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Nitish lags of rally Shiv Sahay Singh on Yamuna bank Kolkata NEW DELHI A recent Anthropological Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Survey of India (AnSI) pub- Kumar lagged of a road lication has brought to the show and a rally here on fore startling revelations Saturday in what is intended about the Particularly Vul- to be the beginning of a move nerable Tribal Groups by the Janata Dal (United) (PVTGs) in the country inc- towards national expansion. luding the fact that no base The party plans to ield line surveys have been candidates from at least 100 conducted among more of the 272 wards that will be than half of such groups. going to the polls on April 23. “Our findings revealed Left out: A member of Onge tribe in Andamans (left), and a CITY Ī PAGE 2 Salt of the sea: The blazing sun doesn’t deter workers at a salt pan in Marakkanam, along the East Coast Road connecting Chennai shocking facts, of the 75 Toda woman from Tamil Nadu. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD and Puducherry on Saturday. Marakkanam is among the salt production hubs of Tamil Nadu. * V. GANESAN PVTGs, base line surveys exists for about 40 groups, (13). All the four tribal Kattunayakan, Katkari/ INSIDE even after declaring them groups in Andamans, and Kathodi, Kharia, Kolam, as PVTGs,” states the pub- one in Nicobar Islands, are and Lodha. lication: The Particularly recognised as PVTGs. Thus, the number of the Delhi, Dhaka agree on 22 deals Vulnerable Tribal Groups of PVTGs at the national level India — Privileges and Pre- Updates crucial would be 63, the book dicaments. The book points out that states. India promises on Teesta, delivers on $5 billion line of credit, defence MoUs Base line surveys are the PVTG list requires re- “There is an urgent done to precisely identify vising and refinement to need to come up with the Suhasini Haidar and for India-Bangladesh re- the PVTG avoid over- exact number of PVTGs. Kallol Bhattacherjee lationship,” Mr. Modi said families, SUNDAY SPECIAL lapping and This would do away with NEW DELHI after the meeting. He added, their habitat repetition. overlapping names and go Stepping up cooperation in “I firmly believe that it is and socio-economic status, For instance, the list con- a long way in having a clear the fields of connectivity, en- only my government and Ex- so that development initi- tains synonyms of the idea about the tribes and ergy and defence, India ex- cellency Sheikh Hasina, your atives are implemented for same group such as the implementing welfare tended lines of credit worth government, that can and these communities, based Mankidia and the Birhor in schemes directed at the $5 billion to Bangladesh after will find an early solution to on the facts and figures. Odisha, both of which communities,” Dr. Suresh a meeting between Prime Teesta Water Sharing.” The publication emphas- refer to the same group. Patil, former Deputy Dir- Minister Narendra Modi and ises State governments Some of the PVTGs are ector AnSI, and one of the Prime Minister Sheikh Has- Talks on trade must urgently conduct distributed in more than prominent authors of the ina, as the two countries ex- Apart from the water issues, such surveys to arrive at one State. The Birhor are publication, said. changed 22 agreements here Honour for neighbour: Sheikh Hasina inspects a guard of both sides agreed to work to- accurate demographic and recognised as a PVTG in Regional and State-spe- on Saturday. honour at the Rashtrapati Bhavan on Saturday. * SANDEEP SAXENA gether on ways to advance is- socio-economic figures of four States, while 10 other cific variations in welfare However, despite the sues like trade, connectivity, the PVTGs. group are PVTG in two schemes for PVTGs has presence of West Bengal tion of a trans-border rail sharing agreement that Ms. and regional cooperation. Among the 75 listed States, namely the also been highlighted. SECTION 2 Ī 14 PAGES Chief Minister Mamata line, the two sides were un- Banerjee has opposed. PVTG’s the highest num- Sahariya, Kurumba, Kor- SUNDAY MAGAZINE Ī 8 PAGES Banerjee at the ceremony able to make any progress on “This (Teesta) is import- CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 10 ber are found in Odisha aga, Korwa, JenuKuruba, CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 10 CLASSIFIEDS Ī PAGES 4 & 7 that included the inaugura- the contentious Teesta water ant for India, for Bangladesh FRIENDSHIP RIDE Ī PAGE 10 ‘No-ly-list’ under government Parties should China’s action like Pol Pot’s, says Dalai Lama keep election Tibetan leader says it is normal for Beijing to give political colour to his visits consideration, says Minister promises: CJI Special Correspondent our culture and language,” New Delhi he said. In the run-up to his Air passenger representatives welcome move Special Correspondent In his sharpest comments visit, the Chinese govern- New Delhi yet, the Dalai Lama comment had issued several dir- Somesh Jha country like ours where first Chief Justice of India Jag- pared China’s actions in ect threats to India. New Delhi time flyers are nearly 20- dish Singh Khehar on Sat- Tibet to the regime of Cam- He accused China of Minister of State for Civil Avi- 25%,” said D. Sudhakara urday said political parties bodian dictator Pol Pot, who spreading wrong informa- ation Jayant Sinha said the Reddy, national president of should be held account- was held responsible for the tion about his trip, saying it government was considering Air Passengers Association of able for the routinely un- death of more than a million was normal for Beijing to the introduction of a ‘no fly India. fulfilled promises made in Cambodians in the 1970s. give a “political colour.” list’ to deal with unruly their election manifestos. Speaking at the Tawang “The Chinese people have passengers. Advisory in nature Manifestos had become monastery, where he arrived every right to know the real- “The Ministry of Civil Avi- Experts said the ‘no-fly-list’ a mere piece of paper ow- on Friday, the Tibetan leader ity, but totalitarianism has ation is strengthening rules Jayant Sinha * FILE PHOTO should be advisory in nature ing to the short-term and spiritual guru said des- done great damage,” he said. so that a national no-fly list and not imposed on airlines. memory of citizens, but pite the atrocities in Tibet On whether his visit to can be implemented, such lice action for a specific in- “No-fly-list should not be the political parties had to “smiliar to Pol Pot’s in Cam- Blessings: Devotees ofer prayers to the Dalai Lama in Tawang would affect India- incidents can be prevented, cident as well as being punitive in nature, it should be made accountable for bodia,” he had decided to Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh, on Saturday. * PTI China ties, he said: “We will and safety improved,” Mr. placed on a no-fly list,” the facilitate airlines to take the the unfulfilled promises, “forgive China” and was have to wait and see. But it is Sinha tweeted, referring to Minister said. right precaution,” said Mark said Justice Khehar at an even willing to follow the relations with China for policy ensuring economic normal for China to give a the incident on March 23 in Domestic airlines have D Martin, founder and CEO all-India seminar on “Eco- “One China” policy. thousands of years. I have no benefit to Tibet provided we political colour to my spir- which Shiv Sena MP witnessed 53 cases of unruly of Martin Consulting. nomic Reforms with Refer- “Tibet has had very good issues with the ‘One China’ have the right to preserve itual visits.” (With PTI) Ravindra Gaikwad’s al- behaviour by passengers He said it should be the ence to Electoral issues,” legedly beat up an Air India between July 2016 and prerogative of airlines to fly organised by the Confeder- employee, leading to his ban March 2017. passengers named on the ation of the Indian Bar, on flying. Air passenger representat- no-fly-list and that they which was inaugurated by Kejriwal “Air travellers should note ives welcomed the move on should be allowed to charge President Pranab Mukher- that safety and security of a ‘no-fly list’ – a practice fol- an extra fee from such jee. The CJI said the parties fumes at passengers and crew is our lowed by airlines in Europe passengers. gave brazen excuses to jus- paramount priority. Unruly and the United States. Airlines abroad have their tify non-fulfilment of the oice closure or disruptive behaviour will “This is a well-established own rules for dealing with promises. result in severe con- international practice and is unruly passengers and main- Staff Reporter sequences. This includes po- an urgent necessity for a tain their own ‘no fly list.’ CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 10 NEW DELHI Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday de- CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC scribed as “injustice” Lt.- Governor Anil Baijal’s move to shut down the An elephantine census after 5 years Aam Aadmi Party’s only office in the Capital. The AAP's office on All India counting exercise in May will assess the health of the iconic species Deen Dayal Upadhyay Marg was shut down on R. Krishna Kumar sanctuaries, besides forest charges that it was wrongly MYSURU divisions where elephants allotted to the party. The Volunteers and wildlife are found, will be covered. AAP has denied the charge. activists will fan out in May In Karnataka, an “We had an office and across forests and other important range State, 32 we had done no wrong. We habitats to count the actual forest divisions have are not begging for an of- number of wild elephants in elephant populations or fice. We have the right to the country. sightings of the species. have an office,” he said. The All-India However, most are in the The AAP was not just the Synchronised Asian notified Mysore Elephant ruling party in Delhi but a Elephant Population Reserve (MER), made up of State-recognised party, the Estimation, will be carried forests from Bhadra in CM said. out simultaneously in the Chikkamagaluru to southern States from May 16 Strength in numbers: The censusing of elephants will be done Nagarahole-Bandipur BRT Dig at Congress to 19, and earlier in eastern simultaneously in the southern States. Wildlife Sanctuary belt, The AAP leader said it was States, after a five-year gap. besides Bannerghatta, ironical that the Congress, In the previous counting numbers through various Environment and Forests. spread over an area of nearly with no seat in the Delhi exercise in 2012, the methods — including direct 11,000 sq. km. Assembly, not only had its estimated population of wild sample block counts and Population structure In 2012, elephant national headquarters in elephants reported by the indirect or line transect The censusing will also help numbers in the State were at Delhi but a separate Delhi Environment Ministry was dung counts — and the data assess the population 6,072, with the volunteers office too. between 29,391 and 30,711, is used to arrive at a reliable structure that includes age sighting and counting more It had two other offices, compared to 27,657 and estimate of the actual and sex ratio, based on than 600 elephants each in besides a plot of land in 27,682 in 2007, the data population range. direct sightings. Bandipur and Nagarahole Delhi, he added. “But a range indicating the lower The protocols have been Dileep Kumar Das, forests alone. party with 67 of the 70 and upper bounds. designed and approved by director, Project Elephant, The census is expected to seats in the Assembly now The exercise involves the Project Elephant told The Hindu that all show the impact of growing has no office,” he said. estimating the elephant Directorate of the Ministry of national parks and wildlife conflicts with humans. SEE ALSO Ī PAGE 2

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Jatin Anand Capital’s governance,” the Bi- New Delhi <> Delhi is not just Connaught Place. It har CM said. ‘CM splurging public funds on ₹13,000 per person lunches’ Bihar Chief Minister Nitish JD(U) MP Ali Anwar said also has colonies, Kumar flagged off a road- the event was a hallowed be- Staff Reporter hotels, he said. government is a custodian of show and a rally here on Sat- which lack basic ginning for the party’s plans New Delhi “No codal formalities public funds entrusted to it urday in what is intended to infrastructure for national expansion. “De- Ahead of the civic polls, the were followed before placing by tax payers. But Kejriwal be the beginning of a move Sanjay Jha velopment has been com- Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) the orders. Two bills were and his party have been mis- by the Janata Dal (United) to- JD(U) Delhi in-charge pletely stalled in Delhi due to on Saturday opened a new raised by the DTTDC for a using these funds for the last wards national expansion. in Bihar will leave Delhi be- the tug-of-war between the front against the Delhi gov- total amount of ₹11,04,357,” two years for its political The party plans to field can- hind when compared in such Centre and the Delhi govern- ernment, alleging that it had Mr. Gupta said while releas- needs,” Mr. Goyal said. didates from at least 100 of terms. What has happened ment. It is time to start splurged public funds on ing the copies of the bills at a Deputy Chief Minister the 272 wards that will be go- to Delhi? It needs to be made afresh for the sake of Delhi”. lunches at Chief Minister press conference. Manish Sisodia, however, ing to the polls on April 23. a full State to realise all its ac- JD(U)’s Delhi in-charge Arvind Kejriwal’s residence denied the allegations, say- tual needs of development,” and general secretary Sanjay last year that cost ₹13,000 ‘Criminal waste’ ing he never cleared the file Bihari pride invoked Mr. Kumar said. Jha said the party was re- per person. He further said that the bill for the expense which was At the rally on the bank of launched in Delhi in Decem- The Leader of the Opposi- for the lunch on February 11 sent to him. “The so-called the Yamuna, Mr. Kumar in- ‘Forego profits’ ber last year and in just three tion, Vijender Gupta, alleged was ₹6,23,605 and the cost food bill was sent to me for voked “Bihari pride”, advoc- Big plans: Bihar CM Nitish Kumar at a rally in Burari on He also challenged “other months had seen a spike in that the Delhi Tourism and per plate was ₹12,472. The clearance a year back, but I ated prohibition and voiced Saturday. * SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR State governments” to forego support. Transport Development Cor- price of the same plate rose never approved them. The support for full-fledged profits from excise duty “Delhi is not just Con- poration (DTTDC) had spent to ₹16,025 for the lunch or- files have been with the then Statehood for Delhi. The CM port Authority where an baar”. through the sale of alcohol naught Place. It also has over ₹11 lakh on two lunch ganised the next day, he L-G Najeeb Jung’s office for talked about “real social auto rickshaw blared the JD Many senior faces, both and “give social change a colonies, which lack basic in- parties organised at Mr. alleged. the past six months. It seems change” triggered in Bihar (U)’s campaign slogans: “The from the party’s Delhi unit as chance”, in a veiled refer- frastructure like water and Kejriwal’s residence on Feb- “This is a criminal waste the L-G’s office has leaked it due to a ban on alcohol and national leader with a na- well as the Bihar govern- ence to Delhi's ruling AAP electricity. We are contesting ruary 11 and 12 last year. The of the government ex- under pressure from the the “Bihar model of gov- tional vision from Bihar”. ment, were in attendance. government. polls in at least 100 wards parties were attended by 50 chequer by the Kejriwal gov- BJP,” he alleged. ernance”. Mr. Kumar’s plans for his “Lack of basic facilities is “The Bihari and Purvan- and are confident we will and 30 people, respectively. ernment. I urge the Lieuten- He said files were being Mr. Kumar said that some party’s national prospects evident when one enters the chali population in Delhi has win across east and south Mr. Gupta alleged that the ant-Governor to order an leaked to defame the AAP parts of Delhi “lacked basic were voiced by local sup- interiors of Delhi, whether it grown tremendously over Delhi. The MCDs have been catering arrangements were inquiry into this violation,” government ahead of the up- facilities” and were “worse” porters as they shouted slo- be the condition of roads, the last two decades. It is under the BJP and nothing provided by a leading five- Mr. Gupta said. coming municipal elections. than the villages in his home gans such as “desh ka PM drinking water, drainage or time to reclaim our right to has been done. The AAP, star hotel. The permissible Union Minister and senior “I dare them to release State. kaisa ho? Nitish Kumar jaisa sewage. Bihar was infamous govern it. We have forged which rode to power in a limit under financial rules is BJP leader Piyush Goyal the file in which I have The roadshow was organ- ho” and “sab ko dekha baar for problems such as these, our own identity here and it wave, too hasn't been able to ₹1,250 per person for host- termed the alleged expendit- clearly made a note refusing ised near the Burari Trans- baar, Nitish ko dekho ek but now, even some villages is time to honour it in the do anything.” ing a lunch in non-five star ure “mind-boggling.” “The to clear payment,” he added. HC upholds Over 2,000 candidates to With 2 weeks to go, campaigning BJP presents rejection of ‘aarop patra’ 5 candidates contest municipal polls picks up pace in Daryaganj ward against AAP Press Trust of India Congress candidate carries out padyatras in slum clusters Press Trust of India New Delhi The State poll panel had received 4,598 nominations New Delhi The Delhi High Court on Staff Reporter Stepping up its attack on Saturday refused to enter- Damini Nath withdrawn their nomina- New Delhi the AAP, the Delhi BJP on tain the pleas of four BJP NEW DELHI tions, including 44 of the With two weeks to go for the Saturday released an and one Congress candid- More than 2,000 candidates AAP, 19 of the BJP and 17 of municipal elections, cam- ‘aarop patra’ (charge sheet) ate challenging the rejec- will be contesting the elec- the Congress. paigning picked up pace in alleging the ruling party tion of their nominations tions to the 272 municipal While most of the num- the Daryaganj ward on Sat- has failed to fulfil most of by the Delhi poll panel. wards of Delhi on April 23, bers had been compiled, the urday as the Congress can- its poll promises. Justice Vipin Sanghi, how- as per the Delhi State Elec- returning officers were still didate went door-to-door to ever, allowed the BJP can- tion Commission. in the process of compiling seek support. ‘AAP cheated Delhi’ didate from Ward 3E of their reports. The final num- Addressing a press confer- Trilokpuri to contest the Duplicates weeded out ber of candidates would be Residents raise concerns ence at the party office municipal elections while After receiving a total of given on Sunday. Yasmin Kidwai, Congress here, BJP leader and asking the State election 4,598 nominations till candidate for the ward in the former Delhi Mayor Arti commission to include her Monday, which was the last As of 10.30 p.m. on Saturday, 1,005 Independents South Delhi Municipal Cor- Mehra said the AAP has name in the final list. date for filing affidavits, the a total of 2,379 candidates As per the data compiled poration, carried out “again started making false The four BJP candidates State Election Commission remained after withdrawals from 72 ROs till 10.30 p.m., padyatras in slum clusters promises” eyeing the mu- who were barred include weeded out duplicates, re- and rejections. * FILE PHOTO: 255, 250 and 254 candidates near the Ambedkar Stadium nicipal elections. “Before Renu Negi, her husband jected incorrect forms and SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA remained for the AAP, the and Bahadurshah Zafar the Delhi Assembly polls Ravinder Negi, Monika allowed for withdrawal till BJP and the Congress re- Marg. (2015), the AAP enticed Chabra and Sanju Bala. Saturday. Delhi Municipal Corpora- spectively. In addition, a voters by making huge The State poll panel As of 10.30 p.m. on Sat- tion, 898 and 895 candidates total of 1,005 Independent ‘Tremendous support’ Stepping it up: Congress candidate Yasmin Kidwai at Valmiki promises. But, now those had also rejected the nom- urday, a total of 2,379 can- remained in contention. For candidates remained. At the Valmiki Basti, resid- Basti in Daryaganj on Saturday. * SHANKER CHAKRAVARTY manifestos are nowhere to ination of Sudha Sinha, didates remained after with- the 64 wards of the East This number, however, in- ents raised their concerns be seen — neither on the who was contesting on a drawals and rejections. For Delhi Municipal Corpora- cluded candidates of parties about the lack of clean ers. Ms. Kidwai, who is a ents said the Aam Aadmi AAP’s website nor on social Congress ticket from ward the 104 wards each in the tion, there were 462 candid- like Swaraj India, which have drinking water and sanita- first-time candidate, said Party MLA from the area, media accounts of any of 36S of Dwarka South Delhi Municipal Cor- ates after withdrawals. A not been given a poll symbol tion amid the din of drums that she had got “tremend- Praveen Kumar, had failed to its MLAs. They have constituency. poration and the North total of 221 candidates had by the Election Commission. and chants by party work- ous support”, even as resid- resolve their problems. cheated Delhi,” she said.

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The police had livered tiffins to students. Capital on Saturday with both ing with and registering a registered a case against sev- maximum and minimum false case against a few eral workers' union leaders Sold them at petty price temperatures settling below union leaders following the on charges of rioting, unlaw- The boy, Noor Islam alias normal levels. The maximum death of a worker at an auto- ful assembly and criminal Rahul, hails from West temperature was recorded at mobile spare parts company intimidation. Bengal. The police said he 33.6 degrees Celsius, a notch in Manesar here two days The delegation claimed would deliver food to stu- below the season’s average ago. that the SHO registered a dents at night and return to while the minimum A memorandum was sub- false case against the union collect the boxes during temperature dropped to mitted to Deputy Commis- leaders. The delegation the early hours. Finding settle at 16.5 degrees, three sioner Hardeep Singh and members demanded that the students asleep, he notches below the normal, Police Commissioner the FIR be quashed and ac- would steal their mobile said the Met department. PTI Sandeep Khirwar by a deleg- tion initiated against the po- phones, laptops and other ation comprising Centre of lice officer for his alleged gadgets. Islam told the po- Shunglu panel report: Indian Trade Unions, Hary- misbehaviour. The leaders lice that he sold the elec- Gupta wants CM’s apology ana president Satbir Singh, also sought registration of tronics at bus stands for a NEW DELHI All-India Trade Union Con- the FIR against the company petty price in order to sup- Leader of Opposition in the gress, Haryana deputy gen- for the death of the worker. port himself. The police Delhi Assembly Vijender eral-secretary Anil Kumar Mr. Khirwar said the FIR said the students didn’t Gupta sought an apology and Maruti Udyog Kamgaar against the union leaders doubt him because of his from Chief Minister Arvind Union general-secretary would be transferred to an- good behaviour. “They al- Kejriwal for wrongdoings Kuldeep Jhangu. The memo other police station and the ways found him affable,” mentioned in the Shunglu Game on: Chief Justice of India, J.S Khehar (centre) with other members during the annual cricket match between Chief Justice of sought action against SHO, allegations by the delegation said Additional DCP panel report. “A bungalow India XI and Supreme Court Bar Association XI at the Feroz Shah Kotla stadium on Saturday. * SHANKER CHAKRAVARTY Manesar, Inspector Jagdish would be probed. 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AAP hits the street New Delhi culture or community we feelings of guilt or low self- She said that if left over house tax Talking about a person’s belong to. But it can be worth, or feelings of untreated, the most severe NEW DELHI depression is half the managed and overcome,” tiredness and lethargy. form of depression can lead The AAP on Saturday hit the treatment done, according said Dr. Singh. It may also manifest as to suicide and asked streets to mark “liberation” to Dr. Poonam Khetrapal The global body observed agitation or physical communities to openly talk from house tax, seeking to Singh, regional director of World Health Day on April 7 restlessness, substance about the syndrome to create momentum for the the World Health with the theme of abuse, reduced prevent hardships and party riding on a major poll Organization (WHO), South- ‘Depression: Let’s talk’. concentration. precious lives being cut promise. The party’s ward East Asia region. Though depression affects short. units and volunteers gathered all demographic groups, it is Can lead to suicides She added that talking across the city and burnt ‘Impedes ability’ more common among Depression can also lead about depression openly and copies of house tax bills of “Depression is an issue that adolescents and young to suicide, which is the by better understanding the the municipal corporations. needs to be heard. It can adults, women of child second highest cause of signs of the condition, we AAP’s Delhi in-charge Ashish affect anyone at any stage of bearing age (particularly death among 15-29 year olds can help ourselves if we Talwar said the campaign life. It can impact following childbirth), and in the region, noted WHO. experience it. received massive support relationships, work and adults over the age of 60. Dr. Singh said depression- We are also better placed which reflected the “anger” social interactions. It can Doctors say depression often related health services must to support loved ones, she of people against the BJP. PTI impede our ability to live life expresses itself as disturbed be made more accessible said.

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Staff Reporter where she was declared with blade, robbed of cash New Delhi brought dead on arrival. A 55-year-old woman was axed to death allegedly by Weapon recovered Sushma Swaraj seeks report; rickshaw puller, friend among those arrested her live-in partner in south- The police later arrested the east Delhi’s Okhla on accused and recovered the Hemani Bhandari lice Jatin Narwal. Friday. weapon. New Delhi Mr. Schult ran towards the The victim was identified “The accused was inebri- A 19-year-old German tourist flyover, about 100 meters as Munni Devi. ated at the time of the incid- was allegedly attacked with a away from the spot, even as According to the police, ent. We have registered a surgical blade by a rickshaw the accused fled. Two she was hit in the eye with case against him under Sec- puller and his friend near people stopped to take him an axe by accused Chander- tion 307 (attempt to the Geeta Colony flyover on to the Sushrut Trauma pal (55) after the two got murder) of the Indian Penal Friday night and robbed of Centre in Civil Lines and into an argument. Code,” said DCP (South- his mobile and wallet. The even informed policemen. Devi was taken to AIIMS, East) Romil Baaniya. accused have been arrested. Mr. Schult was discharged on Following the incident, Saturday afternoon. External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj tweeted that Search goes in vain she had sought a report and “The policemen asked the had asked the Delhi govern- Caught unawares: The spot near the Geeta Colony lyover boys to take him to the hos- ment to provide him with where the 19-year-old was attacked. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT pital and went looking for the best medical treatment. the culprits. But as it was Benjamin Janis Schult to Amritsar. Schult that he was a friend dark they managed to flee,” came to India on March 12 who had to go the same way. Mr. Narwal said. on a tourist visa. Around Walking into a trap “Both the accused, how- A resident of the area said 10.30 p.m. on Friday, he The rickshaw puller, Rizwan, ever, took him to a deserted they joined the police in came out of the Chandni however, took him in the area and robbed him of his search of the culprits but Chowk metro station and wrong direction, the police mobile and wallet. When he could not find them. On Sat- hired a rickshaw to go to the said. The accused stopped resisted, they attacked him urday night, the duo was ar- Kashmere Gate Inter-State midway to pick up another with a surgical blade,” said rested from north-east Del- Bus Terminus to catch a bus man, Raj Kishore, telling Mr. Deputy Commissioner of Po- hi’s Brahmpuri. Woman shot at by husband

Staff Reporter he was mentally unstable as New Delhi he had attacked her last A 25-year-old woman was month as well. He was also shot at allegedly by her hus- an alcoholic,” said the band in west Delhi’s Inder- officer. puri on Friday. An FIR under Section 307 The victim, identified as (attempt to murder) of the Mausmi Roy, was shot at by IPC and under the Arms Act her husband around 1:30 has been registered against a.m., as soon she had re- Singh. turned home from work, said the police. Her colleagues rushed her to a hospital, where she is said to be stable.

Accused held The accused, Gagandeep Singh, fled to Punjab after the attack, but was later arrested. DCP (West) Vijay Kumar said the couple shared a strained relationship as Singh was unemployed. “The victim told us that

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Court orders Talking about gender-based violence prosecution Liquor ban bottles up of 2 for selling Campaign ‘Ek Saath’ raises awareness about gender inequality Deeksha Teri we see a certain change com- illicit liquor 48 pubs, hotels in Delhi NEW DELHI ing in them. I feel that we will In light of the rising number be able to bring about some Nirnimesh Kumar of crimes against women in change with proper time and New Delhi Representatives of hospitality sector to meet Sisodia to ind a workaround the city, the Centre for Health effort,” he added. A Sessions court here has and Social Justice (CHSJ) has quashed a Metropolitan Damini Nath beverage industry. This will started a campaign ‘Ek Saath’ Four plays Magistrate order dischar- NEW DELHI have a severe and adverse im- to sensitise people about The CHSJ will also be releas- ging two persons in a case Delhi may have gotten off pact on not just restaurants, gender equality and gender- ing a book called ‘Mann Ek of allegedly buying and lightly compared to Guru- but also on tourism and other based violence. The drive is being organised Darpan’, which will comprise selling illicit liquor. gram, with fewer restaurants, allied industries,” said Prakul The campaign, which is at select Metro stations. four plays dealing with Based on a tip-off, Excise bars and hotels being af- Kumar, secretary-general of being organised in select gender-based violence, mas- Department officials had fected by the Supreme Court the National Restaurants As- Metro stations, involves male Chowk and Janakpuri West culinity and the importance raided a hideout of the ac- ban on serving alcohol within sociation of India (NRAI). volunteers from Shivaji Col- Metro stations. of reproductive health. cused and seized 50 car- 500 metres of a national or He added that initial estim- lege of Delhi University ap- “A lot of people have told “It is very important to tons of illicit liquor. One of State highway. However, it is ates put the number of bars proaching commuters and us their stories about when make sure that we give the accused had managed still nothing to cheer about and pubs that would shut talking to them about various they were dominated into do- people a solution instead of to flee, but was arrested for the industry. down in the National Capital patriarchal norms. ing something that they did just telling them the problem. after a month. As per the Delhi govern- Region in the hundreds. Information stalls have not want to do. This goes for Through these plays we will The Metropolitan Magis- ment’s Excise Department, “The move could lead to been set up at Rajiv Chowk, men as well as women,” said be establishing contact with trate, however, had dis- 48 establishments that serve States losing overall tax rev- Shahdara, Vishwavidyalaya, Santosh Kumar, a 20-year-old them and will help them charged the liquor carrier liquor have been affected by Big impact: National Restaurants Association of India has said enue of ₹50,000 crore, res- Kashmere Gate, Anand Vihar volunteer deployed at Anand break out of the circle of ste- as well as the owner of the the April 1 roll-out of the Su- that one lakh people may lose jobs across NCR. * SANDEEP SAXENA taurants and pubs taking a hit ISBT, Uttam Nagar East, New Vihar ISBT Metro station. reotypes,” said Jagdish Lal, motorcycle on which the li- preme Court order. of ₹10,000-15,000 crore and Delhi, Chawri Bazar, Chandni “However, as we talk to them author of the book. quor was brought. A senior excise official said formed in February to look order, with two appealing one lakh people going out of “Accused Siya Ram [li- that five establishments had into complaints from liquor against it. One application work. The total consolidated quor carrier] was arrested appealed against the ban, vends affected by an earlier was accepted and the other loss will be around ₹1 lakh DEATH a month after registration asking for a second look at Supreme Court order. rejected. The official added crore,” Mr. Kumar said. OBITUARY & REMEMBRANCE ANNIVERSARIES of FIR, and it cannot be their location and distance that while liquor vends had He added that the NRAI said with certainty that illi- from the highway. A hotel ‘No time given’ been given time to appeal, had taken up the issue with cit liquor was recovered had appealed that the high- The SC had on December 15, the establishments serving al- Union Tourism and Culture from his possession,” the way passing in front of their 2016 banned the sale of alco- cohol had not time to do so as Minister Mahesh Sharma as DEATH Magistrate had said. property was a flyover, so it hol within 500 metres of na- the ban was enforced well as the chief secretaries of In case of the other ac- shouldn’t count. tional highways. On March 31, overnight. Haryana, Maharashtra and cused, Rajeev, the court This argument, the official it expanded the order to in- For owners of establish- Karnataka. had held that no document said, had been rejected. Non- clude restaurants, bars, ho- ments that serve alcohol, the He said they would be of the motorcycle was filed etheless, the official said that tels and cafés serving alcohol. SC’s decision could have meeting Deputy Chief Minis- along with the chargesheet a committee would look into In Delhi, a total of 48 li- grave consequences. ter Manish Sisodia too. We to show that he owned the all requests for appeal. quor vends had been closed “This is an unprecedented are also exploring legal op- vehicle. The committee had been as a result of the December situation for the food and tions, Mr. Kumar added.

Revision of order Allowing the revision petition of the Delhi government against the Magistrate Gurugram panel to hear exemption pleas court order, Additional Ses- Ashok Kumar sions Judge Navita Kumari GURUGRAM which bans the sale of the panel will look into Regency, Westin, CyberHub Bagha said that Siya Ram liquor within 500 metres of claims of the bars and and several bars in Sector was identified by a police- A district-level monitoring State or national highways. hotels after it received 29 are affected by the ban. man and that even if he was committee will on Monday representations from them. arrested after one month, initiate the process to verify First meeting Big names impacted “it does not mean he did the claims of various bars The first meeting of the Quick redress The Crowne Plaza, The not commit offence under and hotels in Gurugram, panel, set up to ensure “All such claims will be Westin and a few bars in Section 33/38 of the Delhi which have contended that implementation of the settled within 24 hours,” Cyber Hub have given Excise Act... he cannot be they do not fall within the order, on Saturday began said Mr. Singh. representations for discharged on the grounds 500-metre buffer zone as with the reading of the Of the 292 bars in exemption. that he was not found in fixed by the Supreme court order. Gurugram, the excise The aggrieved party can DEATH possession of illicit liquor Court. The members were department identified 115 also write to Excise and at the time of arrest”. The committee, headed apprised about the that fall within the 500- Taxation Commissioner in “The trial court has also by the Deputy interpretation of the court metre buffer zone and has Chandigarh and give P.V.RAMAMOORTHY, 84, Retd. Senior ignored the fact that the Commissioner Hardeep order by the Excise and put the renewal of their representation to the Auditor, Defence Accounts HVF,At- tained Sivaloga Prapthi on 06 vehicle seized was in the Singh, has received around Taxation Department that licences on hold. Haryana government in April 8 pm. Last Rites performed name of accused Rajeev, half-a-dozen the distance was motorable The Leela, The Oberoi, case they are not satisfied on 7th April. Mourned by R.Chitra,R which is clearly reflected representations seeking and not as the crow flew. The Trident, Galaxy Hotel, with the findings of the .Chandrasekhar.9843051285, R. Ravichandran 9841006481, R.Bhuvana from the Registration Certi- exemption from the ruling, It was then decided that Crowne Plaza, Hyatt district-level committee. Ramprasad & Host of Relatives & ficate,” the judge said. Friends.

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Staff Reporter ‘They had attacked a rival on Friday’ district. In such a situation, Both the Left and cused the Left Front and the chit fund scam,” he said. Kolkata <> the Centre can intervene,” TMC are responsible TMC for the growth of chit Mr. Vijayvargiya’s com- Staff Reporter lice Officer (SDPO) Dilip Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Mr. Vijayvargiya said on for the loss of the funds in the State. He alleged ments came a day after Chief BERHAMPUR Das, the clash was over national general secretary Saturday. savings of the poor that it was during the Left Minister Mamata Banerjee In a post-panchayat poll rivalry during panchayat Kailash Vijayvargiya has Front’s tenure that chit funds lashed out at the BJP and the group clash, four persons polls. The situation at the Kailash Vijayvargiya warned the Trinamool Con- 'Communal act' BJP national general secretary gained a foothold in Bengal Rashtriya Swayamsevak were injured at J.Govindpur village has been brought un- gress (TMC) government of Talking about a case being and then flourished under Sangh for “mixing politics village under Kavisury- der control, he added. The the Centre’s intervention lodged against State BJP pres- “The TMC government the TMC regime. and religion” and warned of anagar police station in Gan- injured persons were sup- with regard to the issues of ident Dilip Ghosh under the never objects when people, legal action against those jam district of Odisha on porters of a candidate who infiltration and fake cur- Arms Act for participating in including children, take part ‘Faster probe’ who were trying to disrupt Saturday. had contested for the post rency notes in Bengal. a rally with a sword during in armed rallies during “We hold both the Left and communal harmony in of panchayat samity mem- “Infiltrators are promot- Ram Navami, Mr. Vijayvar- Muharram. This act of the TMC responsible for the loss Bengal in the name of reli- Three brothers ber from the area and lost. ing anti-national activities in giya asked why no cases government to discriminate of the savings of the poor. We gious festivals. The four injured included The attackers were support- the State. Fake currency were lodged when similar against Ram Navami rallies is will take out a rally to the CBI Ms. Banerjee had also said three brothers — Tuna ers of the candidate who notes have been seized in rallies were taken out during purely communal,” he said. office on Wednesday to de- she would “not tolerate any Swain, Satya Swain, British had won the post, the police large quantities from Malda Muharram. Mr. Vijayvargiya also ac- mand a faster probe into the riots” in Bengal. Kailash Vijayvargiya * Swain — and another person said. named Sibaram Lenka. They have been admitted in Probe on MKCG medical college and a According to police sources, hospital in Berhampur for the four injured persons had treatment. attacked a person of their According to police rival group on Friday night. sources, they were attacked The attack on Saturday by their rival group on Sat- morning was in retaliation urday morning while on to that attack. The police their way to take a bath at a have rounded up one per- village pond. son for questioning in rela- As per Sub-Divisional Po- tion to this incident. CBI iles case against postal dept workers

Allowed cash deposit post-note ban Press Trust of India The case against the two Bhubaneswar was registered under vari- The CBI has registered a ous sections of the IPC and case of fraud and cheating sections of the Prevention of against two postal depart- Corruption Act, 1988, the ment employees for allow- sources said. ing cash deposits of ₹36.80 The CBI had conducted lakh here during searches at the office and demonetisation. residential premises of ac- The then in-charge Post cused persons, including Master and Postal Assistant the depositors and postal at Saheed Nagar post office account holders in and here had allegedly abused around Bhubaneswar which their official position and led to the recovery of docu- fraudulently allowed cash ments, they said. deposit of ₹36,80,930 in the postal savings accounts of Documents recovered seven people, official A bank locker key, docu- sources said. ments related to various bank accounts and immov- Non-business day able property, including a The deposit was received duplex house at Kalinga from a Superintendent of Nagar in Jajpur district and Central Excise department land/plots at Ugalapada and and six others on November Patharagadia in Khorda dis- 9, 2016, which was declared trict, and ₹4.40 lakh in cash as a non-business working were recovered from the day by the Postal depart- residence of the Superin- ment after announcement tendent of Central Excise of demonetisation of high here, the CBI sources said value notes on November 8, adding investigation of the 2016, they said. case is on. Militant held in Manipur

Press Trust of India The militant, allegedly in- Imphal volved in several cases of ex- A militant belonging to the tortion, was held during an Zeliangrong United Front operation conducted by a (ZUF) was caught by the Ma- team of police commandos nipur police commandos at yesterday. He was handed Langol Game village here, over to the Lamphel police police said on Saturday. station.

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‘1 lakh cameras to be Punjab CM’s comment comes days after the UP govt bailed out farmers Mohammed Iqbal Mr. Pilot said that since installed along highways’ JAIPUR Ms. Raje and her two Minis- Sirsa SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT After a high-decibel cam- ters were still in Dholpur by The Haryana government has CHANDIGARH paign by two major political flouting all norms, the ad- decided to install one lakh Punjab Chief Minister Cap- parties, the by-election in ministration would succumb CCTV cameras along the tain Amarinder Singh on Sat- the Dholpur Assembly con- to her pressure and under- national highways in the urday reiterated his govern- stituency of Rajasthan is be- mine the sanctity of the State to rescue victims and ment's commitment to find a ing viewed as a test of pop- Election Commission's provide assistance promptly way to bail out debt-ridden ularity of the three-year-old guidelines. “Intimidation in case of accidents, Chief farmers in the State, with or Bharatiya Janata Party gov- and luring of votes is being Minister Manohar Lal Khattar without the Centre's help. ernment. As many as 15 can- done with impunity,” he said here on Saturday. - PTI “My government is duty- didates, including 12 inde- said. bound to fulfill every prom- pendents, are in the fray, as Rajasthan Chief Minister However, Dholpur district Cow vigilante attack: ise made in the election the polling is scheduled for Vasundhara Raje. * FILE PHOTO BJP president Bahadur Singh One more arrested manifesto. The State govern- Sunday. said Ms. Raje had suffered JAIPUR ment had approached the Chief Minister Vasund- change of leadership before foot strain after she returned One more person was Centre for waiver of farm hara Raje has pulled out all the 2018 Assembly election. from campaigning on Friday arrested on Saturday for his loans but even if we fail to stops to win the by-poll. The by-election was ne- and the doctors had advised alleged role in the lynching of get any support from the Along with half-a-dozen Min- cessitated after Bahujan her rest. a man by cow vigilantes in Centre, we will ensure that isters, she toured the con- Samaj Party MLA B.L. Kush- Rajasthan, taking the number farmers are freed of their stituency extensively and wah's disqualification fol- Cong, BJP lock horns of those arrested in the mounting debts,”" said Capt. stayed back in the town even lowing his conviction in a The BJP and Congress are incident to four. Dayanand Amarinder after inaugurat- after the campaign deadline murder case in December locked in a direct fight, as Yadav, who was seen ing D-Mart’s first post-IPO reportedly on health last year. The BJP inducted the BSP has not fielded any thrashing the men, has been store in Punjab in Zirakpur. grounds. The Opposition his wife Shobharani Kush- candidate. Samajwadi Party arrested, police said. - PTI The CM's comments come Congress has taken excep- wah into its fold and fielded has fielded Banvari Sharma just days after the Uttar Pra- Checking products: Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh at the inauguration of a store near tion to this, alleging that the her as its candidate. The apparently with an eye on desh government approved Mohali on Saturday. * PTI ruling party was violating Congress candidate is the large Brahmin electorate Constable shot dead by waiver of farm loans of up to model code of conduct. former Minister and four- in the constituency. history-sheeter in UP ₹1 Lakh. Shortly after the de- recently accused the State plauded UP's decision and crop loans in the cooperative The Dholpur by-election time MLA Banwari Lal While the BJP has sought PRATAPGARH cision, the Opposition in government of delaying the had called for its replication sector amounting to about is also a matter of prestige Sharma. votes on the development A police constable, who had Punjab had upped the ante implementation of its prom- in other States also,” Mr. ₹12,500 crore. The average for both the BJP and Con- Ms. Raje held a road show agenda with the claim that gone to a village here for against the ruling Congress ise to waive farm loans and Badal had said. debt per farming household gress in view of its status as on the final day of cam- the party had set new re- investigation in a case, was government asking it to also even asked Congress vice- in Punjab works out to be ₹8 Ms. Raje's home turf, as she paigning on Friday, while cords for growth of the re- shot dead allegedly by a waive farm loans. president Rahul Gandhi to 80,000 crore debt lakh (including crop loan), was married to Hemant Pradesh Congress president gion, the Congress leaders history-sheeter on Saturday, Former Punjab Deputy intervene in the issue and As per government data, the while the State's per hectare Singh of the town's erstwhile Sachin Pilot addressed a have accused the ruling police officials said. A case Chief Minister and Shiro- direct Capt. Amarinder to total farm debt in Punjab debt of small and marginal ruling family. A defeat may number of public meetings party of indulging in corrup- has been registered against mani Akali Dal (SAD) presid- waive the loans. amounts to more than farmers was the highest in give Ms. Raje's detractors an in support of septuagen- tion and failing to provide the accused Irshad. - PTI ent Sukhbir Singh Badal had “Mr. Gandhi had ap- ₹80,000 crore, including India. opportunity to demand a arian leader Mr. Sharma. good governance. BSP supports Cong in M.P. by-election Party enjoys good support in Bhind

Press Trust of India Bhind In order to “take revenge” of the drubbing it received at the hands of BJP in Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls, the BSP has extended support to Congress for the crucial by-poll to Ater Assembly seat, to be held on Sunday. “BSP has extended support to the Congress ahead of the Ater by-poll,” Con- gress General Secretary in- BSP supremo Mayawati. * charge of Madhya Pradesh FILE PHOTO Mohan Prakash told reporters. just like it had snatched the Confirming the develop- Kukshi seat from earlier ment, BSP district chief Leader of Opposition Late Gambhir Singh said, “We Jamuna Devi in 2011, even as have extended support to Congress had won the Kuk- Congress for Ater by-poll to shi seat again in 2013. take revenge of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls.” Chain of meetings BSP enjoys good support Mr Scindia addressed nearly in Bhind district, bordering 23 meetings in Ater constitu- Uttar Pradesh. ency. During the rallies, he The Ater by-poll has be- had alleged that the State come a prestige issue for government was neck deep senior Congress leader involved in corruption Jyotiraditya Scindia and MP whose glaring examples are Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Vyapam, Simhastha and Chouhan. mid-day meal scams, among While Congress wants to others. retain Ater seat as it belongs Mr Chouhan also ad- to former Leader of Opposi- dressed nearly 20 poll meet- tion, Satyadev Katare, ings in Ater in support of the whose death necessitated party candidate Arvind the by-poll, BJP also wants Singh Bhadoria, who won to wrest it from Congress to the poll from this seat in continue with the party’s 2008. He made an appeal to winning streak. the voters to vote for the Katare was close to Mr party in the name of BJP’s Scindia and in order to cash popular slogan “Sabka Sath, in on the sympathy votes, Sabka Vikas.” Congress has fielded his son Apart from Ater, by-elec- Hemant Katare from Ater to tion for Bandhavgarh As- retain the seat. sembly segment in Umaria However, BJP, in order to district will also be held on prove that it has become a Sunday. It was necessitated supreme political force in as the seat had fallen vacant the State, is leaving no stone after MLA Gyan Singh was unturned to ensure that it elected to the Lok Sabha in wrests Ater from Congress, November last year. 5 killed in bus-truck collision

Press Trust of India Kanpur Five persons, including a woman, were killed and over a dozen injured, eight of them seriously, after the bus they were travelling in collided with a container truck at Maharajpur on Sat- urday near here, police said. The incident took place at around 5 pm on the Kan- pur-Allahabad road when the bus was on its way to Fatehpur from here, they said. “The bus collided head- on with the truck after the driver lost control over the vehicle due to some mechanical failure and went on the wrong side of the road,” SP (Traffic) Sar- vanand Yadav said.

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Talking to reporters, Summer has been particu- has resulted in shortage of under the Shivamogga Milk Chandrababu Naidu on The condition of Mahija and Ms. Avishna said she was larly bad for the dairy farm- dry grass,” said Satisha, a Union Ltd., which covers Saturday paid ₹5 lakh as ex Avishna, mother and sister willing to die for her brother. ers of Karnataka this year, farmer from Budhanuru. Shivamogga, Davangere and gratia to each of the five of Jishnu Prannoy, who are She would continue her fast with green fodder becoming Savithramma of Bellur said Chitradurga districts. families of the employees of on an indefinite fast, until the police arrested the a rarity due to drought. With cattle required at least 15 kg The situation is similar in the Naval Armament Depot worsened on Saturday even- accused and the government the cost of production of green fodder every day. Dakshina Kannada and who went missing aboard the ing. This forced the authorit- took action against the po- spiralling, farmers of milk- She purchases fodder at ₹10 Udupi, where the cost of IAF plane AN32, and are ies to shift Ms. Mahija to the lice personnel involved in producing districts are a kg — double the normal fodder has increased from presumed dead. The plane intensive care unit of the the action on her mother. distraught. price of ₹5. ₹11 / ₹12 to ₹15 / ₹16 a kg. crashed into the Bay of government medical college Unable to get fodder in Sources in the Karnataka Bengal on July 22 last year. hospital here and keep a Explainer through ad their vicinity, they source it Steep hike Milk Federation acknow- close watch on Ms. Avishna, The government, mean- from distant places at high In Kolar, fodder availability ledged the shortage but said No end to garbage woes who refused to move to the while, came out with an ad- costs. Despite a government has been adversely affected the federation was confident for Bengaluru residents Kozhikode government med- vertisement in all leading incentive, the establishment as farmers have turned to to- of sailing through the dry BENGALURU ical college hospital despite dailies on Saturday explain- of fodder banks and the re- mato cultivation, despite the season as many places in the Garbage woes continue to acute dehydration. Snowballing issue: Police use water cannons against activists ing its stance in the Jishnu cent hike in milk prices, administration’s attempt to high milk-producing centres plague Bengaluru, with the Ms. Mahija was shifted to supporting Jishnu's mother on Saturday. * S. GOPAKUMAR Prannoy case and the hap- farmers of Kolar, Mandya convince them to grow had received rainfall. most recent crisis rendering hospital after she refused to penings before the State po- and Shivamogga, which are jowar, which yields good The Animal Husbandry five of the six waste take intravenous fluid sup- ities for “deliberate misrep- pital said she had started re- lice headquarters. among the high milk-produ- green fodder. With the onset Department confirmed that processing plants temporarily port following a medical bul- resentation” of facts. Follow- sponding to medication. In the advertisement cing districts, are complain- of the tomato season, farm- there was a shortage of fod- non-operational. One of the letin stating that she was taking this, the authorities Ms. Avishna’s condition titled ‘Jishnu case: propa- ing about the increase in in- ers have moved away from der.“We have established main reasons is a massive ing soft drinks and that her suspended intravenous fluid also worsened by evening ganda and truth’, the gov- put costs. jowar for higher returns. fodder banks but they can pile-up of refused derived condition was stable. She administration. Shortly, Ms. following her refusal to ac- ernment explained that a Dairy farmers of Mandya In Shivamogga, the cost meet only part of the de- fuel, which has resulted in a and her brother Sreejith, Mahija’s condition cept intravenous administra- campaign was afoot to cover are looking at Mysuru, has risen steeply as a tonne mand. Fodder is being given spate of fires and protests who is also on an indefinite worsened. In a late evening tion of fluids. Doctors have up the many measures it had Chamarajanagar and other of fodder, which cost about at highly subsidised cost of from people living nearby. fast, lashed out at the author- medical bulletin, the hos- made it clear that she will be taken in the case. districts to source fodder. ₹5,800 in March/April 2016, ₹2 a kg,” an official said.

Now, it is BJP’s turn to A women’s cooperative leads a farm revolt 85-year-old mauled by explain poll code ‘breach’ stray dogs in Kerala Intideepam gives Telangana farmers ₹15.25 lakh in proits, cuts brokers out Forgot it was election time: Yeddyurappa Ravi Reddy of two married children was it decided to market the ‘He may have collapsed before attack’ HYDERABAD a farm hand till a few years crop. Special Correspondent Mr. Yeddyurappa was ac- Fifty-year-old Neeradi ago, tending to her two acre Staff Reporter town. A pack of dogs was MYSURU/BENGALURU cused of violating the model Bojabai is fuelling a silent re- piece of land. Brokers demand cuts THIRUVANANTHAPURAM found to be devouring his A criminal case has been code of conduct on Friday, volution with a group of wo- As farming in the black Intideepam’s mentor and The mauled body of a 85- corpse in the field, some dis- filed against BJP Karnataka by handing over ₹1 lakh to men in Telangana, making soil became tough, she founder of GRAM, N. Sam- year-old man was found in a tance from the locality. president B.S. Yeddyurappa Savithri, wife of Chikkash- inroads into a male-domin- joined a thrift movement ini- son, said marketing was a big fallow paddy field at Attingal for allegedly violating the etty, a farmer from Annur ated area: procurement and tiated by an NGO. The urge challenge for farmers, who late on Friday. The police Sunburns seen model code of conduct by village in Gundlupet. sale of farm produce. The to do something different, had to transport their pro- suspect it to be a case of at- According to Attingal circle handing over money to the The Congress, mean- women, from the weaker however, was strong within duce and got low prices. tack by a pack of dogs. inspector M. Anil Kumar, wife of a farmer from Gund- while, has demanded that sections in Nirmal, the group. Brokers wanted cuts above The police said the de- the deceased was found lupet, who committed sui- the Election Commission Kamareddy and Nizamabad Guidance came from the official 2% commission. ceased, identified as with a severed right hand cide recently. book a case against him. districts, turned a surplus on Neeradi Bojabai Gram Abhyudaya Mandali Deciding that it was time Kunjikrishnan, was repor- and deep wounds on his Deputy Commissioner of However, Mr. Yeddy- a ₹4.14 crore soya crop, and (GRAM), a 25-year-old NGO, to revolt, Intideepam moved ted missing by his family. He head, neck and shoulder. Chamarajanagar B. Ramu, urappa said he was moved gave back ₹15.25 lakh to come difficulties with loans, and the women in her group to sell directly to processors. had gone out for a haircut “The cause of death was who is also the District Elec- by the predicament of the farmers. which normally sends them formed the Intideepam Fed- The produce was weighed around 9 a.m. and did not found to be injuries due to tion Officer, told The Hindu farmer’s wife and handed The Intideepam Women to money lenders. eration two years ago. in the village and market return till afternoon. His the attack by the dogs,” the that the Returning Officer over a “meagre amount” Producer Mutually Aided Co- Hailing from Kamol village The Federation got re- price paid. Ms. Bojabai’s family launched efforts to police said. Sunburns were for the Gundlupet bypolls, collected by the party work- operative Societies Federa- in Bhainsa mandal of Nirmal ports that Nirmal, Adilabad, group sold 1,666 tonnes of locate him. Some of them found on his skin, which Nalin Atul, had filed a crim- ers. “When I saw her in tion that Ms. Bojabai heads district, adjoining the Maha- Kamareddy and Nizamabad kharif crop to Maharashtra proceeded along a short suggested that he could inal case against Mr. Yeddy- tears, I forgot that it was the has helped farmers over- rashtra border, the mother had bumper soya yields, and mills, from 1,213 farmers. route that Kunjikrishnan have collapsed before being urappa. election period,” he said. used to take to reach the attacked by dogs.

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Rise in educational enrolment & socio-economic status contributed to the drop

Nagesh Prabhu U.S., 79.9% in Nepal, 57.4% enrolment among the dia, more working age young BENGALURU in Bangladesh, 35.1% in Sri younger cohort, attainment females (15-24 years) are opt- Despite high growth rate Lanka, 24.6% in Pakistan, of socio-economic status, ing to continue their educa- during the economic reform 23.3% in the Arab world, and and household composition tion rather than join the la- period, five economists of 50.8 % in the European largely contributed to the bour force early. The decline the World Bank have found Union, according to econom- drop. in the FLFP rate for females that women’s ability to ac- ists Luis A. Andres, Basab between 15 to 24 years of age cess job opportunities in the Dasgupta, George Joseph, Not entirely negative was to a large extent due to new economy has been Vinoj Abraham and Maria However, some of the reas- an increase in female enrol- “precarious.” Correia. ons cited for the decrease ment in education,” the re- India’s female labour Economists in their re- suggest that it was not en- search paper said. force participation (FLFP) search paper “Precarious tirely a negative trend. Sta- Comparing the two peri- rate has remained visibly low Drop Reassessing Patterns of bility in family income, as in- ods between 1993-94 to and the International Labour Female Labour Force Parti- dicated by the increasing 2004-05 and 2004-05 to Organisation ranks India’s cipation in India,” published share of regular wage 2011-12, most of the drop in FLFP rate at 121 out of 131 by the World Bank in April, earners and declining share FLFP was found during the countries in 2013, one of the 2017, found that FLFP of casual labour in the com- second period. lowest in the world. India dropped by 19.6 million wo- position of family labour An additional 31 million had the lowest FLFP rate in men from 2004-05 to 2011- supply, had led female fam- females added in the labour South Asia, with the excep- 12. Participation declined by ily members to choose drop- force during the 11-year tion of Pakistan. Globally, 11.4%, from 42.6% to 31.2% ping out of the labour force. period between 1993-94 and only parts of the Arab world from 1993-94 to 2011-12. “One plausible explana- 2004-05. held a lower FLFP rates than Approximately 53 per tion for the recent drop in In contrast, during the India. cent of this drop occurred in FLFP is that with the recent later seven-year period, In 2013, FLFP per cent for rural India, among those expansion of secondary edu- there was a significant drop India was 27 against China’s aged between 15 to 24 years. cation, as well as rapidly in the female labour force by Dirty picture: Water stagnating on the Vaigai riverbed in Madurai glistens in the evening sky. * G. MOORTHY 63.9, and it was 56.3% in the An increase in educational changing social norms in In- 19.2 million individuals.

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MANGALURU almost dry with water flow- Engineers say it will help in Twelve-year-old Ajith often ing in a trickle at the corners. reliability of the gate struc- Real-time forecast stays up past midnight to fill The Nagarjunasagar reser- ture and operation ma- Using the real-time flood up pots at home with voir is at dead storage level. chinery so that problems forecast, application soft- drinking water. The pipe at But this summer has also with the gate-operating ware will have the facility to home gurgles to life only at provided an opportunity for equipment are reduced con- operate the gates in ‘anticip- ungodly hours. But he is at the dam authorities to repair siderably, thus improving the atory mode’ i.e. moderate re- Panambur beach, one the 50-year-old structure. overall dam safety. leases from crest gates in an- kilometre away from home, It is not exactly repair Automation is built into ticipation of receiving water. at 6.30 a.m. for training in though. It is more about the computerised remote “All these works were being surfing. bringing the dam located in control system for flood and done manually all these He is on time on most Nalgonda district into the di- discharge regulation from days. This was a tedious pro- days, but when he is late, he In high spirits: Manjunath and Chandru being trained in suring gital age by automating the Set for facelift: A 150-ft crane at the Nagarjunasagar dam site the dam through data re- cess. Once automated, we has to sit and watch by Australian instructor Jamo Borthwick. * H.S. MANJUNATH systems. This also entails in Telangana. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT ceived from local sensors at can reduce human interven- Australian Jamo Borthwick, serving the drinking water the main dam, gates — crest tion and measurement er- instructor at the ‘Walking on Water. All of them come lifestyle of these children. and irrigation needs of both meet the present-day de- crest gates and 18 other gates gates, chute gates and right rors,” says Dr. Malsur, also Water’ free school for from poor socio-economic “Just out of curiosity, I Telangana and Andhra mands to ensure safe and re- control — costing ₹8 crore canal gates, directly wired the Project Director of Water underprivileged children, backgrounds and most of joined surfing along with my Pradesh. liable operations with new from World Bank funds un- from the Master Control Fa- Sector Improvement Project. training his friends their parents make a living friends in the locality. Now, I Nagarjunasagar will per- age technology for opening der the modernisation pro- cility (MCF). A steel bridge is coming Manjunath, 14, and as small vendors on the really enjoy it!” beams haps be the first dam in the and closing crest gates dur- ject — will result in generat- Data can be received at up across the length of the Chandru, 13, until it is his beach. “It’s not just surfing. Manjunath, a native of country where automation is ing the times of flood and ing real-time data which can predefined times of five dam at a cost of ₹1.5 crore. A turn. We want to make these Bagalkot. Ajith and 14 other being introduced for opera- water management during be monitored from any part minutes to 24 hour intervals 150-ft crane at the dam site is Ajith, Manjunath and children proficient in not children are being trained tions and maintenance in or- the dry season,” says Com- of the world through the In- using GSM/GPRS/VSAT wire- helping engineers install the Chandru are among 40 only surfing but also life- for the second edition of the der to make optimum usage missioner of Command Area ternet. less telemetry and also GSM pre-fabricated bridge which children from Korikatta near guarding and life-saving,” Indian Open of Surfing of water along with electri- and Development Authority When water is found to be based information manage- will help workers reach the Panambur, who began says Mr. Borthwick. He competition to be held in city generation. “The ageing G. Malsur. excess in the reservoir, the ment system for transmitting far corners of the gates for receiving this training three believes these skills will help the Sasihitlu beach in the dam needs improvement to The automation of 26 control panel will trigger the online information of re- maintenance and repairs. months ago from Walking on in bringing a change in the last week of May. CM A ND-ND YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

THE HINDU NOIDA/DELHI SUNDAY, APRIL 9, 2017 NATION 9 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF Uneasy calm in Bhadrak Panel unhappy as children 36 held following communal violence and arson; curfew extended till Sunday carry arms during RSS rally Satyasundar Barik munities were attacked, BHADRAK dozens of shops were set on Swords and knives can’t be regarded as weapons, says BJP An uneasy calm prevailed in fire and police personnel U.P. CM irked at refusal this communally sensitive were targeted towards the Soumya Das to sing Vande Mataram town following the violence evening. However, there Shiv Sahay Singh KOLKATA LUCKNOW of the last couple of days have been no reports of any Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister with incidents of widespread casualties so far. The West Bengal Commis- Yogi Adityanath on Saturday arson on Friday evening. sion for Protection of Child hit out at those refusing to An indefinite curfew has Billowing smoke Rights has taken suo motu sing Vande Mataram, the been imposed on the town Smoke continued to billow cognisance of children car- national song, saying it and prohibitory orders im- on Saturday morning from rying arms in processions reflected their “narrow posed in nearby Dhamnagar the shops that were at- organised during Ram mindedness”. “We will have and Basudevpur on Saturday tacked. As many as 18 fire Navami on Wednesday. to find a way out to morning. Fifteen platoons of tenders were summoned to Commission Chairperson overcome this,” Mr. armed police staged flag extinguish fires, said State Ananya Chatterjee told The Adityanath said. PTI marches in sensitive localit- Fire Officer Sukant Sethi. Hindu that she had asked the ies of the town. The Centre Kacheri Chhak, Chandan District Child Protection Of- Tribal teen in Sukma not also rushed 2,000 paramilit- Cracking down: Policemen cane motorists in curfew-bound Bazar, Charampa Chhak and ficer, Birbhum, to “send a re- Drawing lak: Children carrying swords during a Ram Navami raped: medical reports ary personnel. Bhadrak town of Odisha on Saturday. * BISWARANJAN ROUT the area around Town Police port on the issue”. rally in Durgapur, Bardhaman district. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT NAGPUR Thirty-six people from Station were the worst hit. While the Commission The medical examination of a both communities were ar- The State government able remarks on Hindu “Miscreants entered my has expressed concern only Party of India (Marxist). Cri- secretary Surjya Kanta tribal girl from Sukma district rested. After taking stock of also appointed Gyanaranjan deities in a social networking house on Friday evening, over the developments at ticising the RSS and the BJP Mishra described the incid- of Chhattisgarh, whose family the situation, top police ad- Das, who was the Commis- site. The administration had torched two bikes and all Birbhum, similar rallies for backing such rallies, Tri- ent as “impermissible.” had alleged that she was ministration decided to ex- sioner of Cuttack Municipal imposed prohibitory orders furniture. My mother fortu- were organised in Durgapur namool Congress secretary raped by security personnel, tend curfew till 8 a.m. on Corporation (CMC), as Bhad- under Section 144 to control nately stayed inside kitchen in Bardhaman district, and general and Education Min- ‘Used in schools’ has ruled out rape. “She Sunday. “Situation is by and rak Collector and asked him the situation on Thursday. to escape from the rioters,” Titagarh in the North 24 ister Partha Chatterjee said: Reacting to the allegations, underwent medical large peaceful on Saturday,” to take charge immediately. However, when a meeting said Pawan Bagaria, a resid- Paraganas district, among “What kind of culture are BJP national secretary Rahul examination twice — in Sukma said K.B. Singh, Odisha’s Dir- of the peace committee ent of Pawan Bazar. other places. they [the BJP and RSS] trying Sinha said swords and and in Jagdalpur. Both ector General of Police, who Peace talks fail failed to resolve the issue, At least 15 godowns in the The development drew to bring in Bengal? Children knives “cannot be regarded reports clearly ruled out is camping in Bhadrak along The town witnessed com- the situation went out of area were looted and set on strong condemnation from marching with swords is un- as weapons,” adding that rape,” said Abhishekh Meena, with Home Secretary Asit munal violence over the al- control on Friday evening. fire by rioters. both the Trinamool Con- precedented in the history “they are used for physical the SP of Sukma. Tripathy. leged posting of objection- Houses of both com- (With inputs from PTI) gress and the Communist of the State.” CPI(M) State training in many schools.”

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Info Commission said he is unit to discharge duties

Akanksha Jain year and also set aside the form on his laptop. Supreet Kaur reading out NEW DELHI order banning the lawyer’s The advocate told the HC the news of the accident in The Delhi High Court has ex- personal appearance. that the CIC passed the re- which her husband died. punged adverse remarks marks not on the grounds made by the Chief Informa- Petitioner aggrieved that he was unable to assist tion Commission (CIC) The HC was hearing the peti- the court but on the grounds Call of duty against an advocate who was tion of the advocate seeking that he was not carrying representing the govern- expunction of the remarks physical paper in his hands. triumphs ment in a hearing. made against him. The peti- No cause for order tioner was aggrieved by the Staff Reporter Came alone “personal remarks” made by The lawyer further NAGPUR Irked that the lawyer had the CIC. submitted that there was no The news anchor on a local come to a hearing alone and In its order, the CIC had cause for the CIC to pass an news channel in Chhattis- without complete official re- said that the lawyer had order banning him from garh on Saturday read out cords, the CIC had called the earlier too come to hearings appearing for the hearings. a “breaking news” story of advocate unfit to discharge without official records and “Having heard the counsel a car accident despite his duties under the Advoc- without being accompanies for the parties, I am of the knowing that her husband ates Act and banned him by an official. view that the facts do not had died in the same from personal appearance. justify passing of such an accident. The CIC also asked the gov- ‘Files in laptop’ order against the petitioner. Ms. Supreet Kaur (28), a ernment to appoint another In his plea to the HC, the An explanation has been news anchor at the IBC24 counsel. lawyer said stated that it is rendered by the counsel that news channel in Chhattis- However, Justice Sanjeev not possible for government he was carrying the file on garh, was reading out the Sachdeva has expunged the officials to attend every his laptop, which was not news at 10 a.m. on Sat- Feather in the cap: Actor Akshay Kumar, along with comedian Shailesh Lodha, honouring police personnel during the Madhya remarks made by the CIC in hearing and that he was car- taken into account by the urday as a part of her daily Pradesh IPS Service Meet 2017 in Bhopal on Saturday. * A.M. FARUQUI two of its orders from last rying the files in a digital CIC,” said Justice Sachdeva. assignment when the channel's Mahasamund district reporter Dhananjay Tri- pathi called to inform her Minister lays about the “breaking news” Go-ahead for key stretch of Mumbai coastal road of the accident. Manipur “She did not know it was her husband’s car until our paper leak Expert committee puts conditions for reclaiming 90 hectares from sea for the project, which will ease traic congestion reporter mentioned the number of the vehicle. Iboyaima Laithangbam Special Correspondent Princess Street Flyover to the used to build houses and of- stretch that will cost ₹5,303 month that the much- In its recommendation to However, she did not lose NEW DELHI IMPHAL Worli end of the Bandra- fices, any resulting open crore. The 30-km project is delayed project was likely to the MoEFCC, the MCZMA has her composure even after Manipur Education Minis- A panel under the Ministry of Worli Sea Link. It, however, spaces would be free of en- cumulatively expected to move again following Maha- put forward 28 specific con- knowing that her husband ter T. Radhesyam said on Environment, Forest and Cli- requires reclaiming about 90 croachment, fishermen cost ₹12,000 crore. rashtra Chief Minister De- ditions. It has specifically was no more. She com- Saturday that deterrent mate Change (MoEFCC) has hectares of land from the sea would be resettled in the According to the Brihan- vendra Fadnavis’s visit to asked the BMC to take high pleted the bulletin, walked punishment would be cleared a key stretch of a ma- and, therefore, as per envir- area if they were affected, mumbai Municipal Corpora- Union Environment Minister court permission before out of the studio and then handed to officials re- jor ‘coastal road’ project in onment regulations, needs to and a dedicated bus lane tion (BMC), the proposed Anil Dave. clearing mangroves, if any. broke down,” said Tehsin sponsible for the leakage of Mumbai that will reportedly be cleared by a central would be created. southern stretch of the In January 2016, the BMC Ziadi, a colleague of Ms. question papers in the on- significantly de-congest the authority. The minutes of the meet- coastal road will reduce com- presented the application for Impact on fisherfolk Kaur in IBC24. going higher secondary ex- city’s traffic. On March 17, the Central ing were made public on muting time by around 70%, CRZ clearance to the Maha- It has also observed that the Three persons were ams, “no matter how The go-ahead was given by expert appraisal committee, Friday. slash fuel consumption by rashtra Coastal Zone Man- coastal road will have an im- killed in the early morning highly placed they are”. the Expert Appraisal Com- headed by Deepak Apte of 34% and cut carbon footprint agement Authority (MCZMA) pact on the nearby habitats accident in Mahasamund On April 5, the Physics mittee for Coastal Regulation the Bombay Natural History 30-km project by about 1,826 tonnes of CO2 with an estimated cost of of traditional coastal com- district, including Ms. question paper was posted Zone. Society (BNHS), had said the The Coastal Road-Mumbai per annum. ₹14,153 crore for an approx- munities. It has asked the Kaur’s husband, Harshad on social media within five The proposed 35 km project could go ahead (South) will have bridges Though the incumbent imate length of 33.77 km. civic body to ensure naviga- Kawade. minutes of the opening of coastal road has been di- provided the coastal road over the sea, tunnels (two Bharatiya Janata Party gov- By the time MCZMA re- tional channels are not Ms. Kaur has been work- the packets, he said. The vided into two parts, a north- was toll free, did not affect tubes, each of about 3.452 ernment has claimed that the commended the proposal, blocked in koliwada (fishing ing for IBC24 since 2009. police have arrested 16 per- ern and southern stretch. tidal behaviour, that the re- km in length) and elevated project would be ready by the total length was reduced village) areas and that fishing She and Mr. Kawade got sons, including 12 minors. The latter will connect the claimed land would not be roads, and will be a 9.98 km- 2019, The Hindu reported last to 30.07 km. activity is not hampered. married only last year. Kingisher Villa sold at last Rail catering irm fails to Actor-businessman Sachiin Joshi buys it for ₹73.01 crore get relief

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Staff Reporter Mumbai Kolkata The consortium of lenders The Calcutta High Court has finally succeeded in has refused to provide any selling absconding tycoon relief to the catering firm Vijay Mallya’s Kingfisher whose contract was re- Villa in Goa through bilateral voked after some passen- negotiations after three gers of the New Delhi- failed auctions. Sealdah Rajdhani Express The group could opt for accused the firm of serving this route more often to re- stale food. cover its dues of close to On Friday, the catering ₹9,000 crore. firm approached the High The State Bank of India Court against the termina- (SBI)-led consortium sold tion of its contract by the the villa, located in North It’s a deal: After auctions failed, the lenders opted for bilateral Railways. “Justice De- Goa’s Candolim area, for negotiations to sell Vijay Mallya’s villa at Candolim. * ATISH NAIK bangshu Basak refused to ₹73.01 crore, as against the grant any interim relief to reserve price of ₹73 crore set which are called private able property, which has the catering firm R K Asso- in the last auction. Actor- treaties,” said a senior SBI of- failed to find a buyer even ciates and Hoteliers Pvt turned-businessman Sachiin ficial. Banks that have after four auctions, is King- Ltd,” Railway’s counsel Joshi’s Viiking Media and En- already classified loans to fisher House in Mumbai. Ashok Chakraborty told tertainment has purchased the defunct Kingfisher Air- Asked if anyone has The Hindu. the high profile property. lines as NPA, are trying to re- shown interest in the King- The court also directed cover close to ₹9,000 crore fisher House, the official the firm to file an affidavit Legal sanction from its owner. said, “We will work out and asked the Railways to “As per the Sarfaesi (Securit- “Under the private treaty, something. Private treaty for file a counter affidavit. isation and Reconstruction if anyone approaches, then this can also happen. Last Six passengers of the of Financial Assets and En- we can sell that at the min- reserve price of Kingfisher New Delhi-Sealdah Rajdh- forcement of Security In- imum of the last reserve House was ₹103 crore. Let us ani Express alleged that terest) Act, if auctions fail a price — the price for the last see, if we can get a good deal they fell ill after eating food minimum of two times then auction,” the official said. we can also do a private served on the train on we can go for bilateral deal Mr. Mallya’s other immov- treaty.” March 27. CM A ND-ND YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

NOIDA/DELHI THE HINDU 10 NEWS SUNDAY, APRIL 9, 2017 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE FROM PAGE ONE Breakfast in Khulna and lunch in Kolkata Delhi, Dhaka Modi and Hasina lag of ‘friendship’ express between India and Bangladesh; bus services too begin Sweets, fish and clothes Sheikh Hasina came bearing exchange 22 deals Special Correspondent gifts. President Pranab Kolkata Mukherjee was given 4 kg “The two Prime Ministers mental Agreement for co- To loud cheers and ap- each of kalojam and rosgolla, emphasised the advantages operation in the field of Civil plause, the five-coach diesel- 2 kg each of Sandesh and of sub-regional cooperation Nuclear Energy and other hauled Khulna-Kolkata train Mishti Doi (sweet yogurt), in the areas of power, water agreements related to nuc- chugged in to the Petrapole Hilsa fish, crockery and a resources, trade, transit and lear cooperation,” the joint railway station on the India- “Panjabi (kurta) and silk connectivity for mutual be- statement stated. Bangladesh border on Sat- pyjamas”. Vice-President nefit. In this context, they A highpoint of the bilat- urday. Hamid Ansari and Prime noted the progress made by eral talks held on Saturday The day also saw the in- Minister Narendra Modi too the Joint Working Groups on was the Line of Credit. “This augural trial run of the Kolk- got sweets, but no Hilsa. Ms. Sub-Regional Cooperation time around, the LoC is for ata-Khulna-Dhaka bus Hasina gifted Dhaka and between Bangladesh, the amount of $4.5 billion. It service. Rajshahi sarees to Mamata Bhutan, India and Nepal is the largest, or perhaps The train rolled from the Banerjee, Mr. Modi’s mother, (BBIN) on Water Resources among the largest we have Khulna railway station at 8 and Mr. Mukherjee’s Management and Power/Hy- done for a country on a a.m. and entered India daughter, Sushma Swaraj and dropower and on Trade, single occasion,” informed around 1.40 p.m. with a 43- Sonia Gandhi. Transit and Connectivity,” foreign secretary S. member Bangladesh delega- the joint statement issued at Jaishankar explaining that tion. Marching orders the end of bilateral discus- the LoC would be used to Railway officials greeted There was much laughter sion stated. A major aspect build 17 projects including the Bangladeshi delegation when the Chief of Protocol, of the visit has been the de- port upgradation work in with bouquets and garlands. Sanjay Verma, asked Narendra fence component which in- Mongla, Chittagong and At several places along the Modi and Sheikh Hasina, both cludes an MoU on defence Paira ports. railway line in West Bengal, standing on the podium, to framework, and a $500 mil- Mr. Modi and Ms. Hasina villagers gathered by the side join Mamata Banerjee for the lion Line of Credit for de- also spoke of increasing se- of the tracks, waving at the launch of a railway line. “May fence procurement for the curity cooperation between decked-up train. I now request the two Prime Bangladesh military forces. two sides. “We will work for Prime Minister Narendra Ministers to step down,” he Explaining the military peaceful borders and zero Modi and his Bangladeshi said, which caused Ms. Hasina Line of Credit extended by tolerance of terrorism,” said counterpart, Sheikh Hasina, to let out a chuckle. India, Bangladeshi foreign the Bangladeshi leader inaugurated the trial run of Mr. Modi had a hearty laugh secretary Shahidul Haq said, while Mr. Modi indicated at the train through videocon- too. The protocol chief made “The line of credit for milit- Pakistan in his speech in his ference earlier in the day. amends later, saying it was ary procurement is friendly, speech in honour of the clear they had not “stepped flexible and liberal and we Muktijoddhas of 1971. Taking relations forward down”. are not bound to use it to “There is a mentality in The Khulna-Kolkata train, source our supplies only South Asia opposed to the also known as Maitree Ex- Riding the ‘Beast’ from Indian companies.” approach of India and press-II, travels 176 km — 96 Barack Obama drove Bilateral technology co- Bangladesh, to promote de- km in Bangladesh and the Heart to heart: Prime Minister Narendra Modi with his Bangladeshi counterpart, Sheikh Hasina, at the ceremonial reception at Narendra Modi to the Martin operation also was boosted velopment; this mentality rest in India. the Rashtrapati Bhavan on Saturday. * SANDEEP SAXENA Luther King memorial in by the commitment to sup- nurtures and inspires terror- “The regular services are Washington in 2014 in his port civil nuclear research ism,” said Mr. Modi criti- expected to kick off from July Bangladesh after the 1971 limousine, “The Beast”. On between two sides. “the cising the policy that pro- this year from Kolkata to war of liberation. Saturday, Mr. Modi drove leaders welcomed the sign- motes terror as a state Khulna through Petrapole- Train services between Sheikh Hasina after lunch at ing of the inter-Govern- policy Benapole (on the Bangladesh the two countries started in When tiny Tripura hosted Hyderabad House to side of the border),” said Bas- April 14, 2008, when Maitree Manekshaw Auditorium for a udev Panda, Divisional Rail- Express was launched. ceremony to honour soldiers way Manager, Sealdah, East- a foreign premier in 2012 killed in the 1971 war. The Parties should keep ern Railway. Dhaka in 13 hours photo of both leaders seated Mr. Panda said the fre- The trial run of Kolkata- Syed Sajjad Ali Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Government of India had side by side was taken from quency of the services would Khulna-Dhaka bus service Agartala and 18 other close relatives extended all protocols to the front seat, in the same poll promises: CJI be decided later. also began on Saturday. Bangladesh Prime Minister on August 15, 1975. Ms. Hasina at Agartala. way as the Beast photo was. Speaking on the manifestos ation wherein today, India Syed Salma Jafreen, Three buses were flagged-off Sheikh Hasina, now on a “With over half a Vice-President Hamid released by various political has over 800 million voters Deputy Secretary, from Nabanna, the State ad- high-profile visit to New century in politics with Ansari presented the Mujibur’s memoirs parties ahead of the 2014 and 543 Lok Sabha constitu- Bangladesh Ministry of ministrative headquarters in Delhi, spent three days in ruthless struggle against honorary degree. To In a rare mark of respect, Lok Sabha elections, Chief encies represent 1.28 billion Home Affairs, said the train the presence of senior offi- Tripura in 2012, the first military and quasi-military commemorate the historic India released Sheikh Mujibur Justice Kehar said they did people,” said the President. would give a momentum to cials of West Bengal by any foreign head of rulers, it was my father’s visit, the External Affairs Rahman’s unfinished not indicate any link Mr. Mukherjee said, “To collaboration between the government. government. dream and beliefs that Ministry issued a memoirs, Ashamapto between electoral reforms give true expression to the two countries. According to State govern- She was welcomed and motivated my struggle for statement with dateline Atmajibanee, from 1967. and the Constitutional goal will of the people, it is time Train services from ment officials, the buses will honoured with a D.Litt democracy,” she said, Agartala to welcome Sheikh Hasina, his daughter, of socio-economic justice to we looked at the legal provi- Sealdah to Khulna and reach Khulna in seven hours (Honoris Causa) by pointing out emotionally Bangladesh investments in had released it in 2012. While the marginalised. sions on the delimitation of Jessore started much before and Dhaka in 13 hours. Tripura University then. that her first child was power sectors in India. Prime Minister Narendra Modi Advocating a strong elect- the Parliamentary constitu- the Partition. Prior to this, bus services Ms. Hasina recalled her born in jail under the Participation of released the Hindi translation oral system, President encies with to increase their The services were suspen- along the Kolkata-Dhaka- days in exile in Delhi from military junta. Though the Bangladesh in power on Saturday, the memoirs are Mukherjee in his inaugural number. If Great Britain can ded following the 1965 war Agartala and the Kolkata- 1975 to 1981 after the 2012 trip was not an projects would be already available in Urdu and address said it was time the have more than 600 Parlia- between India and Pakistan. Dhaka routes were made assassination of her father, official visit, the welcome, it said. Japanese, apart from Bangla legal provisions on the de- mentary constituencies, East Pakistan became operational. and English. limitation of Parliamentary why can’t India, with a constituencies were re- much higher population, CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC viewed for increasing their have more number of number, in keeping with the seats?” On the draw surendra After U.P. slaughterhouse population growth. The President said the Electoral reforms Constitution (Forty-Second The President said a strong Amendment) Act, 1976, im- electoral system was neces- raids, it’s Dehradun next posed a freeze on the popu- sary to strengthen the coun- lation figure for readjust- try’s democratic structure. ment at the 1971 census. The “Timely reforms are ne- Notices served on seven abattoirs without licences freeze has been extended till cessary, which not only 2026 by the Constitution would give justice to the Staff Reporter produce the required docu- officials from the district ad- (Eighty-Fourth Amendment) people but also to the ideals Dehradun ments, failing which strict ministration, the police, Act, 2001. “As a result, the enshrined in the Constitu- action will be taken where and the health and animal House of the People today tion…hence, it is necessary Following the crackdown on the defaulters might have to husbandry departments. represents the population to undertake a dispassion- illegal slaughterhouses in Ut- serve an imprisonment of figure of 1971 census, ate analysis of the way in tar Pradesh, the BJP govern- six months and pay a fine of Early morning searches whereas our population has which our electoral process ment in neighbouring Ut- ₹50,000.” “The raids continued in increased manifold in the is functioning, with a view tarakhand also raided On Saturday, seven per- three localities of Dehradun recent decades. This gives to address the shortcomings slaughterhouses in sons were served notices for [Inamullah Building, rise to an anomalous situ- in the system,” he said. Dehradun on Saturday, and running slaughterhouses Chukhu Mohalla, and served notices on at least which were allegedly in viol- Muslim Basti] between 4 seven persons for allegedly ation of the Food Safety and a.m. and 7.30 a.m. ,” Mr. running “illegal” operations. Standards Act, 2006, the Thapliyal said. He added Vulnerable tribes: lost Superintendent of Police designated officer of the that “the defaulters had no (City) Ajay Singh said, “The Food Safety and Standards licence and the bovines slaughterhouses were run- Authority in Dehradun, Anoj were being slaughtered un- in a classiication trap ning without licence … We Kumar Thapliyal, said. der unhygienic conditions.” have given the slaughter- The teams that raided The police said the crack- While Odisha has estab- anese, Onge and Sentinelese house owners three days to three areas in Dehradun had down would continue. lished exclusive micro-pro- and about a little more than jects for the PVTGs, there a thousand people as in the are none such in for the five case of Toda of Nilgiris. Al- PVTGs in Gujarat. though PVTGs are slowly Dishonest In Tamil Nadu, develop- witnessing decadal increase CPI(M) team seeks prompt Pakistan violates ment schemes are being in their population, quite a need to monitored through the Tri- few still face stagnation such bal Research Centre, Ooty, as the Birhor in central In- worry: Naqvi justice for Alwar victims ceaseire again and implemented by the dia. Some are declining like State government. However, the Onge and Andamanese. Press Trust of India in Karnataka, all affairs of Lucknow Demands compensation, removal of checkpoints Army troops retaliate in Rajouri two the PVTGs are handled Depleting numbers Union Minister Mukhtar by the Social Welfare De- Smallest population size Abbas Naqvi on Saturday Special Correspondent statement added. The police Press Trust of India with mortar bombs. On partment, which extends among the PVTGs are the said the government will NEW DELHI also told the team that Jammu April 4, the Pakistani Army some schemes as per their Senteneles (as per the last ensure that the Waqf land On a visit to Behror in Alwar ₹25,000 was found in the Pakistani troops violated the fired mortar shells on In- knowledge, barely receiving contact effort on March 9, is protected and freed from to enquire into the attack on victims’ pockets along with ceasefire along the Line of dian Army posts along the any professional advice. 2005, groups of 32 and 13 illegal occupants. cattle traders by cow vigil- their papers, which were Control (LoC) in Rajouri dis- LoC in Bhimbher Gali sector Only recently, the Karnataka persons were sighted at dif- He also said that only antes on April 1 — which lad with the hospital administra- trict of Jammu and Kashmir of Rajouri district. Tribal Research Centre was ferent places). They still shy the dishonest and not the to the death of a man called tion. The members also met by resorting to firing on for- On April 3, Pakistani been established at Mysore away from others. The Great honest people need to Pehlu Khan — a delegation of district magistrate Muk- ward posts on Saturday, troops had shelled mortar while many States did so Andamanese (57 persons) worry, in an apparent ref- the Communist Party of In- tanand Agrawal, who said, drawing retaliation from In- bombs on forward posts in decades ago. and the Onge (107 persons erence to the allegation of dia-Marxist (CPI-M), led by “Those attacked were in pos- dian Army. Balakote sector of Rajouri in 2012 as per Andaman land grabbing against polit bureau member Suhas- session of receipts for the “Pakistani Army fired in- district. Unequal treatment Adim Janjati Vikas Samiti) former UP Minister Azam ini Ali, demanded that the cattle.” discriminately from small In the second ceasefire vi- In some cases, a PVTG re- are the dwindling popula- Khan. “Those who are hon- district authorities remove Suhasini Ali “The administration arms and automatic olation on April 3, Pakistani ceives benefits only in a few tions. On the other end, the est need not worry, but the so-called Hindu chowkis should get details of the pur- weapons from 3.45 p.m. on troops had shelled Indian blocks in a district, while Saharia of Madhya Pradesh there are some dishonest (checkpoints) as a measure must be returned to them. chases from the ‘Jaipur haat Saturday on Indian Army posts along the LoC in Dig- the same group is deprived and Rajasthan are the ones who should definitely against vigilantism. Also, they should be vada’ organised by the posts along the LoC in war area in Poonch sector. in adjacent blocks as micro- largest among the PVTGs worry. The honest will not “All the possessions of released.” Jaipur Municipal Corpora- Noushera belt of Rajouri dis- As per the reports, heavy projects extend benefits with a population more be touched but the dishon- those attacked, who are in tion. These receipts will cer- trict,” a defence spokesman mortar shelling in Digwar only within their jurisdic- than four lakhs. est will not be allowed to the hospital, should be re- Receipts in possession tainly contain not only the said. area has created fear py- tion. For example, the Lanji- “The publication go scot-free,” he said when turned to them by the dis- The police informed the del- names of those attacked but Army troops deployed on schosis among the area aSaora are recognized as a provides one of the most de- asked about the allegations trict administration,” said a egation that none of the per- also their addresses, in forward posts retaliated and dwellers. PVTG across Odisha but the tailed descriptions of PVTGs against Khan. statement signed by the del- sons arrested or attacked which case it is for the cor- the exchange was continu- In the same area, a Junior micro-projects are estab- with each of the tribes being He said that the govern- egation, which included CPI had any documents to prove poration authorities to ex- ing till last reports came in. Commissioned Officer, Naib lished only in two block- discussed in separate ment will try to ensure that (M) Rajasthan State secret- that they had purchased the plain as to why they sold Subedar S. Sanayaima Som, swhile the rest of the Lanji- chapters. This is result of Waqf land was protected ary Amra Ram. animals legally and were cattle to out of State people,” Fifth violation in April was killed in an IED blast aSaora are treated as hard work by nearly a dozen and see as to how it would “The family of Pehlu transporting them legally, the team said. “This demand This is the fifth violation of along the LoC in Poonch Scheduled Tribes (STs). of anthropologists over a be freed from illegal occu- Khan must be given com- the statement said. “This becomes necessary because the ceasefire this month. On sector on April 1. There is a huge variation period of several years,” Jay- pants. “There will be im- pensation and helped in re- was, however, proved to be a the police were insisting that April 5, Pakistani troops vi- It may be recalled there in the number of PVTGs ran- anta Sengupta, Director-in- portant provisions for the habilitation. Others who false statement because pho- transporting cattle to an- olated the ceasefire along were four violations of the ging from a few individuals charge Anthropological Sur- same in the new Waqf law,” were injured shall be com- tographs of receipts have ap- other State without requisite the LoC in Poonch district ceasefire along the LoC in as in case of Great Andam- vey of India told The Hindu. he said. pensated and their livestock peared in the press,” the permission is illegal.” by shelling forward posts Poonch in March. 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THE HINDU NOIDA/DELHI SUNDAY, APRIL 9, 2017 NEWS 11 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF U.P. police deny conversions Stone-throwing, iring in Hindu Yuva Vahini members disrupted prayer and manhandled foreigners Srinagar on by-poll eve Special Correspondent LUCKNOW Militant groups ask people to desist from voting The Uttar Pradesh police Rajnath to chair meet of have denied religious conver- Peerzada Ashiq Inter-State Council today sion at a British-era church Srinagar NEW DELHI in Maharajganj district, Role of Governors, centrally where activists of the Hindu Incidents of stone-throwing sponsored schemes and Yuva Vahini (HYV) disrupted and firing were reported financial transfers from the a prayer meeting attended from Kashmir Valley again Centre to the States will be by the local people and a few on Saturday, just a day discussed at a meeting of the foreigners on Friday. ahead of the Lok Sabha by- Inter-State Council to be The HYV members al- elections for the Srinagar chaired by Home Minister legedly misbehaved with the seat. Rajnath Singh here on foreigners, accusing them of Security forces resorted Sunday. The 11th Standing proselytising. to firing the air in Srinagar Committee meeting of the The HYV members ac- Parliamentary constitu- Council will discuss the cused the pastor of the ency’s Beerwah area where recommendations of the church and the nine foreign the polling staff was being Punchhi Commission on nationals present of enticing people of our society to- nationals and scores of local from the point of view of se- ferried. Protesters hurled Centre-State relations. IANS poor local people to convert wards the Christian faith,” people had voluntarily curity, as foreign nationals stones at a CRPF patrol at to Christianity. Mr. Puri said, adding they gathered at the church for were involved. Beerwah market when they Border Security Force jawans arriving for election duty in CBI books EPIL manager After the HYV members had received similar com- prayers and not for any Of the nine foreigners, six were moving towards a Srinagar on Saturday. * NISSAR AHMAD on graft charge complained to the police, a plaints in the past as well. other activity. are Americans and three are polling station. The incident NEW DELHI team led by Anand Kumar Reports said HYV mem- “We found there was no citizens of Ukraine. They resulted in a shut down by cidents do happen. We will former Chief Minister The CBI has registered two Gupta, station house officer bers allegedly forced those religious conversion taking were travelling on a tourist local shopkeepers. not be deterred,” said PDP Farooq Abdullah. Ruling cases against a manager of of the Kothibhar police sta- present in the church to place or any such pro- visa, the police said. In a separate incident, leader Peer Mansoor. PDP has fielded Nazir Khan, Engineering Projects India tion, reached the Dathauli chant slogans of “Jai Sri gramme being organised. A After some questioning stones were thrown at the In Srinagar’s Khanyar a former Congress leader Ltd. for allegedly demanding church in Maharajganj with Ram” and misbehaved with prayer service was being and verification of their doc- motorcade of senior area, a blast created panic. who joined the party re- bribes totalling ₹1.5 crore his team. women. held,” Superintendent of Po- uments, the foreigners were People’s Democratic Party However, the police clarified cently. Around 200 addi- from two companies for Following the complaint, lice Pramod Kumar said on released. Minister Rehman Veeri in that the cause of the blast tional companies of para- awarding contracts. The ‘Lure of money’ police halted prayer ser- Saturday. The U.S. Embassy said it south Kashmir’s Bijbehara was “mishandling of tear- military forces will man accused has been identified Pappu Puri, district con- vices. was aware of the incident area. smoke shell”. 1,559 booths. Around as Paritosh Kumar Praveen, vener, HYV, said his men Yohannan Adam, the pas- Notice issued through news reports. Earlier in the day, panic 12,61,397 voters are likely to who had allegedly received reached the church after tor of the church, however, The police have, however, is- “The protection of Amer- gripped the PDP workers Srinagar by-poll today cast their votes. All separat- part of the bribes from Piyush they received information denied the charges, terming sued notice to the organisers ican citizens overseas is our when unknown gunmen The by-election for the Srin- ist groups, including fac- Patel of the Uttar Pradesh- that “Christian missionaries” them “baseless.” “We of the prayer for holding the highest priority. Due to pri- fired shots in the air near the agar seat will be conducted tions of Hurriyat and JKLF, based Patel Constructions, were trying to convert some prayed. Nothing else was programme without inform- vacy concerns we cannot say venue of an election func- on Sunday. have called for a shutdown, and Mahesh Aggarwala of the poor Hindus with the lure of done,” he said. ing authorities. anything more at this time,” tion in Anantnag’s Achabal Nine candidates are in the while militant groups have Guwahati-based Prabhu money. “They were diverting After an inquiry, however, Mr. Kumar said it was ne- a U.S. Embassy spokesper- area. No one was injured in fray, including the National asked people to desist from Aggarwala Constructions for these poor and illiterate the police said the foreign cessary to seek the approval son said. the incident. “Such small in- Conference president and polling. work in Tripura and Kolkata. Meghalaya Police advisory to land owners Consulate SHILLONG Three arrested for India, Mongolia ‘cross swords’ The Meghalaya Police on following up Saturday issued an advisory to land owners not to fall Jharkhand lynching The two nations hold military exercise even as the Dalai Lama is on a visit to Tawang U.S. murder prey to criminals claiming to be representatives of telecom Special Correspondent External Affairs Ministry Special Correspondent companies for setting up ‘Just the fallout of love afair’, say police NEW DELHI spokesperson Vikas Swarup New Delhi mobile towers. While the diplomatic world said in New Delhi on External Affairs Minister “It has come to our notice Special Correspondent PATNA Mohammed Shalik, 19, was fixated on the visit of the December. Sushma Swaraj on Sat- that some unscrupulous was beaten brutally late on 14th Dalai Lama to Ar- Prime Minister Narendra urday said she has received persons are calling public Police have arrested three Wednesday night when he unachal Pradesh, not very Modi during his visit to Mon- a report that a 26-year-old over mobile phone claiming accused persons in the in- was spotted with his girl- far from there a small elite golia in May 2015 had exten- Indian national had been to be functionaries/ cident in which a 19-year-old friend, 15, belonging to contingent of Indian and ded a credit line of $1 billion shot dead in Washington employees of service boy from a minority com- Hindu community. Both Mongolian troops began a to Mongolia. state. providers for setting up munity was beaten to death were said to be in relation- two-week joint military exer- The India-Mongolian bilat- “I have received a report mobile towers and in the Gumla district of ship for over a year. How- cise away from media glare. eral ties have been growing on the shootout incident demanding money,” SP City Jharkhand, allegedly over ever, on seeing Mohammed On Saturday, even as Dalai against the backdrop of the resulting in the tragic death Vivek Syiem said in a his love affair with a Hindu Shalik with the girl, her fam- Lama was in Tawang, the In- communist country’s grow- of Indian national Vikram statement. PTI girl. The incident occurred ily members and some loc- dian Army made public the Eyes on target: A ile photo of an Army Special Forces soldier ing influence, and New Del- Jaryal in Washington State, late on Wednesday night. als allegedly tied him with a joint exercise, named No- training at Vairengte, where India and Mongolia are holding hi’s efforts to find a balance. U.S.A.,” she had tweeted. Zambian student Altogether six persons pole and lynched him near madic Elephant. The timing military exercises. * RITU RAJ KONWAR “The victim ... had commits suicide are named as accused in the Soso Mor under the Gumla of the exercise may be a Calling the shots reached U.S. only 25 days VADODARA incident. “We have already police station. mere coincidence, but as- represented by nine officers tions aimed at enhancing the The Indo-Mongolian military back. He was working at A 22-year-old Zambian arrested three named ac- Mr. Shalik had reportedly sumes significance given last and 36 soldiers of the elite interoperability between the exercise is taking place just the gas station of a family student allegedly committed cused persons in the case came to drop the girl off December China mounted 084 Special Forces Task Bat- two armies,” the army said. about 800 kilometers away friend,” she added. suicide in his hostel room at a and sent them to jail on Fri- near her home on Wednes- economic sanctions on Mon- talion while the Indian Army from Tawang—second She went on to explain private university here on day. We will arrest the other day night. He was caught by golia after it refused to can- is represented by a contin- The China factor highest seat of Tibetan that “On 6 April two Saturday, police said. Zites three, who are absconding, the family members and cel the visit of Dalai Lama to gent of three officers, four India-Mongolia relations Buddhism and home to a miscreants entered the Kala, a second year very soon, hopefully by to- some locals who brutally the Buddhist majority JCOs and 39 soldiers of the have been on an upswing in historic monastery—where shop at 1.30 a.m. They engineering student at Parul night,” Chandan Kumar Jha, beaten him in front of the country. Jammu & Kashmir Rifles, the recent years, with the latter Dalai Lama on Saturday said snatched cash from victim University, was found hanging Gumla Superintendent of girl. Army said. turning to New Delhi in his followers, and not China, and shot on his chest. This from the ceiling fan this Police told The Hindu over When Mohammed Shalik Nomadic Elephant It said the exercise was December 2016 for help will decide the future of his resulted in his death. We evening, Vadodara District phone. did not return home, his The Army said the 12th “iter- aimed at training the troops after China hiked transit tar- office. are coordinating with the Superintendent of Police family members enquired ation of Indo-Mongolian in counter insurgency & iffs on Mongolian trucks, as On China’s insistence that investigative agencies. Saurabh Dolumbia said. ‘No communal angle’ about his whereabouts from Joint Military Exercise No- counter terrorism opera- part of its action to protest the next Dalai Lama be born They have got the CCTV “A police team has rushed to He denied that there was his friends. madic Elephant is presently tions under the United Na- Dalai Lama’s visit to Mongo- in China, he said his follow- footage and are in the pro- the spot. We will inform the any communal angle into They later found him in a under way at Vairengte from tions mandate. lia. ers will decide whether the cess of apprehending the High Commissioner of Zambia the incident as “it was just serious condition at Soso 05 April 2017 till 18 April “The joint training will “We are aware of the diffi- tradition continues or not, culprits.” about the incident,” he said. the fallout of a love affair”. Mor and rushed him to a 2017.” Vairengte in Mizoram also lay emphasis on con- cult budgetary situation that or if his successor should be “Our consulate in San Sub-Inspector Yashwant The arrests were made on local hospital in Gumla but houses the elite Counter-In- ducting operations by a joint Mongolia is facing due to a woman. Francisco is helping the Chouhan, the investigating the basis of leads provided he succumbed to his injur- surgency and Jungle Warfare subunit, comprising of various factors including “Let China first come family and following this officer in the case, said that a by the girl during police ies on Thursday, said the School of the Indian Army. troops from both the armies, high cost of servicing of debt clear on its theory on re- up with the Police,” she suicide note has been questioning, said the officer. Gumla police. The Mongolian Army is in adverse operational condi- raised by them in the past,” birth,” he said. said in another tweet. recovered from his room. PTI Pipavav Shipyard: U.P. orders probe into sale of sugar mills a rejoinder The units were sold when the Mayawati government was in power in the State

Daljeet Singh, Group Vice- for all five from the time the Omar Rashid awati. The BSP was in power allowed at any cost,” a gov- comply with the order, the President - Corporate Group took over. The inter- LUCKNOW in U.P. from 2007 to 2012. ernment spokesperson said, government spokesperson Communication, of the national average for the Days after ordering a judicial Sensing a “scam” of ₹1,100 quoting the Chief Minister’s said. Reliance Group writes: completion of such an order inquiry into the alleged fin- crore, CM Adityanath has instructions. “Relief to cane farmers is We have deep concerns is 36 months. ancial mishandling of the ordered an inquiry into the the government’s topmost over the report headlined And the average time Gomti River Front project — sale of 21 sugar mills in the Cane arrear payments priority,” Mr. Adityanath was “Navy warns shipyard of taken in the past by a de- a pet scheme of former chief State during 2010-11. If re- Mr. Adityanath also directed quoted as having told offi- penalties” published on fence PSU for the construc- minister Akhilesh Yadav — quired, a CBI probe could sugarcane mills to pay ar- cials during a presentation April 7. The headline is mis- tion of an NOPV was approx- the Yogi Adityanath-led BJP also be instituted, he said. rears to farmers for the by the sugarcane depart- leading as the Navy has not imately 60 months. The government in Uttar Pradesh “He said that no person crushing season 2016-2017 ment on Friday. issued any warning to Reli- NOPVs will now be de- has ordered a probe into the has the right to sell govern- by April 23 under any cir- The CM has also directed ance Shipyard. livered in record time; the sale of sugar mills during the ment property for a song. cumstances. An FIR would senior officers to ensure that An impression is sought programme was in jeopardy tenure of the Bahujan Samaj The property belongs to the be registered against cane complaints of cane farmers to be created that the Reli- under a contract awarded to Party (BSP) under Ms May- people. Its misuse will not be mill owners if they did not are resolved on priority. ance Group has missed the another contractor. The op- deadline for the Naval Off- erational capabilities of the shore Petrol Vessel (NOPV) Navy will improve thanks to project, thereby affecting the shortening of produc- the operational capabilities tion timelines. Cops arrest call centre scam kingpin of the Navy. Leading original equip- But Reliance took control ment manufacturers, cus- Court remands accused Sagar Thakkar in police custody till April 13 of it only in January 2016, at tomers and stakeholders which point the deadline have reposed faith in the had already been missed: new management and the Press Trust of India He seemed to have a thorough son had earlier said these call only 4% to 5% of the work transformation initiative at Thane knowledge of computers and re- centres stole more than USD 300 on the first two NOPVs had the Pipavav Shipyard. The The police have arrested Sagar lated technical know-how as well million from their victims. been completed, and no turnaround in a short span Thakkar alias ‘Shaggy,’ the alleged as that of the Indian and the US The scam came to light last year work had been undertaken was possible solely due to kingpin of a scam duping thou- legal systems, he said. when police raided call centres at on the other three. the Reliance Group’s com- sands of Americans of over USD The commissioner had interrog- Mira Road in Thane district on the Reliance effected a turn- mitment in the defence sec- 300 million by reaching them via ated Thakkar briefly before he was night of October 4-5 last year. Sub- around of the shipyard and tor and vast experience in call centres posing as US officials taken to the court. sequently, police teams raided and in a year achieved 70% and executing large infrastruc- to extort money from them. Thakkar was on the run since shut down five call centres in 67% progress on the first ture projects. Thakkar was arrested late last unearthing of the scam last year. Ahmedabad which were a part of two NOPVs and an average Our Correspondents night at the Mumbai airport follow- The police said the racket which the racket. of 30% on the remaining write: The report contained ing his return from Dubai and was he ran since 2013 through at least Over 70 people, mostly direct- three. detailed reactions from both on Saturday produced before a half a dozen call centres in Thane, ors and key persons linked to The international bench- the Indian Navy and Reliance court which remanded him in po- targeted at least 15,000 US-based these call centres, were arrested mark for warship construc- Defence and Engineering lice custody till April 13, said Thane tax payers with Indian tele-callers and 700 employees detained. tion is average 18% progress Ltd., and the headline was Police Commissioner Param Bir calling them up, posing as US In- During interrogation of the ar- a year. As per revised drawn from comments from Singh. ternal Revenue Service or immig- rested directors, the police got timelines, RDEL plans to de- Navy sources. There was no Mr Singh told reporters at press ration officials and demanding Thakkar’s name as the alleged liver two NOPVs by mala fide, and the report conference that Thakkar, who was payments for non-existent debts. mastermind of the racket, but be- end-2017, and the remaining merely reflected the Reliance living in Dubai, decided to return The US Justice Department has fore the police could reach him, he three in mid-2018, thereby stand about speeding up pro- to India after the police initiated charged 61 such people or entities fled the country on October 5. The achieving an average deliv- jects since it took over the the process to issue Red Corner linked to the scam. The US Home- police subsequently issued a Look ery time of 27 to 30 months management of the shipyard. 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WHO Unlike his ardent followers, it is not easy He heads the newly created Office of Chinese Ambassador to the U.S. Cui out of the inner circle and finally sent to Trump could be worth $740 million, ac- PQpq for policymakers and foreign countries American Innovation, which has the Tiankai, broke the ice and both leaders the wilderness. cording to disclosures by the White to make sense of U.S. President Donald mandate to implement highly effective met this week in Mar-a-Lago, a private Since then, anyone who wanted to House recently. It is unlikely that his Trump. One person they all turn to private sector practices in government. club owned by the President in Florida. break into the sanctorum of the Trump first conflict of interest controversy will these days is Jared Kushner, the 36-year- Mr. Kushner is a senior adviser to Mr. The Trump administration’s draft plan Towers and later the White House, be his last. old son-in-law of the President. Mr. Trump. The President apparently even to renegotiate the North Atlantic Free knew whom to propitiate. Going by re- People who know him are not con- Jared Kushner has emerged as the most believes that his son-in-law, an orthodox Trade Agreement with Mexico and cent developments, the Chinese have vinced that his record or acumen justi- powerful influence on the most power- Jew, could broker peace between Canada is far tempered and conven- done that job the best. fies his prominence. Elizabeth Spiers, ful office on the planet. Mr. Kushner is Israel and Arabs. tional than Mr. Trump’s campaign founding editor of Gawker and former Kushner married to the President’s favourite rhetoric against it. Is there conflict of interest? editor-in-chief of the New York Observer, daughter, Ivanka Trump. How is he helping? Mr. Kushner waded into the first conflict a paper once owned by Mr. Kushner, The son-in-law has been Is he qualified for the job? of interest controversy, as a Chinese wrote in a Washington Post piece: powerful What is his reach? instrumental in blunting With no political or governmental group with links to the Communist “...and my experience doesn’t bode Mr. Kushner’s prominence in the ad- the edge of Mr. Trump’s experience, Mr. Kushner man- Party emerged as a potential investor in well for the Office of American Innova- ministration is rising. For instance, he diatribe against China and aged to wield enormous influ- a bleeding property in Manhattan that tion. Not everything that works in the son-in-law set the ambience and agenda for Mr. Mexico, two close trade ence in Mr. Trump’s presidential he had bought for $1.8 billion in 2007, private sector is transferable to the pub- Trump’s meeting with Chinese Presid- partners of the U.S. Mr. campaign. and later divested from. lic sector — and even if it were, Kushner ent Xi Jinping — one bilateral relation- Trump had sought to make His veto power on all mat- As the issue flared up, negotiations isn’t the best person to transfer it.” She ship that could define the 45th presid- U.S. relations with Taiwan a ters Trump first came to were called off last month. But Kushner added: “When I worked for him, I didn’t ency. bargaining chip with China, light when New Jersey Cos, the real estate business he inher- think he had a realistic view of his own Then again, the Chairman of the Joint a move that pushed bi- Governor Chris ited and is now managed by a trust of capabilities since, like his father-in-law, Chiefs of Staff Joseph Dunford invited lateral ties to a Christie, the which he is the prime beneficiary, owns he seemed to view his wealth and its him to join him on a tour of Iraq. Mr. crisis. A telephone first tradi- or manages 20,000 apartments and 13 concomitant accoutrements as rewards Kushner has a finger in every pie. He is conversation tional Repub- million sq. ft. of office space in New for his personal success in business, and involved in the White House policy on between Mr. Xi lican to en- York, New Jersey, Maryland and Illinois. not something he would have had in China, Mexico, West Asia and Canada. and Mr. Trump, dorse the Mr. Kushner has liquidated his stake in any case.” He strategises on combating the Islamic organised by Mr. insurgent, 58 businesses while moving to the ad- State. Kushner and was edged ministration, but he and wife Ivanka VARGHESE K. GEORGE CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC

WHAT people. For West Bengal, Teesta is holders…[to conclude the agreement] posed an arrangement in 2011, by which missioner in Delhi, Tariq Karim, put it, PQpq equally important, considered the life- as soon as possible.” As both countries India would get 42.5% and Bangladesh even if most of the agreements are de- line of half-a-dozen districts in North are gearing up for another general elec- 37.5% of the water during the lean sea- livered, many in Bangladesh will “only Bengal. Bangladesh has sought an tion, Teesta remains an unfinished pro- son, and the plan was shelved. ask why has Teesta not been done.” The “equitable” distribution of Teesta wa- ject and one of the key stakeholders — Awami League will have to have an ters from India, on the lines of the West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata WHY DOES IT India witnessed a answer. The lowdown Ganga Water Treaty of 1996, but to no Banerjee — is yet to endorse the deal. MATTER? surge in insurgency in avail. The failure to ink a deal had its fal- Her objection is connected to “global the northeast during the rule of the WHAT NEXT? The answer, accord- lout on the country’s politics, putting warming.” Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) ing to leading Bangladeshi hydrologist on sharing the ruling Awami League in a spot. Many of the glaciers on the Teesta from 2001 to 2005. A new policy to be- and architect of Ganga Water Treaty basin have retreated, says Strategic friend the BNP backfired. Bangladesh al- Ainun Nishat, is embedded in the con- HOW DID IT Following a half- Foresight Group, a Mumbai-based think- legedly sheltered insurgents engaged in struction of giant artificial reservoirs, of Teesta COME ABOUT? hearted deal in 1983, tank. “Estimates suggested that the anti-India activities, and nearly all the where the monsoon water can be stored when nearly equal division of water was Teesta river has a mean annual flow of Home Ministry-level talks ended for the lean season. The reservoirs need proposed, the countries hit a roadblock. approximately 60 billion cubic metre without agreement, and India had to in- to be built in India as the country has waters WHAT IS IT Sharing the waters of The transient agreement could not be (BCM). A significant amount of this wa- crease the security budget for the north- some mountain-induced sites favour- the Teesta river, which originates in the implemented. Talks resumed after the ter flows during the wet season, east. In a couple of years of assuming of- able to hosting dams with reservoirs, Himalayas and flows through Sikkim Awami League returned to power in between June and September. The im- fice in 2008, the Awami League targeted unlike Bangladesh, Dr. Nishat told this and West Bengal to merge with the 2008 and the former Indian Prime Min- portance of the flow and the seasonal insurgent camps and handed over the correspondent earlier. Ms. Banerjee, Brahmaputra in Assam and (Jamuna in ister Manmohan Singh visited Dhaka in variation of this river is felt during the rebels to India. As India’s security estab- however, cannot be sidestepped as wa- Bangladesh), is perhaps the most con- 2011. Officials were directed to conclude lean season (from October to April/May) lishment heaved a sigh of relief, the rela- ter is a State subject. But the silver lining tentious issue between two friendly the “[interim] agreements” on a “fair as the average flow is about 500 million tionship improved on multiple fronts. is the presence of stakeholders — at the neighbours, India and Bangladesh. The and equitable basis,” as per the joint cubic metre (MCM) per month. Con- But in 2017, the Awami League is on a highest level — in Delhi this week. Hope- river covers nearly the entire flood- statement. In 2015, Prime Minister Nar- sequently, there are floods during mon- sticky wicket. It will be facing one of its fully, they will be able to strike gold by plains of Sikkim, while draining 2,800 endra Modi’s visit to Dhaka generated soons and droughts during the dry peri- toughest elections in two years and wa- the next general election in Bangladesh. sq km of Bangladesh, governing the more ebullient lines: “deliberations ods,” the 2013 report said. ter-sharing will be one of the key issues. lives of hundreds of thousands of were under way involving all the stake- The West Bengal Chief Minister op- As the former Bangladesh High Com- SUVOJIT BAGCHI

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the infection will spread to their loved reaction is revulsion at himself. Now, it’s ted out as a union-breaking outfit in a ones and comrades. Unless the victim likely that he undergoes both these re- big metropolis, doing violence at the and their associates take stern counter- actions simultaneously; or one after the bidding of the factory-owners and intuitive measures, they will also be- other; or that one is immediate and its politicians who were funding you; then come addicted to violence. Just as water counter delayed. the enemy could have shifted from the or electricity have a way of finding Communist union leaders to the labour- strange circular pathways, the violence Glorifying violence ers of other ethnicities who came to the will come back to you, except now it Arguments about ‘human progress’ say city; from there the target might have will be you who is the target. When this that the more hesitation we feel before become minorities in general. A few ruchir joshi happens, you may or may not recognise launching violence the better off we are, decades later, as a young Maoist who is a writer, ilmmaker and columnist it as the same energy you once released that the more regret we feel about hav- had inherited the Naxal strain, you from your hand; chances are you will ing committed violence the more civil- could find yourself attacking NGOs in Physical violence is addictive and infec- feel victimised, will want to retaliate or ised we are, that the less we repeat the your area who were undercutting your tious. Like some deadly drug, once you pass it on to people you think are act of violence the happier we are. But AK-47 ideology by fighting the mining partake of it you want a second (forgive weaker than you. then again, there are ideologies that companies non-violently. Or, as a des- the terrible pun) hit, and once you start keep emerging that glorify violence, cendant of the union-breaking goon doing it regularly you want more and Only receive or retaliate? that connect causing serious harm to squad, you could find yourself bashing GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO more. With ingested substances your in- As children, the first people to hit us are * others with protecting one’s identity, up a minor employee of a government teraction is only with yourself, but viol- usually our parents. The second bunch with notions of honour and self-respect, concern, showing no genuine contrition ence always needs a target, or — if you of perpetrators are usually kids our own you say another kid has hit you? Do they violence is a bad thing, which is to be with ideas of pride in one’s manhood, and then hiding behind the heft of your must be libtardish about it — a victim. age. With parents it is difficult to hit say ‘go and hit back, you’re the son (or avoided? Or do they convey that viol- one’s religion, race, ethnicity or nation. political party while trying to escape Now, as your blow transfers from your back, especially when you’re very small. daughter) of a tiger (or a lion) and I ence is a way of life, and your general These violent ideologies tend to get punishment. In both cases, the message brain to the hand that pulls off your slip- But soon enough we learn the art and don’t want to see you again until either aim is to make sure that you do most of hungrier for sanctioned targets; the from your masters, now standing in for per to the recipient, you transfer not begin to enjoy its rewards: hit the kid you or that kid is on a stretcher’? Or do the hitting while the others do most of definitions of the enemy get wider, con- your parents, would be the same: you only the pain but also the infection from who is smaller than you, hit back to stop they intervene on your behalf, trying by the bleeding? sciously and subconsciously. As a Naxal- should be constantly violent, it’s a good which you are suffering. Perhaps not the kid who is your own size, and so on. fair means or foul to make life hell for Despite limited experience I would ite in the late 1960s you could have star- thing even if you make the odd strategic immediately, especially if they’re reel- It is at this point that the parents’ atti- the other kid, who you might have hit? suggest that a human being has two ted out aiming to decimate rich mistake, so minimise the regrets and ing from serious bodily damage, but tude becomes crucial. How can Or do they intervene fairly, telling both contradictory reactions when he visits capitalists and ministers and ended up the shame and continue to enjoy hurt- sooner or later, the person who’s hit will someone who hits you tell you not to do you and the other party to cut out the physical harm on someone. One is of killing some lone traffic policemen for ing people – you’re the child of lions, want to hit back. If your target is dead, it to others? What is their solution when fighting? Do your parents teach you that pleasure and satisfaction; the counter- their revolvers. Or, you could have star- you’re the son of a tiger. Right reasons, wrong ights On friendship walks Lack of governance in Indian corporates deserves wider debate A personal memoir is a touching mirror to Israel-Palestine politics

couched in lofty terms, these are actually being seen as spiteful attacks in a very personal feud. Take Mr. Murthy’s open letter released to the media last week, slam- ming the sharp pay hike awarded to COO Pravin Rao. The letter, coming as it does on the back of Mr. Murthy’s cri- raghavan srinivasan ticism of the Infosys board clearing mini kapoor is Editor, The Hindu Business Line Vishal Sikka’s own compensation, has is Ideas Editor, The Hindu once again reignited the face-off As a country, we never were much dis- between Mr. Murthy and Mr. Sikka. The Israel-Palestine issue is proving to posed to questioning people in posi- The differences, which appeared to be intractable, taking a relentless toll tions of power very strongly. While we have been papered over late February on the residents of Gaza, the West are a functioning democracy, with an when Mr. Murthy said complimentary Bank and East Jerusalem. Or perhaps it electorate which regularly exercises its things about Infosys Chairman R. Se- is the case that it is being insistently WIKIPEDIA COMMONS right to pitch anyone it deems unfit out shasayee, which were echoed by Mr. portrayed to be intractable, in order to * of office, the fact is that till such a Seshasayee and Mr. Sikka, are back in avert an end to the Israeli occupation point is reached — like elections actu- the open. Mr. Murthy’s case for what and the establishment of a free, viable more difficult — but on that November black coffee and explained he was ally being announced — the chosen he calls “compassionate capitalism” Palestinian state. As the Palestinian day, all sorts of hopeful possibilities of lactose-intolerant. Shehadeh reacted leader faces little or no public scrutiny versus the aggressive, U.S.-trained writer, Raja Shehadeh, refers to it in a better future were in the air. that he was too. “We both belong to GETTY IMAGES/ ISTOCK PHOTO GETTY ISTOCK IMAGES/

or questioning of his or her actions. * Sikka’s approach of exceptional re- his moving new book, Where the Line That much appears evident from the same racial group,” said Ab- ward for attaining stretch goals would Is Drawn: Crossing Boundaries in Occu- the first exchange between the two ramovitch, “and are among the major- Across-the-board tendency ers of the stature of Ratan Tata or N.R. have made for an engrossing debate, if pied Palestine, there is “… the lie young men in the foyer of the hotel ity of intolerants.” And this tendency to automatically de- Narayana Murthy raise issues of cor- not for the very clear personal differ- peddled by [Israeli Prime Minister where the Shehadehs were watching Readers of Shehadeh’s previous fer to authority is not restricted to porate governance, it becomes such a ences between the two. As it is, it is in- Benjamin] Netanyahu and his follow- Sadat’s Knesset address on a big books would be familiar with his love politics either. From business to big deal. Given their heft, everyone vestors in Infosys stock who have paid ers to Israeli people and to the world — screen. Abramovitch asked Raja what of walking out into the hills around sports, the situation is pretty much the from regulators to policymakers to the the price, having thousands of crores that the Arab is the fundamental and he made of it. “This will usher in huge Ramallah, and beyond. Such walks, same. The Indian cricket team’s cap- general public sits up and takes notice wiped off from the value of their eternal enemy of the Jew, that the con- political change,” he answered. And it over time, became a record of the in- tain, for instance, arguably enjoys — and hopefully acts. When a Ratan holdings. flict between Palestinian Arabs and Is- was not only that a friendship was in- cremental loss of access of Palestinians more power than his counterpart in Tata talks about empowering inde- Ditto at the Tata Group, which has raeli Jews cannot be resolved diplo- stantly born, the young Palestinian’s to their land, in fact to the appropri- any other cricket-playing country. pendent directors, or when a Naray- shed thousands of crores in market matically and that the Israeli people response also reflected the power dy- ation of their physical space. In Where Likewise, in the world of business, ana Murthy raises the issue of CEO capitalisation after the surprise sack- have to forever live by the sword.” namic that appeared to be at play the Line is Drawn, Shehadeh recounts no one questions the authority or de- compensation, it is bound to generate ing of Mr. Mistry. The many issues then, and that we would do well to re- picking up what appeared to be a fossil cisions of the founder/family heir, even debate and hopefully result in change raised by Ratan Tata, as well as the de- Friendships across the divide call today: “At the time I was under the during a walk on the outskirts of though the reality is that in many ‘pro- for the better. tailed concerns pointed out by Cyrus Shehadeh, a human rights lawyer impression that Israel needed our re- Ramallah. Thereafter, he and his moter-run’ companies, the original Which, as anyone following l’affaire Mistry, deserve greater attention on based in Ramallah and the author of, cognition and that it was we, the friends were stopped by soldiers who promoter’s stake may have been re- Cyrus Mistry or the Murthy-Sikka face- matters of principle therein, but were among other works, the stunningly Palestinians, who were withholding it. told them it was a closed military area, duced to a minority by capital expan- off knows, hasn’t actually happened not given their due because of the per- evocative Palestinian Walks (2008), I believed we held the power to resolve and it occurred to Shehadeh that the sion or sell-offs. But regardless of even though these corporate titans sonal peeve which overlay all these ac- counters this view with the story of his the conflict. Israel, which said it was ‘fossil’ (which turned out to be, in fact, whether they have de jure control or had raised points which, in and of tions. Besides, whether it is Mr. Tata or friendships across the divide, particu- ready to negotiate, supported that im- a coral) could be taken to be a weapon, not, de facto, their authority is pretty themselves, deserve wider discussion Mr. Mistry or Mr. Murthy, the fact is larly with Henry Abramovitch, a Cana- pression. They popularised it. And as “under Israeli military law, stone- much untrammelled. in the country. Mr. Tata talked about that all of them had the opportunity to dian Jew who’d relocated to Israel in here was the head of the strongest throwing was a serious offence”. They continue to hire and fire as independent directors, and the need address many of the concerns they the seventies. It was soon after that Arab state offering Israel recognition.” And the memoir of the friendship, they please, appoint kith and kin to re- to protect the interests of other share- raised later. Shehadeh met Abramovitch, in the In the event, a personal friendship written in an episodic structure, re- munerative and powerful positions, do holders and not just the chairman. Mr. The Economist said, in an article on November of 1977, in Tel Aviv. The was born, whose ups and downs records the distance that often yawned deals with related parties where the Murthy rightly argues whether exorbit- the Tata-Mistry fight, that in India, then young Shehadeh, who had just flect the shift in the political dynamic, between the two men, not necessarily gains flow to the pockets of the pro- ant remunerations for CEOs can really “good corporate governance” was finished his law studies in London, as life became more oppressive for because of politics and identity alone. moter family and not the public share- be justified in a poor country like In- simply a euphemism for “not was making the trip from Ramallah Palestinians, as settlements crowded Writes Shehadeh: “Each crossing holders whose money is actually fund- dia. Both valid points need discussion, crooked”. By that logic, both the Tata with his father to listen to Egyptian them out of numerous neighbour- would remind me of what I tried to for- ing the company, and so on and so which isn’t happening. Group and Infosys, and for that matter President Anwar Sadat make his his- hoods, as they suffered collective pun- get when we met and this often made forth — and compliant boards, despite all the protagonists in the high-profile toric address to the Israeli Parliament, ishment at the hands of the Israeli me feel resentful and angry towards the mandated presence of independ- Valid concerns, personal feuds spats in these groups, are exemplars of the Knesset. It was a courageous bid state, as many roads were designated Henry and his obliviousness of what it ent directors, continue to rubber This is because of the manner in which “good corporate governance”. But that for peace by Sadat, becoming the first to be for Israelis alone, as the barrier took for me to meet him.” But friend- stamp such decisions. In other words, these have been raised. While both Mr. hasn’t stopped investors from voting Arab leader to set foot in the state of Is- wall grew longer so that they were of- ship, by definition, must entail over- corporate governance is something Tata’s charges against Mr. Mistry (and with their feet on how they viewed rael. Sadat would be assassinated ten not at liberty to even gaze into the coming such resentment, and which captains of industry love to talk the latter’s response to them) as well as these tiffs. Clearly, when it comes to within four years, the movement of distance, as security checks become Shehadeh’s humane portrayal of the about, so long as nobody questions Mr. Murthy’s concerns — which have fighting for “principles”, timing is as Palestinians within the occupied territ- more humiliating. On that first meet- struggle to empathise with a pal is a governance in their own companies! been shared by some of the other co- important as the issues one is fighting ories and to and from Israel would ing, however, they found much in staggering counter to the political Which is why, when corporate lead- founders of Infosys — have all been for. over the decades grow progressively common. Abramovitch was drinking stalemate. Every culture gives and receives We need to tamper down the excessive zeal to think of cultures in isolation or as possessing immutable ‘essences’

single woman could make life choices From our personal habits of food and ‘European’ modernity had also on her own. In essence, the embryo of language to seemingly unchanging ideas emerged independently in medieval In- the novel takes the womb of modernity such as God, tradition, and causality, dia. This, we learn from the works of for granted. The answer offered to that every human thought has a past that Velcheru Narayana Rao, Sanjay Subrah- counterfactual is that unless certain ma- percolated into the present through manyam, and David Shulman who show terial conditions are available, unless various means. us that kaaranams (scribes) in the post- the soil of society is furrowed and tilled, Vijayanagara period engaged with his- certain ‘modern’ mentalities might not Origins of ideas torical self-awareness, narrative prag- keerthik sasidharan just germinate. In fact, the very conceit For example, ideas have often circu- matism and critical thought prior to any is a writer and is on Twitter @KS1729 of such a possibility might seem absurd, lated freely across the globe often ob- interaction with colonialism. And even if not inimical. scuring true origins. This we see vividly the very same historical event has led In a recent and fascinating book called when, the psychologist Alison Gopnik, different Indians to interpret it differ- The Islamic Enlightenment: The Struggle Birth of a backlash in a remarkable feat of historical re- ently. This we see in Pankaj Mishra’s between Faith and Reason: 1798 to Mod- One peril of such a ‘materialist’ explana- search, showed that by 1727, Buddhism stellar new book where both Gandhi ern Times by Christopher de Bellaigue, tion about how society evolves is that it via a French Jesuit in Tibet had made its and Savarkar are nourished differently there is an interesting counterfactual internalises the idea that ideas of mod- way to the British philosopher David by the very same events in the Italian that is posed. Could the most advanced ernity can only flow from capital-rich Hume, who wrote that the human Self is Risorgimento of the 1850s. societies of the Islamic world in the centres (historically, the Anglo-Saxon an illusion. In contrast, cultural ideas Recognising the above methods of early 19th century — the Ottoman em- West) to capital-poor peripheries. When that we think of as traditional have how cultures survive and evolve — via K. PICHUMANI pire — have understood Jane Eyre? Jane such a view of unidirectional flow of * sometimes evolved out of appropri- circulation, self-creation, appropriation, Eyre is a novel by Charlotte Brontë, pub- progress is repeated, legitimised as ped- ations or resistance. Whether it be the resistance, interpretation — tampers lished in 1847, about a young woman’s agogy and institutionalised as the sole text of India, we find elaborately archi- peripheries about our culture, what is transformation of the ragam Kalyani down an excessive zeal to think of cul- journey through life and love at the cusp historic reality, what is little noticed in tected visions of linguistic chauvinism, the recourse for individuals who live from being described as a ‘Turuska tures in isolation or as possessing im- of modernity. To “get” Jane Eyre, not these moments of triumphalist self-con- imaginary sanctities, textual literalism, between them? The answer is not clear. ragam’ (Turkish raga) in the 15th cen- mutable ‘essences’. This openness of just as a cultural product but also as a vi- gratulation is that these narratives often and genetic ‘purity’. These voices invert Nor is it evident that there is indeed one tury to the present-day staple magnifi- critical thinking that accepts the influ- able, believable story, the Ottomans rebel with the historic self-image of the ‘materialist’ logic of cultural dissem- answer. At best, we can only point to a cence it has become in Carnatic music. ences of others conversely also gives us would have had to “get” the social infra- those at the receiving ends. Out of this ination: they adopt modern technolo- set of responses that shows how our Or, as the scholar M.V. Narayanan ar- the freedom to claim influences of Indic structure in which the novel unfolds. melange of forces that denies many gies while assiduously cultivating anti- present culture is born out of a complex gues, even the traditional prominence thought elsewhere. To remember this This would mean recognising a post- ‘peripheral’ enterprises their expected modern mentalities. set of exchanges and reactions. One can that Kathakali accords to anti-heroes axiomatic double-entry bookkeeping of feudal society, understanding institu- due, a backlash is born as a politics of Faced with the self-aggrandising try to keep in mind that the ideas we was an aesthetic resistance to early co- culture — the giving and the receiving — tions like the postal services or newspa- envy, emulation, and exaggerated self- claims from the metropole and rage- hold to be self-evident and eternal were lonialism’s purported orderliness. Else- is perhaps the challenge of our all too pers, and the idea that a “respectable” regard. Even within the democratic con- filled mythologies that emerge from the born out of contingent circumstances. where, attitudes that we associate with shrill times. 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NOIDA/DELHI THE HINDU 14 SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY SUNDAY, APRIL 9, 2017 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE CAPSULE IISc designs a novel graphene electrical conductor The new way of making graphene with a perfect edge structure was the key to success Giant viruses Virus strains collected from a R. Prasad waste water treatment plant in Researchers from the Indian In- Austria possessed giant-sized stitute of Science (IISc), genomes, much larger than (From right) G. Umapathy, Amith Asthana and Ch.Mohan Rao have developed those of bacteria. While their Bengaluru have been able to ex- evolutionary history is perimentally produce a new kits that can be used without expert intervention.. mysterious, analysis by type of electrical conductor that researchers suggests that the was theoretically predicted genes were acquired at a nearly 20 years ago. Non-invasive early test relatively recent time, as an A team led by Arindam adaptation to their hosts. Ghosh from the Department of Physics, IISc successful produced graphene that is single- for pregnancy in cattle or a few-layers thick to conduct current along one particular Diagnosis can be made within ive weeks edge — the zigzag edge. The zigzag edge of graphene layer has a Shubashree Desikan possible for breeders to independ- unique property: It allows flow ently carry out the process of detec- of charge without any resistance Pregnancy tests for cattle will soon tion. With this view, the group is at room temperature and above. become easier with the availability of working on a kit developed by Amit “This is the first we found the a new kit being developed by scient- Asthana and Ch Mohan Rao, also How do babies learn perfect edge structure in ists from the Centre for Cellular and from CCMB. Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hydera- Babies learn languages before graphene and demonstrated bad. Using ELISA to test a sample of Pregnancy kit they can speak, a study electrical conductance along dung can reveal the pregnancy at an They adapted the laboratory ELISA revealed. Dutch-speaking the edge,” says Prof. Ghosh. The early stage as compared with existing protocol to a simple paper-based adults adopted from South results of the study were pub- methods. device. The special feature of this Korea when they were lished in the journal Nature (From left) T. Phanindra Sai, Amogh Kinikar, Arindam Ghosh resorted to mechanical exfoliation to make

* In what is quite novel, the group system is that while normally any preverbal babies had latent Nanotechnology. graphene conduct current along the edge. SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT has identified a biomarker, a meta- moisture placed on a paper would be Korean language skills in A few-layers-thick graphene bolite, which is found in high con- sucked in through capillary action, them. The preverbal exposure that conducts current along one the edge. Because of the zigzag Kinikar from the Department of and one of the edges has a zig- centrations in dung within 3-5 weeks this device shows a guided flow. “We had laid a strong base that edge does not experience any orientation of carbon atoms Physics at IISc and the first au- zag property. “The steplike of pregnancy. When this dung use hydrophobic barriers in such a revealed itself in carefully resistance and so can lead to [resulting from the hexagonal thor of the paper. changes observed for small val- sample is tested using the ELISA way that the flow is regulated and the designed experiments. realising power-efficient elec- lattice], the electron wave on ues of conductance when other tronics and quantum informa- each carbon atom overlaps and Effect of chemicals variables were changed were method, there is a colour change to colour change in the paper can be tion transfer, even at room forms a continuous train of The exfoliation was carried out surprising. Through theoretical indicate presence of the specific used as a read out,” says Dr Asthana, temperature. wave along the edge. This at room temperature but under work we were able to link this to metabolite. Further, the paper-based in an email to this correspondent. makes the edge conducting,” ex- vacuum and the electrical con- edge modes in graphene,” says microfluidic kit being developed is The proof of principle of the kit is Getting an edge plains Prof. Ghosh. The edge ductance was measured at the Prof. H.R.Krishnamurthy from constructed so as to enable reading established. “However, we are trying Many groups over the world will remain conductive even if it time of exfoliation before the the Department of Physics, IISc out the result. to further simplify and improve its ef- have been trying to access these is very long but has to be chem- pristine nature of the edge was and one of the authors of the Timely detection of pregnancy in ficacy. A multi-centric extensive eval- edges since the emergence of ically and structurally pristine. affected. The unsatisfied bonds paper. cows and buffaloes is important to uation is necessary before the graphene in 2004, but have In the past, others research- of the carbon atoms make them There are currently several maximise reproduction and milk product can be released in the mar- been largely unsuccessful be- ers had tried making narrow highly reactive and they tend to chemical methods to produce production. According to G. ket,” says Dr Ch Mohan Rao, in an Bleaching corals cause when current flows graphene through chemical react with hydrogen present in very narrow graphene nanorib- Umapathy from CCMB, this can help email. The group is in the process of El Nino has forced destruction through graphene, it flows methods. But the use of chemic- the air. “The edges conduct bons. But these chemicals tend in shortening calving interval and filing a patent for this system. on many coral reefs in waters through both the edge as well as als destroys the edges. So the without any resistance as long to destroy the edges. “So the planning for rebreeding at the earli- While this kit is specifically de- along the coast, seen as coral the bulk. “We succeeded in this IISc team resorted to mechan- as the edges don’t come in con- challenge is to produce est oestrus cycle. signed to test for pregnancy in cattle, bleaching. A new study points endeavour by creating the bulk ical exfoliation to make tact with any chemicals,” says graphene nanoribbons using the group is concerned about detect- to another potential killer of part of graphene extremely nar- graphene that are single- and Prof. Ghosh. “It is very easy to chemicals that do not destroy Easy verification ing pregnancy in wildlife in general. corals, namely, ‘dead zones’ or row (less than 10 nanometre few-layers thick. They used a passivate [make the surface un- the edges,” Prof. Ghosh says. Though they have studied this aspect It is not easy to do this, as animals waters with low oxygen thick), and hence highly resist- small metal robot to peel the reactive by coating the surface “We believe that this successful of many animals, the group focused need to be anaesthetised and blood content. Known so far to be a ive, thus forcing the current to graphene from pyrolytic graph- with a thin inert layer] the edges demonstration of the dissipa- on cattle, as the livestock sector is samples drawn for testing in existing danger in temperate regions, flow through the edge alone,” he ite. “If you take a metal tip and to prevent contamination [when tion-less edge conduction will poorly organised. In currently avail- methods. The anaesthesia and fre- this could become a problem says. crash it on graphite and take it narrow graphene is used for act as great incentive to develop able methods, pregnancy detection quent drawing of blood can leave the even in tropical waters. “While the bulk is totally in- back, a part of the graphite will commercial purposes].” new chemical methods to make in cattle requires veterinary expert- animal stressed out. “Our laboratory sulating, the edge alone has the stick to the tip. The peeling was As the carbon atoms have a high-quality graphene nano-rib- ise or lab facilities. The present has been investigating ways of non- ability to conduct because of the done slowly and gradually (in hexagonal structure, exfoliation bons or nano-strips with clean method not only detects pregnancy invasively estimating hormone pro- unique quantum mechanics of steps of 0.1 Å),” says Amogh is by default at 30 degree angle edges.” at an earlier stage, it also makes it files in wildlife,” says Dr Umapathy.

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Equatorial bulge Artificial sun ratio of approximately 1.10 because of its mass and The world’s largest artificial Why do celestial bodies sun has been set up at the speed of rotation. experience an equatorial Not just the planets in the German Aerospace Centre bulge? (DLR). It consists of 149 solar system, all celestial ■ C.R Ramanujan Desikan high-performance, solar bodies that are rotating will powered Xenon short-arc The answer is that there is a have a celestial bulge lamps. Temperature at targets centrifugal force that depending on the surface can reach up to 3,000 degrees depends on the distance gravity and rate of spinning. ■ Science desk, The Hindu C. The facility is intended to from the equatorial plane of rotating bodies. This force produce fuels such as This week’s questions hydrogen. is observed in the rotating frame of reference and is an outward force. This force What happens to the dust we varies depending on breath in? distance from the ■ M. Selvakumaran, Chennai equatorial plane. Due to What is the science behind a this, the acceleration due to narco analysis? gravity varies as we move Large asteroid to buzz past from the equator to the ■ T.S. Karthik, Chennai poles. On earth this Earth on April 19: NASA variation, as measured by ‘Smart’ squids the flattening ratio, is 1.29 Readers can send their Cephalopods such as squid, approximately. Saturn has questions/ answers to octopus and cuttlefish can It is a close pass for an object this size the maximum flattening [email protected] engage in complex behaviour Press Trust of India such as escaping from their proach is the closest by any cages. A study suggests that known asteroid of this size, they may be so smart because A relatively large near-Earth or larger, since asteroid Tou- they don’t always obey the asteroid will fly safely past tatis, a five-kilometre aster- IIT Bombay uses mango leaves to make edicts of their DNA. They alter our planet on April 19 at a oid, which approached the genes which have been distance of about 1.8 million within about four lunar dis- copied into RNA from their kilometres — over four times tances in 2004. luorescent graphene quantum dots DNA, thereby changing the the distance from Earth to The next known en- instructions. the Moon, NASA said today. counter of an asteroid of Although there is no pos- comparable size will occur The quantum dots can be used for bioimaging and measuring intracellular temperature ODD & END sibility for the asteroid to in 2027 when the 800- collide with Earth, this will metre-wide asteroid 1999 R. Prasad Pet exposure and allergy be a very close approach for AN10 will fly by at one lunar quantum dots exhibited ex- inside the cells showed in- an asteroid of this size. distance, about 380,000 Using mango leaves to syn- citation-independent emis- tense florescence at 25 de- A study shows that babies The asteroid, known as kilometres. thesise fluorescent graphene sion,” says Mukeshchand gree C. As the temperature from families with pets 2014 JO25, was discovered The April 19 encounter quantum dots (nanocrystals Thakur from the Depart- rises to 45 degree C, the in- showed higher levels of two in May 2014 by astronomers provides an outstanding op- of semiconductor material), ment of Biosciences and tensity of fluorescence tends types of microbes at the Catalina Sky Survey in portunity to study this aster- associated with lower risks researchers from the Indian Bioengineering at IIT Bom- to decrease. of allergic disease and Arizona, US. oid, and astronomers plan Institute of Technology (IIT) bay, one of the authors of the As a result, the research- obesity. Exposure to pets in Contemporary measure- to observe it with telescopes Bombay have been able to paper. ers found up to 95% reduc- the womb or up to three ments by NASA’s NEOWISE around the world to learn as produce cheap probes for The quantum dots have tion in fluorescence intensity months after birth increases mission indicate that the as- much about it as possible. bioimaging and for intracel- smaller and larger fluores- when the temperature was the abundance of two teroid is roughly 650 meters The encounter on April lular temperature sensing. cent units. When the excita- increased by 20 degree C. bacteria, Ruminococcus and in size, and that its surface is 19 is the closest this asteroid Unlike the currently used tion is at lower wavelength, “So quantum dots can be Oscillospira, which have about twice as reflective as has come to Earth for at dyes, quantum dots synthes- the smaller units transfer en- used for detecting temperat- been linked with reduced that of the Moon. least the last 400 years and ised from mango leaves are ergy to the larger units and ure variation in the intracel- childhood allergies and At this time very little else will be its closest approach biocompatible, have excel- there is red emission. And lular environment,” says obesity, respectively. The is known about the object’s for at least the next 500 lent photostability and show when the excitation is at Thakur. pet exposure was shown to physical properties, even years. no cellular toxicity. The res- higher wavelength, the red “The graphene quantum affect the gut microbiome though its trajectory is well Also on April 19, the ults were published in the emission comes directly dots can be used as a nano- indirectly — from dog to known. comet PanSTARRS (C/2015 journal ACS Sustainable from the larger units, thus thermometre. Besides meas- mother to unborn baby — The asteroid will ap- ER61) will make its closest Chemistry & Engineering. The quantum dots that Mukesh Kumar Kumawat (left) and remaining uring intracellular temperat- during pregnancy as well as proach Earth from the dir- approach to Earth, at a very * during the first three Rohit Srivastava have fabricated can be used for bioimaging. excitation-independent. ure increase, they can be months of the baby's life. ection of the Sun and will safe distance of 175 million Green route used for measuring temper- The immunity-boosting become visible in the night kilometres, NASA said. To synthesise quantum dots, Using mice fibroblast integrity, viability and multi- Nanothermometer ature increase in cancer cells exchange occurred in sky after April 19. A faint fuzzball in the sky the researchers cut mango cells, a team led by Rohit plication of the cells. The “Since the quantum dots get and when there is inflamma- C-section delivery, It is predicted to brighten was discovered in 2015 by leaves into tiny pieces and Srivastava from the Depart- quantum dots get into the into the cytoplasm of the tion,” says Prof. Srivastava. antibiotics during birth and to about magnitude 11, when the Pan-STARRS NEO survey froze them using liquid ni- ment of Biosciences and cytoplasm of the cell. cell, the graphene quantum “We are seeing interest by lack of breastfeeding. The it could be visible in small team using a telescope on trogen. The frozen leaves Bioengineering at IIT Bom- The quantum dots, 2-8 dots can be used for cell companies making imaging study suggested that the optical telescopes for one or the summit of Haleakala, were crushed into powder bay evaluated the potential nanometre in size, were cytoplasm labelling applica- probes. There is also interest presence of pets in the two nights before it fades as Hawaii. and dipped in alcohol. The of quantum dots for bioima- found to emit red lumines- tions,” says Mukesh Kumar to use it as a temperature house reduced the the distance from Earth rap- The comet has since extract was centrifuged and ging and temperature-sens- cence when excited by UV Kumawat from the Depart- probe.” likelihood of the idly increases, NASA said. brightened considerably the supernatant evaporated ing applications. In mice cell light. “Even when the excita- ment of Biosciences and “Since the quantum dots transmission of vaginal GBS Small asteroids pass due to a recent outburst and in an evaporator and then in vitro studies, the tion wavelength was 300- Bioengineering, IIT Bombay emit red light, they can be (group B Strep) during within this distance of Earth is now visible in the dawn heated in a microwave for graphene quantum dots 500 nanometre, the emis- and the first author of the used for making organic birth, which causes several times each week, sky with binoculars or a five minutes to get a fine were able to get into the cells sion from the quantum dots paper. light-emitting diodes as pneumonia in newborns. but the upcoming close ap- small telescope. powder. easily without destroying the was at 680 nanometre. The The quantum dots found well,” says Kumawat. 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THE HINDU NOIDA/DELHI SUNDAY, APRIL 9, 2017 BEING 15 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE DR HUMERUS KESHAV The fault lies in classiication Understanding depression as a continuum of stages would help focus on the people who need medical intervention

R. Prasad depressive symptoms who need he World Health Organiza- medical intervention, the focus of tion estimates that more than specialists can be to treat severe T300 million people across cases. the world are living with depression. “But that does not mean that Staged model in India all the 300 million people would There is a body of evidence to need medical intervention,” says show that with appropriate train- Vikram Patel from Harvard Med- ing and supervision, front-line ical School and the Delhi-based community health workers can ef- Public Health Foundation of India. fectively deliver psychological The reason: the current binary treatments for moderately severe classification of depression that to severe depression, such as the AROUND THE WORLD distinguishes people as either Healthy Activity Program, a six- to “well” or “sick” is fundamentally eight-session treatment; the results ‘The Dress’, revisited flawed. The binary model is “un- of the study were published in suitable” for depression as there is December 2016 in The Lancet. In “The Dress” is a photo that became a no clear line that differentiates the the VISHRAM (the Vidarbha Stress viral Internet picture in 2015, when miseries of daily life from the dis- and Health ProgRAM) programme viewers disagreed over whether the order that can be treated through in 30 villages in the Amravati dis- item of clothing depicted was black medical intervention. trict in Vidarbha, central India, the and blue or white and gold. The staged model was implemented by Getty Images/iStockphoto phenomenon revealed diferences in Levels of depression providing care for mild stages by human colour perception which have been the subject of In the absence of a biomarker that community agents, while more ongoing scientiic investigation in neuroscience and vision neatly distinguishes healthy and severe stages were treated by lay science. In a new study in the Journal of Vision, New York depressed people, the binary Help at hand: :“There is a body of evidence to show that with appropriate training, community health workers counsellors working in collabora- University neuroscientist Pascal Wallisch concludes that these model relies on symptoms of emo- can efectively deliver psychological treatments for moderately severe to severe depression.” * GETTY IMAGES tion with primary care physicians diferences in perception are due to our assumptions about how tional well-being — feeling miser- and visiting psychiatrists. This led the dress was illuminated. able, losing interest in things, un- disorder.” moderate symptoms and most of- pressants, brief psychological to a huge reduction in treatment “The original image was overexposed, rendering the able to sleep, idea of self-harm and In an essay published in PLOS ten do not need clinical interven- treatments or both, though most gap for depression, according to a illumination source uncertain,” explains Dr. Wallisch, who feeling profoundly fatigued — and Medicine on April 4, Prof. Patel tion. What such people need is ad- of this can be provided through paper published in January this serves as a clinical assistant professor in NYU’s Department of assesses the duration and impact proposes a continuum of stages to vice on how to help themselves primary care physicians and com- year in The Lancet Psychiatry. Psychology. “As a result, we make assumptions about how the of these symptoms to arrive at a define depression. At one end of recover and support from friends, munity health workers. At the ex- Following the study, all the 30 dress was illuminated, which afects the colours we see.” diagnosis. the spectrum are people who are community-based workers or the treme stage are the recurrent or re- villages have a community health “This is a basic cognitive function: to appreciate the colour on “The binary model uses the an- well and do not have any distress- Internet. fractory depressive episodes worker “who is trained to detect an object, the illumination source has to be taken into account, swers to a list of questions and ing emotional experiences. “But where patients do not respond to depression, provide low-intensity which the brain does continuously.” then applies a complicated set of many people have depression-like When to step in existing treatments or suffer from psychosocial interventions, and rules to arrive at a diagnosis for de- symptoms in reaction to the trials The next stage is when the dis- relapse. “This constitutes only a refer the patient to the public pression,” says Prof. Patel. “It uses of everyday life, for example when tressing experience lasts longer — small fraction and they need to see health system for further The downside a set of symptoms without recog- there is the death of a dear one,” at least two to four weeks — and a psychiatrist or clinical psycholo- management”. of going grey nising that there might be stages he says. A significant proportion of severely impacts day-to-day social gist,” he says. Since the model of Grey hair has been linked with an through which the symptoms people now diagnosed as suffering functioning. This condition needs various stages would dramatically increased risk of heart disease in men, graduate to a full medical from depression have only mild to medical intervention — antide- reduce the number of people with [email protected] according to research presented at EuroPrevent. “Ageing is an CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Getty Images unavoidable coronary risk factor and is associated with dermatological signs Sufering without end that could signal increased risk,” says Dr. Irini Samuel, a Crookery of cardiologist at Cairo University, Egypt. “More research is needed on cutaneous signs of risk that would enable us to intervene earlier in the cardiovascular disease process.” clinical trials Atherosclerosis and hair greying share similar mechanisms such as impaired DNA repair, oxidative stress, inlammation, Earlier this week, a long- hormonal changes and senescence of functional cells. This drawn legal battle over study assessed the prevalence of grey hair in patients with collusion by the Health coronary artery disease and whether it was an independent risk Ministry with interna- marker of disease. tional non-governmental “Atherosclerosis and hair greying occur through similar organisations to test ex- biological pathways and the incidence of both increases with perimental drugs on Indi- colin gonsalves age,” says Dr. Samuel. “Our indings suggest that, irrespective ans landed before a Con- of chronological age, hair greying indicates biological age and stitution Bench of the could be a warning sign of increased cardiovascular risk.” Supreme Court. In the last decade, on account of all clinical trials conducted by various pharmaceutical companies, nearly 2,800 patients are said to have died Puin bonding between 2005 and 2012 in India. A parliamentary Puin pairs that follow similar migration panel report found all parties involved of gross ethical routes breed more successfully the violations — the ministry, Drugs Controller General of following season, a new Oxford India (DCGI), Indian Council of Medical Research University study has found. Many long- (ICMR) and those who conducted the clinical trials. lived birds such as swans, albatrosses However, because of a legal hurdle, the parliament- and puins are known for their long- Getty Images/iStockphoto ary report cannot even be looked at by the Supreme lived monogamous, “soulmate” pairings. Court. This issue was referred to a Constitution Bench Scientists have long understood that in these species, this week. The truth of the allegations is yet to be de- reproductive performance is inluenced by pair bond strength cided by the court. and longevity, with long-established pairs usually better at In 2009, a prominent international NGO had rearing ofspring. However, in species such as puins which launched a $3.6 million human papillomavirus (HPV) have to migrate to distant wintering grounds during the non- trial in India and tested two vaccines on 16,000 tribal breeding season, very little is known about how mates maintain More distress in Syria’s course of conlict: Doctors say that victims of a suspected chemical attack in Syria on Tuesday — girls in Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat, apparently their pair-bond and behave. The new study, in Marine Ecology which resulted in U.S. retaliatory strikes — show symptoms consistent with the use of a nerve agent such as sarin. If without informed consent from the girls’ parents. After Progress Series, shows that pairs which followed more similar conirmed, the attack would be among the worst incidents of chemical weapons use in Syria’s civil war, which has killed over allegations were made that the girls had suffered ad- migration routes bred earlier and more successfully the 320,000 people since it began in 2011. Picture shows a Syrian doctor treating a child following the suspected chemical verse effects, the 72nd Parliamentary Standing Com- following spring, showing that there is a clear beneit for attack, at a makeshift hospital in Khan Sheikhoun town, in the country’s northern Idlib province. Syrian opposition activists mittee Report, in a scathing indictment of India’s then puins to migrate close to their mates. This proximity may have described the attack as among the worst in the country’s civil war. * EDLIB MEDIA CENTER/AP booming clinical trial industry, implicated the DCGI for make it easier for pairs to synchronise their return to the colony licensing the vaccines without adequate research on in spring. safety and efficacy; the Health Ministry for not questioning violations in the licensing process; the ICMR for promoting a drug even before it was approved and the A pill to cut involuntary Depressed or suicidal? NGO for setting up a trial without following basic pro- movement tocol. The parliamentary committee found commercial interests were influencing government policy, and that Antipsychotic treatment can cause authorities were “overenthusiastic to act as willing fa- involuntary movements such as lip This app can make you wise cilitators to the machinations” of foreign institutions. smacking, tongue protrusions and The committee recommended that henceforth, trials excessive eye blinking. These A range of new apps can now help people take care of their mental health ought to be conducted only in the 330 medical colleges Getty Images/iStockphoto movements typically occur after more that have emergency facilities. It also sought — among than 3 months of treatment and are Jacob Koshy possible by the Web, the India. Amulya Singh, a 23- other things — an investigation into the illegal approval called tardive dyskinesia. n 1966, Joseph Weizen- duo (who are also married year-old engineer, who was of drugs and of doctors who submitted “ghost” letters A study published in the American Journal of Psychiatry Ibaum, a computer scient- to each other) reckon that recommended by his ther- recommending drugs for approval. concludes that valbenazine administered once daily can ist at the Massachusetts In- Eliza-like bots could be fo- apist to try the app, says The NGO, which cannot be named due to the pen- signiicantly reduce tardive dyskinesia in patients with stitute of Technology, made cussed to help people take he’s been using it for over dency of the case in Supreme Court, and the drug com- schizophrenia, schizoafective disorder and mood disorder. what would today be called care of their mental health. two months and it has a chatbot. Named Eliza, helped him relax. “ I lost panies involved have dismissed the allegations as base- after the fictional Eliza Customised app my father recently and was less and oppose the court’s reliance on the report. Ancient earth in young Doolittle from George Bern- Wysa, an app co-developed depressed… I feel I’m talk- volcanic rocks ard Shaw’s Pygmalion, by them that has a nod to ing to a person,” he says. Indians as guinea pigs The earth’s mantle is made of solid Weizenbaum’s creation was Eliza in its name, can be In 2005, an important change in the Drugs and the rock that nonetheless circulates slowly a programme that simu- downloaded from the Discreet Cosmetics Act allowed concomitant phase II trials — over millions of years. Some geologists lated a therapist. Weizen- Google Play Store. Unlike Wysa is one among a slew the stage where efficacy and safety of an experimental assume that this slow circulation would baum was less interested in Eliza, Wysa is programmed of bots and applications drug is tested — for the first time in India. It allowed drugs discovered abroad by multinational pharmaceut- have wiped away any geochemical Getty Images/iStockphoto people’s mental health and to have a customised and that Touchkin, the com- traces of earth’s early history long ago. more in showing how an elaborate tree of re- pany co-founded by Mr. ical companies to be tested on Indians, without the res- But a new study led by University of Maryland geologists has clever programming could sponses to questions ran- Vempati and Ms. Aggarwal, ults coming in from the tests abroad. But clinical trials found new evidence that could date back more than 4.5 billion make computers — sans ging from “I’m feeling low makes. While Wysa is expli- in India have been accompanied by large-scale crimin- years. In a paper in the journal Science, that studied volcanic context and ‘intelligence’ — today” to the critical “I feel citly tuned to make people ality as doctors, officials and pharmaceutical compan- rocks from recently erupted volcanoes in Hawaii and Samoa, appear to have conversa- like killing myself.” feel better, Touchkin ies understand well enough that India is a cesspool of the researchers say they have found rocks that contain tions with people. To the former, Wysa doesn’t aim to ‘predict’ de- corruption where clearances can be had for a pittance. surprising geochemical anomalies — the “ingerprints” of Sample a conversation, coaxes you to “take a deep pression. The self-funded While there have been many cases since, the under- conditions that existed shortly after the planet formed. with a typical Eliza breath” or suggests some startup focusses on those belly of India’s clinical trial industry came to the spot- programme: easy-to-do muscle stretch- with conditions that aren’t light in 2005 when 3,300 patients were subjected to 90 Eliza: Please tell me ing and then prods you to directly connected to men- clinical trials that followed no protocols at a hospital in DEMYSTIFYING SCIENCE what’s been bothering you. reveal what’s upsetting you. tal health. Citing stats that Indore, Madhya Pradesh. In American law, such viola- You: Work Wysa can’t differentiate 30% of people with dia- tions automatically attract the criminal charge of bat- What is subduction? Eliza: I’m not sure I un- between those actually con- betes, and 40-50% of those tery. In India, the poor don’t count at all. derstand you fully. templating suicide or just suffering from cancer or Clinical trials ought to be done under calibrated stat- Subduction is a geological process that takes place at Screenshots of a chat * You: i can no longer con- being hyperbolic but will in- Parkinson’s, are depressed, utory regimes where — among other things — there is convergent boundaries of tectonic plates where one plate TOUCHKIN full disclosure to the patient undergoing the trial, the moves under another and is forced or sinks due to gravity into centrate stantly remind them that Ms. Aggarwal says that the right to withdraw at any stage without any con- the mantle. Regions where this process occurs are known as Eliza: Can you elaborate and academic research in they are talking to a bot and company has collaborated sequence, comprehensive medical insurance, meticu- subduction zones. Subduction zones occur all around the edge on that ? the domain of computer suggest a slew of counsel- with institutions such as of the Paciic Ocean, ofshore of the United States, Canada, And so on.. science but no headway in lors or therapists they Apollo to measure the ex- lous monitoring after administration of the drug for Alaska, Russia, Japan and Indonesia. These zones are Eliza can go on perpetu- the field of cognitive or be- should get in touch with. tent of additional benefits serious adverse effects, and free access to the drug for responsible for the world’s biggest earthquakes, the most ally and will diligently re- havioural therapy. The next day, the moment that Wysa offers. On con- the trial participants when it is cleared for commercial powerful tsunamis and some of the most explosive volcanic turn a sentence, no more, Circa 2017 , Bengaluru, Jo it senses your phone is act- cerns of privacy, Mr. Vem- use. Despite several crimes of enormous proportion eruptions. Looking at the ‘Paciic Ring of Fire’ reveals the link no less. Aggarwal and Ramakant ive, Wysa asks you “if pati says that people don’t where the poor are tested as guinea pigs, nothing has between subduction zones and volcanoes. Subduction is Weizenbaum soon real- Vempati, IIT-educated en- you’re feeling better.” require to divulge names ever been done. The patients continue to die or suffer responsible for forming the volcanic arcs that are home to some ised that people were gineers, who have had dec- “We cannot prescribe a and phone numbers to use severe adverse effects, monitoring is never done, com- of earth’s most dramatic geological events. A new study hooked on to his creation ades-long careers in con- course of action or replace the app. While it’s possible pensation is seldom paid, medical treatment is seldom published in the journal, Science Advances, changes our and would spend hours, sulting and management the therapist,” says Mr. to glean user location, it’s provided and prosecutions are the exceptions to the understanding of how volcanic arc lavas are formed and may even though fully aware ranging from London to Vempati. Still in the beta impossible to identify rule. have implications for the study of earthquakes and the risks of they were conversing with a Iraq, realised the Eliza phase, Wysa has had over people. volcanic eruption. The research team says the study’s indings soulless machine. could be a Do-A-Lot. With 30,000 downloads since its Colin Gonsalves is the founder of the Human Rights Law Network call for a re-evaluation of previously published data and a Eliza spawned many up- the advances in AI-research launch three months ago revision of concepts relating to subduction zone processes. grades, research projects and the connectivity made and 70% of its users outside [email protected] CM A ND-ND YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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K.C. Vijaya Kumar has been divided between fine legant prose that encapsu- performances on the field and the lates the retrospective gaze, Supreme Court interventions into Elingering on cricket, dwelling the BCCI’s administrative set-up. It ■ Born A Crime: Stories on its context and highlighting its is a fact that Menon acknowledges from a South African nuances, has been a consistent in his notes: “The BCCI chose the Childhood strength of the Wisden India Al- path of hubris rather than humil- Trevor Noah manack. In its fifth edition, the ity by kicking its heels in and do- Hachette tome delivers on those benching nothing. All this while the ₹799 marks. True to its editor Suresh team moved steadily towards the Through stories, the host of Menon’s desire to draw in multiple No. 1 ranking in Tests.” the popular Daily Show traces voices and perspectives, there are his journey from apartheid writers as diverse as Microsoft Women’s cricket South Africa to the U.S.. Born CEO Satya Nadella and classical An all-encompassing book of this to a White Swiss father and a ■ singer T.M. Krishna, gentlemen Wisden India Almanack 2017 nature hits the high notes when it Black Xhosa mother at a time split by professions but finding Edited by Suresh Menon delves into Indian women’s when such a union was common ground in their love for Bloomsbury cricket, a chapter that is often punishable in South Africa, the willow game. ₹699 overlooked in conventional re- Noah gives a moving account Besides the ‘outsiders’ that also porting. And for that the tome de- of his struggles and survival includes Shashi Tharoor, there is John Wright, the first overseas serves a hat-tip. against all odds. an array of fine cricket writers, coach to mentor the Indian team, Former India captain Shantha penning their thoughts with clar- gives his insider notes: “To get Rangaswamy in her recap of the ity, their love for both the game things to work inside a team, a formative years, writes: “Initially, and their language of expression— deep knowledge of the game is many thought women’s cricket English, so obvious. Starting with helpful, an understanding of who was a passing trend. They came to Menon and including R. Kaushik, is responsible for what is neces- watch us out of curiosity, but Sharda Ugra, Ayaz Memon, Harsha sary, and being able to trust each found the standards were pretty Bhogle, Sandeep Dwivedi, Dileep other is critical. As head coach I fa- good. The publicity we got from Premachandran, Anand Vasu, Sid- voured a small tight support group print media back then is more harth Monga and many more, the because sometimes getting out of Pitching it right: 'Cricket is like a wondrous Russian novel with plots and subplots played out over the course of than what the current lot gets.” discerning reader has enough to the way is more important than multiple acts.' In the picture, Virat Kohli leaps to ield in a recent match between India and Australia at Ranchi. The current flag-bearer of wo- read and savour across 860 pages. getting involved. A busload of * K.R. DEEPAK men’s cricket in India, Mithali Raj, There is the philosopher’s helpers becomes problematic.” recalls her 214, the then highest ■ India Dissents touch too and Simon Barnes in his catches your breath and makes afar, a dashing figure with a deep more to Ganguly than just the score in women’s Test history, Ashok Vajpeyi evocative essay writes: “What mat- Indo-Pak cricket you introspect. Sample this on voice and a walk that minimised rousing captain: “I have seen few against England at Taunton in Speaking Tiger Books ters in cricket is balance. It starts About India and Pakistan, where page 64, Ugra writes: “Within contact between feet and ground.” better timers of the cricket ball or 2002: “Those days, the set-up was ₹499 with the balance between bat and the twain between cricket and three years, the BCCI was looking And in his ‘Aesthetics of cricket,’ few clearing the straight boundar- very amateurish, and there was A collection of essays, ball—and these days that’s grot- politics does inexplicably meet, far beyond the 2013 scandal. It Krishna explains: “I believe cricket ies with greater ease.” Among the hardly any money involved. We articles, speeches and poems esquely skewed towards the bat- Tharoor weighs in: “Just as there is was fighting for the survival of its is a game of relationships, eleg- current crop, Virat Kohli, Shreyas were all very raw, but the India from texts ranging from the ters. It continues with the balance no certitude that periods of peace freemasonry of fiefdom.” In other antly bringing countless factors Iyer, Yasir Shah, Kusal Mendis, flag at the ground was a big Rig Veda to B.R. Ambedkar’s between one cricketing country will ever last, so too it is to be pages, Nadella pitches it perfectly: into its playing matrix. Every Mustafizur Rahman and David motivation.” Annihilation of Caste and another. After that you must hoped that the period of tension “Cricket for me is like a wondrous player is both an individual and a Warner were adjudged as ‘Crick- The Wisden India Almanack is a embodies the essential spirit strike a balance between the pur- we have experienced for over Russian novel with plots and sub- part of various clusters of eters of the Year.’ worthy ally for the cricket lover. In of dissent in Indian society. suit of money and the pursuit of eight years will also ebb. If normal- plots played out over the course of association.” It is just a reflection of the times these days of instant-fixes torn The edition also includes excellence. It’s all about soul. We ity comes, cricket might gradually multiple acts.” Or lose yourself in The book celebrates the greats we live in that Justice R.M. Lodha between Twitter and two-minute writings of a host of thinkers follow cricket because the game achieve a more reasonable place nostalgia when Kaushik in a fea- with Vinoo Mankad and Sourav gets the ‘Person of the Year’ title. noodles, a big fat book, into which from Mahatma Gandhi to has a soul. Sell it to the corporate in the national discourse between ture on the tenuous ties between Ganguly being inducted into the For all the romance that swirls you could dive in any time and de- Amartya Sen, promoting and you will end up with no soul.” the two countries.” cricketers and the media, remem- Wisden India Hall of Fame. around the game, its grimy under- rive pleasure from both cricket plurality in thoughts and With Anil Kumble stepping up The almanack is embellished bers his cricketing mentor M.L. V.V.S. Laxman rightly nudges us belly has a way of disturbing any and the written word, should be ideas. as national coach, it is apt that right through with the phrase that Jaisimha: “I had seen him from to recognise that there was much notions of utopia. Indian cricket cherished. Behind the spotlight The numbers don’t add up A journalist explains why the demonetisation drive hasn’t quite An intriguing tale of one of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s chief aides in helped in unearthing black money as expected Europe who was also close to Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi Kandaswami Subramanian money, corruption and coun- ■ The Genetics of Health Saradindu Mukherji e were puzzled over the terfeit currency. The gazette no- Sharad M. Paul here has been a big gap in the Wobjectives of demonetisa- tification issued did not include Simon and Schuster historiography of our freedom tion which changed from time corruption. Later, the stance ₹699 Tmovement, almost ignoring to time. Debates among ana- shifted from ‘no cash’ to ‘less the revolutionaries, especially lysts turned too bitter and con- cash’ and, soon enough, moved A doctor explains how those active abroad like Subhas tentious. Against this scenario, to one of driving the informal knowing one’s own genetic Chandra Bose, following the diktat we have a book by Rammano- economy into the ‘formal’ thor- makeup can help doctors of authorities and its willing accept- har Reddy which is a model of ough digitalisation. prescribe the right dosage of a drug, or provide ance by a pliant academia. restraint and lucid analysis. The treatment of ‘black preventable medical advice. After Romain Hayes’ Bose in Ger- The introductory part sets money and politics’ captures Knowledge of one’s own DNA many, Anuj Dhar’s India’s Biggest out the broad contours encom- the nexus between them which and ancestral line, he argues, ■ Cover-up, Purabi Roy’s The Search passing the demonetisation Demonetisation and Black results in our failure to curb it. can inform one’s decision on Money for Netaji: New Findings, Vappala process and successive As he adds, “…..political parties diet, stress management, and C. Rammanohar Reddy Balachandran, an intelligence of- chapters unfold them in fuller have a stake in the status quo.” what kind and how much Orient Blackswan ficer, offers us a fresh look with a detail. There are two contributions exercise is best for one’s body book on Arathil Candoth Naray- It begins with a survey of the ₹295 which deserve special mention: anan Nambiar, (1896-1986) Netaji's phenomenon of black money in one is about the RBI’s financial closest aide in Europe. Interest- India and explains the diffi- unlike in advanced countries, is strength; and the other is over ingly, Nambiar maintained excel- culties in identifying and estim- not illegal. It is wholly depend- its reputation. Reddy feels that lent relations with both Jawaharlal ating it. It observes that in re- ent on cash for wages and the RBI would get weakened Nehru and his daughter Indira. cent years black money is sustenance. The writer narrates with an extended balance sheet Based primarily on Nambiar’s generated in real estate, finan- their travails in detail drawing and low cash reserves as the oral transcripts and correspond- cial market transactions and on media reports. He laments, gains of monetisation, if any, ence, official records, exchange of Enigmatic ally: A.C.N. Nambiar (extreme right) with Netaji Subhas Chandra has led to corruption. “In the eagerness to snare the would be appropriated by the ideas and information with scholars Bose, in Prague. * THE HINDU ARCHIVES While cash plays a small and holders of black money, deep government. Many independ- and family members, Balachandran intermediating (white washing) pain was inflicted on the much ent observers critiqued that the worked diligently and systematic- ate in the 1940s. After Bose left on role, black money is mostly larger population of honest RBI’s reputation was dented. ally to throw new light on Nambiar his epic journey to South Asia, held as assets. Thus, a one-off citizens.” Reddy feels that though it may ■ Political Islam and the and his network. Nambiar was appointed by him to attack on cash would be of no The book studies the stated be dented, it’s ‘not beyond Arab Uprising Born in Kerala, Nambiar went to look after responsibilities in Ger- avail in unearthing it. On the objectives with clinical preci- repair.’ Fazzur Rahman Siddiqui France, before being asked to go to many, and his reports to Bose were contrary, it hurt millions of sion and narrates how they This book can serve as a Sage Publications Germany by Bose, when he arrived sent by German submarines. people, especially in rural changed quickly. For instance, primer for graduate students ₹995 there in 1941. After independence, areas, who are engaged in the the Prime Minister’s speech of and a guide for future This book traces the changing he was assigned a few diplomatic Friend of Indira informal sector in India which, November 8 included black policymakers. trajectory of Arab politics assignments in Europe by Jawa- Balachandran further says, “Over through the Arab uprising. It harlal Nehru, including an ambas- time it becomes clear that Nambiar raises—and tries to answer— sadorship to West Germany. Called was more than just a guardian and questions on whether there ‘Nanu’ by both Nehru and Indira, an avuncular figure to Indira—he can be reconciliation he was shifted to Delhi at her ur- became a friend and a confidante.” between post-Arab spring ■ Case histories ging, when she became Prime Min- A Life in Shadow: The Secret He found no correspondence politics and new Islamist ister. Why was it done? There is no Story of ACN Nambiar, A between the three (Bose, Nehru, In- forces in the West Asia clear answer to that. Forgotten Anti-Colonial Warrior dira) indicating any misgivings A reporter takes us through twists and turns as she probes one of region. It also explores the Vappala Balachandran about the assignment that Nambiar role of religion and discusses ‘Shadowy figure’ Roli Books undertook for Bose in Germany but the most chilling murder mysteries in recent Indian history the future of political Islam. For many, as Balachandran sug- ₹695 “... there is no doubt that Nehru gests, Nambiar remains a ‘shadowy was aware that Nambiar was associ- Ramakrishnan M. gendary Indian serial killers figure’, whose ‘activities’, move- (1959), says that Bose, who founded ated with Bose, as was in all likeli- oing against norms and and the underworld-Bollywood ments and political affiliations were the Indian Legion, was “greatly hood Indira.” Nambiar also told the Gjudging Front Page Murders nexus that proves that Max- obscured in secrecy. There is an- stimulated by accounts of the writer that Bose “felt that Nehru’s by its cover, there seems to be a imum City can dole out max- other issue lurking in the back- Czechoslovak and Polish Legion,” pro-British attitude could be a prob- Sherlockian tribute in the way imum misery if one isn’t cir- ground—on whether Nambiar who and repeatedly compliments Bose’s lem.” Bose was, indeed, proved ‘Murders’ is scrawled across on cumspect enough. had ‘rubbed shoulders with kings, “unique enterprise in the whole right. it—much like the way Holmes As for the main story, the de- democrats, dictators, journalists, history of Indian struggle for inde- After Sanjay Gandhi’s tragic finds the word ‘Rache’ (German tailing is incredible but isn’t political activists and revolutionar- pendence... whose extraordinary death, Indira ‘mystified’ him by say- for revenge) written in blood on chiselled to perfection. Like a ies in Europe’ was a ‘spy’. The activities in Europe” happens to be ing, “What is worse is that some of a wall in his very first case in A typical whodunit, there are a writer calls him a ‘truly enigmatic the “the first and the last of their those who had, and have, no Study in Scarlet. multitude of characters—there’s figure, who kept to himself.’ kind in the history of the political foothold are now trying to stage a Perhaps there’s an oblique Palande (with two aliases) ■ Green growth: Ideology, Some personal details came to struggle of India.” comeback.” Rajiv Gandhi, however, hat-tip in the style of narration ■ The Front Page Murders everyone is searching for along Political Economy and light through intercepted letters Nambiar took an anti-Nazi stand, remained aloof from Nambiar. too. The author, Puja Changoi- Puja Changoiwala with the body of his victim, the Alternatives when Balachandran was able to ac- and was arrested for his alleged in- Another mystery remains, sur- wala, has meticulously trans- Hachette India Karan Kakkad; there are two as- Gareth Dale, Manu V. cess intelligence and surveillance volvement in the burning of the rounding Netaji’s disappearance. formed her detailed notes from ₹350 sociates, a lover, a German wife, Mathai, Jose A. Puppim de reports of the Bombay Special Reichstag building in Berlin in Feb- There is not a hint on what Nambiar her reporter’s notebook into di- film celebrities, gangsters in Oliveira Branch. ruary 1933, along with Chatto, who may have known, or Balachandran ary-like entries, taking us along But, as you might guess, it’s just Thailand, aspiring actors and Aakar Books Nambiar had worked with had introduced him to Comrade himself had gathered, about Bose’s each step of her investigation the tip of the iceberg. their families (who come with ₹595 Govind Talwalkar and N.G. Ganpu- Menkes, the TASS correspondent in whereabouts after August 18, 1945. into one of the most chilling The build-up is slow and plot their own backstories) and of In the face of ecological ley, who had set up the Hindustan Berlin. The TAAS was ‘one of the The Mukherji Commission con- murder cases in recent Indian twists are planted carefully at course, policemen. You can’t challenges, the ‘green House in Berlin. Married to Suhas- main sources of receiving informa- firmed that the alleged air crash history. the end of each chapter, mostly help ask whether a good chunk growth’ movement has ini (sister of Sarojini Naidu) Chatto- tion about India and supplying it to never happened. Set in Mumbai, Front Page coming from the perspective of actually deserved their exten- gained momentum. This padhaya, he was closely associated the USSR.’ (Roy). May be, we have to wait for the Murders is a journalist’s account a print newsroom. ded cameos. collection explains why with Virendranath Chatttopadhaya In 1933, Nambiar had to leave unearthing of the Nehru/Indira cor- of the infamous serial killings Several chapters have speed- This overstuffing perhaps is modern society is invested in (Chatto), the brother of his wife, Germany and went to Prague while respondence with their dear ‘Nanu’ attributed to Vijay Palande in breakers, topics that are tan- the book’s undoing. We don’t it, unravels the and convinced Girija Kumar Chatto travelled to Moscow. Main- or some other ‘top secret’ files. Did 2012. Changoiwala recounts the gential to the main story but of- get the gripping story that we contradictions in green Mookerjee to join the Free India taining his ‘active relations with the he know the truth? travails faced by members of fer great behind-the-scenes on deserve. It is as if the author growth projects, weighs the Centre in Berlin that Bose was set- Third International,’ Nambiar Should we then assume, that her profession and the police law and order: custodial torture wanted to put us all through the merits and demerits of ting up. provided all help to Bose in his ex- Nambiar, once the most trusted while solving the gruesome techniques, police-informer re- same frustrations she went alternative strategies, and Nambiar, in his foreword to N.G. cellent networking efforts in the aide of Netaji, became a changed murder of an elderly gentleman lationships and how they back- through as a journalist while raises a vital question: ‘If not Ganpuley’s, Netaji in Germany 1930s, that helped Bose to consolid- man after 1945? in a posh residential colony. fire, brief profiles of several le- piecing reports together. green growth, then what?’ CM A ND-ND YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

THE HINDU NOIDA/DELHI SUNDAY, APRIL 9, 2017 SPORT 17 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF Maxwell leads Kings home in style Lynn-tastic threat Stokes and Tiwary lend some respectability to Supergiant’s score, but not enough looms over MI

S. Dinakar Indore Knight Riders will look to push on Glenn Maxwell proved the from their near-perfect start maximum player for his A pre-planned move team at the Holkar Stadium Amol Karhadkar that paid off here on Saturday. MUMBAI RAJKOT He read the flow of the As Kolkata Knight Riders Kolkata Knight Riders’ vice- game superbly and then de- and Gujarat Lions boarded a captain Suryakumar Yadav livered the decisive blows flight from Rajkot on Sat- said that skipper Gautam with the bat. As skipper, he urday afternoon, it wasn’t Gambhir had a big role in made all the right moves for surprising to see the Knight promoting Chris Lynn up the Kings XI Punjab. Riders were the chirpier lot. order. Lynn smashed 93 off In the first half of the While the pall of Chris 41 balls and Gambhir hit 76 game, Maxwell opted to Lynn and Gautam Gamb- off 48 balls to set up a chase, rung in the bowling hir’s onslaught didn’t make 10-wicket victory over changes capably, and it a memorable journey to- Gujarat Lions which scored smartly had a left-arm spin- wards Hyderabad for Lions, 183 for four. Major ner operating when M.S. Knight Riders revelled in contributers for Lions being Dhoni batted. their openers’ record-break- Suresh Raina 68 (51b) and In the chase, Maxwell ing display. Dinesh Karthik 47 (25b). cleverly held himself and Lynn, the king of Friday “From the time Chis Lynn David Miller back, promoted night, preferred to rest joined the KKR camp in Axar Patel, and got some along with most of his over- Kolkata, the skipper told him handy runs from him. seas journeymen during the that he would be opening the When it really mattered, hour-long flight, even as innings. So it wasn’t an he and Miller launched into captain Gautam Gambhir instinctive decision but a the Rising Pune Supergiant joined the younger group in Rohit Sharma * VIVEK BENDRE pre-planned move,” Surya attack. The explosive right- a game of cards. said. PTI left combination powered While the game of black- veteran Lasith Malinga and jack had to be abruptly hal- newbie Asela Gunaratne Rayudu ruled out Kings XI home. ted with the descend to- have joined the squad after for 10 days Maxwell, the quintessen- tial impact player, shone wards Mumbai, Gambhir’s finishing their national du- MUMBAI bright under evening flood- Maximum mileage: Kings XI Punjab skipper Glenn Maxwell got everything right in the chase of 164. * AFP gunners will look to con- ties. A groin injury has ruled out lights with his unbeaten 20- tinue their near-perfect start Ambati Rayudu from MI’s ball 44. M.S. Dhoni, caught in two and Manoj Tiwary (40 not bat-speed, thumped a few to their IPL campaign Malinga boost IPL10 matches for ten days. IPL-10 Pursuing 164 on a surface minds, knocked back a out) launched a counter-at- through the gaps. It seemed against Mumbai Indians on Malinga’s presence will He suffered the injury during with some grass and bounce, flighted one from Swapnil tack. Stokes, his back-lift a combative score but Kings Sunday night. boost the MI’s prospects of MI’s first match against Kings XI defeated the strong peared threatening, foxing Singh. Dhoni has had his flourishing, bludgeoned a XI and Maxwell put their foot The spinners came good death bowling, which even- Rising Pune Supergiant. Supergiant by six wickets in Wriddhiman Saha with a share of troubles against left- few stunning blows. Tiwary, on the accelerator in the fi- and the calculated gamble tually resulted in its nail-bit- “Rayudu has had a scan. He’s this engaging IPL game. googly and setting out on his arm spin. Ben Stokes (50) with his quick hands and nal stretch. of promoting to Lynn to the ing loss in Pune. got a grade 1 small tear. We’ll There was only one way war dance. top of the batting order It would be interesting to assess him after about 7-8 the match was going to end Then, Maxwell and Miller worked wonders. see if Mumbai Indians draft days. Then he’ll start some SCOREBOARD KINGS XI PUNJAB VS RISING PUNE SUPERGIANT when Maxwell rocked back took the game away from The coaching staff — con- Malinga into the eleven casual rehabilitation and to pull Imran Tahir for a six Smith and Supergiant. Rising Pune Supergiant: 11.2), 5-132 (Stokes, 17.3), 6-162 (27b, 1x4, 2x6); Extras (lb-1, sisting of head coach straightaway. If coach Ma- training. We just want to over mid-wicket and then Earlier, Mayank Agarwal Ajinkya Rahane c Stoinis b Nata- (Christian, 19.5). w-9): 10; Total (for four wkts in Jacques Kallis, assistant hela Jayawardene opts for it, monitor him and see how dismissed the next ball in the was done in by an in-swinger rajan 19 (15b, 1x4, 1x6), Mayank 19 overs): 164. coaches Simon Katich and it may result in Kiwi Tim best we could get him back in Kings XI Punjab bowling: same direction over the from Sandeep Sharma, who Agarwal b Sandeep 0 (4b), L. Balaji and performance Southee being benched playing condition,’’ said Sandeep Sharma 4-0-33-2, Mo- Fall of wickets: 1-27 (Vohra, ropes. bowled wicket-to-wicket and Steve Smith c Vohra b Stoinis analyst A.R. Srikkanth — after an expensive spell in Mahela Jayawardene. hit Sharma 4-0-34-0, Axar Pa- 2.5), 2-49 (Saha, 5.2), 3-83 Maxwell versus leg-spin- altered his pace. 26 (27b, 3x4), Ben Stokes c & b tel 4-0-27-1, T. Natarajan 3-0- (Amla, 10.4), 4-85 (Axar, 11.1). suggested the move was the first match. ner Tahir was a key duel The nippy left-armer T. Axar 50 (32b, 2x4, 3x6), M.S. wholeheartedly backed by The onus will be on Rohit IPL SCHEDULE 26-1, Marcus Stoinis 3-0-28-1, Supergiant bowling: Ashoke within the larger battle and Natarajan, living a dream, Dhoni c & b Swapnil 5 (11b), Swapnil Singh 2-0-14-1. Gambhir. to hold the innings together. Manoj Tiwary (not out) 40 (23b, Dinda 3-0-26-1, Daniel Chris- SUNRISERS HYDERA- the Aussie clinched it. In- made an immediate impres- Kings XI Punjab: Hashim Amla c If Lynn and Gambhir con- He could hardly contribute 3x4, 2x6), Daniel Christian c tian 2-0-24-0, Ben Stokes 4-0- BAD V GUJARAT LIONS, deed, Kings XI and Maxwell sion on his IPL debut, taking Stokes b Chahar 28 (27b, 2x4, tinue their antics at to his team’s cause with the Maxwell b Sandeep 17 (8b, 2x4, 32-0, Tahir 4-0-29-2, Rahul Sony ESPN, Sony Six, Sony won the key moments. out Ajinkya Rahane with a 1x6), Manan Vohra c Tiwary b Wankhede, Mumbai Indians bat on his return to top- 1x6), Rajat Bhatia (not out) 0 Chahar 4-0-32-1, Rajat Bhatia Max (SD & HD), 4 p.m. Maxwell tactically up- delivery outside off. Dinda 14 (9b, 1x4, 1x6), would be hard-pressed to flight cricket after a pro- (0b); Extras (lb-1, w-5): 6; Total 2-0-20-0. staged his Australia skipper Smith appeared in omin- Wriddhiman Saha b Tahir 14 open its points tally.Rohit longed injury layoff. He MUMBAI INDIANS V (for six wkts in 20 overs): 163. Toss: Kings XI. KOLKATA KNIGHT Steve Smith. When Maxwell ous touch — a straight drive (9b, 3x4), Axar Patel c & b Tahir Sharma’s boys had a reason couldn’t ask for a better RIDERS, Sony ESPN, Sony and Miller (30 not out) cut screamed past Natarajan — Fall of wickets: 1-1 (Agarwal, 24 (22b, 1x4, 1x6), Glenn Max- Man-of-the-Match: Maxwell. to rejoice and an injury con- stage to explode with the Six, Sony Max (SD & HD), 8 loose, Smith appeared to run before being held at deep 0.5 overs), 2-36 (Rahane, 6.2), well (not out) 44 (20b, 2x4, Kings XI won by six wickets cern ahead of the game. willow and make it a happy p.m. out of ideas. Tahir had ap- square-leg off Stoinis. 3-49 (Smith, 8.1), 4-71 (Dhoni, 4x6), David Miller (not out) 30 with six balls to spare The Sri Lankan duo of weekend for the MI Paltan. Can Lions stop formidable Sunrisers? ‘Benching Harbhajan tactical move’ Acid test awaits Gujarat’s bowlers as they are up against a red-hot batting line-up We made a couple of mistakes on the ield, says MI coach Jayawardene

V.V. Subrahmanyam daunting task. The pitch ap- G. Viswanath the IPL, taken 119 wickets, dropped in the way that you wickets off pretty straight HYDERABAD pears to be another perfect Mumbai and figured in 71 wins out of want me to say it. Just that it balls, I think we were in the one, full of runs. Mumbai Indians head coach the 80. was a tactical decision.’’ game; tactically we got it The mood is upbeat in the In bowling, leggie Rashid Mahela Jayawardene ex- But the former Sri Lankan When asked if the tactics right. We thought 184 was Sunrisers Hyderabad camp Khan of Afghanistan brings plained that off spinner Har- captain who has replaced proved wrong Jayawardene quite a high score on that on the eve of its match in the desired variety after bhajan Singh was not Ricky Ponting said: “Bhajji clarified: “Not really. When venue. They batted really against Gujarat Lions at the his impressive IPL debut “dropped’’ from Mumbai In- wasn’t dropped. It was just a you look at their (RPS) line- well to get that. Rajiv Gandhi Stadium here in against RCB taking two cru- dians first VIVO IPL10 league question of combination. up, they had eight right- “We made couple of mis- Sunday’s first game. cial wickets. match against Rising Pune Tactically we decided that in handers in the top 10 except takes on the field; Steve And, captain David “It is difficult to pick his Supergiant on Thursday. The the first game, given the op- for Ben Stokes. Smith was dropped when he Warner would love to keep googly because he is very two time champion lost the position; that’s the way we “We still had Nitesh was on 36. So that’s probably the momentum going. quick through the air,” says match by seven wickets. wanted to go. (Rana) in our line-up who where things didn’t go our “It (contest) should be a teammate and allrounder Harbhajan Singh has been “It was as simple as that. I could bowl. Given that it was way. But I think tactically we good one. Day games are al- Mohammad Nabi. MI’s leading wicket taker thought we played a very a green wicket and that they played the game pretty ways hard to cope with. For With pace in the trusted after Lasith Malinga’s 143 good game given the fact had two leg-spinners, one of much the way we wanted. the last game, the wicket was hands of Ashish Nehra and scalps. He’s played 125 of the that what they had to offer. whom went for runs and the Just couldn’t get over the exceptional. We will have to Bhuvneshwar Kumar backed 140 matches MI has played in But definitely, Bhajji was not other (Imran Tahir) took line.’’ see how it will be for this by Henriques and all- game and work out a rounder Ben Cutting, the strategy accordingly,” said spinners always have the Warner ahead of the clash. liberty to attack. If confidence and body On the other hand, it will Jadhav comes to RCB’s rescue language are any hints, SRH be interesting to see how is on a high. Lions, without the services Smashes 26-ball half-century to help revive a lagging innings The best part being the of the injured Ravindra form of the big three — Jadeja and Dwayne Bravo, re- Shreedutta Chidananda opener Shikhar Dhawan, covers in time from the drub- Bengaluru Moises Henriques and Yuvraj bing it received at the hands Kedar Jadhav smashed a 26- The X-factor: Rashid Khan lends variety to the bowling attack Singh. If Warner also scores of Kolkata Knight Riders at ball half-century, but Royal giving it the perfect balance * K.R. DEEPAK big, the opposition has a Rajkot. Challengers Bangalore could only manage a modest 157 for eight in its 20 overs against Delhi Daredevils at the M. Chinnaswamy Sta- Will the BCCI nominate N. Srinivasan? dium here on Saturday. G. Viswanath Sources revealed that a According to BCCI offi- would not have any issue in The little Maharashtra Mumbai large number of full mem- cials, Srinivasan met former the event of the BCCI SGM batsman made 69 (37b), a There was a lot of activity be- bers were unhappy with DDCA president and Union nominating Amitabh Chaud- knock that featured five fore the BCCI’s requisitioned Srinivasan’s name being pro- Finance Minister Arun Jaitley hary (jt. secretary, BCCI) and fours and five remarkable Special General Meeting posed as it was because of to ascertain his views on the Anirudh Chaudhry (treas- sixes. (SGM) in New Delhi on him that the BCCI was in this ICC matter. urer, BCCI). His effort, and his part- Sunday and, speculation plight and that he stands dis- The Committee of Admin- The CoA has nominated nership of 66 (38b) for the about former BCCI President qualified on various counts istrators (CoA) has appar- the BCCI CEO Rahul Johri to fourth wicket with Stuart N. Srinivasan being nomin- as per the Supreme Court or- ently conveyed to the BCCI attend the SGM, but it’s not Binny, revived RCB's flagging ated to the ICC Board. der of January 2, 2017. officer-bearers that they known if he would do so. innings in what was its first home game of the season. Having elected to bat, the host lost Chris Gayle early. Virat Kohli and A.B. de Villi- Timely knock: RCB was in a spot of bother when Kedar Jadhav stepped up to the plate. Jason Mohammed stars in West Indies’ win ers were yet to recover from * K. BHAGYA PRAKASH their injuries and missed Agence France-Presse the first time ever following Indies out of the match on a porarily quell the rising tide DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Providence 31 previous failed attempts relaid pitch that encouraged of criticism at his position in out, as Shane Watson contin- SCOREBOARD ROYAL CHALLENGERS VS DELHI DAREDEVILS Jason Mohammed played the over a 44-year period. attacking strokeplay. the batting line-up ahead of ued to lead the side. RCB posts win RCB made four changes in finest innings of his brief in- With that weight of his- Mohammed Hafeez led prolific young batsman B Royal Challengers Bangalore: wickets in 20 overs): 157. all, bringing in Pawan Negi, Host holds its nerve to ternational career to pace tory against it, Pakistan the tourists’ batting effort Babar Azam. But it wasn’t clinch a 15-run win Chris Gayle c Samson b Morris 6 the West Indies to a historic looked to have put the West with a top score of 88 to tem- enough for Pakistan. Iqbal Abdulla, Billy Stanlake (8b, 1x4), Shane Watson st Pant Fall of wickets: 1-26 (Gayle, four-wicket victory over and Vishnu Vinod — signed B Rishabh Pant makes a brave b Nadeem 24 (24b, 4x4), 3.2), 2-41 (Mandeep, 5.5), 3-55 as a replacement for K.L. half-century for Delhi (Watson, 8.4), 4-121 (Binny, Pakistan in the opening One- SCOREBOARD WEST INDIES VS PAKISTAN 1ST ODI Mandeep Singh b Cummins 12 Day International at the Na- Rahul — for S. Arvind, Aniket DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD (10b, 3x4), Kedar Jadhav c Mor- 14.6), 5-142 (Vishnu, 16.4), 6- tional Stadium in Guyana on Choudhary, Travis Head and ris b Zaheer 69 (37b, 5x4, 5x6), 142 (Jadhav, 16.6), 7-157 (Negi, Pakistan: Ahmed Shehzad b 10-1-49-0, Gabriel 10-0-69-0, nb-1): 20; Total (for six wkts in Sachin Baby. RCB to 55 for three, a none- Stuart Binny c Billings b Zaheer 19.3), 8-157 (Mills19.6). Friday. Nurse 67, Kamran Akmal c J. Mohammed 4-1-28-0, Holder 49 overs) 309. Watson promoted himself too-healthy position to be in. 16 (18b, 1x4), Vishnu Vinod run Set a daunting target after Walton b Holder 47, Md. Hafeez 10-0-58-1, Nurse 10-0-62-4, Fall of wickets: 1-23, 2-91, 3- Delhi Daredevils bowling: Za- up to open, and wasted little Step forward Jadhav. He out 9 (5b, 1x6), Pawan Negi b the visitors rattled up a for- c Walton b Nurse 88, Babar Bishoo 6-0-36-0. 156, 4-158, 5-228, 6-259. heer Khan 4-0-31-2, Chris Mor- time, striking four boundar- stunned Amit Mishra, club- Morris 10 (8b, 1x6), Iqbal Ab- midable 308 for five, Mo- Azam c Joseph b Nurse 13, West Indies: E. Lewis b Hafeez Pakistan bowling: Amir 9-0- ris 4-0-21-3, Pat Cummins 4-0- ies. He was stumped for 24, bing 24 runs off the 13th dulla (not out) 5 (7b), Tymal hammed’s blistering un- Shoaib Malik c Holder b Nurse 47, C. Walton c Riaz b Amir 7, K. 59-2, Hasan Ali 5-0-43-0, Md. 29-1, Shahbaz Nadeem 4-0- however, teased out of his over, featuring two mighty Mills b Morris 0 (3b); Extras beaten 91 off just 58 53, Sarfraz Ahmed (not out) 20, Powell c Akmal b Riaz 61, S. Hafeez 8-0-35-1, Shoaib Malik 13-1, Amit Mishra 2-0-32-0, (lb-2, w-4): 6; Total (for eight deliveries, aided by an ex- Imad Wasim (not out) 6, Extras Hope st Sarfraz Ahmed b 6-0-24-0, Wahab Riaz 9-0- crease by the excellent Shah- swats over long-on. Carlos Brathwaite 2-0-29-0. plosive cameo at the end (b-3, lb-3, w-7, nb-1): 14; Total Shadab Khan 24, J. Mohammed 69-1, Shadab Khan 9-0-52-2, baz Nadeem. The left-arm Carlos Brathwaite then got from Ashley Nurse (34 off 15 (for five wkts in 50 overs) 308. (not out) 91, J. Carter c Riaz b Imad Wasim 3-0-21-0. spinner finished with figures the treatment: first an in- Jadhav fell to a slower de- managed 15 runs in the last balls), saw the home side Fall of wickets: 1-85, 2-149, 3- Amir 14, J. Holder c Azam b WI won by four wickets. of one for 13, finishing his side-out six and later a stun- livery from Zaheer Khan, three overs, while Chris Mor- successfully chasing a target 177, 4-266, 5-284. Shadab Khan 11, A. Nurse (not Man-of-the-Match: quota with the 11th over. ning tee-shot that sailed over and all of a sudden the run- ris finished with figures of of 300 or more in an ODI for West Indies bowling: Joseph out) 34, Extras (lb-6, w-13, J.Mohammed. Watson's exit reduced the sightscreen. flow was choked. RCB only three for 21. CM A ND-ND YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

NOIDA/DELHI THE HINDU 18 SPORT SUNDAY, APRIL 9, 2017 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF Must-win game Saurav, Garcia, Fowler among Joshna to for both teams lead Indian leaders in four-way gridlock challenge Bagan has the edge over East Bengal Sports Reporter Younis Khan to retire Several big names lurk within striking distance, setting up an exciting Sunday Amitabha Das Sharma I-LEAGUE CHENNAI after Windies series Siliguri Saurav Ghosal and Joshna KARACHI Agencies The oldest rivals of Indian Chinappa will lead India’s when he goes to plan the Veteran Pakistan cricketer Augusta football — Mohun Bagan and challenge in the Asian strategy ahead for the ‘big’ and former captain Younis Spain's Sergio Garcia, win- East Bengal —look at differ- squash championship to be encounter. Khan announced on Saturday less in 73 major starts, joined ing performance graphs held here from April 26-30. he will retire from the game Rickie Fowler, Charley Hoff- when the two relive their If Sen chooses to retain The squads: Men: Vikram after the upcoming Test man and Thomas Pieters in on-field hostility in an I- the side that won against Malhotra, Mahesh series in the West Indies. “I the biggest 36-hole Masters League fixture here at the Bengaluru, Scotsman Darryl Mangaonkar, Harinder Pal will be retiring from leader logjam since 1973 at Kanchenjungha Stadium on Duffy will the lead line with Sandhu, Velavan Senthilku- international cricket after the blustery Augusta National on Sunday evening. the combination of Japanese mar, and Aditya Jagtap. Wo- West Indies series,” the Friday. The alignment ahead of Katsumi Yusa and Haitian men: Dipika Pallikal, Sachika batsman said. AFP A second day of high the continent’s oldest foot- Sony Norde propping up the Ingale, Akanksha Salunkhe, winds left the top pack — all ball ‘derby’ sets Mohun assault from the wings. Sunayna Kuruvilla, and R. Aditya, Gilbert off to seeking a first major win — Bagan slightly ahead on Bagan also has two Indian Lakshya. winning start level on four-under par 140 form as it sought to continue strikers Balwant Singh and SEPANG through two rounds. the momentum gained with Jeje Lalpekhlua to look at if Aditya Patel and his “It was going to be try and a 3-0 win over defending Sen sees the needs to Impressive Australian teammate Mitch hang on and make sure you champion Bengaluru FC in change the attack strategy. Gilbert got off to a winning didn't play yourself out of its previous outing (on April East Bengal has some win for CCFC start at the inaugural the tournament with scoring 1). doubts in the attack espe- Blancpain GT Series Asia Race cially with Haitian Wedson conditions coming this week- In contrast East Bengal IANS at Sepang in Malaysia on Anselme and Robin Singh end,” Fowler said. finds itself on sticky turf Ludhiana Saturday. Gilbert put in a top A host of big names — in- having lost back to back appearing doubtful starters performance to qualify on ahead of the match. Chennai City FC rode on cluding second-ranked Rory matches. goals from M. Soosairaj and pole position earlier in the East Bengal’s English McIlroy, reigning Olympic The traditional rivals Charles De Souza to get day, setting a laptime of coach Trevor Morgan will champion Justin Rose and figured in a goalless affair in past Minerva Punjab FC 2.04.1 seconds. have some equations to past Masters winners Adam their meeting in the first 2-0 in an I-League football work out in absence of the Scott, Phil Mickelson and phase of the tournament at encounter here on Rakesh & Ajeet lose Surging on: Sergio Garcia of Spain plays a shot on the 12th hole during the second round of the two having to depend on Jordan Spieth — lurk within the same venue on February Saturday. NEW DELHI * Trinidad and Tobago’s Willis five strokes, setting up a Masters tournament. AFP 12. The results: Chennai City FC 2 Rakesh Kohli and Ajeet Plaza and Australian Chris- mouth-watering showdown East Bengal is placed (Soosairak 41, Charles 90+2). Bhardwaj were beaten 6-1, topher Payne in the forma- in calmer conditions. made a lot of great putts.” US MASTERS could become the first Mas- second with 27 points from At Mumbai: Mumbai FC 0 6-2 by top seeds Marco “I'm excited about the America's eighth-ranked ters debutante winner since 14 matches while Mohun tion. drew with Churchill Brothers Catelli of Italy and Frank challenges that this weekend Fowler eagled the par-5 1979. Bagan is third with 26 points Given the strengths in the 0. Etzold of Israel in the Over-55 is going to bring, and hope- second, sinking a bunker Americans Mickelson and In all, 53 players made the from 13 matches. two sides the ‘Derby’ has al- At Pune: DSK Shivajians 2 doubles final of the ITF fully I'll step up to them and shot, and added four birdies Spieth and Australia's Scott cut at 150, the ousted includ- Mohun Bagan coach San- ways been a battle of nerves (Milan Singh 58, Bhumji 63) seniors grade-A tennis I'll be able to be up there on against a lone bogey to fire were on level par 144. ing England's Danny Willett, joy Sen will be taking inspir- and the team managing the lost to Shillong Lajong 3 championship in Antalya, Sunday with a solid chance the day's low round of five- Five-time major champion the first defending champion ation from this slight edge in pressure better will walk (Vanmalsawma 14, Lalmuan- Turkey. at winning,” Garcia said. under par 67. Phil Mickelson would be- to miss the Masters weekend the performance graph away as the winner. puia 53, Tlang 90). The result: Men: Over-55: Not since a storm-struck Belgium's Pieters, trying come the oldest winner in since Canada's Mike Weir in Doubles (final): Marco Catelli Masters 44 years ago ended to become the first Masters Masters history two months 2004. (Ita) & Frank Etzold (Isr) bt in a Monday finish had so debutante since 1979 to win before his 47th birthday by Top scores: Second round: Ajeet Bhardwaj & Rakesh many people shared the mid- the green jacket, eagled the taking his fourth green 140: Thomas Pieters (Belgium) Kohli 6-1, 6-2. Should groom Jr. WC way lead. par-5 13th and opened with jacket. (72-68), Rickie Fowler (U.S.) Garcia, who hopes to end his lone bogey, shot 68. “I'm in a good spot head- (73-67), Charley Hoffman (U.S.) Dav Whatmore is his major drought on Sunday Hoffman, who opened ing into the weekend. I'm (65-75), Sergio Garcia (Spain) Kerala Ranji coach on what would have been with a 65 to claim the biggest playing well,” Mickelson (71-69). winners for Tokyo: Sandeep KOCHI the 60th birthday of the late 18-hole Masters edge since said. 142: William McGirt (U.S.) (69- Dav Whatmore on Saturday icon Seve Ballesteros, 1955, made five bogeys in six “And I'm very optimistic 73). took over as the coach of the opened with three birdies holes but the American bird- I'm going to make a good 143: Justin Rose (Britain) (71- ‘Penalty corner specialists need to improve conversion rate’ Kerala cricket team for a and played even from there ied 13 and parred in from run.” 72), Ryan Moore (U.S.) (74-69), Y.B. Sarangi period of six months. to stake his claim to the top. there to cling to a share of Northern Irishman McIl- Fred Couples (U.S.) (73-70), Jon the goalkeepers well. We KHUNTI (JHARKHAND) The 63-year-old former first. roy, a four-time major cham- Rahm (Spain) (73- 70). have got so many drag-flick- Aussie national cricketer, in Great putts American William McGirt pion trying to complete a ca- 144: Adam Scott (Aus) (75-69), Sandeep Singh may have ers. But if we don't have two his tenure as a coach, turned “These first two rounds are stood two adrift in fifth on reer Grand Slam by winning Jordan Spieth (U.S.) (75-69), taken a break from playing top flickers, there is no use. out to be hugely successful probably the best I've ever 142 with Spain's Jon Rahm, the Masters, closed with a Phil Mickelson (U.S.) (71-73). competitive hockey, but the “If you take into account for Sri Lanka which won the played at Augusta,” Garcia England's Rose and Americ- bogey to shoot 73 on Friday. 145: Matt Kuchar (U.S.) (72-73), two-time Olympian has been the conversion rate of four World Cup under his said. ans Fred Couples and Ryan Rahm, 22, won at Torrey Soren Kjeldsen (Den) (72-73), keeping an eye on the pro- current drag-flickers, it is IANS gress of the Indian team and less than 15 per cent. In the guidance in 1996. “I feel like I played great. I Moore on 143. Pines to reach Augusta and Rory McIlroy (Britain) (72-73). Sandeep. * MANOB CHOWDHURY feels members of the Junior HIL, it is less than seven per World Cup-winning squad tion here on Saturday. cent. Drag-flickers have should be groomed for the Sandeep said a player like scored three or four times National javelin coach 2020 Tokyo Olympics. midfielder Harjeet Singh, out of 30 to 35 attempts. Sussex Pride wins Sandeep, who is presently the Junior team captain, de- “My maximum was 75 per working as a consultant with served more exposure. “Har- cent and minimum was 35 Garry Calvert resigns Tata Trusts to promote jeet should follow in the per cent. Even in the (2012) Blazing Saddles Million grassroots hockey in footsteps of Manpreet Olympics, which I rate as Jharkhand, said India should (Singh), who has improved a one of my ordinary perform- No acknowledgement from SAI or AFI give more exposure to the lot over the years. If Harjeet ances, I achieved 35 per MUMBAI: Mr. Ketan R. Mehta’s Rs. 139. Favourite: Brabourne. Sunil S. Majithia. Trainer: Imtiaz younger lot. “I believe rather gives a good chase to Man- Shreedutta Chidananda Sussex Pride, ridden by Akash Owners: Mr. Christopher John, Sait. cent” claimed the 31-year- Agarwal, claimed the Blazing Dr. Earnest J John II, M/s. Dean than paying too much atten- preet, then a healthy com- old. Bengaluru ARISTOS PLATE (1,200m), Cl. Saddles Million, the chief event of John II, M/s. Dean John & Kishore tion to the Asian Games and petition will bring out the The National javelin coach Saturday’s (April 8) evening races. 7 V, rated 1 to 26: QUEEN RIA (S. Sandeep bantered his fel- P. Rungta. Trainer: Vinesh. the Commonwealth Games, best in both of them.” Garry Calvert, who was in- Subhag Singh trains the winner. Amit) 1, Samurai ( Jaykumar) 2, low flickers while lending a STYLECRACKER JUVENILE Rich N Rare (Kuldeep) 3 and we should focus on the strumental in Neeraj Chop- H.R. SHANTIDAS TROPHY A well-known drag-flicker, piece of advice to them. 4 GOLD CUP (1,400m), Maiden Alyaties (Ayyar) 4. Not run: Dec- Olympics. ra’s historic triumph at the 1 (2,000m), rated 53 to 79: MUL- 3-y-o only: TURNING POINT (Ak- can King. 1-1/4, Lnk, 3-1/4. 1m Sandeep said the current “The main job is to read the TIGLORY (Trevor) 1, Raees (C.S. shay Kumar) 1, Admo ( J. Chinoy) 12.70s. Rs. 20 (w), 11, 12, 15 (p). The young generation, crop of penalty corner spe- goalkeeper and how the de- Under-20 World champion- Jodha) 2 and Caesars Star (Parbat) 2, Baby Face (N. Rawal) 3 and SHP: Rs. 27, FP: Rs. 46, Q: Rs. 17, which has won the Junior cialists needed to improve fenders rush out. They ships last year, has resigned. 3. 3-1/4, 8-1/2. 2m 5.97s. Rs. 21 (w), Towering Storm (C.S. Jodha) 4. 2- Tanala: Rs. 77 and Rs. 52. Favour- 13 and 10 (p). SHP: Rs. 27, FP: Rs. 1/2, 1, 2-1/4. 1m 24.94s. Rs. 29 (w), ite: Queen Ria. Owners: Mr. Niraj World Cup, is really doing their conversion rate. “I should focus more on drag- The Australian had been 23, Q: Rs. 10, Tanala: Rs. 90 and 12, 13 and 71 (p). SHP: Rs. 34, FP: Tyagi and Mr. Vikas Sachdeva well. We should groom them have seen all the Hockey In- flicking than spending time seeking an extension to his Rs. 60.(NOTE: In this race, Sabiq Rs. 38, Q: Rs. 18, Tanala: Rs. 1,034 rep. Blazing Saddles (PF) & Mr. for the 2020 Olympics,” said dia League (HIL) matches on social media sites,” said contract up to the 2020 (Neeraj up) stopped galloping in and Rs. 576. Favourite: Stari Haresh N. Mehta and Mr. Manav the last 100m and did not com- Sandeep, during an interac- this year. They don't read Sandeep. Olympic Games and revised Grad. Owner: Mr. Rajesh Monga. H. Mehta rep. Rohan Bloodstock Garry Calvert. plete the race). Favourite: Raees. Trainer: S.K. Sunderji. Pvt Ltd. Trainer: Mansoor Shah. terms, but there was no ac- Owners: M/s. K.H. Vaccha & Z.H. BLAZING SADDLES MILLION RUSTOMJI BYRAMJI TROPHY tion or assurance from Calvert explained that he Vaccha. Trainer: S.K. Sunderji. J. ROBINSON PLATE (1,800m), 5 (1,600m), Cl. III, rated 40 to 8 (1,200m), Cl. IV, rated 20 to either the Sports Authority had been discussing his situ- SUSSEX PRIDE (Akash Agar- FRINGE BENEFIT (Trevor) 1, 2 Maiden 3-y-o only: LORD OF 66: 46: of India — his employer — or ation with the SAI and the THE SEA (Neeraj) 1, Lady Be Good wal) 1, Sherlock (Trevor) 2, Glori- Maduro (Akshay Kumar) 2, She’s Hamilton pips Vettel for the Athletics Federation of (Sandesh) 2, Lucky Luciano (Tre- ous Eyes (Santosh) 3 and Domina- A Tiger (Santosh) 3 and Quixotic AFI for seven months. “It’s tion (C.S. Jodha) 4. 1, 3/4, 1-1/2. 1m (Jaykumar) 4. Lnk, 1-3/4, 2-1/4. 1m India. gone on too long,” he said. vor) 3 and Gdansk (Tograllu) 4. 2- 3/4, 3, 3/4. 1m 50.95s. Rs. 16 (w), 37.98s. Rs. 270 (w), 47, 12 and 24 11.50s. Rs. 25 (w), 13, 21 and 12 (p). An upset Calvert, whose Calvert felt his achieve- 12 and 15 (p). SHP: Rs. 23, FP: Rs. (p). SHP: Rs. 40, FP: Rs. 1,252, Q: SHP: Rs. 52, FP: Rs. 174, Q: Rs. 98, record sixth pole in China 21, Q: Rs. 10, Tanala: Rs. 40 and Rs. 328, Tanala: Rs. 3,221 and Rs. Tanala: Rs. 236 and Rs. 105. Fa- contract is due to expire in ments with Neeraj, who be- 1,380. Favourite: Sherlock. vourite: Fringe Benefit. Owners: came India’s first World Rs. 37. Favourite: Lord Of The February 2018, put in his pa- Sea. Owners: Mr. & Mrs. Keki D. Owner: Mr. Ketan R. Mehta. Mr. Niraj Tyagi and Mr. Vikas pers on Monday. He has re- champion in athletics at any Mehta and Mr. Dara K. Mehta rep. Trainer: Subhag Singh. Sachdeva rep. Blazing Saddles Bottas inishes third; Force India’s Sergio Perez eighth (PF) & Mr. Haresh N. Mehta and ceived no response to his level, had not been recog- Darashaw Bloodstock Pvt Ltd & S.A. WAHID PLATE, DIV.I Mr. Sultan Singh. Trainer: P. Mr. Manav H. Mehta rep. Rohan Reuters Starting grid: 1. Lewis Hamilton letter of resignation from nised. Calvert said it was a 6 (1,400m), Cl. IV, rated 20 to Bloodstock Pvt Ltd. Trainer: Shroff. NEW ENGLAND (Trevor) 1, SHANGHAI CHINESE GP (Mercedes), 2. Sebastian Vettel either the SAI or the AFI. hard decision. 46: Mansoor Shah. S.A. WAHID PLATE, DIV.II King Of Killen (Sandesh) 2, Mercedes driver Lewis (Ferrari), 3. Valtteri Bottas Auroden (S.Amit) 3 and Knight’s Jackpot: 70 per cent: Rs. 11,270 fastest lap in Shanghai DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD 3 (1,400m), Cl. IV, rated 20 to (53 tkts.) and 30 per cent: Rs. Hamilton stormed to pole (Mercedes), 4. Kimi Raikkonen DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD 46: BROTHERSOFTHEWIND Quest (Dashrath) 4. 3, 4-3/4, 2-1/2. bettered Michael Schumach- 1m 23.45s. Rs. 27 (w), 13, 11 and 26 1,803 (142 tkts.). position for Sunday’s (Ferrari) 5. Daniel Ricciardo (Neeraj) 1, Cristo Boss (K.Kadam) er’s 2004 timing by over half 2, Brabourne (Trevor) 3 and (p). SHP: Rs. 28, FP: Rs. 80, Q: Rs. Treble (i): Rs. 1,169 (7 tkts.); (ii): Chinese Grand Prix after (Red Bull), 6. Felipe Massa (Wil- Tomahawk (S.J. Sunil) 4. 1/2, 2, 17, Tanala: Rs. 227 and Rs. 113. Fa- Rs. 106 (272 tkts.). clocking the fastest ever lap a second. liams), 7. Nico Huelkenberg SUDOKU Nk. 1m 25.17s. Rs. 83 (w), 19, 14 vourite: New England. Super Jackpot: 70 per cent: Rs. of the Shanghai circuit in the It also gave Hamilton his (Renault), 8. Sergio Perez and 12 (p). SHP: Rs. 29, FP: Rs. Owners: M/s. Chetan Shah, 38,345 (2 tkts.) and 30 per cent: 63rd pole, and a record sixth (Force India), 9. Daniil Kvyat 256, Q: Rs. 73, Tanala: Rs 426 and Mukul Sonawla, Rohit J. Patel & Rs. 4,695 (7 tkts.). dying seconds of a hard- fought qualifying session on in China. The Briton is now (Toro Rosso), 10. Lance Stroll Saturday. five behind Schumacher’s (Williams). 11. Carlos Sainz Jr (Toro The triple World cham- record 68 poles. Rosso), 12. Kevin Magnussen pion lapped the 5.4km long It was also the 58th time (Haas), 13. Fernando Alonso Mrs Patmore may score circuit in one minute, 31.678 in 61 races that a Mercedes (McLaren), 14. Marcus Ericsson will start at the front. MUMBAI: The four-year-old filly Mrs Patmore (2) Trevor 59 and 4. (7) Akash Rajput 53.5. seconds in his Mercedes, (Sauber), 15. Antonio Giovinazzi Mrs Patmore, who is in good London (3) Neeraj 52.5. 1. FANTASY STAR, 2. SUPERSTAR edging Ferrari rival Se- Sauber’s Antonio Giov- (Sauber). shape as evidenced by her track 1. MRS PATMORE, 2. JACK FROST SUPREME, 3. ASCENSION bastian Vettel by 0.186 inazzi caused the biggest performances, may score in the 16. Stoffel Vandoorne M D PETIT PLATE (1,600m), STYLECRACKER STAKES A. C. Ardeshir Trophy, the main seconds. drama of the day when he ri- (McLaren), 17. Romain Grosjean Cl. V, rated 01 to 26, 6-30: 1. (1,000m), Cl. IV, rated 20 to event of the races to be held here 4 6 Mercedes teammate Valt- cocheted off the barrier lin- Dem Sao (10) Bhawani 59, 2. Vik- 46, 7-30: 1. Beneficial (7) Ajinkya (Haas), 18. Jolyon Palmer on Sunday evening. ing (5) Akash Rajput 59, 3. Hur- 60.5, 2. Fabio (3) Sandesh 59.5, 3. teri Bottas was third, just ing the start-finish straight (Renault), 19. Max Verstappen MASTER SHIFU PLATE acan (1) C.S.Jodha 58.5, 4. Britain Zinfandelle (8) Neeraj 57.5, 4. one-thousandth of a second after losing control of his car (Red Bull), 20. Esteban Ocon 1 (2,000m), Cl. IV, rated 20 to (2) Daman 57.5, 5. Sweeping Move Philadelphia (9) Trevor 53.5, 5. further adrift. Hamilton’s in the final corner. (Force India). 46, 5-00: 1. June (3) S.Amit 59, 2. (13) Vishal 57, 6. Alexia (6) Mu- Dolphin (6) C.S.Jodha 53, 6. Eiger’s Tiger (10) Akshay Kumar dassar Nazar 56.5, 7. Master Ser- Mesopotamia (1) N.Rawal 52.5, 7. 57.5, 3. Jager Bomb (8) Trevor geant (3) S.Amit 56.5, 8. Frisky Warlock (5) Bhawani 52, 8. Lilac 57.5, 4. She’s An Ace (9) C.S.Jodha Whiskey (8) K.Kadam 55.5, 9. Time (4) Kuldeep 51.5 and 9. It’s A 54.5, 5. Danse Debonaire (1) Paradise (4) Kuldeep 54, 10. Star Deal (2) Roushan 50. S.J.Sunil 53, 6. Grey One (4) Scholar (14) Trevor 53.5, 11. Wind- 1. FABIO, 2. BENEFICIAL, 3. ZIN- Bhawani 52, 7. Smasher (5) Ak- hoek (7) S.J.Sunil 53.5, 12. Dazzle FANDELLE shay 52, 8. Care Free (7) Neeraj 51, N Daze (12) Nirmal Jodha 52.5, 13. PRINCE JEHAN PLATE 9. Ritz (6) Santosh 51 and 10. Sha- Oscillation (11) Neeraj 52.5 and 14. lom (2) J.Chinoy 50.5. 7 (1,000m), Cl. III, rated 40 to Secret Flame (9) Akshay Kumar 66, 8-00: 1. Victorio (7) 1. JAGER BOMB, 2. JUNE, 3. CARE 51. FREE Raghuveer 60, 2. Rider On The 1. DEM SAO, 2. OSCILLATION, 3. Storm (8) Agarwal 59, 3. Cezanne Solution to yesterday’s Sudoku J P VAZIFDAR TROPHY STAR SCHOLAR (2) Bhawani 55.5, 4. Flamboyant 2 (1,200m), rated 53 to 79, 5-30: A F S TALYARKHAN TROPHY Flame (5) Ayyar 54, 5. Motherland 1. Incentio (4) Daman 59.5, 2. 5 (1,000m), Maiden 3-y-o only, (9) J.Chinoy 54, 6. Wind Craft (4) Korol (7) C.S.Jodha 57.5, 3. Ladis- 7-00: 1. Brooklyn Bridge (10) K.Kadam 53.5, 7. Mizilla Gold (6) laus (1) Trevor 56.5, 4. Carbonara Agarwal 55, 2. Superstar Supreme S.Amit 52, 8. Rosella (10) Roushan (5) Sandesh 53.5, 5. Turf Dancer (8) Mosin 55, 3. Yutaka (13) 52, 9. Charming (1) Vishal 51.5 and (2) Dashrath 52.5, 6. Arakawah (6) V.Jodha 55, 4. Angels Harmony (1) 10. Indian Serenade (3) Dashrath S.Kamble 51.5, 7. Shania (3) A.Gaikwad 53.5, 5. Ascension (2) 51.5. S.Amit 50.5 and 8. Irish Bailey (8) C.S.Jodha 53.5, 6. Fantasy Star 1. MIZILLA GOLD, 2. VICTORIO, 3. Neeraj 49.5. (12) Trevor 53.5, 7. Fine Tune (6) CEZANNE 1. LADISLAUS, 2 . KOROL, 3. IRISH A.K.Pawar 53.5, 8. Gold Field (4) Day’s best: FABIO BAILEY J.Chinoy 53.5, 9. Golden Weaver Double: JAGER BOMB – LADIS- A C ARDESHIR TROPHY (Gr. (9) Akshay 53.5, 10. Malavika (3) LAUS 3 III) (1,600m), 4-y-o & over, 6- N.Rawal 53.5, 11. Queens Best (11) Jackpot: 3, 4, 5, 6 & 7. Treble: 5, 6 00: 1. B Fifty Two (1) C.S.Jodha Neeraj 53.5, 12. Shahtoosh (5) & 7. Tanala: All races. Super Jack- In the fast lane: Lewis Hamilton’s fastest lap in Shanghai betters Michael Schumacher’s 2004 59, 2. Jack Frost (4) Sandesh 59, 3. K.Kadam 53.5 and 13. Victoriana pot : 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 & 7. timing by over half a second. * AFP CM A ND-ND YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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TV PICKS ‘We can give anybody France in Davis Cup: India vs Uzbek- India ensures passage into istan, DD Sports, 3 p.m. semiinals World Group: Neo Sports, a run for their money’ Agence France-Presse 5.30 p.m. Rouen Principal Correspondent I-League: TEN 2, 4.30 p.m. & quick and the servers didn’t France took an unassail- BENGALURU 7 p.m. World Group Play-of disappoint us. The way they able 3-0 lead over Great U.S. Masters: live streaming After taking an irreversible were playing, there was not Britain to seal a semifinal on www.masters.com, 5.30 3-0 lead against Uzbekistan much to say. I just had to tell berth in the Davis Cup p.m. Bopanna-Balaji duo gives the host an unassailable 3-0 lead in his debut tie, India cap- them to keep the foot on the West Indies vs Pakistan: competition here on tain Mahesh Bhupathi was pedal.” 2nd ODI, TEN 3 & TEN 1 HD, 7 N. Sudarshan Saturday. upbeat of his side’s chances p.m. Bengaluru For Bopanna it was his The results: Quarterfinals: At NBA: Sony Six & Sony Six HD, in the World Group Play-off. first tie since playing South Brisbane: Australia 2 leads India, on Saturday, ensured a India has failed to progress 3.30 a.m. (Monday) passage into the World Korea ahead of the Rio USA 1 [Steve Johnson & Jack into the World Group in Olympics last July. He Sock bt Sam Groth & John Group Play-off for the fourth each of the last three years. IN BRIEF successive year, and did it in couldn’t have expected a Peers 3-6, 6-3, 6-2, 2-6, 6-3]. “We can give anybody a sweeter return. “It’s great to At Rouen: France 3 leads a style that would befit not run for their money,” said an inexperienced side full of be back,” Bopanna said. Great Britain 0 [Jeremy Bhupathi. “There is no bigger honour. Chardy bt Daniel Evans 6-2, rookies but a seasoned “We just need some help outfit. I think it started with being 6-3, 6-3; Nicolas Mahut & Ju- from the draw. With the lien Benneteau bt Jamie Mur- Rohan Bopanna and N. together the whole of last kind of servers we have, ray & Dominic Inglot 7-6(7), Sriram Balaji, playing to- week. The more we spend anything is possible.” time together, the better. 5-7, 7-5, 7-5]. gether for the first time, out- Bhupathi was in particu- classed Farrukh Dustov and “For the first time I think At Belgrade: Serbia 2 leads lar thrilled by the way his Spain 0 [Viktor Troicki bt Sanjar Fayziev 6-2, 6-4, 6-1 in the whole team was towards served, especially in Pablo Carreno-Busta 6-3, under 90 minutes to give In- gether on a Sunday. the doubles rubber. 6-4, 6-3]. dia an unassailable 3-0 lead “One of the reasons we “It makes a big differ- in the Asia–Oceania Group I At Charleroi: Belgium 2 leads wanted this venue was be- ence. It’s something to learn Italy 0 [David Goffin bt An- Round Two tie against cause of the conditions. It is moving forward.” dreas Seppi 6-4, 6-3, 6-3; ]. Uzbekistan at the KSLTA Sta- dium here on Saturday. Bopanna, the senior pro, led from the front. Balaji, making his debut, always Griezmann halts Real’s title charge Russell delivers found the tennis to match for Lakers him. Tottenham maintains pressure on Chelsea LOS ANGELES The 37-year-old Bopanna D’Angelo Russell scored the Agencies served as well as he could decisive basket with 41 Madrid have, particularly from the seconds remaining as Lakers deuce court. But for a couple Antoine Griezmann’s classy beat Kings 98-94 to win its of double faults early on, it finish five minutes from time third straight game in the was pretty much flawless. dealt Real Madrid’s La Liga NBA on Friday. Balaji was excellent with his title chances a huge blow as Other results: Suns 120 bt returns from the ad-side, Atletico Madrid rescued a 1-1 Thunder 99; Nuggets 122 bt draw at the Santiago Bern- Pelicans 106; Jazz 120 bt drilling them deep and giving his opponents little time abeu on Saturday. Timberwolves 113; Spurs 102 Pepe’s towering header bt Mavericks 89; Grizzlies 101 on the ball. early in the second-half bt Knicks 88; Pistons 114 bt The Uzbeks, also playing New order: Rohan Bopanna led from the front while Sriram Balaji found the tennis to match the looked to have Madrid head- Rockets 109; Hawks 114 bt for the first time together, senior pro. * V. SREENIVASA MURTHY Cavaliers 100; Raptors 96 bt never found that chemistry. ing five points clear at the top. Real leads Barcelona by Heat 94. AGENCIES Dustov, a Davis Cup veteran on Friday, rarely looked the DAVIS CUP of them for foot faults — and of ten years, showed the same. It wasn’t surprising remonstrated with the um- three points with eight Man of the moment: Antoine Griezmann slots past Keylor Shyam Kumar claims gold rustiness which would come that he was broken twice in pire more than once. When games left. Navas after collecting a fantastic through-ball from Angel after walkover from a six-month absence. the first set. He also missed ful backhand drop shot to he erred with two double Brace by Son Correa. * AFP NEW DELHI Fayziev, who suffered routine volleys and was al- make his intentions clear. faults in the fourth game, At White Hart Lane, Son Indian boxer K Shyam Kumar from breathless the previous most always late to react From there on, Dustov Uzbekistan’s regression to Tottenham 4 (Alli 33, Dier 39, 3 (Vestergaard 13, Traore 55, Heung-Min struck twice as (49kg) clinched a gold medal day, didn’t seem fully re- when he could have and Fayziev would win only the mean was complete. Son 44, 55) bt Watford 0. Stindl 81); Hamburg 2 (Hunt Tottenham maintained the at the Thailand international covered. The Indians’ em- poached. one more game and just one India will now meet one La Liga: Espanyol 1 (Piatti 56) 25, 75) bt Hoffenheim 1 pressure on Premier League tournament in Bangkok ployed the ‘I’ formation, In the second, Fayziev more point on the Indian among the eight World bt Alaves 0; Real Madrid 1 (Kramaric 35-pen); Freiburg 1 leader Chelsea with a 4-0 without even stepping inside with the man at the net continued his profligacy. But serve until the end of the Group first round losers — a (Pepe 52) drew with Atletico (Petersen 70) bt Mainz 0; RB victory against Watford. the ring for his summit clash. crouching low in the middle Dustov grew into the match. match. list which includes defending Madrid 1 (Griezmann 85). Leipzig 1 (Poulsen 90+3) bt Shyam was to take on before springing either side It at least helped in not let- Dustov was broken twice champion Argentina — in the After recovering from a Serie A: Empoli 1 (El Kaddouri Bayer Leverkusen 0. Olympic champion Hasanboy to surprise the returner. But ting the Indians scamper in succession — once at the tie which will be held in goal down to win in the final 9) drew with Pescara 1 (Caprari Friday: La Liga: Villarreal 3 Dusmatov of Uzbekistan in its effectiveness couldn’t be away. end of the second set to give September. The draw for the two minutes of the mid- 31). (Ruiz 17, Bakambu 47, Adrian the final. However, Dusmatov quantified, for the away side When Fayziev finally held the Indians a two-set lead same is likely to be an- week trip to Swansea City, Bundesliga: Schalke 4 Lopez 58) bt Athletic Bilbao 1 pulled out of the bout owing had far more pressing serve comfortably to make it and another to go 4-0 up in nounced next week. Spurs did everything that (Burgstaller 6, 77, Goretzka 23, (Laporte 20). to an injury. Earlier, Rohit problems. 4-4, things looked very much the third to wither whatever The result: India leads Uzbekistan was asked of them against a Caligiuri 49) bt Wolfsburg 1 Bundesliga: Eintracht Frank- Tokas (64kg) had lost in the Fayziev, who displayed in the balance. But Bopanna little resistance Uzbekistan 3-0 (Rohan Bopanna & N. Sriram poor Watford side with little (Gomez 79-pen); Cologne 2 furt 2 (Gacinovic 48, Fabian 73- semifinals to settle for glimpses of his fine service had other plans. He planted could offer. He even seemed Balaji bt Farrukh Dustov & San- still to play for this season. (Clemens 18, Modeste 58) lost pen) drew with Werder Bremen bronze medal. and tidy net play in singles three aces and hit a delight- troubled by a few calls — two jar Fayziev 6-2, 6-4, 6-1). The results: Premier League: to Borussia Monchengladbach 2 (Junuzovic 37, Bartels 43).

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