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PUBLISHED FROM DELHI & KOLKATA VOL. 3, ISSUE 209 | Wednesday, 2 August 2017 | Kolkata | Pages 16 | Rs 3.00 NO HALF TRUTHS pNIFTY 10114.65 (+37.55) pSENSEX 32,575.17 (+60.23) pDOW JONES 21,891.12 (+60.81) qNASDAQ 6,348.12 (-26.55) pRUPEE/DOLLAR 64.07 (+0.12) qRUPEE/EURO 75.77 (-0.26) qGOLD/10GM 29,530 (-120.00) nSILVER/K 39,500 (0.00) FORECAST OF MORE NO COERCIVE STEP PRANNOY, KASHYAP ANUSHKA ENJOYS SHOWERS IN NEXT 2 AGAINST NDTV WIN; JAYARAM LOSES CHARACTERS THAT DAYS; DEATH TOLL ON RS 428 CR I-T IN NEW ZEALAND CHALLENGE HER TOUCHES 46 PG3 DEMAND: HC PG7 OPEN PG15 PHILOSOPHY PG16 Quick News44 MAMATA HITS OUT AT THOSE TRYING TO DERAIL DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS Oppn stall RS over 3 dead after gun attack LPG price hike breaks out during trial ‘Arm-twisting or blackmail OUR CORRESPONDENT in Moscow courtroom NEW DELHI: A united oppo- sition on Tuesday stalled the MOSCOW: Russian officials say three people pre-noon proceedings in the have been killed and four injured in a shootout Rajya Sabha protesting against at a courthouse in a Moscow suburb. can’t stall development’ the government’s decision to Russia’s Investigative Committee, the coun- hike the prices of domestic try’s chief investigative body, said in a statement OUR CORRESPONDENT cooking gas (LPG) by Rs 4 per on Tuesday the incident took place when five cylinder every month to elimi- handcuffed defendants tried to escape as they CHOPRA: The state government nate all subsidies by next March. Tapan Sen (CPI-M) said were escorted by two guards at the Moscow will not succumb to any arm-twist- Congress, SP, TMC, BSP people are being “cheated”. Regional Court. ing or blackmailing by those who and Left MPs stormed into the Naresh Agarwal (SP) said The body said one of the defendants tried are trying to stall projects, chief Well of the House shouting this is a “government for to strangle one of the guards, and the defen- minister Mamata Banerjee said on slogans seeking withdrawal of profits.” dants managed to escape and seized the guards’ Tuesday. the decision, forcing Deputy When the House met again, weapons. She was speaking at the admin- Chairman P J Kurien to first Leader of the Opposition A shootout with the court’s guards ensued, istrative review meeting here on adjourn the proceedings for Ghulam Nabi Azad said the and three of the defendants were killed. Two Tuesday afternoon. 10 minutes and then till noon. people had voluntarily given guards were injured. Banerjee said the state govern- The issue was raised by up their subsidies in the hope Authorities said the incident took place ment had always dealt with the Derek O’Brien (TMC) who that subsidised cooking gas will before a hearing in a case of a gang of nine peo- problems of people sympatheti- gave a notice under rule 267 be given to the poor. ple who are suspected of killing more than a cally and money had been allotted that seeks to set aside the busi- But the government is “kill- dozen of motorists. P10 for their rehabilitation. But there ness of the day to discuss an ing the poor”, as within a year, are some who were trying to cre- important issue. the price of LPG would go up ate trouble and stall government He said the government was by Rs 48 per cylinder at a time Subsidised LPG price projects in different areas. “We have not fulfilling its social commit- when oil rates globally have always cooperated with people and ment to provide cooking gas slumped to a multi-year low. hiked by `2 per cylinder tried to understand their problems at subsidised rates. Oil prices “This is not acceptable,” he sympathetically. But we will not Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at a government function on Tuesday PIC/ AMIT DATTA have come down from USD said. NEW DELHI: Subsidised cooking gas (LPG) succumb to any arm twisting or 111 per barrel to USD 48 but Clarifying the decision, price was on Tuesday hiked by over Rs 2 per blackmailing. In the case of any world recognition. and state government had spoken foundation stone of Raigung Medi- the government is raising rates Pradhan said the move flowed cylinder in line with the government decision confusion, people should come to Talking to local industrial- to exporters to sell their products cal College. She also opened a 24x7 of cooking fuel, he said. from a June 2010 decision to raise rates every month to eliminate all sub- the administration and settle the ists and representatives of various in global markets. A detailed proj- emergency obstetric care centre at Oil Minister Dharmendra under the previous UPA gov- sidies by fiscal end. issue.” chambers of commerce, Baner- ect report was being drawn up and Rasakhowa Primary Health Centre. Pradhan had on Monday told ernment to raise prices every A subsidised 14.2-kg of cylinder now costs She said ever since the Trin- jee said the state government was work will start soon. Carpet pro- Other important projects on the Lok Sabha that the govern- month in small quantum to Rs 479.77 in Delhi as against Rs 477.46 previ- amool Congress came to power ready to provide them with all facil- ducing units are coming up at Mal- anvil include construction of mar- ment has doubled the monthly completely eliminate subsidies. ously, according to Indian Oil Corp, the nation’s in Bengal in 2011, steps had been ities. Rajiva Sinha, additional chief gram, Malda and East Midnapore. ket complex at Karandighi and Net- increase in LPG price to Rs 4 The opposition also sought largest fuel retailer. taken for all round development secretary in charge of Industry, said Banerjee met the students of aji Subhas Mancha at Islampur. A per cylinder from July 1 with to corner the government over Simultaneously, the oil companies also raised of the state. Despite financial around 160 mustard oil producing Raigunj College and Raigunj Uni- Rabindra Bhavan is also coming up a view to eliminating all subsi- demonetisation, saying its price of aviation turbine fuel or jet fuel by 2.3 per constraints, the state had made units had been brought under one versity. They thanked the chief at Kaliagunj. Besides these, many dies by March 2018. claims that the note ban would cent in line with rising global oil rates. ATF now remarkable strides across sec- umbrella. minister for helping them pursue roads in Raigunj, Goalpokhar, “When they make prom- help eradicate terrorism and costs Rs 48,110 per kilolitre, Rs 1097 per kl more tors. The Kanyashree project of He said around 800 carpet higher education. Karandighi and Islampur blocks ises, why not implement it,” the fake currency has fallen flat than Rs 47,013 previously. MPOST the state government had earned weavers had been brought together Banerjee on Tuesday laid the will be upgraded. O’Brien asked. on its face. SAYS COLUMBIA VARSITY HAS NOT EXTENDED HIS LEAVE Tejaswi Yadav was Top LeT militant Abu Dujana `2,350 cr package just an excuse ... The killed in Pulwama encounter for flood-hit NE Niti Aayog chief Panagariya match was fixed GUWAHATI: Prime Minis- LALU PRASAD ter Narendra Modi on Tues- MPOST BUREAU his head, a police offi- day announced a total package going ‘back to academics’ cial said. of Rs 2,350 crore for all north SRINAGAR: Top Lash- Clashes broke out in eastern states hit by floods MPOST BUREAU not giving him further exten- In today’s kar-e-Toiba (LeT) com- many parts of the Valley and immediate release of Rs sion and he would be leaving mander Abu Dujana, following killing of two 250 crore for flood-hit Assam, NEW DELHI: Niti Aayog Vice Niti Aayog on August 31. paper a Pakistani national LeT militants, including as he undertook a visit here Chairman Arvind Panagariya He said that about two wanted in connection Dujana, in south Kash- to assess the situation in the on Tuesday said he has writ- months ago he had expressed ... with many attacks on mir’s Pulwama district region. ten to Prime Minister Naren- his desire to the Prime Minis- CITY security forces, and his this morning. He also announced Rs dra Modi to relieve him of his ter, who is the Chairperson of aide were on Tuesday A civilian was killed 2 lakh each for the next of duties by August 31 as he was NITI Aayog, to be relieved by IT EMPLOYEE FOUND DEAD AT HOME 4 killed in an encounter and several others kin of those who have lost not getting extension of leave August 31. NATION in Pulwama district of injured on Tuesday as their lives due to floods in from Columbia University. Panagariya, 64, said the Kashmir, the Army said. security forces opened fire on stone- Arunachal Pradesh, Mani- The Indian-American econ- work he was doing at the uni- SC SETBACK FOR NITISH KUMAR 6 As the security forces were pelting protestors near the encounter pur, Mizoram, Nagaland and omist and Professor of Indian versity would be very difficulty engaged in the counter- militancy site where two militants were killed. Tripura, the Prime Minister’s Political Economy at Colum- to get at his age. EDIT operation, over 100 protestors pelted Jehangir Ahmad Dar was hit by Office (PMO) said. bia University, Panagariya had In March 2012, he was hon- THE BEHAVIOUR PUZZLE 8 stones on them, an Army official said. a bullet in the back while Mudasir The seriously injured peo- joined as the first Vice-Chair- Commission, in January 2015. oured with Padma Bhushan, Giving details of the operation, Ahmad was hit by pellets in the chest, ple will get Rs 50,000 each, the man of the Niti Aayog, which Talking to reporters, he said the third highest civilian hon- INTERNATIONAL the official said that security forces the official said, adding both have PMO said. had replaced the Planning the Columbia University was ours India bestows in any field. launched a cordon and search opera- been admitted to different hospitals. Regarding Assam, state HAFIZ SAEED’S HOUSE ARREST EXTENDED 10 tion in Hakripora area of Pulwama Internet services have been Finance Minister Himanta Shah seeks written explanation from absentee MPs BUSINESS late Monday night following infor- snapped in south Kashmir as a pre- Biswa Sarma Sarma said the mation about presence of Abu Dujana cautionary measure to maintain law prime minister announced the MPC TO ANNOUNCE RATES TODAY 12 and his local aide, Arif Lilhaari, in and order. release of Rs 250 crore imme- SIMONTINI BHATTACHARJEE changed after amendments Dal United (JDU). The JDU’s the area. The speed of Internet services in diately to carry out relief and moved by the Opposition were Sharad Yadav, who is upset over SPORT An encounter broke out between other parts of the Valley have been rehabilitation. NEW DELHI: BJP president passed by the Rajya Sabha, his colleague and Bihar Chief the holed up militants and security significantly reduced following kill- “The prime minister had Amit Shah has taken a seri- where the government is still in Minister Nitish Kumar’s deci- LA AGREES TO HOST 2028 GAMES 15 forces early on Tuesday. ing of the two militants. released Rs 300 crore in June. ous view of party members a minority and needs to ensure sion to partner with the BJP in During the ensuing firefight, both Authorities on Tuesday suspended The Rs 250 crore not attending the Rajya Sabha that its members are present the state, voted with the opposi- the militants were killed, the official class work in all educational institu- announced today was in addi- despite a whip and will seek a in full strength when bills are tion. 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The BJP’s strength alone tion in the Upper House with kindly contact at 8800854665 forces and political workers in south Khan said he issued the order for Resources Minister Keshab the Constitution amendment is 56 in the Rajya Sabha, while it a united opposition pushing or Kashmir. the closure of educational institutions Mahanta quoted the prime bill, which provides for the set- has the support of 88 members, some changes to the Constitu- [email protected] He was category ‘A’ militant and as a precautionary measure in view of minister as saying. MPOST ting up of a National Commis- counting all allies, including the tional amendment bill on back- carried a reward of Rs 10 lakh on the prevailing situation. sion for Backward Classes, was 10 MPs of new partner Janata ward classes. TOP COURT HEARING CLUTCH OF PETITIONS THAT QUESTION COLLECTION OF CITIZENS’ PRIVATE INFO TAKING COVER Aadhaar cannot be used as surveillance weapon on citizens, claims UIDAI in SC MPOST BUREAU the agency that issues the num- lection of private information bers, UIDAI. from citizens without any legal NEW DELHI: It is virtually The central government also backing. Last year, parliament impossible to use Aadhaar to informed the top court that a finally passed the law. But it had track citizens, the agency that has 10-member expert committee earlier contested the claim that issued the identification number headed by retired Supreme Court privacy was a fundamental right. to millions of Indians told the judge Justice BN Srikrishna had Since two courts had earlier dif- Supreme Court on Tuesday. The been set up to suggest a draft bill fered, the Supreme Court set up Unique Identification Authority on data protection. the nine-judge bench to arrive at of India, or UIDAI, said there The UIDAI was first set up a definitive view. were safeguards built into the law to issue Aadhaar numbers in The UIDAI, like the central and its systems to ensure that the 2009. But because parliament government and some state gov- government could not use Aad- could not pass the law to give ernments ruled by the BJP, has haar for surveillance even if a legal cover to the unique identi- claimed that privacy was pro- court were to permit them. fication number, the agency had tected under the Aadhaar law The agency also suggested to collect personal information but wasn’t a constitutional right. that too much was being made tor General Tushar Mehta told every citizen. about residents under executive On Tuesday, the agency also told of privacy being a fundamental a nine-judge constitution bench If the court holds that it was a instructions. the top court that privacy need right. “Nothing is private in the that is considering whether pri- fundamental right, it could have The top court had been hear- not be elevated to a fundamen- People try to cover themselves as it rains in Kolkata on Tuesday PTI online era,” Additional Solici- vacy is a fundamental right of implications for Aadhaar, and ing petitions that questioned col- tal right. 2 mp town MILLENNIUM POST | Kolkata | Wednesday, 2 August, 2017 Due to an over-emphasis on DAYINDAYOUT the profile of the author and What’s on Around Town WHAT MATTERS MORE: their books’ market value, BEYOND THE CANVAS potential creative talent is When you meet someone who is being ignored by publishers passionate about something, it can Writer or manuscript? be contagious, whether you like because debut writers don’t the subject or not. Following your passion is an art and more than future. have a ‘selling point’ that, daring to dream. KAD group The reason? The Indian pub- invites all the dreamers in their up- lishing industry is a highly manip- coming exhibition, Abhivyakti,’ an ulated area of popular culture expression beyond canvas, which where social media trends and following have come to decide will have at least 16 renowned the number of copies a book sells. artists displaying their work. This ultimate fate of the book WHEN: August 4 – 8 – it’s market value – is also the WHERE: Artizen Art Gallery deciding factor for many pub- TIMING: 10 am – 7 pm lishers to select the subjects and RETURN TO ETERNITY authors of their non-fiction titles Finding the divinity as an abstract and their final verdict on a man- uscript. What the publishers more: The author’s profile or the you would also be experimen- expression of time and space gleefully call “Selling Points” is manuscript? tal in your reading and look out through a slowly blossoming Nritya responsible for the cauldron of Poulomi Chatterjee, Editor-in- for debut authors. You would be sequence in teen tal, the event mediocrity that contemporary Chief and Publisher of Hachette interested to know whether what “Talaash – e – Haq” – a return to Indian literature finds itself in. India, said that it largely depends is being said in the blurb is really eternity by Jayashree Acharya will And it is certainly not that on situations, adding that when it true. I am a book buyer, I am a be presenting her new creative there is a lack of quality writing. comes to non-fiction, the profile reader and I want to read a new journey through her exponen- A significant number of good of the author is very important voice. So I don’t think it matters tial hold over Kathak, Music and books are ignored by headline because you can’t do an econom- all that much,” she maintained. Poetry. She will be performing a publishers and never see the light ics book by a politician if he or she Nirmal Kanti Bhattacharjee, of day. Not to forget, it is these is not really an expert at it. former Director of the National dance recital over the confluence “homes of bestsellers” who had “If I am doing a book on Book Trust (NBT) shared a more of Raag, Taal and Dance move- even rejected Amish Tripathi and e-commerce, I would have to have honest view. ments through a sargam in Raag Ashwin Sanghi, whose gross sales someone who is able to study the He said that the manuscript, Abhogi where she will be denoting are now in crores of rupees. business or is an insider. But he for him, is paramount and no it to Lord Krishna. They like to play safe, refrain has to be an expert, I cannot have matter how popular the profile of WHEN: August 4 WHERE: Stein from experimentation, count an historian do it. There, the bet- the author is, an ideal publisher Auditorium, IHC TIMING: 7 pm on authors with successful past ter known the name, the better is should never com- onwards records and many-a-times ignore our selling point. The author’s promise with potential creative talent due to profile is very important the quality HARVEST 2017 what they call “market pressure”. when it comes to non-fic- of writing ‘The songs of many streams as they But is there actually a compelling tion,” Chatterjee said. and the flow,’ the theme for Harvest 2017 market pressure? Or, are the read- In fiction, she said, the poten- would be the longest running group ers being merely fed the books profile doesn’t matter that tial of the show since 2001 curated by Suneet that, according to the publishers, much. It’s not like men can- manu- Chopra.The show will have masters, have strong “Selling Points”? not write about women. script. IANS sculptors, tribal, and young artists. While it may again be a case What matters is the story, Harvest 2017 is a presentation of of “What came first: The chicken the style and the craft of or the egg?” one thing that holds the writer. Chatterjee also the state of our art today and is ground is the exorbitant market- said that if there is a success- once again back which shows the ing that headline authors use. ful published author, trends in Indian contemporary art With marketing budgets of these it is always a plus and has pieces from the best of “privileged authors” running point and that Indian artists. often into lakhs of rupees, the increases the pro- WHEN: August 2 – 6 reach and visibility of first-time spective sales of the WHERE: Saffron Art, The Claridges or less popular authors is conse- book. hotel TIMING: 11 am – 7 pm quently marginalised. “But if you are But what mat- ters a true reader, CREATIONS OF JOY An exhibition of paintings with een observers of con- presence. thousands. natural dyes by Aruna Devi Tomar temporary Indian liter- For instance: If one were to The privileged class of writ- from Dehradun, Arcadia, emerged ature would agree that look at the overall sales of novels ers include the likes of Amish out of the fascination for colours. most recent books have and non-fiction titles by Indian Tripathi, Anuja Chauhan, Ash- She says, “One day after plucking depended heavily on promotions publishers in 2016 and so far win Sanghi, Shashi Tharoor, Ram- K wilted flowers in the garden, I no- and marketing. But if publicity this year, some 50 known faces achandra Guha, Arundhati Roy, rules the roost, does the manu- account for about 80 per cent Vikram Seth, Amitav Ghosh – ticed my fingers were stained with script get its due? of output. All the self-published as also the popular fiction writ- brilliant red, pink and purple. I had It is no surprise that a handful authors, along with many debu- ers like Chetan Bhagat, Ravinder always been fascinated by colours. of successful authors have come tants and unsuccessful authors, Singh and Durjoy Dutta. On Some people perceive world as to dominate the literary scene in share a meagre 20 per cent mar- the other hand, there are writ- forms some as splashes of colours. I India, but there has been no seri- ket share while their aggregate ers you have never heard of and am of the latter kind.” ous analysis of their dominant number may range in the tens of are unlikely to hear about in the WHEN: August 2 – 8 WHERE: IIC TIMING: 11 am – 7 pm For a healthier body, mind and soul Story of Andaman and Nicobar islands would do justice to the islands. Also the Thsi exhibition showcases the beauty of idea behind experimenting with fabrics is the place for sure, but it also shows other to see how the meaning of a photograph aspects that get neglected due to vari- changes when the medium changes,” told ous factors. the artist on being asked about why he Thereby, in the process, Sekhsaria tells chose silk. Pankaj specifies that the light the disturbing story of how we are treat- seems to penetrate the canvas that enables ing our fragile islands. In the exhibition many ways of seeing the flora fauna and at India International Centre, he has cre- the locals of the place distinctively. ated a privileged index of photographs While pursuing his engineering he got that depicts the visual beauty, the slender- a chance to visit the Andamans when he ness of the sea-waters, and the indigenous was called upon by his friend. He went tribal communities. to the islands and became fond of them “The wildlife is the one thing that so much so that he decided to completely stands out for me,” said the photogra- devote himself to the islands. pher who communicates well to the peo- In his novels ‘The Last Wave’ and ple and the place. ‘Islands in a Flux’, Sekhsaria has made The photographs depicts not only LAHARI BASU are not the same person anymore, as you Even if you are sceptical about spiritual Pankaj Sekhsaria an attempt to write extensively in order the creativity of the photographer but don’t like certain things the way you used healing because of the unexplained facets to make people aware about the islands also his keen observatory skills which “I woke up and I had a big idea to. Among all healings techniques, Soul of the procedure, Almas Lokhandwala had TANYA JAIN & RIA PRUTHI which are geologically active to earth- includes photographs of the giant turtle To buy a new soul at the start of every year Retrieval is the one which helps us bring her arena set up with the Himalayan sing- quakes. He has pioneered proceedings fiddling around the sea shore, acute jelly I paid up and it cost me pretty dear pieces of one’s soul back.” Modern Science ing bowls, ready to talk about how sound ’d rather go back to the islands, against various development projects fish, sea anemone and the birds resting on Here’s a hymn to those that disappear...” works on proofs and facts while spiritual vibrations can heal even one’s tumours! To if given a chance; there are a lot that tend to endanger the aboriginals. mangrove trees. If you too do feel that you’ve lost a part healing works through belief. Says Baani, give her visitors a feel of it, she strikes the of things still to be explored,” of your soul, fret not, there is hope and “The process works faster and better when edge of the largest bowl with a mallet cre- says Pankaj Sekhsaria, a pho- there are ways of recovering that lost self. one believes in it. If one is resistant to the ating a soft ‘aum’ sound that lingers on for “Itographer and an environmentalist who At a recently held session on healing thera- idea, it takes more time than usual to heal a minute. Sound therapy causes the sound spent more than two decades of his life pies in the Capi- tal at The Imperial, heal- someone.” vibrations on the lands of Andaman and Nicobar ers from to relax Islands. various one and In his exhibition ‘Island Worlds…of parts of help con- Land and Sea’, he showcases his work that the coun- centrate captured the biodiversity of the area in try came by in medita- the most accentuated manner. The work to discuss and tion. “When we are is presented on raw silk, giving the pho- share their methods nourished with sound, tographs an artistic texture. with Delhiites. the cells in our body start “Silk presents a luster that I think Baani from Tathaastu vibrating and reorganising says, “There are times when themselves into a state of well one feels as though they have being. The rich sonic vibrations of lost a part of their soul, it can hap- the Himalayan Singing Bowls alter pen for any given reason – harsh words space mind and time,” explained Almas from a friend, or some traumatic incident Lokhandwala. With increasing cases of ill- – which may lead a piece of one’s soul ness in people, and helpless modern medi- to break away from the body. You can cines, many choose to try out or walk the realise it later when you notice that you path of spiritual healing.

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OUR CORRESPONDENT the people to deposit money in the chit funds?” Banerjee questioned. With- KOLKATA: Chief Minister Mamata out naming the BJP, the Chief Min- Banerjee on Tuesday came down heav- ister said that some political leaders ily on the Centre for its decision to are coming to the state from Delhi to gradually abolish the LPG subsidy incite violence. They are also trying to which would have an adverse impact divide people in the name of religion. on the common people. People here in Bengal are peace lov- She was speaking at a government ing they do not indulge in any kind programme at Chopra in Uttar Dinaj- of violence, Banerjee said. Giving out pur where she inaugurated a series of a strong message against the Gorkha- new projects. Launching a scathing land movement, Banerjee said that the attack against the BJP-led government, Hills are an integral part of Bengal and Banerjee said the prices of various they will remain to be so. There is no The Yuva Bharati Krirangan will host as many as 10 matches including essential commodities are going up due point in spreading violence. She urged the final match to the anti-people steps by the Centre. the people to shun violence as it leads “The Centre is trying to do away to nowhere. “People are facing serious OUR CORRESPONDENT Kumar said. with the LPG subsidy. The supply of problems in the Hills. Schools, colleges It was decided that the essential commodities including sugar, and hotels are shut down. Tourism and KOLKATA: The Kolkata vicinities around various tour- kerosene has stopped causing serious transport industries have been affected Municipal Corporation (KMC) ist spots in the city should problems to the people who are the due to the agitation. There is no point will join hands with the state be kept clean and the roads worst sufferers,” Banerjee said. PIC/MPOST in spreading violence as it affects the Information and Cultural that have developed potholes She said that the Centre is doing common people,” CM said. Giving Affairs department (I&CA), due to monsoon should be nothing great by providing subsidy government has its own income and Bengal government is carrying out a She also took a dig at the Centre an account of the development works the Kolkata Police and the spruced up. in an essential commodity like LPG hence it is the responsibility of a gov- series of social projects for the bene- for slashing the interest rate on sav- initiated by the state government, the Bidhannagar City Police to As far parking of vehicles because it is a “social obligations” of ernment to help people with financial fits of the people. We extend the ben- ings account deposit. State Bank of CM said that a medical college will ensure a hassle-free experi- are concerned, the Kolkata the Centre to provide some benefits benefits. It is not government’s money. efits of the various projects to farmers, India on Monday decided to slash come up at Raiganj within the next ence of the guests who will be Police along with its coun- to the people. People have a right to enjoy some sub- poor, schedule castes, schedule tribes, the interest rate on savings account two years. In addition to that, an ITI in the city to watch the U-17 terparts in the Bidhannagar “One must not forget that it is the sidies since it is public money,” Baner- backwards classes and tribes because by 0.50 percent. centre, a minority Bhawan and ICDS football world cup matches at Commissionerate will make social obligations of a government to jee said. it is our duty to stand by the people,” “Why the interest rate has been centers among many others have been Vivekananda Yuva Bharati Kri- arrangements for parking of provide some benefits to the people. A “Despite the financial crunch, the Banerjee maintained. slashed? Is the Centre trying to force set up in Uttar Dinajpur. rangan popularly known as the at least 1,600 vehicles at loca- Salt Lake stadium in the month tions not too far away from the of October. stadium.” Bidhannagar The coordination commit- Parking places will be cre- Court rejects plea to adjourn hearing on Tamang murder case tee that was formed for this ated close to the Subhas Sarovar civic body carries purpose held its first meeting Lake, Narkeldanga Main Road, OUR CORRESPONDENT will take place soon, Debasish Roy, The CBI counsel had also submit- at the KMC headquarters on S Beleghata, Chingrighata area out anti-plastic defence counsel, pleaded before the ted before the court on Tuesday that N Banerjee Road that was pre- including places in and around KOLKATA: The City Sessions Court City Sessions Court to adjourn the how the GJM had forced Tamang to sided over by member Mayor- the stadium in Salt Lake,” a top on Tuesday rejected the plea of the hearing on framing of charges. reschedule the meeting in Darjeeling in-Council (Sports) Debasish official of the Kolkata Police’s drives accused of the All India Gorkha The CBI counsel, Arun Bha- in May 2010 as the victim wanted to Kumar. Top officials from state traffic department said. League (AIGL) leader Madan Tamang gat, opposed the plea of the defence bring to light the alleged corruption of I&CA, Kolkata Police’s traf- The stadium is being refur- OUR CORRESPONDENT murder case to adjourn the hearing on counsel and submitted that the no senior members of GJM. Moreover, he fic department, Bidhannagar bished ahead of the World framing of charges in this connection. stay order on the hearing on fram- was killed on May 10 in 2010 in Dar- Commissionerate and the civic Cup by the state Public Works KOLKATA: Bidhannagar The charges have to be framed ing of charges has been given by the jeeling just before the rally. body’s Parks & Squares depart- Department (PWD). As many Municipal Corporation (BMC) against 48 accused on charges of mur- Supreme Court. The counsel has also submitted ment were present. as 52 matches will be played on Tuesday seized huge quan- der and criminal conspiracy. After hearing both the coun- about the evidences that the investi- “Our main intention is to across six Indian cities from tities of plastic following raids It may be mentioned that general sels, Chief Judge of the City Sessions gating agency have found about the ensure that cleanliness of the October 6 to 28 with Yuva in different parts of Salt Lake. secretary of Gorkha Janamukti Mor- Court, Kundan Kumar Kumai stated alleged involvement of GJM leaders city is at its best during the Bharati hosting as many as 10 The raids were conducted cha (GJM) has pleaded before the that the proceedings of the hearing in the murder. U-17 world Cup. There will matches including the final by the Environment depart- Supreme Court to hold the hearing would continue. He mentioned that It may be men tioned that four be a good number of foreign match. ment of the BMC. in this connection out of Kolkata. The the Supreme Court has not given any of the 54 accused had died and two guests who will be visiting The state government will BMC workers and officials hearing in the Apex Court is going to stay order in this connection. At the are still absconding. The CBI had MADAN TAMANG the city at that time. We want distribute 5,000 tickets among visited the market in ward 29 be held on August 8. same time, the Calcutta high court served notice to 48 of the remaining them were present, rest 22 including them to go back to their coun- school and college students to this morning and seized plas- Submitting that the hearing in ordered to complete the framing of accused to be present in the City Ses- Gurung and his wife Asha Gurung tries with a good impression watch the Under-17 World Cup tic packets which were being this connection in the Apex Court charges by August 17. sions Court on July 24. Though 26 of didn’t turn up at the court on that day. of the cleanliness of Kolkata,” matches. used by the shopkeepers. One shopkeeper was fined Rs 500. The anti-plastic drive will con- tinue as the civic authorities Kolkata Police to introduce e-office system Forecast of more showers in next have decided not to allow plas- tic in Salt Lake. The drives will PRITESH BASU This comes at the time when e-office be conducted in all the mar- Webel will be has become immensely successful in differ- kets and any shopkeeper found KOLKATA: Following the directions of implementing the project ent departs of the state government depart- 2 days; death toll touches 46 to be using plastic beyond the Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to ensure ments including the Finance department stipulated norm will be pulled complete e-governance in the state, Kol- by introducing State Wide and the Home department. OUR CORRESPONDENT over a stretch from the Hima- Silabati river at Pratappur of up. The BMC had carried out kata Police are soon going to introduce Area Network (SWAN) In that case, the hosting of the data- layan districts in the north up Ghatal. The flood situation in extensive campaigns urging e-office system for fast execution of tasks. base server for the e-office system will be KOLKATA: Casting a shadow to Bay of Bengal bringing more Daspur in West Midnapore has shopkeepers not to use plas- The project will be implemented with in 168 offices of the city in the State Data Centre. Now there is a on the improvement of the flood rain in various districts in the not improved much. Some of tic packets. the help of the state Information Technol- police limited Internet connection under SWAN status in some parts of the state, next 48 hours. the villagers in both the places Rahima Bibi Mondol, ogy (IT) department and the state Home that allows functioning of only one video the Regional Meteorological There is a prediction of heavy have alleged that the relief mate- member, Mayor-in-Council department. Kolkata Police that include all the police conferencing system in the city police’s Office in Alipore has predicted rainfall in Purulia and East Mid- rials are not properly reaching in charge of Environment said Webel will be implementing the project stations, circle offices and offices of senior headquarters at Lalbazar. But with the more showers in the next two napore while the Himalayan the area. the drives will be conducted by introducing State Wide Area Network police officers at Lalbazar. implementation of 155 Mbps Swan link, days in some districts. districts will receive moderate According to sources, regularly. She said the under- (SWAN) in 168 offices of the city police. After introduction of the “secure close several units for video conferences at a The death toll in the floods rainfall. People in the South around 3,17,675 hectare paddy ground sewer lines get clogged Sources in the state secretariat said high speed network” in all the offices, the high speed can be conducted. touched 46 on Tuesday. Various Bengal districts may witness fields, 2,58,296 hectare of wheat because of plastic packets. BMC that the state IT department has sanc- Kolkata Police have plans to introduce the Moreover, the city police will be get- districts in South Bengal have sultry and discomfort weather fields have been destroyed due has taken up elaborate mea- tioned Rs 3.31 crore for the project. The e-office system in which there will be no ting a secure data service at a high speed witnessed rainfall on Monday due to high humidity level. to the floods. Some parts of sures to prevent waterlogging. remaining expenditure that is around Rs more need to take a file physically from one for surfing Internet with necessary restric- among which the North and In various flood-affected dis- Ghatal in West Midnapore, The drive against plastic will 1.37 crore will be given by the state Home office to another. The files will get trans- tions as per the policy that will be com- South 24 Parganas, East and tricts, water level has begun to Dhanekhali in Hooghly are still help the civic body to save the department. According to an officer of ferred online to the concerned officer and municated to the Webel authorities by the West Burdwan, Howrah and recede but people do not know under water. The districts which underground sewer lines from the Kolkata Police, at present there is an at the same time with other government Kolkata Police. When contacted, Jadu- Hooghly have received mod- yet what is in store for them have been badly affected by the being choked. It may be men- Intranet system available for communica- departments as well if needed. Moreover, gopal Mondal, Deputy General Manager erate to heavy rainfall. especially after there are pre- floods are Murshidabad, Nadia, tioned that because of various tion among different offices including the the status of a particular file can also be of Webel, said: “It will take around three According to the weather dictions of more rain. North and South 24 Parganas, steps, there was no waterlog- police stations of the city police. easily known using the e-office system. months time from the day of commence- office, a monsoon trough has The local administration in Howrah, Hooghly, East Burd- ging in Bidhannagar despite the Now, Webel is going to extend 155 Work orders, sanctions to a particular proj- ment of the work to complete the imple- been spreading from Gorakh- West Midnapore started repair- wan, Birbhum, Bankura, Puru- heavy shower that had hit Kol- Mbps “secure close network” under the ect, etc everything can be done using the mentation of SWAN in all the 168 offices pur to Assam while a low pres- ing works of the damaged por- lia, Jhargram, West Midnapore, kata and its suburbs last week. new project at all the 168 offices of the e-office system. of the Kolkata Police.” sure trough has been hovering tion of the embankments of East Midnapore. KMC to join hands with Sundarban cops approach school kids Man held for killing TMC leader KOLKATA: The Criminal Investigation Department Central govt employees to (CID) arrested a 46-year-old man from Sagardighi in to check human trafficking cases Murshidabad in connection with the murder of Trin- amool Congress leader Dalim Seikh. Police said the carry out anti-larvae drives OUR CORRESPONDENT accused Babar Ali Sheikh is a resident of Simulia Considering that near Mongolkote in Burdwan. Police had conducted OUR CORRESPONDENT ensure that there is no com- KOLKATA: After taking the a message can be a raid at a hideout at Sagardighi and arrested Babar. munication gap. From now help of schoolchildren to check KOLKATA: In a major onwards, our officials while spreading of rumours and made acceptable The police had been searching for the accused for boost to its drive against going for drives will carry bringing down the total num- to people if quite some time now. On Monday, the officers had mosquito-borne diseases identity cards,” a senior offi- ber of road accidents in the received a tip-off and acting on it, they conducted like dengue and malaria, cial of KMC’s Health depart- state, the police in Sunderbans it is spread a raid at Sagardighi. The accused had attempted the Kolkata Municipal ment who attended the initiated a campaign among mainly through to flee but the CID officers had chased and ar- Corporation (KMC) has meeting said. school-goers to check human decided to take up joint The civic body handed trafficking. children, the rested him. The police had earlier arrested Saddam drives within the premises of over a list of a num- Considering that a mes- police had been Seikh and Farooq Seikh from Delhi for their alleged more than a dozen Central ber of problem areas in sage can be made acceptable campaigning involvement in the murder. It may be recalled that government offices located some Central government to people if it is spread mainly the victim’s family members had lodged a complaint in the city involving the lat- offices that are acting as through children, the police Millenniumon different Post - Kolkatta Edition to carry the Ad with ter’s officials. breeding grounds of had been campaigning on dif- with the police against 15 persons. CID had later A meeting chaired by mosquitoes. ferent issues in schools, col- issues in schools, taken over the case from the local police. MPOST member Mayor-in-Council “We have also issued them leges and other educational Kcollegesolka andtta Tel. No. Only. Schedule Date :- 02/08/2017 (Health) Atin Ghosh, was about the guidelines in taking institutions. held at the KMC headquar- up cleanliness at some places Now, in a bid to check was also a drop in the rate of to spread the message among other educational ters on Tuesday with top rep- as a preventive measure. Our human trafficking, too, the child marriages. The Sabu- as many people as possible. institutions resentatives from the Eastern team will also visit the sites police held seminars in dif- jshree project has also helped The policemen urged the stu- Railway, Metro Railways, and we will work in coordina- ferent schools under the juris- in bringing down the rate of dents to create awareness on some other part of the country BSNL, India Post, Eastern tion,” the official added. diction of Sunderban Police child marriages. this among their family mem- or abroad. So, the local peo- Command and various other The Eastern Railways has district. The policemen from dif- bers, relatives, neighbours ple have to react first and have departments. a dozen places under its juris- The Mamata Banerjee gov- ferent police stations in Sun- and friends. The step has been to inform the police to avoid “Our officials often face diction which are in serious ernment has taken up a series derbans went to the schools taken considering that creating human trafficking, a police difficulties while conducting need of drives against mos- of initiatives to help girl stu- in their respective areas and awareness is one of the meth- officer said. drives at Central government quitoes. The civic body team dents continue with their stud- created awareness among ods to check such incidents, Besides creating awareness offices. There had been cases has also earmarked half a ies up to graduation and post students. besides taking all other neces- to check human trafficking, the when our officials have even dozen places in the Kolkata graduation levels. With the The policemen asked sary steps. It is the local people police have also made the stu- not been allowed to enter Metro including the under- implementation of projects the students to inform them who get to know first when dents aware that how rumours in some offices citing secu- construction East-West mainly Kanyashree, the drop- immediately if they suspect someone approaches family can be easily spread through Kolkatta Tel.: 033-2215 1850 e-mail : [email protected] rity reasons. So we felt that Metro project which needs out rates in schools have come anyone to be human trafficker. members of a girl to marry social media and how to check things need to be sorted out to serious attention. down. At the same time, there They have also been asked her or to assure a good job in the same. TJM/TTL/17/ENG 4 city mp MILLENNIUM POST | Kolkata | Wednesday, 2 August, 2017 MERC CASE Man held from Dealer fails to appear; IT employee found dead at airport for Consumer Affairs dept carrying nine asks owner to go to court bullets home, suicide suspected OUR CORRESPONDENT KOLKATA: A middle-aged OUR CORRESPONDENT Pal was found to be depressed when he man was arrested when he Bidhannagar police went to his office for the last time. The had attempted to carry live KOLKATA: Mystery shrouds the death have recovered victim’s colleague also told the police bullets in a bag inside the of an IT employee whose body was found a suicide note that the victim had been suffering from Kolkata Airport on Monday hanging from the ceiling fan inside his depression after he had been jilted in a night. rented house at Mahishbathan in Salt from his room love affair. Police said the accused Lake on Tuesday morning. which makes the According to the preliminary inves- Ajay Rubu is a resident Police said that the victim, Simanta investigating officer tigation, police suspect that the victim of Arunachal Pradesh Pal, originally from Hooghly’s Aram- might have committed suicide. Police and he was arrested bag rented a house at Mahisbathan area believe that the are, however, investigating if there is while checking in at the air- around three months ago. He used to victim might have any foul play behind the incident. It is port to catch a flight for OUR CORRESPONDENT owner should have visited the work at a call centre in Salt Lake. The committed suicide quite clear to the police that the vic- Bangkok. fuel station and examine the local residents on Tuesday morning felt tim committed suicide as the door was It was Monday night KOLKATA: Mercedes Benz quality of the fuel used.” a pungent smell coming out from his after being jilted in locked from inside. The circumstantial when the security person- that boasts of providing best A case was initiated by Sad- room which was locked from inside. a love affair evidences also support the view. Police nel were busy checking lug- services to its customers has han Pandey, state minister for The locals informed the matter to the are investigating whether there was any gages of all the passengers dodged a tripartite meeting in Consumer Affairs department police who broke open the door to find suicide after being jilted in a love affair. his bed. The local people told the police instigation behind the incident. who were about to board the the Consumer Affairs depart- after Roy approached him with the victim hanging from the ceiling fan Police said that the victim mentioned that the victim had been missing for the Police are examining the suicide note flight for Bangkok when they ment to meet a customer who a complaint that the dealer with the body decomposed. on his suicide note that he had taken the past two days. and other samples collected from the suddenly found bullets in the has been duped of Rs 2.74 lakh. had charged Rs 2.74 lakh to Bidhannagar police have recovered drastic step after the girl with whom he Police came to know in the course of spot. The body has been sent for the bag of the accused while scan- Bechmark Interkraft, the replace the fuel injectors that a suicide note from his room which had developed an affair blocked him on the investigation that Pal had attended post-mortem examination. Police may ning it. dealer who was supposed to had developed a snag after spu- makes the investigating officer believe social networking sites. Police have also his office for the last time on Saturday. interrogate the girl with whom the vic- There were nine bullets meet senior officials of the rious fuel was used. The Red that the victim might have committed recovered a photograph of the girl on Some of his colleagues told the police that tim had a relationship. in the bag and the police are Consumer Affairs department and Black Mercedes C220 CDI trying to find out that they and Merc owner Siddhartha was just 14 months ago when it were meant for which type Roy did not turn up for the sec- developed a problem. of pistols. ond time in one year. The dealer informed Roy Sandeshkhali victim of sexual assault dies The police asked him to Interestingly, the manag- that the fuel was adulterated explain the reason behind ing director of Mercedes had “by seeing the colour and OUR CORRESPONDENT tied a belt around the woman’s neck, carrying the bullets in the bag sent an email from Stuttgart smelling it.” Roy paid the bill put a blindfold on her eyes and then while checking in to catch an to Roy last week stating “We and then moved the depart- KOLKATA: An elderly woman hailing sexually assaulted her. He also inserted international flight. would like to assure you of our ment. However, before getting from Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parga- an iron rod into her private parts. This The person had failed to personal attention to attend to in touch with him, the fuel tank nas who was sexually assaulted bru- was the statement that we had recorded give any satisfactory answer. your concerns and solicit your was already emptied. tally and was undergoing treatment at from the elderly woman during her He was subsequently arrested kind understanding in the In June, 2016, the dealer National Medical College and Hospital hospitalisation,” a senior district police and handed over to the meantime.” sought three weeks’ time from for the last 27 days died on Monday. The official said. policemen from NSCBI police Roy said by emptying the the department to give a writ- woman was allegedly assaulted after she The sexagenarian who had an station. fuel tank, the dealer had not ten answer of their findings. had protested against open consump- operation a few days back, was unable The police initiated a only cheated him but stopped However, one year has passed tion of alcohol near her residence that to fight with the severe injuries that probe in this connection and him from taking any action by, and the dealer has failed to is also close to the Sandeshkhali police were inflicted by the offenders. “There are trying to know that why against the oil company. turn up. station. were at least three or more persons the accused was carrying the A senior official of a An official of the Con- The miscreants allegedly tortured involved in the incident. We want all bullets. national oil company said the sumer Affairs department her by inserting an iron rod into her REPRESENTATIVE IMAGE of them to be put behind bars,” Braja A police officer said that process to determine spurious who were present at the meet- private parts and also by inflicting cut When she protested, she was attacked The woman was at first taken to a Dulal said. often gold smugglers get fuel was elaborate and “It is ing remarked: “It seems that injuries with broken glasses. and was dragged into a bush close to the local health clinic and was immedi- Locals informed that Rajeshwar arrested while trying to check never done by seeing the colour the opposite party is not inter- According to the victim’s son Braja spot where she was sexually assaulted. ately referred to National Medical Col- used to molest women after having alco- in to catch flights. of oil and smelling it.” ested to the process of media- Dulal, the family owns a small hotel Dulal was at that time, away in Kolkata lege and Hospital. The police on the hol every day. The lady had once com- But it rarely happens when He further said: “Emptying tion in the Consumer Affairs close to the police station which used to for some work and was informed about basis of the victim’s statement, arrested plained to the police. Furious at the old a person gets arrested while the fuel tank in absence of the department” and thus advised be usually looked after by the victim. On the incident the following morning by the prime accused Rajeshwar Maiti, woman for approaching the police, he trying to pass the security car owner amounts to cheat- “to approach the forum within July 4, while she was returning home, some neighbours who spotted her lying alias Bhola. gathered some friends and committed scan with bullets in his or her ing. The dealer along with the the stipulated time.” she found four youth drinking liquor. unconscious. “The prime accused Rajeshwar had the offence. handbag. Middle-aged man shot at over extortion demands Karim Mollah now ‘fit’, can Housewife tortured for KOLKATA: A middle-aged person associated with real estate business had a close shave on Monday night when a miscreant shot at him following a heated altercation over demand for extortion. The incident occurred at Kheyada in go home in a few days giving birth to girl child Sonarpur area. The bullet passed just brushing an ear of Swapan Makal who OUR CORRESPONDENT was immediately rushed to the National Medical College Hospital (NMCH). The miscreant Sanu Naskar who shot at him was arrested from a hideout by the KOLKATA: Karim Ali Mol- Sonarpur police in the wee hours of Tuesday. Another accused, Asgar Ali, who lah, who was admitted to the NRS Medical College was accompanying Naskar, is still absconding. According to police sources, and Hospital with a nail in Makal had recently bagged a real estate project for which the two accused were his left eye and also a brain demanding a share of a few lakhs. However, Makal refused to comply with their injury three weeks ago, has demands. While he was returning home on Monday night, the duo stopped him been declared fit by the doc- and demanded money. When he refused, a heated verbal exchange ensued. tors and will be released from the hospital within the next Suddenly, Naskar, who was carrying a pistol, shot at Makal. Luckily, the bullet couple of days. OUR CORRESPONDENT Instead of the situation missed the target and passed just brushing his ear. OUR CORRESPONDENT The doctors at the NRS turning towards her favour, it Medical College and Hospital KOLKATA: A housewife was turned worse day by day. Her have given a fresh lease of life tortured by her in-laws at in-laws had allegedly burnt millenniumpost.in to the eight-year-old boy from Katwa in East Burdwan as she her hands whenever she had South 24 Parganas who suf- had given birth to a girl child. asked for food. They used to fered critical injuries in his eye Failing to tolerate the tor- beat her up and abuse her for and brain while playing at an A sharp nail pierced through his ture that had been continuing giving birth to a girl child. They under-construction building left eye. He was initially denied for the past seven years, the hardly used to mix with neigh- is now available in everypart of Bengal in front of his home at Jiban- woman along with her daugh- bours and they continued tor- tala area of South 24 Parganas. admission by some hospitals ter somehow managed to flee turing her despite protests from SL DISTRICT Centre Name Agent Name Contact No A sharp nail pierced including some state-run hospitals. from her in-law’s house on the local people. NO NAME through his left eye. He was Friday and took shelter in her They didn’t use to allow the initially denied admission The patient was later admitted to the father’s house. woman to go out of the house 1 East Midnapore TAMLUK N.C.Bera 7501493175 by some hospitals including NRS Medical College and Hospital. She lodged a complaint and also never allowed her to HALDIA Ayesha 9474306356 some state-run hospitals. The The doctors found that a nail pierced with the police against six per- talk to any of their neighbours. Begum,Ranichak patient was later admitted to sons including her husband, The accused had poured DIGHA Kamal Lochan Panda 8906868884 the NRS Medical College and through his left eye and damaged a father-in-law and mother-in- acid on her hands when she Hospital. The doctors found law. The police went to her in- wanted to go to her father’s 2 West Midnapore MIDNAPORE Balaram Pandit 9932708271 that a nail pierced through his portion of the brain by breaking the laws’ house but they had fled house. Some local people had 3 Jhargram JHARGRAM Champa Maity 9547230220 left eye and damaged a por- frontal bone of the eye before the police reached. gathered outside their house 4 North 24 - Parganas BARASAT/NILGUNJ B N Kundu 9836333630 tion of the brain by breaking The police initiated a search when the woman cried for the frontal bone of the eye. A ted in some portions of the As the treatment pro- for the accused but are yet to help after acid was poured on BARRACKPORE Biswajit Ghosh 9830830798 team was immediately formed brain. The doctors, however, gressed, doctors found that arrest any of them. her hands. The accused told BASIRHAT Uttam Biswas 9474574927 for his treatment. He had been said that there is nothing to the patient responded well to The woman alleged that the neighbours that she cried 5 Bardhaman BURDWAN Kamal Mukherjee 9332192230 kept under constant monitor- worry as the injury has been the treatment and the blood her in-laws had started tortur- for help as she had accidentally 6 West Bardhman ASANSOL Hiralal Sen 9933662126 ing by the team comprising healed. A surgery was per- clot in his brain is getting ing her since she gave birth to fallen inside the toilet. eye surgeons, neuro surgeons, formed on his eye a day after cured through medicine. her daughter. They didn’t use The woman had managed DURGAPUR WARIA Joy prakash Ray 9563601176 / medicine doctors and others. he was admitted to the hospi- The patient is fit to be dis- to give sufficient food to her to to escape on Friday early morn- 7864818860 According to a senior offi- tal and the nail was removed. charged but the doctors are eat. Despite facing all troubles, ing with her daughter. She had NIRSHA Gopal Chatterjee 9386695330 cial of the hospital, the baby’s The doctors said that there will keen on conducting another she had continued staying in somehow reached her father’s vision in the left eye is abso- be no problem in his vision MRI scan before taking the her in-laws’ house considering house where she fell ill. BARAKAR Jai Bhagwan Singh 9334652173 lutely fine. There was an but the doctors are also skep- final decision in this regard. that her husband would under- The police initiated a probe 7 Murshidabad BAHARAMPUR COURT Dipak Choudhury 9851612424 injury in his brain, as a result tical if the injury would have The boy also wants to go home stand someday the value of a based on the allegations lev- 8 Nadia KALYANI / Dey News Agency 9830609355 of which, the blood got clot- an effect on his brain. and join school. girl child. elled by the woman. KANCHRAPARA 9 Howrah HOWRAH CENTRE Manik Lal Bag 9883393201 /9732243933 Soon, park atop Chetla booster pumping station 10 Purulia PURULIA D.C.Nag 9434130550 OUR CORRESPONDENT 11 Jalpaiguri SILIGURI Toton Saha 9832046238 them. At present, there are around 700 parks maintained by the civic body in 12 Hooghly CHINSURAH / CHAN- B.Singh 9883108806 KOLKATA: The Kolkata Municipal the city. “The population in the city is DAN NAGAR Corporation (KMC) is now setting up increasing leaps and bounds. So grad- 13 Birbhum SHANTINIKETAN Anita Shaw 9232162151 a new park above the booster pump- ually we are taking up plans to have 14 Darjeeling DARJEELING Bitta Newspaper 9434131515 ing station at Chetla mainly to ensure more parks of similar nature in the Agency playing space for children. The move city where Kolkatans can have open comes in the wake of shortage of land space to breathe some fresh air,” the 15 Cooch Behar COOCH BEHAR Jayanta Das 9434217084 for setting up parks with rapid urban- official added 16 Alipurduar ALIPURDUAR Bablu Saha 9733166169 isation in the city. The park will come Interestingly, the concept of such 17 Kalimpong KALIMPONG Sandeep Jain 9832016738 up on 18,000 square metre area atop parks in the city had become a real- the booster pumping station. ity during the British Rule. The 18 Uttar Dinajpur RAIGUNJ Pradyut Karmakar 9434384154 “Our primary objective is to pro- Muhammad Ali Park was constructed 19 Dakshin Dinajpur BALURGHAT Sujan das 8670582892 vide playing space for children and in a similar way. The park now hosts 20 Malda MALDA TOWN Ashim Kr.Sarkar 7797919580 there is scarcity of land for setting up one of the most popular Durga Puja Others District List such parks. So we have decided to set in Central Kolkata which is a huge up such parks upon booster pump- REPRESENTATIVE IMAGE crowd-puller. 21 Jharkhand RANCHI Birendra Nath Singh 9431929279 / ing stations. Earth of around one foot The KMC official, however, pointed 8409298763 height will be first dumped upon the department said. in adding greenery and beautification out a problem with the construction of TATA NAGAR Surender Singh 9835170495 pumping station and then grass will Mayor-in-Council (Parks & Gar- of the city.” such type of parks in the city. “We will DHANBAD S.K.Pandey 8409984151 be laid upon it. There will be railing dens) Debasish Kumar said: “Apart According to KMC sources, not be able to plant trees that grow big. on the four sides of the pumping sta- from providing children playing space, booster pumping stations at Kasba, So we have to plant small trees or sea- 22 Bihar PATNA Nandalal Yadav 7765012713 tion to prevent anyone from falling,” a it will also add keep the roof of the res- Bagmari, Siriti (in Tollygunge area) sonal flowers for beautification of these senior official of the Parks and Squares ervoir clean. This will contribute both and Garfa already have parks on top of parks,” the official said. 5 MILLENNIUM POST | Kolkata | Wednesday, 2 August, 2017 mp nation

MONSOON SESSION Cong didn’t want backward classes Oppn protests NOTA option Bill to be passed, claims Athawale OUR CORRESPONDENT

NEW DELHI: Union minister for Rajya Sabha elections Ramdas Athawale on Tuesday accused the Congress of not OUR CORRESPONDENT asked how could a new provi- with it,” Jaitley asked, indicating allowing the passage of a bill on sion be introduced in between. that the issue was being raised backward classes in the Rajya NEW DELHI: The Rajya Chairman M Hamid Ansari during that hour. He also said Sabha and asked if the party Sabha was on Tuesday rocked suggested that the matter be that the decisions of the Elec- was against empowerment of by opposition protests over an taken up with the Election tion Commission can be set the OBCs. Election Commission (EC) Commission and tried to pro- aside by courts. He said that the Congress notification that provides the ceed with the Question Hour. However, Congress mem- was in power for 27 years but MLAs the ‘None of the Above’ However, the opposition kept bers continued to protest, with did nothing to empower the (NOTA) option in the vote on raising the issue. Sharma saying that the elec- OBC Commission. for the elections to the Upper Finance Minister Arun Jait- tions to the offices of the Pres- Yesterday it proposed an House. Angry members of the ley, who is the Leader of the ident and the Vice President amendment seeking increase in Congress and other opposition House, said that from what were related and the ballot the number of members of the present and voting in the 245- members of the proposed parties forced adjournments of he understood, there was a paper for the former too should proposed commission, “which member House, the ruling commission from three to five the proceedings as they ques- Supreme Court judgement have had the NOTA option. shows it did not want the bill to benches were clearly short of with reservation for a member tioned the NOTA provision for which provided for the NOTA Keen to continue with the be passed”, he alleged. several members. from a minority community these elections. option. Question Hour, Ansari said if “I want to ask the Con- The amended bill will now and another for women. Significantly, the protests “The judgement came the matter involved the Rajya gress today if it is against the have to be returned to the Lok Another amendment spoke come at a time when a high several years before this gov- Sabha, it would be looked into. OBCs,” the minister of state for Sabha for its fresh approval. about protecting the rights of profile battle for Rajya Sabha ernment came to power. The Leader of Opposition social justice and empower- The Lower House had already states by making their recom- seats from Gujarat is round the Election Commission pursuant Ghulam Nabi Azad then stood ment asked. passed the bill but in the Upper mendations binding. corner involving heavy-weights to that judgement had issued up and termed the matter as There was high drama in House it had been referred to a Under the NCBC Act, the like BJP chief Amit Shah, HRD some notification under Arti- “very serious” and sought to the Rajya Sabha yesterday Select Committee as the Oppo- Commission merely has the minister Smriti Irani and vet- cle 324. know whether there was a sep- and embarrassment for the sition had wanted more scru- power to recommend inclusion eran Congressman Ahmed Article 324 covers all elec- arate Constitution for Guja- government as some amend- tiny. The Committee gave its or exclusion of communities in Patel. Congress MP Anand Sharma speaks in the Rajya Sabha during the tion in this country and there- rat as compared to the rest of ments moved by the Opposi- report recently. the OBC list. As soon as the House ongoing monsoon session in New Delhi on Tuesday PTI fore that’s a cirucular which India. tion on the Constitution (One While the clauses of the The new Bill, once passed Assembled at noon, deputy they issued, not now, but ear- With the protest continu- Hundred and Twenty- Third bill were being put to vote, by Parliament, will give the leader of the Congress Anand Commission. NOTA has been intro- lier,” Jaitley said. ing, Ansari adjourned the Amendment) Bill was passed Congress members Digvijaya Commission powers equiva- Sharma said the decision to “It vitiates the election... duced...unless Constitution He said if somebody is House for ten minutes. because of thin strength of rul- Singh, B K Hariprasad and lent to that of a civil court. It provide the NOTA option had Constitution has not been is amended, how can this be aggrieved with the circular, he However, when it met ing NDA MPs in the House. Hussain Dalvai moved a num- will be able to summon any been made without amending amended. Representation done,” Sharma asked. has his own options. again, several other opposition When the House took up ber of amendments to clause 3. person, ask for a document or the Constitution or the law as of People Act has not been He said the vacancies are “How is Question Hour members also raised their voice the bill, whose passage required One amendment sought public record, and receive evi- per the direction of the Election amended. notified by the House and of the Rajya Sabha concerned on the issue. two-third majority of those increase in the number of dence on affidavits. 2 lakh PoP machines installed for rollout of fertiliser DBT Complaints of food quality in OUR CORRESPONDENT The minister said the sale project to introduce DBT in ries. Besides, the diversion of of all subsidised fertilisers the fertiliser sector has been fertilisers to the industries will CRPF, BSF unsubstantiated: Govt NEW DELHI: Nearly two to farmers or buyers will be undertaken in 19 districts and be stopped,” he said. lakh point-of-sale (POS) made through the PoP devices it was successful in 16 of them. The government bears OUR CORRESPONDENT der Security Force (BSF) have and frank feedback of the machines have been installed installed at each retailer shop The minister said the about Rs 70,000 crore annu- reported about receipt of com- personnel. across the country for the roll and the beneficiaries will be expected outcome of the DBT ally as fertiliser subsidy to NEW DELHI: The complaints plaints regarding poor or sub- “It has been advised that out of the direct benefit trans- identified through documents include creation of Aadhaar- provide cheaper nutrients of sub-standard quality of food standard quality of food. The senior officers may also par- fer (DBT) for fertiliser subsi- like Aadhaar card, Kisan credit seeded database of beneficia- to farmers. The DBT being being served to the CRPF and CRPF after enquiry found the take the food prepared for the dies by March 31, 2018, the card and the voter identity. ries, integration between soil implemented in the case of the BSF personnel have been complaints unsubstantiated. jawans and endorse a note on Lok Sabha was informed on Under the proposed fer- health card data and DBT for fertiliser subsidy payment found to be “unsubstantiated”, “The BSF also made enquiry the quality and quantity of food Tuesday. tiliser DBT system, 100 per optimal use of nutrients and is slightly different from the the government said on Tues- into the complaints, some of in the inspection register,” he The PoS machines have cent subsidy on various fer- subsidy savings. normal DBT implemented in day. In a written reply to Lok which were anonymous, and said. reached almost all of the two tiliser grades will be released “Linking of actual sales to LPG subsidy. Sabha, Union Minister of state found the other complaints to The Minister further lakh outlets where the DBT to the fertiliser companies on subsidy payments will facili- Under DBT in the fertil- for home Kiren Rijiju said that be unsubstantiated,” Rijiju said. added that the ministry has for fertiliser will be rolled out, the basis of actual sales made tate a more transparent and iser sector, the subsidy will all the forces have a robust He said the Union home also launched an ‘app’ (mobile Minister of State for Fertiliser by the retailers to the benefi- faster tracking of funds along be released to the companies grievance redressal mechanism ministry has reiterated to the application) to facilitate filing Mansukh L Mandaviya said ciaries, he said. the value chain, that is from instead of the beneficiaries, at their end. forces to ensure that officers ing conditions, clothing, food of grievances by the Central during Question Hour. Mandaviya said a pilot manufacturers to beneficia- after sale by the retailers. “The Central Reserve Police during their visit to posts may and equipment and they may Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) Force (CRPF) and the Bor- check on the aspects of liv- also take initiative to get free personnel. PARTY TIME No invite to RS Chmn, Dy Chmn, MPs for function; Oppn protests

OUR CORRESPONDENT man and Deputy Chairman, Constitution?” as also Lok Sabha Speaker and “This is an insult of the NEW DELHI: The govern- Deputy Speaker along with entire House.... chairman and ment on Tuesday faced embar- MPs are invited, he said, add- deputy chairman have not been rassment in the Rajya Sabha ing that this rule applied to all given due respect,” he said. when the Chair passed stric- official functions in the Cen- Sitaram Yechury (CPI-M) tures against it for not inviting tral Hall as well as in the prem- said Rajya Sabha MPs did not Vice President Hamid Ansari ises of the Parliament House even have information about for the inauguration of a new complex. the inauguration, leave alone annexe complex of Parliament. Foundation stone of the an invitation for the function. A united opposition Parliament House Annex He said the management slammed the government for building was laid in 2009 and supervision of the Parlia- “insulting” the Upper House jointly following the same con- ment House complex is done by ignoring its presiding offi- vention, Azad said. by Lok Sabha Speaker whereas cer, who is also the Vice Presi- Yesterday, the building it should be the joint respon- dent of India, and the Rajya complex was inaugurated sibility of both the Houses. “I Sabha MPs at an official func- by Prime Minister Narendra request you to provide docu- tion yesterday. of not inviting the Chairman.” decision was taken,” he said. Modi. “We have no objection ment” specifying that role, “I think the Hon’ble Chair- Responding to the issue Leader of the House and to the Prime Minister inaugu- Yechury said. man should have been invited,” raised by the members, he said Finance Minister Arun Jaitley rating the building,” he said. On chairman and deputy Deputy Chairman P J Kurien though the management of the said the management has been “But the chairman and deputy chairman not being invited for said after Congress, CPI(M) Parliament House complex is done through committees since chairman of Rajya Sabha were the function, he said, “What is and SP members raised the done by the Lok Sabha Speaker, 1952. not there. This is an issue of happening is illegal. You are issue of Ansari and the Rajya there is no document on record Soon after the listed papers prestige of the House.” bypassing (Rajya Sabha). You Sabha MPs not being invited to suggest that a decision to were laid in the House, Leader Stating that since the issue are insulting (Upper House).” for the inauguration of the that effect was ever taken. of Opposition Ghulam Nabi involved non-invitation of the Naresh Agarwal (SP) said new Parliament House Annex “Management of the prem- Azad said no one should deputy chairman as well, he Rajya Sabha was constituted building. ises of Parliament from day one undermine or attempt to would ask the Leader of the first and Lok Sabha later. Also, Kurien said the Rajya Sabha has been done by Lok Sabha. undermine the importance of House and Finance Minister chairman of Upper House is Secretariat has “already writ- But actually there is no docu- the Upper House. Arun Jaitley to respond if the the Vice President of India and BJP MP Meenakshi Lekhi in conversation with party leader B C Khanduri in New Delhi on Tuesday PTI ten to the Lok Sabha Secretar- ment to the best of our knowl- For all official Parliament government has bid a goodbye higher in protocol than the Lok iat regarding the impropriety edge to suggest that such a functions, Rajya Sabha Chair- to Rajya Sabha. “Is it not part of Sabha Speaker. Govt tried to gain political mileage Varun Gandhi questions MPs’ Govt has no accurate data on out of lynching debate: Congress right to hike own salaries illegal migrants, claims Rijiju NEW DELHI: Congress on OUR CORRESPONDENT he said the Jawaharlal Nehru in order to strongly make their OUR CORRESPONDENT Tuesday said that all political cabinet at its first meeting had point. parties, barring the BJP, want a NEW DELHI: BJP mem- taken a collective decision not Gandhi then noted that NEW DELHI: The govern- stop to the lynching incidents ber Varun Gandhion Tuesday to avail salaries for six months the Tamil Nadu assembly ment has no “accurate data” and accused the ruling party questioned in the Lok Sabha a in view of the people’s suffer- on July 19 doubled the sala- regarding illegal migrants who of trying to gain “political mile- host of practices, including the ings at the time. He also cited ries of its legislators, a move have entered India, the Lok age” out of the issue. lawmakers’ power to hike their several other examples from which sent a “broad message Sabha was informed on Tues- Congress member K C own salaries and pass crucial the past. of insensitivity”. day. Minister of State for Home Venugopal also accused the bills like the Aadhaar legisla- “When matters regarding As compared to a 13 per Kiren Rijiju also said that any government of trying to “jus- tion without much debate. salary are raised recurrently, cent rise in the UK, Indian law- particular community cannot tify” such incidents, while Raising the issue during it makes me worry about the makers had raised their sala- be “branded” for having alleged referring to the debate on the the Zero Hour, he pitched for moral compass of the House. ries by 400 per cent in the last links with terrorists and terror- issue in the Lok Sabha yester- an external body to determine Nearly 18,000 farmers have decade. “Have we really earned ism. “We cannot say that,” he day. Participating in a discus- their renumeration and said it committed suicide over the this massive increment,” he said during the Question Hour. sion on the Supplementary was “shameful” that the num- last one year. asked. He agreed that several ille- Demands for Grants 2017-18 ber of sittings in the Lok Sabha Where is our focus,” he Citing the MPs’ “per- gal migrants have acquired in the Lok Sabha, Venugopal had dropped from 123 days a asked. formance” over the last two documents to make their stay said “the Prime Minister twice year in 1952 to 75 in 2016. Arrogating to themselves decades, he said barely 50 per in the country legal. said it is condemnable... I heard The lawmakers had raised the authority to increase their cent of the bills were passed Responding to supplemen- speeches of all leaders. Except their salaries 400 per cent in the Gandhi’s strong statement own fiscal compensation was after scrutiny from parliamen- taries, he said since these peo- ers under the 1946 Foreigners have concentrated themselves BJP, everybody said lynching last decade, he said wondering on the non-reference of the not in line with the morals of tary committees. ple have entered the country in Act to deport illegal migrants. in Jammu and Kashmir. should stop. whether they had “earned” this Aadhaar bill to a parliamen- democracy, the BJP member “When bills are pass with- a “clandestine and surreptitious Detention centres have also When asked by opposition “The Minister was justify- massive increment. tary committee is unlikely to said. out serious deliberation, it manner”, “naturally” official been set up for detaining sus- members whether govern- ing it. They are trying to take “The Winter Session, 2016, go down well with the govern- He referred to the recent defeats the purpose of hav- figures would be impossible. pected illegal migrants, pend- ment has set up ‘concentration political mileage out of the dis- hit a low-point of 16 per cent. ment, as the opposition parties protests of Tamil Nadu farm- ing a Parliament. The House The Centre has asked the ing their deportation. He said camps’ for them, he said no cussion”. He said when a RSS It is shameful. Taxation bills, too had accused it of ramming ers in the national capital and itself has been created to dis- states to set up special task illegal migrants disturbed the concentration camps have been worker was killed in Kerala last as significant as Aadhaar, were the bill through the House. noted that they had drunk sect, analyse and debate laws, forces in each of the districts demographic profile of certain established by the government week, the Union Home Minis- passed within two weeks with- Hitting out at the practice their urine and demonstrated and ensure that every law has for detection, identification and areas and create problems. but the refugees themselves ter and the Governor called up out being referred to a commit- of lawmakers to often raise with skulls of fellow farmers a strong policy mechanism interception of illegal migrants. Responding to the issue of have concentrated themselves the Chief Minister. tee,” he said. the demand for a salary hike, who had committed suicide, behind it. The states also have pow- Rohingya refugees, he said they there. 6 nation mp MILLENNIUM POST | Kolkata | Wednesday, 2 August, 2017 LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL MEMBERSHIP Dahi Handi: SC asks HC to hear SC agrees to hear plea to plea against age, height cap OUR CORRESPONDENT

NEW DELHI: Ahead of Jan- mashtami, the Supreme Court cancel Nitish's membership on Tuesday remanded back to the Bombay High Court a plea of Maharashtra government Lalu accuses Nitish of betrayal, says 'match was fixed' between Nitish & BJP challenging its order capping the height of the human pyra- OUR CORRESPONDENT the JD(U) leader would have mid and barring participation gone ahead with his plan to of minors in the famous 'Dahi- NEW DELHI: The Supreme split the alliance. handi' festival. Court on Tuesday agreed to Kumar had in a blistering A bench of Justices Kurian hear a plea seeking cancella- attack on Prasad yesterday said Joseph and R Banumathi sent tion of Bihar Chief Minister he had no option but to walk the matter back to the high Nitish Kumar's membership out of the Grand Alliance as court asking it to consider the saying capping the height of The second direction of the of the state Legislative Coun- he did not want to compromise plea afresh in the wake of mate- human pyramid would take the High Court, which was also cil for allegedly concealing a with corruption. rial furnished by the state gov- "adventure" out of the festival suspended, related to the part pending criminal case against Ridiculing Kumar for his ernment, several NGOs and which has become a "popular of the order which makes it him. A bench of Justices Justice claim that Prime Minister Nar- individuals. and competitive" sport in the mandatory for organisers to Dipak Misra, Amitava Roy and endra Modi would face little The bench said the matter western megapolis. apprise authorities 15 days in A M Khanwilkar said it will challenge in the 2019 general would be taken up by the Bom- It had told the court that advance about various aspects look into the matter after peti- elections, Prasad said, "Keep bay High Court on August 7. the highest human pyramid at such as place of celebration, its tioner advocate M L Sharma shouting slogans in favour of The state government has 43.79 feet has found mention timing and personal informa- sought an urgent hearing of Narendra Modi ... PM mate- told the apex court that it has in the Guinness Book of World tion, including birth certificates his plea. rial (Nitish Kumar) has sur- put several security measures Records and capping it would of participating 'Govindas' on The bench said it would see rendered before him but we in place and therefore, the age be "unfair". the ground of paucity of suf- when the matter could be listed will have another face against cap should be relaxed. The court, however, had ficient time. for hearing. him (Modi) in 2019." Dahi Handi is a ritual which refused to modify its order The Supreme Court had on The plea, which was filed Prasad also accused Kumar will be observed during 'Jan- saying this ritual sometimes August 10 revived a plea chal- yesterday, alleged that there HAM (S) chief Jitan Ram Manjhi greets Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar at his official residence in Patna on of undermining senior JD(U) mashtami' on August 14 this caused serious injuries to par- lenging a Bombay HC order was a criminal case against the Tuesday PTI leader Sharad Yadav, who, he year across Maharashtra and ticipants, particularly spinal restricting the height of human JD(U) leader wherein he was said, had contributed a lot to nearby states. cord injuries. In August 17, pyramids to 20 feet for 'Dahi- accused of killing a local Con- his (Kumar's) criminal case, annexed to nomination papers. fixed" between him and the BJP making him a "big leader". The apex court had on 2016 order, the apex court had Handi' ritual, saying it needed gress leader Sitaram Singh, and did not cancel his membership He claimed the Bihar chief to form a coalition government Prasad said he has offered August 17, 2016 refused to suspended the operation of two to hear the PIL petitioner injuring four others ahead of of the house and respondent minister did not disclose the in the state. Yadav to "come out from there relax conditions put by the directions passed by the Bom- before passing any order. Lok Sabha by-election to the (Kumar) still enjoys constitu- criminal case that was pending "Tejaswi Yadav was just an (the JD-U) and join hands High Court like barring youths bay High Court to regulate the The Maharashtra govern- Barh constituency in 1991. tional office till date," he said. against him in affidavits since excuse ... The match was fixed with secular parties to protect below 18 years of age from par- 'Dahi-Handi' festival. ment had earlier approached The petitioner has also The lawyer has sought 2004, except for 2012. between him (Kumar) and the country from communal ticipating in 'Dahi-Handi' festi- One of the directions related the apex court seeking clari- sought a direction to the CBI to cancellation of Kumar's mem- RJD supremo Lalu Prasad the BJP to form a government forces". val in Maharashtra and capping to amending the existing law to fication on its 2014 order by register an FIR against Kumar bership as per the Election on Tuesday hit back at Bihar together," Prasad told reporters. He, however, clairified that the height of the human pyra- bar children below 18 years of which it had stayed the high in the case. Commission's 2002 order stat- Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, Calling Kumar an "oppor- Yadav has not been requested mid at 20 feet. age from participating in dan- court decision banning partici- "Respondent number ing it is mandatory for candi- accusing him of "betrayal" for tunist" and "Paltu Ram" (turn- to join the RJD but be part Few days later, a Mumbai- gerous performances like being pation of those below 18-years 2 (Election Commission), dates to disclose criminal cases breaking the Grand Alliance, coat), he said, even if Tejaswi of a country-wide movement based organisation had sought part of the human pyramid of in the popular 'Dahi-Handi' despite knowing facts about against them in their affidavits and alleged that the "match was had tendered his resignation against communal forces. modification of the order 'Dahi-Handi' festival. ritual. Cross-LoC trade remains suspended Geelani's lawyer expelled NATION BRIEFS by Jammu bar association RAHUL MEETS NHAI, AMETHI FARMERS for 4th week; loss pegged at Rs 25 cr TO DISCUSS ACQUISITION PROBLEMS OUR CORRESPONDENT Forum (JKSPF) -- a constituent LUCKNOW: Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi OUR CORRESPONDENT these routes. of Tehreek-e-Hurriayat headed on Tuesday met farmers from Amethi whose land had However, Chief Minister JAMMU: The Bar Associa- by Geelani-- was arrested fol- been acquired for widening a national highway and JAMMU: The cross-LoC Mehbooba Mufti last week tion of Jammu (BAJ) on Tues- lowing which several of his assured them of all possible help in resolving their trade between Jammu and strongly rooted for cross-LoC day expelled lawyer Devinder public speeches during last prblems, party leaders said. Besides the delegation Kashmir and Pakistan-occu- trade, stating that the PDP Singh Behal, who is associated year's unrest in the Valley of 90 farmers from his parliamentary constituency, pied Kashmir (PoK) remained would not allow its closure with separatist leader Syed went viral on social media, suspended for the fourth con- and continue to work towards Ali Shah Geelani, after he was wherein he was heard shout- Gandhi also met officials of the National Highways secutive week amid reports opening more routes across the arrested by the NIA in a ter- ing 'pro-freedom' and 'anti- Authority of India (NHAI). Work on widening NH 56 that the National Investiga- Line of Control with Pakistan- ror funding case. "As soon as India' slogans. at Kathora Gram Sabha in Amethi's Jagdishpur block tion Agency (NIA) may rec- occupied Kashmir. we came to know about his Salathia said Behal became started a year ago. Three days ago, locals allege, ommend suspension of trade Addressing a rally on the (Behal) activities, we verified a member of the Bar Associa- NHAI began demolishing houses and shops in the area activities along these routes. 18th foundation day of the our records and immediately tion of Jammu in 2013 on the without compensating the affected farmers. According The trade across the Line of Peoples Democratic Party decided to expel him without recommendation of two senior Control (LoC) was suspended (PDP), she also pitched for any notice from the primary advocates. to local Congress leaders, the farmers had already on July 11 after heavy firing nominating members to the membership of the associa- He said even members of given land for widening the highway. However, NHAI and shelling from the Pakistani legislative assembly from the tion," BAJ president B S Sal- the association belonging to was also constructing a bylane for parking trucks on side caused damage to trade other side of LoC so that joint athia told reporters here. his community took a strong both sides of the road in an area of around 200 m in facilitation centres and police meetings could be held once "Ours is a national- exception of his activities and Kathora, affecting about 100 families. barracks. in a year. ist association and we will recommended his expulsion. "The cross-LoC trade "There are many difficul- not tolerate the presence of "The decision to expel him RAJASTHAN MINISTER INJURED, between traders of J&K and ties through the Wagah border, any 'anti-national' element, was unanimous and aimed at PoK remained suspended for suspended for the fourth con- people were injured besides charas and ganja comes from whether associated with Hurri- sending a clear message that PA KILLED IN CAR ACCIDENT the fourth consecutive week," secutive week. 35 structures were damaged in there but no one talks about yat or any other group," he said. we will not tolerate any anti- KOTA: Rajasthan minister Babu Lal Verma was injured Custodian of LoC Trade As many as 116 PoK res- July, officials said. closing it. Just because a mis- Widening its probe in national activity," he said. while his personal assistant was killed when his car hit Poonch, Mohammad Tanveer idents, who traveled on Pai- Cross-LoC trade and trans- take happens on the Srinagar- the terror funding case, the The BAJ chief also advised a buffalo and overturned on the Kota-Baran Highway saud ib Tuesday. gam-e-Amun bus service to port facilities are considered Muzaffarabad road, we should National Investigation Agency senior lawyers to verify the early on Tuesday, police said. The car driver, Moti Lal, He said the suspension of visit their kin in Kashmir, have major confidence building not talk about closing it. We (NIA) had on July 30 searched credentials of those seeking trade along LoC has led to a been held up here for past exercises between India and will not allow that to happen," the office and residence of membership of the associa- was also injured in the accident, they said. Verma has loss of Rs 25-30 crore. three weeks. Pakistan. The LoC trade has the chief minister had said. Behal over his alleged role tion before recommending been admitted to the ICU of Maharao Bheem Singh The cross-LoC bus services Jammu and Kashmir has been caught in a controversy On July 21, police had in routing funds to separat- their cases, and asserted that (MBS) hospital. He sustained injuries in his knee and on the Poonch-Rawalakot road witnessed worst border skir- over reports that the NIA, seized 66.5 kg of heroin and ists from their Pakistan-based a "conspiracy has been going chest and was referred to Jaipur for treatment. The between Jammu and Kashmir mishes along LoC as nine sol- which is probing terror fund- brown sugar worth Rs 300 handlers. on to intrude anti-national ele- state food and supplies minister was returning from and Pakistan occupied Kash- diers were among 11 people ing in Kashmir, may recom- crore from a truck coming Behal, chairman of Jammu ments into the body to dilute Baran after an event at 1 AM when the car hit a stray mir (PoK) also remained killed last month. Eighteen mend closure of trade along from PoK. and Kashmir Social Peace its stand". buffalo and then rammed into a divider before turn- Sena demands ing turtle near a flyover, Semliya Police Station SHO Isro set to launch a 'back-up' Banwari Lal said. They were immediately rushed to the removal of Mumbai People found drinking on Goa hospital where the minister's personal assistant, Rajen- navigation satellite by Aug-end dra Pradas Rager (43), a resident of Baneta village, University V-C was declared dead, the SHO said. Head of Depart- beaches may be arrested: Govt ment, Neurology, MBS hospital, Vijay Sardana said, BENGALURU: Indian Space is an independent regional nav- OUR CORRESPONDENT Research Organisation (ISRO) igation satellite system devel- OUR CORRESPONDENT "The minister sustained injuries in his right knee, right will launch its navigation sat- oped by India on par with MUMBAI: The Shiv Sena foot and right side of chest. He is medically stable and ellite IRNSS-1H by the end US-based GPS. on Tuesday demanded the PANAJI: The BJP-led Goa out of danger." of this month to augment The system that offers ser- removal of Mumbai Univer- government on Tuesday told the existing seven satellites of vices like terrestrial and marine sity's Vice Chancellor Sanjay the state legislative assem- FORMER GUJARAT TOP COP VANZARA NavIC constellation, a senior navigation, disaster manage- Deshmukh over the delay in bly that strict action would DISCHARGED IN FAKE ENCOUNTER CASE ISRO official said. ment, vehicle tracking and declaration of results. be taken against the people To be launched on board fleet management, navigation The Sena, a long standing found drinking on the state MUMBAI: The special CBI court here on Tuesday dis- PSLV-C39, IRNSS-1H will be aide for hikers and travellers, ally of the BJP, also alleged that beaches, and if need be, they charged former IPS officer from Gujarat D G Vanzara a "back up" navigation satel- visual and voice navigation for these days the appointments could even be arrested. and Rajasthan cadre IPS officer Dinesh MN in the case lite for IRNSS-1A, one among drivers, was named as 'NavIC' in institutions of learning are "The beaches should be of alleged fake encounters of Sohrabuddin Sheikh the seven satellites in the con- (Navigation with Indian Con- being made on the basis of the clean and there should not and Tulsiram Prajapati.Special CBI Judge Sunilkumar J stellation, as its three rubid- stellation) by Prime Minister inclination of the individuals be any illegality on them. ium atomic clocks on board Narendra Modi. towards the RSS ideology. We have also stopped peo- Sharma discharged Vanzara and Dinesh MN. Vanzara, had stopped functioning. ISRO had launched seven "Today, the appointments ple drinking on the beaches. a DIG-rank officer, was arrested on April 24, 2007 in "IRNSS-1H on board PSLV- satellites - IRNSS-1G on April in institutions are being We will not mind arresting drinking on beaches as well ing the lives on the beaches. connection with the alleged fake encounter of gangster C39 will be launched by the 28, 2016, IRNSS-1F (March made based on their inclina- them, if required," state tour- other public places and no "So many lives have been Sohrabuddin Sheikh, whom the Gujarat Police claimed end of this month. The exact 10, 2016), IRNSS-1E (January tion towards the ideology of ism Minister Manohar Ajga- action being taken against saved by the lifeguards, who had links with Pakistan-based terror outfit Lashkar-e- date will be decided shortly," a 20, 2016), IRNSS-1D (March the Sangh. While this is being onkar told the House. them. are attached to this agency. Toiba. The Bombay High Court had granted bail to senior ISRO official said. 28, 2015), IRNSS-1C (October done, one should not ignore the The minister said that the Meanwhile, replying to We need to save lives of peo- He said IRNSS-1H will be a 16, 2014), IRNSS-1B (April 4, person's capabilities and mer- police have already booked another question, the state on ple so that tourism thrives," Vanzara in September 2014. Reacting to the court's back up for IRNSS-1A, whose 2014) and IRNSS-1A on July 1, its," an editorial in Sena mouth- few cases in the past against Tuesday refused to withdraw Ajgaonkar said. He said that order, Vanzara said, "Justice has finally been done." three "imported atomic clocks 2013. According to ISRO offi- piece 'Saamana' said. the tourists caught drinking the contract signed with the total 3,033 lives were saved KERALA MAN WHO 'JOINED' IS KILLED had failed". cials, the total cost of all the "The BJP has made the on the beaches. lifeguard agency to man the during the last five years by The Indian Regional Navi- seven satellites was Rs 1,420 (RJD-JD(U)) ministry in Bihar "We will be amending beaches, claiming that the the agency, which has 677 life- IN AFGHANISTAN AIR STRIKE AGENCIES gation Satellite System (IRNSS) crore. fall in the name of political and the Tourist Trade Act, giving government could not run guards on its roll of which 83 KASARGOD: administrative anarchy. more powers...I have asked such services. "The state gov- per cent are Goans. A 23-year-old man from the district, ABRIDGED QUOTATION NOTICE Applying the same stan- the tourist guards to be on the ernment used to run lifeguard Drishti is a Mumbai- who was suspected to have joined the terror outfit Islamic State (IS) last year, was reportedly killed in Sealed separate Quotations are hereby invited against NIQ dards, the BJP-led Maharash- vigil against the sale of drugs. services in the past. But since based firm. The opposition No. 5 To 15 of 2017-18 by the EE (A-M), Midnapore(A-M) tra government should expel No one will be allowed to take the government could not run legislators, including Jeniffer an air strike in Afghanistan. Police on Tuesday said his Division on behalf of the Governor of West Bengal for Supply Mumbai University Vice Chan- law into their hands," he said. it in a satisfactory manner, it Monserratte and Aleixo Reg- father had received a message through Telegram app of miscellaneous Materials for different Sub-Divisional Stores cellor, holding him responsi- Ajgaonkar was respond- was outsourced to a private inaldo Lourenco, demanded two days ago informing him about the death of Mar- ble for the mismanagement," ing to a question tabled by firm," Chief Minister Mano- that since there were majority wan Ismail of Thrikkaripur in an undisclosed location for maintenance work of different RLI scheme under Non- it said. Congress legislator Aleixo har Parrikar said. Respond- Goans working as a lifeguard, Plan. Last date of application: 16.08.2017 up to 4 p.m The Maharashtra govern- Reginaldo Lourenco. In May ing to the demand made by the services should be given to in Afghanistan. They said the message was also sent Details of the same may be seen on the Notice Board of the ment had on Friday ordered this year, police in the tourist the opposition benches, the any state-level company. to social activist B C Abdul Rahman on the same day. office of the undersigned on any working day during office an inquiry into the Vice-chan- state had asked its personnel Chief Minister ruled out that "If Goans are available to The message purportedly sent by one Asfaq Majeed, hours. Sd/- cellor's role in implementing to arrest people, found drink- the government end the ser- take over this contract, then one of the 21 youths from Kerala who allegedly went Executive Engineer (Agri-Mech) the new online assessment ing in public places, including vices of the private agency. they can come ahead. Let missing and joined the IS, did not provide more details Midnapore (Agri-Mech) Division system, which has resulted in beaches. At a meeting held in Ajgaonkar hailed Drishti them participate in the ten- about Marwan or the place where he was killed. Midnapore delay in declaring the exami- Calangute that month, citi- Lifesaving Private Ltd for dering process to win the con- nation results. zens had complained about doing "excellent" job of sav- tract," Ajgaonkar said. 7 MILLENNIUM POST | Kolkata | Wednesday, 2 August, 2017 mp nation SC dismisses plea against 'wrong' No coercive step against NDTV questions in UPSC prelim exams on Rs 428 cr I-T demand: HC OUR CORRESPONDENT NEW DELHI: The Supreme OUR CORRESPONDENT sion of the Income Tax Appel- Court dismissed on Tuesday late Tribunal (ITAT) by which a plea which sought grace NEW DELHI: The Delhi High it had upheld the assessing offi- marks or removal of alleged Court on Tuesday told the I-T cer's decision to add around wrong questions given in the department not to take any Rs 642 crore, as unexplained Union Public Service Com- coercive step against NDTV money, to the channel's income mission (UPSC) 2017 prelim- in connection with a Rs 428- for the assessment year (AY) inary examination. A bench, crore demand after rapping it 2009-10. headed by Justice Dipak Misra, for asking the media house to But, the ITAT had said the court does not perceive pay "immediately now" which remanded back three other any merit in the petition and is, appeared to be an "over enthu- issues pertaining to the same hence, dismissed. siastic step" and "on the face of AY, NDTV has said, contend- The bench, also comprising it illegal". ing that there could not be a justices Amitava Roy and A M "How can you pass pen- demand order for each "trun- Khanwilkar, noted that the peti- alty order when no time has cated" issue. tioner who gave the exam had been given for payment of the The media house has also not given any representation to amount which was determined said that the "unexplained the UPSC claiming there was a on July 26," a bench of justices money" of around Rs 642 crore question with more than one Senior advocate P S Patwa- liminary test, 2017 on June 18. S Muralidhar and Pratibha was in fact an investment made correct answer. Senior advo- lia, representing the UPSC, said The preliminary examination M Singhthe court asked the by NBC Universal Inc through cate Colin Gonsalves, appear- that while 35 candidates gave consisted of two papers having Income Tax (I-T) department. its subsidiary Universal Studio ing for the petitioner, said the representations to the commis- objective type questions and The court said it was "sat- contended that the July 26 and it was in respect of two 2009-10 would not be given International BV. preliminary exam result has sion, the petitioner candidate they carried a maximum of 400 isfied" that there was a prima order was "without jurisdic- unpaid demands for 2007-08 effect to. He also urged the The petition, subsequent to been declared, but the UPSC has not given any. marks. facie case in favour of New tion" and based on "piecemeal and the one under challenge bench to direct partial deposit the ITAT order of July 14, said will publish the answer key after He said the expert panel The petitioner has claimed Delhi Television (NDTV). assessment". of 2009-10. of the amount demanded. the IT department had arrived the entire process (main exam has found no ambiguity in the that this year's preliminary The court also issued notice Pulling up the tax authority Senior advocate Sanjay The court, while noting the at a figure of Rs 577 crore as the and the interview) is over. question paper and, therefore, examination paper had ques- to the IT department and for issuing the demand order Jain, representing the depart- statement made on behalf of income of the media house for He said that there were mul- all those representations have tions with multiple answers sought its reply on the televi- and the notice, the bench noted ment, also argued that the plea the department, did not order the AY 2009-10 by taking into tiple correct answers to a ques- been rejected. and many of them could have sion channel's plea challeng- that the time given for deposit was not maintainable and the partial deposit of the amount. account losses of Rs 64 crore tion on two schools of thought. Earlier, the apex court had been answered on the subjective ing the demand order of July 26 of the amount was 'immedi- media house could go in appeal The bench, instead, allowed claimed by the channel as well The bench said that the agreed to examine the plea interpretation of the examinees. and a show cause notice of the ately now' which appeared to be against the order to the com- the department to raise the as the unexplained money. UPSC test for the all-India which alleged that two ques- She has also referred to same day. The notice was issued an "over enthusiastic step" and missioner concerned of the issue on the next date of hear- Based on the figure of Rs civil services, is the highest- tions in the 2017 preliminary earlier judgements of the apex for failure to pay the amount "on the face of it illegal". Income Tax department. ing on August 21. 577 crore income, the depart- level exam and candidates tak- examination of the UPSC were court which had said that a in time. In its defence, the depart- He, however, said that the According to NDTV's plea, ment had calculated that a tax ing it are expected to go by the "wrong". question having two or more Senior advocate Harish ment contended that only a penalty notice with regard to theJuly 26 demand order was of Rs 428 crore was payable, the books rather than the views of The commissiob had con- corrects answers should be con- Salve, appearing for NDTV, show cause notice was issued the demand for assessment year issued after the July 14 deci- plea has said. researchers. ducted the civil services pre- sidered as incorrect. Congress creates Rajasthan govt noted floods only new depts to China will never let anyone take away territory: Prez Xi attract tax-paying OUR CORRESPONDENT Though there was no direct "The Chinese people love after large-scale damage: Pilot reference to the Sikkim stand- peace. We will never seek professionals BEIJING: China will never off, Xi urged the PLA to focus aggression or expansion, but OUR CORRESPONDENT has already declared. seek "aggression or expansion" on war preparedness to forge we have the confidence to The government, he said, OUR CORRESPONDENT but will not allow anyone to an elite and powerful force that defeat all invasions," Xi, 64, JAIPUR: Rajasthan Congress should offer for Rs 50,000 and "split its territory", President is always "ready for the fight, said at the ceremony held at chief Sachin Pilot on Tuesday Rs 10,000 assistance each for NEW DELHI: The Congress Xi Jinping asserted on Tuesday capable of combat and sure to the Great Hall of the People attacked the Vasundhara Raje the deaths of cows and goats, on Tuesday created two new as he lauded the Army's strong win". attended by Premier Li Keq- dispensation, accusing it of respectively due to the floods. organisational departments resolve to protect the country's "There are various means iang and other top leaders of taking note of the floods only Also, assistance of Rs 50,000 -- Professionals Congress and sovereignty and defeat "all inva- and choices to safeguard peace the ruling Communist Party after large-scale damages were and Rs 25,000 should be given Unorganised Workers Con- sions" amid territorial disputes and security and prevent war, and army officials. caused to lives and properties. for the damages caused to gress -- to reach out to tax-pay- with its neighbours. but military means should This is the second time in The Congress leader, who farms and crops (per hectare) ing professionals, as part of its "No one should expect remain the final guarantee," anniversary of the 2.3 million three days that Xi spoke of is on a tour of the state's flood- respectively. revival plan. us to swallow the bitter fruit he said. strong PLA, the world's largest the PLA's capability to thwart affected areas, also charged "The government should Party leader Shashi Tharoor that is harmful to our sover- Xi, also general secre- standing army. invasions. the BJP government with also make available alternate who has been appointed as the eignty, security or development tary of the Communist Party He said China would never On July 30, Xi during a being "unprepared" to face the shelters to affected people new chairman of the All India interests," Xi said as the Peo- of China Central Committee allow "any people, organisa- massive PLA parade had said, floods and ignoring previous "It is unfortunate that the under Pradhan Mantri Avas Professionals Congress said the ple's Liberation Army (PLA) and chairman of the Central tion or political party to split "I firmly believe that our gallant experiences. state government has started Yojana without any delay. idea is to integrate the educated is engaged in a standoff with Military Commission, made any part of Chinese territory military has both confidence Pilot, who visited pockets taking note of the flood- "All relief packages declared tax-paying professionals of the Indian troops at Doklam in the the remarks at the ceremony out of the country at any time, and ability to defeat all invad- of Jalore--one the four districts affected people only after such be implemented immediately country and their aspirations Sikkim section since mid-June. to mark the 90th founding in any form." ing enemies". affected by the inundation, said large-scale damages have been and it should be ensured the for the future of India into the more than 45 people have lost caused. activity does not suffer due to Congress's political system. NADIA ZILLA PARISHAD their lives due to the floods till "The scale of the damages red tapism," he said. "This is all a part of reviving Krishnagar, Nadia now, a statement from the party to lives and properties shows The leader also claimed the party. This is one more step EOI have been invited by the said. the government had not pre- that the state's Congress unit to say the Congress continues under signed from the reputed The former union minister pared itself in view of the is offering all possible help to to be a vibrant party," he said. National/International Company/ Contractors. demanded the state govern- floods reported in the past," flood-hit people. Pilot visited Tharoor said the Con- EOI MEMO NO-4063/X/10- ment to proffer timely mon- Pilot was quoted as saying in Sanchore in Jalore and also gress is looking at people who NZP Dated 28/07/2017; etary assistance to those hit by the statement. inspected the Pathmeda cow- embody such values and serve Preparation of DPR, execution, the calamity and also asked it He further asked the gov- shed to get information of the them as liberty and freedom, erection, commission after voTting to ensure red-tapism does not ernment to extend help to the damages caused to cow lineage, social justice and pluralism in DPR and 1 (one) year operation and maintenance free of cost for affect relief activities. affected ones beyond what it the statement said. India. flood lighting illumination system of Kalyani Stadium Nadia, W.B. ICA-T 3081(3)2017 Last date of submission of EOI is 16.08.2017. Please see website Lack of investment in breastfeeding results in www.wbprd.gov.in or contact to this office. District Engineer, 3 lakh child deaths per year, finds study Nadia Zilla Parishad OUR CORRESPONDENT ing rates above 60 per cent. The scorecard was released NEW DELHI: In five of the yesterday alongside a new world's largest emerging econ- analysis demonstrating that an omies, including India, lack of annual investment of only USD investment in breastfeeding 4.70 per newborn was required results in an estimated 2,36,000 to increase the global rate of child deaths per year coupled exclusive breastfeeding among with an economic loss of USD children under six months to 119 billion, a report on Global 50 per cent by 2025. Breastfeeding said. The Global Breastfeeding According to the report Collective called upon coun- prepared by the UNICEF and tries to increase funding to WHO in collaboration with the raise breastfeeding rates from Global Breastfeeding Collec- birth till two years. tive, a new initiative to increase It also urged the countries global breastfeeding rates, no to enact paid family leave and country in the world fully workplace breastfeeding poli- meets the recommended stan- cies, strengthen links between dards for breastfeeding. health facilities and communi- It said the investment in ties, and encourage community breastfeeding was far too low networks that protect, promote, in five of the world's largest and support breastfeeding. emerging economies -- China, The Collective also stressed India, Indonesia, Mexico and on strengthening the monitor- Nigeria. ing promotion and donors pro- 194 nations, found that only ing systems that track the prog- ICA-T 3087(3)2017 Each year, governments vide only an additional USD 85 40 per cent of children younger ress of policies, programmes in lower and middle-income million, the report said. than six months are breastfed and funding towards achiev- countries spend approximately The Global Breastfeeding exclusively and only 23 coun- ing both national and global Tender and Quotation is being invited by the Executive Engineer USD 250 million on breastfeed- Scorecard, which evaluated tries have exclusive breastfeed- breastfeeding targets. Purba Medinipur Electrical Division, P.W.Dte. from eligible contractors bearing Tender as follow: The West Bengal Central School Service Commission Tender No. 1) 06/T/PMED of 2017-18 Chinese duo held for ACHARYA SADAN: 2) 07/T/PMED of 2017-18 3) 08/T/PMED of 2017-18 stealing diamond 11 & 11/1, Block-EE, Salt Lake; Kolkata-700091 Quotation No. 1) 14/Q/PMED of 2017-18 2) 15/Q/PMED of 2017-18 at exhibition stall NOTICE For details visit above mention office or see Ist STATE LEVEL SELECTION TEST-2017 FOR RECRUITMENT OF Website “http://www.pwdwb.in” . Sd/- HEADMASTER/HEADMISTRESS IN STATE GOVERNMENT AIDED/ A. Icbal MUMBAI: Mumbai police Executive Engineer, P.W.Dte. have arrested two Chinese SPONSORED SECONDARY & HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOLS Purba Medinipur Electrical Division nationals for allegedly stealing (EXCEPT HILL REGION) a diamond worth Rs 34 lakh Memo. No.813 / 834(XIII) /CSSC/ESTT/2017 Dated: 01.08.2017 from an exhibition centre in suburban Goregaon. The process of submission of on-line application(s) for the aforementioned Chiang Chang Kwing and SLST is being re-opened in the context of amendment of rules for Deng Xiabo were held by Cen- appointment of Headmaster/ Headmistress issued by State Govt. in School tral Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnels at the Mum- Education Department. bai international airport min- For detailed information please visit Commission’s website i.e. www. utes before they were about to board a flight to Osaka in Japan westbengalssc.com from 03.08.2017. last night. Sd/- The duo had cleared immi- Secretary gration checks when the CISF West Bengal Central School Service Commission personnels apprehended them. ICA-T 3084(3)2017 8 editorial mp MILLENNIUM POST | Kolkata | Wednesday, 2 August, 2017 EDITORIAL The behaviour puzzle PMFBY: Farmers Stigmatising the powerless is not the way to a cleaner need bigger stake India, but only a more ashamed India ith the recent floods in Gujarat, Rajasthan, and Assam, along with drought in other parts of invest in toilets. So, what will the country, our farmers are once again des- create the demand for toilets? tined to suffer this year. The droughts of 2014- SUNITA NARAIN I believe this issue needs to 15W and 2015-16 had exposed that the existing crop insurance be discussed openly and much schemes were not enough to alleviate farmers’ woes. As the more furiously. It is critical to sums insured under National Agriculture Insurance Scheme invest in the software of behav- (NAIS), modified NAIS, and Weather Based Crop Insurance iour change. This means doing Scheme (WBCIS) were too low and the compensation too a lot more to build awareness meagre, the relief with many loopholes was virtually a drop about the health impacts of in the ocean. It was none other than Prime Minister Narendra poor sanitation. My own Modi, who realised the lacunas and announced a revamped research shows that this link Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojna (PMFBY) in kharif 2016, is known only in terms of hoping it would be a game changer. The PMFBY raised the policy; not in terms of actual sums insured to realistic levels to cover the cost of cultivation data, which will build health for farmers. The premiums were heavily subsidised by the awareness to drive behavioural Centre and the states in equal proportion, with farmers pay- After many years change. Tobacco is one case ing only 2 per cent of the premium for kharif, 1.5 per cent for where behaviour has changed. rabi and 5 per cent for horticulture crops. Farmers found the of unsuccessful This is because there is no lon- PMFBY attractive and consequently, in the very first kharif toilet-building ger any doubt about the ill- season of 2016, area (in hectares) and the number of farmers effects of tobacco. We need the covered under PMFBY, both increased to 37.5 million. Sig- programmes, the same with toilets. nificantly, it was 47 per cent higher with respect to the num- government has Today, the government’s ber of farmers, and 38 per cent higher in terms of area, over Swachh Bharat Mission accepts NAIS and MNAIS schemes of kharif of the drought year 2015. accepted that this and even provides money However, if compared to a normal kharif year, say 2013, the its goal is not to Representational Image for what in officialese is called number of farmers opting for the scheme increased by 210 per intensive IEC (information, cent in kharif 2016, and the area covered increased by 126 per build toilets, but hat makes peo- its goal is not to build toilets, Tamil Nadu, toilet usage was their photographs in village education and communica- cent. The sum insured on per hectare basis under the PMFBY to increase their ple change their but to increase their usage. In just 39 per cent. billboards, cancelling their tion). But its own data shows increased by 51 per cent over kharif 2015. The number of non- behaviour? Is it other words, people have to How, then, will usage ration cards or taking away that in 2016-17, the govern- loanee farmers opting PMFBY, as per the ministry’s commu- usage. In other education? Is it change their behaviour and increase? What will drive the other government benefits. ment spent 0.8 per cent of its nication, also increased by about 23 per cent, driven primarily words, people Wthe availability of options? Is it begin using toilets. In fact, change in behaviour? This is In Rajasthan’s Pratapgarh allocation on IEC, against the by Maharashtra. And, these indicators reflect that the PMFBY societal pressure? Is it the fear the government now wants to not an idle sociological ques- district, this aggressive drive 8 per cent it had provided in its is moving at the desired pace towards the right direction. But have to change of penalties? Or is it all of these count usage and not toilets in tion. It is about the politics of has had tragic consequences. guidelines. It is clear that sub- despite the increasing coverage, the premiums, as a percent- their behaviour and more? This is a zillion dol- its surveys. This is not a small development. Women defecating in the open sidising toilet construction is age of the sums insured has increased. With greater compe- and begin using lar question for policy-makers change. My colleagues, who inves- were being photographed by not enough. Much more needs tition, there is surely scope for negotiating lower premiums. trying to curb climate change Report after report has tigated this, have found that government officials. There to be done in terms of incen- But the litmus test of any crop insurance scheme is how fast it toilets or stop open defecation. shown that toilets are built, but state governments, pushed was a protest and one man tives that make people change can settle the claims of farmers. It is here that the governance Take the matter of toi- not utilised. The 2015 report of by the ambitious and much- died. When my colleagues their behaviour. In places like of the state is tested at three critical steps: First, the state has lets. Getting people to build the Comptroller and Auditor needed targets set to make visited Mehtab Shah Kachhi Mehtab Shah Kachhi Basti, to notify the crops, make clusters of districts, determine the and use them is turning out General had found that 20 per India open-defecation-free, are Basti—literally meaning the the government will have to sums to be insured based on district level committees, and to be the biggest conundrum. cent of the toilets built under using name-and-shame as one illegal settlement—they found provide options for afford- invite tenders from insurance companies; second, the state and Mahatma Gandhi had said that government programmes way to bring about this change. that women had little option able community toilets that the Centre have to pay premium to the companies providing sanitation is more important remained locked or were being They are pushing towards mak- but to defecate in the open. are clean and well-main- insurance; and third, in case of crop damages, quickly assess than Independence. Lack of used as storerooms. In 2015 ing open defecation socially One, they are poor. Two, they tained. This also means recog- the damages and ask companies to pay the claims of farmers. sanitation is leading to avoid- again, the National Sample unacceptable. Haryana (a suc- have no real home to call their nising the crucial connection Unfortunately, in this entire process, farmers have almost no able deaths of infants, and also Survey Office recorded the use cessful state in terms of toilet own; they have no land on between water and toilets. role. That’s the reason why its implementation and effective- underweight and stunted chil- of toilets in 75,000 households usage), Uttar Pradesh (a dis- which they can build a toilet. However, we still need ness has fallen between the cracks. If states delay notifications, dren. This is unacceptable. in 75 districts. The results were mal failure), Madhya Pradesh, Three, they have no running deterrence. There is no doubt or payment of premiums, or crop cutting data, there is no way The good news is that the stark. In a few states, includ- Chhattisgarh and a few other water. Even the community that societal pressure works. companies can pay compensation to the farmers in time. It government of India has set ing Sikkim, Kerala, and Him- states have passed bills mak- toilet is inadequate to cater to But we have to make sure that may be noted that in any crop insurance business, companies itself an ambitious goal to end achal Pradesh, 90-100 per cent ing it compulsory for anyone the 3,000 people living there. we do not end up blaming or make profits during normal times and incur losses during open defecation in the country of the toilets built were in use. contesting panchayat elections Worse, its upkeep is pathetic shaming the victim. Stigma- droughts and floods. So any meaningful comment on premi- by October 2, 2019, Gandhi’s But in many states the usage to have a functional toilet at and there is no access to water. tising the powerless is not the ums and claims should look at a three to five-year cycle. In any 150th birth anniversary. After was low. In economically poor home. Many districts are tak- But this does not fully explain way to a cleaner India, but only case, just for FY2017, the total premium paid by the govern- many years of unsuccessful toi- Jharkhand, it was below 20 ing this approach forward by the habit of open defecation. a more ashamed India. ment and farmers is Rs 22,345 crore both for kharif and rabi, let-building programmes, the per cent. Even in progressive, blowing whistles at people def- After all, people buy mobile DOWN TO EARTH while the estimated claims of kharif 2016 alone will exceed Rs government has accepted that more literate and relatively rich ecating in the open, publishing phones or bicycles before they (The views are strictly personal.) 10,000 crore, of which Rs 4,203 crore has been paid. Surpris- ingly, most of the states did not claim any amount under on- account claim for mid-season adversity, which allows 25 per dear cent payment for quick relief to farmers. Similarly, most states EDITOR millenniumpost.in failed to provide smart phones to revenue staff to capture and Quote martial FROZEN VALLEY upload data of crop cutting, which continues to come with an enormous delay. Now, the question is what is the future of crop I With the question of Article 35A brought to the fore, series of questions and concerns Log on to write letters to the am not afraid of an editor or send them to insurance in addressing farmers’ woes from natural calami- army of lions led by a regarding the state of governance in the region as well as the Army once again stand ties? The PMFBY has moved in the right direction and made glaring at us. Permanent residency is a matter of debate and so is the heavily militarised [email protected] substantial progress in terms of coverage, but failed in a quick sheep; I am afraid of You can also send your dispensation of claims to farmers. The primary reason behind an army of sheep led environment in the Valley. Clearly, the military is maintaining a status but improving this failure is the lethargy and casual attitude of state agencies. that state of affairs is the responsibility of the government. Decisions must be made and comments to The Editor, If the PMFBY has to succeed, farmers must have a bigger stake by a lion Millennium Post, in its functioning. There is an urgent need to link the insur- executed to improve the situation instead of being complacent with the Army just man- Pratap Bhawan, 5 Bahadur Shah ance database with Core Banking Solution (CBS) so that when aging it in questionable ways. The Army, too, has not had any reform in decades. the premium is deducted from a farmer’s bank account, the ALEXANDER THE GREAT Zafar Marg, New Delhi 110 002 bank sends him a message informing him about the premium, NEHA GUPTA Via email the sum insured and the name of the insurance company. At present, several farmers may not even be aware that they are insured. It is the right time for the PM to make this flagship program farmer-centric with effective implementation. The stock market high The end of a musical legacy Market investors need to avoid being driven by animal spirits he Indian stock mar- to earnings (PE) ratio of 25.5 ith the demise of Ustad Hussain Sayeedud- kets seem to be on when the long-term average is din Dagar, the venerable Dhrupad tradition a steroid-infused between 17 and 19. The highest of Hindustani classical music has come to a dream run. Both the PE ratio that the Nifty has ever sad end. Known affectionately to his legions TNational Stock Exchange's achieved was 28.5 in February Wof disciples and admirers as ‘Saeed Bhai’, the maestro was the AMIT KAPOOR Nifty-50 and the Bombay 2000 during the dotcom bub- youngest among the eight famous Dagar brothers – who had Stock Exchange's Sensex have ble after which it went into a mastered all exponents of the ancient, complex and elabo- surged to record highs almost free fall for the rest of the year, rate Dhrupad tradition. An ancient form of classical singing, every day in the last few weeks. along with the stock markets. Dhrupad has its roots in Vedic hymns. Practitioners today The former crossed the 10,000- Generally, a Nifty PE above owe it to the Dagarvani that has preserved the austere form, mark for the first time since 22 is considered overbought. despite losing out in popularity to the faster-paced and orna- its inception two decades ago The stocks will maintain their mented Khyal and Thumri. The renowned brothers were the while the latter breached the upward trend in the short run grandsons of the legendary Zakiruddin and Allabande Khan 32,000 mark, a lifetime high as the RBI will expectedly Dagar, and the entire family is frequently credited with being in itself. Both these indices, reduce rates this week. A good the curators who preserved the oldest known form of North which represent 50 and 30 monsoon will further boost Indian classical music from which much of the extant Indian The faith reposed of India's largest companies, investor sentiment. classical music is said to have been derived. Saeed Bhai came respectively, are generally seen However, as only domestic to Pune in 1984 and had been residing in the city’s bustling by foreign as the referential guide to the and global liquidity is driving Karvenagar-Kothrud area, staying at a number of houses for investors in the country's business sentiment markets and not real invest- several years as he awaited the State government to allot him and economic activity. How- ment, stock prices will keep a permanent one. He frequently visited Benares to grace the Indian economy ever, this does not seem to hold running ahead of their fun- Dhrupad festival held there. Dhrupad - a Sanskrit portman- has been due true in the current economic Representational Image damentals. Valuations will get teau of Dhruva (immovable) and Pad (verse) has its roots scenario. expensive and when earnings since ancient times, mentioned as early as the 3rd Century to its strong The stock market is per- international factors that are ised sector as they were paying year from April 1. will not see commensurate B.C. in the Natyashastra. fundamentals forming exceedingly well unrelated to real investments. taxes earlier anyway and the The faith imposed by for- growth, markets will consoli- The contribution of the Dagar family through 20 gen- despite low investment activ- First, Indian households have tax slabs have ensured that the eign investors in the Indian date at a lower level. There- erations of Dhrupad exponents is all the more remarkable and future ity across the country. The been displaying a nonlin- tax rate would not vary much economy has been due to fore, a correction is expected given the slow death of this form following Independence growth prospects. problem of rising non-per- ear shift towards savings in from their earlier levels. More- its strong fundamentals and anytime soon. That could hap- and the extinction of a musically informed aristocracy when forming assets in banks has financial assets post-demon- over, the implementation of future growth prospects. Infla- pen with any trigger on the the milieu of royal court patronage had all but vanished. In Inflation has been highly inimical to corpo- etisation. Mutual funds have GST has unified the Indian tion has been consistently fall- global or domestic front, rang- Saeed Bhai’s opinion, good art should elevate art lovers to been consistently rate lending and, thus, private emerged as the preferred mode states into a common market, ing from a high of 12 per cent ing from an escalation of the the level of divine beauty and Dhrupad does exactly that. To falling from a investment. The lending situa- of investment. In fact, net making it easier to transport in 2013 to as low as 2.18 per Doklam standoff to an abrupt appreciate Dhrupad one must be willing to turn inwards or tion has worsened to the extent inflows into mutual funds have goods across state borders and cent in May 2017. The fiscal withdrawal of FPI funds. upwards to reach a plane of serenity and equanimity, qualities high of 12 per that bank credit increased by witnessed an expansion of 155 to do business in general. deficit has also narrowed to 3.5 Hopefully, before such a which were very much present in the Ustad’s music. Dhru- cent in 2013 to as merely 5.1 per cent in the fis- per cent, which is the highest Third, on the external per cent of the GDP in 2016-17 situation arises, investment pad is not about entertainment, it is about sadhana and the cal ending March 2017, which in their history in India. These front, global investors have from a high of 6.6 per cent in activity will pick up as the NPA immeasurable joy that is to be found in it. Not to forget, the low as 2.18 per has been the lowest since 1951. funds ultimately find their way regained their faith in the 2009-10. The current account issue is gradually resolved and Dagars always shunned publicity and preferred to practise cent in May 2017 Likewise, fresh corporate into the stock markets. Retail Indian growth story. Foreign deficit has also been contained earnings will grow to support this ‘music of silence’ in solitude, where they could unite with investments during the same investors and high net-worth direct investment hit an all- at 0.6 per cent. This puts the the market performance and the sound, with Nada Brahma, which is the aim of this music. period have grown at their individuals are also choosing time high of $60.1 billion in country's balance sheet in a reduce its fragility. Until then, He constantly warned his students by telling them that should slowest pace since 1992. Just to put their money in finan- the last financial year. On the comfortable zone. With a sta- going forward, investors need they perform for an audience, they should sing or play for the going by these factors, it can cial assets rather than hold- other hand, foreign portfo- ble rupee and low oil prices, to remain cautious on stocks divine, or for themselves, merging into the music, being one be said that business sentiment ing cash. lio investors (FPIs) have also the situation cannot destabilise and avoid being driven by ani- with it, only then could the listeners be lifted up to higher across the country has been at Second, the market perfor- recently become bullish on anytime soon. All these factors mal spirits. IANS planes of contemplation as in marg sangeet where one does its worst in decades. Therefore, mance can also be seen as a the Indian market. Net FPI have made India an attractive (Amit Kapoor is not play to obtain favours and wealth. The world of music will the recent stock market per- positive response to the Goods inflow, which had been Rs foreign destination compared Chair, Institute for certainly miss the mathematical permutation of ‘alaap’, incor- formance seems inexplicable. and Services Tax (GST) that 48,411 crore (more than $7.5 to other emerging economies. Competitiveness, India. porated to make rhythmic variations for an attractive aesthetic The bull run of the stock was implemented from July 1. billion) in 2016-17, has already Nevertheless, the markets The views expressed are appeal of the Dagar legacy. market is, however, being The GST has not impacted cor- exceeded Rs 1 lakh crore ($15 are, in fact, overvalued, with personal. Aashi Yadav has driven by a few domestic and porate earnings for the organ- billion) in the current financial the Nifty trading at a price contributed to the article.) 9 MILLENNIUM POST | Kolkata | Wednesday, 2 August, 2017 mp in focus Rush for uranium India’s appetite for uranium is growing rapidly, and the search for uranium could displace 4,000 in 13 tribal villages of Madhya Pradesh

t around 3 pm on a hot April day, the tranquillity JITENDRA of Kochamau, a tribal vil- lage in Madhya Pradesh’s ABetul district, was disrupted by the sound of helicopters flying past. As people ran out of their houses, they saw huge machines dangling from the helicopters that were whirring precariously close to the roofs of their houses. Nobody knew what was hap- pening. The sporadic flights continued for weeks, sometimes two-three times a day, till the village residents were informed by Shramik Adivasi Sanga- It has 22 nuclear than (SAS), a non-profit working in the region, that the government was power reactors exploring the area for uranium depos- that produce 3 its and that the helicopters were carry- ing machines to send electromagnetic per cent of its waves to scan underground deposits. electricity. The The secrecy of the operation was such that no notice boards were on government display in the area. In the forests wants to further surrounding Kochamau, there were two giant machines and a few tents. take this share But the guards refused to speak and to 25 per cent by denied permission to photograph the machines or enter the area. India’s 2050. On May appetite for uranium is growing rap- 17, the Union idly. It has 22 nuclear power reactors that produce 3 per cent of its electric- government ity. The government wants to further approved take this share to 25 per cent by 2050. On May 17, the Union government construction approved construction of 10 nuclear of 10 nuclear power plants and the exploration in Betul appears to be a search for power plants more fuel. and the However, the exploration has Road construction to enable transportation of uranium ore (Photo: Jitendra) adversely affected the lives of around exploration in 4,000 people in 13 villages that fall the blockage. They also said that the Contravening all laws secretary refused to provide further tion. However, OP Yadav, regional Exploratory activities can also be Betul appears to under three panchayats—Khapa, surveyors have cleared a number of “Since the villages are in a Fifth comments. director, Central Region, AMDER, harmful. be a search for Kachchar, and Jhapri. Most of the patches in the forest and drilled at Schedule area, they are governed by On April 20, residents of Khapa accepts that the exploration has been The state media reports that in people belong to the Korku and Gond several places. a special administrative system, and panchayat filed a written complaint going on for a year. “Drilling activities Meghalaya, uranium exploration in more fuel tribes. The problem started when the “We are harassed for entering the any exploratory activity without the with the district collector of Betul, started in April 2016, while the aerial the 1990s caused massive damage to surveyors, who are from the Atomic forest to collect forest produce, but permission of all the concerned gram Shashank Mishra, demanding an end exploration started in April this year. the flora and fauna. A tender to start Minerals Directorate for Exploration see how they have destroyed our jun- sabhas is illegal,” says Anil Garg, a to the exploration. But no action was We have taken samples from many mining in Meghalaya was floated in and Research (AMDER), stopped vil- gle,” says Malti Korku of Kochamau Betul-based advocate and forest rights taken. When contacted, Mishra said places and are analysing them. Aerial December 2016 and the state could lage residents from entering the sur- village. She also adds that this is not activist. But this has not been the case. that he was not aware of any complaint geophysical surveys are still going on,” soon start mining uranium. rounding forests to collect firewood the first time tribals of Betul are A letter, signed by the sarpanch and against the exploration. “I will check he adds. However, he denies that there “Tribal people are rarely informed and started to drill in their farms. facing displacement. In 1971, over the secretary of Khapa panchayat, with my office,” he said. He also added has been any protest. “Community that the Constitution guarantees Kalla Korku of Kochamau says he had 1,000 families in 23 villages were dis- allowing AMDER exploratory activ- that he has not received any official assent is not required for exploration. them the right to stay put. They are to stop the surveyors from drilling in placed to allow for the construction of ities and drilling up to 200m, was intimation about the exploration. “I It will be necessary once the mining often threatened and the compen- his field. Chunnalal, a resident of the Central Proofing Establishment, the issued on April 14, 2016. Flouting all heard about it through the media,” site is finalised,” he said. sation money is rarely sufficient same village, says, “They drilled at two country’s largest ammunition test- norms, the letter also granted permis- says Mishra. to allow them to adapt to life out- places in my 2-hectare field without firing range, in Kesla block, which sion on behalf of the two other pan- Same was the case with Vinit Aus- Trouble trigger side the forest. In most cases they my permission. When I objected, they is 20 km from Kochamau. About chayats—Kachchar and Jhapri. tin, director, Directorate of Geology Madhya Pradesh is not the only do not even receive what they were behaved rudely and said they were 600 families were provided land “What’s worse, it carries the names and Mining, Bhopal, who denied state to witness tribal protests against promised,” concludes Xavier Dias, a doing a government job.” while the rest were rendered home- of only 10 village residents when at knowledge of the exploration. But uranium exploration. In Telangana, Jharkhand-based anti-mining activist. Some residents also reported that less. Malti Korku says her parents least two-thirds of the residents need he also said that the Central govern- where the government has approved DOWN TO EARTH the surveyors blocked a nearby stream were among the displaced. “We had to agree to grant such permission,” ment does not require permission of uranium exploration in the Amrabad (The author is a journalist and causing water scarcity in the area and 5 hectares of land but still became says Alok Sagar, a member of SAS. the state government or local admin- Tiger Reserve, members of the Chen- environmental activist. The views that they themselves had to remove homeless. This time, we won’t leave.” The Khapa sarpanch and panchayat istration to undertake such explora- chu tribe organised protests this May. expressed are strictly personal.)

tweet Facets of British humour RETWEET Hosting humour in history, writes about an epic British ‘textbook’ TASLIMA NASREEN Vikas Datta @taslimanasreen he last place possi- so on. bly expected to yield This sets the tone for the humour is history. book, in which we learn that I had a dream to visit For most of us, it The Order of the Bath “was an Ellora and Ajanta caves. Twas a dreary, most colourless extreme form of torture in the Can't believe it was not subject at school. But today it Middle Ages”, Henry VII got a is serious business; a fiercely law “by which the Irish could possible in the largest contested battlefield of ideol- have a Parliament of their own, democracy in the ogies, identities and political but the English were to pass all world. aspirations, rather than only the Acts in it” and Charles I’s a reasoned record of the past explanation of The Divine Right enabling us to understand our of Kings, was: “(a) He was King, present and guide our future. and that was right (b) Kings Humour seems incongruous, were divine, and that was right SADANAND DHUME even inadvisable, here. But we (c) Kings were right, and that t @dhume We must not must not forget the British and was right (d) Everything was all their unique humour. Charac- right.” We also learn that Queen forget the terised by sparkling word-play, Victoria “remained obdu- Not to worry, Taslima British and their self-deprecation, comically out- rately plural and not amused” ji. Once India gets a rageous hyperbole, savage sat- throughout her reign despite strong, nationalist unique humour. ire and rampant ridicule, it is the best efforts of her subjects. Characterised also broadly irreverent across There are five model “Test government you will be by sparkling the spectrum -- no sacred cows Papers”, with instructions like free to travel any...oh, here at all. As shown by the “Do not on any account attempt wait a minute, never word-play, self- feted exemplars of the tradition to write on both sides of the -- Swift, Wodehouse, Jerome, paper at once”, and questions mind. deprecation, Terry Pratchett, George Mac- such as “How far did the Lords comically Donald Fraser, “Punch” and Repellent drive Henry III into outrageous “Private Eye”, “The Goon Show”, the arms of Pedro the Cruel? RAJYAVARDHAN RATHORE “Monty Python”, “Yes Minister”, (Protractors may not be used)” hyperbole, “Allo Allo”, “Mind Your Lan- or “Examine the state of mind @Ra_THORe savage satire, guage”, “Blackadder” and many of (1) Charles I, half an hour more -- there is no facet of their after his head was cut off (2) and rampant own history, society and culture Charles II, half a moment after Abu Dujana neutralized. ridicule, it is that cannot be made fun of. An first sighting Nell Gwyn” (his Another successful op early example -- or even inspi- mistress). also broadly ration -- of this trend could be The book’s success inspired by security forces. Proud irreverent across this “textbook” which merci- Sellar and Yeatman to write of our security forces. the spectrum -- lessly but meaningfully satirises Charles I was humoured by Sellar and Yeatman for his explanation of ‘The Divine Right of Kings’ more books in the same vein, The country stands with and parodies English history. though none is known as much them. no sacred cows “1066 and All That: A as this, which went on to inspire Memorable History of Eng- thought. It is what you can Thing” or a “Bad Thing”. They mans defeated and supplanted a musical and many other such here at all land, Comprising All the Parts remember”. used every artifice of the Eng- the island’s Anglo-Saxon rulers, histories like John O’ Farell’s You Can Remember, Includ- Parodying the contempo- lish language to distort names and 55 BC, which saw the first “An Utterly Impartial History ing 103 Good Things, 5 Bad rary style of history teaching, and events without any loss of Roman invasion under Julius of Britain: (Or 2000 Years Of SRIJAN PAL SINGH Kings and 2 Genuine Dates”, their venture promised to con- sense to give the impression of Caesar -- who was “compelled Upper Class Idiots In Charge)”. @srijanpalsingh began as a series of Punch arti- tain “all the History you can facts hazily, half-remembered to invade Britain again the fol- Will we ever have the cles by academician-author remember” and its 62 chapters and not fully-understood, to lowing year (54 BC, not 56, opportunity to treat our his- Walter Carruthers Sellar and spanned England from Roman show the effect of such teach- owing to the peculiar Roman tory as history instead of an 90% reports and journalist-author Robert Julian times through 1066 “and all ing as prevalent. method of counting)” but this exclusivist national theology proposals I get are Yeatman before being pub- that”, up to the end of World In the preface, the authors, was still a “Good Thing”, since and its personages as humans -- lished as a book in 1930. Sel- War I, at which time “America citing the dates referenced in the Britons “were only natives” exceptional maybe, but humans CAP (Copy and Paste). lar (1898-1951) and Yeatman was thus clearly Top Nation, the extended title, tell us that then. Chapter II begins “that nevertheless -- instead of demi- Youth need to have the (1897-1968), who had met at and history came to a .” Yes, they had originally planned long succession of Waves of gods? We can only wait and confidence to stand Oxford’s Oriel College where it leaves the rest unstated. The four dates but “last-minute which History is chiefly com- hope. IANS they were studying modern his- authors work on the cheekily research revealed that two of posed”, the first of various bar- (Vikas Datta is an as original. Ignite your tory after the First World War, simple principle that monarchs them were not memorable”. barian tribes and later of saints, Associate Editor at minds fellas worked on the principle that are good or bad and historical Thus, they stuck to 1066, when like the “Venomous Bead” IANS. The views “History is not about what you developments either a “Good William the Conqueror’s Nor- (Venerable Bede actually) and expressed are personal.) 10 world mp MILLENNIUM POST | Kolkata |Wednesday, 2 August, 2017 3 dead after gun attack breaks out Turkey blasts US envoy over ‘Al-Qaeda safe haven’ jibe ISTANBUL: Turkey on Tues- during trial in Moscow courtroom day lashed out at what it called “unacceptable” remarks by a senior US official suggesting Ankara had encouraged the Three ‘Grand Theft Auto’ gang members killed in bungled bid to escape trial rise of Al Qaeda-linked groups in Syria’s Idlib province. MOSCOW: Russian officials Moscow Regional Court with Brett McGurk, the senior say three people have been gunshot wounds. US envoy to the international killed and four injured in a Russia media dubbed the coalition fighting the Islamic shootout at a courthouse in a accused “the Grand Theft Auto State group, said Idlib prov- Moscow suburb. gang” after the violent video ince had become “the largest Russia’s Investigative Com- game. The men on trial are Al-Qaeda safe haven”. mittee, the country’s chief accused of terrorising Moscow In comments to the Wash- investigative body, said in motorists for months in 2014. ington-based think tank the Kalin told the TvNet broad- In June, McGurk had a statement on Tuesday the Prosecutors said the gang Middle East Institute last week, caster. “Why? Because we are talks with Turkish officials in incident took place when five members were placing spikes McGurk criticised some US not controlling Idlib.” Ankara. The alliance that cap- handcuffed defendants tried on roads, forcing the motorists partners for sending in “tens Idlib is the only province tured the Idlib province was to escape as they were escorted out of their vehicles and shoot- of thousands of tons of weap- in Syria that remains entirely dominated by Al-Qaeda affil- by two guards at the Moscow ing them dead. ons” to Syria. He did not name beyond regime control after iate Al-Nusra Front and the Regional Court. The nine men, all from which partners. He added that having been captured in 2015 rebel Ahrar al-Sham, a key The body said one of the Central Asia, are charged with the way those foreign fight- by an alliance of jihadists and Islamist faction backed by defendants tried to strangle one 17 murders and two attempted ers come in to Syria “may not rebels. Kalin said McGurk’s neighbouring Turkey and Gulf of the guards, and the defen- murders. have been the best approach” comment could not be consid- states. In the years since the dants managed to escape and Russian news agencies are because Al-Qaeda had taken ered to have been made with a capture, Al-Nusra ostensibly seized the guards’ weapons. reporting that two people have full advantage of it. “good intention.” Foreign min- split with Al-Qaeda, renaming A shootout with the court’s been injured in a shooting “And Idlib now is a huge istry spokesman Huseyin Muf- itself Fateh al-Sham Front and guards ensued, and three of the inside a courthouse in a Mos- problem. It is an Al-Qaeda tuoglu added that Ankara had becoming the backbone of the defendants were killed. Two cow suburb. safe haven right on the bor- protested against the “provoca- so-called Hayat Tahrir al-Sham guards were injured. The agencies on Tuesday der of Turkey. So that’s some- tive” comments, without elab- (HTS) coalition that last month Authorities said the inci- quoted a lawyer who was at the thing, obviously, we will be in orating. McGurk has been a captured Idlib city. dent took place before a hear- courthouse and saw a guard very close discussions with the frequent target of the ire of the Turkey’s NATO allies in ing in a case of a gang of nine and a court official injured. Turks on.” But Turkish pres- Turkish government for com- the early years of the civil people who are suspected of According to the Tass idential spokesman Ibrahim ments supporting Kurdish war accused Ankara of turn- killing more than a dozen of agency, Nataly Osipova, Kalin said it was not Turkey groups labelled as terror organ- ing a blind eye — or even motorists. spokeswoman for the Moscow cow roads, killing more than a She told Tass: “We were at woman bailiff, her face in which controlled Idlib prov- isations by Ankara. Turkish aiding — the rise of Islamist Moscow region’s health Regional Court, said the inci- dozen of motorists. a different session when heard blood. ince. “Attempting to associate Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavu- groups in Syria including ministry said that a 45-year-old dent took place at a hearing in Lawyer Sofia Rubasskaya shots fired. More than 20 shots “Later somebody said that Turkey with that terror organ- soglu has called for McGurk to Islamic State jihadists. But Tur- man and 40-year-old woman a case of a gang of nine peo- described the shooting as it were made. We began to be an armed guard had been isation in Idlib, making such an be fired, claiming he was back- key always angrily rejected the were taken to hospital from the ple who have terrorised Mos- unfolded. evacuated. I saw a wounded injured.” implication is unacceptable,” ing Kurdish militants in Syria. charges. AGENCIES Air pollution may cause Nepal’s major Hafiz Saeed’s house arrest Arctic ice loss could lead to 60,000 more premature parties gear up harsher winters in Europe for 3rd phase of extended by 2 months LONDON: Arctic ice loss of the Gulf Stream. could lead to harsher win- The authors found that the local polls LAHORE: Authorities in Pak- of the federal interior minis- of Hafiz Saeed is a continuous ters and stormier weather in system — which plays a major deaths by 2030: Study istan’s Punjab province have try the detention of the terror- threat to the peace and tran- Europe because of its impact on role in the climate of Atlan- KATHMANDU: Nepal’s extended the house arrest of ist — Hafiz Saeed — has been quility in Pakistan. The noti- Atlantic Ocean currents, warn tic rim countries, particularly WASHINGTON: Climate because of less removal by rain, major political parties are gear- Mumbai terror attack master- extended for another 60 days. It fication further said that the researchers. those in Europe — could lose change may increase the num- and increased fires and wind- ing up for the third phase of mind Hafiz Saeed for another said that the detention of Saaed District Intelligence Com- The research, published up to 50 percent of its strength, ber of air pollution-related blown dust. the local-level polls to be held two months to maintain pub- and others expired on July 27. mittee Lahore separately said in the journal Nature Climate leading to a cooling of the deaths globally by 60,000 in As trees respond to higher in the Madhesi province next lic order. According to the notifica- that Hafiz Saeed would create Change, found that a decline in ocean surface in parts of the 2030 and 2,60,000 by the end temperatures, they will also month after it was postponed Saeed, who heads terror tion, the Counter Terrorism a serious law and order situa- sea ice cover caused by global North Atlantic. of this century, if left unad- emit more organic pollutants. by the government. outfit Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD), Department has reported that tion upon his release. warming could weaken the “We suggest that Arctic dressed, a study warns. West and Silva used an The third phase of the local has been under house arrest keeping in view the expected Additional Home Secretary Atlantic Meridional Overturn- Ocean changes on a multi- The study by researchers at ensemble of several global cli- polls held in two decades is since January 31 this year. His release of terrorist “Hafiz Saeed Azam Suleman believes that ing Circulation (AMOC) — a decadal time scale, such as the University of North Carolina mate models to determine the scheduled to take place in eight detention had been extended and other leaders and workers the activities of Hafiz Saeed are large-scale ocean circulation decline in sea ice cover that (UNSC) at Chapel Hill in the number of premature deaths districts including in Bara, for three more months in April. of said (terror) organisations “prejudicial to public safety and system that affects climate. we are currently experienc- US adds to growing evidence that would occur due to ozone Parsa, Rautahat, Dhanusha, On January 31, Hafiz Saeed (JuD and Falah-e-Insaniat) maintenance of public order”. AMOC is responsible for ing, can efficiently weaken the that the overall health effects and particulate matter in 2030 Saptari and Siraha of south- and his four close aides — they have planned to spread “Thereby the Hometransporting heat from low to large-scale ocean circulation of a changing climate are likely and 2100. ern Nepal under the Madhesi- Abdullah Ubaid, Malik Zafar chaos in the country. They have Department in exercise of high latitudes. of the North Atlantic, which to be overwhelmingly negative. For each model, the team stronghold province No. 2 on Iqbal, Abdul Rehman Abid planned to make demonstra- powers conferred under sub- It has a lower limb of is responsible for the oceanic It is also the most compre- assessed the projected changes September 18. and Qazi Kashif Hussain were tions under the leadership of section 1 of Section-3 of the dense, cold water that flows transport of heat from the hensive study yet on how cli- in ground-level air pollution Three major political par- detained by Pakistan’s Punjab Saeed.” Punjab Maintenance of Public south from the North Atlantic, Equator to high latitudes,” said mate change will effect health that could be attributed to ties Nepali Congress, CPN- province government for 90 If he is released from house Order Ordinance 1960, Hafiz and an upper limb of warm, lead author Florian Sevellec of via air pollution, since it makes future climate change. UML and CPN (Maoist Centre) days under the Anti-Terrorism arrest, “He (Hafiz Saeed) will Saeed is detained for a period salty water that flows north the University of Southampton use of results from several of They then overlaid these have focused their activities on Act 1997. be portrayed as a hero and his of 60 days with effect from July from the South Atlantic as part in Britain. AGENCIES the world’s top climate change changes spatially on the global Province 2 in view of the third This time Hafiz Saeed’s acts will be glorified. Abdul 28, 2017.” A Lahore High Court modelling groups, research- population, accounting for phase of local level elections house arrest has been extended Rehman Makki who is the bench headed by Justice Abdul ers said. both population growth and scheduled for September 18, under the Punjab Maintenance central leader of the JuD has Sami Khan, which was sched- “As climate change affects expected changes in suscepti- deploying top leaders to pre- of Public Order. been making preparations for uled to announce the verdict WORLD BRIEFS air pollutant concentrations, it bility to air pollution. pare the ground for the elec- In a notification issued on the purpose and has launched today on the detention of ter- can have a significant impact West and Silva found that tion, local media reported. July 28, Pakistan’s Punjab Gov- a secret campaign to muster rorist Hafiz Saeed and four oth- ‘23 CITIES BID FOR LONDON-BASED on health worldwide, adding to climate change is expected to The Madhes-based political ernment Home Department support,” the notification said. ers, deferred its verdict for an EU AGENCIES AFTER BREXIT’ the millions of people who die increase air pollution-related parties have also started their said on the recommendation It also said that the “liberty” indefinite period. AGENCIES from air pollution each year,” deaths globally and in all world electoral preparation in vari- BRUSSELS: Twenty-three European cities have offered said Jason West, who led the regions except for Africa. ous districts of the province No GEORGE, AMAL CLOONEY TO OPEN SCHOOLS themselves as candidates to host two London-based research at UNC-Chapel Hill Specifically, five out of eight 2 ahead of the third phase of EU agencies after they are forced to leave the British with former graduate student models predicted there will local polls. capital because of Brexit, the EU said on Tuesday. Raquel Silva. be more premature deaths in However, the newly-formed Nineteen cities have bid to host the European Medi- Hotter temperatures speed 2030, and seven of nine models Rastriya Janata Party Nepal cines Agency while eight have thrown their hats into the up the chemical reactions that in 2100. “Our finding that most has not yet decided whether to create air pollutants like ozone models show a likely increase take part in the polls or not as ring for the European Banking Authority, the European and fine particulate matter, in deaths is the clearest signal the party has stuck to its ear- Council said in a statement. which impact public health. yet that climate change will be lier demand of an amendment CHINA BANS ENTRY OF BUDDHIST SECT Locations that get drier may detrimental to air quality and to the Constitution to address also have worse air pollution health,” said West. AGENCIES their major demands. 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Whosoever this initiative,” the couple said in a joint statement AGENCIES finds it, kindly inform FACEBOOK POST ON DEAD GOAT me on 8650004561, DHAKA: Bangladesh police on Tuesday arrested a 8077660046 or courier journalist in the country’s south for allegedly defam- the document’s on above China building high-speed rail ing a minister in a Facebook post about a dead goat. mentioned address. Abdul Latif Morol, a reporter at a regional Bengali- language daily, was detained before dawn in the CHANGE OF NAME tunnel below Great Wall coastal town of Dumuria after a journalist from a rival I Arpita Deb Sareen D/o newspaper filed a case under a draconian inter- Sh Biswanath Deb and BEIJING: China is construct- pleted in 2019. Luo told the Global Times net law. “The complainant said Morol has defamed ing a 12-km-long high-speed The depth of the that the new technology will the state (junior) minister for fisheries and livestock, W/o Neeraj Sareen R/o train tunnel through one of the tunnel will range from four ensure that the Great Wall will 12, Poorvi Marg, Vasant Narayan Chandra Chanda, after he made a deroga- portions of its iconic Great Wall meters to 432 meters. not be affected by the blasts, as tory post about him in Facebook,” local police chief Vihar, New Delhi-57 to connect Zhangjiakou city Now, people are holding they will be barely felt. have changed my name which is due to co-host 2022 their breath on the completion “The new technology causes Sukumar Biswas said. from Arpita Sareen to winter Olympics along with of the tunnel while ensuring little damage to the geological 486 PEOPLE APPEAR IN COURT OVER Arpita Deb Sareen for all Beijing. that the Great Wall is not dam- environment, which will help purposes and both Arpita It took the Chinese engi- aged in the process, the Global protect the Great Wall,” Dai TURKEY COUP PLOT neers months to choreograph Times reported. Longzhen, deputy manager of ANKARA: A total of 486 people accused of be- Sareen and Arpita Deb the best intersection point. Luo Duhao, chief engi- the Beijing-Zhangjiakou High- Sareen are same person. In the end, the tunnel, deep neer of the Beijing-Zhangji- Speed Railway Line, told the ing involved in Turkey’s failed coup d’état last July below the Badaling section of akou High-Speed Railway Line, Global Times. appeared in a court here where their trial began on the Great Wall, passed experts’ being built by China Railway “I myself once stood on the Tuesday. According to the Anadolu news agency, most appraisal, state-run People’s Number 5 Engineering Group Great Wall and I could not feel defendants at the trial, the largest judicial process Daily reported. Co said the firm will employ the blast at all,” Dai added. of the case so far, are high-ranking military suspects The line is designed for “precision micro-blasting” Zhang Xuehua, a blast who led the failed coup from the Akinci air base in trains traveling up to 350 km technology, which has a veloc- expert at the construction per hour, which is expected ity of 0.2 cm per second and is site, told the People’s Daily the north-west of the Turkish capital. The prosecution to shorten the single-journey able to make the tremor weaker that the construction of accused the defendants of murder, violation of the time from more than 3 hours than the traditional firepower the tunnel has completed constitution and attempt to assassinate President Recep to approximately one hour. The blasts that have a velocity of 5 4,500 blasts since early Febru- Tayyip Erdogan, reports Efe news. line is estimated to be com- cm per second. ary this year. AGENCIES world 11 MILLENNIUM POST | Kolkata |Wednesday, 2 August, 2017 mp SPOTLIGHT ON Pak to hold polls for seat vacated by Shahid Abbasi elected Sharif next month

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will hold polling on September as interim Pakistan PM 17 for the Lahore Parliamen- tary seat in Punjab province ISLAMABAD: Shahid Khaqan PML-N National Assembly sition parties’ meeting failed to vacated by ousted Prime Min- Abbasi was on Tuesday elected members entered the House result in agreement over a joint ister Nawaz Sharif, election Prime Minister by Pakistan’s with posters of Sharif. The candidate. commission announced on National Assembly, becom- National Assembly Speaker Hours before the scheduled Tuesday. ing the interim leader of the objected to this and asked them National Assembly session, Sharif’s brother and Pun- country after Nawaz Sharif was to put away the placards and Muttahida Qaumi Movement jab province chief minis- disqualified by the Supreme posters. (MQM) announced to with- ter Shehbaz Sharif has been Court over the Panama Papers Abbasi will be sworn-in in draw its candidate Kishwar chosen by the PML-N party scandal. later at a special ceremony at Zehra in favour of Abbasi. The to contest from the NA-120 Abbasi got elected after get- the President’s House, where MQM’s 24 MPs backed Abbasi. constituency in Lahore, which ting 221 votes in the House of President Mamnoon Hussain Major political parties fell vacant after the Prime 342. Naveed Qamar of Paki- will administer the oath to him. fielded their respective candi- Minister was disqualified on stan Peoples Party (PPP) got The Supreme Court on Fri- dates for the premier’s post. November 28. 47 votes, Sheikh Rashid Ahmed day disqualified 67-year-old The National Assembly’s The Supreme Court last of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Prime Minister Sharif for dis- second biggest party in terms of week disqualified 67-year-old got 33 while Jamaat-e-Islami’s honesty and ruled that cor- numbers, the PPP, nominated Sharif for dishonesty and ruled Sahibzada Tariqullah managed ruption cases be filed against Opposition Leader Khursheed that corruption cases be filed just four votes. him and his children over the Shah and Qamar. However, at against him and his children Shahid Khaqan Abbasi After announcing the Panama Papers scandal, forcing the eleventh hour Shah with- over the Panama Papers scan- A snow leopard in the newly opened Himalayan landscape enclosure in the zoo in Leipzig, Germany, results amid sloganeering, him to resign. arrangements in the past too. drew from the election leav- dal, forcing him to resign. on Tuesday. The landscape with its sandy ground and boulders provides a perfect environment for the National Assembly Speaker The National Assembly, the During former military dic- ing Qamar as the sole PPP According to the Elec- endangered red panda and snow leopard DPA/PTI Ayaz Sadiq asked Abbasi to lower house of Parliament, was tator Gen Pervez Musharraf’s candidate. tion Commission of Pakistan take the seat of the prime min- summoned by President Hus- time, politician Chaudhry Shu- Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (ECP), candidates may submit ister and address the House. sain to elect the new leader. jaat Hussain was appointed as (PTI) fielded Rashid (33) as their nominations between The voting was done with Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim an interim prime minister until its nominee. Jamaat-e-Islami August 10 and 12. Maduro slams US Afghan official says explosion four corners being designated League-Nawaz (PML-N) nom- Shaukat Aziz, who was nomi- fielded Tariqullah as their Their applications will be for four candidates where inated Abbasi as interim Prime nated by Musharraf, got elected candidate for the new prime scrutinised between August sanctions against inside mosque kills 20 supporters of each candidate Minister until Sharif’s brother by the ruling Pakistan Mus- minister. 15- 17. Venezuela recorded their vote. Shehbaz is elected as a National lim League Quaid-e-Azam The PML-N party holds 188 The election in NA-120 will KABUL: An Afghan hospital official says an explo- After the voting and count- Assembly member. (PML-Q). seats in the 342-member Par- take place on September 17, the ing process, many of the Pakistan has seen such Earlier in the day, the oppo- liament. AGENCIES ECP said. AGENCIES CARACAS: Venezuelan Pres- sion inside a minority Shiite mosque in western ident Nicolas Maduro has Herat, on the border with Iran, has killed at least slammed sanctions imposed 20 people. The official, Dr Mohammed Rafique by the US government against Shehrzad, said 20 bodies were brought to his Main US Senator says Trump ready At least 34 killed the South American country Hospital in Herat city, the capital of western Herat for holding a controversial con- stitutional assembly election province tonight, soon after the blast shattered in Madagascar amid violent protests. the late Tuesday evening. Shiites are a minority in for war with North Korea “You’re with Trump or Afghanistan and have been threatened by the Is- you’re with Venezuela, you’re lamic State affiliate that operates in the country’s WASHINGTON: A Repub- bus crash with Trump or you’re with the east. No one immediately took responsibility for lican Senator said on Tues- democracy, you’re with Trump day that US President Donald ANTANANARIVO: At least it had accounted for 18 dead, or you’re with the free people of the attack on the Jawadia Mosque in Herat. AGENCIES Trump has told him he would 34 people died when a bus car- while a hospital in the town of the world, that’s the decision, go to war to destroy North rying young Christian wor- Ankazobe near the crash scene you’re with Trump or you’re Korea rather than allow it to shippers plunged down a steep reported four dead. Passengers with the free world,” Maduro Newborn falls off a moving bus develop a long-range nuclear- ravine in central Madagascar, on the packed bus were trav- said in a televised speech. armed missile. police and hospital officials said elling from the central town “They are the decisions ROME: A two-month-old Monday and which consumer Influential lawmaker Lind- on Tuesday. of Soavinandriana to a church that express their impotence, baby was taken to hospital in group Codacons decribed as sey Graham, a foreign policy Police said 12 badly burned meeting in the north-western their despair, their hatred. They a critical condition after he fell “extremely serious”. hawk, told NBC’s Today Show: bodies were counted at the site, coastal port city of Mahajanga express the character of the out of a moving bus north- Codacons’ president Carlo “There is a military option: 70 kilometres (45 miles) north when the accident happened. magnate, who is emperor of the east of Rome, when the vehi- Rienzi urged “an urgent and To destroy North Korea’s pro- of the capital Antananarivo. Madagascan roads are often US.” Maduro also responded cle’s doors suddenly opened, thorough investigation, espe- gramme and North Korea the regime and Washington is to try to hit America with an Hospitals said that 22 other poorly maintained, with over- to Washington’s threat to sus- reports said on Tuesday. cially of maintenance to its fleet itself.” Last week, North Korean growing frustrated. ICBM,” he said, describing his deaths had been confirmed loaded bus and trucks regularly pend the National Constituent The accident happened in carried out by bus company leader Kim Jong-Un boasted Graham said if diplomacy, discussions with Trump. after the late-night crash. involved in deadly accidents. Assembly (ANC), a body that the town of Guidonia when Cotral”. that his country could now and in particular pressure from “He’s told me that. I believe “The bus struggled to climb In January, 47 people, the President created to rewrite the baby’s pram slammed “Optimal safety on public strike any target in the United the North’s neighbour China, him. If I were China, I would a road on a hill and fell down a including 10 children and a the nation’s constitution, say- against the doors of the bus as transport must be guaranteed States after carrying out its lat- fails to halt the programme believe him, too, and do some- ravine about 20 metres deep,” newly wed couple, were killed ing: “I do not obey imperial the driver turned a corner, the — in the interests of passen- est intercontinental ballistic then the United States will have thing about it. You can stop police spokesman Herilalatiana when a truck carrying a wed- orders of foreign governments”. reports said. gers,” he said. missile test. no choice but to take devastat- North Korea, militarily or dip- Andrianarisaona said. ding party and guests crashed. “Trump is more disowned The infant was take to Police immediately World powers have been ing military action. “They’ve lomatically. I prefer the diplo- “It caught fire after roll- The vehicle was transport- in the US and in the world Rome’s Policlinico Hospital seized the bus and its docu- trying to stifle Pyongyang’s kicked the can down the road matic approach. But they will ing several times.” Photo- ing passengers the day after than (former US President) but is not in a critical condition. mentation, but said it was weapons programme through for 20 years. There will be a war not be allowed to have a missile graphs showed the white bus the wedding. Madagascar, a George W Bush,” the Venezu- Police are probing the correctly insured and its paper- United Nations-backed sanc- with North Korea over the mis- to hit America with a nuclear upside down and badly dam- French colony until indepen- elan leader said. AGENCIES incident, which happened on work was in order. AGENCIES tions, but have failed to daunt sile program if they continue weapon on top.” AGENCIES aged, surrounded by burnt dence in 1960, is one of the undergrowth. world’s poorest countries and China opens first The main hospital in Anta- relies heavily on international Won’t allow anyone to nanarivo said in a statement donors. AGENCIES US begins Russia drawdown after overseas base in Kremlin retaliates for sanctions split Chinese territory: Xi Africa: Reports MOSCOW: The United States BEIJING: Chinese President ist forces in Hong Kong and BEIJING: China has officially began removing furniture and Xi Jinping on Tuesday said Macau. China is locked in a opened its first overseas naval equipment from a diplomatic China cannot let a single piece number of territorial disputes base in Djibouti, state media property in Moscow on Tues- of its territory split and won’t — both on waters and land — said on Tuesday, a major step day in the first sign of com- allow anyone to damage its with various countries. for the country’s expansion of pliance with a Kremlin order sovereignty. It has, however, settled its military presence abroad. to slash its presence in Rus- Speaking at the Great Hall its land disputes with all 14 Chinese military personnel, sia as retaliation for new US of the People here on the 90th but two countries: India and officials and guests attended sanctions. anniversary of the People’s Lib- Bhutan. a flag-raising ceremony and President Vladimir Putin eration Army (PLA), Xi asked China claims India’s military parade to mark the has ordered the United States the military to always remain Arunachal Pradesh as its own occasion, the official Xinhua to cut around 60 percent of its combat ready. and calls it South Tibet. India news agency reported. diplomatic staff in Russia by He said the Chinese Army lays claims to Aksai Chin in the The event was timed to September 1, and said Mos- would never be an aggressor western sector, which is under coincide with the celebration cow will seize two US diplo- The dacha, which is being Kremlin said no one had but had the “confidence to Chinese control. of the 90th anniversary of the matic properties in response confiscated along with a US obstructed US employees try- defeat all invasions”. The decades-old feud establishment of China’s mili- to sanctions approved by Con- warehouse in the south of the ing to access the property. “We do not allow any indi- between India and China has tary, the People’s Liberation gress last week. Russian capital, was used by US Putin said on Sunday Rus- vidual, any organisation, any a new addition: Doklam in Army, on August 1. Officers The White House has said diplomatic staff at the week- sia had ordered the United political party, at any time or the Sikkim section where both and troops paraded for an US President Donald Trump ends and to host parties for States to cut 755 of its 1,200 by any means to split any single armies have been engaged in a audience that included Dji- will sign the sanctions bill, students, journalists and other diplomatic staff in its embassy piece of Chinese territory,” said stand-off. bouti’s defence minister, Xin- meant as a response to alleged diplomats. and consular operations, Xi, who commands the world’s Doklam is disputed hua said. Russian meddling in the 2016 The removal men said they though many of those let go largest standing army. between China and Bhutan, The logistics base is the US presidential election and arrived at around 7 AM and will be Russian citizens, with “No one can expect us to whose ally India backs Bhutan first of its kind for Beijing, to further punish Moscow for were seen packing furniture, the United States allowed to swallow consequences that in its claims over the region. which will use it to support its 2014 annexation of Crimea including beds and lamps, choose who leaves. damage our sovereignty, secu- At the tri-junction China, “naval escorts in Africa and from Ukraine. into three white removal vans The ultimatum issued by rity, and developmental inter- India, and Bhutan, Doklam is southwest Asia, (UN) peace- Today, removal men began before leaving the property the Russian leader is a display ests,” he said. of strategic importance to all keeping and for humanitarian dismantling play equipment three hours later. to voters at home that he is On Sunday, addressing the three. support,” according to a pre- and barbecues at a US-owned Deputy Foreign Minis- prepared to stand up to Wash- Chinese Army in Inner Mon- Beijing wants New vious China defence ministry dacha (country villa) on the ter Sergei Ryabkov said US ington — but is also carefully golia during a parade, Xi said Delhi to withdraw troops statement. outskirts of Moscow, after staff had to leave the dacha calibrated to avoid directly the PLA was capable of defeat- from Doklam. New Delhi is China sent its first deploy- being refused access the day and warehouse by midday on affecting the US investment he ing invading enemies. for a simultaneous pullback ment of troops to the facility before, according to sources at Tuesday, TASS news agency needs, or burning his bridges Xi said the PLA had done of both Indian and Chinese on July 11, marking the occa- the scene. reported. Ryabkov and the with Trump. AGENCIES its duty to counter secession- troops. AGENCIES sion with a ceremony in the southern province of Guang- dong. China has described the base as “defensive in nature”, Fears of aggression after Russia military drills near Nato post saying it will provide support for naval escorts, UN peace- WASHINGTON: Russia is the collapse of the Soviet Union the maneuvers could be used keeping, anti-piracy and preparing to send as many as that so much offensive power as a pretext to increase Russia’s evacuating Chinese nation- 100,000 troops to the eastern has been concentrated in a sin- military presence in Belarus, a als from the region in case of edge of Nato territory at the gle command. central European nation that emergency. end of the summer, one of the The military exercise, borders three critical Nato The Chinese navy has long biggest steps yet in the military planned for many months, is allies: Poland, Lithuania and assisted anti-piracy missions buildup undertaken by Pres- not a reaction to sweeping new Latvia. in the Gulf of Aden, as well ident Vladimir Putin and an economic sanctions on Russia “The great concern is they’re as UN peacekeeping efforts exercise in intimidation that that Congress passed last week. not going to leave, and that’s throughout Africa. China recalls the most ominous days So far, Russia has retaliated not paranoia,” General Tony started building the base in of the Cold War. against the sanctions by forcing Thomas, the head of the US Spe- February 2016 in the entrepot The troops are conducting the expulsion of several hun- cial Operations Command, told on the Horn of Africa, where military maneuvers known as dred employees in US diplo- a national security conference in it will be stationed just a few Zapad, Russian for “west,” in matic posts in the country. tion in support of the Trump Punishing sanctions by the Aspen, Colorado, in July. Peter miles from Camp Lemonnier, Belarus, the Baltic Sea, western But the move is part of a campaign, which has seized United States and European Zwack, a retired one-star Army the United States’ only perma- Russia and the Russian enclave larger effort by Putin to shore attention in the United States, allies that have isolated Russia general who was the US defense nent base in Africa. of Kaliningrad. The drills will up Russia’s military prowess, its military has in recent years further have done nothing to attache in Moscow from 2012 Beijing has made exten- feature a reconstituted armored and comes against the back- deployed forces to Syria, seized stop Putin’s saber-rattling, as to 2014, said: “First and fore- sive infrastructure investments force named for a storied Soviet drop of an increasingly asser- Crimea and intervened in east- illustrated by the long-sched- most, the messaging is, ‘We’re throughout the African conti- military unit, the First Guards tive Russia. ern Ukraine, rattled the Baltic uled Zapad exercise. watching you; we’re strong; nent as it seeks to gain access Tank Army. Its establishment Beyond Russia’s interference States with snap exercises and Even more worrying, top we’ve learned a lot; don’t mess to natural resources and new represents the first time since in the 2016 presidential elec- buzzed Nato planes and ships. US military officers say, is that with Russia’.” AGENCIES markets. AGENCIES 12 business mp MILLENNIUM POST | Kolkata | Wednesday, 2 August, 2017 Aadhaar exposed: FIR against Medical devices must carry owner of unauthorised app

NEW DELHI: The UIDAI has MRP on packs from January 1 recently filed an FIR in Benga- luru against an individual for allegedly offering "unauthor- Centre has also ordered companies to print 'Best before' on pre-packaged food ised" Aadhaar-related services via an app but the case does NEW DELHI: Medical devices if a package contains a com- not involve breach of privacy will have to mandatorily carry modity that may become unfit or hacking of authority's own maximum retail price (MRP) for human consumption after database, CEO Ajay Bhushan on packages from January 1, a period of time. Pandey said. 2018, the government informed It also said “nothing in this The said app - against which Parliament on Tuesday. clause shall apply if a provision action was initiated by the Minister of State for Road in this regard is made in any Unique Identification Authority Transport and Highways, Ship- other law”. of India or UIDAI - was provid- ping and Chemicals and Fer- A circular was also issued ing Aadhaar verification to res- tilisers Mansukh L Mandaviya on June 23, the minister said. idents based on their consent, said in a written reply in the On e-coding , Chaudhary although it was not authorised Lok Sabha that the move fol- said this facility is “optional and to do so, Pandey said. lowed amendments to the Legal not mandatory” for the indus- The chief of the Aadhaar- UIDAI has cautioned citizens not to Metrology (Packaged Com- tries. This is proposed to be issuing body said UIDAI's modities) Rules, 2011. given to the industries to ensure enquiry revealed that the app disclose their Aadhaar number to any He said the consumer the commodity is correct in was being used by residents unknown websites, apps or over phone affairs, food and public dis- quantity and declarations. to download their own demo- tribution ministry has issued On declarations on items graphic data after they gave "The UIDAI has carefully been given by UIDAI through amendments making the rules sold via e-commerce platforms, a consent through an OTP gone into the matter and would this app," he said. "applicable to medical devices the minister said the e-com- received on their mobiles, like to inform and reassure pub- Pandey said that an FIR has also". merce companies are required linked to the 12 digit biomet- lic that there is no breach of any been filed in Bengaluru recently "The rules make printing to ensure mandatory declara- ric identity number. Aadhaar data and compromise against the owner of the "unau- and labelling of MRP on the tions -- name, address of manu- "In other words, residents of individual s privacy and secu- thorised" app. package mandatory. These facturer or packer or importer, were downloading their own rity in this case," he said. UIDAI has also asked users rules shall be applicable from telephone number, e-mail of These devices included shelf life. name of the commodity, net demographic data such as Although the residents were not to disclose their Aadhaar 1.1.2018," Mandaviya said. persons or of office that can be heart valves, surgical dress- A new provision in this quantity and MRP and con- name, address, gender etc. downloading their own demo- number to any unknown web- He was responding to a contacted in case of consumer ings, condoms, stents, dispos- regard has been inserted in the sumer care details. through this app...no one could graphic data, action was initi- sites, apps, or over phone. query on whether any guideline complaints. able hypodermic syringes and Legal Metrology (Packaged He also said the font size of get data of any other person ated by the authority against the "Residents should share or was likely to be issued or has "The amended rules shall be orthopaedic implants, among Commodities) Rules, 2011, numerals printed on pre- pack- through this app," Pandey said owner of the app as it was "not provide their Aadhaar num- been issued by the ministry for applicable to e-commerce com- others. Minister of State for Consumer aged commodities has been in an emailed statement. authorised" to provide such ser- bers only to official govern- medical devices to declare MRP. panies also," he said. Meanwhile on Tuesday, gov- Affairs C R Chaudhary said in a increased and this will come Stating that Aadhaar data vices to people in the first place. ment sites, authorised agencies, The minister further said In March, drug price regu- ernment informed Parliament written reply to the Lok Sabha. into force from January 1, 2018. "remains fully safe and secure", "Such acts are criminal banks, and telecom companies that under the Legal Metrol- lator NPPA had stated that the that companies have to print According to the new rule, Those violating these rules Pandey refuted reports that offence, and punishable under and other service providers after ogy (Packaged Commodities) 22 medical devices which have ‘Best before’ or ‘Use by the date’ the ‘best before or use by the will be liable to face penalty there had been any leak and Aadhaar Act. It is further reiter- doing due-diligence and veri- Rules, 2011, every package been notified as 'drugs' must all on a label of pre-packaged food date, month and year’ should under the Legal Metrology Act, unauthorised access of Aadhaar ated that data of not even a sin- fying the authenticity of such must bear the name, address, carry MRP on packs. items that have potential short also be mentioned on the label 2009, he added. PTI data through the app. gle non-consenting resident has sites," Pandey added. PTI India and Egypt Banks restructure `2.05 Tata Steel discuss way to Monetary policy panel starts two-day completes sale expand trade ties meet, to announce interest rates today lakh cr corp loans in FY17 of Submerged CAIRO: India and Egypt on MUMBAI: The 6-member had said the "paradigm shift" bers, Ravindra Dholakia, how- NEW DELHI: The amount of Arc Weld in UK Tuesday discussed opportuni- Monetary Policy Committee in inflationary process has been ever, had advocated a 50 basis corporate loans restructured NEW DELHI: Tata Steel on ties to expand cooperation in (MPC) headed by RBI Gov- missed by all, who have made point cut in the repo rate, say- by lenders has seen a decline Tuesday said it has completed key areas such as trade and reaf- ernor Urjit Patel on Tuesday "systematic inflation forecast ing several noteworthy devel- in the last three financial years, sale of its Submerged Arc Weld firmed that bilateral relations started two-day deliberations error", apparently referring to opments recently on prices and according to the data tabled by (SAW) mills at Hartlepool in the were "very strong" and wide in amid expectations of at least the RBI. In the last MPC, Patel output fronts warrant a decisive Finance Minister Arun Jaitley UK to Liberty House Group. scope having great potential for 0.25 per cent cut in the key lend- had argued for avoiding "prema- policy action. In a significant in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday. Last month Tata Steel had expansion. ing rate as inflation has cooled The resolution of the MPC will ture policy action" and waiting move, country's largest lender Banks restructured loans, announced it has signed defin- "Last year, India and Egypt to record low levels. be placed on the website at 2.30 for more inflation data. and market leader SBI had on that were sanctioned to compa- itive agreement with Liberty had concluded a G to G (gov- The meeting's outcome on pm on August 2, 2017," the cen- "Incoming data is expected Monday reduced interest rate nies, of worth Rs 3,70,279 crore section 45E of RBI Act, 1934 House Group to sell its Sub- ernment to government) agree- Wednesday is being keenly tral bank had said last month. to provide greater clarity on the on savings bank deposits by in FY2014-15 and Rs 2,99,111 and banking laws. merged Arc Weld (SAW) mills ment for supply of rice to Egypt awaited by all stakeholders Commenting on the retail durability of recent food and 50 basis points, a development crore in 2015-16. "... which (the Act and bank- at Hartlepool in the UK for an at a friendship price," India's including industry and stock inflation data, Chief Economic non-food disinflation," he had which will have implications of The amount of restructured ing laws) oblige financial institu- undisclosed sum. In a BSE fil- Ambassador to Egypt Sanjay markets. Encouraged by signifi- Advisor Arvind Subramanian opined. One of the MPC mem- the interest rate regime. PTI corporate loans came down to tions to maintain secrecy about ing, Tata Steel said, “it has com- Bhattacharyya said. cant price improvement, bank- Rs 2,04,884 crore in the last the affairs of their constituents." pleted the sale of its 42 and 84 Bhattacharyya on Tuesday ers expect Reserve Bank of India financial year, as per the data. On provision for restruc- inch pipe mills in Hartlepool met with Egyptian Minister for to change its monetary stance Indices at new peak; all eyes on RBI The finance minister was turing of farm loans in case Liberty House Group”. The sale Supply and Internal Trade Sup- and cut benchmark lending rate responding to a question seek- of natural calamities, he said covers the 42 and 84-inch pipe ply Ali El Moselhy to discuss by at least 0.25 per cent. MUMBAI: Setting new records per cent. It surpassed its previ- as new orders and output ing names of companies whose banks can facilitate restructur- mills, also known as the SAW opportunities for expansion of Some expect that the central for the second day, the bench- ous record of 32,514.94 reached dropped for the first time since loans have been restructured ing, including conversion of mills, where about 140 employ- bilateral cooperation. bank may go for an even more mark Sensex on Tuesday on Monday. the downturn in December last and at what terms. short-term debt to term loan or ees manufacture pipeline for During the meeting, the aggressive rate cut as the retail closed at 32,575 and the Nifty The gauge had risen 205.06 year post demonetisation. "Any restructuring is to be re-schedulement or repayment gas and oil projects around the Egyptian minister recalled inflation touched historic low at 10,115 as investors wait for points in the previous session. The Nikkei India Manufac- carried out in accordance with time-frame to such borrowers world, the company said. Tata "India's great assistance" on of 1.54 per cent in June. The the outcome of the RBI policy The NSE Nifty closed at turing Purchasing Managers' detailed guidelines issued by with benefit of retention of asset Steel, however, said it would that occasion and noted that panel, in its previous bi-monthly meet on Wednesday amid cor- 10,114.65 – a new peak -- up Index (PMI) stood at 47.9 in RBI on restructuring like Joint classification. retain its 20-inch tube mill at the "bilateral relations were very review in June, had retained the porate earnings momentum. 37.55 points, or 0.37 per cent. July, down from 50.9 in June, Lenders' Forum (JLF), Strategic "For agricultural accounts the same Hartlepool site, where strong and wide in scope with repo rate at 6.25 per cent for the Improving monthly sales It broke previous record clos- its lowest mark since Febru- Debt Restructuring (SDR) and that became impaired on a further 270 people work. great potential for expansion", fourth straight time citing risk numbers from automakers and ing of 10,077.10 hit on Monday. ary 2009. Scheme for Sustainable Struc- account of reasons other than Earlier in February, Tata the Indian envoy said. Bhat- to inflation. a firming trend in global mar- What kept the gains in "Market started range- turing of Stressed Assets (S4A)," natural calamities, restructur- Steel had announced signing tacharyya said the economic sit- "The MPC will meet on kets fuelled the rally. check was findings of a private bound due to weak manufac- Jaitley said. ing is allowed in terms of RBI a definitive agreement to sell uation in the two countries have August 1 and 2, 2017 for the The Sensex settled at yet survey which showed that man- turing data and caution ahead The finance minister further guidelines on Income Recog- Speciality Steel business in the similarities with need to address Third Bi-monthly Monetary another new high of 32,575.17 ufacturing sector contracted in of the RBI monetary policy on said that "the names and details nition and Asset Classification UK to Liberty House Group for requirements of the poor. PTI Policy Statement for 2017-18. by surging 60.23 points, or 0.19 July following the GST launch Wednesday. PTI of borrowers are covered under (IRAC)," Jaitley said. PTI about Rs 840 crore. PTI Flipkart completes Google India announces Made in India initiative P C Jewellers Q1 net glows BENGALURU: Google India to help developers create the 27.42% as sales glitter on Tuesday announced its best quality Android apps that eBay India merger 'Made in India' initiative while are locally relevant. NEW DELHI: P C Jewellers on from Rs 1,049.79 crore, while reaffirming its commitment to Pointing out that the major- Tuesday posted 27.42 per cent income from exports improved NEW DELHI: E-commerce help developers find success by ity of Indian internet users are jump in standalone net profit to Rs 735.99 crore from Rs major Flipkart on Tuesday said building high quality products going online primarily via their at Rs 135.83 crore for quarter 614.68 crore in the said period. it has completed the merger "for India by India". smartphones and this num- ended June 30 on strong sales. The company's expenses, with eBay India's operations. The company said that ber is growing at a phenom- Net profit stood at Rs however, remained higher at With this, eBay.in will now starting now, Indian developers enal rate, Google in a release 106.59 crore in the same quar- Rs 1,949.89 crore during the be a Flipkart Group company. can apply for a chance to have ful, locally relevant businesses," the amazing new experiences said there are now more people ter of 2016-17 fiscal, it said in period under review as against The deal was announced in directly benefits Indian cus- apps specifically optimized for Purnima Kochikar, Director, our developers are creating," using Android devices in India a BSE filing. Rs 1,527.42 crore in June quar- April when the Flipkart group tomers and sellers for whom the Indian market showcased Business Development, Games she added. than in the US. Net income grew 27.79 per ter last fiscal. raised $1.4 billion from global we want to provide the best on the Google Play store in & Applications, Google Play At its first ever App People in India install more cent to Rs 2,140.03 crore in In the filing, the company technology majors eBay, Ten- possible e- commerce experi- India in a special section. said. Excellence Summit here on than a billion apps every month April-June quarter of 2017-18 informed that it would grant cent and Microsoft. ence. This is a step in that direc- "At Google Play, we are "A lot of what we do at Tuesday,Google said it has from Google Play, it said, add- fiscal from Rs 1,674.60 crore one lakh stock option to eli- In exchange of an equity tion," Flipkart CEO Kalyan committed to helping Indian Google Play is support devel- brought together over 700 ing that the number of apps in the year-ago period. gible employees of the subsid- stake in Flipkart, eBay had made Krishnamurthy said. PT developers of all sizes seize this opers' imaginations and make Indian app and games devel- installed in India has grown by Revenue from domestic iary firm at Rs 10 per share as a cash investment of $500 mil- opportunity and build success- Android consumers aware of opers and shared tips and tools 150 per cent each year. PTI sales rose to Rs 1,382.55 crore per the 2011 plan. PTI lion and sold its eBay.in busi- ness to Flipkart. SoftBank The announcement comes a day after smaller rival Snapdeal may invest Sitharaman holds talks on growing trade deficit with China said it was terminating all dis- cussions of a potential merger. $2 billion BEIJING: Commerce Minister on Tuesday. conduct it in a prudent manner ernment is trying to protect While Snapdeal did not Nirmala Sitharaman has held "In particular, Minister Sith- and as per relevant rules. domestic industries from over- name Flipkart, it had been in Flipkart "candid" talks with her Chi- araman sought the assistance of Wang said adopting restric- seas competition through trade widely reported that both were nese counterpart Zhong Shan Chinese Ministry of Commerce tive measures for the trade of remedy measures, but although negotiating a merger for the last NEW DELHI: Japa- over the ballooning trade defi- in reducing the trade deficit, photovoltaic products would this strategy offers certain short- five months. nese conglomerate cit in favour of China which facilitating greater market access not only harm photovoltaic sec- term benefits, it will eventually "Effective immediately, SoftBank is looking has crossed over $52 billion and and for providing a level play- tor development in India, but hinder India's industrial devel- Flipkart will own and oper- sought a level playing field for ing field for Indian IT, pharma- also dampen the sector's long- opment, the article said. ate eBay.in, which will remain at investing about Indian IT and agro products. ceuticals and agro products in term development worldwide India has initiated 12 inves- an independent entity as part $2 billion in Flip- India's trade deficit with China," it said. as well as economic and trade tigations against Chinese prod- of Flipkart," Flipkart said in a kart, according to China in 2015-16 swelled to The meeting between the cooperation between China ucts in the first half of this year, statement. Besides, the compa- industry sources. $52.68 billion, which Indian Minister of State for Commerce and India. becoming the country with nies will also partner to leverage SoftBank, through officials say has become unsus- and Industry and Zhong was Meanwhile, coinciding with the most trade remedy probes opportunities in cross-border tainable. Besides pressing for the second after their meeting Sitharamans's visit, an article against China, it said. trade, it added. SoftBank Vision access to IT and pharma prod- on the sidelines of the Regional (JEG) in New Delhi at the ear- Ministry said India should avoid in Tuesday's state-run 'Global During the period, 11 inves- "As a result, Flipkart custom- Fund, is in discus- ucts, the main stay of India's Comprehensive Economic Part- liest. A host of BRICS minis- abusing trade remedy measures Times' said protectionism tigations were launched by ers will get expanded product sions with Flipkart global exports, India has been nership (RCEP) Ministerial terial and officials meeting on and called for settling trade dis- against Chinese manufactured the US, it said, quoting Chi- choices with the wide array of to invest between insisting that China should meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam in various fields were being held in putes through consultation. products will only boomerang na's Ministry of Commerce global inventory available on $1.5-2 billion, two compensate by stepping up May 2017. China ahead of the five- nation Reacting to India's move to on the Indian industry. (MOFCOM). eBay while eBay customers will investments. The ministers also agreed to grouping's summit to be held in launch an anti-dumping inves- The list of Chinese prod- "There are other explana- have access to a more unique people aware of the "The two Ministersfurther intensify India- China September this year in the Chi- tigation over photovoltaic cells ucts covered by India's trade tions behind the intensified Indian inventory from Flipkart development said. exchanged views, in a candid cooperation in the multilateral nese city of Xiamen. and units imported from China, remedy investigations is get- trade conflicts between India sellers," the statement said. It was also reported manner, on further develop- frameworks such as WTO, The meetings were taking Taiwan and Malaysia, Wang ting ever longer, expanding and China. After years of devel- The partnership will, there- that SoftBank was ment of a strong, balanced and BRICS and Shanghai Cooper- place as per schedule despite the Hejun, head of the Commerce from garments, glass, miner- opment, India's industries have fore, provide an opportunity to looking at picking up sustainable trade and invest- ation Organisation (SCO), the India-China tensions over the Ministry's trade remedy and als and other low-end items to made progress, and many com- sellers on Flipkart's platform to ment partnership between India statement said. standoff at Doklam in the Sik- investigation bureau said China advanced products such as new panies in India now produce expand their sales globally. equity in Flipkart. PTI and China," Indian Consulate They decided to hold the kim section. Ahead of Sithara- was paying close attention to materials and machinery, it said. items that could compete with "Our coming together in Shanghai said in a statement 11th Joint Economic Group man's visit, China's Commerce the probe and hopes India will It seems that the Indian gov- those from China," it said. PTI business 13 MILLENNIUM POST | Kolkata | Wednesday, 2 August, 2017 mp India, China home to 39% Manufacturing dips for first time in 2017 on GST worries NEW DELHI: Manufactur- young Internet users: UN ing sector in India contracted India Manufacturing PMI in July following the GST 50 = No Change on Previous Month (Seasonally Adjusted ) UNITED NATIONS: India subscriptions at 10 Mbit/s or launch as new orders and out- 54 and China are home to 39 per above in the developing world, 7 N-E states’ put dropped for the first time cent of the 830 million young the report said. since the downturn in Decem- 53

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49.6 Information and Communi- ing countries. Ministry on Tuesday said infor- turing Purchasing Managers' 48 cation Technologies (ICTs), While the Internet user mation technology systems of Index (PMI) stood at 47.9 in 47.9 PMI: Purchasing Managers' Index shows that of the 830 million gender gap has narrowed in treasuries of seven north eastern July, down from 50.9 in June, 47 young people online world- most regions since 2013, the states have been integrated with its lowest mark since February July AugSep OctNov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun July wide, 320 million, or 39 per proportion of men using the the Centre's Public Financial 2009, and highlighted the first 2016 2017 cent, are in China and India. Internet remains slightly higher Management System (PFMS). deterioration in business con- Sources: Nikkei, IHS Markit KBK Infographics The ITU's ICT Facts and than the proportion of women Finance Secretary Ashok ditions in 2017 so far. A figure Figures 2017 also shows a sig- using the Internet in two-thirds Lavasa recently reviewed initia- above 50 denotes expansion demand, relatively muted cost Going forward, Lima said, nificant increase in broadband of countries worldwide. tives in the area of public expen- while any reading below this inflationary pressures and dis- upcoming PMI releases will access and subscriptions with In 2017, the global Internet diture management in North level means contraction. counted factory gate charges show whether underlying con- China leading the way. ing lives, as it opens the door tions per 100 inhabitants in penetration rate for men stands Eastern (NE) states. "To provide "Manufacturing growth provide powerful tools for ditions remain on the down- The ICT data shows that to unprecedented knowl- LDCs is the lowest globally at at 50.9 per cent compared to the Centre and State govern- in India came to a halt in July monetary policy easing, which side or if July's contraction was youths (15-24 years old) are edge, employment and finan- 23 per cent. 44.9 per cent for women. ments with a real time, reliable with the PMI down to its low- has the potential to revive eco- a temporary blip. at the forefront of Internet cial opportunities for billions The number of fixed- International Internet and meaningful management est mark in almost eight-and- nomic growth," Lima said. Panelists said lack of clar- adoption. In Least Developed of people worldwide," said broadband subscriptions has bandwidth grew by 32 per cent information system...the IT sys- a- half years amid widespread In the monetary policy ity regarding tax rates caused Countries (LDCs), up to 35 per ITU Secretary-General Hou- increased by 9 per cent annu- between 2015 and 2016, with tems of all North Eastern States' reports that the sector has been review on June 7, the RBI left confusion among suppliers and cent of individuals using the lin Zhao. ally in the last five years with Africa registering an increase of treasuries (namely, Arunachal adversely affected by the imple- key rates unchanged, with Gov- manufacturers themselves. Internet are aged 15-24, com- The report adds that mobile up to 330 million subscrip- 72 per cent during this period, Pradesh, Manipur, Mizoram, mentation of the Goods and ernor Urjit Patel noting that The 12-month outlook for pared with 13 per cent in devel- broadband subscriptions have tions added. There has been the highest of all regions. Assam, Meghalaya, Sikkim, and Services Tax (GST)," said Polly- the central bank wanted to be output remained positive in oped countries and 23 per cent grown more than 20 per cent an increase in high-speed fixed Global telecommunication Tripura) except Nagaland, have anna De Lima, Principal Econ- more sure that inflation will July, with companies expect- globally. annually in the last five years broadband subscriptions paral- revenues declined by 4 per cent been integrated with PFMS," a omist at IHS Markit and author stay subdued. ing more clarity about GST to "ITU's ICT Facts and Fig- and are expected to reach 4.3 lel to the growth in the number from $2.0 trillion in 2014 to ministry statement said. of the report. Discouraged by the down- support growth. ures 2017 shows that great billion globally by the end of of fibre connections. $1.9 trillion in 2015. The PFMS, also known as The GST launch, the sur- turn in factory orders, com- However, foreign demand strides are being made in 2017. Most of the increase in Developing countries, Central Plan Scheme Moni- vey noted, affected demand. panies lowered production in for India-manufactured goods expanding Internet access Between 2012 and 2017, high-speed fixed broadband which are home to 83 per cent toring System, tracks fund dis- The reductions in output, new July. The fall ended a six-month improved in July as new export through the increased avail- LDCs saw the highest growth- subscriptions in developing of the global population, gen- bursement and ensures that state orders and purchasing activ- sequence of growth, and the orders continued to rise. That ability of broadband net- rate of mobile broadband sub- countries can be attributed to erate 39 per cent of the world's treasuries are integrated with the ity were all the steepest since rate of reduction was the most said, the rate of expansion soft- works. Digital connectivity scriptions. Despite this, the China, which accounts for 80 telecommunication revenues, Centre to ensure money is send early 2009. pronounced since the global ened from June's eight-month plays a critical role in better- number of mobile subscrip- per cent of all fixed-broadband it said. PTI as and when required. PTI "The weakening trend for financial crisis. high, the survey stated. PTI Direct tax collections till DCM Shriram’s Jio ripple effect: More cos plan 4G feature phone in 2017 June quarter mid-July expand by 21% NEW DELHI: More mobile chipset. Another mobile phone When asked about the price He said the Spreadtrum phone companies are gear- firm Intex has plans to launch point at which other players will chipset for 4G feature phone profit up 39.65% NEW DELHI: The govern- of economic or commercial ing up to launch affordable 4G feature phone for Rs 1,999 sell their 4G feature phones, comes with 1.2GHz dual-core ment has collected over Rs activities. 4G feature phone by the year- by end of this month but it will Sharma said that cannot be esti- processor, 3D graphics support, NEW DELHI: DCM Shriram 1.80 lakh crore in direct tax till He said the government end, anticipating a pick-up in use Mediatek chipset. mated at present because it will up to 5 megapixel of front and on Tuesday posted 39.65 per July 15 in the current fiscal, an has taken several initiatives to demand following Jio's foray "In India, still a large popu- depend on marketing strategy rear camera and 16 gigabyte of cent increase in consolidated increase of 21.4 pre cent year- boost economic activity in the into the space, a top official of lation is using feature phones of the companies. internal storage. net profit at Rs 233.47 crore for on-year, "belying" fears of slow- country and several measures 4G chipset firm Spreadtrum which are primarily on 2G. He, however, said the bill of Indian Cellular Associa- quarter ended June 30. down in economic activities. were announced in the Budget said. With the arrival of Reliance material or total cost of compo- tion National President Pankaj Net profit stood at Rs "The current growth rate is 2017-18. "We are in talks with four- (Jio) which is a greenfield LTE nents that will be used for mak- Mohindroo said there are about 167.18 crore in the same quar- higher than the target rate of Replying to another ques- five players for launching only network, it makes sense for ing the 4G feature phone will be 450-500 million feature phone ter last year, the company said 15.32 required to achieve the tion, Gangwar said the num- phones (on Spreadtrum chip- companies to launch 4G feature in the range of Rs $20-30 (about users in India with 130-140 mil- in a BSE filing. Budget Estimate," Minister ber of cyber crimes pertaining set). We expect they will be phone as there will be custom- Rs 1,200-2,000) per unit. lion feature phones getting sold Net income rose 35.41 per of State for Finance Santosh to credit card, ATM, debit card launching in the fourth quar- ers who are feature phone users Mukesh Ambani recently "We are working with Reli- every year. cent to Rs 2,065.03 crore during Kumar Gangwar said in a writ- and internet banking shows a ter," Spreadtrum Communi- but would like to use Reliance as launched JioPhone, a 4G fea- ance Jio as technology partner. "In urban centres, 2G is June quarter of 2017-18 fiscal ten reply in the Rajya Sabha. marginal increase of 4.4 per cations Country Head Neeraj their preferred choice of opera- ture phone at a one-time fully They have announced that highly spectrum inefficient. from Rs 1,524.96 crore in the The government aims cent from 13,083 in 2014-15 to Sharma said. tor," Sharma said. refundable deposit of Rs 1,500 JioPhone will have Wi-Fi and at This phenomenon (launch same period last year. to collect Rs 9.8 lakh crore 13,653 in 2016-17. The company is also one of Industry sources, who did per unit. the end of the year it will also of 4G feature phones) will be Revenue from sugar busi- through direct taxes in 2017-18. He said the Reserve Bank the suppliers of chipsets for Jio- not wish to be identified, said Jio is slated to beta-test the come with NFC (near-field good in urban area but Rs 1,500 ness rose to Rs 659.79 crore The minister further said has mandated banks to put in Phone, a 4G feature phone by while some JioPhones will have low-cost phone from August communications). The final is very expensive for bottom of from Rs 551.99 crore, while the current growth rate in place a board approved cyber- Reliance Jio. chipset from Qualcomm, oth- 15. The booking will start from price will depend on compa- the pyramid. The package (in that of from chloro-vinyl direct tax collections is "quite security policy, which covers Home-grown mobile firm ers will come with Spreadtrum September 24 online as well as nies' decision if they are willing case of Jio) is very attractive so improved to Rs 501.39 crore healthy, belying any apprehen- the risks threats and the mea- Lava has already launched a 4G chipsets. through Reliance Retail and to add these features," Sharma some of the them may like to from Rs 371.99 crore in the said sion of reduction" in the level sures to address these risks. PTI feature phone using Spreadtrum RIL Chairman and MD Jio stores. said. experiment with it," he said. PTI period. PTI STEELING THE ECONOMY Wipro launches Silicon Taparia Tools Ratish Kumar takes additional organises charge as CMD of NHPC Valley Innovation Center retailers’ BENGALURU: IT major will also serve as a value creator FARIDABAD: Pursuant to Wipro on Tuesday announced for technology start-ups, small get-together the order of Ministry of Power, the launch of a multi-million and medium enterprises and Government of India, Ratish dollar Silicon Valley Innova- entrepreneurs, enabling them COIMBATORE: Taparia Tools Kumar, Director (Projects), tion Center in Mountain View, to showcase and integrate their Ltd had organised a Retailers NHPC has taken additional California. technology capabilities with that Get Together Meet at Hotel charge of the post of Chairman This state-of-the-art R&D of Wipro and participate in the Vijay Park Inn in Coimbatore & Managing Director of NHPC and incubation hub is designed larger innovation ecosystem, whereby they displayed their Limited on August 1. to develop and showcase next- it added. various product ranges. Born on December 8, 1960, generation technologies and "Wipro is committed to B Pillai from Taparia Tools Ratish Kumar holds B.Tech solutions for enterprises, the working more closely with start- was present for the event. degree in Electrical Engineer- company said in a release. ups, academia and leading tech- Taparia Tools started manu- ing from G. B. Pant University Pointing out that Wipro has nology companies in the Bay facturing Hand Tools in India of Agriculture and Technology, been making investments in area to help our clients achieve in 1969. Pantnagar. He joined NHPC emerging technologies so as to their desired digital transfor- Besides the sale in India in October 1982 as a Trainee enable clients to become future- mation outcomes," Wipro CEO Taparia’s tools are exported to Engineer. able energy projects. ready in this era of digital trans- and Executive Director Abidali a number of countries such as During his tenure in He has immensely con- IISCO steel plant produced highest ever 1,46,025 metric tonnes of crude steel this month, taking its formation, it said the innovation Z Neemuchwala said. England, Germany, Denmark, NHPC, he scaled heights and tributed in the area of Design, center will serve as a showcase Wipro has 14 digital and Sweden, Norway, Finland, contributed to NHPC’s devel- O&M of hydropower stations, total saleable steel figure to an all time high of 140401 metric tonnes. The Coke Oven Battery #11 for the 'Art of The Possible' and design pods across the globe, USA, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, opment by serving in various Contracts, Project Monitor- with highest ever 2818 oven pushing and the Sinter Plant producing highest ever 292076 metric tons demonstrate cutting-edge enter- including London, New York, Panama, Argentina, Paraguay, capacities. His vast experience ing, Business Development etc. of Sinter in July complimented the overall performance prise applications based on dis- Stockholm, Madrid, Munich, Uruguay, Ethiopia, Kenya, in power sector includes hydro Ratish Kumar has over 34 years ruptive technologies. The center Sydney, Tel Aviv, and Tokyo. PTI Dubai, and Hong Kong. MPOST as well as solar & wind renew- of experience at NHPC. MPOST Car, bike, truck, tractor sales ride high on Govt’s GST boost NEW DELHI: Major auto- segment cars, including Alto (HCIL) posted a 21.74 per cent domestic sales were up 15 per Similarly, Honda Motorcy- mobile makers on Tuesday and WagonR, went up 20.7 increase in its domestic sales at cent at 27,842 units last month cle and Scooter India (HMSI) reported robust sales growth per cent to 42,310 units, from 17,085 units in July. It had sold following ramp-up of BS-IV on Tuesday also posted a 19.96 across segments driven by price 35,051 in the year-ago month, 14,033 units in the same month production across segments. per cent increase in total sales reductions and restocking of MSI said in a statement. last year, HCIL said. “Passing on the benefits of at 5,44,508 units last month. It vehicles at dealerships post Tata Motors said its passen- “The post-GST price ben- GST to consumers by reducing had sold 4,53,884 units in the GST implementation. ger vehicles sales in the domes- efits, healthy monsoon and the prices of its vehicles across same month in July 2016. Led by market leader tic market grew 10.23 per cent onset of festive season in many all commercial vehicle seg- Chennai-based TVS Motor Maruti Suzuki India, passen- to 14,933 units last month as regions from August will give ments has resulted in improved Company saw its total sales ger vehicles segment witnessed against 13,547 in July last year. another boost to our sales,” consumer sentiments,” Tata in July grow by 9.34 per cent strong growth last month with There was an an improved HCIL President and CEO Yoi- Motors Head Commercial at 2,71,171 units as against other companies such as Tata customer buying sentiment chiro Ueno said. Vehicle Business Unit Girish 2,48,002 units in the same Motors, Mahindra & Mahindra post Goods and Services Tax The country’s second larg- Wagh said. month last year. (M&M), Ford India and Honda (GST), Tata Motors President, est carmaker, Hyundai Motor Hinduja Group flagship Likewise, niche bike maker Cars India also registering dou- Passenger Vehicles Business India Ltd (HMIL), how- firm Ashok Leyland reported a Royal Enfield, reported a 20.75 ble digit expansion in domestic Unit, Mayank Pareek said. ever, reported a 4.38 per cent 14.19 per cent increase in total per cent increase in total sales market sales. Likewise, Ford India also increase in its domestic sales at sales at 11,981 units in July as at 64,459 units as compared to Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) reported a rise of 18.96 per cent 43,007 units in July. The com- against 10,492 units in the same 53,378 units in the same month posted a 22.4 per cent increase in its domestic sales at 8,418 pany had sold 41,201 units in month last year. last year. in domestic sales at 1,54,001 units last month as against July 2016. In two-wheeler segment, Farm equipment maker units as against 1,25,778 in July 7,076 units in July last year. HMIL Director Sales and market leader Hero Moto- Escorts Ltd said its domestic 2016. Stating that there was Marketing Rakesh Srivas- Corp reported a 17.13 per cent tractor sales during the month The company’s growth was administrative challenges asso- tava said that strong support increase in sales at 6,23,269 were at 5,275 units as against driven by compact segment -- ciated with the introduction of from the lowering of prices on units in July as against 5,32,113 3,953 in July last year, a growth comprising Swift, Estilo, Dzire, GST in July, Ford India Presi- “We believe a good mon- cles major M&M saw a 13 per run-up to the festive season account of GST implementa- units in July 2016. of 33.4 per cent. Baleno and Ignis -- which saw a dent and Managing Director soon, conducive financing rates cent increase in its domestic gives the company confidence tion and good monsoon would Despite sluggish sales for On the other hand, M&M 25.3 per cent increase to 63,116 Anurag Mehrotra said, adding and consumer confidence dur- sales at 39,762 units last month of achieving robust growth in increase customer confidence the first few days of the month registered a 7.48 per cent units in July as against 50,362 that going ahead there will be ing festival season will provide compared to 35,305 units in second quarter, M&M Presi- and sentiment towards vehicle due to the transition to the increase in its domestic tractor units in the same month last short-term headwinds associ- a good impetus for the indus- July 2016. dent Automotive Sector Rajan buying. GST, the company said it was sales at 17,682 units as against year. ated with GST and rising input try,” he said. A good monsoon, success- Wadhera said. In the commercial vehicles able to clock a robust six-lakh 16,452 units in the year-ago Last month, sales of mini costs. Homegrown utility vehi- ful GST rollout and a good Honda Cars India Ltd segment, Tata Motors said its plus sales in July. month. PTI 14 sport mp MILLENNIUM POST | Kolkata |Wednesday, 2 August, 2017 SANDHU JUMPS 12 PLACES TO BE 65 SRI LANKA RECALL THIRIMANNE GANGULY TALKS ABOUT PAY HIKE IN LATEST WORLD RANKINGS FOR SECOND TEST FOR DOMESTIC PLAYERS NEW DELHI: Harinder Pal Sandhu has climbed 12 places to be COLOMBO: Sri Lanka recalled left-handed batsman NEW DELHI: Sourav Ganguly urged the BCCI to consider a 65 in the latest Professional Squash Association (PSA) rankings. Lahiru Thirimanne in its squad for the second Test against substantial pay hike for domestic cricketers plying their trade in Sandhu had won two titles in Australia last month. Among Indian India as a replacement for injured Asela Gunaratne. Ranji Trophy. Ganguly spoke extensively on the issue during the male players, he is ranked third behind Saurav Ghosal (27) and It has more than a year that Thirimanne is out of the Sri BCCI technical committee meeting. It was learnt that he advised Vikram Malhotra (63), both of whom remained where they were Lanka’s Test team as he has not featured in the tradition- the members to seriously think about a substantial hike for the last month. al format since playing against England in June 2016. players and members agreed in unison. Ranji Trophy Current team has achieved more reverted to home-away format than lot of big names, says Shastri COLOMBO: India’s chief coach Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s “I don’t carry any baggage. Ravi Shastri believes that the men won a series (1-0) against For me, it was like walking into current lot captained by Virat New Zealand in 2009 and drew the dressing room as I had left it. Kohli has achieved way more (1-1) against South Africa in Nothing has changed and there than some of the teams of yes- 2011. were no special buttons I had to teryears which had illustrious He also praised Kohli’s grow- press. It was just that one ‘play’ names in their ranks. ing stature as a leader, com- button and off you went.” “This Indian team has paring his present status as the Under Kohli, India will been with each other for two Indian captain to the time he be doing four tours of South years and they are much more first led in Adelaide more than Africa, England and Australia, experienced now. They have two years ago. next year. already done things that a lot “I think he is still young. “When you say overseas of other Indian teams and a I can see a very big differ- tours like South Africa, England, lot of big names couldn’t do ence from when he captained etc. it is a lot of tough cricket in their careers, for exam- in his first Test to what he is coming up and I see it as an ple, winning a series here in now. I was there in Adelaide, opportunity. I am very positive Sri Lanka (in 2015),” Shastri when he captained in his first that this team can do things that said during a media confer- match and he is 27 Tests old probably no other Indian team ence, ahead of the second Test, now as captain. You can see a has done,” the coach insisted. KOLKATA: The Board of home and away as it was two starting Thursday. big difference. Shastri refused to look too Control for Cricket in India seasons ago. The knockout When Kohli’s men won the “You can see it in the body far ahead. (BCCI) technical committee matches will continue to be in Test series in Sri Lanka back in language that he has matured, “I am not going to go as far under the chairmanship of neutral venues.” 2015, they had won after a gap and he will continue to mature ahead as South Africa tour. Virat Kohli dives during a training session ahead of their second Test match with Sri Lanka Sourav Ganguly on Tuesday “The committee alsoof 22 years with Mohammed PIC/AP/PTI and learn. For his age, he has I live in the present. We are decided to revert to the home- decided that for junior cricket, Azharuddin’s team winning a nation. other (Indian) teams haven’t land 1-0 in a 2007 away Test done a lot (already) and there 1-0 up (against Sri Lanka). We away format of Ranji Trophy while the home and away will series back in 1993. “A lot of big (Indian) names done and that too overseas,” series. are signs that he can be right want to keep that record intact league matches. continue for league matches, Not exactly known to hold have played for 20 years and the cut-throat former India Prior to that Sourav Gan- up there with the very best,” and treat every game as a new The BCCI had last year the knockout matches will back his views, Shastri made a they have come to Sri Lanka skipper said. guly’s team drew 1-1 in Aus- Shastri said. game where the rules are the decided to host Ranji Tro- again be at neutral venues.” telling statement about teams many times but they have never Shastri’s observation is, tralia back in 2004 and also Shastri said that it’s a fresh same. You go out to play your phy on neutral venues for the Choudhary said: “Because of the past that had players with won a series. This team has however, debatable given that drew (1-1) the rubber against start for him and he is not car- brand of cricket and you go 2016-17 season after numerous of the addition of Chhattis- experience of two decades not done that. This team is used the Indian team under Rahul Nasser Hussain’s England rying the baggage of his ear- out to win. As simple as that!” complaints about home teams garh last year, the total number winning a series in the island to doing things that a lot of Dravid beat a full-strength Eng- in 2002. lier stint. he added. AGENCIES doctoring the pitches. of teams in the Ranji Trophy However, most of the became 28 as you are aware, domestic captains gave the leading to a skewed set-up of ICC Rankings: Jadeja maintains neutral venues format a Ranji Trophy with 9+9+10 ‘Keeping a close watch on KL Rahul’ thumbs down during the Cap- which works out to 28.” top position, Virat stays 5th tains Conclave in Mumbai ear- “These 28 teams will be spilt COLOMBO: India opener are watching him closely. He action ahead of the second Test “When I have good bench lier this year, when it became up into four different groups. KL Rahul was back in the went through some tough times beginning Thursday. strength, it is very good. When DUBAI: Star spinner Ravindra Jadeja maintained clear that the idea was a flop. With top two teams qualifying nets on Tuesday after miss- and he was in the hospital for 2-3 Like skipper Virat Kohli, there is competition for places pole position in the bowlers’ list while India skip- “There will be a change for the quarter-finals and then ing out the first Test due to days. Obviously, it has taken a lot Shastri also spoke in same even better because that’s from the past as far as Ranji further.” viral fever but chief coach out of him. vein about having a good bench healthy competition and a good per Virat Kohli remained static at fifth place in Trophy is concerned,” BCCI The Duleep Trophy, he said, Ravi Shastri kept cards close “So we have to be very care- strength, now that Rahul is get- headache to have. the batting charts in the latest ICC Test Rankings Acting Secretary Amitabh will be played with the pink to his chest about the stylish ful how we treat him, we are ting fit and Abhinav Mukund “Where you know if some- released on Tuesday. In the batsmen’s rankings, Choudhary told reporters here ball like last year and most right-hander’s participation in watching him very closely and keeping himself in the hunt with one is injured someone else Cheteshwar Pujara is the top- ranked Indian at after the meeting. matches will be played under the second Test. he is getting better by the day,” an 81 in the second innings of is ready and that is across “All league matches will be floodlights. AGENCIES “Rahul is (doing) good. We Shastri said during media inter- the first Test. all formats. AGENCIES the fourth position while opener Shikhar Dhawan climbed 21 places to be ranked 39th. The bat- KOLKATA, DELHI, NAGPUR TO HOST SRI LANKA ting list is being topped by Australia captain Steve Smith followed by England’s Joe Root and New TESTS, GUWAHATI GETS AUSTRALIA ODI Zealand’s Kane Williamson. In the bowlers’ chart, KOLKATA: The BCCI on Tuesday awarded three Test matches of the November- Ravichandran Ashwin displaced Sri Lanka captain December home series against Sri Lanka to Kolkata, Nagpur and Delhi while the Rangana Herath to claim the second spot back. newly-constructed stadium in Barasapara, Guwahati was awarded a marquee T20 Herath is third in the rankings. Pacer Moham- International against Australia in October. The decisions were taken at the Board’s med Shami gained a place to be 23rd. Jadeja and tours and fixtures committee meeting here. It will be a big home season for the Ashwin also maintained second and third ranks Indian team as it will play 23 international matches across three series starting end respectively in the all-rounders’ list. Bangladesh’s of September and concluding at the end of December. The season starts mid Sep- Shakib Al Hasan is still perched at the top of the tember with five ODIs against Australia slated to be played at Chennai, Bangalore, table. England all-rounder Ben Stokes moved up Nagpur, Indore and Kolkata. The three T20 Internationals against the Aussies will be 12 places to joint-25th position in the rankings for held in Hyderabad, Ranchi and Guwahati. The series against New Zealand will com- mence mid October and the three ODIs will be held in Pune, Mumbai and Kanpur batsmen and also gained two places to reach 19th position. AGENCIES followed by three T20 Internationals at Delhi, Cuttack and Rajkot. AGENCIES

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KOLKATA: Board of Control Tests, three ODIs and three for Cricket in India (BCCI) T20s in India. Acting Secretary Amitabh “The three Tests will be at Choudhary on Tuesday said Kolkata, Nagpur and Delhi. Sri Lanka’s tour of India had The three ODIs will be at to be advanced because of the Dharamsala, Mohali and Independence Cup the island Vizag. The three T20 games nation is set to host next year. will be at Kochi/Trivandrum “On the question of Sri because Trivandrum has a new Lanka’s earlier arrival..., earlier stadium, Indore and Mumbai,” tweaking has had to happen Choudhary said. because Sri Lanka is organis- Choudhary added that ing an Independence Cup in another reason for tweaking Sri Lanka,” Choudhary told the dates for the Sri Lanka reporters after a meeting of series was the cancellation of the BCCI’s Tour Programme the proposed series between and Fixtures Committee at a India and Pakistan. plush hotel here. “There is another reason “That will be shortly after for the tweaking because there India’s return from South were six proposed exchange Africa. Sri Lanka has always of tours between India and cooperated with India and Pakistan, which did not hap- therefore India will actually be pen. So, those spaces had to making a reciprocal short ver- be adjusted with other activi- sion tour only to play the Inde- ties,” he said. pendence Cup. That’s why the According to reports, tweaking has taken place,” he it was in January this year said when asked whether the that India agreed to play the South Africa tour will be ham- Independence Cup along- pered by Sri Lanka’s arrival. side Sri Lanka, South Africa Sri Lanka will play three and Pakistan. AGENCIES sport 15 MILLENNIUM POST | Kolkata |Wednesday, 2 August, 2017 mp Amid PSG links Barca Prannoy, Kashyap win; Jayaram block Neymar’s loses in New Zealand Open multi-million bonus However, Jayaram suffered a shocking 19-21 13-21 loss to Chia Hung Lu of Chinese Taipei in another men’s singles match. Pratul faces top seed Tzu Wei Wang of Chinese Tai- pei, Neeraj takes on Austra- lian Anthony Joe, Sourabh will fight it out with Indone- sia’s Henrikho Kho Wibowo, Sahil meets 11th seed Lin Yu Hsien of Chinese Taipei, Siril will play against Indonesia’s Saputra Vicky Angga. Among other Indians in fray, it was over for Sid- dharath Thakur, Sachin Rawat, Arun Kumar Ashok Kumar in men’s singles. Sachin lost 12-21 8-21 to Malaysia’s Giap Chin Goh, while Hong Kong’s BARCELONA: Barcelona have Lee Cheuk Yiu defeated Sid- blocked payment of a 26-mil- The renewal dharath Thakur 23-21 21 -14, lion-euro ( 31-million) bonus bonus was Arun Kumar Ashok Kumar lost for star attacker Neymar as 16-21 12-21 to Saputra Vicky speculation mounts that he agreed on a H S Prannoy (left) and Parupalli Kashyap Angga of Indonesia. will move to Paris Saint- Ger- year ago when AUCKLAND: Newly-crowned of the New Zealand Grand Prix 21-10 in the men’s singles Pratul Joshi, Sourabh Verma, Riyanto Subagja 21-13 21-12, In the women’s singles qual- main, a source at the club said US Open winner H S Prannoy Gold here on Tuesday. competition. Neeraj Vashist and Sahil Sipani Pratul dumped local shuttler ifying round, Sanyogita Ghor- on Tuesday. Neymar extended and Commonwealth Games Fourth seed Prannoy Prannoy will cross swords also made positive starts to their Daxxon Vong 21-10 21-13, pade fought hard before losing The Brazilian football star, his contract with champion Parupalli Kashyap defeated Indonesia’s She- with Indonesia’s Firman Abdul campaign in the USD 120,000 Neeraj thrashed Indonesia’s 11-21 24-22 19-21 to Xie Yong- who is due to come back for train- advanced to the second round sar Hiren Rhustavito 21-14 Kholik and Kashyap will square event. Seventh seed Sour- Androw Yunanto 21-8 21-9, shi of New Zealand. She had ing on Wednesday morning, is at Barcelona until but it was curtains for World 21-16, while 15th seed Kashyap off against local shuttler Oscar abh beat Australian Nathan and Sahil surpassed New Zea- won the opening match against the centre of an apparent tug of 2021, and was Championship-bound Ajay brushed aside Indonesia’s Dio- Guo on Wednesday. Tang 21-17 21-15, 16th seed land’s Joshua Feng 21-10 21-10 New Zealand’s Jahvaya Wheki war between the two European Jayaram in the opening round nysius Hayom Rumbaka 21-5 Young shuttlers Siril Verma, Siril defeated Indonesia’s in other men’s singles matches. 21-14 21-9. AGENCIES giants in what would be the most due to be paid to expensive transfer fee in foot- the player after he ball history. I-League clubs Speculation is mounting that completed a year LA agrees to host 2028 Games, Paris set for 2024 the 25-year-old could quit Barce- to be allowed to lona for PSG for a world-record Barcelona win against Juven- LOS ANGELES: Los Angeles host with the winner to be named by the IOC had waived various fees and pay- The deal will bring the Games back 222 million euros. tus, Manchester United and Real register six announced its intent to host the 2028 IOC on September 13 in Lima. ments that could ultimately save LA to Los Angeles for a third time, after the “These 26 million euros have Madrid, the footballer flew to Olympics, paving the way for Paris to But the possibility that Los Angeles organizers millions. The IOC will also city hosted in 1932 and 1984. The agree- been placed with a notary pend- China for a promotion trip. host in 2024 in a deal hailed as a win- would abandon a 2024 bid and instead advance USD 180 million to LA orga- ment must still be approved by the Los ing to see if the player continues,” But he studiously avoided foreigners: AIFF win-win for both cities and the Olym- accept the 2028 Games has been grow- nizers to lessen the impact of the lon- Angeles City Council and the United the source, who refused to be commenting on the situation. pic movement. ing since the IOC decided in July that ger leadup time, money that normally States Olympic Committee -- both of named, said. On Wednesday, Barcelona NEW DELHI: The I-League “I am proud to announce the Olym- it would attempt to award both Games wouldn’t be disbursed until closer to which backed the 2024 bid. City Coun- The renewal bonus was players resume training after their clubs will be allowed to reg- pic Games are coming back to the at its Lima meeting. the Games kickoff. cil president Herb Wesson, an enthusi- agreed on a year ago when summer break, with a double ses- ister six foreign players in the United States of America,” Los Ange- Paris had remained insistent on host- “The IOC contribution as stipulated astic supporter of the Games, said the Neymar extended his con- sion in the morning and in the upcoming season, two more les mayor Eric Garcetti said at ceremony ing in 2024, on the 100th anniversary by the HCC is USD 1.8 billion and has council committee on the Games would tract with Barcelona until afternoon. than earlier years. at the StubHub Center stadium. of the city’s 1924 Olympics. the potential to exceed USD 2 billion thoroughly vet the new proposals before 2021, and was due to be paid Senior figures in the Barce- Out of the six, at “In 2028, we are bringing the Games LA officials, who had put forward according to the evaluation of the LA making its recommendation to the full to the player after he completed lona side such as Gerard Pique least two players will back to LA, one of the great capitals of a USD 5.3 billion bid for 2024, said bid committee when taking into account council for a vote hopefully within two a year. and Andres Iniesta have publicly have to be from an AFC the Olympic movement. A city that has an agreement had been reached with the estimated value of existing sponsor weeks. Local backing is crucial to the But the club has decided to and privately attempted to per- member association. always been a Games changer and will the IOC on financial considerations agreements to be renewed and potential success of any Games, but federal gov- put it on hold pending to see how suade Neymar his future is best- The clubs can field a maxi- be again in 2028.” that would make waiting an extra four new marketing deals,” the bid commit- ernment support is also key since the the situation evolves. served in Spain. mum of five foreign players in a Los Angeles had been in a race with years feasible. tee said in a statement. Garcetti added: national government will play a key role The contract Neymar signed However the Catalan club match out of which a minimum Paris to follow Tokyo 2020 as the 2024 Bid chief Casey Wasserman said the “This deal was too good to pass up.” in security. AGENCIES also increased an early termi- now seem destined to lose one- of one has to be from an AFC nation clause from 200 to 222 third of their ruthless three- member association. million euros, which PSG is pronged attack which also “The AIFF Executive reportedly willing to pay. consists of Lionel Messi and Luis Committee have taken the Real expected to give MLS stars intense match Neymar’s future is the talk of Suarez. Neymar was previously final decision with regards to Spanish football, and particularly in Shanghai, China, on Monday the number of foreign play- CHICAGO: Veteran goal- on and cross the line -- whether against top-flight European Barcelona supporters. taking centre stage at the Replay ers in the upcoming Hero keeper Tim Howard says top it’s a tournament, a regular-sea- competition. After a successful pre-season new Fall/Winter 2017-18 fashion I-League 2017-18. The clubs North American club play- son game, a pre-season game, “I’m not sure which one’s tour in the United States that saw collection. AGENCIES will be allowed to register six ers should expect “cut-throat” an All-Star Game -- these guys better,” he said of the various foreign players out of which competition from Spanish are going to be up for it.” permutations of the All-Star OFFICE OF THE SUPRINTENDENT OF POLICE ,DURG, CHHATTISGARH at least two players have to be giants Real Madrid in Wednes- Colorado Rapids goal- Game he has experienced. “But Durg, Chhattisgarh ,491001 from an AFC member Asso- day’s Major League Soccer All- keeper Howard will start in it will be certainly exciting to ciation,” the AIFF said in Star Game. goal for Chicago Fire coach play Real Madrid -- there’s no Phone : 0788-232071,9479192021 Fax : 0788-2211999, a statement. The All-Star match at Sol- Veljiko Paunovic in the mid- question about that.” E-mail : [email protected] “The clubs can field maxi- dier Field, home of the NFL’s season exhibition. The All-Stars feature plenty mum five foreign players in a Chicago Bears, marks the end In 2001, Howard repre- of heavyweights with marquee TENDER NOTICE match out of which minimum of a four-match, 11-day pre- sented the East in a confer- match experience, including Tender No. SP/DURG/AC-2/01/2017DURG DATED 1/08/2017 one player has to be from an season US tour for Real Madrid ence versus conference All-Star World Cup winners Bastian AFC Member Association,” it that included a 3-2 loss to rival Game and in the following year Schweinsteiger, David Villa and Durg police invites sealed tenders for “Selection added. Barcelona in a Clasico matchup he was part of an MLS All-Star Kaka. “It’s an honor to play for of Agency for Supply and Commissioning of OFC In earlier I-League seasons, at Miami. squad that took on US national the MLS All-Star team, espe- Backbone Link and Operation & Maintenance in DURG clubs were allowed to register But Howard expects Real no days off,” Howard said. to earn a spot coming up for the team. cially here in Chicago,” said Chhattisgarh under I.T.M.S. Project”.The Information cum four foreign players, one of Madrid to bring their best as “There are no easy games. La Liga season. World football He played against the MLS the Fire’s German import Sch- Tender document can be downloaded from website whom from an AFC member they prepare for the upcoming They have a world-class is intense and it’s cut- throat. All-Stars when he returned weinsteiger, who launched his http://www.cgpolice.gov.in association. All the four foreign La Liga campaign. coach that they are trying to There aren’t any days when guys with English Premiership side MLS career this season and players were allowed to start “When you get to play for a impress. just take it easy. Everton in 2009 in the current will captain the All-Stars by S. P. a game. AGENCIES team like Real Madrid, there’s “They have got to play well When you put your jersey format that pits the All-Stars popular vote. AGENCIES G 43261/2 Durg VICTORIOUS RETURN TO US FOR SHARAPOVA Davis Cup team STANFORD: Maria Sharapova returned to the courts for the first time since she sustained a thigh injury three months ago, winning 6-1, 4-6, 6-0 over United States’ to train in New Jennifer Brady at Stanford Classic first round. Sharapova was injured during Ital- ian Open second round in May, weeks after she returned to action from a 15-month York before doping ban, reports Efe. “I feel like I just want to hug everyone and say thank you,” Sharapova said in an on-court interview. “It’s my first match in the States in a really Canada tie long time and it’s the closest thing to home for me. The welcome has been incredible and finally playing so close to home was really special,” she added. The 30-year- NEW DELHI: The Indian old needed two hours on Monday and two minutes to secure her win and a place in Davis Cup team will train the tournament’s second round. After Brady recovered from a slow start clinching the at the indoor courts of Uni- second set, she paid for missing two break points early in the third set, as Sharapova versity of Colombia in New won six straight games. Sharapova played her first competitive match in North York, a week before the cru- cial World Group Play-off tie America since Miami Open 2015 to tune up for US Open. Sharapova, who has a wild against Canada in Edmonton, card entry, is set to play in the second round against Ukrainian Lesia Tsurenko. AGENCIES starting September 15. It is for the first time that a camp has been organised to prepare for an away tie. Chitra plea: Kerala HC finds prima facie The team will assemble in New York on September 4 and will leave for Edmonton contempt in case; refers plea to Bench on September 10. “I wanted to get the boys together and KOCHI: Finding prima facie tra had submitted that though practice indoors before the contempt, the Kerala High the court in its interim order tie,” Captain Mahesh Bhu- Court on Tuesday referred to had directed the AFI to ensure pathi said, confirming the a division Bench a contempt her participation in the 1500 development. The AITA has plea filed by P U Chitra alleg- metre race in the world meet approached the Sports Min- ing that its order directing the to be held from August 4 to 14, istry to fund the week-long AFI to ensure her participation the respondents had not com- training camp and it is being in the World Athletics Cham- plied with the order in letter assessed. The ministry seems pionships had not been com- and spirit. keen to provide the finan- plied with. The respondents have cial support. “There should The court rejected the Ath- received the interim order and not be any problem with that letic Federation of India’s (AFI) simply written to the Interna- (financial assistance) because plea that more time be granted of the high court. tional Association of Athletic we do fund training of ath- for filing an affidavit in the case. The court had on Monday Federation, pointing out that letes, including foreign train- The AFI sought more time, ordered the AFI to file the affi- the high court has passed an ing. However, a decision will citing the assignment of the davit today after Chitra’s coun- interim order to that effect, the be taken after examination AFI office-bearers in London sel submitted that co- athlete petitioner had said. of the proposal,” a Sports for the world meet to be held Sudha Singh was included in “There is no request by the Ministry official said. Asked from August 4 to 14. the Indian squad after the cut- respondents pointing out that why the camp is being organ- Finding prima facie con- off date (for entries) while the the non-inclusion of the athlete ised in New York instead tempt in the case, Justice P B July 28 interim order of the was on account of a mistake of Edmonton, Bhupathi Suresh Kumar referred the court on her (Chitra’s) inclusion committed by them, which has said,”Courts will not be ready petition filed by Chitra for con- had not been implemented. to be rectified,” Chitra had said till Sunday (September 10) sideration of a division bench In her contempt plea, Chi- in her petition. AGENCIES before tie.” AGENCIES 16 mp Entertainment MILLENNIUM POST | Kolkata | Wednesday, 2 August, 2017 Anushka enjoys characters that CHALLENGE HER PHILOSOPHY “It was wonderful to work with Imtiaz. His writing and narration are very nuanced and I like that,” mentions Anushka about her experience of working with Imtiaz

MUMBAI: As an actor, Anushka I manage to do that on screen con- Budapest. Sharing her experience of “There is a certain respect and Sharma, who essays a Gujarati girl in vincingly, I feel good.” The story of shooting films abroad, Anushka said comfort we share... He is special. Jab Harry Met Sejal, says she enjoys Jab Harry Met Sejal, which features meeting fans there is one of the best While on set, even though we are not playing a character that has different superstar Shah Rukh Khan as Harry things to experience. talking to each other all the time, we beliefs from her own. She says essay- – the male lead, revolves around how “I met some African fans, peo- know there is no communication gap. ing such a character gives her a cre- Sejal (Anushka) sets out on a journey ple from Italy and a girl from Spain There is comfort in silence. Perhaps ative high and adds to her perspective. with tourist guide Harry. Giving a who was so excited to see me and was that comes from a mutual respect Asked if the process of convincing little insight into her character Sejal, talking about how she liked my films, between two artists.” And what has oneself to believe in a character that Anushka said: “She is very superficial, dance and all... It is not individually she taken away from working with one has to play on screen gives her doesn’t have any depth as a person. about me, but knowing the fact that Imtiaz Ali, who has directed the forth- creative growth, Anushka told “Yes, it There is no similarity with me.But her they watch Bollywood cinema and I coming film. does. I enjoy when my philosophy is morals and values of self–respect are am one of the members of Bollywood “Our process of building a charac- challenged by my onscreen character. something that I can relate to. But oth- is a great feeling,” said Anushka. Jab ter is same. That apart, yes, of course, Then I start analysing the mindset, the erwise, the character is quite impulsive Harry Met Sejal marks the third–time it was wonderful to work with Imtiaz. values and beliefs of the character... by nature.” collaboration of the two actors who His writing and narration are very why is she like that? The shooting of the film took first appeared together inRab Ne Bana nuanced and I like that,” Anushka said. “I start looking at things from a place in different places like Prague, Di Jodi. They also featured in Jab Tak Jab Harry Met Sejal will release on different perspective. As an actor, if Amsterdam, Vienna, Lisbon and Hai Jaan. August 4. IANS PEOPLE MUST Vidyut feels fortunate to be part realise movies are of Chuck Russell’s ‘Junglee’ MUMBAI: Vidyut Jammwal is looking for- ward to starting shooting for his next thriller Junglee which will be directed by American fictional, not real: John writer–filmmaker Chuck Russell. He feels fortunate to be part of a film with a message for the global audience. Russell has joined hands with Junglee Pictures to helm an action–adventure about a man and an elephant. It will throw light on the issue of elephant poaching and ivory smuggling. “Being trained in Kalaripayattu since the age of three and given my love for ani- mals, I couldn’t have asked for a better script to showcase my potential. I consider myself really fortunate to get a chance to be part of a film that has a message of global significance,” Vidyut said in a statement. The Commando star added: “Above all being directed by the legend- ary Chuck Russell is any actor’s dream” Russell is known for films like A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream War- MUMBAI: Actor John Abra- “It is also due to films that so only affects his/her own riors and The Scorpion King. Priti Sha- ham, who is actively involved in many youngsters now are becom- self, but also the family and hani, President, Junglee Pictures, also spreading awareness about social ing conscious of their health and the community. said that Junglee will narrate a heart- issues in India, says people need to bodies, and doing all sorts of activ- “I am concerned with warming story penned by Ritesh realise that films are fictional and ities to stay in shape,” John said the rampant drug use in our Shah. “Chuck was our first choice not real, and realise where to draw While he thinks that’s a pos- society today. It pains me to see and we reached out to him think- the line when it comes to imbib- itive example of how films can youth and even children resorting ing may be the story would appeal ing some facts. Extending support bring about a change, he pointed to drugs and putting themselves to him given that it raises an issue to a campaign by United Nations to how “unfortunately, some of at risk. I think whatever ups and of global significance. And to our Office on Drugs and Crime South our films also show the ‘other side’ downs come in life, one must have delight Chuck agreed and he will Asia (UNODC), John spoke at to reflect reality, but instead end self–control and not harm them- be flying in next month to start the length on his thoughts about up glorifying and legitimising selves.” he said. prep,” Shahani added. human trafficking and drug abuse. substance abuse”. John says he is “anti-drugs 100 Talking about roping in Vidyut “Films reflect life and vice “People should realise that per cent”. for the film, she said: “Kalaripayattu, versa, and they are an important movies are fictional and not real. “To me, good health and stay- a form of martial arts, also forms medium to engage with those The only thing real is your health ing fit is the greatest way people an integral part of the film. Vidyut who abuse drugs. If you look at and happiness,” added John, who can help themselves. It’s a simple is trained in the martial art. We my films, Force for instance, they has worked in films like No-Smok- mantra: Exercise your way to are very happy to have roped in carry a strong message against ing. The 44-year-old highlighted health and happiness.” he Vidyut for this thriller.” drug use. that anyone who uses drugs not added. IANS The action-thriller will unfold in Kerala and will be shot in an elephant reserve. IANS ‘GOT’delayed ‘Game Of Thrones’ S7 Mel Gibson sues production episodes may leak online house for sabotaging Natalie’s film LOS ANGELES: HBO has from the company. However, once again become a victim of HBO has refrained from com- cyber attack as the network’s ment. So far, a written mate- dream project upcoming episodes of a couple rial which is believed to ‘In Darkness’ of series, including the highly have been from ‘Game LOS ANGELES: Actor Natalie Dormer, who popular fantasy drama ‘Game of Thrones’ season played Margaery on ‘Game Of Thrones’ from Of Thrones’, have reportedly seven’s fourth episode LOS ANGELES: Actor Mel Gibson has sued 2011 to 2016, said the tight schedule of the fan- been hacked. The company, and an upcoming epi- Voltage Pictures alleging that the company tasy drama did not allow her work on her own fea- in a statement, confirmed that sode of ‘Ballers’ and failed to honour their deal of producing his ture film. During an appearance at this weekend’s hackers broke into their system ‘Room 104’ have appar- long gestating The Professor and the Madman. London Film and Comic Con, the 35–year–old and stole an unknown quantity ently been put online. Gibson and his producing partner Bruce Davey actor said she was happy to learn about her ulti- of data, reported Entertainment HBO chairman have apparently been working on the project for mate demise on the HBO series because she Weekly. and CEO Richard Ple- nearly two decades. was dying to work on her “HBO recently experienced pler sent an email to In the film, which is based on the Simon Win- film In Darkness, a cyber incident. We immedi- the company’s employ- chester book about the making of the Oxford reported Digital ately began investigating the ees alerting them of the English Dictionary, Gibson was set to play the pro- Spy. incident and are working with breach. fessor, James Murray, who oversaw the creation of “I finally made law enforcement and outside “The problem before the dictionary, while Sean Penn was supposed to the movie that I cybersecurity firms.” “Data us is unfortunately all too portray the madman William Chester Minor. wrote. It took about protection is a top priority at familiar in the world we now Gibson and Davey, through their com- eight years to get it HBO, and we take seriously find ourselves a part of. As has pany Icon Productions, signed a co- together it’s hard to our responsibility to protect been the case with any chal- production deal with Voltage in 2015 make an indepen- the data we hold,” the network lenge we have ever faced, I have to make the film, which was sched- dent movie and if I’d confirmed in a statement. absolutely no doubt that we uled to release this year, accord- still been in ‘Game of Hackers claimed to have will navigate our way through ing to The Hollywood Reporter. In Thrones’ I wouldn’t stolen 1.5 terabytes of data this,” he wrote. PTI his lawsuit, Gibson alleged that have been able to Voltage failed to provide a final make In Darkness. budget for the film, never secured The movie follows a completion bond and refused to a blind musician who allow the shoot of “critical” scenes tries to solve a murder in Oxford. and also stars Emily Rata- “The Agreements require that jkowski, Ed Skrein and James Cosmo. things such as material changes to the Dormer, however, said ‘Game Of Thrones’ screenplay, change of director from Mr showrunners David Benioff and DB Weiss had Safinia to someone else, the final pro- already told her about Margaery’s death more duction budget and schedule, and than a year before she was killed onscreen in the selection of filming loca- season six finale. tions be agreed to by Icon “We all have to dedicate, like, six months of our and Mr Gibson,” wrote lives to ‘Game of Thrones’ every year. As actors we attorney Jeffery McFar- do get frustrated if we can’t do the other jobs we land in the complaint. PTI want to do in the other months of the year. PTI