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THE HINDU MUMBAI WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 2020 WEST 5 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE People from north eastern States COVID-19: religious places step up precautions amid scare face racism, ‘Chinese’ slur in Pune Press Trust of India stoups installed at the en instructions from the Arch Panaji trance of churches to avoid bishop’s Palace to adopt any Punekars point to north-easterners as carriers of coronavirus, taunt them in public places From avoiding handshakes them being acting as breed such measures, priests are to modifying traditional reli ing grounds for any kind of taking these initiatives on Shoumojit Banerjee K. Pritam Singh, who gious practices, churches in virus. their own. Pune hails from Manipur and is Goa are taking various mea While holding masses, “Holy water has been The fears surrounding CO general secretary of Associa sures in view of coronavirus priests are informing people temporarily reduced from VID19 have fuelled an old tion of Manipuri Diaspora scare while priests at various about various precautions to the entrance of the church prejudice against people said there were cases of stu temples have started wear be taken to keep novel coro to stop any possibility of from the north eastern dents from the northeast ing masks. navirus at bay. The sermons spread of virus. Also, the Ho States who are living and ern States being branded as Apart from restricting now also include preaching ly communion is not given in working in Pune. The label ‘coronavirus’ in jest. “At fl ow of holy water at stoups, on food intakes to boost mouth but on hand of Chris ‘Chinese’ attached to them times, even socalled ‘edu many churches have immunity. tian devotees,” he said. now comes with added xe cated’ people take potshots stopped off ering commu Fr Eremito Rebello of the Priests at several temples, nophobia, insensitivity and at us while there have been nion to followers in their Church of Our Lady of Snow including famous Man verbal attacks in public incidents where shopkeep mouth as has been the cus at Rachol village in South gueshi temple in North Goa, places. ers or other people call us tom. Parish priests have Goa said on Tuesday that have started wearing masks Last week, Hmingtei ‘Chinese’ in public places emptied out holy water though there are no formal while on duty. Chhangte, a working profes like trains and bus stations. sional from Mizoram, was While we do not want to ac subjected to humiliation in cuse anyone, we just de Reliance Mart after a shop mand a little sensitivity in Woman, per in the same aisle created these grave times,” he said. a ruckus, saying she could Another professional, mother be a carrier of COVID19. who works at a multination Spectators holding banner inside D.Y. Patil stadium at Navi Mumbai during the Road Safety Narrating the ordeal in a al company, said people quarantined World series T20 match between India Legends and Sri Lanka on Tuesday. * VIVEK BENDRE Facebook post, Ms. from the North East faced Chhangte said the woman dians, he said. area. ities. North, South, East or prejudice at the best of Press Trust of India covered her face each time In another case, a wo “It is our humble request West, no part of the globe is times, making them feel alie Nashik she passed by her and when man, who did not wish to be to Pune’s citizens to desist secure from its scourge,” Mr. nated from the mainstream A 23yearold woman and Ms. Chhangte asked her named, said she was startled from passing such racist Souriio said. even though they were In her 54 yearold mother what the matter was, the wo to hear cries of ‘Coronavirus comments or taunts, which Mr. Souriio also said they dian citizens. were admitted in an isola man began to scream and aa gaya’ (coronavirus has hurt members from the had met the Pune Police “Since we look diff erent, tion ward in the district ci shout, gesticulating that Ms. come) when she went to north eastern States. This is Commissioner and the De we are anyway subjected to vil hospital in Nashik in Chhangte had been purchase a protective face a virus that is affl icting peo puty Collector to apprise such xenophobic and racist Maharashtra on Tuesday ‘infected’. mask in the city’s Sanghvi ple of all races and commun them of such incidents. insults. Now, I have sinusitis for suspected exposure to While the staff intervened and I if I sneeze in a fl ight or novel coronavirus, health to calm the woman down, an airconditioned room, I offi cials said. The woman Ms. Chhangte, who has been wonder how my copassen had gone to Dubai on Fe living and working in Pune Cabinet may discuss IPL today gers or other people will bruary 27 and returned to city for a decade, left the Alok Deshpande on March 29 and the fi nal on and in case of any decision, react. Will they get angry Nashik on March 3 and was store feeling insecure and Mumbai May 24, during the T20 crick the House will be informed that I am not taking precau quarantined after she com disheartened. With confi rmed cases of CO et league’s 13th edition. fi rst,” said a senior Health De tions as I am ‘Chinese’, or plained of throat pain, cold “We have received at least VID19 rising, the Maharash While the government is partment offi cial. will I even get a chance to ex and cough. Her mother 10 reports of racist or xeno tra Cabinet is likely to discuss pondering over the possibili A senior minister of the plain to them that I hail from was admitted as they were phobic incidents from peo the postponement of Indian ty of postponement of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) go a northeastern State?” she together over the past one ple from north eastern Premier League (IPL) match IPL, Mumbai is already wit vernment, said certain sanc said. week, a doctor said. States, because of their fea es scheduled to be played in nessing another cricket tour tions are inevitable to curb tures. Women, especially, the State. nament, which is attracting the spread of COVID19. “We are very uncomfortable ven While Health Minister Ra large turnouts. Legends of have to ensure the safety of turing out of home. They jesh Tope said in Nagpur that the game, including the likes people, and impose some face ‘coronavirus’ taunts “events like IPL can always of Sachin Tendulkar, Brian restrictions to avoid the while going out to buy groc be organised later,” the issue Lara, Brett Lee and Jonty spread. The issue might be eries or even taking children is likely to fi gure in Wednes Rhodes have been participat discussed in the Cabinet to a park,” said S.K. Souriio, day’s Cabinet meeting. ing in the Road Safety World meeting and we will come to former president of the The State government is Series. The fi venation vete a decision,” he said. North East Community of understood to be contem rans’ T20 league, being The Mumbai Cricket Asso Pune. At times, those creat plating writing to the Board played in Mumbai, Navi ciation (MCA) however is ing a ruckus do not even of Control for Cricket in India Mumbai and Pune, is inci continuing with preparations have the courtesy to listen to (BCCI), the parent body of dentally an initiative of the for the marquee clash bet the explanations and protes IPL, regarding the same. State transport department. ween Mumbai Indians and tations of people from the Mumbai is scheduled to host “The issue is important Chennai Super Kings on north east who say they are at least eight matches, in and we are monitoring it. March 29. (With inputs from not Chinese citizens, but In cluding the seasonopener The Assembly is in session Amol Karhadkar)
Muted Holi celebrations
Press Trust of India Ahmedabad/mumbai Holi celebrations in Gujarat and Maharashtra remained muted under the shadow A SPECIAL PUBLICATION FROM THE HINDU GROUP of the coronavirus with re vellers enjoying the festival This coffee-table book opens a window to the practice of Buddhism in of colours enthusiastically but ensuring adequate pre Japan, right from its arrival in that country 1,000 years ago to its growth caution by keeping off ‘rain through the worship of deities of Indian origin. Benoy Behl’s images dances’, otherwise a illuminate the pages and present an invaluable account of Japan’s links staple. One of the organisers with Hinduism and with its Buddhist past even deployed handheld thermal detectors to check if any of the guests was un der the weather due to coronavirus. Prominent Holi party sites like the Rajpath Club and Karnavati Club in Ah medabad did not organise rain dances. Mumbai and most parts of Maharashtra also had a subdued Holi with appeals to revellers from authori ties to participate in the festival of colours after tak ing necessary precaution against the contagion. Offi cials and staff on frontline duty on the streets of the metropolis and other major cities said crowds were thinner than previous years. Most preferred to play with dry colours to avoid water wastage, they said, adding that no untoward incident was reported till late afternoon. At several upscale resi dential complexes in Gand hinagar, people were seen celebrating the festival of colours wearing masks. “People are indeed wor ried about getting infected by the virus. Instead of not celebrating the festival, so ciety members decided to enjoy the occasion wearing masks. We had distributed masks to everyone living in this society,” said Dhar
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IN BRIEF Remove party colours on govt. buildings: HC COVID19: partial shutdown in Kerala Seeks compliance report in two weeks Schools closed Pilgrims told P. Samuel Jonathan but no change GUNTUR to avoid IISc. cancels in SSLC and The High Court on Tuesday controversial lecture Plus Two dates Sabarimala BENGALURU directed the Andhra Pra The Centre for Ecological desh government to restrain Special Correspondent Sciences at the Indian from painting government/ Special Correspondent THIRUVANANTHAPURAM Institute of Science was panchayat buildings with Thiruvananthapuram forced to cancel a lecture by colours similar to the ones With eight more cases of CO Travancore Devaswom scientist and Kannada writer of fl ags of political parties or VID19 being confi rmed in Board (TDB) president N. K.N. Ganeshaiah after party offi ces. Kerala on Tuesday, the State Vasu has urged the public students and other citizens The HC directed the Prin has gone into a partial shut not to attend the monthly took objection to the content cipal Secretary, Panchayat Ward Secretariat at Durga down mode by imposing li pujas scheduled to be on the grounds that it was Raj department, to remove Puram in Vijayawada painted mits on public gatherings held at Sabarimala Ayyap both “Islamophobic and the colours painted on the with party fl ag colours. and ordering closure of pa temple from March 13 sexist”. The lecture was buildings within 10 days and schools and colleges till to 18. scheduled for Wednesday, directed the Chief Secretary practice for any political March 31 to prevent further Scare in the air: A neardeserted casualty ward of the General Hospital at Pathanamthitta in Mr. Vasu told reporters but cancelled on Tuesday. to furnish a compliance re party to paint the buildings spread of the disease. Kerala on Tuesday. * LEJU KAMAL here on Tuesday that the port within two weeks to the of panchayat or others akin At a press conference request to pilgrims to ab One more KFD case court Registrar . to the colours of the party here on Tuesday, Chief Mi learning to temporarily sus be no cinema shows, staging would be held as per sche stain themselves from the confirmed in Wayanad Issuing the orders on writ fl ag, and directed that such nister Pinarayi Vijayan, who pend classes. of dramas and other cultural dule. Students under obser monthly pujas was made KALPETTA petitions, Chief Justice J.K. practices should stop. It also chaired a special Cabinet events till March 31. vation for COVID19 could in view of the precaution One more case of Kyasanur Maheswari and Justice Nina held that the National Build meeting here to cobble to No cinema shows Mr. Vijayan sought to mar appear for the tests in spe ary measures initiated by Forest Disease (KFD), na Jayasurya directed the ing Code applies to the gether a strategy to pre All public programmes, in shal public support for the cial rooms. The government the government following commonly known as monkey State Election Commission buildings of the Panchayat empt COVID19 from getting cluding those involving Mi government’s decision to also shut down anganwadis the spread of COVID19 fever, was confirmed in to hold free and fair elec Raj also as they fall within cases. Pilgrims from all Kerala’s Wayanad on Tuesday. past the eff orts of the go nisters, stand cancelled. Go shut down educational insti and ordered District Collec tions to the local bodies and the purview of the local self over the country reach Of the 14 KFD cases reported vernment to contain it, vernment offi ces will tutions and halt academic tors to supply meals to the in the district this year, three take appropriate steps with government and construct urged temples, churches, observe a strict protocol to activities, including summer children at their homes. As the temple for the month were undergoing treatment out allowing the parties to ed with government funds. mosques and ashrams to prevent the spread of the vi holiday camps and private many as 1,116 persons are ly pujas. The State Cabi at the Medical College take any form of evil practic The court said the use of suspend crowded festivals rus. The public have been tuitions, till the threat of the under surveillance across net too had called upon Hospital, Kozhikode, and the es which might infl uence impermissible signs cannot and events till the threat advised to avoid overcrowd outbreak receded. the State, of which 967 are the public to suspend fes District Hospital at the voters. be permitted to be used and eased. He advised madrasas ed weddings and social ac He said SSLC (Class 10) confi ned to their houses. tivals, marriages and oth Mananthavady. As many as In a signifi cant observa said such actions might af and other places of religious tivities for now. There will and Plus Two examinations The rest 149 are in hospitals. er functions. five KFD cases were reported tion, the court held that it fect the conduct of free and in the district in a week. had become a common fair elections. Doortodoor survey KSRTC premier services see Offi ce of IUML daily raided in A.P. to begin today dip in bookings since March 3 in Palarivattom fl yover case Staff Reporter dered all the District Collec VIJAYAWADA tors to make all arrange Offi cials predict similar trend in intraState operations The Andhra Pradesh go ments for the survey and ExMinister accused of diverting money to the newspaper vernment will conduct a rope in Asha workers, vil Staff Reporter gers and rise in cancella jayawada, Pune and Mum twoday doortodoor sur lage and ward volunteers, Bengaluru tions began from March 3. bai. “Since most of the pre Special Correspondent tion of the fl yover at Palariv about the transfer of the mo vey starting Wednesday to ANMs and other staff mem With people altering travel With four people testing mier buses running KOZHIKODE attom in Kochi. ney to the establishment. identify the persons who bers to make doortodoor plans as a precautionary positive for the virus in Ben interState services are long Sleuths of the Vigilance and It was alleged that a por It wanted to ascertain the had recently been to novel visits and gather informa measure against COVID19, galuru since March 9, offi journey, they are generally AntiCorruption Bureau tion of the kickbacks to the source of funds that had coronavirus (COVID19) af tion required. the Karnataka State Road cials predict that bus servic prebooked. So we are see (VACB) on Tuesday carried tune of ₹ 10 crore was trans been deposited into the ac fected countries. Krishna District Collector Transport Corporation es within the State may also ing a 20% drop in passenger out raids at the headquar ferred to the account of the count of the newspaper run The ground level survey A. Md. Imtiaz in a teleconfe (KSRTC) has taken a hit pri see reduction in passen traffi c,” he said. ters of the Chandrika daily, daily during the demonetisa by the Muslim Printing and is to reach out to the per rence on Tuesday asked the marily on its interState ser gers. A senior KSRTC offi Shivayogi C. Kalasad, Ma the organ of the Indian Un tion period. Publishing Company. Mr. sons who have not under offi cials of the Department vices. It has seen a reduc cial said that operations to naging Director, KSRTC, ion Muslim League (IUML), The VACB team verifi ed Kunju, who is a member of gone 28day mandatory ob of Health to engage volun tion of 20% in bookings in cities in Kerala such as Kot said though all the cancella in connection with the case the accounts, records and board of directors of the servation and isolation and teers and make arrange premier bus services, tayam, Ernakulam, Calicut tions cannot be attributed registered against former documents at the offi ce on newspaper, however, check any possibility of the ments to upload the infor which are airconditioned. and Thiruvananthapuram to COVID19 alone, most of Public Works Minister V.K. the YMCA Road from 9 a.m. termed as “politically motiv spread of the virus. mation on the Secretariat According to KSRTC offi were among the worst hit, it could be because of the Ebrahim Kunju for alleged Previously, the VACB team ated” the raids on the The government has or mobile application. cials, the drop in passen apart from Hyderabad, Vi fear of its spread. corruption in the construc had secured information newspaper.
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K. M. Dayashankar persons every Sunday with KARIMNAGAR out any interruption,” said Hunger knows no religion, Mr. Haqani. gender, or colour. It is neu Seeing his service, his tral. In these times of polari friends and wellwishers, in sation along communal cluding Hindus and Mus lines, some people have un lims, joined HIM and began ited for the cause of humani contributing to it. Some ty. One such person is a man pitch in bags of rice, while who is serving people, espe others give vegetables, puls cially cancer patients and es, oil, water packets, plates, their attendants, by feeding etc. What stands out is that them every Sunday in Karim not all HIM’s donors are rich; nagar town. Members of HIM voluntary organisation serving food to many belong to the middle
It all started a yearanda patients at a hospital in Karimnagar. * K.M. DAYASHANKAR class people. half ago when S.G.M. Hus Vanaja, a widow, who sain, alias Haqani, a realtor, the latter told the hotel own ing about the old woman runs a fl our mill in the town was passing a cancer hospi er about an old woman wait and the hungry people at the is such a contributor. She tal at the Housing Board Co ing for food at the hospital, hospital. “Later, I decided to gives one rice bag per lony Road when an old wo the owner refused to take serve food to the patients month, and other essentials man stopped him and asked money. When Mr. Haqani re and their attendants at the whenever required. Taking where she could fi nd some turned and handed over the hospital at least once a week. time off , she also partici food. Mr. Haqani replied that food packet to the old wo It was on January 5, 2019, pates in the food distribution there was no hotel nearby, man, she off ered money, that I fi rst began serving on Sundays. but off ered to get food for which he declined. “Then food to 25 people at the can “With the blessings of al her. the old woman blessed me cer hospital by starting a vo mighty, I have plans to serve by putting her hand on my luntary organisation called food every day to the pa ‘Really touched’ head, which really touched Humanity, Insaniyat and Ma tients at the hospital. There All the best: A parentteacher association member of Moyans School at Palakkad in Kerala giving honey to students before their At the hotel, the owner, who my heart and soul,” he navatvam (HIM). Now, with is no religion for our charity
SSLC examination on Tuesday. * K.K. MUSTAFAH knew Mr. Haqani, asked why recalled. the support of friends and service,” said the altruist CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC he was taking a parcel. When That set Mr. Haqani think others, we are feeding 80 proudly. Kerala HC calls for Two tombs in Qutb Shahi complex regain lost glory action taken report Premamati and identities and were ho Lens on land grab in Munnar Conservation eff orts noured with a space inside Taramati were the royal necropolis of the Special Correspondent taken by the government legends Qutb Shahi dynasty. They Kochi were proper. impresses U.S. diplomat have been restored using the A Division Bench of the Ker Serish Nanisetti U.S. Ambassadors Fund for ala High Court has directed Forged titles Hyderabad Special Correspondent Cultural Preservation. Cultural Preservation. the State government to fi le The order was passed on a On Tuesday, as visitors Hyderabad “This is my third visit to Photographs taken before a statement indicating the petition fi led by One Earth walked past the freshly laid U.S. Ambassador to India the Qutb Shahi tombs. It the conservation work began recommendations made by One Life and the Paristhithi lawn and stepped inside the Kenneth Juster visited the looks so beautiful today. It show domes covered with it on various reports, includ Samrakshna Samiti of Tho tomb of Premamati at the Qutb Shahi tombs complex has progressed moss and big peepal trees. ing the one by former Addi dupuzha. They alleged that Qutb Shahi tombs complex to mark the completion of tremendously. I am “The trees led to seepage, tional Chief Secretary (Reve largescale encroachments at Golconda here, the morn yearlong conservation delighted,” said Mr. Juster. damaging the inside of the nue and Land Management) on revenue and forest land ing sunlight bounced off the eff orts by the Aga Khan “We got a grant of dome. The plinth was in a di Nivedita P. Haran, on the il had taken place in Munnar, fl oor and lit up the insides. Trust for Culture on the $1,00,000 (about ₹ 70 lakh) lapidated condition ,” said legal land grab in Munnar, Devikulam, and Kannan De The accumulated grime over twin mausoleums of and the two mausoleums AKTC’s Prashant Banerjee. and also the action taken by van Hill villages. The en the years was gone ; also Taramati and Premamati. have been restored using Interestingly, while Pre the Idukki District Collector croachers created forged tit gone was the musty damp The conservation eff ort was that fund,” informed Ratish mamati’s dome is 1.5 times or the police on the issue of les for the land, the odour. According to histor aided by the U.S. under its Nanda of Aga Khan Trust for bigger than that of Tarama bogus title deeds. petitioners alleged. The pe ians, Premamati was a com U.S. Ambassador to India, Kenneth I. Juster, centre, in Ambassadors Fund for Culture. ti’s, both of them look equal The Bench comprising titioners said those who en panion of Abdullah Qutb Hyderabad on Tuesday. * NAGARA GOPAL DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD due to the diff erent sizes of Chief Justice S. Manikumar croached on the land in Shah, the seventh king of the the fi nials. A dancing pavi and Justice Shaji P.Chali di cluded political parties, Qutb Shahi dynasty, who just outside the Golconda height of his power. Khan Trust for Culture bled to be a companion of lion built in Taramati’s ho rected the government to religious organisations and ruled between 1626 and fort. The stone mosque re “Much of it is original lime (AKTC), on the recent eff ort Sultan Muhammad Qutb nour outside the Golconda state the actions in a tabular government employees. 1672. She was fabled to be a mains unfi nished as Prema stucco work. Wherever it to restore two tombs here. Shah. Fort still exists and has been form to enable the court to Some of them had taken danseuse and was powerful mati died in 1662 when Ab was damaged, we restored,” The other restored tomb be The two tombs are of two turned into a convention ascertain whether the steps loans using forged titles. enough to build a mosque dullah Qutb Shah was at the said Ratish Nanda, CEO, Aga longs to Taramati, who is fa women who retained their centre.
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Weather Watch IAF plane returns from Iran with 58 Indians Rainfall, temperature & air quality in select metros yesterday Globemaster AntiHIV drugs aircraft evacuated stranded persons given to Italian Special Correspondent couple NEW DELHI The Indian Air Force (IAF) PRESS TRUST OF INDIA C17 Globemaster aircraft New Delhi with Indians evacuated from Amid rising COVID19 Coronavirushit Iran landed cases in India, for the fi rst at Hindan Air Force Station time a combination of two on Tuesday morning. drugs, which is widely “The C17 returned from used for controlling HIV Iran to Hindan airbase this infection, was morning with 58 Indian citi administered on an elderly zens onboard. The Indians Italian couple undergoing who have returned from Iran treatment at a Jaipur Temperature Data: IMD, Pollution Data: CPCB, Map: INSAT/IMD (Taken at 18.00 Hrs) will be quarantined at Hin hospital for it. Forecast for Wednesday: Thunderstorm accompanied with light- don,” the IAF said. The Drug Controller ning likely at isolated places over Jammu & Kashmir, Ladakh, Defence offi cials said 31 General of India has Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Chadigarh, Delhi, Rajasthan, women, 25 men and two chil approved “restricted use” Jharkand, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal, Ut- dren were brought back. The of the combination of tarakhand and Madhya Pradesh. aircraft also carried 529 sam medications lopinavir and city rain max min city rain max min ples for investigation. ritonavir which are Agartala...... —....31.2....14.4 Kozhikode...... —....35.6....27.2 Ahmedabad...... —....32.3....19.4 Kurnool ...... —....37.3....24.4 “IAF has activated neces secondline HIV drugs, for Aizawl...... —....23.1....12.1 Lucknow...... —....22.4....13.6 sary medical protocols and treatment after the Indian Allahabad...... —....24.3....12.2 Madurai...... —....36.8....24.0 has put required facilities in Council of Medical Bengaluru ...... —....32.9....22.4 Mangaluru ...... —....34.7....24.7 Bhopal ...... 0.6....30.2....18.6 Mumbai ...... —...... —...... — place to provide fellow citi Research (ICMR) sought an Bhubaneswar...... —....33.8....22.7 Mysuru ...... —....33.9....24.3 zens with adequate care and Back home: Indian nationals after they were brought to India by Indian Air Force's C-17 Globemaster aircraft from emergency approval. Chandigarh ...... —....23.7....10.4 New Delhi ...... —....26.6....10.0 Chennai ...... —....33.6....23.6 Patna ...... —...... —...... — support,” the IAF stated. COVID-19-hit Iran, at Hindon airbase on Tuesday. Fifty-eight Indians were airlifted in the military transport aircraft. * PTI CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Coimbatore ...... —....35.8....24.0 Port Blair...... —....31.4....22.0 The C17 with an IAF med Dehradun...... —....25.3...... 8.3 Puducherry ...... —....32.6....23.8 ical team and support staff Gangtok...... —....15.6...... 9.0 Pune...... —....33.1....17.5 onboard took off at 8 p.m. on Goa...... —....33.2....21.1 Raipur ...... —...... —....18.0 Three more test positive in Maharashtra Guwahati ...... —....30.3....15.4 Ranchi...... —....27.7....13.0 Monday evening from Hin Hubballi...... —....33.0....20.0 Shillong...... —....18.4...... 4.1 dan airbase. Hyderabad ...... 0.5....34.7....21.3 Shimla...... —....16.6...... 5.7 Shoumojit Banerjee the NIV for tests, said Pune toms of infection and were Imphal ...... —....27.2...... 8.7 Srinagar...... —...... —...... 2.8 Pune Divisional Commissioner referred to Naidu hospital Jaipur ...... —...... —....14.6 Thiruvananthapuram...... —....34.3....26.1 Samples brought back Kochi ...... —....32.4....26.2 Tiruchi...... —....37.1....23.0 It brought swab samples of Three more persons in the Deepak Mhaisekar. for a checkup on March 8. Kohima ...... —....24.2...... 9.5 Vijayawada ...... —...... —...... — 529 Indians to carry out labo city have tested positive for Their samples were sent to Kolkata ...... —....31.0....18.7 Visakhapatnam ...... —....32.0....25.6 ratory tests and check wheth COVID19, taking the tally of Tracking the rest the NIV and both tested (Rainfall data in mm; temperature in Celsius) er they carry coronavirus positive cases in Maharash Saying the couple who test positive. As Dubai was not Pollutants in the air you are breathing Yesterday tra to fi ve, said State health ed positive were stable, he in the list of the aff ected CITIES SO2 NO2 CO PM2.5 PM10 CODE infection. Ahmedabad..... 46 .29 17 ....78 .100 ....* About 2,000 Indians are offi cials on Tuesday. said the district administra places given out by the Bengaluru ...... 12 .50 86 ..... — .128 ....* In observation made at 4.00 * p.m., Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh living in Iran, a country that The daughter of the tion was tracking the tour Centre, the passengers Chennai ...... 8 ...8 16 ....25 ...43 .... recorded an overall air Pune couple, who tested group of 40 persons who could not be checked and Delhi ...... 33 .53 .5 ..190 .233 ....* quality index (AQI) score of has witnessed increasing Hyderabad ...... 7 .26 21 ....41 ...63 ....* 263 indicating a severe level numbers of coronavirus cas positive on Monday, a co were with the couple on separated at the airport it Kolkata...... 8 .38 13 ..253 .149 ....* of pollution. In contrast, * Amaravati, Andhra Pradesh es in the last few days. passenger and the Ola cab their trip to Dubai. self,” Dr. Mhaisekar said. Lucknow...... 6 .42 55 ..275 ...42 .... recorded a healthy AQI score driver who ferried the cou At present, six persons To track down the per Mumbai ...... 54 .47 11 ..162 .178 ....* of 33 The offi cial said the Indian Keeping vigil: Secutiy guards posted outside Naidu Hospital Pune...... 51 .18 82 ....79 ...76 ....* citizens who have returned ple from the Mumbai air for Infectious Diseases in Pune on Tuesday. * JIGNESH MISTRY including the couple, three sons with whom the couple Visakhapatnam 11 .28 41 ....29 ...49 ....* port to Pune on their return of their kin and the Ola driv had travelled to Dubai and from Iran have been quaran Air Quality Code: * Poor * Moderate * Good (Readings indicate average AQI) tined at a medical facility in from Dubai on March 1, daughter, a copassenger (NIV) tested positive,” Pune er are in isolation at the Nai with those who came in SO2: Sulphur Dioxide. Short-term exposure can harm the respiratory system, Hindon. were the latest to test ‘posi who hailed from Yavatmal district Collector Naval du Hospital. contact with them in the making breathing difficult. It can affect visibility by reacting with other air tive’, said Dr. Pradip Awate, district and the Ola cab Kishore Ram said, adding “The Pune couple had past week, fi ve teams com particles to form haze and stain culturally important objects such as statues “The IAF has activated ne and monuments. cessary medical protocols State epidemiologist. driver who ferried the cou that all fi ve individuals were travelled to Dubai in the last prising offi cials from the NO2: Nitrogen Dioxide. Aggravates respiratory illness, causes haze to form by and has put required facili As of now, all fi ve posi ple, have been placed in stable and there was no week of February and were police, health and revenue reacting with other air particles, causes acid rain, pollutes coastal waters. tive cases in the State are isolation in Pune’s Naidu cause for concern. part of a 40member tour departments, as well as CO: Carbon monoxide. High concentration in air reduces oxygen supply to ties in place to provide fellow critical organs like the heart and brain. At very high levels, it can cause citizens with adequate care from Pune. Hospital after their samples In addition, the samples group. They returned to In authorities from Pune and dizziness, confusion, unconsciousness and even death. and support,” an offi cial said. “All fi ve persons includ that were sent to the Na of two other family mem dia on March 1. One of the the PimpriChinchwad civic PM2.5 & PM10: Particulate matter pollution can cause irritation of the eyes, ing the couple, their tional Institute of Virology bers had also been sent to two started showing symp bodies had been formed. nose and throat, coughing, chest tightness and shortness of breath, reduced (With PTI inputs) lung function, irregular heartbeat, asthma attacks, heart attacks and premature death in people with heart or lung disease Oil Marketing Companies Fund allocation for madrasas witnesses drop Over the last three years, cut petrol and diesel prices Only half the the Centre’s annual budget has allocated ₹ 120 crore for funds utilised for the scheme. The prices have come down by over ₹ 5 a litre this year this fi nancial year In 201819, funding for the larger component of the Piyush Pandey selling at ₹ 75.99 and diesel Experts see the fall in the Priscilla Jebaraj scheme was changed from a MUMBAI ₹ 65.97. In Chennai, petrol Brent crude oil price as a NEW DELHI 100% Central grant into a The stateowned oil market will cost ₹ 73.02 and diesel blessing for the macroeco The government spending Centrally Sponsored Scheme ing companies (OMCs) have ₹ 66.48, according to data nomy as India imports over on improving education at with a 60:40 split between reduced the prices of petrol from Indian Oil Corporation. 83% of its requirements. madrasas has dropped dras Central and State funding. and diesel by 30 paise and In Kolkata, petrol is selling at The shares of the OMCs tically after the States were Only ₹ 18.25 crore was actual 25 paise a litre respectively ₹ 72.98 and diesel ₹ 65.34. surged on falling crude oil asked to pitch in with fund ly spent that year. as international crude oil The prices of petrol and prices. HPCL gained 6.17% to ing, said a parliamentary pa In 201920, the expendi price fell. diesel have come down by close at ₹ 213.25 and BPCL nel, slamming the “disturb ture under the scheme was The sixth consecutive cut over ₹ 5 a litre each since the closed, up 5.20%, at ₹ 423.80 ing trend” which hurts year. With just over a month the last two years. last week, expressed con ₹ 63.57 crore as on February comes after the OMCs re beginning of this year. They in a weak Mumbai market on children from the most edu left in this fi nancial year, on The Parliamentary Stand cern that the School Educa 10, 2019, just above half of duced the prices by a quar are likely to drop further in Monday. Indian Oil Corpora cationally backward ly about half the funds had ing Committee on Human tion department has not the allocated amount. With ter of a rupee on Monday. the coming weeks as India tion was down 1.34% at communities. been spent. The Centre in Resource Development, used the allocated funds for over a month to go, the In Delhi, a litre of petrol is follows the monthly average ₹ 99.45. The market was After the change in fund tends to hike allocations which submitted its report providing education to ma Centre hoped that the fi nal priced at ₹ 70.29 and diesel pricing of the benchmark closed on Tuesday on ac ing ratios, only 15% of allo more than 80% next year, on demand for grants in drasas over the past three expenditure would be high ₹ 63.01. In Mumbai, petrol is crude oil. count of Holi. cated money was used last despite the low utilisations in 202021 to the Rajya Sabha years. er, it told the panel. IN BRIEF ‘Hindu adoption not valid Girl hangs herself after intimate video surfaces without consent from wife’ Boyfriend leaked it to his friends
Supreme Court cites two essential conditions for adoption Press Trust of India “The girl and her boy Ahmedabad friend had shot an intimate HC gives permission Legal Correspondent for meeting against CAA NEW DELHI were established. child and proof of the cere A 16yearold girl allegedly video with each other’s The March 6 judgment mony of actual giving and committed suicide in Chha consent. But the boyfriend MADURAI The Madurai Bench of the A Hindu adoption is not va came on an appeal by M. Va taking in adoption. ranagar locality of Gujarat’s leaked it to his friends,” In Madras High Court granted lid unless the man takes naja, who claimed she is the “The appellant [Vanaja] Ahmedabad after her boy spector Hemant Patel said. permission for the conduct of prior consent from his wife adopted daughter of the late admitted that she does not friend leaked their intimate “The boyfriend has been a public meeting against the and there is a “ceremony of Narasimhulu Naidu. She had have the proof of the cere video, police said on booked for rape under sec Citizenship (Amendment) Act giving and taking in adop fi led a civil suit for partition mony of giving and taking of Tuesday. tions of IPC and Protection in Thoothukudi on March 13. tion,” the Supreme Court of property. The suit was dis her in adoption. Admittedly, She hanged herself from of Children from Sexual Of has held. missed. The Hyderabad there is no pleading in the the ceiling of her house on fences (POCSO) Act, his Unhappy Sikkim govt. A Bench led by Justice L. High Court had eventually plaint regarding the adop Monday, an offi cial said. friends have been charged ends 5-day working week Nageswara Rao said the upheld the dismissal, follow tion being in accordance “Her boyfriend leaked under the Information GANGTOK mandate of the Hindu Adop ing which an appeal was with the Act. That apart, the her intimate video to three Technology Act for circulat Not happy with the tions and Maintenance Act fi led in the apex court. respondent, who is the of his friends. On February ing the video,” he said. performance of the staff, the Sikkim government has of 1956 was that no adoption Justice Rao, who wrote adoptive mother, has cate 29, the girl’s parents had (Suicide prevention hel- withdrawn the five-day was valid unless the two es the judgment, said Sections gorically stated in her evi lodged a rape complaint pline: Sanjivini, Society for working system and declared sential conditions of the con 7 and 11 of the 1956 Act are dence that the appellant was against her boyfriend after Mental Health, 011-4076 holidays only on second and sent of the wife and the ac the consent of the wife be never adopted ,” the court the leak came to their not 9002, Monday-Saturday, fourth Saturdays. tual ceremony of adoption fore a male Hindu adopts a concluded, rejecting appeal. ice,” he said. 10 am -7.30 pm) Indian fi lmmaker chosen for L’Atelier programme
Namrata Joshi runs from May 1421. Mr. Muk and potential partners, in and sought coproducers for. ject go a “little more Mumbai herji heads to the French Rivie Cannes. “It’s a new feeling. Till now, we international”. Indian fi lmmaker Bauddhayan ra with his upcoming project Mr. Mukherji is an advertise haven’t been answerable to Set in the Marichjhapi in the Mukherji has made it to the list Marichjhapi. ment and feature fi lm director anyone,” said Mr. Mukherji. Sunderbans in January 1979, the of 16 directors chosen for Cine Now in its 16th year, the pro based in Mumbai. The Atlantabased American movie is based on real incidents fondation’s prestigious L’Atelier gramme brings together fi lm Marichjhapi, written by Mr. production house, Splendid of atrocities and violence programme at the Cannes Film makers with promising pro Mukherji and Abhinandan Ba Films, is already on board and heaped on refugees to the is Festival this year. The festival jects, along with their nerjee, is the fi rst fi lm that they Mr. Mukherji hopes that L’Ate land. If all falls into place, Mr. will be held from May 12 to 23 producers, and industry profes found too big and ambitious to lier will help start “European Mukherji intends shooting in Ja and the L’Atelier programme sionals, producers, distributors selffi nance and have gone out conversations” and for the pro nuaryFebruary 2021.
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MUMBAI THE HINDU 8 EDITORIAL WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 2020 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE For a universal status of personhood In instilling a regime where there is a presumption against citizenship, the Foreigners Act denies the weakest their rights ing to the court, not only must a burden. It places the responsibili approach taken by the African petitioner adduce documentary ty on every person referred to an Court on Human and Peoples’ evidence, whatever that might ac FT by the State to establish before Rights. That is that the burden to Market mayhem tually be, establishing that their the Tribunal that he or she is, in establish citizenship might well lie The global rout in equities amid the widening parents or ancestors were present fact, a citizen of India. on the individual, as the Foreign coronavirus outbreak portends more pain on Indian soil prior to March 25, In 1983, the Union government, ers Act stipulates, but once he or Suhrith Parthasarathy 1971 — a cutoff date distinct to As sensing the oppressive nature of she has produced a basic set of anic Monday saw India’s bellwether S&P BSE sam — but they must also indepen the burden placed, introduced the documents that, on the face of
Sensex suff er its worst singleday fall in terms dently validate those documents GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO Illegal Migrants (Determination by things, make out a plausible claim, Mof points as the 30stock gauge plunged 1,942 series of judgments deli by securing the testimony of their against them. The references Tribunal) Act. This law, which the onus ought to then shift to the points, or 5.2%, to its lowest close in 52 weeks. While vered by the Gauhati High issuing authorities. For example, if made to the FTs in the State have overrode the Foreigners Act, sub State to rebut the evidence provid Court over the course of the a petitioner produces a certifi cate arisen out of a mandate contained tly shifted the onus to prove citi ed. Ultimately, as the Gauhati High the proximate trigger for the headlong selling spree was A last few weeks has brought into of her marriage in an attempt to in the 1985 Assam Accord. The zenship from the individual to the Court has itself held, individuals the global market rout induced by an oil price plung e, sharp focus the utter brutality of establish her lineage, and should agreement was a product of a stu government. But, in July 2005, the are not expected to establish there are clear indications that the underlying investor the regime governing the Foreign that document be accepted by the dentdriven movement against, Supreme Court, in Sarbananda So- “beyond reasonable doubt” that sentiment has turned bearish. From the S&P BSE 500 ers’ Tribunals in Assam. These ver Tribunal, the petitioner will still among other things, immigration nowal vs Union of India, declared they are citizens of India. What is index, comprising the top 500 BSElisted companies dicts entrench the establishment have to lead evidence through the into the State following the decla the legislation unconstitutional. expected of them is to show on a across all key industries, to the S&P BSE SmallCap in of an unreasonable burden on pe authority that was responsible for ration of Bangladesh’s indepen The Court found, through an al balance of probabilities that they dex, representing the smallest listed fi rms, there was ople declared as deemed foreign dispensing the certifi cate. Is there, dence on March 26, 1971. It made a most cavalier consideration of his are not foreigners. In such circum ers by seeking from them a stan we might want to ask ourselves, a number of stipulations, including tory and facts, that migration into stances, the rational answer would virtually no corner left untouched by the selloff . While dard of proof that is wholly more noxiously labyrinthine exer a direction to government to iden Assam constituted “external ag be to allow the onus to shift to the every Sensex member lost ground, with 22 retreating at incommensurate with the conse cise than this? tify and have declared as foreign gression” against the State, and, State once the individual has met a least 3%, both the broader gauges accounting for a com quences that befall the ultimate ers any person who entered As therefore, that the Central govern basic threshold of proof. bined 1,200 companies saw about 93% each of their fi nding — in many cases, consign Assam and tribunals sam between January 1, 1966 and ment had violated Article 355 of This approach is, no doubt, far constituents posting declines. The breadth of the losses ment to detention camps and a The Foreigners’ Tribunals (FT), March 24, 1971—the names of the the Constitution. Given this, the from perfect. In a country like is one sure indicator that investors are looking to exit pronouncement of a condition of which work as quasijudicial bo persons so identifi ed, the accord burden to establish citizenship, ours, where the weakest and poor equities for now with whatever gains they can muster , statelessness. From a reading of dies, were originally created says, ought to be deleted from the the Court held, ought to always est among us are often denied ac the judgments, the standard, as it through an executive order made electoral rolls. What is more, the rest on the individual. cess to basic goods, requiring indi or worse in a bid to cut their losses. And Monday’s loss were, is so disproportionate that it by the Union government in 1964. pact also demanded that the go It is this judgment in Sarbanan- viduals to produce documents to es, while dramatic, have only extended a slide that has is virtually impossible to glean Their task was to furnish opinions vernment identify those who da Sonowal that has since served establish citizenship can by itself over the past month seen the Sensex and BSE 500 lose what a petitioner actually has to on whether persons referred to came into Assam on or after March as the fundamental premise on represent an onerous demand. We about 13% each, and the midcap gauge drop 14%. Coin do to succeed. Indeed, the chanc them were “foreigners” or not 25 of that year and have them de which the Gauhati High Court has often see rights as universal, but as ciding with this slide has been a 116% jump in volatility es of success are so negligible that, within the meaning ascribed to the leted and expelled. It was to this ruled on various petitions made political philosopher Hannah as measured by the National Stock Exchange’s India VIX an analysis of 787 orders and judg term under the Foreigners Act, end that in 1997 the electoral rolls against the verdicts of the FTs. But Arendt pointed out in The Origins index, another ominous sign that prices are unlikely to ments of the High Court between 1946. This legislation, which was were revised in the State and more even assuming the burden ought of Totalitarianism, to truly possess stabilise any time soon. Also, foreign institutional inves 2010 and 2019, by Leah Verghese enacted by the colonial govern than three lakh individuals were to lie on the individual to establish rights, individuals often need to and Shruthi Naik of Daksh India, ment with a view to regulating mi marked as doubtful voters. This re her citizenship, these rulings belong to a political community. tors have turned net sellers of their Indian equity hold shows us that in 97% of the cases, gration into India, defi nes a fo vision was made without any prior could still benefi t, as Madhav In other words, “the right to have ings in a big way this month, taking the cumulative net the petitioner before the court was reigner as any person who is not a and independent verifi cation. Out Khosla recently pointed out, by rights” is seen as contingent on ci sales since February to ₹ 10,658 crore. confi rmed as a foreigner. citizen of India. It also accords to of those left out, nearly two lakh the outlining of a sensible test on tizenship. In instilling a regime With the Indian economy still in search of fair winds This statistic is scarcely surpris the government a wideranging people have already been referred what degree or level of proof where a presumption against citi and the global outlook for growth getting bleaker wi th ing given the list of documents power to control the entry, exit to the FTs. ought to be suffi cient to discharge zenship operates, the Foreigners each passing day as the widening coronavirus outbreak deemed inadequate for the pur and movement of foreigners to the burden. However, by holding, Act denies to the weakest among threatens to push the world into its worst downturn poses of establishing a person’s ci and within the territory of the Burden of proof for example, that persons suspect us this right to have rights. It treats tizenship. Consider the following: country. Ordinarily, under the Indian Evi ed of being foreigners ought to not them as less equal beings. To re since the 2008 fi nancial crisis, a sustained selloff electoral photo identity cards, vo In Assam, the FTs have played a dence Act of 1872, the burden of only provide documentary evi verse this damage, we must do as looms. To complicate matters, the proposed State Bank ters’ lists bearing petitioners’ role unique to the State’s history. proof in any court of law lies on dence but also have those docu Seyla Benhabib has suggested. We of Indialed bailout of capitalstarved Yes Bank may be a names, land revenue receipts, cer Typically, the tribunals there have the person who seeks to make a ments attested by the authority must recognise a universal status far tougher challenge than appeared at fi rst fl ush. tifi cates issued by the local p an seen two kinds of cases: those con claim or assert a fact. This would that issued them, the Court has of personhood of every human be Among the hurdles is a legal challenge to the plan by chayat, bank passbooks, perma cerning persons against whom a mean that before the FTs, it is the foisted on the petitioners a stan ing independent of their nationali holders of the troubled lender’s Additional Tier1 nent account number (PAN) cards reference has been made by the government, which avers that a dard that is virtually impossible to ty. bonds. And the best intentions of the Centre and eff orts and ration cards. Each of these has border police and those whose person is a foreigner, on whom the meet. been variously rejected as proof of names in the electoral roll has a burden ought to lie. But Section 9 Perhaps, the solution lies, as Suhrith Parthasarathy is an advocate by the RBI notwithstanding, any failure to expedite the citizenship. What is more, accord “D”, or “doubtful”, marked of the Foreigners Act reverses this Gautam Bhatia has written, in an practising at the Madras High Court resolution at Yes Bank runs the risk of undermining wider banking sector stability. To be sure, already there is talk of concerted central bank action among the lead ing western economies as well as likely fi scal measures The public unravelling of Yes Bank to address the threat posed by COVID19. The U.S. Fed eral Reserve last week made an emergency cut in its The manner of its collapse raises questions on the central bank’s role and the late action by the Enforcement Directorate benchmark interest rate and President Trump is con The scam on the bank’s balance March 2019, the RBI discovered of ₹ 11,932 crore for the year ended templating a raft of steps including a payroll tax cut. sheets must have been visible to underreported NPAs worth ₹ 2,299 March 2019 — on its books? The RBI and the Centre too would ideally need to move the RBI as far back as in 2015. The crore. Incidentally, around the Most importantly, why are pu in lockstep with measures to ensure adequate liquidity RBI’s asset quality review (AQR) time the moratorium was an blic comments being sought on to help bolster sentiment at this time of market and eco had forced Yes Bank, as it had sev nounced last Thursday, news the restructuring scheme for Yes eral other banks, to report tran broke of another resignation at the Bank? This is unfair to the SBI. The nomic fragility. Puja Mehra sparently their previously unstat RBI. This time of its wellregarded restructuring scheme is no one’s ed nonperforming assets (NPAs). Deputy Governor N.S. Vishwa business other than the SBI’s. Af Before the AQR in 2015, bankers nathan, a specialist in regulation, ter this precedent, next time a
Scoring low n Sunday, the Enforcement avoided recognising bad loans on BIRWATKAR VIBHAV supervision of banks and non bank, say a Kotak Mahindra Bank The absence of playgrounds and electricity in Directorate (ED) arrested their books. They did this by res 18 months to cover his tracks and banking fi nance companies. The or HDFC Bank, is to get an invest OYes Bank’s swashbuckling tructuring the loans susceptible to potentially remove all the money exit follows a fourdecade career at ment from a new investor, will that govt. schools speaks poorly of policy priorities copromoter Rana Kapoor, accus defaults or by extending new he can from the bank in this pe the RBI and just three months scheme also be put up for public t should rank as an irony that as a founderleader of ing him and his family of using loans, called evergreening, to keep riod? If the RBI’s inspections of the ahead of his retirement in June. comments? the International Solar Alliance, India has not yet shell companies to receive kick the stressed borrowers afl oat. bank’s books left it with no confi Was it prompted by the health is If this were a commercial deci electrifi ed a signifi cant number of government backs from the bank’s corporate Thus, while the borrowers were dence in Mr. Kapoor, surely then sues cited or a protest against the sion taken by the SBI, and not cap I borrowers. able to avoid defaults on repay that ought to have been a smoking RBI’s stance on policy matters itulation before the government of schools, while extolling the elegance and virtue of pho On March 5, the Reserve Bank ments, the lenders managed to gun to suspect if not investigate his such as handling of Yes Bank? the day, it would have put greater tovoltaic electricity to the rest of the world. The lack of of India (RBI) had used its powers show low NPAs. role in Yes Bank’s serial underre fi nancial might and a wellcrafted power in schools is taken note of by the Parliamentary to supersede the bank’s board and The RBI found that for the year porting of NPAs. Also, Yes Bank Shareholders’ role plan behind the rescue. Standing Committee on Human Resource Development impose restrictions on its opera ended March 2016, Yes Bank had was looking for investors for the And what of the bank’s sharehol Finally, what other options in its latest report on budgetary grants for school edu tions. The bank’s depositors can classifi ed loans worth ₹ 749 crore last few months. The moratorium ders? Why did they ratify remun were considered by the RBI? Did cation and literacy for 202021. Under the framework of not withdraw more than ₹ 50,000 as gross NPAs, understating the fi and the investigation against Mr. eration hikes and a renewal of te they include a marketbased solu concurrent powers, the Centre operates its own for the next four weeks at least. gure by a whopping ₹ 4,176.70 Kapoor seem to have been trig nure for Mr. Kapoor despite public tion? DBS Bank has just turned in Predictably, the State Bank of In crore. It directed Yes Bank to re gered by the failure to fi nd inves information of the serial underre to a whollyowned subsidiary of its schemes and sponsors several school education pro dia (SBI) has emerged as Yes classify more loans as NPAs. Dis tors. This suggests that had inves porting of NPAs? The regulators Singaporean parent. Could Yes grammes covering the States, notably Samagra Shiksha Bank’s knight in shining armour. closing this to the stock exchanges tors been found, Mr. Kapoor may must ensure now that all current Bank’s network of branches been and the Mid Day Meal scheme. Yet, as the panel found Surprisingly, though, it is crowd in May 2017, Yes Bank assured in have escaped action. After all the equity held by Yes Bank holders of interest to it? Ideally, the mora from data for 201718, only 56.45% of government sourcing the rescue plan. vestors that the higher NPAs RBI’s discomfort with him was should get wiped out since it re torium ought to have been an schools had electricity and 56.98% a playground, while would not have further ramifi ca known even back in 2018. Why presents a pure risk capital. If this nounced, together with the almost 40% lacked a boundary wall. There are some Balance sheet scam tions as it had already taken reme didn’t the ED take action at that is not done, any investment by Yes scheme for restructuring, over a highperforming States, but even in politically wellre The manner in which the Yes Bank dial action. time? Bank’s saviour, the SBI, will be a weekend. That would have made it collapse has unravelled raises sev However, just fi ve months later, In December 2018, barely two subsidy to them. Let us not forget less disruptive, the limit of presented Uttar Pradesh, almost 70% of schools lacked eral questions. The full extent of in October 2017, the bank dis months after Mr. Kapoor’s exten that barely two years ago, the SBI ₹ 50,000 on withdrawals by depos electricity. Other depressing insights from the dist rict its troubles spilled into the public closed, once again, that the RBI sion was rejected, former RBI Go and its associate banks received itors would not have been needed, information database as of end2019, are: neglect of toi domain two years ago, when, in had discovered more underreport vernor Urjit Patel resigned from ₹ 8,800 crore in recapitalisation and the RBI’s credibility would not let construction for children with special needs, failure September 2018, the RBI had de ed gross NPAs on its books. For the the central bank. Did the RBI and from the Central government. Oth have suff ered as much. to build toilets for girls in a third of secondary s chools clined to extend Mr. Kapoor’s term year ended March 2017, the under other authorities go soft on Yes er public banks received more. and laboratories for higher secondary science students. as managing director and chief ex reporting was of the tune of ₹ 6,355 Bank after that? Its transgressions How credible can the rescue be Puja Mehra is a Delhi-based journalist The tardy progress on such important facilities, in spite ecutive offi cer by three years. It di crore. continued even after the RBI fi ned when barely three months ago the and author of ‘The Lost Decade (2008-18): rected the bank to end his tenure Why has the ED then swung in the bank and forced changes in its SBI had disclosed that the RBI has How India’s Growth Story Devolved into of the projects having been sanctioned, shows the lo w by January 31, 2019. to action so late, giving Mr. Kapoor management. For the year ended discovered underreported NPAs — Growth Without A Story’ priority that school education is being accorded. One of the fi rst things the NDA government did at the launch of its second term was a ‘100day programme’ LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Letters emailed to [email protected] must carry the full postal address and the full name or the name with initials. for education, focused in part on training of school To read more letters teachers and opening of central schools. It should be The cost of saving Yes sharply reduced demand employment and might have independent bank board provision of hoardings from online, scan the QR code possible to bring the same missionmode approach to In the Yes Bank case, in our for many products. even revived the sinking members will be appointed the Lucknow District infrastructure now, ensuring that no school is left be haste to fi nd faults and then Unless the government growth of MSMEs. The based on their professional Magistrate. question whether there is hind. Solar power can be installed in schools and toilets fi x responsibility for them, realises the gravity of the government of the day needs competence and integrity. Deepak Singhal, proper utilisation of skills of Chennai built for all students in 100 days. Community participa are we not overlooking a situation and initiate steps to invite the best banking Kosaraju Chandramouli, an educated person remains vital aspect which could to stimulate the economy, experts to run banks and Hyderabad unanswered. The tion can make sure that the objectives are satisfactorily have played a signifi cant there could be more bad also ensure a strong Quest for a govt. job government needs to fi x met. It may be more challenging to fi nd attached play role in the disastrous news. regulation regime to control Name and shame The report that well qualifi ed strict eligibility criteria and grounds, but that problem can also be overcome by showing by the bank — the M.P. Muralidharan, the issue of growing NPAs. The puerile, insidious act of candidates are among newly thereby help to channelise identifying suitable commons that can be upgraded to fl oundering economy of the Bengaluru Ratnaraj Jain, the Uttar Pradesh appointed conservancy staff the potential of the skilled accommodate students, while permanent arrange country? I would say that it Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh government, of using in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu is and the educated for the ments are made. More fundamentally, the Centre and all started with the folly of ■ How many readjustments hoardings to ‘name and not the fi rst of its kind in betterment of the nation. ■ States must realise that their talk of a demographic divi demonetisation which is the government of the day The case raises questions shame” persons arrested India (Page 1, “When PGs The government should also virtually brought the cash going to make to save every on the effi cacy of present during protests last pick up the broom to incentivise job creators and dend has little meaning, when they do not provide driven rural and MSME bank that is ready to regulatory systems and December against the become govt. servants”, curb the perception that only enough funding for proposals on the one hand and the sectors of the economy to collapse? What about the procedures. It is to be noted Citizenship (Amendment) March 10). Though social government jobs are best. administrative machinery fails to utilise even the its knees. It also struck a State Bank of India’s own that the bigwigs who commit Act, is reprehensible and equality has ensured a more Archana Venkatamadhvaraj, amount allocated in some cases. As the parliamentary huge blow to the real estate nonperforming assets? The these huge fi nancial frauds exceeding its remit (Page 1, level playing fi eld, the Thoothukkudi, Tamil Nadu committee notes, the allocation to the School Educa sector. The parlous state of Yes Bank case shows that are very aware of our legal “HC orders removal of tion and Literacy department has suff ered a cut of the real estate sector did lending heavily to corporates system, where a case can be Lucknow hoardings”, March corrections & clarifications: 27.52%, amounting to ₹ 22,725 crore in the Budget Esti have a role to play as far as without due diligence of dragged on for decades using 10). By demonising the We erred: The fi rst entry in the Corrections and Clarifi cations some prominent NBFCs their loan history is one of the maze of adjournments alleged protesters and column (March 10, 2020) erroneously gave the number of CPI(M) mate for 202021, although public expenditure on edu MPs in the Lok Sabha as two. The correct fi gure is three. who lent massively to the the major issues aff ecting the and appeals at various levels. portraying them as criminals cation has been rising. The governmentrun school sec sector are concerned. The banking sector. Had similar It is to be hoped that at least is proving of mens rea by the It is the policy of The Hindu to correct signifi cant errors as soon as possible. Please specify tor needs a fund infusion. A public school system that the edition (place of publication), date and page. The Readers’ Editor’s office can be slowdown in realty and the loan amounts been extended now the banking regulator government per se. 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THE HINDU MUMBAI WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 2020 OPED 9 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE India needs all hands on deck A progressive system of taxation Why reverting to the classical system of taxing dividend It is puzzling why the country relies solely on the National Institute of Virology for genome sequencing is a good move stitutions in India have the ability to ment. This development made tracking of sequence the viral genome, Profes the shareholder much easier. The withdra sor Kang emphasises that sequenc wal of DDT came as a relief to the corporate ing is useful to know where the virus sector which has wanted DDT to be removed strain came from and to check if the and the eff ective corporate tax rate in India strain is evolving, but does not in to be reduced. Corporates are also required R. Prasad form us of the immediate strategy to R. Anand to conserve cash for further growth. This lar control the outbreak or its spread. gely prompted the government to revert to With the latest sequencing equip the classical system for taxing dividend. On February 6, the World Health Or ment widely available in many re As a concept, ‘dividend’ has been in exis ganization (WHO) recognised the search labs and the cost of sequenc tence since the inception of the Income Tax Maximum tax rate Punebased National Institute of Vi ing falling, researchers are using Act. Any shareholder in a company is entit However, this means that the starting rate of rology (NIV) as one of the 15 laborato genome sequences for genomic epi led to dividend as a return on investment. Di tax works out to 10% and the highest rate ries that would provide reference demiology. This becomes possible as vidend covers various elements of payouts works out to, say, 43%. Tax paid in dividend testing support for the novel corona scientists already know the number from a company and seeks to tax those at is out of money earned and received and virus. of mutations that arise on an average some stage. The question is: at what point more often than not represents holding of The number of COVID19 cases re in a month in the case of COVID19, should the dividend be taxed and how? The shares passed on by generations without any mained constant at three for nearly a “Anticipating a rise in COVID-19 cases, more labs now are screening samples.” its incubation period, and the aver matter assumes signifi cance since corpo cost incurred. On this score, discharging tax month in India, but now it is going up Students wear protective masks at a railway station in Kochi. * REUTERS age time between cases in a chain rates pay tax on their profi ts and any tax on at the maximum marginal rate more than steadily. Anticipating such a scena transmission (serial interval). Using the distribution of posttax profi ts amounts justifi es the principle of equity and sharing rio, more labs are screening CO stand the arrangement of the four lowed by the U.S. (37). this data, it has become possible to to double taxation. The Finance Bill, 2020 with the government in the overall develop VID19 samples now. Besides the 52 chemical entities or bases that make identify the index case even when has reverted to the classical system of taxing mental agenda. Shareholders in other coun labs belonging to the Viral Research up the DNA or RNA. The diff erences Unutilised expertise in India the source of infection is not known, dividends (in the hands of the shareholders). tries with a protective treaty regime can re and Diagnostic Laboratories network in the arrangement of the bases “We tested around 75,000 samples and fi nd the link between two seem The Bill seeks to withdraw the dividend dis ceive dividend attracting tax rates as low as of the Indian Council of Medical Re make organisms diff erent from one of H1N1 during the 20092010 out ingly unconnected outbreaks. tribution tax (DDT) payable by the company. 5%. The distortion in the current regime viz. search (ICMR), 10 labs under the Na another. Sequencing the genome of break. We have a BSL3 facility and This move has created ripples since highnet the foreign shareholder being taxed at a tional Centre for Disease Control SARSCoV2 will help us understand the latest sequencing equipment. We How China built capacity worth individuals never expected a full tax much lower rate than the Indian counterpart (NCDC) have been included for test where the virus came from and how are ready to help out if ICMR reaches China was completely unprepared in their hands, which is being sought to be is obvious. This would require some correc ing COVID19 samples. it spread. out to us,” says Professor V. Ravi, when the Severe Acute Respiratory achieved by the proposal. tion. The main contention of the highnet Till recently, all the 52 labs were al In the last decade or so, many na Head of the Department of Virology Syndrome (SARS) struck in 2002 worth individual is that while the classical lowed to only screen samples; only tional laboratories have developed at the National Institute of Mental 2003. The outbreak infected over Three methods of taxing dividend system is acceptable as a concept, the maxi NIV was authorised to confi rm posi the expertise to sequence the entire Health and Neurosciences (NIM 8,000 people globally and killed The three methods of taxing dividend are mum tax rate is an unexpected extra burden. tive cases. With more suspected cas genome of viruses and bacteria using HANS), Bengaluru, about nearly 800. The bird fl u (H5N1) out the classical system; the simplistic system or Some countries follow the imputation sys es piling up, a long delay in confi rm the latest equipment (nextgenera sequencing. break that followed in 2003 under DDT regime; and the imputation system. tem. The dividend is taxed in the hands of ing positive test results would have tion sequencing, or NGS). About a “It is time for team building, not scored the need for infl uenza detec The classical system was in vogue till 1997 the shareholders but they are also allowed a become inevitable for NIV. So, in a dozen labs have a BSL3 facility to in the time to work in silos,” says Dr. tion and response in China. This led 98. According to this system, the dividend setoff of a portion of the corporate tax dis welcome move, ICMR has preempt activate the virus and sequence the Chitra Pattabiraman from NIMHANS. to a collaboration between the Chi was taxable in the hands of the shareholder, charged by the company. In many ways, the ed such a scenario. “Fourfi ve days genome using advanced equipment. “If we are not given an opportunity nese National Infl uenza Center and subject to the then available deduction un imputation credit resembles an underlying ago, 13 labs were authorised to con They also have the expertise to un to develop these skill sets and not en the Atlantabased Centers for Disease der Section 80L for a maximum of ₹ 12,000. tax credit granted to nonresidents under fi rm positive cases without sending dertake such work. couraged to participate, then how Control and Prevention in 2004 to This was a progressive system. certain treaties entered into by India. While them to NIV. Another 17 labs will be It is therefore puzzling why India are we ever going to get good at it?” build capacity in infl uenza surveil The Finance Act of 1997 analysed the me there are complexities in that system, it miti authorised to do so on March 11 and relies solely on NIV for undertaking During the 2018 Nipah virus out lance in China. rits and demerits of the classical system and gates the hardships caused by the double the remaining labs on March 13,” says genome sequencing. If there’s a com break in Kerala, a lab outside NIV, the For the next 10 years the collabo embarked on the route of the simplistic sys taxation impact of dividend distribution. Nivedita Gupta of ICMR. With the 10 pelling need to have all hands on Manipal Centre for Virus Research, ration worked in many ways: it led to tem of taxing dividend in the hands of the Indian promoter groups control a majori labs under the NCDC regularly con deck to sequence the genome, it is successfully proved that given an op developed human technical exper distributing company. In the process, mil ty of shareholding in Indian companies. For fi rming positive H1N1 cases, we can now. portunity it could not only diagnose tise in virology and epidemiology, a lions of shareholders were spared the bur them, the wealth is largely represented by expect these labs to be authorised to While NIV sequenced two of the the novel virus but also partially se comprehensive infl uenza surveil den of off ering dividends as tax in their the value of shares and the dividends re also confi rm positive COVID19 cases. three COVID19 samples collected quence it. The Manipal Centre con lance system, strengthened analysis, hands. The DDT system replaced the classi ceived over a period of time. These have Unfortunately, several national from Kerala in late Januaryearly Fe fi rmed the Nipah virus in 17 of the 24 the dissemination of surveillance da cal system from 199798. The rate of DDT been passed on to successive generations. labs have not been brought up to bruary, it is not clear if more samples samples it received from Kerala. Un ta, and improved early response to started at about 10% and climbed to 20.56%. These shares can be held by individuals, speed to perform other vital func have been sequenced. Contrast this fortunately, since April 2019, the Ma infl uenza viruses with pandemic po The advantage of DDT was that tracking of HUFs, family companies, or family trusts. tions during an outbreak. with how other countries have res nipal Centre has been directed to res tential. By 2014, the national infl uen dividend in the hands of the company be Any decision to declare dividend is analysed ponded. Many of the 263 sequences trict itself to processing the samples za surveillance and response system came easier and collecting the tax on divi from the standpoint of the company and the Sequencing the genome shared with the Global Initiative on of pathogens specifi c to the BSL2 fa included 408 labs and 554 sentinel dend was a painless process. The main draw standpoint of the entity receiving the divi NIV is the only lab in India which has Sharing All Infl uenza Data (GISAID), cility. It is not even one of the desig hospitals. back was that the treaty agreements with dends. As long as dividends were received a biosafety level4 (BSL4) facility to a public platform started by the nated labs to test for the novel Today, there is a Centre for Dis countries like the U.S. did not permit the set taxfree, the structure was irrelevant. But culture pathogenic, novel viruses, WHO in 2008 for countries to share coronavirus. ease Control and Prevention in each off of the DDT paid against the tax liability of with the current proposal even family trusts study the origin of such viruses and genome sequences, are by universi Virologist Professor Gagandeep of the 31 provinces in mainland Chi the shareholder. DDT was simple but in can be taxed at the maximum rate. This blow provide a comprehensive characteri ties and hospitals. In mainland Chi Kang, executive director of the Tran na. The infrastructure and capacity equitable since it made no distinction bet is bound to force companies to revisit their sation of them by sequencing the en na, many of the sequences are slational Health Science and Tech building that was put in place by Chi ween a low taxpayer and a high taxpayer. strategy of paying dividends. tire viral genome. NIV has sequenced shared by the Chinese Center for Dis nology Institute, however feels that na for infl uenza surveillance stood in With India registering substantial growth The move to the classical system is not on the SARSCoV2 genome collected ease Control and Prevention, which given that the number of COVID19 good stead when the H1N1 pandemic between 1997 and 2020, corporate perfor ly wellconceived but also tilted towards the from two patients in Kerala. is present in all the 31 provinces. At cases in India is still under 60, NIV struck in 2009. mances also registered progress and divi appropriate progressive system of taxation. When the entire genome is se 90, China has posted the most se does not feel overwhelmed. dend payouts increased . The income tax quenced it helps researchers under quence data on GISAID. This is fol While agreeing that many labs/ in [email protected] payer came under the radar of the IT depart R. Anand is a Chartered Accountant
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Kunal Ray nazm, ‘Main nahi manta (I do not ac New Prayer song for Tamil Nadu cept)’ at a protest site and it made me Visuals of the Delhi riots kept many realise that every such gesture mat A poem written by the late Prof. P. Sunda across on tenterhooks. People des ters. It restored an individual’s faith ram Pillai, Professor of History in the Tra paired and felt distressed. Frantic in what they do. Perhaps all purpose vancore University, and a noted Tamil scho calls were made to ensure safety of is not lost. lar, has been adopted as the prayer song for friends and family. Social media ri The Palestinian poet Mahmoud Tamil Nadu Government functions. It is a tuals of ‘like’, ‘dislike’, and ‘share’ Darwish wrote extensively about and twostanza verse beginning with “Neerarum were duly performed. Witnessing the in distress. So did Qurratulain Hyder, kadaludutha...” from Prof. Sundaram Pillai’s frenzy increased our sense of help Krishna Sobti and Saadat Hasan Man play, “Manonmaniam”. Only the fi rst sixline lessness. During occasions like these, to and many others. Faiz Ahmad stanza is to be used for the purpose of the one wonders what we can Faiz’s Hum Dekhenge, which State prayer song. An announcement about do to help. Is it good became the protest anthem the prayer song was made by the Chief Mi enough to just write and across recent demonstra nister, Mr. M. Karunanidhi, in his speech at bemoan the troubling state tions in the country, lived pe the presentation here [Madras, March 10] of aff airs? Can anyone real rennially in distress. Writers early this week of State Awards for the best ly benefi t from that? The like Mirza Waheed, Salma, Tamil fi lms, artistes and technicians of 1968. heartbreaking visuals that and Perumal Murugan have M. S. Visvanathan (best music director), who emerged from the riots and given a face and body to dis CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC composed a new tune for “Neerarum kada the poignant, relentless ac tress in their writing. Svetla DATA POINT ludutha,” sang it along with P. Susheela (best counts remind us of W.B. Yeats’s na Alexievich’s Nobel Prize is a recog female playback singer) for prayer at the co much cited poem, ‘The Second Com nition of the memorials to distress lourful Awards presentation ceremony. Sing ing’, where he says, “The best lack all she has built in her writing. Joan Di ing the fame of Tamil Nadu and the Tamil conviction, while the worst/Are full dion’s The Year of Magical Thinking language the prayerpoem refers to Dravida of passionate intensity.” (2005) is a heartwrenching narrative nadu as the beautiful “tilakam” on the beau about living with distress following tiful forehead (Deccan) of the “beautiful face Dealing with agony the death of loved ones. Distress is of the world” that is Bharat. In the times we live in, violence is be political but it is also personal. It ing normalised in the most grotesque comes from a deeply felt sense of A HUNDRED YEARS AGO MARCH 11, 1920. way. As a result, people resort to dif compassion and heartache. Distress ferent ways of dealing with their ago has birthed newer forms of writing Declaration of Rights. ny. Some might take to writing to and artistic expression. Distress is an capture the terror that was un institution, a laboratory of ideas to Last evening at the Soundarya Mahal, Mr. A. leashed on the streets of Delhi. Writ genesis further writing. Rangaswami Aiyengar, Editor of the “Swade ing serves as a document and gory re samitran” delivered a lecture on the “Decla minder to what transpired and how. A challenge for writers ration of Rights” for the benefi t of students Writing captures memory, safe However, the creation of widespread in the city. The Principal of the Law College guards it for posterity for future ac distress, mayhem and disturbance is, presided. The learned lecturer discussed his tion and recall. But writing in times in a sense, a conspiracy against writ subject from a purely legal and academic of distress is easier said than done. ing. It ensures that writing becomes point of view, and studiously avoided consi Some might even deem it escapist. diffi cult. But that is exactly the chal dering the expediency, the political necessi They might think it doesn’t take lenge that writers must overcome. ty or otherwise of a Declaration of Rights for much to write in the comfort of your The oppressors don’t want them to Indians...[He] gave the essential limitation of home when war is being waged on write. In such a scenario, there such rights as were understood in the coun the street outside. Writing is a com would be one kind of story, a single tries of the West. He then took his audience fortable option in comparison. And it narrative written by the oppressor through the diff erent stages in the growth of cannot prevent genocide. However, I about the oppressed. And it is eve the constitution of diff erent countries, in am sure many would agree if I say dis ryone’s knowledge what that story cluding Great Britain, France and America tress derails writing. It makes the act would be. In writing sometimes, the and pointed out how after considerable agi of writing diffi cult, often perilous. wrong can become the right. It is this tation, the principle of the Declaration of The writer struggles for the exact appropriation that our writing must Rights of the citizens came to be established. word to justly quantify her enormity resist. Despite insurmountable chal He referred more especially to the struggle of grief and desolation. Distress lenges and an allpervasive ennui, between the rulers and the people in En creates perplexity. You wonder if distress shouldn’t prevent us from gland for the recognition of this principle, there’s any purpose to it all, to all that writing. In fact, it should, ideally, ever since the time of the Magna Carta, you write, read, compose, paint. spark off collective action to further which he said was nothing less than a Decla Does anybody care? While ruminat the spirit of resistance. ration of Rights. All progressive constitu ing over these questions, I chanced tions began with providing adequate safe upon a video of vocalist Shubha Mud Kunal Ray teaches literary & cultural studies guards against infringement into the gal singing Habib Jalib’s famous at FLAME University, Pune fundamental and natural rights of man. CM A BM-BME YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
MUMBAI THE HINDU 10 NEWS WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 2020 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE FROM PAGE ONE Tight fi ght for Gujarat RS seats Keen tussle on for Scindia meets Modi, BJP determined to deny Congress two seats, to try to split Opposition numbers Manipur’s lone seat quits Congress Special Correspondent However, the ruling BJP is The term of Madhusudan Congress banking on rebels MLAs Ahmedabad unlikely to concede a seat to Mistry of the Congress is At a meeting of the Congress pened in Karnataka, that is, With elections to four Rajya the Opposition party and ending, while from the rul RAHUL KARMAKAR GUWAHATI Legislative Party held in go for a fl oor test in an As Sabha seats under way in will instead fi eld a third can ing BJP, Shambhuprasad Bhopal, around 92 MLAs sembly with reduced num Gujarat, political activity in didate and try to split the Op Tundia, Lalsinh Vadodia and The political upheaval in turned up (including four bers and wait for bypolls to the State is set to intensify as position party’s numbers to Chunibhai Gohel are com Madhya Pradesh has put the independent MLAs) with 21 complete the circle; the oth the Bharatiya Janata Party ensure its victory. pleting their term. spotlight on seven ‘rebel’ MLAs having sent in their re er is to ask for snap polls,” (BJP) appears determined to “As of now, the Congress, According to Congress in Congress MLAs in Manipur signations. The eff ective said a source. retain the three seats despite with 73 legislators, can bare siders, in case “proper can ahead of the election to the strength of the Madhya Pra For the BJP, the defection being short of numbers on ly manage to send two candi didates” are not selected by lone Rajya Sabha seat in the desh Assembly is 228. If the of Mr Scindia and his sup its side. dates to the Rajya Sabha, but the party, there will be some State on March 26. resignations of the 21 MLAs porters is a major shot in the Of the four seats, the BJP even a minor defection of a defections during the voting The seat is held by Kshe is accepted, the strength arm in a State they lost after holds three, while one is few legislators can change Madhusudan Mistry for the Rajya Sabha. trimayum Bhabananda of would fall to 211, with the 15 years, which was consi with the Opposition Con that scenario,” a party leader Once nomination papers the BJP, whose term ends in Kshetrimayum Bhabananda magic number being 106. dered one of the birth plac gress. The arithmetic sug said, adding there are alrea declared any candidates for are fi led, the Congress is like April. The Congress will be left es of the Jan Sangh, the ear gests both the BJP and the dy talk of a few legislators in the four seats. ly to shift its legislators to The Congress in Manipur ing Nagaland. with 97 seats while the BJP lier avatar of the BJP. Congress can get two seats touch with the BJP to either The last day for the fi ling neighbouring Rajasthan to has 28 MLAs, but eight of The State Congress ex has 107 seats. Mr Scindia’s grandmoth each in the absence of vot crossvote or abstain from of nominations is March 13, prevent any attempt at them switched over to the tended the deadline for fi l “The BJP is keen that Mr er, the late Vijayaraje Scin ing, based on the number of voting. while voting will be held on poaching or horsetrading BJP to help Nongthombam ing nomination for the RS Scindia join [the party] in dia was one of the stalwarts legislators on both sides. Neither party has so far March 26. from the ruling party. Biren form a coalition go seat from March 9 to March the presence of former chief of the Jan Sangh and a foun vernment in 2017. The BJP 12 after only one candidate, minister Shivraj Singh Chou der member of the BJP, a had won 21 of the 60 seats. party spokesperson and han. And there are two point continually empha Of the eight MLAs who academic Ningombam Bu views over the road ahead — sised by BJP leaders through switched allegiance, Thou penda Meitei, submitted his one is to emulate what hap the day. Bikash is LeftCongress candidate naojam Shyamkumar be papers. came the Forest Minister in “I have met all our party the BJPled government and MLAs at a personal level and The former Kolkata Mayor will fi le his nomination later this week a case regarding his political have received positive vibes As 22 MLAs quit, Nath status is pending in the Su from them,” Mr. Meitei told Special Correspondent preference and when he is dline. In the 2019 Lok Sabha preme Court. The other se The Hindu from Imphal on Kolkata not contesting, our MLAs election, he was the Left ven have claimed they are Tuesday. govt. on verge of collapse CPI(M) leader and former will support whomsoever Front candidate in Jadavpur very much Congress MLAs. What has also buoyed the Kolkata Mayor Bikash Ran the CPI(M) leadership nomi and was defeated by Mimi “Our candidate has a Congress is the reported “They play pressure polit time Congress MLA and jan Bhattacharya is the joint nates,” Congress general se Chakraborty of the Trina chance if the rebel Congress tussle within the BJP for se ics, the Congress doesn’t,” former Minister, announced candidate of the Left parties cretary Amitava Bhatta mool Congress. MLAs do not side with BJP. lecting the “right” candi he added. his resignation and pledged and the Congress for the Ra charya said. The Left parties and the We are also hopeful of get date. While a section of the Following their resigna support to the BJP. jya Sabha election from West Mr. Bikash Bhattacharya is Congress do not have ting the vote of a Muslim In party leaders want Mr Bha tion, the 19 Scindia loyalists Another State BJP leader Bengal. acceptable to the Congress enough strength in the As dependent MLA,” a senior bananda to be renominated, wrote to the Director Gener Sanjay Pathak asked how He told The Hindu that he because he was instrumental sembly to elect a nominee to Manipur Pradesh Congress others have been batting for al of the Police, Karnataka, Mr. Scindia could endure would fi le his nomination la Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya in bringing the Saradha chit the Rajya Sabha on their Committee leader said. BJP veteran and former Un requesting protection dur being disrespected within ter this week. “Yes, I have fund scam and the Naradha own. The Congress is also ion Minister Thounaojam ing their stay in Karnataka. the Congress for so long. been nominated as the joint from 2005 to 2010. His name video tapes before the Cal However, if they come to banking on the BJP’s region Chaoba. Meanwhile, former Chief “Congress has always in candidate of the Left and the emerged as a consensus can cutta High Court and had gether, they can send one al allies, specifi cally the Na The BJP is learnt to have Minister Shivraj Singh Chou dulged in vendetta politics, Congress. I will fi le it [the didate after the CPI(M) Polit pressed for an investigation member. ga People’s Front (NPF), for asked Mr. Bhabananda, who han, who had helmed the targetted BJP leaders in the nomination] on March 12,” Bureau rejected the State un by Central agencies. The Trinamool Congress its candidate to sail through. is also the State BJP presi BJP government for the past State. Whereas, we have he said. it’s request for the nomina In 2017, the Left parties has announced four candi There has been some fric dent, to choose between 15 years before the Congress worked for the State’s Mr. Bhattacharya, 68, is a tion of party general secre put him up for the Rajya Sab dates: Mausam Benazir tion between the BJP and another Rajya Sabha term wrested it in December development,” prominent lawyer and had tary Sitaram Yechury. ha, but he could not fi le the Noor, Arpita Ghosh, Subrata the NPF, which is a rival of or shepherding the party’s 2018, distanced the BJP Congress leader Digvijaya been the Mayor of Kolkata “Mr. Yechury was our fi rst nomination before the dea Bakshi and Dinesh Trivedi. the saff ron party in adjoin State unit. from the resignations, term Singh, who had last week ing it an internal matter. fl agged a purported poach “Our priority at present is ing bid by the BJP, claimed the Rajya Sabha election,” to have proof of the party Mother, sister he clarifi ed at his residence, ferrying the 19 MLAs to Kar 254 Kashmiri Pandits in govt. jobs since 2015 where Bisahulal Singh, four nataka. visit Omar on Home Ministry tells parliamentary panel that relief, rehabilitation provided to registered migrants 50th birthday COVID19 cases Vijaita Singh settled in other States and lowance provided by the SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT New Delhi Union Territories. Of the State governments is reim Srinagar As many as 254 Kashmiri 43,494 migrant families, bursed by the MHA. Former Jammu and Kash surge in country Pandits have joined govern 5,248 families are living in “Regarding the transit ac mir Chief Minister and Na ment service in Jammu and migrant camps,” the report commodation, 849 fl ats are tional Conference (NC) In Kerala, cinema halls will and balanced approach of Kashmir since a special pack tabled in Parliament last available, and 560 fl ats are vicepresident Omar Ab be shut till March 31 and the Indian government is age was announced for the week said. under construction,” the re dullah’s mother and sister about 270 people who came certainly better suited to displaced community by the The Ministry said the go port said. visited him in the Srinagar in contact with coronavirus handle the crisis in a coun Centre in 2015. vernment had been provid The panel led by senior subjail to wish him on his patients have been traced. try of 1.3 billion people,” the Under the Prime Minis ing relief and rehabilitation Congress leader Anand Shar 50th birthday on Tuesday. Ninetyfi ve of them are in IMA said. ter’s Development Package packages to all registered mi ma observed that “the living Booked under the Pu the “highrisk category,” ac The Central government (PMDP) announced by Prime grants “irrespective of their conditions in the 849 transit blic Safety Act (PSA), Mr. cording to offi cials. in a release noted that all Minister Narendra Modi on religion”. accommodations are not Abdullah’s sister Safi a Ab Surveillance has been regular Visas (including eVi November 7, 2015, the go “Cash relief to the eligible good” and recommended dullah Khan and mother strengthened after fresh sas) which have been grant vernment approved creation Jammu and Kashmiri mi that the Ministry should Molly Abdullah went to see cases emerged in the State. ed to nationals of France, of 3,000 additional State go Coming together: Kashmiri Pandits staging a sit-in in support grants is given at the rate of send a team to visit the tran him in the Hari Niwas pa “About 1,116 people are un Germany and Spain on or vernment jobs for Pandits at of the Citizenship Amendment Act at Jantar Mantar in New ₹ 3,250 per person with a sit accommodation and take lace, an interrogation der observation, 976 are un before March 11, 2020 and a cost of ₹ 1,080 crore. Delhi on January 19, 2020. * PTI ceiling of ₹ 13,000 per family necessary steps to provide centre that was turned into der home quarantine while where these foreigners have A similar employment a month. The last enhance adequate living conditions a guest house and now 149 are in hospitals. They in not yet entered India stand package was announced by ment orders to 528 candi nel that as per the inputs ment was sanctioned in June including fl oor space, hy serves as a subjail for the clude people with symp suspended. “Visas of all fo the Manmohan Singh go dates have been issued and provided by the government 2018. In addition, dry ration gienic food, water supply, NC leader since August 5 toms as well,” Kerala Health reigners already in India re vernment in 2008 under 254 have joined duties.” of Jammu and Kashmir, is also provided,” the Minis sanitation and other basic last year. Minister K.K. Shailaja said. main valid and they may which 1,474 State govern The special status of Jam there are 64,827 registered try told the panel. amenities. It was a quiet celebra The Indian Medical Asso contact the nearest FRRO/ ment jobs were provided to mu and Kashmir under Arti migrant families comprising The committee also re tion for the Abdullahs, as ciation (IMA) on Tuesday FRO through eFRRO mo the migrant youth. cle 370 was revoked and the 60,489 Hindu families, Hike in cash relief commended that the Minis NC president Farooq Ab appealed to the government dule for extension/conver The Union Home Minis State was bifurcated and 2,609 Muslim families and The monthly cash relief to try should fasttrack the con dullah remains in deten to classify the data of the sion etc of their visa or grant try, in reply to a parliamen downgraded into the Union 1,729 Sikh families. the Kashmiri migrants was struction of new transit tion in his own house un epidemic and take appro of any consular service, if tary standing committee on Territories of J&K and La “Of the 64,827 families, increased from ₹ 6,600 per accommodations so that the der the PSA. “Wishing my priate action with clinical they choose to do so. A not relief and rehabilitation pro dakh by Parliament on Au 43,494 families are regis family as sanctioned in 2004 burden on the existing ac brother, Omar, a very hap precision. “Sharing of data ifi cation to this eff ect is be vided to Kashmiri Pandits, gust 6, 2019. tered in Jammu, 19,338 in to ₹ 13,000 per family per commodation might be py 50th birthday!” tweeted on daily basis with the pu ing issued by the Bureau of said that “till date, appoint The Ministry told the pa Delhi and 1,995 families are month in 2018. The cash al eased, the report said. Ms. Khan. blic who are clueless as to Immigration,” it added. what is expected of them The Health Ministry said has created panic across the that after the 44 positive cas country,” the IMA said. It es declared on Monday, No spike in arrests on has also asked doctors to three positive cases were re Kasuri recalls plan for Sir Creek pact function as a source of cred ported from Bengaluru ible information in their lo (with travel history from the Bangladesh border cality and instil confi dence U.S. via Dubai); one more He says Pakistan had invited then PM Manmohan Singh to sign the agreement and trust. “It cannot be de from Bengaluru with travel In 2019, 1,351 held for bid to cross over nied that the highhanded, history from the U.S. via Special Correspondent world opting for protection Minister Manmohan Singh to topdown response in China Heathrow; and two positive Special Correspondent ter of State for Home Nitya CHENNAI New Delhi ism and reclaiming national sign an agreement on Sir is part of the reason for this cases from Pune (travel his nand Rai said in a written From the rise of nationalism identity. Mr. Ram Madhav Creek in 2006. “We wanted global panic. The nuanced tory from Dubai). There has been no unusual reply in the Lok Sabha: and India’s place in the said nationalism saw various to prove to the world that In increase in arrests of those “Some infi ltrators are able emerging world to the need phases in the history and it dia and Pakistan could trying to illegally enter In to enter in a clandestine to combat climate change, was defi ned in a narrower change things bilaterally...,” dia through the Bangladesh and surreptitious manner, several subjects were dis sense after the advent of Hit said Mr. Kasuri, suggesting 24 arrested for lynching border in 2019 from the mainly due to diffi cult rive cussed at the third edition of ler and Mussolini. that India and Pakistan were trend observed in the past rine terrain in parts of inter WION’s global summit held “As far as India is con close to solving the Kashmir six years, government data national border with Ban on March 5 in Dubai. cerned, we have looked at issue at one point. man in Meghalaya in Parliament show. gladesh which are not With “Navigating and ne nationalism with a benefi cial While senior journalist The number of those ap amenable to physical gotiating global imperatives” We wanted to prove vision — it is for the benefi t of and broadcaster Reham prehended by the Border fencing.” <> One of the picnickers, iden surrounded their vehicle as its theme, the summit to the world that an individual in the larger in Khan said genuine leader tifi ed as Macmillan Khar and assaulted them. Security Force (BSF) came brought together policy terest,” Mr. Madhav said. ship and party workers were India and Pakistan shandy, died and two others “A majority of those who down from 3,426 in 2015 to Fencing problems makers and global thought In a session on climate lost in Pakistan, former Pa could change things sustained serious head participated in the lynching 1,118 in 2018. As per the government rep leaders for dialogues that of consciousness, Greenland’s kistani Foreign Secretary Sal injuries. have been sent to judicial In 2019, there was a mar ly, the fencing along the fered insights on the way for bilaterally fi rst woman Prime Minister man Bashir suggested that “We picked up these peo custody, while six were sent ginal increase when 1,351 900km border along Ban ward. The 2020 Global Sum Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri Aleqa Hammond spoke on religious tourism such as Former Foreign Minister of Pakistan ple around 4 a.m. They said to police custody,” Ms. Lyng persons were caught trying gladesh could not be com mit served as a platform for how climate change had im opening up the Kartarpur they presumed the nine wa said. to enter India illegally. pleted due to various rea global leaders to have a dia pacted her country’s econo Corridor could ease tensions men to be kidnappers as R. Pale, headman of Syn Till February 22 this year, sons which include logue on a common global mesinghe; former Latvian my. Ms. Nakate, an Ugandan between India and Pakistan. they were moving back and tung village, said the elders as many as 183 such persons “diffi cult terrain, riverine agenda. President Vaira Vī ķ eFreiber climate activist, said farm The fourth session had forth from one village to had tried to control the mob were caught. and marshy land, short Several topics, including ga; Defence Minister of the ers, particularly women, in the spotlight on the global another at night. They had in vain. “Some of the village In 2014, there was a ma working season, land acqui balancing and recalibrating Maldives Mariya Didi; Bhara her country were the worst erosion of democratic norms apparently been fore elders went to the house of jor spike in number of ap sition problems, public Pakistan’s diplomatic strate tiya Janata Party national se hit by climate change. and the fallout of the U.S. warned about the move the victim in Shillong to pay prehensions when 2,455 protests and objections by gy and getting the youth to cretary Ram Madhav; cli China trade war. Mr. Wickre ment of suspicious people their respects and apologise persons were caught enter Border Guards Bangladesh participate in democracy, mate activist Vanessa Paralysis in Pakistan mesinghe highlighted the via social media,” District for the attack,” he said. ing India illegally, com (BGB)”. were discussed at the sum Nakate; and former Pakistan The third session attempted role of the media and social Superintendent of Police East Khasi Hills district pared with the previous The largest area of 579.65 mit organised by WION, In Foreign Minister Khurshid to underline the deeprooted media that opened up unde Claudia A. Lyngwa told The has been on the edge since year when only 209 people km remains unfenced along dia’s fi rst International News Mahmud Kasuri. issues paralysing Pakistan mocratic countries. “Across Hindu from Shillong. February 28 when a clash were caught. West Bengal as the State Channel. The Hindu was the The session on India’s and its diplomacy. It wit the world, the level of litera The victims said they got between tribal and nontri India shares a 4,096.7km shares the longest border WION Global Summit’s print place in the age of multilater nessed a debate on the coun cy and standard of living are late at the picnic spot and bal people left a member of border with Bangladesh with Bangladesh at 2,216.7 partner for India. alism and nationalism try’s economy and internal preconditions for indivi lost their way back at night, the Khasi Students’ Union and all of it is guarded by km compared with Assam, The dialogue partners in touched upon the rise of political stability. duals to be able to partici driving without a clue. dead. Two more were the BSF. Meghalaya, Mizoram and cluded former Sri Lankan rightleaning politics, and Mr. Kasuri said that Pakis pate in decisionmaking,” Some villagers stopped and stabbed to death later. On March 3, Union Minis Tripura. Prime Minister Ranil Wickre stressed India’s place in a tan had invited former Prime Ms. VikeFreiberga said. CM A BM-BME YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
THE HINDU MUMBAI WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 2020 NEWS 11 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Political vacuum in Congress after Scindia’s exit Youth losing out to
The turmoil in Madhya Pradesh may push other marginalised State leaders to speak out, say analysts veterans in Cong. Generational divide widens in party Sidharth Yadav Bhopal Sandeep Phukan The festering resentment of New Delhi ‘He betrayed being overlooked for the The revolt and subsequent people’s trust’ post of Chief Minister and la expulsion of Madhya Pra ter as State Congress chief, desh Congress leader Jyoti Special Correspondent coupled with the Lok Sabha raditya Scindia on Tuesday JAIPUR election upset, nudged Con can be a turning point in the Rajasthan Chief Minister gress leader Jyotiraditya tussle between the party’s Ashok Gehlot slammed Scindia, the secondmost younger lot of leaders and Jyotiraditya Scindia for popular leader in Madhya the veterans. quitting the Congress and Pradesh during the 2018 As The warning signals came accused him of betraying sembly election, to abandon from the party’s Haryana the trust of the people and the party. lawmaker Kuldeep Bishnoi the party ideology. He said With the elections to three in a tweet: “@JM_Scindia’s people like Mr. Scindia Rajya Sabha seats from the departure is a big blow to could not thrive without State imminent, Mr. Scindia, @INCIndia. He was a central power and the “sooner they anticipating another short Out in the open: Congress workers staging a protest against Scindia in Bhopal on Tuesday. At right, Gopal Bhargava and other BJP MLAs leaving Bhopal. * A. M. FARUQUI pillar in the party & the lea leave the better [it is]”. shrift from the party, pulled dership should’ve done DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD the plug on the Kamal Nath strode ahead in popularity gress now, could have been Centre for the Study of Deve cal decision. He seems more a fair manner, we might see more to convince him to government. by 1012% in 2018, Mr. Scin addressed timely,” he said. loping Societies. interested not in the Rajya something of this kind in oth stay. Like him, there are ma Shashi Tharoor’s plea for in While the decision has dia was close behind, ex “Most certainly the go Sabha seat but in destabilis er States as well,” he added. ny other devoted INC lead ternal elections has largely plunged the Kamal Nath go plained Yatindra Singh Siso Midterm election vernment is going out,” he ing the Kamal Nath Meanwhile, Bhagwandas ers across the country who been ignored. Though Ms. vernment into a crisis in the dia, Director, Madhya If the remaining Congress said, although he described government.” Israni, former principal se feel alienated, wasted & dis Gandhi was brought in more short term, it has created a Pradesh Institute of Social MLAs resign en masse, a Mr. Scindia’s decision to quit Mr. Kumar further cau cretary of the State Assemb contented. India’s oldest as a stopgap arrangement political vacuum for the Con Science Research. “There midterm election will be the Congress as “immature”. tioned that the episode ly, said the BJP was likely to party needs to on August 10 gress in Mr. Scindia’s bastion, fore, he should’ve been the come imminent. That even Mr. Kumar said, “There are might encourage disgruntled form the government given empower NEWS ANALYSIS last year, so the ChambalGwalior region. natural choice [of CM] for tuality may not go down well diff erence of opinions within Congress leaders in other its numbers, and support young leaders far the Con Although former Chief Mi the Congress. The situation, with most MLAs, says Sanjay any organisation. One States to speak out. “If the from the Central govern who have the capacity to gress has shown no hurry to nister Shivraj Singh Chouhan out of control of the Con Kumar, Director at the should not be taking whimsi high command doesn’t act in ment. work hard & resonate with settle the leadership ques the masses.” tion except repeated calls The episode is also indi for Rahul Gandhi to take cative of the drift within the charge. Mr. Gandhi, howev Congress and the leader er, continues to be indiff e A shell-shocked Congress announces Scindia’s expulsion ship’s inability to take quick rent to such calls. decisions. Before that, the rebel leader posted Mr. Venugopal said in a state promising star of the party, Apart from Madhya Pra Veterans in command ment. Mr. Scindia lost out to Mr. Ka desh, Rajasthan is another The continuance of Ms. his resignation letter on Twitter The breaking point came mal Nath when the Congress State where the veterans Gandhi, however, has after all eff orts to broker a chose the veteran for the managed to edge out Sachin meant that the party’s back SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT handdelivered at Ms. Gand compromise failed. Sources post of Chief Minister in De Pilot, the State Congress room managers and vete NEW DELHI hi’s 10 Janpath residence on close to Chief Minister Kamal cember 2018. Since then, it President who led the party rans are once again calling Moments after rebel Con Tuesday afternoon. Nath indicated that the party has never been an easy rela to victory in the December the shots. Whether Kamal gress leader Jyotiraditya was willing to off er Mr. Scin tionship. Though Mr. Scindia 2018 Assembly election. Mr. Nath in Madhya Pradesh or Scindia drove down to Prime Aim remains the same dia the post of president of was the strongest claimant to Pilot has a less than cordial Ashok Gehlot in Rajasthan Minister Narendra Modi’s re The former Lok Sabha mem the Madhya Pradesh Con the post of president of the relationship with party vete or Bhupinder Singh Hooda sidence on Tuesday morn ber for Guna made it clear gress Committee (MPCC) and MPCC, he was ignored be ran and Chief Minister Ash in Haryana, all are close to ing, party president Sonia that Tuesday’s develop a Rajya Sabha seat. But peace cause of the reported opposi ok Gehlot. strategist Ahmed Patel, who Gandhi summoned general ments were the culmination Rocking the boat: Jyotiraditya Scindia’s supporters say the eff orts failed as Mr. Scindia tion from Mr. Digvijaya Singh was the real power behind secretary K.C. Venugopal to of the events that played out party was indecisive about making him the MPCC chief. * PTI refused to speak to him say and Mr. Kamal Nath. Future tense Ms. Gandhi’s earlier stint as her residence and asked him over the past one year. “Hav ing he had fl u, said former From time to time, Mr. With the Congress’s clout Congress chief and 10 years to announce Mr. Scindia’s ing been a primary member pose remains the same as it ded. He also thanked Ms. Chief Minister Digvijaya Scindia took position that being substantially reduced of the United Progressive Al expulsion. of the Congress party for the has always been from the ve Gandhi and his other former Singh. was at odd with his party. and young leaders not get liance (UPA). By then, Mr. Scindia had last 18 years, it is now time ry beginning, to serve the pe Congress colleagues for pro Late on Monday evening, MLAs close to him said he ting too many opportunities The party’s old guard is posted his resignation letter for me to move on. I am ten ople of my state and my viding him “with a platform however, Mr. Scindia is was “pushed” to take such a within the party, several like more politically shrewd on his Twitter handle. In it, dering my resignation from country, I believe I am un to have served the nation”. learnt to have met Rajasthan decision because the central Milind Deora and Jitin Prasa than those who are hand he said it was time for him to the primary membership of able to do this anymore with “The Congress president Deputy Chief Minister Sachin leadership was indecisive da are restive about their picked by Mr. Gandhi, but a “move on and make a fresh the Congress and as you well in this party. To refl ect and has approved the expulsion Pilot in Delhi. Mr. Pilot was about making him the MPCC political future. Uncertainty section of the younger lot start”. know, this is a path that has realise the aspirations of my of Sh. Jyotiraditya Scindia reportedly the high com chief, and Mr. Kamal Nath regarding the party’s top seems to have thrown in the His letter was dated March been drawing itself out over people and my workers I be from the Indian National mand’s emissary. This meet and Mr. Digvijaya Singh position has only added to towel rather than fi ght to the 9 (Monday), though the Con the last year,” he wrote. lieve it is best that I now look Congress with immediate ef ing also failed to placate him. teamed up to marginalise their desperation. fi nish for control of the par gress insisted that it was “While my aim and pur ahead at a fresh start,” he ad fect for antiparty activities,” Once considered the most him. Lok Sabha member ty. LPG scheme closed, but only 3 ‘Amarinder Stop anti-Muslim violence: Iran’s Assembly of Experts making false States have gone kerosene-free claims on jobs’ Take quick steps to restore peace, says the body considered close to Khamenei Special Correspondent urged for quick measures to lah Ahmed Jannati, leader of The statement was part of a Parliamentary panel says there is still a lot of ground to cover SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT NEW DELHI restore peace. the Assembly of Experts. series of criticism by Iran’s CHANDIGARH An important legislative bo “Similar incidents have ta Traditionally the Assembly toprung leaders after the Sobhana K Nair While the verbal spat bet dy of Iran has called upon In ken place in India before, of Experts is considered to killings of February 2426. New Delhi ween the ruling Congress dia to stop violence against but the latest one took place be a powerful body of legisla Earlier, Foreign Minister A parliamentary committee and the Opposition Shiro Muslims. In a statement is in the backdrop of the visit of tors as it has among its func Javad Zarif, Supreme Leader has said only three States mani Akali Dal (SAD) in sued on Tuesday, the As the U.S. President. We call tions the task of electing the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and and fi ve Union Territories Punjab continued, former sembly of Experts, an 88 upon the Indian government Supreme Leader. the group of Shia organisa have become kerosenefree, Education Minister and se member body considered to take immediate measures The Assembly of Experts tions had criticised India for though the government last nior SAD leader Daljit close to Supreme Leader to ensure protection for the is considered to be a bastion the riots that left at least 53 September met the target of Singh Cheema has hit out Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Muslim citizens,” said Ayatol of the ultra orthodox clerics. persons dead. eight crore LPG connections at Chief Minister Amarin under the Pradhan Mantri der Singh, asking him to ex Ujjwala Yojana. plain why Punjab was lag The report of the Parlia ging behind in providing mentary Committee on Pe jobs to youth. troleum, which was tabled Left out: Large segments of people in various States “It seems that either the last week, points to the gap still use kerosene and wood for cooking. Chief Minister is not aware between the continuing use of the standard procedure of kerosene and the claim of been calculated by dividing At the same time, the adopted by the Economic 97% LPG coverage nation the number of households — committee said, large seg Survey throughout the wide. The committee is it stand at 2,850.5 lakh as on ments of people in various country or he is trying to headed by BJP member Ra February 1 this year — and States still depended on ke mislead the people again. mesh Bidhuri . the domestic LPG consum rosene for cooking and hou Will the Chief Minister de The allocation for the ers, at 2,772.2 lakh. sehold lighting. The Ministry ny the fact that 2.69 lakh scheme has been cut down The committee was upset has justifi ed the low number applicants have registered by 58% from ₹ 2,724 crore at the closure of the scheme, of ‘kerosenefree’ States and themselves with the unem during 201920 to ₹ 1,118 and said there was still a lot Union Territories, saying ployment bureau, of whom crore during 202021. The of ground to cover. “There their consent is critical. Kar 91% are categorised as Petroleum Ministry in are poor households in the nataka, Telangana, Haryana, skilled and 85% are [Class] formed the committee that general category in urban Nagaland, Bihar, Gujarat, X pass or above?” he said. the government had met the and semiurban localities Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Mr. Cheema said that in target on September 7, 2019, that also need to be covered. Goa, Andhra Pradesh, Chan his recent statement, the and 96.9% coverage had The committee, therefore, digarh and Puducherry have Chief Minister had accept been achieved nationwide, recommends that the gone for a voluntary cut. ed that only 57,905 youth except in Jammu and Kash scheme be extended to poor Only three States — Harya had been provided em mir. The Ministry said the households in urban and se na, Punjab and Andhra Pra ployment and his [the scheme was no longer run miurban slum areas, and desh — and the Union Terri Chief Minister’s] “claim ning, and the present alloca achieve a higher LPG cover tories of Delhi, Chandigarh, made in Delhi” during the tion was meant to meet the age of the population by pro Daman & Diu, Dadar & Na recent election campaign, arrears in the reimburse viding connections to house gar Haveli, Andaman & Nico on giving employment to 12 ment of expenditure. holds that do not have LPG,” bar Island and Puducherry lakh youth, was “false and The 97% coverage has the report said. have become kerosenefree. baseless”. U.P. yet to decide on moving SC over posters Press Trust of India had come up at major road cross said when asked about reports Lucknow ings in Lucknow last Thursday. that the State government would The Uttar Pradesh government on challenge the High Court’s order Tuesday said it was yet to decide ‘Highly unjust’ in the Supreme Court. on approaching the Supreme The High Court on Monday or Asked about any meeting Chief Court against the Allahabad High dered the Lucknow administra Minister Yogi Adityanath had with Court’s order to immediately re tion to remove them. senior offi cers, Mr. Awasthi said: move the posters of those accused It had termed the posters “No such meeting was held.” of vandalism during protests “highly unjust,” saying it was an A Bench of Chief Justice Govind against the Citizenship (Amend “absolute encroachment on the Mathur and Justice Ramesh Sinha ment) Act. personal liberty of individuals.” of the High Court also directed The posters, bearing the pho “Nothing has been decided on the District Magistrate and the tographs, names and addresses of this yet. We will decide what we Lucknow Police Commissioner to those accused of vandalism dur have to do,” Awanish Awasthi, Ad submit a report in this regard by ing the protests in December last, ditional Chief Secretary, Home, next Monday.
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MUMBAI THE HINDU 12 WORLD WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 2020 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Wuhan ‘turned the tide’ in virus battle: Xi Putin backs amendment that China reported just 19 new COVID19 cases as it shut last of 14 makeshift hospitals in the city will let him remain in power Reuters BEIJING 168 die in Constitutional changes will let him seek reelection in 2024 Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday made his fi rst vi Italy, highest Associated Press power. However, it wasn’t sit to Wuhan since the CO MOSCOW clear until Tuesday how Pu VID19 outbreak forced a singleday toll Russian President Vladimir tin could achieve that goal. lockdown of the city of 11 mil Putin on Tuesday backed a “I propose to either lift lion people, in a sign that Agence France-Presse proposed constitutional the presidential term limit authorities’ eff orts to control Rome amendment that would al or add a clause that after the the spread of the novel coro Italy recorded 168 deaths low him to seek reelection revised constitution enters navirus (SARSCoV2) are on Tuesday from CO after his current term ends force, the incumbent presi bearing fruit. VID19, its highest single in 2024, ending uncertainty dent, just like any other citi Mr. Xi’s arrived on the day toll to date, pushing about his future. zen, has the right to seek the same day that Wuhan shut the number of fatalities Putin gave his support to presidency,” she said to a the last of 14 temporary hos outside China to more than the amendment put forward raucous applause. pitals that had been opened 1,000. by lawmaker Valentina Te Vladimir Putin After Ms. Tereshkova to manage a surge in CO Overall in Italy, 631 peo reshkova, who as a Soviet spoke, Mr. Putin quickly VID19 patients, news web ple have died from the dis cosmonaut in 1963 became The President’s current six came to Parliament to ad site The Paper reported. ease and 10,149 have been the fi rst woman to fl y to year term expires in 2024. dress lawmakers. Earlier on Tuesday, China infected in just over two space. She proposed either Mr. Putin, 67, has been in “The President is a gua said it had just 19 new infec weeks. scrapping Russian’s two power for more than 20 rantor of security of our tions on Monday, down from Ground zero: Chinese President Xi Jinping waving at a COVID19 patient and medical staff via a Tuesday’s toll raised the term limit for presidents or years, becoming Russia’s state, its internal stability 40 a day earlier. That also video link at the Huoshenshan hospital in Wuhan on Tuesday.* AFP total number of deaths out resetting the clock so Putin’s longestserving leader since and evolutionary develop marked the third straight day side China to 1,115, accord four terms wouldn’t count. Soviet dictator Josef Stalin. ment,” Mr. Putin said. “We of no new domestically ised patient by videolink. ing an AFP tally. The Italian Lawmakers in the Krem After serving two presiden have had enough revolu transmitted cases in main Residents of Wuhan were ‘Containment zone’ in government has imposed a lincontrolled State Duma tial terms in 20002008, he tions.” land China outside of Hubei shown cheering Mr. Xi from nationwide ban on public quickly endorsed Ms. Te shifted to the Russian Prime Then he dropped the province, where Wuhan is their apartment windows, gathering and travel res reshkova’s proposal, along Minister’s offi ce while pro bombshell, saying he posi located, even as the disease while negative comments on New York to halt spread trictions until April 3. with a sweeping set of con tege Dmitry Medvedev tively viewed Ms. Tereshko spreads rapidly in other China’s heavily censored so DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD stitutional changes pro served as a placeholder Pre va’s alternate proposal to countries, including Italy cial media were quickly Associated Press nected to some of the cases, posed by Mr. Putin. sident. restart the term count when and the United States. removed. ALBANY Mr. Cuomo said. In a speech to lawmakers Mr. Putin reclaimed the the revamped constitution “Why only come now New York’s Governor An “It is a dramatic action, It’s beginning on Tuesday, Mr. Putin spoke presidency in 2012 and won enters force. ‘Positive results’ when the epidemic is almost drew Cuomo announced on but it is the largest cluster of against scrapping presiden another term in 2018. Mr. Putin’s statement “The situation of coronavi over?” one comment on the Tuesday he is sending the cases in the country,” Cuo of epidemic for tial term limits altogether A series of constitutional came as lawmakers were rus prevention in Hubei and offi cial People’s Daily’s Wei National Guard into a “con mo said. “The numbers are but backed the idea that if amendments Mr. Putin pro considering the amend Wuhan has shown positive bo feed said before tainment area” in New York going up unabated, and we France: Macron the Constitution is revised, posed in January were wide ments in a crucial second changes and achieved disappearing. City suburb to help fi ght do need a special public the twoterm limit only ly seen by Kremlin foes as reading when changes in the phased results, initially rea what is believed to be the health strategy.” Agence France-Presse would apply from 2024 on. part of his eff orts to stay in document are made. lising goals to stabilise and Stocks lifted nation’s biggest cluster of The virus has infected ov Paris turn around the situation,” News of Mr. Xi’s Wuhan visit coronavirus cases — one of er 700 people in the U.S. French President Emma the offi cial Xinhua news ser gave a lift to Chinese stocks, the most dramatic actions and killed at least 27, with nuel Macron warned on vice cited Mr. Xi as saying. with the bluechip index yet to control the outbreak one state after another re Tuesday that France was ‘Russia meddling in MH17 probe’ He acknowledged that pe ending the day 2.1% higher in the U.S. cording its fi rst infections in “just at the beginning” of ople under lengthy quaran after falling into negative ter The move came as health quick succession. New Jer the COVID19 outbreak that tine — Wuhan and much of ritory in morning trade. authorities contended with sey recorded its fi rst CO has killed 30 people in the Reuters Ukrainian, helped arrange investigation have said that Hubei province have been “It is obvious that Mr. Xi alarming concentrations of VID19 death. country and infected more AMSTERDAM the Russian missile system they fear for their lives if under strict controls since could not have visited Wu the disease on both sides of In California, the evacua than 1,600. Dutch prosecutors accused used to shoot down MH17, a their identities would come late January — may have frus han earlier because the risk the country and scattered tion of passengers from “We’re just at the begin Russia on Tuesday of trying civilian aircraft, killing all to light... The use of Russian trations to vent. of him contracting the virus cases in between. Grand Princess began on ning of this epidemic,” he to sabotage the investigation 298 passengers, most of security services to discover “We must understand and there was initially too high,” Schools, houses of wor Monday with several saidin Paris, urging the into the downing of Malay them Dutch, on board. the identity of witnesses in tolerate them,” he was quot Zhang Ming, a professor at ship and large gathering hundred people let off the French not to panic. sian Airlines Flight 17 in Uk “The sum of all the facts the investigation is a very ed as saying. Renmin University in Beij places will be shuttered for ship. About two dozen peo France is the second raine in 2014, saying this cast casts a dark shadow over real scenario,” he said During his visit, a masked ing, told Reuters. two weeks in a “contain ple who needed acute medi worst aff ected country in “a dark shadow” over the this investigation because MH17 was fl ying from Am Mr. Xi was shown meeting “He is there now to reap ment area” in New Rochelle, cal care were taken off fi rst, Europe after Italy. Culture impending trial of four sus there is strong indicative evi sterdam to Kuala Lumpur on with local offi cials, medical the harvest. His being there and the troops will scrub though it was unclear how Minister Franck Riester pects in the crash. dence that Russian govern July 17, 2014, when it was staff and volunteers, state means the CCP (Chinese surfaces and deliver food to many of them were infect and fi ve MPs are among Pretrial hearings began ment is keen to thwart the shot down by a missile fi red broadcaster CCTV reported. Communist Party) may de the zone, which extends a ed. About 2,000 passengers those who have tested pos in Amsterdam on Monday. investigation,” prosecutor from territory held by pro He addressed frontline medi clare victory against the vi mile in all directions from a were still aboard on Tues itive for the novel coronavi Prosecutors say the defen Thijs Berger said. Moscow rebels. Russia has cal workers and a hospital rus soon,” Mr. Zhang said. point near a synagogue con day morning. rus. dants, three Russians and a “Several witnesses in this denied any involvement. ELSEWHERE Michigan primary decisive After keeping a low profi le, MBS is back for Sanders’ campaign The detention of senior royals and the decision to cut oil price show Crown Prince is back in action Associated Press legate victory on Super DETROIT Tuesday. He played up his David D. Kirkpatrick back. His sudden, steep cut es — Prince Ahmed bin Ab ly about him. He wanted to Bernie Sanders proved his underdog story on Monday First he ordered the deten to the price of oil has rocked dulaziz, the younger brother teach the rest of the family a Pope tells priests to go 2016 presidential bid was se as he campaigned across Mi tion of at least four senior a global economy already at of the Crown Prince’s ageing lesson. Crown Prince Mo out and meet the sick rious with an upset victory chigan, refl ecting on his members of his own royal fa risk of falling into recession, father, King Salman, and hammed slashed the oil VATICAN CITY in Michigan powered by his stutter as a child and the mily. The next day he threatened to burn through Prince Mohammed bin price to punish Russia, Pope Francis urged Catholic opposition to free trade and deaths of his fi rst wife and plunged Saudi Arabia into a Saudi Arabia’s cash reserves Nayef, the former Crown which he faulted for failing to priests on Tuesday to “have appeal among workingclass young daughter. price war with Russia that and undermined his gran Prince and Interior Minister cooperate in cutting produc the courage” to visit those voters. Four years later, the And Mr. Biden wasn’t sent energy and stock mar diose promises of new in — had once been seen as pos tion and propping up prices. sickened by the COVID19 State could either revive the alone. The former VicePre kets around the world into vestments to lessen the king sible rivals for power. Their The slowdown caused by the and help medical staff and Vermont Senator’s cam sident courted the State’s in free fall. dom’s dependence on oil. arrests stirred anxious spec coronavirus was already re volunteers in the work they paign or relegate him to the fl uential African American For a while, Crown Prince ulation among cowed mem ducing demand for oil. do, hours after Italy was role of protest candidate. voters alongside the two Mohammed bin Salman of Mutual destruction bers of the royal family that The timing of the price placed on a lockdown. AFP Michigan and fi ve other most prominent black can Saudi Arabia had appeared “It is mutually assured des Crown Prince Mohammed war so soon after the roun States already began voting didates previously in the to be living down his reputa truction for any oil exporting Mohammed bin Salman might be sidelining oppo dup of his royal relatives on Alcohol poisoning kills early Tuesday morning in 2020 race, Kamala Harris tion for dangerous economy, certainly includ nents in preparation for tak Friday has aroused specula 44 in virus-hit Iran what will be a critical point and Cory Booker, who en aggression. ing Saudi Arabia and Russia initials. “He is a risk taker, ing the throne from his fath tion that the crown prince TEHRAN The death toll from alcohol in the Democratic race. dorsed Mr. Biden in recent Perhaps chastened by the and probably the United and he is prone to impulsive er, who is 84 and has sought to contain potential poisoning in southwestern Former VicePresident days as part of a broader blowback over his connec States as well,” said Greg decisions.” sometimes appeared forget opponents in anticipation of province of Khuzestan rose to Joe Biden is looking to quash consolidation of support tion with the killing of dissi Brew, a scholar of the region The detention of the se ful or disoriented. trouble. Perhaps he wanted 44 on Tuesday, state news Mr. Sanders’ hopes and ce among party leaders. dent journalist Jamal Khash and a fellow at Southern nior royals, which began to People close to the royal to preempt any foes before agency IRNA reported, over ment his own frontrunner They all appeared hand oggi, the 34yearold Crown Methodist University. leak out on Friday, has not court, though, insisted the economic pain from the misguided efforts to ward off status just a week after re inhand at Mr. Biden’s fi nal Prince had kept a low profi le “But this is typical MBS, been acknowledged or ex Crown Prince had merely downturn made him politi COVID19 by drinking bootleg surrecting his beleaguered Michigan rally on Monday for more than a year. right?” he added, referring plained by the Saudi offi cials. lashed out at his uncle and cally vulnerable, some ana alcohol. AFP White House bid with a de night. Now his power plays are to the Crown Prince by his Two of the detained princ cousins for speaking critical lysts suggested. NY TIMES
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THE HINDU CROSSWORD 12880 (set by Hypatia) SUDOKU FAITH Log on to crossword.thehindu.com for more puzzles 13 Lizard in sacred text (5) 5 Ditch girl, say (6) 14 Person who doesn’t tidy up is 6 People stop exchanging tips Srirangam’s signifi cance Spooner's “grumpy bear” (9) between iOS and Android (7) Mantras have the power to protect us and the power to con 15 Places outside had everything 7 Badger artist tucking into eats, fer good on us, said Velukkudi Krishnan, in a discours e. except any dishes (10) taking seconds (6) There are many mantras, which we can learn from an 17 Time in place that’s not 8 Queen wearing stuff that is red Acharya and recite every day. But what of those who do not? subject to change (4) on top and more showy (8) They too benefi t when they visit temples. Temples are de signed to give us the good we derive from the recita tion of 19 Represent people around area 9 Type of fabric in beatnik attire mantras. Take the Srirangam temple, for instance. In Sriran (4) (4) gam, just before the sanctum is a mandapa, which is called 21 Ram morphed animated tool 10 Going north, recollect the Gayatri mandapa. There is a reason for the name. This (4,6) capturing good soldier (6) mandapa has twentyfour pillars, and the Gayatri mantra 25 Study about trapping rodents? 16 Old fashioned diet, has twentyfour aksharas (syllables). The vimana above the Forget It! (5,4) incorporating workout and Gayatri mandapa in Srirangam, is called Pranavakara vima fast (8) na. So, the signifi cance of this mandapa can be seen easily 27 Initially kept in trust, equity dealer wrote bad cheques (5) 18 How to make bats sell down with the Gayatri mandapa and the pranava on top of the the river? (8) mandapa. The kalasas on the pranavakara vimana represent 28 Hat trimmed from behind with the vyaahrtis. Why should a mandapa be so designed? It is lace at the edges to make 19 Stable or crazy German? (6) for the benefi t of those who do not recite the Gayatr i man dignifi ed (7) 20 Promote a varnam, inititally tra. They can still get some good when they stand in the 29 Small child needs friend — depicted in Bharatanatyam, Gayatri mandapa, to have darshan of Lord Ranganatha. Absolutely! (7) say (7) Solution to puzzle 12878 Solution to Monday’s Sudoku Ramanujacharya ensured that many people had a perma ■ ACROSS 30 Student checked out fancy 22 Model model draping model nent association with the Srirangam temple. He appoi nted model with a colourful many people to carry out the various tasks in the temple. 1 Dull stone in front of diamond blazer and one with stripes (5) pattern (7) Thus, there was a person to wash the deity’s garments. (5) 31 Home Alone: Do baddies keep There was a person who stitched the curtains in the chariot. 23 Report I studied before 4 Girl gets left in city near Dubai coming back? (5) There were boatmen attached to the temple, to row ac ross once more (5) longhaul fl ight (6) ■ DOWN the Cauvery, when required. Thus, Ramanuja ensured a 11 Removing Selenium, engineer 24 He tries to corrupt engineer temple connection to many people. Bathing in sacred rivers separated electrical accessory 2 Stubborn worker follows lady, refusing initially to cover is also one way to get rid of sins. Thus, for each person there (7) scratching head (7) crack (6) is some way to acquire merits in life. If for some i t is man 12 Mark it! Chennai showcases 3 Ebook criticizes guts, perhaps 26 One starts baking with old tras, for others it is service in a temple, or a visit to a temple, area for food (7) (8) butter? (4) or a bath in a river. None needs to feel left out.
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