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NEARBY No confusion, Restrictions return to Valley Art. 370 had to Prayers unlikely to be allowed at Jamia Masjid; phone, Internet service remain cut go, says Shah

Special Correspondent CHENNAI SC rejects farmers’ plea Union Home Minister Amit for higher compensation Shah said on Sunday that NEW DELHI he had no confusion what The Supreme Court has soever in his mind on the rejected a plea by farmers for need to remove the special ‘fair compensation’ for land status granted to Jammu acquired from them. It said the villagers came to court 21 and Kashmir under Article years too late. Land was 370 and added that its taken from the villagers of abrogation would end ter Gulsitapur and Tilpta, near rorism in the region and the NoidaDadri Highway in put it on the road to Uttar Pradesh, in the late development. Death toll hits 72 in 1980s under the Land Mr. Shah was speaking Acquisition Act. They were at an event in the city to re given ₹2022 per square yard lease a book Listening, Kerala flood mayhem at the time. Learning & Leading…, pu NATION Ī PAGE 9 blished by the Information 2.61 lakh people shifted to relief camps DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD and Broadcasting Ministry, DMRC staffer found chronicling the twoyear Special Correspondent With the rain fury abat dead in rented house tenure of VicePresident M. THIRUVANANTHAPURAM ing, rescue operations res NEW DELHI Venkaiah Naidu. The death toll in rainrelated umed in the landsliphit Ka A 27yearold man, working Mr. Shah said he firmly incidents in the State rose to valappara in Malappuram as a maintenance staff with believed that there was no 72 on Sunday, even as most and Meppadi in Wayanad on the DMRC, was found dead at benefit from Article 370 to central and north Kerala dis Sunday morning. his rented accommodation in the nation and to Kashmir tricts reported diminished The Army and the Nation

Shahdara’s Farsh Bazar on Voices of dissent: A day before Id, women shout slogans during a protest in Srinagar on Sunday. * REUTERS and that it should be re rainfall after four days of tor al Disaster Response Force Sunday morning. moved at once. rential downpour. (NDRF) retrieved three CITY Ī PAGE 3 Peerzada Ashiq define the security situation “As a Home Minister, Till Sunday, 2,61,249 peo more bodies from Kavalap DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Vijaita Singh ‘Don’t go back Corbyn backs in the entire State. The entire there was no confusion at ple (75,636 families) have para after an intensive day Now and Then Srinagar/New Delhi State is peaceful. Earlier, all in my mind as to what been evacuated to 1,639 re long search. With this, the Security was tightened and on Kartarpur’ UN resolutions stonethrowing incidents would happen after the re lief camps across the State. death toll in the landslip has Former tennis player restrictions were reimposed Punjab Chief Minister Leader of the U.K.’s were larger in number,” Mr. moval of Article 370. I was Kozhikode, Malappuram, risen to 12. Vishaal Uppal says he has in the Kashmir Valley on the Amarinder Singh on Sunday Opposition Labour Party Singh said. sure that after the removal Thrissur and Wayanad dis One more body was reco no regrets about what he eve of Id on Sunday, amid re expressed concern over Jeremy Corbyn has called A top police source said of Article 370, terrorism tricts account for a majority vered from Meppadi, also did not achieve. He is ports of “street mobilisa reports of a “discernible for resolving the Kashmir former Chief Minister Fa will end inside Kashmir of the camps; 58 people are on Sunday. Revenue officials now happy to use his ex tion.” slowdown” in Pakistan’s issue through UN rooq Abdullah would be al and the State would be on still missing: 50 in Malappu identified the deceased as perience as a player to re All communication lines, activities for the resolutions. “The situation lowed to offer Id prayers at a the path of development,” ram, seven in Wayanad and Rani, 53, wife of Panneersel main associated with the including phones and the In development of the in Kashmir is deeply shrine on Gupkar Road. A he said. one person in Kottayam, the vam whose body was reco game as a coach. Ī PAGE 5 ternet, remained snapped Kartarpur Corridor. He disturbing. Human rights congregation prayer would However, referring to government said in a 9 p.m. vered on Friday. for the seventh day and were urged Pakistan not to abuses taking place are be allowed for other mem national badminton coach update. In all, 286 houses So far, 10 bodies have unlikely to be restored on renege on its commitment unacceptable. The rights of bers of political parties such Pullela Gopichand’s have been destroyed and been recovered from the the occasion of the festival, a to the project, which he said the Kashmiri people must as the National Conference speech in which he illus 2,966 houses damaged. site. Although Wayanad re top security source said. is of supreme religious be respected and UN and the Peoples Democratic trated how people even “Weather forecasts show corded a dip in rainfall on importance to the Sikh resolutions implemented,” Party who were detained at now referred to the (pro heavy rain could persist for Sunday, the banks of the Ka Meeting with Imams community. Ī PAGE 13 he wrote on Twitter. Ī PAGE 13 the SheriKashmir Interna blematic) bifurcation of two more days in the State. bani river and its tributaries Srinagar District Magistrate DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD tional Convention Centre Andhra Pradesh, Mr. Shah So we need to remain vigi remain flooded. Shahid Choudhury told The (SKICC), an official said. said, “I had a slight appre lant,” Chief Minister Pina In the Upper Kuttanad re Hindu that the administra tions were reimposed after The Hindu that no decision Information Commission hension in my mind that I rayi Vijayan said, after a gion of Pathanamthitta dis tion had a meeting with sev they were eased on Satur was taken on resuming the er M.K. Dwivedi said restric should not be a part of highlevel meeting at the trict, the situation has eral imams (religious heads) day, Mr. Choudhury said, Internet services in the Val tions were reimposed to such visualisa State Emergency Opera turned grim. Floodwaters to prepare for the festival on “Section 144 of the Cr.PC ley because authorities sus avoid any untoward inci tion.” tions Centre here. receding from the upper Monday. A senior govern that prohibits the assembly pected “mischievous posts” dent. The India Meteorological reaches of Pampa have in ment official said prayers of more than four people would be put out by Pakistan Department (IMD) has is undated paddy fields and were unlikely to be allowed was never completely lifted on social media to incite pe CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 12 CONTINUED sued orange alerts indicat lowlying regions. at Jamia Masjid, one of the in the city. The restrictions ople. “One odd stonethrow INDIA TOO CANCELS SAMJHAUTA ON Ī PAGE 12 ing the likelihood of isolated biggest mosques, at Nowhat were always there. Move ing incident in Srinagar’s EXPRESS Ī PAGE 13 heavy rainfall in Idukki, Ma CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 12 ta, to prevent any large ment of traffic was allowed downtown area does not CRPF STARTS HELPLINE Ī PAGE 13 lappuram, Kozhikode, TOURISTS STRANDED Ī PAGE 8 procession. in some areas.” mean the entire Valley is out STUDENTS DECLINE AMU FEAST Wayanad, Kannur and Ka RELIEF OPERATIONS CONTINUE EDUCATIONPLUS Ī 4 PAGES Asked why the restric DGP Dilbagh Singh told to throw stones. It cannot INVITE Ī PAGE 13 sargod for Monday. IN MAHARASHTRA Ī PAGE 7

Govt. to launch Sobhana K Nair tee (CWC) had requested her Other than the three Gand NEW DELHI to lead the party again. his — Sonia, Rahul and Pri Sonia Gandhi is expected to Ms. Gandhi, who is also yanka — no other names ‘Uber for tractors’ be the interim president of the chairperson of the Unit were discussed by the CWC, the Congress for more than ed Progressive Alliance, is sources said. There have six months, party sources likely to be at the helm till been reports that Mallikar app to aid farmers said. After 12 hours of delib the next round of Assembly jun Kharge and Mukul Was erations on Saturday, the polls, with no election to nik were the front runners. Priscilla Jebaraj Congress Working Commit choose the next president. CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 12 NEW DELHI A laserguided land leveller harnesses technology to accurately flatten a field in a fraction of the time used by a traditional oxenpowered scraper. The result? Farmers save A laserguided land leveller precious groundwater and helps farmers save increase productivity by 10 groundwater and raise to 15%. productivity.. The hitch? Such hitech * RAVIKUMAR NARABOLI levellers cost at least ₹3 lakh, way beyond the reach “Say, I need a rotovator of the average small farmer. with tractor for one acre of But a new app that’s land. The app will show me being described as “Uber the CHCs which have the for tractors” offers a equipment available within solution. five, 20 and 50 km of my “We want farmers to location, with their rates,” have affordable access to explained the official. “I cuttingedge technology at can then call the CHC or their doorsteps,” says a just use the app to book the senior Agriculture Ministry equipment at a specific official. “There are now time and location, and it more than 38,000 custom will turn up just like an hiring centres (CHCs) Uber.” across the country, which rent out 2.5 lakh pieces of Rating system farm equipment every year. Feedback from both the By the end of the month, CHC and the farmers we plan to launch a new contributes to a rating mobile app to efficiently system, allowing customers connect farmers with these to make informed CHCs, just like Uber decisions. connects you to cabs.” The Ministry’s app will The CHC app is already also create an invaluable open for registrations by database for policymakers, the farmers, societies and who can track the use and entrepreneurs who run cost of equipment. these centres. So far, almost “We have already done 26,800 CHCs have very successful demo runs registered to offer more in Chhattisgarh, Madhya than one lakh pieces of Pradesh, Rajasthan and equipment for hire. Punjab,” said the official.

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have two to five wheels ar ranged in a single line on the underside of the boot. The design allows for greater Embassy run speed and manoeuvrability compared to quad skates, which have two front and two rear wheels. Early in the morning, a stretch of Shanti Path in central Mr. Prajapati is one of sev Delhi transforms into a circuit for inline speed skaters eral professional skaters, ma ny of them national or State who can reach speeds of up to 80 km/h level champions, who flock to Shanti Path to hone their Anant Kaur pionships in 2016 (China) and ney for the last three years. It skills. The skaters have New Delhi 2018 (Namwon, South is very problematic for us as chalked out a 3.9 kmloop out rofessional skater Pan Korea). it is quite an expensive of which roughly 1 km is on kaj Khandodiya Praja He can go from 073 km/h sport,” he says. A pair of pro Shanti Path. The athletes Ppati, 24, leaves his within 15 seconds on a fessional inline skates can start from Nehru park gate house in Gurugram around straight road. “We do not cost around ₹55,000. no. 1 and pass by the Austra 3.30 a.m. and travels nearly have access to many facilities Inline speed skating is a lian High Commission fol 30 km to reach Shanti Path in as the Haryana government subdiscipline of inline skat lowed by the Embassy of Ja central Delhi. Flanked by Em has blocked our award mo ing. Typically, inline skates pan and then the Embassy of bassies and High Commis the Federal Democratic Re sions, the smooth stretch of public Of Ethiopia. road is a perfect track for the They take several rounds inline speed skater. of the loop in a twoanda “I come all the way halfhour routine that from Gurugram be starts around 4.00 a.m. three years. Ms. Juneja has ta third. Becoming a national in tionallevel competitions that for 15 years, but in the new cause the road here is Nineteenyearold ken part in two World Cham line skating champion is my happen both on circuit and policy, only those sports are smooth and has few Rachita Juneja, a final pionships and one Asian goal. I have won 70 medals banked tracks. We come here eligible for cash award which cars in the morning. year BA History Championship. Her sight is till now, which includes CBSE especially for circuit practice. are included either in the I can comfortably (hons.) student now firmly set on the 2022 school nationals (School In every city there are Asian Games, the Olympics, do my sprint from Hansraj col Asian Games. Games Federation of India) straight roads, but this or the Commonwealth practice here,” lege, has been skat “I used to do quad skating and Roller Skating Federa stretch is also free of poth Games.” says Mr. Prajapa ing since she was but shifted to inline skating. I tion of India competitions. I oles,” she says. “Inline speed skating was ti, who repre five and has been used to be a national cham have my eyes set on the 2022 part of the 2018 Asian Games, sented India at coming to Shanti pion in quad skating, but in Asian Games. My top speed is Funding problem but we still have not received the World Cham Path for the last inline skating I am second or 5455 km/h,” says the athlete “We have two types of races: award from last three years. who won silver in relay race road race and rink race. In We met senior officials in the at the 18th Asian Roller Skat rink race, we have a 200 Haryana sports department ing Championship in Nam metre banked track. For road and submitted proof that in won, South Korea. race, we sometimes have a line speed skating was part of I come all the way <> We come to Shanti Path Ms. Juneja, who is from circuit and sometimes the 2018 Asian Games. But from Gurugram <> Karnal in Haryana, came to straight roads, if there is un still there is no response,” he around 4 a.m... The because the road the Capital after getting ad availability of circuit. Shanti said. here is smooth and circuit we have here mission in Delhi University. Path helps us practise for Sixteen yearold Raj Ra has few cars in the resembles our banked Her parents come to her skat both short 3,000metre race man, a nationallevel cham morning. I can track. In every city there ing session on Shanti Path ev and long 10,000 metrerace. pion skater, says he comes to comfortably do my are straight roads, but ery time. There is no barri Road practice for 30 km and Shanti Path as there is little sprint practice here this stretch is also free cading of streets by the police 40 km races is done smooth traffic in the morning and the and it is up to the athletes ly here,” she adds. area is safe due to the numer Pankaj Khandodiya Prajapati of potholes Rachita Juneja and their family members to Her father Ravi Juneja said ous embassies nearby. ensure safety. the Haryana government had Besides Shanti Path, the “We come to Shanti Path amended its sports policy skaters sometimes practise around 4 a.m... The circuit withdrawing cash award for on the stretch between Rash we have here resembles our roller sports. “The sport had trapati Bhavan and India banked track. We have na been eligible for cash awards Gate.

Rain likely today NEW DELHI Will reupload publications: The Meteorological ‘New reservoir in Mundka to Department has predicted a generally cloudy sky with Aryabhatta College head light thundershowers on provide water to 14 villages’ Monday. The maximum and He has been accused of plagiarism minimum temperatures are CM unveils underground water storage facility, booster station expected to hover around Staff Reporter drawn to “include referenc 35 degrees Celsius and 28 Staff Reporter that works and you can see New Delhi ing”, referring to citations degrees Celsius respectively. NEW DELHI that benefits have reached Aryabhatta College princi and a bibliography. Chief Minister Arvind Kejri kachhi [unauthorised] colo pal Manoj Sinha, who is fac “The online versions are wal on Sunday inaugurated nies as works have started ing plagiarism charges, on kept by publishers for con a 165 lakh litrecapacity un on laying sewers, drains Sunday said that only the tent only so that they don’t derground reservoir, and a and roads. The Congress online version of his publi get printed as books by oth booster station at Mundka claims that they brought de cations have been with ers [as informed by publish Assembly constituency. velopment to Delhi over 15 drawn and will be reu er]. If one chooses the buy The government said years. But that develop ploaded after including option, then they send the that the total cost of the ment was restricted only to “referencing”. full book,” he said. project was ₹65 crore and affluent areas of the city This was “causing nega that it would benefit 5.36 where the leaders stay. How ‘Will include referencing’ tive results”, he added. lakh residents of 14 villages can they say that they At least three books and Turnitin reports of his and 27 unauthorised Arvind Kejriwal brought development if one journal paper, which a publications had analysed colonies. there is a colony in Delhi plagiarismcheck software extensive citations and had “When I came to meet project will help bring wa that still does not get wa Turnitin had identified as identified a high similarity you before the Assembly ter to 14 villages that earlier ter,” Mr. Kejriwal asked. being 5090% similar to index in them as well. elections, most of your pro did not get enough water “In five years, we have other publications, were In the book Public Policy blems revolved around wa pressure and will benefit 27 delivered what the previous “withdrawn for review” by and Democracy , citations ter and condition of roads. I colonies that earlier did not governments could not do Mr. Sinha on the publica were picked up verbatim am happy to say that you receive water,” the CM said for so many years... this is tion’s website on August 9. from a 2002 paper, availa put your trust in us and that at the inauguration event. because we are an honest Mr. Sinha said that the ble online, along with their we have delivered. This “We are a government government,” he added. online versions were with numbering. ‘Impact of air Curious portrayal of love in cinema University pollution is like freshers told smoking 5-7 Sanjay Suri’s A Gandhian Affair explores ‘formula films’ to plant trees Aarushi Aggarwal Gandhi’s “emotional social for the greater good,” said cigarettes a day’ New Delhi ism”, as opposed to Jawahar Mr. Suri. Staff Reporter Why did directors and pro lal Nehru’s “institutional so This portrayal is, howev NEW DELHI Staff Reporter ducers of films in the 1950s cialism”, affected Indian er, not representative of In To encourage the Sikh com New Delhi and 60s continue to deliver cinema in its early postIn dian men who chased both munity to protect the envi The harmful impact of air “singleformula films” to dependence years. wealth and sex, and later ronment from climate pollution suffered by eve their audiences? This ques consumed these films that change, the Delhi Sikh ryone in the country, in tion led Londonbased jour Value system intended to present the two Gurdwara Management cluding newborns, is nalist Sanjay Suri on a 10 “The curious portrayal of as immoral vices, he ob Committee has made it equivalent to smoking five year journey that culminat love at the time did not re served. mandatory for all firstyear to seven cigarettes a day on ed in A Gandhian Affair , a present an erasure of sex. In Mr. Suri highlighted that students studying in IP Un an average, said Harsh book that studies “India’s fact, sex was quite ubiqui cinema was bound by the iversity and nine colleges in Vardhan Puri, consultant, curious portrayal of love in tous; while the hero shuns it, “sense of morality” provid Delhi University — which Sir Ganga Ram Hospital. cinema”. the film embraces it,” the ed by Gandhi who, as a re are run by the panel — to He was speaking at a se The book was launched author said, adding: “This sult, has had a longstanding plant 10 saplings each. minar on air pollution or during an event at the India portrayal of sex is obtained career in Indian cinema.” It will be treated as a col ganised by NGO Chintan International Centre on in the song. What the hero The author presented lege project for students on Thursday. Sunday. sacrifices in story, he desires stills from films such as Naya and marks will be included “Millions of people live in song.” Daur, Dhobi ki Zameen, Chi in their annual result, the with lung function decre Gandhi, Nehru influence The author corroborated na Town and Do Aankhein DSGMC said. ments, inflammation and Published by Harper Collins, his claim with a compelling Baara Haath that were part The move is part of an ef cardiac related issues in In the book brings forth the re sequence from a Shammi of his study of the annual fort to involve the youth in dia and thousands of peo lationship between Mahat Kapoor film. “The formula highest grossing films bet “green celebrations” to ple die due to air pollution ma Gandhi and his ideas, film is undergirded by a twin ween 1948 and 1959. All mark the 550th birth anni every year,” said Mr. Puri and portrayals of love in ear retreat from wealth and sex, these stills presented Gand versary of Guru Nanak, said He pointed out that out ly Indian cinema. It also at which the hero is shown to hi as the harbinger of justice DSGMC president Manjin of the patients who came tempts to understand how chase at first; giving them up and moral uprightness. der Singh Sirsa. for treatment at the hospi tal, in 1988, only 10% of lung cancer patients were DELHI TODAY nonsmokers, but in 2018, DU V-C names CEO for polls 50% were nonsmokers. He Dance: Lalit Sisodia at The Stein Auditorium, Staff Reporter “Brihadeeswara - form to India Habitat Centre (IHC), 7 p.m. also said that people are polls. This sets the ball roll formless” Bharatanatyam by Bala Devi Exhibition: turning obese due to pollu NEW DELHI ing for the polls that are Chandrashekar at C.D. Deshmukh Aud- “Collectively Independent itorium, Main Building, India Interna- 2019” - a group exhibition of paintings tion. The ViceChancellor of Del usually conducted in the se tional Centre (IIC), 6.30 p.m. by various artists at Visual Arts Gallery, “The laws dealing with hi University, Yogesh Tyagi, cond week of September. IHC, 11 a.m. – 7 p.m. Exhibition: air pollution are in place has appointed Ashok Prasad The fivemember com Music: In collaboration with Siyaram “Fascination...” – A cap- Tiwari Memorial Sangeet Trust, IHC tive journey of being intensely inter- for long, but we have failed from the Department of mittee included Rupam Ka presents a Pakhawaj solo by Sukhad ested”, a solo exhibition by Priyanka miserably in implementing Chemistry to be the Chief poor from the Department Munde, accompanied by Lalit Sisodia Rajput at Convention Centre Foyer, on sarangi; Dhrupad vocal by Naval Kis- IHC, 11 a.m. – 7 p.m. it,” said Rahul Choudhary, Election Officer for the Delhi of Botany as the Chief Re hore Mallick and Uday Kumar Mallick, (Mail your listings for this column at an environmental lawyer. 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Man dies after car catches DMRC staffer found fire on eway dead in rented house Press Trust of India Mathura A man was killed and two He was streaming live on social media during the incident others received minor Staff Reporter burns after their vehicle he received a call around 8 formed,” the officer said, ad New Delhi rammed a divider and a.m. from an acquaintance ding that the body has been caught fire on the Yamuna A 27yearold man working who informed him that the shifted to Sabzi Mandi mor Expressway on Sunday, the as a maintenance staff with man, wearing his DMRC un tuary for postmortem. The police said. the Delhi Metro Rail Corpo iform, had ended his life live police said inquest proceed The incident took place ration (DMRC) was found on Facebook. The friend ings into the incident have in the morning while the dead inside his rented ac rushed to the house of the been initiated and state speeding car was going to commodation in Shahdara’s deceased from where he ments have been recorded. wards Agra from Loni in Farsh Bazar on Sunday called the police. A senior officer said Ghaziabad, DSP Vinay morning. The man from though the reason behind Singh Chauhan said. West Bengal was live on so Death by hanging the step is yet to be ascer The car rammed the di cial media during the inci When the police reached the tained it is suspected that vider, overturned and dent. spot, the room on the se the man might not have real caught fire, killing Imtiaz No note has been reco cond floor was found closed ised the consequences of the (45) and injuring Nadeem vered, said the police. from inside. The door was act as he was also seen and Lilu. The injured were “A PCR call was received broken and the man was laughing at one point in the taken to a private hospital, at 9.05 a.m. from the friend found dead. It was death by video. the DSP said. of the deceased. He said that hanging, said an officer. Suicide prevention hel- The body has been sent his friend had hanged him The mobile phone of the pline: Sanjivini, Society for for postmortem. All the self,” a police officer said. deceased has been seized Mental Health, Telephone: men were residents of Loni The friend of the deceased for further investigation. 011-4076 9002, Monday-Sa- in Ghaziabad. allegedly told the police that “His family has been in turday, 10 a.m. -7.30 p.m. Constable hurt while chasing criminals Police hold drill Victim was grabbed by accused driver, dragged for several metres ahead of IDay Staff Reporter the IPC, including an attempt Staff Reporter New Delhi to murder, was registered New Delhi A constable was injured while and teams were formed to Ahead of Independence chasing a murder accused in nab them. Dabas was nabbed Day, the police on Sunday Rohini on Sunday. His service from his village in Rasoolpur conducted a drill on bomb pistol was also snatched dur and his associate Ashok from disposal near central Del ing the incident. Pooth Kalan village. hi’s Jama Masjid. DCP (Rohini) S.D. Mishra The car used in the crime The dummy bomb was said three persons, including and the pistol have also been defused in less than three a minor, have been held in recovered, said Mr. Mishra. minutes. A similar mock connection with the case. Sonu Dabas in police The minor, who was work drill was conducted in Ka The two adults arrested have custody. ing for Dabas, was also appre rol Bagh on Saturday. been identified as Sonu Da * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT hended, he added. The police have also is bas and his associate Ashok. Dabas was arrested with sued traffic advisory for the Constables Kavinder and stable tried to jump away but two of his associates in 2010 fulldress rehearsal on Rajesh, posted in Aman Vihar was hit by the car. The impact for allegedly killing a man Tuesday, as well as on Au police station, were patroll broke the vehicle’s window. identified as Rahul from Kanj gust 15. Roads leading to ing Rohini’s Sector 20 when “One of the suspects hawala, the DCP said. Red Fort will stay closed they received a tipoff about caught hold of the constable’s The victim had failed to from 4 a.m. to 10 a.m. three persons driving around hand and dragged him for a pay ₹10,000 that he had bor Geeta Colony bridge to in the area and acting suspi few metres before releasing rowed from Dabas, the police wards Shantivan will also cious. “The officers located him... he also managed to said. “He and his associates be closed. the car and approached it for snatch the policeman’s pis were convicted by the ses “Commercial transport inspection... on seeing the tol,” the DCP said, adding that sions court but later acquit and interState buses will police, the suspects fled,” Mr. the officer suffered injuries ted by the High Court,” the of not be allowed from 12 a.m. Mishra said. on his hand. ficer added. to 11 a.m. on August 15. DTC As the officers chased the The suspects managed to He said Ashok has pre buses will not move on car, the driver swerved and drive off, the police said. vious cases registered against Ring Road during these tried to hit Kavinder. The con A case under sections of him under the Excise Act. hours,” they said.

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DELHI THE HINDU 4 CITY MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 2019 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Chandni Chowk plots a heritage harvest As the longrunning redevelopment project picks up pace, authorities promise to present the historic street in a new avatar by March 2020

Saurabh Trivedi New Delhi Redevelopment work being carried out on a stretch of road in onsoon is never chaos Chandni Chowk; a sample of how the area will look once the project free in Delhi. And if it is completed. * R.V. MOORTHY, SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR Mhappens to be Chandni Chowk in the middle of a spell of obstruction. “A linear succes transformers on the main road rain, the scene is one of sheer sion of transformers [23 in num by August 31. havoc: slush all around, and ven ber] will mar the aesthetics of “We held a meeting over the turing out a hazardous enter the historic street and block the issue and it was discussed that prise with lanes dug up to lay un serial vision of the pedestrian,” there shall be no toilets, trans derground power lines, cables, said the DUAC while suggesting formers and police posts on the and water and gas pipelines. that the transformers be in Central Verge. We will try to find Surprisingly, no one’s complain stalled on either side of the road. another location,” said a senior ing. Traders and residents in This is being opposed by the officer with SRDC. Chandni Chowk are, in fact, ex traders in the area who don’t cited about the redevelopment want any transformer or public Wire-to-wire work being carried out in the utility services outside their An engineer working at the pro area. shops. “The installation of elec ject site said that moving the “We are very happy with the tricity transformers, police overhead cables underground ongoing redevelopment work. cluding the Delhi Metro Rail Cor lines and gas pipelines, we have solid waste that will be segregat booth and public toilets on the was the biggest task undertaken The authorities have worked poration, Archaeological Survey prepared a sample stretch on ed at the time of generation. We roadside will create an obstruc as part of the redevelopment hard to make the area free of of India, Chandni Chowk Sarv the Red Fort side. We have tried are focusing on public utility ser tion to the shops. They will re plan. “We have successfully overhead wires. They have done Vyapar Mandal, Delhi Police, to cause as little inconvenience vices like toilets, drinking water, sult in business loss and add to completed 80% of the work incredible work,” said Sanjay Delhi Transport Corporation, to visitors and residents as possi police booth, tourist desk encroachment,” said Mr. Bhar without causing much inconve Bhargav, president of Chandni Delhi Fire Service among others. ble,” said Mr. Panigrahi. among others,” said Mr. gav. Also, transformers on the nience to the residents and Chowk Sarv Vyapar Mandal. To finish the redevelopment ing its rich heritage and culture. Panigrahi. road pose a fire hazard to shops shopkeepers. Cell phone service The redevelopment of Chand plan by the March 2020 dea History in the making According to the initial plan and hinder pedestrian move providers have also adhered to ni Chowk, one of the oldest and dline, the Shahjahanabad Rede Chandni Chowk was one of the Heritage status (in 2017), 19 electricity trans ment, he added. the deadline provided to them busiest markets in Delhi, is an velopment Corporation, the most important streets in the The redevelopment work is be formers, six toilets, and two pol Some residents are not in fa for shifting their lines to the un extraordinary project not only firm managing the project, has historical city of Shahjahana ing carried out keeping in mind ice posts were to be installed on vour of the transformers and derground network.” for the authorities but also the conducted 44 meetings with the bad, Delhi. Through the Mughal, the heritage status of the area. the 3.6meterwide Central utilities being installed on the Traders were all praise for local residents and traders who stakeholders since January 2017. colonial, and postIndepen The entire stretch from Red Verge, but later the stakeholders Central Verge. “Installations at SRDC keeping them in the loop have been waiting for over 15 Nitin Panigrahi, deputy gen dence era, the street has been a Fort to Fatehpuri Masjid, around realised that it will create hin the Central Verge will not go on redevelopment decisions and years to see an encroachment eral manager (project and admi bustling market place and the 1.5 km, is being redeveloped as a drance to the view of the Red with the heritage status of the taking everyone along as the free, utilitiesequipped, clean nistration), SRDC, told The Hin epicentre of Shahjahanabad. pedestrian and nonmotorised Fort from Chandni Chowk and street. The aim of the redevelop work gained pace. and green area. du that because of the efforts of The redevelopment plan in vehicle street. For the conve might not go with the heritage ment work, to get a clear view “We haven’t faced much diffi The project, first launched in the stakeholders the project is tends to make it a “great street” nience of commercial activity in status of the street. between Red Fort and Fatehpuri culty in doing business even 2004 following the intervention well on track and will be com once again. It intends to decon the Chandni Chowk area, entry The Delhi Urban Arts Com Masjid, will not be achieved,” though the entire area is dug up of the Delhi High Court, is near pleted within the time frame. gest the area, facilitate free ped of vehicles will be allowed from mission said the proposed utili said Mahesh Jain, a local. for redevelopment work. It gives ing completion, thanks to the ef “The work is now in full estrian movement, provide bas 9 p.m. to 9 a.m. ties and transformers on the The Delhi High Court has di us confidence when customers forts put in by the stakeholders swing. After completing the lay ic facilities, enhance greenery “We are paying special atten Central Verge would create a rected the authorities to com reach the shops despite the involved, in all 24 of them, in ing of underground wires, water around the place while showcas tion to the efficient disposal of trail of visual as well as physical plete the installation of the mess all around,” said a trader.

HC upholds Two held for duping bank of Section 7(3) of ₹10 lakh; manager absconding Extradition Act Staff Reporter Duo made fake IDs and companies to open accounts to seek loans New Delhi The Delhi High Court dis Staff Reporter an SUV from a Greater Noida perty dealer. He said he missed a petition seeking to New Delhi showroom but after paying knew a person who worked strike down Section 7(3) of Two persons have been ar three installments, he did not as a manager in the bank. the Extradition Act, 1962 rested for allegedly duping a deposit the remaining ac The police said Kamil, the holding that there can be no public sector bank of ₹10 count. A case of cheating was manager and another asso parity between Indian laws lakh by opening several ac registered. ciate planned to open bank and laws of other nations. counts and taking loans in During the investigation, accounts on fake names and The petition argued that the names of fake compa the police found that the ad IDs. the rules applicable to the nies, the police said on dress, salary slips, bank “The manager forged the Indian citizens where extra Sunday. statements, and other docu documents which are re dition is sought to the Unit Deputy Commissioner of ments were all fake. They al quired to open a savings ac ed States was “discriminato Police (SouthEast) Chinmoy so found that neither was any count after which Kamil ry” against the rules Biswal said the accused have car purchased nor does any opened one in December applicable to U.S. nationals been identified as Kamil (37) such showroom exists. Ho 2012. Then they opened a whose extradition is sought and Ansar Khan (25), both wever, it was found that the fake car company and Kamil to India. Petitioner, Nikhil from Greater Noida. One em demand draft issued by the was made proprietor in it af Kolbekar, contended that ployee of the bank, who was bank was deposited in a cur ter which they opened his while Section 7(3) of the Ex also involved in the crime, is rent account in the name of current account,” Mr. Biswal tradition Act calls for ‘a pri said to be absconding. Kamil. Following this, raids said. The accused then roped ma facie case’ only; in the were conducted and the ac in Ansar, a labourer, luring U.S., the Office of Interna Complaint in 2018 cused were nabbed from him with easy money. Ansar tional Affairs forwards the The police said, in 2018, they their village in Gautam was shown as the manager of request to the U.S. Attor received a complaint from Buddh Nagar, U.P., on August the car company and applied ney’s Office in the district the bank’s Mathura Road 5. During interrogation, Ka for a loan, the police said. where the fugitive is locat branch stating that in 2013, a mil allegedly told the police Mr. Biswal said teams are ed, only if the material is man named Ansar Khan took that he works as a guard in looking for the absconding “sufficient and appro a loan of ₹10 lakh to purchase Noida and earlier was a pro accused. priate”. Plant 50 trees, Autorickshaw driver held for killing HC tells power theft accused septuagenarian; one on the run Accused strangulated her before fleeing with jewellery Staff Reporter New Delhi Special Correspondent the police said, adding that clared her dead and told the The Delhi High Court direct GURUGRAM the duo then hatched a con couple that she had been ed a man to plant 50 trees An autorickshaw driver has spiracy to kill and rob her. murdered. for it to close criminal pro been arrested for allegedly On August 2, the accused The matter was then re ceedings against him in a killing an elderly woman in rang the doorbell at 9 a.m. ported to the police. A joint power theft case. DLF PhaseI earlier this and gained entry inside the team of DLF PhaseI Police Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva month, the police said on house as he was known to Station and Sector 31 Crime asked the man to report to Sunday. her. Gautam scaled the Branch scrutinised the the Deputy Conservator of Gautam Das (28) along boundary wall of the house CCTV footage and interro Forest to plant trees “of de with his accomplice strangu to enter through the kitchen. gated around 200 labourers ciduous indigenous variety lated the woman with her The two allegedly overpo in Chakkarpur and Sikander with a nursery age of three dupatta during a robbery wered the elderly and stran pur villages to zero in on the and a half years and a height and fled with her jewellery, gulated her. suspects. of at least six feet” in the said the police. He was Gautam was arrested Central Ridge Reserve For nabbed from West Bengal’s No response to calls from his village Karalia and est, Buddha Jayanti Park Nadia. When Khanna did not res taken on four days transit re and the Vandemataram The victim, Indira Khan pond to calls from her sister mand. “He was produced Marg of the city. na (72), had hired a few la Devika Narula from Sushant before the court on Sunday The court said aerial pic bourers for some construc LokI, she along with her and remanded to seven days tures, prior to and after tion work in her backyard husband came to check on police custody. He will be in planting, shall be obtained. and one of the accused, who her. The couple saw that the terrogated to make recover The officer will ensure is still at large, had worked at door was open and the vic ies and arrest his accom upkeep of the plantation her house for three days. tim was lying unconscious plice,” said SHO, DLF and will file a report six He told Gautam that the on the kitchen floor. 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NOW AND THEN ‘I learnt to embrace whatever came my way’ Vishaal Uppal, former tennis player and now coach, talks about his career and why the game is not all about skill

Patel, who qualified for the Kamesh Srinivasan World Group final in the un der16 event in 2016. He was ishaal Uppal is busy the coach of the team when packing his bags to go Sacchitt Sharrma and Mahak Vto London for the Jain won the U.K. under14 Road to Wimbledon pro championship on the grass gramme, accompanying courts of Wimbledon in 2015. young tennis players as their coach. “It is an initiative by Delhi ward the Wimbledon Foundation Uppal loves the city he has where the champion and grown up in: “There are runnerup in the boys and great facilities but there's girls tournament make it to great chaos too. It has a great the U.K. under14 champion culture and the food is excel ship held there.” Uppal is lent.” He particularly enjoys happy using his experience Colonel’s Kababz at Defence as a player to now associate Colony. “I once took the with the game as a coach. Road To Wimbledon team It’s ironic really, because represented India in the Da (including former World No. Uppal, now 42, began with vis Cup and the crowning 4 Tim Henman and the late cricket. Even today, just as he moment came at the Busan Paul Hutchins, the British Da did as a sevenyearold, he’ll Asian Games in 2002 when vis Cup captain) there and mimic the bowling action of he won the men’s doubles they fell in love with it.” his 1983WorldCupwinning bronze with Mustafa Ghouse Despite being devoted to heroes, Kapil Dev and Roger as partner. Leander Paes and tennis, Uppal does find time Binny. “I fancied myself as an Mahesh Bhupathi took the for golf, and has many allrounder and they were gold. “What a moment it friends from both the circles. my idols. I took to tennis at 11 was. I live it everyday,” Uppal (Anti-clockwise from above) Vishaal Uppal (right) on his Davis “Tennis is my first love, and only because playing cricket lapses into the past even as Cup debut in 2000; with wife Neha; at home; talking to golf is a dangerous fling. I do during breaks at school was he discusses the present. Karman Kaur Thandi, as the captain of the Fed Cup team; ready enjoy playing golf, and doing becoming tough. Being a fast for a volley * V. V. KRISHNAN, SANDEEP SAXENA, SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT some events,” he says. His runner, I would be the first Opportunity speaks wife, Neha, is one of India’s on the tennis court. Gradual Living in Defence Colony and foremost TV presenters and ly, tennis became my first shuttling between his two to be skilful, mentally given the freedom to choose a corporate MC. Uppal is also love even though I follow tennis centres at the Delhi alert, physically my career. Tennis was plan A much sought in the media for cricket closely even today.” Lawn Tennis Association tough, tactically cor and studies plan B. I was his forthright views. “I enjoy The turning point came as Complex in Safdarjung En rect. You have to keep the good at both,” says Uppal, doing TV work. It helps me a student at Delhi's Modern clave and the VAN Sports fundamentals right, and let who graduated from the Shri contribute to the growth of School. He was picked to Club in Baliawas in Guru day you have nearly 30 ten to Gwalior (in 1989) and my took turns. We had to travel the natural ability of the Ram College of Commerce. the sport and to better play in the Father O’Brien gram, Uppal tries to make his nis courts within 3 kilo parents gave me ₹500. (back to Delhi) unreserved child take over. There are “I never ignored my studies awareness,” he says. tennis tournament, where he wards play to the best of metres of where I stay. I There, we learnt everything overnight, sleeping near the many challenging factors. and tell my students that ten On his career, Uppal has a lost in the semifinals after their abilities. “How to hit a would use public transport was free. I returned the mo toilet in the train. I learnt to Skill and technique are not nis should not happen at the philosophical view. “There is eliminating higherranked tennis ball is the easiest part. to reach DLTA and it was fun. ney when I got back. A few embrace whatever came my going to change. You have to cost of education.” He him no point regretting what I did players. Cricket took a back There are mental and physi I would hitchhike. It made days later I travelled to Luck way. It has helped me and handle situations,’’ says Up self made a decision to quit not achieve. I had a lot of seat for Uppal that day, and cal aspects that need more me tough. It also kept me now for the national cham that is what I share with my pal watching the Asian men’s his job at the Gas Authority hunger but not many oppor he was determined to win. attention. There is way too grounded,” says the man pionship with just ₹200. students. To remain humble tennis tournament organised of India Limited to focus en tunities. I like to see the glass He may have had limita much emphasis on how to who had a comfortable When we reached, we were and grounded.” in memory of his grandfath tirely on coaching. half full. My only regret was tions as a player on the ten hit the ball,” he says. upbringing. told to pay for everything. er, Krishna Kumar Uppal. As a coach, he has guided my tennis career getting cut nis court, but that same de He goes back to his youn He talks of a life lesson So, five of us shared a room Educated choices “My grandfather was an the Junior Davis Cup team: short because of my allergy termination to make a career ger days. “There were hardly from his first travel for a com and beds. Two on the bed He has a realistic approach to Army officer, father a lawyer Siddhant Banthia, Adil Ka to dust. I am blessed to be in in the game persisted. Uppal four training spots for us; to petitive tournament. “I went and three on the floor — we tennis coaching. “You need and mother a doctor. I was lyanpur and Megh Bhargav a family with caring people.” Protests over Ravidas temple demolition Sambhal incident accused One held for killed in police encounter provocative Punjab CM Amarinder Singh seeks Prime Minister’s intervention to pacify community members WhatsApp Second of three undertrials who escaped Press trust of india Supreme Court’s judgment, strategy to resolve the issue religious links of the site with status Chandigarh which led to the razing of the with the Centre, said an offi Guru Ravidas. Special Correspondent said on Sunday that the pol Amid Statewide protests by religious structure, he did cial statement, quoting the Mr. Singh said given the Ghaziabad ice cordoned off the Mullan Special Correspondent the Ravidas community over not favour demolition of Chief Minister. “gravity and sensitivity” of In an encounter on Sunday, pur jungle area after an in Ghaziabad(U.P.) the alleged demolition of a monuments and structures The committee comprised the matter, it was imperative Shakil, the second of the former told them that four The Muzaffarnagar police temple in New Delhi on the of historical importance, Santokh Singh, Charanjit that the Central government, three accused who escaped gangsters were present arrested a youngster, purported direction of the connected so deeply with Singh Channi, Raj Kumar led by the Prime Minister from police custody on July there. “We were told Dha Zeeshan Islam, for alleged apex court, Punjab Chief Mi the sentiments of any Chabbewal, Aruna Chaud himself, take steps to restore 17 after killing two consta rampal and Shakil could be ly putting a provocative nister Amarinder Singh on community. hary and Sushil Kumar the site to its original struc bles, was shot dead in the part of the group. Mr. Pra Whatsapp status on Sun Sunday sought Prime Minis Dalits on Saturday had Rinku. ture and layout. jungles of Mullanpur under sad was leading the team. As day. ter Narendra Modi’s inter held protests at several plac Underlining the need to the Rajpura police station in we zeroed in, they fired at Zeeshan, a resident of vention to pacify the com es in Punjab amid reports of uphold the sanctity of the Highways blocked Sambhal district. the team and Mr. Prasad was the Kakrauli area of the dis munity leaders. the temple’s demolition. CM Amarinder Singh site, important not only for An official spokesperson la Police sources said Supe hit. Fortunately, the bullets trict, had put a WhatsApp Mr. Singh made the appeal Mr. Singh also appealed to Ravidas community but for ter said the Chief Minister rintendent of Police Yamu hit the bulletproof jacket. In status which praised the to the Prime Minister as com the community members to community to rebuild the all Sikhs and Punjabis the took cognisance of the issue na Prasad, who was heading the retaliatory fire, Shakil Pakistan Army and promi munity members, holding call off their protests, saying temple. world over, the Chief Minis amid protests by Dalits at the operation, was also hit was shot dead while Dha nently displayed the Pakis demonstrations under the the State government was Legends say the sacred ter said the demolition of the Ludhiana, Jalandhar, Phag by two bullets fired by the rampal escaped. Two fi tan and the ISIS flag. banner of Guru Ravidas ready to extend its full sup place on which the temple temple could trigger serious wara, Gurdaspur and Amrit gangsters. He was saved by rearms have been recovered Jayanti Samaroh Samiti, port to them to get the mat was built was visited by Guru unrest among the communi sar, where several State high his bulletproof jacket. Three from the spot,” the police of Booked under IT Act called for a nationwide shut ter amicably resolved with Ravidas around 1509 during ty members, not just in Pun ways were blocked, causing constables were injured in ficer said. Confirming the arrest, Ram down on August 13. They the Central government. the reign of Sikander Lodhi. jab but elsewhere too. hardship to commuters. the operation. He said combing opera Mohan Sharma, Circle Of have also decided to observe Promising all legal and fi The Chief Minster said it The protesters, led by Sri tions were on to nab Dha ficer, Bhopa, said the Independence Day as ‘Black Land reallotment sought nancial help to the commun was essential to resolve the Guru Ravidas Sadhu Sampar Accused escapes rampal. screenshot had gone viral. Day’ to protest against de He also spoke to Union Ur ity to resolve the matter and matter urgently, taking all dai Society chairman Sant Accused Dharampal once Asked why it was taking “We took immediate action molition of the temple in the ban Development Minister rebuild the temple at the the parties concerned, in Mohinderpal Pandwa, also again managed to escape so long to nab the culprits, and booked him under re Tughlakabad area. Hardeep Singh Puri to seek same place, Mr. Singh also cluding the DDA, into confi blocked the national high from the police net. On July Mr. Kant said: “The jungle is levant sections of the IT Taking note of the prot reallotment of the temple set up a fivemember panel dence and by taking into ac way1 opposite the Shiroma 20, Kamal, the other under spread over an area of six Act.” ests, the Chief minister on land, reportedly belonging to meet the religious and pol count the the vast pool of ni Guru Ravidas Temple near trial, was shot dead by the seven kilometres. It is not an He said the police were Sunday said though he did to the Delhi Development itical representatives of the legal and other evidence Chak Hakeem village on the Amroha police. easy terrain to track sea investigating if Zeeshan not wish to comment on the Authority, to enable the community and formulate a which prove the historic and PhagwaraJalandhar stretch. DSP Krishna Kant Saroj soned criminals.” had any link with terror groups.

DELHI Timings 4 policemen dismissed for raiding Bihar police drive to stop mob violence Monday, Aug. 12 RISE 05:49 SET 19:04 RISE 17:00 SET 02:45 priest’s house without approval Eight persons have been lynched in past two weeks over child-lifting rumours Tuesday, Aug. 13 Amarnath Tewary RISE 05:49 SET 19:03 have been named and 150 drive against such incidents also been reported from Kai patna RISE 17:43 SET 03:37 ‘Pilfered’ crores from ‘seized’ money in Jalandhar are unidentified in the FIR… and make people aware mur and East Champaran The Bihar police have we have arrested 23 of those through social media and districts. In Patna district, in Wednesday, Aug. 14 Press trust of india RISE 05:50 SET 19:02 were dismissed under Sec leased forthwith. launched a massive drive on involved in the incident,” the public interaction not to be cidents of mob lynching Patiala RISE 18:31 SET 04:30 tion 311(2) (B) of the Consti The priest had claimed social media and are con officerincharge of the Nau lieve in rumours. were mainly reported from Three Assistant SubInspec tution following departmen that the money was part of ducting awareness pro batpur police station, Sam Sadisopur, Neora, Maner, tors of Police (ASIs) are tal inquiries. Mr. Sidhu said the business proceeds and grammes, appealing to peo rat Deepak Kumar, said. ‘Don’t believe rumours’ Rupaspur, Fatuha and among four Punjab police the dismissed policemen are accused the police of alleg ple to stay away from mob He added that the local Patna Senior Superintended Naubatpur. men dismissed from service, ASIs Joginder Singh, Raj edly misappropriating some violence which has taken police have been appealing of Police Garima Mallik held “Special drives have been over four months after they preet Singh, Dilbagh Singh amount from the money eight lives in the past two to people, while making an public meetings in different launched to sensitise people raided a priest’s house in Ja and Head Constable Amrik they had seized. weeks, mostly in Patna dis nouncement on loudspeak locations of the capital and against such rumours... spe landhar without any appro Singh. The Patiala police had trict. Over two dozen cases ers, not to believe in such ru appealed to the people not cial patrolling of police per val, a senior official said. SSP held a departmental probe have reportedly been trig mours. to fall prey to such rumours. sonnel too have been initiat Patiala Mandeep Singh Sid Police claim into the alleged role of ASIs gered by rumours of child Earlier, on August 3, two The Patna District Magis ed in such rumourprone hu on Saturday dismissed The Khanna police had in Joginder Singh and Rajpreet lifting in the past one month. such incidents of mob vio trate, Kumar Ravi, too has areas,” State Director Gener the four policemen, who are March initially claimed to Singh, whose statements On Saturday, a man was lence were reported in Ru expressed concern over al of Police Gupteshwar Pan currently lodged in Patiala have recovered ₹9.66 crore helped the investigating beaten to death by a violent paspur and Dhanarua such incidents and asked pe dey told media persons on Central Jail. from six men including a team recover ₹4.60 crore. mob in Mohammadpur vil villages. ople to remain vigilant about Saturday. The four were part of a church priest. However, the The Special Investigation lage under the Naubatpur Alarmed with the rising such rumour mongering. In 2018 as many as 19 inci police party which conduct priest had taken up the issue Team handling the case police station in Patna dis trend of mob violence over In most of the incidents, dents of mob lynching were ed a raid at a priest’s house with the police and the In claimed that the accused trict. The lynching took childlifting rumours, the the victims have been from reported from the State, in Jalandhar without any ap comeTax Department and had returned the sum ‘pil place following rumour that police headquarters has in weaker section of society. while in 2017 and 2016 the proval in April this year. sought that the entire ₹16.65 fered’ from the confiscated the man was a child lifter. structed all district police su Apart from Patna, such inci number of such incidents He said the policemen crore ‘seized’ money be re amount during the raid. “As many as 43 people perintendents to launch a dents of mob lynching have were 13 and 7 respectively.

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Generator Dalit Christians demand SC status coach of train ‘Centre’s agenda now is only politics’ It will be a step towards social equality: NCDC Odisha chief catches fire It is for everyone to see and realise the true situation, says West Bengal CM Staff Reporter Prafulla Kumar Lima said the Dalit Sikhs in 1956 and Da Press Trust of India BERHAMPUR SC status to Dalit Christians lit Buddhists in 1990 were in Press Trust of India the Indian Railways. “This plete policy paralysis perpe Balasore (Odisha) The Dalit Christians of south would be a great step to cluded in the SC quota list. Kolkata would lead to lakhs and trated by the Central govern The generator coach of Odisha districts are demand wards social equality. Organ But no others who profess West Bengal Chief Minister lakhs of unemployment,” ment leading to significant Howrahbound Dhauli Ex ing Scheduled Caste status isation’s State secretary religions different from Hin Mamata Banerjee on Sunday she claimed. decline of overall growth press caught fire at Soro from the government. Acharya Bikash Vardhan said duism, Sikhism or Buddhism said the agenda of the BJP Describing the recent job rate of the country and high railway station in Odisha According to the Odisha the downtrodden in the can be deemed to be SC. led Central government has losses in the automobile and est unemployment in 45 on Sunday but there was unit of the National Council Christian community should NCDC leaders argue that it shifted from economic deve leather sectors as “tragic”, years,” Ms. Banerjee wrote. no report of any casualty, of Dalit Christians (NCDC) , also get the benefits being violates Article 15 of the Con lopment to “only politics”. the Trinamool Congress She congratulated the pe officials said. around 42% of the total Dalit provided to the families of stitution that mandates that Calling upon the people to chief said that the move was ople of the State for the feat No one was hurt as the Christians in the State live in lower strata of other reli the State shall not discrimi realise the “true situation” of contrary to what the BJP had and held the BJPled Central affected coach was de eight districts — Gajapati, gions like Sikhism and nate against any citizen on the country, she also criti promised before coming to government responsible for tached from the train and Ganjam, Kandhamal, Buddhism. religious grounds. cised the Centre’s move to power in the Centre for the the current slump in the fire brigade was called Boudh, Koraput, Rayagada, “When a Dalit person ‘corporatise’ several PSUs. second time. economy. in, which doused the Nabarangpur and Malkangi ‘Protect from atrocities’ changes his religion his so Mamata Banerjee. * FILE PHOTO “The government came to “As per reports of Govt of flames, they said. The train ri. NCDC leader Dhirendranath cioeconomic condition does ‘Investments plunged’ power with the agenda of India, growth rate of West was detained at Soro for Dalit Christian representa Sabhapati said apart from not change. He continues to “Investment in new projects now. The agenda of the go creating more employment Bengal for the financial year about an hour. tives from these districts Dalit Christians, the Dalit suffer the same castebased plunged to 15 years’ low in vernment has changed from opportunities. What we are 201819 is 12.58%, the highest The fire was detected af have jointly sent a memoran Muslim community was also vagaries in his own locality. the quarter ending June economy and development seeing now is that those who in India. My heartiest con ter smoke starting emanat dum to the Central govern facing similar problems. Ac But after becoming a Chris 2019. New projects an to politics, politics and only are in employment are los gratulations to all,” Ms. Ba ing from the generator ment and the Supreme Court cording to him, conferring tian this person loses his SC nounced in June quarter politics,” Ms. Banerjee wrote ing their jobs,” she added. nerjee wrote on her Twitter coach at Soro station in Ba through the Revenue Divi the SC status on Dalit Chris status as well as several be 2019 are 81% lower than on her Facebook wall. The Chief Minister also re handle on Sunday morning. lasore district in the after sional Commissioner, South tians and Dalit Muslims will nefits attached to it,” said Mr. what was announced in ferred to West Bengal emerg Bengal is followed by And noon, they said. ern Division. provide them a shield Sabhapati. March quarter 2019 and 87% ‘Corporatising PSUs’ ing on the top of the list of hra Pradesh which has re The exact cause of the On July 20, a conference against atrocities under the In April 2014, Dalit Chris lower than the same period a Ms. Banerjee was also criti States for GDP growth rate, corded a GDP growth of fire is yet to be ascertained, on the issue was held at Mo SC/ST (Prevention of Atroci tians had approached the Su year ago,” she said in a Face cal about the Central govern achieving 12.58% during 11.02%, Bihar with 10.53% the officials said, adding hana in Gajapati district, ties) Act, 1989. In Kandhamal preme Court seeking parity book post. ment’s reported move to 201819. and Telangana 10.5% respec that the train left for its which was attended by dele district, the minority fami in quota. The next hearing of “It is for everyone to see ‘corporatise’ several PSUs, “Our achievement is in tively. Goa is at the bottom of destination after thorough gates from all over Odisha. lies facing atrocities are this case is in September this and realise the true situation including the Ordnance Fac sharp contrast to the state of the list with 0.47% growth checking. NCDC Odisha president mostly Dalit Christians. year. where our country stands tory Board, the BSNL and deep recession and com rate. BJP groups clash over induction of new leaders Press Trust of India gy for the next Assembly police said. Several party that TMC MLA from Baraba Durgapur (W.B.) elections at a ‘chintan baith workers were injured and ni Bidhan Upadhyay’s cousin The debate over the induc ak’ here. The party leader the meeting had to be can Moloy would be joining the tion of new leaders in the BJP ship was scheduled to ad celled, sources said. BJP. from other parties came out dress a rally just a few The BJP State unit had or Party old timers started in the open on Sunday, as metres away. ganised a twoday ‘chintan shouting slogans against Mr. two groups of party workers baithak’ from Saturday at Moloy and the BJP leader clashed in the Durgapur area Venue ransacked Durgapur, where it was sche ship, which led to a clash of Pashchim Bardhaman Following the clash, the ve duled to prepare its strategy between the two groups. district. nue of the rally was ran and organisational aspects TMC leader Jitendra Tiwa The incident occurred sacked, and barricades, for the 2021 Assembly poll. ri said that the incident even as the party’s Bengal chairs, tables and micro However, things took an ugly points to the “kind of rot” unit was preparing its strate phones were broken, the turn when it was announced that has set in the BJP. EDUCATIONAL EDUCATIONAL EDUCATIONAL SITUATION VACANT EDUCATIONAL SITUATION VACANT CONSULTANTS GENERAL

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THE HINDU DELHI MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 2019 WEST 7 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Sangli boat tragedy toll reaches 17; 4.41 lakh evacuated Relief operations in full swing as water levels of Krishna, Panchganga rivers remain high; National Highway 4 linking Mumbai with Bengaluru via Kolhapur shut for traffic Shoumojit Banerjee Pune With floodwaters receding Amit Shah in Sangli and Kolhapur dis tricts, five more bodies were conducts discovered on Saturday in connection with the boat aerial survey tragedy in Sangli’s Brahma nal village, taking the toll to Press Trust of India 17. With this, the total num Mumbai ber of deaths in floods or Union Home Minister rainrelated accidents Amit Shah on Sunday across western Maharashtra conducted an aerial has touched 40. survey of floodhit areas Pune Divisional Commis in Satara, Sangli and sioner Deepak Mhaisekar Kolhapur districts said, “Nineteen people have before heading towards died in Sangli, of which 17 Karnataka, an official were killed in the boat acci said. dent while one person is still Mr. Shah is supposed missing. Six have died in to assess the flood Kolhapur with one is mis situation in Belagavi sing in the district as well. district in the

There have been seven rain Two extremes: A villager gets back to work as floodwater recedes at Haripur village in Sangli district on Sunday; and people queue up near a water tanker in Kolhapur. * JIGNESH MISTRY * DEEPAK KUMBHAR neighbouring State. related deaths in Satara and He was briefed by Pune districts, and one ca Satara, Pune and Solapur housed in 305 temporary With evacuation and res dles and other essential ty will be given to heavy veh pitals are providing free Chief Minister Devendra sualty in Solapur.” have been shifted to shelters shelters in these two dis cue operations nearly com items. The 770odd NDRF ja icles like oil tankers carrying medical aid in Sangli and Fadnavis in the morning Earlier this week, at least till now. tricts,” he said. plete, NDRF teams and oth wans and Army and Navy essential supplies to flood Kolhapur districts, while Go about the current flood 30 people on a boat belong Of them, 2.45 lakh from Relief operations are still er relief agencies are now personnel are using 180odd hit areas,” Abhinav Desh kul dairy is offering free milk situation and the ing to grampanchayat of more than 50,000 families on at full strength in Sangli wading through the waters boats. mukh, Superintendent of throughout the day.” measures undertaken in Brahmanal, which was cut have been evacuated in Kol and Kolhapur as water le to supply those who have Road communications Police, Kolhapur, said. Help has poured in from the southern regions of off by floodwaters, were try hapur, while 1.58 lakh from vels of the Krishna and chosen to remain in their within the districts and to The immediate challenge individuals, social organisa western Maharashtra. ing to move to safe quarters, over 29,000 families have Panchganga rivers remain residences. other parts of the State re before the administration is tions and charitable trusts. “We have been sending when it capsized. While been rescued from rising high. The Panchganga is There are a total of 104 main paralysed owing to the health of the floodhit The Shirdi Saibaba Sansthan a daily dossier on the nine bodies were recovered water levels in Sangli. flowing at 51 feet in Kolha rescue and relief teams, in high floodwaters, with the people and the need to pre Trust on Saturday declared it flood relief measures immediately, three more “Of the 4.03 lakh evacuat pur while the Krishna is at cluding the National and National Highway (NH) 4 vent the outbreak of any would give ₹10 crore to the and coordination were found on Friday, and ed in these two districts, 1.19 53 feet. The Krishna is still State Disaster Response that links Mumbai with Ben epidemic. Chief Minister’s Relief Fund, among various rescue five more on Saturday. lakh belonged to the 42 way above its danger mark Force (NDRF and SDRF), Ar galuru via Kolhapur is shut. Mr. Mhiasekar said at pre while the Bharatiya Jan San teams to the Union Meanwhile, Mr. Mhaise worstaffected villages in of 45 feet and nearly the le my, Navy and Coast Guard “Until water fully recedes sent, there are 302 medical vidhan Manch in Kolhapur is Home ministry,” an kar said 4.41 lakh people Kolhapur and Sangli, which vel at which it flowed at the units, which are distributing on the highway, the NH4 teams working round the providing meals twice a day official from the Chief across the five floodhit dis were cut off by the floods. time of the 2005 deluge in food packets, drinking wa cannot be reopened for reg clock in Sangli, Kolhapur to the floodhit in both the Minister’s Office said. tricts of Sangli, Kolhapur, Presently, these people are Sangli. ter, medical supplies, can ular traffic. Then too, priori and Satara districts. “All hos districts. How can one think of polls No formalin found in fish imported to Goa: minister during floods, asks Uddhav FDA staff deployed at border check posts Raj sought EC’s intervention to postpone Assembly polls Press Trust of India Panaji Press Trust of India Goa Health Minister Vishwa Mumbai jit Rane has said no trace of A day after Maharashtra Nav formalin has been found in nirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj fish brought to the State Thackeray demanded post from outside. Regular ponement of the Assembly checks are being conducted elections in view of the on fish imported to Goa, Mr. floods, Shiv Sena president Rane said in the Assembly Uddhav Thackeray on Sun on the last day of its mon day asked how people could soon session on Friday. think of polls at such a criti “The Directorate of Food cal time. and Drugs Administration Raj on Saturday sought Frank talk: Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray addressing (FDA) has been regularly the Election Commission’s testing samples of fish media at the party headquarters on Sunday. * RAJESH WARADKAR (EC) intervention to post brought to Goa from outside pone the polls, due in Sep ment on any controversy ov Chief Minister Devendra and sold in local markets. Picture for representational temberOctober, saying it er the floods. Fadnavis and a BJP MLA. Till date, no added formalin purpose. would take time to restore State minister and BJP When asked for a com has been detected in any normalcy in the floodhit leader Girish Mahajan on ment on these issues, Udd sample,” he said in a written tradevi (North Goa district) districts. Friday stoked a controversy hav said, “I am not going into reply, to a question raised and Pollem (South Goa dis When asked about the after two selfie videos sur any controversy right now as by BJP MLA Alina Saldanha. trict) and various local mar MNS chief’s comments, faced purportedly showing the focus is on providing sup State FDA staff are de kets, he said. Uddhav told reporters, “I him smiling and waving port to the floodhit people.” ployed at the border check In July last year, the go don’t understand how can hands cheerfully as he in When Mr. Fadnavis was posts and major markets to vernment banned the im one think of elections in spected parts of the floodhit on Saturday asked about the conduct inspections, he port of fish, in view of the such a critical situation?” Kolhapur district. flak faced by Mr. Mahajan, said. “Till date, 6,003 sam scare of formalin, a cancer The Sena chief, while flag On Saturday, the Con he said the minister man ples have been tested. No inducing chemical used to ging off his party’s vehicles gress, NCP and MNS accused aged to reach the remotest added formaldehyde (for illegally preserve fish, being carrying relief material to the State government of village, and while on the way malin) has been detected in found in it. some areas of western Maha shamelessly advertising it back, someone shot the vi them.” The State govern The ban was later lifted rashtra and Konkan region, self, after it emerged that deo and pictures which were ment is also taking services and the government said his focus is on providing grain bags for flood victims circulated as selfie. “Every of the Quality Council of In launched stringent checking support to those affected by in parts of Sangli district car body should stick to a proto dia to conduct random measures on all fish stock the rain, and refused to com ried stickers with images of col,” he said. checks at the borders at Pa brought to the State.

INTERVIEW| UTTAM NIRAULA ‘Mixing religion, politics sees rights violation worldwide’ Uttam Niraula, global board member of the International Humanist and Ethical Union, says in a plural society, everyone should be able to express their ideas with dignity

Alok Deshpande able to express their ideas saheb Ambedkar, the tradi There are sceptics, who ■ Politicians want more is one of the best in the names of my gods and god Mumbai with dignity. tion is glorious. It is all about question god. It is not about votes. For them, making peo world. All democracies take desses. I was shocked. A Critical thinking, or the right to question authority or go democracy, dignity and giving up religion, but giving ple less involved in or aware it as a reference because of country so close to my own against a majoritarian view, may not be in vogue in the coun Does being a humanist mean equality. These days, west too much value to it, over hu of political or economic is its idea of scientific tamper, was detached from my be try these days, but valuing the individual’s freedom to express promoting atheism? ern countries are adopting it mans. Countries where the sues is a way to go forward. secularism, protecting the liefs. The process of ques himself or herself has roots in ancient India, says Uttam Ni more than we are. law of god is placed above This is a worldwide pheno country’s diversity. What is tioning and reading began, raula, a global board member of the International Humanist ■ Many of us are humanists the law for human beings menon. In the U.S., the presi happening in the country is and I started to consider my and Ethical Union, also known as Humanists Internati onal. and atheists, but we don’t Should one abolish religion find it difficult to grow. Sadly, dent is targeting immigrants the exact opposite of what self universal and not limited Democracy, dignity and equality collectively qualify as hu promote atheism. It is a per to be a humanist? the blasphemy law exists in to attract a large chunk of the Constitution says. Inter to a small sect. manism, and have been adopted more by the West, he s ays. sonal thing. But we make pe many places in the white voters. In India, polit mixing of religion and polit Mr. Niraula was in the city in connection with a threeday in ople think critically. Be open ■ No. There are world, as a gift from ics is being played to appease ics ensures that violation of How do you collaborate ternational conference organised by the Maharashtra And minded. We make people atheists and ra the British to ease the majority Hindu popula human rights is accepted as a with the United Nations? hashraddha Nirmulan Samiti, founded by the late rationalist question authority. tionalists. their tion. We believe that even if part of religion. Pakistan is Narendra Dabholkar. The conference marked 30 years of the There are pe colonisation. there is a single person who another example. In the ■ We work with special staff rationalist and antisuperstition movement in the St ate, and Many in India argue that ople who say, questions authority, he or name of Sharia law, the indi in the UN to raise the voice of witnessed participation from several organisations the world humanism is a western let’s forget Do you face she must be respected. Every vidual can be lynched. It the marginalised, especially over working in humanism, human rights and promoting a concept. What do you say? god for a mo challenges human being counts. But happens when religion mix those who are persecuted for scientific temper. Mr. Niraula spoke to The Hindu on whether ment and con from the politics does matter, and im es with the State. not belonging to a certain re a humanist is necessarily atheist, and the mixing of religion ■ It is not. Go back in time. It centrate on hu government pacts people. We work with ligion. There are many such with politics. Excerpts. is a unique idea that came man beings and in your work? them as well, and try to make You are from Nepal, a people in jail, given capital from greater Bharat, as one their betterment. them see reason. The human former Hindu country. How punishment. We raise their 80 countries. There are would call it: being rational, race depends on the policies did this line of work attract concerns. We also highlight Who is a humanist? some countries like Pakistan a nonbeliever, humanist and they make. you? cultural practices and super or Saudi Arabia where it is even an atheist. We are pro stitions that violate human ■ A humanist is someone very difficult for us to work. moting our heritage. Buddha How serious is the mixing of ■ My father was a priest and rights. We also follow up on who questions authority, is We are working on human encouraged everyone to ask religion with politics? when I was younger, I per investigations at the interna free thinking, open minded rights issues in general. questions, until you get the formed several karmakan tional level of murders of ac and does not violate human There are countries in the answer. What was the move ■ It is extremely serious. das (rituals). In college, tivists, like Dabholkar and rights. Because human rights world where people are not ment of Charvaka? It was Let’s take India’s example when I met people from oth Kalburgi (scholar and ration are universal and cannot be able to express their ideas, if against those making rules and the politics over the cow; er religions, I started ques alist M.M Kalburgi, who was violated in the name of caste, those are different from the for others, promoting shu the crimes that arise from tioning whether my view murdered in 2015). We also religion, masculinity or polit mainstream. A few examples dras to question authority. the hate directed at minori point was universal. I later extend support to organisa ics. The Humanist Interna can be seen in India as well. Jainism focused on human ties. It leads to an extremely got an opportunity to travel tions working on the ground tional, though based in Lon It is our belief that in a plural beings, rather than god. uncivilised discourse in the to Pakistan where I found by raising their concerns at a don, works in around 70 to society, everyone should be From that time to Dr. Baba country. India’s Constitution that they did not know the global level.

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DELHI THE HINDU 8 SOUTH MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 2019 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF Rahul visits landsliphit areas Tungabhadra floods Hampi, Congress leader promises help to floodaffected people; to visit Wayanad today 200 tourists stranded Staff Reporter hopeful of finding anyone MALAPPURAM / KOZHIKODE alive, but wanted at least to More than 2.5 lakh cusecs of water released from reservoir Former president of the Con recover the bodies . Though Karnataka Cabinet gress Rahul Gandhi, MP, on some of them managed to KUMAR BURADIKATTI expansion not for now BALLARI BENGALURU Sunday visited Kavalappara spot the exact locations of Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. in Kerala’s Malappuram dis many of the houses des Most of the monuments at Yediyurappa said he would trict, where more than 50 troyed in the calamity, the the World Heritage Site of visit New Delhi on Friday and people were feared trapped rescue workers could not re Hampi are flooded as more meet the BJP leadership to under mud and debris un move the debris that covered than 2.5 lakh cusecs of water discuss the flood situation in leashed by a massive land the buildings. is being released from Tun his State and seek assistance. slip that took place on Thurs Officials said it would take gabhadra reservoir at Muni “Cabinet expansion will also day night. at least three or four days to rabad in Koppal district. be discussed. Our priority is Mr. Gandhi visited other complete the search in the The increase in water re flood victims.” He had floodaffected areas and the area that extended over 50 lease has flooded many plac recently said that a decision displaced people housed in acres. es along the banks of the on Cabinet expansion would relief camps at Kavalappara Surveying the damage: Congress MP Rahul Gandhi at a Families at the camps told Tungabhadra in Koppal and No place spared: The flooded World Heritage Site of Hampi be taken on Sunday. and Mampad. Ignoring the landslip site in Malappuram, Kerala, on Sunday. * AFP/AICC Mr. Gandhi that largescale Ballari districts. in Ballari district of Karnataka * SPECIALARRANGEMENT warnings by the police and rehabilitation support was At Hampi, Purandara Two killed in boiler blast the security forces, Mr. with the inmates. Mr. Gandhi trieve only three more bo needed. Speedy interven Mantapa and Chola Mantapa to Virupapur Gaddi (island) provided by the Department in pharma unit in A.P. Gandhi walked up to the site assured the floodaffected dies from the landslip site at tion by the government was are submerged, while the and around 200 tourists, in of Water Resources, all the SRIKAKULAM/ VIZIANAGARAM Two workers were killed in a of disaster. He, later, visited a people all help possible. Kavalappara after an inten needed to rebuild houses, Rama Lakshmana Temple, cluding some students from 33 gates of the reservoir boiler blast at the captive relief camp at St. George He also visited Kundutho sive search on Sunday. With they told Mr. Gandhi. Eduru Basavanna Temple Bengaluru, are stranded were lifted — 28 gates by four power plant being operated Church, Poothanam, in du, near Mampad, where this, the number of con Mr. Gandhi is expected to and Salu Mantapa are heavi there. feet and five gates by one by Triveni Engineering for Pothukal village. He spent four of a family had been firmed deaths touched 12. visit the flood and landslip ly flooded. Water is expected The buildings housing a foot — on Sunday morning to Aurobindo Pharma, at over halfanhour at the killed when their house col Family members of some hit Wayanad district on Mon to reach the Virupaksha police station and the office release around 2 lakh cusecs Pydibhimavaram in A.P.’s camp, asking people about lapsed on them on Thursday of the missing persons also day after visiting Kaithapoyil Temple premises soon if the of the Circle Inspector of Pol of water as the reservoir was Srikakulam district on Sunday. the situation and listening night. Mr. Gandhi consoled joined the search and rescue relief camp in Kozhikode dis outflow from the reservoir is ice have also been flooded. seeing a heavy inflow thanks The deceased were identified patiently to their woes. Va the relatives. operations. They came to trict. Mr. Gandhi will also at increased further. Records and other impor to the downpour in the Tun as Reddi Rahul of rious State Congress leaders the spot leaving their chil tend a flood review meeting Other historical places tant materials at the struc gabhadra catchment area in Parvatipuram in Vizianagaram accompanied him. 3 more bodies found dren and other survivors at at the Wayanad Collectorate such as the Kampli Fort and tures have been shifted to the Western Ghats. district and B. Raja Rao of He then visited another Personnel of the Army and relief camps. at 3.30 p.m. on the day. Anjaneyaswamy Temple are the Jain Mantap and power The authorities have put Palasa in Srikakulam district. relief camp at MES Mampad National Disaster Manage The griefstricken people (Inputs from Kalpetta also flooded. supply to the buildings cut. the areas downstream on Another worker was injured College, where he interacted ment Force (NDRF) could re said they were not much Staff Reporter) There is no connectivity According to information high alert. Cow deaths: toxic Several villages in Telangana face threat of evacuation material in viscera High alert as rising waters would recede at ficer with officials from Agri two village revenue assis the Krishna and least by Monday evening as culture, Revenue and Pan tants have also been sta Officials suspect internal conspiracy there has been some letup chayat Raj Departments to tioned there. In the Jogulam Bhima are in spate in the rains in the catchment act swiftly when the need ar baGadwal district, about 50 areas. However, the Central ises,” he said. families from Nagardoddi vil Rajulapudi Srinivas the toxic material. B. Chandrashekhar Water Commisison (CWC) fo lage of Dharur mandal have VIJAYAWADA Officials are focussing on HYDERABAD recast clearly indicates more Boy missing been evacuated to a relief Veterinary officials, who col the internal dissent in the As the Krishna river and one flood in the next couple of A 14yearold boy reportedly camp. Another 50 families lected viscera, water and SVGS which could have led of its tributaries Bhima are in days. went missing in the Sangem had refused to be evacuated. fodder samples from Sree to the poisoning of the spate, people of several vil banda canal and a couple of “Although we have not is Vijayawada Gosamrakshana cows. The police said there lages located along the banks Nine rescue teams ready teams were on the job to sued any advisory for evac Sangam (SVGS) here in And were no CCTVs in and in Narayanpet and Jogulam About 160 families of Vasu trace him. uation of villages, some fami hra Pradesh where over 100 around the cow shelter, ad baGadwal districts of Telan Nagar and Hindupur, both in An inundated temple at Hindpur village in Narayanpet district The Agriculture depart lies in the habitations along cows had died last week, re ding that 86 cows and a few gana are facing the threat of the Krishna mandal of Na of Telangana. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT ment reported that standing the river banks have moved portedly found the presence calves had died after con evacuation. rayanpet district, have been crops in over 3,000 acres to their relatives’ places vo of some toxic material in the suming fodder early on Sa Over 200 families from evacuated and sent to relief put in place for vulnerable cue operations. “We have were inundated and the loss luntarily,” Collector K. samples. turday. three villages have been al camps opened in the nearby areas. identified nine vulnerable would be estimated once the Shashanka said. Doctors who performed The police, who said ready evacuated and lodged villages after the Krishna wa Narayanpet Collector S. villages in Krishna (3), Mak floodwater recedes, the Col The district administra postmortem on the dead there was no section under in relief camps set up in the ter entered the villages. Venkata Rao told The Hindu thal (4) and Maganur (2) lector said. Medical and vete tion has identified halfado cows concluded that the IPC for suspicious death of neighbouring villages. The The district administra that one NDRF team with 20 mandals. One relief team rinary camps were also set zen villages in Dharur, Itikyal deaths did not occur due to cattle, are waiting for the administration of the two tion has been kept on high al personnel had already been formed for every village is up in all identified villages. and Alampur mandals as vul excess food consumption, Regional Forensic Science districts is hopeful that the ert with nine rescue teams pressed into relief and res headed by a districtlevel of Two police personnel and nerable to flooding. but due to the presence of Laboratory (RFSL) report. 14yearold girl raped, KRS dam likely to touch full reservoir level today commits suicide Increased outflow triggers panic among residents of lowlying areas Police form teams to nab accused duo Special Correspondent against the FRL of 124.8 ft. Special Correspondent her grandmother and Mandya Storage in the reservoir WARANGAL URBAN DT. relatives. The Krishnaraja Sagar (KRS) has significantly increased to A 14yearold girl, allegedly When her grandmother near Srirangapatna, a major the near FRL in just 11 days. raped by two youths on Sa went out on Sunday morn dam in the Cauvery basin in The live storage (LS) in the turday evening, was found ing, the victim hanged her Karnataka, is expected to at reservoir was 4.384 thou dead in her house here in self, the police said. The pol tain full reservoir level (FRL) sand million cubic feet Telangana in the early hours ice shifted her body to the by Monday as it has been re (tmcft.) at 6 p.m. on August 1. of Sunday. MGM Hospital for autopsy. ceiving a record 2,07,852 But, it recorded 35.943 According to the police, Following a complaint by cubic feet per second (cu tmcft. on Sunday evening, the girl studying in ninth her relatives, the police re secs) inflow from upstream CNNL sources said. class lived with her grand gistered a case. dams and catchment areas. mother at Sammaiah Nagar City Police Commissioner The augmented discharge Fields submerged under the KUC police sta V. Ravinder said they had of 1,53,769 cusecs from the The heavy discharge from tion limits. identified the accused as Ti reservoir has caused panic the KRS and a huge flow in One of her acquaintances rupathi, 20 and a 16year among residents of lowlying the upstream Hemavati river picked her up from her old. “We have formed spe areas along its course with (a tributary of the Cauvery) house on Saturday after cial teams to arrest the ac the water entering agricultu have inundated hundreds of noon and took her to Pem cused,” he said. ral fields. acres of farm land in K.R. barthy village. There he and (Contact Hyderabad According to the Cauvery Pet, Pandavapura, and Sri his friend allegedly raped based suicide intervention Neeravari Nigam Ltd. rangapatna taluks. her and later dropped her centre, Roshni, at (CNNL), the last time the KRS The swollen Cauvery has home late on Saturday. The 04066202000 in case of witnessed such copious in affected villages of Doddapa girl narrated the ordeal to any emotional breakdown) flow of two lakh cusecs was lya, Chikkapalaya, Hangara in 199192. halli, Mahadevapura, Dodde The level of the KRS, the gowdana Koppalu, Srinivasa main water source for Benga Agrahara, Karekura, among HAL awaits ₹20,000 cr. luru and many major towns others. Agricultural lands in Tamil Nadu, stood at 121 ft. were also inundated in Sri dues from Air Force LED lamps light up the water gushing from the KRS in Mandya, Karnataka, on Sunday. * M.A. SRIRAM at 6 p.m. on Sunday, as rangapatna.

Special Correspondent also comes in,” he said. The BENGALURU order is worth around A.P. forum protests The Hindustan Aeronautics ₹59,000 crore. DRDO focus on stealth weapons, drones Ltd is working towards com pleting by December the Fund crunch uranium mining first indigenous Light Com However, after recent price Laserbased directed energy weapons can disable missiles without debris bat Aircraft (LCA) made to negotiations, HAL has not the Air Force’s final or FOC received any order yet. Special Correspondent Dr. Reddy, who is Secre ers,” he said, delivering the ‘It will damage ecology of Nallamala’ configuration, according to Right now, money is its first BENGALURU tary, Department of Defence 12th annual Air Chief Mar R. Madhavan, CMD of HAL concern, Mr. Madhavan Directed energy weapons or R&D, said DEWs would play a shal L.M. Katre memorial Staff Reporter G. Bhargava, general se which manufactures the said. Fresh orders apart, the DEWs are among the next major role in future warfare. lecture. Kurnool cretary of Progressive Or planes for the IAF. defence PSU urgently needs bunch of military technolo “DEWs are extremely impor The talk was organised by The Joint Forum for Peo ganisation of People, said “Beyond that we aim to the cumulative arrears of gies that the Defence Re tant today. The world is mov the Air Force Association ple’s Democratic Rights the Chenchus are some of produce one LCA every around ₹20,000 crore from search and Development Or ing towards them. In the Karnataka in honour of the protested at the Kurnool the most ancient tribes in month,” he said, noting that the IAF. ganisation (DRDO) is country too, we are doing a former air chief who also was Collectorate in Andhra Pra India and the mining would the final operational clea Last year, HAL had to bor working on, Organisation lot of experiments. We have the chairman of Hindustan desh on Sunday morning, have a grave impact on rance (FOC) for the fighter row ₹1,000 crore from Chairman G. Satheesh Reddy been working in this area for Aeronautics Ltd (HAL). demanding an end to urani them. plane was given in February. banks in an unprecedented said on Sunday. the past three to four years to Apart from its current um mining in Nallamala He said the mining would The IAF has bought 20 LCAs act for paying staff salaries Laserbased or micro develop 10kW and 20kW fighter plane projects — the hills. affect the Krishna river, pol in the FOC version, having and routine expenses. wavebased highpower [weapons],” he said. LCA and advanced medium The forum, which repre luting the water and later already received the first lot “Until now we have so DEWs can quietly disable combat aircraft or AMCA — sents several organisations the villages around it. of 20 in the initial or IOC mehow managed [our fi enemy drones or missiles Hyderabad hub G. Satheesh Reddy India would look at pilotless and activists, has voiced Jana Vignaana Vedika version. He was speaking on nances] with our funds and temporarily or permanently The DRDO's Hyderabad hardware such combat concerns over the mining in founding member V. Brah the sidelines of the Air Chief from bank loans. I hope so without leaving physical de based lab, Centre for High have to be a technology lead drones or UCAVs (unmanned the forest region. Members ma Reddy, who has been a Marshal L.M. Katre memo mething will come through bris. In contrast, the ASAT or Energy Systems and Sciences er we need to lay our futuris combat air vehicles), as well said the uranium mining in vocal critic of the Central go rial lecture here on Sunday. soon for us to maintain the antisatellite missile that the (CHESS) is the node for all re tic technologies roadmap as swarm drones that fly in the forests would inevitably vernment’s decision, cited “We have the capacity to level.” Expectation is also on DRDO tested on March 27, lated activities. clearly, put a good amount of tandem for surveillance, at damage the delicate ecology mining in Chhattisgarh make 16 LCAs a year [at the the revised estimates in the killed an orbiting Indian tar Dr. Reddy said technology resources into it and also tack or intelligence gather of the region, and claimed where chemical processing Bengaluru complex.] We al Defence budget and some get satellite and left hun planning for the military work towards those technol ing. Any UCAV programme that Chenchu tribes of the and waste management of so expect that the firm order money from deliveries to dreds of small pieces as de should start at least 1020 ogies. Otherwise we will re could also use the Kaveri as region would be immediate uranium in Chhattisgarh is for the approved 83 planes the Army. bris for a few months. years in advance. “If we also main just technology follow its engine. ly affected. being done improperly.

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THE HINDU DELHI MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 2019 NATION 9 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF SC rejects farmers’ INSA to have Heavy inflow from Karnataka first woman plea for higher president raises level in T.N.’s Mettur dam Jacob Koshy compensation NEW DELHI Chandrima Shaha, 66, is Zomato delivery persons CWC puts officials on high alert; people prevented from venturing into Cauvery to go on strike set to be the first woman 21 years too late, says the court president of the Indian Na NEW DELHI Vignesh Vijayakumar Some delivery partners of SALEM tional Science Academy Krishnadas Rajagopal (INSA) beginning January online food ordering firm With the inflow into the Met NEW DELHI 2020. Her top priority, she Zomato in Kolkata will go on tur dam expected to rise to The Supreme Court has re told The Hindu, would be strike from Monday, as they 2.4 lakh cusecs on Monday jected a plea by farmers for to promote science more are not willing to deliver pork evening due to increased dis ‘fair compensation’ for land “aggressively” among and beef to customers. A charge of water from the company spokesperson said acquired from them. It said people. Krishna Raja Sagar (KRS) and in a statement, “A small the villagers came to court Kabini dams, the Central Wa group of partners have raised 21 years too late. Bottomup approach ter Commission (CWC) on concerns and we are looking A Bench of Justices Arun “The academies [India has Sunday advised the District to resolve the issue as quickly Mishra and M.R. Shah ap three major science acade Collectors and respective de as possible.” It is impossible plied the Doctrine of Ac mies] have been doing it. partments in the region to to ensure that vegetarian quiescence on the farmers. However I’d like to conduct take precautionary mea and nonvegetarian Thus, once the agricultu The court said that there more outreach in local lan sures to ensure the safety of preferences are factored rists acquiesce to certain was no case for comparison guages and have scientists people in the downstream into delivery logistics, terms, even if the terms are with other villages. speak about their work, the statement added. PTI areas. found wrong, they lose their the process of science etc The inflow at the Mettur right to come back and fore the Supreme court, the to wider audiences,” she dam on Sunday crossed 1 Agricultural fields in the waterspread areas of the Mettur dam are getting submerged in water complain. land authorities argued said in a phone conversa lakh cusecs. In a press re as the inflow to the Stanley Reservoir increased. * E. LAKSHMI NARAYANAN Muzaffarnagar riot Land was taken from the that, besides the ‘inordinate tion,”This is critical to ad lease, the CWC said the com accused arrested villagers of Gulsitapur and delay’ in coming to court, dress myth and misinfor MUZAFFARNAGAR bined discharge of approxi genakkal was 1.80 lakh cu are monitoring the situation emergency. Tilpta, near the NoidaDadri the villagers of Gulsitapur mation. We have to A man accused of killing two mately 1.5 lakh cusecs of secs and 1,25,000 cusecs at and taking necessary pre In Hogenakkal, tourists Highway in Uttar Pradesh, and Tilpta cannot use a sub educate people from the brothers during 2013 water from the KRS and Ka the Mettur dam. The level in cautionary measures. have been banned from en in the late 1980s under the sequent deal with Kasna as bottomup.” Muzaffarnagar riots and the bini dams would reach Met the Mettur dam was 73.6 ft, Officials said that police tering the falls area. Officials Land Acquisition Act. They the touchstone for their pe Ms. Shaha was formerly third sibling, who was the tur by Sunday night and ex against its full capacity of 120 personnel have been de said residents are being were given ₹2022 per tition for enhanced com the Director of the National eyewitness in the case, in pected to touch 2.4 lakh ft. The stored capacity of wa ployed at coracle points in evacuated from lowlying square yard at the time. pensation. The authorities Institute of Immunology, March this year, was nabbed cusecs on Monday evening. ter in the dam was 35,873 Mettur and people were pre areas and warnings being is However, the farmers la said the compensation paya Delhi and graduated with a by the Special Task Force According to officials mcft. vented from fishing or ven sued asking the public to ter came to know that their ble to Kasna villagers was Master’s degree from the (STF) of the UP Police from here, 1.7 lakhs cusecs of wa turing into the waters. move to safer places. neighbours in Kasna, hardly settled four years after the University of Calcutta and Khatauli on Saturday evening. ter from KRS dam and Warnings issued Police issued warnings to In Dharmapuri, Minister Ashfaq, who had witnessed four km away, were given GulsitapurTilpta acquisi completed her doctoral re 50,000 cusecs from the Ka The outflow from the dam villages in the area regarding for Higher Education K.P. the killings of his brothers ₹65 per square yard. The tion deal. search in 1980 from the In bini dam was released on was maintained at 1000 cu the rising water level. Three Anabazhagan and District Nawab and Shahid during the rate of compensation for the But the farmers com dian Institute of Chemical Sunday evening, taking the secs. Since Sunday morning, teams of 38 personnel who Collector S. Malarvizhi re Muzaffarnagar riots of 2013, villagers of Kasna was final plained that their acquired Biology. combined release to 2.2 lakh the level at the dam in have undergone disaster viewed the precautionary was shot dead on March 11 ised in 2016 by the Supreme lands in Gulsitapur and Tilp cusecs of water. creased by about 6ft. Reve management training are in measures taken at Hogenek after he had apparently Court. ta were better located and No to quotas At 8 p.m. the inflow at Ho nue officials said that they a ready state in case of an kal and nearby areas. refused to withdraw the case, Spurred by Kasna’s victo abutted the national high Women comprise less than police said. PTI ry, the farmers of Gulsitapur way. 10% of the fellowships of and Tilpta also decided to The Supreme Court India’s science academies take the Uttar Pradesh State agreed with the authorities, but Ms. Shaha is against qu Kashyap exits Twitter Industrial Development saying the villagers of Gulsi otas for women. “The criti over threat to family Gujarat rain claims 24 lives; disrupts life Corporation (UPSIDC) and tapur and Tilpta cannot cal mass of good women MUMBAI the Greater Noida Industrial seek higher compensation candidates is still low. Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap Mahesh Langa personnel. lapsed due to incessant rain building of the Gujarat Hous Development Authority to on the basis of what was la While there are several has deleted his official AHMEDABAD With heavy downpour oc on Saturday. All of the vic ing Board collapsed on Fri court. ter done in the ‘entirely dif more young women scien Twitter account alleging At least 24 people were curring since Friday, normal tims were construction la day night. The farmers argued that ferent village’ of Kasna. tists today who are good threats to his parents and killed in various rainrelated life was thrown out of gear as bourers from Madhya Chief Minister Vijay Rupa “delay should not defeat The court agreed that a and deserving, we cannot daughter. The director said if incidents since Friday night more than 450 roads, includ Pradesh. ni held a review meeting and their valuable rights to get change in compensation dilute [academic and re he is not free to speak his as torrential rain continued ing a dozen State highways, In a similar incident, a directed the administration fair compensation.” They now would have a cascading search] standards just to mind on the platform he to lash Gujarat, triggering were shut to traffic, while the compound wall collapsed on to remain on alert as the were ready to waive the in effect. The acquired land accommodate more wo would rather leave it. “When floods that have disrupted Western Railways cancelled a family of construction la State is expected to see more your parents start to get calls terest and other statutory has been developed and al men. India has several op normal life in the State. all trains between Gandhid bourers from Udaipur, kill showers on Sunday as well. and your daughter gets benefits under the Land Ac lotted decades ago. The rate portunities for women More than 10,000 people ham and Mumbai and short ing a couple and their two On Saturday, Ahmedabad online threats you know that quisition Act to balance out of allotment was based on scientists perhaps more no one wants to talk.There have been shifted to shelters terminated trains between children at Bopal on Friday recorded more than 6 inches the factor of delay. the cost of acquisition. If the than several countries. Ho isn’t going to be reason or from vulnerable places while Mumbai and Ahmedabad night. of overnight rain. Many parts But the Allahabad High cost of acquisition was in wever, we need to do bet rationale. Thugs will rule and 150 people stranded in ma due to waterlogging on the Additionally, four per of the city witnessed heavy Court saw differently and creased, it would have to be ter at assessing these pro thuggery will be the new way rooned locations were res tracks. sons, including a oneyear waterlogging, forcing the civ the Supreme Court followed recovered from the allottees grammes and evaluating of life. Congratulations on cued by the National Disas In Morbi, eight people old girl, were killed and five ic body to close four under suit to dismiss the case. after decades of allotment, their effectiveness and this new India,” he said. PTI ter Response Force (NDRF) were killed when a wall col injured when a threestorey pass roads to vehicles. During the hearings be the court reasoned. execution.”

Weather Watch Rainfall, temperature & air quality in select metros yesterday Odisha villagers seek refuge atop trees CBSE triples board exam to escape from elephant attacks fee for SC/ST students Comes into effect from 201920 A herd comprising 10 elephants has been giving the locals sleepless nights Press Trust of India and the Delhi government Satyasundar Barik “We feel safe on the rooftop “Generally, jumbos are at New Delhi paid the rest. Now, the CBSE KEONJHAR during the night,” said Ms. tracted to the rice stored in The Central Board of Secon will take ₹1,200 entirely For Kirtan Behera, 50, in Ku Ghana. thatched houses. Walls easi dary Education (CBSE) has from the students. If the Del sumita, a remote village A herd comprising 10 ele ly collapse when an elephant increased the fees for Class hi government reimburses some 20 kilometres from the phants has been roaming the gives it a push. A person in 10 and Class 12 board exam them or pays for them, it’s district headquarters town, locality, giving the locals side the house either dies inations by up to ₹1,150, the an internal arrangement.” spending a night in a tree sleepless nights. due to the collapsing of a first hike in the last five house is not done to evoke Although as per the ele wall or the wrath of a wild years, according to Board Hike after five years the thrill or the peaceful phant census, the district is elephant,” he added. officials. “The increase is after a gap bliss only nature can offer. home to around 50 ele With the incidents of ele The fees for general cate of five years. The fees has Instead, it is a compulsion. phants, about 150 elephants phant depredation increas gory students for both Class been increased for all cate The wooden scaffolds are running amok in the inte ing, villagers are now forced 10 and 12 have been doubled gories of students in all affi atop trees, which are a com rior pockets of Keonjhar. to build barbed wire fences from ₹750 to ₹1,500 for five liated schools of CBSE in In mon sight in the remote vil Four persons have lost their around their houses and subjects. dia and abroad by a Temperature Data: IMD, Pollution Data: CPCB, Map: INSAT/IMD (Taken at 18.00 Hrs) lages of Keonjhar, serve as lives, while around 50 hous crop fields. Jumbos avoid Students from the SC and resolution of the governing Forecast for Monday: Heavy to very heavy rainfall likely over shelter for Mr. Behera and A villager climbs to his hand es have been damaged by barbed wire as it pinches ST category, who were pay body of the Board,” a senior Karnataka, Odisha, Kerala, Mahe, Goa, central Maharashtra, east other residents, who have made tree ‘house’ in elephant depredation dur them. ing ₹350 earlier, will now Board official said. ern Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh, Ut found these structures han Kusumita village. ing the last two months. The Keonjhar district ad have to pay ₹1,200 for five The hike is applicable tarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Assam, Meghalaya, dy to escape from rampag To escape from wild ele ministration has formed a subjects. from the 201920 academic Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, West Bengal and Andaman ing elephants. rooftop of the Government phants, people have con trackers’ teams comprising In a special arrangement session. and Nicobar Islands. Three kilometres from Ku Primary School in Shankari structed wooden platform 100 personnel to tackle the only for Delhi, the SC/ST The Board, which noti city rain max min city rain max min sumita, as the sun goes has become a routine affair atop trees in Sadar, Cham issue. “Villagers are given in students were only paying fied the hike last week, has Agartala...... —....35.7....28.0 Kozhikode...... 113.7....26.0....22.8 Ahmedabad...... 14.5....26.9....24.3 Kurnool ...... —....34.6....25.2 down, Udia Mahakud, 40, for Kokila Ghana, a 70year pua, Joda, Barbil and Ghata formation about elephant ₹50, while the balance was asked the schools, who had Aizawl...... —....31.5....23.1 Lucknow...... —....34.7....28.2 and his fiveyearold son, old woman, and her family goan blocks of the district. movement in advance so paid by the Delhi govern already begun the registra Allahabad...... 6.6....36.3....27.4 Madurai...... —....36.2....25.6 climb a tree to remain safe members. Exactly two “The wooden platform is that they can take precau ment. Controller of Exami tion process and charged Bengaluru ...... —....25.8....20.0 Mangaluru ...... 87.2....26.2....20.9 Bhopal ...... —....29.9....23.8 Mumbai ...... 5.3....30.1....25.6 during the night at Patapani months ago, her house was safe as elephants can neither tions,” Keonjhar Divisional nation Sanyam Bhardwaj students as per the old fee Bhubaneswar...... —....34.7....26.6 Mysuru ...... —....26.7....19.9 village. damaged by an elephant that climb big trees nor uproot Forest Officer Santosh Joshi said, “Earlier in Delhi, SC/ structure, to now collect the Chandigarh ...... —....34.0....27.5 New Delhi ...... —....34.3....27.6 Chennai ...... —....37.5....28.0 Patna ...... 11.0....35.6....27.6 Similarly, going up the devoured the stored rice. it,” said Mr. Behera. said. ST students used to pay ₹50 difference in amount. Coimbatore ...... 0.4....27.3....21.1 Port Blair...... 41.4....27.3....24.8 Dehradun...... 10.9....31.9....24.6 Puducherry ...... —....35.0....26.6 Gangtok...... 4.6....23.7....19.2 Pune...... 10.9....27.8....21.7 Goa...... 22.2....30.2....23.6 Raipur ...... —....33.1....26.1 Two held for Guwahati ...... —....36.5....27.5 Ranchi...... 8.0....33.4....22.0 Mummy at Indian Museum moderately stable, says expert Hubballi...... —....26.0....21.0 Shillong...... 6.1....24.6....17.2 Hyderabad ...... —....31.5....23.3 Shimla...... 2.2....23.6....17.2 killing retired Imphal ...... 4.6....27.8....21.9 Srinagar...... —...... —...... — Jaipur ...... 2.5....30.7....24.8 Thiruvananthapuram.... 13.8....29.0....22.3 Dust is a problem; recommended options include airtight packing and humidity control Kochi ...... 101.0....24.6....22.4 Tiruchi...... —....35.3....27.2 Army captain Kohima ...... 27.0....27.5....18.8 Vijayawada ...... —....35.7....27.0 Shiv Sahay Singh Kolkata ...... 10.1....35.4....27.2 Visakhapatnam ...... —....30.6....28.0 Ms. Ahmed had visited the When this correspondent vi Kolkata Press Trust of India (Rainfall data in mm; temperature in Celsius) museum in 2018, and in her sited the Egyptian gallery, Amethi Pollutants in the air you are breathing Yesterday An Egyptian expert who in report she has pointed out where the mummy is kept,

CITIES SO2 NO2 CO PM2.5 PM10 CODE spected the mummy kept at areas of loss, crumble, dis earlier this week, the relative Two persons were arrested Ahmedabad..... 47 .51 .70 ....54 ...77 ....* the Indian Museum here has tortion in the cartonnage humidity recorded in a ther in connection with the kill Bengaluru ...... 9 .40 .56 ..... — ...88 ....* In observation made at * 4.00 p.m., Howrah, West described the state of preser and recommended treat mo hygrometer was 50%. ing of a retired Army cap Chennai ...... 6 .18 .31 ....34 .....— .... Bengal recorded an overall Delhi ...... 19 .62 ...8 ....49 .184 ....* air quality index (AQI) score vation of the cartonnage as ment options. The museum authorities tain who was beaten to Hyderabad ...... 45 .43 .16 ....30 ...65 ....* of 146 indicating a ‘moderately stable’ but co Indian Museum director have also kept silica gel crys death last month, police Kolkata...... 22 .73 ...7 ..166 .127 ....* moderate level of pollution. * In contrast, Thane, vered with dust. (Cartonnage Rajesh Purohit, confirmed tal in the sealed glass casket said on Sunday. Lucknow...... 2 .27 111 ....43 .....— .... Maharashtra recorded a Mumbai ...... 14 .12 ...6 ....36 .106 ....* healthy AQI score of 23 refers to an ancient Egyptian the visit and inspection of to control the relative humid Circle Officer Musafirk Pune...... 74 ...8 .67 ....33 ...33 ....* mummy case made of layers the mummy by Ms. Ahmed ity. hana Sukshma Prakash Visakhapatnam 18 .34 .29 ....56 ...91 ....* of linen or papyrus glued to and added that the museum The expert’s report has al said that they nabbed Ra Air Quality Code: * Poor * Moderate * Good (Readings indicate average AQI) gether). has been taking extra care of so pointed to some damage jesh Pasi and Shivbahadur SO2: Sulphur Dioxide. Short-term exposure can harm the respiratory system, making breathing difficult. It can affect visibility by reacting with other air The details about the pre the mummy. The mummy with a cover and wooden mask at the Indian in the cartonnage layer on Saturday night. “When particles to form haze and stain culturally important objects such as statues servation of the 4000year “We have been maintain Museum in Kolkata. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT where the colors have begun police questioned them, and monuments. old mummy and one of the ing temperature and relative to fall and disappear. they admitted that they NO2: Nitrogen Dioxide. Aggravates respiratory illness, causes haze to form by reacting with other air particles, causes acid rain, pollutes coastal waters. most prized possessions of humidity of chamber where the exhibit has been made humidity conditions can po The director said the and two others had com CO: Carbon monoxide. High concentration in air reduces oxygen supply to the museum have been ac the mummy is being kept,” airtight. tentially cause protein mate room where the mummy is mitted the crime,” Mr. Pra critical organs like the heart and brain. At very high levels, it can cause cessed on the basis of a re he said. As per the expert, overly rials to crack. on display is being kept at kash said. Sixtyfouryear dizziness, confusion, unconsciousness and even death. PM2.5 & PM10: Particulate matter pollution can cause irritation of the eyes, port prepared by Rania The director said the de moist conditions can lead to The recommendations in low light conditions as the old Amanullah was assault nose and throat, coughing, chest tightness and shortness of breath, reduced Ahmed, an international posit of dust is owing to hun growth of fungi on protein volve keeping the relative hu expert has suggested that ed in Godiyan ka Purva lung function, irregular heartbeat, asthma attacks, heart attacks and premature expert in conservation of dreds of years of exposure materials like human re midity between 35% to 55% light should be around 50 village under Kamrauli pol death in people with heart or lung disease mummies. and now the box containing mains, and alternatively low with minimal fluctuations. Lux. ice station limits on July 27.

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DELHI THE HINDU 10 EDITORIAL MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 2019 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE The imprint of a state juggernaut High productivity apart, this Budget session lacked sufficient deliberation, pointing to the crafting of a docile Parliament to express themselves in the Article 370, had to be assented to strengthening of the surveillance House. by the Constituent Assembly of and investigative instrumentalities All this sounds impressive and the State, by its very provisions. of the State not merely through Dealing with doping there is much to commend for a Since the State Assembly re the UAPA, but also in bills pertain Cricket bodies must keep the game free of functioning House especially after mained dissolved and it is under ing to the economy and financial the pandemonium witnessed dur presidential rule, the sleight of transactions. In these measures performance enhancing drugs Valerian Rodrigues ing the sessions of the 15th and presidential powers was employed the ‘lethal machine’ of the State port is expected to operate at a higher moral plane 16th Lok Sabha . But can we say to move it. Little consideration was on full display against the pre that the first session of the 17th was extended to reflect popular valent ascription of a ‘soft’ state. where the effort is honest and transparency re fficial spokespersons have Lok Sabha was represent ative of opinion, with the political leader Fourth, legislative measures mains an abiding principle. It is a utopian ideal S hailed the recently con the concerns and demands of In GETTY IMAGES ship of the Kashmir Valley (on and amendments such as the leaning on pure performance, copious sweat and re Ocluded Budget session of dia’s complex, inegalitarian and gender Persons (Protection of which the bill has the gravest con Right to Information (A mend lentless training. But in a practical world greased with Parliament as unprecedentedboth deeply diverse polity, eliciting the Rights) Bill, 2019, and the DNA sequences) under internment , ment) Bill, highlighted the emer greed, besides matchfixing, there is another terrible of in terms of its hours of work as responses of the government for Technology (Use and Application) and the whole population kept gence of an institutional hierarchy, fence: ingestion of performanceenhancing drugs. Ath well as its performance. The 17th its acts of commissions and omis Regulation Bill, 2019 definitely incommunicado. demoting key positions, involving letes like Canada’s Ben Johnson were labelled as dru g Lok Sabha, which was convened sions, and holding it accountable called for a wider and closer dis transparency and accountability, cheats and rightly denied their Olympic medals. The on June 17, held 37 sittings that ex for its performance? Or, should we cussion. Many of the bills, such as Institutional bearing to executive discretion. The insti tended over 280 hours till it was say, both the Houses were craftily the Motor Vehicles (A mendment) The legislative measures that the tutional hierarchy of authority, World AntiDoping Agency (WADA), since its inception adjourned sine die on August 6. So streamrolled to sing to the tune of Bill, which was passed by both the National Democratic AllianceII where the higher rungs were cush in 1999, has imposed stringent measures so that spor t metimes House sittings were ex the government? Houses, had bearing on powers of leadership embraced, and the ioned from the lower ones, was vi stays drugfree. In India, WADA’s rules have been en tended into the late hours. The Ra the States and tended to reinforce mode of piloting them through the vidly there to see in the way in forced by the Governmentrun National AntiDoping jya Sabha, which met on June 20, Legislative measures the powers of the Centre. And in Houses have conveyed, loud and which the name of the Prime Mi Agency (NADA) and almost all sports federations had held 35 sittings till it was ad About half the time of both the deed, the Jammu and Kashmir Re clear, a fourfold message . First, nister was invoked by Ministers fallen in line except one behemoth — the Board of Con journed sine die on August 7. The Houses in their respective sessions organisation Bill, 2019 introduced the task of Parliament is not to dis and member after member of the trol for Cricket in India (BCCI). But that aberration was spokespersons of both Houses was spent on legislative measures. in the Rajya Sabha surreptitiously, cuss and debate, shape and resh ruling dispensation as the font of claimed that productivity was ap Parliament has to be credited for on the penultimate day of its work ape measures for public good, and wisdom, foresight and concern. erased as the BCCI accepted NADA’s supervision follow proximately 137% and 103%, res passing some bills that enjoyed a ing, and passed by the Lok Sabha ensure oversight, but merely play Clearly, the attempt to craft a do ing a meeting between its CEO Rahul Johri, General pectively, denoting the hours of broad consensus such as the Pro on its last working day, changed second fiddle to the executive lea cile Parliament had gone a long Manager Saba Karim and Sports Ministry officials led by work put in. While the Lok Sabha tection of Human Rights (Amend the constitutional status of Jammu dership. Therefore, criticism and way. Sports Secretary Radhey Shyam Julaniya. Indian crick spent 46% of its time in legislative ment) Bill, the Protection of Chil and Kashmir, hitherto protected debate over the bills was kept to et’s governing body finally agreed to subject its players business, the Rajya Sabha spent dren from Sexual Offences under Article 370. It split the State the minimum, if avoided altogeth Impact on democratic ethos to NADA’s testing routines. Before its turnaround, the 51%, a record in recent years. (Amendment) Bill, the Consumer into two Union Territories: Jammu er. There was no attempt to form In the past, t here was much that BCCI had resisted NADA’s intervention. The main objec There were 40 Bills that were in Protection Bill, and the Supreme and Kashmir, and Ladakh. the 24 departmentally related was lacking in the composition troduced during this session (33 in Court (Number of Judges) Amend All these legislative measures, standing committees before the and functioning of Parliament. tion pertained to the ‘whereabouts’ clause, which the Lok Sabha and sevenin the Ra ment Bill, although questions have particularly, the last one, which in session, or early in its day, to There was also little to defend the made it mandatory for a player to reveal where he jya Sabha). While the Lok Sabha been raised on whether these bills tend to define Indian polity in cru which bills could be referred to for way the Opposition had made a would be on a daily basis. The need for privacy was of passed 35 bills, the number was 32 and the way they were framed, cial ways — and will undoubtedly scrutiny and review or form sub habit of boycotting the House and fered as an excuse. in the Rajya Sabha; 30 bills were were the most appropriate ways to have enormous implications for ject committees for the purpose. stalling its proceedings, although Earlier, the BCCI had its inhouse dopetests but it on passed by both Houses of Parlia further their intent. However, ma the future of constitutional de The plea of some O pposition at times it was the most effective ly lent credence to the allegations about conflict of in ment. In the Lok Sabha, 183 ny of the bills passed by the Hous mocracy in India — were passed members of the Houses in this di way of demanding responsive terest. The issue came to a boil when Prithvi Shaw was starred questions were orally an es were matters that led to deep di without routing any of the bills rection was all in vain. ness, and even to air popular grie swered while 1,066 matters of u r vision and contention within the concerned through the Standing Second, formal legal equality of vances. At the same time, it should given a backdated eightmonth suspension after he gent i mportance were taken up ; polity, such as the Muslim Women Committees of the Parliament, or citizens would be on premium and be said, Parliament was grappling tested positive for a banned drug, Terbutaline. The 1 9 488 issues under Rule 377, that re (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Select Committees. Given the all differential considerations on with coming to terms with its own yearold batsman, who was checked in February, quires advance notice and appro Bill, the Aadhar and Other Laws paucity of time, there was little grounds of disadvantage or con institutional working to be the claimed that the substance was present in an overthe val of the Speaker, were attended (Amendment) Bill, the Right to In possibility of subjecting them to siderations of diversity would be voice of democracy. If the pro counter cough syrup. Shaw’s excuse and the BCCI’s to. The Lok Sabha S peaker, Om formation (Amendment) Bill, the closer reflective scrutiny. The go suspect: Therefore, Articles 370, ceedings in the recently conclud quick acceptance of his selfmedication, bred scepti Birla, repeatedly drew attention to Unlawful Activities (Prevention) vernment was obviously aware of 35A, and S haria provisions were ed session are a clue to its future, cism. It is either naivety or a classic coverup from an In the equality of the members of the Amendment (UAPA) Bill, and the this. In fact, at times it seemed the sought to be modified, while com then Parliament has been securely House cutting across party diffe Codes on Wages. generous time that the Speaker of mitment to human rights in gener chained to India’s state dian cricketer, who had been advised about the chemi rences, and extending opportuni Some of the bills passed by the the Lok Sabha gave to new mem al, was reinforced by recrafting the juggernaut. cals that have to be avoided even for therapeutic ties to new and young members. Lok Sabha such as the Inter State bers was at the expense of the rec National Human Rights Commis purposes. The silverlining is that the episode hastened Out of 265 first time members, River Water Disputes (A mend titude of these bills. Worse still, sion through The Protection of Hu Valerian Rodrigues taught Political the BCCI’s move into the NADA’s ambit and also cleared 229, including 42 out of 46 women ment) Bill 2019, the Surrogacy the Jammu and Kashmir Reorgani man Rights (Amendment) Bill. Science at Mangalore University and the decks for the Indian women’s cricket team to com members, found an opportunity (Regulation) Bill, 2019, the Trans sation Bill that radically modified Third, there was an enormous Jawaharlal Nehru University pete in the 2022 Commonwealth Games at Birming ham. With the BCCI belatedly allowing NADA to moni tor its domestic cricketers, by extension the International Cricket Council too has finally come un A point to ponder over in the POCSO Bill der the WADA’s unerring gaze. In these hyperkinetic More than an emphasis on the death sentence, there needs to be an overhaul of the criminal justice administration times, it is a fallacy to stress that cricket is just a reflec tion of skill and that drugenhanced muscular efficiency preme Court in Machhi Singh abstract but once you are privy to der. The Criminal Law (Amend cannot influence match results. Sport has to be a level (1983) and Devender Pal Singh its practicality, it becomes less ap ment) Act, 2018 introduced the (2002) in which the court has held pealing. Deterrence has its own death penalty for rape of girls be playingfield and it is finally one with the willowga me that the death penalty can be limitations and it has to be supple low the age of 12. At the same time, subjecting itself to universal drugtesting rules. awarded only in rarest of rare cas mented by exhaustive measures the POCSO Act, under Section 42, es. Thus the intention of the Bill is that includes an overhaul of the provides that where the same act Anubhav Kumar to have a deterrent effect; but it criminal justice administration. constitutes an offence under the can be argued that the introduc said Act and any other law, then Hong Kong on the brink tion of the death penalty may Court data the offender will be punished un As protesters make new demands, here has been much deve backfire in cases of child sexual The Supreme Court has recently der the Act or such law, whichever GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO the prospects of a quick settlement recede lopment recently with res abuse and even have a catastroph taken cognisance of the sexual provides for greater punishment. Tpect to the Protection of ic effect. Often, the perpetrators of frastructural apathy, procedural abuse of children, directing its re This has created an issue as the ef rotests broke out in Hong Kong two months ago Children from Sexual Offences abuse are family members and lapses and trial delays and conve gistry to file a case as writ petition fect of such an amendment was when local authorities proposed a Bill that would (POCSO) Act, 2012. With an objec having such penalty in the statute niently evades the fact that ‘it is with cause title “Inre Alarming death penalty for rape of minor have allowed them to extradite suspects to places tive of stopping the rampant sex book may discourage the registra the certainty of punishment rath Rise in The Number of Reported girls but not for assault against mi P ual abuse of children, the Protec tion of the crime itself. Also, it may er than its severity which has de Child Rape Incidents”. The court nor boys. with which the city doesn’t have extradition treaties, in tion of Children from Sexual threaten the life of the minor as terrence in real sense’. It is perti has also observed that it intends The proposed Bill does away cluding mainland China. The Bill was suspended amid Offences (Amendment) Bill, 2019 the maximum punishment for nent to note here that even a having a ‘zero tolerance policy’ to with such a discrepancy. It is gen public anger, but the protests, now entering the ten th was introduced in the Rajya Sabha murder is also the death sentence. yearandahalf after the passage of ward child rape. As data on sexual der neutral and provides for the week, continue to rock the city, affecting the economy in July, and later passed by both The Justice J.S. Verma Commit the Criminal Law (Amendment) crimes against children collected death penalty for “aggravated pe and setting off an unprecedented political crisis. The Houses of Parliament. It is all set to tee, which was constituted in 2013 Bill, 2018, which introduced the by the court show, 24,212 FIRs netrative sexual assault of a child”, police have tried several tactics to rein in the protesters become the ‘law of the land’. The in the aftermath of the Nirbhaya death penalty for rape of a minor were filed across India from Janu thus bringing both these pieces of and restore normalcy in the city, a major Asian financial present bill is welcome in certain case, after due deliberations found girl, such incidents have not been ary to June this year. According to legislation on a par with each oth respects as it specifically defines itself against the imposition of under check. The debate here is National Crime Records Bureau er in this respect. With these hub and business centre. They have fired tear gas shells what ‘c hild p ornography’ is; ‘us death penalty in rape cases. The not about retaining or abolishing data of 2016, the conviction rate in amendments and with the Su and rubber bullets. Dozens have been arrested, some ing a child for pornographic pur 262nd Report of the Law Commis the death penalty but the probable POCSO cases is 29.6% while pen preme C ourt considering child on riot charges. Still, the city has been on a stand still. poses’ and for ‘possessing or stor sion of India, 2015, also provides ramifications of its provision in the dency is as high as 89%. The pre abuse “intolerable”, there seems Public transportation is hit. People, from construction ing pornography involving a child’ for abolition of the death penalty Act. scribed time period of twomonths to be reasonable hope now that workers to teachers and lawyers, have joined the de is punishable. It has also widened except in terror cases. The deterrent effect of c apital for trial in such cases is hardly vulnerable children could be saf monstrations. The protesters ransacked the local legis the ambit of ‘Aggravated sexual Today, the death penalty has punishment appears to be on the complied with. er. The Bill is a step forward in pre lative council building and occupied parts of the air assault’. become a prominent tool of sym wane. Globally, there is research The court has also taken note of venting child abuse but the conse bolic legislation — a political state to support the view that despite the delay in trials, in turn directing quences of providing for the death port, which led to the cancellation of several flights. The other side ment indeed. Many a time, the Go stringent punishments, there is no the Central Government to set up penalty need to be closely Graffiti appeared across the city calling for “a revolu The highlight of the Bill is the in vernment, by introducing the fall in the rate of commission of special courts within 60 days of observed. tion” and “liberation” of Hong Kong. Despite warnings troduction of the death penalty for death penalty, portrays itself to be crimes. Robin Conley in his book, the order in each district having from both the city government and Beijing, the protes the rape of minors. The Bill, in its strict and serious with regard to Confronting the Death Penalty, has more than 100 pending cases un Anubhav Kumar is Assistant Professor ters don’t seem to be in a mood to leave the streets. object clause, justifies this by re such offences. It largely diverts at observed that the death penalty der the Act. It is to be seen how (Law), National University of Study and It is no longer about the extradition Bill as a leader ferring to the judgments of the Su tention from the core issues of in may seem just and appropriate in long it takes to comply with the or Research in Law, Ranchi, Jharkhand shipless group keeps coming up with new and varied demands. Carrie Lam, the Chief Executive of Hong LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Letters emailed to [email protected] must carry the full postal address and the full name or the name with initials. Kong, has said the Bill is dead. The protesters first want ed the city government to formally withdraw the Bill. At the Congress’s helm settled for Ms. Gandhi is not drama when the matter was growing by leaps and permanent solution to this which highlighted the Then they wanted Ms. Lam, the architect of the Bill, to The election of Sonia a surprise. The grand old already settled, as a Bengali bounds, there is a worry that prolonged issue but in an dangers of environmental go. Now, the protesters say they won’t end the rallies Gandhi is reflective of the party of India cannot proverb goes? India is heading towards an amicable manner. A policy of degradation in the Ghats, even if Ms. Lam quits. They have made a host of de abyss into which the separate itself from the Bidyut Kumar Chatterjee, ‘Oppositionless’ polity live and let live must come largely the result of mands — withdraw the Bill, order an independent Congress party has fallen Nehru/Gandhi family as Faridabad, Haryana which is not good for the into being so that there is uncontrolled quarrying and probe into the clashes between protesters and police , (Page 1, “Congress names there are no acceptable country. peaceful coexistence the destruction of forests, ■ drop all charges on the arrested protesters and start the Sonia as its interim second rung leaders. It is Ms. Gandhi has done the In its present political state, between the two nations. wetlands and mangroves in president”, August 11). ingrained within Congress right thing by assuming the the Congress has failed to V.P. Dhananjayan , the name of development. process to reform the electoral system. Ms. Lam, per Though she can claim men and women that the position of “interim gain even the support of the Chennai There is need to reinforce haps wary of being seen to be weak in the face of credit for cobbling up UPA1 party and the family are president”, though groundlevel cadre. With the the importance of mounting pressure, has ruled out any more conces and UPA2, it is doubtful inseparable. If at all there is a reluctantly. Otherwise, there new change, the party Ecological notes ecologicallysensitive zones sions. For her, the top priority is to restore order, while whether her sedate style leader who is dynamic, was every chance of the leadership should leave no The havoc and destruction especially as there is expert Beijing, with its patience wearing thin, has hinted that it can match the rabble articulate and has the ability party having becoming stone unturned to come back across many regions in the opinion that all this is a could interfere to end the crisis. Both the city gov ern rousing ways of the ruling to lead, they are confined to irrelevant with each passing with vigour and enthusiasm Western Ghats following a “manmade calamity”. ment and the protesters share responsibility for the cri dispensation at a time when his or her State or region. day since the resignation of as a constructive Opposition, vigorous phase of the Devadas V., hate and fear rule Indian One is sure that the prefix Rahul Gandhi as party if not as a ruling party. southwest monsoon must Kannur, Kerala sis Hong Kong is in today. Ms. Lam could have officially politics. Democratic values ‘interim’ is only a term for president. There could have A. Jainulabdeen, cause policymakers to revisit withdrawn the Bill instead of merely pronouncing it more letters online: are under attack in the the arrangement where been a split between the old Chennai the Madhav Gadgil report www.hindu.com/opinion/letters/ dead. Her reluctance to do so even after the Bill was sus country and one wonders Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will and new guard. The idea of corrections & clarifications: pended only fanned the flames. The protesters on the whether the Congress party step in eventually. India is undergoing a change. Stand on Kashmir A report headlined “Kashmiri students hold silent protest in other side took an excessively provocative path when has let down the nation by M.R.G. Murthy, Party unity is necessary. The futile stand of the AMU” (Aug. 9, 2019) erroneously identified the former Chief Minis Mysuru they ransacked the city Parliament and attacked the opting once again for Rahul Gandhi would do well Opposition in opposing for ter of Kashmir, Sheikh Abdullah, as ‘ShereKashmir’ and ‘Papa police. What could have been a peaceful protest against dynastic leadership. It has to reflect on how he can the sake of opposition the Mian’. The two are different. ‘Papa Mian’ actually refers to another ■ Sheikh Abdullah, a lawyer and one of the founding members of an extradition Bill led to the biggest political crisis Hong thrown away a historic It is shocking that months assist the new president in government’s move on the opportunity for a new after the results of the order to regain public Jammu and Kashmir issue is Abdullah Girls College, Aligarh Muslim University. It was an edit Kong has seen since it was handed over to China by the ing error. beginning. general election and a confidence in the party. odd. The Opposition, British colonialists. At least now, the focus of bot h the Manohar Alembath, marathon meeting on A.S. Srinivasan, especially the Indian It is the policy of The Hindu to correct significant errors as soon as possible. Please specify local leadership and protesters should shift to finding Kannur, Kerala Chennai the edition (place of publication), date and page. 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FROM THE READERS’ EDITOR Rethinking water governance strategies Information blackout leads Individual States need to assume the responsibility for managing water resources in their territories to silence and exaggeration Journalism, when not fettered, facilitates informed dialogue

The Internet and telecommunication shut down also means that the media cannot re Srinivas Chokkakula port on the aforesaid developments, and the & Ashwin Pandya residents of Kashmir thus don’t get access to information that is otherwise publicly availa India’s ‘water crisis’ took over social A.S. Panneerselvan ble to the rest of India.” media recently. That India’s cities are This newspaper’s Srinagar correspon running out of water, coupled with In the aftermath of the First World War, so dent, Peerzada Ashiq, documented the Chennai’s drinking water woes, ciologist Max Weber told his students that gruelling days of blackout in his “Diary of a made the ‘crisis’ viral, raising ques not everyone realises the demanding nature Kashmir correspondent”. His last despatch tions about the quality of the dis of producing good journalism and that a prior to the blackout was a report on the course and choice of water gover journalist’s actual responsibility is far grea house arrest of former Chief Ministers Omar nance strategies in India. If there is a ter than that of a scholar’s. The conspicuous Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti and other water crisis, what is the nature of the absence of reporting from Jammu and Kash leaders on August 4. Then, there was a com crisis? Where is the crisis prevalent? mir (J&K) following the vivisection of the plete silence for three days. What emerged And how do we deal with it? State last week helped in realising the full im clearly from Ms. Bhasin’s petition and the Usually, a delayed monsoon or a port of Weber’s observation. Mr. Ashiq’s diary is that we know very little drought, combined with compelling Delhi residents filling water in cans from a distribution tanker.* GETTY IMAGES Journalism performs many tasks. British about the opinion of the people directly af images of parched lands and queues journalist George Brock has mandated four fected by the government’s decision. for water in urban areas raise an ty, a desperate move to engage with Just to be sure how critical the ‘cri stance, according to the Delhi Jal irreducible core tasks: verification, bearing There are ethical and democratic angles alarm in the minds of the public. Si the States, in the absence of any sub sis’ is, CGWB’s 2013 estimates say Board estimates, groundwater meets witness, sense making, and investigation. to the task of ‘bearing witness’. Academics milarly, episodes of interState river stantive leverage to influence their that the groundwater development just 10% of Delhi’s drinking water However, following the Union Government’s Richard Stupart and Katherine Furman ex water disputes catch public atten approaches to water resources man in India is just about 62% of the utilis needs. The rest is met by surface wa dramatic move to alter the political structure plained how we rely on a division of labour tion. However, this time, it was some agement. This also underscored that able groundwater reserves. Similarly, ter sources, most of it transported of J&K, Indian journalism was forced to tem to gain knowledge. They contended that no what different. Videos and news re the fulcrum of any course correction a recent report by the Central Water from outside Delhi. The urban porarily abandon its ‘bearingwitness’ role one person can know everything worth ports claiming that Indian cities are lies with States. Commission, prepared in collabora needs, which underpin much report and had to resort only to its ‘sensemaking’ knowing; hence we divide the knowledge running out of groundwater went vi Yet, what baffles us is the ques tion with the Indian Space Research ing on ‘water crises’, need to be met task. In this newspaper, there was a strongly producing tasks . “Journalists who venture ral. These news items could not have tion: Just how did such ‘zombie sta Organisation (ISRO), asserted that In by robust longterm planning and worded editorial, “Scrapping J&K’s special into sites of conflict and suffering form an gained the traction but for the fact tistics’ gain traction? This is disturb dia is not yet in “water scarcity con preparation for droughts and other status is the wrong way to an end;” a series of important part of our collective knowledge that they relied on a 2018 report of ing on two counts: one, there is an dition”. But it is certainly in a “water contingencies. lead and OpEd articles; and an outstanding production, and one which [is] important to India’s own Niti Aayog, which was tit absence of critical engagement or in stressed condition”, with reducing data story, “J&K’s vital statistics,” which de the rest of us as moral agents,” they argued. led ‘Composite Water Management stitutional accountability; two, a per capita water availability. Responsibility lies with States bunked the claims of Home Minister Amit American journalist Roger Cohen’s reflec Index: A tool for water management.’ deeper hypocrisy surrounds the dis Here, we certainly don’t mean to Finally, we need to reconsider our Shah that Article 370 hindered develop tions on the ‘bearingwitness’ task brought course on water governance in India. say that India can continue with the approaches to water governance. We ment. It is important to classify these writ out its stupendous role in informing and sen Zombie statistics If there is a crisis, where is the crisis present ways of water management. must recognise that the fulcrum of ings within the rubric of the ‘sensemaking’ sitising people. He wrote: “In the 24/7 howl Later, thanks to yet another series of and what is the nature of the crisis? We also cannot remain in a state of change and action is with the States . task of journalism. While they were rigorous of partisan pontification, and the scarcely tweets by Joanna Slater of The Wash- For instance, what does the report denial that a crisis is not in the mak For long, water resource depart and insightful, there was a sense of incom lessconstant death knell din surrounding ington Post, the ‘crisis bogey’ lost mean when it says that “cities [are] ing. However, certain steps need to ments in States have continued to fol pleteness because there were no ground re the press, a basic truth gets lost: that to be a some of its sheen. Ms. Slater investi running out of groundwater”? Does be taken to ensure a more useful and low the conventional approaches of ports from Kashmir. A day before thegovern journalist is to bear witness... To bear wit gated the “zombie statistics” in the it mean that cities will not have productive discourse about water go supply augmentation. The challenge ment’s decision, all forms of ness means being there — and that’s not free. Niti Aayog report, especially the groundwater reserves to meet their vernance challenges. is that of reorienting themselves to communications — mobile networks, Inter No search engine gives you the smell of a piece of information that said: “21 drinking water demand? If yes, this is First, India needs to reconsider wards deploying strategies of de net services, and landline phone connectivi crime, the tremor in the air, the eyes that major cities are expected to run out not news. the institutional processes for dis mand management, conservation ty — had been shut down, leaving Kashmir smolder, or the cadence of a scream.” of groundwater as soon as 2020, af Second, if the report means that semination of knowledge about wa and regulation. and some districts in Jammu isolated. For reasons known only to the state appa fecting [nearly] 100 million people.” the crisis lies in the depletion of ter resource management. There is a The Centre has to work with States ratus, it firmly believes that information Her perseverance led to an eventual groundwater levels in cities below certain amount of danger inherent in towards an institutional change for Knocking on the judicial doors blackout will lead to a political consensus. conclusion that there was no credi safe rechargeable levels, then this is the casual manner in which know the necessary courseshift. The Fi Anuradha Bhasin, the Executive Editor of But, political processes gain their endurance ble evidence for this assessment. also not unknown. For almost two ledge about water resources is legiti nance Minister, in her budget, re Kashmir Times, later moved the Supreme only when people are active participants. To be fair to Niti Aayog, its projec decades, the Central Ground Water mised and consumed, particularly in peatedly stated that the government Court, seeking directions to ensure that me Journalism, when it is not hampered, facili tion was only a means to an end goal: Board (CGWB) has been reporting on these days of ‘viral’ information. will work with States to address In diapersons and journalists from the State tates informed dialogue and provides a mea leveraging some action from the In the increasing number of overex Second, we need to recognise the dia’s national water security chal are able to freely practise their profession. ningful insight into people’s aspirations. Oth dian States. The report’s central goal ploited blocks across India, the ‘dark’ the crisis is not as much of scarcity as lenges. Let us hope that the govern She also challenged the restrictions imposed erwise, they are left with either a deafening was to propose a tool, an index, to category blocks. The recent annual of delivery. The challenge is to en ment intends to strengthen federal through the complete shutdown on Internet silence or an enervating exaggeration. The monitor the States’ water resource book of CGWB has reported 1,034 sure an adequate access to quality governance of water resources to and telecommunication services and severe state media will not report the observation management strategies and provide units, out of the 6,584 units it moni water, more so in urban areas where wards longterm water security. curbs on the movement of photojournalists of David Kaye, the UN’s special rapporteur the necessary courseshift, beyond tors, as overexploited. If this is the inequities over space and time are and reporters. Her petition rightly contend on freedom of expression: “There’s someth supply augmentation approaches. ‘crisis’, then we have had it for long. acute. We need to also realise that Srinivas Chokkakula is at the Centre for Policy ed: “The information blackout set in motion ing about this shutdown that is draconian in The report may have had a lofty goal What has this not received enough with the country’s rapid urbanisa Research; Ashwin Pandya is with International is a direct and grave violation of the right of a way other shutdowns usually are not.” of promoting ‘cooperative and com attention? Is it because these zones tion, demand cannot be met by Commission on Irrigation and Drainage. the people to know about the decisions that petitive federalism’ but was, in reali are not in cities? groundwater reserves alone. For in Views are personal directly impact their lives and their future. [email protected] Pipe dreams for water transfer CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC FROM THE ARCHIVES

It is time to consider outofthebox solutions to FIFTY YEARS AGO AUGUST 12, 1969 take water from a point of surplus to one of deﬁcit Danger of defections in Congress

Madhurika Sankar Horsepower of energy can move 150 The Prime Minister’s supporters are making Last month, the ‘Chennai water train’ kg on road, 500 kg on rail and 4,000 a careful assessment of the anticipated vot made its poignant, slow arrival into kg on water. Similarly, one litre of ing patterns in the Presidential election be the city, carrying 2.5 million litres of fuel can move 24 tonnes per km on fore making up their minds whether to vote water for its parched residents. At the road, 85 tonnes on rail and 105 for the official Congress candidate, Mr. N. very same time, in another part of tonnes on inland water transport. Sanjiva Reddi, or defy the party whip and the country, unspeakable tragedy The disadvantages are that the load back the “nonofficial” Congress candidate, had unfolded, with Assam and Bihar ing and unloading facilities are ex Mr. V.V. Giri, on the assumption that he getting ravaged by the monsoons . pensive to construct and, in India, would be more acceptable to Mrs. Gandhi in And just when it feels that the coun most rivers don’t have the depth and the current power struggle at the Centre. try has been through enough, rain breadth to accommodate large barg The next two or three days are crucial in the batters Karnataka and Kerala, taking es all through the year. It will also re sense that leftwing Congressmen who are many lives and causing more misery. quire the dredging of rivers, which is privately campaigning against Mr. Sanjiva It is a cruel fact that it doesn’t rain exorbitant and might destroy natural Reddi’s candidature will have to make the evenly across the planet. With the ha ecosystems. Finally, though India re fateful choice — with or without Mrs. Gand voc that rapidlyintensifying climate cently forged ahead with its inland hi’s concurrence — and face the consequenc change is bringing, one man’s waterways development plans by in es of their decision. The Opposition parties drought could well coincide with vesting in the National Waterways in also are marking time and getting ready to make corresponding changes in their strate another man’s deluge. the Northeast, the bigger problem is CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC These climatically turbulent times that there are too few large industries gy to meet the challenge of a cross vote by beg the question of whether it would located near river belts. The impetus DATA POINT Congressmen. Both the Swatantra and Jan be too farfetched to use the ‘water for investment simply doesn’t exist. Sangh are discussing the desirability of cast train’ model widely and set up infras Nevertheless, exciting and path ing even their first preference votes for Mr. tructure to transport water from breaking innovations in technology Sanjiva Reddi as an act of supreme sacrifice areas with surplus to and enterprise by them, if they were faced with the possibil parched lands. Historical still hold out ity of his certain defeat as a result of lastmi ly, this notion has been much potential nute defections by the Congress leftwing in toyed with and aban to solve our the name of buttressing Mrs. Gandhi’s lea doned, mainly owing to world’s resource dership by routing the Syndicate. how expensive it is to ferry problems. Desilt water through thousands ing of lakes and of kilometres of pipelines rivers (concomi A HUNDRED YEARS AGO AUGUST 12, 2019. and against gradients, of tant with effec Labour in India. Delegates’ Views. ten involving pumping sta tive garbage/ tions requiring a lot of energy. Yet, it plastic disposal); extensive, state A meeting of the City of London “Indepen isn’t as much a technical problem as mandated rainwater harvesting; de dent Labour Party” was held at Essex Hall one of money, and perhaps politics. salination and, finally, recycling of (London) on June 30. The subject was “Con water — all these can make a consid ditions of Labour in India”. Mr. Neil Ma The American, Greek examples erable difference. clean, M.P., who presided, said: We wish to In the U.S., the city of Las Vegas According to Magsaysay awardee hear at first hand about Labour conditions planned to use excess water from the P. Sainath, there have been five prin in India. The Independent Labour Party be Mississippi river through a multibil cipal migrations of water in India: lieved that all people in the Empire with a liondollar project, a proposal that from agriculture to industry; rural to grievance ought to be heard. Britons always has remained a pipe dream. French urban; food to cash crops; poor to waited to hear the other side from their own engineers have dreamed up plans to rich; and livelihood to lifestyle. These and to hear it in good order, and then have helping waterstarved African na are all independent of seasonal the fight to put their own side. That method tions by hauling icebergs to their droughts and have to do with our was to be adopted in these questions and shores. Some of these plans have suc poor water management strategies. discussion was invited. We wanted to know ceeded; for example, Greece has But, in a country of contrasts — and we wanted to put things in India right. used the mega Spragg trash bag and where animals frantically try to save So long as the British Empire had a race of its ‘world’s strongest zipper’ to haul themselves from floodwaters in Kazi people used by another part of the Empire massive amounts of water. ranga National Park while, at the to keep down wages and conditions, it was These schemes have yielded same time, innocent children carry bad not merely for India, but for Britain. Mr. another novel idea, which is to use backbreaking quantities of water in Montagu said that his purpose was to make water to transport water. This has the blistering Chennai sun — perhaps Indians realise that they were partners in the been implemented with success in it is time to consider outofthebox Empire. Let them then be equal partners the Caribbean, especially during the technological innovations. able to work out their own destiny in accor drought of 198384 in Antigua. The dance with Indian ideas and traditions. Let advantages of transporting water ov us get the idea of a subject race out of our er water include the fact that one The writer is based in Chennai mind.

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DELHI THE HINDU 12 NEWS MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 2019 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE FROM PAGE ONE Congress alleges lax flood relief Congress, CPI(M) join Restrictions return hands for Bengal bypolls Party says Centre did not release funds meant for flood management projects Special Correspondent Repeat of 2016 Assembly election to Kashmir Valley rashtra Chief Minister De New Delhi vendra Fadnavis for distri Special Correspondent Sources said there were re ticle 370 that accorded spe The Congress accused the buting food packages with Kolkata ports of street mobilisation cial status to Jammu and Narendra Modi government his photographs which The Congress and the Left and stray incidents of stone Kashmir would cease to op of apathy towards the flood showed insensitivity, the Front have decided to share throwing in the Old City as erate. “These arrests are not affected States, and alleged Congress said. “The Prime seats in the coming Assemb people came out to buy es centralised and the exact that the government did not Minister should provide re ly byelections in three con sentials for the festival and number may not be re release Central funds meant quired assistance to Kerala stituencies. This is the first traffic resumed. By after vealed. Most detentions for flood management pro and shun politics of favouri time they are doing so after noon, the police used the have been decided at the jects to 17 States that could tism. In Karnataka, the the 2016 Assembly election. public address system to district level as per the law have preempted the trage Home Minister, instead of While the Congress will “direct people to stay in and order requirements,” dy. conducting “aerial surveys”, contest the Kaliaganj seat in doors and shut the mar Mr. Dwivedi said. The allegation came on a should meet the State go North Dinajpur and Kharag kets.” Concertina spools Divisional Commissioner day when Home Minister Home Minister Amit Shah conducting an aerial survey of vernment’s immediate de pur in West Medinipur dis were unrolled on many Baseer Khan said around Amit Shah conducted an ae floodhit areas in Belagavi on Sunday. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT mand for ₹3,000 crore,” Mr. trict, the Left Front will con Somendra Nath Mitra stretches. 4,000 calls were made by rial survey in floodhit Kar Shergill said. test Karimpur of Nadia Mr. Dwivedi said only residents to their relatives nataka. Congress spokesper “Unfortunately, the Cen trol”, projects could not be The Congress has de district. The election dates together in the 2019 As prayers and no political outside through govern son Jaiveer Shergill said the tral government has dis completed due to a 60% manded that the floods be are yet to be declared. sembly byelections. speeches would be allowed ment helpline. government had failed to played insensitive, lackadais “shortfall” in the Central declared a national calamity The Left Front and the in shrines in interior “Around ₹15,000 crore realise the gravity of the sit ical and partisan attitude. As funding, he said at a press and funds be released imme Congress did not have a ‘Atmosphere vitiated’ colonies. was disbursed in salaries, uation and was busy indulg per the 2017 CAG Report on conference here. diately as per the demands seatsharing adjustment in “There is a sharp rise in Around 250 mainstream with ₹5,000 crore in Srina ing in “photoopism”. “Schemes for Flood Con He also hit out at Maha of the State governments. the 2019 Lok Sabha elec communalism in the coun political leaders and acti gar alone, to ensure cash tion, and both parties per try and the State. Increas vists have been rounded up flow,” Mr. Khan said. formed badly. ingly the State’s atmosphere since August 5 when Union Around 1.5 lakh animals While the Congress se is getting vitiated. While the Home Minister Amit Shah were sold in Srinagar, he ad cured two out of 42 seats, Trinamool Congress is told the Rajya Sabha that Ar ded. Chouhan pans Sonia’s appointment the Left Front secured none equally responsible along and the seat adjustment did with the BJP (Bharatiya Jana not materialise after several ta Party) in spoiling the at Says Congress will lose its relevance if it continues to depend on the Gandhis rounds of negotiations. One mosphere, we felt — in line No confusion, Art. 370 of the reasons for the Left with last year’s (party) reso Staff Reporter lost their elections. Take the Chouhan added. Front’s halfheartedness in lution — that we need to BHUBANESWAR example of Uttar Pradesh, “The BJP has set an exam sharing seats with the Con work together with forces had to go, says Shah The Congress should allow Bihar or appeasement polit ple. We do not do our polit gress in the Lok Sabha was that are democratic to an ex its leadership to grow natu ics in West Bengal, people ics around family or dynasty. complaints from local lead tent,” Mr. Chakraborty told The Minister said he had national issue that Kashmir rally in a democratic process have rejected dynastic, caste Leadership comes naturally ers. The Hindu. been anxious on how the is an integral part of India. and it would lose its rele and secular politics eve through ranks. Right from The Left’s district leaders Talking about the transf Bill would be taken up in Ra Whatever problems are vance if it continued to de rywhere and opted for deve the inception of the Jan complained that while the er of vote share from the jya Sabha, where the BJP did there, we should all stand by pend only on Rahul Gandhi lopment,” he said. Sangh, be it Syama Prasad Left Front’s votes trans Congress to the Left, Mr. not have a majority, but Mr the people of Kashmir and and Sonia Gandhi, said Shiv Mookerjee, Atal Bihari Vaj ferred to the Congress in the Chakraborty said that he Naidu had taken the Bill assure their feelings and see raj Singh Chouhan, former Learn a lesson payee, Lal Krishna Advani, 2016 Assembly polls, the hoped the Congress would through voting and even in to it that steps are taken for Madhya Pradesh Chief Minis Shivraj Singh Chouhan “We were hoping that the Narendra Modi or Amit Congress’s votes did not. take a proactive position in division. restoring normalcy and for ter and BJP vicepresident, Congress would learn a les Shah, none of them be The CPI(M)’s senior leader transferring the votes. . Mr Naidu backed the Mi implementing developmen here on Sunday. At a press conference, he son following the terrible longed to a political family,” and central committee State Congress president nister, saying the decision tal and welfare agenda at the The comment came a day said the people had rejected loss, but I am surprised that the BJP leader said. member, Sujan Chakrabor Somendra Nath Mitra had on ending the special status earliest,” he said. after the Congress Working dynasty and caste politics in the CWC had passed a reso “The Congress is, howev ty, however, underscored a told journalists earlier that was in the interest of the na Committee (CWC) chose Ms. the Lok Sabha election. lution that either Rahul er, unwilling to learn lesson. separate point of view while “together, we will able to de tion, for its future, security Rajini hails decision Gandhi as interim president “The familyled and caste Gandhi or Sonia Gandhi The party has become lea explaining why the Left and feat the BJP and the and safety. Commending the BJP go of the grand old party. based parties had miserably should lead the party,” Mr. derless,” Mr. Chouhan said. the Congress were coming Trinamool.” Mr. Naidu said: “I can say, vernment for abrogating the as a VicePresident, with a special status for Jammu considerable experience in and Kashmir, Tamil actor public life, now that the Par Rajinikanth equated Prime Arun Jaitley liament has voted it also, we Minister Narendra Modi and Naidu concerned over backlog of cases should all think in terms of Mr. Shah as the KrishnaAr responding national interest than party juna combination in the Ma interest.” habharata. “We do not VicePresident suggests setting up of special judicial tribunals and a Supreme Court Bench in Chennai to treatment “[Article] 370 should not know who is Arjuna and be treated as a political issue Krishna in them. Only they Special Correspondent arate Benches in different re Special Correspondent but it should be treated as a will know,” he said. CHENNAI gions and at least one in NEW DELHI Strongly advocating reforms Chennai on a trial basis, en Former Union Minister in the judiciary and stressing hancing the number of judg Arun Jaitley is responding the need for revisiting some es in the apex court, division to treatment and his vitals Death toll hits 72 in aspects of the law dealing of work into Constitutional are stable, said a senior with defection among politi Division and Courts of Ap doctor of the All India Insti cians, VicePresident M. Ven peal and raising the age of re tute of Medical Science (AI Kerala flood mayhem kaiah Naidu on Sunday sug tirement of judges were also IMS) on Sunday. gested setting up special highlighted by Mr. Naidu. Mr. Jaitley was admitted “This year, the death toll tion,”' he said. judicial tribunals and a Su to the AIIMS earlier this rose on account of the land Meanwhile, Tamil Nadu’s preme Court Bench in Media’s role week after he complained slips triggered by heavy decision to release water Chennai. He also called upon the me of breathlessness and rain. from the Sholayar dam At the release of Listen- dia to be a “dispassionate restlessness. The tragedy struck hilly would help the State. ing, Learning & Leading that watchdog, an honest mes The former Finance Mi regions and adjoining val It will increase the flow to chronicles his twoyear te senger, a friendly adviser nister has been in the in leys, not the urban areas,” Parambikulam and Porin nure in office, Mr. Naidu un A chronicle: Union Home Minister Amit Shah releasing a book written by VicePresident M. and a wholesome tensive care unit and is the Chief Minister said. galkuthu, causing water le derlined the heavy penden Venkaiah Naidu in Chennai on Sunday. * M. VEDHAN entertainer”. “haemodynamically sta “'Rainfall is likely to conti vels in the Chalakkudy river cy of cases in various courts Mr. Naidu spoke against ble”, according to a state nue in the hilly regions, so to rise, the Chief Minister and suggested ways to not decided even until the inaction of the Speaker or tolerated,” he said. legislators disrupting the ment released earlier by they require special atten said. streamline and make justice entire term of the legislators, Chairman, the legislators The country should have Parliament proceedings. “As the hospital. delivery more effective. defeating the very purpose continue in the new party special judicial tribunals I have repeatedly empha VicePresident M. Ven He said election petitions, of these laws. and, in a few cases, even be which will decide the cases sised in my public speeches, kaiah Naidu, who visited criminal cases and disqualifi “The antidefection law is come Ministers in the go within a reasonable time. I would like legislators to the hospital on Saturday, Sonia likely to lead cation proceedings under not implemented in letter vernment. This kind of trav Expanding the Supreme “discuss, debate and decide” said Mr. Jaitley was res the antidefection law were and spirit and because of the esty of justice should not be Court Bench and having sep not ‘disrupt’,” he said. ponding to treatment well. Congress for 6 months But their names did not ji has stuck to his decision to Former Assam Mamata irked by tax come up during the elabo resign but it is an honour to JJP, BSP join hands for rate consultation process have Smt Sonia Gandhi ji as Cong. leaders undertaken by the five sub our party president. I look notice to puja panels groups of the CWC, sources forward to working under join BJP Haryana Assembly polls said. The subgroups were their combined leadership!” Trinamool to lead a protest tomorrow formed to hold consulta Congress MP Jyotiraditya SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT tions with Congress’ State Scindia, who had struck a GUWAHATI ‘Move will change the political situation in the State’ Special Correspondent unit heads, MPs and other discordant note on the issue Former Rajya Sabha mem Kolkata senior functionaries. When of Article 370, said in a ber Santiuse Kujur and Ashok Kumar Chief Minister Mamata Ba GURUGRAM the CWC met for the second tweet. former Minister Gautam nerjee said on Sunday that time at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Roy joined the Bharatiya Ja The Jannayak Janta Party the Income Tax Department all the subgroups reported No time limit nata Party on Sunday, less and the Bahujan Samaj Party had sent tax notices to va that the chorus was for Mr. The resolution appointing than 24 hours after quitting have formed an alliance for rious Durga Puja commit Gandhi alone, while a hand Ms. Gandhi as “interim pre the Congress in Assam. the Assembly election in Ha tees, and the Trinamool ful backed his sister Priyan sident” did not provide a Former Youth Congress ryana due later this year. Congress would organise a ka Gandhi Vadra. time limit on when the elec president Hiranya Bhuyan The decision was an sitin protest to resist this tions would be held to elect joined them too. nounced by the leaders of taxation. Convincing Rahul the next president. The is The leaders joined the the two parties in New Delhi In her Twitter handle, Mamata Banerjee Attempts were made to con sue was also not discussed BJP at the State headquar on Sunday. Ms. Banerjee noted that the vince Mr. Gandhi to change in the CWC meet. The par ters here in presence of As The JJP, which was IT Department had “issued vernment withdrew tax, his decision. Ms. Vadra ty’s constitution, too, does sam Finance and Health formed after a split in the In notices to many committees which was earlier there, on phoned him from the CWC not prescribe a time frame Minister Himanta Biswa dian National Lok Dal (INLD) which organise” Durga Pu Ganga Sagar Mela. We prot on the insistence of the oth for an interim or provisional Sarma and State BJP presi last December, will contest JJP leader Dushyant Chautala (left) and BSP leader Satish ja, and asked “them to pay est against this and demand er members, sources said. president to begin the pro dent Ranjeet K. Dass. the 50 seats in the 90mem Chandra Misra in New Delhi on Sunday. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT taxes”. no taxation on Durga pujo However, he point blank re cess of finding a successor. ber Assembly, leaving the re “These festivals are for all committees,” Ms. Banerjee fused to continue. “Sonia Party insiders said the maining 40 for the BSP. gether fought to bring about Mr. Misra said Ms. Maya and we do not want any pu tweeted. Gandhi told us that Mr. Congress cannot go through Indian envoy Asserting that the alliance a change in the State, BSP su wati had made the decision jo festival to be taxed. This The Trinamool will lead a Gandhi will not come here the motions of elections and will change the “political sit premo Mayawati and Chaud after much discussion with will be a burden on the or daylong protest on Tuesday because he doesn’t want to prepare for the Assembly to Pak. Ajay uation in the State”, JJP lead hary Ajay Chautala have de State party leaders. ganisers. The Bengal go against the move. be bullied by the CWC into polls simultaneously. Elec er and former Hisar MP cided to take the battle JJP and BSP had contested changing his mind,” a CWC tions in Jharkhand, Maha Bisaria returns Dushyant Chautala told a forward,” he said. the Lok Sabha election ear member said. rashtra and Haryana are due press conference that in lier this year in alliance with “We had been debating in November. Delhi goes to view of “attempts to damage ‘Need for change’ the Aam Aadmi Party and Press Trust of India for 12 hours and we decided polls in February next year, New Delhi the social fabric”, the two BSP national general secre the Loktantra Suraksha Par that we shall not leave the and Bihar later the same parties had decided to come tary and Rajya Sabha mem ty respectively but both par room without a decision,” year. Indian High Commissioner together to fight this menace ber Satish Chandra Misra ties had ended the ties with another CWC member said. After Mr. Gandhi an to Pakistan Ajay Bisaria has and take Haryana forward said people of the State had their partners after the dis The decision to bring nounced his decision to quit returned to India, days af on the path to development. suffered for long under the mal poll performance. back Ms. Sonia Gandhi, ma on May 25, two days after ter Islamabad expelled him Mr. Chautala added that current BJP regime and the Both alliances had failed ny insiders said, is a com the Lok Sabha polls, the following its decision to the decision was reached af earlier Congress rule and to win even a single seat. promise between the old chorus to have a transparent downgrade diplomatic ties ter a series of meetings bet wanted a change. Before the Lok Sabha guard and the younger lot election with a wider electo over the withdrawal of spe ween the leaders of the two He said the alliance would election, the BSP had con since, under her command, rate has been doing the cial status to Jammu and parties. provide the people of Harya tested the Jind bypoll in Ja her son will continue to rounds with the likes of Kashmir. Mr. Bisaria had “Like in the past, when na a viable alternative and nuary this year in alliance have a say in party matters. threetime MP Shashi Tha left Islamabad on Saturday then BSP chief Kanshi Ram form the new government in with the Indian National Lok “Regretfully, Rahul Gandhi roor batting for it. and arrived here via Dubai. and Chaudhary Devi Lal to the State. Dal. CM https://t.me/SSC4ExamsYK https://t.me/Banking4Exams https://t.me/UPSC4Exams https://t.me/TheHindu_Zone_official

THE HINDU DELHI MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 2019 NEWS 13 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE J&K on top of Jaishankar’s China agenda Amarinder asks Pak. not to Kashmir, Ladakh situation likely to dominate his talks with Chinese Foreign Ministry officials slow down Kartarpur work Atul Aneja Council resolutions and bi UN route during Mr. Jaishan BEIJING lateral agreement”, accord kar’s talks in Beijing. Punjab CM says political concerns shouldn’t come in its way External Affairs Minister S. ing to a Chinese Foreign Mi On Monday, Mr. Jaishan Jaishankar has arrived in nistry readout. kar is expected to meet a Chi SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Beijing to prepare for the se After concluding his visit nese leader, but neither the CHANDIGARH cond informal summit bet to China, Mr. Qureshi told a Chinese side nor the Indian Punjab Chief Minister Ama ween Prime Minister Naren press conference in Islama Embassy in Beijing has given rinder Singh on Sunday ex dra Modi and Chinese bad that he shared Pakistan’s details of this engagement. pressed concern over re President Xi Jinping, apart intent to take the latest situa Later, the visiting Minister ports of a “discernible from familiarising his hosts tion in Kashmir to the United will participate with Mr. slowdown” in Pakistan’s ac about New Delhi’s decision ceptable” and would not and safeguard regional Nations Security Council. Wang in the second meeting tivities on the Kartarpur Cor to revoke special status for have any effect. peace and stability”. “I want to tell the nation of the IndiaChina high level ridor development. Jammu and Kashmir. However, the Chinese that they [Chinese leader peopletopeople exchanges He urged Pakistan not to Ahead of his arrival, the On Article 370 stance shifted after Thurs ship] have assured us of their mechanism. back out from its commit Chinese Foreign Ministry On the revocation of Article day’s “urgent” visit of Pakis complete support. Not only ment to this project, which Tight deadline: The Guru Nanak Dev shrine in Kartarpur. The had taken exception to In 370, the Chinese position has tan’s Foreign Minister Shah that, they have also issued in Varanasi summit is of supreme religious im 550th birth anniversary of the Guru is three months away.* PTI dia’s decision to create La been shifting. On Tuesday, Mahmood Qureshi to structions to their New York While the focus of this me portance to the Sikh dakh as a separate Union Ms. Hua counselled the “par Beijing. representative to remain in chanism is on peopletopeo community. would lead to its noncom grade diplomatic and trade Territory, saying the deci ties concerned” to “exercise Following talks, Chinese contact with our representa ple exchanges and culture, The Chief Minister’s state pletion in time for the histor ties with India, Capt. Ama sion could alter the status restraint and act with cau State Councillor and Foreign tive and to keep their consul all topics of IndiaChina ties, ment came against the back ic event. rinder said political con quo along the ChinaIndia tion, especially to avoid ac Minister Wang Yi opened the tations ongoing,” Mr. Qu including detailing of the Va drop of reports that India The Kartarpur Corridor is cerns should not be allowed border. tions that unilaterally change door for UN intervention, reshi quoted as saying in the ranasi summit between was forced to send a remin to connect Kartarpur Sahib to be clouded by any deci the status quo and exacer apart from proposing that Dawn newspaper. Prime Minister Modi and der to Islamabad to hold gurdwara in Pakistan’s Kar sion that was detrimental to ‘Unilateral decision’ bate the tension”. the “bilateral agreement” — a He also said the Foreign President Xi, will be covered, meetings for finalising key tarpur with the Dera Baba the interests of the people Referring to Ladakh, Chinese She stressed that China veiled reference to the 1972 Ministries of both countries except for trade and com decisions related to Nanak shrine in India’s Gur on both sides. Foreign Ministry spokesper was “seriously concerned” Shimla accord — should be had named a focal person at merce, highly placed sources Kartarpur. daspur district. It was in Kar “The stoppage would, in son Hua Chunying said on about the situation in Kash the template for resolving the director generallevel told The Hindu. tarpur Sahib that Guru Na particular, inflict heavy Tuesday the Indian side had mir, but, without making any the Kashmir issue. responsible for coordinating The highlevel mechanism 550th anniversary nak Dev spent the last 18 avoidable economic losses “continued to damage Chi reference to the United Na Mr. Wang stressed that the “a joint strategy”. is only the third ministerial Capt. Amarinder said that years of his life. for the poor in Pakistan, as na’s territorial sovereignty tions, proposed that India Kashmir issue “should be It is unlikely that the In level channel between India with the 550th birth anniver On the issue of stoppage, the goods would now have by unilaterally modifying the and Pakistan should resolve properly and peacefully re dian side will not raise the and China and the Special sary of Guru Nanak Dev just by Pakistan, of trade at the to take the long sea route form of domestic law”. She relevant disputes through solved based on the UN char “internationalisation” of the Representatives on the three months away, any AttariWagah border, in the through Iran or Dubai,” he said this practice was “unac dialogue and consultation ter, relevant UN Security Kashmir issue through the boundary question. slowdown in the project wake of its decision to down said.

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Press Trust of India situation in various parts of Press Trust of India New Delhi Jammu and Kashmir, and New Delhi The Central Reserve Police Ladakh. The helpline is as The Indian Railways on Sun Force on Sunday notified a sisting them with all availa day announced the cancel new number for its Srina ble information, a senior of lation of its leg of the Samj garbased helpline for peo ficial said. hauta Express train, days ple who are in distress or re The helpline will also after Pakistan suspended quire help for their families. share with the callers the ac the service on its side. The helpline posted a tive contact numbers of lo India runs the train on message on Twitter, saying cal police stations so that Sundays from Delhi to Attari people can call 9469 793260 people can further get in and back, while Pakistan “for any assistance or touch with them to obtain used to run the train bet updates”. or send information about ween Lahore and Attari. India used to run the train Its standard official num their near and dear ones, Passengers used to change between Delhi and Attari, ber, 14111, is not working due the official said. trains at the Attari station. and Pakistan between to the communication The CRPF has a perma “In consequent to Pakis Lahore and Attari. * PTI clampdown in the Kashmir nent deployment of about tan’s decision to cancel Valley after the special sta 65 battalions in Jammu and Samjhauta exp 14607/14608 day’s service, officials said. tus of Jammu and Kashmir Kashmir, while it has sent in running between Lahore Pakistan suspended the was withdrawn, officials 120 fresh companies to the and Atari... The link exp Samjhauta Express and the said. region in order to streng train number 14001/14002 Thar Express trains amid The public message on then the internal security running between Delhi and tensions between the two Twitter said people could grid post the abrogation of Atari also stands cancelled,” neighbouring countries af seek help through its official the provisions of Article said Deepak Kumar, Chief ter the government revoked handle @CRPFmadadgaar. 370. A CRPF battalion has Public Relations Officer of the special status of Jammu A number of people are 1,000 personnel, while a To the streets: A Kashmiri woman showing her hand with a message as others shout slogans during a protest in Srinagar on Northern Railway. and Kashmir and divided calling the helpline to ob company of the force has Sunday against the scrapping of the special status of Kashmir by the Union government.* REUTERS Two passengers had the State into two Union ter tain information about the 100. 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Two groups say Article 370 dilution disregards democracy Students from Jammu and There is an eminent threat of Magsaysay winner put SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT under brief house arrest Kashmir in Aligarh Muslim demographic change in the “Shutting down of the GUWAHATI LUCKNOW University have decided to designs of Delhi to rob us of State machinery and the Magsaysay Award winner and boycott the Bakrid feast or our culture, history and reli The dilution of Article 370 house arrest of prominent social activist Sandeep ganised for them on Mon gion,” they said. and the bifurcation of Jam leaders portend the kind Pandey was on Sunday briefly day, in protest against the Shafat Maqbool, a Ph.D. mu and Kashmir into two of... policies that would be barred from leaving his house clampdown back home after student from Baramulla, Union Territories have made applied to the people of the here by the Lucknow police the withdrawal of the special said in his five years at the two extremist groups in the northeastern region as well. after he had announced a status of J&K. university, the institution northeastern region come Freedom from India’s colo candlelight march in The lunch invite is “aimed had never before organised together and give a call to nial yoke is the only way to solidarity with the people of at rubbing salt into our any exclusive feast for them. boycott the Independence save ourselves from being Jammu and Kashmir in the wounds”, and accepting it Barriers up: The locked Jamia Masjid in Srinagar. Kashmiri Terming it a “political Day celebrations on August A vendor displays national swallowed by Hindustan,” wake of the suspension of will be “an insult to the cour students are unable to return home for Id. * REUTERS move”, Mr. Maqbool told 15. flag for sale ahead of the statement said. Article 370 and the age of our parents who are The Hindu that he feared the The two groups are the Independence Day, in communication clampdown. surviving the massive mili sanctioned ₹1 lakh each to dents said Governor Malik lunch would be used to pro Coordination Committee, or Guwahati. * PTI ‘Enhanced Hinduisation’ The police are yet to issue a tarisation and absolute the designated liaison offic had “no sympathies for us ject to the world that “Kash CorCom, an umbrella organ The two groups said the pol statement. clampdown in J&K,” the stu ers for organising Id festivi and the sanction of ₹1 lakh miris are happy” with the re isation of six Manipurbased ping of Article 370 of the In itical control of India by the dents said in a statement. ties for students from J&K and an Id invitation are to vocation of the special status extremist outfits, and the dian constitution and the bi BJP has “enhanced the Hin Mika’s show at Pakistan studying in other States. buy our consent for the un and downsizing of the State. United Liberation Front of furcation of Jammu and duisation process rapidly”. wedding sparks row Centre’s call The students termed the democratic means adopted Shafey Kidwai, university AsomIndependent, which Kashmir without the con The “Modi government is KARACHI A performance by singer Mika The ViceChancellor, on the invite an “attempt to mislead by the Indian government”. spokesperson, said he had formed the United National sent of the people of the bent upon reintroducing” Singh and his troupe at the call of the Union govern the international communi The students said there no information of the boy Liberation Front of Western State show India’s arrogance the Citizenship (Amend wedding of a billionaire’s ment, decided to host the ty and people in India about was an emergency situation cott. Nearly J&K 1,100 stu South East Asia with several and blatant disregard for de ment) Bill to forcibly “make daughter here has caused a feast since the students were the ground situation in Kash and they had no means of dents study here, but only nonManipuri groups in the mocratic principles,” the the northeastern region a furore, amid strained ties unable to go back home. J&K mir”. In a statement issued communicating with their 270 are on the campus now, region four years ago. two groups said in a state part of the Hindutva em between the two countries. Governor Satyapal Malik has on social media, the stu parents back home. “We he said. “The outrageous scrap ment. pire,” they said. Pakistan Peoples Party leader Syed Khursheed Shah said the government must find out who gave the security Implement resolutions clearance and visas to the Cong. will fight for J&K’s status: Chidambaram singer and his 14member troupe. PTI of UN, says Corbyn Says Centre resorted to this action as it is a Muslimmajority State, vows to fight for restoring privileges ‘Attempt to change special correspondent Kashmir demography’ Special Correspondent He also slammed the fo dures, and laws passed by In the history of Jammu and NEW DELHI ISLAMABAD CHENNAI Leader of U.K.’s opposition Pakistan Prime Minister Imran cus on Article 370. “Does on dian Parliament will not ap Kashmir, how the indepen Khan asked on Sunday if the Veteran Congress leader P. ly Article 370 bestow special ply to them and without the dent government joined In Labour Party Jeremy Cor international community was Chidambaram on Sunday provisions? What about Arti concurrence of the Nagaland dia, and under what circum byn has called for resolving just standing by as Hindu said the Congress would con cle 371 for Maharashtra and Assembly, no one can buy or stances were certain the situation in Kashmir nationalism spread into tinue to fight till the special Gujarat,” he asked listing out sell land. So are the special assurances given under the through relevant UN resolu Muslimmajority Kashmir, status was restored to Jam the subSections under the provisions applicable only Constitution, and how it has tions. In a social media mes saying it was the same as mu and Kashmir. Article that provides special for Kashmir,” he asked. Miz been followed for the last 72 sage, Mr. Corbyn has asked appeasing Hitler. “Attempt is “The struggle has only be provisions to Nagaland, As oram too had similar years, are the ones who are for protecting the rights of Jeremy Corbyn to change the demography of gun now and we will fight till sam, Manipur, Andhra Pra provisions. gloating about annexing the Kashmiri people. Kashmir through ethnic the end,” he said at a meet desh, Telangana, Mizoram, P. Chidambaram “You have one rule for Kashmir with India,” he said. “The situation in Kashmir UN resolutions implement cleansing,” he tweeted. Mr. ing organised by the Tamil Arunachal Pradesh, Hydera Jammu and Kashmir and The Congress leader al is deeply disturbing. Human ed,” the Labour leader post Khan also telephoned Iranian Nadu Congress Committee bad and Karnataka. ment cannot pass laws re another rule for Nagaland leged it was because J&K was rights abuses taking place ed on Twitter. Mr Corbyn’s President Hassan Rouhani “as in Chennai to condemn the “Under the special provi garding the religious, cultu and Mizoram,” the former a Muslimmajority State that are unacceptable. The statement drew strong com part of his outreach to world “snatching of rights of sions for Nagaland, without ral practices of the Nagaland Union Minister said. the Centre had resorted to rights of the Kashmiri peo ments from Indianorigin ci leaders.” AFP Kashmir”. their concurrence, Parlia people, civil, criminal proce “Those who don’t know this action. ple must be respected and tizens in the U.K. CM A ND-NDE https://t.me/SSC4ExamsYK https://t.me/Banking4Exams https://t.me/UPSC4Exams https://t.me/TheHindu_Zone_official

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Country has asked ring to fears that gripped the protesters return to streets country after the Easter ter for him: Mahinda ror attacks in April. He Rajapaksa would safeguard the coun Police counter stonepelting with teargas shells try’s sovereignty and protect Meera Srinivasan it from “external forces’ in Agence France-Presse COLOMBO terference,” he said. Hong Kong Leader of Opposition and One of the early reactions Thousands of prodemocra former President Mahinda from the Rajapaksas’ politi cy protesters hit the streets Rajapaksa on Sunday named cal rivals came from Finance of Hong Kong for a tenth his brother and controversial Minister Mangala Samara weekend inarow on Sun figure Gotabaya Rajapaksa as weera Sunday evening. “The day, defying police who fired presidential candidate of the barbarians are at the gate!” volleys of tear gas at several Sri Lanka Podujana Peramu he tweeted, adding: “The locations. na (SLPP or People’s Front). symbol of white van terror of The protests followed a Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksa al the Rajapakse era, the ‘ugly night of “hitandrun” rallies so officially took charge as American’, has today across the city and came af leader of the lessthanfour launched his campaign for ter Hong Kong's leader Car yearold party, that his loyal the presidency. Do #SriLan rie Lam insisted she would ists founded in 2016, break kans want to return to the not meet the demands of ing away from the Sri Lanka isolation and darkness of the demonstrators. Police crackdown: Teargas shells being fired towards Freedom Party (SLFP). past? #lka Early Sunday afternoon, protesters in Wan Chai district of Hong Kong on Sunday.* AFP Presidential elections are Brothers in arms: Sri Lanka's former defence secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa (R) with his brother Meanwhile, Mr. Gota thousands of protesters met due before the end of the and former president Mahinda Rajapaksa in Colombo on Sunday. * REUTERS baya’s candidacy is also be in the city's Victoria Park, But the prodemocracy “Our aim is no injuries, no year and the incumbent Un ing challenged by sections braving hot and humid con activists, whose protests are bleeding and not getting ar ited National Party (UNP) is him. The country has asked ending the war that the legations and maintained that have questions about his ditions and a police ban on now in their third month, rested,” said a 17yearold yet to announce its candi for him.” Mr. Rajapaksa, who armed forces fought with the that they are politically mo citizenship. A dual citizen of the gathering. defied authorities in both lo student protester who gave date, amid apparent dis held office for a decade from rebel Tigers critics and vic tivated falsehoods. Sri Lanka and the United “The police should try cations, and staged addition his family name as Chan. agreements between its lead 2005, cannot run for Presi tims, especially among the Addressing supporters on States, Mr. Gotabaya has said their best to maintain public al protests in several other “I think our previous tac er Prime Minister Ranil dency due to a 2015 legisla Tamil minority, accuse him Sunday, Mr. Gotabaya re that he has renounced his security instead of rejecting parts of the city. tics of staying in one place Wickremesinghe and the tion that places a twoterm li of committing war crimes called the praise he received American citizenship, as Sri our request to march,” said a led to many arrests and inju party’s deputy leader Sajith mit. However, in a recent and fiercely oppose him. He from a senior military col Lankan law prohibits dual ci 25yearold protester who Persistent protests ries... We need to 'be water' Premadasa. President Maith media interview, he has said is linked to Sri Lanka’s infa league who called him ‘an of tizens form contesting for gave only her family name, Sunday’s protests come after to avoid injuries,” he told ripala Sirisena who leads the he would be the party’s mous “whitevan abduc ficer who takes initiative ov the highest office. Wong. a night of catandmouse de AFP at the Victoria Park SLFPremnant is likely to prime ministerial candidate tions” targeting dissidents. er and above the normal call However, the Staterun “We’re still here... We monstrations around the ci gathering on Sunday. support Mr. Rajapaksa, ac in the general elections sche In the postwar years, he was of duty’. “It was that quality Sunday Observer on Sunday won't worry that much ty, with protesters taking The demonstrations that cording to political sources. duled next year. accused of backing reaction that helped me end 30 years reported that a couple of pol about illegal assembly. We their mantra of flexible ac began more than two Making the announce Mr. Gotabaya, 70, rose to ary Sinhala Buddhist groups of terrorism, in just three ice complaints made by civil still have our rights,” she tion – “Be Water” – to new months ago in opposition to ment at Sugathadasa stadi prominence during Mr. Ma notorious for inciting vio and a half years,” he said. society activists on alleged ir told AFP. heights. And while riot pol a contentious bill allowing um that was packed with Ra hinda Rajapaksa’s presiden lence against minority Mus Further he vowed he “will regularities in his Sri Lankan Police also denied the ice fired tear gas and arrest extraditions to mainland japaksa supporters, the cy, when he was appointed lims. Even as he faces trial never allow extremist terro citizenship, passports and protesters a permit for a se ed 16 people, the two sides China have morphed into a former President said: “I am defence secretary. While for financial fraud and mur rism” in the country and electoral registration could cond rally in the city's work avoided the lengthy pitched broader bid to reverse a slide not the one choosing him. supporters hail him as a “he der, Mr. pledged to enhance national potentially pose a threat to ing class Sham Shui Po battles that have been seen in democratic freedoms in You have already chosen ro”, for his crucial role in Gotabaya has denied all al security, apparently refer his candidacy. neighbourhood. in recent weeks. the city. IN BRIEF Saudi alliance strikes Syria regime gains ground North Korea: latest test was ‘new weapon’ Saturday launch is Saturday's launch was the after Aden ‘coup’ in Idlib push North’s fifth test in two DPRK’s fifth test weeks as it protests the an Agence France-Presse in two weeks nual military drills under Around 40 people died in the flareup Beirut way between Seoul and Syrian regime forces seized Agence France-Presse Washington. Brazilian judge orders Agence France-Presse release of Batista a town on the edge of Idlib Seoul Defence officials in Seoul Aden (yemen) RIO DE JANEIRO province on Sunday, a North Korean leader Kim said Pyongyang fired two A Brazilian judge ordered the A Saudiled coalition on monitor said, their first Jong Un supervised a “new shortrange ballistic missiles release of exbillionaire Eike Sunday launched a strike ground advance since re weapon” test, the state me on Saturday, flying 400 km Batista early on Sunday after against Yemen’s southern suming an offensive on the dia reported on Sunday, the before splashing down in the he was detained for violating separatists after they seized jihadistdominated enclave latest in a series of launches In this television grab, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un sea between the Korean pe his house arrest. The judge the presidential palace in se more than three months that U.S. President Donald (right) watching the testfiring of a weapon system. * AP/KRT ninsula and Japan. ruled that the detention of cond city Aden in deadly ago. Trump has played down as KCNA, without any speci the magnate, once Brazil's fighting that threatened to The region of northwest Washington seeks to restart Korean Central News Agency meet once the U.S.South Ko fications, said on Sunday it richest man, “violated the push the warravaged nation ern Syria, which is home to nuclear talks with followed Mr. Trump's com rean exercises are over and was a “new weapon” deve Constitution”. AFP deeper into turmoil. an estimated three million Pyongyang. ments that Mr. Kim had ex apologised for the slew of loped to suit the country's The seizure, decried by civilians, has come under The report carried by the pressed a willingness to missile tests. “terrain condition”. Statue of Ranjit Singh the Riyadhbacked Yemeni Firefighters extinguishing a almost daily Syrian and vandalised in Pakistan government as a UAEsup blaze following clashes in Russian bombardment LAHORE ported coup, reflects deep Mansoura, Aden on Sunday. since late April. A statue of Maharaja Ranjit divisions between seces The most recent fighting Afghan leader rejects Norway mosque shooting Singh, who ruled over Punjab sionists and loyalist forces, “It is heartbreaking that focused on an area strad for close to 40 years in the both of whom have fought during EidalAdha, families dling Idlib and Hama pro early 19th century, was Shiite Huthi rebels. are mourning the death of vinces, a monitor said, and foreign interference an ‘attempted act of terror’ vandalised by two men here “The coalition targeted their loved ones instead of claimed dozens of lives on on Saturday. Both were an area that poses a direct celebrating together in both sides. Associated Press future cannot be decided Agence France-Presse with multiple weapons and arrested on Sunday under threat to one of the impor peace and harmony,” said “Regime forces seized Kabul outside, whether in the cap Oslo opened fire, before being blasphemy laws. PTI tant sites of the legitimate Lise Grande, United Nations the town of AlHabeet, in Afghanistan’s President on ital cities of our friends, ne The shooting at a mosque overpowered by a man who government,” a statement Humanitarian Coordinator Idlib’s southern country Sunday rejected foreign in meses or neighbors. The near Oslo is being treated as suffered “minor injuries” in Israel police, Palestinians said, calling on the separa in Yemen. side, at dawn,” Rami Abdel terference as the United fate of Afghanistan will be an “attempted act of ter the process. clash at holy site tist Southern Transitional Riyadhbased Yemeni Rahman, head of the Syr States and the Taliban ap decided here in this home ror”, Norwegian police said Only three people were JERUSALEM Council (STC) to withdraw President Abedrabbo Man ian Observatory for Human pear to be closing in on a land,” he said. “We don’t on Sunday. inside the mosque at the Israeli security forces and from positions seized in sour Hadi is backed by the Rights war monitor, said. peace deal without the Af want anyone to intervene in “We are looking at an at time of the attack, and pol Palestinian worshippers Aden or face further attacks. coalition – led by Saudi Ara The area has escaped ghan government at the ta our affairs.” tempted act of terror,” act ice said they recovered two clashed at a flashpoint It did not specify the tar bia and its ally the United the control of President ble. U.S. envoy Zalmay Khalil ing chief of the police opera firearms from the scene. Jerusalem holy site on Sunday as overlapping Jewish get but residents in Aden Arab Emirates – that is bat Bashar alAssad’s regime President Ashraf Ghani zad is seeking a peace deal tion Rune Skjold told a press Hours after Saturday at and Muslim holidays led to told AFP it was an air strike tling the Iranaligned since 2015 and is the last spoke during the Muslim by Sept. 1, weeks before the conference. tack, the body of a woman tensions, wounding dozens of against separatist camps in Huthis. major bastion of opposi holiday EidalAdha and as vote. The two sides are ex Mr. Skjold said the inves linked to the suspect was Palestinians and four the city. But another force in the tion to his regime and its al U.S. and Taliban negotiators pected to agree on the with tigation had shown that the found in a house in Baerum. policemen. Police fired sound Since the fighting flared antiHuthi coalition – the lies. The capture of AlHa continue their work in the drawal of some 20,000 U.S. man appeared to hold “far Norway was the scene of grenades as Palestinian on Thursday, around 40 pe UAEtrained Security Belt beet, a key strategic target Gulf nation of Qatar, where and NATO troops in return right” and “antiimmigrant” one of the worstever at protests intensified at the ople have been killed and Force – has since Wednes for proregime forces, the insurgents have a politi for Taliban guarantees that views. tacks by a rightwing extre highly sensitive AlAqsa 260 others including civi day been battling loyalists in came after another night of cal office. Afghanistan would not be a The suspect entered the mist in July 2011, when 77 mosque compound, known to lians wounded, according to Aden, the temporary base of deadly fighting, the war Speaking after the Eid base for other extremist alNoor Islamic Centre on people were killed by An Jews as the Temple Mount.AFP the UN. Hadi's government. monitor said. prayers, Mr. Ghani said“Our groups. Saturday afternoon armed ders Behring Breivik.

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Mutual fund SIPs BLACKBOARD: CPSE ETF Q. I am 31 years old and have resigned from COVER NOTE: HOME INSURANCE work. I had withdrawn my provident fund amount two years ago, which I invested in bank fixed deposits with an interest rate of Stakes that pay ‘rich’ dividends 8.5% per annum. As the interest rate has now fallen to 7%, I have been wondering if I Home alone? Not really! should invest in mutual fund SIPs. Can you Ashish Rukhaiyar tell me if this is advisable? SANGEETHA KARTHIK Bundled policies come with a melange of interesting options What is CPSE ETF? A. Mutual funds, even if you go in for debt K Nitya Kalyani by accident or misfortune. In funds, are marketlinked products where ■ CPSE ETF, as the name suggests, the case of damage, repair there are no guaranteed returns like bank is an exchangetraded fund (ETF) Home insurance package and restoration expenses are fixed deposits. While the return you earn on a comprising public sector enterpris policies bundle a compre payable. bank fixed deposit may fall due to falling es (PSEs). The ETF was launched by interest rates in the economy, in mutual hensive, yet costeffective Breakage of fragile and the government in March 2014 to funds, it is not just your returns which swing, fire and allied perils insu brittle items is one exclu help divest its stake in select public but also your capital which suffers a loss if rance with several other in sion, as are mysterious dis sector undertakings through the markets turn adverse. teresting options. appearances, unexplainable Therefore, before considering SIPs in a ETF route. The ETF is based on the They include fire and bur losses, loss due to misplace mutual fund, there are three questions you Nifty CPSE index that comprises 11 glary cover for contents, op ment and missing items. should ask yourself. Are you okay with risking PSEs such as ONGC, NTPC, Coal In tions to cover specified je An interesting cover is the some of your capital to market swings? Can dia, Indian Oil Corporation, REC, wellery and valuables under breakdown of domestic ap you take volatility in your returns from year Power Finance Corporation, Bharat GETTYIMAGES/ISTOCK

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To improve your ified televisions and desktop ternal damage caused due to returns, you can consider parking 25% of have been made part of the index under section 80 C of the Income computers against loss or Under one roof: A bundled home insurance package policy is mechanical and/or electrical your money in small finance banks which include a criteria that they have Tax Act. damage. comprehensive and costeffective. * GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO breakdown of domestic ap offer 8.59% interest, and another 25% in paid at least 10% dividend in the last Some policies have sec pliances” specified in the NBFC deposits from highlyrated companies DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD two consecutive years. How has the response to FFOs like Sundaram Finance or Mahindra Finance tions covering pedal cycles, stones, jewellery and schedule when they are in been till now? Options galore which offer 89%. workmen’s compensation valuables. side in the insured premises. What are the benefits of CPSE ETF? If you are willing to take on risks to your insurance for household ● Protect home from fire, The burglary cover in The SI is the market value ■ The new fund offer (NFO) of the ■ capital and do not mind volatility in returns, staff, hospitalisation insu burglary using single policy demnifies the loss of listed of an item of the same kind Investors get to hold stake in the CPSE ETF was launched in March you can consider debt mutual funds. To rance for household staff contents (except jewellery and capacity. Repair expens best of public sector enterprises — 2014 and since then, there have invest in debt mutual funds, you do not need ● and so on that you can pick Some policies have and valuables) within the es to restore the item to its the socalled Maharatna, Navaratna to do an SIP and can simply invest a lump sections covering even been five rounds of FFOs. The pop and choose from. Each sec premises caused by bur former state will be payable. and the Miniratna — that have a sum amount. Be sure to spread out your pedal cycles ularity of the ETF can be gauged investments over three Corporate Bond tion has a different sum in glary, housebreaking, larce Loss or damage caused by strong dividendpaying track from the fact that each of the FFOs Funds and PSU and Banking Debt Funds, sured (SI) and premium rate ● Precious jewellery and ny and theft. wilful damage or gross negli record. was oversubscribed, with investors which invest only in higherrated bonds. With and there are volume dis valuables are also covered gence is an exclusion among Incidentally, the dividend yield across categories bidding in huge debt funds, it is more tax efficient to invest in counts for choosing multiple DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Family involvement others. of the CPSE ETF index is around numbers. the Growth option than the Dividend option sections. If anyone in the family of the You can insure the loss of 5%, higher than the other indices. Till the sixth FFO in July, the go (which is highly taxed) and to use a Fire cover for building only the contents. In any insured is involved in the or damage to your televi While investors get an opportun systematic withdrawal plan to receive regular vernment had raised ₹38,500 crore and contents and burglary case, the SI for fire and bur burglary, the loss will not be sions and desktop compu ity to diversify their portfolio cash flows from the fund. through the CPSE ETF. The sixth If you are okay with risk to your capital, do cover for contents are the glary covers for contents covered. Neither will loss of/ ters against fire and allied through a single ETF, it also has the FFO attracted bids worth ₹40,000 not need the money for five years and are main covers and the options should be identical. or damage to money and so perils under a special section added advantage of an upfront dis crore which is five times the issue looking for high returns, then you can work like this: We saw the scope of the on as listed above. where the market value of count that investors get if invested size of ₹8,000 crore. consider SIPs in three Aggressive Hybrid If you live in a house you fire cover for building in the The list is not exhaustive, the gadget is the SI and re at the time of the further fund offer In other words, the last tranche Funds, which invest 65% in equity and 35% own, you can purchase fire earlier instalment of ‘Cover you should read the fine pair expenses will be paya ing or fresh fund offering (FFO). Al has attracted as much subscription in debt. cover for the building and Note’ and it pretty much ap print in the policy prospec ble. Exclusions apply, of so, the fund has a very low expense as the five tranches before it put contents plus burglary cover plies to contents as well. tus for exact details. course. ratio, which, in turn, enhances the together. Readers can send in queries on personal finance for contents. If you are the The exceptions differ. Precious jewellery and va Listing out the contents of returns. This also assumes significance as and investing to [email protected]. Our owner but not occupier, you They include loss of or dam luables like watches, curios your home is the important The recent Budget has also intro the government has set a record experts who write on personal finance will answer are entitled to fire cover only age to articles of a consuma and works of art are covered part of taking this cover. these queries. Moneywise will not give specific duced a tax benefit for investing in divestment target of ₹1.05 lakh recommendations for investment in a particular for the structure. If you are ble nature, loss of or damage under a special section (The writer is a business ETFs, just like equitylinked savings crore in the current financial year. mutual fund scheme, share or fixed deposit. only a renter, you can buy to money, securities docu against loss or damage while journalist specialising in in scheme (ELSS) offers. The CPSE ETF is managed by Re fire and burglary cover for ments and unset precious anywhere in India, caused surance & corporate history) The benefit will be part of the ov liance Mutual Fund.

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But according to Sagar the collection is made of “what you use in fashion really, because you have to be priceconscious in these things — industrially se cure and as sustainable as possi ble. It’s cotton, a bit of silk, etc.” Something This despite their excitement early last year, on finding the fibre crop ramie in Meghalaya. They’re still doing R&D on that, he says. By her own admission, Apte has never been much into fash ion. Here, the 34yearold actor, like style known for her eclectic roles, talks about what style means to her, how, if at all, her work has Before she walked for GENES Lecoanet influenced her fashion choices. Hemant on Friday, actor Radhika Apte talked Edited excerpts. about her sense of fashion (or the lack thereof) Have your growing up years in Pune, and your exposure to various other places Vangmayi Parakala internationally since, influenced the way you look Maybe it’s because she agreed to at style? do interviews as her hair was be I have a very close friend who is ing is from there. I still can’t your fashion choices going ing tugged at and sprayed into from Poona, extremely well shop online. And now that I’m forward? place, but when I congratulated educated, but still really shies an actor, I get given clothes all Sometimes. Sometimes you just Radhika Apte for two of her re from wearing a swimming cos the time! wear a scarf in a way that you cent films doing well at the 66th tume in a pool. Whereas I have feel ‘oh this looks so nice’ and National Film Awards on Friday other friends who would wear a What then does this you wear it again. — Andhadun was recognised for bikini on a street. So what I’m partnership with GENES best actor; best Hindi film, and Everyday couture saying is it’s person to person Lecoanet Hemant mean for Are there times when how best adapted screenplay; while (left) Radhika Apte really. Poona can be a cosmopol you? your character is styled Pad Man won best film on social wearing GENES itan place, but it can also be a Someone wants you to wear a affects your comfort, and issues — she merely nodded in Lecoanet Hemant small town compared to Bom collection that they’ve made, consequently your acknowledgement. A/W ‘19; models at bay. So I think it’s really up to and showcase that, and they performance? Radhika has an Apte was getting her hair and the show your exposure, your desire to think you represent something Only if it doesn’t suit the charac <> * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT international make up done to walk the ramp open yourself to things. I mean, that is in sync with their collec ter. This is also a group discus status in India — for GENES Lecoanet Hemant, of course I wasn’t someone who tion. It’s a huge compliment I sion. Everybody’s inputs go in she’s a Netflix star. the readytowear brand of the wore a bikini as a child or a teen think. and only then come up with an designerduo Didier Lecoanet ager, because nobody wore biki idea. It’s a long process. She openminded, and Hemant Sagar, for the nis in Poona. The freedom of You’ve worked in different she has an launch of their Autumn/Winter wanting to wear [different] film industries, in different Can you recall one such international 2019 collection. Called Cinema things, even style came to me languages [Hindi, Telugu, character? allure by being of GENES, the inspiration for the much later. In Poona, a lot of pe Marathi, Bengali, with two I haven’t done anything where married to a collection was classic Hollywood ople are into academics, espe upcoming releases in costume has been such a game serious, Western iconography, vintage moviepos cially where I was brought up. Hollywood]. Have there changer. The only time I was cra artist. This is a ters, and Art Deco. The tones are So, if you focus on what you’re been significant moments in zy about costume was when I person who isn’t sober (except when black se wearing, it wasn’t really...fash fashion in each of these? was very young, maybe 6 or 7, I getting into fads, quins bring in a sense of glam) ion was looked down upon in Andhadun [2018, Bollywood] was always cast as a boy in my but knows what with a prominence of black and many ways. was very colourful, the charac school gatherings. I really want she wants. She’s white, dull plums and greys, and ter was very colourful. Phobia ed the women’s costumes then. some deep but muted ochres. How did you develop your [2016, Bollywood] was very That’s the only time I remember an actress, not a She’s yet to see all the pieces, sense of style then? dark, the character was dark. feeling [a certain way]. Other film star. but she’s excited about how “the I didn’t really. Even now, I hate There’s a science behind styling wise it’s only a discussion of Hemant Sagar, collection is very simple, but it’s shopping. I only go to one shop people in films. what we should or shouldn’t of Lecoanet Hemant very elegant; it’s also very inter [in the UK], and buy everything wear, this looks good and this national, but the fabrics are very from there. My boots, undergar Does the style of a character doesn’t look good, or this suits Indian.” ments, dresses, coats, everyth you’re playing influence and this doesn’t

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From Abraham to Independence and beyond, a history of the festival

R.V. Smith

Bakrid traces its history to 4,000 years ago, when the Prophet Abra ham saw God in a dream, com manding him to sacrifice what he loved the most. He is said to have had an only son, Ismail (until anoth er was born to Sarah, when he and she were long past the age of repro duction). After much thought, he decided to sacrifice Ismail. The The next morning, he told his son that they were going to offer a sacrifice to God on Mount Morea. They took fuelwood and a firepot and embarked on the long trek. There, both father and son set up an altar, and when the son asked sustainability where the animal for sacrifice was, Abraham replied “God will provide This Rakshabandhan, make the it”. same commitment you would He then bound his son, put him bond to a sibling, to Mother Earth on the stone altar, and took out a knife to sacrifice him. Just as he was aboutto do so, an angel is said to Prabalika M Borah come with zerowaste packag comes encased in a biode have appeared, telling him to de ing (leaves) because packag gradable rakhi that looks sist, for God was convinced that he Scoot over, gold and silver ing is responsible for increas attractive. loved Him more than even his son. Festive times Scenes from Bakrid rakhi! There are alternatives ing scrap in landfills by 50 to “The Earth Love is an up Suddenly a ram emerged, caught by celebrations in the capital in the market that secure a 60%.” coming ecommerce market its horns in a bush. Abraham un * SANDEEP SAXENA AND RAJIV BHATT bond of care towards the envi place for ecoconscious pro bound his son and sacrificed the ronment, while still retaining Stuck to you ducts. Our platform ram instead. This is celebrated as style and purpose. Eco rakhis Karishma Bhagat’s Desi Dra encompasses products that Bakrid, now better known as Iduz they had found shelter, were still are already top on the list for ma Queen rakhis are eco are organic, vegan, sustaina Zuha or IdalAdah, on which the seething with unrest — it would be those on the look out for envi friendly, feature embroidery ble, recycled, handmade, Haj pilgrimage also culminates at better if only sheep and goat ronmentfriendly, but fashion oneliners. And when it is cruelty free and biodegrada Kabah. slaughter was allowed, to prevent able threads to tie around time to leave the wrist, it can ble. For those who believe in communal clashes, which may have wrists. Here are some outof be a pretty fridge magnet. making a difference by adopt In prepartition days repercussions in Delhi, where the thebox options: “Won’t it be cool to have ing shopping habits that im Bakrid was then marked by sacrific big Hindu families had been al the rakhi for a few years? It is pact environment , The Earth es in nearly every welltodo home. lowed to remain. Planting a bond all about creating memories, Love is that lifestyle choice,” Those who couldn’t afford to do it Ghalib, says former history pro Gargi Parmar, the founder of and since the rakhi is made to says Amulya Prasad, founder. individually pooled money and of fessor Dr. Narayani Gupta lamented online store Ba No Batwo, match brosentiment on a fered a combined sacrifice. Some that upto 1869 there were mostly opts for gender neutral rakhis larger spectrum, throwing Threads of love even sacrificed camels, like court Hindu “Sahokars” or Seths, and the made with seeds, which can them out is a hard decision. Does your concern for the en bailiff Usman sahib. building and its vast compound about the gathering storm that was Muslim merchants who could be be sown after removing the Even if it gets tossed away by vironment keep you hooked Nawab’s kothi, that existed at were declared evacuee property to strike North India, but his sub compared to them were not more thread to which it is attached. mistake, it will not harm the to the internet? Try looking Noor Manzil in Old Delhi, was the post1947, with the nawabzadas mi jects knew more about it even be than three. Bakrid was not as gay She uses two types of desi environment as it is made of for handmade crochet rakhis place where the largest number of grating to Karachi, Lahore and Ra fore the lotus and chappati (the sig then as it used to be, although the tree seeds — karanja (Millettia cloth,” says Karishma. by Payal Meena, a teacher. “qurbanis” took place.The butcher walpindi after their parents’ death. nal) began to make their rounds Parsi and other shops were well pinnata) and bahava (Cassia These are made to suit diffe Qayam divided goat and sheep over hundreds of miles. It was Ha stocked with goodies. The main ce fistula). The rakhis also come One small step rent age groups, and can be parts, keeping the best portions for kim Ahsanullah Khan who had cau lebrations were, according to con with a beautiful handmade ‘Saving the planet will never repurposed. the household of Nawab F.Z. Sher The last years of reign tioned the emperor that things were temporary accounts, limited to carving, and are designed on go out of style’ reads the mes “Some can be used as a key wani and the entrails and others for Bahadur Shah Zafar had imposed a not as calm as they appeared. areas like Nizamuddin, Qutub Mi the principle of reduce, reuse, sage on one of The Earth chain and others can be distribution to the poor. Qayam is complete ban on cowslaughter, in When the British regained con nar and the Purana Qila. The Punja recycle, repurpose, and re Love’s eco rakhis. They can stitched on to a child’s dress long dead and so also the Nawab Sa keeping with the tradition set by his trol over Delhi, they were told by bi Muslim katra, demolished to create. “Every year lakhs of be planted to the soil and as a decorative addition,” says hib, and his children and the kothi ancestor Akbar the Great. In the their spies during Bakrid 157 years make way for the Old Delhi railway rakhis end up in landfills after come in a kit. I includes a Payal, adding that “ the bond is now a divided property. A part of year preceding 1857, the ban was ago (when Zafar was being sent into station, was virtually relocated in Rakshabandhan. Most of small amount of rangoli and between siblings should be as it has become a school and another strictly enforced in the urban area exile) that though the prominent Kishenganj. these are plastic, making chawal for the tilak. A mini beautiful as the knots in the occupied by the servants and the re to strengthen communal harmony. Muslim families had been banished them nonbiodegradable. Our pot and soil to plant the rakhi crochet which take an adora sident dhoban and her family. The Zafar may have heard rumours from the city, the rural areas where The writer is veteran chronicler of Delhi rakhis are zerowaste, and are also provided . The seed ble shape.”

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lucky with time, he hits the gym, Q&A On International Youth Day, Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports Kiren where he runs on the treadmill and Rijiju says he likes to inspire people through his disciplined, fit lifestyle does some light weights or waist training. He always takes the stairs, Over a few weeks, I’ve felt pain near my heart no matter where. when I have hiccups. Is there something to worry about? In the zone Hailing from the mountainous landscape of Nafra in Arunachal Pradesh, being active comes nat urally to him. “Negotiating the rugged terrain gives you the im petus,” says Kiren, who has also represented the State in various sports. Over the years, he’s col lected newspaper clippings of re cords of events and athletes from the 1900 Olympic games in Paris to the 2016 one in Rio de Janeiro. From Usain Bolt and Carl Le wis to Pele, Maradona and Mu hammad Ali, he says he draws his inspiration from all, in order to remain fit. The only time he

gained weight was when he got GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCK * elected as MP for the ﬁrst time in ■ The symptom is not suggestive of pain related to the 2004. “I was bloating with more heart and is more likely to be muscular pain. Such pain can than 10 extra kilos and realised it arise if there is muscle sprain (‘catch’) during violent hic wasn’t doing me any good.” Fond cups or severe cough. You may wish to consult a doct or if of tasty food, Kiren says he did you are frequently getting hiccups, to see if there is any or not push anything oﬀ the table ganic cause related to that problem. but limited his choice to less fried

SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT SPECIAL and more boiled foods, and start I am 42 and on medication for stable angina. * ed working out regularly. “Only But I live in fear of getting a heart attack. I have SOMA BASU my craving for jalebis remains un totally changed my lifestyle and diet. Will it conquered, and that means extra At 47, Kiren Rijiju, the Minister of hard work later,” he laughs. help to keep me in the safe zone? ■ Youth Affairs and Sports, gives us A month ago, he smashed the It is essential that you keep your risk factors under very Strong body, good control, with healthy living habits and medicin es as fitness goals with his daily social bottle cap challenge with a back media posts. His 570k followers spin kick and showed he was as fit needed. Stress itself is a destabilising factor and can precip on Twitter and 206k followers on as Bollywood’s Akshay Kumar itate a heart attack. A positive attitude helps. As you a re Instagram will see him pushing a and Tiger Shroff, who did it blind young; it is advisable to get a checkup periodically to make lawn mower, using an ab wheel, youthful mind folded. It’s made his appeal un sure your risk factors are controlled and that the disease is doing the superman on a lawn. He iversal. “I receive messages from not progressing. Beyond that, do not let worry weigh you dreams of an India of fit, agile pe hundreds of youths daily, who tell down. Keep active, stay away from tobacco and eat a ople, and declares, “Being unfit is me they are inspired by my wor healthy diet. Healthy living habits do help to prevent or the worst kind of weakness one kouts and feel if a minister can do slow down progression of the disease. Set goals for yourself can have.” He’s clear that like age, it, they can too.” and work to achieve them. weight is just a number, with core I am 54 years old and have always taken the strength being the most impor Family package stairs to my office which is on the third floor. Of tant. Kiren is backed by his healthcon scious family that feeds off his en late I tend to get out of breath. Should I worry? ■ You should certainly pay attention to this symptom Time travel thusiasm. While his wife recharg which is a recent change. It may indicate a deficiency of “I don’t get much time now, as I es with yoga, his son, 13, plays blood supply to the heart, due to blockages in the blood also travel a lot,” he says over tennis, and his eightyearold vessels of the heart. You should consult a cardiologist with phone conversations between daughter has taken to swimming. out delay and get it investigated. Most likely a Stress Test hectic Parliament sessions. “So I says. Fitness is not about how fat or would be advised, after a resting ECG and routine investiga make it a point to do at least 30 On official engagements, he thin you look, but how disci tions are performed. If cardiac status is normal after all ne minutes of functional exercises plays a rally of badminton, volley plined you are, he says. With visi cessary tests are done, other reasons for exerciserel ated daily without fail.” He says he nev ball or table tennis, literally kicks ble high energy and always stand breathlessness should be considered, like lung problems or er hits the off switch, no matter off football matches or throws the ing tall, Kiren says, “There are even a recent weight gain. how stressful and timeconsum javelin or shotput with felicity. “It several ways to recharge, but we ing his job is. Time management depends on the group of people I need to create meaningful rou Dr K Srinath Reddy is the President of Public Health Foundation of is what it takes, he feels. So he am interacting with. The time and tines to set the tone for the body.” India; former president World Heart Federation; former Head of manages to fit it in despite a place do not matter to me for any He goes around urging all, in Cardiology at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi packed schedule of backtoback kind of physical activity. I could be cluding his colleagues in the Par appointments and meetings from in my drawing room in between liament, to play at least one sport. Nothing in this column is intended to be, and is not, a early morning to well past mid two appointments doing situps #Khelogetohkhiloge, (you will substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or night. “If you understand the va and pushups or stretching and blossom if you play) is what he ad treatment. Please seek independent advice from a licensed lue of life and fitness and want to twisting. Or I may be mowing my vocates. “Unless we treat our bo practitioner if you have any questions regarding a medical keep yourself fit, you will certain lawn, jogging or cycling,” says the dy right, life will be no fun,” he condition. Email us your questions at ly take time out for yourself,” he threetime MP. On days he gets says. [email protected]

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DELHI THE HINDU 18 SPORT MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 2019 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Kohli at his majestic best as India makes 279 in second ODI The skipper’s brilliant century contains 14 fours and a six; Shreyas (71) lends admirable support INDIA IN WI SCOREBOARD

Agence France-Presse INDIA PORT OF SPAIN Shikhar Dhawan lbw b Cot- trell 2 (3b), Rohit Sharma c Poo- Virat Kohli ended a run of 12 ran b Chase 18 (34b, 2x4), Virat innings without a century in Kohli c Roach b Brathwaite 120 pacing India to a competitive (125b, 14x4, 1x6), Rishabh Pant 279 for seven batting first b Brathwaite 20 (35b, 2x4), against the West Indies in the Shreyas b Holder 71 (68b, 5x4, second OneDay Internation 1x6), K. Jadhav run out 16 (14b, al here on Sunday. 2x4), R. Jadeja (not out) 16 India’s captain went a long (16b, 1x4), Bhuvneshwar c way towards justifying his Roach b Brathwaite 1 (2b), Mo- 5b decision to bat first with a hammed Shami (not out) 3 ( ); Extras (b-1, nb-2, w-9): 12; Total typically assertive innings of (for seven wkts. in 50 overs): 120 off 125 deliveries, with 14 279. fours and a six adorning his FALL OF WICKETS 42nd ODI hundred. 1-2 (Dhawan, 0.3 overs), 2- He received excellent sup 76 (Rohit, 15.3), 3-101 (Pant, port from Shreyas Iyer who 22.2), 4-226 (Kohli, 41.3), 5- contributed 71 and featured 250 (Shreyas, 45.3), 6-258 in a 125run fourthwicket (Jadhav, 46.4), 7-262 (Bhuv- stand with Kohli at the neshwar, 47.4). Queen’s Park Oval. WEST INDIES BOWLING As their partnership pro Cottrell 10-0-49-1, Roach 7- gressed through the middle 0-54-0, Holder 9-0-53-1, Tho- overs, a total closer to the mas 4-0-32-0, Chase 10-1-37-1, 300run mark seemed Brathwaite 10-0-53-3. inevitable. Oozing class: Virat Kohli was in his element while scoring his 42nd ODI hundred. * GETTY IMAGES Toss: India.

DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Mini collapse so accounting for Rishabh of prolific opener Rohit Shar Nigel Llong turned down the At no time was he trou DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD However, Kohli’s dismissal to Pant and Bhuvneshwar Ku ma for 18. initial appeal. bled and it was only with his Gayle overtakes Lara Carlos Brathwaite in the mar to finish with figures of Sheldon Cottrell got the demise, followed closely by 42nd over triggered a mini three for 53. West Indies off to an excel Ravenous appetite Shreyas being bowled round B Gayle became West Indies’ collapse and the West Indies However, offspinning all lent start when he trapped Kohli’s eighth ODI hundred his legs by West Indies cap highest scorer in ODIs, surpassing Lara’s tally of retained its discipline rounder Roston Chase was Rohit’s opening partner, against the West Indies and tain Holder, which eased the 10,348 runs. Gayle, who through the final 10 overs in the most economical, going Shikhar Dhawan, legbefore second in succession in the mounting pressure off the was out for 11, now has conceding just 67 runs. for only 37 runs off his 10ov in his first over, a decision Caribbean underlined both home side’s shoulders. 10353 runs. The hosts were Brathwaite was the most er allotment and also claim determined by the television his supreme class and rave India retained the XI from 55 for two in 12.5 overs successful of the bowlers, al ing the allimportant wicket official after onfield umpire nous appetite for runs. the rainmarred first ODI. DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Just want action, never mind where! Gayle notches up another triple ton

Press Trust of India Hotel corridor turns into a Port of Spain 22-yard strip for Pant, Kuldeep West Indies star opener Chris Gayle went past legen IANS Rishabh Pant posted a video dary Brian Lara, who played Port of Spain on his Instagram account 299 ODIs between 1990 and After a washed out ODI in where he, along with Kul 2007, in the match at the Guyana, both India and West deep Yadav, can be seen Queen’s Park Oval here on Indies were looking to have a playing cricket in the hotel Sunday. productive training session corridor ahead of the second “Three hundred games is at the Queen’s Park Oval ODI. a lot of games. Some of us in here, the venue of the se Kuldeep is seen bowling the dressing room can’t even cond match of the three his leftarm spin in the hotel imagine that. We just hope game rubber to be played on corridor and Pant, with his he can get us off to a really Sunday. gloves on, keeps the turning good start tomorrow,” Hol However, rain gods had ball. Pant shared this video der said on the eve of the se other plans on Saturday as saying, “Where? When? cond ODI. they didn’t allow the teams What? Who? ...No sorry ...I to get a glimpse of the condi only know the “Why”. Struggles tions which would be on off Earlier, BCCI also posted a Gayle struggled in the aban er for the second ODI. photo of Rohit Sharma un doned first ODI, scoring four der an umbrella with a bat in from 31 deliveries but his Kept indoors his hand. “Just been that opening partner Evin Lewis One more, conquered: Chris Gayle went past Brian Lara, who played 299 ODIs between 1990

The Men in Blue were forced kind of a day. The Hitman put up a good show, scoring and 2007. * AFP to train indoors with many finding some space for fun as an unbeaten 40 off 36 balls Better than nothing: Frustrated by the rain that wouldn’t even using the hotel corridor he rushed indoors for prac before the match was called Evin get some time in the was looking for in the T20 and hopefully he can transf allow outdoor practice, Rishabh Pant and Kuldeep Yadav turn for practice. tice in Trinidad,” read the off due to rains. middle,” Holder said. format but it’s good to see er that performance here as to Plan-B. * COURTESY INSTAGRAM/RISHABH PANT Wicketkeeperbatsman caption of the photo. “Definitely happy to see “He didn’t get the runs he him get into form in Guyana well.” ‘Surgery again United ruins Lampard’s PL coaching debut Kandola stars in Steelers’ win a tough call’ Press Trust of India Winning start for Arsenal; VAR spoils Wolves’ chance of beating Leicester PKL teams are finding new The Bulls’ captain Rohit Amsterdam players contributing in at Kumar appeared deter tack and defence and to mined when he stepped Cricketer Suresh Raina, PREMIER LEAGUE G. Viswanath their victory. Vikas Kale was across the middle line; he who underwent a second Ahmedabad a massive source of support crossed 600 raid points in knee surgery here a couple Agence France-Presse Haryana Steelers and Benga in tackling, but what made the league in the course of of days ago, said it was a Manchester luru Bulls competed hard the little difference in the the Sunday evening match. tough decision to make as Marcus Rashford scored and kept the interest alive Steelers’ overall perfor Pawan Kumar Sherawat he knew it would keep him twice as Manchester United right through their Vivo Pro mance was Vinay accruing played his part, but not sig out of action for a few made the perfect start to its Kabaddi7 league match at six vital tackle points. nificantly enough. months. Premier League season by the Eka Arena by TransSta Kandola completed the The 32yearold lefthan There was a moment in inflicting a 40 defeat on dia on Sunday. Super10 in the closing mo der will require at least six the match when Rohit Ku Frank Lampard in his first Steelers showed their ments of the match that in weeks of intense rehabilita mar dazzled with a rightleg match in charge of Chelsea class through their livewire itially was drifting towards tion for recovery. kick to tag a leftcorner de on Sunday. raider in Vikash Kandola Bulls, who had come into “To be honest, a second fender and won a point. He Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s and Bulls remained in con the match with four wins. knee surgery was a tough scored 12 points (8 on raid, men were in need of a fast tention because of another They led 1612, before Steel call to make because I knew and two bonus and tackle start to the campaign to stellar display by the tall and ers began to dominate and it would put me offaction each). erase memories of a terrible sturdy Rohit Kumar, but as win the big points. for a few months and I Telugu Titans scored its end to last season and got it, the thrilling match neared The match proceeded wasn’t ready for it until a first win in seven matches as Rashford’s early penalty its finish, it was Kandola who neck to neck with the scores few weeks ago when the putting it across a lacklustre and three goals in 16 second had good reasons to smile. tied at 21 and 26. Steelers pain got a bit too much and Gujarat Fortunegiants 3024. half minutes from Anthony He had scored in all 12 points who had scored a morale I knew there was only one Siddharth Desai and Vishal Martial, Rashford and debu (8 tag, 3 bonus and 1 tackle) boosting win in their pre way out of this,” Rain wrote Bharadwaj scores seven tant Daniel James had Old Dream beginning: A blistering counter-attack and a marauding run by Paul Pogba ended with as the Panchkulabased side vious match against Patna in a post on his social media points each for the winner. Trafford in raptures. Daniel James scoring Manchester United’s fourth and his maiden goal. * REUTERS prevailed over the last year’s Pirates in Patna, presented handle. The results: Haryana Steelers bt Harry Maguire and Aaron winner 3330. roles for Kandola and Kale Bengaluru Bulls 33-30; Telugu WanBissaka also impressed his Premier League debut on box and set off a flowing fence held firm, with centre This is only the fourth and these two did not disap Titans bt Gujarat Fortunegiants India U-19 at the back on their debuts the bench. counterattack that ended backs Calum Chambers and week of the league and point. 30-24. after United spent £130 mil However, the heart of the with Martial bundling the Sokratis keeping Newcastle wins series lion on the pair over the Chelsea defence always ball home at the far post at bay. summer to shore up a de looked fragile. from Andreas Pereira’s Press Trust of India Wolverhampton Wander fence that conceded 54 Pre Kurt Zouma had already cross. Hove (UK) ers had a goal by Leander mier League goals last gotten away with gifting pos Dendoncker ruled out by the India beat Bangladesh by season. session to Martial on the Brilliant ball Video Assistant Referee six wickets to lift the U19 edge of his own box as the Paul Pogba then played pro (VAR) in an entertaining 00 triseries title on Sunday. Questions Frenchman shot weakly into vider with a brilliant ball ov draw against Leicester City Chasing 262, India U19 However, questions will be the arms of Kepa Arrizabala er the top for Rashford to at the King Power Stadium. rode on halfcenturies from asked of Chelsea’s decision ga before he was turned easi burst in behind before coolly Wolves thought it had openers Yashasvi Jaiswal to let experienced defender ly by Rashford and hauled slotting past Kepa. scored six minutes into the (50), Divyansh Saxena (55), David Luiz leave to join Arse the England striker to the Pogba was the creator second half when Dendonck skipper Priyam Garg (73) nal earlier this week as the ground. again for the fourth as the er blasted in from close and wicketkeeper Dhruv Blues struggled to contain Rashford dusted himself Frenchman played a one range but VAR deemed that Jurel (59 not out) to score the United counterattacks off to blast the penalty high two with Rashford and po the midfielder had headed 264 for four in 48.4 overs. despite dominating long past Kepa to open the wered through the Chelsea The scores: Bangladesh U19 the ball onto teammate Willy spells. scoring. defence before laying off to Boly’s arm off a corner be 261 in 50 overs (Mahmudul Lampard’s first team se Rashford and Martial pro James, who got the benefit of Hasan Joy 109, Parvez Hossain fore taking the shot. lection was a bold one as he vided the clinical touch to a big deflection to find the Emon 60, Shamim Hossain 32, The results: Manchester United Tanzid Hasan 26) lost to India put his faith in youth with kill the game off in the space bottom corner. 4 (Rashford 18-pen, 67, Martial U19 264 for four in 48.4 overs Tammy Abraham and Mason of 60 seconds. PierreEmerick Auba 65, James 81) bt Chelsea 0; (Yashasvi Jaiswal 50, Divyansh Mount handed starts, while Maguire showed his pre meyang fired Arsenal to a 10 Leicester 0 drew with Wolves Saxena 55, Priyam Garg 73, £60 million signing Christian sence to outmuscle Abraham win at Newcastle in its open 0; Newcastle 0 lost to Arsenal 1 Charging past: Bengaluru Bulls captain Rohit Kumar essays a successful raid against Haryana Dhruv Jurel 59 n.o.). Pulisic was made to wait for on the edge of the United er. Its oftencriticised de (Aubameyang 58). Steelers. * VIJAY SONEJI

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SAI has already sought raindelayed quarterfinal. The twotime Wimbledon applications from nutri Nadal will aim for his fifth winner, back from hip sur tionists, assistant nutrition Canadian trophy on Sunday gery, is already planning Andy Murray. * REUTERS ists, chefs, assistant chefs when he faces Daniil Medve further events on the Asian and mess managers, to put dev, who dominated Russian swing of the ATP Tour. <> Some more good in place an inhouse system compatriot Karen Khacha “As I look to play more news for my by September 15, 2019. nov 61, 76(6). singles events later in the Chinese fans... I’m Monfils and Bautista, year, I’m happy to an also going to play Parameters rained out on Friday night, nounce I’ll be playing at the Beijing the week To ensure that the best re were delayed a further two inaugural Zhuhai Cham after Zhuhai sources can be hired, re and a half hours by rain on pionships in the week of munerations have been Saturday. Sept 23,” Murray wrote on city, and I’m looking for kept at par with industry Although 16thseeded Facebook. ward to heading back there standards, with a thrust on Monfils outlasted the Spa “I have always enjoyed again!” technical competence and niard, he rolled his ankle in playing in China and Zhuhai Murray underwent hip experience in a related the process. A few hours to is meant to be a great city. resurfacing surgery at the field. Chefs and nutrition prepare for Nadal was too It’s close to Macau and Hong end of January and began ists will be hired at a salary much for the French show Safe decision: Monfils, who rolled his ankle in his quarterfinal win over Bautista Agut, opted to withdraw from Kong, with an impressive his comeback in June by of up to ₹1 lakh. man — especially with the US the last four against Nadal. * AP stadium and I can’t wait to playing doubles at Queen’s In the new system, the Open coming up at Flushing experience it.” Club before playing men’s diet for each athlete, irres Meadows this month. night.” Monfils said he felt tournament she has won Meanwhile, 19yearold just had to just play a diffe Murray, 32, followed up and mixed doubles at Wim pective of age and category “I was happy that I fought his ankle early in the second three times, will take on Andreescu will be trying to rent game.” his first Facebook post with bledon. will be drawn up without no matter what. As I say, I felt set. home hope Bianca Andrees become the first Canadian in The results: At Montreal: Sem another announcing his in any financial ceiling by the good this week, tried to give cu in the championship 50 years to lift the trophy. ifinals: Rafael Nadal bt Gael tention to take part in the Precursor nutritionist in consultation my best,” Monfils said. “I Serena survives scare match on Sunday. “I just needed to be more Monfils w/o; Daniil Medvedev China Open. Playing in Cincinnati could with the coach training the showed today that I’m still a Serena Williams withstood Serena will be seeking her consistent and not make so bt Karen Khachanov 61, 76 “Some more good news well be a precursor to Mur (6). Quarterfinals: Gael Monfils fighter. the determined challenge of first title since she won her many errors and just mental for my Chinese fans... I’m al ray making his grand slam athlete and oncampus bt Roberto Bautista Agut 64, sports science experts. “I love these matches, Czech qualifier Marie Bouz 23rd Grand Slam title at the ly be ready to hit a thousand 36, 76(2). so going to play Beijing the singles return at the US A series of checks have night session, I play tennis kova, rallying for a 16, 63, 2017 Australian Open — and balls if I needed to,” Williams At Toronto: Semifinals: Bianca week after Zhuhai,” he said. Open starting on August 26, been put in place to ensure for the big moments, big 63 victory to reach the WTA her first since the birth of her said. Andreescu bt Sofia Kenin 64, “I’ve got some great me although he may be wary of that the best quality food is shows. But maybe it was a Toronto final. daughter Olympia on Sep “In the first set, I was go 76(5); Serena Williams bt Ma mories from playing in Beij competing over bestoffive served to athletes. safest decision not to play to Serena, seeded eighth in a tember 1 of that year. ing for a little too much, so I rie Bouzkova 16, 63, 63. ing, it’s a really interesting sets. Feels like I’m back from exile: Akash Chikte ‘Arthur was assured of extension After a 13month doping ban for an unintentional offence, goalkeeper returns to action after WC but Imran rejected it’ HOCKEY couldn’t sleep.” <> Nobody supported me all these months. PM felt new team management must be brought in: source Recollection Indian teams Shreedutta Chidananda No one called me. It Chikte recalls what hap er skipper made it clear that Bengaluru was as if everyone leave for CRICKET pened in vivid detail. In Fe forgot me suddenly. a new team management Akash Chikte describes his bruary last year, he was I was hurt. One day I setup must be brought in af time away from hockey as struck on his left foot by a Tokyo Press Trust of India ter the World Cup. was playing for ‘vanvaas’. He has, after all, ball, causing his little toe to KARACHI India. The next day, Sports Reporter spent the last year and a half swell up. Meanwhile, back Former Pakistan head coach Shock BENGALURU in exile, out in the profes home in Yavatmal, his father it was all over Mickey Arthur was assured Arthur also got a shock sional wilderness. Early in had fallen seriously ill and ‘Your boy takes drugs.’ They The Indian men’s and by an influential group of when the local media start 2018, the goalkeeper from had to be operated on for a were crying. They thought I women’s hockey teams cricketers that he would be ed reporting that when he Yavatmal, Maharashtra was clot in the brain. Chikte had done something wrong left for the Olympic Test retained for another two appeared before the Cricket establishing himself as a re rushed home. At a local hos and got caught. They weren’t event starting in Tokyo years after the World Cup Committee, he had suggest liable deputy to P.R. Sreejesh pital, he consulted a doctor looking me in the eye. Then, on August 17. but Prime Minister Imran ed appointing Shadab Khan in the Indian men’s team. for his toe injury and was gi I explained everything to Scheduled ahead of Khan rejected giving exten and Babar Azam as captains And then his world fell apart. ven an injection. Chikte had them.” the Olympic Qualifiers sions to the coaching staff. for white and redball In March that year, Chikte Akash Chikte. * SUDHAKARA JAIN no idea what was in it. At first, Chikte trained on in November, the According to a highly re cricket. was suspended by the Na “I told him I was a profes his own, at the Balewadi sta competition will liable source, an influential Arthur has now apparent tional AntiDoping Agency lore Cup here. sional sportsperson. He dium in Pune. He practised witness the men’s team member of the Pakistan ly conveyed to skipper Sarfa

(NADA) after testing positive “It feels like my ‘vanvaas’ clicked a photo with me, after midnight, asking boys play Malaysia first, Cricket Board (PCB)’s Crick Mickey Arthur. * AP raz Ahmed that he never for an anabolic steroid. He has ended,” he says. “Nobo even put it on Facebook. He from the local academy to followed by matches et Committee and some oth said anything against him was first banned for two dy supported me all these was MBBS, so I thought he’d fire shots at him. “I couldn’t against host Japan and er officials in the Board had days in anticipation of an ex nor did he give any sugges years, a punishment later re months. No one called me. It know what to give me and sleep. I used to cry. So I New Zealand. assured Arthur he would be tension but he was also dis tions to the committee on duced to 13 months because was as if everyone forgot me what not to. Amid the stress thought it was better to The women will take getting an extension as head appointed and shocked appointing new captains for the offence was found to be suddenly. I was hurt. One of the hospital visits, I forgot train,” he says. on Japan in the opening coach despite Pakistan’s fai when the PCB announced all formats. unintentional. day I was playing for India. to mention the injection in For Chikte, the Bangalore fixture before meeting lure to reach the knockout they were not retaining him On Sunday, Chikte played The next day, it was all over. the doping control form. The Cup is the first step on his China and Australia. stage of the World Cup. or the support staff,” the ‘Incorrect reports’ his first competitive game It felt like a dream. Everyone fault is mine,” he sighs. journey back to national source said. “Arthur has communicated since the HWL Final in Bhu was saying I had doped, peo reckoning. “My first goal was domestic tournaments and ‘Disappointed’ According to the source, to Sarfaraz that media re baneswar (December 2017), ple were saying that I did Tough days to clear the stain that was on the Nationals, and hopefully “Arthur was very confident PCB chairman Ehsan Mani ports about him talking turning out for Army XI drugs. I was shocked; I was The days that followed the me; and I have done that,” he get back to the Indian team. after these assurances. That had spoken to Imran who is about changing the captain against the Indian Air Force someone who didn’t even positive test were tough. “Pe says. At 27, a goalkeeper is still is why he came down to La patroninchief of the PCB were not correct,” the team in the Dolo650 Banga take protein supplements. I ople would tell my parents, “Now my goal is to play young.” hore and spent quite a few on the matter and the form source said. AFI aims big in Olympics Tokyo 2020, FINA watching water quality, temperature Our preparation started soon after Rio: Radhakrishnan Nair Athletes voice concerns at marathon swimming test event for the Olympics

M.R. Praveen Chandran June 5, and will travel to Spa Press Trust of India for Tokyo organisers, who Thiruvananthapuram la in Poland and Prague in Tokyo have already moved up the The Athletics Federation of the Czech Republic for Athletes voiced concerns ov start time of several events in India (AFI) feels an elusive training. er water quality and tempera cluding the marathon in a bid Olympic medal may be with India’s javelin throwers ture at a marathon swimming to mitigate the effects of the in the country’s grasp at the will train in South Africa test event for Tokyo 2020 blistering heat of the Japa Tokyo Games next year if all from January 2 to March 31, Sunday, as officials vowed to nese summer. goes to plan. will compete in domestic monitor the situation closely “It may sound farfetched meets after that, then return in the runup to the games. A little stinky at the moment, but we in the to South Africa to train from “That was the warmest In terms of water quality, Da AFI feel that we have a larger May 1 to June 30. race I’ve ever done,” said vid Gerrard from FINA’s med group of athletes who are The Indian athletics con threetime Olympic medallist ical committee said readings capable of entering the me tingent will train and com Oussama Mellouli from Tuni from the test event would not dal bracket now,” said depu pete in Osaka, Japan, over sia after completing the 5km be ready for 48 hours but pre ty chief national coach P. Neeraj Chopra. * FILE PHOTO: PTI 20 days in July. men’s competition. vious results gave cause for Radhakrishnan Nair. “( Jave “It felt good for the first optimism. “What we have lin thrower) Neeraj Chopra, they get enough exposure Off to USA 2km, then I got super over had are readings from the last (long jumper) M. Sreeshan before the Olympics,” he Meanwhile, middledistance heated,” added the 35year month, daily readings that kar, the relay squads and added. runner Jinson Johnson and old, who won gold in the have given us very clear indi (shot putter) Tejinder Pal Radhakrishnan said the steeplechaser Avinash Sable 10km swim at the London Desperate measure: US swimmers Ashley Wall, right, and Haley Anderson abstain during the cations of the water quality, Singh Toor, if he can cross 400m runners, hurdlers and will shift base from Bengalu Olympics in 2012. women’s Marathon Swimming 5km competition during the swimming marathon test event for which has been good,” he

21m, are all capable of win jumpers will be be based at ru to Colorado Springs in the The event started at 7 a.m. the 2020 Olympics. * AFP said. ning medals at the Olym the Kariavattom’s Lakshmi US to train at the American with the air temperature al Organisers are desperate pics.” bai National College of Phys Distance Project with coach ready over 30 degrees as the body heat. International conjunction with Tokyo 2020 can be 6 a.m., can be 6:30 to avoid the embarrassment ical Education in Kerala, Scott Simmons. Japanese capital swelters Swimming Federation (FINA) organisers to monitor both a.m. — depends on the water of the Rio Olympics in 2016 ‘Best facilities’ where a camp will run from “This will benefit by train through a deadly heatwave. rules state that athletes may water quality and tempera temperature,” he said. when the pool used for diving “Our preparation started November 1 to February 1, ing at a highaltitude centre, not race when the water tem ture in the runup to the “Working with a special events turned an unsettling four years ago soon after the following which the athletes which is 2,700ft above sea Reducing body heat perature exceeds 31 degrees games and the results could ised company like we are go shade of green overnight. Rio Olympics. We are pro will compete in a sports level,” said Radhakrishnan. “The water temperature was and FINA’s executive director affect the timing of the ma ing to do here in Tokyo, we Brazilian officials also had viding the best facilities to meet at Antayla’s Gloria The deputy chief national high so I’m a bit concerned Cornel Marculescu said com rathon swimming event. will have the right informa to scramble to clean up the the athletes and we have Sports Centre, Turkey’s big coach also said the federa about that,” said Yumi Kida petitors’ wellbeing was top “Based on this informa tion to take the right deci bay used for sailing and wind chalked out our training and gest sports facility. tion will be getting stricter from Japan, who said she guz priority. tion, we will decide the time sion.” surfing that was plagued by competition schedule in They will also compete in on athletes skipping national zled iced water before the Marculescu said an exter the event will start. Could be Hot weather issues have sewer bacteria and filthy with such a way to ensure that meets between May 1 and camps. race in an effort to reduce her nal body would be set up in 5 a.m., could be 5:30 a.m., become the biggest headache rubbish.

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V.V. Subrahmanyam and I am glad that I have real Haridas & HYDERABAD ly played well in this tourna India’s wait for a men’s sin ment and hope to keep go Lancy gles title in a major interna ing.” tional event in 2019 ended Earlier in the women’s sin triumph with Sourabh Verma clinch gles final, topseeded Yeo Jia ing the honours in the Hyde Min of Singapore outslugged Sports Bureau rabad Open badminton secondseeded An Se Young KATOWICE (POLAND) championship, even as the 1221, 2117, 2119. The Indian pair of Ajith Ha premier women’s doubles In the eagerlyawaited wo ridas and Vijay Lancy pair of Ashwini Ponnappa men’s doubles match, un clinched the men’s doubles and N. Sikki Reddy faltered forced errors from Ashwini (40+) title of the World se in the final, at the Gachibowli Ponnappa and Sikki Reddy at nior badminton champion Indoor Stadium on Sunday. critical stages of the match ships held here on Sunday, The 26yearold Sourabh proved costly against the Ko defeating Esben B. Kaem defeated Loh Kean Yew of rean combine of Baek Ha Na pegaard and Morten Ras Singapore 2113, 1421, 2116 in and Jung Kyung Eun, which mussen of Denmark 1921, the summit clash that lasted went to win 2117, 2117. 2117, 2119 in the final. 52 minutes. The results (all finals): Men: Manjusha Sudhir in wo Sourabh Verma (Ind) bt Loh men’s singles (55+), and the Great start Singaporean was brilliant controlling the pace of the Kean Yew (Sgp) 21-13, 14-21, 21- mixed doubles (50+) pair of The Indian looked in omi with his crosscourt smashes game in the crucial phase of 16. Doubles: Muhammad Shohi- Prabhu Naik and Suzanne nous touch in the first game which left Sourabh gasping. the deciding game. bil Fikri & Bagas Maulana (Ina) Venglet lost in the finals. when he made light of the Though a couple of big He didn’t repeat the mis bt Na Sung Seung & Wang Chan opponent in just 15 minutes smashes from Sourabh le takes of playing to the oppo (Kor) 21-18, 21-18. with an array of impressive velled the scores at 10, Loh, nent’s strength of a rockso Women: Yeo Jia Min (Sgp) bt An PTF rules out big smashes, crosscourt reaching out to every smash lid defence and engaged him Se Young (Kor) 12-21, 21-17, 21- drops and splendid net that was hit at him and an ex in long rallies and net drib 19. Doubles: Baek Ha Na & Jung Kyung Eun (Kor) bt Ashwini shifting game. cellent courtcoverage, was bles. Ponnappa & N. Sikki Reddy (Ind) Davis Cup tie Sourabh was in for a sur successful in taking the issue 21-17, 21-17. prise in the second game, af to the decider. Great feeling Mixed doubles: Hoo Pang Ron ter leading 40, when Loh Sourabh passed the test of Sourabh, who celebrated the & Cheah Yee See (Mas) bt Ad- Press Trust of India came up with some stunning endurance, skill and han win by throwing up the rac nan Maulana & Mychelle Crhys- Karachi Striking it rich: Sourabh Verma brought cheer to the faithful by taking out Loh Kean Yew in crosscourt drops and a vast dling pressure in tense situa quet in delight, later said tine Bandaso (Ina) 16-21, 21-16, The Pakistan Tennis Feder three games. * K.V.S. GIRI ly improved net game. The tions with a touch of class by “any win at this level is great 21-11. ation (PTF) on Sunday ruled out shifting of the Da vis Cup Asia/Oceania Group1 tie against India to Ace Ace Ace aces Independence Plate Star Superior primed to take Nizam’s Gold Cup be played in Islamabad on September 1415 to a neu HYDERABAD: Mr. M. RAVE REVIEW PLATE (Div. II), Mr. Aditya P. Thackersey. Trainer: Ramachandra Roa’s Ace Ace Ace 3 (1,100m), 5yo & over, rated M. Srinivas Reddy. HYDERABAD: Star Superior, who van 56, 11. Star Racer (7) Deepak Sandesh 57.5, 7. Esteva (12) Ak 53.5, 4. Wave Rider (2) Akshay Ku tral venue. (Akshay Kumar up) won the Inde PROUD WAR- is in rousing form, will be hard to Singh 56, 12. Tapatio (10) Akshay shay Kumar 57, 8. Baywatch Babe mar 53.5, 5. Rikki Tikki Tavi (3) 20 to 45 (Cat. III): STEWARD CUP PTF chief Saleem Saiful pendence Plate, the main event RIOR (Rohit Kumar) 1, Heaven (1,600m), 3 toss in the Nizam’s Gold Cup Kumar 56, 13. Total Romantic (ex: (11) Santosh Raj 56.5, 9. Vashishta Umesh 52 and 6. Like Wise (5) Na of the races held here on Sunday Can Wait (Afroz Khan) 2, Khan 6 yo & over, rated 40 to 65 (Cat. (2,000m), the star attraction of Jacky) (2) Gaddam 56, 14. Tough (8) Ajeeth Kumar 55, 10. Fabulous khat Singh 50.5. lah told PTI that the federa LIBERATE (Surya Prakash) 1, (August 11). R.H. Sequeira trains Sahib (B.R. 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Vijay’s Empire (5) Ajit Singh over, rated 40 to 65 (Cat. II), 400: R.S. Jodha 59, 4. Recumbentibus and shd. 1m 7.76s. ₹106 (w), 20, 9 60 to 85 (Cat. II): tember and I don’t see any (Akshay Kumar) 1, Starlight Phiroze Vazifdar. Trainer: Desh (6) Afroz Khan 53, 7. Royal 58, 3. Somerset (6) Umesh 57.5, 4. 1. Doroteo (3) Koushik 61.5, 2. Raa (7) Kuldeep Singh 59, 5. Lim and 43 (p), SHP: 25, FP: 1,151, Q: (Deepak Singh) 2, Be Sure (Na mukh. Avenger (2) Ajit Singh 52.5 and 8. N R I Symbol (2) Kuldeep Singh jneeti (9) Gopal Singh 58.5, 3 ousine (6) Afroz Khan 58.5, 6. Ul problem or reason for the 380, Tla: 11,416. Favourite: Com khat Singh) 3 and Top Link (Gopal Top Sprint (3) Kunal Bunde 52.5. 56, 5. Bayrd (9) Suraj Narredu 55, .George Cross (5) Akshay Kumar timate Risk (4) Kunal Bunde 57.5, Indian team to feel unsafe posure. Owner: Mr. Abhimanyu KOHIR PLATE (1,200m), 4yo Singh) 4. 51/4, 2 and hd. 1m 25. 1. PRINCE VALIANT, 6. Rose Eternal (1) Ashhad Asbar 57.5, 4. Treasure Striker (6) 7. Negress Princess (3) P. Sai Ku to come to Islamabad,” Sai Vinod Sigtia. Trainer: S. Sreekant. 7 & over, rated upto 25 (Cat. III): 2. HAVELOCK CRUISE, mar 55.5, 8. Delmonico (2) Ajeeth 31s. ₹10 (w), 5, 8 and 6 (p), SHP: RUN RUNNER RUN (Afroz Khan) 1, 55, 7. Avantika (7) P. Sai Kumar Umesh 56.5, 5. Hope Is Eternal (4) fullah said. 32, FP: 96, Q: 60, Tla: 230. Fa 3. PRIVATE EMPIRE 53.5, 8. Humaaghar (4) Afroz Ajeeth Kumar 55.5, 6. City Of Sails Kumar 52.5 and 9. New Hope (5) SIDDIPET PLATE (1,400m), Royal Dancer (Akshay Kumar) 2, Ajit Singh 50. vourite: Ace Ace Ace. Owner: Mr. Story Teller (C.P. Bopanna) 3 and Khan 53 and 9. Elysian (3) Nakhat (10) Rohit Kumar 55, 7. Vancouver 2 maiden 3yo only (Cat. II) DIVINE DREAMS PLATE 1. SYMBOL OF STAR’S, M. Ramachandra Rao. Trainer: Country’s Gift (Santosh Raj) 4. Singh 50.5. (1) R.S. Jodha 54, 8. Euro Zone (7) (Terms): THE GREAT GATSBY 2 (1,100m), maiden 3yo colts & 1. N R I SYMBOL, R.H. Sequeira. Nk, 1/2 and 1/2. 1m 15.62s. ₹294 C.P., Bopanna 52.5, 9. Rutilant (8) 2. DELMONICO, Indian spikers (Ashhad Asbar) 1, Star Of Tiara geldings only (Cat. II), (Terms), 2 2. BAYRD, Kuldeep Singh 52.5 and 10. (Umesh) 2, Mahashakti (S.G. B. MARIDESWARA RAO ME- (w), 39, 8 and 8 (p), SHP: 23, FP: 25: 1. City Of Wisdom (11) Ronhit 3. ULTIMATE RISK 1,699, Q: 613, Tla: 8,879. Favour 3. TOOTSIE ROLL Golden Hope (2) Gaddam 50. Prasad) 3 and Excelsior (Ajeeth 5 MORIAL CUP (1,200m), 3yo & Kumar 56, 2. Dazzling King (8) Ajit 1. DOROTEO, STAR SUPERIOR PON- ite: Rhine. Owner: Mr. Syed PEDDAPALLI PLATE Day’s best: lose to Taipei Kumar) 4. 31/2, 1/4 and 1/2. 1m over, rated 40 to 65 (Cat. II): Singh 56, 3. Dimension (14) (1,100m), 2. HOPE IS ETERNAL, 27.17s. ₹17 (w), 11, 9 and 7 (p), TIUS PILATE (Gaurav Singh) 1, Jameel Moosavi. Trainer: A. Vat Kuldeep Singh 56, 4. Glendale (15) 3yo & over, rated 20 to 45 Double: PRINCE VALIANT — 4 3. CITY OF SAILS SHP: 25, FP: 153, Q: 89, Tla: 514. Aon Aon Aon (Koushik) 2, Mari salya. Umesh 56, 5. Golden Faraska (13) (Cat. III), 330: 1. Versallies (1) Zer ZAMORA SPORTS BUREAU Favourite: Mahashakti. Owners: netti (Akshay Kumar) 3 and La Jackpot: ₹1,15,798 (three tkts), P. Sai Kumar 56, 6. Mehrzad (5) van 60, 2. Celeritas (3) Ashhad As NIZAM’S GOLD CUP (2,000m), Jkt: 3, 4, 5, 6 & 7. NAY PYI TAW (MYANMAR) M/s. Vijay Racing & Farms Pvt. Mer (A.A. Vikrant) 4. 3, 11/2 and Runnerup: 431 (345 tkts), Mini S.G. Prasad 56, 7. O’Brien (1) bar 59, 3. Top Saga (5) Surya 6 4yo & over (Terms), 430: 1. Mini Jkt: 4, 5, 6 & 7. Ltd. rep. by M/s. Vijay Kumar shd. 1m 12.79s. ₹31 (w), 11, 9 and 6 Jackpot: 26,508 (two tkts), Treble R.Ajinkya 56, 8. Reno Star (9) An Prakash 59, 4. Zamora (9) Suraj Star Superior (1) Suraj Narredu India lost to Chinese Taipei Gupta & Susheel Kumar Gupta. (p), SHP: 18, FP: 216, Q: 103, Tla: (i): 204 (257 tkts), (ii): 5,940 (10 eel 56, 9. Secret Command (4) N. Narredu 59, 5. Kionia (2) Afroz 62, 2. Big Sur (4) A. Sandesh 57, 3. Tr (i): 2, 3 & 4; (ii): 5, 6 & 7. 2521, 2520, 1925, 2523 in Trainer: Laxman Singh. 313. Favourite: Marinetti. Owner: tkts). Rawal 56, 10. Star Envoy (12) Zer Khan 58.5, 6. Soviet Pride (4) A. Mr Handsome (6) Kiran Naidu Tla: all races. the final of the Asian un der23 men’s volleyball championship here on Indian junior Sunday. Chetan drives to glory on final day Bopanna & Coach Pritam Singh Chauhan said it was a shuttlers “good achievement” to Mixes caution with his already aggressive driving methods Shapovalov bow out have won the silver, and impress picked “poor blocking” as MOTORSPORTS who thanked God for help the primary reason behind ing them sail through safely Mahak Jain clinches title PRESS TRUST OF INDIA India’s loss in the final. Rayan Rozario and steadily to the top for PAZARDZHIK (BULGARIA) “Whenever you play Coimbatore the first time. INDIANS ABROAD Indian junior shuttlers against teams that tend to Team Akshara Racing’s Che He said Coimbatore fortu reaped rich rewards at the outplay with speed, you tan Shivram and his codriv nately has been very lucky Sports Bureau Bulgarian junior interna need to have good block er brother Dilip Sharan, run for him. “I have placed al Montreal tional championships, win ing. We were unable to ning on MRF tyres, emerged most every time here. I had a Rohan Bopanna and Denis ning six medals, including counter their speed. Even the heroes of the Rally of lovely time with a super ser Shapovalov lost 76(3), 76(7) three gold, a silver and two in the league game against Coimbatore, the second vice team, fine tuner and a to Robin Haase and Wesley bronze. China, we were able to win round of the Champions great navigator. What more Koolhof of the Netherlands Samiya Imad Faruqui because of good blocking.” Yacht Clubpromoted can I ask for.” in the doubles semifinals of defeated second seed FMSCIIndian National Rally The results (provisional, final the $6,338,885 ATP1000 Anastasiia Shapovalova of Appavu, Prince in Championship (INRC) at the Winning combination: Team Akshara Racing’s Chetan Shivram day): INRC overall: 1. Chetan tennis tournament in Mon Russia 921, 2112, 2220 in dream squad Kethanur windmill farms and co-driver Dilip Sharan are a happy duo. * RAYAN ROZARIO Shivram & Dilip Sharan treal. the women’s singles final. 1:33:51.700s; 2. Younus Ilyas & The coach revealed that here on Sunday. Bopanna and Shapovalov The mixed doubles pair Harish Gowda; 3. Fabid Ahmer Muthusamy Appavu, who Going into the final day, bit of caution to his already in the stage and lost about collected 360 ATP points & G. Sanath. of Edvin Joy and Shruti Mis was named the ‘best setter’ Chetan, the INRC 3 driver, aggressive driving methods five minutes. That allowed and $76,300. hra won gold with a 2114, INRC 2: 1. Younus Ilyas & Harish and Prince the ‘best block had a few seconds edge over in the three stages. The gritty Younus to go ahead. Howev Twotime National cham 2117 win over the No. 2 his nearest competitor Su driver, who came in with a er, in the final stage of the Gowda 1:33:56.300s; 2. Dean er’ of the tournament, Mascarenhas & Shruptha Padiv- pion Mahak Jain won her seed British combination were also named in the hem Kabeer ( Jeeva Rathi calm mind, went flat out in day, Chetan planned it sim maiden international of Brandon Zhi Hao and nam). Younus Ilyas (Harish the first. When he opened ple — to go out there and al; 3. Suhem Kabeer & Jeeva “Dream Team of Asia”. Rathinam. crown, defeating Sada Nahi Abbygael Harris. Gowda) of Race Concepts the route he found it ex complete the rally. The result (final): Chinese 1. Chetan Shivram & Di- mana of Burundi 61, 64 in Other results (final): Women: was also breathing down his tremely slushy but went on Younus stepped up the INRC 3: Taipei bt India 3-1 (25-21, 25- lip Sharan 1:33:51.700s; 2. Fa- the final of the $15,000 ITF Doubles: Tanisha Crasto and 20, 19-25, 25-23). neck. It was a tricky situation to complete it. heat midway through but bid Ahmer & G. Sanath; 3. Adi- women’s tennis tournament Mahak Jain. Aditi Bhatt bt Bengisu Ercetin Special awards: Best blocker: and, obviously the teams failed to make it to the top. tya Thakur & Virender Kashyap. at Nairobi. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT and Zehra Erdfm (Tur) 21-15, Prince; Best setter: Muthusa- had planned their strategies Under pressure “We planned to drive safe in INRC 4: 1. Vaibhav Marate & The results: $6,338,885 ATP 18-21, 21-18. my Appavu. overnight. But Suhem, who was just the last stage as we had only S.S.B. Arjun 1:38:27.000s; 2. 1000, Montreal: Doubles panna 7-6(3), 7-6(7). Men: Doubles: William Jones An autocross champion, half a second behind, was an INRC3 car, which is much Manoj Mohanan & Francis Sa- (semifinals): Robin Haase & $15,000 ITF women, Nairobi: and Brandon Zhi Hao (G.Br) bt Chetan chalked out someth under some pressure and, more underpowered than chin; 3. Rakshith Iyer & Chan- Wesley Koolhof (Ned) bt Denis Final: Mahak Jain bt Sada Nahi- Ishan Bhatnagar and Vishnu- Rajiv grabs six ing special too. He mixed a that showed as he got stuck Younus’ car,” said Chetan, drashekar. Shapovalov (Can) & Rohan Bo- mana (Bdi) 6-1, 6-4. vardhan 21-19, 21-18. points with top10 finish Chennai Lions roars to title with a clinical dismantling of Dabang Delhi Press Trust of India Zhuhai (China) Apolonia tames offcolour Sathiyan; SharathPetrissa remain unbeaten IDEMITSU Honda Racing India team rider Rajiv UTT Sharath Kamal and Petrissa folded, Solja quickly put leash an array of topspin With Lions leading 51, Sethu recorded his bestev Solja nailed it 30 in mixed Lions 20 ahead against a drives, he dominated the Sharath and Petrissa main er top10 finish, grabbing RAKESH RAO doubles by punishing Sathi struggling Bernadette Szocs, first game and then snatched tained their winning se six points in the fifth round NEW DELHI yan and Bernadette Szocs. ranked 10 places higher at 14. the second without being quence and spoiling the un of FIM Asia Road Racing With Chennai Lions saving That decided the title with In fact, from 55 in the first threatened. defeated record of an Championship 2019 its best for the final, there two singles to spare! game, Petrissa won 10 points Like in the first two alreadydeflated duo of Sathi (ARRC) here on Sunday. was very little Dabang Delhi “Last night, I said we beat on the trot to open a 40 lead games, Apolonia opened a yan and Bernadette. This Starting 14th, Rajiv could do. After both semifi the best team (Goa Challen in the second. comfortable lead in the third scoreline truly underlined dropped to 18th before re nals produced nailbiting fin gers) in the semifinals to be But in the third, Berna and soon held a 106 lead. A the domination of Lions on covering 8 positions in 9 ishes, the final proved a here. And that confidence dette got her act together fighting Sathiyan saved three this day. laps to finish in Top 10 in damp squib with Lions rac showed in our perfor and in spite of Petrissa matchpoints but surren Lions collected the win an action packed AP 250 ing away to a dominant 81 mance,” pointed out Sha bouncing back from 59 to dered the fourth following ner’s share of ₹75 lakh while race 2. triumph and claim the glit rath, who was not required draw level, put Dabang on am enthralling 17shot rally. Delhi settled for ₹50 lakh. This is his second top10 tering trophy in the Ultimate to play his singles. the scoreboard. finish in his 3 ARRC sea Table Tennis league here. “Dabang is a oneman It was now left to Sathiyan Ecstatic The results (bestof15game final): Chennai Lions bt Dabang sons, his first being in the Sunday also proved an off team and once Tiago pro to show his worth for Da An ecstatic Apolonia jumped Delhi 8-1 (Petrissa Solja bt Ber- Australian round race 1 ear day for G. Sathiyan, who lost duced a beauty to blank bang. But that was not to be. and stood atop the digital nadette Szocs 11-5, 11-4, 9-11; lier. IDEMITSU Honda Rac all six games he featured in. Sathiyan, I knew we could Apolonia exhibited amazing board serving as the sur Tiago Apolonia bt G. Sathiyan ing India is tied in Top 8 His 03 loss to Tiago Apolonia finish it with mixed doubles,” speed and anticipation to fox rounds and showed what 11-6, 11-7, 11-9; Sharath Kamal teams of AP 250 class with truly hurt Dabang before be said a jubilant Sharath. Sathiyan. Preferring to stand this victory meant to him and Petrissa bt Sathiyan and On top: Chennai Lions celebrates its resounding win over 32 points. ing dethroned. Thereafter, Soon after the action un away from the table to un and his team. Bernadette 11-7, 11-2, 11-3). Dabang Delhi. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT

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