was brother, who died on August tients affected by encephal- planning to celebrate their 9, Brahmadev’s mother, itis because hospital author- birth when they would have Anara Devi says. ities did not tell the family been discharged from hos- “The babies were born what happened. pital. But the children never normal, but then soon de- came home. “We were going veloped a fever. They were Not informed to decide their names when sent to the medical college “We had been asking since they came home,” says and none of us saw them August 7 to give us our chil- Anara Devi, sitting beside Writing on the wall: Stray cattle outside an abandoned immunisation centre adjacent to the encephalitis ward at the BRD Medical alive after that,” says Anara dren back. We heard that the plastic box of memories. College Hospital in Gorakhpur. * V.V. KRISHNAN Only some children with fever progress to AES, says doctor AES patients had 35 times greater possibility of having Why do we see a large typhus and prevent infection At BRD hospital, we have ob- ried out in 2015 found 75% number of children with AES from progressing to AES? served patients with AES. coverage for the first dose antibodies against scrub typhus, says Dr. Manoj V. Murhekar each year at BRD hospital? In the beginning of this year, The mortality is about 20% and only 42% for the second the Indian Council of Med- due to multi-organ involve- dose. Three of the four chil- R. Prasad ies against scrub typhus for JE virus but no interven- There is a lot of scrub typhus ical Research recommended ment. In the case of AES dren aged 25-36 months in CHENNAI compared with healthy chil- tion has been implemented fever in the community. to the U.P. government to use caused by scrub typhus, the Gorakhpur region had re- Based on a study carried out dren thereby confirming that widely for scrub typhus. So Between 20-25% of fever in doxycycline antibiotic to mortality is about 15-17% ceived at least one dose of in 2015, a team led by Dr. AES was caused by scrub the etiology wouldn’t have children being attended to at treat children with fever for compared with AES caused the vaccine. We need two Manoj V. Murhekar, Director typhus. Excerpts: changed compared with last PHCs is caused by scrub five days. If treated early, by JE. This is because treat- doses of the vaccine — during of the Chennai-based Na- year. typhus. Only a small percent- children will not progress to ment started early with azith- 9-12 months for the first dose tional Institute of Epidemi- Have you carried out any age of these children pro- AES. This prevention romycin can treat AES and 16-24 months for the ology, found scrub typhus to studies on children admitted Besides BRD hospital, is there gress to AES. Most of the Manoj V. Murhekar strategy has to be implemen- caused by scrub typhus. Azi- second dose — for optimal be responsible for acute en- to the hospital with AES this any other referral hospital in cases are sub-clinical with no ted widely and even by doc- thromycin is in the class of protection. With just one cephalitis syndrome (AES) in year? How likely is scrub that region? What is the symptoms or very mild fever. stricted only to this region. tors in the private sector. In medicines as doxycycline but dose, the efficacy is over 63% of patients admitted to typhus to have caused AES extent of population that About one-fourth of patients Scrub typhus is found even July, ICMR and doctors from easy to administer in sick 80%. No studies have been the BRD Medical College this year? BRD hospital caters to? with AES are adults. Gener- in Tamil Nadu — Vellore and the CMC, Vellore went to children as it is given intra- done to find the duration of Hospital in Gorakhpur. The causation of the disease Except BRD hospital, there is ally, adults develop im- Thiruvallur districts, where Gorakhpur and conducted venously. protection. With increasing The study was repeated or etiology will not change no referral hospital in the munity against scrub typhus, about 7-10% of fever is awareness campaign for In- vaccine coverage the incid- last year by the same team by from year to year. In 2015 Gorakhpur Division (four dis- so only those who have not caused by scrub typhus. The dian Medical Association What is vaccine coverage for ence of JE has dropped from comparing children with and 2016 we have seen that tricts) in Uttar Pradesh. been exposed to scrub reason why it is found only in (IMA) and Indian Association Japanese encephalitis and about 20% a few years ago to AES and healthy children scrub typhus was respons- The hospital also caters to typhus will progress to AES. these two districts is because of Paediatrics (IAP) doctors, why don't we see herd less than 10% now. In the who are siblings of the pa- ible for over 60% of AES and people living in Basti divi- researchers have investig- chief medical officers and immunity with this vaccine? case of mosquito-borne dis- tients or living in the same Japanese encephalitis virus sion, Bihar, West Bengal, As- Is there any specific reason ated for scrub typhus in programme officers. In 2012, the vaccine coverage eases, herd immunity will village. It found that AES pa- (JEV) causes less than 10% of sam, Uttarakhand and Hi- why scrub typhus is found these two districts. for Japanese encephalitis was not play a major role. So in- tients had 35 times greater AES in children below 15 machal Pradesh, and even only in this region? Why is the death rate high at only 50% but has improved creasing the vaccine cover- possibility of having antibod- years. There is vaccination Nepal. It is not correct to say it is re- Is it possible to treat scrub 20% in children with AES? to 75% now. A study we car- age should be a priority.

Run, protests mark Aeroplanes may be Chinese India moves to revive incursion I-Day in London aecting ozone, monsoon bid foiled TAPI gas pipeline Press Trust of India New Delhi to host the next panel meet Indian High Commission organises Black carbon heats up atmosphere, say scientists Leh/New Delhi run at midnight to mark occasion The Indian Army on Tues- Suhasini Haidar Jacob Koshy Satheesh, chairman, Di- day foiled an attempt by NEW DELHI Vidya Ram NEW DELHI vecha Centre for Climate Chinese soldiers to enter India will host the next LONDON carried flashing torches Aeroplanes may be ejecting Change, Indian Institute of Indian territory along the steering committee meeting India’s Independence day with the colours of the flag, significant amounts of black Science. He was among the banks of Pangong lake in of the proposed 1,814 kilo- was marked by celebrations as they walked or jogged carbon (BC) — a pollutant authors associated with the Ladakh resulting in stone metre-long Turkmenistan- and protests in London on along the waterfront to In- known to aggravate breath- study, published in the peer- pelting that caused minor Afghanistan-Pakistan-India Tuesday. Several hundred dia Place, some shouting ‘Jai ing disorders, upset the reviewed Atmospheric Chem- injuries to people on both (TAPI) gas pipeline, senior members of the Indian dia- Hind’, ‘Vande Mataram’ and monsoon and quicken gla- istry and Physics. sides, officials said. officials on both sides spora gathered in central other slogans. cier melt — and may be de- Chinese soldiers tried to confirmed. London late on Monday Given the security con- pleting the ozone layer, ac- Rising count enter the Indian side twice The decision was came Power point: India wants to night to participate in the cerns, the High Commission cording to a study by climate The stratosphere is a stable between 6 a.m. and 9 a.m. during the sixth joint Inter- secure gas from Galkynysh first “Freedom run” at mid- approached community or- researchers from multiple region of the atmosphere But on both the occasions Governmental Committee in Turkmenistan * REUTERS night, while a number of so- ganisations from across reli- institutions in the country. and because BC particles ab- their attempts were nixed. (IGC) meeting on trade, eco- cial justice and rights groups gions to participate. “We Though airborne, BC is Black carbon particles exist sorb heat, they warm the After Chinese troopers nomic, scientific and tech- curity in the region,” he ad- planned protests for the never thought we’d get this known to dissipate and up to 18 km into the surrounding air, become found their path blocked nological cooperation. ded. evening over the death of level of interest for an event settle down in a few months stratosphere. * G. MOORTHY lighter and rise to greater by Indian soldiers who The meeting was fol- children at the BRD hospital at midnight,” said Deputy under the influence of rain heights by a process called formed a human chain, lowed by a meeting between In Beijing’s shadow in Gorakhpur, the recent High Commissioner Dinesh and wind and is unlikely to from emissions from avi- ‘self lift’ and persist in the they began hurling stones, visiting Deputy Prime Minis- Mr. Pradhan said India’s mob lynchings and treat- Patnaik. travel upward of 4 km. How- ation fuel and they pose a air. prompting a swift retali- ter and Foreign Minister of commitment to TAPI — first ment of minority groups in “We wanted to do some- ever, a group of scientists — problem because these The sheer volume of air ation by Indian border Turkmenistan Rashid Mere- proposed in 1995 — “re- India. thing that was different this including from the Indian In- black carbon particles can travel means that the black guards. Later, the situation dov and Minister of State for mains strong”, and Prime The freedom run — along time” he said. stitute of Science and ISRO’s linger long enough to carbon count only continues was brought under control Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Narendra Modi had a mile-long track from the Vikram Sarabhai Space provide a fertile ground for to increase. after the banner drill with Dharmendra Pradhan. made the proposal to hold the Mahatma Gandhi Statue Johnson’s greetings Centre — say they now have other chemical reactions Because BC particles both sides stepping back to “I strongly believe in this the TAPI steering committee on Parliament Square to In- Britain’s Foreign Secretary evidence of such particles that can deplete the ozone strongly absorb solar and their respective positions. project, and this is the posi- meet in Delhi when he met dia Place — was organised Boris Johnson, who is due to existing up to 18 km into the layer. terrestrial radiation and tion of Turkmenistan,” Mr. the Turkmenistan President by the Indian High Commis- participate in events related stratosphere and there are “This is the first time that heats up the atmosphere it No I-day meet Merodov said at a small in Ashgkabad last year, sion, which hopes to con- to the Independence Day on about 10,000 of them in any group in the world has can upset the monsoon sys- There was no customary interaction. which he has now accepted. tinue the event in the com- Tuesday evening, extended every cubic centimetre. shown that black carbon tem. If deposited on snow, it meeting between Indian “It is not just a commer- India’s effort is to tap ing years. his “warmest wishes” to the Given the shape and loca- from aircraft can go to the could accelerate the heating and Chinese army officials cial project, but one which Turkmenistan’s Galkynysh Around 500 participants, people of India and the dia- tion of these particles, they stratosphere and affect the of snow and quicken the on I-Day at the Nathu La will be a good foundation gasfields, which are the including young children, spora in Britain. argue, it could only derive ozone layer,” said S.K. melting of glaciers. border. for providing peace and se- fourth largest in the world. CM A ND-NDE YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

NOIDA/DELHI THE HINDU 12 WORLD WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2017 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE ELSEWHERE N. Korea shelves Guam missile plan Iran threatens to restart n-programme Says it will watch U.S. approach towards the Peninsula; China urges all sides to ‘put out the ames’ Reuters Ministry official said in a Rouhani responds to U.S. sanctions SEOUL/WASHINGTON briefing in Tokyo. Associated Press North Korea’s leader has “We will look for the U.S. Tehran delayed a decision on firing to reaffirm it defence com- Grace Mugabe to be missiles towards Guam while mitment, including the nuc- Iran’s President Hassan charged with assault he waits to see what the U.S. lear deterrent.” Rouhani issued a direct JOHANNESBURG does next, the North’s state The Liberation Day holi- threat to the West on Tues- Zimbabwe’s rst lady, Grace media said on Tuesday, as day, celebrated by both day, claiming his country is Mugabe, handed herself in to South Korea’s President said North and South, will be fol- capable of revitalising its South African police on Seoul would seek to prevent lowed next week by the joint nuclear programme within Tuesday and will be charged war by all means. U.S.-South Korean military hours and quickly bringing with assault after reports In his first public appear- drills. it to even more advanced that she attacked a young ance in about two weeks, North Korea has persisted levels than when Iran North Korean leader Kim with its nuclear and missile reached a deal with world woman in Johannesburg, the Hassan Rouhani speaking in Jong-un inspected the com- programmes, to ward off powers that limited its abil- Police Minister said. South the Parliament in Tehran on mand of the North’s army on perceived U.S. hostility, in ity to produce nuclear African media had said that Tuesday. * AP Ms. Mugabe was in the Monday, examining a plan to defiance of UN Security weapons. country to have an injured fire four missiles to land near Council resolutions and Mr. Rouhani’s comments It was not immediately foot examined. Reuters the U.S. Pacific territory of sanctions. are seen as a direct response clear what Mr. Rouhani was Guam, the official KCNA said to the new U.S. legislation referring to and whether he 270 bodies found after in a report. Critical juncture earlier this month that im- meant Iran could restart Sierra Leone mudslide “He said that if the Yan- On Tuesday, Chinese Foreign posed mandatory penalties centrifuges enriching FREETOWN kees persist in their ex- Ministry spokeswoman Hua on people involved in Iran’s uranium to higher and more Rescue workers have tremely dangerous reckless On guard: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un with military ocers at the Command of the Chunying said the crisis was ballistic missile programme dangerous levels. recovered 270 bodies so far actions on the Korean Penin- Strategic Force of the Korean People’s Army. * REUTERS approaching a critical junc- and anyone who does busi- But Mr. Rouhani also from a mudslide in the sula and in its vicinity, test- ture and urged all sides in ness with them. tempered his own threat, outskirts of Sierra Leone’s ing the self-restraint of the South Korean President speech to commemorate the and prevent an “August the stand-off to help “put out If Washington continues adding that Iran seeks to re- capital Freetown, its Mayor DPRK [Democratic People’s Moon Jae-in said on Tuesday anniversary of the nation’s crisis”, China’s Foreign Min- the flames” and not add fuel with “threats and sanctions” main loyal to its commit- Sam Gibson said on Tuesday, Republic of Korea], the latter that there would be no milit- liberation from Japanese mil- istry said in a statement. to the fire. against Iran, Mr. Rouhani ments under the nuclear as rescue operations will make an important de- ary action without Seoul’s itary rule in 1945. Japan will be seeking fur- Ms. Hua said she noted said in Parliament on Tues- deal, which opened a “path continued and morgues cision as it already declared,” consent and that his govern- ther reassurance from Wash- the comments by U.S. De- day, Tehran could easily re- of cooperation and confid- struggled to nd space for all the report said. ment would prevent war by ‘Halt rhetoric’ ington in meetings between fense Secretary Jim Mattis start the nuclear pro- ence-building” with the the dead. Reuters Pyongyang’s plans to fire all means. Speaking to his Russian Japan’s defence chief and and Secretary of State Rex gramme. world. missiles near Guam promp- “Military action on the counterpart Sergei Lavrov, Foreign Minister and their Tillerson about using dip- “In an hour and a day, “The deal was a model of 5 held over plot to bomb ted a surge in tensions in the Korean Peninsula can only Chinese Foreign Minister U.S. counterparts on lomacy to resolve the issue, Iran could return to a more the victory of peace and dip- presidential palace region last week, with U.S. be decided by South Korea Wang Yi said it was urgent Thursday. “The strategic en- saying China hoped these advanced (nuclear) level lomacy over war and unilat- JAKARTA President Donald Trump say- and no one else can decide for the U.S. and North Korea vironment is becoming words can be put into action. than at the beginning of the eralism,” said Mr. Rouhani. Indonesian police on Tuesday ing the U.S. military was to take military action to “put the brakes” on mutu- harsher and we need to dis- “We also call on North Korea negotiations” that preceded “It was Iran’s preference, arrested ve suspected “locked and loaded” if North without the consent of South ally irritating words and ac- cuss how we will respond to to echo this in response,” she the 2015 deal, Mr. Rouhani but it was not and will not Islamist militants and seized Korea acted unwisely. Korea,” Mr. Moon said in a tions to lower temperatures that,” a Japanese Foreign told a daily news briefing. said. He did not elaborate. remain Iran’s only option.” chemicals near the capital, Jakarta, that they said were being used to make bombs for attacks on the presidential palace at the end Cities to remove Confederate statues of August. Two of them had Trump retweets critic’s post been deported from Hong Kong for spreading radical Municipal leaders across the U.S. announce moves to push ahead with removals ideology, police said. Reuters Reuters referring to him as a ‘fascist’ moved up the announce- fallen statue as dozens of ‘Suicide attack bid at ndeterred by the viol- ment of his city’s efforts others stood cheering and Associated Press “MikeHolden42” tweeted Monday morning. Mujib’s residence foiled’ ence over the planned after the Charlottesville yelling. In Baltimore, a Con- Washington to Mr. Trump “He’s a The retweets come after DHAKA Uremoval of a Confed- violence. federate monument of a dy- U.S. President Donald fascist, so not unusual.” a national uproar over The Bangladesh police erate statue in Charlottes- The clashes between ing Confederate soldier em- Trump appeared to have The user suggested in race-fuelled clashes in claimed to have foiled a ville, Virginia, municipal white supremacists and braced by a winged mistakenly retweeted a subsequent tweets that he Charlottesville, Virginia. It suicide attack on thousands leaders in cities across the counter protesters that left angel-like figure was found message from one of his was calling Mr. Trump a took two days of public of people who had on United States said they three dead in Charlottesville defaced by red paint, appar- critics saying “he’s a facist, not Arpaio. equivocation and internal Tuesday thronged the would step up efforts to pull on Saturday, including two ently an act of vandalism fascist”. White House debate before Dhanmandi residence of such monuments from pub- police officers whose heli- carried out over the week- Mr. Trump deleted his Avalanche of replies the President condemned Sheikh Mujibur Rahman to lic spaces. copter crashed, appeared to end, The Baltimore Sun retweet on Tuesday after Mr. Trump retweeted the white supremacist groups pay homage to the country’s The Mayors of Baltimore have accelerated the push to reported. about five minutes, but not message to his massive by name on Monday, founding father on his death and Lexington, Kentucky, remove memorials, flags and The drive by civil rights before the message sent to following, triggering an declaring “racism is evil.” anniversary. Haroon Habib said they would push ahead other reminders of the Con- groups and others to do his 35 million followers avalanche of replies. Late on Monday, Mr. with plans to remove statues federate cause. away with Confederate racked up a big response. MikeHolden42 responded: Trump had retweeted Jack Taliban warn Trump caught up in a renewed na- A man in Durham, North monuments gained mo- Mr. Trump seemed to “I’m announcing my Posobiec, a conservative against troop increase tional debate over whether Carolina, poses in front of the Protesters topple statue mentum after an avowed have been trying to draw retirement from Twitter. Trump supporter who KABUL monuments to the U.S. Civil toppled statue of a Some opponents appeared white supremacist attention to a Fox & I’ll never top this RT.” He used social media to draw The Taliban published an War’s pro-slavery Confeder- to take matters into their murdered nine African- Friends article on a later updated his attention to “pizzagate,” an Confederate soldier. * REUTERS open letter to U.S. President acy are symbols of heritage own hands. A crowd of Americans at a Charleston, possible presidential description on Twitter as unfounded conspiracy Donald Trump on Tuesday or hate. publican, urged lawmakers demonstrators stormed the South Carolina, church in pardon for former “Officially Endorsed by the theory that claims that warning him against sending to rid the State’s Capitol of a site of a Confederate monu- 2015. Phoenix-area Sheriff, Joe President of the United Democrats harbour child more U.S. forces to New initiatives bust of Nathan Bedford For- ment outside a courthouse In all, as of April, at least Arpaio, who was convicted States.” sex slaves at a pizza Afghanistan. The statement Officials in Memphis, Ten- rest, a Confederate general in Durham, North Carolina, 60 symbols of the Confeder- of a crime for ignoring a On Tuesday, Mr. Trump restaurant. Mr. Posobiec’s called for the complete nessee, and Jacksonville, and early member of the Ku on Monday and toppled the acy had been removed or re- U.S. court order to stop also retweeted and deleted tweet read: “Meanwhile- withdrawal of foreign forces Florida, announced new ini- Klux Klan. bronze statue from its base. named across the United traffic patrols that targeted a cartoon showing a train 39 shootings in Chicago from the country and comes tiatives on Monday aimed at “This is a time to stand up Local television news States since 2015, according immigrants. labelled “Trump” running this weekend, 9 deaths. No as Mr. Trump weighs taking down Confederate and speak out,” Lexington footage showed numerous to the latest tally by the A Twitter handle over a man with “CNN”, national media outrage. increasing the number of monuments. And Tennessee Mayor Jim Gray said in an in- protesters taking turns Southern Poverty Law identified as covering his face, on Why is that?” American troops there. AFP Governor Bill Haslam, a Re- terview on Monday. He had stomping and kicking the Center.

Agence France-Presse Meera Srinivasan women, men and children, reaction from Israeli offi- COLOMBO Geneva please take a shower before cials. Deputy Foreign Minis- A Swiss hotel that posted you go swimming,” it said, ter Tzipi Hotovely described Tilak Marapana of the signs telling Jewish clients to adding that “If you break the the incident as “an anti- United National Party shower before using the rules I’m forced to (close) Semitic act of the worst and (UNP) assumed charge as pool and restricting their ac- the swimming pool for you.” ugliest kind”. Israel’s Ambas- Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minis- cess to the facility’s freezer sador to Switzerland Jacob ter here on Tuesday, fol- has unleashed outrage and Use of freezer Keidar reportedly contacted lowing his predecessor official complaints from A second notice, in the kit- the hotel and informed Ms. Ravi Karunanayake’s resig- Israel. chen, meanwhile, instructed Hotovely that the signs had nation last week. The Paradies apartment “Our Jewish guests” that been removed. Mr. Karunanayake hotel in the Alpine village of they could only access the Paradies manager Ruth stepped down on Arosa in eastern Switzerland facility’s freezer between 10 Thomann, who signed the Thursday, after being is being accused of anti- and 11 a.m. and between notices, meanwhile, insisted linked to a controversial Semitism after an outraged 4.30 and 5.30 p.m. to Swiss daily 20 Minutes businessman who has been guest posted to Facebook a The story quickly made that she was not an anti- accused of a key role in a picture of a notice plastered the rounds on social media Semite, and acknowledged bond scam at the country’s outside the hotel pool. and was published by Israeli that her “choice of words A lifeline: People sail on a raft made of banana trunks in an area hit by oods in Kurigram, north Bangladesh. A third of the country Central Bank. Denying any

“To our Jewish Guests, papers, prompting a harsh was a mistake”. is reportedly ooded, with at least 29 dead and 1.5 million displaced as relentless monsoon rain pounded Bangladesh. * AFP wrongdoing, the ex-Minis- ter said he was resigning to protect the government and the UNP that he was Nawaz Sharif les U.K. to seek ‘temporary customs union’ part of. Third under Sirisena review petition Mr. Marapana is the third The post-Brexit transition proposal also pushes for right to negotiate bilateral trade deals Foreign Minister since the Maithripala Sirisena-Ranil Challenges disqualication by court Vidya Ram less trade possible in goods between Britain and the EU. would allow U.K. businesses continue investing as quickly Wickremesinghe combine London between the U.K. and the It will also push for Britain to to continue to trade with as possible,” said Confedera- formed government two Mubashir Zaidi a judge to supervise the The British government EU, and allows us to forge be able to begin negotiations their European partners in tion of British Industry’s and a half years ago. In Karachi completion of the investiga- wants to remain part of the new trade relationships with with new trade partners, the future, while expanding deputy director general Josh May, Mr. Karunanayake re- Pakistan’s ousted Prime tions within six months. European Union customs our partners in Europe and something that members of their markets beyond the Hardie. placed Mangala Minister Nawaz Sharif on Mr. Sharif had last week union for a number of years around the world,” it states, the customs union are not EU,” said Chancellor of the The European Commis- Samaraweera, currently Tuesday filed a review peti- addressed rallies in different as part of transition arrange- arguing that it would push able to do. Exchequer Philip Ham- sion made clear that its focus Finance Minister, in a Cab- tion in the Supreme Court, cities of the Punjab province ments, while still being able for a “highly streamlined” mond, who has long been remained on settling out- inet reshuffle. challenging his disqualifica- where he questioned the to negotiate trade deals with customs arrangement that New trade talks pushing for a “softer” Brexit, standing issues on Brexit be- Talk of Mr. tion by a five-member judgment. He had also countries such as India. removes the need for a U.K.- “The U.K. has been clear and for whom Britain’s fore it could begin to discuss Maranapana’s appoint- bench on July 28. His lawyer posed, to the public, the A government paper pub- EU customs border. that, once it has left the EU, spelling out of ambitions for future relations. “The ment earlier sparked criti- Khwaja Haris confirmed the rhetorical question of why lished on Tuesday set out its “One potential approach it intends to pursue new interim arrangements will be quicker #UK & EU27 agree cism from sections in filing of the petition. no Prime Minister has so far ambitions around future re- would involve the U.K. mir- trade negotiations with oth- seen as a political victory. on citizens, settling accounts Colombo, who pointed to The apex court, while dis- been allowed to complete lations with the customs roring the EU’s requirements ers. However, the U.K. would The proposals were wel- and#Ireland, the quicker we his 2015 resignation — he qualifying Mr. Sharif, had his term of five years. union — the EU’s tariff-free for imports from the rest of not bring into effect any new comed by the business com- can discuss customs & future was Law and Order Minis- declared that he was not be- He claimed that he was trading area and among the the world where their final arrangements with third munity, albeit with caution. relationship,” tweeted ter then — after he re- ing honest and truthful in ousted over a trivial matter trickiest issues in negoti- destination is the EU.” countries which were not “It is encouraging to see Michel Barnier, the EC’s portedly defended a con- the declaration of his assets relating to a company run ations over Britain’s exit The report also outlines consistent with the terms of that these papers propose a chief negotiator on Brexit. troversial maritime before tax authorities. by his son Hussain Nawaz in from the EU. “As we leave Britain’s ambitions for an in- the interim agreement while time-limited interim period The European Parliament’s security company linked to Mr. Sharif and his chil- Dubai. He said that though the EU and therefore the terim arrangement: a time- the interim agreement was and a customs system that is negotiator, Guy Verhofstadt, a major corruption case. In dren face corruption cases he was the honorary chair- customs union, the govern- limited customs arrange- in place,” says the report. as barrier-free as possible... said the plan of being both May, Mr. Marapana was to be probed by the National man of the board of direct- ment seeks a new customs ment based on shared ex- “Our proposals are ambi- But the clock is ticking and “in & out of the customs brought back into the gov- Accountability Bureau. The ors, he never received any arrangement that facilitates ternal tariffs and without tious, and rightly so. They what matters now is giving union” and having “invisible ernment as Minister of De- Supreme Court has deputed financial benefit. the freest and most friction- processes and duties set out arrangements that companies the confidence to borders” is “a fantasy”. velopment Assignments. CM A ND-NDE YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

THE HINDU NOIDA/DELHI WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2017 BUSINESS 13 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF Centre’s eBiz initiative stutters Changes in tech stall even existing features at portal that facilitates government-to-business interface

Vikas Dhoot National eGovernance Ser- cept Delhi, so far. NEW DELHI vice Delivery Gateway After official-level discus- The ambitious eBiz portal (NSDG, the middleware to in- sions since 2015, Minister of project unveiled by the tegrate services between de- State for Commerce and In- Centre in 2013 to serve as an partments and the portal). dustry Nirmala Sitharaman online, single-window entry Testing the integration of had requested state chief point for investors looking to individual services with the ministers last February to Centre slaps $264 mn set up a business anywhere eBiz portal also added to roll out eBiz’ state-level ser- penalty on RIL, BP in the country, is still strug- delays, the DIPP told the par- vices. Concurrence was re- NEW DELHI gling to become fully opera- liamentary standing commit- ceived from Rajasthan, Uttar The government has imposed tional. tee on commerce, citing ‘de- Pradesh, Maharashtra and a new penalty of $264 Even services that were pendency on multiple Delhi governments to integ- million (about ₹1,700 crore) available on the portal, such stakeholders’ such as NSDG, rate State services with the on Reliance Industries and its as registrations with the Cor- banks and state treasuries. eBiz portal only but not on partners for producing less porate Affairs Ministry and The DIPP said it had ‘taken the State CAF, the DIPP told than the targeted natural gas the Employees’ Provident up the matter at appropriate the Parliamentary panel. from eastern oshore KG-D6 Fund, have been ‘impacted’ levels in partner depart- The State CAF was elds in 2015-16. The total due to technical issues. Tough puzzle: ‘Limited availability of technical resources’ has ments to take necessary demonstrated to all State penalty, which is in the form While State governments hampered technology integration. * GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCK measures in speeding up in- governments last October, of disallowing recovery of have not come on board for tegration with the portal.’ but only the Delhi govern- ATM withdrawals rise, cost incurred for missing the critical components of the have migrated their existing Commerce and Industry in- ment has accorded concur- target across six years eBiz project, technical applications to new techno- formed Parliament in an ac- States dither rence on it. Seven services beginning April 1, 2010, is glitches have arisen in the logy platforms (Employees’ tion taken report tabled More than two years after that are part of the State CAF so do PoS transactions now $3.02 billion, an Oil plan to integrate all clear- Provident Fund Organisation earlier this month. discussions began with the have been integrated with Ministry ocial said. PTI ances onto a single system migrated to Oracle and Min- Such changes, the DIPP States to devise a state-level the eBiz portal. owing to government depart- istry of Corporate Affairs mi- has pointed out, require ad- composite application form The Parliamentary panel Debit card numbers too see increase SEBI steps up vigil on ments opting for different grated to SAP V2). This has ditional efforts to resolve (CAF) for investors that had questioned how ‘pilot’ money laundering technology platforms. impacted the availability of technology migration issues would integrate about 14 States such as Haryana, Ma- MANOJIT SAHA Viral Acharya had recently NEW DELHI “It may be noted that the their services on the eBiz and the ‘limited availability state government services harashtra, T.N., Punjab, Ra- Mumbai said “the currency in circu- Cracking down on misuse of partner ministries and de- portal,” the department of of technical resources’ at in- and permits, this key com- jasthan and U.P. had not Six months after the demon- lation is showing early signs the stock market for money partments offering their ser- industrial policy and promo- dividual departments causes ponent of the eBiz portal is given approvals to the CAF etisation exercise got over, of normalisation.” laundering, market regulator vices through eBiz portal tion (DIPP) in the Ministry of delays in integration with the also stuck with no takers, ex- initiative. cash withdrawals from auto- While cash withdrawals Securities and Exchange mated teller machines have from ATMs have gone up, so Board of India (SEBI) said it been steadily rising, latest have debit card transactions had stepped up “focussed data released by Reserve at the point of sale (PoS) ter- inspection” of suspected Four in fray for RBI ONGC to double gas output Bank of India shows. At the minals. RBI data showed brokers and other entities same time, transactions that in June, debit card leading to action against through point-of-sale ter- transactions in PoS termin- hundreds of them. The Dy. Governor’s post Dovetails plan to raise gas in energy basket from 6.5% to 15% minals have also risen, the als stood at ₹37,524 crore as capital markets watchdog data revealed. compared with ₹21,941 has enhanced its cooperation Press Trust of India proved in the last three According to the data, crore in October. The num- with other regulators and Vacancy arose after Mundra retired New Delhi years. “These projects cash withdrawals from ber of debit cards in the sys- agencies in India, as well as State-owned Oil and Natural would produce 69 million ATMs were more than ₹2.22 tem has also gone up in the abroad, for probes. PTI MANOJIT SAHA prises bankers from public Gas Corp (ONGC) on Tues- tonnes of crude oil and 118 lakh crore in June 2017, as period — from 739.28 mil- Mumbai sector lenders including day said it planned to double billion cubic meters of nat- compared to ₹2.54 lakh lion in October to 793.28 GST: common items Following the retirement of Arun Tiwari, former chair- gas production to more than ural gas during their profile crore recorded in October million in June. exempt from e-way bill S.S. Mundra, a deputy gov- man and managing director 100 million standard cubic period. Cumulative produc- 2016 — the month before the Though PoS transactions NEW DELHI ernor at the Reserve Bank of of Union Bank of India; meters per day in the next tion from these projects high-value notes were with- have shown a somewhat LPG, kerosene, jewellery and India (RBI), the Centre has Rakesh Sharma, managing 5-6 years. would peak during 2020-21 drawn. The demonetisation steady rise recently, they currency are among the identified a list of candid- director and chief executive In a statement issued on at 6.65 million tonnes of exercise began in November are lower than the ₹58,031 common-use items that have ates to fill the post. officer of Canara Bank; and Independence Day celebra- crude and 13.38 BCM of gas and ended in December, crore attained in December. been exempted from the The Financial Sector Reg- Suresh Patel, managing dir- tions at the company’s which is 45% of company’s when the deposit window Mobile banking transac- requirement of obtaining ulatory Appointment Search ector and chief executive of- headquarters in Dehradun, ONGC said 17 projects with a oil and gas standalone pro- was closed. tions also received a boost electronic permits for Committee had interacted ficer of Andhra Bank. the company said despite capex of ₹76,000 cr. were duction during FY17,” it said. Cash withdrawals from following demonetisation, transportation under the with several applicants last The RBI has four deputy tumbling oil prices in the approved over three years. Its flagship project in- ATMs halved in November rising from ₹1.14 lakh crore Goods and Services Tax (GST) month and probable names governors, of whom two are last three years, it not only cludes Cluster-II in Bay of 2016 as compared with Oc- in October to ₹2.13 lakh regime. The GST regime, include one from a foreign selected from outside the sustained production from The government is target- Bengal block KG-D5. tober, coming down further crore in May before coming rolled out from July 1, financial institution — Neeraj central bank. Of these two, existing fields through incre- ing an increase in the share The project would pro- in December. down to ₹1.81 lakh crore in mandates obtaining permits Gambhir, managing director one is traditionally a macro- mental inputs but has also of gas in the energy basket duce about 25 million June. called e-way bills for and head fixed income, economist and the other a taken large, meaningful and from 6.5% to 15% in the next tonnes of oil and 50 BCM of ‘Signs of normalisation’ Similarly, mobile wallet transporting goods Nomura Holdings, banking commercial banker. calculated investment de- few years. gas over the life of the pro- Cash withdrawals are going transactions increased from consignment of more than industry sources said. The other two deputy cisions to ensure sustained ONGC said 17 projects ject with peak production of up as more than 82% of the ₹3,385 crore to ₹5,350 crore ₹50,000 in value with a view Apart from Mr. Gambhir, governors are promoted volumes and financial with a combined capex of 4 million tonnes of oil and currency has been remonet- between October and June, to checking tax evasion. PTI the list of probables com- from within the RBI’s ranks. growth. ₹76,000 crore had been ap- 5.5 BCM of gas. ised. RBI Deputy Governor RBI data showed. ‘Jio’s free Defaulters owe ₹92,000 crore phone will hit sector’ to public sector lenders

Press Trust of India The banks reported a 20% jump in outstanding loans New Delhi The country’s second- Press Trust of India largest telecom player New Delhi Vodafone expects Reliance Public sector banks have re- Jio’s ‘effective free phone’ ported a 20% jump in the with unlimited calling to outstanding loans by almost erode operators’ revenues, 9,000 wilful defaulters who which are already under collectively owed to lenders pressure, and sought re- more than ₹92,000 crore at duction in various levies the end of March this year. imposed by the govern- The outstanding loans by ment as a breather to the wilful defaulters rose to industry. ₹92,376 crore at the end of “... the new operator financial year 2016-17, as continues to aggressively against ₹76,685 crore at the under-price its services, in- end of March 2016, register- cluding announcing launch ing a jump of 20.4%. of ‘Effective Zero Price Fea- Bad loans burden: SBI and its erstwhile associates alone had ture Phone’ with unlimited Wilful default rises written o ₹27,574 cr. NPAs in 2016-17, according to RBI data. voice. This is likely to cause At the same time, there has further erosion in revenue been close to 10% increase FIR in 1,914 cases with out- SBI and its erstwhile asso- for existing operators,” the in number of wilful default- standing loans of ₹32,484 ciates alone had written off company in a letter to the ers on annual basis. crore. ₹27,574 crore non-perform- Telecom Commission The number of wilful de- During 2016-17, 27 public ing assets (NPAs) in 2016-17, Member (Finance) faulters increased to 8,915 at sector banks, including SBI according to the RBI data on Anuradha Mitra. RIL CMD the end of March, from 8,167 and its five associates had “write offs” done by public Mukesh Ambani recently in the previous fiscal, ac- written off ₹81,683 crore, the sector banks. unveiled JioPhone, a 4G cording to data collated by highest in the last five fisc- Gross NPAs of public sec- feature phone for a one- the Finance Ministry. als. The amount was 41% tor banks rose to ₹6.41 lakh time, fully-refundable de- Out of 8,915 cases of wil- higher than that in the previ- crore at the end of March posit of ₹1,500 per unit. ful defaults, banks have filed ous fiscal. 2017, from ₹5.02 lakh crore. Merck, Intel CEOs quit Trump’s council Resignations from American Manufacturing Council related to Virginia violence

Reuters ute in our potential and abil- The chief executives of Intel ity to improve American Corp., Merck & Co. Inc. and manufacturing,” said Mr. Under Armour Inc. resigned Plank. “However, Under Ar- from U.S. President Donald mour engages in innovation Trump’s American Manufac- and sports, not politics.” turing Council, following Mr. The demonstration in Trump’s initially tepid re- Charlottesville by hundreds sponse to weekend violence of white nationalists took a at a rally of white suprem- deadly turn when a car acists in Charlottesville, drove into a group of Virginia. counter protesters and killed “I resigned from the coun- ‘Created equal’: Merck CEO Ken Frazier, right, quit the council one person. “America’s lead- cil to call attention to the ser- citing the need for leaders to oppose ‘bigotry’. * AFP ers must honour our funda- ious harm our divided polit- mental values by clearly re- ical climate is causing to and counter protesters. Mr. blame. On Monday, Mr. jecting expressions of critical issues...,” Intel chief Frazier cited the need to Trump denounced neo- hatred, bigotry and group executive Brian Krzanich “take a stand against intoler- Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan supremacy, which run said in a blog post. ance and extremism.” The as criminals and thugs, bow- counter to the American AFL-CIO, a federation of la- ing to mounting political ideal that all people are cre- ‘Take a stand’ bour unions that represent pressure as critics assailed ated equal,” Mr. Frazier said. Kenneth Frazier, the CEO of 12.5 million workers, said it him for not singling out Mr. Trump responded in a drugmaker Merck and an was considering pulling its white supremacists. tweet, “Ken Frazier of Merck African-American, said he representative. The CEO of Under Ar- Pharma has resigned from left the advisory council be- After the white nationalist mour, Kevin Plank, an- President’s Manufacturing cause of the President’s reac- rally turned deadly on Sat- nounced his resignation Council, he will have more tion after the violence urday, Mr. Trump initially from the council in a Twitter time to LOWER RIPOFF between white supremacists said ‘many sides’ were to posting. “We remain resol- DRUG PRICES!”

NOIDA/DELHI THE HINDU 14 BUSINESS WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2017 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF Mastercard mulls ITI aims to shed 1,400 sta in 3 years With progress in technology, fewer people are the norm, says the CMD

Pradeesh Chandran “With new technology, you such as smart city and IoT. using blockchain tech Jay Shankar Bengaluru need young blood and we The rest will come from have opted for a five-year small services.” Seeks regulatory framework in India to ease execution ITI, which targets to make its tenure-based hiring. The The company last year lif- first profit in 14 years this company is aiming to bring ted its ‘promotion holiday’ TCA Sharad Raghavan fiscal, will opt for contract- down the average age within imposed on its staff. “We are NEW DELHI based hiring as it aims to re- 2-3 years to about 34 years.” springing back and smiles Thermal coal imports at Mastercard is looking to in- duce the workforce from its are back on the employees’ major ports dip 17.37% corporate blockchain tech- current 3,900 to 2,500 over ‘Not a training complex’ faces. Our centre of excel- NEW DELHI nology into its operations the next three years, S. Young graduates who join lence in Bengaluru has star- Thermal and steam coal and would like a clear regu- Gopu, CMD of the state- the company are leaving for ted attracting young people imports fell 17.37% at the latory framework in India owned telecom firm, said in private sector jobs soon after with innovative ideas. There top 12 major ports to 29.82 that lays down what block- an interview. a year or two after training. was a fund shortage earlier. million tonnes (mt) in the chain can be used for. ITI was officially declared S.Gopu “Attrition is very high at Now, that hurdle has been April-July period, according “We are working with sick in November 2004 after 60%,” Mr. Gopu said. After crossed with the infusion of to Indian Ports Association. blockchain,” Amitabh Tew- it came under the purview of The state-owned firm, the five-year initial tenure, money by the Government. Last week, the Centre had ary, vice president at Master- the Board for Industrial and with the Government hold- an employee is given a 30% This is just the beginning.” said that due to enhanced card, told The Hindu in an Financial Reconstruction. At ing 94.86%, sees opportunit- salary increase. ITI has upgraded its infra- production by Coal India, the interview. “There are quite a its peak, it employed 35,000 ies in the Centre’s initiatives “There is freedom to work structure and started diversi- country has moved from a few pilots on in Mastercard people. such as Digital India, Make in but at the same time, this is fying into new areas of tech- regime of coal scarcity to a on the various aspects of our “The ideals of the com- India, Preferential Market not a training complex. We nology. “There was a time coal surplus situation. business where blockchain Open to change: “We are not obsessed with cards,” says pany have changed since it Access and smart infrastruc- need to do business also.” when we could not get into Thermal coal is key to India’s will be useful.” Amitabh Tewary of Mastercard. * REUTERS was set up in 1948,” Mr. ture coupled with technolo- ITI plans to even out its the services sector. As of energy programme as 70% “Blockchain is an emer- Gopu said. “Earlier, it was gies such as 5G, Internet of revenues from the three sec- now, the main thing is em- of power generation is ging technology and like cent years, with one Bitcoin Mr. Tewary explained. “You meant for employing as Things and sensor drivers. tors which it focuses on. ployee motivation.” dependent on dry fuel. PTI many other companies, we worth about ₹1.75 lakh cur- can anonymously ask for many people as it could in ITI has identified potential “30% of revenues will come ITI’s debt is about ₹850 continue to explore the im- rently, increasing from ₹5 in this kind of ransom, and the different regions. Now, with partners for the initiatives, from the telecommunica- crore, lent by a consortium Domestic steel output plications and opportunities 2010. nature of the currency al- advancements in techno- Mr. Gopu said. tions market, 30% from the of banks led by SBI. “We may rises 4.6% in July in this space,” he added. Mastercard Labs, the lows that,” according to Mr. logy, fewer people have be- The average age of em- services sector and another make a profit of ₹10-15 crore” NEW DELHI “We believe that there is a company’s R&D arm, is Tewary. come the norm.” ployees is now 55 years. 30% from new technologies this fiscal, Mr. Gopu said. Domestic crude steel role [for] blockchain in the working on a network that “However, it is something production witnessed a 4.6% future of commerce. This fu- can incorporate the benefits that is going to grow, and we increase at 8.45 million ture needs to be developed of blockchain technology are working on several pilots Gold imports tonnes (mt) in July, in partnership with banks, while meeting the require- which are based on block- ‘Bitcoin is no rival to gold’ according to ocial data. merchants and industry ments of a globally distrib- chain,” he added. “One of This is against the total participants.” uted financial network. the core jobs that we do is to double to output of 8.082 mt of crude In India, an inter-minis- “This platform will sup- settle the money between Market for yellow metal is vibrant, says Newscape’s Morris steel in the same month a terial committee is currently port a wide range of use institutions. $13.35 billion year ago. “During April-July looking at how best to regu- cases, including but not ex- “There is an issuing insti- Indrani Dutta knowledge the blockchain KOLKATA 2017, crude steel production late blockchain technology, clusive to B2B inter-bank tution and one acquiring in- behind it is a technological Press Trust of India was 33.011 mt, a growth of if it is allowed at all. One of payments, tracking trade fin- stitution, and we are trying Bitcoin and gold can happily masterpiece.” New Delhi 3.8% over the same period of the proposals is to bring it ance obligations along the to incorporate blockchain coexist and the cryptocur- While gold had lost much India’s gold imports more the last year,” the Joint Plant under market regulator Se- value chain, exchanging KYC there. That is one aspect. We rency would not rival the of its former role, Mr. Morris than doubled to $13.35 bil- Committee, under the curities and Exchange Board (Know Your Customer) or can do some of the aspects yellow metal, according to argued that it had main- lion during the April-July Ministry of Steel, has said in of India (SEBI). AML (Anti Money Launder- of business, speed them up, Charles Morris, chief invest- tained its credibility and period of the current fiscal, its latest report. PTI ing) data between trusted with blockchain. We are not ment officer at Newscape status with central banks according to Commerce ‘Bring it under RBI’ parties, and more,” Mr. Tew- obsessed with cards.” Group, a London-based fin- and other long-term in- Ministry data. Inox to invest ₹100 cr. According to Mr. Tewary, ary said. “One of the things block- ancial services firm. vestors. While gold offered Gold imports, which for adding 39 screens one option that could be However, the fact that chain presupposes is that it Writing in the latest issue no annual income, the mar- have a bearing on the NEW DELHI considered is bringing block- some blockchain technolo- is an open protocol, an open of Gold Investor, published ket remained vibrant, sig- country’s current account Multiplex operator Inox chain regulation under the gies like Bitcoin have re- ledger system, and min- by the World Gold Council, ‘Blockchain technology, in nalling it was a true and safe deficit, stood at $4.97 bil- Leisure plans to invest about proposed Payments Regulat- cently been associated with imum regulation,” Mr. Tew- he said that in March 2017, fact, allows for safe, digital haven. “Gold should con- lion in April-July 2016-17. ₹100 crore to open 39 more ory Board in the Reserve ransomware attacks means ary said. when the price of Bitcoin redistribution of gold.’ tinue to thrive in the digital In July, imports of the screens this scal to take its Bank of India. The Board is that regulation must be even “I guess the regulation surpassed the price of an age as it remains the ulti- precious metal rose to $2.1 total screen count to more to have three members each more careful when legislat- will have to come from the ounce of gold for the first enjoyed unrivalled stability, mate store of value.” Block- billion, from $1.07 billion in than 500. The rm operates from the central bank and ing the use of these techno- perspective of what you can time, many thought gold had he said. Observing that chain technology is immut- the same month of 2016. more than 475 screens in 58 the Centre. logies, he said. and can’t do, which is where found a digital rival. “It about $1.5 billion changed able, meaning past data The surge in gold im- cities. “A new screen pipeline Blockchain is the techno- the crux of the problem lies. hasn’t — this is merely a hands daily over the Bitcoin cannot be changed, making ports in July contributed to for the [remaining part of logy behind cryptocurrency Concerns on anonymity While you say that you have nominal coincidence,” Mr. network, Mr. Morris wrote it an important point of ref- the widening of the trade this nancial] year includes 9 such as Bitcoin, which is a “That’s one of the reasons created this technology that Morris wrote. the value had risen tenfold erence. “Using blockchain, deficit to $11.44 billion properties with 39 screens purely electronic currency why Bitcoin, which uses can be used in one manner, in the last three years — with modern communications from $7.76 billion a year and 6,577 seats,” Alok that can also be traded on blockchain technology, has how do you stop people ‘Tenfold rise’ all transactions bypassing enable gold to be redistrib- earlier. India is recording a Tandon, CEO, Inox Leisure exchanges. Demand for Bit- not yet been recognised from using it in another While the Bitcoin market the banking system. uted around the world at the surge in inbound ship- told analysts during a coin globally as well as in In- around the world, because manner?” Mr. Tewary asked, was small and growing, the “Whatever that money is up touch of a button, without ments of the precious conference call. PTI dia has skyrocketed in re- of the anonymity it offers,” flagging the challenges. gold market was deep and to, most thinking folks ac- ever leaving the vaults.” metal from South Korea.

THE HINDU NOIDA/DELHI WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2017 SPORT 15 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF The sweep is sweet, manner sweeter Pandya’s emergence as a powerful all-rounder highlights India’s most dominant away campaign INDIA IN LANKA atne and Kusal Mendis prospered, the visitor’s attack remained potent. K.C. Vijaya Kumar Warner retires hurt after Pallekele Hearteningly, Kohli and being struck by bouncer company sought to test Across the seas, India was MELBOURNE themselves in different David Warner caused a major supposed to suffer from match-situations. Twice the scare in the national camp timidity. It wasn’t a stereo- follow-on was enforced and after being hit by bouncer on type but a reality evident victories were registered and the neck during a intra-squad from defeats abroad since its the India captain explained practice match in Darwin. The Test debut at Lord’s in 1932. his rationale: “In the last incident took place on day The tide turned from the game, we enforced the fol- two of the match when 1970s and when Virat Kohli’s low on but we did not ex- Warner attempted a hook, men won the Test series in ecute the things that we but misread a short-pitched Sri Lanka at 3-0, it proved to wanted to, to the best of our delivery from Josh be a fresh milestone. The abilities. Plus the opposition Hazlewood and was struck on latest result was the first time played well. This time (final neck and fell to the ground, that an Indian squad has Test) we took it as an oppor- ESPNcricinfo reported. ANI swept a series once it got tunity, we decided to treat past the immigration coun- this (day three) as day five of ters in foreign airports. a series-defining Test on an Grappling with transition away tour where we will worries and injury woes, Sri have to get an opposition out Lanka is no longer a tough within 60-70 overs. So we opposition. Yet, India de- keep finding different situ- serves credit for dishing out ations and scenarios where a brand of cricket that was al- we can challenge ourselves luring. as a team first before we look Interestingly, India’s dom- at the opposition.” inant journey in Tests com- Broad backs Anderson menced during the 2015 tour Not yet utopia to fire in Ashes of Sri Lanka. That outing was The No. 1 Test side has LONDON wrested at 2-1 and sub- proved its credentials but it Stuart Broad is “very sequently India played 24, isn’t utopia still. Though confident” that James including the one that con- Saha, Pujara and Abhinav Anderson will play a “big cluded here on Monday, and Mukund plucked some stun- part” in England’s upcoming won 18 and lost just a solitary ners, close-in catching re- Ashes defence in Australia. game. mains a concern. Over the Pushpakumara and “The last couple of years he’s Through the Tests at last two years, the results averaging 14 or 15 with the Galle, Colombo and here, have been spectacular but a Fernando in ODI team ball in England, so we know Kohli found diverse heroes. fact should be acknowledged how dangerous he is when Shikhar Dhawan was keen to — India largely played at the ball’s moving around like join his family in Australia Find-of-the-tour: Hardik Pandya transformed his potential into performance in a most telling home and when it toured, Upul Tharanga to lead that. But when we go to when he got a call from the * REUTERS the visits were restricted to fashion at Pallekele, slamming a stunning century in the company of tailenders. Special Correspondent (captain), Angelo Mathews, Australia, the wobble seam selectors following M. Vijay’s the West Indies and Sri Pallekele Niroshan Dickwella (wicket- sore wrist. Lanka, two countries that he bowls is a great weapon to hane (one century each) find-of-the-tour. He batted hammed Shami (10). When keeper), Dhanushka Gunathil- The southpaw rewarded have suffered an enormous have. I certainly expect him notching up three-figure with abandon while still be- Jadeja got suspended from Left-arm spinner Malinda aka, Kusal Mendis, Chamara slump in form. to play a big part in the faith with a chart-topping marks. Critically, the lower- ing clued into the team’s the third Test, chinaman Pushpakumara and Vishwa Kapugedera, Milinda Siri- Australia.” PTI 358 inclusive of two hun- order lent the turbo-charge needs, bowled with vigour bowler Kuldeep Yadav India has to assert itself on Fernando were the two new wardena, Malinda Pushpaku- dreds and bagged the ‘Man- with R. Ashwin, Wriddhiman and continued to be Kohli’s stepped in and returned a tougher tours, be it South faces in the Sri Lanka ODI mara, Akila Dhananjaya, Lak- of-the-Series’ award. Saha, Ravindra Jadeja and ‘gun’ fielder in the outfield. match-haul of five wickets Africa or England. It is a stir- and T20 squad announced shan Sandakan, Thisara Perera, Hardik Pandya contributing Pandya’s 96-ball 108 at and it spoke volumes about ring thought to have in the here on Tuesday. Upul Thar- Wanindu Hasaranga, Lasith No respite handsomely. There was no Pallekele was the final knock- the team's rich resources. aftermath of India’s Inde- anga will lead the side. Malinga, Dushmantha The rest of the batting unit respite for Sri Lanka as India out that deflated Dinesh Umesh Yadav and Pandya pendence Day which the In- The first game of the five- Chameera, and Vishwa flourished with K.L. Rahul racked up 640, 240 for three Chandimal’s men. too got vital breakthroughs. dian team celebrated by match ODI series against In- Fernando. striking fifties at will and declared, 622 for nine de- The bowling hit the high Except for that phase in hoisting the Tricolour and dia will be held at Dambulla The schedule: ODIs: Aug. 20, Cheteshwar Pujara (two clared and 487. notes through Ashwin (17 Colombo’s Sinhalese Sports singing the national anthem on August 20. 24, 27, 31 and Sept. 3; T20I: tons), Kohli and Ajinkya Ra- Pandya proved to be the wickets), Jadeja (13) and Mo- Club when Dimuth Karunar- at the team hotel. The squad: Upul Tharanga Sept. 6.

PCB to honour Younis, Misbah and Afridi CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC KARACHI Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Tricolour ies high Tell a player clearly if he is is planning to honour three former skippers — Younis Khan, Misbah-ul-Haq, and Shahid Afridi — in September. in or out of the reckoning “We plan to arrange a special awards ceremony for Younis, Misbah and Afridi. They ‘Rested’ euphemism is bound to hurt a stalwart like Yuvraj served Pakistan for a long Vijay Lokapally he is 35 and not as swift as he period and deserve NEW DELHI appreciation,” said PCB was once — but then he is not chairman Najam Sethi. ANI An impact player has been the oldest member. dealt a kind of blow that has In Dinesh Karthik’s case, haunted many performers in there has been no explana- Indian cricket. tion. The dashing stroke- Can he come back? Only maker from Tamil Nadu, Yuvraj Singh can answer that who made clear his desire to question. Or, should one say, be only considered as a bats- only the team management man and not as a wicket- and the National selectors keeper-batsman, earned his can shed light on this devel- slot following a fabulous do- opment that could shake the mestic season. His

The Indian team snapped after the ag hoisting ceremony on Tuesday. * COURTESY: WWW.BCCI.TV confidence of a man who an- comeback, after three years nounced his arrival 17 years Don’t write West Indies Yuvraj Singh. Dinesh Karthik. in exile, lasted just two in- ago at Nairobi with a stun- * * off yet, warns Garner FILE PHOTO: K. BHAGYA PRAKASH FILE PHOTO: B. JOTHI RAMALINGAM nings (2 and 50 not out) ning assault on the famed against the West Indies last LONDON Australian bowlers. month. There is no talk of Bowling great and team of selectors. a “game changing” knock India-A suers big loss “Rested,” said selection his future role. manager Joel Garner has Yuvraj, it may be noted, against Pakistan in the committee chairman M.S.K. warned against “writing the Press Trust of India Starting the day at 192 for highest. While Bawne was marked his presence with a league phase. “Yuvi’s in- True, the selectors have a Pretoria Prasad in reference to Yuv- West Indies off too early” six, India-A added only 19 the only one who showed 150 against England at Cut- nings, I think, was the game- tough choice. They have to raj’s omission from the one- ahead of their upcoming Test Putting up an abject batting runs and lost three wickets. temperament, young wicket- tack in his second match of changing innings. I felt like a accommodate K. L. Rahul, day series against Sri Lanka. series against England. display, India-A lost the first Vijay Shankar, who was in- keeper-batsman Ishan the comeback phase early club batsman while playing who has the backing of the “Cricket is played in the unofficial Test against South jured, did not come out to Kishan approached his in- The term “rested” has of- this year. He has won two alongside Yuvi, the way he team management. They middle at the end of the day. I Africa by 235 runs to trail the bat. It was a poor show by nings with a T20 mindset, ten been used conveniently man-of-the-match awards in was hitting the ball. He took have to find place for Manish think the fellas have got two-match series 0-1. India-A as it was outclassed scoring 39 off 32 balls. by the decision-makers the last 10 matches, more all the pressure off me and Pandey, again backed by the talent. It’s who makes the Chasing a mammoth 447, in all departments. The scores: South Africa-A 346 when dealing with stalwarts. than any other team-mate. played the way only he can,” team management. But it greatest adjustment in the India wasbowled out for 211 Not a single Indian & 220 for five decl. bt India-A But it certainly hurts the At the ICC Champions said Kohli. would help if players are told day/night game. I wouldn’t in its second innings with crossed the half-century 120 & 211 (Ankit Bawne 46, affected player if he learns of Trophy in England in June, The left-hander finds him- in clear terms that they have completely write them off.” pacer Junior Dala grabbing mark in both innings with Ishan Kishan 39, Junior Dala his fate through the media Yuvraj produced what skip- self at a crossroads. If age is been dropped rather than AFP five for 36 in 10.1 overs. Ankit Bawne’s 46 being the five for 36). and not from the chairman per Virat Kohli described as to be held against Yuvraj — use the ‘rested’ euphemism. Why county cricket looks attractive again With a tour of England scheduled next year, it will help Indians acclimatise and handle conditions better

The ‘Golden Era’ players — Sachin nised that even a short spell by an over- team an edge. India might be the No.1 are not given enough matches to famili- Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly, Anil seas player could be beneficial to the team in the world, but not in all condi- arise themselves with the conditions. Kumble, Javagal Srinath, Zaheer Khan, teams. It would be for the players too, tions and all countries. That is some- Perhaps there is a call for seeing that Rahul Dravid, V.V.S. Laxman — all had especially ahead of an England tour. thing the current bunch is keen to ad- some players are given leave of absence stints. Zaheer saw his season with In recent years, a crowded schedule dress. from the IPL to play county cricket. Worcestershire in 2006 as the turning and the IPL have meant that few Indians Despite making a triple century, a They might have to be compensated for point in his career. He confirmed his have shown an interest in playing out- middle-order batsman has not been a the loss in earnings. But it might be BETWEEN WICKETS status as a world-class bowler and was side country. But with India playing in regular, an opener who was out of the worthwhile for a couple of batsmen and suresh menon hero of India’s last series win in Eng- South Africa, England and Australia team and recalled from vacation ends bowlers, especially the medium pacers. land, in 2007. over the next 18 months, the finishing up man of the series with two centuries, For so long now has the IPL been the school is looking attractive again. India’s most experienced fast bowler, Win in all conditions hot ticket to fame and fortune that it is Kohli’s desire Cheteshwar Pujara and Ravichandran with over 70 Tests (and still in his 20s) The acknowledgement that following easy to forget traditionally it was the In 2011, India lost 4-0 to England; in Ashwin, two men who will have a big struggles to find a place. Newcomers are victories in Asia, Indian cricket is up for English county season that attracted the 2014 it was 3-1. The big disappointment impact on India’s matches have signed threatening the established like never tougher times ahead is welcome. While best. three years ago was Virat Kohli whose up already, and a couple of other names before. No one can afford to relax or India reiterated their traditional image In the 1960s, Tiger Pataudi led Sus- weakness outside the off stump was are being discussed too. “I want to im- take his place in the team for granted. as tigers at home and lambs abroad in sex, while in the 70s, Farokh Engineer ruthlessly exploited by James Anderson prove as a player,” says Pujara, and that It is a wonderful position to be in. But the early part of this decade, it was (Lancashire), Bishan Bedi (Northamp- and company. Kohli was quoted as say- is straightforward enough. He credits it’s not unique. This was roughly the sought to justify that approach. tonshire), Venkatraghavan (Derbyshire) ing recently that he would love to play his improved technique — he made over state of affairs in 2011 when M.S. Dhoni “It is enough if we win at home. No and Dilip Doshi (Notts and Warwicks) in England before the 2018 tour. 1000 runs last season and two more led the team to England and Australia, team wins abroad consistently,” went honed their craft in England. “Say for a month or a month and a centuries in the recent Sri Lanka series expecting to win the four-match series the refrain. Roughly a tenth of all Indian Test half (to) get used to playing in those con- — to his experiences there. in each country. India lost eight Tests in Kohli is turning that on its head. “We players have played county cricket. ditions, understand how the wickets be- a row, and the Golden Era came to an are not looking at Test cricket now as Sunil Gavaskar (Somerset), Kapil Dev have in that particular phase of the Tribute to professional mindset end. India are keen that history does home and away any more. We are just (Northants), Mohammad Azharuddin year.” It is a tribute to the recent professional not repeat itself. There is only a month’s looking at them as Test matches and we Benecial outing: A stint in the English (Derbyshire), Ravi Shastri (Glamorgan) County cricket was seen as the finish- mindset of Indian cricketers as well as gap between the end of the IPL and the want to win anywhere we play,” he said county season has helped Cheteshwar played too. In the pre-IPL days, the ing school in the days when a player was an acknowledgement of the competi- start of the English tour next year. On after the second win in Sri Lanka. Pujara, seen in Nottinghamshire uniform, money was decent and the experience contracted for the whole season. Then tion for places that they are looking to both the previous occasions, acclimat- There is something refreshing about hone his skills. * PICTURE COURTESY: crucial. the governing body in England recog- England to give themselves and the isation was a problem. Modern teams this. NOTTINGHAMSHIRE CC INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT CM A ND-NDE YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

NOIDA/DELHI THE HINDU 16 SPORT WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2017 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF India overcomes Dutch challenge Rathour gets his Goals from Gurjant and Mandeep help the visitors win the series calling in Himachal PRESS TRUST OF INDIA Mandeep deflected the ball HPCA appoints former India opener AMSTERDAM home to double India’s lead. Gurjant Singh and Mandeep Soon after, a Dutch pen- as head coach and director of cricket Five drugs found in Singh scored a goal apiece as alty corner was well saved by Vijay Lokapally Woods’ system a resolute Indian men’s debutant goalkeeper Suraj NEW DELHI LOS ANGELES hockey team overcame Karkera, who had replaced Tiger Woods had five drugs, World No. 4 Netherlands 2-1 Vikram Rathour is set to Chikte. With three minutes including the opioid painkiller in an exciting encounter give a facelift to cricket in remaining, the host strikers hydrocodone, in his system here on Monday. Himachal Pradesh. had three shots on goal but when he was arrested in May Led by Manpreet, the side The Himachal Pradesh an alert Karkera proved on suspicion of driving under which featured nine players Cricket Association (HPCA) equal to the task. the influence, according to a from the junior team beat an has drafted the former India toxicology report made experienced Netherlands Though Saander de Wijn and Punjab opener as dir- public on Monday. Also squad through goals from got past the Indian ’keeper ector of cricket and head present were the powerful Gurjant (fourth minute) and off another penalty corner in coach with a free hand to painkiller hydromorphone, Mandeep (51st minute). The the 58th minute, it was too decide on the policy of pro- anxiety drug alprazolam, win helped India clinch the little too late for the Dutch- moting the game in the hilly Rathour...new challenges men. State. sleep drug and THC, which is three-match series. ahead. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT a chemical component of India put pressure on the “I think we played well in Rathour, with a vast ex- marijuana. AFP home team straightaway, the all departments. They [the perience of 146 first-class <> We want to positive intent working as it Netherlands] were a very ex- matches, had completed a encourage home drew first blood through a perienced team with more four-year stint as National cricketers penalty corner awarded in than eight players with over selector and was keen to the fourth minute. 100 International caps. So, to stay in touch with the game. Centre of Excellence is going After Varun Kumar’s drag- beat them we had to come With Punjab not showing to have permanent employ- up with something special. any interest, Rathour made flick was padded away by the Weaving through: Gurjant Singh dribbles past the Dutch players. * PTI ees to give it a professional Dutch ’keeper, Gurjant “I am very happy with the the move to associate with look. It will be the platform pounced on the rebound, lead with a bold attempt, but three more penalty corners The final 15 minutes saw way the entire team per- an ambitious programme to go to for all the cricketers finding the target with a re- his shot went wide. during this phase, but Chikte the Indians go all out in formed as one unit, espe- drawn by the HPCA. in the state,” informed Rat- Australian Olympic verse flick. It was his first In- The Dutch tried to make rose to the challenge. search of another goal. Gur- cially the players making jour, who had been Punjab’s cycling champion dead ternational goal for the amends when they got a pen- With a 1-0 lead, the third jant even earned a penalty their debut. They showed no Cricketing centres coach in 2010-11 and an as- SYDNEY men’s senior side. alty corner in the early quarter saw Netherlands corner, but it was saved. signs of nervousness and Following Rathour’s sugges- sistant coach of Kings XI The cycling fraternity is India continued to attack, minutes of the second make a desperate attempt to The following minute saw played with a lot of confid- tions, the HPCA will identify Punjab. mourning the sudden death making repeated forays into quarter, but India goalkeeper come back into the game, Sumit win another penalty ence,” said an elated skipper 70 small centres all over the of former Olympic and world the striking circle. Armaan Akash Chikte thwarted the but India handled the pres- corner for India. Trying out a Manpreet after the series State. “The idea is to have Groom local talent champion Stephen Qureshi almost enlarged the move. The Dutchmen had sure well. different variation worked as win. these centres with a min- As head coach of HPCA, Wooldridge, aged just 39. The imum of 25 players each. Rathour has decided to fo- former star team pursuiter The HPCA will provide the cus on grooming home- won gold for Australia in the basic equipment, prepare grown talent than engage 2004 Athens Olympics, was Sandeep pitches, and appoint a pro- professionals. also a four-time world Prevalent Force obliges in main event fessional coach at every “Hiring players from out- champion in the discipline HYDERABAD: Prevalent Force TREASURE WIND PLATE INDEPENDENCE CUP and Denim centre,” Rathour, 48, told side has not helped the team (D. 1/4 and 3. 1m, 12.49s. ₹7 (w), 5, 8, (D. II), The Hindu and the 2002 (Y.S. Srinath up) won the K. 3 II), (1100 m)_Cat. III, 5-y-o & 9 (p), SHP: 18, FP: 27, Q: 19, 8 (1400m), Cat. II, 3-y-o & over, . to qualify for a long time. We Commonwealth Games Mahipathi Rao Memorial Million, over, rated 26 to 46: PERFECTION Tanala: 108. Favourite: Ambitious rated 58 to 78: THAT’S MY The centres will be set up want to encourage home (R.J. Hannam) 1, Romantic Fire (G. DARLING (Akshay Kumar) 1, Sea through champion. There were no the main event of the Hyderabad Approach. Owners: M/s. P.S. Ran- in schools and colleges will- races at Malakpet on Tuesday. Naresh) 2, Racing Ikon (Nakhat ganathan & A.V. Jayaprakash. Castle (Deepak Singh) 2, Like cricketers. At present, we details about when and how Trained by Darius R. Byramji, the Singh) 3, Pegasus (A.A. Vikrant) 4. Trainer: R.H. Sequeira. Wise (Nakhat Singh) 3, Green Im- SPORTS BUREAU ing to provide their may have a pool of 450 Wooldridge died. AFP winner is owned by Mr. Rienzie S hd., 1-1/2 and 1. 1m, 08.15s. ₹12 age (Praveen Gaddam) 4. Not run: LONDON grounds. “We are going to youngsters playing compet- M.K. Edwards and Mrs. P.P.M. (w), 7, 8, 10 (p), SHP. 27, FP: 64, Q: INDEPENDENCE CUP (D. I), Naazaan. 1/2, 3/4 and 1/2. 1m, V.M. Sandeep and Denim sign MoUs with these itive cricket in HP which is Edwards. 35, Tanala: 205. Favourite: Perfec- 27.01s. ₹34 (w), 6, 8, 6 (p), SHP: 6 (1400m), Cat. II, 3-y-o & over, schools and colleges. The tion. Owner: M/s. Zaveri Stud rated 58 to 78: PROSPERO (C. 16, FP: 82, Q: 26, Tanala: 241. Fa- Yadav got off to a strong nothing compared to some TREASURE WIND PLATE (D. I), Farm Private Limited represented Umesh) 1, Awesome Approach vourite: Sea Castle. Owners: M/s. start in the HSBC Road to idea is to pick at least two metros where private 1 (1100 m)_Cat. III, 5-y-o & over, by Mr. Champaklal Zaveri, Mrs. (Akshay Kumar) 2, Without Mohammed Rashed Ali Khan, S. Wimbledon UK u-14 tennis players from each centre academies command a rated 26 to 46: PRINCESS BALLER- Bindu C. Zaveri, Miss Harsha N Makeup (Rafique Sk.) 3, Top Con- Daljeet Singh & Aziz Ahmed and give them extensive INA (Md. Ismail) 1, Cash for Rank Desai & Miss Niti N Desai. Trainer: tender (Deep Shanker) 4. 3/4, 4 Khan. Trainer: S.S.F. Hassan. championship on the grass membership of more than L.V.R. Deshmukh. courts of Wimbledon. Both coaching at the four major 500. Unless we create a large (R.J. Hannam) 2, Apache Gal (Go- and 1-1/4. 1m, 25.63s. ₹9 (w), 9, 7, MACHIAVELLIANISM PLATE pal Singh) 3, Nelly (Ajit Singh) 4. MACHIAVELLIANISM PLATE 12 (p), SHP: 24, FP: 36, Q: 22, (D. I), (1000m), Cat. III, 3-y-o won their league matches centres (Dharamshala, pool, how can HP compete 2, 2-1/2 and s hd.. 1m, 07.17 s. ₹12 9 Tanala: 337. Favourite: Prospero. & over, rated upto 30: PROUD N dropping five games each. Amtar, Bilaspur and Una) with big teams,” Rathour (w), 5, 7, 8 (p), SHP: 13, FP: 40, Q: 4 (D. II), (1000m), Cat. III, 3-y-o SISCO (P. Owners: M/s. Ashok Kumar Gupta ARROGANT (Aneel) 1, Jasmine 22, Tanala: 109. Favourite: Prin- & over, rated upto 30: After playing three that we have,” Rathour emphasised. Ajeeth Kumar) 1, Molon Labe (Ajit & Rakesh R. Jhunjhunwala. Garden (Nakhat Singh) 2, Cannon cess Ballerina. Owner: Mr. Rajesh added. A Level III coach, Rathour Buon joins Ronaldo, Singh) 2, San Vinto (Md. Ismail) 3, Trainer: M. Srinivas Reddy. Dear (N. Rawal) 3, Novitious (Ajit matches in the league Kumar Khatri. Trainer: L. D’Silva. Messi on UEFA shortlist Glorious Grey (Deepak Singh) 4. 1, Singh) 4. Not run: Sugar Land. 4, phase, the successful play- The stadium at Dharam- aims to prepare the HP play- PEDDAPALLI PLATE (1400m), PARIS 2-1/2 and 1/2. 1m, 02.38 s. ₹150 hd. and 1. 1m, 01.57s. ₹19 (w), 7, 8, ers will qualify for the shala is being developed as ers by providing them match K. MAHIPATHI RAO MEMORIAL (w), 28, 8, 6 (p), SHP: 22, FP: 1321, 7 Cat. III, 4-y-o only, rated 26 to 8 (p), SHP: 19, FP: 74, Q: 30, Veteran goalkeeper Gianluigi CHINESE THOUGHT knock-out phase. Centre of Cricket Excel- experience. “We can have a 2 MILLION (1400 m), 3-y-o only Q: 248, Tanala: 3958. Favourite: 46: (Md. Is- Tanala: 262 . Favourite: Divine Sil- PREVALENT FORCE Buffon, a key member of the (Terms): (Y.S. San Vinto. Owner: Mr. Shabir Ali mail) 1, Darakshan Setarah (Ak- ver. Owners: M/s. A.V. The results (league): lence. “We are going to up- league among the centres Srinath) 1, Prince Caspian (Nakhat shay Kumar) 2, Vijay’s Empire Juventus side that reached Khan. Trainer: Anupam Sharma. Jayaprakash & H. Thambuswamy. Boys: V.M. Sandeep bt Kaze grade the indoor training fa- that we are setting up. There Singh) 2, That’s My Class (Akshay (S.S. Tanwar) 3, Raja Hindustani Trainer: R.H. Sequeira. last season’s Champions Kumar) 3, Sam The Brave (C. B. MARIDESHWARA RAO ME- (Ajit Singh) 4. S hd., hd. and 1. 1 Mcgonigal 6-2, 6-3; Denim cilities. We want to explore are hardly any clubs in HP. Treble (i): ₹64 (410 tkts.), (ii): ₹735 League final, has been named Umesh) 4. 3-1/4, 1 and 13-1/2. 1m, MORIAL CUP (1200m), Cat. II, m, 27.71s. ₹174 (w), 22, 11, 20 (p), Yadav bt Jamie Connel 6-3, possibilities of creating res- With increased cricket activ- 5 (23 tkts.), (iii): ₹3453 (13 tkts.) as one of three nominees for 26.60s. ₹6 (w), 5, 10 (p), SHP: 17, 3-y-o & over, rated 42 to 62: AMBI- SHP: 40, FP: 2495, Q: 734, Tanala: 6-2. Girls: Abbie Tyler bt idential support for the ity, I am sure HP will emerge TIOUS APPROACH Consolation (i): ₹628 (82 tkts.), the 2016-17 UEFA Men’s FP: 24, Q: 16. Favourite: Prevalent (Aneel) 1, Amor- 13913. Favourite: Magical Skill. campers. We already have a a far more competitive team Force. Owners: Mr. Rienzie ous White (R.J. Hannam) 2, Dan- Owner: M/s. Steve Yong, P.A. Raju (ii): ₹4009 (30 tkts.). Sandeepti Singh Rao 5-7, 6-4, Player of the Year Award M.K.Edwards & Mrs. P.P.M. Ed- cing Leaf (A.A. Vikrant) 3, Vallee & G.B.R. Prasad. Trainer: L. Jackpot (i): ₹1032 (97 tkts.), (ii): 10-6; Sarah Dev bt Camilla women’s academy with res- in the coming years,” con- alongside Lionel Messi and wards. Trainer: Darius R. Byramji. Sceptre (Akshay Kumar) 4. 1/2, 1- D’Silva. ₹14598 (16 tkts.). Gretschel 6-0, 6-2. idential facilities. The cluded Rathour. Cristiano Ronaldo, it was announced on Tuesday. AFP TENNIS Sarthak goes Pliskova and Halep lead ght for top spot Vijay Sundar and down in nal Serena Williams traded the No. 1 place with Kerber earlier this year Sports Bureau Agence France-Presse top spot. Sidharth progress LAGOS Cincinnati “Nothing has changed. I Sarthak Gandhi of India With sidelined Serena Willi- have a big responsibility. I’ll SPORTS BUREAU The results: scripted his best-ever per- ams about to have a baby, do everything as I have be- Manangoi now targets Nonthaburi formance yet by reaching five players have a chance to fore,” Pliskova said. “I do $15,000 ITF men, Nonthaburi, Diamond League crown the final of the ITTF-Chal- grab the world number one Sidharth Rawat and Vijay Thailand: First round: Sidharth think it’s a huge thing but I NAIROBI lenge Seasmaster Nigeria ranking at this week’s US Sundar Prashanth moved Rawat bt Jirat Navasirisom- don’t want to do anything Kenyan middle-distance star into the second round, but boon (Tha) 6-4, 6-3. Open, which concluded Open tuneup event in just because of the rankings. Elijah Manangoi, fresh from Sasi Kumar Mukund lost the here on Sunday. Cincinnati. “I don’t try to behave dif- his victory in the World Wei-De Lin (Tpe) bt Sasi Ku- Sarthak, ranked 356 in Williams, a 23-time Grand ferently. I try not to see the first round in two tie-breaks mar Mukund 7-6(6), 7-6(4); Vi- Championships in London, the world, upstaged Slam champion who an- pressure.” in the ITF Futures tennis jay Sundar Prashanth bt Karu- said he was aiming to win the higher-ranked players on nounced her pregnancy and Pliskova has won titles tournament in Nonthaburi, nuday Singh 3-0 retd. Diamond League. “I have Thailand, on Tuesday. way to the final, including the end of her season in this year at Brisbane, Doha already won two Diamond $25,000 ITF women, Li Ping (Qatar, 45), Cazacu April, owned the top spot for and Eastbourne but any- League races in Doha and In the ITF women’s tour- Nonthaburi, Thailand: First Alexandru (Romania, 274), 186 consecutive weeks thing short of a repeat gives Monaco with world-leading nament, qualifier Y. Pranjala round: Y. Pranjala bt Pei-Chi and Idowu Saheed (Brazza- through last September, In the fray: Canada’s Caroline Wozniacki, who made it to the Halep a chance to reach times, and a second-place reached the pre-quarterfi- Lee (Tpe) 6-4, 6-2. ville, 317). He, however, matching Steffi Graf for an nal of the Rogers Cup last week, is among the contenders to number one by winning the nals. finish in the Prefontaine Chieh-Yu Hsu (Tpe) bt Nata- lost to Omar Assar of Open Era record, and traded take over as No. 1. * AP title. classic meet in Eugene. This National champion Riya sha Palha 6-2, 6-1. Egypt, ranked 39 in the the spot with Germany’s An- “To be World No. 1 is a big gives me enough motivation Bhatia lost in the final quali- Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): world, in the summit clash gelique Kerber earlier this weeks ago but will lose Simona Halep, World No. 3 thing. It shows you have to win the Diamond League fying round in the ITF wo- Patcharin Cheapchandej (Tha) 11-6, 13-11, 11-6, 11-8. Sarthak year. points from her title run, Kerber, Ukraine’s fourth- been consistent. You have title for the first time," said men’s event in Leipzig, Ger- & Karman Kaur Thandi bt Sara has been training at the Ra- Defending Cincinnati opening the door for rivals rated Elina Svitolina and won the place. If I deserve the 24-year-old Manangoi, a many, where Ankita Raina Tomic (Aus) & Aiko Yoshitomi man High Performance champion Karolina Pliskova to overtake her. fifth-ranked Dane Caroline the place, for sure I will win policeman. AFP has a direct entry. (Jpn) 3-6, 6-4, [10-5]. Centre in Chennai. took over the top spot five Romania’s second-ranked Wozniacki could claim the it,” Halep said.

DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

FAITH THE HINDU CROSSWORD 12087 (set by Sunnet) SUDOKU 13 John perhaps sensed some 5 Last word and line if this does unnished business (5,4) not open the parachute (7) Divine eyesight Krishna tells Arjuna about His qualities, and now Arjuna 14 Jack's former bank (3,4) 6 Poet's boy to trap topless wants to see His form as the Supreme One. So far, Arjuna noble (9) 16 Reportedly colours and breaks has been seeing the Lord as Krishna, but now he is anxious to behold the Supreme Rupa of the Lord. The Lord then down (4) 7 Four cut sh for bread (6) says, “Behold my Supreme Form.” But Arjuna is unable to 19 Attach a security (4) see His rupa. Yet he does not want to say so, because that 8 Draw attention to second lock would be like doubting the Lord’s words. So he remains (6) 21 Always in favour of woman's quiet, said Valayapet Ramachariar, in a discourse. right (7) But the Lord knows that Arjuna cannot see His rupa, and 9 Fanatic's nal letter to each gives him divine eyesight. This is very similar to Ramanuja group (6) 24 Age matches sanity (9) discerning Kooratazhvan’s disagreement with some of his interpretations while he (Ramanuja) came up with Sri 15 Lovingly, two rings are slipped 25 Wears green stones (5) Bhashya, his commentary on Brahma Sutra. Both into ravishing lady (9) Kooratazhvan and Ramanuja had read Bodhayana’s work in 26 Eliminating a crossing (5) the Kashmir library. As Ramanuja came up with his inter- 17 Possible to duck in Nevada pretations of the Brahma Sutra, Kooratazhvan wrote down 27 One blast near a poor city (9) bleeds (8) what the Acharya said. Wherever he disagreed with Ramanuja’s interpretation, he simply stopped writing. He 28 Bacon's points indicate one 18 Agitated by America blocking did not contradict the Acharya. Ramanuja would know at little way (8) natural delta (8) once that Kooratazhvan had stopped taking down his dicta- Solution to puzzle 12086 Solution to yesterday’s Sudoku tions, because he had a different interpretation. Like 29 Advance a court's conclusion 20 Raised canvas held owers (7) Kooratazhvan, Arjuna maintained silence when he could ■ ACROSS (6) not see the Lord’s rupa, and Krishna, like Ramanuja, knew 21 1 Straightened the thing over Binder covering you and me is the reason for Arjuna’s silence. Krishna then told Arjuna and departed (6) ■ DOWN easily melted (6) that he could not see Him with the ordinary sight of a mor- tal, and He conferred divine sight on Arjuna. Here again, 4 Prick blisters with needles (8) 1 Little boy to argue about 22 I would have energy to one is reminded of Kooratazhvan. 10 Edit a resume to fully meet the alternative future (8) imagine (6) When he had been in Kanchipuram, he had never missed bar (7,2) delighting in the beauty of Varadaraja. But he was blinded 2 Ice suit (8) 23 Scarily edit out a criminal's by a fanatic Chola king, and when he visited Kanchi after 11 Some nice cut missing point? words (6) many years, he was still able to see and enjoy Lord Varadara- Not at all (5) 3 Perhaps horse matches you for ja’s beauty. That was possible because he was blessed with 12 Cheats birds (5) a length (5) 25 King muddles about Spain (5) divine sight.

THE HINDU NOIDA/DELHI WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2017 SPORT 17 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Halep’s Sharapova Nadal delighted at Ramkumar rallies to win horror ight receives AFP The Indian beats Eubanks to advance to the second round return to No. 1 Cincinnati US Open Agence France-Presse World No. 2 Simona Halep Cincinnati Cincinnati Agencies wild card had a horror show journey Rafael Nadal was thrilled on to reach the Cincinnati India’s Ramkumar Agence France-Presse Monday to learn he would Masters involving a scary Ramanathan bounced back NEW YORK return to World No.1 for the private plane flight and a from a set down to defeat first time in three years but six-hour car trip. Christopher Eubanks of the Five-time Major champion sorry it came because Roger “When I saw the plane USA and advanced to the Maria Sharapova of Russia Federer withdrew from this the first time, I was scared. second round of the 2017 will play her first Grand week’s ATP Cincinnati It was too small. We had to Western and Southern Open Slam event since serving a Masters. stop in Buffalo for the (US) tennis here on Monday. 15-month doping customs. I said that was Ramkumar became the suspension after receiving Federer, this year’s Wimbledon and Australian Nadal. * AFP enough. I was white. I felt I first Indian since Somdev a wild card for the the US had no air. I said, ‘that’s Devvarman in 2013 to re- Open on Tuesday. Open champion, was the be back in that position only player who could have enough for me.’ That plane gister a singles victory in an Sharapova, ranked again.” denied second-ranked was moving too much. I ATP Masters event. 148th, has withdrawn from It’s the first time Nadal French Open champion has been number one since wanted to be safe on the After going down in the US Open warm-up Nadal the top spot in next July of 2014. ground.” first set, the 22-year-old In- tournaments in Toronto Monday’s rankings. The 31-year-old Spaniard So, Halep and coach dian rebounded strongly to and Cincinnati the past will overtake Britain’s top- Darren Cahill rented a car register a 6-7(5), 6-1, 6-4 win two weeks after suffering a “For me to be in that posi- ranked Andy Murray, who and shared a six-hour drive over the American in an ex- left forearm injury at tion is something very spe- withdrew from Montreal from Buffalo to Cincinnati. hilarating opening round Stanford. cial,” Nadal said. “I have the passion and love for the and Cincinnati with a hip Halep handled the steering clash that lasted an hour and Exhilarating show: Ramkumar Ramanathan rebounded strongly to put it past She won the 2006 US game. That’s why I’m able to injury. wheel for two hours. 48 minutes. Christopher Eubanks on Monday. * FILE PHOTO: AP Open as well as Ramkumar will meet Wimbledon in 2014, the win over compatriot Stefan joyed a 6-4, 6-4 win over Hyeon 7-6(5), 6-1; Fabio Fogn- either American Jared Don- 2008 Australian Open and Kozlov. John Patrick Smith of ini bt Daniil Medvedev 7-6(5), aldson or Spaniard Roberto the 2012 and 2014 French Australia. 6-4; Sam Querrey bt Stefan Bautista Agut in the second Ivo Karlovic, who at 38 is Opens. In women’s section, Kozlov 6-3, 6-0; Mischa Zverev Paltan too good for Warriors round. one of the oldest players on bt Fernando Verdasco 6-4, 6-4. the Tour, enjoyed a 6-3, 3-6, Madison Keys beat fellow The rising Indian star had American CoCo Women: Petra Kvitova bt Anett earlier booked his place in 7-5 win over 24-year-old Gujarat Fortunegiants recovers to tame Bengaluru Bulls Czech Jiri Vesely while Italy’s Vandeweghe for the second Kontaveit 1-6, 7-6(2), 6-3; Lesia the main draw as a ‘lucky Tsurenko bt Anastasia Fabio Fognini, 30, held off time in eight days with a 6-4, loser’ after France’s Gael 3-6, 6-3 victory. Pavlyuchenkova 5-7, 7-6(6), PKL Monfils pulled out of the ATP Russian youngster Daniil Important results: 6-0; Daria Gavrilova bt Kristina Masters 1000 tournament Medvedev 7-6(5), 6-4. First round: Men: Ramkumar Mladenovic 6-0, 7-6(6). G. Viswanath because of illness. In keeping with the trend Ramanathan bt Christopher Eu- Kiki Bertens bt Oceane Ahmedabad A super-skilled Puneri Paltan of veterans beating young- banks 6-7(5), 6-1, 6-4; Richard Dodin 6-3, 6-0; Taylor Town- Querrey cruises sters, Spain’s Feliciano Gasquet bt John-Patrick Smith send bt Monica Puig 3-6, 6-3, put up a strong performance In other matches, American Lopez, 35, beat 21-year-old 6-4, 6-4; Ivo Karlovic bt Jiri 6-2; Roberta Vinci bt Timea against a beleaguered 15th seed Sam Querrey South Korean Chung Hyeon Vesely 6-3, 3-6, 7-5; Mitchell Babos 7-5, 7-5; Madison Keys bt Bengal Warriors in the first cruised into the second 7-6(5), 6-1. Unseeded French- Krueger bt Benoit Paire 6-2, CoCo Vandeweghe 6-4, 3-6, Sharapova. inter-zonal league match of round with a routine 6-3, 6-0 man Richard Gasquet en- 6-1; Feliciano Lopez bt Chung 6-3. the Vivo ProKabaddi League at the Arena by Transstadia on Tuesday. Even though skipper and raider Deepak Niwas Hooda, Anand makes a stuttering start was rendered out of action for most part of the tie, Paltan rode on the all-round Former World champion Kasparov commences his comeback with three draws ability of Sandeep Narwal, Firm grip: Sandeep Narwal catches Maninder Singh. some dogged raiding by * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Sports Bureau until Nakamura misplayed Gurunath More and a solid ST. LOUIS the position and let his defensive display by Girish lobby (out of play) after their Earning a lona (all out) in Viswanathan Anand had a famed rival escape with a Ernak. These three contrib- attempts. Lee, who had the 11th minute of the poor opening day even as draw. In the day’s final uted in the 34-17 win for the come into the match with 23 second half, the Gujarat Garry Kasparov hogged all round, Kasparov and Perez Pune side. raid points, was done in by team tied the score at 21 and the limelight in drawing all were involved in rapid ex- The match began with the robust defensive work of thereafter did not look back. three games in the $150,000 change of pieces in a game Hooda returning from an Sandeep and Ernak. This was Fortunegiants’ fifth St. Louis Rapid and Blitz that ended in a tame draw. empty raid and Warriors win in the league. Great comeback chess tournament here on The results: Third round: scoring a bonus point. How- The results: Monday. Viswanathan Anand lost to ever, Paltan started to take Trailing 9-14 at half-time, Gu- Puneri Paltan 34 bt Bengal The three-round day saw Levon Aronian (Arm); Garry control through a sequence jarat Fortunegiants (GFG) Warriors 17; Gujarat Fortunegi- Anand lose the first round Kasparov (Rus) drew with Lein- of touch points by More and scripted a great comeback to ants 27 bt Bengaluru Bulls 24. with white pieces to USA’s ier Dominguez Perez (Cub); Le Narwal, the latter steady and beat Bengaluru Bulls 27-24 in Hikaru Nakamura and third Quang Liem (Vie) bt Hikaru Na- solid in his tackles right the second match of the day. PLAYING TODAY to Armenia’s Levon Aronian. Great escape: Garry Kasparov, right, avoided a defeat against Hikaru Nakamura after the latter kamura (USA); Fabiano Caruana through the contest. He The home team went to (USA) bt Sergey Karjakin (Rus); ended up with more tackle DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD In the second, he drew with misplayed a position. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT the extent of keeping cap- DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Cuba’s Leinier Dominguez Ian Nepomniachtchi (Rus) drew points (4) than raid points tain Sukesh Hegde on the B Haryana Steelers v Tamil Perez and eventually ended resigned in 46 moves. In the away blundered away the ad- light for returning to play a with David Navara (Cze). (3). bench for the entire dura- Thalaivas, 8 p.m. the day as tied-ninth with second round, Anand was vantage by capturing a cent- rated game after 12 years, Second round: Perez drew with The first half saw both tion of the second half. In- David Navara. slightly better until the 21st ral pawn with a knight, in- Kasparov was clearly better Anand; Nakamura drew with teams concede points, with stead, it opted to play the tall B Gujarat Fortunegiants v Aronian, Vietnam’s Le move but could manage only stead of a bishop. Thereafter, against Sergey Karjakin in Kasparov; Aronian lost to Hooda and Warriors’ top and strapping Mahendra Ra- Telugu Titans, 9 p.m. Quang Liem, USA’s Fabiano a draw in 43 moves. Aronian rode his luck and the opening game but his Nepomniachtchi; Karjakin bt raider — South Korean Jang jput and he scored four big STAR Sports 2 & HD2 Caruana and Russia’s Ian Returning to play with galloped away with an im- rustiness showed as he did Liem; Navara lost to Caruana. Kun Lee — running into the points. DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Nepomniachtchi shared the white pieces, Anand ran into portant victory in 39 moves. not adopt a more dynamic First round: Anand lost to Na- lead with two points. Against Aronian, who lost the earlier In the sixth round on Tues- line of play and let the young kamura; Kasparov drew with Nakamura, Anand was trying round. After attaining a win- day, Anand plays white Russian draw parity. Karjakin; Liem bt Caruana; to catch up from the initial ning position after Aronian’s against Kasparov. In the second round, Kas- Aronian bt Navara; Nepomni- stages and eventually 22nd move, Anand straight- Obviously under the spot- parov was staring at defeat achtchi drew with Perez. Arjun holds Short Ram surprises Srinath Sports Bureau equal to the Russian, while Abu Dhabi P.V. Nandhidhaa brought Little-known Indians Arjun down Australian GM Max Ankit holds top seed Aravindh Chithambaram Kalyan and D. Gukesh Illingworth, rated 2506. Rakesh Rao caused a flutter in the open- The strong field of 124 AHMEDABAD ing round of the Abu Dhabi players, including 51 Indi- Indian Oil teammates Abhijit Masters chess tournament ans, has 39 Grandmasters. Kunte and Mary Ann Gomes by holding the top two Important results (involving drew from their reserves to seeds – England’s Nigel Indians): maintain the winning mo- Short and Egypt’s Amin First round (with ratings): D. mentum in the fourth round Baseem — at the Dusit Thani Nigel Short (Eng, 2688) drew before joining four other Club here on Monday. with Arjun Kalyan (2366); D. leaders in the National Chal- Gukesh (2365) drew with Amin Making a mockery of the lengers chess championship Baseem (Egy, 2680); Abhijeet rating difference — Arjun is here on Tuesday. Gupta (2639) drew with rated 322 points below Kunte’s experience came Raunak Sadhwani (2359); Ku- Short and Gukesh 315 points in handy against the hugely- behind Baseem — the two mar Gaurav (2210) drew with Valery Sviridov (Rus, 2519); P.V. talented Telangana-lad E. Ar- provided the best advertise- Nandhidhaa (2182) bt Max jun and he won in 75 moves ment for the growing Indian Illingworth (Aus, 2506); Srija just after Mary got the better talent in the game. Seshadari (2167) drew with Ni- of her good friend Grand- That was not all. Kumar hal Sarin (2485); Fadeev Se- master Deepan Chakkrav- Gaurav, rated 309 points be- men (Rus, 2161) drew with arthy in 64 moves in five low Valery Sviridov proved Shardul Gagare (2467). hours. In fact, Deepan missed a chance to force a draw in the rook-and-pawn ending. Praggnanandhaa’s feat Mary seized the opportunity to cash in on her extra SPORTS BUREAU pawn. CHENNAI Swapnil Dhopade, Hi- The 12-year old Pragg- manshu Sharma, Sammed nanandhaa became the Shete and S. Nitin were the Shock win: Ram S. Krishnan caused the biggest upset of the youngest chess player ever other leaders with perfect day, accounting for fourth-seeded GM N. Srinath. * RAKESH RAO to cross 2500 FIDE Elo-rat- scores. up with precise calculations adip Das (3.5) drew with Kush- ing points when he played Kushagra Mohan, fresh in several tricky situations. gra Mohan (3.5); Sameer Kath- in the Hogeschool Zeeland from stunning GM R.R. Lax- Srinath played more ambi- male (3) lost to S.L. Narayanan tournament in Vlissingen, man, proved equal to IM Ar- tiously and captured a king- (3.5). the Netherlands recently. ghyadip Das and Madhya side pawn. Sensing his Ankit Gajwa (3) drew with He now has a chance to Pradesh’s youngster Ankit chances of winning, Ram Aravindh Chithambaram (3); become the youngest ever Gajwa held top seed Ara- smartly manoeuvred his Ram S. Krishnan (3.5) bt N. Grandmaster if he can get vindh Chithambaram, a day queen and rook to threaten Srinath (2.5); Rajesh Nayak three GM norms within the after pulling off a creditable Praggnanandhaa * PICTURE checkmate. Srinath saw the (2.5) lost to Debashis Das (3.5); next seven months. Current draw against second seed COURTESY: HZTOERNOOI.NL inevitable and resigned. Tejas Bakre (3.5) bt S. Dhanan- S.L. Narayanan. record-holder Sergey Kar- The results: jay (2.5); S. Jayakumaar (3) jakin (Russia) achieved the “world’s strongest open Even as the youngsters Fourth round: Swapnil Dho- drew with S. Satyapragyan (3); feat when he was 12 years tournament”. continued to punch above pade (4) bt C.R.G. Krishna (3); S. Ravi Teja (3) drew with and seven months old. “Praggnanandhaa thor- their weight, it took the ex- Hemant Sharma (3) lost to Hi- Anand Nadar (3). Praggnanandhaa is set to oughly deserves the record. perience of 34-year-old Ram manshu Sharma (4); Abhijit Udit Kamdar (3) drew with play in the Barcelona Open He’s exceptionally talented S. Krishnan (3.5 points) to Kunte (4) bt E. Arjun (3); M.S. Padmini Rout (3); Saptarshi Roy and the Isle of Man Open and hard-working. If he cause the biggest upset of Thej Kumar (3) gave walkover Chowdhury (3.5) bt Sachin Ma- this month, and the World maintains his intensity, I’m the day. The BSNL player ac- to Sammed Shete (4); Mary lik (2.5); Niraj Saripalli (2.5) lost juniors in September, in- sure he will become the counted for his Chennai- Ann Gomes (4) bt Deepan to Akash Iyer (3.5); Audi Ameya formed his coach R.B. World champion some day. mate, fourth-seeded GM N. Chakkravarthy (3); Fenil Shah (2.5) lost to V. Pranavananda Ramesh. He said the Isle of He can be India’s next Srinath. (3.5) drew with Swayams (3.5); Rahul Singh Soram (3) Man is highly competitive, (Viswanathan) Anand,” said In an interesting battle Mishra (3); Chakravarthi Reddy drew with Shashikant Kutwal referring to it as the Ramesh. lasting 33 moves, Ram came (3) lost to S. Nitin (4); Arghy- (3). CM A ND-NDE YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

NOIDA/DELHI THE HINDU 18 LIFE WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2017 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

IN BRIEF Three millennia-old In Japan, wood is the new steel tombs found in Egypt Push among carmakers to make lighter vehicles is leading auto suppliers to turn to unlikely substitute Sarcophagi, clay fragments unearthed Reuters which chemically treated among its customers. KYOTO wood fibres are kneaded into Automakers are also using Agence France-Presse Taylor Swift wins The global push among car- plastics while simultaneously other lightweight substi- Cairo groping lawsuit makers to make ever lighter being broken down into nan- tutes. BMW uses carbon Egypt archaeologists have DENVER vehicles is leading some auto ofibres, slashing the cost of fibre reinforced polymers discovered three ancient Pop superstar Taylor Swift on suppliers in Japan to turn to production to roughly one- (CFRPs) for its i3 compact tombs containing sarco- Monday won a sexual assault what seems like an unlikely fifth that of other processes. electric car as well as for its 7 phagi in the south of the lawsuit against a former radio substitute for steel — wood. “This is the lowest-cost, series, while high-tensile country in a cemetery dat- DJ she accused of groping Japanese researchers and highest-performance applic- steel and aluminium alloys ing back about 2,000 years, her. A jury in Denver federal auto component makers say ation for cellulose nan- are currently the most the Antiquities Ministry said The tombs that were court allowed her complaint a material made from wood ofibres, and that’s why we’re widely used lightweight op- on Tuesday. discovered in the Egyptian that David Mueller had pulp weighs just one fifth of focussing on its use in auto tions because they are The tombs excavated in cemetery. * AFP fondled her buttocks during a steel and can be five times and aircraft parts,” Kyoto cheaper and recyclable. the Al-Kamin al-Sahrawi photo opportunity in 2013. stronger. University Professor Hiroaki area in Minya province ing one for “the burial of a Swift was awarded the The material — cellulose Yano, who is leading the re- Spruce Goose south of Cairo were in burial small child.” nominal $1 in damages she nanofibres — could become a Pulling his weight: Kyoto University Professor Hiroyuki Yano, search, said in an interview. Mr. Yano said he was in- grounds constructed some Clay fragments found at had asked for. AFP viable alternative to steel in who is leading the research into using wood pulp bres to spired in his research by a time between the 27th Dyn- the site “date the tombs th the decades ahead, they say, make lighter auto parts, at his laboratory. * REUTERS Prototype car photo of the ‘Spruce Goose’, asty and the Greco-Roman between the 27 Dynasty although it faces competition The university, along with a cargo plane made almost period, the Ministry said in (founded in 525 BC) and the from carbon-based materi- stant issue for us,” said Mas- Toyota’s biggest supplier, are auto parts suppliers, are cur- entirely of wood in 1947 by a statement. Greco-Roman era (between als, and remains a long way anori Matsushiro, a project working with plastics incor- rently developing a proto- U.S. billionaire entrepreneur The team found “a collec- 332 BC and the fourth cen- from being commercially manager overseeing body porated with cellulose nan- type car using cellulose nan- Howard Hughes. At the time, tion of sarcophagi of differ- tury),” the statement said. viable. design at Toyota Motor Corp. ofibres, made by breaking ofibre-based parts to be it was the world’s largest ent shapes and sizes, as well The discovery “suggests Reducing the weight of a down wood pulp fibres into completed in 2020. aircraft. as clay fragments,” the state- that the area was a great vehicle will be critical as Manufacturing costs several hundredths of a mi- “We have been using “I thought that if Howard ment quoted Ayman Ash- cemetery for a long span of manufacturers move to bring “But we also have to resolve cron (one thousandth of a plastics as a replacement for Hughes could find a way to mawy, head of the Min- time,” it quoted Mr. Ash- Stunt driver dies during electric cars into the main- the issue of high manufactur- millimetre). steel, and we're hoping that use wood to build a massive istry’s Ancient Egyptian mawy as saying. In one of Deadpool 2 lming stream. Batteries are an ex- ing costs before we see an in- Cellulose nanofibres have cellulose nanofibres will plane, why not use wood to Antiquities Sector, as saying. the three tombs, excavators VANCOUVER pensive but vital component, creased use of new, lighter- been used in a variety of widen the possibilities to- make a material that was as One of the tombs con- found bones believed to be Deadpool 2 star Ryan so a reduction in car weight weight materials in mass- products ranging from ink to ward that goal,” said Yuki- strong as steel,” he said. tained four sarcophagi each the remains of “men, wo- Reynolds was mourning the will mean fewer batteries volume cars,” he said. transparent displays, but hiko Ishino, a spokesman at The cost of mass produ- sculpted to depict a human men and children of differ- death of a motorcycle stunt will be needed to power the Researchers at Kyoto Uni- their potential use in cars DaikyoNishikawa, which cing a kg of cellulose nan- face. Another tomb held the ent ages,” Ali al-Bakry, head driver killed during vehicle, saving on costs. versity and major parts sup- has been enabled by the counts Toyota Motor Corp ofibre is currently around remains of two sarcophagi of the mission, was quoted production on Monday. “Lightweighting is a con- pliers such as Denso Corp, “Kyoto Process”, under and Mazda Motor Corp 1,000 yen ($9). and six burial holes, includ- as saying in the statement. The actor released a statement on Twitter after the accident near the waterfront in Vancouver. AP With revival of hand-painted ads, New York goes back in time Good old method of publicity brought back by a rm injects a dose of hip attitude into 21st century commercial art in the city

Agence France-Presse For the past seven years, faith, admits Paul Lindahl, Thirteen years later, his this company has done so New York Mr. Odaffer — who has a de- co-founder of Colossal, company has 70 employees, well. It’s because people can Once outdated relics in a di- gree in fine arts — has which is based in Brooklyn’s paints 450 to 500 murals a actually watch the process.” gital world, painted advert- painted ads on walls in New hipster hub of Williamsburg. year in major U.S. cities and That buzz carries over Hackers leak Curb Your isements are flourishing York, Los Angeles and is eyeing sales of $24 million onto social media, fuelled Enthusiasm episodes once again in New York, put- Chicago for Colossal Media, ‘I just loved it’ in 2017. largely by photographs and LOS ANGELES ting a dose of hip attitude which has risen from “Technology was taking over Even though painted ads videos that enhance brand The havoc wreaked by the into 21st century commercial nowhere to become the and there was really no need take longer and cost more, visibility and advertising, hackers on HBO seems to be a art in the city that never leader in painted advertising. for hand painting at the time. they offer advertisers a says Mr. Lindahl. never-ending exercise as sleeps. “Basically, we created a re- Nobody cared,” says Mr. unique opportunity to set “That brings value to what unaired episodes of season Toiling under the blazing vival,” says Mr. Odaffer. Lindahl, who comes from a themselves apart. we do. What we realised nine of the show Curb Your sun of a heat wave, Justin Without the company he family of Hungarian along the way is yes, this Enthusiasm were leaked Odaffer puts the finishing works for, he believes immigrants. Social media buzz thing takes longer than a di- online. The episodes found touches to a Ray-Ban ad he painted ads would be “It was expensive. It was Seeing painters in action can gital ad or print ad but that’s their way to the Internet has spent several days paint- hanging “by a very thin slow,” he concedes. “I didn’t generate buzz on street part of the benefit. It’s per- before the original airing date ing on the façade of an East thread.” know if there was a future in corners. formance art. People stop of October 1, according to Village building in downtown But setting up the com- it at that point. I just knew “People are astonished,” and they wonder and they’re Old school: An artist with Colossal Media paints an ad on the Entertainment Weekly. PTI Manhattan. pany in 2004 was a leap of that I loved it.” says Mr. Odaffer. “That’s why intrigued.” wall of the company’s oce building in New York. * AFP

Press Trust of India it wrote back to say he Press Trust of India Singapore “showed a very poor 13th Los Angeles A 47-year-old Indian-origin month persistence rate”, The Prince Estate, along Singaporean received a meaning many of his clients with Pantone Color Insti- hefty compensation of over did not stick with their tute, is all set to give a befit- 4 million Singaporean dol- policies, and “we are very ting tribute to the music le- lars from his previous em- concerned as to whether the gend by launching a ployer after a scathing letter clients have been provided standardised custom shade of reference by them cost with proper advice.” of purple representing him. him the chance to join an- The Court of Appeal said The hue, named Love other company. this would have given the Symbol #2, has been in- Ramesh Krishnan, de- mistaken impression that spired by the Purple Rain scribed as “one of AXA’s Mr. Krishnan was not com- singer’s custom-made Prince best-compensated ad- petent, and did not square Yamaha purple piano. visers,” had accused the with the evidence that he The news comes weeks company of defaming him was one of AXA’s best finan- Drug overdose after the release of a deluxe in 2012 when providing ref- cial services directors and it The instrument was origin- edition of the Purple Rain al- erences on his work per- had earlier persuaded him ally scheduled to go on tour bum, which includes previ- formance, The Straits Times not to resign. with the artiste before his ously unreleased tracks and reported. Justice George Wei noted death from an accidental a long out-of-print DVD of a Mr. Krishnan lost the de- on Monday that the stands drug overdose last year, re- 1985 concert. famation suit in the High of both parties had been ported Variety. “The colour purple was Court in 2015, but the Court “polar opposites” when it Prince’s association with synonymous with who of Appeal later ruled that came to damages. Mr. Krish- the colour purple goes right Prince was and will always AXA had breached its duty nan had sought 63 million back to 1984 film Purple be. This is an incredible way of care to him, the report Singaporean dollar, while Rain, which sprayed into for his legacy to live on said. When the company AXA urged he should be multiple lyric references, forever,” said Troy Carter, Mr. Krishnan had applied to awarded only a nominal wardrobe and vehicle entertainment advisor to asked AXA for the reference, sum of 1 Singaporean dollar. It’s electric: A lightning bolt is framed alongside a Stalin-era skyscraper during a storm over Moscow on Tuesday. * AFP choices, among others. Prince’s Estate.

An injectable How Articial Intelligence is reshaping art and music patch to Called deep neural networks, complex mathematical systems allow machines to learn specic behaviour by analysing vast amounts of data repair hearts

CADE METZ Prize-winning book on business of communication, songs, each sounding a lot analysing hundreds of cat Press Trust of India MOUNTAIN VIEW minds and machines, Gödel, and Mr. Eck sees Magenta as like the music the Beatles photos, it can learn the mu- Toronto In the mid-1990s, Douglas Escher, Bach: An Eternal a natural extension of this themselves recorded, but sical characteristics of a bas- Scientists have developed Eck worked as a database Golden Braid. Mr. Hofstadter work. “It’s about creating also a little different. soon by analysing hundreds an injectable tissue band- programmer in Al- turned him down, adamant new ways for people to com- of notes. It creates a math- age smaller than a postage buquerque, New Mexico, that even the latest artificial municate,” he said during a Tools for artists ematical representation, or stamp that can repair dam- while moonlighting as a mu- intelligence techniques were recent interview inside the But that end game is not vector, that identifies a bas- aged hearts. sician. After a day spent writ- much too primitive. small two-story building what he is after. There are so soon. So, Mr. Eck and his Repairing heart tissue ing computer code inside a But during the next two here that serves as many other paths to explore team have fed notes from destroyed by a heart attack lab run by the Department of decades, working on the headquarters for Google AI beyond mere mimicry. The hundreds of instruments or medical condition with Energy, he would take the fringe of academia, Mr. Eck research. ultimate idea is not to re- into a neural network, build- regenerative cells usually stage at a local juke joint, kept chasing the idea, and place artists but to give them ing a vector for each one. requires invasive open- playing what he calls “punk- eventually, the AI caught up Growing effort tools that allow them to cre- Now, simply by moving a heart surgery. influenced bluegrass” — with his ambition. The project is part of a grow- ate in entirely new ways. button across a screen, they Researchers at the Uni- “Johnny Rotten crossed with Last spring, a few years ing effort to generate art In the 1990s, at that juke can combine these vectors to versity of Toronto in Johnny Cash.” But what he after taking a research job at through a set of AI tech- joint in New Mexico, Mr. Eck create new instruments. One Canada have developed a really wanted to do was com- Google, Mr. Eck pitched the niques that have only re- combined Johnny Rotten may be 47% bassoon and technique that lets them bine his days and nights, and same idea he pitched to Mr. cently come of age. Called and Johnny Cash. Now, he is 53% clavichord. Another use a small needle to inject build machines that could Hofstadter all those years deep neural networks, these Smart art: A handout image of an artwork created using the building a software that does might switch the percent- a repair patch, without the make their own songs. “My ago. The result is Project complex mathematical sys- computer vision program DeepDream, which researchers at much the same thing. Using ages. And so on. need to open up the chest only goal in life was to mix AI Magenta, a team of Google tems allow machines to learn Google developed in 2015. * NYT neural networks, he and his For centuries, orchestral cavity. The AngioChip is a and music,” Mr. Eck said. researchers who are teach- specific behaviour by analys- team are cross-breeding conductors have layered tiny patch of heart tissue It was a naive ambition. ing machines to create not ing vast amounts of data. phones recognise com- to build similar sounds. sounds from very different sounds from instruments with its own blood vessels Enrolling as a graduate stu- only their own music but By looking for common mands spoken into phones, As Mr. Eck says, these sys- instruments — say, a bassoon atop one other. But this is and heart cells beating dent at Indiana University, in also to make so many other patterns in millions of bi- and how Microsoft Skype tems are at least approach- and a clavichord — creating different. Rather than layer- with a regular rhythm. Bloomington, not far from forms of art, including cycle photos, for instance, a translates one language into ing the point — still many, instruments capable of pro- ing sounds, Mr. Eck and his Miles Montgomery, a PhD where he grew up, he sketches, videos and jokes. neural network can learn to another. But these complex many years away — when a ducing sounds no one has team combine them to form candidate, spent nearly pitched the idea to Douglas With its empire of smart- recognise a bike. This is how systems can also create art. machine can instantly build ever heard. something that did not exist three years developing a Hofstadter, the cognitive sci- phones, apps and internet Facebook identifies faces in By analysing a set of songs, a new Beatles song or per- Much as a neural network before, creating new ways patch that could be injec- entist who wrote the Pulitzer services, Google is in the online photos, how Android for instance, they can learn haps trillions of new Beatles can learn to identify a cat by that artists can work. NYT ted, rather than implanted. CM A ND-NDE YK wednesday ț august 16, 2017

thehindu.com facebook.com/thehindu twitter.com/the_hindu

SIDELIGHTS

L-G urges officials to work with sincerity NEW DELHI CM calls for On the occasion of India’s 71st Independence Day, Lieutenant-Governor Anil more power Baijal, together with officials and staff of the Secretariat, participated in celebrations at the Raj Niwas here on Tuesday. Mr. Baijal hoisted to women the national flag and received the Guard of Honour. In his ‘Keep your errant sons indoors’ address to his subordinates, he exhorted them to renew Staff Reporter izens to take up a war against their pledge to serve the New Delhi vector-borne diseases, the nation with greater vigour, Justice has to be certain and Chief Minister announced sincerity and commitment. swift in order to tackle that the Delhi government Meanwhile, the BJP also crimes against women, Chief would devise a plan in the celebrated Independence Day Minister Arvind Kejriwal said next 10 days to check the at its State headquarters on while addressing citizens on spread of dengue and Tuesday. Overseeing the the occasion of Independ- chikungunya. preparations were the party’s ence Day. national organisational Speaking at the Chhat- No-detention policy general secretary Ram Lal and rasal Stadium here, Mr. Kejri- He also slammed the no-de- State unit chief Manoj Tiwari. wal also advised politicians tention policy for “ruining STAFF REPORTER to keep their “errant sons” the education system” and indoors instead of imposing warned city-based contract- restrictions on women. ors to ensure wages to their 70 hearing impaired kids “The son of a very influen- employees. The Chief Minis- In step: Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal takes salute during Independence Day celebrations at the Chhatrasal Stadium on Tuesday. SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR listen to PM’s speech tial leader was recently ter further promised to abol- NEW DELHI caught for committing crime ish the contractual system of As many as 70 hearing against women. Another work in certain fields such as All must wage war Will scrap contractual jobs in children listened to Prime leader commented that wo- sanitation and security. Minister Narendra Modi’s men should not venture out “We will abolish the con- speech with the help of at night. I wish to slap that tractual system in areas that against dengue: CM interpreters at the Red Fort leader,” the Chief Minister require regular employment certain sectors, says Kejriwal on Tuesday. “There was such said. The comments came throughout the year,” he Staff Reporter plan to tackle dengue and excitement among these against the backdrop of a re- said. New Delhi chikungunya in Delhi,” he Benets to be extended to sanitation, security workers children,” said Bhawna Rawat, cent stalking case involving The Delhi government will said. an interpreter with the Indian the son of Haryana BJP chief Skill centres soon come up with a plan to This year, 500 cases of Staff Reporter “We will abolish the con- “desist from politicking over Sign Language Research and Subhash Barala in Mr. Kejriwal further said that check the spread of vector- dengue, 385 cases of mal- New Delhi tractual system in areas that the issue” even as he urged Training Institute. One of the Chandigarh. a total of 25 skill centres borne diseases in the Cap- aria and 283 cases of Chief Minister Arvind Kejri- require regular employment Lieutenant-Governor Anil children, 16-year-old would be established to ital, Chief Minister Arvind chikungunya have been re- wal on Tuesday promised to throughout the year. How- Baijal not to create “hurdles” Tarunima, said, “It was good Smart cities provide training to students. Kejriwal said on Tuesday. ported from the city so far. abolish the contractual sys- ever, we will not change this in abolishing what he to be a part of such a On the occasion, Mr. Kejri- “The primary goal of the In his address at the Ch- tem in certain professions system in areas of tempor- termed was an “exploitat- programme. We wish the wal also took a dig at Prime government is to provide the hatrasal Stadium here, Mr. ‘Callous approach’ such as sanitation and secur- ary employment,” Mr. Kejri- ive” system. government makes Minister Narendra Modi’s best facilities in education Kejriwal also exhorted cit- The BJP, however, alleged ity services. wal said. “Under the contractual arrangement for interpreters ambition of creating smart and healthcare; 38% of this izens to come together to that Mr. Kejriwal’s “callous” Addressing citizens, Mr. system, workers are har- at important events so that cities, saying if people were year’s Budget has been alloc- “wage a war” against such approach had led to an “ab- Kejriwal urged contractors Plea for support assed. I will request both the we can also be a part of it.” made smart first, smarter vil- ated for the education and illnesses. normal” rise in the number in the Capital to provide Mr. Kejriwal also requested BJP and the Congress to sup- STAFF REPORTER lages and cities would follow. health sectors,” the Chief “In the next 10 days, we of such cases over the last minimum wages to the Bharatiya Janata Party port us and not to do politics While appealing to cit- Minister added. will come up with a detailed fortnight. labourers. (BJP) and the Congress to over this issue,” he said.

Kite lands at Red Fort during Modi’s address NEW DELHI Patriotic fervour sweeps Red Fort As Prime Minister Narendra Modi was addressing the nation on Independence Day Thousands gather to hear PM’s speech; Tricolour outts, songs add to excitement on Tuesday, a black kite landed below the podium at Soumya Pillai “As we did not want to Calling the citizens of the merely touched upon by the the Red Fort. The kite landed Jatin Anand miss the Prime Minister’s country to be a part of the PM. New Delhi quietly without causing any speech, we reached here at 6 ‘New India’ initiative, Mr. “We have heard his stance disturbance and the Prime Patriotic fervour swept the a.m.,” said Parvathy Sinha, a Modi said, “Every citizen will on demonetisation and GST, Minister continued his Red Fort on Tuesday as a resident of Ghaziabad. matter in achieving the but what had to be ad- address unfazed. It happened large number of people dream of New India. To- dressed is how his subordin- around the time Mr. Modi was gathered on the premises to Fun galore gether we can pull off a suc- ates are trying to sweep the about to conclude his 56- celebrate the country’s 71st On the occasion, children cessful movement to make Gorakhpur tragedy under minute speech. The city was year of Independence. from various government each citizen self-reliant and the carpet,” said Mr. Verma. put under an unprecedented The Mughal monument schools participated in dif- sufficient.” ground-to-air security cover was decorated with garlands ferent festivities. Mann Ki Baat in view of the twin occasions of saffron, white and green, “Most of my friends have ‘Same old speech’ Many also felt that before Mr. of Independence Day and and people stood on the been participating in the Many, however, felt that the Modi took charge, the Inde- Janmashtami. Thousands of lawns waving the Tricolour. function for the last two Prime Minister’s speech had pendence Day address at the security personnel had been Many were also dressed in years. But this is my first “nothing new in it”. Red Fort would be an annual deployed in and around the Tricolour-themed outfits. time here and it is all very ex- Rajesh Verma, a resident, occasion to listen to the PM. historic Mughal fort. PTI Prime Minister Narendra citing,” said Anjana Tiwari, a said issues such as the However, with the regular Modi delivered his fourth ad- student of Class VI. deaths of over 60 children at interaction through the dress even as patriotic slo- Some children were also the BRD Medical College in Mann Ki Baat on radio, a lot Air of festivity: Children dressed as Lord Krishna attend Independence Day celebrations at gans and songs resonated in dressed as Lord Krishna to Gorakhpur and the farmer of what was said seemed the Red Fort on Tuesday. * R. V. MOORTHY the air. mark Janmashtami. suicides in the country were repetitive.

NCDRC rules in favour of man who paid for regular plot but was allotted land with uneven measurements Shubhomoy Sikdar Monday. Shibu’s mother managed NEW DELHI On March 29, Nagendra, a to arrange for ₹20,000 and Shinjini Ghosh possession of the plot within The developer, instead of front as compared to the made a commitment to give A Delhi Police Sub-Inspector 30-year-old mechanic, was went to the Khajuri Khas po- NEW DELHI 24 months. allotting the promised plot, back side. The complainant, possession of the plot within has been booked for al- allegedly robbed of ₹15,000 lice station on April 26 to The National Consumer allotted him an irregular therefore, is justified in 24 months” but only “made legedly receiving bribe from by three men identified as hand over the money. Disputes Redressal Plot size issue plot, which was refusing to accept the an endeavour” to do the the mother of a man arres- Bunty, Shahrukh and Shibu. As Ms. Jahan was giving Commission (NCDRC) has The complainant alleged unacceptable to the allotment of the aforesaid same. “When a builder ted in April in a robbery the money to him, the act directed DLF Utilities that in 2014, a year after the complainant. plot even if its area was undertakes an endeavour to case. The incident was al- ₹1 lakh demanded was allegedly recorded by Limited to refund the entire original date of possession, about 300 square yards. ” offer possession within a legedly captured on a mo- After Shibu was arrested on the woman’s neighbour, amount invested by a buyer the developer informed him Justified objection specified period, the bile phone. April 18, his mother Qamar Shabana, on her mobile who was compensated with that the final plot size would The National Commission, Full compensation possession ought to be SI Bishamber Dayal ac- Jahan approached Mr. Dayal, phone. an irregular plot by the real be bigger than what he had while ruling in favour of the As compensation, the offered within that period, cepted ₹20,000 in exchange the investigation officer in Later, Ms. Jahan ap- estate company. signed up for. The size of Mr. complainant, observed: “It commission directed DLF unless it is prevented by for weakening the case, said the case, asking him to go proached the police with the The complainant, Praveen Gupta’s plot had increased can hardly be disputed that Utilities Limited to refund sufficient cause from making the vigilance wing of the easy on her son. The SI then video clip. Gupta, alleged that in 2011 from 250.80 square metres an allottee is entitled to a the entire amount invested such an offer. The opposite Delhi Police. allegedly demanded ₹1 lakh Deputy Commissioner of he had booked a plot in DLF to 375.95 square meters. Mr. regular plot, i.e. a plot by the buyer, around ₹1.39 party has failed to establish from her in exchange for the Police (Vigilance) R.K. Jha Garden City which was being Gupta said he was unable to having equal width on the crore, and an additional that the offer for possession Robbery case favour. said the clip had been sent developed by the company pay the excess amount and front as well as the back and ₹10,000 as cost of litigation. of the plot was delayed on A case under the Prevention Ms. Jahan pleaded with for forensic examination in Gurugram. According to sought for allotment of the cannot be compelled to The NCDRC also account of reasons beyond of Corruption Act, 1988 was him to reduce the bribe and Mr. Dayal would be ar- the agreement, he was original plot size or a refund accept an irregular plot dismissed the defence’s its control,” the commission registered against him at the amount, but he did not rested if it was found to be supposed to get the of the amount paid by him. which is less wide on the argument that it had “never said. vigilance police station on agree. genuine.

CM B ND-NDE YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

NOIDA/DELHI THE HINDU 2 CITY WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2017 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Across the city: An illuminated Rashtrapati Bhavan; children participate in celebrations at Chhatrasal Stadium; youth revel in front of India Gate; and people y kites from rooftops to mark the 71st Independence Day on Tuesday. * SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR, PTI, REUTERS Millennium City gets its own Urdu is New yover, underpass to making a agency to plan development comeback, says Ansari ease trac in Gurugram Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority notied Staff Reporter Projects part of a ₹1,000-crore plan to decongest four intersections in the city Ashok Kumar The formation of the ive Assembly, Municipal Cor- New Delhi GURUGRAM GMDA has been preceded by poration, Zila Parishad and Former Vice-President M. Ashok Kumar Fulfilling the long-pending extensive and elaborate en- government officers. Hamid Ansari said on Tues- Gurugram demand for a local agency to gagement with residents and For the better participa- day that Urdu was making a The opening of the Maha- expedite development in the stakeholders in Gurugram – tion of citizens in urban gov- strong comeback and that rana Pratap flyover and an city, Haryana Chief Minister the first time that such an ex- ernance, the GMDA will will is a language not only of underpass at Rajiv Chowk, Manohar Lal Khattar on ercise was carried out prior be guided by the Residents the Muslims but the entire both part of multi-crore Na- Tuesday announced that the to the drafting of any legisla- Advisory Council. country. tional Highways Authority of Gurugram Metropolitan De- tion in Haryana. The GMDA will prepare in- “But the misfortune of India (NHAI) projects under- velopment Authority (GMDA) frastructure development the language has been that way at four major intersec- has become functional. Jurisdiction plans, which will be executed it came into the political tions of the Millennium City, The notifications for a The jurisdiction of the GMDA through annual plans in arena. Through that, it are expected to ease traffic Gurugram Metropolitan Area will extend to areas within which schemes and projects came to be perceived as a flow in Gurugram. (GMA) and the establishment Municipal Corporation Guru- for infrastructure work will language spoken by The flyover, which was of the GMDA were issued on gram (MCG); Municipal Com- be determined for each finan- Muslims... this is far from slated to be completed by August 14. mittee, Farrukh Nagar and 86 cial year. the truth. The beauty of the June-end, was finally inaug- The GMDA will provide in- Gram Panchayats i.e. up to Considering the rapidly in- language is that it isn’t re- urated on Monday. tegrated and co-ordinated two km of the Kundli- creasing traffic volume and gion specific and is spoken Built at a cost of ₹34 crore, planning for infrastructure Manesar-Palwal expressway. congestion on roads, the across the country,” Mr. An- the flyover on the Mehrauli- development in the GMA. It will extend over an area of GMDA will prepare a mobility sari said at the launch of an Gurugram Road is expected vehicles coming from Med- nectivity between old and The Minister said that The Principal Secretary of 675 square kms. management plan in coordin- Urdu version of the online to ease traffic flow on the anta Hospital to Delhi. It is new Gurugram. construction of IMT Chowk Urban Local Bodies, Anand The GMDA will be headed ation with the Gurugram Po- news portal, The Wire. stretch connecting IFFCO expected to reduce vehicular As per the plan, two four- flyover at Manesar would be Mohan Sharan, has been ap- by the Chief Minister and in- lice, MCG and District Admin- Chowk to the City Bus Stand. traffic at one of the busiest lane unidirectional flyovers completed by December this pointed as GMDA’s Chief Ex- clude elected Members of istration to resolve A national language The stretch, which passes intersections on the Delhi- and a four-lane flyover are year. He added that the ecutive Officer. Parliament and the Legislat- transportation issues. Stating that Urdu is a na- through Sukhrali village, has Gurugram Expressway. proposed at IFFCO Chowk. Kherki Daula toll plaza tional language and that it seen an increase in traffic Similarly, an underpass each would be shifted eight km to- should be part of the digital due to the bus stand and a Mega project is to be constructed at Signa- wards Manesar within three information boom, Mr. An- prominent management in- The two projects are part of ture Tower and Rajiv Chowk months after land is sari said: “Twenty years stitute near the Maharana a ₹1,000-crore project for intersections. provided by the State. City bus service to start from ago I would have thought Pratap intersection. construction of flyovers and Inaugurating the two pro- Mr. Gadkari said that the that the popularity of the “The intersection wit- underpasses at four major jects on Monday, Union Min- proposal to construct a high- language is receding that, nessed heavy traffic through- intersections in the city: ister for Road Transport, way between Delhi and March 2018, says Khattar however, isn’t the case out the day due to move- IFFCO Chowk, Signature Highways and Shipping Nitin Katra at the cost of ₹40,000 now.” ment of buses and big trucks Tower, Maharana Pratap Gadkari also laid the founda- crore was under discussion “Though English is now from an automobile com- Chowk and Rajiv Chowk. tion stone for a six-km-long and a major portion of this MoU for purchase of 200 buses to be signed soon universally required, it pany on Old Delhi-Gurugram Launched in September elevated corridor on Sohna road would pass through doesn’t take away from the Road. We can now hope for last year, the mega project is Road, from Subhash Chowk Haryana. Staff Reporter itan City Bus Limited” has lights at a cost of ₹33 crore. importance of Urdu and some respite,” said Ramesh, expected to be completed by to Badshapur village. He said that the proposed GURUGRAM also been incorporated. Stating that Haryana has the fact that there is a large a resident of Sukhrali. March 2018. The project is He also kicked off a pro- road would create business Haryana Chief Minister Mano- only 12,000 doctors, against population of people who Similarly, the ₹30 crore expected to ease traffic flow ject for the improvement of a opportunities and employ- har Lal Khattar on Tuesday Infrastructure products the required strength of continue using this lan- underpass at Rajiv Chowk on Delhi-Gurugram Express- T-junction near Dhaula Kuan ment opportunities for the said a city bus service for the Addressing a presser at the in- 27,000, Mr. Khattar said that guage,” he added. will facilitate U-turn for way and also improve con- metro station. youth. Millennium City will be opera- auguration of the Rao Tu- to overcome shortage of doc- The former V-P noted tional by March next year and laram Commerce and Science tors, medical colleges are be- that knowledge of Urdu lan- a Memorandum of Under- Model Government College in ing opened across the State. guage may not always standing to purchase 200 Sector-51, Mr. Khattar said a “A medical college will translate into a livelihood, buses would be signed soon. foot-over-bridge and an un- come up in Gurugram at a but that is no reason why a The recently notified Guru- derpass would be constructed cost of ₹300 crore. It will have language should be gram Metropolitan Develop- at an intersection near HUDA 750 beds and 150 MBBS seats. abandoned. ment Authority (GMDA), in City Centre metro station to It will be named after Sri Mata Mr. Ansari had recently collaboration with the Muni- ease traffic flow. Sheetla Devi and will be de- stoked controversy by mak- cipal Corporation of Guru- The CM also announced veloped by the GMDA, the ing a statement during an gram (MCG) and the Haryana that a flyover and an under- MCG and the Sri Mata Sheetla interview where he said State Industrial and Infra- pass would be constructed at Devi Shrine Board.” that a sense of “insecurity structure Development Cor- Atul Kataria Chowk in old The GMDA and the MCG is creeping in among poration, will make special Gurugram. He added that all will each share 40% cost Muslims”. He refused to New routes: An underpass at Rajiv Chowk (left) and a yover on Mehrauli-Gurugram Road, which were thrown open to provision for the service. street lights in Gurugram while the shrine Board will comment on this on the public on Monday. * MANOJ KUMAR The ‘Gurugram Metropol- would be replaced with LED contribute 20%. Tuesday.

High Commission marks 42nd death anniversary of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Press Trust of India Bawana Assembly constitu- New Delhi ency in north Delhi. Shinjini Ghosh panel discussion moderated Earlier in the day, Mr. Ali Minister Sheikh Hasina were Union Minister of Steel He claimed that the sched- NEW DELHI by Bangladesh High lowered the Bangladeshi flag also read out. Mr. Rahman Chaudhary Birender Singh uled caste communities were On a day when India Commissioner to India Syed to half-mast, which was was Ms. Hasina’s father. on Tuesday claimed that Del- “disenchanted” with the celebrated its 71st Muazzem Ali. followed by a minute’s Mr. Rahman was hiites were “disappointed” Delhi government for “not Independence Day, silence. assassinated along with most with the Aam Aadmi Party doing anything” for them. Bangladesh marked its ‘Dark night’ “The assassination of of his family in a conspiracy (AAP) government. annual national day of The panel members Bangabandhu [Mr. Rahman] allegedly hatched by some of “The [Arvind] Kejriwal ‘Will cost him’ mourning to commemorate included General Deepak on the dark night of August his closest aides. government has not only “The long delay in approving the assassination of the Kapoor, Chief of Army Staff 15 in 1975 left a void of strong Four decades later, shamed the people of Delhi the much-needed Land Pool- nation’s founding leader of India, who fought in the and visionary leadership, interesting historical pieces with its misconduct, but ing Policy, misuse of SC Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, in Bangladesh Liberation War; not just in Bangladesh but of information keep coming people across India, as was funds, corruption in pay- a military coup on August 15, Professor S. D. Muni of also in South Asia,” the High to light such as how he evident from his party losing ment of crop damage com- 1975. Jawaharlal Nehru University; Commission said in a consistently ignored the polls in Goa, Delhi and pensation and absence of de- To mark Mr. Rahman’s Gautam Lahiri, president of statement warnings from the Research Punjab,” Mr. Singh said, velopment are going to cost 42nd death anniversary, the the Press Club of India; and Messages from and Analysis Wing, India’s Remembering a great man: Bangladesh High Commissioner to while campaigning for BJP the Kejriwal government and Bangladesh High Ronen Sen, former Indian Bangladesh President Mohd. intelligence agency, about India Syed Muazzem Ali (2nd from right) during a panel candidate Ved Prakash in the his party heavily in the Commission organised a Ambassador to the US. Abdul Hamid and Prime the conspiracy. discussion in Delhi on Tuesday. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT August 23 by-poll in the Bawana by-poll,” he said. CM B ND-NDE YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

THE HINDU NOIDA/DELHI WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2017 CITY 3 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF Victims of negligent driving: Car rams bike, one killed Another man injured, errant driver yet to be identied Staff Reporter and Monu had left home on undergoing treatment. A old man, a youth and a baby NEW DELHI a motorcycle and were on case was registered under A young biker was killed and their way to Okhla Sabzi Sections 304 (A) (causing another injured in a hit -and- Mandi. They were near C death by negligence), 337 TN farmers: not free Elderly hit at CP; 11-month-old killed by reversing car; rider crashes into wall run case in south-east Del- Block of East of Kailash (causing hurt by act endan- even after Independence hi’s East of Kailash three when a speeding car gering life or personal safety NEW DELHI Hemani Bhandari days ago. The errant driver rammed the motorcycle of others) and 279 (rash and Farmers from Tamil Nadu NEW DELHI Toddler crushed is yet to be identified. from behind, throwing both negligent driving) at Amar staging a protest at Jantar A senior citizen was killed on NEW DELHI of them off the bike. Due to Colony police station. Mantar here were detained Monday night when a speed- An 11-month-old baby Number unknown the sudden impact, they by the police overnight for ing vehicle hit him while he was killed days before his The deceased, 22-year-old could not note down the CCTV footage “security reasons”, after was crossing the road in Con- first birthday after he Monu, was a resident of Un- number of the car, said Mr. The accused is yet to be which their leader P. naught Place. The police have allegedly came under the nao in Uttar Pradesh and Lal, who was riding pillion. traced nor has the car been Ayyakkannu said the tillers registered a case and arres- wheels of his neighbour's lived in a rented accommod- A few passersby admitted identified though the invest- were “not free” even after 70 ted the driver of the car. car in outer Delhi's ation with his friend Bac- both of them to a hospital, igators are scanning CCTV years of Independence. The Around 11 p.m., the victim Ranhola area, the police chhu Lal, who also suffered where Monu died during footage. A police officer said farmers were detained at who remained unidentified said. injuries in the incident. treatment. It was from the that when a police team Parliament Street police till Tuesday night, was cross- The incident, which was According to Mr. Lal, the hospital that a call was made later visited the spot to station. PTI ing the road from Shivaji Sta- reported on Sunday accident happened around to the police. Mr. Lal, who gather evidence, no eyewit- dium metro station when a evening, occurred when a 11.30 p.m. on August 12. He works as a cook, is currently ness was found. car, allegedly being driven at man was reversing his Travel company staff a high speed, hit him. car. The child, Lakshya, booked for cheating Eyewitness Kuldeep Singh, was playing outside his Collision course: The biker was going towards east Delhi NEW DELHI a resident of Gurugram, on house when the man when the incident happened. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT A tour and travel company, whose complaint the FIR was started reversing his Man booked for ‘wrongful and several of its employees registered at CP police sta- vehicle. Lakshya’s mother have been booked for tion, said that the impact of alleged that she had Biker hits pedestrian, allegedly cheating a touring the accident was such that signalled the driver to connement’ of AAP MLA party of 15 to the tune of the man immediately lost stop reversing the nearly ₹17.5 lakh by making consciousness. “I was sitting vehicle, but he did not loses balance and dies a sudden change in their on the sidewalk of Baba pay heed, the police said. Somnath Bharti was stopped on his way to Delhi Assembly itinerary during a trip to the Kharak Singh Marg when the The matter is being Shubhomoy Sikdar UK and Scotland. The investigated, the police “Initially, 15-20 people sur- incident happened. A white The police suspect victim was racing NEW DELHI victims’ complaint alleged car hit the old man at a very added. PTI rounded me and accused me that initially the deal was high speed,” he said. Staff Reporter manshu’s bike hit him, lost The Delhi Police on Monday of working against the in- fixed at ₹16.98 lakh but was NEW DELHI balance and hit the college booked a man for allegedly terests of the ex-councillor as later changed. STAFF REPORTER Hit on the head the spot but the injured had A biker died after he lost his wall,” said DCP (New Delhi) leading a group which sur- I raised issues as a DDA Mr. Singh said he ran towards already been taken to the balance on hitting a pedes- B.K. Singh. rounded and “wrongfully member opposing the en- the victim and found him hospital. Upon reaching the trian who was crossing the Passersby stopped an am- confined” Malviya Nagar croachment. Soon, there was Two Delhi prison bleeding profusely. “The man hospital, we found the ac- road near Lady Irwin College bulance crossing the spot MLA Somnath Bharti while a crowd of 30, armed with officers awarded had grave head injuries. I cused’s car outside the casu- at Barakhamba Road at 9 and Himanshu was taken to he was on his way to the Somnath Bharti hockey sticks and chains, NEW DELHI gathered other people on the alty. The car’s right head- p.m. on Monday. a hospital. He was declared Delhi Assembly last week. and they threatened to kill Two Delhi prison officers have spot and stopped the driver. light, bumper were broken Vivek Vihar resident Hi- dead on arrival. The police DDA land. me,” said Mr. Bharti. been awarded the President's We took the victim to Ram and the number plate twis- manshu Bansal (24) was with were informed about the ac- DDA land encroachment Mr. Bharti had alleged Correctional Service Medal for Manohar Lohia Hospital in ted,” said the officer. fellow bikers Ghazi Khan and cident. The incident allegedly took that, in a protest of Angan- ‘Cops late’ their exemplary services on the accused’s car,” he said. The accused, Tulshi Lakshay Choudhary when Probe revealed that a place in Safdarjung Enclave wadi workers, some of whom The complaint also notes Independence Day. The A senior police officer said Gupta, was held from the the incident happened. camera was installed in Mr. and Mr. Bharti had also were willing to work were at- that many of his calls to the awarded officials are Deputy the man was declared dead spot and his car was seized. “They were coming from Choudhary’s helmet and the raised the matter in the As- tacked by the protesters. He police got no response and Superintendent Subhash on arrival. No documents or “Mr. Gupta was arrested un- Connaught Place and going footage has been procured sembly. According to his said one such attack the police reached 45 Chander Batra and Head ID proofs were found on the der Section 279 (rash driving) towards east Delhi. It ap- by the police. The pedes- complaint, the accused — happened in Hauz Khas on minutes late. A senior police Warder Madan Lal, said Raj victim. The man looked over and 304A (death due to negli- pears they were racing...An trian suffered minor injuries. Iqbal Chauhan — had been August 8. He said he was go- officer confirmed a case was Kumar, Additional IG and 60 years old, the officer ad- gence). The deceased hasn’t elderly man was crossing the Himanshu’s friends, who working at the behest of a ex- ing to meet the affected been registered at Safdarjung spokesperson of Delhi prisons ded. been identified yet,” said the road near Mandi House were ahead of him, are un- BJP councillor, who has al- workers three days later Enclave police station but no headquarter. PTI “We saw a lot of blood on officer. metro station when Hi- hurt. A case has been filed. legedly encroached upon when he was stopped. arrests have been made yet.

CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Court acquits man in rape Celebrating Janmashtami Accident victim gets case after victim’s clean chit ₹7.78 lakh relief Says she had eloped with the accused of her own accord Press Trust of India Greater Noida Nirnimesh Kumar The woman has no rape was committed by New Delhi <> categorically stated the accused upon her. She A court here has awarded a compensation of over ₹7 Following the testimony of she had gone with has denied any sexual as- the victim that she had sault upon her by the ac- lakh to a man, who was eloped with the accused of the accused of her cused. She categorically injured in an accident in her own accord, a Delhi own free will, stated that she had gone 2011 and could not work court has acquitted a man of married him and is with the accused of her own for nine months. rape charge. residing with him free will, performed mar- Additional Sessions The Delhi Police had as his wife riage with him and is resid- Judge Shivani Jaiswal awarded the compensa- lodged a case against Sunny Balwant Rai Bansal ing with him as his wife. She following a complaint by the Additional Sessions Judge did not state that the action of ₹7.78 lakh to victim’s mother after she cused allured her in any Deepak Kumar Verma last went missing in 2014. The was married to the accused manner or forced her to ac- week, government coun- police found the couple at and had a daughter. company him or that ac- sel Chaman Prakash the residence of the ac- Though the police had cused made physical rela- Sharma said on Tuesday. cused’s sister in Uttar Pra- lodged the case following a tions with her or sexually desh’s Aligarh district at the complaint by the victim’s assaulted her on the pretext Accident in 2011 instance of Mr. Sunny’s mother, they did not exam- of marriage against her con- “The New India Assur- cousin. ine her in the trial saying she sent,” Additional Sessions ance Company has been was a redundant witness. Judge Balwant Rai Bansal directed to pay the Victim’s u-turn The court also found that said. amount,” he said. On Oc- The probe agency slapped the victim was a major at the “Thus, keeping in view tober 25, 2011, Mr. Verma the rape charge against him time of the incident, so it the testimony of PW1 [the was injured when his mo- under the Indian Penal Code dropped the rape charge victim], there being no ma- torcycle was hit by a car and the Protection of Chil- against the accused under terial or evidence against the near the Sector 34 central dren from Sexual Offences POCSO Act. accused, Mr. Sunny is not park. (POCSO) Act after the victim It stopped the trial mid- found guilty of committing He suffered “grievous” told them that he had estab- way by dispensing with the the offence punishable un- injuries and was in the lished physical relations recording of the statement der section 376 of IPC and is hospital for 12 days. with her at his sister’s home of the accused when the vic- entitled to be acquitted. Ac- Mr. Verma’s uncle, without her consent on the tim turned hostile in the wit- cordingly, he is also acquit- Ashok Verma, had lodged pretext of marriage. ness box. ted of the said offence pun- a police complaint. However, the victim did a “From the aforesaid testi- ishable under Section 376 The victim was 40-year- complete u-turn during the mony of the prosecutrix [the IPC,” the judge said acquit- old at the time of Festive fervour: Devotees perform rituals at Birla Mandir on the occasion of Janmashtami on Tuesday. * SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR trial and deposed that she victim], it is apparent that ting him. accident. DELHI TODAY Three electrocuted Man gets six months in jail CRPF men honoured Talk: Seminar on “China’s Xiongan New City Plan: The Promise and Pos- sibilities” by Dr T G Suresh, Adjunct in separate incidents for gallantry services Fellow, ICS at Seminar Room, Insti- tute of Chinese Studies (ICS), 8/17, for kidnapping minor ‘wife’ Sri Ram Road, 3 p.m. Cases being probed for negligence Medals awarded at I-Day function Talk: Smaran Sandhya - 125th Birth Anniversary of Mahapandit Rahul Staff Reporter Nabiha Siddique Sankrityayan and Acharya Shivpujan was electrocuted while re- Charge of kidnapping to compel her into marriage dropped emphasised the significance NEW DELHI New Delhi Sahay. Speakers: Prof. Abdul Bismil- pairing a water motor. of the national festival and lah and Prof. Gopeshwar Singh. Three people were electro- According to Deputy Press Trust of India Ram Ratan, the father of the was 17 years old on February The Ministry of Home Af- said that people “should re- Chair: Prof. Nityanand Tiwari at Gul- Greater Noida mohar Hall, India Habitat Centre cuted in three separate in- Commissioner of Police girl, alleging that his daugh- 1, 2015, when she had gone fairs on Tuesday awarded member the sacrifices of (IHC), 7 p.m. cidents in the Capital on (South East) Romil Baaniya, A court here has sentenced a ter had gone missing under with the accused, who was 125 Central Reserve Police those who fought to give us Tuesday Amrit Lal died after receiv- man to six months in prison mysterious circumstances. known to her. Force (CRPF) Officers Pres- freedom from British rule Exhibition: Women During Parti- In the first incident, a 24- ing a shock in the basement for kidnapping his then She added that she had ident’s Medals and Kirti and now, the government tion: Courage, Compassion & Sur- vival - Independence week special year-old woman was elec- of his residence. minor wife from her lawful Charges altered gone from her house to the Chakra, Shourya Chakra has given us the responsibil- exhibition curated by Aanchal Mal- trocuted in south-east Del- “We are investigating guardian. On April 7, 2015, the police Sarai Kale Khan inter-State and President’s Police ity of maintaining internal hotra at Convention Centre Foyer, hi’s Bindapur after she al- whether improper electrical Additional Sessions Judge altered the charges in the bus terminus in Delhi of her Medal for their gallantry security and we must prom- India Habitat Centre (IHC), 11 a.m. – 7 p.m. legedly came in contact installation or drain water Shivani Jaiswal awarded the FIR to IPC Sections 363 own will and called the ac- services. ise to serve the nation at with a high-tension wire. back-flow led to the electro- jail term to Abdul Navi last (punishment for kidnap- cused, asking him to come Deputy Inspector Gen- any cost”. Exhibition: “Through my Eyes” - An The victim was immedi- cution,” said Mr. Baaniya. week for kidnapping the ping) and 366 (kidnapping, there. eral of Police (DIGP), Group all women group show will feature 4 ately taken to a hospital minor from her lawful abducting or inducing wo- Centre, of the Central, Sunil Children’s programmes talented artists, who will show case their painting, drawing, ceramic and where she succumbed to ‘Faulty equipment’ guardians, district govern- man to compel her Minor’s ‘consent’ Joon honoured these police VIP Security Training Group terracotta creations at Shridharani her injuries. In the third incident, a 35- ment counsel Chaman marriage). The accused took her to Har- personnel at an Independ- displayed their expertise Art Gallery, Triveni Kala Sangam, year-old labourer Pawan Ku- Prakash Sharma said on On May 27 this year, the ola village at Noida from the ence Day function at and school children presen- 205, Tansen Marg, Mandi House, 11 a.m. – 7 p.m. Native of Himachal mar lost his life while work- Tuesday. police managed to trace the bus terminus, the girl told Greater Noida. ted colourful cultural pro- Annu, a native of Himachal ing at an under construction The court, however, ac- woman and subsequently, the court and added that grammes at the campus. Exhibition: “Soul of Delhi” - solo Pradesh, had come to visit building in Barakhamba quitted Navi of the charge of the charge sheet in the case subsequently, the two got Sacrifices for freedom Meanwhile, two Delhi photography exhibition celebrating her relatives in Vishwas Road jurisdiction. However, kidnapping the girl to com- was submitted. The counsel married and were living as Earlier, Mr. Joon hoisted the prison officials — Deputy the life and culture of the city by Atul Pandita at Delhi ‘o’ Delhi Foyer, Park. it’s unclear whether he was pel her to marry him, he ad- of the accused told the court husband and wife since National Flag at the Group Superintendent Subhash India Habitat Centre (IHC), 10 a.m. – The incident happened electrocuted due to faulty ded. According to the pro- that the girl had gone with then. Observing that the Centre campus while the Chander Batra and Head 8 p.m. when she went to the ter- equipment. The police are secution, the accused had him of her own will but ad- consent of a minor was im- national anthem played in Warder Madan Lal — have race to pick up clothes she probing the matter. married the girl in 2015 with mitted that she was below 18 material, the court held the the background. DIGP, been awarded the Presid- Screening: “Far from Home” Dan- ish lm screening with English sub- had left to dry, the police In all the three cases, her consent. She was 17 year years of age at that time. accused guilty under Sec- Range Noida, K. Thomas Job ent's Correctional Service titles at The Stein Auditorium, India said. Her body has been FIRs under Section 304A at the time. The girl told the court tion 361, IPC (kidnapping a gave away commendation Medal for their exemplary Habitat Centre (IHC), 7 p.m. sent for post-mortem. (causing death due to negli- On February 3, 2015, a that her date of birth, as per minor from lawful guardian- certificates to the best per- services in the field of re- (Mail your listings for this column at In the second incident, a gence) of the Indian Penal complaint was lodged at the her high school records, was ship) and sentenced him to sonnel of the station. formation and rehabilita- [email protected]) resident of Sangam Vihar Code has been registered. Bisrakh police station by June 23, 1997 and hence, she six months in prison. In his address, Mr. Job tion of prisoners. CM B ND-NDE YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

NOIDA/DELHI THE HINDU 4 SHOWCASE WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2017 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE The blue boy from Vrindavan

As “Krishna” woos Delhi audience once again, director Shobha Deepak Singh says with time the focus is less on him as a mischievous child and more as a statesman Ranee Kumar vine intervention in the war to keep their interest brim- of Mahabharata. In today’s ming, never allowing it to The story of Krishna has al- times, where wars are still flag! I meditate to keep my- ways been an artiste’s de- fought over on issues — both self calm before I go on stage. light. He fits the bill for more micro and macro, it is Krish- Essaying Krishna for this than one reason — his char- na’s message (the Bhagavad many years, I’m able to be acter and persona is not just Gita) that continues to be rel- confident and disburse the colourful but also multi-di- evant. The story of Krishna sense of joy through my role mensional. Going by the cannot change, but yes, with to my audience, many of Bhagavat Puran and the epic time the focus is less on him whom come up to me after Mahabharata, Krishna as a mischievous child and the show just to convey their emerges as a super hero of more as a statesman. Be- happiness and blessing.” His times and a guiding force cause what Krishna taught The Sudama episode as of our times since there are during the war of Ma- usual is a popular one and many facets to his character habharata is true for all times <> The rst Krishna like all other Shobha Deepak that are applicable to the — do your dharma (moral ballet was presented Singh’s plays, this character present day state of affairs duty) unconditionally. Of in 1977 to a full enters the stage from aisle of and our responses to them. course, the entire set design, house and we have the auditorium creating a Perhaps, it is this universality costumes, sound, music all seen the same flutter among the viewers. and appeal that makes have been upgraded with The dice game between Pan- interest in Krishna’s Shobha Deepak Singh revisit each passing year.” dav and Kaurav families was the Krishna ballet again and life year after year subtly signalled through a again. And there is no dearth Constraints of time Shobha Deepak Singh black and white squares of audience year after year, Here, within the constraints drawn curtain that drops which goes without saying of time, the theme broadly little long-drawn perhaps to from the ceiling of the stage that both the dance drama dealt with just two stages in get the depth of the relation- with bloodstains on it indic- and the persona never fail to two different places — child- ship and its end across to the ating the aftermath of this impress, coming as it did on hood and adulthood; Math- viewers in a convincing man- gaming. The best scenes the eve of Janmashtami. ura-Vrindavan and Dwarka. ner. Rukmini-Krishna mar- were that of Duryodhan (in Reflecting on the journey, Lilting dance and song punc- riage episode occupies a ma- Kathakali style) and Bheem Singh says, “The first Krishna tuated by pranks for which jor role in Bhagavat Puran, measuring each other up, ballet was presented in 1977 Krishna was known marked more than dallying with maces drawn. The music re- to a full house and we have the first half. The multiple Radha which is popular lore plete with fast paced rhythm seen the same interest in Krishnas on stage each with vis-a-vis authenticity of for all the battle scenes was Krishna’s life year after year. a gopi (Rasleela), the dandiya Bhagavat in Krishna’s bio- superb. So was heralding the This is the 41st edition of the dance, the ethereal looking graphy. Rukmini could have war represented through ballet and the passionate zeal gopis who are constant ador- been made the link to life at flaming red lights and digital to present Krishna every ation of the lord, his mother Dwarka rather than pro- backdrop. Bhishm lying year arises out of the para- Yasoda who is torn between longed Krishna-Radha down on bed of arrows was dox of his dual personality. unconditional love for the romance. represented creatively His leela (divine play) is the child and her responsibility through a stream of dancers outcome of the Bhakti move- to mother him and chide him Perfect transformation carrying him supine on their ment. On the other hand, for his mischievous pranks The transformation from the shoulders with arrows stuck there is the statesman went down well with the playful blue boy of Brin- all over his body; the Vira- Krishna who embraces di- viewers with melodic music, davan to the astute king- troop scene was also magnifi- maker and mentor (essayed cent and unlike the regular by Rajkumar Sharma) at depiction-it had Krishna Dwarka was brought out mounted on a higher level to with as much perfection as one corner of the stage and an artistic medium could al- behind him were white- low. Says the lead actor, “I robed dancers in single file have choreographed the bal- with outstretched hands let along with Shobhaji and holding lit diyas making for a yet when I go on stage, my statement of the supreme be- Guding light: There are many facets of Lord Krishna’s character that are applicable to the present day state of aairs and our mind races and worries ing. responses to them * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT about the next scene — are The ‘phaltas’, rotating in the actors ready? Will the air, mid-air jumps and lovely lighting technique and Radha looked ethereal, Radha-Krishna’s separation and frolic; to move away to a everything else like cos- agile postures-all part of May- excellent dancing by all danced with a swing in their wherein he hands over his distant Dwarka leaving his tumes, sound, light go right? urbhanj Chhau went well those on stage. step and went straight into bansuri (flute) to her as his foster parents (Yasoda and As a performer, I know there with the theme of this ballet Shiburam Mohanta and the audiences’ hearts. The parting gift to justify his sud- Nand) in grief. The emo- are more than a thousand which was put up at Kamani Geeta Bhatt as Krishna and link to the second half is den decision to end all love tional parting scene was a eyes watching me; and I have auditorium. British history with an Indian soul After exploring the complex lives of the Indian diaspora throughout her career, lmmaker Gurinder Chadha turns to a period drama on Partition to seek closure Kennith Rosario my visa to Pakistan was recently <> “[Winston] Churchill said, denied,” she sighs. Self identity emerges out of a ‘History is written by the Chadha adopted the classic melange of factors — profession, victors’. He also said concept of ‘upstairs-downstairs’ to gender, religion, caste, nationality history will be kind to me tell the story of both the aristocrats and race. While for some, they because I get to write it. and the proletariat. Interestingly, maybe neatly compartmentalised, And Viceroy’s House is my the popular British TV series, for others the intersectionality is Downton Abbey shares the format A slice version of what I believed rather evident. Filmmaker and the lead actor, Hugh Bon- of history Gurinder Chadha is among the lat- happened; in 1947 and to neville, with Chadha’s movie. ter. Belonging to Punjabi Sikh ori- my family. “When we started working on this Eighty-seven years ago, gins, she was born in Kenya and Gurinder Chadha film there was no Downton Abbey. Mahatma Gandhi em- raised in Britain. She switches Filmmaker We were so pissed off when Down- barked on a seminal jour- between English (in a thick British ton happened,” she exclaims. The ney with 78 of his followers accent), Punjabi and Hindi effort- Fatima Bhutto called the film “a filmmaker used the tried and — one that eventually lessly, calls London her home but glossy imperial version of India’s tested format to comfortably usher helped turn the tide in In- finds equal comfort in Mumbai, traumatic partition that scandal- an international audience into an dia’s freedom movement. and is married to a Japanese-Amer- ously misrepresents the historical Indian setting. The initial intent Back then, nobody on that ican screenwriter and director, reality” in her review for The was also to make the film on an long road could have ima- Paul Mayeda Berges. “I represent Guardian. But Chadha – who wrote epic and opulent scale like Gandhi gined a reality where fu- the citizen of the world,” she her defense in the same publica- (1982), but unlike Academy Award- ture generations could re- declares. tion – is well aware of the multipli- winning Richard Attenborough trace their very steps. On Chadha’s films have reflected city of history. “[Winston] film, Chadha didn’t have a lavish India’s 71st Independence the multiculturalism that she Churchill said, ‘History is written budget. “So by telling an upstairs- Day, the Dandi March story proudly wears on her shoulders. by the victors’. That’s how the film downstairs story, we used the in Google Earth's Voyager, “As a director, you make films starts,” she explains. “He also said house as a microcosm of the whole featuring map data, com- about what you know,” she shares. history will be kind to me because of India at that time,” she explains. pelling storytelling and “And what excites me is the plural- I get to write it. And Viceroy’s archival photographs, ity within me”. In that stead, she House is my version of what I be- A world of conflicts many of which have never made popular films like Bhaji on lieved happened; in 1947 and to Despite it being 70 years since Par- been released, take the the Beach (1993) and Bend It Like my family,” she clarifies. tition, Chadha says the film finds users on the emotional Beckham (2002) in which her char- global relevance in today’s divisive long trek towards acters embodied the duality of be- Upstairs downstairs world. “When we started making Independence. ing both a foreigner and a local at Beyond the grand scheme of polit- the film, [Barack] Obama was the The Voyager story takes the same time. “My cultural stand ics and colonialism, Viceroy’s president, there was no Syrian one through a journey re- point is one of inclusivity,” she re- House seeks to provide a human refugee crisis and there was no tracing the steps of Ma- veals. Seeming to be lighthearted face to Partition. “My buaji [aunt] Brexit. But in the time we took to hatma Gandhi's Salt March in appearance, Chadha’s charac- died in the tragedy when she was make the film, the world had from Sabarmati to Dandi. ters, who largely belonged to the Getting facts right: The lmmaker says her lm is detailed work based on Narendra Singh Sarila’s research two. She would’ve been 72 now,” changed,” she observes. For the The story is told in the Indian diaspora abroad, were torn * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT recalls Chadha, who grew up on Americans, Viceroy’s House could words of Mahatma between modernity and tradition. horror stories of Partition narrated be an allusion to Trump demand- Gandhi's great-grandson, They battled racial prejudices with with modesty. tion returned to haunt Chadha about every scene,” she explains. by her grandmother. “For me it’s a ing border walls and proposing Tushar Gandhi, based on a slice of humour, while also ad- when she retraced her ancestral “My film is detailed work based on healing film,” she introspects. Mak- travel bans. For the British and his family knowledge and vocating for equal rights for Counter narrative home in Pakistan as part of the the research he had done.” ing the movie gave her a sense of Europeans, the film could find his own retracing of the women. Chadha’s vivacity is infectious, but BBC One show, Who Do You Think But history — by its sheer reli- closure, which she also hopes to pertinence in Brexit and the ongo- march in 2005, on its 75th Seven years after her last film, as we discuss the underpinnings of You Are?. The warm reception she ance on memory, documentation evoke in the Indian audience. “But ing refugee crisis. “My film is anniversary. It's a Wonderful Afterlife (2010), her new film, her tone turns con- received from refugees – who now and political power — is tricky ter- that doesn’t mean I don’t crave about boundaries and geopolitics, Told over a montage of Chadha returns with a film themat- templative. Despite being a distant occupied her ancestral home – in- rain, often questioned for its sub- having an ancestral home. Even which is very relevant at the mo- 22 slides, this Google Earth ically different from anything she political saga in appearance, mak- spired her to make Viceroy’s House. jectivity. Pakistani writer and poet though I have a British passport, ment,” adds Chadha. experience relates each has done before in her almost ing Viceroy’s House provided cath- Two years after she started mak- The filmmaker has two primary key stage of Mahatma three-decade long career. Her arsis to the 57-year-old filmmaker. ing the film, Chadha met Prince target groups: India and the West. Gandhi’s journey to spe- latest is an ambitious period film, “I grew up under the shadow of Charles and casually informed him Keeping up with her tradition of cific locations along the Viceroy’s House — releasing in India Partition,” she informs. Through about her plans. “I said I am mak- having two different titles for her way, recounting what as Partition: 1947 — which is rooted her formative years, she learnt two ing a film on your uncle Lord films, the Hindi-dubbed version happened at that location in research and historical versions of history: one imparted Mountbatten, and he asked me Partition: 1947, has a marketing along with a photograph evidence. to her by her British education, what am I basing this on, and strategy tailor-made for India. For taken at the time. From When we meet the filmmaker the other shared by her mother. At what’s my research?” she re- instance, the English trailer fo- their first stop at the Gu- during her Mumbai trip to pro- home, the filmmaker grew up on counts. Prince Charles recommen- cuses on the film as a lush British jarat Vidhyapeeth Univer- mote Viceroy’s House, she appears tales of harmony in undivided In- ded reading The Shadow of the costume-drama, but the Hindi sity, one learns about the pleased with her decision to break dia, a counter narrative to the offi- Great Game: The Untold Story of In- trailer jumps directly to the polit- thatched hut built by the away from her strong suit. “Have cial British history. “My mother dia’s Partition, written by Naren- ics of partition. “The Indian one townspeople of Vasana, you seen the film?” she asks with used to say, ‘Pata nahi achanak in dra Singh Sarila, former aide-de- doesn’t pussyfoot around,” she and the heartwarming in- an expectant look, as we stroll goriyan ne kaala jaadu kita si aur camp to Lord Mountbatten and a chortles, adding that the film is cident of a boat owner who around in a suburban hotel ball- sab kuch mit gaya,’ (The British senior Indian civil servant. The sure to make the British feel guilty. ferried almost 400 volun- room. “Not yet,” we respond. “Oh, performed black magic on us and book ultimately shaped Chadha’s For the filmmaker, Viceroy’s House teers and villagers across it’s such a shame,” she says. “But all harmony was destroyed),” says narrative. “We spent 18 months is like a Trojan horse: it first com- the Narmada river free of I’ll tell you something,” she leans Chadha in Punjabi. with him [Narendra Singh Sarila] forts you and then hits you where charge. in. “It’s really good!” she exclaims The repressed ghosts of parti- before he died and consulted him it hurts the most. CM B ND-NDE YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

THE HINDU NOIDA/DELHI WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2017 SHOWCASE 5 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF Dressing up Bollywood In a free wheeling chat, designer Neeta Lulla talks about India’s tryst with fashion and her journey in Hindi lm industry Madhur Tankha Eye for fashion

Unbelievable it may sound Among males, Hrithik today, but veteran couturier Roshan has the best take and stylist Neeta Lulla learnt on fashion. fashion sensibilities in films “Hrithik is very while working with Sridevi. meticulous; even if there is Shine and substance By her admission, the latter quarter inch difference Bollywood actress played the crucial role of between right shoulder to Bhagyashree, who debuted in mentoring her when she was left shoulder in a scene he Maine Pyar Kiya, was the a novice in film industry. would tell you. main attraction as she turned “I am a designer of repute You measure it, and he up at Fairytale’s 15th edition now. Back then I was just an is right,” says Neeta with of festive and monsoon 18-year-old girl,” recalls justified pride in the special at Hotel The Ashok in Neeta, who dressed Aish- former’s fashion Delhi recently. warya Rai in a 12-metre long sensibilities. Speaking on the occasion, sari in Devdas and made Bhagyashree said: “It’s a Pooja Hegde look ravishing me to work with her. It was a different concept. I love the in period drama, Mohen- very fashionable film. complete shopping joDaro. Everything was created, experience where everything “At that age, I met Sridevi nothing was bought off the is under one roof from for my first assignment. She rack.” clothes, jewellery and had seen my work in On the current generation accessories. It’s just bringing Tamasha. Veteran photo- of actors, Neeta says they are dreams into reality for all grapher Rakesh Shrestha was very good to work with; in- women.” doing a photo shoot with her teraction is more profes- Visitors were excited to and she asked for me be- sional. interact with the actress at cause she wanted to gauge “The new girls know fash- the exhibition that the kind of work I do. Those ion, they can absorb so much showcased smart designer days only few designers had as there is influx of multiple clothes, funky jewels, bags studied fashion. Lot of star fashion, brands. In 80s, and footwear. mothers and aunts were do- there was a kind of taboo ing clothes,” says Neeta dur- about consumers wanting Remembering heroes ing a telephonic conversa- filmy clothes. But now they An evening of dance and tion. want clothes worn by act- music was hosted at the India And how was the meeting, resses.” She says the line Islamic Cultural Centre in one gets eager. “So I went to between filmy fashion and Delhi in the memory of brave Centaur hotel, where she ramp fashion has dimin- soldiers, who have sacrificed usually stayed, with a 24 by ished. “It is easy to work for their lives for their 24 inch bag. Sridevi asked them and it is easier to un- motherland. where is the dress and I derstand their fashion sens- Titled ‘Ek Shaam Shaheedon replied it is inside the bag. I ibilities.” Ke Naam’, the cultural took out a four metre long Decking up the bride: Neeta Lulla giving makeover to Surbhi Chandna, lead actress of “Ishqbaaaz” * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT At present, Neeta has her extravaganza was the gold crushed fabric and kept hands full with television. initiative of Arts Vintaage, a it on table. Sridevi didn’t ut- you realised why she wanted Learning the ropes nineties that we started gether ability to match indigen- She has designed bespoke project by NGO Sparsh and ter anything but she must that particular shade. She Back in 1980s, when she was ting information and India Within and without ous fabric with Western cuts. trousseau for three TV act- was hosted in collaboration have been shocked. She said has fantastic fashion sensibil- working with Juhi Chawla saw advent of designer stores Neeta always had an eye for “My favourite is Edwardian resses, Surbhi Chandna, with the Naad Foundation. she is okay with it. She had ities.” and Salma Agha, there were and brands. We could easily ethnic appeal. “During past era and colours from the Shivangi Joshi and Shivani Nishi Singh. Director - Arts rollers on her hair and asked no ready to wear clothes. pick stuff off the shelves for 35 years, I have made one Renaissance era. This has Tomar, who will be shown in Vintaage, says: “This is a what I want to do with hair. I “Everything had to be film costumes.” collection every season been my philosophy. I am their bridal finery in tribute to martyrs who gave said don’t remove rollers. I stitched, every shoe had to According to Neeta, the which is either from Indian fascinated by architecture of Ishqbaaaz, Yeh Rishta Kya their lives so that coming had to design the entire look made and a concept was new millennium saw ming- weaves or fabrics. I mostly forts. Sometimes I even cut Kehlata Hai and Iss Pyaar Ko generations can breathe in and decide how I should pro- thought about before we ling of Western and Indian use Kanjeevaram and my clothes according to a Kya Naam Doon on Star Plus. independent India.” ject her. I draped the fabric went ahead with clothes. We cultures. “The attitude Kalamkari. Young generation particular palace which I “All three girls have differ- around her in different twists would see lot of bright bold changed from getting clothes sees saris as bulky which have liked. I have worked ent characterisations and Familiarising students and made her wear chan- colours on clothes, shoes, stitched to getting them off does not complement with around Taj Mahal, they hail from different cit- Experts from the world of delier kundan earrings. It make-ups, curly girly hairs, the racks and getting actors their body structure. I make Meenakshi temple, Konark ies. To give an authentic publication familiarised came out stunning. It was a lot of bling and belted waist- work with stylists became them contemporary and temple....” touch, I first tried to under- students with technical, cover shot for Movie lines.” easier.” functional like new age hand- After Sridevi, Neeta stand their characteristics, theoretical and practical magazine.” In the 90s, she says, Now with Make in India woven fabric and use Geor- worked closely with Aish- background and family aspir- aspects of book publishing at Sharing experience of worldwide everything be- mantra, the stylist says, lot of gette to give global appeal. warya Rai's, whose flair for ations. Each outfit has an im- a weeklong course organized working with Sridevi, she came straighter and lighter Indian designers have star- As a designer, I love to play fashion reflected in films. peccable embodiment of for women by National Book says: “I learnt a lot from colours came in vogue. ted adapting their fashion with colours. I also like work- “When I first met Aishwarya, drama, intricacy and eleg- Trust (India) in collaboration Sridevi; she knew her make- “Straight hair became the trend to making indigenous ing with Paithani as it allows she was a model heading for ance coupled with a playful- I learnt a lot from with Aditi Mahavidyalaya up and had colour sensibilit- <> need of the hour because fabric and weaves available me leeway to use colours Miss World pageant. During ness that brings to the fore (University of Delhi), Bawana. ies. If she said she wanted Sridevi; she knew globally also this was the to global markets. “And this with bold prints. It is very vi- the photo shoot, we hit it off their core persona. I have Certificates were distributed pink then it had to be that her make-up and trend. In the 80s, we didn’t has started reflecting in films brant and suited for Indian very well. After the pageant, created a collection which to all the participants of the particular shade of pink. And had colour have information on fashion as well. Not much, but it has women who like colours.” I learnt she is doing a big pro- stresses on marriage of tradi- course. when you saw it on screen sensibilities trends. It was only in late started.” But what defines Neeta is ject Jeans in Tamil. She asked tional and modern.”

SHORT TAKES Donning detective’s hat Back after a long break, actor Aashish Chaudhary talks about what to look for in crime thriller “Dev”

Megha Gadi of his past,” said Sharma. crime show, as here you not brother-in-law in the terror The actor, who showed only see him as a detective attack) occurred in my life. After his short stint in Bolly- his mettle in films such as appearing in a case, but his For four years I was away wood, it is his versatility on Dhamaal series and serial Ek whole life. How he gets up, from the industry because of An ode to Army accomplished extraordinary the small screen has made Mutthi Aasmaan, has re- how he is with the people that incident. I had to find feats in the face of adversity Aashish Chaudhary an ador- turned to acting after a long around, how he lives, other ways of earning The team of Parmanu - to ensure that India finds its able actor. break. Here he will unravel whether he comes back money; I was going through The Story of Pokhran, due place on the world Ashish keeps pushing the cases which will range from home or not will be shown. a bad phase. It was then tele- starring John Abraham, nuclear map. It is a powerful envelope with every new as- the ordinary to the startling. Why he got this kind of vision offered me something Diana Penty and Boman human story of ordinary signment on tube and is now Excerpts from an inter- outlook, his personal life. I different and financially re- Irani, recently wrapped up citizens who changed the playing an investigator in view: would say it is a fictional in- warding. its shooting schedule. John trajectory of the country. ,” Dev – Most-wanted Detective How would you de- vestigative crime thriller and I had no ego because I had Abraham stated that this says the actor. The film is or Most wanted Criminal on scribe your character in all the real life stories which done TV before. In fact, be- thriller is an ode to the army directed by Abhishek Colors. Dev? are actually true. cause of TV, I got into and scientists. “They truly Sharma. On the recent visit to Dev is a very dash, rude, How did television hap- movies. Delhi, the actor was accom- arrogant, extremely intelli- pen? What difference you panied by Manisha Sharma, gent, always right and at the After the success of find as an actor in films Ajay Devgn in Programming Head, Colors. same time always bad. Double Dhamaal, I moved to and TV? ‘Raid’ “We have grown up on He is a very complex char- television and people got TV is way more hard work concepts like Karamchand acter to play as well as nasty, shocked. But 26/11 episode and tiring, in movies we Ajay Devgn will soon be which have pushed us to be as he has always been ec- (he lost his sister and shoot one scene in five days seen playing an income tax cognisant of the happenings centric. He’s the most but here five scenes are shot officer in Raid. Set in Uttar around us. Dev also makes us wanted detective as well as a in a day. It is completely dif- Pradesh in the 80s, the film aware of our surroundings. criminal too. It is an honour <> He’s the most ferent in terms of how much is based on real life events The character is very excit- for any actor to play a role wanted detective energy and art we put in. involving a high-profile ing as he uses his keen eye like this. as well as a At the same time, it is way income tax raid. Written by for detail to evaluate the Is there anything spe- more exciting as our work criminal too. It is Ritesh Shah who’s writing most mind-boggling cases cific you want the viewers helps us go into people's credits include Pink and despite the various judge- to know? an honour for any house. Even if they don't buy Airlift, Raid will be directed ments which have been I want the viewers to actor to play a role tickets, they do watch it by Rajkumar Gupta. Ready for action: Aashish Chaudhary passed against him because know that this is not just a like this everyday.

5 EVENTS WORTH-YOUR-WHILE

SHOW SHOW FILM GROUP SHOW TALK Desire Hassi Ki Pathshala Far From Home Through My Eyes Nemichandra Jain Memorial Lecture Triveni Art Gallery is holding a solo exhibition The Classroom, in association with Comedy IHC will screen the Danish documentary film “Far Shridharani Art Gallery is holding a group Nemi Nidhi and Natarang Pratishthan, are “Desire” showcasing the paintings by Pradip Munch will present “Hassi Ki Pathshala” on From Home” with English subtitles. Directed by exhibition “Through My Eyes” which features organizing Nemichandra Jain Memorial Lecture Kumar Sau. The artworks explore the journey of Comedy Nights featuring comedians, Gaurav Nitesh Anjaan, it is about Nitesh's father, whose paintings, drawings, ceramics and terrocota 2017, in memory of the theatre critic and poet, at life during which Man is in constant search of the Gupta and Manish Tyagi. Gaurav, a dentist by decision will change his and his children's lives creations by four talented artists. Curated by IIC. The eminent social thinker Shiv Visvanathan infinite with his finite possibilities while the profession, is extravagant when it comes to jokes forever. After 39 years in Denmark, he wants to Sushma Vishwakarma, the four artists are Bhartti will deliver the lecture “A Special Kind of material aspects of life pull him constantly down while Manish was an commander in Indian Navy give up his Danish residence permit and move Verma, Chetnaa, Manju Tomar and Vijaya. Democracy: Marxism, Language and Science”. to the earth. before taking up stand-up comedy. back to India to start a new life. Venue: Triveni Kala Sangam, Mandi House, Venue: Seminar Halls, Kamaladevi, Max Mueller Venue: 205, Tansen Marg, Mandi House Venue: Sector-29, Gurugram Venue: Stein Auditorium, Lodhi Road, New Delhi New Delhi Marg, New Delhi Time: 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Time: 8.30 p.m. onwards Time: 7 p.m. onwards Time: 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Time: 6 p.m.

NOIDA/DELHI THE HINDU 6 WHEELS WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2017 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Rishaad Mody ger’s commands. With 185hp and 400Nm of Volkswagen has positioned pulling power, the Tucson’s the new Tiguan as a rival to 2.0-litre turbo-diesel engine small luxury German SUVs, is significantly stronger than but it may have a hard time the Tiguan’s. The six-speed matching them in one key as- automatic here offers pect — badge value. Instead, smooth performance for the it comes across as a direct most part. However, it fa- rival to the Hyundai Tucson, vours fuel economy over out- as they both share similar right driving thrills. Where size and intent. At first, the the Tucson is front-wheel- ₹6 lakh price difference drive, the Tiguan uses an all- between these two premium wheel-drive system. The ex- SUVs seems a bridge too far. cellent traction means 0- And it raises the question: Is 100kph comes up in the Tiguan really worth the 10.55sec, just a second extra money? slower than the lighter and more powerful Tucson. Hit- Better to behold ting speeds between 120- Looking good and feeling 140kph is effortless, but the good are hugely important in Tucson feels more at ease this segment, and the Tuc- when you extend further. son scores big here. The You get four driving modes second-biggest SUV in Hy- in the Tiguan — Snow, Nor- undai’s line-up has a strong mal, Off-road and Off-road road presence and the ability Individual — that can be con- to turn heads. The pulled- trolled via a rotary dial near back headlamps and defined the gear selector. The Tuc- grille make for a handsome son offers a choice of three face, but how I wish the tail- This or that? modes. Performance is no- lamps were a little different; ticeably stronger through- they make the Tucson look out, but the more relaxed like a pumped-up i20. The Volkswagen Tiguan and Hyundai Tucson are evenly matched in terms of size and capability. So, should you nature of the engine and The Tiguan, meanwhile, pay the premium for the Tiguan? gearbox means the Tucson is takes a typical Volkswagen an excellent, brisk highway approach to design — smart cruiser. and clutter-free, character- the driver. An even match? Volkswagen The Tiguan, on the other ised almost entirely by Leather upholstery is Tiguan (left) and Hyundai hand, is better suited for an straight lines. The large, full- standard on both, but the Ti- Tucson enthusiastic drive. In isola- LED headlamps stand out, guan’s feels a little plusher, tion, the ride quality is good, but the rest of the grille and and the front seats are more and the Tiguan feels su- bumper design are quite sub- comfortable as well. Both get premely composed at high- dued. While the flanks look powered driver seats with way speeds. It’s the Tucson quite smart, it’s the neat rear that’s better at handling section, with its smart, broken roads. While all- hockey-stick-shaped LED tail- VOLKSWAGEN TIGUAN wheel-drive gives the Tiguan lamps that looks really at- HIGHLINE an added edge off-road, its tractive. Overall, it’s a hand- L/W/H: 4486/1839/ talents are best reserved for some design, but doesn’t 1672mm less-challenging dirt-track ex- command the presence ex- cursions up to the farm- pected of SUVs. WHEELBASE: 2677mm house, rather than serious Inside, both cabins will ENGINE: 4 cyls, 1968cc off-roading. feel familiar. While the Tuc- turbo-diesel son uses a beige-and-black adjustable lumbar support rear passengers. The Tucson’s cabin is well the option of a petrol en- Choosing champions interior theme, the Tiguan PRICE: ₹29.8 lakh (ex- and heated exterior mirrors. In terms of space at the laid-out and quality is quite gine, we have both the cars Traditional SUV buyers in In- goes for a darker one, with showroom, Delhi) But it’s only the Tiguan that rear, the Tiguan offers more impressive. in their 2.0-litre turbo-diesel dia value three things above black upholstery and dark AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA gets a memory function for knee room, but the Tucson is However, the Tiguan guise. In the VW, the motor all: image, comfort, power. grey accenting on the dash. the driver’s seat and wing wider and has a less intrusive simply feels a step ahead in generates 143hp and 340Nm Actual off-road ability isn’t Beige usually creates a sense HYUNDAI TUCSON GLS mirrors, and heated function central tunnel, making it the terms of overall fit, finish and of torque, and is mated to a quite as important, and the of space, but it’s the VW that L/W/H: 4475/1850/ for the front seats. That said, better three-seater. materials. seven-speed dual-clutch Tucson has the Tiguan feels more airy, thanks to the 1660mm the Tucson gives you a more The Hyundai also has Both cars, however, are automatic gearbox. The en- trumped on all three counts, larger windows and enorm- commanding view from be- comfier rear seats, while the equally well stocked in terms gine is vocal from the out- in addition to offering much ous panoramic sunroof, a WHEELBASE: 2670mm hind the wheel, while the Ti- Volkswagen’s don’t feel as of safety, with each offering side, but refinement levels in better value. So, while the Ti- feature the Tucson misses ENGINE: 4 cyls ,1995cc guan feels more car-like. supportive. The Tiguan’s six airbags and a raft of elec- the cabin are commendable guan will find a following of out on entirely. Both cars get turbo-diesel Bringing luxury to the Ti- boot space is at 615 litres, tronic assists, including ABS and it’s quieter than the Hy- those who will love the VW a large Android Auto/Apple guan’s second row is a dedic- while the Tucson’s is at 513 and ESP. undai’s. It’s also a more re- DNA, the Tucson does the CarPlay-compatible touch- PRICE: ₹23.8 lakh (ex- ated climate-control, while litres. Both offer good flexib- sponsive unit. Paddle shifters you’re in the mood for spir- better job of offering what screen unit, and a full-colour showroom, Delhi) the Tucson gets two zones at ility with 60:40 split folding Power play make the experience that ited driving; the snappy gear- SUV owners desire. And that multi-information display for AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA the front and only vents for seats. Since the Tiguan doesn’t get much more involving when box eagerly follows your fin- makes it the winner here.

::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: MY FIRST WHEELS ‘I love being driven around’ Author Anuja Chauhan on why she never learnt to drive

When mass goes luxury

Buses and vans are being transformed into vehicles that oer comfort, style and a whole lot more I have never learnt to drive; my car. It was very old and or cook for that matter. quite cranky, but I was filled Both these things were in- with pride. I had to stay Sunalini Mathew sides. Predictably called the Jaipur fitting. So they’ll come to you in- terrelated. I got my first set very close to the driver to Safari, it takes you around the Pink stead, whether it is a housing of wheels, an old beaten-up even get a whiff of air condi- They’re no longer vehicles you use City on two types of tours: a day colony or an office building, on ap- white Maruti 800, that was tioning in the vehicle. I to go from point A to B because of trip (8.30 am – 5.30 pm) and a night pointment. Mumbaikars can ask for probably fifth-hand, when I never got around to learn- convenience or safety in numbers. version (6.30 pm – 10.30 pm). The one on the day that the truck visits got my first promotion at ing driving, since I got a Buses and vans are being converted lower area is a lounge, with large their part of the city (there are fixed work. I was a 26-year-old driver with the car. He was into experiences that are both use- comfortable drawing-room-style days for each area). For the fitting, and was thrilled. Since I really good and profes- ful and indulgent. seating, while the upper deck is a the truck will come back to your could not drive, I called my sional. He also used to cook restaurant. location. “I was stuck in traffic one husband, who rushed to well. Thus, I never got Have a meeting You book a seat depending on day, and the idea came to me, be- pick me up from work with around to learning to drive The 9-seater Toyota Ventury MPV whether you want pure comfort cause I figured our clients waste so his brother. We rode it back or cook. I am very happy Commuter allows working profes- (like on a hot day in June) or a view home, in a convoy of sorts, being driven around. I had a sionals to get more done through of the sky (like on a cool star- ...... accompanied by a few of great time with the car and the day with. Delhi-based Eco Rent spangled winter night). Food is Buses and vans are being my colleagues; all of us in am still nostalgic about it. a Car has transformed the interiors served on board, so there’s a kit- the advertising agency I The one reason I love to make it a conference room on chen built in. There’s also a loo. converted into new worked for then, were gif- staying on the outskirts of the go. Like any on-ground version, “We got the chassis of a Tata bus experiences that are both ted with these cars by the Bengaluru is that I do not a centre table for your laptop, mo- and custom-made the rest. Our useful and indulgent company. It was a huge cel- have to deal with traffic bile and laptop chargers and a flip- Pink Pepper moving bus restaurant ebration. I remember that snarls on a day-to-day basis. down plasma TV with USB port and was a success, but since it was open much time on the road,” says the number plate was 5617, It is a better place to work a DVD option are all part of the Work and enjoy on the go: On these to the elements, it had limited use Harssh Chheda, the founder of and my colleagues’ cars on books without many package, along with wifi. A bonus: vehicles in the very hot months,” says San- both the on-ground and mobile also had similar distractions. The seats that rotate have in-built jay Gaur, who heads VirajoSa, a store. number plates. As told to Nikhil OFFICE ON WHEELS massagers. There’s a fridge to store their way to and from the airport, travel and tourism company based The Force Motors Traveller has I loved Varma water, soft drinks and snacks (mak- also like the idea of this mobile Awﬁs has converted a Force in Jaipur that owns the bus experi- interiors that allow for cloth to be ing sushi-eating a possibility!). meeting room. Some companies Traveller van into a mobile ence. Bored of Jaipur and simply stocked, a fitting room and a billing “A number of companies find it have it leased on a long-term basis, workspace that can be booked via want to hire it for a party? Rent out desk. Once an appointment is worth their while to get meetings so they can travel with their teams an app. There’s a national permit the entire bus. Or else board with a placed, the client is called and a done on the road. We had a guest within the city too, rather than tak- so you can get more work done single ticket. ₹500 for day tours; brief taken on what she or he is from abroad who wanted to go on a ing several cars. Services in Delhi- on the road, between cities. ₹900 for the night safari looking for, so that appropriate trip to Agra. Rather than waste the NCR, Mumbai, Bengaluru; ₹8,500 cloth is carried. A stylist and the drive time, he did meetings on for 8 hours and 80km Get fitted for a suit chief tailor are on board, and can board,” says Aditya Loomba, Joint Corporate Collars on Wheels real- advise you on styles. Western Managing Director of the company. Eat and sightsee ises that people don’t have the time formal wear is what the company Visitors who spend a great deal of This double-decker bus is quite the to travel across town to select fab- specialises in. ₹2,400 and upwards time in city traffic, especially on looker, with its all-glass top and ric, get measured and go back for a for a shirt.

CM B ND-NDE YK