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WINDOWS Bill in LS to merge Daman & Diu and Pawar outsmarts Chanakya Dadra & Nagar UTs New Delhi: The government on Tuesday introduced in the Lok Sabha a Bill to Ajit, Fadnavis quit after SC orders floor test; Uddhav to be CM tomorrow merge two Union Territories — Daman and Diu, and Dadra and Nagar Haveli — into one. The proposed legislation — The Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu (Merger of Union Territories) Bill 2019 — was introduced in the Lok Sabha by Union Minister of State for Home G Kishan Reddy. Full report on Page 2 Pak Army Chief’s extension stalled Islamabad: Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Tuesday suspended the three-year extension given to the powerful Army Chief Qamar Javed Bajwa till Wednesday and said the entire process Ajit Pawar Devendra Fadnavis Uddhav Thackeray Sharad Pawar was “upside down”, in an embarrassment to Prime Minister Imran Khan. — PTI Returns Resigns Rebounds Reigns 1st Thackeray to be Maha CM SC orders BHAGWAN PARAB I had never dreamed years. He also had a special word of MUMBAI, NOV. 26 thanks for the NCP chief and televised of leading the state. Congress president Sonia Gandhi. In a dramatic turn of events precipi- I would like to thank Lashing out at his former saffron tated by the Supreme Court’s Sonia Gandhi and ally for its “hatred towards his Tuesday morning order to hold a others... Parties with party”, Mr Thackeray said: trust vote televised floor test in the different ideologies “Whenever there was a necessity, Maharashtra Assembly “within 24 they sought the Sena’s support, but PARMOD KUMAR hours”, chief minister Devendra have come together. they did not hesitate to abandon us NEW DELHI, NOV. 26 Fadnavis and his deputy Ajit Pawar Those who were when there had no need for us.” resigned from their posts and Shiv friends for 30 years “My government will not act The Supreme Court on Tuesday morn- Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray is all did not trust us. But against anyone with vengeance, but ing ordered the BJP’s Devendra set to become the first in the no one should create hurdles for us,” Fadnavis to prove his government’s Thackeray family to become those against whom he added. majority in a televised floor test “within Maharashtra’s chief minister. we fought for 30 “I want to thank Soniaji also. 24 hours”. Stating that it is necessary to Mr Thackeray will lead the govern- Uddhav Thackeray pays tribute to Shiv Sena years have Parties with different ideologies have a floor test to avoid horse trading, ment of Maha Vikas Aghadi — the founder and his father Balasaheb Thackeray at trusted me. have come together. Those who were the apex court also asked Maharashtra grand alliance of the Shiv Sena, NCP Matoshree on Tuesday. — ASIAN AGE friends for 30 years did not trust us. governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari to Marjorie de Sousa arrives at and Congress. He is likely to take But those against whom we fought appoint a pro-tem Speaker who should the 47th International Emmy oath at Shivaji Park on Thursday, In a joint meeting attended by Shiv senior for 30 years have trusted me,” Mr administer oath to the 288 newly elected Awards gala in New York on November 28. Sena, NCP and Congress leaders, party leader Praful Patel, Congress’ Thackeray said. members by then. on Monday. — AP Mr Thackeray’s ascent was facili- Uddhav Thackeray’s name was Ashok Chavan, Swabhimani Sharad Pawar said late Shiv Sena A bench comprising justices N.V. tated by the resignation of Mr announced as leader of the Maha Shetkari Sanghatana’s Raju Shetti, founder Balasaheb Thackeray would Ramana, Ashok Bhushan and Sanjiv Fadnavis as CM on Tuesday, barely Vikas Aghadi. NCP leader Jayant Samajwadi Party’s Abu Azmi and the have been happy if he were alive Khanna said that voting in the 2 Hizb men killed four days after he took charge as Patil proposed Mr Thackeray’s name MLAs of all these parties. today. “The Maha Vikas Aghadi gov- Assembly shall not be on the basis of chief minister. Mr Fadnavis stepped as “the (next) chief minister”. State At the meeting, Mr Thackeray ernment will work well under secret ballot, and ordered that the entire in J&K encounter down immediately after the unfore- Congress chief Balasaheb Thorat sec- mocked the BJP, saying that the Uddhav’s leadership,” he said. exercise be telecast live and completed Srinagar: Two Hizb-ul- seen resignation of Ajit Pawar in the onded the proposal. Opposition parties had shown more Mr Thackeray recalled Supriya by 5 pm afternoon, leading to the collapse of a NCP chief Sharad Pawar was also trust in him than the party with Sule’s first election, when Bal Wednesday. If the floor Mujahideen militants were ■ killed in a 20-hour-long fire- shortlived BJP-led government. present at the meeting along with which he was allied for nearly 30 Turn to Page 4 Ruling on a test is fight with security forces in petition filed by the Congress- delayed, there J&K’s southern Pulwama is a possibility of district. The fighting broke THE DRAMA THAT UNFOLDED Shiv Sena-NCP out in Pachaar Rajpora area alliance chal- horse-trading... after the security forces laid How BJP’s top guns got Supreme Court orders floor lenging the sur- An immediate siege to the village to flush 10.39 test in Maha Assembly by 5 prise govern- AM ment formation floor test, in out militants hiding in a Balasaheb pm Wednesday, orders gov such a case, private house. Thorat elected to appoint pro-tem Speaker by the BJP in Full report on Page 4 Congress CLP 12.48 Maharashtra might be the outfoxed in Maharashtra PM on November leader PM Narendra Modi holds most effective 23, the Supreme AGE CORRESPONDENT Delhi, as the BJP’s house a meeting with BJP chief Court said, “If mechanism. WEATHER 1.35 NEW DELHI, NOV. 26 of cards in Maharashtra Amit Shah and party’s the floor test is O PM — SC bench Max: 26 C began to crumble, Prime working president J.P. delayed, there Min: 15OC The collapse of its govern- Minister Narendra Modi, Maha Congress says Nadda in Parliament is a possibility of horse-trading... It RH: 75% ment and its failure to BJP president Amit Shah senior-most legislator 2.17 House in New Delhi becomes incumbent upon the court to Rainfall: 80% face a trust vote in and working president in the Assembly should PM act to protect democratic values. An Maharashtra led to a J.P. Nadda held a meeting be pro-tem Speaker immediate floor test, in such a case, Forecast: Light rain major embarrassment for at the PM’s Parliament Ajit Pawar resigns as might be the most effective mechanism the so-called saffron office. As the die was cast 2.38 to do so.” Amit Narendra PM deputy chief minister, “chanakyas” on Tuesday. after the Supreme Court Uddhav Thackeray to says has taken ‘decision The three-judge bench did not accept Two developments went Shah Modi order, the BJP top brass the contention of Mr Fadnavis, the BJP ASTROGUIDE be CM for 5 yrs, says due to personal reasons’ against the gameplan of minister, who was asked chief minister Sanjay Raut after Shiv 3.16 and the governor’s office that Article Vikari: Dakshinayana the BJP’s strategists, who involved in holding par- Devendra Fadnavis to Sena-NCP-Congress PM 212 of the Constitution impeded the Tithi: Mrigasira Shudda only a few days back tried leys at a later stage, step down. Sources said alliance leaders meet Devendra Fadnavis calls court from interfering with the proce- Padyami till 7.03 pm to pull off a grand post- apparently did so “only at after Ajit Pawar, who had 3.30 press meet to announce dure for the conduct of Assembly pro- midnight coup: Tuesday’s the behest of the RSS”. A taken the oath as deputy PM resignation, becomes ceedings, including election of Speaker. Star: Anuradha till 8.13 am Supreme Court ruling senior BJP leader close to chief minister on chief minister with the “There is no doubt that the con- Fadnavis submits his 4.34 Varjyam: 1.40 pm to 3.13 pm and “overestimating” Ajit the minister revealed that Saturday, failed to attend resignation to the gov PM shortest tenure of 80 hours tentions have to be answered, as the Durmuhurtam: 11.41 am Pawar’s ability to swing when the BJP “began an official meeting with petitioners have raised questions con- to 12.25 pm NCP MLAs in the BJP’s hatching the great game Mr Fadnavis on Monday, Gov. Koshyari cerning important constitutional issues favour. to form a government” in the BJP got an inkling calls special BJP’s Kalidas touching upon the democratic bulwark Rahukalam: 12 pm to 1.30 pm The party is also paying Maharashtra, the Union that NCP supremo Sharad 5.06 Kolambkar of our nation”, the court said in its session of the PM SUNSET TODAY 5.24 PM the price for the leader- minister had “cautioned Pawar might have man- Assembly at appointed pro- order, and added that at this interim SUNRISE TOMORROW 6.52 AM ship’s decision to “over- against the move” and aged to win over his 8 am today, tem Speaker to stage, “...it is imperative for this court MOONRISE TOMORROW 7.19 AM rule objections” of a top made it clear that “Ajit nephew. Also, after a where floor test admister oath to to be cognizant of the need to take into Union minister close to Pawar was no match for majority of NCP MLAs 5.52 newly-elected consideration the competing claims of MOONSET TODAY 6.10 PM will be PM the RSS to try force a gov- Sharad Pawar”. rallied around its chief members the parties, uphold the democratic ■ conducted ■ COUNTERPOINT ernment in the state. The Meanwhile, in New Turn to Page 4 Turn to Page 4 Pawar a challenger to Modi-Shah duo? Sharad’s wife Pratibha played AGE CORRESPONDENT Pawar assumed charge of with the BJP to form the The astute role Mr MUMBAI, NOV. 26 the campaign and tra- government. Pawar played in ousting ‘family card’ to win back Ajit versed the state. His However, the shrewd the BJP from power in The Maharashtra devel- efforts paid off, with the politician that he is, Mr Maharashtra will play a AGE CORRESPONDENT ship, sources “Pratibhatai”, as she is opments could be the pre- party winning 54 seats, 13 Pawar played his cards key role at the national MUMBAI, NOV. 26 said. known in the Pawar fami- cursor to major changes more than its 2014 tally in very smartly, which led to level, political observers After becom- ly and party. “He has in national politics, as the 288-member House. Ajit Pawar resigning as said. He is one of the few NCP supremo Sharad ing deputy CM tremendous respect for NCP supremo Sharad However, he faced his deputy CM on Tuesday, politicians to enjoy sup- Pawar’s wife Pratibha on Saturday, Pratibhatai. It was only Pawar has emerged as the biggest challenge when he citing personal reasons, port from parties across played a vital role in Ajit Pawar had because of her that he biggest leader who can faced a revolt within his leaving Devendra regions and ideologies. bringing Ajit Pawar back gone incommunicado. decided to resign,” said a take on the Modi-Shah own family. As he focused Fadnavis high and dry. “The triumph in into the party fold. It was Later, several top NCP source. Pratibha is the duo in the country. his efforts on forming the Within hours, Mr Maharashtra has shown her persistent efforts that leaders tried to persuade daughter of late cricketer With the Nationalist government with the Shiv Fadnavis also resigned, that if the Opposition par- forced the disgruntled him to return, but he indi- Sadu Shinde, but she has Congress Party hit by Sena and the Congress, paving way for a non-BJP ties come together, they leader to change his mind cated he wouldn’t budge. remained behind the multiple desertions ahead his nephew Ajit Pawar combine to come to power can dislodge the BJP, and and resign from the Sources said Ajit Pawar scenes. of the Assembly polls, Mr shocked him by aligning in the state. ■ Turn to Page 4 deputy chief minister- has a close rapport with ■ More on Page 3 c m y k c m y k TABLOID

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The government is considering bringing PAGE amendments to the Prevention of Child Marriage Act, said Smriti Irani Nation 2 THE ASIAN AGE WEDNESDAY | 27 NOVEMBER 2019 | NEW DELHI Bill passed to protect transgenders’ rights Happy that SC has started making Law seeks to provide mechanism for empowerment judgments available in AGE CORRESPONDENT and the government will nine languages. NEW DELHI, NOV. 26 WHAT THE BILL form a national council for its implementation — Ram Nath Kovind The Rajya Sabha on ENTAILS after the legislation is President Tuesday passed the ■ The bill prohibits brought into effect. Transgender Persons the discrimination Mr Gehlot added a trans- (Protection of Rights) against a transgender gender person will be able Bill, 2019 by voice vote to avail the benefits of IN BRIEF that seeks to provide a person, including schemes offered by states mechanism for social, eco- denial of service or as well as the Centre. nomic and educational unfair treatment in He said the recommen- Chautala seeks empowerment of trans- relation to education, dations and suggestions of gender persons in India. employment and the standing committee of release from jail The bill prohibits the healthcare. the Lok Sabha have also New Delhi: Former Haryana discrimination against a ■ The bill also seeks been incorporated in the chief minister O.P. Chautala, transgender person, to provide rights bill. The motion to refer the serving 10-year jail term in including denial of serv- of health facilities the JBT teachers recruitment ice or unfair treatment in bill to a select committee scam, told the Delhi High relation to education, to transgender of the Rajya Sabha was Court on Tuesday that he employment, healthcare, persons including moved by Tiruchi Siva of deserved to be released access to, or enjoyment of separate HIV the DMK. However, it was early under the Centre’s poli- goods, facilities, opportu- surveillance centres, defeated after voting took cy of special remission as he nities available to the pub- and sex reassignment place. Mr Siva stressed lic, right to movement, that given the sensitivity has already spent seven Congress president Sonia Gandhi reads out the Preamble of the Constitution as Opposition party MPs look on surgeries. years in prison. The plea was right to reside, rent, or of the issue and the insult, during a protest at Parliament House in New Delhi on Tuesday. —PRITAM BANDYOPADHYAY opposed by the Delhi gov- otherwise occupy proper- certificate of identity for discrimination and atroci- ernment which said the 84- ty, opportunity to hold a transgender person by ties inflicted on the com- year-old INLD chief was not ■ public or private office, making an application to munity, the bill should be eligible for the relief as he Can’t preserve rights without fulfilling responsibilities: Modi and access to a govern- the district magistrate for sent to the select was convicted under the ment or private establish- a certificate of identity, committee. Prevention of Corruption ment. indicating the gender as “We can wait for another (PC) Act and as per the pro- The bill also seeks to ‘transgender’. six weeks till the next ses- viso of the government noti- provide rights of health Elaborating on the pro- sion for such a crucial Time now to focus on duties, facilities to transgender visions of the bill, the bill’s scrutiny for slow fication, such convicts cannot be granted special persons including sepa- social justice minister and steady legislation to remission. — PTI rate HIV surveillance cen- Thawar Chand Gehlot provide full justice to the tres, and sex reassign- said that the bill is aimed community. The bill in the says PM on Constitution Day ment surgeries. The bill at eliminating discrimina- present form has several NIDs closer to also has a provision of tion against transgenders lacunae,” he had said. New Delhi, Nov. 26: Prime ‘important’ status Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday chose the 70th Opp. parties boycott special session New Delhi: The Parliament anniversary of the adop- Computer on Tuesday gave tion of the Constitution to AGE CORRESPONDENT joint protest in front of insatiable lust for its nod to a Bill seeking emphasise on people’s NEW DELHI, NOV. 26 Ambedkar's statue inside power”. to declare the National duties, saying their rights the complex. Incidentally even as the Baba Institutes of Design (NIDs) were stressed upon earlier Expressing its protest Displaying the chang- Opposition was lament- in Andhra Pradesh, but time has now come to over the political developing political dynamics, ing the alleged dilution of enrages Madhya Pradesh, Assam focus on citizens’ respon- ments in Maharashtra even the Shiv Sena joined the Constitution’s values, and Haryana as institutions sibilities as well. prior to the sudden resig- the Congress and other President Ram Nath of national importance. In his address to a joint nation of chief minister parties in boycotting the Kovind while addressing MP mantri The National Institute of sitting of Parliament to Devendra Fadnavis and function. the joint sitting of both Design (Amendment) mark the Constitution his deputy Ajit Pawar, The Congress said that the Houses, said that all RABINDRA NATH Bill, 2019 was approved Day, he also made an the Congress and other it was duty bound to save three organs of the state, CHOUDHURY by the Lok Sabha after the oblique reference to the Opposition parties on the spirit of the Const- persons holding constitu- BHOPAL, NOV. 26 House rejected amendments Emergency, which was Tuesday boycotted the itution by not allowing it tional posts, members of moved by Trinamul Congress imposed by the then prime Constitution Day celebra- to be pawned to an civil society and citizens Madhya (TMC) member Saugata Roy minister Indira Gandhi, tions in the central hall of “autocratic government should abide by “consti- Pradesh that West Bengal’s institute saying that countrymen Parliament and held a which is blinded by the tutional morality”. river should be included in the had made failed attempts trust bill.The Bill was later targeting the Constitution enshrined in our Constitu- many years as a vast num- ed, “We cannot preserve chairman approved by voice vote. and that it remained tion,” Mr Modi said. ber of people felt deprived our rights without fulfill- Namdeo — PTI unwavering. Speaking to lawmakers of equality and justice. ing our responsibilities”. Das A special aspect of the in Parliament’s Central The demand of the pres- Noting that the Tyagi, the Indian Constitution is that Hall, where the Constit- ent time is that society Constitution begins with seer who it highlights both rights ution was adopted, should deliberate on “we the people of India", loves to LS members back and duties of citizens. Mr Modi said there had its duties and responsibili- he said people are its Union Home Minister Amit Shah after attending the be called “Let us think about how been an emphasis on peo- ties as well, the Prime strength, inspiration and Samvidhan Divas function at Parliament in New Delhi, Computer Baba, along ban on e-cigs we can fulfil duties ple’s rights in the last Minister said, and assert- aim.” — PTI Tuesday. — PTI with his army of follow- New Delhi: Members in ers has launched a cam- Lok Sabha have supported a paign to curb illegal bill to ban the production, sand mining in import and sale of electronic Govt plans Narmada, leaving state cigarettes though the Cong- mining minister ress questioned the govern- Sunni Waqf Board not Pradeep Jaiswal upset. ment’s decision to adopt the to merge 2 State mining minister ordinance route for the legis- on Tuesday took strong lation. The discussion on the exception to such bill remained inconclusive UTs; bill is actions by Computer and health minister Harsh to file review petition Baba advising him not to Vardhan would reply on W- tabled in LS Lucknow, Nov 26: The compliance with the order interfere in affairs of his ednesday,. The Prohibition of Sunni Central Waqf Ayodhya verdict of the Supreme Court, department. Electronic Cigarettes New Delhi, Nov. 26: The Board decided on Tuesday ◗ It was yet to take including the issue of “Please do not meddle Production, Manufacture, government on Tuesday that it would not file a five-acre land in Ayodhya, in my department. You Import, Export, Transport, introduced in the Lok review petition against a call on whether to are still in consideration should better focus on Sale, Distribution, Storage PARLIAMENT DIARY Sabha a bill to merge the Supreme Court ver- accept a five-acre of the board and no deci- your ‘Babagiri’”, the and Advertisement) Union Territories dict in the Ayodhya case, alternative plot for sion has yet been taken. minister said. Bill, 2019, seeks to replace an BY GAUTAM LAHIRI Daman and Diu, and but was yet to take a call a mosque The members of the The religious leader, ordinance. Dadra and Nagar Haveli on whether to accept a board have asked for more who was rewarded by MAHARASHTRA DRAMA IMPACTS into one. five-acre alternative plot ◗ The members felt time to formulate their Kamal Nath government LOK SABHA BUSINESS The proposed legisla- for a mosque, its chair- they needed more views. As and when any for supporting Congress tion -- The Dadra and man Zufar Farooqi time to decide on decision is taken, it will in the 2018 Assembly OPPOSITION The moment news emerged that Nagar Haveli and said. be communicated sepa- elections by appointing deputy chief minister of Daman and Diu (Merger “The Board has consid- the matter, the rately,” the release said. him chairman of the RUCKUS IN Maharashtra Ajit Pawar had ten- of Union Territories) ered the judgement of the chairman said In a unanimous verdict newly created trust, has dered his resignation, the discus- Bill 2019 -- was intro- Supreme Court passed in ◗ The AIMPLB on November 9, the been camping in the sion on the Special Protection Group duced in the House by the Babri Masjid case. The Supreme Court had paved bank of Narmada at BIHAR OVER NRC Act (Amendment) Bill was deferred Union Minister of State Board has reiterated its has already said a the way for the construc- Raheti in Sehore district for another day. Home minister for Home G Kishan stand that it will not file review petition will tion of a Ram Temple at since Saturday to stop NAYEAR AZAD Amit Shah was supposed to take up Reddy. any review petition in the be filed against the the disputed site in the mining mafia from PATNA, NOV. 26 the Bill for consideration and pass- The move comes three Supreme Court,” Mr judgment Ayodhya. mining sand in ing. MPs were getting ready for discussion on the months after Jammu Farooqi said in a press It also directed the Narmada. The Opposition on Tuesday Bill. Home minister had a meeting with Prime min- and Kashmir was bifur- release issued after a Centre to allot a five-acre The seer has also disrupted the proceedings ister Narendra Modi immediately after the resigna- cated into the UTs of meeting of the board Ayodhya case. The meet- plot to the Sunni Waqf demanded the local of the state assembly over tion of deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar. In the Lok Jammu and Kashmir, attended by seven of its ing also considered Board for building a administration to take the demand for a resolution Sabha, Trinamul MP Sougata Roy rushed into the and Ladakh. eight members. whether to accept the five- mosque. immediate action to prevent the implementa- House and informed Speaker Om Birla that Ajit “In view of the policy Six members present at acre alternative land The All India Muslim against the sand mafias tion of National Register of Pawar had resigned. At the time, BJP MP Kiron of the government to the meeting were of the given by the apex court for Personal law Board (AIM- to save Narmada. Citizenship (NRC) in Kher was speaking in the House. Amid the commo- have 'Minimum view that the review peti- building a mosque in PLB) has already said a The seer, who is a Bihar. While raising the tion over the Maharashtra political crisis, the Government, Maximum tion should not be filed, he Ayodhya, Mr Farooqi said, review petition will be member of the issue in the state assembly Special Protection Group Act (Amendment) Bill was Governance", consider- said, adding, “Advocate adding that the members filed against the judg- Digambar Akhara, has members of RJD and deferred. ing small population and Abdur Razaaq Khan has felt they needed more ment. It is also against announced that he CPI-ML waved posters and limited geographical put in his dissent as he time to decide on the mat- accepting the alternative would deploy 2000 seers raised slogans against the AGITATED SPEAKER THREATENS TO area of both the Union was in favour of filing ter so as to ensure that it site to replace the mosque across the bank of government from the well of WITHDRAW FROM THE CHAIR Territories and to use review petition.” was appropriate as per the that was demolished Narmada to stop illegal the House. Members of RJD the services of officers The Sunni board was a Shariat. in Ayodhya in 1992. mining along the holy said that the opposition peaker Om Birla expressed anguish over the efficiently, it has been main litigant in the “All further action in — PTI river. would continue to raise the Sruckus inside the Lok Sabha on Monday. In the decided to merge the issue in the state assembly buisness advisory committee meeting, he UTs of Dadra and Nagar “till a resolution is passed to announced that if MPs repeat the behaviour in the Haveli and Daman Diu prevent NRC in Bihar”. The future, he would withdraw from the Chair and ask into a single UT," Reddy issue surfaced after the BJP the panel of chairmen to run the House. Seniors said. Dancing cop Ranjit lands in trouble state unit leaders recently members present in the meeting tried to convince The merged Union adopted an aggressive Speaker and argued that unruly incidents had often Territory will be named approach on the implemen- taken place in the past too. Nevertheless, all MLAs as Dadra and Nagar Caught hitting auto driver, netizens reduce him from ‘Singham’ to ‘chewing gum’ tation of NRC in the state. in the meeting also promised to maintain discipline Haveli and Daman and Top BJP leaders including as much as possible. Congress MPs, meanwhile, Diu. RABINDRA NATH The cop kicked and MPs Giriraj Singh, Gopal complained that the marshals had manhandled two The merger of the two CHOUDHURY slapped the auto driver in Narayan Singh and Rakesh lady MPs. However, the Speaker refuted the charges. UTs, located along the BHOPAL, NOV. 26 Indore city on Monday for Sinha have been in favour of western coast near allegedly entering no the implementation of NRC. DEFYING BOYCOTT, TMC MP NUSRAT Gujarat, is done for bet- The Indore cop who beca- entry zone at an intersec- Reacting against the opposi- JAHAN ATTENDS JOINT SESSION ter administration and me an online sensation al- tion. tion’s demand for a resolu- check duplications of most overnight for manag- The video showing his tion to prevent implementa- ctor-turned-TMC MP Nusrat Jahan again hit the various work. ing traffic with moon- brutality went viral on tion of NRC in Bihar, JD(U) Aheadlines for the wrong reasons. Even as her So far, both the Union walk-style dance has inc- Tuesday, leading auto MLA and minority welfare party, along with the Opposition, boycotted the Joint Territories have sepa- urred wrath of his fans for drivers in the city to stage minister Khurshid Ahmed Session of the Parliament to commemorate adop- rate budgets and differ- assaulting an auto driver a demonstration before said that “we cannot allow tion of the Constitution, she decided to reach the ent secretariats even in the city. the office of local superin- those who are not Indians. central hall to listen to Prime Minister Narendra though they are just 35 Ranjit Singh called ‘Sin- tendent of police demand- We should identify people Modi. When some journalists questioned her, she km apart. Dadra and gham cop’ for adopting the ing his suspension. who have infiltrated and are feigned ignorance. After some time, leader of the Nagar Haveli has just unique way of regulating Police sources said the Trinamul parliamentary party, Sudip one district while busy traffic in Indore has cop explained to his high- living illegally in our coun- Ranjit Singh aka Indore’s Singham cop. try”. The minister’s state- Bandopadhayay, asked the chief whip about the faux Daman and Diu has two. been trolled on social er authorities that the ment on the issue may create pas. But chief whip Kalyan Banerjee told him that Both UTs were under the media for thrashing the chewing gum” one of his strate his disapproval for auto driver tried to run some discomfort in the he had circulated the message to all MPs. Portuguese rule for a auto driver in public. social media followers the cop’s ‘unwarranted’ over him after he was JD(U) camp. long time. —PTI “Singham turns into commented to demon- actions. stopped by him. Gov’s mistake

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TWEETS ■ Sena-NCP-Cong govt will be like an auto with 3 wheels running in different directions: Ex-CM Supriya Sule @supriya_sule This is the best gift that the people of the Constitution gave to the Supreme Alliance will not last long: Fadnavis Court. This is a victory over AGE CORRESPONDENT Three parties politics with constitutional MUMBAI, NOV. 26 As Fadnavis and democratic values. which are This decision is wonderful. Devendra Fadnavis, who poles apart resigns, Cong A short but sweet .3 hour, resigned from the chief have come together live broadcast, open will be minister’s post on Tuesday for power... I wish afternoon, launched a them good luck. questions role decided in the hall. scathing attack on the Shiv Satyamev Jayate.Jai Hind, Sena alleging that the But I also know of gov & Prez Jai Maharashtra. Uddhav Thackeray-led that the alliance party started making will crumble AGE CORRESPONDENT Kamal Nath @@OfficeOfKNath threats after realising its soon. NEW DELHI, NOV. 26 increased bargaining The Supreme Court verdict power due to the number — Devendra As Maharashtra chief on Mahrashtra on the game. While wishing good Fadnavis, minister Devendra Constitution Day is wel- luck to Mr Thackeray and Ex-Maha Fadnavis and his deputy come.Ultimately, the justice his new government, Mr CM Ajit Pawar resigned on Fadnavis also predicted the eve of a trust vote, the has won. The victory of truth that the Shiv Sena- Congress party ques- and democracy has been Congress-NCP alliance The BJP leader also questioned the role of the gov- ensured.The bid to mock would not last for long tioned the sustainability of ernor and even the democracy has been because of the “core differ- the government the three President of India in the defeated. Truth may be trou- ences” in all three parties. parties with varying ide- manner in which Mr “The BJP and Shiv Sena ologies were planning to Fadnavis was sworn in as bled but it can’t be defeated. contested election as an form. The Sena-NCP- chief minister last week. alliance and we got a clear Congress government The party also asked mandate from the people. would be like an auto-rick- both Mr Fadnavis and Mr Eknath Shinde The mandate was more in shaw with its three wheels Pawar to apologise to the @mieknathshinde favour of the BJP as we running in different direc- people. They (BJP-led Maha gov- won nearly 70 per cent of tions, he said, predicting “What has happened the seats that we contested. that it would be toppled today, (is the) first comma ernment) never had major- Shiv Sena managed to win soon. in the unrelenting, ity. We will form a stable just 40-42 per cent of the “Three parties which are unscrupulous completely government, which will seats they contested. But as poles apart have come unethical manner in work for the entire five the results came out and together for power. They which Opposition govern- the Sena realised that their claim that they have a comments have been toppled years’ term. bargaining power had mon minimum pro- or have been sought to be Ashok Chavan increased, they began arm- gramme, but keeping BJP toppled in the past five twisting us over demands out of the government is years by the NDA-BJP @AshokChavanINC that were never agreed their only ‘common maxi- Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray arrives to attend the joint meeting of Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress party at government,” Congress Today it was proved that upon. Sena leaders stopped mum programme’. I wish Trident Hotel in BKC, Mumbai, on Tuesday. — RAJESH JADHAV spokesperson Manish talking to us and started them good luck. But I also Tewari told the media. the strength of Indian talks with the Congress know that the Sena- “…this entire sordid saga Constitution and democra- and NCP,” Mr Fadnavis Congress-NCP alliance will as it has played out has cy is far greater than the said in a press conference crumble soon under the brought into serious ques- power of power and held to announce his resig- pressure of their own core Uddhav’s patience finally pays off tion the role of even the money nation. differences,” he said. President of India and it BHAGWAN PARAB I will go to Delhi to meet my ‘elder n’t hesitate to express it,” is not that our Courts ear- Ashok Gehlot @ashokgehlot51 MUMBAI, NOV. 26 brother’ (Narendra Modi) after the said a senior Sena leader. lier have not commented With 80-hour term, Fadnavis Indeed, the BJP made adversely on the role of Only truth wins in the end. “I had made a pledge to government is formed. The fight is the mistake of taking the the President in unfortu- On the auspicious occa- my father Balasaheb that not personal...My government will not Sena chief lightly, think- nately similar circum- sion of Constitution Day, is shortest serving Maha CM one day I would install a work in a vindictive way. ing he would fall in line stances,” he said. democratic values have APRAMEYA RAO Sena, however, lost the Shiv Sainik as the chief — Uddhav Thackeray, after the initial bravado. Congress leader MUMBAI, NOV. 26 1999 Assembly election, minister and I will fulfil But what they faced was a Prithviraj Chavan asked won and Maharashtra's leading to Mr Rane’s resig- that promise...” When Shiv Sena chief determined leader, who Mr Dadnavis and Mr people have got justice. BJP leader Devendra nation. Shiv Sena chief Uddhav was not willing to give an Pawar to apologise to peo- This incident has been Fadnavis on Tuesday Some may also consider Thackeray had said this a him lightly. such promises. This sup- inch of what was decided ple of Maharashtra. recorded in history, real resigned as the chief min- P.K Sawant as one of the few months back, no one When the Assembly posed betrayal infuriated earlier. Congress’ general secre- ister of Maharashtra, just shortest serving CMs, took his statement seri- polls were announced and the normally mild-man- After he made up his tary (Organisation) K.C. face of BJP has come to 80 hours into his new since he held the post for ously. it became crystal clear nered Mr Thackeray, who mind to break ties with Venugopal, who has been fore. term, becaming the short- just nine days. But as the grand alliance that BJP would not form is known for love of pho- the BJP, Mr Thackeray at the forefront of negoti- Sitaram Yechury est-serving chief minister Nevertheless, Mr Sawant of three parties — Sena, the state government with tography, so much that he played his cards astutely ations among NCP- of the state. Interestingly, was an acting chief minis- NCP and Congress — Sena’s help. Mr took the extreme step of and outsmarted the BJP Congress and Shiv Sena @SitaramYechury just weeks earlier, he had ter after Marotrao elected Mr Thackeray as Thackeray took the oppor- breaking the 34-year-old with his political acumen. over Government forma- Today is our 70th become the first chief Kannamwar died in office their leader to head the tunity to remind the BJP alliance with its long-time Shedding his party's hard- tion in Maharashtra said: Constitution Day. It is minister after Vasantrao in November 1963. government on Tuesday, of the promise reportedly partner to realise his core Hindutva image, he “It is highly shameful that Naik to complete a full Mr Fadnavis also joined the Sena leader will not made to him before the dream. stepped outside to hold the Prime Minister and expected from all Indians, five-year term. Karnataka chief minister only fulfil his pledge, but Lok Sabha polls: To share “Uddhavsaheb may talks with the NCP and BJP leaders used the especially those holding Before Mr Fadnavis, who B.S. Yediyurappa and for- also teach a lesson to the portfolios and responsibil- come across as a soft per- Congress, which are ideo- office of the President constitutional positions, to like Naik is from the mer Uttar Pradesh chief BJP, which made the ities equally. However, the son, but he has a very logically different to his and the Governor to carry adhere to constitutional Vidarbha region, the minister Jagdambika Pal grave mistake of taking BJP denied making any strong mind and he does- party. out their cheap political unwanted record was held as one of the shortest serv- tactics”. values and morality... by Narayan Rane. As a ing CMs in Indian history. Maharashtra governor- chief minister from the Both Mr Yediyurappa and must display moral con- Shiv Sena, Mr Rane held Mr Pal resigned as the CM BJP’s Kalidas is pro-tem Speaker science and quit. the post for little over of their respective states Mumbai: Maharashtra pro tem speaker of the eight months in 1999. The in less than three days. governor Bhagat Singh Assembly. Mr Kolambkar Koshyari on Tuesday will administer the oath appointed BJP MLA to remaining 287 MLAs Kalidas Kolambkar as during the Assembly ses- the pro-tem Speaker of sion,” said an official the Assembly. from Raj Bhavan on Sharad’s wife Pratibha played a Eight-time Wadala Tuesday. MLA Kolambkar was one The oath to all new of the candidates recom- MLAs will be adminis- mended for the post to tered by Mr Kolambkar the governor. “The gover- at the special session, vital role in Ajit’s return to fold nor has administered the which will begin at 8 am oath to Mr Kolambkar as today. AGE CORRESPONDENT MUMBAI, NOV. 26 Ajit, the impulsive leader Sena mouthpeace dares NCP chief Sharad Pawar’s With his resignation as the deputy wife Pratibha Pawar played a chief minister, Ajit Pawar has cement- Ajit to start own party crucial role in bringing Ajit ed his image as an impulsive leader. Mumbai: The Shiv Sena, in its mouthpiece Pawar back to the party fold. Within four days, he changed his mind Saamana, on Tuesday hit out at Ajit Pawar It was her persistent efforts, and returned to the NCP. Earlier too, over his claim of being the real face of the which forced the disgruntled when he was in power, Ajit Pawar had Nationalist Congress Party (NCP). If he leader to change his mind and resigned as deputy CM after making a had the guts, he should have started his resign from the post of controversial statement about the own party instead of hijacking the base deputy chief minister, drought situation. After the built through the hard work of his uncle, sources said. Enforcement Directorate (ED) initiat- Sharad Pawar, the party mouthpiece said. Initially, after being sworn ed action against him, Sharad Pawar Mr Ajit supported the BJP to form the in as deputy CM on Saturday had turned the tables by government in the state last week and morning, Ajit Pawar had announcing that he would was sworn in as deputy chief minister on gone incommunicado. Later, himself visit the central Saturday. The Sena in its mouthpiece several top leaders of the NCP agency for the inquiry. highlighted that Sharad Pawar had earli- tried their best to persuade However, Ajit Pawar ruined er left the Congress twice, but created a him to return to the party, but his plan by tendering his separate party on his own and made a he indicated that he would not resignation the same day. mark in politics for over 50 years. “Ajit budge. However, on Tuesday, Later, he made a U-turn and Pawar should have done something like Ajit Pawar had a sudden said that he had resigned that, instead of stealing some papers and change of heart and decided as the ED was trying falsely claiming that he has the backing of to step down. to implicate his NCP MLAs. He used an old letter to claim According to sources, Ajit uncle. that he has the support of NCP MLAs,” Pawar enjoys a close rapport the Sena said. with Pratibhatai, as she is known in the Pawar family Hence, she took the initiative unfolding. When senior lead- and the party. “He has to end the row, said the ers of the party were insisting tremendous respect for source. Pratibha is the daugh- that the NCP should go along Pratibhatai. It was only ter of late cricketer Sadu with the BJP, it was Pratibha because of her that he decid- Shinde, but she has always who persuaded Sharad Pawar ed to resign,” said a source. preferred to remain behind to support the Sena in the gov- Pratibhatai met Ajit Pawar the scenes. ernment formation. Ajit and persuaded him to change According to sources, Pawar did not attend the joint his mind. She was upset over Pratibha was also instrumen- meeting of NCP, Shiv Sena the split in the family over tal in ensuring the NCP’s sup- and Congress MLAs in which politics and wanted to prevent port for the Shiv Sena while Uddhav Thackeray was elect- matters from souring further. Pratibha Pawar the political struggle was ed as the CM candidate.

Despite some unethical The Supreme Court’s deci- Shiv Sena was formed to steps taken by some who sion is a slap on an illegiti- protect the lawful rights of are in power, there are mate BJP-Ajit Pawar govt, the people of Maharashtra. checks and balances in the who had hijacked the 'man- It is because of its associa- Constitution. Today, it is date'. A government found- tion with the BJP that because of the ed on fraud has been defeat- the party had to Constitution that ed on Constitution travel the wrong they (BJP govern- Day. Devendra path. It was never ment in Fadnavis and Ajit a Hindutva party Maharashtra) have Pawar should apolo- in the first been forced to resign. gise to the people of place. — MAMATA Maharashtra. — NAWAB BANERJEE — R.S. SURJEWALA MALIK Bail unlikely

ED opposes bail plea PAGE of Ratul Puri in VVIP copter scam Nation 4 THE ASIAN AGE WEDNESDAY | 27 NOVEMBER 2019 | NEW DELHI SC proposes to introduce ‘Deported’ from K’taka, AI system but stuck in W. Bengal Service sector soon: CJI can help India New Delhi, Nov. 26: Suspected Bangladeshis living in pathetic state achieve target Chief Justice of India RAJIB CHOWDHURI We have received a authority which identi- (CJI) S.A. Bobde said on KOLKATA, NOV. 26 list of 59 fies these people on the of $5tn GDP Tuesday that the mere basis of their Supreme Court has pro- At a time when West Bangladeshi claim. There should be a posed to introduce a sys- Bengal chief minister nationals. The list legal process which — Piyush Goyal tem of artificial intelli- Mamata Banerjee is was sent to our determines a person’s Union minister gence (AI) which would fighting the Narendra Head of Chancery nationality. If the person aid in the administra- Modi government tooth claims to be from tion of justice delivery. and nail against its by the authority Bangladesh, repatriation The CJI however made implementation of the which is in charge can be made consulting SHORT TAKES it clear that there should National Register of of the process. the Bangladesh Deputy not be any impression Citizens (NRC) across the However, no fur- High Commission here.” Kashmir bizman that introduction of AI country, the state has Mr Sur underlined, would ever substitute started witnessing a ther communica- “But there is no certainty assets attached the judges. peculiar practice: the tion has taken when these people would Defence minister Rajnath Singh, Union minister Nitin Gadkari, actor Amitabh “We propose to intro- deportation of place between us be set free. One of 59 peo- New Delhi: The Enforcement Bachchan and others during a function to pay homage to 26/11 victims at Gateway of duce, if possible, a sys- Bangladeshi migrants, and any other ple is Kamal Mistry from Directorate (ED) has India in Mumbai on Tuesday. — PTI tem of artificial intelli- detained from across the Nadia where his son also taken possession of assets gence. There are many country, to their home- authority lives. He perhaps had his worth `6.20 crore in connec- things which we need to land in what the human — M.M. Iqbal, home in Bangladesh in tion with a terror funding ■ Grenade attack near varsity, 4 injured look at before we intro- rights activists call Bangladesh the past. But he is not case against Kashmiri busi- duce. We do not want to “Push-Back” style over agreed to return to nessman Zahoor Ahmad give the impression that the Indo-Bangla border. official in Bangladesh. When his Shah Watali, the federal this is ever going to sub- The latest has come Kolkata son wanted to receive his agency said on Tuesday. stitute the judges,” from the BJP-ruled gov- father, he was threatened “These properties are in the Village head, govt official Justice Bobde said at the ernment in Karnataka of the Association for to be sent to Bangladesh form of land parcels and are Constitution Day func- which dispatched 59 Protection of Democratic also. The entire process located in Sozeith and tion organised by the Bangladeshi migrants, Rights (APDR) activists exposes the govern- Goripora villages of Budgam Supreme Court Bar including 25 women and demonstrated at the sta- ment’s severe inhumani- district, Union Territory Association (SCBA). 10 children, who were tion as the Bengaluru ty, injustice and autocra- of J-K,” the agency said in a killed in J&K bomb blast He said the Indian detained for allegedly City Police team handed c y. ” statement. The total value of YUSUF JAMEEL Constitution, which is having no documents, in over the Bangladeshi First Secretary (Press) these assets is `6.20 crore SRINAGAR, NOV. 26 called the “People’s a train from Puttaparthi migrants to a Howrah of the Bangladesh and they are in the name of Train service restored in Constitution”, was draft- in Andhra Pradesh to government railway Deputy High Watali and his family, it said. A village-head and a gov- ed on this day in 1949 Howrah railway station police team. Commission in Kolkata The ED had attached these ernment official were Kashmir after 3 months and this “sacrosanct in Kolkata on November APDR vice president Mohammed Mofakk- properties in April this year killed and another person document” represents 23, a day after Ranjit Sur told this news- harul Iqbal told this under the Prevention of was injured as unknown AGE CORRESPONDENT commuters to travel by the high watermark of Bangladesh Prime paper, “Most the 59 peo- newspaper, “We have Money Laundering Act assailants exploded a NEW DELHI, NOV. 26 train over the entire area consensus in the coun- Minister Sheikh Hasina ple have been accommo- received a list of 59 (PMLA) and has now bomb at a village council between Baramulla to try’ history. Wajed’s meeting with the dated at a state govern- Bangladeshi nationals. taken possession. — PTI in Jammu and Kashmir’s More than three months Banihal (138 Km). The “It does more than Trinamul Congress ment building for the The list was sent to our southern Anantnag dis- after Rail services were decision to re-start the merely establishing supremo in the city on self-help groups near the Head of Chancery by the trict on Tuesday to target suspended in the Valley train services in Kashmir institutions for gover- the sidelines of the inau- Nischinda police station authority which is in Activist cancels the government’s public due to security reasons, Valley was taken after due nance of India, instead guration of a Test in Howrah. They have charge of the process. outreach ‘Back to Village train connectivity has security audits and assur- it is truly transforma- Cricket match between been have been living in However, no further com- plan to visit Sabari II’ (B2V2) campaign. been resumed fully in the ance by Government tive in character. It the two countries. pathetic condition. They munication has taken Kochi: Ending an over 12- The week-long flagship Srinagar-Banihal section, Railway Police, Jammu marked a transition According to sources, are forced to sleep on the place between us and any hour-long standoff with programme, aimed at pro- Indian Railways said on and Kashmir,” Ministry of from the culture of the Foreigners Regional floors. There are no other authority.” devotees opposing the entry viding governance at the Tuesday. Railways officials said. authority of a colonial Registration Office, warm clothes, food or A senior IPS officer of women in the menstrual doorsteps of the rural “During the winter sea- Officials added that on regime to the culture of Bengaluru, had issued medicines for them.” pointed out that the age group into Sabarimala populace and enlisting son, snowfall often halts November 7, the railway justification of demo- the deportation order for He elaborated, “But the process involves the state temple, a team of gender community participation the movement of vehicles tracks were covered cratic purity,” he said. the 59 people to cops did not entertain us. police to hand over the rights activists led by Trupti across the Union in Kashmir, in this situa- under snow with thick- Chief Justice Bobde Bangladesh so that they Addressing the CM, we migrants to the BSF, Desai on Tuesday night Territory (UT) of J&K, tion, the train operation is ness of 20 to 45 cm due to added that the can be sent back home submitted a deputation which in turn hand over called off their decision to began on Monday. It is the considered the best mode heavy snowfall. “Rail Constitution of India with the help of the West on Tuesday to the Block them to the Border visit the hill shrine of Lord government’s first major of transportation. Indian snow cutting machines provides for an inde- Bengal Police and the Development Officer of Guard Bangladesh, Ayyappa. Desai announced attempt to reach out the Railways has restored were pressed into the pendent judiciary Border Security Force Jagachha, in charge of according to a 2013 guide- the decision to go back to people at rural level after train services to benefit service to clear snow,” equipped with the power (BSF). Alleging human taking care of them. Our lines of the ministry of Maharashtra after police, cit- abrogation of Article 370 the thousands of local officials added. of judicial review. rights violation, a group objection is against the home affairs. ing security reasons, denied and splitting J&K up into — PTI them protection amid two separate Union protests by devotees, mem- Territories (UTs) on pm to target about eighty 2 Hizbul militants bers of a right wing outfit August 5. people including govern- Incidents of and BJP here, against Another grenade attack ment officials who had killed in Pulwama their entry into the shrine. carried out in a market- gathered within the prem- Vistara will start long-haul Desai had reached here place in Srinagar’s ises in connection with Srinagar: Two Hizb-ul- bribery down early Tuesday along with Hazratbal area earlier the ‘B2V2’ programme. Mujahideen militants five others to proceed during the day left four They said sarpanch of were killed in 20-hour- by 10% since to the temple. — PTI persons injured. As the the village, 42-year-old long fire fight with secu- overseas flights soon: CEO blast took place less than Peer Muhammad Rafiq rity forces in Jammu and 2018: Survey ten yards away from Sir owing allegiance to Kashmir’s southern SRIDHAR ing London as its first pos- fleet by February-March Aadhaar centres in Syed Gate- the main Congress party and Pulwama district. The KUMARASWAMI sible long-haul overseas next year and that the air- New Delhi, Nov. 26: (southern) entrance to Assistant Agricultural Army and police said NEW DELHI, NOV. 26 destination for several line was planning to begin Incidents of bribery in Odisha hospitals University of Kashmir-it Officer Zahoor Ahmed that fighting broke out months now but the desti- its long-haul overseas the country have Bhubaneswar: Odisha gov- created panic among the Sheikh were killed on the in Pulwama’s Pachaar After launching its fourth nation is yet to be finally flights using these aircraft reduced by 10 per cent ernment on Tuesday decided students, faculty and spot whereas another per- Rajpora area after the overseas destination announced. Vistara had by the “northern since last year, accord- to open Aadhaar facilitation other staff present on the son was injured in the security forces laid siege flight to the Sri Lankan earlier this year launched Summer” (March) next ing to a survey carried centres at hospitals and campus. The police attack. The police said to the village to flush capital Colombo recently, flights to Singapore, year. The Vistara CEO out in 20 states. urban local bodies for gen- termed it a ‘low intensity’ that the assailants also out militants hiding in a full-service carrier Dubai and Bangkok. The was speaking at an event People in Delhi, eration of the 12-digit unique blast. opened fire before fleeing private house on Vistara has already begun airline is set to begin long- in the capital to mark the Haryana, Gujarat, West identity at the time The authorities blamed from the scene. Monday evening. the planning to launch its haul overseas flights by launch of “co-branded” Bengal, Kerala, Goa and of birth and issue of birth separatist militants for The authorities said that long-haul flights overseas March next year on its credit cards with SBI Card Odisha reported low certificates. This was decid- both these incidents. They ‘B2V2’ programme will trict during the interven- from next year and is rais- soon-to-be-inducted Boe- which will offer benefits instances of corruption, ed at the State Level Unique said that a manhunt has continue and Tuesday’s ing night of November 25 ing its service standards a ing 787 dreamliner air- to travellers such as “one- while Rajasthan, Bihar, Identification Implemen- been launched for those grenade attack in and 26. “notch or two” on its craft. The Vistara CEO way premium economy Uttar Pradesh, tation Committee Meeting involved in carrying out Anantnag should not stop The Jammu & Kashmir international flights also made it clear that his tickets on joining and Telangana, Karnataka, held under the chairmanship attacks. the government from police said that a portion above those on its domes- airline had “no intention” achieving spends-based Tamil Nadu, Jharkhand of Chief Secretary A K Giving the details, the reaching out to the people. of the shrine dedicated to tic flights to compete with of switching to a low-cost milestones, complimenta- and Punjab had higher Tripathy here. “For the pur- police said that militants Meanwhile, unknown Mir Syed Muhammad foreign carriers flying business model. ry Club Vistara Silver tier occurrences of corrup- pose new updated kits hurled a hand grenade persons set ablaze a Sufi Hamdani, a priest from abroad, Vistara CEO Speaking to reporters, membership and up to six tion, it stated. would be procured,” the towards a Panchayat ghar shrine adjacent to a Persia, at Kounsarbal Leslie Thng said on Mr Thng said the Boeing free cancellation of tick- The ‘India Corruption chief secretary said. — PTI in Hakura, Badasgam vil- mosque in Tral town of area of Tral, was dam- Tuesday. 787 dreamliner aircraft ets booked on Vistara Survey 2019’, which lage of Anantnag at 3. 30 Kashmir’s Pulwama dis- aged. The airline has been eye- would join the Vistara channels. received 1,90,000 responses from people in 248 districts, also stated 1ST THACKERAY that 51 per cent Indians Supreme Court ordered televised trust vote Pawar a challenger paid bribe in the last 12 TO BE MAHA CM months. ■ Continued from Page 1 floor test within 24 hours – and 11 Independents and Undemocratic and illegal ■ Continued from Page 1 Maharashtra. He has Transparency Intern- ■ Continued from Page 1 values and foster constitu- a plea that was resisted others. practices within the politi- Sharad Pawar is capable been a member of the ational India (TII) and Thackeray decided that tional morality.” both by Mr Fadnavis, the While ordering the floor cal arena should be cur- of it,” a senior NCP state Assembly and the LocalCircles conducted Sharad Pawar’s daughter The Supreme Court will, BJP and the governor’s test on November 27, the tailed.” leader said. It was evident Lok Sabha seven times the survey. should be elected unopposed at an “appropriate time”, office who wanted more court relied on its earlier Solicitor general Tushar from the way Shiv Sena each. At 27, he was India’s ranking in the and did not nominate any can- examine the larger issues time for “welding” the sta- judgments, including one Mehta had contended that supremo Uddhav already a legislator in the Corruption Perception didate against her. “Today touching on the ble arrangement that had by a nine-judge bench on governor Koshyari had Thackeray profusely Maharashtra House. Index 2018, released by Pawar Saheb is guiding me. Constitution, including emerged on the interven- March 11, 1994, in the S.R. acted in his wisdom, rely- thanked Mr Pawar for Mr Pawar shot to fame TII, has improved three This is not give and take the extent of judicial ing night of November 22 Bommai case in which ing on the letters submit- helping him to form the in July 1978 when he dis- places compared to last though,” he said. review of the governor’s and 23. Justice B.P. Jeevan Reddy ted by Mr Fadnavis and state government. lodged the government year and now, the coun- Governor Bhagat Singh decisions to invite some- Speaking on Mr had said, “If only one Ajit Pawar and was not “Mr Pawar has shown led by Vasantdada Patil in try’s standing is 78 Koshyari has called a special one to form the govern- Fadnavis’ resignation and keeps in mind the demo- expected to carry out a that if there is a will, the state to form a govern- among 180 nations, a Assembly session at 8 am on ment and the validity of the implication of the top cratic principle underly- “roving inquiry” into the there is a way. With prop- ment with the Janata statement issued by the Wednesday where a floor test the governor’s satisfaction court’s order, senior coun- ing the Constitution and same. er planning and a stub- Party. He was only 38 at organisation said. will be conducted after pro- in the entire exercise of sel and constitutional the fact that it is the He also said that the top born attitude, he has the time and is Cash is still the pri- tem Speaker Kalidas government formation. expert K.V. Viswanathan Legislative Assembly that court cannot monitor the shown that the Narendra Maharashtra’s youngest mary mode to pay Kolambkar administers the The Supreme Court’s said that the “stern and represents the will of the proceedings of the state Modi-Amit Shah duo can CM till date. He went on bribes, as per the survey. oath of office and secrecy to order prompted the NCP’s categoric nature of the people — and not the Assembly as per the provi- be defeated,” said a Shiv to become CM again in Thirty-five per cent of all the 288 newly-elected mem- Ajit Pawar, who had been order forced the resigna- Governor… In our opin- sion of Article 212 of the Sena leader. In a career 1988, 1990 and 1993. the respondents said bers. sworn in as deputy chief tion. Mr Fadnavis knew ion, wherever a doubt Constitution. spanning 52 years in elec- Mr Pawar served as they gave cash as bribe Mr Kolambkar was appoint- minister along with that he did not have the arises whether the “Ex facie, Article 212 of toral politics, Mr Pawar defence minister from in the last 12 months to ed by the governor on the Devandra Fadnavis as numbers and was also not Council of Ministers has the Constitution relied by has worked in several June 1991 to March 1993. get their work done, it orders of the Supreme Court, chief minister, to confident of getting lost the confidence of the the respondents, would important posts. He parted ways with the stated and added that 16 which ordered a floor test on announce his resignation. majority support within House, the only way of have no application as it He has been the defence Congress in 1999 over per cent said they Wednesday. Soon after, Mr Fadnavis 24 hours.” testing it is on the floor of relates to validity of pro- minister, Leader of the party chief Sonia always managed to get The Maha Vikas Aghadi called a press conference Describing the entire the House.” ceedings in the Opposition in the Lok Gandhi’s foreign origin their work done without comprises 154 MLAs of the to announce his resigna- episode as “sad” and The court on Tuesday Legislature of a State that Sabha and a four-time and formed the NCP the paying bribes. Shiv Sena, Congress and NCP tion, signalling that he “unfortunate”, Mr noted that the views cannot be called in ques- chief minister of same year. Though CCTV cameras (including Ajit Pawar). They neither had the numbers Viswanathan said, “The expressed by the nine-jude tion in any court on the are a slight deterrent, have also claimed the support nor could he muster them whole episode — from the bench were also the ones grounds of any alleged bribery still continues of eight MLAs from smaller in the short duration of hurried, early morning expressed by the Sarkaria irregularity of the proce- in government offices parties and Independents. one day. swearing in (of Fadnavis Commission, Rajmannar dure,” the three-judge BJP top guns... despite major computer- While announcing his resig- In the wake of the resig- on November 23) to the Committee and the unani- bench said in response. isation and agents con- nation as chief minister, Mr nations, the top court’s resignations — is a sad mous opinion expressed The court also referred ■ Continued from Page 1 he was the deputy CM in tinue to thrive, the sur- Fadnavis said: “Ajit Pawar order has become infruc- and forgettable episode in by the committee of five to a 1998 order wherein a Sharad Pawar, the BJP the 2009-14 Congress-NCP vey found. decided to cooperate with us tuous. But since governor the annuls of India’s con- governors constituted by composite floor test was top brass realised that government, and often The highest number of and hence we formed the gov- Koshyari has already stitutional history.” the President of India. ordered in Uttar Pradesh Ajit Pawar would not be attacked him. When incidents of bribery ernment. But today he told me appointed a pro-term Mr Fadnavis was admin- Referring to the top to ascertain who — able to get the required asked why Mr Fadnavis were in authorities he was quitting due to person- Speaker, the later may go istered oath by governor court’s recent judgment Kalyan Singh or numbers of party MLAs had to resign and whether involved in property reg- al reasons. He said he could ahead and administer Koshyari at 7.50 am on on the disqualification of Jagdambika Pal — to support him. The BJP or not the BJP had con- istration and land not continue with the alliance oath to the newly elected November 23 after a night- 17 lawmakers belonging to enjoyed majority support had to face flak for joining sidered this situation issues. The finding was for some reasons and he was members at the special long operation which saw Congress and JD(S) in in the state Assembly. The hands with Ajit Pawar, while relying on Ajit backed by votes of 26 per resigning. Since he has session of the Assembly the lifting of President’s Karnataka, the Supreme issue was rooted in then even from its own sup- Pawar, a senior BJP cent of the respondents, resigned, we too do not have a called at 8 am on rule in Maharashtra at Court said on Tuesday Uttar Pradesh governor porters on the social leader said “the situation it stated. Only 12 per majority.” After announcing Wednesday. 5.47 am after the BJP that this court has empha- Romesh Bhandari sacking media, as it was the earli- had become such that this cent citizens said his resignation, Ajit Pawar The verdict is being seen leader staked claim to sised the “requirement of Kalyan Singh as chief er Fadnavis government decision had to be taken”. bribery in property reg- avoided all contact with the as a boost for the Shiv form government with the imbibing the constitution- minister and appointing which had launched This leader also said the istration and land issues media and stayed at his resi- Sena, NCP and Congress backing of 170 MLAs — al morality by the consti- the Congress’ Jagdambika probes into Ajit Pawar’s BJP “has not given up” in has reduced in the last dence for most of the day. who had insisted on a 105 of the BJP, 54 of NCP tutional functionaries. Pal instead. alleged corruption when Maharashtra. 12 months. — PTI PAGE News+ 5 THE ASIAN AGE WEDNESDAY | 27 NOVEMBER 2019 | NEW DELHI 50 YEARS AGO IN Bahu Begum & the poignant ruins India buys one lakh tonnes of U.S. wheat Washington: India has of Awadh’s first capital, Faizabad bought 1,00,800 long tonnes of US Western White Wheat at 1.46-1/4 Dollars per bushel. Officials here said the purchases comprised 38,000 tonnes from Cargill, Shona Adhikari 25,000 from Continental Grain, 22,000 from Louis Dreyfus, and 15,800 from focus Toshoku. India still has to buy about 117,000 tonnes of US ■ aizabad the Hard Winter and approxi- This is the first capital of mately 59,000 tonnes of Awadh, still Western White Wheat story of bears some of under PL-480 purchase the royal look authorisations already Faizabad as of a capital. issued by the United States HoweverF it took Muzaffar Department of it was in Ali’s splendid film, Umrao Agriculture. Jaan, to make me want to In addition, PL-480 pur- 1722, when know more about the city. chase authorisations for In this film Amiran, a about 2.2 million tonnes the Mughal young girl, is shown being remain to be issued to kidnapped as a child from cover the full three million court gave her home in Faizabad. tonnes of wheat under a When she returns as PL-480 agreement signed Nawab Umrao Jaan — singer, last October. — Reuter. dancer and poet — she is Saadat Ali shunned by her family. It now seems as though Durgapur Faizabad’s history is much exports 850 Khan the like the legend of Umrao tonnes of steel Jaan, whose name and charge of presence was forgotten by Calcutta: The first con- her family. The ancient ● Shuja-ud-Daula, signment of 850 tonnes of Awadh. city of Faizabad also Safdarjung’s son a Japanese export order appears to have met the for 50,000 tonnes of ingot Saadat Khan same fate. It first lost out and heir, had steel was shipped out from to Lucknow as the capital chosen Lucknow here on November 24. made the of Awadh and now it has as his capital, but The order was placed by lost its name. One wonders was persuaded to Yawata Iron and Steel first settle- what will happen to the Company — one of the splendid structures and return to Faizabad biggest steel makers of ments near gardens that still remain after being Japan on the Durgapur to remind us of Faizabad... defeated by the steel plant. Ayodhya on will they be looked after or British in the Battle According to the steel just fade into ruins? plant authorities here, This is the story of of Buxar in 1764 shipment of 10,000 tonnes the banks of Faizabad as it was in 1722, against this order will when the Mughal court Begum built at a cost of reach Japan shortly. They the River gave Nawab Saadat Ali `3 lakhs. did not, however, indicate Khan the charge of Nawab Asaf-ud-Daula, the actual foreign Ghaghra — Awadh. Saadat Khan made the son of Nawab Shuja- exchange earned out of the first settlements near ud-Daula, was the fourth this contract. including a Ayodhya on the banks of Nawab of Awadh. He, like A spokesman of the steel the River Ghaghra — his father, also preferred plant said this was the first fortress, his including a fortress, his Lucknow and shifted time that Japan had come palace and his cantonment Awadh’s capital from out to world market for palace and full of mud structures, Faizabad to Lucknow in purchase of steel ingots. naming it Faizabad — the 1775. It has been said that The ingot supplied by his canton- capital of Awadh. he decided to leave Durgapur plant would be Fortunately for us, painter Faizabad, to distance him- rolled in their rolling mills ment full of William Hodges and the self from his dominant by the Yawata Steel Works, Daniel brothers have left mother — Bahu Begum, he said. The spokesman splendid prints dated 1787 who had begun interfering said that the steel plant mud struc- to give us glimpses of in his work after his exported during the period Faizabad’s fortress and its father’s death. from April to September tures, naming surroundings. Asaf-ud-Daula, the fourth this year steel worth `4.50 Born Muhammad Amin Nawab, was totally differ- crores. —PTI. it Faizabad — Musawi, Saadat Khan had ent from all the three previ- a wealthy merchant as a ous rulers of Awadh. A the capital of grandfather and a father (Clockwise from above) Qila Mubarak, built by the first Nawab of Faizabad; Bahu Begum’s tomb; husband Shuja-ud-Daula keen lover of art in general, who became a prominent Asaf-ud-Daula is famous for ODDLY ENOUGH Awadh. official during the rule of very pleased with his work part of his rule in Delhi British in the Battle of ried in 1743. A dignified his lyrics and composition. Bahadur Shah 1. The and gave him the title of and after his death at the Buxar in 1764. He decided personality, Bahu Begum When forced to abdicate, Fortunately, “Subah of Awadh” was “Burhan-ul-Mulk”. He was young age of 45 years in that if Faizabad was to be was also a strong support while travelling to Calcutta Ducks ‘win’ lawsuit under his charge and also able to enlarge the 1754, was buried at the his capital, he needed to to her husband. It was with his whole retinue, he painter included the districts of state boundary on the east- majestic Safdarjung Tomb add many new structures with her prompting that wrote a very special song in French court Khalilabad, Faizabad, Gor- ern front by taking over located in New Delhi. including another fortress. he was able to face many that was first recorded and Dax: The ducks on a small William akhpur, Bahraich and Benaras, Jaunpur, Nawab Safdarjung’s suc- The new fort that he built problems. She was a made popular, by the French smallholding may Lucknow — this was a Ghazipur and Chunar. cessor Nawab Shuja-ud- on the banks of the Saryu woman of great distinc- famous singer K.L. Sehgal. carry on quacking, a French Hodges and province that stretched to Saadat Khan, one of the daula, the third Nawab of river was popularly tion and rank, and most of The song, “Babul Mora”, is court ruled on Tuesday, the Himalayas in the north, Mughal generals in the Awadh developed Faizabad referred to as Chhota the older buildings of sung by famous performers rejecting a neighbour’s com- the Daniel Bihar in the east, till Kara battle of Karnal against into what we would consid- Calcutta. It seems strange Faizabad are attributed to till today. plaint that the birds’ Manikpur (Allahabad Nadir Shah, was captured er a perfect capital — with that Shuja-ud-Daulah her. Among these struc- Bahu Begum who died in racket was making their life province) in the south and during the battle He died the necessary roads, splen- chose to call it “Fort tures and gardens, there 1816, continued to live at a misery. brothers Kannauj in the west. A on the night prior to what did buildings, mosques, Calcutta” — perhaps this was the Anguribagh and Faizabad till her death at The court in the town of Dax total area that covered 10, is known as the ‘Massacre makbaras, bazaars and may have been a ruse to the Motibagh in the south the age of 86. ruled that the noise from have left 171,080 bigha of land. of Delhi’ by Nadir Shah on royal palaces with splendid humour the British, who and the Asafbagh and Her beautiful maqbara at the flock of around 60 Prior to Nawab Saadat March 19, 1739, and is gardens. The city became had demanded a large sum Bulandbagh to the west of Jawaharbagh is consid- ducks and geese kept by splendid Khan’s arrival, there was buried in the mausoleum busy and a centre for trade, of money from him. Since the city. Among the impor- ered to be one of the finest retired farmer Dominique continuous friction of his brother Sayadat attracting travellers of all he did not have the neces- tant buildings worth see- buildings of its kind in Douthe in the foothills of prints dated between zamindars and Khan. Saadat Khan’s only kinds from Europe and sary funds, his wife, popu- ing are Gulab Bari and Awadh. From the date of the Pyrenees, southwestern jagirdars. Within a short child, a daughter, was mar- Asia. These included mer- larly known as Bahu Moti Mahal, appreciated Bahu Begum’s death in France, was within accept- 1787 to give while however, Saadat ried to his nephew Abul chants for trade, writers, Begum, came to his rescue, for their interesting archi- 1815 and the subsequent able limits, broadcaster Khan was able to bring Mansur Khan — better poets, artists, dancers and by pawning her dowry. tectural styles. It is annexation of Awadh, France 3 said. us glimpses peace among them and known as Nawab Safdar- singers. Other important struc- because of these beautiful began the slow and steady “The ducks have won,” through his capable man- jung. He was the second Shuja-ud-Daula, Safdar- tures built during Shuja- structures and gardens decline of Faizabad. Douthe told Reuters after of the agement, the state’s ruler of Awadh and added jung’s son and heir, had ud-Daula’s period, include that gave Faizabad a pros- the court decision. “I’m very income rose from seven to the development of chosen Lucknow as his the Chowk, Tirpaulia and perous look under Shuja- The writer is an author, happy because I didn’t want fortress... million to 20 million. Faizabad, making it the capital, but was persuaded numerous gardens. Many ud-Daula. One of its most a professional to slaughter my ducks.” Needless to say, military headquarters. to return to Faizabad after of these were built by visited and majestic struc- communicator and an — Reuters Muhammad Shah was Safdarjung spent a major being defeated by the Bahu Begum, who he mar- tures is the tomb of Bahu intrepid traveller And welfare for all: Choosing happiness over populism olicymakers and thinkers that satisfy needs and aspirations in ● In Nyay, what seems an opportunity to carry out incremen- naturally have the productive com- Kavish Rai alike give a high priority to the short term rather that focus on tal social reform, and a culture that mitment of its people involved in economic growth in modern solutions that are more deliberative. lacking is the basic needs encourages discovery, innovation and such incremental social reform. What meanwhile democracies, and they are For this, we need to shift from an approach that India needs. freethinking greatly enhances this is required is a policy environment Pright in doing so, but does approach that looks only at populism Nyay lacks a phased prospect. that is also professionally committed the economic system end with pro- to one that is people-centric. Such a approach. Instead of giving A society can move towards such to encouraging a people-centric policy ■ duction and consumption, demand people-centric approach would focus cash handouts outright, incremental social reform if the cul- environment. Therefore, alongside A focus on and supply and so on or should it also on things such as efficiency, produc- ture is one that is amenable to such. theorising happiness and social consider the significant impacts it has tivity, employment, education, health- India could start by setting In this regard, public nationalism can reform, it is also necessary that such encouraging on society as well? With many mod- care and so on of a welfare economy. up bhojanalays where be helpful in encouraging national receives institutional support. Such is ern liberal democracies going The focus here is not solely on eco- people are given basic unity on social reform. Public nation- possible if people are trained and spe- social reform is through radical changes in the man- nomic growth but on economic nutritious food... alism need not mean just conformity cialised towards such specific purpos- ner in which politics is conducted, the growth plus happiness, and needs an or agreeability to certain ideals, but es. There is no shortage of will — but necessary, as it is economic system, which is embedded incremental approach. of course be followed by other basic can also be a creative and dynamic what can usually be found lacking is in society, cannot remain aloof to To understand this incremental needs such as healthcare, education force if it is more amenable to encour- institutional support. an inevitable wider social and political changes approach, let us consider the pro- and clothing that are also infrastruc- aging social reform. For this, it is nec- Populism and using emotive issues afoot in liberal democracies. posed Nyuntam Aay Yojana (Nyay) of tural issues. This means that to satis- essary that public nationalism not be in policy do not do justice to issues at In liberal democracies with a capi- the Congress Party: In a country like fy their other needs, the able are still limited to become an ideology or a col- hand, and while people might be dis- cause and effect talist economy whose priorities are Sweden, where most people are motivated to work. Thereafter, a budg- lection of ideologies, but appear as a tracted at one moment they might usually production-intensive process- skilled and educated, social security et can be worked out over social secu- community of people, or maybe an lapse again into dissatisfaction the of welfare policy. es such as procuring energy, manufac- is not an end all for most people, and rity in India. aesthetic that does not constrict peo- next. What is needed is for policy to turing and so on and the correspon- people still look to work in order to Alongside an incremental approach ple from imagining. create a society that fosters people- Social reform in ding consumption, the focus remains live a better life eventually. In Nyay, towards creating greater satisfaction All this is not too idealistic, but centric policies that generate happi- one that is based primarily on eco- what seems lacking is the basic needs towards the delivery of policy, a focus requires a shift in priorities from one ness rather than simply focus on the turn encourages nomic growth rather than social approach that India needs. Nyay lacks on encouraging social reform is also that is centred only on production and productive process. In this it is impor- responsibility as well. With govern- a phased approach. Instead of giving necessary, as social reform is an consumption to one that also expands tant that human initiative be recog- innovation and ments pursuing populist policies that cash handouts outright, India could inevitable cause and effect of welfare economic growth to include people- nised and rewarded. We need to look resemble the economics of demand start by setting up bhojanalays where policy. Social reform in turn also centric policies and incremental at incremental social reform as also economic growth and supply, social discourse is people are given basic nutritious food encourages innovation and economic social reform. Such requires greater institutional solidarity that supports deprived of discernment and critique like eggs and also clean water. Once growth and can act to save a society commitment and vigilance not only a society that encourages people-cen- and can act to necessary to form a more complete coverage is good, the next phase can from a crisis. People, in order to look from the ruling classes, but also from tric policies. Let us not limit our out- understanding in approaches to poli- consist of providing shelter and for greater happiness and satisfaction people involved in the process. A soci- look to policy — let there be welfare save a society. cy. We cannot keep taking shortcuts transportation to the needy which can in society, need a society that provides ety that encourages social reform will for all. c m y k c m y k MIND POWER CONFUCIUS OSCAR WILDE PAGE I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I Everything in the world is about sex except 6 do and I understand. sex. Sex is about power. Edit THE ASIAN AGE WEDNESDAY | 27 NOVEMBER 2019 | NEW DELHI

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SC order brings cheer Subhani in Maha testing times he Supreme Court’s order Tuesday for a floor test in the Maharashtra Assembly on November 27 will gladden hearts as it came on Constitution Day, which was celebrated with customary Tpomp at Parliament House just after the court’s order was passed. The three-member bench of Justices N.V. Ramanna, Ashok Bhushan and Sanjiv Khanna appears to have accepted the plea of the petitioners — the Congress-NCP-Shiv Sena combine — in toto as it also gave them satisfaction on two other counts — that the test of strength be conducted by a pro- tem Speaker and not a regular Speaker; and the entire exercise be video- graphed (in the interest of transparency), with the result to be submitted to the court. Each of these points of the petitoners had been contested by the BJP and the Central government. These entities had desired more time for the proposed floor test despite their claim to having the needed majority. Evidently, the court saw through the game, and in its order noted that delaying the vote of confidence in the government (sworn in by the gover- LETTERS nor in suspicious circumstances early on November 23) may leave room open for horse-trading. DIRTY PICTURE It is noteworthy that the Supreme Court Jharkhand: The going order was passed after examination by it of Should he [governor two documents, which became the basis of The order of the Supreme B.S. Koshiyari], then, the BJP’s claim to have the right to form the Court bench comprising government in association with Ajit Pawar, put in his papers? who seems to have played a trick to append Justices N.V. Ramana, Any self-respecting the names (and signatures taken in a differ- won’t be easy for BJP Ashok Bhushan and San- person should do so in ent context) of all 54 NCP MLAs while sup- jiv Khanna has undone such circumstances, porting BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis’ clear signals of people tion, the electoral ver- though a formal case to be CM again. These documents are voting differently in the dict rests heavily on 25 the BJP. The resignations the list of MLAs presented to the governor 2014 Assembly and 2014 Assembly seats, where of Devendra Fadnavis and requirement may not backing Mr Fadnavis’ bid, and the gover- Lok Sabha polls, held adivasis constitute a exist since the nor’s formal invitation to the BJP aspirant one after another in a majority of the elec- Ajit Pawar also show they court made no direct to take the oath. Sanjay Kumar short span of time. torate. In the 2014 elec- did not have the numbers comment. The Supreme Court’s order is suggestive Clearly, the Assembly tion, these seats were of the fact that it did not find the governor’s elections were fought split between the BJP (11 to form the government decision to appoint Mr Fadnavis to be based more on local issues. seats) and the JMM (12 in Maharashtra as they on material that was reliable. This is an indirect indictment of the role of Reports from the seats). had been claiming. They governor B.S. Koshyari, an old RSS hand and a fomer Uttarakhand CM, ground suggest that Data from surveys con- whose conduct in this case appears to have been coloured by partisanship. hile one Assembly. Even though while the BJP is trying ducted by the Centre for must have been banking Should he, then, put in his papers? Any self-respecting person should do can’t deny before the 2019 Lok to focus on the national the Study of Developing on horse-trading tricks so in such circumstances, though a formal requirement may not exist since the credit Sabha polls, the issues and the Centre’s Societies (CSDS) indi- the court made no direct comment. Jharkhan Congress, JMM, JVM flagship programmes, cates the support base of and the holding of a In fast-moving developments hours after the court order, evidently real- d’s chief and RJD came together the JMM, Congress and parties are divided secret ballot to conceal ising he did not have the numbers, Devendra Fadnavis resigned as chief Wminister Raghubar Das and formed an alliance other parties are trying across caste communi- the foul play but their minister, just after his deputy Ajit Pawar too submitted his resignation. deserves for being the against the BJP-AJSU to focus more on con- ties. During the 2014 Mr Fadnavis said the BJP would now sit in Opposition and not “indulge in only CM to have com- alliance, these four par- stituency-level local Assembly elections, sup- plans came to an abrupt horse-trading”. With Ajit Pawar back in the NCP fold, the chances of that pleted his full term in ties together couldn’t issues. What makes the port for the BJP came end when the justices succeeding were slim anyway. The stage appears set for the Sena-NCP- office, that is no real halt the victory march of BJP’s situation harder is mostly from the upper Congress to come to power as all eyes turn, once again, to the governor’s indication of the BJP’s the BJP, which swept that AJSU’s move to castes, OBCs, and cer- ordered an open ballot office. These are testing times for India’s democracy. electoral prospects in the whole of North desert the BJP and con- tain tribal groups. It for the floor test which the state for the coming India. The BJP-AJSU testing against it. As received 50 per cent and would have had to be Assembly elections. In alliance won 12 of 14 Lok Haryana and many 40 per cent votes among fact, the BJP seems to be Sabha seats and polled other Assembly elec- the upper castes and telecast live and, most Eggs and equality on a slippery ground 55.3 per cent votes, while tions since 2014 have OBCs respectively. importantly, conducted having failed to form an the UPA won only two indicated, sharp vote Adivasi voters, the irst, the good news. The Madhya Pradesh government will introduce alliance with any of the seats and polled 34.6 per swings between the Lok numerically predomi- no later than 5 pm on eggs in midday meals, starting April 2020, after anganwadis in the regional parties. On the cent votes. Sabha and Assembly nant social group in the Wednesday, thus robbing Fstate approved the proposal despite stiff resistance from many quar- other hand, the While the BJP-AJSU polls cannot be ruled out state (nearly 27 per cent) them of the time to work ters, with leader of Opposition Gopal Bhargava fantastically claiming it Congress-JMM and the managed to increase its here as well. were almost equally could turn children into “cannibals”. The more sobering news is that this Rashtriya Janata Dal support base enormous- The Jharkhand polls split between the BJP (30 their strategems. Thank scheme, when implemented, will still be a differential one — excluding have managed to form ly in the 2019 Lok Sabha will be another test of per cent) and the JMM you, judges, for exposing children from vegetarian families. an alliance to fight elections, that should the BJP’s ability to over- (29 per cent) in 2014. The social facts nationwide, meanwhile, continue to be as stark as ever against the BJP. The not be seen as an indica- come state-level anti- While almost half (47 per this power-craven lot. — just one-third of states, mostly in the southern and eastern parts of the parting of ways between tor of how people are incumbency. While BJP cent) of the Oraons voted Sravana Ramachandran country, provide eggs to children in India — Bihar, Jharkhand and the BJP’s erstwhile NDA likely to vote in the has a massive success for the BJP, the JMM Chennai Uttarakhand being the sole exceptions among the northern states, and allies – the JD(U), Lok Assembly elections. The rate in winning state retained support (40 per recently Chhattisgarh. Even there, a few months ago, Jains and the Kabir Janshakti Party and the 2019 Lok Sabha polls elections after 2014, in cent) among its tradi- COW COUNTRY Panth community had tried to put a spanner in the works. All Jharkhand Students were largely contested recent years, its record tional Santhal support The biological truth is that eggs remain the most efficient food for growth. Union (AJSU) -- would on the national issues, of success has not been base. The Congress was THE YOGI ADITYANATH Scientists frequently use eggs as a standard for measuring the protein qual- adversely affect the in the name of Prime as spectacular as it was a distant third among all government has renamed Faizabad ity of other foods, and at 93.7 per cent, eggs score higher than any other. BJP’s electoral Minister Narendra Mo- immediately after the social groups, except Ayodhya, and now, perhaps buoyed The problems of large-scale malnutrition and stunting in India are giant prospects in the elec- di. It is hard to imagine 2014 Lok Sabha polls. In Muslims, who form a by the Supreme Court’s temple imponderables. While stunted adults never reach their full mental and tions starting November that Jharkhand’s people Gujarat, the BJP just miniscule proportion of order, the Ayodhya Municipal physical potentials, destroying, even reversing, the demographic divi- 30. Clearly, the recent would vote in the same about managed to win a state’s electorate. The Corporation has decided to do its bit dend that India famously enjoys from its predominantly young popula- electoral verdicts in way in the state polls. simple majority with its Congress had failed to to promote the cause of Hindutva by tion, they pathetically go on to develop diabetes and high blood pressure Haryana and Maha- There are two indica- tally of seats below three win any seat which are venerating the cow this season, should they be exposed to a healthy diet later in their lives. The offspring rashtra seem to have tors to suggest that the digits. Most recently, in adivasi majority seats, getting coats for every bovine and of these adults inherit this immeasurable loss. The worst sufferers are the had some impact on BJP won’t find it easy in Haryana and but it secured 10.8 per lighting bonfires in the stables. The ones with the least means to exercise choice, the poor and Dalits the these NDA alliance part- the coming elections. Maharashtra, it cent of the votes. Its suc- officials are justifying the costs in the largest majorities therein. It is a reality too bleak to contemplate. ners, who decided to First, the BJP did very emerged as the single cess in transferring name of compassion. Should that be Academic debate regarding food habits and traditions aside and notwith- contest independently well even in the 2014 Lok largest party but is still votes to its alliance part- the case, what of other strays, and standing, what we are doing to our children in the name of adherence to a and not as part of the Sabha polls, winning 12 short of a majority. ners in these seats could what about the poverty-stricken? Are majoritarian brahminical culture is, therefore, criminal, by the most lib- NDA alliance. of 14 seat and polling 40 While it managed to be the critical factor in cows more equal than humans? eral of estimates. What, for instance, would the former Shivraj Singh gov- While all new govern- per cent votes; but soon form the government in this election. Arif Mahfooz ernment now say to children deprived of a normal diet for the last 10 ments formed in after that its voteshare Haryana in alliance Even though the Bengaluru years? Would it spin a fiction like Aamis and brandish it before their cred- Jharkhand after the went down to 31.8 per with the Jannayak Opposition parties may ulous eyes? Would it even have the requisite imagination? Crucially, 2000, 2005 and 2009 cent, and it managed to Janata Party (JJP), it is not have registered any would it be able to distinguish between policy and art? Assembly elections saw win only 37 of the 72 still struggling in major success in putting ARMADA’S ADVANCE frequent changes in gov- Assembly seats. Seen in Maharashtra. up a challenge to the SPAIN’S TALISMAN Rafael Nadal ernment and frequent terms of votes per seat In a state with a very BJP, but the narrative once again brought glory to his THE ASIAN AGE changes in the chief contested, the BJP large adivasi popula- seems to have shifted lit- country by piloting his team to an ministership, the BJP in polled 35.7 per cent tle bit. The question is: incredible 2-0 victory over first-time T. 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n this very day, eight years they had evolved after 9/11, as well as moment or good bilateral visit is interior ministry in charge of the ISI irreparable break between the estab- ago, Gen John Allen, then an unfortunate ending to 2011, the described as a ‘reset’ till the next cri- or the fracas over the Kerry-Lugar lishment and the PML-N), one of the commander of the year known as the annus horribilis sis. And this ‘reset’ is nothing more bill or the Memogate affair. Even the earliest issues said to have caused a OInternational Security for bilateral ties. It was a year that than an effort — for the US at least — Raymond Davis affair saw friction chill in the relationship is Nawaz Assistance Force, was in Islamabad began with the Raymond Davis to get Pakistan to do more on between the two sides. In fact, in Sharif’s decision to pursue talks with to discuss military matters in affair, followed by the raid to take out Afghanistan, and every crisis is events such as Memogate, the inter- the Pakistani Taliban. Afghanistan with then Pakistani Osama bin Laden, and then Salala linked to Washington’s unhappiness nal friction completely dominated Indeed, there is no doubt that Arifa Noor army chief Gen Ashfaq Kayani. Late happened. at the pace of progress in the event. There was little the US did there was civil-military friction that night, he was woken up and told This unravelling as Pervez Afghanistan. or contributed. during both the tenures but in hind- View from Pakistan about a ‘firefight’ and that there were Musharraf and George Bush Jr As Nawaz notes, during the Davis In others such as Raymond Davis sight it seems that there is a Pakistani casualties. departed from the scene has been affair one of the reasons for US or the Kerry-Lugar bill episodes, difference between the two. The As Allen drove to the airport, he depicted by Shuja Nawaz in his latest unwillingness to concede anything civil-military tension was part of the friction during the 2008-2013 period kept getting calls about the growing offering, The Battle for Pakistan, to Pakistan was the knowledge in blowback, while the OBL raid pro- can be linked to the bilateral number of casualties — four, 12, and which picks up the story on the eve of Washington of OBL’s location. But vided a rare moment of unity. “The relationship in a way that is com- “by the time I get to the airport, it’s the 2008 election. (The story is nar- for one who makes a living out of fol- debate [in parliament] turned then pletely missing in the 2013-2018 peri- Govt, Army over 20 dead”. He called Kayani to rated from the book.) The book high- lowing domestic politics, it is the par- from an indictment of the guardians od. Friction, in a way, is inevitable offer his condolences and was told, lights the transactional relationship allel track of civil-military relations of the frontiers to the cursing of but during the PPP tenure, it was due “You have no idea what’s happened between the US and Pakistan, and that proves more fascinating. Pakistan’s ‘American’ friends … to Washington’s efforts to engage here. I’ve lost my ability to manage one which has simply been about Nawaz may be focusing on This became the narrative of the with Islamabad, while the PML-N & America: our relationship now.” Afghanistan since the 1980s. Pakistan’s most important external day.” perhaps was deemed guilty of trying The Salala incident, as it is still The sentence about how Bush did- relationship but it seems as if an In contrast, the five years of the to re-engage externally as it tried to called in Pakistan, led to the loss of 22 n’t have a Pakistan policy — he had a equal number of words and pages are PML-N rule are different — it seems hold the military responsible for the ‘Frenemies’ soldiers and two officers on two bor- Musharraf policy — explains why spent on the most important rela- as if friction between the ruling ‘isolation’. Whether this difference is der posts, provoking Islamabad to the post-9/11 bonhomie was bound to tionship internally. party’s prime minister and the mili- merely one of form or there is more close the Ground Lines of fall apart. And once Musharraf (and This is especially true of the PPP’s tary were solely due to internal mat- to it, would be an interesting angle to Communication for the American Bush) are removed, the relationship five-year tenure where many near ters especially linked to terrorism. explore. at all levels forces. It was seen as the final nail in hits rock bottom. Since then we have confrontations had a US link — be it Apart from the news leaks later in the coffin of US-Pakistan relations as been in the phase where every good the (unsuccessful) move to put the the PML-N tenure (which caused an By arrangement with Dawn Word SPY SUPERAGER VIEWSER PAGE A person over 80 years old who A person who watches video content online, or who Oped 7 exhibits little cognitive decline combines regular TV watching with related digital content THE ASIAN AGE WEDNESDAY | 27 NOVEMBER 2019 | NEW DELHI Democracy wins? The losers take it all

Uddhav Thackeray on the fam- an RSS apparatchik and come together on the basis of a racies. The US saw power pass- ily party, the NCP. It had noth- MAHARASHTRA allowed that to overpower his shared region, religion or ing from a self-nominating con- ing to do with policy or politi- What we have wit- sense of morality. Clearly, he caste, with any one of these ventional process to a primary Mohan Guruswamy cal morality. It was a question nessed in these past has shown himself as not fit to impulses being the dominating based system that binds the of his place in the family peck- hold that position. The Prime motive for coming together. convention to the choice of ing order. Like Sonny weeks in Maharashtra Minister used a rarely-used Take each of our many parties. individual party members. Corleone, Ajit Pawar too had a is a complete collapse provision to be used during a The only party that claims a This kind of a transition did tendency towards the rash and of the notion of politics war or financial emergency to pan-Indian appeal has long not happen in India. On the went alone to meet his fate. being about a vision for facilitate the daybreak coup ceased to be anything but an other hand, we migrated from Now we have the likelihood leading to Fadnavis being old feudal order presided over a system where parties consist- e saw an longer be sure of its place in of a Shiv Sena-led government a better future and sworn in as chief minister. by an aristocracy. None of ed of equals sharing a common interest- Maharashtra politics the next with the two Congresses sup- what is best for the What we have witnessed in these parties has a formal purpose and, sometimes, goals ingtime. So it baled out of the porting it from within. The people. Instead, we these past weeks in membership, a formal to one where power passed into twist to alliance. BJP may very well say it is saw a sordid drama Maharashtra is a complete col- requirement for membership, the hands of a self-perpetuat- anThe pre-election alliance of glad to have the Shiv Sena lapse of the notion of politics forums for participation ing political aristocracy. Like unam- the BJP and Shiv Sena won monkey off its back. Narendra played out in five-star being about a vision for a bet- and articulating aspirations the Gandhis, Pawars and biguous over 42 per cent of the popular Modi once described the Shiv hotels in Bombay, with ter future and what is best for of their communities, Thackerays. people’s vote, while the two Congresses Sena as a hafta collection money replacing vision the people. Instead, we saw a or facilities to choose leaders verdict in Maharashtra. The together won only 32.6 per cent party. Now the BJP can hope to and ideas. sordid drama played out in by any formal process other The writer, a policy analyst WBJP-Shiv Sena alliance cam- of the popular vote. If there muscle into the Shiv Sena base five-star hotels in Bombay, than general and often-simu- studying economic and securi- paigning on an unabashed was any morality and decency and become the biggest hafta with money replacing vision lated acclaim. ty issues, held senior positions Hindutva platform won a clear left in our politics, the rightful collecting party in India’s rich- When the team led by B.R. and ideas. We have seen the transition in government and industry. mandate winning 160 of the 288 government in Maharashtra est state. Ambedkar wrote the The Pawar family schism of democratic styles in many of He also specialises in the seats. The BJP that won 105 should have been of the two But this is not a simple “art of Constitution, it obviously did that so impacted Maharashtra the world’s established democ- Chinese economy. seats had a strike rate of over undesirables. But that was not the possible” power play. This not contemplate the capricious politics is yet another 70 per cent (105 out of 152), to be. Uddhav Thackeray did newly-scrambled alliance of a disregard for norms and disre- metaphor for the collapse of while the Shiv Sena had a an Ajit Pawar on the BJP by renegade Hindutva group with gard for decency and consis- the party system in the coun- strike rate of about 40 per cent pulling out of the right-wing two clan-led Congresses has tency inherent in our leaders. try. From Punjab to Tamil (56 out of 124). Clearly, it was a formation. major implications for Indian How “we” look is a no longer a Nadu, we now have a party win for the worst Hindu revan- Sharad Pawar has never politics. Soon after the concern. In the Maharashtra system that is neither constitu- chism, for the Shiv Sena stands made any bones that he Supreme Court’s somewhat drama, we saw all provisions tional nor legal. Though the or, is it now stood, for every- believed in to old adage that judicially dubious verdict on and expectations of the founders of this Republic never thing right of the RSS. In fact, “politics is the art of the possi- the King Rama birthplace in Constitution flouted and tram- used the term “political party” the Shiv Sena even makes or ble”. What Otto von Bismarck Ayodhya, many in the pled on by all the constitution- even once in the Constitution, made the Bajrang Dal and VHP said was a little more. He actu- Congress welcomed the judg- al authorities. The from day one we were intended looks tame. Be that as may be, ally said: “Politics is the art of ment, just as many of its lead- Maharashtra governor, Bhagat to be and are a party based it was an unambiguous victory the possible, the attainable — ers welcomed the scrubbing of Singh Koshiyari, an RSS appa- democracy. When people elect for the combined retrograde the art of the next best.” In Article 370. By deciding to ratchik, willingly allowed him- representatives they are in fact ideologies of the RSS and SS. Maharashtra’s case, it clearly remain quiet on it, the so- self to be lied to and apparently choosing parties. The people of Maharashtra was the less worst. called liberal or centrist par- accepted signatures by all the How parties function then had spoken and under normal What was possible in ties in our political firmament newly elected NCP MLAs on becomes critical to our democ- circumstances their wishes Maharashtra went way beyond made their ideological choice. sheets of paper attached to Ajit racy. If parties did not func- should have been respected. what was thinkable. The sec- They all moved rightwards. Pawar’s “letter of support” to tion or are not required to But the election results and ondary theme of the BJP-led Now they are allied with the the BJPs chosen legislative function in a prescribed con- their performance clearly told alliance was to arrest the ugly face of that reality. Allied party leader, Devendra stitutional and democratic the Shiv Sena that their time growth of corruption in the with a party that viscerally Fadnavis. Common sense manner, the leadership was running out. The once state by promising to arrest hates religious, ethnic and would have told Mr Koshiyari inevitably migrates into the junior partner of the alliance Ajit Pawar and change his way regional minorities. So where that while some support for hands of an elite, as we have — the BJP was now the engine of life in jail. The suddenly does this leave Indian politics? Ajit Pawar was possible, all seen in almost all our political of the right wing in marooned BJP found a life- Do we now have two right wing was impossible. Clearly, the parties now. These political Maharashtra. It could no saver when Ajit Pawar did an formations? governor never stopped being parties have now factions that PMO ordered illegal electoral bond Careful what sale before vital Assembly elections you wish for

Central government in the year email are on the policy deci- ELECTORAL BONDS-3 of the general elections to the sions taken by the then respec- Prime Minister House of People. At this stage, tive competent authorities. In Sadguru Rameshji Narendra Modi’s office such a special window with this context, it may be men- Nitin Sethi general elections to Lok Sabha tioned that in the Government directed the finance far away, may not be in conso- organisations all the decisions ministry to break its nance with the wordings of the are taken in good faith and in own rules to approve notification.” the larger public interest. the special and illegal This was the first time offi- Interpretation of decisions any people have experienced in their lives cials put down in writing that taken may have different per- that whatever they were worried about sale of electoral the instructions had come from spectives, hence an appropri- came true. Whatever they did not want to This is Part 3 of the 6-part illegal sale of electoral bonds bonds just before none less than Prime Minister ate explanation may only be Mhappen, happened. Whatever situation they #PaisaPolitics investigative for state assembly elections on critical state Assembly Modi’s office. given, after taking into consid- wanted to avoid, practically appeared before them. Are series by HuffPost. Reprinted two separate occasions. elections In Indian bureaucratic prac- eration all he aspects factored these experiences mere coincidences or there is a sci- with permission from the These state elections — in tice, even instructions directly into the decisions making entific reason behind their happening? Huffington Post. Karnataka, Chhattisgarh, from the Prime Minister are process,” said the finance Most of these unfavorable and unpleasant situations Madhya Pradesh, Mizoram, dow period was being asked by referred to as those from the ministry. are created by us, though unconsciously, unwantedly n January 2, 2018, Rajasthan and Telangana — the PMO in the run-up to the ‘Prime Minister’s Office’ on The Prime Minister’s Office and unknowingly. There is some science working the Narendra Modi- were the last round of polls assembly elections. government records. did not respond to queries. behind these happenings and once that is known one can led Bharatiya before the Modi government's He drew attention to the fact At the mention of the PMO, even avoid creating these unwanted situations in life. Janata Party (BJP) first tenure ended, and were that this was not allowed under Garg, the secretary of econom- STATE ELECTION Imagine each thought you think as a mental photo- government notified expected to set the political the current rules. ic affairs, quickly fell in line CASH STASH graph. Othe rules governing the contro- narrative for the 2019 General “Para 8 (2) of the notification and reversed his position. With elections scheduled in When you worry or fear for something, it is first versial new electoral bonds Elections in which the BJP regarding Electoral Bearer On April 11 itself, he wrote a November and December 2018 exposed to your brain as an image of an unfavourable scheme. eventually trounced its rivals. Bonds issued on January 2, note to finance minister for Chhattisgarh, Madhya situation. As you focus more and more on your wor- Soon, Prime Minister Modi’s But in the first ever sale and 2018 however, refers to the elec- Jaitley, where he said the elec- Pradesh, Mizoram, Rajasthan ried situation, the image in your brain begins to devel- office ordered that these rules donation of bonds in March tions only for the House of toral bonds were allowed to be and Telangana, the same op more clearly and gets fully exposed like a real be broken to allow for an illegal 2018, BJP garnered 95 per cent People (Lok Sabha),” Vijay issued only four times in a year deputy director Vijay Kumar, situation. sale of electoral bonds. This of all political donations made Kumar, deputy director in the that elections to the on October 22 2018, moved a These images then signal the subconscious mind as was first justified as an excep- through this particular fund- department of economic affairs Parliament are not to be held. proposal to his seniors for well as cosmic forces to create a real life situation. tion and then made into a prac- ing channel, shows the party's handling the electoral bond This, he said, was done “as another special window to sell Cosmic forces understand images sent by the subcon- tice. annual report. Data is not yet scheme, wrote in internal file the electoral bonds are bearer electoral bonds in November scious mind as signals for our desire. Then cosmic The electoral bond scheme, available for funds that BJP or notings on April 3, 2018. “This bonds, it was considered safe 2018, ahead of the assembly forces influence us and push us to take such actions implemented over the fervent others got through electoral would imply that additional and adequate that only four elections. This time, he did not that make the image con- objections of the Reserve Bank bonds in the run-up to assem- issuance of Electoral Bearer windows in a normal year say where the instructions vert into a real life situa- of India, the Election bly elections during the finan- Bonds cannot be meant for should be provided to make came from, but made clear the tion. These cosmic forces Commission of India and cial year 2018-19. state assembly election.” political contributions through purpose of these instructions. may also attract and influ- India’s opposition political par- The PMO’s intervention to Kumar suggested that the electoral bonds for ensuring His note made clear that the ence other people who ties, legalised the influence of open extra windows for politi- problem perhaps lay with the that these bonds are not used BJP-led Union government had could help create those big business in India’s elec- cal donations via electoral rules rather than with the as a currency”. decided to treat May 2018’s situations in our life. In tions by providing them and bonds is significant because PMO, and so suggested the This, as mentioned earlier, “special” but illegal window as this process, cosmic others a route to secretly the limited sale periods were rules be changed. had been done after warnings a precedent to be followed. forces also create coinci- donate to parties and opened intended as a precaution The rules, Kumar wrote in his by the RBI. To quote from Kumar’s dences and permutations- the doors for offshore money to against money laundering. As April 3 2018 note, did not reflect Yet, Garg then suggested that October 22, 2018 note: “In view combinations of several pour into Indian politics. HuffPost India has reported, the “intent” of their draftsmen, finance minister Jaitley break of the forthcoming State assem- events for the success of First announced in Arun the Reserve Bank of India had and that the bonds had always the regulations that the Union bly elections in five states and manifesting those unwanted situations. Jaitley's 2017 budget day initially recommended that the been meant to be used for both government had approved and as per the directions, addition- If we are careful in our thoughts, imagination and speech, the bonds offered com- bonds only be sold twice a year Lok Sabha and State notified just four months ago in al 10-day special window for feelings then we can avoid creating unwanted painful plete anonymity to donors. The for a short duration. Legislative Assembly elec- January 2018. issuance of Electoral Bonds is situations in life. In fact we can start creating all those donor would not need to tions. He said this “omission” “In view of the requirement, proposed, on the analogy adopt- situations which we really want for our success, pros- divulge the source of funds and PMO’S MEMO needed to be rectified. we may, as an exception, open ed at the previous occasion of perity, happiness and well-being. the political party would not The rules for electoral bonds His suggestion was shot down an additional window for the issuance of electoral bonds There should not be any negative thoughts, imagina- need to disclose who it got the were broken at the first given by the secretary for economic period of May 1-10, 2018,” Garg through special window during tions and worries for anything. You should not allow funds from. Another change, opportunity. SBI was supposed affairs, the topmost bureaucrat concluded. May 1-10, 2018 by the govern- your mind to focus on something which you don’t implemented at the same time, to sell the first tranche in April in the department, S.C. Garg, Garg left the nature of the ment in view of state assembly want… otherwise you actually strengthen the neural removed limits on election 2018, but the first round was who said the observation was “requirement” unspecified, but elections in Karnataka with networks of your brain and would create the image for funding by corporations — opened a month earlier in incorrect. Jaitley signed off on the excep- the approval of the finance something which you don’t want. meaning they could now funnel March 2018 instead. `222 crore “This special issue was meant tion anyway. minister.” Worry is actually a very powerful form of negative as much money as they wanted worth of bonds were bought in only for Lok Sabha. If we were The finance ministry in its Both Garg and Jaitley signed goal setting. to the parties of their choice. this round, with 95 per cent to open a special window for files claimed that this illegal off without hesitation. `184 Five laws to create what you want in life and avoid To this end, in January 2018, going to the BJP. assembly elections as well, sale of electoral bonds just crore worth of electoral bonds creating what you don’t want: the government specified four The following month, in April there will be several special before Karnataka assembly were bought by donors from (1) Stop worrying and fearing for anything in life and 10-day windows in January, 2018, SBI opened another win- windows, sometime, in a year. elections, on the instructions of SBI in this phase, and given to instead direct your mental focus on those things, situ- April, July and October each dow for political donation — in No need for amendment,” Garg the PMO, was being approved political parties. ations and circumstances which you want. “Never year when the State Bank of this, bonds worth another wrote on April 4, 2018. as an exceptional case. What was initially a one-off focus on anything which you don’t want”. India (SBI) would sell these `114.90 crore were purchased A week later, on April 11, But a spate of critical assem- illegal breach of regulations in (2) Whenever you cannot stop your worries then offer bonds to donors. The rules also and donated. But the govern- 2018, Kumar sought to make bly elections were scheduled at May 2018 under orders from them at the feet of God and ask Him to take care of it as allowed for an additional 30 ment was still not satisfied. explicit the contradiction the end of 2018. Breaking the Prime Minister Modi’s office you are incapable of handling your worries. Accept days sale of electoral bonds in With the Karnataka state between what the rules said, regulations governing elec- had been institutionalised by whatever you get as a gift from God. years when a general election elections due in May 2018, the and what Prime Minister toral bonds would become a his government as practice by (3) Seek forgiveness from all those people whose feel- was scheduled. PMO instructed the finance Modi’s office wanted. habit for the BJP government. the end of the year. By May ings, knowingly or unknowingly, you have hurt. Now, previously unpublished ministry to open a special and “PMO desired to open a spe- The finance ministry told 2019, more than `6,000 crore (4) Visualise your positive goals with positive affir- government documents, extra window of another 10 cial 10-day window for HuffPost India via email that it worth of electoral bonds had mations. obtained by transparency days. issuance of electoral bonds,” would not be able to provide been sold and secretly donated (5) Meditate regularly and learn to relax and control activist Commodore Lokesh To be sure, the PMO did not Kumar, the deputy director, detailed responses to specific to political parties. If the first your mind. Batra (Retd.) and reviewed by explicitly link its request to wrote to his superiors. questions because it was busy tranche of bonds sold offered HuffPost India, show how the impending polls in Karnataka, “However as per para 8(2) of preparing next year’s Union any lessons, it is likely that the Sadguru Rameshji is a modern age spiritual guru and Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) but finance ministry officials the notification on electoral Budget, but said that all the party in power, BJP, garnered the force behind Poorna Ananda, a Hyderabad-based directed the finance ministry caught on to the link. bond Scheme, dated January 2, decisions were taken “in good most of the money. centre for spiritual evolution and joyful living. He to break its own rules to An officer in the finance min- 2018, an additional 30-day win- faith”. can be contacted at www.poornaananda.org approve the unscheduled and istry noted that the extra window could be specified by the “All the issues raised in the ■ To be continued 64 core PAGE Next year, AMD will release the first Threadripper CPU with 64 Technomics 8 computing cores and 128 threads THE ASIAN AGE WEDNESDAY | 27 NOVEMBER 2019 | NEW DELHI SHORT TAKES 2 SDKs harvest SM user data OneAudience and MobiBurn discontinue their respective SDKs AGE CORRESPONDENT The company said it has with agency inputs FB LAUNCHES NEW MARKET RESEARCH APP also informed Google and HYDERABAD, NOV. 26 Apple about the vulnera- ■ FACEBOOK HAS a new market ■ IN JANUARY, Fb shut down a mar- bility so that they can take Social media giants, research app launching today called ket research app ostensibly offered further action. Facebook and Twitter, on Viewpoints, just a few months after the as a virtual private network provider The warning comes as NEW WHATSAPP UPDATES Monday, announced that Facebook, Google and company introduced an Android data ■ WHATSAPP FOR IPHONE IS NOW hunderds of users had collection app called Study designed to THE APP was marketed to teens Twitter are all facing their personal data improp- and used a special software certifi- heightened scrutiny from RECEIVING AN UPDATE BRINGING IN A erly accessed after they monitor what and for how long users regulators, lawmakers and SLEW OF NEW FEATURES are accessing other soft- cate Apple gives out to businesses, used it to log into certain users for the ways that per- ■ Android apps that were ware on the Google- designed mainly to allow the distri- sonal data is used by out- The update version number is 2.19.120, and it AT&T ENTERS downloaded via the Google owned operating bution of internal apps to employ- side developers to track packs an useful feature in the form of call wait- Play Store. system ees, but not the public and target consumers. ing support, allowing users to receive another According to a CNBC Meanwhile, Facebook, in WhatsApp call while they are on one call. INDIA WITH 2 report, both firms received ■ FACEBOOK’S RESEARCH efforts a statement, said, reports from security now live on in Viewpoints and Study. “Security researchers ■ Currently, the receivers don’t get a call wait- HEADPHONES researchers that a software With Viewpoints, Fb isn’t peering recently notified us about ing notification when someone is trying to call development kit (SDK) into how you use third-party apps. two bad actors, One them while they are in the middle of another New Delhi, Nov. 26: Known for named One Audience gave Audience and Mobiburn, its millions of wireless net- third-party developers Instead, it’s an app that will give you who were paying develop- call. The caller, however, does get to know that work subscribers in the US, access to personal data. rewards for filling out surveys, test- ers to use malicious SDKs the receiver is ‘on another call'. AT&T announced the launch The data includes the ing new products, and more in a number of apps avail- ■ of its range of personal audio email addresses, user- able in popular app stores. The update also includes a redesigned chat products in India. names and most recent After investigating, we screen and a key feature addition for Braille The company launched a tweets of people who used sible for a person to take any hostile takeover. their accounts,” said removed the apps from our keyboard users. pair of headphone — AT&T their Twitter accounts to control of someone else’s “We think it’s important Lindsay McCallum, a platform for violating our HPM10 over-ear wired head- access apps including Twitter account via this for people to be aware that Twitter spokeswoman. platform policies and ■ Earlier this month, WhatsApp also rolled out phones and AT&T PBH20 over- Giant Square and Photofy. vulnerability. However, this exists out there and Twitter further said it issued cease and desist let- new group privacy settings for Android and ear bluetooth headphones. The report further said the security researchers that they review the apps will be informing users ters against One Audience iPhone users both in a bid to curb spam invites. While both sport a light- that it may have been pos- didn’t find any evidence of that they use to connect to who were affected. and Mobiburn. weight, collapsible design and ■ Meanwhile, the latest Android beta of a microphone, the bluetooth Whatsapp is said to show the company restart- headphone can playback for ing work on a previously reported feature. upto six hours and noise reduction capability. ■ The latest Android beta from WhatsApp car- Meanwhile, AT&T has priced Firings spark Will comply with data ries the version number 2.19.348. The update the pair of headphones are can be installed via Google Play beta pro- quite competitively priced at `899 and `1,999 respectively. gramme, or can alternatively be side loaded Both the headphones will be dissent in Google localisation: Google Pay using an APK from APK Mirror. available on e-commerce web- ■ sites Amazon and Flipkart. Kolkata, Nov. 26: Google servers. Generally, data billion and the number of In this beta update, the Disappearing San Francisco, Nov. 26: better workplace,” read Pay, a leading digital pay- localisation refers to stor- active users rose three Messages feature reportedly sees its name Google on Monday fired the post by Google ment service provider, is ing data within India. times to 67 million, he said, change to Delete Messages. four employees on the Walkout for Real Change. in the process of comply- “We have been providing adding that “almost two- grounds they violated “When they did, Google ing with the regulations of services and the regula- third of the payments hap- ■ The WhatsApp Delete Messages feature data security policies, retaliated against data localisation, a com- tions came later. We will pened outside top seven brings the ability to choose how long new mes- prompting ire among col- them.”Authors of the pany official said on do it without interrupting cities” in the country. sages will last, before they are deleted. Options leagues concerned it was post contended that Tuesday. services to 67 million At present, charges or include one hour, one day, one retaliation for worker Google policies on data The process needs to be users. Technically, it is not MDR (merchant discount organizing. security were tightened carried out “carefully to that easy. However, RBI is rate) are not imposed on week, one month, and One of the workers fired to provide cover for get- prevent any disruption”, very supportive,” he said. merchants and users in one year. ■ was connected to a peti- ting rid of workers Google Pay director (prod- Bulusu was here to order to promote digital ■ The feature, tion against Google work- involved in efforts to uct management) Sharath launch “Google Pay for payment in the country, he As is the norm ing with the US immigra- unionize. “They think Bulusu said here. “We will merchants” in Kolkata. said. MDR is the rate with all features earlier called tion and border patrol this will crush our comply with all directives At the national level, charged to a merchant for spotting, there is Disappearing agency. She confirmed efforts, but it won't,” the of the government. We are around 3.5 lakh brick-and- payment processing serv- no word on when Messages, allowed ALEXA COMING her firing in a message Medium post said. in the process of doing mortar retail stores are on ices. Asked whether the this feature will users to delete their posted on Twitter. “One of the most power- so,” he told reporters, the platform and about company will charge users be enabled for messages automatical- TO LOW-SPEC A memo to employees ful companies in the when asked about the data 3,000 online merchants for payments to generate ly after a stipulated titled “Securing our data” world wouldn't be retali- localisation. are accepting Google Pay, revenue, Bulusu said, beta users, or sought to correct what it ating against us if collec- The RBI had asked pay- he claimed. there are multiple options when it will roll out period of time. DEVICES contended was misinfor- tive action didn't work.” ment companies to ensure As on September 2019, that would be evaluated at in the stable ver- New Delhi, Nov. 26: With 2019 mation about the purport- The Google workplace that transaction’s data are total transaction for the an appropriate time in sion. coming to an end, analysts ed wrongdoing, saying it long seen as a blend of stored exclusively on local last 12 months was at $110 future. — PTI expect even quicker prolifera- involved “systematic fun, good-will and free tion of Internet of Things (IoT) searches for other food has been disrupted in 2020. In what can only be employees' materials and by employee opposition to considered to be a step in that work,” according to top-level decisions rang- direction, Amazon announced reports by US media. ing from making con- that Alexa voice assistant will Google, the money-mak- tracts with the military to run on devices with as little as ing engine of parent com- tailoring a version of the App aims to make your sexting safe 1MB of memory and a cheap pany Alphabet, con- search engine for China Cortex-M processor. firmed a copy of the note and the handling of sexu- AGE CORRESPONDENT to Telenet. Times reports that about However, technology will the option to blur your In lay man’s terms, expect published by Bloomberg al misconduct allegations. MUMBAI, NOV. 26 Sexting can be fun with 50 per cent of individuals not solve everything. A lot face. It also says that users Alexa on all kinds of relatively but declined to comment Google employees pour- consensual adults and between 15 and 21 occa- of attention still needs to should send these images dumb devices from lightbulbs further. ed out of buildings at the Sexting can be fun with unwanted ‘eggplant’ pic- sionally sext and often- be paid to sexual educa- to people whom they know to toys. Till date, Alexa However, a Medium company's Mountain View consensual adults and tures are mostly uncalled times send and receive tion, in which it is made very well and it also required at least 100MB of account connected to a campus a year ago, filling unwanted ‘eggplant’ pic- for. However, at times sex- messages containing clear that it is not okay to reminds you that you RAM and an ARM Cortex-A massive walkout by courtyards and patios in tures are mostly uncalled ting nudes of yourself explicit content including share received photos.” aren’t obligated to send processor. “We now offload the Google employees last solidarity with co-workers for. However, at times sex- may sometimes get shared images. This phenomenon The main intention of images at all if you don’t vast majority of all of this to year argued that the four who staged similar ting nudes of yourself on the internet without has increased in the recent the app is to prevent peo- want to. the cloud,” AWS IoT VP Dirk workers were fired in an demonstrations at offices may sometimes get shared your knowledge and this past not just because of ple from sharing the With that being said, the Didascalou told TechCrunch. attempt to crush efforts to in countries around the on the internet without can result in having your smartphones but also due images they receive. watermark will only make “The only thing that the device organize staff. “Four of world to protest the com- your knowledge and this most intimate pictures to the fact that sexting has Fabienne Beckers who co- the image a lot more fuzzy still needs to do is wake word our colleagues took a pany's handling of sexual can result in having your getting flooded on various become normalized. A developed the app states, as the transparent letters detection.” That means com- stand and organized for a misconduct. — AFP most intimate pictures adult websites and report by De Morgen “The app lets you add the above the picture will panies will be able to reduce getting flooded on various forums. In a bid to better quotes Child Focus organi- name and possibly also the make it difficult to see material costs by as much as adult websites and protect you while sexting, sation by stating, “Five phone number of the every detail. The app 50 percent using lower-pow- forums. In a bid to better a new app has been devel- years ago, our advice recipient to your picture. reads, “You can still very ered chips from NXP, protect you while sexting, oped and this could put would have been to simply The recipient will then be clearly see what you want Qualcomm and others, he a new app has been devel- your mind at ease. not send sexts. Now we much less inclined to to show. You can also play added. oped and this could put The app, .comdom that’s realise that it is part of the share such a photo. You with that watermark a lit- your mind at ease. been developed by Belgian sexual experience of sometimes hear stories tle. You can slide it away The app, .comdom that’s telephone company young people.” about photos of a pupil from the places you want been developed by Belgian Telenet allows you to tag A spokesperson for being shared with almost to show, or put it on top of telephone company your photos with a water- Sensoa, the Flemish all students in a school. them. We also tested the Telenet allows you to tag mark that contains the expertise centre for sexual With this, that photo will app with a lot of young your photos with a water- name and phone numbers health states, “The app also include the name of people, and most of them mark that contains the of the person that will provides an in-between the perpetrator.” said that they would defi- name and phone numbers receive the image. If the step, between either not The app warns that it is nitely want to use it.” of the person that will person who receives the sending a photo, or send- far safer not to show any This app is available to receive the image. If the image shares it, it can be ing an ‘unsafe’ photo. The identifiable features such download from the App person who receives the easily traceable, according responsibility also gradu- as a distinctive birthmark Store and on comdom.be. image shares it, it can be to Telenet. ally shifts to the person or, tattoos or piercings and It, however, isn’t available easily traceable, according A report by The Brussels who sends the photo. it also provides you with on the Play Store. AWS ADDS 22 NEW LANGUAGES TO TRANSLATE Joining a new SM platform does not make sense New Delhi, Nov. 22: Ahead of the AWS re:Invent conference, Mastodon is moving the Because the more time tially quitting Twitter, are when products (in this cial Mastodon app, howev- AWS’s Amazon Translate to needle forward by a signif- you spend on the platform, only to come back to it case, platforms), gain value er, there are a bunch of support 22 new languages to icant increment when it the more ads you will see while being addicted to when more people use client apps that can be real-time translations. comes to social network- and the more money they another platform. The them. So, it makes sense for used instead, most popular Amazon Translate now sup- Rohan Seth ing. The idea is for us to will make. No wonder it is more platforms you are on, you to use WhatsApp and among them is Tusky, but ports54 languages and move towards a future so hard to quit Instagram the thinner your attention not Signal, as all your reviews will tell you that it dialects, with 2,804 language where user data isn’t mon- and Facebook. is stretched. That is objec- friends are on WhatsApp. is fairly buggy and that is pairs now supported. The neu- etised and people can host Joining a new platform tively bad for anyone who Similarly, it makes sense to be expected. ral machine translation serv- their own servers instead. for social media today is thinks they spend a lot of for you to be on Twitter as There is so much right ice enables customers to easily As a tech enthusiast, that an investment that does time on their phone. your favorite celebs and with Mastodon. It is a translate information from astodon is what’s developer Eugen Rochko, sounds wonderful and I not make sense unless the If you’re lucky to be one news outlets are on there. great working example of one language to many. happening in India is open-sourced, so no one honestly wish that this is other one shuts down. of the few people who do Mastodon does not have the democratisation of For instance, Siemens useit Mright now. Indian entity gets to decide what what Twitter should have There is a not suffer from that and the network effect advan- social media. It also hap- to analyse employee surveys Twitter users are moving to content belongs on the been. high chance are indifferent to the tage, so most people who pens to exist in an age in different languages, while the platform and have communities there. Also, Keeping all of that in of people ini- dopamine that notifica- do not specifically have where it would be near Hotels.com uses it to translate taken to using hashtags the data on Mastodon is mind, I don’t think I tions induce in your their network on impossible to get funding customer reviews into many such as #CasteistTwitter not owned by one single will be joining brain, Mastodon, do not get a lot for or to start a new social languages for localised web- and #cancelallBlueTicks- corporation, so you know Mastodon. Hear me this of value out of using it. media platform. sites around the world. inIndia. A key reason for that your behavior on out. A large part of one In addition, there is iner- The problem is that for The new supported lan- this to transpire is that there is not being quanti- it is not because doesn’t tia. Remember when we people who don’t explicitly guages are: Afrikaans, Twitter has been, to put it fied and being sold to peo- Mastodon does apply to set aside Mastodon’s prob- feel the need or see the Albanian, Amharic, mildly, less than perfect, in ple who would use that to not have its you. Then lems earlier, here is where value in joining Mastodon, Azerbaijani, Bengali, Bosnian, moderating content in profile and target you. own problems, there is they fit in. Mastodon is not are unlikely to split their Bulgarian, Croatian, Dari, India. There is the incident Plus, each server (com- let’s set that the net- as intuitive as using attention further by join- Estonian, Canadian French, with lawyer Sanjay Hegde munity) has a relatively aside for now work Twitter or Facebook. That ing a new platform. The Georgian, Hausa, Latvian, that caused this to blow up, small size with a separate and move on to effect and iner- makes it a deal-breaker for switching costs, network Pashto, Serbian, Slovak, along with accusations that admin, moderator, and by the attention tia. I for one, am people of certain ages and effects, and inertia are Slovenian, Somali, Swahili, Twitter had been blocking extension, code of con- economy. Much like for moving the also happens to be a signif- simply too high. Tagalog, and Tamil. hundreds and thousands of duct. All of this sounds how goods and services needle forward lit- icant con for people who (Rohan is a policy On Monday, AWS also tweets in India since 2017 wonderful. The character compete for a share of tle by little. But don’t want to spend a non- analyst at the technology announced new services relat- with a focus on accounts count is also 500 words as your wallet, social media here, there is little trivial chunk of their time and policy programme at ed to image recognition, voice- from Kashmir. opposed to 280 (if that is has for the longest time to gain right now, learning about servers, The Takshashila based UIs and IOT. Enter Mastodon. The the sort of thing you con- been competing for atten- with more to lose. instances, toots, and so on. Institution. Views are — Agencies platform, developed by sider to be an advantage). tion and mind-space. Network effects There also isn’t an offi- personal.) Probe finds RBI bearings red-flags collusion by rising units of SKF, Mudra Schaeffler & loans stress Tata Steel WEDNESDAY | 27 NOVEMBER 2019 | NEW DELHI Overleaf ■ Target cut to $1,485 an ounce; prices may go up next year Motor cover to include quick Citigroup cuts gold’s on-road price, fittings BITES SANGEETHA G be payable subject to CHENNAI, NOV. 26 depreciation as per the new scale. Proportionate three-month target premium for reinstate- The insurance regulator INDICATORS % has recommended a sim- ment of sum insured from Sensex 40,821.30 -0.17 SANGEETHA G assets to riskier assets. plified calculation for the date of loss till expiry Nifty 50 31,718.30 0.51 CHENNAI, NOV. 26 Citigroup’s downward depreciation and sum shall be deducted from all revision of price target insured under own dam- partial loss claims. For S&P 500 3,138.71 +0.16 Assessing the recent bear- comes at this backdrop. age motor insurance. The Commercial and Miscella- Dollar (`) 71.69 -0.23 ish trends in the bullion However, market watchers new calculation provides neous and Special Type of Pound Sterling (`) 92.24 -0.52 market, Citigroup has cut do not anticipate any fur- enhanced valuation for Vehicles, partial loss its three-month gold price ther sharp fall from the customers. The Insurance claims shall be payable Euro (`) 78.75 -0.32 target by $90 an ounce. current levels. On the Regulatory and Develop- the insurer. “The draft subject to depreciation as Gold (10gm)* (`) 37,673▼50 -0.13 However, the company is other hand, they expect ment Authority of India seems to focus on making per the different scale sug- still bullish about the long- prices to move up next has also suggested a few life simpler and effective gested. Brent crude ($/bbl)* $63.90 +0.25 term prospects of gold and year and gain further checks that are beneficial for consumers. Better In addition to the existing IN 10-Yr bond yield +6.478 +0.011 expects fresh cyclical strength in 2021. for the insurers. value for customers in the provision, it is recom- US 10-Yr T-bill yield +1.735 -0.029 highs by 2021. “We could see gold per- For brand new private initial three years where mended that in all cases of “Citigroup has cut its four weeks, considerable this time. A reduction in haps correcting to $1,440- cars aged up to three years, sum insured is equal to total loss / constructive * As of 9:30 pm IST three-month gold price tar- weakness has been evident global uncertainty is a neg- $1,420 levels and some con- the sum insured shall rep- invoice value of car and total loss claims and theft get to $1,485 from $1,575 an in the bullion counter, as ative for safe haven assets solidation is insight in the resent the current day on- post three years also bas- claims, the registration ounce. According to the some of the macro-eco- like gold. Chinese con- next three to four weeks as road price of the vehicle ing SI basis depreciation certificate (RC) of the vehi- note, they are still bullish nomic factors that have sumers, grappling with the the fund managers would insured, including Invoice on invoice value instead of cle shall be cancelled and ICICI Pru, HDFC saying that they “remain been pushing the prices up slowest economic growth consolidate their positions value, road tax and regis- depreciation on ex-show- claim shall be settled only bullish bullion in the medi- were seen faltering. since the early 1990s, were by the year-end. However, tration charges and value room price,” said Sajja after the insured surren- um-term and still project Though the US Federal also seen shunning gold, thereafter prices can move of all accessories fitted Praveen Chowdary, Head- ders such cancelled RC. MF get `437 cr fresh cyclical highs being Reserve has not reversed anticipating further up and by next year gold thereon by the manufac- Motor Insurance, Policy- The policy shall be can- breached by 2021,” report- its rate cut regime yet, it decline in prices. can break this year’s turer. bazaar.com. celled without return of from Essel Group ed Kitco.com. has been sending out sig- In fact, the two large con- highs. Possibly it can go up For vehicles beyond three For commercial vehicles, premium. In September, Citigroup nals that the economy is in sumers of physical gold-- beyond $1,600 and remain years, sum insured will the sum insured shall rep- “From an industry per- ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund had been extremely bullish a better shape and proba- China and India---have within $1,700,” said Gupta. represent the current day resent the current day spective also, it puts in and HDFC Mutual Fund said about the yellow metal, as bly it would go slow with seen tremendous drop in According to him, there manufacturer’s listed invoice value plus cost of place various checks with- they have received payments to it had predicted that the cuts, said Himanshu consumption since prices is no trend reversal yet for price of the vehicle insur- body building, if any, and out which the insurance the tune of Rs 437 crore from prices might rally above Gupta, Vice President and started moving up. This gold. The trade war is not ed, including value of all all accessories fitted there- industry might not be able Essel Group. ICICI Pru MF has $2,000 an ounce in the next Head of Commodities and has also undermined over yet and the global accessories fitted thereon on by the manufacturer to sustain after a period of got Rs 270 crore as repayment two years. While the Currencies Research at gold’s prospects. growth still is predicted to by the manufacturer, and adjusted for depreciation time given the fraudulent and interest while the same for assumption still holds Globe Capital. Further, the US treasury be lower. The US Fed has adjusted by age-wise at the rate of 10 per cent claims, etc. It puts in place HDFC MF has been Rs 167 crore. ground, in the short- to The US-China trade war yields were seen recover- not started increasing the depreciation as per new de- per year or part thereof minimum premium, man- With this, ICICI Pru’s exposure to medium-term, the is also seen cooling down, ing from their lows, allay- interest rates and this is preciation table. The new subject to maximum of 75 datory deductible linkage Essel has become nil. HDFC MF prospects look rather sub- with both parties sitting ing fears of a global reces- good for gold. “We have depreciation table is sug- per cent. For Total Loss, to sum insured, cancella- holds NCDs secured by a pledge dued. down to talks for at least sion. The global equities, seen some profit booking gested for up to 15 years. Theft and Constructive tion of RC and insurance shares valued at Rs 275.63 crore. Gold has fallen from its partial resolution. Market including the US market, after gold rallied 20 per Beyond 7th year, sum Total Loss claims, the mandatory for total loss annual high of $1,580 an expectations are that both picked up well in recent cent from the recent lows. insured shall be arrived at amount payable shall be cases, claim intimation ounce to the $1,460 levels parties will arrive at some times, leading to flow of The fundamentals have a mutually agreed value the sum insured. within 24 hours, etc,”said CSB Bank IPO now. In the past three to tariff reduction decisions money from risk-averse not reversed,” he added. between the insured and Partial Loss claims shall Chowdary. subscribed 87 times Bringing rupee trading home is an uphill task Ind-Ra pegs SUBHADIP SIRCAR has been moving to make sure. They can only enter GDP growth NOV. 26 its onshore market more London ahoy! into plain vanilla forwards and option con- attractive and preparing Rupee trading in London overtakes As London does more to replicate offshore cen- onshore volume tracts and are generally in Q2 at 4.7% rupee trading than ters in specially designat- not allowed to rebook a ■ ■ Mumbai, authorities in ed financial zones within 2016 2019 contract once canceled. New Delhi, Nov. 26: The India are taking steps to the country. 40 BSE’s subsidiary India Indian economy may get foreigners to transact For Halley, that’s like International Exchange have slowed for the sixth onshore. Analysts say that fighting the waves. 20 (IFSC) Ltd, which will consecutive quarter in will be no easy task. “Institutions have access probably spearhead the July-September to 4.7 per The initial public offering of 0 There’s no good reason to a Michelin 3-star menu” UK India Singapore Hong US launch of the rupee deriv- cent, Fitch group firm CSB Bank was subscribed 86.89 for market participants to of currencies from “all Kong atives, says the new venue India Ratings and times on the final day of bid- switch from excellent over the world, all in one will be cost-competitive. Research (Ind-Ra) said ding. The IPO received bids for Figures in $ billion global trading hubs such centre,” in hubs like (Average daily volumes in April) Source: BIS But that alone won’t be on Tuesday, as it lowered over 100 crore shares against as Singapore and London, Singapore and London, he enough to attract trading, GDP growth forecast for the total issue size of 1.15 crore said Jeffrey Halley, a sen- said. “Banks would have London has become the US taper tantrum of 2013 In October, the RBI said according to investors. the current fiscal for the shares, as per NSE data till ior market analyst at no incentive, from a pure- biggest centre for trading when the Indian currency it would allow rupee trad- Manu George, Senior fourth time. 18:45 hours. The retail individ- Oanda Asia Pacific Pte, ly cost basis alone, to set the Indian currency, was plummeting to record ing by customers outside Investment Director at The economy expanded ual investors category was sub- who’s extensively traded up a separate operation according to the latest sur- lows on an almost daily the jurisdiction of the Schroder Investment 5 per cent in April-June, scribed 44.25 times, QIBs 62.18 currencies in offshore onshore.” vey by the Bank for basis, with NDFs blamed domestic economy in low- Management in its slowest annual pace times and non-institutional markets over a three- At issue is the rise of International Settlements for a surge in speculative tax venues. Singapore, said it’s diffi- since 2013. The 4.7 per investors 164.68 times. decade career. For derivatives known as non- in September. Average trading. The International Finan- cult to see a situation cent projection for the Schroder Investment deliverable forwards daily volumes for the In a report in July, an cial Services Centre in the where offshore trading second quarter of the Management Ltd, the (NDFs)—bets on the direc- rupee in the UK soared to RBI task force on offshore Gujarat International migrates to within India’s current fiscal would need to add more counter- tion of a currency made $46.8 billion in April, rupee markets recom- Finance Tec-City, or GIFT borders. mark six consecutive parties would just in offshore centres, exceeding the $34.5 billion mended getting trading City, an effort by Prime “India is not a major FX quarters of slowing Skoda VW to increase investors’ trad- beyond the rules of recorded in India. back to the onshore mar- Minister Narendra Modi trading hub and so it’s growth, a first since 2012. ing costs. domestic authorities and Volumes have also sub- ket by extending trading to replicate the market in inefficient from a firm’s “This is the fourth revi- suspend Chakan India’s authorities are without the need to deliv- stantially jumped in other hours and allowing local Singapore, is awaiting point of view as there are sion and has come in concerned a surge in er the currency itself. The centres like Singapore, banks to offer price quotes regulatory approvals more counterparties to after the agency had ops for a month rupee trading overseas contracts, which allow New York and Dubai. to foreigners round the before becoming the coun- generally trade FX than revised its FY20 GDP threatens the stability of investors to hedge, arbi- “It will be a better world clock. It also said non- try’s first venue to offer onshore in India,” he said. growth forecast only a Skoda Auto Volkswagen India the currency, especially in trage and speculate in for us if there is no NDF deliverable forwards trad- NDF rupee contracts. “Adding further counter- month ago to 6.1 per said it will suspend production times of stress. That non-convertible curren- market, but we cannot ing should be permitted in In the existing onshore parties adds to the cost cent,” Ind-Ra said. at its Chakan plant in Pune for a worry has intensified cies such as the rupee, can wish it away,” former special centres within over-the-counter market, and expense of setup and The Q2 numbers are month from mid-Dec. to mid- after London overtook be traced back to the 1990s Reserve Bank of India India that would replicate foreigners are allowed to trading.” likely to be announced Jan. to upgrade the facility for Mumbai as the top trading but have surged in popu- chief Duvvuri Subbarao the attractiveness of off- hedge only on the basis of on Friday. —PTI a new range of products. The centre. In response, India larity in recent years. famously said during the shore locations. their underlying expo- — Bloomberg company—earlier known as Volkswagen India—had suspended production for a month from mid-Oct. The firm said it is taking the step to prepare for Women’s employability sees uptick India 2.0 nextgen products. Mid-cap shares may be RITWIK MUKHERJEE best companies that togeth- KOLKATA, NOV. 26 er employ over 4.9 lakh women professionals in the in line for a comeback The degree may be small current year, 2019. Oyo’s net loss but it certainly is an indi- Barriers for increased ERIC LAM Bloomberg. cation of rising employa- women’s workforce partici- NOV. 26 “One of the reasons to widens to bility level of women in pation is found relatively buy mid and small caps is urban India or organised more in semi-urban and India’s smaller companies the high return potential” sector. There has been a rural areas. “The majority have earned another look if investors can pick a win- `2,385 cr in FY19 marginal increase in of employers are in the after suffering through ner, Goyal said. Of course, Oyo Hotels and Homes’ net loss women being employed as informal and smaller eco- some two years of under- this is easier said than widened to Rs 2,384.69 crore regular salaried personnel, nomic units that employ performance relative to done. The analyst notes for the FY19 against a net loss going by the latest data fewer people. As per the their larger peers. that only 2 per cent of of Rs 360.43 crore in FY18, as released by the National MSME annual report, 2018- The divergence between small caps have become per a valuation report filed by Statistical Office (NSO), a 19, 55 per cent of MSMEs in the two groups is “signifi- gone from extreme opti- large caps over the past 10 the company with Registrar of wing of the Union India operate out of urban cant” compared with mism to huge pessimism.” years, while 20 per cent Companies. Revenue from oper- Ministry of Statistics and areas. Currently, 24 per longer-term historical cor- Companies across either have ceased to exist ations rose to Rs 6,456.90 crore Programme Implementa- cent of the workforce at relations, according to India—big and small—are or are no longer listed. for 2018-19 from Rs 1,413.02 tion. But if that reflects or MSMEs is women, the total Citigroup Inc. The MSCI grappling with a slowing The odds are a bit better crore. The financial results are indicates closing the gen- employee count being 11 India Mid-Cap Index has economy amid waning con- for mid caps, with 15 per unaudited and have been pre- der gap on a sustainable quarter ending March 2019. Best Companies for Women crore. Being the second lost 17 per cent in the past sumption. The government cent able to elevate to large- pared by the valuers and not by basis remains to be seen. “The increased percent- in India (BCWI) has largest sectoral employer two years, while the bench- has announced a series of cap territory, but on the its auditors, Oyo said. The NSO data suggests age is indicative of rising increased from 31 per cent in the country, the potential mark S&P BSE Sensex reforms to arrest the slide other hand almost two- that the percentage of employability levels of in 2018 to 33 per cent in for job creation is equally Index has gained more and attract investment, thirds were downgraded to women in regular wages or women in urban India as 2019, a rise of 2 per cent. huge. If MSMEs are to look than 20 per cent. including an overhaul of small caps. Printed & Published by as salaried employees has also the higher retention Over the years, since the at this surging talent pool With better risk-reward controversial labour laws, Top mid-cap picks from T Venkateswarlu on behalf of Deccan gone up to 58.2 per cent in potential of women. The inception of the BCWI, of skilled women as viable, post underperformance, aggressive cuts to corpo- Citi include cement maker Chronicle Holdings Limited. Printed at the quarter ending March role of women in economic women’s representation in the sector can contribute we would selectively look rate taxes, relaxation of ACC Ltd, biotech Biocon BFL Infotech Ltd, C-9 Sector 3, Noida- 2019, vis-a-vis 56.1 per cent activity has increased the 100 best companies for substantially to increasing to add mid-caps,” Citi ana- foreign investor rules and Ltd and L&T Finance 201301. Published at 219, N D Tiwari in the year 2018, indicating steadily showing a decline women has continued to women’s workforce partici- lyst Surendra Goyal wrote the biggest privatisation Holdings Ltd. Bhawan, Deen Dayal Upadhyay Marg, a rise of 2.1 per cent in in unemployment rate,” increase. pation rate,” said Rajesh. drive in more than a Financials, health care, New Delhi-110002. in a note this week. Editor: T.Venkatram Reddy, RNI women’s employment in said Dr Saundarya Rajesh, According to the BCWI Significantly, the BCWI is “Valuation discount of mid decade. materials and industrials Registration number 30074/09, Air sur- urban India. Compared to social entrepreneur, study, released earlier this projected to get to a 50-50 caps versus large caps is India’s economy is fore- make up more than 70 per charge Re 1. © All rights reserved. this, the rise in men’s Founder–President, Avtar year, women’s representa- gender balance by 2027. close to 10-year highs, high- cast to slow further to 6 per cent of the MSCI mid-cap Reproduction in whole or in part with- employment for the same Group, a diversity & inclu- tion rose from 31 per cent Further, women leading lighting the improved risk- cent growth this year, fol- index. Less than a third of out written permission of The Editor, period stood at 1.5 per sion strategy firm. in 2018 to 33 per cent in business roles is currently reward and low expecta- lowing a deceleration in the 26 names in the gauge Financial Chronicle ® is prohibited. cent—46.4 per cent in 2018 Interestingly, women’s 2019, which was at 25 per at 16 per cent and all set to tions. In two years, mid-cap 2018, according to econo- are in the green this year. and 47.9 per cent for the representation in the 100 cent in 2016 among the 100 grow to 25 per cent by 2025. sentiment seems to have mists surveyed by — Bloomberg PAGE Financial 10 WEDNESDAY | 27 NOVEMBER 2019 | NEW DELHI

■ ‘Govt not Deputy Governor Jain urges banks to monitor lending Reliance Probe finds bearings Naval surges honouring RBI red-flags rising collusion by units of SKF, 700% in contracts’ record streak Mumbai, Nov 26: Schaeffler & Tata Steel Biggest constraint to Mudra loans stress RONOJOY MAZUMDAR doing business in the ADITYA KALRA & P R SANJAI country is poor contract NEW DELHI, NOV. 26 NOV. 26 enforcement, and the FC BUREAU whopping 126 per cent in blame for the same rests NEW DELHI/MUMBAI NOV. 26 FY19—jumping by Rs An Indian antitrust investi- The penny stock hasn’t mostly with the govern- 9,204.14 crore to Rs 16,481.45 gation has found that units declined for a single ment. The government Concerned over the unex- crore in FY19 from Rs of Tata Steel, Sweden’s SKF session since Sept. 9 in delays payments or does pected growth of non-per- 7,277.31 crore in FY18. and Germany’s Schaeffler a rally that has lifted it not deliver on promises forming assets (NPAs) in “Systemic risk may arise colluded on the pricing of to Rs 7.67 from its made earlier, posing Mudra loans, the central from unsustainable credit bearings, a report seen by record-low close of 95 challenges to business- bank on Tuesday cautioned growth, increased inter Reuters shows, opening paise. That’s the es, Principal Economic banks that some risk in the connectedness, pro-cyclical them up to potential fines. longest winning streak Advisor to the finance system could emerge from and financial risks mani- The Competition Commi- since the company’s minister Sanjeev Sanyal the space in the future, and fested by lower profitabili- ssion of India (CCI) began trading debut in 2009. said on Tuesday. hence, banks should moni- ty,” Jain said. an investigation in 2017 National Engineering The revival of the Even as we have tor such loans. “It is interesting to see after allegations that five Industries and Tata Steel’s shipyard is crucial for leapfrogged on the over- “The growing stress in leading e-commerce compa- companies colluded on bear- bearings division contra- Anil Ambani, who is all ease of doing busi- Mudra loans, which has nies tying up with banks ings prices from 2009-2014 to vened antitrust law by dis- betting on cash flows ness ranking, we are crossed more than Rs 3.21 and NBFCs to offer working pass higher raw material cussing and agreeing prices. from government still ranked 163rd among lakh crore system-wide, capital loans to their suppli- costs onto customers in the SKF, the world’s largest defense contracts as 190 countties when it and banks need to monitor ers, that are mostly micro auto sector. maker of ball-bearings, said Prime Minister comes to enforcing con- such loans closely as unsus- to offer speedier credit up finance minister Arun and small enterprises, at The CCI can fine firms up in a statement it had assist- Narendra Modi plans tract, and only "dysfunc- tainable credit growth in to Rs 10 lakh to small busi- Jaitely had brushed aside competitive terms,” he to three times the profit ed the investigation and dis- to spend billions of dol- tional and war-affected" the sector can risk the sys- nesses, which are non- cor- the concerns. added. made in each year of wrong- puted any claim of wrong- lars on national securi- countries follow us, he tem,” Reserve Bank India porate, non-farm small/ The government had in Stating that GST has hit doing or 10 per cent of rev- doing. ty. Brokers say the said. (RBI) Deputy Governor micro enterprises and July informed Parliament the informal economy sig- enue, whichever is higher. Schaeffler did not respond stock’s parabolic "The biggest con- M.K. Jain said. which normally do not get that total NPA in the Mudra nificantly, he further said European Union antitrust to a request for comment. advance is likely driven straint to doing busi- While addressing a Sidbi bank funds due to their scheme of over Rs 3.21 lakh that as a result of the regulators fined SKF, Tata Steel and National by speculators, rather ness in our country is event on micro-finance in poor or mostly no credit rat- crore has jumped to 2.68 per improved digital footprint, Schaeffler and three Engineering Industries - than by a change in the simply the business of Mumbai, Jain said, “Mudra ing. These loans are extend- cent in FY19 from 2.52 per MSMEs have become Japanese auto parts makers part of Indian conglomerate company’s fortunes. enforcing contracts. loans are a case in point. ed by banks, NBFCs, RRBs, cent in FY18. Since incep- attractive clients for banks, $1.3 billion in 2014 for taking CK Birla Group - declined to “This could be a pure- Unfortunately, many While such a massive push cooperative banks and tion of the scheme, over 19 NBFCs and MFIs, thereby part in a bearings cartel comment beyond saying the ly speculative move by people have whined would have lifted many ben- small finance banks. crore loans have been reducing their dependence from 2004 through 2011. CCI proceedings were confi- certain market opera- about it for long, but eficiaries out of poverty, Interestingly, it can be extended under the scheme on informal source of CCI’s investigations arm dential. tors with a vested inter- very little actual think- there has been some con- recalled that within a year up to June 2019, the govern- funds. “The cost of credit said in a report dated May 6, The investigation arm’s est as there is no change ing has gone into it," cerns at the growing level of the launch of the ment had said. Of the total, for MSMEs will also come which has not been made 106-page report said it found in fundamentals of the Sanyal told an event of NPAs among these bor- scheme, the then RBI gover- 3.63 crore accounts were in down meaningfully as public, that it analysed com- no evidence against the fifth company, which is reel- organised by impact rowers.” nor Raghuram Rajan had default as of March 2019. lending will shift from col- pany emails, call records firm, ABC Bearings, part of ing under various trou- investing firm Prime Minister Narendra warned of asset quality However, according to an lateral based lending to and executive testimonies U.S. firm Timken Co. ABC bles,” said Arun Aavishkar. Modi had launched the troubles bubbling in the RTI reply, the bad loans in cash flow based lending,” and concluded that SKF Bearings declined to com- Kejriwal, Director at Mudra scheme in April 2015 scheme but the then the Mudra scheme soared a he said. India, Schaeffler India, ment. — Reuters KRIS, an investment advisory firm in Mum- bai. “It is quite easy to create such triggers on shares as prices are too TVS Motor Sical to sell low.” Discoms may get loans to clear dues to RE firms The company didn’t or hive off immediately respond to drives in new NEHA DASGUPTA & backed ReNew Power and ment has asked state ease cashflow constraints renewable energy. calls and emails seek- SUDARSHAN VARADHAN Softbank-backed SB Energy lenders Power Finance Corp and reassure wary investors India is looking to install ing comment. businesses NEW DELHI, NOV. 26 over 97 billion rupees ($1.35 Ltd, REC Ltd and that new projects are 175 gigawatt (GW) in renew- Meanwhile, the bank- billion), according to the IREDA to extend safe to participate in, able energy capacity by ruptcy tribunal is con- Apache range Govt India has asked state Central Electricity short-term securi- one of the sources 2022, solar and wind power sidering putting Reli- has asked MICHAEL GONSALVES to pare debt lenders to provide over $1 Authority, an arm of the fed- tised loans to the said. “It is meant generators say. ance Naval and PFC, REC & PUNE, NOV. 26 billion to government power eral power ministry. distribution to show our intent Japan’s SoftBank Group Engineering in bank- SANGEETHA G distribution companies to Adding to the problems of firms at preferen- IREDA to extend to secure develop- Corp has plans to invest up ruptcy as lenders led by short-term loans TVS Motor, India’s third CHENNAI, NOV. 26 clear long-standing debts to the power generators, a new tial rates, two ers’ revenues,” the to $100 billion in solar power IDBI Bank have decid- biggest two-wheeler green energy firms that government in Andhra sources in govern- to discoms source said. generation in India. ed not to restructure maker, on Tuesday Sical Logistics, a Coffee Day could hinder further invest- Pradesh—which owes ment and one in Foreign investment Andhra Pradesh, which the company’s debt. introduced BS VI com- Group company, has sought ment, three sources familiar renewable energy firms industry said. is central to India’s accounts for about a 10th of Even after the recent pliant new range of TVS shareholders' permission to with the plan said on more than any other state— Commercial banks are green energy ambitions, India’s renewable energy gains, the company’s Apache RTR 200 4V and sell, dispose of or hive off Tuesday. wants to renegotiate its con- unwilling to lend to these and a slowdown in overseas capacity, owes green energy shares are down 45 per TVS Apache RTR 160 4V multiple business under- The companies owe solar tracts, saying the prices it firms because of their high funding could hurt Prime generators Rs 2,510 crore cent for the year. motorcycles to boost takings to pare debt. It has and wind power generators pays are inflated. outstanding debt. Minister Modi’s commit- ($353 million), over a fourth —Bloomberg sales. also proposed to deleverage including Goldman Sachs- The New Delhi govern- The government wants to ment to increase adoption of of all dues. — Reuters The new bikes also get the firm by raising the limit a new LED headlight. in making investments, This series of TVS extending loans, guarantees Apache RTR 4V motor- or providing securities to cycles were the first roll- persons or corporate bodies out of BS-VI vehicles up to Rs 200 crore. Axis MF’s new scheme to Emirates offers Indian from the stable of TVS In order to pay off the Motor Company. debts and for running the The Apache RTR 160 major businesses of the 4V (drum) has been company in a smooth man- give insurance cover on SIP cashew delicacies to pax launched at Rs 99,950, ner, the board of directors while the RTR 160 4V at their meeting held on FC BUREAU investment plans (SIPs), misses three continuous (disc) has been priced at August 2, 2019 had directed MUMBAI, NOV. 26 the risk cover would start SIP payments. Insurance RITWIK MUKHERJEE with a rare gastronomic Rs 1.03 lakh. The BS6 the management to explore after payment of 12 instal- cover also lapses on partial KOLKATA, NOV. 26 delight. It goes well with Apache RTR 200 4V, the opportunities to Axis Retirement Savings ments and minimum or full redemption/switch- our brand philosophy,” said meanwhile, now costs deleverage the company Fund, a new fund offer tenure of SIP commitment out of units purchased From butter chicken, khaju Emirates officials. Rs 1.24 lakh at pan and its subsidiaries, the launched by Axis Mutual is 3 years at monthly fre- before completion SIP badam diya macher and Significantly, every year, Indian showroom. company said in a notice Fund has a unique propo- quency. investment tenure. pongal to shahi paneer, Emirates serves around 33 “The new 2020 range of sent to its shareholders. sition in form of life insur- Chandresh Kumar The insurance will be murgh korma and many tonne of masala cashews Apache RTR series The company is currently ance cover linked to sys- Nigam, MD & CEO, Axis provided by HDFC Life more—it’s cashew all the around its global network, offers an array of premi- looking to sell its various tematic investment plan Asset Management Com- Insurance Company, Axis way- in different avatars- and 125 tonne mixed nuts of um features enabled by business units as well the (SIP) commitment made pany said, “Axis Retire- MF said while announcing whole, sliced and paste, if which cashew is a key cutting edge technology shareholdings held in the by the investors. ment Savings Fund is our the new fund offer. you are travelling to any ingredient, besides and will transform per- subsidiaries either as such The NFO opens for sub- small step to help investors In the event of the destination from India on almonds, pistachios and formance biking,” or consolidating by pur- scription on November 29 execute the most critical demise of the investor, the an Emirates flight. The macadamia. This is not Meghashyam Dighole, chasing the shares held by and closes on December 13. part of their financial insurance cover will take connect is simple. Every counting the tonnes of Head - (Marketing) any other investors in the The fund offers three plan, as retirement plan- care of unpaid instal- year, India exports over cashews the airline buys to Premium Motorcycles, subsidiaries. investment plans depend- ning is slowly emerging as ments of SIP committed 80,000 tonne of cashew ker- First and Business Class include in its regional and at TVS Motor Company, Such sale shall be for a ing on the age and risk a critical issue for the by the investor. nels, valued at more than passengers. The largest international dishes, said. price based on valuation profile of the investor. working age population A prospective investor $900 million. Nearly 22 per international airlines is Emirates spokesperson and made either through Under ‘Aggressive Plan’ due to lack of formal social who opts for the retire- cent of this revenue comes leaving no stone unturned added. strategic sale or slump sale. equity exposure will range security and changes to ment fund at the age of 18 from cashew exports to the to make Indian cashews While cashews cross the The proceeds would be between 65-80 per cent, traditional family support years may have to opt for a UAE, where Emirates is reach beyond the country’s seven seas mainly by ocean utilised to pay off the debts. under ‘Dynamic Plan’ structures.” SIP of Rs 11,400 approxi- based. In 2017-18, UAE shores to over 150 destina- freight, Emirates Sky- The firm is in the process of where equity exposure “Insurance cover up to mately till the age of 55 imported 21 per cent of tions across 85 countries Cargo, the cargo division of Protesting identifying suitable buyers. will be dynamically man- Rs 50 lakh will be available years for maximum Rs 50 India’s total cashew and territories. At present, the airline, steps in quickly The company has also aged, it will be 65-100 per for resident individuals in lakh insurance cover, an exports and became the Emirates serves nine to transport urgent ship- been exploring opportuni- cent and under the age of 18 years and not official from Axis Mutual largest importer of the nut. Indian cities: Ahmedabad, ments. This year for exam- farmers sow ties to deleverage it and its ‘Conservative Plan’ the more than 51 years for the Fund said. Little wonder therefore Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, ple, SkyCargo transported subsidiaries as per the debt exposure will range subscribers who opt for Somebody trying for a that Emirates is using this Hyderabad, Kochi, Kolkata, more than 50,000 kg of directive of the board of between 40-80 per cent. investment though month- lower insurance cover of popular buttery nut exten- Mumbai, and Thiruvanan- cashews from Kochi to Los PepsiCo seeds directors. During this The fund has lock-in peri- ly SIP for minimum three around Rs10 lakh can opt sively in its international thapuram, with 170 weekly Angeles during the months Ahmedabad, Nov 26: process, the company may od of five years or till the years and the insurance for Rs 10,000 per month SIP and regionally inspired services. From Dubai, April to October. Indian Farmers' rights activists be required to consolidate retirement age depending will commence upon com- for 10 years. As his life cuisine, gracing its sump- Emirates connects cus- cashews on Emirates’ glob- on Tuesday sowed FL- its holdings in some of the on diverse risk profile of pleting 12 successful insurance cover gets acti- tuous dishes, beginning on tomers to 159 global desti- al services of 159 destina- 2027 potato seeds on a subsidiaries or undertak- individuals. monthly SIP instalments,” vated after 12 successful November 23, the World nations in 85 countries and tions has piqued interest, plot of farmland here to ings by acquiring the Axis Retirement Savings according to NFO details instalments, he becomes Cashew Day. The airline territories, spanning six created awareness and protest food and bever- shares of other sharehold- Fund will also offer a com- provided by Axis Mutual eligible for insurance ben- has been specially prepar- continents more opportunities for ages major PepsiCo's ers or joint venture part- plementary insurance Fund. efit of Rs 10.8 lakh calcu- ing masala cashews, Indian “It is actually a story Indian farmers and indus- reassertion of rights ners in those subsidiaries cover equal to the remain- Insurance cover lapses lated by Rs 10,000 monthly style, sourced from Tamil about the meticulous try. The airline recognises over the variety. and undertakings and then ing commitment of their after reaching 55 years of SIP amount into remain- Nadu to get the perfect efforts of an airline to cater its significant role in con- Farmers in Gujarat take appropriate action for long term systematic age or in case investor ing nine years. snack that is neither to the preferences and necting communities and have been claiming that sale of such units. greasy nor sticky for its needs of its passengers fostering trade. under the Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers' Rights (PPVFR) Act, 2001, they can sow the seed without the company's per- The country must clean up or clear out dodgy brokers mission. PepsiCo registered FL- ANDY MUKHERJEE ulator said in its interim kets, including sanctity of keenly followed even outside problem of missing indus- so much client money and 2027 variety in 2016 and order that the broker may contracts and guaranteed A startup leads the pack India, seems to have woken try-wide profitability, some stock be entrusted to so introduced it in Gujarat Any attempt at sweeping out have helped itself to settlement of trades. The up the regulator. traditional brokers are many poorly capitalised bro- for cultivation. The com- a corner of India’s financial investors’ money and secu- authorities are keen that Indian discount broker Zerodha, which India is hardly immune to boosting their proprietary kerages just to make equity pany uses it for produc- system means bringing rities and diverted as much assets, where the underlying takes stock orders online and via a the global trend of sliding trades — or extending lever- investing accessible to the tion of wafers. investors face to face with as $150 million to its real- risk emanates in India, mobile app, has the highest number fees and trading commis- age to customers — by dip- wider public. Even the con- On September 23 this creepy-crawlies. Disagre- estate business. should be traded onshore, of investors trading on its platform sions. Unlike other places, ping into clients’ funds. The duct of bigger intermedi- year, PepsiCo had eable as the task is, it’s also Karvy’s management has and not via derivatives in market pressures haven’t Business Standard esti- aries needs closer supervi- asserted in a letter to necessary. denied the charges and told Singapore, Hong Kong or led to the kind of brutal con- mates it to be a Rs 10,000 sion. Derivative contracts Authority under the More than $200 billion in employees that it can pro- London. 438K solidation that should have crore ($1.4 billion) problem have built-in leverage. When PPVFR Act that as the bad loans tumbled out when vide “necessary However, Kotak 909K taken place. Too many with three dozen brokers brokers lure day traders to "holder of certificate of banks were made to open clarifications” to when a foreign Zerodha small, independent shops under investigation. The these products by offering registration for FL- their attics to the regulatory the regulator. investor enters 510K are still open for business true extent will only become additional leverage for 2027", it has the "rights broom four years ago. That The amounts Column into an option Sharekhan even as their owners try to clear as Sebi presses on with trades they must enter and under the Act to pursue cleanup isn’t over, and involved aren’t trade in India, sell themselves to bigger enforcement. The regulator exit in five minutes, they necessary actions already it’s the stockbro- large enough to cause sys- he could risk facing off 672K 844K intermediaries. Meanwhile, read the riot act in June and aren’t helping foster a against individuals and kers’ turn. Who knows what tem-wide panic. What wor- against a broker who's using HDFC ICICI nearly a million active, said that from September healthy equity culture. companies alike who will emerge? ries market participants, stolen client securities as mostly younger Indian clients’ securities couldn’t Technology and economics infringes its rights". Investors are waiting to however, is that they all margin. If such trades are traders have moved to the be pledged to raise funds by have done their bit to nudge Kapil Shah of the Beej find out after the Securities know the practice that Sebi then annulled, the party Source: National Stock Exchange of India likes of Zerodha, an online brokers even with their the industry toward a much- Adhikar Manch said and Exchange Board of wants to uproot — commin- that won the market bet *Clients who traded at least once in FY2019 broker that charges nothing owners’ permission. delayed consolidation. It’s various organisations India, or Sebi, banned gling clients’ and broker feels cheated. That’s what for shares held for longer Now that Sebi has started time for the regulator to do fighting for farmers' Karvy Stock Broking Ltd, a assets — is rampant. happened to Citigroup Inc whose owner has since been than a day and collects less the cleanup, it must take its its job, regardless of the rights have asked them middleman for nearly Unearthing bad behaviour earlier this year in a deal charged by India’s economic than 30 cents on intraday broom to the dark crevices. unpleasantness that crawls to sow the seeds. — PTI 250,000 clients, from taking is a welcome first step. At involving Allied Financial offences wing. and derivative orders. Fundamentally, the regula- out. —Bloomberg on new customers. The reg- stake is the integrity of mar- Services Pvt Ltd, a broker This case, which has been To mask the underlying tor must ask if it’s safe to let Big blow PAGE In a blow to Pak PM Imran Khan, the country’s top court orders temporary suspension of Army World 11 Chief Gen. 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The United Nations Environment Programme in its ‘WAY BEHIND CLIMATE GOALS’ annual assessment on greenhouse gases said the z It said global emissions need to fall by 7.6 per world will miss its chance to avert climate disaster cent, each year, every year until 2030 to limit without an immediate fall in fossil fuel emissions. global temperature rises to 1.50C. z While the UN insisted the 1.50C goal is still attainable, it acknowledged that this would require an unprecedent- z Three years z The Paris deal committed ed, coordinated upheaval of a global economy that is We plan to have our after 195 coun- nations to limit temperature still fuelled overwhelmingly by oil- and gas-fuelled tries signed rises above pre-industrial lev- growth. own fighter jet ready the Paris treaty els to ‘well below’ 20C, and to 0 on climate a safer 1.5 C if at all possible. z While advice varies between We are failing to in five to six years change, emis- z Taking into account current countries, the theme is clear: curb greenhouse — Tayyip Erdogan sions have completely phase out coal, gas emissions. Unless Turkish President, amid risen on an Paris pledges, the world is on track for a 3.20C temperature significantly pare back oil and gas, we take urgent action dispute with US over average 1.5 per and dramatically build up renew- now and make very cent annually rise, something scientists fear purchase of F-35 jets could tear the society. able energy. significant cuts to over the last global emissions decade, hitting z The UN’s emissions gap z G20 nations were singled out as we're going to miss IN BRIEF a record 55.3 the target of 1.5C. billion tonnes report highlighted specific laggards: although they produce Arrests over online of CO2 gases in ‘opportunities’ for big emit- around 78 per cent of all emis- — INGER ANDERSEN, 2018. ters to push their economies sions, only 15 rich nations have executive director, scam in Indonesia into line with the Paris goals. outlined plans to reach net-zero. UNEP Jakarta: Dozens of Chinese nationals have been arrested in Indonesia over an online scam that bilked victims out of millions of dollars, author- 3 PIOs charged ities said Tuesday. Acting on ‘Trump’s hurried decisions a tip-off from their Chinese counterparts, Indonesian police said they conducted a in $1bn fraud half dozen raids in the capital Jakarta and Malang city, curb Pentagon’s command’ Washington, Nov. 26: The deception alleged arresting 85 Chinese nation- Three Indian-origin ex- to have been commit- als and six Indonesians. The executives of a Chicago- ted by the defendants roundup comes several days based health tech start-up tricked clients into paying after almost 700 Chinese Sacking of Navy chief rakes up debate on the US President’s control have been charged by the nationals were arrested in Washington, Nov. 26: dysfunctionality issue.” federal authorities for for advertising it failed to Malaysia where authorities President Donald Trump’s Last week, Trump defied their alleged roles in a deliver and served to falsely raided a building and busted interventions in US mili- the Pentagon leadership fraud scheme which inflate the value of Outcome a major online investment tary policy, from reversing by rejecting their plans to Trump honours ‘hero dog’ involved falsifying the Health scam operation. It was not a Navy SEAL’s demotion demote and force navy company’s financial per- — BRIAN HAYES immediately clear if the to withdrawal from Syria commando Edward Washington, Nov. 26: US formance to raise nearly busts were related. to a transgender ban, Gallagher out of SEALs President Donald Trump $1 billion in debt and pri- chief of criminal division, increasingly undermine after his conviction for has honoured Conan, the vate equity. Northern District of Illinois Pentagon leadership, having posed for a picture specially trained ‘hero The co-founders of Quake in Albania defense experts said on next to the body of a dog’ who helped US com- Outcome Health, Rishi tives and employees of Tuesday. Islamic State fighter. mandoes in the mission Shah, 33, and Shradha Outcome sold tens of mil- kills at least 14 The firing on Sunday of Trump was drawn to that led to the death of Aggarwal, 34, and former lions of dollars of adver- Thumane: Rescue crews used navy secretary Richard supporting Gallagher ISIS leader Abu Bakr-al executive Ashik Desai, 26, tising inventory that did excavators to search for sur- Spencer, who challenged after Fox News made his Baghdadi. are among six people not exist. vivors trapped in toppled Trump’s intervention in case a conservative Baghdadi, 48, died in accused of fraud “that This allegedly resulted apartment buildings on the SEAL commando’s political cause early this October after the world’s targeted the company’s in inflated financial state- Tuesday after a powerful case, was the latest sign of year. most wanted terrorist was clients, lenders and ments that the former pre-dawn earthquake in the US military’s struggle Navy officials feared that chased by the US special investors,” the US depart- executives used to raise Albania killed at least 14 with Trump’s off-the-cuff, letting off Gallagher, who forces along with military ment of justice said. nearly $1 billion in debt people and injured more highly political micro- avoided conviction on working dogs. He blew up “Outcome’s former execu- and equity financing in than 600. The 6.4 magnitude management. murdering a prisoner in his suicide vest following tives and employees 2016 and 2017, it said in a quake was felt across the Critics called it a sign of Iraq, would signal to other the US raid on his com- allegedly deceived statement. southern Balkans and was “disarray” that could send SEALs that they can get pound in Syria’s Idlib lenders, investors, and “The deception alleged followed by multiple after- dangerous signals to away with crimes. province. their own auditors by to have been committed shocks. In nearby Bosnia, troops on the ground and “This was an outra- The dog, who was falsely representing rev- by the defendants tricked another temblor with a pre- to US allies overseas that geous, irresponsible inter- injured during the mis- US President Donald Trump, First Lady Melania Trump enue for additional prof- clients into paying for liminary magnitude of 5.4 the Pentagon command ference by President sion that killed Baghdadi, with the military dog in Washington, on Tuesday. — AFP it,” said an official. advertising it failed to struck southeast of the capi- structure can be overruled Trump in the military jus- visited the White House “The charges deliver and served to tal and rattled Sarajevo. at any time by Trump, who tice system,” Democratic on Tuesday and met Conan a plaque and called commandoes did not come announced today demon- falsely inflate the value of There were no immediate wields authority as the US senator Jack Reed said. President Trump in his the canine commando so out in the public. strate that lies and decep- Outcome Health,” said reports of casualties and commander-in-chief. “It signals to people that Oval Office. It later brilliant, so smart. “Al Baghdadi is gone, but tion cannot serve as the assistant US attorney only minor damage in that “The senior military they can operate outside appeared before the White Conan was hailed by it was a flawless attack,” basis for any company, Brian Hayes, chief of the earthquake. The quake in leadership is in a really the rule of law and the House press corps in the Trump as a “special” ani- Trump told reporters. including start-ups, to criminal division for the Albania collapsed at least difficult position,” said Geneva Convention.” Rose Garden along with mal who helped execute a Trump said he met with falsely grow revenue for Northern District of three buildings while people Mara Karlin, director of But it was only the latest Trump, the First Lady “flawless attack” on the the soldiers and had given additional capital and pri- Illinois. slept, and rescue crews were strategic studies at the intervention by Trump in Melania and Vice ISIS leader. Conan an award. He said: vate gain,” he said. “These charges demon- working to free people School of Advanced military affairs. President Mike Pence. Trump also met with “The dog is incredible. Shah and Agarwal co- strate that the FBI and its believed trapped. International Studies at Earlier this year, while Introducing the Belgian Special Forces involved in He said both the soldiers founded the health care partners will hold busi- Johns Hopkins University. the Pentagon was assess- Malinois as “probably the the attack in Northern and Conan did a fantastic advertising company and nesses accountable for “In terms of civil-mili- ing bids for a $10 billion world’s most famous dog, Syria that resulted in the job. owned it in 2015 and 2016, their misconduct,” said Indian diaspora in tary relations, what has cloud computing contract, Trump said he had given death of Baghdadi. The — PTI when the alleged fraud Deputy Special Agent in been happening with the Trump weighed in against occurred. Charge Larry L Lapp of Oz gets $3M boost President is not a Amazon, which owns the istration. forced the Pentagon to his US-Mexico border According to the Justice the FBI's Chicago Field Melbourne: The government Democratic issue or a Washington Post, a fre- Trump has interfered in reallocate funds from base wall. Department, from 2011 to Office. of Victoria in Australia on Republican issue, it’s a quent critic of his admin- numerous other ways. He construction projects to — AFP 2017, the former execu- — PTI Tuesday announced an assistance of Aus$3 million for the state’s Indian diaspora to help the country’s largest AGAINST ABUSE 13 FRENCH Indian community renovate US, Israel for justice and revamp its temples and construct centres for cultural SOLDIERS DIE IN activities. Minister for multi- cultural affairs Richard to victims of 26/11 COPTER STRIKE Wynne, while announcing the infrastructure fund on Washington, Nov. 26: upon Pakistan to bring Paris, Nov. 26: A midair Tuesday, said, “We’re deliv- Remembering the victims the perpetrators and facil- collision between two ering on a promise to help of the 2008 Mumbai ter- itators of the heinous helicopters has killed 13 build and upgrade Indian ror attack, the US on 2008 Mumbai terror French soldiers fighting community facilities.” Tuesday said those attack to justice. against Islamic extrem- “Victoria is home to responsible for this “Today we stand by the ists in Mali, French Australia’s largest Indian “heinous” crime must people of India and President Emmanuel community. They have face justice. remember 166 people, Macron said on Tuesday. helped make Victoria one of In one of the deadliest including six Israelis, the Macron expressed the most successfully multi- terror attacks in India’s victims of Mumbai terror deep sadness at the news cultural places in the world,” history, 166 people were attacks that took place 11 of the Monday evening Wynne said. The grant will killed and over 300 years ago”, deputy direc- crash, which took place be made available to the injured when 10 heavily- tor general of Israel’s for- during a combat opera- state’s Indian community to armed terrorists from eign ministry, Gilad tion. In a written state- be used for upgrading tem- Pakistan created mayhem Cohen, said in a tweet. ment, he expressed his ples, community centres and in Mumbai on November “This heinous attack support for the French other community facilities 26, 2008. was carried out by 10 ter- military and stressed and can be used by Indian “On the 11th anniver- rorists belonging to the courage of the non-profit organisations. sary of the Pakistan-based Lashkar- French soldiers fighting #MumbaiTerrorAttacks, e-Taiba,” Cohen added. the persistent Islamic our deepest sympathies to Six Israelis were killed threat in the Sahel AIRPORTS ON the families of the 166 in the 2008 Mumbai terror region. Defense minister innocent victims, includ- attack when the LeT ter- Florence Parly said an ing 6 US citizens. rorists also targeted investigation has been ALERT IN The US honours their Nariman House, popular- opened to determine the memories and is commit- ly called the Chabad exact circumstances of ted to seeing those House, a place frequented the accident. SRI LANKA responsible for these hor- by Jews, especially young The operation in West Colombo: The Sri Lankan rific acts brought to jus- backpackers travelling to and Central Africa government has put airports tice,” acting assistant sec- India immediately after involves 4,500 personnel on alert to stop police detec- retary of state Alice Wells finishing their mandato- and is France’s largest tives leaving without permis- Women demonstrate on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women during a national said in a tweet. ry army service. overseas military mission after a top officer who strike in Bogota, on Tuesday. — AFP Meanwhile, Israel called — PTI sion. — AP had reportedly received death threats fled the island, police said on Tuesday. The alleged threats against inspector Nishantha Silva came after the November 16 election of Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who was also under investigation by him. A spokesman said the names of 704 officers had been sent to immigration authorities. “The move is to ensure that no officer leaves the country without following the proper pro- cedure of obtaining permission for overseas travel,” he said. The directive came after Silva left Sri Lanka on Sunday, reportedly seeking asylum in Switzerland. An inquiry was launched into his departure. Silva’s investigations included high profile killings and corruption involving administration members under former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, brother of the new President. — Agencies Social Work Kim Kardashian teams up with family, PAGE including mother Kris Jenner and sister 12 Kourtney, to help needy this thanksgiving Newsmakers THE ASIAN AGE WEDNESDAY | 27 NOVEMBER 2019 | NEW DELHI Cartoonist Sudhir Dar, known 9-foot high, 800 kg ‘tallest’ Gandhi for his wit, passes away at 87 statue outside India inaugurated Rise of Skywalker script was put on sale Dar’s cartoons appeared in New York Times & Washington Post on eBay after an actor enowned cartoonist subjects like corruption, Sudhir Dar, whose bureaucracy. According to left the script under a R works graced sever- Wikipedia, cartoonist hotel’s bed al newspapers in a career Rajinder Puri also said, spanning 58 years, died on “Dar was never by inclina- — J.J. Abrams Tuesday morning after tion a political cartoonist. Filmmaker suffering a cardiac arrest, He is not a political ani- his family members said. mal.” He was 87 and lived in Born in “His attitude to politics IN BRIEF Gurgaon, a suburb of cap- Allahabad, is somewhat akin to what I ital Delhi, where he shift- Sudhir imagine would have been James Mangold to get ed a few years ago Dar began the attitude of Bertie Born in Allahabad (now his career Wooster. Dar’s forte was CAS filmmaker award Prayagraj), Dar began his with AIR humour. Pure humour of career with All India working the zany kind.” Los Angeles: Ford v. Ferrari Radio, working as an as an Among other feats, he announcer. has also illustrated director James Mangold will announcer receive Cinema Audio While still in the AIR, he diaries for the ministries Society’s filmmaker award at drew a sketch of The of tourism, external the 56th annual CAS Awards Statesman’s editor during two decades. his cartoons appeared in affairs, Jammu & on January 25. According to a radio talk and that led to Dar’s This is It, a pocket the New York Times, Kashmir and drawn calen- The Hollywood Reporter, the editor offering him a cartoon, appeared regu- Washington Post and dars for the World Bank Oscar-winning recording job as a cartoonist in The larly on the front page. Saturday Review, as well for 20 years. mixer Tom Fleischman will Statesman in 1961 where He has also worked in as Mad magazine, which Dar’s cartoons, his wit receive the CAS career he used to draw a pocket The Pioneer, The called him a “Tasty Indian and skill, will be thor- A new statue of Mahatma Gandhi, Father of the Nation outside India. The achievement award. Mangold cartoon titled Out of My Independent and Delhi Nut”. oughly missed by people described as a gift to the UK city of statue marks the 150th anniversary of has directed films like Walk Mind. Times and in 2000, he Though Dhar was a across the country. For his Manchester, was unveiled amid fanfare Gandhi’s birth in 1869. It is also intended the Line, 3:10 to Yuma, The After that, he moved to finally started working as political cartoonist, he readers, he will continue in Manchester on Friday. The 9-foot high, to celebrate Manchester’s “multi-cultural Wolverine, Girl, Interrupted the Hindustan Times to a freelancer. refrained from satirising to live on through his 800 kg bronze statue, created by well- and multi-faith” society. Gandhi had vis- and Logan, which he also work as a political car- He also added another specific politicians, but work, and in their hearts. known Indian artist Ram V. Sutar, marks ited Manchester on his way to see mill wrote. He received an Oscar toonist, from 1967 for over feather to his cap when took digs at more general — Agencies one of the tallest sculptures of the workers in Lancashire in 1931. — PTI nomination for his screenplay for Logan. — PTI Keating and wife Emmy ’19: Nawaz’s McMafia best expecting 2nd child London: Singer Ronan Keating has revealed that he drama series, Lust Stories misses and wife Storm are set to welcome their second child. New York: Nawazuddin The couple is already parent Siddiqui-starrer McMafia to two-year-old son Cooper. has won the best drama ‘’Storm and I are having a series award at the 47th baby! It’s really exciting. She’s International Emmy feeling great,” Keating told Awards. his Magic Radio Breakfast Soon after the win, the Show co-host Harriet Scott. actor took to social media Storm made the announce- Actors Kartik Aryan and to express gratitude for ment on Instagram. “Another Ananya Panday pose on the the win. little Keating on the way,” the set of music reality tv show “It’s a pure delight to be receiving thpe beautiful 38-year-old captioned the to promote upcoming image. The singer and Storm winner trophy at the movie Pati Patni Aur Who in have been married since International Emmy August 2015 and welcomed a Mumbai on Tuesday. — AFP Awards Gala in New York son in April 2017. — PTI Litzy with one of my favourite at the 47th Writer Fabio director James Watkins International Porchat (2nd for our work #McMafia Emmy Awards from right) poses Congratulations @jginor- Australian Kangaroo in New York. with Especial de ton #DavidStraithirn — AP Natal Porta dos @oshricohen killer avoids jail Fundos team at #MerabNindzi & the Sydney: An Australian man, the International Team #McMafia @iem- who deliberately mowed Emmy Awards mys @bbc #bestdra- down at least 20 kangaroos gala in New York maseries,” Nawaz cap- with a truck, avoided jail on on Monday. tioned his photograph Executive producer/director/writer James Watkins Tuesday after pleading guilty — AP with the show’s team. (left), actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui and executive pro- to animal cruelty, local media In 2018, Nawazuddin ducer Dixie Linder pose with the best drama series reported. The dead animals, Siddiqui made his debut award for McMafia during the 47th International including two joeys, were in the international TV Emmy Awards gala in New York on Monday. Radhika found littered over roads in Dead deer found with 7 kg plastic in stomach show titled McMafia. Apte (right) arrives at the gala. — AP the far south-east of the Bangkok: A wild deer was in its waste-choked waters National Park. The bags The 45-year-old actor country in September. found dead after swallow- and autopsies have found contained coffee grounds, played Indian business- ◗ Indian contingent teams of Netflix antholo- Bega District News reported ing 7 kilograms (15 that plastic in the stomach instant noodle packaging, man Dilly Mahmood in gy Lust Stories (best TV that Nathan Sanger, 20, pounds) of plastic bags lining contributed to their garbage bags, towels and McMafia. included the teams movie/mini-series) (best appeared in a local court and other trash in deaths. also underwear, according McMafia, produced by of Netflix anthology actress for Radhika Tuesday, where he admitted Thailand, an official said Now, the scourge of plas- to photos provided by the Cuba Pictures, revolves Lust Stories, Netflix Apte), Netflix show his role in the killing spree, Tuesday, raising the tic waste is affecting national park. around Alex Godman show Sacred Sacred Games (best which lasted an hour and alarm on waste littering Thailand’s animals on The discovery of the (James Norton) a well- drama series), The Remix sparked widespread outrage. the country’s waters and land. deer comes months after a educated hedge-fund Games, The Remix (best non-scripted enter- — AFP forests. Officials said a 10-year- sick baby dugong won manager stuck with his and Witness: India’s tainment) and Witness: The Southeast Asian old deer was found dead in hearts in Thailand as she Russian mafia family. Forbidden Love India’s Forbidden Love country is one of the a national park in Nan fought for recovery, only The show is inspired by (best documentary). Also world’s largest consumers province, around 630 kilo- to pass away from an the 2009 non-fiction book present at the event were of plastic with Thais metres (390 miles) north of infection exacerbated by of the same name by jour- actress was nominated filmmakers Anurag using up to 3,000 single- capital Bangkok. plastic bits lining her nalist Misha Glenny. for the “Best Actress in a Kashyap,Vikramaditya use plastic bags each per An autopsy discovered stomach. The demise of Bollywood actress Drama Series” for her Motwane, Zoya Akhtar, year, whether for wrap- “plastic bags in the stom- Mariam in August was Radhika Apte also role in Netflix’s Lust Dibakar Banerjee, Karan ping street food, takeaway ach, which is one of the widely mourned on social received “nomination Stories. Johar, producer Ronnie coffee or packing gro- causes of his death”, said media, reviving public medal” for the The Indian contingent Screwvala, actors ceries. Kriangsak Thanompun, debate on Thailand’s International Emmy at the International Radhika Apte and Marine animals like tur- director of the protected urgent need to tackle its Awards. The 34-year-old Emmys included the Kubbra Sait. — PTI tles and dugongs have died region in the Khun Sathan plastic addiction. — AFP NEWS NUGGETS WITTROCK JOINS Hunt continues for suspects in Germany jewellery heist LOPEZ TO RECEIVE THE CHAINSMOKERS AFFLECK-STARRER SET TO PRODUCE DEEP WATER Berlin: The police in Germany museum directors announced were Tuesday hunting robbers, that the losses had been less dra- SPOTLIGHT AWARD MUSIC DRAMA L o s who snatched priceless 18th-cen- matic than initially feared. A n g e l e s : tury jewellery from a state muse- “There are more items left over FOR HUSTLERS Los Angeles: The Actor Finn um in Dresden in what local than we thought. It is a good Chainsmokers are set Wittrock media have called the biggest art thing it was dark, because that Los Angeles: Jennifer Lopez to serve as executive has been heist in modern history. meant a lot of the works were will be honoured with the producers on drama roped in to Authorities across eastern overlooked,” said Marion Spotlight Award at the 31st series in development feature in Germany have been put on alert Ackermann, director of annual Palm Springs at Freeform. The erotic thriller Deep after thieves made off with treas- Dresden’s state art collections. International Film Festival. series is titled Demo Water, starring Ben ures from the Green Vault at The thieves launched their According to Variety, the and follows a musician Affleck and Ana de Dresden’s Royal Palace in an brazen raid after having set off a actor-singer will be honoured at 20s, who decides to Armas. The details of astonishing smash-and-grab raid Order of White Eagle breast star Palmette-shaped trinket fire in an electrical panel near for her film Hustlers during leave behind her strug- the role to be played by early Monday morning. the museum in the early hours of the January 2 ceremony. gling indie rock band Wittrock, who recently Police called on witnesses to Monday, plunging nearby streets “Jennifer Lopez is a star in and her family to try starred in Oscar hope- step forward and released images ruler Augustus the Strong and whose hilt was encrusted with into darkness. Despite the power every sense of the word and writing pop songs in ful Judy, a biopic on the of the stolen items, which were which experts say may never be nine large and 770 smaller dia- cut, the suspects were caught on you will experience this in L.A. “At first she is screen legend, are cur- taken from a collection of jew- recovered. monds, and a diamond bow deco- CCTV footage later released by her latest film Hustlers. eager to shed her past, rently unknown, ellery of 18th-century Saxony The images included a sword rated with 662 brilliants. Yet police. — AFP Starting with her show-stop- she soon discovers that reported Deadline. ping entrance, Jennifer best songs tell the deep- Adrian Lyne is direct- brings to life the character of est truths, if only she ing the thriller. Zach Ramona, an exotic dancer, can find the strength to Helm and Sam Scientists record blue whale’s heartbeat who leads a group of dancer tell hers,” the plotline Levinson have penned friends to steal money from read. — PTI the script. — PTI Boston: Scientists have suction feet. “We had no evolved to be bigger, the their clients. “For this full- recorded the heart rate of idea that this would work researchers said. force yet grounded perform- inaugural Woman of the the blue whale for the and we were skeptical The data also suggest ance, deserving of awards BILLIE ELLISH TO GET Decade award. “Billie first time and revealed even when we saw the ini- that some unusual fea- consideration, we are thrilled has disrupted the enter- surprising operating tial data. There were a lot tures of the whale’s heart to present Jennifer Lopez BILLBOARD’S WOMAN tainment industry extremes of the heart of high fives and victory might help it perform at with this year’s Spotlight OF THE YEAR AWARD through her music and that may limit the size of laps around the lab,” said these extremes. Studies Award,” festival chairman social media platforms, the largest animal on the Jeremy Goldbogen, an like this add to our funda- Harold Matzner said in a Los Angeles: Singer leaving an indelible Earth. assistant professor at mental knowledge of statement. Past honourees Billie Eilish will be hon- impact on the global cul- The researchers from Stanford and lead author biology and can also include actors Julia Roberts, oured as Billboard’s 2019 tural zeitgeist. Her abili- the Stanford University of the research paper inform conservation Timothee Chalamet, Amy Woman of the Year on ty to speak to the Gen-Z in the US used four suc- published in the journal efforts, they said. Adams, Jessica Chastain and December 12. population, making tion cups that secured a PNAS. “Animals that are operat- Rooney Mara. Hustlers, According to the young adults feel accept- sensor-packed tag near Analysis of the data ing at physiological directed by Lorene Scafaria, Hollywood Reporter, ed in today’s society has the whale’s left flipper, suggests that a blue extremes can help us Michael Thomas, a federal jail guard responsible for has minted over USD 150 mil- Taylor Swift will also be quickly allowed her to be where it recorded the ani- whale’s heart is already understand biological monitoring Jeffrey Epstein the night he killed himself, lion since its September honoured at Billboard’s at the top of the charts. mal’s heart rate through working at its limit, limits to size,” Goldbogen leaves federal court in New York on Monday. He faces release. event, receiving the — PTI electrodes embedded in which may explain, why said in a statement. charges for falsifying prison records in the hours sur- — PTI the centre of two of the blue whales have never — PTI rounding Epstein's death. — AP

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Bill to regularise illegal In which century did 1science fiction become a major type of writing? colonies introduced in LS ■ 17th ■ 19th SANJAY KAW ing the bill in the House. ■ The government, led The bill will grant 20th NEW DELHI, NOV. 26 by PM Narendra Modi, ownership rights to the AAP leaders observed however, excluded 69 unauthorised colonies ‘Dhoka Diwas’ across the Which of these is not A bill, which seeks to pro- affluent neighbourhoods spread over 175 sq. km national capital last week 2part of the Vedas? vide a legal framework to and those built on forest of the national capital as they held protests grant ownership rights to land from its decision to which is inhabited by against BJP’s “false prom- ■ Aranyakas about 40 lakh people living regularise unauthorised people from lower ise” of regularising unau- ■ Dhammapada in 1,797 identified unau- colonies income groups thorised colonies. ■ Brahmanas thorised colonies in Delhi, Terming the promise of was introduced in the Lok regularising unautho- Which of these literary Sabha on Tuesday. The bill will grant own- larise unauthorised rised colonies an “election 3movements was Union housing and ership rights to the unau- colonies is politically sig- gimmick,” the party lead- concerned with clear, urban affairs minister thorised colonies spread nificant as it will benefit ers visited the unautho- direct expression? Divyangs block a road during a protest against the invalidation of railway Hardeep Singh Puri intro- over 175 sq. km of the millions of poor migrants rised colonies in the examination results near Mandi House in New Delhi on Tuesday. —BUNNY SMITH duced the National national capital which is who hold the key to the national capital and spoke Capital Territory of Delhi inhabited by people from Assembly election due to the residents on the ■ Surrealism (Recognition of Property lower income groups. early next year and had issue. ■ Dadaism Rights of Residents in Among the affluent backed AAP in large num- AAP has already ■ Imagism Unauthorised Colonies) colonies excluded from bers in the 2015 Delhi instructed its legislators JNU panel recommends 50% Bill, 2019, in the House. the regularisation process polls. to put up boards and The government, led by in the bill are Sainik Both the BJP and AAP hoardings thanking chief SHORT TAKES Prime Minister Narendra Farms, Freedom Fighters have been working to woo minister Arvind Kejriwal Modi, however, excluded Enclave, Neb Sarai area, voters and the authorisa- for this public welfare rollback of fees for students 69 affluent neighbour- Chattarpur Enclave, tion of these colonies is a measure. The move is like- Man found hanging hoods and those built on Anant Ram Dairy, Shanti key poll promise. ly to be a game changer AGE CORRESPONDENT ◗ The committee would be charged `500 in forest land from its deci- Kunj, Mahendru Enclave, The AAP had targeted and help AAP retain a from tree in Rohini NEW DELHI, NOV. 26 place of `2,000 per month. sion to regularise unau- and Sultan Apartment. the Central government majority of seats in the 70- recommended The HLC has recom- thorised colonies. The decision to regu- over the delay in introduc- member Delhi Assembly. New Delhi: A man was on A high-level committee 75% reduction in mended that the revised Tuesday found hanging from (HLC) set up by the JNU the utility and hostel manual, as a tree in a park in sector 20 administration has recom- service charges approved by the EC in its of Rohini, police said. Prima mended that concession in 283rd meeting held on CBI to probe facie, it appears to be a case utility and service charges for all eligible BPL November 13, be imple- of suicide, they said. The man be given to all university students, who mented from January 2020. aged, around 30 years, who students and not only to would be charged The statement said that alleged street has not yet been identified those below poverty line. `500 in place of the committee has made yet was found hanging with a The committee submit- significant recommenda- lights scam plastic wire. “Acting on the ted its report to the uni- `2,000 per month tions that would benefit call ERV was dispatched for versity administration on all the students in the uni- the spot. The man who has Monday, a JNU official and service charges in the versity. involving AAP not yet been identified yet statement said. The for- hostels, which is `2,000 In a statement, AGE CORRESPONDENT and he was found hanging mation of the committee per month, including elec- Sachidanand Sinha, NEW DELHI, NOV. 26 with a plastic wire and no had been slammed by the tricity and water charges Moushumi Basu, and external injury marks were JNU Teachers’ of `300 a month. Baviskar Sharad Pralhad The CBI is set to initiate found on his body,” said the Association and JNUSU. The panel has recom- said: “As the three elected a preliminary enquiry senior police official. “Efforts The panel recommenda- mended that `1,000 may be representatives of the (PE) to probe the are being made to identify tions have been approved charged per month in executive council, we alleged irregularities in him. Body has been kept at by the executive council place of `2,000 towards would like to put on the procurement of 2.1 the mortuary. A case under (EC) through circulation, utility and service record that none of us lakh LED street lights relevant sections has been the statement said. Three charges for all the stu- were ever approached by the Aam Aadmi registered at Aman Vihar members of the EC, how- dents, the varsity said. either through mail or Party (AAP) govern- police station. The police ever, said they were never The committee has also phone for approval of the ment in Delhi. teams are also scanning consulted on the panel’s recommended 75 per cent HLC recommendations as Sources said, “A PE is CCTV cameras and further recommendations. reduction in the utility claimed in the press likely to be registered investigation is going on. The committee scruti- and service charges for all release issued by the reg- by the CBI to probe the People participate in Fit India movement to mark Anti-Obesity Day in New Delhi on nised the estimated utility eligible BPL students, who istrar.” allegations in a day or Tuesday. — BIPLAB BANERJEE two.” 20-yr-old man held A delegation of Delhi Ambience Mall’s GM duped BJP leaders led by the for burning waste Slow winds Leader of the BJP shortlists 28 municipal Opposition in the Delhi Noida: A man was arrested ` Assembly, Vijender here on Tuesday for allegedly further dip of 1.85 lakh in cyber fraud Gupta, recently met CBI causing air pollution by burn- Gurgaon, Nov. 26: ◗ director Rishi Kumar councillors for Assembly polls ing waste material, police air quality Ambience Mall’s general Arvind Kapoor Shukla in this regard said. The accused has been manager was duped of was contacted by and demanded an inves- SHASHI BHUSHAN ◗ parameters, the leader- identified as Mohammad `1.85 lakh allegedly by a the accused a few tigation into the alleged NEW DELHI, NOV. 26 The names of ship has shortlisted 28 Qasim, they said. A resident in Delhi-NCR man who posed as a days ago and scam that they claimed the municipal names that scored maxi- of a JJ cluster, Qasim was AGE CORRESPONDENT Paytm employee, police informed him that was led by chief minis- The BJP leadership has councillors were mum points and these will burning waste, including plas- NEW DELHI, NOV. 26 said on Tuesday. Arvind ter Arvind Kejriwal and shortlisted the names of shortlisted on the be forwarded to the tic, in Sector 14 here. He was Kapoor was contacted by his Paytm account it was worth `100 crore. 28 sitting municipal coun- party’s central election arrested by a police team Pollution levels in Delhi- the accused a few days will not work if its The alleged scam is cillors for consideration basis of the points committee for considera- from Sector 20 station, the National Capital Region ago and informed him KYC was not about procurement and of party ticket to contest they scored on tion of the state elec- police said. Qasim had col- increased marginally on that his Paytm account updated soon distribution of LED the upcoming Assembly several parame- tions,” said another party lected the waste and set it on Tuesday, mainly due to will not work if its KYC lights for their installa- elections in the national ters set by the leader. fire, leading to dense smoke slow wind speed, while was not updated soon, tion in dark spots of the capital. Interestingly, these 28 rising in the atmosphere, con- the situation in the next they said. on my phone and within a national capital. The names of the munic- party leadership councillors represent 13 of tributing to air pollution, said 48 hours depends on the “I received a random few seconds, there were of The BJP claimed that ipal councillors were the 70 Assembly seats in station house officer, Sector intensity of rains, offi- call a few days ago from a withdrawals to the tune of the distribution work of shortlisted on the basis of Along with other names, the city. 20 police station, Rajveer cials said. The overall air person who posed himself `1.85 lakh,” he added. the LED lights should the points they scored on these shortlisted names of The leader said, “In Singh Chauhan. He said the quality index (AQI) in the as an employee of Paytm. “Our cyber cell has con- have been done by local several parameters set by councillors will also be some Assembly seats, action was taken in compli- city read 270 at 4 pm on He said the KYC of my ducted a preliminary bodies but the Kejriwal the party leadership. discussed while finalising there is one councillor ance with various orders Tuesday, up from 252 at 4 Paytm account is not investigation and found government got private A party leader aware of the candidates,” he added. and in others there are issued by the Supreme Court, pm on Monday. updated and hence I that the claim of Mr organisations, like the the development told this The Delhi Assembly poll names of two or three the Uttar Pradesh govern- Nehru Nagar was the would not do any transac- Kapoor was true. Delhi electricity distri- newspaper that council- is scheduled early next councillors who were ment and the Central most-polluted area with tion,” Mr Kapoor said. Subsequently, an FIR has bution company BSES, lors would also be consid- year. The names of these shortlisted based on dif- Pollution Control Board to an AQI of 330 and “After completing the been registered against involved in it. ered for the party tickets, 28 sitting councillors are ferent parameters.” curb pollution. Dilshad Garden (163) the procedures of updating an unknown person The BJP also alleged which they were outright- shortlisted on the basis of In the 2008 Assembly — PTI least polluted. KYC, the caller asked me under the IT act. Officials that officers of the ly denied in the 2008 their works on ground, election, BJP had made a Neighbouring Ghaziabad to check whether KYC are trying to locate IP Delhi government were Assembly polls. transparency in their policy not to field any of (300), Greater Noida (268), was updated. I made three address of the accused to of the opinion that the “Right now, based on dif- work, accessibilities, and its sitting councillors. 82 boxes of illicit Gurgaon (186) and Noida transactions of `1, 10 and crack the case,” said work should be given to ferent parameters, the popularity amidst voters In the 2013 Delhi (259) also recorded a mar- 1 to check my OBC saving Preet Pal Singh, assistant municipal corpora- leadership has identified among others. Assembly polls, the party liquor seized ginal dip in air quality. account and two credit commissioner of police tions, but it was denied 28 sitting councillors from “While assessing the gave tickets to a handful of An AQI between 201 cards enclosed with crime, Gurgaon Police. and the government the BJP-ruled three performance of the coun- councillors and about New Delhi: In two separate and 300 is considered Paytm. I received 3 OTPs — PTI opted for illegal means. municipal corporations. cillors based on different half-a-dozen had won. incidents, the Delhi police ‘poor’, 301-400 ‘very poor’ arrested three bootleggers in and 401-500 ‘severe’. the national capital. In the Weather experts said first incident, a PCR unit slow surface winds led to Need Malvinder to confront arrested two bootleggers accumulation of pollu- HC to check if cops still use Urdu and Persian from Samaypur Badli area on tants on Tuesday and the the intervening night of intensity of rains will be New Delhi, Nov. 26: The ◗ The direction words instead of urdu plest language possible. It witnesses: ED tells court Monday and Tuesday. “The the deciding factor on Delhi High Court has and persian terms while should be in the words of accused was identified as Wednesday. called for 100 FIR copies came after police registering FIRs. the person lodging the New Delhi, Nov. 26: The CMD of Religare Rahul (20), a resident of If sufficient rains occur to ascertain whether a told the bench It placed before the FIR. There is no need for ED told the Delhi High Enterprises Ltd (REL), to Samaypur, and Akash (22), a on Wednesday, the pollu- recent police circular to that it had on Nov. bench a list of 383 urdu/ police to show their Court Tuesday it required file by Wednesday morn- resident of Sanjay Colony,” tants will be washed its stations to stop the use 20 issued a circu- persian words which knowledge of urdu and further custodial interro- ing their responses to the said DCP (PCR) Sharat Kumar away, while scanty rains of 383 urdu or persian were not to be used any persian words and these gation of former Fortis ED’s plea. RFL is a group Sinha. “A case under Sections could prove counter-pro- words while registering lar to all of its sta- longer. words should not be used Healthcare promoter firm of REL, which was 33, 38, and 58 of the Delhi ductive, they said. complaints was being tions to use simple The list and circular by them mechanically Malvinder Singh and earlier promoted by Excise Act 2009 was regis- Kuldeep Srivastava, a complied with, saying words instead of was placed before the without knowing their another co-accused to con- Malvinder and his brother tered at the Samaypur Badli senior scientist at the FI`“should be in a simple urdu and persian court in response to its exact meaning,” it added. front them with volumi- Shivinder Singh brothers. police station,” he added. In IMD, said “sufficient language”. terms while regis- direction to the police to The court further said nous documents and sev- The ED said it had secured another incident, a bootleg- rains” in Punjab and A bench of chief justice explain why urdu or per- that since public at large eral witnesses in a money their 9-day custody in two ger was arrested from North Haryana have impacted D.N. Patel and justice C. tering FIRs sian terms are used in a may not be able to under- laundering case related to spells and can avail a max- Delhi’s Burari area. “The the number of farm fires. Hari Shankar said on FIR when the same are stand the urdu or persian alleged misappropriation imum period of 15 days to accused, identified as “Easterly and south- Monday that the police not used by the com- words, “therefore, with of funds at Religare Fivest keep the accused in its Praveen, was carrying 30 easterly winds are blow- ought to stop using urdu a simple language or in plainant. every copy of the FIR, the Ltd (RFL). custody for interrogation. boxes containing 1,484 quar- ing in the region, reduc- and persian words, which the language of the per- The direction had come list is required to be sup- Justice Chander “Two directors of some ters of illicit liquor in his car,” ing the impact of stubble were being “mechanical- son who approached the on a PIL by advocate plied to a person seeking Shekhar heard part argu- companies have been said a senior police official. burning further,” he said. ly” used, while register- police for lodging of Vishalakshi Goel, seek- a copy of the FIR so that ments of counsel for the called for interrogation So whatever pollution is ing FI`as public at large FIR”. ing directions to police he/she can himself/her- Enforcement Directorate for next four days so that THE ANSWE`TO TODAY’S GUIDE TO FORTUNE left, it’s because of local may not be able to under- The direction and obser- not to use urdu and per- self see the translated (ED) and the accused and they can be confronted

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20th 20th ■ ■ rainfall which may court time and again and issued a circular to all of before it, the court said: contents of the FIR”. counsel for Malvinder and Mahajan said. improve AQI. therefore “it should be in its stations to use simple FIR should be in the sim- — PTI Sunil Godhwani, former — PTI Burden PAGE West Indian Chris Gayle feels he becomes a burden for his T20 teams Cricket 14 whenever he flops with the bat THE ASIAN AGE WEDNESDAY | 27 NOVEMBER 2019 | NEW DELHI Sachin is upset with lack MSD to decide of team spirit in Duleep There hasn’t been a Kolkata, Nov. 26: Indian cricket icon Sachin single day over Tendulkar feels BCCI presi- these last five years dent Sourav Ganguly should initiate a revamp of future after IPL the Duleep Trophy as play- when Phillip’s loss ■ ers competing in the event hasn’t been felt. Shastri says IPL-13 will answer a lot of questions seem more focussed on — Kevin Roberts, CA chief pays individual performances tribute to late Phillip Hughes New Delhi, Nov. 26: comprising three T20 he had stated when he than their teams. Former India captain Internationals and an took over as the Board The batting maestro feels Mahendra Singh Dhoni equal number of one- President last month. that team bonding is miss- will take a call on his dayers. One of the biggest ing from the four-day tour- SHORT TAKES future after next year’s National selection names in Indian cricket, nament, which can be rein- Indian Premier League committee chairman Dhoni led India to two vented by bringing in four WI coach in awe of (IPL), a source close to MSK Prasad has already world titles — the 2007 Ranji Trophy semifinalists the star cricketer said made it clear that the World T20 in South along with two teams of on Tuesday, seeking to panel has “moved on” Africa and the 2011 ODI promising U-19 and U-23 India’s pace attack quash the endless specu- and Dhoni is aware of World Cup at home. players. Lucknow: West Indies head lation surrounding his its intent to blood The veteran has played “I want him (Ganguly) to A file photo of India Red who won the 2019 Duleep Trophy. coach Phil Simmons, who is career. youngsters such as 90 Tests, 350 ODIs and 98 consider looking at the impressed with India’s pace Dhoni has been on a Rishabh Pant keeping in T20 Internationals for Duleep Trophy...I feel Annual General Meeting mote talented age-group attack said that the latter sabbatical since India’s mind next year’s T20 India, accumulating Duleep Trophy is one tour- on Sunday, Tendulkar players from Under-19 and makes world cricket exciting. semifinal exit from the World Cup in Australia. over 17,000 runs. He is What I would nament where one is get- wants him to spare some Under-23. “If there’s some- “I can’t say how long ago, but ODI World Cup in Pant, however, hasn’t also considered one of say is rather ting to hear that players are focus on Duleep Trophy. one exceptionally talented when I first came here, you England in July. He has capitalised on the the best wicketkeepers than speculating of possibly more focused on “This is one change I U19 then you can look at would have Madan Lal opening missed the tour of the chances that have come in international cricket their own performances would like to see because those players. Bring them the bowling. Now you have West Indies and the his way and has copped with over 500 dis- who is where, wait and what the next tourna- cricket has always been a and have this tournament guys bowling at 90 miles per home series against criticism for sloppy missals in limit- for the IPL to get ment is and they play team sport. It is all about together.” hour opening and your premier South Africa and work behind the stumps. ed-overs for- accordingly,” Tendulkar team spirit bonding and “So you have got the best fast bowler (Jasprit Bumrah) Bangladesh. Recently, Pant also drew mat. He has over and then said. playing together as a team. of both. You have got four was injured for this Test, so you “If at all MS will take a flak for poor DRS calls, nearly 300 you are in a “For instance if there’s an Not as individuals,” he leading Ranji teams who still have him to come back. It’s call on his future, it will something that the sea- Test dis- position to take IPL auction, or an upcom- said. have been playing togeth- exciting for world cricket,” only be after the IPL. soned Dhoni had aced. missals to his ing T20 tournament or one- Explaining his idea on er,” he added. ESPNCricinfo quoted Simmons You can’t stop specula- Dhoni, on his part, has credit. a call on who day, players end up playing how to revamp the Duleep — PTI as saying. Indian fast bowlers tion as he is such a big not uttered a word on — are the best 17 in that mode and not for Trophy, Tendulkar said to were at their devastating best player. He is in the best his future course of Agencies their team or looking at the get players to compete as a during their recent two-match shape possible fitness- action. in the country. need of the hour,” he said. team, it should be held Test series against Bangladesh. wise and has been train- He was, however, seen —RAVI SHASTRI The Duleep trophy was a right after the Ranji The pace attack, which consists ing hard for the last one training with five-team zonal tournament Trophy finals and among of Ishant Sharma, Mohd. Shami month,” a source said to Jharkhand’s under-23 but now features India the four semifinalists, who and Umesh Yadav, picked 19 PTI. team in Ranchi some Blue, India Green and India play the whole season wickets in the second Test “However the number days back, triggering a Red in a round-robin for- together. match, with one Bangladeshi of competitive games he fresh round of specula- mat. “Top four Ranji teams and batsman being retired hurt. To will play before the IPL tion on a possible come- Ganguly took charge as there should be two more overpower Men in Blue, having will be decided in due back. the BCCI president on teams because there proper fast bowlers and spin- course,” he added. On Pant, Shastri said: October 23 and within a would be a number ners is a must, according to India coach Ravi “I just tell him that you week, he convinced the of teams with tal- Simmons. “Teams know now Shastri said IPL-2020 are young and nobody Bangladesh Cricket Board ented individuals that you have to play properly will answer a lot of expects you to learn to play their first ever but which did not on both sides — you have to questions. “It all everything in one Day/Night Test at Eden qualify. You pick have proper fast bowlers and depends on when he day. You are bound Gardens. these players proper spinners to beat India. starts playing and how to make mistakes, As the former captain from various Fast bowling from anybody is he is playing during the but as long as you gears up for the BCCI’s first teams, also pro- exciting, so it’s great to see IPL. What are the other sit down and that happen.” — Agencies people doing with the thing about ways I feel Duleep Trophy is one tournament wicket-keeping gloves or to rectify those where one is getting to hear that Now, a stand in what is the form of mistakes, you those players as opposed know that is what players are possibly more focused on to Dhoni’s form. The IPL this game will their own performances and what the Gambhir’s name becomes a massive tour- teach you. You New Delhi: Gautam Gambhir nament because that are not going to next tournament is and they play finally saw a stand named after could be the last tourna- be a superstar in accordingly. —SACHIN TENDULKAR him at the Feroz Shah Kotla ment after which more one day. You will here on Tuesday but the felici- or less your 15 is decid- have your ups tation became more of a ed. and your downs. sideshow with the former India “There might be one That is life, but opener lamenting the current player who might be the more you mess in DDCA and even ques- there and thereabouts in work harder, the Kohli closes in on top-ranked Smith, tioning president Rajat Sharma. case of an injury or more the sacri- Administrative chaos has come whatever. But your team fices you make, Mayank makes maiden entry in top-10 back to Delhi cricket again with I would say would be the better you president Sharma pitted against known after the IPL. will become.” Dubai, Nov. 26: India cap- Smith (931) to retain the jumping three places after the apex council. The senior What I would say is BCCI President tain Virat Kohli rode on second spot. scores of 91 and 28 against journalist was appointed presi- rather than speculating Sourav Ganguly his commanding century Agarwal, who struck a New Zealand. dent in July last year, when of who is where, wait for has stated that in the Day/Night Test to double century in the first Bangladesh’s Mushfiqur elections were held for the first the IPL to get over and Dhoni will get the close in on top-ranked Test against Bangladesh Rahim gained four slots to time since 2013. He resigned then you are in a posi- respect that a Steve Smith, while opener in Indore, jumped one reach 26th after scoring a earlier this month but the tion to take a call on who player of his Mayank Agarwal made place to 10th with 700 fighting 74 in the second Ombudsman put his resignation are the best 17 in the stature deserves his maiden entry into the points. He is the fourth innings of the Kolkata on hold and asked him to con- country,” Shastri told and had ruled out top 10 in the ICC Test Indian batsmen in the top Test while Liton Das is up tinue. Gambhir, who played all IANS. an immediate rankings issued on 10 list. Cheteshwar Pujara eight slots to 78th posi- his domestic cricket for Delhi The 38-year-old, who retirement by the Tuesday. (791) and Ajinkya Rahane tion. and was also captain for a long captains Chennai Super celebrated wick- Kohli (928 rating points), (759) remained at fourth India fast bowlers Ishant time, rued the state of affairs in Kings in the IPL, will etkeeper-bats- who hit 136 against and fifth positions respec- Sharma and Umesh Yadav DDCA. He also questioned pres- also skip the limited- man. Bangladesh in the second tively. achieved career-high ident Sharma for the delay in overs home assignment “You know Test in Kolkata, reduced England all-rounder Ben points after victories over naming the North Stand after against the West Indies champions don’t the gap from 25 to three Stokes also reached the Bangladesh. him. — PTI starting December 6 and finish quickly,” MS Dhoni points with Australian top 10 for the first time by — PTI England to rally around Process to find umpires takes time: Taufel New Delhi, Nov. 26: Not a ● Taufel said if he would have liked to single Indian features in another another be an umpire in this the ICC’s Elite Panel of Indian can’t be technology-driven Archer after racial abuse Umpires right now and the era where each mis- celebrated Simon Taufel expected in the take is magnified, Wellington, Nov. 26: support Jof, there is no reported to the police and doesn’t foresee anyone elite panel anytime Taufel said: “Not nec- England players will rally place for racism in the face a life ban if identified making the cut in near soon as the process essarily. It is just the around an “emotional” game... you know what from the venue’s CCTV future either as he feels it nature of the beast, you Jofra Archer after the our team is like, they’ll footage. takes a decade to create one “takes time”. got to keep adapting to paceman was racially rally round him.” Williamson said such world-class official. ● The 53-year-old the changing environ- abused by a spectator in The incident has over- racism was “against S. Ravi, who was India’s ments.” New Zealand, director of shadowed the result of everything that we as representative on the panel Ravi was only the “...if you look at cricket Ashley Giles said the first Test ever played Kiwis are about”. “It’s a since 2015, was removed second Indian to comments made by on Tuesday, as local offi- at Mount Maunganui’s horrific thing. In a coun- earlier this year after offici- enter the 12 mem- Tim Paine cials scoured CCTV Bay Oval, which New try and a setting where it ating in 33 Tests, including (Australia captain) footage to identify the cul- Zealand won by an is very much multi-cul- the Ashes, 48 ODIs and 18 ber ICC elite panel during the recent prit. innings and 65 runs. tural,” he told news web- T20 Internationals. of umpires after S. Ashes series, he “It’s a shame that sort of Black Caps captain Kane site stuff.co.nz. “It’s some- “It does take 10 years to Venkataraghavan. spoke about how thing is still in society,” Williamson described the thing we need to put to get to world-class. I remem- difficult it is for Giles told reporters after taunt as “horrific”, while bed quickly and hope ber when we started our about the structure and captains to get the Archer was subjected to New Zealand Cricket said nothing like that ever hap- programme in India in 2006 system. It is all about creat- reviews right, they racist comments after the culprit would be pens again.” and finished in 2016, it took ing an environment where have greater appre- being dismissed late on Both Williamson and 10 years to get S Ravi into the umpires can grow. ciation for the day five of the opening New Zealand Cricket the elite panel,” the now- “That means you need to umpires now. Test in Mount chief executive David retired Taufel, who was have dedicated resources. Umpiring is not for Maunganui. White apologised to adjudged the world’s no.1 You need to have an everyone. Technology The Barbados-born Archer. White umpire from 2004 to 2008. umpires’ manager, also shows how many bowler tweeted after the ordered extra securi- “So there needs to be a umpires’ coach, umpires’ good decisions they match that it was “a bit ty to ensure there rethink (from the BCCI). I trainer,” the Australian make,” he pointed out. disturbing hearing racial was no repeat at the am not sure if there is any- said. Taufel also stressed on insults today whilst bat- second Test begin- thing wrong necessarily. “We also need to create an the need for having best tling to help save my ning Friday in They need umpires and environment where people umpires in a Test match team”. Hamilton and called Sourav Ganguly (new BCCI feel safe and there is meri- over two neutral umpires, The 24-year-old later told on spectators to boss) perhaps is on the tocracy,” he added. which has been the norm ESPNcricinfo that the “self-police” unac- right path when he talks After his retirement in since 2002. abuser was a solitary New ceptable behaviour. about strengthening 2012, the 48-year-old Taufel “When we have neutral Zealand spectator making “We’ll be increas- domestic cricket and hope- served as ICC’s umpire per- umpires and we don’t care comments “about the ing security around fully umpiring is part of formance and training where they come from and colour of my skin”. the areas where the that programme,” he said. manager until October they make a mistake, so Archer has been a pow- players are,” he Taufel said another 2015. the game comes first. It is erful advocate for diversi- told Newstalk ZB. Indian can’t be expected in Umpires are being scruti- not about whether the ty in cricket and Giles, — AFP the elite panel anytime nised more than ever due to umpire is neutral or not. when asked how the play- soon as the process “takes the increasing use of tech- “It is about whether he is er was faring, replied: time”. nology in the game, mainly doing a good job or not. It “The tweet, it was The 53-year-old Ravi was the Decision Review should be merit-based. obviously emo- only the second Indian to System. Why have we got different tional, it enter the 12-member ICC In the past, Taufel has policies for ODI and Test hurts. elite panel of umpires after spoken about the extreme cricket? Shouldn’t we be “We S. Venkataraghavan. “...it challenges of umpiring, more aligned between the fully is not just about the maintaining that the art two formats?” asked Taufel. Simon Taufel Jofra Archer umpires themselves, it is cannot be perfected. Asked — PTI Not Guilty PAGE In a 30-page written ruling, Madrid’s Audiencia Provincial Court acquits former Liverpool and Games 15 Real Madrid star Xabi Alonso of tax fraud THE ASIAN AGE WEDNESDAY | 27 NOVEMBER 2019 | NEW DELHI

RUSSIAN | DOPING Thunder strike gold WADA wants We are plunging, for Oklahoma rally past Warriors for first away win four-year ban the next four years, Montreal, Nov. 26: A key ● World Anti-Doping into a new phase of Washington, Nov. 26: World Anti-Doping Agency Agency’s Chris Paul hit a 19-footer (WADA) panel has recom- Russia’s doping with 36 seconds left to put mended Russia be barred Compliance Review Oklahoma City ahead and from all sporting competi- Committee called for crisis. Alec Burks missed a con- tion for four years after the sanctions, which — Yury Ganus, Russia’s anti-doping tested shot in the paint accusing Moscow of falsi- would see Russia chief, on WADA’s proposal moments later on the fying laboratory data hand- other end, sending the ed over to investigators, banned from next Thunder to their first road the global anti-doping year’s Tokyo win of the season with a watchdog said on Monday. Olympics, to be SHORT TAKES 100-97 victory over the In a bombshell statement, approved at a Golden State Warriors on WADA’s Compliance Monday night. Review Committee (CRC) meeting in Paris on The Warriors led most of called for the sanctions, December 9. the way before the which would see Russia Thunder scored the final banned from next year’s 13 points. Tokyo Olympics, to be The Russian Anti-Doping Glenn Robinson III approved at a meeting in Agency (RUSADA) had scored 25 points and Ky Paris on December 9. been suspended for nearly Bowman added 24 as The WADA committee three years previously over injury-plagued Golden has also recommended revelations of a vast state- State competed with just Russia be barred from stag- supported doping pro- eight healthy players. The ing or bidding for major gram. Warriors lost their third international sporting However WADA said in straight game and 10th in events for a four-year peri- its statement on Monday 11, committing five of od — potentially placing that the data handed over their 12 turnovers in the Saint Petersburg’s status was beset with problems, final quarter. as one of the venues for the describing it as “neither Meanwhile, Milwaukee’s Euro 2020 football tourna- complete nor fully authen- Giannis Antetokounmpo ment in jeopardy. tic.” Marco van Basten and Los Angeles Lakers If the sanctions are It said hundreds of star LeBron James deliv- approved by WADA’s adverse analytical findings ered exceptional scoring Executive Committee, had been removed while Sport broadcaster efforts as their confer- Russia can appeal the deci- underlying raw data and ence-leading clubs sion to the Court of PDF files had been deleted. suspends Basten stretched NBA win Arbitration for Sport. While some of the deleted streaks to eight games. The proposed punish- findings had taken place in The Hague: Former Dutch for- Greek playmaker ments followed what 2016 or 2017, when the ward Marco van Basten has Antetokounmpo scored 50 WADA investigators Russian doping scandal been suspended from his role points, grabbed 14 described as “an extremely first erupted, other infor- as a television analyst for one rebounds and added six serious” case of non-com- mation had been removed week after using a term associ- assists to rally the Bucks pliance “with several in December 2018 or ated with Nazi rallies. over the visiting Utah Jazz aggravating features.” January of this year — The 55-year-old said “Sieg 122-118. The recommended four- shortly before the data was Heil”, which in German means The reigning NBA Most year ban comes after delivered to WADA. “hail victory”, on the Dutch edi- Valuable Player’s run of WADA investigators exam- WADA also said someone tion of Fox Sports after a 17 double-doubles to start ined data from Russia’s in the Moscow laboratory German coach was interviewed a season is the NBA’s doping-tainted Moscow had planted fabricated by one of the channel’s longest since 1976. laboratory, which was messages in a key database reporters for the De Eretribune Four-time NBA MVP handed over to WADA in — between November 2018 show on Sunday. The ‘hail victo- James scored 33 points January. and January 2019 — in an ry’ phrase became notorious for and passed off 14 assists Full disclosure of the attempt to support a theory its use at Nazi rallies while Anthony Davis con- data from the Moscow lab that doping whistleblower Van Basten apologised later in tributed 19 points and 12 was a key condition of Grigory Rodchenkov had the programme while Fox said rebounds to spark the Russia’s controversial dripped false entries into in a statement on Monday that NBA-leading Lakers in a LeBron James (from left) of Los Angeles Lakers drives past Jakob Poeltl of San Antonio Spurs for a basket during reinstatement by WADA in the system as part of an the comment was “stupid and 114-104 victory at San their NBA game in San Antonio on Monday. Lakers won 114-104. — AP September 2018. extortion plot. — AFP inappropriate” and that it had Antonio. suspended the three-times The Lakers improved to points to Milwaukee in the career, the Cameroonian Hield’s 41 points, lost after remaining gave the Ballon d’Or winner until Dec. 7. an NBA-best 15-2 to pace third quarter and made star missing all 11 of his Bogdanovic missed a 3- Brooklyn Nets a 108-106 The channel added that Van the Western Conference only 26. shots from the floor, four point shot and Cory victory at Cleveland. Basten’s wages for the week with Milwaukee atop the Utah’s Donovan Mitchell from 3-point range, and Joseph missed a last-sec- The Cavaliers had RUSADA CHIEF BRACES would be donated to the Eastern Conference at 14- was driving for a tying three free throws. ond tip-in try. scored nine points in a Netherlands Institute for War 3, the league’s second-best layup in the dying seconds Cameroon forward Miami matched Toronto row to equalise before Documentation. record. but Brook Lopez blocked Siakam and VanVleet and Boston at 12-4 by Dinwiddie hit the last of FOR TOUGH SANCTIONS Van Basten’s comment came James made 13-of-24 the shot to preserve each scored five points in defeating Charlotte 117- his 23 points. Moscow, Nov. 26: Russia’s doping crisis,” Ganus on the same weekend players shots from the floor, Milwaukee’s victory. a game-ending 10-0 run for 100. Butler and Adebayo T.J. Warren scored 26 anti-doping chief said on said, pointing out that the across the top two leagues of including 4-of-7 from 3- Toronto. each had 21 points. points to lead six double- Tuesday that he expected ban would affect Russian point range, and his 12 in RAPTORS FLY PAST Jaylen Brown scored 24 figure scorers for host athletes at the 2020 Dutch football stood still for the PORTLAND PIN the country to be barred the fourth quarter helped PHILADELPHIA points and Jayson Tatum Indiana in a 126-114 win Summer Olympics in first minute of games to protest CHICAGO BULLS from all sporting competi- against racism. the Lakers improve to 7-1 Toronto’s Pascal Siakam added 20 as the Boston over Memphis. tion for four years, after a Tokyo and 2022 Winter The country’s Eredivisie and on the road. had 25 points and seven Celtics edged visiting Carmelo Anthony scored Luke Kennard scored 20 bombshell recommenda- Olympics in Beijing. second-tier First Division also Antetokounmpo scored rebounds and Fred Sacramento 103-102. 25 points to lead the points and seven assists as tion from the World Anti- “The most difficult and displayed the message 32 points in the second VanVleet added 24 points Bogdan Bogdanovic’s 3- Portland Trail Blazers Detroit defeated visiting Doping Agency that tragic thing is that our “Racism? Then we won’t play” half to spark a comeback and eight assists in the pointer gave the Kings a over host Chicago 117-94. Orlando 103-88. shocked Russian athletes. athletes have become on all screens and boards in for the Bucks and chants Raptors’ 101-96 home vic- 102-101 edge but Boston’s The 35-year-old forward Karl-Anthony Towns WADA’s Compliance hostages of the actions of stadiums after Excelsior for- of “M-V-P” from Bucks tory over Philadelphia. Marcus Smart answered hit 10-of-20 from the floor, had 28 points, 13 rebounds Review Committee rec- our sports officials,” he ward Ahmad Mendes Moreira fans. Sixers big man Joel with a layup to create the 4-of-7 from 3-point range. and eight assists to spark ommended the ban on added. was abused by fans on Nov. 17. Utah led 57-48 at half- Embiid was held scoreless final margin. Spencer Dinwiddie’s Minnesota over Atlanta Monday, accusing The proposed sanctions Van Basten was a striker for time but surrendered 42 for the first time in his The Kings, led by Buddy jumper with 1.8 seconds 125-113. — Agencies Moscow of falsifying lab- are the latest chapter of a Ajax and AC Milan and was one oratory data handed over saga which began in 2015, of the stars of the Netherlands to investigators. when an independent team that won the European MODI | BADMINTON Asked if he expected the WADA commission inves- Championship in 1988. recommendation to be tigating allegations of After his playing career, he Andy recalls upheld, RUSADA chief Russian doping said it coached the Netherlands and From cotton fields to Yury Ganus said: “That’s had found evidence of a other teams and was a senior the reality.” vast state-sponsored sys- official at FIFA. Dunblane Rituparna, “We are plunging, for tem stretching back — Agencies the next four years, into a years. — AFP massacre national cross country Tanvi make new phase of Russia’s London, Nov. 26: Former Aurangabad, Nov. 26: A I train daily and have Gayatri said that she world tennis number one 15-year-old girl, who qualified for the tour- trains daily for three main draw Andy Murray reveals for works in the fields, has nament. I work with hours. TAEKWONDO the first time in a new qualified for the national my family in the fields, “I train daily and have Lucknow, Nov. 26: Indian documentary that he suf- cross country champi- where I pick cotton. I qualified for the tourna- shuttlers Tanvi Lad and TEAM MAY fered from breathing onship, to be organised aim to win a medal in ment. I work with my Rituparna Das qualified Russia to compete problems and anxiety fol- by the School Games Punjab. family in the fields, for the women’s singles lowing the Dunblane Federation of India, in where I pick cotton. I main draw of the Syed PLAY IN SAG School massacre. Punjab next month. — GAYATRI aim to win a medal in Modi International The 32-year-old and his For Gayatri Sukhdev SUKHDEV Punjab,” she said. Badminton tournament under neutral flag New Delhi: India’s taekwondo older brother Jamie were Gaikwad, who hails from GAIKWAD The young athlete is here on Tuesday. team may be able to compete pupils at the school in Babulgaon Budruk vil- after qualifying able to practice only for a While Tanvi defeated Montreal, Nov. 26: Russian ● Russians would in the South Asian Games Scotland where on March lage from the district, for the national session as she has to compatriot Prashi Joshi athletes will have a chance operate under a (SAG) in Kathmandu next 13, 1996, Thomas attending school and cross country work with her family. 19-21, 21-18, 21-8 in the to compete at next year’s month after the International Hamilton shot dead 16 picking cotton in the championship “She is the daughter of qualifiers, Rituparna got Olympics, but their flag system similar to Olympic Committee on Tuesday children, aged five and fields is a routine. But a farmer and picks cot- the better of Shikha would not fly in Tokyo if what was done in asked the organisers to allow six, and a teacher in the what drives her is run- Punjab,” her coach and ton to help her family. Gautam 21-10, 21-12. the World Anti-Doping 2018, when 168 its participation in the regional gymnasium. ning. teacher Satish Patil said She trains in just one Tanvi will face Russia’s Agency approves a recom- athletes went to multi-sporting event. Andy Murray, then eight And intense practice on Tuesday. session of three hours Natalia Perminova in the mendation it received The Nepal Olympic years old, had been on his ensured she won a state- “And our school has daily, that too after help- opening round, while Monday. Pyeongchang, South Committee on November 23 way with his classmates level cross-country event received confirmation ing her family with Rituparna will be up The WADA compliance Korea, and had rejected India’s entry in to the gym when held in Satara in western letter from District household work before against Yip Pui Yin of review committee pro- competed under the archery, taekwondo and karate Hamilton — armed with Maharashtra and quali- Sports Office, signed by attending school,” he Hong Kong. posed a four-year ban on banner “Olympic as the national governing bod- four handguns and 700 fied for the national DSO Ashok Giri, in this told. Other women Indian Russia hosting major ies of these sports were either rounds of ammunition — cross country tourna- regard. Gayatri will par- Apart from training at shuttlers to progress to events but stopped short of Athlete from suspended by the world body opened fire. ment. ticipate in training camp Jay Hind School in the main draw of the asking for the blanket ban Russia.” or not recognised by their But the documentary “Gayatri, despite recov- at Balewadi Sports Aurangabad, she runs on women’s singles event are on Russian athletes that is National Olympic Committee. ‘Andy Murray: ering from a knee injury Complex before the com- the roads, for up to 10 young Assamese girl among the possible sanc- But the World Taekwondo Resurfacing’ includes a just recently, won in petition,” Patil said. kilometres at a time to Ashmita Chaliha and tions for the most egre- WADA says, was the plant- (WT), the international body of voice-note that the three- Satara and has qualified According to Patil, the pick up endurane the Shruti Mundada. gious violations. ing of evidence in an the sport, had asked the organ- time Grand Slam champi- for nation cross country tournament will be held coach claimed. Ashmita defeated The WADA executive attempt to implicate the isers to allow the Indian team to on and two-time Olympic competition to be held in from December 11-15. — PTI Aakarshi Kashyap 21-13 committee will rule on the lab’s former director, take part in the South Asian gold medalist sent to film- 21-18, while Shruti beat recommendations Dec- Grigory Rodchenkov. The Games under a special consid- maker Olivia Cappuccini. Ritika Thaker 21-19, 21-13. ember. 9. planted evidence claimed eration. “It is true that “You asked me a while Among the men’s sin- The proposal follows a Rodchenkov, who blew the Taekwondo Federation of India ago why tennis was gles shuttlers to make the lengthy investigation into whistle on the Russian dop- (TFI) was suspended by WT important to me. INDIA’S VOLLEYBALL TEAM SET TO main draw are Rahul lab data handed over by ing plot, did so as part of a due to governance issue. Obviously I had the thing Yadav Chittaboina, Alap Russia in January. Giving scheme to extort money However, the Interim Board that happened at Mishra, Ansal Yadav and the data to WADA was part from athletes. formed by IOA and WT is man- Dunblane. I am sure for LEAVE FOR SOUTH ASIAN GAMES Huang Ping-Hsien of of a deal to lift a suspen- Under the proposal, aging daily operations and all the kids there it would Chennai, Nov. 26: The Indian volley- respectively. Chinese Taipei. — PTI sion of the Russian anti- Russians would operate takes care of selection of ath- be difficult for different ball teams will leave on Wednesday Meanwhile, there were reports of doping agency, and the data under a system similar to letes to participate in all WT reasons. The fact that we for Kathmandu to participate in the the team’s departure being delayed ● Tanvi Lad was supposed to be used to what was done in 2018, promoted or recognised com- knew the guy (Hamilton), South Asian Games amid reports of a owing to various reasons. defeated compatriot expose past cover-ups of when 168 athletes went to petitions,” WT’s Senior Director we went to his kids’ club, delay due to various issues, sources However, a source denied the drug use by Russian ath- Pyeongchang, South Jeongkang Seo had said in a he had been in our car, we in the federation said. reports and the federation is making Prashi Joshi 19-21, letes. Korea, and competed letter to the organisers. had driven and dropped The volleyball competition in the all efforts to ensure the teams leave 21-18, 21-8 in the But in a damning admis- under the banner “In particular, WT has been him off at train stations SAG (formerly South Asian for the Nepal capital on Wednesday. qualifiers, while sion, WADA said the “Olympic Athlete from fully supporting the selection and things. Within 12 Federation Games) gets underway on He alleged there were some delays Rituparna Das got Russians were tampering Russia.” process of the Interim Board for months of that happen- November 27, while the opening cere- with regard to procurement of tickets with the data as late as The system would be in participation in SAG, as athletes ing, our parents got mony is scheduled for December 1. and kits, but said the federation has the better of Shikha January 2019 — days place in Tokyo, at the 2022 have never been suspended divorced. We don’t talk Both the men’s and women’s teams taken steps to sort them out and Gautam 21-10, before they handed over Winter Olympics in from participation in interna- about these things,” says open their campaign on November 28, taken it up with the Indian Olympic 21-12 to make the the data that had originally Beijing and at world cham- tional sport event,” Seo said in Murray in the documen- against Bangladesh and Nepal Association. — PTI main event. been due on Dec. 31, 2018. pionships in a number of a letter. — PTI tary. — AFP Among the alterations, sports. — AFP Ill health PAGE Borussia Dortmund striker Paco Alcacer to miss crunch Champions League clash at his former club Games 16 Barcelona as he has a gastrointestinal infection THE ASIAN AGE WEDNESDAY | 27 NOVEMBER 2019 | NEW DELHI

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Sindhu, Tai Tzu Eyes on Ancelotti Mo Salah looks in Liverpool clash really good. I’m not Milan, Nov. 26: Napoli head for Liverpool on TV worried about it. Wednesday for a Live on Champions League clash — Jurgen Klopp, Liverpool manager which could prove crucial CHAMPIONS LEAGUE says he has no concerns about to coach Carlo Ancelotti’s Zenit vs Lyon Salah’s fitness ahead of their soar with top price future at the troubled from 11.25 pm on Champions League clash with Italian club. Sony ESPN, HD Napoli The three-time Champions League win- Valencia vs Chelsea Satwik top buy among domestic ning coach’s second season from 11.25 pm on Sony SHORT TAKES at the Stadio San Paolo has Ten 2, HD proved to be a complicated players in badminton auction one, after leading them to Barcelona vs Dortmund Vinesh, Sakshi up second in Serie A in his from 1.30 am (Thursday) New Delhi, Nov. 26: ● Sindhu was Benagluru Raptors for first year. on Sony Ten 2 SD & HD for national title World champion P. V. `32 lakh. His team’s fortunes have Jalandhar: World Champion- Sindhu was on Tuesday retained by Among other Indians waned after the high of Slavia Praha vs Inter Milan ships bronze medallist Vinesh retained by Hyderabad Hyderabad Hunters who were retained by opening their Champions from 1.30 am (Thursday) Phogat and Olympic medal Hunters for `77 lakh in for `77 lakh while their respective franchis- League campaign with a 2- on Sony Six SD & HD winner Sakshi Malik will be the the auction for the fifth World No.1 Tai Tzu es are men’s doubles play- 0 win over reigning LOSC vs Ajax star attractions among women season of the Premier Ying was also ers B. Sumeeth Reddy European champions in the 2019 Senior National Badminton League here. (`11 lakh by Chennai Liverpool, with dressing from 1.30 am (Thursday) Wrestling Championships, to be World number one bought for the Superstarz) and Chirag room unrest amid friction on Sony ESPN SD & HD held in Jalandhar from women’s singles player same amount by Shetty (`15.5 lakh by between the players and November 29 to December 1. Tai Tzu Ying of Chinese Bengaluru Raptors. Pune 7 Aces). club management. Genk vs Salzburg Over 500 wrestlers will be Taipei was also bought National badminton Napoli president Aurelio from 1.30 am (Thursday) on Sony Ten 3, HD vying for top honours in the for joint highest amount ● Men’s doubles coach Pullela De Laurentiis ordered the men’s freestyle, greco roman of `77 lakh by defending Gopichand’s daughter team to be confined to a Liverpool vs. Napoli and women events during the champions Bengaluru poster boy Gayatri Gopichand was week-long training camp championship. Raptors after a bidding Satwiksairaj picked up by Chennai earlier this month after a 2- from 1.30 am (Thursday) The field in the women’s com- war with the Pune 7 Aces. Rankireddy was Superstarz for `2 lakh, 1 league defeat to rivals on Ten 1, HD petition includes Vinesh (55 There was intense bid- bought by Chennai while young Assamese Roma saw them slip to sev- kg), Rio Olympics bronze- ding for India’s men’s shuttler Ashmita Chaliha enth in Serie A. Liverpool, four points medallist Sakshi (62 kg), the doubles poster boy, Superstarz for a was bought by her home But as Ancelotti voiced ahead of third-placed promising Divya Kakran (68 Satwiksairaj Rankireddy, whopping `62 lakh team North Eastern his disagreement with the Salzburg with two games kg), Seema Bisla (50 kg), Sarita who won the Thailand while women’s Warriors for `3 lakh. lockdown, the players all to play. More (57 kg) and Navjot Kaur Open in August alongside doubles specialist The PBL season 5 lost returned home after a 1-1 They will reach the last (65 kg). The tournament will Chirag Shetty. The 19- some sheen after London draw against Salzburg 16 if they beat Liverpool or also witness some sizzling rival- year-old eventually went Ashwini Ponnappa Olympics bronze medal- three days later, which if Salzburg do not beat ries. While Kakran is expected to the Chennai surprisingly went list Saina Nehwal and stalled their bid to reach Genk, having failed to to get a tough fight from Pinki Superstarz for a whop- unsold. Kidambi Srikanth pulled the Champions League last advance past the group in the 68kg category. ping `62 lakh. out of the event to focus 16. stages last season. Greco Roman ace Sajan “I am really on international careers. Ex-Juventus coach But they come up against (77kg), along with ace happy to be a part Hyun and Hong Kong’s Seven teams will com- Massimiliano Allegri, a Liverpool side who have freestyle wrestlers Gaurav of the Chennai world No. 24 singles expo- pete in the 21-day event to meanwhile, was seen in the an eight-point advantage Baliyan (74kg), Sumit Malik team. I have many nent Lee Cheuk Yiu were be played in Bengaluru, stands at San Siro on on top of the Premier (125kg), Satywart Kadian friends in Chennai the only other shuttlers Chennai, Hyderabad and Saturday, fuelling specula- League table and whose (97kg) and Rahul Mann (70 and I am looking to cross the `50 lakh Lucknow from January tion he could be waiting in only loss this season came kg), will be among the forward to play mark as the former went 20 to February 9, 2020. the wings. at the San Paolo. stars to watch out for there. Every time to Awadhe Warriors for Bengaluru Raptors and Napoli are still on course To add to their problems among men. — PTI we have played `55 lakh while the latter Awadhe Warriors to qualify for the Napoli will be without cap- here the crowd has was purchased by the exhausted their entire Champions League knock- tain Lorenzo Insigne, who been exceptional North Eastern Warriors purse of `2 crore while out rounds as they are sec- hurt his elbow in Advani in All India and to represent for `50 lakh. Pune 7 Aces saved `23.5 ond in Group E behind Saturday’s match. — AFP them this season Parupalli Kashyap was lakh. Pune and Chennai Billiards semis will surely be some- the next costliest Indian were the only teams to Lucknow: Cue sport ace Pankaj thing that I am shuttler to be sold to reach the maximum Advani on Tuesday stormed looking forward Mumbai Rockets for `43 quota of 11 as 71 players into the semifinal of the All to,” Satwik said. lakh while Lakshya Sen were picked from a pool India Open Billiards However, women’s dou- will turn out for Chennai of 154 players at the end Championship here. bles specialist Ashwini colours after the Season 2 of the auction. Each tie The 23-time World billiards and Ponnappa surprisingly champions purchased will comprise five match- snooker champion comfortably went unsold at the auc- him for `36 lakh. es — two men singles, one beat Akshay Kumar of Uttar tion. Another top Indian women’s singles, one Pradesh 1351-210 in the two- Korea’s world No. 22 player B. Sai Praneeth men’s doubles and one hour knockout tie. doubles ace Ko Sung was also retained by mixed doubles. — PTI The Bangalore cueist scored heavily in the match, thanks to breaks of 296, 199, 177 and 109. The highest break of the tour- THE TEAMS nament so far of 369 remains HYDERABAD HUNTERS: Vladimir MUMBAI ROCKETS: Pia with Advani. In the other half of Ivanov, Sourabh Verma, Daren Liew, Zebadiah, Kim Sa Rang, Parupalli the draw, eight-time World bil- Kiran George, Ruthvika Shivani Gade, Kashyap, Lee Dong Keun, Pranav liards champion Geet Sethi of Siki Reddy, Sean Vendy,Ben Lane, N. Jerry Chopra, Jessica Pugh, Shreyansh Gujarat scored a facile win over Sikki Reddy, P. V. Sindhu. Jaiswal, Shlok Ramachandran, Nalin Patel. While the event is Shriyanshi Pardeshi, Kim Ji Yung. an open billiards tournament, a CHENNAI SUPERSTARZ: Kirsty Gilmour, prelude to the National champi- Manu Attri, Gabrielle Adcock, Sanjana NORTH EASTERN WARRIORS: Michelle onships to be held early next Santosh, Gayatri Gopichand, Satwik- Li, Lee Yong Dae, Kim Ha Na, Ashmita year, the duo participated on sairaj Rankireddy, Tommy Sugiarto, Chaliha, Rutuparna Panda, Lee Cheuk invitation. — PTI P. V. Sindhu and Sankar Muthusamy, Lakshya Sen, K. Yiu, Kaushal Dharmamer, Bodin Isara, (inset) Rankireddy Sathish Kumar, B. Sumeeth Reddy. Krishna Garaga, Tanongsak. Satwiksairaj. BENGALURU RAPTORS: Eom Hye Won, AWADHE WARRIORS: Ko Sung Hun, INDIAN ARCHERS Tai Tzu Ying, Brice Leverdez, Tak Ching Shin Baek Cheol, Christinna Pedersen, Chang, Arun George, Chan Peng Soon, Subankar Dey, Ajay Jayaram, van Ansal Yadav, Medha Shashidharan, B. Sai Sozonov, Tanvi Lad, Wong Win Ki BAG 3 BRONZE Praneeth. Vincent, Beiwen Zhang. AT ASIAN MEET PUNE ACES: Thi Trang Vu, Hendra Setiawan, Tse Ting Suet, Chris Adcock, Kuhoo Garg, Mithun Manjunath, Kazumasa Sakai, Bangkok: Led by Atanu Das, Rituparna Das, Loh Kean Yew, M.R. Arjun, Chirag Shetty. Indian archers made a big statement by bagging three bronze medals on Tuesday, while ensuring at least three sil- Most Expensive Buy: Tai Tzu Ying — Minimum Players per Team: 9 vers at the ongoing Asian PBL-5 AT A GLANCE `77 lakh (Bengaluru Raptors) Maximum Players per Team: 11 Championship here. Most Expensive Indian Buy: Satwik Maximum Number of Foreign Players The Indian archers are compet- Total number of Teams: 7 Total number of Venues: 4 Sairaj Rankireddy — `62 lakh (Chennai per Team: 6 ing in the tournament as neutral (Hyderabad, Lucknow, Bengaluru, Superstarz) Minimum Number of female shuttlers athletes under the World Chennai) Expensive Debut: Ashmita Chaliha `3 per Team: 3 Archery flag due to the suspen- Total number of players in Auction: lakh (North Eastern Warriors) Total Prize Money for the tournament: sion of the national federation 154 Auction purse for each Team: `2 crore `6 crore. Chelsea’s Christian Pulisic (left) and Andreas Christensen (AAI). Das first clinched a at a training session in London on Tuesday, the eve of bronze in the men’s recurve Total number of Players sold: 71 Player cap: `77 lakh. Broadcaster: Star Sports/Hotstar. their Champions League match against Valencia. — AFP individual event in the morning. He beat Jin Hayek Oh of Korea 6-5 in the shoot-off in the bronze medal contest. Das, who had also won a GAYLE TAKES BREAK, bronze in the recurve mixed Carlsen wins big, Anand Chelsea target team competition with Deepika Kumari on Monday, later com- WILL NOT TOUR INDIA pleted a hat-trick of bronze medals by finishing on the Johannesburg, Nov. edition of Big Bash runs out of steam and luck knockout berth podium in the men’s recurve 26: West Indies great League in Australia. team event as well. Chris Gayle has said “I am not going to the Kolkata, Nov. 26: London, Nov. 26: Michy the superhero Batman, he Das teamed up with senior pro no to playing the three Big Bash. I’m not sure Viswanathan Anand ran FINAL STANDINGS Batshuayi can boast an joined Chelsea for around Tarundeep Rai and Jayanta ODIs in India next what cricket will come out of steam and got elimi- impressive goalscoring £33 million ($43 million) Talukdar to beat China 6-2 in month and rather up, I don’t even know nated from the Grand 1. Magnus Calrsen record. But the forward is from French side Marseille the bronze medal tie. wants to focus on his how my name reached Chess tour, getting just one (Norway, 27) finding it tough to con- in 2016 as then-manager Later, the Indian recurve plans for 2020. the BPL (Bangladesh point in the last five games 2. Hikaru Nakamura vince Chelsea boss Frank Antonio Conte’s first sign- women’s team of Deepika, West Indies are league), but I have of the Tata Steel Rapid and (USA, 23) Lampard that he deserves ing, with a reputation as a Laishram Bombayla Devi and scheduled to play been drafted in a team Blitz tournament, which 3-4. Wesley So (USA), Anish Giri a place in his starting line- sharp finisher. (Holland) 18.5 each Ankita Bhakat defeated Japan three T20s and as and I don’t even know concluded here on Tuesday. 5. Ding Liren (China, 18) up. But from the start he has 5-1 to clinch another bronze many ODIs in India how that happened,” Magnus Carlsen finished 6. Ian Nepomniachtchi (Russia, The Belgium internation- been forced to play second medal for the country. The trio starting December 6. the West India bats- the tournament with a 17) al has netted eight goals for fiddle at Stamford Bridge had earlier lost to heavyweights He is also unlikely to man added. whopping 27 points and 7. V. Anand (Indis, 16) club and country this sea- to forwards such as Diego Korea 6-2 in the semifinals. feature in the T20 The 40-year old West broke his own record in the 8-9. P Harikrishna, Vidit Gujrathi son but has not been trust- Costa and Alvaro Morata. Besides the Indian archers also games. “West Indies Indies opener, who Grand chess tour, bettering (Indis, 14.5) ed to start a single game in The 26-year-old has been stormed into the finals of three called me to play ODIs, played for defending his 26.5 points scored at 10. Levon Aronian (Armania, 13). the Premier League or the farmed out on loan to compound events scheduled to but I am not going to champions Jozi Stars Abidjan, Ivory Coast earli- Magnus Carlsen Champions League. Borussia Dortmund, be held on Wednesday. play,” Gayle was quot- in what was a disas- er this year. On Wednesday, Chelsea Valencia and Crystal Top seeds Abhishek Verma, ed as saying by trous MSL campaign The Norwegian was not at scored only 18.5 points — a compatriot Vidit Gujrathi travel to play Valencia, Palace over the past couple Rajat Chauhan and Mohan ESPNcricinfo follow- for him, scored just his best on the final day, but good 8.5 points less than the that probably turned the where Batshuayi spent a of years after being Bharadwaj prevailed over Iran ing his team Jozi 101 runs from six still came up with some champion. tide against Anand. few months on loan from deemed him surplus to 229-221 to set up a gold medal Stars’ defeat in the innings. He also exemplary victories to win Anand, who turns 50 next What happened next was August 2018 to January requirements. clash against second seed MSL in South Africa. lashed out at his crit- by a huge four-point mar- month, missed the Grand simply devastating as 2019, though he only found The departure of Eden Korea in the compound men’s “They (selectors) ics. gin over Hikaru Nakamura Chess tour finale by a Anand, in sight of a victory the net three times during Hazard in June depleted team event. want me to play with “As soon as I don’t of the United States, who whisker. The Indian ace against Giri, let his clock his time in Spain. Chelsea’s forward Jyothi Surekha Vennam, Muskan the youngsters but for perform for two or finished second with 23 was in the thick of things run out of time. A draw Chelsea will be through resources, seemingly open- Kirar and Priya Gurjar matched this year I am going to three games, then points in all. and looked poised to finish with Nakamura followed by to the Champions League ing the door to Batshuayi, their male counterparts and take a break,” he Chris Gayle is the bur- Such was Carlsen’s domi- sixth when five rounds another loss against knockout phase if they win but now he finds himself beat Iran 227-221 to storm into added. den for the team,” he nance that the tied players were remaining and he had Carlsen sealed Anand’s fate but Batshuayi will be lucky behind 22-year-old England compound women’s team final, Gayle will also not said. on third place — Anish Giri scored back-to-back victo- as his excellent campaign to feature from the start. striker Tammy Abraham where they will be up against play in the upcoming — PTI of Holland and Wesley So ries. ended with a heartbreak in Nicknamed ‘Batsman’ in the pecking order. top seed Korea. — PTI of the United States — It was the loss against the end. — PTI due to his name and love of — AFP