Why Is Prajapati Still in up Cabinet

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Bhangar on tenterhooks Governor questions Akhilesh on rape-accused Minister after activist is held KOLKATA Press Trust of India ing Mr. Prajapati’s arrest as Fresh protests erupted in the Lucknow one of the first tasks in case Bhangar area of South 24 The continuance of rape ac- his party formed the govern- Paraganas district following cused Gayatri Prajapati as a ment in the State, Mr. Shah the arrest of one of the on Minister in the Akhilesh Cab- said, “As soon as the BJP Sunday after a local activists inet has raised serious ques- forms the government in involved, who is involved in tions of “constitutional mor- U.P. on March 11, we will the ongoing agitation against ality and dignity,” said Uttar search even in hell and send land acquisition, was arrested Pradesh Governor Ram Naik him to jail.” Mr. Prajapati by the police for setting up a on Sunday, even as the BJP holds the Transport portfo- power distribution unit. attacked the State govern- lio in the Akhilesh Council of NATION Ī PAGE 7 DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD ment for its failure to arrest Ram Naik Ministers. him. Mr. Shah also alleged that Ominous sign: Sheep gather around a shrinking pool on the bed of the Kolleru Lake at Peddayadlagadi in West Godavari district of Mr. Naik made the re- also was impounded. “This the rape-accused Minister Police station set aire Andhra Pradesh. With the onset of summer, a major portion of the lake has dried up. V. RAJU (REPORT ON PAGE 6) marks in a letter he shot off is serious in nature, Prajapati campaigned for the SP for after man dies in custody to Chief Minister Akhilesh being a Cabinet Minister,” he nearly six days, and even ex- ARA Yadav, seeking to know if he pointed out. ercised his voting rights on A 45-year-old man has died “justifies” having the tainted He said it had also come February 27. under mysterious Minister in his Cabinet. to his notice that the CM circumstances in police In Varanasi, BJP’s credibility will see it “A non-bailable warrant himself had asked the Minis- Surrender appeal custody sparking of a protest by locals who partially Day2to has been issued against Pra- ter to surrender but he had “But, the police were not torched Barhara police japati after an FIR was re- not done so till now and was able to do anything. On the station premises which falls through in U.P.: Rajnath PM Modi gistered against him in the absconding. There were ap- other hand, the CM ap- in Bhojpur district. rape case. Serious questions prehensions that he might pealed to Gayatri to sur- NORTH Ī PAGE 2 of constitutional morality have fled to some foreign render. The job of the police DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Omar Rashid No support for Opposition on demonetisation: Minister Varanasi and dignity arise on his re- country, he said. The police is to hold the criminal by the maining in the Cabinet,” the were searching for the Minis- collar and send him behind Prime Minister Narendra Amit Baruah position. The Opposition Governor said in the letter. ter and trying to arrest him, bars,” said Mr. Shah. Delhi budget session Modi on Sunday reaffirmed Vijaita Singh should play an effective the Governor said. “Akhilesh claims that begins today NEW DELHI his connection with role.” Look-out notice BJP president Amit Shah ‘kaam bolta hai’ [actions NEW DELHI Varanasi, as he held an- The absence of credibility Mr. Naik said that according too raised the issue on speak]. But, the reality is The ive-day budget session other well-attended road- loss will take the BJP to an Kerala violence to media reports, a look-out Sunday at an election meet- that U.P. tops in crime of the Delhi Assembly will show in his Lok Sabha con- absolute majority in the Ut- Mr. Singh said he had asked notice was issued against Mr. ing in Ambedkarnagar, against women and here begin on Monday with Lt- stituency a day after he, tar Pradesh Assembly elec- Kerala Chief Minister Pin- Prajapati on the apprehen- where he rued the U.P. gov- ‘karnama bolta hai’ [mis- Governor Anil Baijal’s along with his political options, Union Home Minister arayi Vijayan to put an end sion that he might flee the ernment’s failure to arrest its deeds speak],” he said. address. ponents had converged DELHI METRO Ī PAGE 1 Rajnath Singh told The to the violence between RSS country and his passport rape-accused Minister. List- SEE ALSO Ī PAGE 2 upon the city. DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Hindu in an interview. Rajnath Singh and CPI(M) cadres in the At the end of the road- Mr. Singh said the Opposi- State. show, he said at a public tion had failed to garner sup- statement has been misin- Asked if the government meeting that it was his port from the common terpreted… The Prime Min- had plans to send Central “dream” to develop the people on demonetisation, ister is entirely secular,” Mr. forces to Kerala, he was non- Sikh shot at in Washington most modern facilities in and nobody was questioning Singh said. committal. “Let’s see, if the Varanasi while retaining its the intentions of the govern- Asserting that the Con- State demands [them]. It’s a “soul”. The roadshow ment. gress had lost credibility federal structure with not Third incident in two weeks targeting Indian-Americans began at the police lines The Home Minister among the masses, he much scope to intervene. and passed through the denied that the BJP’s refer- stated, “The Congress once But, we would give full as- Chauka ghat before con- Varghese K George The gunman yelled ‘go on February 22, Indian- ences to cremation grounds used to be a national opposi- sistance to the State govern- Washington cluding at Kashi back to your country’ during American engineer Srinivas and graveyards in U.P. were tion party, not any more. ment in stopping these In the third incident of viol- a brief altercation with Mr. Kuchibhotla was shot dead EDGE Ī 4 PAGES Vidyapeeth. an attempt to capture Hindu For a healthy democracy, kinds of incidents.” ence targeting Indian-Amer- Rai, who was working on his in Olathe, Kansas, and his DELHI METRO Ī 6 PAGES votes. “The Prime Minister’s there should be a strong Op- INTERVIEW Ī PAGE 11 DETAILS ON Ī PAGE 11 icans in two weeks, a white car in his driveway, before friend Alok Madasani was in- man who had his face par- shooting at him, according jured. The Sikh community tially covered shot at 39- to Sikh community leaders and Indian-American Con- SpiceJet light year-old Deep Rai on Friday in the area. gresswoman from Washing- Two Hizb men killed in encounter night in Kent, Washington ton Pramila Jayapal have diverted due State. Hate crime called for investigating the Mr. Rai — an American cit- Indian-American conveni- case as a hate crime. Hate to foul smell One policeman also killed; three soldiers, including Major, injured izen and a Sikh — was hit on ence store owner Harnish crime investigations are pri- his arm and is out of danger, Patel was found murdered ority for the Federal Bureau ress Trust of India Indian officials in Washing- on Thursday night in Lan- of Investigation. Peerzada Ashiq Tral. Hospital sources said New Delhi CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 10 Srinagar ton said. caster, South Carolina, and A city-bound SpiceJet flight over one dozen civilians, in- from Bengaluru was on One policeman and two cluding four hit by pellets, Sunday diverted to Hydera- Hizbul Mujahideen militants were injured in the clashes. bad due to “extremely pun- were killed in a 20-hour-long gent” smell in the cockpit encounter in south Kash- Mysterious blast emanating from the front mir’s Tral area, which began A mysterious blast left three lavatory of the aircraft. at 6 p.m. on Saturday. children injured in north There were 184 passen- Three soldiers, including Kashmir’s Sopore on gers and four infants on a Major, were injured. Sunday. Superintendent of board the Boeing 737 when After a night-long ex- Police (SP), Sopore, the pilot decided to make change of fire, the security Harmeet Singh, said the chil- an unscheduled landing at forces on Sunday used im- dren were injured near a hil- Hyderabad airport. provised explosive devices lock at Pazalpora, Sopore, “Spicejet aircraft, oper- to blow up the house, where Jawans rush to the encounter site in Tral, South Kashmir, on Baramulla district. ating flight SG 192 from the militants were hiding, in Sunday. NISSAR AHMAD Locals said they had Bengaluru to Delhi, had to Nazneenpora village. stepped on some explosives. be diverted to Hyderabad “We killed two militant S.P. Vaid said. alias Usama alias Hamaad. “A forensic science laborat- due very foul smell from commanders in the en- One slain militant was One member of the po- ory team visited the spot. forward lavatory coming counter without any collat- identified as Hizb com- lice’s Special Operations We will try to identify the into the cockpit,” an airline eral damage. We will con- mander Aqib Molvi, a resid- Group (SOG), Manzoor composition of the blast ma- spokesperson said. tinue operations [against ent of Tral’s Hayuna. “An- Ahmad Naik, was also killed terial,” said Mr. Singh. However, the spokesper- militants] but will ensure other was a foreign in the initial assault. The injured children were son did not specify the thatnocivilianishurt,”J&K militant,” said Mr. Vaid. He As the encounter was on, shifted to a Srinagar hospital reason for the foul smell. Director General of Police was identified as Saifullah clashes erupted in parts of for specialised treatment.

Dinakar Peri execute the project. expected to cost about NEW DELHI Mr. Naidu has stated that ₹1,000 crore and is On its last day in service on his government intends to estimated to entail an annual March 6 after three decades take forward the legacy of maintenance of ₹150 crore. of sailing, the fate of INS INS Viraat by making it a INS Viraat, weighing Viraat, the oldest aircraft world-class project on the 27,800 tonnes, is the world’s carrier of the Indian Navy, lines of other global projects oldest aircraft carrier in remains unclear as to like USS Alabama, USS service. whether it will be converted Constellation, and HMS It had served in the British into a luxury hotel or will it Belfast. Navy as HMS Hermes for 25 head to the scrapyard to be “In view of above, your years from November 1959 to broken up. intervention is requested in April 1984 and after The Defence Ministry is Wait continues: INS Viraat, weighing 27,800 tonnes, is the giving an in-principle refurbishment, was yet to take a decision on the world’s oldest aircraft carrier in service. VIVEK BENDRE approval for setting up an commissioned into the proposal from the SPV with a 50:50 sharing Indian Navy in May 1987. Government of Andhra the Defence Ministry last Minister N. Chandrababu between the Government of The Navy had maintained Pradesh (A.P.) to convert it year to all coastal States to Naidu. India and the Government of Vikrant, India’s first aircraft into an entertainment hub in put forward proposals on Andhra Pradesh so as to take carrier, at Mumbai for 17 Visakhapatnam through a INS Viraat, A.P. has proposed World-class project forward the prestigious and years as various proposals to joint venture with the to convert it into an offshore In a follow up to this, Mr. unique project at convert it into a museum Government of India. The luxury hotel and build a Naidu, in February-end, had Visakhapatnam, which is fast went back and forth Navy is keen on an early Marina along with an written to Urban becoming a prominent unsuccessfully before the decision to avoid Viraat entertainment zone around Development Minister M. destination for foreign ship was eventually sent to meeting the same fate as its it. The proposal for joint Venkaiah Naidu and Tourism tourists,” Mr. Naidu the scrapyard in 2014. The predecessor Vikrant, which development has already Minister Mahesh Sharma for requested the Union Navy has also stated that it eventually went to the been communicated to “in-principle” approval to set Ministers in the letters dated cannot keep the Viraat scrapyard. Defence Minister Manohar up the Special Purpose February 27. indefinitely as it would block Responding to a call from Parrikar by A.P. Chief Vehicle (SPV) which would The overall project is space in the dockyard.

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DELHI Timings Monday, March 06 RISE 06:41 SET 18:24 Police station set ablaze RISE 12:28 SET 01:25 Sack “favourite” Minister if Tuesday, March 07 RISE 06:40 SET 18:25 after man dies in custody RISE 13:25 SET 02:24 Wednesday, March 08 you cannot arrest him: BJP RISE 06:39 SET 18:25 Victim died after he jumped of the vehicle: cops RISE 14:23 SET 03:20 Will get him arrested after the poll results, says Uttar Pradesh BJP chief Press Trust of India Ara Press Trust of India “If Chief Minister Akhilesh senior Minister was impoun- A 45-year-old man has died Lucknow ji cannot ensure the arrest of ded and a look-out notice under mysterious circum- BJP Uttar Pradesh chief Ke- his favourite minister Gayatri was issued against him, stances in police custody shav Prasad Maurya on Prasad Prajapati, then he hours after the Prime Minis- sparking off a protest by loc- Sunday attacked Chief Minis- cthe UP BJP chief said in a ter accused the SP-Congress als who partially torched the ter Akhilesh Yadav, saying tweet. combine of chanting Barhara police station that if he cannot get his “fa- Referring to March 11, the “Gayatri Prajapati Mantra”. premises which falls in Bho- vourite” Minister Gayatri date when the Uttar Pradesh jpur district. Prasad Prajapati arrested in Assembly election results Rape case Ram Sajjan Satva, a resid- the rape case, he should at would be declared, Mr. On the directives of the Su- ent of Barhara village, died least sack him. Maurya said the BJP would preme Court, the UP Police on Saturday after he was al- Mr. Maurya, whose com- put Mr. Prajapati behind has filed an FIR against Mr. legedly beaten up by police- ments come a day after bars after that. Prajapati, a senior SP leader, men following which a Prime Minister Narendra Keshav Prasad Maurya “We would arrest him in connection with separate crowd gathered outside the Modi accused the SP-Con- (Prajapati) after March 11,” cases of gang-rape and at- police station and pelted A police jeep which was set on ire allegedly by a mob on the gress combine of chanting get the tainted Prajapati ar- Mr. Maurya said. tempt to rape another wo- stones, injuring several po- Barhara police station campus in Ara district, Bihar, on Sunday. “Gayatri Prajapati Mantra”, rested after results of the On Saturday, the passport man and her minor daugh- lice personnel, District Ma- PTI also said that the BJP would polls are declared. of Mr. Prajapati, who is a ter. gistrate Birendra Prasad Ya- the situation under control. home drunk and tried to ab- dav said. SDO Navdeep Shukla and use her. “The protesters also SDPO Sanjay Kumar along Satva’s kins have alleged entered the police station with a team have gone to the that he was killed in police Youth killed Centre launches survey on Gangetic dolphins and torched a portion of it,” village to control the situ- custody. However, the police Mr. Yadav said. ation, he said. have claimed that the victim in tiger Several vehicles parked Meanwhile, a medical re- died after he jumped off the Counting in Allahabad to Varanasi stretch is expected to be launched this week outside the police station, port has said that Satva died vehicle when he was taken attack furniture and some docu- of severe head injuries. to a government hospital for was launched on March 1 shil in Uttarakhand. the conditions there and the Press Trust of India ments were set afire by the The police had on Sat- medical examination. New Delhi from Narora in Uttar Pradesh The authority is conduct- level of threat the long- Press Trust of India angry mob, the DM said, urday picked up Satva after An investigation into the The Centre has launched the to Bijnor (covering distance ing the survey through Wild- snouted species is facing in a Pilibhit (UP) adding fire tenders were his daughter lodged a com- matter has been launched, first ever across-the-river of nearly 165 km) to establish life Institute of India (WII),, particular belt,” he added. A youth was killed on pressed into service to bring plaint that he used to come the DM said. survey in the Ganga to de- the number of the national under the Namami Gange Apart from number of dol- Sunday after a tiger at- termine the population of aquatic animal. programme. phins, number of ghariyals tacked him in Rampura vil- aquatic life, including that of Counting in the Allahabad A specialist in the area, and turtles in the river will CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC lage in Nuria area here, the the endangered Gangetic to Varanasi stretch (close to Sandeep Behera, noted with also be ascertained after police said. doplhin. 250 km in length) is expec- concern the disappearing of summer sets in fully , NMCG Brahmswarup (18) was Run for equality The survey will create a ted to be launched this Gangetic dolphins, one of has said. going to his cane field with baseline scientific data for week. the four freshwater dolphins “All the surveys carried his brother when the tiger the government to take suit- in the world, from the river out in Ganga previously were attacked him. After hearing able measures to improve Fish species stretch in Narora to Kanpur conducted in bits and pieces his screams, locals rushed quality of the river water, the A study to figure out fish spe- due to pollution. or were rapid. This is for the to his rescue but he had National Mission for Clean cies composition in the 2525- “The study will, therefore, first time a comprehensive died by then. The body has Ganga (NMCG) has said. km-long river has been also find out stretches where dol- and scientific study is being been send for post- The first leg of the census been kick started from Har- phin is habitating, what are conducted,” Mr. Behera said. mortem, they added. 200 villagers fall ill due to food poisoning They had consumed stale food in Dholpur district

Press Trust Of India (Sunday),” Block CMO Dr and vomiting, he added. Dholpur Mahesh Verma said. They were treated by a Around 200 people were team of doctors in Nasilpur taken ill after they allegedly Feast organised and most of them were sent consumed stale food in Nas- He said that a feast was or- home after giving primary ilpur village of Dholpur dis- ganised on March 1 and the medical aid. However, trict, but most of them were food was distributed among nearly two dozen people sent home after medical aid. the villagers for next couple who complained of some “Owing to critical condi- of days. complications were today tion, nearly two dozen were After consuming stale referred to Dholpur govern- referred to Dholpur govern- food, nearly 200 people ment hospital for further Creating awareness:: Youth taking part in a mini marathon, “Samanta Run for Equality”, ment hospital today complained of loose motion treatment, Dr Verma said. organised to create awareness about disability in Bhopal on Sunday. A. M. FARUQUI. Pages of holy book ‘KMP e-way to be over found torn in Punjab by June’ Man arrested, case registered Press Trust of India Press Trust of India Gurugram Derabassi (Punjab) police reached the spot to investigate the matter. The Haryana government’s Pages of a holy Sikh book Heavy police force was de- much awaited Kundli- were on Sunday allegedly ployed to prevent any unto- Manesar-Palwal (KMP) Ex- found torn in a gurdwara at ward incident. pressway project is likely to Devi Nagar village here, get completed by mid June, about 25 km from Chand- SP’s claim after missing several dead- igarh, leading to tension in “In our probe, we found lines in the past. the area. that a local, Surjit Singh According to officials of A 28-year-old villager has alias Polla, was involved in the Haryana State Indus- been arrested and a case un- this incident,” Derabassi SP trial and Infrastructure De- der relevant sections, in- Jaskaran Singh said here. velopment Corporation cluding 295 A (deliberate The SP said the accused Ltd (HSIIDC), about 70 per and malicious act, intended was upset after the death of cent of the civil work on to outrage religious feelings) his sister three months ago the 83-km stretch between registered against him, the and was also undergoing Manesar and Kundli has police said. medical treatment. been completed and the ‘Granthi’ Prem Singh Notably, several incidents remaining construction is found the pages of the reli- of alleged desecration have expected to be done by gious book torn in the taken place in different mid-June. morning when he went to parts of Punjab. This was The process of layering the gurdwara to pay obeis- one of the major issues clay one after another fol- ance, the police said. raised by the AAP and the lowed by concretisation is Congress in their campaigns currently under way and Police deployed ahead of the 2017 Punjab As- construction of bridges is After he raised an alarm, the sembly elections. going on simultaneously.

Ravidas’ teachings to be part of MP school syllabus ‘Teachings relevant for every community’ Press Trust of India Bhopal

Lessons based on the life “Sant Ravidas’ teachings and teachings of Sant Ravi- were relevant for every das, a Dalit-poet saint from community. He was a har- the Bhakti movement era, binger of social change. His will be part of school cur- life is an example to follow riculum in Madhya Pradesh. for all of us. The Govern- This was announced by ment will include the les- Chief Minister Shivraj Singh sons based on his life in Chouhan while addressing a school curriculum,” he said. gathering, ‘Ravidas Mahkumbh’, on Saturday at SC schemes Sagar, a divisional A provision of ₹16,381 crore headquarters about 190km has been made in FY 2017-18 from the State capital. Budget for schemes and An amount of ₹50,000 programmes targeted at crore will be spent in the SCs. ‘Ravidas Mahakumbh’ next three years for the wel- was the first such event or- fare of Scheduled Castes ganised on the poet-saint by (SCs) in the State, he said. the MP Government.

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Odisha continues to implement these using its own resources: Chief Minister Staff Reporter stances Act, 1985. the incident. BHUBANESWAR When Mr. Mohanty re- The investigation found Special Correspondent DATRI gets Global NGO An Indian Police Service of- portedly said his hands were that Mr. Nayak had indeed BHUBANESWAR ficer in Odisha was let off full and he might not be able been rude and arrogant in Excellence Award As rich tributes were paid to with a warning after he was to give justice to the investig- his official dealings towards KOLKATA Biju Patnaik on his 101st found hurling abusive words ation, it invited wrath of the the inspector. The DATRI, the largest unrelated blood stem cell birth anniversary of Sunday, at his subordinate officer. IPS officer. donors registry in India, has Odisha Chief Minister Satyajit Nayak, a 2008- Sources said apart from ‘Unbecoming of officer’ received the Global NGO Naveen Patnaik criticised the batch IPS officer, had re- hurling derogatory remarks, Construing action of IPS of- Excellence Award under the Narendra Modi government cently taken over as Superin- Mr. Nayak allegedly threw a ficer as misconduct, Home Best Healthcare NGO at the Centre for stopping tendent of Police of Special paper clip injuring the in- Department of Odisha said, category. The award was many welfare programmes Task Force under the Crime spector below his eyes. “such conduct is unbecom- presented at the 6th World ignoring the interests of the Branch of the State Police ing on part of the officer and Corporate Social people living in tribal and here. Official complaint recurrence of such beha- Responsibility Day in Mumbai backward regions of the Inspector K. C. Mohanty, Aggrieved over the ‘insult’, viour would invite major on February 18. The DATRI, State. just a few months away from the inspector had made an penalty proceedings”. was founded in 2009 by The State government, retirement, was asked to in- official complaint. This is a rare occasion in Raghu Rajagopal. PTI however, continues to imple- quire into seizure of can- Subsequently, Arun Odisha police when an IPS is ment those schemes using nabis in Kandhamal district Bothra, Inspector General of rebuked in strong words for its own resources to safe- under the Narcotic Drugs Crime Branch of State Po- abusing a subordinate Pharmacist arrested for guard the interest of the and Psychotropic Sub- lice, conducted a probe into officer. sodomising youth people, and would continue BERHAMPUR (ODISHA) to do so, said Mr. Patnaik A pharmacist in a Community said while addressing a gath- Health Centre (CHC) at ering at the Biju Janata Dal Belagaon in Ganjam district Seven held in connection with was arrested for allegedly headquarters here. sodomising a youth, police said. The incident took place Progress in many sectors murder of panchayat candidate when the 23-year-old had Whether one admits or not Grand show: Biju Yuva Janata Dal members take out a motorcycle rally to mark the 101th birth gone the CHC to get death due to political reasons, but anniversary of Biju Patnaik in Bhubaneswar on Sunday. PTI certificate of his grandmother the State has achieved signi- A total of 31 people arrested so far in the case: police on Friday, said Inspector-in- ficant progress in various portunities and increase in Observing that BJD Patnaik birth centenary cel- sarpanch candidate in ary 22 night. They said some Charge of Hinjili police sectors since the BJD started food production and doesn’t believe in slogans, ebrations. He also flagged off Press Trust of India Bramhanachhai panchayat, more persons would also be station, Prasant Kumar Sahoo. ruling the State in 2000, said people's income, said Mr. but in service, the Chief Min- a mini-marathon in Berhampur (Odisha) The accused allegedly applied Mr. Patnaik. “There is a huge Patnaik. ister called upon his party Bhubaneswar to mark the said Inspector In-Charge of arrested soon. some chemical before difference between Odisha Stating that the BJD has re- workers to continue on the occasion. Seven persons were arrested Hinjli police station Prasant Pradhan succumbed to committing the act in the of 2000 and today’s Odisha,” mained No. 1 in the recently path shown by Biju Patnaik The Chief Minister also on Sunday for their alleged Kumar Sahoo. injures sustained in group store room at the CHC, police he said. held panchayat elections to serve Odisha. highlighted his government’s involvement in the murder Bramhanachhai pan- clash in the village between said. He was arrested under Besides faring better than and will remain in the same achievements at a function of a sarpanch candidate in chayat is in Sheragada block the supporters of two rival section 377 (committing the national average in infant position in future, Mr. Pat- Birth centenary organised to mark the celeb- Ganjam district on the eve of under Hinjili constituency, groups on the eve of the unnatural sex). Medical the panchayat elections from where Chief Minister panchayat elections. Eight examination of both was mortality rate, Odisha has naik urged the gathering of Mr. Patnaik also attended a ration of the Panchayati Raj also seen infrastructure de- party leaders and workers to function organised at port Day which is observed on recently. Naveen Patnaik was elected others had also sustained in- conducted and the reports Two prime accused, to the Assembly. jured in the clash, the police are awaited, he said. PTI velopment, investment flow, stay in touch with the town of Paradip to mark the the occasion Biju Patnaik’s growth in employment op- people. closing of the year-long Biju birth anniversary every year. Mantu Khandala and With the arrest of seven said. Satyaban Prusty, sarpanch persons, a total of 31 people State Election Commis- and samiti member candid- have been arrested so far in sion had postponed all the Fake currency notes ates respectively, and their the case, he said. elections of the three-tier five supporters were arres- Earlier police had arres- panchayats in Bramhanach- seized, man arrested BJP plans stir against Minister’s remarks ted for the murder of Bulu ted 24 people in connection hai panchayat following the MALDA (WB) Pradhan (35), also a with the incident of Febru- incident. A man was arrested after fake currency notes with a face Pradip Maharathy had said that a farmer committed suicide due to family issues value of ₹92,000 were seized from his possession here. Staff Reporter 8267 bore-wells while the ca- Assembly on the issue on was nothing new in the state- Acting on a tip-off the police BHUBANESWAR pacity of the Odisha Lift Ir- Saturday, Mr. Maharathy had ment. When the government last evening arrested rigation Corporation for in- said, “as per report received did not find crop failure to Mukuleswar Mian (50) from The Bharatiya Janata Party stalling bore-wells is only from the Bargarh District be the reason in none of over the Rathbari area of the town. on Sunday announced to 300 per year,” alleged Shivaji Collector, the farmer had 100 farmer suicides reported Mian was carrying fake notes launch a State-wide agitation Mohanty, BJP farmers’ wing committed suicide not due in 2015-16, it is futile to ex- of the face value of ₹92,000. taking strong exception to president. to crop failure or loan bur- pect it making a factual state- The notes were of the the statement of Odisha Agri- den. Squabble with his wife ment this time,” said Linga- denomination of ₹2000, culture Minister Pradip Ma- Functional bore-wells could have been the reason.” raj, prominent farmer Inspector-in-Charge of harathy, who said a farmer Mr. Mohanty said most of Bagarti’s family members leader. English Bazar Police Station had committed suicide in the installed bore-wells were told reporters that no gov- Purnendu Kundu said. PTI Bargarh district due to fam- yet to be charged while per- ernment official visited their Number of suicides ily issues, not crop failure. formance of functional bore- house to inquire about sui- Highest number of farmer The BJP’s farmers wing wells had dipped due to low cide. “It sounds strange as to suicides was reported from 400 acre of infected would burn effigies of Mr. voltage and frequent power how the government arrived Bargarh district in 2015. Sub- wheat burnt Maharathy at all sub-divi- outage. at any conclusion when sequently, PM Narendra KRISHNAGAR (WB) sional headquarters on Hadu Bagarti, 55, had nobody talked to us for re- Modi, Congress vice-presid- Standing wheat of about 400 Tuesday. committed suicide by con- cording our statement,” they ent Rahul Gandhi and Chief hectare was being cut and “The Odisha government suming pesticide in Kendpali alleged. Minister Naveen Patnaik had burnt in two blocks of Nadia is responsible for the farm- village in Bargarh district on The Minister’s statement visited the district announ- district after a suspected er’s suicide. Farmers in Bar- February 26. had also not gone down well cing to take steps for farm fungal infection affected the garh had given advance for Making a statement in the with farmer leaders. “There sector development. crop, a senior district agriculture official said on Sunday. The infected plants in Tehatta and Chapra areas Maoist surrenders were being destroyed to Staff Reporter check the disease from Sunday, Waga reached the BERHAMPUR spreading, following the district headquarter to sur- advice of a team of experts A hardcore Maoist, Waga render before SP from the Union Agriculture Kawasi (35) alias Raju, in- Mitrabhanu Mohapatra. Ministry that visited the fields volved in at least nine At least 11 cases of viol- on Thursday. The experts also murders, surrendered be- ence are pending against advised the farmers to spray medicines on less affected fore Malkangiri Superin- him, said the SP. fields, the official said adding tendent of Police in Odisha Waga joined the Naxalite that the affected farmers on Sunday. organisation in 2004 and would get a compensation of The Odisha government has been an active member ₹50,375 per hectare. PTI had declared reward of ₹1 of the Kalimela Area Com- lakh for his capture. On mittee. Endangered barn owl rescued

Press Trust of India Kendrapara (Odisha) The Bhitarkanika National Park officials have rescued an endangered barn owl, a scheduled animal under the Wildlife Act, from a place of worship at a village in Odisha’s Kendrapara district. Forest personnel swung into action after receiving a report that superstitious local residents of Balipapala village within the limits of Mahakalpada police station had held the owl captive in the temple precincts. “The residents thought the bird was sacred and brought luck and prosper- ity for the village. Devotees had also begun offering puja to the bird. We rescued the bird from captiv- ity yesterday. Later it was released in the nearby forest area after veterinary surgeons found it in per- fect health,” Mahakalpada Forest Range Officer Bijoy Parida said. He said the barn, owl which had whitish patches over its body, was a protected species under schedule 3 of the Wildlife (Protec- tion) Act, 1972. CM YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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Indiscriminate digging of farm ponds has accelerated groundwater extraction Python rescued at Shoumojit Banerjee farm ponds is that they ex- Arambol beach Pune pose the groundwater to PANAJI The Maharashtra govern- losses through evaporation, A six-foot-long python was rescued by Drishti Lifeguards ment’s flagship Jalyukt something that may not beat Arambol beach in North Shivar Yojana has been come immediately apparent. Goa on Sunday. The python touted as a drought-proofing Ponds for all was spotted behind the scheme, but a field study lifeguard tower on Arambol conducted by South Asia According to data, around beach by a tourist who Network on Dams, Rivers 13,950 ponds were dug alerted the lifeguards. The and People (SANDRP) gives a between 2014 and 2016 un- snake was later handed over different picture. der the NHM, the JSY and to a local Forest Guard. The organisation carried the Rashtriya Krishi Vikas out the study at Hiwargaon- Yojana, while nearly 24,700 Pawasa, a backwater village more were under construc- Moderate intensity quake with a population of 1,500, tion under the Mahatma hits Kutch in Ahmadnagar district’s Gandhi National Rural Em- AHMEDABAD Sangamner Taluk. The re- ployment Guarantee Scheme An earthquake of magnitude search presents a microcos- Water woes: SANDRP says farm ponds at Hiwargaon village (MGNREGS) in 2016-17. Afternoon chill: With the temperature soaring in Nagpur, the Maharajbagh Zoo authorities have 4.0 on Richter scale shook mic example of how indis- are aiding groundwater depletion. SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Till date, a staggering 1.6 installed coolers, special mats, and ponds, to ofer a respite to the animals. S. SUDARSHAN parts of Gujarat’s Kutch district around 2.45 a.m. on Sunday, criminate digging of farm lakh-odd applications have an official said. No casualty or ponds has accelerated the only help accelerate the pro- and digging. been received by local au- damage to property was rate of groundwater cess of groundwater The SANDRP study re- thorities under the ‘Magel Corpse goes reported. “[The] epicentre was extraction. depletion. vealed that none of the farm Tyala Shet Tale (Farm Pond Students reprimanded 17 km from Rapar town in the The scheme was launched Besides borewells, Prav- ponds in Hiwargaon had in- on Demand scheme)’ ever district,” an official from in December 2014 by Chief ara river (a tributary of Go- lets and outlets or any other since Mr. Fadnavis launched missing; cops Institute of Seismological Minister Devendra Fadnavis- davari river) is a major water arrangement for excess rain- it in February 2016. for ‘disrespecting’ Mass Research (ISR) said. PTI led State government with source to the Hiwargaon vil- water inflow that was envi- Ms. Pradhan said, “The clueless an objective to harvest rain- lage. Almost 80% of its sioned in the scheme. In- Jalyukt Shivar programme water and enhance ground- ponds are dependent on stead of digging the ponds in and its ancillaries are a quick They spat out the bread and wine Special Correspondent Former Bastar IG gets water levels. However, the groundwater, with most of a low-lying area, many of fix that have failed. The gov- Panaji show cause notice project has run into stormy them dug between 2012 and them are dug on the highest ernment has not taken into Prakash Kamat hands. They were stopped The North Goa (Bicholim) RAIPUR weather for its haphazard 2015 with the help of sub- points of the farms. account the massive amount Panaji by some church-goers who police are clueless about Controversial IPS officer and unscientific implement- sidies offered under the Na- It further noted that soil of work that goes into in- Two male students of Birla brought this action to the the corpse of a 60-year-old S.R.P. Kalluri has been issued ation, undue reliance on ma- tional Horticulture Mission conservation is the key to volving people in carrying Institute of Technology and notice of the parish priest, man, Karim Ahmed Attar, show cause notices by Chhattisgarh DGP’s office for chinery, lack of transparency (NHM). groundwater recharge, but it out watershed works. The Science, Pilani, Rajasthan, Fr. Eremito Rebello. which went missing from his comments on social media and public participation. The 300-odd ponds in the has been omitted in the Fadnavis government has landed in the soup for al- On finishing the mass, the Sankhali in North Goa on and for attending a private Amruta Pradhan, a re- village are the main source scheme. also paid [little considera- legedly disrespecting the priest tried to calm down Saturday. function in Jagdalpur without searcher with the SANDRP, of sustenance for the Water conservationist Vi- tion] to the educative pro- Holy Communion during a the people. He tried to con- Speaking to The Hindu taking permission. Mr. Kalluri said, “While the government pomegranate-dependent jay Anna Borade said, “Any cess regarding judicious use mass at Our Lady of Snows tact the guardians of the stu- on Sunday, a Bicholim po- has also been asked not to is taking credit for providing agro economy. The arrival of programme claiming to deal of water.” Church, Rachol, in South dents, however, they could lice station official said an leave the State police a small scale irrigation facil- ponds has led many farmers with recharging groundwa- While local authorities Goa on Sunday. not be reached, even after investigation was on in the headquarters here. PTI ity at the farmers’ doorstep, to shift to horticulture, with ter has to pay attention to said they are aware of the According to church au- nearly three hours. The case, but no progress has it is reluctant to take the re- pomegranate cash-crop rap- the soil. If soil is conserved, concerns engendered by the thorities, the students, from priest then approached the been made yet. sponsibility of their unsus- idly supplanting the tradi- groundwater is automatic- indiscriminate digging of Madhya Pradesh and Maha- police. Police inspector Inclusive schooling tainable use. Majority of the tional horsegram (bajra), ally recharged. In the Jalyukt farm ponds, they find regula- rashtra, had joined the mass The boys asked forgive- Narayan Chimulkar, Bich- conference from June 26 scheme work has been im- wheat, pulses and onion Shivar works, soil, fine sand tion impossible. and entered the commu- ness and gave a written apo- olim police station, had PANAJI plemented unscientifically. crops. and all the medium which The sub-divisional officer nion procession thinking it logy at the Margao police said, “Attar’s family had A national conference on While one can see water as hold the water and percolate of Sangamner said, “Once is the “prasad” of Christian station. Their guardians also gone to the graveyard ten inclusive schooling will be Issues with the scheme held in the city from June 26 of now, it does not mean it have been scrapped. If the the farmer constructs the faith. The duo later claimed apologised for the incident. days after the burial, to to June 29 for people who are groundwater recharge has Most farmers in the village, rocks are exposed, then how pond, it is impossible for us they were not familiar with Fr. Victor Ferrao said, “It perform some rituals, engaged in education of taken place.” as in Western’s Maha- is the recharge supposed to to tell him not to use it for Catholic worship. being the season of lent, Fr. where they saw the body of children with special needs. Ms. Pradhan dismissed rashtra's horticultural belt, take place?” groundwater storage.” Au- As they did not like the Rebello forgave them. He the deceased was missing.” The event is open to the usefulness of plastic- swear by the farm ponds, He added that the works thorities said they were at- taste of the bread and wine, also sought to meet the par- Upon receiving the com- educators, therapists, lined farm ponds, remarking unmindful, however, of the under the scheme appeared tempting to initiate dialogue one of them spat it out and ents of the boys.” plaint, the police pressed a rehabilitation social workers, they were just “another layer consequences of groundwa- to hold water, but would not with farmers in a bid to im- tried to cover it with mud South Goa SP Chandan dog squad into service. A doctors, school teachers, and of exploitative unsustainable ter depletion owing to their recharge it. press on them the judicious outside the church, while Chowdhary said the issue set of gloves were found in parents, among others. infrastructure,” which would unregulated construction Another problem with the use of farm ponds. the other held it in his was amicably settled. the area. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

THE HINDU NOIDA/DELHI MONDAY, MARCH 6, 2017 SOUTH 5 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF 4 held for ‘human sacriice’ SC awards life term in 10-year-old was killed to supposedly cure a relative; uncle among those arrested honour killing case Special Correspondent Bengaluru a minor girl within 40 days,” and slit her throat after per- police said. forming a ritual,” said Convict fatally attacked his pregnant daughter with a sickle The 10-year-old girl, who Following her advice, Ramanagar SP Ramesh Ban- was found murdered near Wasil zeroed in on Ayesha, noth. The accused later in the vicinity of her hus- set aside the verdict of ac- Visually challenged Krishnadas Rajagopal Hosahalli on the outskirts of who stayed in the neighbour- stuffed the body in a gunny NEW DELHI band’s home, when her quittal, but found the father singer sets a record the city, had allegedly been hood. He took a picture of bag and dumped her a short Six years after the Karnataka father cut her down for mar- guilty of culpable homicide KOCHI ‘sacrificed’ by her own relat- the girl and sent it to Naseem distance away, he added. High Court empathised with rying beneath their caste. not amounting to murder. It Popular Malayalam playback ives to cure her ailing uncle, for her approval. The accused have been him as a “frustrated father” awarded Doddabasappa 10 singer Vaikom Vijayalakshmi Mother-in-law testifies on Sunday reportedly set a police said. Four people OnMarch1,whenAyesha taken into police custody. who killed his pregnant years’ rigorous imprison- world record by playing the were arrested, including the was returning from her fath- The main accused in the daughter to give vent to his The sessions court had ac- ment. “Any father would Gayathriveena for five hours victim’s paternal uncle. er’s shop, Wasil and the boy murder of Ayesha was with bottled up emotions about quitted Doddabasappa. The certainly be frustrated in non-stop, at a function here. The Ramanagar district kidnapped Ayesha and took her family when they were her inter-caste marriage, the court did not place trust in such a situation ... all those The visually-challenged police, who cracked the her away, after gagging her frantically searching for the Supreme Court sentenced the testimony of the only bottled up emotions erup- singer played 67 songs as murder of Ayesha, a fourth with plastic and a piece of child. Wasil even accompan- him to life imprisonment for trial witness who did not ted on the day of the incid- well as 12 keerthanas on the standard student, arrested Ayesha cloth. ied the family to the police first degree murder. turn hostile, Shilpa’s ent and he took the extreme instrument. PTI her uncle Mohammed Wasil, station to file a complaint. A Bench of Justices Kurian mother-in-law, who heard step of killing his daughter,” (42), who is a secretary of a Goripalya, who allegedly Call records verified As news of the arrest Joseph and A.M. Khanwilkar her scream “father don’t... the High Court said. Syro-Malabar Church local mosque, Rasheedun- practised ‘black magic’, po- The Magadi road police spread, angry residents found Gandi Doddabasappa, father” as she walked to- Doddabasappa then ap- expels spokesperson issa (38), Naseem Taj (33), lice said. “Naseem Taj sug- found that the juvenile was stormed Wasil’s house and a native of Taranagar village wards the murder scene to pealed in the Supreme KALPETTA and a juvenile on charges of gested that Wasil’s brother the last person seen with damaged furniture. They in Karnataka, guilty of hon- witness Doddabasappa com- Court. The Supreme Court The Mananthavady diocese of murdering her on March 1. Mohammed Rafiq could be Ayesha. The police also veri- also staged a road blockade our killing. ing out of the toilet with a perused the forensic evid- the Syro-Malabar Church has The body was recovered by cured of a paralytic stroke if fied Wasil’s call records and demanding action against The convict fatally at- bloodied sickle in his hand. ence to conclude that the expelled Fr. Thomas the Magadi police on March a girl was sacrificed. She had interrogated him, upon the accused. The police paci- tacked his daughter, who The trial court believed depth and nature of the cut Therakam, who also heads the 3. suggested that Rafiq had which he confessed to the fied them saying that action was in a stage of advanced that the witness was exag- injury on Shilpa’s neck forti- Wayanad Child Welfare Wasil hatched the murder been “gripped by evil spir- crime. would be taken against those pregnancy, with a sickle in gerating and discarded her fies the view that the father Committee, from the post of plan after he was advised by its” and paralysed, and to get “The accused took her to responsible, following which October 2003. Shilpa was version. intended to kill her, and her spokesperson. The Committee Naseem Taj, a resident of rid of this, he had to sacrifice a tomb on Hosahalli road the crowd dispersed. alone, using the public toilet The High Court, however, death was instantaneous. “failed” to report the shifting of a child born to a minor — after she was allegedly raped by Fr. Robin Vadakkancheril — to an orphanage. Leopard that strayed into Dry Kolleru turns birds away RSS leader hacked by suspected CPI(M) men Kannur town still elusive Villagers and bird watchers anxious as water, food scarce for visitors KOZHIKODE A 22-year-old RSS leader Rajulapudi Srinivas “Kolleru attracts pelicans, from Keezhariyur in Three youths injured in attack; prohibitory orders clamped Eluru painted storks, grey herons, Kozhikode suffered serious With the onset of summer, a black-tailed godwits, stilts injuries on Saturday night Special Correspondent major portion of the Kolleru and others which are after he was hacked allegedly KANNUR Lake has dried up, raising scattered in the lake and in by CPI(M) workers. Sudheesh A thickly-populated residen- anxiety among residents of nearby villages now,” said G. Babu was attacked by a tial area here remained lake bed villages. Anjaneyulu, a local resident. 10-member gang, the police panic-stricken after a leo- Many villages of fisherfolk Buffaloes and sheep graze said. Four other RSS workers pard was spotted near a rail- and more than 50 others in in the dried up lake bed at were also assaulted by way track on Sunday after- the West Godavari and some places. However, some suspected CPI(M) workers, local BJP leaders alleged. noon. Forest and police Krishna districts are likely to farmers have shifted their personnel erected nets suffer as the lake has dried cattle to nearby villages in around the area so that it up at the beginning of sum- the delta area in West Godav- First budget session would not escape. Efforts to mer. Parched fields, small ari and Krishna districts. in Amaravati today catch the animal were con- pools, and cattle and birds Speaking to The Hindu, VIJAYAWADA tinuing late into the night. searching for food are now Atapaka Deputy Range Of- The budget session, which The leopard was spotted common in the large fresh- Shrinking habitat: A stilt searching for food in what remains ficer (DRO) G. Eshwar Rao begins on Monday, will be a in an area with undergrowth On the prowl: The leopard was spotted at Anayidukku, near water lake. of the Kolleru Lake in Krishna district. V. RAJU said water was being historic moment, as the A.P. near the railway gate at the Kannur railway station, on Sunday. Bird lovers are worried pumped into Atapaka Bird Legislature is meeting for the Anayidukku around 3 p.m. about the drought-like situ- pelicans and painted storks. 5,000 pelicans were counted Sanctuary from the Polaraju first time in the new capital Amid the din that followed, way station. Three youths, ory orders in the area to ation as many species are fly- The pelicans also roost at at the Atapaka Bird Sanctu- drain. Amaravati. Governor E.S.L. Narasimhan will address the it strayed onto the track and including a migrant worker, clear the crowds. The police ing off to nearby water bod- Nelapattu in Pulikat Lake of ary, located in Kolleru Lake “The level at the sanctu- Legislative Council and the later hid in shrubbery near were injured in the animal’s made announcements ies in search of food. The Nellore district, Uppalapadu last year, and the sanctuary ary is above four feet. One or Assembly and the Legislature the backyard of a house be- attack, local residents said. through the public sound lake is home to thousands of in Guntur district and has been identified as one of two spells of rainfall will im- jointly. The budget will be low the track, hardly a kilo- District Collector Mir Mo- system of a mosque to warn birds during the wintering Cilemeelapuram in Srikaku- the biggest grey pelican hab- prove the situation,” the presented on March 13. metre from the Kannur rail- hamed Ali clamped prohibit- the people. season, especially spot-billed lam district. But more than itats in the world. DRO said. 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Responsible for collection of foreign language books and their exchange with libraries of other nations, the section hasn’t had staf for a decade

Soumya Das Kolkata guages [from Latin word ‘Ro- total sanctioned staff for the Japanese and Korean lan- manice’] Slovanic Languages division is three. guages. The sanctioned staff What did demonetisation The foreign language section and West Asian and African As for the West Asian and strength for the division is of the National Library — re- Languages Division. African Languages Division, three. achieve, asks Omar sponsible for collection of Sources in the Library said which comprises of books The Germanic Languages SRINAGAR foreign language books and the Romance Languages Di- mainly in Arabic and Per- Division of the Library, Former J&K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Sunday their exchange with libraries vision, which comprises sian, has had no staff for a which comprises books asked what demonetisation of other countries — has had mainly French books, has decade. mainly in German along with had achieved, claiming no staff for almost a decade. been without any staff for The collection of this divi- Dutch, Norwegian and cashless transactions were According to Library nearly two decades. The sion largely comprises books Swedish languages, has been declining while fake currency sources, the “complete ab- sanctioned staff strength of in Persian (about 12,000) devoid of any staff for nearly was increasing. “Cashless sence of staff” has not only the division is three. and Arabic (about 12,000). six years. The sanctioned transactions (declining) Fake hit the collection of foreign At present, the division “The collection includes number of staff at the divi- currency in circulation publications but has also has about 5,000 books in the lexicons compiled and sion is three. (increasing). Almost entire brought down the number of French and nearly 2,000 prepared by Indians authors lot of notes demonetised readers in the foreign lan- books in Romanian along of the past and edited by the Staff shortage back in banks. So what is the guage section to almost nil. with books in Italian and ‘native’ scholars of the Col- Speaking to The Hindu the achievement?” he tweeted. PTI The Director General (ad- Spanish. lege of Fort William and Director General (Additional ditional charge) of the Na- European orientalists of the Charge) of the Library Arun tional Library Arun Kumar Posts vacant said college,” states the Na- Kumar Chakraborty said: “I Cop among 2 arrested Chakraborty avoided a direct All the posts at the Slovanic tional Library website. The cannot comment on the mat- with cannabis in J&K response on the issue. Languages Division, which sanctioned staff strength in ter without seeing official re- JAMMU The section was founded comprises books mainly in the division is two. cords.” A policeman was among two in 1985 when the earlier Russian language, have been The East Asian Language However, he admitted that persons arrested with European Languages Divi- lying vacant for nearly a dec- Division that deals with the Library authorities are cannabis in Kathua district of sion was reorganised and ade. books mainly in Chinese and struggling to “find qualified Jammu and Kashmir. five separate divisions were The division which com- other East Asian has had no staff” for the Foreign Lan- The police intercepted the formed. prise books and journals in staff for nearly five years. guage Section. “We have cop near a bus stand in The divisions are: East 28 languages including Rus- Currently the division has even tried to take interns, Words of wisdom: The foreign language section at the National Library in Kolkata was founded Kathua and recovered 100 gm of cannabis during a search on Asian Languages, Germanic sian and Polish has a collec- 15,000 books in Chinese and but nothing has materialised in 1985, when the European Languages Division was reorganised and ive separate divisions Saturday evening. Languages, Romance Lan- tion of 65,000 books. The 1,000 each in Nepali, Thai, so far,” said Mr. Chakraborty. were formed. SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Nearly a kilo of cannabis was later recovered from his place on the basis of his revelation, the police said, adding that Elephant herd unleashes panic in Ganjam Safdarjung Hospital turns 75 one more person has been arrested in this regard. A case has been registered. PTI Forest oicials camping in the region to protect inhabitants of 5 remote villages Massive infrastructure upgradation on the cards cial water body had been A huge infrastructure up- hospital and offers afford- Staff Reporter Press Trust of India Two killed in bike grade will augment facilities able healthcare to patients BERHAMPUR dug up by the forest depart- New Delhi collision in Rajasthan ment to provide water to the at this overburdened hos- streaming in from all parts of BUNDI (RAJASTHAN) A wild elephant herd at the elephants. The baby ele- The Safdarjung Hospital here pital so that we can better the country. Two youths were killed and Jagannathprasad forest phant drowned and died, has entered its platinum ju- serve people,” hospital’s “Our Emergency and Su- four others injured when two range under north Ghu- which was later ascertained bilee year and the adminis- Medical Superintendent A. perspecialty Block is nearing bikes collided on Selor Road musar forest division in Gan- by its autopsy report. But tration has planned a huge K. Rai said. completion. There are a few here, the police said. jam district has turned over- the mother of the dead calf infrastructure revamp, in- Situated in the heart of the logistical issues, but we hope The accident occurred late on cluding construction of two city next to the All India Insti- to open it by April end. Also, Saturday night near Dadabari wrought following the death as well as the wild elephant Jain temple. The deceased of a calf due to drowning. herd were observed moving major blocks. tute of Medical Sciences, it once this new emergency were identified as Ramavatar Since Saturday forest offi- in tense state in the region. The hospital started its started as a 150-bed hospital block is ready, the old emer- Gujjar (24), a resident of cials have been camping in A herd of elephants near a village pond in Cuttack district. According to the DFO, the journey in 1942 as the ‘100th and was constructed under gency (casualty) block will be Vishdhari village, and Noshad the region to protect the in- . FILE PHOTO: LINGARAJ PANDA wild elephants seemed to be Station Hospital’ and was set the supervision of Col. demolished to make way for (19) of Lankagate, the police habitants of five remote vil- getting pacified. “On up for treatment of injured Robert P. Williams, who was a new Mother and Child said. The bodies have been lages inside the forest from ies from Ketamundhi, into the adjoining Gerada re- Sunday, neither the mother American soldiers of the al- General Stilwell’s staff Block. handed over to the families wrath of the wild elephants, Tirikupa, Sisunda, Katupalli serve forest, away from hu- elephant nor any other in lied forces during World War surgeon. “And once the mother and after post-mortem. said Rama Sami, the Divi- and Limbripali villages re- man habitat,” the DFO said. the herd came near the spot II. child block shifts there, its The four injured were rushed sional Forest Officer (DFO) garding precautions to be On Saturday, the carcass where the dead calf was bur- “It is a matter of great 1,500-bed hospital old block will be demolished to a government hospital, of north Ghumusar forest di- taken to keep the wild ele- of a three-month-old ele- ied. We feel very soon the pride that we have reached Spread over 47 acres, in to make an orthopaedic from where Surendra and vision “We have held meet- phants at bay. phant calf was found in a wa- elephant herd will leave the the platinum jubilee of this these seven decades, it has centre. Other parts will be re- Ayub were referred to a Kota ings with members of the All efforts are being made ter body inside the jungle area and get into the forest,” institution. And in May, we grown from military bar- developed in a phased man- hospital, the police said. PTI local Vana Surakshya Samit- to drive the wild elephants near the villages. This artifi- he said. will be completing 75 years. racks to an over 1,500-bed ner,”Mr. Rai said.. 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THE HINDU NOIDA/DELHI MONDAY, MARCH 6, 2017 NATION 7 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF Bhangar on tenterhooks Rain relief for Bandipur forest ‘But threat of fresh outbreak of ires not fully diminished’ again after activist is held Special Correspondent MYSURU

Light to moderate showers Haryana Minister rejects Agitators claim Ahad Molla was arrested for no reason lashed parts of Bandipur Na- Sakshi Malik’s claim tional Park late on Saturday Staff Reporter and again on Sunday bring- Haryana Sports Minister Anil Kolkata ing temporary relief to anim- Vij on Sunday rejected als and the Forest Depart- Olympic medal-winning Fresh protests erupted in the wrestler Sakshi Malik’s claim Bhangar area of West ment staff. that the State was yet to Bengal’s South 24 Paraganas It was the first rain of the honour the promises it made district on Sunday after a season and park director T. to her for winning the bronze local activist, who is involved Heeralal said that nearly half medal in last year’s Rio in the ongoing agitation of Bandipur range, parts of Olympics. “We gave a cheque against land acquisition, was Kundgere, Gundre, Hediyala, of ₹2.5 cr. the day she landed arrested by the police. and Moolehole ranges, re- in India [after the Olympics Soon after Ahad Ali Molla, ceived rain. event],” Mr. Vij said. PTI a resident of Gajipur village, Other officials said it was Much-needed: Light to moderate showers lashed parts of was held, roads were reasonably widespread and Bandipur National Park on Saturday and Sunday. ₹1.36 cr. in old notes blocked at several places in all ranges except N. Beguru seized in Thane; 5 held the area’s 20 villages. and Moleyuru received rain- through one of the worst issue with almost 350 of the THANE The situation in Bhangar fall. However, this will spells of drought and has 370 waterbodies having Police seized ₹1.36 crore in has been tense since Janu- provide only temporary re- been ravaged by major forest dried up. scrapped notes in Thane, Maharashtra, and detained ary, when two people were lief and the threat of fresh fires that also claimed the life Solar-powered borewells ive persons, an oicial said shot dead during a scuffle Tension on streets: Villagers blocking roads in Bhangar on Sunday. SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT outbreak of fires has not fully of a forest guard in Kalkere have been installed to pump on Sunday. A team of police between the police and villa- diminished, said Mr. Heer- range last month. water but depleting ground- oicials had kept a watch gers during an agitation tion Committee member on The stir was allegedly trol of the movement. The alal. Vast tracts of forests and water table may render these over the Upavan Lake area. against the setting up of a condition of anonymity. fuelled by a section of Trin- situation flared up on Janu- “There are indications of vegetation have been re- last resources dry in the days Five persons were nabbed power distribution unit. Speaking to The Hindu, amool Congress leaders, ary 18, when agitators more rain on Monday but duced to cinders and the es- ahead. who were carrying ₹1.36 “Police arrested Ahad Superintendent of Police of who resisted the project as clashed with the police, who this by itself will not suffice timates vary from nearly Hence, this rain may help crore in demonetised notes, without citing any reason. South 24 Paraganas Sunil Ku- they had reportedly already shot dead two villagers. to fill up water holes,” he 1,000 acres to 2,000 acres tide over the crisis temporar- said DCP (Zone-V) Sunil We have blocked roads in mar Choudhary said that Mr. acquired some of the land The incident has caused said. Other sources in Gun- though there are no official ily and only pre-monsoon Lokhande. The police during nearly 20 villages, including Molla was arrested as he was and were planning to sell it severe embarrassment to the dre range told The Hindu corroborations so far. showers in May and the on- last week have seized ₹3.52 Khamarait, Machhi Bhanga, “wanted in many cases, in- to promoters at a higher Mamata government as it that the sky was overcast but set of south-west monsoon in crore in old notes and Tona and Gazipur in the cluding the assault of two or rate. had earlier declared that it strong wind could blow away Drinking water scarcity June will bring full relief to detained many persons. PTI Bhangar II block,” said a three persons during the As the agitation gathered would not acquire land the clouds and the possibil- Also, drinking water scarcity the parched forests and its Land and Livelihood Protec- agitation”. momentum, they lost con- without farmers’ consent. ity of rain. Bandipur is going is turning out to be a major denizens. Panther captured in Rajasthan JAIPUR A panther was captured by ‘Widow has the forest department in India runs out of life-saving HIV drug for children Kunthwa village of Rajsamand right to district on Sunday, following complaints regarding attacks Cipla, sole man ufacturer of Lopinavir syru p, stopped production of the drug after govt. failed to clear dues property’ by a big cat on local villagers and their cattle in the last few Vidya Krishnan manufacturer of the drug, Fund or the Indian govern- shortages are proving to be Press Trust of India New Delhi days. A female panther aged stopped manufacturing it ment settles the bills. both tragic and embarrassing NEW DELHI around four years was Desperate over withdrawal of over the issue of non-pay- The heated three-way for India’s HIV programme. A widow has the right to trapped in a cage kept by the a life saving drug, children ment from the Health Min- communication between “The government is abdicat- enjoy the property bought forest officials. The cage was living with HIV (CLHIV) have istry. Cipla is the dominant Cipla, the Indian government ing its constitutional respons- by her husband in her kept on the basis of pug written to Prime Minister player in the Indian market and the HIV community ibility to make available life name in the manner she marks and information Narendra Modi for help. across the HIV segment and ended on March 4, with an saving medicines for the HIV wants, and her daughter provided by the villagers, said The letter, written on has not stopped participating email being marked to the community. It is also unfortu- Kapil Chadrawal, Deputy and son-in-law cannot lay March 4, is signed by 637 in government tenders after entire top brass of Cipla Phar- nate that the present man- Conservator of Forest. PTI claim to it, a Delhi court children ranging from ages 3 the Health Ministry failed to maceuticals, Indian govern- agement of Cipla is walking has held. to 19 and states that, “the pay Cipla for consignments ment officials and Clinton away from its commitment to The court ruled in fa- Dogs found biting body pharmaceutical company sent in 2014. Health Access Initiative access to medicines all over voure of a 65-year-old wo- of infant Cipla has in various forums (CHAI) with Mr. Loon Gangte, the world, for which they are man who challenged the JIND cited delay in payments by Emergency tender making it clear that he was globally renowned,” said refusal of her daughter and Stray dogs were on Sunday the national programme for Faced with a crisis, the A ile photo of HIV-afected children participating in a rally in “in no position” to guarantee Anand Grover, Senior Coun- son-in-law to vacate a por- found biting the abandoned the HIV medicines by several Health Ministry says it has in- Mumbai. VIVEK BENDRE payments. Mr. Gangte writes sel at Lawyers Collective’s tion of the house at Shastri body of a newborn girl near a years and even non-payment structed State AIDS Control that he had “been told by of- HIV/AIDS Unit. Nagar in north west Delhi. brook in Safidon area in Jind, of its dues in many cases. Societies (SACS) to purchase in every State, there is no one Chief Executive Officer ficials in Cipla that we should For the HIV-infected chil- Lajwanti Devi wanted back Haryana, police said. The Profits on child doses of HIV from local markets. “An to make this drug. How can (CEO), Cipla Pharmaceutic- ensure payment for any fu- dren, the letter to Mr. Modi, the portion of the property body was spotted by local medicines are small and emergency tender has been we buy this from retail als, and patient-activist Loon ture procurement of the Finance Minister Arun Jaitley given to her daughter and people who informed the delayed payments are having placed but we have instruc- shops? The sole producer is Gangte, Mr. Vohra states that, medicine from Cipla. I would and Health Minister JP Nadda son-in-law in 1985 but they police station, they said, a chilling effect on the ability ted SACS and State Govern- not manufacturing it,” said “Cipla has always stood for like to tell you that the com- is a last resort. “We humbly adding it is suspected the refused to vacate. of the National AIDS Control ments to purchase from local Paul Lhungdim of DNP+. the patients — not just in In- munity is in no position to do request you to look into the baby was abandoned as the Additional District Judge parents who wanted a boy Organisation (NACO) to con- markets,” said Arun Panda, While Cipla has declined dia but also all per the World so. We can neither force the matter of HIV drug stock out, Kamini Lau held the wo- child. The body has been sent vince the company to parti- Additional Secretary, Health to comment, emails made (sic). Quite naturally, we also government nor donors like in general, and in particular man as the owner of the The Hindu for post mortem. “The cipate in the bids it invited Ministry. available to reveal expect that issues regarding the Global Fund. But at the paediatric HIV medicines to house and said the prop- newborn was abandoned annually.” However, since the syrup that Cipla asked for guaran- payments are also addressed end of the day, we are the ensure that they are not erty was bought by her soon after delivery,” Medical Stocks of Lopinavir syrup has gone out of production, tees of payment from HIV pa- expeditiously,” indicating ones who are hit by these merely exported but also ac- husband in 1966 in her Officer Dr. Sandip Lamba said. — a child friendly HIV drug — they are not available in retail tients. In an email exchange that Cipla will not move from shortages and stock-outs.” tually available to the chil- name to “provide her a se- PTI ran out after Cipla, the sole markets. “Across the country, between by Umang Vohra, its stand until either Global Experts say the critical dren in this country.” cure life” after his death. RSS to organise short ilm festival in Kolkata next month

‘Increasing public awareness of Hindutva, the cornerstone of Indian ethos, will be a key objective’

Soumya Das submissions till March 31,” ives was to remind Bengal’s ectors, said: “There has al- Kolkata he said. The festival — organ- people of the “true Indian ways been a subtle undercur- To promote “nationalism ised by Vishwa Samvad ethos as it is not projected in rent of morality in popular and Indian ethos” in West Kendra, the media wing of mainstream films.” “The fest- Indian cinema. It remains to Bengal, the Rashtriya the RSS — is expected to be ival will uphold Indian nation- be seen whether the contents Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) held in April. alism with a humane touch by of the festival are against the will organise a short film Each film will have a run- focusing on acts of charity by values of secularism.” festival in Kolkata. Increas- ning time of 10 minutes, in- the common people,” they The festival will also focus ing public awareness of cluding opening and closing said. on the use of digital devices, Hindutva, the cornerstone titles. There will be a panel In his take on the plan, Na- like smart-phones, for film- of Indian ethos, will be “a of judges to select the win- tional award winning film- shooting. key objective,” RSS sources ners in the categories of fic- maker Goutam Ghose said: The Prime Minister’s Digital told The Hindu. tion, non-fiction, animation, “As long as the contents abide India initiative is the “way for- However, Hindutva is not drama and docudrama. “We by the principles of demo- ward,” an RSS leader said. A poster of the RSS ilm festival. SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT “officially mentioned” as the are also considering finan- cracy and the Constitution, “Since the digital mode of theme of the festival titled shin Banga (South Bengal), called for submission of cial rewards for the win- there is nothing wrong with shooting has become predom- Manush Chai. said the festival was inspired short films in early February ners,” the sources said. the festival.” inant in the Indian film in- Biplab Roy, RSS Pranta by Swami Vivekananda’s and have received 50 applic- RSS functionaries said Mainak Bhaumik, one of the dustry, we will focus on it in Prachar Pramukh of Dak- ideal of humanity. “We ations so far. We will accept one of the primary object- commercially successful dir- the festival,” he said.

DA to be hiked by 2%

Press Trust of India New Delhi The Centre is likely to increase the dearness allow- ance by 2 % to 4 % for its about 50 lakh employees and 58 lakh pensioners later this month. The labour unions are saying it would not be able to offset the real impact of price rise. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

NOIDA/DELHI THE HINDU 8 EDITORIAL MONDAY, MARCH 6, 2017 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE No time for complacency India’s economy is defying the pessimists, and the time is ripe to deepen structural reforms

Are we assured that they will not nately, this government has the resurface in altered garbs? The gov- mindset to move away from micro- ernance architecture embedded in managing the economy. Saving the Ghats several actions and intended autonomy cannot be totally di- The GST transformation There is a need to determine how much vorced from the ownership pat- Finally, for a change, balanced re- tern. Creating an enabling political gional development and combin- of the Western Ghats is ecologically sensitive N.K. Singh milieu for deeper reforms is ines- ing growth with employment has he hesitation shown by the Central government capable. Expecting the ruling received extensive attention in in deciding upon full legal protection for one of its he Indian economy continues party alone to invest excessive both these reports. No doubt, the most prized natural assets, the Western Ghats in to outperform the prognosis political capital in this endeavour GST (Goods and Services Tax) re- T of its critics. This is clearly will have little traction. At the same gime and decisive move towards their totality, isamajor disappointment. The idea that T true of the GDP growth estimates time, a belief that the present tra- formalisation of the economy us- whatever is left of these fragile mountainous forests in the third quarter; quite at vari- jectory of banking reforms is ad- ing technology would reduce dis- should be protected from unsustainable exploitation in ance with what the critics of the de- equate to address the deeper mal- parities. the interests of present and future generations, while monetisation exercise had as- aise of the sector would be Local government entities need presenting sustainable ways of living to the communit- sumed. No doubt there could be misplaced. The Indradhanush I greater empowerment. These go

ies that inhabit these landscapes, is being lost sight of. correction in the fourth quarter, GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO has distinct positives. The In- beyond the enhanced devolution Quite unscientiically, the issue is being framed as one primarily to factor the impact of dradhanush II is in the oing, post of resources based on the recom- the informal sector. It has never macroeconomic policies with is broad consensus that the pre- the Asset Quality Review to be mendation of the Thirteenth Fin- of development-versus-conservation. Given the weak been easy to capture real time data global standards. ferred trajectory of debt with en- completed by March 31. ance Commission, more import- efort at forging a consensus, there is little purpose in on economic activity in the in- The overall macroeconomic abling iscal deicit targets is cent- antly of the Fourteenth Finance the Centre returning to the drawing board with another formal sector. It is recognised that framework, notwithstanding chal- ral to macroeconomic stability. Rule-based management Commission. Making grants avail- draft notiication to identify ecologically sensitive apart from leads and lags, the con- lenges, remains robust and cred- India has come a long way in dis- In this context, creating an institu- able in two parts — a basic grant areas. What it needs is a framework under which sci- clusions are derivative using sur- ible. Continued iscal consolida- couraging iscal proligacy. The tional framework or mechanism to and performance grant — will make entiic evidence and public concerns are debated rogates which detract both from tion, a modest current account realisation that we are best served seek broader consensus has some a diference. Enabling local bodies democratically and the baseline for ESAs arrived at. It is their timeliness and accuracy. This deicit, subdued inlation, en- by improving the quality of public advantages. This also ties up with to impose and realise property is not a new problem and past es- hanced public and private con- expenditure than enhancing what the OECD’s Economic Survey taxes and other levies would accepted, for instance, that the Ghats play an irreplace- timates of GDP numbers have also sumption somewhat ofsetting the budgetary outlays relects respons- and the IMF’s report describe as a strengthen their inancial viability. able role in mediating the monsoon over the country sufered from multiple ex-post cor- depressed private investment sup- ible leadership. It is increasingly progressive move to a more rule- In fact, the Fifteenth Finance Com- and the forests harbour a rich biodiversity that has not rections as and when data be- port this conclusion. These augur cognisant of the inherent vulner- based management of the eco- mission, yet to be constituted, even been fully studied. New species continue to comes unavailable. well for continued growth buoy- abilities of a fragile economy like nomy. The constitution of the Mon- while reviewing the implementa- emerge each year in an area that has endemic plants ancy. The downside risks of exo- ours. No doubt iscal rectitude etary Policy Committee, GST tion of past recommendations can and animals, although, as the scientist Norman Myers Digitisation dividend genous shocks from sharp in- must be combined with space to Council, Banks Board Bureau, are consider incentivising States on wrote nearly two decades ago, only 6.8% of primary ve- Hopefully, moving towards greater creases in commodity prices, enhance public outlays, particu- robust examples. Could we, for in- empowerment and delegation of digitisation and reducing depend- particularly oil, a sudden global larly in infrastructure, health and stance, consider the constitution powers to local bodies. Seeking to getation out of the original 182,500 sq km remains in the ence on cash transactions will ac- slowdown impacting remittances education. of a Banking Council to facilitate a replicate best governance prac- Western Ghats and Sri Lanka taken together. The ecolo- celerate the pace of inancial inclu- and exports or unpredictability re- Second, the health of the bank- dialogue with political parties and tices in labour and product mar- gically sensitive nature of the forests stretching 1,600 sion and formalisation of the lating to the Chinese economy now ing and inancial sector. The twin stake holders on a new banking kets among the States could also km along the western coast as a global biodiversity hot- informal economy. Notwithstand- look modest. The growth projec- balance sheet problem of both cor- road map? Extensive analytical prove beneicial in mitigating inter- spot was emphasised by the Western Ghats Ecology Ex- ing these, the dark prognosis of a tion of 7.5% (the higher side of the porates and banks, highlighted in work by several committees and State growth divergence. There are pert Panel headed by Madhav Gadgil, while for conser- collapse of GDP growth numbers, 6.75-7.5% range forecasted in this the Economic Survey, has a rela- commissions like the Narasimham other recommendations in the IMF vation purposes, the Kasturirangan Committee widespread unemployment and year’s Economic Survey) for the tionship but would need diferenti- Committee, P.J. Nayak Committee, and OECD reports relating to edu- displacement of job workers next iscal is however contingent ated actions. Easing one will no Gopalakrishna Committee, to cation, health, and tax changes, to identiied only a third of the total area. Both expert coupled with rural distress now on resolving several short-term doubt ameliorate the other but mention a few, have critically ex- name a few, which deserve separ- groups have encountered resistance from State govern- looks clearly misaligned with ac- challenges. policy frameworks are not neces- amined the past and suggested fu- ate treatment. ments and industries, although they mutually difer in tual outcomes. The GDP estimates sarily symmetrical. The concept of ture actions. This Council could It would be dangerous if the de- their recommendations. are supported by two other crucial Macro policies a centralised Public Sector Asset debate, discuss, and seek to fortify cision-making ethos is stymied by The question that needs speedy resolution is how independent international assess- First, the OECD’s survey raises con- Rehabilitation Agency (PARA) en- the ingredients of the ongoing initi- growing complacency. The future much of the Western Ghats can be demarcated as ecolo- ments last week. The irst from the cerns about India’s large interest visaged as a ‘Band Bank’ spin-of atives. In this endeavour, seeking may look bright but pursuing and Article IV Consultations 2017 of the payments due to the high levels of model has gained some traction. It consensus on a forward banking deepening structural reforms is gically sensitive, going beyond the system of national International Monetary Fund public debt as compared to other would, however, be naïve to be- reform path would be the principal the way forward. The political parks and sanctuaries that already exist. As a corollary, (IMF) and the second from the bi- emerging economies. This is in lieve that this represents a systemic mandate of the Banking and Fin- leadership is sagacious in recog- are other areas free to be exploited for industrial activ- ennial Economic Survey of the Or- consonance with the suggestions solution to the ailments of the ance Council. The problem is nising this. After all, as Albert Ein- ity, including mining and deforestation, with no envir- ganisation for Economic Coopera- of the Fiscal Responsibility and banking sector. The classic issues somewhat complicated, by the Re- stein once said, “We cannot solve onmental consequences? A frequently cited example of tion and Development (OECD). Budget Management (FRBM) Re- of not confusing between the stock serve Bank acting as the principal our problems with the same think- destruction is the loss of ecology in Goa due to Both these have distinct common- view Committee chaired by me, and the low would need to be ad- banking ombudsman with inher- ing we used when we created rampant, illegal mining. More complicated is the as- alities. Both conclude that Indian which projects a declining debt-to- dressed. Besides, it is not easy to ent conlict of interest. In the long them.” economic growth is robust, pro- GDP ratio to approximately 60% by overlook moral hazard questions run, we need an alternative mech- sessment of ecosystem services delivered by the pelled by consumption demand 2023. Analysts believe this may be when it comes to taking an ‘appro- anism for the banking sector. This N.K. Singh is a former Member of forests, lakes, rivers and their biodiversity to com- and accelerated structural re- our near optimum debt levels. priate haircut’ by all stakeholders will not happen overnight; far- munities. Mr. Gadgil, for instance, has underscored the Parliament and Chairman, FRBM forms. Both favourably allude to a While the Committee’s report is and without assigning responsibil- reaching structural changes need Committee. The views expressed are unique value of some locations, such as those with ish rule-based framework of aligning not yet in the public domain, there ity for the ills of the past. perseverance and tenacity. Fortu- personal or medicinal plant diversity peculiar to a small area, which should not get lost in the assessment process. All this points to the need for wider and more open con- sultation with people at all levels, imbuing the process with scientiic insights. The sooner this is done the bet- The end of a voyage ter. Several options to spare sensitive areas will emerge, such as community-led ecological tourism and agro- Aircraft carrier INS Viraat will fade into history today, marking the close of an era ecological farming. A national consultative process is urgently called for. in August 1987 as Viraat drew in ished. Finally, in 2003, I was ap- ades, she showcased India’s blue majestically. I shared the sense of pointed the fleet communications water capability across the seas. awe everyone expressed and could oicer reporting to the Western When the security environment in sense the sheer might that she ex- Fleet Commander. The carrier was the neighbourhood was fraught Elusive reconciliation uded. the irst choice as the flagship be- with uncertainty, her presence was cause of operational and adminis- deeply reassuring as she protected Colombo must do much more to address Srikant Kesnur The carrier environment trative advantages. We spent many and projected India’s maritime in- the concerns of the Tamil minority Watch-keeping on Ranvir was a days on the carrier and she soon be- terests in the neighbourhood and great learning curve which was came a second home. With a better beyond. United Nations report released last week on the t was the summer of 1986 when made steeper by the presence of the understanding of fleet operations Twenty years ago, on January 31, progress of reconciliation eforts by the Sri the Indian Navy was abuzz with carrier in the fleet. As any navy man and tactics, I was able to appreciate 1997, when another iconic ship in Lankan government should be a wake-up call for Iexcitement, waiting for the ar- will tell you, fleet operations ac- what working on the aircraft carrier India’s naval history, INS Vikrant, A quire a diferent and distinct hue was like. I spent many an hour try- and India’s irst aircraft carrier, was President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil rival of INS Viraat, India’s second aircraft carrier, which would radic- when an aircraft carrier is around. It ing to walk on her deck or watching decommissioned, I saw many navy Wickremesinghe. Raising serious concerns about the ally alter the Navy’s operational was our great fortune that our form- her aircraft, the Sea Harriers, take men of that era who had been asso-

delay in addressing allegations of war crimes and in paradigms. It was also a time when ative years were spent in such a PTI of or land. I could now claim some ciated with her with hardly a dry meeting other promises Colombo made when it co- we, as navy men, had just been tough environment. Be it anti-sub- meant that one visited Viraat often kinship with Viraat though I was still eye. The thought of it being the turn sponsored a resolution at the UN Human Rights Council commissioned. The 1980s had seen marine warfare or flying ops, un- and each time I left the ship I came not a fully paid up member. of Viraat now induces the same feel- in 2015, the report warns the government that the lack the induction of several new classes derway replenishment or missile away with the feeling of admiration ing in our generation of oicers and defence, an aircraft carrier brings in Reassuring presence sailors. We may not wear our hearts of accountability threatens the momentum towards of ships. In fact, the entire inventory at the way things seemed to work had undergone a sea change then a unique set of dynamics and makes with clockwork precision. The crew Time passed and I moved to other on our sleeves but to recollect the lasting peace. It also alleges that cases of excessive use with the most important of these ac- life on the bridge and operations always seemed to have an air about ships. And the aircraft carrier sailed lyrics of the famous Manna Dey of force, torture and arbitrary arrests still continue in quisitions being the mighty Viraat. room that much more exciting and them and were usually the winners on. But all good things have to come song, Viraat has been both our “Aar- Sri Lanka, almost eight years after the country’s brutal We secretly nursed the ambition of busy not only on the “Flattop” itself in most of the intra-fleet competi- to an end. The news of her decom- zoo” and “Aabrooh”. When the civil war ended. Mr. Sirisena came to power on a prom- driving the jumbo-sized ‘Grey Fer- but on all the combatants in her tions, be it on the sports ield or in missioning has illed me with sor- naval ensign is lowered for one last ise that he would restore the rule of law, end the coun- rari’ and launching her mean lying company. In a sense, we cut our academic endeavours. row. She has been the centrepiece time on her today, March 6, 2017, try's international isolation and take steps towards re- machines. A year later, I was ap- teeth in the best learning environ- My duties over the next few years of the Indian Navy over 30 years, she will slowly fade away and mark pointed on the missile destroyer, ment possible. her life mirroring ours. Viraat and the end of an era. But she will live conciliation with the Tamil ethnic minority. The continued on other ships in the INS Ranvir, based at Mumbai. Time This was also true of our time in Western Fleet, and in the vicinity of ships of that generation ushered in a forever in our memories. political momentum was also in favour of the govern- lew and I soon found myself in the the harbour when the carrier gener- the “Flattop”. She continued to be huge change in our fleet operations ment as it had the support of the dominant sections of midst of a huge crowd that had ated a great deal of hustle and the toast of the Navy and my desire and in the way we thought of tactics Commodore Srikant Kesnur is a serving the two largest parties in the country. In 2015, when Sri gathered on the South breakwater bustle. Being in the same fleet to serve on her remained undimin- or imagined combat. For three dec- Naval Oicer Lanka agreed to a host of measures at the UNHRC, including a judicial process to look into the war crimes, hopes were high. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Letters emailed to [email protected] must carry the full postal address and the full name or the name with initials. Undeniably, the government has made some slow progress in addressing the issue of reconciliation. Com- Climate of hate U.S. and ensure that also support such us avoid sensationalising or the vast expanses of the Aadhaar is nothing but a pared to the previous regime of Mahinda Rajapaksa, the Close on the heels of the adequate protection is given initiatives. politicising the issue. Had Cauvery delta must come coercive method of bringing Sirisena administration has reached out to Tamils and brutal slaying of an Indian to all Indians. Most of them Veena Shenoy, we stopped the irst. No task is more the entire population under Thane, Maharashtra initiated constitutional and legal reforms. It has also software engineer in Kansas have legal rights to pursue operationalisation of the important than protecting the Aadhaar net. — which had all the their vocations and can by Kudankulam nuclear power our land, our air and our K. Natarajan, passed enabling legislation to establish an Oice of markings of a hate crime — no means be bracketed with Neduvasal stir plant in deference to the water from greed and Madurai Missing Persons to help ind some of the 65,000 people comes the report of the illegal immigrants or Before branding any project opposition and mass gratiication for ourselves reported missing during the war. But on key issues such killing of a young refugees. as harmful it is necessary to protests some time ago, we and posterity. World Birth Defects Day as establishing a hybrid judicial mechanism with do- businessman in South C.V. Aravind, dispassionately make a would have lost a great G. David Milton It is unfortunate that not mestic and foreign judges and returning the military- Carolina. Though the Bengaluru detailed, objective and source of power generation Maruthancode, Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu much attention was paid to occupied lands to Tamil civilians in the north and east, racism angle has been unbiased analysis of its which now helps the the observance of World there has been no tangible progress. The latest UN re- played down, one is Here comes the bride merits and demerits (“Talks country and the State. Tamil Aadhaar insistence Birth Defects Day (March 3). inclined to take the I irmly believe that it is fail, Neduvasal stir to Nadu has attained near The Railway Ministry’s Birth defects, or congenital port comes at a time when over a hundred displaced assertion with a pinch of salt people’s power that will continue”, March 5). self-suiciency in power move towards an Aadhaar- anomalies, constitute an Tamil families are protesting at administrative oices in (“Indian store owner shot change the destiny of this Hydrocarbon exploration is generation now. based online ticketing abnormality of body the north and east asking for their lands to be returned. dead outside home in U.S.”, country and revive its past a high risk investment and Raghavan Sampath, system is unjustiied and structure or function For its part, the government may be wary of taking March 5). Considering the glory (“Village of bachelors risk assessment is all the Chennai arbitrary (“Rlys. to make present since birth. quick decisions for fear of giving some leeway to Sinhala fact that there have been a carves out a road to more important for Aadhaar mandatory”, There are an estimated nationalist factions at a time when Mr. Rajapaksa is try- spate of incidents in the welcome its irst bride”, successful project portfolio ■ The extraction of oil, March 6). It is strange that 4,000 or more types of such ing to revive his political fortunes. But this delay is alien- recent past, the claims of March 5). More than smart management. Since the methane, lignite, shale gas the government should defects. the government that it has cities and smart villages, Petroleum Ministry has and other natural reserves resort to such draconian Whenever any defect/ ating the government’s allies, eroding the faith of the been taking steps towards India needs smart people. clariied that state-of-the-art cannot be at the cost of the measures in utter deiance anomaly is detected in public, especially war victims, and giving more time to their prevention rings Instead of waiting for the technology is being used, all cultivation of paddy, of the Supreme Court’s scans during pregnancy, the opposition to regroup itself. And issues such as con- hollow as the Trump regime government to solve aspects to safeguard the banana, coconut and other ruling that Aadhaar should comprehensive prenatal tinuing use of excessive force and arbitrary arrests sug- seems bent upon creating problems, people should environment are sure to be crops. To say that farmers not be made mandatory. counselling must be gest that the government is either not serious in chan- an atmosphere of insecurity form groups and work taken care of. must be “patriotic enough” Even in the case of undertaken. Most ging the way the police system works or is incapable of for all immigrants. The towards their betterment. The issue can be subject to to make sacriices in the concessions to senior anomalies can be corrected doing so. The Sirisena-Wikremesinghe government Indian Embassy in tandem Other backward villages public debate. There can larger interest of the nation citizens proceeding on a rail with very good results. with the Ministry of which have been neglected also be consultations with is to allow and legitimise journey, the existing Dr. Venkata Subbarao Gurram, should seize the moment and start addressing the core External Afairs should by the government should experts on the subject. depredation to the beneit condition of producing Hyderabad issues, keeping reconciliation and the future of Sri liaise with the authorities in come forward and emulate People of the area should be of plutocrats. The interest of photo identiication is fair more letters online: Lanka in mind. the diferent states in the the example. NGOs should taken into conidence. Let farmers living with nature in enough. An insistence of www.hindu.com/opinion/letters/

THE HINDU NOIDA/DELHI MONDAY, MARCH 6, 2017 OPED 9 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Indiscriminate discrimination FROM THE READERS’ EDITOR The tools of prejudice, once unleashed, do not diferentiate one community from another Serendipity and zemblanity There are reports on oicial igures and explanations Sandeep Bhardwaj regarding growth, but there is a gap in critiquing big data U.S. President Donald Trump, in his address to Congress, may have de- figures at an election rally at Maharajganj in nounced the killing of Indian engin- Uttar Pradesh. “On the one hand are those eer Srinivas Kuchibhotla in Kansas, [critics of note ban] who talk of what people but it is hard to ignore that his own at Harvard say, and on the other is a poor polarising presidential campaign has man’s son, who, through his hard work, is directly led to the current intolerant trying to improve the economy,” he said. This climate in the U.S. was indeed a powerful political rhetoric that A.S. Panneerselvan On the surface, this killing may may well resonate with the people. But does seem like a case of mistaken identity. it really address the problems relating to big In a misguided stab at self-preserva- William Boyd in his 1998 novel, Armadillo, data collection, its analysis, and the models? tion, some NGOs have recommended created an antonym for serendipity. He Ever since the government decided to to the Hindu community in the U.S. called it zemblanity. If serendipity implies change the base year for GDP calculation that they should appear more “assim- pleasant discoveries by chance, zemblanity is from 2004-2005 to 2011-2012 under Prime ilated” or highlight their identity. But “the faculty of making unhappy, unlucky and Minister Modi’s regime, there are more ques- doing so would be to ignore a crucial expected discoveries by design.” The novel tions than answers about almost all our eco- lesson from this tragedy: the tools of revolves around these twin poles of serendip- nomic data. We are still not sure about the prejudice, once unleashed, can be in- ity and zemblanity, bringing out our daily life quantum of notional increase as against the discriminating in choosing their that oscillates between utopian dreams and a real increase in GDP because of this shift. targets. dystopian reality. Second, to have a comparative analysis, we Last week, I was torn between serendipity need data that are aligned to a set of rules Historical persecution and zemblanity. I was asked to review a book and categories without introducing a new The first Indian migrants to reach the for Frontline magazine, Weapons of Math De- variable. But this was not available even for U.S. understood this lesson well. Ar- struction, by Cathy O’Neil. Dr. O’Neil started the latest Budget figures. riving in the beginning of the 20th the Lede Program in Data Journalism at century, they faced severe persecu- Columbia. Her earlier book, in collaboration tion and bigotry. For decades before Driven out: “The irst wave of Indian migrants to the U.S. became the target of resentment from white workers.” with Rachel Schutt, Doing Data Science,re- their arrival, American society had ‘The Bellingham Herald’ dated 1907 reports the persecution of Indians in Bellingham, Washington. SOURCE: PAUL ENGLESBER mains one of the finest textbooks in big num- been perfecting the mechanisms of ber-crunching. However, her latest book ex- oppression against various com- Chinese workers were similarly descent”, the same as Europeans. ship to American citizens in re- plains the inherent problems in big data. She munities: the Japanese, Chinese, driven out of Tacoma. But this obstacle was quickly over- sponse. However, it was little more establishes the ironic relationship between Koreans, African-Americans and Nat- Marginalisation of Indians was come. Racist propaganda admitted than a symbolic gesture. the high assumptions behind mathematical ive Americans. Now these tools could widespread. They were not allowed that the Americans were distant Over the next decade, the U.S. gov- models and the inequality they breed. The be turned against the Indians. into local unions or churches. In cousins of northwestern Indians. ernment used the Supreme Court assumptions are that mathematical models The first wave of Indian migrants many towns, local real estate agents However, “our forefathers pressed to ruling to strip citizenship of many In- would ensure greater fairness, eliminate bias, to the U.S. was a few thousand in refused to sell them property. Col- the West, in the everlasting march of dians who had been naturalised. The and judge by universal rules. But in reality, GETTY IMAGES/ ISTOCK PHOTO number, consisting mostly of un- lectively referred to as Hindus — al- conquest, progress and civilisation. ruling was reversed only in 1946, al- the book explains how these models become skilled farmers from Punjab and though most early migrants were The forefathers of Hindus went east lowing a hundred Indians to immig- toxic by reinforcing stereotypes, by being The Budget that was presented on Febru- former soldiers of the British empire. Sikh — they were mocked by the me- and became enslaved, effeminate, rate to the U.S. every year. But it was opaque and incontestable, even when they ary 1, 2017 removed for the first time the dis- Making their way via Canada, these dia. Several local politicians and offi- caste-ridden and degraded,” one ex- not until 1965, when American im- are wrong. Reading Dr. O’Neil’s book was a tinction between plan and non-plan categor- migrants first arrived in Washington cials openly endorsed violence clusionist leader wrote. Partly due to migration laws were reformed, that moment of serendipity to learn about the ies. The government also merged the Railway where they found work in the lumber against them to keep “the East Indian such propaganda, by 1917, immigra- the second wave of Indian migration tyranny of numbers. Budget with the Union Budget. One has to industry. Just months after their ar- on the move”. Immigrants from tion from India and other Asian to the U.S. could begin. first actively disaggregate the figures sector- rival, they became the target of re- other parts of Asia had been facing countries was practically barred. India’s growth story wise and department-wise to compare the sentment from white workers who such persecution for many years; In- These absurd racial theories Tools of prejudice The zemblanity moment happened when the figures with earlier estimates and arrive at were afraid of cheap Asian labour. On dians were just added victims. reached their crescendo over the The hostility that early Indian mi- Central Statistics Office (CSO) retained its some meaningful comparisons. In this con- September 5, 1907, a mob of several By the turn of the decade, most In- struggle for naturalised citizenship. grants to the U.S. faced was not due January estimate for growth in gross do- text, there is no conclusive method to under- hundred white people rounded up dians had been driven out of Wash- In 1922, the U.S. Supreme Court de- to their actions or the history of their mestic product (GDP) in 2016-17 at 7.1%. If stand the real impact of demonetisation on about 700 Indian workers and forced ington. Along with new immigrants, clared that “white persons” eligible country of origin. It was a mechan- these figures were right, it meant that inde- India’s growth story. According to Pronab them to leave the town of Belling- they made their way to California, for American citizenship had to be of ism already in place, actively op- pendent economic forecasters had got their Sen, former chief statistician of India, the in- ham. Two months later, 500 Indian where the Indian population reached the Caucasian race. The decision was pressing other communities for dec- estimates about the potential slowdown due formal sector in India accounts for about 45% workers were similarly driven out of close to 3,000. However, here too, aimed at excluding the Japanese. In- ades. Given the circumstances, it was to demonetisation completely wrong. This of gross domestic product (GDP) and nearly the town of Everett. Indian workers the forces of racism greeted them. A dians, hoping to circumvent the rul- almost natural that the hostility newspaper’s Editorial, “Resilience reaf- 80% of employment. If this sector is not in Tacoma were attacked by another pre-existing ‘Japanese and Korean ing, made the case that “high-caste would turn on Indians when they firmed” (March 2, 2017), reveals the dilemma taken into account, then the metadata not mob, although in this case they man- Exclusion League’ was quickly re- Hindu, of full Indian blood” were, in reached American soil. It is ironic in accepting these figures at face value. It only remains inadequate but also may be aged to fight back. named as the ‘Asiatic Exclusion fact, Caucasian. In 1923, the U.S. Su- that discrimination, when choosing read: “The Survey had also made a caution- seen as a deliberate move to mislead. The total number of Indians in League’ and its members trained preme Court ruled in United States v. its victims, can be highly indiscrimin- ary assertion that recorded GDP growth While this newspaper has done an excel- Washington could not have been their guns on Indian immigrants. Bhagat Singh Thind that intermar- ate. In early 20th century U.S., the would ‘understate’ the overall impact of de- lent job in reporting the official figures and more than 2,000, which was hardly “Wholesale landings of large number riages between Aryan invaders and same forces of oppression that tar- monetisation as ‘the most affected parts of explanations, there is a gap in interpreting an economic challenge to the state’s of Hindoos” was widely decried. “dark-skinned Dravidians” over the geted Indians were also persecuting the economy — informal and cash based — and critiquing big data. With policy decisions population of over one million at the centuries had destroyed the purity of other communities. It is this history are either not captured in the national in- becoming a product of mathematical models time. Yet the xenophobic mob was Racial theories Aryan blood in India. Hence, Indians that’s in a way, tragically, illuminating come accounts or, to the extent they are, and data, it is worth creating in-house expert- quick to act and could do so with im- At first, Indians proved to be a chal- could not be considered as “free today. their measurement is based on formal sector ise in this crucial area as the next step in pub- punity because it was an established lenge to the half-baked racist ideolo- white persons” and given American indicators.’ When dealing with statistics, it is lic interest journalism. practice in the state for over two dec- gies prevalent at the time. South Asi- citizenship. In 1926, the Indian cent- Sandeep Bhardwaj is with the Centre for safer to keep all the caveats in mind.” ades. It had begun in 1885, when 500 ans were believed to be of “Aryan ral legislature banned Indian citizen- Policy Research, New Delhi Prime Minister Narendra Modi used these [email protected]

CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC SINGLE FILE FROM ARCHIVES Stealing the initiative FIFTY YEARS AGO MARCH 6, 1967 Rajasthan Opposition leaders held The BJP has scored a win with the The Rajasthan United Front opposition leaders took out a scrapping of the steel lyover project mammoth black flag procession to-day [March 5, Jaipur] to in Bengaluru protest against the Governor’s decision to call the Congress to form the Government in the State. Five opposition leaders T.M. Veeraraghav were taken into custody, besides others numbering more than a hundred, for defying the order under Section 144 Cr. Usually, things made of steel are ex- P.C. in force in certain parts of the city... Raising anti-Congress pected to last a long time. But a pro- and anti-Governor slogans and shouting “save democracy”, posed steel lyover in Bengaluru, the procession started this morning from the heart of the commissioned by the Congress gov- pink city and proceeded towards the Governor’s residence. ernment in Karnataka at a cost of ₹1,791 crore, ended up being a political steal for the BJP. The project, to A HUNDRED YEARS AGO MARCH 6, 1917

K. MURALI KUMAR construct a 6.7 km-long six-lane lyover, was proposed in 2010, ironic- Jubbulpore bribery case: D.T.S. convicted ally when the BJP was in power, to deal with Bengaluru’s no- torious traic situation. It was mentioned in the State budget At the Allahabad High Court to-day (March 6, Allahabad), Mr. in 2014, estimated at that time to cost ₹1,130 crore. Justice Tudball and Mr. Justice Rafique delivered judgment in However, in September 2016, when the State Cabinet the case against J.H. Frere, lately District Traffic Superintend- cleared the project, it put the cost at ₹1,791 crore. Resident CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC ent G.I.P Railway, Jubbulpore, and his cook, in connection with alleged taking of bribes from his subordinates. Their groups called it “obnoxious” and galvanised to protest against CONCEPTUAL SHELF HELP it. They formed an extraordinary human chain along the Air- Lordships dealt with the evidence in full and found both ac- port Road where the lyover was to be constructed, and dis- cused guilty, remarking, when dealing with his financial posi- cussed it on Twitter where it trended as #SteelFlyoverBeda Structures of Understanding India, the outlier tion, accused Frere made no attempt to explain how he spent (We don’t want a steel lyover). so much money without drawing on his account, and holding Congress leaders dismissed the protests and alleged that it feeling/ A quick guide to national and State elections that in spite of discrepancies, the evidence was in the main was a motivated campaign by the BJP and a Rajya Sabha MP, Cultural theory true against the accused and that Frere had taken bribes Rajeev Chandrashekhar, who is seen to be close to the BJP. Srinivasan Ramani 2014. Pradeep Chhibber the State level and its im- through the medium of his cook. Apart from civil society and well-known personalities, the and Rahul Verma write pact on the regionalised Namma Bengaluru Foundation, which is funded by Mr. Raymond Williams de- With 29 States and two that a vote shift to the right and fragmented national Chandrashekar, played a key role in the protests. veloped the concept to de- Union Territories having on economic policy, and polity since 1989. CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC scribe the emergence of The government, however, was determined. Even serious legislative assemblies, and upper and non-dominant That India has success- DATA POINT questions about how the cost of the lyover was calculated, thought formations within a growing trend indicating OBC consolidation be- fully imbibed electoral tenders allegedly without due process were awarded, and a a particular historical that the State has become nefited the BJP in Hindi- democracy is evident in stay order by the National Green Tribunal did not deter it. period, not only as a non- the most crucial terrain for speaking areas. the near-uniform rise in idealist, but also as a non- political contests in India, The Lokniti surveys voter turnout across most Corruption allegations formal version of a zeit- elections are more than help provide a time series- State elections over the Things began changing when BJP State president B.S. Yeddy- geist or a world view. Feel- just a five-yearly affair. like data on voter choice, last decade. A stable oper- urappa claimed, about a month ago, that he had evidence to ing is not defined in con- This is more the case now preferences on socio-eco- ationalisation of regular le- prove that large “kickbacks” from awarding contracts for the trast to thought, “but as every Assembly election nomic issues, and reasons gislative elections with a project were paid to Congress leaders. Initially this was dis- thought as felt and feeling result is seen as a referen- for voter participation. great degree of contesta- missed as a political allegation but later, when Mr. Yeddy- as thought”. Williams dum on the performance They even address the tion has been a norm too, urappa said that he would make public the contents of a diary wanted to go beyond form- of the BJP-led government puzzle as to why India irrespective of whether or belonging to Congress MLC K. Govindaraj, the issue began to ally held beliefs, the offi- or of the Prime Minister. seems an outlier among not the States are relatively simmer. The Congress, in turn, released a video of a purported cial discourse and received Suhas Palshikar, Sanjay other electoral democra- poor in economic indices. conversation between Union Minister Ananth Kumar and Mr. wisdom, to articulate a Kumar and Sanjay Lodha’s cies. India is among the This has belied most West- Yeddyurappa, claiming that they were conspiring against the process whereby mean- Electoral Politics in India: few countries where the ern political scientists’ re- State government. ings and values are con- The Resurgence of the Bhar- poorer segments vote in search studies which aver The contents of the diary were then “leaked” to the media. tinually generated, and po- atiya Janata Party has in- much larger numbers than that democracy tends to They suggested that bribes amounting to ₹65 crore were paid sitions taken, in actual, sightful essays that explain the well-off. The surveys consolidate further only in to the top leadership, sending the Congress into damage-con- lived social experience. the dramatic shift in 2014 indicate confidence countries that have strong trol mode. The BJP demanded a CBI probe. that saw the beginning of a among voters in elections economic indices. Demo- CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC The State government, which had until then held a tough CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC long slide for the Congress as they believe that regis- cracy and Development stand, was forced to retreat in order to avoid further snow- MORE ON and the converse for the tering an electoral man- (Adam Przeworski et al.) is BJP. Drawing from surveys date is empowering. an example of a quantitat- balling of the controversy. This meant that the BJP won politic- THE WEB ally. Given that there is only a year left for the State Assembly led by the Lokniti team of Palshikar, K. C. Suri and ive analysis of elections elections, the State government buckled under pressure. thehindu.com/opinion theCentrefortheStudyof Yogendra Yadav’s Party across countries. This Nothing has changed in Bengaluru’s traic situation Developing Societies, this Competition in Indian should lead researchers to though. After he announced that the project was scrapped, Bangalore-Chennai in volume offers a useful in- States: Electoral Politics in go beyond such methods Minister for Bengaluru Development and Town Planning K. J. 20 minutes or Mumbai- dex of what the determin- Post-Congress Polity relies to study the resilience of George was asked if there was an alternative project to ease the Chennai in 50? ants of voter choice in fa- on rich information on electoral democracy in traic. His answer: ask Rajeev Chandrashekhar. http://bit.ly/HyperloopIndia vour of the BJP were in political contestation at countries like India.

NOIDA/DELHI THE HINDU 10 NEWS MONDAY, MARCH 6, 2017 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE FROM PAGE ONE Attacks on Indians put MEA under pressure SikhshotatinU.S. Besieged by complaints from PIOs and NRIs, India can do little in the case of citizens of another country Hate crime convicts face en- have been extremely re- hanced punishment. sponsive. Suhasini Haidar the matter and address the egories, though there is little “Thoughts and prayers to “Both of them met with NEW DELHI issue”, while West Bengal jurisdiction or official re- family and the entire Sikh the Sikh community repres- External Affairs Minister Chief Minister Mamata sponsibility for India when it community in the wake of entatives yesterday and Sushma Swaraj was quick to Banerjee tweeted, “Two comes to U.S. citizens. An- the horrific shooting. This reached out to the family. react on Sunday to the shoot- more shocking killings of In- other problem that is emer- must be investigated as hate But we want to tell the na- ing of a Sikh U.S. citizen in dians in the U.S. GOI (Gov- ging is the panic over all in- crime,” Ms. Jayapal tweeted. tional leaders that silence is Washington, the third attack ernment of India) must take cidents involving citizens of “It was around 8 p.m. on not acceptable,” he said, on a person of Indian origin this up with the U.S. govern- Indian extraction being Thursday. The shooter ap- adding that the election in the past two weeks, even ment on an urgent basis.” called racially motivated at- proached the victim and campaign has added to the as the External Affairs Min- Despite the pleas, how- tacks. started cursing him, asking sense of insecurity in the istry faces concerns domest- ever it is unclear what the In- On Sunday, Ms. Swaraj him to go back to his coun- community. The Indian ically over the safety of Indi- dian government can do, es- fended off an enquiry from a try. ‘This is my country,’ he community around Seattle ans in the U.S. pecially given that two of the gentleman appealing for said in response. Then the had planned a vigil in Bel- “I am sorry to know about men attacked are U.S. help with his passport after attacker tried to hit him and levue on Sunday in memory the attack on Deep Rai, a U.S. citizens. the death of his nephew in this led to a scuffle. The Sikh of Kuchibhotla. “We hope it national of Indian origin. I Boston which, he wrote, gentleman blacked out and will give us the space to dis- have spoken to Sardar ‘Can’t be fixed easily’ seemed to be “one of those when he woke up after a few cuss more about the situ- Harpal Singh, father of the “The problem is of intoler- hate crimes”. moments, he realised he ation in this place too,” Mr. victim,” Ms. Swaraj tweeted, ance and hate, and that is “Our Consulate in New was shot at,” Jasmit Singh, a Singh said. adding details about the bul- not something you can fix York has spoken to the father Seattle-area Sikh com- “While we appreciate the let injury he sustained in his Shaken community: A candlelight vigil for the victim of the shooting in Kansas. AFP easily, in India or in the U.S,” of the deceased in Massachu- munity leader, told The efforts of state and local offi- arm when a masked gunman says former Ambassador setts. He says this is a per- Hindu by phone. Mr. Singh cials to respond to attacks opened fire at him outside bassy in Washington ing the nature of the crime”, meet the family of Harnish K.C. Singh. “Also the Modi sonal family tragedy,” Ms. said Mr. Rai has never faced like this, we need our na- his home, allegedly shout- tweeted. though there is a suspicion of Patel, a convenience store government’s policy has Swaraj countered on Twitter, any specific threat, but the tional leaders to make hate ing, “Go back to your “Amb @NavtejSarna un- this being a hate crime, sim- owner who was killed as he been to treat the entire dia- correcting him. general sense of anxiety crime prevention a top pri- country.” derlined need to prevent ilar to the killing of an Indian was closing his shop for the spora as one large entity, not The incident is, however, among the Sikhs in the re- ority,” said Sikh Coalition In- “Amb @NavtejSarna such incidents and protect engineer, Srinivas Kuchib- day. As news of a third attack distinguishing between Per- an indicator of the task cut gion has been heightened terim Program Manager Ra- convyd r deep concerns to Indian community.” hotla, in a bar in Kansas in of a person of Indian origin sons of Indian Origin (PIOs) out for the government over over the last six months or jdeep Singh in a statement. US Gov [Indian Ambassador February, which is now be- in the U.S. spread, concern and Non-Resident Indians fears that hate crimes are also. “We hear stories of “Tone matters in our polit- Navtej Sarna conveyed deep Ascertaining crime ing investigated by the FBI. came in from other politi- (NRIs), which can become a legedly on the rise because people being stared at, ical discourse, because this concerns to the U.S. govern- The Ministry said the Indian On Sunday, Ms. Swaraj cians as well. problem.” of the anti-immigration rhet- made uncharitable and rude isamatteroflifeordeath ment] on recent tragic incid- Consulate in San Francisco said she had ensured that the Punjab’s Deputy Chief As a result, the Ministry is oric of the Trump comments at,” he said. for millions of Americans ents involving Harnish Patel was in “touch with local au- Indian Consul had reached Minister Sukhbir Badal urged finding itself besieged by administration. Mr. Singh said the Kent who are worried about los- & Deep Rai,” the Indian Em- thorities who are ascertain- Lancaster, South Carolina, to Ms. Swaraj to “intervene in complaints from both cat- (With PTI inputs) police chief and the mayor ing loved ones to hate.” Raj Bhavan staf UIDAI plugging data leak: Author Aadhaar data not quarters inaugurated Sameer Kochhar, facing an FIR after his expose, stands by his allegations misused: UIDAI Vijaita Singh have pointed to the loop- Staf to live in high-end quarters in A.P. New Delhi holes ... What is intriguing ‘Hi-tech encryption being used’ In the dock for writing an though, is a large number of Rahul Devulapalli stalled on the terrace, will Yuthika Bhargava Hyderabad article on the “security loop- media reports on an FIR be powered by solar energy. holes” in the Aadhaar sys- against me that I have not NEW DELHI After six decades, the staff tem, Sameer Kochhar, head even seen. This does come Dismissing reports of mis- of the Raj Bhavan will live in Water harvesting pits of a Gurgaon-based think across as an attempt to ma- use of Aadhaar biometrics high-end quarters replete A number of rain water har- tank, says he has only done lign and intimidate me into for identity or financial with modern facilities. vesting and bore recharging his “patriotic duty” and the silence, by who? I cannot thefts, the Unique Identifica- Giving way to the dilapid- pits have been constructed Unique Identification Au- say,” he said. tion Authority of India ated quarters are well-de- for water conservation. The thority of India has taken Mr. Kochhar said he was a (UIDAI) on Sunday said per- signed and attractive flats buildings also boast suffi- corrective measures after his reform historian and a sonal data held by it were spread over 2.7 acres. The cient fire safety measures “expose”. policy wonk related to di- secure. new residential quarter was and adequate parking. The Mr. Kochhar is the author Mr. Kochhar says his concerns are related to having the right gital, financial and social in- “There has been no incid- inaugurated by Governor Hyderabad Metropolitan of Modinomics, a book on the regulatory environment that prevents security breaches. clusion. He has authored ent of misuse of Aadhaar mount in both the cases.” E.S.L Narasimhan in the Water Supply and Sewerage development model fol- Modinomics, a book detailing biometrics leading to iden- Any unauthorised capture presence of Chief Minister Board has made provisions lowed in Gujarat when Nar- ceived. If this is a crime, FIRs data and also suspended the the development model of tity theft and financial loss of iris or fingerprint data or K. Chandrasekhar Rao, to supply treated water for endra Modi was Chief Minis- would have to be filed licences of some entities. So Gujarat under Prime Minis- during the past five years storage or replay of biomet- Deputy Chief Minister Mah- gardening. ter. “Is a deep state at work against everyone in the me- much of action has ter Narendra Modi. when more than 400 crore rics or their misuse is a mood Ali, and Home Minis- Apart from residential to steal Digital India?”, the dia.” He said the police were happened after my expose, “I have published 18 Aadhaar authentication criminal offence under the ter N. Narasimha Reddy, quarters, a school, com- article on Aadhaar published yet to contact him. “I have that shows that the UIDAI books so far, including on transactions have taken Aadhaar Act. among others. munity hall, and barracks in his Web magazine, Inclu- not been informed that there has not only accepted the subjects like Aadhaar, cyber place,” an official statement Further, addressing con- The project, which for security staff are also be- sion, on February 11, in- is an FIR against me,” he vulnerability but is also security etc. The govern- said. cerns over private agencies provides housing for of- ing constructed, which are cluded a video of how unau- said. working overtime to take ment has been supportive of Recently, a breach of hired by mobile operators ficers and staff of the Raj expected to be completed in thorised transactions are corrective action to make my work and quite a few re- Aadhaar data was reported and banks for e-KYC leading Bhavan, began 13 months two months. being done by misusing Corrective action Aadhaar more secure. The form initiatives have been in- after the UIDAI sent a notice to creation of parallel data- ago. A total of 152 flats have The original Raj Bhavan stored biometrics. The Delhi Mr. Kochhar said the video electronic trail of the video fluenced by my work. I have to three firms for possible base, the statement said been constructed with three quarters was constructed in police registered an FIR evidence that he posted was evidence for the story is been supportive of Aadhaar unauthorised authentica- Aadhaar authentication or variants of quarters — 1956 with load bearing against him under the newly sent by a person. available with us. No one has and have described it as a tion attempt and storing of e-KYC was only available to type-A, type-B, and type-C. structures and lime con- implemented Aadhaar Act “Subsequently, the UIDAI sought that yet,” he said. way to Digital Deliverance in biometric data. The notice it authorised agencies whose To make the project eco- crete, which later became for spreading rumours. issued a notice to that per- He said he had shared his my last book. My concerns had served was shared appointment, responsibilit- friendly, the premises has dilapidated and unusable. In an e-mail response to son, clearly stating that he concern with all relevant essentially are related to hav- widely on social media and ies and statutory obliga- been designed with the After the inauguration, the The Hindu, Mr. Kochhar said: has indeed successfully done government officials, including the right regulatory en- questions were raised over tions, and penal provisions green building concept, Governor and the Chief Min- “I have only done my patri- transactions using stored ing the UIDAI, through vironment that prevents se- the safety of Aadhaar data. for contraventions were which includes green cover ister inspected the new otic duty by writing a story biometrics which is illegal. mails, confidential commu- curity breaches and lays out Describing the incident as clearly provided for in the on 20% of the total area. building and felicitated the on the vulnerability in the Subsequently, they also an- nication and social media, processes to be followed an “isolated case of an em- Aadhaar Act and the The buildings, which have officers involved in the pro- Aadhaar system, based on nounced new steps on hard- and despite this, an FIR was while making technology ployee working with a regulations. roof-top solar systems in- ject. the inputs and evidence re- ware encryption of Aadhaar filed against him. “Well, I choice decisions,” he said. bank’s business correspond- ents’ company”, the author- Customer consent CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC ity said the employee had at- “Banks or mobile operators Will Indians rush to tempted to misuse his own have to become UIDAI’s au- In for a penny, in for a pound biometrics. This was detec- thentication user agencies ted by the UIDAI internal se- and authentication service Australian varsities? curity system and sub- agencies to obtain e-KYC sequently action under the data of their customers from Variety of factors may be responsible Aadhaar Act was initiated. the UIDAI. The e-KYC data The UIDAI said it had can be given by the UIDAI to R. Ravikanth Reddy sultants, a big player in over- “carefully gone into these these agencies only after HYDERABAD seas education consultancy reports”, and asserted that they obtain consent of their Will it be a blessing in dis- here. the “Aadhaar system has the customers and can be used guise for Australia, Canada He says the enquiries capability to inquire into only for the purpose for and New Zealand education about Australia have multi- any instance of misuse of which it was obtained,” it sector with recent incidents plied compared to last year biometrics and identity said. in the United States negating and it was evident from the theft and initiate action. “Violations of the provi- the positivity attached to it? interactions that parents and UIDAI uses one of the sions attract strict penalties A variety of factors may students were worried about world’s most advanced en- under the Aadhaar Act increase Indian students’ the stringent policies pro- cryption technologies in which will be enforced rush to Australia that has posed by the US President. transmission and storage of strictly,” the statement said. already seen a huge influx in The H1B reforms bill and ru- data. As a result, during the More than 111 crore 2016 itself, much before in- mours of OPT period being past seven years, there has people have Aadhaar in In- cidents in the US created cut from the present three been no report of breach or dia, covering more than some nervousness among years were apparently play- leak of residents’ data out of 99% of the adult population. Indian students. India was at ing on the students’ minds. UIDAI.” According to official data, the second place with 11 % “I am predicting a huge Further, the authority more than 4.47 crore people share of all international stu- swing towards Australia and said it continuously updated have opened bank accounts dents after China’s 27.5 %. Canada this year as they of- the security parameters and using Aadhaar e-KYC. The growth of Indian stu- fer Post Study Work and in undertook security audits. Aadhaar has helped the dents was 8.9% compared to the case of Australia it has in- government transfer LPG 2015. troduced additional points Criminal offence subsidy under the PAHAL “Political atmosphere and in Permanent Residency for On reports that there were scheme, MGNREGS pay- the environment of ‘un- STEM postgraduates. Fur- no extant regulations to pre- ments, scholarships and wanted’ have hit the morale ther, the annual wage re- vent storage and misuse of pensions directly into the of several parents as well, quirement is around e-KYC data, the UIDAI clari- accounts of beneficiaries and the recent violent at- A$54000 (less than fied that there were “strin- eliminating diversion and tacks have only enhanced U$50000),” says Ravilochan gent provisions in the leakage of funds by middle- the fears though they might Singh, a Sydney-based edu- Aadhaar (Authentication) men. The direct benefits not be true to a large extent,” cation consultant from Money market: A woman at a market in Imphal deals in small denomination notes and coins to pocket a commission. The huge Regulations governing the transfer has saved the gov- says Nishi Borra of Atlas Con- Global Reach. shortage of low-value currency has meant a windfall for such agents. RITU RAJ KONWAR usage of e-KYC data, includ- ernment ₹49,000 crore during storage and sharing, res- ing two-and-a-half years, the Union govt. clears promotions for over 9,600 border guards ident consent being para- release added. SSB to get 4,095 upgraded posts, followed by 3,024 for the ITBP and 2,484 for the Assam Riles

Press Trust of India March 2 will be implemen- The decision is being nel) of a battalion to the unit in a paramilitary or their sanctioned budgets. NEW DELHI ted with “immediate ef- seen as a major develop- next level of head con- Central Armed Police The modalities have been The government has ap- fect” and will ensure the ment to ease backlog in stable or havildar rank. Force (CAPF) that is cap- cleared by both the Union proved a long-pending pro- much-awaited first promo- promotions in the lower The move will not only able of operating inde- Home and Finance Minis- posal to give promotions to tion of 9,603 men and ranks of the three forces help in increasing promo- pendently to accomplish a tries,” the official said. over 9,600 paramilitary women. that had been stuck since tion chances to those ap- given task of rendering law Seniormost jawans in jawans in three border The Sashastra Seema Bal 2012. pointed at the lowest rung and order duties, conduct- each section, with about guarding forces by upgrad- (SSB) will get a maximum These frontier forces of these forces but will also ing patrols, guarding a crit- 15-18 years of service, will ing their posts, a move of 4,095 upgraded posts, had petitioned the govern- aid in better operational ical installation or laying be promoted as per the aimed at easing stagnation followed by 3,024 for the ment in 2013 requesting for management of the unit ambushes. latest orders and will be in the ranks. Indo-Tibetan Border Police upgradation of one con- while on a task, a senior of- “The expenditure for given duties to lead small The orders issued by the (ITBP) and 2,484 for the As- stable post in each section ficial said. these promotions will be teams, he said. Union Home Ministry on sam Rifles. (comprising 10-12 person- A section is the smallest borne by the forces from

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IN BRIEF INTERVIEW | RAJNATH SINGH ‘It’s an easy contest in U.P., BJP will win absolute majority’ We are getting tremendous support. It’s unexpected. We have fulilled expectations and will match it with 2014 performance, says Minister

■ Amit Baruah been so then BJP would have Development is obstructed If not you, then who? Vijaita Singh Udhampur to get its lost its credibility. when you discriminate on Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh has addressed over 100 the basis of caste, creed and ■ The Parliamentary Board first FM radio station election meetings, largely in Uttar Pradesh, as the Assembly Is it the strength of the religion. In a diverse country will decide this. UDHAMPUR polls reach their last and final stretch. In Delhi to clear files, Mr. government or the like India, you have to take Union Minister of State for PMO Jitendra Singh on Singh took time out to speak to The Hindu at his 17 Akbar Road weakness of the everyone along. Is there a shortlist? Sunday laid the foundation residence. Excerpts: Opposition? ■ stone for the first-ever FM Doesn’t the PM’s Everything is done there ■ station in Udhampur district How easy or difficult are public meetings, people No it’s the strength of the statement on kabristans [at the Parliamentary Board]. of Jammu and Kashmir. The elections in Uttar Pradesh raised their hands in government. have a communal We have not projected any project, consisting of a for the BJP this time? support. undertone? CM candidate; there are transmitter, a studio and a But the Opposition is many leaders. 100-metre tower, costs ■ It’s easy, not difficult at all If demonetisation is not fragmented… ■ It’s a wrong perception; around ₹10 crore. This radio because BJP will not only get an issue according to BJP, the PM is entirely secular. Has not having a CM face station would cover the a majority but an absolute then why did you raise ■ The Congress used to be a affected your prospects? adjoining five districts, the majority. this matter during your national opposition party, But your party did not minister said. PTI public meetings? not any more. For a healthy give the ticket to a single ■ I don’t think so. You must On what basis are you democracy, there should be Muslim candidate. have seen this in Chhattis- Worker electrocuted saying it’s an easy contest? ■ No, no, I didn’t raise it. We a strong Opposition. garh, Haryana and Maha- while repairing line People say it’s a difficult seldom raised the issue of ■ In Manipur, we have given rashtra — we did not project SRINAGAR one. notebandi among public ... How do you view the ticket to several candidates, anyone. There is no particu- A labourer was electrocuted only when someone in Op- Congress challenge including Muslims and Chris- lar formula. and another sustained injuries ■ We are getting tremendous position created a furore. It in U.P.? tians. Actually, they would allegedly due to sudden support. According to me, was not required. have decided this on the There are reports of restoration of current while it’s unexpected. I wasn’t ex- ■ Congress has lost its cred- basis of ‘winnability’. We clashes between the RSS they were repairing a power supply line at Budshah Bridge pecting this kind of support. Do you think the ibility among the masses. didn’t deliberately not give and Left parties in Kerala. here. “Mushtaq Ahmad died We have fulfilled expecta- government should have They have ruled for a long the ticket to Muslim candid- Does this concern you as on the spot while another was tions and will match it with been better prepared for period and they couldn’t ful- ates; Muslims are citizens of Home Minister? V.V. KRISHNAN injured after suffering electric 2014 performance. Whether notebandi? fil the basic needs of people. this country, so are shock,” a police official said. it’s the Prime Minister or the Even today, the percentage <> Nobody has put a ienced chief minister. Christians. ■ It is natural that I am con- The body of Mushtaq was Central government, there ■ You must have seen the of literacy in Congress-ruled question mark on cerned. I have requested the hanging from the pole for has been no credibility loss. CSO’s [Central Statistical Or- States is quite low, poverty the intentions of this What about the BSP But all political parties do Kerala CM several times to nearly two hours before Fire Nobody has put a question ganisation’s] data; they have has increased, and infra- challenge? give preference to caste… stop this violence and he government brigade personnel removed it. mark on the intentions of pegged the GDP growth at structure like roads, electri- should put an end to it. I PTI this government. Big de- 7% and it projected a growth city, water is not there. ■ The BSP is not a challenge. ■ We also look at ‘winnabil- have spoken to him in per- cisions were taken and de- of 7.1%. First, there was an ■ It’s difficult to decide this. The BSP and the SP-Congress ity’ of the candidate; we do son as well. He has assured EC wants defaulters monetisation was one of apprehension that GDP will What is your view of the BJP is contesting all seats. are fighting a losing battle. consider social equations. If me that he will do his best. barred from elections them. The Opposition was come down, it didn’t hap- role of ‘dynasty’ in Some places it’s the Sama- a person belonging to any NEW DELHI up in arms against demonet- pen. I was reading the state- politics? jwadi Party, in around 10 Are the BJP’s references to caste doesn’t win, then what Why don’t you make the The Election Commission isation and they expected it ment of World Bank CEO; seats some small parties are shamshaan (cremation is the point? Naga accord public? wants laws to be changed so will benefit them, but com- she has also said the same ■ I don’t think dynasty is a there. I think BJP has moved ground) and kabristan that it can bar those mon people have supported thing. big issue, but it is true that towards absolute majority. (graveyard) an attempt to BJP has written to the EC ■ Whatever is there in the ac- candidates who do not clear us. For some time, people members of one family keep consolidate Hindu votes? to check women in burqas cord, let me assure you that their water and power bills were troubled. You must Economists have raised replacing each other in the Will the family feud in the at polling booths. it will not affect the territ- from contesting the Lok have seen the television in- concerns about the hierarchy. I believe that a SP benefit Akhilesh ■ The Prime Minister’s state- orial integrity of any State. Sabha and Assembly terviews of people standing quality of the data. politician’s son should work Yadav? ment has been misinter- ■ I am not aware of the We want to wipe out insur- elections. It has asked the in queues outside the ATMs, for the party for at least 10 preted. His purpose was to letter. gency from the North-East. Law Ministry to amend the ■ ■ Representation of the People but they never questioned There could be a differ- years, if not more, and then I don’t want to get into highlight the discrimination Act, 1951, to that effect. PTI the intention of the PM or ence of opinion; it’s natural. I if he wants to come [into family politics; it’s their per- on the basis of caste, creed You are considered the Is there a deadline for the the government. Nobody put saw Mr. [P.] Chidambaram’s politics], he can. You cannot sonal matter. I don’t become and religion. That is why we BJP’s tallest leader in U.P. Naga accord? Two killed, 12 injured in a question mark on it. statement; Congress should stop anyone. happyifthereisariftinany believe in sabka saath sabka In case the BJP wins, will bus-truck collision oppose it. family. I don’t even want to vikaas. you become the Chief There is no deadline in such What kind of response did Why do you oppose Rahul Minister? JAUNPUR (UP) know the reasons [behind And if you think that our matters. you get for What are the other issues Gandhi on the dynasty the feud]. But it is also true political ideology is cultural Two passengers were killed ■ and over a dozen injured demonetisation in the in the election? front then? that within two years of com- nationalism, then it is the I already have a responsib- Gurmehar Kaur, a 20- when a roadways bus was hit public meetings you ing to power, SP started los- culture of India as espoused ility; I should not speak on year-old student, had to ■ ■ by a truck in Singramaur area addressed? The main issues are good Me, then my son, after that ing its credibility. The ex- by sages and saints; Vasud- this as I am a member of the leave Delhi as she spoke here early on Sunday governance and develop- his son, this is what dynasty pectations people had from haiv Kutumbakam, the whole Central Parliamentary against the ABVP… morning. Mithilesh Pandey ■ I will tell you, during huge ment. politics is about. SP were not fulfilled. world is a family. Board, which has to take the and Manager Rai died on the meetings, when I asked the The BJP has a proven track As far as I know of India’s decision on the process to be ■ Gurmehar should not have spot, while the injured have public about their response record of development and Who is your main temperament, people want a How does that sit with adopted to elect the leader of left, she should come back. been rushed to a hospital. PTI to demonetisation during my good governance. Had it not opponent in U.P.? seasoned, mature and exper- your development plank? the legislature party. There is no danger to her. In Varanasi, Day 2 to Modi Prime Minister’s roadshow turns holy town into Ground Zero again

Omar Rashid man resources, natural VARANASI wealth and willingness to Prime Minister Narendra work but “not the right gov- Modi on Sunday reaffirmed ernment”. his connection with Varanasi Quoting Mark Twain’s as he held another well-at- memorable lines on tended roadshow in his Lok Varanasi’s antiquity, Mr. Sabha constituency. Modi described the city as a At the end of the road- “living heritage”. “Every In- show, which passed through dian considers Varanasi their densely populated, winding own.” To develop Varanasi a roads, Mr. Modi said at a “little care” and removal of public meeting that it was his obstacles was all that was re- “dream” to develop the most quired, he added. “You have modern facilities in Varanasi the energy. But, bhaiyo aur while retaining its “soul”. behno,” Mr. Modi addressed The Prime Minister’s Shower of support: Prime Minister Narendra Modi waves to residents of Varanasi, “so roadshow began at the po- people during his roadshow in Varanasi on Sunday. PTI many governments came lice lines and passed through and went, but all they did the Chauka ghat before con- Vidyapeeth. He reiterated Modi would get credit for the was keep election in their cluding at the Mahatma his commitment to develop work,” he said. mind and only showed in- Gandhi Kashi Vidyapeeth. Varanasi just like the “world Mr. Modi accused the SP, terest in minor tweaking.” He received a resounding imagines it to be”, and said the BSP and the Congress of welcome from the crowd that since the BJP came to fostering a culture of exclus- ‘Roadshow a failure’ lined up along the streets power at the Centre, he had ive development unlike his The ruling party hit back at and those watching the pro- worked to improve the city’s call for Sabka Saath Sabka the Prime Minister, with ceedings from their bal- infrastructure and ensure Vikaas. Chief Minister Akhilesh Ya- conies. He waved at them that its residents had their “Their political culture is dav taking a dig at Mr. Modi from the sunroof of his cus- livelihood. kuch ka saath, kuch ka vikaas for holding back-to-back tomised SUV, which moved [development for a few]. It road shows in Varanasi. “PM at a snail’s pace, and reached Roads shabby runs through their veins, to held a roadshow but it was a its destination a couple of The Prime Minister accused win with the support of failure, so he is holding one hours late. the Samajwadi Party govern- some while neglecting the again, which will also fail. He “I have participated in ment of deliberately not re- rest. In democracy, every- will hold another roadshow many yatras but never ex- pairing the roads in the city one’s support and develop- and from there we don’t perienced a flood of people after work on putting elec- ment are necessary.” know how far way he might like today in Kashi,” Mr. Modi tric cables underground had The State, the Prime Min- go,” Mr. Yadav said at a rally later said at a rally at Kashi been completed. “They fear ister added, had all the hu- in Sonbhadra. Modi govt. anti-farmer, says Rahul Says it waives huge loans of the rich but poor ryots get no such concession

Press Trust of India pleted more than two-and- Sonbhadra (UP) half years in office, he has The Narendra Modi govern- not made good on his ment has waived loans “promise to give employ- amounting to ₹1.4 lakh crore ment” for two crore youths owed by 50 rich people, but everyyear. it has refused to write-off He slammed the BJP and ₹50,000 crore due from the BSP, and said only the poor farmers, Congress vice- Congress-SP alliance could president Rahul Gandhi said bring development to U.P. on Sunday. “Five women’s universities Addressing an election would be established in the meeting here, Mr. Gandhi State, free coaching would said, “I have myself seen the Divine help: Rahul Gandhi, left, with Akhilesh Yadav and his be ensured for poor chil- plight of poor farmers who wife, Dimple, at the Kashi Vishwanath temple. PTI dren, loans of the farmers are under tremendous would be waived off, and debts. I met the ‘benevolent’ Seeking to strike a con- amounting to over ₹70,000 students of government Prime Minister and urged trast, he said the previous crore within 10 days of com- schools would get ₹500 per him to waive the loans of UPA government headed by ing to power. month, while those who farmers worth ₹50,000 Manmohan Singh had Even as Prime Minister pass class 12th would get crore, but he declined.” waived farmers’ loans Narendra Modi has com- ₹30,000,” Gandhi said. CM ND-ND YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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ELSEWHERE Syrian plane crashes Probe needed on tapping: Trump near Turkey border Obama’s spokesman says neither the ex-President nor any oicial ordered surveillance on any citizen Agence France-Presse Ahrar al-Sham claims responsibility for Associated press Palm Beach shooting aircraft down; pilot rescued The White House on Sunday Agence France-Presse Fillon’s wife breaks called for Congress to follow silence over scandal Reuters up on President Donald Ankara PARIS Trump’s explosive and un- A Syrian military plane The wife of French substantiated allegation that crashed in Turkey on Sat- conservative presidential Barack Obama tapped his urday near the country’s candidate Francois Fillon phone during last year’s border with Syria, the Turk- broke her silence on Sunday election campaign. ish state-run news agency over the “fake jobs” scandal. In her first interview since A day after Mr. Trump’s Anadolu said. the allegations of nearly incendiary claim, his aides The plane crashed in the €900,000 ($950,000) in scrambled to limit the polit- Turkish province of Hatay, it pay, Penelope Fillon told Le ical fallout — admitting it was said, quoting provincial Journal du Dimanche that she still unproven and calling on Governor Erdal Ata as say- had carried out “a lot of Congress to investigate. ing that police and medical A view of the wreckage of different tasks” for Mr. Fillon Citing still undefined “re- teams were at the site. the warplane. REUTERS during his political career. AFP ports” of “politically motiv- A Syrian military source ated investigations”, press quoted by state television and ground search and Body of beheaded secretary Sean Spicer said said “contact was lost with a taken to a local hospital. German hostage found Mr. Trump was calling on military aircraft on a recon- The 56-year-old pilot was MANILA Congress to “determine naissance mission near the identified as Mehmet Suf- The body of Jurgen Kantner whether executive branch Turkish border”. han, and medical staff said (70), a German hostage who investigative powers were The Syrian rebel group he was not in critical condi- was beheaded by Islamist abused in 2016”. Ahrar al-Sham told AFP that tion despite some fractures militants, has been found, the Trump spokeswoman it had shot down a govern- in his spine. He is being Philippine government said on Sunday. The Abu Sayyaf, Sarah Sanders echoed those ment plane “as it was over- treated at a hospital in the comments. “If this Polarised electorate: (Clockwise from left) A Donald Trump supporter scules with a counter-demonstrator during a ‘People 4 flying Idlib province [in Hatay region, a hospital which has pledged allegiance Trump’ rally in Berkeley, California on Saturday; a supporter wearing a Trump mask and an anti-Trump protester. REUTERS, AP to the Islamic State, happened”, she told ABC, northwestern Syria] and spokeswoman said. murdered Kantner last week “this would be the greatest carrying out air strikes”. In an initial statement to after its demands for 30 abuse of power and over- surveillance on any U.S. cit- A monitor of the conflict, Turkish authorities, Mr. Suf- million pesos ($6,00,000) reach that has ever occurred izen,” Mr. Lewis said, adding the Syrian Observatory for han said his aircraft was were not met. AFP in the executive branch”. that “any suggestion other- Bernie Sanders speaks for Human Rights, said that a shot down on its way to Mr. Trump, who was tak- wise is simply false”. plane “which probably be- strike rural areas near Idlib 110 dead due to drought ing “meetings and phone U.S. Presidents cannot leg- longs to the Syrian regime in northern Syria, Anadolu in southern Somalia calls” at his golf course in ally order such wire-taps, unionisation at Nissan plant crashed in Idlib province. reported. He said he had MOGADISHU West Palm Beach, Florida, which require the approval The status of the pilot is un- taken off from Latakia in Some 110 people have died in has not commented publicly of a federal judge and reas- Agence France-Presse ers labour union filed a known and there are contra- Syria. Washington southern Somalia in the last on the allegations. onable grounds for suspi- complaint in May with the dictory reasons for the two days from famine and On Saturday, he tweeted: cion. Mr. Obama’s director of Senator Bernie Sanders National Labor Relations cause of the crash”. 66,000 displaced diarrhoea resulting from a “How low has President national intelligence James spoke on Saturday in favour Board claiming that Nissan Turkish Prime Minister Also, a UN humanitarian drought, Prime Minister Obama gone to tapp my Clapper told NBC there was of unionisation at a largely was using deterrence tac- Binali Yildirim, quoted by agency said on Sunday that Hassan Ali Khaire’s office said phones during the very sac- “no such wire-tap activity African-American Missis- tics against workers who Anadolu, said earlier that some 66,000 people have on Saturday, as the area red election process. This is mounted against the Presid- sippi Nissan plant, in an ap- showed signs of unionising. the cause of the crash was been displaced in five braces itself for widespread pearance that doubled as Approximately 3,000 shortages of food. REUTERS Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or ent-elect at the time as a can- unknown, but he pointed to months of fighting in Syria’s sick) guy!” He provided no didate or against his cam- Democratic outreach in the people turned out for the poor weather conditions at crowded northern evidence to back up this paign”. The Republican wake of Donald Trump’s Canton, Mississippi march the time. battlefield. Film shows Iran blowing claim. chair of the House Perman- election. Mr. Sanders was according to organisers. Inhabitants of the Turk- The U.N.’s OCHA agency out U.S. Fifth Fleet ent Select Committee on In- accompanied by actor “I am proud to join in ish border village of Saman- said Sunday that the Turkish TEHRAN Cardinal rule telligence, Devin Nunes, said Danny Glover and other of- fighting to give workers at dag said they heard a loud and Syrian opposition cam- A new animated film from Mr. Obama’s spokesman that his panel would look ficials from the NAACP, Senator Bernie Sanders at a Nissan’s Canton, Missis- noise at around 6:30 pm paign to capture al-Bab from Iran shows the U.S. Navy’s Kevin Lewis said a “cardinal into Mr. Trump’s claims. which is the largest African- pro-union rally in Canton, sippi, plant the justice, dig- (1530 GMT) and alerted the IS militants displaced Fifth Fleet being blown out of rule” of the Obama adminis- Also on Saturday, groups American advocacy group Mississippi, on Saturday AP nity and the right to join a police, the Dogan news 40,000 residents. the water in the latest effort in the United States. union that they deserve,” to build up the legend of the tration was that no White of hundreds of people rallied agency said. The office said another House official ever interfered for Mr. Trump in different Organisers demanded management threatened to Mr. Sanders told the crowd. Later in the day, the 26,000 residents have been country’s most celebrated that the company halt what illegally shut down the facil- Many manufacturers, general Qassem Soleimani. in Justice Department invest- cities — from Colorado’s Anadolu news agency repor- displaced in fighting around they said was “ongoing har- ity and terminate employ- particularly automakers, Director Farhad Azimi told igations, which are supposed State Capitol to Trump ted that the Syrian military Manbij, held by Kurdish-led local media that his 80- to be conducted free of polit- Tower in New York and the assment of African-Amer- ment if workers unionised, have set up plants in the pilot is in hospital having forces, and al-Khafseh, held minute Battle of the Persian ical influence. “As part of Washington Monument. ican workers who are or- and unlawfully interrog- U.S. south where unions been found after a nine- by IS militants. Al-Khafseh is Gulf II is “a response to the that practice, neither Presid- Supporters at the rallies ganising to form a union”. ated workers. are not as ingrained in the hour search. According to home to the main water sta- gibberish of Hollywood and ent Obama nor any White clashed with smaller groups They allege the factory’s The United Auto Work- social fabric. the Turkish report, the pilot tion for Aleppo, Syria’s American politicians”. AFP House official ever ordered of counter-protesters. was recovered during an air largest city. Xi’s ‘core leader’ status is airmed 4 IS-held areas in Mosul attacked Achievement of goals have to be aligned with President’s vision, says Premier Li Pace of operations has slowed recently amid several days of bad weather

Atul Aneja transition towards a “green” Agence France-Presse Beijing economy. Coal-fired plants, Mosul Amid preparations for a the principal cause of run- Iraqi forces attacked four ji- leadership overhaul later away air pollution, with a hadist-held areas in Mosul this year, China’s legislature power generating capacity on Sunday, the latest push in on Sunday focussed on Pres- of 50 million kilowatts or a battle for the city’s west ident Xi Jinping’s standing as more would be shuttered, that has displaced more the “core” leader, to steer and work on those utilities than 45,000 people since it the country’s political and that are under construction began. economic reforms, which would be stopped. “We will Iraqi forces have recap- are expected to yield a 6.5% make our skies blue again,” tured several areas in west growth in 2017. Mr. Li observed. Mosul since launching the In his annual work report, Mr. Li also stressed that push to retake it on Febru- Chinese Prime Minister Li Key meet begins: President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang China will beef up its mari- ary 19, but their pace slowed Keqiang signalled the con- at the opening session of the National People's Congress. AFP time and air defence capabil- recently amid several days solidation of power under ity, and strengthen border of bad weather, which mud- Mr. Xi as a strategic under- Comrade Xi Jinping at its year. The figure, though low- controls “to ensure that the dies streets and makes air taking, as China initiates pre- core” was the first among est for more than 20 years, sovereignty, security, and support more difficult. paration for the 19th Party the 17 tasks that China was “realistic and in keeping development interests of Congress in autumn. needed to accomplish. He with economic principles”, China are resolutely and ef- Largest IS-held centre Rescuing civilians: An Iraqi special forces soldier helps a family move from an Islamic State- Excluding Mr. Xi and Mr. highlighted that achieve- he observed. fectively safeguarded”. West Mosul is the largest controlled part of Mosul to an Iraqi forces-controlled area. REUTERS Li, the remaining five mem- ment of other goals such as He also warned that the urban population centre still bers of the Standing Com- economic development and Move to green economy notion of “Hong Kong’s inde- held by the Islamic State (IS) lice and Rapid Response Di- Service and Rapid Response cut if off from the IS-held mittee of the Politburo, rep- stable growth had to be Mr. Li’s address focused on pendence” will lead group, followed by the city vision forces are attacking are two special forces units town of Tal Afar, farther resenting the top leadership aligned with Mr. Xi’s vision, structural reforms, high- nowhere. He also rejected of Raqqa in Syria and the Al-Dindan and Al-Dawasa that have spearheaded oper- west. More than 45,000 of the Communist Party of thinking and principles. He lighting amplification of activities related to town of Tal Afar, which is neighbourhoods,” Iraq’s ations in the Mosul area, people have fled west Mosul China (CPC), are expected to specifically referred to the “supply-side” economics, “Taiwan’s independence”. located between Mosul and Joint Operations Command while the federal police are a since the push to retake it be changed. emergence new leadership concentrating on five areas, ”We will never tolerate the Syrian border. (JOC) said. Al-Dawasa in- paramilitary police unit. began, while over 2,00,000 In his presentation of the for the next five years at the including slashing outdated any activity, in any form or Black smoke billowed cludes the Nineveh Gov- The Iraqi Army is also tak- are currently displaced as a annual work report to the 19th Party Congress. industrial capacity in sectors name, which attempts to over west Mosul on Sunday ernor’s headquarters and ing part in the fight for west result of the battle to retake National People’s Congress, Mr. Li disclosed that a such as steel, and reducing separate Taiwan from the as Iraqi forces battled IS in a other government buildings. Mosul, with the 9th Ar- the city, which was launched Mr. Li stressed that following GDP growth of around 6.5% housing inventory. motherland,” Mr. Li said, fight marked by explosions Mosul is the capital of moured Division advancing on October 17, according to “the leadership of the Party or higher if possible in prac- The work report also highlighting the ‘One-China’ and continual automatic Nineveh province. through the desert sur- the International Organiza- Central Committee with tice, had been set for this highlighted China’s intent to principle. weapons fire. “Federal po- The Counter-Terrorism rounding the city, aiming to tion for Migration. Malaysia expels North Sex workers here are third-class citizens Colombo Korean Ambassador nottoallow In Russia, they operate outside the law and are highly vulnerable to both infection and abuse foreign judges

Kuala Lumpur reviewing bilateral ties Agence France-Presse more than 1,03,000 new sex workers. Ms. Maslova be- Agence France-Presse Saint Petersburg cases identified in 2016, up lieves that only legalisation Colombo Agence France-Presse Russian President Vladimir 5% on the previous year, of prostitution can bring an Sri Lankan President Kuala Lumpur Putin recently quipped that while the real total is likely to end to the abuses against the Maithripala Sirisena has re- Malaysia has expelled North Russian prostitutes are “the be significantly higher. women and aims to create jected a fresh appeal from Korea’s Ambassador, giving best in the world”. what she calls a “trade union the United Nations to allow him 48 hours to leave the But the reality is that Rus- Legal ban for sex workers”. international judges to in- country in a major break in sian sex workers operate in a “Russian prostitutes are ab- There seems little pro- vestigate alleged war-era diplomatic relations over hidden world outside the solute [outcasts] who have spect of this currently as offi- atrocities, vowing to not the airport assassination of law and out of sight — mak- no real way of defending cials and lawmakers back prosecute soldiers. the Kim Jong-nam half- ing them doubly vulnerable themselves,” says Silver conservative policies and “I am not going to allow brother of Pyongyang’s to infection and abuse, as Rose’s founder, Irina stress the importance of fi- non-governmental organ- leader. AFP journalists found after Maslova. Ms. Maslova (in her delity in HIV prevention isations to dictate how to North Korea has not ac- Kang Chol, N. Kroea’s envoy being granted rare access to 40s) says she spent six years campaigns. run my government. I will knowledged the dead man’s an illegal brothel. selling sex in the city before In Saint Petersburg, activ- to Malaysia. AFP not listen to their calls to identity but has repeatedly In a grand Stalin-era tower becoming an activist in 2003 ists estimate there could be prosecute my troops,” he disparaged the murder in- investigation, Malaysia’s For- block in the northwestern and one of the few public ad- between 4,000 and 6,000 said in remarks distributed vestigation, accusing Malay- eign Minister Anifah Haji city of Saint Petersburg, a The outcast: Irina Maslova, founder of Russia’s only NGO for vocates for prostitutes’ women who earn their living by his office on Sunday. sia of conniving with its Aman said. woman in her 30s opens the sex workers called Serebryanaya Roza. AFP rights. from prostitution. Only The UN on Friday criti- enemies. The Foreign Ministry said door of an apartment, intro- While prostitution is il- some 10% work on the cised Sri Lanka's “worry- “The Ambassador [Kong the expulsion is “part of the ducing herself as Inna, the sia for sex workers called out condoms and to offer sex legal in Russia, it is punish- streets, while most work in ingly slow” progress in ad- Chol] has been declared process by the Malaysian receptionist of this so-called Serebryanaya Roza, or Silver workers an HIV test. able by a fine of just 1,500 brothels in city apartments, dressing its wartime past, persona non grata” after government to review its re- salon. The women only Rose. The activist, Regina This is particularly im- rubles ($26). Activists say shared by a group of prosti- urging the government to Malaysia demanded but did lations” with North Korea, agree to speak because they Akhmetzyanova, spends her portant for prostitutes since this legal ban is often used tutes with a security guard adopt laws allowing for not receive an apology for which before Kim’s assassin- trust an accompanying activ- evening going to such infection rates in Russia are by police as an excuse not to and a receptionist, who special hybrid courts to try Pyongyang’s attacks on the ation were unusually cosy. ist from the only NGO in Rus- clandestine brothels to give currently growing, with investigate crimes against takes calls from clients. war criminals. CM ND-ND YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

THE HINDU NOIDA/DELHI MONDAY, MARCH 6, 2017 BUSINESS 13 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF A boon for tourists, techies fret Small businesses lobby for ‘India’s unemployment rate sees sharp decline’ NEW DELHI U.S. could roll out a red carpet for Indian visitors even as IT staf worry over H-1B rules to increase liquidity Contrary to market perception, India’s Vikas Dhoot unemployment rate halved NEW DELHI IT irms from 9.5 % in August 2016 Want a revamp of stock market trading regulations Amidst rising concerns over to 4.8 % in February this year H-1B visa prospects for In- will be hit: Ashish Rukhaiyar and among major States, a dian professionals, Indian MUMBAI sharp decline was registered Nasscom in Uttar Pradesh. According tourists to the United States Close to five years after the to the State Bank of India could soon have a smoother introduction of a separate Ecolash, during August 2016 entry process into the U.S. PRESS TRUST OF INDIA segment for listing of small NEW DELHI to February 2017, Indian and U.S. authorit- and medium enterprises unemployment rate in Uttar ies have kicked off talks to Industry body Nasscom (SMEs), market participants Pradesh registered the expand air connectivity with said that the U.S. decision are now looking at ways to maximum decline from 17.1 % more non-stop flights, allow- to temporarily suspend the increase the liquidity to at- to 2.9 %, followed by ing frequent Indian visitors expedited premium pro- tract more institutional and Madhya Pradesh (10% to quicker exits at the airport cessing of H-1B visas will retail investors. 2.7%), Jharkhand (9.5 % to under the U.S.’ Global Entry lead to process delays for With critical mass being 3.1 %), Odisha (10.2 % to programme and, most im- Lucrative catch: About 1.1 million Indians visited the U.S. in Indian IT firms too. attained, market parti- 2.9%) and Bihar (13 % to portantly, the prospect of 2015 and spent close to $12 billion. GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO However, Nasscom feels cipants are now lobbying 3.7%). PTI setting up a pre-clearance fa- that the move will not be a hard with the capital market cility at an Indian airport so tion ongoing with the Indian Office as part of the US–India “significant impediment” regulator to review the trad- Thyssenkrupp, Tata passengers may avoid delays government as well,” said strategic and commercial for the more than $110-bil- ing norms to increase liquid- Steel may end talks related to customs and bor- Fred Dixon, president and dialogue’s travel and tourism lion outsourcing industry. ity in the segment. One of LONDON der protection inspections at CEO, NYC and Company, working group. The U.S. has announced the main issues being pro- Widening the net: One of the main issues being proposed is Tata Steel may be U.S. gateway airports. New York’s official tourism About 1.1 million Indians that from April 3, it would posed is lowering the trad- lowering the trading lot size post listing. considering breaking of talks Such a pre-clearance facil- and marketing organisation. visited the U.S. in 2015 and temporarily suspend the ing lot size post listing, over a planned merger of its ity is currently available in “They are also talking spent close to $12 billion, ‘premium processing’ of which is currently pegged at quidity levels. Investors vestors and it is working European business with Abu Dhabi for travellers to about expanding the Global making it the seventh-largest H-1B visas that allowed ₹1 lakh. would certainly find it more fine. There is no need to dis- German conglomerate the U.S., drawing high Entry program for frequent market for U.S. travel and some companies to jump Minimum lot size refers to convenient to deal in SME turb the ecosystem at this Thyssenkrupp, according to a volumes for the UAE’s flag Indian travellers to the U.S. tourism exports. Over the the queue, as part of over- the minimum amount that stocks in small lots. That will juncture,” said Ajay Thakur, report in the U.K. media. The carrier Etihad’s direct flights to enable them to have faster last decade, travel and tour- all efforts to clear the back- an investor has to put in to also reduce pressure on Head BSE SME. merger talks had been to the U.S. These initiatives access at the border. That’s ism exports to India have trade in the shares of a market makers,” adds Mr. When SEBI framed the revealed by the Indian giant log. The suspension came last year as part of a major are being considered by a bi- under discussion and these more than doubled and now even as New Delhi pressed company. Lunawat. guidelines for the SME seg- restructuring of its U.K. steel lateral working group are very tactical ideas to im- account for 65% of U.S. ser- for a fair and rational ap- Merchant bankers are of ment, it intentionally kept business. A deal with the formed under the aegis of prove access and transit vices exports to India, and proach on the matter from Separate platforms the view that once the com- the minimum trading lot at German major could lead to the U.S.-India Travel and between the two countries,” U.S. Commerce Department a trade and business per- The country’s leading equity pany has been listed for a ₹1 lakh to keep out retail in- the formation of a European Tourism Partnership Year of- Mr. Dixon told The Hindu. expects a further 72% spective. bourses — BSE and the Na- certain period of time and a vestors since the view was behemoth with furnaces in ficially unveiled a fortnight The New York Metropol- growth in arrivals from India “The current issue of the tional Stock Exchange (NSE) trading history has been cre- that SMEs carry higher risk Wales, The Netherlands and ago. itan Authority area is home by 2021. There are only a few temporary suspension of — introduced their separate ated, the lot size could be compared to companies on Germany. However, ‘The “Some markets like Abu to the largest Indian popula- non-stop connections premium H-1B processing SME platforms in 2012. lowered to one share so that the main board. Sunday Times’ said the deal Dhabi has invested and re- tion within the U.S., he poin- presently between the U.S. will create some process While both have been pitch- retail investors can also par- “SEBI has been consulting may be under threat due to ceived pre-clearance facility ted out. Mr. Dixon was part and India operated by delays for the companies — ing their respective plat- ticipate if they are convinced the market on this issue and German pension liabilities. PTI for early immigration clear- of an official US delegation to United Airlines, Air India Indian and American — but forms to SMEs by way of with the quality and poten- reducing the lot size is likely ance in the U.S. There are New Delhi led by the US De- and Delta Air Lines, and sev- is not a significant impedi- awareness camps across the tial of the entity. to improve liquidity in se- China cuts growth goal, some advantages to that and partment of Commerce’s Na- eral one-stops through the ment,” Nasscom said in an country, BSE has marched curities on the SME plat- puts focus on reform that’s part of the conversa- tional Travel and Tourism Middle East and Europe. email statement. ahead in terms of numbers SEBI proposal form. It can be considered if BEIJING of companies. Asia’s oldest Incidentally, a formal pro- the regulator thinks it is ap- China has cut its growth stock exchange has seen 165 posal on behalf of Associ- propriate,” said a senior NSE target this year as the SMEs listing on its segment, ation of Investment Bankers official. world’s second-largest while NSE has close to 60 of India (AIBI), the umbrella Bankers say that the last economy pushes through Centre gives nod to sell three SAIL plants entities on board so far. body of merchant bankers, five years have shown that painful reforms to address a “There is marked im- is likely to be submitted there is enough appetite for rapid build-up in debt, and PRESS TRUST OF INDIA plants — Alloy Steels Plant, alities and timing of the stra- price, considering the valu- provement in trades in SME soon to the Securities and SME stocks and investors erects a “irewall” against NEW DELHI Salem Steel Plant and Vis- tegic disinvestment of the ation of the divesting plants. stocks, though many a time, Exchange Board of India have realised that the seg- inancial risks. The Centre has approved vesvaraya Iron and Steel three steel plants and pre- The strategic sale of these concerns over lesser liquid- (SEBI). ment is for investment and China aims to expand its ity still take centre-stage in Stock exchanges, how- not trading for quick gains. economy by around 6.5%, outright sale of state-owned Plant. pare a detailed operational three units is likely to hap- discussions on SME invest- ever, seem to differ over the “Given that most of the Premier Li Keqiang said in his SAIL’s three special steel The ‘Maharatna’ PSU is scheme to successfully im- pen only in the next financial work report at the opening units, including the Salem scouting for transaction ad- plement the process, indicat- year, beginning April. ing,” says Mahavir Lunawat, issue of lowering the lot size. SMEs are at the initial tra- of the annual meeting of and Alloy Steel plants. visers from professional con- ing tentative timelines for The government has Group Managing Director, While NSE favours a reduc- jectory of the business life parliament on Sunday. The In pursuance of the de- sulting firms, investment each activity. budgeted to raise ₹15,000 Pantomath Capital, an in- tion in lot size post listing, cycle, investors should have target is realistic and will cision, SAIL has now sought bankers and financial institu- The firm will also finalise crore from strategic disinvestment banking entity BSE believes that the current a longer investment hori- help steer and steady advisers, including legal and tions to provide advisory ser- the process of strategic sale vestment in 2017-18. specialising in the SME framework has worked well zon. The SME segment expectations, Li said. China merchant bankers, to carry vices and manage the disin- as to whether it will be done The Centre currently space. and hence should not be should not be perceived to set a target of 6.5 to 7% last out the strategic sale along vestment process. through bidding or auction holds 75% stake in SAIL, “Mitigation of lot size in changed. be a trading platform aimed year and ultimately achieved with transfer of management The transaction adviser and assist SAIL in fixing the which is the largest steel pro- secondary trades can be ex- “SEBI has made the SME at making immediate re- 6.7% growth. Reuters control in the three steel will advise SAIL on the mod- range of the fair reserve ducer in India. plored as a measure to aid li- guidelines for informed in- turns,” said Mr. Lunawat. 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GUEST COLUMN Policy drags e-commerce exports Law enforcement Exporters face restrictions in the form of poor incentives and debilitating fees, made worse by surging global competition in the digital era Arun S an average, further promo- e-commerce exports under NEW DELHI tion of Indian e-commerce the ‘others’-category. Pronab Mohanty hierarchical. If existing per- India had woken up to the exports is also expected to Jai Asundi sonnel are trained rigor- huge potential of e-com- lead to greater direct and in- Small-value shipments One consequence of the re- ously, on the other hand, merce exports when the direct employment genera- The exporters also said cent demonetisation was a there is the danger that they Centre decided to provide in- tion. presently, the Courier Ship- push towards the digitisa- will be poached by the centives in the Foreign Trade There is intense competi- ping Bill (CSB-II) did not sup- tion of the economy — a private sector. Policy (FTP) 2015-20 to pro- tion in the e-commerce export commercial small-value, move that will create trans- The more promising op- mote exports of goods hos- ports space, and several single-item shipment. The parency in the financial sys- tion is a Public Private Part- ted on a website and dis- countries are actively pro- Bill only supports gifts or tem. nership (PPP) to combat cy- patched through courier or moting e-commerce exports. samples, and has no provi- But this digital push must bercrime. Such a postal mode. For instance, the U.K. gov- sion for ‘commercial ship- be accompanied by greater partnership will draw upon However, exporters have ernment’s Department for ments’. Besides, the CSB–II is security of digital transac- the skills in the private sec- now identified several ‘re- International Trade (DIT) has highly cumbersome as it has tions to deal with the tor to train the police, while strictions’ under the FTP and an ‘E-Exporting Programme’ multiple fields and requires tsunami of cybercrimes that providing practical experi- related norms as ‘challenges’ to help U.K. companies sell lots of information to be fur- is bound to follow. India’s ence in dealing with cyber- that are preventing them their products or services nished even for low-value enforcement mechanisms, crimes to corporate employ- from maximising the poten- overseas through shipments, the FIEO said. laws and policies must be ees. Such models already tial of e-commerce exports. e-commerce. “The exporter is also un- re-examined immediately to exist and are fairly The FTP incentives for e- According to the U.K. gov- able to claim any FTP or tax ensure that the theft of data successful. commerce exports are only ernment’s website, the pro- input related benefits if he or money is dealt with for low-value goods —“falling gramme enables U.K. com- wishes to do so,” it said, sug- severely, swiftly and <> Public-private in the category of handloom panies to to get expert gesting that a new CSB form transparently. partnership is products, books and period- international trade advice be introduced and notified at A recent ASSOCHAM- critical to training icals, leather footwear, toys and support through a free the earliest. PwC study found that cyber- and customised fashion gar- meeting with DIT e-com- Another difficulty being crime in India surged almost the police ments, having free-on-board merce advisers. The pro- faced by e-commerce export- 300% between 2011 and value up to ₹25,000 per con- gramme also helps U.K. com- ers is that such exports 2014. The Indian Computer One example is the Na- signment and finalised using panies to develop and through India Post or via the Emergency Response Team tional Cyber Forensic Train- the e-commerce platform.” implement an international commercial courier mode (CERT-In), the national ing Alliance (NCFTA) in the The payment for goods e-commerce strategy, as well are ticked as “samples” or agency tasked with main- U.S., a non-profit platform purchased on e-commerce as to “set up on e-market- “gifts” and not as ‘Commer- taining cybersecurity, repor- that tackles cybercrime platform shall be done places and identify new e- cial Shipment’. Therefore, ted more than 50,000 se- through partnerships with through international credit marketplaces around the such documents are not “re- curity incidents in 2015. subject matter experts in or debit cards and as per the world to sell through, with cognised” or “acknow- With the push towards di- the public, private, and aca- Reserve Bank of India the DIT’s ‘Selling online over- Duty dampener: A major disincentive is that currently when a buyer sends an item back to an ledged” by Value Added Tax gital transactions, this num- demic sectors. A similar set- norms. seas’ tool.” e-commerce exporter, import duty is charged. GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO (VAT) authorities, despite ber will only grow. As smart- up in India is the NASSCOM- According to an assess- It also enables U.K. com- proof of receipt of foreign ex- phones become the affiliated Data Security ment with the Commerce panies to “access better than free-on-board value of from India, as well as health of ₹ 1 lakh). But on that change through bank realisa- preferred mode of transac- Council of India (DSCI). The Ministry and the apex body commercial rates to list on ₹25,000 only.” & beauty items, auto spare amount, he has to pay an ap- tion certificate. tions, hacking, phishing and DSCI sets up cyberlabs in for exporters in the country some e-marketplaces, in- It adds that “such goods parts and musical plication fee of ₹1,000, This leads to a situation malware based attacks are different cities and imparts — the Federation of Indian cluding lower commission can be exported in manual instruments. thereby reducing the actual where VAT and service tax serious concerns. The Nokia training. This model is now Export Organisations (FIEO) fees and ‘try for free’ mode through Foreign Post Also, in order to promote benefits. are not refunded in such malware report showed a ripe for scale-up across the — there are more than periods.” Offices at New Delhi, Mum- exports from the country’s “The fee may be reduced cases of e-commerce exports 96% surge in mobile device country and can be tapped 25,000 Indian companies, India’s e-commerce retail bai and Chennai. Export of micro, small and medium substantially or waived off to as there are no Custom- infections in 2016. into by the jurisdictional small and medium firms and exporters are also facing ma- such goods under Courier enterprises through e-com- give encouragement to this stamped documents in such The logistical burden police. entrepreneurs present on jor competition from their Regulations shall be allowed merce, the value limit for new and emerging mode of cases to prove ‘Commercial these incidents will place on In addition, we must re- the American multinational counterparts in China and manually on pilot basis availing MEIS benefits should exports,” the FIEO said. Shipment’, thereby reducing law-enforcement the judi- shape our current cyber- e-commerce company eBay South Asia. According to the through airports at Delhi, be enhanced up to ₹5 lakh A major disincentive is the competitiveness of In- ciary, will be enormous. Our crime laws to address the alone, exporting their items World Trade Organisation, in Mumbai and Chennai as per from the current level of that currently, when a buyer dian products. Also, an irrit- police infrastructure, which likely surge in offences relat- directly to the consumers 2015, e-commerce in goods appropriate amendments in ₹25,000 per consignment. sends an item back to an e- ant is the requirement of doesn’t yet have the capa- ing to digitisation. Given the across the world. and services was worth regulations to be made by In addition, they pointed commerce exporter, import multiple copies of invoice, city to handle existing cy- borderless nature of cyber- about $22 trillion globally, Department of Revenue.” out that the clearance pro- duty is charged. However, in making the export clearance bercrimes, will be strained crimes, state police agencies B2C exporters and has grown the fastest in The FTP further says that the cess under the MEIS scheme the case of exports other process for a seller via the e- to breaking point in the need to be able to pursue of- It is estimated that there are emerging economies. Department of Revenue shall is currently manual and not than through the e-com- commerce export route diffi- coming surge. fenders without worrying more than two lakh such In- As per India’s FTP 2015- fast track the implementa- EDI-enabled. Therefore, it is merce route, customs duties cult, expensive, paper-cent- Dealing with cyber of- about jurisdiction. To allow dian business-to-consumer 20, the incentives for e-com- tion of Electronic Data Inter- necessary to open EDI-based are exempted on return of ric and time-consuming es- fences necessarily means for this, a pan-India cyber- (B2C) exporters making use merce exports are under the change (EDI) mode at cour- clearance for e-commerce exported goods. pecially in a upgrading the capabilities of enforcement force must be of their own websites or Merchandise Export from In- ier terminals. export categories including Therefore, exporters feel technology-enabled environ- law enforcement, either considered. other e-commerce platforms dia Scheme (MEIS). The re- leather, apparel, home- that unless return of goods is ment, according to FIEO. through new recruitment or Such a force can become and social media sites. wards are in the form of ‘Raise incentives’ décor, ayurveda, organic exempted from customs tar- “Sellers need to sign and by imparting technical train- a one-stop-shop for digital According to FIEO, there freely transferable duty According to the exporters, food, sports goods and fash- iff, e-commerce retail ex- attach multiple physical doc- ing to existing personnel. monetary fraud and will go is a market opportunity of credit scrips (that gives duty though e-commerce is a ion jewellery. ports will not take off in In- uments and pay a commer- But this prescription comes a long way in assuaging the about $5 billion in the near- benefits for imports of inputs great medium for them to ex- Besides, they said, dia in a big way. cial clearance charge of with its own problems, not concerns of cyber-fraud vic- term, say in the next 2-3 / import of goods including pand their product lines, the through their apex body Also, there is no provision ₹1,000 to ₹1200 for every least being the supply of tims. Such a force will also years, for Indian e-com- capital goods / domestic pro- FTP currently limits incent- FIEO, that the application fee for ‘commercial shipment’ in shipment,” said Ajay Sahai, qualified people. be able to identify trends merce retail exports curement of inputs and ives to just a handful of was too high for e-commerce the forms provided by Cus- director-general and CEO, Given the salaries and and stop entities that prey provided the concerns of goods including capital items, thereby restricting the exports to avail benefits un- toms in Foreign Post Office of FIEO. “A single-product ship- perquisites in the public ser- on the gullibility of unin- such exporters are ad- goods, etc). growth of Indian exporters der MEIS. For instance, if an India Post. ment via private courier re- vices vis-a-vis the private formed citizens transition- dressed expeditiously by the The FTP, however, states using the e-commerce mode. exporter currently exports The options currently quires seven copies of in- sector, hiring qualified ing to the digital economy. government. that “if the value of exports They said the list of items four consignments each available are only ‘gift’, voices (self-declaration), people will be difficult. A (The views of Pronab Mo- Since a survey had poin- using e-commerce platform for incentives should be ex- worth ₹25,000 for a product ‘sample’, ‘documents’, ‘com- while India Post requires differential pay structure or hanty, IPS, DDG-UIDAI and ted out that those selling is more than ₹25,000 per panded to include jewellery, attracting 2% duty benefit mercial samples’ and ‘oth- three copies of invoices (self- fast-track promotions will Jai Asundi, Research Co- their items using eBay em- consignment, then MEIS re- which is among the biggest under MEIS, he gets a benefit ers’. Most customs authorit- declaration),” Mr. Sahai be problematic in the cur- ordinator, CSTEP are ploy about 6.5 employees on ward would be limited to finished product exports of ₹2,000 (for a total export ies are reluctant to allow added. rent system, which is strictly personal) Travails of NRIs COMPLIANCE MANTRA in exchanging Where safety supersedes everything else demonetised notes When you are turning tonnes of steel into cars, staf well-being becomes a priority. Hyundai’s head of safety explains why Facility available only at 5 RBI counters K. Bharat Kumar rules to save time and cost, it into other aspects of their Oommen A. Ninan CHENNAI neither calls for appreciation lives as well as those of their Thiruvananthapuram In a culture steeped in pride nor is it to be ignored. The family members. Non-resident Indians (NRIs) in breaking rules in daily life, team needs to be pulled up.” Using both lead as well as visiting India, especially for be they traffic regulations or lag indicators, the safety a short visit, to their native safety laws, how do you get Grievous injury team has come up with a places are finding it difficult people to comply inside a Mr. Kumar put it succinctly composite figure called the to exchange the demonet- factory? In a place that com- when he said, “Ninety-nine safety index. “From the man- ised currencies of ₹1,000 presses 250 tonnes of steel a times out of 100 that one aging director downwards, and ₹500 notes, as these day — steel that turns into a breaks rules, nothing hap- every one’s performance is notes can be exchanged car in about four hours, steel pens. But the once an injury measured as per the index.” only at RBI offices in Mum- that churns out cars at the occurs, it is grievous.” And Lead indicators that con- bai, New Delhi, Chennai, Travellers are to be present rate of about 90 per hour — that is one too many, in his tribute to the index are the Kolkata, and Nagpur. when the exchange occurs. Senthil Kumar R.M. has his view. What kind of accidents behavioural changes that the This is also impacting the GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO task cut out. can occur in a car factory? safety department has travel plans of many NRIs As head of health & safety “Not wearing arm sleeves or brought in. especially from Kerala, the eligible Resident Indi- at Hyundai Motor India, it is gloves while lifting heavy ma- “The number of near Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, ans, the limit for NRIs will Mr. Kumar’s job to ensure terial could lead to deep misses that could have po- Telangana and many other be as per the relevant FEMA that the close to 11,000 gashes. Getting into the tentially caused damage, Northern states who are Regulations, which allows people who work at the car- sweeping arc of a robot training programmes con- forced to visit these places an NRI to carry only a max- maker’s Chennai factory without switching off the ma- ducted, improvements to to exchange demonetised imum of ₹25,000 abroad, help churn out automobiles chine could lead to major in- safety in an assembly line are notes. Moreover, a traveller Overseas Citizens of India without danger to limb or jury.” Jaywalking on the shop all lead indicators.” Lag in- has to be present in person (OCI) and Persons of Indian life. “The indirect reward for floor can lead to accidents dicators obviously stem from at these offices with all the Origin (PIO), who are not In- breaking rules is high in the with vehicles that transport actual incidents or accidents Right signal: Hyundai‘s message to its staf has been that preventing injury is far more important travel documents. dian citizens, are not eligible minds of people,” according material. Incidents could in- that happen, the number of than an assembly line running uninterrupted. GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO In a notification issued on for this facility. to Mr. Kumar. “If a worker clude fire due to negligence. man-days lost due to injury, December 31, the RBI had can fix a problem in an as- For instance, a casual la- medical expenses and pro- <> Using both lead as well as lag indicators, To guard against damage said that a facility for ex- Immigration stamp sembly line without having bourer had once left thinner ductivity lost due to stop- our team has come up with a composite from fire, the safety depart- change of these notes had A copy of the passport with to stop production, he does material in a hot environ- page of a production line. ment has also trained about been made available for res- immigration stamp as proof not have to go through a hier- ment while leaving for lunch. igure called the safety index that helps seven teams in handling fire. ident and non-resident cit- of the individual’s absence archy of explanation to detail Sparks from a nearby ro- ‘Safety, not savings!’ track our performance Each team has about six to izens who could not avail from the country during the what happened.” In other bot had led to a minor fire. In Asked if his team had helped Senthil Kumar R.M. seven members and each of the facility from November period November 9, 2016 to words, quick fixes save time. 2008, another fire had led to save on costs, Mr. Kumar Head, Health & Safety, Hyundai Motor India the three daily shifts is de- 10 to December 30, 2016 on December 30, 2016 should But they also endanger the breakdown of a robot in said, “Our aim is to ensure signed to have one such team account of their absence be submitted. Passport in lives. “It happens across the the paint shop. Mr. Kumar safety, not save on costs.” lesser rate, going just above Hyundai has also appointed working. from India in the period. original also should be industry and not just one said, “There were two robots But cost savings are collat- 40%. Hyundai Motor also has 77 safety ambassadors hand- “Every member is trained While this facility will re- presented at the RBI company.” doing the top coat of paint. eral benefits. apprentices coming in to picked from each shop — as- across one of three func- main open for residents counter for verification. He refers to the case of a Since a robot doing the “The number of incidents work, fresh out of training in- sembly, body and paint tions: to put out a fire, to (who were abroad during There was about $115 bil- worker, in a competitor’s primer job was out of action of injury to personnel stitutes. They may not have shops. “They are trained to supply material such as ex- the specified period) from lion in NRI accounts in In- factory, investigating an due to fire, we had to use the dropped 30% compared been exposed to environ- be communicators and role tinguishers to the fire-hand- January 2, 2017 to March 31, dia. In 2015, a total of US$ unidentified object in the top-coat robot for the primer with last year, and about 70% ments with a strict culture models,” according to Mr. ling team or to move prop- 2017, NRIs can avail this till 68.91 billion was made in re- line. It is learnt that the job.” This, obviously, led to compared with 2008.” The for safety. In other words, Kumar. erty to safety and to June 30, 2017. mittances to India from worker, who was himself a productivity loss. company’s expenses on not complying with rules has Further, areas across the communicate to the manage- However, this facility will other countries. Around supervisor in the know of Mr. Kumar’s team focuses premium paid against fire in- typically not evoked punish- factory are earmarked as be- ment or fire departments in be made available through 40% of India's remittances rules, and trained to switch on educating staff and relent- surance had also dropped in ments in their earlier lives. ing the responsibility of a set an emergency.” only five of the offices of the flow to the states of Kerala, off the assembly line in case less communication with relative terms. While the sum “These are barriers to be- of such ambassadors with If a member is not in any RBI at Mumbai, New Delhi, Tamil Nadu, Punjab and Ut- of emergency, did not do so them to get safety to be top assured against fire, which coming safety-conscious,” their photos displayed prom- of these three functions, he Chennai, Kolkata, and tar Pradesh which are and was fatally sucked into priority for workers across runs into several thousand said Mr. Kumar. This neces- inently. “This brings a sense or she is trained to get to a Nagpur. among the top international the machine. all levels in the company. He crores every year, has gone sitates continuous of ownership in maintaining safe assembly point quickly While there is no monet- remittance-dependent eco- “If a supervisor permits a said that doing so also up 50% since 2011, the messaging. safety and cleanliness in for the customary ary limit for exchange for nomies of the world. subordinate to circumvent helped the message seep premium paid has risen at a The safety department at those areas.” headcount. CM ND-ND YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

THE HINDU NOIDA/DELHI MONDAY, MARCH 6, 2017 SPORT 15 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF Australia’s batsmen dig in to take vital lead Matt Renshaw and Shaun Marsh hit determined half-centuries as Kohli’s bowlers toil hard K.C. Vijaya Kumar We are very much in BENGALURU Often on Sunday, Virat Kohli Detroit Pistons gesticulated to the crowd. the game: Pujara The message was clear: bounces back Principal score many runs,” he said. WASHINGTON make some noise. The fans Correspondent “Inaway,itwasa[small] BENGALURU Detroit Pistons shook off a at the M. Chinnaswamy Sta- victory for us. We bowled disappointing NBA defeat in dium responded heartily and Australia might hold the up- tight lines. Length was were emphatic style, pummelling some took it to an extreme per hand going into the very good from the fast Philadelphia 76ers 136-106. level and even booed depart- third day, but batsman bowlers. All in all we Kentavious Caldwell-Pope ing Australian batsmen. Cheteshwar Pujara is in no bowled well and took six scored 26 points for Pistons. Yet, for all the off-field mood to concede yet. wickets and they didn’t Other results: Rockets 123 bt drama, it was Steve Smith’s “I don't think so,” he score many runs.” Grizzlies 108; Spurs 97 bt men who progressed on the replied when asked if the Pujara felt that if India Timberwolves 90 (OT); turf and gained an unfin- 48-run lead was getting a could bowl out Australia for Clippers 101 bt Bulls 91; ished 48-run lead. bit out of hand. “We are the addition of another 30 Bucks 101 bt Raptors 94; Heat At close on the second day very much in the game and or 40 runs, it will have an 120 bt Cavaliers 92; Trail of the second Test, Australia they also have to bat even chance of forcing the Blazers 130 bt Nets 116; fourth. issue. Hornets 112 bt Nuggets 102. had posted 237 for six in its AGENCIES first innings, well past India’s “First, we’ll look to get “It will be great [if we 189. four wickets and once we could do that],” he said. “I The run-rate at times was get that we have to bat well think there is enough help excruciatingly slow, plumb- and put some runs on the from the pitch. We have to ing below two, especially in board.” continue to bowl the way the morning session. There Pujara’s confidence we have and we will have were edges that fell short, a might be down to the fact some plans tomorrow for [Mitchell] Starc and the few nerve-wracking mo- Going, going...India’s wicket-keeper Wriddhiman Saha poised to snare Australian skipper Steve Smith of left-arm spinner that India’s bowlers were persistent all through and other batsman.” ments as India pressed for Ravindra Jadeja. K. BHAGYA PRAKASH let Australia score only 197 reviews only to eat humble “We have spoken about runs on the day. pie and in this chaos, Aus- did not make for pretty view- between lunch and tea. Kohli tralia lost two more before Marsh surviving an lbw ap- how to go about our batting “We can see the run rate in the second innings but I tralia stood firm. ing and Smith eventually fell persisted with the ploy of tea as Peter Handscomb peal from Umesh. The re- and they were not able to don’t want to reveal it.” Leverkusen sacks A large share of the credit to Ravindra Jadeja. speedsters from the North- found a diving Ashwin, who view favoured the Australian head coach Schmidt is due to opener Matt Ren- Seemingly oblivious to the ern End and spinners at the pulled off a splendid catch and fittingly his single, off BERLIN shaw (60, 196b, 5x4, 1x6) pressure around him, Ren- Pavilion End. within the inner circle. On Ashwin, helped his team se- Bayer Leverkusen and Shaun Marsh (66, 197b, shaw dug in. He enjoyed a The predictability of that the stroke of tea, Mitchell cure the lead. 2ND TEST, DAY 2, M. CHINNASWAMY STADIUM, BENGALURU “regretfully” sacked coach 4x4). lucky break on 29 as Kohli approach emboldened Ren- Marsh failed to block an Shaun Marsh, who had INDIA - 1ST INNINGS: 189 Roger Schmidt —despite still could not latch onto an edge shaw and Shaun Marsh to Ishant delivery that kept low earlier feathered a snick off being in the Champions Early strike off Umesh Yadav. Along with unveil their sweeps, pulls and homed into his legs. 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Fall of wickets: 1-52 (Warner, 21.1 overs), 2-82 (Smith, 41.2), 3-134 (Renshaw, 66.3), that while the latter was ors. down the leg-side to set up a It was a passage of play in Memories of his biff in the 4-160 (Handscomb, 76.4), 5-163 (M. Marsh, 79.6), 6-220 (S. Marsh, 100.2). caught up in a ‘making-faces’ Smith’s men scored 76 for stumping. which India, striving hard to first innings at Pune are still INDIA BOWLING: Ishant 23-6-39-1, Umesh 24-7-57-1, Ashwin 41-10-75-1, Jadeja tussle with Ishant Sharma. It three in the 35 overs After Renshaw’s exit, Aus- nip the tail, found Shaun fresh. 17-1-49-3, Karun 1-0-7-0 India’s inexperience with review system exposed In Pune of the seven reviews it sought, only one was successful; team appears more circumspect at Bengaluru Bhutia says tenure over not removed N. Sudarshan when it came to using the sys- Steven Smith out leg before. only Wriddhiman Saha, the Perhaps the fact Australia Steve Smith. Those three de- BENGALURU I suppose so. We’ve KOLKATA <> tem. It sought seven reviews “We have been working on played a fair amount wicketkeeper, was excited. was five wickets down played cide, and there’s no other Indian football icon For long, India’s response to but was successful only once. it,” said Cheteshwar Pujara. The 33-year-old left-hander a part in the desperation. In a real input unless someone’s Bhaichung Bhutia has the Decision Review System Of the six it lost, three did “At times there were some over the last few went on to score a battling matter of seven overs, it ex- seen something pretty obvi- revealed that his tenure as was complete disengage- not even return umpire’s call, close calls and we didn’t get it years with DRS 66. hausted both the allotted ous. DRS is here to stay; advisor to the All India ment. Then under a new cap- a clear indication of how right. We will work on it — Nathan Lyon, reviews. we’ve just got to use it to our Football Federation (AIFF) on being asked if Australia’s longer tain-coach combination, it wishful the thinking behind more.” experience with DRS helped it Getting better On Saturday, Nathan Lyon advantage.” got over at the annual decided to embrace the tech- them was. After the experience in “We had to take that chance was asked if Australia’s All of this suggests that general meeting in December nology. On the second day of the Pune and Virat Kohli’s rather the decisions seemed like but we didn’t go for it,” said longer experience with DRS DRS isn’t an exact science. last year. Rubbishing reports that he It started rather well as In- second Test against Australia impulsive review on day one howlers. Pujara. “Probably that’s helped it, he said: “I suppose It’s a balancing act which can was removed after falling out dia did better than its oppon- here, India’s troubles contin- to overturn a leg-before de- That level of caution per- something that we can work so. We’ve played a fair be better honed only with with the AIFF, Bhutia said: “I ents, both in the five-Test ued unabated. There were cision against him, it is fair to haps cost the host when it on but we are getting better amount of cricket over the time, experience and better don’t know about being series against England and three reviews and all of them say that India was a tad cir- chose not to review a catch with DRS.” last few years with DRS but decision-making protocols. removed. the one-off Test against wrong. Only one returned cumspect on the field. off Umesh Yadav’s bowling After the number of re- it’s up to the individual.” India will have to learn “My tenure got over. The Bangladesh. umpire’s call when R. Ashwin An initial burst of excite- with Shaun Marsh batting on views was reset at the turn of “We’ve got a really good from the experiences it has advisor’s tenure lasts till the However, the Pune Test ex- challenged Nigel Llong’s de- ment was often followed by a 14. Replays suggested that it 80 overs, India was yet again platform now: we go straight had with the DRS in this AGM.” PTI posed India’s inexperience cision to not declare skipper sedate response, for none of had clipped the glove but trigger-happy. to Matt Wade, the bowler and series thus far. There was nothing Beat the opposition at the long game spicy in the chat Renshaw dwells on the tactics that frustrated the Indian attack Shreedutta Chidananda balls since the morning, res- antly from over the wicket. Smiling seems to unnerve the bowlers a bit more than Bengaluru isting some serious Indian “It gave us a pretty clear plan Test cricket, Matt Renshaw pressure. “The plan this what he was trying to do and talking back, says Matt Renshaw said after play on Sunday, morning was just to try and how he was trying to get us was about “trying to grind it bat as long as possible and out. We worked out that and Special Correspondent out and beating the opposi- wear the Indian bowlers just tried to combat that as Bengaluru tion at the long game.” He’s down,” he said. well as possible,” he said. There was a definite edge to rather good at Test cricket, “They’ve come off a long At only 20 years of age, proceedings at the M. Chin- then. summer and played a lot of where did he get his patience naswamy Stadium here on This series, Renshaw has Tests so we know that if we from, Renshaw was asked. Sunday. There was no short- spent over eight hours at the can get them into a high “When I was younger I age of verbal sparring on the crease, and only nine innings amount of overs, we’ll be in a wasn’t the biggest bloke and field as Steve Smith and Matt into his international career, good position. It’s been a so instead of retiring on some Renshaw frustrated India the opener has faced in ex- really good couple of days of Patience personiied: Matt Renshaw played with purpose to balls, I retired on some runs. during an intense first ses- cess of a thousand balls. On Test cricket and that’s what notch up a well-deserved half-century. G.P. SAMPATH KUMAR “Once we got to fifty we sion of play. the second day of the second it’s all about, just trying to had to retire and someone Both camps, though, later Test, at the M. Chinnaswamy grind it out and beat the op- the one rolled out in Pune. going on with the angle. It else could come in,” he ex- dismissed all the chat as Stadium, he comprehens- position at the long game. “In Pune we knew it was go- was probably a bit harder plained. “I didn’t really want good-humoured banter. ively beat India at the ‘long “It was really challenging ing to spin; this one, we don’t against the quicks because to let anyone else bat. So I Some of the action even had game’, his resolute, painstak- to score off both the quicks really know which one is go- it’s not bouncing as much, tried to get to fifty as slow as the players and the crowd ing 60 (196b, 263m) helping and the spinners. It was a ing to spin, so that’s probably and some are going up so I possible.” laughing, like when Ishant give Australia the advantage. grind. But we just needed to the hardest challenge,” he think that challenge is prob- Such efforts will not have Sharma mocked Smith’s fid- Renshaw began the day on bat the whole day and we’ve said. ably the biggest.” gone down well on children’s geting at the crease. 15. It was well past lunch managed to do that.” “Some are turning quite a It helped, the playgrounds, but none of his Smith and Virat Kohli when he completed his half- The pitch was, Renshaw lot and some are not turning Queenslander said, that R. current team-mates will be were at the heart of the ac- century, having faced 136 said, harder to bat on than as much and some are just Ashwin operated predomin- complaining. tion, the first words exchanged when India felt Renshaw had obstructed R. Ashwin in his follow- through. Liverpool punishes Wenger over Sanchez gamble “There was a bit of talk, but I think that’s because Kane double helps Spurs beat Everton; Messi inspires Barcelona to a thumping win they’re trying to unnerve each other (Smith and Agencies dazzled with two goals and mann 10, 83, Gameiro 48) bt Kohli),” Renshaw said later. LONDON two assists as Barcelona Valencia 0. Saturday: Eibar 1 “We took it pretty well. We Liverpool put its recent thrashed Celta Vigo 5-0 in its (Ruben Pena 72) lost to Real know that they’re trying to troubles behind it, showing first game since coach Luis Madrid 4 (Benzema 14, 25, get under our skin because Just for laughs: Ishant Sharma mocks Steve Smith’s idgeting touches of its best early-sea- Enrique announced he will Rodriguez 29, Asensio 80); Bar- celona 5 (Messi 24, 63, Neymar we’ve got a 1-0 lead in the at the crease on Sunday. K. BHAGYA PRAKASH son vibrancy to beat Arsenal leave at the end of the sea- series. 3-1 at a jubilant Anfield in the son.The results: Premier 40, Rakitic 57, Umtiti 60) bt “But it’s all good fun; quite funny.” some sledging involved,” he Premier League on Saturday. League: Tottenham 3 (Kane 20, Celta Vigo 0. good contest out there. I was And how had he respon- said. Liverpool won its third 56, Alli 90+2) bt Everton 2 Serie A: Atalanta 0 drew with just trying to enjoy it and try- ded? game in 13 matches in 2017 (Lukaku 81, Valencia 90+3); Fiorentina 0; Cagliari 1 (Borriello “So I don’t know what the ing to laugh at what he was “I don’t try and say too with goals from Roberto Sunderland 0 lost to 42) lost to Inter Milan 5 (Perisic exact words were but there saying because some of it much out there. I just try Firmino, Sadio Mane and Manchester City 2 (Aguero 42, 34, 47, Banega 39, Icardi 67-pen, were some moments when was quite funny.” and smile because in my ex- Georginio Wijnaldum to Sane 59). Icardi 89); Empoli 0 lost to they were exchanging perience smiling seems to move onto 52 points. Saturday: Liverpool 3 (Firmino Genoa 2 (Ntcham 89, Hiljemark words,” added the Indian Funny unnerve the bowlers a bit Liverpool produced a Take that! Roberto Firmino smashes in Liverpool’s irst goal 9, Mane 40, Wijnaldum 90) bt 90+2); Torino 3 (Belotti 74, 76, middle-order batsman. What, then, had Kohli told more than talking back.” dominant first-half perform- past Arsenal’s Petr Cech. LAURENCE GRIFFITHS/GETTY IMAGES Arsenal 1 (Welbeck 57); Swansea 81) bt Palermo 1 (Rispoli 30); the 20-year-old? Cheteshwar Pujara too “But all in all I think it was ance to take command with 3 (Llorente 12, 90+2, Olsson 69) Udinese 1 (Zapata 37) drew with “He was just saying that I sought to downplay the is- still in the spirit of the game. goals from Firmino and Mane Sanchez on the bench. spur survived some late bt Burnley 2 (Gray 20-pen, 61). Juventus 1 (Bonucci 60) might need to run off and go sue. There was nothing personal but Arsene Wenger got his At White Hart Lane, Harry nerves to beat Everton 3-2 on La Liga: Sporting Gijon 0 lost to Bundesliga: Eintracht Frankfurt to the toilet again, like in “When we play the Aus- in it and they were just hav- team selection wrong by leav- Kane’s superb scoring streak Sunday. Deportivo la Coruna 1 (Mosquera 1 (Hrgota 11) lost to Freiburg 2 Pune,” Renshaw said. “It was tralian team there is always ing a chat.” ing Chilean striker Alexis continued as Tottenham Hot- In La Liga, Lionel Messi 45+1); Atletico Madrid 3 (Griez- (Niederlechner 25, 59). 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Agence France-Presse Acapulco Holds a healthy points lead over No. 2 Djokovoic Kynard stretches title Unseeded American Sam run to eight Querrey stunned second- Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON seeded Rafael Nadal 6-3, 7-6 DUBAI London Olympic high jump (3) on Saturday to win the Andy Murray solidified his runner-up Erik Kynard ATP Mexico Open and end position at the top of the captured his eighth the Spaniard‘s run of rankings through a 6-3, 6-2 consecutive national title at perfection. defeat of Fernando Verdasco the US Indoor Track and Field to win the Dubai Tennis Championships while Gwen First over Nadal Championships for the first Berry (hammer) and Noah Querrey, ranked 40th in the time on Saturday. Lyles (300m) set world bests. Kynard cleared 2.30m world, fired 19 aces en route Now the Scot and his to edge runner-up Allex to his first career victory team face a 16-hour flight Austin’s 2.24 and add a over Nadal in five meetings. halfway around the world to fourth consecutive indoor The Spaniard, winner in Los Angeles to prepare for national crown to a run that Acapulco in 2005 and 2013, the start of the Indian Wells has seen him win four had never even lost a set in Masters in less than a week. outdoor titles in a row as Acapulco. “It’s direct but it’s still a well. AFP Querrey captured his long flight, it will take a few ninth ATP title in an impress- days to get over that,” said On a high: Murray, right, became the irst British champion in ive week that saw him beat Murray after claiming his the history of the Dubai tournament. TOM DULAT/GETTY IMAGES four top-10 players — Belgian 45th career title. David Goffin, Austrian “This week has given me position. “It’s obviously but I felt a lot better today. Dominic Thiem, Australian great momentum which I been a good run. You want “I’m trying to get to In- Nick Kyrgios and sixth- hope to use going to Indian to try and peak and play dian Wells much earlier than ranked Nadal. Good run: Sam Querrey captured his ninth ATP title in an impressive week that saw him beat four Wells and Miami.” your best tennis at the I did last year. I’ll arrive on He’s projected to return to top-10 players. REUTERS He holds a healthy points Slams, but you know, giving Sunday, which is a good the top 30 in the world rank- lead over No. 2 Novak Djoko- yourself a lot of matches thing. ings on Monday. the opening set and he broke six break chances. 6-3 lead and a chance to voic, with the off-form Serb gives you confidence to go “Even though it’s a long Ready for dope test any Nadal, playing his first Nadal at love to seize a 5-3 That included five in the serve for the title, with Nadal facing immense title defence into those big events. trip, it gives me five, six days time, says Mo Farah tournament since falling to advantage. eighth game — three of sending a forehand long on pressure in both Indian “Conditions, again, are to get ready before my first LONDON Roger Federer in five sets in He served it out comfort- which Querrey neutralised the American’s first match Wells and Miami over the totally different than Indian match.” British athlete and multiple- the Australian Open final, ably, firing a forehand win- with aces. point. next four weeks. Wells, which is a very slow Murray was playing in his Olympic champion Mo Farah has insisted that he is “happy was denied his first hard ner on his second set point They went on serve to the Ukraine’s Lesia Tsurenko The Scot is amazed at his court with fast balls. second final of 2017 after los- to be tested anytime, court title since Doha in after just half an hour. tiebreaker, where Nadal nabbed her third title top- winning form stretching “I have to get there and ing to Djokovic in nearby anywhere” after reports 2014. Nadal made more inroads faltered first. pling second-seeded Kristina back to last autumn when he adjust to that. Winning this Doha during the opening came in that the United Querrey surrendered just in the second set, but A brace of baseline errors Mladenovic 6-1, 7-5 in the made his run to surpass week is fantastic, I feel good. week of the season in States Anti-Doping Agency four points on his serve in couldn’t convert any of his from Nadal gave Querrey a women’s final. Djokovic for the top ranking I was a bit tired yesterday, January. wants him to be checked for a banned blood-boosting drug. “I’m not aware of any request. As I’ve said many times, I’m happy to be tested Looking to inish strongly Not much has changed, CoA tells SC any time, anywhere and have any of my samples tested or re-tested now or at any time A win over UP in its inal Hazare match would give Delhi a Its irst status report states BCCI has not adopted new MoA, Rules & Regulations in the future, by any official G. Viswanath Ramachandra Guha (histor- the Supreme Court on March porated the minutes of the body,” he said. ANI pleasant farewell to a forgettable season MUMBAI ian), Vikram Limaye (MD & 4, the CoA has stated that Board meeting held at the Vijay Lokapally ing through a transition Gambhir and Shikhar It was a little over one month CEO, IDFC Ltd.) and Diana the BCCI has not adopted Cricket Centre last year to BHUBANESWAR Skipper Rani period and the talent is just Dhawan, have not been at ago that the Supreme Court Eduljee (former captain of the new Memorandum of As- consider the Lodha Commit- shines for India There was a time when waiting to play to its poten- their best. For Unmukt appointed four-member the Indian women’s team) — sociation and Rules and Reg- tee recommendations clause BHOPAL Manoj Prabhakar, Gursharan tial in the near future,” said Chand, it was a season of Committee of Administrat- got a fair bit done, like con- ulations, and that it can be by clause and other issues The Indian women’s hockey Singh and Ajay Sharma, Bhaskar, ahead of his side’s despair as he lost form at a ors (CoA) was given the man- ducting the IPL auctions, completed only after the full related to compliance on the team defeated Belarus 3-1 for known performers on the final match of the season. critical phase of his career. A date to make the BCCI en- clearing outstanding pay- member associations amend part of the State associ- its third successive win in the domestic circuit, had to sit Delhi plays Uttar Pradesh batsman bestowed with huge force the Justice Lodha ments to Indian and over- their constitutions. ations. A point raised by a five-Test series here on out as reserves while Delhi on Monday in the last fixture talent, Chand lost his place Committee’s reforms, and seas parties and announcing majority of the full members Sunday. pounded its opponents. of the Vijay Hazare cricket in the squad for this tourna- also oversee the BCCI’s day- the BCCI award winners, No elections yet is related to the rights of After a goalless first quarter, Such was the wealth of talent tournament. The match is ment but earned a recall to to-day affairs through its among other things. The report, published on the members of the State Belarus took the lead through in Delhi. only of academic interest for present his credentials CEO, Rahul Johri. The CoA also studied the BCCI website, also states that associations. skipper Ryta Batura’s penalty Times have changed now. the teams are both out of the brightly with a half century In the last 30 odd days, Deloitte report on the func- elections have not been con- The CoA will now wait for corner conversion in the 24th Delhi’s reputation stands race for qualification. against Kerala in Delhi’s pre- the CoA — comprising Vinod tioning of majority of the full ducted by the majority of the the apex court to clear cer- minute. dented, on and off the field, Bhaskar, however, in- vious match. Rai (ex-Comptroller and member associations. full members. tain matters before making Skipper Rani scored two and this season underlined sisted there was pride at The emphasis on ‘horses Auditor General of India), In its first status report to The report has also incor- its next move. back-to-back field goals in this aspect in bold terms. stake. for courses’ has not worked the 35th and 39th minutes to Delhi has no title to “Please remember, the well for Delhi as injuries to put India 2-1 ahead. showcase. team was not at its full bowlers at different stages Deepika scored India’s third K.P. Bhaskar was part of strength right through the hurt the team. goal in the 42nd minute while Dominant Baleno RS clinches team title the defenders did well to the Delhi unit at a time when season. This is no excuse. The state of affairs at the keep the visitors in check in it enjoyed a steady stream of We had our moments and Ferozeshah Kotla has also in- the final quarter. PTI talented players and domin- somehow did not grab the fluenced the overall prepara- The Colemans pull of a hat-trick; ‘local hero’ Santosh ends up on winning side ated the domestic circuit. “It chances. The boys did their tion of the team this season was a fantastic period when best. I am sure they would which saw the selectors re- Nandakumar Marar said: “I knew he was a local MUMBAI Tigga pumps in five we learnt from the likes of have learnt their lessons to place Gambhir with Rishabh hero. I knew I was in the NEW DELHI: Bedi paa (Bishan Singh), be better prepared for the Pant as the captain for the Baleno RS, with 89 points same team as a real athlete.” Sambhalpur rode on a five- Jimmy paa (Mohinder Am- next season. I am convinced Vijay Hazare tournament. from the three races, The other Indian in the goal haul by Nitin Mukesh arnath), Maddi paa (Madan there is talent that can be A win against Uttar Pra- clinched the team champion- event, rally ace Gaurav Gill, Tigga to defeat Savitri Bai Lal). The dressing room was honed,” said Bhaskar. desh at the KIIT cricket ships at the Nexa P1 Power- was part of the fourth placed Phule, Pune 9-3 in a Pool D a great place for cricket edu- Delhi, however, has ground would be a pleasant boat Indian Grand Prix of the Team Ultra Sharks. match of the 24th Nehru cation. Yes, much has suffered from lack of consist- farewell to a forgettable sea- Seas which concluded here all-India inter-university changed, but then we are go- ency. The seniors, Gautam son for Delhi. on Sunday. The final placings: 1. Baleno RS hockey tournament on Leading the six-team pack (Race 3: Sam Coleman & Daisy Sunday. Coleman, C.S. Santosh & Martin CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC after two races on Saturday, CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC The results: Pool A: CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC\ NEW DELHI ROUND-UPCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC\ the two Baleno RS boats Robinson 30 points) 89; 2. Bangalore 5 (Md. Zaheel (Sam Coleman & Daisy Cole- Lloyd Dolphins (Craig Wilson & Mouseen 2, Machaiah P.A., man and C.S Santosh & Mar- William Enriquez, Stuart Cure- Veeranna Gowda, Abraham ton & Sara Cureton 30) 87; 3. Dabas scalps ive Harshit Kaushik 30, Ankit Academy 122 for four tin Robinson) sewed it up in Winners: Team Baleno RS’s C.S. Santosh & Martin Robinson and Sudev B.) bt PAU, Ludhiana 1 (Shubham Sharma 53 n.o.). MoneyOnMobile Martins Ankit Dabas (five for 13) Dabas five for 13). the 20-lap third race. Daisy Coleman & Sam Coleman. ARUNANGSU ROY CHOWDHURY (Simran Singh). Pool C: SRM, Saini, Sharma shine Rajnigandha wins (James Norvill & Christian Par- Chennai 4 (R. Senthil helped Hari Singh Academy The Coleman siblings sons-Young, Glynn Norvall & Krishnan, Tamizharasan, J. defeated Swami Sandeep Saini (five for 20) Rajnigandha Achievers pipped completed a hat-trick of vic- leader, took second place powerboat debut. Lee Norvall 27) 79; 4. Ultra Prabhu, S. Sunil Murthy) bt Shradhhanand College and Shubham Sharma (53 Jindal Panther 6-5 in the final tories with the third (worth while MoneyOnMobile Mar- Santosh’s fitness, de- Sharks (Gaurav Gill & George Lakshmibai National (SSC) by 47 runs to enter the n.o.) set up Hansraj of the Radha Mohan Rajinder 20 points) on Sunday while tins (79) was third. veloped over a career in two- Ivey, Neil Jackson & Jason Jack- University of Physical final of the Roshanara Cup Academy’s six wicket win Mohan Gold Vase 8-goal polo Santosh & Robinson’s efforts “I had to complement wheeler racing, too was a son 23) 64; 5. Mirchi Mavericks Education, Gwalior 0; Pool D: T20 tournament. over Rajesh Tyagi Academy tournament here on Sunday. were worth 10 points. The them (Colemans) and factor. “He is fitter than most (David Taft & Fredrick Bastian, Sambhalpur 9 (Nitin Mukesh The scores: HSA 159 for eight by in the Mukharjee The results: Rajnigandha combined effort earned worked hard at the concept. of us powerboat drivers. You John Donnelly & Kevin Burdock Tigga 5, Anugrah Kujur 2, in 20 overs (Yogesh Nagar 44, memorial tournament. Achievers 6 (Siddhant Sharma Baleno RS the title and I enjoyed powerboat racing give him time and he will de- 8) 45; 6. HVR Racing (Darren Jyoti Lakra, Teophil Kujur) bt Siddhant Sharma 34, Parvesh The scores: RTA 121 (Ritik 4, Matthew Perry 2) bt Jindal $50,000 prize money. and when you enjoy sport, liver,” said Sam Coleman. Nicholson & Giovanni Car- Savitri Bai Phule, Pune 3 Dahiya two for 14) bt SSC 112 Kumar 42, Sandeep Saini five Panther 5 (Miguel Saravia 3, Team Lucky Dolphins, just you become better,” said Martin Robinson, who was petilla, Frank Silva & Tony Ian- (Shah 2, Ajinkya). in 17.4 overs (Rohan Rathi 34, for 20) lost to Hansraj Simran Shergill 2). two points adrift of the Santosh, who was making his Santosh’s navigator here, otta 19) 34.

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FAITH THE HINDU CROSSWORD 11947 (set by Anon) SUDOKU

1 2 3 4 5 6 12 Conident returning Territorial 5 Snake stops on bituminous Army has protein (7) substances (8) Longevity ensured 7 8 The Chandogya Upanishad gives man a life span of 116 years 9 10 15 Sparse part of disaster area (4) 6 Code breaker circles new and gives instructions how one can ensure that one enjoys junction (7) the full span. 16 Impotence of great piper A person’s life is divided into three periods, which corres- 11 12 unnatural (5,5) 7 Bird claws injured crustaceans pond to the morning libation, noon libation and evening 13 14 libation. A man should see his life as a yajnya, said M.K. 18 Navy impresses with plans (4,5) Srinivasan in a discourse. 15 16 (10) When he does the morning libation, he recites the Gayatri 17 8 Fisherman’s point of view is mantra. 20 Promote a wager (4) right (6) 18 19 20 21 This mantra has twenty four letters and takes care of the first twenty-four years of his life. Vasus are the deities of the 23 Tipsy rani sat with Russian 22 morning libation. In case one is unable to do the morning queen (7) 13 Defamation of man’s 23 24 associate, valets initially libation due to illness, one should pray to the vasus, requesting them to carry over the morning libation to the noon liba- 24 Mysterious oriental in front of traumatising (10) 25 tion, without a break, so that the yajnya is not broken in the lake (5) 26 27 middle. 14 People of African country The mantra recited for midday libation is in Trishtup 26 Fixed desks end to end (6) manipulate retainers (9) metre, which has forty four letters. Rudras are the deities for 28 this libation. This libation should be seen as covering the 27 Joy, envy oddly removed from next forty-four years of one’s life. In case the midday libation promotion (7) 17 Functional but confused British parolee (7) Solution to puzzle 11946 Solution to yesterday’s Sudoku cannot be performed, then one should pray to the Rudras to carry over the morning libation to noon, without a break in 28 Trendy valet destroyed T E N N I S F O R E H A N D ■ ACROSS U E N A H P L O the yajnya. deliberately (11) 19 Not having been satisied, G R A N D S L A M H E L L O The mantra for the evening libation is in Jagati metre, 1 Advisors cheat ruler with moved without last wife (7) O R U I S E U D empty treatises (11) F U M E S G O L D M E D A L which has forty-eight letters. Adityas are the deities for this ■ DOWN W I N A E E E libation. If this libation is not performed, then one should 9 Missing source of fuel, head A S S I S T S W A R E pray to the Adityas that one’s life should be extended to the 21 Limousine in German city (6) R S M A E T scout lights (7) 2 Publicly available suit, dress P A I D C E L E S T A end of one’s span of life. (6) S S L U A C P The third libation covers the remaining period of one’s 10 Escape from Spanish ambush 22 Remove last feature (6) W I M B L E D O N B L A Z E life span up to the 116th year. coming back (6) E U A G O A L S 3 Tax, we hear, for weed (4) R A D A R E N P A S S A N T Thus the Upanishad says one should see life itself as pen- 11 In revolt, hide around Lutyens’ 25 Labourer’s unreliable? Nope! V G M O Y E T R ance and recite the prescribed mantras. This confers longev- irst city (5) 4 Houses weird gent models (10) (4) E V E N S O N G S L E E P Y ity on a person.

THE HINDU NOIDA/DELHI MONDAY, MARCH 6, 2017 SPORT 17 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Temerity triumphs Pesi Shrof has Temerity to clinch Invitation Cup In Super Mile, Serjeant At Arms emulates the feat of last year’s winner Myrtlewood

Anil Mukhi running of the Indian Turf continued unhurried until ing his first victory in this of last year’s winner Myrtle- BENGALURU Invitation Cup at Bangalore the race came to a boil. race as a trainer, having rid- wood – both were runners- Pre-race analysis suggested racecourse this afternoon. Pressing the accelerator, den seven previous winners up in the Indian Derby be- that a filly would win the In- Following an even break, Rawal brought his mount to of the race during his career fore coming down in dis- dian Turf Invitation Cup. public choice Hall Of Famer the front in the straight and as a jockey. tance to annex this premier Well, the race did fall to a found herself in front, although Supreme General Supreme General was event. Allowing the connec- member of the distaff set, ex- closely attended by market almost got to her at one second, while the fast-finish- tions of first Shivalik Storm cept that it was not the rival Tororosso. Unfortu- stage, Temerity stretched out ing Azzurro, despite the 4 kg. and then Common Wealth to heroine of the Kingfisher Ul- nately the grey seemed too like the good ones do and se- extra burden he had to carry dream for a moment or two, tra Indian Derby at Mahalak- keen and was ticking off the cured the prize by 2-3/4 by virtue of being an older rider A. Sandesh set his shmi four weeks ago that metres at a torrid pace. lengths in the excellent time horse, just nosed out Tor- mount alight, and sailed past prevailed, but her beaten The effort told on her and of 2:28.85, a new track re- orosso for third spot. with absolute disdain to re- rival on that occasion. It was distress signals were visible cord. The winner, owned by Forty five minutes earlier, cord a five and a half lengths Temerity (by Intense Focus), as they straightened for M/s. Shyam Ruia, Amay Ruia the Maj. P.K. Mehra Me- victory on the K.N. Dhunjib- third in the Indian Derby, home. Meanwhile Neeraj and Berjis Desai, was sent morial Super Mile fell to the hoy home-bred, who was who displayed the panache Rawal had positioned Temer- out in splendid condition by odds-on choice, Serjeant At saddled by Suleiman required to annex the 55th ity in fifth spot and the pair Pesi Shroff, who was record- Arms, who emulated the feat Attaollahi. Rodrigues helps Bengaluru FC down Minerva Punjab

Moment to cherish: Owners Mr. Amay S. Ruia, Mr. S.M. Ruia, & Mr. Berjis Minoo Desai and trainer Claims its irst win in eight I-League games and now has 16 points P. Shrof lead in Temerity (Neeraj Rawal up) which won the Indian Turf Invitation Cup. V. SREENIVASA MURTHY Sports Bureau win in charge of the club. his last I-League game in his maiden goal since joining and Jugovic went close. Ludhiana The result carried BFC to January, demonstrated what the club in the summer. Roca threw in Harmanjot Riaz Babu SHP: 59, FP: 313, Q: 153, Trinella: jeant At Arms. Owners: Five Stars Bengaluru FC claimed its fourth place with 16 points BFC had missed, winning Bengaluru kept pressing Khabra for Jugovic and Bengaluru 691 and 182, Exacta: 710 and 250. Shipping Co. Pvt Ltd rep by. Mr & first win in eight I-League from 11 games. every aerial duel while giving for a second with Jugovic and Daniel Lalhlimpuia for Vin- Favourite: Malawi. Owner and Mrs. K.N. Dhunjibhoy and Mr & Temerity (Neeraj up) won the In- trainer: Mr. B. Prithviraj. Mrs. Z.K. Dhunjibhoy & Mr. Vispi games, defeating Minerva central defensive partner C.K. Vineeth working hard eeth. dian Turf Invitation Cup, the stel- R. Patel. Trainer: S. Attaollahi. Punjab FC 1-0 at the Guru Johnson returns Juan Gonzalez the freedom together on a pitch Roca had Lalhlimpuia had more SHAPOORJI PALLONJI MILLION larattractionoftheracesheld Nanak Stadium here on The I-League champion wel- to join in attack. earlier criticized. than a few efforts to double here on Sunday. (2,000m), rated 60 & above: INDIAN TURF INVITATION CUP 4 comed John Johnson back The winner is owned by Mr. S.M. BOLD MARCH (P.S. Chouhan) 1, 7 (2,400m), 4-y-o & over, Sunday. But in what was the most Sandesh Jhingan saw a the lead, but BFC eventually Ruia, Mr. Amay S. Ruia & Mr. Ber- Fabulous (I. Chisty) 2, Watchmy- (Terms): Lenny Rodrigues found from injury, while Serbian important ‘first’ on the day header from a corner settled for the one-nil win. jis Minoo Desai and trained by P. script (P. Trevor) 3 and Sporting TEMERITY (INTENSE FOCUS – the target with a header in striker Marjan Jugovic, for Bengaluru, Lenny Rodrig- bounce inches wide in the Bengaluru will next face Shroff. Pleasure (A. Sandesh) 4. Not run: Mogadishu and Ace Badraan. 1, NARMINA) NEERAJ 1, the 17th minute as Albert signed last week, made his ues soared high to nod home 40th minute while in the Chennai City FC in Chennai, KARNATAKA RACEHORSE OWN- Lnk and 1. 2m 05.39s. ₹83 (w), 27, SUPREME GENERAL ERS’ ASSOCIATION MILLION (OLD FOR- Roca secured his first away debut. Johnson, who played Cameron Watson’s corner, second half, Udanta Singh on Wednesday. 1 27 and 20 (p), SHP: 90, FP: 617, Q: ESTER - FIERY PEGASUS) P.S. CUP (1,100m), maiden 3-y-o only, 651, Trinella: 4,959 and 1,822, Ex- CHOUHAN 2, (Terms): QUEEN LATIFA (Suraj Narredu) 1, Miniver Rose (P.P. acta: 23,933 and 8,206. Favour- AZZURRO (AZAMOUR – MISS Dhebe) 2, Cantabria (Neeraj) 3 ite: Watchmyscript. Owner: HIGHJINKS) P. TREVOR 3 AND M.A.M. Ramaswamy Chettiar Of and Bora Bora (L. Beuzelin) 4. 5, TOROROSSO (RED GIANT – Snk and 1/2. 1m 06.10s (record Chettinad Charitable Trust rep by McFaul’s injury-time goal dashes CCFC’s hopes Dr.A.C.Muthiah.Trainer:G. PAULA’S GIRL) SURAJ NARREDU time). ₹19 (w), 13, 20 and 20 (p), 4. SHP: 54, FP: 97, Q: 100, Trinella: Karthik. 314 and 105, Exacta: 1,098 and SURESH MAHINDRA MULTI- 2-3/4, 2-1/2 and Nose. 2m 28.85s Chennai City remains in the relegation zone with nine points; DSK with 11 goes up to seventh 602. Favourite: Queen Latifa. 5 MILLION TROPHY (1,400m), 4- (record time). ₹79 (w), 21, 70 and Owner: Enthusiast Racing Syndic- y-o & over, (Terms): BOLD COM- 41 (p), SHP: 230, FP: 2,858, Q: K. Keerthivasan fully placed header from In an attempt to clear the ate. Trainer: Neil Darashah. MAND (Srinath) 1, Smile Stone (S. 1,713, Trinella: 30,304 and 8,658, Chennai Haroon Amiri off a flag kick ball, CCFC’s Charles De INDIARACE.COM MILLION John) 2, Your Royal Majesty (Suraj Exacta: 3,17,315 (c/o). Favourite: DSK Shivajians’ Irish striker Narredu) 3 and Aster Rose (I. Hall Of Famer. Owners: Mr. S.M. from Nandhakumar, DSK Souza tried a scissor kick 2 (1,800m), rated 15 to 35: Shane McFaul scored in in- FLIRTING EYES (P.S. Chouhan) 1, Chisty) 4. 1, 1-1/4 and Lnk. 1m Ruia, Mr. Amay S. Ruia & Mr. Ber- continued to attack with nice only to miss it. Satinette (P. Trevor) 2, Granada 23.96s. ₹58 (w), 18, 36 and 33 (p), jis Minoo Desai. Trainer: P. jury time to dash Chennai one-touch passes. After ricocheting off the Shroff. (K. Mukesh) 3 and Jersey Beauty SHP: 107, FP: 577, Q: 464, City’s hopes of moving up Spanish midfielder Juan Trinella: 4,615 and 1,462, Exacta: head of a DSK player, it went (S. John) 4. Not run: Above The KIMMANE MILLION the table in a Hero-I-League 21,874 and 11,250. Favourite: Ac- (1,400m), Quero Barraso was the chief straight to McFaul who un- Rest. 2-1/4, 1-3/4 and 2. 1m 52.13s. rated 30 to 50: PEARL CITY ₹84 (w), 18, 17 and 88 (p), SHP: colade. Owner: M.A.M. 8 match at the Nehru Stadium distributor. leashed a half-volley into the Ramaswamy Chattiar Of Chetti- (Suraj Narredu) 1, Lightning At- here on Sunday. 44, FP: 396, Q: 134, Trinella: tack (Dashrat Singh) 2, Areca The second half followed net. 6,729 and 4,686, Exacta: 8,640 nad Charitable Trust rep by Dr. The result — a 1-1 draw — A.C. Muthiah. Trainer: S. Cruise (P. Trevor) 3 and Glorious a similar pattern with the vis- Meanwhile, the condition and 3,030. Favourite: Jersey Angel (C.S. Jodha) 4. 7-1/4, 1/2 and Beauty. Owner: M.A.M. Ganapathy. means that City remains in itors having more ball pos- of the pitch came in for 1. 1m 25.12s. ₹61 (w), 24, 29 and 21 the relegation zone with nine Ramaswamy Chettiar Of Chetti- MAJ. P.K.MEHRA MEMORIAL (p), SHP: 86, FP: 292, Q: 238, session. sharp criticism as officials nad Charitable Trust rep by Dr. 6 SUPER MILE CUP (1,600m), 4- Trinella: 1,680 and 554, Exacta: points. DSK, on the other The equaliser came after had to put in mud in some A.C. Muthiah. Trainer: S. y-o & over: SERJEANT AT ARMS (A. 36,837 and 22,804. Favourite: hand, will be satisfied with Ganapathy. CCFC coach Soundararajan, areas to make the surface Sandesh) 1, Common Wealth (S. Areca Cruise. Owner: Mr. Ajith the outcome, having collec- THE HINDU MULTI-MILLION John) 2, Shivalik Showers (C. Vittal Shetty. Trainer: B. with eight minutes remain- even during the break. 3 (1,200m), 3-y-o only, (Terms): Alford) 3 and La Dona (P. Trevor) Prithviraj. ted 11 points to go up to sev- ing, decided to strengthen The result: SILVER IKON (P.P. Dhebe) 1, Kan- 4. Not run: Ace Bucephalus. 5-1/2, enth. Jackpot: ₹20,165 (107 tkts). the backline to safeguard the Chennai City FC 1 (Haroon gra (L. Beuzelin) 2, Lord Bucking- 2 and 1-1/2. 1m 35.40s. ₹14 (w), 12, Undeterred after conced- one-goal lead. ham (Srinath) 3 and Malawi (A. 26 and 40 (p), SHP: 65, FP: 82, Q: Runner up: ₹1,293 (715 tkts); Amiri 42) drew with DSK Shiv- Sandesh) 4. 4, 2 and Hd. 1m 64, Trinella: 725 and 340, Exacta: Treble (i): ₹2,657 (14 tkts); (ii): On target: Haroon Amiri, who scored CCFC’s goal, involved ing a goal towards the end of His ploy to field a five-man ajians 1 (Shane Charles Alan Mc- EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

NOIDA/DELHI THE HINDU 18 LIFE MONDAY, MARCH 6, 2017 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Karan Johar welcomes twins via surrogacy Computer OS, short movie stored in DNA 44-year-old Bollywood director names daughter Roohi and son Yash after his late father and ilm producer Such data can last thousands of years Press Trust of India wonderful additions to my sponsibilities and duties that ments will have to take a eternally grateful to her as Mumbai life, my children and life- come with being a parent. back seat after the arrival of she has fulfilled his “lifelong Press Trust of India ome Centre in the U.S. Karan Johar has become a lines; Roohi and Yash. I feel “In order to arrive at this his kids and he is prepared dream and provided a warm, New York showed that an algorithm single father of twins — a enormously blessed to be a decision, I have prepared for that. loving and nurturing envir- Scientists have successfully designed for streaming baby boy and a girl — who parent to these pieces of my myself mentally, physically, onment to my children be- stored a computer operating video on a cellphone can were born through surrog- heart who were welcomed emotionally and logistically Thanks surrogate fore bringing them into this system, a short movie and unlock DNA’s nearly full acy, and the filmmaker says into this world with the help to ensure that my children “By the grace of God, I have world.” other data in DNA, an ad- storage potential by squeez- he is “enormously blessed” of the marvels of medical sci- get all the unconditional the most caring and support- “She will always remain in vance that may usher in the ing more information into to be a parent. ence,” Johar said in a love, care and attention from ive mother, who will be an my prayers. Finally, a big next generation of ultra- its four base nucleotides. Mr. Johar (44) has named statement. me and mine. I have submit- integral part in the upbring- thank you to Dr. Jatin Shah compact, biological storage DNA is considered an his daughter Roohi, and his The Ae Dil Hai Mushkil ted to the fact that my chil- ing of her grandchildren and for his guidance and support devices, which will last hun- ideal storage medium be- son Yash, after his late father filmmaker says it was an dren are my world and prior- of course, friends who are and for being like a family dreds of thousands of years. cause it is ultra-compact Yash Johar. emotional but well thought- ity,” he says. family,” he says. member through this won- In a new study, research- and can last hundreds of “I am ecstatic to share out decision, which he has Mr. Johar says his work, Thanking the surrogate, derful and exciting journey,” ers from Columbia Univer- thousands of years if kept in with you all the two most taken considering all the re- travels and social commit- the filmmaker says he is Mr. Johar says. Karan Johar sity and the New York Gen- a cool, dry place. German robot sets Rubik’s cube record Unscrambles puzzle in 0.637 seconds

Press Trust of India scrambling met all World Berlin Cube Association standards, A new Guinness World Re- before confirming the new cord has been set in Ger- record. many for the fastest-solved The computer receives Rubik’s cube by a robot, two pictures of the cube, which unscrambled the identifies the colour of each puzzle in just 0.637 seconds piece and calculates a solu- with 21 moves. tion with Tom Rokicki’s ex- The Sub1 Reloaded beat a tremely fast implementation previous record of 0.887 of Herbert Kociemba’s Two seconds, which was Phase Algorithm. The solu- achieved by an earlier ver- tion is handed over to an Ar- sion of the same machine duino-compatible Infineon using a different processor. AURIX microcontroller German semiconductor board, which orchestrates manufacturer Infineon the 21 moves of six high per- Technologies, which staged formance steppers, to turn the record attempt at the each side of the cube. Electronica trade fair in Mu- nich, provided the chip to ‘Speed cube’ highlight advancements in A special “speed cube” — de- self-driving car tech. signed to have less friction Within a fraction of a between its parts than the second of the robot’s cam- original version of the toy — era senses being lifted, it was used to help keep the found the solution and the time to a minimum. six mechanical arms un- “We used this as a meta- scrambled the puzzle per- phor to show how digital fectly in 21 moves. systems are constructed,” It was only afterwards said the German company’s that the number of moves spokesman Gregor Rode- could be counted by check- hueser. “We want to show ing a software readout. that problems can be solved Guinness World Records much more efficiently using carefully reviewed the evid- microelectronics,” Mr. ence, including ensuring Rodehueser was quoted as that the cube and the pre- saying by ‘BBC News’.

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