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rapes and violence for decades meet Pakistan’s Punjab and the Nankana incident Governor and Chief Minister,” shows how minorities there are he said. Longowal said the del- persecuted and why they need egation will comprise Rajinder R citizenship in India. Singh Mehta, Roop Singh, Lekhi also said that this Surjit Singh and Rajinder incident should open the eyes Singh. !"## of Congress leaders such as So- “We have spoken with the nia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Gurdwara Nankana Sahib Q 66./ no borders. Navjot Singh Sidhu, TMC sup- management committee...They Taking to Twitter, Rahul remo Mamata Banerjee, the told us the situation is normal ! he Shiromani Gurdwara termed Friday attack repre- leftists and the “Urban Naxals” now,” Longowal said. # $% TParbhandhak Committee hensible, and said the only who have been opposing the The SGPC chief said the &'() +M (SGPC), the apex body which known antidote to bigotry is amended Citizenship Act. sentiments of the Sikh com- .27 provincial authorities in the - manages Sikh shrines, will love, mutual respect and under- Meanwhile, strongly con- munity were hurt with the Punjab province have informed M send a four-member delegation standing. “The attack on demning the mob attack on the attack on Gurdwara Nankana akistan on Friday rejected that there was a scuffle in the ./$0 &'&' to Pakistan to take stock of the Nankana Sahib is reprehensible historic Sikh shrine, SGPC Sahib. Longowal said that the Pthe media reports that the city of Nankana Sahib on situation following an alleged & must be condemned chief Gobind Singh Longowal SGPC would also take up this historic Gurdwara Nanakana Friday between two Muslim $ mob attack on Gurdwara unequivocally. Bigotry is a dan- appealed to the Pakistan matter with the United Nations. Sahib in Lahore was desecrat- groups. 0 Nankana Sahib, the birthplace gerous, age old poison that Government to take strict Punjab’s former Chief ed in a mob attack, saying the The altercation happened of Guru Nanak Dev, which has knows no borders. Love + action against culprits. Minister Parkash Singh Badal birthplace of founder of on a minor incident at a tea- $ 2Q +Q been dragged into the ongoing Mutual Respect + Unders- “We will send a four-mem- too condemned the attack on Sikhism Guru Nanak remains stall and the district adminis- ! 3 4 controversy involving the con- tanding is its only known anti- ber delegation to Pakistan to Gurdwara Nankana Sahib. “untouched and undamaged” tration immediately intervened 5 troversial Citizenship dote,” he said in a tweet. take stock of the situation “We request the and the “claims of destruction” and arrested the accused, it +$6 (Amendment) Act or CAA. Engaging in the debate, there,” he said, adding that the Government of India to imme- of one of the holiest Sikh said. A day after the incident of Union Minister Hardeep Singh delegation would also meet diately take steps so that peace shrines are “false”. “Attempts to paint this inci- $0 mob attack on the Sikh shrine Puri sought to know whether Sikh families in Nankana Sahib. and harmony is restored,” said The Pakistan Foreign dent as a communal issue are 07 in Pakistan, Congress leader those protesting across the “The delegation will also Badal. Office in a statement said the patently motivated. Most 4 4 Rahul Gandhi condemned it, country against the CAA need- importantly, the gurdwara $0 while the BJP sought to justi- ed more evidence of oppression remains untouched and 07 fy the CAA saying the incident of minorities in the neigh- undamaged. All insinuations to $ was yet another evidence of bouring country. the contrary, particularly the % atrocities against the minorities He said the violent mob claims of acts of ‘desecration 8 in the neighbouring country. that besieged the Nankana and destruction’ and desecra- 9: ();' $0 Against the backdrop of Sahib Gurdwara had threat- tion of the holy place, are not 4 widespread protests against the ened to change the name of the only false but also mischie- CAA that allows Indian citi- holy place to “Ghulam-e- vous,” the Foreign Office said. $0 zenship to six persecuted reli- Mustafa”. The Foreign Office state- gious minorities, excluding “The violent mob that ment has come after some $ Muslims, from Pakistan, besieged Nankana Sahib reports in the Indian media / $ Bangladesh and Afghanistan, Gurdwara has threatened to said that a mob attack had / ();< the Nankana Sahib incident has change the name of our holy taken place at the shrine. $ further heated up the running place to Ghulam-e-Mustafa. The reports suggested that political debate with External Do those who are opposing the hundreds of angry residents at Affairs Ministry saying that the CAA need more evidence of Nankana Sahib pelted stones at members of the minority Sikh oppression of minorities in the Sikh pilgrims on Friday. community in Pakistan have Pakistan,” Puri said in a tweet Police in Pakistan said on $2 been subjected to acts of vio- in Hindi, along with a video Friday that a group of people, ! " lence at the holy city of Nan- clip that showed a mob threat- led by the family of a Muslim kana Sahib. Pakistan has, how- ening to change the name of man who married a Sikh " #! $ ever, denied media reports on the gurdwara. teenager, held a day-long sit-in ! ! = desecration of Nankana Sahib. Another BJP leader and outside the gurdwara to protest 4 M Congress leader Rahul Lok Sabha member Meenakshi the arrest of their relatives #! " M while denouncing the mob Lekhi said minorities in who were held for alleged " % attack said bigotry is a danger- Pakistan have been subjected to ! " forced conversion of the girl. 3 ous, age old poison that knows threats for religious conversion, P $ % & '! Turn to Page 4 ""! $0 #! ! " ()( "! # $ $ % &' ! !" ! '( 66./ years but they failed to qualify in 2008, 2013, 2016 and 2020. ! N ! O $ ! olitics over selection of the In all other years when 95 PRepublic Day tableaux is Maharashtra didn't qualify, the 7 / nothing new. What the UPA Centre and the State were ruled # 3 2 $ Government did earlier, the by the same party. In 2008 and 6 / wo mortar rounds hit the BJP-led NDA regime is repeat- 2013, the Congress-NCP alli- 66./ 3 + (< TIraqi capital’s Green Zone ing now. During the UPA ance was in power in Maha- (> 3 3 /- on Saturday and two rockets regime, Narendra Modi-ruled rashtra and the same parties total 171 hospitals have 40 /?5$ slammed into a base housing Gujarat never got tableaux shared power at the Centre. In Abeen de-empanelled and US troops, security sources selected for the R-day celebra- 2016, BJP-Shiv Sena alliance penalties to the tune of 4.5 3 $2 said, a day after a missile fired tion. Now that Modi is the shared power in the State and crore have been imposed on a US drone killed Iranian com- Prime Minister, tableaux from the same parties shared power hospitals for allegedly com- + 4 mander Qasem Soleimani. his home State has never been at the Centre. In 2020, Shiv- mitted fraud and indulging in / 3 ( % ) ' In Baghdad, mortar rounds omitted during the last five ) * $ * +,-. Sena, NCP and Congress are malpractices under the - 3 $ hit the Green Zone, the high- years, while Opposition-ruled sharing the power in the State Ayushman Bharat health insur- . security enclave where the US States have been routinely left heritage and other unique 2019. West Bengal was adj- while BJP is in the power at the ance scheme, the apex body embassy is based, security out of the celebration. aspects of various States. udged best in 2014 when UPA Centre. Maharashtra was implementing has said. sources said. The Iraqi military The Opposition has alleged Under the UPA regime, II was in power at the Centre, adjudged the best tableau in FIRs have been lodged $09 said that one projectile hit that West Bengal, Maharashtra Gujarat failed to qualify for the and in 2016 the State was 2015 and 2018 when BJP-Shiv against six hospitals in 3 : inside the zone, while another and Kerala, which aggressive- five continuous years between adjudged the best during NDA Sena Government was in po- Uttarakhand and Jharkhand, ?( @ landed close to the enclave. ly protested against the 2009 and 2014. The State table- regime. wer in the State and the Modi the National Health Authority $3 Sirens rang out at the US Citizenship (Amendment) Act, aux, however, qualified in 2015, The Bihar Government's Government at the Centre. said. The NHA said the 33 % compound, sources there told have been omitted for obvious 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and theme of Jal-Jivan-Hariyali The State was on the third spot National Anti-Fraud Unit has 2 AFP. A pair of Katyusha rock- political reasons. 2020 during the NDA regime Mission was rejected as "it in 2017. detected suspect e-cards on the - ets then hit the Balad airbase The data of Ministry of led by Modi who came to does not fulfil the criteria for Kerala's tableau for the R- basis of algorithms developed $ north of Baghdad, where Defence shows that the Centre power in May 2014. that". Bihar was not included in Day parade was also rejected internally by it and shared M M American troops are based, always used Republic Day West Bengal failed to qual- the Republic Day parade in for the second consecutive year with states for due diligence security sources and the Iraqi tableaux as tools to target States ify for the R-Day Parade this 2019 as well. BJP-JD(United) this year by the Centre. The and action. 28 $: 4 military said. ruled by the Opposition. This year. The Bengal Government alliance is ruling in the Bihar. theme proposed by the State for It ruled out any possibility 4 Security sources there is true for the past six years of had proposed the theme of The JD(U) did not protest its tableau was the State's art of a fake e-card being generat- .AQ reported blaring sirens and the Modi Government as well Kanyasree for the tableau. The while the RJD termed it Bihar's and architecture, which would ed automatically by the system, said surveillance drones were as 10 years of the UPA rule. State has failed to qualify for humiliation. The data shows comprise the traditional art saying the process requires a ? 3 3 sent above the base to locate the Tableaux selected for the R-Day fourth straight years. The State, Maharashtra tableaux quali- forms of Theyyam and go-ahead by authorised per- 9 $0 source of the rockets on parade offer a unique oppor- however, qualified in 2012, fied for Republic Day parades Kalamandala. sons based on documents. $ American interests. tunity to witness the culture, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017 and on nine occasions in the past 13 Turn to Page 4 Turn to Page 4 0 $0 3 * !! ! $ P = 4 2 " 66./ enclosure again after a few Buxy says. / )*+" days, but he tried to climb over “The aggressive, 9-feet tiger , O !-,. en-year-old Bengal tiger the cage. Sensing danger, we was observed closely for 6 $5 4 / 01# ! 2 TBittu spent six years in a put him inside the cage again,” months before he was released 5 " ! cage in the Delhi Zoo before he Vashishtha says. Bittu was in the enclosure,” he says. "! could step out in his enclosure released in the enclosure again At present, the zoo has $0 / %/ and breathe fresh air. on December 25. seven white tigers — three $% " 0 But the Christmas Day This time, the zoo admin- female and four male — and 4 6 / ""! ! % was not the first time the Zoo istration has raised the height two male Royal Bengal tigers. /?5Q $0 administration let B2 or Bittu of the fences, pruned the The zoo is likely to acquire out of the cage. branches of the trees inside the a pair of ostrich from . 4 He was released in the enclosure so that he cannot Chandigarh’s Chhatbir Zoo # $ !"#!$%%! enclosure twice before, so that climb them and added an extra and a chimpanzee within next = 3 he could take a stroll and relax layer of barricading for visitors. three months. 4 ! in the sun. But his “mischie- The zoo also got a 3-year- It had in September lost an - . " vous” behaviour cost him his old white tiger, Vijay, recently. eight-year-old Bengal tiger, - $0 N""O " “freedom”, Zoo Director National Park under an was first released in the enclo- Though Vijay was brought Rama, due to kidney failure. - ! Suneesh Buxy says. animal exchange programme sure, he climbed a tree. “It from Lucknow in July in In October, it lost India’s " B2 or Bittu was 4-year-old in 2014. could have been a security exchange of a female tiger “oldest” chimpanzee, Rita, 59, N $O6 Q 2! 2!% & when he was brought to Delhi Range Officer Saurabh threat to visitors,” he says. named Geeta, he was released following multiple organ fail- $ from Bhopal’s Van Vihar Vashishtha says when Bittu “We released him in the in the enclosure on Wednesday, ure. SMALL SCREEN " +, -.-. 0")& ))7/"+-/%%" 4 %" % /!0!"M !4 -9-"#+)F )F .!"%.-)/-05 +)F** 0 ! !" 9** #!" 0 " "3 ! /! 3 ! !! " skillfully by Charleze Theron. As it turns out ! !! 3""3 3 % much later in the film, she too had passed ! "! 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66./ up communication platform . for the teachers and parents of elhi Government on children. 5$ DSaturday organised a mega “I have seen that parent- 66./ for odd-semester examinations PTM in its schools to interact teachers' meet also gives a are advised to come to the with parents about their chil- boost to the confidence of the ays after Jamia Millia University as per scheduled New Delhi: A 47-year-old dren's progress and to take parents as they get to know DIslamia (JMI) University date of their examination dis- woman died and eight others, their feedback. about the performance of their was closed following the vio- played on the website. The including five children, were Chief Minister Arvind kids. They become more sup- lence outside its campus dur- parents are requested to ensure injured after the roof of a Kejriwal interacted with the portive,” said Deputy Chief ing protests against the that their wards appear for the building collapsed in Uttam parents, guardians and stu- Minister Citizenship Amendment Act examination on the given date,” Nagar area here on Saturday, dents at Sarvodaya Bal Sisodia, Education (CAA), the University on said the official. officials said. According to the Vidyalaya, Rouse Avenue. Minister interacted with par- Saturday announced that the “The students are also Fire Department, they received “The PTM procedures in ents at a Government school in semester examinations will advised to regularly visit the information about the Delhi Government schools Dwarka. commence from January 9. official websites www.Jmi.ac.in incident at 3.01 pm following were only on paper. We have Many parents also shared According to a JMI official, and www.jmicoe.in for updates which three fire tenders were started holding regular PTMs their feedback on AAP on the University had declared to avoid any confusion rushed to the spot. in schools. Parents and teach- social media platform. vacation till January 5 and arising due to rumours and The roof of the first floor ers are satisfied because they Surabhi's mother Rupam cancelled all exams in view of wrong communication on made from 'kota stone' col- get to discuss the progress and termed this event as a political " / Suman said, “The PTM gives the tense situation. social media,” said the lapsed, they said, adding that growth of students. This way, gimmick by BJP leader Dr ' 0 ' 1 2&) & me an opportunity to know my “The university is sched- official. nine people sustained injuries parents take a keen interest in Harsh Vardhan, he said, “How $ * '! daughter's progress. Education uled to open on January 6 after “Cases of serious and were rushed to DDU hos- the studies of their wards. I am can imparting good education has improved a lot in the winter vacation. The remaining hospitalization/medical ground pital. The victims were iden- happy to interact with parents, to our children be a political He said that earlier people schools through recommen- Government schools. I have odd-semester exams of most of will be dealt with separately. tified as Dulari Devi (47), and this PTM is also an eye- gimmick? We have been hold- had an inferiority complex dation, now they want to admit observed that various activities the postgraduate courses shall The teaching schedule for the Rakhi (30), Dharminder (30), opener for students,” Kejriwal ing regular PTMs since the last about their children studying in their wards in Government are conducted in the school start from January 9. Most of next semester in all faculties Akhil (3), Sonam (12), Kannu said. two-three years. They tried to Government schools because of schools through recommen- which are helpful in releasing the exams of undergraduate and centres for even semester (8), Akansh (6), Sanjeev (11) It may be noted that on end these PTMs but I don't lack of financial resources. dation,” he said. stress, especially for her as she courses shall start from January shall be notified faculty-wise on and Rani (30), they said. Devi's Opposition leaders' allegation think politics on schooling “Earlier parents wanted to Launched in 2016, the has to appear for board 16,” said the official. the website separately,” the offi- condition was stated to be crit- on organising PTM and being and education is justified.” admit their wards in private mega PTM is aimed at opening exams.” “The students appearing cial added. ical, they added. PTI ! + $ , & "33 1 # ! ! O! P 2! 66./ India has in the coming three tized about the onerous task !<2 66./ decades when Country will be they have to perform to ensure 66./ Affairs Minister Hardeep Singh ith the aim of sensitising having the highest number of that Metro travel is a safe, Puri on Friday handed over he Police Control Room (PCR) unit of Wand motivating the individuals in the working age smooth and enjoyable experi- day after Aam Aadmi conveyance deeds and registry 66./ TDelhi Police on Saturday morning saved 'Security officers' engaged in group. ence for all the commuters,” AParty's (AAP's) national papers of houses to 20 residents life of infant girl which was found abandoned ensuring the safety and security The interactive session was said Singh. convener Arvind Kejriwal of unauthorised colonies, a elhi Chief under Delhi's Mahipalpur flyover. of Delhi Metro and its passen- attended by officers from Delhi Vikram Porwal, the alleged that the BJP is spread- move that comes ahead of the DMinister According to Sharat Kumar Sinha, the gers, the Metro unit of Delhi Metro Police, DMRC Security Deputy Commissioner of ing lies and misleading people Delhi Assembly elections. Arvind Kejriwal Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Police, in collaboration with and CISF. Police (DCP), Metro unit of by distributing fake papers, The Centre has launched on Saturday PCR, on Saturday at around 7:14 AM, a PCR Delhi Metro Rail Corporation's Sanjay Singh, Special Delhi Police, welcomed all the Delhi BJP unit official Manoj the Pradhan Mantri deplored the mob call was received regarding an abandoned security wing and Central Commissioner of Police, participants and expressed that Tiwari demanded an apology Unauthorised Colonies Awas attack on Nankana infant under Mahipalpur flyover over. Industrial Security Force Transport, addressed the gath- the positive team- work of all from AAP supremo. Yojna (PMUDAY) to grant Sahib Gurdwara in Pakistan and said atrocities on “Acting on the call, the police team on (CISF), organised an interactive ering and stated that despite the agencies shall continue in Tiwari said the registration ownership rights to people liv- Sikhs cannot be tolerated. Taking to Twitter, Mobile Patrol Van (MPV) rushed to the spot. session with noted Diplomat having around 30 lakh com- 2020 to ensure that the Delhi of properties has begun in ing in unauthorised Kejriwal termed Friday's attack as shameful and The police team found an abandoned female Dr Deepak Vohra at muters everyday at an average, Metro services remain unauthorised colonies but the colonies. asked the Imran Khan Government to take tough infant in the corner of park rapped in a cloth the Metro Bhavan on Delhi Metro is one of the best the best. Kejriwal Government is trying Delhi Chief Minister steps and punish the culprits. “The attack on piece, crying and gasping, finding it difficult Saturday. in the world owing to the pos- The participants interacted to obstruct it and mislead peo- Kejriwal and Deputy Chief Nankana Sahib is a cowardly and shameful inci- in extreme cold weather,” said the DCP. Dr Vohra spoke at length itive synergy between the actively during the session and ple. “Kejriwal should apologise Minister Arvind Sisodia on dent. Nankana Sahib is the centre of faith of crores “The infant was rushed to Safdarjung hos- about the promising future various agencies that the session set a positive note to people for spreading lies. We Friday questioned the authen- of Sikhs. Atrocities on Sikhs living there cannot be pital for the treatment where her condition awaiting the Indians and how are Delhi police, DMRC and for the year to come. Chief will take legal action against ticity of property documents tolerated,” he said in a tweet in Hindi. is said to be stable. The timely intervention we all have an important role CISF. Security Commissioner, him if he does not apologise to being given by Puri, saying how A violent mob attacked the Nanakana Sahib of PCR police team has resulted in saving pre- to play in bringing about the “At the start of the New DMRC Mukund Upadhye also them in the next 24 hours,” he can the registries be made Gurdwara in Pakistan on Friday and pelted it with cious life of female infant. The matter has been same. Dr Vohra delved into the Year it was most apt that the interacted with the partici- said at a press conference. without regularising stones. Nankana Sahib is the birth place of first referred to local police for further investiga- demographic advantage that men on the ground are sensi- pants and motivated them. Union Housing and Urban unauthorised colonies. Sikhguru Guru Nanak Dev. tion,” the DCP added. 6 7" / P 66./
hile Election Commission (EC) is yet 66./ Wto announce the date of Assembly elections in Delhi, Chief Minister Arvind hile elections in Delhi are round the Kejriwal said that full Statehood status for Wcorner, Bharatiya Janata Party's Delhi will be the part of AAP's (BJP's) national president Amit Shah will manifesto. address a party booth workers conference Full statehood for Delhi was the main here on Sunday. poll plank of AAP in the Lok Sabha elec- Shah will give booth management tips tions last year. However, it failed to to over 30,000 booth level workers of the impress the people of Delhi and AAP can- party at the Indira Gandhi Indoor didates lost on all seven seats in t Stadium at 11.30 a.m. Sources said Amit he city. had said this earlier in his second Shah will give a target of 51 per cent vote Addressing the fifth Town Hall meet- town-hall meeting. The meetings are part share to the booth workers to defeat the ing, anchored by ABP news channel, of AAP's election campaign. combined strength of the Aam Aadmi Kejriwal said full statehood is the only “A lot of work still has to be done in Party and the Congress in Delhi. promise the party was not able to fulfil. Delhi. Yamuna has to be cleaned, Delhi has Along with Shah, BJP working pres- “Full statehood for Delhi will be part to be cleaned, pollution needs to be con- ident J.P. Nadda, vice president Shyam Jaju of the AAP's election manifesto and the trolled and transport needs to be and State party chief Manoj Tiwari party will keep fighting for it,” he assert- improved,” he said. among others will attend the conference. ed. The AAP is expected to release its “We had started about 300 Mohalla According to a party source, “Shah manifesto between January 15 to 20, Clinics in Delhi and 150 Mohalla Clinics gives the target of securing 51 per cent Kejriwal had said earlier. will be opened tomorrow,” said Kejriwal. votes in every election, as he believes that AAP supremo also said that if re-elect- Expressing concern over increasing booth level workers are the backbone of ed he will make roads in Delhi like that of number of fire incidents in Delhi, he said the party. If every booth president London and Tokyo in the next five years. action will be taken if a trend is found in manages to keep the party ahead of oth- “We have hired consultants to identi- fire incidents. ers, victory is sure.” fy bottlenecks in the city where traffic con- “I'm concerned about the incidents of A senior BJP leader told, “The BJP gestion takes place. They will submit fire. We have ordered inquiries into all beat the combined strength of the their plan in the next couple of months and these incidents and if we find a trend on Samajwadi Party-Bahujan Samaj Party in based on their suggestions, we will try to reasons behind the fires and we can solve Uttar Pradesh by securing 51 per cent solve the problem of traffic congestion,” he them by taking a particular action, then votes in Uttar Pradesh, the same said. we will definitely implement it,” he said. formula is being applied here in Delhi. The He reiterated his promise to make bus The Assembly election in Delhi is like- party wants more votes than the combined rides free for others if he is re-elected. He ly to be held in February. vote share of the Congress and the AAP.” -
66./ " 8( (((4 49 elhiites enjoyed a bright : 4 Dsunny day with minimum ; / temperature settled at 8.6 degrees Celsius and maximum New Delhi: Delhi Congress temperature recorded 20.3 chief Shubhash Chopra degrees Celsius. claimed on Saturday that more In terms of air quality, Air than 60,000 people have died Quality Index was recorded of pollution-related health very poor with 346 value problems in the national recorded at National Ambient Capital in the last five Air quality Index (NAAQI) likely to hover around 21 improving air quality,” “ AQI is years. while on Friday it was severe degrees Celsius and 7 degrees forecasted to improve towards Addressing a congrega- with value 352. Celsius, respectively. the lower end of the very poor tion of Purvanchalis here, he The minimum tempera- According to SAFAR, a category by Sunday. The said, “You might not be aware, ture is expected to rise further unit of Ministry of Earth SAFAR model suggests AQI is around 61,500 people died of over the next two-three days Sciences (MoES) the overall likely further improve and stay breathing problems in the last and after that light rain are like- Delhi AQI is in the very poor at the lower end of very poor five years. Pollution crossed ly in the city anytime between category on December4th to poor category on 6th every limit.” January 6 and 8 due to a fresh morning. January. He also alleged that Delhi western disturbance, weather “Winds surface winds have As per SAFAR-model, top Chief Minister Arvind experts said. picked up and direction has 3 Air Pollution Hot spots of Kejriwal “disrespected the They had earlier said that become westerly. The mini- Delhi are likely to be Purvanchalis by saying that there would be no cold wave mum temperature is forecast- Vinobapuri, GT road and they get a ticket of 500 and until January 8. ed to increase by 2-3 degrees Bawana on Sunday,” it said in come to Delhi to get free The maximum and mini- during the next two days. its short range forecast on air medical care that amounts to mum temperature on Sunday is The increase in ventilation is quality. 5 lakh”. " +, -.-. !# !%
2 3 "3 R 2 ? 30 34 3 New Delhi: Prime Minister and Dean Academics, AIIMS- interact with the media, Chief Narendra Modi on Saturday 8 9 Jodhpur; Dr Deepak Saxena, Medical and Health Officer of reviewed the progress of vari- Senior Regional Director Kota Dr B.S. Tanwar said it ous sectors of the Council of (H&FW), Rajasthan; Dr Arun would find out the infant Ministers in a meeting, third Singh, Professor of deaths' reasons after interacting since December 21, as part of Jaipur: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Neonatology, AIIMS-Jodhpur; with the hospital authorities. an exercise to finalise an action Birla met the families that and Dr Himanshu Bhushan "The team will submit its plan for key ministries for the recently lost their children due Advisor, NHSRC, MoHFW, report to the Centre and the next five years. to alleged irregularities and has sought detailed informa- Rajasthan government," he The Prime Minister heard mismanagement in the J.K. tion on the hospital and infant said. The team will stay in Kota top bureaucrats on sectors such Lon Hospital, in Kota on deaths. for 2 days. as governance, technology and Saturday. Though the team didn't IANS resources, sources in the gov- Birla, an MP from Kota, ernment said. visited the families in Based on the suggestions Anantpura, Subhash Vihar, received during the meetings Vigyan Nagar, Prem Nagar ( 7 on presentations made by var- and Soorsagar areas of the city, ious committees of secretaries, offered condolences and help to the government would finalise them. an action plan for various min- Calling infant deaths in the Kota (Rajasthan): Criticising have died in the hospital. This ' ) '! istries for the next five years, hospital a serious issue, Birla his government over the is very painful. Our response to they said. said, "I wrote two letters to the deaths of 107 children in Kota's the entire matter was not sat- The ministries have been Rajasthan Chief Minister to State-run JK Lon Hospital, isfactory to some extent. The /" divided into various sectors check if adequate steps were Rajasthan Deputy Chief response could have been more 5 such as agriculture, health, being taken." Minister Sachin Pilot on sensitive and we should have governance and technology for The central team of the Saturday said their response to been more compassionate,” he " <7 speedier and better imple- Ministry of Health and Family the infant deaths could have told reporters. "! mentation of policies. Welfare has initiated the inves- been more sensitive. Pilot, who is also >/ The action plan would help tigation into the infant deaths Pilot said it was not a small Congress' state party chief, had implement policies for gover- at the Kota hospital. incident and also stressed that earlier visited some of the fam- ""! -O nance and development in a The multi-disciplinary accountability for the entire ilies who lost their children and Kolkata: Four to five persons A railway rescue team and can only be said once the more systematic way and take team that included Dr Kuldeep episode should be fixed. also went to the hospital. Shimla/Amritsar: A court in were injured when a portion of police have reached the spot. enquiry is over. Our priority the benefits to the grass-roots Singh, Head of the Paediatrics “As many as 107 children PTI Himachal Pradesh on Saturday the Burdwan railway station of The official said as per prima now is to undertake rescue," level. sent former Superintendent of Eastern Railway in West facie information, no one was the official said. Another meeting of the the Department of Higher Bengal collapsed on Saturday buried under the rubble. He said there was no Council of Ministers could 2? ! Education to CBI custody till evening. Train movement was "Our personnel there have impact on train movement. take place in the coming week +" January 8 in the alleged irregu- not affected, a senior official informed us that no one was "There is no problem in to complete the review exercise, larities in Himachal Pradesh's said. trapped in the debris. We are the platform portion. We have the sources said. ! pre-matric and post-matric "A portion of the portico gathering more details to already opened an alternate The Council of , scholarship scheme. beside the enquiry counter ascertain this. We will remove way for entry and exit of pas- Ministers usually meets after !! A CBI official said that close to the main entrance has all the debris to see for sure sengers," said Khan, who the Cabinet meeting Arvind Rajta, Superintendent collapsed. As per prima facie that no one is there under the spoke to the Burdwan district every month. But on the . 1 12 Grade-II, Department of Higher information, one person has rubble," he said. magistrate after the incident. last three occasions, the meet- Education, who was arrested by been taken to the hospital The railway has ordered An Eastern Railway ings were held independently. he mutilated body of a the Central Bureau of following injury. Three-four an enquiry to know the cause spokesperson told IANS: In the past few weeks, the Bengaluru: Under attack by work, including rebuilding hous- Tnine-year-old boy, who Investigation on Friday, was sent other persons sustained minor of the mishap which occurred "Rescue operation is on. Senior prime minister has reviewed the Opposition Congress for raw es, roads, and other infrastruc- was missing since Thursday, to the agency custody till January injuries and were released at around 8 p.m. officials have reached the site during Cabinet meetings the deal from the Centre to the State, ture that were damaged by has been recovered from 8. He said that a local court in after first aid," said Divisional "I can't say at this stage and are taking stock of the res- progress made by various min- Karnataka Chief Minister BS heavy rains and floods for a fort- Manesar area, police said on Punjab also sent two other Railway Manager (Howrah) whether there was any short- cue operations." istries in implementing the Yediyurappa on Saturday said night in August," recalled the Saturday. accused in the agency's custody Isha Khan. coming in maintenance. That IANS Government's policies. Prime Minister Narendra Modi chief minister. A police officer said it's till January 8. The BJP-led NDA returned had assured him and the people The state government had suspected that the boy may The CBI has also arrested to power with a greater man- of all help, including Central aid also spent additional amount have been sexually assaulted as Hitesh Gandhi, Vice Chairman date in the 2019 Lok Sabha to the flood-hit. from its resources and funds his body was found without of K.C. Group of Institutions, * * election. It completed six "Modi has personally raised through the chief minis- any clothes on at a vacant plot, and S.P Singh, head cashier, months in power in November. assured me of all help, including ter's relief fund and donations adjacent to a liquor vend. Central Bank of India in the PTI funds to the state from the from the people and institutions. "We have identified the same case from Nawanshahr in * :9 Centre. He also told me to meet "The prime minister has accused. He is absconding. Punjab on Friday. him and other central min- also told me to prepare a report Efforts are on to nab him," said The CBI has registered a 66./ F)!" istries in Delhi soon for on issues pending with the Subhash Bokan, PRO of case on the request of Himachal approvals to pending projects Centre and funds required for Gurugram police. Pradesh government and further o ensure maximum partic- ! 0 and addressing any issue," the development of the state," he The post-mortem revealed notification from Central gov- Tipation of voters with dis- Yediyurappa said in a state- asserted. that the boy was killed "prob- ernment on May 7, 2019 against ability in the upcoming Delhi ment here. The chief minister also ably by stones and he died as unknown persons under sec- Assembly elections, poll author- The Congress and the Janata reminded Modi on Thursday a result of multiple fractures on tions of criminal breach, cheat- ities in the city have added a Dal-Secular (JD-S) criticised that the state was waiting for head, chest and legs". ing by impersonation, forgery, dedicated facility on voters -! Modi for not announcing addi- additional funds from the The boy went missing forgery of record of court or of helpline for such electorate, tional funds to the state's coastal Centre in response to its repre- from his house in Naharpur public register and using forged official said. "This facility informs, edu- "PwD voters by directly con- Jaipur: The Jaipur police and northwest districts, which sentation for completing infra- area in Manesar on January 2 documents as genuine. Presently, the voter helpline cates and communicates elec- necting them with the call cen- arrested 21 suspected drug are reeling in the aftermath of structure and irrigation projects around 9 p.m., according to The official said the CBI had — 1950 — is available in English tion-related information. Now, tre," the statement said. peddlers and bootleggers, the August floods during his across the southern state. family members. His body registered a case against and Hindi for registration of a new feature has been added "The CEO, Delhi would including a college student, two-day visit to the southern "As a chief minister of a state was found on Friday evening. unknown officials for alleged grievances. Chief Electoral which empowers the Persons also inquire about the status of from different parts of the city state on Thursday and Friday. in a federal set up, it is my duty Gurugram police managed misappropriation of scholarship Officer (CEO), Delhi, Ranbir with Disability (PwD) to reg- the complaints received and the on Saturday. "The Centre has given Rs to seek Central funds for our to obtain the CCTV footage funds meant for Schedule Caste, Singh said in view of the upcom- ister their complaints directly," satisfaction level of the com- The arrests were made 1,200 crore in early October as projects, relief works, remuner- wherein the victim is seen Schedule Tribe, Other Backward ing polls, this unique step has the Delhi CEO Office said in a plainant by obtaining feedback during a special drive, contingency funds to the state ative price for farmers and walking along with a youth. Classes and minority commu- been taken to ensure "maximum statement. directly from them and reopen 'Operation Clean Sweep', from the National Disaster Relief greater allocation of Central A doctor said forensic nity to the tune of around Rs 220 participation of PwD voters and A new option in the voter the complaint if they are not against drug peddling and Fund to compensate the flood- funds to the state," reiterated samples have been sent to a lab crore between 2013-14 and dedicated accessibility of 1950 helpline will exclusively register found satisfied with the action bootlegging. hit people and undertake relief Yediyurappa. PTI to ascertain sexual assault. 2016-17. IANS helpline services to them". the complaints or grievances of taken," it said. Several police teams con- ducted simultaneous raids in Vishwakarma, Jhotwara, ()( /// “171 are already de-empan- a statement. reserved for government hos- cards and an FIR was lodged on Bhankhrota, Bagru, elled and the list of these hos- The cover provided under pitals by the State authorities, it November 8. In Chhattisgarh, Brahmpuri, Amber, pitals is posted on PMJAY web- PM-JAY is Rs 5 lakh per fami- said. such cases were detected initially From Page 1 site http://ww ly and not Rs 5 lakh per e-card. It was detected that private in May 2019 and the cards have It also needs final approval w.Pmjay.Gov.In/de-empanelled. There is no package under PM- hospitals were performing these been disabled. of the State health agency offi- Penalties to the tune of more JAY scheme which is free for Government reserved proce- In Madhya Pradesh, cases )'! cials to not just create an e-card than Rs 4.5 crore have also been government. There are certain dures and blocking/submitting were detected in August 2019 but also to add any additional levied on hospitals indulging in packages, especially abuse- the same under a different and shared with state which has family member. malpractices,” the NHA said in prone packages, which are package name or as unspecified disabled the cards and the con- package. cerned hospital has been issued According to the statement, show-cause notice. Penalty has Kashmir is the only State been accepted, are: Andhra cases of fraud were detected by also been levied on TPA. The Mumbai: Mumbai Police When Shinde was called for $ %/// whose tableau was selected for Pradesh, Assam, Chhattisgarh, NAFU in August 2019 and cases in punjab were detected in Commissioner Sanjay Barve the First Appeal hearing on the parade every year (15 Goa, Gujarat, Himachal shared with Gujarat State Health Oct 2019 andshared with state on Saturday ordered a probe December 27 last year, DCP From Page 1 times) from 2005 to 2019. Pradesh, J&K, Karnataka, MP, agency which has disabled the which has disabled the cards. into the attack on RTI activist Kumar allegedly shouted at The tableau showed Next in line is Karnataka whose Meghalaya, Odisha, Punjab, Yashwant Shinde, allegedly by him, and started assaulting, Kerala's backwaters, Kathakali, tableaux were selected 12 times Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Deputy Commissioner of Police kicking and punching him. Nahargarh Road, Transport Mohiniyattam dancers and during the last 14-year period. Telangana and UP. - Zone III, Avinash Kumar. The DCP also asked three Nagar, Muhana, Vidhayakpuri percussionists playing the tra- The tableaux of Assam & Tableaux of several $5 Kumar is also the desig- other policemen to hold him and Kho-Nagorian areas. dition instrument of Chenda Chhattisgarh were selected 11 Opposition-ruled States nated First Appellate Authority and continued to rain blows on Five kg ganja, 27 gm cha- (drums). Kerala tableau was times each. including Madhya Pradesh, ;$55 O = for RTI. him and at one point he ras, five cartons of beer and Rs adjudged best in 2013 when This year, the Government Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, This was conveyed to a del- attempted to strangulate 1.52 lakh in cash were recov- UPA-II was in power at the has selected 22 tableaux — 15 Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, egation of RTI and social Shinde. ered from the possession of the Centre. Kerala, ruled by the States, 1 Union Territory, and Odisha and Punjab have been activists who called on him Bleeding profusely, Shinde 21 arrested, police said. CPI(M) Government was lead- six Government departments selected for this R-Day parade. (Barve) to submit a memoran- was taken to the nearby Byculla Among the arrested is a ing the protest against the — from a total of 56 applica- Last year too, there were 16 New Delhi: The Jawaharlal staff gained access to the com- dum and demand stringent Police Station, which refused to B.Com final-year student of a Citizenship Amendment Act, tions (32 from States and UTs, States and UTs that were part Nehru University administra- munication and information action against DCP Kumar. register a complaint against noted college, the police said. Abrogation of Article 370 and 24, departments). of the parade. In 2018, the tion said students agitating over services (CIS) premises Saturday Barve assured them that the the DCP. Even the Police "He has been a meritori- Ram Temple. The 16 States and UTs, number was 14, and in 2017 the hike in hostel fees "ran- morning, after the servers were probe into the matter - which Control Room didn't cooperate ous student but became a Interestingly, Jammu & whose tableau proposals have and 2016, 17. sacked" the server room and made dysfunctional by students has triggered outrage among and he finally went to KEM drug addict. He smuggles cha- "intimidated" the technical staff on Friday, with the help of various activists - will be com- Hospital for treatment and a ras from Kota and supplies to on Saturday, hampering the security guards and rebooted the pleted by January 10. medical certificate, Galgali other students," the police semester registration process. servers, the university said. The delegation, which added. added. /// But JNUSU said the admin- But a group of "miscreants" included former Chief After three days, on PTI istration used "masked" securi- entered the server room, intim- Information Commissioner December 30, Shinde submit- From Page 1 community,” it said. Kartarpur Corridor is a man- ty guards to attack students. idated the staff, and damaged the Shailesh Gandhi, Sucheta Dalal, ted his complaint to the Police The External Affairs The ministry said repre- ifestation of Pakistan’s special "They were shamefully wearing systems around 1pm, it alleged. G. R. Vora, Dolphy D'Souza, Commissioner's office. Ministry in New Delhi said on hensible actions followed the care extended to the minorities, masks. JNUSU president was Around 4pm, the staff once Bhaskar Prabhu and Anil The delegation said that the Friday that members of the forcible abduction and con- in line with the vision of the the openly slapped by one of the again gained access to the CIS Galgali along with the victim DCP's behaviour was "unac- minority Sikh community in version of a Sikh girl who was country’s founder Muhammad security guards," alleged the room and were trying to restore Shinde submitted a memoran- ceptable" and "a gross violation Pakistan were subjected to acts kidnapped from her home in Ali Jinnah. students' union, which has called the systems. dum to Barve and Joint Police of the RTI activist's funda- of violence at the holy city of the city of Nankana Sahib in Punjab Chief Minister for a boycott of the process over Appealing to students to Commissioner Santosh Rastogi. mental rights". ◆ THANKSGIVING ◆ Nankana Sahib. August last year. Amarinder Singh and the the increase in hostel fees. continue the boycott of the reg- The delegation members They added that "a laugh- “India strongly condemns Gurdwara Nankana Sahib, Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) The semester registration istration process, the JNUSU informed the two top officers able story is being circulated" Thank you Holy Spirit for all these wanton acts of destruc- also known as the Gurdwara had also expressed concern process will end on January 5. claimed the administration is that since there was no CCTV claiming Shinde fell from a Blessings Celine. tion and desecration of the holy Janam Asthan, is the site where over reports of the mob attack The university has been "extremely rattled" by the unity camera inside the cabin of the chair and sustained injuries, PD(8747)C place. We call upon the the first Guru of the Sikhs, on the Nankana Sahib gurd- seeing a standoff between the of students. DCP who assaulted Shinde, and urged Barve to immediately Government of Pakistan to Guru Nanak, was born. wara. students and the administration Meanwhile, the RSS-affili- the police should check the access the CCTV footage from ◆ ◆ take immediate steps to ensure It is regarded as one of the In a tweet, Singh appealed over hike in hostel fees for over ated Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi CCTV footage outside his the DCP office and take it in his CHANGE OF NAME safety, security, and welfare of holiest Sikh sites. to Pakistan Prime Minister 70 days. Students even boycotted Parishad said its members office, Galgali told IANS. custody, Galgali said. the members of the Sikh com- The Pakistan Foreign Imran Khan to ensure that the exams in protest, prompting protested against the disruption In the memorandum, they The delegation also called I, Jyoti Bala Goel W/o Sh. munity,” the ministry said in a Office said the Pakistan gov- devotees stranded at the gurd- the administration to send ques- of internet, after which they were said that Shinde had sought cer- upon the Police Commissioner Ashok Kumar Goel R/o statement. ernment was committed to wara were rescued from the tion papers to students through attacked by the members of the tain details under RTI about the to initiate action against those V-178, Sector-12, Noida (U.P.) “Strong action must be upholding law and order and mob. SAD chief Sukhbir Singh WhatsApp and email, a move Left Unity. police department's functioning officials in Byculla Police have changed my name to taken against the miscreants providing security and protec- Badal urged Prime Minister condemned by the union. The JNUSU alleged that from DCP Kumar, but since he Station and Police Control Jyoti Bala for all purposes. who indulged in desecration of tion to the people, especially Narendra Modi to take up the Explaining the events, the students were attacked by ABVP was not satisfied with the Room who failed to help Shinde PD(8748)A the holy Gurdwara and attacked the minorities. issue with his Pakistani coun- university said the technical members. PTI replies, he filed a First Appeal register his complaint in the members of the minority Sikh It said the opening of the terpart. to the designated RTI official. matter that day. IANS & " +, -.-. !# !'
! !! R99 2 66./ vandalised her house and dam- Governor Anandiben Patel aged things bought for her incorporating the high-hand- ongress general secretary wedding. edness of the police during the !# O Cin-charge of eastern Uttar After her meeting with protests. Pradesh, Priyanka Gandhi Hussaini and other victims, she Priyanka then proceeded Amreli: A statue of Mahatma Vadra on Saturday made said all of them accused the to Meerut where she met the Gandhi located at Hari Krishna several stops, unscheduled police of unleashing a reign of affected families at the outskirts lake in Gujarat's Amreli district visits in western Uttar Pradesh's terror and thrashing them for of the town. was vandalised by some Muzaffarnagar and Meerut to no fault. She said the police In the neighbouring unidentified persons meet the families of those who entered the madarsa and beat Meerut, the affected families late Friday night, police died or were injured during last up the maulana and his stu- assembled at one place on the said. month's violent protests against dents. “I will stand with you in outskirts of the town to meet The statue was set up in the Citizenship Amendment this hour of distress,” Priyanka the Congress leader where she 2018 in a garden near a lake Act (CAA). said. She was accompanied by listened to their problems. dug up and beautified by Priyanka arrived in Imran Masood, a party leader The UP Police had stopped Dholakiya Foundation of Muzaffarnagar in the morning from Saharanpur. Priyanka and her brother and Surat-based diamond baron and met Maulana Asad Later she told former Congress president Savjibhai Dholakiya and Hussaini, who runs madrassa mediapersons that people were Rahul Gandhi from entering unveiled by Prime Minister Hoz E Ilmia near Meenakshi beaten up mercilessly and even Meerut town on December Narendra Modi in 2017, an Chowk, where violence erupt- children and minors were not 24, citing prohibitory orders, as official said. ed during the protests on spared. a result of which they had to “The incident happened December 20. She also went to “I met Maulana Asad return to Delhi, 60 km from last night. Efforts are on to the house of Noor Mohammad Hussaini, who was brutally there, without meeting the identify and nab the culprits. who lost his life during the thrashed by the police. Students affected families. We have made a diary protests. She spoke with his of the madarsa, including At least five people were entry. seven-month pregnant widow minors, were picked up by the killed during the protests in This may be the handiwork and one-and-a-half-year-old police without any reason. Meerut. of people unhappy with con- daughter. Some of them have been Earlier, Priyanka had gone struction of the lake or by anti- She also met Rukaiya, who released and some are still in to Bijnor and met the families social elements,” said sub will be getting married on custody,” she said. She said she % 2 )> & of those killed in the violent inspector YP Gohil of Lathi Saturday, and said the police has given a memorandum to & &5 '! clashes there. police station. PTI - + + 2 ! ! !& 4 -+8& O night. Talking to media persons Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) the crucial PWD portfolio '( '(( Uddhav held one more here, Raut had said in the Meenatai Shelke in the presi- being taken away from the round of talks with the leaders afternoon: “There are no dif- dential polls of the Aurangabad impending distribution of O 1! of the NCP and Congress ferences in the State cabinet. If Zilla Parishad. Shelke and BJP Cabinet portfolios in the MVA which are constituents in the any minister resigns then res- nominee Devyani government in the state. MVA Government to give final ignation is sent normally to the Dondgaonkar polled 30 votes Informed sources said that touches to the distribution of chief minister or Raj Bhawan, in the ZP presidential polls. the Congress had decided to portfolios in his Cabinet, an but both have no information Later in a draw of lots, allocate the crucial PWD port- New Delhi: The CBI on 7( ( 2 27 exercise he has not been able to about it yet". Congress’ Shelke was elected as folio held by Raut earlier to for- Saturday recovered 12 lakh in carry out since December 30 Later in the evening, Sattar the Aurangabad ZP presiden- mer chief minister and senior cash and documents related to hiv Sena’s newly-inducted when he expanded his Cabinet formally denied that he had tial polls. Congress leader Ashok assets worth 31 lakh during SMinister of State Abdul to induct 36 new Ministers – resigned and said that someone In the normal course, Chavan, while he (Raut) has searches at the premises of a Sattar on Saturday evening including Deputy Chief had mischievously spread Sena’s Kajwe expected to poll instead been given relatively senior superintendent of denied that he had resigned Minister Ajit Pawar and his son rumours that he had put in his 30 votes in the polls to the post insignificant Energy Regional Passport Office, from his post, even as senior Aditya Thackeray — in his papers. “I have not resigned. of ZP vice president. However, portfolio. Lucknow, officials said. Congress Minister Nitin Raut team. Meanwhile, it was the After I meet Chief Minister and Sena’s Kajwe polled only 28 Sources close to him said The agency has registered expressed his disappointment speculation over Sattar’s resig- Shiv Sena president Uddhav votes against BJP’s winning that Raut was extremely a case against Vikas Mishra, over the denial of plum Public nation that came into sharp Thackeray, I will provide candidate L G Gaikwad. unhappy with the State party Senior Superintendent, for 66./ Karnataka, West Bengal and Works Department (PWD) focus in the State capital all answers to all your questions Immediately after the ZP leadership that has taken away allegedly amassing assets dis- Uttarakhand. portfolio to him. through Saturday. that the speculation about my elections, senior Shiv Sena the PWD portfolio from him proportionate to his known en candidates scored a A total of 21 candidates Sattar’s denial came amid On a day when the Shiv resignation that was rife all leader and former MP and that he would take up the sources of income, they said. Tperfect 100 percentile in the have scored 99.9 percentile of reports that Maharashtra Chief Sena lost vice president’s post through the day”. Chandrkant Khaire from matter with the Congress high The agency conducted Common Admission Test which 19 are from technolog- Minister Uddhav Thackeray in the Aurangabad Zilla The speculation broke out Aurangabad blamed Sattar – command. searches at four locations — (CAT), results of which were ical background. had finalised the distribution of Parishad owing to dissensions after the Shiv Sena’s Shubhangi who is also from Aurangabad In a related development, three in Lucknow and one in announced on Saturday. The exam conducted for portfolios for his Ministers in within the party, there was a Kajwe was defeated in the elec- – for the Sena’s defeat in the Congress’ MLA from Jalna Varanasi — on Saturday, the All ten candidates are men admission into MBA courses the Shiv Sena-led Maha Vikas strong speculation in the morn- tions to the post of vice presi- polls. Khaire called Sattar as a Kailash Gorantyal has threat- officials said. from technological and engi- by IIMs and over 100 non-IIM Aghadi (MVA) Government. ing that Sattar had resigned dent of the Aurangbad Zilla “betrayer” and said that he ened to resign as a legislator During the searches, the neering backgrounds, officials institutions, saw the highest “The MVA Government may from his post. Parishad by a margin of four should not be allowed to enter after having been denied a agency recovered 12 lakh in said, adding six of these can- number of candidates appear- come out with a statement on However, Shiv Sena votes. The elections Thackerays’ Mumbai residence berth in the State Cabinet. On cash, receipts for purchase of didates are from IITs and two ing for it in the last the allocation of portfolios for spokesperson and MP Sanjay were held through a secret “Matoshri”. its part, the state Congress jewellery worth 5 lakh, papers from NITs. ten years. A total of 1.34 lakh the ministers in the State Raut said that there was no ballot. Meanwhile, senior leadership initiated efforts to of fixed deposits worth 26 Four of these candidates men and 75,000 women had Cabinet either late tonight or information about the resig- Kajwe’s defeat should in the Congress leader and Minister placate Gorantyal to back out lakh and documents of 45 are from Maharashtra and the appeared for the exam, while tomorrow,” a senior Sena min- nation of Sattar’s resignation light of the victory of the from Vidarbha region Nitin on his threat to resign as an bank accounts, they remaining are from Jharkhand, five transgender candidates ister close to Uddhav said in the from the State Cabinet. Congress candidate and ruling Raut has made no bones about MLA. said. PTI Tamil Nadu, Telangana, took the test. !* "&* " -@ & $ ! 0 1 66./ thunderstorm accompanied northeastern states. Arunachal A with hail and lightning at iso- Pradesh is the largest benefi- fter breaking record of 119 lated places in plains, low and ciary and sees 3-4 times high- Ayears, the worst is yet to middle hills of the state on er rains than other subdivi- ( Out of the 515 wards in 27 game of politics is still open in come in north India including January 6 and 7 in Himachal sions. While, the least is for /6 districts where election was the State, according to the national Capital region. Pradesh. The MeT department Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, held, the DMK won 217 seats Sreekumar Balakrishnan, vet- The India Meteorological issues colour-coded warnings and Tripura. he age old proverb ‘there’s while the AIADMK had to eran political commentator. Department (IMD) and a pri- to alert the public ahead of The New Year for North Tmany a slip ’twixt the cup content with 187 seats. “Ill not say it was a big win for vate weather forecaster Skymet severe or hazardous weather India began on a chilly note and the lip’ proved to be true Similarly, out of the 5090 pan- DMK and a major loss for the has predicted rain and snow in which has the potential to with several places recording once again as the results of chayat union wards, the DMK AIADMK. The polls which north India from January 6-7. cause “damage, widespread dis- temperatures below 1 degree Tamil Nadu’s local body walked away with 2000 seats were due in 2016 got delayed The reason is the formation of ruption and/or danger to life”. Celsius. Rajasthan's Sri election for 27 districts were while the AIADMK had to because of the series of cases fresh western disturbance Yellow is the least dangerous Ganganagar, which nearly announced by late Friday content with 1668 seats . filed by the DMK. The State (WD) over Himalaya hills. among the warnings. touched the 50-degree mark night. Though there are 3 districts Election Commission had This is likely to bring cold wave Rajasthan continued to reel last summer, shivered at 1.5 Though the Opposition in Tamil Nadu, only 27 districts completed all formalities in the north India and also under cold weather conditions degrees Celsius. DMK was ahead of the ruling went to the polls in December including the scrutiny of nom- bring down the maximum and with Fatehpur town in Sikar North India including AIADMK while results from 2 and 30 as per the order of the ination papers when the minimum temperature. district being the coldest place Delhi recorded the coldest districts were trickling in apex court. Madras High Court stayed the Meanwhile, several areas in despite a marginal increase in plain area which bring cold in the state recording a mini- December day in last 119 years during the day time, scenario Election to the remaining entire process citing the non Himachal Pradesh, temperature. Manali in Kullu wave conditions,” the IMD mum of 3.4 degrees Celsius. since the year 1901 when underwent a major change districts would e held after the completion of delimitation and Uttarakhand and Jammu and district received snowfall on said. According to Dr Kuldeep This continuous weather activ- record-keeping began. Delhi during the last phase of count- process of the delimitation and reservation process,” said Kashmir received fresh snow- Saturday morning, whereas Srivastava, scientist of IMD, ity on account of back to back also witnessed cold wave con- ing. finalisation of reservation of Balakrishnan. fall on Saturday as the mercury State Capital Shimla witnessed weather in India is becoming weather systems would have an ditions as the minimum tem- The AIADMK which was wards for the scheduled caste Interestingly, Chief rose marginally across north snowfall in the afternoon. The increasingly difficult to predict, impact over the weather of perature settled at 2.4 degrees trailing till then surged ahead are completed. Urban local Minister Edappadi Indian plains, which had been snowfall brought cheers on both in the short and the long northwestern plains including Celsius, five notches below by late Friday evening and bodies too would go to the Palaniswami who remained under the grip of a severe cold the faces of tourists and hote- term due to its tropical area. Delhi-NCR. normal. ‘squared up’ for the losses it suf- polls in a later stage, according incommunicado throughout spell for over two weeks. liers alike. According to Skymet, a With this, winters in Three days ago, the nation- fered during the day time. to Tamil Nadu State Election Friday issued a release by late Popular tourist destinations The IMD said that cold trail of western disturbance January can be touted to be al capital experienced its cold- When the final results of Commission. night thanking the voters for Shimla and wave conditions is expected to would continue through harsher than December. It is est day in December in 119 the district panchayat wards Though there were the trust they ‘showered’ on Manali in Himachal Pradesh return from January 6-7 in January as rain and snow not the night temperatures but years with the day temperature were declared, the DMK and indications of the repetition of AIADMK. Eight months after witnessed the first snowfall of north and northwest India due would pick up pace from the cold days which would be recording 9.4 degrees Celsius. the AIADMK shared the hon- the Lok Sabha election in April the setback in the Lok Sabha 2020, bringing cheers to to western disturbance which January 6 till January 8 after a main reason for discomfort,” The temperature recorded by ours by winning 13 districts 2019 when the DMK together polls, the party has regained tourists and hoteliers alike, will change the wind speed brief break till Sunday. Skymet said. During the month the Safdurjung laboratory at each while Shivaganga yielded with its allies swept the polls, the affection and support of the while cold conditions persist- from easterly to northwesterly. Meanwhile, the IMD has of January and February, rains 2:30 pm was 9.4 degrees a split verdict. the final results show that the people. ed in the northern plains “Wind will start from Hills to issued a yellow warning for are slightly heavier in the Celsius. ' &$) ()# *!+*, ",*#*! )*!
7( ( 2 27 student of the booklet on Veer Savarkar brought - -.) / ,0 1 **. #- ! Jawaharlal Nehru out by the Congress-affiliated All mid a controversy over his University (JNU) who India Congress Seva Dal as part of 66./ door if the pilots didn't come out,” the video shows a passenger trying to Asharing a platform with con- was involved in the its 10-day camp in Madhya official said, adding the situation open the door even as the crew are in troversial student leader Umar 2016 JNU sedition Pradesh. he Directorate General of Civil inside the plane “went from bad to the process of doing so. Her Khalid at the meet, Maharashtra controversy. Khalid is The other key speakers at the TAviation (DGCA) has asked Air worse”. co-passengers asked this person to Minister and Shiv Sena leader one of the key speak- conference are Congress leader India to act against unruly passengers According to the official, a step aside and let the cabin crew open Aditya Thackeray on Saturday ers at the meet. Cabinet Minister in the Maha who banged on the cockpit door and female passenger allegedly even man- the door. “Don't do this they will open opted out of a national students’ Apart from Vikas Aghadi government tin the misbehaved with crew of a delayed handled a cabin crew member, grab- it,” co-passengers are seen telling this conference on Citizenship Khalid, the other state Varsha Gaikwad, NCP MLA Delhi-Mumbai flight on Thursday bing her arm in order to open the person. Amendment Act (CAA) and the prominent speakers at and Sharad Pawar’s grand nephew (January 2). main exit gate quickly. Air India spokesperson said the National Register of Citizens (NRC) Sunday’s anti- CAA- Rohit Pawar and Lok Bharati chief According to official, unruly pas- Videos have emerged showing operating crew has been asked to sub- being held in the city on Sunday. NRC conference are Kapil Patil. sengers allegedly manhandled cabin some young passengers banging on mit a detailed report on the report- Aditya — who had earlier con- poet and lyricist Javed “Chhatra Bharati” and other crew members and threatened to the cockpit door, asking the pilots to ed misbehaviour by some passengers. sented to participate along with the ference, Chhatra Bharati’s Mumbai Akhtar, Aligarh Muslim University anti-CAA-NRC joint action com- break open the cockpit door of Air come out. “Captain please one out… “The flight AI 865 of 2nd January was leaders of the ruling Maha Vikas unit President Sachin M. Bansode Students Union President Salman mittee of other student and leftist India's Boeing 747 aircraft after their Loser come out… Come out or we considerably delayed due to technical Aghadi (MVA) and speak at the told “the Pioneer”: “Aditya Imtiaz, Jamia Milia University stu- organisations have organised Delhi-Mumbai flight on Thursday was will break the door…” they yell to the reasons. Air India management have anti-CAA-NRC conference to be Thackeray has informed us that he dent leader Hammadur Rehman, Sunday’s conference. delayed due to a technical problem. cockpit crew. Cockpit is on the upper asked the operating crew for a detailed held at the Yeshwantrao Chavan will not be able to attend tomor- TISSSU chief Bhatta Ram, student The other organisations who “The AI865 flight on Thursday deck of B747s where AI has its busi- report on the reported misbehaviour Centre on Sunday — conveyed to row’s conference. However, he has leaders Sadiya Shaikh and Richa have teamed up with “Chhatra got delayed as it developed a techni- ness class. One passenger in the by some passengers. Further action the organisers on Saturday about not given any reason for his inabil- Singh. Bharati” to organise the conference cal snag. It had to return to the bay. videos even knows that doing so is would be considered after getting the his inability to attend the confer- ity to attend the conference”. Another reason for Aditya’s are: AISF, SFI, ASA, TISS Students Passengers started knocking on the against the law and can be heard say- report,” the spokesperson said. ence ostensibly due to pre-occu- Sources said that Aditya might absence at Sunday’s conference Unions, Samyak, MASU, SIO, cockpit door, asking and taunting the ing “I do not have a criminal record An official of aviation regulator pation with other work. have chosen to skip the anti-CAA- being cited in the Sena circles is CYSS, PSU, Republican Panther, pilots to come out,” official said. and don't want one.” DGCA said that they have asked Air Confirming the absence of NRC conference to avoid sharing another controversy over some AIPC, AYW, Vidyarthi Bharati “One male passenger even said When AI finally asks passengers India to take action against the Aditya at the anti-CAA-NRC con- of a platform with Khalid, a former unsavoury allegation made in a and Mumbai Graduates Forum. that he will break open the cockpit to alight from the aircraft, another “unruly behaviour” of passengers. " +, -.-. , /2 / 49 R
6/1 Mohammad Javad Zarif said in < separate television interview on RQ !R2&$ ashington asked Tehran to Friday night that “Switzerland’s Wrespond “in proportion” envoy transmitted a foolish mes- " "3 C after US forces killed top Iranian sage from the Americans this / = targets in Iraq, including rock- ing acts of terror to destabilize people with an incredible her- military commander Qasem morning”. et strikes that killed an the Middle East for the last 20 itage and unlimited potential. Soleimani, the deputy com- The Swiss official “was sum- efending the killing of top American and injured four years. We do not seek regime change,” mander of the Revolutionary moned in the evening and DIranian commander in a American servicemen very “What the United States Trump said. "! Guards said. received a decisive response in US strike, President Donald badly, as well as a violent did yesterday should have been “However, the Iranian The Islamic Revolutionary writing... To the Americans’ Trump on Friday said the assault on our embassy in done long ago. A lot of lives regime’s aggression in the Baghdad: US-led forces help- Guard Corps confirmed audacious letter,” Zarif added. “reign of terror is over” and Baghdad, were carried out at would have been saved. Just region, including the use of ing Iraqi troops fight jihadists Soleimani, the commander of its matic measures... Switzerland’s embassy in claimed Qasem Soleimani had the direction of Soleimani,” recently Soleimani led the bru- proxy fighters to destabilize its have scaled back operations, a Quds Force foreign operations On Friday morning”, Rear- Tehran has represented US inter- contributed to “terrorist plots Trump told reporters at Mar- tal repression of protesters in neighbours, must end and it US defence official told AFP arm, had been killed on Friday Admiral Ali Fadavi told State ests in the Islamic republic since as far away as New Delhi and a-Lago in Florida. Iran, where more than 1,000 must end now. The future Saturday, a day after an in a US air strike near Baghdad television that night. ties were cut in 1980. London.” “Soleimani made the death innocent civilians were tor- belongs to the people of Iran, American strike killed top airport. They “even said that if you But Fadavi said the United General Soleimani, the of innocent people his sick pas- tured and killed by their own those who seek peaceful co- Iranian and Iraqi comman- After the attack, the want to get revenge, get revenge States was not in a position “to head of Iran’s elite al-Quds sion, contributing to terrorist government,” he said. existence and cooperation, not ders. Americans “resorted to diplo- in proportion to what we did”, he determine” Iran’s response. force and architect of its region- plots as far away as New Delhi Amidst escalation of ten- the terrorist warlords who “Our first priority is pro- said, quoted on the broadcaster’s “The Americans must await al security apparatus, was killed and London. Today we remem- sion with Iran, Trump claimed plunder their nation to finance tecting coalition personnel,” website. Fadavi did not say how severe revenge. This revenge following a US airstrike at ber and honour the victims of Soleimani’s killing will not lead bloodshed abroad,” he said. the official said, saying the =! Iran received the message from will not be limited to Iran,” he Baghdad’s international air- Soleimani’s many atrocities and to war. Trump said at his direc- US-led force had “limited” its arch-enemy, even though said. “The ‘Resistance Front’, port on Friday. The strike also we take comfort in knowing “We took action last night tion, the United States military their training and other anti- Tehran and Washington have with a vast geography, is ready to killed the deputy chief of Iraq’s that his reign of terror is over,” to stop a war. We did not take successfully executed a flawless jihadist operations. had no diplomatic relations for materialise this revenge,” he powerful Hashed al-Shaabi he said. action to start a war. I have precision strike that killed the “It’s not a halt,” the source four decades. added, referring to Iran’s allies paramilitary force. Trump alleged that deep respect for the Iranian “number one terrorist” any- said, adding: “We have C Iran’s Foreign Minister across the Middle East. “The recent attacks on US Soleimani has been perpetrat- people. They are a remarkable where in the world. increased security and defen- sive measures at Iraqi bases that 3 host coalition troops.” 71 6. The official said the change ' P &4 came after a series of rocket ATO has suspended its attacks by pro-Iran factions on Ntraining missions in Iraq, US troops in recent months. a spokesman for the alliance 7 / Q !R Surveillance efforts were said on Saturday, following the now focused on potential new US killing of Iranian military housands of mourners attacks instead of the Islamic commander Qasem Tgathered Saturday for a State group. Soleimani. funeral procession through 2 The rocket attacks, which The NATO mission in Baghdad for Iran’s top general killed one American contractor Iraq, which consists of sever- and militant leaders killed in a / = Frankly, the Europeans haven’t last month, have stoked fears of al hundred personnel, trains US airstrike. been as helpful as I wish that a proxy war between the the country’s security forces at Gen Qassem Soleimani, S Secretary of State Mike they could be,” he said. United States and Iran on Iraqi the request of the Baghdad the head of Iran’s elite Quds UPompeo said on Friday US officials said Soleimani, soil. Government to prevent the force and mastermind of its that Washington’s European who had been blacklisted by Those worries skyrocketed return of the Islamic State regional security strategy, was allies had not been “as helpful” the US, was killed when a Friday after a US strike in jihadist group. killed in an airstrike early Friday as he hoped over the US killing drone hit his vehicle near Baghdad killed Iranian gener- “NATO’s mission is con- near the Iraqi capital’s interna- of Iranian military commander Baghdad’s international air- al Qasem Soleimani, the head tinuing, but training activities tional airport. Qasem Soleimani in Iraq. port. Following the assassina- of the Islamic Revolutionary are currently suspended,” said Many of the mourners were Pompeo called officials tion, EU foreign affairs chief Guards Corps’ Quds Force for- the spokesman, Dylan White. dressed in black, and they car- worldwide to discuss the attack, Josep Borrell called on all eign operations arm. He also confirmed that ried Iraqi flags and the flags of which was praised by US involved actors “to exercise The strike also killed the NATO Secretary General Jens Iran-backed militias that are President Donald Trump’s maximum restraint and show deputy head of Iraq’s Hashed Stoltenberg had spoken by fiercely loyal to Soleimani. Republicans and close ally responsibility in this crucial al-Shaabi, a network of most- telephone with US Secretary Iran has vowed harsh retal- Israel, but elsewhere met with moment.” ly Shiite factions close to Iran of Defence Mark Esper “fol- iation, raising fears of an all-out sharp warnings it could inflame Meanwhile French and incorporated into the lowing recent developments.” war. US President Donald regional tensions. President Emmanuel Macron Baghdad government’s securi- A US defence official told Trump says he ordered the “I spent the last day and a urged those involved to act ty forces. AFP earlier Saturday that US- strike to prevent a conflict. His half, two days, talking to part- with “restraint” while British On Saturday, the Hashed led forces helping Iraqi troops administration says Soleimani ners in the region, sharing Foreign Secretary Dominic said a new strike had hit a con- fight jihadists have scaled was plotting a series of attacks ! P B & & with them what we were doing, Raab said de-escalation would voy of their forces north of the back operations. that endangered American ! ! > 6 & why we were doing it, seeking be key. capital, with Iraqi state media Soleimani, the head of troops and officials, without their assistance. They’ve all “The Brits, the French, the blaming the United States. the Islamic Revolutionary providing evidence. the war against the Islamic As tensions soared across later, the Iraqi army denied any been fantastic,” Pompeo said in Germans all need to under- But the spokesman for the Guards Corps’ Quds Force Soleimani was the architect State group. He was also blamed the region, there were reports airstrike had taken place. an interview with Fox News. stand that what we did, what US-led coalition denied it. foreign operations arm, was of Iran’s regional policy of for attacks on US troops and overnight of an airstrike on a The US-led coalition also “And then talking to our the Americans did, saved lives “There was no American killed in a US drone attack in mobilizing militias across Iraq, American allies over nearly convoy of Iran-backed militia- denied carrying out any partners in other places that in Europe as well,” Pompeo or coalition strike,” Myles Baghdad on Friday. Syria and Lebanon, including in two decades. men north of Baghdad. Hours airstrike. haven’t been quite as good. said. Caggins told AFP. AFP A " 9
76 - Wang was replaced by Luo also become a centre of pro- pro-democracy protests. China (CPC) and the military. Huining, the former party boss democracy protests where the The disquieting situation in “Without a harmonious : hina replaced its top offi- of Shaanxi province, in the first protesters have burnt the Hong Kong, which continues and stable environment, how Ccial in Hong Kong on major reshuffle of the office Chinese flag. to witness mass protests, espe- can there be a home where 6 = announced it no longer felt Asked when the council Saturday, days after President since the city became Luo’s appointment came cially by youth that often people can live and work hap- bound by the moratorium. might next vote on the draft Xi Jinping expressed concern embroiled in anti-government as a surprise as he was named turned violent figured high in pily,” Xi said with a tone of Chinese-Russian resolu- Two previous Security resolution, Zhang said only over the continued pro-democ- protests seven months ago. a week ago the deputy director Xi’s customary New Year’s eve exasperation over unending Ation aimed at easing inter- Council sessions on the that consultations were con- racy protests posing a major Though Hong Kong is gov- of the financial and economic address over the national tele- protests, stating that he hoped national sanctions on North Chinese-Russian proposal tinuing. challenge to the ruling erned by beleaguered pro- affairs committee of the vision on December 31. for the best. Korea is a “timely” step in the failed to produce agreement, When Pyongyang Communist party. Beijing Chief Executive, Carrie National People’s Congress, “The situation in Hong “We sincerely hope for the “right direction”, China’s UN but Zhang said Beijing hoped announced the end of its mora- Wang Zhimin, the director Lam, who so far failed to quell China’s legislature, the Hong Kong has been everybody’s best for Hong Kong and Hong ambassador Zhang Jun said on “that we can build up more torium on Wednesday, the US of its liaison office in Hong the protests which grew in Kong-based South China concern over the past few Kong compatriots,” he said. Friday. consensus”. response was cautiously word- Kong who coordinates between intensity, much of responsibil- Morning Post reported. months,” said Xi, who is regard- “A prosperous and stable His comments came only “We can really contribute ed. Secretary of State Mike the local Government of the ity over policy and planning The announcement came ed as the most powerful Hong Kong is the aspiration of days after Pyongyang, deeply to the political dialogue Pompeo urged the North’s former British colony and the has been coordinated by Wang. after Xi in his New Year’s Chinese leader after Mao Hong Kong compatriots, as frustrated that those sanctions between the parties concerned, leader Kim Jong Un to “take a central Government in Beijing, China’s liaison office in address expressed concern over Zedong. well as the expectation of remain in place despite its sus- especially between the United different course” and stressed has been replaced, official Hong Kong, which is the sym- the situation in Hong Kong Besides Presidency, Xi also the people of the motherland,” pension of nuclear and long- States and DPRK,” or North that Washington wanted media here reported. bol of Beijing’s authority, has where the locals carried out heads the Communist Party of he said. range missile testing, Korea, he added. “peace, not confrontation”. 3 - #! . */ ! 2: 4 # 4#!##-. !56 =$( ((( >: ,7 . Balkh province. Hong Kong: Hong Kong authorities population of 7.5 million people. It is The target of the attack was not activated a newly created “serious the second highest in a three-tier sys- ore than 2,200 Afghan civilians known immediately. response” level on Saturday as fears tem that is part of a new government / Mwere killed in Taliban-related Taliban militants have been using spread about a mysterious infectious plan launched Saturday to respond to 76 1 attacks in 2019, the Interior Ministry home-made IEDs to make roadside disease that may have been brought infectious diseases of unknown cause. confirmed on Saturday. bombs, landmines and suicide attack back by visitors to a mainland Chinese The city’s health department added lmost nine years of civil “During 2019, Taliban terrorists vest targeting security forces, but the city. an additional thermal imaging system Awar in Syria has left more conducted scores of suicide attacks, lethal weapons also inflict casualties on Five possible cases have been at Hong Kong’s airport on Friday to than 380,000 people dead improvised explosive device (IED) civilians. reported of a viral pneumonia that has check the body temperature of arriving including over 115,000 civil- explosions and guerrilla attacks, and The improvised explosive device also infected at least 44 people in passengers. More staff have been ians, a war monitor said in a the attacks left 7,391 civilians killed and (IED) explosions, including induced Wuhan, an inland city west of Shanghai assigned for temperature checks at the new toll on Saturday. injured nationwide during the year,” roadside bomb blasts and suicide and about 900 kilometers (570 miles) West Kowloon high-speed rail station The Syrian Observatory Xinhua news agency quoted the attacks, were the leading cause of north of Hong Kong. that connects Hong Kong to the main- for Human Rights, which has Ministry as saying in a statement. civilians’ casualties in 2019, followed by The outbreak, which emerged last land. a network of sources across the According to the statement, 2,219 ground fighting and pro-government month, has revived memories of the City leader Carrie Lam, on a visit country, said they included civilians were killed and 5,172 others forces-related airstrikes, according to 2002-2003 SARS epidemic that started to the train station Friday to review the around 22,000 children and wounded last year. officials. in southern China and killed more than health surveillance measures, urged any more than 13,000 women. The Earlier on Saturday, one civilian “The Interior Ministry considers 700 people in the mainland, Hong Kong travelers who develop respiratory symp- conflict flared after unprece- was killed and two were wounded after targeting civilians as war crimes and and elsewhere. toms to wear surgical masks, seek dented anti-government a sticky IED explosion struck a vehi- condemned terrorist acts against the The serious response level indicates medical attention and let doctors know protests in the southern city of cle in Mazar-i-Sharif, capital city of the civilians,” the statement added. a moderate impact on Hong Kong’s where they have been. AP Daraa on March 15, 2011. Demonstrations spread across Syria and were brutally suppressed by the regime, trig- &! gering a multi-front armed conflict that has drawn in jihadists and foreign powers. The conflict has displaced or sent into exile around 13 mil- 26.7= 16 days as the bushfire crisis in the aster. Other areas are New lion Syrians, causing billions of country worsened. South Wales and South dollars-worth of destruction. xtending a helping hand to “We are providing proper Australia. The Britain-based Ethe hapless victims of the meals of curry and rice. We dis- Australian Prime Minister Observatory’s last casualty toll raging bushfires in Australia, an tribute the food at the relief Scott Morrison on Saturday on the Syrian conflict, issued in Indian couple is providing centres as well as give to those called up 3,000 military reserve March last year, stood at more fresh meals from their restau- who come to our restaurant troops to combat the raging than 370,000 dead. rant to those affected by the asking for it,” Kaur told PTI bushfire crisis which has so far The latest toll included disaster. over phone on Saturday. claimed the lives of 23 people more than 128,000 Syrian and Kamaljeet Kaur, along with “The situation is really bad. with high temperatures and National Park, Kangaroo Island. The couple, who migrated non-Syrian pro-regime fighters. her husband Kanwaljeet Singh, Initially there was less fire in the strong winds threatening to Expressing concern over to Australia over a decade ago, More than half of those has been preparing simple area but later it expanded. People worsen the conditions across the situation, Kaur said that were earlier providing raw mate- were Syrian soldiers, while meals of curry and rice for the have lost their lives, houses, the country. people had left their houses and rials to Sikh volunteers in the 1,682 were from the Lebanese victims in their Desi Grill farms and animals,” she said. 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4/& 66./ 2 27 it will be getting a maximum of ! 2 Rs 7,50,00 crore. 66./ December 18, 2019 - had Mistry as executive chairman hareholders of Bharti Airtel mployee associations of “BPCL is the most efficient directed re-instatement of of Tata Sons and ruled that Shave approved proposals to 76 - nary trade agreement between Estate-run oil companies on profit-making company of the ata Consultancy Services Mistry as director of the com- appointment of N raise up to $2 billion in equity the two sides looks set to be Saturday opposed planned nation, which has been giving Rs T(TCS), the flagship com- pany for rest of the tenure. Chandrasekaran as the head of and another $1 billion in debt. hina has started lifting signed this month. strategic sale of Bharat 17,000 crore annually since last pany of the Tata group, on “...The company, based on the holding company of salt-to- The proposal for issuance of Cmajor restrictions on for- The world’s top two Petroleum Corporation (BPCL), five years,” said Amit Kumar, Saturday said it has filed an a legal opinion, has on January software conglomerate was ille- securities for amount up to $2 eign investment in its financial economies have been waging a stating that it may bring revenue senior officer of ONGC. appeal in the Supreme Court 3, 2020 filed an appeal in the gal. billion received 99.99 per cent sector, a move long demanded merciless trade war since for the government but its against the NCLAT that direct- Hon’ble Supreme Court of Subsequently, Tata Sons votes in favour of the special res- by the United States as the March 2018, resulting in mutu- long-term impact will be ed the reinstatement of Cyrus India (i) to set aside the said moved the Supreme Court olution at the company’s EGM world’s two biggest economies al tariffs being slapped on hun- adverse. Mistry as a director of the com- Judgement qua the company against the December 18 order held on January 3, a regulatory are locked in a fierce trade bat- dreds of billions of dollars’ The government plans to pany. and (ii) in the interim stay on of the NCLAT reinstating filing showed. tle. worth of annual trade. sell its majority stake in the oil In a filing to the stock operation of the said judgement Mistry as the company’s chair- The second special From the start of 2020, for- Beijing has long promised marketeer which can help it exchanges, TCS said the to the extent it relates to the man. resolution was for issue of for- eign banks can now set up to further open up its economy raise over Rs 70,000 crore. A National Company Law company,” it added. After that, Tata Group eign currency convertible bonds wholly-owned branches in to foreign investment, but it senior Finance Ministry offi- Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) - In a major development, patriarch Ratan Tata also filed and unsecured/secured China without a local was slow to do so in the finan- cial had said this week that the vide its judgement on the NCLAT had restored a petition in the Supreme redeemable non-convertible partner holding the majority cial sector. sale might be deferred to the Court seeking to quash the debentures along with or with- stake, the banking regulatory In October, China unveiled next fiscal. The Confederation company law appellate court out warrants. authority, CBIRC, announced a timetable for lifting a number of Maharatna Officers order, saying the judgment This also received 99.99 per on Friday. of the restrictions. Association (COMCO) and was “wrong, erroneous and cent votes in favour of the pro- In the past, foreign banks And in December, the Federation Of Oil PSU contrary to the record of the posal. were required to have a local Swiss bank UBS was authorised Officers (FOPO) on Saturday case”. Last month, Bharti Airtel Chinese partner and not to take a majority stake in its held a joint press conference His petition, however, is had said it would seek share- allowed to hold more than 49 activities in the country. here. separate from the one filed by holders’ approval at an EGM on per cent of their respective joint But starting from January The two associations Tata Sons Ltd, the holding January 3 for raising up to $2 bil- ventures. 1, foreign companies specialis- claimed that selling off BPCL company of the $110 billion lion through qualified institu- The announcement could ing in futures contracts will will result in a loss, because it salt-to-software conglomer- tional placement, public issue, be seen as a gesture of goodwill now be able to invest in China is valued at 9.75 lakh crore ate, in the Supreme Court on preferential shares or private by China towards the US as with no limits on the amount while the government owner- Thursday. placement. 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" 7 >1 = ty and use of a private jet. 66./ /6 pple chief Tim “For security and ACook saw his annu- efficiency reasons, the tate-owned Bank of ublic sector Indian al pay slip to $11.6 mil- board requires Mr. Cook SBaroda on Friday said it POverseas Bank has lion in 2019 after the to use private aircraft for has raised Rs 920 crore by received capital infusion of company registered a all business and person- issuing Basel III-compliant 4,360 crore from the weaker financial per- al travel,” the filing said. bonds on private placement Government of India, the bank formance compared Apart from his basis. said on Saturday. with the previous year, salary, Cook also saw The issue which opened In a regulatory filing to the according to documents more than $113 million on Thursday and closed the stock exchanges, the bank said filed Friday. worth of Apple shares same day, saw a total of 11 it has received the amount as Cook, who took become vested as part of allottees through private contribution of the home $15.7 million in his long-term compen- placement of bonds, the bank Government in preferential 2018, is paid a base sation as head of the said in a BSE filing. allotment of equity shares salary of $3 million, in addition That compared with $12 firm, according to the filing. A total of 9,200 bonds, during the financial year 2019- to a bonus and various com- million in 2018, based on the As iPhone sales have weak- aggregating to Rs 920 crore, 20 as Government’s invest- pensations. company exceeding its sales ened, Apple has been shifting were issued. ment. His 2019 incentive bonus, target by 100 per cent, the fil- to earnings from digital content The lender has issued In December 2019, the which is tied to Apple’s per- ing with the Securities and and services sold to the legions and allotted unsecured rated bank had said it would receive formance, tallied about $7.7 Exchange Commission said. of fans of its devices. Apple listed subordinated non-con- capital infusion of 4,360 crore million, and was calculated Cook’s 2019 pay was also reported net sales of $260.2 bil- vertible fully paid up from Government in the cur- based on the fact that Apple reported to include another lion and operating income of redeemable Basel III com- rent financial year for meeting exceeded its sales target by only $885,000 worth of benefits, $63.9 billion for 2019, it said in pliant tier II bonds on private the regulatory requirement. 28 per cent. most of which were for securi- the filing. placement basis, it added. O) P 567 !P 2 ! & & 1 ! * /;617 would result in boosting the GDP. 2 , the supply of natural gas but 66./ hairman of State Bank of FICCI president had consequences for Belarus, CIndia chairman Rajnish Sangitha Reddy said there is elarus has reached an agree- which relies on Russia for more ir India chief Ashwani Kumar on Saturday said the a slowdown in the economy Bment with Russia for limit- than 80 per cent of its overall ALohani on Saturday country can become a USD 5- and the government needs to ed oil supplies after Moscow energy needs. said that “rumours” of the dis- trillion economy, but was skep- infuse Rs one-two lakh crore earlier this week stopped sup- The country’s two investment-bound airline’s tical whether it is achievable by to revive the sentiment. plying crude amid stalled talks refineries were operating at shutdown are “all baseless”, 2024-25 as envisaged by the This is one thing that we, on strengthening economic low capacity, running on weeks after he told the Civil Government. industry, believes that ties between the neighbouring reserves. On Friday, Minsk Aviation Ministry that the car- Speaking at an interactive notwithstanding any impact countries. announced it was suspending rier’s financial situation was session organsied by FICCI, he it may have on fiscal deficit, Belarusian state-run oil its own oil exports, which con- “grossly untenable” for sus- said private investment was the government must find company Belneftekhim, said tribute up to 20 per cent of taining operations. necessary for achieving the ways to induce at least Rs Saturday it was in the process annual GDP. “Rumours regarding target. one-two lakh crore into the of finalizing an agreement with The Kremlin has recently Air India shutting down or $5 trillion. We will defi- economy to boost construc- a Russian oil company for a increased pressure on Belarus, closing operations are all base- nitely achieve, there is no doubt. tion and infrastructureonce batch of crude oil sufficient to raising energy prices and cutting less. Air India would continue Timeframe, I am not certain. again, she said. ensure “non-stop operation of subsidies. It argues that Belarus to fly and also expand and Whether we’ll achieve in five According to her, there the country’s refineries in should accept greater econom- there should be no cause for years, it is like, a very difficult were pending bills getting January 2020”. ic integration if it wants to concern whatsoever to question to answer. But $5tril- piled up at every sector and Russian pipeline operator continue receiving energy travellers, corporates or lion, we will achieve for sure there is a need for structural Transneft confirmed it would resources at Russia’s domestic agents. Air India the national and again Im saying that it will reforms for boosting the sen- transfer 133,000 tons of oil to prices. carrier is still the biggest airline come on the back of private sec- timent which would result in Belarus “in the nearest future”. Russian President Vladimir of India,” the Air India tor investments revival,” Kumar re- accelerating the economy. According to a statement Putin and Belarusian President Chairman and Managing said replying to a query. Reddy said the USD 5- from Belneftekhim, the oil Alexander Lukashenko held Director tweeted. According to him, the gov- trillion economy target can- would come at a discounted two rounds of talks in In a letter to the ernment investments alone not be achieved either by the price while negotiations for December but failed to reach an ministry last month, he had cannot achieve it and there is government or industry resuming regular imports con- agreement on the closer ties and said, “It also needs appreciation a need for huge investments in alone and they should ‘clap tinue. on oil and gas prices. that the overall financial the infrastructure sector which hands’ together to achieve it. Russia stopped supplying Putin said Russia was not situation is grossly untenable oil to its post-Soviet neighbour ready to “subsidise” energy and the airline may not be able after December 31, as the two supplies without more eco- to sustain physical countries failed to renegotiate nomic integration with ally operations in the absence of oil prices for this year amid Belarus. Lukashenko insisted immediate Government stalled talks on further he would not sign off on the intervention and support that strengthening economic ties. integration until the issues we have been repeatedly The suspension did not with oil and gas supplies were requesting for in the recent affect oil transit to Europe or resolved. past.” BIG SCREEN )*- # 6 " +, -.-. .: =: D@ ! &'&' $ . 4 $ 0 $2 4 4 0 $.9 + D5% @@! 9 (
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" 5 489:;$19*<=7<= ' 4 7! "! .3" F* ! 2 27 / 1 ll-rounder Irfan Pathan omeback man Jasprit Bumrah Aon Saturday announced will be cynosure of all eyes dur- 4999 1 his retirement from all forms Cing India’s first T20 internation- of cricket, ending an injury- al against Sri Lanka in the year 2020 / ridden career that prevented where its namesake global meet will him from realising his true gain precedence over everything for he forced four-month break due potential. the Men In Blue. Tto a stress fracture “wasn’t a dif- The 35-year-old’s retire- Out for four months with a back ficult” period for India’s pace spear- ment was on expected lines, stress fracture, the 26-year-old head Jasprit Bumrah as there was “no considering he last played a Bumrah is that precious diamond in pain” and he utilised the time away competitive game in February this Indian set-up, which had been from the game to work on his 2019 during the Syed Mushtaq wrapped in cotton wool during the strength and conditioning. Ali trophy for Jammu and rehabilitation period. “It was not difficult for me as I Kashmir. So much so that he was even was never in pain. Not even for a sin- Before turning up for exempted from playing domestic gle day. I took it as an opportunity to 2 " !P Jammu and Kashmir as a play- first-class cricket for Gujarat after build my strength,” Bumrah told er cum mentor in 2018, Pathan intervention from BCCI president bcci.Tv after his first training session 7( Indian captain Virat Kohli played all his domestic crick- Sourav Ganguly, keeping in mind the with the team. on Saturday strongly opposed the et for Baroda. ! !D' workload he will have to take post He was always updated about “four-day Test” proposed by the ICC Though he remains a non- international comeback. how the team was progressing and did as he is not in favour of any alterations playing mentor to the Jammu career will shape up, but going to If 2019 was all about focussing on his homework so that he is not which hurts the sanctity of the tradi- and Kashmir outfit, Irfan had play for the country first time, get- 50-over format, the current year will found wanting once he is back in tional five-day format. not been playing over the past ting the cap from a senior player witness the Indian team playing close action. “According to me, it should not be 12 months and did not even or the captain, that was special to 15 games before their T20 World “I was always keeping a track on altered. As I said, the day-night is put himself in the IPL auction moment for me,” he said. Cup campaign starts against South what is happening so when you are another step towards commercialising pool last month. With his elder brother Yusuf, Africa in Perth in October. back in the team, you shouldn’t be too Test cricket and you know, creating “Today, I am saying good- he made a rare sibling pair to rep- .4 There are slots to be EF'' .0 far away.” excitement around it, but it can’t be tin- bye to cricket, about which I resent India. locked and till Indian Premier &!%"%&' &)"%3 The 26-year-old slinger felt that kered with too much. I don’t believe thought for day and night. I Irfan, who last played for League ends, a clearer picture playing all three formats continuous- so,” Kohli, one of the biggest names in last represented India in 2012 India in October 2012, featured in is unlikely to emerge. But that ly did affect his fitness, for which the world cricket, told mediapersons. and after that I tried hard. 29 Tests (1105 runs and 100 won’t stop head coach Ravi Shastri and break was necessary. The India captain feels that the Today in 2020, a thing comes wickets), 120 ODIs (1544 runs skipper Virat Kohli to set the ball “When you play continuously, intent in reducing a day from five can’t up on social media ‘make a and 173 wickets) and 24 T20 rolling in this current series. your strength level goes down. Your be right and then one might talk about comeback’, so I want to thank Internationals (172 runs and 28 It all starts here at the Barsapara fitness level can also go down a little having “three-day Tests”. the fans, who never left me wickets). Stadium today as the biggest city in bit. So I was looking at how to bring “Then you are purely only talking alone. It’s a time to start the He was also part of the victo- Assam is slowly getting back to nor- the strength back, how to improve about getting numbers, entertain- next journey,” Irfan said at a rious Indian team at the 2007 malcy after protests against the upon the things I wanted to improve. ment and you know. I think the intent Star Sports show. World Twenty20 and was the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). “So take some time off and will not be right then because then you The left-arm seamer’s man-of-the-match in the final The Indian team would be check- return fresh. Be hungry again. So all will speak of three-day Tests. I mean bowling was like a breath of against Pakistan. ing out how the likes Navdeep Saini these things were on top of my where do you end. Then you will fresh air when he made his One of his best performances and Shardul Thakur react to pressure mind. I am not looking too far speak of Test cricket disappearing,” India debut against Australia came on the tour of Pakistan in situations in death overs alongside ahead. I wanted to take one match at Kohli was forthright in his answer. at the Adelaide Oval in 2003. 2006 when Irfan became the sec- Bumrah in the absence of frontline a time,” said Bumrah. “So I don't endorse that at all. I He was all of 19 back then. ond Indian after Harbhajan Singh speedsters Mohammed Shami (rest- don’t think that is fair to the purest for- He never had express pace to take a Test hat-trick, removing ed), Deepak Chahar (stress fracture) tain, Angelo Mathews, who last played mat of the game. How cricket started but his natural ability to swing Salman Butt, Younis Khan and and Bhuvneshwar Kumar (sports her- a T20I against South Africa in August initially, and you know five-day Tests the ball into the right-handers Mohammad Yusuf in the first over nia). 2018. was the highest of tests you can have got him instant success, also of the match held in Karachi. Washington Sundar is still work Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Oshada at the International level.” PTI drawing comparisons with the “It was a memorable event but in progress and he would like to put Fernando and Danushka Gunathilaka great Kapil Dev. personally I don’t speak about that up performances that can ensure that were their batting mainstays in their TEAMS It seemed India had found hat-trick because we lost the only one among Kuldeep Yadav and 3-0 win in Pakistan in October as they India: Virat Kohli (c), Shikhar Dhawan, the all-rounder they were look- match,” he said. Yuzvendra Chahal can be picked in will look forward to return among KL Rahul, Shreyas Iyer, Manish Pandey, ing for since Kapil left the In 2008, he played a big role playing XI at any given point of time. runs. Sanju Samson, Rishabh Pant (wk), scene. in India winning a Test match Shivam Dube is a big hitter for Leg-spinner Wanindu Hasaranga Shivam Dube, Yuzvendra Chahal, Talking about his favourite against Australia on a tough Perth sure but whether his seam up stuff can led the bowling in Pakistan with Kuldeep Yadav, Ravindra Jadeja, Jasprit moments, Irfan said getting the wicket, which offered steep Bumrah, Shardul Thakur, Navdeep withstand the onslaught on docile '+, 8 eight wickets from three matches at an blue India cap easily sits on the bounce. tracks till Hardik Pandya is fully fit average of 9.87 but was ineffective in Saini, Washington Sundar. top. and back in action is yet to be seen. more eyeballs, the series is also impor- suffered a 0-3 rout in Australia as their Australia as he will also look to con- Sri Lanka: Lasith Malinga (c), “There were many And that lingering question on tant for Shikhar Dhawan, making a batsmen struggled and will be under tribute. Danushka Gunathilaka, Avishka moments when I look back. Rishabh Pant’s consistency with Sanju comeback into the team post knee scrutiny. India lost their only T20 match Fernando, Angelo Mathews, Dasun Definitely getting (Mathew) Samson having already warmed the injury. They relied heavily on Kusal against Australia on October 10, Shanaka, Kusal Perera, Niroshan Hayden as my first wicket is benches for six straight T20 games and He will also look to make an Perera, who was their leading run-get- 2017, which was further marred by Dickwella, Dhananjaya de Silva, Isuru there. But when I got the cap, the invisible presence of Mahendra impact in absence of rested vice-cap- ter with 100 runs from three match- stone-pelting on the team bus on post- Udana, Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Oshada that was a special moment. It Singh Dhoni, making things a little tain Rohit Sharma with KL Rahul in es in Australia. match return to hotel. Fernando, Wanindu Hasaranga, Lahiru is close to my heart because unsettling. red-hot form at the other end. They would also look forward to It’s time for Kohli’s men to rewrite Kumara, Kusal Mendis, Lakshan you do everything for the cap. While Bumrah predictably grabs In their last T20I series, Sri Lanka the return of former Sri Lankan cap- their poor record here. Sandakan, Kasun Rajitha. “No one knows how your * R4 4 !?;?
New Zealand made a secure Nathan Lyon and a possible edge off Pat Labuschagne said. start after a Marnus Labuschagne dou- Cummins — but the Kiwis showed plen- “The wicket looks like it’s going to ble century lifted Australia to a massive ty of fight after enduring five tough ses- go a little up and down and spin a bit but 454 first innings total in the third Test sions in the field in sapping heat. we stuck to our guns there and hopeful- on Saturday. The day belonged to Labuschagne, ly the rewards will come tomorrow. The rock-solid number three who sweated on 199 for 20 minutes “It’s always a privilege to play for reached his highest Test score of 215 in before he thick edged Colin de Australia and it was nice to get some runs Sydney with the Australians dismissed Grandhomme through the vacant slips today and when you’re batting well it’s just before tea on the second day. G to the ropes to bring up his nice if you can make them count.” In reply, the Blackcaps grittily bat- >F'' .0 double ton. Labuschagne’s prodigious form has ted through the final session without los- " # @ &)"%3 The milestone came off notched him a total of 837 runs since ing a wicket, leaving skipper Tom 363 balls with 19 fours and a November and he has now leapfrogged Latham on 26 and Melbourne Test cen- six and eclipsed his previous Test record the great Neil Harvey (834) for most turion Tom Blundell at 34 in their of 185 against Pakistan in Brisbane last runs scored by an Australian during a team’s total of 63. November. five-Test summer. He was also Test crick- There were a couple of close calls — “They batted really well to finish the et’s leading run-getter last year with notably a leg before wicket appeal off day off. I thought we bowled really well,” 1,104 runs. AFP $&$
71 76 on Grand Slam titles would come to an end. afael Nadal and Novak He is tipped as one of RDjokovic kickstarted those who could make their build-up to the the breakthrough, along Australian Open with with Alexander Zverev straight sets wins at the and Stefanos Tsitsipas. But ATP Cup on Saturday, but all three have been beaten world number four in their opening ATP Cup Dominic Thiem slumped clashes. to defeat. Thiem, who won five Top-ranked Nadal had titles last year, had six little trouble with Georgia’s break points in the third Nikoloz Basilashvili, racing set against Croatia’s Borna to a 6-3, 7-5 victory, while Coric, but failed to convert long-time rival Djokovic any of them. was given more of a test by Fellow Croat Marin South Africa’s Kevin Cilic, a finalist at the 2018 Anderson before overcom- Australian Open, used his ing him 7-6 (7/5), 7-6 experience to down (8/6). Austria’s Dennis Novak Their wins ensured 6-7 (7/4), 6-4, 6-4, and Spain and Serbia clinched ensure Croatia won the tie their ties at the inaugural in Sydney. 24-nation team event. The most dominant France, Argentina, ) $ $ win of the day came cour- Croatia and Japan also played a great game.” on fire tonight — I think tesy of Japan, who are began their tournament Earlier, his teammate the quality of tennis was without the injured Kei in style, winning their ties Roberto Bautista Agut quite high. “I was very Nishikori but crushed to join day one victors crushed a hapless pleased with the way I Uruguay 3-0 in Perth, Belgium, Bulgaria, Aleksandre kind of weathered dropping just 15 games Canada, Norway, Russia Metreveli 6-0, 6-0. the storm.” across their two singles and Australia. Serbian super- His teammate and one doubles rubbers. “I’m super, super star Djokovic need- Dusan Lajovic out- French duo Gael happy to be here in Perth ed to produce some of lasted Lloyd Harris Monfils and Benoit Paire, for first time in my life. It’s his best tennis to see off 3-6, 7-6 (7/4), 6-3. both in the top 25, led an amazing arena and a the big-serving Anderson, Austria’s Thiem fore- their country to a 2-1 great crowd,” said Nadal. admitting it was a testing cast this week that 2020 Group A win over Chile, “It was tough first encounter. would be the year that the while Argentina scraped match of the season, not “What a way to start vice-like hold of Djokovic, past Poland by the same an easy start. But I think I the year,” he said. “He was Nadal and Roger Federer score. ) ,55 " +, -.-. " 2 27 . G 1 4 9 arnataka were in control after reduc- Q 4 B ing Mumbai to 109-5 in their second Kinnings on the second day of the Elite Group B Ranji Trophy game at 66./ Bandra-Krula complex on Saturday. 2 27 Karnataka took a slender 24-run first- pin legend Bishan Singh Bedi on innings lead despite a fifer from Mumbai rithvi Shaw’s New Zealand tour SSaturday slammed Shubman Gill off-spinner Shashank Attarde. Pwith India A team was on for arguing with the on-field umpire But pacer Abhimanyu Mithun (3-52) Saturday thrown into jeopardy after being given out during a Ranji rattled the Mumbai top-order to give the after the young Mumbai batsman trophy match in Mohali on Friday, southern side an advantage before Sarfaraz was rushed to National Cricket terming his behaviour as “rowdy” Khan (53 batting) and Shams Mulani (31) Academy (NCA) for an assessment and “unpardonable”. rallied the hosts with their 83-run of his shoulder injury. The 20-year-old Gill, who is the stand for the fifth wicket. Shaw had hurt his left shoulder current white-ball captain of the India Earlier, Karnataka started while saving an overthrow on the A team, got embroiled in a controver- the day on 79/3 and lost skip- opening day of Mumbai’s game sy following his refusal to leave the :D' per Karun Nair (0) as pacer against Karnataka. crease after being adjudged caught- Royston Dias (1-22) struck on the fourth He neither fielded during the behind by medium pacer Subodh ball of day. Karnataka were 79/4. second day nor he came out to bat Bhati. & The other overnight batsman R and later left for Bengaluru. An argument with the umpire fol- Samarth (86 off 139 balls, 13x4) then found Shaw was named in both India lowed and the batsman was reinstat- an able ally in all-rounder Shreyas Gopal A squads for the upcoming New ed after a discussion between the on- : (31 off 85 balls; 3x4) as the two took Zealand tour. The team is set to field officials. 6 = . @ Karnataka ahead with their 78-run stand. leave on January 10. “This kind of rowdy behaviour by &F'' .0 Mumbai’s wait for a wicket ended after “He has been called to NCA. anyone is unpardonable, least of all by " # @ &)"%3 skipper Suryakumar Yadav took a flying Mumbai Cricket Association got an proposed Captain of India A,” Bedi tuart Broad and James catch at short-midwicket to send Gopal email from the BCCI. He has left wrote on his Twitter handle. SAnderson led a relentless bowling perfor- back. for Bengaluru. He couldn’t even lift Gill was named the captain of mance as England gained what could prove a Gopal top-edged Attarde’s (5-58) deliv- his hand. He has a tear in the shoul- India A for the limited overs leg of the crucial advantage on the second day of the sec- ery, only to be caught by Surya, as der. That much is known,” said New Zealand tour later this month. ond Test against South Africa at Newlands on Karnataka lost their fifth Ajinkya Naik, Mumbai team’s man- Bedi hinted that Gill should be Saturday. wicket at 157. !-0 ager. sacked from India A captaincy. South Africa were 215 for eight the close, Attarde then pegged “He was not in a position to bat. “No matter how talented, no play- still 54 runs behind England’s first innings total back the visitors by remov- )F<' .0 How serious is the injury will be er was ever bigger than the game. of 269 on a dry pitch which is likely to get more ing Samarth, who was 0"&&!% known at the NCA,” Naik added. Example needs setting — let a more difficult for batsmen later in the match. caught by Sarfaraz Khan at Shaw had underwent an MRI balanced person lead India A before More than half of South Africa’s runs came short-leg. scan in presence of Mumbai’s the Referee is intimidated too,” the for- in a 117-run fourth wicket partnership The offie took two wickets in seven physio on Friday. mer spinner tweeted. between Dean Elgar (88) and Rassie van der balls as Karnataka slumped to 158/6. Dussen (68). Attarde was on fire as he cleaned up on the last ball of the day. Palam. But Elgar and Van der Dussen were Abhimanyu Mithun (2) to leave Karnataka Mumbai lead by 85 runs with two days Ruturaj Gaikwad fell for a first-ball unable to dominate as England dried up the teetering at 166/7, still trailing by 28 runs. of play left. duck after a first-innings score of 4, while runs, with Elgar eventually falling to a lofted Attarde took three wickets in 18 balls. the other opener M S Trunkwala (1) was drive when he tried to lift the scoring rate. Left-arm spinner Mulani (3-55) was- SERVICES TAKE FULL CONTROL forced to retire hurt. Anderson took three for 34, while Broad n’t to be left behind as he removed Ronit (Services seized the upper-hand The experienced Ankit Bawne, who and Sam Curran took two wickets apiece. More (4) cheaply to leave Karnataka at " E@ " + )/ '! against Maharashtra on the second day of failed in the first innings, once again cut a Anderson took two wickets with the sec- 171/8. their Group C match, with the visiting team sorry figure as he was bowled by ond new ball, bowling from the northern, Wicket-keeper B R Sharath (46 off 54 over after lunch. Rahane as he has been able to score only requiring a further 148 runs to avoid an Sachidanand Pandey for a six-ball duck. Kelvin end. balls; 7x4, 1x6) survived a stumping chance Karnataka were 213-9. 109 runs from six innings with a lone fifty innings defeat. Chirag Khurana (4) was removed by All the other wickets by the fast bowlers off Mulani. Attarde took his fifth wicket as he against Baroda. Services made 285 in their first innings Pandey, while Rahul Tripathi (11) was dis- were taken from the southern, Wynberg end At lunch, the visitors were 179/8. removed Koushik and Karnataka were Mithun struck again as he lobbed off after bundling out Maharashtra for 44 and missed by Diwesh Pathania. where they got bounce and some sideways However, post lunch, Sharath bundled out for 218, as they took a a return catch of Siddesh Lad (4) with then reduced the visitors to 93 for 5 in the Naushad S Shaik (40 batting, 85 balls, movement. played a responsible knock to give slender 24 runs lead. Mumbai at 12/2. second innings. 4 fours) and wicketkeeper Vishant More (33 A crack just outside the line of off stump Karnataka the first innings lead. In Mumbai’s second essay, Pacer V Koushik then sent Tare back Resuming at 141 for 4, Services were batting, 80 balls, 6 fours) then defied the created uncertainty for right-handed batsmen. He swept a six to take Karnataka Ajinkya Rahane (1) opened leaving Mumbai at 12-3. well-served by Ravi Chauhan’s half-centu- Services attack for close to 25 overs and Twelve of the 18 wickets in the match have ahead in company of V Koushik (4). along with Tare (6) but failed Skipper Suryakumar Yadav (10) too ry (65, 180 balls, 6 fours) and useful knocks ensured that Maharashtra did not suffer any fallen from that end. Ben Stokes held four The duo stitched 42-runs for the again. perished early, becoming Mithun’s third vic- of 47 each by Vikas Hathwala and AP more setbacks. For the hosts, right-arm catches at second slip, three of them athletic ninth wicket. Rahane survived 16 balls tim as Mumbai were in spot of bother at Sharma as the lead swelled to 241. medium-pacer Sachidanand Pandey picked diving efforts. Sharath’s cameo ended after he tried before being trapped by Abhimanyu 26/4. Services then left Maharashtra totter- up three wickets. Off-spinner Dom Bess played an impor- to pull, but top-edged to keeper Tare off Mithun. Then Mulani and Khan did the dam- ing at 93 for 5 to take full control of the There was no play possible in the game tant role, bowling accurately from the north- Tushar Deshpande (1-40) in the seventh This has been a flop Ranji season for age control before Mulani was dismissed match at the Air force Complex Ground in between Tripura and Odisha in Agartala. ern end while England captain Joe Root rotat- ed his faster bowlers from the more helpful end. * Bess had spells of nine and 14 overs and BAYERN TO SIGN YOUNG SCHALKE KEEPER finished the day with one for 62 off 27 overs. >7= Bess made a vital breakthrough when Elgar Munich: 3 ! # 7 2!" " lost patience and sliced the ball to Root, run- !"" 2! !0 "! ning back from mid-off. 21 !" ! % F9 0 of those draws. net with half an hour left. Elgar and Van der Dussen rescued South )+ ? ! 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Madrid will now travel to Sevilla will not have had a precarious existence, especially early in TER STEGEN OUT OF SPANISH SUPER CUP Madrid moved into the Saudi Arabia to play in the Ocampos, its top scorer in the his innings. Barcelona: 7" 3 2" league lead, one point ahead of Spanish Super Cup along with league with five goals, for next His first scoring shot was a four edged at " 6 Barcelona before its Catalan Barcelona, Atlético Madrid and round’s match at Madrid after catchable height through a gap in the slips cor- ! #! !3 3? derby at last-place Espanyol. Valencia. he picked up a fifth booking of don. ! !% L ! Varane was involved in an Earlier on Friday, Sevilla the season for a foul in the sec- He was given out leg before wicket to 0M ""6 4 own-goal by Getafe goalkeeper needed an own-goal to salvage ond half. 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he first distinct food memo- ents. As a teenager, those preferences start rinsed and fed to cows to close the loop nal thali lover, the man who has managed Forget different states, the very same ry I have is of eating a thali. deviating and the experimentation tries of sustainable consumption. The compo- to convince poor Mother into finding a arhar dal (pigeon pea pulse) is made dif- In Hyderabad, with Dad, at scratching that cement. But when the sition of food is aligned with the three thali joint on every local and internation- ferently in kitchens 200 metres apart. A Abhiruchi Restaurant, third parental-laid cement is stronger than the internal energies as stated in Ayurveda al holiday. Whether in Pune or Paris or Bohri thali teaches us the joy of commu- table to the left of the likes of Ambuja and Ultratech, you — vatta, pitta and kapha. The thali Iceland, the man finds a way to be unit- nal eating, a Bengali thali encourages us entrance.T The thrill of building a eventually seek culinary comfort in employs ayurvedic principles to preserve ed with his thali, his happy food. to start the meal with shukto (a prepara- hillock of podi (gunpowder), poking a exactly where the discovery all began — the inherent goodness of seasonal and Suckers for all things local and sea- tion of mixed vegetables with bitter hole with an index finger, pouring hot the roots, the nostalgia, the familiarity. local ingredients. There is balance, unity sonal, we started studying regional gourd), a Khasi kitchen gives us the ghee into it and mix it with annam The only bite of food that warrants a sigh and nourishment where each dish finds Indian cuisine — the history, the options, knowledge of smoking and fermenting, (steamed white rice), tomato pappu analogous to the touch and feel of Nani’s the sweet spot between science, technique the techniques, the cultural context, the a Kayasth kitchen celebrates the Ganga- (traditional Andhra dal with tomato) old mulmul sari, the lingering whiffs of and compassion. business. The excitement that ensued Jamuni composite culture, the Rajasthani and eating it with the much treasured aftershave as Pop leaves for office, the resulted in launching the world’s first thali showcases dishes with bare usage of and hugely fought over appalam (fried security of your old hole-ridden sleeping curated celebration of the iconic Indian fresh produce. papad). Irrespective of how busy Pop shirt. thali, aptly named The Thali Tradition. Ritu Dalmia is acclaimed for her was (continues to be), the tradition of I moved to England to study and start Like life, a thali pulls you in, activates The complex matrix of the Indian thali Italian fare, but the roots are in her a weekly thali continued. a career in management consulting, and and engages all the senses. I am yet to transcends beyond satisfying the appetite, Calcutta-Marwari household. She With the move, the tradition no week was sans Indian food. No, lord meet someone who isn’t visibly moved by it’s a full blown celebration of authentic- explains, “Marwaris have always been moved to the Canteen at Andhra no, nothing from the strangely popular the visual richness of a thali, or witness ity, diversity and cultural exploration. migratory in nature and most of them Bhavan. Relocating to Delhi allowed us curry houses. But a Masala Zone Dosa more focussed silence when navigating = .76>==. / After two successful editions, we learnt settled in Rajasthan, Calcutta, Surat, to experiment with different regional here and a Chor Bizarre Tarami there through the different dishes. Invariably two things about India’s diners and Nagpur, basically wherever they could cuisines, all perfectly presented in a ensured the greyest of English skies seem the silence is punctuated with people = 6 / (#") wealth. make money. While a Rajasthani menu thali. “Go from left to right!” or “Eat blue. Whilst I credit my curious palate for swapping recipes or narrating the tradi- 2, =267, includes gatta, chakki, papad manger, with your hands, it’s bliss!” or “Beta, widening my third eye (read, tummy tions of the cuisine. Of how their =12, sanger, Marwari food was heavily influ- pasta will come and go, thali is eter- tyre), it is the thali that truly taught me Kashmiri grandmother always cooks >=12 7.66 enced by the zone they settled in. For nal!” were dining-advice stated at the the principles of life. with mustard oil or the traditional way There’s a lot stated about the fickle example, the famous Aloo Kumda ki Sabzi dinner table. In fact, my family contin- of cooking Makhane Ki Kheer is over a ; /6>M7 diner community today, whether it’s their made in every Marwari household has ues to paroso (serve) Indian food in low flame and then gently scrape the 7 6%/ .6 damaging attraction towards deep-dis- Bengali influences with the use of panch gleaming stainless steel thalis. khurchan (sticky layer of milk at the bot- =2616 6, counts. But then again, who wouldn’t be phoran.” Long before international cuisine lay American writer, Thomas Merton tom of the pan) into this foxnut-based = /6 in a market bursting at the seams with From homes and kitchens across the claim and ownership, the Indian thali has states that happiness is not a matter of dessert. This rediscovery of legacy and limitless options of restaurants, dishes on country to state bhavans to mass-con- always been the original chefs tasting. intensity, but of balance, order, rhythm technique tugs at every sense and fibre 2 ..6 . 66 the menu (ugh, pet peeve), Netflix-paired cepts like Chokhi Dhani, the thali has Every restaurant worth their salt is and harmony. It is incredible how aptly of attention. As poor as the analogy may H/6 02= => delivery joints, deals and so on. However, remained cemented in the pages of culi- imbibing the use of local and seasonal, interchangeable ‘happiness’ is with ‘thali’ be, if there were a meal to match a mam- /.;766 I do have a take on this. Liberalisation nary history and culture. It would be fool- something executed in a thali since in this quote. The quintessentially Indian moth KJo production, it would be a thali. . 6>166LI0=26 may have given birth to a surge in con- ish to state that it’s making a comeback decades. One that displays a wealth of thali is the perfectly balanced meal with Albeit, with substance. sumption, but it hasn’t changed basic or making a formidable case study in the indigenous cooking techniques — fer- a rhythmic symbiosis of six flavours — My company, DSSC (Delhi Secret 16166 diner-DNA that seeks familiarity. As F&B business. While some are tweaking menting, pickling, smoking, steaming, sweet, sour, spice, salt, bitter and astrin- Supper Club), curates and produces /.>7,6461 = avant garde as you would be, solace is it to suit the millennial audience (heads grilling, deep frying, bhuno, boiling, gent. The thali is a harmony of science dining experiences across the country. => /6 /6 often found in a specific ingredient, grain, up, most of it has always been gluten free, guthna/ghotna, the list is endless. and art, a scientific representation of a We’ve been blessed to work with talent- scent. The Indian diner has evolved dra- don’t be fooled!), some are presenting a Centuries before international chefs composite culture and a balance of ed chefs, multiple homegrown brands (#") 1 /6 matically in the last five years, with half-baked version of the authentic thali added a palate cleanser to their tasting flavours and textures. Like life, the thali and some of the globe’s most iconic 1646 increased patronage towards global cui- and riding the trend-wave, many across menus, this featured on every Indian is neither too little nor too much. It’s just brands. Every week, our steadfast and sine and food-tech. But it also ensured a the globe continue their deep love for the thali. While it is commonly understood right, whether you know it or not. skilled team of accountants look puzzled thali festival to sell out within three days apparently-humble, not-too-sexy, but that the objective is eponymous, a palate with the invoice-commentary submitted of going live, in 2018 and 2019. wildly-satisfying thali. cleanser on a thali is scientific. It does aid to them. Between raising invoices for Ask the shauhar. He almost reconsid- understanding flavours in a cleaner for- Peruvian food festivals to understanding Q ered the marriage on our post-wedding mat, but it is presented to negate the need It’s getting increasingly hard to ignore the ROI (return on investment) on holiday to Japan while looking at his thali- to drink water. Drinking water with a our injured planet and there is no urgent influencer marketing bills, an innocuous Devdutt Pattnaik accurately states devouring wife in Kyoto. Like father, like meal goes against ayurvedic principles of time to state that we need to place the question was asked about why we never that the best way to destroy culture is to daughter. Like food, must love thali. digestion and gut-health. planet at the very heart and core of our host a thali supper. destroy the kitchen. Kitchens give birth As unique as our childhoods are, we consumption patterns. 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advance. It also proposes various levels of spiritual practice based on the levels of people’s spiritual advancement [BG 12.8-12], but in the end it con- cludes with a clarion call of full-heart- ed surrender abandoning all other processes to the personality of Godhead with an assurance of deliv- erance of surrendered soul to the per- fection.
ven as the memories of the Hyderabad encounter of It not only provides an intellectu- the four accused in the Disha case by the police fade ally convincing understanding of Efrom the public memory a question still arises. Was the lofty concepts of absolute reality and action right? More so, in view of the fact that similar crime compels one to pursue spiritual life, against women continue to happen at a nagging rate. Why but it provides a practical way for its such incidents take place in a country where woman sym- achievement and love appeal made in bolises “Shakti”, the power to slay evil forces. From Delhi to it impels one for the path of Bhakti Unnao to Hyderabad and more, unwittingly remind us of that is, connecting with personal the Mississippi courtroom drama of US that transformed a God in loving service. young attorney John Grisham into a world class writer of Many books appeal to mind and legal crime fiction. Grisham was witness to the harrowing intelligence but fail to provide a prac- testimony of a twelve year old rape victim that traumatised tical method to achieve the goals men- him so much that he thought if the only punishment which tioned in them. But Bhagavad Gita the rapist deserved was to be killed. And he wrote “A Time with its philosophical logic not only to Kill”. The action of Hyderabad police has raised certain presents the progressive understand- issues that led to nationwide debate ranging from justifica- ing of absolute reality but also the pro- tion to castigation. But the all important issue is whether the poses practical path (for example, BG police was right. That is, if the encounter was stage man- 9.26-27) which even could be prac- aged. What if it was not? And there is no clinching evidence ticed and perfected by rank and file to prove this. In fact, the issue of questioning police action order of human society as it is men- would arise only if the encounter was fake. The question of tioned in BG 9.32. justice is rather too complex to be settled in black and white. Bhagavad Gita also contains prac- Many times, law and justice are in conflict. It is common say- tical teachings regarding type of food, ing that justice should not only be delivered, it should also lifestyle, work, charity, behavior, appear to be delivered. When people don’t see justice being speech, and renunciation etc. con- delivered there is clamor for instant justice and mass approval ducive for practice of spiritual life. of the same. For some, this may be a road to anarchy but they need to be reminded that anarchy follows failure of the system of justice. The avowed motto of our criminal justice system is that even if thousand criminals escape, not a sin- It’s short and concise to include gle innocent be punished. But what we find is that crimi- what all it needs to know and perfect nals are largely escaping taking the advantage of the cum- the life still it’s very broad and unre- bersome legal paraphernalia while the innocent are increas- he humanly quest for knowledge to be the best knowledge, Huxley, Hesse, Mahatma Gandhi lenting since it describes the unlim- ingly victimised. Hindu law giver Manu’s idea of justice needs knowledge, survival and knowing which nothing in this world have notably appreciated the glory of ited personality of Godhead. The to be revisited. In Manusmriti, it is clearly stated that in a pleasure has seen countless remains to be known since one comes Bhagavad Gita. speaker of Gita, Krishna says in BG crime committed willingly and in full knowledge of impli- books produced in the his- to know Lord Krishna as root cause Indian prime minister Narendra 7.2 “by knowing this knowledge there cations of wrong doing, the punishment should be much tory of mankind. Apart of everything and even everything Modi gifted a copy of Gita to Japanese shall remain nothing further to be more severe than that corresponding to the crime. Rape is fromT being in the bestseller list, some being made of his different energies. (#'#%#')# emperor and glorified it with words known.” one such crime that is always committed willingly and in of these books have been truly revo- As the annual Gita Jayanti was cel- “Because I don’t think that I have any- In 700 verses of Gita, Krishna full knowledge of the implications of wrong doing. lutionary. Among all the books, one ebrated recently, it is important to / thing more to give [than Bhagavad gives complete knowledge needed to Incidentally, the Hindu law book also says that the punish- book holds truly a special place as understand its glory so that we can / .==/ . Gita] and the world also does not have know about the spiritual perfection. ment should be directly proportional to the social status of being designated as such by Great Adi truly appreciate it from the hearts and anything more to get than this.” Understanding of this knowledge those committing it. Fair enough indications as to what fate Shankaracharya. even apply the teachings of Gita in our .= = =.; leads one to practice the spiritual cul- the Unnao accused must meet, given the social hierarchy they He says, Eko Shastro Devaki Putra lives. The special characteristics of 166 /6 ture discussed in it, But since absolute belong to. As the demonic tendencies are on the rise, we must Gitam: Let there be one scripture the Bhagavad Gita are enlisted to bring It’s not only comprehensive to truth is without any cessation and realise that the Hindu scriptures clearly showed that even song by the son of Devaki, Krishna, forth glory of Bhagavad Gita. 1= 16 46 accommodate all levels of under- omnipresent, the realisation of it Gods resorted to killing of the demons by unfair means for and that scripture is Bhagavad Gita. 61 => standing of divinity to shelter every- from Bhagavad Gita is always progres- the cause of justice. Access to knowledge and information Bhagavad Gita has the knowledge ! " one as per their level and desire of sive. has given many people the ability to dodge the laws and the about the absolute truth in his features 7=. 616. ; practice but it’s distinctive in terms of As Krishna says in Gita 10.40: “O temerity to think they can get away with everything. In the as a personal reality, localised The Bhagavad Gita is not only a 7 .= presenting the highest understanding mighty conqueror of enemies, there case of the criminals of the infamous Nirbhaya case, the juve- Paramatma and all-pervading multi-millennial classic and tempting of this divinity as a personal God for is no end to My divine manifestations. nile law came to the rescue of a hardened criminal. For cer- Brahman. It gives knowledge about for its esoteric concepts but also 1==6 /6 those who are willing to go for the What I have spoken to you is but a tain types of crime and categories of criminals, then, the living entities, the material creation, fresh being applicable beyond limits 1 . / ultimate. mere indication of My infinite opu- famous last words of Jesus Christ need to read thus: “Hang demigods, the law of Karma, time fac- of time and lucid in understanding. The Bhagavad Gita discusses lence.” them O Lord for they know fully well what they do.” A n d h an g tor, the three modes of nature, food, Sages from the past ages to modern Karma yoga, Gyan yoga, Ashtanga them high. That is the message that needs to be given. lifestyle, nature of mind, and so on. scientists, philosophers and politicians yoga to guide practitioners attracted ' % ! & & Krishna himself declares this like Einstein, Emerson, Thoreau, to one these paths and help them " GA G H G &'&'FD H ? @ !J 0 3 0 ! " /1;1466/ /0" " " 0"! " "0- , 217 /= he word shelter to a common man Aries: You will not only Scorpio: It is a good time to ini- usually means the fact of having crossover all the hurdles during tiate your offspring into business Ta place to live or stay, considered this period, but your imminent of your dreams. Don’t approach a basic human need. Then, there is a talent will enable you to sum-up into the easy way, follow and comply with the philosophical meaning, which is depen- expected success. Stress free personal regi- whims of all concerned. Pleasure with work dence — the state of needing the help men is suggested. Successful overseas shall be your mantra for success. and support of something or somebody Business tours and new financial connec- in order to survive or be successful. For tions are in offing. Sagittarius: What you value most example, a devotee takes shelter in God, it is up to you. Choose whatever as instructed by Him in the Geeta for Taurus: This is a most compati- you may — work, success, gratifi- gaining peace and the eternal abode. ble period for you all to start a cation, appeasement, relations or financial (18.62) new business — one that you success — just make sure not to get whimsi- Let me start with the physical have been planning since long. The rela- cal. Life and success is not dependent on your aspect of shelter, that is, where we nor- tions you have built over the years will help personal whims. Follow the rules of life. mally stay — our residences. Is that your you conquer the world. Likewise, resolve to shelter really? Why then are you forced do the same for others and help them even Capricorn: Planetary configura- to take shelter in a hospital when you if it is beyond your means. tion says that you will expand are sick? Because your usual residence your endeavours in multidimen- is not your real shelter. It is at best a tem- Gemini: Stars predict that you sional spheres, in different chan- porary shelter. Don’t we change our are in for big success; especially nels in 2020. You may be on the top of the places of residences in our lives? Don’t er gets transferred to another soul/other What does God do? He provides them those who are in the field of e- world but personal relations may cause you we go and stay in hotels for brief peri- souls, and he has no right left over it. shelters day after day throughout their business or related with software and mul- 2 92 to be miserable, and even hamper your self ods? The reality is that what we identi- Then what is our permanent shel- remaining lives. It is no wonder that timedia. Your perceptions of competition esteem. Beware! You may be surrounded by fy as our shelters/residences have been ter? But before I answer this question, such sannyasis never return to the res- with your rivals cannot be fructified, but beginning, things will look up for real a multitude of opportunities. Just stay clear given to us according to our karmapha- let me also discuss the other types of idences they had left behind. If it was- your own independent vision will bring good towards the end of the year. For of any trappings of business exigencies. las. In one interesting instance, a per- shelters, not residences, those we seek. n’t so, no one will ever opt to become a laurels to you. Compassion towards investors, a pertinent caution is inevitable. son was destined to live in large bun- The most common is money. We feel sannyasi, and the ashrama system will deprived shall be your boon from the Aquarius: Don’t be upset by the galows, as predicted by his astrologer, that when we have adequate amount of become invalid. It hasn’t so far and will heavens. Virgo: Stars suggest that all failures you may have had in the and he did till his death. money we are okay. Is it true? If it was, never become because it is God’s cre- ventures (whatever those may past. All your decisions would be Let us try to understand this with then, why do some well off people leave ation, and He ensures that what He Cancer: Your businesses will be) must be initiated. Just go wise. You are overswayed by the an example of a person, who has died their homes and seek shelter in some decrees stays. As a matter of fact, those touch an unexpected high in ahead and take the plunge. A sycophantic appreciation which is never in some time back. Let us imagine that the ashrama? Because having sufficient surrendered to God are never bereft of the later part of 2020. As the word of caution though. Don’t let your ever positive perception. Boon in disguise; your soul returns to his earlier place of resi- money for one’s needs is very nice but this basic necessity of a human being. dictum states: “Nothing is gained without inquisitive and suspicious nature dampen collaborators will support you, whether in dence in another body; the building, he that is not really your shelter. The same There is the entire creation available to striving hard”, the Cancerians would wit- the spirit and thwart your own brilliant social life or in finance. owned earlier still stands. Will he be is true of power. Many strive ceaseless- such persons; God ensures that they are ness an exceptional spurt in their endeav- moves. Plan your finances wisely. allowed to reclaim the property? No, ly for gaining power and then what hap- always taken care of no matter where our as the year progresses. Zodiac predicts Pisces: Have faith in yourself and because the soul did not own the prop- pens when that power, if gained, is taken they are. a tremendous success for all first genera- Libra: Partnerships are not not be beguiled by the circum- erty; he was given the facility temporar- away from you and you are left ruing. Therefore, let us take shelter in God, tion entrepreneurs and start-ups. meant for you. Go ahead if stances as stars appear to point ily based upon his karmaphalas, and this Fame is another shelter desired by many. as instructed by Him. We will never be you will, but be careful not to out. You will bounce back and even rule in the was related to his earlier body. Once This proves to be hollow in not so fore- deprived of our basic necessities, includ- Leo: Stars suggest that you may get greedy. Even in the existing partner- second half of the year. Take care of your emo- someone dies, he takes with himself all seeable future. Beauty, as a shelter, has ing a place of residence. Rather those start a new venture. They also ships, try to be rational. Never mind the tional health and of your own personal image. his balance karmaphalas, both good and a date of extinguishment for sure. linked with God are blessed to have opu- suggest that the project may not fluctuating profits throughout the year. bad; nothing is left behind related to his Now we are ready to identify our lence, victory, wealth and moral prin- take off as desired. But my predictions for Better to focus on new ventures. It would earlier body. He gets another body, real shelter as many sannyasis, the gen- ciples. The choice is ours. you in 2020 is that fortunes are with you. do good to devote the year to personal which has no relationship to his earli- uine ones, do. They leave their homes Though success appears shaky in the appeasement. !"#$%%&&'&()#* er body. The property he owned earli- and become totally dependent on God. H/ G uvitiut +?>&'&' & R 4 !
he Islamic Republic of Iran 2017 when the youth of the Tis in a fix. In an unexpect- country literally challenged the ed turn of events in the coun- clerics. Fearing the repetition of try reeling under raging the 2017, the IGRC has already protests against the economic jammed the internet access slump, Islamic Revolutionary and preventing protesters from Guards Corps (IRGC) Major spreading their messages General and commander of through Facebook and Google. Quds Force Qassem Soleimani This once again indicates how was assassinated by a missile the Government and the reli- fired by an American drone gious leaders are equally threat- near Baghdad airport on ened by the voices of the com- Friday. mon citizens. All what one can Iran is facing public back- see is the coming of a second lash against a long-standing Arab Spring. And the rulers in clerical rule. The writing on the the West Asian region are too wall is clear: The protest by paranoid about such revivals. ordinary people is a stern Finally, what Iran is expe- warning to the political and riencing is the anger inbuilt in religious elite as their yearning the political system. And, the ' for change. The Iranian polit- political and the religious elite B 66 ical elite, although inscrutable, know very well that they had to may handle the protesters as face it either today or tomor- BB they have remained generally row. Simply countering ruthless towards dissidents, America for a specific act is protesters and anti- definitely the choice of the Government campaigners. But Government. But only whip- the indefatigable spirit of the ping up anti-Americanism will commoners despite brutal not solve the internal problems ! crackdown is remarkable. of the country. People are going Although this kind of resis- to challenge the system and no tance to the Government is not one today tolerates the domi- new in Iran, it is worth high- nance of the rule of the mul- lighting how such movements lahs. They are too fascinated by took their course in the recent the freedoms enjoyed by the past. people, particularly in the West The current protests start- and in many other countries ed in November. People began across the globe. Much beyond setting on fire buildings, cars that, they are truly bothered by and banks as the price of basic the absence of basic needs and commodities and gasoline went freedoms in the country. This through the roof. The crisis happens because Iran is under stems from the heavy sanctions strict surveillance of the IRGC. G!! imposed by the US and the 5 ! > ! ) % % B ' & So none can expect anything European Union (EU) after US beyond what the IRGC per- President Donald Trump the commoners and the pro- been able to expand a massive main objective is to protect the immediate retreat of the lenging the authority of the mits. This creates long-drawn 55& backed out of the Iranian Nuke testers were subjected to the intelligence and security Islamic system in the country. Islamic rule and religious Supreme Leader. This indi- frustrations among the people. Deal, known as Joint sheer brutality of the security umbrella for its Shia allies Broadly speaking, the IRGC’s armies from the public space. cates that as long as the current In an age of globalisation, Comprehensive Plan of Action, apparatus. around the troubled region. ideology is based on, Anti-Americanism is not arrangement of power dynam- it could be really difficult for on May 8, 2019. The historic Again in 2009, Iran wit- Further, the pro-Iranian mili- “Khomeinism, anti-imperial- new in Iran. The death of ics continues, any democrati- any regime to suppress the feel- deal was signed by then US nessed a mass uprising against tias which were established ism, Shia Islamism and anti- Soleimani can be a strong pre- cally elected Government will ings of its people. Today, fam- President Barack Obama on the presidential election of under him played key roles in Zionism”. Thus its very estab- text to whip up the campaign simply be working under the ily-run hereditary regimes and July 15, 2015. Today Iranian Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The the ongoing Syrian civil war. lishment and the way it pro- against America in the country diktats of the clerics only. And semi-authoritarian govern- demonstrators are clamouring protest, centred around the Interestingly, these militias motes the Islamic Republic has by the fundamentalists and the in such a situation, the com- ments in West Asia are all com- for immediate stepping down theme: “Where is my vote?”, have also fought against the been creating an atmosphere of pro-Government groups. In mon voters will have nothing ing under threat. Iran is one of the Mullahs as they are not drew millions to the Iranian ISIS and its allied groups across distrust and widening the gulf the long run, the tensions but frustration as their voices such example. Syria, Iraq and able to manage the country’s streets. The protesters were the war-torn nations of the between the major Shia and between the US and Iran will will not be heard. Like before, many others have already economy. Meanwhile, Trump able to generate a nation-wide region. Many say that these Sunni nations in West Asia. continue in the West Asia. Rouhani’s supporters have borne the brunt of public anger. has upped the ante by saying conviction that the presidential militant Shia armies were at Keeping this background Against the backdrop of this become infuriated. His silence What adds worry in this region that these mullahs have turned election was rigged. Ironically, times decisive in driving out of the IRGC in mind, the US incident and the current lash- has long annoyed the common is that situation might escalate a prosperous pro-Western this movement came just two the Sunni-led ISIS from both and Israel have traditionally ing out at Governments both in Iranians as well. Today the at any time because of the economy under the Shah of years before the beginning of Iraq and Syria. developed suspicion over the Iran and in Iraq, one can easi- demonstrators decry their self- involvement of the outside Iran before the 1979 Islamic the historic Arab Spring that For the Trump activities of the IRGC and its ly witness the growing frustra- declared reformist President of powers such as the US. Besides, Revolution into the current swept some of the West Asian Administration, Soleimani was allied wings such as the Quds tion of the public. doing nothing and silently the rivalry among the nations state of deterioration. and North African nations as solely responsible for escalating Force. The current tension The Green Movement to watching the killing of the on sectarian lines adds fuel to Last time people came out young people voiced their con- the “shadow war” between the between the US and Iran has a the protests through 2017-18 to civilians. For many of them, the fire in any anti- on roads at the end of 2017 and cerns against their political US, its allies and Iran in the strong linkage with the recent the current saga of civil unrests Rouhani is no different from Government uprisings. This "A$!"! at the beginning of 2018 to regimes and demanded the West Asian region. Soleimani’s attack by the pro-Iranian mili- in Iran, all signals the deep Khamenei. Thus the protesters further complicates the move- raise their voice against the aus- arrival of democratic govern- advanced war games created a tiamen on the American divide between the funda- in the beginning of 2018 shout- ments launched by common terity budget proposed by the ments. The Iranian Spring of new unease in the security embassy in Baghdad. And this mentalists and the people who ed: “Reformists, hardliners, people in the region. For Iran, Government of Hassan sort as we could call it, simply network already established happened after a US airstrike are demanding a democratic your time is up”. This directly any such civilian protest against Rouhani. More than 3,700 peo- registered its mark in the annals by the US allies such as Saudi on the Kataib Hezbollah mili- atmosphere in the country. indicates that people are equal- the Government may be ple were arrested and nearly 30 of modern political history of Arabia and Israel. And his tia, established by the And this time, Khameinei was ly frustrated with the both the crushed by the military for were killed by the security the country as the “Green promotion of Shia militias with Muhandis. And all these events so impatient that he called on democratic and clerical sure. What needs to be under- forces and intelligence agents. Movement”. This distinctly active support from Tehran has have finally led to the killing of the Government to do what- regimes that are in power now. lined is that American support Initially the working class underlined the anger of the virtually created a new power Soleimani and his associates in ever it takes to stop the pro- For long the IRGC has to such protests and their lead- organised the campaign in the youth and the common people centre for Iran. Also through- Baghdad. testers. Last time, during the been regarded as the institu- ers will not be able to turn the city of Mashhad. They pri- against the deep-rooted signs of out these years, Soleimani was What all these incidents unrest in 2017-18, he called the tional equivalent of the Nazi SS, tide at the moment. But defi- marily raised the issues of corruption and dominance of able to help Iran projecting as have to do with the protests in protesters who came out across the heavily armed militia nitely, this kind of external poverty and inequality that the clerics in public life. the unquestionable Shia hege- Iran? Of course, now the move- the country and demanded responsible for enforcing pressure may generate more became rampant across the Now, the killing of elite mon of the region. It must be ment against the Iranian his removal, simply, “the ene- Hitler’s oppressive crackdown and more people to come on country. But soon the anti- Quds Force commander noted here that in April last regime, particularly targeting mies of Iran”. Surprisingly, two on common people in the streets. Government strikes were Soleimani has aggravated the year, the US designated the the clerics, will surely be down- weeks later when the strike Germany. The IRGC ensures Knowing well about the spread to about 80 cities, forc- bitterness in US-Iran relations. IRGC as a terrorist group and played as it will be taken over came down, the spokesman for the clerical rule in Iran at any repercussion of such upris- ing millions to descend on the The Quds Force is the external blacklisted the Quds Force. by the anti-American protests the judicial system, which func- cost. And it also secures the ings, the Iranian Government streets. What was noteworthy wing of Iran’s Islamic Following the US decision, just started in the wake of the tions under Khamenei’s juris- stranglehold of the clerics in and the clerics must prepare a was that the disenchanted peo- Revolutionary Guards Corps. Bahrain and Saudi Arabia too killing of the Soleimani. It will diction, denied the involve- business and industry across roadmap for future. The situ- ple gradually expanded their For the last 20 years, Soleimani had declared the IRGC as a ter- be a great relief for the Rouhani ment of Government forces in the country. Iran’s latest crack- ation might go beyond their protests and included problems had been spearheading Iran’s rorist group. Government for the time death of innocent civilians. down on protesters demon- control. It’s time to make con- such as human rights viola- external operations that includ- The most interesting aspect being. But what has been gath- It is sad that on many strates how the Iranians have crete strategies to deal with the tions, corruption, women’s ed building of security net- of the IRGC is that it solely ered from the street protests is occasions Rouhani has defend- no say in the rule of the mul- anger of the public. empowerment and foreign pol- works and proxies around the functions under the command that people will be on the road ed Iranians’ right to protest. But lah-led administration in the icy of the Government in their West Asian region. In fact, of Iran’s Supreme Leader once again. What they want is it is equally pathetic to see that country. The current unrest is (The writer is an expert on agenda of demands. However, under his guidance, Iran has Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as its very clear: They want an in no way he is capable of chal- considered as the worst since international affairs) $ 2 ' 5 ! % B &
S President Donald Trump Aviv to Jerusalem, a pledge oth- short-term wins and blind to ished the coterie of advisers he feared it would drag the US embrace direct diplomacy with mately reversed course. said of Trump. “The Soleimani Uis not the first American ers had made but ultimately the long-term impact of his who viewed themselves as into a wider conflict. That North Korean leader Kim Jong To Trump’s critics, his deci- assassination may be the reck- leader to have Iranian General backed away from, it was actions. “Trump thinks foreign “guardrails” against his didn’t happen after Trump’s tar- Un, including a meeting at the sion to order a targeted strike less move by Trump that sends Qassem Soleimani in his sights, against the advice of aides who policy is a reality show, and if impulse. Others, like former geted strike — though quag- dividing line between North against Soleimani may be his us into full-scale conflict.” but he was the first to pull the argued it would inflame ten- there aren’t devastating conse- Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, mire in Syria remains and the and South Korea, has resulted riskiest decision yet. Both the But to Trump backers, it’s trigger. It’s a pattern that has sions in West Asia. When he quences the next day, then have left because they dis- US still has a small troop pres- in little progress toward dis- Obama and George W Bush just another hyperbolic emerged throughout Trump’s became the first US leader to they won’t come,” said Ben agreed with Trump’s decision- ence in the country. The con- mantling Pyongyang’s nuclear administrations passed on the response to a warranted action presidency. On a range of step foot in North Korea, he Rhodes, who served as making. sequences of Trump’s brash programme. Negotiations have prospect of taking out by the President. Nebraska national security matters, he disregarded those who said he President Barack Obama’s Trump’s approach to foreign policy decisions have largely broken down, and Kim Soleimani, the leader of Iran’s Republican Senator Ben Sasse has cast aside the same warn- was giving Pyongyang a sym- deputy national security advis- national security has been indeed been mixed. said this week that his country elite Quds Force who is accused criticised those who he said ings that gave his predecessors bolic victory without getting er. “They are coming — in shaped in part by the response His decision to move the would soon unveil a new strate- of helping orchestrate attacks were treating Soleimani’s killing in both parties pause. anything in return. some cases, they already have, to one of his first major actions: embassy from Tel Aviv to gic weapon. on American troops in Iraq. like it “was the end of the At times, he has simply Trump’s supporters have in others, the situation is get- airstrikes against Syria in retal- Jerusalem did not, in fact, The US President also Even Trump advisers acknowl- world.” Sasse said that while he been willing to embrace more embraced his willingness to act ting progressively worse.” iation for the use of chemical prompt an uptick in violence in faced fierce backlash from his edged the risk of Iranian retal- and Trump don’t always see risk. In other moments, he has where others would not, saying Trump’s willingness to weapons in 2017, a few months the West Asia. But it also did own party last year when he iation, which could pull the US eye-to-eye on policy issues, questioned the validity of the he has brought a business- buck conventional thinking after he took office. He relished nothing to help the Trump abruptly announced that he and Tehran into a direct mili- Trump was right to take this warnings altogether, even from man’s fresh eye to intractable has been a defining feature of in the fact that both White House ease mounting was withdrawing US forces tary conflict. step. “The fact of the matter is, experts within his own admin- problems. But his high-risk his political life. As he enters Republicans and Democrats tensions with the Palestinians, from Syria, clearing the way for “One of these days, he’s Iran in general and Soleimani istration. And he has publicly approach has sparked fear in the final year of his first term, cheered the decision, one that cratering prospects for progress Turkey to launch an offensive going to blunder himself into in particular had been ramping taken pride in doing so. Democrats, as well as some aides and allies describe him as Obama had backed away from. on a peace deal with the against Kurdish forces allied a real, full-blown crisis,” Marie up attacks,” Sasse said. “There When Trump moved the Republicans, who worry that increasingly emboldened to Obama halted plans for a Israelis. with the US. Trump initially Harf, a senior adviser to former had to be a red line around the US Embassy in Israel from Tel Trump is overly focused on act on his instincts. He’s ban- strike in 2013 in part because Trump’s decision to dug in on his decision, but ulti- Secretary of State John Kerry, loss of American life.” AP 2 =2=11=0=1=26> 16 ;0/ 6 7. / =;% 2 =;/ 6 7. /6 axu ! ;6 61;=1=26164 = ; K-26-=;6 +?>&'&'
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