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DRT allows banks to There is no drug Yuvraj, Dhoni power Denis Istomin stuns recover ₨6,200 crore problem in Punjab, India to series win Novak Djokovic in from Vijay Mallya says Harsimrat Kaur against England second round Page 12 Page 13 Page 17 Page 17 • • State capital getting ready for Holiday declared by schools in Agitators vent their ire on BRIEFLY dawn-to-dusk shutdown Chennai, south Tamil Nadu PM Modi, CM Panneerselvam No place for 12 schoolkids, driver Ajit's party in killed in road accident ETAH (UP): Twelve minor SP-led alliance schoolchildren and their bus Jallikattu protests snowball, bandh today OMAR RASHID driver were killed and 35 kids injured when their vehicle UDHAV NAIG collided with a lorry amid dense LUCKNOW: The prospect of a T.K. ROHIT fog on the Aliganj-Paliyali road grand anti-BJP alliance in Ut- near here early on Thursday tar Pradesh has fallen apart as morning. CHENNAI: A sea of protesters the Samajwadi Party and the massed on Chennai’s Mar- Congress have failed to bring ½ NATION PAGE 9 ina on Thursday for a third on board the Ajit Singh-led day, demanding that the Rashtriya Lok Dal, a key part- Lakhvi’s ‘nephew’ Centre and the Tamil Nadu ner in the critical western re- government take legal steps gion of the State. gunned down to hold jallikattu. The RLD has now decided SRINAGAR: LeT militant Abu The State prepared itself to fight without the two Musaib, who is reportedly the for a shutdown on Friday as parties; it is in talks with a nephew of 26/11 Mumbai attack trade unions, traders, few other smaller parties, mastermind Zakiur Rehman hoteliers and others in the mainly from east U.P., Lakhvi, was killed on Thursday service sector announced a Bundelkhand and central in an encounter with the police dawn-to-dusk bandh in sup- U.P. According to sources, and the Army’s 13 Rashtriya port. the RLD was demanding Rifles division at Para Mohallah Film industry icon A.R. more seats than the SP and in Bandipora district. Rahman said he would go Congress were willing to give on fast in solidarity with the it. The party was also not get- ½ PAGE 12 NEWS | ‘spirit of Tamil Nadu’ and ting some specific seats it chess wizard Viswanathan desired. Man held for raping Anand voiced his support The signs that the RLD for the bull-taming sport. may not be a part of the alli- two minor daughters Some District Collectors ance were apparent on Wed- NEW DELHI: A man has been announced a holiday for nesday evening when the arrested for allegedly raping his schools in south Tamil party’s top leadership sig- two minor daughters and Nadu, and in Chennai, indi- nalled its State leadership to abusing his wife after their vidual schools said they prepare to contest alone and neighbours approached the would remain closed. convene a meeting of candid- Delhi Commission for Women Colleges are already shut ates and oice-bearers in seeking help. The incident in the capital. Lucknow on Friday. occurred in Bawana in the Frustration among the Amid heightened sus- national Capital and was demonstrating youth boiled GROUNDSWELL OF SUPPORT: Thousands gathered on the Marina Beach promenade on Thursday to protest against the ban imposed on jallikattu by the pense, on Thursday after- brought to the notice of the over as there was no solu- Supreme Court. Students from many colleges have joined the protest. — PHOTO: B. JOTHI RAMALINGAM noon, SP vice-president and DCW. tion from the meeting a key member of Akhilesh Ya- between Prime Minister culture.’ The State govern- Hindi agitation in the 1960s, Mr. Modi and Mr. Pan- dav’s team Kironmoy Nanda ½ PAGE 3 CITY Narendra Modi and Tamil ment is under fire for failing also fuelled by students. neerselvam for their failure. Issue is sub judice, says Modi then made a public assertion Nadu Chief Minister O. to uphold Tamil rights. Protest meetings were Anti-establishment slo- SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Panneerselvam in the that his party was getting into Panneerselvam on What started as a social me- held at every entry point gans were loud and clear. national capital, the PMO an alliance only with the Thursday. dia protest for jallikattu into the Marina. The protesters kept politi- NEW DELHI/CHENNAI: In a mixed tweeted, “While Congress and not the RLD. turned into a massive move- The protesters occupied cians at a distance, fearing message on the possible appreciating the cultural As part of the new arrange- Asserting identity ment — peaceful, self-regu- every inch of the beach, they would gain mileage out resumption of jallikattu, significance of jallikattu, the ment, the SP is now expected In the city of scorching lated and leaderless. listening to assorted speak- of the spontaneous protests Prime Minister Narendra PM observed that the matter to contest 300 seats while the summers, it appeared a bit ers on Tamil race, identity, that were driven by media, Modi on Thursday said he is presently sub judice.” Congress will keep 103 in the early for spring, but thou- Women, children also join culture and jallikattu. social media in particular. would be supportive of steps In another tweet, Mr. 403-member Assembly. sands of people, predomin- On Thursday, families, The crowds got bigger, taken by the TN government Modi’s oice added, “The While the SP currently has antly students pressed on women and children joined but were in control. ½ CONTINUED ON PAGE 12 on the issue, while stressing Centre would be supportive 227 seats, the Congress had with their strong uprising the students on the Marina Volunteers distributed that the matter was sub of steps taken by the State managed to win only 28 in FRIDAY REVIEW against the Centre to re- in a rare show of solidarity food and water. The pro- ½ THE LIMITS TO POPULAR judice. Soon after a meeting government.” 2012. 4 Pages deem ‘Tamil identity and reminiscent of the anti- testers vented their ire on SENTIMENT | EDITORIAL with TN Chief Minister O. ½ CONTINUED ON PAGE 12 ½ RLD OPTS OUT PAGE 12

Verma named new CBI Director, Woman stabbed dozen CBI scared of Sisodia, says Kejriwal

STAFF REPORTER “Manish kept waiting for oicials reached the Direct- Kharge calls it wrong choice times by her jilted lover the CBI, but it did not come. orate of Information and SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT NEW DELHI: Chief Minister Till now, people used to be Publicity (DIP) Department. Friday. STAFF REPORTER The apex court was hear- Arvind Kejriwal on scared of the CBI, for the first On his part, Mr. Sisodia NEW DELHI: The Centre on ing a PIL petition by non-gov- Thursday said that the Cent- time the CBI is scared of ‘dared’ the CBI oicials to ar- NEW DELHI: A play school ral Bureau of Investigation someone,” Mr. Kejriwal rest him. Thursday appointed Delhi ernment organisation Com- teacher is battling for life Police Commissioner Alok mon Cause, challenging the (CBI) is scared of his deputy tweeted earlier in the day. By after she was stabbed a Manish Sisodia. Thursday evening, the CBI ½ DETAILS ON PAGE 4 Kumar Verma as the new Dir- transfer of the then CBI dozen times allegedly by a ector of the Central Bureau of second-in-command R.K. jilted lover and his cousin at Investigation, a decision that Dutta to the Union Home her house in Najafgarh on was immediately criticised Ministry and the appoint- Wednesday. by the leader of the Opposi- Alok Kumar Verma ment of Gujarat cadre 1984 Her three-year-old niece The accused Amit tion in the Lok Sabha, batch IPS oicer Rakesh witnessed the brutality Mallikarjun Kharge. has not gone down well with Asthana as the interim CBI helplessly. “I had got a call from Amit “The Appointments Com- Mr Kharge of the Congress. chief. While the accused, Amit, and he told me that he mittee of the Cabinet has ap- “I had given a note saying The post fell vacant on and his cousin Basant have wanted to buy medicines for proved the appointment of that the new CBI chief should December 2 when Anil Sinha been arrested, the victim is his father at Rara Mandi. I re- Mr. Verma as the new CBI be a person with long experi- retired, after which Mr. said to be in a critical condi- fused a few times but he kept chief for a period of two ence in the CBI, Lok Ayukta Asthana was given additional tion at the Safdarjung insisting. I eventually gave in years,” said an oicial or handling corruption cases, charge of the CBI. hospital. and left to meet him. But spokesperson. and that is my contention. Mr. Verma has earlier held when I reached the spot The announcement was The Delhi Special Police Es- the posts of Director-General Relentless pusuit where he had called me, I made following a decision at tablishment Act says clearly of Tihar Central Jail, Puduch- Amit had been pursuing could not find him,” Rohit a meeting on Monday of a that the appointee should erry and Mizoram. the woman for the past four said. high-power panel compris- have seniority, merit and long While he worked in the months and her repeated re- Amit and Basant, armed ing Prime Minister Narendra experience in dealing with Ministry of Textile for about fusal had angered him, the with two 13-inch long knives, Modi, Chief Justice of India corruption cases,” he told six years and was also posted police said. managed to enter the teach- The Hindu Jagdish Singh Khehar and Mr . in the Andaman & Nicobar He befriended the victim’s er’s house as her niece was Kharge. The government on Tues- Islands, the IPS oicer served younger brother, Rohit, to playing outside and the main Mr Verma, a 1979-batch IPS day had informed the Su- the Delhi Police in various ca- get access to her, the teach- door was ajar. oicer, has never served the preme Court that it will take a pacities and also had a five- er’s family claimed. The duo ½ CONTINUED ON PAGE 12 premier investigation agency decision on the next CBI Dir- year stint with the IB. ensured that she was alone in the past, something which ector by the next hearing on ½ SEE ALSO PAGE 5 at home before striking. ½ SEE ALSO PAGE 3 80% IS suspects educated in schools, not madrasas were in the 25-40 age bracket SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT and four were aged 40 and above. NEW DELHI: The National In- An analysis of their educa- vestigation Agency (NIA) tional qualifications indic- said on Thursday that 80% of ated that 20 were graduates the persons arrested for al- and had professional de- leged links to the Islamic grees, 12 were diploma hold- State (IS) went to formal ers, 13 had done their matric- schools and only 20% had ulation, four studied till the studied at madrasas (Islamic senior secondary level and seminaries). three were post-graduates. In one of the biggest crack- Thirty were from the downs in 2016, the NIA ar- middle-income group, nine rested 52 persons for al- from the upper-middle-in- legedly plotting terror come group and 13 from the attacks and being part of the lower-income group. banned outfit. The highest number — 12 The NIA said nearly half each — belonged to Maha- of the suspects were follow- ment). Only 20% were Deo- Sunni sect of Islam and five from Hinduism to join the Is- rashtra and Telangana. El- ers of Ahle Hadith (or bandis (Islamic school based had converted from lamic State. even were from Kerala, five Salafis/Wahabis who follow in Saharanpur, Uttar Pra- Hinduism and Christianity. All the five accused be- from Karnataka, four from the puritanical form of Islam desh) and none of them was Elaborating, an NIA oi- long to Kochi in Kerala. Uttar Pradesh, two from Ra- promoted by Saudi Arabia) from the Barelvi sect. cial said four persons con- Twenty-eight of the 52 ar- jasthan, three from TN and and 30% followed Tablighi The NIA also said that 47 verted from Christianity to rested persons were aged one each from J&K, Madhya Jamaat (Sunni Islamic move- of the accused were from the Islam and one converted between 18 and 25, twenty Pradesh and Delhi.

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AKANKSHA JAIN tion. The law and the Su- Centre’s opinion sought preme Court judgments that NEW DELHI: The Delhi High gave authority to minority Court on Thursday termed institutions was to ensure on neighbourhood criteria “unconstitutional” the AAP that the minorities do not government’s guidelines to feel alienated”. STAFF REPORTER schools established on said Justice Manmohan. minority unaided schools to While the Bench was in- DDA land will have to grant admission to minority clined to grant a stay, the NEW DELHI: The Delhi High compulsorily admit Two sections of schools community students only government requested that Court on Thursday sought students from the The Bench was hearing from the neighbourhood or the matter be posted for to know from the Centre neighbourhood. separate petitions by from within a radius of 1 Friday. and the Land and As per the notification, Action Committee kilometre. Development Oce students residing within Unaided Recognised “How can you tell the ‘Cannot rush matter’ under the Ministry of one km of the school will Private Schools filed minority schools to admit The government also said Urban Development be given admission. through advocate Kamal minority students from that it can extend the date for about their stand on the If seats remain vacant, Gupta and also the Forum within one kilometre? How form submission and scru- neighbourhood rule preference will be given for Promotion of Quality can you interfere in their op- tiny when the Bench said the sought to be applied by to those students residing Education. erations. It is against the matter cannot be heard and the Delhi government for within 1-3 km. Students The schools told the settled principle of law as decided in a rush. “In a nursery admissions in residing beyond 6 kms Bench on Thursday that per Article 13 of the Consti- week's time, the matter can- private schools on shall be admitted only in the AAP government's tution,” said Justice not be decided. How can you government land. case vacancies remain. notification creates two Manmohan. DIFFICULTY LEVEL: As per the govt guidelines, minority schools can grant admission to minority bring notification at the el- “You see, it is not the categories of schools — community students only from the neighbourhood or from within a radius of 1 km. FILE PHOTO eventh hour. So that the mat- Lease not issued by DDA DDA which makes the one where they are free to Inclined to grant stay ter cannot be heard and is Justice Manmohan lease deed. The lease deed follow own criteria and The court made it clear government which was rep- that “the minority institu- the neighbourhood? Can rendered infructuous. These issued notices to the is made by the L&DO the other where they have that it was inclined to grant a resented by Additional Soli- tions can admit students you say that the settled law is last minute notifications put Centre as he noted that which comes under the to follow the government stay on the January 7 notific- citor General Sanjay Jain. from the minority com- applicable only to profes- everybody under pressure. the lease deed issued to Ministry of Urban guidelines because they ation of the Delhi govern- The court was hearing pe- munity and whatever seats sional colleges and not This is not the way. Things the schools is not by the Development. So let me are on DDA land. ment in favour of minority titions filed by Mount Car- are left, that open slice can kindergarten? The Bench should be proper,” said DDA but by the Land and know what the Centre has “The notification has schools. “I am inclined to mel School and Somerville be for admission by follow- asked ASG. Justice Manmohan. Development Oce, to say on this. I want to created a scenario of right grant a complete stay for the School against the govern- ing the neighbourhood “We are not interfering Meanwhile, the NGO MoUD. know if there is any such of neighbourhood time being the issue is ment notification that the criterion”. with their functioning of the Justice For All moved a peti- The Bench was hearing criterion as children versus right of pending before the court as private schools on govern- salary structure etc. This is tion before a division Bench separate petitions moved neighbourhood principle schools,” said the counsel far as minority schools are ment land will have to com- Directive unlawful just about nursery admis- seeking transfer of petitions by the 298 schools against in the lease deed signed appearing for private concerned,” said the court. pulsorily admit students “How can you say you are sion,” the ASG replied. concerning nursery admis- the January 7 notification with dierent schools. We schools.The arguments on It, however, posted the from within one kilometre not interfering? Can you tell To this the Bench said, sions before another Bench. of the Delhi government have to see if L&DO has a the matter will continue matter for hearing on Friday radius. St. Stephen's college to ad- “This is against the basic The division Bench refused announcing that the dierent view on this,” on Friday. on the request of the Delhi The ASG told the court mit minority students from structure of the Constitu- to grant any relief. JNU faculty asked Mathura NGO gets jumbo Dismantling admission process would to explain role in change essence of JNU, say teachers day-long strike jackets for rescued elephants STAFF REPORTER STAFF REPORTER NEW DELHI: The Registrar of NEW DELHI: Speaking on the Jawaharlal Nehru Univer- second day of the five-day sity has written to all faculty protest lecture series in members who participated Jawaharlal Nehru University, in the day-long strike called alumni from the 1970s remin- for by the Jawaharlal Nehru isced about the progressive Teachers' Association on admission policy of the January 17 to intimate in university. writing within 10 days about Sohail Hashmi and Madhu their participation in the Prasad, both JNU alumni, ex- strike. plained how the university stood for social justice dur- No work no pay ing admissions via the The notice adds that it is deprivation points system, proposed to take action reservation policy, and stu- against those faculty mem- EXTRA LARGE: The centre is home to 20 elephants which are being tended to. PHOTO: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT dent observers who were bers who participated in the present for the interviews. strike and that under the BINDU SHAJAN PERAPPADAN the winter. ments such as pneumonia. They said that the admis- principle of “no work no The care centre is currently The cold also aggravates their sion policy had been fought pay” such faculty members NEW DELHI: In a unique and home to 20 rescued elephants arthritis which is a common for and implemented by JNU vation, but also awards tification in no way suggests were Anita Ghai from would be paid and would first-time initiative, rescued who are blind, lame and on issue that our rescued ele- Student Union led by deprivation points to candid- that deprivation point can- Ambedkar University who not receive their due allow- and handicapped elephants the mend. The organisation phants have to deal with,” said Prakash Karat as its presid- ates from backward districts, not be applied after the two- spoke on ‘Disability and So- ances for the day of the housed at a care centre run by also runs an elephant rehabil- Kartick Satyanarayan of ent (1972-73). They outlined higher points for women stage entrance. The univer- cial Justice’ and Pradeep strike. an NGO in Mathura are re- itation centre in Haryana Wildlife SOS how the policy had been from SC/ST/OBC/PD and sity administration, how- Shinde from JNU who spoke The notice served to all ceiving jumbo jackets to keep which currently houses three “destroyed by JNU adminis- backward districts and to ever, said that they had on ‘Invisibilising the invis- teachers says that if no in- them warm during the freez- female elephants. Rescued Adjusting to new life tration” for a while after a women in general. discussed the matter with ibles: the quest for social formation is given by a par- ing cold wave across north from illegal captivity, track- Now, under the care and crackdown in 1983. “To dismantle this admis- the UGC chairman who justice in India’. ticular faculty member, it India. ing mafia or circuses where treatment of a dedicated team sion policy in the name of made it clear that new UCG The series will continue will be presumed the he/she they were abused and subjec- of veterinarians and elephant ‘Tried to reason with V-C’ UGC notification would regulations were mandatory on Friday at 4 p.m. with a talk had not participated in the Cold wave across north ted to cruelty and decades of care sta of Wildlife SOS, JNU Teachers’ Associ- change the very essence of The five-day protest-lec- by Tanweer Fazal on ‘Minor- strike. As northern India weathers suering, all of the elephants they are adjusting to a life of ation oce-bearers said that the university,” they said. ture series on ‘Democracy ityism or minority rights: the cold wave, the sta at a have tragic pasts. dignity, freedom and peace they tried to reason with the and Social Justice: Access Sachar Committee, Muslims Opportunity to be heard Delhi-based NGO — Wildlife “It is important to keep our “The rescued elephants un- Vice-Chancellor in a meet- ‘UGC rules mandatory’ and Equality’, organised by and the question of social Those who had particip- SOS Elephant Conservation elephants protected from the der rehabilitation at Wildlife ing held recently on the same The oce-bearers of the JNU Teachers' Associ- justice’ and Yogendra Yadav ated in the strike will be and Care Centre — in Math- bitter cold during this ex- SOS have been rescued from issue. They said that they JNUTA pointed out that the ation, had begun on Wednes- on ‘UGX, university given the opportunity to be ura have designed and cre- treme winter, as they are dire circumstances. We aim to told the V-C that JNU’s ad- UGC notification gives us a day on the campus at Free- autonomy and social justice’. heard and further course of ated the jackets to ensure that weak and vulnerable having provide them with a safe hab- mission policy is unique be- lot of scope to retain JNU's dom Square. The other The lectures will be followed action will be decided based their super-sized residents suered so much abuse, mak- itat for them,’’ added Geeta cause it not only gives reser- own system and that the no- speakers on the second day by a Dastangoi performance. on the representations. are well equipped to tackle ing them susceptible to ail- Seshamani of Wildlife SOS.

Birds of a feather Rise in cardiac cases after cold wave

BINDU SHAJAN PERAPPADAN

NEW DELHI: Hospitals across the city have confirmed that there is a rise in the number of people coming in with car- diac problems with the dip in temperature. Speaking about the trend, Dr. Viveka Kumar, director, Cath Lab, Max Super Special- ity Hospital, Saket said: “At my hospital alone we have re- ceived three new patients every day over the last five days. We have also seen an in- crease in the number of cases reported on heart failure, es- pecially at night. In the last two weeks, we saw five new cases of cardiac arrest coming in at night. Out of the five cases, only two patients sur- PHOTO BOMB: A group of Mynas on a cold Thursday morning in New Delhi. PHOTO: SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA vived as they sought immedi- ate medical assistance and did not wait till the morning. Gen- CINEMA erally, people who wait till morning to seek medical as- sistance increase the risk in- ENGLISH Garden, Kaushambi, Noida), Star X Inox and Q Cinemas (Faridabad). Karkardooma), DT (Saket, Shalimar volved. The survival rate chest, arm, etc) for discom- “If someone is already and alcohol consumption are (Vaishali), Galaxie, SRS Cinemas. xXx: RETURN OF XANDER CAGE Bagh, Vasant Kunj), Satyam (Patel BYE BYE MAN: PVR (Vikaspuri, OK JAANU (Aditya Roy Kapur, (Hindi – 3D) (Deepika Padukone, Nagar, Nehru Place, Janakpuri), BIG caries and is generally 70-80 fort or gastro problem. This prone to heart problems due to be blamed for dehydration, Naraina, City Walk, Sangam, Shraddha Kapoor, Naseeruddin Vin Diesel): Amba, Abhishek (Odeon, Vaishali, Kaushambi, per cent.” can cause delay in seeking ne- to genetics, obesity or stress, according to the physicians. Prashant Vihar, EDM, Opulent), DT Shah): Amba, Eros One, Batra Reels, Cineplex, Shiela, PVR (Prashant Noida), Wave (Raja Garden, cessary medical attention. then they need to be ex- “The cold weather can cre- (Saket, Noida), Satyam (Nehru PVR (Plaza, Rivoli, Priya, Saket, Vihar, Opulent, EDM), Movie Time Kaushambi, Noida), Spice (Noida), Lack of awareness The temperature dip often re- tremely cautious during this ate threatening factors for Place), M2K (Rohini). Shalimar Bagh, Sangam, Narina (Pitampura, Raja Garden), Satyam SRS Cinemas, Movie Palace, Movie HINDI Vihar, City Walk, Prashant Vihar, (Nehru Place), Wave (Noida), Star X Magic, Galaxie, Star X (Vaishali), Doctors state that the up- duces body temperature due season. Dehydration is pivotal heart attacks, especially EDM), Movie Time (Raja Garden, (Vaishali). M4U, Chaudhary (Ghaziabad), ward trend of cardiac arrest to which there can be a sud- to most health concerns dur- people who are over the age of COFFEE WITH D (New Release: Pitampura), DT (Noida), Wave DANGAL (Aamir Khan, Sakshi Movie World and Silver City this season has to do with the den rise in blood pressure ing winter,” said doctors. 50 (or have had a history of Sunil Grover, Anjana Sukhani, (Noida), Satyam (Nehru Place, Patel Tanwar): Regal, Gagan, Eros One, (Ghaziabad), Inox and Q Cinemas lack of awareness about car- which builds pressure on the heart problems, diabetes or Dipannita Sharma): Batra Reels, Nagar), Cinepolis, BIG (Odeon Batra Reels, PVR (Plaza, Saket, City (Faridabad). Caution is the word Cinepolis, PVR (Naraina, Prashant Vaishali, Kaushambi, Noida), JAM Walk, Naraina, Vikaspuri, Prashant (BOOKING ENQUIRIES: PVR diac health. “People either heart,” warned Dr. Kumar. hypertension) are at a higher Vihar, Shalimar Bagh, Vasant Kunj, Shipra, M4U, Galaxie, Spice (Noida), Vihar, EDM), M2K (Rohini, 51513391; Spice Gold confuse initial symptoms of Physicians add that people The endless cups of tea and risk of heart attacks,” ex- Mahagun, Opulent), Movie Time SRS Cinemas, Star X (Vaishali), Pitampura), Movie Time (Raja 012043890000; Satyam Cinemas heart attacks (discomfort, get complacent about their coee, limited or no water in- plained IMA’s Dr. K.K. (Raja Garden, Pitampura), M2K Chaudhary (Ghaziabad), Movie Garden, Pitampura), FUN (Moti 25797385; Delite 23272903; Wave sweating, shooting pain in health during winters. take and increase in smoking Aggarwal. (Rohini, Pitampura), Wave (Raja World and Silver City (Ghaziabad), Nagar, Pitampura, Laxmi Nagar, 51832222)

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Teacher was ‘threatened’ 2 days ago Man held for raping minor Najafgarh horror: family says accused had been following her for months, wanted to marry her daughters, abusing wife STAFF REPORTER STAFF REPORTER one (14) on Diwali last Code and relevant NEW DELHI: Two days before he year. provisions of the attempted to kill her, Amit NEW DELHI: A Bawana The victims further said Protection of Children had visited the victim’s resid- resident has been arrested that their father would Against Sexual Oences ence and when asked to for allegedly sexually lock them up in a room Act has been registered leave, had issued a veiled assaulting his two minor and force himself on them against him. threat about harming her, daughters and abusing his in the presence of others. Probe has revealed that claimed her elder sister. wife for months. When their mother would the accused, who works a “When he went to meet The matter came to try to stop him, he would tractor driver in outer her, she was recuperating light when their allegedly thrash her. Delhi, is addicted to drugs from typhoid. Our nephew neighbour approached the and alcohol. and niece were there with Delhi Commission for ‘Victims threatened’ The police are also her. When I came back home Women which reported He would also threaten investigating whether he and saw him, I immediately the matter to the police. to push the children o had assaulted other asked him to leave. He A senior police ocer the balcony if they children in the locality as agreed, but said he couldn’t said the accused had reported the matter to well. guarantee ‘that something raped his elder daughter anyone, the girls said. The girls, meanwhile, won’t happen to her’,” said (17 ) for the first time a A case under Section have been sent to a shelter the sister. year ago and the younger 376 of the Indian Penal home.

Accused determined She further said that even as he was pursuing the victim to marry him, he got married February, the sister said. told Rohit about it. lice Assistant Sub-Inspector, police said he helped his son Woman alleges confinement by to another woman. He, how- Family members, mean- The victim stays with her had been out of work for the in getting him arrested. Bas- ever, remained persistent in while, said Amit had been fol- brother and three sisters. Her past three months. ant, his co accused in the his eorts to woo the victim, lowing her for the past four father works as a security crime, had been called from father, knocks at High Court door who would spurn his ad- months and she had only guard in Uttam Nagar, while Twists in tale their village to take care of vances. Amit had also al- confided in her mother about her mother is a house maid in His father has been bed- his uncle but ended up being AKANKSHA JAIN an acquaintance. of Justice B. D. Ahmed and legedly declared that he it, which is why they never Vasant Kunj. ridden since meeting an acci- an accomplice in the crime, She said she was verbally Ashutosh Kumar. would marry the victim by went to the police or even Amit, the son of a Delhi Po- dent a few months back. The the police added. NEW DELHI: A 24-year-old and physically abused by schoolteacher, who was al- them during the period she ‘Fear of honour killing’ legedly kept in confinement was kept confined. The wo- “I was confined at home by her father and brother and man was also allegedly for days together and forced tortured by them, knocked forced to pen two suicide to write suicide notes. Please Ramadoss marches towards PM’s residence, detained the doors of the Delhi High notes. grant me an urgent hearing STAFF REPORTER Court on Thursday seeking She further said that her as I apprehend honour protection. father and brother had been killing,” her counsel said. NEW DELHI: Former Union The woman, Kavita*, said bent upon marrying her o Taking note of this, the Health Minister Anbumani her father and elder brother since she was in Class IX. High Court directed the po- Ramadoss was detained by objected to her friendship Her mother, too, was illeg- lice to produce her mother, the Delhi Police on Thursday with a male colleague. They, ally confined, and is yet to be father and brother before it when he tried to march to- therefore, allegedly forced rescued, Kavita* said. Fear- on Tuesday. wards Prime Minister Naren- her into confinement at their ing for her mother and her- Later, she was granted an dra Modi’s residence to voice house on December 23. She self, she decided to take legal in-chamber hearing, where support for the ongoing managed to escape on Wed- help. On Thursday, Kavita* Kavita* spoke about her Jallikattu protests in his nesday, after which she was made an urgent prayer for ordeal. home State of Tamil Nadu. provided accommodation by protection before the court *Name changed A senior police ocer said Mr. Ramadoss, who is a mem- ber of the Parliament from the Dharmapuri constitu- ency, had come with some of Case against Jarnail Singh dismissed his from party colleagues and NIRNIMESH KUMAR CrPC have not been com- was marching towards 7, Lok plied with.” Kalyan Marg around 12:30 NEW DELHI: A court here has p.m. when he was stopped by dismissed a case against ‘Erroneous cognizance’ the policemen present there. former AAP MLA Jarnail “Since in the instant case, “He said he wanted to meet Singh for allegedly crimin- the charge sheet has been the Prime Minister but since ally intimidating and pre- filed under various Sections he did not have an appoint- venting a demolition squad including under Section 186 ( ment, we said he would not headed by a Junior Engineer obstructing public servant in be allowed,. At this, he of the South Delhi Municipal discharge of his public func- threatened to hold a sit-in Corporation from carrying tions) of the IPC and the cog- and we had to detain them,” out demolition of an unau- Jarnail Singh nizance has been erro- the ocer added. thorised construction in neously taken therein, the west Delhi’s Tilak Nagar last cannot take cognizance on impugned order is liable to Protesters let o UP IN ARMS: Youngsters from Tamil Nadu stage a protest in support of Jallikattu in New Delhi on Thursday. PHOTO: V. SUDERSHAN year. the basis of a police report be set aside,” the judge fur- They were then taken to Additional Sessions Judge and the case should have ther said. the Tughlaq Road police sta- my post of MP if it helps in discuss the issue. Bhawan in Chanakyapuri on actor Vishal went to show his dismissed the case against proceeded as a complaint Section 195 of the CrPC tion from where they were let holding Jallikattu,” the PMK Meanwhile, a silent protest Thursday. support. He was, however, Mr. Singh, allowing his revi- case. It is not in dispute that says that “no court shall take o after nearly an hour. leader said as he made a bid in support of Jallikattu was A similar protest was held not allowed to enter by the sion petition against framing the instant case has been cul- cognizance of any oences “I am ready to resign from to meet the Prime Minister to held at the Tamil Nadu at Jantar Mantar, where Tamil youth present there. of charges by a Metropolitan minated on the police report, punishable under Sections Magistrate court last year. i.e. after registration of the 172 to 188 (both inclusive) of Dismissing the framing of FIR and filing of the charge the IPC …...... except on the charges against Mr. Singh, sheet. So, the mandatory pro- complaint in writing of the CISF constable forces two Seven-year-old boy drowns in drain the judge said: “The court visions of Section 195 of the public servant”.

STAFF REPORTER turned home around 1.30 floating in the water and chain-snatchers to flee p.m. and had left for the park alerted the parents. NEW DELHI: A woman CISF con- p.m. on Wednesday, when NEW DELHI: Trying to fish out a around 2 p.m. The boy was rushed to stable single-handedly chal- she was attacked by bike- cricket ball, a seven-year-old AIIMS, where the doctors lenged and forced two borne snatchers . As she fell boy drowned in an open Family launches search declared him dead on arrival. snatchers to run, leaving be- down, the duo snatched her drain in south Delhi’s When he did not return A probe has been initiated to hind their motorbike, despite gold chain and tried to es- Malviya Nagar on Thursday home, his family members find if there was any negli- getting no support from cape. Premlata picked up a evening. got worried and started look- gence on the part of the civic bystanders in east Delhi’s brick and chased them away. The boy, identified as Raja ing for him. body maintaining the park. South Ganesh Nagar. The snatchers, however, Babu, was playing with his The family informed the A case under Section 304 managed to run away with friends when the accident police about the missing boy (A) (causing death due to Unwilling to relent her gold chain. A case has happened. The police said around 5.30 p.m. negligence) of IPC will be re- Premlata Kumari was go- been registered at the boy, who used to study in During the search, a boy gistered if any negligence is ing to Ghaziabad around 8.30 Mandawali. —PTI an NDMC school, had re- noticed the child’s body found.

IOB statement 4 arrested for west Delhi double murder NEW DELHI: Reacting to the NEW DELHI: Four persons have that Guljar was part of a been putting pressure on the incident in which a first- been arrested in connection group that was involved in group to increase the money. year student at a Delhi with a double murder case in luggage thefts at bus stands When Mohd. Azad had objec- University college was al- west Delhi’s Moti Nagar. and railway stations, said the ted to it, Guljar managed to legedly molested by a bank On January 12, the bodies of ocer. get him arrested,” said the clerk in north Delhi’s two men were found lying Technical surveillance was ocer. Maurice Nagar, Indian near the Jakhira bus stop. The employed to nab the accused Since their activities were Overseas Bank on faces of both bodies were which zeroed upon the Azad aected, Mohd Azad, along Thursday said their in- crushed with stones, said group and its members were with his group members, ternal policies did not per- DCP (West) Vijay Kumar. nabbed. “During interroga- Sonu, Samshad and Akbar de- mit such behaviour on the tion, it was revealed that cided to kill Guljar. part of their sta. Accused involved in thefts Mohd. Azad, along with his “On January 9, Azad called “The bank has suspen- After eorts that included fix-sic group members, was Guljar for a drink. Guljar ded Devendra Kumar from circulating details about the involved in duping innocent came there along with his as- services. An inquiry will bodies in Delhi and scanning passengers on account of ar- sociate Anil. When Guljar be initiated and a decision, details of all the missing per- ranging confirmed railway and his associate were under as deemed fit, on the con- sons in the Capital as well as berths in trains in west and the influence of liquor, Azad clusion of the inquiry will neighbouring States, the duo north- west Delhi. and his associates strangu- be taken,” the bank said in were identified as Guljar and “Guljar used to take money lated them with muers,” he a statement. Anil Shah. It was also found from this group and he had said. — PTI DELHI TODAY

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CM ND-ND YK NOIDA/DELHI 4 | CITY THE HINDU FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 2017 CBI scared of Sisodia, says Kejriwal Deputy CM says CBI case is result of AAP’s promise in Punjab to have Vikram Majithia arrested

STAFF REPORTER ernment usually does not do,” the ocial said. NEW DELHI: Chief Minister “The government has not Arvind Kejriwal on made payments of ₨98 lakh Thursday said that the Cent- to the company so far. The ral Bureau of Investigation bill is still pending. The gov- (CBI) is scared of his deputy ernment strongly refutes al- Manish Sisodia. legation of any irregularity in “Manish kept waiting for ‘Talk to AK’ campaign,” a the CBI, but it did not come. government spokesperson Till now, people used to be told the media. WATCH YOUR STEP: A 3D zebra crossing at Rajaji Marg roundabout (above); another such crossing scared of the CBI, for the was painted outside Vigyan Bhawan (below) recently. PHOTOS: SHANKER CHAKRAVARTY, V. SUDERSHAN first time the CBI is scared of ‘Prelude to polls’ someone,” Mr. Kejriwal Meanwhile the AAP stated tweeted earlier in the day. By that the CBI inquiry ordered Thursday evening, the CBI against Mr. Sisodia and Mr. More 3D zebra crossings soon ocials reached the Direct- Jain’s daughter by a “rattled” orate of Information and BJP government is the STAFF REPORTER Publicity (DIP) Department. “clearest indicator” that the On his part, Mr. Sisodia AAP will sweep Punjab and NEW DELHI: Zebra crossings ‘dared’ the CBI ocials to ar- Goa in the upcoming As- that appear to jump out of rest him. “The preliminary STICKING TOGETHER: Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has strongly come out in defence of his sembly polls. the road will dot Lutyens’ enquiry was done to stall the deputy Manish Sisodia (right) and Satyendar Jain. FILE PHOTO: SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA AAP Delhi Convenor Dilip Delhi soon with the New reforms in Delhi’s education Pandey said on Thursday Delhi Municipal Council sector. I am being punished Punjab Minister Vikram as a volunteer for three through proper tender, a that the CBI action was also a (NDMC) planning on ex- for creating world class facil- Majithia arrested if they win months. She didn’t charge a public relations company manifestation of Prime Min- panding its ‘3D’ project. ities for school children un- the Punjab elections, Mr Sis- penny or got any perks. She was appointed by the gov- ister Narendra Modi’s Delhi got its first 3D ped- like governments who push odia said that the CBI case is is being dragged into this un- ernment in June last year to “fears” over the AAP’s “im- estrian crossing in July last them towards drugs,” the a result of it. “The moment necessarily,” said Mr. Jain. publicise its works for a minent electoral success”. year on Rajaji Marg. Soon Deputy CM said. we vowed to arrest Mr. period of one year while after that, another such “My work scares them. I Majithia, they made arrange- ‘Talk to AK’ ‘Talk to AK” was held in July. ‘Cowardly act’ crossing that looks like invited them to come and ar- ments to arrest me,” said the The Delhi government The ocial also denied “After Mr. Kejriwal prom- blocks rising from the road rest me. They should under- Deputy Chief Minister. also refuted allegations of ir- that ₨1.5 crore was spent ised to jail Mr. Majithia, even was painted on Safdarjung In his presentation of the Rashtrapati Bhawan. stand that they are aecting Meanwhile, Delhi Health regularities based on which ‘Talk to AK’. we were wondering why Road. The latest 3D crossing budget for 2017-18 on January Using thermoplastic paint, the future of 26 lakh children Minister Satyendar Jain, who the CBI has registered a pre- “As the government Modji was silent. But now, was completed on Monday 13, NDMC chairperson which is used to mark di- of Delhi and causing me no is also facing charges — as liminary enquiry against Mr doesn’t have any expertise in the CBI has been activated outside Vigyan Bhawan, said Naresh Kumar proposed a viders and was used to mark personal harm,” he added. his daughter Soumya Jain — Sisodia, asserting that no dealing with a social media and let loose. Modiji’s cow- Yogesh Saini, founder of plan to make all 130km of av- lanes for buses during the said that Najeeb Jung has got consultant was hired by the campaign, they hired a PR ardly act has established, in a Delhi Street Art, the group enue roads in Lutyens’ Delhi Commonwealth Games in Punjab angle nothing out of the 400 files AAP dispensation, espe- company. Payments are also way far better than any opin- that is executing the project. ‘smart’. The smart roads pro- 2010, a team of Delhi Street Referring to the Aam he had sought and now the cially for the social media made through credit card to ion poll, that the AAP will ject, includes cycling tracks, Art will carry out the project Aadmi Party’s (AAP) state- CBI has been unleashed after campaign ‘Talk to AK’. Facebook and Google for any win Punjab as well as Goa,” ‘Making roads safer’ better signage, pelican cross- within the next two to three ment that they will have them. “My daughter worked A senior ocial said that such campaign, which gov- Mr. Pandey said. The aim of the project is to ings and 3D zebra crossings. months, said Mr. Saini. make roads safer by alerting The work will start after motorists in advance to slow Janpath, Ashoka road next Republic Day as the team down at a pedestrian cross- To start o, 24 such cross- works at night and security ing. As per NDMC ocials, ings will be painted on Jan- concerns will prevent them the first two 3D crossings path and Ashoka road, and from doing so till the January ‘CBI has always been misused by party in power’ were well-received. even one outside a gate of 26 celebrations are over.

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT said the agency had always He, however, added that Police reforms crusader Mr. Singh said a been misused by the party the CBI was empowered to and retired BSF chief preliminary enquiry is the NEW DELHI: The action by the in power at the Centre. take up cases of alleged Prakash Singh said: “I do first stage, “if the enquiry CBI has drawn sharp corruption in Delhi, which not know the facts of the brings out prima facie L-G transfers health secy, 13 others reaction from Chief ‘Cases were dropped’ is a Union Territory. case, could be true or a evidence, then a case is STAFF REPORTER Minister Arvind Kejriwal, “When I was in the CBI, witch-hunt. However, I do instituted and formal who accused the Narendra my own cases which I had ‘Sharks get away’ feel that the CBI is proceedings launched. NEW DELHI: In a major reshue, Modi government of using against senior bank “As the Lieutenant- selectively used… while Procedurally there is Lieutenant-Governor Anil the agency to harass his ocials, were dropped Governor is part of the some people are nothing wrong with the Baijal on Thursday trans- Ministers and ocials. Mr. because the party which administration in Delhi, if prosecuted, the ‘sharks’ system of preliminary ferred 14 ocials, including Sisodia also accused the was then in power did not he gets complaints against manage to get away. They enquiry, because when Health Secretary Centre of targeting him. want the investigative any ocials, politicians or roam about freely. There there is a complaint, Chandraker Bharti, who has On allegations of misuse, agency to prosecute the bureaucrats, he is well are people against whom whether the facts are been at loggerheads with the retired Border Security culprits. Open-and-shut within his rights to refer it there is almost a foolproof enough to warrant Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Force (BSF) Director- cases were closed,” Mr. to the CBI,” Mr. case, but nothing happens registration of a case government over several is- General E. N. Rammohan Rammohan said. Rammohan said. against them.” would require an enquiry”. sues including a ban on Chinese manjha and his ‘ab- sence in key meetings’.

Major reshue High Court Mr. Baijal reassigned the Bare minimum IAS ocers, giving them adjourns plea to new responsibilities in dif- ferent departments in the declare Assembly Delhi government. The or- der was issued by the ser- session illegal vices department on Wednesday. STAFF REPORTER The L-G has appointed Chandraker Bharti as the NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Secretary of Environment Court on Thursday told a pe- and Forest. Mr. Bharti, a titioner, who wanted the re- 1996-batch IAS ocer, cently concluded two-day earlier had additional charge sitting of the Delhi Assembly of this department. declared as “illegal”, that he IAS ocer Madhup Vyas, had impleaded the wrong a 2000-batch IAS ocer, has respondents. been appointed as the new Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva Health Secretary. adjourned the matter to Feb- ruary 6 giving time to peti- Long standing request tioner Prashant Kumar Um- Last August, Deputy Chief rao to implead the correct Minister Manish Sisodia had authorities as respondents. demanded the then L-G Na- The court was of the view jeeb Jung to remove Mr. that the Chief Secretary and Bharti, who was then the En- the Delhi government were vironment Secretary, for a incorrectly made delay in issuing a notifica- respondents. tion banning Chinese man- Health Minister Satyendar death allegedly due to jha. However, the demand Jain had slammed Mr. Bharti negligence. Jurisdiction issue was ignored. for allegedly refusing to go Mr. Jain had also accused “Who is calling the ses- SOME COMFORT: Children at a night shelter near Bangla Sahib Gurdwara on a cold Thursday evening. PHOTO: SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA In December, Chief Minis- with the latter to LNJP Hos- the ocer of not ‘attending sion? Chief Secretary is the ter Arvind Kejriwal and pital following report of a the important meetings’. Executive. The Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi (GNCTD) is not the Assembly. You have im- Decongest city roads, JD(U) to fight pleaded the Executive. Is the Delimitation will work for us, says Cong legislative assembly subor- in all 272 wards dinate to the GNCTD? The L-G tells trac police DAMINI NATH GNCTD is nobody to call the STAFF REPORTER session,” the court said. STAFF REPORTER NEW DELHI: The redrawn Mr. Umrao’s counsel R. P. NEW DELHI: A little over a boundaries of municipal I think the Luthra said the session was NEW DELHI: Directing the Delhi month after it was re- wards will work in the delimitation will help called “at the instance of the Trac Police and other launched, the Delhi unit of party’s favour in the upcom- us as many of the Chief Minister” and that the stakeholders to de-congest the Janata Dal (United) an- ing municipal elections, Assembly was a wing of the the Capital’s roads, Lieuten- nounced it would contest the Delhi Congress president constituencies where government. “The Legislat- ant-Governor Anil Baijal, at a upcoming municipal elec- Ajay Maken told The Hindu the number of wards ive Assembly is an independ- high level review meeting on tions from all 272 wards. on Thursday. have increased ent entity,” the court said and Thursday, ordered that a spe- The party’s Delhi unit The election to the three adjourned the matter. cial task force be set up for Lieutenant-Governor chief Raj Singh Mamn said municipal corporations is are Congress intelligent trac manage- Anil Baijal. FILE PHOTO that the decision was in line expected to take place in strongholds ‘What’s left of plea?’ ment system. He also em- with the JD(U)’s intent to ex- April. The Delhi government The Bench also asked the phasised on the need for a “The L-G directed the pand its base and influence notified the order of delimit- petitioned as to what sur- new uniform parking policy. Trac Police to identify con- in Delhi. ation last week, changing the management, fiscal manage- vived in the petition as the The L-G also directed the gestion points and take On December 3 last year, configuration of the 272 ment, primary education and session had ended on Wed- concerned agencies to re- measure to remove them,” the party had been ocially wards. FEELING CONFIDENT: Delhi Congress president Ajay Maken primary health,” said Mr. nesday. It also asked why ses- move unauthorised parking said a statement issued by relaunched at a ceremony addresses a press conference on Thursday. PHOTO: PTI Maken. sions cannot be conducted in and encroachments under Raj Niwas. Mr. Baijal also presided over by its national More wards The senior leader said that parts as in the instant situ- flyovers and u-turns. Mr. asked the agencies to pre- chief and Bihar Chief Minis- The delimitation, carried clusters and unauthorised general polls. though the Congress would ation where the two-day ses- Baijal also called for strict ac- pare a ‘Uniform Parking ter Nitish Kumar. out by the Delhi State Elec- colonies, have been added to The Delhi Congress had have a “positive” campaign, sion was part of last year’s tion regarding speeding and Policy’ for the city. tion Commission, changed many wards. launched its ‘Meri Dilli, it would also remind Del- winter session. use of mobile while driving, The L-G addded that red ‘False propagand’ the number of wards in each “I think the delimitation Mere Sapne’ programme in hiites of the “failed prom- The petition has claimed saying that no oenders light violation detection Questioning the “false Assembly constituency from will help us as many of the October 2016 to crowd- ises” of the Aam Aadmi that by not inviting the Lieu- should be spared. cameras and automatic num- propaganda” of the Aam four each to between three to constituencies where the source its manifesto for the Party, which will be contest- tenant-Governor to address The high level meeting to ber plate readers should be Aadmi Party (AAP), the seven, depending on the number of wards have in- elections. ing the municipal polls for the Assembly, the AAP gov- review trac management installed at identified loca- Delhi government and the population. The principle creased are Congress strong- the first time. ernment was “dishonouring” issues in Delhi was attended tions at the earliest. He ad- BJP-led civic bodies had adopted by the commission holds,” said Mr. Maken. He ‘Will find true solutions’ While the party had not its oce. It further said that by senior ocers of the ded that trac engineering figured prominently on the was to have one ward for a added that the 2016 by-elec- “We have already started yet started work on selecting the rules stipulate that at the Trac Police, Transport De- measures should be taken up agenda during a political population of 60,000. tions to 13 municipal wards, the door-to-door campaign candidates, Mr. Maken said commencement of the first partment, the DDA, the in consultation with con- workers’ convention of the With the changing of ward in which the Congress won to reach out to voters. We that the Congress will give session each year, the L-G NDMC, the three civic bod- cerned authorities for road JD (U), the party said in a boundaries, densely popu- five, had indicated that the will be coming up with true “new and young” faces a should address the House. ies, the PWD and UTTIPEC safety and ease of trac. statement. lated areas, including slums party would do well in the solutions for solid waste chance.

CM ND-ND YK NOIDA/DELHI | THE HINDU FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 2017 CITY/STATE 5

Raisina in focus SRCC, Stephens to seek deemed university status

NEW DELHI: Prestigious Delhi on the condition of University colleges such as anonymity. SRCC, Ramjas, St. Stephens “The matter was raised in and Hindu College are plan- the governing body meeting ning to seek deemed univer- of Hindu College and in the sity status. later stages proposals will be Although the proposals drafted for seeking the status are in the nascent stage, if and the colleges will be re- granted, it will help them for- quired to gain A grade in mulate their own rules and NAAC accreditation for decide their own fee three consecutive occasions. structure. ‘Not bound by DU rules’ ‘Complete freedom’ “If this happens, the col- “Few colleges like SRCC, leges will not be bound to St. Stephens, Ramjas, Hindu follow DU rules and there and the ones run by the Delhi will be no need to seek sanc- Sikh Gurudwara Manage- tions from the university for ment Committee want to any decision,” he added. seek deemed university However, the students’ status. HRD has also formu- union might oppose the lated some norms for provid- move as studying in these ing more autonomy to col- colleges might become ex- leges but deemed status will pensive then as the institu- give them complete freedom tions will be free to decide to function on their own,” a their fee structure like senior university ocial said private universities. — PTI

Special postal cover ILLUMINATING: Lights being tested at the Central Vista ahead of Republic Day, on Thursday. PHOTO: SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA on Jamia issued STAFF REPORTER thanked the Postal Department for the NEW DELHI: To celebrate special cover on Jamia Jamia Millia Islamia's which depicts its (JMI) upcoming nationalistic past in centenary celebrations, pre-independence India. the Postal Department T2 revamped, but airlines refuse to shift ‘Learning opportunity’ has issued a special cover carrying a picture of the He added that the SpiceJet was supposed to be the first airline to move to Terminal 2, but the airline has denied any such plans university along with its philatelic exhibition founder Maulana provided tremendous SIDHARTHA ROY ing, apart from steel clad- Mohammad Ali Jauhar. opportunity to children ding of its pillars. Check-in The cover was to learn not just about NEW DELHI: The three-decade- counters have already been launched at a philatelic India but about other old Terminal 2 of Indira installed, apart from giant in- exhibition-cum- nations, hoping that the Gandhi International Air- formation display screens. competition in which Jamia school children port has been completely re- nearly a 1,000 school will gain from attending furbished and is ready for Proper signages children from various it. operations since January 15, DIAL has also put up sig- schools participated. Mr. Sharma spoke but the airlines have refused nages that would guide pas- about the significance of to shift from Terminal 1D. sengers to Terminal 2 be- History of university philately not just for The private airport oper- cause with three functional The envelope also has school children but as a ator -- Delhi International terminals now, it is quite a short write-up on the hobby that is “age Airport Ltd. (DIAL) -- wants likely that the passengers history of the university neutral” and has to expand the domestic de- would get confused. Proper and those who enthused people the parture Terminal 1D, which signages are of particular im- envisioned the institution world over. is bursting at the seams at portance as Terminal 2 is — Shaikhul Hind present, and plans to shift located closer to Terminal 3 Maulana Mehmud Hasan, ‘Working silently’ one or two budget carriers to and the domestic Terminal Hakim Ajmal Khan, Dr. ‘He also drew attention Terminal 2 as a stop-gap ar- 1D is nearly 5 km away. Mukhtar Ahmad Ansari to the fact that the Postal rangement. and Abdul Majeed Department was DIAL has refurbished Ter- Expansion plan Khwaja — in both Hindi “working silently” with minal 2 and a security survey DIAL has embarked on a and English. many achievements to has also been carried out, but major expansion plan for Another their credit, the latest budget carriers operating Terminal 1D, which will see commemorative postal being that in the last out of Terminal 1D are refus- its size go up from the cover on the famous three years, post oces ing to budge. present 53,000 square Bahai’s Lotus Temple in all over India have domestic budget carrier of travelling public at large, the Ministry of Civil Avi- measure for one or two of metres to 1,33,000 square Delhi was also released at successfully migrated to Ready for operations SpiceJet is likely to be the especially people travelling ation, where discussions are the budget carriers -- In- metres in the next three the function which was Core Banking Solution “All work at Terminal 2 first airline to move to Ter- with SpiceJet,” Ajay Singh, on at the moment. diGo, SpiceJet and Go Air. years. At present, it is ex- presided over by L. N. (CBS). was completed on January 15 minal 2, the airline has re- the Chairman and the Man- Terminal 2, once labelled panding the terminal on the Sharma, Chief The limited special and it is ready for operations. futed any such plans. aging Director of the airline, Plans for Terminal 1D one of the world’s worst in- air side and will be able to Postmaster General, issue covers on JMI are However, it is yet not clear “SpiceJet had expressed has written in a letter to DIAL had received the go- ternational terminals, has cater to 18 million passen- Delhi Circle and Talat available for sale during when the airlines will shift its absolute inability to shift DIAL CEO I Prabhakara Rao. ahead from the Ministry to been given a new look. gers per annum. Ahmad, Vice-Chancellor, the two-day Philately out of Terminal 1D,” said an its operations to Terminal 2 According to sources, the expand Terminal 1D, follow- The interiors of the ter- In three years, it is expec- JMI. exhibition at the M.F. ocial. on a temporary basis, as the final decision on the shifting ing which it decided to use minal have been redone with ted to cater to 30 million pas- Professor Ahmad Husain Art Gallery, JMI. While sources claim that same is against the interest of airlines will be taken by Terminal 2 as a temporary new flooring and false ceil- sengers per annum. ‘Trees cut in protected MP CM travels by Airport Metro line NEW DELHI: Madhya Pradesh he decided to travel in the Gurugram forest’ Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Metro,” a State government of- Chouhan on Thursday trav- ficial said. ASHOK KUMAR Act and the Aravalli Notifica- elled in Airport Metro Line. Mr. Chouhan was accom- tion of 1992. The letter also The Chief Minister was panied by Union Chemicals GURUGRAM: A large number of said that it was a controlled here to attend a meeting of and Fertilizers Minister trees have allegedly been cut area and the construction BJP’s Central Election Com- Ananth Kumar. He got down and a wall built in the forest was prohibited without per- mittee. “Mr. Chouhan had at Shivaji Stadium metro sta- area in the Raisina village mission. boarded a flight from Bhopal. tion where his cavalcade was here. Environmentalists have The plane landed beyond its waiting. He reached the BJP Madhya Pradesh Chief made a written complaint to Natural Conservation Area scheduled time. Anticipating oce and attended the meet- Minister Shivraj Singh the district authorities in this “This area falls in the Ara- heavy trac on Delhi roads, ing, he said. — PTI Chouhan. FILE PHOTO regard. valli gair mumkin pahar and Lieutenant Colonel (re- is also in the Natural Conser- tired.) Sarvadaman Oberoi, vation Area where construc- an environmentalist, has tion is banned. The area is a written to the Deputy Com- dense forest, as is apparent in missioner, Gurugram and the the image, and thus falls in the forest department ocials deemed forest category, complaining about large- which attracts the forest con- scale cutting of trees in Rais- servation Act of 1980, and has ina area. been put in the forest status to An image attached with the be determined category by letter shows that there was no the Haryana Forest Depart- wall on June 1, 2016 and was ment. The area is the subject built subsequently. matter of several ongoing Hunt for Delhi’s top cop hots up The trees inside the four cases in the National Green walls have been cut. Mr. Tribunal,” said the letter. SHUBHOMOY SIKDAR Union Home Ministry. time of the next general elec- Oberoi has also given the GPS He has demanded that the Mr. Patnaik is currently the tions. readings of the area where the forest should be restored as it NEW DELHI: With the govern- senior-most ocer in the It is here that Rakesh trees have been cut. Also, the was in June last year as per ment clearing the name of Delhi Police after Mr. Verma, Asthana, an ocer of the Gu- trees seem to have been cut law. Another environmental- Alok Kumar Verma for the and will look after the CP’s jarat cadre who is younger with a chainsaw. ist, not willing to be identi- next CBI director’s post, the work till the successor is an- than both Mr. Kumar and Mr. Mr. Oberoi said that cutting fied, said that several people hunt to find his successor has nounced. Mishra, may have the advant- of trees and construction in owned farmhouses in the begun. In the event of either Mr. age and could be made the the area is prohibited under area and the trees were being The Centre is known to Mishra or Mr. Kumar making Delhi Police chief despite not Section 4 (general) of the allegedly cut in the Aravallis throw surprises when it the cut, the other one who being from the cadre, the first Punjab Land Preservation to clear the area. comes to major appoint- misses out may opt to con- such ocer since Ajay Raj ments, but the frontrunners tinue with their current Cent- Sharma. are expected to be Deepak ral posting. Sources also hinted that it is Mishra and Dharmendra Ku- not just seniority but also a mar, both 1984-batch IPS of- Tough test long tenure that could be a de- ficers who were in the race for The post of the Delhi Police ciding factor. the post the last time and are Commissioner is a politically Mr. Asthana, who has a long currently on Central deputa- sensitive one and given the experience working with the tion. perennially strained relations Mr. Modi during his tenure as They will once again find of the AAP led-State govern- the Gujarat Chief Minister, themselves in contention and ment with the Centre, the of- also enjoys the Centre’s Amulya Patnaik, another AG- ficer at the top needs to be confidence. MUT cadre ocer and one someone who can take every- Sources said some politi- batch their junior, who is one along but can be “tough”. cians were believed to have likely to be the third name in The Centre would also like lobbied for at least two of- the panel from which the final someone who is relatively ficers on a list of five potential selection is to be made by the younger and is around at the candidates. CM ND-ND YK NOIDA/DELHI | THE HINDU FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 2017 NORTHERN REGION 7

Inside Kashmir Agartala-Udaipur Narayan Sai seeks bail to contest U.P. polls SURAT: Self-styled godman Sai moved an application founders, wants to field can- railway line to be Asaram’s son Narayan Sai, before Additional Sessions didates in the elections and currently behind bars in a Judge P S Gadhvi, stating he that he needs to be out of jail rape case, on Thursday could contest on two seats - to oversee the preparations. opened on Jan. 24 moved a court here seeking Sahibabad in Ghaziabad dis- Sai was arrested for al- temporary bail to contest trict and Shivpur in legedly raping a Surat-based AGARTALA: Union Railway most town of the State near Assembly elections in Uttar Varanasi. Seeking the relief, woman disciple of his father Minister Suresh Prabhu and Bangladesh, would be com- Pradesh beginning next he stated that Ojaswi Party, between 2002 and 2005. - Tripura Chief Minister pleted by 2019. month. of which he is one of the PTI Manik Sarkar would jointly Sabroom is just 75 km inaugurate a 44.76-km-long from the Chittagong interna- new railway line to connect tional sea port in Agartala with Udaipur, the Bangladesh. district headquarters of Go- The Railway Minister also mati, on January 24. said that a nodal ocer of The Railway Minister said the Railway Board would be this to the Chief Minister appointed in Tripura for co- when he called on him on ordinating with the State Wednesday in Delhi, an o- government to expedite the cial release said here on ongoing projects. Thursday. Sources in the Northeast Mr. Prabhu also assured Frontier Railway said that Mr. Sarkar that the Agartala- the NFR had invested over Udaipur railway track, ₨1,000 crore to extend the which is being extended up 44.76-km railway line up to to Sabroom, the southern- Udaipur. - PTI

Women collecting drinking water from a government water tanker at Shelwat on the outskirts of Srinagar on Thursday. - PHOTO: PTI

Man charged with murder of Bihar journalist gets bail SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT The CBI had registered a night. case against Kaif under Sec- Kaif and his friends re- PATNA: A local court in Bihar tions 120 B, 302, 34 of IPC and mained absconding in the on Thursday granted bail to Section 27 of the Arms Act. case until he was sighted in Mohammad Kaif, who is the videos and photographs prime accused in the murder To remain in jail with ex-RJD MP Mohd. of Siwan-based senior journ- He is currently lodged in Shahabuddin during his re- alist Rajdeo Ranjan. the Siwan district jail and is lease from the Bhagalpur jail. Hearing the case, special likely to remain there until Later, the State govern- Central Bureau of Investiga- he gets bail in another case ment handed over the case to tion court judge Anupama pending against him in Si- the CBI but the investigating Kumari granted bail to Mo- wan court, said Mr Sinha. agency started the probe into hammad Kaif alias Bunti as “Once he gets bail in the the case on the intervention the charge-sheet against him other case he will be out of of the Supreme Court after was not submitted to the the prison,” the lawyer said. slain journalist’s wife Asha court within the stipulated Earlier, Mohammad Kaif Ranjan filed a petition before 90-days time of his arrest. and some of his associates it on September 23 last year. The CBI counsel, however, were made accused in the In her petition, Ms. Ranjan was not present during the murder case of Siwan-based reportedly said that the CBI hearing in the court. senior journalist Rajdeo was not investigating the “CBI ocials could not Ranjan who was working for case under some political submit the charge-sheet in a national vernacular news- pressure as “former RJD MP the case in 90 days time paper as Siwan Bureau head. and bahubali (strongman) of which shows there is nothing Ranjan was shot dead at a Siwan Mohd. Shahabuddin against my client who is in- fruit market in Siwan town could be behind the murder nocent,” said Sharad Sinha, when he was returning home of her husband.” counsel for Mohammad Kaif. from his oce on May 13

65 cartons of liquor seized

MUZAFFARNAGAR: The police on Thursday claimed to have seized 65 cartons of liquor at Dadheru Khurd village here in the run-up to the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls. As part of the drive against liquor smuggling, the police team raided several places in the district following which 65 cartons of liquor were seized at Dadheru Khurd vil- lage under Charthawal po- lice station area, district ex- cise ocer A. K. Singh said. A case has been registered against unidentified culprits, he said. - PTI

CM ND-ND YK NOIDA/DELHI 8 | SOUTH THE HINDU FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 2017

Milestone in cryogenic engine Premises of Murder sparks tension in Kannur Karnataka Cong. test paves way for GSLV-MkIII BJP worker hacked to death in Andalur, ending three months of relative peace leaders searched MADHUMATHI D.S. ISRO plans to fly We are assembling the entire SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT District Collector Mir Mo- SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT cryogenic stage, which is hammed Ali reached the BENGALURU: A milestone its new launch ready for flight. It will be sent KANNUR: The murder of a spot and proposed that a lim- BELAGAVI/BENGALURU: In the first crossed in the making of a vehicle powered to Sriharikota in a month’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ited number of vehicles search and seizure opera- new cryogenic rocket engine by the engine time,” he said. worker at Andalur, under the could be allowed through the tions targeting a functionary set the stage for the first The cryogenic stage is vi- Dharmadam police station road. of the Karnataka govern- flight of the country’s most around March tal for a GSLV rocket as it limits on Wednesday night, The same spot witnessed ment since demonetisation, powerful satellite launcher gets its final and biggest push renewed tension in the Kan- tension in the morning when Income Tax sleuths swooped to date, the GSLV-Mark III. pletes trials and commences in space from this stage; it nur region, ending three BJP workers tried to march down on the premises be- The cryogenic stage and the functioning in the coming can take a big communica- months of relative peace. through the road. The police longing to Small Scale Indus- entire launch vehicle’s readi- years, will double ISRO’s lift- tions satellite to higher BJP worker C.E. Santhosh, used smoke grenades to dis- tries Minister Ramesh L. Jar- ness is closer to fruition after ing power for communica- reaches of 36,000 km above 52, was hacked to death, al- perse the workers who kiholi in Belagavi, Gokak and the engine, technically called tions satellites to 4,000 kilos. ground. The C25 cryogenic legedly by Communist Party RESTIVE CADRE: Police stop BJP workers attempting to march to hurled stones at a nearby Bengaluru on Thursday. CE20, passed the ‘high alti- stage was approved at an es- of India (Marxist) workers in the arts festival venues in Kannur. — PHOTO: S. KANNAN building of the NGO Union. Simultaneously, Income tude flight acceptance test’ Vital stage timated Rs. 600 crore as part his house around 11 p.m. Tax ocials conducted lasting about 25 seconds at In a few days from now, the of the overall Rs. 2,500-crore While the BJP alleged that cident of political killing this for nearly two hours. BJP School festival unaected search operations at the Mahendragiri in mid- rocket’s complete cryogenic MkIII launcher project. the CPI(M) was behind the year and the third to take workers, with a convoy of Though the hartal and the premises belonging to Laxmi December. third stage, replete with fuel “Realising the CE20 en- attack, the CPI(M) leader- place in the Chief Minister’s vehicles accompanying the ensuing protest by BJP work- R. Hebbalkar, president of The Indian Space Re- tanks and systems built gine was our target in order ship denied the involvement constituency of Dharmadam ambulance carrying the ers threatened to mar the the Karnataka State Mahila search Organisation (ISRO) around the engine, will un- to achieve India’s capability of party workers. over the past three months. body of the slain BJP worker, festive ambiance in the city, Congress, besides two close plans to fly its new launch dergo its qualifying test, S. to lift a four-tonne satellite to The police said an uniden- In October, CPI(M) staged a sit-in to protest events at the venues of the aides of the Minister, H.D. vehicle powered by this new Somanath, Director of IS- GTO (geostationary transfer tified group barged into worker K. Mohanan and BJP against the police’s refusal to Kerala State School Arts Mulla and Ali Atthar. engine around March, and RO’s Liquid Propulsion Sys- orbit, around 36,000 km Santhosh’s house where he worker K.V. Remith were allow the convoy to pass Festival were not aected. Mr. Jarkiholi comes from send the 3,200 kg GSAT-19 tems Centre (LPSC), high),” Mr. Somanath said. was staying alone. His wife, hacked to death in the area in through the Stadium Road. It The festival was exempted the politically powerful Jar- communication satellite to Thiruvananthapuram, told “We have been longing for two children and mother tit-for-tat attacks. is on this road that the Kerala from the hartal. But lack of kiholi family, which has deep space on it. The launch was The Hindu. this for a few years. MkIII were staying in another A stand-o between BJP State School Arts Festival buses and other public trans- interests in both excise and earlier slated for December LPSC has designed and de- will be the future work horse house, the police said. workers and the police on venues are located. port caused some inconveni- sugar sectors in the Belagavi 2016. MkIII, when it com- veloped the CE20 engine. after the PSLV,” he said. The murder is the first in- Thursday afternoon lasted The stand-o ended when ence to people. district.

Civic body barking up the wrong tree: Dog lovers ICMR to study A.P. kidney disease crisis

New guidelines say big breeds like Great Danes can’t be kept in Bengaluru apartments V. RAGHAVENDRA causes of what had been re- P. S. ROHIT ported from Uddhanam for K.V. ADITYA BHARADWAJ breeding centres across the more than two decades could city and the mushrooming VIJAYAWADA: Amid mounting not be established. BENGALURU: The Bruhat of ‘puppy mills’. The report concern about high rates of Bengaluru Mahanagara provided evidence of unexplained kidney disease Test protocol Palike has decided that breeding centres operating in the Uddhanam region of “We will do urine analysis, large-sized dogs and out of residential terraces Srikakulam district, the In- study food habits and exam- apartments don’t go and small cramped rooms dian Council of Medical Re- ine the water samples to find together and issued a set of in busy markets. Puppies search (ICMR) is launching ways to stop or slow disease guidelines under which bred in inhumane an intensive study there in progression which leads to breeds like Great Dane, conditions are sold on February to identify the terminal illness,” Dr. Abra- English Masti, Bulldog, popular e-commerce sites. likely cause. ham said. Boxer, Rottweiler, St. “BBMP should stop such A high–level ICMR team The team also has Dr. T. Bernard, German breeding in Sriramapuram, will investigate the Chronic Ravi Raju, Vice-Chancellor Shepherd, Golden TIGHT LEASH: Dog owners will now face a penalty if they fail Russell Market and other Kidney Disease of Unknown of Dr. NTR University of Retriever are o the list of to clean up after their canines in public spaces. — FILE PHOTO: areas. None of the breeders Etiology (CKDu) that has af- Health Sciences and A.P and permitted pets. have licences. Ocials fected thousands. The ICMR Dr. Gangadhar Taduri, senior The new BBMP Owners also face a penalty that are not suited for life need to shut them down is sending the team follow- LENDING AN EAR: Pawan Kalyan interacts with kidney disease nephrologist at the Nizam’s guidelines, besides if they fail to clean up after in Bengaluru. What’s more, and issue licences to only ing a request from Andhra patients from Uddhanam region. — FILE PHOTO: BASHEER Institute of Medical Sci- restricting the breeds that their dogs in public spaces. the city has emerged as a those meeting stipulated Pradesh Chief Minister N. ences, Hyderabad, epidemi- can be kept in apartments, Animal rights activists, hotspot for illegal breeding conditions. This will Chandrababu Naidu. of January to Uddhanam and Dr. Georgi Abraham, dir- ologists and other domain include mandatory however, say the civic body of dogs. eventually have a positive criticised the State govern- ector of nephrology at experts. Dr. Taduri, who has licensing, separate is ignoring the main The Compassion impact on pet owners,” ‘Indierence’ slammed ment for its ‘indierence’ to Madras Medical Mission, researched chronic kidney breeding licence, and problem. The focus needs Unlimited Plus Action said R. Shantha Kumar, The issue snowballed after the kidney disease crisis. Mr. Chennai, and a member of disease in Uddhanam, said where not available, to be on breeders, many of (CUPA) brought out a welfare ocer, Animal actor and Jana Sena Party Naidu then sought ICMR the ICMR team, said kidney his studies have pointed to sterilisation of pet dogs. whom are trading in breeds report in 2016 on 15 illegal Welfare Board of India. President Pawan Kalyan help for an in-depth study. disease in India was mostly silica and strontium as likely made a visit in the first week Speaking to The Hindu, due to diabetes, but the causative factors.

CM ND-ND YK NOIDA/DELHI | THE HINDU FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 2017 NATION 9

Don’t add Hindi Waldman finds balm in 12 children die as truck rams school bus dialects in Eighth Jaipur for Trump ‘pain’ Recognition of the Etah school, which had flouted orders to remain closed till Friday, cancelled Schedule, say ETAH (UTTAR PRADESH): Twelve academics school children and their bus driver were killed, and 35 children injured, when a VIKAS PATHAK lorry rammed their vehicle amid dense fog on the NEW DELHI: In the wake of de- Aliganj-Paliyali road near mands to add dialects of here on Thursday morning. Hindi, like Bhojpuri and Ra- District Magistrate jasthani, in the Eighth Sched- Shambhu Nath had earlier ule of the Constitution as put the toll at 15 but ocials full-fledged Indian lan- confirmed 13 deaths. guages, a group of Hindi pro- The bus was carrying stu- fessors have written to Prime dents to the J.S. Vidyaniketan Minister Narendra Modi re- school, which had opened in questing that status quo be violation of the District Ma- maintained. Teaching at Rajasthan CM Vasundhara Raje with writer William Dalrymple gistrate’s orders to keep all various universities across and JLF director Sanjoy Roy during the inaugural session of schools up to Class VIII India, these academics argue the Jaipur Literature Festival on Thursday. — PHOTO: ROHIT JAIN PARAS closed till Friday in view of that Hindi’s prime strength is the intense cold, ocials the large number of its ADITYA MANI JHA ooncheen kursi par baithtaa said. speakers. Recognition of its hoon jismein paanv zameen The accident occurred dialects as separate lan- JAIPUR: The tenth edition of par nahi rehte.” (I often re- near Asadnagar village un- guages would deprive Hindi the Jaipur Literature Festival cite a ghazal and leave, which der the Aliganj Kotwali po- of millions of its speakers. (JLF) began at Jaipur’s Diggi is how I stay happy. I’m afraid lice station area in Etah, a There would eventually be Palace on Thursday. of many things, and this is four-hour drive from the na- no Hindi left, they fear. Rajasthan Chief Minister one of them. Sitting on this tional capital. The dead were This development comes Vasundhara Raje spoke on high chair where my feet in the 5-15 years age group. DISASTROUS CONSEQUENCE: The mangled remains of the bus and lorry after they collided due to dense fog on the Aliganj-Paliyali months after Union Minister the occasion, reminding don’t touch the ground.) Mr. Nath said soon after road in Etah on Thursday. — PHOTO: PTI Arjun Ram Meghwal said in audiences about the State’s Ms. Waldman, an Amer- getting the news, senior o- Bikaner that Rajasthani tradition of generous hospit- ican poet and performer, ex- cials rushed to the accident used to open the body of the whose manager and prin- truck, coming from the op- Modi condoled the death of would be added to the Eighth ality. Ms. Raje said: “When so pressed her gratitude at join- spot and supervised the res- bus to rescue the trapped cipal defied the district ad- posite direction at a high the children. Uttar Pradesh Schedule. In December 2016, many people from across the ing the festival just ahead of cue and relief operations. A children. ministration’s directive. An speed, hit the bus which Governor Ram Naik and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish world return to their coun- Donald Trump’s inaugura- crane had to be deployed to Mr. Nath said orders had FIR had been lodged against overturned under the impact Chief Minister Akhilesh Ya- Kumar had raised a similar tries, they say ‘Wow, what an tion as U.S. President. “The retrieve the bus which lay been issued to cancel the re- the school management. of the collision. dav also condoled the incid- demanded for Bhojpuri. experience that was!’ That’s gathering of so many writers mangled. Gas-cutters were cognition of the school, Eyewitnesses said the Prime Minister Narendra ent. — PTI “Eighth schedule means what we hope to leave all of and book lovers makes me independent identity of a you with.” feel comfortable. I have language. What will remain Before Ms. Raje’s speech, found heaven here before the 3 killed,4 injured of Hindi if its key dialects are the audience — already terrible inauguration cere- recognised as separate lan- packing the front lawns of mony in my country.” ‘Church courts’ cannot veto guages? The only reason Diggi Palace — were treated She reiterated that Amer- in IED blast in Hindi has its status as ocial to a versatile performance by ican writers and artists shall language is that it has the the Shillong Chamber Choir, continue to protest in Chhattisgarh highest number of speakers,” spanning Bollywood classics Washington. divorce law, says Supreme Court professor Amarnath, who from the ’50s to the Bill With- During her address, she STAFF REPORTER teaches in the Hindi depart- ers classic You Are My launched into her song An- LEGAL CORRESPONDENT shina Kannada in Karnataka, Sorabjee, had contended that ment of Calcutta University, Sunshine. thropocene Blues. Her per- NAGPUR: Two women and a 15- had argued that when courts the case touched the lives of told The Hindu. Poets Gulzar and Anne formance was punctuated by year-old girl were killed in NEW DELHI: Canon law and de- can recognise dissolution by over one crore citizens “who Waldman delivered keynote chants, refrains and even a an IED (Improvised Explos- crees of divorce given by ec- triple talaq under the Mo- are Indian Christians/ Cath- addresses. Mr. Gulzar spoke sharp scream at one point, ives Device) blast in Naray- clesiastical tribunals or hammedan personal law, olics governed by the Code Venkaiah takes note about the writer’s reluctance followed by silence to gauge anpur district of Chhattis- ‘Church Courts’ cannot veto they should also recognise of Canon Law both regarding to engage with the world out- the response of the crowd. garh on Wednesday night. the statutory law of divorce, the Canon law as the per- marriage and its of newspaper side the terms of their writ- Among the other notable Four other women also the Supreme Court said on sonal law of Indian dissolution.” ing. sessions on the first day, suered injuries in the ex- Thursday. Catholics. industry’s concerns “Main aksar ghazal sunaa American author Paul Beatty plosion allegedly planted by Thus saying, a Bench of The court is presently Marriage & dissolution ke nikal jaata hoon, toh spoke to Meru Gokhale (ed- the Maoists near Tumanar Chief Justice of India J.S. hearing a row of petitions, in- “The Canon law enjoins SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT sukhi rehta hoon. Par mujhe itor-in- chief, literary fiction village under Narayanpur Khehar and Justice D.Y. either theological or ecclesi- cluding a suo motu one, on that Catholics are required to kayi cheezon se dar lagta at Penguin Random House police station limits of rest- Chandrachud disposed of a astical, but has no legal im- whether practices of Islamic marry in a Catholic church NEW DELHI: Information and hai, usme se yeh ek hai. Uss India). ive Bastar region of the writ petition filed in 2013 pact on the divorce or annul- personal law like triple talaq and equally enjoins that they Broadcasting Minister M. State. seeking a judicial declaration ment of marriage between and polygamy discriminate seek nullity in the canonical Venkaiah Naidu has taken “Two women from Tum- that divorce decrees passed two persons professing the against Muslim women. court (ecclesiastical court/ note of the concerns ex- nar village under Narayan- by ecclesiastical tribunals Christian religion. The petition had asked tribunal) also under the pressed by the newspaper in- pur police station limits and are valid and binding. “After the Divorce Act why courts prosecute Ro- Code of Canon Law. Other- dustry, which have been re- one minor girl have been came into force, a dissolution man Catholics under Section wise, the marriage and the ported in the media. killed. Four women from the 1996 verdict or annulment under such 494 of the Indian Penal Code dissolution will not be recog- “The Minister has asked same village were injured in The Supreme Court re- personal law cannot have for the alleged oence of bi- nised by the Catholic the I&B Secretary to look a pressure IED blast in ferred to its 1996 judgment in any legal impact as statute gamy without considering Church,” the petition had into the issues in the wake of Narayanpur district. The the case of Molly Joseph has provided a dierent pro- the Canon law. said. the implementation of the Maoists had planted the IED versus George Sebastian up- cedure and a dierent code Further, it added that even About 1,000 applications latest wage board recom- to target security forces de- holding the binding nature of for divorce or annulment,” “ministers of the church who in Mumbai and about 100 in mendations and the pro- ployed to facilitate ongoing the Indian Divorce Act of the Supreme Court had held. blessed the nuptials of the Mangaluru — not to mention posed GST regime,” a state- road construction on that 1869, which governs divorce second marriage run the risk Kolkata and Chennai — for a ment said. If required, axis,” said Bastar range In- among Christians. Triple talaq argument of being prosecuted for abet- declaration of nullity were consultations with the stake- spector General of Police In Molly’s case, the court In his petition, Pais, a ment.” pending before ecclesiast- holder Ministries would be Shiv Ram Prasad Kalluri in a said the implication of the former president of the The petitioner, represen- ical tribunals in the country, initiated to address the is- statement. Canon law is confined to Catholic Association of Dak- ted by senior advocate Soli the petitioner pointed out. sues. No demand from IAF; India Dharamsala to be 2nd capital of H.P. goes slow on Hawk variant SHIMLA/DHARAMSALA: Ahead of Assembly polls later this DINAKAR PERI year, Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbharda NEW DELHI: India is going slow Singh on Thursday an- on the development of a nounced that Dharamsala combat variant of the Hawk would be the second capital Advanced Jet Trainer (AJT) of the hill State with a popu- as there has been no demand lation of about 70 lakhs. for it from the Indian Air Mr. Singh, who was on a Force. visit to lower hills, said: Hindustan Aeronautics “Dharamsala, nestling in the Limited (HAL) and BAE lap of majestic snow-clad Systems have teamed up to Dhauladhar ranges, has a sig- develop the combat variant, nificance and history of its which will be a slow flying, own and fully deserved to be ground support aircraft. the second capital of the The two had signed a State.” Memorandum of Under- The announcement is sig- standing (MoU) in the past A file photograph of the Hawk aircraft of the Surya Kiran nificant as 25 out of 68 As- to explore the possibility. aerobatics team.— PHOTO: VIJAY SONEJI sembly seats fall in Kangra, “The Air Force has so far Una and Hamirpur districts, not shown any interest in ac- Kiran aerobatics team is in Systems to work out the and Dharamsala is important quiring the combat Hawk. an advanced stage. HAL is model of development of for the lower areas of Hi- So we are taking the project assembling the Hawks in In- the advanced Hawk,” an- machal Pradesh, including slowly,” defence sources dia under a license. other ocial said. Kangra, Chamba, Hamirpur said. Under the new plan, the In a related move, BAE and Una districts. India had contracted 123 idea is to equip the Hawk jet Systems is bringing in a The Chief Minister said Hawk Mk-132 AJT aircraft with air-to-air and air-to- technology demonstrator of that the people living in from BAE Systems of the ground missiles, rockets and the combat Hawk which these areas would benefit U.K. for the IAF and the bombs to transform it into a would be displayed at the from the decision and that Navy. combat platform. upcoming ‘Aero India’ air they would not have to travel Another order for 20 air- “Discussions are under show at Bengaluru next long distances to come to craft to equip the Surya way between HAL and BAE month. Shimla for work. — PTI ‘Explain move to include Solatium for Bengal students in human chain’ ‘police firing’ victims

AMARNATH TEWARY Justice Sudhir Singh SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Wednesday with thousands summoned Chief Secretary taking to the streets and at- PATNA: The Patna High Court Anjani Kumar Singh and Dir- KOLKATA: Citing ‘humanitarian tacking police vehicles. Two on Thursday summoned Bi- ector-General of police P.K. grounds’, the Mamata Baner- persons died of bullet injur- har’s Chief Secretary and po- Thakur to appear in court on jee government on Thursday ies. The State government lice chief while expressing Friday to make the govern- announced a compensation and the ruling Trinamool displeasure over the State ment’s stand clear. of ₨2 lakh to the kin of two Congress had so far not ad- government’s move to rope in On Wednesday, the court persons killed in alleged po- mitted to any firing and had school students for the pro- asked the government to lice firing at Bhangar in West blamed outsiders for ‘incit- posed human chain on Janu- state under which provision Bengal’s South 24 Parganas ing violence’. At a meeting ary 21. the students had been asked district. Compensation was with senior police ocers, While hearing a petition to participate in the human also announced for families Ms. Banerjee directed that filed by the Forum for Public chain and decision taken to who lost their kin in road ac- outsiders be arrested. Interest Litigation for the halt trac on the State and cidents. The CPI(M) has deman- second day, a Division Bench national highways for five Protests over land acquisi- ded that the Trinamool gov- comprising Acting Chief hours during the programme tion for a power plant in ernment “stop using force Justice Hemant Gupta and on January 21. Bhangar turned violent on against the protesters.” CM ND-ND YK NOIDA/DELHI 10 | EDITORIAL THE HINDU FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 2017 Autumn and its discontents Donald Trump’s talent lay in finding the words — howsoever wild, inaccurate, or untrue — that amplified the resentment of large swathes of American voters with the political establishment

jority of voters, is still not well understood. gressively needed more spectacularly gifted F RIDAY, JANUARY 20, 2017 In parts, this may be because of a managerial advocates to sell its promise and potential KEERTHIK SASIDHARAN understanding of the nature of politics that during election time. Failing which, liberal- has become prevalent. ism is seen as having failed to deliver. All the while, what followed are critiques: from in- The waning of liberalism cendiary radio and TV hosts who froth apo- The limits to In the second volume of Ian Kershaw’s mo- Since World War II, democratic politics plectically to deeper, and thus all the more numental biography on Adolf Hitler, there is has become most visible as an eort to taper radical, readings that seeks to delegitimise popular sentiment a throwaway description of Nazi electoral over social schisms, to legislate out ex- the entire liberalism project itself. strategy: “The appealing counter-image of amples of intolerance, and to ameliorate his- Thus we find influential right-wing ideo- amil Nadu is caught in a near-spontan- national rebirth”. This promise to dust away toric wrongs. Much eort has gone to en- logues of Western decline, like the Russian eous mass upsurge in support of historical humiliations is a political sure that these resentments don’t burble up, public intellectual Alexandr Dugin (with his jallikattu, the bull-taming spectacle held stratagem that has launched numerous far less explode into the open like in the growing set of admirers among the White during the time of the harvest festival of electoral campaigns since 1933-34 when Balkans during the 1990s. After the messian- Nationalist movements in America) blame T Hitler came to power. ism of the pre-World War II era, the politics liberalism’s universalist tendencies to usurp Pongal. Tens of thousands have gathered in public What makes these refrains of renaissance that followed began to speak the language of and colonise cultures in the name of egalit- places, most notably on Chennai’s Marina beach, ominous sometimes is that nostalgia for na- bureaucratic incrementalism which al- arianism and progressivism. The enemy, in on a day-and-night vigil, seeking the reversal of the tional glory is entwined intimately, like a lowed for discontents to be calibrated, this interpretation, is not only transnational Supreme Court-ordered ban on the conduct of the strand in a double helix birthing identity, bribed, and managed. capitalism and its representatives (which annual ritual. In the name of cultural pride and cus- with vilification of select groups. In our By and large, this approach is successful also conveniently comports with historic tom and tradition, students and youth have risen times, we have seen this logic unfold starkly when social stresses aren’t extraordinary. tropes of anti-Semitism), but also the very up. The show of solidarity has been peaceful, in in Rodrigo Duterte’s Philippines, Recep The presence of a social safety net — not language, methods, and civic attitudes that sharp contrast to the aggression shown by some en- Tayyip Erdogan’s Turkey, Viktor Orban’s just in a financial sense, but also on familial, have allowed liberalism to thrive. Thus, cul- thusiasts on social media in targeting certain Hungary, Vladimir Putin’s Russia, or Robert community, and identitarian grounds — al- ture is instrumentalised to demarcate celebrities for their earlier support to PETA Mugabe’s Zimbabwe. Implicit in the deploy- lowed for more and more individuals to buy boundaries between the porous beliefs and ment of such a vocabulary is an eort to cre- into the idea that if they patiently wait in real lives of peoples who belong to dierent (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals). ate hierarchies that rank which diversities While Mr. Trump’s harangues line, pay their taxes, and jump through the nations. For a long time, this right-wing au- Chief Minister O. Panneerselvam felt compelled to within the collective are to thrive, which to mirrored the very opposite of Mr. hoops, their turn at self-improvement will thoritarian populism (or the left-wing respond to this movement, and rushed to meet be subsumed, and which to be squashed, in arrive. The result of this implicit coda of supranational bureaucratism of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and wrest an assur- service of the state. Obama’s language of hope, both civic agreeableness is that the accompany- European Union variety) has had little pur- ance on an ordinance to nullify the Supreme Court treated politics as something ing politics and the very act of being polit- chase in American politics. The cataclysms ban. But whatever the views of the youth taking part Sea change in attitudes transcending policy prescriptions ical acquired a vocabulary of gradualism. of the credit crises in 2008, however, began in the demonstration, jallikattu in its present form Since the 1960s, when ethnic quotas on Politicians swore by a creedal faith in accu- to change all that. is of relatively recent origin, intended to make bulls immigration to the U.S. ended, American mulative dynamics of progress. The apo- Words that resonate run amok for the sake of spectacle. Instead of the elections have been occasions to ask public- legalisation of same-sex marriage, environ- theosis of this attitude towards politics — spirited questions on the nature of citizen- mental preservation, consumer protection, call it pragmatic liberalism, if you will — has The state, even the ostensibly all-power- traditional form of one man against one animal, lat- ship. Similar questions were asked in the decriminalisation of children of illegal im- been President Obama, who sought to re- ful American state, suddenly found itself un- ter-day jallikattu is a mass-participant ritual of hun- 19th century when the Irish, Italians, and migrants, and so on. Acts and amendments store America after the foreign policy and able to imagine the consequences of letting dreds of men chasing a bull and trying to hold on to other “non-whites” from southern Europe that have relied on human reason to reduce financial catastrophes of the George W. millions of working adults fall by the way- its hump or stop it by pulling at or twisting its tail. arrived. These questions seek to answer human suering. Bush era. He was successful, more than any- side, except in terms of statistics such as un- Few other feudal traditions have survived in concerns such as who belongs in America, Legal precedents that show while Amer- body expected in 2008 when he was first employment figures and GDP growth. modern, progressive India in the name of mascu- what is the nature of that belonging, what is ica is far from a perfect nation, it is as Barack elected, through an inspired mix of personal Politicians, trained in decades-old lan- line valour and cultural pride. When the Supreme guaranteed by the American state to its cit- Obama said in 2008, a “perfectible nation”. integrity, hard work, and the charisma to guages of subcommitees and judicial hear- Court banned this spectacle that took a heavy toll izens, and so on. The answers thrown up in In 2016, however, Donald Trump’s election market his achievements. ings, suddenly found themselves unmoored on both the animals and the human participants, it the hurly-burly of election campaigns to victory depended on large swathes of Amer- Yet, a key requirement for pragmatic lib- from what people now sought from politics: did so after attempts at its regulation and the or- these questions are rarely cogent or per- ican voters (majority white, some non- eralism to succeed is that it relies on the an argument for coherence in an age of mul- fumed by refinement, but they nevertheless whites too) who have become suspicious of state’s capacity to ensure resource redistri- tiple incoherences. derly conduct of this “sport” were deemed a failure. draw with great fidelity the contours of col- the very same institutional structures and bution and the ecacy of delivery mechan- In such circumstances, successful politics In 2013, under the watch of the Animal Welfare lective attitudes, fears, and aspirations. vocabularies that had allowed this historic isms. Since the 1980s however, the institu- — or, more accurately, a successful election Board of India, the onus was on the State of Tamil By and large, for much of its history since expansion of the protections and guarantees tional capacity of governments in America campaign in the age of cable TV and social Nadu to ensure that jallikattu did not violate the the 1960s, the content of American citizen- oered by the state. That this recognition of has gradually hollowed out via defunding media — transmogrifies from reason-based provisions of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ship has widened over time and oered the changing moods of the American elect- (“starve the Beast”, said arch privatisers). discourse to an exhortation of group solid- Act. But, the opportunity to ensure a jallikattu that more opportunities to residents (even non- orate proved dicult for political pundits Any question of downward redistribution arity that promises to help the individual was free of cruelty to the animals and injuries to the citizens) to flourish as individuals. To this and, particularly, for the Clinton campaign is was deemed illegitimate, even as income in- build a carapace to re-situate themselves in participating youth was frittered away. Eorts that end, over the past 60 years, there have been evident. But why exactly they did miss this equality continued to rise. The con- a wider society. Mr. Trump’s talent was to are now on to nullify the eect of the Supreme improvements in the protection of voting sea change in attitudes, particularly since sequence is that the originary promises of find the words — howsoever wild, inaccur- rights for minorities, equal pay for women, 2012 when Mr. Obama was elected by a ma- liberalism — equity and eciency — pro- ate, and often untrue — that rebelled against Court judgment through the ordinance route thus these commonplace political mantras of carry a serious risk of judicial reproach. Last year, CARTOONSCAPE ‘globalisation’, ‘NAFTA’, ‘privatisation’ et al the Centre did try to get around the court order by which had traduced middle- and low-in- issuing an executive notification that granted ex- come Americans into economic pawns in- emption from restrictions on the use of bulls as per- stead of seeing them as members within a forming animals in traditional sports. The proper social grouping. Ironically, while Mr. course for the Centre and the State government is Trump’s harangues mirrored the very op- to persuade the Supreme Court that a jallikattu that posite of the language of hope and solidarity does not involve, or at least almost eliminates, that Mr. Obama conveyed in 2008, both of cruelty to animals and that guarantees the safety of them treated politics as something tran- scending policy prescriptions and technical spectators and participants alike is indeed possible. fixes. They sought to articulate a form of It is all right if popular sentiment can influence le- group solidarity. For Mr. Obama, that group gislation, but it cannot undermine the rule of law. was ever growing, multiracial and multicul- tural; while for Mr. Trump it was situated in mid 20th century America, largely white, and monocultural. Rebooting That the world’s most powerful demo- cracy, when given a choice to roll the dice in an election — to choose between progress- disinvestment ive bureaucratism of the Clintons and indig- nant nationalism of Mr. Trump — chose the o gain some perspective on the Centre’s latter ought to tell us that when societies feel decision to divest 25% of its stake in five depleted, the demands made of politics and public sector general insurers, consider political vocabulary undergo a radical Tthese numbers. Last year, the gross change. Mr. Trump, like any successful tele- premium income of four of these companies — vision personality with his ear to the New India Assurance, United India Insurance, Ori- ground, understood that better. Politics, he ental Insurance and National Insurance — in- cynically bet, was resentment repackaged as creased by over 12%. But their profits after tax fell show business. He won. by more than half from a year earlier, from ₨3,094 Keerthik Sasidharan lives in New York City. His first book is crore in 2014-15 to just ₨1,499 crore in 2015-16. A to be published by Aleph Book Company in 2017. All views closer scrutiny reveals that high underwriting expressed here are personal and do not reflect any organisation that the writer is affiliated to. losses, which increased 55% in the year, were largely responsible for profits falling at these firms even as revenues rose. National Insurance took the LETTERS TO THE EDITOR sharpest hit, with a 148% rise in underwriting Letters emailed to [email protected] must carry the full postal address and the full name or the name with initials. losses. Public shareholding in these firms will lead to questions about such outliers in performance that haven’t been heard under the Centre’s present Jallikattu protests proportion. It is also ironical that when this tradition will fade away were run over by a train engine at Salman Khan gives rise to this 100% ownership structure, at least in the public do- modern day youth are channelling like pallankuzhi, killi thanda and Gudupalle in Chittoor district question: why has it taken so many main. This, as Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said in The spontaneous uprising in Tamil their energy in a concerted manner aadu puli. shows that this tradition is cruel. In years for the legal system to Nadu, of students and youth to to fight for a cause that aects rural another incident, a few sheep were conclude the trial? his Budget speech last year, would lead to greater D.E. Douglas, protect Tamil traditions and culture tradition. This large-scale tumult Coimbatore hurled o a hill in Karnataka as a There is an acute need to tone up transparency and accountability. It will also allow is laudable and admirable (“TN appears to have political overtones part of local tradition. Everyone the criminal justice machinery so the firms, including General Insurance Corpora- takes jallikattu issue to PM”, Jan.19). as well as it reflects public Those on protest have termed the knows that rooster fights are held that it does not take such a long tion of India, to raise more capital from the markets The distance they have maintained sentiments. Those on protest ban as an act against Tamil culture. illegally despite court orders. What time for trial courts to dispense instead of relying on taxpayer money alone. For in- from political parties is sensible. As should also realise that it is for the If they are hoping for the ban to be is there to celebrate at the cost of justice in such cases. Acquittals, stance, India’s ₨1,500-crore nuclear liability insur- parents and teachers, we are proud Supreme Court to analyse and come lifted, can they assure the Supreme the blood and life of animals? Is it notably in criminal cases where ance pool created by GIC with other insurers per- of them for their focus, unity and out with its stance and the Prime Court that the animal will not be not barbaric? high-profile celebrities are haps needs more muscle to create confidence dedication to achieve an objective. Minister has done well to state that tortured? Can they make the M. Blessing Moses, involved, should not raise any sort among wary nuclear suppliers. However, I wish that they look at the issue is sub-judice. As a State, assurance that there will be no Pragadavaram, West Godavari, Andhra Pradesh of perception in the mind of the That it took 11 months for a Budget announce- other social issues as well. Water Tamil Nadu has more serious spraying of chilli powder into its common man about the conduct and air pollution, linking rivers, the problems such as drought and nose, feeding it alcohol, twisting its and eciency of our investigative ment to secure ‘in-principle’ Cabinet approval is need for better agricultural farmer suicide and it would be more tail and precautions taken to A test for Akhilesh and prosecution agencies much less symptomatic of the lethargy in the disinvestment practices, creating employment meaningful if societal and prevent people from getting injured The Election Commission’s the neutrality of our courts. Justice programme. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had avenues and better education are governmental attention focussed on or killed when the animal charges at decision on awarding the party should not only be done but must asserted early in his term — during his maiden o- issues that have to be looked into these instead. spectators? symbol to the Akhilesh Yadav also be seen to be done. cial visit to the U.S. in 2014 — that government had considering that our leaders have K. Srinivasan, A. Srikantaiah, faction of the Samajwadi Party will Hemant Kumar, no business being in business. Yet, it took two more promised solutions to them which Chennai Bengaluru only aggravate the confusion and Ambala City, Haryana years for the Cabinet to sign o on the first strategic are still elusive. Once young people complications arising out of the sale (with transfer of ownership and control) under make a breakthrough, changes are Many appear to be confusing a bull Seeing the virulence and political situation in Uttar Pradesh An Obama shadow its watch, in the loss-making Bharat Pumps and possible. There will be light at the fight with jallikattu. A bull fight is a confrontational stand being (Editorial – “More than symbolic”, end of the tunnel. Many of us hope blood sport in which a bull is fought adopted against the State Jan.19). Now, there is bound to be a It is good to have Barack Obama Compressors. In December, it approved the sale of for a new dawn. by a human and concludes with government one is certain that this four-cornered contest in U.P — the now emerging as a counterfoil to land with four sick public sector pharma firms with V.N. Subramanian, either “taming” or killing it. “Yer is a way to destabilise the BJP, the BSP the SP-Congress Donald Trump (“The second a plan to close two, and ‘explore the option’ of stra- Chennai thazhuvudhal” is the traditional government. The Centre should not alliance and a Mulayam Singh coming of Barack Obama”, Jan.19). tegic sale for Hindustan Antibiotics and Bengal name for jallikattu which literally cave in to the demands as the next faction. The SP’s alliance with the The emergence of a Trump is no Chemicals. This month, stock exchanges were in- The demand that jallikattu be means “bull embracing”. It is an one could be one that scraps the Congress is a glaring contradiction isolated phenomenon but part of a formed about a proposal to sell a 26% stake in heavy restored is another example of the activity in which bulls run free and NEET test (professional courses’ as the party largely grew on the development that saw Brexit and equipment-maker BEML to a strategic investor. “post-truth” phenomenon wherein volunteers try to hold them for as entrance exam). There is a political anti-Congress platform. However, if other cataclysmic events in Europe. The political economy window for such divest- public opinion is significantly long as possible. There is no cruelty. angle to this and it must be stopped. Akhilesh Yadav fails even to come Great democracies too make ment is not unlimited. Even the Atal Bihari Va- inspired by emotional appeals This is also an activity popular T.M. Ranganathan, o as even second best in the mistakes but take a long time to jpayee regime, which spearheaded the strategic rather than influenced by rational among rural populations with an Srirangam, Tamil Nadu coming election, it will have a correct them. Hence the need for rebuttals and factual agricultural background. It is a fact devastating eect on the party. moderate statesmen such as Mr. sale of public sector firms engaged in businesses representations. It is true that that interest in agriculture is It is deplorable that old traditions Obama may not be felt immediately. ranging from bread to phosphates, raised 84% of Arulur N. Balasubramanian, democracy exists only to the extent waning as youngsters in the such as jallikattu and rooster fights Chennai The second half of a Trump such revenue during its third and fourth years in of- the voice of dissent is heard. hinterland adapt to an urban are still in vogue in certain parts of presidency is likely to make the U.S. fice. Halfway through its term, it is time this gov- However it is disturbing to note that culture. Therefore, there is a need India despite legal implications. Salman’s acquittal look for an Obama. ernment’s disinvestment plans gather steam. the protests, especially in Chennai, to preserve rural traditions. The case recently where two bulls R. Narayanan, have taken such a humongous Eventually there may come a time panicked at a jallikattu event and The acquittal of Bollywood star Ghaziabad

CM ND-ND YK NOIDA/DELHI | THE HINDU FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 2017 PERSPECTIVE 11

WORLD VIEW Safe childhoods for a safe India Reopening old wounds Though belated, the decision to ratify two key ILO conventions on child labour makes clear

Northeast Asia is a geostrategic hotspot. An ascendant China India’s intent of zero tolerance for the exploitation of children is asserting its claims to disputed islands and waters. An un- predictable North Korea is wont to threaten with missiles. And under a new president, the United States is an untested ally. But for Japan and South Korea, the two countries most af- KAILASH SATYARTHI PALLAVI fected by these developments, bilateral relations are currently AIYAR being held hostage by a bronze statue of a barefoot teenage girl. The statue in question was erected opposite the Japanese consulate in the After a long wait of almost two decades, South Korean city of Busan in late December and has led to Tokyo recalling the Government of India finally decided its ambassador from Seoul, as well as suspending high-level economic policy last week to ratify the International La- discussions with its Korean neighbour. bour Organisation (ILO) Convention 182 on the worst forms of child labour and Uncomfortable reminder Convention 138 on Minimum Age of The cause of this friction is a statue, which is a symbol of the tens, possibly Employment. hundreds of thousands of women who were forced to service the Japanese I would like to congratulate Prime military’s World War II brothels. Known as “comfort women”, these former Minister Narendra Modi and the Min- sex slaves were “recruited” from Korea, China and parts of Southeast Asia. istry of Labour and Employment on the Although there are only around 40 surviving comfort women in Korea, they firm decision which will soon catapult are a potent reminder of Japanese wartime atrocities as well as what many India from the status of a ‘developing’ na- consider to be the lack of sincere atonement on the part of Japan. tion to a ‘developed’ one. Most of all, I In December 2015, a year before the Busan statue was erected, Tokyo and would like to congratulate the children Seoul had concluded an agreement, supposedly a “final and irreversible” res- of our country. This decision will have a olution to the comfort women issue. Japan had apologised and agreed to pay path-breaking impact on the lives of ¥1bn (just over $8 million) into a fund to help care for the surviving comfort those who are forced to remain on the women. On its part, South Korea agreed to consider the matter resolved. The margins of society and subject to ex- accord was hailed as historic, opening ploitative conditions. About 4.3 million the possibility of a new era in Japan- children wake up to a day of labour and ese-Korean relations. Japan’s acknowledgements not school. Another 9.8 million are o- Tokyo sees the erection of the Busan of its brutal past are of a cially out-of-school. statue as a violation of the agreement. Child labour perpetuates illiteracy Seoul counters that while the location notably different tenor and poverty. It is the root cause of organ- of the statue is unfortunate, it was put from Germany, ised crimes such as human tracking, up by a civil society group over which for example terror and drug mafia. However, today, I the government has no control. South feel optimistic and am experiencing a Korea’s assertion is partially true. However, ocial permissions are required sense of fulfilment and satisfaction sim- to put up statues. In fact, the local police had removed the statue when it was ilar to what I experienced in 1997. first erected precisely because the requisite permissions were lacking. But public pressure forced local authorities to reinstate the statue within a An African epiphany HARD LABOUR, BLEAK FUTURE: “About 4.3 million children wake up to a day of labour and not school.” Picture shows a child labourer few days of its removal. This “pressure” intensified when Japan’s Defence I was about 50 kilometres away from at Palayamkottai in Tamil Nadu. — PHOTO: A. SHAIKMOHIDEEN Minister Tomomi Inada visited the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, a memorial for Abuja, the capital city of Nigeria. The Japan’s war dead that includes many ocers convicted of war crimes. China place I had travelled to was a high-risk The bottleneck in ratifying the the fastest-ratified convention in the his- bour: child slavery (including the sale and South Korea always perceive visits to the shrine by Japanese leaders as zone, particularly for foreigners and tory of ILO. This clearly shows that sup- and tracking of children, debt bond- inflammatory. Clearly, the 2015 agreement notwithstanding, no genuine those travelling alone. I was both, but I conventions was removed with port for the movement against child la- age, and forced recruitment for armed burying of the historical hatchet had taken place. And symbolic tit-for-tat ir- made the journey because it was import- the passing of the Child bour is gaining momentum worldwide. conflict), child prostitution and their use ritants retain an outsized ability to derail any lasting rapprochement ant to identify individuals and organisa- Labour (Prohibition and in pornography, use of children for illicit between Japan and former victims of its colonial rule. tions to join me for a physical march that Clearing the hurdles activities such as drug tracking, and Given that South Korea’s President, Ms. Park Geun-hye, who had negoti- would put forth a demand for an interna- Regulation) Amendment Bill The main bottleneck in the way of In- exposure to any hazardous work which ated the 2015 deal with Japan, has been impeached on corruption charges, the tional law to ban the worst forms of child dia ratifying Conventions 182 and 138 is likely to harm the health, safety or matter of comfort women will only gain more momentum. Fresh elections labour. versed with. I had found the crux of the was addressing forced or compulsory re- morals of children. are due soon, and the main opposition party has already threatened to ditch By the time I reached the place, it was march. It was the language of compas- cruitment of children and appropriately An ideal law guides the way and the agreement if it comes to power. already dark and the local NGO had sion and humanity that would help ac- raising the age of employment in hazard- doesn’t dictate. Under the provisions of That many in Korea reject the 2015 settlement has to do with perceived dis- closed for the day. Since I was travelling celerate the global movement against ous occupations from 14 to 18 years. Con- the ILO Conventions 182 and 138, India sembling on the part of the Japanese. This is a somewhat subjective assess- with my passport and some money, I had childhood exploitation. sequent to the passing of the Child La- will not adhere to a fixed deadline by ment. Over the decades Japan has made several contrite statements about its to find shelter for the night, especially The march began in January 1998. We bour (Prohibition and Regulation) which the worst forms of child labour role in World War II. In 1992, for example, then Prime Minister, Kiichi with men of dubious character stalking traversed 80,000 kilometres across 103 Amendment Bill, 2016 by the Indian Par- must be eliminated. It will ultimately de- Miyazawa, apologised to the comfort women from the “bottom of his heart.” the area. Not left with a better alternat- countries and became a strong group of liament prohibiting the employment of pend on the level of moral courage, pub- A year later in a speech to the Diet, another Prime Minister, Morihiro ive, I hid in a thick shade of bushes. 7.2 million marchers. The Global March children up to 14 years of age, and chil- lic concern, social empathy, political will Hosokawa, expressed “deep remorse” and apologised for the “great suer- When dawn arrived with the sound of Against Child Labour, as it came to be dren up to 18 years of age in hazardous and the implementation of resources in- ings and sorrow” that Japan’s colonial rule had caused. the azan (the Muslim call for prayer), I called, culminated finally in Geneva on occupations, it was imperative that we vested in the development and protec- found a way to interact with those re- June 1, 1998 where the ILO conference ratified Conventions 182 and 138. tion of children. Charges of insincerity turning from prayer. Through signs and was in session. We put forward our de- Moreover, our failure to ratify the two We cannot alter the circumstances Accusations of Japanese insincerity in South Korea and China are often actions, I brought them closer to the mand for an international convention to conventions, which are two of the eight overnight. To achieve great reforms, one politically motivated, serving as convenient ways for governments to deflect cause I worked for. A young man who ban the worst forms of child labour. The core labour conventions, despite being a must continue to move in a singular dir- attention from contentious domestic matters. Yet, it is true that Japan’s ac- understood a little English helped con- voice of the marchers was heard and re- founder-member of the ILO, reflected ection with sincerity. Our government knowledgements of its brutal past are of a notably dierent tenor from Ger- vey the message. After which, he very flected in the draft of the ILO Conven- poorly on us as a nation. has shown steadfastness and strong re- many, for example. kindly dropped me back to the city. tion 182. My sense of achievement is solve to uphold the rights of our chil- In Berlin, sites such as the former headquarters of the secret police have A few months later, closer to the date In June 1999, delegates of the ILO un- heightened with India finally ready to dren, and so must we. been turned into museums with blunt names like “the topography of terror.” of the march, I received a letter from the animously adopted the convention. It join the fight it started. Our decision to Investment in children is an invest- In contrast, the Yasukuni shrine not only pays homage to war criminals (al- local NGO pledging support. They was the first time that a convention or ratify the convention makes our intent ment in the future. Safe childhoods for a though millions of others are also commemorated), but houses the Yushukan asked, “What did you do? What did you treaty had been adopted with the full clear. We will not tolerate the exploita- safe India. War Memorial museum, where the displays largely omit the suering caused tell them?” support of all members. Over the years, I tion of children any longer. As a matter of by Japan’s actions while playing up the heroism of Japan’s military. Japan’s I learnt that after my interaction all have spearheaded its ratification by urgency, the government will take imme- Nobel Peace Laureate Kailash Satyarthi is the Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has himself in the past implied that he did not be- children of the ghetto were put in school member nations. With 180 countries diate and eective measures to prohibit founder of Global March against Child Labour and lieve comfort women had been coerced into the sex trade. and pulled out of labour by those I con- having already done so, it has become and eliminate the worst forms of child la- Kailash Satyarthi Children’s Foundation. Given their objective geopolitical circumstances, the rational priority for Japan and South Korea should be the development of close defence and intel- ligence cooperation rather than quibbles over statues. But, as is often the case, the emotional politics of humiliation and nationalism are keeping the wounds of history from scabbing over, and preventing the kind of bold and ‘Madhesi parties should be flexible’ new collaborative initiatives that would be in the interest of both countries and the region. Nepal will hold elections at the central, provincial and local levels, says Prakash Sharan Mahat Pallavi Aiyar has reported from China, Europe, Indonesia and Japan. She is a Young Global Leader with the World Economic Forum. KALLOL BHATTACHERJEE parties should understand that to reach consensus on the constitutional amend- Prakash Sharan Mahat, Foreign Minis- ments and other critical issues, there FROM THE ARCHIVES ter of Nepal, was in New Delhi recently will be a need for compromise by all. to hold bilateral talks when he met the Minister of State for External Aairs, But one of the major issues is the V.K. Singh, National Security Adviser demarcation of provinces as defined by (dated January 20, 1967) Ajit Doval, Finance Minister Arun Jait- the present Constitution, which was ley, and ocials of the Reserve Bank of rejected by the Madhesi parties. So how management and trade unionists Newspapers in U.K. India and discussed a wide range of is- do you intend to complete the election as the industry’s great weakness. facing crisis sues. Excerpts from an exclusive inter- with unsettled provincial boundaries? The 150,000-word report — which view to The Hindu. Three of Britain’s eight major caused a Press furore two weeks We will not let these issues stand in national daily newspapers could ago when one newspaper What has been the impact of Indian our way. We have the old provincial die in the next five years, an published extracts while it was demonetisation on Nepal? boundaries and for this round of elec- independent survey warned still supposed to be secret — was tions we will go ahead with the support to-day [January 19, London]. requested by the joint board of the We recognise the primary intention of of Parliament. Most important of all, our Predicting serious diculties for national newspaper industry, the Prime Minister of India in introdu- election commission is ready for the the newspaper industry in the which groups management and cing demonetisation. But Nepal’s con- task. We have already enumerated the next few years, the report unions. cern is that we need new Indian cur- best solution in the proposals that were departed from the almost The independent Economist rency for daily transaction with India, tabled in Parliament and I hope the Mad- traditional practice of blaming intelligence unit, which has for export-import and for exchange with Prakash Sharan Mahat — PHOTO: PTI hesi parties accept them as they should most of the trouble on trade union prepared the report, makes no the major economies of the world. not adopt the position that they have to restrictive practices. It said these recommendations for improving Second, we are facing a serious situ- satisfaction. The Constitution that we win at every step. were not as bad as generally the situation. But it has oered to Nepal’s concern is that ation as both the public as well as the achieved in 2015 was an inclusive one. believed, and mentioned instead make them, and the joint board Nepali state had old Indian currency Yet some people had objection to it. But we need new Indian You are asking the Madhesis to scale lack of training among has accepted this oer. which will be wasted unless exchanged we are confident that the national will currency for daily down their demands? for new Indian currency. The RBI that we displayed in dealing with the transaction with India, for wanted to know the exact estimate of earthquake and then political instability All that I am saying is that our position how much of old currency Nepali cit- will help us achieve this important task export-import and exchange is in the interest of the Madhesis and the CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS izens hold. We do not have such an es- which will complete the process of with the major economies other communities of Nepal. But if one timate. But I think we can begin after RBI democratisation in Nepal. Madhesi party exaggerates issues and >>The report “Trump has declined Dalai Lama’s request for a meeting” (Jan. makes a provision for exchange of old In- tries to play with raw emotions, we will 18, 2017), by the Beijing correspondent, said that Michael Pillsbury, a top ad- dian currency notes in Nepal. We have But is the political situation in your What is the major point in those not allow that because we are Nepalis viser of Donald Trump’s transition team said the U.S. president-elect had de- assured RBI and Finance Minister Arun favour for carrying out the amendments Constitution-related proposals? first and we have to build consensus in clined the Dalai Lama’s request for a meeting, signalling the new administra- Jaitley that we will not allow anyone that require a two-third parliamentary our society which has passed through tion’s openness to a policy review on Tibet. There is a fundamental error in the with Indian black money to come to majority? We have promised proportional rep- challenging times. report, which was based on a Chinese language website, mingpao.com The re- Nepal and deposit it through our banks. resentation for the Madhesis in the up- port claimed that the Chinese language website quoted from an interview of After our consultations since the per house of Parliament. That apart, we Why this hurry to hold the election at all Mr. Pillsbury to the China Central Television (CCTV). The website did not What has been the Indian position on tabling of the amendments in Parliament have proposed to separate the hilly areas three levels? cite the CCTV interview. It was the erroneous translation of the content of the Nepal running short of Indian currency we have finally begun to receive some from the fifth province which will have website that led to the correspondent’s misrepresentation. Mr. Pillsbury, in his for state expenses? positive signals. Madhesis and the op- only the Madhesi region in it. But as I Why not? Because our election ma- letter to the Editor, has rejected the story altogether, saying he has never told position are more flexible now. We be- said, the main issue is the mindset, which chinery is ready. The only thing is that CCTV that Mr.Trump declined a meeting with the Dalai Lama. He also denies Mr. Arun Jaitley was very sympathetic lieve that no one should stick to their po- should be flexible and open to negoti- we need to have a political consensus, being an adviser to either Mr. Trump or his transition team. He maintains he to our issues. He assured us that his min- sition for long demanding that ation. For example, I did not agree with which has already begun to form. We provides informal advice by answering questions from Trump’s sta. The re- istry will look into the matter. everything should be done their way all many of the provisions of the Constitu- have given a timeline for ourselves. We port has been removed from the website. the time. The Madhes-centric parties tion when it was promulgated. will hold local-level elections in April- Nepal tabled the amendments to the should realise this change. This kind of May and follow it up with provincial >>“A year after floods, landowners of Madurantakam owners left high and Constitution but now seems to be going inflexible policy is not acceptable to us. So you are asking the Madhesis to election by September-October and by dry” — read the headline of a report (some editions, Jan. 19, 2017) about fields slow on them. We are all Nepalis and we should reach a change their core demands on the end of the year or latest by January- in villages near Madurantakam in Tamil Nadu being covered with layers of consensus fast for the sake of our coun- amendments such as proportional February 2018, we will hold the central- sand. The word — owners — was a repetition in the headline. We are trying to reach a consensus try. We are confident that we will be able representation and the redrawing of level elections. We have been working There was an error in the second deck also where it said December 2016 in- with the opposition parties on the to do it. But we are going beyond and will provincial boundaries? on a few formulae for the election. For stead of December 2015. amendments that were tabled in Parlia- hold elections at all the three levels in elections, everyone is ready. However, ment. We are trying to reach every sec- Nepal — central, provincial and local Yes. Every party should be flexible. such a consensus is not there for the The Readers’ Editor’s oce can be contacted by tion of society so that the constitutional levels. This is an ambitious task that we The major parties in the centre (Kath- amendments. So we will go for elections Tel: +91-44-28418297/28576300; E-mail: [email protected] issues are resolved to every segment’s have taken. mandu) as well as the Madhes-centric first.

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FROM PAGE ONE Banks get green light to As protests snowball, RLD opts out of SP front recover Kingfisher dues Prospect of a grand alliance fades as TN to shut down Ajit Singh-led party seeks more seats KRISHNAPRASAD BENGALURU: Allowing a con- There were hundreds of jallikattu but what is per- OMAR RASHID member said. He claimed the sortium of 15 banks led by women and some said they ceived as a consistent at- SP was strong enough to the State Bank of India (SBI) would not let their Tamil tempt by New Delhi to ig- LUCKNOW: The prospect of a form the government on its to initiate proceedings for identity be taken for gran- nore and reject the voice of grand anti-BJP alliance in Ut- own. recovering dues from King- ted. A young IT employee, Tamils on crucial issues. tar Pradesh has fallen apart Though the top two of the fisher Airlines Ltd (KAL), Nivedhitha, said she Krishnaveni, a retired as the Samajwadi Party and RLD, president Ajit Singh the Bengaluru Bench of the wanted to assert her Tamil government engineer, the Congress have failed to and son Jayant Chaudhary, Debt Recovery Tribunal identity at a time when it came alone to the Marina bring on board the Ajit did not make any public an- (DRT) on Thursday said was being directly Beach to show her opposi- Singh-led Rashtriya Lok Dal, nouncement or statement, dues of ₨6,203.35 crore Vijay Mallya threatened. “For long, I tion to the Central govern- a key partner in the critical sources said they had made it should be paid “jointly and have felt that sentiments of ment’s inaction but was western region of the State. clear to the partymen that severally” by KAL and its ated/mortgaged/movable/ the Tamils have been ig- soon joined by women RLD sources said the party there would be no alliance. guarantors United Brewer- immovable properties. nored – be it on the Sri UPSC aspirants. She said it was ready to release its first According to RLD sources, ies (Holdings) Ltd and liquor Also the SBI-led consor- Lankan Tamil issue or would be wrong to reduce list of 40 candidates for the the party initially pitched for baron Vijay Mallya, and tium is permitted to proceed Cauvery river issue. Now, this into just a demand for 73 seats in west U.P. that go to around 45 seats but as talks Kingfisher Finvest (India) against the persons and when they want to meddle jallikattu. the polls in the first phase. began, it scaled the demand Ltd. other properties of KAL and with our culture, I couldn’t “The youngsters have be- Only five days remain for the down to 35 and by the end Also, they will have to pay its guarantors as per law if just sit at home,” she said. gun to raise questions. This nomination. was willing to settle for 30. an interest at the rate of 11.5 the banks fail to fully realise Most of the youngsters must continue. We must After a series of meetings The SP-Congress, however, % per annum on the dues the dues, despite sale of the wanted to make one thing raise issues like farmer sui- by Team Akhilesh, Mr. were not willing to give more with yearly rests from the properties. clear: this was an opposi- cides and denial of Cauvery Nanda said no talks were be- than 20-25 seats. “It was not date of the application till The banks have been dir- tion not just to the ban on rights,” she said. ing held with the RLD. only about the number of the date of completion of ected to submit a memo of seats. We were not getting realisation. calculation comprising due SP-Congress alliance the seats we wanted,” an DRT’s presiding ocer K. amount with interest, costs “We have held talks only RLD leader said. Srinivasan delivered the ver- etc., after deducting any with the Congress. The alli- The seats the RLD wanted The SP is now set to contest 300 seats of the total 403. dict while allowing the amount realised through Centre will back ance will only be with the were part of the 12 where it — FILE PHOTO: RAJEEV BHATT banks’ application filed in sale of assets. Congress. UP 2017 Vidhan had stood second in the last 2013 seeking issuance of re- Meanwhile, the DRT said TN, says Modi Sabha elections are import- election and have substantial that the SP and Congress sistence on more seats. covery certificate from the that the Service Taxes De- ant and the whole nation is population of the dominant may be wary of the RLD’s po- Budhana (Muzaarnagar), tribunal. In the event of fail- partment shall have the rank Emerging from the meet- like to say that you will watching us. Our target is not Jats, its core constituency. tential to mobilise Muslim Siwalkhas (Meerut), ure of KAL and its guarant- as 2nd charge over the ing, Mr. Panneerselvam, soon see the State govern- just 2017 but also 2019. That’s The RLD has nine MLAs at and Jat support. “This is not Meerapur (Meerapur), ors to pay the due amount schedule properties and who stayed put in New ment’s action on this issue,” why we entered into an alli- present. The contentious the time for egos and over- Thana Bhawan (Shamli) and with interest, the DRT said, other receivable after satis- Delhi to hold consultations Mr. Panneerselvam said. ance with the Congress, and seats, sources said, include assessment of one’s strength Sadabad (Hathras) were the applicant banks are at faction of all claims of ap- with legal luminaries, told As for the Tamil Nadu made Akhilesh Yadav the many in the riot-aected and support,” a Congress among the seats the RLD liberty to sell the hypothec- plicant bank. journalists that the State government’s request for CM again,” the Rajya Sabha areas, triggering speculation leader said of the RLD’s in- wanted. government along with the the promulgation of an or- Centre would take steps for dinance to enable the con- conducting the bull-taming duct of jallikattu, Mr. Pan- sport. “Please be patient. neerselvam said, “He Tweet us your EC seeks more Nallavai nadakkum, ur- [Prime Minister] said since Resentment in BJP over tickets distribution uthiyaaga! [Good things the Supreme Court’s judg- problems, MEA STAFF REPORTER nored and may contest as in- Pacchalika Singh, who is the central leadership ignored all details on budget will happen, for sure].” ment on the Centre’s noti- dependents if the party did wife of Aridaman Singh, an of us and instead chose to “I would like to say that fication was being awaited, tells Gulf workers MEERUT: Four days after the not take into account the influential leader and former field an outsider, which is not presentation we, along with the Centre, the Centre would be sup- BJP released its list of candid- “hard work that local work- SP MLA. fair,” a local BJP leader, who would take necessary steps portive of the action that SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT ates for the first and second ers had put in.” “The local BJP worker was also an aspirant for the SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT immediately for conduct- would be taken by the State phase of Uttar Pradesh As- The BJP is relying heavily would never forget the party ticket from Meerapur, ing jallikattu. I would also government on the issue.” NEW DELHI: Indian workers sembly elections, protests by on “outsiders” and has wounds given by Aridaman told The Hindu. NEW DELHI: The Election Com- abroad can now get the gov- party workers against tickets fielded a large number of Singh,” Mr. Babulal said. Similarly, BJP workers mission has asked the Cab- ernment to punish erring re- being given to “turncoats” them, including one who from Dadri, Jewar and Noida inet Secretariat to furnish cruitment agents with emails grew louder. joined the party as recently Protests in Muzaarnagar staged a demonstration details on the procedure fol- Woman stabbed and social media messages. In the list of 149 candidates, as 24 hours before the list was Similarly, BJP workers in against Union culture minis- lowed by the then UPA-II Speaking about the ongo- over two dozen of them were announced. Muzaarnagar continued ter and local MP Mahesh government for postponing ing e-migrate project aimed “outsiders” who had left the The party fielded Pachha- their protests against the Sharma after the party the Union Budget presenta- dozen times by lover at protecting the rights of In- SP, BSP, Congress and RLD to lika Singh, who left Sama- central leadership for field- fielded Dhirender Singh, tion in 2012, following the dian workers in the Gulf, a join the BJP. Disgruntled jwadi Party last Saturday, ing former Congress MP who quit the Congress and Centre’s response defending The little girl heard her The police said only senior ocial of the Ministry party workers protested from Bah constituency in Avtar Singh Bhadana as the joined the BJP this month, its decision to make the aunt’s cries and started two persons were of External Aairs said the against the central leadership Agra district, upsetting many BJP candidate from from Jewar constituency. Ta- Budget announcements on shouting for help, alerting emigration process would be and the “outsiders” in senior leaders who went Meerapur seat in Muzaf- jpal Nagar, who was with the February 1. the neighbours. But by the involved in the made further stringent to Meerapur (Muzaarnagar), public with their protest farnagar district. Hundreds Congress and BSP before he The Commission had time they reached the vic- incident and they protect workers from abuse Meerut, Bah (Agra), Dadri, against the decision to field of party workers burnt an ef- joined the BJP in 2014, will be earlier referred to the gov- tim’s house the accused had come on foot and financial hardships. Bareilly, Badaun, Noida, her. BJP Member of Parlia- figy of Mr. Badhana on Wed- the BJP candidate from Dadri ernment representations of had fled. “Through the e-migrate Baghpat, Moradabad and in ment from Fatehpur, Sikri nesday. “There were many seat. “The party is changing,” the Opposition parties de- The three-year-old told system we take instant ac- many other parts of western Babulal, told the media that serious contenders for this said a protesting leader from manding that the Budget her family the duo hit her claimed the accused came tion against recruiting UP. They said they felt ig- he would not campaign for seat from among us. The Dadri. presentation be postponed head on the wall and imme- on a motor cycle with a agents whenever they break in view of the Assembly elec- diately started attacking third person, the police rules. We often find videos tions in five States. They al- her aunt. said only two persons were on social media showing leged that Budget announce- She was familiar with involved in the incident hardships. Some of these Majestic backdrop ments might help the ruling Amit, who had visited the and they had come on foot. videos are very sad. Once we party influence voters. house a few times earlier. have the passport number of She said she saw Basant Arrested the person, we can find out ‘Annual exercise’ gagging her aunt with a The police arrested the the agent, and the employer In its response, the Central stole as they stabbed her in duo later from the area. of the person,” said M.C. government is learnt to have the abdomen, head and “He bought the knife Luther, Protector General of defended its decision stating waist. from Uttam Nagar for Rs Emigrants, adding, “if the re- that the Union Budget is an They pinned the victim 130. He also roped in his cruitment agents misbehave, annual constitutional exer- to the wall and then on the cousin for the attack. They you have to send us just an cise and it covers the entire ground as they attacked her have confessed to the email or a tweet.” country. several times. crime,” said Deputy Com- The e-migrate system was It also stuck to its decision While the victim’s sister missioner of Police (Outer) introduced in 2014 to deal to advance the Budget and a few neighbours Rishi Pal. with labour rights violations. presentation arguing that it was done to ensure that the budgetary allocations were made well in time, allowing ‘TN can enact law to treat various sectors to expedite implementation of govern- ment projects. This year, the Budget ses- jallikattu as traditional sport’ sion is to start from January 31 and the next day, the NEW DELHI: Attorney-General to the sport. It should not just ment, the concerns about Union Budget and the Eco- Mukul Rohatgi said on be for the sport without cruelty, are also kept in view BSF soldiers on camels participating in rehearsal for the Beating Retreat ceremony in New Delhi on Thursday. - PHOTO: PTI nomic Survey are scheduled Thursday that the State gov- bothering about the plight of and a balanced position can to be presented. ernment has the power to en- the animals. I mean, you have be found by the State. That I act a law to treat jallikattu as bull fights in Spain. Those think is the correct legal pos- a traditional sport. are cases where bulls are ition,” he said. Mr. Rohatgi defended in killed,” he said, talking to Regarding the Prevention the Supreme Court the Times Now. of Cruelty to Animals Act, Lakhvi’s ‘nephew’ gunned down in Bandipora Centre’s stand allowing the Mr. Rohatgi said people in the Attorney-General said it use of bulls in events like Tamil Nadu rever the bull is a central law which can be PEERZADA ASHIQ cies until now have not inter- One militant is believed to killed two Army personnel in mir. Last month, security jallikattu. “The Constitution and it cannot be said that amended by Parliament but cepted any communication have escaped. A policeman Hajin and played “an active agencies alerted National Se- demarcates the role of the they treat them with cruelty. if it is a sport in a local area, SRINAGAR: Lashkar-e-Taiba to confirm it,” Director Gen- from the Special Operation role” in organising the fiday- curity Adviser Ajit Doval Centre and the States... As far “So the law can allow the “let the State make the law (LeT) militant Abu Musaib, eral of Police S.P. Vaid said. Group was also injured and een (suicide) attack at Srin- about growing militancy in as sports are concerned, they sport subject to stringent relating to the sport minus who is reportedly the In his thirties, Musaib, is now undergoing treatment agar’s Nowhatta area on Au- Ganderbal, Sumbal and Kan- are in the exclusive jurisdic- conditions that there will not any cruelty, with stringent nephew of 26/11 Mumbai at- who had been the LeT’s divi- at the Army hospital here. gust 15, 2016. gan, and called for increased tion of the State,” he said. be anybody at a distance of punishment” for those who tack mastermind Zakiur sional commander in Bandi- Sources said Musaib was area domination by the se- 100 feet, nobody can throw commit cruelty. Rehman Lakhvi, was killed in pora district since 2015, was in the security agencies’ Influential leader curity forces. ‘Ensure no cruelty’ stones or do any acts of He said there is no legal or an encounter in north Kash- killed in an encounter with radar ever since he snatched The LeT commander, According to the Pakistani “Now, the State could con- cruelty and if the same are constitutional bar for the mir on Thursday. “Our the police and the Army’s 13 the weapon of a soldier from sources said, had succeeded media, Lakhvi’s two sons, sider making a law to treat it found to be done, then there State to act as soon as it sources suggest slain Musaib Rashtriya Rifles unit at Para 14 Rashtriya Rifles in Bandi- in galvanising support for Abu Qatal and Abu Qasim, as a traditional sport, but the can be punishment, so that wants to and it can call a spe- is the nephew of Lakhvi. Mohallah in the district’s pora in October 2015. militancy in the Sumbal-So- were killed in Bandipora in State must ensure ... that the concerns of the Supreme cial session or issue an ordin- However, the security agen- Hajin area. Last year, he reportedly namarg axis in north Kash- 2003 and 2005 respectively. there is no cruelty attached Court rendered in the judg- ance. - PTI NIA may summon Zakir Naik Lashkar, not Jaish, NEW DELHI: Controversial Is- tion, they said. Jammu & Kashmir Assembly lamic preacher Zakir Naik is “We have sought certain behind Uri attack: NIA likely to be summoned by the documents including in- calls for ‘safe return’ of Pandits National Investigation come tax returns and others. VIJAITA SINGH the three GPS sets that were Agency (NIA), which is Besides this, 78 accounts in used by the terrorists point PEERZADA ASHIQ Minister and National “Kashmiris need Pandits scanning his 78 bank ac- dierent banks of the coun- NEW DELHI: The National In- to Lashkar involvement. We Conference working more than Pandits need counts and real estate invest- try, are also being scanned. vestigation Agency (NIA) have a fair idea of the route SRINAGAR: The Jammu and president Omar Abdullah. Kashmiris. The absence of ments worth at least Rs. 100 Once examination is done, said on Thursday that it was they took to enter the camp. Kashmir Assembly on “It has been 27 years since Pandits has created an crore in and around Mumbai we intend to summon Zakir the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), The data points towards Thursday unanimously people left the Valley. We ethnic imbalance. Pandits’ made by him and his Naik for questioning,” a not Jaish-e-Mohammad known launching pads of the passed a resolution calling should all come together return is necessary to associates. source said. (JeM), that carried out the LeT in Pakistan,” an NIA o- for the return of migrants, so that Kashmiri Pandits, complete our civilisation The probe agency re- Naik’s non-governmental terror attack at an Army cial said on Thursday. including Kashmiri Sikhs and even Muslims, and create an ethnic gistered a case against Naik Naik’s 78 bank accounts organisation, Islamic Re- camp in Uri last year. The ocial said posters of Pandits, to the Valley. who left Kashmir due to equilibrium. The and others in November last are now under scrutiny. search Foundation (IRF), has Within hours of the attack one of the killed Uri attack- Reading out the the turmoil, can be migration remains a year under the anti-terror been banned by the Central that killed 18 soldiers on ers, identified as Abu Anas, resolution, Speaker of the resettled and made to horrific part of our law for allegedly promoting ates, linked to the preacher, government under the Un- September 18 last year, Dir- had come up in Pakistan’s Assembly Kavinder Gupta come back to their history,” Mr. Akhtar said. enmity between dierent NIA sources said on lawful Activities (Preven- ector General of Military Gujranwala in October call- said: “A conducive homes,” he said. Hundreds of Pandit groups on grounds of reli- Thursday. tion) Act. Operations Lt. General Ran- ing upon people to particip- atmosphere should be In his support to the families fled the Valley by gion and doing acts prejudi- The NIA had questioned The speeches of Naik, who bir Singh, told a press confer- ate in his funeral in absentia. created for the migrants’ resolution, ruling Peoples January 1990, immediately cial to maintenance of har- around 20 associates of Naik, is currently out of the coun- ence in Delhi that the attack Masood Azhar, chief of safe return.” Democratic Party (PDP) after an armed uprising mony. including his sister Nailah try apparently to evade ar- was carried out by two ter- JeM, has been accused by the The resolution was leader and minister broke out in Kashmir in It found 23 entities, includ- Naushad Noorani, in con- rest, are banned in the U.K., rorists belonging to the JeM. Indian agencies of orches- moved by former Chief Naeem Akhtar said, 1989. ing individuals and corpor- nection with its investiga- Canada and Malaysia. — PTI “The data recovered from trating several attacks here.

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POLLDIARY The maths gets complex in western U.P. The jet-setting campaigners CHANDIGARH: Around 180 Punjabis living in Canada reached the State on Thursday to boost the Aam As local operatives reveal, cold calculations surrounding the Jat vote had made the RLD unwelcome to the SP and the Congress Aadmi Party’s campaign for the Assembly SMITA GUPTA either,” he says firmly. hopes the Muslims will elections. Surinder Mavi, So though there is a con- cluster. convener of the ‘Chalo MUZAFFARNAGAR: Shakoor sensus — as one travels But there is a contrary Punjab’ campaign in Ahmed, a blacksmith, sits on through western U.P. — that view not just from the RLD Toronto, led the batch of his haunches, covered in a the Hindu-Muslim polarisa- but also from the Janata Dal NRIs. He said they would ensure the defeat of the thick blanket and hard at tion that helped the BJP (U) that has been promoting SAD-BJP alliance and the Congress. The Congress, work, with one of his grand- sweep the State in 2014 has an extended anti-BJP alli- he said, was not an alternative but a substitute for children hovering in the faded, the embers of the 2013 ance, though it has little at the corrupt regime of the Badal family. “The AAP is background. Today, his is communal conflagration stake in UP. Senior JD(U) the only and last hope for the people of Punjab,” he one of the just two Muslim glow in some functionary K.C. said. “We understand that the people want a families left in Fugana. Other places. Tyagi, who is from responsive and corruption-free government. We members of the community The tension this area, says, “Jats have seen in Canada how a good government can — once 4,000 strong here — between the two don’t vote in isola- change the lives of the people. At present, there is fled this village in Budhana communities, Jats tion. They want to no democracy in Punjab. — Special Correspondent tehsil, one of the areas worst and Muslims, that be on the winning aected by the communal vi- were at the heart of side. If the RLD is that bloody conflict not part of the alli- Upping the star quotient has not quite gone ance, Jats may be INFOCUS CHANDIGARH: The Congress has drawn up a list of 40 away, making it hard more inclined to star campaigners, including party for each to vote for vote for the BJP.” president Sonia Gandhi, olence that devastated Muz- the candidates of the other, Giving some perspective vice-president Rahul aarnagar district in 2013. as they once did. to the whole issue is a long- Gandhi and former PM A Jat family saved A HARD LIFE: Shakur Ahmed at work. His is one of the two Muslim families left in Phugana village This has made the SP and time political watcher and Manmohan Singh, to join the Shakoor’s family during the of Budhana district in Uttar Pradesh after the riots in 2013. — PHOTO: R.V. MOORTHY the Congress wary of allow- three-time Congress MLA Punjab leadership for riots. So he stayed on. Why ing the RLD, a largely Jat from Muzaarnagar, canvassing. Ex-cricketer did the others leave? “Terror, and then of new single-com- his Jat saviours are vocal away,” Bijendra Singh says. party, to become part of a Bi- Somansh Prakash. The Jat- Azharuddin and actor Sonu fear,” he says, one wary eye munity settlements. about their continuing sup- “But now, notebandi [de- har-style grand alliance, Muslim tension, he says, may Sood too would be on the group of Jats who Shakoor, I discover later, was port for the BJP, pointing to monetisation] has hit us very though the RLD will field be a factor in Muzaarnagar campaigning for the party in loom over him as he talks. allowed to stay on in Fugana its muscular approach to na- hard. Not just that, the BJP Muslim candidates too. and Shamli districts, “but the Assembly polls, slated for And then in a burst, he says, as he performs an important tional security. But barely government has done noth- there are over 80 constituen- February 4, a statement from the Lack of trust “It’s not easy, you know, to function — repairing farm- two kilometres away, an- ing for farmers — it hasn’t in- cies across 19 districts in Punjab Congress president’s uproot yourself from the ing implements. If he was not other group of Jat farmers, creased sugar cane prices, Pramod Tyagi, SP candid- which the Jat vote is influen- media cell said on Thursday. land of your ancestors and there, his Jat neighbours who say they voted for the diesel has become more ex- ate for Budhana, articulates tial: the impact of the 2013 Punjab Congress president Capt. begin a new life in strange would have had to trudge to BJP in 2014, are now vocifer- pensive, our loans are not be- this view. He says the con- communal violence does not Amarinder Singh is already leading surroundings.” the nearest town for their ous in their support for the ing waived. Farmers are in tinuing lack of trust between exist there at all today. A SP- the election campaign. — Special But that is precisely what work. He is there on Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD). distress. We will vote for Jats and Muslims has en- Congress-RLD alliance Correspondent most of the roughly 45,000 suerance. “Last time, there was a [RLD leader] Ajit Singh this sured that the RLD will not would have definitely cre- Muslims had to do after flee- If Shakoor, after some pro-BJP wave, thanks to the time.” be able to transfer its votes to ated a bigger impact and ing their villages for the prodding, declares his allegi- Hindu-Muslim divide that What about the SP? “The the SP-Congress alliance even brought in a larger Captain’s knock on drug racket safety first of relief camps ance to the Samajwadi Party, was created. We all got swept SP has done nothing for us around which his party number of Jats.” CHANDIGARH: Punjab Congress president Capt. Amarinder Singh said on Thursday that he would order an investigation into SIT’s clean chit in the drug racket case allegedly involving Akali Minister Ballot ballet Bikram Singh Majithia and put those guilty behind Kejriwal trains his bars once he was elected to power. “Given the fact that Punjab had been ruined under guns on Sukhbir Badal the Badal rule, I need a two-thirds majority to make a difference and SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT bring Punjab back on the path to Says SAD government progress,” he said in Amritsar. Capt. CHANDIGARH: Aam Aadmi Party has ignored the youth Amarinder said Navjot Singh Sidhu had national convener and Delhi of Punjab and taken joined the Congress without any Chief Minister Arvind Kejri- preconditions and would be the star wal on Thursday asked no steps to generate campaigner. He described himself as people to defeat Deputy employment the “ex-cricketer’s wicket keeper”. Chief Minister Sukhbir — Special Correspondent Badal from Jalalabad, his foiled and Punjabis will ILLUSTRATIONS: SATHEESH VELLINEZHI home turf, and make him choose the AAP over these lose his deposit. corrupt parties,” he added. On a visit to the constitu- Mr. Kejriwal criticised the VIP bandwagon to arrive in Goa ency, Mr. Kejriwal said the Badal government for ignor- people of Jalalabad would be ing the youth of Punjab and PANAJI: Prominent leaders of different political remembered for ‘rising taking no steps to generate parties will arrive in Goa from Sunday to participate against corruption and mis- employment in the State. He in the election campaign. Prime Minister Narendra rule’ by defeating Mr. said the AAP government Modi will address a public rally on the outskirts of Sukhbir. would provide jobs to 25 lakh the city on January 28. BJP national president Amit “Capt. Amarinder and Mr. youths in the State. Shah is scheduled to visit the State twice for the Badal have been contesting campaign. This Sunday, Union Minister for elections collectively for Post-poll promises Information and Broadcasting M. Venkaiah Naidu long but with the emergence “Agro-based industries will arrive in Goa to be followed by Maharashtra of the AAP in Punjab, they will be set up in the rural Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis for the party’s have been exposed,” he said, areas and there will be 80% campaign, said Goa BJP president Vinay Tendulkar. adding that the AAP has quota of Punjab residents in The Congress is heavily banking on vice-president fielded one of its strongest these jobs,” he said. Rahul Gandhi. He will address a party rally in North candidates, Bhagwant Mann, “I promise to waive the Goa. Former Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia will arrive in Goa on Monday to release the Congress’s against Mr. Sukhbir. debt of farmers and make VOTEVANGELISTS: Students spread awareness of the need to vote, in Jalandhar on Thursday.— PHOTO: PTI “Their plan to divide anti- farming more remunerat- manifesto. — Special Correspondent incumbency votes will be ive,” he said. POLLSTAT Battle of the barracks ‘There is no drug problem in Punjab’ Harsimrat Kaur says SAD government has done well and won’t face ‘anti-incumbency’ boils over in Patiala VIKAS VASUDEVA Union Food Processing acknowledge it too. survey of drugs ever and the AAP, and the media Minister Harsimrat Kaur undertaken in the world, has just lapped it up. PATIALA: In Punjab’s Patiala, Badal is a Shiromani Actually, other parties have FDA-approved drug testing two ex-Army men are locked Akali Dal leader and wife been blaming the SAD for kits were imported, Baba The Opposition has been in an electoral battle, and of Punjab Deputy Chief letting in drug and other Farid University undertook taking the fight right into with the campaign gaining Minister Sukhbir Singh mafias into the State. the testing and guess what the SAD strongholds of momentum for the February Badal. Nistula Hebbar the average figure of Lambi and Jalalababad with 4 elections, their war of catches up with her in her The claims about the addiction was —1.26%, Captain Amarinder Singh words is only getting bitter. Lok Sabha constituency, proliferation of drugs is which is even less than the contesting from Lambi Talking to The Hindu, Bhatinda, and asks her a pure slander by both the national average. against Chief Minister General (retd) J.J. Singh J.J. Singh few questions on the Congress and the AAP. Parkash Singh Badal and termed Capt. Amarinder Assembly polls in Punjab. This was all started o by There have been allegations Bhagwant Mann Singh a “fake soldier and fake “Having spent my early Rahul Gandhi, who against your brother Bikram challenging his son and politician”, who, he says, had childhood in Patiala where Analysts say the only claimed that 70% of Singh Majithia. your husband, Sukhbir sensed his defeat and was my maternal and paternal certainty about the Punjab Punjab’s youth is addicted Singh Badal. therefore running away to grandparents settled as elections is the heavy to drugs. This is such an If we were involved in the Lambi constituency to refugees from Pakistan, I anti-incumbency factor absurd claim ... If you go drugs ourselves, would our I wish Arvind Kejriwal find an “escape route”. “Capt. have returned to pay back against the Akali Dal. into a State and say that government go ahead and would decide to fight Amarinder was a fake solider whatever I can to the people 70% of the young people catch a drug lord called against Bikram. Why isn’t and sought soft posts in the of Patiala, be it politically or Punjab has always had a are addicted to drugs. I Bhola? he? If Amarinder Singh is Army and never fought a socially,” he said. revolving-door mean you live in India, can The Punjab police went serious about fighting the battle.. He is a fake politician Dismissing the criticism government, a pattern we any State have this and caught him in another Chief Minister, let him give as well, and hence running that he was a “parachute’’ broke in 2012. As far as this situation? He was basically State. We demolished his up Patiala and fight from from Patiala now, but I’ll ex- candidate who lacked the word “anti-incumbency” is given a slip of the results of entire set-up, we got his Lambi alone. pose him,” said Gen. Singh, support of party cadre, Gen. concerned, it’s popular in a research project colleagues, then this fellow who is fighting as the Shiro- Singh said he had the “com- the media to use against undertaken by Guru Nanak was interrogated by five AAP is an unknown entity in mani Akali Dal candidate plete support of not just local the government of the day. Dev University where a Central agencies when these polls. What are your against former Chief Minis- Akalis, but the BJP as well”. TONGUE IN CHEEK But our record in making Professor had done a there was a Congress views on the challenge ter and Punjab Congress “Our party workers are Surendra transformational changes survey in the rehab centre, government at the Centre, posed by the party? president Capt. Amarinder united and the people of Pa- is there in the fields of which said that of the he went to the courts a Singh from Patiala (Urban), a tiala have this time made up power and roads, and other addicts in that centre, 70% dozen times and didn’t As far as Punjab is Congress stronghold. their mind to defeat Capt. parties have had to were youth. open his mouth till concerned, our big worry is Amarinder, who is hardly Now Mr. Gandhi, someone told him that now water. Arvind Kejriwal has ‘It’s a Cong. ploy’ seen in this constituency..I’ll without going into details, the noose is tightening filed in the court that the “He [Capt. Amarinder] teach him a lesson..He has just announced it and the around you, so you Sutlej-Yamuna Link (SYL) knows that he is going to lose taken the people of Patiala media picked it up in a big implicate someone in the canal should be built and the upcoming election and for a ride all these years,” way because it made for family, you will be safe as that Punjab’s water should therefore he is looking for an said Gen. Singh. great headlines. the case could then linger. come into Haryana and “escape route’’ by contesting When there was a recent On the way out of court Delhi as well. He does not from Lambi. He will lose War of words recruitment drive for the one day he tells the media, announce a chief here [Patiala] and there Both former soldiers have appointment to 7,000 posts “I was doing it for Bikram.” ministerial candidate [Lambi],” Gen. Singh said. been engaged in a war of in the police force and Now someone who has unlike in Goa where he has. “In fact it’s a ploy of the Con- words since the poll cam- around four lakh never met Bikram in his My hunch is that just the gress high command to get paign picked up momentum. youth applied, we life, never spoken to him, way he made Manish rid of Capt. Amarinder.” Capt. Amarinder, after filing decided to get this who has never had any Sisodia his deputy in Delhi, Gen. Singh, who was the his nomination, had hit out at settled. We transaction with him, his he has plans to make Sanjay first Sikh ocer to become Gen. Singh, saying: “I refuse undertook the word has been bandied Singh his deputy here as a the Army chief, said he had to call him a General, as it largest sample about as gospel. rubber stamp, and himself returned to Patiala to serve was a fluke caused by his This was hyped by go o campaigning for the people of Patiala and seniority and not the result Harsimrat [Congress State chief] [the] 2019 [Lok Sabha Punjab, after serving in the of merit.. He was a year ju- We expected a fair deal. But you’re putting a huge Kaur Badal Captain Amarinder Singh polls]. Army and also as the Gov- nior to me and I know, he was burden on us by offering so many seats. ernor of Arunachal Pradesh. an average general.” CM ND-ND YK NOIDA/DELHI 14 | WORLD THE HINDU FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 2017

U.S. strikes in All eyes on Washington as Trump set to take oath Libya kill 80 IS fighters More than a million people are expected to arrive in the city, an estimated one-fourth of them to protest against the incoming President WASHINGTON/BEIRUT: More than VARGHESE K. GEORGE special training to put up sassination of John F. ent-elect. On Friday, the 80 Islamic State (IS) jihadists with the noise and disturb- Kennedy — there wasn’t a weather is predicted to be were killed in U.S. strikes on WASHINGTON: Cold, cloudy and ances that they are not used Bible available. A Catholic cloudy and chilly, but not ex- training camps in Libya, in- barricaded, the U.S. capital is to. Several roads and parks in prayer book found in treme. There could be rains cluding several who were in- under a security blanket the vicinity have already Kennedy’s room in the plane in the afternoon, during the volved in plotting attacks in ahead of the 58th presiden- been shut, and the general was used. And a federal judge parade. Europe, Pentagon chief tial inauguration on Friday public will have to use the available immediately Six religious leaders, in- Ashton Carter said on when Republican Donald metro rail, which will run presided over the oath taking. cluding a Catholic cardinal Thursday. “They certainly Trump will take oath as the from 4 a.m. to midnight on Mr. Obama also used the and black and Hispanic Prot- are people who were actively 45th President of the coun- Friday. Lincoln Bible in 2009, which estant leaders, will read from plotting operations in Europe try. More than a million The oath taking ceremony is now kept in the Library of the Bible and pray. A Jewish and may also have been con- people are expected to arrive will take place at the West Congress. rabbi will also oer prayers, a nected to some attacks that in the city, an estimated one Front of the Capitol building, first since Ronald Reagan’s have already occurred in fourth of them to protest on a temporarily built plat- Worship service second inauguration in 1985. Europe,” Mr. Carter said on against the incoming form that overlooks the In the morning, Mr. Trump Cardinal Timothy Michael his last day in oce. President. Washington Monument 1.8 will attend a worship service, Dolan has said he will be Defence ocials said on Nearly seven sq. km area km away. The crowd will FUTURE TENSE: The West Front of the U.S. Capitol building, where the inauguration ceremony which has been the tradition. reading Wisdom of Solomon, Thursday that U.S. B-2 around the White House and gather in the National Mall, for President-elect Donald Trump is to take place on Friday. — PHOTO: AFP He is likely to go to the St. Chapter 9, where the king bombers carried out air the U.S. Capitol will be between the Monument and John’s Episcopal Church near seeks guidance to lead Israel. strikes against IS camps out- closed to motorists on Fri- the Capitol, watching the big challenge. an evacuation. have taken the oath on a the White House. After the After the oath, which will side the group’s former North day, as the inaugural cere- event on 11 LED screens, In 2009, the first inaugura- The transition team has Bible. The Chief Justice of worship, the President-elect take place exactly at noon on African stronghold of Sirte in mony and the parade in the each two stories high and tion of President Barack said Mr. Trump will place his the U.S. Supreme Court will will meet the President at the Friday, Mr. Trump will make Libya, killing dozens of afternoon are in the open. three stories wide. Obama began while the se- hand on two Bibles while administer the oath of oce White House for coee. The his inaugural address, which militants. Mr. Trump is expected to Drawn from at least three curity agencies were still try- taking oath — one which Ab- to Mr. Trump. President will accompany will be his first as President. Two U.S. defence ocials walk at least part of the 1.9- dozen security agencies, ing to neturalise an identi- raham Lincoln used for his In unusual situations, the President-elect to the Inaugural addresses are usu- said the strikes were carried mile long parade from the 28,000 personnel will man- fied terror threat. Mr. Obama first oath in 1861, and a these customs have been ig- Capitol. ally brief. Mr. Trump’s inaug- out late on Wednesday 28 Capitol to the White House, age the security arrange- arrived at the ceremony with second one that Mr. Trump nored. For instance, when The ceremony, to begin at uration ceremony is on the miles (45 km) southwest of which will take 90 minutes. ments. Other than potential two prepared speeches — received as a gift from his Lyndon B. Johnson took his 11:30 a.m., has moved indoors theme of ‘Make America Sirte against two camps. A Washington Post report terror threat, the presence of the customary inaugural ad- mother. Though it is not a first oath of oce on Novem- several times in the past, Great Again’, his election slo- They were done in cooper- said 15 army horses that will at least 60 protest groups in dress of the new President constitutional requirement, ber 22, 1963 — on Air Force either due to cold weather or gan, and his address is also ation with Libya’s UN-backed be in the parade were getting the vicinity makes security a and a second one in case of most Presidents till date One two hours after the as- due to illness of the Presid- likely to be around that. Government of National Ac- cord (GNA) and no women or children were in the camps, the ocials said. 30 feared dead as avalanche Libyan forces backed by Obama ends on a note of optimism U.S. air strikes finished clear- DAVID SMITH fender of the free press. ing the last IS holdout in Sirte Mr. Trump’s aides have in early December after a hits Italy’s mountain hotel WASHINGTON: The final ques- hinted that the press might battle of nearly seven months. tion put by a journalist to be moved out of the west Pentagon spokesman Peter ROME: Up to 30 people were when the first of four power- bulances were blocked by Barack Obama during his wing, meaning that Wednes- Cook, in a statement on feared to have died on ful tremors rattled the region two metres of snow some presidency merged the polit- day’s conference would be Thursday, confirmed the U.S. Thursday after an Italian on Wednesday morning. nine km away, according to ical with the personal. the last of its kind. military conducted strikes. mountain hotel was engulfed Local media said specialist the civil protection agency. So how, Mr. Obama was Mr. Obama signalled that a Also, the IS killed 12 people by a powerful avalanche in mountain police who had Antonio Di Marco, presid- asked at his last press confer- threat to press freedom it held captive in Syria’s an- the earthquake-ravaged reached the hotel on skis or ent of the province of Pes- ence on Wednesday, did would be one of the “core cient Palmyra by shooting centre of the country. by helicopter had begun ex- cara, which includes the Malia (18) and Sasha (15) re- values” that would move him and beheading them, with Italy’s Civil Protection tracting bodies. They were mountain village of Farin- act to Donald Trump’s vic- to break with presidential some of the slayings carried agency confirmed that the quoted as saying there were dola, close to where the hotel tory in the presidential tradition by speaking out out in the city’s second-cen- Hotel Rigopiano had been no signs of life inside the is located, said two people election? from the retirement. tury Roman amphitheatre, engulfed by a two-metre building, which was moved had been found alive. And despite the bruises of activists said on Thursday. high wall of snow and that by some 10 metres by the The hotel is located Teaching kids resilience THIS IS IT: U.S. President Barack Obama waves goodbye after his two terms, Mr. Obama in- IS had recaptured the city emergency services were force of the snow. “There are around 90 km from the epi- Mr. Obama’s answer re- his final press conference at the White House in Washington sisted that his original op- in December from govern- struggling to get ambulances many dead,” one of the com- centre of the quakes at vealed something about his on Wednesday. — PHOTO: REUTERS timistic vision remains in- ment troops, nine months and diggers to the site. manding ocers, Antonio Montereale, a small village own attitude and, perhaps, tact. He spoke of one day after it was expelled in a Rus- The agency said there had Crocetta, was quoted as say- south of Amatrice, the town his parting advice to an un- hope,” he said. “And that ten- prosecute more whis- expecting to see a woman sia-backed oensive and been around 30 guests and ing. The rescuers at the hotel devasted in an August earth- certain nation and world. ded to be their attitude.” tleblowers than all previous President, a Latino Presid- while Syrian government sta at the small ski hotel on were reported to have a snow quake in which nearly 300 “What we’ve also tried to Mr. Obama has been criti- administrations combined. ent, a Jewish President, a forces were focused on retak- the eastern lower slopes of mobile capable of transport- people died. — AFP teach them is resilience, and cised by rights groups for us- But on Wednesday, he sought Hindu President and many ing the eastern half of Aleppo the Gran Sasso mountain ing up to eight people. Am- we’ve tried to teach them ing the 1917 Espionage Act to to position himself as a de- others. — The Guardian from rebels. — Reuters, AP U.K. seeks Indian help in resolving Chagos Archipelago dispute VIDYA RAM ferred to by the British as the delivered on 18 March 2015,” British Indian Ocean Territ- it said. It added that it had LONDON: The British Foreign ory, but which is not recog- “full justification” to seek Secretary has sought Indian nised as such by Mauritius — UN General Assembly ap- assistance in resolving cur- is home to the U.S. military proval to take the matter to rent tensions between the base Diego Garcia. In the the International Court of U.K., the U.S. and Mauritius 1960s and 1970s, inhabitants Justice — a move that the over the future of the U.S. were removed from the is- U.K. government is keen to military base Diego Garcia, lands. Tensions remain, with avoid. and the Indian Ocean Cha- Mauritius maintaining that gos Archipelago, amid a the archipelago remains its A positive move warning from Mauritius last integral part. “This is a matter that year that it would push to In March 2015, a tribunal should be discussed with the take the matter to the Inter- brought against the U.K. un- Chagossian people, not with national Court of Justice. der the UN Convention on India or any other country” British Foreign Secretary the Law of the Sea found that said Stefan Donnelly, vice Boris Johnson raised the is- the Marine Protected Area chair of the U.K. Chagos Sup- sue with Prime Minister brought in by the U.K. British Foreign Secretary port Association on Narendra Modi during their around the Archipelago in Boris Johnson in Kolkata on Thursday. meeting on Wednesday 2010 (but not including While India has main- Thursday. — PHOTO: AFP evening in New Delhi, Diego Garcia) was not com- tained that the matter of though no assurances were patible with Britain’s obliga- ment that it had ruled out the whether or not to proceed given by the Indian side, tions under the convention. resettlement of the islanders with the UN General As- London-based sources told “Mauritius holds legally on the grounds of “feasibility, sembly move is a decision for The Hindu. binding rights to fish in the defence and security in- the Mauritian government to waters surrounding the Cha- terests… and the cost to the make, the approach by the In India’s interest gos Archipelago, to the even- British taxpayer”. It also re- U.K. is seen by the Indian The British — acting on tual return of the Chagos Ar- newed the lease for Diego side as a positive move, sig- the request of the U.S. — are chipelago to Mauritius when Garcia, up until 2036. nalling Britain’s eagerness to hopeful that India may be no longer needed for defence In his speech in New Delhi partner with India on secur- able to exercise its influence purposes, and to the preser- on Wednesday, Mr. Johnson ity matters in the region. It is with the Mauritian govern- vation of the benefit of any referred to Diego Garcia, de- not the first time that Britain ment to help the three sides minerals or oil discovered in scribing it as “vital for our has raised the issue with In- come to some agreement, to or near the Chagos Ar- operations in the region”. dia. Sources said that it had prevent the situation from chipelago pending its even- The Mauritius govern- also been raised by former escalating. The British be- tual return,” the ruling on ment reacted furiously fol- Prime Minister David lieve that ensuring the future March 19, 2015 in The Hague lowing the November an- Cameron. of Diego Garcia would be in stated. nouncement. “Mauritius A response from the U.K. India’s security interest in However, in November considers that the U.K. has Foreign and Commonwealth the region too. last year, the U.K. govern- acted in blatant breach of the Oce was not available at The Chagos Islands — re- ment announced in Parlia- letter and spirit of the award the time of going to print. ‘Give Kashmiris right to decide their future’ VIDYA RAM British Conservative that the fundamental ele- ment of this is when Britain LONDON: A British Conservat- MP draws parallels ceased to be the colonial ive parliamentarian used a with Brexit power,” said Conservative debate on Kashmir to com- MP Bob Blackman. “We pare the rights of Kashmiri referendum in should be clear that under in- people to ‘self-determina- parliamentary debate ternational law, the whole of tion’ to last year’s Brexit Jammu and Kashmir is an in- referendum. my constituents have famil- tegral part of India.” David Nuttall, the MP for ies in Kashmir, and in some Responding on behalf of Bury North, who called for cases they have personally the U.K. government, For- the debate on Kashmir that lost loved ones, or seen loved eign and Commonwealth Of- took place on Thursday af- ones scarred for life as a res- fice Minister Alok Sharma ternoon, said he wanted the David Nuttall, MP from Bury ult of violence,” he said. said that the U.K., while people of Kashmir “to be North. — PHOTO: This is the second time in “very concerned about viol- given the right to decide WWW.CONSERVATIVES.COM the last three years that the ence in Indian-controlled their own future through House of Commons has held Kashmir”, maintained its self-determination”, a right Indian side of the line of con- a debate on this issue. Sev- long-standing position, that had been “historically trol in Kashmir” with the eral members raised the is- which was that both nations exercised by the people of United Nations and to en- sue of the use of pellet guns were “important friends of this country on the 23 June courage India and Pakistan by armed forces against civil- the U.K.” and that it would last year”. to commence negotiations ians, and called for the gov- neither prescribe a solution Mr. Nuttall called for the on a long-term solution. ernment to encourage UN nor act as a mediator. “It is U.K. government to raise “The issue matters to intervention on the matter, for India and Pakistan to find “the escalation in violence thousands of my constitu- while others spoke in de- a lasting solution taking into and breaches of interna- ents who are of Pakistani and fence of the Indian govern- account the wishes of the tional human rights on the Kashmiri heritage… many of ment. “We should remember Kashmiri people”.

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Banks to report ICICI, YES Bank’s cash deposits Airlines yet to collect Axis Bank third-quarter partner app above ₨10 lakh to profit falls 73% to ₨580 cr. resolve UPI spat MUMBAI: ICICI Bank is set to I-T department SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT He said about 85% of the cor- rose 30.6% to ₨882.6 crore for start allowing users of cess for regional fund porate loans that had slipped the third quarter following PhonePe – a Unified Pay- NEW DELHI: The tax depart- MUMBAI: The country’s third- during the quarter were from 30.3% growth in net interest ments Interface (UPI) based ment has asked banks to re- Centre to keep options open on funding the scheme largest private sector lender the watch list. income to ₨1,507.5 crore. mobile payments app – to port deposits in any account Axis Bank on Thursday re- As on December 31, the Non-interest income in- complete transactions with aggregating ₨10 lakh in a year, SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT ported that net profit for the bank’s gross NPA and net creased by 33.8% y-o-y to the bank after the National as well as cash payments of ₨1 quarter ended December 31 NPA levels were 5.22% and ₨998.3 crore. Its net interest Payments Corporation of In- lakh or more on credit card NEW DELHI: Most of the do- declined 73% to ₨579.57 crore 2.18% respectively as against margin expanded 10 basis dia (NPCI) intervened to re- bills. mestic airlines have refused after the provision coverage 4.17% and 2.02% respectively points sequentially to 3.5%. solve a dispute between the In a January 17 notifica- to charge a levy on air tickets ratio (PCR) increased. as on September 30, 2016, ac- two. tion, the Central Board of that will finance the regional “Our PCR has gone up cording to the bank. Federal Bank ICICI had last week Direct Taxes (CBDT) listed connectivity fund even as the from 60% to 64%,” Jairam While net interest income Federal Bank reported a blocked PhonePe – a Flipkart cash transactions which Centre wants to start ser- Sridharan, chief financial of- rose only by 4% year-on-year 26.4% per cent increase in group firm that has need to be reported to tax au- vices under the regional con- ficer, Axis Bank,. said during to ₨4,334 crore, other income net profit to ₨205.65 crore partnered with YES Bank – thorities and set up an e-plat- nectivity scheme by March. the post earnings conference posted a growth of 45% to after a 31.6% growth in loans alleging violation of UPI form for doing so. Minister of State for Civil call. “To increase the PCR by ₨3,400 crore led by gains during the third quarter. guidelines mandating inter- It reiterated its November Aviation Jayant Sinha said on 1%, ₨230 crore is required to from treasury operations. The net interest income operability. “Based on a re- 2016 instruction asking Thursday that the Centre be set aside,” he said. Mr. Sridharan said due to for the bank grew by 30.66 % view by NPCI on ICICI banks to report all cash de- will explore other means to “FY17 will be the peak of demonetisation, the bank’s to ₨791.4 crore. The bank’s Banks’ action to block UPI posits of ₨2.5 lakh or more fund the scheme if domestic stressed assets. We have deposits swelled while loan total deposits increased by transactions made through made in one or more ac- airlines do not come on seen gross slippages declin- growth slowed. 23.32% to ₨92,235.65 crore. PhonePe App, we would like counts of a person during board. “We had multiple ing by 48% sequentially,” Mr. Savings deposits in- to state that ICICI Bank has November 9 to December 30, rounds of discussion with Sridharan said. YES Bank creased by 32.35%. The share been advised to open UPI 2016. the airlines. We are very Fresh slippages during the Another private sector of low-cost deposits im- transactions immediately,” Post demonetisation of old hopeful that they will parti- STALLED FLIGHT: The Delhi HC will hear airlines’ plea, challenging quarter stood at ₨4,560 crore. lender YES Bank’s net profit proved to 34.66%. NPCI said in a statement. ₨500 and ₨1,000, the govern- cipate. As far as funding for the levy of up to ₨8,500, on February 1. — FILE PHOTO: REUTERS ment had allowed the junked the regional connectivity currency to be deposited in scheme is concerned, there The Centre will Gross Budgetary Support Government to bank accounts during a 50- are ecient and inecient from the Finance Ministry to Centre awards ₨60.9 crore as day window ending Decem- ways of funding it. subsidise losses fund the scheme. ber 30, 2016. “Funding it through air- incurred by airlines The Federation of Indian infuse ₨1,894 cr. “Cash deposits during the lines is the most ecient flying out of Airlines, which represents prize money for digital payments period November 9, 2016 to way. If it poses some chal- IndiGo, Jet Airways, SpiceJet capital into SBI December 30, 2016 aggregat- lenges, we have other mech- dormant airports and GoAir, has dragged the ing to ₨12.50 lakh or more in anisms that we may use,” Mr. Centre to the courts challen- NEW DELHI: The government, SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT age group of 21-30 years. crore citizens and 5.93 lakh one or more current account Sinha told the media on lowed to charge passengers ging the levy of up to ₨8,500 which is infusing ₨1,894 crore The two schemes, aimed merchants on transacting us- of a person (and) ₨2.5 lakh or Thursday. ₨2,500 for an hour’s flight. on domestic flights from capital into State Bank of In- NEW DELHI: The Centre has so at “incentivising the con- ing digital payment systems, more in one or more account About 80% of the subsidy December 1. dia, has asked the country’s far awarded ₨60.9 crore as sumers and the merchants to Minister for Electronics and (other than a current ac- Counter bids will be collected from the air- largest lender to take neces- prize money to over 3.81 lakh promote digital payments,” Information Technology count) of a person” will have The Centre has received lines that will charge a levy of Legal tangle sary regulatory approvals for consumers and 21,000 mer- were unveiled on December Ravi Shankar Prasad said. to be reported to tax author- 45 proposals from 11 bidders up to ₨8,500 on each depart- The Delhi High Court will the fund infusion. chants under its two lucky 25 last year and will remain ities, it said. covering more than 200 ing flight. The balance 20% now hear the airlines’ plea on This is the part of ₨7,575 draw schemes – Lucky Gra- open till April 14. Upgrading infrastructure Also, cash deposits during routes under its regional will come from the respect- February 1. crore capital infusion an- hak Yojana and Digi-Dhan In a separate release, April 1, 2016 to November 9, connectivity scheme. ive state governments. Apart from the four air- nounced by the government Vyapar Yojana – announced ‘Inculcating digital’ pointing out to NIC’s eorts 2016 in any account that are It has now invited counter “The Civil Aviation Min- lines, new entrant Vistara in July last year. to boost digital payments The Niti Aayog statement in creating the digital infra- reportable should also be in- bids against these initial pro- istry stands behind the re- has also not started charging As per the announcement, post demonetisation. said over 100 Digi-Dhan structure in the country, the timated to the the tax author- posals that cover 65 under gional connectivity scheme the levy on its ticket fares. the government released The winners, an ocial re- Melas, where lucky draws Minister said the infrastruc- ities by January 31, 2017, the served or unserved airports. and the participating airlines Only AirAsia and Air India 75% of the amount while the lease said, includes small are organised, will be held ture at district oces of NIC notification said. Mr. Sinha said the Centre ex- can be assured that they will levy a regional connectivity rest was withheld. The rest farmers, anganwadi workers, across the country “to incul- will be upgraded “to interna- It made it mandatory for a pects the first flight under be provided subsidies,” the scheme surcharge now. was linked to performance. housewives and labourers. cate digital payment among tional standards.” banking company or a co- the scheme to take o in late Minister said. As far as the States are con- “In continuation of de- “Maharashtra, Andhra the people”. National Informatics operative bank to report cash February or March. He said the government cerned, 15 of them have cision of July 19, 2016, the Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Uttar About 24 Digi-Dhan Melas Centre or NIC is the techno- deposits aggregating to ₨10 Under the scheme, the was holding continuous dia- agreed to provide all the re- government has approved to Pradesh and Karnataka have have been held across the logy infrastructure arm of lakh or more in a financial Centre will subsidise the logue with the airlines “to quisite infrastructure con- increase the paid up capital emerged as the top five country so far since Decem- the government and plays a year, in one or more accounts losses incurred by the air- convince them to particip- cessions along with the bal- by way of preferential allot- states with the maximum ber 25. key role in Digital India. As a (other than a current ac- lines in flying out of airports ate” in the scheme. ance 20% subsidy for flight ment of equity shares,” ac- number of winners,” Niti Additionally, the Common pilot project, 150 District count and time deposit) of a with low passenger volumes. He, however, said that the operations under the re- cording to a government no- Aayog said adding that most Service Centres (CSCs) have NIC oces would be up- person. — PTI The airlines will be al- ministry would not seek any gional connectivity scheme. tification. — PTI of the winners were in the so far trained about 1.94 graded during 2017-18.

CM ND-ND YK NOIDA/DELHI 16 | BUSINESS THE HINDU FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 2017 SNIPPETS GM adapts $1 billion recipe Mindtree profit declines 26.7 % after forex loss Bajaj plans 10-year BENGALURU: IT services firm Mindtree reported a 26.7% decline in its net for ‘very tough’ Indian market profit for the quarter ended December 31, 2016, due to foreign exchange loss and the performance of its two subsidiaries. Net profit stood at ₨103.1 crore against ₨140.7 crore in the same period last year. Revenue road map for KTM DETROIT: After an 18-month re- was 1,295.3 crore, registering a growth of 7.1%. “Our profits were partly view, General Motors Co is impacted on a consolidated basis due to the performance of the two nearer to resolving a raft of subsidiary entities that we acquired in the last year,”said Rostow KTM enters Indonesia, to sell 10,000 bikes in a year issues that have hobbled its Ravanan, CEO and MD. “These two operate at a lower margin compared $1 billion strategy for India, to the historic Mindtree margins. Another reason for the consolidated SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT one of the fastest growing profit decline was currency fluctuation,” he said. The firm declared an emerging markets for interim dividend of ₨2 per share. — Staff Reporter PUNE: Bajaj Auto, which ac- automobiles. quired a 49% stake in Aus- The strategy, announced tria’s sport motorcycle in July 2015, includes selling RIL writes down ₨39,750 cr. on accounting recast maker KTM 10 years ago, is one of its two Indian as- revving up a road map for the sembly plants to a Chinese NEW DELHI: Reliance Industries has written down ₨39,570 crore in value joint venture for the next partner; changing its vehicle of its oil and gas assets, including the flagging KG basin D6 block and decade. platform to provide a U.S. shale gas projects due to change in accounting policy. RIL restated Rajiv Bajaj, managing dir- product line-up better suited its reserves following the change in accounting standards.It has moved ector of Bajaj Auto, had talks to the local market; and mak- from the Full-Cost Method (Indian GAAP) to the Successful-Efforts with Stefan Pierre, the chief ing India an export hub, two NEW VISION: The U.S. automaker is close to selling its Halol Method under IND AS. This led to devaluation of its oil and gas assets by executive ocer of KTM, on Asia-based people with plant in Gujarat to SAIC Motor. — FILE PHOTO: REUTERS ₨39,570 crore as on March 31, 2016, said a statement from RIL. “The the road map for the next 10 knowledge of the plans told impact on account of change in accounting policy is recognised in the years. Reuters in Detroit this and is positioning itself for a a range of more competitive opening reserves on the date of transition and consequential impact of “Stefan was here yesterday REVVING UP: Rajiv Bajaj says there could be 500-800cc bikes in month. They did not want to comeback. It has already small cars for India, the two write offs is recognised in the Profit and Loss Account,” RIL said. — PTI and we spent the whole day the future from the KTM stable. — PHOTO: PTI be named as the review is been fairly successful in ex- people said, noting a market together discussing what has ongoing. porting small cars by lever- shift from no-frills sedans to be done in the next 10 between April 2017 and growth has been spurred by a GM needs to finalize these aging the frugal engineering and ‘people movers’ to cros- Lakshmi Vilas Bank third-quarter net rises by 70% years,” said Mr. Bajaj while March 2018, the company large network of 325 exclus- moves to turn around its skills of India suppliers.” sover sport utility vehicles unveiling a model of KTM plans to sell 5,000 to 10,000 ive KTM showrooms which money-losing business in In- (SUVs). CHENNAI: Lakshmi Vilas Bank’s net profit rose 70% for the third-quarter bike. bikes. will grow to 450 in about a dia, where its sales fell by ‘Deal this year’ And GM needs to “adjust ended December 31, 2016, and the lender announced plans to raise Apart from increasing the Bajaj Auto had entered In- year’s time. more than a fifth last year to The U.S. automaker is to the new normal of ... low betweeen ₨600 crore and ₨700 crore to meet its working capital product portfolio, which will donesian market earlier too, Amit Nandi, President, just 28,949 vehicles, taking close to selling its Halol oil prices, foreign currency requirements. Net profit increased to ₨78.38 crore from ₨46.07 crore come with higher price tags, piggybacking on Kawasaki, Probiking, Bajaj Auto, said its market share to below 1%. plant inthe western Gujarat fluctuations and geopolitical due to a reduction in cost of funds, steady net interest margin and KTM has now entered In- but it did not take o. the recent demonetization “India is a very tough mar- state to SAIC Motor, its main instability” to make its oper- satisfactory treasury operations. Total income of the bank increased by donesia to sell its bikes. “Earlier, we were selling exercise impacted sales in ket. It’s growing and has po- Chinese joint-venture part- ations leaner and more e- 21% to ₨879.26 crore from ₨723 crore, said Parthasarthi Mukherjee, LVB KTM introduced MY17 Bajaj bikes from Kawasaki November and December, tential for the future. But you ner, the two people said, pre- cient,one of the two people MD and CEO. While the bank saw significant increase in current account KTM RC 390, priced at outlets, but now we will sell but the situation improved in need the right recipe,” one of dicting a deal would be final- said, adding this could im- and savings account deposits, advances did not match up its ₨2,25,300 (ex-Delhi) and KTM bikes from KTM out- January. the individuals said. ised this year. “We have a pact the $1billion strategy expectations due to demonetisation. — Special Correspondent KTM RC 200, priced at lets,” Mr. Bajaj said. “November and Decem- India’s auto market, dom- defined path: we are aligned price tag. ₨1,71,740 (ex-Delhi). Introduced in 2012, KTM ber was slow but January inated by Japan’s Suzuki Mo- with our partner SAIC. They “That’s what we’re looking Mr. Bajaj said there could has become one of the fastest seems a lot better though it tor and South Korea’s Hy- want to take over that plant,” into now; whether it will be CCI fines firms for bid rigging of rail tenders be 500-800cc bikes in the fu- growing sports motorcycle was not what we had expec- undai Motor and their local one of them said. SAIC de- that$1 billion or whether it ture from the KTM stable. brand with over 1,00,000 ted. We hope things to ease partners, is widely tipped to clined to comment. will be less or more.” NEW DELHI: The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has imposed On the Indonesia market bikes hitting Indian roads. out over the next 2-3 overtake Japan as the world’s Selling the Halol facility, The shift in consumer penalties totalling about ₨2.92 crore on three firms for bid rigging of expansion, Mr. Bajaj said The company said the months,” Mr. Nandi said. tenders floated by Indian Railways for procuring brushless DC fans in third biggest by around 2020. which has annual capacity preferences to SUVs has 2013. The CCI imposed a penalty of ₨2.09 crore, ₨62.37 lakh and ₨20.01 GM said in mid-2015 it for up to 110,000 vehicles, forced GM tore-think its lakh on Western Electric and Trading Company, Pyramid Electronics and aimed to double its India would allow GM to consolid- product strategy, and put on R. Kanwar Electricals respectively. “CCI has held that the firms had market share by 2020. But its ate and modernize its India hold a move to a newemer- shared the market by way of allocation of tenders of Indian Railways for Textile industry seeks 5% duty under GST share fell to 0.93% last year manufacturing capability at ging market vehicle architec- Brushless DC fans amongst themselves under an agreement/ from 1.18% in 2015 – even as Talegaon, about 100 km (62 ture — known internally as M. SOUNDARIYA PREETHA ing a special package for CENVAT that is implemen- India’s market grew 7% to miles) south-east of Mum- GEM — which it jointly de- arrangement and indulged in bid rigging or collusive bidding,” an official powerloom sector to be an- ted now,” said M. Senthil Ku- statement said here on Thursday. — Special Correspondent around 3 million vehicles. bai, which currently can pro- veloped with SAIC. COIMBATORE: The textile in- nounced shortly. mar, Chairman, Southern In- “Despite being one of the duce 1,50,000 vehicles a year. GEM remains central to dustry wants a uniform duty “We do not expect any ma- dia Mills’ Association. earliest entrants to India ... The proposed sale to SAIC product programmes for of 5% under the Goods and jor announcement in the GM has consistently lost has dragged on, the people markets such as Brazil, Mex- Lloyd’s gets final nod from IRDAI for branch in India Services Tax(GST), which is budget,” a spokesperson for Lowest slab share. One issue is that it said,in part because of In- ico and China, but, for India, expected to be rolled out the industry said. The textile and clothing MUMBAI: Lloyd’s, the specialist insurance and reinsurance market, said misunderstood what value dia’s complex ocial ap- GM is now assessing it from July this year. sector has sought the lowest it plans to open a reinsurance branch in the country, in time for the April means to Indian consumers. proval process,which in- against other options to be The Centre had an- Focus on GST duty slab of 5% without ex- major reinsurance renewals. Lloyd’s plans to open a reinsurance branch, Value doesn’t mean low volves multiple stakeholders more competitive. nounced special packages “The government has emptions for any segment of in time for the April major reinsurance renewals, following final price, it means having a and regulators. They said a “There are several altern- for the apparel sector in June already announced packages the value chain, according to regulatory approval from the Insurance Regulatory Development product that has the right deal still needs to be ap- atives, and we are investigat- last year and for made-ups for dierent segments of the industry representatives. Authority of India, a company statement said. This will enable Lloyd’s mix of good price and con- proved by government agen- ing right now,” one of the two (an article manufactured industry. But the focus is on About 60% of the Indian syndicates to offer specialist reinsurance in a variety of classes from a tent,” said Puneet Gupta, an cies and the plant’s labour individuals said, declining to and/or stitched from any GST,” the spokesperson said. textile industry is cotton- Lloyd’s branch in Mumbai, it added. “This is a watershed moment in our analyst at IHS Markitin New union. elaborate. GM said in type of cloth, other than a Till the GST is rolled out, based and 80% of textile and strategy. We have now cemented our access to the world’s largest, Delhi. GM is also reviewing its September it would launch garment) in December. “we hope there will be no clothing exports are also cot- fast-growth economies,” Lloyd’s Chairman John Nelson said. — PTI “That said, GM under- vehicle architecture so it can five new models in India The industry was expect- changes in the optional ton-based. stands the market’s potential be more flexible and produce within two years. — Reuters Centre wants Apple but ocials are not biting NEW DELHI: Some Indian o- volved in evaluating the cials have baulked at Apple’s Apple proposal. demands for concessions be- “If we do this, we must see fore it assembles iPhones a lot of value addition.” An- there, raising doubts about a other ocial involved in the spring deadline to start a key review said the government project in Prime Minister should make policies for the Narendra Modi’s campaign industry not individual com- to lure foreign investors. panies. The country is still keen on the U.S. tech giant to pro- ‘Lucrative market’ duce its signature smart- “Apple is coming here be- phones there and Informa- cause it sees a lucrative mar- tion Technology Minister ket, this is not a favour being Ravi Shankar Prasad had said done to India.” on Wednesday that India Competitors such as South would keep an “open mind” Korea’s Samsung Electronics in negotiations. and China’s Xiaomi have “We will very much like already set up manufactur- Apple to come and have a ing in the country. Apple did base in India,” he said. WHAT’S COOKING: Apple’s plans to set up base in India have met not respond to a request for with resistance from government officials. — FILE PHOTO comment. ‘Excessive and unfair’ The Prime Minister met But Apple Inc.’s long list of already operating in India. people entering the work- Apple CEO Tim Cook last demands, including tax con- Their caution underlines force each year, will not be May and discussed iPhone cessions and several other how Mr. Modi’s ambition to easy. production in India. policy exceptions, still faces make India a global manu- “We have not done this for Where any plant would be resistance from ocials who facturing hub, in order to anyone,” said a senior gov- located and how many consider it excessive and un- drive the economy and cre- ernment ocial whose de- people it might employ have fair on foreign companies ate jobs for millions of partment is one of several in- yet to be finalised. — Reuters

Exchange Rates Start-up Wow! Momo China’s Xiaomi Indicative direct rates in rupees a unit except yen at 4 p.m on January 19 introduces Redmi TT TT plans global expansion Currencies Buying Selling Note 4 at ₨9,999 U.S. Dollar 67.92 68.24 SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT demonetisation threat into Euro 72.37 72.71 an opportunity by wooing SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Pound Sterling 83.64 84.04 KOLKATA: Start-up Wow! customers waiting at ATM Jap Yen (100 Units) 59.21 59.49 Momo plans to start exports, queues by first oering NEW DELHI: Chinese Yuan 9.89 9.94 Chinese smart- even as it hopes to close its drinking water and then Swiss Franc 67.45 67.78 phone maker Xiaomi on Singapore Dollar 47.57 47.79 latest round of financing by menu cards with various dis- Thursday unveiled Redmi Australian Dollar 51.28 51.52 March 2017, co-founder and count oers and even Note 4. The firm, which Canadian Dollar 51.10 51.34 CEO Sagar Daryani said. momos-on-the-go. crossed the $1 billion rev- Swedish Kroner 7.59 7.63 “We are planning to com- “This way we checked the enue mark in India last year, Danish Kroner 9.73 9.78 mence frozen momos ex- 40% slide in sales in the first expects to sell double the New Zealand Dollar 48.69 48.92 ports to the U.S., U.K., Dubai week after November 8 and volume of the Redmi Note 3. Hongkong Dollar 8.76 8.80 and Singapore by the next now we have recovered,” Mr. The new handset features Malaysian Ringgit 15.23 15.32 fiscal” Mr. Daryani said. Daryani said. 5.5-inch display, Qualcomm Kuwaiti Dinar 221.24 223.74 The firm would reserve Snapdragon 625 processor UAE Dirham 18.49 18.58 space for this in an upcoming Mumbai, Hyderabad entry (octa-core 2.0 GHz), 4,100 Bahraini Dinar 180.11 181.06 city unit with a capacity for The firm, which is now mAh battery, 13MP rear and Qatari Riyal 18.70 18.72 making six lakh momos. present in Kolkata, Ban- 5MP front camera. It comes Saudi Riyal 18.17 18.17 The quick service restaur- galore, Chennai, Kochi, in three variants – 2GB Omani Riyal 176.42 177.34 ant company is also hoping Pune, Delhi, Gurgaon and RAM/32GB memory, 3GB Source:Indian Bank to raise ₨50 crore by April. Noida, is planning to enter RAM/32GB memory and “We have received three of- Mumbai and Hyderabad by 4GB RAM/64GB memory fers and would choose a ven- next fiscal. priced at ₨9,999, ₨10,999 and ture capital [investor],” Mr. The start-up opened its ₨12,999 respectively. Bullion Rates Daryani said. 100th outlet in the city in the Xiaomi said it had shipped January 19 rates in rupees with The eight-year-old start- presence of Sanjeev more than 3.6 million units of previous rates in brackets up raised ₨10 crore in August Bhikchandani, founder and Redmi Note 3 in 2016 in In- Chennai 2015 to finance its expansion vice chairman of InfoEdge dia. Xiaomi VP Hugo Barra Bar Silver (1 kg) 41,675 (41,625) from 43 outlets to 96. It has and one of Wow Momo’s lead said, “2016 was a huge suc- Retail (1 g) 44.60 (44.50) also raised ₨7 crore debt investors. By 2021, 500 out- cess for Xiaomi as we 24 ct gold (10 g) 29,510 (29,690) from Bandhan Bank. lets are planned, including in crossed $1 billion worth of 22 ct gold (1 g) 2,819 (2,836) The company also plans to Mumbai, Hyderabad and revenue and 2017 will be Delhi diversify by selling its sauces Patna. “Chennai is our most more significant as we strive Silver 41,550 (41,400) through its stores and mod- profitable venture after towards achieving new mile- Standard Gold 29,700 (29,650) ern trade. Kolkata and we are planning stones and introducing many Sovereign 24,300 (24,300) It succeeded in turning the to expand,” Mr. Daryani said. exciting products in India.”

CM ND-ND YK NOIDA/DELHI | THE HINDU FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 2017 SPORT 17 Telecast schedule Kyrgios fined, pulls out of doubles A black eye Irani Cup: STAR Sports 4 & HD 4, 9.30 a.m. Australia's Nick Kyrgios was slapped with $5,500 in fines for swearing When he goes through those Australian Open: Sony Six & Sony Six HD, 1.30 p.m. & 5.30 a.m. (Saturday) and throwing his racquet after his defeat to Andreas Seppi at the periods then it’s just a black eye for South Africa vs Sri Lanka: 1st T20, TEN 3 & TEN 1 HD, 9.30 p.m. Ī Australian Open. Kyrgios, who also pulled out of the men’s doubles, Ī the sport. And it’s a black eye for Bundesliga: SS Select HD 2, 12.45 a.m. (Saturday); La Liga: Sony Six, Sony ESPN & Sony Six HD & citing injury, was fined $3,000 for an audible obscenity and $2,500 for him. — John McEnroe Sony ESPN HD, 1 a.m. & 2 a.m. (Saturday); NBA: Sony ESPN & Sony ESPN HD, 6.30 a.m. (Saturday) racquet abuse, organisers said. on Nick Kyrgios.

One of my best, Yuvraj and Dhoni revel in run fest says Yuvraj CUTTACK: Man-of-the-match Yuvraj Singh rated his 14th CRICKET / Morgan’s valiant hundred not enough to prevent series defeat ODI century, which helped In- dia secure a 15-run win over Y.B. SARANGI England and take the three- match series, as one of his best. CUTTACK: Yuvraj Singh’s selec- tion for the One-Day Interna- Yuvraj, who made a career- tional series against England best 150, was delighted that he had left many amazed. scored a hundred after nearly six years. “150 is a big score in His career-best score of 150 one-day cricket; it’s my o 127 balls in the second highest. I need to have more match at the Barabati Stadium consistency in future,” said here on Thursday must have Yuvraj after the match. left them red-faced. “It feels great. It’s been a He proved his detractors while since I got a hundred. wrong and in the process After cancer, I worked on my gladdened the hearts of the Na- fitness, tried to get back into tional selectors who had the team. I never gave up.” stoutly defended their choice. About his 256-run record- The seasoned southpaw, breaking stand with M.S. who made it to the Indian ODI Dhoni, Yuvraj said: “We tried squad after three years, had to to get 25 runs, then 50 runs and prove a point again. He did it then 100 runs. By that time we emphatically by eclipsing his were both set. personal best of 139 against “We have always been bat- Australia in 2004. ting together since Dhoni star- ted his career. There is a lot of Yuvraj, whose blistering DEMOLITION MEN: M.S. Dhoni and Yuvraj Singh came together with India in a spot of bother at 25 for three and turned the tables 14th ODI hundred contained 21 understanding, the running on England with a sparkling 256-run partnership. — PHOTOS: K.R. DEEPAK fours and three huge sixes, between wickets is good. Hopefully, the understanding flourished in the company of Old memories came alive as boundaries on the onside to with his bat. Yuvraj’s determ- helps in future.” TURNING THE old pal M.S. Dhoni, who the two veterans plundered gain confidence. ined knock was backed by Yuvraj also said he enjoyed CLOCK BACK switched brilliantly from play- 256, the 10th 100-plus stand He got going after reaching Dhoni’s complementary role, the confidence shown in him exemplified by his prompt in- ț Yuvraj and Dhoni are only ing a sheet-anchor’s role to that between the two and the his 50 o 56 balls and timed the by captain Virat Kohli. of a swash-buckler to get his highest fourth-wicket joint ef- ball beautifully to unleash his dication that the left-hander England captain Eoin Mor- the second pair aged 35 or should go for the referral after older to make hundreds in 10th century. fort against England by any array of strokes, also on the o- ting 10 fours and six mighty and Joe Root (54) added 100 gan, whose century went in The duo smashed many re- side. side, as he gathered his next 100 being given caught-behind o sixes, including three in a Liam runs for the second wicket be- vain, said it was disappointing the same innings. Woakes on 146. Tillakaratne Dilshan and cords while reviving India The plot turned on its head o just 71. Plunkett over which also saw fore R. Ashwin and Ravindra to lose after scoring so many Kumar Sangakkara did it from a precarious 25 for three after Morgan chose to field and His three sixes, two o Ben The ball had bumped o the the former India skipper’s dis- Jadeja’s spin reduced England runs. “The series is gone, but twice (vs. Bangladesh and to post its second highest ag- Chris Woakes displayed a fine Stokes over long-o and long- ground from Yuvraj’s bat. Yuv- missal. to 206 for five in the 32nd over. we are looking further ahead Scotland, 2015 WC) gregate, 381 for six, against spell of bowling, exhibiting on and one o Jake Ball on the raj eventually departed to a A superb Morgan (102) and a at Kolkata. That will be a good England. variation in length and seam leg side, highlighted his class. nick behind. A six o the back foot over gritty Moeen Ali (55), dropped preparation for the Champi- bowler Woakes’s head and an- ț Despite England captain movement, to remove K.L. The monkey was o Yuvraj’s Dhoni promptly studied the on 37, batted positively and at- ons Trophy,” he said. Their 256-run stand is the other one sliced over extra- Eoin Morgan’s valiant hun- Rahul, Virat Kohli and Shikhar back after he scored his first slowness of the track and tacked the bowlers tactically to Morgan said he wished second-highest for the fourth cover o Plunkett had left the dred, India managed to restrict Dhawan inside five overs. century since the 2011 World worked the ball around while add 93 runs. Morgan then more English players would wicket, behind the world 43,000-strong crowd mesmer- England to 366 for eight to re- Yuvraj, who was not at his Cup. Overwhelmed with emo- allowing Yuvraj to play his gathered 50 with Plunkett for play the Indian Premier record of 275* (Mohd. ised. Azharuddin and Ajay Jadeja gister a 15-run win and take an fluent best initially, made the tion, the left-hander thanked shots. When things were under the eighth wicket to stretch the League and gain experience of vs. Zimbabwe, Cuttack, 1998) unassailable 2-0 lead in the most of the wayward English the almighty, raising both his control, the copybook-defying England’s chase kept India contest before being blocked playing in India. — Special series. bowlers and hammered some hands, and thumped his chest Dhoni flexed his muscles, hit- under pressure. Jason Roy (82) by Kohli’s men. Correspondent PASSING SHOTS Commentator criticised Istomin ends Djokovic’s record title bid; Radwanska ousted over ‘gorilla’ comment MELBOURNE: Novak Djokovic two days earlier to beat Aus- suered arguably the biggest tralian wildcard Andrew defeat of his career when he Whittington. Karlovic won crashed out of the Australian 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 to set up an en- Open to an inspired 117th- counter with Belgium’s David ranked Uzbek Denis Istomin Gon. on Thursday, extending his Britain’s Johanna Konta slump in form. kept up her hot run of form as The defending champion she beat Japan’s Naomi Osaka sent down 72 unforced errors 6-4, 6-2 to set up a meeting as he lost 6-7(8), 7-5, 6-2, 6-7 with Caroline Wozniacki. US S broadcaster ESPN was (5), 4-6 in the second round to Open finalist Karolina Uplunged into a race row after end his bid for a record sev- Pliskova ousted Russian quali- one of its commentators enth title at Melbourne Park. fier Anna Blinkova to stay un- compared tennis player Venus Later, Rafael Nadal beaten this year. powered Williams to a “gorilla”, prompting past Marcos Bad day for Indians a flood of criticism online. Baghdatis Meanwhile, it was a bad day Commentator Doug Adler made 6-3, 6-1, 6-3 for the Indians with Leander the remark during the American’s and set up an One beneficiary of Istom- Paes and the rising team of match against Stefanie Voegele at enticing in’s win could be World No. 3 Purav Raja and Divij Sharan the Australian Open on third-round Milos Raonic, who was seeded making first round exits from Wednesday. showdown with rising Ger- to meet Djokovic in the the men’s doubles. “She misses a first serve and man star Alexander Zverev. semifinals. Paes and his Brazilian part- Venus is all over her,” said Adler, a In the women’s draw, Ser- Despite suering from ‘in- ner Andre Sa had a one-set ad- 58-year-old former player. “You ena Williams defeated Lucie fluenza’, the Canadian strode vantage but lost 6-4, 6-7(3), 4-6 see Venus move in and put the Safarova 6-3, 6-4. But third into the third round with 6-3, to 10th seeded pair of Treat gorilla effect on. Charging.” seed Agnieszka Radwanska 6-4, 7-6(4) demolition of Huey and Max Mirnyi. Viewers were quick to register was a major casualty when she Gilles Muller and will next In another first round their distaste on social media, lost 3-6, 2-6 to Croatian vet- play France’s Gilles Simon. match, Purav and Divij while tennis journalist Ben eran Mirjana Lucic-Baroni. blows the men’s competition fresh questions for the World you don’t feel that great on the Croatia’s Ivo Karlovic made suered a 6-7(9), 6-7(4) defeat Rothenberg called it “appalling It is more than a decade wide open as the six-time No. 2, who has been in a funk court, don’t have much a miraculous recovery from against the French team of stuff”. — AFP since Djokovic made such an champion was widely expec- since completing a career rhythm, and the player you’re his record-breaking, 84-game Jonathan Eysseric and Fabrice early exit from the Australian ted to reach the January 29 fi- Grand Slam and winning his playing against is feeling the win over Horacio Zeballos Martin. — Agencies Open, and he hasn’t lost in the nal, where he was seeded to 12th major title at last year’s ball very well,” he shrugged. Evans hopes for second round of any Grand meet five-time runner-up French Open. “That’s sport.” THE RESULTS new kit deal Slam since Wimbledon in Andy Murray. It also raises “It’s one of these days when While Djokovic was rocked Men: Second round: 32-Philipp (6), 6-4; Benoit Paire (Fra) bt Fabio 2008. by the defeat, there was joy for Kohlschreiber (Ger) bt Donald Young Fognini (Ita) 7-6(3), 4-6, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3. Djokovic had only been de- Istomin, who is coached by his (USA) 7-5, 6-3, 6-0; 13-Roberto Doubles: First round: 10-Treat feated once by a player out- mother and has never got bey- Bautista Agut (Esp) bt Yoshihito Huey (Phi) & Max Mirnyi (Blr) bt side the top 100 in the past ond the third round in 11 visits Nishioka (Jpn) 6-2, 6-3, 6-3; 25-Gilles Leander Paes (Ind) & Andre Sa (Bra) seven years, when he went to Melbourne Park. Simon (Fra) bt Rogerio Dutra Silva 4-6, 7-6(3), 6-4; Jonathan Eysseric down to 145-ranked Juan Mar- “I feel sorry for Novak, I (Bra) 6-4, 6-1, 6-1; 18-Richard Gas- (Fra) and Fabrice Martin (Fra) bt tin del Potro at the Rio was playing so good today,” he quet (Fra) bt Carlos Berlocq (Arg) Purav Raja (Ind) & Divij Sharan (Ind) Olympics. The stunning result said. “I surprised myself also.” 6-1, 6-1, 6-1; 30-Pablo Carreno-Busta 7-6(9), 7-6(4). (Esp) bt Kyle Edmund (GBr) 6-2, 6-4, Women: Second round: 5-Karo- 6-2; 21-David Ferrer (Esp) bt Ernesto lina Pliskova (Cze) bt Anna Blinkova Escobedo (USA) 2-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-2; (Rus) 6-0, 6-2; Jelena Ostapenko Istomin’s success comes as validation for Prajnesh Milos Raonic (Can) bt Gilles Muller (Lat) bt 31-Yulia Putintseva (Kaz) ANJANA SENTHIL At the Asia-Pacific Wildcard “He rushed to a 4-0 lead before I straight sets, and the Slovak had (Lux) 6-3, 6-4, 7-6(4). 6-3, 6-1; 14-Elena Vesnina (Rus) bt Play-offs for the 2017 Australian managed to pull things back a little. gone on to stun top seed Marin Cilic 15-Grigor Dimitrov (Bul) bt Chung Mandy Minella (Lux) 6-3, 6-3; Jen- fter stunning six-time Open, which was held in Zuhai in the second round of the Hye-On (Kor) 1-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4; 6- nifer Brady (USA) bt Heather Watson champion and holder Novak “I found my rhythm in the second Gael Monfils (Fra) bt Alexandr Dolgo- (GBr) 2-6, 7-6(3), 10-8; 6-Dominika ritain’s Dan Evans says he is A (China) in early December, Prajnesh set and was beginning to play really tournament proper. hoping to find a new kit Djokovic in the second round of the had held three match-points over polov Jr. (Ukr) 6-3, 6-4, 1-6, 6-0; Cibulkova (Svk) bt Hsieh Su-Wei B Australian Open on Thursday, Denis well in the third. I could have And, now, Istomin’s win over 24-Alexander Zverev (Ger) bt Francis (Tpe) 6-4, 7-6(8); 30-Ekaterina sponsor after he reached the Istomin in the semifinals, before the finished it off when I was up 5-4. Djokovic has Prajnesh dreaming big. Istomin said: “It is the biggest win Uzbek squeezed out a 6-2, 1-6, [11-9] Tiafoe (USA) 6-2, 6-3, 6-4; 20-Ivo Makarova (Rus) bt Sara Errani (Ita) Australian Open third round “But we began to play really long “Istomin is one of the best ball for me. It means so much so now I victory. Istomin then went on to Karlovic (Cro) bt Andrew Whitting- 6-2, 3-2 [retired]; 17-Caroline Wozni- wearing a $A20 ($15) shirt he games, and I couldn’t [keep up with] strikers out there. feel I can play with these guys and beat Duckhee Lee in the final, to win ton (Aus) 6-4, 6-4, 6-4; 11-David acki (Den) bt Donna Vekic (Cro) 6-1, bought in a Melbourne shop. him at the end.” “It shows that, on a good day, I be with them on the same level.” his place in the main draw at the Goffin (Bel) bt Radek Stepanek (Cze) 6-3; 9-Johanna Konta (GBr) bt Naomi Evans revealed his shopping have it in me to challenge the best In Chennai, away from the scene year’s first Grand Slam. Incidentally, Prajnesh had a 6-4, 6-0, 6-3; Denis Istomin (Uzb) bt Osaka (Jpn) 6-4, 6-2; 21-Caroline trip after he shocked World No. 7 of action, the result was instilling a one-degree separation from greater players in the world,” said the 2-Novak Djokovic (Srb) 7-6(8), 5-7, Garcia (Fra) bt Oceane Dodin (Fra) Marin Cilic to equal his best Grand similar sense of belief in Prajnesh “I began nervously as he was the glory at the Chennai Open too, this 27-year-old left-hander, who is now 2-6, 7-6(5), 6-4; 9-Rafael Nadal (Esp) 6-7(3), 6-4, 6-4; 16-Barbora Strycova Slam performance. “I’m just out of Gunneswaran. After all, he did pave top seed, and had been a top-30 year. In the final round of the ranked 319 in the world. bt Marcos Baghdatis (Cyp) 6-3, 6-1, (Cze) bt Andrea Petkovic (Ger) 6-0, contract with Nike.They didn’t the way for the Istomin show in player,” said Prajnesh, recalling that qualifiers, he had stretched Jozef “His win definitely gives me 6-3, 8-Dominic Thiem (Aut) bt 7-5; Nicole Gibbs (USA) bt Irina Fal- offer me another one.” — AFP Melbourne. In a way. semifinal against Istomin. Kovalik before going down in confidence.” Jordan Thompson (Aus) 6-2, 6-1, 6-7 coni (USA) 6-4, 6-1.

CM ND-ND YK NOIDA/DELHI 18 | SPORT THE HINDU FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 2017 Delhi 246 for six COA to come knocking NEW DELHI: Delhi failed to build on a good start and let Bengal Kohli & Co. are not infallible: O’Keefe share the honours on the open- at the BCCI door ing day of the four-day final of CRICKET / Exudes confidence about Australia’s preparation for the Test series G. VISWANATH the Cooch Behar (under-19) Names in the tournament at the Ferozeshah MELBOURNE: Australia spinner already fitting in and comfort- MUMBAI: After nearabout nine Kotla here on Thursday. Steve O’Keefe believes it able playing for Australia. decades, the Board of Control Electing to bat, Delhi fin- reckoning would be a daunting task to That’s a big ingredient for a for India (BCCI) is all set to be ished the day at 246 for six in tame Virat Kohli and his men youngster who is gonna travel run, for an unspecified period The following persons, associated 90 overs after openers Manoj in the upcoming Test series in to India. of time, by a Committee of Ad- with the BCCI so far, have been Kalra (53) and Ankur Kaushik India but insisted that they “He is a sponge. He is quiet ministrators (COA) with the proposed for different positions (46) raised 85 runs before Anuj were not infallible and might o the field, quirky at times. Supreme Court expected to therein, in connection with the IPL Rawat contributed 77. find the going dicult on turn- But in the cricketing sense, his pass an order on Friday. The investigation and the Justice Lodha From 135 for one, Delhi lost ing wickets. developing skills as a 20-year- Court will nominate the per- Committee recommendations: wickets at regular intervals, “It is a daunting task, but old are what 30-year-olds sons to the COA as per the re- Justice (Retd.) Mukul Mudgal: with Lakshay falling for 32, there are cracks in their walls, would love to have. He has got commendations of senior He probed the IPL malpractices and trapped leg-before by Ishan they are not infallible and if shots all over the park, he counsel and Amicus Curiae supervised the India-South Africa Porel o the last ball of the day. The scores: you are playing on wickets sweeps really well, he can be Gopal Subramaniam and Test match at the Ferozeshah Kotla, Delhi 246 for six in 90 overs which are spinning and disciplined against the new senior counsel Anil B. Divan. Delhi in 2015. He is the deputy (Ankur Kaushik 46, Manoj Kalra 53, straightening, you try to beat ball. He is showing a lot of By its order of January 2 and chairman of the FIFA Governance Anuj Rawat 77) vs. Bengal. — both sides of the bat and stay class for a young man.” 3, the Supreme Court, in re- and Review Committee and this Sports Bureau positive,” said O’Keefe ahead Asked if the sweep shot sponse to the third Status Re- puts a question mark over his of the four-Test series against would be critical in India, port submitted by the Justice nomination. India. O’Keefe said: “ya, I have no R.M. Lodha Committee that L. Nageswara Rao: Part of the IPL “You can get wickets by us- doubts. The guys who back authored radical reforms in Probe committee. Manigandan ing the same sort of recipe, by themselves to play that shot cricket, stated that the COA Nilay Dutta: Part of the IPL probe attacking the stumps, chan- will have plenty of success. I will oversee the BCCI’s ad- Committee. holds Bernadskiy ging the pace, trying to hit the don’t think Indian spinners ministration through its Chief Union Home Secretary G.K. Pillai, CHENNAI: S.S. Manigandan of In- top of o-stump. Even the best will like Australian batters Executive Ocer (CEO) and former India cricketer Mohinder dia held the second-seeded players in the world may find sweeping and sweeping well, that “it will have the power to Amarnath and former CAG chief Grandmaster Bernadskiy Vi- it dicult on wickets that are just as I don’t like Indian bat- issue all appropriate direc- Vinod Rai for an independent panel taliy of Ukraine to a draw in playing a few tricks.” ters sweeping well.” tions to facilitate due supervi- of administrators (proposed by the second round of the 9th The 32-year-old exuded WORD OF CAUTION: Australia’s Stephen O’Keefe feels that even the best players of the world Asked what Panesar had ad- sion and control.” Amicus Curiae Gopal Chennai Open Grandmaster confidence about Australia’s may find it difficult on Indian wickets that are playing a few tricks. — PHOTO: AP vised the team so far, O’Keefe Most importantly the order Subramaniam). chess tournament for the N. preparation for the Test series said: “The main thing he was also stated that the COA will Former cricketers Anil Kumble, Mahalingam Trophy here on which begins in Pune on Feb- He also bats, so he is gonna O’Keefe and young opening tough fellow to work with and saying is ‘be adaptable’. He also “ensure that the direc- Mohinder Amarnath, Diana Edulji Thursday. ruary 23. create a dierent type of en- batsman Matt Renshaw have I am sort of picking his brains said there would be times tions contained in the judge- and G.K. Pillai as Convenor The results (round two): “We have got our bases ergy, then obviously there is been training under England as how he bowls and how he when they play dierent shots ment of this Court dated July (proposed for the Steering Indians unless specified: Y.V.K. covered. Ashton Agar is super myself and guys who sweep as spinner Monty Panesar, who bats over there. He is open and to your best balls, at times each 18, 2016 (accepted and with Committee to help form a players’ Chakravarthy (1) lost to David Al- talent. He is improving as well, well. You have seen how com- has been hired by Cricket Aus- knowledgeable, so it is great to wicket’s gonna play dier- modifications) are fulfilled association). berto (Ita, 2). getting better and better and I fortable Mitchell sweeps on a tralia for the India tour. share that experience with ently, you just have to adapt as and to adopt all necessary and G.K. Pillai (proposed as Observer Bernadskiy Vitaliy (Ukr, 1.5) drew have no doubt he will be num- stage when there are people Asked about Panesar, him.” quickly as possible, trust your consequential steps for that of the BCCI by the Justice Lodha with S.S. Manigandan (1.5). ber one crew for Australia. around. I have no doubt if he O’Keefe said: “Great fellow, Talking about Renshaw, skills, but be there to adapt purpose. Committee). — G. Viswanath R. Raja Rithvik (1.5) drew with Vi- “Glenn Maxwell bowled gets picked he will do a great Monty. He has got the recipe O’Keefe said: “He is a pretty no quickly. So I am trying to work taly Sivuk (Ukr, 1.5). pretty well last time in India. job,” he said. that works in India and he is a fuss, no frills cricketer. He is on adaptability.” — PTI Queer episode Court, it all appeared a com- Adam Tukhaev (Ukr, 2) bt Sarbojit The outcome of Friday’s or- ical show, but the latest con- Paul (1). der by the apex court will be a frontation with the apex court A. Balkishan (1) lost to Vadim far cry from a queer episode has compelled the BCCI to Malakhatko (Bel, 2); Sa Kannan (1) that took place twelve and half face the music for not imple- lost to Adam Horvath (Hun, 2). Sri Lanka eager to hit back after Test whitewash years ago when the Madras menting the Justice Lodha Czebe Attila (Hun, 2) bt Soham High Court appointed interim Committee Datar (1). CENTURION: Sri Lanka is eager to in South Africa so we need to squad which includes five in- It retains six of its Test Cape Town. administrator for the BCCI, recommendations. Ranveer Mohite (1) lost to Stopa regain some pride after a dis- keep our heads high,” he said. ternational newcomers. squad, including talented The T20 squads: Justice S. Mohan, accompan- On Jan. 2, 2017, the Supreme Jacek (Pol, 2). mal Test series when it starts Faf du Plessis, the Test and young batsmen Kusal Mendis South Africa: Farhaan Behardien ied by concierge sta of the Court named senior counsel Valeriy Neverov (Ukr, 2) bt Leon the limited-over section of the Batsman-friendly pitches regular T20 captain, is among and Dhananjaya de Silva, who (Capt.), Theunis de Bruyn, Reeza Taj Mahal Hotel, had to stage a and Amicus Curiae Gopal Sub- Luke Mendonca (1). tour with the first of three All three Test matches were those rested, with batsman will be hoping to show their Hendricks, Imran Tahir, Heino Kuhn, hasty retreat. The BCCI de- ramaniam and senior counsel Virender Singh Negi (1) lost to Twenty20 Internationals on played on pitches designed to Farhaan Behardien taking skills in more benign condi- David Miller, Mangaliso Mosehle clared a one-day holiday for its Fali S. Nariman to suggest suit- Sahaj Grover (2). Friday. It will face an inexperi- help South Africa’s fast bowl- over the captaincy. tions than they endured in the (wk), Lungi Ngidi, Wayne Parnell, sta on that Saturday and the able names for the COA, but enced South Africa team in the ers but the tourists can look South Africa is expected to Tests. Dane Paterson, Aaron Phangiso, An- gates were locked at the old following the latter’s decision T20 series before playing the forward to more batsman- be at full-strength for the ODIs South Africa has not played dile Phehlukwayo, Jon-Jon Smuts BCCI oce at the North Stand, to withdraw because he had VERY BRIEFLY hosts in five One-Day friendly pitches, starting at Su- as both teams work towards a T20I since defeating Sri and A.B. de Villiers (for third match Cricket Club of India (CCI). appeared for the BCCI as a re- Internationals. perSport Park in Centurion the Champions Trophy in Lanka in the last match of an only). “My good wishes are always tainer in 2009, the Court sub- AIFF president Praful “Hopefully, we can start this week. England in June. otherwise disappointing Sri Lanka: Angelo Mathews with the Indian team. I love stituted him with Anil B. Di- Patel was on Thursday ap- afresh,” said Sri Lanka captain Sri Lanka will also be re- World T20 campaign in (Capt.), Dinesh Chandimal (wk), cricket. But they (BCCI) have van. pointed member of FIFA’s Fin- Angelo Mathews after a 3-0 lieved not to face Kagiso Ra- Young talent March. Behardien, David Dhananjaya de Silva, Thikshila de prevented me from taking ance Committee, which will Test series whitewash which bada and Vernon Philander, Sri Lanka’s recent record in Miller, Imran Tahir and Aaron Silva, Niroshan Dickwella, Asela Gun- over as the Interim Adminis- Overall policy work from 2017 to 2021, ac- he said was the worst defeat of the bowlers most responsible T20Is is not encouraging. Phangiso are the only mem- aratne, Danushka Gunathilaka, trator. The doors are locked The Court asked the two to cording to a release. Patel was his captaincy. for the destruction in the Since beating Afghanistan bers of the current squad Nuwan Kulasekara, Suranga Lakmal, and I have been prevented revert within two weeks and named senior vice-president “We have some fresh faces Tests. in the first match of the World which played in that tourna- Kusal Mendis, Sachith Pathirana, from taking charge. If this is said that the matter would be of the Asian Football Confed- in the T20 team and hopefully Left-arm fast bowler Wayne T20 in India last March, it has ment, although A.B. de Villiers Nuwan Pradeep, Seekkuge Prasanna, the way a former Supreme listed for Jan. 19. It has been eration (AFC) in December, we can beat South Africa. We Parnell is the only current Test lost its most recent six is expected to strengthen the Lakshan Sandakan and Isuru Udana. Court judge is being treated, put o by a day. It also stated 2016. have still got a long way to go player in a South Africa T20 matches. squad for the last match in — AFP you can draw your own con- that “the role of the Justice clusions. The High Court has R.M. Lodha Committee shall stayed the newly elected of- hereafter be confined to over- fice-bearers from functioning. all policy and direction on New Zealand to keep bouncing I have come here out of re- such matters as may be re- God’s Own wins feature event spect for the High Court, to ferred by this Court.” CHRISTCHURCH: Bangladesh has ton, with memories still fresh MUMBAI: God’s Own (Dashrath Singh Shro rep. Stride Livestock Pvt Ltd, Fire (T.S. Jodha) 3 and Medellin (Tre- meet all the people concerned Three days ago, Justice been warned to expect a fresh of how Australian opener Phil up) won the Singapore Turf Club M/s. Sameer H. Tapia, Chetan Shah & vor) 4. 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Justice Mohan said then. hinted that there could be lay- Kulkarni and trained by Narendra (Dashrath) 2, Sanam (K. Kadam) 3 Shah, Mrs. Pooja V. Shah rep. V Zaia While there were regrets dium-pacer Ewen Chatfield’s Lagad. and Windhoek (S.J. Sunil) 4. 9-1/2, Thorouhbred Racing & Breeding Pvt. From Oct. 8, 2004, when the ers of administrators and that that Bangladesh captain heart stopped and he required 1. ESTONIA PLATE, Div. II 3/4, 4-1/4. 2m 3.79s. Rs. 18 (w), 10, 22 Ltd. & Mr. Shailesh K. Kulkarni. Madras High Court had stayed fresh timelines would be given Mushfiqur was struck on the mouth-to-mouth resuscitation (1,200m), Cl. IV, rated 20 to 46: Top and 20 (p). SHP: Rs. 49, FP: Rs. 120, Q: Trainer: Narendra Lagad. the new BCCI committee from to the BCCI and its full mem- head and rushed to hospital after being hit on the forehead Wizard (T.S. Jodha) 1, D’Accord Rs. 87, Tanala: Rs. 519 and Rs. 274. 8. VICTORIOUS PLATE carrying out its duties and to bers to amend their MoA and (Neeraj) 2, Alien (Sandesh) 3 and Su- Favourite: Sabiq. Owner: Mr. (1,000m), Cl. III, rated 40 to 66: Mt during the first Test, New Zea- in a Test against England in per Icon (A. Gaikwad) 4. 3/4, Lnk, Nk. Sandeep N. Harpale. Trainer: C. Tianmen (S. Amit) 1, Minstrel Oct. 11 when the BCCI got the Rules and Regulations in line land pace spearhead Trent 1975. 1m 13.29s. Rs. 285 (w), 51, 13 and 12 (p). Rajendra. Heights (Trevor) 2, Free Speech Madras High Court order with the recommendations Boult described the intimidat- Mushfiqur has been advised SHP: Rs. 29, FP: Rs. 161, Q: Rs. 184, 5. BLUE RIBBON PLATE (Nadeem) 3 and Arabelle (Neeraj) 4. quashed by the Supreme made by his committee. ing bouncer as a valuable part not to play for up to three Tanala: Rs. 732 and Rs. 444. Favourite: (1,000m), Cl. V, rated 1 to 26: Be Bold 3/4, Lnk, Hd. 59.40s. Rs. 221 (w), 54, 12 D’Accord. Owners: Dr. Adi R.Nazir, (Trevor) 1, Highland Princess and 60 (p). SHP: Rs. 44, FP: Rs. 1,912, of New Zealand’s armoury. weeks, but Boult said that was M/s. Sanjay Rai & Narendra Lagad. (Sandesh) 2, Rich N Rare Q: Rs. 531, Tanala: Rs. 12,303. Favour- “I’m sure there’ll still be no reason to stop using legit- Trainer: Narendra Lagad. (Raghuveer) 3 and Bohemian (A. ite: Charming. Owner: Mrs. Magans- BADMINTON some short-pitched bowling,” imate short deliveries and 2. PLEASURE HUNT PLATE, Gaikwad) 4. 2-1/4, Sh, 1-1/4 . 1m 00.37s. ingh P. Jodha. Trainer: Magansingh P. Boult said on the eve of the most of the Bangladesh bats- Div. II (1,400m), Cl. V, rated 1 to 26: Rs. 50 (w), 19, 12 and 75 (p). SHP: Rs. Jodha. Sir Desmond (Trevor) 1, Resilient 34, FP: Rs. 118, Q: Rs. 20, Tanala: Rs. 9. ESTONIA PLATE, Div.I second Test as New Zealand men had proved they could (Sandesh) 2, Super Bolt (A. Gaikwad) 3,226 and Rs. 4,148. Favourite: High- (1,200m), Cl. IV, rated 20 to 46: Won- Saina, Jayaram advance looks to wrap up a sweep in all handle it. 3 and Wizard Of Odds (Neeraj) 4. 3, land Princess. Owners: M/s. Ashok der Story (S. Amit) 1, Speed Of formats against Bangladesh. Nose, 1-1/2. 1m 26.51s. Rs. 46 (w), 19, 12 Rupani & Kapil Bahl. Trainer: Faisal Sound (Trevor) 2, Almost Magical (G. SARAWAK (MALAYSIA): Saina Ne- Hung Shih Han (Tpe) 18-21, 14-21. ‘Valuable skill’ and 14 (p). SHP: Rs. 39, FP: Rs. 96, Q: Abbas. Amit) 3 and Hunting Pleasure (A. Men’s doubles: Manu Attri & B. “People have to realise why Rs. 28, Tanala: Rs. 193 and Rs. 101. 6. PLEASURE HUNT PLATE, Gaikwad) 4. 3/4, 1-1/2, 1/2. 1m 12.75s. hwal and Ajay Jayaram people are bowling short in “It’s a valuable skill as a fast Favourite: Resilient. Owners: M/s. Div.I (1,400m), Cl. V, rated 1 to 26: Rs. 146 (w), 33, 14 and 21 (p). SHP: Rs. entered the quarterfinals of Sumeeth Reddy lost to Hendra the first place and that’s to up- bowler,” Boult said. Akhtar Adamji Peerbhoy, Husain Z. Jetaway (Yash Narredu) 1, Kiss 41, FP: Rs. 465, Q: Rs. 940, Tanala: Rs. the Malaysia Masters Grand Aprida Gunawan & Markis Kido (Ina) set the batsmen and get them “It’s always intimidating Quettawalla, Pramod Gajanan Churi, From A Rose (A.Gaikwad) 2, Royal 7,087 and Rs. 2,025. Favourite: Hunt- Prix Gold here on Thursday. 17-21, 21-18, 12-21; Arjun & Balkrishna Agarwal & Ajay Arora. Éclair (T.S.Jodha) 3 and Vitesse (S.J. ing Pleasure. Owners: M/s. Shivam G. stuck on the crease to make coming out and facing a bar- Trainer: S.K. Sunderji. Sunil) 4. 1-3/4, 1-1/2, 2-1/4. 1m 25.96s. Dalvi, Sacheen P. Gamre & Ivor Saina brushed aside Indone- Ramchandran Shlok lost to Law Ch- the fuller ball more eective. rage of short-pitched bowling, 3. MARCHETTA PLATE Rs. 23 (w), 14, 45 and 15 (p). SHP: Rs. Fernandes. Trainer: Ivor Fernandes. sia’s Hanna Ramadini 21-17, 21- euk Him and Lee Chun Hei Reginald “You’re not going in there but I think they played it nicely (1,600m), Cl. III, rated 40 to 66: 167, FP: Rs. 290, Q: Rs. 441, Tanala: Rs. Jackpot (i): 70 per cent: Rs. 691 (238 12 in a 42-minute contest. Sixth (Hkg) 14-21, 17-21. Mixed doubles: with the intention of trying to (in Wellington). Volantis (Dashrath) 1, Sensex (Par- 1,194 and Rs. 409. Favourite: Jetaway. tkts.) and 30 per cent: Rs. 266 (265 seed Jayaram, meanwhile, de- Prajakta Sawant & Yogendran mar) 2, Merabella (Sandesh) 3 and Owners: Mr. Jaydev M. Mody rep. tkts.); (ii): 70 per cent: Rs. 3,46,876 hurt anyone — it’s to make Trent Boult.— PHOTO: PTI “They looked to be aggress- Furious N Fast (Zervan) 4. Not run: J.M. Livestock Pvt. Ltd. Trainer: (carried forward) and 30 per cent: Rs. feated Chinese Taipei’s Hsueh Khrishnan lost to Yong Kai Terry Hee your other skills more eect- ive to it, picked their times Daishonin. Lnk, 4-1/4, 3/4. 1m 38.65s. Nosher Cama. 4,796 (31 tkts.). Treble (i): Rs. 159 (25 Hsuan Yi 21-12, 15-21, 21-15. & Wei Han Tan (Sin) 17-21, 17-21; ive and have a bit more ments when Mushfiqur lay down wind and into the wind Rs. 26 (w), 10, 14 and 14 (p). SHP: Rs. 7. SINGAPORE TURF CLUB tkts.); (ii): Rs. 970 (8 tkts.); (iii): Rs. Other results: Women’s Jwala Gutta & Manu Attri lost to Ton- 37, FP: Rs. 91, Q: Rs. 23, Tanala: Rs. 91 TROPHY (1,000m), Maiden, 3-y-o 5,805 (4 tkts.). Super Jackpot: 70 per towi Ahmad & Gloria Emanuelle Wid- purpose.” prone on the pitch after he was when to play the short ball, ” and Rs. 37. Favourite: Volantis. Own- only: God’s Own (Dashrath) 1, Lord cent: Rs. 37, 788 (carried forward) and doubles: Aparna Balan & Prajakta There were anxious mo- hit in the first Test in Welling- he said. — AFP ers: Dr. Ram H. Shro & Mr. Raj H. Commander (Santosh) 2, Dance Of 30 per cent: Rs. 8,097 (2 tkts.). Sawant lost to Chiang Kai Hsin and jaja (Ina) 18-21, 10-21. — PTI

CM ND-ND YK NOIDA/DELHI | THE HINDU FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 2017 SPORT 19 Goveas exits Smith guides Australia home Wizards down Grizzlies SHARM EL SHEIKH: Aryan Goveas The Saha-Parthiv duel PERTH: Pakistan was left scomb early in his innings. match series. lost 7-5, 4-6, 7-6(2) to second lamenting the missed chances He was caught from a no- “Our only chance of really seed Frederico Ferreira Silva after Australia capitalised on ball before he had scored, and exerting pressure was to take WASHINGTON: John Wall and in the second round of the its errors to win the ODI in was then dropped on 10. early wickets, and we nearly Otto Porter scored 25 points $15,000 Futures tennis tourna- Perth on Thursday by seven Pakistan coach Mickey Ar- had that right,” Arthur said. apiece on Wednesday as Wash- ment here on Thursday. under the spotlight wickets, with skipper Steven thur could only rue the mis- “We just can’t aord those ington Wizards notched up its Meanwhile, Adil Kalyanpur Smith scoring a century. takes that helped Australia little lapses, so very disap- 13th straight home win, 104-101 made his first singles ATP Pakistan made 263 for take a 2-1 lead in the five- pointing.” — AFP over Memphis Grizzlies. point as he beat qualifier Eric CRICKET / Healthy competition for spots augurs well seven after being put in, The results: Golden State Warri- Caleguer of Brazil 3-6, 6-2, 6-1 though it looked set to post a SCOREBOARD ors 121 bt Oklahoma City Thunder in the first round of the $15,000 for the team, says Pujara bigger score at several stages. 100; Indiana Pacers 106 bt Sacra- ITF men’s tournament at Man- The home side replied with Pakistan: Mohd. Hafeez lbw b Faulkner 10-0-62-0. mento Kings 100; New Orleans Pelic- acor in Spain. 265 for three, winning with 30 Hazlewood 4, Sharjeel Khan b Head Australia: D. Warner c Rizwan b ans 118 bt Orlando Magic 98; Hous- The results: balls to spare. 50, Babar Azam c Handscomb b Junaid 35, U. Khawaja c Rizwan b Amir ton Rockets 111 bt Milwaukee Bucks $15,000 Futures, Sharm El After paceman Josh Hazle- Hazlewood 84, A. Shafiq c Khawaja b 9, S. Smith (not out) 108, P. Hand- 92; Detroit Pistons 118 bt Atlanta Sheikh: Second round: Frederico wood applied the brakes to a Head 5, S. Malik c Wade b Stanlake 39, scomb c Rizwan b Hasan Ali 82, T. Hawks 95; New York Knicks 117 bt Ferreira Silva (Por) bt Aryan Goveas promising Pakistan innings U. Akmal c Wade b Hazlewood 39, Head (not out) 23; Extras (b-1, lb-1, Boston Celtics 106; Philadelphia 7-5, 4-6, 7-6(2). with three wickets, skipper Imad Wasim c Head b Cummins 9, w-5, nb-1): 8; Total (for three wkts. in 76ers 94 bt Toronto Raptors 89; First round: Goveas bt Jose Vidal Smith and ODI debutant Mohd. Rizwan (not out) 14, Mohd. 45 overs): 265. Washington Wizards 104 bt Mem- Azorin (Esp) 7-5, 6-4. Peter Handscomb added 183 Amir (not out) 4; Extras (lb-7, w-8): 15; Fall of wickets: 1-44, 2-45, 3-228. phis Grizzlies 101; Charlotte Hornets $15,000 Futures, Manacor, for the third wicket in the Total (for seven wkts. in 50 overs): Pakistan bowling: Hafeez 6-1- 107 bt Portland Trailblazers 85. — Spain: First round: Adil Kalyanpur chase to set their team on the 263. 30-0, Amir 10-0-36-1, Junaid 9-0-58-1, Agencies bt Eric Caleguer (Bra) 3-6, 6-2, 6-1. path to victory. Fall of wickets: 1-36, 2-85, 3-99, Hasan Ali 10-0-62-1, Wasim 8-0-59-0, Doubles: First round: Pascal Meis It could have been much 4-162, 5-222, 6-244, 7-246. Malik 2-0-18-0. & Demian Raab (Ger) bt Jake Hersey dierent for Pakistan, as it Australia bowling: Hazlewood Toss: Australia. (G.Br) & Adil Kalyanpur 7-6(3), 7-5. squandered two golden op- 10-0-32-3, Stanlake 10-1-55-1, Cum- Man-of-the-match: Smith. ‘Khelo India’ Women: $15,000 ITF, Guade- portunities to remove Hand- mins 10-1-42-1, Head 10-0-65-2, Australia won by seven wickets. loupe: First round: Monika Kil- in wrestling narova (Cze) bt Kyra Shroff 6-2, 6-2. Doubles: Quarterfinals: Mayo FACE-OFF: With the senior India wicketkeeper’s spot up for grabs, Parthiv Patel (left) and PWL NEW DELHI: The Sports Author- Hibi (Jpn) & Carol Zhao (Can) bt Es- Wriddhiman Saha will be jockeying for position during the Irani Cup tie. ity of India (SAI) will organise telle Cascino (Fra) & Kyra 6-3, 7-5. — FILE PHOTOS: K.R. DEEPAK & G.P. SAMPATH KUMAR the ‘Khelo India’ wrestling First round: Estelle Cascino & Kyra competition for under-14 and bt Melissa Kopinski & Mara Schmidt AMOL KARHADKAR have sealed the spot, the bash- players who can come in and Punjab takes the honours 16 boys and girls at the K.D. (US) 6-1, 3-6, [10-7]. $15,000 ITF, ful Bengali broke down mid- perform well.” Jadhav wrestling arena at the Cairo: First round: Carlota Molina MUMBAI: Just when Wriddhi- way through the England UTHRA GANESAN Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium Megias (Esp) bt Natasha Palha 6-3, man Saha walked o the series. And Parthiv, brought in Siraj replaces Thakur on January 20 and 21. 6-4; Fatma Al Nabhani (Oma) bt greens of Cricket Club of In- as replacement, made a mark Hyderabad pacer Mo- NEW DELHI: The 74kg weight cat- The boys will compete in Nidhi Chilumula 6-3, 6-0. — Sports dia’s Brabourne Stadium on with steady hands behind hammed Siraj joined the Rest egory in Indian men’s wrestling the 50, 54, 58 and 63kg weight Bureau Thursday afternoon, Parthiv wickets and handy contribu- of India squad in place of may have two of the most fam- categories, while it will be 40, Patel stepped out of the Gu- tions with the willow. Mumbai fast bowler Shardul ous names in the country — 43, 46 and 49kg for the girls. jarat change room and joined Parthiv strengthened his Thakur, who has been side- Sushil Kumar and Narsingh Ya- The wrestlers will assemble his teammates for a while. It case with a sterling show in the lined with an ankle injury. dav — but it was national cham- from 22 States and Union Southampton was perhaps the only instance Ranji final last week when he Thakur was examined by team pion Jitendra who made the dif- Territories. of the two diminutive wicket- scored 90 and 143 besides tak- India’s medical sta in Pune ference at a packed K.D. Jadhav Some of the eminent wrest- meets Arsenal keepers crossing each other’s ing six catches in a winning on Tuesday and was ruled out Stadium here on Thursday. lers and coaches like Maha path, literally, a day ahead of cause. of the game. Jitendra won the last and de- Singh Rao, Yashvir Singh, PLYMOUTH (UNITED KINGDOM): the prestigious Irani Cup tie Parthiv, however, played it Gujarat has made two cisive bout in the second season Sujeet Mann, Rajeev Tomar Southampton set up a fourth- between the Ranji Trophy down. “It’s a game between changes to the squad that of the Pro Wrestling League CRUCIAL TIE: Sofia Mattsson got past Odunayo Adekuoroye in are expected to be present to round clash at home to 12-time champion and the Rest of Gujarat and the Rest and not overcame Mumbai in Indore (PWL) to help Punjab Royals the women’s 53kg bout. encourage and guide the winner Arsenal after Shane India. between two players. We all in the Ranji final. While top- take the title 5-4 against Hary- young wrestlers. — Special Long’s scruy stoppage-time Figuratively though, both know he [Saha] is very talen- order batsman Bhargav Merai ana Hammers. technical superiority against point after Punjab's protest was Correspondent strike gave it a 1-0 win over Saha and Parthiv’s paths have ted, but it’s a game between has been dropped due to poor Hammers, who were run- Krishan Kumar by racing to a rejected right at the end. second-tier Norwich City. crossed several times over the two teams, not individual form, pace bowler Mehul Patel ners-up in the inaugural edition 15-0 lead in just two-and-half- Odunayo almost won by Championship leader New- last decade. Parthiv and Saha players,” said the Gujarat cap- fractured his leg in a road acci- as well, had managed to win the minutes. pushing Sofia out of the com- castle United beat Birming- have been competing to be In- tain. dent, thus paving the way for face-o in the league stage, but His Punjab counterpart petition area but ran out of TN girls win title ham City 3-1 at St. James’ Park, dia’s reserve wicketkeeper, Cheteshwar Pujara, the Rest Het Patel and Mohit Thadani came up short once again in the Vladimir Khinchegashvili, who time. Punjab’s Nirmala Devi Matt Ritchie scoring twice but with M.S. Dhoni’s sudden of India captain, however, said to be included. final. With the nine-bout match had suered an upset against (48kg) was adjudged the best CHITRADURGA: Tamil Nadu de- The results: retirement from Tests at the that healthy competition for The teams (from): Gujarat: tied 4-4, Jitendra, the reigning Sandeep Tomar earlier, en- wrestler of the final. feated Haryana 25-13, 25-20, Newcastle 3 (Ritchie 9-pen, 90+2, fag end of 2014, the next five spots augurs well for Indian Parthiv Patel (capt & wk), Priyank Commonwealth Champion- sured there would be no repeat The results: Final: Punjab Royals 25-17 in the girls’ final of the Gouffran 34) bt Birmingham 1 (Cot- days could well see them in- cricket. “It’s very good for the Panchal, Samit Gohil, Manprit Juneja, ship winner, was favourite with a single take down in a nar- beat Haryana Hammers 5-4 [Wo- 43rd junior National volleyball terill 71); Plymouth 0 lost to Liverpool volved in a straight face-o to Indian team. Both are experi- Rujul Bhatt, Chirag Gandhi, Hardik against Sumit Sehrawat in the row 3-0 win in the 57kg, all the men: 48kg: Nirmala Devi bt Indu championship held here on 1 (Lucas 18); Southampton 1 (Long seal the slot in India’s starting enced, both are performing Patel, Chintan Gaja,, Rudra Pratap 74kg and duly delivered, dom- points coming in the first Chaudhary 5-2; 53kg: Odunayo Ad- Thursday. 90+2) bt Norwich 0. — AFP XI. well. Ultimately it would be up Singh, Rush Kalaria, Ishwar Chaud- inating all through and winning round. ekuoroye lost to Sofia Mattsson 3-4; The results: Final: Girls: Tamil While Saha was making the to the team management to de- hary, Dhruv Raval, Karan Patel, Het 10-1 to seal the deal in his team’s The crucial tie for both teams 58kg: Manju Kumari lost to Marwa Nadu bt Haryana 25-13, 25-20, 25-17. most of his prolonged run, cide. I always believe if you Patel, and Mohit Thadani. favour. was in the women’s 53kg with Amri 0-12; 75kg: Vasilisa Marzaliuk Semifinals: Boys: Karnataka bt Parthiv was knocking on the have healthy competition, it’s Rest of India: Cheteshwar Pujara Till then, however, the tie Haryana’s Rio bronze medallist bt Kiran 5-0; Men: 57kg: Vladimir Uttar Pradesh 25-20, 22-25, 25-22, Amritraj calls for selectors’ doors by not only very good for the team,” Pu- (capt), Abhinav Mukund, Akhil Her- went as per script with the big Sofia Mattsson up against Ni- Khinchegashvili bt Sandeep Tomar 25-18; Tamil Nadu bt Haryana 25-16, scoring runs but also paying jara said. wadkar, Karun Nair, Manoj Tiwary, names winning their bouts eas- gerian Odunayo Adekuoroye 3-0; 65kg: Ilias Bekbulatov bt Ra- 30-28, 25-12. Girls: Tamil Nadu bt action on Nagal extra attention — under the “If we want to be No. 1 in the Wriddhiman Saha (wk), Kuldeep Ya- ily even as the foreign wrestlers and the former who had lost in jneesh 13-0 (retired hurt); 70kg: Karnataka 25-17, 25-23, 16-25, 25-16; watchful eyes of former India world, we need to have some dav, Shahbaz Nadeem, Pankaj Singh, proved their worth. Haryana the league stage for her only de- Pankaj Rana lost to Magomed Kurb- Haryana bt Maharashtra 25-16, 25- NEW DELHI: Outgoing Davis Cup stumper Kiran More — on his back-up players. Not just K. Vignesh, Siddarth Kaul, Mo- captain Abdusalam Gadisov feat so far in the PWL this sea- analiev 4-9; 74kg: Jitendra bt Sumit 12, 25-11. captain Anand Amritraj, on wicketkeeping skills. wicketkeepers, but even in hammed Siraj, Akshay Wakhare, kept his unbeaten record in the son, managed to edge ahead 4-3 Sehrawat 10-1; 97kg: Krishan Kumar Third-place: Boys: Haryana bt Thursday, said there were no Just when Saha looked to other departments. We need Ishan Kishan, and Prashant Chopra. competition intact, winning on by virtue of getting a penalty lost to Abdusalam Gadisov 0-15]. UP 25-20, 19-25, 25-20, 25-20. Girls: denying the disciplinary is- Karnataka bt Maharashtra 25-17, 25- sues concerning Sumit Nagal, 17, 25-10. — Sports Bureau and called on the AITA to take CHESS FOOTBALL appropriate action. It is learnt that Nagal was de Villiers extends dropped from the Davis Cup Adhiban punishes Rupinder to lead team because of disciplinary Test sabbatical Man City completes issues, which the 19-year-old Delhi Waveriders has refuted. But his claims of Karjakin; Hari loses JOHANNESBURG: South Africa innocence are now being chal- batting star A.B. de Villiers’ ab- Jesus transfer NEW DELHI: Delhi Waveriders on lenged by Amritraj. WIJK AAN ZEE: Debutant B. Ad- sence from Test cricket will Thursday named seasoned In- “After reading the reports of hiban finally made his pres- extend until late this year after LONDON: Brazilian starlet Gab- initial fee of £27 million ($33.3 dia defender Rupinderpal the last two days about Sumit ence felt at the elite Tata Steel he told journalists on Wednes- riel Jesus has formally com- million). Singh as its captain for the fifth Nagal, here is what happened Masters chess tournament, day that he would miss the pleted his move to Manchester He helped Palmeiras to its edition of the Hockey India in Delhi during the Spain tie: punishing Sergey Karjakin for series against England and City from Palmeiras, the first league title in 22 years last League (HIL) starting On the Monday before the tie, his overambitious plans in the Bangladesh. Premier League club an- year and has scored scored Saturday. Sumit showed up at the Hyatt fifth round here on Thursday. He had already announced nounced on Thursday. five goals in his first six games With Cedric D’Souza con- in Delhi with a girl during in Karjakin, who lost the at a one-day series launch on City agreed to sign Jesus on for Brazil. tinuing to helm the team, the process of checking in,” World championship title Tuesday that he had decided a five-year contract in August, “Gabriel is a technically gif- Rupinder, who was named Amritraj told PTI. match to Magnus Carlsen late not to make himself available but the 19-year-old was imme- ted player who was chased by Player of the Tournament in “After a chat with (AITA last year, underestimated the for a Test series in New Zeal- diately loaned back to Pal- some of Europe’s biggest clubs the previous edition, replaced CEO) Hironmoy Chatterjee, young India’s prowess in this and in March. meiras until the end of the and we are delighted he de- New Zealand striker Simon (team coach) Zeeshan (Ali) French Defence game, and de Villiers did not take ques- Brazilian season in December. cided to join City,” said City’s Child as leader. Child has been and I sat down with Sumit and went down in just 31 moves. B. Adhiban. tions on Tuesday but held a A.B. de Villiers. — PHOTO: AFP With City having now com- director of football Txiki named vice-captain this time I told him it was not acceptable A pawn-push towards Ad- press conference on Wednes- pleted his registration, he Begiristain. around. to have the girl there and that hiban’s castled king on the 19th in 48 moves. day where he said his absence ing into 2018. could make his debut for Pep “He has the potential to be- Buoyed by the presence of ju- she should be sent home. He move decisively started Kar- So tops the field with four from Test cricket would ex- “I don’t expect to just walk Guardiola’s side in Saturday’s come one of the best attacking nior team captain Harjeet Singh did that right away.” jakin’s downfall. points after Levon Aronian de- tend to a four-Test series in back into the Test side,” he home game with high-flying players in the game and we and 19-year-old Mandeep While Somdev Devvarman Adhiban found the precise feated overnight leader Pavel England during the South said. “I am prepared to make Tottenham Hotspur. look forward to watching him Singh, Waveriders have in- and Rohan Bopanna have de- continuation, helped by one Eljanov. African winter as well as two my comeback with the Titans “I want to win titles and develop further here in cluded some new faces, includ- fended Nagal and attacked the more error of judgement from The results: Fifth round: Wesley matches against Bangladesh in (his South African franchise) Manchester City is a club that Manchester. ing Argentine Manuel Brunet, AITA for leaking details of his the Russian on the 22nd move. So (USA, 4) bt P. Hari Krishna (2.5); September and October. and make a contribution for is used to winning,” Jesus said “I think with Pep Guardiola part of the Rio Olympics gold- indiscipline, Amritraj admit- The lowest rated player in this Sergey Karjakin (Rus, 2.5) lost to B. The South Africa one-day them and prove that I am good in comments published on the as manager and the squad we winning side, Belgian goal- ted that the player did have al- field of 14, Adhiban tightened Adhiban (2); Pavel Eljanov (Ukr, 3.5) captain will continue to be enough.” City website. already have here, Jesus has keeper Vincent Vanasch, and cohol-related issues during the noose when Karjakin in- lost to Levon Aronian (Arm, 3); Wei Yi available for ODIs during this de Villiers, whose wife is ex- “City is a club that always the perfect platform to reach former South Africa captain the Chandigarh tie. vited the loss of rook for a (Chn, 2.5) drew with Anish Giri (Ned, period. pecting a second child, said his competes for the title in the his full potential.” Austin Smith. The new Indian Meanwhile, AITA issued a bishop in an already-crum- 2.5); Ian Nepomniachtchi (Rus, 2) de Villiers, who turns 33 next life priorities had changed. “It competitions it enters, so that Jesus’s arrival is a timely lift additions include junior team press release denying that any bling position. drew with Magnus Carlsen (Nor, month, said he planned to re- is definitely not the end of the was an important factor, and for Guardiola, who finds him- goalkeeper Vikas Dahiya, of its ocials had let out After Adhiban scored the 3.5); Radoslaw Wojtaszek (Pol, 2.5) turn to Test cricket for the story but I need time to get my- because of the manager, Guar- self under intense scrutiny Mandip Antil & Pardeep Singh. Nagal’s indiscretions to the biggest victory of his career, P. bt Leok van Wely (Ned, 0.5). — home series against India and self ready for the Tests at the diola, and the squad.” after last weekend’s chasten- “With some of the players media. — PTI Hari Krishna lost to Wesley So Sports Bureau Australia at the end of 2017, go- end of the year.” — AFP ing 4-0 defeat at Everton. from last year’s team unavail- Highly rated It was City’s fifth league de- able, we have done our best to Jesus, who can play right feat of the season and left them fill in the gaps. We definitely TENNIS BOXING across the front line, is one of in fifth place in the table, two are a well-rounded and bal- the most highly rated young- points o the Champions anced team,” D’Souza said. — sters in world football and is League places and 10 points Special Correspondent Aditya Khanna Mandeep Kaur advances reported to have cost City an below leader Chelsea. — AFP Pradesh’s Chiyane Yadav also in semifinals NEW DELHI: Former World junior Madhya Pradesh’s Anjali emerged victorious against Sunish in last four champion Mandeep Kaur of Sharma and Andhra’s G. Jyothi Purnima Sinha of Bihar. GWALIOR: Aditya Khanna got bt Aditya Khanna & Ashish Khanna Punjab defeated Madhya Pra- blanked Arunachal Pradesh’s KOLKATA: Dhruv Sunish beat past third seed Dilip Mohanty, 4-6, 6-1, [11-9]; Avinash Kunwar & desh’s Gazal Mariya Mathew Muni Leya and Manipur’s H. In welterweight compatriot Megh Patel in as the latter retired midway Vinod Sridhar bt Manish Aggarwal & in the third round to reach the Monika Devi 5-0 respectively (64kg-69kg), Astha Pahwa of straight sets to move into the through the second set in the Nishant Goel 6-3, 6-2. featherweight division to reach the last-eight stage. Uttar Pradesh beat Diksha of boys’ singles semifinals of over-35 age group of the ITF Over-45: Quarterfinals: Nagaraj quarterfinals of the youth wo- Punjab’s Babita Rani edged Jammu and Kashmir 4-1 to DKS ITF Juniors tennis here grade-4 seniors’ tennis tourna- Revanasiddaiah bt Gurdarshan Singh men’s National boxing cham- out Nikita Lohar 3-2, while Ut- make the last eight while Del- on Thursday. Sunish remains ment here on Thursday. Ramana 6-2, 6-3; Chandra Bhushan pionship here on Thursday. tar Pradesh’s Pragati beat hi’s Muskan Verma, Punjab’s the only Indian in the fray as Aditya led 6-2, 3-1 when Mo- bt Bal Kishan Bhatia 6-4, 6-2; Alok Mandeep was adjudged win- Sheetal of Chandigarh to also Arnpreet Kaur and Andhra’s rest of his compatriots — Rish- hanty retired. Bhatnagar bt Vinod Seth 6-3, 6-3; ner after the referee stopped advance in the light-fly (45- A.K. Sridivya also advanced. abh Sharda, Parikshit Somani Jagdish Tanwer bt Tuleswor Singh In the semifinals, Aditya the contest. 48kg) category. Important results (third and Karan Srivastava —lost will play second seed Nishant Thongbam 6-1, 2-0 (retired). In the light weight division In flyweight (48-51kg), Mani round): Feather: Mandeep Kaur against overseas opponents. Doubles semifinals: Rohit Rawat & Goel. The other semifinal will (57-60kg), R.K. Sinsha of Ker- Singh Gaur of Madhya Pra- (Pun) bt Gazal Mariya Mathew (MP) The girls’ singles semifinals Jagdish Tanwer bt Alok Bhatnagar & be between top seed and ala thrashed Uttar Pradesh’s desh, Punjab’s Kamaljeet Kaur RSC; Light (57kg-60kg): R.K. Sinsha will see three Indians, Shivani former national champion Vinod Seth 6-2, 6-2; Bal Kisshan Bha- Nahid Ansari 5-0 to enter the and Andhra’s G. Ramya (Ker) bt Nahid Ansari (U.P.) 5-0; Light- Amineni, Akanksha Bhan and Vinod Sridhar and Himanshu tia & Gurdarshan Singh Ramana bt last eight. brushed aside Rajasthan’s fly (45kg-48kg): Babita Rani (Pun) Lasya Patnaik, in action. Shankar who battled past Puneet Kumar Gupta & Mani Mohan Maharashtra’s R.K. Poonam, Nidhi Dhaka, Uttar Pradesh’s bt Nikita Lohar 3-2; Pragati (UP) bt The results: Boys (quarterfi- fourth seed Mohit Phogat. Nehru 6-3, 6-0. Manipur’s Jilotama Chanu and Anu Singh and Uttarakhand’s Sheetal (Chd); Fly (48kg-51kg): nals): Yu Hua-Chen (Tpe) bt Rishabh In the over-55 age group, Over-55: Quarterfinals: Ajeet Haryana’s Jony also put up Amita Soliyal 5-0 respectively Mani Singh Gaur (MP) bt Nidhi Dhaka Sharda 7-5, 6-2, Dostanbek Tashbu- Puneet Kumar Gupta beat Bhardwaj bt Bhimraj Baliram Patil dominating shows and to make it to the quarterfinals. (Raj) 5-0; Kamaljeet Kaur (Pun) bt Anu latov (Kaz) bt Parikshit Somani 6-0, second seed Pawan Jain 3-6, 6-1, 6-1; Sharad Tak bt Harsh Kumar reached the quarterfinals after Assam’s Joy Kumari Lama Singh (UP) 5-0; G. Ramya (AP) bt 6-4, Dhruv Sunish bt Megh Bhargav 6-2, 6-4. Sharma 6-1, 6-1; Mani Mohan Nehru their bouts were stopped by won after the referee stopped Amita Soliyal (Utk) 5-0; Joy Kumari Patel 6-1, 6-2, Hazem Naow (Syr) bt The results: bt Surinder Mohan Sharma 6-3, 7-6 the referee. her contest against P. Pravalika Lama (Asm) bt P. Pravalika (TS) RSC; Karan Srivastava 2-6, 6-3, 6-0. Over-35: Quarterfinals: Vinod (2); Puneet Kumar Gupta bt Pawan In light-welter (60-64kg), of Telangana. Bantam (51kg-54kg): M. Dhivya Girls (semifinals): Axana Sridhar bt Akhil Mathur 6-0, 6-0; Hi- Jain 3-6, 6-2, 6-4. Doubles semi- Rajasthan’s Lalita, Maha- In bantamweight (51-54kg), (TN) bt Shweta S. Pawar (Mah) 5-0; Mareen (Bel) bt Rhea Verma 6-1, 6-4, manshu Shankar bt Mohit Phogat finals: Ajeet Bhardwaj & Rakesh rashtra’s Venessa R. Arez, M. Dhivya of Tamil Nadu Deepa Kumari (MP) bt Harpreet Kaur Shivani Amineni bt Vaidehi Chaud- 7-5, 6-7(4), 6-2; Aditya Khanna bt Kohli bt Puneet Kumar Gupta & Mani Goa’s Vaishnavi Prabhu and dumped Maharashtra’s (Pun) 3-2; Welter (64kg-69kg): hari 6-3, 1-6, 7-5, Akanksha Bhan bt Dilip Mohanty 6-2, 3-1 (retired); Mohan Nehru 4-6, 6-0, [10-7]; Pawan Nancy Payast of Madhya Pra- Shweta S. Pawar 5-0 while Astha Pahwa (UP) bt Diksha (J&K) 4-1; Yubarani Banerjee 6-4, 5-7, 6-3, Nishant Goel bt Manish Aggarwal Jain & Sharad Tak bt Narender Jan- desh advanced to the quarterfi- Madhya Pradesh’s Deepa Ku- Middle (69kg-75kg): Sapna (Har) bt SET TO GO: With City having now completed his registration, Lasya Patnaik bt Shivani Manjanna 6-2, 6-1. Doubles semifinals: Naga- weja & Surnder Mohan Sharma 6-3, nals after the referee stopped mari eked out a 3-2 win over Shri Chandana (AP) 5-0; A. Arundhati Gabriel Jesus could make his debut for Pep Guardiola’s side in 6-3, 7-5. — Special raj Revanasiddaiah & Jagdish Tanwer 4-6, [10-7]. — Sports Bureau the contests. Punjab’s Harpreet Kaur. Uttar (TN) bt Nishta Mittal (Raj) 3-2. — PTI Saturday’s home game with Tottenham Hotspur. — PHOTO: AFP Correspondent

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