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Printed at . Chennai . Coimbatore . Bengaluru . Hyderabad . Madurai . Noida . Visakhapatnam . Thiruvananthapuram . Kochi . Vijayawada . Mangaluru . Tiruchirapalli . Kolkata . Hubballi . Mohali . Allahabad . Malappuram . Mumbai NEARBY Yogi waives farm AAP legal fee Dalai Lama’s Arunachal visit payment bid loans up to ₹1 lakh is ‘loot’: BJP

purely religious, says Rijiju Special Correspondent ‘A step towards fulilling poll promises’ NEW DELHI The BJP on Tuesday SP suspects ‘internal China must not interfere in India’s internal afairs, says Minister Omar Rashid farmers. termed the Delhi govern- sabotage’ in poll rout Lucknow The State will also set up ment’s attempts to clear LUCKNOW Vijaita Singh Taking a major step towards 5,000 centres for wheat Chief Minister Arvind Kejri- The Samajwadi Party New Delhi fulfilling its poll promises, procurement and will start wal’s legal fees related to a suspects that ‘internal As China stepped up its the Yogi Adityanath govern- purchasing 40 lakh metric defamation case through sabotage’ may have played a protest against the Dalai La- ment in Uttar Pradesh on tonnes of wheat at ₹10 more public funds “dacoity and part in its poor performance ma’s visit to Arunachal Pra- Tuesday announced the than the minimum support loot” of the people’s in the 2017 Uttar Pradesh desh, the Union government waiver of farm loans worth price per quintal. money, and declared that it Assembly elections. It has fielded Minister of State for ₹30, 729 crore. Loans up to The government will dir- would not allow this. given subtle hints that Home Kiren Rijiju to make ₹1 lakh will be waived. ectly purchase the wheat on HRD Minister Prakash Shivpal Yadav, the estranged India’s stand clear. The government will also the basis of their Aadhaar Javadekar said his Cabinet uncle of former Chief Mr. Rijiju, who represents write off loans of around cards without the involve- colleague and Finance Min- Minister Akhilesh Yadav, is Arunachal Pradesh in the ₹6,000 crore given to seven ment of middlemen. A ister Arun Jaitley had filed the suspect. Lok Sabha, said on Tuesday lakh small and marginalised “Kisan Rahat Bond” will be a defamation suit against NORTH Ī PAGE 2 that the visit of the Tibetan farmers which have turned introduced for raising Mr. Kejriwal for the latter’s DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD spiritual leader was “purely into non-performing assets. money for the farm loan “personal crime” and that religious” and “China The double decision will waiver. In its election mani- RSS to hold rallies using the public exchequer shouldn’t interfere in India’s benefit over 86 lakh small festo, the BJP had reached in Bengal to pay the legal bills for internal matters.” and marginalised farmers in out to the farmers, prom- KOLKATA that was against the law. the State who took loans un- ising waiver of crop loans. “It’s illegal and immoral. Various Hindu right wing Beijing’s protest til March 31, 2016. The total Why should the people of groups ailiated to the China has objected to the cost to the State exchequer Opposition flay move Delhi pay for your [Kejriw- Rashtriya Swyamsevak Sangh Dalai Lama’s visit because would amount to ₹36,000 While BJP leaders celeb- al’s] sins? This is a dacoity (RSS) have planned the Beijing considers Arunachal crore. rated the cabinet’s decision, and loot of their money “largest ever demonstration Pradesh its territory and has The decisions were opposition parties criticized and is unacceptable,” Mr. in Bengal” to mark Ram referred to the Dalai Lama as passed in the first cabinet the government’s decision Javadekar said. Navami. In the week-long “separatist leader.” India’s guest: The Dalai Lama being welcomed on his arrival at the Thubchok Gatsel Ling meeting called by the Chief to waive loans up to ₹1 lakh According to him, Mr. events, slated to begin on The Chinese Foreign Min- Monastery in Bomdila, Arunachal Pradesh, on Tuesday. * AP Minister after he assumed saying it deceived the poor Jaitley had paid ₹10 lakh Wednesday, 350 rallies will istry has warned India that office two weeks ago. Cab- and marginal farmers. stamp duty for the same be held across 22 districts. his visit would cause “seri- learning) at Nafra, Mr. Rijiju’s by road. His knees are not in guest. China is trying to pro- inet Ministers Shrikant SP president and former case, from his pocket, and NATION Ī PAGE 7 ous damage” to bilateral ties. native village. Mr. Rijiju, a good shape, and he has re- ject him as a political per- DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Sharma and Sidharth Nath Chief Minister Akhilesh Ya- had been paying the bills of “China is trying to project practising Buddhist, will ac- fused to be operated upon. son; he is our guest. There is Singh briefed the media dav said by putting a ₹1 lakh his lawyers from his private BJP demands sacking the Dalai Lama as a political company the Dalai Lama for The real worry is how he no intention of engaging about the decisions. cap on the loan waiver, the funds. He alleged that Mr. of Bihar Minister person. We don’t have any two days during his visit to would undertake such long with the Dalai Lama to irrit- The decisions are expec- BJP government had be- Kejriwal’s politics was PATNA intention of engaging with Bomdila and Tawang. road trips,” a senior official ate China. For the people of ted to be passed in the trayed poor farmers. based on defaming others Senior Bihar BJP leader Sushil the Dalai Lama so as to irrit- The failing health and old said. Arunachal, it’s not a dis- Budget Session. Mr Singh “The promise was for a and people should not pay Kumar Modi on Tuesday ate China,” Mr. Rijiju told The age of the spiritual leader The Ministry of External puted territory. In a sover- described the first cabinet full loan waiver not with a for his “sins.” The Delhi demanded sacking of Bihar Hindu in an interaction. have worried the security Affairs has said the Dalai eign country, you cannot re- meeting as the “beginning cap. Crores of farmers are government has reportedly Environment and Forest The Dalai Lama is on a agencies. Lama has visited the State on strict the movement of a of the Sankalp Patr agenda feeling cheated due to the made a proposal to pay a Minister Tej Pratap Yadav for week-long tour of Arunachal six earlier occasions, from religious leader,” Mr. Rijiju implementation.” cap of ₹1 lakh. This is a be- bill of close to ₹4 crore his alleged involvement in Pradesh, where he will hold Poor weather conditions 1983 to 2009, and “no artifi- said. The government also said trayal of poor farmers,” Mr. sought by Mr. Kejriwal’s the soil purchase scam. religious discourses in “The poor weather condi- cial controversy should be He said he had accompan- all farmers having up to five Yadav tweeted. lawyer but Lt. Governor NATION Ī PAGE 6 Tawang, Bomdila and other tions in Arunachal Pradesh created over his present ied the Dalai Lama during DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD acres of land will be counted Congress spokesperson Anil Baijal has sought Soli- areas. have affected the schedule. visit.” his visit to the State in 2009, as small farmers while those Randeep Surjewala said the citor-General Ranjit Ku- OPPORTUNITES Ī PAGE 4 He will also consecrate a So, instead of taking an air- “As an Arunachali, it’s my and then too, China pro- with 2.5 acres will be cat- loan waiver was “incom- mar’s advice on the matter. DELHI METRO Ī 6 PAGES gompa (Buddhist place of craft, he will have to travel duty to welcome our revered tested vociferously. egorized as marginalised plete” and a “ardhsatya.” SEE ALSOĪ DELHI METRO PAGE 1 Confusion reigns on CAG audit of GST data India rejects U.S. role in mending ties with Pak.

Crucial to calculate States’ compensation, auditor has been denied access to data “We don’t think we should wait till something happens,” says Nikki Haley Josy Joseph cess to two different data- holding the data in a fidu- Varghese K. George wants to see how we de-es- changed.” NEW DELHI sets, which are proving ciary capacity since the tax Washington calate any sort of conflict go- Mr. Baglay said: “We, of The crucial question about difficult to come by. data originally belongs to the U.S. President Donald ing forward,” she said in re- course, expect international how and where auditors One of them is data per- Centre and States. Trump might take a proact- sponse to a question. community and organisa- should get access to GST data taining to revenue that Officials also pointed out ive interest in de-escalating tions to enforce international continues to hang fire, even would accrue to States from that the GSTN is owned by a tensions between India and ‘Should be proactive’ mechanisms and mandates as hundreds of CAG auditors alcohol and petrochemicals, private company, and thus Pakistan, U.S. Ambassador “We very much think that we concerning terrorism eman- are being put through spe- both of which are outside cannot be audited by CAG. to the U.N. Nikki Haley has should be proactive in the ating from Pakistan, which cialised training in anticipa- tronic backbone of the tax GST for now. “The government will said. way that we are seeing ten- continues to be the single tion of the implementation regime, will go live for test- The second issue of where have to sort it out, or we “We don’t think we sions rise and conflicts start biggest threat to peace and of the new tax regime from ing in early May. and how CAG auditors will would have serious problem should wait till something to bubble up and so we want stability in our region and July 1. get access to the GST data on our hands,” another happens,” Ms. Haley said at to see if we can be a part of Nikki Haley beyond.” Various government offi- Different datasets continues to vex officials. senior official said. the U.N. while taking over as that. So I think that will be Ms. Haley’s remarks about cials, including ministers, For full implementation of Senior officials say the gov- The GSTN claims it is a chair of the U.N. Security something that you will see fairs Ministry spokesperson a “proactive” approach are have been insisting that the the GST regime, to decide ernment needs to quickly private company as 51% Council for two months. members of the Security Gopal Baglay said in New at variance with the existing proposed tax regime will the compensation for States settle it. stake in the company is held “It’s absolutely right that Council participate in, but Delhi, “Government’s posi- American position that it come into force as sched- and to determine their rev- An official pointed out by private companies such as this administration is con- also wouldn’t be surprised if tion for bilateral redressal of would involve itself only if uled. enue share, auditors of the that the GSTN has refused to HDFC and ICICI Bank. cerned about the relation- the President participates in all India-Pakistan issues in both countries wanted it to. The GST Network (GSTN), CAG (Comptroller and Aud- give the CAG access to its ship between India and that as well,” she said. an environment free of ter- which is the nationwide elec- itor General) will require ac- network, saying it is only CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 10 Pakistan and very much In response, External Af- ror and violence hasn’t CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 10

CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Fingerprints do the talking for doctors The work of art created by professionals Special Correspondent KANNUR An artistic expression of solidarity among doctors across the country in the face of increasing incidents of violence against their colleagues made it into the Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s largest finger-painting. The project, started by Naveen Koval, Assistant Professor of Paediatrics at the Kannur Medical College and also an artist, was Strength in numbers: The conceived in October 2015. painting, conceived by He, with students of the Kannur doctor Naveen Koval, college, created an outline on display in of the painting on a 29- Thiruvananthapuram. metre long and 16-metre high canvas. country contributed over 15 Called ‘Ray of Hope,’ it lakh finger impressions and shows doctors, their hands sent the pieces back to Dr. bound with stethoscopes. Koval. A tailor then helped They divided the canvas stitch the canvas back into hundreds of pieces and together to make the sent them to around 100 finished painting. This took medical colleges (with help until January 2016. The from the Indian Medical work was first displayed in Association) across the Kannur Medical College on country, with instructions February 1, 2016. on filling up their pieces In January this year, Dr. with the prescribed colours. Koval was notified that the Around 20,000 doctors and painting had made it into medical students in the Guinness Book of World different parts of the Records. CM YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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DELHI Timings Wednesday, April 05 An exercise to assess women’s safety RISE 06:07 SET 18:41 SP suspects ‘internal RISE 13:18 SET 02:09 Thursday, April 06 ‘Patriarchal attitude of the public results in incidents of harassment’ RISE 06:06 SET 18:42 RISE 14:17 SET 02:57 sabotage’ in poll rout Special Correspondent Friday, April 07 JAIPUR RISE 06:05 SET 18:42 A unique exercise of parti- RISE 15:15 SET 03:41 It has given subtle hints that Shivpal Yadav is the suspect cipatory safety assessments conducted by groups of Omar Rashid March 31 to submit a list of youths in different parts of LUCKNOW people who worked against Jaipur has laid emphasis on The Samajwadi Party sus- the party. They were asked making urban space safe for pects that ‘internal sabotage’ to do it in a sealed envelope women and girls and ex- may have played a part in its to maintain secrecy. posed “patriarchal attitude” poor performance in the “They need to be identi- of the public at large which 2017 Uttar Pradesh Assembly fied and action taken against often results in the incidents elections. them so that the party or- of harassment and violence Though the party did not ganisation does not become against women. categorically name any weak,” Mr. Patel wrote in his The assessments were leader, it has given subtle letter, which, apart from the carried out recently as part hints that Shivpal Yadav, the addressed, was copied only of the Kadam Badhate Chalo estranged uncle of former Shivpal Singh * to party national general sec- (Let us march ahead) project Chief Minister Akhilesh Ya- retary Ramgopal Yadav and of Participatory Research in dav, is the suspect. The two Chaudhary said. the personal secretary of Asia (PRIA), a global parti- were part of a bitter family Those who engaged “in Akhilesh Yadav. cipatory research and train- feud in the months leading indiscipline against party The SP has convened a ing centre. to and during the polls. candidates are being identi- meeting of its district and The emphasis was also on IN BRIEF As part of its performance fied,” Mr. Chaudhary said, city presidents, and state ex- developing a youth leader- review exercise, the party suggesting that the process ecutive office-bearers on ship equipped with the tools has claimed that some of its of review would continue. April 6. Mr. Akhilesh Yadav of change to end gender leaders and workers gave ta- will address it. discrimination. At centre stage: Youths speaking about participatory safety assessments on violence against cit support to the BJP. The Identification drive The party is also working The safety assessments women at the Shastri Nagar police station in Jaipur. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT party is trying to identity Days after the election result to stitch together a pro- evolved a partnership such people and has prom- was declared, last month, gramme to “strengthen” and between young boys and section of men and women said Ms. Singh. cook better food.” ised to act sternly against the SP started a drive to “activate” the party organ- girls in the local communit- and identifying the specific The safety audit, which The youths attached to them. identify those who damaged isation, youth organisation ies, schools and colleges and issues with which women gave rankings to different the project also took note of ‘All MLAs satisied with On Monday, SP president the party from within. SP and other frontal organisa- encouraged them to take a and girls were uncomfort- parts of Pink City on the an alarming opinion gaining Khattar’s leadership’ Akhilesh Yadav held a review State president Naresh Ut- tions, district and city units, joint action to end violence able. basis of women's safety, acceptability among girls CHANDIGARH meeting with top leaders tam Patel assigned party said Mr. Chaudhary. against women. “Young boys and girls ex- called for fair and impartial who believed that any space There is no discussion in the and candidates from the Ya- general secretaries, and dis- There are, however, pressed a deep feeling of probe into all complaints that had a presence of men BJP for appointing a deputy dav clan stronghold areas — trict and city presidents the already signs of uneasiness Unsafe areas mistrust towards the system made by women and a reori- and boys was unsafe. “This to Haryana Chief Minister Farukhabad, Etawah, task of identifying the “lead- in the party ranks. Many Public spaces found unsafe which is expected to deliver entation of police constables feeling has obviously Manohar Lal Khattar, State Auraiya, Mainpuri, Firoza- ers, office-bearers and work- party workers believe that for women included markets justice,” she said. and other officers through stemmed from realities,” Minister Kavita Jain said on bad, Kannauj, Etah and Kas- ers” who worked against the the exercise to identify and situated in residential colon- The groups of youths have an institutional system. said Ms. Singh. Tuesday. She said all MLAs ganj. The SP suffered huge SP’s declared candidates. punish those who allegedly ies, parks frequented by since visited a dozen police PRIA, which earlier were satisfied with his losses in its stronghold this In a letter to party office- worked against the party boys and men, areas near li- stations in the capital city to ‘Cook better food’ worked for developing polit- leadership. PTI time. Mr. Shivpal Yadav has bearers, Mr. Patel said the SP would be counter-product- quor shops, clinic of an In- share the findings of their as- At the women’s police sta- ical leadership of women so far stayed away from the state office and Akhilesh Ya- ive. “It can become a tool for dian medicine practitioner sessments and find out the tion at Gandhi Nagar, the from panchayats and muni- Two children killed as party meetings called by Mr. dav himself received inform- personal vendetta and will and even the areas around mindset of policemen who activists were told that the cipalities in Rajasthan, now bus overturns Akhilesh Yadav. ation that leaders and work- further divide party work- religious places, said PRIA deal with the cases of sexual parents had an important aims at evolving partnership DHARAMSHALA “It has come to light that ers were working against the ers. If a worker has a grudge senior programme officer harassment and violence. role to play in shaping the of local institutions with the Two toddlers were killed and some people acted against party in “some Vidhan against another worker, he Nivedita Singh here on “A deep patriarchal atti- mentality of their sons and youths and encouraging 30 others injured on Tuesday the declared SP candidate, Sabha areas.” could falsely implicate his Tuesday. tude colours the judgment daughters. An elderly con- them to address the demand when a tourist bus overturned directly or indirectly, and Mr. Patel had given the SP rival,” said a party worker Ms. Singh told The Hindu of policemen who find fault stable said: “If you want to raised by the city residents at Ranital, about 35 km from gave support to the BJP,” SP city and district presidents from Purvanchal, preferring that the safety assessments with women and think that stop violence against wo- to end violence against wo- here, the police said. PTI spokesperson Rajendra and general secretaries till to remain anonymous. involved talking to a cross- they are taking revenge,” men, first ask all women to men. It’s a well-planned conspiracy against me, says Virbhadra ‘Farmhouse bought with my own money and friendly loans’ Kanwar Yogendra charges against Mr. Singh SHIMLA were not levelled by the BJP Himachal Pradesh Chief but by the courts. He cau- Minister Virbhadra Singh on tioned Mr Singh’s son Tuesday termed the action against using offensive lan- being taken against him a guage against top BJP lead- ‘well-planned’ conspiracy to ers. The State Youth Con- destroy his public image and gress, led by Chief Minister’s accused the Enforcement son, had staged a protest Department of concealing outside the official residence facts and giving a “con- of Leader of Opposition cocted” value of his assets Himachal Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal on seized by it just to “sensa- Virbhadra Singh * PTI Monday. In an organised tionalise” the matter. State-wide move the BJP has He alleged that an I-T of- Monday, allegedly bought started building a ‘front’ ficer with RSS background with the help of shell com- against Virbhadra Singh was used to create false, panies in Delhi. after the Delhi High Court’s baseless and fictitious sur- Mr Singh reiterated that it ruling in the disproportion- vey reports and dossiers un- was a conspiracy of BJP lead- ate assets case . der instructions from the I-T ers and his political oppon- Senior BJP leader Suresh Department, Chandigarh. ents like Prem Kumar Dhu- Bhardwaj said that either the The Chief Minister mal, Anurag Thakur and Chief Minister own up to the claimed that he had bought Union Minister Arun Jaitley. moral responsibility and the Mehrauli farmhouse resign immediately or the with his own money and BJP on the offensive Congress party should force friendly loans. Meanwhile, the State BJYM him to resign from the post The ED had attached his chief Vishal Chauhan on and give a message against ₹27.29 crore farmhouse on Tuesday said that the corruption.

Three killed Sikh leaders asked to in accident appear before Akal Takht Press Trust of India Jalandhar Three persons were killed Over visit to Sauda headquarters on Tuesday and 16 others Press Trust of India injured when a truck ran Amritsar over them during a reli- The Akal Takht on Tuesday gious procession in Jyoti said the visit of Sikh political chowk area here. leaders to Dera Sacha Sauda headquarters in the run-up to the Assembly polls was against “Sikh ethics and cus- toms” and asked them to ap- pear before it on April 17. Dera Sacha Sauda chief Akal Takht head Gurmit Ram Rahim Singh * Gurbachan Singh issued an edict asking Sikh activists of phemous acts which had various political parties to hurt the sentiments of the appear before the highest Sikh community, members Sikh temporal seat and sub- (particularly Sikhs) of Con- mit clarifications on their gress, Shiromani Akali Dal visits to Gurmit Ram Rahim (SAD) and Aam Aadmi Party Singh-headed Dera, which (AAP) were asked to appear has been boycotted by the before the seat, he said. Takht. “These members being Sikh should not have visited Poll campaign that sect’s headquarters es- He said during campaign pecially when the com- ahead of the Punjab As- munity was asked by the sembly polls, members of Akal Takht to boycott al- various political outfits had leged tainted sect,” he said. visited the headquarter of Haryana Sikh Gurdwara Dera Sacha Sauda and Parbhandhak Committee sought support and bless- head Jagdish Singh Jhinda, ings of Gurmit Ram Rahim who was ex-communicated Singh. “Such an act by com- from Akal Takht, on Tues- munity members was day again appeared before against Sikh ethics and cus- the top temporal seat. toms,” the Akal Takht head After listening to him, the said. Since the head of the Akal Takht awarded him re- sect was held guilty by the ligious atonement by dust- Akal Takht for various blas- ing shoes of devotees.

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THE HINDU NOIDA/DELHI WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 2017 EAST 3 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF Once hit by Maoist violence, Rain shuts schools in Assam Landslides in several places close National Highway-54 Jhargram is now a district Press Trust of India Guwahati/ Haflong Incessant rain, accompanied April 9 holiday in It has been carved out of four Assembly seats of Paschim Medinipur district by hailstorm, hit the State Dhemaji for by-poll while the Dima Hasao dis- GUWAHATI Special Correspondent come a “liberated zone” separate district after trict administration on Tues- The Assam government has Kolkata after the Left Front govern- carving it out of Darjeeling day ordered that all schools declared April 9 as a local West Bengal Chief Minister ment reclaimed the area district. In June 2014, in the district be closed till holiday in Dhemaji district as Mamata Banerjee on Tues- through a joint operation Alipurduar, of Jalpaiguri dis- the weather condition the by-election to the day announced Jhargram as with Central forces in June trict, became the 20th dis- improves. Dhemaji Assembly a new district of the State. 2009. trict of the State. The rain also caused land- constituency will he held on Carved out of four Assembly At Tuesday’s event, she slide and landslip in several that day. The declaration will seats of Paschim Medinipur said the violence had More districts places in Dima Hasao dis- be applicable on offices of district, Jhargram was once a stopped since the govern- The State government has trict headquarters of Ha- Submerged: A woman trying to salvage her belongings from the State and Central hotbed of Maoist activity. ment came to power six plans to bifurcate Bard- flong, and Harangajao, N her house in Guwahati on Tuesday. * PTI government, PSUs, boards, years ago. Lauding her gov- haman district into a rural Leikul, Mahur and Phaiding corporations, banks and ‘Liberated zone’ ernment’s schemes, she and an industrial belt, and for the past couple of days, ning late, Railway sources sources said. educational institutions. PTI “This area has witnessed vi- promised a university at also make Sunderbans, the sources said. said. olence for long. I remember Mamata Banerjee * Jhargram, along with an spread over North 24 Par- The NH-54 connecting A teacher, identified as Ex-gratia ordered Woman attacked with how about 30 jawans of the archery academy, nine col- ganas and South 24 Par- Haflong and Lumding with Subrata Paul (45), drowned Assam Chief Minister Sarba- acid in Sambhal district Eastern Frontier Rifles were said at an event marking the leges and six hospitals. ganas, into a separate dis- Silchar in Cachar district in Kapurchera under Har- nanda Sonowal on Tuesday SAMBHAL killed at Silda and how birth of the new district. trict. According to the State was closed in many places angjao police station while reviewed the loss of lives A 26-year-old woman people were killed in this “April 4 will always be the 22nd district government, creating new due to landslides. trying to cross a hilly river and properties after yester- suffered injuries on her hands area every day. I remember birthday of Jhargram dis- Jhargram is the State’s 22nd districts helps in adminis- The railway services yesterday and his body was day’s heavy rainfall and hail- and legs after her estranged how people used to be trict,” Ms. Banerjee added. district. In February, the trative convenience and between Silchar-Lumding recovered today from Jatinga storm and directed release husband allegedly threw acid scared to even come here Lalgarh, which comes un- Mamata Banerjee govern- brings services closer to the was not hit but in some river in Harangajao in Dima of ex-gratia payment to the on her near Surajkund gate [Jhargram],” Ms. Banerjee der the new district, had be- ment had made Kalimpong a people. places trains were were run- Hasao district, official next of kin of the victims. here. She was returning from a temple on Monday evening when the incident occurred, 200 shops gutted in Sambalpur Circle Officer V. K. Singh Rain may delay hatching of turtle eggs Baliyan said. She was rushed Staff Reporter to hospital by locals, he said. BHUBANESWAR PTI Five killed in road Moisture, lowering of sand temperature afects incubation: wildlife experts Over 200 shops were gutted in a major fire that broke out accident in Odisha Staff Reporter supply to the young hatch- at Golebazar in Sambalpur BARIPADA BERHAMPUR lings and increased pressure Five persons, including two in the early hours of Tues- Mass hatching of olive ridley on them because of the women, were killed and 15 day. No casualties have been eggs at the Rushikulya rook- tightly packed sand and injured when a bus collided reported. ery coast mass nesting site in moisture. But this is not ex- with a tractor near Dalki The fire spread rapidly to Odisha may get delayed by a pected to happen as no rain forest in Mayurbhanj district the whole vegetable market few days due to summer rain has occurred in the of Odisha on Tuesday. The and reduced over 200 shops on April 2 night. Rushikulya rookery area bus, on its way from to ashes. Eleven fire tenders According to wildlife ex- after April 2 night, said Mr. Rairangpur to Jashipur, took over four hours to bring perts, moisture and lowering Pandav. collided with the tractor on the blaze under control. of sand temperature will af- This year over 3,85,000 Rairangpur-Jashipur road near “Preliminary investiga- fect incubation and thereby turtles had reached the the forest, Sub-Divisional tions indicate that a short- Burnt down: Flames engulf shops at the Golbazar in delay the hatching of eggs Rushikulya rookery coast to * Police Officer of Rairangpur, circuit could have caused Sambalpur on Tuesday. SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT buried in the sand. Sporadic lay their eggs. Each nest con- Mohanpani Karua, said. PTI the fire. We have ordered an hatching of olive ridley eggs tains around 100 eggs. inquiry. Around 200 shops compensated as per existing pensation. The district ad- Woman, baby die after has started in a few nests have been completely gut- legal provisions. The district ministration dismissed Welcome guests: Olive ridley turtles nesting at the Net fences consuming pesticide where eggs were laid before ted,” Sambalpur District Col- administration has moved suggestions of sabotage as the start of the mass nesting Rushikulya rookery in Ganjam. * FILE PHOTO PTI The Forest Department has BARIPADA (ODISHA) lector Samarth Verma said. the Special Relief Commis- some traders alleged that a process. put up mosquito net fences A woman and her 10-month- He said traders would be sioner for release of com- mall was being planned. scientist at the Wildlife Insti- eggs,” Mr. Pandav added. on the landward side of the old daughter died after Mass hatching tute of India, who has been Rain during the last phase coast from Gokharkuda to allegedly consuming poison Berhampur Divisional Forest studying olive ridleys for the of incubation packs particles Podampeta at the in Odisha’s Mayurbhanj Officer (DFO) Ashis Behera past two decades. of porous sand over the Rushikulya rookery coast. district, the police said on said mass hatching was ex- nests buried on the coast. This has been been done to Tuesday. The incident took pected to start in the first Harsh nature Due to decreased space stop the hatchlings from place at Chhatraamba week of April. According to him, the recent between the sand particles, straying towards the land in- Vegidihi last night, following But due to the recent rain, rain will only delay the in- air would not have reached stead of reaching the sea. a quarrel between the woman the hatching process may cubation process and the the eggs properly. After The department has also set and her husband, said start after April 8 and is ex- consequent hatching of eggs. hatching, the hatchlings re- up nine camps to monitor Inspector in-charge of pected to reach its peak dur- “Nature could have been main buried in the sandy the hatching. Human entry Kaptipada police station, ing April 10 to 12, he added. harsher on these eggs if the nest for around 48 hours. has been completely banned Brajabandhu Nayak. The “But the rain will not have rain had come a few days This is the time when to the area as there are woman, identified as Jema any negative impact on the later when the eggs would their outer shell gets slightly chances that newly hatched Singh (21), took her daughter hatching process as it has have been almost ready to hard so that they can ven- hatchlings buried in the sand to a nearby forest where she stopped and the weather has hatch. It would have led to ture out into the open sea. as well as eggs might get allegedly consumed pesticide become sunny and dry increased mortality of young Rain during this period damaged under the feet of and fed the same to the again,” said Bivash Pandav, hatchlings coming out of the would have blocked oxygen visitors, said the DFO. infant, police said. PTI Biennial Thakurani Jatra BSF seizes ₹3 lakh in festival gets under way fake notes Deity taken to her temporary abode Press Trust of India Malda (WB) Border Security Force per- sonnel seized fake cur- rency notes with a face value of ₹3 lakh from Anantapur village in Malda district. The BSF personnel dur- ing patrolling last night along the Indo-Bangla bor- der found 150 fake cur- rency notes of the denom- ination of ₹2000 in a bag at Chowri Anantapur village Pomp and show: Devotees participate in the Budhi Thakurani under Baisnabnagar police

Jatra in Berhampur. * LINGARAJ PANDA station, BSF sources sources. Staff Reporter 1.50 a.m. However, the rain The BSF on Tuesday BERHAMPUR did not dampen the enthu- handed over the fake notes The famous biennial Thak- siasm of the devotees. to the police, the sources urani Jatra festival of Ber- Since Sunday night, Ber- added. hampur in Odisha got un- hampur, especially the old der way late of Sunday city area, has been getting night. into the carnival spirit. The unique festival star- A large number of de- ted with the journey of votees were dressed up like reigning deity Budhi Thak- Krishna, Arjun, Balaram, urani to her temporary Parsuram, Radha, Hanu- abode on Desibehera street. man, demons and witches A flower, considered to be as a homage to the goddess. representative of the deity, was taken in a procession in Adequate arrangements a ghatam (holy earthen pot) According to police sources, to the temporary abode. adequate arrangements Thousands of devotees, have been made for main- including women and chil- tenance of law and order dren, were part of the pro- and crowd management. cession. Around ten platoons of po- lice personnel have been Month-long festival deployed in the festival The ghatam would be wor- area. shipped at the temporary CCTV cameras will be abode till the end of the placed at strategic locations month-long festival that is near the temporary abode scheduled to end on May 1. of the deity, said a police The sudden summer rain official. delayed the beginning of the festival by more than an Cultural link hour. The festival is also linked to According to the author- cultural history of Berham- ities, the ritualistic journey pur. Goddess Budhi Thakur- of the deity was to start ani is considered to be a from the temple after 10.30 family member of Desibe- p.m. As the rain continued, hera, the leader of the Dera the journey could start only community of Berhampur. at 12.45a.m. and the proces- Dera is a weaver clan which sion of the deity reached has made Berhampur fam- Desibehera street around ous as a ‘silk city’. CM YK NOIDA/DELHI THE HINDU 4 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 2017 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Job interviews hit online platforms Technology is creating new routes for companies to access talent

Sriram A.G. volves advertising job open- ates who are already em- media. For instance, ings on various websites, in- ployed and are seeking new LinkedIn, Twitter and In- sk any organisation cluding social media. There opportunities. They can vir- deed, among other plat- about its top chal- are distinct advantages like tually engage in these job forms, help a recruiter seek Alenges, the odds are reaching a wider audience fairs — something they would out candidates. Recruiters high that recruiting and re- and collecting more applica- never do in the case of a tra- will take advantage by creat- taining talent are pre-emin- tions. With exponential ditional job fair. ing and posting videos on ent priorities on its list. growth in connected devices Live video interviews free social media platforms Successful organisations and channels, a raft of soph- There are two methods and video content can range know that in the war for tal- isticated tools are now avail- companies use to conduct in- from job opportunity promo- ent, waiting till someone able to conduct virtual inter- terviews using video: Live tion to fun and creative leaves to start looking for a views with the prospective and pre-recorded. Live inter- videos showcasing company replacement, signals defeat. candidates and assess them. views enable hiring teams to culture and industry. As it evolves, technology Online job boards talk with job candidates in With Artificial Intelli- plays an increasingly import- Virtual recruitment in- real time as if it were an in- gence, machine learning and ant role in the way compan- cludes the use of online ap- person interview. These ses- robotics making advance- ies approach the talent plications, which are vital for sions can be recorded and ments in a big way, not just search and hiring process. the screening process. The sent to team members to re- the recruiting process but Traditional recruitment rise in online job boards has view later and can be a con- the science of identifying, as- processes are tumbling be- also meant a staggering rise venient way to include busy sessing and engaging virtu- hind and being replaced by in job applications. However, co-workers who are a crucial ally would get automated in new and different processes thanks to online application element in the hiring the years to come. The com- of engaging and employing tools and survey processes, process. bination of automation and prospective employees. one can automatically ex- Pre-recorded interviews virtual recruitment will give For example, virtual re- clude unqualified candidates This method allows ap- companies the maximum op- cruitment is on the rise. The from the rest of the recruit- plicants to answer questions portunities to find top talent term virtual recruitment — ment process. Online tools posed by the employer on that fits their workplace and also known as online recruit- such as Skype now allow you Technology-based recruitment processes are on the rise. PHOTO USED FOR REPRESENTATIONAL PURPOSE ONLY video and provides recruit- culture. Virtual recruitment ment or e-recruitment — es- to meet qualified candidates ers the flexibility to evaluate certainly holds promise for sentially encompasses the no matter where they are. Virtual job fairs up, or have employees out of quire applicants to fill out they can upload their re- submissions on their own the future, and there are un- use of Internet-based techno- When in-person interaction Many companies, particu- the office managing it. Also, compatibility forms that de- sume, read more about the time. deniably several benefits for logies to engage, assess and is just not possible, even a larly smaller ones, welcome virtual job fair providers do a termine which companies organisation and watch Social media hiring both job seekers and employ new employees. face-to-face interaction over virtual job fairs because the lot of preliminary screening will be of interest to them. If videos provided by them. As Along with the conven- recruiters. Most organisations are fa- Skype — is still better than participating fee is minimal, for the companies. Rather they are suitable, they will be these job fairs are easy to at- tional hiring methods, tech- (Sriram A.G. is Director – miliar with the attraction settling for a candidate you and it also surpasses the than sharing piles of re- able to check out the organ- tend, they provide immense nology enables us to utilise Talent Acquisition at Juniper phase, which typically in- have doubts about. need to buy a booth, set it sumes, virtual job fairs re- isation’s virtual booth, where opportunities for the candid- various searches in social IEC) EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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M. Ahiraj supposed to flow through BALLARI this canal for 10 to 11 months A.P. police open ire, nab Power generation in the Bal- a year for irrigation, the re- 2 woodcutters from T.N. lari Thermal Power Station lease into it stopped earlier KURNOOL (BTPS) near Kuditini may owing to severe water A special police party, led by come to a complete halt by shortage. Reserve sub-inspector April-end due to severe wa- The decision not to re- Swamy Naik, opened one ter shortage. Only one unit lease water from Tun- round of fire in the air near with a capacity of 500 MW is gabhadra for irrigation was Somalabavi in Lankamalla working now. Two units taken to cater to the drinking reserve forest of A.P. when have been shut down. water needs of Koppal, about 20 woodcutters from Given the receding water Raichur and Ballari in Tamil Nadu tried to attack it. level in storage, supply to Karnataka, and Anantapur, The police apprehended two this unit also may go dry in Kurnool and Cuddapah in woodcutters and seized five 20 to 25 days, sources said. Andhra Pradesh. red sanders logs from them. The BTPS, which has a total installed capacity of 1,700 Clinging to hope Water scarcity MW, comprises two generat- There is a last ray of hope for at Sabarimala ing units with 500 MW each the BTPS. The government PATHANAMTHITTA and another with a capacity may permit it to draw water Sabarimala is in the grip of of 700 MW. from the lower canal when it acute water scarcity. The The BTPS uses 2.04 tmc ft Tough times: A ile photo of the Ballari Thermal Power is released for drinking. Kunnar dam, which has been of recycled water from Mara- Station in Kuditini. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Even then, power generation catering to the water needs lihalla in Koppal district, can be prolonged only by a of the Sabarimala which gets water only when Karnataka government per- ended in November last. few more days. “We have Sannidhanam, has dried up. there is release for irrigation mitted the BTPS to draw wa- To ensure that power gen- presented the facts to the Engineers attached to the from the Tungabhadra reser- ter from the higher canal on eration was not hit, the gov- government and hope it will Travancore Devaswom Board voir. the right bank of the Tun- ernment further permitted permit us to draw water told The Hindu that the As water was not released gabhadra reservoir for which the BTPS to draw water from from the lower canal. We gravitational flow of water for irrigation for the second pumps were installed and the lower canal of the reser- will also approach the from the Kunnar dam had crop in 2015-16 and 2016-17, pipelines laid. However, the voir near Kampli by laying Deputy Commissioner of Sparkling splendour: A giant ‘Bhairavi Kolam’ made of 1,001 fresh areca spathes displayed at stopped with the dam going its main source went dry. intake was limited as the re- additional pumps and Ballari,” Mrutyunjaya, Exec- the Padayani Festival. The festival came to a close at the Puthukulangara Bhagavathy Temple at dry three weeks ago. As an alternative, the lease into the higher canal pipelines. Though water is utive Director of BTPS, said. Othera near Thiruvalla, Kerala, on Tuesday. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Jaya case: SC to consider Karnataka farmers 5 Mangalam TV journalists arrested Karnataka’s review plea escape elephant attack Move imperative for investigation, says Crime Branch Special Correspondent ors and presenters. The CB and space to slyly record the The two were on a two-wheeler Thiruvananthapuram said their arrest was ‘imper- conversation. The scope of ‘Court should have ordered recovery of ₹100 crore ine’ The Kerala Crime Branch on ative’ for the investigation. the probe is likely to expand Sathish G.T. hood rushed to their rescue Tuesday night arrested five Channel chairman Sajan in the coming days. Legal Correspondent petition by circulation and the record.” “If a party dies Hassan and shifted them to a hos- Mangalam TV journalists on Varghese and two other The agency suspects that NEW DELHI also consider an application after the conclusion of the Two farmers were injured pital in Sakleshpur. Later, the suspicion of having de- journalists, Rishi. K. Manoj the conversation was recor- The Supreme Court Bench for “personal hearing” be- arguments and the judg- after an elephant hit their they were taken to Hassan. ceptively recorded and and Lakshmi Mohan, were ded outside the studio. Ef- of Justices P.C. Ghose and fore the court. ment is reserved, there is no vehicle while they were on Around 30 elephants broadcast an audio sex tape let off after questioning. forts were on to identify the Amitava Roy will, on Wed- question of abatement of ap- their way to the fields on a have been roaming in parts targeting former Transport They still remain accused in location. The clarity of the nesday, consider a review ‘No question’ peal,” Karnataka had sub- two-wheeler near the Vala- of Alur and Sakleshpur Minister A.K. Saseendran. the case. audio indicated that the cell petition filed by the The State contended that the mitted. The State said lahalli village in Sakleshpur taluks, and three persons The arrested are: chief ex- phone was linked to a sound Karnataka government, Supreme Court’s finding in though a plea for a jail sen- taluk on Tuesday. have died in attacks in re- ecutive officer R. Ajith Ku- Recording on the sly capturing device. challenging the abatement its February 14, 2017 judg- tence had become “infructu- Ritesh, 31, and Mahesh, cent days. Hassan Deputy mar, ‘investigation team’ The agency said more per- The police would rely on of its appeal against former ment that the corruption ous”, the court should have 51, fell off the vehicle, but Conservator of Forests M.L. leader R. Jayachandran alias sons could be involved in the cell phone call data analysis Tamil Nadu Chief Minister case against Ms. Jayalalithaa ordered the recovery of the managed to escape. The ele- Manjunath has written to S. Narayanan, news coordin- conspiracy that resulted in to retrace the digital foot- Jayalalithaa in the dispropor- stood abated with her de- ₹100 crore fine imposed on phant kept hitting the two- the department seeking per- ating editor M. B. Santosh, the resignation of the Minis- prints of the accused in an tionate assets case. mise on December 5, 2016, Ms. Jayalalithaa by the trial wheeler repeatedly. mission to capture the Firoz Sali Muhammad and ter. Some of them could attempt to reconstruct the The Bench will decide the was an “error on the face of court from her estate. People in the neighbour- elephants. S.V. Pradeep, both news edit- have provided technical aid crime. 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President greets people Alleges involvement of Lalu’s son in soil purchase scam on Ram Navami NEW DELHI Amarnath Tewary President Pranab Mukherjee Patna wished people on the Senior Bihar BJP leader occasion of Ram Navami on Sushil Kumar Modi on Tues- Tuesday, calling them to day demanded sacking of Bi- re-dedicate themselves to har Environment and Forest the progress and prosperity Minister Tej Pratap Yadav for of the country. his alleged involvement in In a series of tweets, he said: the soil purchase scam. “Warm greetings and best “I demand from Chief wishes to all my fellow Minister Nitish Kumar a countrymen in India and high-level probe into the soil abroad on the auspicious purchase scam and sacking occasion of Ram Navami...” of Environment and Forest PTI Minister Tej Pratap Yadav Call for probe: BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi during the from the Cabinet,” Mr. Modi Janata Durbar in Patna on Tuesday. * PTI said on the sidelines of his Man accused in 28 cases weekly Janata Durbar at his mall of the State is being con- aide of Mr. Lalu Prasad, was held after shootout official residence in Patna. structed by a company given the tender for soil MUZAFFARNAGAR owned by an RJD MLA…Mr. filling at Patna zoo and “for The U.P. police on Tuesday ₹90-lakh contract Tej Pratap, his younger the last two months the pur- claimed to have arrested after Mr. Modi further charged Mr. brother and State Dy CM Te- chased soil has been un- a shootout near Pachenda Tej Pratap, elder son of Mr. jaswi Yadav and their sister loaded at Patna zoo from 10 road here a wanted criminal Lalu Prasad, with giving a Chanda Yadav, are directors p.m. to 4 a.m., which is pro- allegedly involved in 28 cases ₹90-lakh contract for earth of the company which holds hibited,” alleged Mr. Modi. of loot and murder. filling work at Patna zoo the land,” Mr. Modi charged. However, Mr. Dojan told The accused had escaped without following the tender Mr. Modi said RJD MLA journalists that he runs a from police custody on process. “The zoo falls un- from Sursand Assembly con- construction company and December 12, 2016, Senior der his Department...The stituency Sayed Abu Dojan’s “if Sushil Modi wants to con- Superintendent of Police soil was from a piece of land company was constructing struct something on his land Bablu Kumar said. He claimed at Saguna Mor in Patna the shopping mall. Virendra his company will do it for Smiles all around: The Kashmir Valley received intermittent rain on Tuesday morning while many areas in the higher reaches the sub-inspector in-charge where the biggest shopping Yadav of Rupaspur, a close him as well”. received fresh snowfall. The weatherman has forecast continuous rain till the weekend. * NISSAR AHMAD of the crime branch and a constable suffered bullet wounds during the encounter. There was a bounty of Protest over liquor shops’ relocation ₹50,000 for information Crackdown on cyberspace in Kashmir leading to the arrest of the accused, he said . PTI Women residents of Odisha village lead agitation J&K police say it is to stop smear campaign of oicials, but netizens worried where residents do not want opening of shops allegedly A top police official told March 28. The video of the who threatened profession- Satyasundar Barik Peerzada Ashiq Man held with ₹27 lakh BHUBANESWAR liquor to be easily available ignoring people’s protests, Srinagar The Hindu there was a con- police officer went viral, als and government func- from a train at Ajmer Pushed away from the Na- in their vicinity. many districts are examining certed campaign online with his pictures pasted all tionaries through their posts JAIPUR tional Highways following objections from the resid- An online smear campaign against officials and police- over social media like Face- and uploads have been ar- The Government Railway the Supreme Court order, re- Temporary tent ents before taking a final against government officials, men, “making their position book and Twitter. rested,” the police said. Police (GRP) have seized tail liquor outlets are moving In Nuapada district, villagers decision. especially police officers at precarious in society”. However, Valley-based unaccounted cash amounting closer to the villages in held protests against a “We have closed down 36 the forefront of the clamp- Several policemen and Videos and posts bloggers and social media to ₹27 lakh in new currency Odisha, much to the frustra- vendor who started selling li- liquor outlets along the high- down on protesters, on government official were be- “It was reported and found activists see the police move notes from a 32-year-old tion of the residents, particu- quor from a temporary tent ways. The vendors have ap- Tuesday forced the police to ing trolled online for their that some videos and posts as “deliberate intimidation”. passenger at Ajmer railway larly women. at Sakhatora village after be- plied for relocation of their launch its first-ever major role in cracking down on were uploaded and shared to “The by-polls are round station. Babu Bhai was Almost all 1,712 liquor ing asked to shut shop along shops. We have also received crackdown on cyberspace in protesters. The fresh crack- harm the repute of some the corner. There is growing arrested from the general shops identified to be oper- the highway. a number of objections from the Valley, fuelling anxiety down against netizens was professionals and officers,” anger and alienation. The coach of an Ahmedabad- ating within 500 metres dis- Protests have also erupted villagers over the new loca- among netizens. triggered by a recent smear said Mr. Sheeri. move is aimed at capping the bound train on Monday night. tance from national and in districts such as Kendra- tion of the shops. We will According to J&K police campaign against a Station Scores of social-media ground reality from emer- GRP SP (Ajmer) Omprakash State Highways have been para, Jagatsinghpur, take a final decision on the spokesman Manoj Sheeri, House Officer-level officer users have been questioned ging on the social media. said the man’s luggage was shut down in the State. Khordha, Jajpur and Bhad- relocation by the second the police have activated (SHO) who stopped an am- at police stations in Srin- Such acts tantamount to in- checked after he got uneasy These shops are planning to rak. week of April,” said Kendra- their technical cells to mon- bulance carrying the body of agar's Pantha Chowk, Za- timidation,” said a Srinagar- on seeing policemen and this relocate to interior areas, While some district ad- para District Collector Mur- itor activities on social media a youth, killed near the en- koora and Chanapora areas based blogger on the condi- prompted the search. PTI triggering protests in villages ministrations have allowed alidhar Mallick. across Kashmir. counter site in Budgam on so far. “Some miscreants tion of anonymity. 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Soumya Das The functionary also said Press trust of india KOLKATA that armed rallies were Mumbai Various Hindu right-wing “nothing new during Ram Renowned Hindustani clas- Rakhi Sawant not yet groups affiliated to the Navami and have been held sical vocalist Kishori arrested, say police Rashtriya Swyamsevak in the past.” Amonkar, who was LUDHIANA Sangh (RSS) have planned RSS Pranta Prachar Pra- cremated on Tuesday with The Punjab police on Tuesday the “largest ever demonstra- mukh of Dakshin Banga full state honours, was denied reports that actor tion in Bengal” to mark Ram (South Bengal) Biplab Roy hailed by the music and Rakhi Sawant, against whom Navami. In the week-long said such a “large scale cel- political fraternity as an ex- a local court had issued an events, slated to begin on ebration of Ram Navami in traordinary singer whose arrest warrant for her alleged Wednesday and continue till Bengal indicates increasing soulful renditions will live objectionable remarks April 11, 350 rallies will be interest in Hindutva.” on forever. Amonkar, 84, against sage Valmiki, has held across the 22 districts of died here on Monday after a been arrested. They said she the State. BJP support brief illness. was not found at her house in The organisers claim they State president of the Bhar- Those who attended the Mumbai. The warrant was will focus on six places — atiya Janata Party Dilip cremation at the Dadar issued by a local court on Kolkata and five districts. Ghosh confirmed that he crematorium included Ma- In memory forever: A portrait of Kishori Amonkar at the March 9. PTI Outside Kolkata, the rallies Safron surge: A rally taken out last week by right wing would attend the rally in his harashtra Cultural Affairs Ravindra Natya Mandir on Tuesday. * VIVEK BENDRE Geetha Johri appointed will be “fully armed”, RSS groups in Kolkata. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Assembly constituency in Minister Vinod Tawde, san- Gujarat police chief sources told The Hindu. Kharagpur. A large section of toor maestro Pandit Shivku- our before the cremation. the demise of Amonkar was AHMEDABAD Inspector General (Law day, and one in north Kolk- an RSS functionary said. BJP cadres were actively in- mar Sharma, musician Ab- Amonkar’s eldest son Nihar an irreparable loss to Indian A 1982 batch IPS officer, and Order) Anuj Sharma said ata on Saturday. Three RSS About 70,000 volunteers volved in organising the ral- hijit Pohankar, actor Vikram lit the funeral pyre. classical music. Geetha Johri, was on Tuesday “standard security measures affiliated organisations are had begun assembling over lies, he said. Gokhale, acclaimed percus- Earlier, Amonkar’s body “Deeply pained by her de- appointed DGP in-charge of will be adopted" for the coordinating the rallies on the past one month, the RSS While most of the district sionist Taufiq Qureshi and was kept at the Ravindra mise. The works of Kishori Gujarat. She is the first event. Chief Minister the ground. source said. rallies will take place on noted playback singer Natya Mandir in Prabhadevi Amonkar will always remain woman to head the State’s Mamata Banerjee said on “We are expecting at least In the districts, “they will Wednesday, the rallies in As- Suresh Wadkar. Singer Ma- to enable people to pay their popular for years to come,” police force. The appointment Tuesday: “Lord Ram did not 10,000 people to participate be carrying swords, tridents ansol in Bardhaman will be hesh Kale and theatre and last respects. he tweeted. Congress pres- comes after the resignation of need to resort to riots and in the rallies in the city. We as well as bows and arrows. held on Friday, and those in film director Vijaya Mehta ident Sonia Gandhi said the P.P. Pandey, who was serving slandering to kill Ravan.” will deploy about 1,000 vo- Most of the arms will be the South 24 Paraganas and also paid their tributes to PM mourns loss country had lost the most a three-month extension till Five rallies will be taken lunteers to ensure that the ones which were used by Hooghly districts will be Amonkar, whose body was Paying his tributes, Prime prominent exponent of April-end. out in Kolkata on Wednes- event becomes a success,” Lord Ram,” sources said. taken out on Sunday. draped in the national tricol- Minister Narendra Modi said Jaipur Gharana. ‘Mumbai varsity needs to focus more on placements’ Chhattisgarh SC mulls over expanding girl accuses its crèche facility Information for rankings, such as median salaries of students, could not be provided, says professor police of rape ‘Separate rooms need to be created’ Shreya Ramachandran Two specialised institutes the list. However, there is sig- Staff reporter Mumbai — Homi Bhabha National In- nificant scope for improve- NAGPUR Legal Correspondent is any prospect of expand- The reason the University of stitute and Institute of Chem- ment,” said Agnelo Menezes, The family of a teenage tri- NEW DELHI ing the services with the Mumbai didn’t feature in the ical Technology — featured Principal, St. Xavier’s Col- bal girl from Sukma district The Supreme Court has ex- present infrastructure,” a country’s top 100 universit- on the Top 100 Universities lege. in south Chhattisgarh has pressed dissatisfaction Bench led by Justice Ran- ies as per rankings released list, as does Narsee Monjee accused security personnel with the crèche facility it jan Gogoi observed. by the Union Ministry of Hu- Institute of Management Data mismatch of rape. offers staffers and lawyers Senior advocate Indira man Resource Development Studies, privately funded, St. Andrew’s College, However, the police are on the court complex even Jaising, appearing for ad- on Monday is because it does and Tata Institute of Social Bandra, submitted data to be yet to register an FIR. as it asked the Registry to vocate Anindita Pujari in a not prioritise tracking the Sciences, Centrally funded. considered for the ranking The 15-year-old’s family, smarten up the service. public interest litigation placements of students and Vijay Joshi, Principal of KJ but did not feature in the top from Chintagufa in the “There is no doubt that petition (PIL), said more fa- their future career destina- Somaiya College, said, “In In- 100. “Many of the features Maoist-hit district, said the the crèche facility is inad- cilities needed to be cre- tions, said Neeraj Hatekar, dia, we do not have a docu- are more designed towards incident took place on the equate. The service needs ated, like separate rooms, professor at the Department mentation culture. Many im- science and technology col- morning of April 1. The to be smart. You should ex- so that more children of Economics and member portant factors about leges. We are an arts and father of the victim has al- plore the possibility of could be left in the care of of the university’s Internal student and teaching life do commerce college, so could leged that a group of po- moving into a new building the crèche by working Quality Assurance Cell. not get measured. Metrics not match up to the met- licemen came to his house and also see whether there parents. The National Institutional such as the NIRF are import- rics,” said Marie Fernandes, around 4 a.m. and attacked Rankings Framework (NIRF) ant as they encourage a cul- Principal. his family. measures resources for ture of measuring quality Despite this differenti- Two local journalists, teaching and learning, re- and we sorely lack such ation, the university should who spoke to the victim search, graduation out- measures,” he said. aim to focus more on gradu- and her family, said the lat- comes, outreach and inclus- In the list of top 100 col- ation outcomes and tracking ter continue to be in shock. ivity, and peer perception as not place importance on rankings — placements, and leges, St. Xavier’s College students’ careers and place- However, Sukma district key parameters. “Some de- placements of students. We median salaries of students was the only one from Mum- ments, said Mr. Hatekar. “It Superintendent of Police partments and colleges indi- do not keep track of where after graduating — could not bai to find mention, at rank is a wake-up call for us to Abhishekh Meena denied vidually keep track, but in students go after graduating. be provided,” Mr. Hatekar 40. “It is a point of pride that take placements and student that the incident took general the university does Information required for the said. we have been featured on monitoring more seriously.” place. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

NOIDA/DELHI THE HINDU 8 EDITORIAL WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 2017 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE My way on the highway The top court’s orders banning liquor sale on highways encroach upon the executive’s domain of policymaking be. For this reason, the Supreme ecting the state to ban all junk food, Court’s reference to the “expert de- on the ground that it was failing in termination” of the Union govern- its obligations under Article 21 Sting in the tale ment does not help, because the through its inaction. question is not whether the gov- And second, the court’s conclu- A Kerala minister’s exit after a ‘sting’ operation ernment’s determination is correct sion ought to have rested on irmer spurs a debate on privacy vs public interest gautam bhatia or incorrect, but which body is au- evidentiary foundations than it thorised to act upon that did. The court did — as pointed out he matter is now under a judicial inquiry, but the determination. above — refer to the Union’s circu- ecades ago, Lon Fuller, the That the court was itself aware of lars and policy documents, which resignation recently of a minister in the Kerala famous American legal the insuiciency of this argument had found a correlation between Tgovernment turns the spotlight once again on the Dphilosopher, coined the is clear from the fact that it went on access to liquor along highways tricky journalistic terrain of the sting operation. A new term “polycentric problems”. Cer- to justify its order under Article 21 and road deaths, and then ob- Malayalam television channel, Mangalam TV, had deb- tain social issues, according to of the Constitution, which guaran- served that it would defer to these uted on March 26 with a splash. It broadcast an audio re- Fuller, involved a complex set of in- tees the right to life and personal indings. However, this was not a cording allegedly of the then Transport Minister of Ker- terdependent relationships, where liberty (this argument was reiter- case where the court was adjudic- ala, A.K. Saseendran, purportedly seeking sexual changing one feature could result ated in the March 31 order). The ating upon the validity of adminis- in unforeseen and far-reaching court observed that it was “not trative action, where a simple, de- favours from a woman who had come to him for assist- changes to other features. A poly- fashion[ing] its own policy but en- ferential approach would be DEEPAK HARICHANDAN DEEPAK ance. Her end of the conversation was not put out, and centric problem was like a spider forc[ing] the right to life under Art- appropriate. Here, the court was the channel reported that it had got the tape directly web, where “a pull on one strand and restaurants — has led to the amine whether it is persuasive on icle 21 of the Constitution based on using the Union’s policy docu- from the woman. Mr. Saseendran put up a defence im- will distribute tensions after a com- paradoxical consequence of even its own terms. the considered view of expert bod- ments to make a inding that the puting that all was not what it appeared on the broad- plicated pattern throughout the members-only clubs being forced In its December 15 order — ies”. States were in breach of their oblig- cast — but in the ensuing storm, resigned. Four days web as a whole”. Fuller argued that to go dry because of their proxim- which it then reiterated on March ations under Article 21. This, I later, on March 30, the CEO of the channel went on air the judiciary was particularly ill- ity to a highway. 31 — the court referred to a number Article 21 and weak evidence would submit, required more ex- suited to resolve polycentric prob- Fuller’s argument about poly- of government policy documents Now, it may be argued that Article acting scrutiny (and a legal test of to render an apology, presumably for misrepresenting lems. The structure of the judicial centric disputes is relected in the that drew a correlation between al- 21 is not merely a right against state causation) than what the court en- matters, though we must await the inquiry report to get process was not oriented towards scheme of the Indian Constitution, cohol consumption and road acci- action that deprives an individual gaged in. a inal picture of what transpired. The CEO, signiic- taking into account the efect that a which, like most other Constitu- dents. It also referred to the fact of her life, but also against state in- antly, admitted that a woman journalist with the chan- ruling would have on the many in- tions, mandates a separation of that the Central government had is- action that results in loss of life. In Complete justice nel had conducted the sting, suggesting this was in real- terdependent strands of a poly- powers between the executive, the sued circulars “advising” State gov- other words, the argument might Lastly, the court concluded by cla- ity a kind of honey trap. As things stand, the CEO and centric situation. Furthermore, legislature, and the judiciary, and ernments not to grant any new li- be that road deaths could be pre- rifying that it was passing orders eight other Mangalam employees have been booked un- the judiciary did not have the time, places policymaking irmly in the cences to liquor shops along the vented if the state was to refuse to under Article 142 of the Constitu- the resources, or the institutional domain of the executive. For this highways. On this basis, the court grant liquor licences in the proxim- tion. Article 142 empowers the Su- der sections of the Information Technology Act and the expertise to engage in the kind of reason the Supreme Court’s order observed: “The issue is whether ity of highways. The state’s failure preme Court to do “complete Indian Penal Code. Mr. Saseendran, who had been the ine-grained, evidence-based, has come under criticism in the such liquor licences should be to do so is a breach of its obliga- justice” in any case before it. How- lone minister from the Nationalist Congress Party in the compromise-requiring balancing last few days. Apart from its poly- granted on national and state high- tions under Article 21, and the ever, this power is bounded by the Left Democratic Front government in Kerala, must wait act that was required to prevent centric consequences, it has been ways at the cost of endangering hu- court’s order merely enforced a further requirement that the court out the inquiry process before making a bid to regain the web from snapping altogether. argued that banning alcohol — and man lives and safety. In our view, fundamental right by requiring the act “within its jurisdiction”. Article his portfolio. The Supreme Court’s order on micromanaging the distance from which is based on the expert de- state to act. 142, therefore, is not a carte The ethics of sting operations is among the most December 15, 2016 — which it mod- the highways where alcohol can- termination of the Union govern- If this is the legal foundation of blanche for the Supreme Court to iied and expanded on March 31, not be sold — is a classic example of ment, we hold that the answer the judgment, however, then it implement its vision of justice, iercely debated issues in journalism. And while difer- 2017 — prohibiting the sale of alco- policymaking, and that the Su- should be in the negative.” misses two crucial building blocks. without regard to issues of institu- ent jurisdictions and media groups around the world hol within 500 metres of national preme Court has indulged in “judi- This formulation, however, First, the court ought to have tional competence and legitimacy. have varying guidelines on the subject, some things are and State highways highlights the cial overreach”. elides two diferent questions: provided a test for the degree of In the liquor ban case, despite its generally agreed upon. Any such operation that uses perils of polycentric adjudication. what should be done about a prob- proximity between state (in)action eforts to do so, the court has failed false pretences, with its necessary violation of the inter- While the stated reason for this or- The court’s reasoning lem, and who should do it. The and loss of life, for a inding that to make out a compelling case for viewee’s trust and privacy, must serve a larger public in- der is the overriding imperative of Importantly, however, unlike point of Fuller’s argument about Article 21 had been breached. why its orders do not encroach preventing road accidents due to many other cases in which the Su- polycentric problems, and the There are a lot of things that the upon the executive’s domain of terest that far outweighs such violation. It also must be drunken driving, already there are preme Court has passed far-reach- point of a constitutional scheme of state does, or does not do, which policymaking. Its polycentric con- used as a last resort, when there is no other means of ac- reports about the collateral con- ing orders in the course of “public separation of powers, is precisely ultimately afect peoples’ lives. For sequences — which are only now quiring the information sought, and must be the out- sequences: lost livelihoods and a interest litigation”, in this case, the that certain questions — in this instance, people would probably emerging — lend further credence come of considerable editorial deliberation. Stings substantial hit in tourism for States court has gone to some lengths to case, the question of whether the live longer, and there would be to the view that the court has, in- were never intended to entrap or induce people into such as Goa, to name just two. The defend its alcohol-banning order government should grant liquor li- fewer deaths by heart attacks, if the deed, overreached. committing wrongdoing or, as seems likely in this case, court’s clariication — that its initial against claims of judicial over- cences in the proximity of high- state was to ban all junk food. That, embarrassing themselves badly. Stings are an ethical order applied not merely to “liquor reach. We must therefore engage ways — should not be answered by however, would not justify the vends”, but also to bars, hotels, with the court’s reasoning, and ex- a court, whatever the answer may court invoking Article 21 and dir- Gautam Bhatia is a Delhi-based lawyer mineield and it is imperative that publications and broadcasters explain the vital public interest for con- ducting them. Journalists count on the readers’ — in- deed the public’s — goodwill to evade the establish- ment’s potentially vindictive response to an exposé. A The right to recall legislators sting cannot be an excuse to grab eyeballs with prurient (and essentially private) content, or a shortcut to make It must coexist with the right to vote in order to deepen our democratic roots a point merely by shocking the reader or viewer. Doing so risks eroding that goodwill and leaving journalists fa- and individuals accused of corrup- Representation of the People Act, should be designated to supervise cing harsh charges, often deservedly so. tion were banished this way. 1951, only provides for “vacation of and execute the process. The modern-day right to recall is oice upon the commission of cer- Having such a right ofers a mech- a direct successor of such methods. tain ofences and does not account anism to ensure vertical accountab- A recall election is typically a pro- for general incompetence of the ility. Such a right would be a signiic- The IPL at ten cess by which voters seek to remove representatives or dissatisfaction of ant check on corruption along with feroze varun gandhi elected oicials through a direct the electorate as a ground for vaca- ongoing criminalisation of politics. In an ironic, yet vivid way, the Indian Premier vote before their term is completed. tion”. However, due care must be Numerous studies highlight that It has been in place in Canada’s Le- taken in the introduction of legisla- “elected representatives who are League has held up the mirror to cricket “There can be no doubt, that if power gislative Assembly of British tion associated with such laws. Cali- not up for election behave difer- is granted to a body of men, called Columbia since 1995. Voters can pe- fornia’s gubernatorial recall elec- ently to those who are” — economic week after India clinched the Test series against Representatives, they like any other tition to have their parliamentary tions are notorious for the inluence growth is typically higher and Australia at Dharamsala, the memory of both the men will use their power not for the representatives removed from of- of special interests, with Governor taxes, spending and borrowing Aine victory and the bad blood that marred those advantage of the community but for ice, even if the MLA is the premier, GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO Davis’ recall vote, in 2003, a classic costs are lower under re-election- matches can be pushed to the sidelines. Such is the their own advantage, if they can.” with a by-election ensuing soon also exists at local level bodies in example. eligible incumbents than those op- nature of frenetic cricket calendars that the Indian — James Mill after. In the United States, the states Madhya Pradesh, Bihar and Chhat- erating under ixed-term limits. of Alaska, Georgia, Kansas, Min- tisgarh. Nearly a decade ago, Lok Some safeguards A free and fair election is a right Premier League has already rolled in, its tenth edition he ancient Athenians, under nesota, Montana, Rhode Island and Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee To encourage the process of the of the citizens of the country. When commencing with the match between the defending their unique democracy, Washington allow for recall on spe- sought the introduction of a system right to recall, legislative change is their elected representatives no came up with a social custom. champion, Sunrisers Hyderabad, and last year’s run- T ciic grounds such as misconduct or of a “Right to Recall” of a legislator needed which seeks to introduce re- longer enjoy the conidence of the Each year, in the sixth or seventh ner-up, Royal Challengers Bangalore, on April 5. Spread malfeasance. to ensure accountability. According call petitions, for elected represent- people, the people must have a month of their 10-month calendar, over 47 days and featuring 60 matches, the IPL has over to a media report of 2011, in Gujarat, atives in the Lok Sabha and in re- right to remove them. The true idea all the men were asked in their as- Its progress in India the State Election Commission had spective Legislative Assemblies. of democracy can only be achieved the years blended the instant gratiication of the sembly whether they wished to This is not a new concept for India. advised amendments to introduce a While it is necessary to ensure that a on this ediice of accountability for Twenty20 format with a sense of longevity, having hold an ostracism. If it was a yes, an The concept of “Rajdharma”, right to recall of elected members in recall process is not frivolous and politicians. Having a process to re- prospered since its inception in 2008. On the ield, sus- ostracism was held two months wherein the lack of efective gov- municipalities, districts, talukas does not became a source of harass- call could also limit campaign later, in a reserved section of the pense and sixes, upsets and consistency, lair and acro- ernance was a cause for removal of and village panchayats. ment to elected representatives, the spending, as morally skewed can- local agora. Here, citizens wrote batic ielding have all combined to energise the league. a king, has been spoken about since In a irst-past-the-post system in a process should have several built-in didates weigh the risk of being re- down the names of those they The inaugural event witnessed a classic reprise of David the Vedic times. One of India’s lead- democracy, unfortunately, not safeguards such as an initial recall called. This right would help en- wished to be ostracised on shards of ing humanists, M.N. Roy, proposed, every elected representative truly petition to kick-start the process gender direct democracy in our vs Goliath. Unheralded Rajasthan Royals stunned the pottery, which were then deposited in 1944, a shift to a decentralised enjoys the mandate of the people. and electronic-based voting to i- country, broadening access and fancied Chennai Super Kings (CSK), and ironically both in urns. Oicials counted the and devolved form of governance, Logic and justice necessitate that if nally decide its outcome. Further- raising inclusiveness. To deepen teams are currently serving a two-year suspension, a shards. Whoever had the largest allowing for representatives to be the people have the power to elect more, it should ensure that a repres- democracy, the right to recall must just punishment following ghastly violations that neg- pile of ostraka — the pieces of elected and recalled. Jayaprakash their representatives, they should entative cannot be recalled by a be given hand in hand with the right broken pottery that were used in ated the spirit of the game. If S. Sreesanth, Ajit Chandila Narayan, in 1974, spoke extensively also have the power to remove these small margin of voters and that the to vote. voting — was banned from the city and Ankeet Chavan’s alleged forays into spot-fixing den- on the subject. Section 47 of the Ch- representatives when they engage recall procedure truly represents for 10 years. ted the Royals in 2013, further damage was caused to hattisgarh Nagar Palika Act, 1961, in misdeeds or fail to fulil their du- the mandate of the people. To en- Feroze Varun Gandhi, a Member of Even though such methods provides for holding of elections to ties. There exists no recourse for the sure transparency and independ- Parliament representing the Sultanpur the league when CSK’s Gurunath Meiyappan was lacked due process and the course recall elected oicials due to non- electorate if they are unhappy with ence, chief petition oicers from constituency for the BJP, has introduced a deemed guilty of betting. Even Rajasthan Royals co- of justice, many would-be tyrants performance. The Right to Recall their elected representative. The within the Election Commission bill in Parliament on the right to recall owner Raj Kundra fell in the same category, and tragic- ally for the IPL, the thrills on the ground were marred by the problems that shadowed its fringes. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Ironically, the IPL has actually held a mirror up to Letters emailed to [email protected] must carry the full postal address and the full name or the name with initials. and drawn more scrutiny into the afairs of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) than have the game’s Africa’s ire would be bought to book. parallel here with the way the Election Commission their standards periodically quest. It will check the The fact that African The envoys should have we discriminate against ever tested machines when (“IISc tops national exodus of our students to longer, more traditional formats. The cosy-club atmo- nationals were mercilessly been a little more patient till Indians from the South and new symbols were added rankings, IIT-Madras comes pursue higher education in sphere that sullied the richest cricket board, the nepot- attacked in Greater Noida the investigations were the Northeast. without removing the old second”, April 4). But the U.S and other western ism and an indiference to probity, all came into full recently is undeniably a blot completed. African students The fact is that India is ones? In any case, the remaining competitive at countries. public view, with the Supreme Court sitting up and tak- on India, and is a racial have always found a home losing goodwill among strange feature of multiple the global level and inding R. Sridharan, ing notice. The repercussions of the 2013 spot-ixing crime. The collective in India for decades while African nations at a time printing of BJP symbols a ranking among the irst Chennai and betting controversy are even now felt as it sowed sentiment of the African pursuing higher education. when we are competing only, especially when that top 100 universities in the more letters online: the seeds for the wide-ranging reforms suggested by the envoys seeking a U.N. probe They have hardly with China for business in party rules the State and world should be our next www.hindu.com/opinion/letters/ has to be duly respected encountered racial Africa. Such attacks will Centre, gives rise to Justice R.M. Lodha Panel, and now the Committee of corrections & clarifications: from the Indian diplomatic problems. Trade ties with only alienate Africa and also suspicion. The EC’s Administrators appointed by the court has its hands Errors in “Data Point - A high toll” (April 3, 2017, OPED page angle (“African envoys seek Africa are on the upswing shatter India’s reputation as admission that its graphic): The igures of casualties in various States due to heat full. A summer sporting carnival, a domestic tourna- U.N. probe into Noida and both sides must a place where everybody is procedure was not followed wave got mixed up while formatting. The toll in Telangana — 584 ment with an international lavour, as Rahul Dravid de- attacks”, April 4). But when endeavour to see that such welcome. One hopes that and the District Election and 300 — actually correspond respectively to years 2015 and 2016 scribed it, had inexplicably gone beyond its pulsating one dispassionately looks at unpleasant incidents do not Indians in Africa do not Oicer concerned has been (not 2013 and 2014). In Maharashtra, the igure 43 corresponds to cricket and virtually prised out the BCCI’s heart. The the other side of the story, it overshadow overall sufer collateral damage. replaced is, by itself, proof year 2016 (not 2015). In Chhattisgarh, the igure 14 corresponds to might even open a interests. Akshay Viswanathan, enough that manipulation year 2014 (not 2013). In Kerala, the igure 4 corresponds to 2016 IPL not only changed the way cricket was played, in- (not 2013). Pandora’s box. Prudence K.R. Srinivasan, Thiruvananthapuram of the machine is simple. creasing the tempo and adding big bucks to the players’ lies in both sides arriving at Secunderabad The EC should also The front-page graphic titled “Countering fakes” (April 3, 2017) kitty, it also inadvertently ushered in a course-correc- an amicable solution. EVM ‘malfunction’ convince people that erroneously referred to the Chandrayaan logo on the ₹2000 note. It should have been Mangalyaan. tion for the BCCI. Surely, the league has come a long N. Visveswaran, ■ The racial attacks on The Election Commission machines ‘kept in reserve’ way since it started with a leg-bye when Kolkata Knight Chennai African students and the clariications, on the are tamper-proof. Editing error: A story (April 3, 2017) on the rape of a minor girl inside a temple in Baripada had a wrong headline. The incident Rider’s skipper Sourav Ganguly squared up to Royal attitude of the Indian police malfunction of the Voter P.R.V. Raja, did not take place inside the temple in Puri as the headline ■ Pandalam, Kerala Challengers Bangalore’s Praveen Kumar in the irst One is surprised by the expose the double Veriiable Paper Audit Trail suggested. match in 2008 in Bangalore. It was the lull before the decision of the African standards we have towards during trial runs in Bhind, envoys to approach the U.N. racism. We scream Madhya Pradesh, in the Ranking institutions It is the policy of The Hindu to correct signiicant errors as soon as possible. Please specify storm unleashed by Brendon McCullum’s savage un- the edition (place of publication), date and page. The Readers’ Editor’s office can be India not only condemned ourselves hoarse when run-up to the by-elections, Ranking among higher contacted by Telephone: +91-44-28418297/28576300 (11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday to beaten 158 of just 73 balls. There have been many other the attacks on the African Indians are attacked abroad are not very convincing educational institutions Friday); Fax: +91-44-28552963; E-mail:[email protected]; Mail: Readers’ Editor, The Hindu, Kasturi Buildings, 859 & 860 Anna Salai, Chennai 600 002, India. storms since and as for what will happen this time students but also gave the but treat our African guests (“EC explains VVPAT motivates them to remain All communication must carry the full postal address and telephone number. No personal around, no one can hazard a guess. assurance that the guilty with contempt. There is a ‘malfunction’,” April 4). Has competitive as well improve visits. The Terms of Reference for the Readers’ Editor are on www.thehindu.com

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THE WEDNESDAY INTERVIEW | TARIQ KARIM ‘Teesta remains a litmus test for India, Bangladesh’ The former Bangladesh High Commissioner to India on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s irst bilateral visit to Delhi in seven years this weekend

Suhasini Haidar ise that between us, as even structure in Bangladesh, cooperation the focus of this at present 60% of our flows then our friends in India can visit. Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s visit this weekend just goes right into the sea. use those same roads to will be her first bilateral visit in seven years. The two sides are We should do what we can, travel east too. China too But why is this the expected to announce a slew of agreements on connectivity, en- and wait for the obstacles to needs Indian roads [through mindset at all? In March, ergy and trade, but former High Commissioner of Bangladesh to be ironed out. After all, we the Northeast] to come into for example, PM Hasina India Tariq Karim, who remains a key interlocutor in the sub- did this with SAARC, where Bangladesh. So, I don’t think spoke on a radio show, continent, says the focus remains on the Teesta agreement. The we agreed to go ahead with these concerns are justified. blaming Indian landmark water-sharing deal has remained unresolved, mainly the BBIN (Bangladesh, intelligence agencies for due to differences between the West Bengal and Central govern- Bhutan, India Nepal) sub- <> Sheikh Hasina is interfering in Bangladeshi ments. Excerpts: grouping on connectivity. telling the politics, in the 2001 opposition that she elections which she lost. You were High [Hasina’s] Adviser [Gowher Connectivity is the area of is not a stooge of Why does this impression Rizvi] would meet the NSA greatest focus during the persist? Commissioner when PM India, that she is able Hasina last came to Delhi [Shivshankar Menon] once a visit. India is expected to to stand up and tell ■ for a bilateral visit in 2010. month, and they would as- extend a large line of It’s politics, very simply. Seven years later, how do sess what had been done, credit, and both sides will India what it did (in And political survival. Sheikh you assess the possible what hadn’t. I wish they had announce a list of 2001) was wrong. Hasina is telling the opposi- outcomes of this visit? continued that arrangement. railways, roadways to be tion [Bangladesh Nationalist Bureaucracies, left to them- developed. Yet, in Just as India may overplay Party] that she is not a stooge ■ You will remember that selves, have short attention Bangladesh there is a the China threat, doesn’t of India, that she is able to even in her last visit, Sheikh spans, and distractions come comparison with what Bangladesh overplay the stand up and tell India what Hasina had taken a full year in. Let’s also remember that China has already India threat? Ahead of the it did (in 2001) was wrong. In SHANKER CHAKRAVARTY after being elected before Sheikh Hasina is now in the * promised, which is larger visit, India has been keen our part of the world, mach- coming to Delhi. Even then, second half of her second in money terms, and is to negotiate a defence ismo still counts in when we were asked about term as PM. And that’s prob- If Teesta is taken out Why couldn’t it be done rage has always been held up part of its Belt and Road pact, but opposition to it leadership. scheduling it, I said let’s do lematic for any leader in any <> because we didn’t have the initiative. Should India in Bangladesh means it of the equation as a between New Delhi and the visit when we have some- government in any part of Dhaka then? money, and the donors worry about the Chinese will be an MoU for the But New Delhi has backed thing concrete for both sides the world. If you go to problem, then India would not fund it until India influence in Bangladesh? moment, say officials. the Hasina government coming out of it. That visit re- Bangladesh, even when I and Bangladesh ■ Well, this is where India’s and Bangladesh have a treaty Why the hesitation? 100%, whether it was on configured our relationship, speak of the more than 100 have no quarrels left. principle of ‘cooperative fed- that can assure a certain ■ Well, why does India want the 2014 elections, the set our ties on a new path. It agreements, 90-plus of them eralism’ comes in, that you amount of water will flow in. connectivity? So it can travel ■ Mindsets are difficult to war crimes tribunal and was a game changer. The delivered, 50 more in the can’t do this by an executive The political coalitions of the to parts of Bangladesh. The shatter. It’s easier for people hanging of those PMs then laid out a road pipeline, they only ask, Given that, how hard will order without the concur- time ensured that couldn’t roads that Bangladesh has to tear down the Bastille convicted, that other map, and by the time Man- “Why has Teesta not been it be for PM Hasina to go rence of the State of West happen. If [the Ganges bar- are not of international walls, but very difficult to countries haven’t. Today mohan Singh returned the done?” back without it? Bengal. My question is if the rage] can be done during this standard. The British had tear down the Bastilles in our the government is willing visit, many of the announce- larger national interest can visit, Sheikh Hasina can go built a series of river chan- minds. We have to overcome to support Bangladesh’s ments had been acted upon. In a 2014 interview, you ■ Politically, it will be very be trumped by this mantra of back to Dhaka and say this nels, but we have lost that. this legacy. In 1978, Gen Zia- demand for a World It’s another matter that many called Teesta one of the difficult, very difficult. Teesta cooperative federalism, then was her father’s [Sheikh And they built railways, but ur Rahman signed agree- Genocide Day on March of the agreements set out by litmus tests of the is the one thing the opposi- why can’t the principle of Mujibur Rahman] dream. He they couldn’t cross the big ments with China for cooper- 25. Why does it still face the UPA could not be opera- relationship. Why is it so? tion uses to hit her with. collaborative sub-regional- inherited the Farakka bar- rivers. Now, because of in- ation, and that allowed China this anti-India feeling? tionalised until the Modi gov- They ask if PM Hasina is such ism trump cooperative feder- rage, but always wanted to vestment and modern tech- to become the dominant ernment took over, because ■ It’s a legacy of our past. If a good friend of India, has a alism? Expand your hori- build the Ganges barrage. So nology we have the Jamuna partner in the military ■ Well there have been ques- they lost the political man- we could get past Teesta, we good relationship with West zons, because the dividends if she can say this is done, bridge [built in 1998 by a sphere. Sheikh Hasina also tions about the 2001 election date. But the vision was there can move to the larger vision Bengal Chief Minister are so huge they will eclipse and we move to the basin Korean company with Japan- realises that she has to tread in Bangladesh. I think we all along. PM Modi was able of basin management for all Mamata Banerjee, why can’t all your concerns. management treaty, the nar- ese funding], and we are go- this particular water care- have to face that. And there to cash in on this, and he was the 54 rivers we share. she get this agreement done? rative will divert to more pro- ing to have the Padma bridge fully. Right now [India- is also the political rivalry able to go ahead with it. His Sheikh Hasina would rather So if she has come after Given that the issues ductive engagements. [being built by a Chinese Bangladesh defence coopera- between the Awami League visit in 2015 was a natural not speak of “partitioning” seven years, there must be between the West Bengal company]. To build all these, tion] is not institutionalised, and the BNP, sometimes culmination, and since we or sharing rivers, but their something she can take back. CM and the Centre seem You mentioned many we need investment. India but we have many ex- called the “Battle of the Be- had achieved the land management. You can parti- Look, if Teesta is taken out of unresolved, what are alternatives. Ms. Hasina’s has lofty ideals and goals, but changes. We also have insti- gums”, that fuels this percep- boundary [agreement], con- tion land, but can you parti- the equation as a problem, some of the other options adviser even suggested doesn’t always have the tutionalised the Home Minis- tion on India. But the truth nectivity, all that was remain- tion water or the ecology then India and Bangladesh for the governments to go bringing China, as an money to match them. ters’ meeting, so that we can is, it is changing. In recent ing was the Teesta agree- around it? We have made have no quarrels left. Teesta forward? upper riparian state, into Bangladesh wants to soar in manage our borders better. I years, we have seen so many ment, and he set the course ourselves hostage to the could have been done in the discussions. Isn’t that GDP terms, PM Hasina wants hope we can move on de- delegations from the opposi- for the future of the ties post-colonial neo-West- 2011, as we had the agree- ■ One way of managing this a red flag? to build seven SEZs. We can’t fence as well, maybe an MoU tion BNP also coming to In- again. phalian order that came up ment: a road map on how to visit is to look at what else have those without roads to start with. If you rush too dia, meeting people and after the Second World War. ensure the river doesn’t die. Sheikh Hasina can take back. ■ Well, India would not ac- and power. During this visit, much, there will be a back- meeting with Indian leaders Why has the Teesta We overzealously worry Both sides agreed then that Bangladesh wants two cept it. Frankly, China may you may also see Bhutan and lash. You have to shape the and officials. So I think the agreement still evaded about guarding our national- we must let the river flow, things: water security and not listen to us either. But re- India cooperating with political opinion, and enable perceptions on India are resolution? ity, that it sometimes stops maintain a minimum level energy security. If, for ex- gardless of what it does, Bangladesh on providing Sheikh Hasina to wean away changing, there is more bi- us from doing the right thing and share whatever is above ample, on the Ganges bar- what it builds on its part of power. We could also work from the overdependence on partisan consensus on India, ■ Well, in the past there was which transcends national it half and half. This was ini- rage, India says it will help the rivers, 70% still flows into on rebuilding inland water- China, and diversify but the process is ongoing an institutional framework at borders. Teesta is now an tialled, and all that was left Bangladesh, then that is India and Bangladesh. So we ways sub-regionally. If China Bangladesh’s options. But we and may take some more the highest level, where PM emotive issue like that. was the signing. something. The Ganges bar- must consider how to optim- is coming to invest in infra- should not make the defence time.

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Signs of trouble FIFTY YEARS AGO APRIL 5, 1967 Including Hindi on road signs on Proposal for more cotton imports national highways is understandable, The Commerce Minister, Mr. Dinesh Singh, said in Parliament to-day (April 4, New Delhi) that Government was investigating but not replacing English ones the possibility of overcoming cotton shortage by increasing imports. About the extra one-day closure a week now in force SRINIVASAN RAMANI in mills because of the cotton shortage, Mr. Dinesh Singh said Government was studying various means by which availability After reports pointed to locations of cotton might be improved and closure averted. on milestones being represented in Hindi rather than English on NH A HUNDRED YEARS AGO 75 and NH 77 in Vellore, Tiruvan- APRIL 5, 1917 namalai and Krishnagiri districts, there was the expected sound and Alleged anarchism: Discovery of bombs fury from various Dravidian polit-

GETTY IMAGES An important discovery of bombs and seditious leaflets was * ical parties. This happened despite the fact that Tamil signs were more made yesterday (April 4) at Bhawanipur in the southern sub- or less intact on these highways. Strident opposition to the urbs of Calcutta. A few days ago, a Bengali suspect was arres- move was expressed by the working president of the Dravida ted at Bhawanipur with two revolvers and some cartridges in Munnetra Kazhagam, M.K. Stalin; Marumalarchi Dravida his possession. This revelation and other information at the Munnetra Kazhagam leader Vaiko; and Pattali Makkal Katchi disposal of the police led the authorities to believe in existence CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC president S. Ramadoss. Protests were threatened as the polit- CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC of a gang of dangerous anarchists who had so far evaded in- ternments. Yesterday the C.I.D. Police raided six houses at ical leaders sought to blame the Bharatiya Janata Party-led gov- CONCEPTUAL ernment at the Centre for the move. NOTEBOOK Bhawanipur and arrested a young Bengali named Gopal Chun- Bandwagon der Bera, a native of Midnapore District and student of South Continuum of anti-Hindi agitations effect Schoolboy during the day Suburban School. His house being searched, the police found For these parties, and many others in Tamil Nadu’s civil soci- a number of bombs and numerous seditious leaflets in a trunk. Psychology ety, the change from the use of English to Hindi signs on mile- A revealing conversation in Jharkhand’s Porahat forest stones is not merely a matter of convenience (or inconveni- CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC ence) for itinerants on the road. This was a symbolic The bandwagon effect in- Deepu Sebastian Edmond locality. Some of them During a lull in the conver- overturning of a decades-long policy to use English on a par dicates a tendency among pointed in the vague dir- sation, he introduced him- DATA POINT with Hindi as an oicial language, which was itself a con- people to align their be- We were lost in Porahat ection in which we were self as Platoon Com- sequence of the anti-Hindi agitations of 1965. The agitations liefs and behaviour with forest. Even the two CPI already heading. mander Suresh, but I had marked a milestone in Tamil Nadu politics, which paved the those of a group, with re- (Maoist) sympathisers rid- When we finally made recognised him already as way for extended Dravidian rule in the State. It is no wonder spect to a new idea or ing the two bikes on which it to the village, Platoon Dimba Pahan, the brother that the parties reacted with such alacrity to the reports of sign product, in what could be a photojournalist and I Commander Jeevan Kan- of Jharkhand’s most fam- changes. These protests must also be seen in the continuum of called a herd mentality. In were seated were not sure dulna was waiting for us. ous Maoist, Kundan Pa- agitations that irst began in 1938 against the imposition of this psychological phe- of the direction of the vil- He took his time opening han. I was not supposed to Hindi. nomenon, people do lage in which the People’s up, reluctant to even part identify Dimba Pahan; I That “culture” remains the predominant idiom for political something because others Liberation Guerrilla with his name for the first had seen his photographs expression in Tamil Nadu was evident in the protests for the do it, casting aside or over- Army’s squad was hour, but when he did, it among a set surrepti- conduct of the bull-taming sport, jallikattu. Linguistic asser- riding their own convic- camped. felt like he had been wait- tiously clicked by a source. tion is also a common ploy in these cultural protests and has tions. This is commonly The message we re- ing for someone to listen Curiosity about Kundan been used lately by parties that have not managed to taste noticed in politics, sports ceived in Ranchi, 130 km to him. The conversation Pahan’s whereabouts got power at the State government level. For example, parties and consumer behaviour away, was that a Maoist became more personal the better of me eventu- such as the PMK in the last decade sought to even raise the is- but could have implica- commander wanted to than tactical; instead of ally and I mentioned him sue of hoardings being primarily in English and organised tions in multiple fields. meet us. By November troop movements, we tangentially. Dimba Pahan protests. Numbers are important 2014, Porahat remained began talking about how did not speak again. Including Hindi road signs on national highways is an un- for the effect to take hold one of the last strongholds the murder of one of his When the meeting derstandable idea. Tamil Nadu, as the Economic Survey for and attain a critical mass. of the CPI (Maoist) in sisters by a Maoist splinter ended, the youngsters 2016-17 records, is the State that has shown the fastest rise in Most often, such bandwag- Jharkhand, and all those group made him join the lined up with their guns to in-migration, largely due to its signiicantly urbanised eco- ons have a limited lifetime, within it were high-value CPI (Maoists) to exact re- pose for pictures against nomy, job prospects, and presence of numerous educational for people quickly aban- targets for security forces. venge. the setting sun, so that institutions. Far more people from north India travel to the don the cause as they see Aware that winter At some point, a second they could only be cap- south, and Tamil Nadu in particular, than before. But repla- others leaving. would end the day early, platoon joined us. It had a tured as silhouettes. One cing English — which connects the north and the south and we stopped the few large number of young boy of about eight walked helps travellers within the south — seems illogical and a way of CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC people we encountered boys. Kandulna explained up to me, lugging his .303 stoking pent-up passions. The Centre would be well advised to on the way for directions. that they had a recent re- rifle. “Do you know the take onboard the concerns of the Tamil Nadu polity. There is a MORE ON At one point, mostly to cruitment drive, which is way back?” he asked. perception that linguistic assertion, speciically against Hindi THE WEB 3 make fun of them, we essentially a conscription “Yes, I think so. Why?” being “imposed” as the national language, is issiparous in asked a group of children for nearby villages. A “It’s just that you asked nature. But, as the record shows, since the anti-Hindi agita- Injured Premier League who were on their way short, dark figure walked for directions to some of tions in the 1960s, linguistic autonomy aforded to non-Hindi http://bit.ly/IPLinjuries back from school if they up and sat quietly on the us on our way back from States has only led to greater integration. knew of any Maoists in the floor behind Kandulna. school,” he said.

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CAG audit of GST data Somesh Jha NEW DELHI The CAG has pointed out in “There is no way out, States are now re-classifying Ban was based on official communications in other than auditors getting State Highways into local recent times that under the access to the entire GST data roads following the Supreme new Companies Act, GSTN in a centralised location. Court order on the ban of li- Centre’s studies: SC can be counted as govern- Don’t forget the fact that all quor outlets located within ment-controlled company that tax data, whether it be- 500 metres of National and Krishnadas Rajagopal diction, has neither formu- since its strategic control longs to States or Centre, is State highways came into NEW DELHI lated policy nor (as we will be with the govern- already available to CAG un- effect. The Centre may be placed shall indicate) has it as- ment. Like any PSU, the der existing constitutional The Rajasthan govern- in an unenviable position sumed a legislative func- CAG could depute chartered provisions,” the official said. ment passed an order re- if States, Union Territories tion,” Justice Chandrachud accountants to audit GSTN. Meanwhile, the auditors cently to convert a portion of and liquor associations ap- observed in the March 31 “But that is a minor issue. would be using data avail- their State Highway roads proach it for relief against order. The order said the The real issue is where able from individual States passing through populous the Supreme Court’s ban ban was based on material would auditors get access to to assess their share of taxes areas into urban and district on liquor vends along Na- ranging from the policy of the data,” he said. “We are earned from alcohol and roads. However, some States tional and State Highways. the Union Ministry of Road not so much interested in petrochemicals, which such as Kerala will likely seek For one, the Supreme Transport and Highways auditing GSTN, but the real would be kept out of GST. time from the Supreme Court has put it on record (MoRTH); the decision of issue to be sorted out is the Under the agreed terms, Court to implement its order that the “basis and founda- the National Road Safety massive tax data from all the States will be given full banning the sale of liquor tion” for the ban was de- Council (NRSC), an apex over the country that compensation for the first along highways, taking into rived entirely from studies body for road safety; GSTN’s network will have.” five years for any shortfall in account the “special situ- Sign of diversion: A board giving directions to a liquor shop in Angul, Odisha. The outlet has done by the Central gov- Centre’s advisories to

revenue because of GST. ation” in the State. been set up 500 metres of the highway to comply with the court order. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT ernment over the past States for over a decade; Centralised location The States’ revenue in 2015- “We passed an order to decade. and the Parliamentary Accessing the data at vari- 16 will be used as the basis convert 129 km of State High- structed are re-designated as administration. fication can only come from Secondly, a Bench of mandate of zero tolerance ous points — point of manu- for calculating the compens- ways into urban roads and a urban roads and the old por- The Supreme Court in its the Central government,” Chief Justice of India J.S. for drunken driving. facture, point of sale etc. — ation, with an assumption of 63 km stretch into other dis- tion of the highways has March 31 order had said that said Rajeshwar Burla, Assist- Khehar and Justices D.Y. would make the GST audit a 14% revenue growth in the trict roads at 25 locations been renamed as ‘other dis- liquor vends within 500 ant Vice President at ICRA Chandrachud and L. Official data complicated and almost im- subsequent five years. The around ten days back,” Shiv trict roads’,” Mr. Sharma metres of National and State Ltd. Nageswara Rao went a step The Bench said it banked possible task, and will total revenue of a State Laheri Sharma, chief engin- said. According to one estim- highways would have to shut The Union Road Trans- ahead to record that the on official data produced hamper other functions, would be the total of income eer of Rajasthan’s Public ate, around 450 liquor shops down from April 1. port and Highways Ministry Centre had pledged its by the MoRTH to show the which would include CAG from sales tax, value added Works Department told The were located on such has not received any request “unequivocal” support to extent of road accidents certification about the share tax, purchase tax, central Hindu. stretches. NHs not an easy task from State governments yet such a ban. caused by drunken of GST for States. sales tax, octroi etc. Similarly, the Chandigarh Experts said the State gov- to de-notify National High- Justice Chandrachud, driving. Justification for change administration issued a noti- ernment can issue a notifica- ways, a top Ministry official who wrote both the “The judgment of this Mr. Sharma, however, said fication on March 16 to con- tion to convert State High- said. However, experts cau- December 15, 2016 judg- court adverted to the de- that only certain sections of vert a significant portion of ways into district roads. tioned the Central govern- ment and the March 31, cision taken in a meeting India rejects U.S. role State Highways, which are its State Highways into major However, the de-notification ment of such a move. 2017 order, made it clear held 13 years ago by the passing through populous district roads (MDRs). “The of national highways can “The implications of con- that the Supreme Court NRSC to the effect that li- towns, have been de-notified administration had inadvert- only be affected by the Union verting National Highways was not assuming execut- cences for liquor shops in mending Pak. ties and said that the Supreme ently turned all sector-divid- Road Transport and High- into State Highways would ive or legislative powers by should not be given along Court’s order had “no influ- ing roads into State Highways ways Ministry. certainly be significant. The declaring the ban, instead, the National Highways,” India has always rejected according to Indian diplo- ence on the State govern- a few years back, which was “Classification of MDRs maintenance responsibility it was merely following the Justice Chandrachud ob- third party intervention in matic sources. ment’s decision”. not the right way of classify- and State Highways is the in such cases will shift to the Centre’s decade-old wish served. The court said the India-Pakistan relations, but “At many locations, by- ing the roads. So, now, we States’ prerogative. So, they States, which lack the capa- to remove liquor vends decision to ban liquor the U.S. has been a constant Peace in Afghanistan pass roads have been con- have de-notified the State can notify or de-notify the city in some cases, com- from highways. vends came after extensive factor between the coun- In his early days in office, structed. So, the portion of Highways into major district road stretch as per their own pared to Central authorities,” “We must at the outset study of MoRTH advisories tries. Barack Obama believed In- the State Highways passing roads,” said an official from requirements. However, said Manish Agarwal, part- notice that this court, to States and Union Territ- The U.S. pushes India to dia-Pakistan rapprochement through the city where by- the engineering department once it gets classified as a Na- ner and leader, infrastruc- while exercising its juris- ories dating back to 2007. continue peace talks with was essential for peace in pass roads have been con- of the Chandigarh tional Highway, the de-noti- ture, PwC India. Pakistan while it pushes Afghanistan also, an official Pakistan to take more effect- recalled. Mr. Obama even ive measures against terror- toyed with the idea of U.S. ism. Concerns of nuclear Special Representative for Cleric wants Assets of terrorism added a new di- Af-Pak, including India also African community backs envoys mension to the American in- in his ambit. ban on cattle IAS oicer terest in the India-Pakistan Ms. Haley also took ques- conflict in recent years. tions and made remarks slaughter United Nations calls for justice to victims of recent attacks in Noida attached What is different about about U.S. national policy. the Trump administration is The President is understood Press Trust of India Kallol Bhattacherjee ever, was shadowed by offi- Special Correspondent that it is willing to appear to have spoken about the In- Jaipur NEW DELHI cial remarks pointing out NEW DELHI more assertive and in- dia-Pakistan conflict as a po- The spiritual head of Ajmer The African community in that certain African envoys The Enforcement Director- volved, and this may dissip- tential fillip to Islamist ter- dargah has said that the India declared support for an were not in favour of calling ate has attached assets ate after initial enthusiasm, rorism on several occasions. government should ban independent investigation for global intervention into worth over ₹36 crore in a the slaughter of all bovine into the recent attacks on the the attacks on African case against IAS officer animals, as well as the sale community, after envoys nationals. Babu Lal Agrawal, a Prin- A tragedy in Mumbai of beef to promote com- from Africa sought a U.N.- “It is understood that a cipal Secretary in the Ch- munal harmony in the level investigation. very small number of African hattisgarh government, country. The support from the Heads of Missions may have who faces corruption that was almost averted Dargah Deewan Zainul African students and profes- been consulted in the issu- charges. The 1988 batch of- Abedin Ali Khan has said sionals came amid allega- ance of the press release by ficial had allegedly used that Muslims should take tions that not all envoys of the African Head of Missions shell companies to launder Staf opened door before Arjun jumped the initiative on the matter the continent were consulted Dean,” said an official ill-gotten funds running so that a good and positive for the statement even as the source. into crores. Special Correspondent to break open the double- message goes out. The Dee- United Nations called for The U.N. stated that it In February, the CBI ar- Mumbai pane window. wan also said he and his justice to the victims of the Missions in India. We are support from India by all the hoped that the perpetrators rested Mr. Agrawal, along The staff at Taj Land’s End Senior Police Inspector family would henceforth recent attacks in Noida. totally in support in calling African countries in all inter- of the recent attacks would with his brother-in-law and in Bandra, where 23-year- Pandit Thackeray, Bandra not consume beef and for an independent investiga- national platforms,” said be brought to justice. a middleman, for allegedly old Arjun Bhardwaj jumped police station, said, “A few urged the government to ‘No support’ tion, and also to take India to Samuel T. Jack, president of Speaking to the media in conspiring to bribe public to his death on Monday staff members rushed up- declare the cow as the na- “Association of African stu- the U.N. Human Rights Coun- the Association of African New York, a spokesperson servants for getting relief in evening, said they broke stairs and knocked at his tional animal. He said this dents in India is completely cil. Students in India. said on Tuesday the U.N. two other cases registered into his room seconds be- door. When no one respon- during the annual Urs of in support of the moves by In addition, we also call The support from the supported the quest for by the agency against him fore he jumped to his death. ded, they tried to open it Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti. the Dean of Head of African for a complete withdrawal of community members, how- justice in the issue. in 2010. He had allegedly Bhardwaj, a native of with their key. The door had promised to pay up ₹1.5 Bengaluru who was staying to be broken down as crore for the job. with friends in Mumbai Bhardwaj had bolted it door since 2013, jumped out of from inside. The staff mem- Case of cheating the window of his room on bers on rushing in wit- Chidambaram justiies nod for Aircel deal The two previous CBI cases the 19th floor of the five-star nessed Bhardwaj jump off relate to alleged imperson- hotel. Minutes before he the window.” Special Correspondent The former Finance Minis- BJP leader, Mr. Chidam- the rules/guidelines” and ation and cheating, and took the extreme step, Staff members said New Delhi ter’s response comes a day baram gave FIPB clearance submit each case to the disproportionate assets. Bhardwaj recorded a live Bhardwaj’s behaviour was Former Union Finance Min- after the Supreme Court to a deal that should have CCEA or the Finance Minis- In 2010, the Income-Tax video on Facebook and left normal when he checked ister P. Chidambaram said asked the Central Bureau of been referred to the Cabinet ter depending upon the authorities had also con- behind nine suicide notes into the hotel at 3 p.m. on on Tuesday he had granted Investigation (CBI) to file a Committee on Economic Af- value of the investment. ducted searches against listing depression and drug Monday. However, the po- approval to the Aircel-Maxis status report on the investig- fairs (CCEA), headed by the “The CBI has recorded the Mr. Agrawal and his addiction as the reasons for lice said Bhardwaj over the deal “in the normal course of ations into the deal. Prime Minister, as it alone statements from every offi- Chartered Accountant, committing suicide. last few days put up posts business.” was empowered to clear for- cial who dealt with the case. Sunil Agrawal. On the basis on Facebook hinting at sui- In a statement, Mr. Swamy’s contention eign investments of over Everyone, including the then of the Income-Tax findings, The last few minutes cide. Bhardwaj’s parents Chidambaram said, “In the During the brief hearing on ₹600 crore. “The money Secretary and Additional the Chhattisgarh Police’s On Tuesday, the Bandra po- reached Mumbai on Tues- Aircel-Maxis case, taking into Monday, BJP leader Sub- transaction involved in the Secretary, has affirmed that Economic Offences Wing lice recorded statements of day to claim his body, but account the face value of the ramanian Swamy told the process was around ₹3,500 the case was rightly submit- registered a disproportion- the hotel staff, who recoun- their statements will be re- foreign investment, the FIPB court that the CBI had re- crore,” he had said. ted to the Finance Minister, ate assets case. According ted Bhardwaj’s last few corded by Wednesday, of- [Foreign Investment Promo- sponded to him, stating that P. Chidambaram Responding to this allega- who was the competent au- to the ED,, the accused had minutes. They said a few ficers said. The police have tion Board] submitted the it was examining “all angles” tion, Mr. Chidambaram said thority to grant approval and got opened 446 benami guests alerted them to loud blocked access to Bhard- case to the Finance Minister of the case, including the Swamy had alleged that Mr. the FIPB — that consists of that the approval was gran- bank accounts in the name sounds emanating from waj’s Facebook video, which and sought approval. As FM, FIPB clearance given by Mr. Chidambaram had illegally five Secretaries who examine ted in the normal course of of unsuspecting villagers of Bhardwaj’s room. Bhardwaj was viewed 26,000 times by I granted approval in the Chidambaram in 2006. granted FIPB clearance to cases and recommend ap- business,” Mr. Chidambaram Kharora. had reportedly used a chair Monday night. normal course of business.” In his application, Dr. the deal. According to the proval or rejection — “apply said in the statement. ₹39 crore deposited The accounts, opened in connivance with bank offi- Two students found bludgeoned cials, were used to deposit ‘Respond to Swamy’s statement on beef ban’ about ₹39 crore. The per- sons, including drivers, masons, vendors, farm la- to death in Lonavala Goa CM had said his govt will respect the socio-cultural reality of the people: AAP bourers and carpenters, denied that they had oper- Prakash Kamat Minister Parrikar said differ- have miserably failed to ated those accounts. The victims were found naked, gagged, their hands tied PANAJI <> I don't want to respond to what ent people may have differ- gauge the seriousness of the The cash deposits were Special Correspondent night. Their friends tried to The clothes were found allegedly channelled into The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Mr. Swamy or ent opinions and they may issue throughout the two- Mumbai reach them on their cell near their bodies. Officers in Goa on Tuesday criticised express them. year long proceedings in the 13 shell companies, al- Two students of an engineer- phones, but could not get said that the police identi- the BJP leader Subramaniam someone else says "Have I said anything on Supreme Court," said Mr. legedly operated by the ing college in Lonavala were through to either of them. fied the victims and contac- Swamy’s reported statement Manohar Parrikar the subject, tell me. I don't Gomes. CA, as share application Goa Chief Minister found murdered on the out- An officer with the ted the college authorities that Goa was on "beef ban want to respond to what Mr. money and thereafter, the skirts of the city in the early Lonavala City police said: based on identification cards radar". Swamy or someone else ‘Seek exemptions’ shell firms invested the hours of Tuesday. “At around 3 a.m. on Tues- they found in the clothes. Addressing a press confer- his government will respect says," Mr. Parrikar retorted "Why did Goa not represent “tainted” money as equity The Lonavala City Police day, a tribal spotted the two Their parents were informed ence at the party office, the socio-cultural reality of when asked for his reaction its case like Sikkim and at a premium of ₹90 per has initiated an investigation bodies in a secluded spot subsequently. A post- AAP's State convenor Elvis the State's people. to Mr. Swamy's observations Meghalaya did and seek ex- share in Prime Ispat Ltd, a into the murders. According between the INS Shivaji and mortem examination indic- Gomes condemned a state- ''Goemkarponn" (Goanness) on beef ban. emptions and special provi- company owned by Mr. to police officials, the vic- the Indian Airforce station. ated that both the victims ment by Mr. Swamy hinting merely as slogan confined to sions", he asked and deman- Agrawal’s brothers. The tims — a 24-year-old boy and He alerted us and we sent were bludgeoned to death at the BJP's agenda of tinker- the script of the Governor's Denotify highways ded that the government company invested the a 22-year-old girl — studied teams to the spot. Both the with a heavy and blunt ob- ing with Goa's way of life address means nothing. If On the consequences of li- machinery work in over- funds in land, factory together and were in a rela- victims were naked. Their ject, possibly a stone from and the people's eating the Parrikar government is quor ban, AAP criticised drive mode and wherever building, plant and ma- tionship. The boy lived in a hands were tied behind their the spot where they were habits. serious about all the Gov- BJP-led government for not legally feasible, the State chinery. In 2010, its sister rented house in Lonavala, backs and pieces of cloth found. The police have ernor said of Goemkarponn representing its case like highways be de-notified. concerns bought these and the girl stayed in the col- were stuffed into their fanned out the scene of the ‘Merely a slogan?’ then it should condemn Mr. Sikkim and Meghalaya in the He said parts of by-pass shares at ₹5 per share and lege hostel. mouths. There were several crime to canvass for clues "We demand an immediate Swamy's statement immedi- Supreme Court. roads on the national high- the brothers of Mr. Agrawal The police said the couple injuries on both their and possible eye witnesses, response from Chief Minis- ately," he demanded. "Both, the government ways should also be became the owners of were missing since Monday bodies.” while inquiries are on. ter Manohar Parrikar that Earlier in the day, Chief and the opposition in Goa de-notified. Prime Ispat Ltd. CM A ND-ND YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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IN BRIEF Somali pirates seek Now, soldier Dhaka to honour 1971 heroes held with live ransom for Indians During Delhi visit, Hasina will remember their sacriices in Liberation War ammunition

Cargo dhow moved to a secret place Haroon Habib be discussed,” he said here. ity of a breakthrough on the Special Correspondent DHAKA The deals and MoUs that long-pending Teesta water Srinagar Reuters “The traders want the Bangladesh will honour are expected to be signed in- sharing treaty, Mr. Ali did A day after an Army jawan After Manipur boost, BOSASSO dhow released without posthumously 1,661 Indian clude border haat establish- not go into details. He said, was held at the Srinagar BJP now eyes Tripura Pirates who hijacked an In- [any] ransom [being paid] soldiers for their sacrifice for ment, information and tele- “Relations between our airport for carrying gren- AGARTALA dian cargo dhow with 11 but my friends say they the independence of the cast, atomic energy countries have reached such ades, another soldier was The BJP central leadership, crew members on board [will] not release it without country during the 1971 Lib- cooperation, science and a level that the particulars detained on Tuesday for boosted by the party’s have moved the vessel to an [getting] at least some cash,” eration War. technology, ICT, satellite and are not too important. We do carrying live ammunition. performance in Manipur, is undisclosed location within he added. “They are still The soldiers, who died aeronautical research, geolo- not wish to discuss the spe- Preliminary reports sug- working to improve its the Galmudug waters off the discussing.” along with Bangladeshi free- gical science, defence co- cifics at this moment.” gest that the soldier, identi- organisation in Tripura. The Somali coast until their The Al Kausar was com- dom fighters while fighting operation, LoC, energy and fied as Pandia Raj, was held State, which has been been a ransom demands are met, a mandeered in the vicinity of the Pakistani forces, will be power cooperation etc. Trade ties immediately after live Left bastion, will go to the pirate leader said on Socotra Island while en honoured by Prime Minister The Minister said these Expansion of trade relations, rounds for an INSAS rifle polls early next year. BJP Tuesday. route from Dubai to Punt- Sheikh Hasina during her pacts would further deepen investment, connectivity, were found in his luggage. president Amit Shah will The vessel, Al Kausar, land’s port of Bosasso, ac- three-day visit to India from ties between India and Padma (Ganges) barrage The jawan was to board a arrive here on May 7 on a was initially taken to El Hur, cording to United Kingdom April 7 on the invitation of Bangladesh. Sheikh Hasina construction, water sharing, flight to Delhi. “The jawan two-day visit to oversee near the port of Hobyo in Maritime Trade Operations Prime Minister Narendra border security, and defence has been detained for organisational activities in Somalia’s semi-autonomous (UKMTO), which coordin- Modi. Defence pact alliance leaders have raised cooperation would be the fo- questioning. The matter is the State, the BJP State Galmudug state, but was ates shipping in the Gulf of Asked about signing of any questions about such agree- cus of the meeting, he said. being investigated,” said a Prabhari (in charge) Sunil then moved to avoid ap- Aden area. A pirate who 35 agreements defence agreement with In- ments, claiming that the gov- Prime Minister Hasina police official. Deodhar said on Tuesday. proaching security person- gave his name as Aden told Bangladesh Foreign Minister dia, which has been opposed ernment wanted to ‘sell off’ along with Ministers and offi- Meanwhile, rifleman nel, pirates said. over phone from Harard- A.H. Mahmud Ali said on by the Opposition the nation’s sovereignty to cials will attend a business Bhupal Mukhia, who was Food to go local on Pirate leader Aw Kombe here, “The pirate leader Tuesday that 35 agreements Bangladesh Nationalist Party India. Mr. Ali said, “Once event on April 10 in New arrested on Monday for trains at 10 stations said negotiations were ongo- heard Galmudug forces ad- and memoranda of under- (BNP), Mr. Ali said all agree- these pacts are published, Delhi. carrying two grenades, was NEW DELHI ing with businessmen in vancing to attack it. The standing were expected to ments would be made pub- you will see there is no merit A Bangladeshi delegation granted bail on Tuesday by The Railways have roped in Kismayu over the release of dhow has now gone far into be signed between the two lic. in the accusations made by will brief Indian industrial- a local court. Sources said self-help groups for providing Al Kausar, which was seized the ocean but is still in countries during the visit. Former Prime Minister our detractors.” ists on the business environ- the police had handed him local cuisines in running trains on Saturday. Galmudug waters.” “There are a lot of issues to Khaleda Zia-led BNP and its Asked about the possibil- ment in the country. over to the Army. through station-based e- catering service. The IRCTC, the catering arm of the Railways, has empanelled nine SHGs to provide German focus on Indian Ocean Two held in crackdown authentic regional food cooked in hygienic conditions at 10 stations, including Adra, Jaishankar to address Berlin’s envoys to nations in the region, U.S. and China Secunderabad, Vijayawada, on shell irms by ED Mysore, Ernakulam and Suhasini Haidar gage with India, which is a ation between New Delhi Visakhapatnam. Passengers NEW DELHI major partner,” a senior Ger- and Berlin in the Indian of trains originating and In an unusual gesture, For- man diplomat, who pre- Ocean Region is part of Liakath Ali arrested in Chennai, G.D. Reddy in Bengaluru stopping at these stations can eign Secretary S. Jaishankar ferred not to be named, told growing patterns in both get cooked food through will deliver the keynote ad- The Hindu, adding that the capitals. In the past, India Sangeetha Kandavel and Bengaluru. A judicial magis- against Afroz Fatta, an al- e-catering. PTI dress at a regional confer- conference was also likely to has shied away from “shar- Devesh Pandey trate in Chennai remanded leged “hawala operator” in CHENNAI/NEW DELHI ence of German Ambassad- be addressed by Sri Lankan ing influence” in the region, Mr. Ali in judicial custody for Surat, and his associates. CAG to audit UN ors in Colombo on Prime Minister Ranil Wick- instead preferring to keep all The Enforcement Director- 14 days. He is now lodged in The agency has so far at- Secretariat in New York Wednesday. remsinghe and an Indone- discussions about the sub- ate (ED) has arrested two the Central Prison at Puzhal tached assets worth ₹15 NEW DELHI The conference, to be at- sian Minister. continent and neighbouring persons allegedly associated in the city. crore. Through a web of The Comptroller and Auditor tended by Germany’s envoys countries on the Indian with some of the shell com- ED officials said Ali was shell companies, the hawala General (CAG) of India will to all Indian Ocean Rim (IOR) Shared interests Ocean’s Rim bilateral. panies raided across the arrested under the Preven- network is alleged to have audit the UN Secretariat in nations as well as to the U.S. “India and Germany are However, partly with a country last weekend. tion of Money Laundering sent ₹5,396 crore to various New York, a job which till now and China, is part of discus- S. Jaishankar both interested in rules- view to countering China’s While K. Liakath Ali was Act for remitting foreign ex- companies in the UAE and was the exclusive domain of sions between India and Ger- based regimes, freedom of considerable investment in arrested on charges of cheat- change through shell com- Hong Kong with forged bills developed countries, CAG many to cooperate with IOR bassadors, but confirmed the high seas, stability, and these countries, India has ing the Thousand Lights panies using fake papers. He of entry. The probe is based Shashi Kant Sharma said. The countries. that he would be in Colombo diversifying our political re- been talking much more to Branch of Indian Bank in has allegedly remitted ₹78 on two cases filed by the CAG is the external auditor of On Monday, Mr. on Wednesday. lations,” the official added. the U.S., Australia and other Chennai by remitting ₹78 crore outside India, against Surat Crime Branch under several U.N. organisations Jaishankar met German State “We believe the Indian The talks will also be countries. crore abroad using eight forged bills of entry without the Indian Penal Code. and Mr. Sharma presently is Secretary Markus Ederer for Ocean region is an under- raised at the next level when In Berlin, the shift is ne- shell companies, G. Dhanan- affecting any actual imports. “With forged bills of entry, the chairman of the UN Board talks ahead of Prime Minis- rated theatre, compared PM Modi travels to Germany cessitated by a need to re- jaya Reddy, who has been the funds were remitted to of Auditors. “The fact that we ter Narendra Modi’s visit to with the Asia Pacific region. for the Inter governmental view its interests around the accused of floating over 20 Surat man held the companies abroad have recently assumed Berlin next month. There is also competition commission (IGC) with world, particularly given the shell companies to get a ₹70- In another case, the ED has through the accounts of nine responsibility is a significant MEA officials would not shaping up between the ma- Chancellor Angela Merkel on new U.S. administration’s crore loan from the United attached ₹5 crore in fixed shell companies with ICICI recognition of our audit comment on Mr. Jaishankar’s jor powers here, and we May 29-30. lack of clarity in deploying Bank of India and other deposits of a conduit in a Bank in Surat,” an official work,” he said. PTI outreach with German Am- think it is important to en- The new push for cooper- its forces around the world. banks, was arrested in money-laundering case said. 26 illegal abattoirs shut; Bhushan Valley backs tourism: Mirwaiz deletes tweet Neither are Kashmiris supporters of terrorism, he responds to PM’s remark action against vigilantism on Krishna Peerzada Ashiq eye” to the real issue. “Mr. in south Kashmir on Tues- Press Trust of India Srinagar Modi’s remark on stone pelt- day, Jammu and Kashmir Oicials asked not to act in an “over-enthusiastic manner” New Delhi Prime Minister Narendra ing was aimed at ignoring Pradesh Congress Commit- Lawyer-politician Prashant Modi’s message to Kashmir’s the root cause of chaos in tee (JKPCC) president and Press Trust of India present. ter Shrikant Sharma said: “A Bhushan on Tuesday apo- youth to “choose between Jammu and Kashmir. Tun- joint National Conference- Lucknow “The orders of the Su- sense of insecurity prevailed logised for his controver- tourism and terrorism”, has nels and roads can’t be a Congress candidate G.A. Mir A total of 26 illegal abattoirs preme Court and the Na- among the school going girls sial tweet that made a ref- triggered a debate in the substitute to resolution,” Mr. said all stakeholders in the have been shut down in Ut- tional Green Tribunal will be due to passing of lewd com- erence to Lord Krishna, State, with both separatists Geelani said. Kashmir issue should make tar Pradesh, Health Minister followed in letter and spirit,” ments and stalking, for admitting that it was “inap- and regional parties de- Echoing the sentiment, sincere and serious efforts Siddharth Nath Singh said he asserted. which the anti-Romeo propriately” phrased. manding a dialogue process. National Conference presid- for a resolution. on Tuesday, adding that the The BJP leader clarified squads were formed. They Mr. Bhushan had made a Referring to the Prime ent Farooq Abdullah said the “If the issue remains unre- ‘anti-romeo’ squads were that there was no objection are doing a good job.” reference to the deity while Minister’s remarks on recently-opened Chenani- solved, there will be a com- doing a good job. in renewal of licences of He said instructions have criticising the setting up of Sunday during the inaugura- Nashri tunnel “was being plete uncertainty in this sub- “As many as 26 illegal meat sellers. been issued to ensure that anti-Romeo squads in Uttar tion of the Chenani-Nashri Mirwaiz Umar Farooq portrayed as an alternative continent, fraught with dan- slaughter houses have been no innocent was harassed Pradesh, triggering out- tunnel, Hurriyat faction to a political initiative”. gerous consequences,” said closed in the State. No illegal Meat sellers meet CM while strict action was taken rage. He was booked by the chairman Mirwaiz Umar Modi’s remarks saying, “We “Jammu and Kashmir Mr. Mir, who is contesting slaughter house will be al- A delegation of meat sellers against the guilty. “Couples Lucknow police for hurting Farooq said, “Kashmiris are have only two options — would continue to suffer un- the upcoming byelections lowed to operate,” he told had recently met Chief Min- sitting in parks, coffee religious sentiments. neither against tourism nor either to surrender or resist less New Delhi takes a polit- from Anantnag. reporters. ister Yogi Aditynath follow- shops, rickshaws and other “I realise that my tweet supporters of terrorism. till victory. We are facing the ical initiative. Economic Mr. Singh said instruc- ing the State government’s public places should not be on Romeo squads & However, people want a dig- worst type of Hindu terror- packages and infrastructural ‘Shun rigid attitude’ tions have also been issued crackdown on illegal unnecessarily frisked,” he Krishna was inappropri- nified resolution. Mr. Modi ism. New Delhi instead of ac- projects cannot be alternat- He asked the Centre “to shun to officials that they should slaughter houses. said. ately phrased & uninten- should, besides tunnels, fo- knowledging the disputed ives to dialogue between rigid attitude” and “come up not act in an “over-enthusi- Commenting on the anti- Mr. Sharma added that if tionally hurt sentiments of cus on a meaningful dia- status is gagging our voice.” New Delhi and Islamabad with a roadmap”. astic manner.” Romeo squads constituted any official was found exer- many ppl. Apologize & de- logue process.” and New Delhi and the stake- “Slogans of ‘Jamohiriyat, The Minister, however, by the BJP-led State govern- cising vigilantism, stringent lete it (sic),” Mr. Bhushan Chairman of another Hur- Turning blind eye holders in Kashmir,” said Dr. Insaniyat and Kashmiriyat’ did not specify the total ment to keep an eye on eve- action would be taken tweeted on Sunday. He had riyat faction, Syed Ali He also accused the Prime Abdullah. are merely words and have number of slaughter houses teasers and for ensuring against him/her. earlier said that his tweet Geelani countered Mr. Minister of turning a “blind Addressing party workers proved a hoax,” he said. operating in the State at safety of girls, Cabinet Minis- was being “distorted”. Youth modern in look, conservative in outlook: survey CBI registers case

Their views relect an inclination towards intolerance, while they move with the times in appearance and consumption over sailor’s death Special Correspondent from China to Fujairah in Special Correspondent spectively. The illiberal ori- was only 4%. Over 84% of the NEW DELHI the UAE. It was earlier al- New Delhi entation was further married youth had had an ar- The Central Bureau of In- leged that the sailor had Indian youth are certainly underscored in the domain ranged marriage, compared vestigation has registered a committed suicide. “The becoming more modern in of interpersonal relations, to the 6% that reported a murder case in connection case has been registered on their appearance and con- with 67% of the youth op- love marriage. While one- with the suspicious death of the basis of a complaint sumption habits, “but their posed to live-in relation- third of those with a love an Indian sailor on July 21, lodged by sailor thoughts and views reflect a ships. On the question of marriage had married out- 2015 on board a ship bear- Satyanarayan Singh’s son troubling inclination towards inter-religious marriages, side their caste, 97% of ar- ing Cyprus flag near Sri Sunil. A conspiracy has intolerance and conservat- 45% were opposed to them, ranged marriages were Lanka. been alleged, said a CBI ism”, says a national survey while only 28% were in sup- found to be within caste. Ar- The vessel on its way official. of their attitudes, anxieties port. The majority of the re- ranged marriage was also the and aspirations, released in spondents (51%) agreed with preference among the un- New Delhi on Monday. the proposition that “wives married, with 50% saying The survey, jointly con- should always listen to their they would like their parents ducted by the Centre for the husbands”. Also, 41% agreed to take the decision regard- Study of Developing Societ- that it is not right for women ing their life partner. Only ies, Konrad Adenauer Stif- to work after marriage. 12% expressed a preference tung and Lokniti, covered While 53% were opposed to for love marriage. 6,122 respondents in the age dating before marriage, 40% The survey also found In- group of 15-34. disapproved of Valentine’s dian youth to be quite reli- It was carried out in April- Day celebrations. A fairly gious, with 78% of the re- May 2016 in 19 States. high proportion of young spondents stating that they This is the second such women respondents also prayed often, while 68% re- survey, following the first held such conservative ported going to a place of re- one in 2007. views, the report said. ligious worship frequently. Among the respondents, be banned, with only 23% sumption of beef is part of no problem with beef con- Modern values such as 49% were in favour of death opposed to such bans. personal eating habits and sumption. At the same time, Marriage and caste gender equality did not seem penalty, while only 33% felt nobody should have an ob- the survey also found the While acceptance for the to have much purchase. that it should be abolished. Beef eating jection”, while only 36% majority of Indian youth idea of inter-caste marriage The survey also found An overwhelming 60%, On the lately contentious agreed with it. (58%) to be non-vegetarian, had risen, from 31% in 2007 strong support for existing cutting across religions, be- subject of beef consumption, However, 40% of non-ve- while 30% and 9% described to 55% in 2016, the reported quota for SC-ST and OBCs in lieved that films which hurt 46% disagreed with the lib- getarian Hindu youth and themselves as pure vegetari- incidence of inter-caste mar- government jobs, with 48% religious sentiments should eral sentiment that “con- 90% of Left supporters had ans and “eggitarians” re- riages among respondents in favour and 26% against. CM YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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Activists blame regime for the assault; Syrian Army rejects the claim H-1B visa programme

Agence France-Presse ANC-allied union asks Khan Sheikhun Justice Department warns companies over its misuse Jacob Zuma to quit PRETORIA A suspected chemical attack Varghese K. George in the town of Khan South Africa’s biggest trade Washington union called on President Sheikhun, in rebel-held Idlib, Curtis to be Trump’s Jacob Zuma on Tuesday to northwestern Syria, killed at The Donald Trump adminis- quit after his Cabinet least 58 civilians, including 11 tration will enforce the laws reshule cost the country children, and left many related to the H-1B visa pro- ‘point person’ for S. Asia one of its investment-grade more sick and gasping on gramme that went unen- Press Trust of India credit ratings and deepened Tuesday. forced until now, the White Washington splits within the ruling Syria’s opposition blamed House said on Monday even African National Congress President Bashar Al-Assad’s as the Justice Department U.S. National Security (ANC). The statement came forces. The Army denied any warned companies against Advisor Lt. Gen. H.R. moments after Mr. Zuma involvement however, issu- using the programme to dis- McMaster has roped in Lisa made his irst public remarks ing a statement blaming “ter- place American workers. Curtis, an India expert, to a about Thursday’s sacking of rorist groups” for using “The President has key White House position respected Finance Minister “chemical and toxic spoken about the H-1B visa and in her capacity she Pravin Gordhan. Reuters substances”. programme in the past... the would be the Trump Lisa Curtis * TWITTER Trump administration will administration’s point Afghan oicers sacked U.S. blames Assad be enforcing laws protecting person for South Asia. Heritage Foundation, over hospital attack The incident brought swift American workers from dis- “Yes, [Lisa] Curtis will be recently was co-author of a KABUL international condemnation, criminatory hiring prac- joining [NSC] as Senior report “New U.S. Approach Afghanistan on Tuesday with the United States, tices,” White House press Director for South Asia,” a to Pakistan: Enforcing Aid sacked 12 Army oicers France and Britain all point- secretary Sean Spicer said. White House official told Conditions without Cutting including two generals for ing the finger at Mr. Assad. As this year’s application PTI, conforming the news Ties”, along with Husain negligence over an insurgent The White House con- process for H-1B visas began first reported by The Haqqani, the former attack on the country’s demned what it said was a on Monday, the U.S. Cus- Washington Post. It was Pakistani Ambassador to the largest military hospital, “reprehensible” attack car- toms and Immigration Ser- previously held by Peter U.S. She has worked at the which pointed to a ried out by Mr. Assad’s vices (USCIS) announced a Lavoy, who has now joined Senate Foreign Relations spectacular intelligence forces. slew of measures to crack the private sector. Committee, as an adviser to failure. AFP Spokesman Sean Spicer down on companies that A well-known and the State Department said President Donald might be misusing the pro- respected foreign policy during the George W. Bush Argentine leader Kirchner Trump had been briefed ex- gramme, including more expert on South Asian administration and as an charged with fraud tensively on the incident, stringent checks at sites issues, Ms. Curtis, from The analyst with the CIA. BUENOS AIRES adding that the U.S. was where H-1B workers are em- A judge on Tuesday announced “confident in its assessment” ployed. “The H-1B visa pro- technology skills and know- The USCIS inspections fresh charges against that Damascus was to blame. gramme should help U.S. ledge to help an enterprise will specifically target cases Argentina’s ex-President Mr. Spicer also suggested companies recruit highly- achieve its goals in the where the agency cannot Cristina Kirchner, the latest it was in the “best interest” skilled foreign nationals course of his or her job is validate the employer’s ba- twist in a legal saga as the of Syrians for Assad not to when there is a shortage of not sufficient to establish sic business information country prepares for mid-term lead the country. qualified workers in the the position as a speciality through commercially avail- elections this year. Federal UN envoy Staffan de Mis- country. Yet, too many occupation... Instead, a peti- able data, employers who judge Claudio Bonadio brought tura said the attack was be- American workers who are tioner must provide other have a high ratio of H-1B formal charges against Ms. lieved to be chemical and as qualified, willing, and de- evidence to establish that workers as compared to U.S. Kirchner for alleged money launched from the air, serving to work in these the particular position is one workers and employers peti- laundering in real estate adding that there should be a fields have been ignored or in a speciality occupation as tioning for H-1B workers dealings, the Judicial “clear identification of re- unfairly disadvantaged. Pro- defined,” it said. who work at another com- Information Service said. She sponsibilities and tecting American workers by pany or organisation’s loca- already faces trial in a separate accountability”. combating fraud in our em- Probing misuse claims tion. The last category com- case for alleged financial The Observatory said the ployment-based immigra- In a third statement from prises body shops that mismanagement. AFP attack on a residential part tion programmes is a prior- the administration on contract workers for big IT of Khan Sheikhun came ity for the USCIS,” the Monday, the Justice Depart- firms. Pak. money-changer early on Tuesday morning, agency said in a statement. ment said it would not toler- “Targeted site visits will linked to LeT jailed when a warplane carried out The USCIS, the agency re- ate employers misusing the allow the USCIS to focus re- ISLAMABAD strikes that released “toxic sponsible for selecting the H-1B visa process to discrim- sources where fraud and ab- Altaf Khanani, a Pakistani gas”. As well as those killed, 85,000 H-IB beneficiaries, inate against U.S. workers. use of the H-1B programme money changer, known to at least 160 people were in- also clarified, purportedly Acting Assistant Attorney may be more likely to occur, have links with terrorist jured, it said. Russia’s milit- for administrative reasons, General Tom Wheeler of the and determine whether outfits like the LeT, JeM and ary, which has been fighting that computer programmers Civil Rights Division said in H-1B-dependent employers underworld don Dawood in support of Mr. Assad’s gov- negotiator Mohamad Sabra. in 2013, Mr. Assad agreed to chemical weapons. Those with two-year degrees do the statement: “U.S. workers are evading their obligation Ibrahim, has been sentenced ernment since September The UN Security Council a Russia-sponsored deal to weapons have been des- not qualify for speciality oc- should not be placed in a to make a good faith effort to to 68 months in prison and 2015, denied carrying out is to hold an emergency destroy his chemical arsenal troyed, but member states of cupation as defined by the disfavoured status, and the recruit U.S. workers. USCIS slapped with a fine of any strikes near the town. meeting on Wednesday to and joined the Chemical the OPCW have repeatedly programme. “..the fact that department is whole- will continue random and $250,000 by a U.S. court for Tuesday’s attack cast new discuss the attack following Weapons Convention. His questioned whether Mr. As- a person may be employed heartedly committed to in- unannounced visits nation- laundering money for doubt on the peace process, calls from France and Bri- government declared a sad declared everything in as a computer programmer vestigating and vigorously wide,” the USCIS statement militants. PTI said the opposition’s chief tain. In the wake of an attack 1,300-tonne stockpile of 2013. and may use information prosecuting these claims.” said. May accuses charity of ‘airbrushing ‘Blast suspect was from Kyrgyzstan’ faith’ in Easter egg hunt Identiied by Kyrgyz security service as Akbarzhon Jalilov, he reportedly had radical Islamist links

Reuters Agence France-Presse the British countryside, ities said fragments of the was from a family of ethnic Bishkek/Saint Petersburg London from coastlines to historic body of the suspect had Uzbeks, and that while they Islamists kill British Prime Minister buildings and parks — and The main suspect in a blast been found among the dead, knew his parents they had Theresa May waded into a each year it holds family- in a Saint Petersburg train indicating that he was a sui- not seen the young man for 2 police row Tuesday over the com- friendly egg hunts over the carriage that killed 14 people cide bomber. Officials said years. They said his father mercialisation of Easter, Easter long weekend. and wounded 50 is a Russian they were treating the blast worked as a panel-beater in a oicers after the Church of England citizen originally from as an act of terrorism. car repair shop. accused a major charity of Removal of ‘Easter’ Kyrgyzstan, authorities there Russian Foreign Minister Osh is part of the Fergana Agence France-Presse “airbrushing faith” from its This year’s campaign is said on Tuesday. Sergei Lavrov said it was cyn- Valley, a fertile strip of land Moscow chocolate egg hunts. called the “Cadbury Egg The perpetrator had rad- ical to say the bombing in that straddles Kyrgyzstan, Radical Islamists killed two Ms. May said it was “abso- Hunt”, although the chocol- ical Islamist links, Russian Saint Petersburg was re- Uzbekistan and Tajikistan traffic police officers in the lutely ridiculous” that the ate maker pointed out that media cited law enforcement venge for Russia’s role in which is mainly populated southern Russian city of National Trust, which runs other marketing materials officials as saying, raising the Akbarzhon Jalilov and (right) a Syria. He said the attack by ethnic Uzbeks. It has a tra- Astrakhan, the regional parks and stately homes An Easter egg on display at a urge children to “Enjoy possibility the attack could woman in Kiev paying tribute showed that Moscow needed dition of Islamist radicalism Governor said Tuesday, the

* across Britain, had allowed market in Prague. * AFP Easter Fun”. have been inspired by Is- to the victims. REUTERS, AP to press on with its fight and hundreds of people have day after a suspected sui- sponsor Cadbury to pro- A Cadbury spokeswoman lamic State (IS), which has against global terrorism. set out from the area to join cide bomber hit the Saint mote its chocolate egg hunts Jordan. Her comments came said: “It is simply not true to not struck a major city in in the middle of the after- Islamic State in Syria and Petersburg metro. at their sites without refer- after the Archbishop of claim that we have removed Russia before. noon occurred when the From a family of Uzbeks Iraq. “Last night, a group of ence to the Christian York, John Sentamu, told the word ‘Easter’ from our There has been no official train was in a tunnel deep A Reuters reporter visited a A blast at a nightclub in radical Islamists... carried festival. The Daily Telegraph newspa- marketing and communica- confirmation or claim of re- underground, amplifying house in Osh, southern Istanbul on New Year’s Eve out a brazen attack on em- “I’m not just a vicar’s per that the move was “tan- tion materials.” The National sponsibility. The Kyrgyz the force of the blast. The Kyrgyzstan, which neigh- that killed 39 people in- ployees of the traffic po- daughter — I’m a member of tamount to spitting on the Trust, for its part, said: “It’s GKNB security service iden- carriage door was blown off, bours said was the family volved a suspect from the lice,” Alexander Zhilkin the National Trust as well. I grave” of chocolate maker nonsense to suggest the Na- tified the suspect as Akbar- and witnesses described see- home of Jalilov. The home, a same part of central Asia. said in a statement. think the stance they have Cadbury’s founder, John tional Trust is downplaying zhon Jalilov, born in the city ing injured passengers with modest but well-maintained The bomber in that attack Russia’s Interior Min- taken is absolutely ridicu- Cadbury, a Quaker. the significance of Easter. of Osh in 1995, but provided bloodied and blackened one-storey brick building, said he had been acting un- istry later said the two sus- lous,” Ms. May told Britain’s The National Trust owns Nothing could be further no other details. bodies. was empty. der the direction of IS milit- pected attackers were ITV News while on a trip to or manages large swathes of from the truth.” The explosion on Tuesday State investigative author- Neighbours said Jalilov ants in Syria. apprehended. Economic Hungary passes Bill emergency In China, fans admire Trump’s nationalist views targeting university in Mocoa Maoist groups laud the U.S. President for ‘promoting the political ideas of Chairman Mao’

Chris Buckley less, convulsive politics of has oriented toward China, Agence France-Presse ing in Hungary. The new Agence France-Presse BEIJING the Mao era. But the Maoists’ and he is learning from Budapest rules ban institutions out- Mocoa They protest, picket and sing growing assertiveness, China,” said another hard- Hungarian lawmakers on side the European Union The Colombian govern- to defend Mao Zedong’s echoed in their embrace of left Chinese site. Tuesday approved a contro- (EU) from awarding Hun- ment on Monday declared memory, yearning for the aspects of Mr. Trump’s China’s neo-Maoists, as versial piece of higher-edu- garian diplomas without an a state of economic emer- East to be red again. But agenda, could help push the they are sometimes called, cation legislation that could agreement between na- gency in the town of Mocoa lately some of China’s country in a more authorit- are loosely united by de- force the closure of a presti- tional governments. They in southern Colombia, Maoists are finding inspira- arian direction. mands for stringent eco- gious Budapest university will also be required to have after mudslides left more tion in an unlikely insurgent They also complicate the nomic equality, zealous na- founded by U.S. billionaire a campus and faculties in than 270 people dead, in- in the West: Donald Trump. efforts of Mr. Xi to play both tionalism and a loathing of investor George Soros. their home country — condi- cluding 43 children. sides of an ideological divide: the capitalist West and lib- The respected English- tions not met by the CEU. “We have the toll of the Maoists for Trump as a robust defender of Mao’s eral democracy. language Central European Failure to comply would people who have unfortu- Mr. Trump “has torn up the legacy, but also a proponent “Many of the same ideas University (CEU), set up in mean the CEU could not ac- nately died,” said President old rules of the ruling elites, of market liberalisation. now animating the global 1991 after the fall of com- cept new student intakes Juan Manuel Santos, as he not just of the capitalist It is a paradox that these populist movement have munism, has long been seen from 2018, and possibly revisited the scene of Fri- West,” said Zhang Hongliang, admirers of Mao, a Marxist been the hallmarks of the as a hostile bastion of liber- close by 2021. day's disaster. a polemicist who is the revolutionary who railed neo-Maoist movement for alism by Prime Minister The CEU said on Tuesday “The latest is 273 people loudest proponent of what against Western imperialism, over a decade,” said Jude Viktor Orban’s right-wing it would contest the consti- died and 262 are injured,” could be loosely called Selie with Trump: A woman in Liaoning poses for a selie with a have found things to like Blanchette, a researcher in government. tutionality of the bill. “The he said. Earlier he said that “Maoists for Trump”. In a re- wax igure of Donald Trump at a trade fair in March. * AP about this U.S. President, a Beijing who is writing a book new law puts at risk the aca- at least 43 children were cent essay, Mr. Zhang lauded property tycoon with a Cab- about the movement. “The Tougher regulations demic freedom not only of among the dead. the U.S. President as being alist, anti-establishment sen- fluence, and that the Com- inet crowded with million- neo-Maoists have also clearly MPs in the 199-seat Parlia- CEU but of other Hungarian Mr. Santos was to spend alone among national lead- timent that Mr. Trump rode munist Party has long sought aires. “Trump opposes glob- benefited from the rise of Xi ment, dominated by Mr. research and academic insti- the night at a nearby milit- ers daring “to openly pro- to power has washed ashore to cultivate — and contain. alisation, and so should Jinping, as he has blasted a Orban’s Fidesz party, voted tutions,” the university said ary base and on Tuesday mote the political ideas of in China, encouraging a China’s Maoists are a small China,” said one article on pretty large dog whistle in 123 in favour and 38 against in a statement. The bill is would continue coordinat- Chairman Mao”. hard-left fringe that is hostile minority; most Chinese have Utopia, a popular Maoist their direction,” Mr. the legislation, which will seen as a fresh attack on the ing the emergency The global wave of nation- to capitalism and Western in- no desire to revive the ruth- website. “Trump’s ideology Blanchette added. NYT place tough restrictions on Hungarian-born philan- response. foreign universities operat- thropist Soros. CM A ND-ND YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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Tax receipts Brexit’s shadow: India Nasscom sees ‘little ‘Need to prove that overshoot vows to deepen ties estimates impact’ of H-1B norms IT is a speciality job’ Special Correspondent Bilateral accord on ighting tax evasion NEW DELHI ‘H-1B norms to have adverse impact’ Gross tax collections grew Most IT irms applying for higher-skilled professionals about 18% in 2016-17 to ₹17.1 Sanjay Vijayakumar ants the most, especially lakh crore, surpassing the Special Correspondent CHENNAI given that it was issued one Centre’s revised estimates of NEW DELHI In an e-mail interview, working day before the ₹16.97 lakh crore for the year, The country’s premier soft- Vikram Shroff, Head of FY18 window opened on as per provisional figures re- ware lobby, Nasscom, on HR law practice at Nishith April 3, 2017. The memo leased on Tuesday. Tuesday said the new policy Desai Associates, touched clarifies that it is not suffi- Net direct tax collections memo on H-1B visas by the upon the new H-1B visa cient for the applicant to grew by 14.2% in the year, U.S. “should have little im- guidelines and said that be employed as a com- bringing in ₹8.47 lakh crore pact” on its member with the last-minute puter programmer who for the exchequer, while net companies. changes, compliance will be uses information techno- indirect tax collections grew As this year’s application an issue. logy skills and knowledge 22% at ₹8.63 lakh crore. process for H-1B visas began to help an enterprise While the direct tax kitty was Stronger bond: U.K.’s Philip Hammond (R) and Arun Jaitley Monday, the U.S Customs Can you throw more achieve its goals. in line with the revised estim- agree to work on aiding investment. * REUTERS and Immigration Services light on the new ates for 2016-17, net indirect (USCIS), the agency respons- guidelines? What do the guidelines tax collections exceeded the Special Correspondent dia-UK Strategic Partnership ible for selecting the 85,000 U.S. Citizenship and Im- mean for IT industry? revised estimates. NEW DELHI set out by our Prime Minis- H-IB beneficiaries, an- migration Services (USCIS), Technology companies, es- Within direct taxes, cor- Finance Minister Arun Jait- ters during Prime Minister nounced a slew of measures which overseas immigra- pecially from India, have porate income tax collec- ley and U.K. Chancellor of May’s November 2016 visit to crack down on companies tion into the U.S. and pro- been one of the biggest be- tions grew 13.1% and personal the Exchequer Philip Ham- to India,” according to the that might be misusing the Little worry: Nasscom said its members will continue to cesses the applications, is- neficiaries of the H-1B visa income tax increased 18.4%. mond discussed the post- joint statement. programme, including more provide skilled talent in the U.S. * GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCK sued two separate program. Such a decision However, after taking into ac- Brexit scenario on Tuesday The two countries agreed stringent checks at sites guidance – one on March 31 is likely to adversely affect count refunds, the growth and issued a joint statement to work together swiftly to where H-1B workers are USCIS also clarified that stronger enforcement of and the other on April 3, their client commitments rates were 6.7% and 21%, reiterating the two coun- encourage sustainable bilat- employed. computer programmers compliance reflects how both of which are inde- in the U.S. which remains respectively. tries’ commitment to eral investment that benefits “The clarifying guidance with two-year degrees do anxious the current U.S. ad- pendent. As such, H-1B their largest market. Sev- “The overall buoyancy of strengthen economic co- both countries, including should have little impact on not qualify as speciality oc- ministration is to demon- visas are meant to be is- eral IT sector employees tax revenue has been very operation and collaborate through the Joint Working Nasscom members as this cupation as defined by the strate its commitment to re- sued for speciality occupa- would have been lined up good,” D.K. Srivastava, Chief on cross-border tax evasion Group. They also welcomed has been the adjudicatory programme. “…a petitioner stricting immigrant workers tions, which include sci- for travel to the U.S. under Policy Advisor at EY India and avoidance. the recent introduction of a practice for years and also as must provide other evidence from overseas territories ence, engineering and IT. the H-1B visa program. told The Hindu. “The govern- fast-track investment pro- several of our member exec- to establish that the particu- even before the relevant The guidance issued on Given the huge rush to sub- ment has been able to ‘Masala,’ ‘green’ bonds motion mechanism, which utives have noted recently, lar position is one in a speci- laws are enacted. March 31 stated that it is mit H-1B visa application achieve its Budget targets. The two Finance Ministers provides a single window they are applying for visas ality occupation as defined,” Mr. Sen said similar im- not sufficient to be a com- within the short time frame However, the relative contri- also welcomed the National for U.K. companies that are for higher level professionals it said. According to Decem- migration changes were tak- puter programmer and use available, the application bution of the various sources Highways Authority of In- looking to either establish this year.” the National Asso- ber 2015 projections by the ing place in the U.K. “with information technology documents would have of revenue indicates cause dia’s proposal to issue a or expand their business in ciation of Software and Ser- U.S. Labour Department, immigration issues being skills and knowledge – the been kept ready much in for concern, in particular rev- masala bond in London in India. vices Companies (NAS- employment of computer one of the core factors that applicant must provide ad- advance. Since the memo enue from corporate tax and the next few months, and SCOM) said in a statement. and information technology influenced the Brexit vote” ditional evidence to estab- was issued only one day customs.” also welcomed IREDA’s Tax evasion occupations will grow 12% and Singapore, which is rel- lish that it is a speciality oc- before the FY18 window “The provisional figures plans to issue a green bond “The U.K. and India share a Skill shortage from 2014 to 2024 (faster atively much smaller in cupation. If the application opened, it is too late for the for direct tax collections up in London and list their common commitment to Noting that member com- than the average for all other terms of overall impact, is does not provide such ad- applications to be revised to March 2017 show that net masala bonds on the Lon- addressing cross-border tax panies provide skilled talent occupations). also making immigration ditional evidence, the ap- to include the additional collections are at ₹8.47 lakh don Stock Exchange within evasion and avoidance and and solutions to U.S. com- However, due to shortfalls costlier and more focused plicant is unlikely to qual- evidence requested by the crore which is 14.2% more six months. agree to collaborate in de- panies, the industry body in college graduates in sci- on scarce skills, albeit with ify for grant of H-1B visa USCIS for computer than the net collections for This follows the success- termining the status of said, “The H-1B visa system ence, technology, engineer- clarity to restrict only those under its lottery system. programmers. the corresponding period ful issuances by HDFC wealth deposited in foreign exists specifically because of ing and mathematics with limited or moderate On April 3, the USCIS an- last year, which is a major in- (₹3,000 crore or £366 mil- financial accounts by na- the persistent shortage of (STEM), entering the STEM level of skills “the impact of nounced multiple meas- Do you foresee more crease compared to the lion) and NTPC (₹2,000 tionals of both countries.” highly-skilled domestic IT workforce, there could be the combined pushback will ures to deter and detect tightening ahead? growth rate of the previous crore or £244 million), The two ministers said talent in the U.S.,” and its 2.4 million unfilled STEM certainly be a jolt to Indian H-1B visa fraud and abuse, Given some of the propos- financial year,” according to which were the first ever they encourage the timely members will continue to jobs in the U.S. by 2018 – IT companies in the short- including the fact that it als and Bills presented to the official statement. masala bonds to be issued implementation of the G20/ provide skilled talent and with more than half of these term.” will take a more targeted the new government in the “Net direct tax collections by Indian entities. OECD Base Erosion and solutions to fill that gap and vacancies in computer and In the medium- to longer- approach when making U.S., more restrictions may stand at ₹8.47 lakh crore “At today’s meeting we Profit Shifting Project out- keep U.S. companies com- IT-related skills. More than term though the impact of site visits across the U.S. be expected. At least we which shows 100% achieve- discussed how, notwith- puts and called on other na- petitive globally. 60% of the Indian IT in- this will be significantly re- can hope that it does not ment for financial year 2016- standing the U.K.’s trigger- tions to meet their commit- It added that the addi- dustry’s $108-billion export duced through higher re- How do the new affect the H-1B visa applica- 17. Refunds amounting to ing of Article 50, India and ments. The exchange of tional evidence showing that revenue comes from the U.S. cruitment in the overseas guidelines change the tions in the current FY18 ₹1.62 lakh crore have been is- the U.K. can work together information between the the jobs themselves are com- Sanjoy Sen, Doctoral Re- subsidiaries of the Indian IT scheme of things? window. Given the uncer- sued during April 2016- to: strengthen our existing U.K. and India under the plex or specialised and re- search Scholar, Aston Busi- companies. Most of them The policy memorandum tainty in the past few March 2017, which is 32.6% economic partnership in or- Common Reporting Stand- quire professional degrees ness School, U.K., said have already initiated steps issued by the USCIS on months, several IT com- higher than the refunds is- der to further boost trade ards on Automatic Exchange mentioned by the memo has stricter interpretation of ex- for overseas recruitment March 31, 2017 is the one panies would have already sued during FY 2015-16,” the and investment and; build of Tax Information will be- been the de-facto require- isting immigration require- drives with higher prices be- that may hurt the applic- factored that business risk. statement added. on the bold vision for the In- gin this calendar year. ment for years. ments in the U.S. and ing charged to their clients. Infosys’s approach based on Brightstar eyes ensuring ‘skin in the game’ insurance Yuthika Bhargava ‘Pay with a higher variable component misunderstood’ NEW DELHI Softbank-owned Brightstar, K.T. Jagannathan ment were given ‘improper’ sizeable increment. “It is es- which is largely into distri- CHENNAI pay raises. The Bengaluru- sentially re-fixing the salary bution of mobile phones Infosys’s approach to struc- based company on Monday and not giving an incre- and telecom products, is turing compensation for its said compensation for its ment,’’ the member said, now eyeing a foray into of- top management has been COO U. B. Pravin Rao had adding that stock option was fering services such as based on Warren Buffett’s been raised as part of its fo- widely accepted as the best device buybacks and insur- principle that “there has to cus on becoming more com- mechanism to reward per- ance, to grow faster in the be skin in the game’’ to en- petitive, was critical to help- formance linked to Indian market. sure that people running the ing Infosys retain key talent risk-taking. “India is a key market company have a vested in- and was benchmarked The biggest issue facing for Brightstar,” Deval terest in its performance, as- against peers in the Indian companies such as Parikh CEO, Brightstar, serted a senior member of industry. Infosys was one of attracting told The Hindu. “We feel the board who did not wish The board member and retaining global talent, that based on market con- to be identified. stressed that the revised the member said. While ditions in the telecom and Infosys is in the spotlight compensation structure was multinational firms enjoyed IT segment… the next 12 after its co-founder and put in place after careful re- relatively more freedom in months will be a key time former chairman N.R. search on risk and reward. A structuring compensation, for us to grow… Historic- Narayana Murthy ques- compensation structure the board member added ally, we had one perspect- tioned the company’s gov- which comprised a higher that it was difficult in the In- ive where the focus was ernance standards and variable component with a dian context as “we can’t more on distribution. We opined that the software ser- linkage to performance had have huge disparity” across are changing that to distri- vices provider’s top manage- been misunderstood as a the company. bution plus services.” ONGC ofers WhatsApp mulls foray into revised $3 bn Iran gas plan digital payments in India

Reuters MUMBAI The app has 200 million users in the South Asian country The overseas arm of India’s Oil and Natural Gas Corp. Reuters ion of Digital India,” a What- has submitted a revised MUMBAI sApp spokesman said, refer- plan to develop the giant Instant messaging app ring to a flagship Farzad B gas block in Iran, WhatsApp, owned by Face- government programme including a commitment to book Inc., is mulling a foray that aims to boost the use of spend more than $3 bil- into digital payment services Internet-based services in lion, a senior executive in India, its first such offer- the country. said on Tuesday. ing globally, and has advert- “We’re exploring how we ONGC Videsh expects to ised to hire a digital transac- might work with companies produce between 1 billion tions lead in the country. that share this vision and and 1.6 billion cubic feet A WhatsApp move into di- continuing to listen closely per day of gas in five years gital payments in India, its to feedback from our users,” from the start of develop- biggest market that is home the spokesman said, declin- ment of the block, N. K. to 200 million of its billion ing to elaborate further. Verma, managing director, plus global users, would rep- WhatsApp wants to hire a Digital transactions in In- told Reuters in Mumbai. licate similar moves by mes- digital transactions lead. dia have surged after Prime India is the second- saging apps like Tencent Minister Narendra Modi’s largest buyer of Iranian Holdings Ltd.’s WeChat in derstands India’s Unified shock ban of certain high- crude, and was among the China. Payments Interface (UPI) value bank notes in Novem- few countries to continue WhatsApp is working to and the BHIM payments app ber that accounted for more trade with Iran while the launch person-to-person that enable money transfers than 80% of the country’s country faced Western payments in India in the and merchant payments us- currency in circulation at sanctions over its nuclear next six months, news web- ing mobile numbers – to be the time. programme. site The Ken reported earlier its digital transactions lead In February, WhatsApp’s But since the lifting of on Tuesday, citing unnamed for the country. co-founder, Brian Acton, some of the sanctions last sources. had told local media that the year, Iran has sought other A job advertisement on Digital India app was in early stages of in- investors and there is some WhatsApp’s website said it “India is an important coun- vestigating digital payments uncertainty if the Farzad was looking for a candidate try for WhatsApp, and we’re in the country and that he block contract will be awar- with a technical and finan- understanding how we can had talked to the Indian gov- ded to an Indian company. cial background – who un- contribute more to the vis- ernment about the matter. CM YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

NOIDA/DELHI THE HINDU 14 BUSINESS WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 2017 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF INTERVIEW | LAKSHMI NARAYANAN Hicare enters air-puriier, ‘My focus will be on start-ups’ home-cleaning segments ‘We have people with great ideas and energy; we can help them dream big’

Sangeetha Kandavel Pest-control provider eyes fourfold sales growth in 3 years K. Bharat Kumar CHENNAI Lalatendu Mishra ruary this year, with services A year ago, the company Cognizant Technology Solutions announced last week that its MUMBAI in NCR-Delhi. forayed into bird-control Motorola’s Moto G5 vice-chairman Lakshmi Narayanan had decided not to seek Hicare Services Pvt. Ltd., a “We have got a fair services. Home-cleaning ser- unveiled in India re-election to the company’s board. Mr. Narayanan led the com- pest management company, amount of success in NCR. vices, targeted at higher NEW DELHI pany as CEO between 2003 and 2006, when the firm crossed is focusing on emerging Starting April, we are rolling middle-class and rich cus- Handset maker Motorola on the billion-dollar mark in revenue. In that period, the head- areas of air purifying and out this service nationally,” tomers, is being offered in Tuesday unveiled the ifth count, which is the mainstay for IT services firms, rose more house cleaning to grow its Mr. Chakrawarti said. seven cities across India. generation of its best-selling than fourfold to about 39,000 even as market capitalisation business fourfold in three Partnering Swedish major Moto G series – Moto G5 – in climbed almost five times to about $13.4 billion. He spoke to The years, a top official said. Blueair, Hicare will offer air- Flying insects the Indian market for Hindu about how he looks back at his tenure, as well as about “We entered the home- purifying machines on rent As part of its pest-control ₹11,999. The Moto G5 – the environment the industry finds itself in now. Excerpts: cleaning and air-purification and related service packages business, Hicare has re- which will be available on business recently and these to households and busi- cently begun mosquito-con- Amazon.in – features a full What is your greatest future. Its value will be real- areas offer tremendous nesses in key cities. trol services which is slated metal design, faster achievement in your ised much later. That is quite <> In technology, you develop for the long-term… growth opportunities. We This segment is at a nas- to grow fast. processor and better camera tenure as CEO and vice- difficult because you have to have to visualise the are now focusing on these,” cent stage with an estimated “Mosquito is the biggest functionality. The device will chairman? look at where the industry future, prepare for it The Stayzilla issue has said Himanshu Chakrawarti, 2,50,000 units installed na- pest category today. This compete with handsets from will be after a few years and shaken up the start-up chief executive officer, tionally by all service pro- segment is bigger than all Xiaomi, Micromax as well as ■ Looking back, the most im- come up with a solution for was looking at an investment ecosystem. Your views? Hicare Services. viders. Industry watchers the pest [segments] com- those from the stable of its portant thing is the basic val- that today so that we are we made— Measure, a drone The company, which was said that prospects for bined together. We have ■ parent Lenovo. PTI ues and the culture that we ready. That is one challenge service company. It has certi- In a roadside accident, it’s set up by the Godrej group growth are high considering been controlling crawling in- built in the company. Apart different in this industry fied pilots who would fly never one person’s fault. in 2004 is now owned by the rising air pollution in sects all these years, now we Debt mutual funds from the external values of compared to other these drones. Why it was im- Both are losers. In the Stayz- attract ₹1.77 lakh crore private equity firm True several cities, mainly in have added flying insects customer-centricity, growth, industries. portant for us was something illa case, they could have dis- North, formerly Indian north India. and expect large revenue NEW DELHI ethics etc., the internal value that I questioned. It then cussed it and managed it. By Value Fund. It entered the Hicare is also diversifying from this service,” Mr. Investments in ixed income of making individuals Has the IT industry done struck me that the applica- getting into a tussle, there air-purifier business in Feb- into home hygiene services. Chakrawarti said. funds gained traction in autonomous, empowering enough on innovation, tions that you can enable will never be any winner. If 2016-17, with the mutual people so that they are entre- given the challenges now with these pilots sitting in a you want to create a win-win fund industry seeing an preneurial and building a from automation and remote place, in future, and situation, it’s only through inlow of nearly ₹1.77 lakh business was satisfying. demand for digital flying these drones to check negotiation, discussion; and Network top crore in such instruments More importantly, that em- services? out, for instance, telecom that’s something both could Washington Apple seen as safe havens. In powerment and autonomy is towers. You don’t have to have done in this case. on capital to comparison, investors had given at a younger age. They ■ In terms of preparedness, climb up the towers to check imports to double pumped in ₹28,786 crore in are the ones who are build- the industry has recognised out the antennae. The In a downturn, activist Kolkata rail ixed income or debt funds ing the company and they the importance of investing drones can click pictures. It shareholders tend to in 2015-16. Within ixed are delivering day in and day in innovation quite some- may not be appealing imme- demand buybacks or Special Correspondent Produce valued at $100 million income, accrual strategy out. I think that is one of the time back. Look at the inflec- diately but when you look at dividends. Cognizant and NEW DELHI funds saw a huge inlow in biggest legacies of Cognizant tion points. Transitioning long-term growth, it is good. others have announced Train travellers get the best Special Correspondent cline of 50% due to low the last iscal. Besides, as a company. This is really from the year 2000 to the buybacks. Is this healthy? mobile network coverage CHENNAI yield in the U.S., increased short-term bond category fulfilling for me. Young next goal was a challenge. Will you now focus more on Delhi-Kolkata route India will be importing six output in India coupled funds garnered a net inlow minds, energised, have the Many companies lost their on start-ups, with which ■ The Cognizant board had while the worst telecom million boxes of Washington with a ban on import of of about ₹95,500 crore. PTI opportunity to do what they way and wound up. The dot- you have already been been discussing all the points connectivity is on the Apples valued at $100 mil- apples in December 2015. want in the firm and be com bust was another inflec- spending time? that Elliott Management, the Mumbai-Bangalore and lion during the current sea- The season starts from end- 1.5 lakh panchayats to happy about it. tion point when a number of shareholder, brought up. For Mumbai-Chennai routes, son ending August 2017, said September until August. get broadband link companies bolted. So the ■ I will focus more on start- at least for a couple of years, according to findings re- a top official. “We are hoping to sell six NEW DELHI Any challenges you message that they have to be ups. These are people with we had mulled on these — leased by a train travel “When compared with million boxes of Washington The Centre is working on overcame and which gave prepared for the future was great ideas, they have the en- capital allocation, the mar- portal. The survey by Rail- the previous year, the im- Apples this season. It will be ways to improve broadband you satisfaction? very clear. But how much to ergy but they need to be gins… they had been con- Yartri said Delhi–Kolkata port of Washington Apples more or less equivalent to infrastructure to link an invest, and how fast to go… guided to encourage them to stantly discussed but we had route scores the highest at into India is set to double the 2014-15 figures. In the additional 1.5 lakh gram ■ In any industry, tradition- these matter the most. Com- think big, dream big and to not set them into action. Elli- 88% network coverage from three million boxes of last 10 years, import panchayats to the Internet ally, you would have sales panies that have invested focus on values, and on the ott acted as a trigger. We through the route, against 20 kgs to six million boxes,” volumes had increased by within 18 months as it looks and project delivery. For the early enough in terms of ac- ethics of doing business right never took an attitude that 58% on the Mumbai-Ban- said Rebecca Lyons, Interna- 10-15%. to promote digital technology industry, it is de- quisitions are getting the be- from the beginning so that they are dictating terms and galore and the Mumbai– tional Marketing Director, “Most of the apples are transactions, improve livery, sales and innovation. nefit. For example, Accen- they don’t have to comprom- that we would fight this. We Chennai routes. Washington Apple Commis- routed through the Chennai transparency in the system What drives future sales is ture has invested so much in ise. If they focus on all this, can create a win-win situ- “Internet connectivity sion. “In value terms, it seaport, followed by Mum- and push inancial what you innovate on today. acquisitions in the last 2-3 even if they grow to become ation by collaborating. These along the rail routes has be- would be $100 million bai and Kolkata,” said Keith inclusion, according to the With innovation, you are not years and they are ahead of large firms, they will not were fantastic ideas and we come important to ensure against $80-90 million for Sunderlal, India represent- Secretary in the under constant revenue the game. Cognizant has also have any challenges. put those into action. In this a pleasant experience for the comparable period last ative, Washington Apple Department of Industrial pressure, for today, you made a number of acquisi- People like us can provide particular case, it was benefi- today’s travellers,” Manish year.” Commission. “From Chen- Policy and Promotion don’t have to sell something tions, both big and small, to a lot of help here: how to get cial for the firm as well as the Rathi, CEO and co-founder, Last year, sales in the In- nai, we address southern (DIPP) Ramesh Abhishek. but you are visualising the be prepared for the future. I funding, how they should investor. RailYatri.in said. dian market witnessed a de- states,” he added. 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V.V. Subrahmanyam HYDERABAD IPL-10 of Warner and Dhawan, lat- ter regaining his form in the It will be a clash between two recent Deodhar Trophy in Vi- teams with contrasting huge gap in the attack. sakhapatnam, should look Chicken pox lays moods when defending This means, Mills will have for solid starts. Shreyas Iyer low champion and fighting-fit to spearhead the unit in NEW DELHI Sunrisers Hyderabad takes which left-armers Aniket In-form Kane Williamson, Delhi Daredevils has suffered on injury-hit Royal Chal- Choudhary, S. Aravind and Moises Henriques, Yuvraj a setback ahead of its IPL lengers Bangalore in the in- allrounder Pawan Negi have Singh, Deepak Hooda, Na- season, with its batsman augural match of the 10th In- a huge burden on their man Ojha, Vijay Shankar are Shreyas Iyer being ruled out dian Premier League at the shoulders. all capable of changing the for at least a week due to Rajiv Gandhi Stadium here Leggie Yuzvendra Chahal course of the game. chicken pox. He is now back on Wednesday night. can well be the impact player But, it is in bowling that in Mumbai to recuperate, and For RCB, the biggest blows in this department. SRH stands apart from the is expected to join the squad were the injuries to its best rest. Bangladesh left-arm after getting fully fit. It may batsman and captain Virat Upbeat champs pacer and one of the stars take around a week before he Kohli and K.L. Rahul, with On the other hand, the mood last season, Mustafizur Rah- starts training again. PTI the former tipped to miss the is upbeat in the SRH camp as man, will be joining the team early games and the latter the season opener will have a from the second match. Hard for any side to completely ruled out of the sell-out home crowd. The experienced Ashish replace Jadeja: Hodge edition. Flamboyant A.B. de Sunrisers won the title last Nehra, Bhuvneshwar Kumar RAJKOT Villiers too will miss the season because their quality and new recruit Chris Jordan Gujarat Lions’ head coach opener. bowling attack was backed can, on their day, test the Brad Hodge has said Ravindra So, it will be stressing the by the brilliance of captain best of batsmen. Jadeja is the sort of player obvious that the focus will David Warner (848 runs) at who is tough to replace. now shift to the other key the top and useful contribu- The team’s strong line-up “Ravindra was an players such as Chris Gayle, tions from Shikhar Dhawan, might force new-find and unbelievable player in the Shane Watson, Tymal Mills Yuvraj Singh and Ben Cutting pacer Mohammad Siraj to recently concluded Test and Kedar Jadhav while the who played that game-chan- wait for some time before he series, and I understand that free-stroking Mandeep Singh ging cameo in the final. makes his IPL debut. he needs some time to get may get more chances to SRH mentor V.V.S. Lax- Importantly, SRH has cent per cent fit,” said Hodge. showcase his skills. man says that it is important plenty of options in spin de- “He is a three-dimensional Even in bowling, RCB to get the momentum going partment too, with the likes player: he bats, bowls and suffered a massive significant and a win in the opener of offie Mohammad Nabi, fields like a jet. So it’s very setback when Aussie speed- against a formidable RCB will leg-spin duo of Rashid Khan hard to replace him in any ster Mitchell Starc opted out only help the team’s cause. and ageing Pravin Tambe cricketing side.” PTI of the IPL season, leaving a The left-handed combine and left-armer Bipul Sharma. Eyes on the sky: Sharp showers forced the groundstaf to have covers on the pitch on the eve of the IPL opener. * K.R. DEEPAK Warner’s squad appears Can RCB shrug of bridesmaid tag? to have a perfect balance Absence of the talismanic skipper Kohli would worry Vettori’s team deeply Shreedutta Chidananda has 10 matches to play in tance RCB’s best bowler in BENGALURU April alone. The likes of Ke- the previous campaign, will X-Factor: Tymal Mills The champion’s bench strength is its biggest plus point Last season, after a third de- dar Jadhav and Mandeep have grown in confidence has variety and pace feat in three IPL finals, Singh will have to make sig- after his exploits for India. Tymal Mills did not come V.V. Subrahmanyam Daniel Vettori insisted that it nificant contributions with cheap, but RCB was HYDERABAD was unfair to bunch all those the bat if RCB is to break its Surfeit of bowlers thrilled to have snapped Defending champion Sun- losses together because the habit of starting poorly. The return of the injured him up at February’s risers Hyderabad (SRH) sym- Royal Challengers Bangalore It will be interesting to Adam Milne and Samuel auction. Mitchell Starc’s bolises the thin dividing line (RCB) teams involved had note how Chris Gayle fares. Badree, and the presence of parting of ways left the which separates confidence been so different from one The Jamaican had a poor IPL South Africa’s chinaman franchise in need of a and complacence. This is a another. in 2016 and was even bowler Tabraiz Shamsi — strike bowler. Mills can team which thrives on bond- The RCB head coach has a dropped for Travis Head, signed originally as Badree’s bowl fast and has an ing and the gentlemen who point, but till his side wins whose stock as an ODI player replacement — gives the side assortment of cutters and play a quiet role in shaping the IPL, there will be no es- has steadily risen in Aus- a number of options. “It’s slow bouncers in his armoury as demonstrated its destiny are head coach caping the feeling of under- tralia. not a [selection] headache; on England’s recent tour Tom Moody, his deputy Si- achievement. It is a burden At February’s auction, it it’s an opportunity to man- of India. He is – by mon Helmot and mentors Chris Gayle, A.B. de Villiers, was clear RCB wanted to age our bowlers,” Vettori circumstance – a T20 V.V.S. Laxman and Muttiah and Virat Kohli, who have strengthen its bowling, the said last week. specialist and will be Muralitharan. been teammates for six years weak link for some time Shane Watson will captain available for the entirety Hoping to repeat last now, will continue to bear. now. The franchise was re- the side in Kohli’s absence — of the IPL. RCB would not year’s show, SRH is one team RCB’s run to the final in lieved to have captured a change in leadership for burden Mills with the which seems to have a per- 2016 — after having lost five Tymal Mills, besides adding the first time since 2013. RCB expectation of matching fect balance in all depart- of its first seven games — was Aniket Choudhary and — and indeed the IPL will Starc’s performances, ments of the game. due in no small part to Pawan Negi to its roster. pray that the Indian skipper Vettori stated last week. The biggest plus being the Kohli’s extraordinary cam- Yuzvendra Chahal, by a dis- returns soon. bench strength — many paign with the bat. The cap- ready to take up chal- The depth in spin bowl- tain smashed a record 973 lenges of any slot when X-Factor: Warner — leading from the front ing is something in which it runs at an incredible average given the chance. The hard-hitting and explosive left-handed opener is the can take a lot of pride, the of 81 (and a strike rate of This is the kind of a rare inspirational figure for his team as he loves to lead from the focus being on the highly- 152), making four hundreds privilege captain and ex- front like he did last season. If the Australian finds his rated leggie Rashid Khan of and nine half-centuries. That plosive opener David decisive touch with the bat, half the battle would have Afghanistan. Kohli is set to miss at least Warner enjoys. been won by Sunrisers. the first five games this time Stand-out factor as he recovers from his Team spirit For those following SRH’s shoulder injury will worry And, if body language is any game with the big guns is a riques, Deepak Hooda, Yuv- fortunes since its inception RCB deeply. hint of the ease with which a sight that reminds the kind raj Singh and Ben Cutting, in 2013, the stand-out factor K.L. Rahul, who struck team is gearing up to defend of team spirit the franchise can pose a serious threat to has been the silent contribu- more sixes than M.S. Dhoni the title, SRH can well be a has. any bowling attack. tion of the support staff. and Andre Russell last year, perfect example. “We are conscious to cre- The cricketing acumen will miss the whole of the The fact that all from the ate a positive environment,” Varied bowling attack and vast experience of Lax- season. De Villiers, the third- youngest to the oldest in the said the Sunrisers coach The key to its campaign will man and Muralitharan are highest run-getter in the squad — 18-year-old leg-spin- Moody. be the varied bowling attack something which play a sig- league last time around, will ner Rashid Khan to the 45- A formidable batting line- with pace handled by the nificant role when the team sit out Wednesday’s game year-old Pravin Tambe — are up that has Warner and likes of Ashish Nehra, is under pressure and the with a back complaint. enjoying their stint, sharing a Shikhar Dhawan at the top, Mustafizur Rahman and situation demands quick It is not a pleasant situ- few thoughts about their and big-hitting Moises Hen- Bhuvneshwar Kumar. decisions. ation for RCB, given that it ‘We’ll try to build on last season’s triumph’ Going from underdog to winner was special, says Williamson

A. Joseph Antony he replied. HYDERABAD How was he consistent in Cool under the lid would all three versions ? “I think best describe Kane William- changing teams and formats son. “We’ll try to build on helps us stay fresh. At other the good things of last sea- times, I look to do some- son’s triumph,” the Sun- thing else, like read a book risers Hyderabad (SRH) or surf,” said the Kiwi batsman told journalists captain. here on Tuesday. How did he fit his low- “Going from underdog to profile self into the big boots winner was special,” he of Brendon McCullum? “My fondly recalled. shoe size is actually bigger,” With New Zealand having he quipped. He was then ef- a fairly large Indian dia- fusive in praise for the team spora, was there any special culture built up by his pre- attention from fans when he decessor. went back home last year? “He was a brilliant leader. “There was nothing like Our team, hit by injuries, the attention we got here,” has bounced back, when youngsters have stepped up. He’s a good friend and I still talk to him on cricket,” suggesting the former skipper would al- ways be an inspiration. On sitting out for a few matches in 2016, William- son said, “It is in the fickle nature of T20 that you don’t always succeed. When you get an oppor- tunity, it should not be about you but what you can give the team,” he stressed. CM A ND-ND YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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Mumbai target audience — the youth. the broadcast rights. the PNB Metlife junior The scores: TGT 168 for seven Dipa Karmakar When Chennai Super Kings According to the franchise badminton in 20 overs (Akhil Vanjani 56 undergoes knee surgery and Rajasthan Royals were Master-stroke agreements, the BCCI dis- championship on Tuesday. not out, Zoravar Singh 46; NEW DELHI suspended for two years “Earlier too, we have been tributes 54 % of the central The results: Boys: Under-13: Navdeep Singh Sethi three for Star Indian gymnast Dipa from the IPL, it was followed mainly focusing on cricket to revenue equally to the eight Mayank Kharkwal bt Daksh 18, Vinayak Gupta two for 45) Karmakar has undergone a with two new franchises be- fulfil our marketing goals. original IPL franchises. Bhati 15-11, 10-15, 15-13; bt Saya Rowdy Rhinos 143 for knee surgery, ruling her out ing inducted to the frenzy. Since the inception of Gu- However, Gujarat Lions Deekshant Yadav bt Aditya eight in 20 overs (Sahib Karan of the Asian Championships As a result, when Kolkata- jarat Lions, we have further and RPS are not entitled to Kumar 14-15, 15-10, 15-12; Singh 54; Kunal Vanjani three next month. Karmakar based New Rising group and strengthened the association the central revenue share. Abhigyan Sharma bt Anubhav for one, Zoravar Singh two for underwent an anterior Intex Technologies were and made it more meaning- Jain 13-15, 15-7, 15-7; Harsh 26, Nitin Bindra two for 20). Bringing Smile 139 all out in cruciate ligament (ACL) awarded the Pune and Ra- ful. I think it’s a marketing Marketing tool Vardhan bt Rohan Aggarwal 20 overs (Rithwik Jain 33, surgery in Mumbai and will jkot franchises, respectively, master-stroke,” he says. As a result, ever since the 15-12, 9-15, 15-13; Syed Ayyan Abhishek Sakuja 32, Nishank not participate in the as a stop-gap arrangement, it “We feel cricket is a no- BCCI laid down these condi- Ahmad bt Raj Vardhan 7-15, Gosain 29; Jagrit Anand three Thailand meet scheduled 15-12, 15-5. raised eyebrows in the sports brainer to tap Indian youth. tions, the industry experts for 27) bt Nav Durga XI 136 for from May 18. “Rehabilitation business industry. Intex has tremendously be- are convinced that the new Girls: Under-13: Rayaana Manchanda bt Ayushi Sharma six in 20 overs (Hriday Sagar has started and I will be back The Board of Control for nefited from Gujarat Lions team owners — as spelt out 47; Siddarth Nagpal two for soon,” Karmakar posted on Cricket in India — the both tangibly and intangibly. by Goenka and Bansal — will 13-15, 15-9, 15-7; Anjali Rautela bt Arushi Gupta 15-4, 11-15, 23). Twitter. PTI founders of the IPL — had Our sales figures have surged purely use the association as 15-7; Myra Grover bt Vaishnavi Ullas, Kieren for come up with an innovative in Gujarat and U.P. specific- a marketing tool. Puneyani 15-10, 14-15, 15-11. Trail World meet reverse bidding methodo- ally. However, with the lime- Under-11: Baruni Parswal bt logy, but still ended up earn- “The brand perception light one can hog through Ullas Hoshalli Narayana and Anjali Rautela 9-11, 11-9, 11-9; ing ₹16 crore and ₹10 crore has grown to be much the IPL, it is extremely diffi- Kieren D’Soouza have been Jiaa Narang bt Dakshata Joshi selected to represent the each year from the franchise stronger amongst the con- cult for someone to part 8-11, 11-8, 11-9; Anushka owners. sumer and channel partners. ways after getting a taste of country in the Trail World Golash bt Ashe Singh 10-11, Championship to be held in As a result, while the ex- Because of IPL’s massive it. 11-5, 11-5. perts were convinced that reach, Intex has gained a lot No wonder then that the Badia Prataglia, Italy, on Akshay Saini scores June 10. the BCCI had got a great deal of awareness throughout the IPL corridors are abuzz with unbeaten double ton for itself, when it came to the globe. We are extremely the whispers of at least one, After setting qualification franchise owners, their happy with the results. if not both, of the owners Akshay Saini slammed a standard and getting move to invest more than ₹ with their association with group, on the visibility. It is “We expect IPL to not keen to buy out one of the quickfire, unbeaten double response from 12 athletes, 200 crore for a two-year win- the IPL. something we have been only strengthen our connec- original teams to continue its century and Rajesh Sharma including a woman, the dow, with no possibility to “Two years is short,” says happy with.” tion with the target audience involvement. Goenka, in got a century of his own Athletics Federation of India break even, was dealt with Sanjiv Goenka, owner of Keshav Bansal, director of in India and the world, but fact, has no qualms in admit- while left-arm spinner Vikas (AFI) selected the best two. Timberwolves beat scepticism. Rising Pune Supergiant, Intex Technologies and also catapult the perception ting it. Mishra picked up a match- The 37-year-old Ullas, who Trail Blazers when asked about the pos- owner of Gujarat Lions, has of Brand Intex beyond the “We have enjoyed this as- winning six-wicket haul as lives in Vancouver, has won MINNESOTA Owners happy sibility of building fan-base no doubt in terming the as- realms of technology.” sociation. Jeevan Jyoti Institute of medals across South East Karl-Anthony Towns scored However, halfway into their for the team. sociation with IPL as a ‘mar- The major chunk of rev- “If given a chance, we Medical Sciences, Asia apart from Canada. 34 points and grabbed 12 short stint, both the team “I think IPL has had a keting master-stroke’. enue for all the IPL fran- would be happy to con- Bahadurgarh, thrashed The 24-year-old Kieren had rebounds to lift Minnesota owners are extremely happy huge positive impact on the “Intex Technologies and chises comes through the tinue,” he says. Madras Cricket Club by 291 finished second in the Timberwolves to a 110-109 runs in the 27th All India 101-km event in France. win over the red-hot Om Nath Sood memorial Shrut Mohan advances Portland Trail Blazers in the tournament. CHANDIGARH NBA’s only game on Monday. ‘We are not The scores: JJIMS 419 for Shrut Mohan Nargeta We need to understand injuries better three in 40 overs (Akshay defeated Jagtar Arora 6-3, India third in dependent Saini 211 not out, Rajesh 6-7(4), 6-3 in the under-18 WADA report Sharma 112, Abhimanyu boys’ pre-quarterfinals of India has been ranked third Statistical analysis will help in identifying common factors and speciic triggers on Chhetri’ Eshwaran 72; Jas Batra two the AITA Championship for the third year in a row in a for 73) bt MCC 128 in 30.2 series junior tennis doping violation report Front Foot: The Law That Changed guesses as to what the causes are,” ex- overs (MannatVeer Singh 43 tournament at the CLTA published by World Anti- Cricket, Australian journalist Doug Ack- plained Ralph Brandon, the ECB’s Head n.o.; Vikas Mishra six for Complex on Tuesday. Doping Agency for 2015 with erley argues that the manner in which of Science, Medicine and Innovation to 22). The results (pre- 117 athletes from the country fast bowlers leap in their bowling stride The Independent newspaper. Lower Harshit, Shivam shine quarterfinals): Boys: U-18: being punished after testing causes extensive damage. The impact, back pain is seen as the biggest cause of Harshit Sethi scored 48 runs Akarshit Mahajan bt Sukhpreet positive for banned according to him is seven times the pain and injury in players. and picked up three wickets Jhoje 6-1, 6-0; Naresh substances. body weight. Fast bowlers breaking while India under-19 player Badgujar bt Jitin Chetry 6-4, India followed Russian BETWEEN WICKETS down at regular intervals barely causes Statistical analysis will play a big role Shivam Mavi scored a half- 6-4; Bhupender Dahiya bt Anuj Mann 6-2, 6-0; sav Kumar bt Federation (176) and Italy suresh menon comment now. Like byes and dropped in identifying common factors and spe- century as Billabong (129) at third spot in the catches, it is accepted as part of the cific triggers. So will pattern recogni- Academy beat Delhi Savneet Bajwa 6-1, 6-3; Tushar doping violation chart The absentee list at the IPL is impress- game. tion. For all the advances made in train- Daredevils Academy by 33 Sharma bt Ayyooque Khan 6-2, 6-4; Shrut Mohan Nargeta bt released by the WADA, the ive, and in the case of those who played Fielders in the slips often break fin- ing methods thanks to technology and runs in the 10th Hargopal Jagtar Arora 6-3, 6-7(4), 6-3; same position as in the for India in the recent home season, gers; you can usually tell a wicket- better knowledge of the sportsmen’s Under-19 tournament. Krishan Hooda bt M.S. Karthik reports of 2013 and 2014. significant. keeper by the way his fingers are out of bodies, there are still areas that need at- Stephen Constantine. * PTI The scores: Billabong 6-2, 6-1; Shashikant Rajput bt All the dope violations by the R. Ashwin, Murali Vijay, K.L. Rahul joint. tention. The ECB has a head of science, Academy 252 for eight in 40 Sidharth Goel 6-1, 6-0. U-14: Indians came from urine Special Correspondent overs (Shivam Mavi 50, Harshit are set to miss the tournament while medicine and innovation, which sug- Ajay Singh bt Mahismat Kumar samples. PTI Kolkata Sethi 48, Ayush Jain 42; Ankit Virat Kohli will miss the early part of it. Detrimental effect gests that there is an awareness of this. 6-2, 6-1; Aryan Thakur bt Pratap Singh two for 38, Injuries are part of a sportsman’s life, as Are highly trained sportsmen more The Indian team has advanced by National football team Adhirit Awal 7-5, 6-1; Jitin Vikram Dagar two for 36) bt AFI postpones is exhaustion, especially if you are a prone to injuries? Are their bodies leaps and bounds ever since the sup- coach Stephen Constantine Chetry bt Rijul Bhatia 6-1, 6-1; Delhi Daredevils Academy 219 National meets bowler. tuned to such a pitch that the slightest port staff was put in place a generation has said that the Indian Sidharth Goel bt Abhay Yuvraj all out in 37.5 overs (Mayank KOCHI Kohli diving to save a single near the disturbance causes them to go off key? ago. The current team is easily the fit- side is not solely depend- Singh 6-2, 6-2; Sarthak Arora Rawat 52, Ankit Pratap Singh With the 22nd Asian athletics boundary’s edge and falling heavily on Or is it just that pulled muscles and ro- test ever to take the field, inspired as ent on seasoned forward bt Gaurav Kumar 3-6, 6-1, 6-4; 43; Rahul Chopra three for 29, championship pushed from his shoulder has been one of the most tator cuff injuries have become com- much by the coaches as by skipper Sunil Chhetri anymore. Pranav Chopra bt Parth Goel Harshit Sethi three for 41, Alok June to July, the Athletics replayed visuals of the season. He had monplace through live telecasts? More Kohli himself, a fitness fanatic who un- 6-3, 4-6, 6-1; Sukhpreet Jhoje Speaking to reporters on Singh two for 45). Federation of India has also to miss the final Test of the Australia than one Indian physio has told me that derstands the role of nutrition too. bt Arhaan Pahwa 6-0, 6-1; the sidelines of a workshop Sumit stars for DCA decided to postpone the series. Is saving a single worth the risk sometimes players tend to over-train There are no dodgers as in the past for scouts here on Tuesday, SSarabjot Singh bt Rakshit Delhi under-19 player Sumit series of National meets of having to skip a Test match? The and thus invite injury. when a century scored or five wickets Constantine said, “I don't Dhankar 6-0, 6-1. Mathur picked up three which were scheduled for simple — and simplistic — answer might Most players know how to fall taken usually meant a period of laxity think we are dependent on Girls: U-18: Kavya Sawhney bt wickets and scored 33 runs April and May. be ‘No’. Many former internationals without injuring themselves, but are on the fitness front. Sunil Chhetri. He is always Shamita Yadav 6-1, 6-0; as Devender Chaudhary According to the AFI calendar thought so. But had Kohli allowed the not so familiar with the build-up to in- at the right place at the Priyanka Jakhar bt Arti Nayan Academy beat Aryan Club 6-2, 6-3; Ashpreet Bajwa bt released earlier, the Indian ball to cross the fence without attempt- juries that might see them out of action Prevention aspect right time. There is fierce by four wickets in the Simran Pritam 6-2, 6-1; track and field season was ing to stop it, he would have come in for for a long period. Yet even in the recent home series, too competition for all places.” supposed to open in New much criticism. For many years now I have advoc- many players missed matches through Swastik Cup tournament. Harnoor Sidhu bt Vrinda Delhi with the first Indian In any case, most fielders in that situ- ated that a research facility be attached injury of some sort. Injury prevention Asked about the com- The scores: Aryan Club 161 in Sharma 6-4, 6-2; Srishti Dhir Grand Prix on April 11 but ation are focused on saving the run to the National Cricket Academy to thus becomes an important aspect of parison being made 30.1 overs (Sahej Somit 52, bt Japjot Kaur 6-2, 6-1; now that has been put off. rather than calculating the amount of study (and understand) some of these training and competition during the between Bhaichung Bhutia Babar Ali 42; Sumit Mathur Himanshika bt Sohani Makkar 6-1, 6-2; Aishwarya Andalkar Apart from the New Delhi cricket they might have to miss in the issues. Injury prevention is obviously season. and Chhetri, Constantine three for 29) lost to DCA 167 bt Nimrat Atwal 6-1, 6-0; leg, the second Indian GP was immediate future. superior to injury treatment or injury In June India travel to England for said, “Both are great play- for six in 34.2 overs (Robin Harleen Kaur bt Rahat Mangat scheduled for April 15 in Ashwin’s case is different. Bowling — management. the Champions Trophy. It is important ers in their own right. Bha- Kumar 49, Sumit Mathur 33; Ashok Kumar three for 25). 6-2, 6-2. U-14: Krishti Boro bt Patiala while another Indian like many of cricket’s arts — is an unnat- At its National Cricket Performance for players to remain fit. A key player ichung was a little bit more Milli Pandit 6-1, 6-0; Mehar GP leg and the Federation aggressive. Zoravar shines ural act. A spinner gives himself a run- Centre, the England cricket board is missing a key match through injury can KKohli bt Pwandeep Kaur 7-5, “Maybe that was be- Zoravar Singh’s all-round Cup – both in New Delhi – ning start and then twists his body to working on this very problem. This sea- ruin the best laid plans. 6-0; Nimrat Atwal bt Suhani display, Akhil Vanjani’s were listed on the calendar become side-on while delivering the son 91 county cricketers (45 fast bowl- Bowlers, especially fast bowlers, cause he spent three years Sabharwal 6-2, 6-3; Suryanshi for May. But all of them have ball, finishing with a follow through ers, 18 spinners, 20 batsmen and eight have to be rotated; players’ careers in England. But Chhetri is unbeaten half-century and Tanwar bt Riya Kaushik 6-2, been postponed. that puts great strain on the hip and wicketkeepers) are participating in a have to be managed so that they are at different, he can play a bit Kunal Vanjani’s fine bowling 6-2; Prachi Batra bt Anuradha “We are consulting coaches joints. The stress on the shoulders, fin- study to reduce back injuries. The aim their best when playing for the country. wider. He can come off the spell, picking up three Chopra 6-0, 6-2; Aaditaa and athletes about the new gers, trunk, heel that comes from re- is to track players both before and after Hence the importance of research flanks. He can give us dif- wickets for just one run, Vasishta bt Sahira 6-1, 6-2; dates. They will be peating the action over a season is great they are injured, and get a better idea of which then leads to greater self-aware- ferent looks if you like. I helped TG Titans beat Saya Harnoor Sidhu bt Mrinalini announced shortly,” said an too. what causes the injury. ness. We need not re-invent the wheel — think there is quite a big Rowdy Rhinos by 25 runs in Sharma 6-3, 6-4; Kuhoo Atray AFI source. STAN RAYAN It is worse for the fast bowler. In “Before you'd only be able to make we can learn from other sports too. difference.” the 5th Roshanara Premier btt Joane Fernandes 6-0, 6-4.

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FAITH THE HINDU CROSSWORD 11973 (set by Lightning) SUDOKU 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 12 Elite group of lions (5) 6 Contestant who has no chance, Core message of 13 Primarily careless, misplace sore before taking the ring leading to difficult lead (9) 9 10 decision (5,4) the Ramayana 7 Country not out to return 11 14 Prepared to reverse trend on favour (5) Good deeds are the means to reach a higher planeand like- wise bad deeds lead to destruction and doom — is the ulti- 12 13 education (6) mate message that the Ramayana teaches, said Sri R. Krish- 16 Ugly house I had destroyed (7) 8 Pointer on ship is unnecessary (8) namurthy Sastrigal in a discourse. The truth that each one is 19 Reclaim building — a 14 15 16 17 responsible for his acts, good and bad and will have to face wonder (7) 11 Trendy fashion shop (4) the consequences is strongly stressed. It is shown that even 18 21 Allowance for every American birds and animals will be of assistance to one who treads the 19 20 21 university (6) 15 Clean chit doled out for a type right path; but to him who chooses the wrong path, even of foul (9) one’s kith and kin cannot be of any help. Ravana’s glories 23 Doctor, ninety not a small 22 are innumerable and even Rama and Hanuman heap spon- fry (9) 17 Emerge with one soldier, 23 24 25 taneous praises on his attainments and achievements. But 25 Role going around one highly decorated all he commits the sin of coveting another man’s wife and international country (5) around (9) scripts his own self destruction. Rama and Sita in their role 26 27 26 Subtlety in problem is lost (6) as mortals show that human sorrow is inevitable and affects 18 Importance of oriental all, whatever may be one’s temperament, scholarship, lin- 27 Toss trouser in a frivolous treasure, not ordinary in the eage, etc. Lakshmana on many occasions ponders on the manner (8) past (8) 28 29 unfairness of the happenings in Rama’s life. 28 Facilitate curse to be reversed Rama too breaks out in despair when Virata carries away 20 Leave short passage by the French (6) Solution to puzzle 11972 Solution to yesterday’s Sudoku Sita in a trice. He tells Lakshmana, “This is unbearable. essentially with appeal (4) 29 Operation with power B Y P A S S H I G H L A N D Kaikeyi must have known all this when she sent us to the Across A O H T I L O excluding spent rival (8) 21 Apply one’s vague record of forest.” Rama’s reaction only reflects the psychological real- 1 First letters of words to low in L O T I O N C E S S P O O L ity of an individual in trying circumstances. Rama’s qualities Down income (3,4) N P O S M T O P this clue (8) E M O T I C O N L O O F A H of compassion and kindness, his readiness to lend a helping 1 Bear caught on record A U N A B R I 5 Choose leader returning with 22 Joke about hundred missing hand to all, his nature to pardon the faults in people, and his interrupting part of play (6) L A R K A P P A R I T I O N adherence to truth stand as the very basis of this grand epic. right to buy asset (6) from that order (6) R G B T C M P H I L O S O P H Y S P A S The Lord’s vow to protect those in distress is another 9 Order to join with old ranger 2 Prompt assuming a balance (9) 24 Old king sheltering unknown H L X T H R H straight message of hope to humanity. When Rama accepts (8) 3 Free to knock all pins in second A S S I G N S U D A T O R Y antelope (5) Vibhishana against much opposition from Sugriva, Laksh- attempt (5) R P O D B M V N 10 Interfere with democrats A B L U T I O N U M P I R E mana and others, he quells their doubts about any possible breaking ight for the most 4 Motivated Hindu ceding 25 Whip possibly restraining O I H V A S S foul play on the part of the rakshasas and states that even if part (6) partly (7) animal (5) H O T W A T E R I M P E L S it is Ravana in Vibhishana’s form, He would protect him.

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Inter in danger of Bagan bounces back Johnson scores BFC’s winner missing CL Roca’s team has now won both its group matches and sits on top of the table Sports Bureau a long punt forward off a hetri, Eugeneson Lyngdoh then took a shot on the vol- Agencies to take full points Male (Maldives) free-kick. Maziya custodian and Lenny Rodrigues were ley, but it was wayward. Milan A John Johnson goal deep Pavel Matiash punched the handed starts, while Salam The visitor continued to Inter Milan’s hopes of into injury-time gave attempt, and the ball fell to Ranjan Singh replaced Nishu dominate proceedings, even sneaking into the Champi- Lalpekhlua, Balwant and Norde ind the mark Bengaluru FC (BFC) three Marjan Jugovic, who hooked Kumar in defence. as Maziya began to fall back ons League all but evapor- points against Maziya Sports it back towards the goal. in an attempt to nullify BFC’s ated on Monday as it lost AFC CUP The Blues started well and Recreation Club, in a Johnson timed his run well constant attacks. Just when 2-1 at home to Sampdoria from kick-off, with Udanta’s AFC Cup Group E clash here to make contact, giving his the outing seemed destined in the Italian Serie A. Y.B. Sarangi early swipe sailing over the on Tuesday. side a 1-0 win. for a goalless draw, Johnson Fabio Quagliarella’s late KOLKATA bar before another shot from found the target. penalty left Inter sixth, Mohun Bagan recovered Through the majority of Albert Roca’s team has the 21-year-old — this time set nine points behind third- from a shaky start to register the match, BFC created mul- now won both its group up by Chhetri — went over. BFC next returns to I- placed Napoli and the final a come-from-behind 3-1 win tiple chances without a goal matches, and sits on top of Udanta was in the thick of League duties in Bengaluru, qualifying position. over Abahani Limited, to show for it. the table. things once again when, in where it takes on Aizawl FC In La Liga, Giuseppe Dhaka, in an AFC Cup Group In what would turn out to Four changes were made the 17th minute, his shot on Sunday. Rossi scored a hat-trick to E match at the Rabindra be the last piece of action in to the BFC side which took from the edge of the area The result: Maziya Sports and lead Celta Vigo to a 3-1 win Sarobar Stadium here on the encounter, BFC goal- on Mohun Bagan at the was saved by Maziya ’keeper Recreation Club 0 lost to BFC 1 over Las Palmas on Tuesday. keeper Amrinder Singh sent weekend. Skipper Sunil Ch- Matiash. Defender Juanan (John Johnson 90+3). Monday. Playing its second match The results: in three days and resting La Liga: Celta Vigo 3 (Rossi 12, three first-choice defenders 36, 57) bt Las Palmas 1 (Bigas did not help Bagan as Aba- Rigo 80). hani mounted pressure India gets a break as Istomin pulls out Serie A: Inter Milan 1 (d’Am- through some controlled ag- brosio 35) lost to Sampdoria 2 gression. Excellent ball pos- Tests on Tuesday deem the Uzbek mainstay unit for the Davis Cup match (Schick 50, Quagliarella session and steady attacks, 85-pen). producing six corners in the N. Sudarshan first 11 minutes, by Abahani BENGALURU kept the Bagan backline India was handed a lifeline Sri Lanka busy. on Tuesday as Denis Istomin No word on Indian In the 21st minute, Aba- pulled out of the Uzbekistan goes one up hani tasted success when squad for its Davis Cup Asia Mohammad Ziban crossed Oceania Group-I tie which doubles combo yet Agence France-Presse from right and the Welsh- I did it: Balwant Singh thanks the heavens after slotting in host begins here on Friday. Principal his own team — Leander Colombo Correspondent man Jonathon Brown found Mohun Bagan’s second goal against Abahani Limited. * PTI The 30-year-old has been Paes was expected to arrive Sri Lanka beat Bangladesh BENGALURU the mark. struggling with an injury to late on Tuesday — Bhupathi by six wickets in the first had disappointment in store Sahidul Alam’s head to make Indian captain Mahesh Bhu- An off-colour Bagan his left foot for a while now, said, rather tersely: “It’s not T20 International here on until a superb combined ef- the green-and-maroon fans pathi, speaking before the worked for the equaliser but and had not arrived with the ideal, that’s for sure.” Tuesday. Kusal Perera the solid Abahani defence, fort helped it draw parity in happy. rest of the squad on Sat- news on Istomin came in on Denis Istomin * QUINN ROONEY/ Asked about whether the struck 77 off 53 balls as the injury time. Balwant passed Tuesday, dwelt on how diffi- showing some fine marking Abahani was frustrated to urday. A final round of tests GETTY IMAGES uncertainty about the host reached 158 for four in the ball from the right to cult it would be for someone and prompt clearance, see some of its chances get- in Tashkent on Tuesday doubles pairing and Paes’ 18.5 overs after restricting Norde inside the box and the to land on Wednesday — denied any opening. ting wasted. Bagan pushed deemed the World No. 71 un- six months. late arrival would affect the Bangladesh to 155 for six. Haitian tapped it on to Jeje when Istomin was originally hard to get its third. Norde fit for the match. Even though the former balance of the team, Bhu- The scores: Bangladesh 155 Lalpekhlua to score from in scheduled to arrive — and Wasted opportunity foxed two Abahani defend- Istomin has been Uzbek- top-100 player said he had pathi said: “There’s never for six in 20 overs (Soumya The Mariners wasted a fab- front of the goal. ers inside the box to finally istan’s mainstay in recent recovered well enough to play a tie starting on Friday. Sarkar 29, Mosaddek Hossain any balance in doubles. ulous opportunity in the Bagan looked more or- record a goal against his years, almost always playing play on all three days, it is “Regardless of how good 34 n.o., Mahmudullah 31, La- “The balance is in the per- 27th minute when Katsumi ganised in the second half name and virtually sealed both the singles and the unlikely that Lebed will he is, that’s an advantage for sith Malinga two for 38) lost son sitting in chair being Yusa, Sony Norde and Bal- and took the lead in the 48th the issue in the 87th minute. doubles rubbers, seeing his trust him with the work- us,” Bhupathi said. to Sri Lanka 158 for four in able to balance the two want Singh had a chance minute. Yusa got rid of his The result: Mohun Bagan 3 team into the World Group load. 18.5 overs (Kusal Perera 77, On the delayed arrival in players out there.” each inside the box but marker to send a diagonal (Jeje Lalpekhlua 45+1, Balwant play-offs in each of the past So, for the singles, the Mashrafe Mortaza two for could not convert. pass into the box and Bal- Singh 48, Sony Norde 87) bt three years, like India. Uzbek captain is likely to 32). A desperate Bagan pro- want slotted in the left- Abahani Limited (Dhaka) 1 “When he said he would rely on Sanjar Fayziev (World duced some long balls but footer over goalkeeper (Jonathon Brown 21). stay back for tests, I had a No. 376) and Temur Ismailov though. “With Istomin not Dustov, might give India a TV PICKS feeling he would not turn up (World No. 406), both coming, it’s definitely good slight breather too, but Zee- at all,” said Uzbekistan cap- ranked below the three In- for us,” Zeeshan said. shan downplayed it. IPL: Opening Ceremony, tain Petr Lebed. dian singles specialists, “But we need to consider “We have still not decided Sony Max, Sony Six, Sony Manoj advances; Shiva, Vikas out “So, I had a back-up plan Ramkumar Ramanathan, that we are also not playing our doubles team, regardless ESPN & Sony Six HD, Sony in place. Now, with two days Prajnesh Gunneswaran and with two of our best singles of [whether] Istomin [is] ESPN HD, 6.30 p.m.; SRH vs left, it gives me enough time N. Sriram Balaji. players (Yuki Bhambri and coming or not,” Zeeshan RCB, 8 p.m. Press Trust of India Manoj defeated Vietnam’s to work on who plays singles Fayziev has thus far Saketh Myneni). So it’s more said. Premier League: SS Select BOXING Bangkok Huynh Ngoc Vien to enter and doubles.” played two live rubbers and balanced and even, and “Leander (Paes) will prac- HD 2, 12.20 a.m. (Thursday) the last eight stage. La Liga: Sony Six, TEN 1, 2 & Former Commonwealth Vikas Krishan (75kg) and The seasoned Farruk one dead rubber, but is yet matches are still going to be tise on Wednesday. We will Sony Six HD, TEN 1 HD, 12.55 Games gold-medallist Manoj Shiva Thapa (60kg) lost in Also advancing to the last Dustov, who has also often to notch up a win. Ismailov very, very tough.” then have a team meeting — a.m. (Thursday) Kumar (69kg) advanced to the opening round of the eight were Rohit Tokas played on all three days for too is winless in Cup play. The breaking up of the myself, Leander and Mahesh NBA: Sony Six & Sony Six HD, the quarterfinals but World Thailand International box- (64kg) and K. Shyam Kumar Uzbekistan in the past, has India coach Zeeshan Ali regular, and fairly successful, (Bhupathi) — and then 4.30 a.m. (Thursday) championships medallists ing tournament here. 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Come September, Kerala will host its rst international festival at the popular beach in the city Aabha Raveendran angana too have some lesser tional Kite Festivals across press Season 4 event organ- KOZHIKODE known events. Globally, Inter- the globe and bagged many ised by Kerala Tourism, and With a 550-km long coastline national Kite Festivals in prizes. their participation in a kite and around a hundred Beijing and Weifang in China, flying event at Kozhikode beaches, Kerala should held every April, are the best Tourism promotion beach, was a shot in the arm ideally be a regular kite fly- known. “The Kozhikode beach is ap- for the organisers, who ing destination. All that is set to change with propriate for a Kite Festival worked hard to obtain the re- However, but for a few the International Kite Festival and we plan to utilise it prop- quired approval. lone attempts in Kappad, Ko- that will be held in the second erly for tourism,” says Ab- “We need such events to chi and recently in Bekal, week of September, 2017 on dulla Maliyekkal, captain of promote Kozhikode as a there has never been a large- the historic Kozhikode beach. the One India Kite Team. tourism destination,” says scale kite festival in the State. The Calicut International The team had proposed District Collector U.V. Jose. The best known Interna- Kite Festival is being organised the idea to the Department “The District Administra- tional Kite Festival in India is by Kozhikode’s very own One of Tourism a few years ago. tion and the District Tourism Floating charm:The skies of Kozhikode are set to be bedecked the ‘Uttarayan Festival’ in India Kite Team that has rep- The recent visit of 30 blog- Promotion Council will def- with some unconventional kites as part of the international Ahmedabad, Gujarat, while resented the State and the gers from all over the world initely support the event,” he kite festival to be held in September. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT States like Karnataka and Tel- country in various Interna- as part of the Kerala Blog Ex- added. Tree-dwelling crab species found in Kerala Kani maranjadu are long-legged

Press Trust of India Thiruvananthapuram Scientists have discovered a new species of long-legged, tree-dwelling crabs in West- ern Ghats of Kerala. The new species named Kani maranjandu, after the Kani tribe in Kerala, are sub- stantially different from other congeners. The crab species has been named after the Kani tribe First of its kind in Kerala. The characteristic traits of the crab include the struc- lows in large trees are essen- ture of its hard upper shell, tial for the survival of this its male abdominal struc- unique species, the discov- ture and reproductive parts ery also stress the need for and diagnostic elongated conservation of large trees walking legs, which no in the degraded forest eco- other genus has, said re- systems of the Western searchers from the Univer- Ghats,” said Biju Kumar of sity of Kerala. the university. This is the first report of its kind to offer a record of Actual biodiversity an arboreal crab. The sur- “It also highlights how little vey of the freshwater crab we know about the actual fauna started in 2014 in the biodiversity that resides in Westerns Ghats in Kerala. these forests and the efforts People from the Kani tribe that must still be made to reported sightings of a ‘long- find and study the many un- legged’ tree crabs. doubted new species that After a year, researchers still live there,” Mr. Kumar were finally able to capture said. a female specimen, and The findings were pub- later a large adult male. lished in The Journal of Crus- “As water-holding hol- tacean Biology.