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/1#23% provide it the needed push to Congress workers are involved video of J&K Governor cross the winning line. in door-to-door campaign,” ASatya Pal Malik’s speech, rom political pundits to A total of 2,907 candidates added the leader, mentioning delivered at ITM University, Fpollsters, honest netas to are in the fray. The highest that more and more workers Gwalior, on November 24 rabble rousers, satta bazaar to number of candidates contest- have been sharing and explain- shows the Governor saying share market, the eye of the ing at one constituency is 34 at ing details about the party’s the Centre wanted him to entire nation will be on Mehgaon in Bhind, while the manifesto and the benefits of make Sajjad Lone Chief Madhya Pradesh on lowest number is 4 at Gunnor giving a chance to the Minister of J&K, but he did not Wednesday when it goes to poll in Panna. The BJP has fielded Congress. do so as he did not want to go after a “free for all” campaign- 230 candidates while the A day before the Assembly down in history as “a dishon- ing that often saw emotional Congress is contesting on 229 electoins in the State, Congress’ est man”. issues taking the centre stage seats leaving one seat for internal assessment has claimed “If I had turned towards and concerns of the common Sharad Yadav-led Loktantrik the party enjoys a 2.8 per cent Delhi, I would have invited man taking the back seat. Janata Dal. The BSP has field- lead over the BJP. The party Sajjad Lone to form a , - ./ %- /- While the Congress is ed 227 candidates and the SP thinks it is small lead but it is Government and history would going all out to wrest power is contesting on 51 seats. The confident to cross the halfway have seen me as a dishonest %'E / .'- from the BJP which, though, Aam Aadmi Party, contesting mark by winning the majority man. That is why I closed that %%% 3% wary of a 15-year anti-incum- the Madhya Pradesh election of the 43 strategically identified chapter. Those who want to bency, is hoping that the man- for the first time, has fielded seats. ! ! O,P - .! $-! abuse me, they are free to do so. - % 3 date could still be in their 208 candidates. Continued on Page 4 /00O,P ! - & But I am convinced that what- )!! * favour for the fourth term. At present, the BJP, that has ever I did was correct,” he is Poll campaigning for the been ruling the State for 15 heard saying in the video that 230-seat Assembly came to an years, has 165 seats while the $ %&' " $ has gone viral. was pressure from the Central end on Monday. Congress has 58, the BSP has As political parties in J&K Government.” Unlike the last Assembly 4 and independents hold three ()*+ started reacting “strongly” to Meanwhile, in his speech polls in Karnataka, Himachal seats in the MP Assembly. ! % %& his observations, he publicly in Gwalior, Malik also tried to Pradesh and Tripura where A total of 650 companies of hinted in Jammu that he might set the record straight by train- Prime Minister Narendra Modi Central paramilitary forces , - ( + be handed over transfer orders ing his guns on Peoples’ held the sway for the BJP, have been deployed for securi- 37#.0,0# P soon. “As long as I am here, I Democratic Party (PDP) leader Chief Minister Shivraj Singh ty. 33,000 home guard jawans Jaipur: The BJP on Tuesday will come to pay my tributes in Mehbooba Mufti and National Chouhan was the main cam- from various States have also released its manifesto for the rime Minister ( + 37#.0,0# the memory of Girdhari Lal Conference (NC) chief Omar paigner and face of the party in been deployed. The model December 7 Rajasthan polls, PNarendra Modi Dogra,” he said, adding, “I Abdullah for not showing seri- Madhya Pradesh. Modi held code of conduct was imposed saying it met 95 per cent of the on Tuesday said the elangana Chief Minister and Telangana may be transferred. It is not in ousness in forming a just over 10 election rallies in on October 6. promises it had made in 2013. BJP is the only TRashtra Samiti (TRS) supremo K my hands. Though there is no Government. the State. The Congress has taken no The manifesto was unveiled option before Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR) on Tuesday chal- threat to my job, but fear of “You can’t just fax or tweet Besides him, BJP presi- chance and deployed nearly by Union Ministers Arun Jaitley, Telangana as both lenged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to a pub- transfer always remains there.” and form a Government. Why dent Amit Shah, Home 50,000 party worker on 43 Prakash Javadekar, and Rajathan “family parties” the lic debate on the power supply situation in the “You send me a letter I will didn’t they come to Jammu? Minister Rajnath Singh and a closely contested Assembly Chief Minister Vasundhara Congress and the State and said the Prime Minister should not lie come and offer floral tributes Why did they not call me? number of Union Ministers, seats. A party leader said that Raje, in the presence of BJP Telangana Rashtra for the sake of votes. as long as I am here,” Malik said They have their party offices including Nirmala Sitharaman, during the last 15 years the leaders and workers. Samiti have KCR was responding to Modi’s criticism that in his crisp speech on the and a large number of leaders Uma Bharti, Ravi Shankar margin of victory for the BJP The BJP Government in destroyed the State the people in the State are without electricity. occasion of the 31st death in Jammu, especially Congress Prasad and Narendra Singh on these seats has been low. the State met 630 of the 665 over the last six " Earlier in the day addressing an election rally anniversary of Girdhari Lal party,” asked Malik. Tomar, visited the State in the These Assemblies have 10,429 promises made in the 2013 decades and caused " in Nizamabad, Modi had charged the KCR Dogra. Late in the evening, “No one can claim on last few days. booths and the party has Rajasthan manifesto, Raje said, misery and suffer- ! & Government with failure on all fronts, includ- J&K Raj Bhavan Spokesperson record that they visited the Raj The BJP had denied tickets deployed maximum manpow- prior to releasing the manifesto. ings to them. ing ensuring availability of electricity to many clarified that the Governor Bhawan and they were turned to over 60 sitting MLAs to beat er there. “The overall completion is 95 Addressing two election rallies in Nizamabad people of the State. while taking the decision to dis- down. My gates remain open anti-incumbency while the The Congress is making per cent,” she said. and Mahbubnagar, Modi also urged the people Addressing an election meeting in solve the Legislative Assembly even during midnight. I meet Congress sought to put behind maximum use of social media Raje highlighted several of Telangana not to allow the Congress to re- Mahbubnagar on Tuesday, KCR said he is ready acted in an objective and visitors without any prior the internal rivalry among its platform to draw the voters points of 2018 manifesto, say- enter the State and follow the example of States for a debate with Modi at any place of his choice. impartial manner. appointment but no one turned satraps in MP, like Kamal Nath, towards the grand old party ing 50 lakh jobs will be creat- like Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Bengal and Tamil Nadu KCR, who claims to be providing the 24-hour In a press statement, the up there,” he added. Digvijay Singh and Jyotiraditya through a mobile application ed in private sector in next five where the Congress could not return to power free power to farmers and uninterrupted power Raj Bhawan Spokesman said, However, reacting to the Scindia. The rural unrest, the ‘Ghar Ghar Congress’. years and every year 30,000 jobs even after 40 years. supply to all households in the State as his major “There was no pressure or any Governor’s speech in Madhya Congress hopes, may tilt bal- “The workers for the past will be given in Government “If you elect the BJP in the State and we achievement, called Modi “an ignorant and lying kind of intervention from the Pradesh, Omar Abdullah said ance in its favour as the BJP one week have been meeting sector. The CM said up to already have a BJP Government at the Centre, Prime Minister”. Challenging the PM to show Centre in the entire matter and in a tweet that he has never expects its “continued” hold voters by reminding them 5,000 per month will be given you will get double “Kamal Chhap” (Lotus sym- where was the power problem in the State, KCR some news channels are mis- known a “politically appointed over the urban voters and about the ‘Ghar Ghar Congress’ as unemployment allowance bol) engines and we will take Telangana far off said, “I never thought Modi was so ignorant PM. interpreting Governor’s state- Governor going against the Opposition’s lack of a clear chief mobile app. For all those who to eligible youths above the age on the path of development,” he said. It is not appropriate for the Prime Minister to ment and putting them out of wishes of the Centre”. ministerial candidate could do not have a smartphone, the of 21 years. PTI Continued on Page 4 speak lies for the sake of votes,” he said. context to convey that there Continued on Page 4 R .// 0 ! $ ! R %!200,0#5 last SAARC Summit in 2014 “We fought a war with India, " # $ van too received injuries. “One girl with injuries has /1#23% was held in Kathmandu, which relations cannot be fixed quick- ! The accused 21-year-old been admitted in trauma cen- #3060 was attended by Modi. ly,” Faisal said. % & ' ( auto driver, Salman, a resident tre, Civil Lines. There were n an effort to break the log- The 2016 SAARC Summit “In this century diplomacy of Azadpur, has been arrested, reportedly ten students in the n a major setback to jailed Ijam in bilateral ties with was to be held in Islamabad. has completely changed,” he ! police said.Both Maruti Eeco van, all from Rosary School, Iformer Bangladesh Prime India, Pakistan has decided to But after the terrorist attack on said, adding policies are now !" #P " /1#23% school van and the goods car- Model Town,” said a senior Minister Khaleda Zia, a top invite Prime Minister Narendra an Indian Army camp in Uri, made based on citizens’ emo- %%' $!) $ rier turned turtle. It is sus- police official. “A case under court on Tuesday ruled that a Modi for the South Asian J&K, on September 18 that tions and wishes. Both India L M n eight-year-old school- pected that the school van dri- Sections 279, 337 and 304A of person jailed for more than two Association for Regional year, India expressed its inabil- and Pakistan have decided to L M Aboy died and a schoolgirl ver too was speeding. The van the IPC has been registered and years cannot contest polls, Cooperation (SAARC) summit ity to participate in the summit build a corridor, linking Dera ,- sustained grievous injuries reportedly overturned four the driver Salman (21) has effectively ruining her to be held there. due to “prevailing circum- Baba Nanak in Punjab’s when a private van carrying times before coming to a halt. been arrested,” he added. chance to participate in the Making this announcement stances” and stepped up diplo- Gurdaspur district with the them along with eight other The impact was so severe that According to Delhi Police December 30 polls. in Islamabad on Tuesday, matic pressure on Pakistan. Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in students of Rosary School in all the window panes of the van data, a total of 6,532 challans Attorney General Pakistan Foreign Office Nineteen Indian soldiers were Kartarpur, Pakistan. ( Model Town was hit by a shattered, said a passerby. were issued to school vans for Mahbubey Alam said the Spokesman Mohammad Faisal martyred in the attack. Meanwhile, the Indian speeding goods carrier The students and the dri- traffic violations in 2018, com- Bangladesh Nationalist Party said Prime Minister Imran The SAARC summit was Prime Minister will attend the "# ( autorickshaw in North Delhi’s ver were immediately evacuat- pared to 2,183 in 2017. Earlier (BNP) chairperson, who is Khan in his first address had called off after Bangladesh, two-day G20 summit in ! )! Timarpur area on Tuesday ed by commuters. All the on April 26, a seven-year-old convicted in two graft cases, said if India takes one step for- Bhutan and Afghanistan too Argentina and will leave for the %%' .,%- ' afternoon. The girl is battling injured were taken to a nearby girl died and 17 other children cannot contest the upcoming ward, Pakistan will take two. declined to participate in the summit on Wednesday. Giving " $ for her life at Civil Lines hospital where eight-year-old were injured when an over- 11th general election next Prime Minister Modi will be Islamabad meet. details about the summit, Trauma Centre. Seven other Vaibhav succumbed to his loaded school van was rammed month. “She is disqualified invited for the SAARC summit, Maldives and Sri Lanka are Foreign Secretary Vijay /"0( students and the driver of the injuries. by a milk tanker. from taking part in the upcom- Faisal was quoted as saying by the seventh and eighth mem- Gokhale on Tuesday said the ing elections,” Alam told a Dawn newspaper. bers of the initiative. Prime Minister will speak on Press conference, hours after SAARC summits are usu- Faisal said Prime Minister digital revolution in India, the High Court issued a rule ally held biennially, hosted by Khan in a letter to his Indian Ayushman Bharat programme, saying persons jailed for more a member state in alphabetical counterpart had expressed soil health card, and other than two years even if their order. The member state host- Pakistan’s openness to resolv- Central Government schemes P appeals are pending with the ing the summit assumes the ing all outstanding issues besides risk posed by volatili- courts cannot contest the polls. Chair of the Association. The through dialogue with India. ty in oil prices and terrorism. The 73-year-old ex-pre- mier is currently serving jail terms in two graft cases involv- ing charities named after her slain husband Ziaur Rahman. She has been in custody since ,3 ,0/!10. February 8, when Dhaka or the first time, a senior Special Court convicted her in FBJP leader said on Tuesday the Zia Orphanage Trust graft ,3 ,0/!10. “Ladies and Gentlemen, I Mo Sangare Nachibe Ki. Jai that Union Minister case and sentenced her to five welcome the international Jagannath Noted sports anchor, Dharmendra Pradhan is the years of imprisonment for he much-awaited Odisha hockey teams, delegates to Gaurav Kapoor, who anchored Chief Ministerial candidate in embezzling 21 million THockey Men’s World Cup Odisha. You are the guests to 45 the show, praised Odisha Odisha in the next elections. Bangladeshi Taka (USD championship was formally million Odia people who are Government for being the first Union Minister Jual Oran 252,504) in foreign donations declared open by Chief Minister known for their warmth and State to sponsor Indian Hockey told this reporters here, stating meant for the Trust. Naveen Patnaik at a spectacu- hospitality. All of us are look- teams for the next five years. that the BJP’s main aim is to On October 30, the High lar show held at the Kalinga ing forward to the 18-day The event spanning 18 days will oust the Naveen Patnaik-led Court doubled her jail term to Stadium here on Tuesday in the Hockey Festival. I now declare witness the participation of 16 BJD Government under the 10 years. presence of Bollywood super- the Odisha Hockey Men’s teams contesting 36 matches. leadership of Pradhan. The On October 29, a trial star Shah Rukh Khan, actress World Cup Open,” announced International Hockey BJP is very much confident of court convicted her in the Zia Madhuri Dixit, Oscar and the Chief Minister. The cere- Federation (FIH) President, achieving its ‘Mission 120’ tar- Charitable Trust graft case and Grammy awardee singer AR mony started with honouring Narendra Dhruv Batra said, get in the State, a target set by sentenced her to seven years in Rahman and thousands of of the icons who won the “No dream is big to achieve. party national president Amit prison and imposed a fine of hockey lovers. World Cup in 1975. Then fol- Thank you Odisha for all you Shah since last year, he said. Tk 1 million (USD 12,024). The World Cup matches lowed Bollywood dance Guru have done for us. I truly believe “Dharmendra Pradhan will The High Court order are scheduled to commence Shaimak Dawar’s performance. that Odisha Government is be our CM candidate and there ! ! came as the BNP, which boy- from Wednesday and conclude Dawar bemused the audience capable of taking up any chal- is nothing to doubt about it,” " # ! $%& '( ) !! *! Continued on Page 4 on December 16. with his Odia, saying, “Aapana lenge in world of sports. Oram said. %# %"!$#, !- %./0.12/
+ $ !& ' 1 & !"#$% < ! " " ❝ %/% , / %%', /1#23% a “definitive answer” when British, the Congress 3?'%;%@-% , 3 asked to name Mahatma Government rejected the pro- inance Minister Arun Jaitley /%/.'%7 3 Gandhi’s father, Sardar Patel’s posal to build his statue at Vijay @ ' %7' @' %7 Fon Tuesday accused the father or his wife. Chowk in the national Capital. ) 0 , Congress of considering “sur- @ %74/- %7 “The reason for this is sim- “The country had to be sat- 8 name as a political brand” as he /? / 7/' ple. Decades of Congress rule, isfied with installation of his $ waded into the controversy 7@ '7 naming colonies, localities, statue at traffic round-about on % triggered by the Opposition @ ''% %7. %/ %7 cities, bridges, airports, railway Parliament Street,” Jaitley said. * * " /1#23% All stakeholders in securi- party that launched personal -.3, %/ % stations, schools, colleges, uni- He said the dangers of offi- ty establishment, including attacks against Prime Minister ,3' % -%- versities, stadiums after one cially glamourising one family n what has sent the security Central paramilitary forces, ($ Narendra Modi. -%@'/% %O" -P family was intended to declare at the cost of those who made Iagencies into a tizzy, a group the Delhi Police and others Jaitley said the BJP will the ‘Gandhis’ as India’s royalty. a far greater contribution “is of five Jaish-e-Mohammad have been advised to take max- -P/ ' ) “gladly accept” the challenge of They were ‘officially glamorised’ dangerous” both for the nation (JeM) terrorists has infiltrated imum precaution and remain 8 2019 general elections if the as the blue-blooded family of as also for the party to which into the national Capital and is on high alert. 4 Congress wants it to be the backdrop of some Congress you represent the legacy of a India. The others did not mat- they belong. suspected to be planning to hit Security at all sensitive " ) between Modi — the son of leaders naming family members well-known family, it is a polit- ter,” Jaitley said. “The contribution of other vital installations. installations, including the air- lesser-known parents — and of Modi. Jaitley said while the ical point in your favour. Mahatma Gandhi’s father great stalwarts like Patel and The group is also suspect- port and Delhi Metro ,4"".' someone who is known for his age of the Prime Minister’s Millions of talented political was Karamchand Uttamchand Subhash Chandra Bose is ed to have procured arms to besides Government buildings 0 parentage rather than capacity, mother was made a subject workers who come from mod- Gandhi, while Sardar Patel’s downplayed. Members of one execute its insidious plan, have been further strengthened ( merit and competence. matter of the electoral debate, est family backgrounds would wife’s name was Diwali Ba and family are projected as larger according to alert issued by the in view of the alert, In a Facebook post titled his father’s anonymity was com- fail by the Congress test of lead- father was Jhaverbhai Patel. than life. Their aberrations Intelligence agencies. officials said. ! ‘What was the name of Sardar mented upon as an inadequate ership. Merit, talent, ability to He said although Sardar become national aberrations. The group is in touch with Latest sinister plan of Jaish Patel’s father’, Jaitley said in a credential of the Prime Minister. inspire and lead would not be Patel, who was a frontline The party adopts them as its an arms supplier operating out comes amid inputs that %%'$) dynastic party like the “The debate whether India a virtue. The Congress consid- leader of the freedom move- ideology,” Jaitley added. of Nepal and Saudi Arabia, Pakistan-based group’s chief $ ! Congress, talent and merit has should be a dynastic democra- ers only a great surname as a ment and was the Deputy He said the silver lining is an Intelligence Bureau report Maulana Masood Azhar has ) no space and the crowd around cy has been ignited by a self- political brand,” Jaitley added. Prime Minister and Home that country is changing and has warned. successfully undergone kid- the family is the cadre. goal of the Congress Party... He said even his “well- Minister of India, negotiated aspirational India judges par- Following the IB alert, the ney implant at a military hos- A! "B Jaitley’s post comes against The argument given was that if informed friends” did not have the transfer of power with the ties and leaders very harshly. security agencies have been put pital in Pakistan. The outfit’s on a high alert and security has bid to hit Delhi also comes been beefed up at all vital against the backdrop of the set- installations in Delhi, National back it has suffered at the A))%B 1$ 2 Capital Region (NCR) and hands of security forces in ( adjoining States. J&K over last one year. The five members of the Inputs here also suggest the ,$ 3 group include — Abu Musaib, bid to target Chinese consulate Abu Azhar, Rehman Afghani, in Karachi was a ploy by the %%'$! New Delhi: External Affairs and broadening its scope, it said. Abu Wakeel and Saifullah Bhai. outfit to assert its presence in ) $ Minister Sushma Swaraj held Melescanu also reaffirmed The group members reached disturbed Baluchistan region. ) - wide-ranging talks with Romania’s support for a per- the national Capital earlier this Sources said JeM and Romanian Foreign Minister manent seat for India in a month and after collation of Lashkar-e-Tayyeba (LeT) are Teodor Melescanu to strength- reformed UNSC. inputs by the agencies, a high part of the security architecture en ties between two countries “The two sides reiterated level alert was issued on put in place by the Pakistani # during his four-day visit to the need for a comprehensive November 18. agencies ISI and Pakistan Army / India. During the discussions, reform of the United Nations, The group also includes for security of China Pakistan ! Sushma highlighted the con- including its Security Council,” two over ground workers Economic Corridor (CPEC). ( structive cooperation between the statement said. Romania (OGWs), one each from The Chinese Government the two countries on interna- will take over the Presidency of Sopore and Anantnag in reimburses the security expen- " tional and bilateral issues, the the European Council in Jammu & Kashmir. The diture incurred on securing the ( ! ==: ! Ministry of External Affairs January 2019. The Romanian % ' * ! ! ! 2 -& weapon provider Jaffer Rizwan CPEC. The attack could be said in a statement. Foreign Minister also met the - %-& -' $3 4000 ! 5 6/00 operates both from Saudi aimed at seeking more funds Sushma expressed India’s deputy national security advi- 78 & P , $ 9 &! % ' Arabia and Nepal and has links from China for securing the commitment towards strength- sor during his visit from .! ! .: :* .- 5 2 -&; with the JeM group hiding in CPEC by citing grave challenge ening of existing bilateral ties November 23-27. PTI 2 . Delhi, says the alert. from the Baloch insurgents. &!$%$#'& Q" 6 R 1 $ 1 Q $ R %%'$),% /1#23% (P!! (AIKSCC) leaders said. The farmers march CDD>, head of the Assembly polls demands that the two Kisan 0 6 0 Ain Madhya Pradesh, Mukti Bills — for guaranteed 6 ! Rajasthan and Mizoram, remunerative prices and for farmer leaders and social freedom from indebtedness — # % # /1#23% The apex court also asked observed, “Every time I read activists have appealed that be debated and approved in the counsel appearing for the this file, I am hit by the tragedy farmers should not vote for the Parliament. A cultural pro- % (! he Supreme Court on Bihar Government as to why of the case. It is tragic.” BJP if their demands are not gramme ‘Ek Sham Kisan Ke 0 2 6 TTuesday termed as “very FIRs have not been lodged The Bench said after going fulfilled. They said, “Note bandi Naam’ dedicated to farmers 6 ! shameful” and “inhuman” the under Section 377 (unnatural through the allegations and the ka jawab, kisan vote bandi se would be held at the Ramlila CDD> conduct of Bihar Government offences) of the IPC despite manner in which state police denge (farmers will respond to ground on the first day of the 4 C ' in not taking appropriate action there being allegations that was dealing with them, “We are Modi Government’s demon- congregation, where prominent ( following the allegations of children were sodomised at the of the view that the state police etisation decision by not giving farmer’s protest in the nation- Government and the BJP a singers Jasbir Jassi, Rabbi Shergil, O P*!! physical and sexual abuse of shelter homes. is not doing its job as is expect- their vote to it)”. al Capital in two months. befitting reply in 2019 election”, Hari Om Panwar, Bhangra children at several shelter “What are you doing? This ed. We would like the CBI to Thousands of farmers from “Farmers should vote to Ashok Dhawale, president of group of Jalandhar and Asmita %%'$! homes and favoured a CBI is very shameful. You may deal with these allegations.” across the country are expect- those who will fulfill their AIKS said. theatre group will perform. ) $ 6 investigation in these matters. have filed a detailed affidavit The counsel representing ed to assemble at Ramlila demands,” said noted activist Leaders of all non-BJP The farmers’ protest under !' 6 20 % A Bench headed by Justice (in the court) but if a child is the CBI, which is already prob- Maidan on November 29 and Medha Patkar and Swaraj India political parties have ben invit- the aegis of AIKSCC, joint 2 Madan B Lokur said the State sodomised, you cannot say ing the Muzaffarpur shelter march to Parliament street the president Yogendra Yadav in a ed for the November 30 rally at platform of around 208 farm- & 3 ) was “very soft” and “very selec- that it is nothing. How can you home case in Bihar where sev- next day to demand a special Press conference on Tuesday. Parliament Street. The Chief ers’ organisations, is being tive” in registering FIRs against do this? This is inhuman,” the eral women inmates were joint Session of Parliament to “Despite PM Modi’s recent Ministers of Andhra Pradesh, billed as a reminiscent of a sim- CE0 the perpetrators and asked the bench, also comprising justices allegedly raped and sexually discuss agrarian crisis. They statements that he had taken West Bengal and Bihar have ilar protest march to Mumbai Bihar Government whether SA Nazeer and Deepak Gupta, abused, said he would seek are covering more than 10,000 initiatives to solve farmers’ dis- also been invited for the meet- by over thousands of farmers these children were not the cit- told State’s counsel. During instructions on the issue by km across 21 States. The march tress, the issues remain. For this ing, All Indian Kisan Sangarsh from across Maharashtra in ( izens of this country. the hearing, Justice Gupta Wednesday. is expected to be second major betrayal, farmers will give Modi Coordination Committee early this month. ! *% 0 $ ! ! O ,! P& ) /1#23% tiality of non-nutritive natural nique, suitable cultivar and sci- 7!* sweetener, and diverse agro-cli- entific knowledge. Here we ndian scientists have suc- matic conditions here, we have successfully gown it by /1#23% Transplant Organisation Icessfully grown the Chinese introduced its seeds from ensuring adequate climatic con- (NOTTO) under the aegis of ‘Monk fruit’ in Himachal China through NBPGR-ICAR ditions and agro-techniques.” nion Minister of State for the Health Ministry. Pradesh’s Palampur district. early this year. In spite of high demand for UHealth and Family Welfare His ministerial colleague Monk fruit, which hails from After intense research, the non-caloric sweeteners from Ashiwini Kumar Choubey on Anupriya Patel said that it is China, has high nutritious quality fruits have also been natural sources, Monk fruit Tuesday said if more individ- important to understand that value, low calories and sweet- harvested at Institutional accounts for a small share of the uals decide to donate their in India it is mainly the living ness that comes from a natur- Experimental Farm. alternative sweetener market, organs it will bring huge change donors who are donating al compound that does not “Now, a team of scientists remaining at about 2.2 per in country’s healthcare sector organs and only about 23 per increase blood sugar, making it etal improvement of the Monk ing for process technology and including agronomist, chemist, cent in natural sweetener mar- and many lives can be saved. cent of the organ transplant is safe for consumers with fruit. They hope to make it product development (extract) plant breeder and molecular kets. Thus, the market share of “There are lakhs of people being done with organs /1#23% diabetes. available for sale in Indian mar- from Monk fruit. We hope biologist from the IHBT are monk fruit is small because of who wait at top hospitals for obtained from the cadavers. Probably in first-of-its kind ket soon for the diabetic patients intense sweeteners made from intensively working towards the limited supply. life-saving transplants amid “There is a need to pro- he Supreme Court on efforts, scientists from the and manufacturers seeking a the juice of this fruit will soon development of good agricul- However, global demand is acute shortage of donors. Even mote cadaver or deceased TTuesday asked CBI’s Special Indian Institute of Himalayan low-calorie ingredient. be available in the market,” tural practices and varietal gradually on increase in view of if a section of individuals organ donation rather than Investigation Team (SIT) to file Bio-resource Technology “Since India is home to 62.4 said Dr Sanjay Kumar, Director improvement,” Dr Pal said. rising number of diabetes and decide to donate his or her relying on living donors in a fresh status report giving (IHBT), a Council of Scientific million people with diabetes CSIR-IHBT, Palampur. Though Monk fruit is the obsese. According to an esti- organs, it will bring a huge order to avoid the risk of com- details of probe into charges of and Industrial Research (CSIR) Type 2, this is wondrous fruit Dr Probir Kumar Pal, native of China, this plant is not mate, the global market for change,” Choubey said at an mercial trading of organs and “abuse of official position” by lab, are now busy working for them. We have been suc- Senior Scientist, IHBT commercially cultivated even in Monk fruit is expected to gen- event to celebrate 9th Indian also to avoid the inherent risk former CBI chief Ranjit towards development of good cessful in our experiments at explained that “Keeping in the neighbouring country due erate 379.4 million revenue by Organ Donation Day by the to the health of the living Sinha who had allegedly tried agricultural practices and vari- our farms. “Now, we are focus- mind importance and essen- to lack of proper agro-tech- the end of 2026, said Dr Pal. National Organ and Tissue donor,” she added. to scuttle the probe in coal scam cases. The top court also asked the Enforcement Directorate 7 # Q8 , R (ED) and the CBI to file their updated status reports on pending coal scam cases and ** /1#23% ❝ ?/3/@ @%/ “India’s natural competitive Champaran, Bihar, explores On the possibility of ruling cide happened. This went on for the stages of their trial. ,/3%/7 advantage had vanished”. what it means to be a margin- elites and political parties tak- three years. But that had a lim- A special bench headed by way from the political '4 ./%/7%%/ “Our agricultural tech- al farmer in present days, while ing a leaf out of his book, the ited scope, only few benefited Justice M B Lokur, monitoring Aslugfest, BJP MP Varun - %/ % %/ niques grew outdated, our providing solutions to improv- Sultanpur MP said, “My pri- in Sultanpur and surrounding the probe by the CBI and the Gandhi has penned a massive @ @%/ / %/ handicrafts, once pillaged by the ing the economic viability of mary concern is that farmers, districts,” he explained. ED into the coal scam cases, 870-page book exploring rea- %/%' 7/% / British, found fewer and fewer marginal farming and high- labourers, weavers and others Varun said he, thereafter, asked the SIT to file a status sons of rural indebtedness, %/@ %;% markets. Such an event draws lighting the role non-farm vote their concerns rather than worked with district adminis- report on probe into the deepening distress, slowing ? ' @ .'- natural questions — how did income plays in supplementing vote religion, region or their tration, identified all farmers in charges against Sinha. down of agriculture growth and India’s demographic change oneself below the poverty line. caste. Then politicians would debt who could potentially “Scope of investigation of income, failure of ‘Mandi sys- ' /%@ %/ transform its rural economy,” he Asked whether he would also react to their concerns commit suicide and worked out SIT has been confined to inves- tem’, decrease in land-holdings, @ @%/ , ' questions in the book. present a copy of the book to swiftly,” said the BJP MP and a plan for 26 districts. “For tigate the abuse of authority rising suicides by farmers It focuses on the impact of Prime Minister Narendra sought to move away from example, we asked farmers to committed by Ranjit Sinha even as he seeks to find out why who has been away from the taining itself independent of rising prices of agricultural Modi, Varun said, “Yes, of controversies. grow pulses instead of paddy with a view to scuttle the rural economy is in shambles political blitzkrieg his party has external linkages.” inputs, availability of water, course!” He went on to say that He said the idea of writing which needed water and inquiry and investigation con- even after over six-decades of unleashed in the States under- Varun argues that for sev- soil suitability and pest man- there would not be any formal book came from the hinterland crowd-funded 30 crore in ducted by the CBI in coal independence and ‘dives going the poll process. eral centuries farmers were the agement, highlighting the nar- release of his tome. “I would be of the country during his trav- 2015-16 for them”. scam cases. The status report is deep’ to look at the root caus- The book — A Rural real strength behind Indian row window of economic ben- going across the country with el, campaigning and meeting On farmers burning stubble upto January 15, 2018. Latest es” and solutions. Manifesto-Realising India’s economy, generating agricul- efit for the marginal farmer. 14 lectures, the first being at students of universities in States. contributing to pollution and air report till December 31, 2018 “This is a solution-orient- future through her villages — ture surplus and trade revenues The well-researched book IIM Ahmedabad, second IIT Would you be applying the quality in Delhi, he argued cost be filed by on or before January ed academic critique. The book according to the BJP MP, “The brought in by its rural entre- that goes back and forth into Mumbai and third at Indian solutions (in the book) to your of stubble processing is 6,000 15, 2019,” said the bench also is blameless in its scope and feasibility of an Indian village as preneurs in handicrafts, calico the historical incidents of farm- Institute of Science, Bangalore,” own constituency? “In 2009, I whereas penalty of burning is comprising Justices Kurian seeks to find out how to solve an independent socio-eco- and metal work but suddenly ers movements, including that he said. His lecture series would decided I would give my MP’s about 2,500 per acre making Joseph and A K Sikri. a problem,” said the BJP MP, nomic entity, capable of sus- over last couple of centuries led by Mahatma Gandhi in begin from November 30. salary to the family where a sui- “economic sense”. %# %"!$#, !- %./0.12/ ( / 8 $ 9 *1/ *+,, +
# in a Improvised Explosive Security forces retaliated the assists the State Governments the Central Government in -..,+ Device (IED) blast triggered by fire and nine Maoists were in every manner possible. The infrastructure, education, skill ) Maoists in the forest patch of killed. Government has a multi- development etc, several ini- ' Minpa in Chhattisgarh's restive Two jawans of DRG were pronged strategy in place to tiatives have been taken specif- (( .0%" . businessmen/traders on 20th of each month Sukma district on Tuesday also martyred in the encounter. deal with the LWE menace. ically for development of LWE have to submit the 3B details but the said busi- morning. Security forces later recovered The strategy involves security affected areas. he Goods and Services Tax (GST) registra- nessmen have failed to do so. The injured trooper had the bodies of the rebels along related measures, develop- These include focussed Ttions of 655 traders based in Raigarh dis- GST details can be registered online. It is been identified as Madvi with a large number of mental interventions and schemes for development of trict have been cancelled for non-submission the reason that Assistant Commissioner, State Sukka. weapons from the spot. ensuring rights & entitlements roads, installation of mobile of details in 3B form format for the last six Tax, Circle I and II had taken the action against The explosion took place Chhattisgarh being the of local communities etc, it had towers, skill development, months. them. It is reported that if the GST details are when the troops of CRPF’s elite most affected State receives a informed. improving network of banks Assistant Commissioner, State Tax, Raigarh not submitted within the specified time peri- 206 CoBRA battalion and DRG substantial share of the Security related measures and post offices and education Circle-I in a statement issued informed that the od, then along with late fees, 18% interest of total personnel were returning to resources committed by the include assistance to LWE facilities, particularly in the 35 registration of 10 traders having more than 1.5 amount to be paid as GST is charged with sub- their base camp in Centre for combating Left affected States by providing worst affected districts. crore as annual gross sales and 342 traders hav- mission.The officials said that those Chintagupha, police said. Wing Extremism, the Central CAPF Battalions, helicopters, Recently the Government ing less than 1.5 crore annual gross sales have traders/businessmen whose GST registered Just a day earlier, Nine Government had informed ear- UAVs, construction of fortified had approved the Special been deleted under State Tax, Raigarh Circle- has been deleted have the option to revive it after Maoists were killed and two lier. police stations, funds for mod- Central Assistance Scheme I. submitting all the details related to GST with security personnel martyred in The success of the strategy ernization of State Police forces, which envisages an outlay of Rs Similarly, Assistant Commissioner State Tax tax. The traders now will not get benefit of GST an encounter in Sukma district. is evident in reducing security arms and equipment, training 1000 crore per annum for three Circle-II Raigarh has deleted registration of two related taxations. Assistant Commissioner, (( ! 60 The Maoists had attacked vacuum and increasing reach of assistance, sharing of intelli- years for the 35 worst affected traders having gross sales of more than 1.5 State Tax has appealed to all the registered a team of DRG personnel when governance to interior areas, it gence etc. LWE districts to cover gaps in crore and 301 traders having less than 1.5 traders that before the specified dates they District Reserve Guard it was on a search operation had informed. On development side, critical infrastructure and ser- crores. should submit the details of 3B online to avoid A(DRG) trooper was injured near Sakler in Kistaram area. The Central Government apart from flagship schemes of vices. Under the GST Act, the all the registered any inconvenience. 9:
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hhattisgarh Chief Electoral COfficer (CEO) Subrat Sahoo has issued the training schedule for staff of different Assembly constituencies before counting scheduled for December 11. The final and second round of training will be held on December 10 in presence of Election Observer, officials informed. Returning Officer, Assistant Returning Officer, Counting Assistant Returning Officer, Master Trainer for each assembly constituency and Deputy District Electoral Officer are being imparted training. As per schedule released, the training of staff for four dis- tricts of Jashpur, Surajpur, Balrampur and Surguja will be held at Ambikapur on be held on November 30 for constituencies of Janjgir- cials and employees will be November 28. districts of Bastar, Dantewada, Champa, Korba and Koriya trained on the different aspects The training at Raipur is Bijapur, Sukma, Kondagaon district. Similarly, on December of counting, the precautions to scheduled on November 29 at and Narayanpur. Kanker dis- 4 at Bilaspur for Bilaspur and be taken and other finer aspects New Circuit House for Baloda- trict based officials also will be Mungeli districts and at Raipur of counting. Bazar, Gariaband based part of it. for Dhamtari and Training is scheduled on Assembly constituencies and December 1 will be train- Mahasamund districts and December 8 and 9, for count- Raipur district based assembly ing date for all the assembly Raipur district three and ing observers, counting assis- constituencies officials will also constituency staff of Raigarh Kanker district one assembly tant, micro-observers, control participate. and Janjgir-Champa districts at constituency will hold training unit transport officer and all - ! !! $ ! The training at Divisional Raigarh and in Korba on on December 5. officials and employees deput- Headquarters Jagdalpur will December 3 for two assembly During the training, offi- ed for counting. , ! ! ! 8 ' $
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he State Government (( Thas imposed ban on #30$0.% burning of post-harvest farm residue to curb pol- ongress lution. Cparty’s candi- Collector J P Pathak date as well as has constituted different other indepen- teams under guidance of dent candidates Tehsildars for monitoring created furore of farms where post har- before the Strong vest residue is being Room here where burnt. the EVMs had The team includes been stored with senior Agriculture entry of Tehsildar Expansion Officer, Rural and some other Agriculture Expansion persons in the Officer and a Patwari. room on Tuesday The teams have been morning. entrusted to visit the vil- The leaders lages to find if any case of of Congress party burning of post harvest as well as independent candi- Prasanna said that in fact of All India Congress residue in six teshils of the dates suspecting EVM tam- some electricians along with Committee late evening met district have taken place. pering staged a sit-in outside the Tehsildar had entered the the Chief Electoral Officer, The Collector has the Strong Room. Strong Room in order to shift Subrat Sahoo at his official made an appeal to farmers not to burn the post har- Bemetara District Collector Mahadev Kaware has residue. Meanwhile, when con- the monitor of CCTV. residence and had lodged vest residue on . In North India due to burning of post also issued directives to the Agriculture Department National Green Tribunal has banned burning of tacted the District Electoral Senior Congress leaders their compliant regarding the harvest residue, is causing heavy pollution. officials to control the burning of post harvest post harvest residue. Officer, Dhamtari, Dr C.R. led by Chhattisgarh In-charge matter. # , #H)86 + /! :;,< % $ != ! (( .0%" . ed iron ore production of 4.78 cuting the project in two phas- million tonnes (MT) (provi- es. (( MDC Ltd has recorded sional) from its mines in The first phase is being Nproduction of 9.64 million Chhattisgarh as on June 30, executed from Bacheli to .0%" . tonnes (provisional) of iron ore 2018. Nagarnar in Bastar region at an from its Chhattisgarh mines as It is targetting to achieve 10 estimated outlay of Rs 4,000 anaging on October 30, 2018, the com- million tonnes of iron ore pro- crore; and the second phase will MDirector pany informed in a regulatory duction per annum from each be executed from Nagarnar to and Chief filing. of its mines in Chhattisgarh by Vizag in Andhra Pradesh at an Executive Compared to this, the 2024-25, official sources outlay of Rs 6,000 crore, offi- Officer of company had recorded pro- informed. cials informed. Dena Bank duction of 7.50 million tonnes NMDC has also acquired Notably, to transport pellet Karnam Sekar (provisional) of iron ore from environment clearance for its feed concentrate from Bailadila is going to its Chhattisgarh mines as on proposed Beneficiation plant at to Vizag via Jagdalpur, the make his September 30, 2018. Bacheli in Bastar region of company will have the pipeline maiden visit The company had record- Chhattisgarh, official sources laid along the highways with a of state capital ed iron ore production of 6.17 informed. provision of partial off-take to on million tonnes (provisional) Notably, NMDC's Ore feed its proposed 3 MTPA Wednesday. (MT) from its mines in Processing Plant at Bacheli Steel plant coming up at An offi- Chhattisgarh as on August 31, will be interconnected by a Nagarnar. cial commu- 2018, the company had earlier Slurry Pipeline System between NMDC is operating iron niqué informed that this would in the State. informed in a regulatory filing. Bacheli and Nagarnar in ore mines at Bailadila Complex be his first visit after assuming He will also review the per- It had reported iron ore Chhattisgarh, they informed. in South Bastar Dantewada the charge of the Bank on formance of the Bank in production (provisional) of The company which is also District Chhattisgarh. It is hav- September 21, 2018. Chhattisgarh during meeting of 5.50 million tonnes (MT) from in the process of laying a 15 ing long term commitment During his visit, he will Branch Managers of all branch- its mines in Chhattisgarh as on Million Tonnes Per Annum for supply of iron ore to major interact with the staff working es of Chhattisgarh. July 31, 2018 and had record- (MTPA) slurry pipeline is exe- steel plants across the country. ! " # $ % S ' " (
P Q "" # $ % # &''( ) * # % ' +,-.//0 '1/00"2 ...3.4/50/ # * 67' 8 9 8 % ' +,-.//: 6; % 6; ) < &; $( 4 = 8 ) > $8 < +""/ //. ; /""+,/""/,:: &; ?+3" ) 4 $&@<9 = $ +./"3/" A(( ; /"./+,B0-B// C ,B0--//( %# %"!$#, !- %./0.12/ * 8 ' :P O . P 88$?>@ )8"2%0/)8; I >C>)8"20%/$!)0!!%/$3.0/#0302;70.! & .0/)3% ver 88.91 per cent of the .0/)3% Ocomplaints filed in the last three and a half years at irst time in the history of Jharkhand this the Jansamvad Kendra have Fkind of a mega Global Agriculture and been disposed. As per the Food summit is being organized, said record, a total of 2,91,250 Agriculture Secretary Pooja Singhal on complaints have been filed in Tuesday. Jansamvad Kendra from May Addressing a Joint Press Conference 1, 2015 to November 26, 2018, organized by Agriculture Secretary Pooja out of which 2, 25, 313 com- Singhal, Industry Secretary K Ravi Kumar, plaints have been cleared. As Ranchi Senior Superintendent of Police many as 19 cases were taken (SSP) Anish Gupta and Ranchi Deputy - ! ! * &! ! here on Tuesday during the Commissioner (DC) Rai Mahimpet Rey, !.%'5!! ! 2- ! ! ; ! =0>8 weekly programme. Singhal further said Union Minister for 29 ! 5 Chief Minister Raghubar Agriculture Radha Mohan Singh will Das expressed his disap- !# ! : % . ' !. inaugurate the summit to be held at pointment over the actions of ! $ !! .# & # 5,2! Khelagaon in Ranchi on November 29 and including Israel, China, Philippines, cessing like Dabur, ITC, MTR etc have police officers on the com- ! ) ! ! 30. The state Governor Draupadi Murmu Tunisia and Mongolia will come to take confirmed to join the programme. The plaint case registered four would be the chief guest of the valedicto- part in the event. CEO of Patanjali has also confirmed that years back. A young girl of of 2014 but the rent has not also received assurance from asked Topno to meet the con- ry session, added Singhal. One another country- Morocco will be he will join the programme.” Birni police station area under been paid so far. He also the CM. In Chatterjee’s case, cerned department officials Revealing the objective of the mega the focused countries. In this event 10,000 Speaking on the occasion the SSP said the jurisdiction of Giridih complained that he was not CM instructed the Executive while instructed the officials to event Singhal said, “To provide a platform farmers would be participating including to provide better security arrangements to district was raped and mur- paid even for the videography Engineer of the Energy settle the case within a month to all stakeholders of agri ecosystem to those farmers who were sent to Isreal. The the visitors the police department have dered. work done during the election Department to pay Rs. 1.5 by paying the compensation to showcase the vast agriculture and food farmers got invitation on the basis of dis- constituted a roadmap. Visitors cannot The CM asked the DIG to in 2009. On this, Chief lakh as compensation and to the victims. Also, during the processing potential of Jharkhand and tance from the venue. enter the venue with any unnecessary get the report of the case Secretary of the CM Sunil send the details of the pending review, the CM announced to simultaneously network with policy mak- The first 5000 farmers would reach on belongings. A traffic plan will be com- within 24 hours and ordered Kumar Barnwal ordered DC honorarium of his son to the give Rs. one lakh for better ers, agri equipment manufacturers, acad- Wednesday who belong to remote areas prised for safe arrival of visitors.” immediate removal of inves- Gadhwa to ensure all pending department. treatment to two persons from emicians, agri startups, agri ecosystem from the venue and next 5000 will come Ranchi DC said, “All the visitors will tigative officer involved in payments of Satyendra Kumar. On hearing about Anna SaraiKela-Kharsawan, suffering companies.” on the inaugural day of the event. The get entry pass. the case. The CM warned the Suneet Chatterjee’s family Topno’s case whose matter is from HIV. Elaborating about the details of the department has made arrangements of Three kinds of entry passes will be senior officials not to harass who is yet to get compensation pending since long, the CM summit the Secretary said, “After the inau- their food and lodging.” issued- Red, Green and Pink. The VIPs will public for small things. gural session on first day of the event in Addressing the gathering Industry get Red card, farmers and media persons The CM instructed the second half four sectoral seminars will Secretary K Ravi Kumar said, “Around 50 will get Green card and Bus drivers and Latehar SP to take immediate %/ ,,+, *+ be held on various themes such as agri- big companies in the field of food pro- other people will get pink cards.” action on the complaint of a cultural equipments and organic farming. woman for not arresting the One each sectoral seminar will be held by rape accused and provide all 0!6!$3$8,010.8;#<28"/$02"20/! China and Israel. On the second day of the possible support to the victim. event the delegation of World Bank will !- #) On the complain of Gumla .0/)3% Vishwanath Singh, Basanti reservation system has been discuss with CM Raghubar Das and gov- resident, Basanti Devi who is Kujur and many other vil- introduced in government ernment official on the various issues relat- .0/)3% yet to receive the remunera- hief Minister interacted lagers. The villagers spoke jobs. The CM further appealed ed to the industry. tion, the CM ordered Gumla Cwith villagers of about their hardships and lack to villagers that they should It will be highly technical meeting, she tate Government has decided to depute three district deputy commissioners with DC to release Basanti’s pay- Baribandh and asked them to of mobile network, roads, use the toilet as 80 percent of said. There will be pavilions for various dis- Sthe agriculture, animal husbandry and co operative department which is organis- ment and take immediate be aware of development schools, and irrigation facili- the diseases are due to open trict of the state and simultaneously for ing the Global Agriculture and Food summit on November 29 and 30. According to action over her issue of trans- schemes. The CM talked to ties. Mukhiya Sunita Devi defecation. He said that every participating countries inside the venue a government notification Sahebganj Deputy Commissioner Sandeep Singh will be deput- fer, posting. people of Baribandh village, praised the developmental village will have to ensure and there will be a large exhibition for ed for two days to take care of VVIP and VIP Lounges, Ramgarh DC Rajeshwari will Satendra Kumar, who Latehar through video con- work of the State government. that their children go to school equipments and machineries, she added. take care of farmers' accommodation and food while Dumka DC Mukesh Kumar will came from Garhwa, com- ferencing. He talked to Das issued a series of every day. If one child remains Singhal said, “Till now as many as assist the commercial taxes secretary cum chairman transport committee for the glob- plained that the administra- Panchayat Mukhiya Sunita instructions to Latehar DC. uneducated then develop- 1,800 delegates have already registered. The al summit. tion had taken three Boleros Devi, women of the primitive The CM said that for the mental will take a back seat delegates from five partner countries during the assembly elections tribe Sushma Devi, primitive tribes, 2 per cent and have no meaning. # 23 , * P5 " $ ! % %& 67,Q ( From Page 1 tion rally last week. ple, Modi targeted the Congress turned-foe Andhra Pradesh youth in firing who had raised “The Chief Minister of Modi sought to appeal to for silencing the aspirations of Chief Minister and Telugu the demand for separate State in Telangana and his family think “Telangana pride” when he the State for two decades with Desam Party president N the past. “Will you allow such they can get away with doing referred to AIMIM leader “bullets”. Chandrababu Naidu. Congress to come back to power )30/#%-0.3 Arora, state party president the demand of construction of no work like the Congress.... Akbaruddin Owaisi’s recent Ridiculing Chief Minister K “Did KCR (Chief Minister) in the State”, he said. Modi said that INLD will begin the SYL canal for more than a They have adopted the style of remark that whoever became the Chandrasekhar Rao’s promise of not destroy the State after the for- praised Telangana as a land he Indian National Lok statewide “Jan-Adhikaar Yatra” year now. In the past, the the Congress which ruled for Chief Minister of Telangana or developing Nizamabad into mation of Telangana?” he asked where the people bravely stood TDal and its alliance partner on December 1 on the issue of party had held a series of 50-52 years without doing undivided Andhra Pradesh had London, the Prime Minister the gathering. “The reason was up against the “repression of Bahujan Samaj Party will begin SYL canal. protests including ‘Jail Bharo anything. But that cannot hap- to bow before his party. said, “Let him first ensure drink- that his apprenticeship and train- Razakars”, referring to the mili- “Jan Adhikaar Yatra” on The Yatra will begin on Andolan’ across Haryana, held pen now,” Modi told an elec- “A leader recently said who- ing water supply to the people. ing was in the Congress. If he has tia active during Nizam’s rule. December 1 from Kurukshetra December 1 from Kurukshetra protest by blocking the nation- tion rally in Nizamabad, as he ever became the CM of Andhra Even basic facilities are not avail- destroyed the State so much, if He also lashed out at the to press for their demand of and cover Ganaur and Rai on al highway near Ambala and took the poll battle to Rao’s Pradesh-Telangana had to be at able here,” he said. those who have done PhD in the Congress for making personal construction of Sutlej Yamuna December 2, Pataudi on four other highways in turf. his feet (kadmon ke neeche). You He also targeted the Chief destruction come to power they attacks on him in the cam- Link (SYL) canal. December 3, Sohna and Haryana, another protest at Rao’s daughter K Kavitha fought for Telangana for your Minister for his belief in “mantr will cause hundred times more paign. “Instead of talking of the The first phase of “Jan- Rewari on December 5. Haryana-Punjab border to represents Nizamabad in the self-respect. Will you want a CM and tantr” (religious rituals). destruction,” he said urging the issues of development they are Adhikaar Yatra” will continue The second phase of the demand construction of SYL Lok Sabha. who bows at the feet of some It was Modi’s first election people to give an opportunity to asking what is the caste of till December 5 and cover “Jan Adhikaar rally” would canal. “Congress and TRS are two leader instead of the people of tour since the campaign for the the BJP in the State. “Don’t Modi, what is the age of Modi’s Kurukshetra, Ganuar and Rai begin after the completion of INLD had also observed faces of the same coin. Both par- Telangana?” the Prime Minister December 7 State Assembly allow even one Congress candi- mother and what is the name (Sonipat), Pataudi and Sohna municipal polls on December ‘Haryana Bandh’ on ties are competing against each told another rally at elections began in the State. In date to win. Otherwise they will of Modi’s father. Is it the way of (Gurugram) and Rewari. 16, Arora said. He added that September 8 on the issue of other on who tells more lies. TRS Mahbubnagar. his typical acerbic style Modi never learn.” running a campaign?” he The decision in this regard besides the issue of SYL canal, SYL canal. During its meeting and Congress are family-ruled K Chandrasekhar Rao’s TRS targeted both the Congress and “State after the State has asked. was taken at the party work- the INLD-BSP will also raise on Tuesday, the INLD-BSP parties playing a friendly match has friendly ties with AIMIM of the TRS and charged them wiped out the Congress as it had Modi contrasted the per- ers’ meeting of INLD-BSP issues of employment, also decided to hold district in Telangana polls,” he said, Hyderabad MP Asaduddin with having a secret under- destroyed the country,” he said. formance of his own held under the Leader of Swaminathan report, crop insur- level programmes on the prob- adding it was a “big joke” that Owaisi. standing. While his entire fire- Trying to raise the regional Government at the Centre say- opposition and INLD’s senior ance scheme among others. lems of unemployment and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi While accusing Rao of power was concentrated on sentiments of the people he ing he was able to change the leader Abhay Chautala at Notably, eyeing political drug addiction, in a bid to and Congress president Rahul “destroying” Telangana through the Congress and the TRS, reminded them that the lives of the poorest of the poor Dabwali in Sirsa on Tuesday. revival in Haryana, the INLD connect with the youth of the Gandhi assailed the TRS for his Government’s policies and surprisingly he did not made Congress Government is respon- through various welfare and After the meeting, Ashok has been aggressively raising state. being a “family party” at an elec- not fulfilling his promises to peo- any reference to his friend- sible for killing hundreds of development schemes. )-")) O * ++ ++ % , , D #P"=8 (( .0%" . From Page 1 Peoples Democratic Party he Chhattisgarh Rajbasha Commission will observe chief spokesperson Rafi T‘Chhattisgarhi Rajbhasha Diwas’ on November 28. Ahmad Mir in Srinagar said A programme is being organised in three sessions at Mahant the video of the Governor’s (( .0%" . Ghasidas Museum premises auditorium from 11.00 am. address has revealed how Chhattisgarh Public Service Commission Chairman K. R. things are forced upon hhattisgarh Pradesh Pisda will be chief guest of inaugural session. In the first session, From Page 1 Kashmir. “If they (Delhi) would CCongress Committee literary figures Dr Vinay Kumar Pathak former Chhattisgarh State this time to challenge have installed Sajjad Lone as (CGPCC) has convened an Election Commissioner and Dr Sushil Trivedi will deliver their While many Congress Chouhan on his home turf. Chief Minister, it would have important meeting of party's address. stalwarts including former Digvijay Singh’s son been a political disaster. Delhi poll candidates from all the 90 The second session would have discussion on subject ‘Use Chief Minister Digvijay Singh, Jaivardhan is contesting from should seriously rethink and assembly constituencies of the of Chhattisgarhi in Government Working’ from 12 pm to 2 pm. State Congress president his forte Raghogarh for the sec- stop doing experiments in the state on Wednesday. The third session will be from 3 pm as ‘Chhattisgarhi Kavi Kamal Nath and Guna MP ond time in a row, while his State,’’ Mir told reporters. The meeting has been Sammelan’. Jyotiraditya Scindia are not brother Laxman Singh is trying J&K Congress president called at party’s State head- contesting the Assembly polls, his luck from Chanchoda seat. Ghulam Ahmad Mir said the quarters Rajiv Bhawan. they also have a lot at stake to Besides former powerful Governor had exposed how the Senior leaders including + O ensure their party’s victory in Congress leader Arjun Singh’s BJP made efforts to form a Chhattisgarh In-charge of All their respective bastions. son and leader of Opposition Government and install a per- India Congress Committee + P In case of Digvijay Singh Ajay Singh is contesting from son with two legislators as (AICC) P.L. Punia, CGPCC and a few other stalwarts, his traditional Churht seat in Chief Minister. He said, Chief Bhupesh Baghel, Leader their family members are in Sidhi district. “Governor Malik has exposed of Opposition and Chairman media. the fray. The prestige of the Another relative of the plot of the BJP.’ Election Manifesto Committee, )30/#%-0.3 After the launch of this State Congress president Digvijay Singh and ex-royal of T.S. Singhdeo, Chairman campaign, Congress workers Kamal Nath as well as of the Khilchipur Priyavrat Singh, R ;;; Election Campaign Committee t a time when the Chief from across the state are State BJP president Rakesh also a former MLA, is trying and former Union Minister AMinister Manohar Lal clicking pictures with heaps Singh is at stake as both hail his luck again from Khilchipur From Page 1 Charandas Mahant, CWC and his cabinet colleagues of garbage lying in their area from Mahakoushal region. seat in Rajgarh district. Dr member and National are boasting about phenom- and posting it while tagging MP Chief Minister Shivraj Hiralal Alawa is testing polit- cotted the 2014 elections President of AICC’s OBC enal success of Swachhta Prime Minister Narendra Singh Chouhan and former ical waters for the first time on under Prime Minister Sheikh Wing, Tamradhwaj Sahu, Abhiyan in the state, Modi and Chief Minister Madhya Pradesh Congress a Congress ticket from Hasina-led Awami League (AL) Former CGPCC Chief Haryana Congress has begun Manohar Lal on Twitter. chief Arun Yadav are pitted Manawar seat in tribal Dhar government, was set to contest Dhanendra Sahu, Former “selfie with garbage” cam- Notably, sanitation will against each other in the high- district. the polls in alliance with the Leader of Opposition, Ravindra paign to embarrass the rul- be a key issue when the five profile Budhni seat from Former Union Minister newly formed National Unity Chaubey, former Ministers ing BJP over the sanitation municipal corporations and where the present Chief and senior Congress leader Front (NUF) led by eminent Satyanarayan Sharma, Md issue. two municipal committees in Minister contested his first Suresh Pachouri is pitted jurist Kamal Hossain. The chief Akbar and Amitesh Shukla Haryana Congress chief Haryana go to polls on Assembly election in 1989-90. against sitting MLA and state counsel said even if Zia would specially be present in Ashok Tanwar has launched December 16. A number of party workers are Minister Surendra Patwa in was released from jail before the meeting. the “selfie with garbage” While the Congress is yet stationed in this Assembly Bhojpur seat of Raisen district. November 28, the deadline of Party sources informed that campaign with a dual aim of to announce to contest these segment as part of Congress Former Union Minister Sartaj filing the nomination papers, the senior leaders in the meet- attacking the Haryana polls on its symbol, the party strategy. Singh, who left BJP on denial the Constitution would not ing would seek feedback from Government on sanitation has made it clear that it will Though Yadav belongs to of party ticket and joined the allow her to contest the polls the candidates about the recent- issue and force the local raise the issue of sanitation Khargone district in Nimar Congress, is contesting against and “she will have to wait for ly concluded Assembly polls administration to remove during polls to secure the region of the western Madhya Assembly Speaker Sitasharan five more years after her acquit- and a strategy accordingly would heaps of garbage after its pic- vote bank among the urban Pradesh, he has been fielded Sharma from Hoshangabad tal to take part in the elections”. be drawn up for the future. tures are posted on social masses in the state. by the Congress from Budhni seat. %# %"!$#, !- %./0.12/ .
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Monday, as another former the campaign. developing between Washington United States will maintain its Moscow’s seizure of three of its the media and restrict public aide began serving a jail sen- Instead, they derived from and Moscow. Crimea-related sanctions against navy vessels. rallies in affected areas. :0 tence for making false state- his work for former Ukrainian US Ambassador Nikki Haley Russia. Indeed, further Russian The Ukrainian parliament Moscow has accused Kiev ments to the FBI. ing, Manafort’s legal team president Viktor Yanukovych told an emergency meeting of the escalation of this kind will only late on Monday voted in favour of planning Sunday’s con- Manafort had agreed to pushed back against the gov- and his pro-Moscow political UN Security Council that “the make matters worse,” said Haley. of President Petro Poroshenko’s frontation as a provocation cooperate with special counsel ernment’s assertion. party between about 2005-14. United States would welcome a “It will further undermine request for the introduction of aimed at drumming up support Robert Mueller’s investigation of “Manafort has provided As prosecutors accused normal relationship with Russia. Russia’s standing in the world. martial law in parts of the for Poroshenko ahead of elec- ) possible collusion between the information to the government Manafort of lying, George But outlaw actions like this one It will further sour Russia’s rela- country for 30 days. The deci- tions next year and convincing Trump campaign and Russia as in an effort to live up to his Papadopoulos — the former continue to make that impossi- tions with the US and many sion came as Ukraine and Western governments to ( part of a plea deal in September. cooperation obligations,” it said. Trump campaign aide whose ble.” Tensions have flared other countries. It will further Russia face their most danger- impose further sanctions on “After signing the plea “He believes he has provid- Russia contacts set off the col- after the Russian navy on Sunday increase tensions with Ukraine”. ous crisis in years after Russian Russia. In a phone conversation "B! agreement, Manafort commit- ed truthful information and lusion investigation -- entered boarded and seized three Haley said her remarks fol- forces fired on, boarded and with German Chancellor (! ted federal crimes by lying to does not agree with the govern- a minimum security unit to Ukrainian ships off the coast of lowed conversations with captured Kiev’s ships on Angela Merkel, Putin expressed A. the Federal Bureau of ment’s characterization or that start serving out his two-week Crimea, accusing Ukraine of President Donald Trump and Sunday off the coast of Crimea. “serious concern” over the I ) 0 Investigation and the Special he has breached the agreement.” jail sentence at the Oxford, illegally entering Russian waters Secretary of State Mike The incident was the first introduction of martial law, the $' Counsel’s Office on a variety of Manafort, who worked for Wisconsin federal prison. in the Sea of Azov. Pompeo and reflect “concerns major confrontation at sea in Kremlin said in a statement. subject matters, which consti- the Trump campaign for near- Papadopoulos was an The confrontation at sea at the highest level of the the long-running conflict pit- Putin said Kiev’s actions tute breaches of the agree- ly six months in the middle of obscure oil industry analyst raised fears of a wider military American government.” The ting Ukraine against Moscow were “clearly taken in view of ment,” prosecutors said in a 2016, agreed to plead guilty to when he joined the Trump flareup. Haley put the blame US warning comes ahead of a and Russian-backed separatists the election campaign in ! court filing. one count of conspiracy against campaign’s foreign policy advi- firmly on Russia for the clash, call- planned meeting between in the country’s east. Ukraine”. He said he hoped ( “A breach relieves the gov- the United States and another sory team in March 2016.Based ing the seizure of the ships an “out- Trump and his Russian coun- It has raised fears of a Berlin could intervene with ! ernment of any obligations it count of obstruction of justice in London, he made contacts rageous violation of sovereign terpart Vladimir Putin, on the wider escalation -- in a conflict Ukrainian authorities “to dis- has under the agreement.” In in a deal to avert a second trial with what he believed were Ukrainian territory” and slam- sidelines of the G20 summit in that has killed more than suade them from further reck- the same joint status report fil- on money laundering and ille- important ming “yet another reckless Argentina later this week. 10,000 people since 2014 -- and less acts”. ( % Q $ ! " " & *7 $R O P 0"%# 6 /0.8102A"06%!$0/B – around 120 Kilometers from ! ! Lahore. The foundation stone ) ( 60, 2 days after another US soldier religious corridor linking a of the corridor on the Indian ( 4. !02 was killed in Afghanistan’s Arevered Sikh shrine on the side, from Dera Baba Nanak in hree US soldiers were killed Nimroz province on Saturday. bank of Ravi river here with Punjab’s Gurdaspur to the 60.$0." .A"06%!$0/B vote on a controversial law Tand three wounded by a An initial review showed India’s border district of international border, was laid Athat would cut govern- bomb in Afghanistan Tuesday, the soldier was “likely acci- Gurdaspur has the potential to Monday by Vice President M rime Minister Imran Khan ment subsidies to cultural insti- NATO said, taking the number dentally shot by our Afghan bring “hope and peace” Venkaiah Naidu. Pwill on Wednesday lay the tutions deemed disloyal to the of American service personnel partner force”, a NATO state- between the two countries, “We have fought a lot in the foundation stone for the much- Jewish state was Monday post- to die in the war-torn country ment said Tuesday, adding feels people on both sides of the last 70 years. There was no gain awaited corridor linking poned indefinitely, Israel’s cul- this year to 12. that the “tragic” incident border on the eve of its ground- from those fights by either India Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in ture minister said. NATO’s Resolute Support occurred as they engaged in a breaking ceremony. or Pakistan. It is now time we Pakistan’s Kartarpur - the final The bill, submitted by mission would not immedi- battle with al Qaeda militants. The foundation stone lay- begin a new journey and the resting place of Sikh faith’s Culture Minister Miri Regev, ately release any details about “There are no indications ing ceremony of the corridor Katarpur corridor has the poten- founder Guru Nanak Dev - to would give the finance and cul- the soldiers, but said they had he was shot intentionally,” the between Gurdwara Darbar tial to bring peace,” says Abbas Dera Baba Nanak shrine in ture ministries the power to been killed when an impro- statement added, naming the Sahib in Kartarpur, the final Khan, a 60-year-old Pakistan India’s Gurdaspur district to slash subsidies to institutions vised explosive device (IED) soldier as Sgt Jasso without giv- resting place of Sikh faith’s trader, a resident of Narowal. facilitate visa-free movement of backing films or plays that do detonated near Ghazni city in ing a first name. founder Guru Nanak, and the Another Pakistani citizen – Indian Sikh pilgrims. not show “loyalty” to the state. central Afghanistan. General Scott Miller, the international border with India Bilal Mohammed - who is from Kartarpur Sahib in Such institutions would An American contractor top US and NATO comman- will be held here Wednesday. Lahore said Prime Minister Pakistan is located across the include those which deny Israel’s was also wounded, it said, der in Afghanistan, said Jasso Prime Minister Imran Narendra Modi is an influential river Ravi, about four kilome- existence as a “democratic and adding that the four injured in was killed “defending our Khan, senior politicians of leader and both he and his tres from the Dera Baba Nanak Jewish state”, or those inciting the blast were receiving med- nation, fighting al Qaeda Pakistan’s Punjab province and Pakistani counterpart Imran shrine. It was established by the violence, racism or “terrorism”. ical care. alongside our Afghan part- a host of top officials will be Khan can bring changes in the Sikh Guru in 1522. The first Any organisation that The casualties come just ners”. attending the event at Narowal bilateral relations if they want. Gurdwara, Gurdwara marks Israel’s independence Kartarpur Sahib, was built here, day as a national day of mourn- where Guru Nanak Dev is said ing, or present artistic work to have died. that attacks the national flag or - The Kartarpur Corridor, other state symbols would also which will facilitate the visa- be denied funding. free travel of Indian Sikh pil- For Palestinians, the " grims to Gurdwara Darbar anniversary of Israel’s 1948 Sahib in Kartarpur, is expect- independence marks the ( 10.!01 Poland activist Katarzyna ed to be completed within six Nakba, or “catastrophe”, when Guzek told AFP via tele- months, Pakistan Foreign more than 700,000 fled or were reenpeace protestors on phone.She said nine activists Office Spokesman Mohammad expelled during the war sur- GTuesday scaled a massive from around the world had Faisal said on Tuesday. rounding Israel’s creation. chimney at Poland’s Belchatow scaled the 180 metre (560 The development comes A ministerial committee coal-fired power plant as one feet) tower as part of a ahead of Guru Nanak’s 550th had voted to advance the bill in of Europe’s largest polluters Greenpeace campaign aimed birth anniversary next year. October but it needed two gears up to host the COP24 at phasing out coal use. India has also said it will more parliamentary readings global climate summit. “Belchatow is the largest build and develop a corridor before becoming law. “We want to draw the coal-fired power station in from Dera Baba Nanak in Monday’s vote was post- world’s attention to the fact the EU, one of the largest in Gurdaspur district to the poned indefinitely because of a that climate change is real, that the world and therefore the International Border to facili- lack of a majority, said Regev, human tragedies are taking symbol of a system that kills tate Sikh pilgrims visiting a member of Prime Minister place before our eyes and that life on our planet,” Guzek Gurdwara Darbar Sahib Benjamin Netanyahu’s action is urgent,” Greenpeace added. Kartarpur. rightwing Likud bloc. %# %"!$#, !- %./0.12/ 1 ( 5 K$# " ( 5 5 1 -*%> *)+ 1 8 > 9 / < 0 / ; 8! 7 S ( # ( 4 @ ) ( ? 65 7 2'$ n April of 2019, the European Union ( (EU) proposes to bring into force a reg- ( ulation that requires companies oper- ( ating in the EU to adopt slogans that are accurate, failing which, such com- # O Ipanies will face fines up to two per cent of O ( their global revenue. The BJP must be (( counting its lucky stars then because this past week, it was reported by the Broadcast # ( ( Audience Research Council that the party was 44:387 =,*A the most advertised brand on television in A< ( the run-up to the Assembly elections, beat- ing many corporate heavyweights in the B *C advertising space, such as Netflix. ( Funnily, in late August this year, we also # << saw the BJP to be the only party at the all- party meet organised by the Election DE Commission to reject the idea of a cap on # election-related expenses by political parties. follow the same ethos as the BJP’s ing it almost impossible to deter- online attack is at the very least # This article will examine how these statistics political strategy in dealing with mine what the true picture is. shameful but borders on com- only show that this is a smoke and mirrors specific criticisms that are While a responsible plicity. It is especially disheart- 8 a Government that spends more time in thrown at it, ie obfuscation over Government should take steps to ening that a number of these 7 ensuring that its marketing campaign stays transparency. check the influence of fake news, trolls and vitriol-spewing peo- P on point; rather than delving into complicat- Another change that was this Government has singularly ple are followed by the Prime ed questions concerning the country. introduced by the BJP was a cap failed to tackle an issue that has Minister wear this as a badge of Q > ) )) Ever since the BJP won the 2014 election, on spending for companies risen unabatedly since 2014. honour. The Prime Minister O ( its go-to strategy has been to use marketing under the Companies Act, 2013. Last year, for example, at would do well to disassociate ( and advertising to paper over the cracks that Prior to this, Indian companies least 30 Indians lost their lives from such entities and their have emerged during its governance. With were restricted from spending due to rumours that were circu- hateful abuses. Perhaps, though, O S # the state of the economy, the state of jobs and more than 7.5 per cent of their lated on WhatsApp. However, this may be too much to expect ( the fact that India’s premier security agency average profits towards funding rather than taking ownership of from a politician who has him- H is currently engulfed in a full-blown crisis that political parties. Now such a cap the matter, the Government self rarely shown restraint and 0 ( is unfolding each day in the Supreme Court, has been done away with. These entrusted the responsibility of insulted family members of the BJP has its hands full. So one can’t blame changes inarguably allow for 0/8$3. tackling this problem to the Opposition leaders and then ( them for trying — it is harder to keep every- greater influence by corporates intermediary. turned around and played vic- @ ; one’s attention away from the facts on the in our political discourse. During .0!8/137 The problem has been exac- tim when he is criticised for ( ground and use its money power to do so. its tenure, the BJP has had to also -/ %//!! erbated by the Government not doing so. On the influence of money in an elec- defend itself against a number of only because of its lack of seri- To end this piece, one might # ( tion, ever since it came to power, the BJP has allegations of promoting crony 0/# ousness in approaching the mat- ask what the Government must 3@!# displayed a singular focus not on limiting the capitalism. Whether it’s the $.0/!"0./)7 ter but also because of the sig- do to answer these uncomfort- # influence of money in elections but letting ‘Rafale’ controversy or the BJP’s nalling that the Prime Minister able questions on limiting the it run amok. It has set the example itself by ineptness in failing to check eco- 30<$06/0 and the BJP engage in. A recent influence of money and fake ( ( not only beating huge corporates in brand- nomic offenders like Vijay ,0)6!0$%!$3 BBC study bolstered the stand of news. The answer is not compli- ing but also by failing to change the system Mallya, Nirav Modi and Mehul the Opposition and victims of cated. For one, the Government *= ! O in place or to check such influence. Take, for Choksi from fleeing the country ".8,28; vicious trolls, that there is a sys- and especially the Prime example, the introduction of electoral bonds. with public money etc, the BJP N;06/1!O($3 tematic effort in subverting Minister should come out specif- ( O ( As I have examined previously in these can’t seem to shake this image. democracy that is in operation ically against hate and abuse that columns in The Pioneer, the electoral bonds The major problem I fore- , )6 3.$88 by trolls online who spread fake trolls spread and clamp down on S scheme recently introduced by this see with this unabated rise of !$!$8" news and aim to discredit actu- any such action within its camps. Government permits any person who is a cit- corporate influence on the polit- al facts. The BJP, however, has For another, it can just agree on izen of India or is an entity ical process is that there is no 1%$3$3".% turned a blind eye to it. a cap to election spending. I incorporated/established in India to purchase such thing as free lunch and the %/%!$. As per the report, “Many wouldn’t hold my breath on an electoral bond in favour of certain polit- influence of such funding, more of the Twitter handles that either though. ical party. Compared to other forms of fund- whether through electoral bonds have published fake news sit in Lucky for the BJP then, ing, disclosure requirements for these bonds or otherwise, is inevitably at the the pro-BJP cluster than in the who competes with big corpo- were made minimal by this Government. cost of other stakeholders, anti-BJP cluster”. This is not news rate entities on advertising but is For example, under the Representation whether it is an NGO advocat- to me. Within minutes of a post outside the ambit of the laws of of the People Act, 1951, (RP Act) political par- ing for environmentally friend- on Twitter criticising the the EU, that I mentioned at the ties are required to prepare a report of all con- ly policies or tribals fighting for Government, Prime Minister beginning of this piece. If the BJP = , $ =$ $0 $ tributions received in excess of 20,000 from their land. We must be wary and Modi or the BJP, there is almost did have to similarly comply to 2 a person or a company in a financial year. guard against such fate. an immediate outflow of abuse such regulations, a change in They are required to submit this report to the Another reason why gen- and vitriol that one is subjected branding would be deemed nec- *++, Election Commission. After the introduction uineness and transparency in to. Such systematic targeting essary: “Suit-Boot Ki Sarkaar”, f o r of the electoral bonds scheme as also, our political discourse have suggests that there is a commit- example, has a nice ring to it and ) - amendments introduced under the Finance taken a back-seat is the problem ted mass that has been hired to may be more authentic than “Na ! # ( Act, 2017, the RP Act now creates an of ‘fake news’. The buck here, too, do just this. khaaonga, Na khaane doonga”. ( exemption to this reporting requirement for must stop with Prime Minister The fact that the (The writer is Jharkhand contributions made in the form of electoral Modi. ‘Fake news’ has skewed Government has taken no PCC president, former MP and ./ bonds to political parties. These amendments our political discourse by mak- action against this form of IPS officer. 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Rather it is blind- !44 ;8$ 4 4 Mary Kom won a silver on N O (# $ F ly spending the public’s heard- ! # # her debut in 2001 and between C2 8 P K Q ( earned money in such unproduc- O 2002 and 2010, she won five & ICF M F tive projects. straight gold medals. After six ( (0 It should not be the business O years (2011-2016) of hibernation ! & . 8 $ 8 ( of the Government to construct ! ( from the boxing ring, Mary " ? a statue of a particular religion’s 01$ Kom returned to competitive & $ 8 God. It is now crystal clear that boxing ring under the 48 kg cat- the BJP Government is leading egory in 2017. the country in an autocratic : Her uniqueness lies in the teach them a lesson. sions to the citizen under the guise way which is totally disruptive *+<, *++, ) fact that she is the only woman Ashok Mehta of a referendum. The result: A for the country’s peaceful envi- boxer to have won a medal in Via web stoic, imperial and trading nation ronment and communal harmo- 4 ! each one of the seven world Sir — This refers to the article, such as Britain voted needlessly ny. It is essential that the # =,,= # championships. Kudos to the “When terrorism rules the roost” for Brexit, inviting isolation Government pays heed to the > ( woman boxer, who showed to (November 27) by Ishaan overnight and a substantial cost of core issues which are crying for the world that hard works pay Saxena. Whether Pakistan is separation besides extending the close attention. O 01$ ( back. Mary Kom is an inspira- ruled by the military or a demo- Sir — The Brexit imbroglio is a period of uncertainty. The ensu- FR Murad ? $ : tion to lakhs of sport enthusi- cratically-elected Government lesson in the pitfalls of too liber- ing cost of its complex repair will Kolkata 4 . ! asts, especially women. makes no difference. 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After ascending the throne in 1911, King George V and # his aides travelled north to Nepal, ( slaying 39 tigers in just 10 days. ) Colonel Geoffrey Nightingale shot more than 300 tigers in India. was launched. With the aim to save kill order was given to free up the Bageshwar district of Uttarakhand. 5 In less than 50 years of our existence, the steadily declining population of land from tigers so as to aid indus- Private shooters were called for the from 1875 to 1925, we managed to tigers in the country, “Project Tiger” trialists to start work in the area. killing of the cat. These cases also ( kill more than 80,000 tigers in still stands out as one of the most A hunter, Nawab Shafath Ali raise a question as to why private H /63 " the country. comprehensive project to protect Khan, was given the task to tran- hunters and shooters are appointed While most killings were trophy the big cats. quilise or kill Avni, a mother of two when India’s forest departments have H hunts, some considered tigers as ver- Today, we have less than 2,500 10-month-old cubs. Post-mortem nearly 90,000 workers on their roll, ) min, and were systematically erased tigers left in the wild, which is more reports have revealed that no who are trained with tranquilising and ‘exterminated’ with incentives than 50 per cent of the total tiger 130$1/# attempts were made to capture the guns to prevent such inhumane 3 from the Government. In other population across the world. ;.8$3 animal and she was directly shot after killing of an animal. ( words, the authorities legitimised In recent years, special focus has several months of search. These are just a few examples of 4 their act by vilifying the big cats, cast- been given to tiger conservation -8<.//$%! In order to protect the tigress the many, where human greed has S ( ing them as terrible, bloodthirsty with several organisations, like the from a torturous death, there was a been the cause of wildlife destruc- beasts with an insatiable hunger for World Wide Fund for Nature $39"0/!%8/8; loud uproar on social media. On- tion. We continue to grow and human flesh. (WWF), Wildlife Protection Society .!.<#20/# ground campaign with hashtag encroach their land, leaving them to After India’s independence, of India (WPSI) and Wildlife #LetAvniLive and several marches in live in only about 10 per cent of the ) killing tigers for sport escalated. Conservation Society (WCS), among ;8.0/%02!0/# major cities across the country were country’s total potential tiger habi- S 5 S Hunters from around the world others, working towards protecting 0/%/).0!# also held. tat of 300,000 sq km (115,830 sq came to this country for a guaranteed the endangered species. An appeal was made to miles). H 5 ( trophy advertised by the Indian Here, a question arises: Have 010./!!8/ the President and the Prime Minister Animal density in many of these ( travel industry. Because the biggest these efforts been stopped by the $3%!! ! of our country to save Avni. But the forest areas is high and surplus " animals made the best trophies, bureaucrats and the politicians to Government as well as the forest offi- tigers sometimes venture outside 4 the largest, strongest cats disap- impose their will? Royalty in earlier 13%)3".$0%/$8 cials in Maharashtra failed to capture for food. Poachers have gained from peared from the gene pool. years and the Government machin- the tigress alive. the man-animal conflict by killing By 1971, when hunting was out- ery now have continued to hunt the $39$%/)$%8/ Avni’s death is a big question the tigers and bribing the villagers to lawed by the Indian Government tiger which seems to stand no chance 8;$%-.! mark on the conservation efforts set up traps. . S $ with the Wildlife Protection Act, in a world dominated by humans. taken up by the Government in What we need from the 7 @ ) ( 1972, coming into play, we had Recently, Avni (T1), a six-year- 0).8!!$3 protecting these endangered species. 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Stricter forest administration is 5 S entertainment reduced the tiger pop- was accused of killing and devour- It was not just the death of a required to prevent poaching of not (( ulation in the country to 1,800 by ing 13 people in the past year-and- tigress, but of democracy, and our just tigers, but all other animals for 1971. Condition was such that there a-half. efforts of conservation of the last bit their skin, tusks, horns and bones. I 5 were assumptions of tigers getting Many assert that there was no of wildlife left in the country. (The writer is an Executive extinct by the end of the year 2000. proof of Avni killing those 13 peo- Next in line was a leopard who Director of Federation of Indian In the year 1973, “Project Tiger” ple in the village, and the shoot-to- was labeled as a man-eater in Animal Protection Organisations) /0 5#$!/"7 Gvsx qu ruusuu vuqywxu uqqv xuuuquu ruut su quxquqtytuqts ytuqy v syqw t
15-29 age group in the region, it is vulnerable to stress, fatigue and ness and positive action. network across the intellectual and teachers, school administrators, and essential that the school curricula be depression, neuroscientists recently Importantly, the practice of self- emotional such that these neural net- education policy-makers but also revised so as to ensure proper men- showed that focused and explicit compassion has emerged as a power- works can in actuality produce the parents. tal health and well-being of people. training in mindfulness, empathy ful antidote to handle anxiety. When virtues and values that drove Gandhi We all must move away from the Recent brain research has exposed and compassion can provide solu- faced with life challenges or while con- to practice empathy, kindness and present assessment-obsessed system to the vulnerability of the adolescent tions for better mental health. fronting failure, if adolescents respond compassion to all beings, irrespective a structure that rewards kindness and " 6#6# 6 #6# # brain. During adolescence, the brain Research from the laboratories of with compassion and kindness to of religion, gender, ideology, and caste. consideration for social good. If not ! 3$! %%$6 undergoes tremendous neural growth Richard Davidson at the university self, rather than inflicting harsh pun- The good news: Recent studies then we can expect learners to be in a # and pruning, leading to massive re- of Wisconsin, Madison and Tania ishment, they accept and recognise involving adolescents in schools state of perpetual cognitive dissonance, 0 CE organisation of connections between Singer at the Max Planck Institute in that limitation and weakness is a part show similar promise. Initial results which might even cause further dis- he ‘Mental Health Status of different brain areas. Leipzig showed that each of these of the human experience. This process point towards more pro-social comfort, stress and anxiety, wonder- Adolescents in South-East Asia: During teenage brain develop- competencies employ a distinct not only allows students to handle aca- behaviour on the part of the students ing which path they should take. TEvidence for Action’ report pub- ment, prefrontal cortex, which is neural circuit and build new connec- demic pressure but also builds a who were exposed to mindfulness With that sobering warning, we 1 ( lished by the World Health responsible for executive decisions, tions between the prefrontal cortex healthier and realistic representation and empathy cum compassion train- see optimism for the future as the Organisation (WHO) in 2012 stated begins to connect with other parts of and limbic cortex. of self — a process now acknowledged ing. The research and experiences are younger generation do begin to ques- that 86 million people in South-East the brain, primarily those connected Mindfulness is the conscious pay- to be critical for good mental health. still at an infancy stage but the sci- tion values and beliefs of the past and Asia suffered from depression and that with emotion. This connection ing of attention to experience and life The process of building these ence suggests promise. explore new multivariate identities that 25 per cent of all children between 13- between the prefrontal cortex and the that is unfolding right now and to cul- networks has been coined as Firing Therefore, if schools are to be ‘true’ emerge from a system that encourages ' (, 15 years of age suffered from this dis- emotion areas (the limbic cortex) tivate conscious regulation of attention, Gandhi Neurons, which is inspired by centres of learning, they need to be understanding the self, understanding ease in India. The report further said regulate reward, risk, problem solving, emotion, thought and belief. This the seminal work of Neuroscientist VS able to empower our youngsters to and helping others but with a critical ($ that India has the highest suicide rate planning and regulation. Short-cutting allows responses to be made as opposed Ramachandran’s work on mirror and not only acquire intellectual and eye to facts and evidence. Once they among 10 South-East Asian nations. of neural networks from external to just reacting to them. Empathy and empathy neurons. The difference technical skills, as required by the job do, then what they think, what they say The most common reported reason for receptors to the limbic cortex in some compassion need to work in synchrony between this approach and conven- markets, but also provide them a bet- and what they do is in harmony. And teen depression was anxiety and stress way explains irrational decision-mak- and are particularly helpful in handling tional approaches is that rather than ter understanding of themselves, that according to the Mahatma is the K due to academic performance, peer ing among teenagers. anxiety and peer pressure. While focusing purely on building intellec- their identities and relationship with secret to creating happy schools. ($ pressure and poor self-esteem. But we must return to brain sci- empathy is our general capacity to share tual knowledge, of why reducing stress other beings. But there is a dichoto- (Anantha Duraiappah is Director, Given that depression can lead ence for answers. Drawing from emotional states of others, compassion is good and its benefits, focus is on my here that we must address and UNESCO MGIEP. Nandini Chatterjee ( to suicide, which is the second high- research on doctors, nurses and ensures that we are not swayed by them building emotional resilience to stress. alert all stakeholders in the education Singh is Cognitive Neuroscientist at est cause of death among people in Army veterans, who have long been and, instead, handle them with kind- The key here is to create a neural chain; this includes not only the UNESCO MGIEP) %# %"!$#, !- %./0.12/ 8
"!%!PO"P#''"% $ $ $ ! . % ! ,4" "0$/0 ) ( < "0$/0 usiness came to a standstill / t last Chief Minister Nitish Bin both Houses of Bihar $+3 AKumar clarified on his legislature on Tuesday, the " neech (below standard) first working day of the week- 0%G012 remarks he allegedly hurled at long short winter session, as / Union Minister and RLSP chief the Opposition forced their + + olling in Mizoram will be Upendra Kushwaha which cre- adjournment motions and Pheld on Wednesday with ated a brouhaha in political cir- debate on law and order situ- over 7.7 lakh voters expected to cles and gave opportunity to his ation. But their moves were exercise their franchise in the bete noire and his supporters to turned down in the Assembly + State where Chief Minister Lal mount attack on him. as well as in the Council lead- Thanhawla is seeking a third At the JD(U) legislature porters protested and leaders of bol ceiling fan is theirs. Paswan ing to turmoil and consecutive term and the BJP party meeting on Monday late some other parties like Jitan refused to accept Kushwaha as slogan shouting. His mother and leader of looking to uproot the Congress evening, Nitish said he never Ram Manjhi, Shivanand Tewari president of RLSP and said he Leader of Opposition in the opposition in the Upper House in its last bastion in the North- A total of 209 candidates village have even erected a used this word against anybody. and Arun Kumar supported ceased to hold the post. Both of Assembly Tejashwi Prasad Rabri Devi said Nitish should east. are in fray for the November 28 welcome gate at the border He said a TV news channel dis- Kushwaha and attacked the them also have called on Nitish. Yadav said the criminals were feel ashamed as his The Congress and the polls and the fate of the candi- expressing heartiest welcome to torted and gave wrong colour CM. Deputy CM Sushil Kumar “RLSP is already divided ruling the roost and adminis- Government was being run by Mizoram National Party (MNF) dates would be decided by Bru voters," Kundra said. to what he had said about the Modi went on record saying but Kushwah should say who is tration was sleeping. “Deputy criminals and such elements have ruled Mizoram since 1987 7,70,395 voters, which include Campaigning in the state level of debate. that the remark was not against insulting him,” said Paswan CM Sushil Modi is appealing were being protected. when it became a full-fledged 3,94,897 women. saw paradigm shift this elec- He said, “A TV channel Kushwaha or anybody else and and added that when the criminals with folded In the council adjourn- state. Interestingly, no party has Electronic voting machines tion season with political par- invited me at its programme and that he was present at that pro- Kushwaha failed to have con- hands not to commit crime. ment notice was pushed by been able to form Government (EVMs) will be used in the ties making extensive use of wanted to discuss development gramme. He also accused RLSP trol over his three MPs and two The law and order situation is RJD chief whip Subodh Kumar thrice since that year. polling that would begin at 7 social media platforms like issues. I had said that no polit- leader of raking up a non-issue MLAs how he could rule Bihar. at its nadir. Police is mute who said gang rape of minor Elections to the 40-mem- am and end at 4 pm. Facebook and Whatsapp to ical questions should be asked. for political gain. After failing to get an spectator and criminals of girls, kidnapping, murder and ber assembly in Mizoram, Ahead of elections, the woo young voters. But the anchor started asking The clarification of Nitish appointment with BJP chief RSS and BJP are creating social communal violence were order which has a population of state witnessed intense protests The ruling Congress political questions. I raised ques- is unlikely to satisfy Kushwaha Amit Shah, the RLSP leader tension and lynched an old of the day. about 10 lakh, is significant for by civil society groups over the banked heavily for the elections tion on the standard of the because he too knows that the said he is seeking time from person in Sitamarhi recently Despite the request by the the BJP that considers it to be place of voting for 12,026 Bru on its flagship New Land Use channel and said that the media CM had not called him name Prime Minister Narendra Modi and burned him alive and chair in both houses the oppo- the 'final frontier' in the region. voters. The issue led to replace- Policy (NLUP), which brought house should not stoop so low and that he used this opportu- to discuss the poll issues and against the wishes of his kin sition members continued In the 2013 elections, the ment of Chief Electoral Officer the party to power for two con- (Itna neeche star par nahi utar- nity only to malign the JD(U) seat sharing. Kushwaha who buried him in Muzaffarpur,” standing in the Well of the Congress had won 34 seats, SB Shashank in less than two secutive terms. na chahiye). My comment was president and make an issue in had earlier given a deadline of said Yadav and sought reply houses and raising slogans while its main opposition, the weeks before the polls. The campaign had reached not aimed at any individual.” bargaining seat sharing. November 30 to the BJP to take from the CM who was not pre- forcing the adjournment in Mizo National Front (MNF), Ashish Kundra, who its peak in the final week with The comment had come But despite all his efforts a decision, urged the PM to sent in the House. both sessions. got five and the Mizoram replaced Shashank, said on the visit of Prime Minister when the anchor asked him and antics, Kushwaha has give him appointment between He said questions related to Parliamentary affairs People's Conference bagged Monday that the Election Narendra Modi, BJP president about the charges of Kushwaha emerged to be a loser. His both November 27-30. the departments held by the Minister Shrawan Kumar said, one seat. Commission has made exten- Amit Shah and Congress pres- against him. The RLSP chief MLAs Lalan Paswan and The political circles here CM were not being answered. “Our Government is ready The Congress and the sive preparations for the Brus ident Rahul Gandhi. who is struggling to negotiate Sudhanshu Shekhar have said that an appointment or no Nitish also hold home depart- tom accept their demand, MNF have fielded 40 candi- lodged in six relief camps of Other prominent leaders with BJP leadership on seat turned against him and were appointment with the PM ment. Amid the slogan shout- hold debate on whatever dates each, while the BJP is Tripura to cast their votes at who campaigned in the state sharing and found himself cor- seen at the meeting of the BJP would clear how much weight ing and waving of placards by issues they want and reply but contesting in 39 seats. The Kanhmun village in Mamit included Union Home Minister nered, tried to take advantage of legislature party on Monday. the BJP leadership was giving RJD legislators, he said there they should raise any issue as Zoram Peoples Movement district where 15 temporary Rajnath Singh, DoNER the situation by accusing Nitish They said that they are in to him. In the first week of was total breakdown of law and per parliamentary norms and (ZPM), an alliance formed by polling stations have been set Minister Jitendra Singh, that he called him “neech.” RLSP and NDA and Kushwaha December the RLSP has called order and even Supreme Court rules. But they have no faith two political parties and four up. The village is located on the National People's Party (NPP) While he demanded a clar- is free to go anywhere. They a meeting at Motihari to chart was reprimanding Bihar in parliamentary democracy groups, is contesting in state's border with Tripura. leader and Meghalaya Chief ification from Nitish, his sup- also claimed that party’s sym- out future course of action. Government. and its institutions.” 35 seats. "The people of Kanhmun Minister Conrad Sangma. &$!'$#: ; O! ! C $ 9 $ ! Kochi: Activist Rehana Fathima, the case. Fathima, who was also $ who had attempted to enter the part of the 'Kiss of Love' move- Ayyappa temple in Sabarimala ment in Kochi in 2014 against ! >DD when it opened for monthly puja alleged moral policing, was Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala against the September 28 apex last month, was arrested on among the two women who Assembly Speaker P court verdict, permitting Tuesday for allegedly hurting had reached the hilltop on Sreeramakrishnan has disal- women of all age groups into religious sentiments through October 19 but had to return lowed the introduction of a the hill shrine. her Facebook posts, police said. before reaching the sanctum private Bill by a Congress leg- "The Speaker used to refer A#; Fathima (32) was arrested sanctorum due to massive islator in the Assembly on the the private bills to the Law from her office in Palarivattom protests by Ayyappa devotees. issue of entry of women of all Department to know whether in Kochi, they said. Fathima and Hyderabad- age into the Sabarimala tem- such bills had constitutional Thiruvananthapuram: The aged 10-50. The activist, a BSNL based journalist Kavitha were ple. backing. We had sent this Congress-led UDF on Tuesday The apex court had on employee, was booked by taken to the hills under heavy The Bill, urging the LDF proposed bill on Sabarimala announced that it will contin- November 13 refused to stay its police in Pathanamthitta on a Meanwhile, a BSNL attempt to enter the Sabarimala police protection. Some young Government to consider devo- also to the state Law secretary ue the protests till the Kerala earlier order, three days before complaint by Radhakrishna spokesperson said Fathima was temple when it was opened for women who tried to enter the tees of Lord Ayyappa as a sep- for legal scrutiny," an police withdrew the prohibito- the temple opened for a two- Menon, alleging that some of suspended from service in view monthly puja in October fol- temple were targeted by devo- arate religious group and a new official said. ry orders enforced in month long season. her Facebook posts hurt reli- of the police investigation against lowing the Supreme Court tees when the temple was legislation to protect their tra- "According to the Law Sabarimala. The Left Democratic gious sentiments. her. Considering the protest order allowing entry of women opened for six days on October ditional rituals and customs, Secretary, such a bill is uncon- The decision was conveyed Front (LDF) government-led She was booked under IPC against her by devotees of Lord in the age group of 10-50. 17 for the first time after the was proposed by Kovalam stitutional and not qualified to by the United Democratic by the Communist Party of Section 295A (deliberate and Ayyappa and BJP activists, the Anticipating arrest, she apex court order. MLA M Vincent. be presented in the House as it Front (UDF) convenor Benny India-Marxist (CPI-M) has malicious acts, intended to BSNL had earlier transferred her had moved the high court On September 28, the The Speaker's office told will be against the Supreme Behanan to the media here, been trying to implement the outrage religious feelings of any to the Palarivattom telephone seeking anticipatory bail, but it Supreme court had lifted the cen- PTI that the private bill was Court verdict," the official said. soon after the liaison commit- top court's order even as the class by insulting its religion or exchange in the city where pub- was rejected. turies-old ban on the entry of rejected based on the advice of The Sabarimala Lord tee of the leadership met here. Congress, the Bharatiya religious beliefs). She was later lic contact is not required. Dismissing the plea, the women of menstrual age into the the Law Department that a Ayyappa Temple has been "We have decided that our Janata Party and several taken to Pathanamthitta after A controversy had erupted court had directed that police shrine, but a section of devotees legislation in this regard would witnessing intense protests by protests will continue till the Hindu groups have been up in her arrest, police said. in Kerala after Fathima made an could take appropriate steps in is protesting the decision. PTI be "unconstitutional" and devotees and right-wing prohibitory orders in the tem- arms against it. activists against the CPI(M)- ple town in Sabarimala are lift- Behanan added that there led LDF Government's deci- ed. Our protests will be seen was "an unholy alliance sion to implement the apex both inside and outside the between the Pinarayi Vijayan court verdict. Assembly," said Behanan. government and the BJP/RSS The 13th session of the The business session of forces". Kerala Assembly, which got the state assembly begins on "Vijayan and the Sangh underway here Tuesday, was Wednesday. Parivar forces are hand-in- adjourned for the day as a mark The Kerala Police on glove and the former has of respect to MLA P B Abdul Monday extended Section 144 given the chance to the latter Razak, who passed away recent- of the CrPC that prohibits to get glorified through their ly. The session is expected to be assembly of more than four protests and arrests of stormy as the Opposition persons in one place, till their leaders. Congress-led UDF and the BJP November 30. "This is a ploy by the two have announced that they would Sabarimala town has been forces. We have had a consis- rake up the Sabarimala issue in witnessing repeated protests tent stand on the Sabarimala the House. ever since the September 28 issue. Meanwhile, a crucial UDF verdict of the Supreme Court “We will not withdraw our meeting here decided to stall that allowed women of all ages protest till the prohibitory proceedings of the 13 day-long to enter the temple that hith- order is withdrawn," Behanan assembly session till the Pinarayi erto banned girls and women added. IANS Vijayan government withdraws the prohibitory orders invoked by police in Sabarimala and sur- rounding areas. A BJP statement said here that the saffron party would cooperate with the P C George-led Kerala Jana Paksham in the ongoing assembly session on the Sabarimala issue. PTI %# %"!$#, !- %./0.12/ ;
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TInvestigation (CBI) on spirator in the March 12, 1993 In the second phase of in Purulia how the saffron on Tuesday following input on ! $ ! & & Tuesday filed a supplemen- serial bombings. The CBI filed 1993 serial blasts trial, there outfit’s tall claims of acchhe din the presence of terrorists. , ! :E & tary charge-sheet against a a supplementary charge-sheet were in all seven accused (good days) had ended up in a people Mamata said. “This is While the security per- recently arrested accused, against Farooq Takla in the Mustafa Ahmed Dossa “big cipher.” a Government which has no sonnel zeroed in on a suspect- Kumar and Constable Avnish- Ghazwatul Hind, an al-Qaeda Ahmed Kamal Shaikh alias TADA court here the second (deported from Dubai), Abu Mamata who on Monday work except intimidating the ed house, the hiding terrorists - sustained injuries. Yadav suc- affiliate. Ahmed Lambum alias Khalid week of August this year. Salem (extradited from attacked the BJP for selling businessmen who do not fall in opened fire triggering an cumbed to his injuries in hos- Police said a search oper- Kamal Shaikh, for his alleged As many as 257 persons Portugal), Riyaz Ahmed Rama for electoral gains, on line with them. Today you encounter. pital later. This is second fatal ation was launched jointly by role in the conspiracy behind were killed and 713 others Siddhiqui, Abdul Kayyum; Tuesday said how “they (BJP) raise a question and tomorrow During the exchange of casualty on army’s side since last police and security forces in the the March 12, 1993 Mumbai injured in the serial explosions Karrimullah Osan Khan, Firoz have failed to tackle Maoist they will send Enforcement fire, two local cadre of banned three days. wee hours following the inputs serial blasts case. that rocked the country’s com- Abdul Rashid Khan and Taher problem in Madhya Pradesh, Directorate, Central Bureau Lashkar-e-Tayyeba (LeT) out- On Monday, Lance Naik about the presence of terrorists In the supplementary mercial capital on March 12, Merchant @ Taher Taklya ( all Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand of Investigation and Income fit were killed. They were iden- Nazir Ahmad Wani, a former in the village. charge-sheet filed before the 1993. Property worth Rs 27 extradited from Dubai). whereas we have been able to Tax to your house. Today the tified as Ajaz Ahmad Makroo counterinsurgent turned army "As the searches were designated TADA court here, crore was destroyed in the blasts. On September 7 last year, eradicate the problem com- entire industry is afraid of and Waris Ahmad Malik, both soldier, who was twice award- going on, the search party was the CBI stated that Shaikh had The serial blasts were the a designated TADA Court here pletely from Jangalmahal areas them,” she said. local residents. ed Sena Medal for his role in fired upon by the gunmen. The been absconding since the 1993 outcome of a larger conspira- handed out death sentence to of Bengal which was once a hot The Chief Minister who Police said Makroo as had fighting terrorism in Kashmir, fire was retaliated leading to a blasts but was arrested on June cy hatched in Dubai, Mumbai two convicts Taher Merchant bed of Maoists.” was touring south Bengal dis- a long history of crime records was killed in an encounter in gunfight. In the ensuing 1 this year. and other places in India. and Firoz Abdul Rashid Khan Wondering what brought tricts to take stock of the devel- since 2017. “He (Makroo) was Batagund village of Shopian encounter, one terrorist was Shaikh had been declared Initially, the investigation was and life imprisonment to extra- the saffron workers to Purulia opmental works said how the a close associate of terrorist district. killed,” police said. a proclaimed offender by des- conducted by Mumbai Police. dited underworld don Abu and other Jangalmahal areas in Centre only made false slogans commanders including Naveed In another encounter in “Shakir was part of Zakir ignated TADA court here and In all 27 crimes were registered Salem and another convict the time of peace Mamata said of Beti Bachao Beti Padhao Jatt and Azad Dada. Several Hafoo Reshipora area of Tral Musa group and had a long his- a non-bailable arrest warrant at various police stations. On Karrimullah Osan Khan. The “there was a time when the “but in reality they do nothing,” cases were registered against sub-district in south Kashmir’s tory of crime records since had also been issued against November 4, 1993, the TADA court sentenced the whole area was scared of whereas her Government with him,” police said. Pulwama district, a terrorist 2015,” police said adding that him on September 17, 1997. Mumbai Crime Branch had fifth convict in the case Riyaz Maoists as there was bloodshed limited means had been imple- Police said that an Army identified as Shakir Hassan huge quantity of arms and Subsequently a Red Corner filed a consolidated charge Ahmed Siddhiqi to ten years’ everywhere. At that time none mented schemes for women, soldier, identified as Prakash Dar was killed. He was close ammunition including rifles Notice was also issued against sheet before a special court. rigorous imprisonment. had the courage to come to this girl children and poor that had Yadav and two CRPF personnel aide of Zakir Musa, the self- was recovered from the him by the Interpol. The trial involving the first Of the six accused who had area. Only I came to these areas been hailed all over the world. identified— sub-inspector Amit proclaimed leader of Ansar encounter sites. The CBI’s investigations set of 123 accused had begun in earlier been convicted by the repeatedly. But now they (BJP) Speaking to people in an revealed that Shaikh was part 1995 and concluded in 2002. TADA court on June 16 last are trying to create distur- area bordering Jharkhand of the criminal conspiracy Having begun to pronounce the year, notorious smuggler and bance by bringing in people Mamata said the neighbouring hatched to engineer blasts in judgements in the first phase of key convict Mustafa Dossa from Jharkhand.” State had everything that a rich $3 &6 Mumbai. the trial on September 12, 2006, alias Mustafa Majnu died of a Attacking the Centre for State should possess “but due Shaikh had gone to Dubai then designated Judge P D Kode massive heart attack at the ruining Indian economy by to the lack of intellect and plan- and worked in close association completed the first phase of State-run JJ Hospital here on imposing demonetisation and ning of their leaders they have P with several other prime verdicts on December 6, 2006. June 28. The court had earlier GST Mamata said “Notebandi failed to raise the level of their absconders like Dawood Of the 123 who faced the on June 16 acquitted seventh has literally ruined the Indian economy.” 2 )6/81 planning to hold a meeting with in Rajasthan. The plan of hold- Ibrahim Kaskar, Tiger Memon trial, 100 were convicted and 23 accused in the case, Abdul businessmen. The whole indus- Meanwhile, in an unrelat- the district level RLD workers ing the agitation will be decided and others. acquitted. Of the 100 convict- Kayyum for lack of evidence. try has fallen flat on its face” ed development the opposition ashtriya Lok Dal’s senior and leaders. Right now our lead- by the senior leaders in the time Incidentally, Shaikh is the ed, Judge Kode awarded capi- With both of them having adding GST only added salt to Left and the Congress on Rleader Anil Dubey on ers are busy in Assembly election to come,” he said. second absconding accused tal punishment to 12 and life been charge-sheeted, Shaikh injury by “sucking out whatever Tuesday staged a walk-out Tuesday said the BJP had arrested by the CBI this year. imprisonment to 20. Rest of the and Farooq Takla will under- was left within the moribund from the Bengal Assembly after ignored the farmers’ issues Earlier in March this year, the convicts were handed sen- go trial in what can be called as economy.” their demand for a no-trust while it was portraying itself to CBI had arrested Dawood tenced to periods ranging from the third phase of the 1993 This Government does no motion was turned down by be their well-wishers. “It is the Ibrahim’s close aide two years to 14 years. Only one Mumbai serial blasts trial. work save intimidating the Speaker Biman Banerjee. time of sowing of crops but the farmers are not getting fer- tilisers and seeds easily as the cooperative societies remain D :E closed in most of the districts,” he pointed out. The senior RLD leader said the party would launch a mas- sive agitation to expose the 6>$4@ !! BJP’s misgovernance in the time to come. Dubey said the BJP leaders were now covering !.%/0-0. 46.3%, Pulwama 0.6 %, Kulgam up their failures and misleading 14.5 %, Anantnag 6.2 %, farmers by making false claims. n overall 71.3 per cent Kishtwar 82.3%, Doda 84.6%, “Even as farmers are facing a lot Aturnout was recorded in # ) Ramban 81.1%, Udhampur of difficulty in getting fertilisers the fourth phase of panchay- 8 =*> 78.9%, Kathua 80.7%, Jammu and seeds and cooperative soci- at elections in Jammu & 85.2 %, Rajouri 81.8% and eties are lying closed, the state Kashmir. The elections are Poonch 82.5%. BJP government is claiming that being conducted in nine phas- 6 Pertinently, in Phase-I of the same is available in abun- es since November 17. ( =(> Panchayat Polls held on 17 dance at different centres in the According to the Chief November 74.1% polling was state,” he said. Electoral Officer, an impres- 2 recorded across J&K includ- Hitting out at the Union sive 82.4 per cent polling was ing 64.5% in Kashmir division Government led by BJP, Dubey witnessed in Jammu division and 79.4% in Jammu division. said the Government had utter- and 32.3% in Kashmir divi- In the Phase-II of ly failed in fulfilling its promise. sion including Kargil and Panchayat Polls held on 20 “It has failed to provide jobs to Leh districts. centage of 75.2% which November overall 71.1% youths, one-and-a-half times The Kupwara witnessed includes 55.7% in Kashmir polling was witnessed across more price for crops to farm- 56.1%, Bandipora 24.4%, division and 83.0% in Jammu the State with an overwhelm- ers and doling out 15 lakh to Baramulla 62.4%, Budgam division. ing 80.4% polling in Jammu each of them. Contrary to it, the 46.3%, Pulwama 0.6 %, The voting for Phase-five division and 52.2% in corruption and price hike are Kulgam 14.5 %, Anantnag of the panchayat polls will take Kashmir division. hitting the all-time high. The 6.2 %, Kishtwar 82.3%, Doda place on November 29. Similarly, in Phase-III, the law and order in the BJP-ruled 84.6%, Ramban 81.1%, Adequate security arrange- State witnessed a polling per- States has derailed. To divert the Udhampur 78.9%, Kathua ments had been made includ- centage of 75.2% which attention of the public from its 80.7%, Jammu 85.2 %, Rajouri ing deployment of Central includes 55.7% in Kashmir poor performance, the BJP 81.8% and Poonch 82.5%. Armed Police Forces (CAPF) division and 83.0% in Jammu leaders are raking up temple Pertinently, in Phase-I of in the poll-bound areas. division. issue,” he said. Panchayat Polls held on 17 The overall poll percent- The voting for Phase-five The RLD leaders November 74.1% polling was age of 71.3% was witnessed in of Panchayat Polls will take expressed surprise over the recorded across J&K includ- the Phase 4 of the nine- place on 29 November 2018. hike in fuel prices. “In the ing 64.5% in Kashmir division phased panchayat elections Adequate security international market, the price and 79.4% in Jammu division. in the State. arrangements had been made of crude oil is low. Despite this, In the Phase-II of According to the Chief including deployment of the price of diesel and petrol Panchayat Polls held on 20 Electoral Officer, an impres- Central Armed Police Forces is witnessing steep spurt,” he November overall 71.1% sive 82.4% polling was wit- (CAPF) in the poll pointed out. polling was witnessed across nessed in Jammu division bound areas. 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" . ; " L-') M $ 2 . 1 /1#23% . /1#23% /1#23% ) quate, the bank would need to $ raise capital from the market to ommerce and Industry BI Governor Urjit oody’s Investors Service continue to grow its balance CMinister Suresh Prabhu on RPatel on Tuesday Mon Tuesday downgraded sheet more rapidly than the Tuesday said he has taken up committed to a Yes Bank’s ratings to non- Indian banking system. the issue of declining credit to Parliamentary investment grade and changed “If Yes Bank experiences exporters with the Finance L-') M $ Committee to give in outlook to negative from stable difficulty in raising external Ministry to ensure adequate /2)% 2 N/ O)"! - ( % writing his views on on the back of various resig- capital, this will impede the availability of funds to them. >(=D) $$ some of the controver- nations from the Board. bank’s ability to grow its loan Prabhu said exports are ) O" . ; ( sial issues, which may The resignations, when book,” the US-based agency growing and the ministry is include the seen in conjunction with RBI’s said in a statement. taking steps to further acceler- Government citing September directive to restrict Moody’s said while Yes ate the growth rate. never-used powers to the term of the bank’s Bank’s current asset quality “One of the main chal- get the central bank MD&CEO Rana Kapoor, till metrics are superior to those of lenges for export is finance. on the discussion table, January 31, 2019, have raised its Indian peers, its aggressive There is a decline in (export) said sources. concerns over corporate gov- growth strategy poses asset finance, so we have taken up Patel, who ernance, it said. risks. the issue with the finance min- appeared before the 31- “A l t h o u g h t h e b a n k’s “In particular, Moody’s has istry...I think, the finance min- member Parliamentary reported credit fundamentals noted significant divergence ister is also looking into this (as Standing Committee remain stable, the develop- in the bank’s reported asset in) how we can improve the on Finance, said the ments surrounding the transi- quality metrics compared with credit flow into the export sec- economy would get a tion in leadership as well as the the RBI’s assessment of asset tor,” the minister told reporters boost from oil prices cooling the economy as well about the 10-15 days. governance issues are credit quality in 2016-17 and 2015-16 here. off from four-year highs and world economy to the com- The RBI Governor negative because they compli- While the results of RBI’s risk- Federation of Indian Export said fundamentals were mittee and several members appeared before the panel days cate management’s effective based supervision report for Organisations (FIEO) President “robust”, they said. asked questions. His views on after the RBI’s face-off with the implementation of the bank’s 2017-18 are not known as yet, Ganesh Gupta has time and " & ! # " & 3 " # $ The RBI Governor also the economy were “optimistic”. finance ministry over issues long-term strategy,” it said. nevertheless, any adverse find- again demanded augmentation !2 #" & told the Members of “He stayed clear of contro- ranging from the appropriate Furthermore, these devel- ings from its assessment will be of credit flow to the export sec- ! " & $- Parliament that credit growth versial questions like size of reserves to be main- opments could constrain the credit negative,” it said. tor, as a sharp decline in credit # ." & A,! # % E '" &- was 15 per cent and the impact Government invoking special tained by the central bank to bank’s ability to raise new cap- “Nevertheless, its funding would impact exports growth. # %; '" &$ of November 2016 demoneti- powers, instead he gave intel- easing of lending norms for ital, Moody’s said. profile is relatively weaker The minister has earlier sation has a transient impact on ligent replies without saying small and medium enterprises. Moody’s has downgraded compared to other public sec- suggested that loans to the economy. anything,” they said. Former prime minister foreign currency issuer rating tor banks in India, as measured exporters should be considered Patel was earlier sched- Members also asked ques- Manmohan Singh is also a to ‘Ba1’ from ‘Baa3’, and also by its low current and savings as priority sector lending by the uled to appear before the panel tions on the implementation of member of the committee the bank’s baseline credit account deposit ratio and the banks. on November 12. the Basel III capital adequacy headed by senior Congress assessment (BCA) and adjust- dominance of corporate Prabhu also said that to He, however, did not norms for banks. To this, a leader and former Union min- ed BCA to ‘ba2’ from ‘ba1’. The deposits,” it said. boost shipments, exporters answer specific questions on source said the Governor ister M Veerappa Moily. rating implies that these instru- The outlook has been should explore new markets the Government invoking replied that adherence to the India’s banking system, ments are non-investment revised to negative, after taking including in Africa, Latin Section 7 of the RBI Act, NPAs, global norms was India’s com- particularly state-owned banks, grade, speculative. into account the uncertainty America, East Asia, south Asia, the autonomy of the central mitment to G-20 nations. are grappling with huge bad The outlook, where applic- relating to the bank’s asset qual- and the Middle East. bank and other contentious Another source said that as loans. Recently, there has been able, has been changed to neg- ity and profitability perfor- He said logistics sector will issues, sources said. there were a large number of a liquidity crisis for the impor- ative from stable. mance and in particular any play a key role in enhancing the Sources said Patel made a questions, the Governor was tant NBFC sector following re- Moody’s said although Yes adverse findings from RBI’s competitiveness of Indian presentation about the state of asked to file written replies in payment default by IL&FS. Bank’s capitalisation is ade- risk-based supervision report. goods in the global markets.
A : 3F(2&# ; ! ! 2 ! 9 ! 2 $ /#0ON F O ! E! ! P ! $ " ! 40 mittee meeting of Jammu and terial when its fruits do not per- CITU, Kashmir Singh Thakur, Kashmir chapter of Centre of colate to the larger sections of highlighted the move of the /1#23% The raid was carried out by enior CPI(M) leader MY Indian Trade unions (CITU) the society... central Government to dole out ! ( the local police authorities in STarigami on Tuesday called here. “Every section of the the Public Sector Undertakings / 0 KF India, under its ongoing cooperation with SKF India. A for united struggle to fight the The meeting concluded society has been bearing the (PSUs) including banks, insur- ) C $ Sinitiative to offer genuine large number of counterfeit onslaught of the “anti-labour” after a discussion on the plight brunt of the neo-liberal eco- ance, railways, defence and ) and reliable products to its cus- packed bearings in SKF Cartons, policies of the central of working class under the nomic policies of the BSNL to the corporate houses 0 tomers, seized significant some additional SKF look-alike Government, alleging that BJP-led dispensation and Government and we witness and multinational corpora- 0 amount of counterfeit products cartons and duplicated SKF every section of the society has decided that conferences and that farmers suicides go tions (MNCs) which is “bound L from trader in Greater Noida holographic stickers of various been bearing the brunt of its seminars on tehsil and district unabated despite the tall to put the future of lakhs of the 0 $ India recently. The trader, who sizes were seized. A number of neo-liberal economic policies. levels will be organized to fur- claims of the Government working force engaged in these H has been selling SKF products counterfeit SKF packed bearings “The BJP-led central ther the struggle against the that measures have been prestigious organizations into " illegally, was a non-authorised of various sizes were seized from Government is formulating the “anti-people” policies of the taken to provide assistance to jeopardy”. ) M trader of SKF. the retailer’s shop and godown. labour laws which are totally government. them,” he said. “As such, it becomes L# pro-corporate and anti-labour Tarigami, who is also pres- He emphasised that CITU imperative for the working 0 3 M /# (3< class in nature, which are ident of the state CITU, said the must take lead in uniting var- class to get united to fight this ) ! H$ ; ) bound to curtail the social claims of economic growth do ious trade unions to fight the draconian move of the ) ! )- ( security benefits to the work- not carry any weight when the onslaught of the “anti-labour” Government,” he said. ing force. statistics reveal that 73 per policies pur- “As a result of this regres- cent of the additional wealth sued by the sive step, the condition of the created during 2017-18 has central working force is bound to be been earned by one per cent of Government. +2 + affected adversely,” Tarigami the population. National said the two-day state com- “Growth is always imma- secretary, ?+
/1#23% kerosene, pet coke and furnace oil for Amendment Bill, consumer would power supply. This is polluting and be able to switch service providers in tressing on tough steps to reform brings inefficiency in power sector. electricity sector like they do for tele- Spower sector, Niti Aayog CEO ...Whether we like it or not, if com services. Amitabh Kant on Tuesday pitched Government does not do it, six On the issue to safeguard new for ban on use of fossil fuel based months down the line courts will do investments in power sector, he gensets saying that the government that,” Kant said addressing an inau- said, “We clearly need to phase out needs to do it before a court order gural session of 21st India Power plants which are more than 25 six months down the line. Forum 2018 here. years old. NTPC, BHEL and some He also made case for phasing Kant further noted that, if the others may not like it but this is nec- out more than 25 year old coal based Government bans generator sets essary”. thermal power plants, creating of (gensets), the strengthening distrib- Strongly recommending pri- open access power market, com- ution system would be required to vatisation of coal mining, he said,”all mercial coal mining and promoting ensure round-the-clock power sup- this theories of nationalisation coal renewables. ply and said “we need to do heavy mines is not worth” and said that “You need to prohibit use and penalty for load shedding. This Government should allow private sale of gensets including captive require series of tough measure.” sector to step in for commercial min- which are using petrol, diesel, In the proposed Electricity ing. %# %"!$#, !- %./0.12/ << 9 % , /=0, # ,0%
ndian skipper Harmanpreet Kaur entered the top-five in Ithe latest ICC women's T20 International player rankings *<%=++/, with opener Smriti Mandhana and Jemimah Rodrigues also achieving their career-best rankings. Harmanpreet, who was the second highest run-getter in the recently concluded Women's World T20, after Australia opener Alyssa Healy, has gained three slots to reach 2 the third position. The Indian captain aggre- ) 0 gated 183 runs including a match-winning 103 in the ' ." opener against New Zealand. Teenage sensation Jemimah ing what all I had to go through in the moved up nine places to a /1#23% Caribbean as I had spoken to her about career-best sixth and Smriti it," Mithali wrote. jumped seven places to claim enior Indian woman cricketer A source alleged that Mithali was the 10th spot. Mithali Raj on Tuesday slammed forced by Edulji to divulge the details Healy gained four slots to SCommittee of Administrators of her meeting with Johri and Karim reach the eighth position for her member Diana Edulji and coach on Monday. Player of the Tournament effort, which saw her score 225 Ramesh Powar, saying the two are "Her brazen support in the press runs. biased against her and have tried to with regard to the decision of my Other batters to gain in the latest rankings update include "destroy" her. benching in the semi final of the T20 Javeria Khan of Pakistan, who has jumped seven places to In a scathing e-mail to the BCCI, World Cup has left me deeply dis- reach a career-best 14th position, and Clare Shillington of Mithali said her axing from the World tressed, more because she knows the Ireland, who has gained one slot to take the 19th slot. T20 semifinal against England reduced real facts having spoken to me," the In the bowlers' list led by Australia's Megan Schutt, New her to tears and left her the most deflat- player wrote. Zealand spinner Leigh Kasperek's seven wickets have lifted ed in her over two-decade long career. Mithali has played 85 T20Is for her seven places to third position while finalists England's In the note to BCCI CEO Rahul India and has scored 2288 runs. She Sophie Ecclestone has moved from 16th to fourth and fast Johri and GM (Cricket Operations) averages more than 50 in both the Test bowler Anya Shrubsole from 12th to sixth place after a seven- Saba Karim, one of India's finest and ODI formats. wicket effort, which included a hat-trick against South Africa. batswomen alleged that she was disre- "May I say that I am aware that by In the team rankings, England have overtaken New spected by the duo of Edulji and writing this email I am making myself Zealand to second position in the list which continues to be Powar. even more vulnerable. She is a CoA topped by Meg Lanning-led Australia with 283 points. "...I felt deflated, depressed and let member while I am just a player," she down. I am forced to think if my ser- lamented. * ! - ! 5, 9 ! vices to my country are of any value to "But the brazen support of a CoA a few people in power who are out to member is a clear sign of bias and also that his behaviour towards me was ances." meeting before the Australia game, ! % M$% 3 6 destroy me and break my confidence," that a stance has already been taken unfair and discriminatory," she alleged. According to Mithali things went Ramesh rings up in my room and ! $ ! Mithali, also the ODI captain, wrote in against me. By saying 'I don't support She said that Powar's behaviour from bad to worse after that. instructs me not to come to the ground 3 3 her mail. someone' and then going all out to sup- caused her "stress". "After the meeting his behaviour as the media will be there," she alleged. 1 M, ,2 ( While Powar refused to comment port my benching in the press is prej- "For instance, walking off if I am turned worse. He would not even "I was taken aback as to what media 3 $ on Mithali's allegations, Edulji could udice of the clearest sort," said Mithali. sitting anywhere around, watching in acknowledge me. To him I didn't exist has to do with me being with the team. DE C not be reached for a response. She, however, made it clear that she the nets when others bat but choosing in the team. I was told I was not to be with my own CC= ID((/ Mithali spoke about how Edulji's has no hard feelings for T20 captain to walk away when I am batting in nets, "If I was around he would imme- team in one of our biggest games. I was ' $ M" $ ( stance backing her axing, made her feel Harmanpreet Kaur, who was a party to if I try to go up to him to talk to start diately move away from the scene, if I shell shocked." F % M$ "vulnerable". Edulji, in an earlier inter- the decision of her being dropped for looking into his phone and keep walk- looked to wish him he would deliber- Mithali said Powar also deliberately 3 ($ view, had stated that the team man- the semi-finals and stood by it even ing," she said. ately start looking in other direction. ignored her at nets to make it clear she , 3 1,,2 ( agement's decision could not be ques- after the defeat. "It was embarrassing and very evi- He continued to behave badly as I have won't play the semi-finals after which 3 8#% tioned on selection matters. However, her relationship with dent to everyone that I was being already informed you yesterday. It she broke down. 0 , 0 CE $ "To put things in perspective, I have Powar hit nadir in the West Indies and humiliated. Yet I never lost my cool. appeared to me that for him the meet- "It was worrying and insulting ! always reposed faith in Diana Edulji Mithali said she still hasn't understood "Finding the situation completely ing had hurt his ego." because the coach was out to destroy (R%M and have always respected her and her the breakdown. out of control and realising that it is Mithali said she was even asked not and humiliate me," she wrote. 3 & % M position as a member of the CoA. "My issues with the coach started important to resolve issues as it affects to show up at the ground by Powar dur- "I couldn't control my tears having $ R ( "Never did I think she will use her immediately as we landed in the West the team I reached out to the team ing the game against Australia. given it my all for 20 years. It seemed 3 % ,,2 position against me, more after hear- Indies. At first there were small signs manager and conveyed my griev- "In the evening after the team my efforts had no value." F ! $ ( *+8.1 Q-R @ ( ! -! ! !* Madrid: . ! M ! ( . doing, God willing," added Engineer, ! ) < FC R who played 46 Test matches for India. 0 India are touring Australia with ! ($ experienced Parthiv Patel and rook- !7#/7 ! ! ( 8 ditions because you are playing here after a ie Rishbah Pant as their two-wicket >= # G long time. So you can get into the groove and keepers in the squad and Engineer P= . ! racing up for the "biggest opportunity" to get used to the conditions," he added. backed the Gujarat player to play in Bwin a maiden Test series Down Under, A lot of onus will be on the Indian pace Test matches. ($ . ! India's Ishant Sharma on Tuesday also cau- attack to deliver the goods once again Asked who is better among the tioned that Australia is good enough to after their terrific performances in two, Engineer said, "Well I would go ! ( ) . cause problems, regardless of the turmoil South Africa and England earlier in the for a youngster. Rishabh Pant has ! CFC ) . in its cricket. year. shown lot of promise in batting. CI The Border-Gavaskar Trophy Kohli and coach Ravi Shastri Parthiv is still fit. I think the best keep- ( begins in Adelaide on December 6, with have praised them time and again er should play Test match, ODI crick- the Indian team bedding in for prepa- as the 'best pace attack' in Indian et a better batsman (can play). ! !) H rations at the Sydney Cricket Ground Test history. Rishabh is certainly my choice for Burnley: / M and taking on Cricket Australia XI in Sharma though said this tag ODIs but for a Test someone like ,0% . . a four-day tour game from doesn't heap more pressure, moment, without these two people Parthiv will be better, although he is , M , FC Wednesday. instead provides an opportuni- (Smith and Warner) and we should 35". "We don't really think about ty for the pacers to perform even n the absence of Steve Smith and make the best of this opportunity," 80- "2 O!) " *P (1 all these things. It depends on a better. Coming on his fourth IDavid Warner, India must grab the year-old Engineer said. I . given day. In cricket whoever is tour here, he added that he is opportunity to win their maiden Test Smith and Warner are facing a Former captain Michael Clarke playing for the country is good enough. eager to win the Test series this series against an "ordinary" Australia, year-long ban after their involve- has advised the current side to "play F ($ F Till the time we get the results, we don't time, while not thinking about individ- former stumper Farokh Engineer ment in the ball tampering scandal in tough Australian cricket" in the home C . ) take anything lightly. ual performances. said on Tuesday. South Africa. Test series, saying too much empha- ) / M > "We are pretty motivated. The aim "Pressure is there but I think it is a After drawing the Twenty20 series Stressing that India have an all- sis on being nice guys on the field will F , right now is to win the series and that is great opportunity as well. We have 1-1, India and Australia will be locked round side, Engineer said the team is lead them nowhere. ( ! < what everyone is focussing on. We don't a healthy competition in the pace in a four-Test series, beginning in playing good cricket and they should The mellowed down approach has , M P even think of personal performances, just attack. If you are not doing well, you Adelaide on December 6. defeat the hosts. drawn criticism from World Cup ' M one aim, to win a series in Australia," said can be left sitting out and watching the "Australia have got two big names "India are playing very good winning skipper Clarke. (/ Sharma. game. missing (Steve) Smith and (David) cricket, we have a great captain in "Australian cricket, I think, needs India were whitewashed 4-0 when "I think it's a great opportunity to do well Warner. When you take two big Virat Kohli, he is doing superbly well. to stop worry about being liked and (, F F they were here the last time, though in any conditions. We did well on the last two names out of an (playing) XI, the team We have got a good all-round side, start worrying about being respected. ( current captain Virat Kohli made his pres- tours of South Africa and England. We are is weakened considerably," Engineer. good pace bowlers, good spinners, so Play tough cricket. Whether we like ence felt with plenty of runs. not even thinking like we have a pressure sit- "India will never have a better let's take advantage of that and beat it or not, that's in our blood," Clarke "! ! "The tour game is serious because it will uation. Instead, we always think that we have chance of beating Australia. Australia Australia in Australia, which we was quoted as saying by Macquarie Cagliari: . F ) set the tone for us. You get to know the con- an opportunity to do well," said Sharma. is a pretty ordinary team at the should be doing and we will be Sports Radio. $ F ! 0( - 0 ) $ 0 , ! G * 2 ? 2 2A" 6 1%A + ') ( $ 1 & ( $ /1.>*7A+6 %!> ) CPFP( ) 3!3 < # #6!/6% & " 6> C> ( ./% '%/ ?? #% .% % %.' ($ CC( /1#23% CPFCCE % 6 !2 2 CDCF 1 < ! ( * CPFCP 7! /G # CFCD 1 he Group B match between Barcelona: , 2 ! C>FCC 0 S 2 CD=F 1 TDelhi and Punjab, begin- C>FCCP ; 0 6 CDIEFI= 1 ning here on Wednesday, will ' ($ ! see Yuvraj Singh playing his first ' (. C>FC>I 1&7 G 6 CDD>FDP 1 match of the 2018-19 Ranji 4 ) 0 Trophy. ' () Yuvraj's return is a boost for ( ( # ,0% Medium-pacer Hasan Ali was Punjab, who conceded first 0 also at his best, taking 3-46 as innings lead in their first two "!< ) 2 eg-spinner Yasir Shah followed Pakistan gained a measure of matches against Andhra and 1 ( , Lhis extraordinary first innings revenge for losing the first Test by Madhya Pradesh. . performance with a six wicket haul four runs in Abu Dhabi last week. The 36-year-old southpaw, as Pakistan beat New Zealand by an Resuming on 131-2 and need- who last played for India in June Senior player Gautam ( innings and 16 runs in the second ing a further 197 to make Pakistan 2017, will also be available for Gambhir, who had missed the Test in Dubai on Tuesday to level the bat again, the New Zealand bats- H ! "I#! Punjab's next two matches Hyderabad game due to injury, (<# # *+ series 1-1. men, led by Ross Taylor (82), Henry against Himachal Pradesh and is set to return for the home Dubai: 3 The 32-year-old, who took 8-41 Nicholls (77) and Tom Latham Taylor for the fourth wicket and 57 four, unwisely trying to sweep Yasir Tamil Nadu. game. $ " on Monday, had figures of 6-143 in (50), dug in to make things tough with BJ Watling for the fifth. from well outside off-stump. Rising star Shubman Gill Lead Delhi pacer Navdeep CI & the second innings for a match haul for the Pakistani bowlers. Taylor tried to take the attack to Nicholls stood firm amid the will not be playing the game as Saini remains unavailable as he $ /G of 14-184. 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Harendra's biggest failure but es in the 16-team World Cup Aing them every moment, India will 1 ) P C F > = E E(I are good enough to create his- the coach said that episode is and Harendra supported the seek to end 43 years of hurt when they begin H ( tory. a thing of the past now. format, saying it will help all the Hockey World Cup campaign against The current Indian team so we need to be proud of "The hard fact is that all of the teams to come out with South Africa here on Wednesday. )%/ #% .% %.' @ /% has seven out of 18 players them. Every player in the us have forgotten the Asian fresh legs in every game. The hosts' Pool C encounter at the CDDP ! # F from the junior World Cup team understands it. My Games defeat and you should "I support this format as Kalinga Stadium will be the showpiece squad, which under advice to the players would be also forget. We learn from his- a coach. Hockey is a fast- event's second game. E # CFCA B Harenedra clinched the world to stick to the basics and tory, gain experience but there paced, result oriented, highly Eight-time Olympic champions India's E % CFACC B title two years ago in Lucknow. strategy and consider crowd as is no point recalling it. We demanding game. It (the gaps) only glory at the World Cup came way back Junior players such as 12th man and use their ener- took collective responsibility. will help us to come out with in 1975 when Ajit Pal Singh and his men's C /G # >F> Harmanpreet Singh, Varun gy," he added. We don't talk about it now in fresh mind and legs in every created history for the past masters of the Kumar, Sumit, Mandeep Citing the example of our meetings," he said. match," he said. game. Singh and golakeeper Krishan Ireland, who went on to win Ranked 10 places above Conceding last minute Since then India has failed to match the $3%/#%0/$0;8.$3 Bahadur Pathak were select- the women's World Cup ear- world No 15 South Africa, goals has been India's peren- standards of the Europeans — Netherlands, ed in India's squad. lier this year despite being India will go into their tour- nial problem in the last few Germany — and Australia, who have been 18.2#) "%!0%9$ .8; "Constitution gives us the rated as underdogs, Harendra nament-opener as over- years but Harendra said it' is ruling the game for over four decades now. 78 $30/#9".%/) right to marry after 18. So this said India's first aim would be whelming favourites. with all hockey playing In the last 10 editions since its maiden is not a young team. It's a team to top Pool C and qualify "We understand that the nations. triumph in 1975, India's best performance 1%$3!</8;$3C that can create history," directly for the quarterfinals. first match is important in "We always discuss India was a fifth-place finish at the 1982 edition ;0$ .%/-%/$320!$ Harendra said on the eve of "Did anyone think Ireland every tournament. It releases concede last-minute goal to in Mumbai (then Bombay). India's opening match against will reach women's hockey 40 to 50 per cent of pressure. lose. It has happened in the Now, the world ranked fifth Indians 18.2#) "($3!S 0# South Africa on Wednesday. World Cup final and Croatia We want full points from the last 4-5 years, including the would be eager to recreate the magic by 02!830!78 $3; 2 "You have to have will make it to FIFA WC final. first match. But for points, we Asian Games. But that does- reaching the semifinals, and possibly a patience. Selectors Every team works on their can't forget and sacrifice the n't only happen with the podium finish. 9 ,.0/)%/CDF70.F82# No15 South Africa and have considered the strategy. It's about that par- basics of hockey, the strategy," Indian team. I can give you That is though easier said than done as !$.%6.#%2".$!%/-3 world No 11 Canada. young players to be ticular day. We want to top the he said. history where other teams besides tackling powerhouses like two-time The match against good enough to pool and avoid crossovers "We won't compromise also have lost the same way," defending champions Australia, Netherlands, 0/##, $0/$ Belgium is India's big test wear India colours, because then we will get an on playing attacking hockey he said. Germany and Olympic champions in the pool stages and a Argentina, the Indians will be under pres- 30.#%6!%/-3 win against the Red Lions sure to live up to the expectations of millions is a must for the hosts to avoid the cross- of fans. ed in seven of 18 junior World Cup winners overs and qualify directly for the quarterfi- 6 > %"!6! "7 The last time India played a World Cup in the senior team alongside senior pros like nals. at home, in 2010 in New Delhi, it finished skipper Manpreet Singh, PR Sreejesh, After South Africa, India's opponents are a lowly eighth and going by records, the host Akashdeep Singh and the ever-reliable Belgium on December 2 and Canada on ,3 ,0/!10. into the tournament is to be become the nation has never fared well in the tourna- Birendra Lakra. December 8. most successful South African hockey ment. The Indian team for the World Cup is a It is only the second World Cup after ith world ranked fifth India at the playing nation in the history of the All the nine countries to host a World mixture of youth and experience with seven 2002 to feature 16 teams. From four pools Wother end in their first match, World Cup. Cup till date have finished eighth or above of the 18 featuring in the last World Cup. The of four teams each, the toppers will direct- South Africa have a tough task at hand "We are a proud sporting nation and but Harendra Singh's men would be hoping squad also has youthful exuberance in 19- ly qualify for the quarterfinals while the sec- but their coach Mark Hopkins is look- as a group we are looking to create his- to rewrite that in front of home fans. year-old striker Dilpreet Singh and debutant ond and third placed sides will have to play ing at the positives. tory. The goal for us is to finish the tour- For chief coach Harendra Singh, who has Hardik Singh. four cross-over matches to earn their places "Every game at the World Cup is a nament as the most successful South come under the scanner after India's failure But two notable absentees from the in the last-eight round. big match. You try to start the tourna- African hockey team in the men's to defend its Asian Games title earlier this squad are dragflicker Rupinder Pal Singh, Just like all big-ticket hockey events, ment as well as you can. It's exciting that ! - ! World Cup," he said. year, the tournament is a do-or-die one and who has been dropped and striker SV Australia, Netherlands and Germany will we are playing our first match against & "We probably are a team that oppo- a failure is sure to cost him his job. Sunil, who is unfit. once again start favourites to lift the title. the host nation. We will go into the sition has seen less videos off. People Harendra would be hoping to recreate In the 16-nation tournament India are The Kookaburras, in fact, will be vying game fairly confident. We feel we have sides. Being the host nation there is know less about our players because we the magic of two years ago when he guided placed alongside South Africa, Belgium to create history by becoming the first team the squad, skill set and tactics to play more pressure on India than us. We will don't play much in the European the junior Indian team to the World Cup title and Canada in their group. to win the trophy for the third time in a row. really good hockey and get results just go out there and play the brand of leagues or Test matches than other in Lucknow. Barring world No 3 Belgium, India is In the other match of the opening day, from the match," he said. hockey that is successful for us." nations. That is an advantage for us," To achieve his goal, Harendra has draft- expected to win hands down against world Belgium will take on Canada. "I think the pressure is on both Hopkins said his side's goal coming Hopkins added. /!'%#@#!3$7A!%
0#.%# " aris Saint-Germain's hopes of break- Victories by Liverpool and Napoli Ping through in would lock up the group which has proven European football could to be the tightest of the Champions end earlier than usual League. this season. Napoli, the group's only unbeaten A loss against team with three draws and one win, host Liverpool on Wednesday a Red Star team which still has chances in Paris, coupled with a of advancing in its return to the tourna- home win by Napoli over Red Star, ment's group stage after 26 years. would keep PSG from making it out of The Serbian club has four points, one the group stage in the Champions fewer than Paris Saint-Germain and two League. And that would be a significant fewer than Napoli and Liverpool. setback for the big-spending French Red Star held Napoli to a 0-0 draw at team desperately trying to assert itself 5 ! 55 - J% ' home in the first round, but then con- as a world-class club. ceded 10 goals in losses against PSG (6- It would be the first time PSG failed " + recovery to qualify 1) and Liverpool (4-0). to reach the tournament's knockout Atletico Madrid from Group B. Liverpool, which beat PSG at home, round since 2011-12, after Qatar Sports and Borussia (;?@ Tottenham has lost 2-0 to Red Star in its previous Investments took over the club with the Dortmund lead the )+2 %1+ 3 +1%-) struggled for attacking Champions League match, but it is com- goal of turning it into a top contender. group and have a fluency this season, ing off two straight wins in the Premier PSG was eliminated in the round of 16 chance to secure places + 3 mainly because of League. last season, after reaching the quarter- in the knockout round (;?@ attacking midfielders PSG, cruising in the French league, finals four straight years before that. in advance. Christian Eriksen and beat Liverpool 3-0 the only other time the Failure this time would hurt PSG Dortmund needs a )+2 %1+ B +1%-) Dele Alli have been teams met in Paris, nearly two decades in its second season since signing draw at Club Brugge, missing at times because ago. Brazil star Neymar for 222 million while Atletico needs a home win against of injury. euros from Barcelona in an attempt to Monaco. Atletico can also advance if Club They appear to be fully fit now and " increase its chances of succeeding in Brugge loses points against Dortmund, were superb in Tottenham's win over Group leader Porto hosts second- Europe. which is coming off a blistering start to Chelsea in the Premier League on place Schalke in a match in which a draw PSG enters the crucial match at the season under new coach Lucien Favre. Saturday, a 3-1 win that might have been could be enough for both clubs to Parc des Princes with five points in The only setback for Favre so far was its best display of the season. advance. Group C, one behind leaders Liverpool the 2-0 loss at Atletico in the team's pre- Spurs need to beat Inter Milan at They would clinch a spot in the and Napoli. A victory would put the vious Champions League appearance. Wembley Stadium on Wednesday to keep knockout stage with a draw if Galatasaray French club back in position to advance Paco Alcacer, signed on a permanent alive ambitions of a top-two finish. That fails to win its match at already eliminat- depending on its own results. basis from Barcelona on Friday, scored would leave the teams tied on seven ed Lokomotiv Moscow. "It's a decisive match in a very, very again on Saturday in a win over Mainz, points. Tottenham would still likely A victory would secure first place for complicated group," PSG coach taking his league tally to nine goals in require a win at already-qualified Porto, which has won eight straight Thomas Tuchel told French broadcaster seven appearances. Barcelona to advance, given that Inter entering the match at its Estadio do TF1. closes group play at home to last-place Dragao. Porto is trying to make it to the The good news for Tuchel is that " PSV. round of 16 for the third straight season. Neymar and Kylian Mbappe, who had Harry Kane kept Tottenham's Barcelona, without Rafinha, Luis The Portuguese champion has 10 points, been sidelined because of injuries, are Champions League hopes alive with a late Suarez and Arthur because of injuries, two more than Schalke and six more than expected to be available for the home double to sink PSV Eindhoven in the last has a three-point advantage at the top and Galatasaray. Porto and Schalke are the only match against Liverpool. round of games. will clinch first place in the group with unbeaten teams in the group. A look at the four Champions Now the striker has some back-up as a win over PSV, or a draw if Inter does Schalke hasn't made it to the knock- ( ! " : . , 5 5 ! > League groups on Wednesday. his team tries to complete an unlikely not beat Tottenham. out stage since 2014-15.