Will Ind Permanent Solution to Kashmir Issue: Rajnath

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Tripura will be BJP’s Accuses Pakistan of fomenting trouble in the State and trying to destabilise India waterloo, says Yechury AGARTALA Press Trust of India The Tripura Assembly Pelling (Sikkim) 3 soldiers, 4 elections in 2018 will be the “Kashmir is ours, Kashmiris “Battle of Waterloo” for the are ours and Kashmiriyat is ultras killed BJP, CPI(M) general secretary also ours,” Union Home Min- Sitaram Yechury said here on ister Rajnath Singh said on in Handwara Sunday. He lashed out at the Sunday, asserting that the BJP for creating a “war-like” Modi government will find a Peerzada Ashiq situation to dislodge the Left “permanent solution” to the Srinagar Front government from Kashmir problem. Four militants and three power in the State. The Home Minister’s as- soldiers were killed in an

EAST Ī PAGE 3 sertion came amid contin- overnight operation to foil DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD ued unrest in the Kashmir an infiltration bid in north Valley. Addressing a public Kashmir’s Handwara area. Calm returns to reception here, Mr. Singh ac- An Army spokesperson Jamshedpur cused Pakistan of fomenting told The Hindu that the KOLKATA trouble in Kashmir. “But I Security concerns: Rajnath Singh taking the salute during his operation launched in the No fresh violence was want to tell all of you that visit to 36th Batallion at Gayzing, Sikkim. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Nowgam Sector in Kupwara reported in Jamshedpur on our government will find a district on Saturday Sunday after the lynching of permanent solution to the Kashmir since the killing of dia wanted friendly relations afternoon continued into seven people on Thursday, Kashmir issue,” he said, militant commander Burhan with them. Sunday, with a fresh though anger and anxiety without elaborating. Wani in an encounter in July The Home Minister is on a exchange of firing resulting were palpable in certain areas last year. There has been an three-day visit to Sikkim dur- in further casualties. Two of the town. Hope for change unprecedented involvement ing which he attended a con- militants and two soldiers NEWS Ī PAGE 10 The Minister deplored the of students in the protests, ference of Himalayan States were killed in the encounter DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD fact that there was no with even girls taking to the to review the security situ- on Saturday. change in the “attitude” of streets to fight pitched ation and development activ- “Four terrorists have Pakistan which wanted to battles with security forces. ities along the Sino-Indian been killed. Three soldiers “destabilise” India. “We Around 80 people have lost border. also attained martyrdom,” hope Pakistan will change. If their lives in the prolonged He also visited the Nathu the spokesperson said. “The it does not change, we will violence. La border post, besides a sanitisation operation is on have to change them. After Mr. Singh said heads of few posts of the Indo-Tibetan along the LoC,” he said, globalisation, one country government of all neighbour- Border Police and SSB along adding that four weapons can’t destabilise another ing countries, including the Sino-India and Indo- and other war-like stores country as the international Pakistan, had been invited to Nepal borders respectively. had been recovered from Winged visitors: Pelicans rest on a high-voltage power line that runs through the Pallikaranai community will not forget the swearing-in ceremony of the site. EDGE Ī 4 PAGES marshland in Chennai. With the city losing over two lakh trees to Cyclone Vardah in it,” he said. the Modi government in POLICE THWART HURRIYAT

DELHI METROĪ 6 PAGES December 2016, birds have fewer places to nest this season. * SHAJU JOHN Unrest has continued in 2014 in an indication that In- RALLY Ī PAGE 2 CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 10 Green energy target tough, say oicials NIA to move cautiously against Geelani Rooftop solar programme making poor progress as it is not cost-efective Solid proof needed before knocking on the Hurriyat leader’s door, says oicial

TCA Sharad Raghavan sources like biogas and small munerative for people to set dia where people even sleep Vijaita Singh A senior Home Ministry ing over 150 cases of rioting others. Procedures would be New Delhi hydro to make up the differ- up rooftop solar. The cost of on their roofs. So they don’t New Delhi official said questioning Mr. and stone-pelting registered followed,” an NIA official The government is unlikely ence, they added. doing so is higher than the want to cover that whole The National Investigation Geelani would not be easy in the Kashmir Valley post- said. The agency’s concerns to meet its much-publicised money they stand to make. space with solar panels,” the Agency (NIA), which has re- and the NIA would require Burhan Wani’s killing in an also arise from its experi- target of 175 GW of renew- Several issues “The other issue is the use official said. gistered a Preliminary En- “irrefutable evidence” be- encounter with security ence last year, when a sim- able energy by 2022 due to “You see, there are several that people put their roofs quiry (PE) against Kashmiri fore it lands at the Hurriyat forces on July 8, 2016 to find ilar PE against Mr. Geelani, the poor progress of the issues with rooftop solar,” an to. New plan separatist leaders, for al- leader’s door. possible links to Kashmiri to probe his links to two rooftop solar programme, official in the Ministry told “Most roofs in India are The government is aware of legedly receiving funds from The Centre has on several separatist leaders. bank accounts, through according to officials in the The Hindu on the condition flat, and people find several these issues and is consider- Lashkar-e-Taiba’s chief Hafiz occasions charged the J&K which money was routed to Ministry of New and Renew- of anonymity. alternative uses for these ing a new plan to incentivise Saeed to create unrest in the government with going soft ‘No hurry’ allegedly create unrest in the able Energy. The Ministry is “The policy issue is that such as drying clothes, and rooftop solar, he said. Valley, would be cautious in on the separatists. “There is no hurry to ques- Valley drew a blank. also considering increasing the tariff structure right now even hosting parties or questioning hardliner Syed The NIA said in a state- tion Mr. Geelani. We are still the contribution of other is such that it is just not re- meals. There are parts of In- CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 10 Ali Shah Geelani. ment that it would be scour- not done with questioning CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 10 Mumbai snatches victory from the jaws of defeat A. Joseph Antony Mumbai’s 129 for eight, a halt a run short. Working (51). Pune, cruising at 71 for Hyderabad largely enabled by Krunal the magic for Mumbai was two, fell apart in the closing Mumbai Indians snatched its Pandya’s valiant 47 and a 50- Johnson (3 for 26), whose stages as Rohit’s men scrip- third Indian Premier League run stand for the eighth bowling display at the death, ted an incredible comeback. title with a nail-biting one- wicket with Mitchell John- swung the contest Mumbai’s Earlier, Jasprit Bumrah run victory over Rising Pune son, was, incidentally, the way. In the very last over, the had accounted for M.S. Supergiant (RPS) at the Rajiv lowest in the final for a side lethal Queenslander dis- Dhoni, a blow that perhaps Jasprit Bumrah celebrates Gandhi International Sta- batting first. missed Manoj Tiwary and Su- paved the way to Pune’s the wicket of M.S. Dhoni. dium on Sunday night. Pune’s chase sputtered to pergiant skipper Steve Smith defeat. * K.R. DEEPAK (SEE ALSO PAGE 15) CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Of cows, compassion and communal amity Mohammed Iqbal JODHPUR At a time when cow vigilante groups in the northern States are targeting people on the mere suspicion of eating beef or smuggling cattle, an adarsh gaushala (model cow MMEWS general secretary shelter) set up by a Muslim Mohammed Atique institution in Jodhpur is at the cow shelter. * SPECIAL taking care of old and sick ARRANGEMENT cows. It is also assisting dairy is currently home to 217 farmers in a dozen bovines tagged by the State surrounding villages in government’s Animal looking after their animals, Husbandry Department. and earning goodwill for The shelter’s full-time promoting communal caretaker Hakim Khan and amity. Launched in 2004 by his wife Allahrakhi are in Jodhpur-based Marwar charge of the bovines’ Muslim Educational and welfare. “We are glad to Welfare Society (MMEWS), receive appreciation from the initiative has won mass the majority community, appreciation, with which sees the gaushala as hundreds of people handing an enterprise promoting over cows and bulls to the communal harmony,” says shelter. Mr. Khan. Old, weak, sick, A trained team brings the abandoned, and neglected cows to the gaushala in a cows are given priority at specially designed vehicle. the sprawling gaushala The MMEWS is planning located in Bujhawad village, to double the shelter’s 12 km from Jodhpur. capacity by taking over a The shelter claims to be part of the 56 acres of land the first gaushala to be allotted for the construction wholly owned and managed of the Maulana Azad by the Muslim community. University, the society’s Situated on a large piece general secretary, of land without any Mohammed Atique, told boundary wall, the shelter The Hindu. CM YK https://telegram.me/TheHindu_Zone https://telegram.me/PDF4EXAMS

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DELHI Timings Monday, May 22 RISE 05:27 SET 19:09 Police thwart Hurriyat rally Family of martyr agree to RISE 02:52 SET 15:21 Tuesday, May 23 Separatist leaders prevented from gathering to mark death anniversaries RISE 05:27 SET 19:10 end fast after meeting Yogi RISE 03:34 SET 16:25 Peerzada Ashiq Wednesday, May 24 Srinagar Chief Minister promises to visit the soldier’s village RISE 05:26 SET 19:10 Restrictions by the authorit- RISE 04:17 SET 17:32 martyr of Uttar Pradesh,” said that the blood pressure ies and a separatists’ shut- Press Trust of India Manoj Kumar, brother of the level of the martyr’s wife down call on the death an- Sambhal martyr, said. and one of his cousins has niversaries of Mirwaiz The protesting family mem- Adityanath also promised dipped. Moulvi Farooq and Abdul bers of a soldier, who was that work for starting an He had suggested that Gani Lone affected life in the killed in Pakistani firing inter-college in the village both of them must be Kashmir Valley on Sunday. along the LoC in J&K last will begin soon, he added. hospitalised. To foil separatists move to year, on Sunday agreed to Manoj said that Uttar Pra- On May 19, villagers and hold a march at the Eidgah end their indefinite fast say- desh’s Minister of State for family members of Sudesh, in the old city, the authorit- ing Chief Minister Yogi Social Welfare, Scheduled who laid down his life on Oc- ies imposed restrictions in Adityanath had promised to Castes and Tribal Welfare tober 16, 2016, had sat on a Srinagar’s Nowhatta, M.R. visit their village. Gulabo Devi will now visit fast in the Pansukha Milak Gunj, Khanyar, Rainawari The Uttar Pradesh Chief the family to facilitate the village in this district, claim- and Safa Kadal areas. Minister, who was on an offi- ending of their fast. ing that the promises made “All main roads in these cial tour to Moradabad, met by the BJP leaders at the areas were barricaded by the father, brother and an ‘Promises not met’ time of his death remained placing rolls of concertina uncle of deceased sepoy The soldier’s family had unfulfilled. wires to prevent people from On the watch: Women walk past as security personnel stand guard during a strike in Srinagar on Sudesh Kumar on Sunday. been agitating claiming non- His mother had said if the moving towards the venue,” Sunday. * PTI According to family mem- fulfilment of promises made CM did not visit them, she said a Hurriyat spokesman. bers, the CM promised to to them. They had also de- will commit suicide. Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, waiz, was assassinated by Mirwaiz at Edigah. markets closed and few visit not only their village manded that the CM should The family members had who heads a faction of the unknown gunmen 27 years vehicles on the roads. but also those of other visit them. said that they had been Hurriyat, had called for a ago at his Srinagar resid- Crackdown launched Describing curbs on sep- jawans, who have laid their The health of the de- promised the sanction for a IN BRIEF joint rally which was to be ence. In south Kashmir, a crack- aratists as “unethical”, Mr. lives for the country. ceased soldier’s wife Kavita petrol pump, construction addressed by him, Syed Ali In 2003, Abdul Ghani down was launched against Geelani said, “The situation “The Chief Minister as- and mother Santosh Kumari of a road and a memorial in Shah Geelani and Lone fell prey to bullets from known protesters and 13 in J&K is turning from bad to sured us that development had deteriorated on Sunday. the village and renaming a Muhammad Yasin Malik. unknown gunmen when he youth were rounded up. worse. The PDP-BJP’s brute work will begin in our vil- Dr. Neeraj Sharma, who village primary school in Mirwaiz Moulvi Farooq, was commemorating the Meanwhile, separatists’ approach towards the lead- lage....He also said that he inspected the health of the Sudesh’s name, but none of father of the present Mir- death anniversary of the late call for a shutdown saw most ership is appalling.” will visit the house of every family members on Sunday, the promises was fulfilled.

Seven killed, nine injured Ex-Cong MP in road accident ‘Take Capt. Saurabh 180 Dalit families renounce Hinduism AMRITSAR shares stage Seven persons, including Kalia’s case to ICJ’ In protest against ‘one-sided police action’ against the Bheem Army three women, were killed and with Minister nine injured when an SUV hit Staff reporter this month. us for protesting against at- Ravan, the founder of a Dalit a stationary auto-rickshaw Ex-servicemen league urges Centre Meerut Narendra Gautam, who rocities by the Thakurs. How outfit that works for their up- Press Trust of India and a car at Umranangal Over 180 Dalit families living was among those who re- long should we remain si- liftment in the areas of edu- Chandigarh by-pass near Beas, around 35 Press Trust of India the lines of Kulbhushan in Saharanpur district vil- nounced Hinduism on Fri- lent? At the time of elections, cation and socio-economic Former Congress MP km from here, on Sunday. Dharamsala Jadhav. lages gathered at a canal on day, said the families will go they call us Hindus. After the empowerment in Saharan- Arvind Sharma sharing the The incident occurred when The ICJ at the Hague has Friday and immersed idols to Delhi to take ‘diksha’ in elections, they start treating pur and its vicinity, appealed dais with Haryana Educa- the SUV, heading towards The Himachal Pradesh stayed the execution awar- of Hindu gods and goddesses last week of May in order to us like slaves.” to his supporters to attend tion Minister Ram Bilas Amritsar from Delhi, rammed chapter of ex-servicemen ded to Jadhav in Pakistan in the water saying they officially convert to the protest at Jantar Mantar Sharma at an event in Kar- the three-wheeler and the league has urged the Centre after a military court sum- “would much rather re- Buddhism. The families Not aware: SSP in New Delhi to show solidar- nal and praising the Naren- car which were parked on the to move the International marily convicted him of es- nounce a faith that doesn’t claimed that more people Saharanpur SSP S.C. Dubey ity against atrocities faced by dra Modi and Manohar Lal national highway. PTI Court of Justice (ICJ) in the pionage and engaging in give them the status of being will renounce Hinduism and however rejected the re- the marginalised Khattar governments has case of Army Captain Saur- subversive activities after In- a Hindu and allows the up- convert to Buddhism if the nouncement move as “pres- community. triggered speculation of Man booked for abh Kalia. dia knocked its doors. per caste to treat them like Yogi Adityanath government sure tactic” to avoid police “I want to ask the him joining the BJP. kidnapping minor girl During the 1999 Kargil slaves”. doesn’t stop “targeting the action. The police have Adityanath government why “The Modi government, PHAGWARA conflict, Capt. Kalia was tor- Earlier requests The families from Rupdi, Dalits and the Bheem Army”. booked several volunteers of the entire administration re- which is completing three A man has been booked for tured by his Pakistani Mankotia said the Indian Ex- Kapurpur, Ighri and Unali Mr. Gautam said: “We’re the Bheem Army on charges mained a mute spectator as years at the Centre, is do- allegedly kidnapping a 16- captors who later handed servicemen League and the villages near Shabbirpur in taking this extreme step as a of posting “objectionable 56 houses and 40 shops ing well and the people are year-old girl here, the police over his mutilated body to family of Capt. Kalia had Saharanpur said they had re- mark of protest. The Thakur content and spreading ru- burnt to the ground, and happy with it. Khattar, is said on Sunday. Rajiv Kumar, a India. made this demand to the nounced Hinduism in community attacked and mours” on WhatsApp and hundreds of Dalit brothers also an honest man work- resident of Nasirabad village, previous governments but “protest against atrocities burnt our homes because we Facebook groups on May 9, and sisters were assaulted ing towards taking the has been booked on the Jadhav case could not hear anything against the Dalits by the asked them to respect our which allegedly led to violent and humiliated? The admin- State on the development complaint of the girl’s father, The league’s HP chapter positive about it. Thakurs, and the subsequent saint Ravidas and not play protest by the Dalits. “I’m istration didn’t do anything path,” he said. they said. The complainant chief, Major (retired) Vijay “Now, after the case of one-sided police action loud music in Shabbirpur not aware of these conver- against the injustice and at- Mr. Sharma had quit the alleged that the man took Singh Mankotia said Capt. Jadhav in the ICJ, a ray of against the Bheem Army”. this month. Then, the UP sions,” he told journalists. rocities. When the Bheem Congress before the 2014 away his daughter on the Kalia’s case also be taken to hope has risen in Kalia’s Saharanpur district had wit- government, headed by Mr. The renouncement comes Army tried to protest peace- Haryana Assembly polls to pretext of marrying her, the the ICJ, the UN’s highest ju- case too,” he said here on nessed clashes between Adityanath, who is also a days after advocate fully, they weren’t allowed to join the BSP. However, he police said. PTI dicial body, to get justice on Saturday. Thakurs and Dalits earlier Thakur, took action against Chandrashekhar Azad do so ,” Mr. Gautam added. quit the BSP last year. . Taking on a ‘drinking’ problem head-on in Rajasthan Low-cost water ilter developed by a group of students from IIT-Jodhpur has gained acceptance in rural areas

areaohammed Iqbal intensive and expensive clay from the students. Each JODHPUR equipment that has entered water filter weighs about 5- It took an apple falling on the urban homes isn't suitable kg. It’s very useful and head of Sir Issac Newton for for rural families with lim- should be kept in every that ‘aha moment’. All it took ited financial resources. household.” a group of students from the Cost-effective solutions like Indian Institute of Techno- the filter developed by them, To clean impurities logy (IIT)-Jodhpur to come which is based on indigen- Dr. Plappally told The Hindu up with gravity as the answer ous knowledge, could effect- that the filter’s capacity to to clean drinking water ively meet the needs of clean impurities of bacteria, needs was a visit to Arna- villages. mostly E. Coli, metal con- Jharna, an open desert mu- The students designed a tamination and chemical im- seum displaying traditional machine in their laboratory purities has been certified by knowledge systems of local for manufacturing these fil- the Union government’s Na- communities on the out- ters and three machines tional Test House. skirts of the city in 2013. have been installed in homes Besides protection against The mechanical engineer- of potter families in Sar, water-borne diseases, which ing students were inspired to Banad and Salawas villages. according to the World work on a cheap but efficient Health Organization com- water filter during an inter- Workshops for potters prise 65% of ailments, the fil- action with Kuldeep Kothari The Sansthan also organised ter helps maintain robust of Jodhpur-based Rupayan a series of workshops for health and nutritional status Sansthan, which functions as potters to enable them man- of the rural populace, said an institute of folklore and ufacture filters with salt-ad- Dr. Plappally, a post-doctoral runs the museum. IIT-Jodh- ded clay. fellow with the Massachu- pur Assistant Professor Mr. Kothari said the San- setts Institute of Technology Anand Plappally encouraged sthan was disseminating the (MIT) before joining IIT-Jodh- them to come up with a The 20-litre ilter receptacle looks like a lowerpot and has micro-nano pores through which technology to individual pot- pur in 2012. solution. water percolates due to gravity. ters as part of its drive to pre- “We have applied for pat- serve traditional skills of vil- ent of the process for manu- ‘G-Filter’ and displayed at the Unnat An average of eight litres container made of steel or lagers and promote natural facturing, rather than the fil- Amrita Kaurwar, Sandeep Bharat Abhiyan pavilion of of water percolates in 10 plastic. engineered products. ter itself, to facilitate its Gupta, Raj K. Satankar and the India International Sci- hours when the receptacle is Abdul Razak, a potter at supply to areas not getting Devaiah Soyam, and tradi- ence Festival in New Delhi in running at full capacity. Dur- Sold by potters Banad village in Jodhpur, power and water supply,” he tional potters worked to- December 2016. ing the manufacturing pro- The filters, being sold by pot- said: “I learnt a lot from the added. gether in 2013 to develop a cess, sawdust and marble ters in Jodhpur district at workshops organised by the IIT-Jodhpur has also ‘G-Filter’ that provides clean 20-litre capacity powder are added to the clay prices ranging between ₹300 Sansthan. Though we have provided the filter’s know- drinking water in poor vil- The 20-litre filter receptacle to improve the filter’s anti- and ₹350 each, have gained indigenous knowledge of the how to the Integrated Rural lage households at very low looks like a flowerpot and bacterial properties. It also acceptance in rural areas of filtration properties of sand, Technology Centre, costs. has micro-nano pores provides structural strength western Rajasthan. I learnt about the right mix Palakkad, and Enactus IIT- The first prototype was through which water percol- to the receptacle, which is The students said the re- of sawdust and marble Madras, which is a group of developed in December 2016 ates due to gravity. kept on a water dispensing verse osmosis-based, energy- powder for preparing the IIT alumni in Chennai. Six persons injured in UP clash Press Trust of India a bike of a man of a par- reached the spot and Jaunpur (UP) ticular community hit brought the situation Six persons, including the cycle of the man of under control. two women, were in- another community jured when two groups near the village, follow- FIR registered belonging to different ing which they entered A First Information Re- communities clashed into an altercation. port has been registered over a minor dispute at When they returned against 11 persons and Khadhar village in the to the village, the four have been detained Kerakat area, the police people of both the com- in this regard, the police said on Sunday. munities clashed with said. each other in which six Heavy police force Bike hits cycle persons, including two has been deployed to The incident occurred women, were injured. ensure peace in the vil- on Saturday night when Later, the police lage, they said.

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THE HINDU NOIDA/DELHI MONDAY, MAY 22, 2017 EAST 3 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF CPI(M) slams Odisha govt’s Examinees Tripura will be BJP’s ransack New approach to ransomware Jalpaiguri waterloo: Yechury rly station Says State has no concrete, long-term solution in place Press Trust of India Siliguri Anarchy in West Bengal, ‘Modi govt celebrating three years in oice despite failures’ Staff Reporter provide IT infrastructure for about the software which is says State BJP chief BERHAMPUR GST rollout has stated that used and try to convert us Irate examinees on Sunday MALDA Syed Sajjad Ali Odisha CPI(M) criticised the this network will not be im- into mindless support ma- went on the rampage at The BJP on Sunday alleged Agartala approach of State govern- pacted by the ‘WannaCry’ chines for their economic New Jalpaiguri railway sta- that anarchy was prevailing in The Tripura Assembly elec- ment in dealing with the re- ransomware attack, as its gains” tion ransacking the station the education sector and that tions in 2018 will be the cent threat of the ransom- systems do not run on Mi- “These profit-based soft- master’s office, damaging democracy was at stake in “Battle of Waterloo” for the ware virus on computers in crosoft software. He had ware companies have star- an engine and two AC West Bengal under the ruling BJP, CPI(M) general secret- the State. stated that their software is ted to make us believe in a coaches and trying to set Trinamool Congress. “A ary Sitaram Yechury said “Instead of coming out not based on Microsoft win- fallacy that computers can fire to the station. Naxal-like situation has arisen here on Sunday. with a concrete long-term dows operating system and only be run by their soft- NF Railway Area Man- in the State nowadays. There He lashed out at the BJP solution, the government are immune,” Mr. Patnaik ware. Even our elected lead- ager Parthasarathi Shil said is an atmosphere of total for creating a “war-like” situ- seems to be helping in mar- said. The GSTN network op- ers have fallen prey to it to over one lakh examinees anarchy in the education ation to dislodge the Left keting an upgraded version erates on Linux software declare that paying up from Bihar had arrived sector. Democracy is at Front government from of Operating Systems (OS) of which is not affected by the money to these companies here on Saturday to appear stake,” State BJP president power in the State. “If it’s a private software companies ransomware attack. to upgrade software is the for the exams for the Dilip Ghosh told a press war, then we are ready to as well as firewalls and anti- only solution to check com- Group-D posts conducted conference here. PTI fight it. We will fight to win viruses”, said state secret- High costs puter virus threat,” he said. by the West Bengal govern- in all the 60 segments of the CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury at a press ary of Odisha CPI(M) Ali Kis- But it is ironic that in He cited the example of Ker- ment at various centres in Assembly,” Mr. Yechury said. conference in Agartala on Saturrday. * PTI hor Patnaik. The “greatest Odisha, the State govern- ala, where Linux had been north Bengal. ‘BJD govt in Odisha He was attending the two- irony” is that State Informa- ment has failed to promote promoted in the official They were on their way failing on all fronts’ day State committee meet- 2018 will be the ‘Battle of miserable defeat in Punjab tion Technology (IT) minis- open software among its cit- sector. back home from New BHUBANESWAR ing with his predecessor, Waterloo’ that marked final in the recent Assembly elec- ter came up with a state- izens and goverment offices Jalpaiguri junction. How- The opposition Congress and Prakash Karat. defeat of French emperor tions. The voter turnout in ment that to fight recent although the use of official Grassroot level ever, no trains were avail- the BJP on Sunday hit out at Napoleon in 1815. He blamed Uttar Pradesh and Ut- ransomware menace com- versions of OS like windows According to Mr. Patnaik, able for the return journey, the ruling BJD in Odisha, ‘Stepping stone’ BJP leaders for making irrel- tarakhand was less than that puter users should upgrade involves much expenditure, this is the right time to pro- Mr. Shil said. The examin- accusing it of failing on all He said the BJP saw Tripura evant statements such as for Lok Sabha elections in to Windows 10 OS and up- alleged the CPI(M) leader. mote free software at grass- ees approached the station fronts amid rampant as the “stepping stone” to “Chief Minister Manik Sarkar 2014. dated versions of anti-vir- He urged the government root level to counter the in- master on Saturday night corruption, misrule, farmers’ control Northeast India after will vote for lotus symbol” He criticised the Modi uses, he added. not to fall into the trap of tellectual colonialism of and demanded arrange- miseries and sluggish industrial wresting power in Assam and “Election Commission government for celebrating Proprietary Software and multi-national software ments for them to stay activity. “The BJD had and Manipur. “The BJP is will hold three-tier election three years in office despite Open software Proprietary Culture being companies. “Instead of overnight at the station. promised to transform Odisha, disillusioned about the out- in Tripura”. its “failures”. Party State sec- According to Mr Patnaik, promoted by profit-oriented spending money on upgrad- However, they were al- but pushed the State backward come of the Assembly elec- He said the BJP was beat- retary Bijan Dhar and cent- this could have been the multi-national software ing windows software, the legedly chased away by the with misrule, corruption and tions,” he said. ing drums despite wresting ral committee member right juncture to promote companies. government should start RPF, sources said. neglect of farmers for 17 Mr. Yechury asserted that power by unfair means its Gautam Das were present at free and safe open software. According to him these shifting its computers to years,” OPCC chief Prasad for the BJP, the Assembly back-door power capture in the news conference in “Recently, Prakash Rao, the software companies open softwares to check the Tyres burnt Harichandan said.PTI elections slated for early Goa and Manipur, and its party’s state headquarters. CEO of GSTN, set up to provide “no knowledge virus menace,” he said. They then ransacked several platforms and the station master’s office, burnt tyres on the tracks, held up Mayachar island residents at the Awadh-Assam express Animal sightings rise as water dries up and damaged its engine and two AC coaches and Water scarcity in Odisha forests critical, authorites hope for early monsoon tried to set fire to the sta- wits’ end over land erosion tion, Mr. Shil said. The RPF, along with the NJP police, Satyasundar Barik forests that is driving the an- brought the situation under Accuse State govt of not taking any efective measures BHUBANESWAR imals out of their habitats. control. Several passen- Forest officials across Odisha gers, however, sustained in- Staff Reporter are keeping their fingers Water tankers juries, the sources said. Kolkata crossed for the early arrival While authorities have Mr. Shil said the damage The lives and livelihood of of monsoon as water scarcity pinned hopes on early to railway property was es- nearly 6,000 residents of in jungles has reached a crit- showers for a much-needed timated to be ₹1 crore and the Mayachar island in ical stage, forcing wild anim- relief to animals in forests, the RPF had lodged an FIR Purba Medinipur district is als to stray into human habit- Satkosia Wildlife Division, for against the agitators. Sev- in jeopardy due to land ations more frequently. Such the first time in Odisha, has eral superfast and long-dis- erosion caused by the river incidents of animals straying started dispatching water tance trains were held up Rupnarayan. The residents past the jungles have seen a tankers to forests at regular as a result of the agitation, of the 7-km-wide island, loc- rise over the past fortnight. intervals to quench the thirst which was lifted around 11 ated on the southern bank of On Sunday, two persons of wild animals. a.m on Sunday, after the the river in the Mahishadal were injured when a wild As the situation went out Railways provided a special block of the district, have boar attacked them near of control, we were forced to train to transport the exam- said they are living in con- Withering away: Land erosion by the Rupnarayan river at their village in Balangir dis- Every drop counts: Cement rings are illed with water for set up pits using cemented inees to Bihar, Mr. Shil said. stant fear of losing their Mayachar island in Purba Medinipur. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT trict while a herd of seven animals at Satkosia Gorge Sanctuary. * BISWARANJAN ROUT rings at 80 places. It worked homes as the river takes up elephants wreaked havoc in wonderfully well, quenching more and more of their land. “This (land erosion) has elsewhere. Gajapati district. that the gaur had made a des- come extremely common. the thirst of wild animals at been going on for at least a The residents alleged that perate attempt to access wa- Earlier, the elephants were this critical juncture, he said. Homes lost decade. In the last one despite repeatedly urging Elephants’ off-season raid ter by digging the soil with its known to raid crops between Water shortage is one of The locals have also accused month, 25 families have lost the district administration, It is apprehended that a fur- horns before its death. November and February. the reasons behind dwind- the State government of “not their homes due to land no effective step to curb soil ther stretch in the current In Rajnagar area of In summer, the jumbos are ling elephant population in taking any effective meas- erosion by Rupnarayan,” erosion has been taken so dry spell could aggravate the Kendrapara district, a spot- expected to stay deep inside Satkosia. “In 2012, we had ures” to address the issue. Madhusudhan Guchayat, a far. “The soil of Mayachar is situation. Sample this; a gaur ted deer strayed into human the cooler forest environ- 229 elephants in Satkosia However, the State’s Minis- local school teacher, told not very firm and hence (Indian bison) was found habitation in search of water ment. forest, it dropped to 146 in ter of Irrigation and Water- The Hindu. He said the situ- prone to erosion. Moreover, dead near a water source as there is acute shortage in However, they have been 2015 and there might be a ways, Rajib Banerjee ation had put the residents the State government has which had completely dried Bhitarkanika National park. regularly found wandering further drop this year. Resid- claimed that “substantial of the island in a spot as, be- not done much to address up in Satkosia Gorge Sanctu- Incident of elephants com- near villages this time ential elephants migrate to work” has already been ing farmers, they cannot the situation,” said Mr. ary in Angul district recently. ing close to human habita- around. Experts said that it is other places in search of wa- done in this regard. leave their land and relocate Guchayat. Forest officials had noticed tions in the State have be- the acute water scarcity in ter,” Mr. Rahmen said. 21 candles and After bail, Sudip returns a world record to Kolkata Staff Reporter Man also held 90 grapes in mouth Kolkata Trinamool Congress(TMC) MP Sudip Bandyopadhyay who was granted bail in the Rose Valley chit fund case on Friday returned to Kolkata late on Sunday evening. The TMC MP who was in an Odisha hospital was admitted to a private hospital soon after he landed at the city's airport. Mr. Bandyopadhyay, an MP from Kolkata North was arrested by the CBI for his alleged involvement in the Rose Valley chit fund scam on January 3. Fiery attempt: Manoj Kumar Moharan during the record- Mr. Bandyopadhyay was breaking demonstration. * L. PANDA granted conditional bail by the Orissa High Court on Friday. Staff Reporter these two fields for over BERHAMPUR two years.“Recent Guin- In an attempt to make it ness record for most lit to the Guinness Book of candles in the mouth is World Records, Manoj 18, by Dinesh Shivnath Kumar Moharana — a Upadhyaya of Mumbai on post-graduate student of Jan 7, 2017. The current mathematics from Gan- record for most seedless jam district in Odisha — grapes stuffed in the stuffed the ends of 21 lit mouth is 88,” said Mr. candles in his mouth. Moharana. He said that he hopes Another record to be the new record Apart from the attempt holder after verification with candles, he also by Guinness officials. kept 90 grapes inside his mouth in a second bid to Failed attempt reach the record book. Earlier in 2015, he had Both these demonstra- tried to create a record tions took place in the using his field of study, presence of Berhampur mathematics. Sub-Collector, S.S.Swain He had attempted to at his office on Saturday. write squares of every number from 1 to 1000 Two years’ practice from memory in 49 Mr. Moharana, who hails seconds. from Khadarada village “But Guinness author- under Polasara block of ities did not accept my Ganjam district, said he endeavour, so I decided had been practising for to try another field to get the potential record in recognised,” he said.

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CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Maharashtra releases Koyna Passing of a giant water to crisis-hit Karnataka Oicials say 0.5 TMC water to be discharged over a 10-day period

Shoumojit Banerjee Maharashtra facing water Pune shortage. The Maharashtra govern- Late last month, Maha- ment on Sunday released rashtra Water Resources water from the Koyna dam in Minister Girish Mahajan had Satara district to alleviate the said nine of the 12 dams in water crisis in Karnataka. Karnataka barely had 20% of Around 0.5 TMC water will their water stock. “The avail- be released over a 10-day able live storage in the reser- period, authorities have said. voirs has touched an all-time Water level in the Kaveri low,” Mr. Mahajan had said, river basin has plummeted adding that he had ordered due to the soaring the discharge from Koyna temperature. dam to bring immediate re- This is the second such lief to farmers in Karnataka. discharge from the Koyna With a storage capacity of reservoir to Karnataka. Last 105 TMC, the Koyna reser- month, 2.5 TMC water was voir is one of the largest released from the reservoir Being neighbourly: Last month, 2.5 TMC water was released dams in the State. It houses following a high-level meet- from the Koyna reservoir to Karnataka. * FILE PHOTO the massive Koyna hydro- ing between officials of the power generation plant. neighbouring States. Water Resources Minister M. Karnataka will release water Three consecutive years of This cumulative discharge B. Patil to provide relief to from the Almatti dam to drought have aggravated the of 3 TMC follows a direct ap- Belagavi, Bagalkot and Vijay- cater to the needs of Solapur agrarian crisis in Karnataka, The remains: A decomposed carcass of a whale, about 8 metres long, washed ashore at the Juhu Chowpatty early on Sunday. peal on part of Karnataka pura districts. In return, district and others parts in especially in the north. * VIJAY BATE Get free Wi-Fi at 28 Konkan Railway stations Cong. accuses Goa govt. of Suresh Prabhu inaugurates internet service, facilities for passengers at Kudal, Chiplun stations violating Panchayat Raj Act Prakash Kamat 100 users at smaller stations. Panaji As Kudal and Chiplun are 186 gram panchayats set to go to polls on June 11 Konkan Railway passengers two important stations on will now get free, unlimited the Konkan Railway line, Prakash Kamat Commission has filed an affi- ing parties,” Mr. Chodankar Wi-Fi at 28 railway stations dealing with approximate PANAJI davit in the High Court in the alleged. He said the govern- and better amenities at Kudal daily traffic of 5,000 and The Goa Congress has ac- Mango Foundation case, ment has not followed any and Chiplun railway stations. 3,200 passengers, respect- cused the BJP-led State gov- stating that it is the constitu- transparent criteria in the Union Railway Minister ively, Konkan Railway has up- ernment in Goa of violating tionally empowered author- reservation process. In some Suresh Prabhu inaugurated graded the passenger amenit- the Goa Panchayat Raj Act in ity to delimit and reserve cases, where reservation the facilities at a function at ies at these stations. the delimitation of reserved wards, while the govern- was not possible, ward num- Kudal railway station on The Minister on Sunday in- panchayat wards ahead of ment is illegally taking over bers were changed to suit Sunday. augurated the improved facil- the ongoing election pro- these powers. the needs of the BJP. Konkan Railway has tied ities at Kudal Railway Station cess. “People have reacted He said the government up with Syscon Joister to which includes several works All India Congress Com- sharply to the delimitation was manipulating the Pan- provide 2 Mbps peer-to-peer and cost approximately ₹108 mittee Secretary Girish manipulations, even threat- chayat elections in such a 24x7 free Wi-Fi at the 28 sta- lakh. Chodankar said in a state- ening to boycott the elec- way that people had no options in line with the Union Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu at Kudal station on Sunday. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Improved passenger ment on Sunday that provi- tions because of the blun- tion to approach the court of government’s Digital India amenities at Chiplun Railway sions of Article 243 K of the ders dividing voters of the law. The government noti- Initiative. The same company along the Konkan route as a Wi-Fi, users have to open the The facility will be Station, which were inaugur- Act specifically give the same locality and even of fied the reservations on May provides the JOISPOT Wi-Fi corporate social responsibil- JOISPOT mobile application provided at 28 stations from ated remotely, involved an in- powers to delimit and re- the same family into two dif- 17 evening, and the election service in educational insti- ity activity. and register using their name Kolad to Madure in the initial vestment of ₹192 lakh, said serve wards to the Goa State ferent wards. These are not process was notified the tutes in Pune and Mumbai, The network covers the and mobile number. They phase. The system can Mr. L.K. Verma, chief public Election Commission and human errors, but deliber- next morning. Goa’s 186 and will provide free Wi-Fi station entrance and sur- have to request a one-time provide access to about 300 relations officer of Konkan not the State government. ate moves made to benefit gram panchayats will go to bandwidth to rural areas rounding area. To access the password to use the internet. users at bigger stations and Railway. He said the State Election certain candidates of the rul- polls on June 11. https://telegram.me/TheHindu_Zone https://telegram.me/PDF4EXAMS

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Another feather in the Staff Reporter Mustabada on the city out- since she did not return cap for police station Rain prevented Shanta Kumar from coming back from storm water drain in Bengaluru VIJAYAWADA skirts, had booze and spent home. KOZHIKODE A 16-year-old girl, who just some time in an abandoned They also inquired with The Kozhikode Town Station Staff Reporter fused saying he felt safe in the completed Class X, was al- area, the police said. the girl’s friends while local that secured the title of the Bengaluru cabin. legedly raped by four per- Akhil and Ajay Samuel police also searched for her. first ISO 9001:2008 certified A desperate effort to save sons who found her in an dropped the girl near her police station in Kerala in electronic equipment lying in Strong current inebriated condition on a house at 8.30 p.m. while Motorcycle number 2011 is all set to update its a storm water drain resulted But the situation changed road last week. she was still under the influ- Meanwhile, the girl recalled status further by achieving in 34-year-old Shanta Kumar within minutes. Water start- The four, all aged around ence of alcohol. the number of the motor- the tag of the city’s first being swept away by a sud- ing gushing from upstream, 22, and the girl’s friend The police said the ac- cycle of Srikanth and told women and child-friendly den gush of water during the partly submerging the earth- Akhil, 20, who also al- cused gang — Srikanth, Ab- her grandmother and par- police station. Work is in full downpour on Saturday night, mover, which started totter- legedly exploited the minor hishek, Pawan Kumar and ents about the assault. “The swing to dedicate two rooms according to witnesses. Ku- ing. Shanta Kumar tried to in the name of love had Sunil — offered her a ride on parents informed the police with all facilities to make mar is a mason who was con- get down from the earth- been arrested. their motorcycles to her about the incident prompt- women complainants and structing a concrete retention mover in a bid to make a dash Producing the five ac- house. ing the Satyanarayana their children feel at home. wall on the drain in Kur- for higher ground. However, cused before media here on “The girl, who accepted Puram police to jump into ubarahalli, north Bengaluru. All-out efort: A search is on for Shanta Kumar, inset, who was as he was climbing down, he Sunday, DCP G. Pala Raju the offer, was then taken to action and nab the accused Singareni unions firm on The contractor for the pro- washed away in heavy rain. * V. SREENIVASA MURTHY was washed away by the said the girl was having an Tadepalli near Vijayawada, in less than an hour with strike from June 15 ject is Basavaraj, uncle of strong current. affair with Akhil, whom she where the accused bought the help of the motorcycle PEDDAPALLI Shanta Kumar. ity, the workers ran for shel- equipment that was lying in Fire Services and National met more than a year ago liquor and came back to number,” Mr. Pala Raju said. The National trade unions of Witnesses said labourers ter. However, Shanta Kumar the drain. But the rain was so Disaster Response Force per- on social media. their room in Madhura Along with the four, the Singareni Collieries Company had retired for the day and rushed towards an earth- heavy that he couldn't come sonnel were deployed, but he On May 16, she left home Nagar. She was again forced police also booked Akhil for Limited have decided to stick were in their makeshift sheds mover, which was parked a back.” The squall and heavy had not been traced till 5.30 on the pretext of visiting her to consume alcohol and was rape and kidnap under Sec- to their call to go on an near the work site. The rain few feet inside the drain. rain forced Shanta Kumar to p.m. on Sunday when the op- friend as she planned a raped over the night by the tion 376(d) of Criminal Law indefinite strike in the came around 8 p.m. when One of the workers said, take shelter in the cabin of eration was suspended. short trip with Akhil and four. At around 7 a.m. the (Amendment) Act, Section Singareni coal mines from Shanta Kumar had finished “Initially, we did not under- the earthmover. Basavaraj Shanta Kumar is from a vil- their mutual friend Ajay next day, they dropped her 366 and 34 of the IPC and June 15, demanding the making the weekly payment stand why he ran towards the said other workers offered a lage near Maddur. His wife is Samuel. near her house,” Mr. Pala Section 6 of the Protection revival of dependent job to the workers. drain. Later, we realised that long iron rod to help him re- a homemaker and they have The trio met early in the Raju said. of Children from Sexual Of- scheme to coal miners. As the rain gained intens- he had gone to pick up some turn to the bank, but he re- a nine-month-old son. morning and went to The parents called police fences Act. YSRC leader, aide done to Kerala Jumbo collapses near cofee estate godman Workers noticed the elephant lying on the ground in Hassan district death in Kurnool district remanded Staff Reporter har, a veterinarian. He along Staff Reporter Hassan with Badami, another vet, Narayana Reddy sought protection, fearing threat to his life THIRUVANANTHAPURAM A lactating elephant, aged treated the elephant. Doc- The self-proclaimed god- about 20, was found ill in a tors said, the elephant did Special Correspondent Nandyal and Veldurthi when man, whose genitals were private land near Kabbin- not move at all early on, but KURNOOL the attack took place. He is a gashed by a woman a day agadde village in Sakleshpur gradually showed signs of re- YSR Congress Pathikonda close relative of former ago, for alleged sexual ad- taluk on Sunday morning. covery after treatment. constituency incharge Cher- Union Minister Kotla Jayas- vances, has been re- The workers at an adja- ukulapadu Narayana Reddy uryaprakash Reddy. manded in judicial custody cent coffee estate noticed Herd nearby and his aide Sambasivudu for 14 days on Sunday. the elephant lying on the Even as the treatment was were murdered by members Earlier attacks The police said Gange- ground. Initially, they being administered, other of a rival faction at Ra- The rival group had attacked shananda Theerthapada, thought it was stuck in the elephants were seen moving makrishnapuram in Krish- his house in Cherukulapadu alias Hari Swami, was re- mud. They later realised it in the area. However, none nagiri mandal of Kurnool village some time ago and manded until June 3 by the was ill and had no strength of them came close as many district on Sunday. destroyed vehicles on the magistrate who went to the to get up. All hands on deck: Veterinarians and oicials of the Forest people had gathered there. Narayana Reddy’s car premises. He was acquitted Thiruvananthapuram Gov- Assistant Conservator of Department treating the elephant. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT “The elephant had given went off the road near a cul- Narayana Reddy by a court in a murder case a ernment Medical College Forests Ramesh Babu and birth to a baby 2-3 months vert after a tractor hit it from few years ago. Hospital, where the ac- other officials reached the treated the animal and it has the animal may have con- ago, and the baby must be in behind and about 20 to 25 the spot. Sambasivudu, who Narayana Reddy had de- cused is undergoing treat- spot with veterinarians after shown signs of improve- tracted an infection and, as a that group. When people members of the rival group tried to flee, was hacked to posited his revolver with the ment. The survivor, who being alerted by villagers. ment,” Mr. Babu said. The result, had not taken food. leave the spot, the elephant hurled bombs, dragged him death about 500 metres police for renewal of its li- was in the Pettah police sta- “We understood that the ele- elephant was found near the “We have given it some flu- group is likely to come close and his aide out of the car away. cence and had urged the tion, was shifted to a shel- phant had fallen sick after estate belonging to retired ids and calcium. Blood to the ailing elephant and and attacked them with The YSRC leader was re- State government to provide ter home run by the Social not having eaten for the last IAS officer I.M. Vittalmurthy. samples have been taken for may try to take her along,” hunting sickles and knives, turning to Krishnagiri after protection to him as he Justice Department on couple of days. Our doctors The doctors suspect that examination,” said Muralid- said Dr. Muralidhar. killing Narayana Reddy on attending marriages at faced threat to his life. Sunday. Kerala animal welfare forum CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Bengaluru Pretty drops police out on complains against VIPs a bug hunt Staff Reporter A baby elephant had lost one of its tusks while being displayed Bengaluru The city police is out on a Staff Reporter baby elephants at the bug hunt. The Bangalore THIRUVANANTHAPURAM Kappukadu elephant camp City Police (BCP) is now ask- Will a complaint shot off by had been brought to the ing for assistance from the an animal lover to the Min- place where the Ministers city’s app developers after a istry of Environment, had camped. section of iPhone users Forests and Climate Change While they attempted to complained of not being (MoEF) prove to be a head- fondle the animal, it ran able to use their apps. ache for a few Kerala away and rammed into a Bugs in some apps for Ministers? tree, injuring itself in the the iOS platform have resul- Revenue Minister E. process. Having lost its ted in several users unin- Chandrasekharan, Agricul- tusk, the elephant suffered stalling the app or not using ture Minister V.S. Sunil Ku- severe pain and bleeding, it at all. mar, Electricity Minister Mr. Venkitachalam claimed. “We have three apps M.M. Mani, Water Resource With the elephant camp which have seen plenty of Minister Mathew T. Thomas qualifying as a zoo as it col- downloads on Google Play and Forest Minister K. Raju lected entrance fee from as well as Apple App Store. had visited Kappukadu to Kerala Ministers patting a visitors, the guidelines of But many users have repor- assess the efforts that had baby elephant. the Zoo Authority of India ted problems with the (re- been undertaken to supply were relevant for the func- cently launched) Suraksha- water from Neyyar dam, eral of Forests, MoEF; Chief tioning of the facility. In the Bengaluru City Police app, during which they re- Secretary, State Police particular case, the when they use it on their portedly witnessed a baby Chief, District Collector and guidelines were violated by iPhones,” said City Police elephant sustaining the Forest Department sec- the parading of elephants in Commissioner Praveen injuries. retary, alleging that the front of the VIPs, he al- Sood. V.K. Venkitachalam, sec- Ministers and other VIPs leged. According to him, there retary of the Thrissur-based had been responsible for However, forest officials have been nearly 10,000 Heritage Animal Task the four-year-old elephant were of the stance that no downloads of the app from Force, has written a com- losing one of its tusks. laws had been violated dur- Cool scene: Pre-monsoon shower falls over the plantations in Munnar on Sunday. The IMD has forecast that the southwest the Apple store, but around plaint to the Inspector-Gen- According to him, three ing the Ministers’ visit. monsoon is likely to set in over Kerala around May 30. * THULASI KAKKAT 7,000 users have chosen to uninstall it. “There are issues with receiving the one-time pass- words (OTP) as well as 12 crocodiles rescued in past two months Children from Noida found other bugs which are spoil- ing the user experience. We Heat wave and dried-up rivers have badly hit the animals in Bagalkot district have not been able to de- in Palakkad to be sent back termine what exactly is Girish Pattanashetti “The crocodile, being a wrong with the app HUBBALLI cold-blooded animal, is un- design,” he said. With the heat wave intensi- able to tolerate high tem- Charity outit fails to present documents; manager in custody On Sunday, another app, fying and rivers drying up peratures and lack of food FindMyPoliceStation, in Bagalkot, crocodiles have and water,” Mr. Doni said. K.A. Shaji ficking angle. A case has claimed, was to enrol the which helps citizens locate been affected badly, with at Palakkad already registered at Kozhin- children in the school. the jurisdictional police sta- least three deaths in the Awareness needed The district administration jampara police station tion based on their GPS loc- past fortnight alone. He said while forest guards has began efforts to send against the society. Required papers ation, was launched. How- One of the casualties was have been deployed on back 14 children from Noida, Its manager Aji Mathew However, he failed to pro- ever, this is only for a huge crocodile measuring patrol duty along the rivers, who were found at a house George was arrested on duce any proof of Grace Android users currently. 13.4 feet and weighting 365 taluk officials were organ- at Menonpara near here five Thursday and is now in judi- Care Society running an “We are having trouble kg — a rare find in recent ising awareness pro- days ago. Grace Care Soci- cial custody. orphanage. with the app submission to years. grammes to clear the mis- ety, a New Delhi-based char- Kozhinjampara Circle In- “If the children are desti- Apple’s App Store. If Veterinary doctors have Huge loss: A crocodile weighing 365 kg died reportedly due to conception among people ity organisation, has failed to spector V. Hamza said there tute they should produce the someone can come forward conducted a post-mortem the heatwave in Bagalkot district recently. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT about crocodiles. produce any legally man- were 17 children in the no-objection certificate is- and help us get this app and the aquatic reptile’s “When on land, the cro- dated certificate to prove its group and three of them had sued by the Child Welfare running on iOS, it would be samples have been sent for hausted crocodile had taken prabha have been relocated codile is not that active and claim that the children were been shifted to Committees of the respect- helpful,” Mr. Sood said. further tests and preserva- shelter in the sanctum sanc- to Chikkasangama. rarely attacks”,” he said, taken to Palakkad as part of Thiruvananthapuram before ive villages. If the children Developers say that it is tion. The heat wave is said torum of a dilapidated adding that it goes on the of- an educational initiative the police reached the ren- have parents, they should much easier to get an app to the primary reason for temple in Sonna village of Lack of food fensive on when intimid- The children, aged ted house at Menonpara. produce a certificate from into the Google Play Store the deaths. Bilagi taluk, and locals Because of the drought, the ated repeatedly. between 11 and 14 years, are The three children too the village officer stating the than the Apple App Store. However, timely inter- along with officials man- Krishna is almost dry, with Wildlife warden M.R. De- now housed at Government would be brought to parents had handed over the “Getting an app accepted vention by “well-informed” aged to rescue it. water available only in pits sai said it has become Children’s Home at Muttiku- Palakkad soon, Mr Hamza children to the child care by Apple usually takes a residents and forest officials H.B. Doni, Range Forest on the riverbed. Increased daunting for crocodiles to langara as directed by the said. Mr George told the po- home as they were unable to week’s time. They also have has resulted in the rescue of Officer of Bilagi, told The temperature and lack of find water. “While cro- district-level Child Welfare lice that the organisation educate them. The society a lot of restrictions on what at least 12 crocodiles in Bil- Hindu that the crocodiles food and water is said to be codiles can survive in Committee (CWC). had purchased five acres at could not produce any docu- tasks the app can perform,” agi taluk of Bagalkot alone. rescued from the banks of forcing the crocodiles to shade, water is a must,” he Meanwhile, the police are Menonpara to set up a ments in this regard,” said said Rohit Singh, an app de- Recently, an apparently ex- rivers Krishna and Ghata- venture out of the riverbed. said. investigating the human traf- school. The plan, he Mr. Hamza. veloper. 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IN BRIEF Railways Leopard safaris put Rajasthan on tourist map mulling track Pali has become a popular hotspot for spotting the big cat, which is known to be a very shy and elusive animal otherwise cleanliness

Ashok Kumar survey Pali (Rajasthan) Press Trust of India For over a decade, Patik Pa- New Delhi BJP does not support tel, an Ahmedabad-based Widening its sanitation cow vigilantes: Irani wildlife photographer, has drive, the Indian Railways NEW DELHI been a regular visitor to will now carry out a clean- The BJP does not support Sheoganj in Rajasthan. liness survey of tracks on cow vigilantes or citizens The area — dotted with busy routes and rank its 16 taking law into their own low hills and lacking in ve- zones based on hands, Union Minister Smriti getation — is the place to be performance. Irani said at the India Today if one wants to spot some The railways had re- Editors Round table event leopards, the most shy and cently released results of a here on Sunday. Asked about elusive among the big cats. similar survey of 407 sta- the ‘anti-Romeo’ squads and There are 30-40 sites in tions, carried out by the cow vigilante groups in U.P. neighbouring Pali district — Quality Council of India. after the Yogi Adityanath-led situated in the middle of the All-out efforts will be made BJP government came to Kumbhalgarh-Mount Abu to keep the tracks clean as power, Ms. Irani said: corridor of the Aravallis — part of the government’s “Everyone should work within where one can sight leo- ongoing cleanliness cam- the ambit of law. If somebody pards. The popular among paign, said a senior railway flouts laws unconstitutionally them are located in villages ministry official. they will not get support such as Perwa, Jivda, Bis- from the BJP.” PTI alpur, Sena, Mori, Human waste a concern Raghunathpura, Kothar, Railway tracks at many Six killed, 34 injured as Velar, Chamunderi and declare the region a com- ter is still in court. stretches resemble garbage bus falls into pit in MP Lundara. munity reserve. The safari operators in dump with leftover food, DINDORI As a result, leopard sa- On the prowl: There are as “It is not a forest land, but the region, meanwhile, have plastic bottles and paper At least six persons were faris have become common many as 30-40 sites in Pali the forest department several challenges to boxes strewn all over. Dis- killed and 34 injured when a in these areas. district — situated in the should declare it a com- overcome. charge of human waste bus fell into a gorge near a middle of the Kumbhalgarh- munity reserve. At present, A new entrant, “Jawai from trains is also a cause village here early on Sunday ‘Sighting guaranteed’ Mount Abu corridor of the there are no fixed timings Leopard Camp”, started for concern. morning, a police official said. Sheoganj-based Hotel Wood- Aravallis — where one can for tourists to visit these over two years ago, has pur- The official said accumu- The bus, which belonged to a land, started in 1996, is a pi- sight leopards. * GOPAL SINGH areas. Those conducting leo- portedly kicked off a mono- lation of garbage and hu- private operator, was on its oneer in leopard safari in pard safaris use search poly battle in the area. man waste from open-dis- way to Dindori from Jabalpur this region.Its owner, Gopal prey on sheep, and instead lights, disturbing the pred- “Its entry has been a charge toilets were when it fell into a ditch near Singh, claimed that tourists feed on chicken, peacocks, ator, the villagers and the boon as its owners invite the damaging the tracks. the ghat section in Jogitikaria never go back disappointed. rodents and dogs. Also, it cattle,” he said. foreign media, putting the village around 4 a.m., said “This region has a far bet- does not need as much food Chief Conservator Forest, region on the tourist map. Mechanised system Kotwali police station inter sighting rate for leopards as a tiger requires,” said Udaipur, Rahul Bhatnagar, The operators, however, In fact, several railway divi- charge Shivlal Markam. The compared to national parks Dr.Vardhan, who has claimed that 19.58 square have taken several safari sions have pressed into ser- bus driver, meanwhile, fled or sanctuaries. This is be- worked extensively on km area in the region sites on lease, gaining ex- vice a mechanised system from the spot after the cause it has a lot of barren leopards. around Jawai Bandh was de- clusive rights for them- for cleaning of tracks near accident. PTI hills,” said Mr. Singh. Nandu, a resident of clared a leopard conserva- selves,” said Mr. Baljeet stations. Besides, installa- A wildlife enthusiast, Mr. Badla village, said they have tion reserve, but the locals Singh. tion of bio-toilets in several Singh recced the area for become accustomed to claimed that the animals are Another challenge is a trains has reduced dis- Property dealer shot two years before conducting sighting leopards. mostly found outside this new safari hotspot in Jaipur charge of human waste on dead in Aligarh safaris. “Every village in a way area. called Jhalana. the tracks. ALIGARH Another operator, Thakur supports a bunch of five-six Mr. Bhatnagar further The safari operators said The Indian Railways is A property dealer was gunned Devi Singh Ranawat, a des- leopards who frequent the said there was a proposal the region has no less poten- the third largest rail net- down by unidentified cendant of Maharana Pra- area in the dark to prey on from the then collector to tial as a tourist hotspot than work in the world, cover- assailants when he was sitting tap, started the Leopard Lair onmentalist, told The Hindu they are dependent on cattle or dogs and quench declare community land as Jaipur, with Udaipur and ing 66,000 km and having in his car outside a restaurant Resort in Bera village that the leopards in this re- cattle in the nearby villages. their thirst at handpumps community reserve. Mount Abu not very far more than 8,000 stations. on Marris road here, the around the same time. gion mostly come from the They also feed on rodents in and wells. But the instances away from it, but poor con- It was after the launch of police said on Sunday. Dhiraj Devi Singh’s brother sanctuaries in Kumbhalgarh the hills,” said Dr. Vardhan. of human-leopard conflict Impending challenges nectivity is hurting its pro- the Swachh Bharat Ab- Singh, who was a close aide Thakur Baljeet Singh fol- and Mount Abu. are unheard of in this re- The decision, however, was spects. hiyan on October 2, 2014, to former SP legislator lowed in his footsteps to Their population has also ‘No man-animal conflict’ gion,” he said. met with stiff resistance “The region could do bet- by Prime Minister Naren- Rakesh Singh, was shot dead convert his ancestral haveli increased considerably due He pointed out that the most Aslam, an auto-rickshaw from locals, hoteliers and ter if the area is connected dra Modi that the railways last night in the posh Civil into “Castle Bera -- A Herit- to good hideouts available in remarkable feature of the driver in Jawai Bandh in Pali the mining mafia. to Goa by rail. The travel launched ‘Swachh Rail, Lines area, they added. No age Home Stay”, one of the the hills and easy availability leopards in this region is district, claimed that the an- Ten licences were also agents in Goa promise us Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’. one has been arrested yet, most sought-after resorts in of food. that they have learnt to live imals often stray into the granted for mining in the more business provided The railways has also the police said. The incident the region. “This region is full of in harmony with humans. railway station and the bus area a year ago, but the gov- there is better connectivity,” made operational a comes after two jewellers Many more followed suit granite hills, with cavities “The leopards in this re- stop. ernment later withdrew said Shatrunjay Singh, an- ‘Swachh Rail’ portal to were killed during a robbery over the few years. which act as good hideouts gion live in harmony with Dr. Vardhan said the them realising that it was a other leopard safari oper- showcase cleanliness rank- in Mathura on May 15. PTI Harsh Vardhan, an envir- for the animals. For food, the villagers. They hardly forest department should leopard landscape. The mat- ator in the region. ings of various stations. https://telegram.me/TheHindu_Zone https://telegram.me/PDF4EXAMS

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Kajol may lose Prasar Mother of two becomes irst Indian woman to reach mountain top for ifth time Bharati membership NEW DELHI Press Trust of India Bollywood actor Kajol may Itanagar Ex-Miss India Navy team cease to be a member of the Climber Anshu Jamsenpa on Prasar Bharati board for Sunday scripted history by inalist shifted reaches top giving crucial meetings a scaling Mount Everest twice miss. She was appointed a within five days. Press Trust of India Press Trust of India part-time member of the Ms. Jamsenpa, a mother Kathmandu New Delhi board, which oversees the of two, had conquered the At least six persons, includ- A group of Navy personnel functioning of public world’s highest peak for the ing former Miss India final- on Sunday conquered the broadcasters All India Radio fourth time on May 16 last. ist Sangeeta S. Bahl, 52, Mount Everest, 50 years and Doordarshan, last year. The mountaineer from Ar- were on Sunday evacuated after the peak was first According to the provisions unachal Pradesh began her from the higher camps of scaled by Navy climbers. of the Prasar Bharati Act, double ascent on Friday Mount Everest after they The feat comes a day after members absent without morning, her husband Tser- suffered from high-altitude B.M. Sharma became the taking permission for three ing Wange said. sicknesses while attempt- first Defence Civilian of the consecutive board meetings Jam-packed: People travel on the roof of an overcrowded train at Patna on Sunday. * PTI Ms. Jamsenpa, along with New heights: Ms. Jamsenpa ing to climb the world’s Indian Navy to scale the are understood to have Nepali climber Furi Sherpa, unfurls the Tricolor on highest peak. world’s highest peak. “vacated the office”. scaled the peak at 8 a.m. on Mt. Everest on May 16. * PTI Sunday. She set the world re- Luxurious Tejas Express cord for becoming the first unfurl the national flag once cent expedition from Guwa- Balcony is a small platform to be flagged off today Hardik, supporters tonsure woman climber to reach the again atop Mount Everest hati on April 2 this year. above the 8,000-m mark MUMBAI top of Mount Everest twice and pay homage to Lord considered the mountain’s The much-awaited Tejas within five days. She is also Buddha. I seek blessings and Indian goes missing “death zone.” Chhewang Express with ultra-modern heads before protest march the first Indian woman to support from my fellow An Indian climber has gone Sherpa, Managing Director amenities on board like LED reach the top of the moun- countrymen,” Ms. Jamsenpa missing on Mount Everest at Arun Treks, said Kumar TV, wi-fi, CCTV et al will be tain for the fifth time. was quoted by her PR man- after successfully scaling it, climbed the mountain at 1:28 flagged off from the city to Embark on two-day ‘justice yatra’ from Botad to Bhavnagar ager as having said before officials in Nepal said. p.m. on Saturday. Goa by Railway Minister ‘My only aim’ starting her second ascent. Ravi Kumar from Suresh Prabhu on Monday. Special Correspondent The 32-year-old had Prayers were organised in Moradabad in U.P. had gone American dies “Tomorrow [Monday] is going Ahmedabad achieved the feat of summit- monasteries and temples out of contact with the Bal- An American climber died to be a historic day for the The Patidar quota agitation ing Mount Everest twice back home in Arunachal and cony area, the final resting on his way to the summit of Indian Railways when Tejas leader Hardik Patel and his within 10 days in 2011. Ms. elsewhere in the region. spot before climbers ascend Mount Everest, expedition Express will make its maiden supporters got their heads Jamsenpa had also climbed it Tibetan spiritual leader the the south summit of the organisers said. The 50-year- run from Mumbai,” D. K. tonsured on Sunday before in 2013 from the Nepal side. Dalai Lama had flagged off mountain, after he was des- old mountaineer died close Sharma, general manager of embarking on a two day- “My only aim now is to the mountaineer’s double as- cending to lower camps. The to the Balcony. the Central Railway, said on yatra from Botad to Bhavn- Sunday. He likened Tejas agar to seek justice for mem- Express with an “aeroplane bers of the community sub- moving on the ground.” PTI jected to police atrocities during the agitation and af- Haryana reverses order on felling of trees 2 boys stripped, paraded terwards. Staff Reporter that it was “misinterpreted”. position from the green act- there were no trees on their for ‘stealing’ food item On Saturday evening, Mr. GURUGRAM In its order dated May 19, ivists claiming that it would lands, their land was not THANE Hardik held a massive rally In less than 24 hours after Principal Chief Conservator lead to an open season on deemed forest as per dic- Two minor boys were stripped in which thousands of Patid- Heading a stir: Hardik Patel gets his head tonsured in protest the Haryana government of Forests, Haryana, P.P. the forest cover of the Ara- tionary meaning and hence and paraded with garlands of ars turned up at Botad against the Gujarat government in Bhavnagar on Sunday. * PTI passed an order exempting Bhojvaid had categorised valli hills and on the forest the forest Act would not ap- slippers for allegedly stealing where they openly vowed to kikar and mesquite trees kikar and mesquite along cover of Haryana. ply,” said environmental a food item from a sweet “avenge” the injustice the their “March for Justice.” This is the beginning of our from the preview of the Pun- with trees such as amrood, “It would have led to fait analyst Chetan Agarwal. shop in Thane, the police said State BJP government inflic- “Along with the 50 PAAS political campaign ahead of jab Land Preservation Act, eucalyptus, tut and bamboo accompli situation whereby In the wake of the order, on Sunday. The shop owner ted upon the community members, I decided to get the Assembly polls in Gu- 1990, posing a grave threat to exempt from the preview owners of privatised Aravalli green activists had ex- and his two sons were when it had asked for quota our heads shaved to high- jarat,” Mr. Patel said. to green over in Aravallis of the Act which meant that common lands could clear pressed fear that real estate arrested after the incident in education and govern- light the atrocities commit- This comes a day before mountain range in South no permission was required the entire landholdings on companies that had built up that took place in Ulhasnagar ment jobs. ted by this government on Prime Minister Narendra Haryana, the order was with- to cut them. The order had, the basis of the exempt tree land banks would be the on Saturday, they said. Police our community in the last Modi was scheduled to be in drawn on Saturday saying however, led to strong op- order, and then claim that as prime beneficiaries of this. said the act was filmed by one Political campaign two years. Now, we are em- Gujarat on a two-day visit of the accused and uploaded The 23-year-old leader barking on the Nyay Yatra to during which he will attend on social media. The children, and 50 members of his seek justice,” Mr. Patel said. the annual general meeting aged 8 and 9, allegedly Patidar Anamat Andolan “During this two-day of African Development picked up a packet of ‘chakli’ Samiti got their heads Nyay Yatra, we would pass Bank in Gandhinagar and in- (a snack) without the owner’s shaved as a mark of protest through 50 villages en route augurate certain develop- permission and ate it. PTI at Lathidad village during from Botad to Bhavnagar. mental projects. https://telegram.me/TheHindu_Zone https://telegram.me/PDF4EXAMS

NOIDA/DELHI THE HINDU 8 EDITORIAL MONDAY, MAY 22, 2017 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Addressing the court within India must use this initial victory at The Hague to appeal to our own inest sense of conscience the U.S. had failed to comply with ical question, for now, though re- the Vienna Convention in several mains this: will Pakistan obey the instances involving Mexican na- court’s provisional measures? Coal comeuppance tionals. The court here directed Should it choose to ignore the or- the U.S. to review and reconsider der, it can glean much from the The coal block allocation case may become its convictions and sentences, in a American experience. The U.S., a benchmark for other ongoing prosecutions suhrith parthasarathy manner that would take into ac- after all, went ahead in executing count the breaches made of the one of the LaGrand brothers des- t is arguably the logical consequence of the 2014 Su- treaty. pite an explicit injunction from the preme Court order declaring all coal block alloca- y itself, the International Pakistan, for its part, has res- ICJ, prohibiting it from carrying out Itions made since 1993 illegal and arbitrary. The con- Court of Justice’s order, de- isted references to LaGrand and the death sentence, pending a inal viction of three Coal Ministry oicials, including former Blivered on May 18, imposing Avena. It claims that the two coun- adjudication. Ultimately, in 2005, provisional measures injuncting tries are governed by a 2008 bilat- the U.S. withdrew altogether from Secretary H.C. Gupta, marks the irst case in which indi- Pakistan from executing an Indian eral agreement on consular access, the Optional Protocol, which vidual criminal liability has been ixed on public ser- national, Kulbhushan Jadhav, is en- GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO which efectively exempts Pakistan grants the ICJ compulsory jurisdic- vants in the coal block scam. Two previous trials had tirely unexceptional. The ICJ has responsibility that comes with its the other country, but also the from its obligations under the Vi- tion over claims made under the ended in convictions, but those held guilty were oi- merely arrived at a prima facie sat- choice, to show us that it possesses right of visiting the detained indi- enna Convention, and which also Vienna Convention. cials of private companies who had deceived the au- isfaction — based on an analysis at the moral authority to charge vidual, and arranging for legal rep- ousts altogether the ICJ’s jurisdic- thorities into allotting them blocks. Mr. Gupta was the irst sight — that it possesses the other nations with a breach of the resentation, if the détenu so de- tion. More ominously, however, it A glass already half full chairperson of the screening committee that recom- power to rule on India’s applica- law. To achieve this, we must drive sires. It is India’s case that these argues that the Vienna Convention When we see naked expressions of tion, and that India’s rights, under the Indian government towards privileges were denied to it. does not apply when a person has power such as this, it’s easy to con- mended allocations. It functioned for years without re- the 1963 Vienna Convention on greater domestic compliance with Pakistan alleges that the Conven- been detained for ofences include that international law exists gard for guidelines, norms or transparency, until the Consular Relations, have plausibly its own obligations under both tion’s privileges were not only involving espionage or terrorism, as in vacuity, that its principles aren’t apex court halted its irregular run. He and two other been violated by Pakistan’s deten- treaty and customary law alike, to applicable, but that the ICJ, in any concerns over national security al- merely lawed but that they are public servants have been found guilty of abusing their tion, trial and ultimate sentencing demonstrate that our own sense of event, lacks the jurisdiction to de- ways trump the demands of consu- also law only in their name. How- positions to procure a coal block for Kamal Sponge Steel to death of Jadhav. There is now a conscience is stirred by the man- cide the dispute. Or, in other lar relations. ever, we can still see the present and Power Limited. While it was fairly clear that the worry, not without cause, that dates of the world order. words, the court, it says, does not The ICJ is yet to rule conclusively proceedings as a tunnel that ends Pakistan may not comply with the First, though, let’s consider the possess the power to make a legal on any of these arguments. It has with the optimistic light of day. screening committee route was only a mechanism to ICJ’s direction, despite its explicitly facts of the present dispute, as they determination on the dispute. only granted India provisional Even if Pakistan were to disregard push through the applications of all and sundry for coal binding status. What’s more, the are. Although India and Pakistan Ordinarily, rows between na- measures pending a inal adjudica- the ICJ’s order, the case shows us blocks, especially under the irst UPA government, it internationalisation of the dispute disagree over the precise nature of tions can be taken to the World tion. But, on any reasonable inal that there do exist concrete was not certain if it could be proved beyond reasonable potentially comes with its political who Mr. Jadhav is and where he Court only if both parties consent consideration, Pakistan’s argu- sources — a treaty in this case — doubt that public servants had manipulated the system ramiications for India. But much was arrested, the crux of India’s to the court’s jurisdiction. In this ments ought not to pass muster. which impose an ethical duty on to their advantage. Special CBI Court Judge Bharat Para- as all these considerations can case, which Pakistan hasn’t partic- case, however, India relies on Art- The 2008 bilateral understanding nation-states to follow the rule of shar has now ruled that Coal Ministry oicials deliber- serve as a basis for cynicism, we ularly disputed on facts, is this: icle 36(1) of the Statute of the ICJ between the countries no doubt law. It allows us to consider what mustn’t despair at India’s choice. that Mr. Jadhav was denied consu- which accords to the court the imposes particular responsibilities the scholar Thomas M. Franck de- ately allowed an incomplete application from an in- Its victory, impermanent as it may lar access, despite numerous re- power to decide disputes arising on them, but by no means does it scribed as “post-ontological” ques- eligible company to be taken up for consideration. Far ultimately prove to be, must be cel- quests from India. Pakistan claims out of treaties or conventions that relieve either country from its ob- tions, to address not whether inter- from ‘screening’ applications, he inds that the accused ebrated for what it is: a vindication that these actions do not breach speciically vest the court with ligations under the Vienna Con- national law really is law, but the actually let all applications pass without any checking of the rule of law. the Vienna Convention, as Jadhav compulsory jurisdiction. The Vi- vention. As the opinions in LaG- more normative concerns over so that “they will have an open ield to arbitrarily exer- was involved in espionage and sab- enna Convention, through an op- rand and Avena make clear, once a how best to enforce its commands. cise their discretion in favour of any company”. Dispelling old concerns otage. India submits that the treaty tional protocol that both India and foreign national is arrested the We must therefore use this oppor- The verdict is a studied indictment of government Too often ontological concerns en- creates no such exception and that Pakistan are signatories to, is one state making the arrest has a duty tunity to shun scepticism, and ap- cumber the study of international the denial of consular access is an such agreement. to allow the consular oicials of the peal to our inest sense of con- processes, or the lack of processes, during the period. law — questions tend to revolve infringement for which Pakistan sending state to visit the détenu and science. We can only do this by Looking at the prosecution charges and the defence around whether international law must make reparations. To this ICJ in the picture to render to him all the assistance resisting a push for greater govern- claims, it appears there was little clarity on whether the is really law at all, and, if so, end, India has sought, among As India has pointed out in its ap- that he needs. It’s easy to see that mental freedom at the domestic guidelines were being adhered to. The former Secret- whether its principles even matter. other things, an order that would plication, the ICJ has, at least in two Pakistan is in breach of this funda- level, which invariably tends to ary and Joint Secretary said in their defence they could Despite consistent empirical evid- declare the sentence of the notable instances, entertained ap- mental obligation. Its endeavour to carry itself into the sphere of inter- not verify applications for completeness and eligibility, ence which shows that interna- Pakistani military court as violat- plications under Article 36(1) of its wriggle out of this responsibility national relations, where our own as it was the job of the section concerned. The section tional law positively inluences ing Article 36 of the Vienna Con- statute for breaches of the Vienna citing concerns over national se- obligations — think climate change, state behaviour, these questions, vention, which both countries as Convention. In 2001, the court curity is also likely to fail. Were customary refugee law, funda- says this is the job of the administrative ministry or the seeped in scepticism, somehow parties are bound by. ruled that the United States had vi- such an argument to be accepted, mental human rights, among oth- State government to which applications are forwarded. never seem to go away. India’s This provision deines the rights olated its obligations to Germany it would potentially lead to a most ers — often stand breached. To set Other omissions include the failure to evolve any inter choice of the ICJ as a legitimate site granted to consular oicials, with a in denying consular access to the dangerous situation, where coun- the right moral example we must se criteria to decide eligibility, or to do any veriication for dispute resolution, even if it view to helping them exercise their LaGrand brothers, citizens of Ger- tries can ignore their consular ob- start from within. either before or after the screening committee recom- was borne out of self-interest, can consular functions. Speciically, it many who had been convicted and ligations purely because they con- mended allocations to the Minister. Whether there was help dispel some of these age-old accords a privilege to oicials to sentenced to death in the state of sider the sending state an enemy. Suhrith Parthasarathy is an advocate a conspiracy between the oicials and the company concerns. But for that to happen, not only freely communicate with Arizona. Similarly, in the Avena Whichever way the ICJ’s de- India must take on the additional any national of its state detained in case in 2004, the court ruled that cision might eventually go, the crit- practising at the Madras High Court and whether the prosecution proved that these omissions amounted to deliberate abuse of their positions will be matters that will, no doubt, be taken up on appeal; but the signiicance of the verdict is that it may be- An opportunity being drained away come a benchmark for other ongoing prosecutions on similar lines. The case also raises questions about the role and responsibility of a Secretary to the govern- Sound policies on wastewater treatment and use are vital to sustainable development ment, who is not only the administrative head of a de- used. Another fact is that 1.8 billion achieved despite legislative and such as environmental taxes, pollu- partment but also an adviser to the Minister on matters people use drinking water contam- policy measures being introduced tion levies and tradable permit sys- of policy. inated with faeces which increases with huge budgets to solve water tems should be implemented, and their risk of contracting cholera, pollution issues. Water pollution is can be used to ight against or abate dysentery, typhoid and polio. Also, not a major topic of political debate water pollution. Incentive mechan- 663 million people still lack access as yet. isms such as subsidies, soft loans, Rouhani’s moment to improved drinking water tax relaxation should be included prakash nelliyat His emphatic re-election as Iran’s President sources. Management strategies in installing pollution management The opportunities for exploiting There is suicient evidence to sug- devices. gives the reformist agenda a chance ach year a speciic aspect of wastewater as a resource are gest that the problem, though com- In industrial pollution manage- water is highlighted while ob- enormous. Safely managed plex, is solvable. While it is not real- ment, technological attempts he resounding victory of President Hassan Rouh- Eserving International World wastewater is an afordable and GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO istic to aim for zero water pollution, should be made through cleaner ani, who had sought re-election on a platform of Water Day (March 22); this year’s sustainable source of water, en- 30% of the wastewater through a level of socially acceptable pollu- production-technology. Sophistic- Tmoderation and engagement with the outside theme was “wastewater”, which is ergy, nutrients and other recover- sewer lines, while treatment capa- tion, respecting the integrity of ated pollution management tech- world, is a strong endorsement by the Iranian people deined as any water that has been able materials. The beneits to our city exists for about 7,000 mld. ecosystems and service provision, nology developed overseas should for political change. He won one of the most polarised adversely afected in quality by an- health, and in terms of economic Industrial water consumption can be reached. be introduced in India. The applic- elections in Iran’s recent history, one in which the cler- thropogenic inluences and as a development and environmental accounts for 22% of the global wa- At the national and regional ation of eco-friendly inputs such as result of domestic, industrial, com- sustainability, business opportun- ter used. The industrial sector in In- levels, water pollution prevention biofertilizers and pesticides in agri- ical establishment backed a candidate who was running mercial and agricultural activities. ities and ‘green’ jobs far outweigh dia discharges around 30,730 mil- policies should be integrated into culture and the use of natural dyes against a sitting President. The hardliners rallied be- In recent decades, population the costs of wastewater lion cubic metres of eluents, non-water policies that have im- in textile industries can reduce the hind Ebrahim Raisi, who challenged Mr. Rouhani’s eco- growth, accelerated urbanisation management. without proper treatment, into wa- plications on water quality such as pollution load considerably. nomic policies, slammed his outreach to the West and and economic development have By 2030, the global demand for terbodies. Unfortunately, most agriculture and land use manage- Since fresh water is increasingly even lung corruption allegations against him. Still Mr. resulted in an increase in the quant- water is expected to grow by 50%. common eluent treatment plants ment, trade, industry, energy, and getting scarce, wastewater gener- Rouhani won 57% of the vote against Mr. Raisi’s 38.5%. ity of wastewater and the overall Most of this demand will be in cit- are not performing satisfactorily urban development. Water pollu- ated in urban areas can be used for In 2013, Mr. Rouhani was an accidental candidate of the pollution load being generated. ies. In low-income areas of cities/ due to improper operations and tion should be made a punishable sub-urban agriculture, industry, Most of our freshwater sources are towns within developing countries, maintenance. ofence. The efectiveness and and even sanitation and certain do- moderates. It was a time when the moderate movement under threat. When public aware- a large proportion of wastewater is Run-of from agriculture ields is power of the “polluter pay prin- mestic applications after treat- had not recovered from the 2009 crackdown by the ness of pollution is limited, the cost discharged directly into the surface another major source of pollution. ciple” should be considered. ment. Wastewater need not be a state apparatus after Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s contro- of pollution to our health and the water drain, without or with lim- India, with 17% of the world’s Various policies, plans and burden any longer but an asset versial re-election. Then both the moderates and cent- ecosystem is huge. The victims are ited treatment. Traditional population, 4% of water resources strategies to protect water re- instead. rists led by former President Akbar Rafsanjani backed generally the poor or socially vul- wastewater treatment plants may and 2.4% of land area, extracts wa- sources should be participatory, al- Mr. Rouhani as a consensus candidate. This time there nerable communities, and the end not remove certain pollutants. In ter signiicantly for various devel- lowing for consultation between Prakash Nelliyat works with the Centre for was no Rafsanjani; Mr. Rouhani fought on his own. Dur- result is a high inancial burden on India, about 29,000 million l/day opmental purposes. Hence, the wa- government, industry and the pub- the community and government. (mld) of waste water is generated ter low or storage capacity of water lic. At the local level, capacity Biodiversity Policy and Law, National ing the campaign, he assailed Iran’s deep state in a way Biodiversity Authority, Chennai. from class-I cities and class-II bodies has declined substantially, building enables the community to no sitting President had done. He reached out to wo- Statistical references are from various Water facts towns, out of which about 45% adversely afecting their waste as- make decisions and disseminate published papers and the insights from a men and the ethnic and religious minorities. The num- Globally, over 80% of the wastewa- (about 13,000 mld) is generated similation/sink functions. them to the appropriate authorit- recent paper by the writer. The views bers suggest a vast majority of Iranians repose great ter generated goes back to the eco- from metro cities alone. A collec- Past experience shows that signi- ies, thus inluencing political pro- expressed are personal. E-mail: faith in this cleric who promises them hope and change. system without being treated or re- tion system exists for only about icant progress has not been cesses. Market-based strategies [email protected] Now that he has won, the spotlight turns on the challenges ahead. In the irst term, Mr. Rouhani treaded LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Letters emailed to [email protected] must carry the full postal address and the full name or the name with initials. cautiously. His focus was on the nuclear negotiations Iran was undertaking with six world powers and he was Hack it yourself the EC’s attempt to be the basis of issues such as treatments periodically you don’t have to explain to Hollywood ilms such as averse to upsetting the conservative establishment. His The bold decision by the transparent should also be “keeping away a particular (“Kerala girl cuts godman’s your children about the bad “Gladiator” or “Troy”, even record in ofering more civil liberties fell short of ex- Election Commission to used as an occasion to make family” or ordering an genitals, ends eight-year things in life. The director calling them “classic”, why pectations as young Iranians are still waiting for mean- throw an open challenge to the political parties inquiry into the ordeal”, May 21). The has even upheld respecting not appreciate it when ingful changes in the clergy-deined social order. The political parties to prove concerned apologise should circumstances around incident may sound bizarre women by including a scene Indian cinema makes a reformist politicians who were put under house arrest their claims that EVMs can they be proved wrong. With Jayalalithaa’s demise. As but such a case is bound to where Baahubali chops of similar attempt (“The Bali of in 2011 are still not free, and Mr. Rouhani hardly spoke be tampered with should the VVPAT EVMs inding a long as the EPS faction has happen when there is the head of a security guard Cinema” and “Very Worst for them during his irst term. And unemployment has take the wind out of the sails place in the next Assembly the majority, Chief Minister progressive moral who misbehaves with Graphics”, The Hindu of parties such as the Aam and general elections, one Palanisami should be degradation. What sort of a women. We have not had an Magazine, May 14 and May not eased under his government. Now that the nuclear Aadmi Party, whose top hopes that the trend of allowed to rule. The next spiritual guide was he? Indian superhero for a long 21, respectively)? deal is done and he has a second term, it is time for Mr. leaders have been shouting ridiculing the EC and EVMs elections are some years V. Lakshmanan, time, even after the Neethu S. Nair, Rouhani to act boldly. It is unrealistic to expect radical themselves hoarse levelling will end. away and taxpayer money Tirupur, Tamil Nadu Shaktimaan era. Palakkad changes in a society that is tightly controlled by the allegations (“EVM Praveen Patavardhan, should not be wasted. “Baahubali” has given us more letters online: Ayatollahs. Though the President is the highest elected hackathon from June 3”, Bengaluru Corrupt and ineicient Blockbuster one. When we laud www.hindu.com/opinion/letters/ oicial of the republic, real powers lie in the hands of May 21). A constitutional governments running their As an ordinary cine-goer body such as the ECI opting Political alignments full term is not new either as who watched the ilm corrections & clarifications: the Supreme Leader. Any attempt to introduce rapid to nail the lie of the After the initial high, O. long as they have the “Baahubali 2”, I think that A sentence in the story headlined “A spectre is haunting GOP changes will meet with strong resistance from the deep doubting Thomases is an Panneerselvam now inds numbers. People will get an apart from the graphics or lawmakers” (May 21, 2017) read: “... in Virginia, Dave Brat could state. But Presidents can pursue a gradualist reform unprecedented step in his political path riddled opportunity to decide who spectacular visuals that the hardly have a word tossed above the din that didn’t stop until he agenda with popular support. Over the years, Iranian Indian electoral history. The with potholes as events are should govern them. Since ilm ofers, the main thing did not stop;” It should have been until he stopped. civil society, working within several constraints, has EC’s stock will certainly rise not falling into place as both factions have the same that made the ilm a grand Wrong headline: It was not Netlix that was heckled at Cannes as once it succeeds in putting expected. (“OPS camp hints ideology, Mr. success is its story which is given in a Life page (May 19, 2017) headline. It was actually the kept the moderate current that powers this reform Cannes projection team which was booed for wrong aspect ratio. agenda alive, in sharp contrast to several other coun- all doubts to rest. Some of at pact with BJP, retracts”, Panneerselvam should try set away from the harsh The correct headline is: “Cannes projection team booed at Okja our political parties are in May 21). 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THE HINDU NOIDA/DELHI MONDAY, MAY 22, 2017 OPED 9 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Cool down the rhetoric FROM THE READERS’ EDITOR The U.S. will gain little by turning India into an adversary on climate change issues The government and

levels. But the “Nationally Determined Contributions” submitted so far make the media it clear that they will not be able to hold the increase to below 3° Celsius. The advantage that the U.S. and There is a symbiotic relationship between popular opinion other developed countries have and the focus of a daily, one that we must examine carefully T.P. Sreenivasan gained from the Paris Accord is that all economies, including China and In- dia, are being made to take action on no one to make them but us.” These stories, U.S. President Donald Trump’s accus- climate change without any commen- in a sense, gives us tools to evaluate the role ation against India concerning the surate guarantees from the former on of Indian newspapers in holding those in Paris Accord that “...the U.S. pays bil- funding and transfer of technology. power accountable. lions of dollars while China, Russia, The financial commitment that the and India have contributed (to pollu- U.S. has undertaken is only to change Evaluating the NDA government A.S. Panneerselvan tion) and will contribute nothing” is to new energy sources. Naturally, the This week will mark the completion of three inaccurate, misleading and unfair. In cost of the switch will be more for the years in power of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government led by Prime fact, India has walked with the U.S. U.S. than for China or India and this For nearly a decade, the dispatches from the Minister Narendra Modi. The opinion about from Stockholm to Paris via Rio de cannot be considered as a payout. As Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) were seen the performance of the government and that Janeiro, Kyoto and Copenhagen. New eleven State Governors have written as a harbinger of the new challenges con- of the media is evenly divided. Those who Delhi has fought for climate justice, to President Trump, if the U.S. aban- fronting journalism. It documented the crisis support the present government, with an en- equity and fairness all the way, de- dons its investments in climate in the Western news media industry, it in- viable presence on digital platforms, say that manding that developing countries change, India and China will benefit vestigated how Silicon Valley companies are newspapers were unnecessarily critical of should be entitled to maintain and in- from the low-carbon leadership they upending journalism, it examined the limita- some of the historic decisions of the crease their greenhouse gas emissions acquire over time. By maintaining the tion of algorithm-driven journalism, it talked government. for survival and developed countries momentum in global efforts, the U.S. about the failure of the pay wall, and about The other section feels that Indian news- should mandatorily cut their luxury will benefit through its own transition filter bubbles and echo chambers created by papers have gone into a self-censorship emissions. At the same time, India has to clean energy. India had initially hes- social media and its debilitating influence on mode and have failed to point out the gap also been sensitive to the constraints itated to ratify the Paris Accord out of journalism. One anticipates its arrival in the between official rhetoric and the delivery of of the U.S. and the other industrial- fear that it might not be able to invest mailbox with a sense of trepidation. the official machinery. One criticism, by this ised nations in reducing emissions. in clean energy like nuclear power, However, its latest newsletter was a depar- section, against the media is that it is focus- Indira Gandhi had exposed the unless it gains entry into the Nuclear ture. It spoke about the best kind of newspa- sing more on the acts of omission and com- Western efforts to impose environ- Suppliers Group. Apparently, it rati- per war that is happening in the United mission of the Opposition parties rather than mental colonialism at the Stockholm fied the accord on the basis of certain States right now. It spoke about the competi- that of the ruling dispensation. Conference in 1972 and declared that assurances in this regard from former tion of competence between the two major

“poverty is the worst polluter” and GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO U.S. President Barack Obama. U.S. dailies — The New York Times and The Over the next two weeks, this column will demanded that “the polluter must India was seen as an adversary at Washington Post — in their series of investig- look at how Indian newspapers in general, pay”. But she had also conceded that ory cuts from China, India and Brazil chief climatologist of National Aero- the beginning of the Paris Conference, ative stories about the Donald Trump re- and The Hindu in particular, reported on the development should be sustainable. during the Berlin negotiations (1995), nautics and Space Administration because of its championship of the gime. government over the past three years. The India’s Chandrashekhar Dasgupta and India did not dismiss their demands (NASA), was forthright in his assess- Kyoto Protocol. It was only after it vir- The CJR writer observed: “It wasn’t that views of the reading public play a vital role in U.S.’s Al Gore worked together for the out of hand. It accommodated various ment: “It is a fraud really, a fake,” he tually abandoned Kyoto by saying that long ago that both papers were in dire defining the character of a newspaper’s cov- historic agreements in Rio de Janeiro, mechanisms to reduce the burden of said. “It is just b******* for them to say, the world had to go beyond the failed straights. Back in 2013, while The Times was erage. There is a symbiotic relationship which led to the signing of the Frame- the developed world. For this reason, ‘we will have a 2° Celsius warming tar- agreements of the past that its status struggling to attract digital subscribers and between popular opinion and the focus of a work Convention on Climate Change the Kyoto Protocol had a reasonable get and try to do a little better every changed from that of a “challenge” to tweaking its pay wall, Jeff Bezos’s purchase newspaper. (FCCC) in 1992. chance of success, but it was the U.S. five years’. It is just worthless words. a “partner” in the eyes of the U.S. The of The Post was seen by some as ‘quixotic ad- The feedback loop works both ways, im- that refused to sign it and started to There is no action, just promises. As New York Times’s cartoon showing In- venturism’. Four years later, both outlets plicitly and explicitly. I solicit readers’ views Grand Rio bargain wriggle out of every understanding long as fossil fuels appear to be the dia as the elephant stopping the Paris have stabilised their financial footing, and on this crucial topic, which will form the The concept of “common, but differ- reached. The whole approach was cheapest fuel out there, they will con- train in its tracks was not an exaggera- news consumers are reaping the benefits.” backbone of my analysis. I have no hesita- entiated responsibilities” led to the sought to be changed till the adoption tinue to be burned.” tion of the Indian position at the time tion in agreeing with Milan Kundera’s de- identification of Annex I countries, of the Copenhagen Consensus, which By its very nature, the Paris Accord of the beginning of the Paris confer- Scrutinising the White House scription of our perception of the present: which agreed to mandatory cuts. The was disowned by most of the develop- does not warrant the argument made ence. The close scrutiny of the White House affairs “There would seem to be nothing more obvi- idea that developed countries should ing countries. In Copenhagen, former by Mr. Trump. It contains no financial India may have eventually em- by the two newspaper majors was so intense ous, more tangible and palpable than the meet the “incremental costs” of devel- Prime Minister Manmohan Singh per- commitment from the U.S. or any braced the lesser evil of voluntary cuts that Margaret Sullivan, former Public Editor present moment. And yet it eludes us com- oping countries using environment- sonally participated in the new under- other country except a vague offer of for everyone rather than mandatory of NYT and the present media columnist for pletely… Each instant represents a little uni- friendly technologies was another ele- standing that all commitments would $100 billion after 2020. The Accord cuts for the main emitters, among The Post, wrote: “The two papers have been verse, irrevocably forgotten in the next in- ment in the grand bargain at Rio. be voluntary and that the UN would deals with the global commitments of which New Delhi itself might have answering each other’s major scoops like stant.” In this age of information glut — Huge commitments were made not only supervise and evaluate their im- countries regarding emissions, mitiga- been counted. The U.S. will gain little smitten teens volleying text messages.” And, profound, profane, trivia and rumours — we only for financial support, but also for plementation. This incurred the wrath tion, adaptation and financing from by turning India into an adversary to top it, last week also saw Kevin D. William- need to take a pause and relook at what type technology transfer at concessional of many developing countries. What 2020. The allegation that China, Rus- once again at a time when a whole son’s article in National Review, “The news of newspaper war is happening here? prices. The fine balance struck by In- remained was only a myth that the sia and India are only contributing to range of issues in India-U.S. relations ain’t fake,” that addressed the conservative Where does the newspaper’s contrarian dia and the U.S. culminated in the Kyoto Protocol was still alive and well pollution and not to climate change are yet to be clarified and taken for- audience who are distrustful of scoops from and adversarial role end and where does it Agenda 21, raising hopes for a renais- and that the Rio spirit was intact. fund has no basis whatsoever. ward. Walking together on climate newspapers seen as left-leaning. He wrote: become a force multiplier for the ruling sance in the areas of both environ- The much acclaimed Paris Accord The essence of the Paris Accord is change will be beneficial to both. “We owe it to ourselves to take account of party? I will restrict my analysis only to ment and development. was a requiem for Rio and all that the only a “strong agreement” to hold the reality. And we owe it to the country, too. It newspapers because news television is mim- When the U.S. and other developed FCCC stood for. The whole value of increase in the global average temper- The writer was the vice-chairman of the is cheap, it is cowardly, and it is bad citizen- icking gladiatorial sport and that requires a countries — particularly Japan, the accord has been challenged by ature to well below 2° Celsius above Conference of Parties of the Framework ship to simply shriek ‘fake news!’ every time different set of skills and language to explain Canada, Australia and New Zealand — those who had worked tirelessly for pre-industrial levels and to pursue ef- Convention on Climate Change from 1992 to reality forces a hard choice upon us. Living its content. began to renege on their commit- an international consensus to save the forts to limit the temperature increase 1995 and Chairman of the G-77 at the Berlin in a free, self-governing society means mak- Conference in 1995 ments and began demanding mandat- planet. James Hansen, formerly the to 1.5° Celsius above pre-industrial ing a great many hard choices, and there is [email protected]

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WIKIMEDIA COMMONS ful resistance against patriarchy at home. His mother would fast to put moral pressure on his father, and his wife would refuse any act A HUNDRED YEARS AGO MAY 22, 1917 that he asked her to do if she did not agree with it. He person- ally experienced the power that resists rather than destroys. “Broken coin” case He incorporated this knowledge into a political tool, CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC satyagraha, that combined civil disobedience with construct- CONCEPTUAL SHELF HELP At the Chief Court to-day was dismissed with costs the suit by ive action. 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NOIDA/DELHI THE HINDU 10 NEWS MONDAY, MAY 22, 2017 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE FROM PAGE ONE BJP plays a waiting game Calm returns 3 soldiers, 4 ultras Amit Shah says party is yet to decide on candidate for presidential polls to Jamshedpur killed in Handwara Press Trust of India keeping a sharp vigil, and ment’s third anniversary, the New Delhi the Valley had witnessed BJP president said it has won A policeman on Saturday 2015, a Peoples Democratic The BJP is yet to take a de- such unrest in the past and the people’s trust and added Anger over lynchings boils over evening decamped with Party leader’s guard, Naseer cision on its candidate for the situation got normalised that the poor have the belief four service rifles in central Ahmad Pandit of the 11 bat- the presidential election, back then, he said. that it was working for their Kashmir’s Budgam district talion of J&K Armed Police, even as the party rejected The BJP national presid- welfare. amid fears that the guns joined the Hizbul Mu- the Shiv Sena’s proposal to ent also attacked the Con- may have landed up with jahideen along with two ser- nominate RSS chief Mohan gress for criticising the gov- Mass support the active militants in south vice rifles. Bhagwat. ernment, claiming that it In a democracy the “biggest Kashmir. Meanwhile, Hizbul Mu- Replying to a question on had no right to do so as the certificate is the people’s ver- Identified as constable jahideen spokesman Burha- the BJP-led NDA’s candidate Kashmir problem was an dict” and the masses have Syed Naved, a resident of nuddin claimed the police- for the presidential polls in outcome of the policies of its time and again underscored Shopian district’s Naznin- man had joined his group. July as the Opposition was governments since their support for the BJP-led pora, the policeman was de- “Naveed is asset of this na- already working on putting Independence. NDA government, he said in ployed at the Food Corpora- tion. We salute his valour. up a joint candidate, BJP a reference to the BJP’s win tion of India’s guard room in People like him will con- president Amit Shah said in a Jharkhand lynching in several State elections. Nasrullahpora village. tinue to join us,” he said. TV interview that a decision Amit Shah Terming the lynching of The Modi government has Mr. Naved had joined the The latest incident has was yet to be taken. seven persons in Jharkhand been able to rid the country police in 2012. taken the number of service “Even if I have a name on concern” over the situation by a mob over abduction ru- of the politics of casteism, All the service rifles were rifles looted in the past my mind, it has to be dis- in the State which had wit- mours an “isolated and stray family rule and appease- Under control: Police and RAF teams patrol a suburb of self loading INSAS rifles. In month to 14. cussed within the party nessed months of unrest, incident” which happens in ment, and turned the focus Jamshedpur city on Sunday. * MANOB CHOWDHURY first,” he said. and asserted that the Naren- a country of 125 crore on the politics of perform- dra Modi government would people, the BJP chief said it ance, the party president Special Correspondent been arrested from Mango Bhagwat not in race bring the situation under would not be appropriate to claimed. Kolkata in Jamshedpur town. NIA cautious on He also rejected the Shiv control. link such cases of violence to While the United Pro- No fresh violence was repor- While 10 of them were in- Sena’s proposal regarding “There is a big gap his party. gressive Alliance govern- ted in Jamshedpur on volved in stone-throwing on Bhagwat, saying the RSS had between the reality and the People should look up the ment was accused of scams Sunday after the lynching of Saturday, four were behind Geelani probe itself ruled out any such projection” of the Kashmir crime data to find out if running into ₹12 lakh crore, seven people on Thursday, orchestrating the violence idea. situation and the trouble was cases of violence have in- even rivals of the NDA gov- though anger and anxiety on Saturday,” Mr. Kumar The NIA is yet to find any eration by India Today TV, To questions on Kashmir, confined to “three and a half creased under the BJP government have not levelled a were palpable in certain said. evidence against Mr. Geelani confessing to having re- Mr. Shah said there was no districts”, he said. ernments, he said. single charge of corruption areas of the town. Violence broke out in in the said case. ceived money from need for even an “iota of The government was Ahead of the Modi govern- against it, Mr. Shah claimed. “Prohibitory orders un- Mango when members of On the 2016 PE against Pakistan-based terror der Section 144 of the Code the Muslim community Mr. Geelani, an NIA official groups. On Saturday, Mr. of Criminal Procedure were called for a bandh protest- said: “There were two bank Geelani suspended Mr. CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC imposed from 10 p.m. on ing against the Raj Nagar in- accounts related to Geelani Khan’s membership from Saturday to 6 a.m. on cident. Certain shops were which are under the scan- the Hurriyat until “clarifica- A house for ex-Presidents Sunday. The situation is un- open in the area, leading to ner. Lots of funds have been tion of all related issues der control, and there is ad- large-scale violence. disbursed through it. We are comes to the fore.” equate deployment of secur- The police and the ad- finding out the source of “The NIA has collected ity forces,” Amit Kumar, ministration have appealed funds. The pattern is suspi- details of 13 accused charge District Collector, East to the people not to believe cious. We are taking the sheeted so far in the cases in Singhbhum, told The Hindu. rumours. The State govern- help of financial analysts the Valley in the recent past, Eighteen people have been ment announced a com- and bank officials in that pertaining to the damage arrested in connection with pensation of ₹2 lakh to the case.” The NIA quizzed caused to schools and pub- the lynching and the viol- kin of each of the victims. three Hurriyat leaders, Nay- lic property as part of the ence, the Collector said. Rumours of child-lifting eem Khan, Farooq Ahmed larger conspiracy to per- Tension broke out in the gangs operating in certain Dar alias ‘Bitta Karate’ and petuate violence and chaos Jugsalai area when the last parts of the State, including Gazi Javed Baba of Tehreek- in Kashmir. The NIA is prob- rites of Vikash Verma and Jadugoda in East Singhb- e-Hurriyat, for the second ing all aspects of funding of Gautam Verma were per- hum district, surfaced on day. Mr. Khan, the National separatist leaders and use of formed. The brothers were WhatsApp on May 10. Front chief, was seen on these funds in fuelling un- lynched at Nagadih al- Senior officials told The television during a sting op- rest,” the NIA release said. legedly over rumours of Hindu there seemed to be a child-lifting. chain from where the What- Meetings were organised sApp messages originated. by community leaders to The police were trying to as- Green energy target ease tensions. Iswar Soren, certain if the rumours were a tribal leader, held a meet- systematically floated as ing at Karandi on the out- part of a conspiracy to tough, say oicials skirts of the city. destabilise law and order or were just acts of mischief. Twin episodes The local people said par- Four were lynched at Raj ents in certain areas Nagar in Saraikela-Khar- stopped sending their chil- wawan district and three at dren to school following the Nagadih in the Bagbera po- rumours. lice station limits. Those “While Facebook and killed at Raj Nagar were other social media sites can Muslims, said to be cattle be monitored it is difficult to Restoring the shine: The 10 Rajaji Marg bungalow in Lutyens Delhi, where A.P.J. Abdul Kalam spent his post-presidential years, is traders, while those in keep a check on WhatsApp undergoing renovation with the term of President Pranab Mukherjee coming to an end in July. The ground loor of the 11,776-sq.ft Nagadi were Hindus. forwards,” a senior police building has a library and an attached reading space. * V.V. KRISHNAN “Fourteen persons have official said. Will stop Godse memorial, Man held for Mamata names ‘illegal entry’ says Maharashtra Minister into Pak. “There are talks in the Min- The first is that we don’t 5 for Rajya Sabha istry about what to do about have financial institutions Press Trust of India this,” he said. “But at the aggregating demand across Special Correspondent who had earlier joined the The Hindu Mahasabha is constructing the memorial Islamabad moment, it looks unlikely a fundamentally disparate Kolkata party. An Indian national has that the government will set of projects. Unless this is West Bengal Chief Minister Press Trust of India gently intervene. Dutt said. been arrested here for not meet the 175 GW target be- done, it will be difficult to at- and Trinamool Congress Balancing act Mumbai As per reports, the Hindu “The fascist forces, who possessing travel and visa cause of this segment, solar tract the kind of investment chairperson Mamata Baner- The nomination of Dr. Mahasabha is constructing killed Mahatma Gandhi are documents, a media report rooftops. Every other seg- needed.” jee on Sunday announced Bhunia and Ms. Chettri is Leader of the House and Ma- the memorial of Godse, the now blatantly raising their said on Sunday. ment is moving on track.” The second issue, Mr. five names, including two being considered in the harashtra Revenue Minister assassin of Mahatma heads once again to throttle Sheikh Nabi Ahmed The government had an- Ghosh said, was the de-risk- new faces, for nomination political circles as a fine bal- Chandrakant Patil on Gandhi, at the village, six km Bapu’s ideals and teachings, from Jogeshwari East in nounced a target of 40 GW ing of investment in the to the Rajya Sabha. ancing act by Ms. Banerjee. Sunday assured the Legislat- from Kalyan and land has while the government is Mumbai was taken into of rooftop solar by 2022, but rooftop space. While this Party national spokesper- On one hand, it is seen a ive Council that the govern- been acquired for the turning a blind eye to it,” Mr. custody on May 19, The Ex- had achieved only about 1.3 has been done for commer- son Derek O’ Brien, message to the people in ment would take steps to purpose. Dutt said. press Tribune reported. GW as of December 2016, cial solar projects, it has not Sukhendu Sekhar Roy and the Darjeeling hills that the stop the construction of a He said the Congress, The police said he was which is a little more than been done for rooftop solar. Dola Sen have been re-nom- Trinamool is nominating a memorial of Nathuram ‘Real face’ along with all secular forces, walking on Nazimuddin 3% of the target. The third problem is that inated to the House. representative from the re- Godse being built by an or- “After coming to power by would not allow it to hap- Road in Sector F-8 when he “On current trends, it there is no regulatory clarity The two other nomina- gion, while, on the other, it ganisation in Saparde village promising ‘sabka sath, sabka pen, no matter what. was stopped at a check- does look like the rooftop on guaranteed payment by tions are former Congress gives a clear indication that near Kalyan in neighbouring vikas’, the real face of the “Nathuram’s memorial post. The police demanded solar target will be missed,” utilities on the net metering leader Manas Ranjan those joining Trinamool Thane. ruling government is coming coming up in Kalyan is a blot his visa documents after he Arunabha Ghosh, CEO of basis. Bhuniya, who recently from other parties will be The assurance came after to light, which proves that on progressive Maharashtra told them that he was an the Council on Energy, En- “If these are addressed, joined the Trinamool, and rewarded as per merit. Congress MLC Sanjay Dutt for them it is actually ‘Mann and sends a very wrong mes- Indian. He has been vironment & Water told The then the investment in this Santa Chettri, a former MLA Dr. Bhunia said he would raised the issue via a point of mein Ram, dil mein Na- sage across India and even booked for illegal entry Hindu. “The challenges for area can significantly pick from Gorkha National Liber- abide by the instructions of propriety and demanded thuram (Lord Ram in mind, internationally,” the Con- and stay in the country un- rooftop solar are different. up,” Mr. Ghosh said. ation Front from the Hills the Chief Minister. that the government ur- Nathuram in heart),” Mr. gress MLC said. der Foreigners Act 1946. Cong. seeks to repeat Punjab model 1,800 IAS oicers fail to disclose asset details Press Trust of India cadre. As many as 153 are ₹5,000. They also need to in- 60 from the Himachal Pra- New Delhi from Rajasthan, 118 from form government if they ac- desh cadre who have not Party’s Dalit outreach had garnered a majority of reserved seats in the Assembly Over 1,800 IAS officers have Madhya Pradesh, 109 from cept gifts of over ₹25,000 submitted the IPR for 2016, not submitted details of their West Bengal and 104 from from their relatives or according to the DoPT data. Smita Gupta There is also a sense that ground level campaign. We immoveable assets to the the AGMUT cadre. friends, according to the As many as 56 IAS officers New Delhi the presence of a powerful will choose six to 10 Dalit government within the time- As per norms, civil ser- rules. of Gujarat cadre, 55 of The success of the Congress’ Dalit party in Uttar Pradesh, youth in every village to frame this year. vices officers are also sup- There are 82 IAS officers Jharkhand, 52 from Haryana, Dalit outreach plan in the combined with the natural make person-to-person con- As per Department of Per- posed to give details of their from Karnataka cadre, 81 51 of J&K, 50 from Tamil Punjab Assembly elections antagonism between Dalits tact,” party sources said. sonnel and Training data, as assets and liabilities to the from Andhra Pradesh, 74 Nadu, 43 of Nagaland, 38 of earlier this year has encour- and Yadavs — represented by In Punjab, where Dalits many as 1,856 IAS officers government. Besides, the of- from Bihar, 72 each from Kerala, 33 from Uttaranchal aged the party to attempt a the Samajwadi Party — and account for almost 32%, the have not submitted their re- ficers need to take prior per- Odisha and Assam- 29 from Sikkim and 26 from repeat in the upcoming State the eventual Hindu-Muslim Congress had kicked off with turns for 2016. Of them, the mission from the Central Meghalaya, 70 from Punjab, newly-formed Telangana polls in Himachal Pradesh, polarisation would have a convention for them in highest of 255 such officers government before accept- 67 from Maharashtra, 64 have also not submitted their Gujarat, Karnataka, Ra- come in the way. Amritsar in September last are from the Uttar Pradesh ing gifts worth more than from Manipur-Tripura and IPRs, it said. jasthan, Madhya Pradesh As one party source year. and Chhattisgarh, K. Raju, stressed, “We can’t work in They had declared that who heads the party’s SC isolation from the party not 33% of chairmanships in the Cell said. having the potential to win. State would be exclusively CBI court to resume In Punjab, of the 34 seats K. Raju It has to be part of a broader reserved for Dalits. Addition- reserved for SCs, the Con- campaign and involve the ally, the party had promised gress won 22, as well as a ing Dalits. Party sources told Dalit leadership.” 300 units of free power Ayodhya case trial today general seat for which it had The Hindu that while the fail- would be provided to dalit fielded a Dalit candidate. In ure was still being analysed, One-on-one contact households. Press Trust of India in two years. Lucknow the 2012 elections, the party two things were apparent: In the case of the six States In U.P., the party had con- The SC had on April 19 won just 10 reserved seats. one that the Congress’ alli- now chosen, the Congress is ducted a Dalit Yatra through The trial in the politically- directed the special court to ance with the Samajwadi in power in two, Karnataka the State. sensitive 1992 Babri Masjid start the proceedings within SP alliance fiasco Party had failed completely, and Himachal, and is the The campaigns were demolition case by a special a month. The strategy however, failed and two, the success of such second party in the four centred round three issues CBI court will resume here The CBI court during its in Uttar Pradesh, where, an experiment would be de- other largely bipolar States. critical to Dalits — shiksha or on Monday, following a Su- first hearing in the State again the Congress’ SC Cell termined by the general “We will activate the main education, suraksha or se- preme Court order to it to capital granted bail to five had carried out an extensive health of the party in that Congress in every constitu- curity and swabhiman or self hear the case on a daily VHP leaders named as campaign specifically target- State. ency, and conduct a silent respect. basis and deliver the verdict accused. CM YK https://telegram.me/TheHindu_Zone https://telegram.me/PDF4EXAMS

THE HINDU NOIDA/DELHI MONDAY, MAY 22, 2017 NEWS 11 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF Defence deals await private irms RSS wing to hold The contracts totalling ₹1.5 lakh crore will be taken up under the new strategic partnership model iftars with milk Dinakar Peri helicopters and armoured companies for each of the New Delhi carriers/main battle tanks — projects, officials said. A To spread ‘save the cow’ message The Union government will and specifically intends to pool of capable companies Mary Kom discusses unveil mega defence deals open up defence manufac- will be selected based on Press Trust of India of the view that it is good for boxing with Goel estimated at over ₹1.5 lakh turing to the private sector. technical and financial evalu- Lucknow health, and ghee made us- NEW DELHI crore involving the private “These big companies will ation and they would then The iftars to be organised by ing this milk is medicine.” Union Sports Minister Vijay sector under the strategic be the lead integrators. The tie up with a foreign OEM the Muslim Rashtriya Mr. Singh said that during Goel on Sunday met boxing partnership model to build a contract will be spread which will be short-listed Manch, a wing of the Ramzan, special prayers champion and Rajya Sabha domestic defence manufac- across the Indian industry at concurrently. Rashtriya Swayamsevak would be offered through MP Mary Kom to discuss ways turing base in key areas such various levels. The current Sangh, in Uttar Pradesh dur- which appeals would be to promote boxing as a sport as submarines and fighter model plans to build an an- Indian bidders ing Ramzan this year will made to protect cows. in the country. They aircraft. cillary network which works According to officials, for the serve only cow’s milk and its “All living beings (anim- discussed measures that the “It should possibly be far more efficiently,” the offi- submarines, the likely con- products to drive home the als, birds, trees and plants) Centre should take to cleared in the next few cial said. tenders are Larsen & Toubro messages of “save the cow” owe their existence to Allah. improve the training process. weeks, likely within the This, he said, will indigen- (L&T) and Reliance Defence and how consumption of If we adopt a humane ap- “Tournaments should be held month,” a senior official told ise the sub-systems and com- and Engineering Ltd., which beef invites diseases. proach towards them, we twice a year. This will provide The Hindu on Sunday. ponents and after a couple of have their own shipyards Mahiraj Dhwaj Singh, na- will incur His blessings,” he more exposure at national The Defence Acquisition cycles “everything should be and the public sector Maza- tional co-convener (organ- said. “During Ramzan, pray- and international level to the Council approved the frame- built here”. gon Docks Ltd., which is isation) of the MRM for Uttar ers will be held. A message upcoming sportspersons,” work of the model on Sat- Pointing out that the other building the French Pradesh and Uttarakhand, to end animosity and spread Ms. Kom said. ANI urday. The policy will now aspect of the policy is the ex- Scorpene submarines. said that for the “first time”, love, bonhomie and broth- go to the Finance Ministry port potential, the official Full order sheet: Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders is building the For the fighter and heli- people observing roza (fast) erhood will be dissemin- Twin blasts rock Manipur and then to the Cabinet said, “We will then get into a Scorpenes now. More orders are in the pipeline. * PTI copter segments, the likely would be ending it with a ated,” he said. town, 4 policemen hurt Committee on Security for fi- supply chain with the global bidders are Tata Advanced glass of cow’s milk. IMPHAL nal approval, which is expec- original equipment out once the policy is in pected to cost around Systems Ltd. and Mahindra, “Emphasis will be laid on Welcomes move Two bomb blasts rocked ted to be a formality as the manufacturers.” place. ₹50,000 crore, the one for both of which have a foot- the use of cow’s milk and Waseem Raini, president of Moreh, a border town in Prime Minister’s Office has Of the four deals, submar- 100-plus fighter aircraft is es- print in the aviation sector. other dairy products at the Lucknow-based Pasmanda Manipur, on Saturday night. already been briefed on the Projects lined up ines and helicopters are for timated at ₹60,000 crore In the armoured segment, iftars. And, it will be for the Muslim Samaj said, “If The police said the first blast issue. Projects already lined up un- the Navy. The single-engine and the Future Infantry the FICV programme under first time that such an iftar sweets such as pedhaa made took place at 9.30 p.m. on The new model, which is der the four segments have fighter is for the Indian Air Combat Vehicle (FICV) pro- way will be taken up under will be held in Uttar Pra- using cow’s milk are served the perimeter wall of the a chapter under the Defence been held up because of a Force and armoured vehicle gramme is estimated at the SP model. L&T, Mahindra desh,” Mr. Singh said. during iftar, we have no ob- town police station. The Procurement Procedure, has delay in formulating the for the Army. ₹50,000 crore. and Tata Motors are leading Citing the benefits of jections. This will increase second occurred at midnight four segments —submarines, policy. The Ministry is gear- The deal for six submar- Expression of Interest the race, for which bids have cow’s milk, Mr. Singh said, brotherhood between at Gamnom Veng in the town. single-engine fighter aircraft, ing up to quickly roll them ines under Project-75I is ex- (EoI) will be issued to Indian already been submitted. “Even Muslim scholars are Hindus and Muslims.” Four policemen were injured in the twin blasts. Earlier, two troopers of 165 Territorial CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Army were killed and two others injured along Trans Remembering a leader BSF nabs two suspected Asian Highway No 2 that leads to Moreh. Khalistani terrorists Police seize explosives, liquor in Rohtas district DEHRI-ON-SONE They were arrested from the Indo-Pak border area The police on Sunday seized a Press Trust of India five pistols and over 450 theoretical training on hand- consignment of explosives Chandigarh rounds of ammunition of dif- ling arms, including the and liquor from a pick-up van The Border Security Force ferent calibre from the duo, AK-47 rifle, he said. from Mufassil police station and the Punjab Police in a he said “One of the arrested has area in Bihar’s Rohtas district, joint operation on Sunday “The terrorists during said the Ontario-based hard- a police officer said.The police claimed to have busted a ter- preliminary interrogation liner travelled with them to intercepted the pick-up van ror module with links to have said their module was Uttar Pradesh to procure near Karbandia petrol pump Canada and Pakistan after raised and indoctrinated by arms but were unsuccessful. during routine checking and arresting two suspected an Ontario- based Sikh hard- Subsequently, Gurjivan had seized the explosives and Khalistani terrorists. liner Gurjivan Singh, who promised to arrange it liquor, the SP said. PTI The two were arrested was in touch with them for through his Khalistani con- from the Indo-Pak border the past two years, and had tacts in Pakistan and their area when they were trying motivated them to commit ISI handlers,” the spokes- Lokmanya Tilak express to recover weapons that terror strikes in Punjab,” the man said. derails at Unnao in U.P. were earlier smuggled into spokesman said. During the interrogation, UNNAO India from Pakistan, a Pun- “Gurjivan made two trips Mann also confessed to hav- Eleven coaches of the jab Police spokesperson to Punjab in the last six ing made several visits to Mumbai-Lucknow Lokmanya said. months, and had arranged Pakistan and being in touch Tilak Express derailed here on “Those arrested have the arms and ammunition with some Khalistani activ- Sunday, but there was no been identified as Mann for their operations through ists there, he claimed. report of any casualty, in the Singh (40) from Sri Hargo- his Pakistan-based The spokesman said the sixth such incident in U.P. in bindpur in Gurdaspur and Khalistani contacts,” he said. arms and ammunition seven months. At around 2 Sher Singh (28) from Kar- The spokesman said they seized during the operation p.m., 11 coaches of the train tarpur in Jalandhar,” he said. were planning to target “en- were found buried close to derailed when it was crossing Security forces have emies of the Panth”. the Indo-Pak border and the platform number 3 of the seized an AK-47 assault rifle, They also said during his suspects had been provided Unnao railway station, 20 km Floral tributes: Congress president Sonia Gandhi, along with her son Rahul Gandhi, pays homage to the former Prime Minister five hand grenades, a modi- last two trips to Punjab, with the co-ordinates of the from Kanpur. PTI Rajiv Gandhi on his 26th death anniversary at Vir Bhumi in New Delhi on Sunday. * R. V. MOORTHY fied machine-pistol (MP), Gurjivan had imparted them spot. Gorshkov Navy rescues Urjit to brief MPs’ panel Explain cost: CIC Maldivian on note ban only in June Navy asked to disclose reasons for accepting price escalation by Russia landing craft Press Trust of India Mr. Bhattacharyya also Special Correspondent New Delhi directed the Navy to disclose NEW DELHI Framing of monetary policy to hold up RBI Governor The Central Information reasons why India chose to The Indian Navy rescued a Commission has asked the opt for a refurbished war- Maldivian landing craft 120 Press Trust of India the Governor’s position as Navy to disclose the reasons ship instead of buying a new nautical miles east of Male New Delhi an institution should be re- for India agreeing to cost es- one. on Saturday evening. RBI Governor Urjit Patel will spected. He should not be calation by Russia for pur- The RTI application was A Dornier aircraft of the appear before a parliament- put to odd questions, Mr. chase of the refurbished air- filed by activist Subhash Navy spotted the landing ary panel for a second brief- Singh, who himself was RBI craft carrier Admiral Agrawal who had demanded craft Maria 3 floating 60 ing on demonetisation on Governor once, is believed Gorshkov. a range of information on nautical miles from its last June 8, and not on May 25 as to have told the standing The deal for purchasing the acquisition of the known position and in- scheduled, as work on fram- committee. the now 30-year-old warship 44,500-tonne aircraft formed the INS Kirch, ing the monetary policy will Instead of Mr. Patel, all renamed INS Vikramaditya carrier. which was 50 nautical be under way at that time. secretaries from the Finance was signed in 2004 by the New role: The Admiral Gorshkov aircraft carrier of Russia was The ship was originally miles away. The Standing Committee Ministry will be present on then NDA government for renamed INS Vikramaditya after India acquired it. * AFP commissioned by the “The ship’s forward on Finance, which had ques- May 25 to update the panel $974 million which was in- erstwhile USSR on Decem- ramp collapsed, so it was tioned Mr. Patel on January about digital economy. The creased to the final price of Ministry, which claimed the that the Navy was trying to ber 20, 1987 and was decom- unable to propel. A joint 18 on the move to ban notes panel is chaired by Congress $2.35 billion in 2010. relevant files were with the put the onus of disclosure on missioned in 1996. After be- boarding party was sent... of ₹500 and ₹1,000 denom- leader M. Veerappa Moily, . The commission has also naval headquarters and that the Defence Ministry ing inducted into the Navy as to provide assistance. All inations, allowed him to ap- BJP MP Nishikant Dubey, directed the the Navy dis- they have been asked to dis- whereas the Ministry made it Vikramaditya, the ship is crew members are safe. pear at a later date after he Urjit Patel who is a member of the close the “net final cost” in- close the details. clear that the reply was to be now a floating 284-metre air- The Maldivian National De- made a request expressing panel, has suggested to the curred on the modifications, Information Commis- furnished by the force. field. It is a 20-storey steel fence Force has been in- his inability. panel, who were opposed to chairman that it now delib- renovation and remodelling sioner Amitava Bhat- The Commission has megastructure from the keel formed,” a Navy spokesper- summoning the RBI Gov- erate on digital economy, as done on the ship, besides tacharyya directed the Navy ordered the disclosure to be to the highest point. The son said on Sunday. Manmohan to the rescue ernor again. “demonetisation was not an dates of payments made by to disclose the file notings, made as it found “larger ship can carry over 30 air- Maria 3 was travelling Mr. Patel has been asked to It was Mr. Singh who had issue any more”. India. correspondence, and docu- public interest” was in- craft. With 22 decks and a ca- from K Thulusdhoo to L appear on May 25 after rescued Patel from a tough The members are now The Navy had earlier told ments related to the accept- volved. The Ministry and the pacity to house 1,600 per- Gan with a six-member former Prime Minister Man- grilling during the January likely to question Mr. Patel the Commission that the in- ance of cost revisions sought Navy had withheld the in- sonnel, the warship can crew on Thursday when it mohan Singh prevailed meeting when he intervened on how much money has formation was to be by the Russians. formation on the grounds of sustain itself at sea for 45 went adrift. upon the BJP MPs on the to say the Reserve Bank and come back into the system. provided by the Defence Mr. Bhattacharyya noted national security. days up to 13,000 km. (With inputs from PTI) In India, it is more of waiting than lying Japan plans war museum Air traveller only spends around 24.68% of the total travel time, in a one-stopover light, actually lying in a Manipur hillock

Soumya Pillai der guidance of Sewa Ram, where the average waiting this—in China an air traveller, travelling. With two or more New Delhi Senior Professor of Trans- time becomes 83.55% and who takes a flight with a stopovers, the percentage of Site held Japanese camp during Second World War: envoy Have you ever had to wait port Planning, is a compre- the flight time is the remain- single pit stop, spends as average flight time becomes endlessly at an airport for a hensive study of over 60 air- ing 16.45%. much as 70.20% of her total 58.5. Iboyaima Laithangbam operation of the people in connecting flight? You may ports in India. This means, for example if travel time actually flying, In European countries, IMPHAL the region. not be alone in suffering the It has analysed major and a person is flying from New which means only about this average flight time Japan plans to build a war The Ambassador said that predicament in India. A minor airports of various Delhi to Bagdogra in Darjeel- 29.80% of the time is spent stands at 61.3% of the total museum in a hillock at 25 persons from Nagaland study by the School of Plan- countries on parameters ing, in a direct flight, she waiting at airports. travel time in a single stop- Maiba Lokpa in Bishnupur and Manipur would be in- ning and Architecture shows such as air, network and takes around two hours. With over two inter- over flight, and with two or district of Manipur where a vited to visit Japan. that an Indian air traveller land accessibility. However, if she stops over changes, the average flight more, it slumps to 52.1%. Japanese camp was located A seminar would also be on an average only spends The study shows that in at either Guwahati or Kolk- time still remains 54.20%, To pack it together, the during the Second World organised in November to around 24.68% of the total India if a passenger takes a ata, the total travel time which is fairly high. study shows that an Indian War, the country’s Ambas- help students interested in travel time, in a one-stop- flight with one stopover, on more than doubles mainly In western countries such air traveller on an average sador to India, Kenji pursuing studies in Japan. over flight, flying. The rest of an average she spends because of the waiting time as the U.S. and the Europe, spends as much as 458 Hiramatsu, said here on Kenji Hiramatsu Welcoming the museum the time is spent waiting at 75.32% of the total travel at the airports. the waiting time is not very minutes waiting at the air- Sunday. plans, Manipur Chief Minis- the airports. time only waiting at airports. This, the study states, high. In the U.S., a single ports, when taking a flight Mr. Hiramatsu said about phal and Kohima. He said ter N. Biren Singh promised The research, carried out This waiting time in- when compared to its inter- stopover amounts to a pas- with a single stopover. This is 70,000 Japanese soldiers the mortal remains of those assistance to the Japanese by Amal Jose, a postgraduate creases when the passenger national counterparts is an senger spending around at least four times higher died from March to June in soldiers would be located for government for implement- student of the institute, un- has two or more stopovers, inconvenient state. Sample 67.9% of the time actually than China. 1944 during battles in Im- the last rites, seeking the co- ing the project. CM A ND-ND YK https://telegram.me/TheHindu_Zone https://telegram.me/PDF4EXAMS

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In speech to Arab and Muslim leaders, President rejects notion of clash between the West and Islam The New York Times former senior U.S. officials, Washington effectively unraveling a net- Associated Press been overseeing the Russia The Chinese government work that had taken years to Indian-origin Minister Riyadh probe. systematically dismantled build. may become Irish PM U.S. President Donald Trump The President’s trip to CIA spying operations in the Assessing the fallout from LONDON called on Middle Eastern Saudi Arabia also served as country starting in 2010, an exposed spy operation An Indian-origin doctor and leaders to combat a “crisis of something of a reset with the killing or imprisoning more can be difficult, but the epis- Ireland’s irst openly gay Islamic extremism” emanat- region following his presid- than a dozen sources over ode was considered particu- minister has emerged as the ing from the region, casting ential campaign, which was two years and crippling in- larly damaging. The number frontrunner in the prime the fight against terrorism as frequently punctured by telligence gathering there of U.S. assets lost in China, ministerial race. Leo a “battle between good and bouts of anti-Islamic rhet- for years afterwards. officials said, rivalled those Varadkar, 38, the son of an evil”, not a clash between oric. He once mused that he Current and former U.S. lost in the Soviet Union and Indian father and Irish the West and Islam. thought “Islam hates us”. officials described the intel- Russia during the betrayals mother, has won support for Mr. Trump’s address on And only a week after tak- ligence breach as one of the of both Aldrich Ames and his leadership bid from Sunday was the centrepiece ing office, he signed an exec- worst in decades. It set off a Robert Hanssen, formerly of several senior Ministers. PTI of his two-day visit to Saudi utive order to ban immig- scramble in Washington’s the CIA and the FBI, who di- Arabia, his first stop overseas rants from seven countries intelligence and law en- vulged intelligence opera- Taliban kill 20 soldiers in as President. During a meet- Iraq, Iran, Syria, Sudan, forcement agencies to con- tions to Moscow for years. coordinated attacks ing of more than 50 Arab Libya, Somalia, and Yemen tain the fallout, but investig- The previously unrepor- KABUL and Muslim leaders, he from entering the United ators were bitterly divided ted episode shows how suc- Militants launched attacks on sought to chart a new course States, a decision that over the cause. Some were cessful the Chinese were in several check points in for America’s role in the re- sparked widespread protests convinced that a mole disrupting U.S. spying ef- southern Afghanistan, killing gion, one aimed squarely on at the nation’s airports and within the CIA had betrayed forts and stealing secrets at least 20 soldiers, a rooting out terrorism, with demonstrations outside the the United States. Others be- years before a well-publi- provincial official said on less focus on promoting hu- White House. lieved that the Chinese had cized breach in 2015 gave Sunday. Gul Islam Seyal, a man rights and democratic That ban was blocked by hacked the covert system Beijing access to thousands spokesman for the provincial reforms. the courts. A second order, the CIA used to communic- of government personnel re- Governor in Zabul province, “We are not here to lec- Important message: U.S. President Donald Trump delivering a speech to the Arab Islamic which dropped Iraq from the ate with its foreign sources. cords, including intelligence said the battles began late on ture we are not here to tell American Summit, the centrepiece of his visit to Saudi Arabia, in Riyadh on Sunday. * AP list, is tied up in federal court Years later, that debate re- contractors. The CIA con- Saturday when dozens of other people how to live, and the federal government mains unresolved. siders spying in China one Taliban fighters launched what to do, who to be, or Riyadh, where the ruling wear, a pair of shiny black And in a meeting with the is appealing. of its top priorities, but the coordinated attacks on how to worship,” Mr. Trump royal family has welcomed shoes. “Love your shoes. emir of Kuwait, Sabah al- But on Sunday, Mr. Trump Huge damage country’s extensive security security posts in the Shah Joy said, speaking in an ornate, his tougher stance on Iran, Boy, those shoes,” he said. Ahmad al-Sabah, Mr. Trump was full of praise for Muslim But there was no disagree- apparatus makes it excep- district. AP multi-chandeliered room. its regional foe. Reinforcing his theme of noted Kuwait bought large world’s history and culture. ment about the damage. tionally hard for Western “Instead, we are here to offer Sitting alongside Mr. U.S. economic deals, the U.S. amounts of U.S. military He declared Islam “one of From the final weeks of spy services to develop Turkey’s ruling party partnership based on shared Trump, Saudi King Salman President told Qatar’s Emir equipment. The Kuwaiti the world’s great faiths”. 2010 through the end of sources there. elects Erdogan as leader interests and values to pur- declared: “The Iranian re- Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al- leader referred to Mr. Trump White House officials said 2012, according to former At a time when the CIA is ISTANBUL sue a better future for us all.” gime has been the spearhead Thani they would discuss as “my brother”. they considered Mr. Trump’s U.S. officials, the Chinese trying to figure out how Turkish President Recep Even as the President of global terrorism.” “lots of beautiful military address to be a counter- killed at least a dozen of the some of its most sensitive Tayyip Erdogan has returned pledged to work alongside Mr. Trump’s welcome in equipment because nobody Welcome escape weight to President Barack CIA’s sources. According to documents were leaked as leader of the country’s Middle Eastern nations, he the region was also put on makes it like the United For Mr. Trump the visit has Obama’s debut speech to the three of the officials, one onto the Internet two ruling Justice and put the onus for combating display during a series of in- States”. been a welcome escape from Muslim world in 2009 in was shot in front of his col- months ago by WikiLeaks, Development Party on terrorism on the region. dividual meetings with Arab To Bahrain’s King Hamad the crush of controversies Cairo. Mr. Obama called for leagues in the courtyard of a and the FBI probes possible Sunday, pushing back against Bellowing into the micro- leaders. He praised Egyptian bin Isa al-Khalifa, Mr. Trump that have consumed his ad- understanding and acknow- government building — a ties between President Don- criticism that his tenure has phone, he implored Muslim President Abdel Fattah al- declared that the two nations ministration in recent weeks. ledged some of America’s message to others who ald Trump’s campaign and curtailed freedoms and leaders to aggressively fight Sisi, telling him: “You have had a lot in common and He’s been besieged by a missteps in the region. might have been working Russia, the unsettled nature polarised the country as he extremists — “Drive them out done a tremendous job un- “there won't be strain with series of revelations about That speech was de- for the CIA. of the China probe demon- vowed to serve the nation of your places of worship. der trying circumstances.” this administration”. The the ongoing federal investig- nounced by many Republic- Still others were put in strates the difficulty of con- and combat terror. Mr. Drive them out of your com- Mr. Trump promised to King lauded the relationship ation into his campaign’s ans and criticised by a num- jail. All told, the Chinese ducting counter-espionage Erdogan was was the only munities.” schedule a trip to Egypt and said it had led to “great possible ties to Russia and ber of the United States’ killed or imprisoned 18 to investigations into sophistic- candidate for the post of The President has been soon, and he singled out the stability in the region and his decision to fire FBI Dir- Middle East allies as being a 20 of the CIA’s sources in ated spy services like those party chairman. AP enthusiastically embraced in Egyptian’s choice of foot- prosperity”. ector James Comey, who had sort of apology. China, according to two in Russia and China. Pak. detains social media activists Swiss vote North Korea ires mid-range missile against use Those held have been critical of the military and Islam of n-power U.S. says it will continue to apply economic, diplomatic pressure on Pyongyang MUBASHIR ZAIDI claiming that the social-me- each and every PTI volun- Associated Press KARACHI Associated Press dia activists did not commit teer. Even if they get SEOUL named his new Foreign Min- Pakistani authorities have any crime. summoned and searched by BERLIN ister nominee and top ad- launched a crackdown Shah Mehmood Qureshi, anyone all they will find is Swiss voters are supporting North Korea fired a medium- visers for security and for- against social media activists a senior leader of the Oppos- love for Pakistan,” the party a referendum to withdraw range missile on Sunday, eign policy. He did not make critical of the country’s milit- ition Pakistan Tehreek-e-In- tweeted. the country from nuclear U.S. and South Korean offi- a public statement. ary and Islam. Several of saf (PTI) party, which is Meanwhile, the PML(N), power in favour of renew- cials said, the latest ballistics them have been detained, of- headed by Imran Khan, con- Prime Minister Nawaz able energy. test by a country speeding ‘Challenge to the world’ ficials of the Federal Investig- firmed that two of the Sharif’s party, also con- A projection from up its development of nuc- An official from South ation Agency (FIA) cyber party’s social-media activists firmed that one of its social- Sunday’s referendum lear weapons and missiles. Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff crime cell confirmed on had been questioned. “We media activists — Dr Faisal shows a majority of can- The rocket was fired from also said the missile ap- Sunday. have repeatedly instructed Ranjha from Lahore — had tons (States) voted for the an area near the North peared to be similar in range A source in the FIA, re- our activists to follow the been detained. He was plan. Under Switzerland’s Korean county of Pukchang, and apogee to the mid-range questing anonymity, con- laws and they have been do- picked up on Saturday morn- direct democracy system, in South Phyongan Province, missile that North Korea test- firmed that 13 people are being that. But a general case ing from a government hos- initiatives need a majority and flew eastward about fired in February. The mis- ing questioned for criticising has been registered by FIA to pital, when he was treating of both cantons and votes 500 km, said South Korea’s Perilous times: A man in Seoul passes by a news show showing sile launched on Sunday the military and Army Chief question the activists.” patients. A journalist from Is- to pass. Joint Chiefs of Staff. The U.S. the image of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on Sunday * AP reached a maximum altitude General Qamar Bajwa, and lamabad, Taha Siddiqui, was The projection for SRF Pacific Command said it of 560 km, said the official, three people for mocking the Online campaign questioned over phone. public television showed tracked the missile before it most recent tests. way to security or certainly who spoke on condition of judiciary, while four people Salar Sultan Zai from Quetta Earlier this year, four 58% of voters in favour and landed in the sea. U.S. Secretary of State Rex prosperity. The ongoing test- anonymity, citing office are being questioned for ri- was brought to Islamabad bloggers were picked up by 42% against the proposal. White House officials trav- Tillerson said both economic ing is disappointing, disturb- rules. diculing Islam. However, no and released after question- the authorities and detained The government wants to elling in Saudi Arabia with and diplomatic pressure ing and we ask that they In Tokyo, Japanese Prime case has been registered ing, but Owais Khan, the illegally for over a month for ban the construction of President Donald Trump would continue to be ap- cease that,” he said. Minister Shinzo Abe called against anyone so far, the other person held, is still un- allegedly questioning the new nuclear power plants said the system that was plied to North Korea. “Hope- South Korea’s new Presid- the launch a “challenge to source added. der detention. The PTI has military and religion. All the and decommission the tested, which was last fully they will get the mes- ent, Moon Jae-in, held a Na- the world”, and vowed to Political parties and hu- launched an online cam- four left the country after be- country’s five existing ones launched in February, had a sage that the path of tional Security Council meet- bring up the issue as the man rights activists have paign to protest against the ing released as they feared at the end of their technic- shorter range than the mis- continuing their nuclear ing to discuss the launch, “main agenda” of this week’s condemned the detentions, detentions. “We stand by for their safety. ally safe operating lives. siles fired in North Korea’s arms program is not a path- which came hours after he G-7 summit in Italy. U.N. experts’ murders raise tough questions They had no protection in DR Congo

The New York Times and its work in the most dangerous places in the Zaida Catalán was on to world. Almost two months something, and it was mak- passed before the U.N. even ing her jumpy. Weeks later, assembled a panel to look Ms. Catalán, a U.N. investig- into what went wrong. ator with little training and The U.N. Security Coun- no safety equipment or cil could go further and or- even health insurance, der a more formal investig- headed into a remote area ation, but more than two teeming with militia fight- months after the murders, ers to find the culprits be- it has taken no steps in that hind a massacre in the direction. Instead, it has Democratic Republic of the left the investigation to Congo. Congo, a nation where viol- A grainy cellphone video ence, corruption and im- shows what happened punity are widespread. next: a cluster of men with rifles and red bandanas Sharp debate lead Ms. Catalán, a 36-year- The killings have also old Swedish-Chilean, into a stirred a sharp debate over grove with her American the U.N.’s responsibility to colleague, Michael J. Sharp, prepare and protect the 34. The two investigators people it hires to investig- are barefoot. Mr. Sharp ate wrongdoing around the starts arguing. He and Ms. world. Catalán are forced onto the Asked whether the U.N. ground. had done enough to pre- Suddenly, shots are pare and protect the ex- fired, hitting Mr. Sharp perts, José Luis Díaz, a first. Ms. Catalán screams spokesman, said the organ- and tries to run for cover. isation was asking itself the She is shot twice. Their same question. “This is bodies were discovered why the U.N. is looking at weeks later in a shallow the whole sequence of grave. Ms. Catalán had events. We want to assess been decapitated. Her head whether things worked as had been taken. they should, and if what we Their deaths raise tough have in place is adequate or questions about the U.N. robust enough.” CM YK https://telegram.me/TheHindu_Zone https://telegram.me/PDF4EXAMS

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IN BRIEF Bid to boost ‘Centre has plan to make AI a great global airline’ India, Africa Working on strategy to strengthen inances and improve corporate governance for the ailing carrier, says Jayant Sinha trade ties

Somesh Jha to The Hindu. ate governance, strengthen- future equity infusion into PRESS TRUST OF INDIA NEW DELHI Interestingly, all the flag ing the airline’s board and the national carrier. As part GANDHINAGAR The Central government has carriers mentioned by the inducting new people in its of the turnaround plan, the Finance Minister Arun Jait- a ‘winning’ strategy for its Minister, except United Arab management. Centre has infused ₹24,745 ley will discuss potential ailing national carrier Air In- Emirates’ Emirates, have When asked if Air India crore as equity into Air In- areas of boosting coopera- dia which is to turn it into a been privatised a long time would shift its focus from do- dia, as at the end of 2016-17. tion between India and “great” global airline, Minis- ago by their countries. mestic to international mar- He said that the Centre Africa here on Monday. Mr. Bajaj Auto looks to ter of State for Civil Aviation While British Airways, flag kets, Mr. Sinha said, “It’s not had to ensure that the cur- Jaitley will open the India- rev up sales this iscal Jayant Sinha said in an carrier of the U.K., was one or the other because the rent debt burden of the air- Africa Cooperation session NEW DELHI interview. privatised in 1987, Australian reality is if you want to win line, which is a “crushing being held in conjunction Bajaj Auto is hoping to put His comments come days carrier Qantas was partly as far as the international load” on its performance, is with the annual meeting of up an improved sales show after Cabinet Minister for privatised in 1992 and fully routes are concerned, you reduced. the African Development in 2017-18 on the back of civil aviation Ashok Ga- in 1995, while Germany’s need a strong domestic net- “Due to the debt burden Bank (AfDB). recoveries in both domestic japathi Raju said that the Lufthansa was fully privat- work that feeds your interna- that they are carrying right The sessions will cover and export markets after a Centre is reviewing a range ised in 1997. tional route as well.” now, it is very difficult for areas such as trade and in- rough ride last iscal. With of options, including pos- To a question on whether them to invest in their equip- vestment, agriculture, re- an aim to increase its sible disinvestment, to revive Global share disinvestment for the na- ment, services, marketing, newable energy and manu- overseas shipments, the Air India. Till March this year, Air India tional carrier is being con- talent development and so facturing among others. company plans to enter at “I think Air India has a ter- operated its flight on 118 do- templated, the junior civil on. So, the debt burden Total trade between India least ive new markets this rific future ahead of itself be- mestic and 64 international Crushing load: We have to ensure that the debt burden of the aviation Minister said, “We which, of course, we inher- and Africa increased al- iscal. The company’s total cause India does need a routes. The share of Indian airline is reduced, says Jayant Sinha. * SHANKER CHAKRAVARTY are considering a number of ited from the previous gov- most fivefold between sales declined by 5.85% in great global airline like Brit- airlines in total international different alternatives.” ernment, is a crushing load 2005-06 and 2015-16, and 2016-17 at 36,65,950 units ish Airways, Lufthansa, traffic has declined to 36% in 62% a year earlier. While Jet Mr. Sinha said the govern- that Air India is carrying stood at $52 billion in as against 38,93,581 units Qantas or Emirates and we January-March 2017 from Airways carried the most ment is working on a “ro- NITI roadmap right now and we have to March 2016-17. in 2015-16. PTI think that Air India, in that 38% a year earlier. number of international pas- bust” multi-dimensional The Centre recently asked find a way of restructuring This is the first time that regard, has a winning International carriers fer- sengers to and from India transformation plan for Air NITI Aayog to formulate a it,” the Minister said. the African Development Natco gets green nod strategy to become a great ried 64% of Indian passen- (14.5%), it was followed by India which includes roadmap for Air India’s fu- Air India’s debt stood at Bank is holding its annual for ₹480-crore project global airline for India,” the gers abroad in January- Air India (10.7%) and Emir- strengthening its financial ture as the government is re- ₹50,357 crore at the end of meeting outside of the NEW DELHI Minister said in an interview March 2017, compared with ates (9.5%) in the period. position, improving corpor- considering its strategy on 2015-16. African continent. Natco Pharma has received the environment clearance for its ₹480-crore expansion project in Telangana that Softbank-Saudi tech Nasscom steps up U.S. lobbying Sinor withdraws would generate 1,500 jobs. The proposal is to increase the production capacity of fund raises $93 billion on immigration, visa issues resignation from BBB 66 Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs) and API intermediates at a time with Other investors include Apple Inc. Money spent on such activities rose by a third, a report says He had resigned citing ‘despondency’ R&D activity from 115.5 tonnes per annum (TPA) to REUTERS the fund last October and PRESS TRUST OF INDIA quarters of 2016. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT 645 TPA in the existing land RIYADH since then it has obtained WASHINGTON/NEW DELHI But the other lobbyist, Mumbai area of 34.17 hectare at The world’s largest private commitments from some of Facing rough weather amid Wexler & Walker, a unit of H.N. Sinor, the veteran Mekaguda village. PTI equity fund, backed by Ja- the world’s most deep-pock- large-scale layoffs and visa Hill+Knowlton Strategies, banker who resigned from pan’s Softbank Group and eted investors. curbs in the U.S., the Indian LLC, was paid $100,000 in the Bank Board Bureau Centre may block PSUs Saudi Arabia’s main sover- In addition to Softbank IT industry body Nasscom the first quarter of 2017, as (BBB) on May 12 as a non-of- from buying GDF stake eign wealth fund, said it had and Saudi Arabia’s Public In- has significantly stepped up against $60,000 in the previ- ficial member, decided to NEW DELHI raised over $93 billion to investment Fund (PIF), the its lobbying with the Amer- ous three-month period and ‘re-engage’ with the bureau, The Oil Ministry may block vest in technology sectors new fund’s investors include ican lawmakers with a more in many of the previous the BBB said in a statement any attempt by state-owned such as artificial intelligence Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala In- than one-third increase in quarters. on Sunday. GAIL, IOC, ONGC and BPCL and robotics. vestment, which has com- money spent on such As per the lobbying dis- “In what he perceived as to buy the 10% stake of “The next stage of the In- mitted $15 billion, Apple activities. closure report, the “specific inadequate progress that H.N. Sinor France’s GDF International in formation Revolution is un- Inc, Qualcomm, Taiwan’s According to the latest Nasscom has paid $1,50,000 lobbying issues” undertaken the recommendations of the Petronet LNG Ltd. as it is der way, and building the Foxconn Technology and Ja- lobbying disclosure reports to its two lobbyists in the by this lobbyist included Bureau were making, and the Bureau, with his usual keen to keep the liqueied businesses that will make pan’s Sharp Corp. filed with the U.S. Senate, irst quarter of 2017. those related to immigra- the resulting despondency, fervour and vigour,” the natural gas importer a this possible will require un- The new fund made its the National Association of tion. The “general issues” in- he had offered to withdraw statement added. private limited company. precedented large-scale, announcement during the Software and Services Com- the two lobbyists in the pre- cluded tax and trade his engagement with the The BBB has also decided GDF, a unit of French energy long-term investment,” the visit of President Donald panies (Nasscom) paid a vious quarter ended Decem- matters. Bureau,” the statement said. to appoint two ‘alternate' ex- giant Engie SA, has decided Softbank Vision Fund said. Trump to Riyadh and the total amount of $1,50,000 ber 2016. The houses of Congress “However, following a de- perts,’ former Allahabad to sell its entire stake in Japanese billionaire signing of tens of billions of (about ₹1 crore) to its two re- Among the two lobbyists, and federal agencies with tailed discussion with Vinod Bank chairman and man- Petronet to the company’s Masayoshi Son, chairman of dollars worth of business gistered lobbyists in the first The Lande Group was paid whom it lobbied on behalf of Rai, the Chairman of the aging director S. Panse and principal promoters — GAIL Softbank, a telecommunica- deals between U.S. and quarter of 2017. $50,000 in the January- Nasscom, included the U.S. Banks Board Bureau, Mr. Pradip Shah, former man- (India) Ltd, ONGC, Indian Oil tions and tech investment Saudi companies. Mr. Son This marks a significant March quarter of 2017 — the Senate and the U.S. House of Sinor has decided to re-en- aging director of rating Corporation and BPCL. PTI group, revealed plans for was also in Riyadh. rise from $1,10,000 paid to same amount as in the four Representatives. gage with the activities of agency Crisil. https://telegram.me/TheHindu_Zone https://telegram.me/PDF4EXAMS

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GUEST COLUMN Rainbow turns out to be a mirage Before sunlight The conclusion to the two-part series says that there are no easy answers to the NPA problem faced by Indian banks turns shadowy Sivaprakasam Sivakumar their ‘advice’. And, who in Himadri Bhattacharya India does not know that a A solution for the NPA prob- king’s ‘advise’ is actually an K.E. Raghunathan power generated to other lem for PSU banks has ‘order’? The per unit price of solar states. Such sale cannot oc- proved elusive so far. The au- All in all, the amendment power in India has dropped cur at a price lower than the thorities have been in denial is unlikely to make any signi- from ₹15 to ₹2.44 in 5 years ₹4.50 per unit at which the mode for long and the prob- ficant dent on the NPA situ- In fact, it has fallen from state has bought the power. lem’s depth and extent have ation, except at the margin ₹4.50 within one year. Has If other states can buy been revealed only recently. perhaps. the technology improved so power at rates now lower The efforts of RBI have not much in the solar sector to than ₹4.50, the selling state borne fruit: The 5/25 scheme No magic solution facilitate this fall? Has solar is left with no buyers. Also, which permitted extension There is no magic solution. become commercially vi- who will account for trans- of loan amortization period Nor is there any possibility of able and attractive for every- mission losses and distribu- up to 25 years with interest finding a solution within the one? Have government in- tion costs? If there is viabil- reset every 5 years did not extant political-bureaucratic centives enabled this price ity gap funding, and if the work as the higher interest paradigm that seeks to keep fall? How much further will projected power is not gen- burden due to tenor exten- the PSU banks within a ‘com- prices fall in the next five erated after a few years, sion required additional bor- mand and control’ frame- years? Is this sustainable? then the subsidy is wasted. rowing which worsened the work. If this sector is in profit- initial problem. A genuinely fresh ‘out-of- able growth mode, why <> The eiciency of The sale of NPAs to Asset the-box’ approach is needed. have giants like Sun Edison, equipment should Reconstruction Companies We propose a framework Solar World, Sungevity determine the level (ARC) has so far been very with six elements: Beamreach, Climate Energy of import duty low due to two main reas- One, U.S. style stress tests and Mark Group filed for ons: banks have been reluct- should be introduced to de- bankruptcy in the past year? Imports of China-made ant to sell NPA at a price re- termine the capital shortage Also, Yingli Green Energy, a solar modules without any flecting their realisable in respect of each PSU bank; former world leader in solar duty, irrespective of their ef- economic value; and, banks two, the government should panel volume, recorded a ficiency or quality is hurting received only 15% of the NPA devise and declare a policy loss of $267.1 million in the industry prospects. If the sales consideration in cash, for capital infusion based on fourth quarter of 2016 on modules fail to generate ad- while the rest was given by objective performance cri- $294 million in revenue. equate power after a while way of security receipts (SR) teria; three, mergers and ac- So, all is not hunky dory and if the firms that sup- which meant that the seller quisitions of PSU banks by with the industry. plied the modules with 25 GETTYIMAGES/ISTOCK bank continued to be ex- * the private sector and for- years warranty go bankrupt, posed to the risk of short re- eign banks to be allowed, as Viability questions what happens to the plant? covery of the loan from the The insolvency ing, though. By way of illus- or through a drawdown of its constitute oversight authorit- there are too many PSU The per unit price is the borrower. <> tration, if PARA were to oper- usable equity (equity that ies/committees for providing banks; four, banks should price that state utilities pay What is needed? The Strategic Debt Re- path would lead ate professionally and not on can be freely used to meet ‘advice’ to banks in taking give priority to those loan re- the developer for power Duties based on efficiency structuring scheme (SDR), to a ‘ire sale’ in political principles, it will be any kind of loss) which, in decisions on debt resolution. structuring where institu- supplied. of the material imported unveiled in June, 2015, in- a growing required to buy NPAs at RBI’s case, is almost identical Seemingly, both the ele- tional investors are willing to For unit cost of ₹2.44 to would discourage poor volved banks taking over economy prices that will involve deep with its internal reserves. ments are intended to take provide equity for business be viable, it would mean an quality. On arrival of ship- companies by converting writedowns by banks. The RBI took a policy de- care of the unwillingness or turnaround. a seven-year RoI and func- ment at an Indian port, a debt into equity, replacing statute. The judicial author- How is it conceivable that cision in 1997 to achieve and lethargy of PSU banks in Such restructuring can be tioning of the plant for 20 sample module must be the promoters and thereafter ity for this purpose — the Na- PSU banks that are reluctant maintain a ratio of internal dealing with corporate an eclectic combination of all years. The project cost submitted to an MNRE-ap- selling their equity holdings tional Company Law to agree on debt workout in- reserves to assets at 12% to stressed assets. the schemes launched so far, needs to be under ₹3 crore proved testing centre for to new investors. However, Tribunal (NCLT) — currently volving writeoffs will be en- ensure adequate risk capital What is interesting here is the guiding principle being per MW, excluding land and measurement of efficiency as of December, 2016, only clears 6,620 cases a year and thusiastic in doing so while for its balance sheet. The ra- that the initiative/approval of loss-sharing: the promoters connectivity. Also assumed and accordingly customs two such cases of sale had it has a backlog of 24,900 selling NPAs to PARA? tio increased steadily there- the ‘state’ is sought to be in- should shed their equity in is that all power generated duty should be levied. materialised. cases. More importantly, if the after, exceeding 12% in 2009- troduced where the boards favour of banks at realistic gets consumed by state-run Lower the efficiency, higher The Scheme for Sustain- Further, both resolution PSU banks are to cleanse 10 and remaining close to of PSU banks should be able valuation to the extent the generation and distribution the duty. This will allow able Structuring of Stressed and bankruptcy will cause their balance sheet within a 12% in the following year. It to take decisions themselves latter are reducing debt. companies (Gedcos) and all quality imports and pro- Assets (S4A) was introduced significant loss to banks. But year of PARA coming into ex- fell subsequently and now it based on commercial consid- The incentives of all con- dues get paid in 30 days. mote ‘Make in India’ — in June, 2016, whereby the the boards and senior man- istence, their aggregate is at 7.5%. Needless to say, erations alone. cerned in a debt resolution Is it possible to run such whose incentives can make outstanding bank loan is re- agement of PSU banks have credit loss of around ₹4 tril- the last three years have wit- This bears the hallmark of aimed at a business turn- projects profitably? The benefit the solar industry. quired to be bifurcated into all the incentive to prefer a lion will have to be funded nessed a sharp drop in the a ‘rent-seeking’ economy. An around, namely the pro- quality of material used be- The Centre should also sustainable and unsustain- much higher loss through upfront. Who will do this? usable equity of RBI. By all unintended consequence moter, the bank and the new comes suspect. Interest publish the actual quantum able portions, enabling the resolution or bankruptcy vis- The accompanying table indications, RBI is under- here will be that PSU banks investor will be aligned costs alone can be substan- generated monthly by each borrower company to be re- a-vis a commercially driven illustrates the debt of top ten capitalised right now. will henceforth be reluctant through a combination of tial. solar power plant feeding vived and making it possible write-off decision. The in- stressed corporate groups Asking RBI to deplete its to initiate any insolvency debt writedown, reduction A 60 GW solar capacity, into the grid, state wise. A for the sustainable portion to solvency route would lead to aggregating ₹7.5 trillion, usable equity further will proceedings on their own. in promoter’s stake and infu- the Centre’s 2022 goal for minimum generation cri- be repaid. a “fire sale” of assets in a which needs to be written worsen its financial position, As for the government, sion of fresh equity at real- ground-mounted projects, teria per MW is to be fixed. growing economy — a para- down to spur their revival. It thereby undermining its abil- will there be clear and trans- istic valuation; five, boards of would need 3 lakh acres and Failure to meet this target S4A a non-starter dox of sorts. This is a sad is beyond the ability of the ity to pursue policies inde- parent guidelines as regards banks should have full free- ₹2,50,000 crore in invest- should result in a penalty. This is also a non-starter, reality that lies at the core of government to do this even pendently. which of the defaulters to dom to decide on restructur- ment. The assumptions are: Power purchase agree- with only three cases cleared resolving the NPA problem. over three years. proceed against? ing; and six, vigilance action the average cost per MW ments must ensure that fail- so far. While there is excite- The idea that a slice of Amendment to BR Act There is every possibility to be taken if, and only if, would be ₹3.5 crore; and ure to generate a certain ment and expectations sur- A para-banking solution? RBI’s capital can be used for From an operational per- that debt resolution will there is clear evidence of generation of 240 million million units per MW a year rounding the Insolvency and Like all grand ideas, the pro- funding PARA (or loss of PSU spective, the amendment henceforth follow a political malfeasance as distinct from units a day into the grid. for two consecutive years Bankruptcy Code, 2016, it is position to set up a Public banks?) is almost irrespons- has two new elements: (i) process. post facto detection of de- Assuming average tariff of would result in cancellation well-nigh impossible that res- Sector Asset Rehabilitation ible. Direct power for the govern- The same logic applies to cision error. ₹4.50, it would mean a daily of the PPA and in the recov- olution of even the large- Agency (PARA) a la what If RBI parts with a portion ment (to be exercised oversight authorities/com- (Sivaprakasam Sivakumar payout of ₹100 crore by a ery of land. sized NPAs can be brought China did in the past catches of its holding of government through RBI) asking banks to mittees. It goes against the is MD, Argonaut Global Cap- Gedco. Is this feasible, given (The author is MD, Solkar about within a reasonable attention. securities, the resultant loss initiate insolvency proceed- very grain of corporate gov- ital LLC, U.S., and Himadri their financial ill health? Solar Industry Ltd. and Na- period of time under the The details are sketchy, will have to be absorbed ings against specific delin- ernance because the boards Bhattacharya is Senior Ad- If a state becomes power tional President, All India mechanism contained in this untenable, and even confus- either by its current income quent borrowers. (ii) RBI to of banks will have to heed visor, RisKontroller Global) surplus, it must export solar Manufacturers’ Association)

CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC EXPLAINER CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Prompt corrective Google woos start-ups to heat up its cloud action for banks Ofers technology that combines a large amount of storage and computing to ventures that study Earth and simulate cities Peerzada Abrar This includes its telco and factories, tens and thou- thresholds are breached. BENGALURU transport network, power sands of machines, all There are three risk Google is wooing some of the grid, sewage systems, hous- streaming data, if we didn’t thresholds which are based world’s hottest start-ups to ing demographics and even know we had the infrastruc- on certain levels of asset sell its cloud computing the way in which people ture of Google to allow us to quality, profitability, capital technology. move around and interact do that,” said Willem Sund- and the like. The third such These include ventures with the city. blad, founder and chief exec- threshold, which is max- that send satellites into the “This is the largest simula- utive of Oden Technologies. imum tolerance limit, sets space to study the changing tion of its kind, ever cre- For example, Google’s net NPA at over 12% and earth, firms that convert tra- ated,” said Mr. Narula, chief cloud platform provides the negative return on assets for ditional manufacturing executive at Improbable. The base for obtaining and stor- four consecutive years. plants into smart factories company intends to foster a ing data collated by Oden’s and start-ups that are simu- community where de- wireless devices. It captures Manojit Saha What are the types of lating entire cities. velopers can share code, and and stores about 10 million MUMBAI sanctions? Google is offering cloud build and create new ser- metrics on each manufactur- As the financial health of ½ There are two type of re- technology that combines a vices and businesses. ing line per day. This in- banks had deteriorated over strictions, mandatory and large amount of storage and Mr. Narula said the age of cludes highly granular de- the last three years, the Re- discretionary. Restrictions computing. It then sells it to closed systems and trying, in tails, such as melt profile of serve Bank of India (RBI) on dividend, branch expan- customers who may want to effect, to get developers into the materials and measure of has revised the norms for sion, directors compensa- enhance or set up new data committing to a closed eco- power moving to the prompt corrective action tion, are mandatory while centres. system were over. “We can’t machines. early last month, and has discretionary restrictions Planet Labs, Inc, a start-up succeed unless you succeed Environmental insights promptly imposed those could include curbs on lend- which is on a mission to im- and I think Google recog- like temperature and humid- norms on a couple of public ing and deposit. In the cases age the entire Earth every nises that,” he said. ity are also obtained. This sector lenders. of two banks where PCA day, and make the global way, manufacturers can find was invoked after the re- change visible, said that it Smart factories if there are weather-related What is PCA? vised guidelines were issued has switched to Google Manufacturing is one of the consequences on their man- ½ PCA norms allow the — IDBI Bank and UCO Bank Cloud to host its imagery and most important sectors of ufacturing efficiency. regulator to place certain re- — only mandatory restric- do data processing. the U.S. economy. The gross In March, Mountain View, strictions such as halting tions were imposed. Both “There are a handful of output of U.S. manufacturing California-based Google also branch expansion and stop- the banks breached risk companies that can offer On cloud nine: Start-ups such as Planet Labs, Improbable and Oden Technologies have got into industries was $6.2 trillion in acquired Kaggle, a com- ping dividend payment. It threshold 2. storage and processing, we Google’s bandwagon to reap technological beneits. * GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCK 2015, about 36% of U.S. gross munity platform for data sci- can even cap a bank’s lend- are really impressed by domestic product. entists. The Kaggle coming limit to one entity or sec- What next? Google Cloud’s core techno- Cloud now hosts this grow- the Satish Dhawan Space tainment, this enables the But these industries have munity has used machine tor. Other corrective action ½ Some more lenders are logy,” said Will Marshall, co- ing photography repository Centre in Sriharikota. creation of richer and more less access to the new tech- learning to grade high school that can be imposed on expected to come under the founder and chief executive and the data processing for Planet Labs has now intro- immersive virtual worlds. nological advancements in essays, diagnose heart failure banks include special audit, corrective action framework of Planet Labs, at Google Planet Labs. duced a tool called ‘Planet For instance, top studios are the information technology and increase the discovery restructuring operations as and when their asset Cloud Next conference held “We have the capacity to Explorer Beta’ that provides building their products on sector, according to Oden significance of the Higgs-Bo- and activation of recovery quality worsens, putting recently in San Francisco. image every point on the data to individuals, small and Improbable’s distributed op- Technologies, a leading in- son, an elementary particle plan. Banks’ promoters can profitability under pressure. earth every single day and medium-sized businesses, erating system, SpatialOS. dustrial Internet of Things in the Standard Model of be asked to bring in new Some public sector banks Natural disasters the sea changes that happen. developers and researchers These include top video venture. particle physics. management, too. The RBI have breached the net NPA Founded in 2010 by ex-NASA We see every port, every around the globe. games like Worlds Adrift, The New York-based firm Making Google Cloud can also supersede the parameter as well as the scientists, Planet Labs oper- city, every farm and every Rebel Horizons and Chron- is betting big on changing technology available to its bank’s board, under PCA. profitability parameter. ates the largest constellation forest,” said Mr. Marshall. Immersive experience icles of Elyria. this and it runs its entire plat- community will allow it to of- The provisions of the re- These banks are comfort- of Earth-imaging satellites. In February, with help Google also provides its Improbable has now form on the Google cloud fer access to powerful infra- vised PCA framework will able on the capital para- These satellites are collecting from the Indian Space Re- cloud platform to Improb- taken a huge leap of simulat- platform. Using a combina- structure and the capability be effective April 1, 2017 meter, thanks to the govern- a new data set with real- search Organisation’s (ISRO), able, a London-based starting entire cities that could tion of IoT — a technology to store and query large data based on the financials of ment’s commitment to world applications such as the California-based firm up co-founded by Indian-ori- impact everything ranging where devices communicate sets. the banks for the year ensure the PSU banks are tracking natural resources, successfully launched 88 gin entrepreneur Herman from city planning to with each other intelligently “We are going to enable ended March 31, 2017. The not starved of capital. How- quantifying agricultural Dove satellites to orbit. Narula. healthcare. — wireless connectivity, and our community to do far framework will be reviewed ever, as the government has yields and assisting first re- This is the largest satellite It is dedicated to building At the Google Cloud con- big data, Oden is helping more powerful things,” said after three years. its own commitment for sponders after natural dis- constellation ever to reach technology to enable power- ference, Mr. Narula said that manufacturers enhance pro- Anthony Goldbloom, chief maintaining fiscal discip- asters. To image the whole of orbit. These satellites rode ful virtual worlds and simula- Improbable has built a com- duction efficiency. executive of Kaggle. When is PCA invoked? line, it remains to been seen the Earth every day means aboard ISRO’s workhorse — tion designed to help solve plete simulation of an entire “We probably wouldn’t be (The writer was recently in ½ The PCA is invoked how long it can afford to in- preparing for 7 to 10 tera- the polar satellite launch previously stubborn prob- British City, in conjunction comfortable scaling up to the U.S. at the invitation of when certain risk fuse capital in these banks. bytes of data daily. Google vehicle (PSLV rocket) from lems. In gaming and enter- with a public sector partner. thousands and thousands of Google)

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THE HINDU NOIDA/DELHI MONDAY, MAY 22, 2017 SPORT 15 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Mumbai Indians has the last laugh Former players Heartbreak for Rising Pune Supergiant as it falls short by just one run hold court IPL-10 FINAL to the turf, he swept Pandya to long-leg. His captain Steve Smith was content playing A. JOSEPH ANTONY HYDERABAD second fiddle. Rahane depar- ted six short of a half-cen- Poised on the precipice, tury, picked up by long-on, Mumbai Indians, powered by Kieron Pollard, clutching the Mitchell Johnson’s stu- catch inches above the grass. pendous bowling (three for 26) at the death, sneaked Lowest total home to its third title in the Earlier, Mumbai skidded to Indian Premier League at the the lowest total in a final Rajiv Gandhi International when batting first, logging Stadium on Sunday night. 129 for eight. The previous Rising Pune Supergiant, nadir was Deccan Chargers’ shepherded by skipper Steve 143 at Johannesburg in 2009, Smith’s masterly 51, requir- while the all-time depths ing 11 off the last over, fell a were plumbed by Chennai Star-studded: A bevy of celebrities, including Sushant Singh run short in what could be its Super Kings’ 125 against Rajput and actress Kriti Sanon, witnessed the IPL inal at last hurrah, unless the cham- Mumbai Indians in 2013. Hyderabad on Sunday. * K.R. DEEPAK pionship is expanded to 10 Pune’s wicket-to-wicket teams in the next season. assault left little room for A. JOSEPH ANTONY sion, also in the blue hue of Hyderabad For Mumbai skipper Rohit Mumbai openers Lendl Sim- the Mumbai Indians was a Sharma, he was party to a mons and Parthiv Patel but Under a densely overcast fielder non-pareil — Jonty fourth title, three as captain scamper for singles. sky, the Rajiv Gandhi inter- Rhodes. and earlier with the now-de- Throttled thus in the first national stadium saw quite a Mumbai’s fielders funct Deccan Chargers. two overs, Parthiv grew rest- sprinkling of stardust before couldn’t have found a better Whirling arms, wiles and less and reckless too. Taking the showdown for the Vivo guru than the South African guiles, Jasprit Bumrah’s boot- a swipe across at a rising Un- Indian Premier League who continues to be a live- lace bombs swung things adkat delivery, he spooned a trophy got underway. From wire, bat in one hand and Mumbai’s way. He drew simple catch to Shardul the pantheon of the game’s baseball glove in the other blood first, rapping Rahul Thakur at mid-on. Parthiv’s greats, striking a sparkling to collect the throw-ins. Tripathi on the pads. On his partner fell three balls later, presence were Sunil Gavas- If anyone from the coun- second spell, he got M.S. Simmons’ leading edge kar, Kevin Pietersen and try could come close, it Dhoni, promoted to two- lapped up by a leaping Un- Scott Styris. down, caught behind by could only have been Robin adkat, raking up the catch * What set them apart was Unbelievable: Mumbai Indians celebrates a nerve-wracking victory. K.R. DEEPAK Singh, who was also at Parthiv Patel, a blow that with his ring finger and off the stylish kurtas they hand. Keeping an eye on the perhaps impacted Pune his own bowling. Rayudu was ‘thrown out’ donned, underscoring the SCOREBOARD MUMBAI INDIANS VS RISING PUNE SUPERGIANT Mumbai attack’s prepara- more than it would have If Pune’s new ball operat- by mid-off Smith’s direct hit Indian ethos of the over tions was another world- wished. ors Unadkat and Washington to the non-striker’s end. The Mumbai Indians: Lendl Sim- 10.1), 5-65 (Pollard, 10.6), 6-78 Christian run out 4 (2b), Wash- month and a half long beater in the pace-bowling Ajinkya Rahane (44, 5x4) Sundar were miserly, Hyderabad-born batsman mons c & b Unadkat 3 (8b), (Hardik, 13.2), 7-79 (Karn, 14.1), ington Sundar (not out) 0 (1b); extravaganza. department, a policeman nearly perished on 14, lob- Shardul Thakur was no less had set out for a sharp single. Parthiv Patel c Thakur b Un- 8-129 (Krunal, 19.6). Extras (b-1, lb-5, w-3): 9; Total Years spent in the middle bing Lasith Malinga to adkat 4 (6b), Ambati Rayudu (for six wkts. in 20 overs): 128. turned cricket pro — Shane niggardly, keeping the ex- It was Adam Zampa who Rising Pune Supergiant bowl- of cricket arenas across the run out 12 (15b, 1x4), Rohit Fall of wickets: 1-17 (Tripathi, Bond. Krunal Pandya, who spilt the plosive pair of Rohit Sharma struck the next blow. Rohit’s ing: Jaydev Unadkat 4-0-19-2, world and never far from Sharma c Thakur b Zampa 24 2.2), 2-71 (Rahane, 11.5), 3-98 chance at cover. Off the next and Ambati Rayudu on a pull to mid-wicket found Washington Sundar 4-0-13-0, the spotlight even after In the other half of the (22b, 4x4), Krunal Pandya c Ra- (Dhoni, 16.2), 4-123 (Tiwary, over, the stylish striker sent tight leash. Mumbai’s first Thakur take an outstanding Shardul Thakur 2-0-7-0, Lockie hanging up their boots, the ground, standing tall with hane b Christian 47 (38b, 3x4, 19.2), 5-123 (Smith, 19.3), 6-128 the Sri Lankan slinger to the boundary came in the sixth catch, his balancing act to Ferguson 2-0-21-0, Adam trio holding court in the me- the aura of cricketer evolved 2x6), Kieron Pollard c Tiwary b (Christian, 19.6). fence, this time with a full- over, from Rohit’s pat off hold the lofted shot well Zampa 4-0-32-2, Dan Christian dia box showed no signs of into the game’s elder states- Zampa 7 (3b, 1x6), Hardik Mumbai Indians bowling: blooded hit. Lockie Ferguson. within the bounds of the 4-0-34-2. stage fright. man was Stephen Fleming. Pandya lbw b Christian 10 (9b, Krunal Pandya 4-0-31-0, With Pune in charge for taped hoardings skirting the 1x6), Karn Sharma run out 1 Rising Pune Supergiant: Mitchell Johnson 4-0-26-3, The stadium, half full Taking a closer and keen most of the chase, the re- In fine touch boundary. (5b), Mitchell Johnson (not out) Ajinkya Rahane c Pollard b Jasprit Bumrah 4-0-26-2, La- already a good one and half look at the gleaming trophy prieve for Rahane could have Slopping talent like a care- The eighth-wicket pair of 13 (14b, 1x6); Extras (b-1, lb-2, Johnson 44 (38b, 5x4), Rahul sith Malinga 4-0-21-0, Karn hours before the summit was Match Referee Javagal proved costly, the placid- less barman spilling expens- Krunal (47, 3x4, 2x6) and w-5): 8; Total (for eight wkts. in Tripathi lbw b Bumrah 3 (8b), Sharma 4-0-18-0. clash, broke into spontan- Srinath. The assembly of a faced Pune batsman des- ive drinks, Mumbai’s captain Johnson provided the pro- 20 overs): 129. Steve Smith c Rayudu b John- Toss: Mumbai Indians. eous applause on seeing a cross-section of cricket’s patching Johnson to the barely brought blade to ball verbial lash from the lower son 51 (50b, 2x4, 2x6), M.S. Man-of-the-Match: Krunal curly haired gent going by whos-who was not surpris- Mumbai dugout, as if to rub to send it racing to the ropes order, mopping up Mumbai’s Fall of wickets: 1-7 (Parthiv, 2.1 Dhoni c Parthiv b Bumrah 10 Pandya. the name of Sachin Ten- ing considering it was a cul- it in. four times in that over off the most valuable partnership of overs), 2-8 (Simmons, 2.4), 3- (13b, 1x4), Manoj Tiwary c Pol- Mumbai Indians won by one dulkar. Staying close to the mination of the game’s most Bringing right knee down Kiwi seamer. 50. 41 (Rayudu, 7.2), 4-56 (Rohit, lard b Johnson 7 (8b, 1x4), Dan run. season’s last practice ses- compact format.

CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Full entertainment Kumble explains Poonam, Mithali Ghalay inishes 31st salary structure guide India to win Sports Bureau Munich Sushil Ghalay (622.7) fin- theme to CoA, BCCI Press Trust of India ished 31st in the 50m rifle Potchefstroom prone event at the shooting Poonam Raut and Mithali G . Viswanath worked on a fair formula for World Cup in Munich on Raj shared an unbeaten 127- Mumbai the Indian team. Sunday, placing ahead of run stand as India defeated India’s head coach Anil Chain Singh (37th with Kumble may have also South Africa by eight wick- Kumble is understood to 622.1) and Sanjeev Rajput conveyed to the CoA and ets in the final of the Wo- have impressed upon the (65th, 616.6). BCCI the need for long-term men’s Quadrangular Series Committee of Administrat- Gagan Narang shot in professional coaching sys- here on Sunday. ors (CoA) and BCCI office- the MQS section and re- tem, delivering contracts on Veteran Jhulan Goswami bearers to take an encom- time and most importantly, turned a score of 622.1. passing look at revising the starred with the ball with In the 25m rapid fire pis- maintaining continuity. three wickets, helping India Indian team salary struc- Kumble replaced Ravi tol event, Neeraj Kumar ture, both central contracts dismiss South Africa for a shot 578 for the 18th place. Shastri (Team Director) and paltry 156 in 40.2 overs. and match fees. Mithali Raj...captain’s knock. Harpreet Singh had 577 has met with extraordinary Raut (70 off 92 ) and Raj Kumble made a power success. * AP and Gurpreet Singh 572, (62 off 79) then delivered which meant none of the point presentation to them His tenure will end at the with the bat, taking India to played top form throughout Indians was close to quali- in Hyderabad on Sunday. conclusion of the ICC Cham- a comfortable win in 33 the tournament. Raut had fication, with 585 being the pions Trophy. During the course of the overs after a rather jittery scored an unbeaten 109 cut-off. India-Australia Test series, against Ireland while Raj Kohli interacted with the start to the chase. In the women’s 50m the CoA met Kumble and came to the final after scor- CoA and BCCI members The win was more sweet rifle 3-position elimination skipper Virat Kohli and sup- ing two half—centuries. through video conference considering India had lost to round, Tejaswini Sawant port staff members to ascer- and was on the same page as South Africa in the league Chasing a modest target, shot 581 and Gaayathri tain their views on the Kumble on the burning issue stages. Captain Mithali not India lost opener Deepti Nithyanadam 580, while player remuneration. the India captain raised with only guided the team to a re- Sharma and Mona Meshram Elizabeth Susan Koshy had On being asked to make a the BCCI before the India- sounding win, but also be- cheaply before Raut and Raj 575. The qualification presentation, Kumble sub- New Zealand Test series last came the first Indian to lead completed the job in a clin- phase and the final will be mitted a report after the year. the side in 100 ODIs. ical fashion. held on Monday. series. Kumble seems to Recently, the CoA The tournament also The scores: South Africa 156 in The results: Men: 50m rifle have taken note of the salary doubled the central con- turned out to be good pre- 40.2 overs (Luus 55, Goswami prone: 1. Kim Jonghyun (Kor) structures followed by tracts remuneration for paration for India ahead of three for 22) lost to India 160 248.3 (628.8), 2. Stian Bogar Cricket Australia and Eng- Grade-A players to ₹2 crore, the World Cup, which be- for two in 33 overs (Poonam (Nor) 248.2 (625.4), 3. Having fun: Fans cheer during the IPL inal between Mumbai Indians and Rising Pune Supergiant land and Wales Cricket Grade-B to ₹1 crore and gins in the UK next month. Raut 70 not out, Mithali Raj 62 Thomas Mathis (Aut) 227.1 in Hyderabad on Sunday. * K.R. DEEPAK Board and accordingly Grade-C to ₹50 lakh. Both Raut and Raj dis- not out). (627.3). Gurindervir, ‘Sacha’ Zverev masters Djokovic in inal Purav-Divij pair triumphs Abhishek Elina Svitolina ights of Simona Halep for the women’s title Sports Bureau strike gold Bordeaux ITALIAN OPEN Third-seeded Purav Raja and Sports Bureau Divij Sharan won their first Bangkok Agassi to Agencies title of the season as they Gurindervir Singh and Ab- Rome work with beat fourth seeds Santiago hishek Mathew won gold Alexander Zverev stunned Gonzalez and Artem Sitak medals for India at the four-time Rome champion Djokovic 6-4, 6-4 in the final of the Asian youth athletics Novak Djokovic 6-4, 6-3 to €106,000 Challenger here championship in Bangkok win his first Masters title on jokovic said on on Sunday. on Sunday. Sunday, confirming his DSunday that Andre It was smooth passage to Gurindervir clocked status as a Roland Garros Agassi will be his new the title for the Indian pair, 10.77s for the 100m gold danger-man. coach. “I spoke to Andre which had won four Chal- while Abhishek pipped Sri The 20-year-old became the last couple weeks on lenger titles apart from a Lankan Harsha Dis- the youngest player in a dec- the phone, and we Tour title last season. Winning combination: Purav Raja and Divij Sharan, who took sanayaka in a photo-finish ade to win an ATP 1000 title, decided to get together in the honours in the €106,000 Challenger in Bordeaux on to win the 800m in Purav and Divij, who had and he will now move to Paris. So he’s gonna be Sunday. * FILE PHOTO 1:54.99s. won all their matches in World No. 10. Djokovic, who there,” said Djokovic, A landmark triumph: Alexander Zverev’s irst ever Masters straight sets, except for the turns 30 on Monday, was the adding there was no in Lyon, France, with a Thombare won her first Two bronze medals triumph will see him enter the top-10 in the World, and he will quarterfinals against Alex previous youngest Masters long-term commitment. Bolt and Thanasi Kokkina- tough first round against WTA-level match with Vera India also won two bronze head to Paris as a dark horse. * AP champion, winning Miami as “It’s just us trying to get kis, collected 110 ATP points Jonathan Erlich of Israel and Lapko of Belarus. medals through Akshay Andre Sa of Brazil. The results: a 19-year-old in 2007. of the favourites.” thought was one of the best to know each other in and €6,580. Nain (boys’ 400m) and Paris.” Djokovic, who said €106,000 Challenger, Bor- Djokovic had 27 unforced matches of my life on clay (in The duo had defeated Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan Seema (girls’ 3,000m). “Playing against Novak, he had “persuaded” deaux: Final: Purav Raja & Divij errors to 14 for Zverev, who beating Dominic Thiem 6-1, second seeds Leander Paes has also a got a wild card Mohit narrowly missed one of the best players to Agassi, added: “He had Sharan bt Santiago Gonzalez also had 16 winners to the 6-0 in the semifinal). Today I and Scott Lipsky in the semi- entry for the same event the decathlon gold, his ever play — it was an honour this approach to tennis (Mex) & Artem Sitak (Nzl) 6-4, Serb’s 11. played something else. But finals, for the loss of five with Christopher Rungkat of 5976 a mere seven points being on the court with you,” and to life that was quite 6-4. “I wish you go on to win that’s sport.” games. Indonesia. behind the gold winning said Zverev. “You’re an different from others. WTA Strasbourg International: many of these titles,” score. amazing player. Unfortu- Elina Svitolina won the That’s why he’s so It will be a better level There was some good First round: Vera Lapko (Blr) & Djokovic told the young Ger- Another Mohit won the nately this week you didn’t women’s title with a 4-6, 7-5, interesting.” next week for Purav and Di- news from the $250,000 Prarthana Thombare bt Liang silver in shot-put with an win, but I’m sure as we get man. 6-1 victory over Simona vij as they will compete in WTA event in Strasbourg Chen (Chn) & Katarzyna Piter 18.82m. closer to Paris you’ll be one “Yesterday I played what I Halep. the €540,310, ATP 250 event (France), as Prarthana (Pol) 6-3, 6-4. CM A ND-ND YK https://telegram.me/TheHindu_Zone https://telegram.me/PDF4EXAMS

NOIDA/DELHI THE HINDU 16 SPORT MONDAY, MAY 22, 2017 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF Oloitiptip, Cheptai emerge winners Hockey Chandigarh clinches title World record-holder Komon inishes eighth N. Sudarshan TCS WORLD 10K top three, tapered off to- BENGALURU wards the end, with Helah Irene Cheptai, the reigning Kiprop, a marathon runner Anderson sufers women’s World cross coun- Naveen Kumar and Saigeeta with enough lasting power, groin injury try champion, made a mem- Naik crossed the tape first completing the podium. LONDON orable 10k road race interna- among men and women re- Among the men, Oloitip- England’s James Anderson tional debut by winning the spectively with times of tip was part of the leading missed the whole of TCS World 10k here on 30:56 and 36:01. pack from the start and fin- Saturday’s play in Sunday. The Kenyan clocked Neither the late start times ished with aplomb. His Lancashire’s Roses clash with 31:51 and even threatened to nor the high summer tem- closest challengers were first Yorkshire because of a groin break compatriot Lucy Ka- peratures leading up to the Kiwi Zane Robertson and injury and may take no buu’s course record set in race made any dent. While Kiptoo and then Kissa. overnight rains had brought further part in the match. 2014, but fell three seconds At the 6km mark, A walk in the park: Hockey Chandigarh dominated from the down the temperatures sig- Anderson has not been in short. Robertson fell by the way- start to win 4-0 against SAI. nificantly, persistent cloud action at Old Trafford since Ethiopia's Worknesh side and then a kilometre cover ensured that the ath- Principal Correspondent limping off clutching his Degefa was next, nine later Oloitiptip decided to began to attack in droves. AFP letes wouldn't tire easily. Bengaluru groin on Friday’s first day. seconds behind and Helah leave everyone behind. A Amandeep struck a field It perhaps reflected in the Kiprop of Kenya a further fierce battle ensued for the Hockey Chandigarh goal in the 47th to double results — the top four in both Harikrishna outwits two seconds away. second spot before Kiptoo clinched the seventh the lead. men and women all had bet- Nepomniachtchi On the men's side, Kenya’s passed Kissa with barely a Hockey India sub-junior Five minutes before time, ter times than the 2016 win- MOSCOW Alex Korio Oloitiptip, the few hundred metres left. boys’ National champion- Sanjay recorded a brace, champion here in 2013, won ners in the respective Indian GM P. Harikrishna The results: Overall: Men: 1. ship 2017 (‘A’ Division) title and a minute from the final categories. defeated Russian GM Ian in 28:12. Compatriot Edwin Alex Korio Oloitiptip (Ken) after registering a fluent 4-0 whistle, Harpreet Singh Of the two, the women’s Nepomniachtchi in the eighth Kiptoo came number two 28:12s; 2. Edwin Kiptoo (Ken) victory over Sports Author- made it 4-0. round of the Moscow FIDE but was 14 seconds slower. race shaded the men’s. Pace- 28:26s; 3. Stephen Kissa (Uga) ity of India in the final here Earlier, Madhya Pradesh Grand Prix. With his second Stephen Kissa, the pace- maker Carolyne Jepkosgei 28:28s. Women: 1. Irene Chep- on Sunday. Hockey Academy finished win, Harikrishna climbed to maker, after staying true to dropped back rather early, tai (Ken) 31:51s; 2. Worknesh Sanjay, with two goals, third in the championship the 12th spot with four his role for half the race, leaving Cheptai, Degefa and Degefa (Eth) 32:00s; 3. Helah starred for Chandigarh in after defeating Hockey points. He will take on staked a claim for the ulti- Gladys Chesir to push each Kiprop (Ken) 32:02s. the summit clash. Odisha 3-2 in the third-place Teimour Radjabov of mate prize before settling for other. The result was a slow India: Men: 1. Naveen Kumar Coming into the game as playoff match. Azerbaijan in his last game in third (28:28). 16:19 5km split. 30:56s; 2. Sandeep Tayade the firm favourite after dom- The results: his quest to achieve a higher Two-time defending Cheptai and Degefa were 31:02s; 3. Shankar Man Thapa inating in all its previous Final: Hockey Chandigarh 4 rank and find a spot in the champion Mosinet Geremew neck and neck, but at about 31:07s. Women: 1. Saigeeta matches, Chandigarh took (Sanjay 40, 65, Amandeep 47, Candidates tournament. was a pale shadow of his the 8km-mark Cheptai de- Naik 36:01s; 2. Kiran Sahdev time to get off the blocks Harpreet Singh 69) bt Sports former self, coming in a cided to break away. She 36:30s; 3. Preenu Yadav against the solid defence of Authority of India 0. rather dispiriting 10th. World sprinted towards the end 36:46s. SAI. Third-place playoff: Madhya record-holder Leonard even as Degefa couldn’t find Winner's Prize money: Men: After a goalless first-half, Pradesh HA 3 (Haider Ali 8, Komon was equally uninspir- the same finishing kick. $26,000; Women: $26,000. Sanjay broke the deadlock Shailendra Singh 27, 32) bt ing in eighth. Chesir, who was all along in Indians: Men: ₹2.5 lakh; Wo- All too easy: Kenya’s Irene Cheptai came up with a strong by converting a penalty Hockey Odisha 2 (Sunit Lakra Among the Indians, with a chance to be in the men: ₹2.5 lakh. inish to easily best the ield. * K. MURALI KUMAR corner. Chandigarh then 25, Sushant Toppo 37).

GOLF MOTORSPORTS Harinder Thomas out for NBA: Durant rest of playofs bags title BOSTON Kapur and Bhullar Mahindra’s Heidfeld Boston Celtics guard Isaiah Thomas will miss the sinks Spurs remainder of the NBA inish joint second on the podium again playoffs after aggravating a Warriors lead 3-0 in the series hip injury during Game Two Press Trust of India Press Trust of India of the Eastern Conference on Sunday. With 65-63, Monaco E Prix where Heid- Reuters Bangkok Paris final, the team announced on Kapur was 14-under for the feld got third and Rosenqv- San Antonio Shiv Kapur produced a mag- Mahindra Racing recorded Saturday. Reuters weekend and was tied ist sixth. With six races left Kevin Durant scored 33 nificent finish for the second second with Gaganjeet Bhul- its best ever double-points in the FIA electric-powered straight time with a closing lar (67) at 19-under. finish in the Formula E car racing series over three Armaan & Bartholomew points, 19 of them in the de- eight-under 63, which al- Rattanon Wannasrichan Championships, with Nick double-header weekends, finish third cisive third quarter, and most brought him a second (67) totalled 21-under to Heidfeld and Felix Rosenqv- Team Mahindra is in the BURIRAM (THAILAND) pulled down 10 rebounds as successive win. complete a sensational vic- ist taking third and fourth third spot in the construct- India’s racer Armaan Ebrahim Golden State Warriors easily Kapur, who had a closing tory. places in the Paris E-Prix ors’ championship. Harinder. * FILE PHOTO and his teammate Jack dispatched San Antonio bogey-free eight-under 64 Jeev Milkha Singh (72) here on Saturday. In the drivers’ standings, Bartholomew of the UK Spurs 120-108 on Saturday during his win in Taiwan, was tied-32nd, while This performance Heidfeld is in fourth place Sports Bureau continued their good run in in Game 3 of the Western had no less than 10 birdies Shankar Das (70) and Khalin bettered Mahindra’s per- while Rosenqvist is in sixth Makati City (the Philippines) the Super Trofeo Asia Series, Conference finals. Warriors besides two bogeys in his 63 Joshi (70) were tied-42nd. formance at last week’s place. Close on the heels of his clinching a second successive lead 3-0 in the best-of-seven Malaysian success, India’s podium despite engine series with Game 4 set for Harinder Pal Sandhu problems at the Chang Monday in San Antonio. bagged another PSA title, International Circuit here on The result: Warriors 120 (Dur- his second in a little over a Sunday. Spearheading the ant 33, Green 10, McGee 16, Gatlin claims 100 metres gold week’s time and seventh FFF Racing team, Armaan and Thompson 17, Curry 21) bt Spurs 108 (Simmons 14, Ald- overall, when he beat Jack did well in race 2 to ridge 18, Ginobili 21, Gasol 12, Mohd Syafiq Kamal of finish third. Murray 10). Kevin Durant. * AP Double for Bulgaria's Ivet Lalova-Collio Malaysia 11-5, 11-7, 11-7 in the final of the Nissan Makati Reuters (Can) 20.62. 800m: Timothy Open, a PSA World Tour Kawasaki Kitum (Ken) 1:47.03. 3000m: event here on Sunday. Veteran American sprinter Paul Kipngetich Tanui (Ken) The second seed had Vaishali reigns Justin Gatlin fended off the 7:52.67. 3000m steeplechase: moved into the final late on challenge of a host of Japan- Jairus Kipchoge Birech (Ken) Saturday night after ac- Press Trust of India while Mary Ann Gomes ese hopes when he won the 8:19.54. 110m hurdles: Xie counting for fourth seed Chennai finished 16th. men's 100 metres in 10.28 Wenjun (Chn) 13.51. Tang Ming Hong of Hong India’s R. Vaishali won In the open section, seconds at the Golden Grand 400m hurdles: Quincy Down- Kong 11-5, 11-7, 11-6 in the the women’s title with Tamil Nadu’s Aravind Prix here on Sunday. ing (USA) 48.96. High jump: semifinals. Thompson posts eight points from nine Chithambaram finished The Rio Olympic silver Michael Mason (Can) 2.30. Pole vault: Hiroki Ogita (Jpn) 5.60. world leading time rounds in the Asian fourth with a tally of medallist started slowly but Long jump: Wang Jianan (Chn) KINGSTON continental Blitz chess seven points. rallied to dip ahead of Asuka 8.14. Triple jump: Wu Ruiting Bangalore Double Olympic champion championship in He won six games, Cambridge, who finished .03 (Chn) 17.18. Javelin: Thomas Elaine Thompson cruised to a Chengdu on Sunday. drew two and lost one. seconds behind the Amer- Breezing through: Justin Gatlin, right, strides ahead Roehler (Ger) 86.55. races She was at her best in M.R. Lalith Babu (6.5 * world leading equalling ican, while another Japan- of Aska Cambridge, centre, and Abdul Hakim. AP Women: 100m: Ivet Lalova- the Blitz event, winning points), Vidit Santhosh 22.09s to win the 200m at ese, Shuhei Tada, came third Collio (Bul) 11.40. 200m: Ivet cancelled the Jamaica International seven games and posting Gujrathi (6.5 points) and in 10.35. tougher going against some ing on my finish and it Lalova-Collio (Bul) 22.98. Invitational meeting on two draws in the nine- B. Adhiban (6 points) Any hopes of clocking a of the future stars of Japan,” helped out today.” 1500m: Nelly Jepkosgei (Ken) Saturday. Thompson is the round event. Padmini finished seventh, eighth fast time were scuppered by the 35-year-old was quoted Canada's Aaron Brown 4:06.86. 100m hurdles: Queen BENGALURU: The Stewards of fifth fastest woman over the Rout finished third with and 10th respectively. a 1.2-metre headwind at the as saying by Kyodo. won the men's 200m in Harrison (USA) 12.65. the Bangalore Turf Club de- distance with 21.66. Reuters seven points after a last Surya Shekhar Todoroki Stadium, although “They put together a good 20.62, while Bulgaria's Ivet Long jump: Tianna Bartoletta cided to cancel the races round victory over Yuxin Ganguly was 22nd, while Gatlin said he was pleased race, and they're going to be Lalova-Collio claimed the (USA) 6.79. Shot Put: Jeneva scheduled to be held here TV PICKS Song of China. Sandipan Chanda and with his performance in test- formidable opponents. I've women's 100 and 200m. Stevens (USA) 18.48. on Sunday (May 21), due to Soumya Swaminathan S.P. Sethuraman were ing conditions. been a little bit injured, not The winners: Hammer: Gwen Berry (USA) heavy overnight rain, ac- NBA: Sony Six & Six HD, 6 (5.5) took the 12th spot, 24th and 25th. “It was a tough wind, but being able to train as hard as Men: 100m: Justin Gatlin (USA) 74.13. Javelin: Liu Shiying (Chn) cording to a BTC press a.m. the competition was even I want to, but I've been work- 10.28. 200m: Aaron Brown 66.47. release.

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FAITH THE HINDU CROSSWORD 12013 (set by Gridman) SUDOKU

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 15 Celebration fast dissipates — 6 One minute past insect's inal with odd wife entering (6) stage (5) Eicacy of worship 17 Man wearing old clothing in The Gita offers a comprehensive account of the two basic 9 10 7 They are set up to go down in vehicle (5) game (8) forms of worship: meditation on the unmanifest form of the 11 Lord known as Nirguna or Akshara Brahman and on the His 20 One's related nice concoction 8 Being erudite, scanned manifest form, with attributes and auspicious qualities, 12 13 to go with drug (5) perfectly (4-4) known as Saguna Brahman. 14 21 Wild man could summon PAC Krishna dwells at length on matters such as Brahma 11 One has to show it to prove 15 16 17 (6) Tatva, the state of Yoga Nishta, Vibhuti yoga, Viswarupa who one is (1,1,4) yoga, and so on, right from the second chapter to the elev- 24 The sort of documentation 18 19 enth and asserts that meditation on Nirguna Brahman is with which Father's curiously 14 Exercise over the Italian's capable of granting Moksha. Then when He reveals His cos- 20 21 paltrier (5,5) stack (4) mic form to Arjuna, the Lord highlights the worship of the 22 23 27 Chacha longingly exhibited Saguna Brahman and states that His bhaktas are also able to 16 Son's card game is gloomy (6) 24 25 26 27 symbol of goodness (4) reach Him. So Arjuna wishes to know which of these upas- anas is better and which is to be adopted, pointed out Sri K. 29 Nigh to new leader in good 17 Snare section put up (4) 28 Ramasubramania Sarma in a discourse. time (6) 29 30 18 Such a gift is still wrapped up Krishna makes it clear that both types of upasakas are 30 Stay with more crazy puzzle (8) equally qualified to attain Him if single-mindedness is the (8) basis of their worship. Nirguna Upasana implies an aspirant 31 32 19 Secretly planned material put who perceives the oneness of creation behind the diversity, 31 Make a logical conclusion: under river (4-4) who transcends his attachment to the body and the pulls of 'cut' is what's needed (6) Solution to puzzle 12012 Solution to yesterday’s Sudoku the senses and is always compassionate to all objects and be- 22 Women confuse duck 32 There's no doubt: it's a signal N I M R O D A D M O N I S H ings. The Saguna upasaka is drawn by the Lord’s auspicious ■ ACROSS that the danger's over (3,5) movement (6) O E V W E S N O qualities and form and develops unswerving devotion to the 1 Flower best ward dissected (8) B E T T E R O F F C A T E R Lord. But the efficacy of devotion is determined by bhakta’s 23 Heads of Hard Recruiters O H R R E A E D 5 By half-a-minute present a ■ DOWN ability to dwell on the Supreme Brahman at all times, and by hiring men back to back D R A S T I C N A R R A T E small ish (6) I N R E E R S dedicating his thought, word and deed to Him, whatever 1 Continue hitting with head for results in dismay (6) 9 Tattered like a leather E N E M A S U S P E N S E may be his form of worship. When one’s mind and heart is watchstrap? (4-4) a fastener? (6) S D T T R E 25 Historical object about to be I N N E R E A R A D O R N filled with desires and one’s attention is diverted by the 10 King going through Venetian 2 City in West Bengal is nearly S O R A D U T discarded by mad cleric (5) senses and emotions, and one yields to selfish longings that passage becomes lustful (6) slow twice (3,3) T R O U P E S T W I S T E R R D A H I C S A do not allow him to be considerate towards others, his med- 12 Out to all but press forward itation is of no use. This applies to any upasaka, the onus be- 3 Pulls bookworm up (4) 26 Plan by learner is perfect (5) E U L E R I S O L A T I O N work (4) A E K R N T D C ing solely on involvement, concentration, sincerity, renunci- 13 Clumsy person's shoe (10) 4 A range of hearing (5) 28 Record of Lambadi school (4) M I S T A K E N S E R E N E ation and purity of mind.

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THE HINDU NOIDA/DELHI MONDAY, MAY 22, 2017 SPORT 17 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Man City and Liverpool romp to CL spots Bengaluru FC Arsenal has to settle for Europa League; Kane wins Golden Boot; Terry celebrates last game at Chelsea wins Fed Cup EURO LEAGUES Vineeth scores a brace in extra-time Reuters Y.B. Sarangi card. BFC, which witnessed London Cuttack some failed attempts from Manchester City made sure AFC Cup finalist Bengaluru the industrious Udanta early of third place in the Premier FC redeemed some pride by in the second half, was League when it romped to a edging out Mohun Bagan again caught in the offside 5-0 win at Watford on 2-0 in the summit clash and trap. Sunday to ensure a Champi- claiming its second Federa- Lyngdoh’s free-kick from ons League berth for next tion Cup crown at the Bara- the left was headed by John- season. bati Stadium here on son and kicked in by Over at Anfield, Liverpool Sunday. Juanan, but the effort was ensured a return to the In the tightly contested flagged to the utter frustra- Champions League by beat- tussle befitting a final, BFC tion of BFC. ing relegated Middles- overcame a bit of hard luck Bagan stepped up its at- brough, although it will have to ride on C.K. Vineeth’s ex- tack and had its chances to play in a qualifying round tra-time brace and bag the too. Balwant utilised a after finishing fourth in the prestigious title despite the Norde pass to fire a long Premier League, two points unavailability of two of key ranger, but Amrinder Singh behind Manchester City. players, Sunil Chhetri and dived to his right to palm But for the first time in 20 Cameron Watson. away the threat. Soon, years Arsenal won’t be part BFC showed a big heart Norde’s angled shot missed of the premier continental and fought bravely even as the target by a whisker. championship as even a 3-1 One last hurrah: John Terry holds the Premier League trophy at the end of a glittering Chelsea career, while the others, right, take Bagan had the ball in con- Amidst free flowing ac- win over Everton 3-1 with 10- selies with the prize before the presentation ceremony. * AP trol for most part of the tion towards the end of the men was not enough to se- goalless first half. Most im- regulation period, Bagan cure a top-four finish. hat-trick in four days as Tot- 15, Pogba 19) bt Crystal Palace City 1 (Crouch 58). Hjulsager 90) drew with Real portantly, the Blues stuck to had a couple of opportunit- Chelsea celebrated its title tenham thrashed relegated 0; Arsenal 3 (Bellerin 8, Sanc- La Liga: Atletico Madrid 3 Sociedad 2 (Oyarzabal 82, their well-planned defensive ies but could not break the and captain John Terry’s last Hull City 7-1. hez 27, Ramsey 90+1) bt Ever- (Torres 8 & 11, Correa 89) bt Juanmi 90+4); Valencia 1 (Nani structure, led by John John- deadlock. game at Stamford Bridge ton 1 (Lukaku 58-pen); Athletic Bilbao 1 (Williams 71); 54) lost to Villareal 3 (Soldado son, Juanan Fernandez and The Blues tasted success with a 5-1 defeat of relegated Stuttgart wins promotion Southampton 0 lost to Stoke Celta Vigo 2 (Aspas 54-pen, 1, Trigueros 58, Sansone 88). Sandesh Jhingan, to close when C.K. Vineeth’s shot Sunderland, bringing its sea- Meanwhile, VfB Stuttgart the gaps and force Bagan from just inside the box got son’s Premier League win won promotion to the have a go at the goal through deflected from a defender to tally to a record 30 games. Bundesliga a year after its re- corners, free-kicks and long beat Debjit in the 107th A third-minute goal on the legation following a 4-1 de- The Juventus juggernaut rolls on balls. minute. rebound from Sunderland’s molition of Wuerzburg on The stout BFC defence The Keralite, who had re- Javier Manquillo did not mar Sunday in the season finale. marked Bagan’s main placed Udanta around the the festivities and five Reuters The sixth consecutive weapon, Sony Norde, hour mark, sealed the It will be joined by Han- minutes later Willian equal- Milan title is something extremely strongly and brought down match by hitting home again nover 96, which was also re- ised after sustained Chelsea Juventus became the first significant, said Juve’s 39- the Haitian twice within the following a brilliant solo. legated last season, courtesy pressure. team to win the Serie A six year-old goalkeeper first quarter. Norde retali- The result (final): Bengaluru of its 1-1 draw at Sandhausen. Most of the Chelsea play- times in a row when it beat Gianluigi Buffon, who has ated by pushing Harmanjot FC 2 (Vineeth 107, 119) bt Mo- ers, as though warming up The results: Premier League: Crotone 3-0 on Sunday to won eight Serie A titles at Khabra to invite a yellow hun Bagan 0. for the FA Cup final next Sat- Swansea City 2 (Jordan Ayew 71, clinch the title with one the club. Llorente 86) bt West Brom 1 urday, had a pop at the be- game to spare. “We have written leaguered Sunderland goal (Evans 33); Burnley 1 (Vokes 23) Mario Mandzukic, Paulo lost to West Ham 2 (Feghouli indelible pages in the during the game. Dybala, with a stunning free history of football,” he said. 27, Andre Ayew 72); Chelsea 5 kick, and Alex Sandro Tearful goodbye (Willian 8, Hazard 61, Pedro 77, shared the goals as the The results: Empoli 0 lost to Batshuayi 90, 90+2) bt Sunder- Atalanta 1 (Gomez 13); Genoa Antonio Conte, aiming for Turin side also won a league land 1 (Manquillo 3); Hull City 1 2 (Rigoni 32, Simeone 54) bt the double in his first season and cup double for the third (Clucas 66) lost to Tottenham Torino 1 (Ljajic 89); Juventus 3 in charge, brought Terry off Hotspur 7 (Kane 11, 13, 72, Alli time in a row and stayed on (Mandzukic 12, Dybala 39, in the 26th minute — his shirt 45+2, Wanyama 69, Davies 84, course for a treble. Sandro 83) bt Crotone 0; AC number — to a standing ova- Alderweireld 87); Leicester City Juve’s win over its Milan 3 (Deulofeu 69, Honda tion. The former England 1 (Vardy 51) drew with relegation-threatened Right on top: Juventus’ Leonardo Bonucci lifts the trophy as 73, Lapadula 90+1) bt Bologna captain wept as he hugged Bournemouth 1 (Stanislas 1); opponent, took it to 88 the rest celebrate their unprecedented sixth consecutive 0; Sassuolo 6 (Magnanelli 7, his teammates and brought Liverpool 3 (Wijnaldum 45+1, points from 37 games, four Serie A title. * AP Berardi 12, Politano 13, Sensi to an end a 22-year career at Coutinho 51, Lallana 56) bt clear of AS Roma which 34, Iemmello 56-pen, Matri Stamford Bridge. Middlesbrough 0; Watford 0 won 5-3 at Chievo on spot. Juventus, which is Madrid in the Champions 90) bt Cagliari 2 (Sau 25, Harry Kane won the lost to Manchester City 5 (Kom- Saturday. Napoli is a further Italy’s most successful side League final on June 3 when Ionita 60); Udinese 1 (Thereau Premier League Golden Boot pany 5, Sergio Aguero 23, 36, point behind in third, the in domestic terms with 33 it will attempt to complete 5) drew with Sampdoria 1 Perfect ploy: Bengaluru FC coach Albert Roca got his tactics for the second successive Fernandinho 41, Jesus 58); Champions League playoff league titles, will face Real the treble. (Muriel 64-pen). spot on by not giving space to Bagan’s key player year after scoring a second Manchester United 2 (Harrop Sony Norde. * BISWARANJAN ROUT

Archana Girish Kamath. India wins all gold medals on ofer

Press Trust of India New Delhi India added six more golds on the concluding day to take home all the 10 gold medals on offer in the South Asian junior table tennis championships at Mount Lavinia, near Colombo, on Sunday. India also claimed four silvers. India and Sri Lanka booked their berths in the Asian junior championships at Ansan, Korea, from June 29 to July 4. Manav Thakkar defeated Parth Virmani 11-6, 6-11, 11-7, 11-9 for the junior boys’ gold while Sri Lanka’s P.D. Umesh Tennakon and K.D.V. Madhushan took bronze. In junior girls’ final, Archana Girish Kamath accounted for Priyanka Pareek 11-9, 11-5, 11-7. Sri Lanka’s S.H.S. Imasha De Silva and K. Hansani Puim- ila won bronze. https://telegram.me/TheHindu_Zone https://telegram.me/PDF4EXAMS

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IN BRIEF Cool of with self-ventilating gym wear Mapping the universe MIT researchers design moisture-responsive suits that have laps lined with live microbial cells with quasar positions Press Trust of India an example, and this can let layer structures, and ex- Boston people know you are run- posed the fabric to changing Astronomers track bright light Scientists at the Massachu- ning in the dark. In the fu- moisture conditions. Prince Harry’s girlfriend setts Institute of Technology, ture we can combine odour- When the fabric was Press Trust of India Washington at Pippa’s reception U.S., have designed a breath- releasing functionalities placed on a hot plate to dry, WASHINGTON able workout suit with vent- through genetic engineer- the cells began to shrink, Astronomers have created She might not have made it ilating flaps that open and ing. So may be after going to causing the overlying latex the first map of the large- to the wedding but Prince close in response to an ath- the gym, the shirt can re- layer to curl up. scale structure of the uni- Harry’s girlfriend Meghan lete’s body heat and sweat. lease a nice odour,” said When the fabric was then verse based entirely on the Markle made it to the These flaps are lined with Wang. exposed to steam, the cells positions of quasars. reception of Pippa Middleton live microbial cells that began to glow and expand, Quasars are the incred- and James Matthews’ on shrink and expand in re- Bacterial role causing the latex flatten out. ibly bright and distant Saturday evening. Markle is sponse to changes in The researchers first worked After undergoing 100 points of light powered by said to have skipped the humidity. with the most common non- such dry/wet cycles, Wang super-massive black holes. An artist’s conception of a morning ceremony to avoid The cells act as tiny pathogenic strain of E. coli said the fabric experienced “Because quasars are so quasar. * ESO stealing the spotlight from sensors and actuators, driv- bacteria, which was found to “no dramatic degradation” bright, we can see them all the bridge and groom. ANI ing the flaps open when an swell and shrink in response in either its cell layer or its the way across the uni- credible temperatures and athlete works up a sweat, to changing humidity. overall performance. verse,” said Ashley Ross of begin to glow. and pulling them closed Mositure wicked away: (Left) An athlete wearing the They further engineered The researchers worked the Ohio State University in To make their map, sci- when the body has cooled breathable garment before exercise when ventilation laps are the cells to express green the bio-fabric into a wear- the U.S. “That makes them entists used the Sloan off. lat; after exercise, the laps have curved (right). * MIT fluorescent protein, enable garment, designing a the ideal objects to use to Foundation Telescope to abling the cell to glow when running suit with cell-lined make the biggest map yet,” observe an unprecedented Shoes too spond to humidity. The mi- also light up in response to it senses humid conditions. latex flaps patterned across said Ross. number of quasars. The researchers have also crobial cells used have humid conditions. They then used a cell-print- the suit’s back. The amazing brightness During the first two fashioned running shoes proven to be safe to touch “We can combine the ing method they had previ- “People may think heat of quasars is due to the su- years of the Sloan Digital with an inner layer of similar and even consume. cells with genetic tools to in- ously developed to print E. and sweat are the same, but permassive black holes Sky Survey’s survey, astro- Schnabel to make cell-lined flaps to air out and In a study published in troduce other functionalities coli onto sheets of rough, in fact, some areas like the found at their centres. nomers measured three-di- Vincent van Gogh ilm wick away moisture. the journal Science Advances, into these living cells,” said natural latex. lower spine produce lots of As matter and energy mensional positions for CANNES The moisture-sensitive the researchers engineered Wen Wang, a former MIT The team printed parallel sweat but not much heat,” fall into a quasar’s black more than 1,47,000 Julian Schnabel will direct a cells require no additional moisture-sensitive cells to scientist. lines of E. coli cells onto said Lining Yao, a former hole, they heat up to in- quasars. film about Vincent van Gogh elements to sense and re- not only pull flaps open but “We use fluorescence as sheets of latex, creating two- graduate student at MIT. starring Willem Dafoe as the Dutch post-impressionist master. The film was announced on Saturday at the Cannes Film Festival by Redoubtable in Cannes: cheeky portrait of a revered ilmmaker production company Rocket Science. Schnabel has earlier made a film on artist Michel Hazanavicius has documented the most politically radical period of Jean Luc Gordard’s life as a comedy Jean-Michel Basquiat. AP Namrata Joshi ting him up on the pedestal. negating his own early work. the highest prize in Cannes. (Adam Sandler) and the per- Cannes Godard himself comes across A man wanting to break It’s proving to be a good ennial winner Matthew (Ben It was in May 1968 that film- as the one who shares the away from the past, trying to innings at Cannes for Netflix. Stiller) surprise with their maker Jean Luc Godard, filmmaker’s sense of humour bring the revolution on the The reactions may not have unusually mature and mel- along with directors Louis —risqué, not always in good streets to the process of film- been as tremendous as for low turns as does Elizabeth Malle and Francois Truffaut, taste and often directed at making as well by embracing Okja but its second produc- Marvel as the sister Jean. coaxed the Cannes Film Fest- his own self. the “auto-managed” cinema tion in the competition sec- It’s a family that is dys- ival to be brought to a halt as of the Dziga Vertov school. tion also walked away with a functional in its normalcy. a mark of solidarity with the An odd combination fair amount of appreciation It’s about the tiny bad things Uber extends on-demand students’ protest in Paris. Godard is a man oddly cha- A touch of impertinence on Sunday. they do to each other — the service to trucking On Saturday, Michel rismatic and charming even Watching the film I also Noah Baumbach’s The little regrets and disappoint- SAN FRANCISCO Hazanavicius’ Le Redoutable when he is confrontational, a wondered what would have Meyerowitz Stories (New And ments, the unthinking dis- Uber is expanding into a new on the same phase in God- man with a razor sharp happened if we were to make Selected) is a finely wrought crimination amongst kids, field with a version of its ard’s life was delayed by tongue and a man commit- a film with a similar brazen slice of family life with a the concomitant sibling rival- on-demand ride application about an hour at the festival ted to politics, a man preoc- tone on one of our revered nicely in-tune ensemble. ries — than some devastating, that lets truckers book cargo due to security concerns at cupied with Palestine and filmmakers. Dustin Hoffman as the pater crushing, scarring issue. hauls with simple taps on the Salle Debussy theatre Che Guevara’s idea of the The impertinence of Haza- paterfamilias and Emma The incessant chatter smartphones. The app, Uber lending an additional unin- “inner Vietnam”. vanicius may rile many, God- Thompson as his current through the film underlines Freight, rolled out at first in tended layer of irony to the It’s not Godard, the cheer- Bold take: French director Michel Hazanavicius. * AFP ard himself may have called wife are expectedly solid but the larger chaos in relation- the U.S. would match truckers viewing of the film. leader of the French New the film a “stupid idea”, but it’s the children, the half- ships yet there is an all round with customers. Movement of Hazanavicius treats God- Wave cinema, who we en- apart for La Chinoise. Here is “making love to a dead wo- the fact is that it hasn’t just brothers and half-sister who warmth and humour that the cargo can be tracked in ard with a cheeky, straight- counter on screen but the a man who is cynical of film- man” and who is being got made but is also in com- reach out. makes it so viewable and real-time. AFP faced irreverence than put- one who is being ripped making itself comparing it to whipped for disgracing and petition for the Palme d’Or, The loser brother Danny easy to connect with.

Press Trust of India Washington Scientists have developed a low-cost, disposable sensor that can detect disease markers in one’s breath, giving patients an early warning sign to call the doctor. The device is made of a thin square of an organic plastic. “We developed this method to directly print tiny pores into the device so we can expose these highly reactive sites. We increased the reactivity by ten times and can sense down to one part per billion,” said Ying Diao, professor at University of Illinois at Urbana-Cham- paign in the U.S. For example, monitor- ing the change in ammonia concentration in the breath could give patients a warn- Picture perfect:The Kampung Pelangi village in Semarang, Indonesia, has painted all its houses ing sign to go for a kidney in bright colours hoping to make itself a tourist attraction. * REUTERS function test. The little women who stand tall The International Dwarf Fashion Show aims for inclusivity in the world of glamour

Agence France-Presse Ms. Khumri said. She does Dubai manage to buy tops and Colleen Theriault has her dresses off-the-rack, she hands full with her four- said, “but with a bit of diffi- year-old son and a full-time culty since I do have to career as head baker at a pa- search in the petite section. tisserie in the U.S. state of Sometimes in the kids’ North Carolina. section.” But the 24-year-old is also an advocate for a budding Turning the tide movement that is breaking It was witnessing first-hand into the international fash- the exasperation of a woman ion scene. Its models, like with dwarfism shopping for their initiative, are small but basic staples that inspired strong. Myriam Chalek to set up the International Dwarf Fashion No barriers to beauty Show. “It was seeing this The International Dwarf little lady shopping in a kids Fashion Show, a non-profit section — very frustrated, organisation that aims to “re- Breaking norms: A model with dwarism advocates for diversity not finding clothes that fit verse the discriminatory on the ramp. * INTERNATIONAL DWARF FASHION SHOW her,” she said. diktats of beauty”, brought “I work in the fashion in- seven women with dwarfism the same condition. After liv- task of finding clothes that fit dustry, so you always deal to Dubai this week for a ing in Dubai for more than a has remained a struggle. with designers and clients show dedicated to raising decade, she recently set up a The couple generally seek who ask you for tall and awareness about the need Facebook support group. out the help of a tailor to al- skinny,” Ms. Chalek added. for more inclusivity in She and her banker hus- ter or make garments to be “Even though some fashion. band have built “a pretty the right size, particularly people are trying to turn the Zahra Mufaddal Khumri good life” for themselves in traditional Indian clothes. tide, like we are, unfortu- lives with dwarfism and is the global shopping hub, she “You should be comfort- nately that still remains the married to a man who has said, but even there the basic able in anything you wear,” norm.” CM YK