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"#0#0)! (- ,0"#4N year. The first meeting of EC Commissioners of three Speaking at an event here, officials took place on Municipal Corporations, Chief Rawat said, “Leaders do not the Army Chief said, “A leader December 24 and the second Executive Officer of Delhi lead masses in inappropriate is the one who leads you in the one on Thursday. The third one Cantonment and other stake- directions as we are witnessing correct direction, gives you by the Chief Secretary of Delhi holders. The commission also in a large number of universi- the right advice, and then is expected on Monday. held a separate meeting with ty and college students, the way ensures that you care for the During the review meeting, Chief Secretary Vijay Dev and they are leading masses of people you lead.” Rawat added Delhi Chief Electoral Officer the Delhi Police Commissioner. crowds to carry out arson and the leadership is conveyed Ranbir Singh and Special " #  "        $            !   $      !      During the meeting, Delhi violence in our cities and through personal example. Commissioner of Police Pravir CEO Singh presented pre- towns. This is not leadership.” “That is what we in the armed Ranjan, who is State Police the CEO of Delhi, there are ber Assembly expires on power due to weak Opposition meetings with party’s Delhi paredness with regard to elec- Rawat was addressing a health forces are proud of,” he said. Nodal Officer, made a presen- 1.45 crore electors in the February 22, 2020. parties — both the BJP and the unit leaders. The party will toral rolls, manpower avail- leadership summit here. Incidentally, Rawat’s state- tation about the general law national Capital as on Banking on a string of Congress. organise a social media work- ability, EVMs/VVPATs, train- The Congress, the CPI(M) ment comes a day after Prime and order situation prevailing December 18. Of them, 79.98 freebies, including free water The BJP is banking on shop on December 26 which ing of all election officials, and and the AIMIM among others Minister Narendra Modi had in Delhi and action being lakh are men and 65.73 lakh and power, the ruling AAP is granting ownership right to will be attended by a represen- SVEEP activities focusing and slammed the Army Chief for denounced the destruction of planned by the Delhi Police to women. The number of trans- confident of repeating its per- people of unauthorised tative from every Assembly targeting low turnout areas for “breaching his institutional public property during the enforce all the measures as gender voters is 707. formance. Last week, the AAP colonies and Prime Minister constituency. From January 2 to increasing the number of voter limit” and “speaking against protests, saying rights go along mandated by the commission. The 2015 elections were released its five years report Narendra Modi’s image. Ahead January 15, the leaders will turnout. constitutional democracy.” The with duty. “I want to ask peo- Officials privy to the delibera- announced on January 12 and card. The AAP Government of the Delhi Assembly polls, the address people through video “The EC also reviewed the CPI(M) demanded an apology ple who resorted to violence in tions said the Delhi Police top the voting was held on has listed quality education, BJP has directed its party lead- broadcast rallies. status of preparation at the level from him for his “indiscretion”, UP to sit at home and ask brass is of the view that law and February 7. The AAP had won free health facility, good gov- ers to hold public outreach pro- The Delhi CEO informed of Districts. All district election claiming his remarks have themselves whether what they order situation in the national 67 out of 70 seats. The BJP had ernance, and subsidised elec- grammes in Assembly con- the EC regarding special mea- officers along with their respec- adverse ramifications for the did is good or not. They Capital is well under control managed to secure just three tricity as its main achieve- stituencies across Delhi. sures taken for facilitating per- tive DCPs gave detailed pre- constitutional arrangement. destroyed buses and public and that the force was prepared seats in 2015 while the ments. Party’s national general sons with disabilities and senior sentations of their district to the Citing the example of property that belongs to the for the elections. Congress had drawn a blank. There is possibility that secretary BL Santosh discussed citizens, including pick and Election Commission,” said protests by a large number of future generation,” he said. As per the presentation by The tenure of the 70-mem- the ruling AAP may return to the programmes during the drop facility from home to officials. university and college students, Continued on Page 4 

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While accusing the Government in 2011 and        (  + $* + &      !58*4 For , Chambal, witnessed at Anuppur, Umaria, Congress, its allies and “Urban ‘White Paper’ on the issue of Sagar, Rewa, and Ujjain Dindori, Balaghat, Mandla, Naxals” of spreading the foreigners published by the here was a respite from cold divisions Met officials have Seoni and Chhindwara in the rumour that Muslims will be party-led Government in Tin the State capital on issued warning of intense cold next 24 hours. Gwalior and sent to detention centres, the Assam in 2012, and claimed " R   Q  R Thursday with bright sunshine day to cold day conditions. Datia recorded the lowest night PM had denied presence of any that as per these documents, and clear sky. Besides, few Warning of shallow to temperature at 5 degree Celsius. such centre in the country. detention camps were estab- regions in the State recorded dense fog has been issued for Shahdol, Jabalpur and “RSS’ Prime Minister lies to lished in the State. rainfall in the past 24 hours. Gwalior, Chambal, Sagar, Rewa Hoshangabad recorded light Bharat Mata,” Rahul said in the “Rahul Gandhi is joothon $%       The State capital recorded and Ujjain divisions by Met rainfall in the past 24 hours. tweet in Hindi with the hash- ka sardar. The three detention night temperature at 11.4 and these regions are likely to The night temperatures record- tag ‘jhoot jhoot jhoot (lies, centres were set up in Assam at  - '-45$6 degree Celsius. witness the conditions in the ed significant dip in the night lies, lies). the time when his party was in "5$7**"5**% During the day State capi- next 24 hours. temperatures in Rewa, Sagar, Reacting to Rahul’s liar power both at the Centre and tal recorded temperature at Light showers and thun- Bhopal and Ujjain. jibe at the Prime Minister, BJP the State,” Patra said. he Moon on Thursday 20.7 degree Celsius. dery activities are likely to be Continued on Page 4 spokesperson Sambit Patra Continued on Page 4 Tslowly masked the Sun to leave just a burning ring of fire in what was the last solar eclipse of the decade, an astro- & &     '()( nomical phenomenon wit- nessed by thousands of scien- tists and spiritualists across '   - '-45$ will take all necessary steps, Government, in Banaskantha, India. including spraying of pesti- crops over 8,000-10,000 As the Moon came in uge swarms of Pakistani cides, to contain the attack. The hectares have been damaged. between the Earth and the Hlocusts have descended teams will remain in the State Locusts were first seen in Sun and the three celestial on agricultural fields in Gujarat until the problem is solved,” Suigam, Danta, Deesa, bodies aligned, people gathered and Rajasthan and inflicted officials said. The Ministry is Palanpur and Lakhni tehsils of on rooftops, beaches and other major damage on crops of exploring the possibility of Banaskantha last week. From open spaces as well as plane-                       mustard, castor, fennel, cumin, using drones to spray insecti- there they moved to Satlasana tariums to watch the flaming       !      cotton, potato, wheat and jat- cides. tehsil in Mehsana district. A solar disc. But overcast skies ropha. Officials said that a team of few days ago a huge swarm, and fog played spoilsport in eter of the Moon falls short of Silchar, the MoES said in a The Gujarat Government experts will conduct survey on spread across 30 to 35 square many parts, particularly north the Sun so it cannot cover the statement last week. on Thursday promised com- the Locust Warning kilometres, descended in India, leaving those in towns latter completely. As a result, The rigours of space sci- pensation for farmers in Oganisation’s report and spray Tharad tehsil and devoured such as Kozhikode in Kerala to the Sun is visible only as a “ring ence and the arcane world of Banaskantha district and other pesticides. Farmers have been mustard, castor, funnel and watch the eclipse unfold in of fire” around the Moon. religion and myths merged as areas of north Gujarat which teams to Gujarat while the Banaskantha, Mehsana, Kutch, directed to deploy various mea- wheat crops, he said, adding clear skies. The obscuration of the Sun they do with every eclipse. has been facing the massive State Government has set up 16 Patan and Sabarkantha dis- sures to deal with the situation, that locusts are still present in The partial phase of the by the Moon at the time of Various temples, including locust attack over the last two teams to keep a watch the tricts in the last few days in including burning tyres in neighbouring areas of Jalore eclipse began at 8 am and the greatest phase of partial eclipse the famous Lord Ayyappa weeks. movement of swarms and to Gujarat, and Jaisalmer, Barmer, fields, playing drums and district in Rajasthan and in the annular phase at 9.06 am. The was around 90 per cent in Temple in Sabarimala, Worried over huge loss of spray pesticide. Jalore, of Rajasthan. clanging utensils, switching on Tharparkar desert of Pakistan. annular phase ended 12.29 Bengaluru, 85 per cent in Padmanabha Swamy temple crops, 27 teams have been Top officials of the “They entered Gujarat table fans near crops and even In Rajasthan, as many as pm, while the partial phase , 79 per cent in at and formed to tackle the problem Agriculture Ministry said mas- from the desert areas of blaring out music from a mini 128 places have been identified ended at 13.36 pm, the , 45 per cent in Lord Krishna temple at of locusts entering various dis- sive swarms of locusts — which Pakistan. This is the second truck-mounted console, an in Jaisalmer, Barmer, Jalore, Ministry of Earth Sciences , 45 per cent in Delhi, Guruvayur were closed during tricts of the State and damag- are mainly tropical grasshop- time in a month that locusts agriculture department offi- Jodhpur under the spell of the (MoES) said. 42 per cent in , 33 per the solar eclipse, believed to be ing crops. The Ministry of pers with strong powers of have invaded the fields in north cial said. locust attack. An annular solar eclipse cent in , 70 per cent inauspicious by some. Agriculture has despatched 11 flight — descended on Gujarat and Rajasthan. 27 team According to the Gujarat Continued on Page 4 occurs when the angular diam- in Port Blair, 35 per cent in Continued on Page 4

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       ,        ,        !58*4 Food Festival as a laudable ini- who came from Punjab, said tiative, the Chief Minister said that he shares an old bond hief Minister that we should organize such with . He has  *   '   Chas said that Madhya events not only in the state but worked as a chef in a vintage      !58*4 to raise their voice against lies, Pradesh will be made leading also in big cities like Delhi, hotel here where Richard greed, sin, corruption and injus- State in the country in tourism Mumbai, Bengaluru and Holkar and Shalini Holkar of autanki style play tice. and investment sector. Nath . This will pave way for Holkar Gharana used to come N‘Harishchanna Ki Ladai’ The play has two parallel sto- was inaugurating the Royal a separate identity for Madhya to eat. He told that Shalini marked the first day of three-day ries; one of the Nautanki being Cuisines Food Festival based on Pradesh. The Chief Minister Holkar had presented him with Atithi Drama Festival (Guest performed and the other, a real the best delicacies of royal cui- said that cooking is not just an a cooking book, which is like Performances) at Bharat Bhavan. life of an actor. An actor has been sine organized for the first time art but is also a craft. The royal Bible for him. He told that The theatre festival began here enacting the role of Raja in state at Minto Hall on houses of our state have these there are grand and magnificent from Thursday. Harishchandra for years. While Thursday. Tribal Welfare traditions and by using and cooking traditions in the royal Directed by Urmil Kumar on stage, he imbibes the charac- Minister Omkar Singh Markam launching them, we can take houses of Madhya Pradesh. Thapliyal, the play was wonder- teristic of Raja Harishchandra, of and MP Nakul Nath was present tourism of our state to new The need is that these should be fully performed by the artists of speaking nothing but truth and in the programme. heights. underlined at the national level. Darpan theatre troupe, . he starts doing that in real life as The Chief Minister said Tourism Minister Surendra He said that the Royal Cuisines The play depicted the pain well. that through this festival the Singh Baghel said that Chief Food Festival is a good initiative and conflicts of an actor. Haria The result is that while he state government aims at pro- Minister Kamal Nath’s intention which will help Madhya has grown old playing Raja gets rewards for his perfor- moting economic activities is that there are investments in Pradesh be identified at inter- Harishchandra. The practical mances for speaking the truth, he along with tourism in state. He the tourism sector in the state national level. aspects of his life take a dialec- gets beaten and is humiliated in said that today the need is to and we should create a nation- Tourism Secretary Faiz tical shape with Raja real life for the same. Initially his make changes in the profile of al identity of our tourism Ahmed Kidwai gave informa- Harishchandra’s ideals. wife doesn’t support him and Madhya Pradesh. He said that wealth. That is why the tion about the objective and out- Haria finds himself entan- advises him to be practical in life. today there are abundant pos- Department of Tourism has line of the Royal Cuisines Food gled between the reality of his life However she accepts his idea and sibilities in the state but due to "    %          "       "    taken an innovative initiative of Festival. Representatives of and the illusion of the character. end up losing her life in this fight lack of expected development, "   (        the Royal Cuisines Food Bhopal, Sailana, Rewa, The play’s central theme shows for truth. But before leaving, she we have been unable to utilize Festival. He said that through Narsinghgarh, Jhabua, Kurwai, the unfathomable gap between takes a promise from her hus- the available resources for the employment opportunities. He proper branding. The Chief and Jim Corbett are mentioned. this unique event, we have Holkar, Joura and Gadha the common man’s life and the band that he will continue car- benefit of the citizens and the said that tourism has significant Minister said that Madhya Shri Kamal Nath said that we made an effort to popularize the Rajgharanas of Madhya myth of Raja Harishchandra. rying the torch of truth with his state. Kamal Nath said that contribution in the prosperity of Pradesh is Tiger state. We have will have to do branding of out dishes prevalent in the royal Pradesh, Pushparaj Singh, Ravi On the one hand, the play optimistic approach. tourism is such a sector which Rajasthan. Comparatively, national parks like Kanha, tourist spots if we want to reap houses among the common Ranawat, Ranvir Singh, Nawab tries to negate the truth in front The play was beautifully will not only result in prosper- Madhya Pradesh is no less but Bandhavgarh etc., but in the benefits for the state. people. Zafar Ali Khan and Bharat of today’s materialistic society, on performed, presenting the ity but will also create large-scale we have not been able to do tourism map only Ranthambore Terming the Royal Cuisines Celebrity chef Harpal Singh Singh took part in the festival. the other; it invokes the audience Nautanki genre at its best.   *         + 

     !58*4 invested from a rich man lala      !58*4 during the investigation police trocuted and was rushed to a Rambharose offering a big deal have seized the truck and arrest- nearby hospital where he was he five-day comedy theatre of business. But machine pro- wo men died after their bike ed the truck driver. The deceased declared dead. Police were Tfestival concluded with a duces many wrong instead of Trammed into a truck at were identified as Sunil Singh informed and on the receipt of Hindi play, ‘Ek Machine Jawani right expectations. As Kallan Neelbad under Ratibad police Verma (29) and Bunty alias the information a police team Ki’ here on Thursday. The play bring the machine home, his wife station area in the night on Verma (22). Sunil used to work reached the spot and started was staged at Shaheed Bhawan starts using the machine as a Wednesday; deceased were as gardener with Jagran Lake investigation. Auditorium. storage place for the grocery. cousins and met accident when University while Bunty used to After the preliminary inves- Directed by Sumit Diwedi Once she went inside the on their way to Ratibad. work as driver. tigation the body was sent for the play was presented by Bhoj machine to bring the grocery According to police two The body has been sent for post mortem. The police have Kala and Shiksha sansthan. The and there she comes out as a man were rushed to hospital the post-mortem. The police registered a case under section play was a light hearted comedy pretty young lady. where they were declared dead. have registered a case. 174 of the IPC and started fur- which had a lot of twists and On the other hand Kallan’s Police said that they deceased lost Meanwhile, a 30-year-old elec- ther investigation.The deceased turns and was given a filmy treat- neighbour and his neighbour’s control over the bike at a speed trocuted while trying to tie cover was resident of and ment to make the audience son, would be husband of breaker and failed to stop it by over truck at Industrial Area after loading goods in the truck laugh their hearts out. kallan's daughter Kulsum, are in ramming into the truck moving under Ashoka Garden police sta- he was trying to tie cover during The play follows the life of the attempt to know the secrets ahead of them and hit in the rear tion area on Wednesday. which he came into contact a Kabari wala who falls into a of machine. Their curiosity to end of the truck. According to the police the with high tension power lines problem after buying a spare know about the secret of the )                "   (        After the two were injured deceased Ajit Yadav was elec- which proved fatal for him. machine. machine, leads to various comic The play introduces Kabari situations. Kallan on stage. Kabari Kallan As the play takes twists and purchases a machine from a pro- turns with comic sequences pro-              , "  fessor in scraps, which change fessor who sold the machine every object into a small shape arrives in the scene. He fights      !58*4 Jabalpur and . Monitoring The average period of redressal mum of 5 hours has been set for started. Daily 500 complainants   from his large shape. This with Kallan as he wanted his is done to redress the complaints was found to be one hour 32 urban areas and 24 hours for are contacted per company from machine was invented by a pro- machine back and in all the fight centralized call centre 1912 lodged at the call centre. minutes. This period is much rural areas. In case of line break the three call centres and their fessor but did not work well so the machine gets like before. As Ahas been started on the lines Energy Minister Priyavrat shorter than the criteria set by the down, maximum time of 12 satisfaction level is checked.     it was sold to the kabari wala. Kallan’s wife gets inside she of Dial 100 for resolving com- Singh informed that about 32 Electricity Regulatory hours has been fixed in urban From August 1, 2019, feedback The machine decreases every- comes out as she was before. plaints related to power supply lakh complaints related to power Commission. areas and 3 days in rural areas. of more than 1.70 lakh con-      !58*4 thing’s shape, size and age as it Seeing thing, Kallan says that it in the State. The number of desks supply have been received so far According to the prescribed After redressal of com- sumers has been taken. Their get connected to the object. is useless to fight with the nature’s working in call centre service has from January 2019. All the com- criteria for power interruptions, plaints, the work of taking feed- consumer satisfaction percentage rban Development and Kallan gets the loan amount rules and destroys the machine. been increased in Bhopal, plaints were resolved on time. due to general reasons, a maxi- back from consumers has been was estimated at 91.73. UHousing Minister Jaivardhan Singh inaugurated the Skill Training Centre under National Urban Livelihood Mission in Aaron Municipality. Members of women self-help groups will be given stitching and other employment oriented training in the centre. Singh told to form 2 women self-help groups in each ward. Minister Singh said that now cities with population less than 28,000 have been added to the mission. He said that a shelter site will be built at a cost of Rs 3.50 crore. Singh said that efforts will also be made to provide employment to trained youth. He informed that a market will be devel- oped at a cost of Rs 2.50 lakh. Singh inspected the Stitching *              $    " $     centre and commercial com- .       *  !        (/  )     0 " $/.           + !!  ,-    ) (    !     plex. He also inspected the * %  (/           (/     1   2   (            proposed site for a new bus stand and new sabji mandi in Aaron. The Minister said at the “Aapki Sarkar-Aapke Dwar”            camp organized in Dehri Kalan village of Aaron Janpad      !58*4 region, Chiklaud, Natures ment, has been formulated in where people are not aware that now the grievances of the Karwa, Enterwoods, Serenity, the state for the attraction of about these kind of camping poor are being resolved near xpert Agency Thrillophilia is Halali, Dream Ocean from adventure investors / opera- and trekking experiences, but their houses. He said that Eacting as a knowledge part- Bhopal region, Camp Kabila, tors. Currently we have set up apart from the challenges they now they need not go to ner to Madhya Pradesh Tourism Riverside, Waterfall View Camp, 30 Adventure Campsites in have managed to make it a fun tehsil and district headquar- Board (MPTB) in building the Green Valley from Jabalpur Madhya Pradesh and are getting filled and a thrilled experience ters to get their grievances State as an adventure tourist region and Godinga from great responses from the tourists for all the people who have redressed. Singh told that a spot. Thirty new camping sites Gwalior region. These Camps so we had planned to set-up come for the first time,” said big dam has been approved and adventure activities have has witnessed more than 5000 around 100 adventure campsites Ayushi Chatterjee. on Sindh river. In the year been built across the State, and tourists experienced camping all around the State, so that each “It was a fantastic experi- 2019, loans of 3710 farmers of besides this a gamut of activities and adventure activities like and every tourist coming to visit ence. The night safari was Aaron tehsil have been such as jungle safari, hiking, trekking, Horse ride, village Madhya Pradesh can experience superb… would recommend waived. The loans of remain- nature trails, trekking, stargaz- tour, nature walk, yoga, bonfire, and enjoy the camping and this to everyone,” said Devashish ing farmers will also be ing, Birds watching, camping, and various outdoor sports adventure activities in Madhya Sahni. waived soon. Singh instruct- canoeing and plenty of different games. Pradesh which has for so long During these camping, ed to resolve complaints at all signature experiences can Madhya Pradesh Tourism being hidden from the eyes of team-building activities such the camps on the spot. He become available in the desti- Board along with Expert the adventure lovers. We are as jungle Night trek, Mountain also gave information about nation. Agency is not only working expecting around 10000 climbing, tractor ride, water various public welfare These campsites were devel- closely to build and boost Adventure loving tourists this sports activities and many more schemes of the government to oped in different regions of adventure experiences but also year to have fun and enjoyment are being organized to bring all the people. Madhya Pradesh such as Sole providing training to the local and great experience of these the local experience in a plat- Minister Singh inaugu- Adventure Park in Punjapura vendors, and building sustain- travelers to visit the state. Pradesh Tourism Board and adventure tourism in the state, campsites.” form for people. These camp- rated Late Asha Devi and Mandav, Kamp Kalakund, able adventure tourism journey, Speaking on the occasion Madhya Pradesh State Tourism many of the Policies like Water “I really appreciate the ini- sites are developed not only for Memorial Cricket Forest Gum Dhavalgiri, MM setting up camping sites and Faiz Ahmed Kidwai, Secretary, Development Corporation said Tourism Policy, Camping tiative taken, it has been very youth but for every age group so Tournament. Local public Farm, Usha Farm and organize many adventure events Govt of Madhya Pradesh and "Madhya Pradesh Tourism is Policy, capital subsidy for adven- difficult for the crew as well to that they can spend time with representatives, citizens and Omkareshwar from Indore which will open channels for the Managing Director, Madhya working vigorously to build ture infrastructure develop- arrange everything in a place their loved ones. officials were present.

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       !58*4 Pradesh Hockey Academy defeated NCC Rourkela 2-1 in the final match of      !58*4 The nabbed accused was wanted to make big money and layers of Madhya Pradesh Hockey the 48th Nehru Junior Hockey tracked and his movements learnt making of fake currency PAcademy showcased a brilliant per- Tournament (Boys Under-17) played at he Nazeerabad Police has were watched from past few notes from internet and later formance in 48th Nehru Junior Hockey Major Dhyanchand Hockey Stadium in Tbusted a gang involved in days and he was nabbed on produced fake currency notes Tournament (Boys Under-17) and bagged Delhi and won the and hoist- producing counterfeit curren- December 20, 2019. In the which were circulated in the the Nehru Hockey Cup for the first time ed the state of Madhya Pradesh. cy notes and recovered fake investigation Manoj who was state and in other states with the in ten years. Meanwhile, Madhya Pradesh State currency notes over Rs 1 lakh caught in suspect to stealing help of Raju Sirsagar and Ajay The team returned Bhopal on Equestrian Academy players have so far from four miscreants; main vegetable from the market but Nath. Thursday after creating history in the given a total of 13 medals to Madhya accused of the gang was nabbed later it was revealed that he was Police have registered a tournament which was played in Delhi. Pradesh in the Junior National Equestrian from Indore and recovered involved in circulating fake case under section 489 A, B, C On reaching the city stadium, the play- Competition being held from 20 to 29 printer, computer and paper currency notes and provided and D and 34 of the IPC and ers met Director Sports and Youth December 2019 in Bengaluru. Medals used. details of the main accused. started search for other mem- Welfare SL Thoussen. Sports Director include 7 gold, 3 silver and 3 bronze The police nabbed a mis- Based on the details pro- bers of the nexus. More regions Thoussen warmly greeted and congrat- medals. creant from weekly market vided by Manoj, police searched were the gang members used to ulated the returning players after win- Raju Singh Bhadauria won the gold, identified as Manoj Chouhan several places in Indore and circulate fake currency would ning the Nehru Cup for the first time in Aditya Aayush won the bronze, Junior and recovered 12 fake curren- Hoshangabad and tracked be investigated in the further ten years. class de Saj team event earned Rajusinh, cy notes of denominations of Rs Anees Kourav alias Sikander investigation. The period for He encouraged each player by patting Meera Malaiya, Hiral Joshi and Aditya 200 were recovered from his from Indore and arrested him. which the gang members were them on the back and cheering them on. Ayush the silver medal in the junior class possession. Anees confessed that he active is yet to be revealed. The Sports Director appreciated the day event. excellent performance of the players in the Similarly, in the Youth Class Day 4 Nehru Junior Hockey Tournament and individual event, Anand Jhala won the !" # said that we are proud of our players. bronze medal. In the team event, Anand gold medal. accumulator event.       He discussed the performance of the Jhala, Prannoy Khare, Akanksha Similarly, Arjun Singh won one gold On this achievement by sportsper- players with the Chief Instructor of Vishwakarma and Paridhi Joshi earned and one bronze medal in Group to sons, the Minister of Sports and Youth      Madhya Pradesh State Men's Academy, gold medals. In the group two day event Jumping and Pranay Khare one gold Welfare Jeetu Patwari and Director Sports   &      Rajinder Singh and congratulated them of the competition, Arjun Singh won one medal in Young Raider Jumping event and Youth Welfare SL Thoussen expressed "4(! (+    for this achievement of the team. gold and one silver medal and in team and Bholu Parmar gave one gold medal happiness and congratulated the medal %        It is noteworthy that Madhya event Krishna Joshi and Suryansh got one to Madhya Pradesh in Group-1 jumping winners. %   1               2 (       A0          !58*4 bearing registration number   4    , 3 P      $         MP04UF0515 and two youths '       our miscreants including a are with the scooter. The nabbed N;( O   '   Fminor involved in robbery of accused were Manoj and Arun      !58*4 and Rs 22 crore for Swachh worth Rs 19 thousand 167 lakh Circle to AIIMS and another cial fund for 8 cities under the "    &    cash and mobile phone from a and when the two were quizzed Bharat Mission, to Municipal has been completed in 22 bod- 12.88 km from Bhadbhada inter- Narmada Seva Mission. Works  (       truck driver and cleaner at they confessed that robbery he State Government’s pri- Corporation Indore. Rs 12 crore ies. section to Ratnagiri intersection costing Rs 350 crore are pro-       +  knife point on December 26 with Abhisek and one minor. Tority is to expand the urban has been given to the bodies for Work of metro rail has been costing Rs 6941.40 crore. A ring posed in 14 cities under the mini       & *  near Kalyanpur under Ratibad The motorbike bearing reg- facilities to the end of the city information, education and started in Bhopal and Indore. line of 31.55 km will be built in smart city works. 74 Drinking         police station area; Rs 5500, istration number MP04QM and to the poorest sections. communication. In the mission MoU has been signed between Indore Metro Rail Project. It will Water and 4 Sewerage Schemes   4    mobile phone and two motor- 5697 was also recovered in the Due to the able leadership in the more than 4 lakh cloth bags were Government of India, Madhya go from the Bengali intersection under ADB Drinking Water  (      bikes were recovered from his investigation. State for the last nearly one year, distributed apart from spreading Pradesh Government and to Vijayanagar, Bhanwar Shala, and Sewerage Scheme, 4 ; &   %   possession on Thursday. Meanwhile Kolar police while the existing urban devel- the message of cleanliness to 4 Madhya Pradesh Metro Rail Airport to Palasia. The cost is Rs Drinking Water and 7 Sewerage %        Police said that the nabbed arrested a robber who tried to opment schemes have been lakh families through personal Corporation in for 7,500 crores 80 lakhs. Along with Scheme in 7 urban bodies under       were accused from Chhola rob a 63-year-old man at rationalised, the projects like contact. Bhoj and Indore Metro Project. this, there are also plans to run World Bank, under Special Fund ( & 8  ++  Mandir area and were identified Sarwadharam Colony along drinking water, sewerage and Under the Smart City Two corridors will be con- rapid trains. Sewerage Scheme in 8 urban *   '     as Manoj Sharma (30), Arun with his two other miscreants metro which have been stalled Scheme, 29 projects worth Rs structed in 27.87 km in Bhopal Madhya Pradesh Urban bodies and under KFW     , '     Vardele (21), Abhisek Shrivas at knife point on Wednesday. or left incomplete for one year 630 crore have been completed Metro Project. One corridor Development Company has Sewerage Scheme in 3 urban    (  (22) and a minor of Ayodhya The victim Mozam Khan have been implemented. and work orders of 89 have been will be 14.99 km from Karond spent Rs 10.50 crore in the spe- bodies and 12 mini smart cities.  & +   Nagar. and his wife Noor-unnisa were Cluster-based concept for issued. Also 50 projects are '   1   %  Victim Ahad Khan of at home when three men pos- solid waste management in under tendering process. Under   *  @     Vidisha along with cleaner of ing as delivery boy came and urban bodies has been elimi- the scheme, land-monetization +  % 1   the truck Shahwar Shah were at claimed that the parcel was on nated and decentralized action has been approved for field-     & Sukhisewania bypass when their their name and when they plan has been implemented. An based development. Half of the truck broke suddenly and while opposed they locked the main amount of Rs 50.76 crore has income from this will be spent      they were waiting four miscre- gate and tried to rob them by been allocated after allowing to in the smart city and half will      ' ants on bike and scooter came putting knife on neck of purchase 850 vehicles for door- remain with the government in "4(!  %   ; and robbed them of cash and Mozam but he managed to to-door garbage collection. the reserve fund.      N+ O  mobile phone at knife point. escape and raised alert and An additional amount of The work of Storm water        The accused robbed a neighbours rushed to their more than Rs 14 crore has been drain project of Damoh and         *2 mobile phone and Rs 500 from help and nabbed one of the released for 83 Material Recovery water supply of Dabra and  & 8  ++  %   Shahwar and Rs 5000 from accused identified as Ravi Centres in the bodies and more Shivpuri were started under    "    Ahad and when they opposed Jathav while two managed to than Rs 5 crore for transfer sta- AMRUT Mission. In the Green -      % they were assaulted by the escape and are still at large. tions in municipal corporations. Area and Park Development     (  82  accused. Police have registered a Ujjain Municipal Corporation Project, 6 projects have been   :    During the investigation case under sections 452,393 has been given financial assis- approved in Jabalpur, 1 each in      *     police received information and 34 of the IPC and started tance of Rs 7 crore for bio-meth- Gwalior and Khargone and 2 in  & regarding white coloured active investigation. anization and recycling machine Mandsaur. Work on 35 projects 3  +  $ %   %%&  ( (,  '   a bad phase of neglect of high- tional institutions is the all- cation. Under this, MP Online   er education, students studying round development of the stu- has been made better with he quality and excellence in colleges were facing shortage dent along with his educa- improvements to complete the Bhopal: Shahpura police have of higher education of teachers for many years, this tional development. admission process in a regular booked four members of coop- Tensures the golden future also affected the level of edu- Admission process has and timely manner, thereby erative housing society at of youth. The Kamal Nath cation in the State. But the pre- been simplified to make it completing the admission Shahpura who duped members Government of Madhya sent Government is committed accessible to the general stu- process on time. Lakhs of girls of the society and sold the Pradesh has taken significant to make the future of youth dent. Colleges should have have benefitted from total houses (duplexes) constructed steps in the first year of its bright. The Kamal Nath their own land and have their waiver of fees. to outsiders at higher rates; tenure and has raised the con- Government has taken steps in own play ground, garden etc. The safety of girls is among police have registered case after fidence of crores of youth. this direction with commit- with modern resources. The the biggest priority of the gov- investigation was completed. Madhya Pradesh has taken ment. That is why the educa- Kamal Nath Government has ernment. By setting up a police Police have booked Kalyan strong strides with better tional institutions of the state started a land security cam- chowki in the Girls College, a Singh, Zeeshan Ali, Akhtar teacher-student ratio towards will no longer remain without paign to ensure ownership of better and secure academic Hussain and Zahur-ur-Hasan of becoming parallel to the lead- professors. the land of all government environment is being given to Shadab Housing Society who ing and selected States of the Our qualified teachers colleges, which will be com- them. cheated with the other members country for better education. selected in higher level exam- pleted by this year. The year of hopes and of the society and sold the With the successful imple- inations will be available Development is being done in expectations of crores of peo- duplexes to other people outside mentation of policies like among the students to provide this on the basis of 30-year ple of Madhya Pradesh has the housing society. equipping educational institu- excellent education in every development plan. become a symbol of enthusi- A complaint was lodged by tions with modern resources, nook and corner of the State. Infrastructure development asm and faith. The Kamal Nath Inspector Rajesh Kumar creation of infrastructure, Librarians have been appoint- works of education institu- Government is continuously Sharma of Department of accessible and better education ed to ensure that the state-of- tions are being done continu- working to ensure the future of Cooperatives regarding the for girls, simplifying the admis- the-art libraries have high- ously. In order to improve the the State’s youth through good fraud by the accused. In the sion process, skill develop- level and quality books and its quality of education, virtual and improved education and it complaint it was stated that the ment and employment orient- benefits are available to the classrooms are being broadcast is bearing good results. housing society was formed in ed education, appointment of general students. It is being continuously, which is helping However, the construction of a the year 2000 and a colony was librarians and sports officers, ensured that no college remains to make education environ- golden Madhya Pradesh has developed over 4.36 acres of availability of e-library and without sports officers so as to ment better and universal in started with an improved edu- land. Duplexes were construct- sports ground, the education- ensure that the youth bring every corner of the state. cation. ed in the colony but the four al scenario of the State has been glory to the state and the coun- Kamal Nath Government (The writer is the Higher accused sold the houses to out- made constructive and reliable. try in sports disciplines. is doing many innovations for Education and Sports and siders while the society mem- Madhya Pradesh has seen The objective of educa- improving the quality of edu- Youth Welfare Minister) bers remained empty handed.   !"#$%  $&'&(&" )*+ ),-.  '     

     !58*4 Each one of them has his own way of handling colours and n array of creativity is woo- forms. They are spontaneous, Aing the city art lovers. A expressive and open to any group exhibition ‘Junction of mode of art and art material. Interactivity’ is being put up at They are experimenting with zest Swaraj Bhavan Art Gallery. and finding their solutions to The exhibition began on start a long journey. It is the Thursday is being put up by beginning of their walk in to the Kalachar Artist Welfare Society. unknown world of art and The young painters have show- expression. cased the bright side of creativ- The new set of artists with ity through their paintings. new ways of seeing and using Besides, the artistic perceptions same old medium display their could be seen in sculptures and creations. As the painters a d 3D Rangolis. ceramic artists exhibited their It was inaugurated by artistic works at the gallery, the renowned artist Ramchandra art enthusiasts loved the cre- Bhawsar. The exhibition will be ativity that they showcased at the on view till Saturday at the gallery. The kind of work done gallery. The artists have pre- by them over the canvas, fasci- sented their perceptions over the nates the art lovers, as they walk canvas ans sculptures that clear- through the gallery. Even the ly showcases their love for nature. shades used are implausible and They have tried to bring the each one of them is eye pleasing. charm and sheer beauty of the         $  O/       P0( (    It is an artistic fest for the art afi- ("                  (/   /      nature in their own way.     cionados of the city. (          $"Q    ,,, *   1  From Page 1 nationality verification and On October 20, 2012, the issuance of travel documents by   /+)0 Congress Government in Assam the Governments concerned "   2 -, released the White Paper on the and their deportation to their issue of foreigners and on its page native countries. number 38, it was written that Such detention centres were $   a hindrance to this decision /       the Central Government has in existence in various States for were bypassed with a single directed the Assam Government the last few decades and the set- %   &'' cabinet decision by Prime to set up detention centres, Patra ting up of such centres was not # # Minister Narendra Modi.      0 claimed. at all connected with the Attacking the Delhi As per the details available National Register of Citizens Government, Shah alleged that in the White Paper, a detention (NRC), the sources said.      - '-45$ 80 per cent of welfare schemes  5*'$1*5 and SAD”s Rajya Sabha MP centre each was established in Meanwhile, former Minister announced by the Delhi Naresh Gujral seeking inclu- Golpara, Kokrajhar and Silchar of State for Home and senior ccusing the Congress of Government remain unful- lamming the Shiromani sion of Muslims in CAA, said by the then Congress congress leader Ajay Maken also Asupporting violence during filled and major among them SAkali Dal (SAD) for their that it was patently obvious that Government, in which 66, 32 accused the Government of the protests against Citizen as green open public space, are like providing jobs to 8 lakh ‘double standards’ on the issue the Akalis were playing double and 20 foreigners were kept bringing the NRC, in the garb of Amendment Act (CAA) in the which would help mitigate pol- youths and clean drinking of National Register of Citizens games in the matter. respectively. the NPR and claimed that ques- national Capital, Union lution. He further noted that water to every household. (NRC) and the Citizenship “It is clear that the SAD It was time the SAD clari- He said there is no connec- tions related to the NRC will be Minister of Home Affairs Amit public facilities in the hub Shah also mentioned that Amendment Act (CAA), leaders had decided to back- fied their stand on their alliance tion between detention centres asked in the pre-test forms for Shah said it is time to punish would include a Harit Bhawan, Delhi has the worst quality of Punjab Chief Minister Capt track on their earlier stand in with the NDA, said Capt and the National Register of the NPR. Maken said his party the tukde-tukde gang which a cultural centre, a skywalk and drinking water in the country. Amarinder Singh on Thursday view of the public protests and Amarinder, adding that the Citizens. “Rahul Gandhi has no will oppose the Government if it was responsible for the violence basement parking facilities, He said the Delhi Government asked the party to clarify their backlash triggered by people wanted to know knowledge on any subject, but tries to link the NPR with the in the streets of Delhi with the among other things. believes in taking credit of stand on support to the CAA/NRC…This is not the whether the Akalis favoured has to speak on every subject. His NRC and alleged that it infringes help of the Congress party. Speaking on unauthorised developmental works of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), of first time the Akalis had shown BJP’s divisive and hardline ide- attack is neither intended on the upon the citizens’ right to pri- “There were discussions colonies in national Capital, Central Government through which they were an ally in the such dual standards with regard ology on key issues, including issue of NPR nor CAA but to vacy. “The BJP Government is held in Parliament on CAA and Shah said the Union advertisements and asked as to Central Government. to their relations with the BJP,” those that affect the Indian attack Modi. The Congress party trying to bring the NRC in the then no one said anything but Government’s decision to reg- why Central schemes for the “SAD had supported the said Capt Amarinder, pointing Constitutional principles and is unable to digest how a tea sell- garb of the NPR. The BJP when the Bill came out, mis- ularise 1,731 unauthorised poor like ‘Ayushman Bharat ruling NDA’s Citizenship to the SAD’s support to Om values. The people are no er became Prime Minister,” the Government wants to polarise information was spread and colonies and conferring own- and Pradhan Mantri Aawas Amendment Act in the Prakash Chautala’s INLD in the longer willing to be fooled by BJP spokesperson said. the society,” he said. He added peace was disrupted in the ership rights at a nominal cost Yojana’ were not implemented Parliament, but had since come Haryana assembly elections the SAD’s dual standards and Government sources, mean- that the questions asked in the national Capital,” said Shah at has ensured a dignified life for and always acted like a speed out with conflicting statements even while continuing to be a misleading statements, he said. while, said detention centres NPR pre-test questionnaire are a rally in city on Thursday. 40 lakh poor people living in breaker in execution of Central on the legislation, as well as the part of the NDA. “Such contradictory stands were set up in different parts of not required for the exercise. With the Assembly elec- these colonies. Government projects, the NRC,” Capt Amarinder point- In fact, even while siding and statements had exposed the country in full compliance “In NPR, a person like me tions round the corner in Delhi, He said 13 laws that were Home Minister alleged. ed out, lambasting the Akalis with INLD in Haryana, the the fact that the Akalis were with law and with the Supreme might have a problem -- if a per- the Union Government on for misleading the people on SAD had allied with BJP in only interested in promoting Court’s cognisance. son like me is asked where your Thursday announced a slew of these sensitive issues. Punjab, where by-elections their vested political interests, Detention centres or holding father and mother were born, my developmental projects for the Capt Amarinder, reacting were being held at the same and has no ideological princi- centres or camps are confine- parents were born in Pakistan. overall development of Delhi () % to the recent statements of time in a couple of constituen- ples on any issue of national ment centres where foreign Where will I get their details,” and welfare of its people. SAD president Sukhbir Badal cies, he added. importance,” he said. nationals are confined pending Maken said. Speaking on the occasion of foundation stone laying cer- % emony of Integrated Development of  Q#R "#"    R     Hub city, the Union Minister said creation of riverfronts on both banks of the Yamuna and  !$@8 “Those who are doing vandal- its beautification, a dedicated ism and want to inflame pas-   #     !R   cycle track in Delhi to promote n UP Minister on a visit sions, how are they part of soci- green transportation and Ahere on Thursday refused ety. Why should I go there? This From Page 1 not proper,” Ramdas told PTI. General Saheb but also Leaders reduce road accidents, devel- to meet the families of the two is not about Hindu-Muslim. Rawat is set to retire as the Taking exception to his are not those who allow their opment of JJ clusters are some Muslim men who died in the Why should I go to vandals?”   # Army Chief on December 31 comments, MP followers to indulge in geno- of the works to be taken on pri- recent protests against the new During Friday’s violence and is in the race as the coun- Manish Tewari said in a tweet, cide of communal violence. Do ority basis. citizenship law, terming them 20-year-old Suleman, an IAS try’s first Chief of Defence “Since when have Army Chief’s you agree with me General Shah said 116 kilometre of “upadravi” (vandals). aspirant, and 25-year-old Anas  '   5*'$1*5 Gautam and sort out his issues Staff (CDS), the creation of started commenting about Saheb?” new Metro lines out of which “Why should I go to van- lost their lives. if any. which was approved by the internal affairs. It undermines The CPI(M) also slammed work on 70 kilometre route has dals’ place? How can those After initial denials, the day after Jannayak Janta "Nothing is going right in Union Cabinet on Tuesday. Civil-Military Relations whose the Army Chief for criticising already started. Moreover, 18 who are involved in vandalism local police admitted that AParty (JJP), MLA and the party. I am upset with the Vice Chief of Army MM cornerstone is that Armed the anti-CAA protesters, and projects worth 802 crore had and put the entire country and Suleman died from a police bul- senior leader Ram Kumar way it is functioning and I have Naravane is the next Army Forces neither comment nor said as the highest officer in been completed under the state in arson be social,” let and that he was among the Gautam resigned as party's resigned as party's vice presi- Chief. interfere in domestic politics. uniform he has “breached the AMRUT scheme in the city. Minister Kapil Dev Agarwal alleged rioters who opened fire vice president, triggering a dent. Moreover, I was made all Rawat’s comments evoked This has been our singular limit” of his institutional role. Also, he said the Regional defended his decision to not at a cop from a country-made political crisis of sorts saying he India vice president in the sharp response from political success going back to 1947.” The Politburo of the party Rail Transport System between visit the homes of the two gun and that he was shot in self- was upset with the functioning party even though the party has leaders and others. Congress spokesperson said the General has “directly Delhi and Meerut, Panipat and Muslim families. defence. of the party, JJP chief Dushyant influence in a limited pocket in Former Navy Chief Brijesh Kalappa too slammed indulged” in condemning the Alwar was being developed by “Why should I visit those Suleman’s family, however, Chautala on Thursday sought Haryana," Gautam had said a Admiral L Ramdas termed as him and said, “Army Chief student protesters who have the Union Government on a who want to put Nahtaur/Bijnor denies this and says he had to downplay the issue day before. “wrong” the Army Chief’s Bipin Rawat speaking against been opposing the amended fast-track basis. in flames?” the Minister in- nothing to do with the protests. "He (Gautam) is one of the On a question regarding comments and said people in #CAAProtests is wholly against citizenship law and the pro- Shah said 1,400 crore and charge of the district shot back Nineteen people were senior leaders and if he has any resentment of other MLAs, the armed forces must follow constitutional democracy. If posed pan-India National 30 hectares have been dedicat- when asked by reporters to jus- killed, 263 police personnel complaint, he should speak to Chautala said that whole team the decades-old principle of the Army Chief is allowed to Register for Citizens. ed for this scheme, and assured tify his decision. injured and State-owned prop- the party," the Deputy chief of JJP is working like family serving the country and not speak on political issues today, The party asked the Army that the scheme would be com- Agarwal, the Vocational erty damaged across Uttar minister said, adding that he and party's MLAs are working any political forces. it also permits him to attempt Chief to apologise to the nation pleted well in time. Education and Skill Pradesh in violence during the got to know about the resig- in unison for strengthening the Ramdas said all the three an Army takeover tomorrow!!,” for his “indiscretion” which has He noted that this would Development Minister in the protests against the amended nation from media only. party. services have an internal code he tweeted. extremely adverse ramifica- be a mixed use scheme, with 70 Yogi Adityanath Government, law. Speaking to reporters here, Replying to a question that prescribing that they must be AIMIM chief Asaduddin tions for the Constitutional per cent land earmarked for did meet Om Raj Saini, who Security was beefed up and Chautala said he has not everything was not right in the neutral and not partisan, Owaisi said leadership is about arrangement in the country. residential purposes, 20 per was injured in the violence patrolling intensified to ensure received any resignation and party and some MLAs want to adding that these rules have knowing the limits of one’s “We also demand that the cent for commercial purposes that hit the district’s Nehtaur peace ahead of the Friday added that the party's senior become Minister and Tohana been the bedrock of the armed office. “It is about understand- Government takes note of such and 10 per cent land for pub- area, and his family. prayers, keeping in mind the leadership will soon meet JJP MLA Devendra Babli had forces for decades. ing the idea of civilian a breach and censures the lic facilities. He said the scheme Congress leader Priyanka widespread violence that hit the Gautam and resolve the con- recently come out public “The rule is very clear that supremacy and preserving the General,” the party said. would include housing for Gandhi Vadra on Sunday met State last week. cerns and issues raised by him. and raised the issue of corrup- we are serving the country integrity of the institution that Section 21 of the Army Act Economically Weaker Sections the families of those dead in the Meanwhile, the process to "Ram Kumar Gautam is tion in the Government, and not the political forces and you head,” he said. prohibits any Army personnel (EWS) as well as stations for violence in Bijnor. confiscate property of those our elder and I do not mind his Dushyant claimed that there to express any political views as Congress leader Digvijay to attend or address any meet- pink and violet Metro lines. He When a mediaperson con- involved in damaging public words. He has contributed are no differences among party we have heard today are quite Singh also tweeted, “Leaders ing or to take part in any said 4,526 units will be for fronted the UP Minister by ask- assets during the protests gained greatly in the expansion of leaders. a wrong thing for any serving Not Those Who Lead Masses demonstration organised by middle class and 288 for EWS. ing him specifically whether it momentum with 372 persons party's organizational struc- "Party is united. JJP leaders personnel whether he is the top In Arson” Army Chief On anybody for any political or Shah also promised that 30 did not amount to discrimina- being served notices in differ- ture in the state," the JJP leader and members are working to gun or at the bottom rank. It is Citizenship Protests. I agree other purposes. per cent area would be marked tion, Agarwal retorted saying, ent districts. said. strengthen the organisation at The Deputy Chief Minister grass root level. Tohana MLA also cleared that it was great is a member of the monitoring honour when Gautam had committee of the membership " R   Q  R $%      himself brought the proposal campaign of the party in which for coalition in the meeting of campaign is being conducted From Page 1 astic about #solareclipse2019. Arvind Paranjpye, director of years. “Now people are more JJP's MLAs. from December 20 to January In Bhopal’s Moti Masjid, Unfortunately, I could not see the Nehru Planetarium in forthcoming and want to wit- He said that party's presi- 20. Babli is also monitoring the Muslim devotees offered the the Sun due to cloud cover but Mumbai, more than 600 peo- ness the event,” he said. The $    dent and other senior leaders of campaign by visiting various Namaz-e-Kusuf, a special I did catch glimpses of the ple watched the eclipse through annular eclipse of the Sun was JJP will hold consultations with districts of the State", he said. prayer, during the solar eclipse. eclipse in Kozhikode and other a projection box set up on the visible within a narrow corri- While thousands braved parts on live stream. Also premises. Paranjype, however, dor in the Northern    3 the cold to take a dip in rivers enriched my knowledge on was part of the Mumbai-based Hemisphere near the equator. & &   444 in different parts of the coun- the subject by interacting with astronomy group that wit- Its path passed through Saudi try in accordance with ancient experts,” he said on Twitter. nessed the eclipse from an air- Arabia, Qatar, Oman, UAE, From Page 1 night are Shivpuri which From Page 1 on a war footing to control the rituals, students, scientists and The PM said he enriched craft. India, northern Sri Lanka, Temperatures in the state recorded 6 degree Celsius, Earlier in November this locusts, sources said. Locust, a space enthusiasts queued up his knowledge on the subject by Jyotirvidya Pratishthan, a Malaysia, Singapore, Sumatra capital are likely to make Nowgong and Guna record- year, three to four lakh hectare kind of insect, attacks crops such outside telescopes set up in interacting with experts. When -based association of ama- and Borneo. weather conditions harsh as ed 7 degree Celsius, Sagar and crops have been destroyed by as millet, maize, wheat, barley, planetariums and other open a Twitter user posted a picture teur astronomers, said the The next solar eclipse will the day temperature would be Satna at 8 degree Celsius, locusts in Punjab, Haryana, rice, sugarcane, cotton, corn, spaces to watch the celestial of Modi looking up at the Sun organisation had set up tele- be visible from India on June recorded around 20 degree Sidhi, Rewa, Rajgarh and Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh. oats, peanuts and green vegeta- phenomenon unfold. and said it was becoming a scopes on the Z-Bridge of the 21, 2020. It will also be an Celsius while night temper- Ratlam recorded 9 degree The LWO, responsible for mon- tions. It causes extensive dam- Prime Minister Narendra meme, Modi took the remark city but the view of the eclipse annular solar eclipse. A narrow ature would be recorded Celsius. itoring, controlling the locust sit- age due to its feeding behaviour. Modi was among the enthusi- in his stride and responded was hindered by cloudy skies. path of annularity will pass around 10 degree Celsius. The weather conditions uation in scheduled desert area According to reports, swarm of asts who wanted to view the with, “Most welcome....Enjoy :)”. Though there are many myths through northern part of India. Among regions which would prevail and after little (SDA) mainly in Rajasthan and locusts has damaged cotton and annular phenomenon but the The MoES advised people associated with eclipses, From the rest part of the coun- recorded intense cold weath- relief intense cold conditions Gujarat and parts of Haryana mango crops in Pakistan this fog blocked his view. “Like to not watch the eclipse with Paranjype said there has been try it will be seen as partial er conditions during the are likely to prevail. and Punjab, has launched efforts year. many Indians, I was enthusi- the naked eye. According to a change in attitude over the solar eclipse, the MoES said.   !"#$%  $&'&(&" )*+ ),-.  . -'. R  "    '(  *  )  +  $*   +    * ( + %$    56  - '-45$ Hotel at Thaltej, and plots and Neesa Group, the ED said.  - '-45$ selectively took some of them. about the well being of the factories at Visalpur, Accused Gupta also float- I asked them to give me copies waiting journalists. he Enforcement Directorate Changodar and Daskroi. ed a number of paper/dummy he National Investigation of the seized files but they The NIA has accused T(ED) has attached assets Based on FIR and companies with these employ- TAgency (NIA) on Thursday declined. I was also asked if Gogoi of being involved in "ter- worth over 36 crore of a chargesheets filed by CID ees, as Directors and got opened searched the residence of Akhil had met militants when ror activities" and using the retired Gujarat cadre officer Crime, Gandhinagar Zone bank accounts of these compa- arrested RTI activist Akhil he was jailed earlier." passage of the Citizenship Sanjay Gupta and his family on under various sections of nies during 2012-13, it said. Gogoi in Guwahati and seized The NIA team also asked (Amendment) Bill to promote money laundering charge in a Indian Penal Code including These fictitious companies several documents and a laptop for the documents relating to enmity among different groups case of criminal misconduct criminal conspiracy and pro- further raised fabricated/bogus computer. the KMSS orchid environment that was against national inte- and misappropriation of funds visions of the Prevention of bills/invoices to MEGA without The activist, who advises park in Kaziranga but his wife gration. of Metro Link Express for Corruption Act, the ED had any supply of Goods/Services. various farmer organisations, told them that she had no He has also been accused Gandhinagar and initiated investigation under Dummy companies were was arrested when Assam was information about them. of having links with the banned Company Ltd, (MEGA). PMLA against Gupta and oth- awarded contract on pretext for hit by widespread protests The KMSS office in ultra-Left outfit CPI (Maoist). The ED has attached assets ers for misappropriation of supply of goods/services to against the Citizenship Gandhibasti area of the city was Meanwhile, a special NIA worth 36.12 crore held by public funds from MEGA. MEGA and bogus bills/invoic- (Amendment) Act. also raided and nine books, court in Guwahati on Thursday retired IAS officer of Gujarat Gupta was a 1985 batch IAS es were raised. These bogus Agency sleuths searched including one on the life of remanded to judicial custody cadre Sanjay Gupta, his wife officer of Gujarat cadre who quit bills/invoices were certified by Gogoi’s residence in Nizarapara China's revolutionary leader for 14 days. Neelu Gupta along with assets service in 2002 and started his the illegally recruited MEGA area of Guwahati and also Mao Zedong, Marxism, and The special court also held in the name of his Neesa own hospitality business in name officials and payments were seized copies of his PAN card, KMSS leaflets were seized, turned down NIA's plea to Group Companies like Neesa of Neesa Group of Companies. finally approved by him, as the an SBI debit card, an Electoral KMSS president Raju Bora extend his police custody for 10 Leisure Ltd., Neesa He became Chairman of MEGA administrative and financial Photo Identity Card (EPIC) %    &%'  3  $    said. days. Technologies, Neesa Agritech in April 2011 and continued till powers were vested in him. and a bank passbook.   3     The Krishak Mukti Gogoi was arrested by the & Foods Ltd. under Prevention Aug 2013. The proceeds of crime to After the three-hour search Sangram Samiti (KMSS) leader, NIA from Jorhat on December of Money Laundering Act. Investigation under PMLA the tune of 65.73 crore were that began at 7 am, the seized Kumar Chauley, files marked While showing a list of the whose NIA custody was to end 12 when large scale The attached properties revealed that Gupta, during his received from MEGA through items included a certificate of "Credit-Deposit ratio KMSS seized items to reporters in on Friday, was brought from protests against the CAA include flats in Ahemdabad at tenure as Chairman, MEGA, bogus bills/invoices as well as registration by the Registrar of File Misc", "Jail 2015", "Jail Guwahati after the searches, New Delhi and will be pro- going on in Assam under the Dhananjay Towers, Satellite, arbitrarily appointed his close illicit Cash/DD/Cheques Cooperative Societies, a letter Diary 2014" and "NHPC Gogoi's wife Gitashree Tamuly duced before a court here. stringent anti-terror law- Casela Towers, Jodhpur, one associates in various official deposits in the accounts of the from Superintending LSHEP 2015" featured in the said, "They (NIA) wanted to see While being taken to the Unlawful Activities flat at Agarwal Apartment, positions in MEGA who were dummy companies floated and Archaeologist of ASI Milan list. the files in our house and NIA court, Gogoi only inquired (Prevention) Act. Vejalpur, Satellite, Cambay previously working with him in controlled by Gupta. $  @         !      70

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Currently, Deepa   +  Bajwa is the Director General efence Minister Rajnath of Defence Estates, the topmost DSingh on Thursday said official of the DGDE.  - '-45$ General in Foreign Policy Meanwhile, the 8th Round most people residing in the "Not only the DGDE, but Bureau. of India-Japan bilateral con- Defence cantonment areas are it is also the responsibility of the ndia and Japan have vowed The two sides exchanged sultations on disarmament, poor and the cantonment officials below it that they Ito deepen maritime cooper- views on various topics of non-proliferation and export boards should ensure that such should go to the cantonments ation and also held consulta- mutual interest in control was held in Tokyo on people do not feel scared in any and listen to people's problems. tions on disarmament, non- maritime domain and identi- December 23. way due to the behaviour of the At a local level, people's prob- proliferation and export con- fied the means for The Indian side was led by board officers. lems are heard, but those trol. further strengthening their Pandey, while Japanese dele- In a Defence cantonment should be heard at this (senior The 5th Round of India- maritime cooperation, a gation was headed by area, public services such as officials') level too. This is my Japan Maritime Affairs Ministry of External Affairs Ambassador Hisajima Naoto, health, sanitation, primary edu- expectation," Singh said. Dialogue was held in Tokyo on statement said. Director-General, cation etc are provided by the "Your department (DGDE) Tuesday with the Indian dele- Both sides reiterated the Disarmament, Non- concerned cantonment board, .     !   0      P    is doing the important work of gation led by Indra Mani importance of the dialogue as Proliferation and Science which is a civic administration #   ,-89        !      managing defence land with an Pandey, Additional Secretary an important mechanism Department, Ministry of body under the Ministry of area of more than 17 lakh (Disarmament and between the two countries for Foreign Affairs. Defence. must ensure that because of should have the trust that if sibility. It is not just to rule over acres, catering to the land International Security Affairs), consultations on issues of During the consultations, "I was telling Army Chief your behaviour, they should they go to an officer in a can- them (poor people), it is to requirements of the three wings Ministry of External Affairs, mutual interest in maritime the two sides exchanged General Bipin Rawat that most not feel scared," Singh said in tonment area, they would be serve them. This precaution of the armed forces and while Japanese delegation was affairs and agreed to hold the views on issues of mutual inter- people living in the canton- his speech after giving away the given protection. must be taken," Singh said. providing civil and munic- led by Ambassador Yamanaka next round of talks on a mutu- est in these fields, the MEA ments are extremely poor. "Awards for Excellence 2019" to "It is my experience...That The cantonment boards ipal services to over 20 lakh res- A Osamu, Deputy Assistant ally convenient date in India, it said. From the bottom of my heart, the cantonment boards. a poor man's cry is the worst. work under the Directorate idents of 62 cantonment areas Minister, Deputy Director- said. I would like to appeal that you He added that such people God has given you this respon- General of Defence Estates of the country," he added. #/         !.1          %  +        /'0--  :            +    - '-45$ this year, the official said it has  - '-45$ )    sought condonation of delay in  - '-45$ nothing to do with the sum- filing the first plea and the our months after coming mary report and the final data he Supreme Court has dis- !  appeal in the high court. mother, who was convict- Fout with an estimate that the was to be finalised by the end Tmissed a plea of Delhi %  %  The DU said the permis- Aed and sentenced to life country has over 2,900 tigers, of December. University (DU) on account of sion sought by M/s Young imprisonment for allegedly the apex body tasked with their "There were no discrepan- inordinate delay in challenging  & / Builders Private Limited for strangulating her baby hours conservation has proposed to cies in the report. It was not a 2011 decision of the DDA  %& construction of a group hous- after her birth as she was a girl, increase the number of Tiger even a final report. The deci- allowing a private real estate ing society in the University has got relief from the Supreme Cells to perform the task of big sion to expand the Tiger Cell is firm to construct a high-rise in %  %  enclave was violative of the Court which acquitted her by cats' head count more effi- independent of any study done the university campus without Master Plan of Delhi-2021 and saying that it was "totally ciently and transparently. so far. It is a call to improve the any height restriction. was against the larger public unnatural" for the woman to A senior Government offi- efficiency of the system. We Delhi Development The single judge bench interest, "given the fact that the kill her own child. cial told PTI that the National will come out with the final Authority (DDA), on May 12, took note of the "delay and project site in question and its The apex court, while Tiger Conservation Authority report by the end of this 2011, had allowed M/S Young laches" and dismissed DU's vicinity are within the North allowing the appeal filed by the of Justices M M On August 26, 2007 post- (NTCA), a statutory body month. The Ministry will take Builders (P) Ltd to construct a plea on April 27, 2015. Campus of the University and woman challenging the March Shantanagoudar and R mortem was conducted and on under the Ministry of a call on when to release it," Y high-rise group housing soci- The DU did not get its act that it contains various histor- 2010 judgement of the Delhi Subhash Reddy said. August 31, 2007 a case was reg- Environment, has sent a note to V Jhala, one of the lead authors ety in the north campus of together even after dismissal of ical and archaeological build- High Court upholding her In its December 17 verdict, istered against the mother for the Wildlife Institute of India of the tiger estimation report Delhi University. its first plea and filed the con- ings". conviction and sentence, said the bench said it was clear from the alleged offence under sec- (WII), which too comes under and senior scientist from the Out of total three hectares sequential intra-court appeal It also alleged that the there was no "clear evidence on the evidence on record that tion 302 (murder) of the Indian the Ministry, to revamp the WII, said. land, which was earlier given to before a two-judge bench of the location of various ladies' hos- record" to hold her guilty of the immediately after birth, the Penal Code (IPC). Tiger Cell and increase its Tiger Cell is the body Rail Corporation High Court after a delay of 916 tels of the University in close offence. baby was put in an incubator The trial court had deliv- numbers. responsible for the counting of (DMRC) by the Ministry of days. vicinity of the proposed con- "It is true that in the post- with oxygen mask and she had ered the judgment in According to official big cats and has DNA finger- Defence for construction of the The larger bench of the struction site raised "an impor- mortem, doctor has opined neither opened her eyes nor December 2009 and sentenced sources, the country's lone Tiger prints from tiger reserves metro station, two hectares high court declined to condone tant privacy concern". that death (of child) is due to cried. her to life imprisonment after Cell is based in Dehradun and across the nation with their was leased out to the private the delay of over 2.5 years in fil- The top court bench com- asphyxia and there were marks According to the prosecu- holding her guilty of murder- it has been a challenge to source photographic evidence. firm for building the housing ing the appeal to challenge the prising Justices R Banumathi of strangulation, but at the tion, the woman had delivered ing the child. and disseminate information The NTCA and WII had society. judgment of 2015 and it led the and AS Bopanna said it was in same time if totality of evidence the child at a hospital here on The woman had with just one such office. released a summary report of The Delhi University DU to file an appeal before the agreement with the two judge- on record is considered, motive August 24, 2007 and had approached the high court Asked if the move is aimed tiger count in India in July this moved a plea before a single top court. ments of the is not established and it is allegedly strangulated the baby challenging the trial court's at removing the alleged dis- year with its data showing a 33 judge bench of the Delhi High Assailing the DDA's action which dismissed the plea of the totally unnatural for the appel- as she was a girl after she was verdict. The high court had in crepancies in the tiger popula- per cent rise in the number of Court after a delay of seven to to allow a high-rise building DU on the ground of delay and lant-mother to kill her own handed over to her on the same March 2010 upheld the trial tion estimates released in July big cats in the country. eight years. inside the campus, the DU laches. baby by strangulation," a bench date. court's verdict. "     +72%,"    !    - '-45$ as the mercury "-%-*"- was the coldest place recording mum temperature is at least 4.5 Celsius and minus 13 degrees continued its downward trend. a low of 4 degrees notches below the normal. A Celsius respectively. Leh elhi could be in for the sec- Temperatures are likely to drop 4$;-4: "8 '8 Celsius. Faridkot (4.5), "severe cold day" is when the recorded a low of minus 18 Dond coldest December of further in the coming days. Ludhiana (6.6), Patiala (6.4), maximum temperature is at degrees Celsius, the weather & the century even as it may rain This is due to an unusual "5- $ "5- Halwara (5.8). least 6.5 degrees Celsius below office said. Pahalgam, in south in several parts of the country and powerful spell of "Western According to the IMD, the normal, he said. Kashmir's Anantnag district,  - '-45$ as we enter the New Year. Disturbances", interaction with 8%$1 '*: snowfall in middle and high The Drass belt of Kargil was the coldest recorded place "The average mean maxi- lower level easterlies, has made hills of the Himachal Pradesh district became the coldest in the valley, he added. ithin a few months of her mum temperature(MMT) of the J&K, Himachal Pradesh, *: %-" between December 31 and place in the twin Union Katra, which serves as the Wswitching from BJP to the December (till December 26) is Uttrakhand, Punjab, Haryana, January 1 is expected. Territories of J&K and Ladakh base camp for pilgrims visiting Congress, former MP Savitri 19.85. The expected MMT for Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, The weather remained dry recording a minimum tem- the Vaishno Devi shrine in Bai Phule on Thursday resigned December 2019 is 19.15. If it and Uttar Pradesh temperatures in some Indian and cold with the minimum perature of minus 30.2 degrees Reasi district of Jammu region, from the grand old party too happens, then it will be the sec- shiver for the past fortnight. cities below 12 degrees temperature settling 2 to 3 Celsius. recorded 3.2 degrees Celsius, and announced that she will ond coldest December of the The rain will bring down the Celsius. degrees Celsius below normal The minimum tempera- the official said, adding that form her own outfit. She ten- century," the India temperature further in these Cold wave intensified in at many places in Himachal ture across Kashmir and Bhadarwah township of Doda dered her resignation on the Meteorological Department regions. Punjab and Haryana as the Pradesh. Low visibility due to Ladakh remained several district was, however, the cold- ground that her "voice is not playing "divisive politics" and said on Thursday. For now, IMD officials said that minimum and maximum tem- dense fog was observed in the degrees below the freezing est place in the region with a being heard" in the Congress. was "misusing money to con- December 1997 holds the the thick cover of smog on the peratures further plummeted in plains and lower hills, includ- point. Night temperatures minimum recorded tempera- Phule had joined the struct temples and statues." record of being the coldest Indo-Gangetic plains and the the two states. Narnaul in ing Una and southwestern part plummeted at most places in ture of minus 2.7 degrees Congress in May this year. "Constitution is under month in the century in north uneven warming of the Indian Haryana was the coldest place of Kangra district, it said. The the region, with Celsius, followed by Banihal at The Congress had hoped that threat under the BJP regime. India since 1901. Ocean has a role to play in this with the mercury dropping to minimum temperature in recording its coldest night at minus 2.2 degrees tempera- her strong Dalit connection BJP wants to do away with The IMD also maintained robust spell of 2.5 degrees Celsius. Shimla and Dalhousie was 1 minus 5.0 degrees Celsius.. ture. would help the party in eastern reservation and I believe that if that north, northwestern and Western Disturbances, the Hisar was also chilling with and 1.7 degrees Celsius respec- The minimum temperature in Kashmir is currently under Uttar Pradesh in the 2019 Lok anyone can stop BJP at the central regions of the country extratropical storms originat- a minimum of 3.3 degrees tively. winter capital Jammu settled at the grip of 'Chillai-Kalan'-the Sabha elections. Phule, how- national level, it has to be the are expected to get rainfall ing in the Mediterranean Celsius. The minimum tem- According to Kuldeep 6.4 degrees Celsius, 1.8 notch- 40-day harshest period of win- ever, failed to garner enough Congress and not the smaller from December 31 to January region causing sudden winter perature also dropped in Srivastava, head of the India es below the season's average. ter when the chances of snow- votes from Bahraich, from parties. This is why I decided 3. rain to the northwestern parts Rohtak (3.4), Bhiwani (4.8), Meteorological Department's The minimum and maximum fall are most frequent and where she was the sitting MP. to join the Congress," she had Severe cold day conditions of the Indian subcontinent, Sirsa (4.3), Ambala (5.3) and regional forecasting centre, a temperatures in Drass were maximum and the temperature Phule had quit BJP in Dec said in May. Prior to BJP, Phule persisted in north and north- which have brought the day Karnal (6). Bathinda in Punjab "cold day" is when the maxi- recorded at minus 30.2 degrees drops considerably. last year, alleging that party was was with the BSP.   !"#$%  $&'&(&" )*+ ),-.    2 ! ! +(,&+6   E" '      &+6 6 )')0-/1)'$$-2 '    8     9 :.;            %          "   A0/F  (    (               + + 5    "    3       G "   $ O      ,     1  O  )                     #               #      789=           789> ?     %    4                       O            (              ,   (       4                              "#$% ,"    .                              4       s the year comes to a close, in this week’s article, let’s take a look back                 ( to see how we have come by. The        4            year 2019 marked the com-                     mencement of polling in the Aworld’s largest democracy. The rhetoric  !  6  4 )!64*      @ <  ( espoused by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)                #   led to it winning the elections with a comfort-                  able majority of its own. After the swearing- in of the Narendra Modi-led BJP         Government, the nation saw the appointment #              of Amit Shah as the Union Home Minister.    #               ( This is when things got interesting. Ever since,           #      )   the year has been most obviously punctuat- ed by events with the Home Minister at its * # S                   - #  ( forefront.      %       (      ( In the years between 2014 and 2019, Shah       #            was primarily viewed as the orchestrator of the BJP’s victories in a few States, some     #              through strategy and others through blatant         #   %     ( subversion of democracy. Each such victory       7878        6       — whether through subversion or strategy — was lauded by certain media organsiations.                   ( Some news anchors came up with the kind       #             of servile praise that would make even the                     ( Korean Central News Agency look on in admi- ration.              # 4 ( After giving another five years to the takes the concerns of its people how the CAA goes against the Recently, the Cabinet gave a                  ( Modi-led BJP Government, we saw Shah rise into account. However, there spirit of the Constitution and the go ahead to the National                        to a much more prominent position, in was no debate or discussion on very idea of India that the Population Register (NPR). administration and in the Government. This Article 370 as to what could have framers of our Constitution and There is widespread fear that the ,            %  ,   # )%,#* is surely distinct from the much more clan- been the best way to take such a the builders of modern India data collected as part of the             6,(4A  6,(A4      destine and behind-the-scenes role that move forward. had envisaged. I will not go into NPR will be the basis of the NRC. ,                   Home Ministers have been given while Instead, what we have seen these details again but the per- This squarely provides the working for the party. As the BJP president, and what we continue to see is son leading the CAA and the answer. While the Home            789B   rumours and discussions were already doing an entire State still under lock- one who forced it down our col- Minister and the Prime Minister .           @          the rounds about just how much power and down. This is a State, where lective throats was the Home may deny any link between the %                    influence Shah held even then. But now, there internet services have been shut 8 $" *-* Minister. The standard proce- NRC and the NPR, they have is hardly any debate. He is possibly the most down for almost half a year now "5*" 8% "5- dure for the passage of any Bill given us little reason for their                     powerful man in the Government and its and where the local leadership calls for it to be presented before decisions. It is this trust that the        4S :88(      agenda is being driven by the Home Minister. has been silenced through not '*"- 8 "5- the Standing Committee. Prime Minister and the Home                   %   The change in dynamics was visible even only the internet embargo but $*%8 - However, in the case of CAA, the Minister will need to earn back.             #          before the new Government was sworn in, also through house arrests. From Government did not deem it fit So, it appears that from the most visibly during the Press conference held the reports that have emerged in 8--- K to take the views of the date of the infamous Press con- #       A   4        ( by the Prime Minister. If one were to watch the international media and Opposition or of the public. ference — the only one by the         $ (        4   the briefing even now, it will be evident that from what we have seen in "5- 84: 8- !: The CAA and the National Prime Minister — till today, the             #      the address was led by Shah. It was incredi- other States, where internet ser- "5- $%- Register of Citizens (NRC) are BJP and the ruling Government ble to see a Prime Minister, the head of the vices have been shut (such as two sides of the same coin. It was are increasingly being cast in the        4         ,  Government, look at the soon-to-be Home Assam and Uttar Pradesh), %$$"- K "$44 interesting to see the juxtaposi- image of the Home Minister.              4    ( Minister before answering questions put major repercussions and reac- "8'*: "5- !@ tion between the Prime Minister’s A word of warning though    %                 ( before him. This set the tone for 2019. tion of the people of Kashmir to understanding of the NRC and should be in order. The year 2019 Then came one of the first significant such a move can really be *' "5- 4$1 that of the Home Minister. In has till now been the year of Shah       #            decisions of this Government, the abrogation gauged after the internet block- 187-%-" *- light of the protests against the but he would do well to note that   6    4S           ( of Article 370 and the bifurcation of Jammu ade is lifted. All we can hope is divisive CAA, the Prime Minister the end of the year has seen a                   $  & Kashmir into two Union Territories. that the damage and oppression $-*$14: spoke to the nation to presum- political voice emerge: Those of Whatever one’s views on the change in sta- caused by such a move does not !-$1 *" $ ably pacify those, who have been India’s young and old <    <S      C;     787;  tus of Kashmir may be, there can be little result in us losing Kashmir alto- protesting against the Act. Constitutionalists, who have                    debate that this change in status came with gether. I believe that the entire "5- $%*1- 8 "5- However, he left the citizens grown tired of the oppressive, little or no discussion or debate with the real episode could have been han- 58%- %$$"- largely confused. divisive and high-handed acts of stakeholders in Kashmir, namely the people dled by involving all stakehold- The Prime Minister said the Government and have decid- of the former State. Instead, what we saw was ers, especially the people, who that the Government does not ed to voice their concern in a  ) that in the blink of an eye, a tectonic change are the most affected. intend to implement a pan-India largely peaceful and democratic in India’s political and Constitutional land- The same brazen approach NRC. However, Shah explicitly manner. The BJP would do well          scapes was thrust down our throats even was followed by the stated on more than one occasion to note that while 2019 may have          before we were given a chance to debate the Government during the passage (including in Parliament) that the been largely about Shah, 2020 niceties. It is good governance and frankly, a of the Citizenship Amendment NRC will take place all across the could well belong to our youth.  %         basic principle of our federal democracy that Bill, now the Citizenship country. So who’s right? Whom (The writer is a former IPS       the Central Government, while exercising a Amendment Act (CAA). I have do we trust? Is it the Prime officer, a former MP and current- # decision that affects each citizen of the State, already written in detail about Minister or the Home Minister? ly a member of the AAP) $ !  ) $!*  +                       ,     +   / ! )              %   (  $  *         $    , (+,  J  "  1      -+      )-*            & "     )     ++& $ J 5 )%   & $  ,)  !   -+  ) !-*      *      1$  ,      +              +         ,        + & !                    +                     .        O  (   (&     &      & (   + (  &             0  #,! ! ), -#(-#4!/() 04, / $   )   *    ( K  I K * ;  K *,( K*,  :          ,            (                    (  ,                  ) )  "  ) + )) $   / )+" 1                         !-        (          against the CAA, Roy was seen to      be suggesting, “Whenever the offi-               (   cials come to collect your informa-   %        (      ( Sir — This refers to the report,       L"  ( M '+( tion for NPR, you can give wrong                 “UP rioters get recovery notices” AM& -  '+(      (  +) names like Ranga-Billa or Kungfu- "    AA       +& "          S      2   %    (December 26). The Yogi Kutta and also give wrong address Adityanath Government is doing $  %  + '  $%'     like 7, Race Course Road.” In her  S              3    the right thing. Those indulging +      +   +    + + hurry to criticise the Government,                 ++ 4S   in rioting, arson and violence  +          & *++ it is surprising that she is ignorant     damaging public and private   $%' +   +  ,    of what Ranga-Billa stands for. It properties have no place in a 3     +      +  ) refers to two hardcore criminals, #           $!        civilised society. They need to be  $ & '  ) + +     who made headlines for the bru-      S            (    ( dealt with strictly. No one has +    (    +     + tal rape-murder of a young girl and    !- 5               ( stopped these vandals from +  +              ) her brother in the 70s. expressing their views and regis-     $   '+( AF& *  (  + Padmini Raghavendra                      ( tering their protest in a democ-     (        Secunderabad   !- # %              ratic manner. Causing inconve-     &     0  $    )0$*   6  0$   7898 nience to the public in general is $   +  $         (           & * +    in no way Constitutional, refer- M000  & "  5   +    +                  788:       $!     ring to which has become a fash- +  *    $ & $               & %         !- # !-        788; ! :   -+  ion these days. I hope the educat-  $        +  +  *& + +   & "    +  ,   Sir — It is ironical that a German )!    -+   4   4  - * !  788:  ed masses, at least, do not get mis- !     $               & "  1   ,  student was subjected to such a led by divisive forces, which are +    & '                +     ,) harsh treatment for taking part in   $!           !4-      out to disturb the communal 5    & "        ++   +   +     anti-CAA protest. After all, the        $              harmony of the country.    (         & "  '          + & IIT-M owes its existence to tech-                   6   Rakesh Singh      5   $    + (-(( nical and financial assistance Lucknow +           )  from the former Government of                    West Germany. The student’s act,  %  S    %            in no way, had the potential of      -  <            $! against the Citizenship Amendment This will provide protesting ing controversy over the citizenship even remotely causing any prej- Act and the National Register of agitators, backed by Opposition law, activist Arundhati Roy, the udice to our national interest.                    Sir — The Union Cabinet’s Citizens (NRC) is still to die down, parties and the media, an oppor- torch bearer of the “liberals”, urged Tripti                announcement that the National is certainly ill-timed. It is a surprise tunity to stir the pot of protest and like-minded persons to lie or fur- Via email     (          S ( Population Register (NRC) will be that the Cabinet failed to put off the agitation against the Modi nish fake names when NPR is gen- updated before September 2020, decision for at least a few weeks for Government. As if this was not erated through house-to-house    $  7  ,    coming at a time when agitation normalcy to be fully restored. enough in the backdrop of the rag- enumeration. Speaking at a protest ! )) ,0)4# ,A./(#!3/   !"#$%  $&'&(&" )*+ ),-.    3 ! ! # ")+ )  &$'()+)"&$'()            3    &   &          3  &  3             L    L '     +   ,     + 18                    <   

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(  ( Wildlife Protection Act, 1972, alienated the tribes- 3F000 *- 8              ,    ( men from their sources of livelihood. Ousted from 8-" 4*' K          the forest land their ancestors had occupied for gen- 3N000 *-           "     ( erations, the primitive tribal group eked its living from weaving baskets made from bamboo and for- '-               8%%$":                est creepers and manual scavenging. his own land would come true. Like lives but have equal decision-making crimination is technically illegal now, What pushed the Koragas further back was the 8-" $15" many others, he was reconciled to till- powers, share the household expenses such practices continue where inequal-                 *' A000 *-   #              custom of anjal, wherein hair, nails and other ined- ing somebody else’s land to earn a living. and even have separate bank accounts. ities and prejudices remain. It has also ible substances are mixed in food and given to them '- In 2003, when the Koraga Federation’s But it was not always so. Spending been difficult for some to completely  %.      5   (     to eat by the upper caste in the belief that their trou- $'$7$'*4 movement for lands rights led to the allo- a part of his meagre income as a sweep- overcome the trauma. Although Shina   P      Q       ( bles would, thus, be transferred to the Koragas. For 8-" $15" cation of land in Udupi district, Dogu’s er at a hotel on alcohol had pushed Shina still struggles at times with a feeling of   #        ((    generations, the community followed this inhu- $ *''$"$8 "8 dreams came true. further into indebtedness and poverty. inferiority born out the practice of anjal,              ( man custom. Food leftovers and old clothes thus /000 *- 8 It took him one year of hard physi- Life took a turn for the better after the his wife Mamta has been able to break           given was the only way for survival. *1$4"*4 cal work to make his piece of land, over- uneducated Shina became a part of the these shackles. Having studied till                  But Dogu was able to stand up against anjal run by brambles and weeds, worthy of Koraga Federation in 1999. Not only was Class 8, Mamta, who is also the secre- and rebuild his life, thanks to the Koraga Federation 4*' 8 "$!*4 cultivation. Jasmine plants, given by the he able to overcome his alcohol addic- tary of the taluk Koraga committee,                 ( 8%%$"$-                 (comprising community members), Samagra Federation, were the first to be planted. tion with their help but his incomes knows her rights, thanks to various             %.     Grameena Ashrama (SGA), a local community- As the money earned through the sale improved after he opted for jasmine cul- awareness programmes initiated by      -6.     #      based organisation, and ActionAid India, a not- of the jasmine flowers increased, Dogu tivation, which offered livelihood reha- the Federation and its partners, SGA for-profit working for the empowerment of the planted vegetables, coconut, areca nut bilitation. Although it took time, once and ActionAid India. This knowledge                   marginalised. Together, they were able to break the and banana. Once a daily wage labour- profits made from selling the jasmine prompted her to register her four-year-              cycle of caste-based oppression and stigma faced er, Dogu made appropriate use of the started trickling in, Shina ploughed a old daughter at the local anganwadi and     #           by the Koragas like Dogu. They supported the com- land he was allotted. It is no wonder then large part of his income back to improve ensure her regular attendance.                munity through a slew of measures to help them that his is considered a model farm. cultivation. This helped increase produc- Although the only Koraga child in that    (          access their right to land and housing and become Ashok Shetty, SGA coordinator, tion and boost profits. anganwadi, Mamta’s daughter has not               economically independent. The initiative has not who saw the land before it was given to His wife Mamta, who received train- faced discrimination that her mother        #         only helped them restore their dignity but has also Dogu, said not many of them had ing from the Government’s Integrated did when she went to school. Thanks                   awakened the community to their right to educa- thought the transformation was possible. Tribal Development Programme under to the enabling environment created by              tion, health, nutrition and livelihoods. “The credit goes to Dogu. It was not easy their livelihood scheme to make and sell the Federation with the help of Mamta               Over the last 10 years, this intervention has to toil on this land without help. But costume jewellery, also pools in a part of and other women of the community. helped secure nearly 49,000 acres of forest land — Dogu showed it was possible and this is her income. “Since both of us work now Community members like Dogu, 5                47,000 acres under community forest rights and why others, who have received land, are and share the expenses, I no longer need Shina and Mamta are the backbone of    #             2,000 acres under individual forest rights, in addi- encouraged to follow his example,” said to take loans to make two ends meet as the Koraga movement to end oppres-              ( tion to 1,000 acres of agricultural land for tribal Shetty. I did before,” said Shina. sion, discrimination and stigma. The                  ( communities. Earlier this month, this remarkable Even Dogu believes that cultivating Both are keen to give their three chil- work put in by the Koraga Federation             #   accomplishment was chosen among 200 global ini- his land gave him the opportunity to dren a good life. They want to make sure and its partners to make the commu-             ( tiatives as the 2019 Gold Award winner by World become his own master. “This farm has that none of them are forced to follow the nity believe in itself and stand up for   (    (     Habitat in recognition of the collective achieve- given me so much. I may not have much callous practice of anjal. Shina knows their rights has brought tangible out- #              ( ment by ActionAid, SGA and Koraga Federation savings but I also don’t have any debts. what effect it had on him as he had comes evident in the land secured and      (        to empower the community reclaim their rights I am happy and live a life of dignity,” he accompanied his parents to collect left- advances in education, nutrition and                  and dignity. This annual award, given in partner- stated. over food as a part of anjal rituals as a gender equality. But the biggest achieve- ship with the UN Habitat, honours transformative Getting their own land has also been child and, later, as an adult. It was only ment is their aspirations for a life of dig-  @        interventions that support the community to access transformational for 45-year-old Shina after he became a part of the Federation nity and the determination to claim                 (  their rights to land and housing. and his 39-year-old wife, Mamta Koraga. that Shina became aware that anjal had their rights. There is self belief within  -,!             ( Dogu became the first Koraga to benefit from For residents of village Kanjarkatte in been legally abolished under the the community members that they can               this programme in Udipi district where 117 acres Udupi district, the couple are a role Karnataka Koragas (Prohibition of Ajalu be the change. However long the jour-             of land has been secured so far for the communi- model for the community. Not only have Practice) Act in 2000. ney, they are willing to walk.          ty. Dogu never thought his dream of cultivating they used their land to turn around their Although anjal and caste-based dis- (The writer is a senior journalist) ,                       #+" 4-           

the Supreme Court recognising trans- rights and serves as a proof of recog- to leave home and reside with the com- sons. Further, it only includes five rep- ing the many ways in which transgen- gender rights and decriminalising nition of identity as a transgender per- munity members. Further, rehabilita- resentatives from the community. This der families have been traditionally same-sex relationships. The decisions son. While details of how such certifi- tion centres may not be an ideal alter- is too small a number when compared structured in India. in both NALSA vs Union of India and cates will be issued have been left to the native because often, such establish- to the size of the council. The Act also Deficiencies of the Act, therefore, Navtej Singh Johar & Ors vs Union of delegated legislation, the possibility of ments do not possess the requisite fails to provide cogent methods for make what would have otherwise India marked the culmination of advo- introducing invasive procedures to degree of sensitivity to deal with the grievance redressal. Therefore, while been a welcome legislation, counterpro- cacy initiatives and years of struggle that prove one’s identity may have a detri- issues of transgender persons. one of the functions of the council is ductive, unresponsive and incapable of "8!4$1 $1 the LGBT+ community had to under- mental effect on the right to self iden- In the case of adults, such a pro- to redress grievances of the transgen- meeting the needs of the community. "-*.") 4"5 go to successfully build their cases. The tification, which has been recognised vision ignores the fact that transgen- der persons, it is unlikely to redress The Act, thus, fails to maintain focus 8 "5$1 "8 8%- top court’s judgments not only expand- by the top court and High Courts. der persons above the age of 18 are individual grievances with any degree on the concerns of the community and 4( ++ espite nation-wide protests, the ed rights but were also cognizant of the It is unclear whether applying for competent to make their decisions. of reasonable efficiency given its com- points to the lack of public consulta- Transgender Persons realities of LGBT+ persons in India. such a certificate of identity is manda- Further, community members have plex composition. While the Act tions in its drafting process.     D(Protection of Rights) Act, Read together, both judgments lay the tory. For instance, will those transgen- rued that while the Act provides for requires establishments to appoint a Considering the progressiveness of the    + +   2019, received presidential assent on foundation for expanding the citizen- der persons, who already possess iden- punishment for sexual abuse, the complaint officer to redress griev- apex court judgments, law reforms     +   December 5, 2019 and became a law. ship rights of LGBT+ persons. tity documents identifying themselves same is much lesser when compared ances for violation of the provisions, no seem like the obvious next step in real-   Ostensibly enacted to protect the rights Law reforms post these orders have as such, also have to apply? The Act also to punishment for similar offences in powers have been conferred on the ising equal citizenship rights. However, -    & !   of the transgender community, the Act not followed up on the court’s orders does not envisage any streamlined the male-female binary in the Indian complaint officer. No details have the Transgender Rights Act indicates seeks to dilute core promises, includ- in responding to the lived realities of appellate procedures in case the certifi- Penal Code. This creates a hierarchy been provided regarding how such an the many pitfalls in enacting legal +    ing the right to self identification, which the community. Therefore, while the cate of identity is not issued. This may of condemnation between offences officer would redress complaints. frameworks without fully accounting        was the cornerstone of the Supreme Transgender Persons (Protection of lead to costly and time-consuming lit- against different identities that are The definitions of the Act also indi- for the realities and views of those they          Court’s landmark judgment in NALSA Rights) Act, 2019, should have been a igation in case of denial. otherwise similar in substance. cate a lack of conceptual clarity regard- seek to protect. Any way forward for + ( + (+,   vs Union of India. There appears to be step in the direction of progressive law Members of the transgender com- The structure of the legislation also ing the realities of the transgender com- law reform, therefore, must keep the a unique situation, where a supposed- reform, in its current form, it points to munity have also pointed out how pro- renders it difficult to implement and munity. The definition of “transgender LGBT+ community front and centre       ly progressive law meant to further a glaring disconnect between lawmak- visions on the right to residence with does not provide realistic ways to persons” includes “persons with inter- and should proceed on the basis of      (  rights and ensure welfare of the trans- ers and the ground realities faced by immediate families or in the alterna- enforce the rights guaranteed by it. For sex variations”, thereby conflating the extensive community consultations.       gender community has not only led to the transgender community. tive, requiring them to reside in reha- instance, the pan-India National two identities. Moreover, the definition After all, rights are only meaningful if +  disappointment but will also alter For instance, the Act prescribes a bilitation centres, are ignorant of social Council for Transgender Persons is a of “family” by restricting itself to rela- in their operation, they respond to the  6+   their existing rights. long and complicated process to obtain realities. This because natal families are mammoth body, which is unlikely to tionships of “blood or marriage or realities of the right-holders. LGBT+ rights have made signifi- a certificate of identity. This certificate often sites of violence for young trans- meet with any degree of regularity to adoption”, continues to operate in a het- (The writer is a Research Fellow at A0A0& cant strides over the past decade, with is of immense importance as it confers gender persons, thereby forcing them address issues faced by transgender per- eronormative context, thereby ignor- the Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy)         !"#$%  $&'&(&" )*+ ),-.  (   #   "34

 %%!*$ Thorat and Nitin Raut of the Congress, Eknath Shinde P0     he much-awaited expan- and Subhash Desai of the Shiv Tsion of the Maharashtra Sena and Jayant Patil and council of Ministers will take Chhagan Bhujbal of the NCP      Q place on December 30, took oath alongwith Thackeray Congress sources said on on November 28. Mumbai: Ahead of the A senior party leader said Thursday. According to the power- expansion of the Maharashtra most of the ministries allocat- As many as 36 Ministers sharing formula agreed on by Cabinet next week, the State ed to the party do not have could take oath on that day, the three parties, the Shiv Sena unit of the Congress is “direct connection” with peo- sources added. would have 16 ministers (apart unhappy about the portfolios ple. Currently the Uddhav from chief minister), NCP 14 allocated to it, a party source “Ministries such as animal Thackeray-led Cabinet has six and the Congress 12. said on Thursday. husbandry and textiles which ministers besides Chief of deputy Chief Minister, When asked if NCP chief State unit leaders have we have got should be merged Minister Thackeray. Thorat said, cryptically, “Media Sharad Pawar — seen as the conveyed their resentment to with agriculture and indus- The swearing-in is likely to can run this story.” architect of this unlikely the Congress high command, tries,” he said. take place at the Vidhan As to why the cabinet alliance — was the `remote he added. The much-awaited The issue is likely to be Bhavan (state legislature expansion which was likely to control' of the State expansion is likely to take discussed with Congress gen- complex) here. take place earlier this week was Government, Thorat said the place on December 30. eral secretary Mallikarjun Meanwhile, state Congress delayed, he said the entire state three parties have framed a Currently the portfolios have Kharge who will be in chief Balasaheb Thorat told administration was in common minimum program, been distributed among six Mumbai on December 28 for reporters here that his party's for the winter session of the leg- which guides the Government. Ministers who make up the the foundation day pro- list of the leaders who would islature till last week. The Shiv Sena joined cabinet — two each from the gramme of the party, he said. take oath as ministers was “It takes time to make hands with the Congress and Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress. “If a good deal is not ready. preparations for the swearing- NCP, its traditional adversaries, The Congress has been worked out now, the Congress When asked if the in of so many Ministers,” he after its alliance with the BJP given revenue and PWD, will suffer in Maharashtra,” the Congress was seeking the post said. collapsed. among other portfolios. leader said. PTI )            $  3      )     "    (/3  &2:( 5  #%'   1         >    ,  

Mumbai: The Maharashtra the flag march. Constitution was written under             Pradesh Congress Committee Thorat said it was on the leadership of Dr Babasaheb (MPCC) will take out 'Save December 28, 1885 that the Ambedkar. And the country is  7$@*:* *'* Bharat-Save Constitution' flag Congress was founded in run as per this Constitution, the march here on December 28, Mumbai. Congress leader said. nding suspense over three on the occasion of the party's In the very first session of “But the BJP Government's EState capitals for AP, Chief foundation day, to protest the party, it was decided to unconstitutional and anti- demo- Minister YS Jaganmohan against the “undemocratic and adopt the policy of 'All India cratic policies and decisions are Reddy is in all likelihood to unconstitutional” policies of One Nation' and it vowed to causing divisions in the society announce at the end of the the BJP Government. overcome any discrimination on the basis of religion. The Friday’s Cabinet meeting that a The flag march will start at whether based on caste, region Centre has attacked the basic full-fledged capital city will be 10 am from August Kranti or religion, Thorat said. tenets of the Constitution like located in . Maidan and end near the “Keeping up with this freedom of speech, brother- Citing shortage of funds to Lokmanya Tilak statue at motto, the Congress started the hood, democracy,” he alleged. set up capital city of interna- Girgaum chowpatty, party’s Independence movement. It The BJP government has tional repute at Amaravati, the State unit chief and Revenue was during this movement that brought back the divide-and- Friday’s Cabinet meeting will Minister Balasaheb Thorat told India got independence under rule policy used by the British.    %%!*$ +&&   % choose setting up of the capi- private land, assignment land, committee will also be consti- reporters here on Thursday. the leadership of Lokmanya And so we will have to once   6 % tal in Visakhapatnam. patta land and so on. It will tuted soon to look into the mat- He appealed to the secular Tilak and Mahatma Gandhi,” again start an independence wo Army jawans were Fulfilling the long-pending negotiate the terms and con- ter. organisations, party workers he added. movement, this time against Tkilled and five others    demand of the Rayalaseema ditions of surrender of the The decision of establish- and citizens to participate in After the Independence, our the BJP rule, he said. PTI injured in a mishap that took  7  region, the State’s High Court land with the affected farmers. ing a single capital will set at place during bridge construc-  8% is going to be located in The committee will have rest all clamours from various tion training at the College of Kurnool. If it is not feasible, in ministers Buggana regions, mainly from Military Engineering (CME) in  %% 8  that case at least the High Rajendranath Reddy, Botsa Rayalaseema region, to set up Pune on Thursday.   % Court Bench will be located in Satyanarayana, Kannababu and capital city in their region. The jawans were undergo- &&  Kurnool. A clear picture in this Narayanaswamy. The direct fall out of the ing bridge construction train- regard will emerge after the The State Government decision would be nullify the ing at the Pune-based CME, response of the Supreme Court may also consider extending TDP in its stronghold- the when a tower support col- Official sources said that is out. the payment of lease for the North Coastal Andhra. With lapsed all of a sudden. those killed were two combat Fearing revolt from farm- lands by another five years the shifting of the capital to An official defence engineers, while those injured ers, the venue of the State apart from the current five year Visakhaptnam, the elimina- spokesperson identified the included a junior commis- Cabinet meeting has been kept lease period. The Government tion of the TD Party would be two Jawans killed in the mishap sioned officer. secret. Heavy security bando- is also considering giving devel- total in the region, which stood as Lance Havildar Sanjivan PK A Court of Inquiry has bust arrangements are made at oped lands in Visakhapatnam as a strong bastion for the and Naik Waghmode BK, who been ordered into the incident, Prakasam barrage and along in lieu of the lands acquired. regional party in all elections. succumbed to injuries at a while the families of the jawans other routes for the meeting to However, a final decision is not Chief Minister military hospital. killed in the mishap have been avoid any untoward incident. yet taken. Jaganmohan Reddy’s decision “Troops were undergoing informed. Located at Dapodi According to Government The TDP regime’s promise to shift the capital to bridge construction training at near Pune, the CME is a pre- sources, the administration of of free education and free Visakhapatnam would be to College of Military Engineering mier technical and tactical the State should be dispensed health for the farmers and give no credit to the TDP as far (CME), Pune, when the tower training institution of the from the steel city from June their families who had pooled as the State capital is con- support collapsed. Six to seven Corps of Engineers for the 2020 onwards. their lands for Amaravati could cerned. troops were injured. They were Indian Army. This includes The Government has been not materialise so far. The Even if the YSRCP to set up immediately shifted to Military Combat Engineers, Military contemplating giving good YSRCP Government is likely to a full-fledged state capital in Hospital (MH), Kirkee and Engineering Service, Border package to the Amaravati after announce their urgent imple- Amaravati, the credit would Command Hospital (CH), Roads Engineering Services returning the farmers of 29 vil- mentation. invariably go to the TDP Pune. Lance Havildar Sanjivan (BRES) and Survey. lages in the capital development To compensate for the loss because of its efforts at pooling PK and Naik Waghmode BK Among other things, the region of their land. A com- of the capital city, the over 36,000 acres of land from sustained serious injuries and jawans are trained at CME in mittee will be constituted to fix Government has plans to set up farmers of 29 villages, includ- lost their lives during the treat- building mobile bridges that are the quantum of compensation two major industrial parks in ing Tulluru, in the capital      $   $         ,--;  8<        ment,” an official statement used by soldiers to scale diffi- to be given to farmers depend- Amaravati region to provide region development authority      *    #  $  & $  ' "      said. cult terrains in the fields. ing on the nature of the land: employment to the locals. A limits. 788$      ,8::    >$         Srinagar: Srinagar recorded the cold- Celsius as against minus 11.4 degrees  *415* idents of Rangaon and Kalam in to repeated rapes, as a result of est night of the season so far as the Celsius on Wednesday, he said. Vasai, allegedly kept her in con- which she gave birth to a baby mercury continued its downward Pahalgam, in south Kashmir's case has been registered finement, raped and tortured girl, Katkar said. spiral across Kashmir valley, the Met Anantnag district, was the coldest Aagainst 11 people for alleged- her, he added. The abuse lasted till office said on Thursday. recorded place in the valley, ly kidnapping, raping and tor- In July 2018, one of the December this year, following The minimum temperature he added. turing a 21-year-old girl for more accused allegedly entered into a which the victim registered a across Kashmir and Ladakh remained The official said Qazigund-- the than a year in Vasai taluka of relationship with the victim, the complaint with the police, he several degrees below the freezing gateway town to the valley in south Maharashtra's Palghar district, official said, adding added. point on Thursday owing to clear sky, Kashmir recorded a low of minus 9.8 police said on Thursday. that the accused along with a few An offence under sections an official of the Meteorological degrees Celsius — a decrease of The Vasai police on others later abducted the 376 (rape), 366 (kidnap), 342 Department said. nearly two degrees from minus 9.4 Wednesday registered an offence woman. (wrongful confinement) and He said Wednesday night was the degrees Celsius on Wednesday. against 11 people and no arrest The victim was forced to other relevant provisions of the coldest in Srinagar as the minimum Kokernag town, also in south, has been made in this regard, sign blank papers and affidavits Indian Penal Code has temperature settled at minus 5 degrees The ski-resort of Gulmarg in The night temperature at recorded a low of minus 6.9 degrees police public relations officer to prove that she had married one been registered against the Celsius — 0.7 degrees down from north Kashmir recorded a low of Pahalgam resort, which also serves as Celsius, while Kupwara, in north, reg- Hemant Katkar said. of the accused, he said. alleged accused, who have not minus 4.3 degree Celsius the previous minus 11.2 degrees Celsius last night- one of the base camps for the annu- istered a minimum temperature of According to the com- During her time in confine- been arrested as yet, he night, leading to freezing of water sup- – down from the previous night's al Amarnath yatra in south Kashmir, minus 5.6 degrees Celsius, the official plainant, the accused, who are res- ment, the woman was subjected added. ply lines at several places. minus 9 degrees Celsius, he said. settled at a low of minus 12.7 degrees said. PTI %  +              , "       main promoters, was staged in International Airport while first two persons to be arrest- 5-*$ protest against the moral polic- engaged in trafficking and sex ed were Resmi and Rahul. /0 +  ing unleashed across Kerala trade using children brought Officials in Crime Branch odel-cum-activist Resmi and Tamil Nadu by a section of from and said that the delay in filing the ++    MR Nair and her partner Hindu and Islamic Chennai. According to the chargesheet was because of the Rahul Pashupalan, leaders of organisations which questioned chargesheet accessed by this time taken to collect the digi- Kiss of Love agitation, a and opposed kissing and hug- newspaper, Resmi and Rahul tal evidence which were in the Mumbai: The Shree protest that “rocked” ging by lovers in public. (CPI(M) activists) and 11 oth- form of high level encrypted Siddhivinayak Ganapati Temple Kerala and The duo of Resmi-Rahul ers were caught for trafficking data. Trust has sanctioned  10 crore other parts of the country in succeeded in drawing hun- girls and forcing them into The Forensic Science for the Maharashtra Govern- 2014, are in trouble as the dreds of thousands of youth prostitution. Laboratory of the Kerala Police ment's drive of giving pneumo- Crime Branch of Kerala Police and middle aged couples to the They have been charged could mot decipher this coccal vaccines to the children filed chargesheet against them streets on November 2, 2014 to under relevant sections of the encrypted data and we had to in tribal areas of the State. under various charges ranging take part in the public demon- IPC, IT Act and POCSO seek the services of Centre for Chairman of the Trust, from online sex rackets, stration of love and Act. Development of Advanced Aadesh Bandekar, said this in trafficking women and minor passion. A senior official of the Computing (C-DAC) for th a statement issued here on girls and using them for Though the agitation Crime Branch said from the same. Thursday. prostitution. passed of smoothly, the couple State capital that the police had This was a time consum- “Of the 16 tribal-domi- The duo had formed an was held by the Crime Branch collected adequate evidence ing process and hence the nated districts in the State, the online community and social Police of Kerala as part of including digital evidence delay,” said an official. He said first phase of the vaccination media collective for flesh “Operation Big Daddy”, a mis- against the two ‘love birds’ that Resmi and Rahul were the will be carried out in trade and the police took sion launched to and their associates. master brains behind the inter- Nandurbar, Palghar, four years to decipher the prevent child trafficking and “Operation Big Daddy” State sex racket and they had Gadchiroli, Amravati and encrypted data. sex trade. was launched in 2015 to curb hored the services of goondas Nashik for 1.41 lakh children in The Kiss of Love , of which They were arrested in 2015 the menace of the flourishing to take care of the smooth con-    = ( (       >-( (    "  the age group of 0-1 years,” he Resmi and Rahul were the from a hotel near Cochin sex trade in the State and the duct of the business. %     said. PTI   !"#$%  $&'&(&" )*+ ),-.  9

 Q   2 3   4#&    ()$    ! G 06%7 *,R  >    =    R   ' 1      ;84;*"* Once again calling the BJP as a “washing machine” of Kolkata: state arning the BJP against sorts she said by joining that BJP chief Dilip Ghosh said on Wplaying with fire Mamata party all stains are washed Thursday that NRC is required %  Banerjee on Thursday con- away. “The BJP paints other in the State because infiltrators demned the saffron party for its parties in black and takes pride have become the vote banks of bid to confiscate the properties to portray itself in white.” the ruling Trinamool Lucknow: of those who were protesting Vowing to fight for all the Congress. Favouring imple- against the Citizenship communities, “because this is He criticised West Bengal mentation of the Amendment Act and National Hindustan,” Banerjee said “we Chief Minister Mamata National Register of Register for Citizens. will not allow any party to Banerjee's opposition to Citizens (NRC), the Instead of compensating snatch away our rights... If National Population Register Uttar Pradesh Shia the people who died in police needed we will lay down our (NPR) and said that it has Central Waqf Board firing during peaceful agita- lives to protect the movemen- become her habit to resist on Thursday said tions the “BJP is threatening to tagainst CAA.” Banerjee who whatever is good for the coun- Indian Muslims do confiscate their properties,” declared a compensation of  try. not have any threat Banerjee said reminding the "  = ( "    ( 0      5 lakh compensation for the Ghosh told newsmen here, from it. non-BJP Governments too so the BJP is taking a very     "       " %     family members of those who "The National Register of "Hindustani could apply the same medicine wrong and oppressive deci- were killed in police firing in Citizens (NRC) should be Muslims do not have any threat in Assam to identify genuine against the BJP workers in sion from which they should and misleading statements one in the name of driving Karnataka slammed the BS implemented in West Bengal. from NRC. It should be imple- Indian citizens living in the their respective States. desist because if the non-BJP made by their top leaders we away the infiltrators. She said Yedurappa Government of that Mamata Banerjee needs the mented in the country. The real state since March 24, 1971, or “Some 16 people have died Governments like us start using have gathered that there is no “if you chase out everybody State for refusing to compen- help of the infiltrators, who matter is of identification of before, and also illegal in the police firing in UP, two the same tactic against the BJP difference between NRC and how will you stay? Will you stay sate the family members of have become its votebank, to intruders, who are real threat to Bangladeshi migrants. Out of in Karnataka, three in Assam people then what will happen NPR so I have stopped the alone in the country?” those who died in police firing. win elections". the country," UPSCWB 3.3 crore applicants, over 19 and many others in other states to them? work of NPR in Bengal because In an apparent reference to The Trinamool Congress "Let the Citizenship Chairman Waseem Rizvi said. lakh people were excluded of which we do not have any So I ask them not to play in the morning their leaders say the Prime Minister’s earlier Government will send a dele- Amendment Act happen first "The intruders are vote from the state's final NRC information right now… with fire,” Banerjee said. one thing, in the noon they say reference that the mischief gation to meet the victims’ here, then we will see what to bank for the TMC and the SP. published on August 30. instead of compensating the The Chief Minister the other and yet in the night mongers could be identified by families at Mangaluru she said. do with NRC," he said. The Congress is making voter Rizvi said while Hindus families of those who died in descended on the streets for the they say something other,” their dresses Banerjee said, Promising to stand by the Regarding updation of the identity cards of intruders from from other countries have police firing the BJP is threat- fifth day on Thursday. Leading apparently referring to Prime “they (BJP) are sending in students of various academic NRC in Assam, Ghosh said BJP Bangladesh, Pakistan and come to India due to atrocities, ening to penalise them and a massive anti-CAA rally she Minister Narendra Modi’s some agents wearing particu- institutions like Jamia Millia has no link with it as it was Afghanistan. If NRC Muslims have come for their confiscate their properties. This attacked the Narendra Modi statement that his Government lar dresses (read the dresses Islamia, IIT Kanpur and other done under the directions of is implemented their real face "personal gains or for harming is playing with fire. I would Government for misleading had not discussed imposition that identify them as Muslims) places Banerjee said “I will the Supreme Court. will come to the fore," he India". warn the BJP not to play with the people by peddling untrue of NRC in India contradicting to create trouble from the always take the side of the stu- "But there had been some said. Only Indian Muslims are fire,” she said. and contradictory statements. Home Minister Amit Shah’s peaceful rallies so that they can dents in their peaceful protests. lapses which are being sorted His statement comes amid Hindustani and rest are intrud- “In my State too we have Speaking on the Centre’s repeated assertions that NRC fire at the protesters and then I will request them not to scare out presently," he said. raging protests across the coun- ers and should leave the coun- similar laws to make people pay decision to go ahead with the was a reality and it would hap- arrest them on false charges. anybody and not to get scared About NPR, he said it was try against the proposed imple- try, he asserted. for destroying public property National Population Register pen in the entire country. You have to remain alert by anybody,” condemning the started by the Congress in mentation of NRC and con- Referring to the recent but we don’t do that in case of she said “it is the same old Banerjee who had been against these people because Centre for asking the students 2010. "Subsequently we (BJP) troversial amendments to the clashes during anti-CAA spontaneous movements. Here thing in new wrap… taking out large rallies also hit they are the agents of the BJP of various central educational came to power. It is the duty of citizenship law. protests, he said these were part the movement against CAA What we have gathered out at the Prime Minister for who want to fail your move- institutions for vacate their the government to continue The NRC was conducted of a "conspiracy". PTI and NRC is spontaneous and from the untrue, confusing allegedly hounding out every- ment.” hostels. with the process." PTI " " 0  :  $   ;-A@  7 $  %P                  %%!*$ Parliament for making a Muslims. But, they from these camps in 1952” ue its rule through the BJP in statement that NRC would are also against 40 “The detainees were there the country. It wants to finish harging that the RSS and be implemented across the per cent of Hindus in these for more than 75 the Opposition. That’s why it  $   CBJP-led Government had country. across the country”. years. Many of them were born has brought CAA and NRC hatched a “conspiracy” to Singling out the RSS Contesting and died in detention camps. after due deliberation. We will  !-1*4 Gorakhpur and issued notices, create unrest in the country and ruling BJP for a Modi’s claim that no You will be surprised to know have to respond to CAA and asking them to explain their through Citizenship vicious attack on the cur- detention centres the numbers who had been cat- NRC through agitation. If you ending out a stern warning, position or pay for damage Amendment Act (CAA) and rent unrest in the country, had been set up to egorized as criminal tribes and do not want to locked up in SKarnataka Revenue Minister caused to public and private National Register for Citizens Ambedkar said: “If some- house the illegal cit- detained in these centres. In detention centres, then better R Ashoka on Thursday said the property. (NRC), Dalit leader and one has hatched a con- izens, Ambedkar — Maharashtra alone, 16 per cent come out and raise voice state government would emu- Meanwhile, Karnataka BJP Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi spiracy to trigger unrest in grandson of late BR of the total population belong against the BJP Government at late Uttar Pradesh and confis- General Secretary and Member (VBA) President Prakash the country over CAA, Ambedkar — to these tribes,” Amnbedkar the Centre,” Ambedkar told the cate properties of those who of Parliament Shobha Ambedkar on Thursday con- NRC and National likened the “exist- said. Adivasis who had turned out in caused damage to public prop- Karandlaje too urged the state tended that the CAA and NRC Population Register (NPR), it is nation of Amit Shah or change ing” detention camps to the “These tribals do not have large numbers for the rally. erties during protests against government to identify those were not only against Muslims no one else other than the RSS his portfolios. If you do not ones set up by the British to any documents or records with Thousands of people, par- the Citizenship (Amendment) who caused damaged to pub- but they were also against 40 and BJP-led Government”. don’t do both the things, should house criminal tribes them. Even now, you can get to ticularly Dalits and Adivasis, Act. lic property during the protests per of the Hindus in the coun- “If Prime Minister we consider this an under the Criminal Tribes Act see thousands of them roaming participated in the rally Everyone has to obey the in the state and make them pay try. Narendra Modi is saying that another lie coming from the (CTA). on the streets in the state with organised by the VBA. law of the land and not give an for it. Addressing a massive rally there has been no discussion on Prime Minister along the lines “The British came out with donkeys and horses. The demonstrators carried opportunity for such an action "They should not be let of his Dalits and Adivasis at NRC in Parliament or in his of his  15 lakh in each bank Criminal Tribes Act in 1871. There are also other Advisis national Tricolour, photographs by the Government, he told away, no one has the right to Dadar in north-central Cabinet, how did Union Home account promise made Under this law, the British des- who do not have documents. of Dr BR Ambedkar, Mahatma reporters here. destroy public property... Any Mumbai to oppose CAA and Minister Amit Shah say in by him during the 2014 Lok ignated certain sections of the Here are the tribals who do not Gandhiji, the Constitution, "...The way in which Uttar one can protest, but if they NRC, Ambedkar demanded various forums that the Sabha poll campaign?,” tribals as habitual criminals and know where their fathers and placards proclaiming ‘Reject Pradesh Government has cause damage to public prop- to know from Prime Minister Government would implement Amedkar wondered. put them in detention centres. grand fathers died. If you ask CAA — Boycott NRC’ and decided to confiscate the prop- erty, government should make Narendra Modi if he would NRC across the country? If he Maintaining that NRC and The tribals were lodged in them to produce documents, banners with anti-CAA-NRC erties of those indulging in vio- sure that they pay for it," she seek the resignation of or has made the statement with- CAA would affect large sec- these detention camps for years where will they produce the slogans. lence - if such things (violence) added. change the portfolio of Union out the Prime Minister’s per- tions of people across the coun- on end. It was then Prime documents from?,” the Dalit They raised slogans happen again (here), it will be Anti-CAA protests had Home Minister Amit Shah for mission, I would like to ask the try, Ambedkar said: “These Minister Jawaharlal Nehru who leader asked. demanding the withdrawal of brought in Karnataka also," reached its peak in the state last making a statement in PM if he would seek the resig- laws are 100 per cent against released the detained tribals “The RSS wants to contin- CAA and NRC. Ashoka said. week and turned violent in Uttar Pradesh Chief Mangaluru, resulting in the Minister Yogi Adityanath has death of two in police firing. said that properties of those Defending the CAA, (/3  ,  involved in the violence would Ashoka said, India was not a be seized and auctioned to charitable lodging place and compensate destruction of every one has to abide by law    public and private assets of the land. (  1 during the protests over the "The Act (CAA) that has amended citizenship been brought in, is right.... @ :   law. India is not a charitable lodg- On Wednesday UP offi- ing place for those from  7     = cials had said over 60 people Pakistan and Bangladesh to have been "identified for vio- come and stay here, there is demonstration lence" during last week's anti laws and rules here and one has  4;8 from Jagat Circle CAA protests in Rampur and to abide by it," he said. PTI to Deputy lleging that the BJP Commissioner's AGovernment was afraid of (DC) office Hindu-Muslim unity, shouting slogans Samajwadi Party supremo against the CAA. Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday Anti-CAA sought to know when a probe protests and into "police brutality" during demonstrations               "            widespread protest in the state Bengaluru: Anti-CAA protests have also been held in Mysuru, against Citizenship refused to die down in Bagalkote and Dharwad, Amendment Act will be Karnataka with hundreds of among other places. ordered. Muslim women taking the cen- Hundreds of protesters had >?-@     "The Government is afraid tre-stage on Thursday holding taken part at an agitation in of Hindu-Muslim unity. It is protests here and at Daharwad, organised by "pro- making allegations that people Shivamogaa and Kalaburagi. gressive organisations", which   +) are criminals. It wants to con- The women staged a was attended by senior fiscate property of the poor. It protest at Eidgah Grounds in Congress leader and former  7***$ Amendment Act passed by the attempt to divide society on is commenting on Shivamogga holding the MP V S Ugrappa. and the communal lines, so that real people's dress... Threatening to national flag, banners and plac- Police had made elaborate ver 50 faculty members of declared follow up by imple- issues of day to day living of take revenge from ards declaring their opposition security arrangements so that OBanaras Hindu University mentation of National common man are relegated to citizens. to CAA (Citizenship no untoward incidents take and affiliated colleges have Citizenship Register,” said a the back ground," it said. “But, the Government Amendment Act) and NRC place. issued a statement condemning statement signed by 51 faculty The faculty members car- should tell (people) when will (National Register of At Mysuru's Town Hall the controversial amendments members, including Professors ried out a signature campaign it initiate probe into Citizens). grounds too, thousands of peo- to the citizenship law and pro- and Associate Professors. on Wednesday against the police brutality," A similar protest was held ple staged a protest called by posed implementation of "This is completely against National Register of Citizens Akhilesh said in a tweet in in front of the Bengaluru's several Muslim organisations, NRC. the spirit of freedom struggle (NRC) and the Citizenship Hindi, days after town hall that was attended by amid tight security. "We, the teachers of BHU, and the idea of a pluralist Amendment Act (CAA) and 17 people were killed during large number of Muslim Holding national flags, the IIT BHU and affiliated colleges democracy. This is not accept- appealed to the government to widespread protests in Uttar women. protesters demanded the with- are deeply pained, and aghast able in the land of Gandhi and rethink the long term impli- Pradesh against the amended At Kalaburagi, protesters, drawal of CAA as they said it with the recent Citizenship Tagore. This is clearly an cations of these exercises. citizenship law. mostly women, staged a was anti-democratic. PTI   !"#$%  $&'&(&" )*+ ),-. :

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/   ) % %     PH        !"# %        #  5 $   R (+  : -      * *2  %  #            - '-45$  + $  8-O While the freight fares are already high, our target is to ;+      7    Yadav said. advantaged in their career pro- ailway Board Chairman draw more traffic from road to *(        "We are going to send an gression," said Yadav, amidst RVK Yadav on Thursday railways in this regard."       R  - '-45$   ()$: indent specifying our recruit- fears among officers that the said that the railways is in the The Indian Railway has %    *(   ment for the five specialisations merger of railway services process of "rationalising" its been hit hard by the econom-    (      +  (+ - & iven the tight revenue posi- -- four for engineers, including would cost them seniority. passengers and freight fares, ic slowdown, with the earnings Gtion of the government,   that of stores (department) and Yadav said the railways but declined to reveal if they of the national transporter suf- Union Budget 2020-21 may not another for non-engineering in will try to "pull up" those offi- will be increased. fering a dip of 155 crore and   %>  be giving out any extraordinary 7 which anyone can come from cers who are lagging behind Speaking to reporters here, 3,901 crore in passenger and fiscal sops just to boost per- humanities side who will be instead of "pulling down" those Yadav said: "Although the rail- freight fares, respectively, in the Mumbai: The rupee erased its currency, forex traders said. sonal income to push con-  - '-45$ utilised for manning the who are ahead in their careers. ways has initiated a number of second quarter of the current early gains to settle down by 4 At the interbank foreign sumption and demand and accounts, traffic and personnel The Cabinet on Tuesday measures to counter its dwin- fiscal, compared to the previ- paise at a three-week low of exchange market, the rupee would be taking a sectoral ll new recruits in railways service. All of them will be pro- approved big ticket reforms in dling revenues, increasing fares ous one, according to an RTI 71.31 against the US currency had opened higher at 71.26 redressal policy where inter- Awill be inducted through moted at the same time," said the railways by merging its is a sensitive issue and it had to reply. on Thursday, marking its fifth against the US dollar. During ventions are needed, officials the UPSC civil services exams Yadav. The first batch will be eight cadres and and depart- be discussed at length before a In the first quarter (April- straight day of losses amid the day, the domestic unit fluc- said. under five specialities, Railway recruited in 2021, while the new ments into a single entity. final decision was taken. June) of financial year 2019-20, heavy selling in domestic equi- tuated between a high of 71.22 "Government is not averse Board Chairman VK Yadav five-member board with merged With these new changes, "We are going to ratio- the railways earned revenue of ties and steady rise in crude oil and a low of 71.35. The rupee to put growth as a top priority said on Thursday, days after the officers will be in place by the the Chairman along with four nalise the fares and freight 13,398.92 crore from passen- prices. finally settled at 71.31 against over fiscal prudence and Cabinet approved the merger of middle of next year, officials said. members responsible for infra- rates. Something is being ger fares. This dipped to Month-end dollar demand the US dollar, lower by 4 paise spending will happen where it its eight services into one — the Yadav also clarified that the structure, operations and busi- thought about. I cannot divulge 13,243.81 crore in the July- and weakness in domestic equi- over its previous close of 71.27 has a direct bearing on the con- Indian Railway Management Chairman, Railway Board, who ness development, rolling stock more, this is a sensitive subject. September quarter. ties weighed on the domestic on Tuesday. PTI sumption and demand. Income Service (IRMS). will also be the CEO of the and finance respectively will Tax rejigs have been sought by He said just like aspirants national transporter, will be an form the Railway Board. the industry, but the govern- to the Union Public Service officer of Indian Railway The Chairman shall be the 1  ment is not convinced so far Commission, candidates aspir- Service and not from any other cadre controlling officer     that it may lead to any surge in ing to get into railways will have service. "Officers from Indian responsible for Human #;;< consumption that's the need of to appear for their prelims Railways who have experience Resources (HR) with assis- the hour on the supply side", after which they will indicate of 35 yrs will only be posted as tance from a DG (HR). Three &,AA7    =&":'  said an official, adding after their preference for IRMS Chairman/CEO," CRB Yadav, apex level posts shall be sur- income tax cuts (if it happens) under five specialities — four who is due for retirement by rendered from Railway Board  - '-45$ government fears people may of them engineering specialities the end of this month, said. and all its remaining posts  - '-45$ identity number) or undergo Services through its imple- just save and not spend, defeat- for 'technical' operations com- He also said the decision to shall be open to all officers Aadhaar authentication," menting agency will make pro- emand in the real estate ing the entire purpose taking a prising of civil, mechanical, merge the services was to regardless of the service to he Government has made according to a finance ministry visions to help the beneficiaries Dsector plunged in the sec- huge risk on direct tax front telecom and electrical, and one ensure that officers put railways which they belonged. The TAadhaar mandatory for sub- notification. The notification, get the Aadhaar number. ond half of 2019 as housing when it is not on a promising 'non-technical' speciality which first instead of their service Board will also have some scribers of the Pradhan Mantri dated December 23, has been Further, where biometric sales fell around 22 per cent in trend. will recruit officers for which had become the case independent non-executive Vaya Vandana Yojana issued under the Aadhaar or Aadhaar one-time pass- July-December compared to "There is little fiscal head- accounts, personnel and traffic. under the present system. members, who will be highly (PMVVY), a pension scheme (Targeted Delivery of Financial word or time-based OTP the total sales first six months, room unless government takes "The exact details will be "All officers would contin- distinguished professionals for senior citizens. The scheme, and Other Subsidies, Benefits authentication is not possible, a report by Anarock Property a huge risk in tax cuts further worked out, but the thinking is ue to work in their specialised with deep knowledge and 30 which envisages an assured rate and Services) Act, 2016. benefit under the scheme may Consultants said. after giving corporate tax cuts like this — the aspirants take the services till modalities were years of experience including at of return of 8 per cent annual- It further said any individual be given on the basis of phys- It said that out of the total in September in 1.45 lakh prelim and then indicate their worked out regarding cadre the top levels in industry, ly, is being implemented through desirous of availing benefit under ical Aadhaar letter whose 2.61 lakh units sold during the crore outgo. That has so far not choices. They will be given an merger. We would ensure that finance, economics and man- Life Insurance Corporation of the scheme who does not possess authenticity may be verified year so far in seven major cities, shown any result", said officials. option to appear for IRMS also," not even a single officer is dis- agement fields, Yadav said. India (LIC). The scheme was the Aadhaar number or has not through the quick response around 1.47 lakh flats were announced in Union Budgets of yet been enrolled for Aadhaar, (QR) code printed on the sold in the January-June period, 2017-18 and 2018-19. "shall be required to apply for Aadhaar letter, the notification and the remaining 1.14 lakh had "An individual eligible for Aadhaar enrolment before reg- said. In the Budget 2018-19, the been so far sold in the second receiving the benefit under the istering for the scheme". maximum limit under half. This slump in sales comes scheme shall hereby be In cases where Aadhaar PMVVY was doubled to Rs 15 despite the slew of measures required to furnish proof of authentication fails due to poor lakh per senior citizen. The announced by the government possession of Aadhaar number biometrics, the the ministry's scheme is available for sub- in the past few months to ease (the unique 12-digit biometric Department of Financial scription till March 2020. liquidity and boost demand. B   " % "* * /        >' C     #        :.:.   :.'  - '-45$ sale earlier in the year, there are  - '-45$  %%!*$ specific timelines involved in he Department of Telecom Trai reference and responses, evere cold and dense fog have oAir, which has come Twill soon seek sector regu- they pointed out. Striggered concerns among Gunder fire from passengers lator Trai's recommendations That said, DoT wants to farmers. Experts, however, said for cancelling dozens of flights on pricing and other modalities put this additional spectrum that no crop will be affected abruptly earlier this week, on for coveted 5G bands of 24.75- belonging to new 5G bands for except potato. Agricultural sci- Thursday attributed the dis- 27.25 GHz, and wants to put auction sometime during 2020, entists say that if there is a fur- ruption in network to delay in this new spectrum up for auc- they noted. ther fall in temperature, frost will aircraft deliveries and non- tion sometime next year, Asked about the indus- start, which may pose a risk of availability of engines. sources said. try's low appetite for spectrum spoilage for many rabi crops. In a clarification issued on This new 5G chunk is sep- at a time when it is struggling Also, there have been complaints Thursday, the budget carrier arate from the 5.22 lakh crore with payment of additional of scorching potatoes due to also sought to defend its choice spectrum sale plan approved by statutory dues after a recent increasing humidity and fog. of Pratt & Whitney engines for the Digital Communications Supreme Court ruling on Manoj Kumar, Joint Deputy its A320 Neo fleet. GoAir can- Commission on December 20, Adjusted Gross Revenue Director of the Central Potato celled as many as 40 flights under which 8,300 MHz of air- (AGR), the sources pointed Research Institute-Regional between November 23 and 24, waves across 22 circles are set out that the industry, including Center Modipuram, Meerut, during which it also reported to be put on the block in its association told IANS that the temperature air turn back of two if its aircraft March-April 2020. COAI, has been asking for 26 has not dropped much so there due to engine glitches, which The Department of GHz band to be referred to is no frost but due to fog and the were later taken out of opera- Telecom (DoT) sources said Trai. absence of sunlight there is tions for further inspection. that the government will soon On whether there will be humidity in the atmosphere, "GoAir has placed an order approach the Telecom takers for additional spectrum, which has increased the risk of for 144 Airbus A320neo air- Regulatory Authority of India given the industry's reserva- a late blight in potatoes. The craft and has experienced deliv- (Trai) for its recommendations tions on current prices, the institute comes under the ery delays during the month of on 'millimetre wave bands' of sources said they would not like Indian Council of Agricultural November and December, 24.75-27.25 GHz, the coveted to "pre-judge the issue". Research (ICAR). adding to its operational chal- bands for 5G. Offering back-of-the-enve- He said that complaints of lenges," the airline said. The air- DoT plans to approach the lope calculations on the current scorching in potatoes have line further said "during the regulator in January for views rates, the sources said that been received from Uttar same time, non-availability of on these additional 5G bands, while 5.22 lakh crore is the Pradesh and Punjab and an Pratt & Whitney spare engines sources stated. overall reserve price for 8,300 advisory has been issued by the have also hampered the Although DoT ideally MHz of airwaves, only 35 per institute. smooth functioning”. wants these bands to be put for cent is for 5G bands.   !"#$%  $&'&(&" )*+ ),-. %::

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The last month had seen The Government issued a was reported on Thursday. should be distance between the    & Tai Po district using pepper a relative drop-off in violence new statement on Thursday The Alaska Senator’s com- White House and the Senate  & PC  spray as well as blue dye to and protests after pro-democ- condemning protesters for ments come after Senate over how the trial is conducted.    mark suspects, said an AFP racy candidates won a landslide using violence over the last six Majority Leader Mitch “To me it means that we 0!(/(6(-G "  ,  reporter on the scene. at local elections. months. “Unprecedented vio- McConnellpledged “total co- have to take that step back from        M+ $  @ %      B  N 1   "    Further clashes broke out But with Beijing and city lence, reckless and organised ordination” with the White being hand in glove with the         in four other malls with police leaders refusing further con- destruction became the norm,”             " ( @ %   House, the BBC said in a report. defence,” the BBC quoted her      O + ( making multiple arrests and cessions, rallies and clashes the statement said. Murkowski told Alaska’s as saying to KTUU channel.          She added the impeach- +  * +  1 ment proceedings were I @ !2& * ) /   '            $ “rushed”. Murkowski, a mod- (  + ( + erate Republican, has criti-  (  +  2 + * Q % cised President Trump on a  ;   ( AP  $        number of policy issues. In    )    %R# October 2018, she opted not to  1 !2   ( vote to confirm Trump’s nomi-  (         New York: The final bend of US While political pundits remove Trump, at least 20 nee for the Supreme Court,         *   President Donald Trump’s began predicting an early Republicans will have to flip for after sexual assault allegations.       ,    "    impeachment process, a Senate January trial, Pelosi has now him to be convicted and On December 18, Trump was    6    L  M  +& "  ) trial, has suddenly slid into inserted a twist in the storyline removed from office. A two impeached by the Democrat- * +      & +   +   +  limbo after his Democratic after bottling up impeachment. thirds vote in the Senate is controlled House of           rivals who control the House of She is asking Senate required to remove an Representatives for abuse of   ( + (     Representatives have brought Republicans what a trial might impeached US President. power and obstruction of       +   $    ,  the until-now rapid fire specta- look like. Throughout the impeach- Congress. He now faces a trial  ! "        "     $  & cle to a screeching halt and left Pelosi has refused to sub- ment tumult so far, the White in the Republican-dominated    ;    *    $   politicos scratching their heads mit articles of impeachment to House has kept its sights firm- Senate, whose members are       +,   +     about how this story ends. the Senate and the standoff is ly on the Senate trial, where supposed to remain impartial.  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C   O  P &  ##) "  %+ 1      %  R    +  '  5      +    (  (      (  ! +  4           2 "       +   1    !   @-*4-% and was intercepted by the Iron  - %    @-*4-% ence over the conservative party towards the Palestinians. Dome defence system”. In (    ,  he has dominated for 20 years. The Israel-Palestinian con- srael carried out air strikes response, it said, “planes and   & srael’s embattled premier After a decade in power, flict as ever loomed over poli- Iagainst the Gaza Strip helicopters hit several Hamas IBenjamin Netanyahu faced a Netanyahu is Israel’s longest tics. On Wednesday evening overnight in response to a rock- terrorist targets in the Gaza O   '  challenge on Thursday for the serving premier but he has Netanyahu was rushed off stage et fired from the Hamas-con- Strip. Military posts were    &P leadership of his Likud party been weakened by a series of at a campaign event in trolled Palestinian enclave, the among the targets.” No injuries (,("  ",  from a longtime rival, former corruption indictments. Ashkelon in southern Israel army said on Thursday.Prime were reported on either side,   @        interior minister Gideon Saar. After months of political near Gaza after alarms sound- Minister Benjamin Netanyahu though a security source in      4(  Likud’s roughly 116,000 eli- stalemate, he faces a third gen- ed indicating incoming fire was at campaign event in Gaza said damage was report-   )(+, gible voters have until 11 pm eral election within 12 months from the Palestinian enclave. Ashkelon north of Gaza on ed at a number of Hamas sites. 1   "  (2100 GMT) to choose between early next year — but only if he Turnout was expected to be Wednesday evening when what Israel’s public broadcaster + " -   Netanyahu and Saar, with the first defeats his challenger. lower than previous primaries, the army called a “projectile” KAN 11 showed images of a " & L     result expected by early Friday Saar, 53, a former interior and the last of which was in 2014, was fired from the strip, setting security guard informing         morning. A defeat for education minister, is seen as as much of Israel was hit by off warning sirens. 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Awritten a “love letter” to decision to take Britain out of the The three-minute adver- Britain expressing his grief at its EU on January 31 are close to nil. tisement, which premiered decision to leave the European Johnson won a thumping ahead of the queen’s televised Union — and stressing it was majority in this month’s gener- Christmas Day address in always welcome back. al election on a promise to “get Britain, begins with a primly “I know you now. And I Brexit done” after more than dressed Minogue apparently at love you. For who you are and three years of indecision and Sandringham, the monarch’s what you gave me. I’m like an delays. Britons voted by a 52 to country home, before the set old lover. I know your strengths 48 per cent margin to leave the disappears to show the pop star and weaknesses,” European other 27 EU member states in on a beach of the same name Commission Vice-President a 2016 referendum. Most opin- in Australia. Frans Timmermans wrote in ion polls indicate a slight major- London-based Minogue Thursday’s edition of The ity in favour of remaining in the begins by singing “This year’s Guardian newspaper. European Union today. But been tough and confusing, but “You have decided to leave. parties supporting a second progress is moving” before It breaks my heart, but I respect Brexit referendum that could antipodean comedian Adam that decision,” he added in a mis- reverse the first one got drubbed Hills jumps in with “Well, at a sive titled “My love letter to in this month’s vote. glacial pace”. Britain: family ties can never Johnson has further indi- “But all of Australia loves really be severed”. The cated that he has no plans to you, and we’ll never judge Dutchman’s letter concluded extend the post-Brexit transi- you,” the 51-year-old former with the words: “We’re not going tion period beyond the end of Neighbours star continues. 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Drilling a shot that Mat Ryan won three of their last four league pass, but the goal went to a VAR Underlining the could only push back out, Kane gob- games as they try to climb into the top review and was ruled out by the urgency to address that bled up the rebound with a clinical four. narrowest of offside decisions. problem area, Brighton’s finish for his eighth goals in five Saluting Alli’s crucial contribu- Bernardo forced Gazzaniga Premier League games on Boxing tion, Mourinho said: “Another goal CLINICAL KANE to save from a corner Day. and another incredible performance Brighton made the most of moments later to the audi- Kane’s 16th club goal this season and effort. The work rate was that let-off to take the lead in the ble frustration of the was followed by Mourinho making absolutely incredible from Dele. 37th minute. Tottenham crowd on a a significant switch when he sent on “The little details are more Pascal Gross swung over a free- dank, wet day in north London. 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And for some people, they are afraid of Social contacts are rather like delicate being alone because they don’t know how plants. You have to look after them. That to be comfortable to be alone. They always means telephoning, using Skype and being want company as they’ve never learned how there when needed. to enjoy doing anything on their own. Study after study shows that if people Experts claim that numerous people show gratitude, they will reap a bountiful face the fear of being alone. They share harvest. These include a stronger immune about the discomfort they feel when spend- system, better health, more positive ener- ing time by themselves and their strategies gy and most important of all, feeling less for avoiding being alone. They describe lonely and isolated. spending time with people they don’t actu- As scary as the fear of being alone may ally enjoy, compulsively talking on the seem, you’re capable to overcome it. phone to fill the silence, and reflexively turn- As you try the above suggestions to ing on the TV when they enter their apart- fight against your fear, you’re actu- ment, just to not have to experience being ally working to boost your self alone with themselves. confidence. When you have This fear of aloneness is a problem we more confidence in yourself, don’t talk enough about. And in these hyper- you value yourself more and connected times, this problem is only get- believe that you’re always ting worse. When you are alone, it is impor- worthy of love even tant to embrace it and enjoy it to the full. though you’re alone. Wallow in the feeling that you do not Truth is, everyone have to be accountable for anything you do. needs time to be them- Pursue your interests and hobbies. 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Developing the tress, the best thing you can do is work on capacity to be alone well means develop- your ability to self-regulate and be present ing a greater tolerance for, and intimacy in your environment. Many people find that with, your experience — the emotional, cog- relaxation exercises lower anxiety levels and nitive, visceral, imaginative, and sensory can even ward off a panic attack. Purposeful moment-to-moment arisings that consti- breathing, meditation, and aromatherapy are tute your basic aliveness. Many of us relatively easy to learn and can be used any- live in a state of chronic distraction where.4? from our experience. Being alone If that doesn't work and the fear is sig- well means being capable of nificantly impacting your life, you may find entering more fully into your that background noise helps to distract you. experience. 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So, 2020 of the trends that many food and want to try something new will see a revival of such old clas- connoisseurs will be working which is driving chefs to inno- sic signature cooking techniques, on the next year: vate and create new regional recipes with presentation dishes. The youth also travels inspired from the bygone era. HEALTHY ALL THE WAY for dining experiences. As various countries start to Healthy food is totally in. legalise marijuana, there are Fermentation which is good for gut is cer- CLOUD KITCHENS AND HOME more opportunities to experi- tainly catching on. We have a brand, All CHEFS hen it comes to new ment with this secret ingredient Good Deli, which is all about health and With growing number of working trends in dining out, as it has many medicinal bene- good for gut ingredients. It has on offer couples especially in the cities, there is a Wmore than ever, cus- fits. It’s perhaps the most inter- kombucha (a fermented, slightly alcoholic, huge rise of “dining in”. Food delivery is tomers are switching over to esting new food market which lightly effervescent, sweetened black or showing an upward movement, thus giv- healthy and natural food, which will appear in the coming years green tea drink commonly consumed for ing rise to more and more cloud kitchens is pesticide free. Whatever sci- as chefs work on new found its supposed health benefits) and ferment- which are run by home chefs. This is espe- ence says, many guests have ways of cooking with cannabis. ed dairy. Yoghurts with almond or soy cially getting popular when we look at it made up their minds that they milk, tofu and kefir in various flavours will in combination with health trends. Even do not wish to include food EATING CART TO ADAPT IN pick up traction. There is a constant rise though the customer has to eat food from which has been genetically tam- 2020 FOR YOUR DIET in convenience cooking without compro- a commercial kitchen but they prefer if pered with as these crops have MAKEOVER: mising on the health aspect. Convenience that is managed by a home chef who can been modified to boost produc- ·Grains: Chia seeds, whole of all ingredients packed into a self-cook provide ‘ghar jaisa khana’. Rise of cloud tivity. People are always on the wheat and whole maize are more box is a concept gaining popularity. kitchens will be seen as a global trend in lookout for healthier alternatives fibrous which facilitates better 2020. in their food. The year 2020 will digestion HEIRLOOM AND ANCIENT be even more focussed on ·Greens: All greens provide INGREDIENTS ZERO-WASTE BLISSFUL FOODS GMO-free ingredients and anti-oxidants which are essential There will be a lot of experimentation We are all aware that with a rising things will become more intense for a glowing skin on heirloom varieties of millets like ragi, population threatens food security. There in the coming years. Also with ·Roots: All root vegetables barley, millets, teff and spelt. A major focus will be a growing trend to reduce food an increasingly urban lifestyle for natural carbohydrates and area will be on lost ingredients and wastage as much as possible and develop invading our houses, it is affect- pure energy recipes. Home chefs are putting the focus recipes which can make even peels deli- ing the way we eat and cook our ·Worm bit vegetables and on ancient recipes. It’s not difficult in India cious. The trend does not just revolve meals. So one pot dishes are to beak bit fruits: Worm bit vegeta- to move back to sustainable heirloom around blissful food from waste but also be look forward to in 2020 and on imported ingredients. Owing this aspect called ‘emotional started making coconut payasam bles and beak bit fruits have less ingredients as we just have to look back cocktails and beverages using food waste, are surely the next big thing. to that, most chefs will have to food’. They are taking this con- with noodles, a taste that I was pesticides. Buy from a small two generations. If I get stuck anywhere peels and ingredients like apple pulp, Moreover, with working partners curate a menu with the locally cept quite seriously now and are familiar with and liked. local vendor who offers less on sustainability, I just think what would orange peels and much more. in a nuclear family who are available ingredients because researching to bring back Whenever I eat payasam or variety of food which is grown my grandma do in such a situation. There always crunched for time one sourcing imported essentials or mama’s flavours for one to feel instant noodles I remember in a small yard is a lot of focus on reviving the old cook- LOOK EAST pot dishes become the super a brands will become increasing- truly nostalgic. I personally have what it tasted like back then. ·Pure water: It is a must for ing methods, cookware, techniques and There was a time when eating food easy, highly nutritious meals ly difficult. 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boundaries. His opening partner Jay Bista too fell on 13 as Mumbai were in a spot of bother at 37-2 and it soon became 45-3 after cri- sis man Siddesh Lad fell cheaply for 8. After that Test specialist Ajinkya Rahane (3 batting) alongside skipper Suryakumar Yadav (15 batting) held the fort and ensured that there was no further dam- age. They will need to bat as long as possi- ble on the third day. BENGAL TOPPLE FOR 289  Bengal were bowled out for 289 before bad light halted play on the second ) %    P      day against Andhra. There were three interruptions before    0 Bengal innings folded in 104 overs at 1:35pm. Poor visibility eventually forced the % day’s proceedings to be called off with      @)    $    Andhra yet to bat in their first innings. India captain Virat Kohli has been %)      ( $   Only 101 minutes of play was possible named in the Cricketers of the decade list    :      $ on the day, during which 21 overs were alongside four others by the Wisden   :    $   was the eighth batsmen to be dismissed. bowled, as Bengal lost their remaining six Cricketers’ Almanac. Pacer M Ravi Kian took all four wickets in wickets in 48 runs after resuming at 241/4. Apart from Kohli, South African duo of  - '-45$ the morning. Left-handed opener Abhishek Raman Dale Steyn and AB de Villiers, Australia’s was dismissed for 112 in the second ball of Steve Smith and women’s all-rounder Ellyse shant Sharma bowled a sharp spell to RAILWAYS TAKE BIG LEAD the day, adding just two runs to his Perry also found a place in the list of five polish off the tail after Simrajeet Singh's   Railways skipper Karn Sharma led overnight total. cricketers of the decade. Ifour-wicket burst, putting Delhi on the from the front, as he hit a gritty century and Raman was cleaned up by Stephen and Kohli, who has scored 5,775 more inter- cusp of an innings victory against helped his team take a massive 152-run first after four overs in the morning the match national runs than anyone else in the last 10 in their Ranji Trophy group A innings lead against Mumbai on the second was held up for 20 minutes. years, has arguably been the best batsman encounter. day of their Elite Group B game at On resumption at 9.27am, Bengal over the last decade. After scoring 284 in their first innings, . were unable to get a partnership going as The 31-year-old Indian was named cap- Delhi dismissed Hyderabad for 69 in just >E )  In their second essay, Shahbaz Ahmed became Stephen’s fourth tain of the Wisden Test team of the decade, 29 overs with Ishant (4/19 in 10 overs) and Mumbai were struggling at victim. The pacer returned figures of 4/78. while also featuring in the ODI XI. Simarjeet (4/23 in 10 overs) sharing the ;  2:8 '*) 64/3, as the 41-time domestic Then, due to solar eclipse, the match was “He is genius has been to rise, time and spoils on day two. 12/$/' champions, are still trailing by again held up for two hours, as Bengal had again, to the challenge. Between the end of Left-arm seamer Pawan Suyal (2/25 in 88 runs. an extended lunch break stretching till 11.48. the England tour in 2014 and the second Test 8.4 overs) bowling from a four-step run-up It was due to Sharma’s heroics with the With the light playing hide and seek, against Bangladesh at Kolkata in November, also did his bit. Having enforced follow-on bat (112 not out) and a valiant 72-run knock Bengal kept losing wickets as their last four Kohli averaged 63, with 21 hundreds and 13 on another curtailed day due to solar eclipse, by Arindam Ghosh, that the Railways were wickets could add just nine runs. fifties,” Wisden wrote. Delhi reduced the visitors to 20 for 2 in their able to go past the 250-run mark, after they In Group C, opener Shantanu Mishra “It left him with a unique set of statistics second essay with seam bowling all-rounder were teetering at 43/5 at one stage. remained unbeaten on 54 to help Odisha — the only batsman to average at least 50 in Kunwar Bidhuri grabbing both the wickets. Left-handed Sharma and Ghosh secure a first innings lead over all three international formats. Even Steve Hyderabad still need to score 185 runs played cautiously and kept frustrat- Uttarakhand. Smith was moved to remark recently that to avoid innings defeat with two days left ing the Mumbai bowlers, as they Resuming on 98/3, Odisha there is no one quite like him.” in the game. stitched a 116- run stand for the lost Biplab Samantray for 37 “In many ways, there isn’t. Since the The conditions were conducive for !      !          0   sixth wicket. after he was trapped by Pradeep retirement of Sachin Tendulkar and the grad- seam bowling as all Delhi pacers needed to      @ $/      !    Sharma, in his unbeaten Chamoli (2/36) in the third over ual waning of MS Dhoni, no cricketer in the do was pitch in the right areas and the lat- knock, hammered 15 fours and of the day. world has operated under such daily pressure eral movement did the rest. other end drew the first blood, breaching enough to scare the batsmen. Some of the four sixes, while Ghosh hit 12 Mishra stayed on even as as Kohli.” “My job was to support Ishant bhaiya opener Akshath Reddy’s defence. lower-order Hyderabad players were retreat- boundaries. wickets kept on falling at the other In the past decade Kohli has hoarded by bowling tight lines. Initially, he was beat- Simrajeet then trapped his Reddy’s ing towards leg-stump in order to avoid get- Their stand not only pulled the end on a day when only 16.2 overs were 7,202 runs in Tests including 27 hundreds, ing the batsmen but they took less risks opening partner Tanmay Agarwal leg ting hurt by Ishant’s deliveries. Railways out of trouble, but also put them possible, helping Odisha go past while in the shorter formats the Indian skip- against him. Perhaps, they thought they can before and Hyderabad never recovered from “They are not a below-par side just that in a good position. Uttarakhand's first innings total of 117. per has amassed 11,125 runs in ODIs and attack me more and I got those wickets. the loss. there was help from the wicket,” said In Mumbai’s second innings, young At the Palam A Stadium in New Delhi, 2,633 runs in T20s. Ishant bhaiya’s brief was simple, pitch the The Hyderabad players looked intim- Simarjeet, son of a former national level prodigy Prithvi Shaw, who had failed in the medium pacer Manishankar Murasingh Kohli, who averages more than 50 in all ball in right areas,” Simrajeet told reporters. idated by the pace and bounce generated by hockey player. first innings, again was unable to convert returned brilliant figures of 7/63, as Tripura formats is third in the list of leading run-scor- Initially, Ishant’s was beating the bat at Ishant. He didn’t go full tilt but a percent- Earlier, Delhi lost their last four wick- his start. bundled out Services for 173 for a first ers of all time with 21,444 runs, behind will but not getting the edges. Suyal on the age effort, bowling within himself, was ets for 15 runs after Shikhar Dhawan (140) He fell on 23 after slamming four innings lead of 47 runs. Ponting (27,483) & Tendulkar (34,357). PTI $     ,' &        2 >  >     %%!*$ ing up and used to play shots in the need to produce results, that's the air, we were taken out of the nets, game. You score 100 off 50 balls or 200   "+*(D ) laying flamboyant shots is not a which was not right because eventu- balls, it doesn’t matter, it still is a hun- P“crime” if they translate into results, ally you want the results,” said Rohit. dred.   %-4!8- reckons batting maestro Rohit “If the guy is giving you results by “I mean if the guy is confident in Sharma, who says youngsters should playing the big shots, there is nothing his skills, I would back that skill. There ore than 80,000 fans packed have the freedom to express them- wrong in that. As a young kid, grow- should not be any restriction on how Mthe Melbourne Cricket selves. ing in this generation, you want to play these young players want to bat. They Ground on Thursday in the Rohit started his international shots. You want to look good (while should be allowed to bat freely, that’s largest single-day crowd for a Test career as a middle-order before batting) but again it is very important how they will produce results.” match between the two nations, becoming one of the best openers in what they think of their game and The India opener also wished the and one of the biggest against any the limited overs game. what understanding they have about defending champions and India U-19 country. The 32-year-old had a memorable the game,” he added. team the best for the upcoming World The Boxing Day Test is the 2019 when he scored 10 hundreds “What we need to be careful of is, Cup in South Africa. highlight of the cricket calendar across formats, including five in the if the player is doing mistakes again “Our team looks very strong as in Australia and routinely attracts World Cup. and again, then he needs to be told always. We won the last time. I throngs of spectators, with the Rohit shared his experiences of his how he should go about it next time. wouldn’t say that we will win this year 91,112 who watched England in early days as a cricketer during an I mean playing shots is not a crime.” as well. I am sure about one thing — 2013 the record. interaction with the young trainees at Rohit emphasised that backing the they are going to play really hard. They The 80,473 who attended on his own cricket academy, here on young players is important to make have got great coaching staff. Of   $               "" Thursday was second biggest Thursday. them confident about their game. course, it’s a big platform and in big for a non-Ashes fixture on “There is nothing harm in play- “I would encourage that to play platforms, India team generally tends   %-4!8- "  ( D Boxing Day, behind only the ing big shots, trying to play a flamboy- shots if they want to but at the same to do well. I hope they bring the Cup ;  72:8 '*) 85,661 who witnessed Australia ant cover drive. When we were grow-           time they need to understand that they back home,” he added. aster batsman Steve Smith $2 ?$-@ /02 play the West Indies in 1975. Mground out an unbeaten 77 New Zealand are playing on Thursday as he zeroed in on yet their first Boxing Day Test in another century, putting Australia day-night clash in Perth by 296 Australia since 1987 and Cricket  7%, 6     $ in the driving seat after the open- runs. Australia chief Kevin Roberts ing day of the second Test against It was a bold decision by said the huge crowd pointed to New Zealand. Williamson to bowl on a pitch that the popularity of the sport in A   %  In the Black Caps’ first Boxing has traditionally been docile and both countries.   H  Day Test at the Melbourne Cricket favoured the batsmen. “Thanks so much to the ng the ball across right-handed Ground since 1987, skipper Kane And it appeared to pay divi- Australian and New Zealand batsmen, with some Williamson won the toss and dends in a sizzling opening over fans who made history at the *  "   < balls swinging back in (,- 7("" opted to bowl, and it looked to be from Trent Boult, back after miss- MCG today,” he said. ;  2:8 '*) and others moving a good decision with Joe Burns out ing two Tests with a rib injury. “The atmosphere was bril- $2 ?$-@ /02 away. first ball and David Warner just After three testing balls to liant from ball one and reflective Stuart Broad,  - '-45$ before lunch. Warner, his fourth clattered into of the great rivalry between our recovered from illness, which But first Marnus Burns’ middle stump, with the two nations on the field, and the prevented him from bowling in ricketers from India and Pakistan are unlikely Labuschagne, the world’s leading opener out for a golden duck to close relationship we have off it.” his team’s two warm-up match- Cto feature together in the combined Asian XI run-scorer for 2019, and then huge roars from the large New The previous day one record es, took three for 52. team that will take on World XI in the two official Smith smacked half centuries to Zealand contingent in the 80,000- for an Australia-New Zealand James Anderson, playing in T20 matches in Bangladesh, BCCI joint secretary seize back control and leave them strong crowd. Test in Melbourne was 51,087. his 150th Test — the first special- Jayesh George said on Thursday. on 257 for four, frustrating the dis- “Obviously we would have ist bowler to reach the milestone The matches are scheduled to be held in March ciplined New Zealand bowlers. liked a few more wickets on our have them a couple more down. — took a wicket with the first ball next year a part of celebrations to commemorate the Along with the fidgety Smith, tally,” said Boult. “I think the over- “On the positive, they haven’t of the match when Dean Elgar birth centenary of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Travis Head was not out 25, des- heads (cloudy conditions) and the got too far ahead of the game. nudged what looked no more Rahaman, Bangladesh’s father of nation. perate for runs after a lean spell. way the pitch played in the first Hopefully we get a couple (of than a leg side loosener to wick- The BCCI, though, will release five of its play- Labuschagne made 63 with Colin hour or two, it’s annoying not to wickets) early tomorrow.” etkeeper Jos Buttler. ers for the two official games. de Grandhomme taking 2-48. Elgar’s fellow opener Aiden “There were some discussions in this regard dur- The signs are ominous for Markram also fell to a loose shot, ing the Pink Ball Test in Kolkata. It looks unlikely New Zealand with superstar Smith  P 8- :   clipping Curran to midwicket. that India and Pakistan players will feature in the scoring centuries in his past four Zubayr Hamza, batting at same Asian XI team. It will depend on Sourav as he   Tests in Melbourne, and a fifth Leading Australia standing player of his era, he’s /      $     8<-  #"  E   number three in his third Test, will have discussions with the Bangladesh Cricket looking likely. “The way they batter Steve Smith on on playing exceedingly well and played a promising innings of 39, Board,” George said. bowled and placed their field, I Thursday achieved yet another he’s built up a record which is   -"8$* before De Kock counter-attacked which proved to be South Africa’s The T20 matches will be held on March 18 and had to be patient,” said Smith. “It’s milestone by entering the top 10 comparable with the very best. to make a half-century off 45 second-highest score. 21 in Dhaka, a time when South Africa will be in not the kind of wicket you could of the all-time leading run-scor- “The indications are he’s am Curran took four wickets balls. New cap Dwaine Pretorius India for an ODI series, the third match of which go after them. I think we did pret- ers for his country in Test crick- going to finish his career in the Sfor England, while Quinton de De Kock played some risky made 33 and helped De Kock add is clashing with the first Asia XI match. ty well today. et. very top bracket of batsmen Kock played a crucial innings of strokes early in his innings but 87 for the sixth wicket, while India and Pakistan have not played any bilater- “The plan will obviously be to On the first day of the through the history of the game,” 95 for South Africa on the first was more circumspect after his Vernon Philander, who finished al cricket for the past seven years and compete score as many as we can (on Boxing Day Test, he went past he added. day of the first Test at SuperSport initial flurry of strokes. on 28 not out, shared in a seventh against each other only at the global or continental Friday),” he added. “But after get- former Test captain Greg Ricky Ponting holds the Park on Thursday. Having been 64 not out off 69 wicket partnership of 47. meets. ting sent it, I think you’d take 257 Chappell’s tally of 7,110 runs with record for being the leading South Africa were 277 for balls at tea, De Kock needed 59 Ben Stokes was off the field The relation between BCCI and PCB could turn for four at the end of the day. One a comfortable single in the 51st run-getter for Australia in Test nine at the close, providing jus- balls to add 31 more runs before for two extended periods after for worse after Ehsan Mani’s comment that Pakistan more good partnership would be over, moving into 10th position cricket. In 168 matches, Ponting tification for captain Joe Root’s fellow left-hander Curran had lunch and again after tea, suffer- is a safer country for touring teams compared to nice and sort of set the game up on Australia’s list of all-time Test scored 13,378 runs. He is fol- decision to bowl first. him caught behind. ing from dehydration. Stokes India. for us.” run-scorers. “I would think he’ll lowed by Allan Border (11,174 in But it could have been a lot Curran took four for 57 and was in the England team despite “We have proved Pakistan is safe, if someone isn’t The visitors need to win to be in his peak for another three 156), Steve Waugh (10,927 in better for England — and worse was the best of the England his father, Ged, remaining in a coming then they should prove that it’s unsafe. At square the three-match series of four years,” Chappell told 168), and Michael Clarke (8,643 for South Africa. The hosts were bowlers, keeping a fuller length Johannesburg hospital with a this time, India is a far greater security risk than after crashing in the opening cricket.com.au. “He’s the out- in 115). IANS in deep trouble at 111 for five than his team-mates and slanti- serious illness. Pakistan,” Mani told reporters in Karachi.