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NEARBY Delhi Chief Secy. Anshu Ganga waterway project cleared after overruling expert panel Prakash transferred NEW DELHI Delhi Chief Secretary Anshu Environment Ministry and inland the river between Varanasi vancy works. ion Ministry of Environment Prakash, who was allegedly waterways body differed on clearances in Uttar Pradesh and Haldia The ₹5,369 crore project and Forests and the Inland assaulted at Chief Minister in West Bengal. The project is partly funded by the Waterways Authority of In Arvind Kejriwal’s residence in Jacob Koshy try. The latter had recom entails construction of 3 World Bank. However, to en dia (IWAI), which is attached February this year, was NEW DELHI mended public consulta multimodal terminals (Vara able container barges and to the Union Shipping Minis transferred to the India’s longest waterway tions and a fullfledged nasi, Sahibganj and Haldia); ships to carry at least 2,000 try, have been at odds over Department of project, one terminal of environment clearance, doc 2 intermodal terminals; 5 whether this dredging re Telecommunications on which was inaugurated by uments made availablehttps://www.Estore33.comRoll On–Roll Off (RoRo) ter SUNDAY SPECIAL quired environmental clea Saturday, an official order Prime Minister Narendra through the Right to Infor minal pairs; a new naviga rance (EC). This process in stated. The 1986batch IAS Modi earlier this week, was mation (RTI) Act show. tion lock at Farakka; assured tonnes, the project requires volves a consultation with officer of the AGMUT cadre made possible only after a As part of the the Modi go depth dredging; an integrat the river bed to be dredged locals likely to be affected by was at loggerheads with the highpower Committee of vernment’s ambitious plan ed vessel repair and mainte to enable a minimum draft the project and residing at Kejriwal government. An Ministers and senior officials to make stretches of the nance facility; a Differential of three metres along the riv locations along the river, order of the Department of from multiple Ministries 2,500kmlong Ganga suita Global Positioning System er, as well as to make the riv where major constructions Personnel and Training said overruled the recommenda ble for transporting contain (DGPS); a River Information er channel at least 45 metres would be executed. Mr. Prakash has been posted as Additional Secretary in the tions of experts appointed ers, it decided to make na System (RIS); and ‘river wide. Not so placid: The recommendation for environmental CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 10 * Department of by the Environment Minis vigable a 1,390km stretch of training’ and river conser Since early 2016, the Un clearance and public consultation was rejected. R.V. MOORTHY Telecommunications. CITY Ī PAGE 2 DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD ‘Fear of probe led to curbs on CBI’ Poll panel orders transfer of No sovereignty on corruption, Jaitley says of A.P., West Bengal move on consent senior Chhattisgarh official Special Correspondent case. In the case of West Ben in the CBI as a lame excuse NEW DELHI gal, the alleged involvement and a ruse to brazenly save Offered journalist money to record video of Cong. leaders Union Finance Minister of Trinamool Congress lead the corrupt and extend polit Arun Jaitley on Saturday said ers in the Narada and Shara ical patronage to people and Special Correspondent leged that public money was “there is no sovereignty of da scam “cannot be wiped organisations involved in NEW DELHI being used to target the Con any State in the matter of out by merely saying we will acts of corruption and crimi The Election Commission on gress. corruption.” keep away the CBI,” Mr. Jait nality,” the Rajya Sabha MP Saturday ordered the remo Special Secretary P. Anba He was responding to the ley said. said. val of Secretary and Com lagan, a 2004batch IAS of decision by the Andhra Pra In New Delhi, the BJP The Congress government missioner of Public Rela ficer, will replace Mr. Toppo, desh and West Bengal go again lashed out at the And in Punjab, however, said it tions of the Chhattisgarh who has been transferred to vernments to withdraw ‘gen hra Pradesh and West Bengal had no intention of with government Rajesh Toppo the State Secretariat as Spe eral consent’ to the Central governments. “It is a clear drawing consent to the CBI. after he was caught on tape cial Secretary. Bureau of Investigation (CBI) malafide exercise of power “Any decision in this re asking a journalist to film Rajesh Toppo The Congress also lodged to conduct searches and oth step of not letting the CBI by corrupt parties to protect gard will be taken by the cen Congress members abusing a complaint with the Elec er operations in their States. come to the State.” their interests and a grand al tral leadership,” tweeted Ra the party’s State president the video was earlier broad tion Commission and sub Mr. Jaitley, who was in He alleged that in the case liance of these most corrupt veen Thukral, media adviser Bhupesh Baghel. He is also cast by a local news channel. mitted a copy of the video Bhopal to release the BJP of Andhra Pradesh, the parties is coming up,” BJP to Chief Minister Captain heard allegedly offering to and transcripts, seeking Mr. manifesto for the Madhya move to withdraw general spokesperson G.V.L. Nara Amarinder. pay for the operation. Misuse of public funds Toppo’s removal. Pradesh Assembly election, consent was motivated by simha Rao said. On Thursday, Mr. Baghel Seeking the immediate sus The second phase of elec added that “only those that the fear of what is likely to “The State government ‘WITHDRAWAL OF CONSENT WILL shared the alleged conversa pension of the 2005batch tion in the State is scheduled have a lot to hide take the happen than any particular has cited recent happenings HIT FUTURE CBI ACTION’ Ī PAGE 10 tion on his Twitter handle — IAS officer, Mr. Baghel al on November 20. ‘Centre must reveal loan defaulters list’ Expelled from INLD, Ajay Chautala to float new party CIC slams PMO for refusing to comply with his Nov. 2 direction ‘Gifts’ party to younger brother, promises to offer Haryana voters a viable alternative Priscilla Jebaraj sioner slammed the PMO with the direction. VIKAS VASUDEVA rently Leader of the Opposi native to the existing major NEW DELHI for refusing to comply with “The CPIO of the RBI did CHANDIGARH tion in Haryana Assembly, players in Haryana politics — The government must di his November 2 direction to not provide information ob The Indian National Lok Dal Mr. Ajay said at rally in Jind, the Congress, BJP and INLD vulge the list of wilful de explain what action has viously because of instruc split on Saturday with Ajay “Today I am gifting INLD to Bahujan Samaj Party al faulters of large loans, Cen been taken on former RBI tions of the higher authori Chautala, expelled from the Abhay, my younger brother. liance. “The INLD has be tral Information Governor Raghuram Ra ties, which might include party led by his father and We will take forward the prin come a puppet in the hands Commissioner (CIC) Srid jan’s 2015 letter alerting the apex policymakers,” Mr former Haryana CM Om Pra ciples of Chaudhary Devi Lal of a few people,” Mr. Ajay al har Acharyulu said on Fri PMO to highprofile cases of Acharyulu said. kash Chautala, announcing [their grandfather and form leged. Mr. Abhay held a party day, dismissing the Prime wilful default. But the CIC allowed the that he would float his own er Deputy PM] and announce workers’ meeting in Chandi Minister’s Office’s latest res The PMO had claimed RBI’s request for more time outfit. the name of new party on De garh, where he hit out at his SECTION 2 Ī 12 PAGES ponse disclaiming responsi that as the original petition to respond. Amid widening rift with cember 9.” brother, saying those who Ajay Chautala (right) with his MAGAZINEĪ 8 PAGES bility. was not addressed to it, it his younger brother Abhay The new party, Mr. Ajay staked claim over the party younger brother Abhay CLASSIFIEDS Ī PAGE 4 & 6 In his order, the Commis was not liable to comply INTERVIEW ON Ī PAGE 10 Singh Chautala, who is cur said, would provide an alter have themselves left. Singh Chautala.

Special Correspondent JAIPUR The Congress on Saturday ﬁelded Manvendra Singh, son of former BJP leader Jaswant Singh, against Ra jasthan Chief Minister Va sundhara Raje from her home turf of Jhalrapatan, which she has represented thrice since 2003 in the Assembly.

‘Our mistake’ Mr. Singh, 54, who was elected from Sheo in Barmer district in 2013 as a BJP candidate, quit the party in September this year, following diﬀerences with Ms. Raje over denial of ticket to his father in the 2014 Lok Sabha election. He had stated that Carnatic singer T.M. Krishna performing at the Delhi government’s Awam ki Awaz concert series at the Garden of Five Senses in choosing the lotus was south Delhi on Saturday. The concert was held three days after the Airports Authority of India pulled out of a festival featuring “our mistake”. the singer. * SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR (REPORTS ON PAGE 9) DETAILS ON Ī PAGE 11 Kejriwal stopped from visiting Haryana dispensary Special Correspondent The Haryana government said the media adviser to expressed interest in visiting asked: “...How can anyone NEW DELHI/CHANDIGARH was quick to deny any role, Chief Minister Manohar Lal a Haryana government dis by stopped like this? What is Delhi Chief Minister Arvind claiming he was blocked by Khattar. pensary. Receiving no res Mr Khattar afraid of?” Kejriwal claimed on Saturday local villagers opposed to his Mr. Kejriwal, the Aam Aad ponse from Mr. Khattar, the Assandh SDM Anurag Dha that he had been prevented visit. “The protest against Mr. mi Party national convenor, Delhi Chief Minister was on lia told The Hindu that resi from visiting a dispensary in Kejriwal was staged by local had on November 2 written his way to a dispensary in Ha dents of Balpabana village Haryana by the BJP govern villagers, who are against Mr. to the Haryana Chief Minister ryana’s Assandh, in Karnal and surrounding areas im ment in that State, which he Kejriwal and his party. inviting him to visit a mohalla district, when he alleged he posed a blockade and re said was scared of losing the Where does the State govern clinic set up by the AAP go was stopped. fused to lift it despite the ad 2019 Assembly elections. ment come in the picture?” vernment in Delhi, while he In a tweet, Mr. Kejriwal ministration’s request. CM YK https://t.me/Estore33_com Downloaded From:- www.Estore33.com www.Estore33.com https://t.me/TheHindu_Zone_Official EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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Criminal with ₹25,000 Sisodia calls for ‘clarity’ in governance to achieve goal bounty arrested Staff Reporter NEW DELHI Until and unless we New Delhi <> A 23yearold man identified make our as Vikas who had a bounty of The Capital cannot become governance system ₹25,000 was arrested by the a smart city till ‘fighting’ smarter, no among multiple agencies Crime Branch on Friday. The technology can help police said that the accused stops, Deputy Chief Minister along with his associates had Manish Sisodia said at an us... We have a Delhi robbed an SUV and abducted event here on Saturday. that belongs to the its owner before throwing Organised by the PHD DDA, a Delhi that the victim in Kapashera. The Chamber of Commerce and belongs to L-G police said that Vikas is Industry at the NDMC Con sahab, one Delhi passionate about firearms vention Centre here, Mr. Si that is of the Delhi and has tried and tested sodia called for ‘clarity’ in Manish Sisodia Police, one Delhi many in the last few years. STAFF REPORTER the Capital’s governance. that belongs to the Delhi Industries Minister Sa dination among these agen NDMC. You need to tyendar Jain was also pre cies for the welfare of Delhi Correction bring clarity for sent at the event. ites and they are fighting There was an error in the becoming a smart There was, Mr. Sisodia ar among themselves. In such briefly column story titled gued, “total confusion” in circumstances, converting city “Pet dog bites woman, YMCA Delhi owing to the multiplic the present landscape of Manish Sisodia official jailed” published on Deputy Chief Minister page 1 of Delhi Metro on ity of agencies. “Until and Delhi into a smarter city One of the 3,000 illegal nurseries over the floodplains of Yamuna in New Delhi. The National Green Tribunal had noted that November 16. It was reported unless we make our gover would not be possible,” he be transparency. activities relating to cement pots and nurseries were going on without permission from the Delhi Department Authority which that the YMCA official was nance system smarter, no said. Meanwhile, the Delhi go is causing pollution as broken pots are being converted into debris and deposited on the riverbed itself. * V.V. KRISHNAN ‘jailed’ which is factually technology can help us,” he vernment has started a incorrect. He was formally said. Smart governance scheme wherein resident arrested and then released on Mr. Sisodia said smart gover welfare associations will be bail as the sections levelled Chaos prevails nance is the core solution to given ₹1.8 lakh per acre for Senior citizen Chief Secy. Anshu AAP hails against him are bailable. The “We have a Delhi that be develop a smart city in the upkeep of parks, Mr. Jain error is regretted. longs to the DDA, a Delhi which a single authority is said at the event. found dead convictions that belongs to LG sahab, put in place to take deci He said forms for the Prakash transferred one Delhi that is of the Delhi sions without any political same can be downloaded at residence in antiSikh Police, one Delhi that be ill will to provide a better life from the website of the Envi longs to the NDMC. You to citizens. ronment Department, and Staff Reporter He was at loggerheads with Kejriwal govt. riots case need to bring clarity for be Mr. Jain concurred with after filling them, the RWAs NEW DELHI coming a smart city,” he said Mr. Sisodia and accused the can contact local MLAs. A 73yearold woman was Press Trust of India Staff Reporter further. The Deputy Chief Delhi Development Authori “The funds will be given found killed at her resi New Delhi NEW DELHI Minister said multiple agen ty and the Municipal Corpo to the resident welfare asso dence in SouthEast Del Delhi Chief Secretary Anshu The Aam Aadmi Party on cies taking decisions for the ration of Delhi of being cor ciations (RWA), irrespective hi’s Sarita Vihar area on Sa Prakash, who was allegedly Saturday welcomed the people of Delhi resulted in rupt adding that the current of the parks belonging to any turday evening. The police assaulted at Chief Minister Delhi court’s decision on “chaos”. system had become quite civic agency,” Mr. Jain said. have registered a case and Arvind Kejriwal’s residence Wednesday to convict two “There is hardly any coor opaque and there needed to (With PTI inputs) begun probe. in February this year, was persons for the murder of Deputy Commissioner transferred to the Depart two Sikhs during the 1984 of Police (SouthEast) ment of Telecommunica antiSikh riots. Chinmoy Biswal said the tions on Saturday, an official AAP convener and Delhi Court discharges Kejriwal in defamation case victim has been identified order stated. Chief Minister Arvind Kejri as Savitri Pandey who used Mr. Prakash, a 1986batch wal said in a tweet: “Aap to reside with her husband IAS officer of the Arunachal welcomes Delhi Court’s Complainant shall have the liberty to file a fresh complaint, says court on the ground floor while PradeshGoaMizoram and convictions, tho big fish are her son, daughterinlaw Union Territory (AGMUT) Anshu Prakash still to be punished [sic].” Nirnimesh Kumar that it is barred under the rickshawpuller, cobbler, through a power of attorney. and grandson used to re cadre, was at loggerheads The party’s statement, New Delhi law. But at the same time, it grocery seller, barber, farm Discharging the Chief Mi side at the back of the with the Kejriwal <> Anshu Prakash has released by spokesperson A Delhi court on Saturday said that the complainant er, labourer have black mo nister, Additional Chief Me house in a separate accom government. been posted as Raghav Chadha, welcomed discharged Chief Minister has the liberty to file a fresh ney,” the complainant quot tropolitan Magistrate Samar modation. According to an order of Additional the conviction of Naresh Arvind Kejriwal on a techni complaint in accordance ed Mr. Kejriwal as saying at Vishal said, “The complaint “A PCR call was received Department of Personnel Secretary in the Sehrawat and Yashpal cal ground in a criminal de with law. the press conference. of defamation filed through at 6.35 p.m. regarding slit and Training (DoPT), Mr. Singh, who were found Department of famation case filed by Rajya The Chief Minister had Counsel for Mr. Kejriwal, the power of attorney is ting of throat of an elderly Prakash has been posted as guilty of killing two and in Sabha member and former made the remark at a press B.S. Joon, opposed framing barred by Section 199 CrPC. lady. When the police Additional Secretary in the Telecommunications juring three relatives of one nonexecutive chairman of conference, the complainant of charges against the CM Hence, proceeding further reached the spot, she was Department of Personnel of the deceased during the Department of and Training order Zee TV Subhash Chandra for had said. submitting that only an ag with this case will be a futile found lying on the sofa Telecommunications. riots in south Delhi’s Mahi allegedly mentioning his “From the Prime Minister grieved person can file a exercise as this case is also with her throat slit,” Mr. al Secretary in the Depart palpur. “However, sadly name while talking about of India, from Amit Shah and case of defamation. Mr. Joon filed through power of attor Biswal said. The woman Contenders for post ment of Agriculture Cooper the masterminds behind black money hoarders in the from Bharatiya Janata Party, further argued that only the ney. Accordingly accused Ar was rushed to hospital He had alleged assault by ation and Farmers Welfare, the large scale riots are still country. I intend to ask three ques complainant (Mr. Chandra) vind Kejriwal is discharged where she was declared some AAP MLAs in the pre was also transferred. at large. We thank the Mr. Chandra had filed the tions. That, in their eyes, was competent to file the from this case. However, the dead. sence of Mr. Kejriwal and his He was posted as Addi courts for upholding justice complaint through his pow who has black money? Am complaint personally. complainant shall have the The police said the deputy Manish Sisodia at tional Secretary in the In and convicting the rioters er of attorney Gulshan Ku bani, Adani, Sharad Pawar, Further, Mr. Chandra had liberty to file a fresh com crime scene was inspected the Chief Minister’s resi land Waterways Authority but until the big fish are mar Sachdeva in 2016. The Subhash Chandra or Badal — not taken permission of the plaint in accordance with and the house was not dence in February this year. of India, the DoPT order caught, justice will be in court dismissed it, saying they have black money? Or court to file the complaint law.” found ransacked. Jalaj Srivastava, Addition said. complete,” the AAP said. Signature Bridge case: AAP MLA Delhi govt. forms panel Escorts MujesarBallabgarh Amanatullah Khan gets bail to revise auto fares corridor gets CMRS approval Committee to submit report in 30 days Press Trust of India tion and not tamper with New Delhi PM to flag off section on Nov. 19 for passenger operations evidence or influence Press Trust of India Dikshit government in 2013. A Delhi court on Saturday witnesses. New Delhi There are around one Staff Reporter “The CMRS has accorded corts Mujesar. Passenger op NEW DELHI granted anticipatory bail to Three case were regis In an attempt to woo autor lakh registered autorick the mandatory approval for erations on the corridor will AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan tered at New Usmanpur pol ickshaw drivers ahead of the shaws operating in Delhi. Delhi Metro’s 3.2 kmlong the commencement of pas begin on the same day (No in a case lodged against him ice station under NorthEast 2019 Lok Sabha elections, The auto drivers had ex stretch between Escorts Mu senger operations on the 3.2 vember 19) from 5 p.m., in connection with the ruck district in connection with the ruling Aam Aadmi Party tended support to the Aam jesar and Raja Nahar Singh kmlong Escorts MujesarRa DMRC further added. us at the inaugural function the incidents during the in has formed a committee to Aadmi Party and cam (Ballabgarh) corridor has ja Nahar Singh [Ballabgarh] With the opening of this of Signature Bridge. auguration of Signature revise auto fares. paigned for it in 2014 Lok been approved by the Com section. This extension will section, the Violet Line will Special Judge Arun Bha Bridge following complaints The 11member fare revi Sabha polls and Assembly missioner of Metro Rail Safe be formally flagged off via re now cover approximately 46 radwaj granted relief to Mr. from Delhi BJP president Ma sion committee chaired by elections in Delhi in 2015. ty (CMRS), said a Delhi Me mote by Prime Minister Na km, having 34 stations. Khan, saying that it was not a Amanatullah Khan noj Tiwari. Special Commissioner At present, some auto un tro Rail Corporation (DMRC) rendra Modi on November This section is a part of case where custodial interro Advocate Irshad, appear (Transport) Anil Banka will ions accuse the Kejriwalled spokesperson. 19” said Anuj Dayal, DMRC Delhi Metro’s Phase III pro gation was required. or ₹1 lakh and one surety of ing for Mr. Khan, had moved submit its report to the go Delhi government of not do Prime Minister Narendra spokesperson. ject. Officials said that the It is directed that in the like amount to the arresting the application for anticipa vernment in 30 days, a se ing anything to save them Modi is expected to flag off The corridor is an exten DMRC remaining sections of event of arrest, the applicant officer, the court said. tory bail saying the MLA nior Delhi government offic from onslaught of cab aggre the section via remote on sion of the Metro’s existing the Phase III is expected to (Khan) shall be released on It, however, directed Mr. feared that he will be arrest er said. The auto fares were gators and meet their other November 19, the DMRC Violet Line, that runs bet start passenger operations furnishing a personal bond Khan to join the investiga ed by the police. last revised by the Sheila demands. said. ween Kashmere Gate and Es “by the end of this year”. ‘90% citizens aware of air pollution but lack awareness of causes and impact’ Study shows the AQI level on Diwali highlights gaps in perception; desperate need for nationallevel campaign aimed at addressing belief systems, change in behaviour

Bindu Shajan Perappadan Delhi had the highest level of ople’s initiatives to control tion. However, looking at the needed to be launched by NEW DELHI awareness. Delhi was closely pollution — which only violations that happened on the government, polluting A public perception study followed by Chennai, Benga looked at walking whenever Diwali night in most parts of companies should be fined designed to find out the level luru, Pune and Kolkata. possible (59.7%), tree planta north India, I feel that people as per the law, the govern of awareness — cause, effect, Although awareness was tion (40.2%) and reduced do not fully believe in stated ment should bring in stricter precaution and solution — of higher in tier1 metro cities, energy consumption at causes of air pollution and its and newer laws to control air pollution showed that with DelhiNCR leading the home (36.2%). proportionate impact. They and mitigate pollution, and 90% of the people inter way, understanding of tech also do not see air pollution also put pressure on power viewed across highly pollut nical terms such as AQI, Diwali night as a significant contributor to stations and industries to ed cities have heard of air PM2.5 and PM10 ranked at On Diwali (November 7), air their existing or future switch to cleaner processes. pollution but lack awareness 54%, 29.6% and 17.8% respec quality in DelhiNCR plum health conditions. There is a Yogesh Ranganath of Azim about the causes and effects. tively. meted to ‘hazardous’ as desperate need for a nation Premji Philanthropic Initia The study also revealed PM2.5 levels hit 999 in many allevel campaign aimed at tives said, “This [survey] 5,000 interviewed that the age group of 1825 part of the city, after resi addressing belief systems highlights a big problem in The study was conducted in years “always” seeks infor dents flouted the Supreme and change in behaviour.” the way information is dis highly polluted areas like — mation on air quality. Court’s 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. dea seminated currently, which DelhiNCR, Kolkata, Patna, The study was commis dline for bursting crackers. Govt. intervention is entirely based on AQI by Lucknow, Varanasi, Amrit sioned by the Clean Air Col An urban emissions study While the Environment Mi the CPCB [the Central Pollu sar, Singrauli, Dhanbad, Rai lective, an unbranded net revealed that close to 5 mil nistry is yet to notify the re tion Control Board] and very pur, Korba, Chandrapur, An work of more than 80 civil lion kg of firecrackers were vised National Clean Air Ac less emphasis on disseminat gul, Nagpur, and cities society organisations, citizen burnt in Delhi. tion Plan for India’s choking ing the underlying consti becoming rapidly polluted groups and experts working Ashutosh Dikshit, the CEO cities, towns and villages, tuents in an easy to access like Bengaluru, Pune, Mum on the issue of air pollution “This comprehensive sur that they need to do nothing will politicians wake up and of United Residents Joint Ac there is a high demand for and use manner. Measures to bai and Chennai. At least across the country. It was vey reveals that while aware at the individual level. This take action,” said Debi Goen tion, an apex body of Delhi’s immediate government in be employed for each type of 5,000 people were inter conducted by CMSR Consul ness of the adverse effects of perception needs to be ad ka of Conservation Action RWAs, said, “This exhaustive tervention. pollutant are different and af viewed as part of the study, tants, a multidisciplinary re air pollution is very high, dressed. It is only when peo Trust. survey reaffirms the fact that More than 80% agreed fect various vulnerable which found that residents of search group. most people seem to think ple make this a priority issue He was speaking about pe people are aware of air pollu that a mass media campaign groups differently.” CM M ND-NDE YK https://t.me/Estore33_com Downloaded From:- www.Estore33.com www.Estore33.com https://t.me/TheHindu_Zone_Official EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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Hemani Bhandari New Delhi live in the opposite building, came over and intervened. It is a murder attempt on my NGT Bench says no need A 3yearold girl was found His father Karimuddin took for any further order. dead, and her mother and 1 him to his house, while his yearold brother injured at mother Rehisan stayed back their residence in Malviya with Mohsina and the chil daughter, says woman’s father Plea against Nagar on Saturday morning. dren,” he said. The girl’s mother has been Karimuddin, a dairy farm The ASI refutes claims made by the 30-year-old’s in-laws biodiversity identified as 30yearold owner and milk supplier, re Mohsina, the daughter of as turned at 10 a.m. to take his Hemani Bhandari they called and asked her to park sistant subinspector Ishaq wife back home from Mohsi New Delhi return because they were Mohd who is posted in the na’s house. Assistant subinspector Ishaq missing the children. They al dismissed Saket Court police post, the “It was after my aunt left Mohd, posted in Saket Court so said they wanted to get a police said. the house that Mohsina police post, suspects that his fixed deposit done in her Staff Reporter Mohsina’s inlaws alleged Mohsina was found injured at their fourthfloor residence in stabbed the children and daughter Mohsina and her daughter’s name, which they New Delhi that she stabbed the children Hauz Rani around 11 a.m. on Saturday. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT herself,” Zubair claimed. children were attacked by did not. We then brought her Following a report submit before harming herself. Shamim’s family claimed her husband and inlaws. back,” the father said. ted by the Gautam Buddh However, the police said lying injured at their fourth formed the family and the that Mohsina was mentally Mohsina and her son were Assistant subinspector Shamim’s family had Nagar Division Forest Offic they are yet to determine if floor residence in Hauz Rani trio were rushed to a hospital unfit, but her father rejected found injured while her 3 Ishaq Mohd. asked Mr. Mohd to buy a flat er, the National Green Tri she tried to kill herself after around 11 a.m., the police in Saket, the police said. the allegation. yearold girl dead at their re * HEMANI BHANDARI in his name if he cared about bunal (NGT) has dismissed attacking the children or so said. Sana succumbed to inju sidence in Malviya Nagar on mim was unemployed, alco his daughter, the father al a plea moved against the meone else attacked them. Their neighbour Sapna, ries while Mohsina and her Case registered Saturday morning. holic and also took drugs. leged. “I had given a car in development of a biodiver Mohsina, her daughter Sa who spotted the trio, said son are battling for life in a Additional Deputy Commis A resident of Mewat, Mr. “Mohsina had asked him dowry. I told them I cannot sity park in Noida. na and son Anas were found Mohsina had sent for her. private hospital. sioner of Police (South) Vi Mohd said, “Mohsina loved to quit the bad habit and start do anything any more,” he A Bench headed by NGT Mohsina’s inlaws said she jayanta Arya said the police her children. No matter working instead. But her in said. Recalling his last con chairperson Justice Adarsh ‘Stab injuries’ married Shamim four years have registered a case under what, she cannot stab them. laws did not encourage him versation with his daughter, Kumar Goel said: “We do <> The possibility of “I was inside my house when ago but relations between Sections 302 (punishment Her inlaws never liked her for the same. The duo often Mr. Mohd said he spoke to not find it necessary to someone else my nephew told me that the couple were strained for for murder) and 307 (at and I think her husband, fought over these issues. She her about four days ago. “She pass any order further.” attacking the trio Mohsina had sent for me. As the last few months as they tempt to murder). motherinlaw and brother was also beaten up by his fa sounded normal and said she The plea, moved by has not yet been I reached the house, I saw fought over Shamim’s drink “The possibility of some inlaw have done this,” ad mily,” Mr. Mohd said. was fine,” he said. NGO Social Action for For ruled out. The Mohsina had a stab injury on ing, drug abuse and one else attacking the trio ding: “Why would she call About three months ago, Mohsina’s brother Tarif est and Environment, had matter will her throat, while Anas was unemployment. has not yet been ruled out. the neighbour for help if her Mr. Mohd said he had re said, he had met his sister resisted against the deve become clear after bleeding profusely on the Shamim’s cousin Zubair The matter will become clear intention was to die.” ceived a call from Shamim’s four days ago. “Our youn lopment of a biodiversity Mohsina is in a bed. Mohsina gestured, ask claimed Shamim had come after Mohsina is in a condi Mohsina’s family said she brother Salim saying that ger’s sister will get married park in Noida Sector 91, ing me to come inside. There home drunk around 12.30 tion to talk. Forensic and cir got married to Shamim four Mohsina was crying and the soon and so I had gone to condition to talk. stating that “illegal felling was no one else outside or in a.m. on Saturday, following cumstantial evidence will al years ago but they have been family should visit her. give Mohsina money to buy Vijayanta Arya of trees was going to take Additional Deputy Commissioner of side the house,” Sapna said. which the couple had a fight. so play a role in ascertaining living separately for a year “We then took her to Me clothes for the wedding,” he place”. Police (South) She immediately in “Shamim’s parents, who the truth,” Ms. Arya said. now. They added that Sha wat. Around 20 days ago, said. “It was alleged that con struction of the biodiversi ty park had commenced without obtaining requisite Hospital to pay ₹10 lakh compensation to patient’s kin approvals. It was also al leged that illegal felling of trees and groundwater ex No informed consent before the medical procedure was conducted, observes consumer panel traction was being done for the project.” Staff Reporter conducted on the patient, of the 83yearold patient, embolism…these risks were contended that “appropriate The report by DFO read: New Delhi the consumer panel ob the risks involved in never explained,” read the treatment was provided to “No tree has been felled af Holding Sir Ganga Ram Hos served: “Perusal of the con angioplasty. complaint. “Complainants the patient, preoperational ter the felling date notified pital guilty of medical negli sent form shows that the “Submission of the com said that his death was ac and postoperational.” by the Divisional Sales Of gence, the State Consumer complication which took plainants is that the said cumulation of ill advised an Raising questions over the ficer…As per the project Disputes Redressal forum place in the present case was [consent] form made no dis gioplasty and its aftermath,” implementation of the pro designed by the Noida has directed the hospital to never explained…[doctor] tinction between a surgical the Bench observed. cedure on a 83yearold pa Authority, about 8,000 compensate a patient’s fami failed to disclose to the pa operation and a noninvasive However, the doctor and tient with “compromised re trees and 1,00,000 shrubs ly by paying a sum amount tient and his attendants intervention procedure like the hospital contended that nal function”, the consumer of different variety of spe ing to over ₹10 lakh. adequate information.” angioplasty. Contention of “appropriate consent” was panel directed the doctor cies are to be planted in the Stating that there was no The complainant stated the complainants is that dur taken from the family mem and the hospital to jointly said area, which is called as “informed consent” before that the hospital failed to ing angioplasty the patient bers before undertaking the compensate the patient’s fa the biodiversity park.” the medical procedure was communicate to the family suffered strokes because of procedure. It was further mily.

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THE HINDU NOIDA/DELHI SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2018 CITY 5 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE 16 students injured in Four minors apprehended for desecrating idols in Ghaziabad Police officers and PAC teams deployed to maintain law and order in the area; FIR lodged in the case school bus accident Staff Reporter ing idols on Friday evening in day, they said. A woman spot ice station, demanding the based on one Vinod’s com Ghaziabad Ghaziabad’s Kavi Nagar, the ted them following which the minors’ arrest. Police officers plaint, an FIR has been Four boys aged between 8 police said on Saturday. locals started beating the mi and PAC teams have been de lodged. CCTV footage from Driver critical; school blames lack of steetlights for mishap and 12 have been apprehend The boys were playing nors. Tension prevailed in the ployed in the area to main the area are being obtained ed and sent to an observation when they broke a glass panel village after over 300 villag tain law and order. Ghazia for further investigation, the Staff Reporter <> The accident The police said that 30 home for allegedly desecrat and damaged an idol on Fri ers gathered around the pol bad SP Shlok Kumar said police said. Noida happened at 7.30 children, the driver and Sixteen students, a school a.m. when the conductor were travelling bus driver and a conductor, private school bus on the bus at the time of the were injured on Saturday hit a pile of accident. Over 1 lakh saplings when the vehicle rammed a construction pillar at Rajnigandha Chowk material lying on ‘Children discharged’ underpass on Saturday the roadside at “We received information planted in Noida morning. Rajnigandha that a school bus met with The police said the bus an accident. Immediately, a Press Trust of India the government, said Noida underpass. The driver, Ganga Saran, is said team was sent to the spot. Noida Authority officials. to be critical. driver then lost The victims were safely res As the National Capital Re Saturday’s drive saw par The accident happened control and hit the cued and taken to the hospi gion continues to grapple ticipation by RWAs, school at 7.30 a.m. when the priv pillar tal,” said Station House Of with air pollution, Noida children, college students ate school bus hit a pile of eyeWitness ficer at Sector 20 police witnessed a major afforesta and youths besides the gen construction material lying station, Manoj Pant. The tion drive with over 1.70 eral public. on the roadside at Rajni of them were working at bus, belonging to Apeejay lakh saplings being planted Officebearers of local or gandha underpass, said an that time, the school al School, has been seized, the on Saturday. ganisations such as the eyewitness. The driver then leged. officer added. On August 15, 1.04 lakh trade unions and industry lost control and hit the pil The injured were rushed “The children were dis saplings were planted as bodies also participated, lar. Halogen lamps were in to Kailash Hospital in Sector charged after first aid,” Mr. part of a green drive Noida Authority general stalled at the spot but none 27. Pant added. launched across the State by manager Rajeev Tyagi, said. Stepfather rapes 8yearold; on the run

Staff Reporter plaint, she said. Following Ghaziabad this, the woman approached An eightyearold girl was al a local councillor, who then legedly raped by her step went to Vijay Nagar police father in Ghaziabad’s Vijay station to lodge an FIR. The Nagar on Friday night, the councillor alleged that a sub police said on Saturday. The inspector, posted at the pol accused, a daily wager, is ice station, thrashed him and said to be absconding. pointed his revolver towards On Saturday, the victim him. A complaint in this re was unwell and on being gard was also lodged. asked, she narrated the inci Vijay Nagar police station dent to her mother, they incharge Rameshwar Kumar said. said an FIR has been lodged The mother in her com against the accused stepfath plaint stated that on Friday er under appropriate sec night, when all the family tions of IPC and POSCO Act. members were sleeping, the Teams are conducting raids accused forcefully took the to nab the accused, he said. girl to another room and The victim is in the house raped her. She added that keeping department at a the accused also thrashed private hospital, an oﬃcer and threatened her with dire said. Commenting on the consequences if she told councillor’s complaint, Mr. anyone about the incident. Kumar said action will be ta The police had initially re ken if the subinspector is fused to lodge the com found guilty.

THE HINDU NOIDA/DELHI SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2018 NORTH & EAST 7 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Yogi, Cabinet colleagues participate in bike rally CPI(M) protests attack on party MLA Holds rally in Agartala, alleges hand of BJP workers It was organised across the State by the BJP with an eye on the 2019 general election Syed Sajjad Ali dents and said it had ap recent violent incidents in Press trust of india in the “Kamal Sandesh bike Prime Minister Narendra will not be able to reach a bike rally. Agartala proached the State the State. In a statement, the Lucknow rally” organised by the BJP Modi,” Mr. Maurya said in a consensus on Prime Ministe U.P. BJP general secretary A day after two alleged at government just a week party alleged that BJP work With an eye on the 2019 Lok across the State. Deputy tweet. rial candidate,” he said. Pankaj Singh, who took part tacks on veteran CPI(M) back to ensure security of its ers attacked its supporters Sabha elections, Uttar Pra Chief Minister Keshav Prasad In Lucknow, party work in the rally from Gorakhpur, leader and MLA Narayan leaders and workers. and leaders, including Mr. desh Chief Minister Yogi Adi Maurya was seen riding a Union Minister in rally ers gathered at Jhulelal Vati said, “The BJP government is Choudhury, the party on Sa The CPI(M) staged a noisy Choudhury, in Bishalgarh tyanath on Saturday flagged motorcycle in Allahabad. Union Minister Manoj Sinha ka for the bike rally. working on its agenda of de turday condemned the inci protest rally in Agartala over subdivision. off a bike rally from Prime “Took part in the Kamal participated in the rally from Ministers Brijesh Pathak, velopment and the benefits Minister Narendra Modi’s Sandesh bike rally. The only Ghazipur. Rita Bahuguna Joshi and Ash of welfare schemes are Lok Sabha constituency message being disseminated “Despite efforts made by utosh Tandon along with reaching to the actual benef Varanasi. by this rally is to ensure a ‘siddhaantviheen rajnaitik Lucknow mayor Sanyukta iciaries. I am sure that the Mr. Adityanath and his Ca comprehensive win for the dal’ (political parties de Bhatia and several other BJP BJP will win the 2019 parlia binet colleagues participated BJP under leadership of prived of principles), they MLAs participated in the mentary elections.” The Third Wife wins best film award at KIFF

The producer of ﬁlm The Third Wife, Tran Thi Bich Ngoc, receiving the best ﬁlm award at the 24th Kolkata Film

Festival on Saturday. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT

Shiv Sahay Singh Speaking at the conclud Kolkata ing event of the festival, di The Third Wife, a film from rector Shoojit Sircar said Vietnam featuring the story that the cash award given at of a 14yearold girl’s ar the KIFF is one of highest gi ranged marriage to a mar ven at any film festival. ried man from an affluent The award for best direc family, won the best film tor in the international com award at the 24th Kolkata In petition category went to ternational Film Festival. Abu Bakr Shawky for the The producer of the 96 Egyptian film Yomeddine minute film, Tran Thi Bich (Judgement Day). Ngoc, received the award The NETPAC (Asian Se presented by KIFF jury lect) award went to The members on Saturday at the Sweet Requiem by directors concluding ceremony of the Ritu Sarin and Tenzing So sevenday film festival. nam. The film is a drama set “The film is based on a within the Tibetan refugee reallife story witnessed by community in India. one of the family members In the competition for In of the crew. At the centre of dian language films, Widow the story is a 14yearold of Silence, a story from con who encounters strangers flictridden Kashmir direct after she is married into a ed by Praveen Morchchale wealthy family,” the produc walked away with the top er told The Hindu. honours.

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IN BRIEF Writer Varavara Rao BJP leader held on way to Sabarimala taken into custody Surendran booked for violating orders; workers converged at the station, terming her arrest Held for ‘PM assassination plot’ Hindu Aikya Vedi leader granted bail “unauthorised”. After her arrest, Ms. Sasi Staff Reporter Naidu warns MLA of Special Correspondent not accept his explanation kala went on an indefinite Hyderabad disciplinary action Thiruvananthapuram and arrested him on the hunger strike at the police Revolutionary writer Varav VIJAYAWADA Taking strong objection to The police on Saturday took spot. station. She called off her ara Rao, who was under the rude behaviour of Kerala BJP leader K. Suren fast after the police agreed to house arrest for 79 days at Denduluru MLA dran into preventive custody Sasikala blames govt. take her to the Thiruvalla his Ashoknagar residence, Chintamaneni Prabhakar (in after he attempted to enter Hindu Aikya Vedi leader K.P. subdivisional magistrate was taken into custody by picture), A.P. Chief Minister Sabarimala through the Sasikala, who was arrested court in the afternoon. She the Pune police on Saturday N. Chandrababu Naidu on checkpost at Nilackal, the late on Friday night, was was produced in the court by night in a case relating to an Saturday warned him of base camp 26 km away from granted bail by the Thiruval 3 p.m. and granted bail. alleged conspiracy to assas disciplinary action if he did the shrine. la subdivisional magistrate sinate Prime Minister Na not mend his ways. He A police team, led by Su on Saturday. Flash hartal rendra Modi and the Bhima expressed displeasure at the perintendent of Police Yatish Emerging from the court, The general strike called by Koregaon violence that Varavara Rao alleged attack of a former Chanda, hustled him away in Ms. Sasikala blamed the go the Hindu Aikya Vedi at 4 erupted in Maharashtra last sarpanch by the MLA in West a patrol van to the district vernment for her arrest. She a.m. on Saturday in protest year. Assistant Commissioner of Godavari district, during a police headquarters at Path said she would be undertak against Ms. Sasikala’s arrest Four other activists — Police rank, assisted by their meeting with party leaders. anamthitta at 7.20 p.m. ing the pilgrimage later. caught the general public un Gautam Navlakha, Sudha Telangana counterparts, An officer said the police Earlier, tension prevailed awares. Isolated incidents of Bhardwaj, Arun Ferreira walked into Mr. Rao’s flat HC judges inspect judicial complex work in A.P. would book him for violating at Ranni as a large number of violence marked the dawn and Vernon Gonsalves — around 8 p.m. After 45 mi VIJAYAWADA prohibitory orders at Nilack BJPRSS workers laid siege to todusk hartal, which was had also been arrested from nutes, they took him to A team of judges from the al and attempting to upset the police station there de backed by the BJP. various States in the same Gandhi hospital for a medi Hyderabad High Court, led by the peace. manding her release. The impromptu decision case. cal checkup. Chief Justice T.B. His arrest came after a 20 The drama began when caused hundreds of commu Speaking to The Hindu Radhakrishnan, on Saturday minute standoff with the pol the police picked her up ters to be stranded across TS police assist over phone, ACP Shivaji P. inspected the construction ice. Officers prevented Mr. when she and Vishva Hindu End of trek: Pilgrims ascending the 18 holy steps at the the State and threw normal Policemen arrived at Mr. Pawar of Swargate Division work of the judicial complex Surendran and six of his as Parishad organising secre Sabarimala Ayyappan temple on Saturday. * H. VIBHU life out of gear. Rao’s flat after the High in Pune said, “We will shift at Nelapadu in A.P. Justice sociates from proceeding to tary R.V. Babu and two other The stoppage of public Court dismissed his plea to him to Pune by road or Radhakrishnan said the High Pampa and from there to the women devotees from Patha of protests by Hindu organi the Ranni police station early transport services, mainly quash the case on Friday. A flight. He will be produced Court of A.P. would be set up temple. namthitta reached Marak sations opposing the Su on Saturday for production buses, also caught pilgrims special team of the Pune in a Pune sessions court on as and when the Supreme Mr. Surendran argued that koottom on the Sabarimala preme Court order permit before a magistrate. headed for Sabarimala by police, led by an officer of Sunday.” Court issues a notification. he was there as an ordinary trekking path late on Friday. ting entry of women of all The move, however, surprise. pilgrim and not as a protes The police said her arrest ages to Sabarimala. snowballed into a crisis as Autorickshaws and taxis Meet on December 6 to ter. However, the police did came against the backdrop Ms. Sasikala was taken to Sabarimala Karma Samithi remained off the road. discuss Mahadayi row BENGALURU Nurse from Medak Anall party meeting chaired by Karnataka Chief Minister No basic BJP plans to H.D. Kumaraswamy on Police impose strict curbs killed in the U.S. Saturday decided to hold a amenities, expand stir to meeting with Karnataka’s Special Correspondent The temple receives the measures to prevent Sabari former Chief Ministers and Thiruvananthapuram offering only between 3 a.m. mala from becoming a prot other States Special Correspondent Hema Saralena. Water Resources Ministers on says Cong. The Kerala police will not al and 12.30 p.m. The police est zone. HYDERABAD Yedla, who leaves behind December 6 to discuss the low anyone to camp in the will not allow any person to The measures are also A 65yearold male nurse, his wife and two children, way forward in the Mahadayi Special Correspondent vicinity of the sanctum at linger in the vicinity of the aimed at avoiding long Staff Reporter who hails from Medak town, had left for the U.S. in 1990. river water dispute. Thiruvananthapuram the Sannidhanam in Sabari sanctum after 12.30 p.m. on queues, gridlock and stam Kozhikode was shot dead in New Jersey Before taking up his present Kerala Pradesh Congress mala after 11 p.m., official the pretext of waiting to pedes during peak days. The Bharatiya Janata Party in the U.S. on November 15. job, he worked as physical IFFI: no Kannada film in Committee president Mul sources said. make the ghee offering the The police have told the is planning to expand the A minor boy fired at Sunil director at the Government Indian Panorama section lappally Ramachandran By 1.30 a.m. on Saturday, next day. TDB to allocate rooms at the ongoing agitation in Kerala Yedla as he was stepping out Zilla Parishad High School at BENGALURU has said that the govern law enforcement personnel Police have asked the Tra Sannidhanam only to those seeking conservation of of his home to go to work in Machavaram. For the first time in recent ment had proved to be a to had cleared the highsecuri vancore Devaswom Board who reserve them online. customs at the Sabarimala years, no Kannada film will Atlanta. The boy then es “Yedla was my childhood figure in the Indian Panorama tal failure in arranging bas ty zone of all visitors. (TDB) to open additional Not more than three per temple to other States. caped in a car. friend,” said Gollamudi Su Section of the 49th ic amenities for Sabarimala Top officers said the prac counters for the sale of ap sons will be allowed to occu “People from other According to sources, Ye nil, who lives in the same International Film Festival of pilgrims. tice would continue until the pam and aravana payasam, py a room. No one will be al States too visit the temple. dla was to leave for Medak area here. “His mother lives India (IFFI) to be held in Goa Three former Ministers pilgrimage season ends in traditional offerings to the lowed to hold a room for Talks are on with the BJP on November 25 and stay here. His brother, Charles from November 20 to 28. of the Congress, Thiruvan midJanuary. deity, at Pampa, 5 km down more than 24 hours. leaders from other places. there for about a month to Wesley, also stays nearby. Paddayi, a film in Tulu choor Radhakrishnan, Pilgrims who wanted to hill from the Sannidhanam. The police will grant The Centre’s intervention celebrate his mother Kama Two other brothers are stay language, is the lone Adoor Prakash and V.S. Si make the traditional offering The decisions, reportedly some relaxation to the aged, too may be sought,” BJP lamma’s birthday on De ing in Hyderabad.” representative of Karnataka in vakumar, would visit Saba of ghee to the deity had to reached in consultation with physically challenged, ailing State president P.S. Sreedh cember 17. His 95yearold The bereaved family has the Panorama section. The rimala on Sunday to assess report to the police at Ni the TDB on Saturday, are pilgrims and their helpers, aran Pillai told the media. mother resides in the dis requested the government film is directed by Abhay the situation there, he said. lackal before midnight. part of a slew of security and journalists. trict headquarters and is be to help bring back the body Simha. ing looked after by his sister, to Medak.

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IN BRIEF Jumbo care! India gets its ﬁrst dedicated elephant hospital The result of a U.P. Forest Department and Wildlife SOS collaboration, the modern facility will treat treat injured, sick and geriatric elephants

special correspondent thermal imaging, ultraso care, a pathology laboratory, ing an observation area for elephants in distress. We NEW DELHI nography, hydrotherapy, digital weighing scale, Ele the overnight monitoring of hope this hospital will put Brig. Chandpuri, hero of Longewala battle, dead India’s elephants now have tranquillisation equipment phant Restraining Device elephants under treatment India on the map as a scho CHANDIGARH their first dedicated hospital and quarantine. Located (ERD) with a dedicated in using close circuit infrared larly destination for humane Brigadier Kuldip Singh near the Taj Mahal, com near Agra, the facility is in door treatment enclosure CCTV cameras. Training management of elephants, Chandpuri, considered the plete with wireless digital X the Farah block of Mathura, for longer medical proce courses would be organized which will go a long way to hero of the ‘Battle of Ray, laser treatment and near the Elephant Conserva dures,” said Wildlife SOS by Wildlife SOS to spread address the protection and Longewala’ and who was dental Xray facilities. The tion and Care Center (ECCC) founder Kartick Satyana knowledge on elephant conservation of elephants in later awarded the Maha Vir ‘jumbo’ hospital is the result run by Wildlife SOS. rayan. “An observation deck medical care, humane ele India,” she added. Chakra, died in Mohali on of a collaboration between will allow veterinary stu phant management and ve In 2010, Wildlife SOS esta Saturday, his family said. He the Uttar Pradesh Forest De Medical hoist dents and interns to observe terinary procedures. blished the ECCC, which was 78. He held off a partment and conservation “The Wildlife SOS Elephant and learn elephant treat “This is a huge milestone currently provides lifetime Pakistani attack while leading NGO Wildlife SOS. Hospital is designed to treat ment routines from a safe for elephant protection in care for over 20 rehabilitat a small group of soldiers The veterinary hospital injured, sick or geriatric ele distance.” India,” said Geeta Seshama ed pachyderms, rescued through the night during the has modern medical facili phants and is equipped with The hospital is jumbo ni, cofounder of Wildlife from illegal captivity and cir 1971 war. The 1997 film Novel initiative: The hospital has facilities for thermal imaging, ties for the treatment of ele a medical hoist for lifting ele sized: with a builtup area of SOS. “This hospital will help cuses, where they were sub Border, in which Sunny Deol ultrasonography, hydrotherapy and quarantine. phants in distress, including phants requiring critical almost 12,000 sq ft, includ us take better care of injured jected to cruelty. played the role of Brigadier Chandpuri, was based on the Longewala battle. The cremation will take place on Monday with full military honours. Odisha Assembly lets off Abhijit T.M. Krishna enthrals Police attach properties of former Bihar Minister Drops charges of apology begged by Mr. Iyer Debi Prasad Mishra, BJD le PATNA Mitra for the statement gislator and a member of the The police on Saturday breach of privilege made by him before the me committee, briefly spoke attached the properties of Delhi with his songs against analyst dia against the members of about the recommenda former Bihar Social Welfare the House and drop the tions, after which the As Minister Manju Verma, who is Special Correspondent matter”. sembly passed a motion ac Kejriwal thanks absconding for over a month BHUBANESWAR cepting the apology. in an Arms Act case. It is The Odisha Assembly ac ‘Educate about Odisha’ The defence analyst is in audience, says linked to the Muzaffarpur cepted the apology of de The committee also “recom judicial custody following shelter home case in which 34 India belongs to all fence analyst Abhijit IyerMi mended to the House to di his arrest in two cases filed minor girls were allegedly Staff Reporter sexually exploited. “On tra and dropped the charges rect the State government to against him — at the Sahid NEW DELHI Friday, the local court issued a of breach of privilege against Abhijit Iyer-Mitra provide materials to Mr. Iyer Nagar police station in Bhu property attachment notice him here on Saturday. Mitra to educate him about baneswar and the Konark Politics and art shared the against Manju Verma and it The Assembly dropped which probed into the the art, culture, history and police station in Puri district stage at the national capital was pasted at her residence… the charges against Mr. Iyer matter. people of Odisha”. — for his alleged derogatory on Saturday as Carnatic sin The police began the process Mitra passing a motion by In its report, the commit After the report was ta and objectionable com ger T.M. Krishna performed of attaching the property voice vote accepting the re tee recommended that “the bled, Leader of Opposition ments on art and culture of to a large gathering at a con today (Saturday),” Begusarai commendation of the As House may be magnanimous Narasingha Mishra, who Odisha, Lord Jagannath and cert organised by the Delhi SP Avkash Kumar said. sembly House Committee, to consider and accept the headed the committee, and the Odia community. government, three days af ter the Airports Authority of India pulled out of a festival organised with the Spic Ma Gujarat announces cay Foundation. Choksi says ready to come Speaking before the pro gramme, Delhi Chief Minis relief for farmers ter Arvind Kejriwal told the to India after three months crowd: “Enjoy the music, Special Correspondent In 12 talukas with rainfall but your coming here today Aditya Agarwal up Indian citizenship, be AHMEDABAD between 300 and 350 mm, is a big statement that this Mumbai cause Antiguan citizenship The Gujarat government on the ad hoc assistance country belongs to all — Hin Mehul Choksi, the fugitive does not allow dual citizen Saturday announced a spe amount is ₹5,800 per hec dus, Muslims, Christians, diamantaire accused in the ship. So he cannot apply for cial relief package of ₹1,300 tare and in 19 talukas with Sikhs, Jains, and Buddhists. multicrore Punjab National a visa because the form re crore for approximately 20 rainfall between 350 and It belongs to Tamilians, Ma Bank fraud, on Saturday in quires him to provide a debit lakh farmers in 45 talukas 400 mm, the amount will be layalis, Gujaratis, Marathis, formed a special Prevention or credit card number, and that received less than 400 ₹5,300 per hectare. Haryanvi and Punjabis.” BJP slams AAP govt. of Money Laundering Act all his cards have been mm rain in the current year. Earlier, the government Mr Krishna said, “ ...in court that he is ready to frozen.” These talukas have been de had declared 54 talukas keeping with the spirit, I’m Staff Reporter alism, is being hosted by the come back to India after He further said, “The FEO clared scarcityhit. scarcityhit and a special going to try to bring in multi New Delhi Kejriwal government, three months if his medical Act says that he can be de Deputy Chief Minister Ni package of ₹5,100 crore was ple voices, languages, tradi The BJP on Saturday at which is least bothered condition improves; if not Mehul Choksi clared a FEO, if he leaves the tin Patel said the govern announced for farmers and tions and religions in the tacked the AAP government about the development of he is willing to depose via vi country after the proceed ment was committed to cattle breeders. “So far, we concert.” on its decision to host Car Delhi.” deo conferencing and if that Advocate Vijay Agrawal, ings have been initiated and helping the farmers in 16 have announced two pack Mr. Sisodia later tweeted: natic vocalist T.M. Krishna. By hosting Mr. Krishna, is not possible the Enforce appearing for Mr. Choksi, he refused to return to face districts where rainfall has ages with ₹6,400 crore spe “Awesome performance by Leader of Opposition in he alleged, the AAP was as ment Directorate (ED) can said: “He has an Antiguan trial in the country. In this been less than normal. cial assistance,” Mr. Patel @tmkrishna ..Thanks Delhi! the Delhi Legislative As sociating itself with “anti send an officer to Antigua. passport, which was given case neither of this is true. At In 14 talukas with rainfall said. For being here. It’s not only sembly Vijender Gupta national forces” by sponsor The court was hearing a pe after clearance from the the time he left, there was no between 250 mm and 300 The State has also formed about music... Your pre said, “Mr. Krishna, whose ing such programmes, in tition by the ED to declare Mumbai police that he does FEO Act and he had no ap mm, each farmer will get a Ministerial committee to sence here is a political image is directly or indirect addition to continuing its Mr. Choksi a fugitive eco not have any cases pending prehension of all this ₹6,300 ad hoc assistance review the situation in the statement to save the diversi ly questionable due to his focus on “political interests nomic offender. against me. He had to give happening.” per hectare. rain deficient districts. ty of the country.” association with urban Nax in other States.”

Over one lakh cyclone-hit in relief camps, says T.N. CM

Special Correspondent SALEM Cyclone Gaja has claimed the lives of 33 per sons, including 20 men, 11 women and two children, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edap padi K. Palaniswami has said. Speaking to reporters at Vanavasi in Sa lem district after an oﬃcial function, he said about 1.77 lakh persons were housed in 351 camps, where they were being given food and medical treatment. Over 1.27 lakh trees had been uprooted till now. The number could go up, said Mr. Palaniswami, adding that according to the latest information, over 30,000 electric poles and 105 substations had been dam aged.

230 medical camps The government accorded priority to check the spread of communicable diseases in the aﬀected districts. A total of 230 permanent medical camps had been set up in these dis tricts to screen people . Another 435 mobile camps were covering the villages. A total of 1.30 lakh men, women and children had been screened so far. About 2,000 cattle heads perished in the cyclone. The Forest Department reported death of 30 deer, he said.

26 water supply schemes hit As many as 26 comprehensive drinking wa ter schemes had been affected, but 10 were fully restored. Restoration work on 11 other drinking water schemes was progressing at a fast pace. Till the restoration of the drinking water schemes, generators would be provided for regular supply of potable water. Over 10,000 staff had been deputed for restoration work in the cycloneravaged coastal districts. On his direction, a fivemember Ministe rial team comprising D. Jayakumar (Fisher ies); Dindigul C. Sreenivasan (Forest), P. Thangamani (Electricity), S.P. Velumani (Local Administration) and R.B. Udayaku mar (Revenue) rushed to the coastal dis tricts on Saturday and was monitoring res toration work, the Chief Minister said. CM YK https://t.me/Estore33_com Downloaded From:- www.Estore33.com www.Estore33.com https://t.me/TheHindu_Zone_Official EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

NOIDA/DELHI THE HINDU 10 NEWS SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2018 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE FROM PAGE ONE ‘Withdrawal of consent will UIDAI CEO to Ganga waterway replace Adhia project cleared impact future CBI action’ Sanjay Mishra appointed ED Director The IWAI contended that vironment Minister Harsh A.P., West Bengal decisions will not affect pending inquiries, say experts Mahesh Langa clearance was not neces Vardhan, and senior Secre AHMEDABAD sary, as the proposed termi taries of the Environment, Krishnadas Rajagopal Act to maintain the federal In a toplevel appointment, nal at Varanasi was not a Water and Shipping Minis Devesh Pandey structure. The subject of the Centre on Saturday ap NEW DELHI “port” and that only “main tries, decided that an envi ‘law and order’ is a State pointed Ajay Bhushan Pan tenance dredging” was re ronment clearance was not The withdrawal of ‘general domain. dey, Chief Executive Officer quired. This activity was re required. consent’ by a State to the In Karnataka, the J.H. Pa of UIDAI, new Secretary, Re quired to make an existing This was because the EAC Central Bureau of Investiga tel government had with venue in place of Hasmukh channel suitable, and was had not provided “cogent tion (CBI) to exercise juris drawn the consent on De Adhia, who will retire in not a greenfield, dredging reasons in support of their diction within its territory cember 15, 1998, and it Novemberend. effort. Therefore, as per the observations and recom applies prospectively. continued for several years. On Saturday, the Depart provisions of the Environ mendation” and that exist Hence, the notifications Also, in late 1970s, the Deva ment of Personnel and ment (Protection) Act, it was ing laws exempted jetties issued by the Andhra Pra raj Urs government had re Training (DoPT) issued noti Ajay Bhushan Pandey “exempt” from an environ and multimodal terminals desh and West Bengal go No stopping: Despite the withdrawal of consent, courts can called the general permis fication of appointments of ment clearance process. (like the one in Varanasi) vernments, withdrawing still order a CBI investigation. * V. SUDERSHAN sion for CBI investigations. Secretaries in the Depart leadership and expressed The Expert Appraisal from an EC process. consent, would not have a However, the act of with ments of Revenue, Youth Af gratitude to his officers and Committee (EAC), a com At this meeting, too, the retrospective effect. That is, notification issued by the tion against him. So, there is drawal of consent can be fairs, Coal and Tourism. staff. mittee of experts constitut Union Environment Secre the States’ withdrawal of Sikkim government with no personal motive. The fac judicially reviewed, experts Mr. Pandey will continue The government also ap ed by the Environment Mi tary C.K. Mishra recom consent affects only drawing consent to investi tual scenario is entirely diffe said. Besides, withdrawal of to hold additional charge as pointed Sanjay Kumar Mis nistry and tasked with mended that the project prospectively. gate a corruption case rent,” Mr. Parasaran said. consent is no bar for a con CEO of UIDAI and Chairman hra, a 1984batch IRS Officer, recommending whether should apply for an EC “in The Supreme Court clari against the then Chief Minis Experts point out that if stitutional court to use its in of the GST Network. Director of Enforcement Di major infrastructure pro view of the involvement of fies the position of law in Ka ter Nar Bahadur Bhandari. the States have the statutory herent and extraordinary Mr. Adhia is a key aide rectorate (ED) for two years. jects ought to be given the dredging component.” zi Lhendup Dorji vs Central power to give consent to the powers to order a CBI inves and the most trusted bu Mr. Mishra was made inte goahead, has differed. Such On December 21, 2017, Bureau of Investigation, a re No personal animus CBI under Section 6 of the tigation into individual cases reaucrat of Prime Minister rim director last month. exemptions were valid, it the Environment Ministry ported decision of 1994. The Former SolicitorGeneral Delhi Special Police Esta for purpose of “delivery of Narendra Modi. He is also G.C. Murmu, a 1985batch said, as per records of a issued an office order agree court reasoned that the State Mohan Parasaran interprets blishment (DSPE) Act, it is complete justice”. “The designated as Finance Secre Gujaratcadre IAS officer, meeting on May 18, 2017, on ing that no environmental government’s withdrawal the Dorji decision, saying implicit that they can with withdrawal of general con tary in the Finance Ministry. will be the new Expenditure ly if the “project had applied clearance was required and should not be allowed to stall consent once given cannot draw consent too. sent means CBI officers lose Finance Minister Arun Secretary. He will take over for a prior environmental approved the project for a pending case. be withdrawn. But he said In 1961, the Supreme police powers under the Cri Jaitley posted on Facebook from A.N. Jha, who will re clearance.” The Union Envi further processing by the “The case should be al the verdict may not apply in Court in Major E.G. Barsay minal Procedure Code in the that Mr. Adhia had refused tire in January. ronment Ministry support Cabinet Committee on Eco lowed to reach its logical the current factual scenario. judgment held that no mem State concerned and for re any postretirement job, Upma Chawdhry will be ed the EAC’s recommenda nomic Affairs, with some conclusion… notwithstand “Mr. Chandrababu Naidu ber of the Establishment gistering a case,” said a CBI though the government was the new Secretary of Youth tion, even arguing that “…a “environmental safety mea ing the withdrawal of con can argue that unlike Mr. (CBI) can exercise powers official. However, the CBI keen on utilising his servic Affairs and Yogendra Tri terminal was part of a Port.” sures.” sent during pendency of in Bhandari, whose pending and jurisdiction in any area could continue to register es. pathy Secretary of Tourism. However, a meeting on Being a World Bank fund vestigation.” The Dorji CBI case provided him with a in a State without the con new cases in other States, Mr. Adhia in a series of Sumanta Chaudhury will October 24 between Union ed project, it was necessary principle was reiterated by personal motive to withdraw sent of the government of having links to the one in tweets thanked Prime Minis be Secretary of the Coal Mi Shipping and Roads Minis for approvals to be in place the Delhi High Court in 2013. consent, he [Mr. Naidu] does that State. The provision was which the general consent ter Narendra Modi and Mr. nistry and Chhabilendra ter Nitin Gadkari, Union En before December 31. The Dorji case dealt with a not have any CBI investiga incorporated in the DSPE has been rescinded. Jaitley for their guidance and Raol Secretary, Fertilizers. IN BRIEF Solih promises to reset ties 74.1% voter turnout in Maldivian President, PM hold talks, underline need for peace in Indian Ocean J&K’s panchayat elections Narayan Lakshman Male Quantum jump from the recent civic body poll percentage Promising a host of people Amarinder attacks Badal focussed policies and a fo Peerzada Ashiq over remark on SIT probe reign policy formulated on Srinagar CHANDIGARH Punjab Chief Minister the basis of human rights, The first phase of panchayat Amarinder Singh on Saturday democracy and climate di election in Jammu & Kash attacked Shiromani Akali Dal plomacy, the Maldives’s new mir on Saturday recorded a patriarch Parkash Singh Badal President, Ibrahim Solih, 74.1% voter turnout, with the for claiming that the ongoing sought to turn a new page in Kashmir Valley clocking SIT probe against him in the the country’s politics at a 62.1%, a quantum jump from 2015 police firings at glittering inaugural ceremo the civic election percentage Kotkapura and Behbal Kalan ny. of 35.1 just 30 days ago. was politically motivated. Mr. The event was attended According to Chief Electo Badal had alleged that the by Prime Minister Narendra ral Officer (CEO) Shaleen Ka probe was being conducted Modi, former Sri Lankan bra, the border district of at the CM’s behest. PTI President Chandrika Kuma Kupwara in the Valley wit ratunga, Sri Lankan MP Na nessed the highest polling at Congress seeks CISF mal Rajapaksa and other dig 71.9%, while Ganderbal in Enthusiastic voting: The queue outside a polling station at cover for Navjot Sidhu nitaries from across the central Kashmir registered Rayar in Budgam district on Saturday. * NISSAR AHMAD NEW DELHI region. the lowest 11.9%. The Congress wrote to Union Striking a populist note, “At least 5,585 candidates Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday seeking CISF Mr. Solih said that by the end were in the fray for 420 sar Militants kill 2 civilians, security cover for Punjab of the first 100 days of his ad panch and 1,845 panch seats Cabinet Minister Navjot Singh ministration, electricity pric In strength: Narendra Modi congratulating Maldives President-elect Ibrahim Mohamed Solih in in Phase I,” Mr. Kabra said. Sidhu citing “growing threat es would be reduced, tuition Male on Saturday. From left are Sri Lanka’s former President Chandrika Kumaratunga and Unlike the civic body upload video online perception” to his life. “After fees fully covered for under Maldivian ex-Presidents Mohamed Nasheed and Maumoon Abdul Gayoom. * REUTERS polls, the panchayat elec Special Correspondent Sidhu left the BJP, the graduate students, and tions are being contested on morning. “Ashraf was killed Srinagar threatening tone of various school students provided take pride in the peaceful aspirations for the stability development and for water a nonparty basis, opening a in a brutal act of terror by Akali Dal and BJP leaders is free breakfast. transition of power. of the region”. and sewerage systems on the window for both regional Militants abducted four militants later,” said the well known,” Congress chief He said that his govern Immediately after the The need to boost eco outlying islands. parties — the National Confe civilians in Kashmir and police. Shahid Ahmad Ganie spokesperson Randeep ment would allow pension swearingin ceremony, nomic cooperation was writ On the more troubling rence (NC) and the Peoples brutally killed two of them and Farooq Ahmad, both Surjewala said. funds to be used by Haj which was held in a packed large in their conversation. question of tackling climate Democratic Party — to have in the past 24 hours. The from Saidpora Payeen, who pilgrims. Rasmee Dhandu Stadium, Their joint statement recog change, President Solih cor proxy candidates. killings were filmed and were abducted with Ashraf Court to cross-examine The new government as Mr. Solih held a meeting with nised that easing the visa re roborated his reference to But the National Confe uploaded on social media, were released. Swamy in January sumes power on the back of Mr. Modi, which sources said gime mutually in both coun “climate diplomacy” with rence’s provincial president evoking severe criticism Ashraf’s killing comes NEW DELHI a coalition of parties led by was a special gesture toward tries would be the quickest details on his plan to intro Nasir Aslam Wani reiterated from political parties. just a day after militants A Delhi court has fixed Mr. Solih’s Maldivian Demo India, as indeed was the fact way to expand opportunities duce a green tax and halt that his party “will stay way One of the victims, Huzaif killed Nadeem Manzoor, an January 8, 2019, for cross- cratic Party, and comes after that India was the only coun for Indian companies to in fishing permits to foreigners. from the panchayat polls, Ashraf, 19, from Kulgam was 18yearold student, and examining BJP leader five years of rule under Ab try that the new President vest in the Maldives, and for When Mr. Modi extended too, but contest Assembly kidnapped on Saturday uploaded the video. Subramanian Swamy in the National Herald case, filed by dulla Yameen that saw Male mentioned in his speech. Maldivians to travel to India an invitation to Mr. Solih to polls”. DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD him against Congress chief moving strategically and for a variety of purposes. make a state visit to India at Rahul Gandhi, his mother economically closer to Beij Peace in region India was also invited to his earliest convenience, the No violence of the electorate cast their Line of Control (LoC) in Ba Sonia Gandhi and others. ing than to New Delhi. At their meeting, the two step up again as an econom President accepted the invi The police said there were ballot. According to the State ramulla and Kupwara additional chief metropolitan Ordinary Maldivians, who leaders agreed on the impor ic partner which could help tation and Mr. Modi also no reports of any militant Election Commission, 85 showed more enthusiasm magistrate Samar Vishal also braved the total security tance of maintaining peace the Maldives meet its most agreed to President Solih’s violence or protests during sarpanchs and 1,676 panchs for voting. In Uri of Baramul deferred till the next date an lockdown across Male and and security in the Indian pressing economic needs, invitation to him to make an the polling in Kashmir. have already been elected la, Roshi Begum, 100, wife of application moved by senior the media blackout at the in Ocean and being “mindful of including for increased official visit to the Maldives In Srinagar, where one unopposed in Phase I. Mohammad Gazi, came out Congress leader Motilal Vora. augural venue, appeared to each other’s concerns and housing and infrastructure in the near future. block was up for polls, 21.8% The areas close to the to vote with her family. Talk more of Rafale, INTERVIEW | SRIDHAR ACHARYULU less of us: Congress ‘If you strengthen the CIC, you strengthen RTI’ Chidambaram takes a jibe at Modi Outgoing Central Information Commissioner Sridhar Acharyulu flags the impact of growing vacancies in the Commission

Special Correspondent Reddy, P.V. Narasimha Rao Priscilla Jebaraj Court, which said, “All your We have a provision under dled by seven Commission New Delhi and Sitaram Kesri,” Mr. Chi objections against nondis the RTI Act to consider ers, nobody will handle. If Former Union Minister P. dambaram tweeted. Central Information Commissioner Sridhar Acharyulu, closure of wilful defaulters is another officer as the the Chief retires, all the im Chidambaram on Saturday Taking a jibe at the Prime who took on the Prime Minister’s Office and the Reserve Bank not correct, not legal; give deemed PIO if he holds infor portant subjects like Presi responded to Prime Minis Minister, he said: “Grateful of India in a case dealing with the nondisclosure of wilful de the information”. SC said mation but doesn’t give. Now dent’s, Prime Minister’s Of ter Narendra Modi’s state that PM Modi is concerned faulters of major bank loans, warned on his last day of hear this in 2015 and it was sup who is the other officer in the fice, Supreme Court will not ment challenging the Con about who is elected as Con ing RTI appeals that by December, he and three other CICs posed to be implemented by department who is holding be heard. If you strengthen gress to appoint a person gress president and he de would retire, leaving the Central Information Commission se all these institutions. the information? RBI Gover the CIC, you strengthen RTI. from outside one family as votes a lot of time talking riously handicapped. Then a similar question nor. Who is saying I will not The RTI Act envisages the ap party chief for five years if it about it. Will he spend half comes before me. I issued a give? RBI Governor. When I pointment of individuals respected democracy, list the time and speak about There have been complaints tions were about Labour Mi notice to RBI. They came up ask him to explain why are with eminence in different ing out names of persons demonetisation, GST, Ra that the primary nistry and rest of them were with the same objections <> I don’t come with you defying the Supreme fields: management, science outside the NehruGandhi fale, CBI and the RBI?” responsibility for appeals about RBI. If I know that which are rejected by the Su any baggage of Court, RTI and CIC, there’s and technology, media, so family who had occupied “Will PM Modi speak dealing with the RBI and the some information is availa preme Court. Then I administrative nothing illegal. cial service, administration, the top post in the party. about farmers’ suicides, PMO is allotted to other ble with another public body switched on their website experience. Maybe I governance. But 90% of in “To jog PM Modi’s memo massive unemployment, Commissioners. Why did but not being given, it’s my and I saw… They gave more come with the Now you will be retiring formation commissioners, in ry: among the Congress pre lynchings, rape crimes you take on this case? duty to examine. In fact, law than 100 lists in which they baggage of a critical before the next hearing on the Centre and states, are sidents since 1947 were against women and chil demands it. will not give information. this case… former government officers. outlook Acharya Kriplani, Pattabhi dren, antiRomeo squads, ■ I don’t ask for a particular They declared, we are not Currently, in the CIC, I am Sitaramayya, Purushottam gau rakshak vigilantism and case. I don’t have a choice. Why did you hold the RBI going to give information on PIO do such a big job? Will he ■ By December 1, four of us the only one who is not from das Tandon, U.N. Dhebar, increasing terror attacks? This RTI application came to Governor himself liable? these points and that in dare to declare such a list? will be out; only three CICs administration. I don’t come Sanjiva Reddy, Sanjivaiah, “We are proud of the me because it contained cludes wilful defaulters list, Then who will do it? The will remain. They will find it with any baggage of adminis Kamaraj, Nijalingappa, C. humble origins of our post some questions about Minis ■ Earlier, a similar RTI appli inspection reports, which highest authority of the RBI very difficult to handle the trative experience. Maybe I Subramanian, Jagjivan Ram, independent leaders... Pre try of Labour and Employ cation was filed. CIC ordered Supreme Court ordered will do it. So do you think I growing cases. And there will come with the baggage of a Shankar Dayal Sharma, D.K. independence, there were ment, which is allotted to disclosure. RBI challenged it, them to give. should punish the ordinary be no Chief, that is the big critical outlook. Let that also Barooah, Brahmananda thousands like them.” me. First two or three ques it was taken to the Supreme You tell me, can ordinary small employee? problem. The subjects han be there.

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[Q&A: VINAY SAHASRABUDDHE ] POLL POURRI CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Scooty for girls, bonus for ryots ‘Vyapam was a Congress make-believe’ Bhopal The BJP manifesto for Madhya Pradesh released BJP vice-president says the Chouhan government has made remarkable progress and does not face anti-incumbency on Saturday includes a separate document for Nistula Hebbar The Opposition has attacked scheme and Sambal scheme. The Congress has also women and promises Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s Bhavantar has ensured posi announced several promises bonus to small farmers, Vinay Sahasrabuddhe, government on the issue of tive correction in the price related to cow protection creation of 10 lakh jobs a year and twowheelers for the BJP’s national vicepresi corruption and the Vyapam structure of farm produce, and Hindu pilgrimage. What meritorious girls. The main manifesto, titled dent and Indian Council for scam. Your response? while Sambal has put brakes are your views on this? “Samridh Madhya Pradesh Drishti Patra”, ■ This is nothing but allega ■ Of late, Congress has em Cultural Relations (ICCR) on production expenditure. promises ₹40,000 crore in farm loans and chief, also takes care of Mad tion mongering. Recently, Now, whatever the talk of barked upon a politics of expansion of the area under irrigation to 80 hya Pradesh party affairs as the Supreme Court almost agricultural distress is main apology, marked very clearly lakh hectares. The women’s manifesto, titled a central prabhari. He spoke reprimanded those Congress ly out of a manufactured by some guilty conscience. “Nari Shakti Sankalp Patra”, promises to on the outlook for the com leaders filing cases to rake up unrest. They are in a way trying to install sanitary napkin vending machines in ing Assembly elections in the the dead issue of Vyapam, clear their spiritual backlog. schools amd a Scooty to every girl who gets State. Excerpts: saying they better fight it out The State government has But as admitted by their par more than 75% marks in the Class 12 through elections. Neither announced several welfare ty president [Rahul Gandhi], examination. PTI The BJP is looking at a Vyapam nor any other issue schemes, with the finances they are essentially confused fourth term in Madhya has any substance, and con seeing major debt. What even on this front. Pradesh, and has, in the list sequently any impact on our about fiscal accountability? Regardless of the fact that BJP MLA joins Congress of candidates declared till electoral prospects. Vyapam, ■ One can’t forget that Mad ban on cow slaughter is a Shahdol now, dropped only 40 from day one, was the case hya Pradesh is a disciplined part of our Constitution’s Disgruntled over not sitting MLAs. Is local anti of Congress’s makebelieve. economy, well within the fis guiding principles, Congress getting ticket, Pramila incumbency not an issue? back. We brought the State <> Politics of cal parameters laid down by continued to oppose it for Singh, MLA, has quit the ■ Talking about the so out of Bimaru bracket and la performance ... Agricultural distress came the Government of India. the last seven decades and BJP and joined the called antiincumbency has ter worked for basic infras continues to be our to the boil last year in M.P. The borrowing/repay now all of a sudden they are Congress. She was inducted into the Congress in the become a fashion. There is tructure development and main plank Do you anticipate a political ments of loans used to be talking about Cow Ministry. no particular logic behind now want to take the State fallout? 27% of the total budget and It’s nothing more than an at presence of senior party this talk of popular feelings towards prosperity. Chang ■ When BJP came to power the same has come down to tempt to hoodwink the elec leader Ajay Singh. Ms. against the incumbent go ing Assembly candidates is a performance or of develop in 2003, the agriculture 7% in a disciplined manner torate. They talk of Ram Van Singh said that though the BJP boasted of vernment simply because routine thing. It underscores ment? We have the moral growth rate was minus3%. over the past 15 years, thanks Gaman Path but forget that women empowerment, it did not grant her the government is there for our approach of continuity strength to speak on this Today, it is more than 20%. to the good governance of Ramayan starts with Ayod ticket after serving the people and the party 15 years. with change. convincingly because we Problems today are not that the BJP. hya and they have not sup for five years. “I don’t want to do politics but work for the welfare of people,” she said. PTI When you have a govern have made a difference. On of insufficient farm produce. The limit prescribed by ported the idea of any tem ment that has made remar What is the main plank on the basis of this track record They are more about abun the Government of India, of ple at the socalled disputed kable progress on all fronts which BJP is seeking a of ours, we are now resolute dance. Hence, issues like wa up to 3.5% of the fiscal defi site. of development, both infras fourth term? ly wanting to take Madhya ter scarcity, fertilizer shor cit, is never crossed. As per With the talk of banning Not a party, not an alliance tructure and social, what ■ Politics of performance is Pradesh into an era of pros tage, unavailability of my information, the State RSS activities, Rahul Gandhi AIZAWL kind of antiincumbency can a new term added to the pol perity. Samruddha Madhya labourers are a thing of the never had situations of ‘over seems to be following his Rivals have accused the we talk about? Remember, itical lexicon by the BJP, and Pradesh is our solemn pro past. Now there is a different draft’ during the BJP regime. grandmother, Mrs. Indira Zoram People’s Movement (ZPM) of misleading the we won the 2003 election on that continues to be our mise. set of issues that the econo So we can say that despite Gandhi. People of India will people by seeking votes as fundamental issues like bij main plank. Have you ever And people have every my of affluence has to grap having 80% population living never support the forces of a registered party despite ple with. emergency and Congress’s lee, sadak and pani [power, heard Rahul Gandhi, Maya reason to believe in our pro in primary sector the State is fielding candidates as road and water]. And the wati or Communist leaders mise going by our past And we have dealt with performing well on all fiscal politics smacks of promoting Independents. A combine reafter, there was no looking speaking about politics of performance. them through our Bhavantar parameters. them. of seven regional parties and NGOs, the ZPM had not registered itself CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC as a party. The Election Commission had on October 17 turned down its plea for allotment Race to the booth Manvendra to take of a common symbol, and said candidates of constituent parties can use their respective symbols. But the party’s candidates have on Vasundhara Raje been using a yellow flag with a hat as the common symbol. Special Correspondent JAIPUR The Congress on Saturday ‘ATM of false promises’ fielded Manvendra Singh, Dhamtari son of former BJP leader Jas BJP president Amit Shah want Singh, against Rajas launched a broadside than Chief Minister Vasund against the Congress on hara Raje from her home Saturday, terming the party turf of Jhalrapatan, which an “ATM” that dispensed she has represented thrice “false promises”, instead of since 2003 in the Assembly. Manvendra Singh development, when Mr. Singh, 54, who was problems were inserted in elected from Sheo in Barm gress candidates Meenakshi it. At a rally here ahead of the second and final er district in 2013 as a BJP Chandrawat in 2013, Mohan phase of the Chhattisgarh polls, Mr. Shah accused the Congress of not doing anything candidate, quit the party in Lal in 2008 and Rama Pilot for the State (part of Madhya Pradesh earlier) September this year, follow in 2003. during its 55year rule. PTI ing differences with Ms. Raje Mr. Singh said he was over denial of ticket to his “ready for the challenge”, as father in the 2014 Lok Sabha it was the party’s decision to election. He had stated that field him. Shivraj-ji never gets choosing the lotus was “our “I will run a fair cam bt mistake”. paign. I feel honoured that tired of building Mr. Singh's candidature the Congress has reposed castles in the air. If he steps from Jhalrapatan in Jhala confidence in me and down from his tall chariot, war district, bordering Mad thought it fit for me to con he will see the real condition hya Pradesh, is set to turn test,” he said. of roads in the State! But his the contest into a highpro Ms. Raje said the Con government is too engrossed file electoral battle between gress had fielded Mr. Singh in misleading people Ballot run: Residents of Bhopal taking part in a ‘Run for democracy’ organised by the District Returning Officer on Saturday to two Rajput leaders. because it could not find JYOTIRADITYA SCINDIA create awareness of voting. * A.M. FARUQUI Ms. Raje defeated Con any other candidate. CONGRESS LEADER

Chouhan vs system: M.P. Vote catching over ailing DATA BYTE CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC voters have a stark choice medical college project CM is still popular, but local-level BJP leaders are not so Rivals claim credit over institution coming up in Sikar

Nistula Hebbar Mohammed Iqbal BUDHNI/BHOPAL SIKAR At a small village meeting at In the rough and tumble of Nasrullahganj in the Budhni electoral politics, a pro constituency represented by posed government medical Madhya Pradesh Chief Mi college being constructed on nister Shivraj Singh Chou a donated plot here has be han, Congress candidate come a core issue. Arun Yadav is making his The muchneeded facility, stump speech. Two points which is yet to meet Medical that he raises get him the Council of India (MCI) most applause from a fair norms, has rival parties sized crowd. BJP’s face: Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh claiming credit for its The first is the promise of Chouhan campaigning in Bhopal. * A.M. FARUQUI establishment. a farm loan waiver by the The voters in Rajasthan’s Years in the making: The Government Medical College Congress in its manifesto, ternal uncle), still com should have. After the last arid, northern Shekhawati building under construction in Sikar. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT and the second, more inter mands affection and has date for withdrawal of nomi region are upset over the de estingly, the description of done a lot in terms of wel nations, nearly 50 rebel can lay in starting the medical The college principal and constituency of erstwhile people considered close to fare, especially among the didates from the BJP re college. controller, Govardhan Mee Health Minister Rajendra Mr. Chouhan on his home very poor. If the election is mained in the fray. The college is still being na, told The Hindu that since Rathore,” he said. POCKET | SURENDRA CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC turf as “minichief built around him, then we Prime Minister Narendra constructed, though it was the MCI inspection teams While Dr. Meena affirmed ministers”. will cruise to victory. The Modi’s meetings are expect announced along with six had repeatedly rejected the that the construction would “This is Shivraj ji’s area. I challenge is to beat local an ed to give a boost. After go other colleges during the government hospital’s status be completed in the next am sure he has done some tiincumbency,” said a BJP ing with an advertising stra previous Congress regime. as an attached institution, it two months and the colleg work here, but we all know strategist in Bhopal. tegy that had only the CM at After the change of govern was proposed to build a new e’s first academic session that it is the minichief mi the forefront and pictures of ment in 2013, the project 300bed hospital on an adja would start in July 2019, so nisters who call the shots in Controlling rebels other party leaders in small went to the neighbouring cent piece of land, also to be cial activist Ashfaq Kayamk every village in Budhni,” Ticket distribution by the er sizes in banners and pos Churu district, with Sikar be made available by the trust. hani said the BJP and Con says Mr. Yadav, pointing to BJP disappointed those who ters, hoardings of just Mr. ing included later in a Cen Sagar Khachariawas, dis gress candidates should the nature of antiincumben expected a largescale fall in Chouhan and Mr. Modi, trally sponsored scheme. trict president of the All In spell out their plans to get cy against the government. the numbers of sitting MLAs. looming large equally, have The Kalyan Arogya Sadan dia Kisan Sabha, affiliated to the college started. Not so much against Mr. Just over 40 sitting MLAs come up across Bhopal. Trust donated 80 bighas of the CPI(M), said the ruling “In the race to get credit , Chouhan, a man with a lar were dropped and, in 15 to The message is clear: to land adjacent to its charita BJP and the Congress had ex the attention shifted from gely avuncular image among 20 cases, family members of urge voters to look at the ble tuberculosis hospital in ploited the medical college construction of building and the electorate, but his vya these MLAs were accommo continuum of national and the city for the medical col issue to get votes without its monitoring. This has led vastha (system), or the peo dated. “That was a call taken State leadership at the very lege in 2016, but the propo taking any concrete steps to to a slower work here unlike ple who provide access to to prevent the proliferation top and forget the local man sal to attach the existing Shri ensure that the institution other cities where medical him, from local leaders to of of rebel candidates,” the below. Most important, it Kalyan Government Hospi started functioning. colleges have come up,” Mr. I lost the last election, people don’t ficials, local strongmen or source said. points to the lack of a chief tal to it has not succeeded as “The original plan was Kayamkhani said. For the even remember my name. But I am very popular influential people. As a strategy, it hasn’t ministerial face in the Con the latter lacks facilities shifted to a smaller town, voters of Shekhawati, it has as someone who paid the highest “Shivrajji, as mama (ma worked out to the extent it gress camp. specified by the MCI norms. Churu, only because it is the been a long wait. price for a vote.

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WHO On November 8, Meghalaya’s Agnes she has been avowedly apolitical and a rous and risky turn when she began coal. Ms. Kharshiing documented illegal the National Investigation Agency probe PQp q Kharshiing and her associate Amita longtime crusader against domestic sniffing out illegal coal trade after the mining and transport of coal over the the case. This was ironical since Ms. Sangma became the latest among 18 violence, child and sexual abuse and de National Green Tribunal in 2014 banned last four years, thus earning the wrath Kharshiing had taken up the case of sub Right to Information activists in the privation of beneficiary schemes in ru unscientific rathole mining and res of the coal mafia. inspector P.J. Marbaniang, who was northeastern region to have been either ral areas. She formed the Civil Society tricted coal transport. Armed with a killed in January 2015, hours after de killed or assaulted or harassed. They Women’s Organisation to take her fight camera, she began documenting illegal Why was she attacked? tailing 32 coalladen trucks close to the Agnes were — as the police said — assaulted by against corruption to the grassroots and mines and trucks carrying coal by tra Ms. Kharshiing and Ms. Sangma were on police outpost he was in charge of. a group of criminals at Tuber Sohshrieh educate rural women on RTI. Her or velling across the the State. a surveillance trip to East Jaintia Hills in the coal and limestonerich East Jain ganisation took on village chieftains and when a woman stopped their vehicle Why has it created a flutter? Kharshiing, tia Hills district. The spot where they local councils for ostracising RTI acti What ails Meghalaya’s coal belt? near a wooded patch. About 40 people The attack on Ms. Kharshiing, stable but were waylaid is not far from where vists. But her activism took an adventu Meghalaya has a coal reserve of 640 mil swooped down from nowhere and be not out of danger, has attracted the at RTI crusader another RTI activist Poipynhun Majaw, lion tonnes, most of which is mined in gan raining blows on them with blunt tention of activists and rights groups 38, was killed in March for exposing a discriminately by private and commun weapons. The two activists were across the globe. The Meghalaya High nexus between the local tribal council ity landowners. Besides the adverse dragged into the woods, but Ms. Sang Court has asked the government to en and cement companies that were alleg effect of mining on rivers, activists ma managed to crawl out and call for sure her security and bear the expendi edly allowed to mine limestone without found that miners employed children to help. The police found Ms. Kharshiing ture of her treatment. The Congress, permission. crawl into ratholes for extracting coal. unconscious and had them both shifted which was at the receiving end of her If that were not enough, coal was being to a superspeciality hospital in capital activism until losing power in March, Who is she? exported to Bangladesh and sent to oth Shillong. The police caught two sus has thrown its weight behind her. The Ms. Kharshiing, 58, is one of the most er States on overloaded trucks, depriv pects they referred to as criminals, but present BJPbacked government is feel wellknown activists in the State. She ing the government of ₹300 crore in re the rights group Achik Indigenous Jus ing the heat since the attack has under belongs to a political family: her elder venue a year. Complaints finally tice Initiative Forum said the attackers mined its effort to reopen the coal brother Robert Kharshiing represented made the NGT ban coal mining and were without a doubt associated with mines that have allegedly funded politi the Nationalist Congress Party in the Ra order sealing of coal pits. It, ho the illegal coal trade. It asked Chief Mi cians and elections in Meghalaya. jya Sabha and her younger brother John wever, allowed transport of 3.4 nister Conrad K. Sangma to let either F. Kharshiing is a Congress leader. But million tonnes of extracted the Central Bureau of Investigation or RAHUL KARMAKAR ILLUSTRATION: J.A. PREMKUMAR

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THE HINDU NOIDA/DELHI SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2018 COLUMNWIDTH 13 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Chaotic versus meticulous packers Diﬀerent kinds of journeys call for diﬀerent ways of packing

books, magazines and comics deployed es are opened and filled almost scientif cook for just two or three people. For for the one day sandwiched between ically, as if the packers are reproducing the longer trips I tend to be closer to the the two nights that the train took to get a complicated mathematical equation. meticulous packers, while for the shor us across the country. Early on the se When you see the finished suitcases, ter trips I tend towards chaotic packing. cond morning, as the train wheeled you feel as though the things were born Even as I say this I find myself think though the tunnels in the Western like this and there is no possibility of ing of a friend who manages to be both Ghats, we would gather up our stuff and them being packed any other way. The extremes at the same time. This guy, Ruchir Joshi roll up the bistras. meticulous packers then shut the suit let’s call him T, flies so much that he is is a writer, filmmaker and columnist Later, the packing became different cases, stand next to the door and wait singlehandedly responsible for 5% of and mostly for air travel. I had begun to for the transport that will get them to total global warming. T goes on long When I was a kid in a family of three, pack my own suitcases and trunks while the airport well in advance. trips and short ones, sometimes so there were clear roles demarcated for going to boarding school. Suddenly I There is obviously also a difference close to each other that they form a sort my mother, my father and myself, with was packing to go abroad to study and between packing for a long trip and a of morse code of long and short dashes. additional walkon parts for the people the ball game was different. I watched short one, and the chaotic packers T makes lists, T lays everything out, and who worked in our house. My mother other people pack and unpack and real usually get away with their chaos if their then, as if a demon has entered him, he would prepare the food with the cook, ised that the act of packing suitcases journey is of a short duration. The met starts to throw everything into the suit the other staff member would wash and was as personal an act as putting your iculous packers don’t have to be quite so case he has placed on his desk. The jum

press the clothes before taking down handwriting on paper. GETTY IMAGES/ ISTOCK PHOTO meticulous for short trips, but usually bled jungle of stuff is still bouncing on it the suitcases and the bistras (the be they are because of their wiring. self when T literally jumps on the drolls) from the store cupboards and Two kinds of packers makeup bottles, the books and papers Then there is the opposite category: suitcase and shuts it before it has time to cleaning them. I would then be told to In the categories, the first section would required for the trip, the chargers and the militarily meticulous packers. These Between the extremes react. Then he stands there, breathing make myself scarce while my mother be for the chaotic packers. These are the external hard drives. Somehow all people usually start with making a list Somewhere between these two obvious hard as if he’s just won a hard game of went into rising panic and my father the people who slam open their suitcas of this is stuffed into the bag before the or several lists. Everything they plan to extremes fall most of us. Over the last football. I look at T and I remember my packed, logically and efficiently. Some es and then assault them with their travellers wrestle the thing shut. The take on a trip is put down in logical de 25odd years I have found myself pack father also breathing sharply after he how we would be in the car and at the clothes and effects. In go the pants and chaotic packers then straighten up and tail. Then the different kinds of material ing for long intercontinental trips twice had shut a suitcase overstuffed by my station, well before the train left How shirts, losing their ironing as they hit the smack their hands in satisfaction. are arrayed according to category: socks a year. I therefore find it very difficult to mother. rah for Bombay. In the train, there bottom of the bag. Caught up in the flur “When’s the taxi coming?” they say and here, bras there, liquids on one side, pack for a short trip, a bit like a cook It was a very different kind of breath would be a superficial unpacking, the ry of cloth are the more chunky objects: sit down and switch on the TV so that hard solids on another side, papers in who has worked so long for a wedding ing, just as those slow journeys were a food and sleeping clothes coming out, the shoes, the shaving equipment, the they can be sure to be late for the flight. neat stacks, and so on. Then the suitcas caterer that he can no longer manage to very different kind of travel. When CEOs linger too long Reasons to go ICICI and IL&FS are examples of what can happen Tagging along on a bicycle journey across the Silk Road nancial oversight. A listed firm’s Risk Management Committee, a critical entity in the case of a financial services firm, is tasked with reviewing key decisions relating to asset and liability management, re viewing financial and market risks re Raghavan Srinivasan lated to executive decisions, and en Mini Kapoor is Editor, The Hindu BusinessLine suring compliance with regulatory is Ideas Editor, The Hindu requirements. It is required to have Last year, amendments to the Compa twothirds of its members as indepen The end of the year is a time for taking nies Act caused one of the biggest dis dent directors. In IL&FS’s case, the stock, and for me the process is best

ruptions to India Inc’s functioning in Risk Management Committee had met nudged along while immersed in travel GETTY IMAGES/ ISTOCK PHOTO recent times. Under the new Act, all only once in the last four years. literature. In fact, there is a subset of companies were mandatorily required How did this happen? Ravi Parthas accounts of great journeys that holds a an end point, because they are not ac strangers, and Harris and her compa to rotate their auditors, the people arathy, the man who helmed IL&FS for particular enchantment: walking in tually real roads at all. They are a web nion don’t lack interesting acquain who draw up and certify the ﬁnancial more than 30 years (he quietly quit the footsteps of someone long ago. Pil of networks that have allowed goods, tances on their road trip, beginning in state of health of any business just days before the roof collapsed on grims especially do this all the time, people and ideas, but also disease and Turkey, through the Caucasus, Central enterprise. IL&FS), appears to have managed to but there are other tracks too around violence, to ﬂow east to west, and west Asia, the Tibetan plateau, Nepal, and

GETTY IMAGES/ ISTOCK PHOTO secure a board which rubberstamped the world that for some reason have to east — from the Pacific coast of Chi then by bus quickly to Shimla to beat Rotating auditors all his decisions. In fact, both the top had greater footfall over time, so that na and Russia to the Atlantic coasts of the traffic, and thence northwards This is a bigger deal than it appears. If proximity is a problem in such a leadership of the company — Vice they recommend themselves to future Europe and Africa, and also from through Leh to the glacier. Many of India’s largest companies case, imagine what happens with Chairman Hari Sankaran and CEO travellers as the paths best chosen. Scandinavia in the north to the Indian have had a long relationship with their those in a company dealing with an all Arun Saha — were with the firm for Travel writer Robert Macfarlane inves Ocean in the south.” A reason to go external auditors. Reliance Industries powerful CEO. Although the Compa more than 25 years, as were indepen tigated some of these in his eyeopen Harris’s fascination with embarking The journey takes her into another or was audited by Chaturvedi & Shah for nies Act and the listing requirements dent directors like R.C. Bhargava, who ing 2012 book, The Old Ways: A Jour on the Silk Road draws directly from bit, as borders and geopolitics blur in more than 36 years and Infosys by BSR of stock exchanges in the case of pu joined the board in 1990. Former LIC ney on Foot, from trails in England and reading about Marco Polo’s travels. to almost irrelevance against the land & Co for more than 17 years. Tata Steel blicly held companies specify who can chairman Sunil Mathur joined in 2005 Scotland to walks in Palestine with la She doesn’t let the debate about scape that speaks of a longer time had Deloitte Haskine & Sells auditing become the director on a company’s and former bureaucrat Michael Pinto wyerwriter Raja Shehadeh. whether the Venetian actually under scale, as the rhythms of city life fall its books for a while too. After such a board, mandate appointment of inde joined as far back as 2004. took the entire journey himself detain away to reveal a “clarity of purpose”. long period, a change means much pendent directors, and specify inde Two questions to ask her too much; it’s the great expanse of So that: “Your sole responsibility on more than merely signing a new pendent directorial oversight of cru A cosy circle of support In the book, Macfarlane had posed two blurred borders that he’s supposed to Earth, as long as your legs last each contract. cial subcommittees, the reality is that Clearly, when CEOs stay for a very long questions that should guide both those have covered that draws her. And it’s day, is to breathe, pedal, breathe — and This does not mean that anyone had strongwilled CEOs and promoters can time, they can manage to build a cosy who actually set off for the great un the expanse that restores her equilibri look around.” Harris channels the ex complained about Reliance Industries — and do — get to have their way in al circle of support around them, which known and those of us who tag along um when her dream of exploring Mars periences of explorers before her, or Infosys or Tata Steel’s accounts. Ho most all these areas. can circumvent all firewalls and through their writing: “For some time is shattered by a professor at the Mas such as Wilfred Thesiger, Alexandra wever, post the Satyam fiasco, when Nothing exemplifies this better than checks. A similar scenario appears to now it has seemed to me that the two sachusetts Institute of Technology, DavidNeel, Charles Darwin and Fanny more and more instances of malprac IL&FS, the government’s new ₹90,000 have prevailed in ICICI Bank where questions we should ask of any strong who exults over what computers can Bullock Workman. When Siachen is fi tices that were overlooked, condoned crore headache. It’s only after the go Chanda Kochhar continued to enjoy landscape are these: firstly what do I do: “Just imagine. Magellan had to sail nally in sight, it’s enough: “In the end or even actively abetted by auditors vernment superseded the IL&FS board the “absolute confidence” of her know when I am in this place that I can in rough seas for months, even years Siachen, like Mars, wasn’t a place to came to light, the government felt that and appointed a new sixmember board till circumstances made it im know nowhere else? And then, vainly, on end. Risking scurvy, cannibals, reach but a reason to go.” You get the mandatory rotation would at least board under the stewardship of senior possible for her to continue. Even what does this place know of me that I strange diseases, who knows! But to sense that she had instinctively begun solve the problem of “proximity” banker Uday Kotak that the extent of then, she quit; the board didn’t fire cannot know of myself?” day we can wander another world answering Macfarlane’s two questions. (when auditors work so closely with the rot at IL&FS began to emerge. her. Or take the latest celebrity CEO ex These questions hang over Cana with our feet up on a desk and a Diet For, to avoid reaching the destina their subject firms that they lose the When the new board took over, it ex it: Sachin Bansal from Flipkart. Mr. dian explorer Kate Harris’s moving de Coke in hand.” tion is perhaps the point. Harris refers armslength relationship necessary to pected to deal with IL&FS and 167 sub Bansal was forced out of the company but, Lands of Lost Borders: A Journey Harris, who had trained to be an as back to French sailor Bernard Moites maintain neutrality and fairness). sidiaries. But in the board’s first report by Walmart, which was unhappy with on the Silk Road. Her route of the Silk tronaut and was working on her docto sier’s decision to abandon his lead in a Audit firms have sweeping powers to the government, submitted earlier the “lack of transparency” in some Road is quite specific, unlike Oxford rate, takes flight at this, and launches 1968 roundtheworld yacht race, to examine every financial dealing of a this month, it emerged that IL&FS had dealings. As long as he ran the show, Professor Peter Frankopan’s. In his lav herself into a bicycle journey on the avoid the finishing line, and stay at sea. company. They have a clearer view of a more than twice as many subsidiaries the Flipkart board had no complaints. ishly illustrated volume, The Silk Silk Road, but with a twist. During a As she quotes him: “Maybe I will be company’s workings than most others, (347), held through four layers of hold The U.S. limits its Presidents to a Roads: A New History of the World, re stint at Oxford University, she had able to go beyond my dream, to get in including minority shareholders. But ing companies and scattered across maximum of two terms for the reason purposed for children and adults alike done a paper on the Siachen Glacier, side it, where the true thing is...” In they are still external parties and have the globe. The true extent of debt was that they should not become too po from his 2015 milestone publication of and it’s at the base of the glacier that getting this chance to pledge affinity no powers to take decisions on a com hidden through intragroup loans. The werful. Maybe it’s time for investors to the same name, Frankopan writes: her excursion ends. The greatest of with him and Harris, the reader too pany’s behalf. company had no firewalls and no fi start treating CEOs the same way. “The Silk Roads do not have a start or journeys is built upon the kindness of gets to make her own calculations. The sacred Indian games As rivers have become sites where the sacred and the polluted coexist, our beliefs about the sacred no longer correspond with our intuitions about sanctity

Like generations before me, wearing macabre. (“The Hindoo casts the dead standing in the Yamuna and surround a ring made out of darbha grass and naked into the sacred stream,” wrote ed by chemical froth, performing the with balls of sesame and cooked rice the authors of The Library of Entertain Chhath Puja. Unlike Islam or Christiani laid in front, I too performed the pitru ing Knowledge in the 1830s). ty, which are abstemious in their rela tharpanam rituals. These were rituals When faced with the question of why tion to nature, the practice of Hinduism in the name of those who had ceased to a phenomenon or practice is held is intimately and extravagantly connect be. I invoked their spectral presence, re sacred, at the very end of that question ed to the forests, plants, caves and riv Keerthik Sasidharan minisced about their life and histories, often lie claims of civilisational epipha ers of India. These geographic features is a writer and lives in New York City and asked the gods that their beings find nies. This, in itself, is not unique to In are not just instances of nature; rather, release. Sitting there, as an observer dia. The scholar of myth and religions, they become the locus of religion, the One evening, many years ago, my father and a participant, while the drone of the Mircea Eliade (a student of Surendra site where human consciousness ac asked if I would accompany him to a young priest’s voice rose and fell, I nath Dasgupta), wrote that sacrality quires its Hindu identity via beliefs. town in northern Kerala called Thiruna watched the river flow. The waters car bestowed on phenomena is, at its heart, vaya. The place was known, particularly ried along with it refuse, debris, and re an act of uncovering. Sacredness is the An element of the schizoid among the Hindus of Malabar and Koda sidue to be poured out into the Arabian manifestation to all of what was a revela What, then, happens to these beliefs, gu, for a small Vishnu temple. More im Sea near Ponnani. The river had sur tion to only a few. It is an act of what he and inevitably identity, when these portantly, it was famous as the place vived sand mining mafias, invasive fo calls ‘hierophany’ (hiero: sacred; pha sources of sacrality are destroyed or where one went to make offerings on reign species, chemicals — small and ny: to make visible). The great Martin polluted? We have found ways to make behalf of one’s ancestors, to ask of the surreptitious abuses that wreck its eco Heidegger called this unconcealment of do, to coexist with ugliness, to ignore cosmological order that release system. All the while amidst the pro Being as ‘aleitheia’, as the truth of expe the discomfiting, and often to invent vo (moksha) be granted to them. In parts, fane, natural and secular, the river rience itself. Inevitably, like mushrooms cabularies that are elaborate and yet al this sanctity to Thirunavaya in the Hin made its way, unaware of the cosmolog after rains, stories follow that make the so expedient. The result is that there is du, and particularly the Vaishnavite, ical significance thrust upon it by strangeness of hierophany palatable. In an element of the schizoid, a sort of cog

cosmos is bestowed by the river Bha humans. PTI fact, according to the French sociologist nitive rupture: our beliefs about the rathapuzha which flows by the temple, Emile Durkheim, it is only by deeming sacred fail to correspond with our intui between the Vishnu temple on one Sacred but polluted anthropologist Kelly Alley, who now the scepticism in her question was two some objects as sacred that societies tions about sanctity. The more violent bank and the Mahadeva and Brahma That Indian rivers have become sites teaches at Auburn University in Alaba fold: How can devotees let the river be can find reasons and means to cohere. this rupture becomes, as India pollutes temples on the other. Alongside that where the sacred and the polluted coex ma, asked the seemingly simple ques come polluted, and does the pollution But our lived lives sidestep such the its way to middleincome status, the slender but potentially perilous watery ist is not new. The Ganga is perhaps the tion of those who lived in Varanasi: itself not render the river less sacred? orisations. Our rivers continue to be re more strident will be efforts to insist on channel, like generations before, I sat preeminent example of this. In the “How is it that a sacred river can be pol Variations on this theme had preoccu ceptacles of our detritus and yet they re the sanctity of religious beliefs. At its ex on the gravelly steps leading down into summer of 1993 and 1994, during the luted?” While she went about her inves pied the British colonisers as well, alth main as objects of veneration. Earlier treme, our beliefs then become indistin the river. course of her field work, the American tigation with compassion and rigour, ough their focus was inordinately on the last week, we saw photos of women, guishable from mimicry.

NOIDA/DELHI THE HINDU 14 SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2018 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE CAPSULE GROWTHIndia telescope’s Ape fossil 11 million years ﬁrst science observation old unearthed in Gujarat Aswathi Pacha

The followup study of a recurrent nova found it fading at an expected rate Tireless fossil hunting un Paleolakes on Mars der the scorching heat of Billions of years ago, water Shubashree Desikan the Kutch basin, Gujarat flowed freely on Mars, control the telescope. While proved fruitful and palae inundating several present day the IITBIIAP link was ontologists unearthed a craters, says a study published The 0.7 m GROWTHIndia te through regular internet con in Geology. Researchers lescope at the Indian Astro nection, the one from IIAP to fossilised upper jaw (maxil observed rock formations, nomical Observatory located the telescope in Ladakh was la). Further studies showed concluding that sometimes the in Hanle, Ladakh, has made through a satellite link,” said that the fossil find was high lakes would overflow so much its first science observation Professor Bhalerao. A typical ly significant: it is the oldest that the water would carve out which is a followup study of professional telescope has a and the only known ape The upper jaw belonged to an adult ape of the genus canyons in a matter of weeks. a nova explosion. Novae are field of about 0.1 square de fossil discovered in penin Sivapithecus. explosive events involving grees. sular India. violent eruptions on the sur This telescope has a field Ansuya Bhandari from face of white dwarf stars, that is five to six times larger. Birbal Sahni Institute, range of the genus” says will draw more attention to leading to temporary in It can ‘slew’ or move its focus Lucknow, stumbled upon Dr.Bhandari, who is the the region and more stu crease in brightness of the from one part of the sky to the jaw in 2011 during a first author of the paper re dies will be carried out in star. Unlike a supernova, the another in just about 1015 se field survey with a group of cently published in PLOS the future. star does not go on to die but conds and its camera can palaeontologists from the ONE. “It also fills a time By comparing the fossil returns to its earlier state af view stellar objects that are Wadia Institute of Hima window of approximately with other available data ter the explosion. A report The telescope can view stellar objects that are thousands to thousands to millions of light layan Geology, Dehradun, 11 million years in the evo on Sivapithecus genus, the on this published in The As- millions of light years away. * GROWTH-INDIA years away. and IIT Roorkee. lutionary history of homi authors speculate that the Proton mass tronomer’s Telegram notes The researchers con noid remains in India.” identified jaw could belong Protons contain quarks and the magnitude of the nova first noticed by a different they are candidates for pro Threefold goals cluded that the upper jaw to a largesized ape, attri gluons. While quarks carry 1% explosion first identified by group which saw the nova ex genitors of Type Ia superno The GROWTHIndia tele belonged to an adult ape Ape relatives buted to one of the two spe of the proton mass, gluons are Darnley et al as it varies, dur plosion. “We then pointed vae. “We took followup im scope is part of the Global (hominoid family), belong She also explains that re cies of Sivapithecus, hysu- massless. Proton mass mainly ing November 8 to November our telescope in that direc ages with the GROWTHIndia Relay of Observatories ing to the genus Sivapithe- searchers now believe that dricus or sivalensis. More, comes from the motion and 10. tion and measured the telescope. The observations Watching Transients Hap cus and lived about 11–10.8 Sivapithecus is either clos betterpreserved and un confinement of the quarks and brightness. We found that it were made in different opti pen. Its goals are threefold: million years ago (Mio er to the modern orangu fragmented specimens are gluons. A new paper to appear First science observation was fading at the rate expect cal bands. The nova was seen (1) Search for explosions in cene). The oldest remains tan of Southeast Asia or an required to identify the ex in Physical Review Letters The GROWTHIndia tele ed for such events. This is a to decline rapidly in bright the optical regime whenever of these apes found so fari ape that is part of an early act species. quantifies for the first time, scope was commissioned six small step in astronomy but a ness, by 1 1.5 magnitudes in LIGO group detects a Binary n IndoPakistan are dated radiation of fossil homi “Kutch is a paradise for four contributions to the at about 12.7 million years noids — the great apes, the fossils. Many associated proton’s mass. months ago soon after which big leap for us, because it is the span of 2 days,” says Neutron Star merger (2) stu it saw first light, on the night the first scientific result ob Shubham Srivastav, post dy nearby young supernova and the youngest at about chimps, gorillas and oran mammal fossils belonging of June 12. “The telescope tained by this telescope,” doctoral fellow at the physics explosions. (3) Study nearby 8.6 million years. gutans and also humans. to the Miocene age have has been taking readings said Varun Bhalerao a faculty department of IIT Bombay asteroids. “Fossils of the Sivapithe- Researchers from Duke been discovered here in the since then, and this is the member at IIT Bombay and a (IITB) Transient phenomena cus genus have been pre University, U.S., carried out past, including whales and first ‘followup’ work. We are Principal Investigator of the such as supernovae are im viously unearthed near the the Xray CT scans. The re sea cows. The new discov happy to see this first science project along with Professor Robotic eye portant parts of timedomain Siwalik hill range, spread searchers note that as the ery will help us understand observation,” said G C Anu Anupama. The telescope is potentially astronomy which is a lessex ing across Pakistan, Churia unearthed jaw had a lot of in detail the evolution of pama, who Professorin This recurrent nova, fully robotic and can operate plored frontier in astronomy. Hills in Nepal and around iron in it due to its deposi great apes,” says Sunil Baj Charge of the Indian Astro named M31N2008, has been on its own, but the way these “Such an explosion is when the Himalayas [Jammu and tion in an ironrich ancient pai from the Department of nomical Observatory and is observed to erupt several readings were taken has only the inner material of the star Kashmir and Himachal Pra soil, the radiation was not Earth Sciences at IIT, Roor based at Indian Institute of times, the most recent erup partly used its potential for is thrown out. There is no desh]. Now this finding, al able to penetrate very deep kee and former director of Carbon sinks most 1,000 km south from into the specimen, thus Birbal Sahni Institute. He is Wood density of forest trees Astrophysics (IIAP), Bengalu tion happening in November automation. “The group sit other way we can actually ru. 2018. Recurrent nova sys ting in IIT Bombay worked see what is inside a star,” ex the previous finds has in preventing better analysis. one of the authors of the indicates their capacity to creased the geographic They hope that this finding paper. store carbon. A recent study The celestial object was tems are interesting because through Bengaluru’s IIAP to plains Prof. Bhalerao. published in Journal of Ecology found the density of trees in disturbed forests of eastern Amazonia was much less than the undisturbed forests. This Novel strategy to treat For Delhi’s black kites, reflects the diminished ability of tress to function as carbon sinks. diabetic wound infection it’s a tradeoff Bacteriophage was used to treat bacterial infection in diabetic mice They react to people based on the context, finds study Aswathi Pacha markers (myeloperoxi Aathira Perinchery dase) produced by neu By using virus that infects trophils at the wound site. Black kites in Delhi actively bacteria (bacteriophages), These are the first cells choose to live near humans, researchers from Panjab that reach the site of infec even accepting food that they University have success tion or inflammation. So offer. But the birds perceive pe Early brain development fully treated multidrugre studying neutrophils or its ople near their nests as poten Scientists observed the sistant bacterial infection markers is suggestive of tial predators, suggesting that earliest stages of development in diabetic mouse model. the level of inflammation they can react to people based of the brain by transplanting People with diabetes are or bacterial load. The le on the context, shows a recent induced pluripotent cells - more prone to fungal and vel was lowest in the lipo study published in the journal progenitors of neurons - from bacterial infections and some entrapped phage PLOS ONE. humans into mice. They the emergence of multi treated group, which indi In the country’s capital, compared how neurons drugresistant organisms cated the clearance of black kites – birds of prey that * HARSHIT branched out in normal A black kite with fresh meat tossed to it by people. has worsened the situa bacterial infection. This are at home in concrete jungles individuals and those with Bacteriophage can be used for personalised therapy, tion. Researchers have group also showed maxi – have a close association with they checked on each nest ev to ritualfeeding areas that had Down syndrome and found a says Sanjay Chhibber (centre). been searching for alter mum deposition of ma significant difference. people. Studies show that they ery 10 days for chicks, the team higher human waste on the native treatment ap tant pathogens in our groups of mice. One was ture collagen tissues at the choose to live near areas of noted how the parent birds streets. Pairs that could invest proaches such as phyto country,” explains Prof. not given phage or clarith site of the wound by day poor sanitation, thriving on as reacted to their presence. They in early aggressive defense dur chemicals, metal ions, Sanjay Chhibber from the romycin, one was given five, thus aiding in rapid sociated small prey such as ro scored each nesting pair on its ing the incubation stage pro antibacterial nanoparti Department of Microbiol phage cocktail but not en wound healing. dents and pigeons. The raptors intensity of nestdefense and duced higher numbers of cles, antibacterial en ogy, Panjab University capsulated, other was gi “Phage therapy can be also accept pieces of meat compiled information from fledglings. zymes. The phage therapy and first author of the ven liposomeloaded used as a personalised tossed to them by religious their earlier study to see if fac This ability of kites to dis has shown promising re paper published in Fron- cocktail of bacteriophages therapy where the patient Muslims for whom kitefeeding tors such as green cover and ri criminate between positive, sults among various alter tiers in Microbiology. and the last was treated is first tested for bacterial is a centuriesold ritual. Yet, tual feeding practices nearby neutral and negative human at native treatments studied. In order to protect the with clarithromycin only. infection and then treated the main threats these birds influenced nestdefense. titudes spells their urban suc phage and help in its slow The group treated with with the appropriate face are humanmade too: peo cess, said lead author Nishant Phage therapy release into the body, the the liposomeentrapped phage. Also, it is very ef Usurper galaxy ple sometimes collect kite Nest defense Kumar (WII, and at the United “Phage therapy or use of a researchers encapsulated phage showed a signifi fective compared with an Observations by the Atacama chicks from nests for the illegal They found that nestdefense Kingdom's University of specific virus to target par the phage in a natural li cant decrease in the tibiotics as it requires only Large Millimetre/ bird trade, while maintenance by parent birds increased with Oxford). submillimetre Array ticular bacteria was in use pid casing called lipo wound size on day five it a single dose, and its con workers remove nests that the number of chicks in their “Such contextdependent telescopes find that the most in many countries before some. The liposome en self and complete closure centration does not de pose a threat to electric wires nest and with the progression habitation and aggression to luminous galaxy (W2246- the popularisation of anti trapped phage was of wound was seen by day crease as long as it has the or light poles. So is there a of the breeding season, sug humans has been shown in 0526) is drawing nearly half biotics. Even now it is injected into diabetic fe nine. The study showed li bacterial host,” he adds. tradeoff in how kites perceive gesting that the adult birds in other animals such as Austra the mass from its three used in Russia, Georgia, male mice to treat methi posomeloaded phage “Phages are very safe and people? creased their defense respons lian magpies and rhesus ma neighbours. The galaxy is 12.4 Poland and other coun cillin resistant Staphylo- eradicated bacterial infec nontoxic. They are in our To find out, a team including es based on their parental caques too,” he said. billion light years away, which tries. Though it is current coccus aureusinfected tion in 10 days whereas system, we encounter researchers from Dehradun's investment (on the quantity Therefore, coexistence with means, we are seeing now ly not used in India, it is an wound and the healing untreated mice showed them each day in our food Wildlife Institute of India sur and survival prospects of their humans is often accompanied what took place when the option we should choose was studied for 20 days. high bacterial burden. and water. Phages have no veyed 101 kite nests in the 1,500 chicks, which increased by “finegrained, contextde universe was one-tenth its as there is an increase in The healing was stu The researchers also effect on humans as their square kilometres of Delhi city through the breeding cycle). pendent strategies and trade present size. the number of drugresis died in four different studied the inflammatory host is bacteria, not us.” between 2013 and 2016. As Defense also intensified close offs,” suggest the authors.

without further clarification,” IC International Commission questions the studies on cancer NIRP argued. The Commission noted that Falcioni et al also did not report the expected conver induction by cell phone radiation sion rate. The Commission asserted that Researchers had published results of their animal studies on the cancerinducing potential of cell phone radiation it saw two mutually inconsistent sets of results, and no similar lit K.S. Parthasarathy nations and agencies, such as the ‘inadequate study’). dence of heart Schwann cell hy health effects in rodents is suffi thus many more benign hyper erature for comparison. WHO, accept published an eight The researchers did not find perplasia — proliferation of appa ciently strong and relevant to hu plasias should be observed than The agency found that the dis With the phenomenal growth in page report questioning the use any ‘clear’ evidence in their stu rently normal cells — (male and mans to serve as a basis for expo malignant schwannomas. tribution of malignant cardiac the number of users of mobile fulness of these reports and as dies; the strongest evidence of female) and malignant glial tu sure guidelines”. “The NTP study found approxi schwannomas across the experi phones worldwide, there is pu serting that both these studies carcinogenicity reported was mours (female only), but these ICNIRP criticised the studies mately equal numbers of hyper mental groups in the two studies blic concern that cell phone ra have inconsistencies and limita (‘some evidence’) for male Hsd: were not statistically significant. on many grounds, including plasias and malignant schwanno also reduces confidence in the diation may cause adverse health tions. The very expensive, $25 Sprague Dawley SD rats exposed methodological deficiencies. mas, which is a large departure data. effects such as brain cancer. Re million NTP study did not provide at different specific absorption Limitations “For cancers which have be from the expected ratio of many “ICNIRP considers that the cently, the US National Technolo any input for revising the current rates (SAR) of (electromagnetic The ICNIRP noted that both stu nign tumour precursors, progres hyperplasias to very few malig NTP (2018a, b) and Falcioni et al gy Program (NTP) and the Ramaz ly recommended radiofrequency radiation) energy. They found dies followed good laboratory sion to cancer often involves a se nancies. These results suggest (2018) studies do not provide a zini Institute published their guidelines. that the exposureresponse rela practice (GLP); both used much quence from hyperplasias that for radiofrequency fields to consistent, reliable and generaliz animal studies on the cancerin tion to be statistically significant. larger numbers of animals than (proliferation of apparently nor be carcinogenic, they would need able body of evidence that can be ducing potential of cell phone ra Weight of evidence Falcioni et al reported a signif previous research, and both ex mal cells), to dysplasia (cell ab to affect the conversion rate from used as a basis for revising cur diation. Though the former is yet The NTP researchers used weight icant increased incidence of posed animals over the whole of normalities present), to cancer (a hyperplasias to malignancies in rent human exposure guide to publish its conclusions, inter of evidence approach, whereby schwannomas (a type of tumour) their lives. However, the Commis small percentage of these cells addition to potentially inducing lines,” the Commission conclud ested parties interpreted the stu potential effects were described in the hearts of male rats exposed sion noted that “in determining undergo malignant transforma hyperplasias. However, with very ed. It may not amuse many dies wrongly. On September 4, as being supported by ‘clear’, at the highest SAR (0.1 W/kg) of the relevance of the results for tion)” ICNIRP explained. few cases with cardiac Schwann activists and scaremongers! 2018, the International Commis ‘some’, ‘equivocal’ or ‘no’ evi mobile phone radiation, which human exposure guidelines, po Quoting appropriate literature, cell hyperplasia and schwanno sion on Non Ionizing Radiation dence (where a study was not according to them is consistent tential limitations need to be ICNIRP observed that for schwan mas (for example, none in the [email protected] Protection (ICNIRP), the agency adequate for comment on poten with one of the NTP studies. They carefully considered, and wheth nomas, less than 30% of hyper control group), it is difficult to in (The writer is a former secretary of the whose recommendations most tial effects, it is described as an also reported increased inci er any of the evidence regarding plasias progress to malignancy..., terpret and accept this finding Atomic Energy Regulatory Board)

THE HINDU NOIDA/DELHI SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2018 BEING 15 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE HEALTHLINE RITESH KUMAR Lower the carbs Popular advice on weight loss promoted by health authorities might be outdated Anahad O’Connor Dr. Mozaffarian called the find dy was ambitious and very well fats to avoid extra calories,” it ings “profound” and said they con run. But he said the researchers states. t has been a fundamental tenet tradicted the conventional wisdom used methods that raise questions But experts like Dr. Ludwig ar of nutrition: When it comes to on calorie counting. “It’s time to about the results. One method gue that the obesity epidemic is Iweight loss, all calories are shift guidelines, government poli they used to track metabolism, driven by refined carbohydrates created equal. Regardless of what cy and industry priorities away called doubly labelled water, has such as sugar, juices, bagels, white you eat, the key is to track your ca from calories and lowfat and to not been shown to be reliable in bread, pasta and heavily processed lories and burn more than you ward better diet quality.” people on lowcarb diets and it cereals. These foods tend to spike consume. The new study is among the lar may have exaggerated the amount blood sugar and insulin, a hor But a large new study published gest and most expensive feeding of calories the subjects burned, he mone that promotes fat storage, “In school meal programmes, high school students are less on Wednesday in the journal BMJ trials ever conducted on the sub said. and they can increase appetite. Dr. likely to select milk, whole fruit, and water when fruit juice challenges the conventional wis ject. The researchers recruited 164 Ludwig and his colleague Dr. Cara is available, thereby decreasing the nutritional quality of dom. It found that overweight adults and fed them all of their dai Calorie count Ebbeling have published studies their lunches.” — Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity adults who cut carbohydrates from ly meals and snacks for 20 weeks, The idea that counting calories is suggesting that diets with different

study, University of Connecticut their diets and replaced them with GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO while closely tracking their body the key to weight loss has long ratios of carbs and fat but identical fat sharply increased their metabo loss promoted by health authori weight and a number of biological been embedded in the govern amounts of calories have very dif AROUND THE WORLD lisms. After five months on the ties — count calories, reduce por measures. The trial cost $12 million ment’s dietary guidelines. It is the ferent effects on hormones, hun diet, their bodies burned roughly tion sizes and lower your fat intake and was supported largely by a driving force behind public health ger and metabolism. He has also 250 calories more per day than pe — might be outdated. grant from the Nutrition Science policies like mandatory calorie written a bestselling book on low How heart attacks ople who ate a highcarb, lowfat “This study confirms that, re Initiative, a nonprofit research counts on restaurant menus and ercarb diets. enfeeble diet, suggesting that restricting markably, diets higher in starch group cofounded by Gary Taubes, food labels. Many experts say that Dr. Hall and others disagree. A unique molecular process can help carb intake could help people and sugar change the body’s burn a science and health journalist and the underlying cause of the obesity They have published studies dis explain why heart muscle cells maintain their weight loss more rate after weight loss, lowering me proponent of lowcarbohydrate epidemic is that Americans eat too puting the notion that carbres undergo negative and permanent easily. tabolism,” says Dr. Dariush Mozaf diets. The study was also support many calories of all kinds, prompt tricted diets accelerate metabo changes after a heart attack. The farian, the dean of the Friedman ed by funding from the New Ba ed by easy access to cheap and lism and fat loss. Dr. Hall said that Getty Images/iStockphoto study, by researchers in Japan, What it shows School of Nutrition Science and lance Foundation, the National In highly palatable foods, and that lowcarb diets have many benefits: advances understanding of how heart The new research is unlikely to Policy at Tufts University, who was stitutes of Health and others. they need to exercise portion con They can help people with Type 2 attacks can cause longterm cardiac damage, and presents a end the decadeslong debate over not involved in the research. “The While some experts praised the trol. On its website, for example, diabetes manage their blood sugar potential target for treating cardiovascular ailments. Heart the best diet for weight loss. But it observed metabolic difference was findings, others were more cau the National Institutes of Health levels, for example. But he argues attacks, also known as myocardial infarction, are the most provides strong new evidence that large, more than enough to explain tious. Dr. Kevin Hall, a scientist and encourages people to count calo that the carb and insulin explana common cause of death in patients with heart disease. The all calories are not metabolically the yoyo effect so often expe obesity expert at the National Insti ries and warns that dietary fat has tion for obesity is too simplistic activity of Drp1, a protein that mediates the fission (or splitting) alike to the body. And it suggests rienced by people trying to lose tute of Diabetes and Digestive and more calories per gram than pro and has been “experimentally fal of mitochondria, is increased after heart attacks. In mouse that the popular advice on weight weight.” Kidney Diseases, said the new stu tein or carbs: “You need to limit sified” in rigorous studies. NY TIMES hearts, the researchers found that under lowoxygen conditions, another protein (filamin A) served as a binding CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC partner for Drp1 and heightened its activity, which promoted exaggerated fission of mitochondria and leading to increased cardiomyocyte senescence. In the aftermath of a heart attack, Beaming out malaria Road map to heart muscle cells named cardiomyocytes that are near the damaged area often enter senescence — a cellular state affordable medicines characterised by decreased performance — resulting in permanent heart dysfunction and increased fragility. The t goes without saying findings have been published in Science Signalling. Ithat no government can allow market forc Dip in ‘good’ gut bacteria es a free hand in the hastens ageing pricing of medicines. A study in the U.S. has shown that a Affordability of medi decline in a beneficial species of gut Gopal Krishna Agarwal cines has to be ensured bacteria could underlie the rise in insulin so that no person in resistance that is commonly associated need of it has to suffer. with the ageing process. Restoring the Getty Images This is especially true in India where a large number of bacterial species with supplementation people are still poor. The Narendra Modi government of either the bacterium itself or a fatty acid reversed insulin has been focussing on making medicines affordable by resistance in aged mice and monkeys, indicates that such making them available through Jan Aushadhi Kendras, treatments should be investigated as potential therapies for enabling price control of essential medicines, promot ageassociated insulin resistance. Ageing in humans and other mammals has been linked to chronic inflammation, which can ing prescription of generic medicines by medical prac lead to a rise in blood glucose levels and resistance to the titioners and focussing on a conducive intellectual pro hormone insulin. It emerges that the link between the gut perty regime (IPR). microbiome and 4BL immune cells, which express pro inflammatory factors, have a role in insulin resistance. When Generic drugs the researchers sequenced the faecal microbiome in young and Generic drugs tend to cost less than branded ones . aged mice, they found that aged rodents displayed a reduction These drugs form the largest segment of the Indian in a beneficial bacteria species named Akkermansia muciniphila. pharmaceutical sector. The increasing prevalence of This deficiency had a key role in raising insulin resistance. The chronic diseases and everrising costs of hospitalisa findings have been published in Science Translational Medicine. tion and medicines are responsible for the growth of the generic drugs market. In this context, the National Omega-3 protects against Health Protection Scheme (NHPS), also known as ‘Ay premature birth ushman Bharat’, launched in 2018 — which seeks to in A Cochrane review study has found sure 10 crore families for ₹5,00,000 — is expected to Non-invasive test kit: A few years ago, a group of students pursuing science and technology degrees in Uganda, often that increasing the intake of omega3 exponentially increase the demand for medicines. A missed class because of malarial attacks. A medical check, in many instances, ended up with them being misdiagnosed. It longchain polyunsaturated fatty acids wellfunctioning, endtoend generic medicine supply was such experiences that spurred them to think of developing a low cost and reusable device that could be used to test for (LCPUFA) during pregnancy reduces malaria instantly. According to Brian Gitta, one of the students, they were determined to find a solution. After much hard chain will keep costs low. Getty Images/iStockphoto the risk of premature births. work they have now come up with a device called ‘Matibabu’, a word in Swahili which means “treatment”. Unlike current Premature birth is the leading cause of testing methods that require blood to be drawn for testing, ‘Matibabu’ is “bloodless”. The device is clipped onto a finger Targeted implementation death for children under 5 years old worldwide. Premature and ‘using light and magnetism, a red beam of light scans the finger to detect changes in the colour, shape and An initiative to ensure affordable medicines through babies are at higher risk of a range of longterm conditions concentration of red blood cells — all of which are often affected when the malaria parasite is present in the body’. The dedicated outlets was launched in the form of the including visual impairment, developmental delay and learning result is available within a minute and sent to a mobile phone which is linked to the device. Another key feature is that one Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Janaushadhi Pariyojana difficulties. On examining data from 70 randomised trials, the does not require specialised training to use the device. The students believe ‘Matibabu’ is the answer to addressing (PMBJP) in 2008. The mission was to create awareness researchers found that for pregnant women, increasing the diagnosis of malaria in lowincome settings such as Uganda. Says Moris Atwine, 25, and a coinnovator, “Matibabu offers about generic medicines and provide commonly used daily intake of longchain omega3s lowered the risk of having prompt, accurate diagnosis and reduces challenges of power blackouts, the need for trained personnel and time spent on generic medicines and healthcare products. However, a premature baby (less than 37 weeks) by 11, an early premature diagnosis.” The device and application won the first prize at this year’s ‘Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation’ — an award as on March 31, 2012, only 157 stores were opened; la baby (less than 34 weeks) by 42% and, the risk of having a dedicated to engineering innovation on the continent, which was announced last month. ‘Matibabu’ has also received an small baby (less than 2,500g) by 10%. ter, many became nonfunctional. Till the end of 2014 honourable mention from Time magazine as one of 50 best inventions of 2018. The ‘Matibabu’ team hopes to have a 15, there were 99 stores. Bursting bubbles working device within the next two years and is working with the Mulago National Referral Hospital, in Uganda, to test and In 2014, a ‘Strategic Action Plan’ was prepared. The validate the device against current diagnostic test methods. Picture shows Moris with a smartphone which is used as a part product basket now has more than 600 medicines and launch bacteria * of the device. — A compilation. AFP/SUMY SADURNI 154 surgical and consumables in all therapeutic catego A new study in the U.S. has shown how CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC ries. There are over 4,000 Jan Aushadhi Kendras . bubbles contaminated with bacteria These centres are gradually becoming ubiquitous. can act as tiny microbial grenades, bursting and launching Yoga, as heart healer Directive on prescriptions microorganisms, including potential Getty Images pathogens, out of the water and into the Due to sustained efforts by the government to put in air. In the study, the researchers found that bacteria can affect a Trial shows ‘similar’ benefits as prescribed postoperative cardiac care place a legal framework to promote generic medi cines, the Medical Council of India issued a directive in bubble’s longevity: A bacteriacovered bubble floating at the Bindu Shajan Perappadan es. “It gives me a lot of con September 2016, making it mandatory — by amending water’s surface can last more than 10 times longer than an fidence now in sending my uncontaminated one can, persisting for minutes instead of the Indian Medical Council (Professional Conduct, Eti reliminary results of the patient on a yogabased car seconds. During this time, the cap of the contaminated bubble quette and Ethics) Regulations, 2002 — to prominently Plargest ever multicentre diac rehabilitation [pro thins. The thinner the bubble, the higher the number of mention the generic names of drugs along with brand droplets it can launch into the air when the bubble inevitably randomised trial on cardiac gramme] as we realise that names in prescriptions. There is an advisory to State bursts. A single droplet, the researchers estimate, can carry up rehabilitation and of health the benefits are similar to drug controllers that all branded drugs, imported or to thousands of microorganisms, and each bubble can emit benefits of yoga have shown conventional CR pro domestically manufactured, should mandatorily have hundreds of droplets. The findings have been published in the that it is safe and offers “si grammes... This trial tran generic names mentioned in bold while packaging. journal Physical Review Letters. milar” benefits as cardiac scends yoga from belief to The instrument of price control is also being used to care typically prescribed af sciencebased restraint companies from pricing their medicines ex Altering brain chemical ter surgery. intervention.” orbitantly. ‘Every few years, the Health Ministry, in makes crickets sluggish The study was conduct consultation with experts, draws up a National List of Crickets that are exposed to human ed in 24 centres across In Focus on quality of life Essential Medicines (NLEM). These medicines, drugs that alter serotonin levels in the dia and recruited close to GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO Professor Sanjay Kinra, deemed essential for the treatment of common condi brain are less active and less 4,000 patients immediately tion in Chicago, U.S., last yoga is safe, relatively inex Head, Epidemiology, Lon tions, automatically come under price control. Under aggressive than crickets that have had after discharge following a month. pensive, does not need an don School of Hygiene and NLEM 2015, a total of 376 drugs are under price con Getty Images/iStockphoto no drug exposure, according to a study heart attack. The patients Professor D. Prabhaka elaborate infrastructure, is Tropical Medicine, and co trol. In addition, the government has the power to conducted in Sweden. In humans, people with different levels were randomised to under ran, Vice President, Public culturally acceptable and principal investigator of the bring any item of medical necessity under price con of brain chemicals, such as serotonin and dopamine, often go a structured ‘YogaCaRe’ Health Foundation of India improves quality of life, study, says that improve trol — paragraph 19 of the Drugs (Prices Control) Order, behave differently. The researchers, therefore, set out to programme that comprised (PHFI) and principal inves notes a release issued by ments in cardiac care mean 2013. This provision was used to regulate the prices of experimentally change the levels of serotonin and dopamine in meditation, breathing exer tigator of the study, ex the authors. that most people nowadays cardiac stents and knee implants’. There has been an the crickets. They did this by giving the crickets human cises and selected heart plained that the prevalence Independent doctors say survive a heart attack. “The attempt to strike a fine balance between the health in pharmaceuticals that are known to act on the serotonin and friendly yoga poses in addi of ischemic heart disease in that there is now scientific focus has therefore shifted terests of consumers and the financial health of Indian dopamine systems and are used to treat depression and tion to lifestyle advice. The India has increased by over evidence to recommend yo to improving the quality of pharmaceutical companies. Parkinson’s disease, respectively. While changing the serotonin control group received con 50%, and in terms of abso ga as equivalent to conven life of survivors of heart at levels made crickets less active and less aggressive, altering The Indian pharmaceutical sector industry supplies ventional lifestyle advice. lute numbers, from 10 mil tional CR. tacks so that they can read over 50% of the global demand for various vaccines, their dopamine levels did not change their behaviour. The lion in 1990 to 24 million in just better after such a ca findings appear in Scientific Reports. 40% of generic demand in the U.S. and 25% of all med Target group 2016. ‘Evidence-based’ tastrophic event and icines in the U.K. Over 80% of antiretroviral drugs DEMYSTIFYING SCIENCE Cardiac rehabilitation is “This trial is the largest “Modern medicine de contribute maximally to (used in the AIDS fight) are supplied by India. prescribed for patients after so far on yoga as well as car mands evidence of benefit their families and society.” A serious threat to affordability of medicines comes a heart attack and cardiac diac rehabilitation (CR) and for interventions for its wid According to him, this is Formica archboldi from big global firms. These companies and their go What is ? surgery to get patients back has shown the potential of er acceptance, especially particularly true in India vernments have been trying to lobby with India to It is an ant species known to collect the decapitated heads of to normal activities. yoga to be an alternative to among the medical re where heart attacks tend to make patent protection more stringent despite the fact another ant species called the trapjaw ant, which is itself a The study in question, conventional CR pro search community. This occur at a very young age. that both compulsory licensing and prohibition of fierce insect predator. F. archboldi chemically mimics its trap which lasted for five years grammes. It addresses the study is a step in that direc Yoga has gained im jaw ant prey and uses what is normally a chemical defence (a evergreening, provided under the Indian Patents Act, and ended in September unmet needs of cardiac reh tion. We hope that it spurs mense popularity national 1970, are valid under the TRIPS agreement of the spray of formic acid) as a deadly weapon against trapjaw ants. 2018, was funded by the In abilitation for patients in several such large rigorous ly and internationally as a F. archboldi does this by imitating the trapjaw’s cuticular World Trade Organisation. India has resisted any dian Council for Medical low and middleincome ly performed trials in other tool for health promotion, hydrocarbons, a complex layer of waxes that coat the outer change in its intellectual property laws that can ha ve surface of an ant. Ants typically use these compounds as nest Research (ICMR) and the countries,” he says. diseases where yoga can be especially after the United the effect of making medicines unaffordable. mate and speciesspecific signals. Evidence so far has shown Medical Research Council – The benefits applied to potentially beneficial,” says Nations declared June 21 as that F. archboldi is a parasitic species. A video about these ants U.K. The results were pre those patients who attend Dr. Ambuj Roy, Professor of International Yoga Day. Gopal Krishna Agarwal is National Spokesperson of the BJP on and research can be found at: https://youtu.be/heuYzC12etg — sented at a meeting of the ed at least 75% of the ses Cardiology at the All India economic affairs Science Daily American Heart Associa sions. The results show that Institute of Medical Scienc [email protected]

NOIDA/DELHI THE HINDU 16 NONFICTION SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2018 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Moving beyond identity politics BOOKSHELF Two writers on the perils of the modern world and why we need a movement that demands freedom for everyone

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n his 1989 essay ‘The End of History?’, American political scientist Francis Fukuyama fa I ■ Emergency Chronicles mously argued that liberalism had Gyan Prakash triumphed over other political Penguin Random House ideologies. The essay, written a ₹699 few months before the collapse of the Berlin Wall and published in A comprehensive account of Indira Gandhi’s Emergency of The National Interest journal, shot ■ Identity: Contemporary Identity ■ Mistaken Identity: Race and 1975–77 strips away the myth him into world fame with the dis Politics and the Struggle for Class in the Age of Trump Recognition that this was a sudden event integration of the Soviet Union. He Asad Haider Francis Fukuyama Verso brought on solely by the then was celebrated as a philosopher prime minister’s desire to Hachette India ₹1,093 who predicted the imminent col ₹499 cling to power. Prakash lapse of communism, the last re argues that the Emergency maining ideological alternative to changes that happened in socie ﬁght of the blacks “by dying” was as much Mrs. Gandhi’s liberalism. So with the universal ties over the past many years, transformed into a mass labour or doing as it was the product of spread of liberal institutions and partly due to globalisation and in ganiser. The project Baraka initiat Indian democracy’s troubled consumer culture, it can be ar creasing inequality, have set the ed was to break with identity and relationship with popular politics. gued that history has reached it stage for the strongman populism move toward mass organisation, goal — that was his “end of histo to thrive. Haider reminds the proponents of ry” argument. However, as it In Fukuyama’s words, people identity politics. He calls for an turned out, the triumph of liberal have a craving for dignity, which “insurgent universality” in which

ism in early 1990s was neither un he calls thymos, the third part of With one voice: There’s a global trend of rightwing populists being elected to the helm of states. * GETTY IMAGES people would no longer be passive iversal nor longlasting. Certainly, the human soul as described by victims but “active agents of a pol history continued. It brought the Plato. Liberal democracies offer ward greater socioeconomic in superficial. He leaves the struc liberal identity politics can actual itics that demands freedom for same Fukuyama back to explore this dignity to the people, but in equality,” writes Fukuyama. tures of liberal democracy or cap ly liberate people from their mate everyone.” the crises within liberal societies times of economic distress, the pe Interestingly, the last chapter is italism which is its economic phi rial hardships. His conclusion is In another example, he writes almost thirty years after the essay ople who are left behind would called ‘What is to be done?’, the losophy untouched and focusses that “liberal identitarianism” lacks about the successful Haitian insur was published. perceive such crises as a loss of title of a novel by the 19th century on the superstructure of some the emancipatory potential that’s rection against slavery and French identity rather than a loss of re Russian revolutionary Nikolay vague liberal culture, which he required to change societies. In his colonial rule. In 1799, Haitian revo ■ The Bombay Plan: Discontent in democracy sources. The growing inequality of Chernyshevsky, which Vladimir hopes can subsume multiple iden view, identity politics is “neutrali lutionary leader Toussaint L’Ou Blueprint for Economic In his latest book, Identity: Con- the globalised world has changed Lenin also used as the title of a tities of people, including victims zation of movements against racial verture was asked by France to Resurgence temporary Identity Politics and the its politics. pamphlet he wrote in 1902. Fu of racism, xenophobia, violent oppression. It is the ideology that write on the banners of his army a Sanjaya Baru & Struggle for Recognition, Fukuya The Left, which was fighting for kuyama, however, has nothing in majoritarianism and patriarchy. emerged to appropriate this few words praising the French pe Meghnad Desai ma is dealing with a liberal world the working class in the last centu common with Lenin. He advocates Asad Haider moves a step furth emancipatory legacy in service of ople. He refused, and wrote a let Rupa that’s facing the surge of illiberal ry, concentrates on “promoting for greater integration of different er in problematising identity in his the advancement of political and ter to Napoleon Bonaparte: “It’s ₹500 populist politics. There’s a global the interests of a wide variety of identities into creedal national book, Mistaken Identity. Haider, a economic elites.” He stands for a not a liberty of circumstance con A host of writers revisit the trend of rightwing populists being groups perceived as being margi identities built around the founda Ph.D. candidate at the University more radical solution. ceded to us alone, that we want. Bombay Plan, a blueprint on elected to the helm of states — Do nalized,” while the Right “is rede tional ideas of modern liberal de of California and a founding editor It’s the absolute adoption of the economic development nald Trump in the U.S., Recep Tay fining itself as patriots who seek to mocracy. “Liberal democracy has of Viewpoint Magazine, is looking Towards emancipation principle that no man, born red written by J.R.D. Tata, G.D. yip Erdoğan in Turkey, Vladimir protect traditional national identi its own culture, which must be at identity politics from a leftist Haider says identity politics needs black or white can be the property Birla and others, and show Putin in Russia, Viktor Orbán in ty, an identity that is often explicit held in higher esteem than cul point of view. If Fukuyama has at to move from its liberal paradigm of his fellow.” how it was prescient in its Hungary, Rodrigo Duterte in the ly connected to race, ethnicity or tures rejecting democratic va tacked both the identity politics of and assume an anticapitalist un It is this broader vision Haider is approach, as also influential Philippines and so on. Quoting religion.” lues,” he writes. the victims, say victims of racism, iversality for it to be emancipato asking proponents of identity pol in shaping economic planning and public policy in the first Larry Diamond, Fukuyama says In such a scenario, identity pol Fukuyama realises that liberal and rightwing, ethnonationalist ry. He cites interesting examples. itics to follow. “Our world is in dire decade after India’s “the global surge towards democ itics “has become a cheap substi democracies by default do not populists like the Trumps or Erdo One is the life of Amiri Baraka, need of a new insurgent universal independence. Written in two racy that began in the mid1970s tute for serious thinking about provide economic equity and the gans, Haider doesn’t do that ba American Black rights activists ity. We are capable of producing parts, the Plan was published has gone into a... global reces how to reverse the 30year trend lack of equity can create crisis lancing act. He positions himself and writer. Baraka, who once said it... What we lack is program, stra in 1944 and 1945. sion.” Why? In his view, the rapid in most liberal democracies to within societies. But his solution is with the victims and asks whether the White people can help the tegy and tactics,” he writes. King of spin Power and responsibility An overview of the Nprogramme from the days of Nehru Shane Warne, ner like how strict fathers indulge their flamboyant Kallol Bhattacherjee ken subsequently by the Rajiv who had the younger sons. But when it Gandhi and P.V. Narasimha Rao comes to Steve Waugh, ulfikar Ali Bhutto had famous governments and the creation of cricket world at ■ Becoming there is no love lost. At Zly declared that Pakistan the nuclear deterrence during his feet, on his Michelle Obama one point, Waugh drops would build a nuclear weapon the Rajiv Gandhi years. Penguin Random House life, flaws and all Warne and the wound fes even if its people had to survive It was during the Rajiv Gandhi ₹999 ters. But Warne found a by eating grass. For years, the In era that the Indian Air Force kindred spirit in Waugh’s dian political leadership had a si equipped its Mirage fighter air The former First Lady invites K.C. Vijaya Kumar twin brother Mark, who milar dilemma as building nu craft to ‘fliptoss’ or ‘bombtoss’ readers into her world, chronicling the experiences remains a buddy. clear capability of a country that ■ Indian Nuclear Policy required to launch a nuclear that have shaped her, from Harsh Pant & Yogesh Joshi hane Warne nudged When it comes to team faced severe food shortage and weapon from the aircraft’s un her childhood in Chicago to leg spin into the mates or rivals, either frequent social unrest was a diffi Oxford University Press derbelly. The authors rightly her years as an executive Srealm of limelight. It Warne is all gushing admi cult task. ₹325 gave the credit of the decision to balancing motherhood and was never easy as tradi ration or supremely caus However, having survived a weaponise the nuclear pro work, to her time spent at the tionally his nation Austra tic. But when it comes to long line of technological and the nuclear programme claiming gramme of India to Rajiv Gandhi. White House. She describes lia, like the West Indies, his craft, lyricism and supplyrelated crises, Indian nu a sort of ‘moral superiority’ root The decision once taken by her triumphs and her was known as the back punchy lines stir. Sample clear power is a reality, as two ed in India’s nonviolent past. Rajiv Gandhi has continued till disappointments, both public yard of fast bowling. this: “The art of legspin is writers tell us in their new book, The book is a must read for the current Prime Minister Na and private, telling her story With just a few prede creating something that is Indian Nuclear Policy. academics and interested read rendra Modi. as she has lived it. cessors like Bill O’Reilly not really there. It is a They pick up the strands of ers as it gives a historical over The writers dwell on the cru and Richie Benaud dab magic trick, surrounded policy that have guided perhaps view of the nuclear programme cial 1998 nuclear test by the Atal bling in wrist spin, Warne by mystery, aura and fear. the only nuclear programme of from the days of Nehru to the Bihari Vajpayee government at did not have heady histo What is coming and how the developing world that has re first Peaceful Nuclear Explosion length and explain that India has ry to lean on. Yet he mas will it get there? At what mained untainted by allegations in 1974 during the Indira Gandhi maintained its strategic autono tered the craft, slipped speed, trajectory and of nonproliferation. era. The Indian nuclear pro my and has become a responsi one past England’s Mike with what sound, because The authors argue that the In gramme by then had survived ble nuclear power that has Gatting’s bat, referred to when correctly released, dian nuclear policy is defined by the pressure of the Non Prolifer gained entry into the important as ‘the ball of the centu the ball fizzes like elec four factors — status, security, ation Treaty of 1968 but it had to technology regimes of the world. ry’, and tallied 1001 inter tricity on a wire.” domestic politics and the role of go through the most difficult set But they maintain that it is un national wickets (708 in individuals. They identify the In of technological restrictions after likely to change its posture or cut Tests; 293 in One Day In Admitting to mistakes dian exceptionalism that existed 1974. The book provides a de down its nuclear capability after ■ Listen To Me ternationals). Magic trick: ‘The art of leg spin is creating something Warne may seem a bit from the days of Prime Minister tailed description of the nuclear having attained it following de Shashi Deshpande that is not really there.’ * AP sheepish and a touch eco Jawaharlal Nehru which drove journey and various decisions ta cades of difficulty. Westland ‘Larger than life’ nomical with the truth, ₹699 Legspin is an arduous same note, Nicholas be it his and Mark A loved Indian writer opens skill and often its pur scripts a candid apprai Waugh’s tryst with a boo up about her life and work. veyors lose control. But sal: “Women have been kie, of sharing pitch and She tells us about being a Warne maintained his both his fun and his folly. weather information, or Resurrection road writer and a feminist, guile and along with In Cricket, of course, has the incident with a diuret drawing readers into her dia’s Anil Kumble, lent a been his fulfilment.” ic, aimed at weightloss, world: growing up in Meeting scientists bringing extinct animals back from the dead Dharwad as Kannada fresh lease to cricket’s which got him an inadver littérateur Sriranga’s Anusua Mukherjee rare vocation that fuses The turning point tent dopetaint. He can be But that is not all. If entire spe daughter, moving to Bombay the slow waltz and the And then Warne takes ov naïve and slip down the cies can be revived, they can as a student, figuring out her quick dagger. er. He reveals his mater vanityslope, yet there is arwin’s Origin of Species was have a positive effect on the envi identity as a newly married There is much more to ■ No Spin nal roots in Europe, the no denying his bluntness Dthe first official blow at god’s ronment. Kornfeldt travels to woman, and negotiating the Warne than just a turning Shane Warne — My growing up years, the in admitting to his con prerogative of creating life — Dar Chersky in Siberia where Sergei unfamiliar world of Indian delivery. He was larger Autobiography with cricketing dreams, the flicting desires — the end win took the job away from the and Nikita Zimov have created publishing. than life and prone to Mark Nicholas fondness for beers and less quest for women and divine maker and placed it at the the Pleistocene Park, which re booking space in sala Ebury Press/ Penguin junk food and that turn the concurrent search for hands of nature, scandalising plicates the steppe grassland cious tabloids. His mar ₹699 ing point — his association a stable partner. “I also pious Victorians. Ever since, out ecosystem full of grazing herbi riage crumbled and he with coach Terry Jenner. love working out a wo rage at the concept of creating ■ The Re-Origin of Species: vores that vanished 20,000 had no qualms in lighting Mark Nicholas, the chal In their first meeting, Jen man, finding out what life without god’s help has exist A Second Chance for 30,000 years ago. a cigarette, quaffing his lenge was to spring sur ner holds an unflattering makes her tick and then ed side by side with exhilaration Extinct Animals The Zimovs have heartening beer and let his opinions prises at the reader, fully mirror. what makes her happy. I at the very possibility. You can Torill Kornfeldt results to show for their efforts, known. He was an incred aware of the great man’s Warne recounts: “He can think of nothing bet think of humans taking up this Westland although replicating the model ible cricketer and as a legacy on the field and his said: ‘You are overweight ter than being in a strong task either as dogooders want ₹699 on a larger scale remains full of man, his flaws were so ob foibles off it. In Nicholas — — fat, actually. You have relationship and caring ing to make the world a better logistical difficulties. vious that people could a former firstclass cricke no discipline and you for each other,” he writes. place or as hubrisladen egotists ica, projects are on to bring them If you are still inclined to dis throw darts at them. ter from England and a think you are better than He also presciently de tinkering with nature with fatal back. But how will mankind be miss all this as scifi fantasy, the ■ Connaught Place and the It is not surprising that gifted writer and com you are. You didn’t de clares: “As a kid I made consequences, depending on nefit if woolly mammoths start photographs — of the scientists, Making of New Delhi there is a fair bit of litera mentator — Warne had serve to play for Austra plenty of mistakes, and which side of the debate you are. roaming the earth again? the fossils, of close cousins to re Swapna Liddle ture on Warne. Sports the right wordsmith. lia’.” Probably Warne saw still make a few to this As a journalist, Torill Korn At the most frivolous level, vived species — will produce a Speaking Tiger Books ₹499 writer Gideon Haigh in A critic referred to Ni the light then. He trained day, but I have achieved feldt manages to present both there is childish excitement at reality effect. his excellent book On cholas’s previous book A hard and strove to be the things that have brought sides of the case with remarkable witnessing a lost world — the ex One has to agree after reading The origin of New Delhi can Warne, wrote: “Warnie Beautiful Game as a ‘love best cricketer he could smiles and happiness. objectivity. She combines her citement that made Jurassic Park this book that we live in interest be traced to the Coronation swaggered down the mid letter to cricket’. But be. The public grew with me, conversations with conservation a megahit. ing times, Chinese curse or not. Durbar in December 1911, dle of the road, living throughout No Spin Ni Gratitude is not just re just as they did on ‘The biologists with her own reflec Going deeper, there is a com Perhaps the negative possibilities where George V announced the transfer of the capital of large but always bowling cholas ensures that we served for Jenner, Warne Truman Show’, sort of liv tions as a layperson on the ongo plex mix of guilt — since we are of reviving lost species can be the Empire from Calcutta to big, revelling in the atten hear Warne’s voice, as he dispenses his thankyou ing and breathing it all.” ing research. It is the blend of exterminating flora and fauna at countered if is done with respon Delhi. Liddle traces the tion while never losing explains in his introduc notes to his first set of as It is an apt summation scepticism and hope that makes an amazing speed, we can make sibility: even the Frankenstein events that led up to that day the love of his craft.” tion: “The book is written tute captains — Allan Bor of Warne, flaws and all. her book convincing. amends by bringing some back; monster would not have been and how even as the new And when Warne sat mainly in his (Warne’s) der and Mark Taylor. In Nicholas, the coauthor, The IUCN’s list of extinct ani and powerplay — the geneticists monstrous if Victor Frankenstein capital took shape, the down to pen his autobiog vocabulary. It is Shane’s tense men, who backed and the readers, couldn’t mals contains 866 species. In dif involved want to resurrect the hadn’t been neglectful of his shopping hub of Connaught raphy No Spin along with story not mine.” In the their exuberant legspin have asked for more. ferent parts of Europe and Amer animals simply because they can. creation. Place gave life to the city.

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England, Smriti blitz proves too strong for Australia Windies in Harmanpreet lends ﬁne support with a rapid knock of her own as India tops group semiﬁnals Press Trust of India Providence SCOREBOARD INDIA VS AUSTRALIA

Opener Smriti Mandhana India: Taniya Bhatia c Lanning b Deepti 19 (17b, 3x4), Elyse Vil smashed a careerbest 83 to Gardner 2 ( 7b), Smriti Mand lani c Veda b Deepti 6 (9b), Ash power India to a competitive hana c Perry b Schutt 83 ( 55b, leigh Gardner c Veda b Poonam 167 for eight and a 48run 9x4, 3x6), Jemimah Rodrigues c 20 (19b, 2x4, 1x6), Meg Lanning win against Australia in a Villani b Kimmince 6 (9b), Har c Veda b Radha 10 ( 16b, 1x4), Group B match of the ICC mantpreet Kaur c Haynes b Rachel Haynes st Taniya b Poo Women’s World Cup here on Kimmince 43 ( 27b, 3x4, 3x6), nam 8 ( 12b), Ellyse Perry (not Veda Krishnamurthy c out) 39 (28b, 3x4, 1x6), Sophie Vlaeminck b Gardner 3 (4b), D. Molineux c Veda b Anuja 9 (8b, Hemalatha b Perry 1 ( 3b), 1x4), Dellisa Kimmince c & b Deepti Sharma b Perry 8 (10b), Radha 1 ( 3b), Megan Schutt c 4b Arundhati Reddy c sub b Perry 6 Taniya b Anuja 4 ( ), Tayla Anya Shrubsole. (4b, 1x4), Radha Yadav (not out) Vlaeminck st Taniya b Anuja 0 * STU FORSTER/GETTY IMAGES 1 (1b); Extras (w14): 14; Total (2b), Alyssa Healy (absent hurt); (for eight wickets, in 20 overs): Extras (lb1, w2): 3; Total (in Agencies 167. 19.4 overs): 119. Gros Islet Fall of wickets: 15 (Taniya, 1.5 Fall of wickets: 127 (Villani, overs), 249 (Jemimah, 6.3), 3 4.1), 227 (Mooney, 4.2), 356 England and West Indies qualified from GroupA to Saturday. The Aussies could 117 (Harmanpreet, 13.3), 4131 (Lanning, 9.1), 459 (Gardner, join India and Australia in manage only 119 in reply, (Veda, 15.4), 5136 (Hemalatha, 10.4), 590 (Haynes, 15.1), 16.2), 6154 (Smriti, 18.1), 7166 (Molineux, 16.6), 7105 (Kim the semifinals. handing India a comfortable (Arundhati, 19.4), 8167 mince, 17.4), 8118 (Schutt, A hattrick from pacer victory. (Deepti, 19.6). 19.1), 9119 (Vlaeminck, 19.4). Anya Shrubsole (three for The Indian bowlers — Anu Australia bowling: Vlaeminck 2 India bowling: Arundhati 20 11) helped England bundle ja Patil (three for 15), Deepti 090, Gardner 30252, 190, Anuja 3.40153, Deepti out South Africa for 85. Sharma (two for 24), Radha Schutt 40301, Molineux 40 40242, Radha 40132, The scores: South Africa 85 in Yadav (two for 13), Poonam In top gear: Smriti Mandhana belts one during the course of her aggressive 83.* COURTESY: ICC 450, Kimmince 40422, Poonam 40282, Harman 19.3 overs (Chloe Tryon 27, Yadav (two for 28) — shackled Perry 30163. preet 20190. Natalie Sciver three for four, the Australian lineup. three sixes and as many Smriti gave India a good six off Sophie Molineux in Villani at short thirdman. Australia: Beth Mooney b Toss: India. Anya Shrubsole three for 11, Earlier, Smriti blasted fours to share a 68run part start after her fellow opening the fifth over before repeat Skipper Harmanpreet incl. a hattrick, Kirstie Gor nine fours and three sixes in nership for the third wicket batsman Taniya Bhatia (2) ing the treatment to Megan then came out to bat at No. 4 Smriti to complete her fifty 14th over, Harmanpreet don two for 18) lost to En her 55ball 83run knock to with Smriti. was dismissed in the second Schutt in the next over to ac even as Smriti smashed in 31 balls. Harmanpreet slapped one over extracover gland 87 for three in 14.1 ov anchor the Indian innings. over, caught by Meg Lanning cumulate big runs. another boundary straight then hoisted one over extra before depositing a full toss ers (Danielle Wyatt 27, Dane She also became the second Losing ground at midwicket off Ashleigh In the seventh over, Delis down the ground. cover off Gardner to pick up by Kimmince over short fine van Niekerk two for 13). West Indies 187 for five in fastest Indian to compete India, however, lost a bit of Gardner. sa Kimmince dismissed Jemi Harmanpreet too joined in her second six as India leg. However an attempt to 20 overs (Hayley Matthews 1000 runs in T20 interna ground in the end following Smriti then stepped up mah Rodrigues (6), who had as she charged down the reached 83 for two in 10 ov go for another big shot 62, Deandra Dottin 49, Stafa tionals after Mithali Raj. the quick wickets of Veda and picked up a boundary scored 59 against New Zea pitch and smashed Molineux ers. The Indian skipper con proved fatal as she was nie Taylor 41) bt Sri Lanka 104 Skipper Harmanpreet Krishnamurthy and D. He each in the next two overs to land in the opening match. It over midwicket for her first tinued to find boundaries, caught by Haynes. in 17.4 overs (Chamari Atapat Kaur too produced a stroke malatha within a space of keep the score ticking. was an outside edge that was six. A beautifullooking making life difficult for the India eventually ended tu 44, Hayley Matthews three ful 27ball 43 studded with four balls. She blasted a four and a brilliantly caught by Elyse sweep shot then helped Australian bowlers. In the with 167 for eight. for 16). du Plessis warns Australia Bravo recalls contract fallout Hamish scores ‘Avoid confrontation with Kohli to keep him quiet’ BCCI was very supportive of all of us, reveals WI allrounder unbeaten ton Press Trust of India Press Trust of India remember fully well before INDIA-A IN NZ Melbourne New Delhi we said we weren’t going to South African captain Faf du Former allrounder Dwayne play the first game, 3 a.m. in Press Trust of India Plessis offered tips to Austra Bravo says the BCCI “offered the morning, I get a message Mount Maunganui lia ahead of their bigticket to pay” his players who from the BCCI boss, the old clashes against India: avoid threatened to pull out of the one, Mr. (N) Srinivasan, that Parthiv Patel topscored confrontation with Virat 2014 ODI series in India after ‘please take the field’ with 94 before IndiaA de Kohli and give him “silent a contract fallout with the “I listened to him and clared at 467 for eight, but treatment”. West Indies Cricket Board. woke up at 6 a.m. to tell the its bowlers struggled in the du Plessis on Friday said He said that a message at team that we have to play. face of New ZealandA’s that his team gave India cap 3 a.m. from the then BCCI And everyone was against strong response in the unof tain Kohli the “silent treat chief N. Srinivasan prompt playing. Everyone thought ficial first Test here on ment” in an attempt to keep ed him to convince his team that I panicked and chick Saturday.

him quiet when the two to play the first ODI after Dwayne Bravo. * FILE PHOTO ened out, and all these The visitors had gone to teams squared off earlier threatening to pull out. things,” Bravo said. stumps at 340 for five on the this year. Then, in the middle of the need our board to sort out The decision was unani opening day at the Bay Oval. “There are guys like that fourth ODI in Dharamshala, our contracts’,” said Bravo. mous, according to Bravo. New Zealand reached 176 in international cricket (who the WICB informed the BCCI “The BCCI was very, very “Collectively as a team, we for one at stumps on the se enjoy the confrontation). We that it had decided to call off supportive and that is one of decided what to do. I lis cond day. Opener Hamish Hamish Rutherford. feel like that when we play the remainder of tour after a the reasons why most of us tened to every single player. Rutherford, son of former * FILE PHOTO against someone like Virat “contract fall” with the were still able to continue Apart from one player, eve New Zealand captain Ken, Kohli, he wants to get into players. playing without any serious, ryone signed on a piece of was going strong at 106 off proved to be ineffective as the fight,” he said. Counterproductive: Faf du Plessis feels that sledging Big money was at stake serious problems taking paper that they were all in 169 balls, hitting 16 boun the New ZealandA openers Virat Kohli only gets him going. * FILE PHOTO but Bravo said the BCCI un place.” support of leaving the tour. daries and a six. His opening put on 121 runs. Better not... derstood their problems. “The (fourth) game we partner, Will Young, made The scores: IndiaA 467 for eight decl. in 122.1 overs (Ha “There’s one or two guys in you’ll get him going’” not huge runs — he scored “Yeah, they understood, be Sequence of events went out (the whole team ac 49 before falling to offspin numa Vihari 86, Parthiv 94, Vi each team around the world du Plessis said, “He’s an the one hundred there in cause they were very sup The 35yearold allrounder companied Bravo to the ner K. Gowtham. jay Shankar 62, K. Gowtham that we as a team discuss be amazing player. We gave him Centurion when the wicket portive. They even offered to also spoke about the se toss), so it was just a message Mohammed Siraj and 47, Blair Tickner four for 80) vs fore playing against them. the silent treatment and he was slow. Kohli’s men land pay us whatever we were quence of events that tran and signal, trying to let them Gowtham did the bulk of New ZealandA 176 for one in We’re like, ‘better not say still scored runs in South ed in Brisbane on Saturday losing. We were like, ‘we spired before the WICB de know that we were not hap the bowling while medium 55 overs (Hamish Rutherford too much to him because Africa, but we felt like it was for the big tour. don’t want you to pay us. We cided to call off the tour. “I py with what was going on.” pacer Deepak Chahar 106 batting, Will Young 49). Warriors beats Paltan Zverev shocks Federer Prajnesh outplays Myneni Bulls, Fortune Giants match ends in tie Djokovic gears up for semifinal with win over Cilic Gains 125 ranking points to move close to the top 100 PKL caution and traded raid and tackle points at regular in BENGALURU OPEN Pune and I hope I finish it as court more often. Prajnesh Press Trust of India tervals. At the end of the good as this one.” responded by mixing things Ahmedabad firsthalf, Paltan held a slen N. Sudarshan On the day, Prajnesh did up and not allowing his op der 1312 lead. BENGALURU what was required of him. ponent play to a set pattern. Bengal Warriors defeated The second half saw the Myneni is a tactile player, The hold to 51 best exem Puneri Paltan 2622 in the same pattern as neither Prajnesh Gunneswaran’s who lives for the feel of the plified this. Prajnesh drilled interzonal challenge week team gained an advantage. 62, 62 victory over Saketh ball. three precise body serves match of the ProKabaddi There was no all out inflict Myneni in the $150,000 Ben Prajnesh ensured he denying Myneni a full swing Season Six on Saturday. ed and the raiders of both galuru Open final on Satur would experience none of it. at the ball. When the latter Maninder Singh scored the teams could not get go day was not as clinical as the He played to a set plan; the tried to shift position, an im six raid points for Warriors ing as in the past. scoreline suggests, but the considerable topspin he maculately placed ace which and was ably supported by In the 36th minute, Ma magnitude of it wasn’t lost generated denied Myneni wrongfooted Myneni was Ravindra Kumawat, who ninder made a crucial two on him. the pace he usually likes, the answer. pitched in with five crucial point raid to give Warriors a The title in Bengaluru is and the predominantly “I knew it was going to be points. For Paltan, G.B. 2119 lead. In the next mi his second $150,000 Chal crosscourt shots took the tough,” said Myneni. “He More scored nine points. nute, the team from Bengal lenger crown this year and ball away from his strike plays heavy, he is lefty and More got Paltan up and inflicted the first all out of comes on the back of a great zone. A break each in the serves big. You have to neu running with two raids in the match to open up a six season which has seen him first and seventh games was tralise that. It is also difficult two minutes but Warriors point gap (2519). earn a tieclinching victory enough to seal the first set. to play against someone who levelled the game with one In another match, Benga in the Davis Cup against Chi doesn’t give away free tackle and one raid point. luru Bulls and Gujarat For na, a win over Canadian star Changing tack points. Credit to him for the Akshay Jadhav scored tune Giants were involved in Denis Shapovalov on grass Just as in the first, he broke fantastic week. A lot of posi two raid points to give Pal an exciting 3030 verdict. Finding his range: Alexander Zverev proved too hot for Roger Federer in the semifinal. * AFP and repeated forays into the early in the second set too. tives for me to take as well.” tan a 42 lead. More made a The results: main draws of ATP 250 Myneni changed tack, The result: twopoint raid as Paltan led ping a rally with Federer ogise for the situation in the events. looked to take the ball early Bengal Warriors 26 (Manin ATP FINALS Final: Prajnesh Gunneswaran bt 63 after five minutes. der Singh 6, Ravindra Kumawat leading 43 in the secondset tiebreak,” said the German. The 125 ranking points is and tried stepping into the Saketh Myneni 62, 62. Warriors never let the 5) bt Puneri Paltan 22 (G.B. Agence France-Presse tiebreak after a ballboy “The ball boy dropped the set to propel the 29year old lead increase to more than More 9). London dropped a ball, forcing the ball and it is the rules we to a spot just outside the three points and levelled the Gujarat Fortune Giants 30 point to be replayed. have to stop the point.” world’s top 100 from his cur scores 77 after 10 minutes. (Sachin 11) tied with Bengaluru Alexander Zverev beat Roger Zverev won the point with “I'm unbelievably proud,” rent ranking of 144. Another Both teams played with Bulls 30 (Pawan Kumar 10). Federer 75, 76(5) on Satur an ace and nudged into a 54 added the World No. 5. “My fine tournament at the day to reach the title decider lead before Federer inexplic team and me have been $50,000 Challenger next at the ATP Finals in a match ably netted with a simple fo working so hard for this.” week in Pune will put him in that ended in confusion and rehand volley to hand the Earlier, Novak Djokovic contention for a maiden high drama. German two set points, the prepared for his lastfour main draw appearance at The 21yearold German, second of which he took on clash with Kevin Anderson the 2019 Australian Open. leading the charge of the his own serve. in ominous fashion, outlast new generation against the Immediately after the ing Marin Cilic 76(7), 62. Pay off old guard, is now just one match finished there were The Serbian World No. 1 “It has been a great run,” an win away from the biggest boos from the proFederer started Friday’s evening elated Prajnesh said after the title of his career, but the crowd at London's O2 Arena match at London’s O2 Arena victory. “I didn’t expect to Swiss must wait for a tilt at and oncourt interviewer with the luxury of knowing do this well at the beginning his 100th tournament Annabel Croft told them to he had already qualified as of the year. I knew I had the victory. be “more respectful” as Zve the winner of the Guga Kuer potential to do well. But it all The end of the match was rev had been playing by the ten Group, but looked sharp happened too quickly. All Winner and vanquished: Prajnesh Gunneswaran played Overpowered: Bengaluru Bulls defenders prove too strong overshadowed by an un rules. and focused from the first the work I put in is paying to a set plan and denied Saketh Myneni the pace during for K. Prapanjan of Gujarat Fortunegiants. * VIJAY SONEJI usual incident — Zverev stop “First of all I want to apol point. off. One more tournament in their summit clash. * V. SREENIVASA MURTHY

NOIDA/DELHI THE HINDU 18 SPORT SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2018 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Pinki shows her mettle against Anush Breezeofthesouth for feature HYDERABAD: Breezeofthesouth Kiran Naidu 58.5, 3. Golden For SWEETIE PIE runs with a good chance in the tune (6) Dhebe 57.5, 4. Kings KASU BRAHMANANDA REDDY Kasu Brahmananda Reddy Me wood (5) Srinath 55.5, 5. Guiding MEMORIAL CUP Sonia wards off a strong challenge from Doaa Tujani morial Cup (1,200m), the feature 6 (1,200m), 3 Force (8) N. Rawal 55, 6. King yo & over, rated 74 & above (Cat. event of the races to be held here Maker (2) Ashhad Asbar 55, 7. San on Sunday (Nov. 18). I), 4.15: 1. Rahuls Pet (6) Gopal Megan Reid of Scotland in Vinto (4) Ajit Singh 54.5 and 8. Singh 64.5, 2. Chase Your Dreams WORLD BOXING HIDDEN BLOOM PLATE Satin Symphony (7) Tanwar 54.5. (4) Deep Shanker 59.5, 3. the next round. 1. WAVE RIDER, 2. KINGSWOOD, 3. (1,100m), (Cat. II), maiden 2yo Breezeofthesouth (9) Akshay Ku Y.B. Sarangi 1 GOLDEN FORTUNE Other important results (preli- only (Terms), 1.45 p.m.: 1. Aon mar 59, 4. Prospero (5) Ashhad NEW DELHI minary rounds): Aon Aon (4) Akshay Kumar 55, 2. SRINIVASA SADAGOPA Asbar 58, 5. Preciosa (3) Kiran Pinki Rani, arguably one of Gusty Note (8) A.A. Vikrant 55, 3. 4 SHARMA MEMORIAL CUP (Div. Naidu 57, 6. Dream Girl (8) N. 51kg: Sara HagnighatJoo (Can) Mon General (6) Ashhad Asbar I), (1,600m), 3yo & over, rated Rawal 54, 7. Dance Oh Dance (2) the underachievers who hit bt Roberta Mostarda (Ita) 41, 55, 4. Red Snaper (3) Arshad 26 to 46 (Cat. III), 3.15: 1. Big Srinath 53.5, 8. That’s My Class (1) the headlines in the past for Zhaina Shekerbekova (Kaz) bt Alam 55, 5. Star Racer (7) G. Brave (3) Srinath 60, 2. Royal Md. Ismail 53.5, 9. Dancing Leaf her intense rivalry with Mary Rosette Esotia (COD) 50, Ingrit Naresh 55, 6. Red River (2) Nakhat Hero (6) Ajit Singh 59.5, 3. Brad (7) Arshad Alam 51.5 and 10. Singh 53.5, 7. Tough Lady (1) field College (2) Dhebe 58.5, 4. Valencia (Col) bt Viviana Corre Paprika (10) Afroz Khan 50. Kom, displayed controlled Dhebe 53.5 and 8. Valrhona (5) Wood Bridge (8) Md. Ismail 56, 5. 1. BREEZEOFTHESOUTH, 2. PROS- aggression to tame former dor (Aus) 50, Rose Smith (Irl) Sai Kumar 53.5. Solo Winner (5) C.P. Bopanna PERO, 3. DANCE OH DANCE World youth champion bt Gabriela Rostisova (Bul) 32, 1. MON GENERAL, 2. AON AON 55.5, 6. Musashi (4) Akshay Ku Tsukimi Namiki (Jpn) bt Naz Ca AON, 3. RED SNAPER mar 54, 7. Brave Warrior (1) KINNERASANI PLATE Anush Grigoriayan in a 51kg (1,200m), 5yo & over, rated kiroglu (Tur) 32, Virginia Fuchs SRINIVASA SADAGOPA Koushik 53.5 and 8. Willow Glen 7 second round bout on anoth SHARMA MEMORIAL CUP (Div. (7) Arshad Alam 53. upto 30 (Cat. III), 4.45: 1. Golden (USA) bt Anamarija Cvrk (Cro) 2 Xanthus (9) Kunal Bunde 61, 2. er fruitful day for India in the II), (1,600m), 3yo & over, rated 1. BRADFIED COLLEGE, 2. 50 26 to 46 (Cat. III), 2.15: 1. China MUSASHI, 3. SOLO WINNER Moon Walker (6) Nakhat Singh 61, World women’s boxing Millennium (4) Md. Ismail 60, 2. 3. Ultimate Risk (5) Arshad Alam 57kg: Mariia Sartakova (Rus) bt SOVIET STAR PLATE (1,100m), 60.5, 4. Invasion (4) Akshay Ku championships at the Indira Alta Vita (3) Akshay Kumar 59, 3. 4yo & over, rated 26 to 46 Helena Envall (Swe) 32, Skye Staridar (8) N. Rawal 58.5, 4. His 5 mar 59.5, 5. Sefarina (8) Ajit Singh Gandhi Stadium Complex (Cat. III), 3.45: 1. Sweetie Pie (5) 59.5, 6. Abracos (7) Sai Kumar Nicolson (Aus) bt Amy Andrew Excellency (2) Dhebe 56.5, 5. Afroz Khan 60, 2. Vallee Bloomer here on Saturday. (NZ) 4:1, Nilawan Techasuep Golden Hope (7) Harinder Singh 55.5, 7. Aalishaan (1) Md. Ismail (2) Md. Ismail 60, 3. Lord Gift (9) 55, 8. Golden Adara (2) Abhay Sonia warded off a strong (Tha) bt Snizhana Kholodkova 55, 6. Naucratis (5) Srinath 55, 7. Sai Kumar 59.5, 4. Lavender (10) Royal Avenger (6) Arshad Alam Singh 55 and 9. Blaze Of Glory (3) challenge from Moroccan (Ukr) 41, Junhua Yin (Chn) bt Nakhat Singh 59, 5. Coruba (3) Gaddam 52. 53.5 and 8. Spicy (1) G. Naresh Gopal Singh 58.5, 6. Limousine boxer Doaa Tujani to win her Sabrina Aubin (Can) 32, Alessia 1. MOON WALKER, 2. ULTIMATE 50.5. (8) Koushik 56, 7. Thundering (4) RISK, 3. INVASION 57kg second round match Mesiano (Ita) bt Esra Yildiz (Tur) 1. ALTA VITA, 2. NAUCRATIS, 3. HIS Gaddam 56, 8. Proud Warrior (7) 50, while Simranjit Kaur 30, Jutamas Jitpong (Tha) bt EXCELLENCY Kunal Bunde 55.5, 9. Royal Dan Day’s best: BRADFIELD COLLEGE ALTA VITA - beat Amelia Moore of the Upper hand: Pinki Rani had the right answers to all that Anush Grigoriayan threw at her. Delphine Mancini (Fra) 32 DEMOCRACY PLATE (1,600m), cer (6) Gaurav Singh 53.5 and 10. Double: 3yo & over, rated 42 to 62 Reach The Heights (1) N. Rawal BREEZEOFTHESOUTH * 3 USA 41 in a 64kg first round SANDEEP SAXENA 64kg: Maya Kleinhans (Ger) bt (Cat. II), 2.45: 1. Wave Rider (1) Ak 52.5. Jkt: 3, 4, 5, 6 & 7; Tr (i): 2, 3 & 4; bout. Lucia Blazquez (Esp) 50, Mariia shay Kumar 60, 2. Kalinda (3) 1. LIMOUSINE, 2. LAVENDER, 3. (ii): 5, 6 & 7; Tla: all races. It was Pinki, a 2014 Com roccan showing aggression Doaa tried to bridge the yearold Sonia. Bova (Ukr) bt Suchada Panich monwealth Games silver me and the home boxer main gap with Sonia and land Sonia, a former National (Tha) 50, Maria Borzie (Rou) bt dallist, who impressed all taining some distance and punches in the final round, champion from Haryana, Maja Saric (Cro) 41, Yvonne Rasmussen (Den) bt Cara Whar with her 41 victory over Ar scoring through clear while the latter did well to will meet Stanimira Petrova, erau (NZ) 50, WeiHsien Lin Psychic Force wins main event menian Anush. punches. avoid the damage and reply a 54kg World champion in Lee (Tpe) bt Jessica Messina BENGALURU: Psychic Force (Zer (Terms): TREASURE DELIGHT luche (Trevor) 2, Knotty Ash (Ant with welldirected combina 2014, in the third round. The (Aus) 32 van up), won the Karnataka Po (Neeraj) 1, Ciel Etoile (Zervan) 2, ony) 3 and St Pauli Girl (Arshad) Cautious start Rough tactics tions to progress to the Bulgarian defeated Ameri lice Trophy, the feature event of Le Marc (Arshad) 3 and Shivalik 75kg: Yasmin Marzo (Arg) bt 4. Nk, Nk and 21/4. 1m 36.58s. The 28yearold made a cau The Moroccan resorted to prequarterfinals. can Rianna Rios 50. the races held here on Saturday Kiss (Sai Kiran) 4. 71/4, 61/4 and ₹73 (w), 22, 14 and 16 (p), SHP: 28, Myagmarjargal Munkhbat (Mgl) (Nov 17). The winner is owned by 13/4. 1m 24.17s. ₹21 (w), 13, 11 and THP: 37, FP: 183, Q: 113, Trinella: tious start amidst exchange some rough tactics, but the “The coaches boosted my Simranjit landed some 32, Tammara Thibeault (Can) Ms. Ameeta Mehra and trained by 25 (p), SHP: 29, THP: 46, FP: 22, 572 and 376, Exacta: 6,650 and of blows and refrained from Indian did not lose her com confidence, saying that I am spectacular punches on bt Mariya Borutsa (Ukr) 5:0, Darius. Q: 25, Trinella: 179 and 133, Ex 5,106. Favourite: Snowdon. acta: 474 and 320. Favourite: going too close to her oppo posure and stuck to her ‘de the best. The plan was to fo Amelia to win the battle of Aoife O’Rourke (Irl) bt YaChu HUTHARI FESTIVAL PLATE Owner: Ms. Ameeta Mehra. Treasure Delight. Owners: Mr. S. Trainer: Darius. nent in the following rounds. fence first’ strategy. cus on my defence,” said 21 equals. Simranjit will meet Yang (Tpe) 50. 1 (1,400m), rated 00 to 20: Narredu & Mr. Madhav G. Pa LOVELY SIERRA (Samson) 1, Duty ALTENBURG PLATE (1,100m), Without getting flustered tankar. Trainer: S. Narredu. Call (Sai Kiran) 2, South Bell (M. 7 rated 15 to 35, 4yo & over: by the Armenian’s power Naveen) 3 and Dancing Princess BANGARPET PLATE (1,200m), PRINCESS PRIDE (Darshan) 1, packed blows, Pinki mixed (Prabhakaran) 4. Not run: 4 45 to 65: QUEEN LATIFA Rhapsodyein Queen (N. Ganesh) Dauphine and Regal Realm. 2, 3/4 (Nazerul) 1, Louisiana (Trevor) 2, 2, Miss Bolt (B. Harish) 3 and Prin her head and body shots well Big moment for debutmaking nations and 1.2. 1m 27.64s. ₹365 (w), 75, 11 Areca Legend (Arshad) 3 and cess Rumela (Sandesh) 4. Not in the second round and and 40 (p), SHP: 31, THP: 83, FP: Haedi’s Folly (Srinath) 4. Shd, 1 run: Fantastic App. Lnk, 13/4 and rained punches, including a Y.B. Sarangi Congolese supporting their roots Somalia, the outing Syed Mohiuddin Ahmed 1,788, Q: 920, Trinella: 30,042 and 3/4. 1m 12.44s. ₹84 (w), 25, 15 1/2. 1m 07.46s. ₹79 (w), 20, 17 and NEW DELHI (carried over), Exacta: 1,70,346 and 15 (p), SHP: 35, THP: 61, FP: 58 (p), SHP: 47, THP: 118, FP: fine right hook, in the final. boxers, it was a moment to might have been said, “We are glad and take (carried over). Favourite: Turf 317, Q: 122, Trinella: 511 and 171, 1,109, Q: 299, Trinella: 6,041 and “Since my rival was attack Even as Kosovo missed out cherish. The country made disappointing due to her pride in wearing the Prospector. Owner: Mr. B.V. Exacta: 4,985 and 2,374. Favour 7,767, Exacta: 21,048 and 4,510. ing, I worked on the coaches’ on making its World an impact as some of its defeat in a 57kg opening Bangladesh colours at the Singh. Trainer: Samar Singh. ite: Areca Legend. Owners: M/s. Favourite: Princess Rumela. Enthusiast Racing Syndicate. Owner: Mr. C.V. Prasad Rao. BRAMHAGIRI PLATE ínputs and boxed from a dis women’s boxing boxers put up strong fights. round contest but the World championships.” (Div. II), Trainer: Neil Darashah. Trainer: G. Nityanand. tance. championships debut here, “I am proud to have experience was not. One could also witness a 2 (1,400m), rated 15 to 35: KASHKHA (Trevor) 1, Memoriter CHICKMAGALUR NIRVANAPPA BRAMHAGIRI PLATE (Div. I), FULL “It’s my third World cham boxers from eight other represented Congo at the “The crowd support was mixture of emotions on the (Selvaraj) 2, Camila (Arshad) 3 SHETTY NANJAMMA TMP CUP 8 (1,400m), rated 15 to 35: 5 BLOOM (Nazerul) 1, Point To and Scarlet Princess (M. Naveen) (1,600m), rated 30 to 50: KING OF pionships (after 2012 and countries proudly World championships. It’s a really helpful. Some of faces of boxers from the Prove (Srinath) 2, Look Out (P. 2014) and I am keen to gift represented their big moment for our them were Somalis and debutmaking countries — 4. Not run: Mayurana and Have A THE WIND (Dhebe) 1, The Invader Nice Day. 11/2, 1 and 1/2. 1m (Trevor) 2, Casey (Rayan) 3 and Surya) 3 and Likeaknife (Rajesh my countrymen a medal this motherland for the first country,” said 22yearold some were Indians, which such as Mozambique, 26.21s. ₹25 (w), 13, 38 and 13 (p), Tanoura (Darshan) 4. 41/2, 23/4 K) 4. Not run: Aleef. 21/2, Lnk time,” said Pinki. time in the elite event. Marcelat Sakobi, an African was great. It means a lot to Sierra Leone, Cayman SHP: 110, THP: 49, FP: 423, Q: and 31/4. 1m 37.00s. ₹64 (w), 20, and Hd. 1m 25.85s. ₹42 (w), 16, 11 298, Trinella: 1,158 and 265, Ex 15 and 38 (p), SHP: 33, THP: 96, and 30 (p), SHP: 35, THP: 85, FP: Pinki will take on English Four belong to the champion, even after losing be representing my country Island, Scotland and Malta acta: 28,208 and 13,298. Favour FP: 549, Q: 256, Trinella: 19,358, 80, Q: 27, Trinella: 623 and 447, boxer Alice Jones, who beat African continent, two are her 57kg first round bout. as the first boxer (and take — as they entered the ring ite: Kashkha. Owners: Mr. Exacta: 1,18,382 (carried over) Exacta: 9,510 and 6,793. Favour Andrea Llanos of Spain 50, from Europe and one each For Ramla Ali, who oath at the opening with their spirit of Marthand Singh Mahindra, Mrs. and 50,735. Favourite: Indian ite: Point To Prove. Owners: Mr. Rina Mahindra & Mr. P. Pharaoh. Owner: Mr. Ajith Vittal Arjun Sajnani, Mrs. Anneka in the round of 16. from Asia and North resisted the temptation of ceremony with Mary competitiveness and Prabhakar Reddy. Trainer: S. Shetty. Trainer: Prasanna Kumar. Darashah & Mr. M.V.M.G. Appa The day started for India America. being raised in England to Kom),” said Ramla. willingness to learn and Attaollahi. Rao. Trainer: Neil Darashah. KARNATAKA POLICE TROPHY Jackpot: ₹88,494 (eight tkts); Run with Sonia’s win over Doaa. For a bunch of represent her country of Bangladesh chief coach improve. KOKKAREBELLUR PLATE 6 (1,600m), rated 60 & above: ner up: ₹6,321 (48 tkts); Treble (i): The duel began with the Mo 3 (1,400m), maiden 3yo only, PSYCHIC FORCE (Zervan) 1, Pe ₹1,355 (15 tkts); (ii): ₹1,811 (22 tkts). It’s all square Lakshya Vinales clinches his maiden pole of the season storms into semis Marquez crashes but still manages to qualify fifth whose combined timing in Marquez’s Honda team Press Trust of India MOTO GP the first three practice ses mate Dani Pedrosa, who is Markham (Canada) S. Dipak Ragav sion was not in the top 10. retiring from MotoGP after Lakshya Sen defeated Aidil Valencia Incidentally, Vinales re this race and has won this Sholeh Ali Sadikin of Ma The rain and gloom of the cently decided to ditch his event four times had to settle laysia 218, 2118 to storm last few days lifted just race number 25 after two for ninth place on the grid, into the semifinals of the enough ahead of qualifying poor seasons with Yamaha condemning him to start Not an inch given: The spate of draws continued in the World men’s singles of the BWF for the final race of the Moto and has chosen number 12 from the third row. Chess championship featuring Magnus Carlsen, right, and World Junior Champion GP season as Spain got ready for the next year to mark a Fellow Spaniard and Fabiano Caruana. * AP ship here. to welcome its recently fresh start. threetime World Champion The World No. 3 Laksh crowned World Champion Vinales’ illustrious team Jorge Lorenzo, who will re Press Trust of India moves. “I just got way too ya opened strongly against Marc Marquez for his home mate and seventime Moto place Pedrosa at Honda to go London casual,” the Norwegian his Malaysian rival and coming party. All smiles: Maverick Vinales will start from the front for GP champion Valentino Ros headtohead with Marquez, Threetime defending added. completed the quarterfi However, it all went down Sunday’s race. * AFP si though had a miserable will start 13th in his final race champion Magnus Carlsen nals tie in just 31 minutes. hill just minutes into the final qualifying session as he for Ducati. Playing white, reigning was neck and neck with However, Vishnu Vard qualifying session when Mar tough Catalan, who has five his first pole position of the failed to qualify out of Q1 and With rains forecast for world champion Carlsen American Fabiano Caruana han Panjala and Srikrishna quez lost control of his Hon titles in six years in Moto GP, season ahead of Suzuki’s will now start 16th. Sunday, it could be an enter narrowly avoided a defeat to after eking out a draw in Sai Podile went down to da into turn four and stunned everyone as he Alex Rins and Ducati’s An The Q1 session sees two taining race to bring the cur his 26yearold American their sixth world champion Koreans Tae Yang Shin and crashed into the gravel trap. came back with just a few mi drea Dovizioso who was Mar drivers go through to Q2 tains down on an eventful challenger. ship game. Chan Wang in the quarter nutes left on the clock and quez’s closest challenger for alongside the top 10 drivers 2018. “I made many mistakes,” If the two are still level af finals. The 10thseeded Ko Visibly hurt managed to qualify fifth for the title this year. based on the combined (The writer is in Valencia the 27yearold Carlsen said ter 12 games, the title will be reans won 2111, 218 in the The fivetime champion Sunday’s race. Vinales had to come times from the first three at the invitation of Honda after a gruelling sixanda decided by a series of tie men’s doubles quarterfi looked visibly hurt, dislocat At the top, it was Yamaha’s through the first session of practice sessions over Friday Motorcycle and Scooters In- half hour match with 80 breakers. nals. ing his left shoulder, but the Maverick Vinales who took qualifying in which drivers and Saturday morning. dia).

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MRF CHALLENGE JK RACING Sports Bureau Rayan rozario Dubai Greater Noida After winning the first race Chennai’s Karthik Tharani on Friday, 20yearold Bel has had some good memo gian Max Defourny achieved ries on a Volkswagen Polo at a splendid double by win BIC a few years ago. But this ning the fifth race in the first time it was a bigger assign round of the MRF Challenge ment and he stood the test here on Saturday. Max Defourny... double well to win the first race of Andreas Estner (Germa delight. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT the premier Euro JK 18 class ny) and Patrick Pasma (Fin in the 21st JK Tyre FMSCI Na

land) won the third and the first round. “I am gra tional racing championship Karthik Tharani made his pole position count winning Race 1.* SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT fourth races. dually getting used to the here on Saturday. Defourny, with two wins car and this is reflected in The 24yearold, who happy to seal the top berth third place with 79 points. terjee; 2. Arya Singh; 3. Karthik and three podiums, has fin my improved timings. qualified for the pole the followed by Arya Singh. “It’s absolute pressure on Tharani. ished the first round with “I hope to have a better other day, cashed in on the The podium finishes for all three of us. We’ll all be LGB4: Race 1: 1. Vishnu Prasad; 106 points, ahead of Great outing in Bahrain next advantage to open a bit of Karthik came in handy at the fighting hard and my only 2. Raghul Rangasamy, 3. Sohil Shah. Race 2: 1. T.S. Diljith, 2. Britain’s Jamie Chadwick month, and hopefully by gap at the start. Mumbai’s end of the day as it helped goal is to stay ahead. And, I Rohit Khanna, 3. Sandeep (78) and Singapore’s Danial Nayan Chatterjee was him to the top of the table am going to go for it tomor Solution to yesterday’s Sudoku the time we get to Chennai Kumar. Frost (70). in February, I should be breathing down his neck with 82 points. But it is only a row,” said Karthik. “I think I could have done right through and even posi point that separates him ACRR: 1. Karthik Mateti, 2. Han more competitive,” said the Chennai’s other stars sika Abeysinghe, 3. Max better and won a couple of tioned himself to go past the from Nayan (81) and it can be 32yearold Chennai driver. Vishnu Prasad (LGB4) of Stauffer. more races. I made a few leader in the last lap. But anybody’s game from here. The results (provisional, all 10 Msport and Joseph Mathew Gixxer Cup: 1. Vidhan Dubey, 2. mistakes, but more impor laps): Race-3: 1. Andreas Estn Karthik withstood it all to fin Championship leader (Suzuki Gixxer Cup) had a Anthony Lalawmpuia, 3. Clin tantly, I’ve picked up points er (Ger); 2. Jamie Chadwick ish on top of the podium. Ashwin Datta, however, did mixed day but managed to ton Cordeiro. at the start of the champion (GBr); 3. Max Defourny (Bel). In the second race, the re not enjoy the kind of start hang on to their champion JK Superbikes Cup 1000cc: 1. ship.” Race-4: 1. Patrick Pasma (Fin); verse grid came in to play that he wanted to. He began ship leads. Gurvinder Singh, 2. Dilip Rog India’s Chetan Korada, 2. Defourny; 3. Michelangelo and, this time Karthik, who from P5 after a poor qualifier The results (day one): Euro JK ger, 3. Deepak Ravi Kumar. though finishing way down Amendola (Bel). started sixth on the grid and failed to deliver the pace 2018: Race 1: 1. Karthik Tharani; JK Superbikes Cup 600cc: 1. the grid in all the five races, Race-5: 1. Defourny; 2. Chad fought hard only to finish that he showed through the 2. Nayan Chatterjee; 3. Brayan Vijay Singh, 2. Kulwant Singh, 3. took some positives from wick; 3. Danial Frost (Sin). third. Nayan went home season, and is now in the Perera. Race 2: 1. Nayan Chat Kamran Dubash. CM M ND-NDE YK https://t.me/Estore33_com Downloaded From:- www.Estore33.com www.Estore33.com https://t.me/TheHindu_Zone_Official EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

THE HINDU NOIDA/DELHI SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2018 SPORT 19 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE No target for Tokyo: Chopra England within sniffing distance of victory Mooen’s wicket of Mathews puts Sri Lanka in dire straits The javelin champion gets back to training in Patiala ENGLAND IN LANKA ATHLETICS ly with the best in the world would help him top the Agence France-Presse charts when it matters. Kandy Kamesh Srinivasan The world junior cham Spinners led by Jack Leach PATIALA pion did miss qualification helped England close in on a At 20 years of age, Neeraj for the Rio Olympics and un seriesclinching victory after Chopra has the maturity to derstands the unpredictabil Sri Lanka lost a fighting An let success sit lightly on him. ity of sport. gelo Mathews for 88 in the The fact that the young “When there is a bad per second Test on Saturday be man accepts the reality of formance, I only hope peo fore rain stopped play. life was evident when he ple understand, and motiv posed with the packet, as a ate the athlete rather than Crucial blow proof for the courier, after say he is finished.” Moeen Ali trapped Mathews putting his signature to ac lbw in the first over after tea cept the same, outside the Following instructions to end the senior batsman’s main gate of the Netaji Sub With former world record solid resistance that had hash National Institute of holder Uwe Hohn of Germa kept alive Sri Lanka’s hopes Sports (NIS) here. ny — the only man in history of chasing down a target of It may not be easy for so to have thrown the javelin 301.

meone used to signing auto over 100m — guiding him, Leach struck soon to get That’s out: Ben Foakes stumps Kaushal Silva off Jack Leach. * STU FORSTER/GETTY IMAGES graphs and posing for sel Chopra is pretty clear that he Dilruwan Perera for one fies, but Chopra did it has to just follow the when torrential rain halted was batting on 27 when play third halfcentury of the se stand with Roshen Silva (37) without any hesitation. instructions. proceedings for the day with was stopped. ries, came in with Sri Lanka frustrated the English spin The stringent rules do not “In the Doha Diamond Sri Lanka on 226 for seven. Leach has claimed four on a shaky 26 for three. ners in the afternoon ses permit any courier packet to league, three Germans had The hosts, who trail the wickets with his leftarm or The former captain sion. Mooen had Silva caught be delivered within the pre more than 90m throws. It threematch series 01, need thodox spin while Mooen played a gritty innings that behind with a faint edge. The cincts of the NIS. was very rare. I was fourth another 75 to win with three has taken two on a turning lasted 137 deliveries and also umpire had given Silva not Chopra has the ability to with 87.43m. I am trying to wickets and three sessions in pitch. built crucial partnerships. out before England success stay focused on the task of have good throws consistent hand. Niroshan Dickwella Mathews, who hit his His 73run fifth wicket fully reviewed the decision qualifying for the Olympics ly,” said Chopra, who won in its favour. and delivering the first ath the Asian Games with a na SCOREBOARD SRI LANKA VS ENGLAND, SECOND TEST, FOURTH DAY letics medal for the country tional record 88.06m. Early wickets in the quadrennial Games. With a bunch of other In England — 1st innings: 290. overs): 346. ews lbw b Moeen 88, R. Silva c Leach had rattled the Sri The process has already dian javelin throwers being Sri Lanka — 1st innings: 336. Fall of wickets: 14, 277, 3108, Root b Mooen 37, N. Dickwella Lankan toporder with three started as the camp has com inspired and following his England — 2nd innings: J. 4109, 5183, 6219, 7301, 8 (batting) 27, D. Perera lbw b early wickets after the tou menced at the NIS with most The commoner: A courier boy takes a ‘proof’ snap of footsteps, Chopra is confi Leach lbw b Perera 1, R. Burns 301, 9305. Leach 2; Extras (b5, lb4): 9; rists were bowled out for of the prominent athletes. Neeraj Chopra after delivering a packet. * KAMESH SRINIVASAN dent that the event would lbw b Pushpakumara 59, K. Jen Sri Lanka bowling: Perera 20.4 Total (for seven wickets, in 65.2 346. Lefthanded opener Di Chopra says that he does become more popular in the nings c de Silva b Dananjaya 26, 2963, Pushpakumara 271 overs): 226. muth Karunaratne then put not have a target in terms of distance for the Olympics. the World Championship. I country. With the army, J. Root lbw b Dananjaya 124, B. 1011, Dananjaya 2501156, de on 77 with Mathews before Silva 4070, Lakmal 114, 216, 326, have no target for Tokyo, ex Sports Authority of India Stokes lbw b Perera 0, J. Buttler Fall of wickets: falling to Adil Rashid for 57. b Dananjaya 34, Moeen lbw b 40140. 4103, 5176, 6221, 7226. <> When there is a bad ‘Prepare well’ cept to do my best. I know (SAI) and JSW Sports extend England stretched its se performance, I hope Dananjaya 10, B. Foakes (not Sri Lanka — 2nd innings: D. Kar “I will try to prepare well that nobody has won it for us ing support, Chopra says out) 65, S. Curran b Dananjaya unaratne c Foakes b Rashid 57, England bowling: Anderson 5 cond innings lead to 300 people motivate the and be at my best. Olympics in athletics,” said Chopra, that it would be a “team 0, A. Rashid lbw b Dananjaya 2, K. Silva st Foakes b Leach 4, D. 2120, Leach 23.22734, Mo with overnight batsman Ben athlete rather than is the biggest competition in confident that the expe work”, with the common J. Anderson b Perera 12; Extras de Silva c Jennings b Leach 1, K. een 150652, Rashid 171 Foakes hitting an unbeaten say he is finished the world, even bigger than rience of competing regular goal towards the Olympics. (b4, lb9): 13; Total (in 80.4 Mendis lbw b Leach 1, A. Math 521, Root 50150. 65. TV PICKS SA prevails in rainhit match Boult strikes as Kostic corners glory Golf: Australian Open, DS Special Correspondent port, 6 a.m. NBA: Sony Ten 1 (SD & HD), Beats Australia comfortably in a game reduced to 10 overs Kiwis fight back Muzaffarnagar 6.30 a.m. With her unique chopping Sri Lanka vs England : 2nd Agence France-Presse AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE innings 153. Babar Azam top style of play, third seed Na Test, day five, Sony ESPN (SD Gold Coast ABU DHABI scored with 63. talija Kostic of Serbia won & HD), 10 a.m. Speedster Chris Morris Pakistan vs New Zealand : New Zealand, trailing by 74 Trent Boult finished with the Bhavna Swarup $25,000 1st Test, day three, Sony Ten claimed two wickets as runs in the first innings, was four for 54, moving past form ITF women’s tennis tourna 2 (SD & HD), 11.30 a.m. South Africa strangled Aus 56 for one at close on the se er allrounder Chris Cairns’ ment on the grass courts of Badminton: Hong Kong tralia to a 21run victory in cond day of the first Test tally of 218 Test wickets. the Services Club on Open, final, Star Sports 2 (SD their rainreduced T20I on against Pakistan on Saturday. Boult now has 219 wickets Saturday. & HD), 11.30 a.m. the Gold Coast on Saturday. Skipper Kane Williamson was in 55 Tests. Leftarm paceman Natalija led 62, 31 when Boxing World Champion The match was reduced ships: SS Select 1 (SD & HD), batting on 27 and opener Jeet Neil Wagner became the fourth seed Tereza Mihali 1 p.m., 5 p.m. to 10 overs a side after heavy Raval (26) as the Kiwis still eighth New Zealander to com kova of Slovakia, who had UEFA Nations League: Sony rain prevented a scheduled trailed by 18 runs with nine se plete 150 Test wickets. endured a string of tough Ten 2 (SD & HD), 7.30 p.m., start cond innings wickets intact. The 32yearold Wagner matches earlier, retired. 10.30 p.m. South Africa easily pro Pakistan, resuming at 59 reached the milestone in his While Kostic, with her ILeague: Star Sports 3, 7.30 tected its total of 108 for six for two, was dismissed for 227 37th Test for his adopted sharp serve and imaginative p.m. off 10 overs, restricting Aus PKL: Star Sports 2 (SD & HD), in reply to New Zealand’s first country. play, had not dropped more Natalija Kostic. tralia to 87 for seven. * KAMESH SRINIVASAN 8 p.m. than six games in any of her Morris claimed the wick SCOREBOARD PAKISTAN VS NZ, FIRST TEST, SECOND DAY matches in the tournament, Kostic (Srb) bt Tereza Mihaliko ets of D’Arcy Short for a gol Mihalikova had played three AIFF lauds New Zealand — 1st innings: 491, 5174, 6177, 7195, 8 va (Svk) 62, 31 (retd.). Dou den duck and Chris Lynn for threesetters , including the 153. 220, 9227. bles: Aldila Sutjiadi (Ina) & Dan 14 in his opening over to trig one against Zeel Desai in the Ni Wang (Chn) bt Kyoka Okam women’s team Pakistan — 1st innings: Imam New Zealand bowling: Boult ger a wicket slide. prequarterfinals. ura & Michika Ozeki (Jpn) 76 ulHaq c Williamson b de 18.26544, de Grandhomme Press Trust of India The Australians fell away The results (finals): Natalija (6), 75. Grandhomme 6, Mohd. Hafeez 136302, Ajaz 244642, New Delhi from 21 for one after two ov Incisive: Chris Morris not only proved difficult to get away, c Williamson b Boult 20, Azhar Wagner 185301, Sodhi AIFF on Saturday lauded ers to be 60 for six upon the but also picked up a couple of wickets. * AFP Ali c Watling b Boult 22, Haris 100411. the women’s senior team dismissal of Alex Carey for Sohail c Latham b Sodhi 38, New Zealand — 2nd innings: South Africa smashed 42 ter being sent into bat. Asad Shafiq b Boult 43, Babar for making the second eight in the seventh over. Jeet Raval (batting) 26, Tom Good show by Indians The scores: Azam c Watling b Boult 62, round of the AFC Olympic Glenn Maxwell was Aus runs, losing just the one Latham b Hasan 0, Kane Willi South Africa 108 for six in 10 Sarfraz Ahmed c Wagner b Ajaz Qualifiers. The 2020 Olym tralia’s topscorer with 38 off wicket, while Australia amson (batting) 27; Extras Press Trust of India points. In the 43kg final, overs (Faf du Plessis 27, Nathan 2, Bilal Asif st. Watling b Ajaz pic Qualifiers were held re 23 balls but was guilty of could manage only 27 runs, (b3): 3; Total (for one wkt. in New delhi Sweety defeated Japan’s Mi CoulterNile two for 19, An 11, Yasir Shah c Watling b Wag cently in Yangon. “This is moving around the wicket and also lost its top three 22.4 overs): 56. Indian wrestlers bagged a wa Magara to clinch gold. In batsmen. drew Tye two for 18) bt Austra ner 9, Hasan Ali c Taylor b de for the first time the Indian and missing hittable deliver lia 87 for seven in 10 overs Grandhomme 4, Mohd. Abbas Fall of wicket: 10. rich haul of seven medals, in dia’s other gold came in the women have qualified for ies as the pressure mounted Earlier Andrew Tye and (Glenn Maxwell 38, Lungi Ngidi (not out) 0; Extras (b4, lb4, Pakistan bowling: Abbas 64 cluding three gold, to finish 33kg, bagged by Pooja Rani. the second round. Congrat on the home side. Nathan CoulterNile claimed two for 16, Chris Morris two for nb1, w1): 10; Total (in 83.2 50, Hasan 41121, Yasir 81 overall second at the Asian Komal registered a come ulations,” AIFF general se In the end, the Power two wickets each as South 12, Andile Phehlukwayo two for overs): 227. 210, Sohail 1010, Asif 30 under15 girls’ champion frombehind win over Japan’s cretary Kushal Das said. Plays proved the difference. Africa reached 108 for six af 21). Fall of wickets: 127, 227, 391, 130, Hafeez 0.4010. ships at Fujimi, Japan. Fuka Kondo in 36kg. Pinki India finished second in (39kg), Antim (4kg) and Bha the team standings with 181 gyashree (58kg) won silvers. ACI is a good initiative, Ankita and The Netherlands beats France Karman Manjit eyes Doha meet say leading archers duo in final Wijnaldum and Depay find the target for the winner Special Correspondent Former athletes rejected Focused on qualifying for the Worlds Sports Bureau NATIONS LEAGUE NEW DELHI the reported objections Ashwin Achal Taipei City Bengaluru Some leading archers, who from the officials of the AAI Agence France-Presse have represented the coun and the IOA. Ankita Raina and Karman Rotterdam After the high of winning try at the highest stage, have “What’s wrong in giving Kaur Thandi knocked out the 800m gold medal in the come out in support of the chance to archers in the ex third seeds Misaki Doi and The Netherlands has qualifi Asian Games, Manjit Singh Archers Commission of In ecutive body and giving Danka Kovnic 67(2), 64, cation for the Nations has now turned his atten dia (ACI), proposed by them voting rights? This will [108] in the doubles semi League semifinals in its tion to the 2019 Doha Asian courtappointed administra curb corruption and injus finals of the $125,000 WTA sights after beating France Athletics Championships. torcumreturning officer tice. This is an excellent step tournament on Saturday. 20 on Friday to hand Didier Manjit, who is currently S.Y. Quraishi of the Archery and should be implemented In the final, Ankita and Deschamps’ side its first de training at the SAI campus Association of India (AAI). in all sports,” said Satyadev, Karman will face fourth feat since winning the World here, said, “My focus is on According to Olympian who competed in the 2004 seeds Olga Doroshina and Cup. winning a medal at the Satyadev Prasad, Quraishi’s Olympics. Natela Dzalamidze of Georginio Wijnaldum Asian Championships, and initiative to form ACI to Sanjeeva Singh, an Arju Russia. struck on the stroke of half then to qualify for the World make the provision for arch na and Dronachrya award In the $150,000 Challen time and the dazzling Mem Championships.” ers’ representation in the winner, said, “The ACI is a ger in Houston, Leander phis Depay chipped home a The opener: Georginio Wijnaldum struck on the stroke of But first, Manjit will have AAI with voting rights is a good initiative. The commit Paes and Miguel Angel cheeky stoppagetime penal halftime for the Dutch. * REUTERS to qualify for the continen muchneeded step to im tee of exarchers will go a ReyesVarela of Mexico lost ty to bag a win in Rotterdam tal meet. prove the governance in the long way in bringing sport in the doubles semifinals to for Ronald Koeman’s revital for the World Cup. pay 90+5pen) bt France 0. “The toptwo in the Na National federation, which spersons to the fore and Marcelo Arevalo and Jamie ised side that leaves the im They dominated the lack League B: Group 1: Slovakia 4 tionals will earn Doha spots. has been suspended by the enabling them to have a say Cerretani. pressive Dutch needing just lustre world champions (Rusnak 6, Kucka 26, Zrelak 52, Jinson Johnson, myself and Manjit Singh. Sports Ministry for the last in running of their sport in The results: a point against relegated from the off and were only Mak 61) bt Ukraine 1 (Kono a few others will be compet * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT six years due to noncom the country.” $150,000 Challenger, Hous Germany on Monday to denied a even bigger win by plyanka 47); Group 4: Wales 1 ing for the berths,” Manjit pliance with the National Another top archer in his ton: Doubles (semiifnals): leapfrog France and make a magnificent performance (Bale 90) lost to Denmark 2 said, at the ‘Skechers Cham well. To achieve this, I’ve Sports Code. time, Rajendra Guhia, said, Marcelo Arevalo (Esa) & Jamie the semifinals. from France goalkeeper Hu (Jorgensen 42, Braithwaite pions Workshop’ here on doubled my training time. 88). Amidst reports of strong “Athletes from all sports Cerretani (USA) bt Miguel An The Dutch are a point be go Lloris. Saturday. The gold at Jakarta We train at SAI here for a objection to certain provi should support this.” gel ReyesVarela (Mex) & Lean hind leader France, which “This win shows the spirit League C : Group 3 : Cyprus 1 has multiplied the expecta month, and then we conti der Paes 64, 76(7). (Zachariou 24) drew with Bul sions, such as ineligibility of Dronacharya award win only needed a draw on Fri of the team, the quality of tions placed on the athlete. nue our training in Ooty. public servants from con ning Purnima Mahato also $125,000 WTA, Chinese Tai day to qualify for the knock garia 1 (Dimitrov 89pen); Slo The Asian Championship is the players we have,” said venia 1 (Verbic 9) drew with testing polls and paving way welcomed the new provi pei: Doubles (semifinals): An out stage in its last match of ‘Life has changed’ a huge event, so I have to kita Raina & Karman Kaur Depay. Norway 1 (Johnsen 85). for archers’ representation sion. “The exathletes the group. “Yes, people expect me to prove myself,” he said. Thandi bt Misaki Doi (Jpn) & The closest Deschamps’ League D: Group 4: Gibraltar 2 in the executive committee, should get voting rights to Wijnaldum’s goal came do well now. Life has Asked if he has a timing Danka Kovnic (Mne) 67(2), men came to scoring was a (De Barr 10, Priestley 78) lost help promote sports,” she Quraishi has placed the Na 64, [108]. practically at the midway weak 10thminute header to Armenia 6 (Movsisyan 27, changed after the Asian target in mind, Manjit said, tional federation’s amended said. $15,000 ITF women, Mo point of a match dominated from Antoine Griezmann. 48, 52, 54, Kartashyan 66, Ka Games. Now that I have re “If I do my best, I’ll get a me constitution has been C. Lalremsanga, a two nastir, Tunisia: Semifinals: Ilo by the host, which has The results: rapetyan 90+4); Liechtenstein ceived love and well wishes dal. Sometimes, even a placed before the Supreme time Olympian in the 1990s, na Georgiana Ghiroaie (Rou) bt bounced back from the dol League A: Group 1: The Neth 0 lost to Macedonia 2 (Bardhi from so any people, I’m 1:50.0s timing is enough to Court. backed the move. Bhuvana Kalva 76(4), 64. drums after failing to qualify erlands 2 (Wijnaldum 44, De 53, Nestorovski 90+1). even more motivated to win a medal.” CM M ND-NDE YK https://t.me/Estore33_com Downloaded From:- www.Estore33.com www.Estore33.com https://t.me/TheHindu_Zone_Official

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CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC IN BRIEF Organic brew Kerala flood opened the gates to invasive plants Landslides, overflowing rivers helped in spreading them ‘Saudi Prince ordered killing of Khashoggi’ E.M. Manoj of invasive species from WASHINGTON KALPETTA mountainous areas have The CIA believes Saudi Crown Floods and landslips that spread to new spaces Prince Mohammed bin caused widespread havoc formed by landslips. Hardy Salman ordered the killing of all over Kerala in August invasive species can grow journalist Jamal Khashoggi in have also unleashed several very fast in landslipaffect Istanbul, sources familiar alien invasive species of ed areas by using available with the matter said on plants into the State’s wa nutrients, while native spe Friday. The sources said the CIA had briefed other parts of terbodies, posing a threat cies cannot adapt to such the U.S. government, to native biodiversity and conditions. Later, this area including the Congress, on its the aquatic environment, will be a seed source for assessment, which scientists have reported. An many invasive species,” ex contradicts the Saudi ongoing survey of the Kera plains K. Muraleekrishnan, government’s assertions that la Forest Research Institute a research scholar with the Prince was not involved. (KFRI), Peechi, on the im KFRI. WORLD Ī PAGE 3 pact of the extreme climatic DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD events in the State, has re SUNDAY SPECIAL China’s Xi intends to visit vealed that this might lead Lemon basil or Tea bush North Korea next year to invasive biota being in is one of the three new “In rubber plantations, SEOUL Global praise: Tribal women harvesting organic coffee on a plantation near Girliguda in Araku in Visakhapatnam on Saturday. troduced afresh, or being invasive species in the cover crops (species grown Chinese President Xi Jinping The Araku Valley coffee has won the gold medal for the best coffee pod in the Prix Epicures OR 2018 Award in Paris. * K.R. DEEPAK reintroduced in places Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary. mainly to prevent soil ero intends to visit North Korea where the control of their sion) like mucuna (Mucuna next year after receiving an populations was once esta), present in the back bracteata), a nitrogenregu invite from North Korean achieved. waters of the Kuttanad re lating plant, are more likely leader Kim Jongun, South Kushwaha serves ultimatum on BJP The study found that gion, had started colonising to establish themselves in Korea said on Saturday. physical routes and paths paddy fields, cultivated the new areas and subse Mr. Xi will be the first formed due to landslides lands and other isolated quently spread into the for Chinese leader to visit RLSP leader demands ‘respectable’ number of seats for 2019 general election and the overflow of rivers water bodies in nearby ests through the corridors the country since 2005. had paved the way for the areas. created by landslips. This WORLD Ī PAGE 3 Special Correspondent Prime Minister Narendra seats offered by the BJP. “It establishment of primary In Thrissur district’s Kole could affect the soil and DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Patna Modi on seatsharing. was not respectable,” he colonies of invasive species wetlands, notified under destroy the microhabitat of Sri Lankan turmoil hits Rashtriya Lok Samata Party said, though he refused to like Nila grass ( Mimosa di- the Ramsar Convention, in that area,” he added. Indian automakers (RLSP) president and Union Final decision disclose the number. plotricha), mikania ( Mika- vasive plants, especially “The threat [of invasive NEW DELHI Minister Upendra Kushwaha “By the end of the month, a nia micrantha), lantana grass species, such as mata species] should be ad The political turmoil in Sri issued an ultimatum to the final decision on seat sharing Slams Nitish (Lantana camara) and mat (Rhynchospora corym- dressed in the process of Lanka is proving to be a BJP on Saturday on its de should be taken…there Mr. Kushwaha also slammed Siam weed ( Chromolaena bosa), desho grass (Pennise- [postflood] reconstruction hurdle for the Indian mand for a respectable share should be a respectable deci Bihar Chief Minister Nitish odorata). tum pedicellatum), giant in the State,” Dr. Hrideek automobile industry, which of seats for the 2019 general sion, otherwise the NDA will Kumar for trying to engineer T.K. Hrideek, scientist, salvinia and water hyacinth said. “Elimination of inva has been in talks with the election. He warned that the have to pay a heavy price,” a split in the RLSP. Genetics and Tree Breed were reportedly establish sive plants is a Herculean government there. Sri Lanka NDA would have to pay a he said. Mr. Kumar and his party ing, KFRI, told The Hindu ing a beachhead, using task but their spread can be was one of the largest export “heavy price” if the stale Upendra Kushwaha speaking “But I would like to meet leader Prashant Kishor re that the spread of the inva available soil resources. tackled with the active par markets for Indian vehicle mate continued. at a press conference in Prime Minister Narendra cently met RLSP MLA Sud sive species could threaten This may lead to the con ticipation of the public.” manufacturers in 201112, Following the seatsharing Patna. * RANJEET KUMAR Modi to apprise him about hanshu Shekhar, sparking cultivable land and wildlife version of marshy wetlands The Forest Department but the demand for cars has talks between the BJP and everything…it was because speculation that party MLAs habitats alike. The survey into dry land, Dr. Hrideek is conducting a survey to dipped after a policy decision the Janata Dal (United) in Bi Speaking to journalists of Narendra Modi that I’d Lallan Paswan and Sudhan revealed that invasive spe said. identify the area and densi that made it impossible har, which did not include here after the RLSP’s execu come into the NDA,” he said. shu Shekhar would join the cies like the water hyacinth “In many areas of Thris ty of the spread of invasive for Indian automakers to the RLSP, Mr. Kushwaha has tive committee meeting, Mr. Mr. Kushwaha said that at JD(U) in return for a ministe remain competitive. (Eichhornia crassipes) and sur, Palakkad, Wayanad species in the Wayanad Wil BUSINESS Ī PAGE 10 been trying in vain to meet Kushwaha said he would not the executive meeting, his rial berth and ticket for the giant salvinia (Salvinia mol- and Idukki districts, seeds dlife Sanctuary. 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Priyanka Pulla 2014, researchers from Guja throw comes back to us,” says to bring back plastic litter as mm, which large plastic disin loma, and grew slower than rat’s Sasan Gir Forest Depart Dr. Sulochanan. well. Fishermen can now sell tegrates into. Microplastics usual. Still higher, the Japa ometime in 2009, Bindu ment did a postmortem on The impact of plastic debris their damaged nets in a buy settle in phytoplankton, or the nese Medaka, a fish species, Sulochanan, a marine the 1ton carcass of a Long on marine life is just emerg back programme. Also, when microscopic organisms at the has been shown to suffer from Secologist at Mangalore’s man’s Beaked Whale on a ing. The commonest way in nets trap litter, the fishermen base of the marine food chain. liver stress when it ingests ma Central Marine Fisheries Re beach in the Sutrapada muni which plastic hurts is entan bring it back to the shore. Un So, phytoplanktoneating fish rine microplastics. In the ex search Institute (CMFRI), was cipality. They found four large glement. Fishing nets lost at til June this year, 28 tonnes of are at risk. CMFRI researchers periment, the researchers fed dissecting sardines in her lab plastic bags in the whale’s sto sea, and plastic bags can trap plastic was recovered and have found such particles in the fish three types of food – oratory. Scientists at the mach. It appeared that the fish and mammals, preventing used for surfacing roads. Un the guts of anchovies and sar regular food, virgin microplas CMFRI have been doing this plastic had blocked the them from swimming, forag fortunately, few such pro dine. These fish are filter feed tic and microplastic that had for decades, to study the feed whale’s digestive system. ing for food and mating. In Oc grammes exist in India. ers: they eat by keeping their been left in the San Diego bay ing behaviour of various tober 2011, CMFRI researchers mouth open, so that phyto for three months. The re oceandwelling fish. As Dr. Su Using less, wasting more onboard the research vessel Blocks digestive tract plankton in the flowing water searchers found that marine lochanan peered at the con Plastics are widespread in the FORV Sagar Sampada sighted If entanglement with plastic is trapped in filterlike struc microplastics had higher le tents of the fish’s gut under a marine ecosystem today, and a group of about 400 Olive Ri hurts marine species, so does tures called gillrakers. vels of pollutants such as poly microscope, she noticed so countries across the globe are dley turtles at sea, likely tra ingestion. Plastic can block The problem is that micro chlorinated biphenyls than mething unusual – bright un contributing to it. But several velling towards their mass and perforate the digestive plastics are underresearched. the virgin ones. Further, when estimates suggest that Asia is nesting sites on the Odisha tract. This gives the animal a One reason is that it is hard to the fish were fed all three <> Up to 90% of albatross chicks had the larger debrisproducer. coast. One of the turtles was feeling of fullness, reduces its identify them. “You can’t re plastic pieces in their stomach Even though the U.S. and Eu entangled in a plastic buoy, immunity and leads to starva cognise them with the naked <> Plastic gives the animal a feeling rope manufacture most of the while another had a plastic tion. Some of the earliest re eye. Sophisticated instru of fullness, leading to starvation natural shades such as yellow, plastic, Asia seems to be lead bag around its neck. While ports of this phenomenon ments like spectrophotome instead of the drab colours of ing in marine debris because swimming, Olive Ridley tur come from large seabirds ters are needed,” says Dr. Kri feeds, the ones that ate plastic the semidigested plankton of its population density and tles dive periodically to find called Laysan Albatrosses in pa. As a result, the answers to ended up with liver damage. that sardines eat. She was poor waste management. food, but the plastic was pre the North Pacific Ocean’s Mid key questions are unclear. looking at plastic. From litter In a 2015 Science study, the venting them from doing so. way Island. Researchers found Estimating the number of What next? thrown on beaches by people, researchers estimated that In “The ultimate fate of these tur that up to 90% of the albatross individuals exposed is tough, Microplastics are as big a wor the plastic had entered the wa dia had dumped 0.6 million tles may be death by starva chicks had plastic pieces in because this would require ry as macroplastics, says Mark ter, and the fish had mistaken tonnes of plastic into the tion,” the CMFRI researchers their stomach. Adult alba systematic sampling, which is Browne, an ecologist at the it for food. “We were ocean in 2010. China was the wrote on the website of the trosses normally collect float not common. But CMFRI has University of California, Santa shocked,” Dr. Sulochanan top dumper , while India Marine Biological Association not spared the impacts of plas ing fish eggs from the ocean’s begun a study involving food Barbara. Plus, microplastics says. In some samples, the ranked 12th and the US ranked of India. tic debris either. A major pro surface and regurgitate them pellets containing plastic in are more abundant in the wa plastic was shredded and un 20th. This was despite the fact The biggest culprit in en blem they face when using to feed their chicks. But by the fish and whether it can dam ter. Yet, few countries, includ recognisable, but in larger that Indians generated only tanglement is “ghost nets”, stake nets – a vertical mesh in eighties, albatrosses were also age the intestine. ing India have policies to mini fish, the source was obvious. around 0.34 kg of waste per says Vasant Kripa, the head of the water that intercepts fish plucking bottle caps and ciga But there is evidence from mise microplastic waste. Most Some plastics had readable person per day (ppd), while the Fisheries Environment and guides them to traps – is rette lighters out of the sea, elsewhere showing that mi Indian bans focus on large print on them, linking them to Americans threw away 2.58 kg Management Division at plastic litter. Bags, bottles and and their chicks were gorging croplastics hurt species. For plastics. branded milk packets and blis ppd. The problem was that In CMFRI, who was aboard the other items get caught in the on them. The researchers example, in one experiment, What’s the best way to tar ter packs of medicines. dia was mismanaging over Sagar Sampada when the net, reducing the catch. Fish found no obvious health ef algae, which are at the base of get microplastics? In a 2011 It was just the beginning. 80% of its waste, while in the Olive Ridley sighting oc ermen throw the litter back in fects in chicks which ate little the food chain, were not able study, Dr. Browne showed that Since 2009, CMFRI’s scientists U.S. it was only 2%. “If you curred. Ghost nets are nylon to the sea, says Dr. Kripa. plastic, but those which ate ov to photosynthesise efficiently synthetic clothing was the lar have recovered plastic from look at packaging of FMCG fishing nets that are either de In 2017, the Kerala govern er 150 gm had partially when exposed to 20 nano gest contributor, given that the gut of dozens of species: goods, the US and Europe are liberately discarded, or lost. ment began a programme blocked digestive systems. metre polysterene beads. each garment shed over 1900 mackerel near Mangalore, yel the manufacturers. But we are They remain in the water for called Suchitwa Sagaram to If large birds eat larger plas Higher up in the food chain, fibres per wash. Yet, the U.S. lowfish tuna near Kochi and buying it and polluting the en years. Ironically, fisherfolk are prevent dumping of nets, and tic pieces, small fish tend to mussels, when fed microplas plans to phase out microbeads anchovies off the coast of vironment, because there is swallow microplastic: parti tics in a lab, developed a type in cosmetics by 2019, but has Alappuzha, among them. In no awareness that what we cles measuring less than 5 of inflammation called granu no policy on clothing yet.

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‘Xi is likely to visit U.S.China ‘Prince ordered Khashoggi’s killing’ discord North Korea next year’ CIA says his brother asked the journalist to visit Saudi consulate in Istanbul to retrieve documents dominates Reuters Saudi consulate in Istanbul S. Korea gives out information on trip APEC meet Washington to retrieve the documents Reuters Reuters The CIA believes Saudi and gave him assurances Port Moresby Crown Prince Mohammed that it would be safe to do so, Seoul bin Salman (MbS) ordered The Post said. Chinese President Xi Jinping The United States and Chi the killing of journalist Jamal The newspaper, citing pe intends to visit North Korea na swapped barbs over Khashoggi in Istanbul, sourc ople familiar with the call, next year after receiving an trade, investment and re es familiar with the matter said it was not clear if the invite from North Korean gional security at an Asia said on Friday, complicating Prince knew Khashoggi leader Kim Jongun, South Pacific Economic Cooper President Donald Trump’s would be killed but that he Korea said on Saturday, ation (APEC) summit on Sa efforts to preserve ties with a made the call at his brother’s which would make Mr. Xi turday, as growing fault key U.S. ally. direction. the first Chinese leader to lines among members sug The sources said the CIA The Prince said in a Twit do so since 2005. gested little prospect of had briefed other parts of ter post on Friday that the Mr. Xi told South Korean consensus. the U.S. government, includ last contact he had with president Moon Jaein in a Speaking in the Papua ing Congress, on its assess Khashoggi was via text on bilateral meeting on the si Chinese President Xi New Guinean capital, U.S.

ment, which contradicts Oct. 26, 2017, nearly a year delines of the Asia Pacific Jinping. * AFP VicePresident Mike Pence Saudi government assertions before the journalist’s death. Economic Cooperation said there would be no end that Prince Mohammed was The Post said the CIA also (APEC) summit in Papua between Mr. Xi and Mr. to American tariffs until not involved. Rest in peace: People praying for Jamal Khashoggi at an Istanbul mosque .* GETTY IMAGES examined a call from inside New Guinea that he would Moon. China changed its ways, af The CIA’s finding, first re the Saudi consulate in Istan ”make time” to visit North Mr. Xi’s trip to North Ko ter its President, Xi Jinping, ported by The Washington false,” a spokeswoman for sified information. tionship with Saudi Arabia. bul after Khashoggi’s killing. Korea next year. rea would be the first by a warned that the shadow of Post, is the most definitive the Embassy said in a state “The murder of Jamal The Post, citing people fa Maher Mutreb, a security Chinese President since his protectionism and unilat U.S. assessment to date tying ment. “We have and conti Khashoggi was an atrocity. It miliar with the matter, said official who has often been Building peace predecessor Hu Jintao’s visit eralism was hanging over Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler nue to hear various theories was also an affront to a free the CIA’s assessment was seen at the Crown Prince’s Mr. Xi added that China in 2005. Mr. Xi travelled to global growth. directly to the killing. without seeing the primary and independent press and based in part on a phone call side, made the call to Saud would continue to play a North Korea in 2008 as a Illustrating the impasse basis for these speculations.” the United States is deter the Crown Prince’s brother, alQahtani, a top aide to constructive role in building VicePresident. between the world’s two Saudi’s rejection U.S. VicePresident Mike mined to hold all of those ac Prince Khaled bin Salman, Prince Mohammed, to in peace on the Korean penin China’s account of the bi largest economies, a diplo The Saudi Embassy in Wash Pence, on a visit to Papua countable who are responsi the Saudi Ambassador to the form him the operation had sula, Kim Euikyeom, spo lateral meeting in Papua mat involved in negotiating ington rejected the CIA as New Guinea, told reporters ble for that murder,” he said, U.S., had with Khashoggi. been completed, The Post kesman for South Korea’s New Guinea made no men an APEC leaders’ declara sessment. “The claims in this travelling with him that he but added that Washington Prince Khaled told Khash said, citing people familiar presidential office, said at a tion of Mr. Xi planning to go tion said trade was a stick purported assessment is could not comment on clas wanted to preserve its rela oggi that he should go to the with the call. briefing after the meeting to North Korea. ing point, and the host na tion was having trouble finding language accepta ELSEWHERE ble to all. Mr. Pence took di Democrat ends bid to rect aim at Mr. Xi’s Belt and 1,000 still missing in California fire Road programme, which become Georgia Governor China has been promoting Remains of 71 recovered; more than 9,800 homes have been destroyed to Pacific nations at APEC, Agence France-Presse saying countries should Washington Reuters homes up in smoke, many not accept debt that com Stacey Abrams, who aimed Paradise refugees from the fire have promised their to become America’s first Forensic recovery teams taken up temporary resi sovereignty. Black Governor, said on Fri pressed their search for dence with friends and fami Speaking before Mr. day that she will not win her more victims in the town of ly, while others have pitched Pence, Mr. Xi said there Ranil’s party asks FB to race to lead the State of Ge Paradise on Friday as auth tents or are camping out of was no geopolitical agenda protect data of officials orgia, as she sharply criti orities sought clues to the their vehicles. behind the project. COLOMBO cised her Republican rival fate of about 1,000 people At least 1,100 evacuees Mr. Xi told delegates that Sri Lanka’s United National and accused him of voter reported missing in Califor were being housed in 14 the shadow of “protection Party, headed by Ranil suppression. nia’s deadliest wildfire on emergency shelters set up in ism and unilateralism” Wickremesinghe, on Saturday Out of nearly four million record. churches, schools and com hung over global growth asked Facebook to protect the identity of its supporters, ballots cast, Brian Kemp Remains of at least 71 peo munity centers around the and erecting barriers and fearing a crackdown by what leads Ms. Abrams by 55,000 ple have been recovered in A town extinguished: Abandoned vehicles at a car lot in region, with more than cutting ties was shortsight

* it called the “illegal” votes, about a single percen Stacey Abrams. AP and around a Sierra foothills Paradise, California, on November 9. * AFP 47,000 people in all remain ed and doomed to fail. government. “We urge tage point. The race was too hamlet that was home to ing under evacuation orders, But Mr. Pence made it Facebook to refrain from close to call for days, and she aimed a stinging rebuke nearly 27,000 residents be November 8. posing the additional chal authorities said. Butte Coun clear that the U.S. would disclosing information Ms. Abrams had taken legal at Mr. Kemp, saying he had fore the town, 280 km north Besides the toll on human lenge of providing longterm ty Sheriff Korea Honea said not back down, saying it about... users of the platform action to try and get every been “deliberate and inten of San Francisco, was largely life, property losses from the shelter for many thousands the total roster of people un could more than double to any officials...” the UNP vote counted. tional in his actions” to sup incinerated by the deadly blaze make it the most des of displaced residents. accounted for had swelled to the $250 billion of Chinese said. AFP In a speech to supporters press thousands of votes. Camp Fire on the night of tructive in California history, With more than 9,800 1,011 people. goods subject to tariffs.

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REUTERS REUTERS AP AFP GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO WASHINGTON DC DHAKA MALE LONDON CHANGCHUN When laws are As countdown Sustaining the The growing As the former framed to make to general embrace of calls to keep rust belt goes voting difficult election begins democracy fracking at bay hightech The November 6 U.S. mid The midday sun blazed It was as if the collective Last Monday, a group of en In northeast China, temper term elections may have down on a milling crowd. A mood of optimism had a fra vironmental activists occu atures have already begun to come and gone, but the is key road was jammed with grance, and it wafted pied the front entrance of plummet, announcing the sue of voter suppression still Opposition activists in front through the narrow streets the London offices of the De early arrival of winter. In lingers, drawing responses mostly along parti of their party headquarters inthe capital Dha of Male, bringing the Maldivian citizenry to its partment for Business, Energy and Industrial Changchun, the capital of Jilin province, the san lines. Many Republicans have wanted to ka on November 14. The nominationform sale feet. People thronged to the picturesque Re Strategy. They spraypainted doors and win sight of bare trees and grey skies is now rou tighten laws around voter eligibility, ostensi entered a festive third day in the runup to the public Square that overlooked the presiden dows with the symbol of the ‘Extinction Re tine. “It has already snowed once in October, bly to prevent fraud, and Democrats have election. tial jetty. Saturday was a day of monumental bellion’ campaign group to protest, among and we expect many more snowfalls in the wanted to make it easier for people to vote. Suddenly, the day lost its innocence. A change in this tiny Indian Oceannation of other things, the government’s support for coming weeks,” says Yu Haoda, an English lan This was exemplified by the Georgia guber clash started between the Opposition Bangla 1,192 islands. fracking. Later in the week, on the day of guage student at the Jilin University. natorial race between Democratic candidate desh Nationalist Party (BNP) and the police. After five years of the Abdulla Yameen go crunch talks on Brexit, activists staged further Jilin provides a gateway to North Korea. Stacey Abrams and former Secretary of State BNP activists fought a fierce street battle , re vernment, and a disconcerting drift into what protests, including by supergluing them From Changchun, the Hermit kingdom is 433 and Republican candidate Brain Kemp. On sorting to vandalism and burning police cars. many Maldivians felt was the stifling embrace selves to the gates of Downing Street. km away. Dandong is the last Chinese city be Friday night, Ms. Abrams acknowledged that The police fired rubber bullets and teargas of China, the people exercised their right to It was only last month that fracking — or hy fore we begin approaching North Korea along the law did not offer her any further remedies shells. This became the first scene of violence franchise on September 23 and voted re draulic fracturing, which is used to release a bridge spanning the famous Yalu river. to win the race but that “systemic disenfran since Bangladesh started its countdown to the soundingly for a coalition of prodemocracy shale gas or oil from rocks deep underground Changchun was one of the first cities to in chisement, disinvestment and incompetence December 30 election. The faceoff brought parties, bringing to power a government led — was able to restart in the U.K. after a seven dustrialise after the 1949 Revolution. Its prox had its desired effect on the electoral process back memories of violent old days in Bangla by the Maldives Democratic Party. Their new year halt. Attempts to launch a fracking pro imity to the former Soviet Union, a close ally in Georgia”. desh’s bickering politics. President, Ibrahim Mohamed Solih, is consi ject in Lancashire had met with resistance in of China before the two fell apart in the six Democrats, including Ms. Abrams, have for The police later portrayed the episode as dered by India to be a friend, and the man 2015 after local Councillors rejected applica ties, made the city a natural heavyindustry sometime now been accusing Mr. Kemp and premeditated and said the BNP had tried to who will be advising him closely, Mohamed tions. However, the government overturned base, established with Moscow’s support. the Republicans of voter suppression. Last turn it to its own advantage. Top officers ex Nasheed, has a staunch proIndia outlook. their rejection the following year, insisting However, it was left behind when a second year, the State passed the ‘exact match’ law, plained that the police had asked the Opposi The immediate challenges are twofold: pol that shale gas had the power not only to fuel wave of industrialisation began to produce requiring a voter’s name on government is tion activists to maintain order by keeping one itical and economic. Politically, the question is economic growth but also to provide an im better quality products for a demanding inter sued ID to exactly match the name as it ap lane of the busy road open to traffic. However, whether the multiparty alliance will hold in portant energy source. The decision triggered national market in the faraway coastal pro pears on voter rolls. Over 53,000 voter appli BNP spokesman Ruhul Kabir Rizvi denied the the face of the immense pressures that the na much anger in the local community. vince of Guangdong and its neighbourhood. cations were put on hold under this law, over accusations, alleging that the police had inten tion faces. Only time will tell if Mr. Nasheed’s Now, after years of stagnation, the north two thirds of them belonging to African Amer tionally driven a car into the crowd hurting belief, that Mr. Solih has “the ability and the An intensely divisive issue east maybe on course for an economic revival, icans, who comprise a third of Georgia’s pop people. “Why have you kicked over the bee capacity to… make sure that all parties stick Fracking has remained an intensely divisive is in tune with President Xi Jinping’s agenda of ulation and tend to vote Democrat. hive?” asked Mr. Rizvi. In the hours that fol together, that everyone is able to compro sue in British politics. While the Labour Party elevating the Chinese economy to the next Liberals are fighting back through various lowed, the government and Opposition lead mise”, will be realised. pledged to ban it in its 2017 manifesto, the hightechnology level. means: Mr. Kemp was sued last month by civil ers traded barbs and blamed each other for Second, complex economic challenges Conservative manifesto hailed the shale gas Under Mr. Xi’s MadeinChina 2025 cam rights groups in Georgia over the voter appli ruining the prevailing political calm. arose from the Yameen administration’s hea “revolution” in the U.S. which it said had re paign, manufacturing and services sector are cation holdup. Ms. Abrams and her suppor On November 15, Prime Minister Sheikh Ha dlong plunge into the vortex of Chinese ex sulted in less reliance on foreign energy . In undergoing a major digital transformation. ters went to court and won limited victories, sina warned the BNP against taking to vio pansionist ambitions. The nation rapidly 2013, attempting to sell fracking to the coun The northeast is part of this change. Ten pillar like an order that elections not be certified be lence in a bid to sabotage the planned elec racked up massive debts linked to infrastruc try, then Prime Minister David Cameron sug industries, including robotics, aviation and tion. Hours earlier, her son Sajeeb Wazed had gested that shale gas could provide Britain <> Strict voting laws in many States taken to Facebook and said: “The election <> Maldivians have voted out the with the equivalent of gas supply for 51 years. <> Changchun, a heavyindustry hub have disenfranchised racial process has barely started and the BNP has al Yameen administration. The The selfreliance argument has been bol in the immediate postRevolution minorities and lowincome ready resorted to violence.” Mr. Wazed went challenge now is to relegate its stered by the heightened tensions with Russia years, got left behind in the second groups. Republicans want to as far as to call the BNP a “terrorist organisa authoritarian strands to history by that followed the poisoning of former spy Ser industrial wave. Now, under Xi’s tighten laws further while tion”. The comments brought back memories keeping a constant vigil on the gei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury ear ambitious plan, the city aims to Democrats want easier access of the 2014 parliamentary election. Following leaders of the new coalition lier this year. Rather than be “reliant on Mr. become a digital research base a call for boycott of the poll, the BNP and its Putin for our gas supply”, the U.K. ought to ex fore Friday, November 16; that all provisional key ally JamaateIslami had begun violent ture investments. What was initially thought ploit shale gas, Energy Minister Claire Perry new materials, have been chosen, which will ballots be verified using “all available registra protests, leading to clashes with lawenforce to be in the range of $1.4 billion is now sus told The Times earlier this year, and accused drive the economic makeover. Chinese plan tion documentation”; and that ballots with ment agencies. About 300 people died in the pected to be closer to $3 billion, if not higher. environmentalists of peddling misinforma ners are banking on leveraging the powers of minor discrepancies be counted. months to the poll. So, how does the country engage the dragon? tion. ”This is not some sort of Frankenstein the Internet, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data Mr. Nasheed, and presumably Mr. Solih, have technology,” she insisted. However, there re and ecommerce to revolutionise their Voting centre issues Relative calm this year a simple answer: they will pay back what they mains strong public concern: over 12,000 pe manufacturing. Voting difficulties, however, extend beyond However, Bangladesh has seen relative calm owe, but will audit every single project, and ople have signed a parliamentary petition call Georgia. The nonpartisan Election Protection in 2018, another election year. A festive mood will call for international arbitration where a ing for fracking to be banned. Plan for northeast China hotline received some 30,000 nationwide settled on the political scene in the early days proper procedure was not followed for the in Critics of government policy have argued The National Development and Reforms Com complaints by midafternoon on November 6, of November, a month of quickly shifting itial allocation. that fracking would distract the state from its mission — China’s top planning body — has al including reports of a shuttered polling booth, events. In a televised speech on November 8, The greatest problem that confronts the efforts to rebalance its energy mix towards ready drawn a multibilliondollar fiveyear machines that did not work, long lines and Chief Election Commissioner K.M. Nurul Hu Maldives today is, however, neither economic cleaner, greener sources. In May, a crossparty plan for the revival of the northeast. hardtoaccess voting centres. nor relating political parties, but in the realm In late September, Mr. Xi toured the region, Some Republicans, including President Do <> November 14 saw the first of Maldivian citizens’ social contract with <> While advocates of fracking say it hammering broad themes that could drive the nald Trump, have, without providing evi incidence of prepoll violence. The their leadership. would make the U.K. selfsufficient northeast’s ‘Second Coming’. In his calculus, dence, repeatedly alleged that there has been bickering between the Opposition in energy, critics stress it would the region has a major food security role. Vis electoral fraud. Mr. Trump went so far as to and the police brought back Fundamental rights diminished cause environmental damage and iting a grainproducing farm base in Heilong say that voters disguise themselves and cast memories of the 2014 election, Shahindha Ismail of the Maldivian Democracy prevent the state from bringing jiang Province, Mr. Xi stressed: “China should multiple votes. The President had also alleged which the BNP had boycotted Network, a nonpartisan NGO promoting hu more clean energy into the mix always have control over its own food supply.” widespread voter fraud in the 2016 presiden man rights and democracy , worries about He added that farmers should adopt “smart tial elections. Some of his colleagues had crit da set the tone by announcing December 23 as draconian laws, enacted in the past five years, group of MPs pointed to a “dramatic and wor agriculture”, based on an efficient utilisation icised Mr. Trump’s baseless claims and asked voting day. He later shifted the date by a week especially those that have diminished funda rying” collapse in lowcarbon energy invest of resources in large agricultural bases, com for evidence, which has not been provided. to December 30, turning down a demand by mental rights. Alongside this feature, Ms. Is ment in the U.K. since 2015, which threatened panies and industries. Studies have repeatedly refuted the claim the new Opposition alliance, Jatiya Oikya mail says, corruption has risen to levels not Britain’s ability to meet its carbon budgets. During the visit, Mr. Xi advocated adoption that voter fraud is a significant phenomenon Front, to defer the poll by a month. He said he seen before, sustained by more serious viola Concerns have also centred on the impact of a hybrid model of economy where a strong in the U.S. The Brennan Center for Justice, a was bound by the Constitution to hold the tions, including murder, street violence and of fracking on the local environment — not public sector could coexist with the private nonpartisan policy institute, for instance, election by January 28.Asking all political par organised crime. These multiple strands, she least suggestions that the process had led to sector. During a stopover at a local branch of concluded after a study published last year ties to compete, he urged: “Competition must believes, are interlinked and the decay in go tremors. Since the restart in Lancashire, it the stateowned oil giant PetroChina, he high that “by any measure, voter fraud is extraordi not lead to animosity or violence.” vernance can be triangulated to three groups has had to be suspended twice because of sev lighted that stateowned enterprises must re narily rare”. Yet, as many as 24 States have in Mr. Huda also unveiled a plan to introduce every time: politicians, religious radicals and eral tremors, including two that were higher form and innovate. But he also stressed that troduced voter restrictions since 2010. These electronic voting machines — for the first time violent groups. An important reason the Mal than the regulatory threshold that requires a they play a crucial and irreplaceable role in include making it harder for voters to register, in a parliamentary election. dives veers between authoritarian and demo halt. Fracking companies have suggested that anchoring the national economy. cutting back on early voting opportunities and As the year winds down, about 104.2 mil cratic modes of functioning is that the coun the limit needs to be raised and even Minister Mr. Xi’s message seems to have percolated making ID requirements stricter lion registered voters are expected to head to try’s geography implies that communities are Perry has weighed in on this. However, the go well into the region’s grassroots. At a digital However, on November 6, Florida gave the poll to elect 300 representatives to Parlia farflung and small, making them easy to ma vernment has said no change is on the cards. economy conference in Changchun earlier in former felons (with exceptions) the right to ment through balloting in more than 40,000 nipulate. This also leads to a greater depen The Labour Party has warned that the go November, Jing Junhai, Governor of Jilin, was vote after they had served their sentences — polling stations. The Election Commission has dence on politicians and business tycoons. vernment’s ties to the industry remain close: emphatic that the province must become a re enfranchising some 1.4 million people, Mary recruited about 7,00,000 officials to conduct While the Solih government will have much research by the party accused the govern search and development base for digital tech land approved a measure to register voters on the poll. Bangladesh will deploy the Army to to attend to on the policy front immediately, ment of working “hand in hand” with the in nology. Changchun, he said, has plans to polling day and Michigan made it easier to aid the civil administration during the elec the longer haul may be an uphill journey, Ms. dustry, holding 31 meetings with industry fi emerge as an international centre for ad vote in absentia. Michigan and Nevada also tion, but the troops will be devoid of any ma Ismail says. In part, this is because certain gures over the past three years. vanced twodimensional (2D) barcode system approved a law that automatically registers gisterial authority. constituents who had historically opted for While things may be ramping up in the U.K. — a key to an expanded online business world voters when they obtain a driver’s licence or In a marked departure from its previous centralised political power, including former for now, campaigners are likely to take heart wide. Unlike ordinary barcodes, the 2D code, interact with government agencies in certain stance, the BNP decided to compete, capping President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom and from developments across the English Chan when scanned, reveals large amount of infor ways. This will particularly impact the enfran years in the political wilderness. Its chairper members of the 2012 coup, are now part of the nel in continental Europe, and, in particular, mation, including images, website addresses, chising of young people and racial minorities. son Khaleda Zia is behind bars. Party col new dispensation. the Netherlands, where the government ear and other types of binary data. Come January, Democrats say they will leagues bought three nomination forms for Hopefully the greater level of societal lier this year pulled out of shale gas explora China, with the northeast as one of its pil prioritise strengthening institutions, includ her, but it is not clear whether she would qual awareness will make a difference this time and tion. “The promises made by industry sound lars, stands well positioned to exercise leader ing the voting process. However, with a split ify for the race as she has been convicted of ensure that genuine democracy takes root in eerily familiar,” said Labour’s Shadow Energy ship in 2D technology — a major driver of its Congress, this is easier said than done. corruption. the archipelago. Minister Rebecca LongBailey. digital heft that would have a global footprint.

Sriram Lakshman works for The Hindu and is Arun Devnath is a journalist based in Narayan Lakshman works for The Hindu Vidya Ram works for The Hindu and is based Atul Aneja works for The Hindu and is based based in Washington DC Dhaka, Bangladesh and is visiting Male in London in Beijing

THE HINDU NOIDA/DELHI SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2018 BUSINESS ABROAD 5 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF China Inc.’s stress mounts British austerity inflicting on funding woes, trade war misery: U.N. poverty expert Use of food banks almost doubled between 2013 and 2017. Firms hit by tighter credit; overall debt posts rare drop, first in nine years Patrick Kingsley Reuters companies interviewed. The British government’s SHANGHAI/BENGALURU In addition to weaker de policies of austerity are di VW embarks on €44 bn China Inc.’s profit growth mand and higher funding rectly linked to a rise in po electrification plan has fallen sharply while debt costs, they cited poor re verty in the United King WOLFSBURG, GERMANY levels have recorded a rare turns on financial invest dom, a United Nations Volkswagen expects to drop, a Reuters analysis of ments, inventory buildup as expert said in a scathing re become the most profitable earnings data shows — signs well as downward pressure port after a twoweek fact electric car maker thanks to a of strain brought on by Beij on product prices that was finding mission to the coun multibillion euro expansion ing’s crackdown on leverage fuelling competition among try’s poorest districts. plan to mass produce batterydriven vehicles, CEO as well as a trade war with firms. Philip Alston, the U.N. Herbert Diess said. VW will the United States. “Our prices have dropped special rapporteur for ex spend almost €44 billion on Easy access to funds had a lot this year,” said a senior treme poverty and human developing electric cars, long fuelled growth for official at LONGi Green Ener rights, concluded that ef autonomous driving and new mainland Chinese firms but gy Technology Co. Ltd., ad forts by the Conservative go mobility services by 2023 and a concerted campaign by ding that the margins on its vernment to pare state explore areas of cooperation authorities to rid the finan products for the solar power spending were “entrenching Bleak future: The departure of Britain from the EU will almost with Ford. Reuters cial system of excessive li industry had dropped to high levels of poverty and in certainly put pressure on the British economy. * REUTERS quidity and rein in irrational 20% from 30% last year. That flicting unnecessary misery corporate expansion is tak At a crossroads: A rapid bruising of consumer confidence amid contributed to a 62% slide in in one of the richest coun group. The British govern to be treating this as an after ing its toll. trade tension with the United States has added pain. * REUTERS thirdquarter profit. tries in the world,” his team ment strongly criticised Mr. thought.” The departure of A rapid bruising of con “The demand side is wea said in a statement about his Alston’s report, citing a mea Britain from the EU will al sumer confidence amid “Capital markets are tight Co. Ltd., which cited a drop kening. One: it’s because of preliminary findings. Since sure — contested by some most certainly put pressure trade tension with the Unit and the cost of borrowing is in prices for its weaker pro credit availability. Two is 2010, the Conservative go poverty researchers — that on the British economy and ed States has added pain, pretty high,” said Li Dan, a fits, said it was a “tricky” weakening sentiment due to vernment has announced suggests poverty has in fact cause additional problems creating a major challenge securities official at Heng time for financing. the trade issue escalation,” more than £30 billion (near fallen during its tenure. for the poor, especially for for Beijing as it looks to keep kang’s board of directors’ of “The market environment said Christopher Lee, Hong ly $40 billion) in cuts to wel “We completely disagree young people, because liv the economy on track after it fice and one of a dozen exec is really not good. When we Kongbased managing direc fare payments, housing sub with this analysis,” the De ing costs would likely rise expanded at its weakest pace utives interviewed by did our issuance, we came tor for corporate ratings at sidies and social services, partment for Work and Pen and money from Brussels BlackBerry to buy since 2009 in the third Reuters for this article. under great pressure and al S&P Global. and the British leadership is sions, which has overseen would dry up, according to a Cylance for $1.4 billion quarter. Fierce competition for most didn’t succeed with the “A lot of these private in “a state of denial” about the welfare changes, said in joint assessment by seven BlackBerry Ltd. raised its bets Chinese firms managed a M&A funds, plus the slowing fundraising,” an official at companies are under stress the devastation its policies an emailed statement. “With leading children’s charities. on artificial intelligence and combined net profit rise of economy, pushed the com the company said. in the last couple of have wrought, he said. this government’s changes, The rapporteur was par cybersecurity with the $1.4 just 3.9% in the third quar pany into the red for the “Lots of companies months,” he said, adding household incomes have ticularly scathing of bungled billion purchase of California ter, compared with jumps of third quarter, she said. though aren’t able now to that he expected the govern Children affected never been higher, income efforts to streamline the way based machinelearning 2055% seen in each quarter Combined debt at Chinese raise money in private fund ment to roll out more mea Although overall poverty le inequality has fallen, the welfare payments are made specialists Cylance. The for the past two years, ac firms dropped 1.6% to about raising successfully at all,” he sures that would make it ea vels have remained fairly number of children living in to individual recipients after Canadian technology firm, cording to the Reuters analy 12 trillion yuan ($1.7 trillion) said, asking not to be identi sier for businesses to gain constant under the Conser workless households is at a delays in a shift to a new sys which ruled the smartphone sis of earnings for 1,950 firms for the quarter from a year fied by name. funding. vative government, most record low and there are tem, known as Universal market a decade ago, has listed in Shanghai and earlier — the first decline in By sector, financial firms measures show that poverty now 1 million fewer people Credit, led thousands of peo shifted to selling software to Shenzhen. the nine years of comparable Cheap and cheerful were the hardest hit with the has risen among children living in absolute poverty ple to fall into poverty. manage mobile devices, as Earnings for Hengkang data available for roughly Revenue growth remained industry seeing an average and working families. compared with 2010.” “The introduction of Un well as emerging areas like Medical Group Co. Ltd., 1,400 of the companies. more robust at 13.4%, in line 52% decline in thirdquarter The use of food banks al The release of the report iversal Credit and significant autonomous cars. Reuters which has made acquisitions That was down 11.5% from with growth earlier in the net profit. most doubled between 2013 coincided with a crucial reductions in the amount of of medical institutions cen the previous quarter, also year, though down from a Not only hurt by the crack and 2017. Families that re stage in negotiations for a and eligibility for important tral to its business strategy, the steepest quarteron climb of 21.6% in the same down on risky lending in the ceive benefits are now more British withdrawal from the forms of support have un highlight the strong connec quarter decline of the past quarter in 2017. shadow banking sector, a than $2,600 worse off every EU, and Mr. Alston warned dermined the capacity of be tion between credit condi nine years. But pressure on profits sharp slide in China stocks year, according to an analy that Brexit “poses particular nefits to loosen the grip of tions and corporate health in Metals firm Shenzhen was coming from a number has reduced the value of ma sis by the Child Poverty Ac risks for people in poverty, poverty,” Mr. Alston’s state China. Zhongjin Lingnan Nonfemet of fronts, according to the ny of their holdings. tion Group, an advocacy but the government appears ment said. NYT

WEEK AHEAD IN MARKETS CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Set for house warming Dassault, Airbus to submit fighterjet bid BERLIN U.S. investors eye Black Friday Airbus and France’s Dassault Aviation will shortly submit an unsolicited proposal for sales for market salve initial conceptual work on a nextgeneration fighter jet to German and French officials, A solid start can help equities steady after patchy weeks according to sources. The Reuters two firms agreed in principle factors, the consumer has NEW YORK in April to work together on been hanging in there — an ambitious FrancoGerman Investors will get a glimpse they drove third quarter programme to design a new of consumer health next growth, we are seeing wage warplane. Reuters week as the holiday shop growth over 3%, financing ping season gets under way rates are still reasonable,” with Black Friday sales, and said Jack Ablin, chief invest a solid start could help ment officer at Cresset equities steady after several Wealth Advisors in Chicago. tumultuous weeks. “If we see any kind of dis The day after Thanksgiv appointment in Black Fri ing has been regarded as day sales, that is going to the traditional start of the cause some real concern.” holiday buying season, alth nearly 7%, Wall Street has Same store sales for the ough deals and bargains are struggled to find its footing, fourth quarter are expected being unveiled earlier this rising 0.7% so far in Novem to come in at a healthy 3%, year. Wall Street has been ber. That puts the index on according to Refinitiv data. Delta orders 10 more struggling with uncertainty pace for its biggest quarter Still, that number is trend A330neo longhaul jets over U.S. congressional ly loss since the third quar ing downward from the PARIS/CHICAGO Delta Air Lines said it ordered midterm polls, the path of ter of 2015 and its worst previous two quarters and 10 Airbus A330neo longhaul interest rate hikes by the fourth quarter perfor is slightly below the year jets, reinforcing its position Federal Reserve, tariffs, the mance in a decade. ago result of 3.1%. A strong as the first U.S. airline to trade war and the possibili About 38% of American start to holiday sales might operate the upgraded jet and ty corporate earnings have consumers plan to shop on not translate to strong earn lending its influential support already peaked. But a Black Friday this year, and ings, however, reinforcing to a slowselling model. The strong start to the gift buy six in 10 of them anticipate concerns about the best of purchase is worth $3 ing season could help ease making at least half of their corporate profits being in billion at list prices but likely some concerns. holiday purchases on that the rearview mirror as re to represent below half After an October that day, a Reuters/Ipsos poll tailers have to grapple with Making way: A view of the Citibank building, which will house new Amazon employees in Long Island City. Citibank recently that post discounts, market saw the S&P 500 slump showed. “Of all the other dealconscious consumers. announced that it would move approximately 1,100 colleagues out of its space to make room for Amazon. Amazon announced sources said. Reuters it has chosen Long Island City in Queens and Crystal City in Arlington, Virginia, as additional headquarters for the firm. * AFP

Big ad groups realise creativity alone no longer enough; forge tieups with technology ﬁrms to strengthen data analytics

Reuters cutting back on big brand partner consultants, notably ding that WPP’s revenues the right consumer with the Barcelona campaigns. Publicis working with Capge were challenged by weak right offering,” Mr. Roth said. Traditional advertising “I don’t believe that our mini to win a McDonald’s ness in North America, tough “And you need creative capa groups hope that their crea industry is a dying industry,” contract. consumer goods markets bility to reach those consum tive flair will prevail against Interpublic chief executive WPP, meanwhile, has tied and management issues in ers in the right way.” the technological clout of Michael Roth told the Mor up with PwC on a couple of parts of its business. “It’s Mr. Sadoun said the consultancies encroaching gan Stanley Technology, Me pitches, finance chief Paul Ri nothing to do, in my opinion, French group had already on their business, but there dia and Telecoms conference chardson told the confe with the consultancies eating built up its capability with its are signs the two sides of the in Barcelona this week. rence. He said WPP is used to our lunch,” he said. $3.7 billion acquisition of divide are moving closer “If you get the data analyt dealing with Capgemini, De tech company Sapient in together. ics, if you get the tools and loitte and Accenture — com Data analytics 2014. However, he acknow The likes of Accenture, resources and have the crea peting in databases and mar But the advertising groups ledged that its integration in PwC and IBM have been buy tive capabilities that we have, keting technology but are also beefing up their own to a group home for several ing small ad agencies to serve we are more necessary than working in partnership in capabilities in data analytics creative agencies had been clients hungry for datadri ever.” Publicis CEO Arthur areas such as programme to serve clients spending ”painful.” ven insight to focus their Sadoun, however, told the management for big govern more on Facebook and Goo Interpublic may be able to marketing spend. same conference it was only ment contracts. gle, where metrics such as avoid such problems, Mr. The major advertising a matter of time before one But Mr. Richardson says engagement have been hard Roth said, citing his push to holding groups — WPP, Publi of the big four would merge the consultancies cannot to measure. change the group’s culture cis, Interpublic and Omni with a consultancy. “My compete when it comes to Interpublic agreed in July over the past 13 years and com — have responded by prediction is that you will see the creative side of to buy datamining business subdue some powerful egos. building up their own con a holding company get to advertising. Acxiom’s marketing solu “We had to refocus all of sulting services. But they are gether with a systems inte “I would stress creativity tions arm for $2.3 billion. our brands to collaboration under pressure from adver grator,” he said. and storytelling are the two “Without data analytics and we had to incentivise tisers that are bolstering Tentative steps have alrea things clients want us to pro and the insights that come them to working well and Stiff competition: Major advertising groups are under pressure from advertisers that are their own capabilities and dy been taken by some to vide in a pitch,” he said, ad with them, it’s hard to reach playing with others,” he said. bolstering their own capabilities and cutting back on big brand campaigns. * AFP

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Text and images by K.K. Mustafah Today, she is the only woman to get a deepsea fishing licence from the State Fish eries Department. The Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, the country’s Before dawn breaks, K.C. Rekha, a 45yearold mother of four, sits alone untangling a premier marine research agency, felicitated Rekha recen tly. “There are many wo mass of nylon fishing nets on the Chettuva beach, a fi shing village at Chavakkad in men engaged in fishing in backwaters and rivers, but there was no record of a wo Thrissur district of Kerala. Her seawatercreased, t anned fingers finish the task be man’s presence along our coastline. We finally located her and recognised her feat,” fore her husband, P. Karthikeyan, arrives for their voyage to the deep sea on their CMFRI Director A. Gopalakrishnan says. She is the only woman in the whole of India small, old boat. to have such a licence, the institute says. Women traditi onally do not take up this The couple sails 2030 nautical miles, without a compass, a GPS device or any oth work. er modern navigation equipment and life jackets. “We re ly on traditional know Rekha is undaunted even when the Arabian Sea is rough and dark clouds hover ov ledge,” says Rekha, who believes Kadalamma, the sea goddess, will protect them. er her head. She sets sail as the rest of the world sleeps, to haul in catch for the local Her faith stems from the struggle that began more than 10 years ago when she decid market. She has been giving tough competition to fishermen by sailing through the ed to be the deckhand of Karthikeyan after his two workers quit. The couple just most unpredictable routes for the past few years. Rekha loves her work, despite the couldn’t afford labour. odds and uncertainty that nature has in store for her almost every day.

Tying up the loose ends: Before heading out to the Biting the bait: deep sea for ﬁshing, Rekha Often, it’s hours of mends the nets on the patient wait after Chettuva beach. spreading the net.

Livelihood matters: Rekha Chaff and grain: On and her husband, the shore, picking Karthikeyan, ready to put fish off the net. out to sea.

Fresh oﬀ the sea: Rekha and Karthikeyan carry Twoman crew: No the day’s haul to bobbing and pitching even the harbour’s beside big boats. auction centre.

Helmswoman: K.C. Rekha, a 45yearold mother of four from Chavakkad in Thrissur district of Kerala, abides by her bold decision to make a living from deepsea ﬁshing.

Closing call: After a On the prow: Full round of bargaining, steam ahead, the day’s catch is undeterred by the dark snapped up by buyers clouds. at the market.

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The mutual-fund route to mid-cap investing Periodic exposure by way of SIPs with a time horizon of ﬁveplus years would be ideal

K Venkatasubramanian per cent of their portfolios during heavy corrections, It is relatively safe for inves which prevents erosion in tors to take the mutual fund the funds’ NAVs. route while taking exposure Both the schemes have to stocks in the mid and avoided or kept exposure to smallcap space . Given the banks and financial services Midcap meltdown inherent volatility in these companies to very low le segments, with massive ral vels over the past few years, lies and sharp corrections, which means that they have The rally in mid and smallcaps was backed by strong fundamentals. After the recent those with a moderate risk been immune to the NPA market correction, valuation and earnings seem to be in sync. An analysis appetite are better off mak led carnage in the segment. ing conservative bets. Instead, consumer nondur K Venkatasubramanian er the past five years — been 12.5 per cent for the Progressively, if we get good profit growth, the In this regard, we have ables, consumer durables, November 2013November remaining 356 companies to the 70 firms that deli market may have pun chosen four funds — two chemicals and select capital The midcap segment has 2018. At the index level, and net profit growth was vered profit growth of ished some fundamental each from the mid and goods are key holdings — all been highly volatile over valuations have corrected 25.5 per cent compared more than 30 per cent, lysound stocks as well smallcap segments — that of which have rallied well in the past six months, more from a fiveyear average of with the first half of FY18. their stocks performed ex during the recent rout. are likely to pay off over a the past five years. so from September. While 46 times to 36 times the ceedingly well and deli Less than a fourth, or 97 long term of sevenplus The stock picks are a mix mid and smallcap indices trailing earnings currently. Fundamentals sound vered compounded an companies in the index, years. of momentum and value are down 1520 per cent The rally over the past Even as mid and small nual returns of 46 per cent trade at a premium to their We have picked funds strategies. But most compa from their peaks, indivi five years has been backed cap indices rallied mas on an average. Market fa fiveyear PE multiples. that have consistently pro nies in the lists are quality dual stocks have been by solid earnings growth of sively over the 201318 pe vourites such as KEI Indus These include companies tected downsides during pe names. hammered 1580 per cent. the constituent compa riod, the market has dis tries, Graphite India, PI In from segments such as IT, riods of heavy volatility over With a few global broker nies. At the aggregate le criminated between dustries and HEG feature pharmaceuticals, agro the last seven to eight years Franklin India Prima ages talking about earn vel, the earnings decelerat companies with strong in this category. chemicals/pesticide manu — Dec 2010Dec 2011, 2013, and DSP Midcap ings downgrades for blue ed 12.4 per cent annually earnings growth and those On the other hand, for facturers, cement players Jan 2015Feb 2016 and Feb Both these schemes are chip indices, will the finan over the past five years. struggling with profitabili the 116 companies that re and select capital goods Oct 2018 — when mid and middleoftheroad per cial performance of But that would be a mis ty or are lossmaking. ported declining profits or firms. smallcap indices corrected formers, but have a proven midcaps warrant a similar leading assessment of the Higher the profit growth of slipped into losses, the av Just 19 companies trade by 1530 per cent. ability to contain downsides move from equity ana underlying fundamentals firms, higher has been the erage return over the 2013 at almost the same valua These funds have beaten during steep corrections lysts? of the index. returns delivered by them. 18 period has been a meas tion multiples that they their respective bench and indexbeating returns Was the stupendous ral If public sector banks The stocks of the 61 ly 9 per cent annually, with traded five years ago. marks consistently over over five to seven years. ly in the midcap space are excluded, profits of the companies in the index many witnessing serious The remaining 44 firms one, three, five and seven Franklin Prima has a from late 2013 to early rest of the companies have that recorded an annual correction in prices. are excluded, as they re year timeframes, but may track record of nearly 25 2018 a bubble — upmove grown at a robust rate of profit growth of zero to The market has clearly ported losses; calculating not necessarily be charttop years and has delivered not supported by underly 37.1 per cent annually. The less than 10 per cent over rewarded those firms with their PE ratios is not pers, especially in the case close to 20 per cent annual ing fundamentals, specifi lossmaking midsized FY13FY18 rallied by a a demonstrated ability to possible. of the midcap schemes. ly over this period. It may cally profit growth? Are PSBs have seriously hurt CAGR of around 14 per deliver profit growth con At a broad level, the underperform in shortterm valuations still frothy in the aggregate picture. cent on an average over sistently in these five questions that we had Reliance Small Cap and rallies, but outperforms to the midcap space? Again, apart from the the last five years. years, while punishing sought to answer at the SBI Small Cap the tune of 24 percentage How do retail investors PSBs, if all the currently Stocks in this bucket in those that had weak bot outset get clarified by the Rarely do smallcap funds points vis-à-vis its bench participate in any rally in lossmaking firms from the clude Crisil, Godrej Indus tomlines and losses. analysis of the numbers as participate in all rallies and mark over five and seven the risky mid and small problematic infrastruc tries, Shriram City Union Of course, there are a given earlier. protect downsides during year periods. DSP Midcap, cap segments? ture, power and capital and Oracle Financial Ser few individual players in Going by the valuation corrections, across cycles. too, has consistently outper To answer these ques goods sectors are taken vices Software. each earnings band that differential enjoyed by the Reliance Small Cap and SBI formed across periods and tions, we analysed the per out of the analysis, the Now, 95 firms recorded have defied the broad BSE 400 MidSmall Cap in Small Cap are two such does take conservative bets formance of the consti profit CAGR has been a annual profit growth of 10 trend and may have been dex constituents, it is clear schemes that have fulfilled during corrections, making tuents of the BSE 400 healthy 32.5 per cent over 20 per cent over this pe rewarded or punished dis that at a broad level, a ma these conditions its portfolio relatively im MidSmall Cap Index — a the last five years. The to riod. These firms delivered proportionately by the jority of the companies do consistently. mune during volatile benchmark with 150 mid tal number of such loss 28 per cent returns on an market, but the broad not seem to enjoy unusual Investors with a horizon markets. cap firms and 250 small making companies is 44 or average annually in the last trend in stock price move ly high or frothy valuation of sevenplus years can buy Both the schemes hold cap companies, classified 11 per cent of the 400 firms five years. For instance, ments has been in line premium, going by their units of the funds through largecaps to the extent of 15 according to the recent SE in the index. Amara Raja Batteries, So with companies’ earnings fiveyear average the SIP route — Reliance per cent of their portfolios BI norms. The financial Clearly, apart from the many Ceramics and Mon performance. valuation. Small Cap stopped accept and take cash and debt posi performance, valuations banking sector and a few santo India that recorded One heartening aspect Rallies in most stocks ing lumpsums from March. tions to the tune of 79 per and stock price move debttroubled firms, the profit growth of 1020 per of the index was that as are justified by the under In any case, it will be better cent, especially during fall ments of this universe was growth has been reasona cent, delivered 2030 per many as 208 firms, or lying financial robustness if a mid or smallcap fund is ing markets, which prevents considered. The analysis bly healthy for most com cent returns (stock prices) more than half the firms in or otherwise of these firms bought on a periodic basis, erosion in NAVs. Holdings pertains to the 20132018 panies in the index. annually over the past five the BSE 400 MidSmall Cap and the market has been rather than as lump sum, gi are spread over 5060 period — when the rally Also, given the solid years. index, have reported 10 quick to punish those with ven the inherent volatility of stocks for these funds and took wings. earnings growth, it is no The 43 companies that per cent to more than 30 weaker fundamentals. stocks in the space. exposure to individual Here are a few key wonder that these stocks delivered 2030 per cent per cent profit increase an The only concern is that Over one, three and five names is generally restrict takeaways. soared and valuations earnings growth saw their nually over these five fi the smaller size of these years, both the schemes ed to less than 5 per cent. zoomed. The momentum stock prices rally on an av nancial years. businesses makes them have outperformed their DSP Midcap reduced ex Profit drives index in profit growth is still erage by 39 per cent an So, much of the rally in more vulnerable in cycli benchmark — BSE Small Cap posure to banks and finan The BSE MidSmall Cap in healthy, though the pace is nually. Dalmia Bharat, the mid and smallcap cal downturns in the res TRI index. The extent of out cial services companies over dex has rallied at an an a tad slower. Symphony and Abbott In stocks is not totally out of pective industries. It is for performance vis-à-vis the the past few years, which nual rate of 19 per cent ov In the first half of this dia feature in this list, and sync with the underlying this reason that these benchmark has been to the helped it protect the portfo fiscal, the mid and small the shares delivered 3977 fundamentals. stocks have typically trad tune of 510 percentage lio from massive selling in cap indices fell steeply by per cent CAGR over this ed at a discount to their points. In the last five years, those segments. 1525 per cent. But in this period. Valuations weak larger peers. these funds delivered 3031 Increasing exposure to period, excluding the 44 Among the index consti Retail investors may per cent annual returns. consumer nondurables companies mentioned ear tuents, as many as 240 find that the mid and Both schemes take a fair helped Franklin Prima con lier, the sales growth has stocks, or 60 per cent of smallcap space is a maze ly diffused approach to indi tain downsides in recent the firms trade, are cur and may not be well vidual holdings in the port months. rently trading at a discount placed to pick the winners folio. Individual stocks Though both funds do to their fiveyear price from those that have less mostly account for 34 per hold banks in their portfo earnings multiples. Thus, robust businesses or are fi cent of their portfolios. Re lios, the exposure is restrict the derating in stocks has nancially not sound. liance Small Cap holds as ed to quality names such as been quite widespread Hence, investing in safe many as 80 stocks across RBL Bank, City Union Bank, and broadbased. Given mid and smallcap funds market cycles, thus making HDFC Bank and Kotak Ma that more than half the would enable them to par the portfolio quite diversi hindra Bank. firms delivered reasonably ticipate in any major rally fied and nonconcentrated. Investment through the in the space. An analysis of SBI maintains a portfolio of SIP route with a time hori the most suitable mid and just over 40 stocks. The zon of fiveplus years will be smallcap funds for inves schemes take cash and debt the best mode to benefit tors with a moderate risk positions to the extent of 13 from these funds. GETTYIMAGES/ISTOCK

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The RBI recently made it gle is wellunderstood, there starts from April 1, 2019, and account — a minimum of bank/branch of your choice. If you have a PPF account maturity proceeds possible for retail investors to start are a few operational aspects the maturity will be April 1, ₹500 invested every finan These documents include a in a PSU bank in a different possible investing in government securities, — shifting accounts between 2034. cial year — you can move ac certified copy of the account, city from the one you cur mainly longdated bonds and treasury banks and post offices, with Therefore, you end up counts easily. the account opening applica rently reside in, you do not CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC bills (TBills). These were earlier available only to banks and large financial drawal mode at the end of paying 16 annual instalments For example, if you want tion, nomination form and have to travel to the old loca Documentation the tenure and the actual instead of 15, which means to move from one bank to specimen signature, along tion to redeem the maturity institutions. Government securities are number of yearly instal you end up saving that much another or from a post office with a cheque/DD for the proceeds. You have to comply with guaranteed by the Centre and are risk ments you need to make — more. Of course, you can al to a bank in your new place outstanding balance in the You can walk into the local the KYC procedure afresh free. that are not highlighted. so make monthly invest or to a new branch of the PPF account. branch of the PSB and give a when you shift your PPF account to a different ProHealth insurance upgraded You should be aware of ments in your PPF account, same bank, you will have to Once these documents are written request. branch or post office these procedural points so though the total amount is first give a written request to received at the new branch, After scanning through Cigna TTK Health Insurance, a joint CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC that your PPF account opera restricted to ₹1.5 lakh a finan your exiting branch. you have to submit a fresh your documents and re venture between USbased Cigna tion remains smooth. cial year. Even if you transfer an ac PPF account opening form quest, and taking your signa Corporation and Indian conglomerate count, the account will be (Form A) and nomination ture in front of the manager/ TTK Group, has announced the launch of Not just 15 years Shifting accounts treated as live, subject to the form (Form E or Form F in relevant official, the bank an enhanced version of their health The PPF term does not close Your job can lead you to shift condition mentioned earlier; case you wish to change the will attest these documents protection product CignaTTK ProHealth by the end of 15 years from base every few years. Even new investments in the new beneficiaries), along with and forward your request to Insurance. Under this, hospitalisation the date of the first instal while moving from one city branch will be treated as a your original passbook. the branch where you hold cover is available from ₹2.5 lakh to ₹1 ment. It actually spans 16 fi to another, you can transact continuation of your pre You will also need to com the PPF. crore. The policy provides the benefit of nancial years. easily on your PPF account. vious investments. plete the knowyourcustom A cancelled cheque of the guaranteed cumulative bonus, which The 15 years startfrom the You can transfer/shift your After your written re er procedure afresh by sub new bank account may also increases coverage under the policy by end of the financial year PPF account to a different quest/application is pro mitting the relevant be required. You can make 510 per cent of the sum insured (SI) when the first payment is branch of the same bank in a cessed, the existing bank/ documents — PAN, address requests for a NEFT transfer every year, irrespective of claims. The made. So if you open a PPF different city and also bet post office will send the origi proof, etc. to a different bank account cumulative bonus can accumulate up to account on November 12, ween banks and post offices. nal documents pertaining to Though the process through this process. 200 per cent of the SI. The policy also comes with unlimited restoration of SI for unrelated illnesses or injury in a PORTFOLIO IDEAS policy year. In addition, the product offers inbuilt coverage of 546 day care treatments, along with a full coverage The good and the bad of illiquid investments towards inpatient AYUSH treatment. You need not choose illiquid assets just to overcome your temptation to spend B Venkatesh BANK FD INTEREST RATES (%) only interest income, but not fore, need liquidity to man There are many reasons why so if you are looking to earn age your equity investment. less than Years individuals prefer realestate capital appreciation. 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SEBI has a clear plus AMCs is certainly not value that existed at the end trieving amounts due to you There are other more com set of regulations on how feasible. Therefore, the more of the third year. from MFs, prevention is mon situations, too. MFs should treat such cases. practical option is to check much easier than cure. The You may have invested in AMCs are required to in for unclaimed amounts Other slip-ups refore, spare those extra few mutual funds in the vest these sums in a separate across multiple AMCs But the above procedure ap minutes every week to check pre2006 era and failed to liquid fund, charging a man through their registrars — plies only to dividend your mail, update your KYC update your email, PAN or agement fee capped at 0.50 CAMS and Karvy. Both regis payouts or redemption pro details and maintain a physi KYC details with the fund. per cent of assets. 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Yuthika Bhargava Sri Lankan government. We coming in from Japan. NEW DELHI got a very positive response Mr. Sen said the industry The recent political turmoil from them. They assured us was seeing the Indian go in Sri Lanka is proving to be a that the issues will be taken vernment’s cooperation as hurdle for the Indian auto care of… now we don’t know well. The meeting with Sri mobile industry, which has what will happen,” Mr. Sen Lankan officials also saw re Thomas Kurian to head been in discussions with the said. presentations from the Go Google’s cloud division government there to rebuild vernment of India. NEW DELHI the market as an attractive Wait and watch “They discussed automo Oracle’s exproduct chief export destination. With the political crisis in the biles under the Economic Steely resolve: JSW aims to raise capacity at its Vijayanagar Thomas Kurian will head Sri Lanka, which was island country now, the in and Technology Coopera plant to 23 mtpa, says Seshagiri Rao. * SHASHI ASHIWAL Google’s cloud division, among the largest export dustry is in a waitandwatch tion Agreement (ETCA) replacing Diane Greene. markets for vehicle manufac mode to see “which govern agreement ... Also, a paper In a blog post, Ms. Greene turers in 201112, has seen de ment finally comes to power on automobile MRA [Mutual said Mr. Kurian will join JSW Steel eyes 2.5 Google Cloud on November mand for India made cars and what happens in the up Recognition Agreement] was 26 and transition into the fall sharply, following certain coming budget…We were ex introduced and will be furth leadership role in early 2019. policy decisions that made it No entry: Sri Lanka has seen demand for Indiamade cars fall pecting that a lot of things er discussed in the future,” times rise in capacity “He’ll do an amazing job impossible for Indian auto sharply following certain policy decisions. * BIJOY GHOSH will be addressed in the Mr. Sen said. helping to take Google Cloud makers to remain budget.” The Sri Lankan car market to the next level. Thomas has competitive. three to four years ago. In (SIAM), said. Some of the issues that has grown more than 50% Targets 45 mtpa to maintain 15% share 22 years of experience at 201718, it stood at just $36 SIAM had sent a delega were discussed included free from nearly 5 lakh units in Piyush Pandey Oracle; most recently he was ‘$1 bn exports’ million. So, the market has tion to Sri Lanka recently to import of used cars in Sri 2012 to more than 7.56 lakh the Odisha government to MUMBAI president of product “At some point we used to totally been wiped out,” Su discuss the issues hampering Lanka, which has resulted in units in 2017, as per the web set up a 12 mtpa greenfield development,” she said. PTI sell almost $1 billion worth of gato Sen, deputy director at exports to the country. the demand for new cars site of that country’s minis Sajjan Jindalled JSW Steel is plant for ₹35,000 crore. cars to Sri Lanka. This came the Society of Indian Auto “The delegation met a wiped out and higher duties try of transport and civil planning to increase steel The company has Bids invited from AMCs down to $300 million about mobile Manufacturers number of officials from the that give edge to vehicles aviation. making capacity by 2.5fold emerged has the highest for managing debt ETF to 45 million tonnes per an bidder to acquire the 3.5 NEW DELHI num (mtpa) by 2030 to mtpa steel plant of Bhushan The Finance Ministry invited maintain its 15% market Power and Steel Limited bids from mutual funds or share, with brownfield ex (BPSL) for ₹19,700 crore, a asset management firms for Investors want Yes Bank on ICRA watch pansions contributing to move challenged by Tata creating, managing and most of the rise. Steel at the National Compa launching a debt exchange Zuckerberg to quit Confirming the develop ny Appellate Tribunal traded fund. In line with the with ‘negative implications’ ment, Seshagiri Rao, joint (NCLAT) as the lenders al 2018 Budget announcement, the Department of ‘Firm hired PR agency to smear critics’ MD and Group CFO told The lowed JSW Steel to revise Investment and Public Asset Hindu: “We are planning to the bids. Press Trust of India Management came out with ‘Recent developments could limit bank from raising capital’ almost double our Vijayana Washington a request for proposal to gar steel plant to 23 mtpa ‘Competition welcome’ SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT engage an AMC for creation Facebook investors have of the bank. “Further stabili from 12 mtpa now, in phas On the competition with the Mumbai and launch of the Debt ETF. called on the company’s ty in the deposit base will re es. We also plan to double entry of foreign majors such Bids have to be submitted by chief executive Mark Zuck Ratings agency ICRA has main a key monitorable.” the Dolvi plant capacity to as ArcelorMittal and Liberty December 17. PTI erberg to step down as placed the longterm ratings The rating may be re 12 mtpa. Monnet Ispat is 1.5 House, Mr. Rao said: “Steel chairman following reports for Yes Bank on rating watch moved from ‘watch’ if the mtpa now with scope for is a globalised commodity. Uniply to defer merger that the company hired a with negative implications, bank is able to maintain as further expansion.” We have been exporting of Vector Projects public relations firm to and believes the ‘recent de set quality despite RBS out JSW has so far been un steel to developed markets, CHENNAI smear its critics, a media re velopments’ could limit the comes, ensure continued able to bag significant steel where these global majors Uniply Industries has decided port said. lender’s capacity to raise stability in depositor base, projects through the Insol operate. A healthy competi to defer the scheme of The New York Times re capital in the near term. and able to improve capital vency and Bankruptcy Code tion is always welcome.” amalgmation of its wholly cently published a report re The placement “ consid buffers. ICRA added that the (IBC) process as it lost JSW Steel has acquired owned subsidiary Vector vealing that Facebook at Mark Zuckerberg ers the recent developments bank’s credit strengths are Bhushan Steel to Tata Steel, the 1.5 MT steel making ca Projects (I) Pvt. Ltd. by 12 times smeared critics as an which leads ICRA to believe cessor. Its shares have partially offset by its relative which bought it for ₹36,000 pacity of Monnet Ispat, months. Taking into that Yes Bank’s ability to tanked 45% since the issue ly high, though steadily de consideration the ongoing tiSemitic or tried to link ac its battered reputation fol crore. owned by Mr. Jindal’s broth raise capital may be con of the extension came to clining, share of corporate and upcoming projects with tivists to billionaire investor lowing intense criticism of JSW did not express inter erinlaw Sandeep Jajodia strained in the near term ,” light in late August. deposit funding, relatively large multinationals, and the George Soros, and tried to the social media platform’s est in Essar Steel initially but for ₹2,875 crore and plans to challenges with regard to shift public anger away to handling of a scandal over ICRA said. ICRA said the rating may high exposure to the corpo later partnered the NuMetal turn it around before merg paperwork on vendor pre ward rival tech firms. Russian interference in the After the RBI refused to be downgraded if the risk rate sector, and relatively consortium to place a bid in ing it with itself. The firm qualification criteria, the It also said that the com 2016 U.S. elections and the extend Yes Bank MD & CEO based supervision exercise high capital consumption the second round. The cred has expanded its capacity board has decided to defer pany used a Republican pu Cambridge Analytica scan Rana Kapoor’s tenure of RBI for FY2018 results has rate due to robust growth, itors finally chose Arcelor from 1.6 mtpa in 2002 to 10 the scheme of amalgamation blic relations firm, Definers dal, The Telegraph beyond January 31, the len any material adverse impact leading to weakening of cap Mittal’s bid. JSW Steel has mtpa in 2010 and to 18 mtpa by 12 months, the firm said. Public Affairs, to help repair reported. der is now looking for a suc on asset quality parameters ital cushion. recently signed an MoU with by 2018. Realty group launches solar project Govt. sets Infosys begins construction of up telecom To generate about 1.6 MW via rooftop units at 4,300 apartments in Hooghly testing unit Indianapolis education centre Special Correspondent Chaudhuri said that substan KOLKATA tial emission reduction is Press Trust of India Makes $35 mn initial investment; to train 10,000 U.S. hires Citybased Eden Realty possible through such pro New Delhi Group Arya Sumant has jects. “A daytime 1.5 MW so The government has start Special Correspondent ing the 70.5acre site into an tions in Indiana last year, In launched a rooftop solar lar power plant can reduce ed a facility for testing tele BENGALURU ‘innovative’ training centre. fosys had already made sig project comprising 4,300 1.2 tonnes of carbon dioxide com products and equip Infosys announced that it “Our U.S. Education Cen nificant contributions to dwelling units on a 23acre emission on an hourly ba ment to ensure security in had started construction of ter [is] a physical embodi central Indiana’s tech com plot acquired from the Na sis,” he said. digital communications at its U.S. Education Center in ment of our longterm com munity and to workforce de tional Textile Corporation. Besides reducing the ser the national level, Telecom Indianapolis. The Bengalu mitment to reskilling velopment efforts happen The project, which will vice charge of the residents, Minister Manoj Sinha said. rubased IT services compa American workers,” said ing across the state in come up in the affordable major benefits would also ac “We [have] inaugurated ny said the stateoftheart U.B. Pravin Rao, COO, partnership with renowned housing segment, will ena crue to top floor occupants, stateofthe art facility for training campus and resi Infosys. universities. ble occupants not only to Carbon cut: A 1.5 MW solar power plant can reduce carbon whose airconditioning preparation of security as dential centre for its em In March 2018, Infosys have dwelling units at affor dioxide emissions by 1.2 tonnes per hour. * K. PICHUMANI charges would be reduced surance standards, putting ployees — and the em Key role opened its first U.S. Technol dable rates, but also save on due to rooftop installations. us at the forefront of tech ployees of select clients — “We look forward to the im ogy and Innovation Hub in maintenance charges they of Eden Realty Group Arya ration years ago, he said. The Eden Realty chairman nology. This facility will will prepare the American portant role this facility will Indianapolis. In April, the would otherwise have to pay Sumant. This would be grid twophased project would Sachchidanand Rai said that work for security from the workforce for the technolo play in our efforts to train company expanded its hir in common service areas. connected power, he said. come up at Serampore in the flats would be priced bet national perspective and gy jobs of the future. our 10,000 new American ing plans for Indiana from “We will generate about Hooghly district. ween ₹4.95 lakh and ₹20.2 also facilitate the develop The company said that it hires as well as our existing 2,000 to 3,000 new jobs by 1.6 MW through roof top so NTC land Former chairman of the lakh. The project would also ment of testing and certifi is providing an initial invest employees and those of our the end of 2023. Infosys has lar units at this project which The group is developing the erstwhile West Bengal Re have other facilities like a cation ecosystem in the ment of $35 million to create clients.” Indiana Governor hired more than 300 Ameri will have 4,300 apartments,” project on land acquired newable Energy Develop mall with a multiplex and a country,” Mr. Sinha said at the first 125,000 square feet Eric J. Holcomb said that can workers in Indiana this said joint managing director from National Textile Corpo ment Agency S.P. Gon hyper market. an Assocham event. of development, transform since establishing opera year towards this goal. Set up nodal agency for cruise tourism, slash GST: association ‘India emerging as potential destination given its vast coast’

Lalatendu Mishra are looking for new destina MUMBAI tions, India is fast emerging India Cruise Lines Associa as a potential destination for tion (INCLA) approached the the cruise tourism. Especial Prime Minister’s Office ly for the coastal states, con (PMO) earlier this month, sidering the vast coastline seeking a host of relaxations the country is endowed that could make the domes with, and yet remains unex tic sector more attractive for ploited,” he said. investment and increase Stating that the current ease of doing business in the GST rate of 18% will have a sector. negative impact on the in dustry, inCLA sought a re Charter of demands bers, submitted a White Pap duction to 5% on services of The charter of demands in er comprising recommenda transportation of passengers cluded regulatory frame tions for the Indian Cruise by cruise ships. work in conjunction with industry and a letter re Among the charter of de global practices, reduction questing early resolutions of mands submitted, the asso in Goods and Service Tax challenges being faced by in ciation also requested for (GST), tax holidays to draw dustry stakeholders. “We cruise terminal of interna foreign capital investments are optimistic that the tional standards and other through Foreign Direct In cruisetourism sector will be facilities at Porbandar, vestment (FDI), dutyfree a gamechanger for India’s Dwarka/Okha, Lakshad shopping for cruise shipping economy,” Mr. Bailom said. weep, Andamans, Pudu and a nodal agency to “The global cruising in cherry, Kollam, Vizag and streamline coordination bet dustry is one of the fastest Kolkata. Given that there are ween different ministries. growing segments in the tra various hotels, restaurants, In a meeting held on No vel and tourism industry bars, shops and entertain vember 8 at the joint secre and can make a significant ment centres on the cruise tary level in the PMO, Jurgen contribution to a destina ships, the process of declara Bailom, chairman, inCLA, tion’s economy and local tion of inventory is a time along with three other mem communities. As cruise lines consuming task, it said. CM YK https://t.me/Estore33_com Downloaded From:- www.Estore33.com www.Estore33.com https://t.me/TheHindu_Zone_Official EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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For the retired folk

ILLUSTRATION: J.A.PREMKUMAR Those who superannuate should seek to live in the present, without dwelling on the past

Sudhansu Mohanty nettes of our growingup is tantamount to twiddling cially if they’re the perks their mind’s eye and thereby verily lost – threequarters of end, as longevity more often peace that’s germane. Em days – from long, long ago. your thumb. And almost syn andpositionhappy kind. In granting the retiree the com his macho self! He was allud than not trumps employ, brace it unstintingly, without t was rakhi thanksgiving to She enquired if I’d had my onymous with retirement a feudal hierarchy, the reti fort he once enjoyed but is ing to his endowed loss of forcing them yet again to face qualms. Life’s a package, my younger cousin Lakhi. lunch and was readying for a from life – the besetting sun ree is a lowly, pathetic crea (sorely) missing now! props and stilts. life’s inevitable mulch. with varying sellby dates, II’d got up late after a late siesta. “Neither,” I said, “still set with the sky turning dark ture in society’s pecking or I’ve run into august per To turn into a common ci I know of many reem each beyond the one last ex night – a luxury only retired in office!”, and added im and swarthy. I still recall the der. He’s a spent force, past sonnel with their security tizen overnight is hard. The ployed (even rereem pired, but then there’s yet people can indulge in. Late pishly, “Just took a break wife of a retired senior officer shelflife or sellby/expiry guards following them dur enterprising ones try making ployed) men knowing not another, and still another wakeup pushes everything from work to call you.” She who came visiting us at date and of little material or ing the morning walk inside the most of this bad situation how to expend the years sellby to live for. That’s the back: the morning cuppa, was confused, paused, and home in Delhi. While taking social consequence. This the secured and gated com via ingenious jugaad, Indian ahead at 65 or 70 years of bottom line. morning chores and walk, said, “Oh, I didn’t know that leave she wore a woebegone even gets conscripted in the munity of New Moti Bagh. babustyle – lingering on the age. I empathetically hear It’s living in the present – breakfast, but who cares! I – you’ve taken up another look, adding dolefully, retirees’ consciousness. Spare a thought for their im blessed perks if they can: car, their plight and suggest look not missing the past – that could wear the rakhis only job! That’s nice, good to hear “We’re retired! Please visit us Some canny retirees try to mense manifest loss as reti driver, security guard, dom ing around for a job that’s co matter. The past cunningly around 3 p.m. and just be that!” We called off happily – often.” She wasn’t the one soften the blow by embellish rees – not propitious for aged estic help, and so on. terminus with their lives! But has this uncanny habit of en fore my pushedback lunch. for entirely different reasons. who ever worked and re ing their visiting cards, and aging hearts! If most ail This is awarded more as those are very seldom trapping the present and tak I called my sisters one by I didn’t disabuse her mind tired, but she identified her grandly displaying their last ments are psychosomatic, reparative courtesy. But over forthcoming. ing the mickey out of life. one, who so lovingly had and feeling of “goodness”, self so completely with her assignation (invariably the you’ve a perfect recipe here. time they too peter away. The reality of retyring “of Live and let live! Let death be sent their brotherly love why must I? In the Indian spouse’s work/retirement highest perch attained) with A friend’s plight around The future stares back – hard fice” is looking inward at self the only irrevocable retire wrapped in symbolic rakhis. mindset, retirement from a that she was feeling the re ‘Retd’ in the smallest font his ‘RDay’ captured his tur and malignant. Unhappy and life – best done in the ment. Today I feel blessed to Being the only one younger job means a host of things: tirement blues inchmeal – size. The aim is aphrodisiacal moil. “I’ll now have to learn days are back again! ecosystem we live in. No have retyred – to live, and not to me, I called Lakhi firstup. sitting at home not knowing perhaps even more! – to shimmy people’s focus how to cross a busy road!” This explains the scramble need to look around for jobs merely exist! I thanked her lovingly and how to spend time doing Most retirees find it hard on the august perch and con He was overstating his tra for postretirement sine or seeking external reinfor we reminisced a few vig nothing, and when timepass to adjust to retired life, espe jure visions of grandeur in vails but he looked wan and cures. But they too have an cement(s). It’s the inner [email protected] What’s in a name? Number troubles The clothes manoeuvre S.V. Raman Some suitable options in the season of new labels Sudhir Vombatkere with the rickshawpuller. t all started when our C.V. Sukumaran more ‘bad’s’ in our coun tions. I hope the rulers his is a tale from the 1940s. On one occasion, Chandru had maid told my wife she try — Faizabad, Allahabad, would consider what we My father’s young friend Ra hired a rickshaw to travel to his Iwould not come to n Shakespeare’s Romeo Hyderabad, Secundera ordinary citizens have to Tmachandran (Chandru, for friend Saxena’s home some miles work for a week. And, she and Juliet, the enmity bad. Actually, it is not Fai say while naming the air short), born and brought up in Ma away. (In those days, distance was also said that on return, Ibetween the Montague zabad that should be re ports and medical colleg dras, went to Bhilai, having landed measured in furlongs and miles; she wanted a raise. and Capulet families pos named Ayodhya; India the es. The suitable name for a job there. His proficiency in Hin eight furlongs made one cadastral My wife was shocked. es insurmountable hur nation should be renamed the airport to be built in di was severely limited, to put it mile, equivalent to 1.6 km). Wary However like a seasoned dles to the fulfilment of Ayodhya. Giving the name Faizabad, oh! sorry, Ayod mildly. However, as most Indians of being taken advantage of due to boxer, she bounced back the love between the of the kingdom of Lord hya, is Jataayu Interna do when exposed to a new lan his poor Hindi, Chandru had asked into combative mode. But Montague young man Ro Ram to a mere district will tional Airport. guage, they first learn numeration. Saxena how much the trip should instead of the obvious ‘op meo and the Capulet be an insult to the king It will be a fitting com After much practice, Chandru cost him, and was advised it ponent’, she chose me, young lady Juliet. Hence, dom and its ancient ruler. memorative gesture to the had learned ek-do-teen-char- should not exceed two rupees. the meeker sex. Standing Juliet tells Romeo it is his bird, a staunch devotee of panch..., and with some prac On reaching his destination, between me and Breaking has to be held in both of evaporation of mois name that is her enemy Some suggestions Lord Ram, who tried to tice had become quite Chandru asked the rick News, she declared, hands and waved strongly ture in the cloth below is and asks him: “O, be some The same day Faizabad stop Ravan from kidnap proficient in counting shawpuller how much “Look! You are retired but in the air, in several im lower by 70.8%. So use other name!/ What’s in a was renamed Ayodhya, ping Sita and in the ensu up to dus (ten). He he should pay . The I don’t have that luxury. pulses. She explained that two clips per cloth with name?” And this little the setting up of an air ing fight, lost its wings and had developed the rickshawpuller said The least you can do is to this reduces wrinkles as out any overlapping”. She question might well be port named after Lord life. practice of counting dedh-rupiya. help me during crisis sit well as moisture. Quoting continued: “Also, trousers one of the most quoted Ram in Ayodhya, and a And the most suitable in Hindi on his fin Chandru was flum uations. So from tomor from Quora, she averred it should be turned inside Shakespearean sentence. medical college in the name for the medical col gers to help him me moxed: he had never row, till the maid returns, reduces ironing time by out to expose pockets to Taking it out of the con name of King Dashrath lege is Hanumanji Medical morise the numbers, heard dedh in numbers. you will take out the 26.4% and drying time by the sun; shirts to be hung text, the question has of were announced. That is College of Ayodhya. and his friends used to He held his hands behind clothes from the washing 32.5%. I was impressed. by the collar; undergar ten been used to imply wonderful: the Lord Ram It was Hanuman ji who tease him that he had his his back so as to be out of machine and spread them After obeying her in ments with clip on the that there is nothing in a International Airport and went for mritasanjeevani numbers on his fingertips. view of the rickshawpuller, and on the clothesline.” structions, just as I began elastic; towels, saris, and name. But when Shakes the King Dashrath Medical and as he forgot the name After dus he had perhaps as began to mentally count on his fin I was petrified. Quickly to hang the clothes on the so on, which are symmet peare made Juliet ask the College of Ayodhya! of the medicinal plant, sumed that, like numeration in gers ... ek-do-teen-char, up to dus, but humbly I reasoned merit of ‘first come first rical in shape, to be hung question, he might have But I have some sugges brought along the whole South Indian languages, if he knew and repeated it in case he had with her: “But I don’t hanged’ basis, she reap equally on both sides of only meant to ex mountain in order the Hindi equivalents of twenty, made a mistake, all the time know where the clothes peared from nowhere and the wire. I was stunned by press love in a man to save Lord Laksh thirty and so on he would be able watched intently by an equally line is…. also I have never said “Look! Larger clothes the minute details. ner love has never man. to manage his monthly salary of flummoxed rickshawpuller. But done such a thing in my like towels and sarees On the sixth day my been expressed. In honouring Ja ₹100, which in those times was not from ek to dus, Chandru did not entire life…” She brushed should be hung on the wife complimented me, Actually, there is taayu and Hanu a very inconsequential sum. In any come to the number dedh. He sur aside those arguments as outer side and smaller saying I was indeed a fast everything in a man, there is an en case, nothing really important in mised that the man was demand if they are cobwebs and ones such as undergar learner and doing a better name. That is why vironmental aspect daily life in those days cost more ing more than ₹10, and was out to gave a solution: “Don’t ments on the inner side. job than the maid. I didn’t Romeo didn’t change also. than do-teen rupiye, and usually cheat him! A heated argument en worry. I’ll train you.” This procedure offers two suspect any foul play his name though Ju In this age of glo they cost much less. sued with Chandru, in his broken The next morning, just benefits: first, the larger then. The next day the liet tells him the fol bal warming and Hence one frequently had to use Hindi, insisting he would pay him as I was busy watching the ones need more sunshine; maid came to work but lowing beautiful lines climate change, the fractions, which were in paise no more than do-rupiye, and the best catches on TV for the and, innerwear should began with the demand immediately after what we need is re (12 to an anna) or in anna (16 to a sweating rickshawpuller insisting umpteenth time, my wife not be visible to neigh for a raise. My wife, as asking him the fa creating the cli rupee), and there were coins for that he had asked for dedh-rupiya, interrupted it and asked bours — just etiquette.” cool as a refrigerator, told mous question: mate akin to that of quarteranna, oneanna, twoan a rupee and a half, and no more. me to take out the wet On this occasion I was her: “Instead of an in “That which we call a Ayodhya when nas, and so on. Items of daily use Saxena, hearing the altercation, clothes and put them out not impressed. Neverthe crease in wages, I will re rose/ By any other name Lord Ram ruled Ayodhya cost less than an anna – those were came out and settled the argu to dry. As I pulled out the less I proceeded to do duce your workload. would smell as sweet.” aeons ago. the days when one could buy a ment. The rickshawpuller left entangled clothes from what she wanted me to. From today you don’t But that doesn’t matter. It is only now I feel as whole basket of mangoes for eight with ₹2, smiling and doubtless the washing machine and Later, as I started to put have to do the job of put India should keep its an Robert Browning felt: annas, or half a rupee. A rupee amazed at the dismal counting proceeded to hang them, the clips, she cautioned: ting clothes out to dry.” It cient and vibrant culture “God is in his Heaven and/ was quite a lot of money! abilities of the “Madrasis”. she stopped me and in “Do not try to save work was the turn of the maid, alive by renaming all the All’s right with the world.” Travel was mostly by rickshaw, structed that each piece or clips by placing one for and me, to get a shock. place names that ends and it was customary to bargain [email protected] of clothing has to be ‘stir two by overlapping the ‘bad’ly. We don’t want any [email protected] dried’, that is, every cloth clothes. Because the rate [email protected] A reunion and some perspective after all of our decades Old memories, heady anecdotes, touching nostalgia... when batch-mates at a medical college get together More on the Web thehindu.com/opinion/open-page Seerat Kaur Gill er ludicrous nicknames such learnt that he was the ne doctor, can’t you at least hire as ‘mama’, ‘dada’, ‘jageera’, phew of the writer Kartar a rickshaw!) Of smokers and ex-smokers uch to my reluc ‘stud’, ‘cheerha’ and what Singh Duggal. He fondly It was a night to remem tance, a recent wee not! They danced to old Hin talked about the days when ber for the batch of 1978, as The testimony of an escape artist who is Mkend was spent at di songs, each outdoing the his Kartar Tayaji would get they danced in gay abandon reaping the benefits of quitting the vice tending my father’s college other, with the iconic ‘twis off the train at the Jalandhar and teased each other on RAJESH MAHAL reunion. As anticipated, the ties’ step. station and choose to walk to their balding heads or grey families of most of his batch After finishing college the house, which was a few ing hair. Distance had given Procrastination, that thief of time mates gave it a miss, but we nearly 40 years ago, some kilometres away, rather than them not only nostalgia, but Ways to manage and tackle the mental blocks were present in full force to had flown to foreign shores, take a car or rickshaw. The also perspective and objec that make you postpone tasks meet his old classmates, who some moved to bigger cities entire locality would appre tivity. But it was a special R.S. KARUNARATNE had flown down from diffe and a few had chosen to re ciate the humility of the un night for each one of us as rent parts of the world and main in Amritsar. Each one assuming Padma Bhushan well — the family members of Those special women congregated at the Govern had progressed in their un and Sahitya Akademi awar the yesteryear students — as ment Medical College, Am ique ways and created a dee, who had no airs. we took back something with Some ‘specimens’ from around you ritsar. niche for themselves. They When Bhupinder Duggal us from that night, be it a sliv who you need to learn to cope with There was a lot of back had definitely worked hard graduated and become a er of nostalgia from those GEETHA VAIDYANATHAN slapping, enthusiastic hug and struggled to be where doctor, he too tried to emu timeless Hindi numbers, or ging, namecalling and gen they were. However, as Doug late his uncle’s modest ways the blackandwhite, scanty eral bonhomie among the Larson beautifully says, ‘nos and preferred to walk home bearded picture of Nanaji Contributions to this page may be emailed to [email protected] to a length of up to 700 words. Please provide the postal address and a brief descrip- batch of 150 students, who talgia is a file that removes from the railway station. The (much to the astonishment tion of the writer. An email id that is provided could be considered for publication. Certify in writing that it is original material; The Hindu views plagiarism as a serious were now all distinguished the rough edges from the and pragmatism. der Singh Duggal, a re local people, he recalls with of my daughter), or a price issue. Also confirm that the submission is exclusive to this page. Taking into ac- doctors and medical practi good old days’. These doc Among many distin nowned Punebased gynae a smile, would tease him say less anecdote of the great count the volume of material being received, we regret our inability to acknow- ledge receipt, or to entertain telephonic or other queries on the status of a submis- tioners. These respectable tors, too, could only look guished physicians and pro cologist who had once ing, Hun ta doctor ban gya Kartar Singh Duggal. sion. If a submission is not published within eight weeks, consider it to be out of the doctors, much to our amuse back upon the last four de fessors of father’s batch, I got served in the Army. hain, rickshaw v nahi taithon reckoning — in most cases owing to dearth of space. The publication of an article is not to be seen as The Hindu endorsing the viewpoint in any way. ment, were calling each oth cades with hope, nostagia a chance to meet Dr. Bhupin Conversing with him, I hunda! (Now that you are a [email protected]

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IN BRIEF Alyque Padamsee dies at 90 Born to make a diﬀerence The legendary ad maker built more than 100 brands during his long stint at Lintas The thing I admire most about him is that he was never scared

Rahul da Cunha Vikram Phukan ta, Man of La Mancha and Mumbai Mumbai all those really difficult mus SpaceX gets nod to put Ad guru and theatre doyen I’m feeling sad. Not just per icals at a time when there 12,000 satellites in orbit Alyque Padamsee passed sonally, but sad for advertis was no technology; we WASHINGTON away early on Saturday fol ing, for theatre, for this city, didn’t even have micro SpaceX got the green light lowing an illness. He was 90. for India. Alyque Padam phones. He still went out this week from U.S. “He passed away at H.N. Re see’s death is not just the there and did it. There was authorities to put a liance Hospital early morn death of a man; it’s the no question of ‘no’; impos constellation of nearly ing due to an illness. I’m death of an institution. The sible is nothing. 12,000 satellites into orbit in deeply saddened by the death of a large part of this The thing I admire most order to boost cheap, loss,” Dolly Thakore, Mr. Pa country, this city. about him is that he was wireless internet access by damsee’s former partner, People tend to use ‘great never scared. He had confi the 2020s. Elon Musk’s man’ loosely; I don’t know dence in his own abilities, company has six years to put told The Hindu. half of them in orbit, and nine His was a life lived reso if I would go as far as calling whether wrong or right — years to complete the lutely under the arc lights, gi him great, or a genius, but Alyque Padamsee with his and he made some terrible satellite network, according ven his contributions to the there is no doubt that he daughter Shazahn in this file mistakes and did some ter * PTI to FCC rules. AFP world of advertising and came into this world to be photo. rible productions, no ques theatre. In his autobiogra able to change stuff. When tion — but when he was phy, A Double Life: My Excit you think of Charles Cor frankly, is dead now. I say good, he was very, very ing Years in Theater and Ad rea, it is the same brand of that because what is essen good. That is an interesting Brand father: A file photo of Alyque Padamsee interacting with students at the Goa Institute of vertising, released in 2000, person: if Correa shaped tially a creative profession — quality and a great one to Management in Panaji. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Mr. Padamsee piquantly de the landscape, Alyque and Alyque was among the learn, because one is always scribes his journey strad shaped culture in many last of the breed that be in situations of stress, pres dling two boats — theatre Chaudhary household campaigns, creative projects the leeway to deviate from ways, and advertising for lieved that — has become sure, quick thinking re and advertising. names. The Charlie Chaplin with cultural impact and lon market forces on stage — sure. Can he ever be re bottomline driven. He quired, whether in advertis Known as the ‘Brand Fath doppelgänger for Cherry gevity, like those on Mr. Pa with his productions of Gir placed? No. He was born to wanted to build Lintas into ing or theatre. Rare Sumatran tiger er of Indian advertising’, Mr. Blossom added the ‘perfect damsee’s enviable résumé, ish Karnad’s Tughlaq and make a difference. a profitable company, but Alyque led from the rescued in Indonesia Padamsee built more than shine’ to shoes for school are thin on the ground. Broken Images, for instance. Alyque truly believed also a creative company. front, with no compromis PEKANBARU 100 brands during his long kids everywhere. There was He was often called to answ that people who were in That’s why he hired a lot of es. His point was, if you’re A rare Sumatran tiger that stint at advertising agency nothing lurid about the Liril Born to the stage er the twin charges of com theatre should be in adver us, and hired the late Kersy going to do something, do it was trapped beneath the tising; he felt these profes Katrak to run the show. He superbly. When you take a floor of a shop for three days Lintas India (now Mullen girl, although it did belatedly In theatre, Mr. Padamsee cut mercialism and elitism, but was rescued in Indonesia. The Lowe Lintas Group). He is raise hackles about the ob his teeth with the Theatre these are crosses that conti sions were interlinked, and wanted it to be more than a photograph, it has to be the threeyear old male was freed the only Indian to be voted jectification of women in Group, founded by his broth nue to be borne by whole I think he was right. cash machine. I don’t know best photograph ever. He from the 75 cm crawl space into the International Clio advertising. er, Sultan, in whose Mer crosssections of theatre Theatre at that time, whether that exists now. used to say, everything on Burung Island. After Hall of Fame, the Oscars of Mr. Padamsee swam chant of Venice he made his producers to this day. Mr. Pa when he was at his most po needs to be edible: if it’s a putting the 80 kg animal to the advertising world. Part of against the tide for conten acting debut at the age of se damsee made no bones werful, was essentially En For the big idea car, you should want to eat sleep, conservation officials an uppercrust set of 20th tious campaigns whose time ven. Over the course of its about his persuasions, and glish: Arthur Miller and He was not in advertising that car. We’re in profes opened up part of the shop’s century marketing pioneers had come — the Kamasutra 70year existence, more by sheer dint of prolificacy Chekhov, the actors were any more, but he remained sions where we’d better be foundation to carry out the like Frank Simoes, Ivan Ar condom ads with Pooja Bedi than 80% of Theatre Group’s and industriousness, etched Englishspeaking, worked somebody who fought for the best there can possibly evacuation. AFP thur and Gerson da Cunha, arguably blew sex out of the productions were directed his name into history books. in advertising or other pro creativity, for the big idea. be: you’re selling to a con Mr. Padamsee was nonethe closet and catapulted In by either Mr. Padamsee or Internationally, one of Pa fessions on the day, and Today we don’t believe in sumer, you’re entertaining less no stranger to the dians into a brave new zeit his first wife, Pearl. damsee’s enduring calling their evenings were spent in big ideas any more, we live an audience who have psyche of the everburgeon geist. On the other hand, he In 1974, he staged Tim cards has been his part as the theatre. That time was from promotion to promo spent a large amount of mo ing middleclass, making the did also kowtow to market Rice and Andrew Lloyd Web Mohammad Ali Jinnah in Ri like Mad Men (not that he tion, from TV spot to TV ney on a ticket, you had bet very notion of consumerism sensibilities, as evinced by ber’s rock musical Jesus chard Attenborough’s Gand ever drank), a period when spot. ter be great. fun for Indians across class his popular campaigns for Christ Superstar, one of the hi (1982). A dapper Mr. Pa advertising was a creative Tonight, we’re obviously We tend to forget, in the es. His work with Lintas, fairness creams, which capi earliest Broadwaystyle mus damsee was handpicked by profession. going to dedicate the show hurlyburly of life, that we bears testament to this. Mr. talised on deeply en icals to be staged in India.Th the director after a chance With him going, one is to him [Sing India Sing, a have begun to live in a total Padamsee was Lintas India’s trenched societal selfloath is signposted a shift that encounter in a cocktail par suddenly reminded about musical da Cunha cowrote, ly compromised world, eve Screenwriter William what a massive change ad is currently playing in Mum rything is ‘chalta hai’, nobo Goldman dies Chief Executive for 14 years, ing. In recent years, his sought to garner larger au ty, joining other names from vertising has been through. bai], because he was the dy gives a shit. With him, LOS ANGELES building it into one of the top defence of these campaigns diences for urban theatre. Indian theatre in what was to William Goldman, the Oscar agencies in the country. had been roundly criticised. Unlike Ebrahim Alkazi, become Attenborough’s The difficulty for a lot of us founding father of the In and in his era, that was not winning screenwriter behind Yet, the sheer creative force another Theatre Group ex magnum opus. Mr. Padam who traverse the ’80s and dian musical, having done acceptable. Butch Cassidy and the Down to earth of Mr. Padamsee’s signature ponent who forged an indel see’s cold, calculating Jin ’90s, is that advertising, Jesus Christ Superstar, Evi (As told to Peter Griffin) Sundance Kid and All the His Lifebuoy campaign had ideas influenced a whole ible name in the world of ex nah, gentle coif and monocle President’s Men, has died. The an accessible everyman ap generation of ad creators perimental theatre, most of in place, seethed with the 87yearold passed away on peal, and Lalitaji, the en who came afterwards. It Mr. Padamsee’s wellknown angst of a new country in Friday following complicati dearing housewife who al must be said that, in a mar works display a markedly painful gestation. ons from cancer and pneum ways drove a hard bargain, ket saturated with too many mainstream sensibility, even (With inputs from Deborah onia, his family said. AFP made both Surf and Kavita players and clientdriven though he did allow himself Cornelious and Gauri Vij) Getting ‘lab meat’ on plates

Agence France-Presse said in a joint statement. FDA’s experience regulating New York While technical details cellculture technology and U.S. authorities on Friday have yet to be confirmed, living biosystems and the Home DNA tests doom anonymity for donors agreed on how to regulate the FDA would oversee the USDA’s expertise in regulat food products cultured from collection and differentia ing livestock and poultry animal cells — paving the tion of cells — when stem products for human con They can be identified indirectly by genetic proximity to distant cousins who have taken a genetic test way to get socalled ‘lab cells develop to specialised sumption,” the statement meat’ on American plates. cells — while the USDA said. Agence France-Presse “And I would be shocked if ing,” said Wendy Kramer, The Department of Agri would oversee production The backers of ‘lab meat’ Washington that was not part of the stan who founded the Donor Si culture and the Food and and labelling of food say avoiding slaughtering All Ryan Kramer had to do dard discussion in the next bling Registry in 2003. Now Drug Administration agreed products. animals will reduce both suf was to swab his cheek and five years.” it has 60,000 members. to share regulation of cell “This regulatory frame fering and greenhouse embark on nine days of ge The site that sold Mr. The four DNA websites cultured food products, they work will leverage both the emissions. nealogical research to identi Kramer his DNA kit found that offer match services — fy his biological father, a two men in its database Ancestry, 23andMe, Family man who thought he would whose genome resemblance Tree DNA and My Heritage — remain anonymous when he meant they shared a com today have so many users donated his sperm and never mon ancestor with him, dat that it is rare for someone took a DNA test himself. ing back to the 17th century. not to find at least one dis The year was 2005, when tant relative. consumer DNA tests were in Extended family From that second or third their infancy. Mr. Kramer Mr. Kramer and his single degree cousin, traditional ge was 15. mother, Wendy, consulted nealogy tools can be em Thirteen years later, the Easy to trace: Ryan Kramer, centre, showing a photo of his public records in Los An ployed to rebuild a family explosion of individual DNA father, left, and grandfather, right, on his phone. * AFP geles. They knew the donor’s tree up to the shared ances test kits has opened the date of birth — the only bio tor, such as vital records, floodgates for people who “It would be naive to think in the U.S. alone, probability graphical information given death notices and obituar were born from sperm or that a person could donate alone suggests that nearly all out by the sperm bank — and ies, census records, or new egg donations. Increasing sperm or eggs and stay ano the population could be wanted to see if anyone spaper archives. numbers of people are using nymous in the United linked somehow to one of matched the unusual last Then, the possible donor the technology to uncover States,” said Ms. Moore. “It the registered profiles name of the two men found. can often be nailed down by the identities of their isn’t going to happen.” online. Bingo. They found their elimination based on sex, donors. Now, even if they never match. age and location. The more In the growing field of as send their own DNA to a con Finding a donor Mr. Kramer contacted the public records there are, the sisted reproduction, donors sumer ancestry site, donors “Disclosure will occur at man, who said he was faster the search. used to be guaranteed can be identified indirectly some point in time. And I “thrilled” to hear from him. Thanks to DNA sites, Mr. anonymity. by their genetic proximity to think that’s just an inevitable The two have stayed in regu Kramer has found eight half But things have changed, a distant cousin who took a consequence,” said Peter lar contact ever since. brothers or sisters since 2017 according to genetic geneol DNA test. Schlegel, president of the “He was the very first do — five of those just this sum ogist CeCe Moore, founder With at least 10 million pe American Society for Repro nor conceived person to find mer. In all, he has found 16 of DNADetectives. ople having taken a DNA test ductive Medicine. his donor through DNA test half siblings since 2005. New discovery shows glass made from exploding stars Silica remnants detected in distant supernovae

Agence France-Presse A supernova occurs when a large Paris star burns through its own fuel, The next time you’re gazing out of causing a catastrophic collapse the window in search of inspira ending in an explosion of galactic tion, keep in mind the material proportions. It is in these celestial you’re looking through was forged maelstroms that individual atoms inside the heart of an exploding an fuse together to form many com cient star. mon elements, including sulphur An international team of scien and calcium. tists said on Friday that they had Silica makes up around 60% of detected silica — the main compo the earth’s crust and one particular nent of glass — in the remnants of form, quartz, is a major ingredient two distant supernovae billions of of sand. light years from earth. “We’ve shown for the first time Researchers used NASA’s Spitzer that the silica produced by the su Space Telescope to analyse the light pernovae was significant enough to emitted by the collapsing mega contribute to the dust throughout cluster and obtain silica’s “finger the Universe, including the dust print” based on the specific wave that ultimately came together to length of light the material is form our home planet,” said Haley known to emit. Gomez, from Cardiff University. CM YK https://t.me/Estore33_com