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Printed at . Chennai . Coimbatore . Bengaluru . Hyderabad . Madurai . Noida . Visakhapatnam . Thiruvananthapuram . Kochi . Vijayawada . Mangaluru . Tiruchirapalli . Kolkata . Hubballi . Mohali . Malappuram . Mumbai . Tirupati . lucknow . cuttack . patna NEARBY Supreme Court gives RBI ‘last Let Bobde panel finish probe chance’ to alter disclosure policy first, says exjudge Patnaik He has been tasked with examining ‘larger plot’ against CJI ‘Existing guidelines contrary to 2015 ruling on sharing information under RTI Act’ AAP files case against Krishnadas Rajagopal plot” would not queer the Gambhir over ‘2 voter IDs’ Legal Correspondent tion sought under the RTI NEW DELHI inquiry into the sexual ha NEW DELHI NEW DELHI Act on the grounds of eco Justice A.K. Patnaik, the re rassment complaint. Alleging that BJP East Delhi The Supreme Court on Fri nomic interest, commercial tired Supreme Court judge Despite the Bench’s assu candidate Gautam Gambhir day gave the Reserve Bank of confidence, fiduciary rela appointed by the court to rances, Justice Patnaik has two voter IDs in different check a lawyer’s claim of a pushed the pause button so addresses in Delhi, AAP on India (RBI) “a last opportun tionship or public interest. “larger conspiracy” against the complainant would have Friday said it has filed a ity” to withdraw a November criminal case against him in a 2016 Disclosure Policy to the ‘No fiduciary ties’ Chief Justice of India Ranjan no reason to fear prejudice. court here. “We will also extent to which it stonewalls The court had observed that Gogoi, said on Friday that he The priority, Justice Pat approach the Election revelation of every other there was “no fiduciary rela would not begin his assign A.K. Patnaik naik said, is now the in Commission to cancel his kind of information under tionship between the RBI ment until the inhouse in house inquiry into her com candidature,” said AAP East the Right to Information Act, and the financial institu quiry into a former court the Justice Bobde Commit plaint. The Justice Bobde pa Delhi candidate Atishi while including the list of wilful de tions”. staffer’s complaint of sexual tee inquiry, I will wait for nel, also comprising Justices addressing a press faulters and annual inspec It had reminded the RBI harassment against the Chief them to finish… Let that be Indu Malhotra and Indira conference at the party tion reports. that it had the statutory duty Justice was completed. over,” Justice Patnaik told Banerjee, heard the com office. A Bench of Justices L. Na to uphold the interests of the The former judge said a The Hindu on the phone. plainant on April 26. DELHI METRO Ī PAGE 1 geswara Rao and M.R. Shah public at large, the deposi scrutiny of the conspiracy Justice Patnaik’s words DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD found the policy of the cen tors, the economy and the claim could wait as he was Own decision address apprehensions in le tral bank to be directly con banking sector. “This court not on a deadline. The decision to wait seems gal and public quarters that trary to the court’s judgment was also of the opinion that “I am not going to start to be Justice Patnaik’s own a “parallel” probe may jeo of December 2015 that the plying with the 2015 judg rections issued by this the RBI should act with tran until the inhouse inquiry is as there is no specific direc pardise whatever defence RBI could not withhold in ment. court,” Justice Rao said, giv sparency and not hide infor over. If you see the Supreme tion from the court . On the the woman may put up be formation sought under the “We give them a last op ing an ultimatum in the 12 mation that might embarrass Court order [of April 25], I other hand, the Special fore the Justice Bobde RTI Act. portunity to withdraw the page verdict. the individual banks,” Justice have not been given a time li Bench led by Justice Arun Committee. The Bench was hearing disclosure policy in so far as The 2015 judgment had Rao wrote. mit, like 15 or 20 days, to Mishra, which appointed contempt petitions filed it contains exemptions rejected the RBI’s argument complete my assignment… I Justice Patnaik on April 25, CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 8 DELHI METRO Ī 6 PAGES against the RBI for not com which are contrary to the di that it could refuse informa CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 8 think to avoid any clash with said a probe into the “larger PARALLEL PROBES Ī EDITORIAL

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Special Correspondent Lalatendu Mishra position among all English IRS 2017. Magazines also re NEW DELHI MUMBAI language newspapers in the ported increased reader A Navy officer lost his life At a time when digital read country. ship of 8.7 crore, which is while controlling a fire that ing is growing rapidly in In As per data released by 90 lakh more than the num broke out on the aircraft dia, the print edition of The the MRUC, The Hindu had bers in the last survey. carrier INS Vikramaditya Hindu has also sharply in an allIndia readership of Online newspaper rea on Friday morning. The fire creased its readership in 62,26,000 in the IRS 2019 dership has grown 5% on an has been brought under the latest Indian Reader Q1 as compared to the total allIndia basis. Active Inter control. ship Survey (IRS) 2019 Q1 as readership of 53,00,000 in net users have grown signif “Lt. Cdr. D.S. Chauhan compared to IRS 2017, indi IRS 2017, up 17%. In terms icantly and now constitute led the firefighting efforts cating the growing popular of average issue readership 24% of the total universe. in the affected compart ity of the newspaper. (read yesterday), it in Among English daily ment. While the fire was In this readership survey creased its numbers from newspapers, The Times of brought under control, the conducted by Nielsen for 15,68,000 to 16,35,000, up India retained its number officer lost consciousness the Media Research Users 4.27%. one position, followed by owing to the smoke and Council (MRUC), the find As per the IRS, the over The Hindu and The Eco- fumes...,” the Navy said in a ings of which were released all readership of all daily nomic Times. statement. on Friday, The Hindu has publications increased by IRS TO BE RELEASED He was evacuated to maintained its number 2 1.8 crore to 42.5 crore since EVERY QUARTER Ī PAGE 8 INHS Patanjali, the naval hospital at Karwar. “Howev er, the officer could not be revived,” the Navy said. Lt. Cdr. Chauhan hailed from Crocodiles that come out in the open at the Manjira Wildlife Sanctuary on the outkirts of Sangareddy in Telangana are being Ratlam in Madhya Pradesh. targeted with stones and bricks by visitors due to lack of proper security. * MOHD ARIF CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 8 PM Modi a fake OBC, says Mayawati ‘Hashim spent time in Like the British policy, BJP is trying to divide us and rule: Akhilesh south India’ Omar Rashid Orai in Jalaun, Ms. Mayawati also praising Mr. Yadav for Lucknow cautioned OBC and Dalit vo following in his father’s foot Meera Srinivasan Suhasini Haidar Trying to attract OBC voters ters against Mr. Modi’s back steps. Mr. Yadav said that COLOMBO/new delhi in the backward region of ward caste pitch, saying that while everyone in 2014 as Bundelkhand, the leaders of while he was Chief Minister sumed Mr. Modi to be an Zahran Hashim, believed the Samajwadi PartyBahu of Gujarat he had used his OBC, the entire country to have masterminded the jan Samaj Party alliance on authority to include his “for knew today that “he is not a Easter attacks in Sri Lanka, Friday questioned Prime Mi ward caste” in the OBC cate backward by birth.” spent “substantial” time in nister Narendra Modi’s OBC gory to eat up their share. In another rally in Jhansi, “south India,” a top Sri credentials while accusing Akhilesh Yadav and On the other hand, Ms. he called the BJP the “most Lankan military source the BJP of trying to “divide Mayawati at a recent rally. Mayawati hailed SP patron, casteist party” and accused said on Friday. and rule” the sizeable back and opponentturnedally, it of dividing people on the Investigators identified ward community. certificate. While Ms. Maya Mulayam Singh as the true basis of castes and spreading Hashim as the leader of the BSP supremo Mayawati wati dubbed Mr. Modi a leader of the backward com hatred between religions. National Thowheed Ja and SP president Akhilesh “fake OBC,” Mr. Yadav called munity. “He (Mulayam) “Like the British policy of maath, which they said ex Yadav stressed that Mr. Modi him a “kagzi pichda (OBC on Singh is an inbred OBC, not a divide and rule, they (BJP) ecuted the highly coordi was not an OBC [Other Back paper).” fake one like Modi who [just] want to divide us and rule,” nated blasts on Sunday. ward Class] by birth but by Addressing a joint rally in made a certificate,” she said, Mr. Yadav told the crowd. CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 8 Dreaming big and chasing their dreams Party floated by over 50 IIT alumni is contesting the Lok Sabha election in five States

Amarnath Tewary has been in construction for wanted to empower the U.P. (Allahabad), one in Pun SHEOHAR (BIHAR) 20 years… you can see its downtrodden. Their IIT fel jab (Bathinda) and two in Driven by a desire to change condition, and they [parties lows in Delhi had seen and Delhi. the “political discourse of in power in Bihar and at the participated in the “Anna “We’ve our own way of in the country”, over 50 alum Centre] keep talking about movement”. But they got teracting with the locals… ni of IIT have got together development,” says Anand disillusioned with fellow II we move on bicycles fitted and formed a new party, the Kumar Kushwaha. Tian Arvind Kejriwal’s (now with loudspeakers and reach Bahujan Azad Party, to con A bespectacled young Chief Minister of Delhi) “hur out to people through meet test the Lok Sabha poll. man clad in white kurta and ry to get power” and decided ings. The response is very Formed in April last year, the blue jeans, Mr. Kushwaha is to take the plunge encouraging,” says Mr. Akhi party has been allotted an alumnus of IITDelhi. He IITians bonding together for a themselves. lesh, who is also the party’s “slate” as its election passed out in 2006 and cause. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT “So we formed BAP,” says Bihar unit president. “While symbol. founded a startup in Bang party president Naveen Ku campaigning we seek a con “Our party symbol signi kok. But somewhere in his tion’ run by fellow IITian Ak mar alias Virodhi Naveen. tribution of ₹1 from the lo fies our motto: nurture the heart, he says, there was an hilesh Kumar. Over 50 II cals to meet our expenses.” root first,” say a group of II ache to do something for the Tians were associated with Local contribution Mr. Kushwaha is pitted Tians in one voice as their people of his State. the foundation that gives on BAP has decided to contest against twotime sitting BJP white SUV moves preca line coaching to IIT aspirants five seats in Bihar (Sheohar, MP Rama Devi and Syed Fai riously on a narrow levee full Online coaching living in remote villages. West Champaran, Karakat, sal Ali, a journalist, fielded of potholes in Bihar’s Sheo He later came in contact However, they all had Patna Sahib and Patliputra), by the RJD in Sheohar that har constituency. “It (levee) with NGO ‘Mauka Founda dreams in their eyes and 22 in Maharashtra, one in goes to the polls on May 12. CM https://t.me/SSC4ExamsYK https://t.me/Banking4Exams https://t.me/UPSC4Exams https://t.me/TheHindu_Zone_official

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DELHI THE HINDU 2 EAST SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 2019 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE 2 journalists attacked, Communal divide to the fore in Asansol Assam CM orders probe ‘City of Brotherhood’ still bears the scars of last year’s riots during Ram Navami Journalists’ bodies seek protection law <> What happened then should not SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT to be stable. recur any time in GUWAHATI One of Mr. Deka’s neigh the future Assam Chief Minister Sarba bours, who is absconding, is Shiv Sahay Singh Asansol Maulana Imdadullah Rashidi nanda Sonowal on Friday suspected to have orches Noorani Masjid cleric whose son was instructed DGP Kuladhar trated the attack over his For a city with a centuries killed in the riots Saikia to ensure prompt and Lok Sabha electionrelated old history of mining coal stern action against the mis reporting. In the Tinsukia and producing steel, a gate Narendra Modi when he ad creants who assaulted two case, the youth assaulted at the entrance to Asansol, dressed the public meeting journalists 540 km apart on Ms. Goswami and her hus describing it as the “City of at Polo Grounds in Asansol Thursday night. band after they asked them Brotherhood”, was scarcely the very next day (Tuesday). Miscreants wielding not to be boisterous and dis noticed by residents and Just on the other side of the sharp weapons attacked Ra turb others in the restau passersby until a few years railway tracks, where the jen Deka, a correspondent rant. The police in Tinsukia ago. However, after March Prime Minister addressed of Assamese daily Dainik said they have arrested the 2018, the message put up by the public meeting, Noorani Asom in western Assam’s four people in the case. the city’s civic body is not Masjid and its adjoining Mukalmua, while a group of Condemning the attacks, only hard to miss but also areas still bear the scars of inebriated youth assaulted the National Union of Jour presents the paradox the ci last year’s violence. “There News18 TV reporter Upasa nalists India and Journalists’ ty is grappling with. was an unfortunate incident na Barua Goswami along Association of Assam ex In March 2018, Asansol Sitting MP Babul Supriyo (top) and TMC’s Moon Moon Sen last year. What happened with her husband at an ea pressed serious concern ov burnt in hatred. Over 26 campaigning in Asansol LS constituency. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT then should not recur any tery in Tinsukia. er the rise of crime against years after the city wit time in the future,” said Mau A bleeding Mr. Deka was media persons in the State nessed a divide along com 2014, had no hesitation in this election is a song that lana Imdadullah Rashidi, re admitted to the Guwahati and demanded the intro munal lines postBabri Mas telling the audience that she has already courted a lot of ferring to the riots. The cler Medical College Hospital duction of the Journalist jid demolition, the city is not familiar with Asansol controversy. Beyond the ic’s 16yearold son was where his condition is said Protection Act. appeared to be divided and was contesting as per open coal mines of Raniganj killed in the riots but he de again. People were killed the wishes of her party chief where people can be seen fused the situation with love, DELHI Timings and prohibitory orders re and West Bengal Chief Minis carrying coal — mostly smug threatening to leave the city Saturday, April 27 8 Rohingya mained imposed for weeks ter Mamata Banerjee. Her gled from the mines — on bi if members of the communi RISE 05:45 SET 18:54 as riots broke out over pro speech was replete with refe cycles and their heads under ty targeted others. RISE 01:22 SET 12:10 women sent cessions during Ram Nava rences to her mother, Benga the scorching sun, Mr. Supri Sunday, April 28 back to Assam mi. As the constituency li screen legend Suchitra yo is in the midst of a very Another flareup RISE 05:44 SET 18:54 gears up for polls on April Sen. Asked about her chanc busy campaign. As his con Earlier this month, a com 29, 2019, the fault lines of the es here, Ms. Sen’s reply re voy passes through Panda munal flareup was also re RISE 02:02 SET 13:04 Press Trust of India communal divide seem flected the wit of a politician: beshwar, his supporters dis ported at Barakat in Asansol Monday, April 29 Aizawl RISE 05:43 SET 18:55 more pronounced. “Ask me what are the chanc tribute booklets on the work over a Ram Navami proces RISE 02:39 SET 13:57 The Mizoram police sent Days before the polls, Tri es of Mamata Banerjee be he has done in the past five sion when authorities had to back eight young Rohingya namool Congress nominee coming Prime Minister and I years, with his song playing intervene, make arrests and women, suspected to be Sreemati Dev Varma (Moon will tell you its cent per in the background. Refuting suspend Internet services in victims of human traffick Moon Sen) had several cent.” the Election Commission’s the area. ing, to Assam on Friday af events lined up earlier this reservations about the song, Imam Rashidi tried to ter they were arrested near week on Monday. At a cross Challenges galore Mr. Supriyo expressed hap downplay the incident. the border of the two ing on the Domohani Road The arithmetic of the last As piness at the over one lakh “There were some rumours States in Kolasib district a in Ward No. 31 of the Asansol sembly polls, held three views it had notched on the in Barakat. Everything is day ago, police said. The Municipal Corporation, the years ago, may be with the Internet. “Why will you vote quiet now. Elections will women were produced be 65yearold actor made a TMC — it had won five of the for Moon Moon Sen who is come and go. Asansol needs fore a fasttrack court, brief speech to a crowd of a seven seats in the Asansol LS asking for votes in the name to, and will return to, where which fined them ₹50 each few hundred, largely com constituency. But there are of her dead mother? What it was before 2018,” he said, and ordered that they be prising women and children. other challenges for the par about the living and their his voice reflecting the same pushed back to Assam, pol “The sound of azan from ty. A TMC MP from Kolkata problems?” he told a small sanity and reason he had put ice said. your mosque is the same as admitted that prime among gathering. While reminding forth a year ago. The State police handed that of shlokas from the Gi them was of keeping the par people to play his song, the For Imam Rashidi, Asan them to the Young Muslim ta,” she began. “Will you ty’s flock together. This was MP also raised slogans of ‘Jai sol is really the city of broth Association in Assam’s Ca vote for those who want to one of the reasons why an Shri Ram’ during his erhood. “We are brothers liv char district. divide us,” she asked in an outsider was given the ticket. campaign. ing together here for apparent reference to the Defending the seat is Un Corruption from coal and centuries. Those who are BJP. ion Minister of State Babul freedom to allow religious used to hate will never real Ms. Sen, who represented Supriyo. The singerturned processions found echoes in ise what brotherhood Bankura Lok Sabha seat in politician’s greatest weapon the words of Prime Minister means,” he said.

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Maoists trigger blast Threeway contest in Patiala Three factors may decide Press trust of india Medininagar (Jharkhand) Suspected Maoists on Friday triggered a Congress candidate Preneet Kaur files nomination to wrest lost turf fate in six Haryana seats blast in an election office of the BJP in Palamu district, knocking down wall, a State during their 10 police officer said. Nobody was present yearlong regime. Ghost of Jat reservation stir may haunt political fraternity inside the office during the incident. Mr. Rakhra, the Akali “Preliminary probe suggests that Ashok Kumar Dal candidate, also filed noyed with the State govern armed rebels came around midnight, GURUGRAM VIKAS VASUDEVA his nomination and hit ment for its response to the planted a bomb inside the party’s office CHANDIGARH out at the Congress, al The largescale violence dur situation then. Similarly, the and triggered the blast,” Chhatarpur In Punjab’s Patiala — the leging that “empty pro ing the Jat reservation agita agitation could also hurt the Subdivisional Police Officer Shambhu home town of Chief Mi mises” by the ruling Con tion that claimed more than prospects of Congress in Kumar Singh said. nister Amarinder Singh gress have exposed the 30 lives, the conviction of Karnal and Kurukshetra tilt — the Congress candi party. He said that the Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gur ing the scales in favour of the date, former Union Mi Congress government in meet Ram Rahim Singh in BJP, largely seen as a nonJat nister Preneet Kaur, is the State has “betrayed” rape cases and the split in outfit. embroiled in a battle to the people as promises the Indian National Lok Dal reclaim the party’s lost made by the party dur a few months ago are three Dera chief case turf as the seat is set for a Preneet Kaur, accompanied by husband Amarinder ing the 2017 Assembly factors that could influence In Rohtak, Deepender Hooda, Upset with the BJP govern triangular electoral con Singh, files her papers on Friday. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT election campaign have results in at least half a do a Jat, is pitted against Arvind ment over the conviction of test in the upcoming par not been fulfilled. zen Lok Sabha constituen Sharma, a Brahmin. * Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, liamentary poll slated for tiala, which has tradi Sukhbir Badal wave and cies in Haryana. who had lent support to the May 19. tionally seen a fight bet Congress is set to win Grassroots campaign Though the Jat and non though he enjoys support party in 2014 Assembly elec Ms. Kaur, wife of Capt. ween the Congress and across the State. The Mr. Gandhi, the sitting Jat division in Haryana is not among the electorate — tion helping it in around a Amarinder, tasted bitter the Shiromani Akali Dal, mood in Punjab was MP, who had floated his new, but it was the large seems to have a tough elec dozen seats, his supporters defeat at the hands of this time is witnessing a completely changed own political outfit, Na scale violence and arson toral battle on the cards. A seem alienated this time Aam Aadmi Party’s Dha triangular contest with from what it was in wan Punjab Party, had during the Jat reservation ag Jat, he has been pitted around for obvious reasons. ramvira Gandhi in 2014 Mr. Gandhi, the AAP re 2014,” she told reporters. filed his nomination on itation in February 2016 dur against the BJP’s Arvind It could impact the pros Lok Sabha poll; Mr. bel, fighting as a joint “The BJPled NDA go Thursday and has started ing BJP rule that further wi Sharma, a Brahmin. pects of BJP in Sirsa, the Gandhi had won the Pa candidate of the Punjab vernment at the Centre a doortodoor campaign dened the divide between It would also cast its sha headquarters of the Dera, tiala seat by a margin of Democratic Alliance. The has failed to keep its pro instead of focusing on big the two communities. More dow on Sonipat Lok Sabha and Ambala, which has a sig around 21,000 votes. Ms. Akali Dal has announced mises. The Congress, on rallies to garner votes. than three years after the seat where Mr. Bhupinder nificant support base for Kaur had won from Pa former Minister Surjit the other hand, has been “People have seen my violence, the ghost of the stir Hooda himself is caught in a Gurmeet. tiala on the previous Singh Rakhra as its working for the develop work and now they can has now returned to haunt electoral battle with BJP’s The split in the INLD lead three occasions — in candidate. ment of Punjab and peo compare it with that of the political fraternity in Ha Ramesh Chander Kaushik. ing to the birth of JJP has, in 1999, 2004 and 2009. Ms. Kaur expressed ple are appreciating the previous MPs,” Mr. Gand ryana, especially in Rohtak, Besides, it could prove to deed, hit both the parties On Friday, her hus confidence that the Con good work,” she added. hi told The Hindu. which bore its brunt. be a spoilsport for BJP’s Bri hard. It would hurt the pros band accompanied Ms. gress will register an im At her meetings and ral The AAP candidate, Seeking reelection from jendra Singh in Hisar, with pects of both the parties in Kaur as she filed her pressive win not just in lies, Ms. Kaur has been Neena Mittal, has also Rohtak Lok Sabha seat for a reports suggesting that the Hisar and Sirsa, held by the nomination papers for Patiala but across Pun targeting the SADBJP for filed her nomination fourth consecutive term, Sainis, hit adversely by the INLD in the outgoing Lok the electoral contest. Pa jab. “There is no Modi or their “misrule” in the from Patiala. Deepender Singh Hooda — reservation agitation, are an Sabha, the most. Fighting MLAs: BJP forms probe panel CBI files FIR on mills sale Verbal duel refuses to stop even after CM’s intervention ‘Loss of ₹1,179 crore to the exchequer’

Press trust of india The panel has been asked The duo was summoned Special Correspondent mited, has been lodged on a Dehradun to submit its report to the by the Chief Minister to his NEW DELHI reference from the Yogi Adi Taking a serious note of the party at the earliest so as to residence last week and The Central Bureau of Inves tyanath government. Six ongoing public spat between take further action in the made it up with each other tigation has registered an preliminary enquiries have its two MLAs from Haridwar matter, he said. on Mr. Rawat’s advice but FIR to probe alleged irregu also been initiated into the in Uttarakhand, the BJP on Mr. Bhasin said the com the truce proved temporary larities in the sale of 21 State allegations. Friday set up a committee to mittee will be headed by par as they resumed their ﬁght owned sugar mills during look into the issue. ty general secretary and only a few days later. the tenure of former Uttar Probe sought Pradesh BJP president MLA Khajan Das and senior Pradesh Chief Minister The State government had Ajay Bhatt constituted a party leaders Vishwas Dabur Wrestling challenge Mayawati in 201011, result sought a CBI probe into the threemember committee to and Kuldeep Kumar will be The trouble began after Mr. ing in a loss of ₹1,179 crore to sale of 21 mills and alleged probe the continuing war of its members. Karnawal cast doubts on Mr. the exchequer. graft in the purchase of se words between Khanpur The two MLAs have been Champion’s educational The case, in which seven ven closed mills in Deoria, MLA Kunwar Pranav Singh casting aspersions on each qualiﬁcations and his sports persons have been named as Bareilly, Laxmi Ganj, Har Champion and Jhabreda le other in public for over a credentials. Mr. Champion accused for using forged doi, Ramkola, Chittauni and gislator Desraj Karnawal, fortnight prompting Chief hit back by challenging Mr. documents while purchas Barabanki. It was also being State party media head De Minister Trivendra Singh Ra Karnawal to a wrestling bout ing the mills from the U.P. pursued by the Lucknow vendra Bhasin said. wat to intervene last week. at a stadium in Roorkee. State Sugar Corporation Li Police.

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THE HINDU DELHI SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 2019 NATION 5 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF U.K. optimistic China will turn on Azhar PepsiCo goes easy as Terror listing issue will figure during visit of top British diplomat to Delhi in May Suhasini Haidar case turns a hot potato statement on April 22, MEA New Delhi spokesperson Raveesh Ku The United Kingdom is “opti mar had said that Mr. Gok Asaram Bapu’s son After boycott calls, firm offers to settle case with farmers mistic” that China will allow hale had “shared with China convicted in rape case Priscilla Jebaraj AHMEDABAD the UN Security Council ter all evidence of terrorist activ NEW DELHI A local court in Surat on ror listing of Masood Azhar, ities of JaisheMohammad Friday convicted Narayan Sai, British High Commissioner and its leader Masood Az Facing boycott calls after it son of selfstyled godman Dominic Asquith said here har,” and now awaited the sued four Gujarati potato Asaram Bapu, in a rape and on Friday. decision of the 1267 Sanc farmers for ₹4.2 crore, food sexual harassment case filed “We are waiting to see tions Committee as well as of and beverages giant PepsiCo in 2013. It will pronounce the whether the country which “other authorised bodies of has offered to settle the case quantum of punishment on has been resisting the listing the UN.” if the farmers stop growing April 30. will lift that objection,” said According to UNSC rules, the registered potato variety Mr. Asquith, speaking to meet Foreign Secretary Vijay the three countries had tried China has until September used in its Lays chips. Farm journalists. “I remain opti Gokhale here on May 10. to take a tougher line, threa 2019 to lift the hold or ask for er groups across the political Odisha ‘godman’ arrested mistic that we will get to that After the Pulwama attack, tening China with bringing another extension of three spectrum have joined a for raping 8-year-old conclusion. We have been the U.K., U.S. and France the proposal to the full UN months to decide on the Az growing chorus of outrage BERHAMPUR strong supporters of the pursued the listing of the Security Council, and “pu har listing, which it has ve on social media to demand A selfproclaimed godman (UNSC) listing of Masood Az JaisheMohammad leader, blicly shaming” the Chinese toed on several occasions in that PepsiCo withdraw its was arrested on charges of har for a decade. So I hope first ensuring a UNSC state government into agreeing to the past decade. rights infringement case. Dire straits: Potato farmers at a field at Magodi village, some raping an eightyearold girl we will get to that conclusion ment was issued condemn the proposal. Officials say they are keen In an Ahmedabad civil 45 km from Ahmedabad. * AFP in Rambha police station area shortly,” he added. ing JeM specifically, and then While none of the tacks to see movement on the is court on Friday, PepsiCo’s la of Odisha’s Ganjam district on The issue is likely to be followed it up with a propo appear to have moved Beij sue before the next summit wyer offered a settlement on would like to fight. The com rights. However, farmers’ Friday. Bhaskar Nahak, 45, discussed during the upcom sal to designate Azhar as a ing thus far, MEA officials say level meeting of the Prime these terms: the farmers pany is harassing us. Just to groups cite Section 39 of the who claimed to possess ing visit of top U.K. diplomat terrorist at the UNSC 1267 Ta they are more optimistic af Minister with Chinese Presi must give an undertaking come to Ahmedabad for this same Act, which says that a divine powers, had asked the and head of the Foreign and liban Sanctions Committee. ter Mr. Gokhale’s visit to Beij dent Xi Jinping in India, be that they will not use its re court case, I have to leave farmer is allowed “to save, girl to bring him a bottle of Commonwealth office Si After China placed a hold on ing last week, where he ing planned in the months gistered variety and surren my fields and that hurts my use, sow, resow, exchange, drinking water. He subsequently locked her up mon McDonald, who will the designation on March 13, raised the subject. In a press following the elections. der their existing stocks, or livelihood.” share or sell his farm pro and raped her, police said. must enter PepsiCo’s collab duce, including seed of a va orative farming programme ‘Last resort’ riety protected under this where farmers buy seeds A company spokesperson Act,” so long as he does not Alert keyman averts ‘Baba’ held for from the company and sell said PepsiCo India had pro sell “branded seed.” train mishap in A.P. HC wants responsibility fixed produce back to it. posed to amicably settle Farmers’ groups as well as MACHILIPATNAM rape of minor The lawyer for the farm with people who were un the corporate farming indus An alert keyman on duty, ers said they would need lawfully using seeds of its re try see the case as a prece Brijmohan, averted a possible in rationalists’ murder probe RAHUL KARMAKAR time to consider the offer gistered variety. “The com dent that could have a far train accident on Friday when GUWAHATI and to reply to the court. pany was compelled to take reaching effect on how other he stopped the PuriTirupati A faith healer, arrested in The next hearing is on June the judicial recourse as a last food crops are developed, Express between Kaikaluru Court issues directions in Pansare, Dabholkar cases Guwahati on Thursday for 12. resort to safeguard the larg sown and sold. and Mandavalli after noticing allegedly raping and im “We have not yet decided er interest of thousands of “This is a test case that a crack on the railway track. Sonam Saigal pregnating a 15yearold what to do about the offer,” farmers that are engaged will affect all Indian farmers. Mumbai No arrest of Navlakha till last year, has turned out to Haribhai Patel, a farmer, with its collaborative potato It is a matter of seed sove The Hindu Help for women The Bombay High Court on be the equivalent of an told on the farming programme.” reignty, food sovereignty abandoned by husbands Friday directed the Chief Se May 2, says Bombay HC MLA in an autonomous phone. He owns four acres PepsiCo has invoked Sec and sovereignty of this coun NEW DELHI cretaryHome, Additional council. of land planted with pota tion 64 of the Protection of try,” said Kapilbhai Shah of Wives of nonresident Indian Chief SecretaryFinance, the The police on Friday toes, and is one of the four Plant Varieties and Farmers’ the Gujarat farmers’ welfare special correspondent (NRI) men who are victims of signatory of status reports urging the court to quash produced Ghanashyam farmers being sued for ₹1.05 Rights (PPV&FR) Act, 2001 group Jatan. “For the farmer, Mumbai marital disputes can now filed by the Central Bureau the FIR against him by the Das, referred to as ‘Babaji’ crore in damages. “We to claim infringement of its it is do or die.” walkin for a meeting with of Investigation (CBI), and The Bombay High Court on Pune police. Advocate Yug by his followers, before a the Chairperson of the senior officials of the CBI Friday extended activist Chaudhary, appearing for local court, which ordered National Commission for and the Criminal Investiga Gautam Navlakha interim Mr. Navlakha, said, “Mr. his judicial custody for 14 Women (NCW). These tion Department (CID), to protection from arrest till Navlakha is a peace days. The man had been on meetings will be held every convene meetings periodi May 2 in the Bhima activist”, while questioning the run after the minor girl, Monday from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. cally into the probe of the Koregaon violence case. how provisions of the who he was to cure, gave at the NCW’s office in New murder of rationalists Go A Division Bench of Unlawful Activities birth to a girl on April 8 at a Delhi without prior vind Pansare and Narendra Justices Ranjit More and Prevention Act were applied private hospital. The hospi appointments. Dabholkar. Bharati Dangre was hearing in his case. The final hearing tal reported the case to 181 This was observed by a Di a plea filed by Mr. Navlakha in the case is on May 2. Women Helpline. “We vision Bench of Justices S.C. found out that he is a Mem Missing man found dead in Muzaffarnagar Dharmadhikari and B.P. Co ber Council Legislative As MUZAFFARNAGAR (U.P.) labawalla after reports filed clutch of petitions filed by a similar attack was carried sembly after arresting him A 20yearold man who went by the CBI and the Special members of the Pansare and out in Karnataka on writer on Thursday,” Pallav Ta missing three days ago was Investigation Team (SIT) Dabholkar families. The CBI Gauri Lankesh, the police muli, Assistant Commis The found dead in a field in were provided. SIT is investigating the Dab immediately probed and ar sioner of Police, told Bhojaheri village in the The court said a commit holkar murder and the State rested the accused without Hindu. district on Friday, the police tee needs to be formed in or CID is probing the Pansare waiting for court orders or Das is one of 40 MCLAs said. The deceased was der to ensure that one per murder. for any petitions to be filed. in the Bodoland Territorial identified as Rahul and his son shall be responsible for Referring to the murder of We do not want Maharashtra Council that administers body has been sent for post the matter. journalist Gauri Lankesh in to expect court orders to in four districts of northcen mortem, they added. PTI The court was hearing a 2017, the court said, “When vestigate murders.” tral and western Assam. Manipur school burnt down 7 booked in for suspending 6 students Gujarat ‘toor dal’ scam Teachers have been provided security Special Correspondent SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT He said the school had ta AHMEDABAD GUWAHATI/IMPHAL ken some disciplinary ac Seven persons were A missionary school in Ma tion against six of some booked, including four go nipur’s Kakching district 1,400 students on Friday, vernment officials, after was burnt down on Thurs but allowed them to attend State authorities ordered a day night, three days after classes. One of the repri probe into irregularities in six of its students were sus manded students took to so the purchase of toor dal in pended for a month for in cial media to allegedly Gujarat. More than 1,000 discipline. abuse the school and the sacks of toor dal were The police arrested two class teacher. found to have been filled suspects early on Friday and The school then suspend with sand, twigs and sub have provided security cov ed the six students on Mon standard dal during the er to the administrators and day. One of the girls, whose procurement process by teachers of St. Joseph’s father was allegedly an ex the State Civil Supplies De Higher Secondary School at tremist leader from Sugnu, partment. Sugnu, the second oldest mobilised students’ union The Opposition Con Catholic institution in to exert pressure on the gress has alleged “that offi Manipur. school to revoke the suspen cials and local BJP leaders Father Jacob Chapao, di sion. “The school refused to were involved in the scam. rector of the Manipur Cath give in. This led to the mis Toor dal had been pro olic Youth Organisation, in a creants burning down the cured from farmers at the statement condemned the school, along with all its re minimum support price of “barbaric act.” cords,” Father Chapao said. the State government.” Banks have made no offer on salaries for Jet employees Airline’s efforts to get funds from consortium fail

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DELHI THE HINDU 6 EDITORIAL SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 2019 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Lessons from a military encounter Why New Delhi and Islamabad must keep lines of communication open at all times could potentially head towards an placed for conflict deescalation. Here’s the problem then. On the undesirable, inadvertent and un The fact that there were fears in one hand, there was very little cri intended conflict with unpredicta Pakistan that India was preparing sis negotiation between the princi Parallel probes ble outcomes. to launch missiles at its territory pal parties to the conflict — India According priority to inquiry into the sexual It must be kept in mind that and that the Pakistani concerns and Pakistan. On the other, there there is nothing to guarantee that about a possible Indian attack were several third parties who harassment complaint is a welcome move military crises can be finely cali have not disappeared in Pakistan jumped into the fray for media Happymon Jacob t is reassuring that there will be no parallel inquiries brated and controlled by central also goes to show the poor state of tion, and it seemed as if both the into the two sets of allegations that have rocked the decisionmakers — they cannot be. crisis communication between the sides were happily outsourcing alking to one’s adversary in For instance, what would have nuclear rivals. their crisis management to third Supreme Court. Justice (retired) A.K. Patnaik, who I the midst of a war, a limited been the nature of the escalation It is not difficult to understand parties with differing agendas and has been tasked with probing an alleged conspiracy Twar or even hostility is often had the ordnance fired by the Pa why India chose not to communi motives. Outsourcing conflict against the Chief Justice of India, has made the right de viewed as undesirable in the pu kistan Air Force actually hit for cate with Pakistan in an effective management to third parties, es cision by choosing to wait for the end of the inhouse in blic mind. However, the lesson ward military installations such as and officially authorised manner. pecially in the absence of one’s quiry into a former woman employee’s complaint of from the long history of warfare a Division HQ of the Indian Army Doing so would have taken away own mechanisms, is a recipe for sexual harassment by the CJI and subsequent victimisa and India’s own experience in in Kashmir and involved casual PTI the political utility of the ‘teaching disaster. tion, before starting his work. The court constituted dealing with past crises is that talk ties? blished mechanism of Pakistan a lesson’ rhetoric: how ing to one’s adversaries is a crucial backchannel conversations by spe can India be seen to be talking to Reinstate backchannel talks two inquiries to deal with the situation following the requirement for deescalation and Communication breakdown cial envoys appointed by the res Pakistan at any level (except per One of the biggest takeaways from complaint against the CJI. A threejudge Bench, passing for bringing the two sides back The conversation at the Director pective Prime Ministers. The cur haps to threaten) when it is aveng the February crisis is the need to orders on a matter concerning the independence of the from the brink. Such talks are of General of Military Operations rent Bharatiya Janata Partyled ing the deaths of its solders? But reinstate/reestablish highlevel judiciary, appointed Justice Patnaik to investigate the ten done discreetly and soberly via (DGMO) level, the highest military government decided to disconti even such a calculation shouldn’t backchannel contacts with inter affidavits filed by Utsav Singh Bains, an advocate, who the ‘back channel’, away from me contact that currently exists bet nue that timetested and useful have prevented India, I would ar locutors in Pakistan, whether Isla has alleged a larger conspiracy against the CJI involving dia attention and focussed on de ween India and Pakistan and practice. gue, from making highlevel dees mabad or Rawalpindi. This is a les disgruntled court employees and other ‘fixers’. On the escalation, meeting the aims be which has often played a deesca Against this background, it was calatory contacts with Pakistan, son from various IndiaPakistan hind the wartalk and achieving an latory role, was not activated dur puzzling that none of these tried, for doing so is nothing but wise crises, be it the backchannel administrative side, an inhouse committee headed by honourable exit from the tussle. ing the crisis. Unlike previous tested and somewhat successful statecraft. Not doing so allows through the 1999 Kargil conflict Justice S.A. Bobde will look into the complaint of th e In this regard, it is important to years, since Pakistan did not have mechanisms was used by the two domestic political calculations to and the 20012002 crisis, discreet dismissed woman court assistant. The Bench empha ask, how did Indian and Pakistani a National Security Adviser (NSA) sides. Did the government in New trump the diktats of statecraft. negotiations between the two sised that the probe into the alleged plot would not decisionmakers fare in the end or an equivalent official, there Delhi, for instance, want to keep sides preceding the 2003 ceasefire impinge on the harassment complaint. However, it was February military encounter that were no NSAlevel talks either. The decisionmaking and messaging Too many third parties agreement and the postMumbai obvious that it would not be possible for such paral lel the two sides found themselves in two High Commissioners, unsur during the crisis too close to its When the hostile parties do not escalation. proceedings to be independent of each other. Mr. Bains the middle of after the Pulwama prisingly but disturbingly, were chest to ensure maximum political talk to deescalate, others tend to This is also a lesson the two terror strike? Going by the infor called back to their home coun mileage from it? step in. February and early March Cold War rivals had learnt, that has alleged he was offered up to ₹1.50 crore by someone mation that is currently available tries for consultations. If anything, Given the lack of abundant op witnessed a slew of efforts by third they had to keep talking to each to file a false complaint against the CJI. It would ha ve in open sources, and conversa it is during crisis periods that en tions for crisis communication, parties to ensure that India and Pa other through the worst years of been well nigh impossible to verify the claim without tions with analysts in India and Pa voys should stay put in their res the two sides had to innovate on a kistan deescalate from the nu their rivalry. As a matter of fact, it examining if the intermediaries had any nexus with the kistan, I would say that there were pective High Commissions to find war footing. Media reports have clear brink. The Americans, Chi took the Cuban Missile Crisis to complainant. hardly any preexisting/dedicated ways of defusing tensions and re suggested that the Research and nese, Russians, Saudis, Emiratis convince the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. Clearly, the complaint of sexual harassment should channels of communication bet laying messages and options back Analysis Wing (RAW) and Inter were all involved one way or to negotiate arms control, discuss get priority. It is only if the complaint is found to be ween the two countries; the ones to their governments. Curiously, Services Intelligence (ISI) chiefs another in defusing the tensions crisis management and put in false that there will be a case to probe whether it was that were in place were not put to India and Pakistan chose to do the had communicated with each oth between the two countries. Dur place confidencebuilding mea use; and very little bilateral con exact opposite. er about what might happen had ing earlier crises, Washington was sures, notwithstanding the state of part of a plot to malign the CJI, or a conspiracy. It is un versation actually took place to de More significantly, there were the Indian pilot not been released the only mediator, but this time their relationship. Remember, the fortunate that the composition of the inhouse commit escalate the crisis. That should be apparently no backchannel con by Pakistan, among other things, around, thanks to the tensions bet Cold War also had domestic politi tee became a controversy. There was concern that of great concern to us. Therefore, tacts between India and Pakistan something the Indian NSA also ween the U.S. and Pakistan and cal implications especially for the there was only one woman member, and the complai the military standoff that followed during the February crisis. During conveyed to Pakistan via the U.S. the rise of other prominent actors U.S., but that didn’t prevent them nant raised the issue of the proximity of one of its mem the Indian Air Force strikes on Ba the Kargil conflict, on the other Parleys between the intelligence in the region, there were several from instituting conflictmanage bers, Justice N.V. Ramana, with the CJI. He has now re lakot, in Pakistan’s Khyber Pak hand, politically appointed inter chiefs is an unlikely channel and interested parties in the fray, each ment measures. cused himself to make way for another woman judge . htunkhwa province, should en locutors had conducted discreet contacts between them, while use with its own agenda. Not only does courage the two sides to urgently discussions on deescalatory mea ful during crises, would not be the involvement of several parties Happymon Jacob teaches at the The episode has highlighted the lacuna in the inhouse put in place dedicated bilateral sures between the two sides. For able to achieve as much as bet make the situation more chaotic, it Jawaharlal Nehru University, and is the procedure the judges have adopted. There is no provi conflict deescalation mechan the most part of the United Pro ween politicallyempowered inter could potentially lead to more mis author of ‘Line on Fire: Ceasefire sion to deal with a situation where the CJI is the subject isms, in the absence of which the gressive Alliance (UPA) I and II go locutors. In any case, serving spy communication and mismanage Violations and IndiaPakistan Escalation of a complaint. Also, the idea of the inquiry being whol two nucleararmed countries vernments, there was an esta masters aren’t perhaps best ment. Dynamics’ ly ‘inhouse’ is in conflict with the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Re dressal) Act, 2013, which envisages the presence of an external member. Despite this shortcoming, the com Competing for the best mittee should try to ensure a fair hearing for the former employee. The dignity and institutional integrity of the India’s ability to attract global faculty hinges on dramatic changes in its higher education structure judiciary will be better served by probing the veraci ty staff is central to the new ‘Institu sities — and to be able to lure top private universities such as O.P. of her charge, rather than by pursuing evidence for tions of Eminence’ programme. faculty. The structural and practi Jindal, Azim Premji, Ashoka, Shiv sweeping claims that “the rich and the powerful” are The goal is even more lofty after cal realities of Indian universities Nadar, Ahmedabad, Krea, and the trying to run the courts. the IIT Council, last year, recom make them generally unattractive management institute Indian mended the recruitment of fo to academic talent from abroad. A School of Business have adopted reign faculty on a tenure basis. few examples indicate some of the different strategies; for instance, Backstop option Philip G. Altbach & The Graded Autonomy Regula challenges. ranging from attracting foreign na Eldho Mathews tions of the University Grants tionals, to Indians who studied at Brexit modalities are putting pressure Commission also now allows the Scales of salary prestigious foreign universities to on the fragile peace in Northern Ireland highest performing universities to Indian academic salaries are not their institutions by offering high he flow of academics, for de hire up to 20% foreign faculty on globally competitive, even taking er salaries and other benefits than ournalist Lyra McKee’s gruesome murder in Lon cades, has been from India tenure basis. into account variations in living are available to local hires. The fa donderry last week has brought into focus the fra Tto other countries. One can It is virtually impossible for In costs. In the U.S., senior academ culty diversity of O.P. Jindal Global gile Irish peace process, more than 20 years after find top Indian talent, for exam dia to attract large numbers of in ics at research universities typical University, for example, stands

J GETTY IMAGES Britain and Ireland signed the historic Good Friday ac ple, at many American universi ternational professors of high ly earn around ₹8,970,000 and up out among these with 71 fulltime cord. The attack, carried out by the socalled New IRA, ties. They include the dean of the standing and ability without dra not have an established reputa annually, and those at top univer foreign faculty from 32 countries. Harvard Business School and the matic changes in many aspects of tion. However, they can provide sities can earn ₹13,800,000 or The key motivation for hiring fo opposed to the 1998 deal, also underscores the political dean of Harvard College , and a the existing governance structure quality teaching, research and more. The average salary for a full reign faculty at all these institu stalemate following the collapse of powersharing insti number of university presidents as in higher education. Dramatically they often bring a useful interna time academic is ₹5,037,000, with tions is to improve international tutions in Northern Ireland. McKee, 29, a freelance well as professors in many fields. enhanced funding would also be tional perspective. those in high demand fields in the competitiveness and secure posi journalist and author, rose to prominence through her This flow of talent has heavily im required. The main possibilities for mobil sciences, business and others tions in global rankings, which in work on the victims of three decades of The Troubles . pacted the availability of highly ity are academics of Indian origin earning significantly more. In turn would also attract more mo In March, authorities held the New IRA, established in qualified academics in Indian un The talent pool (nonresident Indians) who have comparison, the total emoluments tivated students. 2012, responsible for sending parcel bombs to tran iversities. To counter this “brain There are two kinds of internation successful careers abroad and offered to a professor in an IIT lo These new private institutions sport hubs in London and a university in Scotland. In drain” and to quickly improve top al academics to be considered. who might be attracted back. The cated in one of the Indian metro ci with, by Indian standards, consid Indian institutions, the Narendra The first category is accomplished major recent initiative of the In ties, in accordance with the latest erable resources have proved that January, it owned up a car bomb explosion at a London Modi government introduced flag senior professors — these would be dian government, GIAN, has been Pay Commission’s minimum pay it is possible to attract foreign fa derry court, a sign of renewed militant activity, soon af ship programmes such as the Glo very difficult to lure to India. Esta successful in attracting many aca scale with house rent allowance is culty, at least those with an Indian ter the U.K. Parliament rejected the government’s with bal Initiative of Academic Net blished in their careers, with at demics of Indian origin from diffe around ₹2,640,000. China, which ethnic background. But the chal drawal deal from the EU over disagreements on the works (GIAN), Visiting Advanced tractive international salaries, and rent countries for shorter dura is also actively luring top interna lenges faced by public institutions, border with the Republic of Ireland. The socalled Irish Joint Research Faculty Scheme often with family and other obliga tions. However, the experiences of tional faculty to its research un even those of as high quality as the backstop is designed to ensure – until an alternativ e is (VAJRA), and Scheme for Promo tions, they are embedded both in two prominent universities spon iversities, is offering salaries of IITs and the best universities, found – that Britain remains in a customs union with tion of Academic and Research their universities and locales. The sored by Indian and other regional ₹6,900,000 or more along with seem insurmountable, at least in Collaboration (SPARC). It was re other group are younger scholars governments — the South Asian additional research funding. the context of the current Indian the EU, so as to protect the open border between ported recently that there are just who may have fewer ties to univer University in Delhi and Nalanda in International faculty cannot be higher education environment Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. The ab 40 foreign teachers at all of the In sities and societies, and are thus Bihar — show that offering higher offered longterm appointments in and bureaucratic and legal sence of customs checkpoints in the region over two de dian Institutes of Technology (IITs) more mobile. Further, some, de salaries with exemption from taxa Indian public institutions. A f ive framework. cades has been critical to protecting the peace, and — 1% of the total faculty of 5,400 — pending on their disciplines, may tion has not been very successful year contract is all that is available. maintaining the status quo is a paramount demand not despite the government’s goal to have difficulty in locating a perma in attracting senior faculty of fo Thus, there is little job security. Philip G. Altbach is research professor and withstanding Britain’s eventual exit from the EU. But attract 20%international faculty at nent academic job at home due to reign origin. Obtaining research funding is founding director of the Center for champions of a hard Brexit are hostile to the backstop, higher education institutions such a tight academic job market. They In some ways, the best Indian difficult and the resources availa International Higher Education, Boston as the IITs. This is despite the fact also will not add to the immediate universities would require a kind ble, by international standards, College, U.S. Eldho Mathews is an which they fear will tie Britain permanently in a cus that internationalisation in general prestige of the Indian university of “cultural revolution” to join the are quite limited. independent higher education researcher toms union and deny London the freedom to strike and the appointment of global which hires them since they do ranks of global worldclass univer On the other hand, a few ‘elite’ based in New Delhi trade agreements with third countries. The issue has di vided Dublin and London, as also the Leave and Re LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Letters emailed to [email protected] must carry the full postal address and the full name or the name with initials. main camps within Britain’s principal political parties. Meanwhile, the Northern Ireland Assembly, respon sible for the exercise of devolved authority in the re CJI case PM and campaign promises and unmitigated Supreme Court to act swiftly plaintiffs or defendants. Ms. No accolades? The perception is that the Of course the BJP cannot be distress. on complaints of poll code Chaturvedi, at best, might While it is spectacular that gion, has remained in suspended animation since 2017. Chief Justice of India is blamed or envied for events G. David Milton, violations alone would make have been acting only as a Gomathi Marimuthu, who Northern Ireland’s two main parties, the proBritish De under a cloud. The majesty choreographed and telecast Maruthancode, Tamil Nadu the EC sit up and act. How Congress advocate. As she hails from an economically mocratic Unionist Party and the Sinn Féin, the Irish re of the highest court of the to appeal to the wider sad! was easily defending the backward family has won publican party, are divided on several issues of gov er land must not be audience as part of the ■ As the Election S.K. Choudhury, Congress’s prime dynasty gold in the Asian Athletics nance. This has lent credence to the view that the 1998 jeopardised by scoring massive road show by Commission of India Bengaluru earlier, she may find it Championship at Doha, it is accord has merely managed sectarian divisions rather brownie points and the Prime Minister Narendra continues to drag its feet on equally easy to defend the strange that none of the tall than cement relations between communities. The DUP, issue must be sorted out Modi. There is no denying several complaints filed by Case for redesignation Thackeray dynasty. If parties political leaders has which props up the Conservative government in Lon sooner rather than later. the fact that the spectacle the Opposition parties While Priyanka Chaturvedi decide to redesignate/ applauded the girl. Has the The dignity of the court was staged to present him against a series of violations quitting the Congress is rename their spokespersons heat of electioneering got to don, has consistently opposed the backstop, despite cannot be sullied in the as a largerthanlife of the model code of conduct somewhat understandable, as advocates, there will be them? Such touches do the promise it holds to protect the open border bet process and the supremacy character. Mr. Modi must be by the Prime Minister, Mr. her joining the Shiv Sena is a less heartburn as and when matter a great deal especially ween Northern Ireland and the Republic. But the party of the law established made to tower over other Modi appears to continue to bit puzzling (Editorial page, they decide to switch parties. when an individual’s efforts could yet play a constructive part in breaking the Brexit beyond any reasonable leaders as he runs his do as he pleases. He seems “Political careerism is fine After all, a majority of party have brought glory. stalemate by backing Prime Minister Theresa May’s doubt. Peoples’ faith in the party’s campaign as a determined, presumably but sad”, April 25). One is spokespersons are Tharcius S. Fernando, withdrawal agreement. This prospect has gained judiciary must be protected oneman band and emboldened by the EC tempted to presume that she practitioners of law. Chennai strength following the Conservative hardliners’ sugges at all costs (“Editorial page, attempts a recreation of the choosing to remain was only merely advocating C.G. Kuriakose, more letters online: “An illustrative case” April 2014 Modi wave. ominously quiet. The EC’s the views of Congress rather Kothamangalam, Kerala www.hindu.com/opinion/letters/ tion that they could support Ms. May’s deal if the D UP 26 and “OpEd page, Perhaps he deemed his attitude raises disturbing than acting as its were also to come on board. A meeting of minds on this corrections & clarifications: ‘Parley’ – “Has the Supreme unapologetic Hindutva questions about the spokesperson. By virtue of Ambedkar’s mantra is not “Educate, Agitate and Agitate” as er question would save the U.K. from the grave danger of Court been discredited?” pitch as necessary. The commission’s neutrality. This their profession, advocates roneously stated in the Editorial page article, “Heed Ambedkar’s crashing out of the EU without an agreement. It would both April 26). perception is that his is worrisome. Perhaps are free to plead for any message” (April 26,2019). 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THE HINDU DELHI SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 2019 GROUND ZERO 7 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE The long wait for safety A year after the launch of the Safe Cities programme, not much headway has been made in making cities safer for women. Jagriti Chandra and Hemani Bhandari report how late disbursal of funds and election time restrictions have slowed down the whole process

nchal Yadav, 18, finds the daily one hour commute by share au Atorickshaw to her college in Luck now familiar, yet daunting. Every day, the rickshaw is chockablock with pas sengers. Anchal curls into a ball, using her arms to protect herself from any un welcome touch, and keeps her bag on her lap. When she returns home in the afternoon from college, Anchal says she is wary of walking down the deserted street near her house. Public transport is poor in Uttar Pradesh’s capital. For women like Anchal, the autorickshaw is the best mode of transport and often the only one. Going to college is not just a routine, it is an exercise in staying al ert — every day, all the time. Down south, in Bengaluru, Jyothi Ra mesh, 20, is equally familiar with this exhaustion. She says the journey late evening to the nearest bus stop from the factory where she works is nerverack ing. She is thankful to have found a col league who goes in the same direction and often rides with her. Traversing India’s cities is not just dif ficult for college girls and working wo men, but also for policewomen. Shee tal, 21, is a young woman in khaki. A constable with the Delhi police, she works night shifts. As part of the Police Control Room (PCR) unit, she is among the first responders to crimes in her area. Yet, Sheetal’s parents cannot stop worrying about her safety when she tra vels to and from work. Her phone buzz es through the night with calls from home. She puts her mobile phone on si lent mode, as taking personal calls on duty is frowned upon.

A watershed moment Following the horrific gang rape of a young woman in a moving bus in New Delhi in December 2012 and the public outcry that followed it, the United Pro gressive Alliance2 government set up the Nirbhaya Fund, named after the vic tim as she was referred to by the media, to ensure the safety of women across ”Helpline 1090 in Uttar Pradesh was launched to prevent atrocities against women.” * RAJEEV BHATT the country, with an initial corpus of ₹1,000 crore. The fund was announced at the fag end of that government’s CCTVs; pink outposts for facilitating ea rected to increase patrolling in winter as are to be installed. These safe clusters duct for the elections comes to an end,” term, and so little was spent from it. Ov sy filing of complaints by women; 100 the streets are more lonely then and vis will cover 19 bus stands, 10 colleges, 70 he says. er six years, the amount increased to pink patrol scooters, 100 pink SUVs, 74 ibility is low. Police booths and facilita schools, seven shopping malls, seven IT The Centre allocated ₹252 crore to ₹3,600 crore, but reports emerged that pink toilets, and public transport buses tion desks are also provided at identifia parks and 56 railway stations as well as Mumbai for the Safe Cities programme the money was not being used. Faced that are GPSenabled and equipped ble places in crowded areas,” says Geeta markets and places of worship. As many and the Maharashtra Cabinet approved with severe criticism for this, the with panic buttons and CCTV cameras. Rani Verma, Deputy Commissioner of as 500 etoilets for women are to be set the installation of 1,600 CCTV cameras National Democratic Alliance go A Data Analytics centre at the 1090 call Police (Special Police Unit for Women up in public places and 30 mobile toilets across the metropolis. Senior officials vernment approved in March centre has also been proposed . Singh and Children). for women police staff on bandobust say they have so far not submitted a sin 2018 ₹2,919 crore from this cor says the Centre disbursed the entire The Delhi police was sanctioned duty at the cost of ₹27.77 crore. The city gle bill to the Centre under the scheme pus for the Safe Cities pro sum in three tranches by January, but ₹663.67 crore under the scheme. It was police also plans to conduct a GISbased and it would take at least another two gramme for eight major cities — work on these projects will commence also the only city to receive 100% fund heat map of areas of crime against wo months for work to begin. Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Ahmeda only some time this year. He says the ing from the Centre. The Delhi police men that is to be integrated with notifi While the plan to place Mumbai un bad, Kolkata, Bengaluru, Hyderabad 1090 helpline and other measures have plans to procure hitech ‘field devices’ cation services on mobile applications. der the watch of a CCTV network had and Lucknow — for three years. The helped the U.P. police combat crimes for enhanced realtime responses to A 24x7 emergency app to track women been in the works for several years, the Centre and the States share the expens against women, and that there was a 7% crimes in the city; have dedicated wo in distress and a helpline service for wo project was made fully functional only es for the scheme (60:40). The amount fall in rape cases in 2018 from 2017. men safety patrol vans equipped with men are on the cards, officials claim. in 2016, with Chief Minister Devendra given by the Central government is Richa Rastogi, a local women’s rights dashboards for viewing live feeds from The total amount sanctioned to the city Fadnavis inaugurating 4,717 cameras co ₹2,016.50 crore. activist, voices concern over these insu CCTV cameras across the city; and GPS under the Safe Cities project is ₹426 vering 1,510 spots in the city. The feed The Centre invited proposals from lar efforts, however. She points to the tracking facilities. However, despite the crore. from the cameras is viewed in real time the Director Generals of Police (DGP) of need to look at women’s safety beyond scheme being approved more than a But all these are only on paper. at the Mumbai Police Control Room, these eight cities as well as from Munici violent crimes in public spaces. “A safe year ago, a senior official seems to know “Once the elections are over, we will enabling the police to keep an eye on pal Commissioners. The Hindu tracked sure that police help is only a phone call city must have provisions for shelter little about it. call for tenders,” says an official on the law and order. The same feed is also the status of implementation of the Safe away. Victims don’t need to go to the homes for women who have escaped condition of anonymity. beamed live to offices of senior officers Cities programme in six of the eight ci police station to file a complaint. The re from violent marriages and sometimes Plans afoot in Chennai like the Commissioner of Police and the ties and found that not a single penny quirement to file an FIR, too, has been from their own parents who want to get Rajalakshmi, a working woman who fre SHE teams in Hyderabad Joint Commissioner of Police (Law and had been spent by the local administra dispensed with in order to encourage them married without their consent. quently travels on the Mass Rapid Tran Among the initiatives Hyderabad has al Order). tions despite funds being released by women to break their silence without There is also a need to deploy protec sit System (MRTS) between Chepauk ready undertaken to ensure that wo the Centre. The police in many cities fear of reprisal, often from their own tion officers mandated under the Dom and Velachery in Chennai, says it is un men are safe, the police counts its SHE Beyond technology said that tendering for works proposed families. estic Violence Act,” says Rastogi who safe to travel in the city late in the day. teams as a success. The aim of the SHE But is safety merely about having more by them under the programme (such as As many as 45 women constables works with Humsafar, an NGO support The MRTS stations are sprawling, dark, teams is to curb ‘eveteasing’ in all as eyes on the streets? installation of CCTV cameras, PCR vans, have been tasked with answering com ing survivors of genderbased violence. unutilised spaces. “It is an ordeal to pects and in all places. In the last four “An overemphasis on technology and etoilets and pink patrol bikes and cars) plaints about lewd phone calls, online She adds that an earlier initiative to in reach the platform. I have to cross emp and a half years, the SHE teams in Hyd policing will enhance security, but not will begin only after the Lok Sabha elec abuse, stalking and sexual harassment. troduce pink autos in the city failed as ty, dark spaces inside the station to erabad have received 12,000 petitions. necessarily make cities safer for women tion is over. In Delhi, senior officials The helpline, which was launched in they were mostly operated and used by reach it. A policeman or a security But these teams mostly have male offic or enhance their access to public spac drew a blank when asked about the exe 2012, registers about 730 complaints a men. “We need to have women drivers. guard in the station is a rare sight. I ers. es,” says Kalpana Viswanath, cofoun cution of the scheme. day. Once a complaint is filed, a male This will ensure women’s empower know of women who are frequently ha Speaking of how complaints reach der of Safetipin, a mobile app that pro Public pressure forced both the Bha constable calls the offender and re ment and make women commuters feel rassed on running trains and in dark them, Shikha Goel, Additional Commis vides safety scores of different localities ratiya Janata Party and the Congress to bukes him for his misdemeanour, warns safe,” she says. corners of the stations too,” she says. sioner of Police (Crimes and SIT), Hyde to its users. Viswanath is among the give more primacy to women’s safety in him of police action and, in rare cases Rajalakshmi’s fear is not unfounded. In rabad, says women use social media of members of the committee headed by their 2014 manifestos, but that is not the when this is insufficient, books him for a Women cops in the capital city 2016, Chennai was gripped by horror ten nowadays. “They trust this medium the Home Secretary to guide the formu case this time. Despite the BJP’s ‘Beti Ba crime. The grievance is considered re It’s 10 p.m. on a Saturday in the capital when a 24yearold Infosys employee and we respond promptly,” she says. lation of the Safe Cities programme. She chao, Beti Padhao’ scheme, which aims solved only after following up with the city. Sheetal, Manisha and Sarika was hacked to death at a busy railway But SHE teams are not the only answ is also the chairperson of Jagori, an NGO to “prevent genderbiased sex selective victim over 45 days. (names changed), all constables, are cir station in broad daylight. In January this er. Seven months after the Centre allo that conducted a safety audit of Delhi in elimination, ensure survival and protec “We tell the offender that he is being cling New Delhi’s Connaught Place in a year, a woman was molested at the Ta cated ₹282 crore from the Nirbhaya 200506. The study highlighted threats tion of the girl child, and ensure educa put on the police radar; that if he PCR van. They have a 12hour shift. ramani MRTS station by railway staff. Fund to the city administration under to women’s safety such as poor lighting tion of girls”, and the Congress’s plan to doesn’t change, there will be legal ac Their task is to be the first responders to The Chennai Corporation and police the Safe Cities programme, the money in public spaces and broken pavements develop a Citizens’ Charter for Women’s tion. So, it is both reformatory and pun calls made to the police in the area. have an elaborate plan to augment the lies unused. A senior police officer says that force women to walk on the roads Safety and Security, the promise to fight itive. But when there are incidents that They often intervene in drunken infrastructure in the city to ensure safe that in October 2018, the Centre re and render them vulnerable to verbal against gender violence is drowned in require immediate action, say a case of brawls, rescue intoxicated men lying on ty of women. The local body plans to leased its share of ₹112.8 crore, but the and sexual abuse by men on bikes and the din of claims and counterclaims by rape, we lodge an FIR immediately,” the streets, and sometimes face the ire have 617 ‘safe zone clusters’ in places 40% share from the State government in cars. The audit also pointed out how political parties this election season. says Uttar Pradesh Director General of of victims of theft. considered crime hotspots and where has not come yet. “Once the funds are women felt safer in areas that were pop Further, it is clear that both the BJP and Police O.P. Singh. They may be with the police, but surveillance cameras and street lights released from the State government, we ulated by hawkers and vegetablesellers the Congress look at women’s safety on The data collected from calls made to their parents worry about their safety as will work on various projects related to late in the evening. ly through the prism of criminal investi the helpline offer an insight into the they travel long distances from their women’s safety, including the installa “Besides policing, we need to look at gation — the BJP talks about ‘forensic fa State. The most number of complaints homes on the outskirts of the city to re tion of CCTV cameras at hotspots and in urban planning and designing gender cilities’ and ‘fasttrack courts’, and the come from Lucknow, Kanpur, Praya port for work. “We travel alone, often at public transport,” the officer says. friendly spaces. We need to effect a Congress proposes a ‘separate investiga graj, Varanasi and Gorakhpur. Data night. Though we are police officers, pa change in cultural and social norms tive agency’ for heinous crimes against from 2018 show that 53% of women who rents will always be parents. Some Eyes on the street through campaigns. I am really sur women. The focus on making public called the helpline were nonworking times, I get calls every half an hour on The Bengaluru police launched pink prised that none of these cities wants to spaces safe and accessible for women women. Thirtyfour per cent of the calls my way home,” says Manisha, who lives Hoysalas, or patrolling vehicles, to ex spend money on a campaign,” she says. like Anchal, Jyothi and Sheetal through came from college students. More than in Haryana’s Bahadurgarh. Manisha clusively address women and child safe “Globally, wherever cities have made sustained campaigns is entirely absent. 70% of the complaints were about lewd takes two buses, a metro and an autor ty issues. But Dona Fernandes of Vimo significant changes, it has been because phone calls. Incidents of cyberharass ickshaw to reach work. chana, a women’s rights organisation, of the municipal authorities. Whether it In Lucknow, call helpline 1090 ment increased by four times in 2018 Although these women have heard says that these pink Hoysalas are often is New York, London, Bogota, or Seoul, It is 4 p.m. and the control room in from the previous year. stories of discrimination by their male used for other policing jobs. Although it is because the mayoral system has Lucknow is abuzz with the sounds of The U.P. police plans to double the counterparts, they haven’t had any un this was started as a service that would been strengthened. For cities we must ceaseless typing, phones ringing, and capability of this unique initiative under pleasant encounters since they joined have exclusive women patrolling staff, ask for stronger local bodies.” calls being answered. Women police the Safe Cities programme and add 40 the force in February, they say. “We many of the Hoysalas are run by male Conversations with police officials constables wearing headphones lend a more computer terminals, says Singh. have had meetings in which we have police personnel, she says. across cities show that it is not only the patient ear to complaints from women The Central government has approved been told that we can inform our se The City Police Commissioner, T. Su State authorities, but also the civic auth on the other end of the line, type out ₹194 crore for Lucknow from the Nirb niors or any officer in case someone neel Kumar, says that a ₹667 crore pro orities who have a role to play in secur complaints, and submit them online for haya Fund. Proposals also include inte misbehaves with us,” says Sarika. posal for the Safe Cities programme is ing the safety of women in public plac further action. grating 1090 with another helpline, UP The city police says its women offic yet to be implemented. “The Karnataka es. The call centre is not far from the U.P. 100 (the Uttar Pradesh Police Emergen ers patrol outside schools and colleges government has received funds from Police Headquarters. The ‘Women Pow cy Management System); setting up an to ensure that women students are safe. the Central government, but we will car With inputs from R. Sivaraman, Abhinay er Helpline 1090’ was launched to en integrated control room linked to 1,500 “All the Station House Officers are di ry out the project once the code of con Deshpande, Tanu Kulkarni and Sharad Vyas CM A ND-NDE https://t.me/SSC4ExamsYK https://t.me/Banking4Exams https://t.me/UPSC4Exams https://t.me/TheHindu_Zone_official

DELHI THE HINDU 8 NEWS SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 2019 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE FROM PAGE ONE With NDA leaders in tow, Modi files nomination SC gives RBI ‘last chance’ Four proposers to alter disclosure policy symbolic of the Don’t underestimate any ideas PM wants “The RBI is dutybound to sion of banking, insurance opponent, PM tells cadre comply with the provisions and other financial institu to project of the RTI Act and disclose tions, proposals for expen Special Correspondent “TV channels will lose Nistula Hebbar Varanasi the information... the sub diture or borrowing and fo TRP [television ratings Varanasi mission made on behalf of reign investments could Prime Minister Narendra points] after some announ the RBI that the disclosure harm the national economy, Prime Minister Narendra Mo Modi in Friday exhorted BJP cements. You [pointing to would hurt the economic in particularly, if released pre di filed his nomination as the workers in Varanasi and el party workers] may feel that terests of the country was maturely. BJP candidate from Varanasi sewhere to post a historic Modiji will win anyway. Do found to be totally miscon “However, lowerlevel on Friday, accompanied by a proincumbency wave for not underestimate any op ceived,” Justice Rao wrote. economic and financial in battery of NDA leaders and his government, as well as ponent big or small, treat all The court however said formation like contracts and the descendant of the ‘Dom asked them to guard against with respect and courtesy some matters of national departmental budgets Raja’ family, who perform complacency and the ten and make sure that all our economic interest like dis should not be withheld un last rites at the city’s Mani dency to underestimate any booths register victories for closure of information der this exemption,” Justice karnika Ghat, as one of the opponent, despite the fact the BJP,” he said. about currency or exchange Rao wrote, referring to the four proposers of his nomi that media attention on the rates, interest rates, taxes, 2015 verdict of the apex nation. contest in Varanasi was re ‘Ensure high turnout’ the regulation or supervi court. If Thursday’s roadshow in duced after certain announ “Hekdi maarni nahin chahi- the city was a show of cements on Thursday. ye, namrata se chunaav la- strength for the BJP and Mr. The Congress, on Thurs diye” [no need to swagger Let Bobde panel finish Modi in his constituency, the chief Uddhav Thackeray whether he wished to be one ing the papers. The other day, declared Ajay Rai as its around, engage with courte presence of the NDA allies at were among the allies who of the proposers. “I agreed two proposers were Subhash candidate again for the Va sy],” he said. He also asked probe first, says exjudge the nomination filing on Fri accompanied the Mr. Modi. immediately and met the Gupta, a longtime BJP mem ranasi seat, bringing to an the party workers to ensure day was intended to signal The four proposers cho Prime Minister this morning. ber, and Ram Shankar Patel, end all speculation that its that women voters polled at the unity in the alliance. sen by the BJP for Mr. Modi’s He thanked me,” he said. an agricultural scientist who general secretary Priyanka least five per cent more than The retired judge has Asked how he would Shiromani Akali Dal lead nomination were symbolic Annapurna Shukla, a has been known to Mr. Modi Gandhi Vadra would be con male voters, and that every been tasked by the Special proceed once he gets start er, the nonagenarian Par of the ideas that he wants to former principal of the wo since his Gujarat days. testing from there. firsttime voter should be Bench to examine the ed, Justice Patnaik said, kash Singh Badal, whose feet project. Jagdish Prasad, a men’s college of Benaras As part of the tradition in Mr. Modi, making the ad reached out to. claims made by a young la “His (Bains’) affidavits are Mr. Modi touched before fil descendant of the ancient Hindu University (BHU) and the city, anyone who wishes dress just before he filed his “We must ensure that de wyer, Utsav Singh Bains, already there. I have the ing the papers, Lok Janshakti clan of ‘Dom Rajas’ repre also called the manasputri to prosper in Varanasi is ex nomination papers, be mocracy wins, that Varanasi that a powerful lobby of fix help of the CBI and other Party (LJP) leader Ram Vilas sents not just the marginal (daughter of his mind) of pected to pay obeisance to moaned the fact that party shows a historically high ers, disgruntled apex court authorities. I will indepen Paswan, Bihar Chief Minister sections of society but also BHU founder and freedom the Kotwal or guard, the dei workers may perhaps get turnout,” he said, adding employees and corporate dently apply my mind. If and JD(U) chief Nitish Kumar, the idea of Varanasi as an fighter Pandit Madan Mohan ty Kaal Bhairav. Mr. Modi complacent after television that “the people have decid figures are targeting the CJI there is nothing in it, I will Tamil Nadu’s Deputy Chief ‘eternal city’. Mr. Prasad said Malaviya was another pro prayed at the temple dedicat channels, losing interest in ed and for the first time and the highest judiciary. file a report to that effect in Minister and AIADMK leader the BJP had approached him poser. Mr. Modi sought Ms. ed to the Kotwal of Kashi be the contest in Varanasi, there is a proincumbency Mr. Bains has even said in the Supreme Court. If there O. Panneerselvam, Shiv Sena a fortnight ago, asking Shukla’s blessings before fil fore filing his papers. withdraw from the scene. wave.” his affidavit that a man is something, then I will file claiming to be the complai a report accordingly. Wha nantwoman’s relative of tever effectively comes out fered him up to ₹1.5 crore to of going through the re file a false case against the cords, I will do Truth will catch up with Modi on May 23, says Congress CJI. accordingly.” ‘Clean Ganga and Swachh Bharat missions miserably failed in Varanasi... people will not forget how he betrayed them’

Officer dies in fire on Special Correspondent on ground. People of Varana mission, Clean Ganga and On the Clean Ganga Mis year. “In the 2017 Assembly for failing to establish a mus New Delhi si will see through this pro Swachh Bharat, have misera sion front, the Congress elections, Modiji promised ic academy for the Banaras INS Vikramaditya On a day Prime Minister Na paganda. Today Modiji has bly failed in Varanasi, the claimed that out of the 254 24/7 electricity for Varanasi. Gharana as promised in rendra Modi, who is seeking accepted the fact that he Congress claimed. “The peo projects sanctioned, only 75 The city still suffers from ma 2014. The fire broke out in a procured from Russia in a a reelection from Varanasi, works on: fakery and lies. ple of Varanasi and the peo have been completed. This jor power outages averaging “Modi’s Swachh Bharat closed compartment as the $2.35 billion deal, is the Na filed his nomination from the Truth will surely catch up ple of the Gangetic plains means 70% of projects were at eight hours a day,” Mr. Abhiyan has failed in his own ship was entering the har vy’s sole aircraft carrier in seat, the Congress sought to with him on May 23rd,” Con shall never forgive and forget not finished until November Shukla said. constituency. Only 48% bour in Karwar. service. The 44,500tonne puncture his claims of gress spokesman Rajeev how PM Narendra Modi has 2018. The party also claimed homes have toilets. And yes The Navy said the fire was carrier operates a mix of changing the face of this holy Shukla said at a press confe betrayed them. In these Lok that 80% funds of ₹24,672 Cr Music academy terday 1.4 lakh litres of fresh brought under control by MiG29K fighter jets and util city. rence here. Sabha elections, people shall (proposed funds) have not The Congress also flagged water was used to clean the the crew in a swift action ity and antisubmarine war “Hype, hoopla and rhetor Two of Modi govern give a befitting reply to the been spent on Namami that the BJP government roads of Varanasi for his “preventing any serious fare helicopters. The first in ic does not change the reality ment’s highlypublicised BJP,” Mr. Shukla said. Gange till November last both at the Centre and State roadshow,” Mr. Shukla said. damage to the ship’s combat digenous carrier Vikrant, capability.” A Board of In displacing 40,000 tonnes, is quiry has been ordered. in an advanced stage of SC refuses to The INS Vikramaditya, construction. Supreme Court stays Rahul promises separate interfere with ‘Zahran Hashim spent budget for farmers Jaya panel proceedings EC stay on time in south India’ Seeks T.N. government’s response Modi biopic Offers to bring a law to prevent their arrest for loan default Krishnadas Rajagopal Legal Correspondent Over 250 people, including ting the assassination of cer NEW DELHI New Delhi 45 children and 40 foreign tain political and religious Press Trust of India The Supreme Court on Fri The Supreme Court on Fri nationals, were killed in the leaders in India, the official Balasore/Samastipur day stayed the proceedings day refused to interfere deadly explosions. Two said. Congress president Rahul of the Justice (retired) A. with an Election Commis days later, the Islamic State Sri Lankan authorities, Gandhi on Friday promised Arumughaswamy Commis sion of India (EC) decision claimed responsibility for who have so far not named to introduce a separate “ki sion, inquiring into the to stay the public screening the attacks and subsequent any of the nine suicide bom san budget” and bring a law death of former Chief Minis of the movie PM Narendra ly released an image of eight bers or suspects officially, to prevent farmers from be ter Jayalalithaa, on a plea by Modi. suspected bombers. The on Friday confirmed Hash ing jailed for inability to re Apollo Hospitals that the pa A. Arumughaswamy The EC said the film was man seen standing at the im was one of the two sui pay farm loans. nel’s functioning was “re more like a “hagiography” centre is believed to be cide bombers who carried Mounting a scathing at plete with bias”. stead of conducting an im in which a political envi Hashim. The other jihadists out the explosions at hotel tack on Prime Minister Na Instead of conducting an partial probe, had filed a ronment is created where had covered their faces with ShangriLa, on Colombo’s rendra Modi, Mr. Gandhi impartial inquiry, the Com plea wherein it had alleged one individual acquires a scarf. seafacing Galle Road. said if the BJPled govern mission had converted itself “criminal intent” on the cult status. Its release dur Sri Lankan investigators, He led the radical Islamist ment could waive huge into an adversary, Apollo part of the hospital and its ing the Lok Sabha polls however, have identified group in Kattankudy, in Bat debts of industrialists, why Hospitals told a Bench led doctors. Mr. Sundaram sub would tilt the electoral ba nine suicide bombers, in ticaloa district of Sri Lanka’s should the distressed farm Grand welcome: Congress president Rahul Gandhi greeting by Chief Justice Ranjan Go mitted that the panel had lance, the poll body said. cluding a woman. “We are Eastern Province. ers be punished. supporters in Balasore district of Odisha. * BISWARANJAN ROUT goi. The Bench acknow even asked for the medical “Nothing survives... The looking into the IS angle. We “A new law will be ledged submissions made reports of former Tamil Na issue was whether this also suspect that some of Denies charges brought if the Congress is (MSP) for foodgrains. Places north Bihar town of Samasti by senior advocate Aryama du CM M.G. Ramachandran, [film] can be screened and those radical youth were in In the wake of reports that voted to power. It will ensure where cold storage and food pur, where he shared the Sundaram and advocate Ro who died in 1987. the Election Commission doctrinated and trained in terror suspects from Coim that no farmer is sent to jail processing units are to be set stage for the first time after hini Musa that the proceed Senior advocate K.V. Vish has taken a decision. We India, possibly Tamil Nadu,” batore had links with the IS for being unable to repay up will also be shared a year general elections were an ings before the inquiry pa wanathan, appearing for Ta refuse to entertain this pe the senior official said, on and played a role in the Sri agriculture loan,” Mr. Gand in advance,” he said. nounced with RJD heir appa nel were causing “grave mil Nadu, urged the court to tition now,” Chief Justice condition of anonymity. Lankan blasts, one of the hi said at a rally in the coas He said ₹72,000 would be rent Tejashwi Yadav, Mr. prejudice” to the hospital’s not stay the Commission’s Ranjan Gogoi told the Indian officials would not suspects now out on bail, tal Odisha town of Balasore. deposited in the bank ac Gandhi deplored the “insult reputation. proceedings at this point. filmmakers. comment on the report that Ashiq from the Marakkadai Similarly, a separate bud count of the woman mem ing treatment” meted out to Mr. Sundaram informed However, the Bench refused The Commission had Hashim travelled to India area in Coimbatore, has de get for the agriculture sector ber of each of the five crore Lalu Prasad, the jailed chief the court that the Commis to oblige the State and pro watched the entire film on but pointed to evidence of nied the allegations. will be introduced which poor families per year under of his alliance partner and sion had taken to filing ap ceeded to freeze the inquiry. the basis of an April 15 or virtual links he maintained Ashiq was one of the se will be presented before the the ‘NYAY’ scheme. warned the BJPled coalition plications “on its own behalf Apollo Hospitals submit der of the Supreme Court with youth believed to be of ven arrested by the police in general budget, the Con Stating that poor States of a backlash in the election. before itself”. These appli ted that medical reports and filed a 20page report. Indian origin. September last year on gress chief said. such as Odisha and Bihar Former State Minister cations filed by the panel to about the circumstances The filmmakers had More than 100 followers charges of plotting to kill will benefit immensely from Ashok Ram of the Congress itself alleged that the hospi leading to the death of Jaya moved the Supreme Court, of Hashim’s Facebook page Hindu outfit leaders. and Storage, processing units NYAY scheme, he said every is pitted against Lok Janshak tal had shown negligence in lalithaa were released in arguing that the EC stay on are being investigated, said subsequently the case was “We will introduce a kisan month ₹6,000 will be given ti Party’s Ramchandra Pas the treatment of Jayalalith March 2017 to end specula a film certified by the Cen an official, who asked not to transferred to the National budget which will specify to the poor family whose wan, Union Minister Ram Vi aa, who died on December tion. Subsequently, the tral Board of Film Certifica be named. The first hints of Investigation Agency (NIA). the amount of farm loans to monthly income is less than las Paswan’s brother, at 5, 2016. State had appointed the in tion violates the funda Hashim’s doctrinal videos, The NIA had claimed to be waived a year in advance, ₹12,000. Samastipur (SC reserved Apollo Hospitals submit quiry commission on Sep mental right to free speech to likely radicalise youth, have seized incriminating and Minimum Support Price Addressing a rally in the seat). ted that the Commission, in tember 25, 2017. and expression. emerged when Indian auth digital evidence from the On April 15, the court orities interrogated seven premises of the suspects. found that the poll panel members of a group whose Ashiq told reporters that had “no occasion to leader, officials found, was a they were enlarged on bail watch” the film before follower of Hashim. The only because the NIA could IRS to be released every quarter, says official passing its interim order men were IS sympathisers not furnish evidence on April 10 to stay its re and arrested in September beyond reasonable doubt. Lalatendu Mishra ing. Most stakeholders from the last three quarters lease till further orders. Ac 2018 in Coimbatore, on sus (Inputs from R. Akileish MUMBAI should be encouraged with of IRS 2017 and one fresh cording to the producers, picion that they were plot in Coimbatore) “The print story continues to this snapshot of how India is quarter from IRS 2019 (No the biopic was to hit grow with the total number consuming media and vember 2018 till April 2019). theatres on April 11. of readers increasing from print,” said Vikram Sakhuja, Among Tamil dailies, The Exercising its powers 40.7 crore to 42.5 crore. Al Group CEO, Madison Media Hindu Tamil featured at under Article 324 of the so, the Internet usage has in & OOH, and Chairman of the number 5 with total reader Constitution, the EC had EC to take up J&K poll creased with India now hav IRS Technical Committee. ship of 27,28,000. directed that any biopic ing 384 million active “We have used technology The Sportstar also fea material subserving the Internet users. These find to infuse a totally new stan tures among top 20 maga purposes of any political issue on April 30 ings are in line with the mar dard of field controls. The re zines with increased reader entity or any individual en ket truths and a testimony of sultant data is robust and re ship of 34,37,000 in IRS 2019 tity connected to it, which Special Correspondent after the fourth phase of LS IRS’ rigorous processes and presentative of the diversity Q1 as against 29,37,000 in is intended to, or which NEW DELHI polls. “No decision has quality control norms,” said and heterogeneity of our IRS 2017. Sportstar is num has potential to disturb the The Election Commission is been taken on the issue so Ashish Bhasin, CEO, Greater wonderful country,” he said. ber 11 in the list. Among En level playing field during expected to take up the is far. It will be taken up along South & Chairman & CEOIn (MRUC), while releasing the seamless process. The sample size of IRS glish magazines, it is number the elections, should not sue of Assembly election in with other issues after the dia, Dentsu Aegis Network survey report. He said, hen “The overall media con 2019 Q1 was 3,24,286 house 3 after India Today and Gen- be displayed during the Jammu and Kashmir at its fourth round of Lok Sabha and Chairman Media Re ceforth, IRS will be released sumption and print, in par holds and the report is based eral Knowledge Today in Model Code of Conduct meeting on April 30, a day polls,” said an official. search Users Council every quarter and will be a ticular, is vibrant and grow on a rolling average of data terms of total readership. (MCC) period.

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POLL POURRI [IN FOCUS: JHARKHAND] CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Grand alliance challenges BJP in its eastern bastion Prominent leaders ﬁle papers Congress-led combine aims to reprise the Opposition’s performance of 2004, when the BJP won just one of the State’s 14 seats

Satyasundar Barik tion alliance is the combine of round. The RJD, which could succeeded in spotlighting the RANCHI the State’s ruling BJP and the not be convinced to be satis issue as an attempt to grab tri Jharkhand, a State that has lar All Jharkhand Students Union fied with one seat, has fielded bal land and hand it over to gely remained a bastion of the (AJSU) in a 131 seatsharing a candidate in Chatra, result coal mining interests and in Bharatiya Janata Party since formula. ing in a ‘friendly fight’ with the dustrialists. Growing unem the party’s emergence in na Prior to becoming the 28th Congress nominee there. ployment, poverty and malnu tional politics in the early State on November 15, 2000, Mindful of not repeating its trition in rural pockets, attacks Chandigarh 1990s, is poised for an interest Jharkhand as a region in undi past mistakes, the Congress on religious minorities and a Prominent leaders of the Congress and the ing battle in the general elec vided Bihar had been voting has nominated Geeta Koda, lack of value addition to miner Shiromani Akali DalBJP alliance on Friday tion that could well present a for the BJP. Even though the Ja wife of former Jharkhand als mined in Jharkhand are filed their nomination papers for the Lok template for Opposition unity nata Dal and the JMM had a Chief Minister Madhu Koda, some of the major issues that Sabha poll in Punjab, slated for May 19. to halt the saffron bandwagon pact in the 1991 general elec for the Singhbhum constituen the Opposition has been using Former Deputy Chief Minister and Shiromani in the country. tion, the BJP won five seats in cy, where she enjoys a good against the government. Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal filed Fifteen years after Opposi the region. At that time, the support base. In 2014, she To counter emotive issues his nomination papers for the Ferozepur tion parties stitched together Congress had fought ended up second, pushing the like amendments to the CNT constituency, while his wife and Union Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal filed her an alliance and swept the separately. Congress candidate to the and SPT Acts, the BJP govern nomination for the Bathinda seat. Congress small State, leaving the BJP In the next three Lok Sabha all the four Opposition parties, Similarly, in Giridih, where third position. ment has pushed for the Sarna candidate Amarinder Singh Raja Warring also with but one seat of the 14, a elections — 1996, 1998 and which fielded candidates inde the BJP’s victory margin over As far as issues are con religious code, which seeks a filed his nomination for Bathinda. He was fourparty, Congressled coali 1999 — the BJP routed the Con pendently, had a combined the JMM was 40,313, the JVM cerned, the Opposition al separate religious identity for accompanied by Punjab Chief Minister tion has shaped up that is tar gress and the JMM, winning 12, vote share of 36.8%. That led (P) tallied up 57,380 votes. liance is convinced that the tribals, who worship nature. Amarinder Singh. For the lone seat of the UT geting a reprise of 2004. 13 and 12 seats respectively. In the BJP to win 12 seats, while And in Jamshedpur, it was the State government’s attempt to The BJP is largely banking of Chandigarh, the fourtime MP and former The Jharkhand Mukti Mor 1998, although there was an the JMM retained two seats. JMM’s turn to play spoiler as it tweak Section 21 of the Chota on the charisma of Prime Mi Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal of the cha ( JMM), the Jharkhand Vi Opposition alliance in place it cornered 1,38,109 votes, in a nagpur Tenancy (CNT) Act and nister Modi and the “strong Congress filed his nomination. kash Morcha (Prajatantrik) was overwhelmed by a Tight margins constituency where the JVM Section 13 of the Santhal Par steps” taken on national secur and the Rastriya Janata Dal groundswell of support in fa The BJP, however, faced a far (P) lost out to the BJP by less gana Tenancy (SPT) Act, ena ity. When Mr. Modi held a Cong. has other ideas: Akhilesh (RJD) have hammered out a vour of the Atal Behari Vaj closer fight in several seats than 1 lakh votes. There was a bling use of agricultural land roadshow in Ranchi on April Lucknow seatsharing agreement with payeeled BJP. In 2009, despite that could have gone against it close fight in Lohardaga as for nonagricultural purposes, 23, the Jharkhand BJP ap Samajwadi Party chief the Congress in Jharkhand, the Congress returning to had the four current allies well, where the BJP’s margin would electorally backfire on pealed for votes for the PM, Akhilesh Yadav on Friday which will vote on April 29 power at the Centre, the BJP fought together in 2014. of victory over the Congress the BJP. while there was hardly any said the Congress game and May 6, 12 and 19. While the retained its control over Jhark In spite of a wave of support was only a little over 6,000 Although the government, mention of the party’s local plan was not to stop the Congress got the lion’s share of hand, cornering eight out of for its prime ministerial nomi votes. headed by Chief Minister candidate Sanjay Seth. BJP from forming the seven seats, the JMM is con the 14 seats. nee Narendra Modi in that According to political obser Raghubar Das, decided not to Local BJP leaders expressed government at the Centre, testing four seats and the JVM In the last election (2014), election, in Godda, where the vers, the grand alliance is set press ahead with the amend confidence that the Modi fac but to come to power in (P) and the RJD have been al the BJP polled 52,07,439 out of BJP defeated the Congress by to pose a big challenge to the ments in the face of simmering tor would ultimately help Uttar Pradesh in 2022. He lotted two and one respective the 1,27,92,013 valid votes, 60,682 votes, the JVM (P) had BJP as Mr. Modi’s popular ap resentment in the tribal hear eclipse all other issues being also said the Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan ly. Ranged against this Opposi constituting 40.7%, whereas polled 1,93,506. peal has lost its sheen this time tland, the Opposition parties highlighted by the Opposition. Samaj Party had sacrificed seats in the national interest. “Our intention is clear right from the word go. We formed alliance (with CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC the BSP and the RLD) to stop the communal party,” he said. But the Congress’ agenda was Campaign muscle not to stop the BJP from returning to power Yogendra Yadav seeks at the Centre. “They are working for making the next U.P. Chief Minister in 2022 (when the Assembly polls are due),” Mr. Yadav said. PTI votes for Yogendra Yadav BJP leader faces campaign ban NEW DELHI The Election Commission on Friday put a Psephologist campaigns for his namesake in Jharkhand 48hour ban on BJP’s district president in West Bengal’s Nadia, Mahadev Sarkar, from Sonam Saigal dren access to quality legal campaigning for allegedly making “highly Mumbai education. offensive and sexually coloured Yogendra Yadav, president After obtaining a law de remarks” against Trinamool of Swaraj India, cam gree from the National Un Congress candidate Mahua paigned on Thursday for Yo iversity of Study and Re Moitra. The Trinamool gendra Yadav in Jharkhand’s search in Law, Ranchi, he candidate had approached Chatra. The psephologist interned with the Mumbai the Supreme Court with her cumpolitician urged peo based law firm J. Sagar Asso grievance. The court on ple in the Naxalaffected ciates for a few months in Thursday asked the Commission constituency to “vote for 2015 and again in 2016. to take action on her complaint. The poll honesty and sincerity” as Some lawyers from the firm panel then went through the contents of the alleged offensive speech that was made by he canvassed for a 26year have contributed to his Mr. Sarkar at a rally in the Krishnanagar old Independent candidate, Swaraj India president campaign in their personal constituency of Nadia on Yogendra Yadav, left, with an advocate and a capacities, besides helping April 22. namesake. Independent candidate raise funds for him. Mr. Yadav said voters had Yogendra Yadav. The young lawyer said good reasons to back advo candidates typically come Yes to ‘Jai Bhim’, no to ‘NaMo’ cate Yadav. While the major date said he wanted to show to a constituency just before Jalaun BSP president Mayawati on parties had not been able to youngsters that they too the elections, file their nom Friday said the people are choose a single local candi could dream big with edu inations and, because they going to bid goodbye to date from a population of 15 cation. represent national parties, those chanting ‘NaMo, lakh, advocate Yadav was go on to win. “They don’t NaMo’ (Narendra Modi) and not only “one among them” Hard days bother thereafter,” he said. choose the ones who but had also known pover Born to a construction Mr. Yadav is pitted follow ‘Jai Bhim’ (the BSP ty, he said. The Swaraj India worker in the village of Pitiz, against BJP incumbent Sunil slogan) in this Lok Sabha leader averred that the 25 km from Chatra, the Singh and the Congress’s election. Addressing a rally young lawyer had opted to younger Mr. Yadav said he Manoj Yadav. Chatra also here in Uttar Pradesh, the former Chief come back to his village to had seen hard days, having elected an Independent, In Minister alleged that the BJP had made “change things” instead of worked as a domestic help der Singh Namdhari, in several promises before coming to power but seeking money and fame in for two years at the age of 2009. “A united, progres all that turned out to be hollow. Ms. a city. “ Ek vote sachaie ko eight. Later, he won himself sive and communal tension Mayawati also targeted the Congress, saying dijiye, ek vote imandaari ko a scholarship from the ‘In free India, where every indi that the party ignored the weaker sections, dijiye (give one vote for hon creasing Diversity by In vidual has the right to have the poor and the unemployed and did nothing esty, and one for sincerity),” creasing Access to Legal his own ideas, opinions and for poverty alleviation and employment generation in the Bundelkhand region. PTI Mr. Yadav exhorted. Education’ trust, which pro thoughts” was his dream, Strong support: WWE wrestler Dalip Singh Rana, popularly known as ‘The Great Khali’, campaigning

The Independent candi vides underprivileged chil said the young lawyer. for the BJP’s Jadavpur candidate Anupam Hazra, left, in Kolkata on Friday.* AFP CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC ‘Stalwarts would be defeated’ BENGALURU BJP State president B.S. Yeddyurappa on Friday predicted that stalwarts Reviving social justice as a counter to Hindutva in Bihar from the governing coalition, including former Prime Minister H.D. Deve In his father’s absence, Lalu Prasad’s son imitates his father with a campaign focussed on samajik nyay and caste quotas Gowda and leader of the Congress in the Lok Sabha Varghese K. George gress, but the word nyay or social justice camp and is now sad could command a large M. Mallikarjun Kharge Darbhanga justice plays out differently in ruling with the support of the following across several back would be defeated in the Lok Sabha poll. Addressing party officebearers and leaders Rain or sun, enthusiasm for the GA’s campaign. Samajik BJP. He is paltu chacha — turn ward and Dalit castes, Mr. Te in Bengaluru, Mr. Yeddyurappa claimed that politics doesn’t easily dampen nyay or social justice has been coat uncle — Mr. Yadav tells his jashwi Yadav’s appeal is strong senior Congress leaders M. Veerappa Moily or wilt in Bihar, but this sum the slogan of Bihar’s socialist uproarious supporters. “We in the Yadavs’ core base and and V. Muniyappa too were bound to lose mer, it appears different. politics against caste oppres shall fight the RSS and BJP be he can count on Muslims as against BJP candidates. With reports of Pulled in multiple directions sion. Mr. Lalu Prasad, the prin cause they deny us our partners, but in the wider ter leaders and functionaries of various political and crowded by issues and cipal political figure in Bihar rights... We make our friends rain of social justice politics parties taking off on tours after the election, personalities, the mood is list for three decades now, per and foes not for power, but for that involves numerous other Mr. Yeddyurappa asked the BJP leaders to less. Tejashwi Yadav, 29 — sonifies it and his imprison what we believe in... Paltu castes, he has limitations. Out desist from going on such trips. “I want to ask standing in for his jailed father ment signifies a threat to it. chacha is different. He makes fits such as VIP, HAM and you not to go on such trips till the bypolls to Lalu Prasad, chief of the Rash “When we win, we will en friends and ditches friends, all RLSP were roped in with the the Assembly constituencies are over and the triya Janata Dal (RJD) — is cam sure that Laluji gets justice. We for power,” he says. hope of expanding the tent. Lok Sabha election results are announced on paigning hard to enthuse his will ensure that Nitish Kumar “The GA started off well. May 23,” he said. base and define the 2019 Lok [Bihar Chief Minister] faces Sole question While it marginalised the Left, Sabha election as a battle to justice. And we will ensure Mr. Yadav, Mr. Manjhi and all it put too much trust in caste further social justice politics. that injustice will not be done Like father, like son: RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav at an election nonCongress campaigners of outfits. It is a gamble and one POCKET | SURENDRA “When my father was to Backward Classes and Da rally in Begusarai earlier this week. * PTI the GA have turned the spot can’t be sure of how it will pay CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC around, nobody could dream lits,” Jitan Ram Manjhi, former light on one question — reser off,” said Mr. Gupta. Eleven of of stealing our rights. They CM and Dalit leader, said Research Institute in Patna. gress, won a landslide. vation. “Jobs are all moving to the 40 seats are being contest have put him in jail to steal our ahead of Mr. Tejashwi. Mr. This fear among the lower “Bihar does not have a cap the private sector, and there is ed by these three parties, rights... But let me tell you, his Manjhi’s Hind ustani Awam castes has forced Prime Minis italist culture. Therefore, re no reservation in the private while the RJD is in 20 and the son, your son, is standing Morcha (HAM), Rashtriya Lok ter Narendra Modi to clarify in servation is the biggest subject sector. We need reservation in Congress in nine. In 2014, the here. And we shall not allow Samta Party (RLSP) led by speeches that there is no of political contest here,” said there too,” said Mr. Manjhi. BJPled alliance had 31 seats. A anyone to take away our former Union Minister Upen threat to reservation. Mr. Gupta. “People have got They call out Nitish — also senior RJD functionary said rights.” Opening his speeches dra Kushwaha, and Vikassheel It was Rashtriya Swayamse the message that the BJP wants an OBC leader — for betraying these groups were unable to thus, Mr. Tejashwi Yadav Insan Party (VIP) led by Mu vak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan to change castebased reserva the cause. “Paltu chacha whis galvanise social justice polit makes a conscious effort to im kesh Sahni are the other con Bhagwat’s call for a debate on tion and introduce reservation pered into Modi ji’s ears that ics, while in seats contested by itate his father’s style and re stituents of the GA, besides the caste quotas in the peak of the based on economic criteria. Laluji should not be allowed to the RJD and the Congress, tail present his politics. Mr. Lalu Congress and the RJD. Bihar Assembly election cam The 10% reservation for the meet anyone in jail. And now I winds are stronger for the GA. Prasad, in his absence as the paign in 2015 that queered the upper castes, announced by cannot meet my father. Is this “The RJD is trying for an ag key campaigner, is the key The crucial quota factor pitch for the Hindutva consoli the Modi government, has nyay? You decide,” Mr. Yadav gressive Backward [Classes] campaign issue for the RJDled “There an impression that the dation that Mr. Modi had care alerted them,” said Shivanand tells the crowd. consolidation, but Lalu Prasad Grand Alliance (GA). BJP is against reservation,” fully planned. An alliance of all Tewari, RJD leader and a con Mr. Prasad’s imprisonment had a different style and he NYAY is the name of the mi said Shaibal Gupta, social social justice parties, led by temporary of both Mr. Kumar is a catalyst for social justice could keep leaders of all castes nimum income guarantee scientist and membersecre Mr. Lalu Prasad and Mr. Nitish and Mr. Prasad. politics, but his absence is cut within the RJD umbrella,” I know why you are wearing no shirt, you have no scheme promised by the Con tary of the Asian Development Kumar, along with the Con Mr. Kumar has since left the ting both ways. While Mr. Pra points out Mr. Gupta. suitcase to carry

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DELHI THE HINDU 10 WORLD SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 2019 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE ‘AntiMuslim riots a possible trigger’ BRI has entered a new Sri Lankan officials believe that communal tensions could have motivated the Easter attacks suspects era of transparency: Xi Meera Srinivasan COLOMBO Police hunt The spate of antiMuslim vio ‘China will work with others to write new global trade rules’ lence in Sri Lanka in recent for 140 with years could have been a rea Atul Aneja son for more youth to turn alleged IS links Beijing radical and mobilise, accord China on Friday announced ing to a top Sri Lankan mili Reuters that the financial model for tary intelligence source. Colombo funding projects under its “While screening records The Sri Lankan police are flagship Belt and Road Initia of conversations among the trying to track down 140 tive (BRI) had been re suspects, we found referenc people believed to be vamped, countering criti es to the communal tensions linked to the Islamic State cism that its in the recent past. They have (IS), which claimed respon megaconnectivity under spoken of the need to reta sibility for the Easter Sun taking was opening “debt liate. We believe those ten day suicide bombings that traps” for enhancing its geo sions could have been a mo killed 253, as shooting political influence. President Xi Jinping proposing a toast during the welcome tivation,” the source, playing erupted in the east during “We have also formulated banquet for leaders attending the Belt and Road Forum. * AFP a key role in the investiga a raid. guiding principles of financ tions, told The Hindu on Fri Muslims in Sri Lanka ing the development of the effective functioning of the institutions and encourage day. While authorities are Keeping vigil: A soldier stands guard in front of St. Anthony’s Shrine in Colombo on Friday, were urged to pray at home Belt and Road and published international governance joint ventures in third coun probing different angles to following a series of bomb blasts targeting churches and luxury hotels on Easter Sunday. * AFP after the State Intelligence debt sustainability frame system. China is an active tries. They would seek the the suspects’ possible links Services warned of possi work for participating coun supporter and participant of involvement of “multiple to the Islamic State, which “agents of disharmony and southern town of Aluthga pointing to the community’s ble car bomb attacks, amid tries to provide guidance for the WTO and will work with stake holders”, for projects has claimed the attacks, they destabilisation”, and not to ma. Ensuing clashes claimed own disapproval of a sec fears of retaliatory vio BRI financing cooperation,” others to develop interna pursuing a “peoplecen are simultaneously examin fall prey to “sinister at least four lives. To many, it tion’s radicalisation or vio lence. Chinese President Xi Jinping tional economic and trade tered” approach focused on ing the youths’ local context designs”. seemed that Muslims — who lence. Tamil National Leader And the U.S. Embassy in said in his keynote address rules of higher standard.” “job creation” and counter and environment that may For many like him, the at make up about 10% of Sri M.A. Sumanthiran told par Sri Lanka urged its citizens at the second Belt and Road China has been accused ing poverty. have contributed to their tacks instantly sparked fears Lanka’s population — had liament earlier this week that to avoid places of worship Forum (BRF). of funding unsustainable veering into a radical path. of a backlash, amid fresh me emerged a new adversary to “the Muslim people, to their over the weekend after Mr. Xi’s opening remarks projects under BRI, which Lending scheme The official, who asked mories of targeted attacks in hardline sections of the ma credit, have repeatedly com authorities reported there highlighted the subtext of could be leveraged for ex “We will continue to make a not to be named, was refer Kandy, just a year ago, and jority SinhalaBuddhists. plained about these mis could be more attacks tar rivalry with the U.S. in set tending Beijing’s political in good use of the Belt and ring to the incidents in other antiMuslim attacks in The Muslims had not retaliat creants” to authorities, but geting religious centres. ting the global agenda. In the fluence in geopolitically sen Road special lending March 2018 around Kandy ci recent years, led and backed ed in any of those instances. to no avail. Archbishop of Colombo presence of 37 country sitive countries such as Sri scheme, the Silk Road Fund ty in the Central Province, by hardline Sinhala Budd Religious and civil society Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith heads, chief of the Interna Lanka and the Maldives, and various special invest when violent mobs of report hist groups, particularly the Treading cautiously organisations too are repeat told reporters he had seen tional Monetary Fund Chris which skirt important ship ment funds, develop Silk edly Sinhalese youth identi Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) and its That is perhaps why some in edly calling for solidarity a leaked internal security tine Lagarde and Secretary ping lanes of the Indian Road themed bonds and fied and attacked several militant monkleader Gna Sri Lanka are treading this among different communi document warning of General of the UN Antonio Ocean. support the multilateral Muslimowned shops. Rows nasara Thero. moment, following the ties. The Women’s Coalition further attacks on church Guterres, as well as repre cooperation centre for deve of shops were set ablaze. At ghastly attacks carried out for Disaster Management in es and there would be no sentatives of scores of na Zero tolerance lopment finance in its opera least two Muslims were re Three years ago by a radical Islamist organi the multiethnic, multireli Catholic masses this Sun tions, he docked the BRI But countering the charge of tion,” he said. ported dead in the violence, The trend began around sation, rather cautiously. gious Batticaloa district has day anywhere on the is with a new phase of globali China having a hidden agen The BRI, he said, would while shop owners reported 2012, barely three years after Several Christian leaders, said: “We have to work to land. The streets of Colom sation, anchored by China da, Mr. Xi said: “In pursuing pursue “high quality” losses to the tune of millions. the Sri Lankan armed forces including the Archbishop of gether in order to prevent bo were deserted on Friday and its partners. Belt and Road cooperation, schemes attuned to “inter Despite locals alerting the defeated the LTTE, bringing Sri Lanka Cardinal Malcolm the already strained ethnic evening, with many people India has decided to skip everything should be done national rules and stan police, little action was taken the country’s three decade Ranjith, who have vehe relations from growing into leaving offices early amid the BRF in opposition to the in a transparent way. We dards” covering the pro to contain the violence or long war to an end. Reaction mently condemned the at full blown splits between tight security. BRI’s ChinaPakistan Eco should have zero tolerance curement, tendering and damage, Muslim people and ary groups among Sinhala tacks have simultaneously communities that have al President Maithripala nomic Corridor (CPEC). New for corruption”. bidding processes. community leaders com Buddhists campaigned called for peace and calm, ways coexisted in our re Sirisena told reporters Delhi has noted that it is an He added: “We also need Unveiled in 2013, the BRI plained at that time. against the Hijab and then often explicitly making a dis gion.” some Sri Lankan youths infringement of its sove to ensure the commercial is a giant land and maritime sought a ban on Halal certifi tinction between “brothers” A statement by Jaffna had been involved with the reignty. and fiscal sustainability of all connectivity project, driven Old fears cation, forcing shops to stop in the Muslim community based Christians across de IS since 2013. He said infor Mr. Xi stressed that China projects so that they will to revive the Ancient Silk Even as he strongly con selling meat labelled accord and the attackers. Appreciat nominations said: “We will mation uncovered so far “will work with others” to achieve the intended goals Road. It covers Eurasia and demned the “cowardly and ing to Islamic guidelines. A ing the vulnerability of the never place any responsibili suggested there were 140 write new rules of interna as planned.” Africa, building a network of barbaric” Easter attacks, Sri few Muslimowned chains Muslim community, in the ty on our brothers and sis people in Sri Lanka in tional trade within the fra Mr. Xi stressed that the expressways. Ahead of the Lanka Muslim Congress were attacked. In 2014, mobs wake of attacks they have ters of any community for volved in the IS activities. mework of the World Trade BRI projects would encour BRF, Italy has become the Leader Raulff Hakeem urged attacked homes and proper faced in the past few years, the dastardly and cruel acts “Police are looking to ar Organization (WTO). “Rules age participation by multilat first G7 country to formally citizens to be mindful of ties of Muslims living in the some leaders are repeatedly of a few.” rest them,” he said. and credibility underpin the eral and national financial join the BRI. ‘Qatar’s exit Iran says prisoner swap offer visa system to China, Russia pose threat to U.S.: FBI end this year’ Agency chief describes China as most significant ‘intelligence collection’ threat only for the U.S., not the U.K.

Agence France-Presse Sriram Lakshman against Chinese tech giant nued “pretty much unabat Agence France-Presse the semiofficial ISNA news them, all these people that Doha Washington Huawei. ed” through the use of fake Tehran agency. “It is only related to are in prison inside the Unit Qatar is set to abolish its FBI Director Christopher news, propaganda, false per A prisoner swap offered by Iranian and American pri ed States, on extradition re controversial exit visa sys Wray described China as the Russian interference sonas to sow divisiveness Iranian Foreign Minister Mo soners,” he said. quest from the United tem for all foreign workers most significant “intelligence Mr. Wray described Russia as and undermine Americans’ hammad Javad Zarif is only On Wednesday, Mr. Zarif States, we believe the charg by the end of 2019 the UN’s collection” threat. His com a “very significant” threat in faith in democracy. This was for the United States and proposed that Iranians jailed es against them are phoney,” International Labour Or ments were made at a discus response to a question on in response to a question on would not involve Britain, in the United States or held Mr. Zarif said at the Asia So ganization said on Friday. sion at the Washington offic Special Counsel Robert the scale and nature of the the Foreign Ministry spokes in other countries on extra ciety in New York. “Last year, the exit visa es of the Council on Foreign Mueller’s characterisation of foreign influence threat bet man was quoted as saying dition requests issued by the “The United States be was eliminated for the ma Relations, a thinktank. Russian interference in the ween the 2016 presidential on Friday. Americans could be lieves the charges against jority of workers, this year, “No country poses a 2016 presidential election as election and 2018 midterm “The offer does not con swapped for foreigners im these people in Iran are pho that will be extended to all broader more severe intelli Christopher Wray “sweeping and systematic”. elections. cern the Britons,” Ministry prisoned in Iran. ney... let’s have an ex remaining categories of gence collection threat than “I think everybody has However, Mr. Wray said spokesman Abbas Mousavi “I put this offer on the ta change,” Mr. Zarif said as he workers,” said ILO’s Hou China,” Mr. Wray said, ad through a variety of actors all their own adjectives... I do there was no material impact said in remarks published by ble publicly now: exchange participated in a UN session. tan Homayounpour, head ding he was seeing increased working on behalf of China,” think Russia poses a very sig or interference with election of the labour agency’s pro instances of “blended Mr. Wray said. nificant counterintelligence or campaign infrastructure ject office in Doha. threats”, a combination of On Thursday, the U.S threat, certainly in the cyber in 2018. In September 2018, Qa cybercrimes and espionage. Trade Representative said it arena, certainly [in] what we On the Sri Lanka bomb tar approved legislation to “Economic espionage domi was keeping China on a call the ‘malign foreign in ings of Easter Sunday, Mr. scrap the “kafala”, or spon nates our counterintelli ‘priority watch list’ of coun fluence territory’, certainly Wray said the FBI had sent sorship, system which re gence programme today.” tries that are of significant in their presence of intelli personnel over to assist in quired that foreign workers “China has pioneered a concern to the U.S. in terms gence officers in this coun the investigation to work obtain permission from societal approach to stealing of their inadequate protec try,” he said. with its partners in Sri Lan their employers to leave innovation in any way it can tion of IP. China’s IP laws are Mr. Wray is a Trump ap ka. “You always hear this the country. In October, it from a wide array of busi a contentious topic and have pointee and his comments phrase about ‘connecting went into force for all but nesses, universities and or featured in the trade talks are in contrast with those the dots’ in the terrorist are 5% of a company’s work ganisations. They’re doing it between the two countries. from several senior adminis na, but a lot of the terrorist force — reportedly those in through Chinese intelligence The U.S. is also aggressively tration officials, who have plots of today are more com the most senior positions. services, their stateowned working with allies in trying tended to play down the role pact, involving fewer people, Mr. Homayounpour said enterprises, through ostensi to keep China out of domi of Russian influence on the less complicated attacks, the system “will officially bly ‘private’ companies, nating the building of global campaign. shorter period of time, be eliminated” by the end through graduate students, 5G network infrastructure Mr. Wray said malign fo which means fewer dots to of 2019. through researchers, such as by taking action reign influence has conti connect in the first place.” IN BRIEF U.K. court extends Nirav Modi’s remand To remain in custody till the next hearing in the extradition case on May 24

Vidya Ram troying evidence in an effort manded in HM Wandsworth, LONDON to curtail his case. Judge Ar one of Europe’s largest and Diamond merchant Nirav buthnot had accepted the ar most overcrowded prisons. U.S. acting in bad faith Modi will remain in custody guments, saying she was de His case took an unexpected over nuclear talks: Kim till the next hearing in the ex nying bail because of the risk turn in March, after police VLADIVOSTOK tradition proceedings he would fail to surrender to arrested him following a tip Kim Jong-un has accused the against him on May 24 as his the court and his lack of off by an Indianorigin clerk U.S. of acting in “bad faith” in legal team failed to make a community ties. at a bank in central London. talks on its nuclear arsenal, further application for bail He had recognised Mr. Modi North Korean state media before the court in London. No time limit following the wave of public said on Friday as he left During the brief procedu Mr. Modi would have been ity around the case. Mr. Mo Russia following his first ral hearing on Friday, Mr. entitled to make a third bail di’s legal team had been in summit with President Modi — the main accused in Mr. Modi has been remanded application if there had been touch with the Metropolitan Vladimir Putin. The Korean the $2 billion Punjab Nation in HM Wandsworth, one of a substantial change in cir Police’s Extradition Unit to Central News Agency al Bank fraud case — ap Europe’s largest prisons. cumstances for the applica arrange for him to hand him reported Mr. Kim had told peared by a video link from tion. However, no such ap self over voluntarily by ap Mr. Putin that the U.S. Wandsworth Prison in south ing, for which Mr. Modi will plication was made during pointment the following adopted a “unilateral attitude London. be brought in person. the hearing. Mr. Modi has al week. in bad faith” at a summit with Emma Arbuthnot, the There was no further at so so far failed to lodge an Last year, the inspectorate U.S. President Donald Trump in Hanoi. “Peace and security Chief Magistrate of Westmin tempt to push for bail, fol appeal at the High Court, of prisons in the U.K. pu on the Korean peninsula will ster Court, set May 24 for the lowing the unsuccessful ap which would have provided blished a scathing inspection entirely depend on the U.S. next procedural hearing (Mr. plication made before Judge another avenue for him to at report on conditions in the future attitude, and the DPRK Modi has to be produced be Arbuthnot in March, at tempt to gain bail. There is prison in which it warned will guard itself for every fore the court every four which the prosecution ac no time limit on this applica about issues ranging from possible situation,” Mr. Kim weeks) and May 30 for the cused Mr. Modi of threaten tion though. the availability of illicit drugs was quoted as saying. AFP first case management hear ing to kill a witness and des Mr. Modi has been re to overcrowded conditions. CM https://t.me/SSC4ExamsYK https://t.me/Banking4Exams https://t.me/UPSC4Exams https://t.me/TheHindu_Zone_official

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26-04-2019 % CHANGE Sensex dddddddddddddddddddddd 39,067 ddddddddddddddd0.87 Yes Bank in red due to IL&FS, airline loans US Dollardddddddddddddddddddd 70.02 ddddddddddddddd0.32 Gold ddddddddddddddddddddddddddd 33,020 ddddddddddddddd0.45 Brent oil dddddddddddddddddddddddd71.8 ddddddddddddd-4.16 Lender posts whopping ₹1,507 crore loss in Q4 as bad loans surge on exposure to troubled ﬁrms

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT ly, we will continue expand NIFTY 50 Mumbai ing our corporate business PRICE CHANGE Private sector lender Yes which is the foundation on Adani Ports...... 391.75...... 2.50

Asian Paints...... 1448.75...... 0.80 Bank posted a whopping which YES Bank has been Axis Bank ...... 759.90...... 19.00 ₹1,507 crore loss during the built,” Ravneet Gill, manag Bajaj Auto ...... 3044.65...... -43.40 Jan.March period of 201819, ing director and CEO of YES Bajaj Finserv...... 7721.25...... 51.75

...... as bad loans surged due to its Bank, said. Bajaj Finance 3096.85 15.85 Tata Steel steel plant in Port Talbot, South Wales, after Bharti Airtel ...... 325.45...... -3.05 exposure to troubled ﬁrms The bank reported a loan * ...... an explosion at the site on Friday . AFP BPCL 371.05 12.80 like Infrastructure Leasing & growth of 18.7% yearon Britannia Ind ...... 2967.70...... -1.55

Cipla ...... 567.95...... 12.35 Financial Services Ltd. loans in the fourth quarter has a provision of 15% year, though it contracted 1% Coal India ...... 250.50...... -1.15 (IL&FS) and an airline com was ₹3,481 crore, of which against this standard expo sequentially. Deposits grew Dr Reddys Lab ...... 2892.25...... -32.65 pany. The bank, however, ₹552 crore was on account of sure,” Yes Bank said. by 13.4% on year of which re Eicher Motors...... 20330.65...... -9.55 Two injured in blast at GAIL (India)...... 353.40...... 10.30 has refrained from naming an airline company exposure As a result, provisioning tail deposits grew by 40.2%. Grasim Ind ...... 913.45...... -11.35 the airline. that was performing as on during the quarter jumped Ravneet Gill HCL Tech...... 1139.75...... 6.05 The lender posted a March 31, 2019, the bank to ₹3661.7 crore as compared Gogia on board HDFC ...... 1977.40...... 22.25 Tata Steel Wales plant HDFC Bank...... 2280.95...... 17.50 ₹1,179crore profit during the said. to ₹399.64 crore reported interest income growth of The bank has appointed Sha Hero MotoCorp ...... 2604.00...... -8.25 same period of the previous In various group compa during the same period of 16.3% to ₹2,506 crore in gun Kapur Gogia, the Hindalco ...... 201.15...... 4.60 ‘No need for hazardous effect worries’ Hind Unilever ...... 1747.35...... 13.15 financial year. This is the first nies and special purpose the previous year. Q4FY19, while net interest daughter of the late Ashok Indiabulls HFL ...... 738.45...... 5.15 quarterly results under the vehicles of IL&FS, the lender Gross NPAs of the lender margin was at 3.1% during Kapur, who cofounded the Vidya Ram ICICI Bank ...... 407.20...... 11.80 new MD & CEO Ravneet Gill, had an exposure of ₹2,528 jumped to ₹7882.56 crore as the period under review. bank with Rana Kapoor and cy services attended the IndusInd Bank ...... 1698.85...... 15.40 London scene. The fires were soon Bharti Infratel ...... 272.90...... 2.20 who replaced Rana Kapoor, crore as of March 31, 2019, of on Marchend, which was “In this phase of our jour Ravinder Kumar Khanna, to Infosys ...... 738.00...... 9.45 the cofounder of the bank. which ₹2,442 crore was clas 3.22% of the gross advances, ney, we will lay emphasis on the board. The decision to Tata Steel Europe, Britain’s brought under control, and Indian OilCorp...... 152.85...... 0.15 Mr. Kapoor’s threeyear ex sified as NPA. as compared to ₹2,626.80 granularity, sustainability appoint Ms. Gogia comes af Health and Safety Execu police said that there was no ITC ...... 304.55...... 0.40 tive, and emergency servic need for concern around JSW Steel...... 294.00...... 7.40 tension proposal was not ap “₹86 crore continues to be core a year ago (1.28%) and and digitalisation while ter a long legal battle that the Kotak Bank ...... 1379.25...... 18.85 proved by the Reserve Bank classified as ‘standard’ in line ₹5,158.62 crore (2.1%) at the maintaining highest stan late Ashok Kapur’s family es are looking into the caus hazardous effects from the L&T...... 1358.20...... 3.05 of India. with the NCLAT order dated end of December. dards on compliance and was fighting for a board seat es of an explosion at the smoke. Britain’s Health and M&M ...... 659.45...... -5.70 company’s steel works plant Safety Executive confirmed Maruti Suzuki ...... 6842.85...... -62.40 Gross slippages to bad February 25, 2019. The bank The lender reported a net prudence in risk. Important for Ms. Gogia.

NTPC ...... 134.10...... 1.20 in Wales that injured two that its inspectors were on ONGC ...... 168.40...... -0.45 workers, as unions and local site and an investigation was PowerGrid Corp ...... 190.80...... -0.75 politicians called for a de under way. Reliance Ind ...... 1392.80...... 20.40

State Bank ...... 312.50...... 6.30 Hero Q4 net tailed review of what hap Sun Pharma ...... 464.10...... 3.10 ‘Govt. nag for dividends may impact OMCs’ pened. Safety concerns Tata Motors ...... 215.60...... -6.25 declines 24.5% The blast took place Local MP Stephen Kinnock Tata Steel ...... 545.25...... 34.50 TCS ...... 2238.55...... 43.55 IOC, BPCL buybacks possibly pressured by Centre to shore up its financials: Fitch shortly after 3.30 in the warned that the incident Tech Mahindra ...... 823.25...... 6.75 Special Correspondent morning at the U.K.’s largest raised “real concerns about Titan ...... 1137.50...... -3.80 Special Correspondent NEW DELHI steel plant in Port Talbot, safety at the works. It could UltraTech Cement...... 4609.95...... -9.05 while OIL plans to augment MUMBAI UPL...... 970.35...... 5.25 its domestic production and Hero MotoCorp on Friday Wales, which employs over have been a lot worse…Tata Vedanta ...... 169.70...... -0.75 Stateowned oil marketing reserves. OIL has limited posted a fall of 24.5% in its 4,000 people. The incident Steel Europe must conduct Wipro ...... 294.80...... -0.40 was captured by local resi a full review, to improve sa YES Bank...... 237.20...... 0.15 companies’ (OMCs) financial headroom in its current stan standalone net profit to Zee Entertainment ...... 417.70...... 1.60 profiles may be at risk in the dalone credit profile of ₹730.32 crore for the dents, who shared the imag fety,” he said. He was joined near to medium term due to ‘BBB’, which may be revised fourth quarter ended es on social media. by Bethan Sayed, the mem pressure from the govern down if the weakening of its March 31, 2019 amid “slug Two workers who sus ber of the Welsh Assembly EXCHANGE RATES ment to increase sharehol financial profile results in net gish market.” The compa tained minor injuries have for the region, who said she Indicative direct rates in rupees a unit been discharged, the com had contacted Tata Steel for except yen at 4 p.m. on April 26 der returns, according to leverage exceeding 2.5x. ny had posted a net profit CURRENCY TT BUY TT SELL Fitch Ratings. However, in such an of ₹967.40 crore in the Ja pany confirmed. “We are a full outline of what had currently investigating the happened. “Not only must US Dollar...... 69.81...... 70.13 Oil marketers Indian Oil event, OIL will benefit from nuaryMarch 2018 quarter. Euro ...... 77.85...... 78.21 Corporation (IOC), Bharat one notch of support from The total income for the cause of the incident and we protect our workforce, British Pound...... 90.19...... 90.61 Petroleum Corporation the State, resulting in the fi quarter was down nearly are looking to minimise any but ensure safety and secur Japanese Yen (100) . .. . 62.52...... 62.81 BPCL is in the process of expanding refineries and improving Chinese Yuan ...... 10.36...... 10.41 (BPCL) and upstream entity nal rating remaining un 8% to ₹8,049.18 crore from impact on production.” ity for residents nearby.” * K.K. MUSTHAFA Swiss Franc ...... 68.43...... 68.74 Oil India (OIL) declared high downstream integration in petrochemicals. changed at ‘BBB’. ₹ 8,730.54 crore during the South Wales police said A spokesperson for the Singapore Dollar ...... 51.28...... 51.52 interim dividends of 67.5% to In comparison, IOC and the cause of the initial ex community union said their Canadian Dollar...... 51.83...... 52.07 yearago quarter. The firm Malaysian Ringitt ...... 16.88...... 16.98 110% of the face value of turns to shore up the weak that have large investment BPCL have more headroom sold lesser number of vehi plosion that triggered a representatives had been in Source:Indian Bank their shares, and undertook fiscal position and finance plans for the next two years. in their ‘BB+’ standalone cre cles in the JanuaryMarch number of fires was be urgent meetings at the site share buybacks in the finan promises made ahead of the dit profiles and are likely to 2019 period at 17,81,160 un lieved to have been a train to discuss the incident and cial year ended March 31, elections in April and May Upgradation plans remain resilient even in case its, down 11% from that carried molten metal had made clear to the com

BULLION RATES CHENNAI 2019 (FY19). 2019,” Fitch Ratings said, ad IOC and BPCL are in the pro of any modest weakening in 20,01,595 units in the same into the steel works. The pany that it was important site’s own emergency ser that “the time and space is April 26 rates in rupees with previous “These were likely to have ding that higher shareholder cess of upgrading and ex their financial profiles. OMCs period of last year. rates in parentheses been driven by pressure returns would put more panding their refineries and additionally face the risk of The board recommend vices, as well as local fire taken to understand how Retail Silver (1g) ...... 40.7...... (40.6) from the Indian government pressure on the financial improving downstream inte government intervention in ed a final dividend of ₹32 and rescue services, police this happened before pro 22 ct gold (1 g) ...... 3044...... (3042) to increase shareholder re profiles of the companies gration in petrochemicals, fuel prices during elections. per share. and accident and emergen duction is resumed.” Sensex soars Piramal looks to merge Shriram 336 points as oil prices fall Group entities before exit

Press Trust of India To bifurcate pharma, financial businesses in the mid term Mumbai Sensex rallied 336 points to Special correspondent there is right counter party reclaim the 39,000level MUMBAI on the other side and get the on Friday, capping off a vo Piramal Group is looking at a right value, we can exit.” latile week where investors possible merger of Shriram When asked about possi grappled with flaring oil Transport Finance and Shri ble listing of financial servic prices and sudden selloffs ram City Union Finance with es business, Mr. Piramal at higher levels. Shriram Capital, before sell said, “In difficult times, one A strengthening rupee ing its stake in Shriram should have both pharma and unabated foreign fund Group, with investments of and financial services, but inflows also bolstered sen $1 billion. having said that, in the medi timent, traders said. The Besides, the group is also um term we will separate it 30share BSE Sensex, looking to segregate the less out.” which opened on a firm risky pharma business from The company has raised footing, was propelled by a the riskier financial services Ajay Piramal ₹16,500 crore via NCDs and burst of buying in lateaf business in the midterm. bank loans from September ternoon trade. It finally “We are looking at how we holding company Shriram 2018 to March 2019, while re closed at 39,067.33, up can create value for Piramal Capital,” said Ajay Piramal, ducing its commercial paper 336.47 points, or 0.87%. shareholders as well as for chairman, Piramal Enter borrowings by 50% to The NSE Nifty climbed Shriram shareholders. One prises Limited (PEL). Talking ₹8,900 crore during the 112.85 points or 0.97% to of the steps that we are tak about exiting Shriram Capi same period. “As far as the 11,754.65. The rupee re ing is to see that all the enti tal Mr. Piramal said, “We are CP exposure is concerned, bounded by 23 paise to ties of the Shriram Group in also evaluating whether it we will bring it down to 10% close at 70.02 against the the financial services space makes sense and value for of the total borrowings. You U.S. dollar on Friday after can be merged together. Piramal and Shriram, if can see that happening by Brent crude oil prices re Therefore, the lending activ there is an exit possible. the end of the current year ceded from a sixmonth ities and insurance activities There is no time limit that we and lot of it by the end of high of $75.60/barrel. could be merged along with have to do it. If we find that June itself.” Mr. Piramal said. IL&FS invites bids for NCLT issues notices to ITNL stake in China firm Axis, Stanchart CEOs EoI invited to buy shares in 49% equity ‘Banks let IL&FS chief access accounts’

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT letting him access the lock Mumbai Mumbai ers. The Ministry in a sepa Troubled infrastructure The Mumbaibench of the rate petition, also sought to conglomerate Infrastruc National Company Law Tri implead Ms. Ashakiran and ture Leasing & Financial Ser bunal on Friday issued a Ms. Akansha as they were vices Ltd. (IL&FS) has invit contempt notice to Axis the beneficiaries of these ed expression of interest Bank CEO Amitabh Chaud funds. “The bank has today from potential investors for hry and Standard Chartered been served with a copy of buying stake in ITNL Inter Bank India CEO Zarin Daru the contempt petition filed national Pte Ltd.’s 49% equi wala for allowing former by the Ministry of Corporate ty in Chongqing Yuhe Ex IL&FS chief executive Ra Affairs. The bank is examin pressway Company mesh Bawa’s family to with ing the matter and will be fil Limited, a company incor km in China Mainland, over draw money and access ing its reply to the petition porated in China Mainland. which it has the right to col bank lockers in breach of its before the NCLT, Mumbai,” ITNL International Pte lect toll from users,” IL&FS earlier order. an Axis Bank spokesperson Ltd. is a company incorpo said. “Approximately 13.25 The parties have been gi said in an email. rated in Singapore and is a years of the term of the cur ven two weeks time to res “We would like to submit whollyowned subsidiary of rent concession remain as of pond. The next hearing will that the bank has highest re IL&FS Transportation Net 31 March 2019, and Chongq be on June 7. gards for all orders passed works Limited. ITNL is a ing Yuhe Expressway Com The Corporate Affairs Mi by the courts/tribunals ,” it subsidiary of IL&FS. pany Limited has rights to nistry had alleged that these added. “Chongqing Yuhe Ex collect toll from users and banks allowed Mr. Bawa to Standard Chartered Bank pressway Company Limited subsidies from the Chinese withdraw and transfer mo also said the bank would be currently holds a conces Government for the balance ney from their accounts to responding to the contempt sion for a tollbased express period of the concession,” it his wife Ashakiran and petition within the pre way of approximately 58.72 added. daughter Akansha, besides scribed timeline. CM https://t.me/SSC4ExamsYK https://t.me/Banking4Exams https://t.me/UPSC4Exams https://t.me/TheHindu_Zone_official

DELHI THE HINDU 12 BUSINESS SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 2019 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF Easier eligibility norms sought for F&O stocks

Tightened criteria a body blow to segment as huge number of stocks may fail to comply: brokers’ body

ASHISH RUKHAIYAR settlement mechanism is a ANMI wrote to SEBI, high MUMBAI good move by SEBI, the lighting the fact that the new Market participants, stock tightened eligibility criteria norms are detrimental to the brokers in particular, are has come as a body blow to growth of both cash and de knocking on the capital mar the F&O segment as a large rivatives segments. kets regulator’s doors to ease number of stocks are expect In May 2018, an ANMI let HCL Technologies rolls the eligibility criteria for ed to fail to comply. ter to SEBI had stated that Numbers speak: Share of technology patents has increased out Cybersecurity centre stocks to remain in the deriv the tightened eligibility BENGALURU to 64.8% in 201718 from 51% in 2015. * GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCK atives arena, especially after ‘Not fostering growth’ norms “would not only re HCL Technologies has the recent removal of more “Instead of fostering growth duce hedging opportunities launched a CyberSecurity than 30 stocks from the of the markets and integrat for investors, but also result Fusion Center (CSFC) in Texas segment. ing the cash and F&O seg in lower volumes and liquid to provide customers single Share of tech patents point of contact for the The Association of Nation ments, SEBI has enhanced ity for such stocks once they enterprise security life cycle, al Exchanges Members of In eligibility requirements for are out of the derivatives seg from detection to dia (ANMI), an umbrella bo Rule book:Post the introduction of the physical settlement entry into F&O segment un ment”, adding that it would on the rise in IP filings remediation. In today’s dy of stock brokers, has mechanism, 34 F&O stocks are to be removed. * REUTERS der the physical delivery re be ‘highly detrimental’ for all digital age, technology written to the Securities and gime,” Rajesh Baheti, direc sections of market requires fast and Exchange Board of India (SE price discovery. The move physical settlement tor, ANMI, said. “This is participants. AI fastest growing area, says NASSCOM comprehensive IT security BI), highlighting the fact that assumes significance since mechanism. becoming a selffulfilling pro Incidentally, SEBI’s own and the CSFC comes with 20 since the regulator had alrea early this week the stock ex Further, the 34 stocks that phecy of lower volumes driv analysis at the time of intro Special Correspondent for over 50% of the tech pa years of security and dy taken the step towards changes released a list of 34 have been excluded com ing spreads higher which, in ducing physical settlement Bengaluru tents filed in 2017/18, said engineering experience, physical settlement, eligibili stocks that would be re prise 21 such stocks that turn, results in many stocks had estimated that eventual Indiadomiciled companies the report titled ‘Emerging drawn from over 3,500 ty criteria could be eased so moved from the futures and were part of the first batch not fulfilling the new eligibil ly onethird of all F&O stocks filed over 4,600 patents in Technologies: Leading the certified analysts. that both cash and deriva options (F&O) segment for subjected to compulsory de ity criteria and being shunt – 69 to be precise – would ex the U.S. between 2015 and next wave of IP Creation for tives segments benefit from failing to fulfil the eligibility livery in the F&O segment. ed out of the F&O segment,” it from the derivatives seg 2018, of which a majority India’. Ujjivan SFB to invest in better liquidity, lower im criteria as laid down by SEBI, The broker body is of the he added. There have been ment after failing to meet the were from the technology Between 2015 and 2018, IoT to cover rural masses pact cost and more efficient post the introduction of the view that while the physical at least two instances when new eligibility criteria. domain, with artificial intel startups in the country CHENNAI ligence (AI) being the fastest have filed around 200 pa Ujjivan Small Finance Bank growing area followed by In tents in the U.S., a majority will be investing heavily in Internet of Things (IoT) to ternet of Things (IoT). of which focused on emerg offer products for the mass Japan’s Yanmar, Nissei to IRDAI forms panel to review As per a National Associa ing technology areas includ rural banking segment, said a tion of Software and Servic ing Image Processing, AI, top official. “Our new es Companies report re Cyber Security, Vehicle offering will come with voice set up units in Chennai leased on Friday, the share Technology and IoT, the re and facial recognition,” said microinsurance framework of technology patents has port said. Sanjay Kao, chief business Anchor investors in Ponneri cluster consistently increased to officer, Ujjivan Small Finance 64.8% in 201718 from 51% in ’Innovation the key’ Bank Ltd. “As banks and Special Correspondent “Yanmar and Nissei are To suggest ways to boost demand for insurance products 2015. Debjani Ghosh, President, financial insitutions are going CHENNAI the first anchor investors for The portion of emerging NASSCOM said, “It has been in for newer technology, we Yanmar Group and Nissei our industrial cluster. Yan N. Ravi Kumar ber panel has been tasked ble insurance products, mi technologies has increased phenomenal to witness the have to keep pace with that,” Electric of Japan will set up mar is a manufacturer of HYDERABAD with suggesting product de croinsurance promises to consistently to 56.3% in advancements and techno he said. their first manufacturing fa diesel engines. Nissei Elec The Insurance Regulatory signs with customerfriendly support sustainable liveli 201718 from 38.3% in 2015, logical innovation and hu cilities at Origins, an indus tric manufactures optical and Development Authority underwriting, including ea hoods of the poor. However, while the share of computer man intellect with the vol Carborundum Universal trial cluster promoted by fibre products and electrical of India (IRDAI) has set up a sy premium payment meth its market penetration re and communication tech ume of patents being Q4 net rises by 9.84% Mahindra World City at Pon components,” Sangeeta Pra committee to review the reg ods and simple claims settle mains low. nology patents witnessed a recorded over the years. In CHENNAI neri, near here. sad, MD and CEO, Mahindra ulatory framework on mi ment procedures. While reviewing the regu decline. novation is the key to driv Carborundum Universal Ltd., Yanmar Group will be in Lifespace Developer Ltd., croinsurance and recom latory framework on mi Artificial intelligence ing transformation and such (CUMI), a Murugappa group vesting ₹500 crore in diffe said. mend measures to increase Panel representatives croinsurance in the country leads the emerging technol patents and trademarks are company, has reported a rent phases, over a period of Origins, a 60:40 joint the demand for such pro The committee has repre and abroad, the committee ogies patent race, both in a testimony to this transfor 9.84% growth in its four years. Civil work has al venture between Mahindra ducts. sentatives from life, general will suggest changes in the terms of total number of pa mational growth. We are standalone net profit for the fourth quarter ended March ready commenced. Com World City Developers and Comprising officials of the and health insurance com distribution structure, if tents ( 330 patents filed) as confident that we will usher 2019 to ₹23.10 crore from mercial production is ex Sumitomo Corporation of IRDAI, insurers and NGOs, panies in the public and any, including mobilebased well as growth over the pe in a new wave of innovation ₹21.03 crore in the pected to begin by April Japan, will be spread across the committee has been private sectors. A circular and technology driven solu riod 201518. and intelligence in the corresponding quarter of the 2020. 300 acres in the first phase. formed in the backdrop of a from IRDAI said India was tions. Setting a three month Apart from AI, there has country.” previous year, due to Nissei Electric is in the Both partners have commit less thandesired offtake of seen to be a very exciting timeframe for submission of been consistent growth on The study also highlights increase in sales volume. process of getting various ted to invest ₹1,000 crore. microinsurance products market and a pioneer in the the recommendations, the building IP in other emerg the patent growth story in Gross sales improved by approvals. “Origins is expected to at despite their inherent bene microinsurance sector in the circular said the committee ing tech domains, with pa newer application areas in 1.9% to ₹447.62 crore. The The first phase of the in tract investments of up to fits. With IRDAI Executive world. Specifically intended would also suggest creating tents filed in cyber security cluding digital payments board recommended a final dustrial cluster was inaugu ₹3,500 crore when fully op Director Suresh Mathur as for the protection of lowin effective awareness pro (193), IoT (107) and cloud (31), ecommerce (87) and dividend of ₹1.25 per share. rated on Friday. erational,” she said. the chairman, the 13mem come people, with afforda grammes. computing (88) accounting navigation (58).

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top of the order, offered innings in difficult condi some resistance with a fight tions, employed his feet ing 38; he was controversial against the spinners. ly dismissed, caught at point, Then there was a late when replays seemed incon flourish from Hardik Pandya clusive about the ball bounc and Kieron Pollard — Dwayne ing before Suryakumar Ya Bravo went for 17 in the final dav held it. over of the innings — and S. Dinakar Although fortunate to be Mumbai Indians went past CHENNAI dropped on 10 at point by the 150run mark. Cricketing tales hang on slen debutant Anukul Roy — La That proved too tall a der threads. The opportuni sith Malinga the bowler — Vi score even for Super Kings. ty appears and then jay batted with composure disappears. and balance, and some of his Chennai Super Kings al straight hitting was a lot lowed its moment to fly about footwork and timing. away. Not appealing for a There was considerable caught behind when Harbha purchase for the spinners jan Singh got a delivery to from this surface. In the first dip, turn and bounce at the half of the contest, tall left lefthanded Evin Lewis (on arm spinner Mitchell Santner 12), was a matchaltering got the ball to turn and point of the contest. bounce. Wicketkeeper Ambati Ray The ball was gripping for udu, standing in for the in the finger spinners and they disposed M.S. Dhoni, gath were able to get more out of ered the ball even as Lewis the pitch. Batting demanded floundered. Nobody asked application and footwork. the umpire the question. Re Then when Super Kings plays revealed a clear edge. chased, leftarm spinner Kru In an influential partner nal Pandya got some deliver ship, skipper Rohit Sharma ies to come in with the arm, SCOREBOARD CHENNAI SUPER KINGS VS MUMBAI INDIANS (67) and Lewis (32) added 75 made a few others turn away. MUMBAI INDIANS bhajan 40230, Tahir 40371, 1 (3b), Imran Tahir (not out) 0 for the second wicket off 57 Malinga and Jasprit Bum Rohit Sharma c Vijay b Santner Bravo 40350, Santner (0b); Extras (lb1, w5, nb1): 7; balls. On a demanding pitch, rah, with clever variations in 67 (48b, 6x4, 3x6), Quinton de 40132. Total (in 17.4 overs): 109. the match changed course. pace and length, picked up Kock c Rayudu b Deepak Chahar CHENNAI SUPER KINGS FALL OF WICKETS Mumbai Indians posted a wickets; so did impressive 15 (9b, 1x4, 1x6), Evin Lewis c M. Vijay c Suryakumar b Bumrah 19 ( Watson, 0.5 overs), 222 challenging 155 for four after legspinner Rahul Chahar. Bravo b Santner 32 (30b, 3x4, 38 (35b, 3x4, 1x6), Shane Wat (Raina, 3.1), 334 (Rayudu, 4.3), being invited to bat. And a 1x6), Krunal Pandya c Santner b son c Rahul Chahar b Malinga 8 445 (Jadhav, 7.2), 560 (Shorey, spiritless CSK was dismissed Hitman’s day out Tahir 1 (3b), Hardik Pandya (not (4b, 2x4), Suresh Raina c Suryak 9.6), 666 (Vijay, 11.4), 799 for 109 at Chepauk on Friday Earlier, Rohit made batting out) 23 (18b, 1x4, 1x6), Kieron umar b Hardik 2 (4b), Ambati (Bravo, 15.6), 8101 (Deepak night. appear easy with his languid Pollard (not out) 13 (12b, 2x4); Rayudu b Krunal 0 (3b), Kedar Chahar, 16.3), 9103 (Harbhajan, Extras (lb1, w3): 4; Total (for 17.2). ways. A gorgeous striker of Jadhav b Krunal 6 (11b), Dhruv four wkts. in 20 overs): 155. Shorey c Rahul Chahar b Anukul MUMBAI INDIANS BOWLING First reverse at home the ball, he harnessed the FALL OF WICKETS 5 (8b), Dwayne Bravo c & b Ma Malinga 3.40374, Krunal 30 This is CSK’s first loss at pace of the new ball, coaxed 124 (de Kock, 2.4 overs), 299 linga 20 (17b, 2x4), Mitchell 72, Hardik 20221, Bumrah 3 home after seven successive the sphere through the gaps. (Lewis, 12.1), 3101 (Krunal, 13.1), Santner c Pollard b Malinga 22 0102, Rahul Chahar 40210, wins. The host missed Dho He has a feel for the length 4122 (Rohit, 16.2). (20b, 2x6), Deepak Chahar c Anukul 20111. ni’s inspirational presence. and his shotmaking is in SUPER KINGS BOWLING Krunal b Bumrah 0 (2b), Har Toss: Super Kings; MoM: Rohit. Taking control: Rohit Sharma was elegance personified as he guided Mumbai Indians to a Only M. Vijay, back at the stinctive. Rohit piloted the Deepak Chahar 40461, Har bhajan Singh c Hardik b Malinga MI won by 46 runs. competitive total. * B. JOTHI RAMALINGAM

English exodus in focus as Royals meet Sunrisers ‘One door closes, An opportunity for talented Indian players to come to the party another opens’ P.K. Ajith Kumar JAIPUR Moody hopes whoever replaces On Thursday night at the Eden Gardens, Varun Aaron Bairstow makes the chance count was the star with the ball and Riyan Parag with the bat. Special Correspondent have been performing,” Neither was in the scheme of JAIPUR Moody said. things for Rajasthan Royals Tom Moody believes the in the early stage of Vivo exit of England players Dangerous side IPL12. from both Sunrisers He expected Rajasthan Their matchwinning per Hyderabad and Rajasthan also to cope with the loss formances — the two have so Royals will be a great of some key players far played just six matches opportunity for the fringe because of the World Cup between them — could not players. commitments. “We know have come at a better time “One door closes, they are a dangerous side for Steve Smith’s men, who another opens,” the SRH and a challenging one to have to rebuild the side fol coach said here ahead of beat home,” said the lowing Jofra Archer and Ben Saturday’s crucial IPL Australian. Stokes’ return to England. match at the Sawai Looking back at his Royals take on Sunrisers Mansingh Stadium. team’s game against Hyderabad at the Sawai “The topthree is a very Chennai Super Kings, he Mansingh Stadium on special place for batters in said it was defeated by an Saturday. T20 cricket. Everyone individual. “In this format Gearing up: The Sunrisers Hyderabad players, seen at a practice session on Friday, will be keen jumps a chance to bat as of the game, every now Two points difference to tame Royals in their fortress. * ROHIT JAIN PARAS early as possible, batting and then there would be Only two points separate the down the order can be an individual that would two teams. A win could Kolkata Knight Riders the early departure of the explo three successive century 574 runs (average 71.75, challenging.” take the game away from brighten the outside chances other night. sive opener Jos Buttler. stands. strike rate 146.05). Manish So he hoped whoever you,” he said. of a place in the playoffs for The pace of Aaron and Ajinkya Rahane, Smith, Pandey, too, has finally re replaced John Bairstow, “Once Shane Watson the home side, which is se Oshane Thomas could make Sanju Samson and Parag Bairstow’s replacement? gained his form. who had formed such an got going, we had a half cond from the bottom. up for Archer’s absence to a have all found their touch. SRH has to find a replace As for bowling, SRH has astonishingly fruitful chance which we missed, For that, Royals need to certain extent. It would be interesting to ment for Bairstow, who has one of the better attacks in opening partnership with half way through the find a way to overcome the see how Sunrisers cope with gone back to England, at the the competition featuring David Warner, would innings. Ultimately, it was absence of Archer, one of the Crucial role the splitting up of one of the top of the order and some the likes of Rashid Khan, make use of the one individual that beat key men in their campaign. The legspin of Shreyas Go best opening partnerships in one to keep wickets as well. Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Kha opportunity. “We have us, as it was one He spearheaded the bow pal could play a crucial role T20 cricket. The visitors will no doubt leel Ahmed and Sandeep been blessed to have both individual (Watson) that ling with aplomb and is more yet again. David Warner and Jonny be looking up to Warner for Sharma. Warner and Bairstow beat us in the final last than a handy bat down the The batsmen have res Bairstow have added 791 the runs. The dynamic Aus It is likely to be an intrigu performing the way they year.” order, as he showed against ponded rather well to the from 10 innings and had sie holds the orange cap with ing contest. Trying, but results not going our way: Karthik Crucial to have fresh legs for playoffs ‘I have belief in my boys that we will come back stronger’ Chance for many teams to test their bench strength

Amitabha Das Sharma amazing for Kings XI. He got will be interesting to see how Kolkata a hundred and a couple of they get the matchups right. His team’s playOff chances fifties, but nobody selected all but over after six consecu him the following year. Amazing Parag tive losses, Kolkata Knight Looking at the other This is also a great opportun Riders captain Dinesh Kar teams, Wriddhiman Saha ity for the youngsters. I am thik said questions will come should get an opportunity at impressed with Riyan Parag. up about him and the team the top again. He is very What a talent he is! The boy but that will not deter both good, but he has fallen off a doesn’t look that he is just 17 from “setting things right”. bit as well. Mitchell McCle when he holds the bat. He is “Obviously when the re neghan can come in for Ja like one who can take the sults do not go your way son Behrendorff. world by storm. The kids of these questions (about cap s the overseas players Barinder Sran, too, can today are amazing. They taincy) will be asked. But as a Aleave the IPL to join their get an opportunity; so it will come out and just whack it. I team we are trying to do a lot national teams, Rajasthan be for Colin de Grand am really impressed by his of things right. Royals will be the most af homme and Shivam Dube. technique and so is Steve in good space and making batting as well... That is why fected side. But then, it looks Even Washington Sundar Smith, Royals’ captain. Tough to mend sure the dressing room is we are not been able to close unlikely that the team would can come in place of Moeen Yarra Prithviraj is another “It is my job to lead from the good and they all trust in the out the games,” Karthik said make it to the playoffs. Ali for RCB. talent who reminds me of front. But sometimes the re leader. about his team’s repeated With slots available, this is Now, it is time for teams the young Mitchell Starc. sults do not go your way. So, “But the fact is that we try failures. Shining star: Varun Aaron, who bowled with fire to jolt KKR, an opportunity for many. like Mumbai Indians and Now that the slots are open, it is obviously always a tough hard as a team and I have be will look to continue in the same vein against SRH.* PTI Chennai Super Kings to start I am hoping that Shubman thing to mend,” the KKR lief in my boys that we will County stint helps Remarkable numbers using some of the players Gill will be given more op skipper said after losing his come back stronger,” Karthik Rajasthan Royals pacer Va ling inswing but it is coming kept trying to reach the tar For SRH, Martin Guptill from the bench. They have portunity at the top. team lost its sixth match, said after his unbeaten 97 run Aaron, who impressed off a lot better after my coun get. “At no point we thought comes in. I wonder why they been on the road for a fair bit Prithvi Shaw, for the first against Rajasthan Royals at failed to get KKR the win it with his pace and control ty stint,” Aaron said adding that the game was lost as the didn’t pick him before. His and now it’s like training a time in his life, is being tar Eden Gardens, on Thursday. was desperately looking for. with the new ball (31102), that he will be returning to Eden Gardens has such a fast numbers were outstanding. race horse, you have got to geted. It needs to be seen “There are no things that “I think the bowling over said his stint with the County his county side after the IPL. outfield. We were just like I fail to understand how the get it right. how he copes with that. Wel we are not attending to. We all has been found wanting a side Leicestershire helped Aaron said the team never three or four hits away and it franchises look to select the You got to get guys fresh, come to international crick are trying to keep everybody little bit definitely and the him a lot. “I have been bow felt the match was lost and came off well,” Aaron said. players. Hashim Amla was leading into the playoffs. It et, boys!

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TV PICKS Badminton: Asia Champion Divyansh nails Olympic quota Women’s IPL: Aussies ‘stopped’ by CA ships: Sony Ten 2 (SD & HD), 11.30 a.m. Press Trust of India PTI indicates that stopping IPL operations team. IPL: Star Sports 1, 2 & Select 1 Misses gold by 0.4 point in men’s air rifle; China’s Zicheng takes the top spot NEW DELHI the three is a “pressure The BCCI has lambasted (SD & HD), 8 p.m. Australia’s women tactic” to ensure CA for putting conditions SHOOTING WC cricketers have been postponement of the men’s on the release of women IN BRIEF stopped by their Board ODI series. players. Sports Bureau from participating in the As per the new Future “If you look at the Beijing planned women’s IPL next Tours Programme, contents of Belinda’s email, Divyansh Singh Panwar mis month owing to a men’s Australia was supposed to it is clear that they are sed the gold by 0.4 point in bilateral series dispute with play three ODIs in January resorting to blackmailing men’s air rifle, but grasped the BCCI, which says its 2020, which is during the tactics. How is releasing the much elusive Olympic counterpart down under is peak Australian summer, women players related to quota place in the shooting indulging in “blackmail”. owing to pressure from men’s series. It was agreed World Cup in China, on Three players — Meg broadcasters. as per FTP and they want Friday. Lanning, Ellyse Perry and “We will be in a position to backtrack now,” a senior Bristling with confidence pak Kumar, the Asian Games Alyssa Healy — who would to consider the request official told PTI. Watson calls time after having won the mixed silver medallist, placed 44th have been big draws in the when the current issue The BCCI’s IPL on BBL career air rifle gold in partnership and 57th respectively. women’s IPL have been regarding the men’s ODI operations team had SYDNEY with Anjum Moudgil a day stopped by Cricket series that was agreed in written to the CA for the Shane Watson retired from earlier, the 16yearold Di Bright talent Australia. The matches, to the FTP for late January release of the three players Australia’s Twenty20 Big vyansh, a student of Mahesh Another bright junior who is be held between three 2020 is resolved by Rahul on April 4 and Clark mailed Bash League on Friday, but wari Public School in Jaipur, teams, will be held from (BCCI CEO Rahul Johri) and on April 5. “Since April 5, will continue playing select versatile in a string of pistol was brilliant in the indivi May 6 to 11 in Jaipur. Kevin (CA CEO Kevin there hasn’t been a single overseas tournaments. The events, the 17yearold 37yearold, who quit dual event, to secure the Adarsh Singh, shot 583 in ra An email from Cricket Roberts). I understand that communication from CA international cricket in 2016, country’s fourth Olympic pid fire pistol and missed the Australia’s top official this is being worked and we had no option but stood down as Sydney quota for Tokyo 2020. final by two points. Belinda Clark (former through at present,” Clarke to name the teams,” the Thunder’s captain and all Anjum Moudgil, Apurvi Whle Lin Junmin of China skipper) in possession of wrote in an email to the official added. time top runscorer to spend Chandela had won the air ri won the gold with 35 hits in more time with his family. He fle Olympic quota in the the final, the qualification is the only Thunder batsman World Championship last topper Oliver Geis (589) of to score more than 1,000 year, while Saurabh Chaud Germany won the silver and ICC announces WC match officials runs. AFP hary had won the air pistol secured the Olympic quota Olympic quota at the Dr. Kar place. ni Singh Range, Delhi, in The results: India’s Ravi among 16 umpires February. 25m rapid fire pistol: 1. Lin Jun Press Trust of India min (Chn) 35 (587); 2. Oliver tional Cricket Council (ICC) Highly accurate Geis (Ger) 31 (589); 3. Jean Qui Dubai announced. Qualifying in the third place quampoix (Fra) 27 (587); 10. Three World Cup winners The officials: Match Referees: with 629.2, Divyansh was Adarsh Singh 583; 22. Anish and one Indian umpire in Chris Broad, David Boon, Andy highly accurate in the final in Brilliant display: Young Divyansh Singh Panwar sealed India’s Bhanwala 578; 29. Arpit Goel Sundaram Ravi were on Fri Pycroft, Jeff Crowe, Ranjan Ma 575. MQS: Bhavesh Shekhawat dugalle, and Richie Richardson. Ian Gould to quit which he shot 10.1 or better fourth Olympic quota for Tokyo 2020. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT day named among the 22 576. after World Cup with 23 of the 24 shots. match officials for the league Umpires: Aleem Dar, Kumar 10m air rifle: 1. Hui Zicheng Dharmasena, Marais Erasmus, NEW DELHI A 9.5 on the 14th shot pos as well, for Tokyo. Grigorii Shamakov of Russia stage of the mega event be (Chn) 249.4 (627.5); 2. Di Chris Gaffaney, Ian Gould, Ri Experienced English umpire sibly made the difference as Hui Zicheng won the gold, apart from Divyansh. ginning on May 30 in the Un vyansh Singh Panwar 249.0 chard Illingworth, Richard Ket Ian Gould will quit umpiring he missed the gold. but China had already won Two other seasoned shoo (629.2); 3. Grigorii Shamakov ited Kingdom. tleborough, Nigel Llong, Bruce after this year’s World Cup — However, It was a relief for two Olympic quota places in ters from Indian Air Force, (Rus) 227.5 (628.9); 44. Ravi Sixteen umpires and six Oxenford, S. Ravi, Paul Reiffel, his fourth. The 61yearold, the Indian camp to add one the event. Ravi Kumar who had wont Kumar 624.1; 57. Deepak Kumar match referees have been fi Rod Tucker, Joel Wilson, Mi who was England’s to the collection, as it would Thus, the Olympic quota he Asian Games mixed 622.6. MQS: Tejas Krishna Pra nalised for the 48match chael Gough, Ruchira Palliya wicketkeeper in the 1983 ensure a mixed air rifle entry went to the bronze medallist bronze with Apurvi and Dee sad 620.7. tournament, the Interna guruge, and Paul Wilson. S. Ravi. * FILE PHOTO World Cup, has officiated in 74 Tests, 135 ODIs and 37 T20Is so far. Manager of Cricket Geoff Allardice Nadal inches praised Gould’s contribution Super Cup fiasco: AIFF committee Spurs bounce back to force decider to the game as umpire. “His closer to presence on the field will be to determine punishment Nikola Jokic’s Nuggets’ playoff record goes in vain missed, but I am sure his historic 12 lifelong association with the Special Correspondent game will continue,” he said. la FC and Aizawl FC — which based on the articles and NBA PLAYOFFS IANS KOLKATA have been served show clauses contained in the par Agence France-Presse The fate of the seven I cause notices on the recom ticipation agreement of the Agence France-Presse BARCELONA Pardeep, Mirabai clinch League clubs which unilater mendations of the AIFF tournaments signed by the Los Angeles bronze in clean and jerk ally withdrew from the sea League committee, which teams at the start of the sea The San Antonio Spurs we Rafael Nadal moved closer NINGBO sonending Super Cup, prot first took up the issue. son. ren’t about to go quietly in to a historic 12th title at the India’s Pardeep Singh won a esting against the All India The meeting will be held their first round series with Barcelona Open on Friday bronze in clean and jerk in Football Federation, will be ‘Strict measures’ on two days to allow the se the Denver Nuggets, deliver with a 75, 75 victory over the 102kg category of the Germany’s World No. 51 Asian weightlifting decided in the disciplinary The AIFF general secretary ven clubs to depose follow ing a dominating 120103 committee meeting of the Kushal Das has, in a recent ing which the committee win on Thursday to force a JanLennard Struff. championships on Friday. The top seed, at his Former World champion national federation, which statement, said that the will announce its decision. winnertake all game seven. home event, stands just Mirabai Chanu (49kg) had convenes on Saturday. clubs cannot malign the na The clubs next have the op The Spurs kept their post two wins away from be also picked up a bronze in The disciplinary commit tional federation and should tion of approaching to the season alive by shooting and clean and jerk with a personal tee, chaired by senior advo face “strict measures” for appeals committee. rebounding their way to vic coming the first player in best of 113kg though she cate Ushanath Banerjee, will their action. Meanwhile, the All India tory in game six at home af ATP Tour history to cap finished fourth in total lift be hearing the depositions The AIFF disciplinary Football Federation has for ter losing two straight in the ture the same title 12 times. (199kg). PTI of the representatives of the committee, formed primari mally decided to appoint Ro series. He currently owns 11 at seven clubs — Minerva Pun ly with advocates as its mem manian Doru Isac as the new LaMarcus Aldridge Monte Carlo, Roland Gar jab FC, East Bengal, Mohun bers, will have the responsi technical director of Indian poured in 26 points and ros and Barcelona. Bagan, Churchill Brothers, bility of determining the football, replacing Savio Me grabbed 10 rebounds, and NEROCA FC, Gokulam Kera quantum of punishment deira. DeRozan added 25 points as Osaka’s great escape the Spurs, who were the bet At Stuttgart, Naomi Osaka ter team off the bench and battled back from 15 down down the stretch. in the final set to reach her Indian campaign comes to an end Rudy Gay added 19 points first clay court semifinal Neymar banned for for the Spurs. Derrick White with a 63, 46, 76(4) win three CL games and Bryn Forbes scored 13 over Donna Vekic. World LAUSANNE Sindhu, Saina and Sameer lose in quarterfinals and 12 points, respectively, No. 3 Petra Kvitova over Neymar was suspended for for San Antonio, the seventh came a rocky start to beat three Champions League cond seed Shi Yuqi of China Rio Olympic silver medallist seed in the West. Laying it on! LaMarcus Aldridge was at his best, shooting and Anastasija Sevastova. matches by the UEFA on ASIAN C’SHIPS 2110, 2112. was stunned by unseeded lo Nikola Jokic scored 43 rebounding to keep Spurs’ season alive. * AFP The results (quarterfinals): Friday for insulting match Press Trust of India Taking the court first, Sai cal girl Cai Yanyan. Sindhu points to set a Nuggets’ fran ATP Barcelona Open: Rafael officials following PSG’s Wuhan (China) chise playoff record in the to take a brief 5047 lead. 152 run and pushed the Nadal bt JanLennard Struff shock Champions League loss na put up a tough fight but looked a pale shadow of her The Indian campaign in the could not avoid a 1321, 2321, self and was beaten 2119, loss. San Antonio led by five Spurs’ lead to 10587, and 75, 75; Kei Nishikori bt Ro to Manchester United. The berto Carballes Baena 64, The total was a career points to start the fourth, Denver never got closer than Brazil star missed the 31 badminton Asia champion 1621 defeat at the hands of 219. 75; Daniil Medvedev bt Nico secondleg last16 defeat on ships ended quicker than ex third seed Akane Yamaguchi The World No. 6 Indian high for the Serb star. Jokic but scored the first eight 15 points the remainder of las Jarry 63, 64. March 6 through injury, but pected with P.V. Sindhu, Sai of Japan. went down in just 31 minutes also grabbed 12 rebounds points of the period to com the game. WTA Stuttgart Open: Naomi was found guilty of insulting na Nehwal and Sameer The match lasted an hour against her Chinese oppo and recorded nine assists. pile a 9885 lead. The result: San Antonio Spurs Osaka bt Donna Vekic 63, the match officials while Verma knocked out in the and nine minutes. nent, who is ranked 11 places Denver survived the A threepointer by Forbes 120 (LaMarcus Aldridge 26) bt 46, 76(4); Petra Kvitova bt watching from the sidelines quarterfinals here on Friday. Much was expected from below. It was Sindhu’s mai Spurs’ quick start and came as the shot clock ran down Denver Nuggets 103 (Nikola Anastasija Sevastova 26, 62, at the Parc des Princes. AFP Sameer was beaten by se fourth seed Sindhu but the den loss to Yanyan. back in the second quarter with 7:28 to play capped a Jokic 43). Series tied 3-3. 63.

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THE HINDU CROSSWORD 12611 (set by Incognito) SUDOKU FAITH 12 Covet a mad bird or missile (6) 6 Place the ball is kept when 13 A type of wheel that controls taking a penalty kick then and Rescuer of earth cattle in Germany (8) there (234) The Varaha avatara has been celebrated by the Azhvars in 7 Technological fantasy movie 15 Pen with custom (5) their verses. Varaha is the giver of knowledge and is known created by the Supreme Court 17 Everyone following Western as Jnanapiraan. Thirumangai Azhvar praises Varaha avatara of India and the Film Institute tabloid get interior decoration initially (32) in the very first decad of his Peria Thirumozhi. So huge was material (9) the Lord’s appearance as Varaha, that the waters of the 19 Oxidise an egg before cross 8 Flabbergasted by unsteady ocean could be contained in just one hoof of His. One of the young army officer has tea movement (9) names of the Lord in the Vishnu Sahasranama is tridasaad brewed (9) 9 Caucasian fibs while telling hyakshah — saviour of the gods. This is the 539th name in Pa 20 Classification date was diplomatic untruths (5,4) rasara Bhatta’s classification, elaborated M.A. Venkatakrish mechanically written (5) nan in a discourse. 14 Hops wildly after hard work in Tridasa is a reference to the devas, and it means three 21 Final pant before croaking? a bad working environment times ten, that is thirty. But there are thirtythre e devas in (4,4) (9) all. There are 11 Rudras, 12 Adityas, eight vasus an d two as 23 Napping general swallowed by 15 Court daughter with money wins, taking the total to thirtythree. Under each of t hese snake (6) and ultimate poems in forests there are one crore devatas, which means there are 33 crore 27 Top person to look after (6,3) (9) devatas in all! When all of them were in danger, it was Vara 28 Smell of a gypsy (5) 16 Washington's first lady's ha who rescued them, and so He is tridasaadhyakshah. The 29 Splotches spoilt satin skirt at initially rustic and raw (9) first work of Nammazhvar was Thiruviruttam, and in this, in first (6) the very first verse, he talks about Varaha. Later in another 18 Sprinkle on a seasoned Solution to puzzle 12610 Solution to yesterday’s Sudoku verse, he talks about perum kezhal — the big boar. The Vish 30 Top Gun pilot's loose cannon? sausage (9) nu Purana describes Varaha’s eyes as lotuses, and Nam ■ ACROSS (8) 22 Mambas lost initial mazhvar says he was blessed by these lotus eyes. He also 1 Baron not having stuff to ■ momentum and danced this gives a beautiful description. When the wind blows, lotuses colour leather (8) DOWN dance (5) in a pond sway in the direction of the wind. In the same way, 5 Freewheels in lands next to 1 Arabs travel to this port (5) 24 Wager an anti vampire Varaha’s lotuslike eyes also completely turned towards sea (6) 2 Writer with sex appeal has weapon (5) Nammazhvar, like lotuses on their stalks, bending befo re 10 Sanskrit aphorism formulated unknown power (9) the wind! In other words, Nammazhvar says he was blessed by ultras without learning (5) 3 Rogue knight's holding part of 25 Lark played in a renovated to be the recipient of all His mercy. Again, towards the end National Park (5) 11 Indian warrior king's headgear a church (5) of the Tiruviruttam, he talks about Varaha’s rescue of the retained in your area in the 4 Weapon United Kingdom hid in 26 Cheese found wrapped in Earth. Varaha also finds a place in his other works — Thiru beginning (9) the north east (4) taffetas (4) vasiriyam, Peria Thiruvandadi and Thiruvaimozhi.

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I had better than the magic word up his second successive puts which helped him watched their videos and Wimbledon! gold of the year, while Pooja tame Olympic bronze me prepared myself according The All India Tennis Asso Rani finished on top in wo dallist Kim Inkyu in the 52kg ly. I gathered some points ciation (AITA) Trust, in a no men’s 81kg to bring India’s final at the Asian boxing from the boxers who had al vel and attractive way, has campaign to a fine end in the championships in Bangkok ready fought with my oppo tried to inspire the tennis Asian boxing championships on Friday. nents and sought the help of players and enthusiasts here on Friday. Panghal, who had over my coaches to prepare across the country by offer Archana with Prakash. India ended the event come 49kg Olympic cham sound strategies.” ing 10 Wimbledon tickets for * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT with 13 medals — two gold, pion Hasanboy Dusmatov in Panghal was delighted to this year’s tournament, for free Wimbledon tickets. four silver and seven bronze. the semifinals, had another have landed a gold medal in along with ₹20,000 each, to Except for Sappi, the 38 Panghal, who won the uphill task against Inkyu in his first competition in 52kg partially take care of the yearold from Bengaluru, Asian Games gold medal last the title clash. since his switch from 49kg. expenses. the others were in the age year, defeated Korea’s Kim He achieved the rare feat “A lot of good boxers had In the draw held at the RK group of nine to 16. The Inkyu in a unanimous deci of being an Asian Games come for the event. This ex Khanna Stadium here on Fri nineyearold Prakash is the sion. He came into the tour and Asian championships posure will help me in day, under the supervision son of former National wo gold medallist by sticking to World championships and of the administrator of the nament on the back of a gold Packing a punch: India ended up with 13 medals — two gold, four silver and seven bronze. men’s champion Archana his game plan. Olympics. I will work harder AITA Trust V.K. Batra and at the Strandja memorial * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Venkataraman. tournament in February in “The Korean was an ex than ever to make my coun Prashant Menon, 10 names When contacted in Ben Bulgaria. tion since moving up to 52kg this year. resulted in his wound, sus perienced boxer, a bronze try proud.” were drawn through compu galuru, Archana was quite The 28yearold Pooja, a from the 49kg division ear However, India’s high per tained in the semifinals, medallist in the Olympics. The 23yearold said he ter application, The Hat. thrilled and said it would be silvermedallist at the event lier this year. Up against an formance director Santiago opening up just a minute in Kavinder (who settled for a must improve his game There were as many as a “dream experience” for in 2012, struck gold defeat opponent willing to play the Nieva told PTI the gesture to the third round. This 56kg silver medal) had ahead of the World cham 6005 names in the list, most her son to be at Wimbledon ing China’s Wang Lina. waiting game, Panghal was merely to highlight made Bisht slightly defensive fought with him earlier and pionships, which should be ly of players registered with at such a young age. However, National cham adopted his usual aggressive “how wrong” the decision and allowed the Uzbek to he told me some good the qualifying event for the the AITA, and many others She said she would do pion Deepak Singh (49kg), style, and it paid off. was. edge ahead. points as to how I should 2020 Olympics. related to the game through everything possible to take Kavinder Singh Bisht (56kg) Earlier, at the end of Dee Bisht also lost to an Uzbek Later, Ashish went down tackle the Korean. “I will have to add more clubs, etc. her son to London, even and Ashish Kumar (75kg) pak’s highly contentious in Mirazizbek Mirzahalilov, a to Kazakhstan’s Tursynbay “He told me that he power to my punches. Nor Devasree, Vijay Sappi, Ad though there was no clarity signed off with silver medals. split loss to Nodirjon Mirzah unanimous decision. The Kulakhmet in a unanimous comes closer and I had pre mally, the reach of the 52kg waita Nagar, Harwin Singh, about the Wimbledon ticket In the women’s draw, Na medov of Uzbekistan, the In boxer from Uttarakhand decision. pared myself according to boxers is longer. Dhananjay Athreya, Prakash for the accompanying tional champion Simranjit dian contingent handed the fought with a bandage over Simranjit squared off that input and won the “So, I will work on that as Saran, Shivansh Singhal, Nik parent. Kaur (64kg) ended with a sil referee the yellow card his right eye but did not back against China’s reigning bout,” Panghal told The well. I need to work on be hil Verma, Drishti Abhishek Wimbledon is scheduled ver medal. meant for seeking a review, down from going for the World champion Dou Dan, Hindu. ing more aggressive in order Jain and Pranav Heggere from July 1 to 14, but excite This was Panghal’s mai which was introduced in the offensive. before Pooja fought it out According to Panghal, a to build more pressure on were the names that ment has already begun for den international competi tournament on a trial basis The aggressive approach with Lina. thorough preparation was my opponents,” he said. emerged in the draw of lots the 10 lucky winners. IN BRIEF Ramkumar in last four Sakshi, Vinesh ‘Delhi showed character in ending home struggle’ finish on Dhawan says the pitches at Kotla have not been typical T20 ones this time INDIANS ABROAD ria: Doubles (semifinals): Arjun Kadhe & Vijay Sundar Prash- podium Abhishek Mukherjee Sports bureau anth bt Danylo Kalenichenko NEW DELHI (Ukr) & Niels Lootsma (Ned) Nanchang (China) Press Trust of India 6-3, 6-2; Quarterfinals: Arjun Delhi Capitals occupies the X’ian (China) Davis Cupper Ramkumar Kadhe & Vijay Sundar Prash- second place in the points Ramanathan outplayed Rio Olympics bronze me table and is one win away Sala's father Horacio anth bt William Bushamuka & Zhizhen Zhang of China 63, Luke Jacob Gamble (US) 6-4, dallist Sakshi Malik and from sealing a place in the dies aged 58 60 in the quarterfinals of 6-4. Asian Games champion Vi playoffs. It has been a big PARIS The father of Emiliano Sala, the $54,160 Challenger ten $25,000 ITF men, Andijan, Uz nesh Phogat settled for a turnaround for a club that Horacio, has died at the age nis tournament in Nan bekistan: Singles (quarterfi bronze each as Indian wo has struggled to match up of 58 following a heart chang, China, on Friday. nals): Konstantin Kravchuk men ended their campaign with the heavyweights in attack, the mayor of the Serving well and not fac (Rus) bt Sidharth Rawat 7-6(1), without a gold medal in the the last few years. village where he lived said on ing a single break point in 7-5; Prequarterfinals: Sid- Asian Wrestling Champion This season, struggles at Friday. His sudden passing the whole match that lasted harth Rawat bt Kristian Lozan ships here on Friday. home seemed to impede the comes just three months 54 minutes, the fourth seed (Rus) 7-5, 5-1 (retd.); Vladyslav Both Sakshi (62kg) and side’s progress while it had a after his son, Argentina ed Ramkumar converted Manafov (Ukr) bt Rishab Agar- Vinesh (53kg) lost their successful away run. Ac striker Emiliano, was killed four of five breakpoints that wal 6-2, 6-2. quarterfinal bouts but cording to opener Shikhar when the aircraft he was he forced, in setting up a Doubles (quarterfinals): Jose made their way to the podi Dhawan, the pitches at the travelling in crashed in the semifinal against top seed Fco Vidal Azorin (Esp) & Aryan um through the repechage Ferozeshah Kotla took time English Channel. “Horacio's Nordan Thompson of Goveas bt Temur Ismailov & round as their victors getting used to. wife called me at five o'clock Australia. Amal Sultanbekov (Uzb) 7-5, reached the finals. “Delhi pitches this time Memorable moment: Manimeghlai, left, and Shruti, medal winners at the Special Olympics, in the morning. The doctors 6-4. In the ATP Tour event in In the bronze medal are not like the typical T20 with the Delhi Capitals players at a promotional event on Friday. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT were already there, he never Budapest, top seeds Rohan $15,000 ITF men, Cairo, Egypt: playoffs, Vinesh beat Qia pitches. It’s not easy to manged to get over the Bopanna and Dominic In Doubles (quarterfinals): Petr nyu Pang of China 81 while make big scores. It takes Tubes Limited, a sponsor of [for the World Cup]. I have the event. death of Emi,” Progreso glot of Britain were beaten Hajek (Cze) & Kai Wehnelt Sakshi got the better of time getting used to and it’s the club, here on Friday. been playing [OneDay In Manimeghlai and Shruti, mayor Julio Mueller said. AFP by the duo of Andre Bege (Ger) bt Giovani Samaha (bn) & North Korea’s Hyon Gyong important to understand Looking forward to the ternationals] for a long two differentlyabled wo Anirudh Chandrasekar 6-2, 7-6 Getafe holds manna and Ernests Gulbis Mun 96. the pitch. We showed cha World Cup, he said, “I’m en time,” he said. men cyclists who won me 63, 64 in the doubles (4); Arnaud Bovy & Gauthier With the two bronze racter to win [against Kings joying this tournament (the Prithvi Shaw, Axar Patel, dals at the Special Olympics Real Madrid Onclin (Ble) bt Tarun Anirudh quarterfinals. won on Thursday through XI Punjab] after a string of IPL). I’m happy with the Trent Boult, and Amit Mis last month, were felicitated. GETAFE Chilakalapudi & PC Vignesh Manju Kumari (59kg) and losses at [home],” Dhawan way I’m performing for Del hra were the other mem Manimeghlai had won the Real Madrid’s dreary end to In the ITF men’s Futures 7-5, 6-1. the La Liga season took in Nigeria, top seeds Arjun Divya Kakran (68kg), the said, at a promotional event hi Capitals. There is no spe bers of the entourage of goldmedal while Shruti had another turn for the worse on Kadhe and Vijay Sundar $25,000 ITF women, Andijan, Indian women wrestlers organised by APL Apollo cial planning from my side players that were present at won the silver. Thursday as it was left Prashanth made the doubles Uzbekistan: Singles (quarter ended their campaign with holding on for a goalless draw final. finals): Pranjala Yadlapalli bt four bronze medals. Anastasia Pribylova (Rus) 6-4, away to Champions League The results: Pooja Dhanda (57kg) 2-6, 6-2; Prequarterfinals: chaser Getafe. Sevilla’s 5-0 €586,140 ATP, Budapest, Hun Gozal Aintdinova (Kaz) bt Riya won against Sevara Eshmu thrashing of Rayo Vallecano gary: Doubles (quarterfinals): Bhatia 5-7, 6-2, 6-3; Anastasia ratova (Uzbekistan) and before kick-off meaning it Andre Begemann (Ger) & Er- Pribylova (Rus) bt Rutuja Bho- then beat Emma Tissina stays fourth, only by virtue of nests Gulbis (Lat) bt Dominic sale 6-7(4), 6-4, 6-2; Pranjala (Kazakhstan) in the quar a superior head-to-head. Inglot (GBR) & Rohan Bopanna Yadlapalli bt Alicia Barnett terfinals before losing 84 The results: La Liga: Sevilla 5 6-3, 6-4. (GBR) 6-1, 4-6, 6-0. against World champion (Promes 55, Munir 57, 62, Ben $54,160 Challenger, Nan Yedder 69, Gil 86) bt Rayo chang, China: Singles (quar Doubles (quarterfinals): Ami- Ningning Rong (China) in Vallecano 0; Real Sociedad 0 terfinals): Ramkumar Rama- na Anshba (Rus) & Anastasia the lastfour round. In the lost to Villarreal 1 (Gerard nathan bt Zhizhen Zhang (Chn) Detiuc (Cze) bt Natalja Kostic bronze medal playoff, Poo 85); Getafe 0 drew with Real 6-3, 6-0. (Srb) & Rutuja Bhosale 6-7(5), ja lost 53 to Tserenchimed Madrid 0. $25,000 ITF men, Abuja, Nige 6-1, [12-10]. Sukhee of Mongolia. Dilip Thomas bestowed lifetime award

Rakesh Rao eration’s Board of Directors contribution as coaches. NEW DELHI overseeing the return of golf Kavita Singh was chosen for India’s wellknown golf ad to the 2016 Olympic Games. the ‘Inspiration to women’s ministrator Dilip Thomas Speaking to The Hindu, golf’ award. was bestowed the ‘Lifetime Thomas said, “In golf, I ex The awardees: contribution to Golf’ honour Outstanding Achievement as a pect India to grow from at the Golf Industry Associa player: Gaganjeet Bhullar. strength to strength. In tion (GIA) Awards nite at the Inspiration to women’s golf: sports, involving mind and Delhi Golf Club here on Kavita Singh. touch, much like shooting, Friday. Contribution to golf as coach: archery, chess, cuesports Nonita Lall Qureshi and Vijay Thomas, who has played etc., India tends to do well. Divecha. his part in the growth of golf The need of the hour is, the Best memberengagement in the country for over three Dilip Thomas. * FILE PHOTO government should come programme: Royal Calcutta decades, was “over where India has done well, forward in setting up public Golf Club. whelmed” on learning that particularly our profession golf courses.” Best new 9hole golf course: Eco Park, Kolkata. he was named among the als at various levels,” said Gaganjeet Bhullar was Best new Club House: Qutab awardees. Thomas who has remained named for “Outstanding Golf Course; Best restoration “When you do what you on the council of Indian Golf Achievement as a player” of a golf course: Boulder Hills. set out to do, you don’t ex Union for over two decades. award. Nonita Lall Qureshi Lifetime contribution to golf: pect awards. I want to conti Notably, he was also part and Vijay Divecha were the Dilip Thomas; Lifetime service nue giving back to the sport of the International Golf Fed worthy awardees for their in golf: P. K. Bhattacharya.

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Irish rockers The Cranber ate demo version that she’d The owner of Italian fashion Up to one million species The pace of loss “is alrea ries are saying goodbye with be unable to achieve later in giant Gucci is set to pay a face extinction due to hu dy tens to hundreds of times their final album released on a studio. This time, her vo record fine of nearly €1.5 man influence, according to higher than it has been, on Friday, a poignant tribute to cals were especially strong. billion euros in a tax evasion a draft UN report that pain average, over the last 10 mil lead singer Dolores O’Rior “When Delores was doing case, according to media stakingly catalogues how hu lion years,” it notes. “Halfa dan who died last year. the demos, she kind of gave reports on Friday. Luxury manity has undermined the million to a million species In the End is the eighth that bit more and was really group Kering is expected to natural resources upon are projected to be threa studio album from the band just feeling very emotional sign an agreement on the which its very survival tened with extinction, many that rose to fame in the early with these songs,” said amount due on May 2. AFP depends. within decades.” 1990s with hits likes Zombie Dolores O’Riordan drummer Fergal Lawler. The accelerating loss of “If we’re going to have a and Linger, and includes the “The songs are about a pe clean air, drinkable water, sustainable planet that pro final recordings by O’Rior came as soon as it was riod of her life that was quite forests, pollinating insects, vides services to communi dan, who drowned in a Lon plugged it in. Her urgent, po difficult for her and she proteinrich fish and storm A view of the Vohibola forest, one of the last primary forests ties around the world, we don hotel bath in January werful voice was all over ru wanted to get that out and blocking mangroves — to in eastern Madagascar, where illegal logging is rampant. * AFP need to change this trajecto 2018 due to alcohol dimentary songs she hadn’t get it down on paper and name but a few of the dwin ry in the next ten years, just intoxication. gotten around to email. move past it.” dling services rendered by tions meeting in Paris from chair of the UNmandated as we need to do that with Whether or not there “It was just like winning Not having O’Riordan Nature — poses no less of a April 29 will vet the execu body that compiled the climate,” noted WWF chief would be a final Cranberries’ the Lotto,” said Noel Hogan, around to offer fresh vocals Burj Khalifa lights up threat than climate change, tive summary linebyline. report. scientist Rebecca Shaw, for album hinged on a hard the band’s lead guitarist and meant the band had to with Sri Lanka flag says the report, set to be un Wording may change, but fi merly a member of the UN drive. Months after the sin cowriter. “And that was it. adapt. If she left behind soft DUBAI veiled on May 6. gures lifted from the under Unsustainable methods scientific bodies for both cli ger’s death, the other mem We had the songs.” ly delivered lyrics, the band Dubai’s iconic skyscraper Burj Indeed, biodiversity loss lying report cannot be “The way we produce our mate and biodiversity. bers of the Irish band began Like a parting gift, O’Rior had to play softer. If an un Khalifa lit up to the colours of and global warming are altered. food and energy is under The direct causes of spe combing through unfinished dan left enough strong vo finished song needed so Sri Lanka’s flag to show closely linked, according to “We need to recognise mining the regulating servic cies loss, in order of impor vocals that O’Riordan had cals on the demos that the mething in the middle, they solidarity with the victims of the 44page summary for that climate change and loss es that we get from Nature,” tance, are shrinking habitat sent them. Cranberries were able to had to improvise. In the End the bombings on Easter policymakers, which distils a of Nature are equally impor he said, adding that only and landuse change, hunt What they had intrigued fashion them into their will be the last Cranberries Sunday. “Here’s to a world 1,800page UN assessment of tant, not just for the environ “transformative change” can ing for food or illicit trade in them, but they awaited with eighth and final album. album, the bandmates vow. built on tolerance and scientific literature on the ment, but as development stem the damage. wildlife body parts, climate some anxiety the delivery of The Cranberries used de They won’t be looking for coexistence,” said a tweet on state of Nature. and economic issues as The report warns of “an change and pollution, the re O’Riordan’s hard drive from mo vocal tracks on past al another lead singer. the official Twitter account of Delegates from 130 na well,” said Robert Watson, imminent rapid acceleration port finds. her New York home. Relief bums when a new song (With inputs from Reuters) the skyscraper. PTI Literature professor to ‘Proteins hold key to healthy babies’ Britain to fund head Swedish Academy antislavery Bengaluru researchers estimate nutritional requirement for pregnant women projects Agence France-Presse Stockholm Afshan Yasmeen conjunction with the energy for children (6 months – 6 Reuters Taylor Swift releases The Swedish Academy, Bengaluru requirement during the years) and pregnant and lac London video titled ME! which awards the Nobel Lit “Eating for two” is a com same periods of pregnancy tating women. As a part of Britain on Friday pledged NEW YORK Taylor Swift released an erature Prize, said on Friday mon way women look at (about an additional 350 the service, food supple £4 million to support glo upbeat single on Friday, that it had named a litera nourishment all through kCal/day), it is clear that the ments of 600 calories and 18 bal antislavery projects. ending the weeks-long search ture professor as its new pregnancy. Now a study pu extra food that a pregnant 20 grams of protein/day are Six organisations, such as the pop star set off when she permanent secretary, after a blished in the American woman must eat should be provided in the form of mi charity AntiSlavery Inter teased fans with clues about a #MeToo scandal in late 2017 Journal of Clinical Nutrition high quality, in terms of its cro nutrient fortified food national and the United Na new project. The album titled threw the institution into Mats Malm shows that a diet with rela protein content such as milk and/or take home ration to tions University, a research ME! features Brendon Urie of turmoil. tively more protein is need Health boost: Extra milk and and milk products, dals, rice the pregnant women. institution, will share the Panic! at the Disco. AP Mats Malm is a professor holm’s cultural scene. Ar ed during the second and dal is recommended for and dal blends, eggs, fish “The amount of 600 calo aid money from The Mod of literary theory at the Un nault, who is married to a third trimesters of pregnan pregnant women. and meat. ries provided may, however, ern Slavery Innovation iversity of Gothenburg. thenmember of the Acade cy for the growth and deve be high for some women and Fund. “I am very happy to be gi my who later resigned, was lopment of the baby. cies and delivered babies of Diet check if the pregnant woman does The funding will also be ven this trust and look for accused and later convicted To accurately estimate the an average birth weight of “It is important to meet not eat the entire amount al used to run workshops on ward to the honourable of rape. daily protein requirement in three kg. these additional protein re lotted to her, it is likely that modern slavery in South commission as permanent The 18member Academy pregnant Indian women, a For a gestational weight quirements during pregnan her protein intake may not Africa, improve support secretary,” he said. was split on how to handle wholebody potassium gain of 10 kg, pregnant In cy directly from the diet, be adequate and those re for survivors in India, and Mr. Malm, 54, only joined its ties to Arnault. counting instrument was dian women should eat an rather than to use high pro quirements will not be met,” develop an online data hub the Academy four months Ugly public disputes en built at St. John’s Research additional 7.6 grams and 17.6 tein supplements, except in Prof. Raj said. to boost antislavery poli Endangered turtles in ago. He takes over from An sued, several members quit, Institute in Bengaluru, with grams of protein per day special situations where the “Rather than focussing on cies, according to Britain’s Cambodia set free ders Olsson, who has been and the body was in such financial support from the during the second (3 6 diet is not able to meet the large amounts of cereals and Home Office. BOEUNG TRACH serving as head of the Aca disarray that it ended up Centre’s Department of Bio months) and third trimester requirements for protein,” calories, it is important to in The Modern Slavery In Twenty critically endangered ‘Royal Turtles’ hatched and demy since June 2018 after postponing the 2018 Nobel technology. (69 months) respectively, Prof. Raj said. clude combinations of high novation Fund was an raised by conservationists the previous secretary, Sara Literature Prize for the first This facility was used to the researchers found. The Union Ministry of Wo protein foods such as milk, nounced in 2016 and pre were released into a Danius, was forced to step time in 70 years. The Acade arrive at estimates of protein Rebecca Kuriyan Raj, men and Child Develop dal and egg in the meals pro viously gave £6 million to Cambodian river on Friday. down amid a scandal my has said it plans to an requirements in 38 urban, head of the division of nutri ment’s Integrated Child De vided to the pregnant wo schemes such as aware The species was once feared sparked by Frenchman nounce the winner of the wellnourished, middle class tion at St. John’s Research In velopment Services (ICDS) men. This can be considered nessraising campaigns in extinct because of trafficking JeanClaude Arnault, an in 2018 award together with Indian pregnant women, stitute, who is the lead auth Scheme provides supple for future programmes,” she Nigeria, the Philippines and illegal sand mining. AFP fluential figure on Stock this year’s winner. who had normal pregnan or of the study, said that in mentary nutrition services added. and Vietnam. Japan’s 24/7 shops come under fire Relaxing with wax: meet the The debate of working around the clock strikes at the heart of labour shortages in the ageing nation Slovak ‘Monsieur Tussaud’ Agence France-Presse trial shorter working hours Tokyo in a handful of stores and are Roman Bajzik fashions royalty and folklore figures It may be 1a.m. but Tokyo’s boosting the use of self omnipresent convenience checkouts and automation — Agence France-Presse stores, known as “konbini”, with one firm testing a hu Zavada are busy with customers manfree system from mid The bald head of Slovak gen dropping in for everything night to 5 a.m. in two shops. eral Milan Rastislav Stefanik from milk to underwear. But analysts say the 24 is pierced before hairs are in Popping in for a flavoured hour system is vital for effi serted into his skull. Stefa beverage at a busy konbini cient management of the nik’s face remains motion near Tokyo’s Ueno Station, stores. “Workers clean the less, his blue eyes do not Mai Tsumuraya says: “I finish shops and renew merchan even blink. work late... The supermarket dise at night. They also wait The late founder of the closes early so I come to a for trucks bringing pro former Czechoslovakia is the convenience store. It’s very ducts,” says Masayuki Kubo latest figure to get the wax convenient.” ta, chief strategist at Rakuten treatment from Roman Baj Day or night, they are Securities. zik, a 48yearold opera rarely short of customers, “The supply chain will be teacher who moonlights as but the muchloved stores less effective if more stores Slovakia’s very own Mon are now at the centre of a close at night, because deliv sieur Tussaud. row over whether they eries will have to be made “I began creating wax should stay open 24 hours a mostly in the morning when sculptures back in 2002 as I Fine lines: Roman Bajzik at work. * AFP day, every day of the year — a Shoppers browse products at discount retailer Don Quijote Holdings' store in Tokyo. * AFP the road is congested,” Mr. wanted to see what my debate that strikes at the Kuboto said. greatgrandfather looked An experienced tenor tria, better known as Sissi, is heart of crippling labour the country. Franchise own with a fine of 17 million yen (61%) said they cannot find Even disgruntled franchi like,” Mr. Bajzik said, at his who once sang at Austria’s undergoing some facial shortages in ageing Japan. er Mitoshi Matsumoto made ($150,000). enough staff — up from 22% see Mr. Matsumoto says tworoom gallery in what prestigious Salzburg Festiv work. Visitors to Tokyo are often national headlines when he Contacted by AFP, Seven in 2014. Moreover, 40% said there needs to be a balance. was once the family mill. al, Mr. Bajzik studied opera Mr. Bajzik consulted avail amazed at the sheer volume starting closing his Seven Eleven Japan declined to they were unhappy with He explained: “I’m not “I only had an old photo directing and now teaches able photos and busts of Sis of stores. There are 56,000 Eleven store between 1a.m. comment. their situation, complaining saying all the stores should of him and was curious if I operatic acting at the state si to get her facial measure across Japan and in the capi and 6 a.m., bringing him into The firm’s president Kazu of low profits and high royal stop operating 24 hours. But could turn him into someth conservatory in Bratislava. ments just right. tal, it is not uncommon to conflict with company HQ. ki Furuya stepped down ear ties paid to the company we need a flexible system ing threedimensional,” he He likes silence when he Once the clay head is see different konbini at all The 57yearold began lier this month. No official head office. This was up where we can do both 24 said in Zavada, a central vil sculpts though, usually at done, he casts it in plaster four corners of a crossroads. shutting up shop in February reason was given for his de from 17% four years ago. hours and shorter hours.” lage of 600 residents, about night to relax. and then pours hot wax in They provide a bewilder when his wife, who helped parture but critics said he “The labour shortage has While the Japanese love 150 km from the capital, the mould before finetuning ing array of products, from him run the store, died. had failed to respond to the become more serious than the convenience offered by Bratislava. Silence is golden the details. toilet paper to bento boxes to But SevenEleven Japan discontent among ever in the past few years,” the konbini, a recent survey Two decades later, there “I have enough singing dur Wax is ideal for models hot chicken yakitori skewers. insisted he continue the 24 franchisees. Tomomi Nagai, chief analyst showed that eight out of 10 are now 23 motionless fami ing the day. I’m pleased to be because it looks similar to In addition, customers can hour service. at Toray Corporate Business believe the 24/7 system ly members, royalty, folklore surrounded by my mute fi human skin, said Mr. Bajzik, do their photocopying, take “The company thinks we Govt. gets involved Research, explained. needed reform. characters and important fi gures,” he said. whose mix notably includes out cash, pick up deliveries should run 24 hours no mat The government has got in “It’s difficult to keep part Kota Shibai, a 22yearold gures for tourists and He lives alone in a high beeswax and paraffin. and even pay their bills. ter what, even if we collapse volved too, with industry mi timers after midnight be consultant insists it is “not schoolchildren to view. rise flat in the capital where “It has to be carefully They also play a social from overwork,” he said, ad nister Hiroshige Seko urging cause wages aren’t high but normal” to operate 24 hours Figures on display past he has turned one room into blended as wax tends to role, providing a welllit and ding he once worked for 38 convenience store chains to the job is complicated due to a day when there is insuffi the creaky wooden front a tiny studio whose shelves crack when inserting hairs alwaysstaffed sanctuary, as hours straight due to a lack come up with plans to tackle various services offered at cient manpower. door at the millturnedgal are filled with chicken mesh, into the skull,” he said. well as a gathering point dur of staff. long hours and labour shor the shops,” she said. And Ms. Tsumuraya, the lery include the vampire cornstarch, construction Mr. Bajzik often trans ing natural disasters. “When you look at the tages in the sector, calling “As a result, franchise latenight shopper in Ueno, Nosferatu, Pope John Paul II foam, silica gel — all used for forms everyday items into The stores, run by franchi costs and benefits, there’s konbini part of “Japan’s so store owners are forced to says: “I’ll manage somehow and a mermaid from Slovak wax modelling. the props he needs. sees, never, ever close. nothing good about this (24 cial infrastructure”. work long hours and they’re if no konbini is open. But I mythology. Currently he is working When one of his kings re The recent row started hour) system,” adds Mr. Mat Seko’s ministry have com frustrated.” live my life on the premise The wax museum is open on two figures: Stefanik is quired an imperial orb, he with a store in the city of Hi sumoto, who says he went piled a survey showing near Chains including Seven that it is.” She adds: “I know by appointment only for an getting his hair done, while just bought a Christmas bau gashiOsaka, in the west of public after being threatened ly twothirds of franchisees Eleven are now beginning to I’m spoiled.” entry fee of €2. Empress Elisabeth of Aus ble and added a small cross.

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