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P-5 P-8 P-11 Briefs Thackeray speaks to Sonia SC says CJI office SC to deliver verdict on Sabarimala temple on Thursday Gandhi on Maha govt formation under RTI fore the Chief Justice’s term Mumbai, Nov 13 (IANS) Shiv port for forming a government New Delhi, Nov 13 (IANS) The office of ends this month. Sena President Uddhav Thac- as it (Sena) was the second larg- Chief Justice comes under the Right to In- On September 28, 2018, the keray has spoken to Congress est party. formation Act, said the Supreme Court on top court opened the gates of Interim President Sonia Gandhi A bit wary, the Congress-NCP Wednesday. the Sabarimala Temple in Ker- on the phone and met senior combine has adopted a cau- Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, Justices ala dedicated to Lord Ayyappa leader Ahmed Patel in Mum- tious approach by not jump- Sanjeev Khanna and Deepak Gupta pro- to the women in the age group bai to discuss the finer aspects ing at the Sena’s proposal, but nounced that the Chief Justice Office is as a New Delhi, Nov 13 (IANS) of 10-50, saying it was violative of state government forma- decided to discuss its ramifica- public authority under RTI, and upheld the The Supreme Court will on of their fundamental rights and tion, party sources said here on tions among themselves. Delhi High Court verdict of 2010. Thursday pronounce judge- constitutional guarantees. A Wednesday. An anxious Sena, which was The apex court has passed three judg- ment on the review petitions Constitution bench, headed by The phone call between hoping for letters of support ments -- one by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi filed on the entry of women of the then CJI Dipak Misra, gave a Thackeray and Sonia Gandhi from both, was disappointed and Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Deepak all age groups into the Sabari- 4:1 verdict claiming the ban led happened late on Tuesday when the communication did Gupta, and two separate concurring judg- mala temple. to gender discrimination. The night. not come before the expected ments by Justices N.V. Ramana and D.Y. A five-judge Constitutionpathbreaking judgment has left This was followed by a round time on Monday evening. Chandrachud. bench headed by Chief Jus- the temple tantris (priests) and of talks between Thackeray and A delegation comprising Ad- The court said: “Transparency and ac- tice Ranjan Gogoi in February those associated with it by tra- senior Congress leaders, includ- itya Thackeray, which waited countability go hand-in-hand, and the concluded the arguments and dition disappointed. ing state President Balasaheb for the support letters at Raj Chief Justice office comes under RTI re- reserved the judgement on the Many leaders and religious Himanshi’s ‘comment’ has gone viral on social media Thorat, former state party chief Bhavan, sought two more days gime.” batch of petitions seeking re- leaders expressed disagreement in which the actress had ‘defamed’ Bigg Boss 13. Manikrao Thakre and former from Governor B. S. Koshyari, Justice Khanna observed, “transparency view of the apex court verdict in with the court’s observation People denied stable govt: SC in chief minister Ashok Chavan on which was refused. The Shiv only strengthens judicial independence”. 2018, which allowed the entry and opined that it may bring Karnataka case Wednesday. Sena leaders returned after Through this judgement, the apex court of women of all ages into the an adverse impact on society. It Sena had made the first for- staking their claim to form the has junked the appeal filed by top court Sabarimala temple. also has led to massive protests New Delhi, Nov 13 (IANS) In a significant ob- mal approach to the Congress government, but without being Secretary General challenging the Delhi It is one of the most impor- in Kerala, which resulted in a servation, the Supreme Court on Wednesday when Thackeray called up So- able to prove the support from High Court order in holding office of the tant judgements, which is ex- political slugfest between then said citizens are being denied stable govern- nia Gandhi to solicit her sup- the Congress and the NCP. Chief Justice amenable under the RTI. pected to be pronounced be- ruling CPI-M and the BJP. ments because of horse trading and other such corrupt practices even as it paved the way for 17 disqualified MLAs of Congress and JD(U) in Karnataka to contest Assembly bypolls slated Trident Hotel Mumbai plays key NCP-Congress-Sena: A beehive for December 5. The top court also opined that Parliament of meetings for govt formation should reconsider “strengthening certain aspects role in Maha govt formation of the Tenth Schedule, so that such undemocratic Mumbai, Nov 13 (IANS) and also met senior Con- practices (of defections) are discouraged.” Mumbai, Nov 13 (IANS) The first meeting took first official meeting be- A day after Maharashtra gress leader Ahmed Patel. A bench, headed by Justice N.V. Ramana, up- One of the key targets dur- place late on Tuesday tween the Congress and went under President’s NCP President Sharad held the decision of the then Karnataka Assembly ing the November 2008 night, when Shiv Sena su- the Shiv Sena leader. The Rule, the state is witness- Pawar held meetings with Speaker to disqualify the 17 rebel MLAs of Con- Mumbai terror strikes, the premo Uddhav Thackeray meeting is being consid- ing a series of hectic for- his top leaders and legisla- gress and JD(S) in July but struck down the order Trident Hotel has become went to the Trident Hotel ered a dialogue-opener mal/informal meetings tors on Wednesday where of their disqualification till the end of the Assem- the epicenter of power ne- and met interim Congress between the two parties. and discussions at vari- he allayed the apprehen- bly’s term, saying the Speaker has no powers to gotiations for government President Sonia Gandhi’s The first meeting be- ous levels among the Na- sions of the newly-elected leaders met at Pawar’s direct that. formation in Maharashtra, close aide Ahmed Patel. tween Patel and Thac- tionalist Congress Party MLAs, a party official said. residence, to prepare for a coincidentally during the The second meeting be- keray took place after the (NCP), Shiv Sena and Pawar assured that scheduled meeting of the Haryana’s first Cabinet expansion same month. tween Thackeray and state Sena supremo drove from Congress in a bid to form President’s Rule would two parties later. on Thursday The Congress and Shiv Congress leaders took the back entrance of the the government. not hamper the gov- Responding to a media Chandigarh, Nov 13 (IANS) After 17 days of Sena leaders met at the place in the same hotel Thackeray residence, “ The government for- ernment formation ef- query, Prithviraj Chavan Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khat- Trident for the second day on Wednesday afternoon. Matoshree”, to the Trident mation attempts hinge forts, the state would not categorically denied that tar and his deputy Dushyant Chautala taking on Wedenesday to discuss State Congress chief Bala- Hotel. on issues such as the plunge into mid-term there was any reluctance oath of office and secrecy, the first Cabinet -ex the formation of a new saheb Thorat and former Mumbai was attacked post of Chief Minister, elections and that a new from any quarters to the pansion will be held on Thursday, the govern- government in the state Chief Minister Ashok Cha- on Novemver 26, 2008, by Deputy Chief Minister, government would be in name of Uddhav Thacker- ment said here on Wednesday. which was placed under van were present at the Pakistani terrorists and the the distribution of cabi- place soon. ay as the probable Sena BJP leader Khattar took oath along with his President’s rule on Tues- meeting. Oberoi Trident was one of net portfolios among the In the afternoon, senior Chief Minister. alliance partner Jannayak Janta Party (JJP) day. This is being seen as the the major targets. three prospective allies, a Congress leaders, includ- It may be recalled that leader Chautala, the great grandson of for- Common Minimum Pro- ing state chief Balasa- Sena’s long alliance with mer deputy prime minister late Devi Lal, on gramme (CMP) agreeable heb Thorat, former Chief the Bharatiya Janata Party October 27. Governor Satyadeo Narain Arya After protests, JNU rolls back Meghalaya govt-Guv to all, and despite differ- Minister Ashok Chavan (BJP) collapsed on the is- will administer the oath at a ceremony in Raj ing ideologies, giving the and others, met Uddhav sue of sharing the Chief Bhawan here at 12.30 p.m., a government proposed hostel fee hike speak in different state a stable and sustain- Thackeray, who later told Minister’s post, and the statement said. Sources said the names for voices on ordinance able government for the mediapersons that “the Congress-NCP do not the Council of Ministers, comprising the BJP, next five years, said a Sena discussions with the Con- want a repeat situation JJP and the Independents, were cleared by the Shillong, Nov 13 (IANS) The leader. gress-NCP are proceeding now. The two parties have BJP high command on Sunday. Meghalaya government has sent the Setting the ball rolling in the right direction”, but also set up separate five- It is still unclear whether there will be an in- Meghalaya Residents Safety and Se- late on Tuesday night, declined to elaborate. member committees to duction of full 12 ministers into the council of curity (Amendment) Ordinance, 2019 Sena President Uddhav In the evening, Con- draft a CMP for discus- ministers or one or two vacancies will be filled to Governor Tathagata Roy for his Thackeray called on Con- gress leaders assembled sions with the approval of later on. Among the front-runners from the approval, Deputy Chief Minister Pre- gress interim President again at former Chief the Sena to pave the way BJP for the ministerial berths are - six-time stone Tynsong said on Wednesday. Sonia Gandhi -- for the Minister Prithviraj Cha- for the swearing-in at the legislator Anil Vij, former Speaker Kanwar However, Roy told journalists that second time in two days -- van’s home while NCP earliest date. Pal, Seema Trikha, Mahipal Dhanda, Deepak New Delhi, Nov 13 (IANS) announces major rollback he is yet to receive the copy of the Mangla and Ganshyam Saraf. Bowing to pressure from in the hostel fee and other ordinance. On November 1, the state the agitating students, the stipulations. Also proposes cabinet had approved the amend- BSE 40,116.06 Jawaharlal Nehru Universi- a scheme for economic ment to the Meghalaya Residents, Sensex ty (JNU) administration on assistance to the EWS stu- Safety and Security Act (MRSSA), NSE 11,840.45 Wednesday scaled down dents. Time to get back to 2016 that requires registration of all the hike in hostel charges classes,” the HRD Secretary non-residents, including tourists vis- Forex Rates and other proposed deci- tweeted amid continuing iting the state sions, describing it as a protest by the students at Tynsong said the government had Indian Rupees “major rollback”. the university campus. sent the ordinance to the Governor The decision of the JNU Subrahmanyam did not on Tuesday for his approval. “The US Dollar 72.12 Executive Committee was give details of the rollback Governor Secretariat office till 11 a.m. announced by HRD Sec- but officials in the ministry today (Wednesday) is yet to receive British Pound 92.56 retary R Subrahmanyam, said single room occupan- any papers from the government,” two days after the major cy will now be Rs 200 and Roy told journalists. Asked to com- Euro 79.37 protest undertaken by the for double room, it will be ment on the Ordinance approved by varsity students, during Rs 100. Earlier, the charges the Cabinet which is aimed to check Qatar Riyal 19.81 which even HRD Minis- were hiked from Rs 20 to illegal immigrants and to ensure the ter Ramesh Pokhriyal was Rs 600 for single room oc- safety and security of the people of Saudi Riyal 19.23 confined to the campus cupancy and from Rs 10 to Meghalaya, Roy said, “Until I have UAE Dirham 19.63 for more than five hours. Rs 300 for double room oc- seen the ordinance and draft of ordi- People attend the World Tolerance Summit in Dubai “JNU Executive Committee cupancy. nance I cannot say anything.” on Nov 13, 2019. Indian Horizon 2 City Thursday November 14 2019 Token seat not accepted this SC to deliver verdict on Sabarimala time: Chirag Paswan temple on Thursday New Delhi, Nov 13 (IANS) The those associated with it by tradi- The board submitted in the New Delhi, Nov 13 (IANS) The Centre. He said the LJP has strength- under which we contest the Lok Sabha Supreme Court will on Thursday tion disappointed. Many leaders court that discrimination on the Lok Janshakti Party, which is ready ened in the state in the recent past and and Assembly elections there together. pronounce judgement on the re- and religious leaders expressed grounds of biological attributes to contest the Assembly elections in the party's state unit wanted to go solo Chirag added that the BJP, LJP and view petitions filed on the entry of disagreement with the court's ob- was not correct. The bench had Jharkhand alone on 50 seats, has made in the Assembly elections. Still, we de- the Janata Dal (United) would con- women of all age groups into the servation and opined that it may heard submissions on behalf of all it clear that it doesn't want to contest manded six seats from the BJP but the test the 2020 Bihar Assembly elec- Sabarimala temple. bring an adverse impact on society. parties, including the Kerala gov- polls on a token seat. efforts went in vain. tions together. We will win more than A five-judge Constitution bench It also has led to massive protests in ernment, Travancore Devaswom The party has gone its own way Chirag said: "I made an honest effort 225 seats in the Assembly elections in headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Go- Kerala, which resulted in a political Board (TDB), Nair Service Society from the National Democratic Alliance by contacting the BJP's central leader- Bihar like we won 39 out of 40 seats goi in February concluded the argu- slugfest between then ruling CPI-M and others. The court had then said (NDA) and has announced that it will ship and demanded six seats to con- during the Lok Sabha elections. Chief ments and reserved the judgement and the BJP. On October 8, multiple it would pronounce its order on contest alone on 50 out of the 81 seats. test. But we could not get their con- Minister (Nitish Kumar) will retain on the batch of petitions seeking petitions were filed in the Supreme whether to review the judgment or The LJP's national President and son sent. Therefore, the LJP has decided to power, he said. The LJP chief said that review of the apex court verdict in Court to seek review of its verdict to not. The Kerala government had ex- of Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan, contest this election alone". the party will contest the upcoming 2018, which allowed the entry of lift a ban on entry of women in the pressed its support for the Supreme Chirag Paswan told IANS on Wednes- However, he made it clear that even Delhi Assembly elections alone. Asked women of all ages into the Sabari- 10-50 age group into the temple, Court ruling in 2018 and urged the day: "Last time (previous Assembly if the LJP wins any seat in the election, about the imposition of President's mala temple. contending that religious practices top court to not consider the pe- elections) the Bharatiya Janata Party it will support the NDA. "We are with Rule in Maharashtra and the break-up It is one of the most important cannot be "tested on the basis of titions seeking the review of the allowed the LJP to contest on just one the NDA at the Centre and state as between the BJP and the Shiv Sena, he judgements, which is expected to rationality". judgement. seat. But this time the LJP has made it well," he said. said: "People of Maharashtra have giv- be pronounced before the Chief As many as 64 petitions, which The Nair Service Society had clear that we won't contest on any to- Replying to a query about the impact en a clear mandate to the NDA. People Justice's term ends this month. include review pleas and transfer moved the court opposing the ken seat. We will contest the election of the LJP's decision to go solo in the wanted to form a government under On September 28, 2018, the pleas, have been filed in the apex court's verdict in 2018, and the only on the seat where our party has a election, he said it won't affect the al- NDA but the decisions from parties top court opened the gates of court challenging its decision on the Kerala government, TDB and the public base". liance. "If some opposition parties are and their political aspirations took the Sabarimala Temple in Kerala entry of women into the Sabarimala two women who had entered the Junior Paswan who took over the happy that they (BJP and LJP) lack co- things to President's Rule. It's unfortu- dedicated to Lord Ayyappa to the temple. On the last day of the hear- shrine had expressed their opposi- party reigns earlier this month said: ordination in Jharkhand and Shiv Sena nate". The LJP has announced the can- women in the age group of 10-50, ing, in what appeared to unprec- tion these review petitions. Senior "Last time we were given the Shikari- has gone its own way in Maharashtra, didates for 10 seats in Jharkhand. The saying it was violative of their fun- edented, the Travancore Devas- advocate K. Parasaran, counsel for pada seat where we did not have any they should not be overwhelmed," said state will go to the polls in five phases damental rights and constitutional wom Board (TDB), which handles the Nair Service Society, had ar- candidate also. If the BJP does it again, Paswan. He said we had no alliance in between November 30 and December guarantees. A Constitution bench, management of Sabarimala temple gued before a five-judge bench and we are not ready". The LJP is a part of Jharkhand, our pact is based on Bihar. 20 while counting is scheduled for De- headed by the then CJI Dipak Mis- in Kerala, reversed its stand in the urged the court to set aside its ear- the BJP-led NDA government at the We entered into an alliance in Bihar cember 23. ra, gave a 4:1 verdict claiming the top court by expressing its support lier verdict. Senior advocate Rakesh ban led to gender discrimination. to the 2018 court verdict, which had Dwivedi, counsel for TDB, submit- The pathbreaking judgment has allowed women of all age groups to ted before the court that Article 25 Congress demands probe into left the temple tantris (priests) and enter the shrine. (1) equally entitles all persons. alleged Yeddyurappa tapes New Delhi, Nov 13 (IANS) The Congress on Wednesday hailed the Supreme Court judgement in the Kar- nataka MLAs disqualification case and demanded that the BJP government in the state should order a probe into the roles of Chief Minister B.S. Yed- dyurappa and Union Home Minister Amit Shah in the alleged "Operation Kamala 0.2" tapes. In February, the then Karnataka Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy released audio tapes that purportedly recorded conversations between state BJP President Yeddyurappa, BJP MLA Shivangouda Naik, and the son of JD(S) MLA from Gurmitkal, Nagana- gouda Kandakur. Kumaraswamy had Union Minister for Health & Family Welfare, Science & Technology and Earth Sciences, Dr. Harsh Vardhan alleged that Yeddyurappa was trying to presiding over the Organ Donor Felicitation Ceremony, in New Delhi on November 13, 2019. The Minister buy the loyalty of a JD(S) MLA. of State for Youth Affairs & Sports (Independent Charge) and Minority Affairs, Shri Kiren Rijiju and other Addressing a press conference here, Fourteen rebel MLAs of the Con- has been termed in the debates in Congress leader Abhishek Manu Sing- gress and three of the JD(S) had been the Parliament as a constitutional sin. dignitaries are also seen. hvi said, "An important judgement was disqualified under the anti-defection Disqualification was provided for un- delivered today regarding the disquali- law by the Karnataka Speaker in July ethical malpractices and other allure- fication of Karnataka MLAs. I want to that led to toppling of the Congress- ments and hence disqualification was highlight two facets of the judgement, JD(S) government in the state and the punishment," he said. First Indo-US military tri-service one legal and the other political." brought in a BJP government led by Singhvi pointed out that the Karna- Highlighting the political aspect, Yeddyurappa. While the Supreme taka Speaker's order, which has been Singhvi said, "This is the true charac- Court has disqualified the rebel In- upheld, records in detail, "how the drill in Bay of Bengal ter of those who preach on morality in dependent MLAs, it has also allowed Speaker had enough material to dis- politics. They (BJP) now stand exposed them to contest the by-elections, put- qualify the MLAs". New Delhi, Nov 13 (IANS) The completely. Is this ethical politics? ting the BJP in a peculiar situation. "There's only one reason why the first joint tri-services military ex- They stand completely exposed." The Congress leader also dared the MLAs were made to switch and that ercise between India and the US, Singhvi demanded a fair probe BJP to take the disqualified rebel MLAs was blameworthy, and the Supreme the Tiger Triumph, commenced against Shah and Yeddyurappa over in their fold ahead of the by-polls. Court upheld the disqualification," in the Bay of Bengal on Wednes- the alleged tapes. Singhvi also de- Speaking on the legal aspect of the the Rajya Sabha MP said. The Con- day keeping in view their shared manded that the BJP government in Supreme Court judgement, Singhvi gress leader pointed out that the strategic interests in the Indo-Pa- Karnataka should immediately resign said, "The court has upheld the order Speaker's well-reasoned order giv- cific and China's efforts in widen- and asked Prime Minister Narendra in its entirety today except for one ing facts and details showing un- ing its footprints in the region. Modi and his Cabinet members to do point." "First part of the legal facet ethical malpractices was upheld by The nine-day exercise, being some "soul searching". is 'dalbadli' (switching party) which the top court. conducted off the coast of Kaki- nada and Vishakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh, is aimed at im- proving interoperability amongst Eminent Kashmiri Pandits hail the defence forces of the two countries in Humanitarian As- sistance and Disaster Relief, said Ship Germantown in the drill. undertake Maritime, Amphibious officials. US President Donald The Indian Navy has deployed and HADR operations. On reach- revocation of Art 370 Trump had announced the ex- three ships, INS Jalashwa, INS Ai- ing the HADR area at Kakinada, ercise during the Howdy Modi ravat and INS Sandhayak for the the landing of Relief Forces would New Delhi, Nov 13 (IANS) Six (CBC), among others. "We, the global community event that was held in Texas, exercise, while the Indian Army be undertaken to the Exercise hundred eminent Kashmiri Pan- "We, along with a vast majority of displaced Kashmiri Hindus Houston in October. has sent troops from the 19 Ma- scenario," said the statement. dits, including actor Anupam of nationalistic Indians, always (Pandits) condemn a handful "In November, the US and dras and 7 Guards. The Indian Officials said a Joint Command Kher, scientist Subhash Kak and believed that Article 370 was the of discredited individuals, with India will demonstrate the dra- Air Force (IAF) has, on the other and Control Centre will be estab- musician Bhajan Sopori, have veritable foundation on which a questionable motives, seeking to matic progress of our defence hand, deployed Mi-17 choppers lished by the Indian Army and hailed the historic decision of the bigoted Muslim state of Jammu unethically represent Kashmiri relationship, holding the first and a Rapid Action Medical Team the US Marines at the end of the Modi government to revoke Ar- and Kashmir was allowed to flour- Hindus while casting aspersions ever tri-service military exercise for the drill. The four-day har- exercise while the medical teams ticle 370 and reorganise Jammu, ish on the territory of secular In- on the GOI's historic decision. between our nations, it is called bour phase of the exercise began from the IAF and the US Navy Kashmir and Ladakh into two dia. We appreciate the extraordi- These individuals are nothing 'Tiger Triumph', good name," at the Vishakhapatnam port on will establish a medical facility Union territories. nary statesmanship and political more than victim collaborators Trump had said while addressing Wednesday that will be followed camp in order to provide medi- "We, the displaced Kashmiri will of the present government to who have time and again sought the Texas gathering. by the sea-phase off the coast of cal aid to victims in a simulated Hindus (Pandits) of Kashmir liv- dismantle the privileged edifice to be complicit with perpetrators China's efforts at consolidating Kakinada during which various exercise. Dummy victims will be ing across the world hail the ep- that sustained jihadist separatism of our genocide," the statement its presence in the Indian Ocean drills will be performed. previously evacuated by road and och-making decision of the Modi in Kashmir," the statement said. said. "We, the resilient displaced Region has been a cause of worry "Personnel from both the Na- air to the camp before the simu- government to neuter Article 370 It said the patriotic Hindus Hindus of Kashmir along with the for the US which has maintained vies would also participate in lated exercise. The inaugural cer- and reorganise Jammu and Kash- of Kashmir scattered across the rest of the conscientious Indians, that it not only threatens nations Training Visits, Subject Matter emony of the exercise was held mir into two Union Territories," globe join 1.3 billion Indians in once again hail the emancipating and partners in the area but also Expert Exchanges, Sports Events on board INS Jalashwa of India they said in a joint statement. The celebrating the release of Jammu, decisions of the Modi government negates the concept of free and and social interactions. On com- on Wednesday. The closing cer- signatories included Kher, Kak, Kashmir and Ladakh from 70 to annul Article 370 and create open seas. The US has deployed pletion of the Harbour Phase, emony will be held onboard the Sopori, and Mohan Kaul, ex-CEO, years of bondage and its full inte- two Union Territories of Jammu troops from its Third Marine the ships, with troops embarked, US Naval Ship Germantown on Commonwealth Business Council gration with the Indian nation. and Kashmir & Ladakh. Division as well as the US Navy would sail for the Sea Phase and 21 November, said officials. Indian Horizon Thursday November 14 2019 State 3 Delhi Nursery Blood feud born out of coal rivalry takes Admission: Get forms centrestage in Dhanbad Ranchi, Nov 13 (IANS) It is a blood feud of a differ- blood thirsty tendencies still the control of the iconic propriate time. from November 29 Remember 'Gangs of Was- ent level which carries on for remains unknown. When ex- Singh Mansion in the middle In this specific case, it can't seypur'? Its fleshed out char- generation after generation. iles in time return to haunt of Dhanbad, where an inter- be truer. The bitter and vio- acters, some whacky, others Taking to the media, Ragini our memory and recesses locking family conflict has lent clannish rivalry between deadly dangerous, all mono- Singh said, "Party workers in maximum combat util- been the cynosure. BJP's Jharia MLA Sanjeev chromatic. Press the refresh are my strength. Besides, our ity mode, you know trouble Escalation took place Singh and his cousin Neeraj button, for many of those family has been serving the is headed your way. There when Neeraj Singh, former Singh, son of Rajan Singh, names are going to leap out people of Jharia for long. The is a momentum to time and Deputy Mayor of Dhanbad one of Suraj Dev Singh's of the celluloid frame and party has once again shown things then follow symmetri- and nephew of the dreaded brothers, resurfaced with this be part of our daily narrative confidence in our fam- cally. When cinematic pulp coal mafia overlord-turned- incident. Like in the stylised again. The seminal 'Gangs ily. Now with the blessing of mirrors real life, it is no big politician Surya Dev Singh, 'Gangs of Wasseypur' where of Wasseypur' is inspired by mother Kunti Singh (former deal. World over, movies have was shot dead along with Sardar Khan (Manoj Ba- the story of bitter rivals Shafi Jharia MLA and mother-in- been inspired by slices of real his three gunmen on a busy jpayee) and Ramadhir Singh (Shafiq) Khan and Surya Dev law of Ragini) and husband life. When the opposite takes street near Dhanbad's Steel (Tigmanshu Dhulia) are pit- Singh, driven by a deep-root- Sanjeev Singh, I would fight place, you begin to worry. Re- Gate area under the Saraid- ted against one another in a ed visceral hatred for each and retain the seat for the member the fabled 'Gangs of hela police station in 2017. tale of retributive justice and other, where every nuance party. People will definitely Wasseypur', which dealt with The injured were rushed to brinkmanship, this modern had flair and cutzpah for it repose faith in our family." the coal mafia in all its bloody Dhanbad's Central Hospital day tale is a mirror image. New Delhi, Nov 13 (IANS) The Nurs- cation forms in schools will be December embodied a craft. On the possibility of facing splendour? News coming where they died. Neeraj Singh was struck ery admissions for open seats in private 27 and the first list will be out on January Pulp faction presented her sister-in-law, Ragini said, from the erstwhile badlands Neeraj Singh sustained in- by as many as 67 bullets after unaided recognized schools of Delhi for 24, 2020. "On February 12, 2020 the sec- with all the blood, gore, "It's not an issue as the peo- of Bihar isn't all good. Just numerable bullet wounds in motorcycle-borne assailants the session 2020-21, will begin from No- ond list will be out. March 16, 2020, will violence and brutality of an ple of Jharia have faith in the when one thought that the the fusillade of fire. In a true intercepted his SUV barely vember 29, the Directorate of Education be the date for closure of admission pro- age which refuses to be air Singh Mansion, especially in Nitish-Laloo marriage was gangland style execution 100 metres from his home (DoE) announced on Wednesday. The cess, the circular said. "The draw of lots brushed. Coal mafia don Kunti Singh." Outgoing MLA trying to fix what was broken, reminiscent of military style and opened fire from an AK- DoE said the schools will have to upload (if any), shall be conducted in a transpar- Surya Dev Singh is shown as Sanjeev Singh had defeated peace was shattered and in a killing, it brought back pain- 47 rifle and pistols at around the criteria and point on the website by ent manner in presence of parents. All the Ramadhir Singh in the film. Congress candidate Neeraj return to an earlier but more ful memories of a bygone era, 7.30 p.m. Incidentally, Neer- November 28 and the forms will be made eligible parents of students in draw of lots For the impending Singh by a margin of 33,661 recent age, vignettes of its the last vestiges of which one aj Singh also had an uncle available from November 29, also the date will be informed well in advance by the Jharkhand polls, the BJP has votes in the 2014 Assembly brutal past have reappeared. thought had been consigned named Ramadhir Singh, who for commencement of admission process. school. The draw of lots will be conducted fielded Ragini Singh from elections. Life, they say, imi- A big monkey wrench to the ashes of history. was convicted in a murder "Only Rs 25 (non-refundable) can be under videography and its footage to be Jharia, replacing her hus- tates art, and in this case it bunged into the delicate bal- Blood feuds don't end in case and is in jail. charged from the parents as admission maintained/retained by the school. The band Sanjeev Singh who is is the truth. But that is only ance of law and order in the a generation or two, as An- Neeraj Singh too was ac- registration fee. The purchase of prospec- slips will be shown to the parents before being tried in a local court in after art itself imitated life. In state where Nitish Kumar was urag Kashyap showed us so cused in several criminal tus of the school by the parents shall be putting in the box, being used for draw of connection with the Neeraj September 2019, the battle to allegedly playing do-gooder. evocatively in 'Gangs of Was- cases, including murder. The optional," the DoE circular said. It also lots," the circular added. It also said that Singh murder case. She is in control India's coal capital A throwback to the violent seypur' 1 and 2. They have coal mafia, which has wanted said that all private unaided recognized no private unaided recognized schools turn facing her sister-in-law -- Dhanbad -- took a turn for days of lawlessness and de- a permanence attached to to control coal and railway schools admitting children in pre-school, shall process the admission of EWS/DG/ Purnima Singh of the Con- the worse and became hot fiance. Once again proving them where neither side is contracts, has seen much pre-primary and/or Class-I level shall free ship category students manually. gress, the widow of the slain button all over again. Man, that we are all human and ev- willing to forgive or forget, blood letting over time. Lo- reserve 25 per cent of seats for EWS/DG "The department shall conduct comput- former Deputy Mayor Neeraj it is said, is a prisoner of his eryone bleeds the same way. for revenge and vengeance is cals will tell you that Neeraj category students and Child with Disabil- erised draw of lots for admission of EWS/ Singh, who was the cousin of past and while everyone has At the very epicentre of the embedded in the conscious- Singh, a mechanical engi- ity. The last date of submission of appli- DG Category Students. Sanjeev Singh. a dark side, what triggers new badland's fables remains ness and emerges at an ap- neer, had a bitter political. 6th National Abilympics and National Conference on Disability to Bring Spotlight 12th Global Film Festival on Inclusivity of Differently-abled Noida 2019 Inaugurated New Delhi, 13th November Honour Dr. Mahendra Nath signing, Desktop Publishing, showcasing the abilities and Delhi,13,Nov,The excitement and 2019:--The 6th National Con- Pandey, Hon’ble Minister, and E Sports), Crafts (Floral tremendous competitive zeal enthusiasm of young film makers ference on Disability & 6th Ministry of Skill Development Arrangement), Food (Cooking of PwDs. They have also been from all over India and abroad cre- National Abilympics 2019 will & Entrepreneurship, Mr. Ed- and Bakery), Services (Jew- a platform for all of us in the ated a new energy in the 12th Global be organized by the National gard D. Kagan, Deputy Chief elry Making, Tailoring/Dress civil society to question why Film Festival Noida at Marwah Stu- Abilympics Association of In- Mission, the United States of Making, and Beauty Therapy), in spite of being blessed with dios, Noida Film City. The festival dia (NAAI), under the aegis of America, the 2-day mega event and Architecture designing such mesmerizing talents was inaugurated by Ambassador Sarthak Educational Trust, on will see over 50 PwDs (23 Gold through CAD. The Founder PwDs are labeled as disabled?” of Bosnia Mohammed Cengic, joint 15th & 16th November at the & 28 Silver medalists), from & CEO, Sarthak & Secretary “The National Action Plan of secretary of state committee of the All India Council for Technical across the country competing General- NAAI, Dr. Jitender the government is aimed at UzbekistanTumurbek Anvabekov, Education (AICTE) Campus, to secure a coveted place at Aggarwal started the organiza- training 22 lakh disabled peo- Film Director Rahul Ravail, Film Di- New Delhi. the International Abilympics tion after realizing the difficul- ple by 2022, but only 1 lakh rector Ranjit Kapor, Writer & Dancer To be inaugurated by Chief to be held in Russia in 2020- ties faced by disabled people people have been trained so Raghunath Manet, Director Usha dios Sandeep Marwah.“Global Film place to celebrate their success and Guest, Dr. Thawar Chand 21.The 6th National Abilym- when he himself lost his eye- far. The government must put Deshpandey, TV Actress Samiksha Festival has filled in the vacuum cre- achievements, GFFN has provided Gehlot, Union Minister, Min- pics 2019 will be spread across sight because of macular de- in more effort in existing plans Bhatnagar, Vivek Paul, Miss Ukraine ated by IFFI in North of India. The them this kind of spiritual satisfac- istry of Social Justice and 10 vocational skills under the generation. He said, "Abilym- instead of implementing new Darina Gordienko, Mohamed Ali Film lovers, film buffs, film students tion,” said Sandeep Marwah Presi- Empowerment, and Guest of trades of ICT (Character De- pics have been the Olympics ones.” Dr. Aggrawal added. Rabbani & President Marwah Stu- and film makers need a day and dent Marwah Studios and GFFN.

Tyre Industry joins hands with “Power can be taken, but not given. The Indian Oil for pan-India Tyre Safety programme process of the taking is empowerment in itself” NEW DELHI-13-11- in such an important 2019,--In an ambitious safety campaign being Delhi,13,Nov,Before talking erment is not possible, nor con- occupied by women and educated drive aimed at raising undertaken by ATMA & about the women empowerment, ceivable in any meaningful way. women are pouring into the pro- awareness amongst mo- ITTAC. As a country with firstly we have to understand, Secondly, the concept of em- fessional workforce with profound torists about tyre safety not-so-good track record what is the meaning of empower- powerment depends upon the implications for national and mul- pan India, Tyre Industry in terms of road safety, ment. Empowerment: what is it? idea that power can expand. Pow- tinational corporations. represented by Automo- it is very important to Empowerment is a multi-dimen- er if often related to our ability to However, ironically, these are tive Tyre Manufacturers have road safety drives sional social process that helps make others do what we want, accompanied by news about Association (ATMA) has on a war footing. Com- people gain control over their own regardless of their own interests. dowry killings, female infanti- tied up with Indian Oil ing together of ATMA, lives. It is a process that fosters Moreover, we often treat power as cide, domestic violence against (IOCL). ATMA will be in- the august body of Tyre power in people for use in their a commodity in a way, which is un- women, sexual harassment, rape, teracting with motorists Industry in India and In- own lives, their communities and changeable. And that’s blunder we illegal trafficking and prostitution visiting Indian Oil retail dian Oil, India’s premier in their society, by acting on issues think, by recognising that power and myriad others of the same ilk. outlets (ROs) across In- organization, is a signifi- they define as important. exists in isolation and inherent to Gender discrimination prevails in dia and sensitise them cant step to make a dif- Moreover, empowerment is a individuals. Contrary, empower- almost all areas, be it social, cul- about tyre safety through ference to the road safe- process that challenges our as- ment as a process of change then tural, economic or educational. a massive awareness exer- ty campaigns being held sumptions about the way things becomes meaningful concept. An effective remedy for these cise. Indian Tyre Techni- in the country. We look are and can be. It challenges our Thirdly, empowerment depends evils needs to be sought in order cal Advisory Committee forward to significant basic assumptions about power, upon the ability to say no, when to ensure the Right to Equality (ITTAC), the technical improvement in aware- helping, achieving, and succeed- we don’t our behaviour or attitude guaranteed by the Constitution wing of Tyre Industry will ness especially with re- ing. To demystify the concept of considers as vulnerable or seems of India, to the fairer sex. Gender spearhead the initiative. gard to tyre safety”, said empowerment, we need to un- as we are trying to pleased some- equality facilitates the empower- The awareness drive Mr V K Misra, Chair- derstand the concept broadly, in one, which has inherent negative ment of women. Since education was kicked off from an man ITTAC. According order to be clear about how and notation for own respect. begins at home, the upliftment of Indian Oil retail outlet to ATMA, tyres care and why we narrow our focus of em- "To awaken the people, it is the women would be accompanied in South Delhi located maintenance doesn’t powerment for specific programs women who must be awakened. by the development of the family, in the premises of IOCL. get the importance that and projects. Once she is on the move, the fam- the society and in turn, would lead Mr V K Misra, Chairman it deserves amongst the At the core of the concept of em- ily moves, the village moves and towards a holistic development ITTAC and Mr Ritesh drivers. Tyres are an im- powerment is the idea of power. the nation moves" of the nation. During their youth, Kumar, DGM Retail portant safety compo- The possibility of empowerment India as a nation is revered in females face the problem of early Sales Indian Oil jointly nent in a vehicle since depends on three things. Firstly, a feminine form i.e. 'the Bharat marriage and childbirth. They inaugurated the drive. a tyre carries the entire empowerment requires that pow- Mata', the first citizen of our coun- are not cared for properly during “I must compliment the weight of the vehicle er can change, if it is inherent in try presently is a woman, many pregnancy leading to many cases IOCL team for their will- and is the only part that positions or people, then empow- important government posts are of maternal mortality. ingness to be a partner meets the road. Indian Horizon Thursday - November 14, 2019 South 4

Religious bias led to Karnataka disqualified MLAs joining IIT-M student’s death: BJP on Thursday MMK leader Bengaluru, Nov 13 (IANS) Political ernment,” tweeted Rao. leaders from across the spectrum in Rao accused BJP of employing un- Karnataka on Wednesday welcomed constitutional means to fabricate a the Supreme Court judgement up- majority to form the government in holding former assembly Speaker K. the state. R. Ramesh Kumar’s decision to dis- “It should be immediately dis- qualify 17 rebel legislators. missed,” he asserted. “I welcome the Supreme Court Former Congress chief minister judgement. Supreme Court has up- and opposition leader in the assem- held the decision of the Speaker,” bly Siddaramaiah tweeted that the Karnataka Bharatiya Janata Party Supreme Court judgement exposes spokesman G. Madhusudhana told the moral bankruptcy of the BJP IANS. leaders and the disqualified legisla- Madhusudhana pointed out that tors. the Supreme Court took a wise de- “Operation Kamala is a proven act cision to partially uphold Kumar’s and there is nothing more shameful decision and partially reject his de- than this,” tweeted Siddaramaiah Chennai, Nov 13 (IANS) Manitheneya Makkal Katchi (MMK) cision of barring the rebel legisla- welcoming the apex court’s verdict. leader M.H. Jawahirullah on Wednesday demanded a probe by tors from contesting, as it allowed The by-elections have been neces- Crime Branch Crime Investigation Department (CBCID) into the rebel legislators to contest in the sitated due to the disqualification the suicide of Fathima Latheef, a bright first year student of the forthcoming by-elections on De- think this is a big lesson to Kumar. cal parties. of the 14 Congress and three Janata Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-M). cember 5. Though you are Speaker, a Constitu- “The Supreme Court has upheld Dal-Secular (JD-S) rebel legisla- Fathima, a first year masters student in Humanities and De- “See whether accepting the res- tional body, if you act out of the Con- the Xth schedule,” said Babu about tors after they resigned from their velopment Studies in IITM, was found hanging from the ceiling ignation or making them disquali- stitution you will be tamed.” the part of Indian Constitution respective assembly seats in July in fan in her hostel room on November 9. While no suicide note fied amounts to the same, they were Ramesh Babu of Janata Dal-Secu- which deals with the act of defection protest against the former coalition was found, a note in her mobile phone had mentioned some ready to go to elections, they were lar (JDS) lauded the Supreme Court by lawmakers. government’s functioning. faculty names as the cause of her death. In a statement issued not shying away from the election, for upholding the Constitution and Meanwhile, Karnataka Pradesh The by-elections will be held in here, Jawahirullah said that he had spoken to Abdul Latheef, they were quite confident,” said the Parliamentary system. congress committee president Athani, Kagwad, Gokak, Yellapura, the girl’s father, who alleged that his daughter was subjected Madhusudhana. He said everybody “So the Supreme Court had upheld Dinesh Gundu Rao tweeted welcom- Hirekerur, Ranibennur, Vijaynagara, to religious discrimination by a faculty member. According to is happy with the Supreme Court the Speaker’s decision apart from ing the judgement. Chickballapura, K.R. Pura, Yesh- Jawahirullah, Fathima’s father had told him that once the pro- giving the rebel legislators an oppor- the provision to allow the disquali- “Supreme Court has upheld the wanthpura, Mahalakshmi Layout, fessor had given his daughter three marks less and the same was tunity to contest the elections. fied legislators to contest again,” disqualification of all the 17 legisla- Shivajinagara, Hosakote, K.R. Pete corrected after it was brought to the notice of the head of the Criticising Kumar, Mudhusudha- Babu told IANS. According to Babu, tors who defected from Congress and Hunsur. department. The MMK leader demanded a probe by the CBCID na said, “And the Speaker had acted the apex court’s judgement will and JDS. It also proves that the Kar- Vote count is on December 9. into the suicides by the students in IITM. “The girl’s father had as a Congress party leader. And I strengthen the whip power of politi- nataka government is an illegal gov- Eom/460 words told me that there was religious discrimination,” Jawahirullah told IANS. Hailing from Kollam in Kerala, Fathima was a bright student. Her father has given a memorandum to Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, requesting Kerala government’s in- Mumbai, New Delhi, Bengaluru face tervention in the probe into his daughter’s death. Fathima’s case is the fifth suicide at IIT-M in the last one year. An official of IIT-M’s Humanities and Social Sciences department said the head of the department was not available for comments. maximum cyber attacks: Report Bengaluru, Nov 13 (IANS) There has (July-September period). energy. Most malware detected (36 aging Director and CEO, Subex. Bengaluru tech been a 26 per cent increase in cyber “As the digital footprint of India per cent) could be traced to sources The detection of malware connect- attacks in India and Mumbai, New increases through capital intensive on the Dark Web while as much as 14 ed with critical infrastructure projects Delhi and Bengaluru together ac- projects, hackers are targeting data per cent of malware couldn’t be traced has also registered an increase. summit to celebrate counted for roughly 38 per cent of all and large scale disruption like never to a known source pointing to the ar- “This implies that hackers are tar- attacks in the July-September period, before,” said said Vinod Kumar, Man- rival of new actors and malware shops geting large scale disruption and are city-founded Unicorns a new report said on Wednesday. aging Director and CEO, Subex. on the scene,” the findings showed. working to increase the cost associ- The report prepared by Bengaluru- “The increase in cyber attacks Smart cities, financial services and ated with managing such projects as Bengaluru, Nov 12 (IANS) Innovation deliberation and en- headquartered telecom solutions against the country and the strong transportation sectors lead the rank- also negatively impact future invest- couragement platform Bengaluru Tech Summit (BTS), sched- provider Subex identified over 3,500 geopolitical correlation indicate high ings in terms of cyber attacks, said ments in them,” the report added. uled from November 18 to 20, will commemorate and celebrate modular malware samples in the levels of interest in targeting our criti- the “State of Internet of Things (IoT) Independent hackers are increas- Unicorn founders, who took advantage of the city’s enabling country, registering a whopping 37 cal infrastructure. Hackers are work- Security Report” for the third quarter ingly feeling the need to monetize cy- atmosphere in their entrepreneurial journey. per cent increase. ing to improve their ability to mon- (July-September period). ber attacks as the unit cost of malware “In order to celebrate these Unicorn founders for their Smart cities, financial services and etize cyber attacks,” he warned. “As the digital footprint of India has risen in the last quarter. Further, achievements, we have conceptualised and instituted for the transportation sectors lead the rank- Malware of varying degrees of so- increases through capital intensive it is becoming increasingly difficult to first time, the Bengaluru Impact Awards,” said Karnataka Dep- ings in terms of cyber attacks, said phistication are being reported from projects, hackers are targeting data source high-grade malware from mul- uty Chief Minister and Minister for IT, BT (Bio Technology) and the “State of Internet of Things (IoT) a variety of deployments, including and large scale disruption like never tiple sources due to various factors, S&T (Science and Technology) Dr. Ashwath Narayan in a state- Security Report” for the third quarter new projects surrounding renewable before,” said said Vinod Kumar, Man- the report added. ment on Tuesday. Narayan said Bengaluru’s favourable ecosys- tem led to the rise of Unicorns, effectively placing the city on the global map. In start-up and venture capital circles, unicorns are start-ups commanding a minimum valuation of $1 billion. Will abide by the Supreme Court Flipkart, founded by former Amazon employees, Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal, in 2007 in Bengaluru is one of the city- founded Unicorns. Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) IT Exports awards and Smart Bio Awards are the other BTS verdict: TDB President awards. Consisting of sessions in four tracks under Smart IT, Smart BIO, Global Innovations Alliance and Impact, the sum- Thiruvananthapuram, Nov 13 of most temples in South Kerala mit is being organised under the guidance of Karnataka Chief (IANS) With the Supreme Court districts, including Sabarimala. Minister B.S. Yeddiyurappa and a Vision Group, consisting of set to deliver its final verdict on a At present, TDB is headed by industry captains from across business verticals. batch of petitions seeking re-ex- former CPI-M legislator A. Padma- The 2019 edition will focus on disruptive technologies among amination of its decision to allow kumar. “The final verdict will come others and feature a Robotics competition for the first time. entry of women of all age group to tomorrow. We are duty bound to “One of the new additions this year is the Robotics Compe- the famed Sabarimala temple on abide by the court’s ruling,” Pad- tition - R2- RoboRecharge Robotic Premier League. Students Thursday, the Travancore Devasom makumar told the media persons. from all over Karnataka will be a part of the biggest robotics Board (TDB) said they will abide by “I have full faith in the SC and championship to be held in India,” said Narayan. the top court’s decision. whatever is the verdict, both the TDB is the body that looks after TDB and the government will ac- the administration of most temples cept it,” said Padmakumar, whose Karnataka disquali- in South Kerala districts, including three-year-term will end tomorrow. Sabarimala. Besides its poll manifesto, BJP At present, TDB is headed by had made a mention of the Sabari- fied MLAs joining BJP former CPI-M legislator A. Padma- mala controversy, saying it would kumar. “The final verdict will come “endeavour to secure constitution- on Thursday tomorrow. We are duty bound to al protection on issues related to abide by the court’s ruling,” Pad- best to see that the verdict was ad- which will favour the believers. faith and belief”. Bengaluru, Nov 13 (IANS) Elated by the Supreme Court’’s makumar told the media persons. hered to in letter and spirit. “The BJP is expecting a positive The Congress had time and again ruling partially in their favour, all the 17 disqualified legislators “I have full faith in the SC and The top court is now expected to verdict that will protect the temple asked the BJP government to see are joining the ruling BJP on Thursday ahead of the December whatever is the verdict, both the give its final verdict after 64 review tradition and culture. Should it be that appropriate amendments are 5 by-elections, a party official said on Wednesday. “All the 17 TDB and the government will ac- petitions have been filed asking the otherwise, other constitutional done to protect faith and tradition. MLAs, including 14 from the Congress and 3 from the Janata cept it,” said Padmakumar, whose apex court to ensure that traditions ways would be looked into,” said Meanwhile, all arrangements are Dal-Secular (JD-S) will join our party on Thursday here and 15 three-year-term will end tomorrow. and culture of the famed temple is Ramesh. in place for the two-month-long of them will contest in the by-elections on our party symbol,” It was on September 28 last year protected. Incidentally, Prime Minister Nar- festival season of the famed Sabari- BJP state unit spokesman G. Madhusudana told IANS. The apex that the apex court allowed women Meanwhile State Minister of endra Modi, while on his campaign mala Ayyappa temple in Kerala that court earlier in the day upheld their disqualification by for- of all ages to enter the temple and Devasoms (the body that looks af- at the recent Lok Sabha polls in the opens for pilgrims on Sunday. mer state assembly speaker K.R. Ramesh Kumar. However, the following that it was a free for all ter all temples in Kerala) Kadakam- state, had assured that the Centre The Kerala Police has made the 3-judge bench allowed them to contest the by-elections from between right-wing forces which pally Surendran said let the verdict would make efforts to provide con- routine security arrangements by the assembly segments they resigned in mid-July before they stood guard and chased away wom- come. stitutional protection for the state’s posting around 2500 police officials were disqualified and expelled by their parties by July-end for en in the age group of 10 and 50, State BJP spokesperson M.T. Ra- faiths and beliefs.TDB is the body in and around the temple complex, defying their party whip. with the Kerala Police trying their mesh said that he expects a verdict that looks after the administration which has been the practice. Indian Horizon 5 Nation Thursday, November 14, 2019 Short Takes Rajnath on two-day visit to UP Madarsa students to be Arunachal Pradesh Need to protect children from trained in NCC, NSS New Delhi, Nov 13 (IANS) De- than 4,500 meters above sea Lucknow, Nov 13 (IANS) The Uttar NCC is to inspire everyone for the sake drugs, sex, alcohol: Goa guv fence Minister Rajnath Singh level, is strategically impor- Pradesh government is working on a of the nation. The Madarsa students will will inaugurate a strategically- tant for India because it was plan to modernise madarsas across the also get an opportunity to make a career Panaji, Nov 13 (IANS) There is a need to protect children located river bridge in Arunachal through this pass that China’s state and connect students with the so- in Indian Army. In addition to educa- from drugs, sex, alcohol, hard labour, abuse and violence, Pradesh, apart from attending People’s Liberation Army had cial programmes of the government. It tion and training, the students will get newly appointed Goa Governor Satya Pal Malik said on other events, during a two-day laid an invasion in the year has now decided to impart cadet train- lessons for the service of the nation.” Wednesday in his message ahead of Children’s Day. visit to the north-eastern state 1962. ing course like NCC and NSS to these “The board will also see from time to Malik also said, that children should be shielded from the beginning November 13, sources According to officials, Singh students. time how many madrasas have followed negative impact of urbanisation, industrialization, commer- said here on Wednesday. is scheduled to visit the Tawang Madrasa Board Registrar Raghaven- the instructions,” Singh added. cialisation and materialism. Singh will also interact with War Memorial and Tawang Mon- dra Singh said on Wednesday that the The registrar said that NSS training “Today children are thrown open to evils of drugs, sex, al- soldiers deployed in Arunachal astery on the first day of his visit National Cadet Corps (NCC) and the is also very important for the all-round cohol, hard labour, abuse and violence. Thousands of little Pradesh during the two-day trip to the state on Thursday. National Service Scheme (NSS) are now development of madrasa students. children in our country are made to slog for long hours. Many besides reviewing security pre- Singh will be the chief guest at working to modernise Madarsas to instil In its training, students will be made are yet to see the light of modern education. Therefore, it is an paredness of the defence forces the inaugural function of Maitree a sense of discipline among students. aware on topics such as prevention of occasion to put an end to various forms of child abuse that are along India’s border, the Line Diwas celebrations, a multi-cul- UP Madrasa Education Council has sent social evils, environmental protection, taking place on our land,” Malik said. of Actual Control (LAC), with tural social event meant to foster instructions to all madrasas in this re- cleanliness, emergency or assistance for “The celebration of Children’s Day teaches us several im- China. friendship between civil popula- gard. Singh said, “The objective of the natural disaster. portant values. It is a call to protect our little ones from all “On Friday, Defence Minister tion and personnel of the armed harm and to save them from the negative impact of urbanisa- Rajnath Singh will visit India’s forces, on Thursday. tion, industrialisation, commercialisation and materialism, border post in Bum La near the The Maitree Diwas celebrations Scam in UP Home Guards’ Malik also said. LAC with China. The bridge that this year are being held in the Children’s Day is celebrated every year in India as a tribute he will inaugurate after visit- Gyalwa Tsangyang Gyatso High attendance, probe begins to the country’s first Prime Minister late Jawaharlal Nehru on ing Bum La is located across a Altitude Stadium in Tawang. The November 14. river in Lower Dibang Valley of Maitree Diwas celebrations this Lucknow, Nov 13 (IANS) After the recent isters were actually not present. The SSP Arunachal Pradesh,” a defence year are being held in the Gyalwa provident fund scam in the Uttar Pradesh has made a preliminary investigation into ministry official told IANS. Bum Tsangyang Gyatso High Altitude Power Corporation, another scam in the the matter and has recommended that a Green product launched in Pun- La, located at a height of more Stadium in Tawang. state has now come to light related to al- case be registered against the concerned lotting duties to home guards, according to home guard officials. According to Gau- jab to counter stubble burning the police on Wednesday. tam Buddha Nagar SSP Vaibhav Krishna Punjab CM asks SGPC to pay $20 According to reports, the scam has tak- said he had received information that Chandigarh, Nov 13 (IANS) Agri-biotech company Kan Bio- en place in Gautam Buddha Nagar where several home guards do not report for sys on Wednesday launched an eco-friendly product here to fee for Pak visit crores of rupees have been swindled duty even as their attendance was being tackle the problem of stubble burning. by marking fake attendance for home marked. Some officials were reportedly The product, Speed Kompost, does not pose any risks to Chandigarh, Nov 13 (IANS) With be stamped on the passport in any guards. The Yogi Adityanath government drawing their emoluments. environment and helps in enhancing the soil quality and agri- footfall at the Kartarpur Corri- case, he added. The Chief Minister has already initiated an inquiry into the Initial investigations showed that the cultural yield, the company said. dor reportedly quite low, Punjab said the low number of devotees re- matter. Uttar Pradesh DGP O.P. Singh signatures of those in charge of police sta- The product is a compost accelerating formulation which Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on portedly crossing over to the historic has directed the Senior Superintendent of tions were being faked to withdraw the comprises a unique blend of cellulose degrading, starch de- Wednesday asked the “cash-rich” gurdwara was not because of lack of Police (SSP) in Gautam Buddha Nagar to money. “I have written to the state govern- grading, protein degrading bacteria and fungi, it said. SGPC to pay the $20 per pilgrim fee interest among the people but be- register an FIR against those responsible ment and requested an inquiry after which These microbes when added to the raw compost heap, for travel out of their own coffers, cause of the two conditions of pass- for the scam. A four member team has the DG Home Guards set up the commit- germinate to produce hyphae or cells. The various microbes, at least to the ‘yellow card’ holders port and $20 service fee. been set up to conduct a thorough probe tee which includes SSO Lucknow Sunil which digest the plant waste, present in Speed Kompost help who simply can not afford to pay Lakhs of pilgrims were waiting to into the matter. The Director General of Kumar, Mirzapur District Commandant recycling of crop residues and wastes effectively along with the amount. Amid reports of con- visit the Kartarpur gurdwara on the Police (DGP) told reporters here that the Shailendra Pratap Singh, Baghpat Divi- soil reclamation, resulting in enhanced soil quality. fusion among pilgrims, the Chief historic 550th Prakash Purb of Guru fraud was a case of “virtual policing” be- sion Commandant, and Meerut Divisional Apart from this, the usage of the product also ensures a sig- Minister also urged the Prime Min- Nanak Dev, but were held back be- cause those marked ‘present’ in the reg- Commandant D.D. Maurya,” he said. nificant increase in the nutrition value of the soil, according isters of both India and Pakistan to cause of the problems, he added. to the company. waive the passport condition for Though Pakistan Prime Minister travel through Kartarpur Corridor Imran Khan had tweeted, before the Twitterati take aim at Sena for talks and instead accept other forms of opening of the Corridor, that pass- Faridabad doctor family murder: identity, including Aadhar card and port would not be needed for devo- with Cong, NCP driving licence. tees to come through, the decision Accused arrested in Shirdi These should be acceptable since was not formalised, Amarinder Singh Mumbai, Nov 13 (IANS) With the Shiv Bahavani! You have join hands with Afzal there was no requirement of visa to pointed out. Sena trying to form government in Maha- Khans & Aurang Zebs for the sake of pow- Faridabad, Nov 13 (IANS) Police on Wednesday arrested a rashtra with the help of Congress and NCP, er, only power! Jai #Maharashtra,” wrote man who allegedly killed four members of a family inside their Twitterati were quick to remind Uddhav another. home here last week. Thackeray’s party that it was partnering Some users even retweeted a 2014 tweet “The accused Mukesh was arrested by Faridabad crime Police use batons, tear gas with the same people it had fought in the by Aaditya Thackeray, son of Sena chief branch team in Maharashtra’s Shirdi on Wednesday. He was recently concluded elections. Uddhav Thackeray, in which he accused produced before a local court, which sent him to a transit re- on BJP protestors in Kolkata In a tweet filled with sarcasm, author the Congress and the NCP of looting Ma- mand. The crime branch team has left for Faridabad,” Farid- Chetan Bhagat compared Shiv Sena to a harashtra. abad police PRO Sube Singh told IANS. Kolkata, Nov 13 (IANS) Police seen climbing the barricade, as a lover who ditched a paramour. “With a mere 44 seats (less that all oth- Sources said that the accused is expected to reach Farid- made a baton charge, lobbed couple of them snatched sticks “Maharashtra Politics: Before election:B: ers!) the queen bee insists on calling the abad at around 10 p.m. on Wednesday. tear gas shells and used water from police personnel after I love you / S: I love you more. Can’t wait to shots. In their ‘Common Minimum Pro- A 65-year-old doctor and his three family members were cannons to disperse hundreds jumping to the other side of the get married. gram’, she’s the final authority & wants found dead at their Sector 7 house here on Saturday. of belligerent BJP youth wing barricade. “Post-election: B: People have spoken. to ensure her allies “eschew communal leaders who tried to march to The police retaliated by wield- Let’s get married / S: Mummy was saying, approach”. Good time to ask @ShivSena the Kolkata Municipal Corpora- ing their sticks, and using the ek do ladke aur dekh lo. Bas mil lo (mom their stand on Veer Savarkar?,” Priti Gan- Mulayam Singh admitted to tion headquarters on Wednes- water jets on the protestors be- was asking me to get acquainted with dhi, incharge of BJP Mahila Morcha social day protesting against a host of fore lobbing tear gas shells and other suitors),” Bhagat said in a tweet on media cell, said in a tweet on Wednesday. hospital in Lucknow issues including the civic body’s successfully dispersed them. Tuesday, summing up how Shiv Sena’s While the Congress won 44 seats in the failure to control the Dengue The BJYM later claimed 60 of relation with the Bharatiya Janata Party 288-member Maharashtra Assembly, NCP Lucknow, Nov 13 (IANS) Samajwadi Party patriarch Mu- menace in the city. their workers, including state changed following the fractured verdict in won 54, Shiv Sena 56 and the BJP, which layam Singh Yadav was admitted to the Sanjay Gandhi Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha President Debjit Sarkar were hos- the state. emerged as the single largest party after Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPIGMS) on activists flung water bottles, and pitalised after they were “mer- Uddhav Thackeray spoke to Congress the results were declared, won 105 seats. Wednesday evening after he complained of uneasiness and threw stones at the police who cilessly beaten” by the police. Interim President Sonia Gandhi on the Congress, however, hit back at the critics. breathlessness. He was taken to the emergency ward where had put up guard rails and steel Thirty five activists, including a phone on Tuesday and met senior leader “My friend @awasthis is hurt on reports the doctors began treatment. barricade near Chandni Chawk dozen women, were arrested. Ahmed Patel in Mumbai to discuss the fin- of NCP & INC supporting a Shiv Sena govt. SP sources said that he was likely to be discharged on in central Kolkata to prevent the A police officer said a number er aspects of state government formation. Where was this outrage when BJP joined Wednesday night but hospital sources said he would be kept agitators from reaching the KMC of security personnel were also “Yes Just like Bihar politics, in fact in Bi- hands with PDP or when BJP and JDU under observation till Thursday. headquarters during the march, injured. har they married for a few years and then came together? #Maharashtra,” Congress Mulayam’s son Akhilesh Yadav has paid a visit to his father organised as a means of swaying Led by BJP state President Dil- one got into illicit relationship. Good story spokesperson Pawan Khera tweeted. at SGPGIMS. public opinion months ahead of ip Ghosh, General Secretary Raju for your book,” said one follower. Meanwhile, after nearly three weeks next year’s civic polls. Bandopadhyay, Sarkar and ac- “The opportunistic politics of Shiv Sena of political drama, Maharashtra was on The protestors set ablaze tyres tress and BJYM leader Rimjhim has turned it a villain in Hindutva politics,” Tuesday brought under President’s rule. Chandigarh National Crafts and tried to dismantle the barri- Mitra, the protestors started off tweeted one user. Maharashtra Governor B.S. Koshyari cade with sticks, rods and metal from Central Avenue, raising #ShivSenaCheatsMaharashtra Now sent his recommendation to the Union Mela from November 15 plates, as police personnel used slogans against the civic authori- we have got our own Kejriwal, thank you Home Ministry calling for imposing Presi- their physical strength to protect ties’ negligence in containing the Udhav Thackery for back stabbing us!. We dent’s rule, saying his attempts to put a it. Some BJYM workers were then spread of dengue in the city. will soon recover by the grace of Goddess government in place in the state had failed. Chandigarh, Nov 13 (IANS) The 11th edition of the Chan- digarh National Crafts Mela will kick-off from Friday at Ka- lagram here, an announcement was made on Wednesday. All set to take place from November 15 to 24, the fair will Engagement with China intensified in 5 years: Muraleedharan showcase diverse handicrafts, handlooms, folk dances and music. Besides, Tribal art groups will be given a platform to Sonipat, Nov 13 (IANS) In- the bilateral trade reaching The decision was taken at JGU from Nov 8-10. Term- let these differences become display and sell their work. dia’s engagement with China close to $95 billion, though the Second Informal India- ing India’s engagement with disputes. Thus, over the last The event having 200 stalls is being organised by North has intensified at all levels concerns remain on the grow- China meet between Prime China “multifaceted”, the five years our engagements Zone Cultural Centre (NZCC), Patiala and the Chandigarh during the past five years as ing trade deficit,” Muraleed- Minister Narendra Modi and Minister said that India-Chi- and exchanges with China at administration. the two countries did not let haran said at a conference at Chinese President Xi Jinping na relations “transcend bilat- all levels have intensified,” he Folk artists and cultural groups will perform live during differences between them O.P. Jindal Global University held at Mahabalipuram, Tam- eral dimensions and has an said. the 10-day affair. This year the theme is “West to East”, fea- become disputes, Minister of (JGU) here. il Nadu, on October 11-12. important bearing on peace, Defining people-to-people turing handicrafts and foods from Rajasthan, Gujarat to Bi- State for External Affairs V. India and China last month “We accord great impor- stability and prosperity of the contact as an important fac- har and Odisha. Muraleedharan has said. agreed to set up a High-Level tance to our relations with region and the world.” tor in taking the bilateral The products would vary from clothes to jewellery and “Our functional co-opera- Economic and Trade Dia- China. Relations with China “On issues where we have relationship to a new level, footwear to carpets, furniture to home decor. tion has expanded and new logue mechanism to deepen is one of the key aspects of differences, we have agreed Muraleedharan urged institu- Celebrities like Gurdas Maan, Daler Mehendi, Kailash dialogue mechanisms have economic cooperation and our foreign policy,” Mura- to deal with them prudently tions and centres working on Kher, Jasbir Jassi, Roop Kumar Rathod and Sonali Rathod, been added. Our economic also sort out the concerns leedharan said at the 12th All with due sensitivity to each India-China relations to help Manmohan Waris, Jassie Gill, among others, will perform engagement with China has pertaining to the bilateral India Conference of China other’s interests, concerns foster a better understanding during the event. also witnessed expansion with trade issues. Studies (AICCS) organised at and aspirations, and not to of China. Indian Horizon 6 EDIT Thursday, November 14, 2019 Indian Horizon CUSTOMISE SECURITY COVER TO PREVENT BREACH With the sum and substance of the threat remaining at the same pitch and the Gandhi family still at the pinnacle of the Congress party, it becomes a debatable gamble to tinker with a time-tested security cover. The family will continue to face a serious threat of personal harm from desperate quarters... By Vikash Narain Rai

here are indications to suggest, close quarters in 1981 while emerg- Tfrom the past and present, ing from a protected hotel building that like the first withdrawal in Washington, DC.Israelis, who took of Special Protection Group (SPG) pride in laying out fl awless security Thursday, November 14, 2019 security cover from the Gandhi fam- drills for their political leaders, lost ily in January 1990, even the second their Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin withdrawal of November 2019 is not in 1995 to the bullets of an assassin, Ayodhya verdict exactly rooted in the lowering of lurking at the controlled departure threat perception. point after a rally in Tel Aviv. Rajiv A law against triple talaq, the abroga- An expert committee had decided Gandhi himself, while as PM and un- on December 4, 1989 that the SPG der SPG cover, escaped an attempt tion of Article 370 and now a Ram tem- cover must continue with Rajiv Gan- on his life at Rajghat in 1986 and dhi and his immediate family mem- also suffered a rifl e-butt assault by a ple where the Babri Masjid once stood, bers (Sonia, Rahul, Priyanka) unless Sri Lankan sailor while inspecting a a change was warranted by a fresh guard of honour at President House Prime Minister Narendra Modi has ful- threat perception. Yet, without any in Colombo in 1987. such exercise, the cover was arbi- To recall how the Justice JS Verma filled most of the Hindutva promises trarily withdrawn, opening the way Commission of Inquiry had sum- for a tragic chapter in India’s politi- marised the lapses that led to the as- cal history. nothing has changed since the last egory of security in lieu of the SPG sassination of Rajiv Gandhi at Sripe- that the Sangh Parivar has ever made to The fi rst curious thing about the year in their political positioning cover. It is not my case that one se- rumbudur, Tamil Nadu, the judge had present withdrawal is its timing — the to warrant the abrupt negative re- curity cover is inferior to the other rejected the contention that Rajiv was its constituents, sympathisers and vot- cover has been withdrawn within a view. Of the 12 years that I spent or one security agency is better than not entitled to SPG protection since at short span of the fi rst death anniver- with the SPG in two stints (1987-92 the other, but what is generalised is the time it was not supposed to guard ers. The Babri Masjid-Ram temple ver- sary of Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who had and 1996-2003), the last three were no match to what is customised in former prime ministers. lived with the SPG cover long after dedicated to the training wing. It the given context. “A way could and should have dict, no doubt, is not an executive deci- ceasing to be an active politician with was natural that the assassinations The concept behind ensuring a fail- been found,” he had concluded. no positional or ideological threat. As of Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi proof personal security paraphernalia Apart from listing the specifi c securi- sion but a judicial closure to a very old a former prime minister, his continu- formed the backdrop of strategic for a national leader in a democratic ty shortcomings in his report, he had ation with the SPG cover had three considerations all along. set-up is way deeper than the amal- come down heavily on the approach property dispute that metamorphosed identifi able phases. Indira's assassination in October, gamation of several layered cordons, of the MHA and the IB for bouncing Initially, it was an intelligence- 1984 as PM had necessitated the cre- the prohibitive armours, the elabo- notes at each other and sending out into a political crime on December 6, backed necessity under the SPG Act, ation of the SPG for providing a spe- rate ground layouts, the technical sa- memos warning of threats, but not then it became an extended political cialised cover to the incumbent prime nitisation, the drone monitoring, the taking a single concrete step and courtesy under Manmohan Singh's ministers and their immediate fam- traffi c restrictions etc. leaving him at the mercy of a police 1992.The verdict allowing a temple to second UPA regime, and fi nally, it ily members, while Rajiv's former PM What is visible to the naked eye force that was not good enough and assumed the character of a political status at the time of his assassination may amount to be, when the time of party men who were interested in en- be built, now can be implemented only expediency under the Narendra Modi in May, 1991 had hurried the Parlia- reckoning arrives, the worth of an or- cashing his popularity but did noth- government. Obviously, it would have ment to amend the SPG Act in order namental ivory tooth only. The crux ing to ensure his safety. because of the criminal act of destroying looked ridiculous to withdraw the to extend the protection of the SPG to is that each security element must be The Verma report submitted in SPG cover from the politically active former PMs and their immediate fam- a combination of protective and fa- June, 1992, was then buried in the the Masjid. The Supreme Court should Congress family while still continuing ily members as well. cilitative features and the thoughtful ongoing noise over the Ayodhya con- with the BJP icon’s cover. Now, with the sum and substance anticipation must match any possible fl ict. This time around, ironically, the not have arrived at this verdict before The second indication that some- of the threat remaining at the same precipitation. The security covers are implications of the withdrawal of the thing was amiss in the withdrawal pitch, the Gandhi family still at the breached not by attacking and break- SPG cover from the Gandhi family deciding on the criminal culpability of comes from the unchanged status of pinnacle of the Congress party, it be- ing the hard shells but by identifying have not surfaced much, understand- the politically sensitive positioning comes a debatable gamble to tinker and puncturing the soft belly. ably, in the political buoyancy of the those who destroyed the Masjid and of the Gandhi family that will always with a time-tested security cover. As there is no end to human in- Ayodhya resolution. pitch them as a target of the extreme That brings up the third and the genuity, no personal security cover, Ayodhya may have been just inci- cleared the ground for the temple. Sec- communal and ultra-national ideol- most dangerous fallacy, a profes- howsoever specialised it might be, dental in downplaying the security ogies. Under the amended SPG Act, sional one, hidden in the contours can have inherent claims to infal- concerns at hand, but let it be reiter- former prime ministers and their of the present exercise: the imposi- libility. Its strength lies in assessing ated that the politicians of the stature ondly, the court has offered five acres of family members are to be extended tion of the concept of interchange- and evolving continuously. US Presi- of the Gandhi family will continue to the SPG cover annually, based on ability of security covers. How frag- dent John Kennedy, travelling in a face a serious threat of personal harm land to a litigant, the Sunni Waqf Board, their threat perception. The Gan- ile this concept was had been amply fortifi ed motorcade, fell to a long- from desperate quarters because the dhi family which qualified for the demonstrated in Rajiv’s assassina- distance assassin’s bullets in 1963 in politics they represent cannot be away from the disputed site for a new SPG cover under this category for tion! And yet, the Gandhi family has Dallas, Texas. President Ronald Rea- wished away any time soon. 28 years has now lost it, though now been saddled with a Z-plus cat- gan was saved from a gun attack from IANS mosque. This was not a relief sought by the litigant. The court invoked Arti- Ayodhya no more a glue for Hindutva ‘parivar’? cle 142 (to do complete justice in any With the legal closure, what now? The BJP leaders are perspicacious enough to know what works at a point in history matter before the court) of the Consti- and, more importantly, how it will be contextualised. Ayodhya and the temple have gone through the wringer for long. Even Hindutva votaries might begin to sift facts from rhetoric. The Jharkhand election will be the fi rst test case to tution to offer this piece of land else- assess how the BJP recycles the old beliefs and if it owns credit for the closure. By Radhika Ramaseshan where. If the court were to do complete hen Maharashtra was in the side the sanctum sanctorum of a might be tempted to re-position it in Wthroes of forming a govern- bhavya (magnifi cient) temple or a its central discourse, but its leaders justice under Article 142, then it should ment, when parties thrashed makeshift one that sprung up on the are perspicacious enough to know about for numbers and the Bharatiya night after the demolition? Indeed, a what works at a point in history and, have also decreed a permanent end to Janata Party (BJP) and Shiv Sena were VHP offi ce-bearer once told me that more importantly, how it will be con- on the brink of a break-up, arrived the it was easier to mobilise an assembly textualised.Ayodhya and the temple all future politico-religious disputes in- news that the Supreme Court would of ‘kar sevaks’ for ‘destruction’ rather have gone through the wringer for pronounce a judgment on the title suit than ‘construction’. long. Even Hindutva votaries might volving medieval mosques and Hindu of the disputed 2.77 acres in Ayodhya The Sangh ‘parivar's’ incessant begin to sift facts from rhetoric. that housed the Babri mosque before propaganda, that culled fanci- The Jharkhand election will be the mythology.Learned lawyers across the December 1992. ently no qualms in doing business ful anecdotes and quoted history, fi rst test case to assess how the BJP The received wisdom was, because with an adversary that was poles pertaining to the Sultanate and recycles the old beliefs and if it owns world would no doubt dissect this de- the BJP and Sena were ideologically apart, ideologically. The Maharash- Mughal rule selectively, turned the credit for the closure. bound by their commitment to a tra fallout had a lesson for the BJP. Babri mosque into an object of un- It’s not without reason that the political Hindutva, a verdict that fa- The party had hoped to resurrect qualified hatred.On Babur’s diktat, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), cision for a long time to come. Time is voured the Hindu litigants and paved the temple that was below people’s his lieutenant Mir Baqi had razed BJP and VHP have hammered home the way for a Ram temple, the glue to radar, even in Uttar Pradesh, the epi- a temple that existed on Rama’s the line that the other ‘contentious’ often an unsparing judge. It needs to be bind the estranged allies again. centre, and vest it with the emotional birthplace and raised a mosque. places of worship in Varanasi (the The argument was that the BJP overload it carried in the late eighties Therefore, a structure, whose rai- Gyan Vapi mosque) and Mathura underscored that the Indian apex court would appropriate the credit for and nineties. son d’ etre was to ‘humiliate’ Hindus (the Shahi Eidgah masjid) will not be closing a long-drawn litigation that Back then, there was no question. and ‘immortalise the abasement’, touched, although these structures lost a great opportunity to instill in the was underpinned on faith and myths Ashok Singhal, the patriarch of the had to be wiped out. The propaga- have for long been on the ‘hit list’. rather than facts and the Sena would Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and tion worked as long as it coalesced The Ram temple agitation took off minds of the litigants and the nation have no choice but to embrace its architect of the temple blueprint, with other subjects that projected after the government, headed by VP ally and uphold Hindutva. was like an avatar of Rama whose Muslims as the ‘oppressors’ and Hin- Singh, adopted the recommenda- at large the idea of reconciliation, clo- Recall that when the mosque was word was supreme until LK Advani of dus as the ‘victims’. tions of the Mandal Commission that brought down and the BJP brass the BJP usurped the project. In 2002, when Atal Bihari Vajpayee earmarked quota in education and sure and peaceful co-existence. Now, that was present in Ayodhya sent The UP election of 1993 was the was the Prime Minister, a sortie of jobs for the Other Backward Classes. mixed signals — LK Advani cried fi rst speed bump on the road of the ‘kar sevaks’, mustered largely from The move provoked a virulent while Murli Manohar Joshi and Uma VHP-BJP’s Ayodhya juggernaut. Gujarat, tried to break into the secu- backlash from the upper castes of the greatest fear over the impact of this Bharti beamed — it was the Sena Their carefully crafted concept of rity-fortifi ed complex of the make- north India, but the RSS’s Hindu- that claimed responsibility for the Hindutva, that sought to create an shift temple, carrying bricks and tva ideology was challenged by the verdict is on the other disputes, particu- act. The Sena contingent of ‘kar se- identity based on faith and not caste, stones, and start the construction of schisms in the social order, after vaks’ was small, but the party, then class or region, was contested by an a ‘permanent’ temple. Their efforts Mandal triggered the hope that the larly those over Varanasi and Mathura. helmed by the feisty Bal Thackeray, alliance of the parties that repre- were foiled. less-empowered and disempow- was extraordinarily voluble. The at- sented the rights and interests of the The episode had an unfortunate ered backward castes might find India was ruled for many centuries by tacks on Muslims that followed in backward castes, Dalits and Mus- fi nish in Gujarat. The Godhra train their place under the sun, after all. Mumbai were instigated, led and lims, namely, the Samajwadi Party carnage and the subsequent commu- Ram and a temple for him were in- invaders who built their mosques and abetted by the Sena. (SP) and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP). nal violence happened soon thereaf- struments for the Sangh to weld a Ayodhya and its aftermath is a use- In that election, the BJP’s contes- ter. The Ram temple fi gured in the divided society. churches over older habitations, which ful context to refer to when discuss- tant had a hard time saving even the BJP’s election manifestos as a matter The tactic worked for the BJP, but ing Maharashtra because the upshot Ayodhya Assembly seat because of a of form, and there were periodic but it took years of identifying and nur- inevitably had temples. Does it mean of the apex court’s ruling was that coalition of the less-empowered and half-hearted attempts at negotiation turing its own backward caste lead- ideology, stoked by faith, had ceased the vulnerable. He won, but it was between the Hindu and Muslim liti- ers — culminating in the anointment every old mosque or church should be to be a unifying element among the not an election that Lalu Singh would gants and noises from the VHP. of Narendra Modi as PM — to knit parties. The Sena jettisoned the BJP care to remember. Clearly, the tem- With the legal closure, what together a Hindutva order, after the and was ready to embrace the Na- ple issue was going belly up. now? The ‘dispute’ has existed long RSS’s imagination. Today, the BJP demolished to build new temples? We tionalist Congress Party (NCP) and Did the diminishing returns have enough for people, especially those commands the votes of most OBCs. A the Congress to secure its own chief to do with the fact that the ‘deed’ who keenly followed it in the Hindi conducive ambience for an Ayodhya have enough and more temples, what minister, while the NCP and, for a over, it did not materially matter heartland, to discern the extent to redux does not exist. while, even the Congress had appar- where Rama’s idol was placed? In- which it was politicised. The BJP IANS we need are jobs and a strong economy that will make us a global leader. Readers Response and contribution Welcome Indian Horizon Thursday, November 14, 2019 OP-ED 7

has been criticised in some quar- building permits.In the mean- WASHINGTON SHAMEFULLY THWARTS ters for rejecting Washington’s time, Israel’s slaughter of Pales- DAESH NEEDS TO BE traditional role as an intermedi- tinian men, women and children ary but he had no choice. How on protesting in Gaza on their own FULLY ROOTED OUT JUSTICE FOR PALESTINIANS earth can the Trump White House soil continues. On Friday, the Is- be a neutral arbitrator when its raeli forces shot 71 Palestinian ci- BY NADIA MURAD BY LINDA S. HEARD unbounded allegiance to one side vilians, among them 30 children, There are no intermediaries capable of is indisputable? And to add insult three women and a paramedic ive years ago, Daesh fi ghters invaded nough meandering around infl uencing or reining in Israel to injury Trump’s envoy Jared despite the fact that none posed Fmy ancestral homeland of Sinjar, Ethe bush! Palestinians have Kushner and his Ambassador to a threat to the border. Iraq, and waged a systematic eth- right on their side both mor- Israel David Melech Friedman The Palestinian Centre for nic-cleansing campaign. Their campaign ally and legally. Yet Israel is able are both funders of illegal Jewish Human Rights (PCHR) has included mass executions, forced conver- to trample upon these victims of colonies on the West Bank. documented Israel’s unbridled sions and widespread sexual violence. an illegal 52-year-long occupation The current US administration murder of Gazans since March These attacks resulted in the massacre of with absolute and utter impunity, is Israel’s coercive partner acting 30, last year, a death toll that Yazidi men, women and children; the en- more so now than ever before. as bad cop to Israel’s worst cop. currently stands at 207 and in- slavement of nearly 7,000 Yazidis; and dis- While it is the case that almost Of course, Abbas didn’t fall for the cludes children, women, the placement of more than 400,000 to camps all US administrations swayed ‘Deal of the Century’ hoax that is disabled, paramedics and jour- in northern Iraq. towards Israel’s side, at the very nothing more than a US effort to nalists. Some 2,742 children and But that was not the end of our suffer- least they erected a non-biased fa- buy off his people’s hopes for in- 409 women have been wounded, ing. As Sheri Rosenberg observed in a 2012 cade for public consumption and dependence. many seriously resulting in am- article, genocide is a process, not an event. at least two that of Jimmy Carter Of course he is unable to put his putations, paralysis, blindness The continued suffering, fear and uncer- and Bill Clinton, worked towards a faith in Trump who has unilater- and deafness. tainty in the Yazidi community show that two-state-solution with sincerity. ally donated Jerusalem and Syria’s These horrendous statistics the genocide process is ongoing. Carter’s genuine mediation ef- Golan Heights to his Israeli buddy alone amounts to a war crime by About 350,000 Yazidis remain trapped forts were untimely coming when while cutting off aid to the Pales- any standard. However, the US in camps in northern Iraq. People in Arab-Israeli hostilities were at tinian National Authority as well bans the entry of offi cials from these camps live in weather-worn tents their highest. Working with Yasser as funding for the UN Palestinian the International Criminal Court without adequate access to food, water, Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin, Clinton its cards with a fl ourish. In its with Israel. refugee agency UNRWA. Amer- (ICC) investigating the alleged electricity, education or opportunities to could have touted success but was eyes, Israel’s right-wing Netan- - Linda S. Heard, British politi- ica’s closure of the PLO offi ce in crimes of Americans and Israelis. work. They also lack basic health care, stymied by elections that brought yahu-led government can do no cal columnist Washington says it all. Abbas has had enough. Unlike including psychological support to aid in Ariel Sharon and George W. Bush wrong. With few exceptions, US President Trump has stamped Here is the joke. “President Israel, he has abided by the terms trauma recovery. to power just as negotiations in lawmakers heartily applaud. Just and sealed what most of us Pal- Trump is very fond of President of the Oslo Accords and pinned An estimated 3,000 abducted Yazidi Taba were a hair’s breadth from days ago the House of Represen- estinian watchers suspected all Abbas,” says Kushner. “He likes his hopes on the legal route to a women and children are still missing, with a positive conclusion as many of tatives voted to condemn the BDS along. Israel is either America’s him very much personally …” Palestinian state. The Palestinian fears that some might have been sold to Al those who were at the table have movement. The victims have been 51st state or America is Israel’s cli- Sure, he likes him so much that National Authority has cooperat- Qaida affi liates — women and girls to be attested. shamefully painted as the bad ent state, whatever the case they last week he authorised his am- ed with the Israeli government. It sex slaves, boys to be trained as fi ghters. Bush held his nose in 2003 to guys and those who dare to justifi - are indivisible. bassador to the UN to block a has played by international rules Others may have been forcibly relocated announce the roadmap which ably criticise Israel’s cruel policies So where does this glued-at- proposed Security Council reso- and in return has received mul- to cities in other countries or have become was nothing more than a sop to are slurred with an anti-Semitic the-hip US-Israeli relationship lution sponsored by Kuwait, In- tiple kicks in the teeth. He has fi - collateral damage in military offensives in bring Arab states on board the US label.Abbas has had enough. Un- leave the Palestinians? The answer donesia and South Africa aimed nally announced the Palestinian’s the region. Though thousands of Yazidis invasion of Iraq. Obama’s sympa- like Israel, he has abided by the is alone. Unfortunately there are at condemning Israel’s demo- withdrawal from agreements with have sought asylum in Europe and else- thies lay with the Palestinians but terms of the Oslo Accords and no intermediaries capable of in- lition of 10 Palestinian apart- Israel and as a precursor he has where, foreign governments are approving he lacked suffi cient courage to put pinned his hopes on the legal fl uencing or reining-in the Jewish ment buildings on Jerusalem’s reduced “security coordination” fewer and fewer asylum claims, making it his money where his mouth was. route to a Palestinian state. He has state. Those willing to do so would outskirts. The homes were be- with the Israeli military to “the re- more diffi cult for Yazidis to seek safety. The Trump administration, how- fi nally announced the Palestin- end up fi ghting windmills.Pales- ing built on Palestinian land and quired minimum”. But people are not without hope. We ever, has unashamedly opened ian’s withdrawal from agreements tinian President Mahmoud Abbas construction companies had COURTESY : GULF NEWS want justice, we want to rebuild, and we want to go home — but we cannot do so without support. As we approach the fi fth anniversary of the Yazidi genocide on Au- THE NEXT DEMOCRATIC WEAPON AGAINST TRUMP gust 3, I call on the international commu- BY MICHELLE GOLDBERG nity to undertake concrete actions to sup- Mike Levin, a freshman from a in recent days, “The constituent stitution does not delineate what port the repatriation of Yazidis. obert Mueller’s terse and swing district. By the end of the calls that I have been getting have a formal impeachment inquiry In my recent speech at the State Depart- Rsometimes halting congres- week, more than half the Demo- just increased, both in number is, and the House rules don’t de- ment’s Ministerial to Advance Religious sional testimony, conven- cratic caucus could be on board. and intensity, saying: ‘Enough is fi ne what a formal impeachment Freedom, I outlined the necessary steps tional wisdom quickly congealed: Mueller’s presentation may enough. It’s time for him to go.’” inquiry is,” said Jamie Raskin, a for the successful return and rehabilita- Mueller’s performance had made have been underwhelming, but he On Monday, she came out for be- Democrat on the Judiciary Com- tion of the community. These include re- Donald Trump’s impeachment allowed Democrats to put a bow ginning an impeachment inquiry. mittee who was a professor of solving Sinjar’s local governance issues, far less likely. “Robert S. Muel- around his fi ndings, clearing away Perhaps even more signifi cant constitutional law. investing in long-term sustainable devel- ler III’s disastrous testimony has some of the deliberate confusion than the growing number of calls “We all looked up after Robert opment initiatives, recruiting Yazidis into taken the wind out of the sails of created by Attorney General Wil- for impeachment is a lawsuit fi led Mueller’s testimony and realised Iraq’s offi cial security forces and prosecut- the Democratic impeachment liam Barr’s misleading summary. by the Judiciary Committee last that we are in an impeachment ing the Daesh for war crimes. These steps drive,” wrote Marc Thiessen in “The press focused on the perfor- Friday. The fi ling, demanding ac- inquiry. What is this if not an in- are not only crucial to helping us recover The Washington Post. CNN’s mance and the optics instead of cess to grand jury material from vestigation into high crimes and from the genocide but can also promote Chris Cillizza declared Mueller’s on the substance,” said Represen- the Mueller investigation, says misdemeanours? That’s obviously the rebuilding of trust among the different testimony “a bust — at least when tative Jerry Nadler, chairman of that the committee “is conduct- what we’re doing.” enforce a subpoena of Donald communities in Iraq, ultimately support- it came to generating momentum the Judiciary Committee. “Muel- ing an investigation to determine This may seem a little too cute McGahn, the former White House ing the process of peace and reconciliation for impeachment”. ler said we were attacked by the whether to recommend articles of — it allows Democrats to satisfy counsel. If the Democrats prevail, in the region. Less than a week later, it’s clear Russians, the Trump campaign impeachment”. In other words, their base’s demand that Trump Nadler argues it will clear the way While we estimate that 80,000 people that these hot takes were wrong. cooperated in many ways with the Judiciary Committee, which be held accountable without forc- for them to compel other former have returned to Sinjar, local confl icts At no point in Trump’s wretched that attack, they welcomed it, in would oversee any potential im- ing representatives from conser- White House staffers like Hope complicate survival. The Daesh’s collapse rule has impeachment appeared many ways they worked with it.” peachment, announced, with vative districts to take a poten- Hicks to testify. created a power vacuum, opening the more probable. Indeed, Demo- Democrats already knew all surprisingly little fanfare, that an tially perilous vote. “I just have a So Mueller’s recent testimony door for competing groups that occupy crats on the House Judiciary this, of course. But just as Trump’s impeachment inquiry is already feeling that you’ve either got to wasn’t the end of the investiga- some portion of Sinjar but do not have Committee, which would oversee recent racist outbursts forced re- underway. do it or not; you can’t have it both tion into Trump. It was only the complete control. The situation is further impeachment hearings, argue newed attention to his bigotry, For months now, there’s been ways,” said Titus. end of that investigation’s fi rst complicated because of disagreements that an inquiry into impeachment Mueller made Congress squarely an acrimonious intra-Democrat- But Nadler argues that the Ju- phase. Now Phase 2 begins. “The over governance and security in Sinjar. has already begun. An inexorable confront the president’s lawless- ic debate about whether House diciary Committee started its im- numbers will continue to grow,” People cannot return to their homeland confrontation between the House ness and disloyalty to the country Speaker Nancy Pelosi should call peachment inquiry into Richard Raskin said of Democrats joining when security risks remain high. They and the president has been set in he purports to lead. Once he tes- a vote to begin such an inquiry. Nixon before the full House voted the call for impeachment. “The must be given a voice. motion. tifi ed, congressional Democrats Now, however, the Judiciary Com- to approve it. Impeachment pro- hardest place to be in politics is As factions vie for strategic dominance, Before Mueller’s testimony last could no longer punt on the im- mittee is asserting that such a ceedings for federal judges have on the fence. And these members our community also suffers from a lack Wednesday, 93 House Democrats peachment question by saying vote isn’t required, and as Nadler begun in the Judiciary Committee who are coming off the fence and of infrastructure. Investment in sustain- had come out for an impeach- that they were waiting to hear points out, Pelosi has signed off without a House vote. calling me, tell me that they feel able development initiatives in the Yazidi ment inquiry. As I write this Mon- from him.And even if Mueller’s on the strategy. The House would Whatever you want to call it, a great sense of relief.”The fi rst homeland is vital. Funds are needed for re- day, the number is up to 109; appearance didn’t change many have to vote on impeachment it- Nadler is hoping that Mueller’s step in solving a crisis of demo- building homes and public facilities, such among them are Reps. Katherine minds, it galvanised some voters. self, but that would come only appearance is just the fi rst in a se- cratic governance is admitting as hospitals and schools. According to the Clark, vice-chairwoman of the Representative Dina Titus (Dem- after the Judiciary Committee has ries of high-profi le hearings. Soon you have one. United Nations Development Program’s House Democratic caucus, and ocrat, from Nevada), told me that done much of its work.“The Con- his committee will go to court to COURTESY : AL-JAZEERA Funding Facility for Stabilisation 2018 Q3 Report, more than 90 per cent of recovery projects in the region are underfunded, of diverse nature. For example, and the funding has decreased by 41 per TIGER ZINDA HAI, AND INCREASING IN NUMBER at sites where camera-trapping cent since 2017. The UNDP identifi es this ATANU BISWAS was not possible, scat samples of gap as the most signifi cant challenge to PROFESSOR, INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTI- annual growth rate. Certainly, the in the sample was estimated by We fi rst catch some fi sh, say 100, carnivores were collected to es- stabilising the area, and international sup- TUTE, KOLKATA Indian increase is instrumental in some statistical techniques. Their mark them by some colour, and timate the minimum number of port is crucial for meeting these needs. the rise of the number of wild ti- method provided an estimation of put them back in the pond. Then tigers through genetic analysis. International community can help the igers are increasingly burn- gers from 3,159 in 2010 to around 75 tigers, with a 95 per cent con- we catch some fi sh from the pond Tiger prey abundance, vegetation, Iraqi government locate missing people Ting bright in the Indian jun- 3,900 in 2018 in the world.I was in- fi dence interval of (46, 106). In- once again, and try to estimate the canopy cover, tree, shrub and herb or record their fate. Until the full scope of gles day by day. The Tiger Es- terested to understand the meth- terestingly, from the tiger census total number of fi sh from the num- composition, human disturbance, Daesh crimes are unearthed and justice is timation Report 2018, released by odology, underlying diffi culty data, the number of Sunderban ber of coloured fi sh in the second dung counts were also considered. delivered, people will continue to suffer. the Prime Minister on July 29, the and accuracy of tiger estimation. tigers was 70, 76 and 88 in 2010, sample.In their double sampling A boat along river channels was Finally, people deserve justice for the International Tiger Day, is a clear About 15 years back, some of my 2014 and 2018, respectively.Cer- method, counts of tiger tracks are used for sampling in the Sundar- atrocities committed against them. This indication to that. The Indian Gov- colleagues at the Indian Statisti- tainly, the estimation of tigers only correlated with actual tigers pho- bans. And, it's never easy to anal- year, Sweden called for support from Eu- ernment started Project Tiger in cal Institute, Kolkata, carried out through pugmarks has its limi- tographed in small areas to pro- yse such data by minimising the ropean allies to establish an international 1973 when studies indicated that a West Bengal government-com- tations. Although the method is vide region-wise estimates. For the error.Thus, the fourth cycle of the Iraq-based war crimes tribunal, modelled the number of Indian tigers was missioned and UNDP-sponsored statistically sound, the data might 2018 census, 3.81 lakh sq km of for- national tiger status assessment after the International Criminal Tribunals in rapidly declining. In 2010, with project to develop a software to be insuffi cient for effi cient estima- ests was surveyed for tiger sign and of 2018-19 is possibly the world's Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, to pros- only 3,200 tigers left in the entire process tiger census data. The ob- tion. And, fortunately, the technol- prey estimation, nearly 5.23 lakh largest effort invested in any wild- ecute Daesh fi ghters. The Syrian Account- world, the governments of 13 tiger jective was to estimate the tiger ogy has evolved remarkably. This km foot was surveyed, nearly 3.18 life survey till date. A team of over ability Project’s Report on the Yazidi Geno- range countries, including India, population of the Indian Sunder- time, a pilot study was conducted lakh habitat plots were sampled for 44,000 offi cials worked along with cide recommends an international effort gathered in St Petersburg and de- bans region using the pugmark by the Wildlife Institute of India, in vegetation and prey dung. 26,838 55 biologists.Of the overall esti- to preserve the physical evidence of Daesh veloped the Global Tiger Recovery data of the tigers. Pugmark gen- a large landscape (Satpure-Maikal camera-trap locations in 141 sites mated tiger population in India crimes, including archival documentation Plan, outlining how each country erally produces the marks of four > 20,000 sq km in MP) to combine covering 1.21 lakh sq km provided (2,967, with standard error range of Yazidi survivors and their stories and pro- could double their tiger population toes and the pad. Features like the simple, yet scientifi cally robust, 34,858,623 wildlife photographs. 2,603 to 3,346), 83 per cent (2,461) tection of forensic evidence such as mass by 2022. And India could achieve distances between the centroids of protocols for data collection by Of these, 76,651 were of tigers and were actually camera-trapped in- graves. Moreover, the international commu- that target four years ago!As per these toes and pad, areas of several fi eld forest staffs in combination 51,777 of leopards. It took nearly dividual tigers, clearly obtained nity can help the Iraqi government locate the the 2018 tiger estimation fi gures, triangles formed by joining them, with rigorous statistically sound six lakh mandays’ effort.A GIS- by advanced technology; 87 per still missing people or record their fate. Until India is now home to 77 per cent ratios of axes and aspect ratios are methods like camera-trap based based app called M-StrIPES (Mon- cent (2,591) were accounted for the full scope of Daesh crimes are unearthed of world's tigers, a whopping per- different for different tigers, and capture-mark-recapture mod- itoring System for Tigers-Intensive by camera-trap based capture- and justice is delivered, our people will con- centage indeed. There were 1,411 might also differ depending on the els implemented simultaneously Protection and Ecological Status) mark-recapture, a mix of tech- tinue to suffer.The international community tigers in 2006, which increased to soil type. The number of tigers in by trained wildlife biologists.A was used to strengthen patrolling. nology and traditional statistical fought to defeat the Daesh — but the job is 1,706 in 2010; 2,226 in 2014, and Sunderbans region for 2004 was Capture-Recapture method can That’s a gigantic exercise, blended methods and the remaining 13 not done. Abandoning us to a war-torn land 2967 in 2018 — with a 33 per cent estimated by using statistical clus- be better illustrated by a simple with advanced technology. Un- per cent were estimated through and uncertain future allows the seeds of fur- growth in the fourth cycle of the tering approach of the pugmarks, example. Suppose we want to esti- derstandably, the collected data is covariate-based models. ther violence to take root. Tiger Census, and a six per cent where the number of tigers missed mate the number of fi sh in a pond. also huge, and, more importantly, IANS COURTESY : GULF NEWS

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WORLD SNIPPETS Modi arrives in Brasilia for BRICS Pakistan to reopen summit, to meet Putin, Xi closed Hindu temples UK election: Labour promises Islamabad, Nov 13 (IANS) Considering the long- Brasilia, Nov 13 (IANS) Indian Africa. A large business delega- GDP and 17 percent of world standing demand of Pakistan’s Hindu community, to outspend Tories on NHS Prime Minister Narendra Modi tion from India is also attend- trade. the Imran Khan government has decided to reopen on Wednesday arrived in the ing the BRICS business forum “I would be taking part in the closed Hindu temples and also renovate them. London, Nov 13 (IANS) UK’s Labour Party on Wednesday Brazilian capital for the 11th there. this year’s BRICS Summit being According to a report in ‘Radio Pakistan’, the rul- vowed to spend more on the National Health Service (NHS) BRICS summit. On November 14, the leaders held in Brazil on November 13 ing Pakistan Tehreek-E-Insaf’s spokesperson Ah- in England than the Conservative Party if it wins the upcom- On Wednesday, he is sched- would attend a restricted ses- and 14. The Summit’s theme is mad Jawad gave this information while releasing ing general election. uled to hold talks with the sion, which would be a closed ‘Economic growth for an inno- the details of 10 achievements of the government. The health service budget would rise to £155 bn by 2023-24 presidents of Russia, Brazil and door session. vative future.’ I look forward to There has been a long-standing demand from -- £6bn more than the Conservatives promised the front-line China - Vladimir Putin, Jair Later, Modi would attend the holding discussions with BRICS the Hindu community in the country to reopen budget would reach by that stage when it set out its 5-year Messias Bolsonaro, and Xi Jin- BRICS plenary where the lead- leaders on greater cooperation these temples. Agreeing with the demand, the gov- plan last year, the BBC reported. ping, respectively. ers will discuss intra-BRICS in a wide range of areas,” Modi ernment has decided to open these temples, Jawad Labour said the money would “boost mental health ser- He will also attend the BRICS cooperation for economic de- said on Tuesday ahead of his said in a statement. vices”. Labour has said it would aim to shift Britain towards a Business Forum Closing Cere- velopment of their societies, he departure. The 10 achievements mentioned by Jawad in the 32-hour working-week. The party said it would be phased in mony, attend a cultural presen- added. MoUs would be signed He said on the sidelines of statement include a decline in the deficit of Paki- over 10 years so would not have impact on the NHS budget, tation and a welcome dinner between the trade and invest- the BRICS Summit, he would be stan International Airlines and 11 new electricity as claimed by the Tories. The average UK full-time working hosted by the Brazilian presi- ment agencies, after which a addressing the BRICS Business production projects. week is 42.5 hours as compared to an EU average of 41.2, ac- dent. BRICS joint declaration would Forum and interacting with The statement also claimed that textile exports cording to statistics body Eurostat. The theme of the 11th BRICS also be issued. BRICS Business Council as well in the country witnessed an increase of 20 per summit is “Economic Growth The five major emerging as the New Development Bank. cent. Construction of a modern hospital has been for an Innovative Future”. economies comprise 42 per- “Improving economic linkages started in Gwadar with the help of China and a 7 killed, several injured in The BRICS comprises Brazil, cent of the world’s population, augurs well for the BRICS na- scheme was also initiated to provide employment Russia, India, China and South having 23 percent of the global tions,” he said. to the youth. Kabul car bomb explosion

Kabul, Nov 13 (IANS) At least seven people were killed and seven others injured on Wednesday in a car bomb attack in a UN to continue talks with Iraqi Bolivian senator Jeanine Anez northeast neighbourhood of the Afghan capital, where mili- parties to achieve reform tary and civilian airports and a foreign military base are lo- declares herself president cated, said sources. Baghdad, Nov 12 (IANS) Jeanine mitted that “the crisis of confidence The explosion occurred at around 7.25 am local time in the Hennis-Plasschaert, special represen- between the citizens and the govern- La Paz, Nov 13 (IANS) there because his life “sneakiest, most nefari- northeast of the Afghan capital, where a government com- tative of the UN secretary-general for ment ... requires a lot of hard work” to Bolivian Opposition was in danger. He re- ous coup in history”. plex is also located, Efe news quoted Afghan Interior Ministry Iraq, said on Tuesday that the United solve. Senator Jeanine Anez signed on Sunday after Morales, a former coca spokesperson Nasrat Rahimi as saying in a statement. Nations will continue to reach out to She said the UN mission in Iraq had has declared herself the weeks of protests over farmer, was first elected The spokesman later told EFE that the attack was conduct- all Iraqi parties to achieve the reform issued a document earlier this month interim president of the a disputed presidential in 2006, the country’s ed by a suicide bomber, who used a van loaded with explo- demanded by protesters. to outline some of the steps and mea- South American country election result. He has first leader from the in- sives and blew up the vehicle on the main street. “The United Nations continues sures needed to implement the legiti- following Evo Morales’ said he was forced to digenous community. “Based on initial information, seven civilians were killed to reach out to all parties, including mate demands of the protesters. resignation. stand down but did so He won plaudits for and seven others were injured in this explosion,” said Rahimi, demonstrators, syndicates and the The UN envoy said she would pres- Lawmakers from Mo- willingly “so there would fighting poverty and im- adding that the toll could rise. Iraqi government, to achieve the real ent to the Iraqi parliament the results rales’ party boycotted be no more bloodshed”. proving Bolivia’s econo- The police have been investigating the attack, which has reform that people are demanding,” of her meetings with all factions of the the session, meaning Anez took temporary my but drew controversy not been claimed by any insurgent group so far. Hennis-Plasschaert said at a news Iraqi society in order to discuss their there was no quorum control of the Senate by defying constitutional Kabul has witnessed a large number of major attacks, conference in the capital Baghdad proposals to get out of the current cri- for the appointment, on Tuesday, putting limits to run for a fourth which have been claimed by the Islamic State and the Taliban after his meeting with heads of syndi- sis in Iraq. the BBC reported on her next in line for the term in October’s elec- extremist groups. cates and unions of different local ac- Mass demonstrations have con- Wednesday. presidency. The former tion. The last one, claimed by the Taliban, occurred less than a tivities, Xinhua news agency reported. tinued in Baghdad and other cities in But Anez said she was deputy Senate leader Pressure had been month ago and left more than 20 dead and 38 wounded. “Our role is to help, advise and sup- central and southern Iraq since early next in line under the assumed the position growing on him since port achieving a change,” she told re- October, demanding comprehensive constitution and vowed following a series of res- his narrow victory in last porters. reform, accountability for corruption, to hold elections soon. ignations. month’s vote. Nazarbayev calls for meeting Hennis-Plasschaert, also head of improvement of public services and Morales condemned While lawmakers from The result was called the UN Assistant Mission for Iraq, ad- job opportunities. the announcement, Morales’ Movement for into question by the Or- between Putin, Zelensky describing Anez as “a Socialism party were not ganization of American coup-mongering right- present at the legislative States, a regional body, Nur-Sultan, Nov 12 (IANS) Former Kazakh President wing senator”. session, Anez declared which had found “clear Nursultan Nazarbayev called on Tuesday for a face-to-face Erdogan to meet Trump at The former president herself as interim leader. manipulation” and meeting between Russia President Vladimir Putin and his has fled to Mexico, say- Taking to Twitter, Mo- called for the result to be Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, to discuss a White House on Wednesday ing he asked for asylum rales condemned the annulled. settlement to the conflict in eastern Ukraine, and proposed Kazakhstan as a neutral venue. Washington/Ankara, Nov 13 Turkey for F-35 jet fighter jets. It “I believe that a meeting between the Russian and Ukraini- (IANS) Turkish President Recep has also threatened to impose sanc- Israel will continue to hit Islamic an presidents is needed,” Nazarbayev, who holds the title of Tayyip Erdogan will meet his US tions on Turkey over the Russian leader of the Kazakh nation, said when speaking at the Astana counterpart Donald Trump at the defence purchase. jihad: Netanyahu Club political forum in the Kazakh capital, Efe news reported. White House on Wednesday. However, Erdogan’s latest visit The former head of state indicated that he had already met The development comes only a to the White House might serve to Jerusalem, Nov 13 He said the fighting no mercy” if rocket fire with Zelenski and had spoken with Putin “on how to solve month after Trump, wrote a let- smooth over differences and pro- (IANS) Israel’s Prime between Israel and Ga- towards Israel continues. this problem (the conflict in eastern Ukraine).” ter to Erdogan, calling him a “fool” vide a boost to bilateral trade rela- Minister Benjamin Ne- za’s Islamic Jihad group Netanyahu addressed the “We have talked about a face-to-face meeting. I think it is over Turkey’s military offensive tions. tanyahu said on Wednes- “could take time”, Xin- citizens of Israel and said a good time. Zelensky has received great support from his in Syria. Erdogan’s visit to the US Ahead of Erdogan’s visit, Trump day that Israel’s army will hua reported. the escalation “could people and express this will and resolve the issue,” he said. comes amid tense relations be- has indicated that the US is still countinue to strike Ga- Netanyahu said that take time” and asked Nazarbayev stressed that the heart of the issue lies in how tween the two NATO allies, Arab considering levying sanctions on za’s Islamic Jihad group al-Atta “was responsible them to stay vigilant. to choose the leaders of the eastern regions in Ukraine and in News reported. Turkey over its purchase of the if rocket fire towards Is- for most of the terror at- The killing of al-Atta the withdrawal of all armed groups. The tensions between US and S-400. Trump has also offered Erdo- rael continues. tacks emanating from triggered a spate of vio- “I already have Zelensky’s consent for a face-to-face meet- Turkey escalated after Ankara gan a $100 billion trade deal. “We are continuing to the Gaza Strip in the last lence, including at least ing, and I have informed the President of Russia about it. We launched a military offensive in Erdogan has said that he will hit Islamic Jihad after year and he was plan- 250 rockets fired at cen- will see. If a neutral place is required, I proposed Kazakhstan,” northeast Syria against Washing- broadly discuss the current situa- eliminating its senior ning to carry out more tral and southern Israel he said. Zelensky already said on October 10 that, although ton-backed Kurdish forces, who are tion in Syria with Trump. commander,” Netanyahu attacks in the very next and dozens of Israeli air- there are currently no plans for a meeting with Putin, a face- fighting against the terror group Is- “Despite the fog in our relations, said during a special cab- days”. strikes in Gaza. to-face meeting is necessary “if we want to end the war”, and lamic State. we are in agreement with Mr Trump inet meeting, referring He said that Israel is At least 16 Palestinians he was also open to a meeting with his Russian counterpart to Washington is also angered over to improve our relations,” Erdogan to Tuesday’s predawn not interested in further have been killed and 50 negotiate a new exchange of prisoners. Ankara’s purchase of the Russian said. “Despite the fog in our rela- strikes that killed Baha escalation but warned more were wounded in S-400 missile defence system. The tions, we are in agreement with Mr Abu al-Atta, a senior Pal- the Islamic Jihad that the Gaza since Tuesday, ac- US has halted the delivery of sup- Trump to improve our relations,” estinian Islamic Jihad Israeli army “will con- cording to Gaza’s health Turkey, Russia hold 5th joint port equipment and supplies to Erdogan said. commander and his wife. tinue to strike them with ministry figures. patrol in northern Syria Trump, Macron talk on Ankara, Nov 12 (IANS) Turkish and Russian troops on Pak to amend Army Act to let Tuesday carried out their fifth joint patrol in northern Syria in Syria, Iran over phone the Ayn al-Arab region, as part of a deal over the withdrawal Jadhav appeal in civilian court of Syrian Kurdish militia from Turkey’s border. Washington, Nov 13 (IANS) US President Donald “The fifth Turkish-Russian joint land patrol conducted in Islamabad, Nov 13 (IANS) such individuals or groups stani sub jail, after Islamabad Trump and his French counterpart Emmanuel Ma- the Ayn al-Arab region east of the Euphrates is continuing Pakistan is amending its Army from filing an appeal or seek- granted him consular access cron discussed Syria, Iran and trade in a phone call, with due care and diligence for the safety of both civilians and Act to allow Indian national ing justice from a civilian in line with the ICJ direction. the White House said on Tuesday. In the phone call on our military personnel despite provocation by terrorists,” Kulbhushan Jadhav the right court. India has said it will keep Monday, the two leaders committed to continuing co- said a statement by the Turkish defence ministry, reports Xi- to file an appeal in a civilian However, a special amend- trying to see that the ICJ ordination on Syria, voiced concern over Iran’s steps nhua news agency. court, according to Pakistan’s ment is being carried out in judgement which was in In- to advance its nuclear program and also expressed The statement referred to the protesters who threw stones ARY News. the Army Act for the Indian dia’s favour, is fully imple- anticipation for attending the North Atlantic Treaty at Russian and Turkish armoured vehicles as they passed Quoting well-placed sourc- national, it said. mented. Organization (NATO) Leaders Meeting in London next through Kurdish areas in northeastern Syria. es, the news site reported that On July 17, the ICJ ordered Pakistan has not allowed month, according to the statement, Xinhua reported. The joint patrols are part of a memorandum between An- the move is being undertaken Pakistan to grant consular ac- a second consular meeting Trump has been repeatedly pushing for European kara and Moscow to remove fighters of the Kurdish People’s by Pakistan “in compliance cess to Jadhav and also con- with Jadhav. Jadhav was sen- countries to increase defence spending, irritating Eu- Protection Units (YPG) 30 km from the Turkish border. with the International Court tinued stay on his execution, tenced to death by a Pakistani ropean leaders including Macron. Ankara sees the YPG as the Syrian offshoot of the out- of Justice’s condition” to al- as well as “effective” review of military court on charges of Macron said in a recent interview that the alliance lawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). On October 9, Turkey low Kulbhushan to file an ap- the death sentence. espionage and terrorism in was experiencing “brain death” because of a lack of launched a military incursion into northern Syria in a bid to peal in a civilian court. On September 2, Paki- April 2017. India approached strategic coordination and leadership from the US. Ac- drive Kurdish fighters out of the border region, following the Kulbhushan’s case is being stan allowed Indian Charge the ICJ against the death sen- cording to the White House, Trump will discuss bur- pullout of US troops. tried in the Military courts d’Affaires Gaurav Ahluwa- tence and also denial of con- den-sharing and security issues with NATO Secretary and the Army Act law forbids lia to meet Jadhav at a Paki- sular access to him. General Jens Stoltenberg this week in Washington. Indian Horizon Thursday - November 14, 2019 Business 9 Airtel, Vodafone Idea mulling review of SC’s AGR order: Sources

New Delhi, Nov 13 (IANS) Airtel licensees like PGCIL, RailTel, In- The deadline for paying the AGR and Vodafone Idea are discussing ternet Service Providers, Prasar amount is Rs 83,000 crore is Janu- with their legal teams on filing pe- Bharti, satellite communications ary 24, including Rs 43,000 crore titions for reviewing the Supreme providers and cable operators will for Airtel and Rs 40,000 crore for Court’s recent order on adjusted all come under the AGR definition Vodafone Idea. gross revenue (AGR) after the De- backed by the Supreme Court and, This proposed decision of the partment of Telecom (DOT) told as such, their dues too need to be telcos to approach the apex court them to approach the court in this calculated. But the details are be- again may have come after the regard. ing studied for such companies DoT and the Secretaries panel Any review petition is required to who are not telecom service pro- are learnt to have conveyed to the be filed by November 24 as there is viders.Any review petition is re- companies that the court order is a time limit of a month to file for quired to be filed by November 24 best reviewed by a review petition reviewing a court order. as there is a time limit of a month and the government is unlikely to A binding decision of the Su- to file for reviewing a court order. intervene on behalf of the private preme Court or High Court can be A binding decision of the Su- sector. reviewed through a review petition preme Court or High Court can be DoT is also mindful of the 2012 on the ground of apparent error. reviewed through a review petition apex court verdict on the spec- Under the Supreme Court Rules, on the ground of apparent error. trum allocation procedure on first- 1966, such a petition needs to be Under the Supreme Court Rules, come-first-served basis which was filed within 30 days from the date 1966, such a petition needs to be nullified by the Supreme Court of judgement or order. filed within 30 days from the date which cancelled 122 2G licenees Both the telecom companies in of judgement or order. awarded by the previous UPA gov- question did not respond to que- Both the telecom companies in ernment. ries on the issue sent by IANS. question did not respond to que- Declaring the allocation of 2G According to informed sources, amount is Rs 83,000 crore is Janu- cos through levy reductions in li- determine next steps, including ries on the issue sent by IANS. spectrum by the Congress-led however, both companies are dis- ary 24, including Rs 43,000 crore cence fee and the USO Fund. “a review application if there are According to informed sources, United Progressive Alliance (UPA) cussing with their legal teams on for Airtel and Rs 40,000 crore for Vodafone Idea had earlier said technical or procedural grounds however, both companies are dis- government “illegal” and an ex- the grounds for reviewing the court Vodafone Idea. that it would go for a review peti- for doing so”. cussing with their legal teams on ample of the arbitrary exercise of order. A government Secretaries’ panel tion, noting that it will study the According to Telecom Minis- the grounds for reviewing the court power, the Supreme Court had The deadline for paying the AGR is looking at providing relief to tel- ruling along with legal advisers to try officials, other companies and order. cancelled all 122 telecom licenses. Rupee tumbles 63 paise, falls to Sun TV plunges 10%, Rs 72 per dollar Nifty media index

Mumbai, Nov 13 (IANS) that Consumer Price Inflation tening of core sector growth down 3% The domestic currency ended (CPI) would be higher than the and declining investment in Mumbai, Nov 13 (IANS) Sun TV macroeconomic growth clouds the sharply lower on Wednesday previous month. The CPI data construction and infrastruc- on Wednesday plunged over 10 per ad growth outlook in the near term over weak macro numbers released after market hours ture. cent during the early trade after while content spend is expected to and soft capital market senti- showed that retail inflation “Based on our composite it reported a fall in advertisement remain elevated. ments. The rupee slipped to jumped above RBI’s medium leading indicator that sug- revenues. Nifty media index fell by “Subscription revenues, however, its lowest in two months at Rs term target of 4 per cent to 4.2 gests the GDP growth to slow 3 per cent. witnessed robust 16.9% YoY growth 72.09 a dollar from its previous per cent in October. The retail down further from 5.0 per cent At 11.24 a.m., Sun TV on the NSE, aided by strong monetisation from close of Rs 71.46. growth of 4.6 per cent in the inflation was 3.99 per cent in in Q1 of FY20 to 4.2 per cent was down 47.75 points or 9.02 per NTO implementation, “ ICICI Secu- The rupee surpassed the year-ago period. The contrac- September. on account of low automobile cent at Rs 481.40 a share. rities said. crucial level after a series of tion was steeper than street The State Bank of India had sales, deceleration in air traffic Owing to a weak economic en- Profit after Tax (PAT) at Rs 366.5 macro-data indicated weak estimates and was the sharp- said earlier that the second movements, flattening of core vironment, Sun TV’s Q2 advertise- crore was higher, aided by lower tax economic outlook. The Index est since the new series began quarter GDP growth may fur- sector growth and declining ment revenues fell by 1.5 per cent provisioning as it transitioned to a of Industrial Production (IIP) in 2011. ther slip to 4.2 per cent on low investment in construction YoY to Rs 337 crore. new tax regime while consequent declined 4.3 per cent in Sep- Analysts said that the rupee automobile sales, deceleration and infrastructure,” the bank ICICI Securities in its outlook on adjustment was made for H1FY20 tember 2019 compared to a tumbled over expectations in air traffic movements, flat- had said in a report. the company said that the weak during Q2FY20. MedPlus eyes DDoS attacks rose by a third in Rs 2,800 crore turnover Q3 2019: Kaspersky during FY20 New Delhi, Nov 13 (IANS) In the Hyderabad, Nov 13 (IANS) share in organized pharmacy third quarter of 2019, the number of India’s leading pharmacy Med- retail, MedPlus currently has Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Plus on Wednesday said it ex- 1,700 stores across seven states attacks rose by a third compared to pects over 24 per cent growth and 300 cities. the previous quarter and Q3 2018, in revenues to close 2019-20 He was talking to reporters shows data from cybersecurity firm with Rs 2,800 crore turnover. on the sidelines of an event to Kaspersky. The company, which had announce an exclusive distri- This growth was primarily due to a clocked Rs 2,250 crore rev- bution partnership with Jamie- spike in malicious activity in Septem- enues during 2018-19, eyes ro- son Wellness Inc., Canada’s ber. In fact, 53 per cent of the quar- tacks dropped to 28 per cent of all DDoS Protection team. frastructure that enables a company’s bust growth during the current leading manufacturer and ter’s DDoS attacks were carried out in DDoS attacks, from 50 per cent in Q2, “Our survey of IT decision makers website. financial year. marketer of high-quality natu- that month, said the study. and grew by only seven percentage revealed that DDoS attacks are the The DDoS attack will send mul- Madhukar Gangadi, ral health products.Gangadi, The rise is caused by a large num- points in the Q3 2018 results. second most expensive type of cyber tiple requests to the attacked web re- Chief Executive Officer, MedP- who is the promoter of MedP- ber of rather simple types of attack. “We have not seen an explosive in- incidents that led to data breaches source with the aim of exceeding the lus Health Services Pvt Ltd, told lus, has 77 per cent stake in the Nonetheless, in previous quarters of crease in the number of smart attacks for SMBs (small and medium-sized website’s capacity to handle multiple reporters here that the compa- company while Wipro Chair- this year, the total growth stemmed compared with the previous quarter businesses), with the average cost requests and prevent it from func- ny also expects to end the year man Azim Premji’s Premji In- from a surge in the number of smart and the average length of attack re- of a breach estimated at $138,000,” tioning correctly. To prevent DDoS with a net profit of Rs 50 crore. vest and others have 13 per attacks, focusing on the application mains the same. However, this still Kiselev said. attacks, organisations need to ensure The second largest pharmacy cent and 10 per cent stakes re- layer -- usually carried out by skilled causes serious damage to business,” DDoS attacks take advantage of the that web and IT resources can handle chain in India is also planning spectively. cybercriminals. said Alexey Kiselev, Business Devel- specific capacity limits that apply to high traffic and implement profes- to come up with an Initial Pub- He said MedPlus would be In Q3 2019, the share of smart at- opment Manager on the Kaspersky any network resources, such as the in- sional solutions, Kaspersky said. lic Offer (IPO). He plans to raise expanding its network of stores Rs 700 crore through the IPO rapidly by taking the total num- for the company’s expansion. ber to 3,100 by 2023. He said Gangadi, who is the promot- barring Jammu and Kashmir, ‘Edelweiss profitability shrinks, asset er of MedPlus, has 77 per cent parts of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar stake in the company while and North East, it would have Wipro Chairman Azim Premji’s presence across the country. Premji Invest and others have MedPlus will sell Jamieson quality worsens’ 13 per cent and 10 per cent brand products through its stakes respectively. pharmacies as well as other of- Mumbai, Nov 13 (IANS) Edelweiss billion as consolidation in the loan assets (NPA) deteriorated sequen- due to the compression in NIMs and He said MedPlus would be fline and online retailers. Financial Services has been witness- book continued amid tight liquidity tially to 2.7 per cent from 2.3 per cent a sharp rise in provisions,” Emkay expanding its network of stores Mark Hornick, President and ing slow growth and pressure on and headwinds in the developer fi- in Q1 FY20, while net NPA inched up said. rapidly by taking the total num- CEO of Jamieson Wellness said margins, however, current quarter nance segment. to 1.7 per cent from 1.2 per cent last “The stock trades at 1.2x FY21E ber to 3,100 by 2023. He said that the 100-year-old com- performance raises concerns over Edelweiss Financial Services’ total quarter. BV. We currently have a Hold rating barring Jammu and Kashmir, pany manufactures a range of asset quality as well, Emkay Global revenues were down 10.1 per cent “Operating profit was down 20.8 on the stock with a target price of Rs parts of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar vitamins, minerals and other said on Wednesday. year-on-year and 6.8 per cent quar- per cent y-o-y and 6 per cent q-o-q 135,” Emkay said. and North East, it would have natural health supplements. Emkay reasoned that the compa- ter-on-quarter to Rs 24.1 billion dur- to Rs 13.1 billion. PAT, post adjust- Shares of Edelweiss Financial Ser- presence across the country. Its products are sold in over 40 ny’s loan book dipped year-on-year ing the September quarter. ing for minority interest, declined by vices on the BSE were trading at Rs With 28 per cent market countries. as well as sequential basis to Rs 411 Besides, its gross non-performing 81.2 per cent y-o-y to Rs 512 million 122.10 apiece. Indian Horizon Thursday - November 14, 2019 Business 10 India’s Oct retail infla- Sensex ends 229 pts lower after tion spikes to 4.62% drastic fall in IIP Mumbai, Nov 13 (IANS) Weak slowdown in earnings growth is industrial data resulted in broad- hurting investor sentiments,” said based selling in the markets on Vinod Nair, Head of Research, Wednesday. With none of the sec- Geojit Financial Services. toral indices managing to finish in The Sensex fell by 229.02 points, the green, the benchmark Sensex or 0.57 per cent, to 40,116.06 after closed 229 points lower. flip-flopping between the high of The Index of Industrial Produc- 40,447.17 and a low of 40,061.23. tion (IIP) has declined 4.3 per cent The broader Nifty settled at in September 2019, compared to a 11,840.45, lower by 73 points. New Delhi, Nov 13 (IANS) A sub- Office (NSO), the Consumer Food growth of 4.6 per cent in the year- Sun TV came under heavy sell- stantial rise in food prices lifted Price Index (CFPI) inflated to 7.89 ago period. The contraction was ing pressure after it reported a India’s October retail inflation to per cent during the month under re- steeper than street estimates and significant drop in its quarterly 4.62 per cent from 3.99 per cent in view from an expansion of 5.11 per was the sharpest since the new se- advertising revenue. Its shares fell September, official data showed on cent in September 2019 and (-)0.86 ries began in 2011. over 11 per cent on the NSE. Also, Wednesday. per cent rise reported for the corre- Besides, investors remained at closely when adjusting lending encing investors to stay cautious the Nifty media index settled 4.5 Similarly, on a year-on-year (YoY) sponding period of last year. cautious ahead of the Consumer rates. “Post the recent rally, the ahead of heavy economic data per cent lower. Dish TV fell over 10 basis, the Consumer Price Index Significantly, the data indicat- Price Index (CPI) data, a key in- gap between valuation and earn- being released this week. Weak per cent while Zee Ltd close nearly (CPI) in October 2019 was higher ed that retail inflation level has flation data point that RBI looks ings growth has enlarged influ- economic data and concerns over 5 per cent lower. than the corresponding period of last breached the medium-term target year when retail inflation stood at for consumer price index (CPI) in- 3.38 per cent. According to the data flation of 4 per cent. The target is set furnished by the National Statistical within a band of +/- 2 per cent. Ousted CG Power CFO claims US stocks end mostly ‘loopholes’ in Vaish report

New Delhi, Nov 13 (IANS) In a 30, he was shown 150-160 pre- as the CFO. He further said that Sudhir Mathur, the current higher after Trump’s scathing rebuttal to the Vaish re- recorded or pre-typed questions there was no reason to believe Executive Director, also had sev- port which suggested a fraud by and answers on a screen out of that the letter was not signed eral discussions with Yes Bank former CG Power and Industrial the previous two discussions, duly and properly at the relevant regarding the matter, Venkatesh speech Solutions executives, including and some questions and an- time. He observed that he used wrote. Venkatesh was sacked New York, Nov 13 (IANS) US per cent, the Dow Jones Industrial its erstwhile Chairman Gautam swers were “either engineered” to sign cheques to Yes Bank as a from the company’s board on stocks closed mostly higher after US Average has increased over 50 per Thapar, V.R. Venkatesh, the ex- or recorded in a “twisted or con- joint authorised signatory, in full August 31 over his alleged role in President Donald Trump’s speech cent and the Nasdaq Composite has CFO of the company who was voluted” manner. knowlecdge of CEO Neelkant. the financial misrepresentation on the country’s economy and stock been up 60 per cent. also implicated in the alleged With regard to some ques- The former executive said that and siphoning of money, a day market. “If we had a Federal Reserve that fraud, has said that the report tions, answers recorded were CG Power and AHL (Avantha after Thapar was removed over The Dow Jones Industrial Aver- worked with us, you could have was “biased and concocted” and different from those actually giv- Holdings) were part of the same alleged fraud. age on Tuesday was unchanged at added another 25 per cent to each did not reflect several proceed- en by Venkatesh, he wrote, say- group, and both entities were The company in August dis- close to 27,691.49. The S&P 500 in- of those numbers, I guarantee you ings of the investigation. ing they were recorded in a way funded by Yes Bank. closed the findings of its risk and creased 4.83 points, or 0.16 per cent, that,” Trump said. As per official sources, in a de- to remove the name or role of The bank lent money in 2015, audit committee (RAC), which to 3,091.84. The Nasdaq Composite About half of the 30 blue-chip tailed submission to the Securi- the erstwhile MD and CEO K.N. 2016 and 2017, in the absence revealed that the firm and the Index increased 21.81 points, or 0.26 stocks in the Dow traded higher with ties and Exchange Board of India Neelkant. of which CG Power would have group together could have un- per cent, to 8,486.09, Xinhua re- shares of Walt Disney and Merck (Sebi) and the Ministry of Cor- Neelkant, however, resigned shut, he said. The letter said der-reported liabilities to the ex- ported. Trump on Tuesday criticised & Co up 1.35 per cent and 1.01 per porate Affairs (MCA), Venkatesh soon after being sent on leave that given the adverse circum- tent of over Rs 3,600 crore in the Federal Reserve’s monetary policies, cent, respectively, the top two gain- has claimed that the report by since the instances of financial stances, Venkatesh signing the financial years 2017 and 2018. saying the central bank’s hesitation ers. law firm Vaish Associates dated irregularities came to light. Ven- cheques in favour of Yes Bank, As per the company, they also in lowering the interest rates capped Seven of the 11 primary S&P 500 August 5, 2019, was “already katesh’s letter suggests that such in furtherance of a transac- understated the loans advanced gains in US economy and stock mar- sectors traded higher with the health made even before” his statement changes were made either by tion undertaken before he had to related and unrelated parties ket. He noted that since his election, sector up 0.58 per cent, leading the was slated to be taken on July 30. the investigating team itself or joined the company, was noth- to the tune of about Rs 7,600 the S&P 500 has risen more than 45 gainers. He was interviewed on May 24 on the behest of Ravi Rajagopal, ing wrong, adding that no actual crore during the two financial and July 29 by a partner of Vaish Head of Legal, Compliance, Gov- loss occurred to the company as years. Thapar, Venkatesh and Associates, which was not at all ernance and Risk for CG Power. the bank could not encash the other CG Power executives Mad- mentioned in the law firm’s in- Interestingly, the Vaish re- cheques. hav Acharya and B. Hariharan Fuel prices stable after terim investigation report on the port, which is the basis for the He said that Yes Bank lent Rs were eventually barred from the alleged fraud at CG Power. management rejig at CG Power, 500 crore in 2016, Rs 220 crore in stock markets and Thapar was And on July 30, the recorded is only interim in nature and December 2017 and unsecured also summoned by the MCA. 5 days spike date of interrogation, “hardly” comes with several disclaimers, working capital facility of Rs 500 Earlier this month, the Min- any questions were asked, said including the fact that docu- crore in December 2017. istry of Corporate Affairs also New Delhi, Nov 13 (IANS) Fuel pric- Indian Oil website, petrol prices in Venkatesh’s letter seen by IANS. ments used for framing charges He mentioned in the letter that ordered an investigation by the es remained flat on Wednesday, after Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai and Chennai The market regulator and the were not verified for its truthfull- the matter was discussed prior to Serious Fraud Investigation Of- a continuous rise for five consecutive remained unchanged at Rs 73.30, Rs MCA are yet to take any action ness and accuracy. May 2019 and also in the board fice (SFIO) into the matter. days. Crude oil prices also remained 76.00, Rs 78.97 and Rs 76.18 per litre, on the submissions made by the Further, replying on the alle- minutes of May 22, 2019, and the In another development, CG stabilised on soft demand in the inter- respectively. Whereas, diesel prices in former Chief Financial Officer gation of unauthorised signed company did not express any Power said after its board meet national market. On Tuesday, petrol the four metros have also been main- (CFO) of CG Power. According cheques in favour of Yes Bank shock over the alleged fraud of on Thursday that it has to re- prices witnessed a whopping rise in tained at Rs 65.79, Rs 68.20, Rs 69.01 to Venkatesh, the investigating in pursuance of a comfort let- re-issuance of an unauthorised cover Rs 3,018.62 crore from its four cities of the country. In Delhi and and Rs 69.54 per litre, respectively. law firm was selective in record- ter which allegedly came to the cheque of Rs 210 crore, and rath- “promoter affiliated” companies Mumbai the petrol price was increased Brent crude's January delivery contract ing the responses, that too under CG Power board’s knowledge er stated that the cheques were and “connected parties”, imply- by 10 paise per litre, while in Chennai on the international futures market In- the influence of “certain invis- in April 2019, Venkatesh said issued as security measures and ing to the companies related to and Kolkata by nine paise per litre. tercontinental Exchange was trading at ible forces” and vested interests. that the concerned comfort let- talked about preparing a legal Thapar. Industry sources, how- However, diesel prices were slashed $61.91 per barrel, slipped by 0.24 per Venkatesh also alleged that ter was dated November 4, 2015 defence for the company and its ever, said that Thapar would by six paise per litre. According to the cent on Wednesday. during the questioning on July before he had joined CG Power director. contest CG Power’s claims. IITF 2019 TO COMMENCE FROM TOMORROW Ø Initial Five days for Business Visitors the ‘Focus Country’ ‘Republic of Ko- opment, Ministry of Social Justice, of the trade and industry to propel rea’. Significantly, the Fair has regis- Ministry of Minority Affairs, Minis- the socio- economic growth of the Ø Theme : ‘Ease of Doing Business’ tered the foreign participation Aus- try of Agriculture, KVIC, CSIR, Na- country, with a thrust on CSR activi- Ø Partner Country : Islamic Republic of Afghanistan tralia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bhutan, tional Jute Board, Ministry of Health ties, empowerment of communities, Ø Focus Country: Republic of Korea China, Egypt, Ethopia, Hong Kong, & Family Welfare and TRIFED are inclusive socio-economic growth, Indonesia, Iran, Myanmar, Nepal, in Hall 7 and adjacent Hangers in environment protection, promotion Ø Focus States: Bihar & Jharkhand Qutar, Tibet, Thailand, Tunisia, Tai- the open area. 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As in the past, the the most awaited B2B and B2C its industrialization, and its emer- test marketing and promotion of is making new strides in expansion phones, food products, leather and State Day celebrations are among event of the India Trade Promotion gence as one of the most rapidly new concepts, products, services of its foreign policy. The States of textiles, including footwear & acces- added attractions as an integral part Organization (ITPO), the 39th edi- growing global economies. It has and technologies. It is a one stop ‘Bihar’ and ‘Jharkhand’ are tak- sories, etc. States / UT pavilions are of the fair. tion of India International Trade Fair contributed to this historical prog- sourcing platform for a wide range ing part as the Focus States in the located in Hall No.12 & 12A. Extensive efforts have been 2019 (November 14-27) will be inau- ress by encouraging and inspiring of products including consumer fair. Over 800companies are tak- The fair highlights the latest made by ITPO to improve the port- gurated by the Hon’ble Minister of trade and business industry. The goods, services and projects for ing part in the fair. Significantly, the trends of e-biz & serves as a conver- folio of the event. These include: Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises, fair has evolved by stages as a mega SMEs etc. State/UT pavilions feature socio- gence point for many Central and introduction of e-enabled trans- Govt. of India Shri Nitin Gadkari at trademark event for ITPO ever since The fair also aims to provides an economic development, traditional State Ministries and Departments, parent system for stall booking 11.00am on November 14, 2019 at its inception in 1979. insight on the first hand information products, and achievements of public & private sector enterprises, and other services, online regis- Hamsadhwani Theatre in Pragati Highlighting India as one of the of policies, progressive reforms, new SMEs as well as eco-friendly agri- corporate, multi-national compa- tration for dignitaries during first Maidan, New Delhi. The inaugu- most promising investment desti- schemes and initiatives on theme based ‘Gramodhyog’ in order to re- nies, institutions and a large num- five days, introduction of mobile ral function will be presided over by nation in diverse sectors, the fair of the fair ‘Ease of Doing Business’, inforce their global appeal. ber of companies working in SMEs app and LED screen to highlight Shri Som Parkash, the Hon’ble State highlights the country ’s export po- launched by the Ministry of Com- The foreign participation is locat- sectors. The various Ministries & De- products and services. Entry of the Minister of Commerce & Industry, tential and socio- economic prog- merce and Industry, Government of ed in Halls 9 & 10 while, the Gov- partments will showcase the initia- visitors will be facilitated through Govt. of India.IITF’s history is close- ress.The event aims to provide an India. The ‘Partner Country’ is ‘Is- ernment group participation such tives of the Government, showcas- two gates including Gate-1 (on ly interwoven with India’s struggle ideal platform for brand expansion, lamic Republic of Afghanistan’ and as MSMEs, Ministry of Rural Devel- ing the real transformation potential Bhairon Road) and Gate-10 (Pragati Sports Indian Horizon 11 Thursday, November 14, 2019

Squads Hong Kong, Nov 13 PV Sindhu, Prannoy fifth first round exit in the India: Virat Kohli (Capt), (IANS) PV Sindhu on last six tournaments. Rohit Sharma, Mayank Wednesday reached reach Hong Kong HS Prannoy beat Agarwal, Cheteshwar the second round of the China's Huan Yu Xiang Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, Hong Kong Open with Open 2nd round 21-17, 21-17 to advance Hanuma Vihari, a 21-15, 21-16 win over to the second round. He Wriddhiman Saha (wk), R Korea's Kim Ga Eun in has faced Christie three Jadeja, R Ashwin, Kuldeep the first round. times and has a 2-1 head Yadav, Mohammed Shami, In the men's singles, to head record over him. Umesh Yadav, Ishant HS Prannoy also went He is the second Indian Sharma, Shubman Gill, through to the second in the second round of Rishabh Pant. round where he will men's singles alongwith Bangladesh: Mominul face Indonesian world Kidambi Srikanth, who Haque (C), Al-Amin number 6 Jonathan got a walkover after world Hossain, Imrul Kayes, Christie. no.1 Kento Momota Shadman Islam, Saif In a match that lasted withdrew from the Hassan, Mahmudullah, 36 minutes, Sindhu tournament. Mosaddek Hossain, Mehedy was dominant. She Ashwini Ponnappa Hasan, Liton Das, Mushfiqur led for much of the and N Sikki Reddy lost Rahim, Mohammad Mithun, game and will next face She thus keeps the elimination at the hands their first round match Taijul Islam, Nayeem India aim to consolidate WTC lead Thailand's Busanan Indian challenge alive of China's Cai Yan Yan against Denmark's Hasam, Mustafizur Rahman, Ongbamrungphan in women's singles earlier in the day.This is Maiken Fruergaard and Ebadat Hossain against B’desh in Indore on Wednesday. after Saina Nehwal's the former world no.1's Sara Thygesen. Indore, Nov 13 (IANS) After played according to their No 1 Proteas last month.Skipper Virat for Bangladeshi bowlers to put with a remarkable performance thumping South Africa in the ranking in the red-ball cricket. Kohli, who is back with the team pressure on the Indian batters. in the T20I series, would seek Anahat Singh three-Test series, India will aim They sit pretty at the top of the after taking a brief break from The hosts are likely to persist with inspiration from their new skipper to maintain their supremacy in points table with 240 points.The cricket, remains the biggest threat Wriddhiman Saha over Rishabh Mominul Haque, who was their ongoing World Test Championship two Tests against the ninth-ranked for the visitors. Kohli had scored a Pant with the wicket-keeping standout batsman last year, wins GU-̉̋ and extend their lead when they Bangladesh team will provide yet double ton against Faf du Plessis’ duties.For Bangladesh, who will with 673 runs from 15 innings, take on Bangladesh in the first Test another opportunity for the new men last month and will look to be without the services of their including four hundreds.A huge title at Eastern of the two-match series beginning opening combination of Rohit cash-in on the innings he would be experienced duo of Shakib al amount of responsibility would Thursday at the Holkar Stadium Sharma and Mayank Agarwal to playing against the Bangla Tigers. Hasan and Tamim Iqbal, the lie on the shoulders of Mushfiqur Slam squash here.India have won each of their establish themselves further. The Ajinkya Rahane and Cheteshwar two Test matches will provide Rahim who is one of the senior first five Tests in the World Test duo aggregated 829 runs between Pujara too are in good form and an opportunity to test the young members of the team and would Championship so far and have them in three Tests against the thus it would be an uphill task players.The visitors, who came out act as glue for the batsman.

London, Nov 13 (IANS) Spain's Villa retires from Dominic Thiem of Australia Thiem downs Djokovic to enter became the first player international football to reach the semifinals of the ongoing ATP World semifinals of ATP Finals Tour Finals after clinching and congratulate him, a sensational win over because he just played world number two Novak a great match.”The loss Djokovic. keeps Djokovic, the World Thiem, who had stunned No. 2, 440 points behind Swiss legend Roger Federer No. 1 Rafael Nadal in the in straight sets last Sunday battle for year-end No. 1 in in his first match in Group the ATP Rankings. Bjorn Borg, came from Earlier, Federer Kolkata, Nov 13 (IANS) Anahat behind to defeat Djokovic recovered from his Singh on Wednesday won the GU13 6-7 (5), 6-3, 7-6 (5) on disastrous start at the title at the Eastern Slam squash Tuesday evening. in an amazing atmosphere, to win. He just played very ongoing tournament and championship that was held in “This was really one of beating a legend of our courageous tennis and defeated Matteo Berrettini Kolkata. The 11-year-old beat Navya these special matches, game. And also I’ve qualified (was) just smacking the from Italy 7-6 (2), 6-3. As Sundarajan from Delhi in 3 straight Tokyo, Nov 13 (IANS) Spain's in the World Cup three times what I’ve practised all my for the semi-finals, which ball. He went for broke,” the six-time champion lost sets 11-1, 11-0, 11-9. top goalscorer David Villa on and was Spain's top scorer in the life for, all my childhood is the best,” he added. Djokovic said.“The entire his first match to Thiem, he The win is a continuation of what Wednesday announced that 2010 World Cup which they won. for,” Thiem was quoted Meanwhile, Djokovic said match he played same way has to now defeat Djokovic has been a stellar year for her in he would call it a day from He was also part of the as saying by the ATP Tour that Thiem deserved to he played the last point. I on Thursday to reach the which she has won the British, Dutch professional football at the end team that won the European website. “Really epic one win. “I thought he deserved have to put my hat down semi-finals. and European open titles. Earlier of the season. Championships in 2008 and in November she had won the U-15 The 37-year-old is presently played an important role in title at the Northern India Squash plying his trade for Japan's Vissel Spain's qualification for Euro championship in New Delhi. Her Kobe alongside former Spain 2012. Akhil to represent Blackbirds sister Amira Singh had won the U-19 and Barcelona team mate Andres However, injury forced him title in the same tournament. Iniesta and German striker Lukas out of the tournament which The Eastern Slam is Anahat’s Podolski. Spain eventually won.He Hyderabad in XI Racing League 45th title. She has thus far won 40 Villa has previously played for netted 59 times for Spain, thus national titles and five internationals. FC Barcelona, Atletico Madrid making him the all time highest New Delhi, Nov 13 (IANS) This includes the National Squash and Valencia.He has also played goalscorer for his country. Promising young Indian driver Championships in which she had Akhil Rabindra, the only Asian to be won the U-15 title while Anahat had selected for the Aston Martin Drivers won the U-19 title. Premier Badminton League Academy earlier this year, will be participating in the inaugural edition Motor Race Track in Chennai will Season ̍ to start on Jan ̊̈ of the X1 Racing League, a franchise- comprise of two cars and two drivers based motorsports competition in each car for each team. Out of in badminton has been re- powered by JK Tyre Motorsports. the four drivers in each team, there established once again as He'll represent the team from the will be one international male, one PV Sindhu became the first capital city of Telangana, named international female, one India Indian to become the world Blackbirds Hyderabad. The X1 international and domestic racer. champion. Racing League follows the X1 Racing currently being held across India. December 1 in New Delhi at the Every race will be of a duration of 30 Sai Praneeth also brought eSports Racing season 1, a digital- The league which is scheduled to Buddh International Circuit and minutes and will have three unique a men's singles medal after simulator based league that is be held between November 30 and December 7 and 8 at the Madras team-based race formats per day. 36 years, signifying India's stupendous development in the sport. The fifth season of PBL will give badminton lovers Our fast bowlers best in the world: Kohli a priceless opportunity to Indore, Nov 13 (IANS) India skipper any kind of opposition. They believe probably been our most consistent watch these champions live," Virat Kohli on Wednesday rated the they can get more out of any pitch bowler in the last years."A big reason said BAI President Himanta team's pace battery as the best in the than the opposition. That belief for success in Test cricket is his ability Biswa Sarma. world, saying he wanted to see the matters a lot. to keep bowling in the same areas and "It is not only singles but the fast bowlers rule world cricket one "I couldn't be more happy for them. others come in and pick up wickets. dynamics have now changed day and that is what is happening The best thing is they are still not Also, he has picked up 4,5 wickets on with superb performances right now. done yet. They are getting hungrier many occasions. from the young brigade like The pacemen, led by Jasprit every time they go out. And they "I think his experience will Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Bumrah who is now recovering from love bowling together. I think that's always be handy for the team. The New Delhi, Nov 13 (IANS) Chirag Shetty. an injury, have been excellent in the their biggest strength. The trust, the communication is pretty clear. The fifth edition of the Premier The two have put Indian last year or so for Kohli and Co. taking camaraderie and the belief they have We have played cricket since the Badminton League (PBL) will doubles on the badminton a lot of wickets and firing in tandem is pushing this team forward," said time we were 17. He understands start from January 20, 2020 and map with their fearless display to take the pressure off the spinners. the captain. that when I go and tell something will continue till February 9. against world champions. Besides Bumrah, the likes of fast bowlers dominate world cricket," When asked what could be the to him, it's purely based on team While Season 4 saw the PBL played a pivotal role Mohammed Shami and Ishant Kohli said on the eve of their first Test make-up of the pace attack for the requirements. He took it really well. Kidambi Srikanth-led in their emergence and it Sharma have also excelled with against Bangladesh here. first rubber before they head off to Ishant's strengths are different when Bengaluru Raptors lift the will be fantastic to see them Umesh Yadav rediscovering himself "Spin was never an issue, batting Kolkata for the first-ever Day Night the conditions are swinging and title, the league owned by the weave their magic in front and joining the party in their previous was never an issue. After Zak (Zaheer Test, Kohli hinted at fielding three seaming," said Kohli. Badminton Association of of home fans," said Atul home series against South Africa. Khan) and all these stalwarts went seamers. On having permanent Test venues, India (BAI) and organised by Pande, Managing Director, "Well, if you ask we are right at the away, we were thinking how can "Well, that (3 pacers) seems pretty Kohli reiterated that having fixed set Sportzlive, the official license SportzLive. top. I won't even count ourselves we get back to the top and have the likely after looking at the pitch. Also, of venues could revive the fortunes of holders under the aegis of The auction date will soon be among the top 3. These guys deserve ability and the firepower to pick up because of the way Umesh (Yadav) the longest format."I said that because BAI, will be hosted this time in announced as the fifth season it. When we started off, that was the 20 wickets," he said."Just see the way has bowled. (Mohammed) Shami if you look at the ratio, a stadium like Chennai, Delhi, Lucknow and promises high octane action conversation. When I took over as they have bowled. It's their belief has been brilliant. (Jasprit) Bumrah Indore attracted a decent crowd but a Bengaluru."India's prowess ahead of the Tokyo Olympics. captain, I really wanted to see our that stands out. Any kind of pitch, is not fit yet. Ishant (Sharma) has lot of others didn't. 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Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh wedding anniversary: Sana Saeed's sultry pictures Couple takes off to Tirupati prior to their special day are breaking the Internet

DeepVeer. Enough said. The duo was spotted at the most a year since Ranveer Sana Saeed's latest pictures are Ranveer Singh and Deepika airport from where they jetted Singh and Deepika Padukone too hot to handle Padukone are easily one of the off to Tirupati to offer prayers exchanged wedding vows in The beautiful Sana Saeed is most loved B-town couples, and seek blessings. They a low-key ceremony at Lake quite active on social media. She who tied the knot with not weren't alone though Ran- Como, Italy. After dating for keeps on posting sexy pictures only the blessings of their veer's father was also papped nearly six years, the couple quite often. Her latest clicks have families, but also an abun- leaving with them. decided to take their relation- got a lot of love from fans. dance of love and wishes from Wedding Anniversary spe- ship to the next level, and Slaying in yellow the entire country. The power cial Image credit: Yogen Shah how. On the work front Image Image credit: Instagram couple got married last year in Wedding Anniversary special credit: Instagram On the work Slaying in yellow November, after dating each Ranveer and Deepika have de- front She has posted a smiling pic- other for years, and nothing cided to keep it private. Ergo, We are mighty excited to ture of her dressed in a yellow made us happier than to see the couple won't be throwing see Mrs. and Mr. Deepika and jacket with a striped bustier and their love culminate in mar- a big party for their industry Ranveer Singh create magic denim shorts. Bright red lipstick riage. And how soon time flies, friends. Instead, they'll offer onscreen together in Director finishes off her look. with only two days remaining prayers at Tirupati and then Kabir Khan's '83. Ranveer will Desi diva for their wedding anniversary, take off to pray at the Golden step into the shoes of Kapil In another picture, she can be which they plan to spend in Temple. Dev, who is fondly remem- seen posing in an icy blue lehen- special way with only family. When they got hitched bered as the Haryana Hurri- ga. She has a seductive look. Quality time with the fam Image credit: Yogen Shah cane, while Deepika will por- Active on social media and Nach Baliye. Image credit: Yogen Shah When they got hitched tray Kapil's wife, Romi Bhatia Image credit: Instagram Blue is the hue Quality time with the fam Can't believe it's been al- Dev, in the film. Active on social media Sana can be seen in another She is quite active on Instagram shimmering blue dress that has a and keeps fans updated with her slit. Bold lipstick is a nice add-on. latest pics. She has done real- Sana is best remembered from Has Sushant Singh Rajput moved out of his Bandra ity shows like Khatron Ke Khiladi KKHH. residence to move in with Rhea Chakraborty? Alia Bhatt shows grace, attitude Has Sushant Singh Rajput left his swanky bag and baggage to Rhea's and style in a multicoloured residence, which is also in Bandra residence to live with rumoured Bandra. As per Spotboye, ensemble girlfriend Rhea Chakraborty? the actor moved out of his place in Pali Hill's Capri Multicoloured ensemble Sushant Singh Rajput and Kriti Sanon's sister Nupur Heights building to reside Alia Bhatt donned a multico- Rhea Chakraborty are the for his next film? with his rumoured lady love. loured blazer with a pair of red latest rumoured lovebirds It seems the watchman of The actor had thrown a pants and was looking fab in in town. The two are yet to the building told SpotboyE house-warming party af- that attire. admit that they are in a re- that the actor would hold ter he moved in. It was at- Boss lady attitude lationship but actions speak house parties at his place, tended by many including Image credit: Instagram/Alia louder than words. The two which would disrupt the rumoured ex-girlfriend, Bhatt went on a long holiday to neighbours. The watchmen Kriti Sanon. His flat in Ban- Boss lady attitude Europe where they visited would tell them to stop but it dra is supposed to be quite With her fashion statement France, Switzerland, Aus- seems they did not listen to spacious and we have to see on point, Alia Bhatt's look in tria and Italy. Prior to that, them. Sushant was also not if the actor makes a bigger the photoshoot was all of style, they went with friends to La- very happy with his accom- purchase for Rhea and him. grace and swag. dakh. As per latest reports, modation it seems. Rhea's The two have become the Treat for fans Sushant Singh Rajput has house is close by and he has brand ambassadors of the Image credit: Instagram/Alia moved in bag and baggage moved there since a week. Deccan Gladiators team in Bhatt to Rhea's residence, which Or maybe it is just because the Abu Dhabi T20 league. Treat for fans is also in Bandra. As per they are quite inseparable On the professional front, All her fans and admirers Spotboye, the actor moved now. In 2016, Sushant shift- the actor's last film Chhich- were clearly in awe of her lat- out of his place in Pali Hill's ed to his new home after his Sushant Singh Rajput on a long holiday to Europe hore was a blockbuster. est look, which was reflected Capri Heights building to re- much-publicised break-up spotted leaving in ru- where they visited France, The much-delayed Drive Alia Bhatt's latest photo- through lovely comments. side with his rumoured lady with Ankita Lokhande. The mored girlfriend Rhea Switzerland, Austria and released on Netflix and got shoot Biggies under her belt love. couple were living together Chakraborty’s car, continu- Italy. Prior to that, they went a disastrous response from The young superstar of Bol- Image credit: Instagram/Alia Also Read for almost three years in ing the guessing game with with friends to Ladakh. As the audience. Stay tuned to lywood, Alia Bhatt, who enjoys Bhatt Sushant Singh Rajput to Malad. us about their official status per latest reports, Sushant BL for more scoops and up- a massive fan following on Biggies under her belt Alia team up with rumoured ex Also Read — view picsThe two went Singh Rajput has moved in dates. social media, recently shared Bhatt has many biggies under pictures from her latest pho- her belt, which includes Ranbir toshoot and needless to say, it Kapoor-Amitabh Bachchan's went viral in no time. Brahmastra, SS Rajamouli's Multicoloured ensemble RRR, Ranveer Singh's Takht Friends Reunion Special on the cards Image credit: Instagram/Alia and Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Bhatt Gangubai Kathiawadi. for one night only Did you know before giving Uri: The Preliminary talks being underway for an unscripted reunion, featuring all six lead actors of Friends Jennifer Aniston, Courtney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt Surgical Strike, Vicky Kaushal gave LeBlanc, Matthew Perry, and David Schwimmer for one night only up on THIS box office blockbuster? It’s been almost a decade- published stories yesterday network recently secured the and-a-half since Friends went of preliminary talks being rights to all ten seasons of the Vicky Kaushal is currently one the first choice for the film but off air after 10 highly success- underway for an unscripted sitcom. Among the cast mem- of the hot properties of Bolly- as he was busy with the shooting ful seasons, but we’re still reunion, featuring all six lead bers, Jennifer had dropped a wood as he has delivered mul- of Manmarziyaan at that time, waiting for any update on the actors of Friends — Jenni- hint last month on Ellen De- tiple hits in recent times, which he couldn't do Stree and that's gang getting back together. So fer Aniston, Courtney Cox, Generes’ talk show that some- includes Raazi, Sanju and Uri: how Rajkummar Rao came into much so, that every little hint, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, thing could be brewing, say- The Surgical Strike. While the the picture. Interestingly, Stree is rumor, or uncorroborated Matthew Perry, and David ing, “We would love for there choices of his unconventional Rajkummar's biggest hit of his ca- report raises our hopes only Schwimmer — for one night to be something, but we don’t scripts has always impressed the reer. According to recent reports, for them to be mercilessly only. The reunion is set to air know what that something audience, Vicky had to give up on a sequel to Stree is in work and squashed later. However, this on HBO’s upcoming stream- is. So, we’re just trying. We’re a film, which later turned out to the shoot will begin next year. A latest bit of news could actu- ing service, HBO Max. HBO working on something.” Well, be a blockbuster at the box office. source close to the development ally be worth our time and Max neither confirmed nor fingers crossed because we all We are talking about Rajkummar confirmed the news and told PTI expectations. Both The Hol- denied the report, though want a Friends reunion even if Rao and Shraddha Kapoor star- that the film is currently in the lywood Reporter and Variety it’s worth nothing that the it for one night only, right. rer Stree. Yes, Vicky Kaushal was scripting stage.

Bala box office collection day 5: Kylie Jenner’s stalker gets one-year jail imprisonment Ayushmann Khurrana starrer Stalking has proven to very He originally pleaded not hood. costly for a man who wanted guilty to the charges, but ended Kylie Jenneralready has a witnesses another jump on Tuesday to see Kylie Jenner. On Octo- up pleading no contest when temporary restraining order ber 29, Brandon Sebastian Se- he returned to court this week. in place against Martinez. Her aided by a partial holiday villa Martinez was arrested by He was ordered to serve a year lawyer will return to court later the police after crossing Kylie’s at the Los Angeles County Jail, this month in a bid to have the After registering a big opening in parts of the country. However, a gate at her private Calabasas reports TMZ. Kylie was not protection order made perma- weekend — Ayushmann Khurrana’s holiday, leave alone a partial one, can residence. Not just that, he al- home at the time of the inci- nent. third highest and the biggest for only aid a film if it has clicked with legedly demanded to speak to dent, but her security officials The Keeping Up with the producer Dinesh Vijan’s Maddocks the audience, and all signs point to the realty TV star after trespass- reported him to local authori- Kardashians star at the age of Films — Bala is continuing its win- Bala not only clicking but being loved ing, reported aceshowbiz.com. ties and he was slapped with a 14 in 2012, along with her sister ning streak at the box office, with across the country. Kylie was not home at the misdemeanour count of tres- Kendall created her own line of mighty impressive numbers during Bala Day-Wise BO Collection: time of the incident, but her passing, clothing, Kendall & Kylie. On the weekdays. Following a super- Day 1 (Fri): 10.15 cr nett security officials reported him Martinez, who had faced up the personal front, she started strong hold on Monday, the film, Day 2 (Sat): 15.73 cr nett to local authorities and he was to two years' imprisonment for dating rapper Travis Scott in costarring Bhumi Pednekar and Day 3 (Sun): 18.07 cr nett slapped with a misdemeanour the crimes, was also handed April 2017. They have a daugh- Yami Gautam, took another jump on Day 4 (Mon): 8.26 cr nett count of trespassing, as well three years of probation and ter, Stormi Webster, born in Tuesday (day 5), aided no doubt by Day 5 (Tue): 9.52 cr nett as a felony for bringing contra- was found on his person at the ordered to stay away from Ky- February 2018. The pair broke Guru Nanak Jayanti being a holiday Total (5 days): 61.73 cr nett band into jail when a glass pipe time of booking. lie's Hidden Hills neighbour- up in September 2019.

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