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SHORT TAKES ARMY CONCERNED Melania for happiness curriculum OVER CAPFs COMBAT DRESS Children ask Flotus, how far is USA from India? As answer, she only smiles PAWAN BALI |DC VINEETA PANDEY | DC NEW DELHI, FEB. 25 NEW DELHI, FEB. 25 IVANKA PICKS Indian Army has expressed “What is your name?” SHERWANI BY concern over some Central “What do you do?” “How Paramilitary Forces deployed far is America from here?” in Delhi to control riots, wear- “Is it very big? Which is INDIAN DESIGNER ing Army pattern combat your favourite cartoon?” dress. Indian Army has writ- — These were some of the New Delhi, Feb. 25: ten to defence ministry saying questions that were tossed Following US First Lady that home ministry should at First Lady of The Melania Trump, US issue instructions that combat United States Melania President Donald dress should not be worn by Trump when she visited Trump’s daughter Ivanka Central Armed Police Forces the Delhi government-run on Tuesday went Indian (CAPFs) while being deployed Sarvodaya School at Moti with an Anita Dongre to handle law and order situa- Bagh. sherwani made of silk tions or being deployed in Trump was here to see from West Bengal. urban areas affected by terror- how Delhi government She wore a white sher- ism, as the surroundings do school teach ‘happiness’ in wani crafted from hand- not demand such a require- their classes. The school woven silk from ment. was chosen mainly for its Murshidabad to attend Indian Army said that use of logistics and close proxim- the US president’s cere- distinctly different (both in ity to Hotel Maurya, where monial welcome at colour and pattern) disruptive the Trumps were staying, Rashtrapati Bhavan. dress by CAPFs and state and the US Embassy. Dongre said in a state- police forces should be “My name is Melania ment that the sherwani is restricted only to deployment Trump.” “I am the First timeless and a classic. in jungle terrain in left wing Lady of The United “We created this style 20 extremist affected areas. Army States.” “My favourite car- years ago and it’s amazing said that the bullet proof jack- toon is Tom and Jerry,” to see how beautifully rel- ets worn by CAPFs and state replied Trump. But, for the evant it is even today,” police forces should be of plain rest of the questions, all Dongre said. PTI khaki colour and not of com- she had was a big smile as bat colour. an answer. Certain personnel deployed Trump spent over an promising future. with Delhi Police on Sunday to hour in the school and Happiness Curriculum control riots at Jaffrabad were interacted with students must be implemented not seen wearing Indian Army from Kindergarten to Cla- only in America but across pattern combat dress. ss 4. She witnessed acti- the world,” she added. Army sources said that over vities where kids were rea- Trump was given a warm a period of time, CAPFs and ding books, building bloc- reception and she was state police forces in India ks and busy colouring. She seen clapping during the have started wearing combat then visited a class where dance performances by the uniforms which are just slight- Yoga session was on. children that later saw the ly different from the ones worn In the last, she entered entire gathering dancing by Indian Army personnel. the much famed “Happ- to bhangra. In fact, it start- “These minor variations can- iness Classroom” where ed when a Sikh boy sitting not be distinguished by most she meditated with the in the last row, got up from civilians giving them the children. Everyone was his seat and started doing impression that the personnel asked to close eyes and bhangra when the per- wearing such dresses while focus on their breathing. formance started on stage, engaged in internal security After the brief meditation giving nightmare to US duties, escorting VIPs, on children were asked by the Secret Services team whi- policing duties, static guard teacher to explain how ch ran towards the child. posts are Army personnel,” they felt. Some said they But soon they realised that said sources. felt fresh and some said this was India where they felt good. “I felt very breaking into bhangra is relaxed,” Trump said after not only normal but conta- KERALA GOVT the meditation session. gious too as soon several “Namaste. It was an hon- kids started dancing. With DROPS PUBS, our to join you today in their teachers seated far this beautiful school. away from them, they had BREWERIES PLAN Thank you for welcoming no one to discipline and me. This is my first visit to stop them at that time. GILVESTER ASSARY | DC India. People here are so Later, Deputy Chief THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, welcoming and kind. Minister Manish Sisodia FEB. 25 President and I are grate- tweeted, “Welcome to our ful for the warm recep- school @FLOTUS! We The Kerala government on tion,” she said. hope you would have a Tuesday shelved the proposals “I was able to see the con- great time here in to sanction draught beer pubs cept of ‘prosperity for all’ HappinessClass It’s just 18 and breweries in the state. The in spirit and enthusiasm. months old initiative but proposals did not find a place It is very inspiring that early results have made us in the new draft liquor policy students begin their day confident that Clockwise: US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a approved by Cabinet on Tuesd- by practising mindfulness @HappinessDelhi is the joint press statement, at the Hyderabad House, in New Delhi on Tuesday. US President ay. The government also decid- and connecting with ultimate solution to all Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump lay a wreath at Rajghat. White House ed to continue with the prac- nature. A healthy, positive violence & hate in mind- Senior Adviser Jared Kushner with his wife Ivanka Trump, daughter of President tice of observing dry day on example has been set for sets that we are facing Donald Trump, at the Hyderabad House, in New Delhi. — PTI the first working day of every educators to ensure a worldwide.” month. Earlier, there was a proposal to do away with the dry day system particularly in TRUMP AGAIN the tourism sector. The government has come TALKS OF OFFER out with proposals to discour- Locals hope work age liquor consumption in the state. The decision is to raise OF MEDIATION the annual fee for bars from `28 lakh to `30 lakh. Similarly continues in Agra From Page 1 the bar license fee of clubs have also been increased from Agra, Feb. 25: The city with a speed it has never Although the two lead- `15 lakh to `20 lakh. The idea administration of Agra seen before. Elections co- ers had discussed the behind the move is to make made massive arrange- me and go, but things do- issue of religious free- liquor costlier, which the gov- ment for US President n’t move, a US President dom “in a positive way”, ernment believes, is expected Donald Trump’s visit to decides to come to Agra Trump had “appreciated to bring down consumption. Agra to see Taj Mahal on and authorities work in the pluralism and diver- However, the government has Monday. The administra- full swing,” said Mohit sity that is a binding fac- given boost to the traditional tion had given the city a Kumar, who works in a tor of both countries”. toddy sector. The new draft ‘major makeover,’ especi- hotel in Tajganj. The Indo-US joint liquor policy entails the return ally along the route to be Satyendar Shukla, an statement too said: “As of auctioning of toddy shops. used by Trump’s convoy. auto-rickshaw driver the leaders of vibrant The city administration said, “It is good that the democracies recognis- wanted to present the city has been cleaned and ing the importance of REPORT FILED ‘best face of Agra’ to him. beautified, but the admin- freedom, equal treat- Streets were spruced up, istration and people ment of all citizens, AGAINST KAPALA walls beautified with the- should keep it like this human rights and a com- matic paintings and the regularly, not just for a mitment to the rule of HILL STATUE lawns of the Taj Mahal VVIP visit.” law, Prime Minister bedecked with shimmer- Agra District Magis- Modi and President M.K. ASHOKA | DC ing flowers. At many trate Prabhu N Singh Trump vowed to BENGALURU, FEB. 25 places, artworks greeting said, “Agra is a part of the strengthen a India-US Trump were made by Smart City project and Comprehensive Global The district administration of artists and water was bei- during the last few weeks, Strategic Partnership, Ramnagar in Karnataka had ng sprayed regularly to we expedited many anchored in mutual submitted a report to the state ensure there was no dust. schemes under it. It was President Ram Nath Kovind shakes hands with US President Donald Trump during the ceremonial welcome at trust, shared interests, government on the controver- “The city has been not just for President’s Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi on Tuesday. India’s First Lady Savita Kovind, US First Lady Melania Trump and goodwill and robust sial Kapala Hill aka Jesus Hill, transformed overnight, visit.” — PTI Prime Minister Narendra Modi are also seen. — PTI engagement of their citi- located in Harobele village zens. about 80 kilometres away from At his press conference Bengaluru, where construc- where he reiterated his tion of the tallest statue of TRADITIONAL| GESTURE 12-inch key, made of silver, weighs 600g with copper engravings of Taj offer of mediation on the Jesus Christ in the country is Kashmir issue, the US being planned. President also said both According to highly placed leaders had discussed sources, the report is said to the issue of “Pakistan” have gone against the ambi- Mayor rues not presenting ‘key of Agra’ to Trump and “terrorism”, adding: tious project of building a 114 “Modi is a very religious feet tall statue of Jesus atop Agra, Feb. 25: A ceremo- and Governor. We really ● MAYOR NAVEEN JAIN says it is a matter of great by his wife, daughter Adityanath at the airbase. man, as you know. He’s a Kapala hill. The authorities nial silver “key of Agra” wanted to gift him this cer- pride that the world’s most powerful leader visited Ivanka and son-in-law The US President’s visit calm man but he’s actu- have pointed to developmental was planned to be present- emonial key but could Agra and saw the iconic Taj Mahal, the pride of India Jared Kushner, along with to Agra and Taj generated ally a very very strong activities such as electricity ed to US President Donald not,” Jain said. his delegation. huge excitement among person. I’ve seen him in connections, construction of Trump during his visit to Nonetheless, it is a mat- Trump arrived in Agra local residents. Some action. He’s got that fore- road and installation of the historic city on ter of great pride that the as the couple entered In 2000, the then presi- on Monday evening shops even displayed their most in his mind, terror- borewell on Kapala Hill much Monday but it could not be world’s most powerful beautifully carved doors dent Bill Clinton also was around 4:30 pm after joint- own banners, welcoming ism. He’ll take care of before the transfer of the land gifted to him due to securi- leader visited Agra and and gateways during their to be presented with a cer- ly attending with Prime Trump to India. it.” for the purpose of construc- ty constraints, mayor saw the iconic Taj Mahal, visit, with the guide virtu- emonial key of Agra. Minister Narendra Modi, After Dwight David Complimenting India’s tion of the statue. Naveen Jain said. the pride of India, he said. ally transporting them to Baby Rani Maurya, cur- the mega ‘Namaste Eisenhower (1959) and Bill fight against terror, the The report also pointed out The 12-inch key, made of And indeed, Trump may the Mughal-era with the rent Governor of Trump’ event at the newly- Clinton (2000), Trump Trump termed India as a that ‘Gomala land’ cannot be silver, weighs 600g and has not have been able to fascinating stories behind Uttarakhand was the built Motera cricket stadi- became the third US “brave nation”, adding: allotted to carry out religious copper engravings of Taj receive the ‘key of Agra’ the Taj. mayor of Agra at that um in Ahmedabad. President to visit the 17th “there’s no pullback activities thus indirectly indi- Mahal and the name of the but he and his family The mayor said it is a tra- time, he said. Trump was received at century architectural from India”. cating that the statue of Jesus city, he said. unlocked the beauty of ditional gesture to wel- The city administration the Kheria airbase by icon, and praised the Trump also said that in cannot come up on the hill. “As a mayor of the city, Agra by visiting the cele- come a high-profile guest had made massive Uttar Pradesh Governor architectural masterpiece. their discussions, “PM The development is expected on behalf of the people of brated monument of love, or a head of state with a arrangement for Trump’s Anandiben Patel and “The Taj Mahal inspires Modi and I affirmed our to snowball into a crisis as the Agra, I wanted to present the famed 17th century ceremonial key. short visit in Agra on Chief Minister Yogi awe, a timeless testament two countries’ commit- local Christian community is President Trump the ‘key mausoleum built by “We hand over a ‘key of Monday evening, giving Adityanath who also bid to the rich and diverse ment to protecting our emotionally attached to the of Agra’ on his arrival Mughal Emperor Shah Agra’ to the guest symboli- Agra a makeover in a very them farewell. beauty of Indian Culture! citizens from radical statue project. Herobele vil- here. But due to security Jahan. cally to open the ‘door of short span of time. He was Thank You, India,” the US Islamic terrorism” and lage is located in the foothills constraints I could not The US President and Agra’ and enter the city. The city administration gifted a framed photo- President and the first that “the US is also of Kapala Hill and local vil- enter the Kheria airbase First Lady Melania Trump Many guests have been sought to present the “best graph of him and the US lady jointly wrote in the working with Pakistan lagers revere it as a ‘hill of where he was received by were given a special tour shown that gesture in the face of Agra” to Trump. First Lady standing in visitors’ book before sign- to confront terrorists miracles’. the state’s Chief Minister of the heritage complex, past,” Jain said. Trump was accompanied front of the Taj Mahal, by ing it. — PTI who operate on its soil”. EDIT pg DECCAN CHRONICLE | HYDERABAD | WEDNESDAY | 26 FEBRUARY 2020 10

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Delhi rioting as police Subhani abdicates responsibility ortheast Delhi has been in the grip of a full-scale communal riot since Sunday. It seems that the violence could have been nipped in the bud if the Centre, which controls the Delhi police, had Nbeen purposeful. On Day 3, leaping flames and billowing smoke framed the skyline as the situation worsened. The rioters have used firearms extensively. Only an impartial commission of inquiry can establish the causes of the present trouble, examining in particular the role of the police and of politi- cal parties and their local leaders. Instead of taking effective steps, minister of state for home G. Kishan Reddy sought to hint that anti-CAA elements had hatched a plot to create trouble during US President Donald Trump's visit and would be dealt with severely. This could only have encouraged the communal elements. The provocative comments of Delhi BJP leader Kapil Mishra, who had compared the recent Assembly election with an India- Pakistan war as the BJP targeted the Shaheen Bagh anti-CAA protest, apparently led to a so-called pro-CAA mobilisation that quickly degenerat- LETTERS ed into rioting. It's a helpful sign that Delhi BJP MP and former India crick- eter Gautam Gambhir has demanded action against Mr Mishra. LANDLORDS, TENANTS In light of the history of communal violence in the country, it is not fanci- Violence in Delhi shows ful to think that those who traditionally developed this particular instru- I was amused to read let- ment as their stock-in-trade may be in search of opportunities outside Delhi ters to the Editor (DC, Feb. too. State governments need to be alert to their machinations. Their imme- 25) diate aim may be to put peaceful anti-CAA protesters under pressure. This , defending the land- may give other extremists the excuse to go on the rampage. lord’s choice of tenants. While on Monday afternoon the Delhi police claimed that the situation politics at boiling point These choices are being had been brought under control, although there was tension in the air, it made on the basis of was evident the police was divorced from reality or was being indulgent The Shaheen bonhomie because it dietary habits and/or towards troublemakers initially. Live television reporting was showing a Bagh women knows that its support very different picture as the dead and injured were being taken to hospitals Parsa base is among the major- need to form a caste, religion etc., of the in a steady stream. By midday Tuesday, the situation had in fact worsened ity Hindus. The prospective tenants. The with the count of the dead rising to 11. Some 70 policemen and more than Venkateshwar committee of their Congress would want to 100 civilians lay injured. A head constable was killed in stone-throwing on own to steer the manage Hindu commu- Equality Watchdog in UK Monday. Journalists were attacked. Rao Jr protests, and nalists as well as the and the Equality and Communal trouble started in the wake of a peaceful Shaheen-Bagh style to prevent Muslim vote. Amit Human Rights Commission protest being starteed by anti-CAA Muslim women in northeast Delhi on Shah, Arvind Kejriwal brought a case against the Saturday. Mr Mishra warned the police to clear them within three days, troublemakers and Rahul Gandhi will failing which he threatened he would adopt his own methods. Stone-throw- from hijacking make their tactical buy-to-let mogul Fergus ing attacks by so-called pro-CAA protesters followed not long after, devel- t is not yet sum- the violence as law and the peaceful moves at the right time. Wilson’s ban, on oping into a no-holds-barred communal conflagration. The police remained mer, but the politi- order in Delhi is the movement. The people of Delhi “coloured” tenants, mute spectators at the start. cal situation in responsibility of the should not be looking to Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal intervened only late Monday, urging Delhi has been Union home ministry, them for any help. because they allegedly calm, but senior AAP leader Gopal Rai told the media earlier that efforts Imoving towards headed by Amit Shah, leaders — seems to have Mr Modi and Mr Shah leave curry smells in his to contact the police had been in vain. Law and order and the police are boiling point as the who was busy with the become a problem with have reiterated that properties when lease ter- not in the hands of the state government. Even so, the AAP leadership, Narendra Modi govern- “Namaste Trump” event other anti-CAA protest- there will be no climb- which is used to dealing with municipal matters and local issues like ment had decided to sit in Ahmedabad. The ers. The Union home down on the CAA. They minates, was overturned schools and hospitals, seemed out of its depth when confronted with a out the two-month-long police in Delhi was ministry and other will remain inflexible by the Maidstone county descent into communal chaos. It appeared to lack the tools to deal with a protest of Muslim apparently restrained ardent pro-CAA support- because of their parlia- court. I don’t know how political contingency. women at Shaheen Bagh due to the American ers — mostly Hindutva mentary majority. The many of your esteemed over the controversial President’s presence in zealots — suspect that CAA protests must con- Citizenship (Amend- the national capital, and the anti-CAA protests tinue, but the protesters readers, who defended an A necessary, nuanced verdict ment) Act in one part of they would not resort to are being managed by will have to negotiate out and out discriminatory Delhi. The violence that using force to deal with someone like the their way through the renting policy, will like eToo has brought down Harvey Weinstein. Due process of the law has erupted on Sunday and protesters. Delhi and People’s Front of India minefield of Hindu and taken its course. It is the movement’s moment in the sun today. The Monday (February 23- India and must appear (PFI) of Uttar Pradesh. Muslim communalism. themselves and their chil- Mconviction of the Hollywood mogul — of criminal sex act and third- 24) in Muslim-dominat- democratic and decent No one is waiting to ver- The violence that erupt- dren to face such discrimi- degree rape — he was acquitted of the most serious charge of predatory sexu- ed areas of northeast while the US presiden- ify whether this is actu- ed in northeast Delhi in nations. al assault — comes two-and-a-half years after the New York Times and the New Delhi is the result of tial visit lasts. There is ally true or not. the past few days will be Farooque Shahab Yorker first published accounts of women who had been subjected to harrow- clashes between anti- the other conspiracy It’s not necessary to the likely pattern of ing sexual harassment by the powerful Hollywood producer. The jury did CAA (read Muslim) and theory too, that the anti- talk in alarmist tones clashes over the CAA. Hyderabad think Harvey committed a nonconsensual act, but didn’t apply violent force. pro-CAA (read Hindu) CAA Muslim protesters about the breakdown in Second, the Shaheen The nuanced verdict is fitting proof of the quality and efficiency of America’s protesters. It is in effect in these parts of Delhi law and order. The Bagh women need to CAA PROTESTS still-exemplary justice system. The 67-year-old, who will be sentenced on a communal riot, the had decided to step up police can bring things form a committee of The ‘Gujarat Model’ is repeating in March 11, faces the prospect of spending his remaining years in prison — the Hindu-Muslim one. their protests in order to back to normal by hold- their own to steer the Delhi now (4 killed in Delhi riots criminal sex act charge carries a maximum of 25 years in prison while third There are enough rea- draw international att- ing flag marches and protests, and to prevent over CAA, DC, Feb. 4). This is no degree rape carries a maximum sentence of four years. Harvey was despon- sons to argue that Delhi ention. Clearly, Muslims posting men in large troublemakers from communal riot, this is a clear anti- dent and unsteady on his feet while being led off in handcuffs to jail. BJP member Kapil in the affected northeast- numbers in fragile and hijacking the peaceful Muslim pogrom. Yet another state- During the course of Harvey Weinstein’s trial, many have cast aspersions on Mishra, who was for- ern parts of the city were sensitive areas. The movement. More impor- sponsored anti-Muslim pogrom the veracity of his accusers’ complaints, ascribing motives to their conduct merly with the AAP, had not going to follow the police had proved it tant, it is necessary that where the police and the right wing before, during and after their encounters and citing delays in speaking up. The issued an ultimatum example of the Muslim could do this when a majority Hindus must fanatics are turn allies. Please charges by Talara Wulff and Dawn Dunning have nevertheless held up under that the Delhi police women of Shaheen temple desecration took step out and take a posi- don’t call them pro-CAA activists, the scrutiny of the court. The #MeToo movement, too, has expanded concep- must free up the roads Bagh. It was the prover- place near the Jama tion against the CAA they even don’t know the full form tually in the meantime, with various thinkers calling out elitist cancel culture blocked by the anti-CAA bial tinderbox situation. Masjid area over a year that displays the unflat- of CAA. targeting men and themselves, and highlighting the need to break the com- protesters and that they It may be possible to ago. The Hindutva zea- tering colours of Syed Maaz Razvi fortable stereotype of toxic masculinity. — supposedly those identify the agent provo- lots on the social media Hindutva. Hindus must Hyderabad Naomi Fry of the New Yorker writes, and it is a fact, that the perfect victim affected by the protests cateurs, but that would were only too eager to recognise that discrimi- does not exist. One might add if she did she would not be a victim. But the — would hold their not explain the situation fan the communal flam- nation against Muslims journey from victim to survivor is forged in unaccounted-for suffering and peace until US President where tempers are ris- es, but the police kept is discrimination appalling loss. Whatever be its length or result, it is a journey that is common Donald Trump’s visit ing all around. The BJP the situation under con- against all Indians. The 50 YEARS AGO IN to all women. Hence #MeToo. ends on Tuesday and the RSS have over trol. But the police alone issue must be fought (February 25), and if the the past few years creat- couldn’t have done it. through democratic and DECCAN CHRONICLE police fails to disperse ed enough of a gulf They were helped by the peaceful means, and the protesters, they between Hindus and community leaders of through constitutional (Mishra’s cohorts) will Muslims, helped largely Hindus and Muslims in channels like the courts UP abolishes land ADITYA SINHA T. VENKATESWARLU take to the streets and by the electoral victories the locality, who inter- and legislatures. revenue on small Editor Printer & Publisher not heed the police. It of 2014 and 2019. The vened and did not allow Protests are wonderful was an open statement women at Shaheen Bagh things to get out of hand. expressions of the holdings DECCAN CHRONICLE offices are located at: made at a pro-CAA rally were both patient and It’s time then for com- democratic spirit, but LUCKNOW, Feb. 25. Hyderabad: 36, Sarojini Devi Road, Secunderabad - 500 003, Ph: 040-27803930-4; Fax : 040-27805256 led by Mr Mishra in the obstinate, but the other munity leaders to step they have their limita- THE Uttar Pradesh Governme- Vijayawada: No.C-3 & 4 Patamata, Industrial Estate, Auto Nagar, Vijayawada (A.P.), Ph: 0866- presence of the police on anti-CAA protesters can- out and ensure that the tions. 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The BJP our differences and build what he called public opin- Bengaluru: 5th Floor, BMTC Commercial Complex, 80 Feet Road, Koramangala, Bengaluru-560 095 Ph: Mishra appealed for way through the leaders are keen that it respecting each other’s ion in favour of his newly 080-43460500; Fax: 080-22960552. peace and for maintain- turn into a communal positions. That is the installed Ministry. Coimbatore: 77, Vivekananda Road, Ramnagar, Coimbatore - 641 009, Ph : 0422 2231255 minefield of Hindu Kochi: No.3-B, 3rd Floor of DD TRADE TOWER, Kaloor-Kadavanthara Road, Ernakulam, Ph: 0484- ing communal harmony. clash because that is the only way to keep the Mr. Charan Singh, amid repeat- 4039408 Delhi chief minister and Muslim commu- only way they can justi- hoodlums out of the ed cheers, also said that this Thiruvananthapuram: St Joseph s Press, TC 15/1040, Cotton Hill, Thycaud (PO), Thiruvananthapuram Arvind Kejriwal con- nalism. The violence fy the CAA to their core political process. exemption would be available to 695 014 fined himself to issuing in northeast Delhi Hindutva constituency. farmers who had holdings up to Kozhikode: Door No 6/1002 E, First Floor of City Mall, Opp. YMCA, Kannur Road, Kozhikode - 673 an appeal for peace. He The AAP is not a vocal The writer is a Delhi- 12.50 acres. This had been done to 001, Fax : 0495 4019 018 had an alibi for not will be the likely supporter of inter-com- based commentator and avoid fragmentation of holdings. Gram: CHRONICLE Postal registration no: No. H/SD-348/2006-08 doing anything about pattern of clashes. munal harmony and analyst

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This social pillars are badly cracked as inequitable distribution of one such early instance. Just Europe and beyond. While capital- system provided for the ascendan- social, political and economic prob- Murtaza resources, as a small minority before it, Europe had been ravaged ism, democracy and science had cy of human rights and mutual cul- lems pile up. The world is exhibit- hogs/destroys more and more of by prolonged wars among several produced much progress, huge tural respect, and led to relative ing the same worrisome trends them. states spread over decades which problems resurfaced as conserva- peace and prosperity despite the that emerged in the pre-First But no deficit is as crucial as the had caused the death of around tive urges again struggled to break rise of the communist bloc as a World War era and which eventu- intellectual deficit the world faces eight million people as different free of liberal civility. Capitalism challenger. There were many prob- ally led to two major wars and a today. This means an absence of strands of nobility fought to degenerated into a neoliberal form lems even with this system, with major economic depression. But globally accepted ideas for struc- increase their wealth and power. that produced huge economic massive poverty in developing there is an alarming global deficit turing economic, political and Under the treaty, a new system of inequality but little social protec- states. But at least it provided a of widely accepted and sound new The global social life, and interaction within political order arose, based upon tion. Democratic ideals came framework where these problems ideas to solve these problems. and across human societies to lead peaceful coexistence, respect of ter- under attack from autocratic sys- could be tackled. As these global problems pile up, to equitable and environmentally ritorial rights and non-interfer- tems like fascism and Nazism. It wasn’t the communist chal- the right is busy peddling the same responsible progress. Faith in ence in others’ domestic affairs. Efforts to forge international polit- lenge that led to the collapse of the old failed ideas of neoliberalism, deficit of ideas democracy, capitalism and inter- It is seen by many political scien- ical order under the aegis of the post-Second World War order, but might is right and cultural hege- national moral principles, the holy tists as the beginning of the mod- League of Nations failed. Racism the rise of conservative urges mony. Thus, it is only from the left trinity of ideas that has under- ern international political order and xenophobia became wide- again in the West under the leader- that one sees embryonic ideas like in the face of pinned life for the last one century, based on the idea of sovereign spread. These conservative tenden- ship of three conservative US pres- the New Green Deal that can is fast reducing, leading to nations. It reduced warfare in cies unleashed two world wars and idents. Reagan took the lead in the resolve these problems. The only increased conflicts nationally and Europe. But this peace led to over- a great depression. collapse of social democratic capi- question is whether the world will globally. seas conquests by European pow- Humanity again turned towards talism by unleashing the forces of adopt them proactively or belated- new challenges This is not the first time humani- ers in the form of brutal colonial- liberal principles after the Second neoliberal economics whi-ch have ly after much conflict and econom- ty has faced such a challenge. On ism and the simultaneous, quick World War to recover from the rav- led to economic inequality and cli- ic turmoil as a century earlier. each past occasion, conservative spread of capitalism, democracy ages caused by conservatism’s mate cha-nge. Bush Jun-ior led an tendencies to amass power, wealth and science — the three bedrocks ascent. Liberalism duly obliged by un--pre-cedented attack on global By arrangement with Dawn TECHNOMICS pg DECCAN CHRONICLE | WEDNESDAY | 26 FEBRUARY 2020 | HYDERABAD 11

SHORT TAKES US still eyeing ways to US SC rejects Apple’s appeal in patent fight curb sales to Huawei Washington, Feb. 25: The US Supreme Court on ZERO-DAY iOS EXPLOIT CHAIN Monday refused to hear US has been wary of committing to a solution on taxing before polls Apple’s bid to avoid pay- UP FOR SALE ON DARK WEB Washington, Feb. 25: US ing about $440 million in government officials are damages for using patent ● According to Data ● The seller still considering ways to licensing firm VirnetX’s Breach Monitoring service, said that the further curb sales to internet security technol- Under the breach, bad reliability of the China’s Huawei ogy without permission actors have put 3 exploits exploit is 90% INTEL LAUNCHES Technologies, despite in features such as up for sale. and higher and President Donald Trump’s FaceTime video calling. ● takes upto eight NEW PROCESSOR, tweets and comments last The justices rejected The exploits contents seconds on week in support of sales to Apple’s appeal in the long- include ‘Safari RCE, LPE - average. China, according to people running case in which a Kernel vulnerability, and 5G BASE STATION familiar with the matter. federal jury in 2016 found Jailbreak (hidden) An interagency meeting that Apple had infringed Supported OS: iOS Bengaluru, Feb. 25: Intel was held on Thursday to VirnetX’s patents and 13.3’ Corp on Monday launched new discuss national security awarded $302 million. A microprocessors, including a and China export issues, judge later increased that ● The post second generation Xeon proces- including proposals to amount to $439.7 million shared on sor for data centers and a 10nm restrict sales of chips to including interest and Twitter also said chip for wireless 5G base sta- Huawei, the world’s sec- other costs. that no visible tions. ond-largest smartphone The case dates back to Demand from cloud comput- maker, and a plan to block 2010 when Nevada-based effects during or ing companies have boosted the sale of jet engines for VirnetX filed suit in feder- after the exploit is sales of server chips, leading to China’s new passenger al court in the Eastern finished successfully. strong results from Intel and its airplane. District of Texas accusing rival AMD Corp. While blocking General Cupertino, California- Intel's Xeon chips have domi- Electric from supplying based Apple of infringing and Trademark Office wiped out. nated the market for server jet engines appeared to be four patents for secure review the validity of the Apple in a court filing chips, but AMD has been gain- off the table after Trump networks, known as virtu- VirnetX patents. The tri- called the Federal ing ground since its re-entry opposed efforts to stop al private networks, and bunal canceled key parts Circuit’s refusal to enter- into the business three years their sale, sources told secure communications of the patents at issue in tain its demands “legally ago with rival EPYC processors Reuters on Monday new links. VirnetX said Apple the case. wrong and grossly that earned positive reviews restrictions aimed at cut- infringed with its But in separate deci- unfair.” The company also here ting Huawei off further Huawei has second go at FaceTime and VPN on sions also issued last year, said the lower courts The new Xeon chips will pro- from its suppliers were Demand features in prod- the Federal Circuit set impermissibly allowed vide better per-dollar perform- still under discussion. ucts such as the iPhone aside certain of the tri- VirnetX to request dam- ance than last generation, while Trump told reporters and iPad. bunal’s rulings, bringing ages far beyond the value the 10nm chip, P5900, will help last week he wanted US foldables with Mates Xs The US Court of Appeals VirnetX closer to collect- of the patented invention. it become the leading silicon companies “to be allowed for the Federal Circuit in ing damages from Apple. VirnetX told the justices: provider in base stations by to do business.” Barcelona, Feb. 25: ● THE MATE XS has last year, but its launch Washington, which spe- Apple appealed to the “The entire damages 2021, a year earlier than expect- “I mean, things are put Huawei unveiled an the same size display as was delayed after testers cializes in patent disputes, Supreme Court, contend- award ... remains support- ed, Intel said. on my desk that have noth- upgrade to its folding encountered problems upheld the judgment ing that the damages ed by claims that a jury - Last month, the chipmaker ing to do with national smartphone on Monday, its predecessor but with the screens. against Apple last year. should be recalculated and the Federal Circuit - said it would release nine 10nm security, including with hoping that a faster phone comes with an The South Korean com- During the litigation, because the specific found valid years ago and products in 2020 and launch its chipmakers and various with higher-quality dis- improved gull-wing pany is persevering with Apple and other compa- patents VirnetX accused it that have not been can- 7nm product next year. AMD others,” he said. play will encourage con- hinge mechanism and foldable technology and nies requested that a tri- of infringing with celed since.” has already launched several He said he had been sumers to spend as much stronger wraparound this month showed off a bunal of the US Patent FaceTime were nearly — Reuters chips based on the smaller 7nm “very tough” on Huawei, as $2,700 for the top-of-the- screen, while boasting device shaped like a make- architecture. but did not provide fur- range version. faster download speeds up compact that unfolded Intel had struggled with ther details, and added The new Mate XS arrives and longer battery life to look like a traditional XBOX SERIES X SPECS REVEALED delays in its 10nm chip technol- that national security con- a year after the Chinese than the rival Samsung smartphone. ogy, losing its lead to rivals in cerns should not be used tech giant showed off its The Mate XS, like last the race to supply to the “new as an excuse to make it dif- first folding phone, which Galaxy Fold year’s Mate 30 smart- z Microsoft’s upcoming Xbox Series X will not only z CD Projekt Red, data economy”, which includes ficult for foreign countries had back-to-back screens ● The Mate XS, like phone, will lack access to a have more graphics power and a solid-state drive developer of the 5G, autonomous vehicles and to buy US products. that opened to create an last year’s Mate 30 licensed version of for faster loading but will also be backward com- anticipated artificial intelligence. His comments contrast- eight-inch display. That smartphone, will lack Google’s Android operat- patible with all the previous generations of Xbox Cyberpunk 2077, The company had planned to ed with the sharp restric- device went on sale in access to a licensed ing system after the games, Xbox boss Phil Spencer said in a blog post. tweeted Monday launch the new chips at the tions his administration China in November after US effectively barred its The console is set for release later this year. that people who Mobile World Congress in has placed on US compa- the company improved the version of Google’s companies from supplying Barcelona, but the event was nies trading with Huawei design. Android operating sys- Huawei last year. buy the Xbox One version of the called off here due to rising over national security The Mate XS has the tem after the US effec- Huawei is offering users z Powering the Xbox Series z Microsoft will game when it fears over the coronavirus out- concerns and foreign poli- same size display as its tively barred its compa- access to its own app store X is a custom processor use Smart comes out in break. cy interests. predecessor but comes nies from supplying instead, but Yu said it using RDNA 2 and Zen 2 Delivery on its — Reuters The United States alleges with an improved gull- remains committed to the September will be Huawei last year. architectures from AMD. This new system that the Chinese government wing hinge mechanism Android ecosystem and to able to play it on will make the system four will let players could use Huawei equip- and stronger wraparound its longer-term partner- the Xbox Series X times faster than the Xbox buy one copy of ment to spy, an accusation screen, while boasting ships with Google and without having to DIP IN IMPORT One and give it the ability to an Xbox Game Huawei has rejected. faster download speeds Congress was due to be other US companies. buy it again. and longer battery life held this week before it “We believe technology achieve 12 teraflops, which is Studios title that OF MOBILE PARTS DIVISIONS than the rival Samsung was cancelled because of should be open and avail- double what the Xbox One X can be used on z Microsoft is Policymakers have been Galaxy Fold, Huawei’s top the coronavirus outbreak. able for everyone,” Yu said could do. either the Xbox also making FROM CHINA sharply divided over salesman Richard Yu told Sony, meanwhile, show- in his keynote speech. z The GPU will use the One or Xbox tweaks to the con- Huawei and China ahead a launch presentation in cased its newest Xperia 1 Huawei also launched a Series X, sole's speed in SANGEETHA G of a possible cabinet-level Barcelona. device as the Japanese speaker developed with Variable Rate Shading tech- CHENNAI, FEB. 25 meeting, which had been The folding phone will company — which lies out- French audio specialist nique, allowing it to focus whichever is the other aspects. scheduled for Feb. 28 but be priced at 2,499 euros side the top 10 smartphone Devialet, the first tablet in effects on individual objects best hardware Dynamic Latency India has reduced its depend- has now been pushed to a ($2,710) for its premium makers by sales — target- its Mate range and two rather than on the entire the owner has Input uses the ence on China for mobile and later date. Some officials model and goes on sale ed its niche audience of new notebooks — a top of screen. The Xbox Series X available. Xbox Series X's electronic components by $8 have favored a tougher worldwide next month, high-fidelity video fans. the range Matebook X Pro will also have hardware- "high bandwidth, billion in one year. Increase in line while others are more said Yu, as Huawei pushed and Matebook D with 14- accelerated DirectX proprietary wire- domestic production has part- focused on trading with the price frontier for the FOLDING RACE inch and 15-inch screens. Raytracing that sig- less communica- ly helped India achieve this. the world’s second largest most expensive smart- Samsung Electronics, Huawei plans to hold a tion protocol" to Import of mobile phones, economy. phones even higher. the world’s top smart- launch event for the P40, a nificantly improves mobile phone parts, routers, Officials from various The launch was phone maker by volume, 5G smartphone, in Paris the lighting effects reduce the delay modems, intercom etc from government agencies are streamed from Barcelona, narrowly beat its Chinese next month, said Yu. in games and will between the China has come down from trying to come to a consen- where the Mobile World rival in the folding race — Reuters support up to 120 Xbox controller $15.3 billion in 2017-18 to $7.2 sus ahead of the cabinet FPS. and the system. billion in 2018-19 — a decline of meeting, one person famil- The HDMI 2.1 $8 billion. This is one of the iar with the matter said. US-made components cies also have been consid- believed to be involved in z An SSD will help input will also key categories that has helped In their meeting on make up more than 25 per ering changing the activities contrary to the load games faster use new tech India bring down its overall Thursday, officials dis- cent of the value. Foreign Direct Product US national security or for- and allow players to to synchronize imports from China. cussed possible changes to But the US Department Rule, which subjects for- eign policy interests. quickly resume the refresh rate Meanwhile, the total import what is known as the de of Commerce drafted a eign-made goods based on But many foreign supply their games when between the of these products from differ- minimis rule, which dic- rule that would lower the US technology or software chains remained beyond the console is in a ent countries came down from tates how much US con- threshold only on exports to US oversight. the reach of US authori- console suspended state. and the $21 billion to $16.8 billion in one tent can be in a foreign- to Huawei to 10 per cent One proposed change ties, frustrating China The Xbox One does year time – a drop of $4.5 bil- made product before the and expand the purview to would force foreign compa- hawks and spurring the display lion. While increased Indian US has authority to regu- include non-technical nies that use US chipmak- proposals to expand con- have the ability to while production helped the import late its sale, the sources goods like consumer elec- ing equipment to seek trols. Reuters exclusively return to a game reduc- come down by around $4.5 bil- said. tronics including non-sen- licenses before supplying reported in November that when the console is ing lion, imports from other coun- Under current regula- sitive chips. Huawei. Huawei was the US was considering put to sleep, but the lag. tries supported cutting import tions, the US can require a Officials discussed low- placed on a US trade black- altering the two rules to Quick Resume fea- dependence on China. license or block the export ering that threshold at list last May that allows the expand its power to restrict ture will work According to Indian Cellular of many high-tech prod- Thursday’s meeting, a sec- United States to restrict the the foreign shipment of across multiple titles. Association, annual production ucts shipped to China ond source said. export of American-made products with US technolo- of mobile phones in India from other countries if The government agen- goods to companies gy to Huawei. — Reuters increased from 3 million units in 2014 to 11 million units in 2017. “In the past few years India has significantly increas- ed its production capacity of mobile phones. This has partly Nadella urges developers Pentagon adopts new ethical helped India cut its import from China,’ said Pawan Gupta, founder OF Connect2India. Meanwhile, some of the man- ufacturing activity has recent- to focus on ethical impact principles for using AI in war ly shifted from China to coun- tries like Vietnam. Samsung CHANDRASHEKAR G | DC (It) also comes with respon- important,” he said. Washington, Feb. 25: The cations, from intelligence- become outdated. and Google are some of the BENGALURU, FEB. 25 sibility. Every single choice According to Nadella, Pentagon is adopting new ● THE APPROACH gathering and surveillance “Tech adapts. Tech companies which have either of developer around there will be 50B connected ethical principles as it pre- outlined Monday follows operations to predicting evolves,” he said. fully or partially moved pro- “The impact that technolo- design ethos, the ethics of devices by 2030 and the pares to accelerate its use recommendations made maintenance problems in The Pentagon hit a road- duction from China. India too gy, digital technology and the diverse team are going total amount of data by of artificial intelligence last year by the Defense planes or ships. block in its AI efforts in is a beneficiary of this move. software had in the last to matter in terms of are 2025 is 175ZB. To tackle technology on the battle- Innovation Board, a The approach outlined 2018 after internal protests The trade war with the US decade is just stunning and we going to create a more these, the tech giant has field. group led by former Monday follows recom- at Google led the tech com- was one of the reasons that what developers are going inclusive world?”, added been developing the tech The new principles call Google CEO Eric mendations made last year pany to drop out of the mil- prompted mobile and electron- to build for the next 10 Mr. Nadella. stack with various digital for people to “exercise by the Defense Innovation itary’s Project Maven, ic product manufacturers to years is exciting. Develop- According to Microsoft, transformation, Microsoft appropriate levels of judg- Schmidt. Board, a group led by for- which uses algorithms to look at diversification of pro- ers need to be responsible, there are about 4.2 million has been working on ment and care” when mer Google CEO Eric interpret aerial images duction into other countries. should focus on trust and developers in India and is HoloLens, how Azure deploying and using AI sys- Schmidt. from conflict zones. Other Indian import from Vietnam inclusivity, said Microsoft the number one developer cloud platform is striving tems, such as those that Joint Enterprise Defense While the Pentagon companies have since filled increased by over $1 billion in CEO Satya Nadella on pool on the plant. India has to be a limitless data estate scan aerial imagery to look Infrastructure, or JEDI. acknowledged that AI the vacuum. Shanahan this one year. Hong Kong too Tuesday. 650 million developers in with variety, scale, cloud for targets. Microsoft won the contract “raises new ethical ambi- said the new principles are increased its shipments by Addressing gathering at under the age group of 25. and edge. They also say decisions in October but hasn’t been guities and risks,” the new helping to regain support around $2.4 billion. the ‘Future Decoded, He pointed out that plat- He touched upon the new made by automated sys- able to get started on the 10- principles fall short of from the tech industry, Increased domestic produc- Bengaluru Tech Summit’, form developers are "first and largest machine learn- tems should be “traceable” year project because stronger restrictions where “there was a thirst tion also helped India hike Mr Nadella adviced devel- responders" and have to ing model ever, known as and “governable,” which Amazon sued the favored by arms control for having this discussion.” export of these products by opers to focus on ethics develop trust into technol- Turing Natural Language means “there has to be a Pentagon, arguing that advocates. “I worry that “Sometimes I think the $1.4 billion from $1.1 billion in and building trust when ogy, he added. Generation (TNLG). Talk- way to disengage or deacti- President Donald Trump’s the principles are a bit of angst is a little hyped, but 2017-18 to $2.5 billion in 2018- developing solutions to “Every bank that builds ing about building a Power vate” them if they are antipathy toward Amazon an ethics-washing project,” we do have people who 19. This is expected to go up in ensure that the benefits of an app will have to deal platform, Nadella said that demonstrating unintended and its CEO Jeff Bezos said Lucy Suchman, an have serious concerns the coming years as companies technology are available to with trust, and trust it includes elements like behavior, said Air Force Lt. hurt the company’s anthropologist who studies about working with the like Samsung Display has health care, retail and agri around AI and the AI mod- Power Apps, Power BI, Gen. Jack Shanahan, direc- chances at winning the bid. the role of AI in warfare. Department of Defense,” recently announced its plans tech. He adds, "I think els they deploy. Further, Power Automation tools tor of the Pentagon’s Joint An existing 2012 military “The word ‘appropriate’ is he said. to set up a manufacturing inclusivity around the sur- the core cybersecurity of and Power Virtual Agents. AI Center. directive requires humans open to a lot of interpreta- Shanahan said the guid- facility in India by making an plus that gets created by their asset, their cus- He appreciated the The Pentagon’s push to to be in control of automat- tions.” ance also helps secure investment of `3,500 crore. digital technology, is going tomers' data too matters. efforts of some of the start- speed up its AI capabilities ed weapons but doesn’t Shanahan said the princi- American technological India has an opportunity to to be important," We are living in a time ups like Myntra and Udaan has fueled a fight between address broader uses of AI. ples are intentionally advantage as China and further increase its production “Technology is becoming where sustainability of he said that it is fantastic tech companies over a $10 The new U.S. principles are broad to avoid handcuffing Russia pursue military AI by adopting manufacturing- so ubiquitous and perva- one finite resource we have to see unicorns coming out billion cloud computing meant to guide both com- the US military with specif- with little attention paid to friendly policies. sive in society in our lives. this planet of our is super of India. contract known as the bat and non-combat appli- ic restrictions that could ethical concerns.— Reuters WORLD pg DECCAN CHRONICLE | HYDERABAD | WEDNESDAY | 26 FEBRUARY 2020 12

IN BRIEF German man rams car into carnival crowd Last USSR Debate to blunt marshal dies Bernie’s impetus Moscow: The last marshal of the Soviet Union Dmitry Washington, Feb 25: De- Yazov, who participated in a mocrats take the stage for SANDERS SLAMS coup against the last USSR a debate in South Caro- leader Mikhail Gorbachev in lina on Tuesday in what TRUMP FOR ARMS 1991, has died, according to could be the final oppor- news agencies. “On February tunity for Joe Biden and DEAL WITH INDIA 25 in Moscow in the 96th the party’s other presi- year of his life after a serious dential candidates to halt and prolonged illness Bernie Sanders drive to Washington, Feb 25: De- Marshal of the Soviet Union the nomination. The 78- mocratic presidential Dmitry Timofeevich Yazov year-old senator from front-runner Senator Ber- passed away,” the defence Vermont is in pole posi- nie Sanders on Monday ministry said in a statement tion heading into South slammed President Don- carried by agencies. Carolina’s Democratic ald Trump for selling primary on Saturday. weapons to India, saying Sanders finished in a that the US should 2 teens wounded virtual tie with former instead partner with New South Bend, Indiana, Delhi to fight climate in US stabbing mayor Pete Buttigieg in change to save the planet. the first nominating con- Sanders, who has won Mililani: Two 16-year-olds test, in Iowa, and then the Nevada and New were stabbed and seriously went on to win in the next Hampshire primaries wounded at a Hawaii high states to vote — New and tied in Iowa, made school Monday. Police con- Hampshire and Nevada. the comments after firmed to school officials Seven candidates will Trump, who is on a two- that a suspect, who is not take part in the debate day visit to India, on one of the wounded, was in beginning at 8pm in Monday announced that custody, said Lindsay Charleston, South Caro- the US will sign defence Chambers, a spokeswoman lina, on Tuesday night trade deals worth $3 bil- for the Hawaii Department (0100 GMT Wednesday), lion with India. of Education. A boy and girl the 10th debate of the In an address at a mas- were taken to a hospital in campaign cycle. sive “Namaste Trump” serious condition after the Besides Sanders, Biden rally at Motera stadium stabbing at Mililani High and Buttigieg, Massach- in Ahmedabad, Trump School on central Oahu, usetts Senator Elizabeth announced that deals to Honolulu Emergency Medical Warren, Minnesota Sena- sell state-of-the-art mili- Services spokeswoman tor Amy Klobuchar, med- tary helicopters and Shayne Enright said. They ia magnate Michael Bloo- other equipment worth are expected to survive, mberg and billionaire over $3 billion will be Enright said. Students were A carnival float is pictured close to the site where a man who drove into a carnival procession in Volkmarsen near Kassel, central Germany, on Tom Steyer will also be on sealed with India on released early after being in Rose Monday and injured 52 people. Police said that the motive of the 29-year-old German remained unclear after he was arrested. — AFP the stage. Bloomberg, 78, Tuesday. a lockdown, Chambers said. will be looking to rebound Instead of selling $3 bil- No other details were imme- from his disastrous per- lion in weapons to enrich diately available. formance in his first Raytheon, Boeing and debate and prove that he Lockheed, the United FORMER EGYPT is a credible, moderate States should be partner- 2 Turkish troops alternative to the leftist ing with India to fight cli- PREZ HOSNI Sanders. mate change, Sanders killed in Libya Singer Placido hits a Biden, 77, has also been said in a tweet, the first MUBARAK DIES staking out the center and by a Democratic presi- Istanbul: President Recep will be hoping to bounce dential candidate on Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday back from his dismal per- Trump’s India visit. said two Turkish troops have Cairo, Feb. 25: Former formance in Iowa and —PTI been killed in Libya, a coun- Egyptian President Ho- #MeToo wrong note New Hampshire, where try wracked by conflict sni Mubarak dies aged he finished fourth and between its UN-recognised 91. Mubarak spent three fifth respectively. The for- has been surging in the government and the forces decades in office before a The Opera star had previously denied all allegations mer vice president came polls in the southern state of strongman Khalifa Haftar. popular uprising swept in second in the Nevada in recent weeks and Bid- “We have two martyrs there Egypt. He was found gu- San Francisco, Feb. 25: I RESPECT THAT caucuses, but with 20.2 en’s lead there has dwin- in Libya,” Erdogan told ilty of complicity in the An investigation into leg- these women percent, he was well beh- dled to single digits. A reporters before leaving for killing of protesters dur- endary singer Placido ind Sanders’ 46.8 percent. Sanders victory in South Azerbaijan on an official ing the revolution. Domingo by the U.S. union finally felt comfortable Biden has been count- Carolina, or even a close visit. He did not say when That conviction was representing opera per- enough to speak out, ing on his strong support second, could set him up the troops died. Erdogan overturned and was formers found more than and I want them to know among African-American for a knockout showing had come under fire from freed in March 2017. His two dozen people who said that I am truly sorry for voters in South Carolina on “Super Tuesday” on opponents at home after he death was confirmed by they were sexually hara- the hurt that I caused to recharge his flagging March 3, when 14 states said at the weekend “we Egyptian state news on ssed or witnessed inappro- them. I accept full respo- campaign. But Sanders go to the polls. —AFP have a couple of martyrs” in Tuesday. Earlier in the priate behaviour by the nsibility for my actions. Libya, without providing a day, the Al-Watan website superstar when he held precise number. Turkey sup- reported that he died at a senior management posi- PLACIDO DOMINGO, ports the UN-recognised military hospital. Muba- tions at Washington Nati- Opera star Government of National rak underwent surgery onal Opera and Los Ang- Accord (GNA), based in in late January and was eles Opera, according to December. In addition to Asia Bibi seeks Tripoli, and sent dozens of photographed with his people familiar with the the 27 who said they expe- military training personnel grandson as he recov- findings. rienced or witnessed sexu- after the two countries ered. On Saturday, how- The investigation, con- ally suggestive behavior signed deals last year. The ever, Mubarak’s son Alaa ducted by lawyers hired A file photo of Placido Domingo performing in Szeged, on the part of Domingo in French asylum GNA has been under sus- said that the former pres- by the American Guild of Hungary last August. —AP the 1990s and 2000s, 12 oth- tained attack for months ident remained in inten- Musical Artists, conclud- ers said they were aware Paris, Feb. 25: Asia Bibi, ● “FRANCE IS the from Haftar, a military com- sive care. ed that the accounts from made against me. I respect independent inquiries of the star’s reputation the Pakistani Christian country from where I mander with an eastern Born in 1928, Mubarak 27 people showed a clear that these women finally launched after multiple and that it was common woman who spent years received my new life... powerbase whose principal entered the air force as a pattern of sexual miscon- felt comfortable enough to women accused Domingo knowledge at the two com- on death row after a 2010 backers include Russia. teenager and went on to duct and abuse of power speak out, and I want of sexual harassment and panies. conviction of blasphemy, Anne-Isabelle is an Last week, Erdogan con- play a key role in the 1973 by Domingo spanning at them to know that I am tr- abusing his power in two Mirroring to the reports said Monday that she was angel for me,” said Asia firmed pro-Turkish Syrian Arab-Israeli war. least two decades, accord- uly sorry for the hurt that stories published last year. last year, the investigation seeking political asylum Bibi, the Pakistani fighters were in Libya along- ing to those who spoke I caused them. I accept full The second inquiry, still found that the allegations from the French govern- Christian woman. side the training teams dis- says sources on condition responsibility for my ongoing, was launched by included unsolicited phys- ment. patched by Ankara. of anonymity because actions, and I have grown LA Opera, where Domingo ical touching that ranged “My great desire is to live they were not authorized from this experience.” had been general director from kisses on the mouth in France,” Bibi said in jected to in prison until to disclose the findings. In Domingo had previously since 2003 before resign- to groping, late-night an interview with RTL her release in 2018, amid response to a request for denied all the claims, ing in October. phone calls in which radio, her first trip to an international outcry ARMENIA’S comment, referring to them as “inac- According to the people Domingo asked women to France since fleeing with over her treatment. The Domingo issued a state- curate” and saying all his familiar with the contents come to his residence, and her family to Canada in acquittal sparked fierce ment saying “I have taken interactions and relation- of the union’s investiga- inviting women to go out 2018. rioting in Muslim-majori- OUSTED PREZ time over the last several ships were “always wel- tion, lawyers from the with him socially with Her visit comes a few ty Pakistan, where months to reflect on the comed and consensual”. firm Cozen O’Connor such persistence that weeks after the publica- Christians are often the allegations that various The union’s investiga- interviewed 55 people some felt they were being tion of her book “Enfin target of persecution. STANDS TRIAL Hosni Mubarak colleagues of mine have tion was the first of two from September until late stalked. — AP Libre!” (Finally Free) in She later fled with her Yerevan, Feb. 25: Former French last month, with family to Canada, where Armenian president Serzh an English version due in she has been living in an Sarkisian on Tuesday goes on September. undisclosed location trial charged with corruption, “France is the country under police protection. nearly two years after he was from where I received my “Obviously I am enor- ousted from power by a popu- Migrant camp row: Cops in Greek islands new life... Anne-Isabelle is mously grateful to lar uprising following a decade an angel for me,” she said, Canada”, Bibi said, in office. Sarkisian, who domi- Athens, Feb. 25: Riot tive party cadres on Samos and Chios will be referring to the French adding that she now nated Armenia in two consec- police were dispatched to Sunday. Work on the new shut down this year, to be journalist Anne-Isabelle wanted to work “hand in utive terms as president from the Greek islands of camps on Lesbos and replaced with new, smaller Tollet, who waged a long hand” with Tollet to urge 2008, resigned in 2018 when his Lesbos and Chios on Chios, with a capacity of facilities that are to be campaign for her release Pakistan authorities to plan to stay in power by taking Monday as the governm- up to 7,000 each, is to begin operational by mid-2020. and later co-wrote Bibi’s free others imprisoned the post of prime minister ent prepared to launch the this week. But while the adminstra- book. over the country’s anti- sparked mass protests led by construction of new con- Island officials and resi- tion of Mitsotakis tries to On Tuesday, Paris blasphemy laws. journalist-turned-politician troversial migrant camps. dents have told the Greek alleviate the problem by Mayor Anne Hidalgo is to The allegations against Nikol Pashinyan. In both islands, police government that after five relocating thousands of bestow an honorary citi- Bibi date back to 2009, Sarkisian initially adopted a deployed at the harbour to years on the front lines of migrants to other parts of zenship certificate grant- when Muslim field labo- low profile in the months after facilitate the landing of the European migration Greece, many communi- ed to Bibi by the city in urers who were working his resignation. But over the security force reinforce- crisis, they are no longer ties on the mainland have 2014, when she was still alongside her refused to last year he has reemerged and ments from the mainland, prepared to accept thou- also stonewalled the move. behind bars. She said she share water because she harshly criticised Pashinyan, state agency ANA said. sands of asylum-seekers. The UN’s refugee chief did not have any meeting was Christian. who succeeded him as pre- There are over 38,000 Riot police arrive to monitor the construction of new Residents have threatened on Friday called for urgent scheduled with President An argument mier. migrants crowded into controversial migrant camps at the port of Mytilene on to block access to the new action to address the Emmanuel Macron, but broke out and a Muslim The 65-year-old former mili- camps on the Greek the Aegean island of Lesbos, on Tuesday. —AFP camp sites in order to hob- “shocking and “obviously I would like woman later went to a tary officer was charged in islands of Lesbos, Samos, ble their construction. shameful”conditions the president to hear my local cleric and accused December with organising an Chios, Leros and Kos the weekend insisted that immediately and will be The conservative govern- migrants are forced to live request.” Bibi of committing blas- embezzlement scheme that despite an official capacity the plan would go ahead completed. ment which came to power in at reception centres on In her book, Bibi phemy against the allegedly helped enrich gov- of 6,200. Prime Minister despite local opposition. There is no turning in July has announced the Greek islands. recounts the nightmare Prophet Mohammed. ernment officials. He was Kyriakos Mitsotakis over “The works will begin back,” he told conserva- that the camps on Lesbos, —AFP conditions she was sub- —AFP banned from leaving the coun- try and if convicted could face up to eight years in jail. Prosecutors have said that in OLD IS | GOLD Secret to long life is to keep smiling, says world’s oldest man Chitetsu Watanabe 2013 Sarkisian helped to orga- nise a scheme for a private company to supply diesel fuel for the government’s agricul- tural assistance programme at 112-yr-old longevity Guinness record holder dies a deliberately inflated price. The surplus of 489 million Tokyo, Feb. 25: A had not been able to eat calls to their home. ● JAPANESE MAN drams ($1 million) was then Japanese man who recently and developed a Watanabe was born in 1907 Chitetsu Watanabe had pocketed by the officials and received his certificate as fever and difficulty breath- and worked in Taiwan for received his certificate businessmen involved in the the world’s oldest man ing a couple of days before 18 years. After returning as the world’s oldest scheme, prosecutors have said. with a raised fist and big his death, Japan’s nation- to Niigata, northern There is no direct indication smiles earlier this month ally circulated newspaper Japan, he worked for the man with a raised fist in the indictment over whe- has died at 112. Mainichi reported, citing prefectural government and big smiles earlier ther Sarkisian had personally Guinness World Records family sources. until retirement. this month. benefited from the plot. Sark- had given the certificate to Watanabe is survived by He grew fruit and vegeta- isian and his Republican Party Chitetsu Watanabe on his five children, 12 grand- bles on the family farm Guinness in Japan offered have denounced the charges as February 12. The organisa- children, 16 great-grand- and loved cream puffs and its condolences to his fam- “fabricated and aimed at tion and the funeral home children and one great- bonsai, the Japanese tradi- ily. The oldest living per- silencing political opponents”, handling his services con- great-grandchild, tional art of raising small son is also Japanese, Kane calling them “dangerous firmed Tuesday he had Mainichi said. sculpted trees. He used to Tanaka, a 117-year-old A file photo of 112-year-old Japanese man Chitetsu Watanabe as he poses next to a developments jeopardising died Sunday. Watanabe’s family did say the secret to longevity woman. calligraphy in Japanese that reads ‘Number One’ after he was awarded as the world’s democracy”. No cause was given. He not immediately answer was to keep smiling. —AP oldest living male, in Joetsue. — AFP WORLD pg DECCAN CHRONICLE | HYDERABAD | WEDNESDAY | 26 FEBRUARY 2020 13

IN BRIEF InSight reveals Virus spreads, WHO issues pandemic alert Martian weather Global body issues warning after news of deaths and outbreaks across West Asia, Europe and Asia New York: NASA’s InSight Geneva, Feb. 25: The new ● CROATIA’S PRIME lander which touched down Covid-19 has peaked in Minister Andrej on the Martian equator in China but could still grow November last year, has rev- into a pandemic, the World Plenkovic on Tuesday ealed secrets about the Red Health Organisation war- announced his country’s Planet’s weather patterns, in- ned, as infections mushr- first confirmed case of cluding details about its sur- oom in other countries. the new Covid-19, the face tornadoes, and the ste- Financial markets have first in the Balkans reg- ady, rumble of low-frequen- gone into a tailspin after ion. The patient is a yo- cy sounds on the planet, a grim news of deaths and new study says. The resear- outbreaks in the Middle ung man “showing mild ch, published in the journal East, Europe and Asia, symptoms”, he said. Nature Geoscience, noted even as the Chinese epice- that Mars experiences strong ntre appeared to be calm- ● TWO PEOPLE in daily pressure and temperat- ing, with the toll at its low- Austria have tested posi- ure fluctuations, stronger est for almost three weeks. tive for the new Covid- than on the Earth. “The atm- But the situation is wors- osphere is so thin that it can ening in other countries, 19, authorities said heat up and cool down much with more than 2,000 cases Tuesday, marking the faster than on Earth. This is and around 30 deaths country’s first cases entirely new territory we are reported abroad, prompt- after an outbreak in exploring,” said Don Banfie- ing a raft of restrictions northern Italy. The two ld, lead author of the study on travellers from infected 24-year-olds have been from Cornell University in nations. South Korea, Italy quarantined in a hospital the US. The researchers not- and Iran have logged par- ed that about a month after ticularly sharp increases in Innsbruck. landing, InSight endured a in infections and deaths, large dust storm which, they while several countries in said, could dramatically cha- the Middle East reported witnessing large-scale dea- nge the Red Planet’s weath- their first cases of the ths,” Tedros told reporters er. The scientists noted daily novel Covid-19. in Geneva on Monday. changing winds controlled But WHO chief Tedros He added, however, that by the seasonal freezing and Adhanom Ghebreyesus countries should be “doing thawing of the carbon diox- insisted the virus could everything we can to pre- ide in the Martian polar caps. still be contained, praising pare for a potential pan- China’s drastic quaran- demic.” tine measures in several The term “pandemic” is Italian hikers cities for helping to preve- used to describe an illness nt an even bigger spread. that spreads across saved in Alaska “For the moment we are numerous communities. not witnessing the uncon- There are 53 cases in the Anchorage (Alaska): An Ita- tained global spread of United States so far. lian man suffering from frost- this virus and we are not — Agencies People buy face masks at a retail store in the southeastern city of Daegu in South Korea on Tuesday. — AFP bite and four other tourists were rescued in the Alaska wilderness after visiting an abandoned bus that has bec- ome a lure for adventurers since it was featured in the Fourth person from quarantined ship dies Dubai, Sharjah Into the Wild book and mov- ie. Alaska State Troopers say Tokyo, Feb. 25: A fourth WE ARE aware of Some of the disembark- the five Italians were rescued person has died in Japan the risks of them ing passengers were not Saturday from a camp they after becoming ill aboard a getting infected when even tested during the qu- Iran deputy health flights stopped set up after visiting the dila- Covid-19-stricken cruise arantine period, the heal- pidated bus on the Stampe- ship, local media reported they take off a mask or th ministry has acknowle- Dubai, Feb. 25: The tiny de Trail near the town of He- Tuesday, as the govern- gloves, so we will have dged. Several government island nation of Bahrain GULF COUNTRIES aly. The hikers were found 13 ment unveiled a new poli- thorough measures to officials working on the minister has virus suspended flights to the miles from the trailhead, Tro- cy to tackle the outbreak. prevent infections under ship have themselves con- world’s busiest airport for SNAP ALL LINKS oper spokesman Tim DeSpa- Nearly 700 people on board these circumstances. tracted the infection, but Tehran, Feb. 25: Iran’s international travel in in said. He didn’t know how the Diamond Princess, authorities have defended deputy health minister Dubai on Tuesday over WITH IRAN far they were from the bus. which spent two weeks — KATSUNOBU KATO a policy of not uniformly has been infected with the fears about the spread of One of the hikers had frostb- quarantined off Japan, Japan Health Minister testing those working on new Covid-19, a ministry a new virus. The move by ite to his feet and was trans- have so far tested positive the boat. “We are aware of official said on Tuesday, Bahrain, a small island Dubai, Feb. 25: Gulf ported to Fairbanks for treat- for the virus. the risks of them getting amid a major outbreak in off the coast of Saudi Ar- countries announced new ment, DeSpain said. The hik- Four people who were becoming sick on the ship. infected when they take the Islamic republic. abia, suggested its monar- measures Tuesday to cut er’s injuries are not consider- hospitalised after being ta- Two were confirmed to off a mask or gloves, so we “The Covid-19 test for Mr chy had doubts about sc- links with Iran to prevent ed life-threatening. The other ken off the ship have died, have the new Covid-19, will have thorough meas- Harirchi, the deputy hea- reenings of incoming pas- Covid-19 spreading after four hikers were picked up the latest a man in his 80s, while the health ministry ures to prevent infections lth minister who was on sengers in Dubai and nea- the confirmation of 20 by friends in Healy. Rescuers according to local media. declined to comment on under these circumstanc- the front lines combating Iraj Harirchi rby Sharjah in the United new cases, all of them were alerted by the hikers The Yomiuri Shimbun dai- the diagnosis of the third. es,” Health Minister Kats- the Covid-19, was positi- Arab Emirates. people returning from the with a satellite-based emerg- ly said the man had tested Japan has come under in- unobu Kato said, while ve,” Alireza Vahabzadeh, Three more die It said the ban was imm- Islamic republic. ency device that notified the positive for the new Covid- creasing pressure over its stressing no change in pol- a media adviser to the Covid-19 claimed three ediate and would last at The United Arab Emira- International Emergency 19 and died of pneumonia. handling of the ship, part- icy was planned. Many na- health minister, said in a more lives in Iran, taking least 48 hours. Bahrain tes suspended all passen- Response Coordination The health ministry did icularly after it emerged tions have evacuated their tweet. Iraj Harirchi coug- the country’s overall toll counted its first case of ger and cargo flights to Center of a medical emer- not immediately respond that some passengers allo- citizens from the ship, hed occasionally and app- to 15, as President Hassan the Covid-19 that causes Iran after Gulf neighbo- gency, troopers said. to a request for comment wed to disembark after te- with 450 Filipinos due to eared to be sweating dur- Rouhani called for calm the illness on Monday in a urs Kuwait and Bahrain on the reports. sting negative were subse- be flown home on Tuesday ing a press conference on Tuesday and teams were school bus driver who announced the additional Three others, all Japane- quently diagnosed with on two chartered flights. Monday with government deployed to disinfect pub- transited Dubai while cases of Covid-19. Arctic ‘doomsday se, have so far died after the virus. — AFP spokesman Ali Rabiei. lic spaces. — AFP coming from Iran. Dubai Over the past two days, International Airport did Kuwait, Bahrain and vault’ stocks up not immediately respond Oman have reported 29 to a request for comment. cases of the novel Covid- Oslo: An Arctic “doomsday Officials at Sharjah’s ai- 19 among people return- vault” is to receive 60,000 rport could not be immed- ing from pilgrimages to samples of seeds from aro- Military drill may White House seeks iately reached. Dubai has Iran, which is battling the und the world as the biggest been screening passenge- deadliest outbreak out- global crop reserve stocks up rs on incoming flights side China. for a global catastrophe. The from China, where the ou- The UAE General Civil seeds are to be deposited in be scaled back $2.5b emergency fund tbreak began. Long-haul Aviation Authority “sus- the vault inside a mountain carriers Emirates and Et- pended all passenger flig- near Longyearbyen on Spits- Washington, Feb. 25: ● THE COMMANDER of Washington, Feb. 25: ● THE WHITE House pplies, said White House ihad are among the few hts and cargo to and from bergen Island in Norway’s The United States and So- US forces in South The White House sent law- budget office said the budget office spokes- international airlines sti- Iran starting today and Svalbard archipelago, about uth Korea said Monday makers an urgent budget funds are for vaccines, woman Rahel Semmel. ll flying to Beijing. How- for one week,” a stateme- 1,000 kilometres from the they were considering sc- Korea, General Robert request for $2.5 billion to “We are also freeing up ever, the outbreak in Iran nt carried by the official North Pole. “As the pace of aling back a military exe- Abrams, and the head of address the deadly Covid- treatment, and protec- existing resources and all- only became public in rec- WAM news agency said, climate change and biodiver- rcise planned for this that country’s joint 19 outbreak, whose rapid tive equipment owing for greater flexibili- ent days. adding that the ban could sity loss increases, there is spring because of the Co- chiefs of staff, General spread and threat to the ties for response activiti- Iran’s government said be extended. new urgency surrounding ef- vid-19 epidemic. Park Han-ki, “are look- global economy rocked es. Senators returning to Monday that 12 people Muscat was making forts to save food crops at The commander of US ing at scaling back the financial markets. low. The Department of Washington after a week- had died nationwide from arrangements to bring risk of extinction,” said Stef- forces in South Korea, The White House budget Health and Human Servi- long recess will receive a the new Covid-19, rejecti- back its citizens from the an Schmitz, head of the Crop General Robert Abrams, command post training office said the funds are ces had already tapped classified briefing Tuesd- ng claims of a much high- Islamic republic, the for- Trust. “The large scope of and the head of that coun- due to concerns about for vaccines, treatment, into an emergency infecti- ay morning on the govern- er toll of 50 by a lawmak- eign ministry said, a day today’s seed deposit reflects try’s joint chiefs of staff, the Covid-19” and protective equipment. ous disease rapid respon- ment’s Covid-19 response, er from the city of Qom after it suspended all flig- worldwide concern about the General Park Han-ki, “are The request could advan- se fund and was seeking to a Senate aide said. All of that has been at the epi- hts to and from Iran. impacts of climate change looking at scaling back ce quickly through Congr- transfer more than $130 the warning lights are centre of the virus in the Oman also announced and biodiversity loss on food the command post train- the military has been can- ess and came as Covid-19 million from other HHS flashing bright red. We country. The conflicting that it will suspend the production,” he added. “But ing due to concerns about celled nationwide so as to fears were credited with accounts to combat the vi- are staring down a potent- reports raised questions import and export of goo- more importantly it de- the covid-19,” US Defence limit soldiers’ movemen- Monday’s 1,000-plus point rus but is pressing for ial pandemic and the adm- about the Iranian govern- ds from Iran from Wed- monstrates a growing global Secretary Mark Esper ts. “The situation is quite drop in the Dow Jones more. Today, the Adminis- inistration has no plan,” ment’s transparency con- nesday. — AFP commitment to the conserv- said at a news conference. serious,” Jeong said. Industrials and are incre- tration is transmitting to said Senate Minority Lea- cerning the scale of the ation and use of the crop di- His South Korean count- The two countries have asingly seen as a potential Congress a $2.5 billion su- der Chuck Schumer, who outbreak. Afghanistan, versity that is crucial for fa- erpart, Jeong Kyeong- significantly scaled back political threat to Preside- pplemental funding plan blasted a shortage of kits Kuwait, Iraq and Oman seven sheikhdoms on the rmers in their efforts to ada- doo, said at the same brie- traditional joint military nt Donald Trump. to accelerate vaccine deve- to test for the virus and also announced their first Arabian Peninsula, has pt to changing growing con- fing that 13 servicemen exercises so as to facili- The request was releas- lopment, support prepare- President Donald Trum- cases of the virus on reported 13 cases of the ditions,” he said. from his country have be- tate US nuclear talks with ed Monday evening and dness and response activi- p’s proposed budget cuts Monday and connected new virus. Most of those come infected with the vi- North Korea. came as key government ties and to procure much to health agencies. them to travel with Iran. were connected to Chine- rus and that all leave for — AFP accounts were running needed equipment and su- — AP The UAE, a federation of se travel. — AP

WATER | WORLD Homes and buildings, including presidential palace, inundated as transport networks paralysed OHIO ZOO GETS FIRST IN-VITRO Thousands caught in floods in sinking Jakarta CHEETAH CUBS Jakarta, Feb. 25: Floods ● AGUS WIBOWO, the reached as high as 1.5 site in sparsely populated Powell, Feb. 25: Two that have crippled much of National Disaster metres in places. East Kalimantan province cheetah cubs have been Indonesia’s capital worsen- Television footage showed on Borneo island, known for born through in-vitro ed Tuesday, inundating tho- Mitigation Agency’s soldiers and rescuers in rainforests and orangutans. fertilisation and embryo usands of homes and build- spokesman said the floods rubber boats struggling to Severe flooding and landsl- transfer to a surrogate ings, including the presi- on Tuesday inundated evacuate children and the ides that hit greater Jakarta mother for the first time, dential palace, and paraly- scores of districts and elderly who were holding early last month killed more Ohio zoo officials anno- sing transport networks, left more than 300 out on the roofs of their squ- than 60 people, displaced unced. The male and fe- officials and witnesses said. people homeless alid houses. Indonesia’s me- hundreds of thousands and male cubs were born to Overnight rains caused teorological agency is pre- forced an airport to close. three-year-old Izzy at the more rivers to burst their dicting rain for the next two Jakarta Governor Anies Columbus Zoo and Aqu- banks in greater Jakarta st- heavy downpour that hit the weeks. The flooding has hi- Baswedan, who was criticis- arium on Wednesday, the arting Sunday, sending mu- capital on Sunday had sub- ghlighted Indonesia’s infra- ed when massive floods str- zoo said in a statement. ddy water up to 1.5 metres merged the state-run Cipto structure problems. uck the city last month, bla- A team observed the deep into more residential Mangunkusumo hospital, Jakarta is home to 10 mil- med widespread deforesta- births through a remote and commercial areas, said the country’s largest hospi- lion people, with a total of tion in the southern hills, camera and are monitor- Agus Wibowo, the National tal, damaging medical mac- 30 million in its greater met- saying it had destroyed wa- ing Izzy and the cubs. Disaster Mitigation Agen- hines and equipment, Wibo- ropolitan area. It is prone to ter catchment areas. The biological mother of cy’s spokesman. wo said. earthquakes and flooding Seasonal downpours cause the cubs is six-year-old Floodwaters entered parts Wibowo said the floods on and is rapidly sinking due dozens of landslides and Kibibi who has never re- of Indonesia’s presidential Tuesday inundated scores of to uncontrolled extraction flash floods each year in In- produced and is too old palace complex Tuesday districts and left more than of groundwater. Congestion donesia, a sprawling archip- to become pregnant nat- morning but the situation 300 people homeless, forced is also estimated to cost the elago of 17,000 islands whe- urally. Kibibi’s eggs was brought under control authorities to cut off elec- economy $6.5 billion a year. re millions of people live in were extracted and then with water pumps, said Bey tricity and paralysed trans- President Joko Widodo mountainous areas or near fertilised in a Columbus Machmudin, an official at portation, including comm- announced in August that fertile plains. Zoo laboratory on Nove- the Presidential Office. The uter lines, as floodwaters the capital will move to a — AP People walk through a flooded road after heavy rain in Jakarta on Tuesday. — AFP mber 19. — AP pg DECCAN CHRONICLE | HYDERABAD | WEDNESDAY | 26 FEBRUARY 2020 14 ■ Indian firms audited by Big-4 is far below the quick global average even as regulators tighten screws Life insurers can soon offer health insurance policy Restrictions will hurt audit SANGEETHA G expense incurred during insurers to sell them as BITES CHENNAI, FEB. 25 hospitalisation up to the their core competency is total sum insured under not providing health cover. After banning life insur- the policy. Now IRDAI has formed a INDICATORS % ers from selling indemni- Historically Health committee, which will look ty-based health policies a insurance is recognised as into feasibility and the Sensex 40,281.20 -0.20 profession, say experts few years back, Insurance one of the important ele- business scope for life Nifty 50 11,797.90 -0.27 Regulatory and Develop- ments of health care and insurance companies to S&P 500 3,225.89 -- ASHWIN J PUNNEN caught napping include ment Authority of India is health insurance premi- offer indemnity based MUMBAI, FEB. 25 IL&FS, Yes Bank Ltd, now examining the feasi- ums have been registering health insurance products Dollar (`) 71.65 -0.42 Satyam Computers, bility of allowing them a significant CAGR of and extant statutory provi- Pound Sterling (`) 92.96 -0.02 Indian companies audited Manpasand Beverages again. around 20 per cent in the sions that are applicable in by Big-4 audit firm are Ltd, Vakrangee Ltd, IRDAI (Health Insurance) preceding 10 years in this regard. The Euro (`) 77.67 -0.28 steadily coming down and among others. All these Regulations 2016 allows India. It is in this context Committee shall submit its Brent crude ($/bbl)* 56.20 -0.18 is far below the global cases of alleged financial Life Insurance Companies that IRDAI is making a recommendations within IN 10-Yr bond yield* +6.367 0.000 average even as regulators misreporting and irregu- to offer benefit-based feasibility study. two months. are tightening screws on larities highlighted audit health insurance products A few years back, life According to S. Prakash, US 10-Yr T-bill yield* 1.369 -0.581 auditors in the country. quality concerns or, in only. Representations have insurers had started offer- MD of Star Health and Top four audit firms — some cases, even audit been received from life ing such plans. However, Allied Insurance and a * As of 07.43 pm E&Y, KPMG, Deloitte and failures. The audit insurance companies to in July 2016, IRDAI had member of the committee, PwC firms — audit 26 per process, which is meant to allow them to offer indem- banned them from offer- this is a good initiative for cent of the NSE listed certify whether the nity products as well, the ing them. the regulator. “We will Critical personal companies in FY20 down accounts stated by compa- regulator said. According to industry, have to study the pros and from 30 per cent in FY 20. nies are true, failed to flag Indemnity-based health IRDAI had found that cons of this suggestion This is much below the gaping holes, experts said. plans are insurance poli- indemnity cover was a before providing recom- data must remain global average, in the US audit services. In nature to penalise firms and net- Interestingly, the head- cies in which the insured service more than a prod- mendation to the regula- 99 per cent of S&P 500 demand and supply forces, works that have invested line-grabbing action has is reimbursed the actual uct and did not want life tor,” he said. in India: Niti CEO companies are audited by audit firms will be in knowledge, tools, all been against the top 4 Critical personal data of the the big 4, while in Europe required to grow to meet methodologies, talent to audit firms.?And it has people must be kept within the it is around 61 per cent. the increased demand and enable their growth and inevitably culminated in country, Niti Aayog CEO However, in the case of everyone will get a share development the MCA paper, which Amitabh Kant said here on UK it hovers around 90 per the market. For this, Audit firms have come could potentially lead to Tuesday. The statement comes cent of FTSE 350 compa- small and mid-sized firms under regulatory scrutiny changes in law. “But it Gold dips in the backdrop of India man- nies. “Small firms should should be encouraged to as series of audit failures became fairly obvious dating global technology giants be encouraged and build capacity and invest have come to surface over soon enough that the qual- including Mastercard and Visa enabled to invest in tools, in IT systems, learning the past few years. ity of the audit was the `954 due to to comply with the data locali- knowledge and talent to be and development of their The latest was the near- key concern, not whether sation norms in the public inter- able to grow. The profes- employees”, says Srinivas collapse of Infrastructure the firms were Indian or strong rupee, est. Data localisation requires sion needs more large Reddy of Juniper Leasing and Financial otherwise. As regulators data about residents be collect- firms to service the grow- Advisors, a leading corpo- Services Ltd (IL&FS) in began tightening the ed, processed, and stored inside ing economy instead of rate advisory firm. September 2018, which left screws, the markets could global cues the country. more small firms” says Ex Experts believe that a `99,000 crore hole in the smell that something was Central Council member restriction on number of country’s financial system brewing. In the first half of the ICAI. audits per firm/network and sent the NBFC (non- of 2018, nearly 32 auditors New Delhi, Feb. 25: “If India is to grow to be or number of partners per banking financial compa- quit from listed firms, said Gold prices on Tuesday a $5 trillion economy, then firm is detrimental to ny) sector into a tailspin. Vijay Kumar Gupta ex- tumbled by `954 to Mastercard CEO there is no need to cause growth of audit profes- The list of companies in central Council member `43,549 per 10 gram in hindrance to supply of sion as it is not justifiable which auditors were ICAI. the national capital on to step down stronger rupee and sell- ing in global market, SBI Cards to raise according to HDFC from his role Securities. PE, VCs see The yellow metal had No ban on foreign investors closed at `44,503 per 10 `10,354 cr via IPO, gram in the previous 20x jump trading session. Silver prices also fell by `80 to from Mauritius, says Sebi `49,990 per kg from in credit `50,070 per kg on sets price at `750 ASHWIN J PUNNEN Monday. investment MUMBAI, FEB. 25 z The Double Taxation Avoidance Agreements The price of 999 and FC BANKING BUREAU their stakes by 4 per cent are reportedly being misused by investors to 995 purity gold in Delhi MUMBAI and 10 per cent, respec- Market regulator Sebi on avoid paying taxes by routing investments was trading lower by tively, via the initial share SANGEETHA G Tuesday said foreign `770 at `44,030 per 10 The price band of the sale. CHENNAI, FEB. 25 investors from Mauritius through various countries which has tax treaty gram and `43,880 per 10 much awaited Initial Speaking at a press con- Mastercard’s Indian-American will continue to be eligible with India, in particular Mauritius and gram, respectively as Public Offering (IPO) of ference ahead of the IPO President and CEO Ajay Banga While some stressed for FPI registration with Singapore, which account for 48% of FDI inflow per TickerPlant. SBI Cards and Payment Hardayal Prasad, MD and will step down from his role assets may be up for increased monitoring as to India. “Gold prices pared Services has been fixed in CEO, told reporters that and assume charge as grabs in India, private per international norms. previous gains with the price range of `750-755 he aims to keep the pro- Executive Chairman of the equity and venture capi- The regulator issued clar- international spot gold per share. The issue will portion of Gross non-per- Board of Directors, as the pay- tal funds, however, saw ification after the tax z According to the tax treaty between India prices witnessing cor- open for subscription on forming assets at 2.4 to 2.5 ments giant announced Michael a jump of over 20 times haven was put on the “grey and Mauritius, capital gains can only be taxed rection on Tuesday, March 2 and close on per cent of the total Miebach as the new CEO. The in credit investments in list” of Financial Action in Mauritius, the same treaty exist with 16 falling below $1,650. March 5. At the higher assets. Gross non-per- company said that Banga will January compared to Task Force (FATF) — an other countries. Thanks to its low 3% capital Spot gold for 24 karat in end of the price band, the forming assets stood at become Executive Chairman of same month last year. inter-governmental policy gains tax, quality regulatory framework, pro- Delhi declined by `954 SBI Card IPO is expected 2.47 per cent at the end of the Board of Directors effective Credit investments making body that sets anti- fessional labor, geographical proximity, cul- on broad selling in glob- to raise around `10,354 last year, down from January 1, 2021. are fast-emerging asset money laundering stan- tural affinities, and historical ties with India, al prices and stronger crore, making it the fifth- around 2.9 per cent in class for PE/VC as sea- dards. rupee,” HDFC Securi- largest IPO so far. An March 2018. “Our focus is soned investors cherry A significant percentage Mauritius is the most attractive conduit for ties Senior Analyst employee discount of `75 that the underwriting is CORRIGENDUM pick stressed opportuni- of foreign portfolio invest- investments into India. (Commodities) Tapan per share will be offered to profitable and impair- GAIL Ltd was inadvertently ties thrown up by com- ors (FPIs) investing in the Patel said. eligible employees. The ment should be least and referred to wrongly in the body panies that need sup- Indian market is registered The spot rupee was bid lot for the IPO has so we are leveraging ana- text of a news item published port to prevent going in Mauritius. jurisdiction is placed ist financing, and financ- trading around 16 paise finalised to 19 shares and lytics and accordingly on February 25, 2020. We into NCLT, finds EY. The island nation is the under increased monitor- ing of proliferation. stronger against the dol- in multiples thereafter. reach out to customers,” regret the unintentional PE/VC funds have second largest source after ing, it construes that the Jurisdictions under the lar during the day, he The Offer consists of the said Prasad. typographical error. been active with credit the US from which foreign country has committed to “grey list” face increased said. fresh issue and the offer SBI Cards and Payment investments in the past portfolio investments come resolve swiftly the identi- monitoring. Currently, The rupee appreciated for sale. The object of the is the second-largest cred- three to four years as a into the country. As per fied strategic deficiencies there are 18 jurisdictions by 18 paise to 71.80 offer for sale is to allow it card issuer in India, lot of stressed assets January NSDL data, assets within agreed timeframes identified as having against the US dollar in the selling shareholders to with a 18.1 per cent mar- Tata Sons chief were up for grabs. With under custody of US FPIs and is subject to increased “strategic deficiencies”, early trade on Tuesday sell an aggregate of up to ket share of the Indian a more enabling regula- are worth `11,62,579 crore monitoring,” Sebi said. including Mauritius and tracking gains in 13.05 crore shares held by credit card market in meets Prasad tory and policy frame- and those from Mauritius In a detailed statement, Pakistan, as per the FATF. domestic equity market them. SBI Card will not terms of the number of work in place like the stood at `4,36,745 crore. Sebi said that FATF does For several years, there and weakening of the receive any proceeds from credit cards outstanding IBC and AIF regula- Following the FATF not call for the application have been apprehensions American currency in the Offer for Sale. The as of November 30, 2019 amid AGR crisis tions, credit invest- notice, some fund man- of enhanced due diligence about Mauritius being a the overseas market. fresh issue of `500 crore and a 17.9 per cent market Amid the ongoing AGR crisis, ments were off to a good agers knocked on Sebi’s to be applied to these juris- money laundering route In the international would be utilised for aug- share of the Indian credit Tata Sons chairman N. start in January 2020. door overnight, raising dictions, but encourages its for FPIs due to its limited market, both gold and menting SBI Card’s capi- card market in terms of Chandrasekaran on Tuesday met In January, credit concerns over validity of members to take into regulatory oversight. But, silver were trading tal base to meet its future total credit card spends in communications minister Ravi investments shot up to FPI registration done account this information the Indian Ocean island lower at $1,648 per capital requirements. The the eight months ended Shankar Prasad, even as an offi- $698 million against $34 through the tax haven. in their risk analysis. nation has been taking sev- ounce and $18.40 per secondary share sale will November 30, 2019, respec- cial said the telecom ministry is million in the same The regulator on Tuesday Referring to the above, eral steps in recent years to ounce, respectively. include up to 37.29 million tively. Kotak Mahindra prepared to issue a notice to month last year. said, “Foreign investors Sebi said that intermedi- address the concerns. “The worries over share sale by SBI and up Capital, Axis Capital, DSP Tatas for paying only part of its This is also the high- from Mauritius will contin- aries should take note of it. Equity benchmark BSE spreading coronavirus to 93.23 million shares on Merryl Lynch, Nomura dues as full and final settlement. est value of PE/VC ue to be eligible for FPI reg- FATF identifies jurisdic- Sensex was trading 118.15 may limit downside in offer by the Carlyle Group. Financial Advisory, HSBC Emerging from the meeting backed credit invest- istration with increased tions that have significant points higher at 40,481.38, gold prices,” Patel SBI holds 74 per cent in its Securities and SBI Capital which lasted for over 30 min- ments in a month in monitoring as per FATF strategic deficiencies in and the broader NSE Nifty added. subsidiary SBI Card, Markets are the book-run- utes, Chandrasekaran declined over two years. norms”. “It is noted from their regimes to counter was up 32.70 points at — PTI while the rest is held by ning lead managers of the to comment on the details of his FATF website that when a money laundering, terror- 11,862.10. Carlyle. Both will pare issue. discussion. The crucial meeting comes at a time when the gov- ernment is looking to issue a detailed notice to Tatas for pay- ing only `2,197 crore as full and final settlement. ‘Almost closed’ contours of limited trade pact: Goyal

New Delhi, Feb. 25: India Sharing the government’s need better understanding, NCLAT member: and the US have moved to vision, the minister said something more akin to the the next level of engage- our goal is that by 2022, kind of understanding we ment having “almost every family should have have at several other levels Liquidation is closed” the final contours own home with 24 hours between the US and India. I of limited trade package, electricity, clean cooking am pretty sure that some better sometimes and will come up with a gas, access to internet, and kind of understanding will Liquidation of a company under comprehensive trade deal good school and health care be reached,” he said. the Insolvency and Bankruptcy going forward, Commerce around the home. On the draft e-commerce Code is some times better than Minister Piyush Goyal To reach the goal of mak- policy on data storage a resolution as it throws oppor- said on Tuesday. ing India a $5 trillion econ- which is presently under tunity for alternative use of its Goyal was participating omy, Prime Minister has formulation, Mohapatra assets and add value to the in the ‘US-India Forum: had extensive consulta- said every responsible country, said NCLAT Technical Partners for Growth’ con- tions with 80 ministries, country in the world wants Member Balvinder Singh. ference here. “On the eco- entire council of ministers to carve out its own space nomic front, having almost and senior bureaucracy to to decide what is good for closed the last contours of bring in the interconnect the country and citizens. the limited trade deal and between different thought “India hopes to make an Printed & Published by with the announcement of processes, he said. FDI policy where it wants T Venkateswarlu on behalf of Deccan a much larger trade deal in Referring to the proposed to protect its own interests, Chronicle Holdings Limited, Printed at the offing, we have moved trade deal between India the citizens, the data inter- Deccan Chronicle Press at Deccan to a new level of engage- and the US, DIPP Secretary est, so that citizens can Chronicle Holdings Ltd. #563/9/D&9/E, ment,” Goyal said. Guruprasad Mohapatra leverage on data where it is Behind Andhra Bank Pet Basheerbagh, The minister said the said, “There are certain used commercially by oth- Kompally, Ranga Reddy Dist. Editor: engagement will help both areas where you need the ers. At the same time trying T.Venkatram Reddy, RNI Reg sides on different fronts. US to also open up the mar- to promote national securi- No.APENG/2008/24282. © All rights While India will benefit by ket to us, that is the discus- ty also,” he said, adding reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part engaging with new tech- sion going on between the that these are legitimate without written permission of The Editor, nology, the US will gain by various ministries, things which every other Financial Chronicle ® is prohibited. India becoming a big between the US and India. responsible country includ- US President Donald Trump interacts with Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani during a meeting with source for talent. “Suffice to say that we ing the US does. — PTI business leaders at US embassy in New Delhi on Tuesday — PTI CRICKET pg DECCAN CHRONICLE | HYDERABAD | WEDNESDAY | 26 FEBRUARY 2020 15

SHORT TAKES MSD to train for IPL from March 2 Chennai: Mahendra Singh Dhoni will start training for his Virat vows to fight much-anticipated return to Craig McMillan action in the Indian Premier League (IPL) from March 2 amid India didn’t make never-ending speculation on his I don’t think being cautious will help India, says Kohli career, which has been on hold Wellington, Feb. 25: Gary surprised by since last year’s ODI World Cup. Indian captain Virat Kohli any adjustments, The talismanic Chennai Super has exhorted his batsmen Kings captain, who led India to to shun ultra-defensive says McMillan two world titles, will start his approach heading into the India’s surrender training at the MA must-win second Test Wellington, Feb. 25: Chidambaram Stadium along against New Zealand, say- Wellington, Feb. 25: Former New Zealand all- with some other players of the ing it “never pays off” on New Zealand coach Gary rounder Craig McMillan franchise. . The 38-year old has overseas tours. Stead on Tuesday said he on Tuesday said Indian not played since the World Cup India were thrashed by was a bit surprised by batsmen “throwing their semifinal loss to New Zealand 10 wickets in the opening India’s abject surrender hands at the ball like last year and has maintained a Test at the Basin Reverse, in the first Test but is they do in India” will not stoic silence on what his next failing to go past 200 in expecting a strong come- work here. move would be. He was both their innings on back in Christchurch. Indian batsmen’s inad- dropped from the BCCI's list of seam-friendly conditions. India were all out for 165 equacies in adverse con- centrally contracted players in “I think the language we and 191 in the two innings ditions were exposed as January. “Dhoni will train at the use as a batting unit, that of the opening Test, lead- they crashed to an M A Chidambaram stadium from has to be correct. I don’t ing to a 10-wicket drub- embarrassing 10-wicket March 2. He will practice with think being cautious or bing in just over three defeat in just over three players who are available at wary will help because days. “It was a bit of a days in the opening Test that time,” CSK CEO KS you might stop playing surprise but it was also here on Monday. Viswanathan said here. “The full your shots,” Kohli said due to the pressure we put “They didn’t make any camp will begin on 19 March after the loss. on those guys for long adjustments in the way when all the players would have In the second innings, periods of time. You get Gary Stead they played, they threw joined the squad,” he added. the technically sound Trent and Tim to operate their hands at the ball — PTI Cheteshwar Pujara con- in our conditions and like they do in India,” he sumed 81 balls for his 11 both were outstanding,” We want told Radio Sport. runs and Hanuma Vihari Stead told reporters on teams to “When the ball doesn’t Buttler promises to made 15 off 79, as the bat- Tuesday. bounce above knee high ting unit failed to gener- “Trent’s freshness after believe that you can get away with prove worth in Test ate any momentum. being out for eight weeks it is as tough some of those shots — in London: England wicketkeep- Pujara, at one point, went added spark.” in New Zealand as it New Zealand you don’t.” er Jos Buttler is adamant he can 28 balls without a run, The head coach also McMillan lauded the prove his worth in the Test forcing Mayank Agarwal had a subtle warning for is playing anywhere New Zealand’s veteran arena after struggling to emu- into playing loose shots the Indian team, saying else in the world. seam-bowling duo of late his one-day success. Buttler and perish. touring New Zealand Tim Southee and Trent has endured a torrid time in Not running the singles could be as tough as play- That’s a pride thing. Boult. “When the ball’s Test cricket for England recent- and waiting for a good ball ing in some of the other —GARY STEAD, swinging, and it did for ly, managing a top score of just that has “your wicket” countries.”We want New Zealand coach most of that Wellington 43 in five matches against New written all over it is unac- teams to believe that it is Test, Boult and Southee Zealand and South Africa. The ceptable to the India skip- as tough in New Zealand that a world class side like are geniuses,” he said. 29-year-old was still named in per. “You will start doubt- as it is playing anywhere India would like to domi- He rated it “a terrific the England squad for the forth- ing that if even singles are else in the world. That’s a nate the proceedings. “I performance” from the coming tour of Sri Lanka and not coming in those condi- New Zealand skipper Kane Williamson hugs his Indian counterpart Virat Kohli. — ICC pride thing.” expect Indian batsmen Black Caps. “I haven’t insists he can transfer his explo- tions, what will you do? Getting Ajinkya Rahane trying to dominate more seen India, the number sive limited-overs skill-set to You are just waiting for cheaply on the fourth and that will be a chal- one Test side in the the longer form of the game. when that good ball will morning was the clincher lenge for our bowlers world, dismantled like Virat Kohli, Faf Du Plessis and come and you will be dis- Kohli, Pant & Shami in Asia XI for Stead. After that, he because a world class side they were over those David Warner are among the missed. knew that New Zealand like India will come back four days in current batsmen who thrive “(If) you have that for centenary match in Bangla would wrap it up quickly. hard.” Wellington,” he said. with the red or white ball and acceptance that it’s ok if “Guess picked up wickets Neil Wagner is back for New Zealand’s drub- Buttler, who helped England you are out to a good ball, Dhaka, Feb. 25: India “We haven’t signed at critical times in the the second Test after the bing of India was hailed win the World Cup last year, at least I don’t think that skipper Virat Kohli was contracts but Rishabh match. We got Rahane out birth of his first child and as one of their best in wants to join them. “There’s a way,” said Kohli, making on Tuesday named in Pant, Kuldeep Yadav, and it was the catalyst of there is a possibility that Black Caps’ history by crop of guys who are the best his stand clear on what he the Asia XI squad, also Shikhar Dhawan and the belief,” he said. the home team will go in the media here. “Rare in the world, and they’re the thought about the featuring Rishabh Pant Mohammed Shami are India captain Virat with four specialist seam- are the Tests in which best across all formats. They approach of some players. and Mohammed Shami, supposed to come. They Kohli had expressed a ers in bowling friendly the BlackCaps beat the manage to do it,” Buttler said The skipper, who is to take on a World XI have said KL Rahul and desire for his batsmen to conditions at the Hagley world’s number one Test on Monday. — AFP known to take the attack side in a two-match T20 Virat Kohli will play come out with a positive Oval. side,” the New Zealand back to the opposition International series to one game each, approach, and Stead feels — PTI Herald wrote. — PTI Smith, Warner camp, wants some of his celebrate the birth cen- but that hasn’t batsmen to follow his tenary of Bangladesh been finalised,” return to Newlands leads. “If I see a situation, founder Sheikh he added. if it is a green wicket, Mujibur Rahman here. BCB wants Kohli to Cape Town: Australia’s Steve then I try to play counter- Kohli has been named be a part of both the T20 Chatfield fascinated by current Smith and David Warner will attacking cricket so that I by the Bangladesh Internationals but con- return to Newlands on can take the team for- Cricket Board (BCB) for sidering the hectic Wednesday, less than two years ward. one match subject to schedule of the Indian trio of Southee, Boult & Wagner after they were central figures “If you don’t succeed, availability, which is yet team, it remains to be in one of cricket’s greatest then you have to accept to be confirmed by the seen if the maestro Wellington, Feb. 25: The but asserted that he never scandals at the ground. They that your thinking was BCCI. The two matches makes himself avail- first Test he played could felt he would not be able to will be playing in a series-decid- correct, you tried but if it are scheduled to be held able. “Kohli’s name has well have been his last but make a comeback. “No, I ing third Twenty20 international didn’t come off, fair on March 21 and 22. “We been sent but the call on Ewen Chatfield didn’t just didn’t think that way that against South Africa in front of enough. There is no harm have already received his participation lies live to tell the tale but also I will never return to an expected capacity crowd in accepting that. four names from India,” with him and he will enjoyed an enduring love cricket,” the 69-year-old, where “maximum security” will “But I don’t think a cau- Bangladesh Cricket take it after due consul- affair with cricket, which who played 43 Tests and be in operation to prevent any tious approach ever pays Board President tation with BCCI ended only after he turned 114 ODIs, said. abuse of players. Smith and off, especially away from Nazmul Hassan was President Sourav 68. Chatfield finds the cur- Warner were captain and vice- home,” the skipper was quoted as saying by Ganguly,” a BCCI Richard Hadlee’s new rent trio of Tim Southee, captain of Australia on March clear in his thought ‘ESPNCricinfo’. source said. — PTI ball partner for the Trent Boult and Neil 24, 2018 when team-mate process. longest time, Chatfield Wagner extremely fasci- Cameron Bancroft was caught He again stressed on the had a scary beginning to Ewen Chatfield nating as they have on television hiding a piece of mental aspect of Test conditions, the game will follow the same posi- his international career enjoyed more than decent yellow sandpaper in his trousers cricket where clarity of becomes more mental. tive frame of mind we in 1975, when England opposition team physio amount of success. during the third day of the third mind, at times, becomes “We can sometimes get have been in. bowler Peter Lever’s Bernard Thomas, who “All bowling partner- Test. That evening Smith and more important than the into too many technical “We were not able to exe- bouncer struck him on the sprinted onto the Eden ships are different. It’s Bancroft admitted in a press technical nuances of bat- discussions. But if your cute in this game but temple and he immediate- Park to give the player hard to compare one with conference they deliberately ting. “If we start thinking mind is clear, then any when we do so, we know ly fell unconscious exactly mouth-to-mouth resusci- other but the latest one tried to tamper with the ball. It too much about the condi- condition looks easy. what we can achieve,” the 45 years ago in his debut tation before being rushed with Boult and Southee quickly emerged Warner was tions, then you won’t be “Then it doesn’t seem as confident skipper said Test for New Zealand. to the hospital. and Wagner has been a the instigator in the “leadership able to focus on your bat- if a lot is happening with ahead of the Christchurch He had swallowed his In an interview, very, very successful part- group” that decided on the ting. When you are not the ball or that the bowl- challenge. Cheteshwar Pujara tongue after getting con- Chatfield spoke about how nership,” he said. sandpaper ploy. — AFP playing in your (home) ing attack is tough. We — PTI cussed. He was saved by the incident impacted him — PTI Wellington show just an aberration RANJI TROPHY SEMIFINALS start, although watching sticking to the task more that lets rotating balls jump DRS to make its debut Mayank Agarwal, who was than his partners in pace. at the batsmen’s throats stodgy and yet picking on Things can change quickly rather than those bowled R. Mohan opportunities to score, was and, maybe, the pitch and with an upright seam. never likely to be easy on the conditions for the second in domestic matches eye. Nor is Cheteswar Test may be kinder to bats- Line & Length Pujara going to be an adver- men. But then any quality Rajkot, Feb. 25: In a first, tisement for bright cricket side must make its own for- the Decision Review LIMITED USE even if he had played such tunes in any conditions System (DRS) will be here is no doubt, in my tor ordered to test Indian great Test innings as in rather than be a one- implemented in the Ranji Contrary to ■ There will be a mind at least, that batsmen. Should there be Australia two years ago to dimensional, fair weather Trophy when Saurashtra the two “limited use” of TTeam India will be at any doubt that India would make possible India’s his- batting line-up. take on Gujarat in the DRS, with no Lord’s in the final of the have inserted the Black Caps toric Test series triumph We know Team India semifinal of the premier reviews world Test championship had they won the toss? down under. batsmen are far better per- domestic competition, available per snicko, hot-spot, next year. What happened at India came into the game Ajinkya Rahane was the formers than starting here on Saturday. team per and the the Basin Reserve in windy with an impressive seven pick of India’s Test batsmen what we saw of The teams will be given innings in ball-tracker. Wellington was an aberra- straight wins. But all victo- on the short evidence of the them at the Basin four referrals per innings ■ Instead, the third umpire tion, most likely brought on ries in Tests are subject to Wellington Test. He had Reserve. They have to but the technology will Test cricket, by the greenish tinge in the the conditions and the rela- time to play the ball and he turn up in not have Hawk Eye and each team in will have a slow-motion pitch, which was splendidly tive strengths of the opposi- was fluent in negotiating it. Christchurch if the series Ultra Edge, two key com- Ranji will be camera and a pitch map along exploited by the Kiwi pace tion. To have underestimat- Both Agarwal and Pujara is to be a real contest. The ponents of the DRS used given a with spin vision to assist him, attack, of course. My only ed New Zealand, unbeaten at made it look too often as if quicks of the Indian in international games. maximum of with the idea being that at fear is whether the same will home in a streak of 12 Tests, they were dealing with attack are far better per- “First time in Ranji four referrals least the ‘howlers’ can be not happen to us if the ball was perhaps the real cause grenades rather than a formers than what we saw Trophy, Umpire Decision prevented. swings and seams at Lord’s of the Indian debacle. Virat Kookaburra ball. The sum of them. They would have Review System (DRS) is in an innings next English summer as it Kohli’s lean trot exacerbated total of the batting efforts to turn up too if the visi- being introduced. Semi- always tends to at HQ, espe- the problem even as the was just about good enough tors are not to be demor- final matches and final DRS was taken after the Saurashtra Cricket cially when there is a cloud presence of Prithvi Shaw as to avoid defeat by an innings alised by the typical match of Ranji Trophy umpires committed a few Association president cover over London. first choice opener was a bit and we can’t be too proud of weather condi- 2019-20 will have DRS sys- howlers in some knockout Jaydev Shah welcomed Give the Kiwis their due. of an overreach, as much as that. What was truly disap- tions and tem,” Saurashtra Cricket games of the previous sea- the decision of having They won their 100th Test, comparisons to Sachin pointing was that once the soft pitch- Association stated in a son. DRS in Ranji trophy. He 64 years after their first tri- Tendulkar have been in the conditions settled as India es that will press release on Tuesday. The semifinal will be stated that the Ranji umph and their century of young batsman’s career. batted a second time, they have grass Last week, BCCI’s held at the SCA Stadium Trophy along with Vijay wins was inspired by two Let’s face it, Prithvi is no did not put up enough of a left on them. general manager of in Khandheri. “In each Hazare and Syed Mushtaq seasoned fast bowlers in Sachin and would struggle fight before going down. The Indians should cricket Saba innings, each team shall Ali are the most impor- Trent Boult and Tim to live up to comparisons in world’s leading Test side be the last Karim had said be allowed to make a max- tant events in India’s Southee who were nicely the future too if he doesn’t can’t allow themselves to be to com- the limited imum of four player domestic calendar and backed up by the six foot- tighten up his game. rolled over on a barrel. plain of use of review. Where a request DRS should be use in at eight inch greenhorn Kylie The Black Caps’ mastery of The Indian pace attack was any team DRS was for a player review results least the semifinals and Jamieson who is not of their home conditions, par- not bristling with aggres- seizing the always in the original on-field finals of these tourna- express speed but extracts ticularly in Wellington sion and purpose. They had home advan- planned decision being reversed, ments. bounce from a very high where bowling against the built a reputation for just tage by tweak- for the Ranji then the Player Review The other semi-final of release. The conditions on wind needs certain expert- such qualities but were ing the conditions a Trophy semifi- shall be categorised as the domestic champi- the first day, when New ise, has to be admired. India found lacking as a unit bit. After all, Indians nals and not from the successful and shall not onship will be played Zealand won the toss, would had to bat ugly to survive whereas Ishant Sharma are experts at knockout stages. The deci- count towards the innings between Karnataka and have been just what the doc- and they seemed to for a proved an exception by designer pitches Prithvi Shaw sion to introduce limited limit,” the release stated. Bengal. — PTI GAMES pg DECCAN CHRONICLE | HYDERABAD | WEDNESDAY | 26 FEBRUARY 2020 16

SHORT TAKES Kashvee picks all 10 wickets in U-19 Kadapa: Chandigarh’s Kashvee Gautam did an Anil Kumble by picking up 10 wickets in 4.5 overs to seal a 161-run win for her side against Arunachal Pradesh in a women’s Under-19 One Day Trophy at KSRM College Ground here on Tuesday. She became the first Indian bowler to take all 10 wickets in Pound’s not sure a limited-overs match. Besides, Gautam, who is also the skipper of Chandigarh, top- scored with a 68-ball 49. of Tokyo Games Kumble is the only Indian to have achieved the feat in inter- Tokyo, Feb. 25: Dick national cricket when he Pound, the longest-serving scalped all 10 wickets against member of the IOC, esti- Pakistan in a Test match in New mates there’s a three-month Delhi in 1999. window to decide the fate of Other cricketers to have taken the Tokyo Olympics, which 10 wickets in an innings are are being threatened by the Debasish Mohanty in 2001 and fast-spreading virus from Rex Singh in 2019, all in red ball China. cricket. Pound, in an exclusive Defending 186 for 4, Gautam interview with The started for the winners, regis- Associated Press, did not tering a hat-trick by her name sound alarmist. But he did to bowl out Arunachal Pradesh speak frankly about the You could certainly go to for 25. risks facing the Olympics, — PTI which open July 24. two months out if you Pound has been an had to. In and around International Olympic that time, I’d say folks North and West Committee member since are going to have to ask: 1978, 13 years longer than ‘Is this under sufficient register wins current President Thomas control that we can be Bach. confident about going to DC CORRESPONDENT “You could certainly go to Tokyo, or not. HYDERABAD, FEB. 25 two months out if you had — DICK POUND, Liverpool’s Sadio Mane (second from right) to,” Pound said, which longest-serving North Zone and West Zone reg- scores against West Ham in their English would mean putting off a member of the IOC istered victories in the Food Premier League match at Anfield in Liverpool decision until late May and Corporation of India’s All-India on Monday. Liverpool won 3-2. — AP hoping the virus is under Inter-zonal Cricket Tournament control. TT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP being played at the Gymkhana “A lot of things have to IN KOREA POSTPONED Grounds here on Tuesday. start happening. You’ve got North defeated North East to start ramping up your Table tennis’s world team Zone by six wickets while West security, your food, the championships, due to take Zone got the better of Head Olympic Village, the hotels, place next month in the Quarters by four wickets. The media folks will be in South Korean city of West Zone’s Onkar G was the there building their stu- Busan, were postponed on top-scorer of the day. He made dios,” he added. Tuesday following a leap in 79 to power his side past HQ, And if it got to the point of novel coronavirus cases. for whom Wasim took 4 wick- not going ahead, Pound The International Table ets while conceding 15 runs to REDY TO ROAR speculated “you’re probably Tennis Federation said the emerge the pick of bowlers looking at a cancellation.” event, originally planned alongside North East Zone’s “This is the new war and for March 22-29, had been Mayank, who got 4 for 15 in a Liverpool just four wins away from EPL title you have to face it. In and provisionally rescheduled losing cause. around that time, I’d say for June 21-28 following an BRIEF SCORES folks are going to have to emergency meeting with ■ North East Zone 105 in 20 after record-equalling 18th successive victory ask: ‘Is this under sufficient local organisers. overs (Dharani Nath 25, Abir control that we can be confi- South Korea’s K-league Chakraborty 20 n.o, Bhilap dent about going to Tokyo, had already postponed the Saikia 2/18) lost to North Zone Liverpool, Feb. 25: ning lead, but Lukasz wins, set by Bill Shankly’s to fight us. I saw the boys or not?’” he added. start of the new football 106/4 in 16.5 overs (Jashan P. Jurgen Klopp admitted he Fabianski’s woeful blun- THE RESULT team between January tonight, they are ready to Meanwhile, China on season on Monday as the Singh 47 n.o, Ritwij Kashyap 27, never expected Liverpool der allowed Mohamed and December 1972. fight and as long as we are Tuesday reported 508 new virus causes chaos in the Mayank 4/13). to make such a “special” Salah to equalise with his Liverpool 3 They need 12 points from really ready to fight, cases and another 71 country’s sporting calendar. ■ Head Quarters 170/7 in 20 charge towards the 19th goal of the season. (Wijnaldum 9, Salah 68, their final 11 games to nobody should worry, but deaths, 68 of them in the Mane 81) NO FANS AT FOOTBALL overs (Shubam C 64, Sanjeev G Premier League title after Sadio Mane completed guarantee a first title we still have a lot of work central city of Wuhan, MATCHES IN ITALY 29, Chetan S 24, Kuldeep Y a record-equalling 3-2 vic- the fightback with nine West Ham 2 since 1990. to do.” where the epidemic was 2/23, Rajinder B 2/28) lost to tory against West Ham left minutes left as Liverpool (Diop 12, Fornals 54) They are unbeaten in Klopp’s men found them- first detected in December. Upcoming matches in West Zone 171/6 in 20 overs the runaway leaders four restored their 22-point their last 44 league match- selves in the rare position The updates bring main- Italian and the Europa (Onkar G 79, Pratik A 39, wins from the clinching lead over Manchester City. own stories, we want to es, just five short of of coming off a defeat, for land China’s totals to 77,658 League will be played Siddhesh K 21, Wasim S 4/15, the trophy. The dramatic escape create our own history,” Arsenal’s all-time English only the third time in all cases and 2,663 deaths. behind closed doors to com- Nitin S 2/42). Klopp’s side were in dan- ensured they equalled Klopp said. record of 49. competitions this season, South Korea now has the bat the spread of coron- ger of dropping Premier Manchester City’s top- “Obviously, the boys took It is unthinkable that after Tuesday’s 1-0 second-most cases in the avirus, the Italian sports League points for the first flight record of 18 consec- really seriously what I Liverpool would squander Champions League last 16 world with 977, including 10 minister announced. Athletics trials time since their draw at utive wins set between said there. It’s so special, their lead now but, pub- first leg loss at Atletico deaths. Clusters of the ill- “Knowing that the ban on Manchester United on August and December the numbers are incredi- licly at least, Klopp is tak- Madrid. ness are now appearing in sporting events open to the for Medchal October 20 after falling 2017. ble, so difficult.” ing nothing for granted. And third from bottom the Middle East and public remains in force in behind in the second half Klopp, usually reluctant KLOPP CONFIDENT “We all know it’s very West Ham gave them all Europe. six regions of northern DC CORRESPONDENT at Anfield on Monday. to celebrate milestones, OF HIS TEAM special, but in the moment they could handle in a Pound encouraged ath- Italy, we have agreed to the HYDERABAD, FEB. 25 Georginio Wijnaldum confessed to being we are really just in the thrilling clash that sug- letes to keep training. holding of matches behind put Liverpool ahead early impressed by Liverpool’s Liverpool’s 21st successive situation and want to gested Liverpool are not About 11,000 are expected closed doors,” said Sports The Medchal District Athletics on but Issa Diop equalised relentless run. “A couple league victory at Anfield recover and prepare for invincible just yet as they for the Olympics, and Minister Vincenzo Spada- Association is conducting soon after. of years ago, three or four also equalled their own the next one,” he said. try to emulate Arsenal’s another 4,400 for the fora after a meeting of the selection trials on Thursday at 7 Pablo Fornals gave strug- maybe, in the beginning, I English top-flight record “The next opponent is unbeaten 2003-04 top-flight Paralympics, which open Council of Ministers. am at Telangana Sports School gling West Ham a stun- said we want to write our for consecutive home really waiting and wants campaign. — AFP on August 25. . — Agencies to pick the team for the Federation Cup Junior Athletics Championship to be held in Warangal on March 11 and 12. For further details, contact Rajasekhar on phone number 9849612733. City gear up for Real clash Madrid, Feb. 25: League has become some- Hyderabad circle Manchester City will be thing of a self-fulfilling up against both Real prophecy. score a big win Madrid and their reputa- Madrid believe this tion on Wednesday as the tournament is their tour- DC CORRESPONDENT Champions League's nament, a conviction HYDERABAD, FEB. 25 biggest winners play one based on historic success of its biggest under- that makes them assured Hyderabad blasted achievers at the Santiago under pressure and ruth- Bhubaneswar 5-0 in the State Bernabeu. less in the decisive Bank of India Inter-Circle After City’s win over moments. Football Tournament being Leicester on Saturday, “When you have a histo- played in Visakhapatnam. Pep Guardiola said: “We ry of the (Alfredo) Di Steven Xavier Davy scored the will try to be ourselves. Stefano period, winning first hat-trick of the tournament We can win and we can five or six European Cups while Fareed and Anand scored lose but we must try to be at that time, it means a one goal each. All the goals ourselves.” new player that comes to were assisted by midfielder Yet in some ways, City Real Madrid and puts on Zaki Raza. will seek a role reversal that shirt knows 'we have In another match, Amaravathi too. to defend our history',” circle defeated Chennai circle Madrid’s record is the said Guardiola. 3-1 as captain Dhanala Kumar envy of Europe but in Manchester City’s Nicolas Otamendi (from left), Joao When Madrid last won scored a brace and Naresh slot- particular by teams like Cancelo, Bernardo Silva, Sergio Aguero and Riyad the Champions League by ted home one. City, whose financial Mahrez share a light moment during their training beating Liverpool in the Vanessa Bryant (right) is helped off the stage by former NBA player Michael Jordan after might and technical tal- session at City Football Academy in Manchester on final in 2018, their speaking during a celebration of life for her husband Kobe Bryant and daughter Gianna ent has translated only Tuesday, eve of their UEFA Champions League pre- advance to the trophy at the Staples Centre in Los Angeles on Monday. — AP into disappointment out- seemed to rely on a num- Chess tourney quaterfinal first leg match against Real Madrid. — AFP side domestic competi- ber of crucial interven- from March 1 tion. tions falling their way. In the time City have Live on TV In the semifinal against DC CORRESPONDENT won three Premier Bayern Munich, they pro- Kobe wife sues copter Co. HYDERABAD, FEB. 25 League titles and five gressed after an error domestic cups, they have CHAMPIONS LEAGUE from Bayern's goalkeeper Los Angeles, Feb. 25: ● Kobe Bryant’s Transportation Safety The One Goal Chess Academy gone past the Champions Real Madrid vs Sven Ulreich. Kobe Bryant’s widow widow Vanessa filed Board is still investigating (OGCA) is organising an Under League’s quarterfinals In the quarters, they Vanessa filed a lawsuit on the exact cause of the Manchester City a lawsuit in Los 16 Children’s Chess Tournament only once, reaching the from 1.30 am were awarded a fortu- Monday against the opera- crash, although prelimi- at Kukatpally from March 1 in last four in 2016, only to itous 97th-minute penalty tors of the helicopter that Angeles Superior nary findings showed no the boys and girls Under 8, 10, be beaten by Madrid. (Thursday) on to beat Juventus. Even in crashed on January 26, sign of mechanical failure. Sony Ten 2, HD Court on the same 12, 14, 16, veteran and women Zinedine Zidane’s side, the last 16, they faced a killing the NBA icon and day that Bryant, Monday’s lawsuit faults the categories. For further details, meanwhile, have surren- Lyon vs Juventus Paris Saint-Germain side eight others. company for allowing the contact OGCA director Jyothi dered dominance in La without Neymar. The suit was filed in Los Gianna and the other helicopter to fly in “heavy from 1.30 am seven crash victims Ganesh Inaganti on phone num- Liga to Barcelona but (Thursday) on Yet where some saw Angeles Superior Court on fog and low clouds” that ber 8374153718. made amends for one luck, Madrid's coach and the same day that Bryant, Sunday morning, condi- Sony Ten 1, HD were memorialised Spanish league title in their players saw a his 13-year-old daughter in a public ceremony tions which prompted “law seven years by winning refusal to give in. Gianna and the other seven enforcement agencies and Regd. No. H/SD/509/2018-20 four Champions Leagues “The point is Madrid crash victims were memo- at the Staples tour companies” to ground Printed and Published by out of the last six. ers and their excellence League and Guardiola never give up,” said rialised in a public ceremo- Centre. their helicopters. T. Venkateswarlu on behalf of Few would argue that in England points to a has only been in charge Zidane after their last- ny at the Staples Centre. “On information and Deccan Chronicle Holdings Limited. quality explains the dif- club well-equipped to for three. gasp triumph over The lawsuit names Island ball teammates Alyssa belief, Island Express Printed at Deccan Chronicle Press ference. Madrid's success excel in Europe. Instead, Madrid's habit Juventus. Express Helicopters, Island Altobelli and Payton Helicopters Federal situated at Plot No. 9 Alwal Village, Vallabh Nagar Taluk, Medchal has certainly been due in Guardiola has been for coming through the “We came up against a Express Holding Corp. And Chester, Altobelli’s parents Aviation Administration Malkajgiri Dist. Telangana and part to the brilliance of accused of over-thinking kind of crunch games number of obstacles but the estate of the heli- John and Keri, Payton’s operating certificate limit- Published at 36, S.D. Road, Cristiano Ronaldo but against elite opposition that have so often proved we believe in the goals we copter’s pilot, Ara Zobayan, mother Sarah and basket- ed its pilots to flying only Secunderabad-3. City have perhaps boast- too yet City’s lethargy City's undoing suggests want to achieve and we who was among the vic- ball coach Christina under visual flight rules,” RNI Registration No. 3081/1957. ed an even better all- encompasses nine sea- each club's identification achieve them because we tims. Mauser were also killed. the lawsuit says. Editor: Aditya Sinha round collection of play- sons in the Champions with the Champions fight,”he added. — AFP Gianna Bryant’s basket- The National — AFP