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The announcement for the aftermath of fierce gun-battle conduct of the urban bodies’ ' - . + that lent a serious blow to ter- . polls comes also against the " &, rorists in south Kashmir region. " backdrop of separatists’ call for The authorities suspended train 0 boycott and terrorists’ direct The Governor administration Former Chief Minister and services in the region and "# $ %% L 2 threat to the prospective can- on August 31 sought post- PDP president Mehbooba snapped internet to prevent & "' ( ' L didates and campaigners. ponement of the hearing of the Mufti recently said the party escalation in the situation. * + &, . The first notification for litigations in the apex court in will not participate in the elec- Official sources said Gulzar 0 the urban local body polls the wake of proposed local tions as the prevailing situation Padder of HM and his four Police said Gulzar was a close “During the search opera- would be issued on September body and panchayat elections. in Kashmir was not favourable. associates were trapped in a res- associate of slain terrorist com- tion, terrorists fired on the 2 0 18 and the voting in the first The court later deferred the She said the party will not con- idential house, which was encir- mander Altaf Kachroo and was search party. Initially the civil- " phase would be held on hearing till January next year. test the election till the cled during the dead of night involved in a series of attacks, ians were moved away from & October 8 from 7 am to 2 pm. The NC was the first Government takes positive following specific input. During including killing of five police the site of encounter to safer # Addressing a Press confer- regional party that announced steps to safeguard the special the heavy exchange of fire, two personnel at Pambay village in locations. 00. 3 " ence, Chief Electoral Officer to stay away from the elections status of Jammu & Kashmir. Army personnel were injured. Kulgam, last year. Turn to Page 4 # Shaleen Kabra said the polls though the party avoided call- Turn to Page 4 4 "# would be held in four phases on ing for a boycott or launching October 8, 10, 13 and 16 this any campaign for it. L # # Q & $ # 5 year. The PDP followed suit and $ " + ! & L "# “The notifications for announced its inability to take 8 $ Q phase 2, 3 and 4 will be issued part in the elections. Several = : . "# on September 20, 22 and 24 other political groups with ,! ! 6 0 6 respectively,” Kabra said, influence in specific pockets 8 $ ! > 278 adding that 17 lakh voters including the CPI(M) and the )*+9 were registered for the polls. Peoples’ Democratic Front also 1 ( 2 0233 “The counting of votes chose to stay away from the 3 ( )*+9 would take place on October polls. The Congress remained " " ## 1<02<6- terror groups in the Valley. "# 20,” he said. indecisive on its stance to con- " ( The Jammu & Kashmir police has . The National Conference test the elections while the " " 9?+ o check terror funding and track set up 30 media cells for catering to the &4 5 "# and PDP have decided to stay BJP and several Jammu-based & @& Tsuspected businessmen involved in local traditional media like the news- " "" away from the municipal and parties have not resisted the & 6 hawala operations, the Jammu & papers. " & panchayat polls citing the link- poll schedule. , 5 Kashmir police has set up a Financial In addition, Facebook pages and age of the electoral exercise Despite the NC and the Investigation Unit and is also aggres- Twitter accounts have been opera- , * with a series of litigations in the PDP’s decision to stay away, the " sively using the social media to trans- tionalised by all the 26 districts, five Supreme Court challenging Governor administration firm- mit counter narratives to the radical ranges and two police zones to reach out #6 0 Q the special status of J&K under ly adhered to its plan to hold thoughts being put forth by the sepa- to the public on a real-time basis. the provisions of Article 35A. the elections. ratist groups and Pakistan-sponsored Turn to Page 4 2 &4 # . ( " ( - O # ' ! with “phenomenal” increase O in tax base. #1 : ( ' ( “The CBDT is very clear ; that this year they will be able ! to collect in excess of budget- " * O 5 New Delhi: The Government last Budget presented on ed target,” he said. On indirect #!$ # " 4 is determined to keep fiscal February 1, meeting capital tax side, he said the Goods and #( deficit at 3.3 per cent of GDP expenditure targets, surpassing Services Tax (GST) is settling " on the back of buoyant tax rev- tax collections projections and down and a pick-up in con- 8 . enues and expectations of sur- exceeding the record 1 lakh sumption will boost collec- ! & & 49 :! ; passing the disinvestment tar- crore target of revenue mobil- tions in coming months. get, Finance Minister Arun isation from Government stake “We are confident that ( " P Q Jaitley said on Saturday but sale in PSUs. between direct and indirect tax ) * 2 remained non-committal on He, however, did not say if collections, the Government P ( Q cutting tax on petrol and diesel. the meeting discussed the will comfortably meet the tar- &+& . ( : A day after steps to contain recent spike in fuel prices that import bill putting pressure on without any cut”, he said, get if not surpass it,” he said, = 2 the widening current account has led petrol touching a record the country’s current account adding that it was extremely adding the 1 lakh crore dis- ( 2 deficit (CAD) and check fall of high of 81.63 per litre and deficit (CAD), and a fiscal necessary to maintain 100 per investment target will be sur- . the rupee were announced, diesel to 73.54 a litre. slippage. cent capital expenditure for passed. # " 0 = Prime Minister Narendra Modi There were expectations “The Government is con- high growth rate. “And on basis of all these 4 Q on Saturday continued his two- that the Government may cut fident and will strictly maintain “The Government is con- analyses, we are optimistic # ( : Q day review of the economy as excise duty on the two fuels to the 3.3 per cent fiscal deficit fident that we will have a about our growth rate, our tax 0 he took stock of tax collections ease burden on the consumers target,” Jaitley told reporters growth rate higher than what collection and certainly as far ! * (, . 2 and macro-economic indica- but it seems it didn’t want to after the over three-hour long we had projected earlier this as fiscal deficit is concerned will , $ "# 0 tors in analysing performance take chance as it stands to lose meeting. year in the Budget,” he said. strictly meet the 3.3 per cent &- - of different wings of the 14,000 crore in revenue from With 44 per cent of the “The inflation is broadly target,” he said. , .&--,/ ' 2 Finance Ministry. a 1 per litre cut in excise. budgeted capital expenditure under control”. Asked if fuel prices and # 0Q After the meeting, Jaitley It feels that the country estimate for the current fiscal On revenue collections, he duty cuts were discussed, he " " exuded confidence of surpass- cannot afford to have a twin year ending March 31, 2019 said the impact of anti-black said the meeting on Saturday " ing the 7-7.5 per cent GDP deficit problem — a depreciat- already spent by August 31, the money measures, demonetisa- was internal review meeting. . ( : growth target projected in the ing rupee and high crude Government “will end the year tion and GST are now visible Turn to Page 4 # . # "# !$ : . ! " +,>* R % ! 0 ? 1<02<6- ed. Counting was suspended for over 14 hours, said sources. (6&12-*&)6 ! ( ounting of votes in the The JNU Election @ "# CJawaharlal Nehru University Committee said, “The counting n the shocking gangrape of a L 3#0 L Students’ Union (JNUSU) polls process, which began on I19-year-old college girl stu- the accused is an Army man . = was suspended on Saturday by September 14 at 10 pm has dent in Haryana’s posted in Rajasthan. ( election authorities citing been suspended due to forcible Mahendragarh district three The hunt for the other two : 4 “forcible entry” and “attempts to entry into the counting venue days ago, one of the three accused is also on, he added, snatch away ballot boxes” at a and attempts to snatch away the accused is an Army man post- expressing confidence that they . counting venue, after the Akhil sealed ballot boxes as well as ed in Rajasthan and a police will land in police net soon. All & 0Q Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad ballot papers from our count- team has been sent to arrest the three accused were known Q 3 (ABVP) staged protests claiming ing centres.” The deadlock at him, police said on Saturday. to the victim. Sandhu said the : Q it was not informed about the the JNU persisted for hours The Haryana police set up Army man — who allegedly & A start of the process. with the ABVP accusing the a Special Investigation Team raped the woman was identi- The ABVP said its count- election authorities of bias (SIT) and announced a reward fied as Pankaj, posted in Kota . L ing agent was not informed towards the Left outfits and of 1 lakh for information — was on leave and expected & Q L about the beginning of count- threatening to move court. leading to their arrest, said to rejoin later in the day. In ing of votes polled in School of However, counting Haryana’s Director General of Jaipur, Lt Gen Cherish ; Q Social Sciences. In a statement, resumed later in the evening Police BS Sandhu. who topped the CBSE Board way to a coaching class, police Mathson, who heads the South the JNU Election Committee and results of JNUSU polls are The victim’s father has said exam and was felicitated by the said. She was then allegedly Western Command, said the 4 = ( said it suspended the counting likely to be announced on 8 or 10 men may have raped Government, was abducted at drugged and gangraped at a Army will help bring the rape temporarily but refused to Sunday morning. her but she could identify only a bus stop in Kanina town on secluded spot. Sandhu con- accused to book. . name the party which protest- Detailed report on P3 three of them. 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Quizzed perusing the idea of all- women minister Narendra Modi’s over why the police department police station because such planned visit to Kedarnath had backtracked from its earli- police stations which are onOctober 7, there is also talk er plan of taking such all- presently functioning in Almora of him going on the paved women police stations across and Srinagar have failed to ful- route from Kedarnath to the state, the additional director fil the purpose for which they Garudchatti. He is likely to general of police (ADG) law and were set up. What we have travel on an All Terrain order Ashok Kumar said on found is that the women living Vehicle (ATV) on this route. Friday that every police station in both the areas are inclined to It should be mentioned here is now women-friendly. “We file complaints at the local or that before becoming the chief have appointed one women nearby police stations. They minister of Gujarat, Modi is senior inspector and four are not willing to go to the all - know to have stayed at women constables for every women police stations to file Garudchatti for some years police station,” he said. Notably, complaints. The number of and has a special attachment the state police had rolled out general complaints filed at these to that place too along with the all-women police station two police stations is more than 2<6)&231 pensation for the affected, devel- day. The local people and the Kedarnath. visit to Kedarnath on that day plan to help the women to file the women-specific complaints.” opment of new market places, shopkeepers who had been According to official )-,<,-1-<) which is being considered complaints at the police stations He further said that they are hief Minister Trivendra opening of new industrial units aggressive a day earlier sources, the state has made important not only for the without the least of inhibition. now focused on making every CSingh Rawat met Cant and ways to provide self- remained mute on Saturday as necessary preparations to -&<28 state but also for the PM him- The senior cops had said at the police station women-friendly. MLA Harbans Kapur at his res- employment to the affected heavy machines went on the receive the prime minister in &))-<-1 self. Due to his personal expe- time that such police stations “We are making every police idence on Saturday and dis- people. The MLA said that the demolition spree. To register Kedarnath too on October 7 riences in Kedarnath, the PM would be set up in many places station women-friendly. With cussed with him possible mea- CM had given him a patient their protest, the shopkeeper though his final itinerary is yet 2<6)&23181 is known to have a special across the state. However, the this objective in view, one sures for the rehabilitation of hearing and assured of serious had held a 'sit in' at Prem Nagar. to be received. The prime connection with the deity and move has been withdrawn after woman senior inspector and the people affected by the consideration of the sugges- To express solidarity with the minister is slated to arrive in 8(=8 the temple township. He has two of such police stations had four women constables are ongoing anti- encroachment tions put by him. The president shopkeepers, the senior BJP Dehradun on October 7 to also taken a special interest in been set up. being appointed at every police drive. Meanwhile, the High of Mahanagar BJP, Vinay Goyal leader and Cant MLA, Harbans inaugurate Destination -1&3*3)&< the Kedarnath reconstruction The police department station across the districts,” he Court-ordered anti-encroach- was also present on the occasion. Kapur also sat on the dharna. Uttarakhand-Investors 2<-1&-81 works. During his proposed insiders said that the two all- said. He added, “Till now we ment drive continued in sensi- In a massive exercise, the Summit 2018. He is also like- visit to Kedarnath he will view women police stations having have not received any complaint tive Prem Nagar area for the Demolition drive contin- administration had demolished ly to launch the Dehradun- 3&)&+6&12 the progress of reconstruction failed to rise up to the expecta- to the effect that the women are second consecutive day on ues 155 encroachments in Prem Pithoragarh flight service and developmental works he tions had made the police brass facing problems or they are hes- Saturday. Meanwhile, the district Nagar area on Friday. To quell under the Ude Desh ka Aam -1<8) had launched earlier. He is also to drop the idea. “We are instead itant to file complaint at any of During the meeting, the administration continued its the angry protestors, the police Nagrik (UDAN) scheme dur- likely to visit the paved route raising the strength of the the police stations across the MLA raised issues like rehabil- drive in Prem Nagar area on had resorted to lathi- charge after ing his visit to Dehradun. 3,,-:! $ from Kedarnath to women personnel to make all state. Things are going on itation of the people affected by Saturday as over 60 encroach- which the entire illegal market of However, it is his planned Garudchatti on an ATV. the police stations women- smoothly.” anti- encroachment drive, com- ments were removed on the Prem Nagar was razed. 7! ! '( % " ) ( -' # $ " 7 picture of our vulnerability )-6-+<6 'R would be complete,” he said despairingly. ith over 30 confirmed Surendra Singh Panwar, a Wdengue cases and death of resident of Chauda Bigha area, 2<6)&231 2<6)&231 one patient so far, the holy town echoed the same and said that of Rishikesh and its nearby the administrative apathy is to he members of the he weather department areas are witnessing a veritable blame for the grim state of TCongress’s student affiliate Tdeclared that the prolonged outbreak of the dreaded vector- things. National Student Union of rainy spell would slump into a borne disease. Quizzed over the matter, the India (NSUI) staged protest subdued phase from September The virus of dengue is very district vector- borne diseases demonstration against what 17 onwards, something that active in the town and the res- officer Dehradun, Subhash Joshi they called the anti- people must give some respite to the idents are of the firm belief that admitted that a large number of polices of the Centre here on Dehradun: The flag of the Congress, Sarita Arya said that people of the rain-drenched the actual number of the peo- cases of the disease has been Saturday. Rashtriya Mahila Congress was the women party workers would state. The Met officers said that ple afflicted with the disease is reported from Rishikesh town. The NSUI activists assem- launched by the state unit of ensure that the flag is recognised while it would continue to much higher than what the offi- “However, the teams of the bled at the state Congress party Mahila Congress at the state at the booth level. She further rain for some more time the cial figures suggest. department are regularly visit- office and then marched to the party office on Saturday. said that Uttarakhand stands in intensity would substantially Compounding the woes of the ing the area and all the measures bustling Astley Hall area of the Speaking on the occasion, the fifth position in terms of Shakti lessen in the coming days. people, the administration to control the disease are being city near Parade Ground. There former chief minister, member App in the country which is a However, they warned that appears to be sleeping over the taken,” he claimed. they torched an effigy of the loans worth 9000 crores from up an inquiry committee on of Congress working Committee proof of hard work of the hailstorm might lash the hills menace, letting the disease strike The district Malaria officer Union Government while the banks of the country and the whole episode and Jaitley ( CWC) and Assam in- charge women party workers of the of the state during the next 24 deeper. Notably, the densely (DMO) of Tehri district, shouting slogans. then had flown out of the should resign from the cabinet. of the party, Harish Rawat said state. Senior Congress leaders hours. Notably, the rainy sea- populated area in and around Krishna Pangti claimed that the Speaking on the occasion, country. He claimed that Union Other NSUI leaders said that that the flag symbolises women Govind Singh Kunjwal, state son drags in the state till the Rishikesh has a peculiar loca- spray of insecticide is being the district NSUI president Finance Minister Arun Jaitley’s the loan defaulters like Mallya, empowerment. He suggested vice- president Surya Kant end of September. tion spread over three admin- done by her team in Chauda Bhupendra Negi said that due collusion with Mallya had Neerav Modi, Mehul Choksi that maximum number of Dhasmana and Dehradun In its forecast, the Met offi- istrative zones. While Rishikesh Bigha and Dhalwala areas. to wrong polices of the union helped the latter to run away and Lalit Modi all are out of the women in the state should get Mahanagar president Lal Chand cials said on Saturday that while town itself falls in Dehradun “Asha workers have been asked government, industrialist Vijay with the loot. Negi further said country due to the collusion of linked with the Shakti App. Sharma were among those pre- the sky would remain general- district Chauda Bigha area and to visit the localities affected by Mallya had managed a huge that the government should set the union government. The president of the state Mahila sent on the occasion. PNS ly overcast light to moderate beyond on the Badrinath Road the disease and engage in rain/thundershower might and Dhalwala fall into Tehri dis- Source Reduction (SR) of the occur at some places across the trict and the area across Ganga Aedes mosquito, the vector of *))3" state on Sunday. The same cli- is in Pauri Garhwal district. It is the disease,” she said. 3 # mate would prevail in Dehradun very difficult for a normal Importantly, the only reported on Sunday as the sky would be observer to identify the district dengue death of the state so far % # $ , 3-()- mostly cloudy with likelihood of boundaries for the highly pop- this season is from the Chauda #$& $ ' rain/thundershowers at isolated ulated urban area in and around Bigha area. . places in the district. Rishikesh town and these tan- $ % 2<6)&231 As per the Met depart- gled administrative boundaries 11 new dengue cases ment, the monsoon so far this is giving the official machinery On Saturday, the state med- 2<6)&231 $ Tolia but the controversy that the move uru Ram Rai University season is normal while many the convenient excuse for its ical health and family welfare triggered has also insulted the revered Gentered into an MoU with districts have recorded either blissful slumber. department reported 11 new urt by the State Government’s recent # ( $& memory of Veer Chandra Singh Garhwal, Institute of Clinical Research normal or excess rain and a few Sudhir Panchbhyaya, a cases of the disease. The depart- Hmove to reverse the earlier decision ) * $ & the letter said. India (ICRI), New Delhi to has had below the normal or local Journalist, grumbled that ment data reveals that four to name the newly constructed auditori- In the letter, the personalities belong- start new demand driven deficit rainfall. However, on the while it is one of the worst out- samples each from Dehradun um in the state secretariat after former + P$ ing to different fields have said that the courses on Saturday. The Vice whole, things are normal, said breaks of the dreaded disease and Tehri districts, two from bureaucrat Raghunandan Singh Tolia, & -./0 state government had various options like Chancellor (VC) of University, a senior weather officer. no administrative activity to Haridwar and one sample from 100 prominent personalities of the state, naming any building or institute after P P Dhyani said that the uni- The people living in combat the menace is visible Nainital district were found including senior bureaucrats, social work- that the state would continue to hold the Garhwali but its decision to rename the versity would start new Under Dehradun said that the admin- here. “The entire population of positive for the Enzyme Linked ers, scientists and educationalists, have services rendered by him for its develop- building is very unfortunate. Graduate and Post Graduate istration must derive lessons Rishikesh is feeling as if they are Immunosorbent Assay ( ELISA) asked the state government not to go for ment in grateful remembrance. They fur- Those who have signed the letter Courses in Clinical Research from what they faced during living on the mercy of God. The test on the day. With the new the change. Notably, the state government ther said in the letter that on the same day, include former chief secretaries- S K Das, and Health Care Management, the peak monsoon. “The roads muddled location of the cases, the total number of the on August 15 this year announced that the the cabinet had also decided that the audi- Vibha Puri Das and N S Naplachyal-, sci- Aviation Management, are waterlogged even after a dengue-affected area is making dengue patients in the state this auditorium in the secretariat would be torium – then under construction- in the entist A N Purohit, retired officer of Indian Aviation Management, brief spell of rain. Things are the district administrations of season has mounted to 86. named after the legendary Veer Chandra Vishwakarma building of the secretariat Police Service J S Pandy, retired director Logistics and Supply Chain really pathetic. We hope that Dehradun, Tehri and Pauri to Dehradun with 25 cases and Singh Garhwali. would be named after Tolia. Expressing general Health Dr I S Pal, chairman SC ST Management, Marketing and the administration would wake look the other way while Tehri with 24 cases of the dis- In a letter written to the chief minis- anguish over the state government’s recent welfare committee C S Gwal, former Automobile Management and from its slumber and think of dengue is fast spreading its ease are leading the table while ter Trivendra Singh Rawat, these eminent decision of not naming the auditorium principal secretary N Ravi Shankar, social Fashion Merchandising which taking measures to ensure that dreaded wings around. Add to 21 cases of dengue have so far men and women have cited the resolution after Tolia, they said that the move scientist B K Joshi and former professors will groom the students with all the same does not repeat in the it the fact that the civic body of been reported from Haridwar passed by the state cabinet following amounted to an insult heaped on him. The Kumaon University Shekhar Pathak and the required skills and attitude next monsoon session,” said an the town is now defunct and the district. Tolia’s death on December 8, 2016, stating unsavoury episode has not just insulted Uma Bhatt. for the market. elderly resident of the city. 7# The story chosen for the fact, sounds of “wah, wah” to see the valley coming back tive. She has been a senior 2<6)&231 evening was datnagoop- and clapping were frequent. As into its original character as a copywriter in advertising, a ibaghaki (Goopi Gain Bagha the story progressed so did the town of intellectuals and artists. scriptwriter and director for eople of the Doon valley Bain ). In 1969 a film of this rain outside get heavier by the It is a definite revival in art, lit- TV shows and films, the editor- Pwere treated to a very spe- name “Goopi Gain Bagha Bain” minute. Only when the per- erature and culture, much in-chief of the Doon School cial aesthetic experience last was written and directed by formance ended did the rain desired and very welcome. The quarterly alumni magazine and evening when they attended Satyajit Ray based on a story end. The sound of the rain pro- WIC has been making a great a performance artist of the Dastangoi session orga- by his grandfather Upendra vided an apt backdrop to the contribution towards this Dastangoi- the ancient art form nized by World Integrity Kishore Roychowdhury. It is a adventurous tale narrated so revival by organizing pro- of Urdu storytelling. She enjoys Centre (WIC) which has been fantasy-musical film, with the beautifully by Trivedi and grammes almost on a weekly writing in both Hindi and consistently holding literary music and lyrics written by Ray Jaiman. basis. It is appreciable that English and is currently devel- and cultural programmes for himself. Valentina has adapted Memory plays an impor- most of the events are open for oping picture books for chil- the people of the valley over the this as a Dastan as the story is tant role in Dastangoi as even all. The Booknerds have been dren. She is also a co-founder last few years. Rainfall did not full of thrill, humour and twists one moment of forgetting can adding to this greatly. at ‘Kaleidoscope’, an initiative deter the audience from reach- and turns, having a fairytale spoil the show. One must laud Dehradun Literature Festival that works to change the way ing the venue in time. It is quality about it and thus lend- the great memory power of and Valley of Words are also learning is perceived and expe- probably for the first time that ing itself beautifully to an oral these dastangos! The language shining feathers in the Doon rienced by children and adults. such a session of the traditional rendering. used by them was simple- it valley’s literary cap! Samay Anuja Jaiman is a journal- art of Urdu storytelling Dressed in white, the two was Hindustani, the language Sakshaya is a group working to ist and an editor who now (Dastangoi) has been held here storytellers mesmerized the we commonly converse in. Not create great interest in Hindi lit- works freelance and is devoting in the last many years. Doon audience right from the once was there a problem in erature. One looks forward to most of her time to theatre as For the two Dastangos beginning .The performance understanding any of the words more such events and festivals. an actor. She worked in the (storytellers) in this session was gripping and had all the used by them. The enjoyment A word about the two news industry for a decade –Valentina Trivedi and Anuja elements of theatre in it. of the audience and the great Dastangos of last evening’s ses- before deciding to ‘answer the Jaiman- it was a homecoming Narration, expressions, singing, fun they were having could be sion: Valentina Trivedi is a calling’! She has previously as both have studied in school voice modulation and the racy seen on their faces. They even Teacher Educator and worked with Outlook, Star here .They were as excited as style ensured that there was not sang along when the dastangos Storyteller who specializes in News, Thomson Reuters, the audience was as it was a a single moment where the sang the songs interspersing the Of late, large audiences festivals, special film shows, performances being held in the approaching the learning Hindustan Times and nostalgic occasion for them. audience’s interest flagged. In action. have been attending literature poetry readings and theatre valley. It is indeed heartening process from a child’s perspec- ScoopWhoop. (& "'" &- ' . /% (0123405 1 @AB% ! 0 G! R, ! 7 - - -128)< works as a waiter at a hotel, added. ./& " adding that the accused and Sahu had been stalking *30&6&- administration has sounded a 24-year-old woman was victim studied together at Jain for the past several days flood alert as NEEPCO (North Akilled in Indore after being Navodaya School in the state's and allegedly decided to kill her t least Assam six districts Eastern Electric Power slashed about 40 times with a Damoh district. after spotting her talking to (6&12-*&)6 martyrs, he said. Ahave been hit by floods as " Corporation Ltd) in Arunachal sickle by a former classmate in He attacked her Thursday other men, Qazi said. Greeting all ranks and incessant rain in Arunachal # Pradesh released water from its a case of unrequited love, police night when she was returning Qazi said that Sahu, during he 71st Raising Day of the their families on the occasion, Pradesh raised the water level hydel power dam into said Saturday. home from work, the official their school days, had once TWestern Command, the Gen Singh highlighted the of the Brahmaputra and its 8"9 ( Ranganadi river in Assam due Supriya Jain, an accountant said. expressed his love for her and frontline operational com- sacrifices made by the gallant tributaries downstream on $ . to the rising water level, sources in a private organisation, suc- According to Qazi, Sahu then attempted suicide by mand of the Indian Army soldiers and exhorted the Saturday, affecting more than said. cumbed Friday night while had sent a marriage proposal to slashing his wrist when she which played an active role in ranks to always remain pre- one lakh people, official (# . So far, 126 persons were undergoing treatment at a the victim on Facebook snubbed his proposal. the wars against Pakistan, pared for the call of the nation. sources said. : . evacuated in Lakhimpur, nearby hospital, said MIG Messenger a few days ago, Sahu has been arrested was celebrated at its head- The Western Command An Assam State Disaster ASDMA said. police station in charge which she turned down. and further probe into the quarters at Chandimandir in since its inception in 1947 Management Authority : ( ." # Nine relief camps have Tahzeeb Qazi. The mobile phone from case is underway, Qazi Haryana’s Panchkula district originally as Delhi and (ASDMA) report said Dhemaji, $& # been set up in Dhemaji and He identified the assailant which Sahu sent these messages informed. on Saturday. Pakistan Command has been Lakhimpur, Biswanath, $ Lakhimpur, the report said, as Kamlesh Sahu (24) who has been recovered, the official A solemn ceremony was a saga of bravery, sacrifice and Barpeta, Majuli and Dibrugarh adding that 585 persons were held to remember and respect glory in the highest military districts have been hit by the & & taking shelter there. the Western Command mar- tradition in the service of deluge affecting 12 revenue $ # According to a Central tyrs who made the supreme the nation, the spokesman circles with 337 villages. Water Commission (CWC) # (.2 $ sacrifice for the nation, a said. No death was reported / # report, rivers Dhansiri at defence spokesman said here. To mark the occasion, a during the fresh floods even as ; Numaligarh in Golaghat; Jia Lt General Surinder motorcycle display by the the previous two together Bharali at N T Road Crossing $# # Singh, general officer com- Tornado, Army Team and a claimed 50 lives, including 42 in Sonitpur; and Beki at Road manding-in-chief (GOC-in- military band playing various in floods and eight in land- Bridge in Barpeta were flowing 31< Who run universities worldwide? It is the C) of the Western Command, martial tunes was also held for slides, ASDMA said. Out of the 1,38,985 people above the danger level. alumni who have excelled in their respective laid a wreath at the ‘Veer all ranks and their families, he The floods have inundated affected, Dhemaji was the The sources said around 25 nion Minister Prakash Javadekar asked edu- fields," Javadekar told the Smriti’ to pay homage to the said. 11,243 hectares of agricultural worst-affected with at least metres of railway track has Ucational institutes to utilise their alumni asso- gathering. land with standing crops in 78,098 people reeling under the been breached at Panitola ciations for betterment instead of coming to the "Such students give back to their educa- four districts, affecting 12,428 impact of the floods, besides Block Gaon in Dhemaji, affect- government "with a bowl seeking help". tional institutes. This same attitude has been people as the Brahmaputra is 29,546 in Majuli, 17,593 in ing movement of railway traf- The Union Human Resource cultivated by Jnana Prabhodhini among its H " flowing above the danger level Biswanath, 8,322 in Dibrugarh, fic. Development minister was speaking Friday at students over the years, and because of the at Neamatighat in Jorhat and 4,586 in Lakhimpur and 840 in Roads, bamboo bridges a function organised here by the Jnana contribution of its former students, the insti- Tezpur in Sonitpur district, Barpeta districts. and culverts were also damaged Prabhodini School."Worldwide, who run edu- tute is successfully running for the last 50 the report said. The Lakhimpur district in the affected districts. cational institutes? It is the former students. years," he said. 1 " * + 3 0 # Friday amidst heavy ( D (6<11&- police security .“Lord Vinayaka % 9&-3) that others are affected more. could not come out of houses in "It is understandable that he serene landscape of the town without police escort. nion Minister Ramdas people are suffering from ris- TShencottai, 70 km south of Even Gods are not safe hear,” said From Page 1 district. They said Rouf was UAthawale candidly con- ing fuel prices and it is the duty Tirunelveli in Tamil Nadu has Shenkottai Sriram, a writer who 45 Security forces then killed during a law and order fessed Saturday that the of the government to reduce lost its peace as threats of com- was born and brought up in this engaged the terrorists in an situation. He was hit by a bul- increase in petrol and diesel them," the Union Minister of munal riots have loomed large town. -,6& M+ encounter,” said a police let in his neck. prices did not bother him, State for Social Justice and over this town bordering Though there were some spokesperson, adding that five Two more youngsters are thanks to the allowances he Empowerment said. Kerala. The 2018-2019 festival skirmishes between the com- 26-year-old man has terrorists shot dead in the reported to have sustained draws as a Minister. He said the price of fuel season in Tamil Nadu began in munities in the year 2011, they Aallegedly been lynched in $ encounter belonged to HM grievous bullet injuries during “I am not suffering from can be reduced if the states cut a shocking note as Hindus in were sorted out and peace was Manipur's Imphal West district ( 4 and Lashkar-e-Tayyeba (LeT) clashes and have been shifted rising fuel prices as I am a the tax on it. The Centre is seri- Shenkottai municipality decid- restored thanks to the timely on the suspicion of stealing outfits. to Srinagar hospital for spe- Minister,” he said, referring to ously working on the issue, he ed on Friday to economically intervention of the district vehicles, a senior police officer # $ The slain terrorists were cialised treatment. the allowances he gets. said.Athawale reviewed and socially boycott their administration. said Saturday. $ identified as Gulzar alias Saif, Over dozen civilian pro- “I may suffer if I lose my progress of the schemes run in Muslim brethren. But over the last seven Five persons, including a Faisal Ahmad Rather alias testers were injured in clashes Ministerial post,” he continued, Rajasthan by his ministry. The Vinayaka Chathurthi, years, things have gone from havildar attached to the India .N Dawood, Zahid Ahmad Mir between protesters and securi- drawing laughter at a Press He urged officials to dis- which ushers in the year’s festi- bad to worse as the number of Reserve Battalion (IRB), have 6( alias Hashim, Masroor Molvi ty forces in the area. The pro- conference here. He had been burse scholarship amounts to val season has begun in a tension outsiders who had made been arrested in this connec- #( $ alias Abu Darda, and Zahoor testers were trying to disrupt asked if he was personally students from scheduled castes, filled atmosphere as the idols of Shencottai their home have tion, he said. Ahmad Lone alias Rehman operation to give safe passage affected by the rising prices. scheduled tribes and other cat- Vinayaka had to be immersed in increased manifold, according A purported video of the 2 Bhai — all local residents. to the holed up terrorists. The Minister acknowledged egories on time. the picturesque Gundar River on to a police official. assault went viral on social 7 & $ Sources said the house Clashes were going on till last media. where the terrorists were hid- reports came in. "Two associates of the vic- ing was blown away by the Meanwhile, separatists in men who arrived in a car and reporters in Rewari that the Multiple teams have been tim managed to escape the The five accused have been security forces causing death of Kashmir called for Kashmir ))) was taken to a secluded place sketches of the accused will formed to nab them, she said. scene. A hunt is on to find booked under various Sections the trapped terrorists under wide shutdown on September where she was gangraped after soon be released by police. The SP said police personnel those involved in the lynching," of the Indian Penal Code and debris. 17 to protest against terrorists being offered a drink laced with Their antecedents are also attended to the victim proper- Imphal West Superintendent of remanded to police custody for The district administra- and civilian killings and injuries From Page 1 sedatives, the complainant had being checked for any past ly. “The most important factor Police Jogeshwar Haobijam four days by a city court on tion imposed restrictions under to civilians during post “We do not shelter crimi- alleged. The accused later left criminal record. She said a was to make the victim com- told. Saturday. section 144 in Kulgam and its encounter clashes in Chowgam nals. We would facilitate in her near a bus stop in Kanina medical examination had con- fortable to take her statement The suspected car-lifter The SP said the Cyber adjacent areas. Train services in Qazigund Kulgam and other searching out the accused, and the same day. firmed rape. The victim’s moth- in a sensitive way,” she said, was assaulted at Thouroijam Crime Unit of the police was south Kashmir were also sus- areas.In a tweet senior sepa- will make sure that if any Also on Saturday, the er had accused police of delay adding there was no delay in Awang Leikai area on also trying to track down those pended. ratist leader Mirwaiz Umar Army man is found involved in National Commission for in acting after a complaint was this procedure. Thursday. The accused suc- who uploaded images and Meanwhile, clashes erupt- Farooq said, “Joint Resistance the rape case, he is brought to Women (NCW) condemned filed, but Bhasin countered the The case evoked sharp cumbed to injuries on the way videos of the assault. ed in several pockets of the sen- Leadership JRL (comprising of the book,” he told reporters at the incident and asked the charge. reaction from the Opposition to hospital after a police team The Manipur Human sitive twin districts of Anantnag Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz an Army event. Haryana police chief to give She said police sent out parties. They demanded the came to the spot and took con- Rights Commission took up and Kulgam after people began Umar Farooq & Yasin Malik) Sandhu said an FIR was an update on the probe. The raiding teams when they were resignation of Chief Minister trol of the situation. the case suo motu and direct- marching towards the calls for valley wide shut- registered as soon as the victim SIT led by Nuh told about the crime. “But the Manohar Lal Khattar on The mob also set afire a car ed the state director general of encounter site. down on September 17 lodged her complaint, and a Superintendent of Police accused had left the place on moral grounds, saying the suspecting that it was used by police to probe the matter and The authorities deployed Monday against civilian, five medical examination conduct- Naazneen Bhasin, visited the the day of incident, according State had failed to protect its the associates of the lynched submit a report by September police and para-military terrorists killings and injuries ed. She was kidnapped by three crime spot. Bhasin told to their mobile forensics.” daughters. man. 22.Locals of Thouroijam village forces personnel in strength in to dozens of protesters in Police arrested five persons gheraoed the Patsoi police sta- all the areas to maintain law forces’ action besides cordon suspected to be involved in the tion on Friday, demanding and order to avoid any unto- and search operations in south lynching case from their resi- release of the arrested per- ward incident. However, dur- Kashmir.” + ! @@@ dences on Friday. One of them sons. ing clashes with security per- is an IRB havildar who is the The mob also brick bated sonnel, one civilian was killed. From Page 1 Kashmiri separatists. the middle class and the edu- owner of a two-wheeler and the the policemen following which Official sources identified the cott of these elections in the Apart from countering the On PM’s directives to put in cated youth question the hard- victim had allegedly tried to the police used lathis and tear- slain civilian as Rouf Ahmad State. The JRL in a recent radical propositions and place a mechanism for inter- line propositions and violent steal that from his garage, the gas shells to disperse them, Ganie from Anchidora area of statement described the par- rumours articulated by the State coordination on security- agenda of the terrorist groups SP said. police sources said. south Kashmir’s Anantnag ticipants of the polls as “col- inimical forces, the social media related matters, a number of and the silence of the separatist laborators of the Indian Union” tools also help in providing such meetings are being held at groups on such issues due to and urged upon the people to assistance to the public in case the national and regional level. their tactical alliances with the boycott the upcoming munic- of any emergency or disasters, A periodic meeting between the terrorists tanzeems, an ipal elections with the spirit of sources said. Anti-Terrorist Squads and the Intelligence official said. From Page 1 denying recognition to the NC, Apart from the Jammu and NIA and periodic coordination The security agencies have Mehbooba had appealed the PDP and other mainstream Kashmir police, efforts by the meetings are being organised further advised the State police the State Government to defer political parties. National Investigation Agency for Naxal-hit States by the IB. to scale up social media pres- the polls till things get clear on A prominent terrorist out- (NIA) like registration of cases The Narcotics Control Bureau ence to check radicalisation by Article 35A. She had appealed fit Hizbul Mujahideen has have helped in monitoring is organising N-CORD (Narco circulating effective counter the Centre and the State already issued threat to punish businessmen involved in Coordination Centre) meet- narratives on dominant issues Governments to clear doubts by sprinkling sulphuric and financing Kashmiri separatists. ings for preventing movement facing the security situation in of people related to the appre- hydrochloric acid on all the Prime Minister Narendra of narcotics substances in the the Valley. hensions in relation to peti- contestants and the voters. Modi had in the closed-door States. The security forces have tions seeking abrogation of Earlier, on September 1, the DGPs’ conference organised The measures undertaken been able to virtually wipe out Article 35A & Article 370. State Administrative Council by the Intelligence Bureau last by the Jammu and Kashmir the entire leadership of the The Joint Resistance under chairmanship of year advised the security agen- police have helped in creating terrorist groups like the Jaish- Leadership (JRL), an amalgam Governor Satya Pal Malik set cies to monitor businessmen a counter-narrative due which e-Mohammad in the Valley of separatist political parties, the tentative schedule for the involved in financing the a section of society, especially during the last over one year. comprising Syed Ali Geelani, conduct of these polls. The Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and panchayat polls are likely to be Yasin Malik has called for boy- held in November in 8 phases. restrictions on foreign portfolio ))) investors (FPI) investment in corporate bonds and provided tax benefits on Masala bonds. At Saturday’s meeting From Page 1 detailed presentations were made Almost half of the retail sell- by Departments of Economic ing price of petrol and diesel is Affairs, Revenue, Expenditure made up of Central and State and Disinvestment. taxes. The Centre currently levies “After those detailed pre- a total of `19.48 per litre of excise sentations, Prime Minister duty on petrol and `15.33 per litre expressed his satisfaction with on diesel. On top of this, States regard to the broad parameters levy Value Added Tax (VAT). in relation to economy and “The primary focus of macroeconomic data which is Friday’s discussions was with so far emerging this year. regard to current account deficit “The department of revenue and how to narrow it down and made a detailed presentation possible steps with that regard. where the direct tax collections we Today of course was an internal are already ahead of the sched- meeting in which the Prime ule...We can now see the impact Minister took the review of var- of all the anti-black money mea- ious departments of finance,” sures which we had taken, the Jaitley said. After yesterday’s demonetisation and the GST. review meeting, the Government There is phenomenal increase in announced easing in overseas the assessee base...In the quantum borrowing norms for manufac- of advance tax which has been turing companies; removed paid,” he said. (& "'" &- ' . /% (0123405 < +. ! 6 ! " PO% P', 1<02<6- to a drastic fall in vector-borne to support the "Swachh Bharat" diseases, he said. campaign. rime Minister Narendra Modi lauded Adityanath Modi said those working " 6 ( PModi on Saturday led the for his Government's efforts. for the cleanliness campaign nation in launching the Cleanliness is playing an would be remembered like “Swachchhata Hi Seva” cam- important role in improving freedom fighters in the times to 1<02<6- paign as he took up a broom to people's living standards, he come and would be known as clean a school named after Dalit said, citing a WHO estimate true heirs of Gandhi. ongress president Rahul icon BR Ambedkar here with that over three lakh lives would Building toilets and putting CGandhi continued his Ministers of his Government be saved by it and also a study in place sanitation measures attack on Narendra Modi on and BJP leaders and workers that cases of diarrhoea would alone would not do, he said, Saturday alleging that it was the participating in similar exercise fall by over 30 per cent. asking people to inculcate Prime Minister’s “blue-eyed across the country. Lack of cleanliness play cleaning habits in their lives. boy” in the CBI who had dilut- In a nearly-two-hour video havoc, especially in the lives of Indian culture has traditional- ed the lookout notice against interaction with people from the poor, pushing them into a ly put an emphasis on cleanli- fugitive businessman Vijay across the country, including cesspool of diseases, he said. ness, he said. After his nearly- Mallya, allowing him to flee the faith leaders, Uttar Pradesh The Prime Minister spoke two-hour-long interaction, country. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath " 1 " % to people in states such as Modi took part in a cleanliness Taking to Twitter, Rahul and noted personalities such as % O P Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, drive on the premises of Baba alleged that it was AK Sharma, Amitabh Bachchan and Ratan 1 &, Bihar, Karnataka, Rajasthan Sahib Ambedkar Higher a Gujarat-cadre officer in the Tata, Modi said the sanitation and Haryana. He also inter- Secondary School in Paharganj. Central Bureau of Investigation coverage in India has increased continue till Mahatma in four years," he said, calling acted with Indo-Tibetan Union ministers and BJP (CBI), who played a crucial to over 90 per cent from 40 per Gandhi's birth anniversary next it a historic day. Border Police personnel leaders and workers across the role in weakening the lookout cent in the four years of month. Adityanath said Uttar involved in cleaning Pangong country also participated in the notice against Mallya. He also Swachchh Bharat Mission. All sections of society and Pradesh, the country's most Lake and its surroundings in exercise following the prime alleged that the same officer He said that few would every part of the country have populous and among the most Leh, besides religious and spir- minister's programme. played a key role in the escape have thought that nine crore joined the cleanliness drive, he poor states, would be OFD by itual figures, including BJP president Amit Shan plans of fugitive diamond toilets would be built and 4.5 said, exhorting people to reded- October 2, 2018 as per a base- Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev, Sri Sri took part in a cleaning exercise traders Nirav Modi and Mehul " , lakh villages declared open icate themselves to fulfilling the line survey of the clean India Ravi Shankar, and Mata in Telangana, Home Minister Choksi. defecation free in four years. father of the nation's dream of campaign. He said that his Amritanandamayi. Rajnath Singh in Faridabad, "CBI Jt Director, AK The Prime Minister a clean India. government is working to He also interacted with Law minister Ravi Shankar Sharma, weakened Mallya’s (4- ) O " launched the "cleanliness is "Had anybody imagined ensure that every family has a Sikh religious figures from Prasad in Patna among others "Look Out" notice, allowing service" exercise to push for that more than 450 districts toilet by October 2019. Patna Sahib gurudwara, while Union Minister for Mallya to escape. Mr Sharma, 1<02<6- for 'allowing' economic greater public participation in would be open defecation free His government had built Muslim custodians of Ajmer Tourism, KJ Alphons launched a Gujarat cadre officer, is the offenders like Mallya and jew- one of his government's cen- (ODF) in four years or that 20 over 1.36 crore toilets since it Sharif and those from a media the cleaning drive near the Sai PM's blue-eyed-boy in the ountering charges of ellers Nirav Modi and Mehul trepiece programmes launched states and Union Territories came to power last year and its group. He praised efforts of Mandir surroundings on Lodhi CBI. The same officer was in CCongress president Rahul Choksi to flee the country. on October 2, 2015 and it will would be open defecation free emphasis on cleanliness has led newspapers and news channels Road here. charge of Nirav Modi & Mehul Gandhi, the CBI on Saturday Party president Rahul Gandhi Choksi's escape plans. defended itself by saying that even said that a Gujarat-cadre Ooops...Investigation! (sic)," there was no question of foul- officer with CBI had let the he wrote on the microblogging play on its part in enabling three escape. & % % - ( website. liquor baron Vijay Mallya to Earlier, the CBI had clar- Rahul and his party have flee the country. The CBI also ified that the change in the accused Modi and Finance clarified that at the time when Look Out Notice against Vijay :<9= Minister Arun Jaitley of "help- the decision to downgrade Mallya from detain to merely % ing" Mallya to flee the country the lookout circular against inform was an "error" since he 1<02<6- after defaulting on bank loans. Mallya was taken, there were was cooperating and there 1<02<6- are part of the committees. ing the formation of these com- The Congress has demanded not sufficient grounds for it to was no warrant against him. The core member com- mittees, AICC General nion Minister of Petroleum Jaitley's resignation over the detain and arrest him. While Mallya is accused of head of five Assembly mittee has the big guns of the Secretary Ashok Gehlot had U& Natural Gas and Skill issue and a probe into how "Decision was taken at owing nearly 9,000 crore to Apolls and Lok Sabha elec- party - AK Antony, Ghulam said with the constitution of Development & Mallya escaped. the appropriate level as a part Indian banks, Nirav and tions next year, Congress pres- Nabi Azad, Ashok Gehlot, these panels, the party is in elec- Entrepreneurship, Dharmendra The 62-year-old tycoon, of process and not individually Choksi too have been charged ident Rahul Gandhi on Mallikarjun Kharge, Ahmed tion mode and will start the Pradhan on Saturday called who is on bail on an extradi- by the officer as alleged," the with defrauding Punjab Saturday appointed former Patel, Jairam Ramesh, P work of putting up a manifesto for a collective introspection on tion warrant since his arrest in CBI said. The agency has National Bank of thousands of Finance Minister P Chidambaram, Randeep and draw strategy for publici- the changing nature of job pro- April last year, is fighting been under scrutiny after crores. Chidambaram as the Surjewala and KC Venugopal. ty and coordination. files and urged those responsi- extradition to India on charges reported emerged that it had "CBI received a complaint Chairman of the Manifesto The 19-member Manifesto The Congress president also ble for fashioning public poli- of fraud and money launder- changed a 2015 Look Out against Nirav Modi and Mehul Committee and Rajeev Gowda committee also includes Jairam appointed office bearers, exec- cy to zero in on the nature and ing amounting to around Circular against liquor baron Choksi from PNB almost a as the convener; former Ramesh, Salman Khurshid, utive committee and five district availability of future jobs. 9,000 crore. Vijay Mallya from 'detain' to month after they had left the Defence Minister AK Antony Manpreet Singh Badal, Shashi congress committee chief of Internet, he said, was Rahul's tweet came days 'inform about movement. country. Therefore the ques- as the Chairman of Tharoor, Sushmita Dev, Rajeev Chhattisgarh. The Congress changing the character of the after Mallya claimed that he The clarifications come tion of any CBI officer having Coordination Committee and Gowda, Bhupinder Singh also appointed state coordina- workplace at a frenetic pace, and the time was ripe to chan- had met Jaitley before leaving at a time when the Congress any hand in their fleeing the Jairam Ramesh as the con- Hooda, Sachin Rao, Lalitesh tors for Odisham West Bengal, and therefore, policy shapers nelize this asset into creation of the country in March, 2016. "I has upped the attack on the country does not arise," the vener and former Commerce Tripathi, Bindu Krishnan, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Goa, need to astutely comprehend gainful employment for the met the finance minister government and on the CBI agency said. Minister Anand Sharma as Raghuveer Meena, Meenakshi Haryana, Kerala, Uttar Pradesh, the jobs scenario. people endowed with the right before I left," the liquor baron the Chairman of the Publicity Natarajan, Balchandra Madhya Pradesh and Odisha. Inaugurating the 11th type of skills. had told reporters Wednesday His party alleged that "23 man". The Congress party said committee and Pawan Khera Mungekar, Rajni Patil, Mukul Earlier, Congress presi- Global Skills Summit, 2018, On the occasion, the outside the Westminster persons" involved in bank "the possibility of central gov- as the convener. Last month, Sangma and Sam Pitroda. The dent had on Friday cleared the orgainsed by FICCI and the Minister released two knowl- Magistrates' Court in London, frauds to the tune of 90,000 ernment's hand in relocation of the Congress had formed three publicity committee has a mix appointment of nine new Ministry of Skill Development & edge reports titled, 'Future of where his extradition case is crore fled the country during 23 fugitives abroad in past committees - a core group of the senior leaders and the AICC secretaries and a Entrepreneurship, Pradhan said Jobs in India-2.0' and being heard.Jaitley has, how- the BJP rule and dubbed it as four years cannot be ruled committee, manifesto and young party leaders - Anand screening committee for poll- the belief that technology and 'Employer-led Models of Job ever, denied the charges party which is "more loyal to a out" and demanded an impar- publicity committee ahead of Sharma, Surjewala, Manish bound Telangana. Senior innovation were squeezing the Creation- Version:2'. The sum- against him. con-man than to a common tial probe into the issue. the upcoming Lok Sabha elec- Tiwari, Pramod Tiwari, Rajeev Congress leader Bhakt Charan job space was a myth. While mit also witnessed the launch of tions in 2019. Shukla, Divya Spandana, Dass is the chairperson of some jobs were being squeezed, initiatives such the future skills The committees will play Milind Deora, Bhakta Charan Telangana Screening com- a multi-fold increase was being courses by NSDC; digital plat- a major role as they will Dass, Jaiveer Shergill, Pawan mittee, while Jothimani witnessed in many other sectors form for blue collar skilling / define major strategies for Khera, Kumar Ketkar, VD Sennimalai and Sharmistha due to technological innovation. ecosystem by Betterplace and the general election. Most of Satheesan and Praveen Mukherjee have been made India, he said, was blessed rural e-commerce distribution the senior Congress leaders Chakravarty. Earlier, announc- members of the panel. with intellectual manpower, system by Connect India. ( ' $ ! 0 7 O P 1<02<6- amongst many others similar to them. "Here in our country, the he Election Commission Commission is seized of issues 1<02<6- is held every six years and currently the ticipants will be taken to Kumbh Mela Tplans to implement a slew such as cyber security, securing budget preparation is pegged at and esti- by bus on January 24. Then, partici- of measures to curb the circu- our data so that Cambridge xternal Affairs Minister Sushma mated 4200 crore.) pants will travel from Prayagraj lation of fake news on social Analytica kind of things do not ESwaraj and Uttar Pradesh Chief Those interested in participating (Allahabad) to Delhi by train on the media and paid news in the happen over elections, about Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday in the PBD can register on the same day. The railways will run special run-up to elections. misuse and abuse of social media jointly announced that the 15th ‘Pravasi Pravasi Bhartiya Divas website till Pravasi Bharti train for them," she said. Chief Election Commissioner the rise of all kind of machina- platforms, about fake news, Bhartiya Divas’ will be held in Prime November 15. The external affairs minister also said (CEC) O P Rawat on Saturday tions like data theft, data har- about all kinds of ills that get into Minister Narendra Modi's constituency On the last day of event on Mauritian Prime Minister Pravind said that effective use of media vesting, profiling, targeted com- whether it is management of Varanasi from January 21-23 and January 23, President Ram Nath Jugnauth will be chief guest for the and curbing use of fake news and munication affecting not only electoral rolls, campaign finance, launched a dedicated website for the event. Kovind will confer the Pravasi January 22 main event while Norway paid news were important areas communication but referen- polling process and technology," The participants would also get an Bharatiya Samman Awards. leader Himanshu Gulati and New on which the poll body has been dum world over and changing he said. He said he was sur- opportunity for 'Ardh Kumbh Mela Talking to reporters here, Swaraj Zealand MP Charanjit Singh Bakshi working upon. He also advised the outcome of any process prised to see during Karnataka Snan' in Allahabad and attend the said Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) is will be special guests at the PBD event media to look at some best prac- which is meant to translate pop- election, in Bengaluru, the Republic Day parade in the National held on January 9 every year, but the to be held on January 21. tices in international media that ular will in (taking) a healthy polling percentage was lowest. Capital, almost coinciding with the next edition of the event has been post- The event is jointly being held by have started bringing out a reg- decision, in (choosing) a healthy "We investigated and we assembly of Non-Resident Indians in poned by a few days after Indian dias- the Uttar Pradesh government and the ular column — what was fake last representative Government. found that because of IT (infor- Varanasi. pora expressed interest in attending the Ministry of External Affairs. week — on the internet, in the That's the potent threat every mation and technology) indus- The ambitious event organized by Kumbh Mela in Allahabad and Republic Adityanath said his government is media and 'fact checker reports'. democracy in the world is fac- try, job hopping was taking the government for the Indian diaspora Day celebrations in New Delhi. making arrangements to showcase the Rawat, speaking on 'chal- ing," Rawat said at the event place and this (incorrect electoral is being projected as the first of its kind - " # So this event will be held around "Athithi Devo Bhava" culture of the lenges to India electoral organised by the Chief Electoral rolls) was happening. Names as the invitees will witness the cultur- ' " 0 the dates of the Kumb Mela and the holy city of Varanasi. He said it was a democracy' at a symposium, Officer (CEO) of Delhi. were there but people are not al heritage of Varanasi and of Allahabad 95 Republic Day parade. Swaraj said she good opportunity for the state to said the present set of laws are The CEC said the EC was there, that is why polling was just during the ‘Ardh Kumbh Mela.’ The 7 will interact with four Indian missions showcase its culture before the world. "inadequate" to tackle the men- well aware of these issues 52-54 per cent," the CEC said. theme of PBD 2019 is the "Role of Indian :9 :; &, to mark PBD on January 9. The main "We will also make arrangements for ace of black money in elec- Diaspora in building a New India". event will be launched by Prime Indian diaspora to witness culture of tions, and noted that Arrangements for the ‘Kumbh Snan’ ‘Sangam’ (where three rivers join each Minister Narendra Modi on January 22. various fields of the country at Pravasi Cambridge Analytica like (holy bath) will be made at the Allahabad other) for the participants. ( 'Ard Kumbh' "After the PBD convention, par- Bharatiya Divas," he said. "machinations" of data theft, data harvesting and fake news pose a potent threat to the elec- =+)>)?:+?">)+)+">+ toral process in the country. The CEC said democracy does not run on whims and it ! ! requires traits such as courage, character, integrity and knowl- edge that are diminishing and 1<02<6- neuroblastoma patients are occur in older children. are on the "verge of extinction" doing in terms of psychologi- The study included 859 in the country. Rawat under- hile advanced treatment cal and educational outcomes. children younger than 18 who lining a number of issues and Whas prolonged survival Before recent advances in treat- had been diagnosed with neu- challenges that face the electoral of kids with neuroblastoma, a ment, this survivor population roblastoma at least five years body, said clean elections are like paediatric cancer of nerve was much smaller and we were earlier. Their median age at a "well spring of legitimacy" for cells, the bad news is that side not able to analyse these sorts diagnosis was 0.8 years and the leadership and the people of effects may persist or develop of long-term outcomes," said they were followed for a medi- the country and if this was con- months or years after cure in study author Dr Nina Kadan- an of 13.3 years. taminated by the form of psychological Lottick, from Yale University The researchers also found such issues, problems, including depres- School of Medicine. that neuroblastoma survivors the common sion and attention-deficit dis- While the common treat- who developed mental man orders, says a study. ments for neuroblastoma, vin- health/behavioural problems becomes The study published online pelvis, but it most often begins more likely than the siblings of cristine, cisplatin and retinoic tended to require special edu- "cynical" in the journal, Cancer, has in the adrenal glands. childhood cancer survivors to acid, were not associated with cation services and to not go on about the called for a close monitoring It is the third most com- have anxiety/depression (19% these problems, but survivors to college. entire system, and intervention to help such mon tumor in children and the vs. 14%), headstrong behaviour who developed chronic health "Our hope is that these which is an survivors. most common cancer in babies (19% vs. 13%), attention conditions as a result of their findings will help inform area of Neuroblastoma is a solid younger than one. deficits (21% vs. 13%), peer cancer treatment were at strategies for early screening concern. cancerous tumor that begins in The researchers in the conflict/social withdrawal increased risk for the mental and intervention to identify "With the the nerve cells outside the study had compared neurob- (26% vs. 17%), and antisocial health/behavioural issues, the those survivors at highest risk rise of fake brain of infants and young chil- lastoma survivors with 872 behaviour (16% vs. 12%). researchers said. for developing psychological news, with dren. It can start in the nerve siblings of childhood cancer "These findings are novel Neuroblastoma most com- and educational impairment the rise of tissue near the spine in the survivors. They found that the because this is the first large monly affects children age 5 or later on in life," Dr Kadan- make believe neck, chest, abdomen, or neuroblastoma patients were study that could look at how younger, though it may rarely Lottick said. things, with (& "'" &- ' . /% (0123405 $0 %?: +)?++6>% > # 8 )3 & &" ' " Q R " L " "M 0-,-1*81 &" " 0&6-1*81 " 3*3<*&)&8.6---1</ woman and her baby were # Akilled when a tree fell on s Tropical Storm Florence yphoon Mangkhut lashed their house and several more Ainundated the Carolinas #0 # Tthe northern Philippines on storm-related deaths were on Friday, President Donald Saturday, with its powerful reported Friday as Hurricane Trump circled back to his claim 8()3 & winds and rain setting off land- Florence slammed into the that the official death toll from + slides and destroying homes, Carolinas, dousing the eastern a devastating storm a year ear- - " leaving at least three people US States with torrential rain lier in Puerto :!3 " dead and six missing, as the and causing rivers to burst Rico was inflated and said the O# storm barrelled toward south- their banks. number of dead seemed to rise D 2 K ern China. Four deaths were con- from double digits to 3,000 3 + The most powerful firmed by officials as US media “like magic.” 2 D typhoon to hit the disaster- reported another. Public health experts have prone Philippines this year Hundreds of people need- estimated that nearly 3,000 slammed ashore before dawn ed to be rescued after becom- perished because of the effects - # in Cagayan province on the ing trapped in their homes by of Hurricane Maria. northeastern tip of Luzon a storm surge of up to 10 feet 1 ' 1 ( 9?9:< But Trump, whose efforts ## island, a breadbasket that is also & " (three meters) in New Bern, a > to help the island territory 90 a region of flood-prone rice town of 30,000 in North 1 1' > recover have been persistently ++ '* * 3 & plains and mountain provinces men who reportedly returned which could still be lashed by Carolina at the confluence of criticised, has repeatedly ques- < O with a history of deadly land- to their coastal village in devastating winds, forecasters the Trent and Neuse rivers. were killed in New Hanover President Donald Trump was tioned that number over the =! slides. Cagayan to check on their said. Thousands of people in As of 8:00 pm (0000 County when a tree fell on their to visit hurricane-hit areas next last couple of days. " " China and the Philippines homes as the typhoon drew the typhoon’s path had been GMT), Florence was down- house, the governor said, while week “once it is determined his “FIFTY TIMES LAST #D agreed to postpone a visit by closer Friday, sparking con- evacuated. At daybreak in graded to a tropical storm by confirming another death in travel will not disrupt any res- ORIGINAL NUMBER - NO 4 "( Chinese Foreign Minister cerns over possible storm Cagayan’s capital, Tuguegarao, the National Hurricane Center Lenoir County. cue or recovery efforts.” WAY!” he tweeted late Friday. Wang Yi that was to start surges. Associated Press journalists (NHC) but authorities warned Local authorities reported As of 8:00 pm (local time), Trump falsely accused < Sunday due to the onslaught, Mangkhut’s sustained saw a severely damaged public the danger was far from over, a death in Pender County maximum sustained winds had Democrats on Thursday of " which caused nearly 150 flights, winds weakened to 170 kilo- market, its roof ripped apart predicting “life-threatening when downed trees prevented weakened to 70 miles per hour inflating the Puerto Rican toll & 3 # a third of them international, to metres per hour with gusts of and wooden stalls and tarpau- storm surges and strong winds” emergency units from reaching but the NHC warned Carolina to make him “look as bad as be canceled and halted sea up to 260 kph after it sliced lin canopies in disarray. would persist through the a woman with a medical con- residents to be alert for life- possible.” P; travel. northwestward across Luzon Outside a popular shop- night. dition. Local media said she threatening storm surges and He said just six to 18 peo- At least three people died then blew out to the South ping mall, debris was scat- “We are expecting several had suffered a heart attack. “catastrophic freshwater flood- ple had been reported dead # )4 +(3 1 O and six others were missing in China Sea, aiming at southern tered everywhere and govern- more days of rain,” North US media later said a sec- ing.” “Flash flooding will be when he visited two weeks , ( the mountain city of Baguio China and Hong Kong, where ment workers cleared roads of Carolina Governor Roy ond man in Lenoir County extreme and flood waters will after the October 2017 storm after ferocious winds and rain residents braced for the worst. fallen trees. Cooper said, describing the died after heavy winds knocked come up quickly and seemingly and suggested that many had " destroyed several houses and With the weather easing, Many stores and houses amount of rainfall from the him down as he tried to check out of nowhere,” the governor been added later “if a person "( set off landslides, which also officials warned there was lin- were damaged but most resi- hurricane as a “1,000-year on his dogs. said. died for any reason, like old blocked roads to the popular gering danger. dents remained indoors as event.” “Into next week our “This storm is going to “We’re deeply concerned age.” # vacation destination, said the “It’s still a life and death sit- occasional gusts sent small rivers are going to continue to continue its violent grind across for whole communities which When Trump visited 1 city’s mayor, Mauricio uation,” Defense Secretary pieces of tin sheets and other rise and there will be more sig- our state for days,” Cooper could be wiped away.” Some of Puerto Rico, the death toll at ( Domogan. Delfin Lorenzana said by debris flying dangerously. nificant flooding,” Cooper said. said. “The storm is wreaking the worst flooding was in New the time was indeed 16 people. Authorities were verifying phone, citing past drownings in The Tuguegarao airport There had been three con- havoc on our state.” More than Bern, where authorities were The number was later " the drownings of three people, swollen rivers in mountain terminal was badly damaged, firmed deaths from the storm 760,000 customers in North enforcing a curfew. raised to 64, but the including two children who provinces after storms have its roof and glass windows and several others were being Carolina were without power Both the Trent and Neuse Government then commis- ( ( # reportedly died as the typhoon passed. shattered by strong winds, investigated to determine if and 21,000 people were being rivers overflowed their banks, sioned an approached. Storm warnings remained which also sent chairs, tables they were storm-related, he housed in 157 shelters across flooding homes, stores and independent study to deter- They were also checking to hoisted in 10 northern and papers flipping about said. the state. streets and trapping many peo- mine how many died because see what happened to about 70 provinces, including Cagayan, inside, Lorenzana said. The mother and her baby The White House said ple in their houses. of post-storm conditions. 1 1+ 31-<21&-81 report, which cited “a massive missile program. 31- increase in illicit ship-to-ship Haley said earlier this year he United States has called transfers of petroleum prod- that successively tough Security unisia’s ruling party has Tan urgent meeting of the ucts” for North Korea in vio- Council sanctions resolutions Tsuspended Prime Minister UN Security Council for lation of UN sanctions. adopted unanimously had cut Youssef Chahed in the latest Monday in response to what it It said some products off all North Korean exports, 90 escalation of a row with the says are efforts by some coun- allegedly were off-loaded from percent of its trade, and dis- president’s son that has paral- tries “to undermine and Russian ships, which were banded its pool of workers send ysed key decisions on the trou- obstruct” sanctions against identified in the report. abroad to earn hard currency. bled economy. North Korea. A summary of the experts Many diplomats and ana- The North African country The US Mission report obtained in early August lysts credit the sanctions with is often portrayed as the lone announced Friday evening that by The Associated Press also helping promote the thaw in success story of the Arab Spring the meeting will “discuss the said North Korea has not relations between North Korea of 2011 but more than seven implementation and enforce- stopped its nuclear and missile and South Korea as well as the years after the ouster of long- ment of UN sanctions on programs. And it said North June meeting between time strongman Zine El North Korea.” Korea is violating sanctions by President Donald Trump and Abidine Ben Ali it is still bat- The mission didn’t name transferring coal at sea and North Korean leader Kim Jong tling high inflation and unem- any countries, but US flouting an arms embargo and Un at which they agreed to the ployment and sometimes vio- Ambassador Nikki Haley financial sanctions. denuclearization of the Korean lent social unrest. accused Russia on Thursday of The Security Council ini- Peninsula. Nidaa Tounes announced pressuring an independent tially imposed sanctions on But in July, US Secretary of Chahed’s referral to its disci- panel of UN experts to alter a North Korea after its first State Mike Pompeo accused plinary committee late on report on North Korea sanc- nuclear test in 2006 and has North Korea of “illegally smug- Friday after he delivered a tions that included alleged vio- made them tougher and gling” in refined petroleum stinging attack on infighting lations “implicating Russian tougher in response to further products beyond the annual within the party that he said actors.” Haley said the panel nuclear tests and an increas- quota of 5,00,000 barrels was restricting his govern- should release the original ingly sophisticated ballistic allowed under U.N. Sanctions. ment’s ability to revive the economy. “Secondary political con- flicts.. Have disrupted the work ! " of the government, holding it back and blocking the reform process and the decisions nec- essary to achieve economic growth,” he said in a televised address to a policy confer- Baghdad: The Iraqi parliament solidify new parliamentary prime minister and presides ence. elected the candidate of a pro- alliances. over the formation of the next The ruling party is led by Iran list as speaker on Saturday, Iraq has a proportional government. President Beji Caid Essebsi’s paving the way for the forma- system aimed at preventing a The pro-Iran bloc led by son Hafedh, who has been tion of a government more slide back into dictatorship fol- Hadi al-Ameri’s Conquest battling to oust the premier for than four months after leg- lowing the 2003 ouster of Alliance -- a coalition of anti- months. islative polls. Saddam Hussein. jihadist veterans close to The power struggle previ- The country has been in The lists elected during Tehran -- looked positioned to ously came to a head in July, political paralysis since the legislative polls must first form take the lead Saturday after the when the president himself May 12 ballot, but the election coalitions. The bloc with the election of its candidate, called on Chahed to resign. of a speaker is expected to most members appoints the Mohammed al-Halbusi. AFP Los Angeles: NASA’s most the globe. The preceding mis- advanced space laser satellite sion, ICESat, launched in 2003 blasted off Saturday on a mis- and ended in 2009. The first sion to track ice loss around the ICESat revealed that sea ice was world and improve forecasts of thinning, and ice cover was dis- sea level rise as the climate appearing from coastal areas in warms. Greenland and Antarctica. Cloaked in pre-dawn dark- In the intervening nine ness, the USD 1 billion, half- years, an aircraft mission called ton ICESat-2 launched aboard Operation IceBridge, has flown a Delta II rocket from over the Arctic and Antarctic, Vandenberg Air Force base in taking height measurements of California at 6:02 am (local the changing ice. time). But a view from space - “Three, two one, liftoff!” especially with the latest tech- said a launch commentator on nology - should be far more NASA television. precise. “Lifting ICESat-2 on a The new laser will fire quest to explore the polar ice 10,000 times in one second, sheets of our constantly chang- compared to the original ing home planet.” The launch ICESat which fired 40 times a marks the first time in nearly second. a decade that NASA has had a Measurements will be tool in orbit to measure ice taken every 2.3 feet (0.7 meters) sheet surface elevation across along the satellite’s path. AFP ; (& "'" &- ' . /% (0123405 @ ( # $ &# 6$ #$ & $ ( ( # (#( 4 & $ ( $( # #$& $ (# O" 6 $ P4 46 $ ( EE ( #$& $# $46 & & $ / ( $/. ;5A( # ( % %#( . $ . $ $ . # :A . = $ 6 $ " . : ( ? 04, ( :# Q- ' & +8+&& " , D:% 7 ! 'R est Bengal Consumer Affairs Minister " WSadhan Pande on Saturday said the price , & of petrol blended with ethanol should be @>,-. 11 1<02<6- Asha and Anganwadi workers from Government’, Jaitley said in the past reduced and consumers must be informed that October. there has been a general distrust of they are buying blended fuel. 1<02<6- inance Minister Arun Jaitley on The remuneration of the government schemes. Retail petro dealers should arrange for the ade- - FSaturday said the Government’s Anganwadi workers has been raised “The principal reason for this quate display of this information, he said on the he Government should " ) + (,2.& ( "/?2 decision to increase the remunera- from 3,000 to 4,500 per month; is that either the benefits don’t sidelines of MCCI India Economic Forum 2018. Tfocus on boosting exports .D / D # tion of Anganwadi and Asha work- the mini Anganwadi workers’ pay reach the targeted or that the pro- Refiners are blending 10 per cent ethanol to check the widening current ers by almost 50 per cent will go a has been hiked from 2,250 to jected parameters are never with petrol, Pande said adding “Keeping con- account deficit as imposing 77 O P long way in addressing the griev- 3,500. Remuneration of Anganwadi achieved. sumers in the dark about ethanol being mixed curbs on imports may not 3 , ances of these 25 lakh workers. helpers has been increased from However, there are schemes with petrol at the pumps is an act of cheating. have a significant impact, 6 Stating that there has been a 1,500 to 2,250 per month. with a difference. The Swachh Bharat Consumers should be made aware of this.” exporters’ body FIEO said on & + )55 long-time demand of Anganwadi These workers will also get an Abhiyan is arguably the most suc- If ethanol is mixed then the price of petrol Saturday. workers and their helpers to give incentive of 500 per month and cessful one,” he said. should be reduced. Federation of Indian , them a reasonable remuneration, 250 per month respectively on the Jaitley said when Prime Minister “I have been informed that the Centre has Export Organisations (FIEO) Jaitley said the Governments in the basis of the real time monitoring of Narendra Modi announced the earned 12,000 crore in the last fiscal through President Ganesh Gupta said past have always refrained from giv- performance. Swachhata campaign in his this practice,” Pande, a senior Trinamool the Government should not ing benefits to these workers osten- Jaitley said the Anganwadi Independence Day Speech of 2014, Congress leader said. restrict imports to address ris- sibly on revenue considerations. workers are the mainstay of the the rural sanitation coverage of The price of fuel has skyrocketed in the ing current account deficit - # “Notwithstanding the pressure National Nutrition Mission.There India was 39 per cent. domestic market and is at an all time high (CAD) and fall in rupee. on the Budget, the Government has are approximately 12.9 lakh As we have completed nearly prompting the opposition parties to demand “I do not think that we " , given almost a 50% hike in the first Anganwadi workers and 11.6 lakh four years of the scheme, 39 per cent reduction in its prices. should restrict imports unless we @ :! $ " L0 ( 3 2M go to these workers. This will go a Anganwadi helpers in the country. rural sanitation coverage has Ethanol being a hydroscopic product want to join bandwagon of pro- " # long way in addressing the grievance These benefits would be available to increased to a phenomenal 92 per absorbs water and affects the mileage of the vehi- tectionism and hope that it will of these workers,” he wrote in a these 24.9 lakh Anganwadi workers cent. cle, the consumer affairs minister said. spur Make in India,” he added. 7 , Facebook post. and their families, the minister This was not an easy goal to Pande said he wrote to the petroleum min- He also said that CAD at 2.5 - ( Earlier this week, Prime Minister said. achieve and this involved a behav- istry and urged it to create awareness among per cent of GDP should not be * Narendra Modi had announced a In the post titled ‘Two success- ioural change of the people, Jaitley consumers about the ethanol blended petrol a cause of concern as anything 5 hike in the monthly honorarium for ful initiatives of the Central said. being sold to them. below 3 per cent is not alarming. ;$ .8/ 0 + ( % 5, -& 2 D 2 * )5 " , , 2 * - ( * # + 11 " * # ,3,4&- he market extended its decline for second Tstraight week with BSE Sensex lossing another 299.18 points to close 38,090.64 and the broader Nifty falling 73.90 points to finish at 11,515.20. The truncated and volatile week saw the stock market enduring initial bitter losses as rupee sta- bilised during late session after initial record lows. The key indices fell sharply for the two sessions during start of the week, marking one month lows to revisit 37K-level impacted by escalating trade war concerns and global slide after US President Donald Trump threatened to impose higher tar- iffs on China, also the negative sentiments on expectation of US Fed rate hike this month. While the rupee crashed to fresh record lows '6> , A 1 B. on rising crude, strengthening dollar and widen- '6> %( ing current account deficit, the 10 year-yield B surged, so did the stocks selling pressure. However, the market rebounded and capped the weeks larger losses after an government offi- # cial assurance on measures to support the rupee 7 ; # after a planned review of the economy by Prime Minister Narendra Modi this weekend. MUMBAI: Air chartered ser- Gujarat from the city's Juhu The assurance led the rupee recovery from vices provider JetSetGo-owned aerodrome with a five-seater record lows, it was further supported by data SkyShuttle on Saturday Bell helicopter, JetSetGo chief released by the Central Statistics Office on cool- announced the launch of its executive and co-founder ing of retail inflation (CPI). shared business jet and chop- Kanika Tekriwal said. per services from Monday. The Mumbai-Bangalore The Delhi-based non- service will be catered by a jet- scheduled carrier, in which liner, she added. cricketer Yuvraj Singh is one of The company wants to use the investors, will fly twice learnings from these routes to daily services to Tarapur in further expand offerings across Maharashtra’s Palghar district the country going forward, and neighbouring Vapi in Tekriwal said. PTI (& "'" &- ' . /% (0123405 ( - 9R! ! . R ' % ,<483)1< ricket Australia has " G - O ) 4 " :> Cresponded positively to India coach Ravi Shastri's request for more warm-up 234&- matches ahead of their Test series Down Under later ushfiqur Rahim hit a superb hun- this year. dred under pressure as Bangladesh India only had one Mscored a competitive 261 against practice match ahead of Sri Lanka despite Lasith Malinga wreaking their recent Test series havoc on his international comeback in the against England - which Asia Cup opener on Saturday. they lost 1-4 - and Shastri , 7 + 6 Mushfiqur scored a career-best 144 off believes his side would be 150 balls with 11 boundaries and four sixes, better prepared to tackle days amid high drama over in the first Test match ?" he his sixth hundred in ODIs. Australia if more red-ball the condition of the pitch was quoted as saying by Save 131-run stand with Mohammed cricket was scheduled prior and the outfield, both of ESPNCricinfo. Mithun (63) for the third wicket, the for- to the first Test in Adelaide which apparently left the Australia and India are mer skipper didn't get any assistance from starting on December 6. visitors unhappy. scheduled to play three T20 other batsmen as the wily Malinga showed "We are happy to dis- On Thursday, Shastri matches prior to the that he is still a force to reckon with. cuss options with the BCCI, said he was not averse to the Adelaide Test and Shastri Malinga, who last played against India but we have not received idea of playing practice said India had "requested a in a home series September 2017, took 4/23 any formal notification to games. couple of (warm-up) games on his return. increase the number of tour "Absolutely not. Why in Australia before the Test Opener Tamim Iqbal's heroic act will matches prior to their series would we be? You can only series commenced". also be remembered by one and all as he commencing in Australia," see the results (in the India are slated to tour came out to bat despite having retired hurt a CA spokesperson said. England Tests). Every time Australia for three T20 with a fractured wrist. Tamim allowed In England, even the after the second Test we internationals, four Test Mushfiqur to have one final blast during lone four-day practice have improved. You can matches and three ODIs the slog overs. match against county side still get better. But why from November 21 to Once Malinga and off-spinner Essex was reduced to three can't we be in that position January 18. Dhananjaya de Silva (2/38) reduced Bangladesh to 203/8, Mushfiqur shielded no 11 Mustafizur Rahaman (10) during the 26-run stand. -% 23 4 Once Mustafizur was out, Tamim removed his hand-cast and came out in 1<02<6- order to allow his partner to play the final three overs. C D $ $ " ising sensation Rishabh Pant, who The Tamim-Mushfiqur pair added an Rscored his maiden Test hundred in invaluable 32 runs in 2.4 overs and it could :<9= ' 4C D E England, will play the first three matches well be crucial in the final context of the " A 6 for Delhi in the upcoming Vijay Hazare match. Trophy, starting September 19. However Malinga's superb effort was be dismissed. However, veteran Ishant Sharma has story of the initial part of the match. Tamim however will not take any fur- been rested after a gruelling England Coming back from semi-retirement with ther part in the tournament as he will be series where he sustained an ankle injury a slight paunch and a shorter run-up, out with a broken wrist. on the fourth day of the fifth Test. Malinga showed his mastery as he bowled The 15-member team will be led by four different deliveries to get his scalps. # # Gautam Gambhir and Dhruv Shorey will > 6 # ( ( Liton Das (0) nicked an outswinger in In the second game of the tournament be his deputy. Gambhir has been handed the slip cordon, Shakib Al Hasan (0) was on Sunday, two times champion will face back the captaincy after a gap of one year. All the performers of last year along castled by his signature inswinging york- Hong Kong in group A opener. Pant, who captained Delhi to Ranji with talented players from U-22 side has er, Mithun skied a slower delivery while Pakistan is placed in group A along Trophy final last year, didn't take up the been picked for the tournament. Mosddek Hossain was done in by a slow with India and Hong Kong and before the leadership role as he is a certainty in the Reasonably experienced players like bouncer. big clash against India on 19th, Pakistan Indian Test squad for the West Indies series, Unmukt Chand, Manan Sharma, Nitish Even Mushfiqur failed to score runs off will like to start on a positive note by beat- starting October 4. Rana and Pawan Negi are all in the squad the slinger who bowled as many as 44 dot ing Hong Kong here on Sunday. With the consistent Shorey also expect- along with youngsters like basmen Lalit balls and didn't concede a single bound- For Pakistan, their strength has always ed to travel to New Zealand with the India Yadav and Hiten Dalal. ary in his 10 overs. been their fierce bowling which consists of A team, the selection committee chaired by Squad: Gautam Gambhir (captain), However the seasoned Mushfiqur got Mohammed Amir, Junaid Khan. But this Amit Bhandari decided to fall back on the Dhruv Shorey (vc), Rishabh Pant (wk), runs off spinners, scoring on both sides of time Pak is laced up with quality batsmen experience of Gambhir, who is no longer Unmukt Chand, Nitish Rana, Himmat the wicket. He used his feet well against left- end, it became difficult for Mushfiqur, who But once Mustafizur was out and like Fakhar Zaman, who is coming into this in national reckoning. Singh, Manan Sharma, Pawan Negi, Hiten arm spinner Malmiga Aponso and off- considerably slowed down in his 90's. His injured Tamim came in for support, tournament after smashing double centu- The only new face in the squad is rook- Dalal, Lalit Yadav, Navdeep Saini, Gaurav spinners Dilruwan Perera and De Silva. hundred came with a glide off Suranga Mushfiqur just cut loose getting 32 runs in ry against Zimbabwe in the last series fea- ie all-rounder Pranshu Vajayran, who bats Kumar, Kulwant Khejroliya, Simarjeet However as wickets fell at the other Lakmal off 123 balls. 2.4 overs before he was the last batsman to turing Pakistan. left handed and bowls medium. Singh, Pranshu Vijayran. "?%/ # 4 (0$.A3 . ?'# $ : paris: + , 1 * ( " G! A$' 03 #03: A5' @ < " #9 2 < ( & " , " , 2 3 D ( F * # : whelmed," said Hamilton. * 4 9 " & * " Valtteri Bottas was 4 8 D #- * $ 8D9* 0#. - " #7- +-# D D 63 fourth in the other = " " Mercedes, followed by & ( " " Kimi Raikkonen and Daniel Ricciardo. - # # " # 6 Sergio Perez was seventh fastest for Force 9 " .@ "/ , 4 * " & 2 G 4 " India while his teammate Esteban Ocon was F @! " " < , , "(" " " ninth with Romain Grosjean of Haas sand- < #L-H H " & ) " wiched between them. Nico Hulkenberg of " L*H # * # Renault completed the top-10. D "# 5 Earlier, the drivers who were eliminated 1<02<6- & " @! 7 in Q1 were Kevin Magnussen, Brendon .@= "/ & 8 # tokyo: + , & C$ D6 " 7 " Hartley, Stoffel Vandoorne, Sergey Sirotkin and , .G$ "/, + .@G "/ 4"" " 9 8 $ > P 7 Lance Stroll. It was the eighth time in the sea- ormer world champion L Sarita 5+ .>G "/ 4" 8 " son that Sirotkin and Stroll of Williams were FDevi (60kg) signed off with a " " " "" " -1*&8)< + .$ "/# " : $ : # , H :G knocked out in the first session. Bronze medal at the 13th Silesian & - : # 2 " F " What caught most attention was the slow Open Boxing Tournament for H+ + H ewis Hamilton produced a 'magic lap' to pace of the mighty Mercedes as Bottas and women in which India's junior box- 2 "+ : : : >#L- " Lbeat championship rival Sebastian Vettel Hamilton set the 12th and 14th fastest times ers ruled the ring in Gliwice, Poland. Karina Ibragimova, a decision which no issues with that close call. " " for pole position in the Singapore Grand Prix respectively. Sarita, also a multiple-time the Indian contingent felt did not Earlier, the Indian junior boxers & L, #L- - here on Saturday. However, the reigning champion bounced Asian champion a former Asian reflect fairly on the contest. produced a terrific performance to - " Ferrari seemed the faster car all weekend back quickly in Q2, becoming the first driver Games Bronze-medallist, was joined "It was a controversial decision. sign off with 13 medals — six Gold, L # , until Hamilton came up with a 1:36.105 in his to break into the 1:37s before Ricciardo and by Lovlina Borgohain (69kg) and Sarita was clearly better but judges six Silver and a Bronze. 9 first run in Q3. Vettlel was not able to respond Verstappen did the same in the Red Bull, fol- Pooja Rani (81kg) in the list of those did not rule in her favour, even the Bharti (46kg), Tingmila Doungel 0 ( " " " to that and ended third fastest with a 1:36.628. lowed by Bottas and the two Ferraris of whose campaign came to an end in crowd got behind her after the loss (48kg), Sandeep Kaur (52kg), Neha # - H Max Verstappen, in the Red Bull, was Raikkonen and Vettel. the semifinals on Friday. because everyone could see," said (54kg), Arshi Khanam (57kg) and " 8 ( , ( H three-tenths faster than the German and will Charles Leclerc, who will be making his The celebrated M C Mary Kom one of the coaches travelling with the Komal (80kg) claimed top honours ( C " " : start on the front row with Hamilton. big move from Sauber to Ferrari next year, had (48kg) and Manisha (54kg) are the team. in their respective categories. : : #, 9 H:! = Hamilton was not able to improve on his a nervy moment when he brushed the wall only ones to have made the finals, Lovlina was beaten by Poland's Amisha Bharti (50kg), Sanya 1 8 : &8 remarkable first run but it was enough to pro- coming out of Turn 21. scheduled late Saturday night, Karolina Koszewska in a split 1-4 Negi (60kg), Dinesh Naik (63kg), 9 : : : :# vide him with the ideal launchpad for the race Vettel was caught in the traffic but man- among the senior Indian boxers, verdict, also called "unfair" by the Sanjay Gunele (66kg), Raj Sahiba on Sunday as he looks to increase the 30-point aged to make the final session rather com- while former youth world champi- Indians. (70kg) and Lipakshi (+80kg) settled # /7 = championship lead over Vettel. fortably. The drivers who missed out after Q2 on Jyoti Gulia (51kg) is in the youth Pooja too was defeated by a local for Silver medals. new delhi: 8 , "That lap felt like magic. Don't know were Fernando Alonso, Carloz Sainz, Leclerc, finals. favourite in Agata Kaczmarska, the The sole junior Bronze went to >: " " , - where it came from. I am super over- Marcus Ericsson and Pierre Gasly. Sarita lost 0-5 to Kazakhstan's decision being 2-3. But the team had Neha (75kg). " , 4 #) 8 4 9 & * < * & 5 >: Q % + - + ,-R " , 6 " # 1 8 4 =: F # - 5 1<02<6- a lot in the last 3-4 months, which once but it will remain a dream. environment. But every beautiful 2 F were tough," Sardar told reporters I also wanted to win an Olympic thing has to end somewhere." "! !" 4"& " , " e was low on confidence during his first interaction post and World Cup medal. These will Sardar, however, feels that at @= " " # * 8 Hafter the Commonwealth retirement. remain as my biggest regrets," least core players should be given 4 G F # 5 Games snub earlier this year but "There has never been an Sardar said. guarantee of their places without 4 a telephonic chat with the icon- occasion when he didn't answer Many feel that Sardar was putting pressure after a bad out- 4 3& " # ic Sachin Tendulkar motivated my call. After I was dropped from made a scapegoat for India's dis- ing. Sardar Singh to work hard CWG squad, I was very low and astrous campaign and was forced "Yes, I do feel there is plenty towards regaining his place in the called Sachin paaji and asked him to retire but he reiterated that it of pressure on a player. At least kolkata: * ( 8 national team. what he used to do when he was his personal decision as 10-11 players should be sure of :!!> - " & Sardar, 32, walked into the scored 0. mentally he was done with the their places in the team because H H "H sunset on Wednesday after a "He counselled me for close game. pressure plays a lot on your #G$ glorious 12-year career following to 20 minutes and advised me to "Initially, I had planned to mind if you are in uncertainty," H a disastrous Asian Games cam- forget about criticisms and stay play till 2020 Olympics but after he said. F 8 " paign, where India failed to motivated and focussed. He told failing to win the Asiad Gold, the The former captain said he "L L . defend its title and returned me to analyse my old videos, play entire plan changed. I faced a lot has left Indian hockey in good " " / home with a consolation Bronze. my natural hockey and it helped of hardships in life but day-by- shape and the team now needs to #L* Left out of India's squad for me in bouncing back," he added. day it was becoming difficult for do minor corrections and adjust- #- " this year's Gold Coast Sardar was a livewire in the me to think over my game. Every ments to be medal contenders in #1 Commonwealth Games, Sardar midfield during his 12-year stel- night thinking about next day's big events. " #4 - sought advice from Tendulkar lar career during which he led training, about passes not going "When we started, India was # C L and the legend's tips worked India to Asian Games Gold in well started taking a toll on me around 13 or 14th ranked in the !& #, " wonders for the former hockey Incheon (2014) besides two mentally," he said. world. We have made giant - captain as he made a successful Bronze medals in 2010 and 2018. > , "In these last 12 years, I have strides from there in the past 4- "6 * 5 4& + comeback into the side for the He won two Commonwealth managed a lot of stress but not 5 years. We have started playing H G (8 Champions Trophy, where he Games Silver, a historic Silver in But not having won an Year award still remains regret for anymore. It was a hard and dif- semi-finals. But we need to know " " 4 * " :# helped India win historic Silver. the Champions Trophy (2018 Olympic and a World Cup medal the talismanic midfielder. ficult decision. I will miss hock- how to win big games and kill "Sachin paaji has been an Breda), two Asia Cup titles and besides International Hockey "I always wanted to win the ey, I will miss those training ses- time in the final stages when we inspiration for me. He helped me numerous other trophies. Federation (FIH) Player of the FIH 'Player of the Year' award sions and the dressing room are leading," Sardar said. ' 6 7 2 7 L% =)?" +7 6>6 Q# # R % & * 4 !6 %!' 'A !44 68' + %++%' P)B8% + 5% )8%8) *! 4 ')' 4(!) %('@8%) 8 )8'4(')*( !+ 8%( +8 ))% B8%%A%A ' ') 5)%+%)'& %AB%! ) 5 !4%* ! ' ) % +)8 ' '(88 ) ' +A !4 8' % !@ ''(*)! )'! 6 %AB%B(! '4/ +%)P8! 6+ ' 4% @)*') )%8!+ B8A%84'4 8 5!'% 8) 1 "O 2 # " +3,&)(6<&&1 campaign for the uman civilisation undergoes major the famous debate he had creation of Tamil shifts from time to time. Tamil Nadu with the Buddhist scholar, Mandana Eelam in Sri Lanka is experiencing such a civilisational Misra. Adi Shankara was asked who are the major narra- change, a change in the basic political he was and he said he was Dravida tives in Tamil Nadu’s landscape. Whether the change is shishu or child. Dravida is a com- political discourse. takingH the State to better days or worse is being bination of ‘Thra’ and ‘Vidu’, What did the discussed widely all over the country. We have which means ‘three’ and ‘coast’ respec- DMK do for the seen civilisational changes leading to destruction tively. This means that Dravida is the State when it was as well as reconstruction of societies. Culture, land of three coasts. ‘Aryan’ is not a word wielding power at lifestyle, geography, climate, and ecology all vanish in Sanskrit. Aryaputhra or Aryaputhri the Centre from at one phase only to reappear in another form. were terms used to address men and 2004 to 2013? There were instances of empires and kingdoms women of learning and who possess Karunanidhi’s disappearing without any trace. We have seen the good qualities,” says Dr Swamy. grand nephew, Vedic-era River Saraswati — the banks of which The anti-Hindi agitation in Tamil Dayanidhi Maran, saw a flourishing civilisation and which was said Nadu went out of the Government’s con- was made a to be flowing through North India to discharge trol following the suicide by a person at Cabinet Minister into the Arabian Sea — disappearing from the face Thiruchirappali Railway Station on January with the portfolio of the earth only to be retraced and reinvented 25, 1965, according to N Kalyanasundaram, a of Information Technology and thousands of years later by modern-day scientists. chronicler of Tamil Nadu politics. “This man set Telecommunications, TR Baalu was made The same is the case with River Saradha, the rem- himself ablaze following a quarrel with his wife. Minister for shipping and surface transport, nants of which have been detected in Odisha. Anbil Dharmalingam, the DMK leader, portrayed two of the money-spinning Ministries. In Tamil Nadu, the present-day generation is it as a self-immolation against Hindi and it caught When fight erupted in the family over shar- witnessing the spectacle of a tectonic shift in the up with the people. Dharmalingam was later made ing of the booty, Dayanidhi was removed State’s political skyline. The Dravidian dream a Minister by the DMK leadership for the service and replaced by A Raja, friend of run is coming to an end even as the State is rendered by him,” said Kalyanasundaram, who Kanimozhi, Karunanidhi’s daughter by his under the threat of a rapid regression. The stage was a witness to the suicide. third wife, Rajathi. for the de-Dravidianisation of Tamil Nadu began The word ‘Dravidan’ has an inherent anti-India The family’s fortunes saw a manifold in December 2016 with the demise of feeling in it. The average Tamilian, who grew up in jump during this period. Following the Jayalalithaa, the then Chief Minister and an anti-Hindi and anti-Aryan surrounding, feels disclosures by The Pioneer about the 2G AIADMK chief. Jayalalithaa, a spinster, passed that he/she is not a part of mainland India. The scam, Raja lost his ministership. Both he away without nominating an heir and the result Dravidian regime, which came to power for the and Kanimozhi were arrested and sent to is there for all to see. The AIADMK disinte- first time in 1967 and is since ruling the State Tihar Jail. By that time, Karunanidhi had grated into three to four factions by alternately by way of the two factions, lost much of his bargaining power with 2017, the birth centenary year of has done a lot of damage to the the Congress. The DMK withdrew support MG Ramachandran, the national fabric. CN Annadurai, to the UPA Government in 2013, citing founder of the party. There is during his tenure as a member Dravidian the failure of the Manmohan Singh-led no charismatic leader in the of the Rajya Sabha, is on Government got the Government to save the Sri Lankan Tamils AIADMK and it was record demanding the order stayed by the apex court. from ethnic pogrom by the Army of the known that the party secession of Tamil Nadu “Such schools would lead to the impo- island nation. The Sri Lankan civil war got would soon weaken. from the Union of India sition of Sanskrit and Hindi on Tamil stu- over in 2009 itself, with the Army killing Muthuvel and formation of a sepa- dents,” argued the State in the court. Prabhakaran and his associates. But Karunanidhi, the long- rate country by the name, Sreesailam Unnikrishnan, a Karunanidhi had to give a valid reason to serving chief of the DMK Dravida Nadu. Though Malayalam professor and a revered lin- justify his decision to withdraw support to too left this world early the DMK was forced to guist, says that the Dravidian leaders’ pas- the Congress Government. The real reason August, causing jitters in put the demand on the sion for Tamil has crossed all limits of behind the DMK’s decision to walk out of the party. Karunanidhi, back burner following the sensibility. “They are still led by the argu- the UPA Government was the failure of who was elected president 16th amendment of the ments put forward by Robert Caldwell, an the Congress to save Kanimozhi from the of the party in 1969, had Constitution, the clamour evangelist, who proposed the theory that ignominy of going to jail in the multi- over the past 50 years con- for Dravida Nadu is still Tamil was a unique language and part of crore 2G Spectrum scam, which is out of verted the DMK into a family strong in the DMK and some the Dravidian language. There is no scien- the public mind now. enterprise. Nobody other than outfits with a Dravidian tag. tific proof for this theory. All languages The demise of Jayalalithaa and his close family members could Stalin had suggested on March are equally unique. Nobody questions on Karunanidhi within a span of two years has dream of getting any important position 17 at Erode that the Southern States what authority an evangelist spoke about left a big void in Tamil Nadu politics. The in the party or in the Government (whenever the should come together and demand the forma- Tamil,” said Prof Unnikrishnan. strength of Dravidian parties, too, has erod- DMK was ruling the State). tion of Dravida Land. K Thirunavakkarassu, the Interestingly, the children and grandchil- ed over the past two decades because of With his passing away, the General Council of DMK historian, said it was a possibility. “The dren of all Tamil chauvinistic leaders study many reasons. Scientific breakthroughs in the DMK, which had been jampacked with family DMK Constitution is clear on this. The party in high-end public schools where speaking human genome sequencing and DNA stud- loyalists, elected MK Stalin, his second son by his stands for the formation of Dravida Nadu,” he Tamil is an offence punishable with hefty ies have proved beyond doubt that there second wife, as the party president. MK Alagiri, had said following the demand by Stalin. fines. Stalin’s daughter Chenthamarai owns were no Aryans or Dravidians in the coun- his elder son, had made his displeasure known by Most Indians are not aware of the intensity of Sunshine Public School in Chennai where try. “The concept was brought in by the East openly revolting against Stalin and dragging the the anti-Hindi campaign by the Dravidian parties. speaking Tamil would land the students in India Company and the British rulers as part succession issue to the streets. The DMK Trust, Tamil Nadu is the only State in the country which 6<08)2N2)&-2&1O trouble. “This is a part of an attempt to of their plan to turn North India against which controls properties worth thousands of does not have even a single Jawahar Navodaya 6&&1&1--12-& make Tamil Nadu a separate country within South India. There is no historical, archaeo- crores all over Tamil Nadu, too, has gone into the Vidyalaya, public schools offering free education India. The Dravidian party leaders would logical, literary or scientific proof for the hands of Stalin and his family. The DMK has to rural poor in the country. While all districts in D<<-1*#6<&<)&*< claim that the State is a separate entity where Arya-Dravidian divide,” said PG Haridas, become the Congress of Tamil Nadu. With Alagiri, the country have such schools in most backward &,--&1 068*)<0 there is no Hindi and Sanskrit. Tamil Nadu professor of history, Mahatma Gandhi the former southern chieftain of the DMK declar- regions, Tamil Nadu’s Dravidian parties, the DMK is the only State opposing NEET and does University. He pointed out that Breaking ing his battle royale against Stalin and his cronies, and the AIADMK, have declared such institutions 3-1&1&1-6-12- not allow Hindi or Sanskrit in schools,” said India, a comprehensive research work the Dravidian major too is in for a major crisis. unwelcome in the State. &12&1-&)C&1 H Raja, National Secretary, the BJP. authored by Rajiv Malhotra and Aravindan The Dravidian regime in Tamil Nadu began in “The Navodaya Vidyalaya system is a unique The sense of alienation, which is dis- Neelakandan, hit the last nail in the coffin 1967 as a consequence of the anti-Hindi agitation experiment unparalleled in the annals of school 3))8312-1* D<< cernible among the average Tamilian, is the of the Dravidian theory. which rocked the State in the early 1960s. Political education in the country and provides the best 6&6 ))* )+,-.)/* )+,-.)/ &*0 &*0 * 8,<1<1*3& he significance of Guwahati is exceptional gem. Thanks to its geograph- military skill, especially in naval warfare, he started preserving the place, and from 1943, often reduced to its connection ical location, Guwahati was a big wartime had forced the Mughals back to Delhi, leav- a scholar named Tarini Kanta Sarma start- with Kamakhya Temple, which airbase when Allied Forces were planning ing Assam unconquered. The Battle of ed doing serious research on the debris. is one of the Hindu Shakti to cut off Dimapur from the rest of India. Saraighat, which was fought in 1671 on the In Kalika Purana, we get a reference of Peethas, or its proximity to the At that time, several dead soldiers had been banks of the mighty Brahmaputra, saw Madan Kamdev Temple. The legend says TKaziranga National Park, which has been buried in ordinary graves. Later, in order Lachit’s army defeat Aurangzeb’s even it was here that Madana, the God of pas- given the tag of a World Heritage Site by to give them a dignified burial, their graves though the latter was heavily supported by sion, reunited with his wife Rati. Thus, the UNESCO. But there is a lot more to were relocated to Syllet Military Cemetery, Portuguese gunners. An imposing statue temple walls were decorated with figures Guwahati, the largest city of Assam. The Amaribari Military Cemetery, Nowgong of Lachit Borphukan, along with his war- expressing human passion. Several panels rich history of Ahom kingdom and its sub- Civil Cemetery, and Mohachara Military riors, now stands at the river bed of are bold and candid in expressing physical sequent merging with British Assam adds Cemetery. After the end of the war, more Brahmaputra. The place where the battle relations between man and woman. They a colourful layer to the rich legacy of graves were shifted here from Darjeeling, took place has now been decorated with the also depict various Hindu Gods, animal Guwahati. A combination of mythology Dhubri, Dibrugarh, Shillong, Silchar, and Saraighat Rail Road Bridge. motifs, and floral designs. The roofless tem- and textbook history needs to be looked Cooch Behar to make this a more impor- Guwahati is the child of River ple is enshrined with an Uma-Maheshwar into to get a taste of the many stories that tant place. Today, the place has 486 graves Brahmaputra. The 2,900-km-long river statue where we see Shiva and his wife Uma this place has to offer. that belong to soldiers of the British that covers a basin of 6,51,334 sq km in an emotional state. Though no founda- Legend has it that this land was once Commonwealth and 24 graves that belong comes from Tibet and covers about 728 tion plaque or dedicatory tablet was found known as Pragjyotishpura and was ruled to Chinese soldiers of Ching-Kai-Shek’s km in its journey through Assam, break- in the debris, it is assumed that it was estab- by a demon king named Narakasura, who army. It also has 25 unidentified graves. ing into several big and small river lished by Vanamala Varman Deva of was later killed by Hindu God, Krishna. Those who rest here in eternal peace islands. Considered sacred in Hindu Satasthambha dynasty in the 9th century. King Narakasura’s son Bhagadutta is belonged to prestigious regiments like mythology, the river is described as the Later, it was expanded and completed by believed to have sided with the Kauravas Royal Australian Airforce, Essex Regiments, love child of Brahma and Amogha (queen Pala kings of Bengal. However, no solid evi- in the battle of Mahabharata. Another tale Bengal Civil Pioneers, Royal Indian of king Shantanu) in Kalika Purana. dence has been produced so far. Madan connects Guwahati with Hindu God Airforce, Scottish Rifles, Royal Deccan This river is considered to have mas- Kamdev Temple is now considered a tem- Shiva, who is believed to have come here Horses, King’s own Yorkshire Light Infantry culine fury which can often be destructive. Bhashmakut or Bhashmachala, one learns ple of fertility. Young couples pray here to for meditation after the death of his wife, and Royal Artillery. No wonder, then, that it floods its banks, about the Umananda Shiva Temple. It was fulfill their desire of becoming parents. Sati. When Kama, the God of lust and pas- The most unique feature of this war including areas in Guwahati city, every now established in 1694 by Gadhadhar Singha In Guwahati, near Nehru Park, a small sion, had tried to interrupt his penance, an cemetery is that it houses 11 graves of and then. But Brahmaputra is also the rea- of Ahom dynasty. The original temple was wooden church is a reminder of our colo- angry Shiva had reduced Kama to ashes. Japanese soldiers who had died in 1944 son why Assam is fertile and green. It forms destroyed in the 1897 earthquake. Later, nial past. This is the Christ Church of 1844, Kama’s wife Rati pleaded with Shiva and under the leadership of Lance Corporal the base for Assam’s rich biodiversity. Most the present version of the temple was set one of the oldest buildings of the city. This eventually, a new form of Kama emerged. Miyata Kotsuo. Kotsuo died on September of the national parks and wildlife sanctu- up. Umananda Island is also home to gold- is the third reincarnation of its original form The new form of Kama created the word 13, 1944. In 2012, a team of officials from aries in Assam are also dependent on en langur, a rare species that was brought as the first one was destroyed and second ‘Kamrup’, the most common name by Japan had come here to dig up the graves Brahmaputra. To add to that is the here by a king of Nepal for sacrifice. one badly damaged in the 1897 earthquake. which this part of Assam is known. and collect the remains of their soldiers. immense beauty of the river. An evening Fortunately, they were freed instead. The present version was completed in 1903. Inscriptional evidence suggests that in This is perhaps the only World War II cruise here, along with sumptuous snacks, This cruise takes one through many Another treat is a state museum ded- the 4th century, Pushyavarman and his fam- cemetery in India where along with drinks, and music — both English and milestones of history. On the banks of icated to the unexplored heritage trail of ily ruled Pragjyotishpura, which was Commonwealth soldiers, ‘enemy’ sol- Assamese — is an experience beyond Brahmaputra, several old British bungalows, Guwahati. The collection of stone sculp- watered by the river that was then known diers also rest in peace. words. Umananda, also known as Peacock watch towers, and mosques can be seen. It tures and statues is astounding. Several as Lauhitya, and is today known as Another important tale about Guwahati Island and popularly known as the world’s also boasts of a magical sunset over the hori- collections of Mahishashuramardini Brahmaputra. The last king of this dynasty is related to Lachit Borphukan and his role smallest human-habited river island, is zon when the sky looks like a fountain head Durga from the 10th to 13th century are was Bhaskar Varman. Modern history says is the Battle of Saraighat. Lachit Borphukan often the highlight of such journeys. of melted lava of an active volcano. displayed here with monolithic stone that in 1228, invaders from Burma had was the commander-in-chief of Ahom king Going back to the Shiva and Kama leg- One has not seen much of that if one pillars and iron cannon of Ahom dynasty. established Ahom kingdom here. It lasted in the 17th century. With his outstanding end that gives this river the names has not visited the ruins of Madan Kamdev Set up in 1940, this museum houses one till 1826 when Assam came under the East ,'@."-1-1(& Temple, the massive arena of debris with of the richest collections of artifacts. India Company. It was at that time that stone sculptures and a broken plinth of sev- Last but not least is the temple of Guwahati as a city bloomed and Assam as eral temples. Often referred as the “hidden Kamakhya, a pilgrimage spot of Hindus. a region turned into a coveted area for grow- Khajuraho of Assam”, the temple dates back This temple, too, has been destroyed and ing commercial crops like tea. Guwahati to the 9th century, though no written his- rebuilt several times and by several peo- became all the more significant when tea tory is available. In 1855, an employee of ple. The present one was built in 1665 by became the cash cow of the East India the East India Company named Captain E the king of Cooch Behar of Bengal named Company. Elements of British legacy and Taite Dalton first recorded it as a cluster of Nabanarayan. After the 1897 earthquake, Hindu mythology became one here and give 15 temples inside a deep jungle near it was repaired to a great extent. Festivals modern Guwahati its unique identity. Guwahati and he contributed an article on like Ambubachi when the Goddess goes Guwahati also houses the this in the Asiatic Society Magazine in through her annual menstruation and Commonwealth War Cemetery, which has Calcutta. It created a sensation among schol- Poush Biya when the Goddess gets mar- relics from World War II. It might not be ars, and soon gathered more attention. ried with Kameshwara are celebrated as popular as the war cemeteries in Imphal However, the devastating earthquake of here and draw huge crowds. or Kohima, but every year, it still manages 1897 reduced all temples to rubble, thus Though Guwahati is famous for the to attract thousands of foreign tourists who making the site an endless kingdom of orna- Kamakhya Temple, the city has much come here to revisit history. This small yet mented stone sculptures. From 1901, a local more to offer. It offers a rare combination beautiful war cemetery in Guwahati is an Muslim land collector named Niyamat Ali of modern life and tales from the past. =)?"%/ may not be commanding any sub-nationality to the highest More people in Tamil Nadu major base in the State, but pedestal, cultivation of the have started learning Hindi the damage they could cause ethnic separatism, and divi- through the Dakshina Bharat is a worrisome factor. sive identity politics, the Hindi Prachar Sabha The agitation against the scorning of Indian national (DBHPS) in spite of State hat has happened said Dr Swamy. The hydrocarbon plants, the pride, all of which eventually Government’s hatred of the with Jayalalithaa Congress, which has been opposition against the led to the decline of patrio- national language. “Despite Wand Karunanidhi riding piggyback on either Chennai-Salem Green tism in Tamil Nadu’s public the fact that Hindi is not leaving the centrestage is the the AIADMK or DMK, is a Corridor, the resentment space. The Dravidian parties taught in Government sudden appearance of many pale shadow of what it was in against the Indian Nutrino are too dangerous for our schools in the State, 2017 saw fringe groups funded and the 1960s. The other day saw Observatory, and the oppo- nationhood, democracy and a 1.28 lakh students appearing sponsored by NGOs, the the TNCC headquarters sition towards NEET and the true federal system, and hence for the basic examination Church, and various Islamist becoming a battleground, as Enayam high end port are unacceptable,” said Menon. held by the Sabha,” said S organistions. “There is a the factions owing allegiance proof that something is He is also of the view that the Jayaraj, secretary, DBHPS. rapid regression in Tamil to various leaders scuffled in brewing in Tamil Nadu. If two superstars of Tamil film- There are nearly 11,000 Nadu. What we saw as the the presence of the media. the national parties play dom, Rajinikanth and Kamal Hindi pracharaks working in farmers’ protest in New Delhi The DMK is in for major their cards well, the State Hassan, who have declared the State, he added. staged by Ayyakannu trouble as Alagiri hinted on may see a tectonic shift from their political ambitions, are Tamil Nadu is waiting for Ponnusamy and his associ- September 5 that he will cre- Dravidian politics that has doomed to fail. “One cannot a leader who can connect ates was the manifestation of ate problems for his younger degenerated Tamil Nadu. understand what Hassan says; with them and convince these fringe elements. They brother Stalin, who has Though there are fringe nothing makes sense. Both them that Tamils are equal to offered the international become the party president. parties like the DMDK (led actors are on the wrong side people in other States of the media an opportunity to por- If Stalin antagonises Alagiri, by film actor Vijayakanth), of 60 and do not have time to country. Air-conditioned car- tray India in a poor light,” a specialist in winning elec- MDMK (led by the volatile reach out to the Tamil peo- avans and chartered aircraft said an author who was tions, his dream of becoming Vaiko), and PMK (led by S ple,” said Menon. would not get you the loyalty forced to leave Chennai the CM of Tamil Nadu would Ramadoss, whose only mis- People in Tamil Nadu are and respect anymore. Take a because of her open criticism remain unfulfilled. The DMK sion seems to be to make slowly understanding the cue from the style of late NT of the Jallikattu agitation at has degenerated into a family Raveenthrhan Thuraiswamy, Elangovan, former Union the Left, and Islamists. his son the CM of Tamil frauds being played on them Rama Rao and late Marina Beach in January enterprise and that is the root a close associate of the family Minister and Congress The splinter political out- Nadu), they are all of nui- by the DMK and AIADMK. Rajasekhara Reddy of the 2017. No human rights cause of its weakening. and a political analyst in leader. “Many fringe groups fits are causing concern to sance value only. They are becoming conscious neighbouring Andhra organisation — of which Stalin is controlled by his Chennai. The DMK is not are showing keen interest in leaders of major political par- Political commentator of the fact that the DMK is a Pradesh. Or observe the likes there is no dearth in Chennai wife Durga, son Dayanidhi, free of caste politics, but it an alliance with the DMK. ties. Udhayakumar, the anti- and thinker TM Menon, long- family-owned enterprise of Capt Amarinder Singh of — came to her rescue when and son-in-law Sabareesan. practices it secretly. It is There are 39 Lok Sabha seats nuclear power plant man; time resident of Tamil Nadu where only members with Punjab or Yogi Adityanath of she was issued death threats Since Alagiri’s wife Kanthi through those who are close in Tamil Nadu and it is going Seeman, who claims to be the who watched the Dravidian the DNA of Karunanidhi can Uttar Pradesh or Sachin Pilot by the fringe elements. belongs to the Scheduled to the K-clan that informa- to be a tough job for Stalin to spokesman of Sri Lankan politics for more than four aspire for important posi- of Rajasthan. Tamil Nadu is “If Tamil Nadu has to be Caste, other members of the tion comes out through the satisfy one and all,” said Tamils and Eelam; decades, says that neither the tions. The rest have to be waiting for a change from the saved from the grip of these Karunanidhi clan are yet to iron curtains of Elangovan, who prefers a Thirumurugan Gandhi, and a DMK nor AIADMK are both- content with the crumbs filmi style family-oriented anti-national elements, it will accept her as a member of Gopalapuram. front lead by the DMK — host of others who entered ered about the welfare of the thrown at them by Stalin and dynasty politics and mafia need a dose of nationalism. the family and that is why Though the AIADMK one that includes the the political landscape after people or the progress of the family members. rule. Tamilians want to get The BJP seems to be the only Alagiri has been kept away has become weak, it has not Congress, the PMK (an outfit the death of Jayalalithaa are State. “Their humongous mis- There is a silver lining out of the Dravida Nadu party capable of doing it,” from the party by Stalin, says enthused leaders like EVKS of the Vanniyar community), to be watched out for. They takes are elevation of Tamil amidst all this chaos, though. phobia; lead them. 18482C+180 18<<1 -1,<,8)CK6<)<&)< ,8,<1-1-,<6& buuqy &)<18+180&4< K&,-&*686 *1% ) s the common populace journey culminates closer home with continues to become more the last chapter being a dedicated guide aware and invested in the to examine if your own country might public sphere, and unprece- be doomed and on the path of decline! dented developments con- Populism is defined as the support Atinue to take place at the highest politi- for the concerns of ordinary people, the cal levels, History Repeating by political quality of appealing to or being aimed risk analyst Sam Wilkin is a timely at ordinary people. One wonders then, intervention to examine the simultane- if the rise of populist politicians appeal- ous growth of the process of political ing to the collective conscience of com- - mobilisation as well as the rise of pop- mon citizenry would bring genuine ulism and the intimate relationship advancement and change. Or are we between them. With one keen eye on missing something here? history and another on the events hap- Are these populists really the pening around us, the book is a handy messiahs of the common people or 0 guide to ace the political flux of today just another bunch of opportunists and prepare ourselves better for the that bulldozed their way to power and times to come. After all, as Wilkin perks? Is there really an attempt at quips, “The historical patterns covered genuine reform or are the same well- in this book will influence our future, versed tricks being offered again, but we determine it.” albeit in new packaging? What sort of Since time immemorial, regimes people make a good government? have been burned to the ground, they Which type of government is the have been replaced (for better or best? Can politicians of any hue be worse), popular rebellions have trusted to work selflessly for the wel- become revolutions, great leaders have fare of people? Is their empathy with emerged and exiled, and newer social the common class real? Or is that too classes have come to light. From grand just a well-veiled ruse for self- arrivals to disgraced exits, from coups advancement only? to uprisings, from political intrigue to “Populists often come to power cies, where nations and its people have defined by social scientists fail routine- statesmanship — history is replete with by mobilising politically disaffected endured much more to uphold their ly, several new factors are discovered rich examples of such incidents that non-voters; populists can gain from democratic spirit. and time-tested theories discredited, as have and in several instances, still con- economic turmoil, which discredits So, can we expect clarity from this nations continue to chart their own 5 #4 tinue to shape the destiny of nations. the parties in power; populists can chaos? Can discontent be turned unique course. But this uncertainty is But what does the toppling of a thrive in a polarised environment, around for good? How can the political precisely why it necessitates the need to government or unrest in the public of a because they find it easy to pick up structures be saved from crumbling? In talk and examine these questions and O particular state with specific local fac- support from across the political this context, the author aptly highlights concepts, which may very well be sig- tors at play mean for other countries or spectrum,” says the book. When the significance of political reforms nificant takeaway points from where the global political scene in general? democracies are plagued with lack of and sound governance in improving the much-needed discussion on politi- What is the root cause of political responsiveness (‘representation gap’) the quality of politics and also main- cal discourse today can be taken for- erosion and what conditions facilitate and distrust in political leaders, it taining peace and continuity in the ward and provide insights on how to it? Is there a pattern to look for? Is his- becomes easier for populists to make society. The book says, “Some of the engage with the leadership in a whole- tory actually repeating itself every- claims about broken political systems main elements of the quality of gover- some and effective manner. where with just slight variations? and claim votes to win, it argues. nance are the effectiveness of the gov- With humour strewn around aplen- &1C&,&-+ Which precious lessons from our past Also, high levels of inequality in the ernment bureaucracy, the quality of ty, this is not a drab political treatise. are awaiting (re-)discovery? society and mobilisation of selective regulation and economic policy, the Instead, it is quite an engaging read for Traversing the hits and misses subgroups of population based on iden- rule of law, control of corruption and all — serious as well as general readers across various forms of regimes and tity markers like caste, language and -.7.)) &807 the maintenance of public order. of the genre. Picking up anecdotes from leadership in places as diverse as colour, pose a serious challenge to sta- -*, . ) / Countries that do well in these areas some of the most riveting events of Thailand, Russia, Iran, Argentina and bility. Also, mobilisation of one group tend to be far less likely to suffer vio- political churning from the recent past, America, the book examines the pat- often results in counter rising of anoth- &-2). ) 9 ,, lent revolution (or, indeed any kind of and weaving them in an easy, conversa- terns in rise and fall of the govern- er group and we’re looking at perfect 0 serious political violence).” tional language, Wilkin manages to ments, the unstable conditions that conditions for a full-blown political tur- # 4:66 Indeed, no two countries can pos- deliver an erudite book on politics lead to political turmoil and pave way moil. However, historical evidence also sibly have the exactly same political which covers the past, the present and for the rise of populism. This delightful points out to the resilience of democra- experiences, conditions, and criteria the interesting times to follow. f you like intrigue, conspir- were a matter of public specula- acy, and trivia tinged with tion. These nuggets from the > Iquirky originality, then Ray Archives make Travails Travails with The Alien is the with The Alien an appetising book for you. The latest print insight into Ray’s abiding ))6' offering from the Society for engagement with the transgres- the Preservation of Satyajit Ray sive potential of adventure and >+7 )?: Archives, Travails with The exploration on the human soul: / Alien: The Film That Was The infinite possibilities of tech- 29:: Never Made and Other nological advancement acting Adventures with Science Fiction %# 3& # + % upon the human condition as 0 NO is provoking, insightful, and he knew and understood it. O" O fun. It is an engaging explo- ( - # '2!&" One of the chief delights of & ration into film history which the book, however, is its pre- 1 is guaranteed to delight cinema sentation. No effort seems to &#, " buffs in India and abroad. have been spared in the repro- " ) * & The premise is simple. In duction in colour of Ray’s illus- " 1967, Satyajit Ray penned down trations on science fiction and #6 1 # the treatment for a unique sci- space travel, and the docu- 4 ence fiction movie. Set in rural ments on the Sci-Fi Cine Club #1 O" #- Bengal, amidst the familiar clash evoke a charming sepia nostal- 5 of tradition and modernity in gia of a fandom before fandom. " the form of a deeply hierarchical Sandip Ray, the editor, and his O village community and a slyly associates Dhritiman Chaterji, manipulative industrialist, the Arup K De, Riddhi Goswami, +7"?+7) story of The Alien plays upon the ?=2?: limitations put on human under- & standing and agency by hubris. % 29:: Admittedly, in 2018 this story appears both simplistic and 0 ( & " undercooked: The tradition- modernity confrontation is a lit- tle too done-to-death to appeal to contemporary audiences, even #4 ""5 with a cheekily cordial extra-ter- #0 ( restrial thrown in. Yet, it’s impor- & " tant to remember that The Alien #2 is a unique concept for its time and that in the mid-1960s noth- " " ing like it existed on celluloid. H # Planned as a bilingual project, in " both Bangla and English, it was . 2 , 0 " # to be not just the first science fiction movie on and from India ) , ) but also the first to humanise the 3. subject of extra-terrestrial inter- )76>% 1 4566 =?)7?" action by making the alien not ' an invader, a source of grave 2;:: threat, but a friendly, curious traveller. Ray’s film was to be a and Deepak Mukherjee deserve big-ticket international affair, thanks and congratulations for - " - backed by Columbia Pictures embroiled in legal complica- the affair fizzle down to slow, piece of film detection. It does movie, a few essays on science so carefully and tastefully com- " " " and billed to star major tions which made it impossible painful obscurity. Connecting more than just put together the fiction and cinema by Ray, piling and arranging the very " Hollywood actors. Coming soon for either Columbia or Ray to the dots amongst dramatis per- various players in this forgotten interviews of Ray on science fic- many archival documents - after the success and acclaim of proceed. These originated large- sonae dispersed in Calcutta, saga. It also contextualises The tion and on The Alien, and a which constitute the lasting the ‘Apu Trilogy,’ The Alien was ly due to the intractability of Colombo, Los Angeles, Paris, Alien within Ray’s oeuvre, not feature, “Ordeals of The Alien”, visual appeal of the book. #0 " poised to transform Ray as a Michael Wilson, Ray’s supposed and London, Travails with The just as a director but also as an written by Ray for The Scholars of Ray and of Bangla O9 & pioneer of science fiction with a producer and alleged co-author Alien curates a retrospective on illustrator, writer, thinker, and Statesman in 1980. These and cinema will obviously find ( truly global footprint. for the project. With Wilson these vexed and tiresome events science fiction aficionado. other pieces in the book are lib- Travails with The Alien a rare - " Alas, this was not to be. appropriating all the consider- which grounded the film even Present along with the treat- erally sprinkled with pho- treat, as will fans of Ray’s films K Despite favourable responses able advance of $15000 without before it could take off to its ment of The Alien are tographs, scanned copies of cor- and writings. & 3+ < & from Columbia and leading Ray’s knowledge and then refus- promised and promising start. “Bonkubabu’s Friend” (1962), respondence, and excerpts from & ' & ,<# Hollywood actors like Peter ing to clearly relinquish claims While this is the central the short story in Sandesh newspapers during the three- - " Sellers, Marlon Brando, and to the script, Ray was eventually concern of the book, Travails which is supposed to have been year period from 1967 to 1969, " , B& -5 # Steve McQueen, The Alien got left with little choice but to let with The Alien is not really a a literary prototype for the when the fortunes of The Alien uvitiut ! R . 7 %:<9= 6 7 1&.BF 6 "+ 1,+, ussia is undertaking a week-long war rapidly reaching the end of its service life.” Rgame called “Vostok-2018” or “East This shows how the need was felt to 2018” in the Eastern part of Siberia from upgrade military and allied services so as September 11 with the sole purpose of to respond to an ever-growing encir- practising rapid deployment of a large clement by the NATO. Another analyst number of forces, aircraft and vehicles, Michael Kofman of the Wilson Centre’s criss-crossing western and eastern frontiers Kennan Institute highlights, “By 2012, of Russia with ease. Since this exercise Russia reorganised its armed forces from began, it has been touted as the largest war a Soviet mass mobilisation army into a per- drill conducted by Russia since the Cold manent standing force and began improv- War. The last such exercise was conduct- ing quality across the board.” ed in 1981, known as Zapad 81. Thus from 2009 to 2012, military Vostok-2018, literally meaning “East” modernisation programme had complet- in Russian language, involves 3,00,000 ed a full circle which placed Putin to a Russian and 3,200 Chinese troops, near- more comfortable level to jump into the ly 36,000 tanks, 1,000 aircraft, 80 ships, Syrian quagmire in 2015. Putin’s full- armoured personnel carriers and fledged support to the beleaguered Syrian armoured infantry vehicles. President Bashar al-Assad, in fact, helped First of all, this drill is about sheer him survive till date. With this, the entire show of military might of Russia under war game in the troubled West Asia has Vladimir Putin against an overwhelming taken a new shape as then American aggressive expanding the NATO that has President Obama was not keen on the over the years succeeded in encircling the direct involvement of the US troops on the country. The exercise displays to the ground. From a distant player, Russia has world Putin’s capability of roping in major pushed itself to the centre stage of the most powers of Asia, like China and very volatile war game in the world. Gradually, strategically Mongolia, for Vostok-2018, Putin has turned tables on the US to regain which Russia used to hold solo earlier. role as a key player in deciding the fate of China’s participation in the war game the Syrian regime. proves beyond doubt that the Russia- When we see Russia’s active aggression China relationship has come to a new level or participation in global conflict zones, we of understanding. China’s Ministry of equally need to review how America and National Defence said, “The aim of the its allies spread their vigilantism almost in Vostok-2018 is to strengthen strategic mil- each part of the world. Russia’s advance to itary partnership between the two coun- former Soviet Republics, including Georgia tries and deepen friendship and cooper- and Ukraine, could be called as a come- ation and further boost the two countries’ uppance to the West which had fast capability to deal with security threats in expanded to include the same group of the region”. The exercise is aimed more at 6 1 6 7 :<9= G+ G 5< 7 6 nations once the USSR broke down. traditional than non-traditional security > - 6 95B& % 7 :<9= 6 Today what bothers Putin more is not threats in the region. the continued encroachment of the West Looking at the broad contours of this Chechnya. Therefore, Putin wanted to join battalion-sized battle groups, one deployed ment in Russia reached up to 72 per cent partnership and seem to get going against on Russia’s periphery, but its serious med- battle preparation, one can say that it is a America’s “global war on terror” as an ally in Poland and one each in three Baltic in 2017. Now, with Donald Trump’s reac- the backdrop of Trump’s invectives against dling in the country’s domestic politics. Is rehearsal against any possible aggression to crush internal Muslim uprising. States of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. tionary policies taking a heavy toll on the two major players in the global scene. it the time for action for Putin? Indeed, by the US and its allies in the region or to But Washington ignored Moscow Meanwhile, the US started bringing back China’s trade with the US, chances are high Thus in June, Chinese leader Xi Jinping Vostok-2018 will send a strong signal to the counter America’s international influence. once and for all, even while preparing for heavy armoured units to Western Europe. that the Communist country will move called his Russian counterpart his “best, NATO and its allies. When the world is Further, one has to understand the an attack on Iraq. And, a wounded Putin Always suspicious of Moscow’s moves, closer to Russia. And this is visible as most intimate friend”. gradually witnessing an ebbing American post-Soviet Russia carefully. It is the West proclaimed his disdain for the West in the Washington and the rest of the Western Russia recently became the 9th largest On the other hand, combat experience leadership, Putin offers an alternative. and its allies that goaded the megaloma- Munich Conference on Security Policy in capitals, particularly the NATO nations, trade partner of China. and modernisation gleaned from the bat- Beyond his war mongering and muscle niac Putin into mass propaganda and 2007: “Only two decades ago, the world alerted their intelligence and spying net- Meanwhile, Putin is also smartly tlegrounds of Georgia and Ukraine will be flexing, he is capable of bringing massive action. When the Soviet Union collapsed was ideologically and economically split, work around Russia and its peripheries. moving into this opportunity and offering far-reaching. The Russian military is still political reform at his home turf so as to during Perestroika and Glasnost of Mikhail and its security was provided by massive But it seems the sudden rise of Putin has China a comfort zone as bilateral trade and in the process of transition and Putin is give an audience to the voices of dissent. Gorbachev, the obvious consensus sur- strategic potential of two superpowers.” He literally failed the vigilantism of the West close cooperation between the two giants desperate to come out of the old style func- It is a big irony that leaders like him are faced on board was that it was a systemic added, “It is the world of one master, one to a great extent. Russia’s alleged intrusion could be equally beneficial than resurfac- tioning of the armed forces. However, always paranoid about their security, failure and triumph of the liberal demo- sovereign dictated by the US. The current into the last US Presidential election has ing Cold War rhetoric between the two. defence experts have mixed opinions tenure and future role in public life. cratic order. And, when the power passed order is ‘unacceptable’ and the time has proved it very well. Thus, Russia is fast turning into the about Moscow’s modernisation of armed Lord Acton rightly said, “Everybody on to Putin from Boris Yeltsin, he des- come to ‘rethink the entire architecture of Besides, much beyond the tradition- largest oil supplier to China as the latter forces under Putin. Dmitry Gorenburg of likes to get as much power as circum- perately wanted a place for Russia within global security’.” al ties between Russia and China, what has has to make fuel available for its billion- Harvard University said, “The moderni- stances allow, and nobody will vote for self- that Western order. Julia Ioffe, an expert on Russia com- been marked is an emerging closer eco- plus population and make hundreds of sation move started in 2009 after Russian denying ordinance.” The same way, Putin Interestingly, Putin was the first for- mented, “Nonetheless, Putin has spent the nomic bonding between the two, where- manufacturing outsourced plants func- military’s lacklustre performance in the would continue to extend his despotic rule eign leader to call George W Bush after decade since that speech making sure that in not only they are trying to come up with tioning. Georgian warfield in 2008. There is fur- as long as he is alive. The international 9/11 in the US, and offer his help in the US can never again unilaterally a strong coalition of like-minded nations, Around the same time, Gazprom, ther improvement in the speed of decision community may experience many more Afghanistan. The most profound reason manoeuvre without encountering friction; but also developing their bilateral eco- Russia’s largest energy major, is building making and communication of decisions Vostok-2018s on the days to come. for Putin’s offer was that around the same and most importantly, it can never depose nomic might to stand up to any econom- a 3,000 km gas pipeline which will be con- to the troops and interoperability among time, Russia was fighting its own war him.” ic crisis in future. The official Xinhua news necting Eastern Siberia to China’s border military branches, followed by the replace- (The writer is an expert on against the radical Islamic separatists in Last year, the NATO dispatched four agency records that China’s direct invest- areas. Thus, both are truly celebrating their ment of Soviet-era equipment that was international affairs) 6>6%7+ 6 @1 , % B1 "11F,7-, & hether it is the South Asian a trajectory of never-to-look-back action or process of causing some- of America. It is this deleterious viti- being the sparkling city on Camelot Wfirmament or any other ter- pathway to a coincidental world one to adopt radical positions on ation of the national and patriotic which the global terrorist organi- ritorial nationality, the theme of domination with the replacement of political or social issues.” narrative that the United States sations are attempting to strike mainstreaming the younger gener- Great Britain by the United States of There was a vehicular attack in guards against by relying on psy- against. Also, the entire exercise is ation has always been a pet peeve in America, as the world’s sole sur- Manhattan in November 2017, chotherapists and mentors to wean part of the tenet of “Super terrorism” the Indian and the American poli- viving superpower. which was traced back to a migrant away youngsters from the glare where terrorists strategise to utilise cy mindset. However, the growing In the contemporary context, from Uzbekistan. New York Daily and attraction of rebellious strife. as a true blue utilitarian, the nodes radicalisation has drawn the atten- since the September 11 attacks, the News reported, “Sayfullo Saipov, a Now, it is part of an institutional and inter nodes of the American tion of the security and intelligence American Homeland Security Act 29-year-old from Tampa, Florida, striving in the United States. infrastructural superstructure. It establishment. Radicalisation is the and the Patriot Act were legislated reportedly emigrated to the US The United States Homeland aims to utilise the American web of bane of an ordinary civilisational in order to restore parity with the from Uzbekistan in 2010. The inves- Security committee report in 2016 infrastructure such as its oil depots, narrative. Going by the organic con- ministrations of the non-state actors. tigation is in its early stages, but if reported, “Now at this juncture, the refineries, highways and the trans- ception of the State, if the sinews and The American literary bestseller previous cases are any indication, it homeland faces the highest threat port and communication network the arteries of nation state are titled “Terrorist” has hewn an inter- is likely that Saipov did not come to from the ISIS and fundamentalism through locally trained agents who blocked or the life blood of func- esting narrative upon the rising and this country — legally or illegally, since the September 11 attacks.” The have their origins in the schools and tionalism vitiated, then it is a mat- expanding throes of radicalisation that is still unclear — as a Department of Homeland Security madrasas of the nation despite the ter of worrisome introspection on in the suburbs and the educational violent extremist. Odds are he was has already reminded the security multicultural rubric which America the part of the nation and its pop- institutions of the American nation. radicalised here.” establishment against the threat of takes pride upon. ulation. The narrative of the fictional work This is a matter of worrisome vehicular ramming attacks which In the age of lone-wolf attacks The United States has been an provides a glimpse into the lives of analysis and efficacious introspec- pose a challenge to the institution- gaining prominence, the focus of avid target of terror mongers and a Muslim student and his single tion by the American establishment al effectiveness in tackling terror and counterterrorism specialists has violent Islamic anti-state actors, mother, along with the Jewish men- as the old storyline of pre-radi- the sentient invincibility of the shifted to the phenomenon of rad- especially since America created tor in the high school. Witnessing , >, B9 ' , + ,, calised migrants spoiling the United States. What the terror mon- icalisation. After the incidents like Frankenstein in Afghan conun- the racial and social segregation, American Dream is the cause of all gers are attaining to achieve is to the terror attacks in San Bernardino drum along with its interventions in which misguided Muslim young- trouble. How can an ordinary star- point out in a gladiatorial contest, and Manhattan, the challenge is not West Asia since the days of the sters feel in the American schools American homeland. This is what mind game in the United States. The ry-eyed youth takes up cudgels the invincibility theme of the to locate terrorist hideouts in the Persian Gulf conflicts, where the and the sequestration leading them has resulted in the brass tacks of a containment of terror attacks by dis- against the system or the entity of American security and make it rugged caves of Tora Bora. The chal- battlelines were finally drawn with to empty parking lots and Basketball talk about a Mexican wall and the illusioned youths, till the Boston the American establishment after part of a larger jehad to civilisa- lenge is to spot the potential terrorist the radical and Wahabi Islam. The courts, is a theme which has scrapping of the Deferred Action for Marathon attack, speaks volumes getting radicalised in America and tionally vituperate the grandilo- from among the millions of inno- United States of America has been received its much deserved attention Childhood Arrivals (DACA) immi- about the effectiveness and effica- its school and university system? It quent American Dream and its cent civilians loitering around the known since the days of its found- in the contemporary time span. The gration policy, which separates cy of the American security estab- is not a matter of ungainly crimi- spectacularity which is part of the streets of New York City, Boston or ing days in the seventeenth centu- issue of undocumented aliens can be minors from their undocumented lishment in the aftermath of the nalisation due to poverty and soft power approach of the any other city in America. ry to stay away from the entangling taken up here as it is this corpus of alien parents in the form of initiat- plane’s deep dive on Pentagon in impoverishment, but an ideologi- American Foreign Policy. It is this alliances of the world polity. Still, the population from Latin America ing limits on the H1 visas for the September 11, 2001. The Oxford cally driven and madrasa hewn nar- sheen and the larger-than-life one- (The writer teaches International American interventions in Cuba and South Asia which poses a employers in the United States. English Dictionary attempts a stol- rative, which catches them young in uppance of the American manifest Relations at Indian Institute of Public and the US-Spanish wars initiated rankling security threats to the Radicalisation is more of a id definition of radicalisation, “The the homeland in the United States destiny and the fable of America Administration, Delhi) C8*-&2-C&1&66&&+<2 D&),<)8D3&))&2<6 8D8(381()8 bacqbute " 86<)6&13*&)(&1< &-<&282-&4<< 6 - # 7! # $ his time something unusual happened at the National Executive meeting of the BJP. Sources say the current burn- 6&)-6&1+&)C& ing issues, including the rising Tfuel prices, were not discussed anywhere — neither in the meeting of party offi- cials nor in the open session. On both days of the meet, Central Ministers such as Nirmala Sitharaman, Ravi Shankar Prasad, and Prakash Javadekar addressed the press but kept mum on these crucial issues despite repeated questions by jour- nalists. In the same manner, no discus- sion was held over the agitation of for- ward castes against the SC/ST Act, as party leaders and spokespersons stayed silent. They briefed the media about all political resolutions passed in the National Executive, but nothing was mentioned about the foreign or econom- ic policies. This must be noted that recently, India and the US held the 2+2 dialogue, and the Opposition is alleging that India has surrendered all its interests before America. The economic policies of the Narendra Modi Government are also being questioned, but the BJP lead- ers are maintaining stoic silence. # Chandrashkhar Rao was running Khis Government with more than two-thirds majority, but he dissolved the Assembly. Now the question is whether this step will prove beneficial for the Chief Minister of Telangana or not. The scenario is reminiscent of how the UK’s PM Theresa May put her majority Government at stake last year tions, the alliance will have an effect Chairman. Though this is also true that parties, which are openly against the BJP, Aam Aadmi Party in Noida. In fact, when she announced the dissolution of on the chances of the ruling party. the party always gives statements didn’t support the Bandh. It was expect- the two leaders have come closer to the House of Commons. She got a big against PM Modi and the BJP on almost ed that the ruling BJD in Odisha would Arvind Kejriwal. Some time ago, when jolt in elections and her party lost the 7 every issue, it nevertheless extends sup- probably go with the Congress, but Yashwant Sinha sat on a dharna at Vijay majority. KCR might just land in the he NCP and Congress leaders, who port to the BJP if the need arises. That Naveen Patnaik bluntly told the party Chowk, Kejriwal told his supporters to same situation; he hopes for the best Tearlier thought that the Shiv Sena is why the Congress is of the view that that he was against the Bharat Bandh. participate in the agitation. but may get the worst. In the next two would not go with the BJP, are now the BJP and Shiv Sena will go together. The TMC also didn’t participate in But can Kejriwal make way into the 4 " months, the Assembly Elections will be changing their views. They are ready to Earlier, the Congress and NCP were of the agitation, though it gave its moral Opposition bandwagon with the efforts " held in the State, and the Opposition accept that the Sena would go only with the view that if the BJP and Sena go support. Since the ruling party in West of the Sinha duo? Kejriwal and his party parties have started coming together. the BJP, and three incidents in last separately, they will be wiped out. But Bengal didn’t support the Bandh, no leaders are working towards this goal, The Congress, TDP, and the Left have month have forced them to change their now the picture has changed. effect was seen in the State. In Uttar and are in talks with the Congress. The K " already formed an alliance. mind. It is now being believed that the Pradesh, the SP and BSP didn’t take problem, however, is that nobody can The Left parties have a stronghold in Shiv Sena and BJP will go into a pre-poll part in the Bandh either. The SP leaders read Kejriwal’s mind. On one hand, he is a big part of Telangana. Though Maoist alliance on the old formula. he Congress is trying its best to unite instead staged a dharna. In Andhra holding talks, and on the other hand, he #8 organisations have removed their base The most recent incident is related to Tthe Opposition parties for the next Pradesh, the TDP didn’t support the is creating pressure. He divulged his from the area, almost all big leaders of the the soaring oil prices. Oil is the costliest Lok Sabha and Assembly Elections, but it Bharat Bandh. Only parties such as the plans for UP in the presence of Yashwant CPI Maoist come from this area. In the in Maharashtra, with petrol prices touch- seems that no parties — other than those RJD, the Left, NCP, and JMM stood and Shatrughan. Before that, he had ( , last elections, the CPI and CPM had got ing 90 per litre. When the Congress, who were partners of the UPA — are behind the Congress. announced that he will fight on all seats 1 one seat each and gathered good number NCP, and other Opposition parties called openly backing the Congress. In fact, in Haryana. His party is also gearing up of votes in almost a dozen seats. Apart a Bharat Bandh on the issue, the Shiv some regional kshatrapas are in a dilem- P to fight elections in Madhya Pradesh and ) from that, the BSP had won two seats. Sena didn’t support it. ma. They are not very comfortable with ashwant Sinha, who left the BJP Rajasthan. Though this is also true that 9 The Congress had got 21 and the TDP Before that, during the Monsoon the party as they feel that it is not suit- Ysome time ago, and Shatrughan wherever his party has contested, except got 15 seats. The Congress, TDP, Left Session, the Shiv Sena had supported able for their own regional politics. Sinha, who is not happy with the party, in Delhi, it has created a new record of tie-up is bound to give KCR’s Telangana the Government on the no-confidence That is why almost all big regional are toiling hard to unite the Opposition. getting the lowest votes. This time, the Rashtra Samithi a big jolt. Although the motion moved by the TDP. In the same kshatrapas kept away from the Bharat That is why they went to Ahmedabad to Congress wants no party to hamper any organisation of the Congress has not session, the party backed the BJP in the Bandh over soaring oil prices. The BJD, meet Patidar leader Hardik Patel and chance of alliance. 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Mattis During the same meeting, Trump “Behind the scenes, she’s a hammer.” # 5 # back because of “stress”. And a picture when Priebus said: “We’ve really got to expressed confidence Germany would reportedly asked C Boyden Gray, for- He believed Mrs Trump had the most - O O "#MK 8(4B emerged of Melania Trump as a key, deal with the Nato issue.” meet the target of paying two per cent mer US Ambassador to the EU: influence with the President of any- !!@+!+8''++% ' 8 !' ) ) % ! and tough, behind-the-scenes player, Retired General Keith Kellogg, the of the GDP on defence. He added: “If “Which is going to be the next country one, identifying who was telling her 5(8 )%( 5 !4) @% A@ ') with one senior adviser describing her National Security Council chief of you didn’t have Nato, you would have to drop out (of the EU after Brexit)?” husband the truth, and who was as a “hammer”. The dinner meeting to staff, argued Nato was “obsolete” and to invent it. 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He told early this year when Trump proposed & & 6-1K8&4<&-29&&1O D-)*)&12&,0-11<) 1&8,-8&+& 6&*-<1 6<(831)C&4888D itextaiutar # <1<)*C&12 +) &" # # 8/ # anny Boyle has called on film- makers and writers to “reach Daround the hollow cavern” of ! "#$ Brexit to ensure British TV and film continues to be seen as among the best in the world. The director said work- ing on his most recent production, the 10-part television drama Trust, which starts on BBC Two, had made him 6<C<0-2(&)2 more determined to work with European production companies. “The series is set in 1973, the year in which we joined Europe, so there was something ironic about the fact +)-C3)1<) we were making it with the knowl- edge we were going to leave,” he said. “It just seemed more and more insane here is a chance, particu- nancy on stage following a live per- to us, especially as we were making it kidnapping of John Paul Getty III, the larly if you’re not an avid formance at the MTV Awards in with this wonderful Italian co-pro- grandson of the then richest man in user of Instagram or 2011. Cardi’s baby news came hot on duction company. the world, marks Boyle’s first return to Snapchat, that you are the heels of a marriage proposal “I can only hope that filmmakers, TV since directing the pilot of the among the uninitiated from her rapper beau, Offset, who is writers, journalists will try to build 2014 police drama Babylon. Trust was whenT it comes to Cardi B. Allow us one third of hip-hop trio, Migos, at around this. Airline companies cer- written by Simon Beaufoy, who to rectify the situation, and fill you the end of last year, which took place tainly will, as will businesses. Right worked with Boyle on Slumdog in on a one-of-a-kind fashion per- during, you guessed it, a live on-stage now it feels as though something has Millionaire and 127 Hours, and stars sonality that, honestly, everyone performance in Philadelphia. been severed and we’re adrift but I Donald Sutherland as John Paul Getty, under the age of 30 is talking about. hope that people will try to compen- Hillary Swank as Gail Getty, the kid- The Bronx-born rapper hit sate for this terrible void that’s been napped teenager’s mother, and the headlines when her debut While few would be able to replicate created for us by politicians.” Brendan Fraser as the fixer called in album, Invasion Of Privacy, her outfits in a ‘get the Cardi look’ Trust, which tells the story of the to sort everything out. broke records after reaching num- feature, her unpredictable fashion ber one across America in just 24 choices do make for entertaining hours following its much-anticipat- viewing and fun talking points. The ed release. Cardi B’s real name is chain-printed mini dress with clash- ) =5" " Belcalis Almanzar — her stage ing thigh-high boots that she wore name came to be because her sister to her album release party, and the minem has broken the UK chart is named Hennessy. Friends nick- voluminous Cinderella-esque ball- record for consecutive No 1 named Belcalis ‘Bacardi’ and, for gown she wore to Rihanna’s annual Ealbums, beating a record held work purposes, it translated to Diamond Ball (a bespoke number jointly for 36 years by Abba and Led become Cardi B. by fashion pal and American Zeppelin. His album Kamikaze, a sur- Following a stint as a stripper designer, Christian Siriano) were at prise release recently and his second and a career as a social media per- opposite ends of any style spectrum, album in less than a year, is his ninth sonality, Cardi was granted one of and she is known for regularly No 1 in a row — a run stretching back the coveted slots on popular changing her hairstyles, sporting a 18 years to his second collection, The American reality TV show, Love blunt dark bob one day, and tum- Marshall Mathers LP. Eminem put out And Hip Hop. She showcased her bling blonde waves the next. For her a statement alongside the news, say- musical talents during her two sea- 35-minute Coachella set, she kitted ing: “Does this mean I get to call sons on the show and her follower out her growing baby bump in an myself Sir Eminem?” count grew simultaneously — her all-white look complete with pigtails, Kamikaze is also the fourth-fastest Instagram now boasts a staggering paying homage to 90s girlband, TLC. selling album this year in the UK, 22 million fans. She left the show behind Arctic Monkeys, Drake and last year, officially launching her George Ezra, and outsold the No 2 music career and signing with It was announced a few months ago album, the soundtrack to Mamma stream in 1999 after being mentored Atlantic Records, which also has that the rapper was collaborating Mia! Here We Go Again, by three and signed by Dr Dre, with his debut Ed Sheeran, Rita Ora, and Bruno with Fashionnova, a popular copies to one. The album’s opening album The Slim Shady LP. It remains Mars on its books. American brand famous for its track, The Ringer, also reached No 4 the only one of his albums not to While she’s no doubt been bodycon styles sported by the likes in the singles chart — it features an reach No 1 in the UK, though two of breaking music records, Cardi has of Kylie Jenner and rapper, Blac attack on Donald Trump, describing its singles reached the top five. While simultaneously been breaking down Chyna. While she sings about him as an “evil serpent” — while two that album showcased his cartoonishly fashion barriers — from sitting wearing “bloody shoes” (a refer- other album tracks, Lucky You and violent alter ego Slim Shady, he let his front row at New York Fashion ence to Christian Louboutin’s sig- Fall, also reached the Top 10. own voice come through on the fol- Week with the US Vogue’s Anna nature red soles) and is an avid After garnering a reputation as a low-up, 2000’s The Marshall Mathers Wintour, to launching a fashion wearer of high fashion labels such formidable “battle rapper” in the late LP — regarded by many as one of the collaboration with Instagram as Vetements, Gucci and 1990s, Eminem broke into the main- greatest rap albums of all time. favourite, Fashionnova. While her Balenciaga, the artist regularly goofy humour, straight-talking pairs her designer pieces with high approach, and determined person- street buys, and has previously ality have already won us over, described her high-low fashion mix - here’s why the 25-year-old should as how “people like me stay rich”. also be on your fashion radar. At a listening party for her new album, the star paired her Fashionnova shorts, which would Just two weeks after Cardi’s first sin- cost around £25, with a shearling- gle, Bodak Yellow, was released, the trimmed Altuzarra jacket which artist hit New York Fashion Week would set you back around £2,000. and was taken in by some of fash- While you’ll have to wait until ion’s most notoriously hard to pene- October for the Cardi B x trate circles. She sat front row at Fashionnova collection, you can Alexander Wang’s show, next to guarantee the rapper will be sporting Anna Wintour and went on to grace the brand in the meantime. the front rows at Christian Siriano, Prabal Gurung and Jeremy Scott. Not content with just watching It’s taken the 25-year-old less than shows, Cardi has also walked the two years to transform from strip- runway herself, modelling in a per, to reality TV star, to record- he organisation that bestows the film” last month. It prompted an Gypsy Sport show, and also part- breaking solo artist and fashion Academy Awards says it is sus- immediate outcry, with many inside nered with MAC Cosmetics for a designer. It’s all been achieved Tpending plans to award a new and outside the film industry wonder- fashion week event last February. through enough self-promotion to Oscar for popular films amid wide- ing how it would affect critically and rival a Kardashian. The rapper has spread backlash to the idea. The commercially popular films such as # -O&+<16<:@C<&)82<6&1 stated that she’s now a millionaire, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Black Panther. The superhero block- After much media speculation, Cardi has various fashion and beauty Sciences says it will further study buster has been cited as a possible best announced her pregnancy during a 08C<&)8)&1D8),D)8,)-<) contracts in the works, and her plans for the category. It wrote in a picture contender, with producers performance on Saturday Night Live, 8)<&-C&) 8)<(8)24)<&+-1* music boasts the largest number of statement that it recognised that launching an awards-season push. wearing a bodycon white maxi dress streams for an album by a woman. implementing a new award three- Critics of the Academy’s decision had with mesh panelling that hugged her 88&)- &12D&6-812<-*1<)#-O Her ‘work wardrobe’ might be a quarters of the way into the year cre- feared, however, that a new category baby bump. Fellow musician &4<<1&(6-<<26)83*6<183*6 little different than the average, ated challenges for films that have could stand in its way of the more Rihanna took to Instagram to post but there’s no denying it; hers is a already been released. The film acade- prestigious prize. No traditional her congratulations. Her declaration <D)8,8-818)-&&+&)2&6-&1 unique, but effective form of my announced the new category for superhero film has ever been nomi- mimicked that of Beyoncè, who power dressing. “outstanding achievement in popular nated for best picture. famously announced her first preg- & & ?E "#) 7 it. For me, it’s easy to work out how peo- Horns” sign. Detective Sophia Mason. The remaining contestants to perform “I’m hoping I encourage people, P 7 ple are feeling in both cases,” she said. Perkins said scene drew crowds of pushups and footraces. The stunt women, to not think that when they hit n 83-year-old she and her tourists taking pho- reportedly was videotaped by Rob the age of 55, they are old. We have got AJapanese woman husband already have tographs. “It took about Bliss, the man who shot a widely a lot more on our journey,” said has been announced by some Texas A&M 45 minutes to suck them watched catcalling video in 2014. Goedhart, who only began trapeze Guinness World Records D apparel ready for the up,” Mason said. “They classes at the age of 78 but looks as as the world’s oldest pro- pair of Texas A&M gradu- baby, who is due in January, are at an undisclosed location. They though she has spent a lifetime swing- fessional club DJ. Sumiko Aates said they were sur- and they are planning to will rehive them.” No one was injured ing through the air upside down. Iwamura, 83, aka DJ prised when a sonogram image attend an upcoming game. “Starting the in the incident, Mason said. “The bees = British art student Elizabeth Sumirock, said she decided to showed their expected child brainwashing early,” Perkins joked. just wanted some hot dogs,” she added. n octogenarian flying trapeze artist, Bond, 31, decided to draw attend a DJ school at the age of signaling support for rival Athe owner of the world’s fastest jet- attention to her exhibitions by 77 and soon discovered she had a University of Texas. propelled go-kart and a dog named creating knitting needles that talent for it. Iwamura, who owns and Samantha Perkins said E / # = Feather with a flair for jumping measure some 4.42 meters in works in the kitchen of a Chinese food she and her husband are among the record-breaking length. Another Briton, restaurant, has a regular DJ slot at are both graduates t was a case of hold the honey, double woman has used the Tinder dating stars to win a place in the latest Tom Bagnall, 26, racked Decabar Z in Shinjuku, but her talents and devoted fans of Ithe mustard in Times Square at Aapp to prank more than 100 men edition of Guinness World up a record speed of 181 have led to guest gigs at exotic locations Texas A&M lunchtime on Tuesday. Police shut part into showing up for a date that turned Records. Others to feature in km per hour for a jet-pro- including Paris and New Zealand. University, but of 43rd Street near Seventh Avenue after out to be a Hunger Games-style compe- the 2019 edition of the book, pelled go-kart. She told Guinness World Records during their a thick swarm of bees gathered atop a tition. The New York Times reports that which went on sale on Animals also feature that DJing isn’t all that different from recent sonogram blue and yellow umbrella over a hotdog the woman identified as Natasha Thursday, include the creator of among the latest world running her restaurant. “You get feed- appointment the cart in an area of Manhattan already Aponte invited dozens of Tinder con- the world’s largest knitting nee- record-breakers. Dog back from your customers quickly in tech asked if they were buzzing with swarms of pedestrians, tacts to meet her in Manhattan’s Union dles and an Irish butcher, Barry owner Samantha Valle both cases,” she said. “If you’re playing University of Texas tourists and traffic. Square on Sunday for what they John Crowe, who has produced from the US state of tracks and they don’t like it, they’ll Longhorn fans. “My A police officer who keeps bees him- thought was a one-on-one date. the most sausages — 78 — in Maryland trained Feather, leave the floor and start drinking at the husband and I just self, arrived at the scene in Times Square, Instead, a woman who says she was one minute. whom she adopted from bar. If the tracks are danceable, then looked at each other,” known as “The Crossroads of the World,” Natasha told them they had to compete Betty Goedhart, from a rescue center, to jump they’ll stay on and dance their heart Perkins told KTXS-TV. at 2.30 pm, wearing a mesh-hooded bee- for a date with her. She disqualified the California, has been named the over ever higher hurdles out.” “Restaurant customers are the same The image showed keeper suit. He deployed a vacuum men who were under 5-foot-10 (1.78 world’s oldest trapeze artist at 85 until she set a new canine — if it tastes good, then they look the foetus flashing a cleaner-like device to collect the bees meters) and those named Jimmy, a and attributes her success to “doing record at 191.7 cm. happy, and they’ll tell me that they like UT “Hook ‘em unharmed, said New York Police name she dislikes. Then she asked the things I enjoy doing”. -D<*8<4CD&#<198C-# (&,2801#-O&D311C# <<)C81<*<83< yvixiari $ &4836<0)81*6-1* K98&1)-<) 76>'# ' )&,82&6&+ / <& = - +E6>% " +E6>% 0 - # ) " " " " # +?)@+?)@ #- 0 O #& " magine a hypothetical situation. If the organisations and institutions world over had been managed more # &1)&9-12<)-1*6 Ieffectively, the leaders were more committed to the " cause, and the people were more sincere, the world would have been a better place. But this has not hap- " ife brings many disappoint- what has happened until we retaliate. are caught up in the opposite of for- Our reactions are out of proportion pened despite the fact that we came up with the idea of #D ments and challenges. It’s Thus, from that one incident, we end giveness: Anger, hatred, and to the errors that others make. formal Management Education with a structured cur- easy to fall victim not only up creating more scenarios and situa- vengeance. These feelings cause dam- Years ago, we may not have riculum to precisely achieve such a state. Today, " to others who may hurt or tions in response. The other person age to the physical body. Doctors and known the physical dangers that Management Education is perhaps the most sought mistreat us, but also to our then may get back at us for retaliat- medical researchers are realising that anger and stress caused our body. after course that claims to make, or rather, manufacture ownL anger. When we grow angry ing. A cycle of action and reaction anger and hatred have detrimental However, now that we are aware of it, managers. That is, people with that uncanny knack to L M# when someone hurts us, we suffer may go on and on, escalating a small effects on our body. Let us analyse we can consider whether it is worth create surplus and promote prosperity so that the world twofold. First, we have to bear the situation into a major problem. the reason. First, there are certain getting angry over trivial work situa- becomes a better place to live in. However, the transfor- pain that others may cause us. What has happened in the responses in the physical body tions if it means we increase our risk mation that Management Education was supposed to Second, we must bear the pain and process? We have lost our peace of designed to help protect itself in of heart attack, breathing problems, bring in the people attending the courses seems not to " " suffering that comes with acting on mind. The initial incident may have order to preserve the species. When a and digestive problems. The relation come, given the fact that the world still appears to be " # our own anger. At work, the anger we lasted a few moments, or a few hours, living creature senses danger, there between anger and our body is struggling with the ills that plagued the past when there feel not only upsets us emotionally or a day, but we have now spent hun- are certain hormonal and chemical becoming clearer day by day. was no Management Education. Not that Management but has a deleterious effect on our dreds of hours and countless days reactions within the body that help it The solution for protecting the Education can be panacea for all ills, but mismanage- physical body. It causes stress, which replaying what happened and think- respond to danger. These hormones body against the hormones released ment is certainly the reason for most problems. If we in turn contributes to stress-related ing about how to get even. In the cause one to fight or take flight. They by hatred, anger, and vengeance is compare the violence, the treachery, the deceit, the ailments. This can affect us by process, the precious moments of our are useful for giving the body simple: Forgiveness. It is only poverty, the misery, and the disasters of the past with increasing our risk for heart disease, life have been wasted. Instead of strength and quick physical respons- through forgiveness that we can calm the present, they seem to be eerily contemporary. We , cancer, stroke, high blood pressure, keeping our attention on what can es, such as running or protecting ourselves down and avoid the reac- are not talking about a subject like Philosophy that is " and other diseases. help us, we have wasted the time in one’s self. But if one interprets it as tions of hatred and violence. A still groping in the dark to find answers to the problem It takes a great amount of replaying a bad movie. Thus, we lose life-threatening problems of daily life, majority of the time at our jobs we of evil. Philosophy was just a quest. Management " "6- " strength to withstand the temptations more than the person at whom we that is not a threat to survival, then are responding to minor problems Education was supposed to be the discipline to provide to overcome anger. We may think the are directing our anger. one is responding with the fight or with the same intensity as if our lives answers to all these. Naturally, the validity of the ""# angry person is strong, but actually A life spent in not forgiving is a flight hormones for no reason. were threatened. Think about all the Management Education paradigm needs to be ques- 6- they are succumbing out of weakness life in which we are like a CD or The result is that we do not see a things that make us angry. How many tioned. Maybe not to reject it but to reinvent it. More . </" to their own temper. It takes one who DVD recording that plays the same need to flee or fight but feel threat- of them threaten our lives? How so, because it is being increasingly realised that there is " 6- is brave of heart to say no to anger. bad scene over and over. How many ened. This converts into anger or many are just minor annoyances? a wide gap between what is taught in those four walls of O" Let’s trace what happens to us when of us want to see a bad movie twice, rage. Thus, we become angry over We can learn how to stay calm at a B-School and what is needed to cope with the chal- O we don’t forgive our boss, our co- or hear a song we don’t like played situations that don’t threaten our life. work through practising forgiveness lenges of the real world. It was more than three decades O workers, or our subordinates. Each of again and again? How many of us This causes the body to circulate when someone hurts us. In this way, ago that a popular book, What They Don’t Teach You at # our personal stories generally begins want to eat the same food we don’t hormones needed to run or protect we can protect our body from the Harvard Business School, in which author Mark -O with something that happens to us on like again? We usually say, “This oneself over minor situations that damage of hormones released McCormack lucidly brought out the point: “What they " our job that we don’t like. Some per- tastes terrible.” That is what happens are part of daily life. Because these because of anger. We will see a reduc- can’t teach you at a business school”. To prove his point, 6- " son has wronged us in some way. when we repeat in our minds all the hormones, such as cortisol, are cir- tion in stress-related ailments. the author rather caustically suggests that if Thomas Maybe someone has said something wrongs done to us. culating through us when we do not What are the keys to staying calm Edison had gone to a business school, we would still be 5 " " to hurt our feelings or hurt us physi- Many of us do not only replay need them, they end up causing at work through forgiveness? One of using big candles to read books. Corporate behaviour cally. Someone might have taken what has happened, but we also try to damage to the physical body. the keys is to let go. When we forgive we still are not able to define with certitude, but the #D something from us. Maybe someone rewrite a new ending in which we We know, for example, that real and forget, we are letting go of the instances of corporate misbehaviours are legion that has cheated, deceived, or lied to us. come out redeemed for being cortisone has side effects to the body, past and what has happened. We are make us rethink on what is to be taught in 5 !"# Someone we trusted might have bro- wronged and the other person comes so doctors recommend them cau- saying, “I forgive the person for what Management Education. Business frauds, managerial =: ken that trust. Power, position, or out punished. We cannot undo what tiously. However, the body’s natural has happened. Then I am going to misdemeanors, and corporate felonies are growing in :!!> wealth might have been taken from the other person has done. We can cortisol when we are angry or under forget about it.” In this way, we are frequency even as B-schools and management gurus :! $# us. There is always a root cause of a say, “The suffering has happened and stress ends up circulating through us letting it go. One technique to devel- are rising in number. Over 500 years ago, British ! problem between two people. let it end here and call it quits,” or we causing stress-related ailments. If one op forgiveness so we can stay calm at statesman, Sir Thomas More, had raised a basic ques- > @!! # As the incident escalates at work, can take revenge and say, “I need to is continually in that state of fear, work is meditation. The problems of tion on why enterprises fail and had suggested that it we find our thoughts and words hurt the other person so I am pre- anger, or stress, those hormones life will not end. However, through was due to poor management. Yet, in spite of more occupied with how to rectify the situ- pared to risk the reaction coming cause a breakdown of other body tis- meditation, we can focus our atten- than 11 and a half decades of the start of formal man- ation. Some people will try to solve back on myself.” Do we wish to add sues. This is what causes stress-relat- tion on the peace within so we can agement education, we still seem to be clueless as to the problem peacefully by talking it to our own pain by retaliating and ed ailments, such as digestive prob- rise above life’s difficulties. what is the antidote to that poor management. Or do over with the person who they felt refusing to forgive? It is like running lems, headaches, heart problems, skin Through meditation, we are in we need to reframe the question because it is not the had done them wrong. Sometimes we our clothes in the washing machine problems, and breathing problems. touch with a place of calm within us enterprise that fails? It is the human beings that man- try that, but the other person is not to get out the grime, but instead of There are so many challenges of that gives us the strength to forgive age the enterprise that fail. The answer then has to be willing to listen to change. Then, we pouring in soap suds or detergent, we daily life that people are responding others, overcome anger, and stay found in causes of this human failure. It all boils down feel we must do something more are pouring in more dirt. How will to with the same release of fight or calm at work. We cannot control oth- to just one aspect that Management Education imparts drastic. This leads to retaliation or the clothes ever become clean? flight hormones as if threatened by ers at our job, but we can control our- the management wisdom but does precious little for revenge. We begin to think about If someone at work has hurt us, true danger. People may become selves. At work, we can choose peace managerial character. It is not wisdom versus character. ways to get back at the person who we can choose to forgive and forget upset if someone cuts in front of and calm which will help improve But it certainly is wisdom with character. How to do hurt us, or we think about ways to get or we can choose to retaliate. The them on the road while driving to our physical and mental health, and this is what we need to think about. even with them. We want to see jus- choice is ours to make. There is phys- work. They lose their temper if some- make for a happier life. tice done. Our mind refuses to forget ical harm we do to ourselves when we one at work makes a small mistake. & B BH B ord Krishna has strictly prohibited, alive, like Hitler’s rise in the 20th century, “Such knowledge should never be when Nostradamus died in 1556? ) " " Limparted to one who is not austere; If God’s existence is mysterious, so is " who is not a devotee; and not to one who '(8"( 9(: the truth about soul. But we cannot dis- #6 is not desirous to know; and not to one regard rebirth as recorded extensively by >@ who envies God.” (18.67) God, Himself, authorities like Dr Ian Stevenson. Can does not make a big deal out of His incar- anyone deny that we carry impressions # nations, when He does appear on the * O 6 T6 " from our past lives? How else can a five- 6 earth because God respects our free will. year-old play an instrument like harpsi- He does not want anyone to be forced to 6 &9-+3,&)4-618- chord expertly? Similarly, why does a accept God as such. Therefore, God nei- tiny toddler, who cries or laughs when " "# ther provides incontrovertible proof of asleep, unless he or she is seeing some- " His existence, which He can nor wishes edge. (10.11) We call them intuitions. Let thing from the past life/lives? us to try to do so. God only gives subtle us remember that God is omnipresent, Many persons known to me well have ( 3 hints like when He performs miracles. therefore, He has to be present in the witnessed astonishing feats performed by " This allows diehard atheists to dispute temple as well as in our hearts. The only persons with material siddhis. Same is them as many did when the milk miracle difference is that He becomes active if we true of out-of-body experiences of many. "# took place, though scientifically no one so desire. Again, the free will is at play. He Ghosts have been talked about for cen- & " 4 6 could explain the disappearance of milk leaves us alone if we so choose. turies and the jury is still out on their ( in countless temples. This connecting through the heart is existence. Similar is the experience of " The same fact holds true about tem- very much at play with spiritual writers people who have seen planchet in opera- F ples, etc all over the world. A murti of and preachers. Many famous writers have tion. I will round off with a mention of "" " God is made by an artisan, which is then admitted that what they wrote was truly great saints, who could not share F installed in a temple. What changes? inspired by higher forces. They had no their time prior to their death with oth- :@! .6/#4 Devotees of God come to the temple and idea about what they wrote when they ers; they just wanted to be with their Lord reverently worship the murti. This did. The same experience is not so alone. They couldn’t be pretending at the changes the murti into an idol because uncommon with preachers. They surprise end of their lives. Let me repeat that none God must reciprocate their devotion; He themselves sometimes with what they say. of the above is proof of God’s existence " " becomes active in the idol. He begins to None of this is meant to be a proof of because God, as mentioned earlier, does radiate spiritual energy. This is similar to God’s existence, but it does help if one is not want it to be so. However, if someone God becoming active in our hearts. looking for something to reinforce one’s is wishing to reinforce his or her faith in " " Devotees of God feel the presence of God faith. What will you say about astrology accurate predictions. We cannot explain God. How could soothsayers like God, these will help a lot. when He destroys the darkness born of and palmistry? Good astrologers and this by chance phenomenon. 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A Japanese scientist anybody’s mind can’t be read by any Son no count astrology can be Let us now look at the interrelation working on human blood has observed measure. But planetary motions, and termed as unscientific. This valued dis- between energy variation in the cosmos that female blood becomes thin during thereby expected changes in the cosmic cipline, however, doesn’t need sanction and life cycle on earth in real terms. their menstrual period and pregnancy. energy pattern can be tracked down of modern science either. For, it is a The most glaring example is high tides But following solar flare, even men’s with a fair amount of precision. It is on discipline in its own right. It has its in the sea on a full Moon day. Bear in blood becomes relatively thin. this premise that astrology works. own philosophy, structure, well- mind; human body comprises of almost Here again, every 90 years, the Sun A still better use of astrology would defined operative principles in confor- 65% water content, with the same is subject to a major storm. Following be to look at the map of heaven at the mity with laws of nature, and phraseol- water-salt mix as in the sea, but with a a study of 4,000 years of the flow pat- time of one’s birth to figure out the way ogy. Not simply that, if you look into difference. Water content is not in a tern in the river Nile, an Egyptian an individual mind is inherently the genesis of Indian Astrology, it will loose form as in the sea. So, on a full scholar has pointed out that following framed, with all its positives and nega- come out that it has laid down the Moon day, such upheavals in human solar storm, the water level is the high- tives. Applying exclusive human privi- ground for modern science to take off. body would not be apparently visible as est. It then begins to gradually recede lege of guiding one’s action by choice Astrological study in fact began in the sea. But it is difficult to digest during the next 45 years, where after it and discrimination, negative trends while exploring the periodic course that that water-humor in the body, would again begins progressively rising. Such could be corrected through conscious weather cycle follows, vital to an agrari- not get affected, with related bearing on is the correspondence between the efforts. The positives may then play out an economy. In the process, it was first mental and emotional plane. Be it varying nature of cosmic energy pat- effortlessly. We could thus even reshape realised that weather cycle primarily known that according to Ayurveda tern and life cycle on earth. the course of our destiny. 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